The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-03-16
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1870.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE Day.
Gold at New York, yesterday, CLOSED
heavy at liz.
At New York cotton closed quiet at 2llc
sales 1900 bales.
The Liverpool cotton market closed al
lO5d; sales Il, 900 bales.
The Cardiff giant is to be taken as ballast
across the Atlantic.
9 in New York a reduction in prices of ad
mission to theatres is advertised.
Paper petticoats, at fifteen cents retail, arc
the latest sensation in Boston.
"A son of General Albert Sidney Johnston
has matriculated in Washington College.
The arrival of the Smidt at New York
had the effect of strengthening the confidence
in the safety Of the City Of Boston in England.
"A manifesto, it is reported, will be issued
by Count Daru, explaining the policy of France
toward the Gcumenical Council.
A number of Carlists have crossed into
Spain in spite of the constant vigilance oft
authorities on both sides of the frontier.
The principal merchants of San Francisco
are signing petition for Congress to snbsi-
die line of steamers between that Cit and
Australia.
Samuel r. Wilson, journalist, R. Green,
an old lace merchant, and Henry II. Leeds, q
well known auctioneer, OF New York, died on
Saturday.
Victor Hugo ''congratulates the revolu-
tionists" that Rochefort is in prison, which
seems rather dubious compliment to Roche
forts ability as leader.
Several boxes of choice cigars, said to have
been given to Mr.. Seward in Havana, were un-
able to follow him to New York, as duty de-
tdfncu rrrcn rDaIrrr1vr------
The Judge who illegally released the
Masons who were confined in Jail in Havana,
has been placed in Moro Castle by Captain
General DeRodas.
Over three thousand invitations were is
sued for marriage ceremony at st. Paul's NJ.
E. Church, in New York, the other evening.
1t took bishop and three ministers 10 site the
knot"
1t is reported that contract has been
signed with English capitalists for building an
underground railroad in New York City,
be completed in two years.
General Prim declares that the proposition
reported in the New York journals, that Sena-
tor Sumner said he had received propositions
from him for the sale or cession of Cuba to the
United States, to be utterly false
The Saturday Review, in reviewing the
recent debates on the Irish Land bill, thinks
49, ooft hot E,ct pich-
ing before the earnest purposes OF both politi-
cal parties.
The Saturday Review has another editorial
on the subject of the ''Shrieking ssterhood,'
ridiculing the tendencies of American women.
but distinguishing, however, between the un-
demonstrative, benedcent, and more social
theorists.
"A writer in the Baltimore American, who
has been there, says that ''the Monarch is a
great ship in her comforts and lllxuries. Her
officers have their quarters in rooms such as
are only found in the houses of the more opu-
lent denizens of the shore. They dine on
oiled walnut tables, and sleep in state on
patent spring mattresses. For genteel living,
for entertaining visitors, and for drinking her
gracious Majestys health, her cabins cannot
be surpassed"
The Pail Mall Gazette says that there really
seems good reason TO believe that some ad-
venturous imposter transformed himself, by
the aid of tailor into an Oriental prelate,
gained admission into the Gcumenical Coun-
Gil, and listened for some days to the debates
with silence which passed for episcopal
gravity. The intruder is now enlarging his
experience by becoming the inmate Of Roman
prison. The pseudo prelate is said to have
been the correspondent Of an American news
paper.
The annual report Of the New York COM
missioners of immigration is in course of pre-
paraton. There have landed during 1869, two
hundred and fif1y-eight thousand nine hundred
and eighty-nine aliens, q greater number than
has been registered in any one year since 1854.
OF these the majority settled in New York,
while the remand, were almost entirely alb
sorbed by Illinois, Wisconsin and Pennsylva-
mia. The Sun states that the class of immi-
grants now coming in seeks employment rath-
er than land.
"A letter from New York. of Saturday, says:
"There is q marked pressure, just now, to sell
real estate. Houses of almost every descrip-
tion in the upper part Of the city, as well as in
Brooklyn, can be had on very easy terms. In
many cases sales have been effected By the pur-
chaser paying down only years rent. This
would seem 10 indicate that holders have no
confidence in maintaining existing prices. In
Jersey City there is great deal of property
advertised, without finding q solitary bidder
thus far. The effect of this state Of things on
rents, as May-day draws near, is anSiously
looked for"
The decrease in the ratio of beef cattle to
population in this country during the last ten
wears is said to be twenty per cent. the in
crease in population being thirty-thrce per
cent. In 1860, with population Of 81 ,4l7,S3l,
we had 25,64O, ,337 neat cattle in the country,
while now, with population of more than
10000, 900, according to the report Of The De-
partment of Agriculture, we have only 2l,633,-
O69, showing a net decrease since 1860 OF more