The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cold closed in New York yesterday at l3sa
lsx.
Cotton was firm, with sales OF 200 bales; up
lands osHc
id Liverpool, cotton WAS quiet al steady at
unchanged quotations; sales Il, 900 bales.
"A Peruvian railroad reaches an altitude OF
1905 feetin one place. =
-Four colored girls are employed in the gov
-ernment printing office.
General Lees health is said to be improving
since his arrival at Savannah.
"A Chinese cigar maker at San Francisco has
rone TO the insane asylum through trying to
keep the run OF internal revenue decisions re-
garding cigar stamps.
"A vessel from Cadz went ashore on Long Is
land last Sunday night. There were fifty casks
of wine In her cargo, and the people on shore
.'got roaring drunk"
They say In Rome that Queen Victoria Is
strongly leaning towards Catholicism, and Arch
bishop Manning Is reported to have asserted that
in case her Britannia Majesty should abdicate her
crown, she would at once embrace the Catholic
faith.
The London Saturday Review lays the Nor
daunt scandal and all the rest Of that sort OF
thing to the failure OF the Queen to set public
example Of what Is right and proper through "the
court of ON English sovereign"
1t is rumored that Judge Bradley, the newly
elected associate justice of the United States Su-
prene Court, declines to sit on the legal tender
case. in consequence OF his having been counsel
in several suits bearing upon the subject previous
to his appointment as judge. 4 this should prove
true, the court will probably be equally divided
fhn decision
will stand.
The Pleoiscitum, which Is to ask from France
an approyal by popular vote OF Napoeon's new
scheme OF reform. is expected to take place IN
may.-rne points presented by the Senatus Con-
sultum which the people will be invited 10 ap'
prove are--Ir,t, that the Senate shall share egis
latiye powcr WITH Tie Corps and the EN- mperor.
but cannot initiate taxation; second, that the
constitution. making power given to the senate Is
taken from it; third, the constitution can on'y DC
modified by the people on proposition 10 the En-
: peror.
The Scientific American gives an account OF
the manufacture of perfumery In Southern
France audi the cultivation OF flowers for that
purpose, the latter business being much more eS-
tensiye than might at first be supposed. orange
blossoms seem to be in the greatest demand
there bein. seven hundred and thirty-seven tons
of that material, worked mp into odors annually
Roses come next in popular favor, OF which there
are used two hundred and sizty-ave tons yearly;
then of jessamine ntty tons, OF vloets thirty
seven tons, and OF geranium leaves fifteen tons:
The scent OF da1odils is among the least popular
two tons and half OF that blossom being all
that the fashionable nose will inhale.
The Philadelphia Star says: "Dr. Hcwson,
well known physician OF this city, and an advo-
cate OF the dry earth treatment Of wounds con-
cerning which there was such lively discussion
some months ago, has continued this method OF
treating wounds with very favorable results. In 4
q late medical journal he cites case OF compound
fracture Of the leg, the limb being kept atrest by
means Of sand bags. In the absence OF these, dry
eaIth was substituted. which had the effect OF en-
tlrely dispelHng the offensive odor ofthc wound,
ana their use was continued with the most happy
results; the earth was changed every three or
four days Again he states. that man affected
with scurvy, which had resisted all other treat
ment, was entirely cured by being buried up to
the neck in soil for about twenty minutes.n
The expiration OF tic Bessemer patent has so
greatly essened the cost OF steel. that 1t is super
scdng iron on many OF the railroads In this coun
Try 1t is far more durable than iron; and much
better suited on that account to roads with heavy
lines OF freight and travel. Eut ut the same time
it ID much more brittle in cold weather, and has,
for this reason, been the cause Of frequent acci
dents at the North. The difficulty has been obvl-
ared to some extent by placing steel cap over
the iron rail- The superior safety, aswel as com.
fort in travelling. over the Southern lines in win
teEis generally admitted fact. Unfortunately
we have no lines to compete with those OF the
North for the trade and travel Of the West at pre-
sent. But, when they are completed, such con-
sidcrations will be the feather that will turn the
scale In onr favor, other things being cqnal.
Miss Kate Field, discourslng OF female en-
ployments and the "unfeminine" says 'thas ten
years ago every female human being tailor than |
an infant, that wore round hat was considered |
unfem!ntnc. Now, round hats are poised on the
most fashionable noses. at an angle that would |
drive Euclid wild, Lecturing today occupies the |
position formerly accorded to the round hats.
Ten years hence, society will draw. the line 'un-
feminine say a. women who, having too much
honest pride 20 hang as burdens about the necks
OF their friends relatives, take up active bust
ncss and dare to make Us much money as their
brothers. Evidently society would go to pieces
didic NOT insist upon drawing line somewhere.
be guilty OF the srecian bend, to enamel, to make
conquests OF men merely for the sake OF counting
,scalps, to Indulge In SANDER, to dress extrava-
rantly, to sit iurhe parlor, and allow the cook TO
oyerdo or underdo everything edible In the kitch-
en-, to feed children on pastry and hot bread, TO
.copsign little ones to incompetent nurses-than 1t
is to lecture"
The New York World OF Saturday says "1he
.colorcd citizens OF the city yesterday commemo-
rated the passage OF the Fifteenth amendment by
A procession and other festivities. The Fii'h
avenue and several other OF the most pa'hc
thoroushfares presented the curious spectacle o'
thousands OF wel.-dressed negroes riding In
coaches driven, by white coachmen, walking IN
platoon preceded by the best martial bands that
could be secured and figuring In the purely
ornamental and picturesque capacity OF grand
m rshLs and -dashtug about on spirited
horses "a aides. The spectators seemed to re-