The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold closed in New York yesterday at lfs
-a14s. ,ooo ,o,.,
Cotton closed dull; sales 1900 bales.
Tiverpoo, cotton closed quiet; uplands
1o3 q y alo4d; Orleans lid. ,.,o.,
Another duel has been fought IN Loulslan" ;
resulting fatally to one. of the participants.
> George F. Belden, a brother OF the Attorney
General of the State, was shot and kiilea IN a
due1 on the 25th nit, in Terrebonne Parish,
INV the editor of the Houma Eagle.
The Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian
Church of New York has declared against Free
Masonry and other secret societies as pagan
in their character, infdel in their tendency,
and perilous to the liberties OF the State ana
the church."
"A Louisville paper states thata conven'
ton will be held in that city on the 7th instant,
to be composed of delegates from Buffalo, ETC.
milwaukee, Toledo, Chicago and other points
near the lakes, representing an association OF
nearly one thousand families who desire to
find houes in the South.
-Mademoiselle Nilsson, in her prosperity,
does not forget her poorer fellow-countrymen,
and at the concert recently given In their be-
half at Paris, she not only sung several opera
tic airs and her favorite Swedish melodies, but
between the parts made collection which
amounted to 2O0Of
The. income tax in England produced up
wards of ten millions sterling in lS69-7O, al
.thouyh'the rate was no more than Sd. IN the
pound; or q little over two per cent An IN
come tax Of fiveper cent. in the United States
produces considerably less than this, while the
persons liable to the tax are probably more
numerous there than In England.
-DeBow's Review collates few figures
which show most strikingly the immense loss
suffered by the cotton-growing States In not
manufacturing larger proportion of the cot
ton crop before expectation. OF stock OF
2.392.25l bales, one and a half million are said
to, have been exported to foreign countries.
Northern mills spun 1852 bales, or 80 per
cent. and Southern mills 81, ,99s bales, or about
2S per cent.
One hundred and ten persons to the mil
lion commit suicide in France every year. two
hundred and forty to the million in Prussia,
.sixty-nine to the million in Great Britain, and
only fourteen to the million In Spain. The
French statistics show that hanging, drown
ang, shooting and suffocation BY charcoal are
the most popular modes OF suicide in France,
In the order named; while thirty-one people
threw themselves in the way of railway trains,
and one starved himself to death.
Under heimpetus Of the great ''interna-
honair victory, and with the prospect of more
great races to come on both sides of the At
lsntlc, the yachting fever is sglns all along
the coast. Our exchanges reveal much nauti-
caI lore, and new crop Of Coopers and Mar
ryats seem to have appeared, with quld in
the cheek, hitch In the trowsers, and much
learned talk Of; reeAng and lufing, and gaffs
and stays But 1t IS a healthful pastlme, and
one Of whose laurels we may be proud.
according to the Magdeburger Zeitung
tie German emigrants to America this year
are distinguished from those of former years
by the, fact that -fve-sixths Of those who have
eresolyed to seek o new home in America are
persons In the possession of capital. Besides
thIs, they are mostly people of some knowl-
edge. Formerly the peasants and day-labor-
ems OF Pomerania, West Prussia and Posln
formed the principal part Of the emigration.
They we're, therefore, people almost utterly
nnacquainted with the state of matters in the
Union, who went there and were exposed to
numerous dangers before they could settle.
This year it is more. particularly the more in
tellsent latorer and merchant who seems de-
sirous of trying his fortune.
Marshal Espartero, who, 1t has been stated,
has consented to accept the Spanish crown, is
unquestlouably the most eminent OF living
Spanlards, Is ~ years old, and is the son of an
humble cartwright. He fought the French in
1905, rs with Murillo in his South American
expedition, joined the partisans Of Isabella in
1888, and became Regent of Spain in 1S4l. He
was also Prime Minister in 1854. His only
formidable rival to the throne will be the Duke
of Montpensier. Thus the son of village
wheelwrlght has the chance of sitting on the
throne of Spain. The Spanish monarchy has
been one Of the proudest aud most exclusive
upon earth, and the bones of buried majesty
In the Escural might well start with surprise
at the strange revolution which makes Espar-
.tero their successor in the royal palace of
Madrid.
A horrible story of brigandagc reaches lis
from Chill. Lagoberon, notorious bandit
captain, was so closely pursued by body Of
South American troops recently that he was
to desert his band Of brother cut
who had been the terror of the whole
country round, and take refuge in cavern
situated near the summit Of one Of the lofty !