The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-05-24
Tbe CbarIeStn1t Nems
TUESDAY, NAY "a, 1870.
aE,.NEWs OF TIE DAY.

TUESDAY, NAY "a, 1870.
NEWs OF TIE DAY.
raa.s'e
...,':-aold closed in New York yesterday at l3s
.,al4. ".
,r27-Cotton closed dull, with sales of 800 bales
.at.22sc.
Cotton closed in Liverpool steady, with
sales of:lo,OO0 bales; no quotations.
Benjamin Gibbs, Of Mississippi, is awarded
othe belt for being; the homeliest man in the
university Of Virginia. fzi
Horace Greeley has left New York for
-Nassau to join his wife, who is dangerously Ill
there. She went to the WestIndies for her
health, but the latest accounts show that she
has been rapidly declining.
1t is stated in the New Orleans Prices Cur
rent that the increase in the number of acres
now under cultivation in Louisiana is from
afteen to twenty per cent over the acres
planted last year.
"A residence for Bishop Quintard has been
purchased at Memphis by the citizens of that
city. The cost was $4,000. The bishop will
probably take up his residence there in the
fall
THE New York Sun says the Republican
;sparty In that State Is rowed up--sewed up
dome up- and s:the sooner it gives it to be un-
.derstood that under no possible circumstances
can Grant be its candidate for reelection,
the better it will be for that party"
Washington correspondents report that
the Spanish Legation were so badly frightened
at tho statement that Is, 900 American officers,
non-eommlssioned officers aud privates Of our
iatesvolunteer armies, had enrolled themselves
irithe Goicuria movement at New York, that
.a secretary was sent to that city to learn the
facts. One Of General Jordan's suite told him
they designed to build a monument Of. Span
iards, cement it with Spanish blood, and crown
n With the bodies of De Rodas and Valmase-
da., retaliation for the garroting OF General
Goicuria. " n.,s
"a entitled, s.Renewing the Lease lt repre-
aa,ants Madame La France an elderly lady with
sdoubla chain, hair dressed a Ia Russe, Eliza
s;ethsf: collar, s:long earrings and dress en-!
h,a,aarei, with fears de us-seated at taoie'
,.;,bIla before her stand Louis Napoleon and MS
aon. ,a.rbed ss peasants ubl0uses and saoots,
the fSymer holding In one hand lease IN
scribed ., ,YPleSscite.p Beneath Is the text:
IAuds; uHstiame will not object, nope, 70 TWO
ilyes ID. .the Lease" Madame La France laaoe: j
-uHm, suppose I can't objects" the attl-i
if11aea,:;. fsses and action Of the three figures
are llfellke, and the details perfect, even to
.as., .t-owa ,neepInp out. of the Emperor's
:sub8ts.S;s. - i, ~ IS -;.a
baltimore is to have a new opera house.
Property on, the north side of Fayette street,
near sEutaw, has been secured for the erectlon,
with every modern elegance, Of an opera
.bopse suitable for all first-class amusements,
hit, laspAcially adapted to musical perfor-
mances. .Thelot has front eighty-three feet
and depth of one hundred and ifty-hve. The
Location is accessible from all portions OF the
city by the city passenger cars, and it has long
been thought desirable point for place OF
nnblic amusement. The building will be as
large .as o proper regard for acoustics and
optics will permit, similar to Wallack's, New
York, and selwyn's, Boston. Mr. Jenerson
will be one of the directors, and Dir. John L.
Ford will have the management.
As Brigham Young grows older, with more
wives and more children, and the latter reach
ing the age when dress Is naturally promi-
nent- matter with them. the persistency with
which he denounces tfe fashions Of the Cen
tile world demonstrates the fact that ne reels
one Of the burdens which must Inevitably come
with such large family. In his last sermon
bef5re the conference his instructions to the
Saints were very decided in tone. lie classed
the enttse range of fashions as devices Of the
.xicked, bonnets dresses, boots and parasols,
all Co be condemned by those Of the true
faith: and when he asked the ladies to
signify their determination to make thelr
own clothes and not to make eem 10
the fashion, the Tabernacle was white with
upraised hands. If Brigham Young can array
theentire female population of his dominion
in opposition to the fashions as they receive
them from the East, ne will accomplish O
greater feat than he did in planting the barren
soil of Utah and building up a colony there
for his opposition is not to fashions as they
exist at present, but to fashions at all; and in
attacking the right Of woman to change the
lie ieif OF her bonnet or the length of her skirt,
he impeaches one of her most inallenable
privileges.
IT is painful to notice that at lenstk Mr..
Greeley has become consenting party to an
outrage on colored citizen and voter. In
giving an account of the election In New York
City, the Tribune chuckles over the "lyHx-
eyed sharpness with which colored Demo-
Gratis were watched at the polls, and details
with especial JUNCTION how one negro, who
voted the Democratic ticket, was ''punched
\ in the head for his stupidity" Now punching
:. In the head is sometimes considered assault