The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF TIE DAP.
Cold at New York yesterday closed at l2sa
. .rne New York cotton market was quiet
and firm at 2lic for uplands; sales 1899 bales
AT liverpool cotton remained frm' up
lands Ioaa1Oad; Orleans. losalo3d.' Yarns ana
fabrics at Manchester were quiet. Il
-Beecher declares in favor of a'statute TO
pxuish adultery by imprisonmentin the peni-
>tentiary.
1T is said that the quarantine war now "a
, pine in New York is driving many vessels 10 i
PbiIadelphia, Baltimore and Boston,
General Candy arrived in st. Louis on FIJI
d.v an route to the Pacific, to take command
of the Department of the Columbia.
EVERY day reports of Indian depredations
and murders on the Plains come from the
,sy.rious forts on the frontier Of the Indian ter
ritory. .-,,fa,-:rf,.;
The British iron-clad navy comprises forty
seyen vessels, varying, I'm asi2e nom the Agin.
court of sss2It toms and twenty Eight guns to
the yiper of. 7s7 tons and two guns. .::rE ~
"A rrain on the: Union Pacific Railroad ran
,nto a hand ofabout three hundred mounted,
indians near the Platte River, on the l6shiia
killed thirteen Of them ,;,pas
1T Is said that when. Dickens had written
the chapter describing the death OF little Paul
Dembey, hevwanderedl for awhole winter
night restlesly and with. a heavy heart, about
the streets of Paris. r,,.tc..a -iiPF..a., tras
: The test case OF :. the City of st. Louis
AGAINST the independent Fire Marine Insu-
rance Company 3off New York, to- compel! the
payment Of $500, annual license on foreign In
surance companies, was decided on Saturday
in favor of the city,. >. n y ~ 3. {,
Some decorations In the Cincinnati san-
gerfest building took fire Saturday evening as
the gas was being lighted an alarm was
sounded, and, In the excitement In the streets
q horse rssrsWsy, dangerously injuring in his
flight two ladies, two children and a man.
The fire was exiting before serious dam
age was done. --....,... ''':''. -.
There is asnaaH war; cloud in South Ameri-
lea. The Holland minister has demanded his
passports from the Venezuelan dictator, Glu-
man Blanco,. in. consequence of the seizure of
q Dutch mall steamer. The conflict. under
an5 circumstances, is;not likely to be- a terri.
BILE one. A most serious; announcement to
American merchants Is that of the closing o:
certain Venezuelan ports, by order OF Blanco.
On thassecasion Of Miss Nllsson,a last visit
to her owl country, she. purchased slx farms
for her Six brothers and sisters, and has also
had built church at hen OWN expense, en-
dowed it literally, and provided fund for the
support Of permanent minister, She Is
generally considered the most charitable pri-
ma donna that ever sang before European
audience. - or .1s1 .itt'' :.
"A wild scheme Is said to proceed from the
brain Of N. Bsgier, OF the Theatre Itallen, Par.
Is, nothing less than gigantic theatrical farm
Ing company, Intended. to regulate all the
lyric houses In Europe, and having Paris for Its
central depot. NJ Bagier thinks this associa-
tton might buy up all the artists worth secur-
ing, and letthem out from theatre to theatre
and nation to nation: He proposes also that
America might be included in the scheme. ~,
yesterday Pope Plus the Ninth entered
upon the MeatHafth. year Of his pontiacate.
According TO- a:current tradition, st. Peter, the
first Pope, Installed at Antioch and then at
Rome, A. D. AZ, governed the church for
twenty five years, two months and seven days.
or his two hundred and fifty-six successors,
none are said, according to the legend, to'have
occupied the Papal throne SO long; Plus the
Sixth, next In order Of longevity, having held
. 1T twenty-four years, eight. months and four
teen days. But the present Pope, although in
his seventy-ninth year, is In very good health.
There comes from Germany promise of
relief from the demands of the ice companies.
A certain Franz Windhausen, of Brunswick,
has inventeda new machine for freezing water
without the aid Of chemicals. The process
takes place in cylinder, "where the air is
first powerfully: condensed, then cooled by the
admission of:water, and finally expanded I'LL
its pressure is about equal to that of the al
mosphere." By this means, it is asserted, the
very astonishing result Is Is obtained of lowering
the temperature Of the, air to fifty degrees
Celsius (four degrees Fahrenheit,) so that
when conducted in moderate quantities into a
space through which water flows, ssthe water
b almost Immediately turned into Ice, of which
enormous blocks must be thus obtained If de-
sired The Invention VIII also, 1t is said, be
applicable to the cooling of large apartments,
ssch as theatres hospitals and churches.
"A letter from Athens, speaking of the exc
oution of the, brisands concerned in the mur-
dor Of the English travellers, says their decap-
dtssion was delayed In consequence Of the alb
sAnce Of the public executioner on profess
aonal tour. The following list OF his perform