The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-05-31
VIEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold closed In New York yesterday at lag
Cotton closed dull at 223c :,
ia Liverpool yesterday cotton closed aul
and irregular; uplands lOld.
The Texas State prison runs cotton lac-
,tory BY convict labor, which pays all the eA-
penses of the institution.
q. .BIsmarck is to make tour in America lot
his health, ani his physicians restrict aim 70
three bottles day hereafter
The Empress Eugene has appeared a'e
times lately in the same dress. She Is settins
the economical fashion, which Will certainly
.be universally followed.
Private Havana advices state that the
Standards intend to place loan OF fifty mil
lions on the Uunlted States market, giving
.1plba and its revenues as security.
The Protestant Episcopal Convention, OF
New; Hampshire, has elected the Rev. William
; W Niles. of Connecticut, bishop of the dio-
cese. in place of the late Bishop Chase.
The General Conference of the M. Z.
/. Church, after transactlng large amount Oh
business OF no general Importance, adjourned
sine die on Thursday. Just before ad)ournlns'
BISHOP Andrews delivered his farewell address,
as. owing to his extreme age, it was rot pro-
hable that he would ever meet with them
again. ,,,,u
-Miss Milford, writing Of certain author
ess. SAYS: ssShe is ugly, Of course; all ntera-
rary ladies are so. Inever met one IN my
LIE Except Miss Jane Porter, and she is rather
Dass6e) that might not have served for a scare
crow to keep the birds from the cherries. It's
q prodigiously strange and disagreeaole pecu-
jiarity.n Miss Milford being herself literary
lady. has made rather a sweeping assertion.
s = The New, York papers say that Weston, the
Lswalkist, who accomplished the unprece-
!. dented feat of walking one hundred miles IN
,fventy-one consecutive hours and forty min
utes. on Wednesday, was offered $4,000 10
break down In the trial, but he proved imper-
,yious to all temptation of that nature. James
Smith. champioa walker of America, has chal-
leneed weston to walk 100 miles Tor Sl00o,
offering him FIVE miles start.
The arrangements for the forthcoming
monster musical festival in New York, are
progressing. Maretzek, Peck, Bristow, Ber-
punann, Anschutz, Zerrahn and Gilmore Will
all act as conductors. Six opera companies
will unitedly sing the operate selections. Miss
Kellogg will be among the soloists, as well as
the two rival tenors, BrignOli and Lefranc'
The directors intend to pay all the artists
.liberaIly. whether they make any money out
of the enterprise or not; but, at the same time,
they expect to reap handsome harvest.
Official tables, taken from the books oil the
/. commissioner of immigration, and giving the
comparative number of Irish and German emil,
grants during the last twenty:three years,
show that there have. arrived in this country
from Ireland since ls47 only 7755 more emil.
grants than have reached here from Germany
z alone during the same period. For example,
there arrived in the last twenty-three years
from! ireland, 1,644, 4,00s; from Germany, l,GSs,'
254. More than this, during the first five
months of the present year the emigration
from Germany has amounted to 25,5Oo, agains
: "a. 46. from ireland. To these figures are t
be added those representing the Swedish Dan
fsh, Norwegian, French, English, Scottish and
welsh, not to mention the Chinese. So tina
the Irish em;zsration to this country evidently
does not overbalance that of all others com
, tined, as some have supposed.
Quebec was visited early on Tuesday morn
ing, as was briefly announced by telegraph
with one of the most disastrous confagration:
ever known In the history Of that city. The
area over which the fire swept was covered
with wooden dwellings and the flames spread
vith such ferceness as to drive hundreds ol
people from their houses to places OF safety
The SIGHT in some cases was most appalling
Women, with barely stitch of clothing, were
met at every turn, most ofthem carrying theil
), children, and rushing about in wilt
and lnsane-like manner. AS the wint
rose the flames gathered strength and inten
sity, leaping with fearful violence from one
building to another. sweeping before them
everything of combustible nature. The
wind, blowing strong from the east, directed
the tendency Of the flames towards King and
Queen streets, through which they swept with
terrible force, enveloping at one time over fifty
buildings. These streets in some places ex-
hibibed most awful appearance, perfect
: whirIwind of fire being observable in every
direction. Fortunately, at o'clock A. NJ, rain
began to fall, which soon checked the flames,
aud this, with the almost superhuman efforts
of the lremen, stayed the further progress Of
the Hre-fend. tbs estimated, however, that
five hundred buildings were destroyed. Two
ships were also burned to the waters edge,
and several persons were injured by falling
EalIs.
"A New York letter Of Thursday says: ga
very curious service took place to-day at
Trinity Church. This Is Ascension Day, when
ali the parish choirs unite at Trinity. Rev. Mr.