The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-03-18
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold at New York yesterday closed weaker
at l2t.
The New York cotton market closed frmer
at 23c Sales $500 bales.
AT Liverpool cotton opened frmer, uplands
1lallt; Orleans III. Sales estimated at $4,000
bales.
Alexander Dumas, the celebrated novelist,
has recently had an attack Of apoplexy.
Isaiah Rynders has been discharged from
his position as deputy marshal of New York.
The Prussian Reichstag have enacted that
political offences are punishable only when
criminal purposes are shown.
On account of the prevalence Of ice in the
Atlantic, commanders of European steamers
have been instructed to steer and keep a
southern course.
The ruling prices Of building material in
New York, it is stated, show that the decline
Is fully 20 per cent, and real estate and rents
must go down.
1t is thought by the London Times that
the House of Commons will exclude sectarian-
ism, but not religion, from the educational
bill.
Austria offers to assist, as an independent
power, but declines to preside over the delib-
eralions of the International Congress pro-
posed by President Grant, for the protection Of
telcgraphie cables.
The jury in the Moore-Bonnell case, at New
York, in which Miss Moore sued Mr.. Bonnell
for $4,000 damages for saying he was married
10 her, having been unable to decide whether
the parties were married or not, have been
discharged.
Rudolph, the billiard champion of Amefi-
ca, now in San Francisco, offers to play three
games with Roberts Sr., ex-champion Of Eng
land, for the championship Of the world and
$4,000, the game to be played in Paris, New
York. or in London.
The telegraph has got into lawsuit in Cali
brnia Adealer telegraphed to San Francisco,
asking if he should buy at quotations. The
answer was ''No prices too high" He bought,
and afterwards i; was discovered that the tele-
gram should have read, "No; price too high"
"A negro by the name of Richardson, who
Is charged with being implicated in the muir
der of william Saples, in Prince Georges
County, Maryland in July, 1866, has been sur
rendered by the State OF Massachusetts,, on re-
quisition of the Governor OF Maryland.
Within the past thirty days there have
been seized in Texas thirty-seven illicit distil-
ieries, principally in the Fourth District.
General Barroten. assessor, and George A.
Spaulding, deputy collector for the Fourth
District, 1t is stated, have been arrested for
eollusion with the distillers.
Since last October tifty-three thousand
emEgrants, black and white, have passed
through Memphis, of which fifteen thousand
we're foreigners, principally from the neigh
bOrhood of Chicago, seeking homes in the cot
ton States. The blacks were principally from
Virginia.
The new law in reference to change of al
fgiance has been approved of by the Federal
Council of the North German Confederation,
and Is now to be presented TO the Reichstag.
Foreigners Of full age can obtain letters of nat
uraiization; minor must obtain the consent
of his father or guardian. The provisions In
reference to transfer of allegiance are more
liberal than they have heretofore been.
The Chicago Post claimes that this years
census will show Chicago to be the third city
In the Union, adding, ''Another decade and
VIC shall be second; still another, and VIC shall
be first. The prosperity and happiness Of this
great republic, with a hundred million popu-
Iation, and Chicago the greatest of all great
cities, 1t is almost beyond the capacity of the
finite mind to comprehend"
Forty members have signed . demand 10
the president Of the Gcumenical Council, that
the order of deliberations be changed, and the
schema relating to infalliblllty be Immediately
discussed. Events in Rome are daily becom-
ing graysr. 1t is reported that the Marquis
de Banfeville, the French Ambassador, left
recently for Paris, and that the Ambassador
Of Austria at Rome, has received directions
hom his government to sustain the demand of
Count Daru, for the admission otW French rep
Hesentativn to the Council
The London News, of the first of March,
speaks thusin its editorial columns: "A ne
gro senator has taken his place in the United
States Senate. 1t is difficult for Englishmen
TO realize the e1test Of the revolution in Ame-
ncan sentiment which this fact indicates. The
utterly improbable case of workingman
being called to his seat in the House of Lords
would not be at all parallel to that of the negro
senator from Mississippi taking his seat in
the United States Senate. The event is purely
victory of American principles over Ameri-
can preiudices."
The French government have advertised
for proposals for the supplies OF American TO-
bacco for France in 1870, the bids to be opened
at Paris on the 18th Of April. Proposals are
hnYited for 100000 kilogrammes Maryland,
and 2,40O, 600 kilogrammes ohio, or say TO-
eos hhds. of $50 pounds average; 5,ooo,oo kilo-
grammes Kentucky, or 1900 hhds of 400
pounds average, and 2,oo0,oOo kilcgrammes
virginia, or 34OO hhds. ofl3OO pounds average.
The French government took Of American to-
b.cco in 1869, l,l5O hhds. Maryland and Ohio,
II, 900 hhds. Kentucky, and 34Oo hhds. Virginia,
and it wilfete seen that their wants for the cur
rent year fall but little below those of last,