The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-12-02
NEWS OF THE bAY.

NEWS OF THE bAY.
Gold at New York yesterday closed at log
alox. si'".
The New York cotton market closed heavy
with good export demand; sales 5000 bales, OIL
1e cents. .E ,s'-.'
AT Liverpool cotton was quiet at sAsasId;
sales 1000 bales. - 4
The French fashion Of hiring celebrated vocal
lists to sing at private parties has broken out in
New York. s4zt{.. = ~
IA shoemaker writes that he is not only
willing to give woman her rights, bat her rights
and lefts.n That is his last Joke.
One Of the latest devices in jewelry Is jet, anal
pearls set In contrast. Diamond solitaires with
iet drops are also wora for earrings. ~
Among the ATTRACTIONS OF Paris restaurant
Is advertised "a arstclass horse, formerly the
property Of Count LAGRANGE"
sMThe English papers say that the ex.Empress
OF the French is settling an excellent example 70
all around her BY the simplicity and neatness OF
her attire. She always appears In costume OF
Sr0Wh, blaSs, violstor some sombre hue. z H,='
IA letter. ,{ro45 Paris tnssbe Pail Mail Gazette
says: 'gt is strange aRd painful to see groups OF
wellsressedy women looking in at the Slndowsio OF
pork butchers and tripe shops with the same
eager curiosity with which they used to gaze at
ribbons and bonnetS. ,..,...
-sGGThe work ofi eoa loidatlng the Internal reve
nue. districts tirodghod5 the country has thus far
resulted 10 dispensing with oyer four hundred as
slstant assessors, aud it is thought that at least
two hundred m9re'wiIl be dismissed by the c!ose
OF the Iear. to-. .,..,.; y,-.sr:or
The proceeds OF the New York fair in aid of
the loundlngs, which closed on Saturday night,
amounted to $50 900. This, added to what has
already been collected gives. the asylum fund
$So,OOo leaving $4,000 before State aid can be
claimed. .t.
Mark Twain has this advice for young men
with literary aspirations: s.Wrlte without pay
until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay
within three years, the candidate may look upon
this circumstance with the most implicit cont
dence as the sign that saving wood Is what hi
was Intended for" r.,
"A man In Arkansas has been sentenced to bt
hanged, but none OF the carpenters In The neigh
borhood will build his scaffod. He Is himself 6
carpenter by trade, and the sheriff proposed thai
heahould put up the gallows. He says. however
that 1t Is asking too much of him, and that he
Hon,t dofs-that he'll go unhsnged thousand
years first. e
CA German, Sriting from Metz says: "Let.no
body expect TO win the sympathies OF these peo
pie for generations to come. They hate US more
II NMeflremains German. only an iron rule wH
nil "a
ness would be misunderstood, and good deeds
wouli fall On stony ground," ags
The Treasury vaults at Washington are al
present encumhered with number OF miscella
neous articles presented to several OF the Presi
dents. thus there are numerousane shawis, and
bottle OF otto Of. roses, presented TO Presid nj
Van BureE by the Imaum uf Mnscat, snd many
handsome swords There are also other articles
from tho patent office, deposited for salekeeping
"A Washington letter Gays: 'There seems now
no doubt TINT the President will urge upon Con
-aress the euactment-of general amnesty law
The better class OF Southern Republicans all en-
measure win receive great support from the West
where the feeling In favor o., sucha q law is re
ported to the President 10 be constantly on the
increase.'
nvIt is mentioned as singular case ofthe
energy Of an old lady, that in England spinster
aged seventy years, who had become bankrupt
and who was possess d OF u Hre-interest In prop
erty, which, on her narrisge would go to heI
grandchildren In order to prevent the iife-estate
falling into the hanls OF the creditors, the old
lady married a pauper OF about her own age, ST
aslto effect a!forreiture and thus by operation o.
law to transfer the proFertyro her grandchildren
The creditors maintained that the marriage was
collusive and fraudulent, but the Court OF Quetn'i
Bench decided that the property passed to the
grandchildren. ,t,i. !.
Mr.. Beecher, In recent sermon, laid himself
open to the charge, OF preaching smooth things
he urged upon has people lhe accumulation OF
wealth. In spite OF tlir declaration that 1t is easier
for camel to go through the eye OF needle than
for rich man to enter Into the kingdom Of
Heaven. "When ! hear men." he said, speak
against wealth, and It Is almost Invariably those
who have not got tt it seems to me that they
have not we'll considered the facts" He pressed
yupon his people strongly the accumulation OF
wealth. for the advantages it offers aud the blcs
sings It, conlers. They. must get rich at the eS
,pense Of weatlness and brain labor and Mt any
cost but that OF honor. very easy Kind OF
preaching. ;and not likely todi,gust the consci
ences OF hearers Tie wonder is that there should
be people in any hurch, anywhere, to whom y
should be necessary to address such an exhorta'
10nsi cc'f.:N -sis-a&f srgl,rl.,s-- 5.ti't.v.se
"A committee appointed BY the City Council ol
Strasbourg TO solicit relief for the sufferers by the
late bombsrdment OF that city by the Prussians,
has arrived at New York. Six hundred houses
have been burned aud destroyed. More than six