The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-05-16
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MONDAY. MAY ls, 1870.
nj NEWS =, OF TIE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold closed in New York on Saturday al
l41al4l.
Cotton closed heavy; sales LOO bales; up
lands 2Sic.
in Liverpool, cotton closed quiet and
steady Sales 10, 600 bales; uplands IL I'd.
General .etoicuria was captured by one ol
the ctinboats built in this country for Spain
Mrs. Mcfarland Richardson is seriously Ill
.atWoodside Of fever.
Mr. Graham received $4,000 fee for de-
Tending Mcfarland. s@' ~
The Catholics have bought the Jewish Syn
agosue in Twelfth street, New York, and Will
build large church on the lot
The school teachers of San Francisco have
arranged for an excursion to New York oy
rail, leaving Oh the 2sth instant.
.aItis stated that official and private reports
: from the Darien ship canal expedition repre-
sent that canal across the Isthmus OF Darlen
cannot be constructed.
Colonel M. C. Galloway, late Of the Ava
lanche, has purchased an interest in the Mem
phIs Appeal, and will become one Of the edi-
tors Of that paper.
District Attorney Pierrepont, of New York
City, has resigned, The resignation will take
effect on the lst of June. A dozen noted New
York lawyers are scrambling for his place.
The steamer Saragossa, from Savannah for
Baltimore, was towed to the mouth Of the
Cape Fear river Saturday morning by reve-
nue. cutter, With main shaft broken between
the outbosp bearing aad stufing, and COM
Z pletely disabled.
The Secretary Of the Interior, by direction
.ofthe President, has issued an order. forbidding
,atha railroad companies extending their roads
into the Indian Territory. The commander of
the military district has been instructed to en-
force this order.
AT q meeting Of Iron masters, held at Col
umbus, Pa, last week, the unanimous feeling
was to stop the production Of pig iron, which
cafnot bs made at current rates without loss,
and.the PROBABILITY is that in the next sixty
days nearly, If not all the furnaces will be idle.
The president of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road has assured the workingmen of San Fran
.cisce that if 1000, 900 subsidy is voted to the
company on the 18th Of June, 1t shall all be ex-
pended among white laborers, meaning that
no Chinese labor Will be employed in the con-
str1ction Of the road.
The sxequatur issued in June, ls65, recog-
nizing JOAQUIN de Palma as vice-consul at
Savannah, Ca, has been revoked and an
nulled by the President by proclamation, 1t
\ being deemed advisable, from satisfactory rea-
sons; 4. At he should no longer be permitted to
exerclse the. functions Of that ofiice.ii q 8,
ss-Fhe oolored people OF Louisville, in their
!: recent fifteenth amendment celebration, had
. trsnsparencv In which the ''Train Of Pro-
q eressr was depicted as a locomotive, labelled
aThe Fifteenth Amendment with q train Of
twenty-nine cars attached, representing the
ratif1ng States, and number OF iaekasses
harnessed TO the rear car, emblematic Of the
States refusing to ratity, and Xainly trying to
pull the train backward; @s: . -.
The New York Industrial Exhibition Com
pany have appointed a committee to select a
sitsfur the proposed Palace Of Industry, either
!, in New York, City, Winchester County, or on
Longer Staten Islands, The building will be Of
iron, and glass, two stories below ground, and
seven above, alad will be five times as large as
the former Crystal Palace. The capital Of the
company is 81, ,OO0, 900, part of which Is already
subscribed. 49,.
The st. Louis Republican devotes four col
umns to the great bridge across the Mississippi
: at that point. It viii be 22so feet in length,
and WIN cost 4,4s6, ,953-three millions Of
which will be furnished by St. Louis, and the
remainder OF the capital comes from New
York. ThesrfEer part of the bridge will rest
on four Immense piers constructed Of granite,
the top Of which will be fifty. feet above high
water mark, ard the piers will be las to l74
In height from their foundations up. The span
OF the principal arch will be SIS feet, and
the arches will be constructed of cast-5teel.
The bridge will be a highway for eight rail-
roads. 1t will be completed by the last Of next
year: -
Sumner introduced bill In the Senate on
Friday supplemental to the Civil Rights bill,
which he considers the s'crowning glory of his
anti-slavery record It provides in effect for
absolute equality OF all persons in the enjoy
ment of all kinds of proper privileges, without
distinction on account of race or color. It re-
quires all hotels, restaurants, railroads, thea
tres, churches, concert halls, academies, COM
mon schools, colleges, &C., to treat all alike,
and imposes penalties, punishable on convic-
ton In United States Court, for any refusal
of any privilege to any one on account of he
or she being Of African descent The bill is so
sweeping that it prohibits cemeteries even
from being devoted to the sepulture exclusive
ly of white people or OF colored people. This
latter provision In regard to cemeteries meets
the approval of Garret Davis, who says that he
ia willing to allow the whole race to occupy
them without delay. The bill was referred to
the judiciary Committee, from which its
author. hoped it would soon bs reported and
passed Into law.
Full details of the public execution in Ha-
yaua, on the 4th instant, by means OF the gar
rote, of General Golcuria, the distinguished
Cuban leader, shows that he walked TO she
scadold manfully and died bra7ely for the