The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-17
NEWS OF THE D1F.

Cold closed yesterday at New York at ID
The New York cotton market closed dull
at 2lsc.; sales 1000 bales.
At Liverpool cotton was irmer; uplands
lO,alOtd; sales 10000 bales.
The French Academy has found several
plants as sensitive to chloroform as animals.
At Indiafols, Texas, they are selling fresh
water at dollar abucket.
A line of steamers from Stettin, Germany,
to New York, will soon begin operations.
The life insurance people are announcing
taat Charles Dickens had large policy OF in
sufance upon his life.
!. General O'Neil. it Is said, wants 100000
damages out of the United States for his re-
cent arrest during the Fenian raid.
The Japanese ore getting up navy in
European style, and an English naval officer Of
celebrityis to organize an admiralty depart
ment.
Very nice kid gloves can now be bought
In Paris at retail for two francs. The manu-
facturers of French kid gloves are in despair,
they having overstocked the market for
long time to come, SO that the prices, there Is
every reason, to believe, will so still further
down..
"A correspondent who has been TO see
Beecher at Plymouth Church, says he cannot
s'discaim the advantages he derives from his
pocket handkerchief He has no beard to
stroke, ,sno moustache to caress, and he has not
yet contracted the Congressional habit Of
thrusting his hands in his own pockets
other people s--nor of<sliding them in his
bosom; nor hanging his thumbs from the arm
holes Of his jacket. But facile, def and SYM
pathetic as are his gestures, his eloquent hand
talks, there are times when the text demands
mo- gestlculation, and then comes in the full
power of the handkerchief. Automatically the
busy fingers roll up corner, measure the
hem, tue at the texture, and the next moment
the hand swallows the whole square of CAM
brio in one energetic, clnchlng gesture. 1t is
transferred from one hand to the other; is CO.
ressed. crushed, unflrled, and may safely be
called the banner of the Plymouth pulpit"
DR. Franklin, it Is well known, gained
great praise for wearing an ordinary plain
suit, instead Of gold embroidered court cos
tune, when formally presented to King Louis
XVI. In reference to this anecdote, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, in his notebook, just published.
states that he was told by an aged lady, in
England that the circumstance above men-
toned arose from the fact that Franklln's tai
lor disappointed him of his court suit, and that
he wore his plain one with great reluctance,
because he had no other. Franklin, Il is said,
having by his mishap made successful i'm
preston, continued to wear his plain dress
through policy. Is this another dissipation Of
pleasant piece OF history, like the destruction
of the story of Pocahontas, and the fine heroic
drama In which william Tell figured so hand
omelys
The opening concert of the Beethoven
Centennial Festival, which took place In New
York on Monday night, was great success.
The audience was estimated at $4,000, very
large portion of them being ladies. The front
of the rink in which the festival was held was
ablaze with light, calcium gas gets casting an
unwonted glare opposite the entrance. With
In the ensemble was striking. The greatest
ingenuity has been exercised to light it to the
best effect, and the disposition of the immense
chorus, consisting Of quite 200O voices, upon
which two calciums threw mellowed light,
was exceeding fine. The second piece of the
programme was the aria and chorale SIN
fammatus," from the "Stabat Mater of
Rossini, sung by Madame Parepa Rosa and
the entire choral force Of two thousand voices.
Remembering what brilliant success Nine.
Rosa met with in Boston by the performance
of this aria in q building three times the size
of this one, there was no doubt of her achiev-
ing still greater victory here. She was hailed
in the most vociterous manner by the vast au-
dience, cheer after cheer ringing and volleying
in great waves along the auditorium. The
performance Of this wel-known piece brought
out all the best qualities of Nine. Rosa's
voice. With no perceptible effort, she filled
the building with her clear cornet tones,
and flung out the final over instruments,
chorus, and all, as no other singer probably
could do it. 1t was followed by burst of genuine
enthusiasm, the audience insisting on repeti-
tion of it, and again rewarding her with the
most demonstrative applause. Then came
Mendelssohn's grand chorale, ''Glory be to
God, /" from sElljah," DR.. James Pech conduct
ing. In this there was the first real indication
of the vocal strength of the chorus. Admir-
ably performed as 1t was under the baton of
Dir. Pech, the 1000 voices did not create that