The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-05-21
CURRENT NOTES.
D1sRAELl's NEW BOOK.

| ten and amusing WORK. DOCK tnaC WILL, IN tnt
present temper of the English people, be well
received The critics say that "Lothair" him
self is intended for the Marquis of Butte. very
wealthy young nobleman-the richest man in
England, and with rent roll of s5OO, 600 a
year-who, not very long ago, joined the
Church of Rome. In the same way the Ouch.
ess is intended for the Duchess of Abercorn
whose daughter the Marquis really did want tc
marry, but who would not marry him, because
he had joined the Church of Rome. Cardinal
Grandson is pronounced almost Q. life portrait
of Archbishop Manning, the chief of the Catho-
| lie Church in England, and ''The Bishop Of the
Diocese"i is claimed to be DR.. Wiberforce (the
late Bishop of Oxford, but now Bishop of Win
chester,) all over.
THE MoRMoNs.
The fortieth annual conference of the Nor
mon Church has just been held, with an esti-
mated gathering of twelve thousand souls, in
the New Tabernacle at Salt Lake City, and
has unanimously sustained and reelected the
entire list of church authorities. Brigham
Young presided over the three days delibera-
tions, and laid down the law by which the
saints are to be guided on several points, with
his usual force and clearness. He announced
the readiness of the Mormons to give up polyg-
amy when men will stop doing wickedly and
live purely, if only the same number of women
be found as men, and if there should be a few
extra women, he would be willing that the
best man that could be found should have
them. He lectured the young men on their
shirking the duties Of marriage, which throws
upon the married the trouble of marrying and
supporting more women, and turned his bate
ries sharply upon the sisters for their conform
ity to worldly fashions and their pursuit OF
new and extreme styles.
REMOVING THE CAPITAL.
A call has been published for national con-
vention to assemble in Cincinnati in October
next, ITO consider the question of the remov-
al of the capital, and to take such action there
upon as shall be deemed wise and proper"
The call is signed by the executive committee
of the national convention which assembled at
St. Louis in the month Of October last, and is
expressed in terms that suggest pleasing
confidence in the ultimate success of the move
ment. The convention, according to the plan
proposed, will consist OF rather more than q
thousand members, which is not assuring for
the harmony oflts proceedings, for, if in null
titude of councillors there is wisdom, large de-
Lucrative bodies are apt to be divided. This
is the more to be apprehendcd in the case Of
the capital convention, inasmuch as there are,
perhaps, one hundred geographical centres OF
the United States in rivalry for the new site.
The determination of the exact central spot
will provea as perpiexing a problem as the quad
rature Of the circle, and probably take up as
long time.
A CHANCE FOR WOMEN.
Ashley, having bent his intellect to the con-
sideration OF the necessities Of the Territory
over which Christening Providence and Pres
ident Grant have placed him to rule, finds that
the great want is women. 1t may be that this
discovery does not indicate an exceptional
keenness OF observation on Mr.. Ashley's part,
for similar complaints come from all over the
Western wilderness; but the prospect for emf
grating females is certainly as good in Mon
tana as in the notoriously deselate Washington
Territory. In Governor Ashley's domain a
good housekeeper is worth from SIS to 500 a
month, and can command that salary readily.
Ordinary kitchen "help" has wages OF $50 to
s75 month, and other manual employments
bring females proportionally large remunera-
ton. Putting out Of question the near proba-
bility Of marriage in such woman-forsaken
land, the material advantage is much in favor
of working-women settling in Montana; while
those who are ambitious beyond dollars will
remember that Wyoming has already estab-
lished woman suffrage, and that female justices
of the peace are springing into judicial exist
ence all over the West
THE NEW LAW FOR IRELAND.
The first prosecution under Mr.. Gadstone's
Irish Coercion bill was that of a bookseller of
Dun6alk, who displayed in his window for sale
q little tract called the Farmer g Catefhlsm. +"
This "Catechsm" is by no means so tEfamma-
tory as many of the campaign brosdsidAai
sued in England and in this co96h Is
severe upon the landed propretofs, and pro-
perly condemnatory of the tyranny under
WHICH IflS LeutbltS StllcI, auO ]o1 t!ieiC S"usS
the authorities have declared it illegal. But
since the arrest of the unfortunate bookseller,
the Pail Mall Gazette has seen fit to give the
"Catechism" in full in its columns, and the
matter seems trihe complicated. The res
trictions imposed upon the press by the new
law are very severe, extending not only 10
publications issued in Ireland, but to those Of
the entire kingdom; and under these proyi-
sions, the Lord-Lieutenant has the same right
to suppress the Pail Mall Gazette that his SUBJ
ordinates have to arrest the bookseller. OF
course the Gazette viii not be troubled, al
though it has circulation in Ireland; but the
whole case is a curious illustration Of the work.
ing of a system which sets up petty tyranny
for the government Of country nominally
free and equal with England.
THE PRACTICAL VALUE OF THE sUEz CANAL.
M. De Lesseps and Ismail Pasha have made
the Suez Canal pay them in present honors,
but 10 make it yield profit as q commercial
venture is matter of longer and harder work.
1t is great enterprise, and it required an
enormous investment, on which the interest
alone will amount to something near five mil
lions of our money. This, together with the
cost of keeping the canal in repair, must be
paid out of the earnings Of the company. But
the business of the past quarter shows an annu-
81 income Of less than one million, or enough 10
pay about one-ffth OF the interest on the money