The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-07-16
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

,e-ztsold closed strong In New York yesterday
at 1sl@lei. .5,5;gy ~
Cotton closed dull aud nominal at zoe ior
o,,n,snds ;t;iE ~. ~
In Liverpool cotton closed heavy and If
regular; ,uplands ssd; Orleans s2d
The new French; minister, Provost Para az
dol, has arrived in. New York.
: -tThe National Church of Russia" has COM
,pissloned bishop 20 establish an Eplscopas
seat in San Francisco.
Hotel charges are coming down In New
York. The Metropolitan has reduced Its price
: to 81 pee day. 'ti. !;
Jordan, of the Cuban insurgent
army, is now in New York, fighting the Span
s iards by writing letters to the papers.
Z. The hairdressers' shops of Madrid 10 are
crowded with poverty-stricken Spanish girls
anxious to sell their hair.
The employees In the cotton mills Of Fan
RIyer, Mass. have received notice of reduc-'
tion in wages averaging about eight per cent.
There has been more d1sgraceful rioting
..snong,the Philadelphia 1remen. Trumpets,
: spanners and knives were the weapons freeiy
.vused.
-sa.arhe next theatrical season promises to be
dull. The European agents say,:tsWe are out
. of sensations just now, sir. Sent the last over
In the spring"
The celebrated old Italian family Of the
Cenei have Just taken to themselves an Ameri-
can element. On the 25th ul.imo the Pope's
Gsinoio at Paris united in marriage the Prince
ylrptnio Cenci % Miss Nenora Lorlllard, the
only daughter of Mr.. Lorillard Spencer, OF
New York. The Cenci family iswell known
m onsoof the oldest In Rome. Two or three
centurtes ago 1t was as high in power as it still
{ Ia In rank. To the average Americans the
name is familiar from the woes Of Beatrice di
Cenci, who perhaps would be forgotten but for
Guldo's wonderful. picture, the original OF
which is still TO be seen In the Cencl palace at
Rome.,, Scarcely any portrait in. the world has
been SIS frequently copied as this. The ago.
,nized, upturned countenance OF the uniortu-
nate girl Is familiar to amateurs In every CLINE.
ssagA Washington letter Of "Wednesday night
SAYS: s.The two great financial measures OF
the session-the tax aud tariff and funding
bills-passed both houses to-day and have gone
to the President for his signature. The fund
ing bin was modified so as to strike out that
section relating to'future national banks, thus
placing the latter under the control Of the cur
reney act passed last week. The bill,
which alter all Is merely discretionary
with the 9 Secretary of the Treasury,
now simply proposes to fund the debt into
three Glasses of bonds, two hundred millions
at i've per cent. for ten years, three hundred
!miillions at four and half per cent. for fifteen
years, and one thousand millions at four per
cent. for thirty years. Mr.. Boutwell, was at
tho Capitol to-day and expressed his intention
So enforce the law
At the meeting OF the Order OF the Knights
of st. Crispin, held In Boston July 8, q series
of resolutions was passed In reference to the
Introduction of Chinese laborers In the shoe
.fsctories of Massachusetts,. One of the resoiu-
.taons asserts that the Crispin organization was
formed solely for the purpose Of securing those
Iegitaraately depending on the trade OF making
boots and shoes, as means of support, from
INJURIOUS competition. 1t also sets forth that
experience during the past five years mas
shown that the Introduction of machinery mas
40 increased the facilities for making goods
that employment can be secured for only about
-two-thIrds of the year, and that, therefore,
necessity compels the shoemakers to fall back
on the undisputed right of laborers to work
with whom and upon such conditions as they
see at, while, at the same time, they fully ad-
init the right 6f employers to decide for them
selves whom they shall employ, and the rate
ofwages to be paid, provided that such en-
,ployers can enforce, by honorable means, their
own terms.
Il washington telegram, of Wednesday,
says. "Onicial advlces at hand last night from
our foreign representatives, asserting that
there was little or no reason to doubt that
war between France and: Prussia would at
once be inaugurated, led to something Of an
iniormal conference this morning between the
President members OF the Cabinet, and
several senators and members, as to whether
the administration should not take some meas
nres to reinforce Its position In the way of
naval strength, In order that the government
mlght be prepared for any unforeseen emer-
zsency. y One of these emergencies was men-