The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-03-03

In LlVerpOOl COttOu closeu uIeSu!ai, uPiouuS
11Hal1Hd; sales 10000 bales
"A paper in Canada very solemnly asks, "What
does shoe fly mean"'
Mississippi is receiving large numbers of
Swedish emigrants.
Henry Ward Beecher is said to have declined
q call to Chicago with salary Of s95,Ooo ayear.
The estimates laid before the House OF Com
mons OF expenditures for the English navy
amount to f9.25o,OoO.
-Advices from Rio Janeiro state that Lopez
was attacked by the Argentine forces and COM
pletey routed.
The submarine cable from Bombay, India, to
Alden, at the mouth OF the Red Sea, has been sue
cessfully laid by the Great Eastern.
There is a movement in New York to bring
down the price OF "bar drinks" to the Gn!e-oei-
ssan standard OF ten cents.
The Louisville Journal hopes there will be q
strong effort made to flnd out who Is the author
Of "Shoo, Fly" and that then somebody will
shoot him.
practical valentines" are the feature OF this
season in London. They contain not only
rhymes, but gloves, pencil cases, jewelry and
other gifts.
President Woolsey. OF Yale College, has memo
rializcd Congress for census OF all incomes,
large anu small, in ordc: TO determine the na-
EiOnal resources.
France has adopted q tclcgraphtc money
order system. fixing the maximum for single
orLer ut 5000 francs, at u charge OF two per ceat
or double the usual pOstollce rate.
Minister Burngame had life policy for
$4,000 in the Masse echusetts Life Insurance Com
pany, which granted him permission to travel in
Europe wherever his official duties carried him.
Cholera Is raging In its worst form at Mos
COW. In some cases people have been attacked
while walking in the street, and have died al
most as suddenly as If shot through the heart.
The New York papers say MUCH apprchcn-
sion is felt for the safety OF the Bremen steamer
Smidt, which left Bremen for New York on the
2oth OF January, and Is consequently now thirty
seven days out. She has a9S steerage, butEo
cabin passengers.
1t Is said that at q late state dianer In WASH
ingron, Mrs. Mills, of New York. tnother-in-law
OF Fernando Woody wore, perhaps, the finest dia-
monds ever displayed in Washinston-magnid-
cent head-dress of diamonds, diamond necklace
and diamond brooch.
The Paris Monde says that 1t is thought GER
tain that the Archbishop Of New Orleans, Mon-
seigneur Odin, being, on account OF his shattered
health, unable TO administer unalded the affairs
OF his important diocese will be allowed coad-
jutor. Able Perchc will receive the appointment.
On Tuesday, the 2ad ult., o duel was fought
With small swords, at the Oakland Park, near
New Orleans by Mcssrs. Giqael and Donettc.
After several passes the friends Of the parties
interfercl, and the matter was amicably ar
ranged.
-Thursday'last, in New York; the long six per
cents OF 1861 sold az S11i, when gold was l61s
In other words, they were over par in gold. AT
the same time 1ve-twcnt,es in London sold at 90,
which, counting exchange, Is equivalent TO 80.
or within one per cent. OF par.
The death Of Leigh Wilson, the we'll known
senor, and Of Mr. George uogarth, is announced.
Mr. Hogarth, for manSyears well known in con-
ncction with the London newspaper press, and
- the author OF several popular works on music,
had passed his elghty-siSth year.
The Pawuers' Bank OF Boston is IN incorpo
Tated pawnbrokins company on large scale. The
eorporators are highly respectable citizens, aud
the Institution does much good. Its total OF
aoans average about 100000, and the annual
dividends Of stockholders are from to 10 per
cent.
The reconstructed Governor OF Florida is
ane parliamentarian. Having certain act be-
fore him, he declines to sign, Us believing the same
unconstitutional, but says 81 don't want to be eH-
acting, and have filed the act with the Secretary
o1 State, and it will become law in five days
hence without my sgnatureH' ~
AT last the dlfnculty OF the Conservative party
ia the House OF Lords has been removed. The
leadership which Lord Derby declined, which
Lord Cairns resigned, and which Lord Salisbury
would NOT have, has been flied by the Duke of
Richnond-a statesman OF hiSl title, certainly,
and OF convenient disposition. even II OF no Vrry
remarkable talents.
i'm the year 1860, GS,655 persons emisrated
from Germany to America by way OF Bremen,
against G6,272 in the preceding year. Vi thls
number o,oi5 went 20 New York, 10, 'G9 to Balt!-
more Il3 10 Quebec, 1851 10 New Orleans and lo2i
to Galveston. or the entire number Of emi9rautS
who left Germany rar America in the course of
last year the steamships OF the North German
Lord conveyed 20,7is 10 New York and T9lo TO
Baltimore.
Gold went down to 15si in New York Satur-
day-lower than at any time since 1o62. The
New York Herald says that with our bonds and
PROVISIONS anu cotton going over to Eurupei in
exchange for dry goods, &C., gold, In fact, is get
ting to be drug in the MARKET aud all our peo-
ple, Of all professions and pursuits, OF all sections
and parties and classes, must prepare for the
general reconstruction that is at hand of lower
scale of prices all round and in everything.
One OF the life insurance companies in Hart.
f,c, have in their o;ilce an arithmomcter, u cal
culating machine recently obtained in Europe,
and the only ore in use in this country. 1t is
comuaratively small affair, about twenty inches
IN ,enpth and looks when closed, very much
ikea German music-boX. The wheels, gearings
.od ,as are of steel and brass, and 1t is so con-
,drea rs to perform the operations OF addition
subtraction, multiplication ami division Win
speed unattainablc by mental process ana an ac-
ruracy absolute though mechanical
The perturbations OF the heavenly bodies
bare larely been compenlerted with serious dis
1mbances in the observatory OF Paris. Leverrier'
tAs astronomer, has been removed from the