The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-05-14
Tbe CbarleSto'a 8ems.
SATURDAY, MAY IA, 1870.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold closed steady in New York yesterda.
at l4!.
The New York cotton market closed quiet
Iplands 23A cents; sales 230O bales.
At Liverpool cotton closed quiet; upland
HID, Orleans 1l5allsd.
g Two ladies preached from Boston pulplt
last Sunday, -
.@B;smarcks real disease is said to be yer!
like or delirium tremens.
General Longstreet was marshal OF the
day for the Fifteenth Amendment celebration
:7in New Orleans. .,
The Appletons Will publish new novel b!
Miss Yonge, before the end Of May. 1t will b'
called "The Gagged Lion"
The poet Bryant is worth s5OO,OoO: Long
fellow s2OO, 900; Holmes 900; Sake s7O,0 900;
Lowell s40,O0 and Whittier $4,000.
AT the decoration of tile Confederate
/. graves al Mobile, on the goth ult, 1t was so
warm that much OF the pious labor was done
:. at night.
The London Times has printed critical re-
view of 'sshoo Fly noticing it as performed
by minstrel troupe, with commendatory
terms. -
Twenty families of Josephite Mormons,
numbering in all one hundred souls, have this
week left Utah for their old homes in the
States.
1t is stated that in the villages of New
England where the Maine Law is enforced, the
increase in the sale of opium ia so large as to
attract attention.
Mike McCool, of st. Louis, publishes q
challenge to fight Mace for from $4,000 to
$4,000 aside,,six months after the signing. of
articles, within fifteen miles of New Orleans,
OF any other place where fight can be had.
1t is reported that FIVE Of the large French
mail steamers passing through the suez canal
have each broken from two to three blades Of
their screws, and that other steamers have
been compelled to return to Suez for repairs.
The Calcutta Englishman, Of March sd, re-
ports that cotton in the central provinces of
India has suffered during the past year from
damp weather, rain, red fly and boil worm,
and in many parts the loss is estimated at fifty
; per cent.
Certain timbers of great durability, when
framed together, act upon each other 80 as to
produce mutual destruction Experiments
with cypress. and walnuts, and cypress and
cedar, prove that they will rot each other
while jointed together, but on separation the
Tot will cease. and the timbers remain per-
fectly sound for long period.
1t ls stated that there are now sixty-four
cables in active use, the shortest of which is
three miles long and the longest is SOFA, and
their total length is 22,oO7 miles. During this
year and the next 20,s2s miles more Of cable
are contracted for. In lengths to vary from
1lS to 1876 miles, designed to connect various
important points in both the Eastern and
Western hemispheres.
- When in New York, Mr.. George Augustus
Sala became intimate with Jameson, the actor.
Whom Mr.. Joe jefferson was over In England,
Sala imagined 1t was Jameson, and sent him
notc-"On Sunday, at half-past six; pork aud
grecns!r As Mr.. Jefferson was stranger to
Mr.. saia, he was little surprised. but he went,
and the host had no reason TO regret the mis-
take. NO
Tho rich men of New York arc said to
rank as follows In the matter Of greenbacks
william B. Astor.: $5O, ,OOO, 600; A. 7. Stewart,
$40, ,000, 900; Cornelius Vanderbilt, $4,000, 900;
Daniel Drew. Sc, ,ooo, 900; George Law, ss,oOo,-
600; August Belmont, 5000, ,0O0; Samuel N.
Pike, 81 100000; James Fisk, Jr., $4,000, 900;
James Lennox, $1,000, 900; and two or three
hundred others are variously estimated from
two to fYe,.millions. 1t is stated that there
are two thousand persons in New York who
are worth, at the lowest calculation, five
hundred thousand dollars apiece.
in San Francisco, a Chinese lady Of rank,
now there, when out walking is attended by
three maids of honor bearing lighted sticks of
punk, highly perfumed. "Her face ls painted
with q reckless disregard of expense, and her
hair is saturated with oil. Running through
the kuot at the back of her head Is an ivory
dumb-bell. On her head-sraccfully waving
In the winds flower, which, from the fer
tiIizing effects oil Is supposed to have, Is
Judged to DO Indigenous Her short, highly
oolored silk dress is beautifully embroidered,
and her feet are encased In the customary
=, leanee-shaped sandals"
"A Washington letter of Wednesday says
isfhe question of the removal of the capital
was pretty wen debated last night and pretty
effectively settled in the Senate this afternoon
by the adoption of an amendment to the legis-
ativc bill appropriating halfa million of dollars
to build new State Department. This was
carried by nearly three to one. 1t will be re-
membered that the capital movers have for a
long tlme intended to bring the matter up on
the question Of making additional approprla-
tions for public works In this district, and have
been quite confident that they would prevent
Congress from spending another dollar here
In that line. The discussion In the Senate
demonstrated quite clearly that there has been
no serious intention of legislating with view
to remove the capital to the West"
The women's National Suffrage Associa-
ton held their annual meeting in New York
on Tuesday. From twenty to thirty of the
most prominent lady members of the assoca-
hon were present, together with some two