The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold yesterday at New York closed strong
er at 12sal3.
The New York cotton market closed dull
sales 1900 bales; uplands 2lsc.
The health of Bismarck continues so Tee
BILE that he is not able to perform work OF any
kind.
-Seyenty-Hye Cinnamon have arrived In
Chicago en- route for North Adams, Mass, to
work in boot and shoe factory.
Mr.. Justin Mccarthy will have paper on
isPetticoat Influence in the Government oil
England in the July number of Lppincott's
Magazine.
Eleven thousand eight hundred and nine
ty.two emigrants arrived in New York last
week, 5000 of whom went West or to the In
terror.
Later news by the cable indicates that
more political trouble is brewing In Italy, and
the form of revolution begins to be more plain
ly defined.
Miss Amy NJ. Bradley is the first female
oficeholder In North Carolina. She has been
appointed examiner of schools in New Hano-
yer County.
The German translators of Dickens's latest
novel are in despair. They assert that none Of
his previous works offered the same difficult
ties as the present one.
There is ut present at South Kenslnston,
London, an international exhibition OF fans, IN
which Queen Victoria and the Empress Euge-
ME are among the contributors.
The arrangement of the cable lines OF tel
egraph, which his lately caused much incon-
-yenience, has, to q great extent, been RENE
died. The authorities promise all diligence to
make the restoration complete.
So plentiful are the grasshoppers In Salt
Lake City, that the stencil arising from Tile &c
cnmu.aticn OF their dead carcasses is terrible,
aud IS seriously affecting the health OF the
city.
Miss Louisa Stratton, of Cass County, In
,dlena, challenges any man in the State to a
p,ourhlng match with her. She proposes
two-horse team, each competitor to drive the
horses and hold the plough.
Victor c. Barringer, Esq, of North Caro-
lima, Judge James, of Ohio, and Benjamin v.
Abbott, of New York, have been appointed a
new commission to codify the laws OF the
United States, the salary to be $4,000 year,
.&ith stationery, &c.
Large sums of money, irrespective of sect,
have been subscribed for the sufferers by the
late fire at Constantinople. The number OF
lives lost is varlously estimated at from 300 to
1900. The Turks were freely throwing open
their houses to the Christians who were buln-
ed ont.
"A test tournament of chess is being played
at the chess club at the Europa Hotel, New
York. Some thirty players are taking part en-
one side or the other, The object is to estab-
lish the proficiency in the game of different
members Of the club.
There is q. movement on foot, originating
with Dawes and others in the House, looking
to an earlier adjournment of Congress than the
--day named in the joint resolution adopted re-
Gently by both Houses.
Red Cloud and his ''braves," after the
grand powwow at the White House, visited
the, ,Nayy-yard, and were escorted about the
shops, grounds and docks, and lastly ''ye gem
tie savages" dropped in the pleasant rose
shaded house of Admiral Dahlgren, where they
were received with graceful courtesy by the
-;admirars wife. She served them with coffee
and cake, with grave ceremoniousness that
matched their own lofty and impassive manner.
The visitors were shown all through the work
shops and foundry; seemed interested and
amused, but seldom betrayed anything like
wonder or surprise. The first the last, the
only expression of pure astonishment depicted
on Bed Clouds face, was when, in the foundry,
he saw the red-hot liquid iron ladled out into
the moulds, for shells and balls. The immense
trip-hamner, pounding away at an engine
shaft, seemed to afford him gentle degree of
excitement, and he expressed mild satisfac-
tion in the monitor. He inspected with ma
jestic curiosity the revolving Of the turret, and
followed the ricocheting of the ball along the
Potomac with series of gracious grunts
When about to leave, the visitors happened TO
pass the three lovely young chldre n of Admi-
raj and Mrs. Dahlgren, and each man and
woman stopped and stopped to shake hands
with the dainty little creatures, who looked at
them timidly, but not dlstrustingly.
-TheSe seems to be trouble brewing in the
order of St. .Crispin, the most powerful and
s.progressiye" labor organizations we have so
far had in this country. 1t appears that there
Is strike among the shoemakers of this or
der in North Brookfeld, Mass, because an
employer would not discharge member of
the league who had not paid his lodge dues
The statement is made by the Boston Adver-
tiser that certain American mechanics, men,
bers Of the Crispin order, desired to withdraw