The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-04-03
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

no Publishing house ID Europe willing 10 &C.
ceptfesSHe now talksof offering the ;Ms. to
some ofour leading publishers. :
-Yhe.opponents, in England, Of the measure
for an Increase of the regular British army
desire a national force-that is, a~nsorganized
and thoroughly drilled citizen soldierg,i formed
on the basis of the Prussian military. system.
-Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has been 80 Ill
of late that she has decided on permanent
change of her home. She will leave her hne
house in Hartford, Conn.,, and spend most OF
the months In the year at her estate In tlorlda.
During the warm months she Will i've IN some
Northern seaboard OWE
The population of no large city In Europe
has sympathized so ardenty with France as
that of Warsaw. When the news:of the capt.
tulation of Paris reached the ancient capital OF
Poland an the Polish merchants closed their
stores, and during the whole day the churches
were crowded with men and womenin mourn
ing.
Brigham Young now circumvents the
workings of the, United States Circuit Court
in his nelghborhood by refusing to pay the )u-
rors. By some distorted legislation 1t seems
the United State treasury pays the expenses
of the Territorial legislature, with the under
standing that the Territorial Legislature shall
nav the expenses of the United States courts
in the Territory. Az these courts are the
deadliest enemies that Brigham has, he nnds
Il convenient TO be without funds to pay the
Jurors when they want their money.
During q meeting, on the 18th instant, OF
the Workmsn's Peace Association of London,
called to protest against the government pro-
iect of increasing the army estimates by
5000, 600 as unnecessary and costly, a num-
Der of men in the galleries waved red andker-
chiefs and exhibited placards bearing the
words "English Republic" shouting, az the
same time, "Republio forever" These de-
monstratlons were not, however, faVoraoty re-
ceived by the body Of the meeting, which was
a very large and, on the whole. noisy one.
The Catholic Bishop of Pekin objects to
the acceptance OF tho $500 o taels IA tael ID
about one dollar and q third) which the CHI
nvH SSy stss sts5efs 81 oGsfitS WHO @eIe Saas-
sacred at Tientsin, on the ground that when
missionaries or Sisters of Charity devote them
selves to work if China, they give their t&-
bors, their lives, II necessary, but do not sell
them. He further wishes to discourage the
view; too common among the Chinese, that
any difficulty with foreigners, of whatsoever
nature, can be settled by money.
Official statistics of various European
countries show a degree OF laxity In morals,
not to say absolute popular depravity, among
the people, which seems almost incredible.
The proportion of illegitimate births TO the
total number is, IN Austria, about IL per cent;
in Scotland, Denmark and Holland, about loi
in France and Prussia, about Z per cent; IN
England, Norway and Sweden, less, and IN
Ireland least of all. This fact Indicates, what
is generally known to be a TRUTH that the
Irish at home are the chastest people In Eu-
rope. Poor Ireland has little now to boast OF,
and it Is we'll that she can claim to possess the
most virtuous women of Europe.
The free labor bureau in New York, under
the care of the commissioners Of emigration,
has recently made the following table of the
rates of wages paid in that city. The wages
paid to women are ss follows: Bootcsewers,
$40 q week; bookfolders. S. to SIS a week COM
panions, $I2 to $50 a month; chambermaids,
$40 a month; cooks, $l2 to $40 q month; copy
lists on piece work are paid twenty cents per
folio; dressmakers, 81 so a day; dishWashers,
$40 q month; general houseworkers, sl2 a
month; governesses, SIS to $50 a month; hoop
skirt-makers, $6 to $40 a week; hairworkers,
50 to SIS a week; kitchen workers, slO o
month; laundresses, sl4 a month; lady's maids,
SIS a month; milliners. 81 so a day; nurses, 81
to $ls a month; nurses for very young infants,
$40 q month; machine operators, So a week;
pantry-workers, $40 q month; seamstresses,
sl2 q month; scrubbers, $40 a month; sales
women, So to $l2 a week; mattresses, $40 to
$l2 q month; housekeepers, SIS to s25 a month.
The Cincinnati Gazette, of the 18th, pub.
fishes a letter from Mr.. Jesse Grant, the father
of the President, OF nearly two columns, being
his history of his dific llty with the ''Stoms
family" whilst the Gazette gives a column
and a half Of. editorial to the same momentous
subject. Horace Stoms, of Cincinnati, was
assessor Of the First Ohio District, aud Mr..
Grant recommended to Stoms the reappoint-
ment of one Weithof tor gauger. This was In
1869. stoms has since charged in a letter to
the President. that Mr.. Grant said, at the time
(January 16, 1871 Of soliciting the appoint
men,: $50 and so has offered ne five hum
dred dollars Ii I can get you 20 recommend
his reappolntmenG. He is a rascal; but I will
take his money and divide with YOU" Will
liam Stems, father of Horace Stoms, also wrote
to the President, stating that his (Lhe Presl-
dent's) father had proposed the acceptance of
brides to put men in office. Mr.. William Stoms
claims to have ever been the "unainching
friend" of General Grant, but an imperative
duty demands" &C., proceeding to remark that
the newspapers are reporting the discharge of
his son from the Office Of assessor through the
influence aud request Of the Presidents father.
General Grant sent these letters to his father,
and the old gentleman publishes them in full,
with appropriate comments. AS these letters
were written about two years after the alleged
bribery proposition had been made, the reti-
.cence the ''uuainching friends" OF General
Grant have observed upon The subject, until
one of them was turned out Of office, Is re-
markabIe. Old Mr. Grant denies the charge:
alleging that persons in whose jndgm, mt
ami honesty he relied told him that