The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-11-01
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER l, 1871.
VIEWS OF THE DIY.

Gold at New York yesterday closed at LIT
al24
The New York cotton market closed nrm;
lplands 1885,; sales 1851 bales.
AT Liverpool cotton closed active and
frmer; uplands 81; shipping at Charleston or
Savannah sgd.
The latest euphulsm for red hair Is Ca
nandaigua color; Canandaisua being, as every
New York railroad traveller knows, little be-
yond Auburn.
Rev. 8. 8. Harris, of the Episcopal Church
in Columbus, Ca, has accepted call to the
rectorshlp OF Trinity Church, New Orleans, at
salary Of FIVE thousand dollars.
The Chicago lawyers, who lost some $780,
600 worth of law books in the fire, now ask
liberal donation of books for the library Of
their Law Institute, which they promise to
make free to the bar generally.
Fanny Ellsler, uhe genuine one,) whose
dancing delighted our fathers and grandfath-
ems, is now living quietly at the Hague. she
Is sixty-one years old, and Is noted Tor her
deeds Of charity.
additional returns received from The late
leeislatIve elections In West Virginia confirms
the first reports of an unqualified Democratic
and Conservative success. The additional
counties heard from are Kanawha, Mineral,
Berkeley, Marion, Harrison, Rltchie, Lewis,
Wood, Brooke, Marshall and Wetzel, all of
which return Democratic majorlties. '
The FIRST of the trials of the polygamists be-
fore the United States Courl at Salt Lake has
ended In conviction. The accused, Thomas
Hawkins, Is one of the leading lights In the
Mormon Church, and the principal witness
against him was his first wife, whose trials
under the yoke OF her Turk Of a husband seem
to have been peculiarly severe. The sentence
imposed Is fine of FIVE hundred dollars, and
imprisonment for three years. Thus the crisis
In Mormonism has been reached.
The New York Tribune appeals to The
generous In behalf Of the sufferers In sWlscon-
sin, Michigan and Minnesota. Probably fifty
thousand persons In Northern Wisconsin and
Michigan have been stripped oi every posses
sion, and many have been rendered sick, blind
ororippled by the ordeal, which will necessa-
rily make them objects Of charity for some
time to come. Unfortunately, too, where
whole families and whole communities were
involved In the common rum thefe are no
neighbQgs nor re'aa...iyes On whom, as III SH'ca'
no. some of the suffering can fall back for as
sistance.
Mr.. A. T.. Stewart, since 1852, has given
away in public charity about s2oo'ooo. III
1852 % he sent $4,000 to the distressed COT
tonspinners of Lancashire; soon afterwards
ahlp laden with provisions to ireland; upon |
the breaking out of the civil war he gave sso,-
600 for the defence of the Union; and $lo,ooV
to the famlshlng people of Southeastern Prus- |
sia lust before the war, and afterwards gave |
tie Germans $4,000 orth of provisions, lol. |
lowed BY apother gift to Prussia Of loooQQ i
francs. and ke amount to France. Alter
the late fire in Chicago, as Is we'll known, ne
contributed $4,000 for the relief OF the sui
ferers.
in New York City Charles 0'Conor, the
distinguished Democratic lawyer, has been
compelled to decline the nomination OF the
reform Democrats for member OF tne New
York Assembly romthe nineteenth District.
His time is more than occupied In the invesli-
cation cf the frauds and in stirring up Tweed,
Tor which he was delegated by the attorney
General. At his sugges ton, however, the
Hon. Horatio Seymo was on Saturday noml-
mated for the position, and 1t is understood
will accept The opposing Democratic candi'
date ia Tom Field, the district giving $500 ma
iorlty. Mr.. Seymour does not reside IN New
York City, but Oneida County, and ills novel
thing In New York State politics to elect can
didate for the Legislature residing in another
county. A Republican journal says all parties
should unite on Mr.. Seymour, as it would be
an honor to New York to elect such o man.
"A correspondent of the London Telegraph
draws lively picture of the social condition OF
Paris at the present moment. by which it
seems tha. 1t Is not only the eA..rnal appear
ance of the city that Is being so rapidly re-
,uyenated, but the people also are already
assuming the 'ante -belum" gayety and joYiali-
ty. Day 81 day the number Of persons who
usually I've there, and nearly as many more
who come from afar of, are locking 10 Town
and settling themselves down as OF old; taxing
to all their former occupations; doing business
and killing time in that wonderful manner fIr
which Parisians have been celebrated Time out
of mind. According to the correspondent,
Paris was never imore flourishiDg than now,
and the tradesmen are literally ''ful OF busi-
ness.n The ,workmen-masons, carpenters,
smiths, tinmen, GLACIERS, painters, printers,
tailors. shoemakers and the rest-were never
40 well of before. What between some 10000
of their fellow craftsmen killed at the taking
of Paris, 10000 who are still prisoners, and
10000 German workmen who left Paris at the
commencement of the war and have not ye'
returned, there are now at least 10000 fewer
pairs OF hands In the city than there were last
year. The consequence is that workmen now
get whatever wages they choose 10 ask RentS
have not risen much, and although ihe plice
of provisions is high, more meat and Vegeta
bles are consumed than formerly. AS coro
larry, the populace "a contenIed and orderly
and the police say tha beyond rare wlneshof
dispute, or ,he distraction Of having occn
sionaly to hunt up Communist, they have
really nothing to do.
The following was the sentence passed or
Saturday upon Hawkins, the polygamst, b!
Chief Justice Mexican, In Salt Lake City
ssThomas Hawkins. am sorry for you, yer!
sorry; you may not think so now, but shat