The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

ing another speech on the subject Of our ma
tional finances.
Florida Ia the only State in the Union
without daily paper. 1t has two tri-Weekly'
one seml-weekly, twenty-one weekly, and one
monthly.
Tom Scott has invested sl5O,OoOin saw
mills at Apalachcola, Florida, to get out cross
ties from cypress and juniper. which will be
chemicalzed In soma way to be rendered
fire. proof, and used on the Southern Pacific
Railroad.
Poor Howard Is certainly to be released
this time. The Spanish muister at Washing
ton has announced the PRONUNCIATION OF an
order to that effect By the State department at
Madrid. The release was ordered, 1t tappears,
in consequence of negotiations ending only
on Thursday morning, 40 that up to that date
DIR. Howard was, of course, In confinement.
The San Francisco Bulletin states that
manufacturer of bird cages and other ware in
that city, short time since thought to enlarge
his revenue by substituting Chinese cheap
labor for the white workmen he had In his
empoy. The Mongols did we'll enough at one
dular day for a short time, until they mas
tered the business, when the whole party
resigned and set up for them selves, and are
now s.bearins" the bird cage market at fear
full rate. The author of this enlargement OF
their sphere of enterprise Is prone 10 believe
1--WE are ruined by Chinese cheap labor"
Captain Isaiah Ryndera, well-known to
all old Nav Yorkers. aud for the past Blk years
q resident of Bergen County, New jersey,
was delegate to the New Jersey State Con-
vention, representing Lodi township. New
York correspondent says: "Tne captain, with
his hslf-moon whskers extending from the
fin of one ear to that of the other, his rosy
face. his white hat perched deaantly on the
top of his head, looks like the genuine old
Jersey farmer he ls, Instead of the famous
muscular politician which his reputation JUS
titles. He glories In the fact of having voted
the Democratic ticket for forty-seven years,
and vet hopes to live to cast one more vote,
and that for Horace Greeley"
of all the hotels In the world, the very
oldest Is q lonely one in California, on the
road between San Jose and Santa Cruz. In
spine ten immense trees standing few feet
apart. and hollow inside; these ere the hotel,
neat, breezy and romantic. The largest tree
is slxty-flve feet round, and contains sitting
room and that bureau of B3cchus wherefrom
is dispensed the thing that biteth and sting
eth. All about this tree Is garden of flowers
and evergreens. The drawing-room is bow.
er made of redwood, evergreens and madrona
branches. For bed.chambers, there are nine
great hollow trees, whitewashed or papered.
and having doors cut to ft the shape OF the
holes. Literature finds place IN leaning
stu,lp, dubbed ''the library" II 1t was not Tor
that same haunt Of Bacchus, 1t Is certain that
the guests of this forest establishment would
feel like nothing so much as dryads.
AT 4 meeting of parties interested Ia
the silk manufacture at Newark, N. j.,
last week, an Interesting account OF the
progress of that industry In this coun.
try was given. 1t was stated that over
SIPS, 100000 worth of silk goods are consumed
In this country each year. OF this amount
only $50, 900, 600 are manufactured here, conse-
ouenrly American capitalists have wide field
TO operate tn, and profitable one, as silk
manufacturers realize over thirty per cent. on
their investments yearly. mandatory is
projected at Newark, N j. The capital re-
uulred to organize the company Is $500 900. of
which $4,000 has been subscribed, and the
projectors of the enterprise are confident that
success will attend their efforts. They PROM
lac that stockholders will receive twelve per
cent. on their stock the first year the factory
Is In working order, and thirty per cent. the
second year.
Professor AgassIz has written long let.
ter In the nature Of report to Professor
Pierce, superintendent of the United States
Coast Survey, which is published. In his ex-
pedtIon TO South America the great scientist
seems to have found abundant confirmation
of his glacial theories, which, besides
being satisfactory to himself and his admir-
ers on that account, will doubtless prove of
the greatest value to geological s. .ence. 1t is
not too much, remarks the New York Tri-
bune, to say that be has found the Alps of the
New World, for In the close likeness between
the mountain scenery of Patagonia and that
of Switzerland. which he glowingly depicts,
he has recognized something more than
mere similarity of appearance, and shown
that the same great agency which gave pecu
liaritles of shape and characteristics of sur
face to the mountains of the Old World has
left equal imprints at the extremity OF our
continent.
Lord Granville, acting with the Italian
Cabinet, has suggested to the governments Of
Europe the propriety of holding conference
for the purpose of considering what steps
should be taken with regard to the persecu-
tlon of the Jews in Roumanla. On the part Of
Russia, Prince Gortchakoff declines TO enter
into conference on such subject, for fear of
In any way revivlng the Eastern question,
which he holos 1t be the interest of all the Eu-
ropean States to leave undisturbed. He is
willing, however, to subscribe a joint note to
the Government of Roumania, calling Its no.
tice to the outra., res complained of. and inqur-
Ing what are its intentions regarding future
policy on the SUBJECT, and what guarantees it
is willing to g'1e, In accordance with the hu-
name spirit of the age, that stop shall be put
to such cruelties. Should the answer of the
Roumanian Government not be satisfactory,
the Prince is willing to proceed in the matter
in the spirit of the Treaty OF Paris OF 1856.
The answer made by the Pru.sian Govern
rnent Ia substantially the same as that of Rus