The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-06-06
The 1ai1g Nens.
NEWS SUMMARY.


Cotton closed in New York yesterday firm at 27a
A2Sc. Gold $50.
0otssnolosedin in Liverpool yesterday at 1lid for
Uplands.
The Ennress EUeEsE celebrated her forty-frst
birthday ON the 18th Of May last.
The Prussian Government bought 9OO, 600 uni
forms IN Ireland recently.
ss little girl, only fourteen years of age, carries
The mail between the famous Stone House and
Manassas Station, distance Of five and half
niles.f or ss;irtrc5 taa -"a'aS'. si"- So -
There are 5000 Americans residing in Paris this
wear. Ordinarily there are but 5000. They sup
port eight special restaurants four dentists, and
five banking houses; and now are talking Of set
ting rp daily newspaper.
It Ia said that the Emperor Of the French has
decided on suppressing all military bands, the
regiments to be marshalled merely BY trumpeteers
Even the far-famed band Of Les Guides is only to
be spared for awhile. s.tat.s = z"=i,
CaptsinJy MIXES, formerly second officer Of the
stssner Santiago dc Cuba, viii leave New York
for Europe to-day on Monitor" raft, taking with
him only two sailors. This craft is only twelve
feetin width by twenty-five in length.
Mr.. FARsswoRTH, the Illinois Congressman, adds
snosher to the number OF national missionaries TO-
come into the South. j. w. Langston, OF Ohio,
.andE. M, Brown, OF Baltimore, both colored, are
sboat 10 set ont on similar expedition to Virginia
sniother Southern States. u a.r
-g6The Toronto Globe says "We understand that
a small md mpretendins tenement in the vicinity
the Falls on the Canadian side Of the river, has
bssp rentsd for the oocupati OF JEFTEssoN DAVIS
and Ills family during the ensuing summer. The
,houss s hall way between Clifton and Queenston.
An indulgence Of ono gear has been granted by
the Pope 10 all who shall deFouty recite the GloT
ria Pstri snd Ave Maria with the intention OF OBJ
9Snihe from rGod, the entire conversion OF the
RHelsh nation to the truth, and to reconciliation
with the chair Of st. Peter. z.t-.s.
A ysst avalanche has entirely destroyed the
royal sporting pavilion of the King OF Italy, called
eryieha, in the valley. Of .Aosta. The damage is
& lsrest, snd many objects sre destroyed. Fortu--
s,StslH the house was not inhabited at the time,
20 % that there was no loss Of life.
Fo1zs's stasus Of EDMUND BuRKE, which has
for some time been in the hands OF the bronze
founder, viii soon be placed on its pedestal at
Dublin. The statue is to be erected in ffont OF
Trinity College, in line with Mr. FoIEY's figure
OF GohDSMTH. I'D ts}e
The Natchez Courier, Of the 18th, has been credir
btyinfumed that ut negro ball which took place
Under the LIN, in that city, on Monday night, amid
tti6 earousng, United States soldier, said to be
vhits. sat down upon the bed m one Of the rooms,
and by chance turned over dirty dress on thefoot
Of fhe bed, where he fsund, wrapped in q sheet,
ffe ilsad body Of the child Of the woman giving the
bsifi
A New York company has entered upon the
manufacture oftwfat Is called 'peat coaP hom
the peat of the Dismal Swamp. The peat is by
some process pressed and dried into blocks about
the size Of common bricks, having the darkish ap-
pearance Of burned gingerbread. These blocks
are ysrylight. The manufacturers say that thug
fual Is sboat as cheap as anthracite coal, and that
/. burns very beautifully, and produces the small
eft 4mount Of aahes; 5'sIi,A h...: 80 tfg
-.kooaored woman, one hundred and eleven years
81 age, died in Norfolk county, Va, day or tWo
fshe had been slave all her life, up to the
esssueipation proclamation, and then her former
master would not cast her of. but continued to
provide for her to the day Of her death. At her
dscsasehs cansed IN elegant coffin 10 be provided,
and he and hs family followed her remains to their
M Ysstingi plsee.a Thia gentleman was her sev-
antii Ufws1sr ~ si!isYN " AltSi 4A1Vl'a s."'
Concerning tbspsy off the New York Journalists,
4 correspandcnt Of Tho Boston Voice says: '"The
TEiblune employs fifteen reporters at an average
ssl.ry Of s93 Der week; the Herald twentythree st
81 lverass 81 the IIsss bitter opponent Of
the interests Of the working 1hen) ten reporters Of
ben xeef sss fhs q rampant advocate
oftha lxhormnyement) FIVE men at an average OF
M: the. Pod four at, t23 the World eight at an
averaged tas; ind thS Express six at an average
Of So s$Ehs IEi&.E &3a5t
The Paris La Patrie OF May 18th reports: ut
IA announ .sil thatthe Shah Of Persia will come TO
France in July 10 visit the Universal Exhibition.
This Prince was Is, leave Tehcran in the month OF
june; 70 proceed with al his court, to Mesched,
in the ,Khuscsns ,cnt1 t1political reasons have in
duceafhim TO abandon; that project and come to
Europe. N0ro- tBHs, sovereign Shah hiof Persia,
Ion ION o1 MoHAaEp SHAH, sncceeded his taTher in
as4ae Hsais conddsrede rs one sof the most en-
Heahtsned Princes 0f Persis." - = e. yss5 !
N RurtFxayamarme disasters occurred during the
-Honth III MY Ills number three were steam-
ars. seven cweras ships, seven were barks, three
wars bfiss; tMefts Itodr were sch6oncrs, and one
VAS sio~.,s Seven vessels were abandoned, four
vers fSundered, one was burned, one sunk after
collision, and six are rnissng supposed to be lost.
The total value os property lost and missing is es-
tinatsd at sass COO. The total losses during the
Hrst Ave months Of this year are estimated at
s1a 16s 800, which is $50 900 loss than during the
same period last year.
The crew Of ths ship Pdrsee, on the voyage from
San Fssncisco, for Hong Kong, mutinied after
1exyine the Sandwich Islands. When the mutiny
MAS discovered the treasure room had been entered
and bon broken open, and it Was ascertained that
the crew had conspired to murder the captain and
officers, take possession Of the treasure $500 oOo'
scrttle Tho ship and take to the small boats. The
ofacers srmed themselves ssith HEsRY's rifles, and
Sar shssffp fiSht, succeeded Ia putting the crew
N bona fThAy we're all negroes and were shipped
IN spn Erincisce gfsEY f,ll,.a.,
that Queen VIcToR1A la 50 years of age. This is
mistske.I she vas born May "a, 1873, 50 that she
is 48 yeara old. She succeeded to the throne on
the death Of her uncle, wnIIAM the Fourth, June
a0. 1887, when she was little over 1S years OF
aee. She was married to Prince ALBERT Feb
ruary 10, 1910. She has 9childron and 10 grand
children. Her eldest child, who is now the prin-
cess royal Of Prussia, and has children, was born
November q. 1s40. The youngest child OF Queen
victoria ii the, Princess BEsTRIor MARY VICTORIA
TponoRx She was born April IA, 1857.
'gr The Freemasons Of France are beginning to ad-
dress their broshefs of the mystic tie" OF Ger.
many. All Masons, the lodge called Perseverance,
ii Ssumur, says, are we'll aware that their first
dnty Ia TO defend the soil and the flag OF their
oountry. But Germany and France have no need
u eiye proofs Of their military courage; they
sheuid consolidate sthe fraternity of nations and
closs the era oT cbnquests. There is now but one
serious conquest to make-thst of liberty, OF SELF
Rover1nent, and of the dignity OF the great human
fanniiy. Tha Lodge conjures its German brethren
"a I'm fbar forts to those Of the French MasonB