The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-12-28
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold at New York closed at 1osaloic.
the New York cotton market closed weak.
Sales $500 bales at 157s cents.
The james River is frozen over at Richmond.
1T Is stated that King Williams new title Will
be Emperor, and not Emperor Of Germany.
The New York Tribune thinks that the reuom-
instion of General Grant for 1872 is foregone
conclusion.
The engagement Of Mr.. J. C. Bennett, Jr., OF
the New York Herald, to Miss Margaret Middle
ton, Is announced. Miss Middleton Is Buffalo
lady, and a niece OF Leonard w. Jerome.
The bishop of Chalons, Frsnce, has written
his name down on the list Of notables chosen to
stand on the locomotives Of the daily trial trains
and has even proposed to replace the fathers OF
families exposed to this obligation.
1.-The articles ofimpeachment presented against
Governor Holden have appeared In the Raleigh
papers They constitute formidable tnuict-
ment, charging him, as they do, with the numee-
GUS unlawful acts Of which he is so well known
to be guilty.
The friends OF the Southern Pacific Railroad
have s0 far made no public demonstration in
Congress, but have quietly prevented the passage
OF bills giving lands to other roads. They insist
that none such shall pass In advance OF their pro-
ect.
General @. W. Custts Lee, second son to Gene
raj Robert E. Lee, las formally accepted the
presidency Of Washington College, at Lexington.
General Lee has been Tor some time professor
in the Virginia Military Institute. where he was
much distinguished for ability. The personal re-
sembance to his father Is very striking.
The Paper Trade Reporter says that petticoats
are now made Of paper printed in such colors as
to initiate the fashionable textile fabrics usually
worn as such garments, or stamped In open work
with such beauty and deicacy as is hardly attain
able with other material and each is sold ut The
moderate price OF fifteen cents. Table-cloths,
cretonnes and ch!ntz, and even shoes, which are
said to be durable, are made OF paper.
Mr. Charles Allen Perkins, assistant secretary
of the American Legation at Lisbon, Portugal,
was married on the 18th OF November, at Lisbon,
to Princess Donna Maria Isabel Francisco de
Bourbon Bourbon, daughter Of her Royal High.
ness the Infanta OF Spain, and nelce Of the ex'
Queen Donna Isabel II, and the eX-King Francisco
de Assis of Spain. Many distinguished American
officers anG the aristocracy OF Lisbon were pres.
ent at the ceremony. grand banquet wound
up the affair.
The most strenuous attempts continue to be
made to raise the strength OF the armies OF
France Especially is this true OF Brittany.
where the youths from eighteen to twenty-one
years old are being drilled. as well as the married
men from twenty-one to forty years OF age.
Great complaints are made, however. that the
departments generally do not make the sacrifices
called for, nor even obey the orders Of the gov
a,l kron
the most part, provided the recruits required by
the government; while the South has been very
remiss In the discharge Of military obligation.
1t was recently Stated that the President had
pardoned ex.speaker Calicott, of the New York
State Legislature, who was: two years ago, SEN
fenced to two years. Imprisonment and $4,000
fine for defrauding the revenue. The sentence
covered Imprisonment till the nue was paid 1t
now appears that Mr.. calcott refuses to receive
the pardon, on tho ground that hc was convicted
OF crime Of which he wns not legally guilty. He
has therefore applied for writ Of haoeas corpus.
His counsel alleges that the provisions OF the law
under which he was tried and convicted had been
repealed before the tri.l took place. Neither the
lawyers who defended him nor the Judge who sen.
fenced him vas aware OF the repeal OF the law
for the violation for which he was convicted.
What Is still more singuiar-although the fact
was discovered soon alter his sentence-ttb b Ing
criminal case, no legal machinery has yet been
devised by which lie he set free, il he persist
In refusing 10 accept he pardon,
"Details OF the discussions - South Germany
relative to the adjustment Of q new Confedera-
ton show thai, n spite OF the brotherhood III
arms, and the general increase Of patriotic feel.
ing, the old dslrust or Prussia is not yet dead
Even the var has had its share In developing
this, since in the language OF a writer AT Dresden,
.'the suspicious elemen;s'-narnely, the Bava-
rians, wlr,ombnrgers and Poles-have almost Al
ways been paced In the 'front.' the Prussans
being usually brought up as re nrorcements. and
often Obtaining the credit Of victory which they
only helped 20 secure a ter 1t had been suhstan-
TALLY achieved by their southern allies" This
state OF feeiag is adduced t. explain the inlpnr-
tant privileges demanded for and granted TO b.
vara in the new Bund, just as 1t certainly inspir
ed the bitter scarcasm uttered BY Bavaran Ra-
dical that IL Prussia continued her arbitrary poll
cy, '.she would have 10 demand from France not
only Alsace and Lorraine, but also Cayenne"
The eX.Secrctary or State, Mr. Sewar'l, In his
famous Oriental tour from court to Court in the
East, seems destined to xperience in his person
series OF adventures wht:a, In their features OF
wild improbabllIty, rival, II they do not'surpass,
the marve,s OF the Arabian Nights. 1t is only
few weeks ago that we heard OF his having pene.
trateI into tho awful presence OF the Brother of
the Sun and Noon and Protector OF the Earth,
the Emperor or China. Imposing as that event
was, however it was not 80 romantic by half as
his subsequent dinner, on the 9th Of October,