The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-04-24
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MONDAY, APRIL 81, 1871.
NEVIS OF THE DAY.

10 fall.
Cotton closed firm at LIZ cents; sales 1907
ales.
in Liverpool cotton closed fat and irreg-
lar; uplands 7ta7{i; sales 10000.
-Rossi, the eminent Italian tragedian, has
cen giving shakspearean representations In
Naples, Palermo and Messina, with signal sue
cess before crowded houses.
The Alexandria Gazette, of the 18th, says:
General Fitz Lee was married in this city yes
g yeniny, 10 Miss Nellie, daughter OF the late
Geo. D. Fowle. Several ex-Confederate gen.
erals were In attendance at the ceremony.
"A Washington special to the New York
Tribune says: The conviction is daily becoming
stronger here that o change Is contemplated In
thetreasury department, though there is much
doubt If It b made Immediately, as no success
or to Mr.. Boutwell, is known to have been Sc
lected.
The board of aldermen of Louisville have
unanimously passed an ordinance subscribing
$375,0 900 to aid the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company in extending its connec-
tons South, by q lease of the Louisville and
Decatur Railroad, and to purchase an interest
In the North and South Alabama Railroad. The
ordinance will be submitted to the people on
the 9th of May.
They have reduced the Connecticut cleo
ton puzzle down to the proposition that if the
Legislature approve the report of the official
canvassers, English, the Democratic candidate
for Governor, will have twenty-five majority;
If it approve the statements Of other officers,
Jewell, the Republican, will be elected by nine
ty majority. Morris Tyler, Republican, Is elect.
ed Lieutenant Governor by 1872 majority.
"A Washington letter, In noticing the man.
ner in which the Ku-Klux Dill was finally pass.
cd, says: "some appeals were made to the
President by letter from New YORK to veto the
bill, but he signed it in FIVE minutes after re-
ceiving II, and informed Republican senators
that Immediately on his return from st. Louis
he should proceed with its vigorous enforce
ment.
There is u bill pending in the Senate Of
Texas providing for a division of the State,
and the erection OF q new State west of the
Colorado River. One of the Texas Democratic
papers, while not approving a division, says
that II the bill passes, as it thinks II will, and
goes to the people, those on the north and
east OF the State are so decidedly in favor Of
division, and their popular strength at the
ballotbox Is so great, that they will accept
the division with the boundaries submitted "
them rather than postpone the division to a
more distant day.
"A new split In the Radical, ranks has oc.
CURED In Missouri. Twelve prominent gen.
tlemen, among them Colonel W. N. Grosve-
nor, colling themselves the Liberal RepublI-
can Executive Committee of 81. Louis, have
adopted a platform similar to that Of the ''New
Departure Republicans" Of Cincinnati, declar-
Ing themselves in favor of universal amnesty
and State rights, and opposed to the Presi-
dents sante Domingo policy, to the Ku-Klux
bill, and to q protective tariff. They deprecate
the present policy of paying of the national
debt, and recommend reform In the civil SER
vice. -
Fashions for this summer, says Le- Toilet.
are more simple, and therefore elegant, than
during the overplus OF pouns and other exag-
geFstions. Costumes, dress, mantle and un-
derskIrt alike will not be done away with.
Evening dresses will be made long. either
demi-train or very long, according to the &C.
casion for which they are intended. The
trains are cut squarer and the sides a little
more accumulated. Bonnets are not so high,
and there Is no end to the varieties of hats.
TUNES are worn very much drsped, but not so.
much bouffant as formerly.
"A Washington letter of Friday says: ''Fhe
ONT committee Of twenty-one, ordered by
Congress to Investigate the condition of affairs
nthe Southern States, have decided not to
proceed on their mission at the present time,
and have adjourned until the 10th of May,
when they will meet in this city to mark but
their programme for the summer. Some
members Of the committee favor making q trip
this spring snd then return to Washington
and summon Witnesses to come here aud testl-
fy, while others urge a postponement Of the
whole inquiry till next fall. There does not
. appear to be, much interest felt in the matter
among a msjoritySoft che members. According
to a programme mapped out by one or TWO, it
will cost the governments hundred thousand
dollars to conduct the Investigations :
Some Of the thrilling episodes Of the fight
ng of the 9Th before Paris are sketched by the
Kew York Worlds correspondent Between
the Arc de Trlomphe. where a writing, and
the enceinte are crowds OF women awaiting the
wounded as they al brought in, and recogniz-
ing, at every mon rnt, the mangledS6L, Of a
son, q brother, o lover or a husband. AS the
battalions of reinforcements march dow the
avenue to the gates and emerge therefrOm to
take part in the action, they are followed by
crowds Of these poor women as fur as The en-
eeinte. Every few ment a shell from Valeri-
en- or Courbevoie falls among them, but Paris
| ans are accustomed now to these bon-b0ns, and
pay little heed to them. / was told this MORN
ing that all the priests in Paris were either In
prison OF In hiding, but have seeu dozens of
them to-day in the midst Of the fighting, sue
coring the wounded aud striving the dying.
The inoessant rattle of the musketry. the
growing Of the mitrailleurs, tile roar OF the
cannon, the shock Of the bursting shells, the
shouts Of the soldiers, the clamoro Of the drums,
the means, shrteks, prayers and imprecations
OF the treuzied women, all make up u scene
that tasciuatsA, but horrides me-. With the re-
Inducements that are now passing are march
ing SOLD. OF the members OF the Commune.
wearing their red searfs OF office, ami harangr.
ing the soldiers as they go.
Prince Bismarck's speeches in the Reich