The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-22

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"A terrific tornado has swept over South
ern Kansas. Eldorado was nearly destroyed.
Monogram %doughnuts are a production OF
Ohio.
The latest about Prince Napoleon is that
he Is worth $4,000, 900, and is coming to
America.
Henry Glay's old home, Ashland, has been
purchased by the University of Kentucky for
100000.
-Commodore ME-. Maury, of Virginia, has
been elected president of the University OF
Alabama, and will accept,
Cyrus Andrews, of Savannah, injured by
the recent railroad accident near Rochester,
N. T., will probably die. The others are doing
well.
Montgomery, Ala, boasts Of a mule used
to draw q hose-cart. 1t asserts that, no mat
ter where the mule is when the fre-bell rings,
he takes the nearest route, under full gallop,
for the engine.house, places himself in posi-
ton for the harness, and as soon as he is
hitched up speeds away to the fire with all his
might: @-3s 4Hll -;t=.'
The practical application of steam to loco
motion on common roads having been satis-
~factorily demonstrated in Edinburgh, the idea
has taken root in London. The cable an
nounces thai a tramway for road steamers has
Just been completed between Newgate and Is
lington, one of the northern suburbs Of Lon.
dom and also that other tramways are to be
made in various other parts of the great city.
The system promises to grow in favor and i'm
portance.
The sweet potato has a great future. 1t
has been discovered that from 1t can be ex-
tracted a syrup that far surpasses that Of the
beet, and even the sorghum, in delicacy OF fla.
voy, while the yield is also more abundant.
The average product of a bushel of sweet pc.
tatoes Of the yam variety Is alleged to be over
two gallons, which would give from 300 to $50
gallons of syrup to the acre, as the average
production, on poor and sandy soil, Is from $50
to $50 bushels per acre. And, even alter the
syrup has been extracted the residue Is pro-
nounced q valuable edible both for man and
beast. It thus seems that the sweet potato Is
to plry the same role In certain parts of our
country, where 1t Is raised in greatabundance,
as the bread-fruit in the South Sea Islands, as
it can be used in its various forms as an escu-
lent, In making bread, In the brewing of beer,
as a substitute for coffee, for the production of
syrup, andSfor fattening pigs and other farm
animals.esaaca asats= ISL: -:
One of the peculiarities Of the Government
of the Paris Commune was the great prepon-
derance In the really influential positions of
foreign adventurers. That these men, COM
posed of almost every nationality, were In
volyed In the leadership Of the movement, Is
shown In recalling the names of many Of them.
The question Is, how did the majority OF these
men find themselves in Paris Just at the juno
ture when stheir. reckless political systems
might find opportunity for action? It is not
clear that they were in the city before the
war, and but little time was afforded them to
reach Paris during the interval between the
departure of the Germans and the flight of the
Theirs Government. I Their presence in Paris,
with all their hair-brained theories, must
always havesomething of the mysterious at
tached to it; but there the mystery connected
with them ends. The C~hassepots and mitrail-
leurs of the Versailles troopsahaVe solved all
other doubts that hung around them.
This Is the latest Imagination of the Inde-
pendent Belge;newspaper:: S"About ten years
ago q young American of New York, named
Walter Hastings, dined with Lord G. at one Of
the clubs in London. He (the American) then
opined that solitary Imprisonment In q dark
cell was not 80 terrible q punishment as was
generally supposed. His lordship was curious
to test. the matter, and offered Hastings sl0,-
900 o%nzcondltioh that he would submit to ten
years solitary. confinement. The proposition
was accepted, and a dark cell of fifteen by ten
was provided by Lord G.. 1t was agreed that
the prisoner should have candles, a few books,
Ink aud paper and abundant ot food; but that
he should be served by an invisible attendant.
These conditions were completely fulfilled.
Hastings remained for ten years In solitary
confinement, and was liberated on January l,
1871, nwhen he received the hard-earned
money. His person has undergone the most
extraordinary change. Though not more
than thIrty7ave he looks sixty. His body is
bent and his walk unsteady. His hair and
beard are gray, and his articulation feeble and
tndiSttnct."
The military prison at satory, where the
captured Communists, male and female, were
confined by the Versailles authorities, Is de-
scribed by one who saw 1t as being horrible In
its accessories. The prison was an open-air
one, and was formed of a quadrangle bounded
by walls of about ten feet in height. In this
space thousands Of prisoners were confined,
with shotted guns trained on them from the
loop-holes of the walls, and ready to be dis
charged al them at the slightest evidence Of
INSTRUMENTATION. The prisoners, both men
and women. were tied in gangs of nine to-
gelher, and then fastened 10 posts at regular
distances from each other, and there was no
possibility for ablution. OF change of clothing.
From the way in which they were roped TO-
gether, every group was compelled to lie
down, stand up, or sit, as If it were composed
of a single person. These poor wretches were
generally kept two or three days in this cattle
pen and in the other prison at Satory. Thence
they were sent to Cherbourg, Brest and other
seapOrts, on their way, probably, tt the penal