The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-16
ube Gbafkston Neaes'
: G. FRIDAY, JUNE Is, 1871.
NEWs OF a
Gold closed in New York, yesterday, at i

al23.
Cotton closed with a moderate demand at
20a cents; sales 1855 bales.
I'm Liverpool cotton closed STEADY; up
lands.s4d, Orleans SD; sales $4,000 bales.
-The overflow at New Orleans has almost
entirely disappeared.
French s.flat" houses are said to be getting
numerous III New York city.
The announcements made that the Presl'
dent will start on his contemplated trip TO me
Pacific coast about the middle of August. He
at Salt LaHk en- route.
The officers of the coast survey are about
making a triangulation across the Continent,
with the view OF establishing q parallel of lati-
tude. in order to determine the true dinen.
sions and figure of the earth. The triangula'
ton is to begin at st. Louis next month.
During the second siege Of Paris, Cluseret,
War Minister of the Commune. is said to have
sent an offer to M. Theirs to sell the gates OF
Paris fof $4,000, 900. The discovery of this is
reported as the cause of Cluseret's sudden re-
moval from office by the Communists.
The immense German emigration to this
country has caused commensurate demand
among the Germans athome for information
upon the subject of the United States, apd
large numbers of books, treating on American
topics, are constantly issued from the German
presses. Last year 1872 works OF this kind
were publishedin Germany. .,o
There are few authors Of either sex VIII
are so literally paid for their writings as Is
ssGeorse Sand" the Widow Dudevant. This
veteran and distinguished lady Is under con-
tract to write for the Revue de Deux Mondes
at the rate of $40 per column of that publica-
ton, the column not to exceed 500 words and
Mne pudevant to retain the privilege of pub:
fishing her contributions in book form If she
should desire 1t.
This being the dullseason at Washington,
we are not astonished to find correspondents
turning their attention to such matters % the
betrothal of Fred Grant ana StaeesfeAassss
Beatrice. This, they say has been proposed
by Victoria, on condition that General Gfnnt
is reelected, when the young folks will be
married and settled to rnfe over Canada,
thereby establishing peace and harmony
dulUu OIL AhkS
Lone Of the most -tearfuly sensational as
well as successful wosks ever published IN
France was q historical romance, called "The
Memoirs of the Samson Family; or, Seven
Generations OF E~xecuioner," of which be-
tween 600, 900 and 100000 copies were SOLD.
The authorship Of. this book has heretofore
been a secret, but Its author is now escertained
to be q li1erateur named Auguste Maquet, who
wrote It at the suggestion Of the late Alexan-
DIRE Dumas, the elder.
The whole Imperial family of Russia, ap-
parentfy, is on a visit to Germany. 1t was
only three or four days ago that the cable re-
ported the welcome extended by the Emperor
Willlainto his chun, havGsar;1.on his'saFsfal
In Berlin. Previously, on the 2lst OF May, ne
did the same. kind Offices 10 the Empress OF
Russia and her SONS, the Grand Dukes Vladi-
mir, Sergius and Paul, who arrived In Berlin
on that Gate. These ctvi!ltles, at th~is5ancture,
between the two Emperors and their fsmilies
may mean something, or nothing as you
choose to take 1t.
-Inyconversation with Minister Washburne
on the subject of the Paris Commune, Prince
Bismarck is reported to Fave said: 1.-THE civil
war. In Paria does aot give ms.any fears ssre-
sardssFfanee or europe. Let the Comufu1e
90 on In its mad career. ALL the Reds OF
Europe have met there by appointment.
When they Will have run their race the out
latwll be barred, aud happy those who Will
succeed la making their escape" This Bis
MARKHAM policy was probably the cause of the
action of the prussians at 81. Denis and else
where In refusing egress from Paris TO the
hunted Communists after the fall of that city.
An ingenious Milwsukean has invented
and copyrighted a process by which he hopes
to prevent the swindling of large sums oy
means of altered checks. The amount for
which a check or draft shall be drawn Is made
In water mark in the paper, so that no check
shall be drawn for q larger sum than is indlcat-
ed by the water mark. For example, a check
for ss5s drawn on paper having the unchange'
able water mark '!loo' In 1t, cannot be altered
to an amount beyond. the one hundred without
Instant detection, and by a second copyright
securing the same as above, but In a color
which cannot be tempered with, not only the
principal sum, but the fraction between that
and the sum expressed In water mark Is seour.
ed. The only drawback to this system lies In
the fact that the very men to be benefited
would be bored to death with check books ad
Snfnuum, II. they wished to guard against
fraud.
Professor. Morse tells IN 'anecdote efhis
early struggles. When he wasin Washington,
employing all his energies to obtain an app!ro-
priation from the governmental erect a line
from Baltimore to Washington, he had his In
.struments at each end of the capitol to dem
onstrate to the members OF congress the FEAST
bilty of the plan. He says: Al talked to
them, explained the working OF the instru-
ment hour after hour. 1 gained many adhe-
rents; still 1 saw that many were incredulotls,
and many even secuted at the Idea as Rrepos-
ferrous, and pronounced my instrument as the
toy of q crack-brained enthusiast. 1t was to-
ward the close Of the session, and there were
still about two or three hundred bills yet to be
passed before they came to mine. 1t was late
at night, and finally I gave up In absolute des'
pair, and lett the capitol building with a sad
heart. Twas bankrupt, having expended all
that + had on my discovery. I walked down
the capitol steps with exactly fifty cents, all
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