The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-12
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MONDAY, JUNE IL, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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Cotton closed steady with uplands at 1si
cents; sales 2096 bales.
In Liverpool cotton closed frmer; uplands
sia}d, Orleans s4asid; sales 2 1000 bales.
Italian papere state that n. Emile Olivier,
who 30 suddenly vanished after the disasters
to the Empire, is now enjoying life in a quiet
way at Turin.
The portraits of Mr.. Darwin represent him
az a big:browed man, with a full beard, q
healthy neck, an intelligent eye, and very
practical kind of expression.
London is swarming with visitors. There
are about $4,000 Germans now there, about
$50, 600 French, about $4,000 of other continen.
nal countries, and about 10000 Americans.
The belief seems to be gaining ground in
Scotland that the Marquis of Lorne, son.in-laH
of Queen Victoria, being virtually debarred
from any political preferment at home, viii
shortly 90 to Canada to rule the new Domin'
ion.
-Montmartre and Chaumont have been
selected as the points on which will be erect.
ed the new forts, intended to command the
interior OF Paris and prevent instructions In
the future. The engineers have already
broken ground and commenced. operations.
The directors of the New York yiaduct
Railway met on Wednesday last and subscribed
towards It's stock the 81, 900 necessary to
make available the city's subscription of $4,000
600. Mr.. A. T. Stewart led off With a subscrip'
ton Of 1000 shares.
The Crown Princess of Prussia, nee Royal
Alice, OF England, will this month publish her
book on female labor. She Is a pronounced
advocate of female suffrage, and In other re-
'spects very radical, and the example of their
future Empress is not without its effect even
upon stolid German women.
The Richmond and Washington Railroad
is making rapid progress, with fifteen hum
dred men at work between Quantico and
Washington. The through line, 1t is stated,
will open for travel during December next
time from Richmond to Washington four
hours, to Baltimore six hours, and through to
New York In fourteen hours. BY the present
routes the time to Washington and subsequent
points is three hours longer.
The statement comes from Washington
that the President will soon promulgate an
order placing General Sheridan In command
of the district where he thinks he may IND
sufficient color for the use of troops General
Sherman is said to be considered unfit for en-
forcing the bayonet law whose provisions ne
%disapproved, and his recent speeches at the
South show a too lenient spirit; while Sheri-
dan is ready to put his Piegan policy into prac-
tice AGAINST The Ku.KluX.
we are glad, for the credit OF American
publishers, to state that the Messrs. Appleton,
though not required 80 to do by any law, will
pay Mr.. Darwin the same percentage on the
sales of his recent work, the Descent OF Man,
as they would to any American author OF like
standing. Similar just dealing has been
shown by this publishing house TO MIR. Spen-
Ger, Mr.. Huxley aud other scientific authors
ofEngland, whose works they have reprinted.
THE cable announces the recurrence of a
~confagration at Const.ntlnople which destroy
ed two hundred houses. Just one year ago a
still more disastrous fire swept through the
European quarter of ~C0nstantineple, taking
In its course several OF the ambassadorial resi-
dences. Such disasters, however, are by no
means new to the inhabitants. Their houses
generally, are :ere wooden structures, pro-
vision against, fire is managed in the most
primitive fashion, and when the flames once
gain mastery, the theatre of destruction Is
sure to be extensive.
A New York letter OF Thursday says :
.asThe gossip in Democratic circles to-day is
that a prominent member of Congress Of this
city Zone of The Tammany sachems, has gone,
or is about to 60, South, for the purpose Of
having an Interview with Jefferson Davis, to
represent to him the great injury he Is likely
to lnfict not only upon the Democratic party,
but also upon the people of the States recent
lyin rebellion, by persisting in such speeches
as those no has been making lately. The mis-
sion is a delicate one, but 1t has been entrust-
ed to a very discreet and diplomatic hand.
The electric telegraph has almost enclrcled
the globe. A submarine cable has been laid
and Is In practical operation between Singa-
pore and Hong-Kong, thus placing the Brit
ish colony. at the last named port in direct
communication with London and San Fran
cisco. A cable under the Pacific ocean will
complete the circuit, though the practical re-
suits Of this are now attained-for messages
can be sent from either shore of the Pacific
ocean to the other, trayersing aad connecting
with nearly all the whole modern civilized
worldin their course.
"A joint-stock association of virtual and
bona tide settlers has recently been established
In the Parish'ot. Livingston, Louisiana, about
six miles east of the Tickpaw Station, on the
Jackson Railroad. The settlers are all Euro
peans, mostly Swedes, and seem to be well
satisfied with the arrangements they have en-
tered into and their future prospects. Each
head of a family has a farm for his own use,
ranging from l2O to 800 acres, according to his
wants, and the means he has invested in the
purchase of the property upon which the colo,
ny has been established.
The complacency with which most of the
English journals receive the treaty is not
shared by the London Morning Post, which
takes it very hard The.Post says it may well
be called a compromise, for where the United
States has gwen way on one point, Great Bri-
tain has given up all The others, including
every thing that ia vital. The Post chiefly OBJ
iects to the establishment of what it calls a