The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-05-03
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WEDNESDAY,, MAY 8, 1871.
NEWS OF TIE DAP.

5 ent engaged in manufacturing war noVels.
The United States Government expenses
or April were twelve and a half millions.
The California vintage for this season IS
estimated at ten million gallons.
over two hundred delegates to the medi-
cal convention from the Eastern States are in
San Francisco.
The corvette Ticonderoga ran down the
schooner Ada A. Andrews, from Alexandria
for Boston, with coal. The crew were saved.
The Republican executive committee OF
New York City has adopted resolutions against
the annexation OF San Domingo.
"A dispatch from Memphis states that a
hail storm did much damage il North Missis-
sippi Monday.
w. W. Corcoran, the Washington phiian-
thropist, Is better, and hopes are entertained
Of his recovery.
Deer Creek carried OF the water from the
crevasse, saving the rich Deer Creek Valley
of Bolivar and Washington Counties: Missis-
sippi.
Frederick kapp, one Of the political rcfu-
gees from Prussia of lS49, was received by
Emperor William. at the palace in Berlin, with
the greatest cordiality, as the representative
Of the Germans Of America.
During q sermon last Sunday, at Plymouth
Church, on 'sAges to Come" Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher Indignantly secuted the theory of the
resurrection Of the body.
"A colored postmaster, murdered by the
Ku-Klux in South Carolina, has suddenly
made his appearance in Detroit, Michigan. SO
we learn from Western exchange.
in consequence of the great consumption
of perfumes by American soap manufacturers.
it is now found profitable to go into the cult
Yation of some Of the vegetables, especially
winter.green, peppermint and bergamot.
Eugene Webb. in Agricultural Park, at
Sacramento, CAL, yesterday, rode one hun
dred miles on horseback in iour hours and
thlrty-four minutes. He agreed TO perform
the feat in four hours and forty minutes ior
purse of $1,000.
On Thursday evening at COS Sam Colyer,
the wen.known lightweight, left Richmond on
foot for Petersburg on aswager Of $500 that he
could reach it in three hours and fifteen min
utes. He arrived at 9.l5-fye minutes within
time-winning the money.
Mrs Fair, the deliberate slayer OF Mr.
Crttenden, of San francisco. will not be SEN
fenced until the Goth oil May, her counsel de-
string a months time in which 10 prepare his
motion for q new trial. He makes only forty
exceptions to the rulings of the court during
the trial. The verdict in the case of Mrs. Fair
generally approved by the press Of Califor-
MIA, and, we may add. BY the press Of the
whole country.
1t is reported by cable lilaL Thalber., the
great pianist, is dead. This eminent master
was born in Geneva, Switzerland, January {,
1872, and was the natural son OF Coun. Diet
richstein Famous as pianist al the early
age of fifteen, his career has been long and
brilliant one. In 1851 he produced an opera
called s'Florinde, which failed In ISIS he mar
ried daughter OF Lablache. Tllalbers's tour in
this country will long be remembered. The
perfect finish. the tuultless taste, and the Won
derful execution displayed by him on the piano
have never been eXce!ed BY any other pianist
whom we have heard here.
Brigham Young delivers every year SER
mon before the Mormoms, in which he gives
a report of the condition Of the Territory, re-
ligion, improvements. &c. In past years he
has drawn q most tat;c.:nS picture Of the
kingdom of Latter Day Sailts. The sermon
was delivered ten days ago, in The Temple at
Salt Lake, before 1900 people, among whom
were Mormons and Gentfes from all sections
of the Territory. Brigham's usual beiliSerent
style was abandoned for peaceful counsels
He advised that emigration should be we!Com-
ed and new comers treated fairly. He said
that all who came 10 Utah TO make money,
and did make il, should use IL TO wise ends,
such as general education, public morals and
common prosperity This moderation Of tone
pervaded the entire discourse, and made
deep impression upon all who listened to it.
The sharp boundaries between "Mormons"
and "Genlles" will dissolve, as there is a very
large increase OF the Gentle population in
Utah, and the process that has been begun
cannot be checked.
Correspondence to the New York Herald
from Paris contains an Important statement,
if true, of an attempt OF the adnercnts oi The
DUO d'Aumale to elevate him to the French
throne. Cn the Sth Of March: the Prince de
Joinville and the Due d'Auula.e arrived in
Tours, carefully tabled in the disguise OF
Russian noblemen, Gcd were the guests oil One
Of the best known of the T1urainc nobility.
They remained in Tours but L few days aud
on The Saturday following their departure
there was an important reeiihg OF The Tour
aine nobility. at which the Dukes most inti-
mate friends brought forward The proposition
that he should ue given the crown with all
practicable speed, aud tue twenty-five present
assentcd; but il was thought best 10 adjourn
the gathering until about this nucleus should
cluster all the nobility on the Loire. Two sub
sequent meetings We're held, at tie last OF
which Archbishop Dupauloup was present,
and committee vas charged 10 see lhe Count
de Chambord and get him to retire all his ln-
terests IN fav OF the Due dAumale. The
committee appointed TO see General Charette
at Versailles reported that he was all ready 10
adhere to the Duke with his army when re-
leased from his loyalty TO the Count de Cham
bord by the Counts formal abandonment OF
the throne. Negotiations are now going on
between the friends OF the Dixie and the
Count himself.
Throu,,h b, ,,,o N, rturinu dist fictS Of the