The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-12-11
Tbe @aflesto1t 9ems.
MONDAY, DECEMBER IL, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAP.

Gold closed on Saturday at oBalo.
in New York, cotton closed with an ad'
vance Of quarter cf a cent on upands-lss-
with sales of 263S bales.
ia Liverpool, cotton opened strong, and
closed quiet and steady; uplands s4d.; orleans
l0alotd.; sales IL, 600 bales.
The income tax expires by limitation on
the 30th inst =
"A dispatch from Washington states that
Sumner declines the Craftsmanship OF the COM
mittee on elections and privileges.
The thermometer at Paris yesterday was
sixteen degrees below zero, and the Seine
was frozen over.
The New York police prevented the pub
1lcdemonstratieh of the ''Interpationap vsga-
bonds. which had been fixed for yesterday.
The anticipated strike of telegraphers has
commenced at Liverpool, and dispatches are
delayed. sse;.-H. -
speaking Of Jews, the Jewish Chronicle
says ireland Is the only country In Europe
where Jews were never prosecuted.
An AmerIcan-of course it is an Amert-
can-has started . ferry boat on the Sea OF
GalfIee, and the steam-whistle and engine
sour are hencefo-th to do violence to its
echoes. .se. 81,
The Mormons are giving up all hopes OF
maintaining the practice CT polygamy, but
some believe that Congress will allow twenty
five years, more or less, Tor Its gradual aoon-
ton.
The announcement is made that two con-
signments OF Chinese, designed for employ
ment in cotton factories, are on their way TO
Salem, Massachusetts, and that more are TO
follow.
r--Iawrenee n. Gobright has been appointed
eohpnIssioner nom tie District OF Golumbia to
the centennial celebration in Philadelphia IN
1876. The Star says this is proper compli-
ment 70 the esteemed Washington manager OF
tn New York Associated Press.
About a hundred cotton cases before the
Court Of Claims have been postponed, pending
the decision Of the Supreme Court whether the
Presidential pardon entities the pardoned
party to testify in the Court Of Claims against
the government.
Another distinguished conversion to the
Church Of Rome is announced. the new
nyertr IS the Marquis Of Bath-John ,AIexan-
der ,Thynne-whose family dates its ancestry
from, the time of King John. His lordship
has long been in the halfway house OF Ritual
ism. and has now made the remainder of his
Journey. He is the patron Of eleven livings
In the Church of England. .........-.
a@@rhe day previous to the fight near New
Ill
Orleans, Jim Mace.is reported as having said:
s.i wish it distinctly understood that, win or
lose, this will be my last fight In the prize
ring. II any man attacks me, we will have IL
oct then and there; but as to entering the
ring again. that is entirely out OF the .ques-
tom Jim says he is getting too old 10 nsht,
and he Ia anxious now for little peace. Let
him have it.
"A Washington telegram says: "There has
been no communication between Grant and
Alderman regarding change In the attorney
generalship, though the pressure for change
is great, and Akerman's resignation would be
probably accepted. Influential political cir
cles urge Akerman's lack OF judicial furce and
attainments necessary to the position. The
very highest authority thinks that Fish wiz
s!ick.'' o1 a
The Austrian Embassy in London, TO
which Coclt Beust has lately been appointed,
isthe principal diplomatic prize in the Empe-
ror's gift, now Paris is no longer what 1t
wa. The Austrian Ambassadors 10 London
maintains, The same sort Of eXclusveness as to
society as she would do In her own circles at
home, and it is much more difficult to obtain
cards for her parties than for those Of most OF
the other ministers. ;T -.s
The Memphis Avalanche states that the
negotiations for the control of the Memphis
and Charleston Pailroad, which have been
pending for some weeks, have finally been
concluded in favor of the Pennsylvania Rail
road. Colonel Tom Scott, 1t Is understood,
has effected lease for forty-fre years on
guarantee Of dividends, aud 1t Only remains
now for The stockholders ofthe Memphis and
Charleston to ratify the action Of the directory.
AT grand banquet, iu st. Petersburg, on
Thursday last, the Car offered toast to the
health of the Emperor of Germany. He hoped
the intimate friendship which existed between
that monarch and himself would last as long
as they lived, and be carried down to future
generations by their successors; and he trust
ed that the fraternity CT the armies Of Ger
many and Russia, dating from an ever memor-
abe epoch, would be perpetual. Thus would
be constituted the best guarantees for the
maintenance OF peace and legel order in Eu-
rope.
The Tichborne case had reached It's fifty
fi.st day In England at last mail accounts, and
still witnesses come forward who identity the
claimant as Roger Charles Tlchborne and YER
ify their recognition BY multitude of minute
and ingenious tests correspondent writes
that''a perfect revulsion OF opinion has oc-
CURED since the case was reopened, and every
one now declares that the verdict must be for
the plaintiff" The weak point in TENDERNESS
case has been that he had not proved that
after his shipwreck in the Bella in 1853 he was
picked up BY the Osprey. The missing link
vas supplied on the 10th ult., by the testimony
Of II. A. Sharpings, who met him at that time
In Melbourne harbor.
The cable brings news that an English
edifce which has Witnessed the changes Of a
thousand years, Warwick Castle, the ancient
and splendId seat OF the Earl Of Warwick, in