The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-07-03
NEWS OF THE D.AE.

Gold closed in New York, on Saturday, al
13}.
Cotton closed quiet, with sales of l22(
bales at 20Jc.
in Liverpool cotton opened firm ane
closed active; uplands SD, Orleans 93d; sale'
10000 bales.
1T is said in Wall street that Daniel Drew
cleared three hundred thousand dollars from
the wreck on Rock Island.
An individual in New York who bears
striking resemblance to President Grant, /:
said to enjoy hugely the many mistakes tt
which this resemblance gives rise.
in view ofthe early retirement from the
service OF Field Marshal Won Moltke, Genera
Blumenthal, comparatively unknown to fame
will succeed him as the Emperor's chief o.
staff. -. %-'
The Marquis Of Butte, whom Disraeli is
supposed 10 have personiled in "Lothair," is
shortly to marry Miss Fox, a Catholic lady oi
rare beauty and complishrnents-a niece OF
Lady Holland-who, besides, possesses wealth
that is described as princely.
George Lockhart Rives, y young Amerl'
can, has been awarded the first prize at Trim
ity College, University Of Cambridge, for En-
alish defamation and composition. The sec
.ond and third prizes were awarded to Hon. c.
n. Strut and Lord Monteagle.
The dream of an ocean pier at Long
Branch Is about to be realized. Engineers
are now upon the ground selecting a loca-
ton. The pier will be Of Iron, 1900 feet long,
and throughout the frat one thousand feet 1t
will be 80 feet wide. The last two hundred
feet will h,v> width of 100 feet, and on 1t
will be pay.lon and parlors having accom-
modatlons for 1000 persons.
The following are the ages of the French
Cabinet M. Thiers, seventy-four; N. Dufaure,
seyenty.three; NJ. Barthelemy st. Hilaire,
.seventy-one; NJ. de Larcy, slxsy-six; NJ. jules
Fayre, slxty-1ve; N. Victor Leiranc, sixty'tWo;
General de Cissey, ifty-nine; Admiral Potnu-
AN, ffty-seven; n. Jules Simon, dfty-slx; NJ.
Pouyer Quert,er,. fifty four; NJ. Lamorecht,
ffty-three.
The Prince Imperial of France dined re-
gently with Prince Arthur, at the royal brigade
mess at WooIwich. 1t is evident that the
Queens mot Gordre to the members OF her
family Is to treat the exiled Imperial family
with respect and consideration. In view Oh
Louis Napoleon's possible return to France,
and the threatened Battle of Dorking," it Is
lust az we'll to maintain friendly footing with
the BonapaItes.
The African Repository, the organ OF the
American Colonization Society, says that 1.-TWO
thousand people of color, residents of the
States of Vermont, New York, New Jersey,
North Carolina, South Carolina; Georgia, Ala
bama, Tennessee and Kentucky, of their own
accord are asking help to get to Liberia to at
tain citizenship at once In a republic control
led wholly by their own brethren, with 40
bans of custom and no bars of prejudice to
struggle against in their endeavors for the
highest positions.
Much alacrity was manifested by the
French Government after the fall of the Com
mune In getting the postal service between
London and Paris in working order. A cor
respondent asked French postofice official
why the English were so favored, and receiv-
ed for an answer that tine English grumbled 80
much about the delay In the mails-coming
into the possofices and asking in vlllanous
French why the posts did not go the same as
they used to do a year aso-that the postofice
director succumbed. The bad French of these
Enelishers was too much for the sensitive
French ear.
The fence is an American institution and
habit. aud costly one tits. Illinois is said to
have ten times the fencing of Germany, and
Duchess County, New York, more than all
France. A narrow path serves to divide farms
in France, Germany and Holland. In South
Carolina the improved land is estimated to be
worth 10000, 900, and the fences have cost
SIG. 600 900. The annual repair is tenth OF
this. a recent calculation places the cost OF
fences in the United States at $1,000, 900, 600.
Nicholas Biddle, thirty years ago, said the
Pennsylvania fences had cost 500, 100000. In
Ohio they are put at Sis, ZOO, 900, and In New
York at $l44, 600, 900. Some OF these days, I'M
der the careful tillage of the old world, fences
will disappear and land boundaries will be
marked with fruit and shade trees, or neat
hedge rows, and the country will present
much improved appearance.
Popular festivals, like the.Sengerfest ol
the German musical societies Just closed at
New York, are among the pleasant incidents
of German life which seems to be adaptable to
the American people, and, on the late occa'
sion, for the first time, native-born American
citizens took part in it. The New York Tribune
remarks that the extraordinary success of a
Washington society, led by an American musi'
clan, and composed Of singers who, with one
or two exceptions, are Americans, not only by
birth, but by parentage, was notable incident
of the late festival In New York, while, in
quality OF voice and excellence of culture, the
Americans were not surpassed. The Tribune,
however, thinks that Americans will not be
willing to surrender the female element in
their musical gatherings. Referring to the
success oil Gilmores Boston musical jubilee, it
remarks that half his singers were ladies, and
that n.ade ali the difference in the world. II
kept the chorus in condition. 1t ditfused
through the coliseum that air of g-ntility
which the average American so dearly loves.
1t gratifed our national fondness for the
female voice. 1t gave us much better singing
than we could possibly have got from men
alone.
-Trochu, in his great speech in his own de,
.<.,o, hafnra tho National Assembly, on the