The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-09-23
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER aa, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gold closed yesterday at l43.
The New York cotton market closed dull
and heavy; uplands 10. cents; sales 43o bales
The Liverpool cotton market closed heavy
uplands sIa9td, Orleans 93a9ld; sales sOo(
bales.
In New York, Sunday evening, the French
section of the International Society admitted
women to vote, but denied them the privilege
Of making speeches.
The fatal insanity Of Prof. Mahan is said to
have been occasioned by chagrin at having
been displaced from the chair he had occupied
at West Point for more than forty years.
The new professor OF engineering at West
Point will be Colonel Peter s. Niche, now pro-
lessor of philosophy at the academy, gradu-
ate of the class OF 1868, and but lately a'captain
in the corps Of engineers.
AT the sale OF the stud of the exoEmperor
Napoleon, NJ. Theirs bought pair OF horses
souvenir for good luck, people observed. In
addition to his horses, his Majesiy's carriages
have also been disposed of. ,
The steamship ST. Louis, OF The LtverpoC'
and Mississippi Steamship Company's line,
which left New Orleans on the 18th instant,
discharged over 1900 tons Of freighr, and took
on over $500 bales OF cotton within seven days
from The time of entry.
The English road locomotive on exhi6l-
ton at the New Jersey State Fair is surrounded
always by crowd. This steamer, on Monday,
was attached to one OF Hewes & Phlllipss heaV-
lest draye, loaded with 10000 pounds Of pig
iron, and which it drew with ease all over the
grocDds.
-Ex-Secretary Seward dined with NJ. Thers
in Paris on the 3lst Of last month. As Mr..
Seward spoke only English, and N. Theirs
only French, neither understanding the other,
1t must be concluded that the speeches the two
made upon the occasion were equally agree
able and edifying.
The Princess Metternic, is again In Paris,
and longs Tor the restoration Of the Empire
and the return of Eugenie. who was for years
her only formidable rival in point OF dress.
She so easily ecllpses all other women now by
the elegance and costiiness of her costume that
society seems 10 her desert and life
burden.
"A Washington dispatch 10 The New York
Tribune says: 1.-THE Treasury Department con-
tinues to send detachment Of three clerks 10
London, with each instalment of the new
bonds that goes out 10 the syndicate. Eighteen
of these fortunate gentlemen are now abroad
enjoying themselves at government expense,
and four more detachments are 10 so, making
thirty clerks In all. Their passage and all
other travelling expenses are paid, and they
are allowed TO be absent Tor periods OF SIX
weeks each, giving them time to make little
trip on the continent"
in explanation of The catastrophe by
which an entire country Of florida is repre-
sented to have sunk and been replaced by 4
lake, we are told that the ocean waters flow
under bog crusts in tha. State for many miles,
that salt water fishes have been taken in ''snk
holes" or openings in this crust sixty miles
from the sea shore. Analogous phenomena in
localities nearer at hand are mentioned. Such
caving in scared the people of Orange Coun-
ty, New Jersy. lately: an4 recalls the similar
phenomena in Iowa that .c5enty, in The same
way, destroyed several miles OF railroad that
had been built over all lnsuspecled lake. 50,
too, in York County, Maize, the Railroad that
had been competed around pond In Alfred
suddenly sank. and when the cause was
sought, it was foand that an unsuspected pond
sixty feet deep lay under the meadow over
which the road had been constructed. But in
Florida such conditions exist more extensive
II than anywhere else.
"A convention Of the taxpayers al F.trda,
lately In session at Lake City, have Issued an
address to their fellow-citizens, "without rel
erence to their party connections" IN Whicn
they set forth that the amount TO be collected
In taxes the current year is nearly sl,ooo,ooo,
equal to one eleventh OF the total personal
property valuation of the State. That IRON
their knowlege OF the condition OF the produ-
cling interests, the delegates assembled give IL
as their deliberate opinion that, after deduct
ing the actual cost OF production. there VIII
net remain in the hanas OF producers sufti-
cient amount TO pay the taxes upon their
property" The address goes on to explain
the methods by which the people are plum
dered. and reforms which are needed, showing
the necessity of general reduction of taxa
ton except the school tax. "Thls tax" they
say. "should be retained at such rate, con-
sstent with the resources OF the people, as
will suffice for general education" The tax
collections for sixteen years are given. For
1860 the amount was sos IS.
The story of General Grants Long Branch
cottage has never before been told wit: tne
detail in which correspondent Of the Chicago
Times relates it. The narrative dates back, of
course to the time when Hon. Tom Murphy
was not collector. At that time o happy
thought, one pregnant with profit and honors,
came to the aspirant for collectoral place, and