The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-10-06
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER G. 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

lands eEd; sales $4,000 bales.
The rackerel fishermen report the season
perfect failure.
Commodore Maury, it is stated, has re-
signed the presidency CT the Alabama UniVer'
slty, which he recently accepted.
The Cuban rebellion seems to still 60 on,
notwithstanding the monthly announcements
of its suppression. 1t is confined TO remote
mountain districts, however.
Henry Ward Beecher is of opinion that the
city government of New York twill be known
as long as Sodom and Gomorrah are known,
and largely for the same reasons"
= "A defaulting bank cashier In Maine says
that speculation had nothing to do with bis
deficit. He could not live on his salary oi
$500 year when he took The office.
The new railway depot of the New York
Central Railway, said to be the largest railway
station in the world, was opened for business
on Tuesday. tbs at Forty-second street and
Fourth avenue, New York.
"A large magnet, said to be the largest In
the world, was recently manufactured at An
sonia, Connecticut. In experiments made
with ii, the magnetism was found to be so
powerful as 10 ruin the movements of the
watches carried by people who were near 1t.
Colonel Lewis w. Washington, the nearest
living blood conne1ion of George Washington,
and well known throughout the District Of
Columbia and neighborhood, died at his resi-
dence in West Virginia on the lst instant, In
the ffty-ninth year Of his age.
Tennessee State bond coupons to the
amount of $4,000 are ascertalned to have
been stolen from the State treasurer's office,
and, 1t is supposed, placed on the market.
They are Of tie ''fundable" class, nearly all
of which have been Withdrawn from general
circulation. A. NJ. Wade, chief clerk to the
State comptroller, has been arrested charged
with the theft.
An old.tlme repartee of the ex-Emperor
NAPOLEON to his cousin, Prince Napoleon, has
lust come TO light. One day the Prince, who
bears marked resemblance to the first Bona
parte, and who was always jealous of the En-
peror's good luck, said petulantly to hts lmpe-
rial cousin: s'Come, now! You have nothing
of Your uncle about your To which Louis
Napoleon promptly and sarcasucally replied: :
"Pardon! have all his family on my hands J"
The Prussian inteEdant OF one Of the North
German cities, in which some thirty thou'
sand French soldiers were held as prisoners
during the war, lately sold at private sale the
straw upon which these soldiers slept during
their captivity. The result Of this has been
that great mortality has followed among num-
bers of the purchasers OF the straw, many
having died of smallpox and dysentery, dis
eases from which the French soldiers suffered
extensively.
Further accounts of the fearful famine,
pestilence and other miseries which have be-
fallen Persia, have been received at London.
Besides the number of persons who perished
from hunger and disease. forty thousand in-
habitants of one province were carried of
into slavery blythe Afshans, who took advan'
tage of the general dlsorganization to make
iscursIons. Notwithstanding all this, the Per.
sian Government 5etrefnses 10 avail itself OF
aid profered by Great Britain and Russia.
The unfriendly treatment to which Ger
man citizens Of Lyons are subjected by the
French Inhabitants has been again formal J
complained of by the German minister to the
French Government, and this time In very de-
cided terms. He details the grievances, and
expresses the opinion that the halfway meas
ures adopted to remove them will prove very
unsatisfactory to the government ut Berlin.
In reply, the Count de Remusat has given fur
ther and full assurances of protection and In
demnity to the offended Germans.
Private intelligence, coming from q trust
worthy source, announces that the ex-Empe-
ror Napoleon will settle permanently in Eng.
land, at Chiselhurst, where his household has
inst beer increased in view Of permanent
residence there. Many of his retainers, whose
services we're dispensed with after the disas-
ter at Sedan, have been recalled, and the sad
dle.horses which Napoleon rode during the
war. and which were at the Chateau Of Aren-
berg, in Switzer. and, were lately taken aboard
q vessel at Ostend, on thel1 way 10 Chise!-
hurst.
The Trustworthy Washington correspon-
dent of the Baltimore Sun writes: "Although
Its constant iteration from Washington has
made it somewhat familiar story, the facts
would seem iudisputable that Secretary Fish
has decided on an early retirement from the
Cabinet. He has intimated this to his asso-
ciate officials, and has released the elegant
mansion he at one time intended TO occupy.
He retres Of his own volition, ard the change
has no political bearing; in fact, there is TO be
an entire reorganiz ,tion of the State Depart
ment. Mr.. Davis, the assistant secretary,
goes to the German Conference. and the law
officer has just resigned to accept q position
under the Japanese Government"
The arrival Of the Russian Prince Alexis
at New York is anticipated for the 9th Instant
private house adjoining, and attached to,
the Clarendon Hotel in that city, has been pre-
pared In an appropriate manner for his recep-
tiou. Here the Prince will enjoy seclusion
which he could not hope for in a hotel His
suite aud personal attendants will also have
their apartments In this building, and this por-
tion of the Clarendon will, for the nonce, do a
very Russian business. NJ. Catacazy, the Rus
sian minister, has charge of the duty OF enter
tanning, and generally caring for, ihe young
Prince during his stay In this country. Tbf
social features OF his welcome to our shores
will be controlled by Nine Catacazy, who will
hold in her hand the happiness or discomfort
of many social snobs who aspire to the elysium
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