The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-07-24
NEWS OF TILE DAK.

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Benjamin Disraelt meditates tour around
the world, beginning with the United States.
Mine elephants from Ceylon arrived at
New York, last week, on the bark Nehe-
miah.
1t is announced that the New York Cotton
Exchange will probably lease extensive ware
houses at the Atlantic docks, Brooklyn, tor
storage and sampling Of cotton.
Baron sch!osser, the successor OF Baron
Gerolt as the German Minister to Washington,
is not expected to arrive in this country until
late In the fall. He is now on q mission TO
Rome. -,ssr,- 5zr..:,.-...,i- s. ..,f F
Pile Hon. Jefferson Davis publishes q
card, stamping as an utter and outrageous
falsehood scandalous story which is going
the rounds Of the Radical press rejecting upon
,hiR private character: %
::::ts-,--The trial. OF the Bradstreet Commercial
Agency case is still going on at st. 'Louis, and
the facts ellcitsd in evidence are anything but
credltable to the manner lin which that con-
Germ is managed. :....,- =.
Sergeant Geo. W. Grove. so well known
In Richmond during the war as having charge
<ofthe sSoldiers' Home," or better known Ia
the Army Of Northern Virginia as -"Crow's
Nest,n died last week. 5.'-s
"A large number OF the bronze statuettes Of
:Colenei James Fisk, displayed in Broadway,
-New Yotk, ,wndows have besn decorated with
white bandages around the ankle. The sa-
tire Is most expressive. - igs.'53
At ssdaee on the 10th OF May, 1t is stated,
the Commune Of Paris, amidst violent alterca-
tions, officially resolved to burn the city. Del
.escluze closed the discussion by remarking,
withe fine dash Of artlthesis, that ifthey could
not preserve liberty, they could at least secure
her splendid obsequies. 50
The orange Lodges in New York and also
the Hlbernian anti Orange Societies have
largely Increased their membership since the
late riot Mr. Beecher advises. the Orange
men to paradenext year without banner less
or an inscription erased. They have, he says,
become by accident the representatives OF
principle which underlies modern civilization,
and If they fall to march through, the s,of!
New York on the occasion Of their next ami
versary, they will betray o sacred duty.
There are Tour hundred ami twenty Tisl-
tors at the White Sulphur Springs of West
-.YNgInIg, gEI rHg UrrrVaS uVerags ninety q
dsy. There are two hundred visitors at Allie
Ehauy Springs, one hundred and fifty at Ca
pom, one hundred and fifty at .Rawley, fifty at,
Rockbrldge Baths, one hundred at Healing
one hundred and twenty: five at hot, one hun
dred and fly, at Rock Alum, fit3 OF Salt Sui
phur, seventy five at Old Sweet, fly at Sweet;
.Chalybeate, and hfty at Warm Springs. 80 I,
&IThe prison of Bowen Is described as hav-!
;ing3been, the most comfortable placeln Wash
dngton during the hot weather. There were
NO bars to- the windows, and the door opened
Into acool and shady yard, where the immur
ed Congressman lolled at ease, read the pa
d pers, received company, smoked cigars, and
atethe Well.cooked meals which were brought
to him from his home. J. It would appear, on
the whole, that one Of the most desirable:
pleasures .:.ot Washington Is To- get put into
5ail.5s as :sis..1a Eza 'e5.gss p, !;
4--Ai iNeW,York letter fells us: .sMademoiselle
Nilsson hasshipped her lover and.her dame de
-sompagnie,, Mrs; Richards, back to Europe to-
gether,; and has gone of with only her maid)
with Judge Stonghton and wife to their coun--
try home in Vermont From there she goesto.
Newport with them, they having taken the old
Governor Gibbs house for the summer. The
story is, that Mrs. Richards has been gotten
rid of for the reason that she is the person
who made the match between Mademoiselle
and the young Frenc Gilman who has recently
been here, and whom Mademoiselle does not
now intend to marry. So Madame Richards
and the lover were dispatched together, and
Nilsson is going to manage affairs herself nov,
according toithe approved American plan"
The earthquake, which about once a. year
Shakes up unrepentant New England In the
midst It's sintulness, has come around again,
and this time even rang the church bells en-
route to give emphasis TO Its promonitory pur-
port. The .quake e'' seems to have been first
experienced at Portland, Maine, little before
1o'clock on Thursday morning, as announced
in our; dispatches. kilograms state that the
shock was felt during the morning at Saco
and Brunswick, Maine, about the same hour,
andtke direction of the "wave" was from
north to south. 1t was felt also at Boston,
Massachusetts, Portsmouth and New Hamp-
lsnltS.sSAL SouCuEVi NoW i1nnPsnhS,.le les NV
minutes to o'clock the shock came heavily
along, accompanied by deep rumbling noise.
Buildings were violently rocked and church
bells rung. Reports from different parts of
New Hampshire:ind dicate that IL was very gen.
eral through that State. -
,es:-The Utica Herald gives an account OF q
singular balloon chase which occurred in the
clouds over poughkeepsle. A Mr.. Squire and
a'Mlss ThurstoqE the latter said 70 be we'll
educated young !adysoi nineteen,started to-
gether, but In separate balloons. Squire
ascended nearly to the clouds, but, seeing
that Mlss Thurston was not following him
very fast, descended to give her instructions.
Before he reached the young lady, however,
she threw out the contents of two sandbags,
and shot up like a rocket into The clouds.
Squire allowed his balloon to drift under the
clouds, and in sight OF the earth, until over
Hyde Park, when he threw out ballast, and
went up through the clouds into the clear
sunlight. she says he must have ascended
nearly halt mile above the clouds before he
caught sight OF Miss Thutston's balloon, which
was then at least four miles above the earth,
and looked to him no bigger than mans hat.