The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-04-01
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SATURDAY, APRIL l, 1871.
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

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aa'r"fs NEWS OF TIE DAY.
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Gold closed in New York, yesterday, at
Ieshos. % -. 80 :, <
Cotton closed dull and heavy at l5sc.; sales
1891 bales. .'''
in Liverpool cotton closed dull; uplands
7ad:; Orleans 72d.; sales 10000 bales SD
The Virginia Legislature, at Richmond,
adjourned yesterday sine die.
---Nib1o's Theatre, In New York, is soon to
be closed.
LIN the Haytien army there are 4ooemsjor-
generals.
-Mr. Thomas Kernaghan, one Of the Oldest
,ci:izeas or Hamburg, died on Thursday eve
ming: y ~ ~ 2!'' lip - -'.,-.7 ~
John G.. Enloe, Esq, has been appointed
byGovernor Scott county auditor for York,
.utce Nelson Davies, resigned.
Governor Scott has appointed and COM
missloned Mr.. John L: Watson county treas
urer for York, usce 3: NJ Rose, removed.
six hundred out Of. TIE one thousand
seven hundred and sixty-dge students of the
Leipsic University served In the German
armies.
The fugitive pianists from Paris who have
fed to London since the siege have found It to
their interest to remain in that city as teachers
Of mt1sic, the London prices for lessons being
better than those given in Paris.
The Figaro states that negotiations are
o,oino sd between the Prussian and the
French Governments eor the purchase from the
former Of the chassepots which were DELI
yered to the PrussIans after the surrender of
Paris. i''ss2
-onR wednesday night, about 10 o'clock,
blacksmith shop in Hamburg, the property OF
the South Carolina Railroad Company, caught
fire, and was partially consumed before the
flames were extingulshed. The damage was
light and the lire regarded as accidental.
when General Won Moltke stood before
the portfaits OF Bazaine and Mcmahon in the
palace at Versailles, he is reported to have
said to Bismarck "I think we have done
about as much as these gentlemen; but the
:PtHsians win never put our pictures or sta
tues Ill any Pantheon In Berlin"
,sAtsThs Germans continue preparations for
their grand peace commemoration festival on
Easter Monday. In Baltimore, the pageant
promises to be very fine, but in New York 1t
VIM BE one OF the most imposing ever wit
messed. Between 10000. and $4,000 men will
be line Brooklyn has given up Its original
Intention to have celebration of Its own. IL
swilfj Join with New York; -
las a specimen Of the tone of the Paris
revolutionary press, when referring to what
they Ill "the rural Assembly" at Versailles,
may be taken, the utterances of the Venseur.
In the course of an article bitterly reviling the
NatioGal Assembly as the ally of Prussia, and
the harer Of the Republic, it remarks: ut is
not to Versailles that the deputies should be
transferred, but to Cayenne" Cayenne is the
French Botany Bay.
AN'iNo more employment for Prussans in
Frsace, says the Paris Opinion Rationale.
ssThls door is closed to every German subject,
workman or customer" Is the inscription
placed over the atelier Of NJ. Nadar, In Paris.
Mile Brohan, the celebrated French actress,
has sworn never to set foot on German soil.
These Instances give some idea Of the prevail
Germany and all things German.
Tile New York papers are full of Senator
Summers speech. The Herald, World and
Tribune devote from six to ten columns each
Of it, and base their leading editorials upon 1t.
The Times treats 1t quite cavalierly, however,
pnbhshing only an abstract, and briefly allud-
ing to It on the editorial page, as nothing new,
s'the facts not warranting the conclusions, and
utterly failing In establishing the absurd
charge OF usurpatlon against President Grant"
The Norfolk (vaJ Journal says: 1--WE ap-
peal to cur contemporaries Or the Democratic
press at tRs North, and the Conservative press
Of the South, to speak at once, boldly and un-
equifocally, and declare to the country that it
is not the desire of the great constitutional
party Of the Union to annul the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments. We appeal to
them for the sake of the Conservative cause
Let it be promptly done, and the next presi-
dency is ours"
Before the ratification Of tie preliminarles
OF. peace ,by. the Assembly at Bordeaux, the
municipality of Metz unanimously adopted a
passionate protest agninst the occupation and
absorption Of their city by the Prussians. The
document declares that the City OF Metz never
belonged to Germany in the beginning; that the
peopls OF Metz wish to live and die French
men: that annexation TO Prussia will drive
them to exile and ruin, and that Germany, In
restraining them Of their nationality, will In
cur. the troubles that follow violence, and
which are its legitimate chaslisement.
The Washington correspondent OF the
New York Tribune sends to that paper long
cock-and-bull story OF Ku-Klux outrages mar
rated by the. delegation OF South Carolina
Legislators now In Washington, closing as FOL
l ows: SIT Is the opinion OF the delegationthat
the only way of insuring present protection to
life and property is to use the United States