The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-03-17
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FRIDAY, MARCH II, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Cold, at noon, in New York, yesterday,
opened steady at liz.
The New York cotton market closed &C.
tive end higher; sales 5633 bales at 15{c.
AT Liverpool cotton closed with harden.
ing tendency; uplands 7sd., Orleans 7id.; sales
$4,000 bales.
There are said now to be about seventy
partners in the Rothschild's banking firms.
The Richmond courts admitted their hrst
colored lawyer to practice last week.
The Princess Metternich has offered to
Louis Napoleon the use of her palace at vi
emma.
The death of Rochefort and the Insanity of
Trochu, lately reported by cable, are now both
contradicted. y
Among the French prisoners in Germany
1s grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, Prince
Charles Bonaparte. He Is quartered at Loet-
zen, Prussia, and Is under rigorous surVeil-
lance.
There lately passed through Nancy nine
.Japanese officers of high rank, homeward
bound, after witnessing the investment and
capitulation of Paris. They had with them an
Interpreter, formerly an officer In the British
army.
The many attempts at escape made by the
French prisoners just before the armistice,
have been found to be the result OF compll-
Gated conspiracy among them to aid Bourbaki
In his attempted invasion of Germany.
I'm Berlin they have 'Homes for the H'me-
less" an extensive collection of buildings
These are now undergoing improvements
which will make them ornaments to the part
of the town in which they are situated. These
buildings are divided into separate depart
partments for homeless women and children
and for homeless men.
Count Bismarck having received ink, ink
stand and pen, to be used in signing the treaty
of peace, was obliged to refuse table to sign
it on, as too inconvenient at present. A Ham
burg dame followed with a splendid and elabo-
rate pen-wiper, for which she received, as the
other donors received before her, letter OF
thanks. Blotting-paper and sand were not
thus provided.
An Alsacian peasant was recently ques-
tioning Bavarian soldier somewhat closely
as to the strength of his regiment, when the
latter, suspecting that his interrogator was
either spy or a Ffanc-tireur in diguise,
: suddenly ''drew Off and sent him sprawling
on the ground, and after waiting for the Alsa-
clan to pick himself up, coolly remarked in his
Bararian dialect, 'sThaL's just how strong am
!: by myself; so If you'll just put things together,
you'll find out perhaps how strong the whole
of us are.n
The French Government has begun to lay
on new taxes at the wrong end. A tax on
cotton that is expected to produce from twelve
to sixteen millions of dollars per annum Is
very questionable gain to the French treasu-
~. For Its first effect will be to place Rouen
out of competition with Manchester in the
markets of the world; its next will involve
protective tax much heavier than at present
on imported cotton manufactures, and this
will almost, If not altogether, destroy the
rising prosperity OF the calico printers, and so
leave France with one productive industry the
less. The other "imported raw materials"
that are marked out tor taxation will nroba-
bly turn out to furnish quite as delusive sour
ces of increased revenue.
Washington specials say that Senator Sum-
ner is In receipt of sympathetic dispatches
from all quarters, and that many senator's who
voted against him excuse themselves by plead
ing s'the party whip Trumbull, Schurz and
Wilson say that a breach in the party will re-
suit, which will be fatal to Grants renomina-
ton. The President warmly approves the
course of the Senate. Sumner himself is I'M
placable, and 1t is said that his forthcoming
speech on San Domingo, nearly completed,
will charge that the crimes for which Andrew
johnson was impeached were white as snow
compared with those against Grant The gov
ernment is said to be indignant at the reflec-
tions on his son, the cadet, and steadily re-
fuses to obey the request OF the House Of Rep
resentatives for court OF inquiry on the first
class, at West Point. Tie Estate dinner to
the high commission Is pronounced the most
elegant ever given in the While House.
Everybody was In full dress, and the gentle
men wore their orders and decorations. There
were nine different kinds of wine besides
Liquors.
No better illustration can be given of the
complete decentralization OF the French army
of the Seine than there Is contained in the
recital of the following incident which occur
red lust before the armistce: Two Prussian
dragons, venturlng too far beyond their own
lines, found themselves suddenly surrounded
by haggard crowd of Gardes Mobile. One
>ot the two Prussiaus could speak French, and
one Of the Gardes was an Alsacian, and under
stood German. Therefore, both parties were
in favorable condition to argue the question
fairly. The two Prussians refused to give
themselves up as prisoners Of war, saying, III
8e 60 with you, we will be great deal worse