The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-02-18
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY ls, 1871.

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SATURDAY, EEBRUARY~ls, 1877.
NEWS OF THE DAP:
in liverpool. yesterday, cotton -oioaed
quiet and steady; uplands I'D; Orleans 7Sa.Hd
sales 1000 bales.5
i'm New York, yesterday, cotton closed in fall
demand, but weak st 1sc; sales $40 bales:
Gold closed at 1lK.
There are four hundred ex. Confederate ofhcers
scattered throughout the various armtesof South
America. ~. .....s+ss
LIN eyery hundred Prussian soldiers the ave.
rage CT those who can read and write is put at
ninety. six. ~. ~
Elephants trunk 1t appears, Is very good eat
ING. 4 slice thereof in the Paris restaurants dur
inp the siege cost about ss, ard correspondent
OF the London Times, who est some, says "the
flesh Is very tender, and notebady faVored:1 - .
-As o result Of the siege OF Paris and the con-
seauens arrangement OF nearly all the industrial
interests or Tie city, nearly aquarter ofthe pop
ulatton are reported to be utterly destitute or de-
pendent partially upon the public fer support.
-The German officials at Verk lies are count
ing upon Sympathetic submlssion"-.whsteyer
that rnayLmean-as the result sof the council OF
warcomposed, ,el the chief generals, OF France
which is to be held in Paris. <
"A Montreal widow Of twenty-five Is the
mother OF nine, children, the oldest being barely
four years old. She was married at sixteen, land
all her children have been born as twins, with
the exception or once, when she had three boys
at BIRTH,
Tho "Besieged Resident" an Englishman,
says. ..The Partisan is nots coward but his In
diytdnalty s. oSstrongly developed thatheioo-
jects to that individuality being destroyed by
some stray shot" There Is good deal Of human
mature in your Parisian after all.
Won Moltke proclaims that he knows nothing
about the American civil war, saying: Il have
.purposely kept myself ignorant upon that SUBJ
ject, because there Faa AHshl9g TO be lsaFnedI
from l VARS science at1sns rscordos the
maare scrambling Of two armed 'mobs can only
produce confusion In the mind"
The celebrated csricatprist, George Cruik-
shank, In q letter responding to an American,
claims large share Of the merit Of many Of MIR.
DIckens,s earlier works, particularly sketches
by Bog, and "oliyer. Twist.n He planned seve-
raj Of them fully and Invented the characters. In
some cases he executed the Illustrations, and Mr..
Dickens wrote up them. This letter is likely to
call forth some controversy. Mr.. CruikshanS Is
regasdsd asa verT prudent and honorable man /
-,S6s! English correspo seem to;bs great
,Iy pleased that among the captured arms In
Frah6es0 many guns OF American manufacture
have been found. At the entrenched camp OF
Conlle, huge stacks OF Connectlcut-made arms
and cartridges were found. The Englshmen
parade this fact with great exultatlon, because
theye y great Irritation among the Prussiansy
against England, for, II France had not received
arms nom one country or another, the war must
have: come to an end long ago, and the winter
campaign, with its hardships and terrible loss OF
Life, Is put down to the account Of England with
many,a bitter speech. Engiishm snare, therefore,
very well pleased to fad some other people to
share this displeasure with them.
The long columns Of announcements In the
London Times intended for friends In Paris, have
sor some time beena frequent subject OF remark
and people have wondered what chance there
was OF their ever reaching the eyes for which
they were meant. The means adopted for this
purpose sre explained In the Times OF jan
uary 80: 'Those pages OF the paper which
contained communications to relatives in Paris
were photographed with great care BY the Lon.
don stereoscopic and Photograph Company on
piensB OF thin and almost transparent paper,
about an inch and a half In length by an inch In
wiSsh.. On these Impressions there could be seen
by the naked eye only fTo legible words, the
Tinss, and six narrow brown bands representing
theaix columns Of printed matter forming page
of the newspaper. Under the microscope, how
ever; the brown spaces become legble, ald every
line Of the newspaper was found to have been dis
tinetiy copied, and with the greatest clearness.
The photographs were sent to Bordeaux for trans'
mission thence by carrier pigeon to Paris. When
rec@yed there they were magnined, by the aid
OF Smagc lantern, to large size and thrown
upon screen. A stan Of clerks Immediately
Transcribed the messages and sent them OF to the
places indicated by the advertisers r..
Cadet Grant, whose fame rests more on his Se-
cent connection with the West Point troubles e-.en
than onhis being the Fresident's son, has been
interviewed by New York World correspond ant,
who found him well built young fellow, deep.
chested, hroad-shouldered, and thin In he tanks
BE possesses keen. quick eye, anu Is neither
handsome nor the reverse. 1t would not require
vary fancfful observer to notice about his
mouth the lines OF somewhat dogged character,
norsouid 1t be dinicult to fency from whom he
derives It. Altogether, he is q very fair specimen
Of afWest Point cadet. After onering the reporter
sucb Hospitality as cadets are allowed to tender
pipes and tobacco-the young man freely gave
bis News as to the late expulsion Of three OF the
youussst class, placing special stress on the ne
ceastty OF veracify, in military point OF view.
and the honorable punctilIousness with which the
West Point boys uphold 1t. He ascrlbed the pre-
valsate orlying to the suppression Of the prsc'
tice Of ;;deylnlng" the plebes, ofwnch the bsnent
waatas dea 1t gave them OF, the enormity OF ly-
ingIGHs sgerred that the expulsion was, the re.
suit 9t d desire to bsneas the academy. said that
the 1lssa acted as one man, and that there were
no ,nansleaders,' % manfuily upheld the credit Of
his GLASS, and was not very outspoken as to Whist
he thought would be the result. Young Grant en-
phatcany denied the charges Of lax discipline