The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-03-06
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MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1871.
NEWS OF TEE DAY.


Cotton was quoted irregular at lax cents;
sales 5000 bales.
in Liverpool cotton opened dull, with down.
ward tendency; uplands barely 73sd; Orleans 7l
a7%d; sales 5000 bales.
Chinese testimony has been admitted IN the
Federal Court in California.
"A cable dispatch reports the illness Of Mr..
Gladstone.
The German authorities have dismissed, in AL
SAGE and Lorraine all public funclionaries and
employees who were born in other provinces OF
France. - =. :.
The New York papers report that the Hon. W.
M. Tweed has bought she Metropolitan Hotel,
and is going to- put in hls youngest son as land
lord.
That washington partridge. eater has accom-
plished his feat. having eaten thirty birds in as
many days, and, won $780, lie is open to other
similar engagements.
The NM. Rothschilds, the famous lnanciers,
have expressed o conviction that France IS able
torsise the sum demanded as indemnity within
one year.
More than fifty thousand residents OF Berlin
are serving in the German army. This Is about
seventh OF the entire male population of the Prus.
sian capital, which, according to the census OF
1867, was s51,2ss persons strong.
The citizens Of san Diego, CAL, held grand
jubilee, on Friday night, in honor OF the passage
OF the Southern Pacific Railroad bill. The success
of the measure is hailed with great satisfaction
on the Pacific coast.
Should the marriage Of the Princess Louise
take place during Lent, it Is stated that in many
London churches there will be special penlien-
tisl service ut the same hour as the Huptial cere
nnony.
"A prize Of $4,000, offered by Frenchmen In
California for the srst Prusslan battle nag cap.
tured In the war, has been Claimed for Picronti
Garibaldi, who captured the flag OF the 6lst Prus-
sian regiment at Dion, January 2sd. :.
Coal has risen one hundred per cent. in Ger:
many, In consequence Of the difficulty Of obtain
ing transportation for 1t, and many manufactures
have stopped work in consequence of insuficiency
OF fuel. u 1sEosSg rssEH
The Pal Mall Gazette expreasess tnal belief
that the High Commission n0wi session at WASH
ington, avoiding all difficulties as to the distribu
tion of the Alabama Glaims. wiz agree to pay a
round sum OF money, leaving the division OF the
same to the United States.
Minister Washbarneis report Of Affairs duriag
the siege states that he has managed to preserve
intact the property and furnished apartments OF
Americans who had left the city in consequence
OF the siege, and that no harm had come to any OF
the Americans who had remained In the ctSy. His
protest, on all occasions when 1t seemed to be
needed, was respected by the government OF. the
national defence, which, he says, always treated
him with kindness and consideration.
Hon. Hugh McCullcch, who has jnsrestabish.
~ n hronoh oronov or low CnoEe and On hank
ing.house in London, has created quite stir in
the English metropolis by hiring offices at what
they consider the enormous rent OF fsOoo per
annum. Mr.. McCuloch has been received with
every consideration in English mercantile circles,
and has been madea director In several leading
corporations. 1t Is likely that his drm Will take
the same place as that held By she house Of George
Peabody & Co. IN London.
New orleans celebrated Mardi Gras in Almost
enthusiastic manner. The great event, as usual,
was the pageant OF the "Mistlc Krewe Of Comus,"
which adopted as It's design spenser'5 Faer.e
,Queene. Tho principal characters Of the foem
were represented In fae- style by the msskers;
the streets were flied with knights and gorgons
grim, with ladies fair and fairy maids; and the
procession, after passing through the city, called
upon the Mayor at the City Hall, where Comus
with appropriate remarks, presented his subjects.
who were courteously welcomed by his Honor.
Then came the revel at the Opera House, five tab
leaux, Illustrations OF the poem which formed the
basis Of the evenings celebration, and then
brilliant fulldress ball. which appropriately yotd-
ed the sports of the,carnlval. Besides this cen.
tral demonstration, ,3the customary maskings and
mummings were ca ried on with hearty abandon
and good nature.
Letters from Paris are severe upon the mis-.
management and blind neglect Or the pubic Inter.
est which have marked the administration Of pro.
visions since The beginning Of the SIEGE. Paris,
on the day Of the capitulation, had bread and
meat for eight more days. In these eight days
$500 horses out OF the 26,5oo would have been
slaughtered. The remainder OF 81 800 at the rate
OF 5000 per day, would have been JUST enough for
another week. In other words, Paris might have
helix out fifteen days longer, II 1t had consented to
subject itself to greater prlyasions. remarka.
BILE feature Of the siege was The decrease Ia SUI
cldes. Only FIVE occurred in January, whereas Or
dinarily that number are daily brought TO the
morgue. A number Of Americans have got into
the city to have first look at th efdien capital;
but the physicians advise no one to return at
present. The mortality from putrd fever among
Rotel Is still full Of the but has been bought by
Mr.. LAUREN for 81, 100000.
The London. press in discussing Napoleon's
last proclamation naturally take divergent ground.
The Times says: While, too, thus fretiy. oensur-
ing what Is past, the captive In Casse has no WORD
OF advice on the direction OF the future. He VIII
wait to see what time will bring forth. Other men
may undertake the labors Of the hour, and If they
fail he will come in With tardy wisdom to expose
their errors, and to ask the people OF France to
put thom aside sad make way for his tried and
approved judgment The News considers the I'M
prudence OF the proclamation to be even more,
striking than its injustice. "He protests against
all acts emanating from the present rulers OF the
country as being illegitimate, and bases his pro-
test on the charge that they have destroyed the
last institutions which derived authority from cni
versal sufrrage" The Post describes the procla-
nation as dignined in tone and appropriate in
manner, under circumstances which render dig
Htty and appropriateness most dinlcult OF attain
ment. There Is in 1t no trace Of wounded.per.
sonal pride, no attempt to set up personal Claims
ho appeal to past services, and he who still con-
siders himself frances Emperor merely treats
himH;if and his claims as Incidental and subor.
dinate to the welGere OF the country. The sJver.
eighty OF the people is Still an article OF faith,