The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-08-09
NEWS OF TIE DAK

The New York cotton market showed a
fair demand, but weak; uplands 1890; sales
2sl7 bales.
AT Liverpool cotton closed heavy at
sd for uplands and sfd for Orleans, with sales
of 10000 bales.
Citizens of the United States, before going
abroad, should obtain their passports from
the Department of State. No fees are now
CHARGED for them. Nataralized citizens shoulo
send their naturalization papers with their
applications.
The Davenport, Iowa, printers seized
circus and menagerie the other day for not
paying its bills, and now each editor is the
happy owner OF Swineouphalus, or Gastlcu-
tus. or Hippopotatiemise, or an Alaskan Sea
Lion. When subscribers rage and man
comes in and wants to know "who wrote tnat
article,n the editor unchains his menagerie,
and the insulted fellow has sudden call to
sssee man" elsewhere.
If NJ. Theirs oe reported correctly, the
purpose OF the French Government seems 10
be to Judge the prominent Communist prison
era in advance. he is said to have remarked
a few days since, when asked to show indui-
gence to these men, "CertainE, for the OBJ
scure, the weak, the erring ignorant; but for
the leaders we have been and shall be plttless." !"
N. Theirs appears to forget that ''pitiless' ex-
presses the conduct Of the Versailles troops
towards the Communists Of all ranks and OF all
degrees of intelligence.
"A Cuban gentleman farming In Fauquier
County, Virginia, informs the Lynchburg Re
publican that he has plan on dpot, and, ne
. believes, In process Of successful execution,
for ssthe Introduction of considerable num-
ber of Cuban families into Fauquier County.
The proposed immigrants are, for the most
part, OF the best social class of that Island.
The Cubans, according to Mr.. Casanova, are
tired OF living under the bane OF Spanish des'
potism. They have money, industry, and,
what is perhaps eequally important, they are
not divided from us by political gaps nor dill
ferences of political faith.
The challenge cup offered by Mr.. Bennett,
of the New York Herald, to the winning yacht
of the ocean race, which is to take place this
month, from the lightship of Newport to Sandy
Hook lghtship and return, is on exhibition IN
New York. 1t is shaped like an urn, and stands
on an ebony pedestal, with corresponding
panels of frosted silver In front and rear, con-
neeted by miniature chain Of silver. IL
weighs three hundred ounces, is twenty-three
inches in height, and cost between slsoe and
$4,000. A gold medal accompanying the prize
bears the following inscription: "ocean Chal-
lenge Cup-Lightship off Newport 10 SANDY
Hook Lightship and back"
The sixth annual report Of the Freedmen's
Savings and Trust Company proves that the
negroes are not badly off at the South. IN the
thirty-two branches Of that institution now
existing in the Southern States the total oal-
ance due depositors at the end Of the fiscal
wear was s2,455,s36 IL. The total n 1856,
when most of the branches were In operation,
was only $780, 1888 AZ. The freedmen not being
by instinct or education thrifty race, these
figures must be taken to imply pretty healthy
financial condition of such of that class as are
willing to work. Nothing is further from the
truth than stories of freezing out negroes from
the South, under-paying them and cheating
them. the fact being that in many States they
ara almost masters of the situation, can every
where get good wages for every hours labor
that they will perform, and 80 far from being.
oppressed, enjoy state Of things which the
white workers in many other parts Of the
world might envy.
a movement Is being set on foot in Eng
land for the better protection Of ocean navi-
cation between America and Europe. The
risk of collision Is becoming greater and
Greater with the yearly increase Of traffic, and
the proposed plan, It is thought, will diminish
this risk infinitely. It is suggested that TWO
parallel bands or zones be laid down, each
sixty miles in width, the northern zone to be
followed By western bound and the southern
by eastern bound steamers; the zones, more
over, to be separated by an intermediate divi-
sion of thirty miles. The northern edge Of the
northern zone will Craze the southern end Of
Newfoundland Banks, thus obViating the dan
gers Of running down ashing-smacks and en-
countering icebergs. Sailing vessels, 1t Is In
tended, are to keep clear Of this tract OF water
entirely. The project has the additional rec.
ommendaton of advantageous currents IN
both directions, and would seem both feasible
and advisable on grounds not only of economy
but humanity. It's urged by several expe-
rienced commanders, and is exciting very
general and favorable discussion among the
London Board of Trade and merchants.
The Chicago Republican tellsa hitherto-un-
told story. of Alice Cary's first and only love.
It saws that when the Cary sisters made their
first pilgrimage to the East, Rufus Wllmot
Grlswold was among their earliest acquaint-
ances. This gentleman was a prominent
HHerateur when men Of letters were less
numerous In New York than at present, and
materially assisted the sisters to obtain foot
hold in the metropolitan literary circles.
Toward Alice he more especially inclined.
Their first acquaintance ripened into friend
ship, friendship into Intimacy, and intimacy
into love. II was said at last that the parties
were solemnly afianced. But the course Of
the poetess' true love did not run smooth, for
Griswold proved tickle, and deserted her for
another. The engagement was broken, and
Alice, concealing her sorrows, kept herself
more closely at home, and turned her atten-
ton more asslduously to her laoors. Alter
the lapse of several years, Grlswold lay dying
in poverty and almost friendless, in the heart
OF the metropolis. But his bedside was at
tended by friendly presence, his wants sup