The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-03-01
Tbe Gbaflestn1t Aems,
WEDNESDAY, MARCH l, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cold closed at New York;. yesterday,
at 1oXa1l.
The New York cotton market closed dull and
irregular; held at 15j1c; sales 5000 bales.
LAT Liverpool cotton closed easier; uplsnds
7xa7xd; sales 10, 600 bales.
MIR. Henry Dickens, son OF the great novel
1T, Is giving readings in London.
by very tight legal squeeze, Mary a. Hugg
has been divorced from Oliver Hugg, in Chicago
Ian American club" has been organized in
I'm Rhode Island young lady at q masque-
raie wore she skins Of 81 geese.
=. 4IAe Battery, New York, Is beng ornamented
by large trees removed from Central Park.
william O. Drumuond, wel.known New
York actor uf the olden time, died recently, aged
"a years.
-yhe shoemakers' Cooperative Association at
vassalboro, Maine, the only organization OF the
kind In the State, has ceased work. 1t is found
impossible to make. saiss advantagnonsly In COM
petition NTH large capitalists ln'other places
Last week thesum nf $sa. .tsa. .was contrlbu-
ted In New. York toEards t1nlshipg the new Catho-
Lie aaknaamSa1 thW ag. EstAe4 Byrne egaye
5000 fhSs1iee Kelly 5000, VIM and J. 'eBrten
$4,000, Barney Williams $1,000 and various others
similar amounts.
Ian American innavatlonn has crept Into the
British House OF Commons. The old tea.room
has disa5peare4, and . handsoms refreshment
room hastaken5ts phc& whne if q convenient
recess atar has been opened where members and
their friends may refresh themselves
Some time agoJlm Fisk -'became lufurlated
vfor and tple.
graphed as follows to distinguished London
banking house, with which Jim occasionally did
business. Send me Schneider, per next steamer,
coute q,st coate, lat any costly Imagine the in
dignation Of those. London banking princes at
being requested to send danseuse to Jim FISK.
Their reply was brief and to the point: Not In
our.linei Jim feltirather shseush when he got
that telegram"
The New York sun correspendent, after Civ
ing the names OF nine correspondents accom-
panylng the San Domingo expedition, says:Spf
the above named gentlemen, six to my certain
knowledge will report In favor Of annexation;
they will state that the island is paradise, that
the Dominicans desire to be annexed, and some
will 60 so far as to assert that the white man can
labor, thriye and keep his health here OF the
others, am inclined TO think that before the re.
turn Of the expedition two, or perhaps even three,
will be converted to the annexation scheme.s
"A Washington letter Of Saturday says: '.For
the fret time since the institution was organized,
Republ can congressman from the West came
out with their Voice and votes in the House yes.
'terday, and denounced the greedy clamer OF the
Freedmen,s Bureau for morl money. 0ae member
commented 'on the reluctance with which the
ulcers Of that institutiontet up their hold on the
public crlb,' and spoke pretty forctbly on the
way the bounty appropriations OF Congress for
colorea soldiers were made away with. The re-
suit was, that the. House reduced the appropria
tions or this bureau just one hundred thousand
dollars.n
The abolition Of the purchase system In the
British army is essentially OF Democratic and
radical character. It has been introduced by the
Gladstone Ministry, tn obedience to the clalnor
for army reform, and to neutrslze the policy
which the Tory party ere expected to pursue.
Under this purchase system the commission Of
ueutenantcoloneli Is estimated as worth $50, 800;
and the lower grades have different prices, regu-
lated by custom. AS general rule, no comuis-
sion can be o5taiaed in the British army without
the purchasing 1t from the orfcer who retires, and
at the same time paying considerable sum to
the regiment. This system has led to grave
sbusss4 sad given wealth undue predominsnce
over rnsf,t. The army has been Justly called
<nresakEe for the younger soasl OF the nobility;
ana oaers no adequate incentives to young OIL
GERS OF moderate. means. Lord Russell recently
proposed the abolition of the purchase system,
and has been supported In his views by other
eminent public men. IT Is estimated that the cost
OF compenssting officers for their commissions on
the adoption of the new project viii be s55, 600 ooo.
The new bayonet election bllI, which mas now
passed both Houses OF Congress, called tue en-
. forcement aot, and which is designed to exceed
In effectiveness as q piece OF election machinery
that Of the last session. will it Is to be presumed,
become law by he favor CT the President. We
have heretofore given pretty full exhibit OF It's
astonishing provisions, under which penalties OF
nne and imprisonment are imposed regarding
the registration OF Yorers which is virtually to
be taken possession Of by the Federal officials
and also the conduct OF the elecHuns-rhe opera
ton Of the act to be longer limited to cities aud
towns OF 10000 Inhabitants II two citizens ask
for It's application ia places OF lesser note. For
any supposed interference or non submission Of
State to Federal officers In these matters primarily
mnaersakenby the State itself. parties are subject
to be arrested without warrant BY the United
States marshal or his deputies, and provision Is
made for the transfer OF any suit br ught by an
asgrleyed citizen against Federal officer from
State court to United States circuit court. and
to render ,hetudgmens Of a state court In such
.case null anu void.
The following interesting III orDlatea comes
70 us In a Washington letter written on Saturday
last: "But one week remains o. the FUrty-frst
Congress, and that will be principally occupieu in
8 struggle to save tho appropriation bills. to the
exclusion of nearly everything else. The Senate
is so far behind in that particular that nearly I've
hundred bllLs on its calendar will be lost. while