The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-05-19
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FRIDAY, NAY le. 1871.
= NEWS OF TIE DAY.


12tal2l.
Cotton closed steady and in good demand
at 1916; sales $3.50 bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed quiet and
steady; uplands It'd, Orleans 74d; sales l2'ooo
bales.
There are two thousand Chinese on Louisi-
ana plantations.
The Stadt Theatre, in New York, is to be
sold. and a new German theatre, to cost be-
tween $500. 900 and 100000, is TO be erected.
Miss Angela Georgiana Burdett Coutts'
the famous London female phllanthropst' mas
accepted the peerage rendered by the crown.
-Wilkie Collins is forty-seven years old, anu
hopes, it is stated. to write at least dozen
more novels before he retres from the field OF
fiction.
The Lady Mayoress of Dublin, jointly with
number of other ladies of that city, will
shortly offer the Princess Louise handsome
present.
Real estate owners in Louisville have re-
Gently refused eighty-five dollars per foot for
property which could have been bought lor
ten dollars foot three years ago.
One of the provisions of the new Cana
dian homestead bill protects debtors VINO may
settle there against their creditors Tor nVe
years.
"A Louisiana planter reports that MS Ch'-
nese hands work slow, but sure and nice.
They plough well, but can't make the mues
understand Chinese very we'll yet
The young Queen of Spain is very de-
won't Catholic, and the same priests are now
performing service at the royal chapel VINO
of6ciaed under the ex-Queen Isabella. Tne
decree conhscating several converts has also
been revoked.
The Great German peace festival at Phlla-
delphia wound up on Tuesday with picnic at
the Rae Grounds, q few miles north OF The
city. About 10000 people were there, VINO
were rendered miserable in the afternoon by
the giving out of the supply Of beer.
William Hepworth Di1on's book, "Her
Maiesty's Tower" has yielded him s5O,ooo.
Disraeli has been equally successful with MS
novel of "Lothair," and publisher OF LONDON
has furthermore given him 5000 year for the
right of issuing his former novels, "ViViah
Gray" "Alroy," "The Young Duke, DC.
The New York Sun says that but for the
Presidents unruly son the troubles al west
Point would not have occurred, and that COLO
mel Pitcher is not to be superseded by General
Buyer as superintendent until September.
This is to enable cadet Grant to be graduated
and receive his diploma, as under no other
superintendent but Pitcher, who Is one OF
Grants pets, could such cadet have been re-
tanned at the academy as long as he has.
In a paper lately read by Mr.. Fdirlle before
the British Association at Liverpool. that gen.
telmau said: ut ought to be engraved on The
mind OF every engineer that every inch addeo
to road gauge beyond what Is aosontely
necessary for the traffic adds 20 the cost OF
ss ps 81 ias1PFag and in
consequence, reduces the useful effect OF the
railway In this is involved the whole ques-
tion between aroad and narrow gauge rail-
roads,"
The great pigeon roost this year, it is re-
ported, is at Kilourn City, Wisconsin. For
three weeks the pigeons, in numberless anu
continuous fiocks. have been flying from
south to north. darkening the light and filling
the air with the sound of their wings. The
hotels and boarding houses are full of trap
pers and hunters from al! parts OF the North
west; the coopers are busy making barrels,
and men, women aud children are hard at
work packing up the pigeons. From ten lhous-
and to thirty Thousand. pigeons are seat of
every day.
The New Orleans Plcayune, in an article
on the advantages of immigration, expresses
the opinion that "a half dozen OF Onr best war
steamers could not be more protlably en-
ployed in time OF peace. than in bringing
monthly loads ofimmigrant passengers Tree OF
charge. No more useful occupation could be
found for a thousand consular agents than the.
diffusion of information in European coun-
tries about America. No more philanthroplc
or patriotic business can offer than that OF at
tending to the wants of the strangers who
seek homes in this country"
"A Washington correspondent says that,
though the marriage Of his daughter Jesse to
Fremont was much against the wishes of
Thomas q. Benton, he allowed the wedding to
take place at his own house, and aftefward
carried the notice to the oltice OF the Globe.
The elder Blair, reading over the notice, re-
marked "ihis Is not the usual form. Colonel.
It reads that Miss Benton married Mr. Ere
mont. Permit me to trulspose It." mo, SIR
replied Benton, very emphatically. "Let it
stand. John Charles Fremont did not marry
Jessie Benton, sir; Jessie Benton married John
Charles Fremont, sir"
1t will be remembered that last summer
the ice companies OF New York bought mp the
entire product aud sold it at an extortionate
figure. 1t was also proved that they cheated
in a gross and fragrant way by delivering
short weights. The largest sufferers were the
.proprietors OF the great hotels, the meat pack
ers and butchers. These organized the Con-
sumers' Ice Company. and during the past
winter have built aud filled with the best
quality of ice The largest ice houses ever
erected in the country. The crop has been
large, the ice houses along The Hudson alone
containing upwards of l,250,000 tons. The