The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-03-11
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SATURDAY, MARCH IL, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold elosedin New York yesterday at i
alls.
Cotton was steady, with sales of 275C
bales, at l33 cents.
I'm Liverpool cotton closed dull and easier
uplands 7sd, Orleans 7sd; sales 10000 bales.
Another advance in South Carolil new
bonds is reported from New York, the ,sine
price yesterday having been 66.
According to late census of Paraguay,
the war against Lopez cost that country l00,'
900 of its inhabitants.
1t is said that Russia is to put reserve
force of 100000 men in the field, but for what
reason does not appear.
The manufacture of linen last year in Ire
land was greater than ever before, and prices,
1t is thought, will somewhat decline.
The New York Assembly has rejected, by
a vote OF three to one almost, bill making
decoration day and st. Patricks day public
holidays.
Baron Haussraan, Napoleon's Prefect OF
Paris, together with other Bonapartists, have
returned to Paris To do what they can for their
banished sovereign. 5
The Rothschilds subscribed fl,eoo,oo OF
the four millions sterling just advanced by
the Paris bankers to the City of Paris, and
six other banking houses subscribed, each,
s4O0,0
Queen victoria's private fortune is estima-
ted at 81, ,OOO, 900. and the English people are
not unnaturally asking wherefore she did not
dover the Princess Louise, instead Of apply
ingto Parliament to do 1t.
"A Liverpool. journal is authority for the
story that wealthy Englishnan, Thomas
Dutton, recently deceased, left $4,000 IN his
will to the family of the late General Robert E.
Lee. a
The Republicans are somewhat alarmed
asto the result of the approaching election In
Connecticut, and considerable effort will be
made to carry it. The Democrats expect to
carry all the Congressman except the Third
District.
The New Orleans ice factory runs six ma
chimes, each costing $4,000 in gold, and
freezes sixteen tons of Ice daily. The water is
pumped from the Mississippi, purified, and
frozen into blocks three inches thick and
twelve by twenty. -four inches In area:
AN American dined party of English
men in London recently. the principal viands
and delicacies having been transported from
this country. On the whole, for Englishmen,
the venson and buffalo steaks, the terrapin,
wild turkey, prairie chickens, quail and cram
berries were very favorably received. But the
.oysters-also American-were somewhat crltl-
cised One critic remarked that they were
like "a very good sort Of periwinkle-a nahsty
little beast OF q mollusk-only bigger, you
know %
1t is stated by Republican Congressman,
who profess to know, that before the ao-
1ournment Of Congress the President will send
In a special message asking for an appropria-
ton of one million and half Of dollars, to be
placed in his hands, to be used with dis
cretionary power, in the event that treaty
for the annexation OF San Domingo is made
and ratified by the Senate in an extra session
of that body, to be convened to consider 1t.
AS Congress will adjourn to December, the
President, It is alleged, deems an approprla-
ton necessary to fulfil the probable terms Of
probable treaty.
The fortune bequeathed by Mr.. Brassey,
the railroad builder, is, probably, the London
Observer says, the largest which ever passed
the Court OF Probate in London, for the very
few estates which exceed his in value are
usually transferred by settlement. This for
tune is believed to have exceeded seven mil
lions sterling, the personally alone having
been sworn under six and half millions.
With the possible exception Of the Rothschild
family, whose colossal wealth everybody talks
about while nobody knows very much OF, this
was the largest amount of money ever accu-
mulated By one man In Europe by industry
and enterprise during his own lifetime.
The Boston Journal says: 1.-THE cotton
manufactures Of New England have had sew
eral years of rather hard times. While the
value of their machinery and buildings have
never fallen below the price for which the
stock OF the corporations were selling in the
market, the profits have been small owing to
a combination of circumstances, and as the
dividends regulate the value of the stock, the
prices for some time have been low. Within
sixt, days these man1factories have, as gen.
.eral rule. taken favorable START and it Is be-
'ueyed that under the new system OF selling
goods, and the demand which exists tor the
products of the mills. tair dividends may be ex-
pected in the future"
"A Washington dispatch OF the 9th instant
says: "a most decided sensation has been
produced this evening iH Republican quarters
over a vote In the Republican senatorial cau-
Gus committee, deposlng Mr. Sumner as chair
man OF the committee on foreign relations.
Nothing whatever was said about such O step
In the caucus yesterday. aud everybody sup
posed 1t would not be attempted. The ad-