The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-05-01
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
MONDAY, MAY 1, 1871.

-SubScriptlOnS for the releI OIL Tue Wluo"
of John Brown, of Harper's Ferry fame, are
now being taken up in Washington.
The New Orleans pest of licensed lottery
gambling has been taken advantage OF to
raise money to build four steamers to be run
as an independent line to Havana.
The report comes by the way of London
that Chancellor Bismarck has demanded from
the Helvetian Republic the cession to Germany
of the German-speaklng Swiss Cantons.
Several Frenchmen, exiled by order of
Louis Napoleon in 1851, and now living IN
England, are said to intend suing the ex-Em-
peror for heavy damages.
England now permits seven per cent. of
the rank and file of her army who have served
seven years, and have earned q goed-conduct
badge. to take a wife.
Not q single frstclass theatre in Germany
was self.sustaining in the year 1870. The poor
est business OF any was done by the Royal
theatres in Berlin and Dresden.
Atlanta has just made a fighting COCK
match between Georgia, Alabama and South
Carolina, agails: Ohio, Kentucky and Tennes-
see, for | 10000 the main and $3.50 a fight
each to show seveaty-fve birds.
The government sells two millions OF gold
each Thursday, and buystwo millions of bonds
each Wednesday during May-the transac-
lions aggregating ten millions of bonds and
eight millions of gold.
Madame Rumor says that Worth, the man
M!.liner OF Paris, is fitting up an elegant resi-
dence in New York, with an eye to business.
Times are improving. Formerly Worth made
the man only, but now Worth makes the
woman, too.
"A negro national convention is called to
meet in St. Louis, September %. The purpose
OF the meeting is to adopt some particular dag
as a Fourth Of july" as the negroes In dii-
ferent localities are now observing different
DAYS in commemoration of their entranchise-
ment.
The Queen not only permitted The Prin-
cess Louise to be married in Lent, but, accord
ing to an English paper, selected Good Friday
as the occasion for feasting her tenantry at
Balmoral in honor Of the marriage. There
was much singing, toastiug, and cheering
and dancing, continued until long after mid
night.
The Western racer, sLongfellow," has re-
Gently been purchased of his breeder and
owner, John Harper, of Kentucky, for $1,000.
James D. McMann, of New York, (whose name
is associated with the trotting mares ''Flora
Temple" and LADY Thorn" which he trained
and Drove and Vim. Welcn, OF Philadelphia,
are the purchasers. This celebrated animal is
considered the fastest running horse in the
world.
Late foreign mails bring the text of
Guizot's letter to the London Times, in which
he says: "Seyen months ago France suddenly
found herself without a government and with
out an army. In this disaSterit was Paris that
saved the honor of France. AMI now Paris
has met with her own disaster" He notes
that the revolution is not general and does not
spread; the sporadic attempts to initiate Paris
elsewhere have been summary suppressed.
HI concludes that ION the whole the National
Assembly and Its executive have acted with
Intelligence, prudence and justice" 1t is as
serted that 100000 people have quilted Paris
since the 18th Of March.
A Washington letter of Thursdays says ::
''The appointment of a new superintendent at
West Point Is in pursuance of a policy marked
out by the secretary Of War for remedying the
troubles which have existed at the military
academy for the last year. Without intending
any reflection on the late superintendent, Col
onel Pitcher, it was thought that a change in
the general management of the Institution,
which may be extended to the professors,
would give the cadets an opportunity to have
thorough discipline in every phase Of their du-
ties. 1t IS understood that the colored cadet
Smiths court-martial sentence will not be pro-
mulgated, and that nothing will be done under
the resolution of the House requiring the trial
Of the cadets OF the first class"
The New York Tribune comes round to
the view upon what we have long insisted as
to the relative superiority Of the Southern
States over those of the far West as q point of
emigration for Northern settlers. 1t is at the
pains to deny thai it urges everybody to fly
from the East to The West, from the cities to
the country, aud there engage in farming.
So far from urging all to migrate westward,
we are told it has over and again insisted that
lands are quite as cheap and inviting, all things
considered, in the South, and even in the less
densely peopled portions OF New Jersey, Deia-
ware and Maryland, as they will average in
the West. For organized colonization, the
South, it is thought, affords equal scope With
the West.
General Sherman was cordially received
in New Orleans. the other day, by one of the
clubs of that city. He made Il brief but happy
speech, in which be referred to the fact that
he had Guce held q commission as colonel OF
militia OF the State of Louisiana, anG that he
was once at the head of the State Seminary.
He said that it always gave him pleasure to
visit Louisiana, and to meet not only the mem
beTs Of the Union army. but also his old friends
upon the other side. General Bragg and l."
said the general. ''are close friends, and l
know General Beauregard very we'll, but 1
have not llud the pleasure of meeting him this
time. General Hood called upon me to-day,
and I intend to call upon him tomorrow In
abiding to the matter OF reconstruction, Gen.
erai Sherman said that it was q most delicate
and difficult problem TO solve. Englan1 has
been endeavoriag to reconstruct Sco'land for
two hundred years, and still who could fail TO
detect the marked characteristics OF a Scotch
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