The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-04-21
Tbe GbarltStnm Nems.
FRIDAY, APRIL 81, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cold at New York closed at llallsall4.
The New York cotton market closed quiet
nd steady at lac; sales l765 bales.
AT Liverpool cotton closed with a down.
ward tendency; uplands It'd; sales l $1,000 bales.
The first lodge of Freemasons has been
c onstltuted in Rome.
-Twenty-four circuses are to perambulate
It he United States this season.
"A dog Weighing four ounces was recently
8 old at Boston for $3.50, just $50 so per ounce.
The French ex-Prince Imperial is to join a
British volunteer company at Chiselhurst.
The Prussian government lately gave $50
o 90 to a Berlin cook for his secret of making
ne as pudding sausages that will not turn sour.
The red flag, the emblem of the French
Bed Republe, is floating from all the public
buildings in Paris.
Owing to the serious events occurring In
and around Paris, diplomatic intercourse with
the government on the part of the French rep
resentatives abroad has been exceedingly diff
feult and almost suspended. "
There are in the fourth regiment Of the
Prussian Landwehr of the Guard one hundred
and nine soldiers who are familiar with Greek
and Latin, and seventeen who have studied
sanscrit.
Over four thousand London thieves are
said to be in Paris, and the chief of the detec-
tive force of the former city is there watching
them. These thieves have probably been at
tractea to Paris in hopes of securing some
booty during the troubles there.
The London Times ls not altogether san
puine of an immediate settlement of the Ala
bama claims, and warns the British public
that it Is not very certain whether a treaty will
be ratified by the American Senate, even after
the work of the Joint high commission is com
pleted.
Justice Davis, of the Supreme Court Of
the United States, and a resident of Illinois,
is the latest man talked of as the Democratic
candidate for President In 1872. he Is a Con-
sentative, and not an extreme, Democrat. he
is an uncle of the late Hon. Henry Winter Da-
Wis, of Baltimore, and a gentleman of fine
abilities,
"A Washington. dispatch of Monday says /:
.'Chief Justice Chase presided on the bench OF
the Supreme Court to-day for the first time in
nearly a year. He sat with the court for four
hours, leaving once for q few minutes to rest.
He looks much better than when he left a year
ago, and, although his health is yet feebler he
believes his strength will enable him t Upper
forrEaisdutiesta f sthsfsdnSaaor dsths pres
Vent term.'
Mrs. Scott-siddons never negiects an OPP
~portunity to make a fool of herself. A New
York letter says: speaking of Nilsson, re-
minds me of an incident which occurred at
her last concert here. During her singing Of
the mad scene from Hamlet Mrs. Scott
slddons, carried away by her enthusiasm,
rose and stood with ciasped hands and tragic
air in the centre aisle, thus advertising Mrs.
scott-siddons's dramatic power to a Nilsson
audience"
Another dark story, of matrimonial infe-
licity comes to us from st. Charles, Iowa. A
Mrs. Burroughs has lately been arrested there
on q charge of poisoning her husband, with
whom she had from time to time had serious
difficulty. Lately, he accused her of improper
intimacy with a hired man, and 1t Ia believed
that this caused the unfortunate woman, with
the aid of the man mentioned, to effect the
poisoning. The man has fed and has escaped,
but the woman Is under arrest.
People who]have just visited Paris in the
Interest of the nodlsteS report that city a COM
plete desert as regards the fashionable world.
All the aristocracy, as well as the artiStes des
modes, left Paris before the siege commenced,
and they are hardly likely to return for some
time, owing to the dread of civil war and
revolution. Not "a single novelty In dress,
mantle, bonnet or any other article OF fashion
has been produced during the whole time of
the Siege. No fashion plates have been pub
lished, or viii be probably for some time, fer
the magazines have ceased publication and
the Hofkmeny engsaed b. peoduHpgS them
have all been drafted into the National Guard.
Miss Evans, who is engaged on q new
novel for Blackwood, is a most laborious and
pains-taking writer, ~bestowipg as much pains
upon q single book as ordinary authors do
upon six. Her handwriting illustrates this.
It is bold, round, as easy to read as print, and
scarcely an erasure is to be met with In the
manuscript of a whole volume. This is owing
to the fact that she carefully sketches before
hand what she intends to write, and then
copies it deliberately. The printers keep her
manuscript clean, and, after the proofs have
been corrected, it is returned to her. She has
the MSS. of all her books bound In red moroc-
co, and they form one Of the most Interesting
eatures OF her library. She sold "Adam
Beden to,Blackwood for $500; but its success
prompted her publishers to present her $500
besides. For ''Felix Holt" she received the
arge sum of $50, 900.
The ssnln8sQa correspondent tAarch ~
of thsLondon Telegraph Is hopeful or asatis-
actory adjustment by tho high commission of
the outstanding difficulties between England
and the United States. But he does not seem
80 confident of the action OF the Senate upon
the work of the commission, and apprehends
that If Mr.. Sumner opposes 1t the treaty will
be in great jeopardy. In regard to the dinners
to the high commissioners, he appends a para
graph which throws the English banquets to
ReverdJ johnson into the shade. Says the
writer: "The amount Of feasting that they
have to undergo would suffice to undermine
{ he stomach Of an ostrich. One of them plain
lively remarked to me thst never before had
he so appreciated the well known dictum OF
Sir George CornewalI Lewis, that this life
would be we'll enough If 1t was not for Its so.
called pleasures One night, and one night
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