The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-03-20
Tbe GbafleStu1t Nems'
MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

MEMS UT 4h ~ ~@A~s
Gold closed in New York, on Saturday. a
llallt. ~ ,
Cotton closed dull and nominal, with sales
of 1900 bales, at l45 cents.
in Liverpool cotton closed dull and easier
uplands 73a7ad, Orleans 7ss7id; sales lo,oo'
bales.
Theodore Monroe, colored man, from
Charleston, s. c., originally, Is said to have
acouired an extended reputation as phys'-
clan, at Cairo, Egypt. :.
A Madrid letter declares that King Anna
deus is already weary of his royal honers' ana
that It Ia not Improbable he will soon resign
the crown Of Spain, having discovered he can
depend on nobody either for advice or Elend-
ship.
A letter from Concord, N. r., referring TO
the late election, says the two Ladies who were
nominated for school committee were ooth as
teated. In one district Miss Longley ran on
the RepubDcarrticket and was opposed by hef
aatber on the Democratic ticket. He was elect
eddy small majority.
THE President has informed General Banks
thst the story of the offer of Spain TO sell Cuba
to the United States, is an old one gilmore than
wears date, and that all that has transpired
new In It of late ia mere intimation that they
will take one hundred millions in gold Tor the
island.
"A Chicago detective lately bet that For
rester Is not the Nathan murderer, and thathe
could write the names of three men, two of
whom would be convicted of the crime within
one year. The wager was accepted, and the
names secretly written and sealed Up for q
year.
The natives Of Alsace, the provinces re-
Gently ceded by France to Germany under com
pulsion, have opened communication with the
Governor ofMlssouri, with view Of promoting
emigration. Their inquiries have been re-
ponded to with full information as to the soil
climate and other matters of interest. This
movement would look as if the Alsatians were
not inclined to be Germanized.
The total number of immigrants arriving
In this country, with intent to remain, during
the year ending December 81, 1870, is report
ed from the Department of State as 2S0, ,27s,
whereof Great Britain furnished l45,3s4, or
over halt, the Irish immigration not being re-
/, ported separately; Germany s3,546, less than
one-third; Sweden and Norway 14,l33, and
ends but 20.
London Court .rumors have 1t that the
Princess Beatrice, ninth child Of Queen
Victoria, is to marry the Marquis Of
Ely. The Princess is fourteen and the
Marquis twenty-one. AS there Is evidently
In this the same striking disparity In rela-
tive rank as in the contract for the mar
rage of the Princess Louise and the Marquis
of Lorne, it will, if true, be anything but re-
freshing to the pride of the higher order of
nobility, while 1t signifies royal lack of ap-
probation OF the infanlbility OF royal blood.
"A Washington letter of Thursday says: The
dIsiRtegration and decentralization which have
been going on ip the Republican party in Con-
'gress since the 4th of March. received most
forcible illustration to-day in one of the most
exciting and extraordinary scenes ever en-,
acted in the HOAse of Representatives. Not
only was the speaker compelled to leave his
chair and defend himself ON the floor of the
House from severe assault made upon him
BY General Butler, but five Republican mem
bers arose in their seats and declined to serve
on the special committee to investigate the
South, which had been appointed yesterday.
For two hours there was storm OF bitterness,
invective, crlmination and recriminatiou;
charges of trfckery and falsehood, Of corrup-
ton and SANDER between the Republicans who
to O nnrcuon In lnpfa.
lation, that has never been equaled In the
party ranks in Congress. The Democratic
members poured into the main aisles and
viewed and listened with astonishment-a
scene so remarkable that General Butler even
denounced it as disgraceful to the party, the
House and the country That side, however.
did not participate in the debate, but seemed
willing that the Republicans should fight 1t out
on their present line, even If 1t protractsd the
session all summer. The galleries were quite
fnll, and enjoyed the display by bursts Of APP
plause and roars oflaughter.
The terrible scene in Paris, on the 26th
ult., when an inofensiye man was murdered
by crowd of Reds, is graphically set forth in
the Debats. ali day detachments had been
marching up to the Column of July, In the
Place &c La Bastile, the figures around which
were draped in Grape, and listening to ad-
dresses in praise OF the Republic. Suddenly,
some hundreds of men emerged from the Rue
st. Antoine. dragging well-dressed man,
who had been seized for noting with pencil
book and the numbers Of the detach-
nen.s, ard, on being searched, proved to be
police agent. The furious crowd dragged him
towards the canal. when an officer succeeded
In getting him into the guardhouse and
closing the gate. Thence, In spite of the
officers protests, he was dragged amid cries