The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-05-09
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TUESDAY, MAY Q, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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Cotton closed quiet and firm at l5!c; sales
1000 bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed steady and
quiet; uplands 7ia7sd.; sales 10000 bales.
The New York Stock Exchange has elect
ed ". B. Clorde president, and NJ. A. Whee-
lock chairman, of the board.
w. W. Corcoran Is gradually becoming
weaker, and the hopes which have been en-
tertained of his recovery are but slight now.
The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balu-
more Railroad shops, with some seventeen
engines, were burned yesterday. The IRE was
caused by the falling OF some sparks from
locomotive. Loss very heavy.
"A Washington letter says: THE Presi-
dents proclamation, issued to day in accord
ance with the terms of the Ku-KluXor force
law. will soon be followed by proper instruc-
tions to United States rnarshals, based on the
details of the act. The law requires the proc
lamation in the first instance, then contem-
plates the exercise Of It's powers through the
civil officers, sustained by military force II
deemed necessary by said officers Troops
can be used without any requisition by the
Governor of a State, and will be sent, it is
stated. into North Carolina and Mississippi, 1t
the marshas report that they require them.
A letter from Columbia, S. G. states that Gov
ernor Scott does not deem the further use OF
the Stale militia or Federal troops necessary"
The New York Evening Post says: 'The
convention of South Carolina taxpayers will
assemble in Columbia On Tuesday. Its work
will be watched with more interest in all parts
of the country than that of any political con-
vention to be held this year. Although Its
work will be political, it will not be partisan,
if the authors of the movement continue to
control 1t. The best men in both parties have
advised moderation and mutual forbearance
in the present trying condition Of the State,
and 1t is said that every town will be repre-
sented by men who have great interests at
stake, and who desire both peace and thorough
reform. The convention Is called for the pur-
pose of reviewing the alleged extravaganza of
the State government, which causes ruinous
taxation, and has more than doubled the State
debt. The facts complained of are admitted
by the friends of the State government, and 1t.
is reasonable to hope that all parties will join
in devislng some practical method OF reform"
"A Paris correspondent gives some further
and painful incidents of the murder OF Gen.
erals Lecomte and Clement Thomas oy the
Reds. The formers courage failed at the last
moment. he tried to fly, but was seized and
pushed against the wall. His fatherly plea to
spare him for his five children, was unheara
by his implacabls linesmen. sergeant, how
eyer. advanced towards him. general" said
he. sslf you will promise" Suddenly chang
Ing his mind, he stepped two PAGES back, and
discharged his chassepot full in the generals
chest. The others had only to finish the deed.
Clement Thomas never showed moments
weakness. His back against the same wall as
Lecomte, but two PAGES from his corpse, ne
made head against death to the end, and
spoke very harshly When the guns were
lowered he, by an instructive gesture, placed
his left arm before his tace; and this Old Re-
publican died in the attitude OF Caesar.
Marrow gauge railroads, on account OIL
their cheapness and their practicability in
places where it would not be possible to con-
struct roads OF the ordinary width, are attract
NO much attention in some parts of the United
States. A thirty-mile road is in process of
construction from Cape Girardeau to the iron
banks In Bollinger County, Missouri, of which
one mile is finished. The cost of this one mile,
laid with T rail, has been s6537 go, and the
cost of the entire thirty miles is estimated at
s2l3, 900, allowing Sl6,S75 for culverts, bridges
&c. The road bed is six feet wide on top, fol-
nd nf tho 1rr0unH IUhprp
il does not exceed seventy feet to the mile,
and winding round high hills and steep grades
in curves of two hundred feet radius less than
one-third that required for the ordinary gauge.
Rolling stock sufficient for the requirements OF
such a road-say two locomotives, four pas
senger cars, thirty platform cars and ten box
cars-are estimated at $4,000 additional,
making total cost for road and equipments OF
s24o,ooo. For mining and all billy regions the
narrow track roads are peculiarly adapted.
and they are also likely to come into extensive
nse as feeders to established lines of railway.
The New York Worlds Columbia, S. c.,
correspondence gives vivid sketch of our
Supreme Court, under the new regime. Chief
Justice Moses is described as native Caro-
linian, of hard, woodenish expression, with
a bic. corrugated face adorned with spare
patches of hair, like poor field with brier
bnshes and furze OF his associates, Justice
Willard is part and parcel of the scort0
thrown upon this soil by the great volcano of
the war. He is large man, with the head of
a silver badger and a beard much like that OF
Hudibras; while Justice Wright is said to have
been a Philadelphia barber. He has unmiti-
gated wool, extremely thick lips, and eyes
with a superabundance Of white. These eyes
poerle continuously, and when The Judicial
eye.glass is applied thereto to make out some
tough word in brief, the sight is one for men
and gods to contemplate and sigh. A case OF
lessee Va mortgagee was on, aud 1.-THE muddle
was worse than the worthy Rev. Mr Batter
srowl's preliminary discourse in The Anti
nnnrv' of three solid hours on the law OF
teinds,n the chief justice remarkiug and being
corrected by the bar, and saying yes, that was
what he meant, and then no, that was not
what be meant, and the black fellow on. the
bench sticking his eye-glass In his revolving
eve and looking at his briet, and fiinging him
seIf back in his chair, and making his silk