The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-07
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

nearly SGD; sales 10000 bales.
The New York papers say that the little
ship City of Ragasa was seen May II in lati-
ttde LILO, longitude s7.2l, by the ship enta-
rio. She was gliding along in gallant style.
Tits announced in London that General
Sichles, who lisa great favorite at the present
Court of Spain, Is shortly to be married to a
Young and beautiful Spanish lady.
1T is said that a New York gentleman
offered the Commune two thousand francs TO
be allowed to make the last, ascent Of the
Column Eendome. The Commune, In spite OF
the state of Its finances, refused to consent.
Mo plant yields anything like as much nu-
triment, from the same extent OF soil as the
banana. Baron Humboldt estimated hat 1t
returns twenty times as much as the potato,
and one hundred and thirteen times as much
as wheat.
BY the provisions OF the act OF March 80
last none Of the old copper and nickel Genus
redeemed at the Treasury Department will be
reissued. They will be destroyed, and re.
placed with the one and two cent bronze
pieces, and the three and FIVE cent copper
Gnlckels.
A Kansas billiard-table is thus described {:
ssFirst, In the middle of the floor, was a large
goods box, on which was laid about a wagon
load of sandstone, covered with about eight
yards OF blue jeans. For pockets they had OLD
boots, about No. 10; for cues they used old
broken hoe handles; boiled eggs for balls, and
TO count this lovely game they used dried
apples on a clothesline."
1t has ~receatly- appeared thatin May, 1870,
,or a short month before his own death,
Charles Dickens wrote to the biographer Of
Maclise thus: IA few years ago destroyed
an immense correspondence, expressly be-
cause / considered it had been held with mes
and not with the public, and because could
not answer for its privacy being respected
when I should be dead. I have since allowed
mo letters from friends to accumulate In
my possession"
General Grants SOD Fred, who graduates
this year at West Point, has all the obstinacy,
smoking propensitles and nonchalance OF MS
father developed In undlmlnished Intensity.
Some ame ago he pitched into a brother cadet
who had made sarcastic illusions to his father,
and was so badly whipped as to be laid UP for
several days. A second and third time ne
tried 1t, with the same result, but venturlng
upon a fourth encounter he came Oh victorl-
Gus.
Prince Bismarck, 1t is reported, Is to be
rewarded for is-ssrvices. to Germanym an
extremely liberal spirit. The Emperor. Will
liam, It is stated, desires to purchase and pre-
sent to Bismarck the handsome and Valuaole
estateo of Krotoschin, IN Posen, now owned by
the Prince of Thurn and Tsxts, whose family,
prior to 1864, under the old condition OF public
affairs, heldthe monopoly of the postof1ce In
Germany. This estate yields an annualincorce
OF $4,000 to the present owners, who have
been offered 81. s2O, 900 for the property.
The Ultramontanes Of Germany. have
found a solace tor the Dollinger schism ina
declaration Of the Emperor William, made to
a deputstlou Of his Catholic subjects while'he
was soJeurning at Versailles, Ia reply to an
address in favor OF the Independence of the
Pope. The Emperorse reply, but recently
made public, is said to have been to the fol-
flowing effect: "My sentiments towards the
Pope, as the religious sovereign OF my Catho-
lie subjects, have always been the same. /
Hook upon the occupation of Rom as an act of
violence and arrogatlon on the part OF Italy,
land, after the termination of this war, 1 will.
Yin eoBaection with other monarchs, consi-
der upon steps to be taken against It." The
war being at an end, q supreme effort Is ma
king to induce the Emperor to act upon his
promise.
DIR. Sedillot, Of. Lyons, who during the
course of the recent French war has observed
over fifteen hundred cases Of gun-shot wounds,
and has himself performed fifteen amputations
in a single day, has written a paper calling at
.tention to the extensive mutllation Of the
parts caused by the prcjectiles of the present
day. According to DR.. Sedillot, the best rule
is to amputate on the second or third day al
ter-the infection of the wound, before the pc
riod of inflammation has set ia. In conse'
quenee of the extensive suppuration, caused by
the projectiles now In use, the following rules
are recommended to be observed First; that
the wound should be reduced to the smallest
diameter; second, q free exit OF pus should be
favored; and third, a radical reform In the
method of amputatior should be adopted, to
wit: that the extremity ofthe bone, instead OIL
being enclosed in the flesh, should be left
sticking out.
The descriptions of Paris just before the
eliminating horror OF the last few days of the
siege are terrible pictures Of the 'misfortunes
of the gay CITY. The streets were darkened
early in the evening, by the order which com
manded lights to. be extlnguisheG, and the
Gates closed at IL. Peters's and a few favored
foreign resorts managed to stretch out the
time until l o'clock in the morning, and these
every night were full. At midnight the fs
end of the population would swarm on the
boulevards, those poor beggarly girls who,
finding no purchasers for their wares, offered
themselves forany hideous purpose. Distress
induced depravity, and young girls, formerly
surrounded with comfort and responsibility,
were driven by want to play the wanton in the
streets. Father killed in the war; mother
taken awayoy ;ever; no work; everything fiat;
no friends. This Is the Parisieune of to-day.
Sadly suggestive of moral rottenness is the
part which women have played throughout the
revolt, and the gay scenes then enacted in the
fashionable haunls Of folly form a CHASTITY con.