The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-05-24
Tbe GDarlsstn1t 4emS,
WEDNESDAY, MAY "a, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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uplands It'd; sales $4,000 oales.
in the States of Iowa and Indiana, about
two hundred women are working farms OF
their own account.
-Sixty-hve Japanese tourists arrived a
Chicago from California Saturday, en- route
for Washington, New York, and the tour O
the world.
The Supreme Court Of Massachusetts de-
clares unconstitutional the law Furnishing per
Sons for contempt in refusing to answer ques'
tions of legislative committees eliminating
themselves.
Governors Hoffman, OF New York, and
Walker, of Virginia, visited Norfolk, Ports
mouth and Fortress Monroe on Saturday, and
were received by the commandants' at the
two latter places with salutes and other mill
tary honors, including review and banquet
at Fortress Monroe.
-Speculators propose running four hun
dred and ftty feet pier out into the sea at
Long Branch, N. j., similar to that at Brigh-
ton, or al Leeds, England, as fashionable
promenade for enthusiastic visitors. Its cost
will be one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
In gold, and the stock, 1t is said, is being
rapidly taken.
New York received last week two hun
dred and fifty bags of the new growth OF Ran
coon rice. 1t came by way Of the Suez Canal,
and 10 fully two months earlier In the season
than any former arrivals. The short passage
through the tropics prevented much of the H.
jury by heating which this description OF rice
usually suffers, and undoubtedly accounts ior
the peculiarly bue color OF the seed.
Tho Newbern IN. C) Journal Of Com
merce learns that the Hon. Josiah Turner,
editor OF the Raleigh Sentinel, had gone TO
South Carolina, and from that State had sent
a challenge to Governor Caldwell, OF North
Carolina, in consequence Of card published
in the Telegram last week. Mr.. Turner was
accompanied by Governor Vance, and Fl. G.
Jones and Benjamin Guion, Esq.
The banking house of Jay Cooke, McCul-
loch L. Co., of London, has been designated
BY the secretary OF the navy as foreign fnan-
cial agent of the Navy Department, but they
will not wholly supersede Messrs. Barring
Brothers & Co., who, for Eearly forty years,
have acted as financial agents OF the United
States. The disbursements 10 the navy
abroad, through London, Since the close OF
the late war, have amounted to about four or
FIVE millions annually.
If we are TO lose the honor of feasting a
real live Russian prince, at least for some time
to come, it seems Well nigh settled that we are
to be favored with a visit from n. Louis Blanc
to this country. Whatever may be his object
In crossing the ocean; whether 1t is In order 10
study our government, our republican instltu-
lions. or to merely .'lnerview" us and write
book about us, it seems TO be beyond doubt
that he is coming W America, the "sister' re-
public OF France, as We were whilom called.
Three men, supposed to be crossing from
Manchester, New York, to Canada, were car
ried over Niagara Falls, near Chippewa, on
Thursday. 1t is surmised that they had but
one pair oil oars, and the current being very
swift they drilled TOO low, and when the boat
reached the first rapids it broke in two. The
man that was rowing, being an expert SWIM
mer, swan within six feet oil Streets Island,
but the rapids drove him past. He then got
discouraged, threw his arms In the air, and
sank. The other two men We're seen to rise
once, but was soon carried away and nothing
was seen of them alterward. A portion OF the
boat has been recovered.
The use OF passports between the United
States and France, which had been practically
abolished under the Emperor Napoleon, is now
revived by the government oil Versailles. This
fact Is importaL to travellers, because the
official notification 10 Mr.. Washburne from M.
Jules Favre, minister of foreign affairs. re-
auires the Authorization OF q French agent on
every passport, without regard 10 nationality.
Although no formal expla alton has been given
for this step, it is easy TO imagine that Bona
partist and other emlssares were entering
France for the purpose oil agtating q reStora-
ton or o revolution in the interest OF particu-
lar aspirants to the throne. Hence the neces-
sity of this precaution. Americans intending
to travel through France musr, therefore, pro-
vide themselves with the Visa of French con-
sui on their passports, which may be done at
any port 10 the United States, or abroad, il
preferred
News has arrived from the Darien eXplor-
ing expedition to the effect that the altitude
of the dividing ridge of the Cordilleras has
finally been accurately determined, and found
to exceed seven hundred feet. Every hope OF
constructing a canal across the isthlnus, With
out having TO resort to tunnein has, there
fore, been abandoned, and it Is questionable II
even this method OF forming connection
between the two oceans can be satisfactorily
and successfully sdOpled, as there Is no pre-
cedent Of an undertaking Of similar magGl-
tude in the annals ot either ancient or modern
engineering u warrant q good result. IL is
to be regretted that the prospects of efrctlng
this short cut between two hrI1lspheres will
thus probably have To be e.;Lir.iy auaudoned;
say, that his attempts to Had u practical route
have been unllrng. anu carried OH with lie
greatest zeal and interest from beginning 10
end. A Yet satGer tlnge Is thrown over the
foundering oi the launch belonging to the
"hesaca" while on her way TO Panana with
the mails, by which unfortunate accident one
sailer and the whole Of her cargo was lost.
The rest were saved, 'and succeeded in reach
ing Panama after suffering great many
hardships aud privations.
The oel.oraie ed Dr. Hermann BlsSels, who
The German expedition 10 the
Arctic seas last year, will also accompany
Captain Hall ON his intended tour OF tXploI'i-