The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-05-18
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THURSDAY, NAY is, 1871.
NEWS. OF EHE DR.

A1oV uoi0o'
In Liverpool cotton closed quiet and
steadv. uplands 7Ha7sd; Orleans 72a7sd; sales
1000 bales.
About one hundred passports day are
Issued from the State Department for Amerl-
cans going to Europe.
Hon. Horace Greeley has reached New Ut
lea ms and will be feasted and shown AROUND
till he leaves for Houston via Galveston. .on
Monday he delivers the opening address at the
Texas State fair, at Houston.
The Emperor of Germany is reported TO oe
practical printer. all the members Oh tne
royal family of Prussia are required to learn
some trade, and William chose Typography as
the most desirable craft, aud spent three years
5 8. the case.
An estate in Germany, valued at 81, 800, 600,
is said t. be seeking, as one of the heirs, Fred
eric William Keyser, who served as a Union
soldier during our war. and who, when last
heard from, was paroled prisoner, lying Sc
riorsly i'll at Wilmington, N. z. :; /.
Louis Napoleon distinguished himself as
An amateur fireman recently, on the occasion
of FIRE in the village of Chiselhurst, where
he resides at present. The reporters OF the
local pspers sspuff" him for some small SER
vice that he rendered in extinguishing the
FIRE. at which he received few slight burns.
"A dog in q geological garden at Dresden Is
tenderly nursing three little tigers, and an en-
thusiastc naturalist speaks OF her as "a dos
without prejudices." When those "llttle tlsers
get little bigger, there will probably be a,
geological garden in that vicinity minus dog,
pre|udiced or otherwise.
The New England manufacturers are again
troubled by an insufficient supply oil water
and are anticipating serious interMpton
.drrnr the summer months. The SNOW and
snrinr rains appear to have had very little
effect upon the lower springs, and, should the
approaching summer be as dry as was the last,
manufacturers will be obliged to depend en-
tirely upon their steam power.
The great Chesapeake and Ohio connec-
tion. in which Norfolk relies for 80 much ln-
proyement hereafter, and that Is strongly en-
couraged BY Central and Western Virginia,
seems to be commanding favorable Judgment
elsewhere. 1t is said that s7,500,0OO OF the
$4,000, 600 loan lately authorized has been
taken chiefly at New York. This probably In
sures the work.
At the request OF Consul General Hltz, OF
Switzerland, and Messrs. Colne Go. OF Lor-
aine. j. j. Giers, of Alabama, made out
French and German repert upon the condl-
tion of that State. The German report has
been printed in the Switzerland official papers.
The French report has-haan replied TO DIV -the
arrival of two gentlemen from Lorraine, VINO
will visit Alabama very soon and select loca-
tion for q 55iony or.their countrymen expect
ed here In the fall.
The New York correspondent Of the Phtia'
delphia Ledger writes that the Italian opera
season closes on Saturday next. After tnat
the uppermost ideas with the fashionables Will
be Long Branch, Saratoga and Newport. Great
things are talked of in connection with the
Branch this coming season. A report Is cur
rent that among the lions will be no less a
persouase than Prince Bismarck, who, 50 the
story goes has written to some friend connect
ed with German banking house In Broad
street that he is anxious to take trip across
the Atlantic for recreation and health.
The insurgents who have commenced hos
tilities against Russia, under Sadik, in Central
Asia. whose conduct has compelled active
preparations for war at st. Petersburg, are
collection OF wandc-'Dg tribes, about 100000
souls in all, living south ct the Sea OF Arai, On
the banks 81 the storied Oxus. They are'allie6
In race to the people OF Bokhara, who assault
ed Russia the same way two years since; and
with those of Khokan having like temerily.
Russia gobbled up much of their territory as
yuiI1
SAL now; for all of these instructions and
campaigns in Turkistan amount to nothing
other than that the Car has seen fit to add
something from country whose peoplecan-
not resist him, and carry the double-headed
eagle nearer to the Hindoo-Koosh. England,
does not like the policy, and India fears, but
neither can prevent it.
The long-agtated question of supremacy
between the Mkado and Tycoon has plunged
Japan into anothercivl war. Prince Satsuma,
the most energetic OF all the Japanese princes,
whose power has been tried by Western Eu
rope, as we'll as BY the national government of
Japan, has associated three other clans with
his own to maintain the Mikado, who has
ALWAYS been recognized In Japan as the real
and only Emperor. He is described as dlcta-
tor; meaning, probably, that he has taken to
himself those civil and military functions here
tofore lodged with the Tycoon, under the a'-
thorily of the Mikado. Despite these civil
troubles, the erection of mint and naval ar
senal, and the beginning of a regular postal
system, show. that the Empire is copying west
ern civilization. Satsuma was one OF the first
to appropriate such improvements.
Governor Todd r. Caldwell, OfNorth Caro-
lima, has issued q proclamation inthe nature OF
an appeal to the people Of that State. 1t re-
cites that in some of the counties of tne state
'armed bands of disguised men are prowling
about, and in the night time committing out
rages OF atr0cious character upon weak aud
defenceless citizens. white and colored, old and
Young, male and temale.n The Governor de-
clares that the civil authority as heretofore
constituted is powerless :" suppress this evil.
He saws that this "lnuSt have an end, and the
good name of North Carolina be vindicated."
To that end he makes this his solemn appeal
to the people, more especially to those VINO
have heretofore held places OF honor and trust
to ministers OF the gospel OF every aenom-
natlon-to unite and assist the authorities in
maintaining the laws, and to build up Ira