The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-10-12
NEWS OF THE DAK.

l9k; sales 1858 bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed quiet ant
steady; uplands s2d, Orleans lOd; sales ,Oo
bales.
Mrs. Wharton, the Baltimore polsoner, |
to be tried at Annapolis, and the trial has oeel
postponed until November.
DIR. Jessen and Mdlle. Mestorf, Two Ger
man ladies', have received grants OF none!
from the Senate of Hamburg to enable then
to visit England and Italy for scientific pur
poses.
Berlin is said to be just now crowded VIII
teachers OF French, the whole number oeln
estimated at nearly fifteen hundred; while u
Paris great many of the people have learned
much against their will, to understand Gef
man.
1t is stated that thereis hardly man II
Corsica who would not gladly give his las
drop of blood for the advancement OF any per
son bearing the name Of Bonaparte. The Cor
sIeans still reverence the name of the hrs
Napoleon, whom they speak OF as "our God
like fellow. countryman, and the greatest Oh al
Corsican heroes"
~N---c
man. and bears more striking likeness tc
hjs grandfather than to the present Car. He
Ia a great smoker and fine horseman; despe
rate firt; dislikes Englishmen; Is fond OF las
quenet and rouge ct noir; never drinks Deer
is an early riser, no matter what time ne re
tires; has been a most obedlent son, ano
doesn't believe that the world was created ex'
clusiyely for the qualification Of Cars. Sc
they say.
Sir william Armstrong has made propo'
sition to the men on strike In Newcastle,
England, to resume work for the present at
the rate Of ffty-seven hours per week, II the
masters will agree TO reduce The hours to dity-
four per week at the beginning of next year.
This seems to be fair, and will eventually give
the workmen all they have been contending
for. The masters have held out against fixing
the standard O! time for labor Mt ffty-iour
hours per week while unfinished contracts
were ON hand. The proposed arrangement
will enable them to finish their contracts this
year, and start the new year With the new
nine holr rule.
The reform delegates to the New York
Democratic State Convention issue an address
TO the Democratic voters of the city. They
rehearse the proceedings of the late conven-
tIon at Rochester, claiming that they obtained
a success over Tammany there, urge all hon
est Democrats to nominate men OF the highest
character for intelligence and Integrity for the
Legislature, having no doubt Of their ability 10
elect them by overwhelming maJoritles, thus
assuring the utter and speedy downfall OF the
Tammany ring, then some portion OF the ste'
len millions may be recovered. They close by
saying: "Let US pledge ourselves to Vlndicate
and redeem the honor OF the Democratic
party, and use every means, through the bal
lot-box and the courts, to bring the criminals
who disgrace our party TO condign punish
ment." Tas address is signed By the whole re-
form delegation.
Letters from Strasbourg, and other places
In the two newly-couquered provinces, inform
us tha. The flow Of emigration from those parts
is on the increase. The Alsalans and Lor-
rainians will not be Germanized, and sooner
than live under German rule, they are willing
to quit the land made dear to them by all the
associations which bind people to the land of
their nativity. In order TO put stop 10 this
depopulation of two OF the fairest provinces OF
the new German Empire, the authorities have
adopted and revived various measures which
must, to some extent, check the ebbng TIDE
The price of passports, without which no one
can leave these provinces for foreign country,
has been raised; q French regulation Of
1856, but which for long time was obso-
lete, requiring that persons desirous OF emf
grating, before receiving their passports,
should prove that all their pecuniary obliga-
tions we're satisfied. has been again revived,
and Is now strictly enforced; and The privileges
hitherto enjoyed by ~ .m,0rallon agents
have ueen Withdrawn, and until further orders
,bey must discontinue the business in which
they were engaged. When it has been found
necessary to adops such stringent measures as
these to keep the people at home, the difficult
task which Prince Bismarck and his august
sovereign have before them in reconstruct
ingn their new acquisitions may be readily
imagined.
The organization Of the French army has
progressed 10 somewhat favorable conclu-
sIon. when the shattered condition of France
ia taken Into consideration. While The rest Of
the continent is engaged in bringing out Its
full strength of men and naateriet with view
to warlike complications, France, too, under
the impetus of her new military administra-
tlon is gathering in camps the raw materla'
destined to undergo the transformation into
soldiers. 1t Is estimated that the French
Minister of War has at his command no
less than 100000 men at the present
time, subdivided into the regular troops
the army Of reserve and the National
Guard, ready ior the field. number OF
camps are in process of formation, Of which
the chief at Bourges, will contain $50, 900 men,
who will be thoroughly drilled in artillery ex-
e.c,ses. camp south of Paris will be FORM
cd with from 100, 900 to 10000 men. Another
camp. in the vicinity OF Rennes, will include
about 10000 men, of whom about one-third
are intended for the artillery service, and who
will be duly drilled in that practice fourth
camp is contemplated at the plain Oh lou
louise, comprising 80 900 or 10000 men, which
will receive, mainly, the recruits from the
middle OF France belonging to the classes OF
the years 1870 and 1871. These are the ele'
ments of military strength with which France,
.-....-r r,o,, hor rorent disasters, hopes to