The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-01-26
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1871.
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NEWS OF THE DAT.
in New York, yesterday, cotton closed
quiet at 15Kc. for middllng uplands.
i'm Liverpool on Tuesday evening, uplands
were 7Xasd., and Orleans sxaSHd.
Fourteen more japanese Princes are coming
to school In New York
The ice In Virginia Is said to be the be. and
thickest ever gathered in that State.
General Mcmahon Is said to feel confident that
Louis Napoleon will be restored TO the French
throne.
-Auerbach and SpIelhagen the two most pop
ular German novellsts, are private soldiers IN the
Prussian army.
Among the defenders OF Paris, at the outpqsts
OF CourbeyoIe, has been detected, to the great
surprise OF the Parisans, q Bonaparte In the per-
son OF Mr.. Jerome Bonaparte, OF Baltimore.
The death-rate in Paris is dreadful to contem-
plate. During the days Of the 18th and 2ith ult-
mo, says correspondent writing from the city,
27as people died, among the citizens chiefly.
The Southern officers who have enlisted in the
service Of the vceroy OF Egypt are reported to be
greatly dissatisfied with their new positions. Like
Mr. jeremiah Blossom, they want TO 60 home.
"A Paris correspondent says that more than
two hundred French actresses are waiting for the
fall OF the city and the first opportunity to come
to America, where they fondly believe laurcs and
largesse will attend them.
servants receive the highest prices in the
world in St. Petersburg. Girls that can cook get
saa par month, and oil tn that proportion After
st. Petersburg, RoumanIa and London pay set.
haot nd limited StatPa
.-.'St. Peter" is the novel name OF weekly
Journal just started, in New York City, in the iu
terests Of the Roman Catholic Church. The edi.
tor, iu his salutatory, says that "St. Peter Is an
enterprise of faith; 1t Is brought out specially for
the service OF the Infaillble See."
One OF the German batteries before Paris, No.
is, has been pushed forward 10 within 74oo PAGES
Gess than four miles, OF the Cathedral OF Notre
Dame THIS may bring that venerable and his
torical edifce within range of the Prussan guas;
and, If SO, woe to it.
One OF the most successful journals In the
west-the Cincinnati Commentaries cstab
hshed By L. G. Curtis who 80 named his paper,
because be did not know the difference between
substantive and an adjective. he did not discover
his error In grammar until it was too late to re.
name the prosperous daily.
Another effort Is to be made IL the New York
Legislature to make the savings banks dlSgorge
the heavy sums which, 1t IS said. they hold under
the title Of unclaimed moneys, and to put them
Into the hands Of the State. Some OF the news
papers hint that there is big mouse In the meal,
and that the investigation which isproposed will
run into Job. This Ia very Likely. for everything
now seems to he sJo6'' in the Legislatures,
National aud State.
"A Washington correspondent writes: "The
beautiful female lobbyist Is OF the institutions
OF this W, and her power over gray headed SEN
ators and dignided members Is potent iu proper
tion 70 her attractions and graccs ofmanner.
There is one gollen.hared goddess here with
rosy cheeks and Cleopatra's form whose inhu.
ence ,s said to be never exerted in vain; and at
her nod or the glance Of her pretty eye, she can
bring any OF our Solons to kneel at her pretty
feet"
Brooklyn has starllin. sensation In the per-
formances Of some mysterious youth, who has
been gong about the streets after nightfan stab
bing young girls with penEnite. His modus
operandi Is TO dart ont up n them from behind
trees, stoops and other hiding places, aud, after
giving them thrust with his weapon, he sud-
denly disappears. The police have made digent
search for him, but thus far in vain. AS many as
= dozen girls have been stabbed, two OF them
dangerously.
Miss Anna E. Dickinson delivers her lecture
on Joan ef Arc" in Washington, on Thursday
evening, and VIII devote the entire prooee'ls to
the fund FOR the relief OF the wounded soldiers OF
France. In her letter to Madam lie Chanbrun
Offering to do this, she says: 81 have refused 80
deliver Jeanne D'Arc' in Washington, because
thought my time too crowded to allow, but
must find space for this. l only hope people VIII
be as glad 10 hear her story as shali be to tell
1t for such Cause; that the dead peasant girl
may put her md out OF The grave TO feed some
OF the peasant she loved so we'll The hero ami
martyr may sl serve France, doubtless as dear
to her soul now as when she died for It,"
There ran be no question that the spectacle
Of opposite parties In New York making a conten
tlon for the favor Of the liberated Feuiaus who
have arrived there from the English prisons Is a
very sorry and discreditahle spectacle. 1t is
charged thai 1t Is The Republican Collector
Murphy, and the so.caled "customhouse gang"
on the one haH'!. and the Democratic Tammany
commiLree and city officials on the other, who are
striving 10 do the honnrs with the view Of making
yo.l,icA capital win Irihborn voters. So far the
.exlles have showed great tact and good sense In
committing themselves to neither party. 1t is
evident however. that the reception on the par:
~or the city ls TO be most generous one whenever
It does take place, which will probably he after
the other patriots that are expected shall have
arrived
"A Washington telegram OF the esd instant
says: "There are at present In Washington quite
large delegations Of Southern Republicans, con-
.ferrng with regard to the future political policy