The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-04-10
Tbe Gbaflestnn Nems
MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cotton closed quiet but steady atl5tc. fol
uplands; sales 1876 bales.
There was no cotton market In Liverpool
on Saturday, In consequence of the holidays
The child of the Princess of Wales Is dead,
T Is birth was premature. :
Anew York telegram, -of Saturday, says
svThermometer 49, Fatal case of sunstroke
.o-day, the first known so early in the season."
They are going to put President Grants
portrait on the revenue stamps for imported
cigars.
The cotton manufacturing firm of Messrs
Dolfus. of Mulhausen, In Alsace, Intend to re-
move their business to the south OF France
probably near Toulouse. They will take
with them their workmen, more than 5000 IL
number.
The New York Chamber of Commerce
have resolved that, in view of the fact thai
the people at large really bear the orunt OF
taxation, in the form of rents and cost of liV-
/ ne, the income tax ought to be abolished, and
the resolution has been sent to the President
and Congress.
IL the North German Confederation there
were 81, $780, 900 Protestants and silT5,ouQ
Catholics; in the new Empire there are "a
$40, 600 Protestants aud 1s, $50, OQ0- Catholics
the relative proportion being raised rom
three to eight to two to three.
The Suez canal, it Is said, is proving a
great success both for the trade of the world
and for its owners. The traffic has ste ably
increased since the opening, in November,
1863. The first month nine vessels passed
through; the last report, January, 1871, was
"a. The canal receipts for eaon of the WI
months Of December and January last were
$500, 900, and for February last 1t was estlma-
ted would be over a million.
"A Washington telegram of Thursday, to
the Baltimore Sun, says: 1.-THE financial con-
dition of South Carolina is such, that 8 letter
received here to-day represents a giving de-
sire among the taxpayers to appeal directly
to Congress, asking that body to resume con-
troll of the State and shield the people there
from the continuance of a taxation which ts
amounting practically to oanfscation- 1t Is
proposed t~o,show.thst neither1hostlity to the
government nor partisan considerations have
ANYTHING to do with present troubles there.
It was noticeable that DeLarge, one of the
colored members from South Carolina, appeal
ed to the House to-day to grant universal
amnesty as the proper couse to restore conf
dence and harmony in the South"
st. Louis has been examining into facts In
relation to the existence OF the social evil IN
that city. A committee appointed by the board
of health has Just reported that when the pre-
sentlaw went into effect there were seven hum
dred and eighteen ''unfertunates" In the city
against four hundred and eighty registered,
the present number, a decrease of II per cent.
The report presented other statistics, showing
that by placing this unfortunate class OF Wo-
men under the restriction and control OF the
law. something can be done towards amelio-
rating the crime. It seems repulsive, as 1t
were, to legalize vice, but taking the purely
practical and common-sense view, st. Louis
appears to have gained by the operation.
The latest crop accounts from England
March 2Oth,) speak of frost in exposed places
T ollowed by o heavy snow storm, which check
ed vegetation, injured the young grass and
hindered field work except upon the highest
lands. From Belgium, Holland and France
there are unfavorable accounts Of mischie
done to the crops BY the remarkable fuctua-
lions of March weather. Meat being scarce
on the continent, is likely to advance in price,
and this viii stifen the demand for bread
stufs, which are very firm, with indications of
q rising market. Russia alone seems to have
a surplus, and she will be our very formidable
competitor in the English and French mar
kets.
Foreign mail adyices contain much of in
terest regarding the presence OF Napoleon IN
England. The London Times contrasts his
greeting at Dover with Emperor Wilhelm's re-
ception in Berlin, and says that while the be-
havior Of the Berllnese did credit to the nation
and its deep purpose and thoughtful estimate
of facts, the popular demonstration at Dover
implied an ELUSIVE and unqualified admiration.
For six months Louis Napoleon ''has been
treated as the scapegoat in a great national ca
Iamity. The French sympathizers in this coun-
try, conscious of the weakness of the French
cause, visited all Its faults on the ex-Emperor's
head. They were never weary Of stigmatizing
and %denouncing the detestable results OF 'dy-
nastic' ambition. Yet here, when the latest,
and probably no. the last, OF these results is
revealing itself in the prospect of civil war,
they surround this very man with passionate
acclamations OF sympathy and honor, and give
to him and his dynasty a more enthusiastic
demonstration of welcome than was accorded
to the Emperor of Germany at Berlin"
The Washington Patriot says: 1.-THE Presl-
dents proclamation in regard to South Caro-
lima was issued without notice to or consulta-
ton of any kind with the senators or repre-
sentatlves from that State, although they are
all of his party. And there is reason to doubt
whether the forms required by the constitu-
ton were complied with at all. If Governor
Scott made the application which is a con-
dltlon precedent to the interposition of Fed
eral authority, there is no known record of
It. Individuals came to Washington yester-
day to speak in the Governors name, but
with no certified authority, and without any
sufficient investigation the President under
took to brand the character of a sovereign
State. 1t is now certain that he was induced
to take steps more for effect in the North than
for any real or supposed reason in South Care
lima. It formed a part of the conspiracy to
excite the agitation concocted by Morton and
Butler, which has ragged for the lastfew weeks
in both branches Of Congress. When gentle
J.A-t-s