The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-08
T5r Gbafteston 9ems
THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1871
NEWS OF DAY.

-1uC NOW 4o1o NV
easier; sales 1928 bales at ls8c.
The Liverpool cotton market closed
shade easier; uplands stas4d.; sales 1900
bales.
The new German theatre in New York vii
cost $500, 900.
Greeley arrived at New York y~esterda.
morning.
-Ashbury's yacht Lavonia won the Harwtcl
regatta in England.
General Rodmau died yesterday at Roci
Island arsenal, aged IS.
The Democrats of New Hampshire are con
fdent Of carrying the organization Of tn
House and electing Weston Governor.
Won Moltke is engaged in recognizing the
German army on the regular peace footing o
200, 900 men. This is nearly twice it's former
strength.
DIR. Paul Scheppe, imprisoned at Carlisle
for the murder of Miss Stinnecke, writes t
Governor Geary %petitionipg for a persona
audience, and he considerably suggests: "As
my condition forbids me to appear before you
at your residence, I take the liberty to respect
fully ask you to do me the great favor to com
and see me-"
"A correspondent, writing rom Bordeaux,
details the following evidence of a~ntt-TeutoI-
ism: t.The French Swans holding German
diplomas have returned them, stating thai
they could not even have scientific relations
with q country which treated France 20 badly,
The Society of Acellmatization have erased
from their books the names of the German
princes who were members. A society has
been got up here, trying to prevent the Borde.
laise merchants from trading with or employ
ing Germans In their oelcss."
What stuff Is sometimes sold as tea may
be learned from 9 London commercial .circu-
lar. which says that recently three hundred
haifchests of tea dust, called scented orange
Pikoe siftings, were Sold by auction, without
reserve, on account of the importers, and part
realized one penny per pound, adding that sit
is a matter of considerable doubt whether
this article is tea at all; It's certainly utterly
spurious and unfit TO drink; the leaf is in a
great measure composed of dirt and steel
dlings, and If magnetic thrust into a sam
ole, on examination 1t Will be found covered
with small particles Of metal"
"A New York letter says ''rhere is con-
siderable emigration Of mechanics and others
to North Caroline from this city, through
means of speculative land companies, who
have bought heap tracts and divided them np
Into small fa ., and village lots. The settlers
who passed fast summer and winter there all
write. favorably, and have given a good i'm
pulse to other adventures. There is, without
doubt, a splendid field for settlement and pros
perityln the South, and the plan adopted of
settling In colonies, where the advantages OF
schools, churches, and society can be at once
realized, abolishes all objections hitherto Of
fered against emigration to those regions"
According 70 the New York Grocer there
are sent out of New. York City annually an
army of twenty-five Thousand commercial
drummers. These average at least $500 each
In salary and commissions, or 3 5000, 900 paid
o the whole number in salaries. If to this we
add their travelling expenses, 81 per day, and
estimating that they are upon the road one
hundred and fifty days daring.the year, we
have an item of sl5, 0Oe, 900 more, and an ag-
gregate of $50, 600, 900, whichis added to the
price of the goods sasd. As there are about
100000 retail ~stores.in the. country which the
goods eventually reach, we find every dealer
~taxedssl75 per year to sustain this army of
ssdrummers' from New York.
The first conflict between the German Gov
,ernrient and the Parliament Of United Ger
many occurred on May II. It was provoked
by an Interpolation respecting. the transfer Of
two postohice officials as a punishment for Pc
,titioning the Reichstag. Minister Delbruck
declined to give satisfactory explanation. The
liberal party vshsniently defended the right
OF every citizen to petition the Reichstag, and
the fights Of members to inquire into every
act ~ofwrong-dohg. The government refusal
of explanation was stigmatized as unconstitu-
tional. The southern members were con-
spicuous for plain speaking and their energy
of denunciation. The Reichstag Is expected
to sit for thfee-or four weeks longer.
The New York papers exclaim in an
alarmed chorus, whats to be done ?"- The
commandment at West Point Military Academy
had decided that this year the cadets should
not have their annual hop. The Secretary of
Wa overrules this decision, and the hop is to
come of. BY prescriptive right each cadet Is
entitled to a partner, and thus SO is colored
cadet Smith. The ladies, not having The fear
of Congress before. their eyes, now combine
together in defiance of that body and Its
solemn enactments, to deprive a citizen OF his
rights on account OF color, for they utterly re-
fuse to dance, with the black cadet. 1t has
been suggestedtthat a tolored ''lady' be in
yited for his behoof. But in this case the fair
rebels say that they won't go to the hop at all.
And thus a band OF Ku-K luX in dimity triumph.
"A letter from Father Hyacinthe, in a late
Paris newspaper, acknowledges the sympathy
that Italy feels for France and advises a union
of the Latin races. as the balance of Europe is
menaced by the preponderance Of Germans
and Slaves. The acts OF the Commune were
the result of the negation of God by the peo-
pie. The nineteenth century Is 'the age OF the
working men. The second Empire treated
social questions in the spirit OF the Caesars, in
stead of seeking to solve them by the dissent
nation of education. 1t, moreover, imposed
prolonged celibacy on soldiers, and legalized
the prostitution of women The church also
failed in its mission. 1t was too much occu,
MED with dopmatic questions, and too little