The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-10-04
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1871
NEWS OF THE DAY.

cents buShel.
Paris has for several years had street
railway, or, as they call 1t there, a "Chemln-
defer American, and now the system is 10 be
extended.
in the Swiss war accounts Is an item fol
an allowance of two cents daily for three cats
who act as guardians of the corn stores OF the
Confederation against foraging rats.
"A lady writer blames the men more than
the women for ridiculous fashions now in
vogue. She says: "It all men possessing
500, 600 and upwards should form q league
not to marry any woman vino mounted CHG
non, how long do you suppose the ugly mon
stroslties would continue to be In vogue? ?"
The report OF the New York Board OF Phar-
macy shows that out of two hundred and fifty
druggists and one hundred and ninety clerks
examined BY the commissioners, sixty drug
gists and elghty.one clerks failed to give sui
fclent proof of the qualifications necessary,
and were rejected. In the examination OF the
leading druggists and their clerks it was found
that large number Of them could not read
ordinary Latin prescriptions.
An importer of coffee In New York pub
fishes letter In which he states that there has
been considerable falling of In the produc-
tlon OF coffee this season. The three princi-
pal coffee regions are Brazil, Java and Ceylon.
The Brazilian crop hes declined from 4s0, ,00o,-
600 to zoe, ,000, 900 Of pounds, and tbe Java crop
from l7O,0O0,0OO to LOG, 100000 Of pounds. Of
the Ceylon crop there Is no accurate data. He
adds that there is no lack Of supply yet felt,
but that the ultimate effect of these defclen-
cies has already been discovered throughout
the world by rise of price.
Prince Bismarck Is now using his efforts
to assemble general postal congress to per-
tect system Of universal postage. All coun-
tries joining the postal league are to use one
and the same kind Of stamp, alike In appear
ance and value. Present rates are to be re-
duced, and the entire plan made to work har-
moniously and efficiently In small countries as
well as large. 1t Is expected that most Of the
European States, and several Asatic and South
American governments, will at once join the
postal federation. Provision will be made en-
abling nations not joining at the inception of
the league to unite with 1t at any future time.
The charge upon which Brigham Young Is
to be tried, 1t seems, Is that Of being accessory
to the murder of man in Echo Canon, Utah,
In 1857, and Daniel q. Wells, George A. Smith
and other Mormons are said to be implicated
In the same transaction. A man lamed Hick
man, who has been arrested ior the offence,
claims that he and two others accomplished
the murder under the direction Of Young, and
that he subsequently took nIae hundred dollars
from the deed mans body and gave 1t to the
great Mormon chief. Search was made for the
body, which was found. General De Trobriand,
commanding Camp Douglas, has prepared COM
Portable accommodations for Brigham Young
at his own headquarters, In anticipation of his
(Brlghams) arrest The High Mormons are
exultingly confident that Brigham will over
come all the charges against him before the
law.
-AMrs Conway has been awarded the
contract for building railway In Maryland,
and already has her workmen buslly engaged
In digging, carting and traek-laying. This is
much the most noteworthy Of the recent
manifestations Of female determination to
rival man In fields heretofore exclusively oc-
cupied by him. We have become so accus- |
toned to the Western glrl who cpltlvates a |
farm Of forty acres, planting, ploughing and
irrigating 1t in manly fashion, that she Is no
longer an item of Interest. Also the young
woman who perpetually goes out upon a
raging sea in a small boat and rescues ship
wrecked sailors, bids fair to exasperate man
kind by her wearisome iteration Of what was
once pleasing and phllanthropic novelty. |
But woman who undertakes to build rail
way, and proves herself mistress OF grading,
ballasting and brldge-bulldlug, who under
stands the mysteries OF "chairs" and
Switches" and who cal oversee gangs of
track-laying navves with discretion and au.
thority, deserves at least transltory fame.
"A Washington letter, of Monday, to the
Baltimore Gazette, slys: "The two South
Carolina factions of the Radical party are
again at loggerheads, and again the fight is
nominally over the Office of United States mar
shal, .he one faction seeking The removal Of
johnson, the marshal, who Is the son of Hon.
Reverdy johnson, and the other trying to Sc
cure his continuance In office. Already the
auant ceuriers are here awaiting the coming
of Grant, and to be first with their showing.
Senator Sawyer, ex-Congressman Bowen, and
others, representing the more conservative
classes. of the Republicans, are the hackers OF
Johnson, whilst Governor Scott, ex-Congress-
man Hoge, and others, representing the car
pet-bag class, are for Johnson's removal, Hoge
being named as his successor. This is really
astruggle that has been for some time going
on between two factions of Radicals in South
Carolina for the control of Federal patronage,
and through Its instrunentalily, the control
OF political linterestsin in that State. The carpet
baggers allege that Marshal Johnson is at
heart Democrat, and will endeavor to make
that apparent to General Grant, and there is
q strong probability that Johnson's official
head will go Off"
Mr.. Bachmann, a German, visited the
quiet village OF Jamestown, N. Y, in August
last. but till last week his whereabouts or what
had become of him was one OF those painful
secrets which have of late been 80 frequent.
1t recently leaked out that Bachmann w's
known to have visited brewery owned by one
Charles NARROW, and that the last that was
seen of him was at that place. Public opinion
set so strongly against the proprietor OF this