The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-14
Tbe Gbaflestom 4ews
WEDNESDAY, JUNE IA, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAP.

: "A Liverpool cotton was firm at noon quo
tatiens: -Uplands 8&assd., Orleans. ssaSsd.i
sales $4,000 bales.
1t win take sixty years to restore to
France the forests ruthlessiy wasted in the
military operations of the late war.
The. Emperor of China ID said to. have a
very large income from gaming houses, esti-
mated atnot less than s., 00o, 900 a year.
"A dress recently made By a fashionable
modlsts in New York was, ornsmenled by
three hundred.and forty-two bows.
The Emperor William renarked to the
Mayor Heaeman, who attempted to kiss the
royal right hand at the opening of the Ger
man Parliament 'This is not o German state
custom, and 1t is only fit for the ladies'"
The great festival In honor of Beethoven,
which had 10 be postponed on account of the
war, will take place in his native town of Bonn
in August, and will be in all Prospects conduct
ed in accordance with the original programme.
The Emperor William will this Year take
his usual course of treatment at Ems which
last year was so strangely and unexpectedly
interrupted. Last year he went TO Ems as
the King of Prussia. THIS year re win go as
the Emperor ofGermany.
Some of the Frenchmen exiled from their
country by Louis Napoleon, u 1851, and now
resident In England, are about to.sue him.in
4his private capacity for damages for their long
Punishment It Is said that the amounts
claimed. of the e1-Emperor are aoout 2ao0,-
900.
Governor Walker, of Virginia, left Rich-
mond Saturday morning for New York, osten
slbly to visit relatives. It will be remembered
that Governor Hoffman, OF New York, visited
Virginia lately, ostensibly for his health The
political qaid pnncs will now fall to violently
4. guessing ''whats up between Governors Hof-
man and Walker.
"A good many of the Paris Journals arg
said to be in favor of a continuance OF the Re
public. . It seems TO be admitted that In this
they represent the public opinion OF the ma
ejority of the city population of France. Among
The strictly. rural population, however, q reac-
ton against Bepublicanlsm, natural after the
excuses of the Paris revolnionists, is said to
be gaining ground, and some anxiety Is ex-
pressed by the journals lest The supplementary
elections soon to occur reverse the majority In
the Assembly, Tits generally believed that M.
Theirs himself favors a Republic. but 1.-The
ways' OF politicians are inscrutable.
The French habit Of counting chickens be-
fore they are Matched Is strongly illustrated by
the action of a French prisoner of war at Ham,
burg. He was an officer who had-been very
kindly treated by the family with whom ne
was quartered. and on leaving for his own
country, wishing to express his gratitude to
his hosts, he left with them q sealed envelope,
to be opened after his departure. 1t was feund
to contain a letter TO. the future French COM
maader of Hamburg, (when 1t should have
been conquered BY the French,) begging him
Ito treat the aforesaid family as CONSIDERABLY
as they had Treated the writer.
The announcement has already been made
that the International Typographical Union,
in session ct Baltimore, awarded the first prize
for fast type-setlins to, George Arensoerg, q
compositor in the Public Ledger ONCE, PhRa-
delphia. For this prize there were eleven
compositors in, different parts OF the United
States. The type used was nonpareil, and the
limit OF the time one hour In this period Mr.:
.Arensberg set 1922 ems. The second prize
was awarded Richard A. NeIleaH, a compost
tor In the Evening Telegraph Office, Phlladel'
phia, who set 1857 ems. The third prize was
given James NJ. Butler, of Little Rock, ARK,
who set 1858 ems, in q type which was, how
:. ever, over the standard used by the other COM
petltors. The character of the work, as we'll
.as the swiftness of composition, was taken
49,. o-otto~ In raoGTnr fha auQrn
The recent railroad disasters have caused
inventive brains to set to work to discover
some means by which a train could be stopped
suddenly at the approach ersignal OF danger,
without running. nearly mile or more after
the brakes. have been applied, as is now otfen
the case, owing to the Tremendous velocity
and consequent impetus to the locomotive and
cars. The Orange County Express has Tor q
long time used a compressed atr-brake, which
is operated by the engineer, and ac1s With en-
tire sais faction, as it stops the trail in half is
length when applied; but a still greater i'm.
provement seems to oe a se-csiied magnetic
brake, with which some interesting expert
ments have lust been made on the Erie road,
and as the result Of which i've crowded pas
eenger cO8cAes, running at VIC i"Ve W.iOi'5
miles an hour, were brought to a complete
standstill in thirteen seconds It is thought
that this new brake Will be attached to all fast
trains on that road; and, should it prove as
efficient as It elaimsto be, 1t will no doubt
.soca be generally introduced on all the iron
roads in this country.
Work on the Southern Pacific Railroad Is
now being pushed rapidly forward with Yis!or
and determination, and already the first Sec
ton OF the road, from San Francisco to Gilroy,
q distance OF eighty miles, is in successful ope-
ration. To meet the requirements OF the char
ter, eighty miles more must be completed
before the coming list of July, and laoorers
are. therefore, busily at work finishing up this
second Sc cLion, no less than five hundred Chi
.namen being engaged, besides about half that
aumber of horses and countless mules. The
arrival Of squads of laborers, OF fifty men or
more, is of daily occurrence, and these are
engaged as soon as they apply for work.
The difference in the wages paid to China
men and white laborers Is not 30 great as