The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-11-16
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER l6, 1871.
VIEWS OF THE DAY.


in New York, cotton closed active and
easier; uplands 1850; sales 5O45. bales.
in Liverpool, cotton closed steady; up
lands sad, Orleans sld; sales $4,000 bales.
"A "Panorama of the Chicago Fire" is al.
ready announced.
Grant is being urged to play little with
the workingmen..
Some of the most trusted lighthouse Keep
ers on the Atlantic coast are women.
Mrs. Lydia Sherman, the alleged New
Haven "Borgia," is very confident of acquittal,
though it Is said few believe her innocent.
Her trial has gone over until the last OF De-
cembef,
a {ichmond woman voted last week. Her
ballot was deposited with this endorsement I:
uRv the Constitution of the United States, l.,
Mrs. A. Whitehead Bodeker, have a right to
give nv vote at this election, and in vindica-
tion of 1t drop this vote in the ballot-box."
The proposition of all the Democratic and
some of the Republican members OF the ku-
Rink committee to recommend Congress to
provide general amnesty is not certain to be
adop,ed by the full committee. So far as the
Presidents views are known, he Is said to be
opposed to general amnesty now, and will not
recommend 1t in the annual message
A New York correspondent writes under
date of the 10th Instant: About the goth OF
this month there will be a conference in New
York OF as many leading Democratic politicians
as can be got together from different sections
of the country, 10 compare notes and take
counsel together with reference to the present
position and future course Of their party, with
particular reference to concert of action In
the coming Presidential election"
DIR. q. d. Tucker writes letter from
Paris to Hon. David W. Lewis, secretary of
the Georgia State Agricultural Society, under
date OF October l6, in which he says: ~ have
lust had a conversation with NJ. Edmund
Fsrrene, editor of the official journal Of the
French Government, in which he assures me
that II proper steps were taken a large tide OF
French immigration could be turned to the
State of Georgia. The class OF immigrants,
too, are the very kind we most need-cultiva-
tors of the soil-men who are accustomed to
work, and who expect to work" g.
The new English expedition, which has
been in preparation for considerable time,
has just started for the Holy Land. 1t has
been placed under the charge of Capt'in r.
W. Stewart, R. E. Captain Stewards main
work will be the completion or the survey OF
Palestine. How much this Is wanted Is only
known, perhaps, to map-makers and protes-
slonal ..aographers, but every one who has
really studied the Old Testament history can
tell of undiscovered sites and places whose
history seems to be lost altogether. To rodis.
cover those will be one Of the aims Of the ex-
ploring party. -
"A Washington paper, generally credited
with rejecting the views of the administration,
Is dissatisfied with the result of the Virginia
following language, in which the threat is
plainly enough implied: There have been
few acts of violence in Virginia on account OF
political opinion, but this is owing to the TACT
that the Democrats have had the State, and nc
such acts were necessary to enable them to
retain or perpetuate their power. The combi-
nation or conspiracy referred TO by the Prest
dent as existing in South Carolina is doubtless
also In existence in Virginia. but tits, tor. the
present, dormant" .y4.. s.a5l
The New York Sun reports ION high au-
thority, that the Hon. E. S. Stokes of that city
received the sum Of seventy thousand dollars
In greenbacks for the surrender 10 the Hon.
Peter B. sweeny of the celebrated correspon-
dence and memoranda relating TO the affairs
Of Colonel James Fisk, Jr., Mrs. Josephine L
Mansfield and ether spectators and politi-
clans. In this correspondence, Mr.. D. P. In
graham, Jr., Is said to have taken a deep in
terest. Mr.. Sweeny and Mr.. Tweed were
also mentioned In It." The Sun thinks that
s'Stokes sold it cheap, considering that Judge
Ingraham had ordered it suppressed; but he
Is a benevolent man."
"A spark arrester for locomotives has re-
Gently been invented in Massachusetts, and
consists OF a curved smoke stack, resembling
cornucopia, with the mouth directly back
ward. Near the enlargement of the upper
curve wire screen is placed at an angle of
forty.fve degrees, and another screen Is
placed over the mouth. Just below the first
screen perforated steam pipe is run horizon
tally through the smoke stack, and is cCn-
nected with the boiler. As the sparks from
molstened by a fine spray Of steam Issuing
from the perforations, and drop 10 the ground
through tube inserted in the cornucopia be-
tween the two screens.
Five weeks have elapsed since the great
fire, and the citizens Of Chicago are now able
TO look around the ruins in business-like
manner, and make a rational estimate of the
situation. The Tribune declares that they
shave got far enough ahead in the work of re.
building the city to. need no forbearance in a
commercial point of view" at the hands o
their rivals. They have not much to offer in
the way of show. Their architectural exhibi-
tion is decidedly poor, and their clothes are
shabby, but the same spirit remains that made
the former Chicago what it was. They have
an unimpaired credit in all the markets o
the world, and enlarged and improved exper.
ience In the way OF building cities. The rail-
wsys are as numerous as before the fire, and
their trains are as heavily laden. The harbor
Is as full Of shipping as ever. The merchants
are -e-established, in less commodious homes
indeed. but in such quarters that they will be
prepared for the exigencies of the coming sea-
soa. Money is at hand for paying the interest