The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-04-13
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THURSDAY, APRIL Is, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The New YORK COtIou moinoo o"S
and heavy at 14sc; sales 1850 bales.
at Liverpool cotton closed quiet; uplands
7ada73d; sales $1,000 bales.
One hundred ladies' Of Colmar nave
pledged themselves TO wear mourning unu
such time as Alsace has been restored to
France.
The sum of 1000 thalers, in addition to the
regular military pension, will be paid out o.
the French indemnity money to every Ger
man family whose head was killed IN tne
war,
There Is some talk of putting the GreaI
Eastern steamship. ON the passenger route oeS
tween New York and Liverpool this sulnlnei
with the feature OF a cheap passage to Europe
IN attract custom. The fare, 1t is said, will be
90, The Great Eastern has passenger &C
Communications for fully two thousand people,
and. with the immense patronage that 1t
would doubtless draw, together with the
freight list, there is no reason to doubt the
success of the enterprise: The opportunity
to visit Europe, even by persons of very litni-
ted means, would be the inducement that
wonld make many avail themselves of the
chance thus afforded to take a Whit Of foreign
air. o..
AT a recent meeting of the New York
Chamber Of Commerce committee for the re-
lief Of the destitute people OF France, the
statement was made that, owing to the great
influx of food into France, which was taken
there BY spectators, as well as by relief COM
mittees and by the government, which had
previously purchased supplies, there Is now
a superabundance of food In that country.
There Is. nevertheless, said to be much suffer-
inr among the peop 9, especially where, tor
want of sufficient means of transportation, re-
lief can only be sent in the form Of money.
The committee adopted a resolution to convert
into cash the supplies already sent ont oy
them, as well as those still in New York,
awaiting transportation.
There are in England no less than one
hundred and, fifty registered kennels: Of fox
hounds, with staff, stud and equipments, as
complete as those of any army corps. Many
of them are supported by subscription, others,
as the Duke of Beauforts, are maintained at
private expense. So enormous Is the cost OF
supporting and hunting these packs, that not
q few masters OF hounds expend from $4,000 to
s25oo per annum over and above their club
receipts, all for the honor of the position.
The clubs number from one to three hundred
members. Each member keeps at least one
horse and hack, many of them half-a-dozen.
As GOOD hunters cost from sl0O to f60o, some
Idea may be had of the extravagant cost of the
amusement Of hunting the fox in England.
Monsieur Herr Jean-Jacques Ofenbach
has discovered that misfortunes come not as
single epics, but rather In battalions. His
French-glven names, JeanJacques, and his
afiliation with the Parisians, have served to
drive his ,operettss from the stage In Berlin
and Munich; a desire to propitiate Prussia has
Induced Vienna managers to reject them ut
terly; his German family name and his Ger
mar. birth have caused them to be banished
from Francs; aud even the Sultan Abdul Ais,
il q fit of virtuous indignation at this melo-
dious t.under,dogin the dght' OF ope1a-oouffe,
has prohibited the representation Of his
.ssGrande.Duohesse' aud ''Belle Helene" at Con-
.s%tantinople, Pera and Smyrna. Poor Ofen-
bach! His only resource for a living is now,
as we nave said before, to come to this coun-
try and to put the San Domingo commission
business into 4 nice, rollicking opera boufe,
with the druggists" In the principal parts and
the President as u sort Of General Boum.
The hatred of Germany and everything
German which has been engendered in France
.Sythe recent war, shows itself IN a variety of
WAYS. The hardest thing which the Parisians
can bring them-elves to hate with sufficient
cordially is the beer of Bavaria. Now this is
most decidedly q German production, and
ought not to have the love Of any patriotic
but to hate Bavarian beer Is test
of patriotism too rigid for human. nature, espe-
cially French nature. to bear, so 1t Is proposed
to do away with the difficulty by presenting a
still stronger motive Of patriotism for drink
ing the beer. The Figaro has proposed a duty
OF five centimes per glass on all imported Ger
man beer, the proceeds of the tax to be accu-
INFLATED for the expenses Of a future wa
against Germany: Nothing could be more inge-
Nous and satisfactory than this plan. 1t Is
thereby made a merit as well as a pleasure to
drink Bavarian beer, patriotism is nourished
by every glass, and then there is poetic justice
In using the German beverage for the accumu-
lation OF funds and fury to avenge the wrongs
of ls70-'H.
is tolsrably we'll established that Gov
ernor English is elected in Connecticut, which
result showsa large Democratic gain from
last year; and US evidence that the movement
against Radscalisrl IS not going backward, we
have the DemoccatIc victories in Missouri and
Michigan. Detroit City and Wayne County
have gone largely Democratic, and returns
from the State, SO far as received. show ex-
gains on the same side. The cities
have mostly elected Democratic mayors, and
the result, as a whole. Is highly encouraging,
following so swiftly upon the footsteps Of New
Hampshire and C',nneclicnt. the ST. Louis
election has an unusual national significance.
The Radicals made the issue on national qles-
tons. The leading party organ Gained that
victory at this time ,neant success next year,
and that failure would ''haye the contrary and
effect" On this platform they put
their best men, aud met with au utter defeat,
according TO their own admission, is a
defeat OF The National Repub iicau party In the
State. Rpdicalism has ruled In ST. Louis for
eight years wish unchailenged power, aud this
result is greatly significant
a Washington telegram OF Monday says .