The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-05-05
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FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

There was but slight hopes of the recovery
of Mr. Corcorau, in Washington, yesterday.
Gold closed in New York, yesterday, at
HALT.
Cotton closed strong at l5tc., with sales OF
60s1 bales.
The laborers on the Erie Canal break made
a disorderly strike yesterday. Troops have
been sent to suppress them.
Exc Governor Manley, of North Carolina,
died at Raleigh, in that State, on Monday, aged
seventy.flve.
William Henry Harrison Holden, brother
orex-Governor Holien has been elected mayor
of Raleigh. n. c., by the Democrats.
The Bernese are hoping that the German
arii; will make its entry into Berlin in May or
June, instead OF August.
The Catholics of Canton, in China, are
building yast cathedral in that city, which is
at once marked feature of the landscape and
sign of the times.
MIR. J. D. Barrow, New York artist we
learn from the Evening Post, has upon his
easel view of the country home ofMr Rich
ard LaLhers. near New Rochelle, n. Y.
The New York Herald Of Monday says :
Laura Keene returned to this city on April
81, with her company. The travelling tour
was a great failure. Nearly all her company
came home without receiving their full salary.
The Washington Chronicle of Tuesday says:
ssSenator Sawyer will not return to South Caro-
lIna until alter the adjournment ofsehe special
session of the Senate. He left last evening on
brief visit :" New York.
Two American ladies, accompanied by q
near male relative, recently made the over
land trip by sledges from the Okhotsh Sea
across Siberia to st. Petersburg. distance OF
1000 miles.
The brain, according to Liebig, is altered
chemically by every atom of opium taken into
the stomach, and new train of vital actions
must follow this change in chemical compost
tion and minute organization.
1T is stated that when signing the det'
cheney bill, the President announced his great
regret at being compelled to approve OF the
appropriation for the Sisters Hospital in
South Carolina, stating that he wcu.d cave
vetoed it but for the sake of the other ilens.
-Ex-President Andrew johnson is to come
before the public once more as an orator,
having been chosen by and consentins to de-
liver an address on Mechanical Skill and In
dustry,n before mechanics fMr In Nashville,
on the last Saturday in May.
AT the annual meeting of the cotton buy
ers and brokers of Memphis, a motion was
adopted by which o committee OF three was
appointed to take measures that will hasten
the assimilation OF. cotton samples or types
throughout the Union.
In comparing simple with compound ln-
terest, 1t is found that money will double itself
through the former medium in .l4i years, by
calculating it at seven per cent, but COM
pounded at the same rate the same amount
will be doubled in l0i years.
Developments indicate that the workings
of the International Association OF Working
men of Europe are controlled in London,
where the federal council Ell is, and ii Is
shrewdly surmised that the existing Paris
Communal movement is directed from the
English capital.
Count Moltke, with an eye to military
business, bas given notice to the French Gov
ernment tina he will have all the French oc-
cupied provinces ,,,-tifed with line Of iorlif-
cations, to guarantees against all attack, until
the indemnity Is fully paid. and regular gov
ernment firmly established in France.
The Paris women whose husbands are in
the ranks are denouncng to the authorities
those WHO have secreted themselves at home
to shirk duty. The wives OF the latter naturally
take up the quarrel, aud the faubOurg was
lately the scene of most ludiCrous hair-pulng
fight between the two factions.
General Won der Tam, the Bavarian
General who. was prominent with his corps
in the operations against the French army of
the Loire, has turned up as furnishing the iu-
formation that the Paris Commune otlered u
him, personally. 2O0O,0OO francs If he would de-
liver 10 them Fort Clarendon.
Ladies who have been running their front
hair by cutting it short and crimpug II are in
o state OF terrible agitation over the dreadful
rumors concerning next summers style oil
coifure. 1t is said, and with SHOW Of au-
thority, that the mode Of wearing the hair is
to be on the Greek model, the front hair drawn
back and all twisted into loose knot at the
back Of the head
"A letter from George T. Downing, tie
well known colored oystermau, and long,
time Congressional caterer, is printed i'll the
New York Herald, which apply terms ii L ''B-'
valvular Boomerang" 1t shrewdly exposes
the hollowness of the Radical professions re-
garding the colored men, for whom, Mr.. DUwa-
ing says, it is painfully evident there IS lack
of due respect On the part of the Republican
party.
There are so many contradictory reports
regarding the possible action Of the Prussians
in connection with the French civil war, that
it is difficult to decide what course they will
pursue. AN officer OF the Prussian stall, at
ST. Denis, states, however, that Prussia will
not allow the Commune TO enjoy its triumph,
even should it gain q victory. The day OF
its success will be marked by foreign interven-
ton, the object Of which will be the re-eslab-
lishment OF a stable goye rnment.
"A practical siep in the direction Of the
universal republic, democratic aud social. has
been taken in Paris. A commission has been
Instituted to examine into the condition of tire \
factories and workshops Of That city, aband0b-
ed by their owners, and to report upon The
,onocurpl npcpssary for their rp.psIahllst tmpnt