The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-05-30
Tbe Gbarlestpat 4ems
TUESDAY, MAY 80, 1871.
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

I71 cents; sales 1872 bales.
There were no markets in Liverpool yes
terdsy
Brown linen cuffs ere said to be coming
into fashion.
The New York police are to wear helmets
after the London fashion.
Western papers predict the largest wheat
crop for many years.
Germany now rejoices in thirty-three
journals especially devoted to humor, whose
aggregate circulation Is about 300, 900.
In Germany, when paper says anything
witty, they kill the editor; and not one editor
has been killed there for two hundred years.
The destruction of the column of the Place
Vendome will add to the value of the bronze
models, numbers of which are among the art
collections in parlors in the United States.
The Japanese have but two foreign minis
ters, one OF whom serves for entire Europe,
while the other they send to the United States,
as illustrative: of the respect in " Nnlch they
hold this country.
Women are rapidly marching forward to
complete emancipation. A beautiful and well
educated young lady has just opened large
boot and shoe store in Philadelphia. She has
three girl clerks, and they all wear little fancy
aprons made of leather, so as to look business
like, at the same time pretty.
Among the recent reported failures in New
York, the Northern papers announce the fol-
lowing Bassett & Higgins, importers and job
bers of shawls, &C.; Stephenson Bros. Co.,
dry goods commissions; David j. Sullivan,
fancy goods; Armstrong, Follett & Co., wool
commission; Burnam Il Bates, white lead;
and Leach 4 Hugh, glassware.
Bismarck has all necessary confidence IN
himself. BE has instructed all the German
ambassadors abroad that the Prusslan Office OF
Foreign Affairs does not need their own
opinions OF suggestions upon diplomatic mat
ters. They are simply to transmit facts to that
office, and he will try to decide upon them.
This reduces the German diplomatic body to a
position not higher than clerk or postofhce
employee.
Fifty or sixty years ago travel between
New York and Philadelphia was confined to
numbering stage coaches, which occupied from
twenty to twenty-four hours in making the
trip. Now a citizen of Philadelphia can leave
that city at o'clock in the morning and be in
Wall street by 10, leaving at 5 in the afternoon
and reaching home by s, having ample time to
do full days work in any walk OF buslne S..
From Jersey City to Philadelphia. the journey
can be made in the fast train of the New Jersey
Road in two hours and quarters.
An apprehension exists in France that the
vexed question of the future government for
the country will be summariy settled by the
regular army as soon as firm foothold Is es-
tablished in Paris. They have returned from
their prisons in Germany not at all pleased
with the neglect with which they have been
treated, and their confusion with the army
that Gambetta created, and which receives
from the Versailles government the lions
share of public recognition and ministerial
favors. If the regular army should, as appre-
hended, make a>coup detat, it is not difficult to
imagine in whose favor it would be.
1t is stated that the rich young Marquis of
Butte, the great Catholic nobleman and hero Of
ssLothair," has never permitted himself to be
presented to the Queen at Court. This is said
In consequence of promise exacted by his
mother on her death-bed that he would never
act differently. The late Marchioness OF Butte
bore an implacable hostilityto Queen Victoria
in consequence of the cruel persecution suffer
ed by the Lady Flora Hastings-who was her
sister-and whom Queen Victoria, one Of whose
ladies of honor she was, suffered, in the first
days of her marriage with Prince Albert, to be
driven in disgrace from the court on the
strength OF SANDERS long since disproved.
Dr,,e =
urged by the Prussians that the French soldiers
fred explosive balls from their chassepots.
The same charge has been brought by the Paris
insurgents against the Versailles troops. In
consequence Of these facts commission ofthe
French Assembly has been engaged in inves-
tigating the cause of the presence Of explosive
cartridges In their soldiers cartridge-boxes.
They have made report admitting the pres.
ence OF these explosive balls, but charge that
they found their way to the possession of the
government In certain ammunition purchased
In this country. 1t is not clear, however,
whether this Is mere evasion OF the truth or
the truth itself.
All the pawnbrokerase done in Paris is
conducted at the establishment of the Mont de
Fl6Ge, WHICH IL uuu6T Ille COuLrOl VI Luc SOf-
ernment, and which operates for the benefit
of the poor. Its profits go to the support of
the city hospitals, and amounted in 1869 to
about sl6O. 600. The Commune Instituted an
examination into the affairs of this concern
lately. It's loans were lound to amount to
s7,6OO,OOO, while the value of the pledges
which it holds as security against these reach
ed s36, ,0OO, 900. The Commune proposed to
liquidate The establishment and transform it
into IL social organization, assuring to the
workmen guarantees of assistance and sup
port in case of want OF work or sickness
The destruction of the Tuiieries and other
public buildings by the Commune was part Of
carrfulIy-laid plan formed in view of the
possible entrance OF the Versailles troops or
the Prussians iuto the city, Three or four
weeks ago correspondent, writing from
Paris, said that it was evident that some
attempt would. be made at q grand culmiuat-
Ing catastrophe in the contingency that we
have mentioned above. Certain sewers had
powder trains laid in them. and the Commune