The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-11-08
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER s, 1871.
NEWS OF THE D4T.

In consequence OF the election.
AT Liverpool cotton was quiet at s3d fol
uplands.
Egypt proposes to use the pyramids foi
weather sigaal stations.
The story of the discovery Of an open
Polar Sea has melted away.
The Ohio Statesman recommends st. Louis
as the place for holding The National Demo
cratic Convention.
"A certain ambitious English authoress Is
criticised as being "apert little girl who tries
to be offensive to her Creator, and fails"
The Rev. Robert Collyer says the men who
have been thanking God for The burning o.
Chicago were s'not men who burnt out, you
know"
About two-thirds of the metal of the Chi
caro courthouse bell has been cut CT with
cold chisels and converted into relics by the
generating Inhabitants of that city.
The Munchausen jenkins of tie Memphis
Avalanche has written two columns more
about the search for De Sotos buried treas
ures. describing second and successful expe-
dltiop, which abounds, like the first, In super
natural phenomena. The hunters have LEFT for
the E6SL Will tuclE UCoieu Va S0Aao1 "A'ASeS
giving the Avalanche man even handful.
The public schools in Virginia, three thou
sand in number, are principally attended BY
coIored children. The school houses are own
ed BY the whites, yho also pay the taxes for
educating one hundred thousand colored pu-
pills. In commenting on the above facts, the
Richmond Enquirer says: 1--WE are the warm
friends the system, and want to see our col
ored population instructed and elevated and
improved in every way"
The Indian Territory is now the scene OF
an animated legal quarrel between two rail-
roads, both of which were granted permission
to pass through that region. III consequence
OF these quarrels abou. functions, passengers
have been compelled many times TO spend the
night on the prairie, In country where 1t is
not safe to sleep without shelter. More recent
ly line Of stages running irregularly has
been established TO connect the two railroads.
The London Lancet calls attention to the
enormous manufacture of the new tedative
drug, choral. 1t states that 1t Is sold BY tons
q week. and quotes a letter from Baron Lie
big, affirming that one German chemist manu-
factures and sells half ton every week. OF
course, no such quantity Is used In medicine,
and the Lancet seems half afraid that 1t gets
into beer; but the London Spectator says
there is q simpler explanation. Taking chloral
b the new and popular Vice, particularly
among women, and is doing at least as much
harm as alcohol. The drug ls kept In thousands
of dressing cases, and those who begin Its use
often grow 30 addicted 10 1t that they pass
their lives in sort of contented stupefaction.
Chloral drunkards will soon be an admitted
variety of the species.
Political troubles, 1t Is reported, have
arisen in Liberia. 1t Is stated that In 1870 E.
]. Roye was elected President of Liberia for
the period OF four years, and that recently
Congress has passed an act limiting the term
of office to two years. Under these circum-
stances, It is insisted that Roye shall immedi-
stely resign, and that new election shall be
held. Roye, however, declares his intention
to serve out his four years term. and is sup
ported by large party of political friends.
This refusal to resign has caused very bitter
feelings among the supporters of Joseph j.
Roberts, who was President OF Liberia from
ls4S to 1856, and Is now o candidate for the
position. At Monrovla, the capital, an affray
recently occurred between the two parties, in
which the collector of the port, an adherent Of
Roye, was killed.
The decline OF the Irish deep-sea fish
cries, it is argued, supplies striking illustra-
ton of the disadvantages suffered by Ireland
by the absence Of home rule. This decline,
It is stated, however, has been caused by the
famine of l847, and the two following years.
In 1916, the Irish coast fisheries gave employ.
ment to 1888 vessels and boats and ll3,073
men and boys: at the present time there arc
employed only s999 vessels and boats and
38,629 men and boys. In 1852, there were
employed 1889 vessels and boats and 5s,s63
men and boys. In 1863, the figures are 1876
vessels and AZ, COL hands. In 1864, the statis-
tics give $500 vessels and $1,000 hands. The
inspectors of fisheries, In commenting upon
this state of affairs, adhere to the opinion ex-
pressed in former report-that no improve
ment In the sea fisheries con be expected until
loans are advanced to portion Of the fisher
men for the repair and purchase of boats and
gear.
The Chicago Tribune gives an animated
description of the scenes of driving activity dis
PLAYED in the burned district. Workmen are
everywhere at labor, delvlng amid the ruins to
reach the old foundations, that the masons
may set new walls. Thousands of men and
young boys are cleaning, wheeling and piling
bricks, while hod-carrers are supplying them
to the masons. Wagons, loaded with lime and
lumber, block up the streets, and all classes Oh
mechanics are working bravely. Broken
walls have been levelled, and the totterirg
ruins OF once. stately buildings have been over
thrown. The removal Of safes has ended
those really hre-proof having been carried of
by the owners, aud the others having been
abandoned to the collectors Of old iron. The
days, 1t Is stated, seem all too short, and work
goes on long after dark. Five thousand loads
of rubbish are shot into the lake basin daily,
and this description of work will continue all
through the winter The man who thinks that
Chicago has been destroyed, 1t is argued, + e
only to cross the river into the burned district
to be undeceived. Labor and skill, directed
by energy and enterprise, it is said, are work.
ing like bees In hive, and it is predicted that
when spring comes the desolate places will
be desolate no longer, and that from the ashes