The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-05-04
NEWS OFTHE DAY.

Cold closed in New York, yesterday, at
l It,.
Cotton closed steady at llsc.; sales s9lI
b ales.
LIN Liverpool closed dull but unchanged;
uplands 7ss74d; sales 10000 bales. -.
The Democrats have carried Virginia City,
NsEada. -
Tile black caterpillar has appeared in i'm
mense numbers around Memphis.
Atlanta has voted unanimously quarter
of a million of dollars to the Atlanta and Sa-
vannah Railroad.
"A secret political society. mostly composed
of working,len, has been discovered in New
York. It has been in existence only two
months, and it already has membership OF
fifty thousand In that city. II has branches in
the larger cities known as Rats.
The new national loan is by no means as
popular an investment among moneyed men
as Secretary Boutwell, anticipated. On Friday
the subscriptions, to this loan amounted to
but slxty-one thousand dollars: Capitalists
let it alone very severely.
Fort Pillow at Memphis, has wholly dis
appeared under. the abradins forces OF the
Mississippi. The Appeal says that the navy
yard there was once morga9ed, and adds ::
s:The mortgage subssts; but the property has
been disposed of by a power against which
chancery mayissue its thunder in vain."
A New York letter. says: 1.-THE Germa..s
are Initiating very significant movement,
which promises to be productive of much
more important results thaE;would appear on
the surface. A grand convention of the presi-
dents and officers fthe various societies that
teok part in the recent peace jubilee is to- meet
on the 10Th OF May 10 form a national 6rgani-,
zation for social aud political purposes. The
German element in Philadelphia and the West
>ern cities are expected to cooperate
Supervisor kryzanowski, of the Dlstrictof
Georgia and Florida, reports to the commits
:sioner of Internal revenue that the total of
property seized or destroyed in his raid upon
Illicit distilleries in that district up to the lst
of April, 1871, is as follows: IS stills and
worms complete and in position; l22, ,260 gal
Ions OF beer and mash; 1874 gallons of low
wines; 800 gallons Of corn whiskey; 700 gallons
ot peach and apple brandy; sos bushels of
corn meal. aud 7a bushels OF malt. Also, so
illicit dlstilleries suppressed; a large number
of mules, oxen, horses, and wagons seized,
and 60 distillers arrested and tnrned over to
the United States deputy marshal. .@1
Besides the Russian Royal Duke, Amer
leans are to be visited this summer by the old
Duke Ernest of SAKE Cobdrg Gotha, brother of
the late Prime Consort Albert, and George,
Duke. OF ;SaxonE, third son OF King John First.
of-sasony, and cousin to Dake Ernest, above
named He will visit the Pacific. He belongs
to nn4 OF tho -oldestl rcignlug: houses OF Eu'
rope. 1t gave an Emperor to Germany at the
beginning of the tenth century. AS If the
foregoing were not enough TO turn the brain
of poor New York, NON comes thrilling ru-
NOR that the Princess Louise and Marquis Of
Lorne may visit Canada and the United States!
Last Of the royal train comes King Thakam-
bau. of Tahiti, to beg of from the indemnity
which he engaged to pay on account O. his
subjects who ate two American. crews a lew
years ago. a. =
Being the wife of,aa celebrity certainly
seems to give additional fame to the daughter
OF q distinguished man, for New York has
suddenly awakened to- the fact that. Bret
Harte's wife is one OF the eight daughters OF
the late Judge Griswold, all of whom hare
been either women oil mark, or the wives Of
men of no small renown. Caroline married
Edmond Andrade, nephew of Pereire, the
great banker OF Paris, who originated the
famous Credit lobier., Andrade is enor-
mously rich, and also lion in musical circles.
Mary, now deceased, married Braulz Mayer.
of Baltimore, well known as. the author Of
s.Captain Canot.n Heen's husband, Captain
Harrington was the personal friend Of Starr
King, who first encouraged Bret Harte in the
literary profession, Then one married dis
tinguished physician. and another noted
musical composer. The youngest is We'll
known as the authoress, Mrs. Frances Gary
Fairfield, and Anna married Francis Bret
Harte.
The New York Sun says, "The taxpayers
of South Carolina will be delighted to learn
that the financial agency Of that State in this
city is about to sandergo'an official investiga-
ton by the committee appointed by the Legis-
lataFe- feF-- that purpose. This committee is
composed OF very high-toned legislators. The
Hon. Benjamin F. Whittemore is chairman;
the Hon. John B. Dennis, the famous South
Carolina upho,sterer, and the Hon. Timothy
Hurley, of Hurleyville, the Hon. S. a. Swails,
and the Hon, W, H. Gardner, are members.
The,committee will arrive in New York abour
the lst of June. Public confidence In the i'm.
partiality of this investigation will perhaps be
a little shaken by the information that the
financialugent has made arrangements to ell
tertain the committee with regal splendors.
They are to be q,lar,ered In q irst-class hotel.
and every bill paid and every want supplied
by: the very man whose acts they are TO ex-
anime into. IT is TO oe hoped that the COM
mittee will not allow their eyes to be closed
no4eheir judgment warped by so much hos
pitaliry.1
The spectacle after the battle at Neuilly is
graphically told by the London Times cores
pondent. Brown-red spots upon the pave
ment marked the passage of death, while
holes poughed in the ground, and trees torn
up and shattered. show that the struggle was
desperate one. Piles of bodies, Yersaillists
and Communists, Uttered the Goorsteps and