The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-05-26
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FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

-COtt0n clOSeQ StTOuS aL II Soh@'i eo'S' '
bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed active and
armer; uplands 7ta7ld; Orleans 7sdi Saet
10000 bales.
"A new railroad depot at Berlin is estlmatee
TO cost 4, sol 1898 thalers.
Jefferson Davis recently assisted at the
decoration of the graves of the soldiers a
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond.
1t is now estimated that the French men
of.war, during the late unpleasantness, cap
tured In all about eighty German mercnan
yessels-all of which of course are to be paiG
for.
The Louisiana planters find their 2oo(
Chinese hands too few, and send for more
They prefer them to negroes in everything ex
cent mule handling. There is a mutual mis-
understanding between the mule and ths
Chinaman.
The Empress Eugene has presented to
Lady Burgoyne, in whose husbands yacht
she escaped from France, a costly gold locket
set with diamonds, with a most exquisite like
ness of her majesty enclosed, as souvenir
of that memorable voyage to England.
Mr.. Greeley writes from New Orleans that
cotton and corn were never so backward al
this season before. Corn is likely to suffer
from drought, while cotton is exposed to utter
destruction from worms. To-day the prospect
of tie average Southern planter is decidedly
not cheering.
A writer in Land and Water states, on the
authority of the celebrated Diana of Poic-
tiers perfumer, that she owed the retention OF
her charms, .Then at an advanced age, to the
habitual use of rain water, which has. 1t
seems, an extraordinary salutary action on
the skin.
The imprisoned correspondents at Wash
ington are said to occupy elegantly furnished
parlors; enjoy the society OF their wives and
friends; whilst their meals consist of spring
chicken and Strawberries, lamb and green
peas, &C. They are anxious for the iucarcera-
tlon TO continue.
Madame Ratazzi, the satirieal blue wife Of
the Italian ex-minister, has presented her lord
with little daughter, who is to be christened
tsRoma Isabella Alexandria Italia Maria Letitia
Alice The physicians attending are in hopes
that the little baby will weather 1t safely
through, Notwithstanding her impending poly
nomical fate.
in the rear Oh house in Bond street, and
at two points on Madison avenue, ground Is
being broken for the New York Central Un-
dersround Railway. The agent in Europe has
been successful in selling bonds Of the road.
1t will cost about one-tenrh OF that calculated
for the viaduct railway, that is s5,500,0OO, and
be finished in two years to Forty-second
street. -
Certain noblemen and wealthy persons in
England says London journal, have receiv-
ed the following letter from some one signing
himself Delegate of the Paris Commune: :
ssMy Lord-By order Of the Committee OF
Public Safety, have come from Paris to sell
the pictures OF the Louvre at once, and for
cash only. Should your iordship like to buy
any of them. your grace would do well 10
grant ME an interview. This note is strictly
confidential, and rely on your lordships
honor to keep my mission secret
AT Ludwgshafen, through which the en-
tire third army OF Germany must pass on its
homeward route, and where the soldiers are
to .:refresh" themselves, Including the recep
tion of "square meal" the government has
constructed kitchen and dlning-room on an
unusually large scale, the whole costing 5000
thalers. A l5-horse power steam engine is
brought into requlsition for the heavier kind
:. of work, and nine huge kettles or boilers are
. constantly filled with the sayory viands, pre-
pairing for the hungry braves. The arrange
menrs are so complete, that 1000 men can be
fed every two hours.
The Emperor William has announced that
henceforth the traditional eagle Of the German
empire Is to be superseded by q sinSle-headed
ea9le, with extended wings, upon the breast
of which will be displayed the Prusslan eagle,
the latter In its turn bearing upon its breast
the eagle of the house Of Hohenzollern. 1t
was formerly grim joke among the Italians
that, In exchanging the rule OF the singie-head-
ed eagle Of the first French empire for the
double-headed eagle Of Austria, they had fallen
prey to bird which ate double the amount
OF Its predecessor. II the rapacity Of symbolic
eagles varies directly as the number OF their
mouths, the triple eagle OF new Germany will
prove voracious bird.
Letters from Monteyideo to April Is, In
the New York Herald, paint terrible picture
OF the rayages Of the plague in Busnos Ayres.
Up to that date the deaths had been fully H.
900, and about 100000 citizens had fled the
infected spot, some to. up-the-r.ver towns,
some to Montevideo, but most to the fields,
where many aristocratic families are glad to
pay enormous rents for the mud walls and
straw roofs Of gaucho huts. A new cemetery,
to receive the iever victims, has been opened
in the campo south of the city, toward the
Riachuela-the old panlheons being in
adequate. tram railroad has also been
laid from the city to this new metropolis.
and the bodies are carried out on the trucks
like 50 much packed freight. There is no
time to construct collins or burial Cases. The
stock on hand was long since exhausted, aud
the undertakers have In some instances hcd
from the terrible harvest of business that has
sprung up. The blame for the terrible vista
tion is clearly traceable to the neglect for two
hundred years oethe painest rules oil health
The city has no drainage. and all tiil h has been
buried In cesspools under the houses, the
mouths Of which are closed when they are full,
and new ones dug. The whole cily is honey
scombed with these plague-breeders, and their