The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-04-22
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SATURDAY, APRIL %, 1871,
NEWS OF II DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
AGold closed in New York yesterday at lit
III.
Cotton closed quiet, with sales of a7-5
b ales at Ia cents.
I'm Liverpool cotton closed dull and de-
n ressed: uplands Tad; sales 10, 900 bales.
Mile. Nilsson has invested Sl30,Wo IN real
estate In Otis and Arch streets, Boston.
One of the insurgent leaders in Paris is
Emile Blanchette, a well kRown barber OF the
Latin Quarter, and two other leaders were
once, pastry cooks at the Rotel'ds Bristol.
.Fhebigh, low and broad church parties
of E~neland'are cleverly designated Attitude
nsrians,n Observation-Disclosures" and "hatieratna-
rians."
The last scientific sounding experiments
/ n the Atlantic show an upper stratum Of warm
water, 700 to 800 fathons deep, moving nerth-
ward, and the entire deeper stratum below, OF
almost. 10y GOODNESS, moving southwark from
{ he Arctic basin.,
"A Washington telegram, of Wednesday,
says The joint committee of twenty-one to
visit the South and investigate the alleged ku-
Klux are selecting their clerks, &c. and will
probably be ready to start out on their expedi-
t ion in May.
New Orleans wants no more requests
from well-meanlDg. milionaires. John NC
D~onough's large bequest has gone into the
pockets of the lawyers; the most of that be
uueathed by John D. Fisk was stolen By some
body else, and the Gipod bequest of $780, 900
has dwindled to $50 600, and is still. dwindling.
The known weight of our globe is FIVE End
a half times as great as if it were wholly COM
posed Of water. AS the density Of Its rock
crust is but half as great as this. modern
philosophers infer, so says Professor David
Forbes in mature, . that the immense molten
mass Of the interior Is principally metallic.
An Austrian journalist, who has been
taken into the confidence of the Empress Au.
gusta of Germany, states that while the war
lasted the Empress did not sleep more than
four hours q day But, doubtless, her Majesty
slept soundly enough at night, although 1.-The
| journalist does not mention this interesting
fact.
1T must be a curious spectacle to the Prus-
sian soldiers who are still at Enghien, only
about fifteen miles as a bird files from Yer
sailes, to witness the ca%rryings-on Of the
French armies now opposed to each other An
that quarter, and the report OF whose field
pieces reaches tIelr ears at intervals "a they
lie awake in the pauses Of the night listening
t O them. -, III
Queen Maria, the wife of the King Of
Spain, has not yet been able to overcome the
8 strong Spanish preiudicies of King Amadeus's
new snsjects. The grandes danes of Madrid
show her no respect BY ignoring her existence.
While see is Queen Of Spain by an accident,
not being a Spanlsrd she is necessarily not
he social equal Of the ladies of Madrid, say
t hese nigh born danes of the Spanish Capital.
The arrival of over one hundred French
/ soldiers at New York, Tuesday, looks like the
beginning OF movement towards French i'm
migration, which; 1t Is to be hoped, will be
well carried ont. The unsettled condition OF
France, and the poverty inevitable after a
disastrous war, are cogent reasons why
FreRehmen should seek a home in the New
World, particularly In the Southern States.
i. sEThs Istahas census tee6rs sho& 5taat
Florida has had the largest percentage ofin-
crease Ia population Of any State in the Union,
except Missouri, the increase in Florida being
fifty per cent and In Missouri ffty-fve per
cent. In the increase In the establishment Of
productive industries Florida stands at the
head Of the list, her increase being 262 per
cent, while that of Missouri Is only 242 per
cent.
-~Theophile Gautier, the renowned literary
animal ~fancler, had at the beginning OF the
siege Of Paris 100 cats, and at the capitulatiol
discovered that his feliae stock had been re-
duced to nine, owiRg to the rowing habits
which made them a. prey to the population.
Even Of the nine, four had their tails shot
away. lGautier Is sorely troubled over bis loss
es, as his love Of cats, he says, passes the love
Of woman.
e-Aease is now before the New York city
COURTS which may be considered without pre-
oedent tor sIngularltJ. 1t Is q suit to recovert the
little bill of sl395 II incurred at the burial Of
a lady of means. The undertaken is pushing
his claim and the executor is resisting Ii. The
plaintiff alleges that the deceased lady srder-
ed the expenditure, which he admits to have
been extraordinary, and as she was worth a
quarter of g million, he obeyed orders.
During the days Of the second Empire cor
respondents had much to say concerning the
splendid toilet of The wife Of the Prince de
Metternich, the Austrian Ambassador to
France. The Princess essayed to rival if not
excel the e1-Empress Eugene in point of
dress, and the consequence Is that her hus-
band has been very nearly impoverished by
her extravagances He has sold his five Johan.
nisberg estates to liquidate debts OF her con-
tracing with Worth, the man-milltner, aud
other dressmakers, during her residence IN
Paris.
"A Paris letter describes the erection ola