The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-06-18
aM Mr. WILLIAM E. SIMMONS, Jr, ID tne
travelling agent for THE NEWS, for soutn
Carolina.
NEWS OF THE DAP.

NEWS OF THE mar
I,s, N,lssen ia TO be married the last week
in July.
The wife and daughter of Horace Greeley
were passengers on the steamer Rhein, which
arrived at New York Friday night from Europe.
-Aheayy rain, densely charged with sui
phur. fell at Saratoga, N. z, Thursday, leaV-
ing the ground covered with a aulphurouS
deposit
The Two Republics, Monitor and Cerreo,
newspapers published in the City OF Mexico,
favor Greeley for President of the United
States.
voorhees,, of Indiana, in private converse
tIon. has declared his Intention to abide the
action of the Baltimore Convention, which
means, of course, that he will support Greeley
after all.
An Engllshman named Charles Henry
Salnsbury Pickwick has been forced to drop
bis Last name in sef.defence, owing 10 tne
comic notoriety given to it by Dickens.
The University of Oxford, England, will
celebrate It's thousanGth anniversary this
wear. Popular tradition assigns King Alfred
Ihe Great as its founder about the middle OF
the ninth century.
The long promised visit of Madamolsele
Teresa Teitjen to this country is announced 6y
the Athensum, a reliable authority, to have at
length been definitely settled. The prima
donna will leave England early In the fall, and
will return early in 1873.
rk t. hot AurInnr tho month. 0f NAV
upwards of twenty-five thousand bufaloes
were killed on the Western plains, south OF
the Kansas PacIfc Railroad, for the sake of
their hides alone, which are worth but two
dollars each.
There has been considerable excitement
in Memphis, Tennessee, recently, over the dis
covery of sixteen human skeletons by some
workmen who were excavating for cellar.
They were found in an old vault, head down.
ward. with dirt thrown In to keep them In that
posltlQQ.ruyrrru,;r1r r1r correspondent Oh Ine
Boston Globe (Grant organ) says: "Repu6li-
can politicians do not seem to quite realize the
danger in which they are placed. The conf.
dence they feel In the reelection Of General
Grant blinds them to the dangers to them that
arise from local disaffection and bad feeling.
The Greeley movement will be strenuously
turned Into this channel, and the probabilities
are that In the States where senatorial elec-
tions depend upon the complexion of the Leg
islatures, there may be some serious changes.
Nineteen or twenty vacancies In the Senate
are to be filed, and if anything like success
fnl coalitions can be formed, the regular Re-
publ1cans may next winter find themselves
counting without their hasb,,' in such trifling
matters as the reelection of prominent sena-
tors. Then there are many Congressional dis
tricts In such condition that the coalition of
Democrats and Liberals may defeat the Re-
publicans. On the whole, the shrewder DEM
ocratlc Congressman leave here better salts.
fed with their party's future than has hereto
fore been the case"
=Ehe st. Louis sengerfest Is great success.
On Thursday night, Notwithstanding very
heavy rain-storm, the hall was densely packed
with the most brilliant audience ever assem-
bled In st. Louis, fully fifteen thousand people
being crowded into the building. Most Of the
aisles had been furnished with chairs, and
nearly all the standing room was occupied.
This turnout indicates great interest In the
Sengerfest, and insures Its success beyond
question. The concert was rendered by fifteen
hundred male singers and an orchestra OF one
hundred and sixty-three musicians. The pro-
gramme embraced the Slnfonia Eroica, by
Beethoven; "Das Vaterland," by Kreutzer;
''Iet the Bright Seraphim," by Handel; Over
ture, by Mendelasohn |; Lledesfreiheit, by
Aarschaer; Shadow Song, from Donorah, by
Meyerbeer !; Roemischer Trlumphgesang, by
Bouch, and the chorus with orchestral accom-.
paniment. The Bright Seraphim and Shadow
Song were given by Mrs. Edmund Dexter, of
Cincinnati, and received rapturous applause.
Both were encored. All the pieces were
grandly rendered and heartily applauded.
The Washington Chronicle contains an
account, Of; what is purpossd to be done under
tho lead of General Ryan, who left on the
steamer Fannie for Cuba The plan of opera
ton is stated to be: ION disembarking, Cen
eral Ryan will first rally the coast guards and
Immediately dispatch fleet courlers to the in
terior Of the island to announce to trusted
Cubans, already aware of the approaching
army of liberation, his arrival, and will, with
all expedition, get together the largest force
he can for the purpose OF protecting the land.
ing Of two expeditions which follow him with
out delay. Three steamers put to sea the
same day, each one having the same destina-
tion, but ths Fannie will reach the rendezvous
some little time in advance Of the others. The
entire force amounts to full twelve hundred
men, and all of them are completely armed
and equipped. General Ryan will remain on
the coast, and expects to have, within forty
eight hours of his landing, at least five thous.
and true Cubans rallied to his standard, and
ready armed, to make fight If neoessaryfar
the protection of the Decentralization of men
from the two other steamers. More expedi-
tions are to follow the one already started
and strong hopes arc entertained that the
great object will be accomplished between