The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-06-10
~ Mr. WILLIAM E. SIMMONS, Jr., is tne
travelling agent for THE NEWS, for soutn
NEWS OF THE DAY..

and steady at Zb4c. lOr miuulpEs'
In Liverpool cotton closed firm; uplands
ibid, Orleans ll3d.; sales II 600 bales.
Miss Mary Gusts Lee, the daughter OF Inc
lato General Robert E. Lee, left for Europe on
the steamer Leipzig from Baltimore on We'd
day.
The drivers and conductors of the Rich'
moud iVa) City Passenger Railway have
: struck in consequence of an alleged attempt
to reduce their wages.
Tho equal rights party In New York met
ii, Cooper Institute Thursday night, and after
an uproarious session ratified the nomination
OF woodruff and Douglass for. the Presidency
and Vlce:presldency. ,.f-s SO; aya.-.
The surveyors on the line ofSthe Southern
Pacific Railroad establish the fact that the
Colorado desert is three hundred feet below
the sea level. The road will run below the
sea level for fifty miles. -. a.:
The Democratic County Convention OF San
Francisco endorse the Greeley ticket, subject
to the decision of the Baltimore Convention.
The isolano County tCaL) Democratic conven-
ton endorse Greeley without reserve.
The report Of the German Immigrant so
ciety shows that during the past month 1880
German Immigrants we're landed at New
Yerk-an increase of 10, 700 as compared with
the corresponding month OF last year. Total
of arrivals since the lst OF January last, 4s,s5l.
The Philadelphia Press of Friday. shows
how. the !.snewspaper syndicate" defeated Mr..
Colfax: 1t says that Mr.. Coliax snu6oed the
newspaper men, who had done 80 much from
1868 to 1871 to help him, that they entered
upon this warfare to defeat him, If possible,
and that they are entirely satisfied with the
result.
Seven IONS of obscene books are under
seizure in New York In connection with the
arrest OF seven persons fer selling that Kind
ofllterature: The court Is anxious TO try the
cases promptly In order that the obscene
trash NAV be then destroyed. The quicker the
better. It Is cheaper that the State support all
such venders during their natural lives
rather than have them live by the diffusion
OF their pernicious wares among the commu-
nlty.- -t.t4tG
The discip lined organization IN Philadel-'
phia known as 'sThe Grant Men," recently
formed by Colonel James Forney, who, 1t is
stated, is an officer of United States marines,
but at the same time an active politician,
turned out six thousand strong on Thursday
night, with torches. &C., to ratify the nomina-
tlon Of Grant and Wilson. The display must
have been very Imposing, and quite ln keep.
ing with the other military features OF the
convention and the war spirit 1t has evoked.
Irish papers state that the emigration
from that couatry to America this year Will
greatly exceed that of aay preceding year.
Whole districts of fertile country are becom-
Ing depopulated, and although wages have
been laised In some places to nearly equal
the rates In this country, that action seems to
have no effect. The country now contains
only abont half the number Of Inhabitants that
itiid twenty-five years ago. Then the popu-
lation numbered 8, 600, 600, now 1t Is less than
100000.
st. Vincent, Florida, Is aH island of seven
thousand acres, owned aud occupied for the
past: three years by Mr.. Hatch, gentleman of
intelligence and fortune, formerly mayor of
Cincinnati; who chooses to lead here the life
OF hermit, solitary and alone save few ser
vantsand seeing few visitors. Indeed, he is
incensed when his privacy is in.ruded upon
except on Invitation. His island swarms with
deer and cattle-his library Is full of books,
and with these and hunting and fishing he
passes his time taway-the monarch of all he
surveys 'E
Koopmanschap, the Chinese Ia:
Dor broker Of San Francisco, has filed petl-
tion praying to have extended to him The ben
eft of the bankrupt act. He attributes his
failure to the pressing demands Of Chinese Ia
borers and storekeepers' In Alabama. His
liabilities amount to about $260, 200, assets
about $500, 900, consisting of about $780, 900 In
notes given by Cinnamon to him for allow
ances and passage money paid for them, and
which cannot be collected. In addition to
{ this, about $l6o, ,oOoiare by the Alabama and
Chattanooga Railroad Company, secured by
the bonds of the company, but which are un.
salsble at present, the company having
failed.
World Musical Peace Jubilee, at Bos
ton, is sure to be q success 80 far as the
securing of great bands from Europe is con-
cerned. The Grenadier Guards Band, which
was permitted by her Majestys government
to attend the jubilee, sailed on Thursday last
for this country. The great Imperial Band of
Vienna Is also coming. The famous French
Band Of the Garde Repubcaine. from Paris,
arrived In New York Thursday, en- route to
the jubilee at Boston. The band numbers fifty.
vepiecss. and are esteemed one of the best
drilled musical organizations of the gay capt.
tai. Their uniform Is of dark blue coats, trim
med with bullion lace, over scarlet embroidery,
and sky blue pantaloons with dark stripe.
The hat is of Chasseur shape, profusely em.
broidered with gold lace. They we're escorted
by the Gards Lafayette, OF New York, from the
pier to the hotel, and on the road were met by
number of Communists, linked together 10
threes, who. as soon as they saw the band,
struck up the Commune song of defiance. AS
soon as Captain Leary, of the city hall police,
understood the nature of the song, he, with
hisofacers, scattered and drove off the Com.
munists. and placed officers at the hotel to
prevent any of the malcontents from entering.
The fourth biennial festival OF the London
hospl-l for throat diseases was recently held