The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-02-06
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY s, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAK.
GAIA c,osed yesterday at losalo4.

Gold closed yesterday at lotalo4.
I'm New York cotton closed quiet anu
yeak;uplands 23i cents; sales 2l5o bales.
The Liverpool cotton market closed
strong; uplands 114a1lsd, Orleans lltallSai
sales 10000 bales.
The Grand Duke Alexis and suite, accom-
nan,ed by number of ladies and gentlemen,
spent four hours enjoying the underground
scei,es and wonders of the Mammoth Cave IN
Kentucky, Thursday, and then started Tor
Memphis.
General Henningsen, well known In former
years as a military coadjutor of Mazzint, Kos
suth, and other European; Republicans, and
afterward as flibuster leader In Cuba and
Central America, and as the author Of several
works,ls engaged on a History OF Filious-
terism. ai55.'' - : .
-rtWas proposed a few days ago, in New
York. that q statue ofHorace Greeley be pur-
chased and placed in Printing House Square,
similar to the one recently erected in heoor Of
BENJAMIN Franklin !on; that spot. The sub
scripttons have already reached $1,000, but
$4,000 is wanted. - ~ -
= Mario, the famous tenor, now nearly sixty
years old, was married lately In London ae
the Catholic Church, in Marylebone, to Lady
Harriet Beaufort, member Of an arlstocrat1c
English family. The new. Marchloness of Can
dia ts only twenty-five, years old. Mario Will
take; no. his residence. in Paris, His two
daughters-Who might be taken for their STEP
mother,s sisters-willreside with him. 80
MMr. Greeley says he idoRt want statue
while he lives, and edds, "after he is dead
an event which he does nst care to hasten,
even for the sake of. asstatue-f7 any should
see at to pile granite or marble above his dust,
he can make no objection; but, 30 long as he
shall remain In the flesh, he is content with
the stones thrown at him promlscuously, and
would rather not haveany Of them 0nsoli-
dated into a statue" q NH
Tile British Government has formally an
nounced the occupation Of the South African
diamond fields on the 18th Of last November.
There is now no doubt of this action BY the
British anthorities-hitherto rumored only.
The change Is said to have been highly ao'
ceptable to the colonists among the diamond
seekers, but the Dutch Of the TransVaa he
panohlic Indignantly protested against this ad-
ditional evidence of British greed ana disre
gard of the rights of others. r
At an alleged Interview, recently held at
Chiselhurst, between the ex-Emperor Napo-
leon and q a.s.oonsldsrable parsonage" strong.
supoorter Of the Empire, Louis Napoleon, al
ter SAYING that If the French people would ac-
cent the Due dAumale as President he would
give him his support, as he himself did not
hope for restoration, is reported to have
uttered these remarkable words: "But re-
member well what 1 am about to say to You.
If within six months the Duo d'Aumale be not
President of the Republic, and If he should
not re-establish the regime Of 1852, France
VIII come to fetch me, and-she will flnd me-"
Ii this means anything, it means that Napo.
leon hopes to disgust France with Thiers,
whom he cordially hates, and In bringing on
condition of chaos, to avail himself OF the con-
sequent confusion Of public affairs to step In
and re.establish himself.
The great powder explosion which took
place on the 18th ult., at the Greenwich
marshes, near London, occurred in q cartridge
factory where tuvre were several hundred
cases OF ball cartridges. While the foreman
and about thirty young women, from sixteen
to twenty years Of age, were employed in
breaking UP the cartridges, without a mo-
ment's warr;us terrific explosion occurred,
with tremendous crash that was heard for
several miles round. The. unfortunate girls,
many of whom were Instantly In flames, rush
ed screaming from the building. The less in
iured ran home across the marshes and tidal
bitches; while others, more seriously scorch-
ed, threw themselves, or were thrown, down
and rolled In the mud, In order to extlDgulsh
the flames. The rosf Of the building was
blown away by the first conclusion, and por-
ton Of the walls, which measured sixty-nlne;
feetin one direction by twenty in another, was
knocked down.
IA peculiarly has been discovered In the
immense raft which obstructs the Red River
for many miles. Unlike most RATS 1t moves
up The river instead of down, the motion being
attte rate of about two miles in year. The
explanation of this retrograde movement is
that the logs OF the lower end of the raft are
continually broken away and carried off BY
the floods and Hreshets, while the other end
is constantly receiving additions. Thus the
raff, always falling away at one end and grow
Ing at the other, gradually moves up the river,
and 1t is calculated that 1t has moved since Its
forming about four hundred miles. In 1888,
when the raft was one hundred aud twenty
four miles long, the work Of removing it was
commenced by the government, but afer
working at it for twenty-five years the at
tempt was abandoned as impracticable, and
was confined to opening some of the lateral
channels, so as to facilitate navigation.
The line of defence to be adopted for
Stokes, who killed James Fisk, Jr., seems 10
be that the fatal shot was Inflicted not by
Stokes, but by Fisk himself in an endeavor TO
draw his pistol from his pocket upon meeting
with Stokes on the stairway orthe Grand Gen.
tral Hotel. In support of this proposition, 1t
Is alleged by Stokess counsel that it is clear
that two pistols were used, from the fact that
two bullets OF different size were found-one
]n the body of Fisk, and the other on the floor.
One OF these bullets fitted the pistol found
. und.r the sofa In the parlor, and The other did
not. This case Is strengthened by remark
alleged to have been made by Fisk when he
was first visited by the coroner while lying
wounded In the hosel. To question
-. ..a oe4o,oi a.utato von armed 30 Fisk