The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-02-28
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold, at New York closed, yesterday, al
1oial0ac.
The New York cotton market closed
steady; uplands, 22sc.; sales l45O bales.
AT Liverpool there was no business.
Eight thousand dollars worth OF gamonng
apparatus seized by the police was puolicly
burned in Richmond, Va, Saturday.
The observance of Sunday Is 30 strict IN
ENGLAND that all the telegraph offices are
closed, meteorological reports and predictions
are not forwarded on that day, and, as con
sequence. two of the most serious storms o.
last year were not slgnalled to the coast.
The New York Mail, while rejoicing at Mr.
Gilmores success. says: 1--WE ought to rejoice
at this prospect, but we shudder 10 think wha
Gilmore may be undertaking next. Nothing
,ess than an elemental concert, in which he
shall use Niagara Falls for double bass, and
copjure up thunder storms and earthquakes
to take part, will satisfy his ambition after thii
jubilee"
DIR, Il. Schlieman, who has been knocking
In the head the old story of the Trojan war
by investigations carried on upon the assumed
SPOT, made immortal by Homer and virgil
writes to the Allgemeine zeltung that his ex
cavatlons are stopped by the arrival of winter
but that next spring he will certainly be IN
position to demonstrate the exact position Of
Troy, thlrty-ave feet below the present level.
Russian newspapers are boasting OF the
defences of Modlin, (the "new Seoastopol,")
which Ia already assuming formidable proper
lions. They speak Of it as their greatest for.
tress, and as the real masterpiece of the skill
Of their great military engineer, General
Todeben. So zealously are the approaches
to this stronghold guarded, that no outsider Is
allowed to approach the works on any pre-
text whatever.
1t now seems probable that, In one per-
tIcular at least-that of railroad travelling
English obstinacy and prejudice will Yield to
American progress. The London Globe say s
that there is some probability that the nerl-
can railroad car system will be adopted In
England, and that under the new system Eng
lish cars will be fitted up with sleeping apart
ments and perhaps dining saloons.
The Provincial Correspondent, German
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France, in speaking Of the reception of the
French ambassador by the Emperor William,
and OF the German ambassador by n. Thiers !;
.sThe restoration of the former diplomatic In
tercourse between Germany aud France may
be regarded as new proof that the Two gov
ernments cherish, not merely the wish, but
also the hopes of daily strengthening the rela-
tlons between the two great neighboring
States.n
The King of Siam seems to have prodted
BY the visit OF Secretary Ssward:- He Is adopt
ing civilized customs to the extent Of Goals,
collars, neckties, shoes and stockings, and Is
anxious that his people may become educated.
Several of the youth OF the higher classes are
In Singapore, In school, and some have been
sent to Europe. He has his hair cut after Eu-
ropean fashion, and, it Is said, will not allow
his attendants to use betel. He Is intending
to visit Calcutta soon, and great preparations
are making lor this journey.
Intelligence concerning the movements OF
the International Society show that q vast and
general activity prevails among the members
In Fraace. Sections are forming In all parts
OF that country, and agents Of the society are
everywhere in the provinces recruiting adher.
ents. From the efforts made to obtain, not
only in France, but in all countries, exact
statements of the strength in men and money
of the soclety-together with the fact that ils
adherents are classified by categories of age
and cspaclty-the belief has been eHgendered
in Europe that the International Is preparing
either for warfare or formidable strike.
There exists In Belgium society called
the sLibre-Pensee," whose ayowed object Is to
uproot religion from modern society. 1t has
lust published its annual report, and from that
document we learn that the members consider
their cause to be making satisfactory progress.
They say thai the number of civil funerals
that is, funerals without religious rites-Was
last year double that of the year previous; and
of the persons 'civilly" Inferred one half were
women. Civil marriages, too, they cay, are
becoming the rule. The free thinkers declare
that no compromise is any longer possible be-
tween the old ideas and the new; men must
be for the church or against it.
-Krupp, the famous German engineer, has
recently constructed tw elve-inch gun, With
a barrel weighing $500 pounds, and throw
ing 666 pound shot with charge of ia
pounds of prismatic powder. At Berlin, other
heavy guns are in making by order OF the
Garman Government. Thus for use on IRON
clads there are being manufactured twenty
one ton guns, throwing AL pound shot with
q charge OF 70 pounds of powder, the diame-
tar of the barrel being l0,23s inches. For
coast defence there are being manufactured
twenty-seven ton guns, throwing 5l3 pound
shot with charge Of ss pounds Of powder,
the diameter of the barrel being ll.025 inches.
The i'll starred Mrs. Wharton Is not allowed
to rest In peace during The interim between
her TWO trials, but even at this early day The
partisans of the Van Ness family, at Wash
ington aud elsewhere, are beginning to pub
llsh their proposed line of prosecution. Ac-
cording to Washington correspondent, the
testimony upon the Van Ness case Is to be
more startling and definite than in the Ketch-
um tragedy. Van Ness says that he had never
been asked, In all his acquaintance with Mrs..
Wharton, to drink anything until the parlicu-
lar lime when she asked him 10 have some
nlaret. He drank but little, and then stalt.d
tn 90 home, only short distance away, but
was seized with blindness on the way. Crop
ing along like drunken man, he was able
n.o, hi. doorsfpp and pull the bell. AS