The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-01-01
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MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DIE.


closed on Saturday at Sa9!.
The New York cotton market closed frm
uplands 20 cents; sales 1888 bales.
in Liverpool there was no cotton marke
. In consequence of the holidays.
by the death Of Hackett, the American
stage loses its only representative OF Falstatf
and the English stage, has no actor really capa
bic Of filing the part:
-Messrs. Grant and Cresweu have taker
one step backward in their scheme Of gov
ernment telegraph, or rather their friends Il
the Senate have done this for them, agreeing
to report the Hubbard bill, which provides foI
the hiring instead of the purchase OF existing
lines.
The latest rumors of fraud are connected
with the recent sale of firearms and mum
tions of war to the French. 1t Is now assert
ed that the returns to the war department are
about $4,000, 900 less.than the cash receipts
from the agents Of France. Other revelations
Of frauds are promised. --.
in strasbourg committees have beea Or
ganized to raise subscriptions to help to pay
the indemnity which France owes to Germany
The Alsacians are now within the boundaries
of Germany. This act Is dand touching
proof Of their yearning for the people OF the
nation to whichthey recently belonged. 1t IL
one of the most remarkable Of recent events
Russia may mean peace; but If 50, why
issue the imperial ukase just published, which
fixes the military contingent to be raised by
conscription in 1872 at six for every thousand
males? The peace contingent has hitherto
ranged from two 10 four per thousand. The
levy. now proclaimed will be equivalent to the
raising of from 100, 900 to 100000 recruits, be-
tween the ages of eighteen and forty.
The desperate ilmetse and the remarkable
recovery of the Prince of Wales seem likely TO
furnish new chapter in medical as well as
political history. The treatment Of typhoid In
old times was by depletion; in more recent
times 1t has been by. alcoholic stimulation. In
the present case this was discarded, and tonics
given; instead. 1t is;qpite possible that the
success OF the new treatment may give rise to
researches which viii end in the disuse Of
alcoholic stimulants in casesof disease where
theexhaustion Is SO prolonged as in this.
The late Jacob Barker, whose d-a'h, IN
Philadelphia, has recently been announced,
was one oflhe m ost remarkable men ofhis time
It ia stated that at the age of twenty.one, IN
New York, he was owner OF four ships and
brig, and stood high In business. He started
penniless. Another Instance Of extraordinary
success at an Early age Is that Of Mr.. Newcom-
or, Of Baltimore. Before he had attained his
majority he ls said to have acquired control. OF
tha baltimore -four market. His career In
life has been remarkable. Although not an
old man, he Is one OF the most wealthy and
influential men in Baltimore.
The cumulative system of voting isrecom-
mended in the new charter proposed for The
City OF New York blythe committee OF seven
ty. to be adopted in the electior of iorty-sve
aldermen-nine from each of the present State
senatorial dlssricts.. The voter in any Of these
districts can cumulate his votes on any one
candidate, or divide them between two or
three, or as many other candidates as ne
pleases, so slong as ke casts but nine votes.
Under this plan q minority OF Republicans can
concentrate their votes on one OF two Repub-
-licans5 and elect them, or even three or four
where the Democratic majority Is not very
large. Inthe same way Democrats can secure
representation In Republican district.
The revival Of the plan for adopting the
British system of one cent postal cards has
already produced q number OF inventions
which aim to combine the small sizs Of the
card in use in England with, means OF COL
ceallng the writing, and thus obViating the
objection urged against the system on the
ground fthe publicity given to correspond
ence. The English postal card is about four
inches long and. three broad. the letter being
written on one side and the address upoa the
other. The system, it is claimed, has been a
marked success pecuniarily, having added
largely to, the postal revenues ofGreat Britain;
but much trouble has been occasioned by
the cards being used as means Of libel, and by
injury having been done, sometimes purpose
ly and sometimes innocently, by senders OF
the cards, to the character and business OF
recipients. American inventors now pro-
mise to take away this objection, so that there
shall be nothing to urge against the cards,
their success as financial experiment having
already been proved in England.
The Rev. Robert, Jefferson Breckinridge,
ID. LID died last Wednesday at Dsn7ille,
Kentucky, after a long illness. He was born
at Cabell's Dale, Kentucky, March 8, 1900.
After studying successIvely at Princeton, Yale
and Union Colleges, he took hisdegree in 1919.
He then entered upon the profession OF tie
law, but subsequently became clergyman in
the Presbyterian Church. In 1882 ne was or
dained pastor ofthe First Presbyterian Church
in Baltimore, where he remained for thirteen
years. In 1854 he was elected president Of
Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, but after Two
years accepted the pastorate Of the First Pres
byterian Church in Lexington, Kentucky, and
became superintendent of public, instruction
for the State. Ip ls53she was elected profes-
sor Of theology in the then recently.esrab.ish-
ed seminary at Danville, Kentucky. DR..
Breckinridge was active in most of the re-
ngious, moral and philanthropic movements
of his time, and In the discussions incident TO
the division in the Presbyterian Church was
eminently conservative and temperate. he
was the founder of the common-school system
OF. Kentucky. He edited several religious
publications, and wrote book Of travels, be-
sides a great number Of tracts and essays. In
A.. .1.1or,, 5;oonooion ho odvjepd moderation