The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-01-31
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 81, 1872.
, NEWS OF THE DAP.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 81, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAH
Gold at New York yesterday closed al
sfae2. .,o,,s
THE New York cotton market e!oseo
strong; upands 22sc; sales s2os bales.
At Liverpool cotton closed strong; up:
lands lo5d; sales 70 600 bales. Shipping al
Charleston or Savannah llid.: Yarns and
fabrics flrmer. with better prices.
D.-Benrt Rochefort Is writing "Life O,
Louis Napoleon"
The Prince of Wales was out Of doors
on Thursday, and walked about q quarter VI
mile. No,o
"a single hair from the head Of Louis Napo-
lam ia said to have been sold recently at q
fair In London for one hundred dollars.
1o!sAn order hasbeen received at The Water
town arsenal, Massachusetts, to forward sew
Sral flfteen-inoh guns 10 Fort Jefferson,
Florida. -, .,.c
:I.:It is painful to learn from Hindoo as
trononer that during the present year biaz-
ing msteon will. pass: by the earth, ana IN tue
shorb space .of twenty -four: minutes destroy all
vegetation and kill millions Of people.ai = 80
The rgtand, jury system fis receiving
thtrouph investigation In several of the States!
California and Nevada sgllate abolishipg IL
altogether, while Ohio and several % other
States afs ife'e eeGndeavoring TO amend the system
The Emperor Of Russia has again Issued
another peremptogy order for the teaching OF
the Russian language in oil schools ana eau:
cutatIonal establishments Of the Kingdom OF
Poland. q: -.
The National LABOR Reform Convention at
Columbus; Ohio, February %. is to be an I'M
mense; affair. Not less than twenty-five hun
dred delegates will participate, and,i SO lar,
there ia mo one save Mr.. Julian prominently
mentioned for the candidacy. =: an. i"t
.5,LIsl 1s facsInos generally known thatWo-
mel, holding property III their own right have
the privilege, in Kentucky, Of voting on ques-
tions Of special taxation; and widows VINO are
taxed for school purposes havs the power Oh
Voting for school directors. They may vote
either in. person or by proxy, and they usually
prefer the latter course; but at an election IN
DAYTON, Kentucky, last week, to decide upon
increasing the Indebtedness of the town for
.some local Improvement, number OF Them
appeared at the polls and voted publicly. ;,
There are some inconyeniences IN peine
elected on s.Reform" ticket, as General slgei,
the new registrar of New York, Is beginning
TO appreciate. The salary of the Office mas
heretofore been worth to the fortunate holder
something ike eighty thousand dollars per
year. General sigel is now asked by the ven
cradle. Peter Cooper, president Of the Citizens
Association, to get "a brilliant example Oh re-
firm himself by reducing the fees Of bis ONCE
40 that his salary will come within reasonable
lImi,sGsay ten thousand dollars per year.
Sigel can't 1t.
Last weeks Imports Of dry goods al new
York, at their gold cost, amounted to $780,
ass, Being the largest weekly total ever given
IN the history of this trade. The long Hpassa-
pes of several steamers, bringing number ol
tarroes together, is one reason OF the enor-
mons bulk: The largest. previous week, and
that solitary instance OF an excess OF nVe
millions. was the third week in August OF last
year. when the total was s5.2s5, lao. To this
totaimsy be added s4,2ls,s ,sss FOL, general mer-
ohandiSe; which gives an aggregate OF ss,soA,-
453 at that port. =:ti'
The Levant Herald suggests that the Pope
should be Invited by the Sultan to take up MS
residence Constantinople. 1T says: I'm
Constantlnople began the reign OF Imperial
Cbristianity. 0 Gonstantinople vas the chief
seat of Eastern Christianity as Rome was that
of Western Christianity For time Con-
stantinople, Alexandria aud the other cities OF
The East played higher part in the strlfes OF
christianity than Rome and the cities OF the
West. With Constantinople is linked the his
tory of St. Athanaslus, st. Chrysostom' the
deeds of Iconocasts and the most eventful
years of the Eastern Church."
1t appears that the City OF KnoxViue'
Tenn. ia bullt over an immense cave. Recent
lv. In digging cisterns at the hotels, the 'bot,
tom fell out,n and what were intended for els
terms made excellent sewers. Similar reslllts
followed excavations on other premises. Inc
other day public cistern, designed 10 noio
three thousand FIVE hundred barrels Of water,
had been completed, and seven feet OF wafer
pumped In. Within FIVE minutes s'ter lne
depth of the water had been mea.ul ii, It mad
all disappeared. Further investigation showed
hat p,rt of the bottom had fallen In, and the
water run off somewhere in the interior OF the
earth.
.-Captain sias Bent, who has good name
as physical geographer, has been explaining
that 10 reduce northern Europe to affozen vii
.derness, we have only to make big enough
cu,tins in the Islhmls of Panama to SEND ta'
surplus equatorial current Of the Atlantic int'
the Pacific, instead of having 1t diverted, a!
now. to the shores of Europe. England ant
Germany and northern Europe would be re
duced to their natural cllmate-leVel-that O
Labrador. The northern shores of Europe ars
warmed by the Gulf stream, which has Ills OIL
.gin in the westward equatorial currents "nicl
-are detected by the shores OF the Gulf aud sem
TO the norlheaslward. Take away the barrier
of the Isthmue, aud the warm water would &C
straight through to Asia.
"A case of murder, which promises 20 De
come a cause cels0re, and which Is as mysle
rious in its surroundings as the Nathan TRACE
ay, is agilaling the citizens of Brooklyn, Ne"
York. The victim in The case was profess1l
of music, we'll known in that city, q Mr.. Johr
u ponormo an Enplishman some thirty-dye