The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-10
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAP.

From five to ten Thousand persons day
are belped to health aud cleanliness at the
two public baths In New York, and not
tenth are accommodated who seek to be.
The grand prize of Paris, won by the
English horse Cremorne. also the winner OF
the Derby, was worth more than thirty tnou-
sand dollars.
AT Long Branch, on Tuesday, George
wilkes bet ex.Collcctor Thomas Murphy Ten
thousand dollars that Greeley would beat
Grant Mr.. Murphy admitted that it was not
bis own money. Was it put up by ulysses
himself?
Rev. Peter Cartwright, the famous oeto-
genartan Methodist clergyman, has been ad-
Judged incapable of managing his own affairs
and his son has been appointed conserVator.
california has another new industry. 1t has
inst been found that the opium poppy -four
isnes there to perfection. field of them is
growing near San Jose. They are about hVe
feet high, with seed-bslls the size OF an ordl-
nary teacup.
"A new machine for facilitating business
In large postoff1ces has been Invented IN
Pittsburg. The old system OF cancelllng
postage stamps by hand is superseded by this
new invention. In addition to cancelling the
stamp it prints the name of the postoffice, the
time II leaves the office, and then automati-
cally counts each letter as 1t passes through
the machine. It will do the work OF about
ten clerks without complaining of fatigue.
Il will cancel, stamp and count ten thousand
letters per hour.
According to the new postal code, which
went into effect on the lst Of July, there will
he established throughout the country some
three hundred new money yorder postohices.
With the offices now In operation, this Will
make altogether about three thousand money
offices. This increase will give New York ten
new offices and Boston one. The business OF
the present mopey-order offices amounted
last wear to over forty-two millions dollars,
and, with the extended facilities afforded by
the new offices, the business for this year 1t Is
thought will show a marked Increase. Ar
rangements are now making to operate the
new offices, and by the appointed time all will
be ready.
Those unpleasant folk, the cannibals, are
more numerous than Is generally supposed
The following is an apparently correct calcu-
lation of the human beings now addicted to
anthropophagy: "The Battas, according 70
friedman, may be reckoned at two hundred
thousand souls; the cannibals Of the Niger
Delta at one hundred thousandi the Fans, &c
cording to FleurIet de Langle, at eighty thou
sand; the cave dwellers of the Bassuto c0un-
try-about O tenth Of the whole population
at ten thousand; the Nlam-Niams at about hVe
hundred thousand; the Miranhas and Messay-
as, according to Marley, at two thousand; the
other South African cannibals at one thou
sand; the Australian aborlglnes at fifty thou
sand: the Melanisians, without Including New
Guinea, at one millioA.' II person chooses
to run the risk of being eaten, here Is wide
choice. Most of these people, however, 1t
must be remembered, are not cannbals, ex-
cept in war, when 1t is more ancestral custom
than liking which makes them effectually dis
pose of an enemy by eating him.
"A Baltimore letter says: In answer to an
interrogatory as to the prospects in his State,
Governor Hoffman said: ''New York State
will 20 for Greeley with AN immense majority.
The detection among the Republicans In the
northern counties, where, In 1865, Grant had
large maIorities, is daily increasing. anu will,
If Greeley Is nominated at this convention,
rise to such proportions as to eclipse our
most sanguine expectations" swell, Cover
nor; and how abstt New York City" "New
York City is all right, and will give Greeley as
handsome majority as it is wont to give the
regular Democratic ticket. New combinations
and coalitions are forming that will add to the
strength of the Liberal ticket In New York,
and make the Cincinnati platform and ticket
indeed tower of strength, for Democrats and
Liberal Republicans alike" Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor Moses 8. Beach, whom I subsequently,
called upon, and who is native OF, and be-
longs TO- Northern New York, expressed his
views as to the pohticafor oOk In those coun.
ties substantially the same, and promised
surprise to the Republicans, who still believe
that that section will vote for Grant at the
next election.
The administration is booked tor deter
mination to carry Nerth Carolina at any cost
In the August election, and with such stores
of the peoples money wrung by taxation in its
keeping, there ls little probability Of Its being
niggardly In the use of an agent 80 potent
within Its control. The choice OF head dis
tributor of the corruption fund has been skill
fully made, the Individual who would seize
another's seat in the Senate. by party
construction of the law rather than OBJ
tain it by a fair election being exact
sctly fitted to the work of persuadlng those
who are incapable Of being coerced. The
administration judges sagaciously In refer
ence to the effect of the first gun In the cam
paign, but 1t grsvely errs If it supposes that
an election carried by shamelessly corrupt
agencies, In State situated as North Carolina
has been, is likely to influence the political
tone of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania
or New York. No doubt it intends to make it
appear that the South is for itself instead OF
Greeley, and, with this view, to lavish half a
million Of the peoples money to manufacture
free and independent Southern opinion.
The counsel for Stokes have developed
their 1etence. They claim that Stokes reached
the Grand Central Hotel subsequent to the
arrkal of Fisk there, aud that his presence In
the hotel at that particular moment of Fisk's