The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-01-06
Tbe GbafleSto1t Nems,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 6. 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAY.


the Chamber at the beginning ofthe session:
-Rochefort's occupation at Fort Bayard is
that OF writing the history of Napoleon Third.
The title Of the book win ot course be cutting
" ,nsolent:It IL, Id fact, "Hktoire du Bas EN-
n,re. on. les Ayentures de Robert Macaire."
EA4alsg1sm from Londonio the ContlnIen- I
tai ns Der pers SAYS the representatives Of the Eng
1ish Government abroad have received orders
ID report on the character and proceedings OF
the Internsiionals In the countries where they
are accredited.
-2-fn consequence of the attitude OF the ltal-
ian sentinels stationed around the Vatican,
,sho threatened to fire on some persons in at
tendance on the Pope who had placed them
selves at one OF the windows Of the Vatican,
conference has been held between slgnor
:Fenosta, and Cardinal Antonelli. This Incl
dent seems tointerest very much those per-
sons who watch the course of Italian politics
at Rome.
The world uses ESQ, ,OOO, 900 pounds of tea
each year, and rs, 100000 pounds Of coffee.
China furnishes nearly all Of the tea ana Brazil
over one half of the coffee. Over 100000
pounds of Java and $4,000 pounds of Mocha is
produced. The United States consumes near
Nonethird of all the coffee produced IN the
world and the. English are the greatest ter
drinkers out of China. The Germans rank
nsxeto the Americana as coffee drinkers. The
Americans consume about six pounds Of coffee
and one hundred and twenty-five pounds Of
beef per head, counting adults and infants,
each year. This lpoks large, but then the
Yankees never do anything by halves.
2TAe Jewels belonging to the Apollo Gal
lery of the Louvre were concealed during the
Commune In small room, carefully walled
mn. ON the second story of the buildiug erected
by Francois !, over the Sale Henri II and the
Salon des Sept Cleanliness. The work had
been soSkilfully executed that the insurgents,
during their two. months occupation l OF the
palace, must have passed before it q thousand
times without suspecting that this treasure Of
iewelry, eoekscrystal, enamels, &C., estimated
at 5O,oo0,0o0 francs, was 80 near them'' Tne
credit of this success is dup to Count Clement
de RS, conssrvator, and to the employees OF
the museum, who were several times on the
point of being shot for refusing to disclose Inc
place Of cancealment,
The Washington correspondent OF the
Philadelphia Inquirer says that Secretary FISH
la determined that the adminlstration shall
pursue only passive policy, and threatens to
leave the Cabinet If the President allows any
thlpesso The done Whichi may lead 5to war
with Spain. He hay made no arrangements to
remain through the winter, and Is temporari-
" stopping With Secretary Robeson; He has
nsdeseme shqYof trying tege:a house, bnt
has6one, although he could have got several
If he had really desired one. 1t is not unlikely
that affairs will ceme to crisis next week, as
: on the resssembliDg Of Congress 1t Is the IN
tent.on Of General Banks and others to force
the administration TO- take ground inaman
ner that will show Spain that the United
STATES is power not to be longer trlhed with
as it has been for over two years. In that
event Mr.. Fish viii probably re:ire.
1t has never been determined exactly
how many persons perished in the Chicago
FIRE. The estimates have varied from two
hundred to five hundred; but, a Chicago pa
per SAWS, when 1t is remembered that the hot
breath of the confagraiion withered to ashes
great cubes of building stone, and then blew
the ashes out into the lake, it is sadly probable
that many human bodies suffered precisely
the same fate. Over one hundred bodies, or
PORTIONS of bodies, have been recovered.
neatly eli of these have been Identified, and
the work of clearing away the rubbish is yet a
long way from completion. Now, through
the exerilons of the Relief and Aid Society,
the names of q host of others have been pro-
muleated as mis- ing since the fire. Octhese,
1t Is fair to presume that at least three.fourths
must be added to the list Of victims, making
the number in all probability about four hum
dred.
The London Spectator has the following
relative to the famine In Persia: ''Mr. A. j. S.
Adams, travelling In Teheran about Two
months ago, says that in the crowds who
swarm in the barrack square to receive
dole of small silver from the Shah, hundreds,
men and women, are literally stark naked,
worn to the bone and covered with sores. The
people follow the visitor, howiing for bread;
two men lie upon the ground quite dead, and
q third Is laid upon one side Of The bazaar,
covered with dirty piece OF cotton. a naked
woman lies In the agony of death, surrounded
by crowd of beings almost as badly of as
herself. The next form is that of woman,
who scrapes from the ground handful Of
melon seed and filth, which she divides be-
tween her two children. This is one morn.
ing's ride. There is no help for any Of them,
though the Shah has, as Mr.. Murray testihes,
bucketsfnl of Jewels IN the private treasury,
and the famine cannot end until July
The value Of vaccination as D preventive
Of small pox, though questioned by many,
seems attested BY statistics. When smallpox
was raging as an epidemic ia London In 1863,
observations were made by the physicians
upon fifty thousand children belonging to
national and .parochlal schools, warehouses,
&c. Some of the children had never been
Nvaccinsted: the great majority had, in various
ways and degrees. OF every one thousand