The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-04
Tbe Gbaflestnat Aems,
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1872.
~ Mr.. WILLIAM E. SIMMONS, Jr., is the
travelling agent for The NEWS, fer South
Carolina
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

Gold at New York yesterday closed dull al
ssalo. .,o.o, o..,.
The New York cotton market closed easy;
uplsnds PSI; Gales 2S70 bales.
AT Liverpool cotton was strong; upianas
1lad, Orleans llsallid; sales 10000 bales.
President Grant was in New York yester-
day. Was he looking for Greeley?
Cats are to be taxed In Paris at the rate OF
one dollar and twenty-five cents each per an
mum.
The old-lashioned style Of necklaces worn
by our grandmothers, of several rows OF
small gold beads, are all the rage at present
Pointed and scalloped founces are the
latest style OF trimming dresses, and make
the ladies look like small perambulating
awnings.
LII is limited very plainly In the report OF
the investigating committee that other New
York savings banks, besides those which have
failed, are In shaky condition.
Washington dispatches announce that the
two Massachusetts senators have parted fra
ternally as we'll as politically. Mr.. Wilson No
longer speaks to Mr.. Sumner.
"A new style of watch is in the shape of
baetle. ,hickly incrusted with precious stones.
One side of the wing opens with spring and
dlscloses watch dial, and the other Side mas
a small place for miniature.
The public Will be delighted to learn that
bologna sausage, which now Is subject to
duty Of thirty per cent, is to be admitted free
of duty, If the tariff bill passed by the Senate
becomes law.
The postal card has come 30 extensively
into use in England that the government has
determined that itmust make charge for the
paper consumed in their manufacture; 80 as to
leave the postal rate as clear revenue to The
department. 1t will charge an additional
halt-penny per dozen TO cover this cost OF
paper, and this Insignificant impost at the
present rate of consumption will yield flS,oOO
per annum.
Our German fellow-citizens, who think 30
highly of the 'sbier" of the fatherland, may be
surprised to read the following statement from
the celebrated chemist, Baron Won Lieblg.
In letter, printed day or TWO ago, he said:
SIT is popularity of the Americans that they
make everything better than we do. l am
convinced that American beer will, In time. be
better than German. With us everything
remains as 1t was. The worst beer brewers
are in Bavaria, though it was earliest the best
And why? Look Into our brewery system"
Saws the New York Commercial AdVer-
tIser of Tuesday: '.The man who drank pint
of Chicago benzine and died, all for love OF
Christine Nilsson, Is doubtless happier man
to-day than poor Busch, her German worship
per. whe stood last night, pierced through with
Cupid's darts, in-the lobby of the Academy,
and heard the audience utter Its tremendous
adieux to the too fascinating author of bis
wretchedness. Perhaps 1t is well che Is going.
The provocations to lunacy in this country are
sufficiently abundant. There is no need OF In
yiting contributions from abroad"
"A Washington dispa' ch OF Monday says:
1.-THE reply OF Earl Granville 10 the note of this
government on the question of the submission
of the claim of the United States for conse-
quential damages to the Geneva Conference,
was received by the Secretary of State to-day,
and read by him this evening. It will proba'
bly be read to the Cabinet tomorrow, though
an answer to the same cannot be ready for
many days. This second message, as has been
stated. is quite an elaborate document, and In
the main is understood to be In the nature OF
reply to the positions maintained by the sec
retary on the direct question as to whether the
treaty covered the submission of the claim for
indirect damages. 1t does not, 1t Is believed,
absolutely refuse to agree to an arbitration on
this issue, but the Impression Is left very
strong. BY indireciion, that without further
negotiation, England will not 20 before The
Geneva board on the case as made up by the
United States. It Is not impossible that this
negotiation may be at once entered upon"
A debate recently occurred In the Relchs-
tag which Illustrates In striking manner the
oddities which mark the social and political
condition of Germany. The constitution of
the Empire provides that all States composing
1t shall have reprepresentatlve governments.
The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg has, how.
ever, nothing but feudal government of tbe
most aptiauated type. 1t has House OF
Lords which simply looks after the privileges
of the members. The Grand Duke sometimes
has ministry, sometimes not-but takes the
whole revenues for his private civil list,
and publishes no accounts. The lakes are
voted by "Landtag," composed Of
..Knights" holding landed estates, and
of the burgomasters of the cities, who
meet on horseback in the open air, like
the old Polish Diet, and race about in an
enclosure, talking promiscuously, without
rules or forms, and they arrange the public
burdens, it need hardly be said, so that they
shall not fall heavily on themselves. Under
this state of things the population is rapidly
declining under the influence of emigration,
and what remains OF 1t demands reform. The
Reichstag has granted their request, after a
stormy debate, in which old Bebel, the social
ist, who thinks women will probably have 10
be bastinadoed in the good time coming, voted
with the conservatives, on the general ground
that the empire was Itself humbug, "a mere
flg-leaf to cover naked Cesarism." Indeed,
-re thought all constitutions were sham. He
was so obstreperous that the House finally In
structed the speaker to silence him.
AS might have been expected, the sud-
den collapse OF the Tichborne case, entailing
as it did wlde:pread pecuniaIy loss, was not
borne with equaniallyby all the losers. One,