The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-09-21
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 81, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DdY.

~ NEWS OF THE DdY.
General Robert E. Lees room at Lexing-
ton; Va, University, is to be kept forever
untouched"
The Iowa Agricultural Society offers a pre-
MUM Of $1,000, to be paid twelve years 1rom
nov. for the best ten acres of planted I'moei
In the State.
Matilda Heron, who sets up a claim 10 Inc
estate of Mr.. Byrne, of San Francisco, unoer
the plea of being his widow, has oeen aen'eu
all allowance from the estate by the courts.
oa-Blsmarck, says a Berlin jenkins, smokes
da,lv nine twenty-cent cigars, and drinks
ahor,t four dollars worth Of beer and wine.
H,s tailor,s bill annually amounts, on an aver
age aTe to $500; and he pays his servants IN Inc
aggregate, about s24OO a year.
The Woman's Tea Company Of New YORK
city has bought a ship and fitted 1t out LOT
trade between New York and China. lt mas
hean named the Madame Demorsst, after the
president OF the company. THIS Is the hrst
time q ship was ever bought and fitted out by
women for commercial purposes.
THE Pail Mall Gazette says that after their
81 sStphla,on from Germany the Jesnlts of the
Rhine provinces will go to Holland and Bel
eium. where they will remain for q time, anu
.hen,eoto.E England and America. Most Of the
Jastas ofsalesia have already set out for Ga
ltclsIiwhere the establishments Of the order
yet exist.
-AgWashington letter says: ''0ficial adj
vices received here lay good foundations for
tronbfe between the United States and Mexl-
co,s Notwithstanding the protest OF THIS
government against the outrages on the Mexi-
ean,border on the life and property of clti-
ssns Of this country, and the appeals to jolnln
somepsoo-operative policy to secure q safer
condition OF affairs on the Rio Grande, the
Mexican. authorities not only are Indifferent
TO the representations Of the government, but
apparently encourage these offensive opera
tieas-The Mexlcans have also broken faith
on che, joIus claims commission, which has
been In session here, and 1t 10 probable That
aI2cthe work thus far accomplished WILL
smnuut tn .ua,hino y ..
"A New York letter Gays: prominent
members, OF the Cuban Junta In this city are
Quite sanguine as to the proposals they nave
onaned in London for a s2O,OOo,OOo loan.
Theysay they can satisfy the great capitalists
thsre that, with funds to that amount In hand,
they candrive the Spaniards out before next
spring, even II King Amadeus succeeds In
floating bis loan of one hundred millions.
what ths Cubans most tear Is that the British
Government will step In and forbid subscrip-
lions In aid Of q rebellion against q power
With which It has treaties. In any event, they
talk as II the final fate of the present struggle
must be- decided In the European money mar
kets, II Spain gets her $l0O, 0O0,O 600 and Cuba
has to 60 away empty, the game will be up;
but. should the conditions be reversed, they
SAY. Cuban bonds will soon be selling at par"
The Congress oil Peru hos decreed the alb
clifton Of the death penalty, and fifteen years.
imprisonment is to be the maximum OF all pun
ishnents, in that republic. In Colombia, the
maximum punishment, according to the Con-
stitution, Is ten years, and an article In the
code provides that q convict shall have the
third part ofhis sentence taken ofif he shows
signs of repentance, which, Of course, 1t Is not
very difficult for q convict to do. But the
Legislature Of Colombia has still; further re-
duced- the maximum penalty by decreeing
that all punishments enumerated In the penal
laws shall be diminished one third. SO that
Tor the most horrid arson or murder a crlml-
hal can be sentenced to no more than six years
AND four months In the p%enltentiary, and II he
te1pSes1ats;; his term must be diminished to four
yeats;ana eighty days. This certainly seems
toI,be, carrying mercy a good deal beyond JUS
tiHs.anG security.
aLThe removal of the remains of the Con.
tsderate dead from the Antietam battlefield to
Hi Cemetery, near Hagerstown, is now
Ia, IpfpgsIess.. The Mall says: ION Tuesday of
last week the dislnterment of the dead from
the battlefield of Antietam commenced. On
the eastern or upper side of the lot Is located q
circle; In which, for the present, a mound will
be RAISED, which, in due time, we hope to see
capped with a becoming shaft, To the Memory
OF the unknown and the Recognized Southern
Desd.IslIn q. semkclrcle around this mound,
andio the gently sloping hillside, with their
teet toward the common centre, are the
slightly curving sections containing the re-
mains OF those Southern soldiers who fell on
surrounding battle-felds. Between these Sec
tons are walks, avenues and a serpentine
drive, which, when completed, will be every
thing desirable. On Tuesday of this week
there were received one hundred and forty
TWO dead bodies from the field of Antietam,
making the aggregate mp to this time amount
to three, hundred and iorty-seven. Among
those received were two officers, whose names
are preserved: Colonel Strong, ofNew Orleans,
and Captain j. c. Whateiy, (actlng colonel at
the ;time OF his death,j Company B, Tenth
regiment, Alabama volunteers, Wllcox's brig
AIDE. Anderson's division. There are scattered
graves of Confederates In different parts OF oa'
valley, among whom are some officers whose
names are preserved"
There lisa charge OF murder pending II
the London courts against a man for permit
ting himself to be shot. The circumstances o
the, case are extraordinary In all respects
Too younr German gentlemen Of respectable