The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-08-21
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 81, 1879.
:'.,;; NEWS OF OF THE DAP. -


secret. -. Nv
M. de Lesseps viii send to the Mosco" eA
hibiiion collection Of geological speclmen'
obtained while digging for the suez ounai'
tos ,ther with s. panoramic view OF tnat srea1' 60
work: =. .gE.-. sll -.
THE boot and shoe manufacturing business
~ st. Iouls. although of only three years
growth. is already quite large. There are now
saven manufacturers. and the total safes oi
manufacturers and dealers amount to aooh1
ss,s25 600 annually. The spring trade showed 'eI
AN increase of twenty per cent. over iasr year.
-rtlsone hundred thousand dollars nave peen
subscribed TO found q homefor lni,rm Eps'css- 'c's
pal ciergymen near New York.
The happy thought of the New YORK
Times In infriating series Of gratultous ex-
cursiops tor the poor Of New York City has
been productive of the most beneficial resnlta'
Already Philadelphia, Newark and other cltles
have begun to follow the good example, acd
thousands have prohted physically, mentally,
and Doubtless morally by the opportunity, 30
rare to them, of breathing pure air and seeing
the country.
- Il a dispatch 10 the London Telegraph, from
awell.lnformed correspondent at Alexandra,
states that an Egyptian army of two thousand
me- men. ~ With reserve of three Thousand more
had advanced into Abyss,nla with view to
conuuerlng the country. The Emperor hassal
was marching against them with superior
force In. point OF numbers. but 1t was believed
that, as the Egyptians were provided with
Remington rifles and mltrailleurs, the Abys-i
isifnians would be defeated and Magdala event.
SSally taken. Some European adventurers are
said TO- accompany the invading force. Al
chance may thus be afforded to the American,
Generals Stone, Loring and Others, who are;
in the Egyptian army, OF again seeing active
service and acquiring military glory. -
a Washington letter says: "In an Inter-
view which occurred on last Friday with the
President, Just before his departure ior Long
Branch, political friend Of very considerable
prominence stated TO him, In the incidental
discussion OF The campaign, that 1t was not
the Executive but members of the Cabinet 10
whom so many Republicans found objections.
The President replied that he mad received
similar in,imations from other quarters, out
that II he was re. elected he intended to re-
model Ills Cabinet with single exception,
and supply their places with the best men OF
his political faith In the country. The answer
Was made that such course would not affect
the present canvass, unless the fact was an'
thoritatlvely known The President did n1t,
.of course, name the Clbinet minister whom
he intended 10 retain II reelected. To some
Cslliornlans who called last Friday he replied
with much indignation tc an intimatlon that it
would add to his popularity to get rid OF his
military secretaries. He declared that 30 long
as he liked them and they discharged their
.dnt,es he did not think 1t was anybody's busl-
ness. They were amenable to him, and 10 no
zone else"
The first vessel of The American Steamship
Company's Philadelphia and Liverpool line
was launched last Thursday In the kensng'
ton River, and witnessed by vast crowd OF
people full of hopeful interest 10 the new en-
-tsrprise OF the city. The river was loaded
with congratulatory craft full of spectators,
and at the appointed hour the monster ship,
three hundred and fifty feet long, and named
the Pennsylvania. moved from her high and
dry position amid greater cheering than
even Presidential candidate could elicit.
She had hardly moved her own length when
the tallcws on the ways, which had melted by
the extreme heat, stopped her; but the tugs
soon took her of, without further marring
the beauty of the launch. She has been built
in accordance with English Lloyd's Register.
Her draft will not exceed twenty feet aud
six inches In fresh water. aud she possesses ac-
commodations for seventy-slx passengers in
the saloon end eight hundred and ffty-four
steerage passengers, besides fitty'one nun
drsda forty-ope bales of cotton, aud every
thing necessary to her working aud the con-
yenience of those on board. The average
contract speed Is eleven and half knots an
hour. The construction, so far as possible, Ia
American.
: The strange spectacle Is now presented In
Canada of IrIshmen banding with Englishmen
apeIpst the French. The outbreak In Quebec
at the recent election was only the expression
of an antagonism which has long existed in
the New Dominion between these classes, and
which now bids fair to result In war OF bitter
cruelty, If not exterminalion, unless outside
parties Interfere The killing of an Irishman
by q Freach Canadian, under revolving
circumstances, has had the effect Of
combining all the Enslish-speakiug ee-
ments against the French, and the
situation is go threatening that il is i'm
nossjble for the United States or indeed
Europe to view it uncoucerned. The cause of
this apparently strange feud Is not difficult to
ascertain. The French Canadians, WHO held
nosse ,s,on of the territory primarily, regard
the English and Irish as interopers, while the
latter are disposed 10 treat the former as the
American colonists treated the Indians. Even
1ap,np aside this ancient prejudice, the two
/ classes refuse to agree on many substantial
points OF government, notably the principle
Of minority representation, which the British
favor and the French oppose. Hence the
elections are apt to be periods OF strife and
bad feeling, but the prospect was never so
critical as at present 1t Ia 10 be hoped mat
settlement may be effected without further
bloodshed.
An exciting spectacle was recently Wit
messed at the Yorkshire Station OF the Metro
polItan Railway, near London, during thun-
der storm. The station Is in a deep cutting,