The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-03-22
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FRIDAY, MARCH %, 1872.
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

NEWS OF TIE DAY:
Gold at New York yesterday closed at s3a
sfc.
: The New York cotton market closed
active; uplands 22sc; sales A8s bales.
AT Liverpool cotton closed quiet; uplands
llall3d; Orleans LII; sales l0, 600 bales.
-Adelina Patti Is coming to America nex1
year.
Mr.. James R. Doolittle and Judge R. B.
Carpenter will canvass Connecticut LOT Tue
Democrats.
FORGED Bank of England notes are report
Cd to be In circulation. They are printed on
,ort,on of the bank paper stolen some years
ago. 4o,,o
"A German correspondent writes to the
Pail Mall Gazette: "The Queens speech con-
ta,ns titulsr mistake. The official title OF the
Emperor william is German Emperor and
not Emperor of Germany as he Is styled IN
the speech"
Three hundred thousand shares OF Erie
Railway stock were sold on the New Yofk
Stock Exchange last Saturday. The entire
number Of shares Issued is about eight nun
dred and sixty thousand, so that this days
sales are more than one-third OF tne enure
capital. Z iii :.
The more shrewd and crafty Of the Grant
Republicans are studying how they may cap
rure the Cincinnati Convention, on the 6tn OF
June, and turn it over to Philadelphia and
General Grant at later day N the month
The tslittle gamen is to defeat a nomination,
and resolve the meeting into words, re
FORM resolutions, 30. IA -
"A New York telegram of Wednesday Gays:
"General Sickles stated to-day that he had
negotiated loan of 50, ,OOO, 900 at five per cent
for the new Erie board, upon securities rating
as high as seventy. The new loan can be
readily paid of with: the earnings IN veT
short time, and Itself is only needed to tide the
company over the rough places LETT BY hve
years Of Jay Could" - ".''
"A Washington telegram to the. Boston
Globe says: "a gentleman just arrived ffom
Columbia, s. c., Gays Congressional Represen'
tative Elliott, who has benin Columbia all
winter, assisting Governor Scott to fight of
Impeachment, has made at least $50, 900 clear
cash On account of the assistance rendered.
He has not occupied his congressional seat
single day since Congress convened"
The Ohio Falls Car Works, at Jefferson
Vile, Indiana, were destroyed by fire Wednes-
day afternoon. The works were extensive,
employing about seven hundred men. Six
teen passenger coaches, nearly finished, and
number of freight and other cars were
burned. The loss vii. reach $500, 900. The
insurance is about 100000, mostly In North
ern companies. One man is missing, ano It
isfeared he was burned to death.
San Francisco thinks OF running her
street cars&ith ordinary Illuminating gas as
motive p6wer, which 1t is. claimed is cheaper
thaia horseflesh. At the late Mechanics Fair
in that city gas engine was exniolteo oy MI
Phoebe, and worked satisfactorily. 1t will oc-
cupy but tour feet square, and may be run for
twelve hours at an expense OF not more tnan
three dollars. and one man may act as en-
eineer, conductor and driver. It is claimed
That no noise, smoke or danger Of explosion
will attend It's use.
The Western States are now delioerating
whether the Disagreement of wifes COM
plexion by smallpox ought not to be added
tc the list of legal grounds for divorce. The
question has been brought up by theaction
of several estimable Chicagoans who claim to
be justified in deserting their better-halfs for
this reason; and 1t is plauslbly argued that,
since much less obnoxious conduct on mans
part is daily admitted as good cause for free.
ing his wife from nuptial bonds, she ought
not to be al.owed.to pit herself against him
for life without any chance OF his escaping.
The captain Of steamer from Genoa thus
reports the stormy weather which ragged In
the Atlantic recently: "After leaving Gibral-
tar the vessel met with fine weather. for six
days. after which it encountered continue
ton of gales from west southwest to north
northwest, veering every few hours, and ac-
companied with squalls of terrific force.
During twenty five years. experience at1oat I
never encountered such weather. In the
SQUALLS the water was actually torn up in
sheets and hove III the air. Rain poured In
torrents; the mastheads were enveloped In
clouds; the lightning fairly blinded US, and
the thunder cracked as IT were amongst the
masts, deafening all on board. Never in the
tropic OF near the line have been in such
close proximity to the lightning. This
weather continued more or-less up to the 18th
instant, when it gradually moderated, en-
abling us to make some headway."
The latest effort to determine the exact
spot where once stood the great City Of Troy
the lion of H6mer's Illad-ls being made by
DR.. Heinrich schfiemann, a German savant,
whose name Is familiar for his scientific
travels in Nicaragua. The doctor commenced
his Investigations of the basin of the Seaman
der River In 1871, and selected the site of New
lion, acity built In the sixth or seventh CEN
tury, B. C., on the supposed location of Troy,
but which now no longer exists. The great
disadvantage connected with this most inter-
esting research Is, that nothing absolutely
certain survives to indicate, to begin with,
that Troy, even in the days Of Homer, was
ANYTHING more than fable and tradition.
DR.. Schlemaun, however, steadtastly Uphods
the opinion that city called Troy once existed,
but that It's remains have not yet been dis
covered. If these ruins can be discovered,
ho soys thpy NAV he fonnd onlv on the snot