The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-02-12
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:, MONDAY, FEBRUARY u, 1872.
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NEWS OF THE DAK.,

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-@.aGold closed on Saturday. at losaloi.
Yin New York cotton was nominal at 2Si
cents ruplands; sales 1902 bales. -.
THE liverpool cotton market opened and
closed firm; uplands llIallsd.; nearly due
Iron Charleston, IL 3D.; sales $4,000 bales. -
Many. marine disasters are apprehenoeo
from therecept severe storm.
t--Thomas Scott is reported to receive $780,
0ooaa year as the sum OF. bis sntsd salaries
from tfs,diferent railroads under has control
1.-The Grand Duke was presented with a SET
oethe; statutes OF Missouri, v hich he reads al
disclosure. They were presented BY State tate
senator.
Mfr. j, G. Bennett, Jr., declines to sue
ceed. Flax. Jr., as colonel Of the New York
Ntc.h Regiment, because it is said TO cost
s5oOoo year to be ia liberal and public.
spirited colonel n .,,lc, .a..i.; all.
MEjahteep years ago, Carl schurz stood on
the floor, Of the. United States Senate, hardly
comprehanding the language spoken around
him. He wrote to his wife, 'sSome day shall
stand here and speak in English" and bis
prediction proved true. -. ~
I,A Transaction In rea estate in New York,
consummatsd the present week, is interest
Ing. me properly sold embraced frontage
of .seYenty-eighf feet on Wall street, by one
hundred and thirteen and a'hsA on: Broad
street:: The price paid was ss46,oOo This IS
eoualfto upwardsOf sl2, ,O0e per font foot and
upwards of one hundred dollars per superficial
foot. Probably there is NO more valuable resi-
estattss in New York than that represented 10
this TRANSACTION. ...v ~ 80 A. -, srp..ie
The New York Tribune. in an interesting
article, shows that commercial fertilizers are
ei1ty,ave yper. cent. higher In this country
than in, Liverpool or Hamburg, aadtthat thB
capse pf.db isnthe tariff, which, untilia year
agoaYtaxed bonedust, ammonia, phosphates,
&C., twenty-per cent, ard which still taxes
sulnhnric scid twenty dollats per ton, 50 this
taIiftax twenty per cent, whenits burden
reaches the people, is;swelled to'a Tag Of sl1i- u
ty-4ve per cent? s.ie.y' -, q: Iri'P" iiiit. .
washington alive with all manner of
discussion concerning the Alabama claims ex-
citement In England. Every one has. his own
particular Views on the subject, but all, from
the.Prdsident down, deride the apprehension
of war. and declare that the United States
Government must stand up firmly to the
shock Of he".impending crisis, If any. such
there be. General Butler, it is said, Is to offer
a resolution. for the repeal of our maritime
reciprocity laws, in, case Great Britain shows q
disposi,ion to withdraw'from the Geneva Con-
ference. HE thinks that England car. never
bedriven into conflict with this country, no
matter what comes cfthis discus sion. Sumner
diferers entirely from The views Of Butler IN
regard to the treaty. .-.ea ~ 81,
Mr.. Octave Pavy, the wealthy and adVen-
turous young Frenchman, who Is going 10 the
North Pole, proposes to do the journey on .
rubber raft. The raft is composed Of four
keeEsbaped cylinders, fastened together on
the decks by wooden s'ats, to which the nec'
essary masts and rigging are attached, 1t is
30 small that it occupies very little room-in
fact, NJ. Pavy carrles his pack In barrel; but
1t will carry about ten thousand pounds OF
freight besides the crew. M.;PaVy Is Inst.
Louis, en- route for the Pacific coast; but and
1QR lu6 OulOu IdCluC 4Oou pA0Sh0h UA'A3 SAS"1 3
will return to New Orleans, and go to San
Francisco by some other route. He will leave
sahFrancisco In the spring, and Will steer for
Petfozayodsk, where he Will take on board
provisions, iurs, dogs and reindeers.. Sailing
through Behring's Straits, NJ. Pavy vii! bear
for the land discovered by Captain Long,
about five hundred miles broad, which he will
cross in sledges drawn BY reindeer aud dogs,
taking bis boat with him., This land lies be-
tween seventy -one and eighty, degrees of lat-
tude, and will be reached, 1t Is expected,
sometime in August. After crossing II, he ex-
poets to find the open Polar Sea described by
navigatofs, on which he will embark and sail
around TO Greenland 'Snd Spitzbergen-f he
can. -. -: 80. ..,.,.s..,..,, -. ~.
zone Of the most remarkable bills ever
submitted to Congress was presented on Fri
day by, Mr.. Pierce, of Mississippi, and laid on
the desks of members. on Saturday. 1t has
excited vast amount of ridicule, and pro-
vides that the government shall appropriate
two hundred millions for the settlement Of The
public lands and the education Of the people;
In fact giving them everything needed 10
keep house and so to farming, except the pro-
verbal mule, which ought to be included with
the forty acres. Out of the proposed fund any
landess citizen who desires'to settle on the
public lands Is to be furnished transportation
thereto, and the following articles: Fifty dol
lars worth CT building material, one plough,
one pickaxe,- one hoe, ONE shyrel. ene axe,
one hatchet, one hundred pounds of assorted
cut nails, four hundred pounds OF flour, hfty
pounds of bacon, ten pounds of coffee, five
pounds Of. tea, one hundred pounds of corn
meal, same Of salt, fifteen bushels of seed
wheat, and five OF corn, four Of seed potatoes,
and one dollars worth ofthssorted garden
seeds. The fund for this appropriation, which
Is Intended, of course, for. tie colored people
4 ofthe South, Is to be derived from an equita-
BILE assessment OF all the propertyof the peo-
pie In the United States; but after a.perlod of
five years ths landowners are to commence to
pay back ten per centum a year on the amount
thus loaned. They are prohibited from using
Intoxicating liquors while accepting these
lands. 81
There is a difficulty In determining the
rewards which grateful royalty wishes to bes
stow upon the physicians who watched By the