The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-11
NEWS OF THE DAK.

Cold closed yesterday at 104alOs.
Upland cotton closed easy at 233 cents II
New York yesterday.
In Liverpool lltall4d was the prevailing
rate for upland cotton at the close.
AT Nassau, N. P, the fish are sold In tn
market while still alive, being kept, IN tubs o
water. A single blow upon the head OF TN
fish closes the bargain, and the purchaser il
sure of the freshness of the article.
Its soberly related that a firm In England
which puts up prepared meats for the New
Zealand trade, makes q large and regular por
ton of It's Invoices to consist Of cans labelled
scanned missionary" and that they 60 OF Will
the natives like hot cakes.
-Mazzin's body is to be subjected. to
ehastlg process of petrifaction by one Gazzini
of Genoa, 80 that it will never change through
any vIcissitude. The professors OF this art
SAYS q letter, have brought 1t to perfection Al
last. They can render the body like stone, Oh
by Immersion in certain liquids the subject
seems to be only asleep, and the, life-like ap'
pearance Is retained.
The Tichborne claimant, In bis public ap-
pealfor aid, says: 'That I nm Roger Charles
Doughty Tichborne I solemly declare, and
which fact I have already proved by eighty
six witnesses, and will prove again by more
than TIVE hundred, II necessary; and that /
am not Arthur Orion I Will prove beyond the,
shadow OF q, doubt by witnesses who knew
both orion and myself. As to the tattoo.marks,
atlesst twenty-four dislnterested witnesses Will
prove. that I, Roger %Tichborne, was never
tsttooed, but that Arthur Orion was there
viii be conclusive evidence forthcoming"
The cable reports the partial destruction,
BY earthquake, recently, Of the ancient City Of
Antioch, In Syria, Involving the loss OF fifteen
hundred human lives. Antioch has been visited
several times before by destructive earth
clakes which may 10 a great measure account
for It's material degeneracy during the past
several centuries. 1t Is famous in Christian as
well asin heather history, but its bright record
among the departed ages is about all 1t has to
boast of now. Some manufactures Of silk
form its principal commercial support. Its
general condition has been wretched for a
long time, and this ca'amity will OF course
sggrsya ate the;wretchedness Of It's unfortunate
people.
The reconstruction of .Sebastopol is the
subject Of an article in the Moscow Gazette
evidently intended to allay any alarm that
may be occasioned 10 Western Europe by the
project. This article says In effect that Russia
has resolved to fortify the Crimea, but the
Notifications are to be spread ove the entire
Chersonese, and 1t. is not intended again to
make sebastopol a strong fortress, able to
stand a long siege. lis chief Importance LIST %
be as a mercantile harbor capable Of receiving
q war fleet. Nicolaieff Is TO be the naval head
quarters Of the Black Sea. The eastern part
OF sebaslopol is to, be assigned to the naval
authorities for magazines, barracks and work
shops; the whole western half will be devoted
exclusively to commerce, in accordance with
the recommendations Of a local committee
headed by Admiral Arkas, commander Of the
Black Sea feet.
The London Daily News says that Prince
Bismarck is about to summon TO Berlin an In
ternational Congress, to discuss the present
postal arrangements of the world; and that he
is prepared to lay before the mem
beers the following proposals as a basis
for negotiations: l. That all the States OF
Europe, Russia in Asia, Turkey IN Asia, Cana
da, the United States, Algeria, &c, shall form
one postal union. 2. That throughout this
union there shall be adopted a uniform rate
of postage of two pence per half ounce. 8.
That throughout the union, newspapers, print
ed matter, patterns, &C., shall be conveyed at
the rate Of one penny for every two ounces.
4. That to all countries not included In the
postal union double the above rates shall be
charged. S. The uniform registration fee for
all parts of the world shall be two pence. The
Daily News thinks the scheme feasible. and
one to which England should consent if other
nations concur.
"A Boston woman, who had for long been
given up for dead by all who were dear to
her, lately appeared, :.tne ghost OF her for
mel self" to those who had thought never to
see her again. She told a story of strange
and horrible suffering. More than a score OF
years ago she had sailed, q young girl of
eighteen, with her missionary husband for
uIndia's coral strand" The vessel was
wrecked on the Arabian coast and ali on
board persisted save her husband and herself.
He was preserved only to fall a victim to
Arab cruelty and she to Arab slavery. While
her beauty lasted she was The favorlte wife of
the most powerful chief In the South Arabian
desert, but when that waned she fell from
her ssbad eminence' aud was transferred to
the harem of an inferior shiek. And so she
lived, praying for death, but not daring to
die, till, banded from one barbarian to
another, she, a Boston lady in whose veins
flowed The. purest Puritan blood, found her
self the wife of on Arabian water-carrier.
From his power an American traveller freed
her and provided her with the means to reach
home.
Everybody has heard of Morgan, the man
who was murdered, exported, spirited away,
smotbered, MANNED, and in all possible ways
maltreated by the Free Masons. Everybody,
too. has heard of how travellers in Egypt,
Malta and India have found him alive and well
at each of those places, now living as a humble
deryish, now as a knight, aud now as q lonely
hermit. Everybody will therefore be sur
prised-or MOTTO hear The San Francisco Elk