The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-03-13
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THURSDAY, MARCH ID, 1873.
NEWS OF TEE DAY.

- f3s NEWS OF TEE DAE.
Argument In the celebrated Gaines
nasen has RECOMMENDED In the United States
Supreme Court at Washington.
). The Washington Star states that the Presi-
dent has subscribed one hundred dollars, and
Vice President Wilson fifty dollars, toward
the Greeley monument fund.
The New York Times saya: "Certain i'm
pecunious congressman, who voted for the
Increase Of salarIep, and whom their constitu-
ents neglected to return, have offered their
Quota Of agricultural reports and ether pub
lie documents for sale at fifty cents per vol
ume, rather than send them to an uugrateful
constinency." 49,
The French general postofhce Is said to
be occupied with The plan OF universal
postal treaty, In which all the great and small
powers of the globe are to be Invited to join.
It Is hoped that the preparations will be suf1-
cIenuy advanced to allow the preliminary
negotiations to be commenced In May next,
when all the great powers are 10 be requested
to send commissioners TO Paris to consider
the project, - ---,--,-..~....
"A Washington telegram says: 1.-THE great
.inauguratlon ball has proved an immediate
loss to the managers of about twenty-five
Thousand dollars. A desperate effort 10
being made TO make up this deficit BY
having concerts, &C., in the great barn Of .
building that was erected near the District
Jail In order that ten thousand persons might
dance In honor of Uiysses's second inaugura.
tien. Two OF these concerts have been held,
/; but the debts increase rather than diminish.
The last resort Is grand Union ball, to be
given by all the State associations, on the 26th
instant The presidents OF the different asso-
Citations have been constituted committee OF
arrangements, with Public Printer Clapp as
treasurer. This is nice little dodge to make
the poor clerks In the departments pay Inc
fiddler that the Inauguration sight-seers might
dance to the new tune of the Grants are
Coming Every clerk will be expected TO
pay for ticket whether he attends or NOT,
and In this way Shepherd, Cooke and twenty
three more of the Ring, who pledged them
selves to make good all deficiencies, Will te
relieved. If this would save the taxpayers OF
the District, no one would complain; but
everybody knows that they will be made 10
foot the bill in some way or other, no matter
II the poor clerks are assessed FIVE dollars or
ten dollars for this purpose"
7. "A dispute has been going on during tho
last seven years between the British Govern
ment and the Republicans of London In refer
ence to the right of holding public meetings
In Hyde Park. Abouta year ago Parliament
passed parks bill, giving to Mr.. Ayrton,
chief commissioner ofpublic works, the power
to allow these meeting at his discretion, but
prohibiting them unless his permission was
first obtained. The Republican leaders, the
principal among whom was the well known
Mr.. Odger, resolved to disobey the law, and,
therefore, commenced holding q series of
meetings in Hyde Park on Bunday. The
meetings were not broken up ty the police,
but the speakers at the first ono were arrest
= sf. for violation OF the law. Mr.. Odger was
Aned five pounds by magistrate, and the
Queens Bench, on appeal, confirmed the con-
victioi. The prosecutions against the other
speakers were suspended until after the
the present session, Mr.. Bruce, the home Sec
retary, announced that without formal per-
mission public meetings might thenceforth be
held anywhere in that portion of Hyde Park
north OF the Serpentine and east OF Kensing-
ton.a In the debate that ensued In Parliament
'iNr. Ayrton, who had been .roundls abused for
his alleged harshness to the Republicans,
proved that he had over aud ovee again re-
4 commended modification of the strlct regu-
lations In reference to public meetings, but
had asioften been overruled by his superiors.
The British Government has at last found out
that the better way TO manage the Radical
Republicans, such as Mr.. Odger and his fol-
lowers, is to allow them to meet freely.
:. The Memphis and El Paso Railroad bond
fraud is now on trial before the Criminal Fri
huns Of Paris. It has attracted great atten.
ton In consequence of the prominence of the
Defendants, General John @. Fremont and slx
others, who are charged with defraudiDg
= numerous persons by the sale of worthless
: American railway bonds to the extent of six
millions Of dollars. These bonds were various
= ~ known as those Of 1.-THE Memphis and Ell
Paso,' "Fhe Transcontinental Memphis and
Pacific" and "The Southern Transcontinentsln
railways, and In 1869 were sold in Paris at
forty per cent. discount, eight million dollars
worth being disposed Of by means OF false
statements in advertisements published In
1.-The leading papers. The prospectus as
serted that these six per cent. bonds
were secured by fret mortgage on
!. the lands ceded to the road by The United
z States to the extent of 1920 acres per mile,
and also stated that the interest was guaran-
teed by the United States. Among the list OF
& the trustees OF the mortgage and bonds were
given the names of several prominent Amerl.
cans, including that OF the Uuted States Min
lister to st. Petersburg. The name attached
to The advertisements was N. J. Pasadis, one
OF the officers of the French Bourse, and the