The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-22
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER %, 1869.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold closed in New York yesterday more
actiTe at 500. ....,......
The New York cotton market closed heavy
and decidedly lower; sales $500 bales at 263.
At Liverpool cotton closed quiet, uplands
nd; Orleans l2ld; sales 5000 bales.
Detroit has invented dummy" Tor
city railroads, that consumes Its own smoke
and steam. lsr5g g''r
DIR. Mary walker has been lecturing In
st. Louis on the necessity Of law compelling
men to marry before they reach the age OF
forty.
Mr.. Horace Greeley, it is said, is about to
purchase one thousand acres OF land IN VII
einia, and win parcel it out and settle ten
families on the tract.
gThe New York Herald says that William
;B.eAstor during the last twenty years has so
nianaged fortune Of twenty millions as to
9ollit up to sixty millions.
Mr.. Kingiake, the author Of. the history OF
the Crimean war, has lost HE seat in Parha-
ment because he obtained it by bribery; and
feis threatened with criminal prosecution
besides.
The latest scandal about the Prince oi
Wales is, that after visiting the scene Of the
Pantin murder, near Paris, he asked for an In
terview with the murderer in jail. His request
was not granted.
Alexander T. Stewart, as q beginning OF
his Hampstead Plains Improvement for the
benefit of the working men of New York, has
contracted for i've hundred miles of streets
and roadways, and the construction Of five
hundred dwelling houses.
The greatest Catholic procession ever wit
messed In Montreal, Canada, took place Sun
day afternoon, the occasion being the transla-
ton of the relics Of st. Seno from Bousecour's
church to the Bishops palace. Thirty thous-
and people Joined in the procession.
Miss Kate Field makes her debut in Bos-
ton, on the lecture platform, on the 10th In
stant She only returned, a few tse,s ago,
from second trip to the Adirondacks, where
she hnarts Of having shot fine buck weighing
200 pounds, and insists that she ''shot 1t legti-
mately, nobody holding 1t by the TAIL" she
never before having handled rifle.
The New York Times says: "The success
of the Freedman's Savings ana Trust Com
pany Of Washington, is matter for congratl-
lation Of that institution. The amount Of de-
posts, which reach nearly sl,50O,0O0, Is q
highly respectable fact. And the establish
ment of branches throughout the principal
cities of the country argues active business
management. But the statement that the
company has given 1000 for land upon which
to erect handsome bank building of WASH
ington does not convey favorable impress
sion. The savings of the. depositors are not
pr perly de 1oted to any such purpose. There
Is 70 real necessity for any such expenditure
The play world of Homburg has been high
II excited by the extraordinary luck OF NAL
tese millionaire, who broke the bank at Baden
and won enormous sums at Homburg in 1865
and 1867. On the very day OF his arrival he
won 100000 francs. This agreeable perform
-ance, moreover, might be witnessed any Of
the succeeding days. From tie first hour Of
his arrival, the wealthy Maltese had declared
he felt he would win large sum on the 18th,
the anniversary Of the day when, In 1857, he
carried of $4,000 francs at one swOop; and
win he did at the very same hour. The sum
was so large as to cucumber the table in such
a manner that other players could with diff
Guilty find room to lay down their stakes. The
keenness of his eye Is unrivalled. The BY
ISLANDERS, who crowd around him, are aston
fshed az his telling them beforehand whether
the croupier will turn up the winning or losing
color; and as for mistakes by inadyertency, he
never allows one to pass unnoticed. Whether
he. wins or loses, he never plays for more than
one hour day. He is very generous to the
needy; but the bank must have felt exceed
ingly relieved ct his departure.
"A correspondent Of the Cincinnati Gazette
has evidently been hon0red with an invitation
to . Sunday evening tea at the home Of the
Cary sisters IN New York. These little gath
erings have long been very popular with the
favored friends Of the two song-birds who live
in modest little house in quiet street of
Manhattan, and their parlors are made bril-
liant on every Sunday night in winter by the
gathering Of some Of the best known literary
people Of the city. On the evening described
by the correspondent, Lord Adair, the son of
. hue EdIi Ol OuuIstfcu, WIS pieSSnt Will ino
wife, and the latter is described as looking
amused when Miss Phoebe Cary energetically
remarked that she ''wished some other than
Booth might become the highpriest Of the
drama in America" Horace Greeley was also
Of the company, and he roamed about the
room 'sradiating smiles and common sense
until he grew tired and took his leave in his
own characteristic manner-that is, he wan
dered vaguely away without saying good-by to
anybody" The conversation at these recep-
.tions often turns upon sprtualism, both the
sisters being spiritualists of the higher type.
The Bay of San Francisco, one of the most
magnificent sheets of water in the world. is
sixty miles long, ten miles wide, and the
mouth of the bay on the same parallel as the
mouth of Chesapeake Bay. The coast in the
vicinity is skirted by range of lofty hills COM
paratively destitute of foliage on their sur
face. The mouth Of the bay, Golden Gate, of
which Fort Point and North Head are the pill
lars, is mile wide, thirty feet deep, and i'm
medIateIy spreads into broad and beautiful
sheet of inland water, which with San Pablo
and Suisin Bays and their connecting straits,
large enough to harbor all the navies OF tie