The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-18

but Is at San Estanislaus with 20e0 men and
twenty cannon. 'a-egog (is'F-s'9'' an ~
1t Is stated as q remarkable fact that no
minister belonging to Che Holston Conference,
M.E Church South. has died during the con-
ference year just closed.
The Rev. DR., II. n. Pierce has been elected
Missionary Bishop OF Arkansas and Indian Ter
.ritory by the Episcopal House of Bishops at
Trinity Chapel, New York. 9.'
2.so Prussia and Austria are now on better
terms than for q long time past. Preparations
are making at, Vienna to give the Crown
Prince Of Prussia brilliant official reception.
The number of United States soldiers buried
in-the Federal cemeteries in nlEirginia, exclud-
asnr those Inferred ut Arlington. aggregate So
ISL. OF these lO,7sS are in the cemeteries
near Riehmo nd and Manchester.
- On and after'the 10th instant the time by
railway between San Francisco and New York,
Philadelphia and Washington will be reduced
from seven to six days. Whenever expedient
another reduction of from twelve to twenty
hours can easily be made.
"A Bombay dispatch. announces the re-
:!ceipt of letter from DR.. Livingstone, the
great explorer, written in July, 1868, at Lake
Bangelewo, stating in effect that he was in ex-
.ceIient health, and that he believed that he
( had discovered the true source of the Nile.
Later advices locate him at Nils, on his way
to the coast. ssr.
% "A New York Judge has directed the grand
Jury 10 inquire If the recent gold combination
In Wall street was not violation Of the law,
making it criminal offence for twenty or
more persons TO conspire together to commit
any act injurious to trade or commerce. The
New York Times backs this up by calling on
the grand jury to indict the Gold Ring.
More "big tree groves" have been dis
covered in California. They are giant red
woods of the species famous in Calaveras and
Mariposa, and are found on the head-waters of
the Tulare and San Joaquin Rivers. One Of
these groves is said to contain trees measuring
lover one hundred feet in circumference, and
3 even these are reported to be excelled by those
In another grove. =
The Howard Association, at New Orleans,
having In hand about twenty thousand dollars
an excess of contributors made by citizens of
= New Orleans, New York, Boston, Baltimore,
? st. Louis, Cincinnati and other places, to re-
lieye the sick and destitute during the preva-
.lence Of the yellow fever, resolved last week to
apply this money to the relief of suffering and
distress now existing in The orphan asylums
and other charitable institutions of New Or
leans.
=. The New York Association for the Proven
ton Of Gambling has just issued an appeal to
the public for material aid with which to prose-
cute its work. During the past year it has sue
ceeded in effectually closing more than three
hundred gaming haunts, besides reporting
over one thousand venturesome clerks to their
employers. In all but q 1.-THE of the cases so
reported employees were retained in their po-
sitions under pledges that they would avoid
gambling in the future.
The causes of decay in American COM
merce are now being investigated in New
York by the Congressional Committee ar
pointed for the purpose. Among other re-
commendations they are expected to make, is
Z .enein favor of the repeal of the law forbid
ding the re-transfer of vessels placed under
foreign flags during the war by American ship
owners, and the re-enactment OF the law re-
qulring at least three-fourths Of the crew OF an
American vessel to be American.
The probable effect of emancipation in