The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-22
Tbe Gbafleetp,, Nems,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER %, 1869.
NEWS OF TIE Day.

The New York cotton market closed heavy
and decidedly lower; sales $500 bales at 26l.os
AT Liverpool cotton closed quiet, upands
I'D; Orleans l2ld; sales 5000 bales.
Detroit has invented 'dummy" for
city railroads, that consumes Its own smoke
Aand steam. H"' '-""
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. u ~
Mr.. Horace Greeley, It is said, is about to
purchase one thousand acres of land in vir-
ginia, and viii parcel IL ont and settle ten
families on the tract.
The New York Herald says that William
B. Astor during the. last twenty years has 30
managed a fortune of twenty millions as to
roll 1t up to sixty millions. ~. a,t.. .o.a1. l
Mr.. Kinglake, tho author Of the history of
the Crimean war, has lost his seat in .Parlia-
mcnt because he obtained 1t by bribery; and
he Is threatened with criminal prosecution
besides. r'i
The latest scandal about the, Prince OF
Wales. is, that aftet visiting the scene of the
Pantln murder, near Paris, he asked for an In
tervlew with the murderer In jail. His request
was not granted. -GuE ltat.t
Alexander T. Stewart, rs beginning OF
his Hampstead Plains Improvement for the
benefit Of the working men of New York, has
contracted for five 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 tho transla-
atjNp of the relics ofSt. Seno from Bousecours
to the Bishops palace. Thirty thous-
end people Joined in the procession
Miss Kate Field makes her d,nut n nos.
Tom she sss isstsrs saly rIlafssa Plaaff{sSsa% on @
lom q second trip to the Adirondack, ), wl,ere
she boasts Of having shot fine buck weighing
200 pounds, and insists that SHE "slo. il lrsiti-
mately, nobody holding it by the TALL" she
never before having handled rifle.
The New York Times says .sThe success
OF the Freedman's Savings and Trust Com
pany Of Washington, IS matter for conRrat,,-
latlon of that Institution. The amount of de-
posits, which reach nearly sI,5OO,ooO, is o
highly respectable fhct. And the establish
ment Of branches throughout the principal
Giles of the country argues active business
management But the statement that the
company has given $4,000 for land upon which
10 erect handsome bank building at Wash.
lngton does not convey u favorable impress
sion. The savings of the depositors are not
pr' perly dc 'oted 10 any such purpose. There
Is 10 reai necessity for my such expenditure,
-The play world of Homburg has been high.
~ excited by The extraordinary luck of n NAL
tese millionaire, who broke the bank at Baden
ana won enormous sums Mt Homburg In 1868
and 1867. On the very day OF his arrival he
won 100000 francs. This agreeable pcrfor,n-
ance, moreover, might be Witnessed any of
the succeeding days. From the first hour of
his arrival, the wealthy Maltese had declared
he fell he would win q Iarge sum on the 18th.
the anniversary Of the day when, I'm 1867. he
carried off $4,000 francs mt one swoop: and
W. he did ut the very same honr. The sum
was so large as to cucumber the table I'm such
n manner that other players could with diff.
Guilty lind room to lay down their stakes. The
kecnncss OF his eye is unrivallcd. Tho by-
standers, who crowd around him, ore aston.
isiled at his telling them beforehand whether
the croupier Will turn up the winning or losinp
color;; and as for mistakes by inadvertenoy, he
never allows ono TO pass unnoticed. Whether
ne 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
1ngly relieved at his departure. Y YT 4
"A correspondent OF the Cincinnati gazstie
has evidently been houored with an invitation
to Sunday evening tea MT the home OF ,h.
Cary sisters IN New York. These l,ttla oath.
erings nave long been very popular with the
iavofed friends OF the two song-birds who live
IN modest little honse In quiet street OF
Manhaaan, and their parlors are made BRIL-,
liant on every Sunday night in winter by the
gathering Of some Of tho best known literarv
people OF the city. On the evening described
oy the correspondent, Lord ,Adair, the son OF.
tho Earl OF Dunraven, was present with hls
Wife, and the latter Is deicrib as LOOKING
amused when Miss PhGbc Cary enerCetIcally,
remarked that she s'wIslled some other tbaH
Booth might become 1.-THE 'highpriest of the
drama In America" Horace Greeley was also
Oh the company, and he rroamed about the
room "radiating smiles and 'commonI sense
until ho grew tired and took his leave In his
own ohhractcristic mannerZthat is, lie iil WIN.
dered vaguely away without saying good.by I'd
anybody" The conversation ot these recon.
tions often turns upon splritualism. tottfs tho
sisters being spiritalsts of tho higher tvhc b.
Tho Bay OF San Francisco, one of the most
magnificent sheets of water in the world. ~
sixty miles long, ten miles wide, and the
month,Qf the bay, .on; tho Same parallel os the
mouth of Chesapeake Bay. The coast In tho.
vicinity is skirted by range of LOFTY hills COM
paratlyely destitute of foltage ON their sur
face. Tho month Of tho boy, Golden Gate, of
which Fort Point and North Head arc the pil-
lars. Is mile wide, thirty feet deep, and I'M
mediately spreads into q broad, Afid beautifnf
sheet OF inland wakerN wbIci, VIII Gan sspab,c