The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-13
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1870.
NEU-S OF TIE D-IT.


Gold weakened, in New York, yesterday.
closing at 21%.
in New YorL.cotton favored buyers, closing
at e5Hc.
In Liverpool cotton closed dull; up!ands ll'sd.
There were sixteen: persons heheaded last
year in Germany
The latest sensational drama in New York is
entitled "Divorce."
The garreters are said to have resumed ope-
rasions in New York.
The Great Bank OF Montevideo, which was
lately compelled to suspend has resumed.
General Lees college, in Virginia, has twenty
nine professors, and three hundred and forty-slX
cadets.
-Mazzini and Garibaldi both complain that
they are growing old, and with their advancing
age the prospect of new Italian revolutions
dmS.
1t is said that the railway between Jubbul-
pore and Nagpore, the missing link in the direct
communication to Bombay, will be completed by
May next.
The French Government has decided to allow
Ledru Rollln, Tibaldi, and others to avail them
selves of the amnesty lately granted for the be-
ne6t OF political offenders.
BY the latest modification OF the French press
laws, the censorship OF all foreign journals has
been abolished, and the right to sell all French
papers in the streets has been restored.
Three men have been arrested IN New Jersey,
charged with conspiracy to dcfraud the heirs Of
Richard W. Maher out Of a large amount Of pro-
perty in Georgia, by means Of a forged marriage
certificate.
The London Daily News Of Monday contains
comm. .nication controverting the position OF
writer in the Times on American finances, anu
demonstrating that, by the difcreEce IN en-
change, United States 1ve-twenty ponds at So are
really higher in price than British consols at 92
"A letter from Richmond Virginia says: 'rhe
agent here Of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad
saws that his line Is daily crowded to the extent
OF its capacity with negro laborers going Soutn
and Southwest. Whatever may be the more re-
mote effect OF this remarkable exodus, 1t Is certain
that it saves the negroes and the State from the
ouasi famine threatened by the failure OF the
crops last summer.
The Paris Monitcur OF Saturday states that
after the 10th of May next the privileged admls-
sion OF cotton fabrics into France, as temporary
importations. will cease. The merchants OF Bor-
deauX held an excited meeting last week, at
which speeches were made and resolutions adopt
ed, denouncing commercial treaties, and protest
ing against the abolition OF restrictions on impor
tations in foreign bottoms.
The Paraguay question Is looming up. 1t is
said there is proposition now under consldera'
tion In the Cabinet to renew the offer OF media
tion between the allies and Lopez, and IN case the
offer Is not accepted the United States Govern
ment to withdraw its representatives from Inc
capitals of Brazil and the other allied powers, and
dispatch to the scene sufficient naval force To
reinstate Lopez in the possession OF his authority
The Washington letter OF Saturday says:
"The National Intelligencer died this morning at
au early hour for the fourth time. This pitcn,
however, it is not only dead, but buried, and be-
yond resurrection. Its last proprietor. in pen
ming its obituary, takes care llke Ccrvantes with
his hero, Don Quxote,) to give ample notice that
no more sallies can possibly occur. The coast Is
therefore clear, aud learn that parties have
already arranged for the issue OF purely Demo
cratic paper at the metropolis"
There was balloon ascension at Atlanta,
Ca, on New Years Day, DR.. Gilbert Hasse going
up alone, and the Era tells the following in rela-
ton to it {: ''When the balloon had reached tho
height of about one mile, those who were watch
ing it were horrifcd to see it explode and col
lapse in the upper air. For about an hour the
anxiety was very intense, vixen, to the astonish-
ment of every one, the doctor rode in sound in
body. The doctor fell about three miles out OF
town, and the only injury he sustained was few
scratches from some bushes IN which he fell"
The publication OF the letter from Berlin,
Prussia, OF DR.. Gnest, in regard to the Sch9ppes,
father and sou, and their conviction there for
forgery, theft, &C., has reopened discussion OF the
case Of DR.. Paul SchGppe, convicted of murder at
Carlisle, Pa. In the Berlin trial, one of the most
important witnesses was locksmith whom Paul
Scheppe had employed 10 make the key with
which Paul SchGppe robbed his employers sac,
although the locksmith was innocent OF SchGppe's g
purpose in procuring the key. That witness Is
now in New York City, and called at the onice OF
the Staats Zeitung to corroborate the statement
In Professor Gneist's letter. 1t is now suspected
that the testimonials of character SchGppe pub
nshed some weeks ago are forgeries.
The Nevada earthquakes, which occurred AT
the close 1859, were very heavy, the earth being
In constant tremor for nine hours. The first
shock occurred about six O'Clock on the evening
OF December %, and lasted ten or fifteen seconds.
alarming and arousing the whole city. The
shock was preceded by sort Of rumbling sound
of very short duration, when down came the
main "quake" in full force. doing considerable
damage. At about ten O'Clock the same evcEing,
when the frightened inhabitants had succeeded in
chasing the pallor from their cheeks and declar-
ing that they rather liked earthquakes, came
another shock, and there was another grand
stampede for the streets. This shock seemed
to come more directly from the west
than the first. Between these main shocks there
were constant tremors scarcely amounting tc
distinct shocks. In fact, from six O'Clock Sunday
evening until three O'Clock Monday morning the
eart was at rest scarcely ten minutes at time
great many ladies were so badly frightened that
they tainted; children cried and clung to the gar
ments OF their parents; dogs hOwled, and the
horses and mules in the stables broke their
halters, and crowdlng together, raised terrible
hubbub In one hotel up town three lade;
tainted at one time; one made dash to jump
ont of window, while another, in slippers
and night clothes, made break out into the
street, with her husband in full chase. In the
hy hotel down town the ladies got into the parlol
and held grand pow-wow, which was about hall
PRAYER meeting and half lsnatc asylum. Al
Dayton the shocks were very severe shaking bot
ties and crockery from the shelves, and creating
general manic In Carson CITY the shocks were