The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-10-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gold at New York yesterday, closed at
13sal3l.
The New York cotton market closed
weak at l63c; sales 5000 bales.
AT Liverpool, cotton closed steady; up
,auds SD; Orleans SD; sales 900 bales.
President Grant visited watch factory at
Marion. N. j., Saturday, and accepted Watch
as present.
.Enpenie has taken a fine house and
grounds at Chaselhurst: Comfy of Kent Eng
land.
The downfall of the Empress has carried
With it the chignons of Berlin. No ladies' wear
them now in that city.
The average receipts at the NILSSON con-
.certs in New York last week were $4,000 per
night. The lowest was $1,000. How's that for
high"
...snnnose.n cries the Pail Mall Gazette,
s.the French Republic, eager TO wipe OUT the
disgrace Of the present war, should some day
helm the American Republic to avenge the
Alabama wrongs; and, then, suppose tile fe-
MANS should take o hand In the fight, las they
snrely would want to) and suppose another
Republic should rise up in Spain, and insist
on having Gibraltar; and suppose, on the top
of all this, Russia should crowd us to the wal
in Asia, what pretty pickle England would
be IN
About sunset on Friday evening two
Young men, Of Alexandria, Va, in order TO
settle a difficulty that had arisen between
them, armed themselves with knives, and'
accompanied by some of their respective
friends, repaired to the grounds around Lock-
abar, across the canal locks, where, having
doffed their coats, they fought according TO
tbe rules in force in Western Texas previous
to the war. After prolonged conflict, during
which both were cut and slashed to an extent
that satisfied their friends, they were separa-
ted and carried to surgeons to have their
wounds dressed. Neither OF them was NOR
tally hurt.
On all the street railroads in New York
and Brooklyn, with one exception, and on the
washington and Georgetown street railway,
and on the Cincinnati and Philadelphia llnes,t the
fare has been reduced to five cents, now that the
United States tax is repealed, which allowed
the collection of one cent from each passen-
tion to FIVE cents in that city. 1t having been
only six cents heretofore: "It may borough
for the stockholders, but the pabc like the re-
duction amazingly. a five cent fare is so handy,
YOU know! An exuberant friend announces
his purpose to ride over the road all day, TO
en,ov the luxuries of paying hve-cent fares"
"A Sedan letter, OF the 9Th, says: "NcSla-
hon is mere, very badly but not mortaly
wounded, and prisoner. He Is one OF those
who would not give their parole MOTTO serve
apainst Prussia during the present war. his
wife the Duchess of Magenta, arrived here
two DAYS ayo, bringing with her surgeon
from Paris and well known Sister of Charity
to help nurse her husband. She was at Tue
Narshal's estate. near Nismes, and would nave
come to her husband In twenty-tonr hours,
but the Prussians would not allow her to pass
their lines, and SO she had TO go round by the
centre and west of France, reach Paris, then
90 oy the Northern railway to Brussels, and so
com. through Bnuillou 10 Sedan over the Bel
yian frontier. FROM all hear, McMahon would
be likely to recover quickly from his wound
were It not that he frets and fumes al the past
and worries himselfvery much about the future.
He blanes the Emperor very much, indeed,
for having surrendered this place, and de-
.c,ares that General de Wimpffen ought to have
tried TO Gu, his way through the enemy, even
IL ouL OF eighty thousand men ne mad lost 1or-
ty thousand IN attempting 20 do So"
"A reporter. has dipped his pen In gold ana
yerrnilion to descriue the ladies' clubhouse
of Mestiames Woodruff and Claflin, situated IN
the most fashionable part OF New York, be-
tween Filth and Madison avenues. Two stair
cases OF brown stone lead 10 massive walnut
doors, with plate-ylass panels, which swing on
hinges oil bronze hligree-work and admit the
,,6.:rcr 10 q hall panelled With Parlan, yiuetri,