The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-09-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold in New York, yesterday, closed at


Geld in New York, yesterday, closed at
ls5. All,
The New York cotton market closed dull
at 1910 for uplands; sales 1000 bales.
L4tLiverpoot cotton tended down; upands
.s.d: Orleans gid; sales 5000 bales.
The prussian soldiers helmet bears this
Quaint old covenanter-hke motto-"By Gods
help, for my King and Fatherland." {.
The Brooklyn Union prints letter from
SCHUYLER Collax, announcing his definite and
unalterable retirement from public life.
.nlA,recent scene on the Hudson, near West
point. was President Grant and Secretary
Fish-fshing.
"A Paris physician writes, asking renewal
of a note which Jhe owes, giving as reason.
therefor, I'VE are in horrible crisis. Ihere
is not sick man In the district"
Mr.. .Q,Neal, Of Louisiana, held four aces
and the king in recent social game OF POKER
and when Mr.. Tally called him on five aces ne
very properly shot 'him dead. -
The women of Italy promise themselves
the right of voting at municipal elections With
in the next two years. The movement IS
making remarkable, ,headway. ..,3.-
.-Itissaid- that General Frossard was at din
ner during all the affair at Wissenburg, and.
although messengers came and told him the
state ofcsGairs, ,he. remained at dinner, and
smoked his cigar till o'clock P. N.
G-aAwealthy St. Louis company Is said to be
preparing to build q factory in the very midst
ofahe cotton fields, for the manufacture, on
large scale; of domestic fabrics and cotton
The Germans,of New York city, through
theexecutive.c committees oftheir various socle-
ties, haze come to the conclusion to make no
public manifestation Of JOY over the Prussian
v,ctories.l The money expended In shows and
paErades can be put to q better use-the relief
otthe wounded and distressed families
-;.DontraryIto, theassertion of certain Ger
man papers lat Vienna and elsewhere, II is
stated semi aaslally IN Vienna, that In view Of
the possible changes IN, Paris, instructions had
been sent to MeLternich; the Austrian Minister
inParis,, that hs must continue his relations
with the government ee Jacto: s.,:el.
S&General WtmpdeR comes on the see. of
astion ,tust in season for surrender. It was
rather "a hard fate, He Is said to be avery
Good soldier, as his designation to command
tie corps of DsFsllly and subsequently, of an
.ettEs army, win testify. But he was c6ntinu-
ally ssoming,E and; arrived LOO late to do much,
1cepttoipaFticipate In the action which end.
ed1n capltnatioa ~, ' -; =. >, 49, -
.-4The adsisahility OF burning the dead bodies
onthefeld. .pf battle; Is belngiargueddR Paris,
a,id' several suggestions have been made for
turning. slaughtered soldiers TO some ,proata-
ble,aceount, rather than permit their remains
to tafut the air and breed pestiience. One
sayant reminds us thai, after experiments
made In India, it was found that one deceased
hero produced 200 cubic metres of excellent
gas.
1t, is stated that the first official act Of
Fayre. the new French Minister of Foreign
Affairs under the Republican regime, was 10
telegraph the United States Government at
Washington announcing the death OF the En-
pire and the birth Of the Republic. He asks
the sympathies and the moral support. of the
Government and people Of the United States
In the efforts Of the Liberal party of France to
establish q Republic and drive back the inva-
ders!
The population Of Paris, according to q
census taken In 1868, amounted to 2.l5O. GIG
souls, of whom 2,O2s, ,736 were born In France;
that Is, 1888, ATS IN the department. Of the Seine,
and l.2s5, 1858. In other. departments. OF the
122,1so remaining persons 3O54 were natural
lied citizens, s4,273 Germans. ss,oSs Belgians,
lO,Ss7 Swiss, s106 English, 1915 Italians, 6254
Hollanders, 400 Americans, 424 Poles, 25s6
Spsniards, 1853 Russians, 54l scandnavians,
s2s Moldo- wallachians, 3l3 Turks, 2sO Greeks,
and 37es foreigners OF all other nations.
-Dr Canning S. Bedford, al eminent
physlcian OF New. York, died on Monday. He
was born in Baltimore ln the year 1906. In
1925 DR.. Bedford graduated at Mount st.
Marys.s College,! Emmettsburg, with high
honors. ;;After graduating, Dr.. Bedford's first
idea was to study law. With that intention he
lett Baltimore with letters for Daniel Webster,
pteadin. to study law In that gentlemans