The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-09-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gold closed in New York on yesterday
a. 14Ia14a.
Cotton was quiet and steady; uplands 2osc;
= sales 700 bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed buo!anti up
lands Gid. Orleans 9ld; sales 5000 bales.
1T ia announced that MI. Brignoli will be a
member Of the nilsson concert troupe
The bathing bellies at the watering places
are called dive-in-ities.
In Prussia, while the men are at war, the
women perform fed and farm labor, and are
gathering the crops, guarding the focks and
doing field work..
The Earl of Sha!tesbury says that II His
Holiness the Pope had wife she would not
allow him for an hour to remain in the belief
that he was infallible."..
we have passed from summer into iail.
What a summer it was! !. The record shows
that there was more heat than during any cor
responding period for the past eighty years.
II is said Nature always asserts the law OF
equilibrium. If this proves true, cold WIN
ter will be the result.
Mr.. Halstead, of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, who is now in Europe, writes as follows
from St. Avoid, under date of August 18TH:
awe saw King William this evening and had d
polite recognition from him. His apartments
ARE in the second story Of the postoffice build
ing, and passing through the square this even
ing, the old gentleman was at the window, and
returned our salute with look Of curiosity.
He did not understand, imagine, what man
;ner of non-cOmbatants those were staring at
his Majesty. His appearance is that Of very
vigorous man; and aside from the casualties of
war, the chances are that he has good many
years before him yet. His thick, white mus
tache runs into side whiskers, white and
heavy, but neatly trimmed. He seemed quite
at his ease. and remained at the window for
some tIme, longer, indeed, than 1t was polite,
or perhaps prudent, for strangers to lolter in
that vicinity"
"A very sad occurrence is reported at Rio
de Janeiro, viz: The burning Of an emisrant
ship. and the consequent loss OF over one hulI
dred passengers ON board. The particulars OF
the terrible catastrophe afG given BY the. cap
tain, OF the French bark Adele Louise, who
succeeded In saving some Of the persons from
the Inflated vessel-the Manin Barravlno--on
,tsVay from Genoa 10 MonteVideo, With l2S
Messengers and Is of crew. On the 2lst Oh
july. when abreast Of Rio de janelro, tne
Adele Louise sighted the Barravino' in dames'
some distance astern, and at once went to her
assistance. What followed isthus described:
ssThe spectacle presented by tile burning snip
was extremely awful the cries of the passen-
pers. the flames leaping out on all sides, the wo-
men shrieking irantically, some Of them jump
;nc overheard, others holding on by the chains
and how of the vessel, forming O scene OF dis
aaterf and confusion that battles description.
nne boat that was lowered was speedily filled
With people crowding iIto her, and went
down. It was almost impossible to render as
sIstance. but the bark succeeded In taking Oh
eight persons, including captain and mate
The schooner Mary, from London to Austria
liza. also happened to pass, and rescued tes
more. whom she transhipped to the Adele
louise. ~he remainder, l23 in number, per-
ished.n 1t seems that the confagration broke
ont In the chimney of the cooking galley and
snread to large number of chairs that formed
part of the cargo. The passengers and crew
Immediately became panic stricken, and IN the
absence OF discipline, the captain was unable
to take effective measures to suppress the
flames, or to save the lives Of those on board
Bismarck is thus sketched BY a !eorrespon'
dent of the New York World: !'..Whiie was
looking at the King there passed by me and
approached the royal headquarters man who
seemed to be himself kind of walking cathe-
dral-a great giant Of q man, several inches
over six feet in height, and powerfully built.
so soon as he turned I knew it YVES Bismarck.
He turned just before entering the door and
scanned the street. Among all the uniforms
were.two black streaks; they were repre- .rted
by myself and an American journalist in
whose company happened to be. Seeing us,