The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-10-08
NEWS OF THE DIY.

--Gold closed in New York yesterday at l34.
Cotton closed quiet; uplands l63c.
in Liverpool, cotton closed quiet; uplands
siasSd; Orleans cd; sales lO,50O bales.
"A meeting was held Monday evening, IN
New York. in furtherance of Palestine explo-
rations.
The wholesale shoe manufacturers OF New
York are considering general reouctlon Oh
wages during the fall.
The largest farm in England consists OF
three thousand acres. The live stock kept on
this farm is valued at s64,5O0.
General Sheridan writes to friends In Chl-
.caeo that neither the French nor German SOL
diers are equal TO our own, and that the
Remington breech-loaders are better than
either the chassepot or needle gun. Sheridan
is a nobody.
Henry Ward Beecher owns s25, 900 house
In Brooklyn, $50 900 farm in PeeGskill, and
half the Christian Union newspaper. Twenty
five years ago he had to wait sometimes week
before he could pay postage on home letter.
His salary was $3.50, halt payable In provisions.
-Bazaine is reported to have declared that
If he escaped from Metz, he will pay no atten-
whatever to the present Government OF
Paris. II he adheres to this resolution, how.
ever, 1t Is more than possible that the govern
ment, with the aid OF the soldiers, will pay
some attention to Bazane.
General Don Fernando-Fernaudez de Cor
,doya, the commander appointed to succeed
General de Rodas as Caprain-General OF Cuba,
Is distinguished militaire and politician OF
Spain, He was born at Madrid in 1892, and is,
consequently, TS years old. Rather q ripe old
age at which to undertake the task of ruling
State In trouble.
The trial of Margaret Waters, the Infamous
woman whose business 1t was TO take infants
to nurse for consideration and then to get
rid of them by starvation or drugs, was con-
cluded at the Central Criminal Court, London,
on the 23d of September. The trial occupied
three days. She was indicted tor The murder
OF an infant three weeks old, found guilty and
sentenced to be hung.
The President has decided to pardon all
the Fenian prisoners engaged in the late Can
ada raid, and by the 10th of October it is ex-
pected they will all be free, General O'Neil
among the rest This Is done by the President
because he thinks they have had sufficient
punishment, and because they promise to res
pect the laws of our country in the future.
The petitions for the pardon Of these men
have come from every section of the country,
and from all classes of the people.
The North China Herald speaks Of a treaty
recently entered into between China and
Japan lor the expulsion of foreigners If this
be 30, the logic Of modern artillery will no
doubt be brought to bear in the premises by
the Western Powers, in order to protect the
European and American residents In the
trading ports of those countries. The horri-
BILE slaughter ,ot the priests and nuns at Tent.
sin has not yet been atoned for, but we may
soon learn that the English and French fleets
have exacled reparation.
The German papers announce that the
French, prisoners OF war are not to be all con-
fined in iortresses; as many of them as posi-
BILE viii! be employed in executing public
works, just as Napoleon I used the Germans
who had fallen into his hands to construct new
roads. The directors OF the Royal Upper Sile-
sian Railway have been already requested to
state how many OF these prisoners they can
take to aid in building the new lines from
Breslau 10 Strehlan, aud from Poson to Thorn
and Br0mberg.
George Augustus sala, having recovered
from the wounds OF the sabots and teeth OF his
.feIlow.p prisoners in the Paris jais, has taken a
walk about town, and finds the situation OF
things in the city by no means favorable to a
nv The pruSSian armies
Supposin.s tile siege progresses to the point OF
bombarment, Mr.. Sala predicts that, while
the city Is not likely to take such fate quietly,
dc is calculated 10 sustain it without serious
damage. In order to produce any startling
effect. it will be necessary for the Prl,s-
sians TO pour IT least one hundred thous-