The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-10-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gold closed in New York yesterday at
1sialSlc.
Cotton closed dull, with sales of 1000 bales;
uplands at l8lc.
in Liverpool cotton closed lrmer; uplands
SD; Orleans SD, with sales of $4,000 bales.
New Orleans has a cotton factory running
$500 splndles.
Twelve bridesmaids, twelve groomsmen'
and twelve ,ushers are to help to marry
couple in New York next month, In church
where the decorations are to cost over S5ooo.
Even the children in the schools OF Ger
many are doing something to aid che wound
ed. They are sent into the woods To pick DER
ries, which, rou certain days are delivered at
the depots of the sanitary seom mission, where
portions are preserved in sugar, aud the re-
:maInder sent fresr TO the hospitals.
-mThere Is not single Confederate prison.
,er In the custody of the United States any
where at this time" So says Adjutant. Gene
rel Townsend, in response to an inquiry as to
whether there are any Confederate prisoners
in the Dry Tortugas.
"A great nany boys, between the ages OF
l2 and l6, are missing in the different cities OF
Germany. In Berlin alone forty have thus
mysteriously disappeared. They have run
away to join the army, and probably most 0
them are now at the front.
-Offenbach, having been expelled from
Paris as a German, may perhaps be induced to
bring out two new operas IN America. The
managers of the Boufes Parisens and the
Opera Comique had postponed until Septem-
ber the production of the 'Fantasie" and the
ssMoucheron, thinking them good enough 10
fill the house in the height of the season.
Tom Marshall once said, in reply to fel-
low in his audience, who kept singing out,
ssLouder louder !" when Marshall was speak
ing at the full capacity of his lungs, "Gentle-
men and ladies-At the final resurrection of
the great day, when Gabriel will be calling in
thunder tones through his trumpet to arouse
the dead, some fool from this town will be
heard crying out to him, Louder! louder :"
The work on the foundation for the East
River bridge is progressing rapidly, and the
huge caisson is gradually sinking to its place.
The fourth course Of masonry Is now being
laid, and at the present rate OF progress the
tower upon the Brooklyn side will probably be
completed In about year. The buildingyof
the second caisson, for the tower on the New
York side, will be begun Immediately.
l-"Paps Wrangel," )" as the Berlin people call
the venerable feld-marshal of that name, is
too old to fight; but he takes the greatestin-
terest In the war, and, when the regiment of
cuirasslers formerly commanded by him az
rived in Berlin, he was at the station to vel
come them. Though man OF deeds, rather
than words, he managed to make speech,
which he concluded In characteristic and
practical way, by taking out his pocket-book
and saying: "Look here, my lads Here's a
hundred thaler note, and that's for the first
one among you who takes Freach eagle; aud
here's a fifty thaler note, which is for you my
son, turning to the standard bearer,) 1t you
bring back your colors, safely and honoraoly.'
"A question much discussed some years ago
has lately been settled by the eternaly quoted
-slogtc of facts.n The question was whether
the serious illness of one Of the famous Sla-
mese twins would necessarily affect the other.
1t seems now that Chang has had a paralytic
stroke, and that the health of Eng remains quite
unaffected by 1t. Long ago it was determined
hat the twins could not be separated without
inv.mv- az TN. .l.,lln vi one or both. But a
n rominent medical journal of London afirlns
tn Il, should either ule, the lgature might be
safety cut so as to preserve the life of the sur
ylvor. The Twins are now well stricken in
years, and it would be almost as anomalous is
their strange union itself If either survived the
shock OF being parted from the other.
Already the dangers which are likely to
hereafter beset King William, are cropping
out In Germany. According to the correspon-
dents, 1t daily becomes manifest that the South
German States will not De able to assimilate
to themselves the contemplated acquisition of