The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-10-12
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NEWS OF TIE DAY.

Gold in New York closed yesterday at 1 81.
Cotton, was dull and declining; uplands
1sc; sales 2soO bales..Eos .n..i !!-:oit. ~.
in Lrerpool cotton closed heavy; uplands
::s1asfd; Orleans slassd,; sales 5000 bales. bal .n
y..--Ealstafiau. lHackett IS, enjoying life with
MS young wife iinretifenent at Hampstead,
Long Island -, - Si,,.y.,,,..,., 81.
Mr.. Darwin has q book IN press entitled
1.-THE Descent OF Man, land On Selection In
Relation to Sex, -, 5, .l.9 .,,g
= = -Liddell.' the anthor of the Greek lexicon,
qias beeninducted as vice-chancellor OF Oxford
university. g stls..i iS.: :is''.., lr.,a q
The continuance of. yellow fever on Gov
.ernor's Island, New York, has necessitated lhe
removal Of the garrison. Four new cases daily
have occurred this month. III
The New York Stock Exchange has given
-sa5 900 to the sufferers by the Virginia foods;
the Gold Exchange $4,000, and the Merchants t an
and Brokers SIS, 900 more. sr: ;...5 ....i...z
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, having made
"a my thousands of dollars for her various
managers, thinks she can manage to make
little for. herself, and will organize concert
fpu, under her own management. Her first
concert Yill take place in New York, Octooers.
Ts-The National Congress on penitentary
and reformatory discipline will meet In Gin
usnnati, to-day, to consider al questions
concerning prisons and prisoners, including g
executive clemency, capability OF officers,
CONSTRUCTION Of buildings, &c
The Ritua, Commission of the English
Uhu III, aJter,a series of 'meetipgs extending
over more than YEAS has at last handed In a
most complex and contradictory report. The
sreport is signed by Lwenty-seven ofGthe thirty
~nembers, and is halt a page long; but the ex
-pressions of dissent occupy twenty;seven
pages. all OF them dissent once; sixteen twice;
three three times; and two of them five times
what is most wonderful, seventeen of them. a
majority, protest against the action on the
,Athanasan Greed. y :si.7f.' r =
The President has issued:a proclamation
declaring that the waters of the United States
shall not be used in preparing for war by bel
iiserent parties, and that ships OF war of
either belgerent shall not leave either port
within ,twenty-four hours after the departure
cf the merchantmen of It's enemy, nor remain
in our ports more than twenty-iour hours, I'M
less needing repairs OF supplies, and, having
once entered United States port, shall! not
re-en;er one OF our ports until after having
visited q European port of their own govern
ment France will suffer most from the re-
anIrements of the law, Us Germany has few
Ships Of war; and none that are likely to visit
or ports. -
Paris is evidently to be first bombarded
from the west. The line indicated'by the three
points otSevres; St. Cloud and Bongival, fol-
lows the course of range of heights run
min. between the 6rSt two places, parallel to
and close above the banks of the Seine. From
St. Cloud to Bongival The line runs at right
angles 10 the former. Fort Mont Valerlen is
situated ABOUT 'equi-dis,ant from both, at an
average distance OF two and,a half miles. A
line from It. CLOUD or svvres to the inner line
etfor,l1cations lwppId be not more than two
and a half milesllGng,tso that, considering the
extensive range of the Prussian sese-guns,
sslIair.s portion Of the city will shortly be ex-
pr1sed to 1fle enemy's fre. i.'s;;y
among the lots sold at q horse sale IN Lon
ddon ddoon Likely, were fourteen carriage horses END