The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-11-26
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER &c. 1870.
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold closed In New York, yesterday, at L.
Cotton was h heavy at x decline; uplands l6'sc:
sales 1000 bales.
in Liverpool, cotton closed nat; uplands
shas1d; Orleans, ,sHasHd; sales 10. 900 bales.
German is to be taught In the public SCHOOLS
ofNew York.
Diamonds In the London market have fallen
In value thirty per cent, owing to the great
quantity offered by refugees from France.
S1ggWheen the Marquis of .Lorn becomes Victoria's
son.,n.law, there Is said to be prospect OF his
being made Governor General Of Cana1a.i
FLORIDA promises to become hereafter large
nroducer OF cane sugar The crop this year isa
good one andsis said to be more profitable than
cotton raising.
The French are charged by the Prussian Gov,
ernment with having caused dcstitution among
the poorest class Of the populations OF cities 'Eoy
app-e Driating for war purposes the 'monles de-
posi- ed III the savings banks, as well as the prop
critics ofthe corporations"
The telegraph cflces in France now accept
private messages for Paris for dispatch by carrier
pigeons, at the rate of,afty cenumss or ten cents
per word; the messages must be In French, and
on purely PERSONAL and private matters. Tele
graphic communication between Tours and Mar
setlles has. been Ie, established. 81 80 sssg9
They kad a, genuine sensation at Niagara
Falls on SUNDAY. A lady apparently ahpnt thirty!
nye years OF age, well dressed and flue-looking,
committed suicide by jumping from the Goat
BLAND bridge, her body going over the Falls. She
was stopping at the Spencer House, and had
90, ;r0D Chicqu0
Illinois. I
iThe German soldiers now In France and at
for active service, IT,; Is estimated, number Co.,
900, and the horses belonging to tue German; army
amount to 100000. The daily rations OF these
troops require $50, ,80oloaves Of bread, 1s5 oxan,
10000 pounds of Bacon, $1,000 pounds of rice,
100000 quarts or brandy, 10000 pounds Of coffee,
$500 o.pounds OF hay, and large quantities Of
oats and straw. s5ss, =
-sGenera! Malone, who has just been elected
president OF ;he Atlantic Mississippi and Ohio
Railroad Company. with salary OF s25,0oO, Is
also president OF the Norfolk AMI Petersburg Rail-
road, which pays sGoon; the southside Rail- DAD,
which pays ssOooyand tile Virginia aud Tennes
see Railroad, which pays $4,000, 1n addition TO
this he is president or the Virginia and Kentucky
Railroad.
Gold ore having been: discovered in Msdagas-
car, the government o: tie island has prohibited
the search lor ore,The reason for this lprohibi.
ton is that II gold Is found in remuneratiye quan-
titles, there will be such a rush OF Europeans to-
the country rs wifi dispossess the native inDabi-
tants The fear Is not unreasonable. T!ie pre-
caution, however. Gun hartly be'maiatained. The
greed, OF lyold is the curse OF civilization.
-TheS State oiNeyudL has seat to Germany q.
bar OF silver valued Ut S3l23 Subscription for.
the reisf OF the wounded. On It Is Inscribed in
German: s;HFor the German wounded; and fur
the widows and orphans OF the fallep:o1 Germany,
in the war. OF 1907 and underneath this, in
English: seermsns,i battling for unity and civil.
zatlon, Commands the sympathy OF Republican
America. wemay hot draw lhesword with her,
bat we desire tohelp in staunchn2 her wounds"
"A corps Of commissioners has been organized
in Strastourg, who are busy In assessing the
damage eidone t0property; aud rhat which results
from the interruptions OF business relations. All
thisis.toibe patd,by France aud, In addition to
the1arge contributions air sady received for the
strasbourgers, from all parts ;of Germany, will
probably indemnify them for all the material In.
Jnnesswhlch they, have sustaIned.I iBdt they Sre
possessed Of some queer conccits and the most
bardmsnt as they sinagine chat France wm soon
epdeayo-,t to retake Strasbourg. qzrAn
A balloon letter received at Bordeaux dis.
cusses Paris fashions. Quie: colora are In favor,
and the nse OF Jewels Is dispensed, with. This is
delicate homage. paid to>the mourning and
grief of'those who have lost friends and Kindred.
'Paris," "the writer maintains, in spite Of adyer.
slsH, "willnot ceaseto dicrate to the whole world
the supreme laws of elegance and good taste"
victor Hugo might have written that sentence;
bn5 only some young Miss with 1owlng tresses
could have written this "Taklng, vantage Of
the flight Of certain personages: who had gray,
thinIo or redn hair, sand who iuaicted on fashion
their Indispensable false hair, our Partisan ladies
have at once restored 10 liberty their own locks,
so hong hid under the despotlc artificial chlgnon.
Brown plaits carefully smoorhed down, light
rtngiets, at once graceful aud natural have alone
adorned forfsome days the delicate and pretty
heads OF our young ladies', who are delighted TO
have their most beautiful adornmens restoredsto
them.la as:sss szs7sg.i.s -
-ALondon- letter to the New York Sun de. !
char that the power OF Bismarck in the councils
of PIus-!a is deellning. The writer asserts that
the Count, who made ,Klrg OF Prussia aud the |
Princess Royal what they are politically aud MILL |
tattlyf ndhad',fan control OF his Majesty and |
placed Competent onicers to direct, nis son and |
nephew would have made terms at Sedan which |
France collda accept and have term mated the |
Nth tn the utmost advantage. and glory to |
PFpssa, to himself andto his royal master. "But
Bismarck," !" as an American ftiend expresses 1t,
mas made King William too big his breeches,n
and ne has come, 20 thlnk himself q greater man
than his chancellor Hence divided views In
policy, not ;iu military operations, aud Bis.
n,arnk, perhapa fortunately for the cause of Eu.
rope, Ls no longer quite free.handed The CORES.