The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-09-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Gold closed in New York on Saturday
at 14a. u,,.ras
Cation advanced / of cent, and uplands
closed at 2Otc, with sales OF 1000 bales
in Liverpool cotton closed exclCeai up
lands Gid: Orleans sld; sales $4,000 bales.
Temnle Bar, the famous London gateway
Ia to be pulled down. .
A bill has been introduced into the ueorsia
Legislature making dissatisfaction a srouno
for divorce.
s.Methusalch, - the largest OF new grove OF
bir trees recently explored In Tuolumne Couh-
tr. Cal, ia eighty-;our feet in circumference at
the roots.
baltimore has nearly forty packing houses
engaged in the oyster trade that have over
ssl5, ,oOo, 900 capital invested in it. and employ
$4,000 hands. ,,o
-Bishop Williams received a gift Of slO,ooo
or s15 600 from the wealthy Catholics of Bos-
ton few days since. The gilt was MADE up
privately and by subscription.
-One hundred millions of dollars a year
Uould not restore to the soil of the United
states the valuable manure elements which
we send drifting down our rivers and haroors.
The public school system is about to go in
to effect at Richmond. White teachers have
heen selected for white schools and colored
teachers for colored schools.
Mr.. A. T. Stewart has paid $4,000, oOo for
ION acres lust outside the southern line of
Brooklyn, New York 1t Is intended for the
terminus of the new railroad from Hampstead
Plains.
The conservation of Rev. Vim. Pinckney,
q. D., assistant bishop elect OF the Episcopal
Diocese of Maryland, will take place in wash
incton City, at the Church OF the Epiphany,
on the 9Th OF October next.
The American Peace Society met at Bos-
ion last week, and adopted resolutions adVls-
ing neutral nations to exert themselves In faV-
.or of peace in Europe, and denouncing the
war there as causeiess and inhuman.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has Withdrawn the
rsfer of compromise which she made to the
CITY authorities of New Orleans, and will now
claim the full amount to which she considers
herself entitled. Her claims amount to near
5000, 900, besides costs.
The German Patriotic Aid Society in New
York has received the sum Of sl0O.55S from
different portions of the United States, IN a!d
of the wounded Prussian soiders and for the
relief of the families of the men who have fa!-
len In battle.
General Quarles has withdrawn from the
canvass as Democratic candidate Tor Cover
nor of Tennessee. This leaves the contest
between General Brown and Colonel Colyar,
with the chances ofsuccess decidedly in favor
of the former. The State Convention will bc
held on the 18th Of October.
-sE. 'sely True" "schooled with B,ia,s,"
s.Broucht to Book ''After BaYtow's u, ;.th."
.sFrom Thistles, Grapes? ~ Beauty Ial'mt,r
..Esther Hills Secret" ':The Flower 4. Kill
dalla," and .sBred in the Bone" are sUme Of
the freshest novels in The IoudGa book
market. Tie scarcity of good i'lesG'uiiuues.
A telegram from Constai ia u.,:e brings
news that the seaport towI VI oAaipsIn, in
Asia Minor, has been destroyed Wy fire. Two
thousand i've hundred horses ewa six churches
are in ashes, anG many lives ''sr. The inhabi-
tants are suffering 'e:r ply r''in want of food
and shelter. Another cc:liitgralioh is report
ed in Yendye MLce'"nI. Ihe extent of the
damage is unkn"wn.
1t is crylaini, Very trcdtable to the Ger
man comu,tau,> that The prisoners taken thus
farin The var nave lnvn treated with human:-
tv. and even generosity. From time to time
we have given examples OF that compassion to
the helpless. which is generally characteristic
%: brave natures. It is to be presumed tnal
tie F.encn. ~ho are equally civilized, would
show tic salle kindness 10 captiYeS; though II
l., true they have not had much opportunity
dlr,a;. llic war 10 exercise this kind OF hospi-
ta,y. IL would seem as ii the Germans were
bent upon making Involuntary guests of the
greater part oil the French army, and doing
their hes. 10 make them comfortable. The ex-