The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-09-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEVy OF THE DAY.
Gold at New York closed yesterday at Ia
al4s. ...,
Tho New York cotton market closed ct lel
cents; sales 1900 bales.
At Liverpool cotton closed buoyant but
unchanged; sales 140o bales.
"A German paper in New York is publish
Ing official lists of the killed in the recent
battles.
The Prussian General Won Moltke is said
to have grand nephew who is a clerk on
Mississippi steamboat.
"A picture in the Chariyari represents
zouave fallen upon heap OF Prussian corpses.
uHIt at last IN he exclaims, ''but / have made
my bed"
The French commander at Toul, to a de
mand to surrender, made an answer more
heroic In fact than in form: III will not sur
render till my shirt-tail is on fre'-"QuanG te
fem nuru pris uu pan de ma chensiSe ~
The Cologne Gazette says that the Ger
mans must give finishing stroke not only TO
the Bonaparte family, but to the French ma
tion." The SIlesian Gazette, semi-of1clal
organ of the Prussian Government, holds e3-
-actly the same language.
The cavalry regiment of Count Bismarck
is IN no way distinguished by its uniform
from the nine others of the North Germ an
Federal army; all wear the white tunic 1t Is
the finest regiment in Prussia, nearly all OF the
men and the horses drawn from Pomerania.
az. Bismarck fulfilled the functions of field
.oficer.
"A Richmond firm shipped fifty hands one
.dav last week to work on Mississippi farms.
The business promises to be very brisk this
fall. Last fall there were $1,000 hands shipped
oyer the Danville. Southside and Virginia and
Tennessee Roads alone. These hands are
Transported safely and expedtiously In cars at
tached to mail trains.
An immense mass meeting OF the French
and Irish citizens of New York was held at the
Cooper Institute on Monday evening, to ex-
press their satisfaction at the proclamation of
the French Republic. Speeches were made by
General II. T. Mcmahon, Hon. W. E. Robin
son. Rev. DR.. OLeary, General Ryan, and
others. The "Marseillaise" was sung amidst
great enthusiasm.
The facilities enjoyed by Paris for trans
porting troops, ammunition and supplies fcom
point to point within her limits, render the
task of defence in the hands OF competent
commander far from difficult. Good roads
and city railroads encircle and intersect Paris
In every direction, so that much smaller
garrison is required than the immense extent
OF the Notifications would lead one to believe.
The continued and successful holding out
ofMetz, Strasbourg and Toul, is almost as re-
markable as the thorough collapse which the
French armies have suffered in the field. In
1892 the siege Of Thionville occupied the Prus-
slams tortwo, months, and was abandoned after
all. Carnot wrote, for the first revolutionary
epoch, book on the defence Of fortified
places, in which he laid down as the first prln-
.ciple that ''every soldier charged with the de-
fence of fortress should resolve to perish
rather than surrender"
The war in Europe, although it Is conced-
edsto. be something OF war, Is not the only
war In progress at the present time. In Bor-
eneo. about the beginning OF June, an expedi-
ton of II, 900 Malays, commanded BY his High
ness, the Rajah Of Saranak, attacked body OF
Dyaks and defeated them with voluminous
slaughter. The Dyaks are very peacefully
disposed people, but have rendered themselves
peculiarly obnoxious by cutting of the heads
of everybody they captured outside of their
own circle, and his Highness couldn't stand it
any longer. 1t Is expected that this expedi-
ton will bring the decapitatlng Dyaks to their
senses, and enable traders to develop the re-
sources Of those primitive lands which abound
in gulta-percha, csmphor, becswax, rattans,
hard wood, &c. War operations in New Zea-
land are suspended pro tem., the approach of
winter necessitating the abandonment of the
pursuit OF Te Koott into the mountain dis
tricts, to which he and his followers have re-
treated.
"A dreadful tale of suffering at sea is that
of the shipwreck of the Spanish brig Nacional,
from A2uadlla, Porto Rico, for Barcelona, with
500bales Of cotton aud sl4 bags of coffee. She
sailed August 18th, under the command Of
Captain Pablo Berdaguer, with crew Of nine
men and boy, and for eleven days had fair
weather and good voyage. On the 29th, a
csclone struck them before they had time to
reef the sails. :, 1t was Impossible to run before
the gale, she;yessel broaching to and the mad