The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-08-12
NEWS OF THE DAH.

Gold at New York yesterday closed at LII
al7a.
The New York cotton market closed quiet
aud weak; sales 1000 bales; middllng uplands
as4c.
AT Liverpool cotton closed buoyant; up
lands SD; Orleans 3D.; sales Is, 900 bales.
"A Washington dispatch, Of Tuesday, says:
svThe Prusslan minister has adVices that no
battle was fought to-day, but he regards one
OF the most gigantic of modern times as i'm
minent."
.The acting French Consul in Richmond
has had SO many applications from e1-Confede-
rates who desire to enter the French army.
that he has been compelled to announce
through the public press that he has no au-
thority to accept their propositions.
The Virginia State Agricultural Society Is
making preparations for a fair, to be held in
November, which will eclipse anything of the
kind ever before held in that State. The pre-
MUM list is already made out, and extraordl-
nary inducements are offered to exhibitors.
The Orleans family has given 10000 francs
for the wounded;. Count de Chambord has
has given 10000 francs The throne seems
nearer to the family than 1t has done for
long time before. The success Of Prussia may
.put crown upon the head of the oldest of the
Orleans princes.
The census returns are making sad havoc
with the pretensions Of most Of our great cities
as to the enumber of their inhabitants. Chicago,
dor Instance, which has been boasting loudly
of having four hundred thousand people, is
shown to have less than three hundred thous-
and, possibly not over two hundred and fifty
thousand.
An association Of landowners has been
formed in San Francisco to defend suits
against the pettifoggers, who make a busi-
mess of threatening owners, whose titles they
suppose to be imperfect, for blaekmail purpo-
ses These wretches sometimes offer to with
draw claims against estates valued at thous-
ands of dollars for fifty or one hundred dollars,
and honest holders frequently pay the claims
rather than go to law. Now there is to be an
END of the practice.
The development Of the Illinois coal fields
Is claimed to be due to farmer near Spring
field, who thought that such country could
not be destined by Providence to be without
fuel tsThe wood is nearly gone.'' said he to
himself, ''and there must be COAL" In this
almost whimsical faith he sunk o shaft one
hundred and sixty feet, and then struck vein
OF bItuminous coal, which he Is now mining to
the amount of $1,000 per week.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
says: s'We are glad General Lee has not ter-
dered his services to either Of the European
.beilieerents. He can safely rest his military
reputation where 1t now is. The Prussian
Field Marshal Won Moltke, in the presence Ct
American gentlemen, once paid the
great Confederate chleftain compliment
(which, from such lips, was indeed worth hav-
Ing: 4 consider General Lee, said the old vet
ran; 'as soldier not inferior to Wellington
BIS auditors we're all Northern men, but they
relish ID the remark none the less as deserv-
ed tribute to an American soldier"
Speaking OF poor Prevost-Para.ol, a Paris
correspondent says he leaves three children
reutirely destitute. He was fondly attached to
them, and nothing but madness could hay. in-