The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-11-30
Tbe MarleStoot aems
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 80, 1870.
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Gold closed in, New York, yesterday as
11Xa11A.
Cotton closed quiet and /. Of cent lower;
uplands 16H cents; sales $500 bales.
i'm Liverpool cotton closed steady; upiands
eXaexd; Orleans 9Iashd; sales 1900 bales.
-uver fifty persons were killed recently by an
explosion OF gun-cotton at Alexandria, Egypt
Schneider will not come to the United States
inst vet as she Is airaid 10 cross the Atlantic IN
the winter season.
The North German consul-general IN New
York has remitted 800 900 thalers to Berlin IN aid
of Prnssian sick and wounded.
AT Trinity Chapel. New York, last Tuesday,
there was nuptial ceremony In which the oriae-
eroom,s daughters was the bridesmaids, anu MS
son the proomsman The wedding was brill
liant affair.
I'm the harbor OF Dover, says the journal de
bordeaux, is little steamer, Kept ready, Gay anu
night. to bear to Calais o certain prince, VINO
claims the French throne, and proposes TO esta'
bllsh provisional capital in Normandy.
At a far iu New York, young lady described
as s,an heIress, beautiful and accomplished" Of
fers herself to be rallied for, "no married man OF
a ticket.n She says she Is convinced marriage
Is q 10 tery,n and wants to prove it.
The sugar crop Of South Louisiana has never
seen more favorable season than the last, and'
Notwithstanding deficiency Of water, ana the
high price Of labor, which was NOT ootainaole at
any price early In the season, the crop promises
to exceed that of last year by at least twenty or
twenty.hve thousand hogsheads. ~-----7.
The late Wilkes Booth, SHORTLY before the Ia
mons events which preceded his death, deposited
three thousand dollars in bank at Montrea.
None OF his family would draw this deposit, ana
II still remains to his credit. Neither MS mother
nor brother-wlll receive 1t, although, our author
ity maintains, 1t has been offered to them seTerai
times. 1t anpears that eventually 1t Will go TO
the British Crown.
"A curious device to excite fresh interest In
opera boufle has been hit upon at the Grano
Opera House in New York. "The Grand Duchess"
is to be revived this week, with three prima
donnas In the leading part-Mlle. Montaland play
Ing her Hlphness OF Gerolsten In the first, Mile.
SuIly taking up the part In the second aud Mile.
Persinl finishing the opera.
"A good deal of unpleasant feeling has been
created in England by statements that the irish
and English memoe's of the Papal Brigade have
been very badly treated by the Italian officials
notwithstanding that they were protected oy
special clause in tie convention between General
Kanzier and the Italian commander. Some OF
the best families in England had representatives
in the brigade.
The Carlsruhe Zeitung, one OF the largest
papers OF South Germany, advocates the forciole
annexation OF German switzerland. speaking OF
performance OF Schier's sWtlliam Tell, In
that city, it Condemns the theatrical manager Tor
bringing such piece before the public, lor IL
says the drama is only political gloridcatlon OF
the secession OF one OF her finest provinces from
the German Fatherland.
in regard to the contemplated sortie from
Paris there appears to be but two places where
the conlguration OF the ground will permit the
army to deploy into llne-the. plains OF Gonesse
and Ecouen, north Of Paris, and the plains between
Bourg-la- Refine and Paak eau, In the south. These
are solidly occupied by Plussans, who have forth
fed the villages and connected them With
trenches. Moreover, they are commanded by
the heights, which are mounted with cannon
sweeping the whole field. In case OF an attack,
should the French break the nrst line, they would
encounter another several miles back.
the AmeIlCdu lcluulC PiSPohNSA
ate next winter In the foreign circles at Washing
ton. The new French minister's wife, Madame
Treilhard, was {, Miss Hoffman, OF New York city.
The bride OF the Spanish Minister is Miss Terry,
New York Cuban. The wife Of that attache
the Austrian legation wss Mrs. Griffin, and
widow Of brilliant American general. The wife
of the Mexican Minister xGs Miss Smith, OF
washington. an thar OF tie Danish representa-
tive Miss ZabrIskle, .: New Jersey. The aching
Brazilian envoy, Mr.. Fleury, Is also married to an
American lady, and the late Italian Nns'er
Cerruti has become the husband OF Miss Ncycs,
of New York city, while Mrs. lie Strange, OF the
British legation, was Miss Austin, OF Boston.
York has project for palace OF indus
try and ars ater. the general plan Of the Crystal
Palace in London. he plan cOntemplates the
erection OF mammoth building between Third
and Fourth avenues and Ninety-eighth and One
Hundred and Second streets, to be one hundred
and fifty feet deep, and eight stories high. The
upper story will be IN art gallery one story will
be devoted to artists studios, and o.her parts OF
the structure will be used for exhibitions and va
rious purposes. A company has been cha terud
to carry out the plan, and proposals for sub
.scriptions to the capital stock are now out. The
realization OF the scheme will Of course depend
,on the answers to tn Sc proposals. The list OF
corporators embraces the names OF many well
known gentlemen-Horace Greeley and William
G. Bryant being among them.
The medical department OF the Privy Coun-
oil OF Great Britain has recently taken up with
great earne.tness the question OF animal vaccina.
,tion, with view to its adoption or rejection In
England, according as it NAV seem to possess
any special advantage over the present system.
Commissioners sere sent to the continent Of Ea-
rope, in 1869, 10 ascertain how far the vaccine
disease might be transferred from animal to anil