The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-09-02
NEWS OF TIE DiF.

co,d in New York closed az l6lal65c.
The New York Cotton market closed
steady at lssc; sales 1900 baies.
At Liverpool cotton closed ouo5ane' up
lands Cd: Orleans s4d; sales 1900 bales.
-prr,sla has $50 associations for the I'M
movement of the soil by drainage, rriSation
and dykes.
A German clergyman in Cincinnati was 30
src,,ed over the war news that he took SIX
morph,ze pills ana died.
fillmore, the Boston SCULPTOR Is no" en.
oared on a model for an equestrian statue ci
Colonel Shaw, who fell at the head OF the col
ed brigade at Fort Wagner.
The fall elections will commence IN Sep
,sn ber, when elections will be held in Calitor'
mia and Vermont on the first Tuesday, or eth
of September, and in Maine on tue second
Monday, or l2tho September.
Red Cloud, it is believed, has kept MS
promises With the government, as, since his
return from Washington to the Mest' tnere
have been no Indian depredatiens committed
in the vicinity Of Fort Fetterman.
--Fonr hundred Gatlng cannon are to be
made at Colts armory, Hartford, for the Rus
sian, Turkish and Egyptian Governments
They are nothing more nor less than the MI
trailleurs. so much talked about Just now.
"A Californian contracted with Chinanan
for building him fourteen houses. The Chlna-
man hired carpenter to build the first one
carefully watching every movement made,
then discharged his employee and bpilt the
rest himself.
"A man named Ryan sheen arrested in
New York on the charge Of burglary. He is
suspected as being the Nathan murderer be-
cause he had s'blood on his shirt Rather
Door reason for such suspicion at this late
day.
The English courts have just refused to re-
cognlze an Iowa divorce on the ground that IN
no case has q foreign divorce been held to In
validate an English marriage between English
subjects, where the parties were not domiciled
in the country by the tribunals Of which the
divorce was granted.
The emigrants who arrived in New York
during the week ending oa last Saturday, Au-
gust 9th, amounted in numbers to $685., or
not more than two-hfths of the average week
ly srrlaals In May, June and in the early part
of JULY. This dillfnutlon Is attributed to the
war in Europe. The actual number arriving
last week from Bremen and Hamburg is only
4o7, and these passengers must have sailed be-
fore the commencemenso OF hostiii.ies.
There are abundant indications to show
that the Prussians have good reasons for the
formation OF new army to protect them
against foreign Intervention. The Russian ma
tional organs grow more decided in their
opinions that the supremacy Of Prussia is
more to- be feared than that OF France; while
Austrian craftsmanship is, not unnaturally,
much disposed to Try its hand at cooperative
Intervention. The immense spirit and pluck
of the German people will be severely tested
before peace is finally proclaimed
Rev. J. Sela Martin, colored preacher
who was appointed special postal agent and
assigned to duty in the South, complains to
the Postoflce Department that he was recent
~ elected from a mail train between Mobile
and Montgomery, Ala, solely on account of
his color, and that he thereby lost track of
mail depredator whose arrest he was seeking
The result is suit against the railroad COM
pany for 900 damages, for obstructlng
United States officer in the discharge OF his
duty.
The Assistant Attorney General, on satur-
dsy, telegraphed to the United States District
Attorney of West Virginia 10 dismiss all prose-
:, cutions under the act 10 enforce the right OF
citizens Of the United States TO vote IN the
several States when the offence Is not the dis
tinction forbidden in the second section OF the
same act. In Kentucky and West Virginia 1t
seems that parties have brought suits against
registers of election for refusing to register
the votes Of some alleged to have been in the
Confederate service. The second section re-
ferred to protects the colored people in their
rights; but the third section relates 20 o.,