The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-12-09
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FRIDAY, /. DECEMBER 9, 1870.
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NEWS OF THE DAP.
Gold at New York; yesterday, closed at
:at I0Ka1ox. H. 3Htlyitso = .
The new York cotton market closed dull and
tending down at 15Xc. Sales 400 bs,es.
The preparations for gigantic Ice harvest
are active il an parts OF the country where Ice
ia usually made by natnte In abundance
John P Cox, general superintendent or the
Pennsylvania and New York Canal and Railroad,
Is dead. $ sc.Ei !.,,B tyf..'ifz-,' gfi;i- 60
This Is the bare skeleton, scarcely that even, OF
very ine drams,i the conception: and literary
execution OF which reflects the highest credit
upon the author.
The result OF q minute inspection OF the forti.
acations of Metz by the German engineers is that
these fortifcations are considered excellent IN
every respect"
Bash Duke has been placed in charge OF the
Missouri lotteries by the court, receiver. Siml.
Lar proceedings are threatened In Kentucky and
Louisiana, and the business viii be. untnter-
rupted.
The London Church Review gives its readers
this classification OF ciergymen: "Parsons with
crayats and collars are Low Church; parsons with
craya.s and no collars are High Church; parsons
with collars and no crayats are Broad Church"
---On last Saturday train OF nineteen cars,
laden with tea direct from San Francisco, passed
through Harrisburg, Pa, on the way to New
York The time male from San Francisco was
good although the hot axle boxes prevented the
train from running on the express freight scae-
dule.. The cargo, it Is stated. Is worth near
$4,000. ,se.
a western correspondent OF the Boston Jour
nnl declares the statement that the but1aloes are
desersiug the plains Is fiction. They cover the
plains Tor miles and miles, The railroad track
bothers them. fhey consider it snare, and. will
not cross It. They run along by the side Of the
trait for miles, and when they come to culvert
dfve r1n1sr. ..liiSi. y 50 "a rf8'i - .i'-
French olncers held as prisoners In Germany
are nowpernittea to'vlslt Berlin in uniform, and
in the streets 1t is quite common to see them go.
ing about "dolng" the lions OF the city, aud with
every facility extended TO them by the citizens,
who are most courteous in showing them the
route from pint to point and In various
other ways rendering them assistance and atten-
ton. 80 y >i"l. '.''''>
Lltl1as been observed In the French hospitals
at, Orleans that the wounds OF the Germans are
chiefly from pieces OF shell-comparaLiyely few
bullet w5unds-but that the French have chiefly
been wounded by the needle gun. The inference
is obvious that the French fred Mildly, too fast
and without aiming, and perhaps at too great
distance TIE Chassepot is bad weapon for re-
cruIts, and especially for young French soldiers,
impetuous and difficult to control. -
The Consul General OF the North German Con-
federation, on last Saturday, transmitted another
remittance Of ten thousand thalers Of the German
wsT fund collections In aid Of the wounded, max
ing with previous remlttances, q total Of 10000
thaicrs or ss44, ,sOo Tie treasurer OF the general
committee OF the German aid, societies reports
that the subscriptions collected auspices
ofSAe ofganization mentioned, have reached the
sum d s2Oaos, which $50, ,54s have been5 trans
ruitted to Berlin. --.-
The United States ship Guard, OF the DatIen
Expedition, left New YORK on Decen ber Sd, sal.
ingdirect for the mouth Of the Atrato River, on
the Isihmus. The Uuited States gunboat NlpsIc,
now fitting out for the same exposition, will sail
about January 1st, from Washington, D. c., and
win PROCEED to the Atrato there to take aboard
Commander Selrridge and the scientific party,
and convey them TO AsplnwslI, where eyeeXpect
10 arrive about the middle of next January.
About ;thB same time the United States steamer
Saginaw will arrive at Panama, and then convey
Commander Selfridge and party to the mouth OF
the Darien River, on the Pacific side. The ex-
plorIng parties will commence operations both on
the Atlantic aud Pacific sides, and survey the re-
spective routes until they meet. ,..5 q
The social and domestic misery produced In
Germany by tile war is very great. A German
paper states that In the proyiucs or Westphalla,
at the beginning OF October, there were II, SIT
married women, the wives aud widows Of soldiers
togetner with o. 7is children obtaining relief from
the public funds. In Hanover, 1921 women aud
2s,4IS children were dependent upon the public
for support. IN the Rhenish provinces there
were II, ,312 married women and 9,Gl9 fatherless
children who were utterly destitute. Thus, in only
three Prussian provinces there Were lust October,
a575S women and 1880 children An condition
Of misery and want, and It Is believed that destl-
tusien to the same extent prevails IN the other
provinces OF Prussia. The price OF provisions Is
extraordinarily high, and the winter /: Is predict
ed, will be unusually severe. The injury done by
the potato rot aud the rlndeTpest has also been
severe, aud the condition OF the families OF the
peasants left at home. Is very miserable. About
uiue-teuths oTsne 'uateS arc III Wiz iatuwh1t, auu
the women and children thus, deprived OF their
natural supporters WILL 1t is feared, perish from
starvation.
An Engllshman who left Paris oa the Sth and
arrived OF Brasselsson the 17th Of November. ad.
dresses letter to the Independence Beige on the
state OF Paris BE says that life there Is still more
than eldurable..e Each 'inhabisant receives fifty
grammes OF meat day; beef at one franc twenty
centimes, and horse nesh at one franc pound.
Beef and mutton will last till the end of the
montts there will still remain 45 900 horses and
immense quantities OF salt meat stored at the
New Opera, so that there viii be enough meat