The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-08-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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-The New York cotton market was dull and
unchanged; sales 1000 bales, at 1919.
AT Liverpool cotton closed with an up
ward tendency; uplands Cd; sales 5000 bales.
-Beresford Hope, in a letter to the London
Times, defends the erection of.a monument 10
-Stonewall Jackson.nC .i"es ~. - -. ~
The troops, of the African army which ar
r,ved In France consist Of 1900 ZouaVes, 4eoo
Torcos. and 5000 Chasseurs d'Afrlque, and
,.ome spahIs-in all from 90, 900 to 25, 600 bayo-
nets and sabres.. Alarge proportion ot tnese
-zvere killed in the late engagements. rrs7.ss I,
The Pail Mall Gazette says the LONDON
-ool,cemen, having, .hesrd that the French
froops are allowed, TO-. cast aside their cum
hrous shakos, are instant for 9 genera en-
-rarement near Bow, Bells, that they, too, may
be called ON to go into action, and In this way
escape wearing the t'ojous 'elmetH winch s
xuow their head gear. ,;.'' =. Z, "
The consumption Of wood in the United
states is enormons. Il Railway! sleepers' alone
.raou,re 10000 acres ofthe best timber every
.yesr. The annual expenditure for railway
gbaildings, repairs and cars Is sss $500 900. Ihe
locomotives in the United States consume
as. .eOo, 900 worth Of the article. Wood indus
:fry amounts to s5OO, ,QQao, 900, In which there
are 10000 artisans. y9Gi ,HisH. s.2'' ~
The war isgetting into every thing. Here
zs an oll region paper publishing an account OF
a prize fight, .Gqm. which we extract the fol-
lowing: Round ll-Both prompt'at'the scratch
and get TO work quickly; 80 lands a mltrall-
leur shoti IS mug, nearly closing ms
mort peeper. :. .is--c chassepot back, on his op-
ponents starboard barker. Round l2-'-4's
.mug looking. .seedy,i his ,Isft optic turning a
Bismarck color, DO. Tlsse ,.:., u I-.szG =
-Nr. Halstesd, of the Cincinnati. CONNER
cial, telegraphs from Luxembourg, on Sunday
evening, to, his paper. as follows; 81 was pres
ent at the battle Of Graxelotte oR Thursday.
The King OF Prussia, Count Bismarck and
General Sheridan were on the field. It was
the third great battle for the road from Metz
10 Paris. The French were outnumbered and
beaten back, to the walls Of Metz. The .slaush-
ter ON both aides swas horrible. 1 walked
.eyen miles oyer the. fields strewn thick with
A.ad men and horses, The lines OF battle we're
lsnarked with dead IN heaps -'"'ssFiin s,o!i foH
Statistics In referenoeito tile sanitary con-
..s,ition of the London needle le-women have
been published; from which; itappears hatthe
mean age Of women generally is 54I years;
that Of fneedle-women:.i Is only 1854. Out OF one
thousand, needle women, four hundred and
thirty-eight die from consumption, and one
hundred and three from fevers; out OF one
thousand shop.keepers, one hundred and
tventy-seven die from consumption, and thir
tyeeyen from eyers. In 1861, 1t Is stated tha
there were III, ,lsl females In London engaged
In various branches of ;leedle-work, of WHOM
1l0o0 were undertwenty; years OF age.
The raising of sunken vessels by balloons
has recently been in course Of experiment a
Liverpool. Operations were commenced on
ssunken steam-tug. Thirty-six balloons arr
used, four calculated to raise forty tons each
twenty to raise twenty tons each, and twelve
to raise ten tons each-giving total liftins
mower of $50 tons. The empty balloons art
combined with q number Of charged gas gene
xators. and attached to an apparatus which l.
,x,olted to the sides of the vessel. The genera
tors are expected to furnish sufficient hydro
zen gas to the balloons to give them LIFTING
pover to raise the vessels. to Ice surface. Th
result of the experiment has not yet been an
Il0nneed. = Hsat..'.2 -. = -.
The demads .pf the war on the German
population are thus stated by correspondent
AOne requires to be In Germany to have
6rought home to one the full practical working
a1 a system that so sharply, without distino
tion of persons, gathers In all alike % compul
sorry service. The result Is that at present II
Prussia all men between 20 and 80, not disa
died for special reasons otherwise employed
.,sre in The field. 1t is painfully impressive t.
noslhe deserted aspect of German cities. Wht