The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-10-18
,NEWs OF THE D.AY.

Gold closed in New York yesterday at 1s
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Cotton closed easy, Uplands l5xc. ..s,.
Liverpool yesterday cotton closed buoyant.
Upla1ds SD; Orleans sgd, .-,...,.,eu 4 :.
..1fhe Gaectangular Review is a new London
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Sscrtyl persons ass in an have died otyerow fever
in Mobile this season ,,.,,re5 ;,.,c art.lr,a
slars. Lille DeSereaux Blake has organized Q
committee Of ladies for the purpose OF interview
zfnp every Congressman and State senator In Ne"
York city, and ascertaining their views on woman
sufrage, 49,, .i,'. f,...go.,- t!jG:f,o'iH
Fifteen .gunsof the United States frlgate Cum.
befsandr sunk lin Hampton Roads In April, 1857,
by the confederate iron.clad Merrimac, have been
raised and taken to Richmond, where they Will
be converted into railroad iron and car wheels q
EFouir foreign newspaper correspondents with
the Rrussian army unite in "a letterto the London
Times coutradictng in, the most emphatic man.
ner the Stories OF German barbarty to prisoners
and peasants .......-- .ra,..,
The mississippi River steamboats, Robert E.
Lee, and ,Natchez ,are.:;to run q race from New
Orleans to Natchez for $4,000. The merchants
OF Kew orleans are ;to raise $4,000, and each
boat subscribe $1,000 tl;ts 90 i'if. .!a@' i'r.
THE Pb ris theatres are not only shut'up, but
all their, ,goyernment, allowances have been abol'
ishedy THE grand opera house Is changed Into 3
provisional 1epot and 'sae grand hotel into . hos.
pital. There never was before such a arevolution
as this In Paris. ,2g! Ea, -, ,fs,
The Paris JGgi JOURNAL des TaiegrapShes says that
the velocity Of electriccurrentsl through the At
lantic cable is 1000 or 5000 miles per second, The
curteats Dire transmitted, through elevated wires
on land at rate varying from $4,000 to 10000 the
velocity abelng greater the higher the wires are
fro9tthe eaFta1d M taf1d snl!gl l,as 49h % .;l9ifs;a
-3t3Sreported that Bismarck has fnttmated to
EnsanaF Rnssia and astris that. t.. GERMANY S is
nowsSs$ay. III Their. Intervention In ,behafo
peaeai Ut ,ssaIa thai 1.-The Prussians have come to-
the eoae.lslsn ihss Paris can only Be- rednred hy
slegs St Several months and 'ithsl exhaustion Of
its plovtsiDasu Accordingly Il Is proposed that
consteasSrthe great powers shall be- held to de.
termine upon what conditions peace shall now be
made. zr -olin g.. .'..r =. ! H.ii ti's BIZ
The New Orleans Times says the experiment
OF Chinese labor on the. MllandoIn plantation
near that city has proved entlnently satisfactory
to all parties IAN o!d Planter who has recently
visited .sthe place. reportsi that they were doing
werkEhtch negrni2borerg could not be got 10 do
to wit, getting wood out OF q swamp where
they had to wade and work all day above their
ankles In watepy They were cheerful, active and
Jealous to degree that made Cur old planter
sign for a few such on his own plantation.
I'm the event Of the Siege, of Paris being pro-
ionsed until prpYisions grow scarce, 1t may be
worm while Tor the friends of the besieged, SAYS
the Pail Mail Gazette, to consider whether food
could not be dropped from balloons, by means OF
parachutes into the city. Large quantities OF ]
Ltebig's eztraetn carnfs 81 might descend In this
manner, and would be very acceptable when
everything else Is eaten up. We are informed.
that in the latter part Of the last century. NJ. /.
Blanchard, the aronaut, when ascending, from
Ssrasbourg, dropped a dog connected with
parachute tom the height OF six thousand
feet, Unfortunately, however; q whlrlwind in.
terrupted 3Jtss descent, and dthet faithful ami.
ma, WAS carried asoge the Clouds N. Blaach:
ard afterMzrns meI the dog In the sky, Who re-
coSnizlng his MaGes began to- bark; bat Just as
NJ. Blanchard was going TO seize him, another
whiriwind suddenly carried the parachute beyond
his reaShea4ha the dog aisappealad In heaHens-
Let us hope ne found refuge ultimately in
sirius,nIn tte:meah!inae; we must earnestly hope,
that SEED se or arostston win not be CARR. d