The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-11-08
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1870.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gold closed in New York yesterday at l0s.
Cotton was unsettled and lower; uplands l61s
cents; sales 26o0 bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed hat; upands 9tsd;
Orleans eHd; sales 10000 bales.
A balloonist Is to bring out OF Paris some DAN
sueses for New York manager. at 5000 apiece.
"A Californian claims that he can raise cotton
IN h,s farm there two cents pound cheaper than
they can do 1t from the best lands along ine MIS-
sissippi.
England Is beginning TO acknowledge Ne"
York as the leader OF fashions. The London puo'
fishers, to whom prominent metropolitan mo-
iiste has furnished steel fashion plates lot some
time past, advised her recently by cable to In
crease their original order one.third, IN lieu OF
Partisan STYLES, American designs being preferred
to any other.
"A number OF French officers, taken prisoner
at Sedan, were sitting at a restaurant at Berlin,
when some private Prussian soldiers entered
and. as all other tables were full, sat down at
,.heir table, The arrogant lleutenants took Of
fence at what they deemed IN insult 10 1helr
eaaulettes So one Of 'hem asked one OF tne prl-
Yates, who belonged to the antlwehr, IN an insult
ing manner for his name. "My name s rrlnce
T-,m was the reply, sat present serving my
country as private. Give me yours sir SO thaS
Imay know whom to chastise as soon as you are
permitted to bear arms.''
"A California miner, who last spring emigrat'
ed to the. diamond fields OF South Africa writes
that on arriving there the California scenes OF 4s
were reproduced. 1.-THE river was lined with ROCK
era. tents and miners Of all kinds, COLOR sex and
size for mile on both sides. At least 800 miners
we're at work, whole families, men, women and
children. The men were picking, shorellng and
washing the dirt, while the women and Children
we're sitting around tables and sorting the pebbles
that heye been washed for diamonds" One par.
ty fonnd l72 diamonds in q triangular space OF
fIty paces each way, andle than two feet deep,
s15o more had been taker out near by. They rang
cd from u to SO karats weight, and one OF 40 "a
rats is valued at se5Oo. The gravel is dug down to
the clay bed, the dirt slted and the pebbles care.
fully washed In q cradle and then sorted, hand
full at time. The negroes are being taught to
sort and the elacker they are the more honest.
Whenever they have little white blood in them,
they will steal.
Among the improvements Of modern war,
methods for providing defensive cover for soldiers
!. In action have 8 prominent place. With the sub
musket as weapon OF offence, comes the impera-
tive demand for q shelter for the sEirmisher, 10
be easily improvised wherever needed-a demand
which our own soldiers Recognized when they
split their tn canteens into serviceabe shovels,
and by their aid threw up little mounds OF earth
behind which they could lie In comparative salety
An officer OF the English engineers has invented
combination of the pick and shosel, attached to
.one handle, strong enough to work 10 surface
soil, but so light as to be readily carried by every
soldier To this he would aid ''collapsible loop
hoie,n circle tc be put in the bioase pocket, but
capable OF being drawn out like telescope, or
rather like French opera.hat, to cylinder twen-
ty.one inches long and six inches In diameter,
about which the earth may be piled so that the
man is enectually shielded from an en.my at
whom he may nevertheless take aim.
The Cincinnati Commercial, following in the
wake OF the New York Post, administers telling
blow to the President, who seems nearly as un-
popular with his own party as with the oppos!-
tion. It declares that the Senate will make Its un.
.frieadliness felt at the next session In op-
position to some OF Grants pet theories aud
schemes, and in refusal to confirm his appointees.
Fenton still feels the wound Of the Collector
Murphy contest. Howard i5 sore On account OF
his overthrow for minister resident at Guatemala,
which was gwen to Mr.. Hudson, relative
or the President. Sumner is unfriendly, partly
on account of San Domingo, bat more on
; account OF Motley's recall; and for the latter
reason Is Senator Wilson unfrienily. Others
claim that he has done 2othing to aid their
reelection. A powerful opponent or the Presi-
dent Is Carl Schurz, AMI the breach between
them Is very wide. Tie appointment OF Grants
brother.in.law, Kramer, as minister to Denmark;
OF John Dent another brother.in-law, and DEM
ocrat, appraiser at San Francisco; OF Admiral
Porter to succeed Farragut, and OF Admiral Row
an. vice Porter, will be ssurdny opposed. Many
senators do not relish Secretary Cox.s rcmora,
and will make the President understand 1t. "As
for Mr.. SPINNER, personally, he Will accept the
guage OF battle lhrowa down TO him, and will
take open ground that the Executive, in attempt
ing to punish senators for exercising their pliyi
lege in yosiDg agaius. and appropriations,
is assuming the same attitude toward Congress
- as that presumed on by Andrew Johnson
The dismal scenes during the siege Of Stras.
bourg, already described would fill volumes; b ut
fresh horrors are depicted in each mails advices.
a wealthy msrch mt OH the approach OF ne
enemy, sent sway his IA ni!y, but remained him
self to care for his large property. The most
bulky articles he secured as well az he was able,
and, taking mis- plate and jewels to the cellar OF
one Of hl< houses. he prepared that place as his
stronghold. He laid in provisions, and, with one
&or TWO trusty servants, shut himself in For
: eight days all weRt well; on the ninth shell ir
before the house, and they retire sted to the
= cellar. After few days, and while the mer.
chant was dining, horrible crash overhead
and the tumbing In OF the walls appriled
.him that. q hinge shell had blown the, house