The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-11-17
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1870:
NEWS lE;1i OF THE DAY.

% NEWS OF THE DAY.
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Gold closed in New York yesterday at r.!
al2H. E'!s.e 'is. ~ ;'.-.ll d. :.
cotton was firm; uplands 1s11c.; sales $500
bales. !gs
At Liverpool cotton closed lrmer; uplands
ohd; Orleans sssd; sales l., 900 bales.
1T is suggested in Paris to photograph letters,
on avery reduced SCALE and thus be able to send
several tntpsand communications by one pigeon.
The female member Of the Ohio bar advertises
herself as an "attorne; ;ess ut lawIo She has not
yet had case-ess ,;..lI...o.
.,-Charlotte Cushman has entirely recovered
from her Illness and Will shortly resume her pro-
fessional duties.
,-"Napoleon le sedantaire'' is the nickname
now given the Emperor by some OF the French
papers, ,...I-, :!
The New England shoe manufacturers are
complaining that their dull season has begun
week earlier than usual tnts year h} .a., -.
There are two William WiDamses elected to
the Forty:second Congress-one from 1ndiana, a
Republican, the other from New Yors, Demo-
i'y.-Rev. Dr.. John Microbes, who created con-
iiHiderable talk in New York some time ago, BY be-
.oominga Catholic, and some more by going back
to the Episcopal Church, Is to be married In few
dsys 10 alady younger than some OF his children.
sG-The inquiry ordered by Count Bismarck into
the loss caused by Napoleon to Prussia shows
that between 1906 and 1908 alone i only part OF
Prussia damage was sustained: to the amount OF
,$245,oooooo. nv" 30
AT least 5000 German provision columns are;
daily occupied In collecting everything easaole IN
the neighborhood Of Paris, though htermtnaole
provision columns are, sent from, The railway
stasionsrof Nogent aud Nanteujl. :id ~! t-
Z "A letter in the Allgeneine Zeitung notices the
difaculties under which. the government pf Lor.
raine, by The Germans, Is carried on. A police
commissioner, who has ,shirty villages under his
CONTROL has to make daily. clrcnit Of eighteen or
twenty miles, and can go nowhere without With ~ ON
escort Of Uhlans. ..45., ~, 10 a;to anai
OF the 10000 horses captured at Sedan and
elsewhere the best have been picked out and sup.
piled to, the German artillery and cavalry. Those
include many capital Norman horses for the cav
airy, and heavy animals for the artillery. The
.Barbary horses Of the African troops excellent as
they are, aye deemed tso @ small for the Prussian
.:t,a cavalry, yyl yI,,f, ii; 5.e;,t9 .yn,.
:, The druggist Helmbold aas brought sult
against the New York Herald for on one hundred E
thousand dollars damage for ridicpl!ng and ao1S-
ing him Ia It's columns because. as he alleges, ne
had withdrawn his advertisements from that pa
per! Helmbold publishes a card, saying ne has
frequently sought to obtain satisfaction from this
paper and, falling he brings the first suit ln his
.ifs. .s,,t, -. a.n.Hzo Of f..i
The decision Of Judge Nelson Is looked 1or
with rterest in the case OF one Berry,, OF kentuc7
Ky, guerilla. sent 70 the Albany penltentiary by
United States Court. 1t Is eontepded on the
part Of the prisoner, q white man, that 1t rs IN
constitutional TO try lin q United States Court o
ccitiEen, of q State. for murder, when tue State
courts are open, unless the murder was commit
ted In fort, or some other territory exclusively
funder the Jurisdiction Of the United States; and
further, that as Kentuckyswas never out ofthe
Union, and her State courts were, always openp
mo court martial could lawfully try any person
n5. enlisted or employed In the United States
service. 'i''' -
-r-ANew York letter Of the 18th inst. says: '"The
report that Cvertnres are making fer a coDoiation
between Democratic and Republican Free Trade
Congressman, with view to a revision Of the
tariff at the approaching session or Congress, Is
only qualideItyd correot. No such coalition has
yet been perfected, bntit Is true that aocones-
pondence has been opened between certain Of the.
high contracting parties, with that end In ylew,i
with what success remains to be seeH. The Free
Trade League here e'arevery active inrhe matter,
but their proceedings as yet are marked with
much reserve. Leading protectionlsts, who have
wind Of the matter, are greatly. alarmed, and
casting about for such combinatIonson their part,
as will serve to ward of the "bNakers ahead:"
The Chinese evidently intend to show fight If
attacked By any European power on account OF
the massacre of French missionaries In Tientsln.
On the 20th Of August they ynad placed 5000 troops
within days march OF that city, and had posi-
tivelyrefnsed to surrender the three nlandarins
who were In office when the slaughter took place.
Munitions Of war are being shipped from Shang.
hal to the north in great quantities. and the Taku
forts had been armed and proyisioned. More
over, through the Inacton OF the British naval
force, the Chinese had been allowed to secure the
mouth OF the i..'er leadingt to Tientsin and Pekn.
There, In 1852; the attack or Admiral Hope on the
forts was defeated, and perhaps 1t may again be-
come the scene Of discontinue
The great San FIancsco Mercantile Library
lottery, the arawfng,o ,of which created SO much
Excitement few days ago, has already caused
)ne suicide at saniETanci cisco, and the widespread
Mischief which has indirectly proceeded from it
ssevesely and properly commented upon by the
california newspapers. In order to raise the
sum Of s24o,ooo tickets were sold1o the amount
OF 81 900 ooo Laborers, widows, servant girls,
and even fcIhlldren, INVESTED all they could rake
and scrape together, on the chance OF winning
prize The day Of the drawing, business in San
Francisco was almost entirely suspended, and
kind Of universal delrium prevailed. of course,
when one ticket-holder was lucky enough to be-
rewarded With prize, some hundreds had to be
disappointed; and 1t will be long before they re-