The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-09-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold closed at lsi in New York on yester

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold closed at ls1 in New York on yester-
day.
Cotton was dbl, With a downward ten
dency; uplands III cents; sales 1000 bales IN
in Liverpool cotton closed fiat; uplands
sa9td; Orleans s.sssi; sales 5000 bales.
Lovers of 'sgepuine Havana" cigars Will
be clad to hear thai the cabbage crop of Con-
necticut is unusually promising this season.
The Western Union telegraph Company
now owns $4,000 miles of line, with lO5,ooo
miles of wire connecting $500 stations, ana
has in its employ 7oOO persons.
At Wamego, place in the extreme west,
is a shanty which bears the sign: "heres
where Won ret O meal like your mother used
to give YOU"
The library of Strasbourg, just DESTROYED
by the bombs and shells launched by the ba-
deners, contained no less than 100000 VOL
umes. On It's shelves were to be touno Tue
Incurables (D formerly belonging to the an
cient Commandery Of st. John of Jerusalem.
Amongst the treasures there preserved was tne
MS Herrade de Landsperg, Aboess OF Saint
Odile, entitled Hortus Deliciarum, which dated
from the twelfth century, and the miniatures
of which furnished the most useful intorma-
tion to the history of art and costumes.
Switzerland has suffered seriously from
the war The poor but industrious people
were earnestly hoping that the harvest and
vintage would make up for the failure OF the
hay crops, caused by the dry spring and hot
summer, when the outbreak Of the war re-
moved one-third of the able-bodied men OF
the country from their pastures and gardens
to ruard tho frontiers. To the heavy pressure
thus created in poor agricultural population
at the most critical season Of the year, must
be added the cost of supporting the corps on
the frontier, estimated at 10000 francs day.
The absence of summer visitors, moreover,
affects them almost as much as the "cotton
famine" did England.
Colonel Pemberton, in his last letter to the
Pail Mall Gazette, gives the following incident:
II was during one part of the action standing
near sonic hussars who were in reserve. The
sun was pouring its rays upon US, and around
us on every side lay tic wounded. One poor
fellow cried to them for water: 'Comrade, for
, Gods sake, give me water one little drop.
am on are, am on fire! For Gods sake, give
me but one drop; only wet my lips" And
another near him would only hold his hands
up in prayer and point to his lips A good
natured hussar, touched by the appeal, got of
his horse and ran to them with his water
bottle; he was in the act of raising the mans
head. when shell fell within yard, and,
bursting, blew the whole three to atoms.
Whatever that poor hussars faults In this
world may have been, surely his last kind &C.
tioa must atone for'them in some way. The
regiment moved of, and his horse followed In
the ranks"
The army enlistment act now in force in
England Is considered faint and tentative
approach TO the system of trained and organ
lied reserves which has made Prussia the first
military power In the world. The soldier must
enlist for twelve years, and may elect to serve
in the line either for the whole term or for
fractlon'ot 1t, to be appointed BY the Secretary
for War, and for the residue Of the term to be
mustered In the reserve. The shortest term
to be appointed will be three years, and will
be applicable only to infantry regiments on
home service. 1t is, therefore, possible that
after 1878 the annual augmentation to the re-
serve will be considerable. There is no provi-
sion as yet for any of the requisites which go
to make an aggregation of soldiers into an
effective army. The militia and volunteers
are left entirely outside the military system, at
the risk of confusion whenever they are sud
denly called on to cooperate with it. Advo-
Gates begin to appear, who urge that all able
bodied young men, not enrolled in the regulars
or volunteers, should pass through short ser
vice In the militia.
The Empress Eugenie's escape from the
Tuileries was easy enough, there being no dis
position to do her any harm, although she
seems to have been anxious to play little
part after the style Of Marie Antoinette. The
prefect of police rushed into her apartments at
the Tuileres, eIclaiming, "Save your life,
Madame, as I am now Fastening to save my
own" and then disappeared as promptly as he
had arrived. The Empress was alone with
her secretary, Mme LIE Breton, and with n.
de Lesseps, who urged her to fly at once. For
time all persuasion was useless, but at last
the three fled along the gallery Of the Louvre
until stopped BY locked door. The shouts of
the crowd were heard in the gardens; NJ. Les
seps proposed to seek the soldiers, or make
speech to the mob to delay 1t, but Mme LIE
Breton having found the key unlocked the
door, and the trio issued into the street at the
bottom of the Louvre. There they took a
hackney coach, and as they entered 1t street
urchin shouted "Voia rImperatrice;" fortu-
nately no one needed him, and the cab drove to
u. de Lesseps's house In the Boulevard de
Malesherbes, where the Empress was joined
by ". de Metternich. Later in the evening,
(. accompanied by Nine. LIE Breton, she drove to
":he~GAre du Nord. escaped all detection
thanks 10 the thick veil which she wore-and
ati! oScck rolled safe and unsuspected away
toward the Belgian frontier.
Wendell Phillips has found a new vent for
his wrath, some time restrained, In the Euro
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