The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-08-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gold closed in New York on Saturday at
l7tal7l -
Cotton closed quiet and lower; uplands
1911 CENTS,
in Liverpool, on Saturday, cotton closed
quiet; uplands s3asld. .1t>ss
-Miss Bartlett, who some years ago married
Senior Oviedo, the. Cuban millionaire; returns
to New York widow with $1,000, 600.
"A planter in Louisiana recently sold his
growing cotton crop at fifteen cents per pound
all round, the cotton to be delivered at Vidana'
opposite Natchez. The transaction took place
between representatives Of substantial busi-
ness houses and extensive planters.
The recent riot of Chinese laborers on
Louisiana plantation, or ''strike" for higher
wages, shows that the Cinnamon Will, alter
living here awhile, learn the secret OF getting
all they can for their labor, and will resort to
the same means for that end that other work
men adopt. ,,,aa
1t Is related of the Empress Eugenie that
ON her return from Cherbourg, al dinner at st.
F. Cloud, she surprised all present by proposing 9
toast. The fortunate mortal thus honored was
no other than n. Theirs. The assembled
:. guests could not believe their ears. Her
Majesty condescended to explain "To NJ.
Theirs, to whom we are indebted for the forti-
fcations of Paris, work which now enables
MS to send to the frontier 10000 men who
otherwise could not have been spared"
The destruction of the railway viaduct OF
Bitsche, short time before the advance move
ment of the Prussians, was looked upon as an
entsrprising expedition but minor affair. It's
real Importance has been developed by later
events. The purpose Of the expedition, made
evident by later movements, was the separa-
ton of McMahons corps from the rest Of the
French army, and was preliminary, In fact, to
the movements of the Crown Prince upon
Weissenburg and Hasenau. Upon Its success
depended, in large measure, that Of the dar-
ing movement which broke the French line at
WeIssenburg and Wourth.
-Attorney,Genera Akerman, in conrersa-
tlon the other day, remarked that the condi-
tion of North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor.
gia, Florida and other States, Is deplorable,
because, among other reasons, the Legisla-
lures, instead Of paying strict attention to such
business as would advance their material vel
fsre and fully establish themselves In their for
mer prosperity, have yielded to railroad and
other lobbyists, and that legislative bodies
which subject themselves to such influences
are always exposed to unfavorable criticism;
therefore there is urgent need Of reform or
wholesome reconstruction.
The Gazette, of Augsburg, (Bavaria,) pub
fishes list of the prelates in the council at
Rome who voted against the dogma of infalll-
billity, eighty-eight Of whom voted against 1t
Internationally, and sixty-one conditionally.
The American bishops voting Internationally
were Bishop Dnminee, of Pittsburg, Pa;
Bishop Fitzgerald, OF Little Rock, Ark; Bishop
AcQuaid, of Rochester, N. T., and Archbishop
Kenrick, of st. Louis; also Archbishop Con-
molly, of Halifax; Bishop Rogers, of Chatham,
and Bishop Bourget, Of Montreal, British
America. Voting against the dogma con-
.dttionally were Archbishop Blanchet, of Ore
gon; Archbishop McCloskey, of New York
Bishop Anal, Of Monterey, and also Bishop
Demers, of Vancouver.
Frank Thorne has had enough of jumping
for the present. He will not disturb the eddies
Of Niagara River this season. That leap o.
one hundred and twenty-five feet from the
roof of an elevator, into the Buffalo River, has
suficed for his ambition. AS Thorne Is the
only man who has lived to describe his sensa
tions after dropping such distance through
the air, it is interesting to learn his expert
,.snces. For the qualification Of contemplated
suicides, he says tina. no sense Of pain was q.