The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-09-16
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, Isl
NEWS OF THE DIY.

Gold closed in New York at l4tal44.
Cotton closed quiet but firm; uplands 2lb
cents; sales 735 bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed frmer; uplaads
Gid, Orleans 93d; sales $1,000 bales.
Liberia is trying to negotiate loan OF
$50O,000 for railways.
"A cotton exhibition is proposed to be held
at Manchester, England, in 1872.
Steam carriages are said 10 have recently
appeared on the boulevards Of Paris.
The fall trade Is said to have revived in
New York with more than its usual igor.
1t is thought the census of Berlin, now
being taken, will show population OF 900, 600.
The Mt. Gents tunnel is successfully opened
and trains are now passing through 1t without
delay.
"A tract of 81, 200 acres Of land has been OBJ
talned on the Canada side Of the St. Lawrence,
above Quebec, for colony OF Alsatlane.
in Boston there are l4S churches, Of which
27 are Unitarian, "a Methodist, II Baptist, II
Catholic, l5.Eplscopallan and Presbyterian.
The French tri-color still floats from the
summit Of the Metz Cathedral, the few who are
capable Of taking 1t down stubbornly refusing
to do 80.
The emigrants from Scotland, who arrived
at Chrlstiansville, Va, some two weeks since,
have all purchased farms near that place and
setsiod.
Mr.. Bergh insists that the slaughter Ing o.
animals in the presence of each other is
needless cruelty, and urges the butchers to do
their executions privately.
-Pittsburg has been called upon to settle
the question OF admitting colored children to
the public schools. The Republican papers all
denounce the admxture of white and colored
pupils.
DR. J. Marion Sims, having punched" the
head Of DR.. Thomas W. Evans in Paris year
ago, was held to account for 1t at his recent re-
turn to that city, and had to pay fine inpos-
ed upon him by the correctional tribunal.
The ewcastle-on-Tyne strikers, in Eng
land, for nine hours as q days labor, will re-
ceive from the protective league eight shil-
lings week for each man and one shilling for
each child engaged in the strike, to enable
them TO hold out.
The Paris Debats has received advices
from Strasbourg which state that fully $4,000
persons have lett that city 10 settle in France,
Switzerland and America. The Debats says
that If this emigration should continue, the
time is not far distant when there will no
longer be any Alsalians in Asace, and it thinks
that the Alsatlans would show more political
sagacity were they 10 stay at home.
"A correspondent Of the London Daily Tel
egraph not long ago held conversation with
parsonage whom the correspondent believ-
ed to be Bismarck. The false Bismarck in
dulged In o series of extraordinary and undip-
lomatc statements. which the anxious cores
pondent hastened to send of to his expectant
journal. The German papers now rdicue
this conversation, and say that the correspon-
dent was hoaxed.
1T will be remembered that some weeks
ago large portion of the Town of Goldsboro',
N. c., was destroyed BY fire; that this was be-
lieved to be OF incendiary origin; that few
days before negro demonstration and riot o.
curred there, that some Of the rioters mel
threatened to burn the town, aud that sHeS
were suspected of the incendarlsm. The "
mington, n. C., Star says that on the 10Th
instant John Taylor and Miles Freeman, two
colored walters, who had been employed
at the hotel in which the fire broke out, were
arrested in Wilmington on the charge of being
the incendiaries, and taken to Goldsboro' Tor
examination. Their case had been worked up
by two detectives from the North, employed
by the authorities. who worked themselves
into The confidence of the accused, and depose
to having obtained from them direct confes-
sion Of the crime.
The reward of one hundred thousand dol
lars offered by the New York Legislature, for
the best substitute for horsepower in propell-
ing canal boats, has brought forward numer-
ous claimants. Among the recent PROPOSE
tions is that OF an air pipe extending ihe entire
length OF the canal, with reservoirs ten miles
apart to supply the boats with compressed air,
to be used as a propelling force. The air is to
be compressed by power derived from the
Falls of Niagara, just as the compressed air
used to drive the drills in the Mount Gents
tunnel was obtained from The streams Of water
damned up in the recesses Of the Alps. This
scheme, it is admitted, is highly visionary,
yet it is argued that many OF the achieve
ments ofthe present day were considered pre-
posterous forty years ago. The capabilities OF
compressed air as motive power and the pos
sibility of conveying its effects to a great dis
tance are not yet fully understood, but the ad-
yocates of this agent claim that it will produce
results more wonderful than any that are now
known.
The Chinese problem Is in fair way Of
finding its solution in Louisiana. There are
now more than 1000 Celestials working on
plantations and in sugar-houses,and the plant