The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-08-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold closed in New York, yesterday, at Ut
al2l. 49,,
Cotton closed unchanged; uplands ls3
cents; sales 1886 bales. --,...-..
in Liverpool cotton closed firm; uplands
stasd, Orleans s4d; sales $4,000 bales.
Padded bathing dresses are the latest in
vention.
Nearly one million of francs, it is esti-
mated, were paid Immediately BY. many sub
scribers to the French loan, who. paid up all
the instalments at once.
Iii is proposed by the Berlin Cross'Gazette
to build In that city q monumental church TO
perpetuate the recollection OF the late war,
the funds to be raised by a general subscrip-
ton throughout Germany.
Kentucky horses have been winning
all 1.-THE great prizes this year, including the Bel
mont, Travers and Ladies' stakes, the Jersey
Derby and the westctester, the Monmouth and
Saratoga cups. The Blue Grass men are IN
high hglee.
The French Jockey Club Of Paris has re-
organized, and has decided to hold race meet
ings this autum at Longchamps and Ch1ntilly.
Thusisit IL that by degrees Paris is resuming
her normal condition and falling into her old
fripperies. -iaszr-
-on the occasion of the entry of the Ger
man army into Berlin, the sixty noble and
beautiful girls who represented the munich
pality in the grand procession, dispensed
with all chignops or false hair, and appeared
with their own hair, hanging down in two
light plats from the back of their head.
Archbishop Guibert, the new Bishop Of
Paris, was the strongest adherent Of the Pope
in the recent council, and vehemently attack
: ed both Dupanloup and strossmayer in and
out of the council. : He hada famous contro-
versy, once upon time, with George Sand,
in which he Jared as men usually fare in dis
: putes with women. 11'>> -
Among the many sad features Of the terri
bic ferry-boat explosion in New York, is that
involved din the almost entire determination OF
several families Of three or more persons who
were passengers on the boat at the time. In,
at least two csses, the list Of the dead and in.
iured shows that father, mother and children
were all either killed. outright, or were so
wounded or sealded that recovery will be i'm
possible.
Who would have believed, afew years ago,
that the commander of theHsithful would be
defender Of the faith rs received at Rome
Yet the Sultan of Turkey has actually sup
pressed a Cohstantinople newspaper for daring
10 speak unkindly Of the Pope. That the sue
cessor of AmIrath, solyman aud Mustapha
should stand up for the dignity of the head Of
the Roman Church is certainly one of the mar
.Vels of the age.
Already the policy ofieaying to the various
maaiclpalities of AlRace and Lorraine the Sc
lection Of their own authorities, announced by
Prince BISMARCK, is productive of results.
favorable to the Germans. In only few
places faye the recent municipal elections
been declared voidin consequence OF the re-.
fusal OF. the opponents Of annexation TO attend
the polls; and Metz is the.only important city
that has returned men whose sympathies are
ayowedly with the French. ,;,rs
;,ss "A letter from Paris says that natives o1
Asace and Lorraine, who rebel against the
Prussian occupation Of their native provinces,
and who have no heart for longer residence!
in their own country, daily go to the Ameri-.
can Legation in that City, and make inquiries,
and then arrangements looking to their emil
grafton tothis country: About two hundred
and eighty of these self-constituted exiles left
Hayre the other day, in the ship Erin, bound
to these shores. They all have money, and,
like any OF their fellow -prov!ncials who may
come here, will make good citizens.
The heavy guns now made in England, it
is reported, viii do great execution. An
eleven.inch gun tried recently, at Shoebury-.
nessrwas loaded with pebble powder, and
ball Weighing $50 pounds was fired against a
target representing the side. Of a ship. The
psojechle, 1t Is stated, was sent clean through
thirteen inches of iron, twelve inches of teak,
and an inner skin of iron an, inch and q half
thick. This trial, 1t is argued, shows that the
heavy armor Of the new English monitor De-.
lvastatson could be pierced by the projectiles
fted from guns similar to those. which she
carries. 'E
siesThe German papers promise us an official
asconnt OF the war, which is to have for Its
ieditor no less competent strategIst than,
Count Moltke himself The staff officers of the
various corps are at present actively at work
collecting the. reports of regimental COM
manders, who, as in the American war, have
been required so,keep a diary Of their opera
tions and experiences. The combination Of
these numerous and all of them quany trust
worthy accounts will exclude any possibility
of inaccuracies, such as Individual observers
are necessarily unable to avoid. 1t is conf
dently expected in Prussia that the French
military authorities will engage in similar
undertaking, treating the matter from their
own point OF view.
Some facts have been published by the
European journals regarding the harvest pros
poets in the grain-growing countries of Eu-
rope. In Prussia the prospects are not at all
favorable, especially for. the early crops, ard
the late ones have suffered severely for the
want'of warm sun. AS is the case in this
country, there has been little or no summer in
Prussia, and this has had its effect on the
crops. In saxony, however; matters are diff
ferent, and the prospect Of good, healthy
yield has gladdened the hearts of the farmers.
The wheat and barley crops OF France, espe-
.cially In the west and southwest, have greatly