The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-09-12

Gold closed in New York yesterday at l4t
Cotton closed quiet; uplands 2Ogc; sale
4l6 bales.
New York clergymen are reaping rlcl
harvest in marriage fees, there now being
more than hundred weddings week in thai
city.
The Mississippi is lower than 1t has been
for many years before. Cattle now roam
where few months ago steamboats, navi-
gated.
The Count de Bentivogllo, French Consul
at Smyrna, and son OF Mile Rachel and
Count walewski (natural son OF the first Napo.
leon) has been dismissed from bis office, pro-
badly on accosnt of his paternity.
so cheap has the decoration Of the Legion
of Honor become of late in France, that the
next candidate for the honor, Of whom gossip
makes mention, is the inspector of carrier
pigeons" during the Prusslan siege.
The Boston Post, having ventured to e1-
press the belief that ut is wrong to fly 10 one
extreme to correct the other" the New York
Commercial Advertiser hastens to reply that
s'every dlsobedient, pig-headed urchln in the
land will endorse that sentiment"
1t is said that NJ. Theirs cannot conceal his
complacency at being the central figure OF an
assembly in which there are eight dukes,
twenty-seven marquises, lorty-one counts, ten
vtrcvuutu,- seventeen -burouV, and four hun
dred others or noble lineage.
Count Otto, Bismarck's son and heir, is
described as tall young man who looks like
an Engllshman. He spent two years In Eng
land studying the English army organization
And Is master Of five modern Languages, be-
sides being great lover OF the chase.
The coroner's inquest on the recent Ken
tucky Railroad accident elclts the fact tnat
the engineer was running a new engine ana
miscalculated its momentum. The train went
considerably beyond me point at which IL
would have stopped under ordinary circum-
stances.
There is great alarm felt in the Southern
provinces of France because OF the impossl-
bility of moving the old vintage. Raiiroad
cars are not available for the purpose. In
sixty days the new vintage will be made, and
there are neither barrels nor cellars to hold IL.
These provinces are thus threatened Win
oss of s24 900, 900, besides universal stagaa-
tlon in all the trades.
Something new in the way OF theatrical
amusemeDts has reached New YORK IN the
shape of the troupe known as the "Vienna
LADY Orchestra The company consists OF
twenty-four musical young ladies all In a row,
each one OF whom has some claims Of being
considered "star" in her special musical
line. The young ladies are all below twenty
wears of age, and play upon the harp, violin,
pianoforte, flute, &c. 7 hey are to give their
opening concerts on the llth instant at STEM
way Hall.
Lowell has lost its supremacy as the great
cotton manuia1 turing city OF The country. III
January, 1870, there were running IN Fall
River 552,237 spinales, exceeding those OF
Lowell by nearly 10000; and with additions
contemplated to mills now in operation, and
the erection of seven new mills, either now IN
process of building or that are to be begun,
the number of spindles will be Increased 1885,
600, making the whole number that will be In
operation when the new mills are completed
l,O0s,237.
"A Washington dispatch of Friday last
says: 1.-The administration appears TO be re-
tracing its steps on the proposition to declare
martial law in South Carolina. The Cabinet
meeting which was appointed for to-day to
dispose of the question, has been indefinitely
postponed. Two facts have contributed TO
this result. The first is q protest from intlu-
entail Republican quarters against such
80 ha nf
any confirmation Of Senator Scotrs bugaboo
story as to the condition Of affairs in that
State, The War Department reports from
officers of the army on duty in South Carolina
utterly i.il to mention any new outrages, as
alleged and the Department therefore has no
intention of issuing circular letter OF IN
strucLions, as has been reported
At morning reception in the Vatican, the
other morning, Plus Ninth, the "august pris-
oner," as his friends call him, received bevy
ofladies, after his old style. They were tor.
hidden to enter the presence with gloves, and
the Pope, standing among vast array Of &C.
clesiastes, dressed in long robe OF pure white.
with tight skul-cap of the same color, afford
ed the nost perfect picture OF health and ser
enity-in the words OF the correspondent, IA
forld, jovial old gentleman, with merry
twinkle in his eye, and I'll ping along briskly
enough under the weight Of his seventy-nine
years, and looking like anything but pinine
captive" Stopping to converse 1or a fe"
moments with every person present, and
speaking with strong Roman accent, he
questioned each in turn as to his name, his
province or country, and 80 forth, conining
himself to the most Indifferent topics, and pre-
sentiny his slgnet-rng to be kissed.
I'm New York recently FrenChman a.