The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-09-27

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold at New York, yesterday, closed at l4ss
14ac.
The New York cotton market closed stead
Ter; uplands l9sc; sales 1912 bales.
AT Liverpool cotton closed firm; uplandi
ssa9ad; sales 10, 600 bales.
The Savannah Jockey Club is reorgan-
iz'ng.
-Ex-Collector Gould, of Savannah, an al
legged defaulter and fugitive, who was pursued
into the wilds of Florida, it is rumored has
been murdered.
Lieutenant NJ. F. Maury is to deliver the
address at the Mempais fair, in October, and
Generals Ewell, Beauregard and Joseph e.
Johnston are to be present.
On account of the absence of the Governor
OF Georgia for nearly three months, the State
treasurer gives notice that he will pay no more
warrants without resident Governor to ap.
prove them, except on the civil establishment
and special appropriations, when the law
specifies the amount. .
The Australian knave, who sails under the
name Of Fisher, and declares himself the true
Messiah, is now attracting great attention.
He says he Is not only the incarnation Of
Christ, but also Of King David, and, being the
incarnation of King David, is entitled to four
wives instead Of one, and four he has.
s. "A ukase, issued by the Emperor OF Russia
Immediately after his return from Germany. Is
very Characteristic, and 1t probably was not
expected by the party which endeavors to
show its Russian patriotism by attacking
everything German. The Car has instructed
the ministry of education to see that the study
OF German shall take the priority Of French in
all public and private schools, and that more
than the latter language.
"A Washington letter Of Sunday says:
"Letters received here to-day from excellent
sources state that General Butler will fail TO
be nominated for governor Of Massachusetts
In the Worcester Convention, which meets on
Wednesday next. They add, however, that
he will pr rJbab!y be nominated tor the same
position by the labor convention, which meets
on October Sd, and that he will accept and en-
ter vigorously into the canvass for the office.
In such an even. plurality will elect"
The Norfolk (Va-) papers nete the arrival
there on the 21st, perAllan steamer Caspian,
of twenty-four English families. numbering if
ty.six individuals. ''Of these some are des-
tined for North Carolina and Tennessee, but
the greater portion are going to the colonies
at Christansville in Mecklenburg, Pamplin's
and Prospect. in Appomattox, and at Wythe-
vile, In Wythe County, Virginia. They are an
excellent class OF emlgrants, calculated to de-
velop the resources of the sections In which
they intend to settle. They are in charge of
Colonel J. T. Shanks, the immigration agent"
Some time must elapse before the casting
of the commemorative war.medals, in Germa-
ry, made from the metal of captured French
bronze cannon, will be completely finished, the
royal mint being just now so busy with other
work that not more than seven thousand med
ais can be produced daily. The breaking up OF
the cannon Is carried on in the royal foundry,
from which the pieces are taken to BorcheIl's
~astaL!iss..ment, where they are melted and
rolled into narrow metallic strips, and dis
patched in this form to the mint. As yet only
The guards and the Saxon corps have received
their medals; the soldiers are all to be fur
nished with them before any are distributed 10
non-combatants.
The Tallahassee Floridlan wants somebody
in Washington 10 hunt up some $4,000 OF
bonds out of which the State oi Florida was
swlnded in 1868, in an authorized purchase by
Governor Reed "a carpet-bagger from Wiscon-
sin, whose robberles of the State have enrlct-
ed himself, if they have impoverished Florida)
of lot Of worthless old arms. The actual
amount paid for arms, says the Flcridian, was
$4,000 in bonds, and these bonds were held
In 1869 BY Charles Miles, The father-in.law OF
the person who sold the arms 10 Reed. The
Governor rendered bill against the State Of
BLOOD in cash, and reported that he had sold
40 900 In bonds to pay the bill, when in fact
The cost of the arms was only $4,000 In BONDS
"A short time ago the Inhabitants OF Green
Bay, Wisconsin, were startled at the suddei
arrival in their town OF twenty-five families o.
Icelanders, who proposed to settle in that VI
cinity. They took up their aoodes on WASH
ipgton Island, at the mouth OF Green Bay, ahe
were soon buslly engaged in erecting dwell
liugs and preparing the ground for farming
purposes, going TO work with will. THESE
twenty-five families, however, are but the pio
neers oil q much larger immigration into the
same region OF the inhabitants of Iceland. 1t
Ia said that several thousand families are pre-
paring to leave their homes in that iIigid isle
and will come to this country, where
they may spread themselves along the
line of the Northern Pacific Railroad, ant
through the sections bordering upon the Rel
River. They are industrious and frugal people
as are all other immigrants of the Scandina
Wan race, and must prove OF great value Il
the region which they have selected for new
home.
1T has long been known that the whole o