The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-10-14
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER IA, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DIK.

20ic; sales 1854 bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed firm; uplaIds
Old, Orleans lOd; sales $1,000 bales.
John Harper, the Kentucky horse raiser
offers reward OF s5C0O for the arrest OF The
murderer of his aged sister and brother on
the 10th OF September last.
All the books and papers Of the chicago
Historical Society, including the original copy
of the famous emancipation proclamation OIL
President Lincoln, for which the society paid
$4,000, were destroyed in the great fire.
The Rev. Myram Wood, who seduced Miss
CLevers, at Decatur, Ca, and was found guilty
thereof a few days ago, has been sentenced to
twenty years in the penitentiary. He was also
deposed from the ministry by the Decatur
Presbytery.
Mile Nilsson's first appearance In this coun'
try, in the Strakosch grand italian Opera, took
place on Monday evening, at the Boston
theatre, before an immense and brilliant audi
ence. The success of the whole company was
complete In every respect, and the receipts
were over eight thousand dollars.
The troubles in New York municipal al
fairs are said to seriously interfere with the
projected yiaduct railway, which is to facilitate
transit from the lower 10 the upper parts OF
that city. The supplies have been stopped;
the directors have ceased to meet, and there
is said to be danger that the whole project
may be lost.
The manner In which the conaagration at
Chicago began is thus described: "At about .
O'Clock on Sunday evening boy went into a
stable on Dekrone street, for the purpose Of
tending 10 the cattle, carrying with him an
open kerosene lamp. The lamp was kicked
over by one of the cows, and The burning fluid
scattered over the straw and hay. In mo-
ment the barn was wrapped In flames. This
was the commencement Of the great are."
Ex-Governor Henry A. Wise, OF Virginia,
publishes a letter maintaining that the first
want OF the South Is to have reliable, honest
and exact Information Of her territory and
population widely disseminated In Europe,
and the second Is the formation Of companies
Of land proprietors to clear titles, and to pro-
cure such Information, which Is then to be
conveyed through responsible agencies. Such
an association for Virginia has been formed In
Charl0ue county, 0t tudL otate'
"A Paris correspondent remarks that sew
eral incidents of late are recorded In favor OF
the Emperor Napoleon. In the first place, he
is no longer called "Badinguet." Again,
whether from sympathy with the Empire, or
merely because of the French innate spirit oil
opposition, the working classes are ready and
willing to 60 into another insurrection, many
of them saying that they prefer an empire to q
government like the present. For the nrst
time s'rce the war, also, Napoleon's portraits
are beginning to be exhibited in the shop win
dows, and the Parisians, with their restless
love of novelty, gaze at the familiar phi3 as
though the well-waxed moustache, oeaky nose
and fshy eyes were something entirely new to
them.
The MONDAY glare which arises from the
awful confagration at Chicago has relatively
dimmed the extensive prairie fires which are
still raging 10 the northwest of that ill-lated
. city. For days heavy veil of smoke has hung
over Minnesota, and thickly- falling cinders
have been borne hundreds OF miles by the
wind, and strewn broadcast over the more
open and cultivated eastern counties. At some
places the whole population are described as
engaged in battling the flames, and disputlng
their progress, inch by inch. At others, over
powered and terrified by the swift approach Of
the fire, they fed in disorder, leaving behind
them their houses, barns, cattle, crops and
other worldly possessions. 10 be utterly con-
sumed They might well deem 1t fortunate 10
have escaped with their lives, for many were
not so lucky. Accounts of individual heroism,
distressing deaths, panic-stricken villages
narrow escapes. &C., come in hourly, and the
fire, as if to corroborate these reports, follows
closely on the heels OF The narrators, and at
one point it had reached locality within fifty
miles OF st. Paul. Wisconsin Is also suffering
terribly. The pine woods in the SIX or seven
northeastern counties seem 10 be one mass OF
flames, and the reflection is diseernioie for
scores Of miles.
"A run on bank, especially if it is saw
ings bank, usually results in benefit to the in
stitution and a loss 10 The panic-slrcEen de-
positors, and the rule held good in the case OF
the Third Avenue Savings Bank, of New York,
the solvency OF which had been impugned by
interested parties, and before the doors OF
which an arprehenSive thropS OF poor, half
clad and deceived working men and women
assembled, handbook in hand, on Monday.
The suspicion against the Integrity OF the con-
cern, which found expression in some Of the
Sunday papers, was set afoat by one Of the
directors In revenge for the defeat Of lis
aspirations for the presidency, and the only
consequence was that the unreilecting
depositors, by drawing money on de-
mand 10 the amount OF about S?5O,OOo,
have thrown away $4,000 interest, which
Is o clear guiA 10 the bank. The scene on
Monday was most unique and animated one.
The crowd blocked up the thoroughiare,
ciambered upon window sills, diyed into hid
den places, and jostled cne another in the et-
fort to break through the ranks OF policemen
who endeavored 10 preserve some kind OF
order As the afternoon waned, the many
whose ''lurn" had not come became sill more
excited, and threatened to carry the doors by
storm. 1t was with the greatest difficulty that
this disposition was quelled by The officers.
The president finally placated to the crowd
with speech, and the spectacle OF the con-
slant line OF depositors Issuing with theii
hands lIl OF money still further treasured
them; so that when The hour for CO sing ar
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