The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-10-13
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER l3, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gold closed yesterday, at l43al4j.
The New York cotton market closed
strong; uplands 2Oc; sales 40sl bales.
AT Liverpool cotton closed firm; sales
12.O0c bales.
DIR. Noah Porter is inaugurated president
OF Yale College.
The estimated loss to the revenue by tie
fire in Chicago is four millions.
-M'oe Ristori has lately sold her handsome
villa, near Florence, 10 Russian nooeman
for s25O,000.
1t is rumored in New York sporting cir
cles that Barney Aaron, the pugilist, was Killed
at the Chicago fire.
The French Academy Of Sciences has offer
ed prize OF one hundred thousand francs tol
an efficient remedy against cholera.
John Screvep, Democratic candidate fol
mayor of Savannah, and the entire Demo
cratic board of aldermea, were elected oy
majority Of 1913.
Two thousand laborers called Large
P,pe Men, struck in New York yesterday
They marched to the courthouse for wages
but found none. There was large police
force on hand.
The alleged Ku-Klux of Missouri, against
whom Governor Brown proclaima, is compos'
ed of a band of horse thieves, robbers and
murderers, and are mostly fugtives from JUS
tice of the neighboring States.
-Garlbaldi some time ago invested what
little money he possessed in Italian BONDS.
Since then these securities have declined so
much in value that he canDot pay mortgage
on his humble homestead at Caprera, and his
creditors now threaten to sell his home at
auction.
The relations between France and Italy
not being altogether of the most cordial char
acter at present, owing to complications OF
delicate nature growing out Of the Roman
question, N. Thiera, it Is said, will 60 down
into Savoy for little recreation. and will there
meet signor visconte-V -Venostaawho will te
there to talk with him.
The explosion OF two hundred kegs OF
powder some miles from Wilmington, DEL, on
the oh instant, which was universally sup
posed to have been an earthquake throughout
an area of many miles, produced so severe
conclusion at the atoVe-named city that Chin
neys were thrown down, windows broken,
and the walls of two new houses were serious
ly cracked. .
Disqualification ladies are now In Flor
ence, Italy, preparing themselves for the
stage and for engagements in opera during
the coming season. Among these are Misses
Crane and Barton, of Boston; Miss Henne, oil
Cincinnati, and Miss Starbird, OF Portland.
OF these Miss Crane and Miss P'nne have al
ready sung in public in Florence. They are
all said 10 have very fine and well cultivated
voices.
The New York Tribune thinks it would be
s.calamltous" for Republicans TO mistake the
meaning of the late election In Texas. Ihat
meaning, according 10 the Tribune, Is that
.Texas has decided that she chooses to be
more frugally and uprightly governed IN TIE
future than In the Immediate past" and 1t
adds that Republicans "may yet win If 1t can
be clearly understood that they have turned
over new leaf"
The text of the Pope's last encyclical,
given at st. Peters, September 18th. s receiV-
ed. He reminds the faithful that there Is but
one Apostolic Church. and that its inheritance
cannot be plundered; that Rome was the fore
most exemplar of progress in Italy, Its states
men, theologians, poets and artists all first IN
rank, and that religion was Tree; and con-
cludes with begging all to pray that God will
dispel the temporary cloud OF sadness which
oyershadows the Church at Rome.
"A comprehensive resume OF the condition
of the crops In Europe and the harvest returns
shows that In England the winter prospect is
not cheerful one, and the losses sustained by
stock-raisers supplement those OF short crops
and the spread OF the potato disease. Inc re-
turns from other parts OF Europe are more en-
couraging, but the general impression, deriv-
ed from review of the whole field, Is much
less favorable than that which was formed
from review of our own harvest fields, pub
llshed few weeks since. Indeed, compared
with the condition of American breadstuff mar
kets, those of Great Britain and many parts of
Europe are in Strengthened condition; and
this fact, added to the appreciation OF prices,
is sure 10 follow the destruction of Chicago.
French newspaper gossip mysteriously
nile to Spain was only blind, and that the real
purpose was to cross the aPyrenees into
France, la Duchesse de Berry, TO stir up
commotion among the peasants of Languedoc
and La vendee, in order to draw the attention
of the government in that direction, while
General Douay, in Paris, was maturing con-
spirscy In favor OF the return OF the Bona
parties. This gossip has arisen from the al
legged discovery of Douays Bonapartst plot
but as General Douay has been removed from
his command in the army, and Changarnier-
another Bonapartist, by the way-put in his
place, and the Empress has arrived at Tor
quay, the attempt to revamp the Empire has,
1t is presumed, been given up.
"A London letter, in referring to the recent
autumnal manguvres of the British army,
says: "There is good deal Of quiet ridicu!e
OF the Prince Of Wales afoat. The Prince is
commander OF cavalry brigade, but has never
learned his business, and therefore wisely de-
clines doing anything or giving any order in
the field. So there Is the whimsical spectacle
exhibited of commander in full uniform act
ually on the ground, and in the place where a
commander ought to be, SO long as nothing