The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-10-17
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER II, 1871.
NEWs OF THE D4E.

their forts and armies.
The City of Richmond, Va, has subscribed
$4,000 for the relief of Chicago.
The steamer City Of Paris, reported broken
down, has arrived at Queenstown.
General Dimick, who commanded for'
Warren during the early years of the war, is
dead.
The Washington postofice has already
transmitted money orders TO all parts OF the
world under the new regulations.
From all parts OF the country our exchange
newspapers and the telegraph are bearing us
reports of public meetings and munifcent gifts
for our stricken sister city Of Chicago.
On last Wednesday night the announced
subscriptions in different parts OF the country
for the benefit of the Chicago sufferers footed
up 81, ,e7l ,l6S IS, and by this time they have
probably reached s5,000,000.
The gratifying intelligence comes from
constantinople that the progress of the cholera
has been checked, and the alarm which was
felt concerning the spread of the epidemic
eastward and toward Europe and the west is
subsiding.
The following insurance companies are re-
ported suspended by the Spectator The Mar
ket Company, OF New York City; the Hide and
Leather, the Independent, the National, and
the New England Mutual, of Boston; the North
American and Putnam, Of Hartford, and the
Norwich, Of Hartford.
There is no doubt that fully three million
dollars worth Of cotton goods were destroyed
at Chicago. The call to supply their place
would, under ordinary circumstances, cause
an advance in prices, and be reflected In the
market for raw material; but enter money
stringency and general distrust, and there Is
dullness and depression instead.
The disarmament OF the National Guards of
France continues in the quietest manner pos
sible. After Lyons, Bordeaux, and st. Etienne,
will come the turn Of Toulouse. Thus this re-
doubtable disarmament which seemed 80 10
terrliy the Right in the French Assembly, will
soon be an accomplished fact, without having
occasioned the slightest disturbance.
a new system in street railroading has
been adopted in Buffalo. The companies pro-
pase to make difference in rates where per-
SONS 70 the entire length OF the route, and
where they only go part OF the distance. Thus
the fare from q certain point to either end of
the line, or lees, win be but little more than
halflhe amount charged for the entire route
"A New York letter to the Philadelphia
Ledger says: 'The action Of the House of
Bishops, at Baltimore yesterday, with reference
TO the word .'regenerate" is looked upon by
the Evangelical party lere as great triumph
on their side. The High Churchmen, and es-
pecially the Ritualists of the advanced school,
also accept that Interpretation, but say, in
stead of harmoniziDg the church, 1t will have
precisely the opposite effect, as time will
show"
Fifty presidents of insurance companies
were consulting in New York yesterday. MIL
Ter, the State superinteI ent, addressed the
meeting, sating: If 10 pay compelled them
to 90 into liquidation, he would do bis best to
protect the interests Of the Insurers; but he
wanted frank and candid statements" Pres-
dent Oakley, just from Chicago, considered
the losses there as understated. The Chicago
companies could not pay more than from ten
to fifteen per cent. of their losses. He stated
that all the New York companies would pay
their losses.
The yacht regatta tor the Queens cup Is at
length to come off In series OF seven races,
between the Livonia and various yachts Of the
New York Yacht Club. The negotiations in
this matter have been of as elaborate charac-
ter as those which preceded the Treaty Of
Washington. The fist Of the seven races came
off yesterday (as we learn by telegraph) be-
tween the Columbia and Livonia. At II NJ.
the Columbia was a mile ahead, and tile bet
ting TO 4 against the Lvonia At O'Clock
the Columbia passed the winning post, the L.
vonia not being in sight.
The New York Evening Post says OF the
gilt of $50, 900 to the sufferers By the calamity
at Chicago by Mr.. A. T. Stewart. that were
It not for bet.aying a confidence, we should
add that he took advice whether he should
not offer $4,000; desiring earnestly to give
four times as much, but fearing it would seem
ostentaiious, and hoping TO make 1t up some
other way; but on being assured that he might
In the emergency send $50, 600 without danger
of offence, did so Immediately. Merchants
who themselves lose largely by this calamity,
seem generally to be as prompt as any others
to send aid"
Official lists OF the losses Of the German
armies In the recent war with France have
been completed. The total stated Is lll,0OO,
of whom $4,000 are set down as dead, $1,000
wounded, and 5000 missing. The smalness OF
the figures is surprising, but theii accuracy is
youched for by the official authorities. Vi
course the German armies were everywhere
victorious and everywhere made advances
and these favorable circumstances had much
to do with reducing their losses. 1t IS Inc ae-
feated and disheartened army that always sui
fers the most in a campaign. The exhilara-
tion of success is a surprising cure for the
wounded soldier.
Those who know best give the satisfactory
assurance that the Chicago disaster is not OF
such magnitude in business sense as TO war
rant apprehensions OF a scarcity in the arti
cles of breadstuffs. There are other cities be.
side the Garden City capable Of storing and
shipping 10 the Atlartc seaboard the products
of the West. Milwaukee, Racine and Cleve-
land are fully equal to the emergency, and are
nrenared to send all the wheat and grain now
In stock and reaoy for shipment to the ports
.nd denots of the East. So we'll is this under
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