The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-10-09
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
-Gold closed on Saturday at l3lal4.
-Cotton closed weak in New York; uplands
20 cents; sales 2l47 bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed quiet; upland:
sId, Orleans 1otd; sales $1,000 bales.
The postal treaty with the German Empire
was signed on Saturday.
Joaquin Miller has light hair, full beard
and clear, restless blue eye.
Observation-Disclosures Is German
sstor short" for horse-railroad.
Three carloads Of Cheroi.ees have passet
through Chattanooga en- route to the Indiar
Territory.
Julius steinman, a New York Lager beel
saloon keeper, killed his vile and then hangee
himself on Saturday.
The progress of the cholera in Constants
nople has been checked. Fears of Its assum
ing an epidemic form are subsiding.
Major Junius g. Wheeler, of the engineer
corps, has been appointed professor tf engi
neerlng at West Point, vice Mahan, de ceased
There are twenty suits against the Staten
Island Ferry Company pending in tie city
court of Brooklyn for damages occasie ned by
the Weslfeld explosion.
Bishop Selwyn is said to be the or glnal oil
Charles Kingsley's muscular Christian-the
"man who feared God and could wali thou
sand miles In q thousand hours."
"A party OF Texas cattle droVers 81 'nt most
of lhe day in forcing business men TO treat
them at Aledene. A row resulted, IN attempt
ing to ouell which the city marshal was wound
ed, and one drover accidentally killed another.
London has Just had an exhibition Of bar
maids. The most attractive one was to receive
Q prize, which was decided by the visitors,
each of whom deposited ballot in the shape
of paying for cigars or liquor. The maid who
sold the most got the prize.
. Miss Betsy Harper, the second victim ofthe
terrible tragedy, quietly breathed her last on
Friday morning. or three brothers and sis-
ter composing this family, three Of them have
fallen BY the hands OF On assassin. Old John,
owner OF Longiellow, is the only one l., It.
An English writer from Teheran confirms
the most distressing stories that have been re-
ported regarding the pestilence and famine In
Persia. In Merschid eight thousand persons
perished in one month, and 1t is further stated
that forty thousand were carried OF Into
slavery by the Afghans
Emigration from England to the United
States is increasing rapidly. During the last
three months for which an official report was
made the departures from Liverpool were FIVE
thousand in excess of the preceding quarter.
Among these emigrants are many skilled Ia
bOrers and mechanics.
= A fayorite fashion among London ladies at
present is to array themselves IN cretonae
(Anolice, chintz) overdresses, looking as II
they had stripped their windows and bed
steads. These are called "Dolly Vardens,
from Dlckens's character Of 'Barnaby Rudge."
A reckless London correspondent says that no
woman. unless pretty and stylish, should wear
one, and "as English women, as rule, are
neither" the costume Is a failure.
The Richmond, Virginia, State Journal,
Republican organ. understands an order has
been isued from the internal revenue, and Will
issue soon from the other departments OF the
Federal Government, requiring those holding
federal commissions to resign In case they ac-
cent nominations for State offices. This order
Is aimed, according to the Journals not very
definite intimations, against one OF the wings
of the Republican family, and In the interest
Of the other.
The most influential part Of the Russian
press does not look with favor on the visit OF
the Grand Duke Alexis to this country. The
Moscow Gazette, representing the Old Rus
sian party, says that at is at loss to under
stand the object OF the young Princes voyage
TO the United States at the present time, when
the Cabinet of Washington is on notoriously
bad terms with the ambassador of the Car
and when the offensive and uncalled-for In
reference of American elergylnen in the re-
lleious affairs of the Empire is still fresh In
the memory of the Russian people" Other
Russian journals express similar views. Inc
German press of Russia, however, Is well
pleased with the Grand Dukes visit. The st.
Petersburg Gazette and the German journals
of Riga, Revel and Dorpat express the hope
that 1t may lead to better understanding be-
tween the Two countries
Mr.. Charles Reade keeps up his contro.
versy with the London Times critic upon the
question of literary morals involved in "a
Terrible Temptation" by The publication IN
tn. Examiner of letter which is remarkable
for the absolute sublimity OF Its egotism. Mr.
Reade says: my English circulation Is
larger than that Of the ?imes; and in the
United States three publishers have alre ady
sold three hundred and seventy thousand
copies of this novel. = Writing for so
vast variety of human beings, for more than
one great nation, and for more than one gene
ration, I cannot afford to adopt novel and mar.
row views OF my great art. do not
howl because two thousand Journalists deal,
In their loaded type, with lunacy, PRISONS
&C., &C., "and those who aspire to represent
80 large body of sensible men should bride
their egolism !" Certainly the journalists will
never learn how to bride their egotism from
Mr.. Charles Reade, who fancies he is writing
Tor distant ages that may never read him at all.
AT Raleigh, on Wednesday, Judge Bond
sentenced another batch OF the so-called Ku-
KluI. For the raid upon Aaron Biggerst,f
William C. Depriest was sentenced to two
years Imprisonment and one hundred dollars
fine; Taylor Carson, fined 1ity dollars; Olin
lollo