The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-09-20
Tbe CbafleSto1t 9ems
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1871.
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Gold at New YORK, yesterday closed at Is
The New York cotton market closed un'
settled and lower; uplands 2O!c. Sales l75l
bales.
-AtLiverpool cotton closed quiet and steady
uplands std. Sales 5000 bales.
Alfred E. Buck, ex-memoer OF Congress
from Alabama, has been appointed deputy COL
lector OF customs at Mobile.
The Springfield Republican says: "The
womens cause ls suffering more TO-DAY from
the connection of Buffers name with 1t, than
it could from dozen Mrs. Woodhulls With
their four.and-twenty husbands"
The La Crosse Democrat reports the water
80 low in the Mississippi River that steamboats,
have to keep whistling to Keep COWS out Of the
channel. Many captains are having cow
catchers put on their boats. This is about the
thinnest river yet discovered.
The title Of prince which has been con-
ferred upon Bismarck, the German Chancel.
lor, will not descend to his children. Bis
marck desired that 1t should be personal
title for himself and his wife only. His poster
ity will retain the original family title OF
count.
The first lot of dry goods imported from
Europe direct by st. Louis, and received under
the bonded car regulations, arrived In that
city on the 18th, and was received with jubila-
ton and cnpious Indulgence In wine Time
from Glasgow, Scotland, twenty.sx days.
There was three days detention In New
York.
According to the journals of india, The
Nawab of Nagim, OF Moorshedabad, Is In de-
plorable way. He has family OF iorty-tWo
children, Of whom nineteen are unmarried
princesses. These daughters must be married
to royal personsges, and where to find these
royal personages is what troubles the poor
Nawab.
The reported intended marriage OF King
Charles, of Sweden, to daughter OF the King
of Denmark will presenean odd complication
OF relationship If the marriage should take
place. The King of Sweden's daughter Is al
ready married 10 the King Of Denmark's son;
the new bridegroom will, therefore, become
his own daughters brother-in-law' and the
Danish Crown Prince will be the son OF his own
sister.
Fashion Z Paris Is never at loss to turn
every sensation 10 advantage. Even the sor-
rows and disasters which have lately overta-
ken tina. city have furnished Its exponents
with something which may be made useful.
Dry goods and artificial flowers of color called
Paris brule, AngleiSe, "Paris burned" Is now
the fashion in the French capital, whose motto
seems to be, notwithstanding all reverses, "Ill
be gay and happy STILL
An address has been issued by the Ger.
man-American Republicans OF New York City,
inviting their Democratic brethren to co-ope
rate with them In the work OF local reform.
The position they adopt .s-: Let us continue to
be Republican or Democratic in all that con-
Germs the relations Of the State to the country
at large, but in disposng of the government OF
this great city, let US have but one end-to Sc
cure the best men We can find.
Ex-Governor Hamilton, OF Texas, says he
never saw any OF the members OF The present
State government steal anything; but "when
we see poor, miserable cuss, who never had
$3.50 In his life, come TO Austin 10 borrow mo-
ney to pay his expenses, aud presently find
him losing thousand dollars night at faro,
driving around in fancy team, making II
quor bills, wine bills and all sorts OF bills, and
buying buggy and fine horses to so home In,
we know he is thief as well Us if we had seen
him steal"
The fatal explosion of toy torped0es in
New York on the l4,h instant, recalls one pre-
cisely similar which occurred in Berlin, Prus
sla, some three or four years ago. On that
occasion large case filed with Illuminating
powder for the toys known as parlcr pistols,
which some porters were unloading from
freight car into an express wagon, had explo-
de6 with terrific effect, shaiteIiDg horses and
wagon, killing two men on the spot, wounding
others and wrecking everything in the neigh
borhood. The out ot-town firm who forwarded
the packages were, on investigation, found TO
have neglected the proper declaration" Of
their dangerous invoice, and had 10 take the
consequences. They had to pay ruinous dam
ages to the families OF the unfortunate porters,
and heavy fines 10 the State, and were impris-
oned-in short, were financially and socially
well-nigh ruined. This precedent points its
own moral, applicable in the New York case.
"A dispatch from Waverley, Va, September
18th, to the Richmond, Va, Dispatch, gives
the following: ''Soon after the second
down freight train Of the Atlantic, Mississippi
and Ohio Railroad passed Waverley Station to-
day, engineer Catiett discovered negro man
about hundred yards ahead of them holding
q boy on the track. Catlett as soon as he saw
the situation, blew down brakes and reversed
his engine, but the man held on until the en-
gine was within twenty steps of them, when
he jumped of, leaving the boy, who, in try
ing 10 follow, was run over and literally cut to
pieces, both arms and both legs being mashed