The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-08-26
Tbt Gbatlestott 9ems.

sui.r.z' SATURDAY, AUGUST 2e, 1871.
Persons leaving tho city during the
summer season can have THE DAILY
NEWS mailed TO their address at One
Dollar per month, payable In advance.
NEWS OF TEE DAE
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. Gold closed in New York, yesterday, at
12aa1ac.
1893 bales. ..--...-..--- -...'...-. s''''''t..,
in Liverpool cotton closed firm; uplands
easId, Orleans s3assd; sales $1,000 bales.
Mcdonald Il Whitney, leading stock bro
kers of San Francisco, have failed.
Commodore Douglas OF the yacht sappho,
challenges any yacht In America for race OF
thirty miles for cup Of thousand dollars
value: ,t--.ea:..i1i :. s.s...e a.l--, o. o.
The Hon. Mrs, .Yelverton, Of the famous
Yelyerton divorce case, who has long been
domiciled in California, viii give to the public
shortly IA Tale OF the Yosemite" - uTl
The Tyne crew will row at Halifax with
Kelly at the stroke. At the inquest on Rem
forth it was shown that he had had 1ve fits.
When first attacked In the boat he said "Oh,
hurry; I have had something given me-" The
doctors are making an examination.
During Buffers speech at Springfield
Mass, F.. B. SANFORD denounced one OF his
statements ss false. The audience, with ex-
itt element, cried Sanford down. General J. r.
cHawley sent dispatch which ne requested
ssme friend to read to the meeting, denounclng
Butler as liar and blackguard.
Y The french gentlemen so splendidly re-
ceiyed the other day In Ireland, whittier they
went to return thanks to Irishmen for aid 10
sick and wounded Frenchmen during the
late war, have proceeded to England to thank
Fnglishmen for the came kindness. 1t Is
stated that they will extend their tour to
America on the same grateful errand, and
altogether they will doubtless have very
pleasant time Of it. 'They are enthusiastically
received everywhere. !" " ~'.-
in the days following the entrance Of the
Versailles troops into Paris, and when 1t was
:. safe means Of wreaking ones private malice
and revenge to denounce an enemy as Com
nunist certain Prussian falsely denounced
9 friend as having been partisan Of La Com
mune. The denounced party fortunately,
however, was enabled to prove his inno-
eence, and the result has been that his enemy
was condemned before q civil tribunal to pay
500 francs fine, to print the Judgment IN the
saewspapers, and to circulate fifty handbills
announcing that in making the accusations ne
was actlated by spite.
. The Washington correspondent OF the Bal
timore Sun says that Cadet Smith, of West
Point, Is again in trouble. According TO the
Snn correspondent, when the second colored
cadet, who was appointed early In the present
summer. was sent to West Point, he was
: placed under the charge OF Smith, who was to
. initiate him into the mysteries of hls position.
Charges are now brought against Smith to
) the effect that he is tyrannical and overbear-
Ing; and that he treats his protege with cruel
:. ty. In several instances the officers of the in
stitution have been obliged to reprimand
Smith for his ine1cusable conduct. The new
colored CADETS said to be very popular with
his white associates, and to be extremely affh-
BILE In his address.
Branch has not lacked excitement
during the present season, for remarkable
affairs there follow each other In rapid sue
cession. Scarcely a fortnight since. Miss
Pike, the daughter OF widow worth half
million, walke1 off one afternoon while
mamma was driving, and married Mr.. France.
When the trusting parent returned, she be.
held her daughter promenadlng the piazza
: with the above mentioned gentleman, who
was not at all decided favorite with her.
{ The young lady is just sixteen, and the mother
had lust taken house in the city. wherein
her oAly child was to be drought out'' in
handsome style. The daughter was well aware
of the objections urged against her lover, but
utterly disregarding them, she lulled heI
mothers suspicious to rest by asserting thai
she was mere child and he q boy, and then
in the coolest manner, accomplished her In
tentions When Madame commanded hel
daughter to retire from the piazza, her son-in'
law gently requested her to leave bis wife
alone. OF course Madame tainted but nerves
we're no longer eficaeious, for the wooIng was
over and won.
What did Doctor Helmbold do? Did he
attempt suicide, or did he not' This is the
: latest mystery at Long Branch, and We do not
undertake to explain 1t. One telegram said he
did, and later one denies 1t, on the authority
of the doctor himself. A correspondent of the
New York Herald, writing from Long Branch
says: "Naturally enough this faur pas of the
doctors caused considerable excitement
among the hotels and cottages at dull, mono
tonous Long Branch, and Jour reporter called
at once upon the doctor to hear how he was
getting along, and to obtain the truth OF all the
rumors that went flying about. He found the
doctor as sound and hearty in body, apparent
Jy, as If gunpowder had never been invented,
but greatly respondent over the unlueky mis-