The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-11-14
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1871
NEWS OF THE DIH.

Gold closed on yesterday at llalli.
in New York cotton closed firm at lsst
for uplands; sales 473O bales.
in Liverpool cotton had an upward tenden
cy; uplands ssss3d, Orleans 93d; sales l5,oo'
bales.
-ATexas man sued newspaper for twelve
thousand dollars, and got sixty cents.
The new French Consul General at Frank
fort ls the Baron de He'll, whose motto ough
to be "Place aux d."
The Archbishop OF Munich condemns th'
Catholic services In the Church OF ST. Nicnoiai
as .'blasphemous and sacrileglous."
-.Garibaldi is preparing his memoirs to ot
published, 1t is said, after his death. An cpl
sode in these memoirs will be the Campaign
of the Army Of the Vosges.
"A, Mr.. Wolfe died In New York on Tues
day night from swallowing half pound O.
shot, on the advice Of an old woman, to re
lieve constipation Of the bowels.
John d. Keyser, of the New York Ring
is believed to be travelling In Florida or The
Carelinas for his health. His partner says the
little property at Aiken, 8. c., was bought b,
Keyser months ago, with the intention Of es
tshlhhing hospital for Northern inyalids.
In the genera council Of the Department
of the Eure last week, Minister Pouyer Quer
tier said that President Theirs, who had been
opposed to making military service obligatory,
was beginning to yield before the necessity ol
such q measure to bring the army up to
proper standard of efficiency.
The vile OF Joaquin Miller, the Bard Of
the Bierras, published a lengthy letter In the
Oregonian asking the public to welcome her
husband as poet and man Of genius, but
giving her own version of their difficulties,
and implying severe eensure for his abandon
ment and neglect Of herself and their child
rem. -. ..--. -~..s'.- -.-
"a terrible explosion occurred the other
day in coal mine near st. 81 lenne, France,
while the gangs were at worF None OF the
men have yet been recovered alive. Twenty
two bodies have been taken out, and thirty
miners are, stfll in the pits, all Ct whom are
supposed to be dead. The explosion was
caused bJ fire damp. ....- ..a ......
The New Orleans Picayune Of tuesday last
observes: ''The grinding season has now
generally commenced throughout the State.
Most Of the plantations are eithea' In readl-
ness OF have started already. On tl'e places
where grinding has progressed to any extent,
the yield Is pronounced quite good. o y freeze
within the next few days would great! reduce
the CROP" :. W. ,..... q .. 81 49,. @.--
The New York aldermen, 1t Is 80 I'd, have
determined to demand their own reappoint-
ment by tie mayor. In the event OF his refu-
sa., they threaten to lmpeach him or fraud
and incompetency, for having affixed his Sig
nature to Ksyssr. and .1Igersolls " arrapts.
Alderman Conan denies the latter part Of the
report, but says he has no intention OF vaca-
ting The office, and believes no certificate Of
election will be issued to the aldermen chosen
Tuesday.
English claimants for cotton destroyed
subsequent to the date of the surrender, as
fixed In the Treaty of Washington, are urging
that this clause must be so Interpreted as to
carry. out the intention of the trainers, and
this, they insist, was to fix the end OF The war
as the limit. They further insist that our su-
preme Court has decided that, so far as cotton
operations Of the treasury were concerned, the
war did not close TIL the 10th Of June, he date
ofthe order to cotton agents to stop selling.
Someof these agents did not receive this or
der for six weeks alter Its date, and during
this time seizures continued. .'' =.
"A Paris paper says that a gentleman pur-
chasing q number of photographs purporting
to be likenesses of some OF the female Com.
munists now In custody, was surprised to find
among them the portrait OF his mother-in.law.
Having discovered the name of the photo
grapher, the gentleman, accompanied by two
police agents, called upon him aud extracted
from him an avowal that he had avalled him
self Of the negatives OF some Of his former pa
irons least remarkable for personal attrao-
tions, in order to form collection OF portraits
representing the inmates Of the Versailles prls-
ons andthe Brest hulks, the sale of which has
been extremely large.
The New York papers epnlnue to subsist
mainly on the recent elections The Sun
says one Of the most marked effects of the
overthrow Of the Ring isto be seen In the
financial buoyancy which 1t has Impaired to
every phase of business. The Tribune has an
editorial plea for universal amnesty, and de-
mands the removal of the disabilities of all
now ineligible to Office. or none.. Since her
rebuff at the polls, Mrs. Woodruff has written
several additional letters 10 the papers con.
corning her right to vote. Charles OCouor
says that Fields will never take seat In the
Legislature. Tilden, In an address Thursday
evening, urged the young men to uphold the
future integrity Of the State by attending to
political as we'll as mercantile duties.
"A Paris journal states that curious affair,
in which the diplomatlst, N. Benedetli, is con-
cerned, is shortly to come before the law
courts. That gentleman, when consul in
Egypt, married young Greek lady, who
passed as the daughter of n. Anastasis, q
wealthy merchant settled at Alexandria. II
was, however, generally known that Madame
Bened.th was Greek slave OF great beauty,
who had been taken very young into Egypt,
afterthe war In the Morea. N. Anastasis, who
had no family, purchased her, adopted and
brought her up, and on his death he left her
the whole OF his fortune, which amounted to
seven millions Of francs. The relations of the
deceased protested against the will, but did
not venture TO dispute 1t under the empire,