The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-09-13
Tbe GbafleStn1t 9ems.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1871.
NEWS. OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold at New York yesterday closed at IA
al4t.
The New York cotton market closed firm
for shipping qualities; low grades weak; sales
1898 bales; uplands 2lc.
AT Liverpool cotton closed dull but steady;
uplands gid, Orleans e3d; sales 1900 bales.
Miss Carrie, daughter of Mr.. ]. B. D. De-
Boy, ofDeBow's Review, was fatally burned
In Nashville, few days ago, while dressing
for party.
Joe Coburn, the pugillst, tackled Scotch
man, named Goldie, in New York on Thursday
night, and was quietly knocked down untll
glad 70 CRY quits.
The human bones discovered In North
Carollra, and described in Petersburg (Va)
paper OF last week as of gigantic size, turn out
upon measurement to be OF ordinary dimen-
slons.
DIR. Strecker, OF Richmond, Va, between
seventy five ard eighty years of ages has been
released on Jail In the sum Of $4,000 to an
swer the Indictment charging him with Pre-
curing abortion.
The will of the late Hon. John Sllden was
admitted to probate in New Orleans on the 5lh
instant, together with an inventory Of proper
ty attached. The valuation OF the list foots
up $s73, ,o26, which he leaves to his wife, since
dead.
The King of Siam has resolved to set free
ali the slaves in his realms. The perpetual
abolition OF slavery will take place In that
country on the 3lst of January, 1872. A tax is
10 be paid by way of remuneratlng owners ior
the compulsory manumlssion, and the expert
ment of free labor will thus be made In still
another country Of the world.
Foreign importations at New YORK con-
tinue very heavy, as compared with previous
seasons. The sum total last week was over
$s,ooooOo, which is hard on to s3,ocoeoo IN
excess of the entries for The same period
last year. The biggest items in Inc Dill ar'
sugar. tea, coffee, iron and hides. The GUS
toms in gold paid into the treasury d"-!ng the
fist five days of the week amo~-'ed 10
$3,552, 900.
"A son of Aaron Burr and "a well-known
Washington belle, who fell beneath the olan'
dishments of the Vice-Presdent," has turned
up in Miami County, Ohio, where he mas long
cultivated the soil for subsistence. He has
recently been interviewed by the correspon,,
dent of country paper Of that section. "sir,
said the old msn 10 the correspondent, Val
though the bloud of Aaron Burr runs through
nv veins, detest it. He conspired against
the best government on the face OF Gods
footstool, and am the offspring ola traitor
Tried to redeem my birth by fighting foc my
country in the Florida war; but the disgrace
rankles in my heart, and little does the gov
ernment think that II pays pension 10 the
son of Aaron Burr" That old hypocrlte Is
not the son of Aaron Burr. He is fuiiGloWn
fraud
"A Washington-letter to the Baltimore Sun
saws: "Senator Scotts representation to the
President, on which he based his request for
declaration of martial law f r two counties IN
South Carolina, are meeting with very en-
pha,ic denial from his own party friends a
complete COPY O; the document alluded 10 on
the 9Th instant has been received here from
spar.anburg, South Carolina, by which 1t ap-
pears that no less than FIVE Republican, Feder-
al and State officials declare that not only have
no outrages been committed In that section
since the Ku.Klux committee left, but that it
was never more peaceful and quiet than now.
Had it not been for the delay Insisted on by
two or three members OF the CIoinet, Senator
SCOTS wishes would have been acceded to by
declaration OF martial law over quarter
which both parties agree is In state OF pro-
found peace. In fact, military reinforcements
had already been turned towards tile alleged
insurrec!ionary quarter"
"A Berlin correspondent of the New York
Nation relates the following: "On the entry
of one of the Mentz regiments Qhe Eighty
seventh. which is recruited in Nassau,) wit
messed little incident which is worthy OF De-
ing narrated here The regiment was on Its
way to the Schlossplatz, when stout, reso-
lutte woman broke through the ranks, put
away the officer at the head Of the squad, ana
embraced her husband, loudly crying: he
has belonged to you long enough, now ne Is
mine once more. and you will never get hold
of him again When the other women stand
log along the street, and eagerly watching for
their turn, noticed this unceremonious pro-
cedure, there was no longer any restraint;
they all broke into the lin 9, and each of them
seized her son, husband or sweetheart. The
captaln could not defend himself against this
invasion, good naturedly suffered to pass what
he could not stop, and led his men aud women
to the schlosspaiz, where amid the cheering
oftLe people the women assisted the soldiers
In unslrapping their knapsacks, or held their
noodle quus, while In the other hand each car
r,ed bundle of modest ciuzens' clothes, and
afterwards all ate and drank merrily together
Mr.. A. T. Stewards regal mansion, the
nropr.,s of which has eDgrossed the attention
of Filth Avenue promenaders fc: so many
years, is now rapidly approaching compe''on'