The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-09-09
Tbe GbafleSto1t Nems
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1871.
NEWS OF THE Day.

NEWS OF THE Ddf'
Cold closed in New York at l3aal3i.
Cotton closed Q.iet; uplands 2Osc.; sales
1916 bales.
In Liverpool cotton closed firm; uplands
ead., Orleans s3d.; sales 5000 bales.
There was slight frost in Lewiston, Me-,
yesterday morning.
The Republicans OF New Jersey have NOM
mated Cornelius Walsh as Governor.
The severest gale Of the season has just
swept over Lake Erie. Several vessels are
ashore.
The latest report about John 4orrlssey is
that he contemplates building church at
Saratoga.
lMaine claims, on the authority Of Profes.
sor Agassiz, to have been the first formed land
In the new world.
Kane O'Donnell, q journalist formerly con-
nected gith the New York Tribune, died at
Philadelphia yesterday.
David Banks, the oldest bookseller In the
State of New York, died yesterday, In New
York, at the age Of IS years.
Prince Alexis, or Russia, has started for
America, and will be in New York as soon as
steam and sail can bring him. "
Cold Springs track, MilW aukee. over which
Goldsmith Maid made such wonderful time,
measures sixty.nine feet more than mile.
-Phe ship Sir Robert Peel has arrived at
New York During her passage she shipped
sea which killed her frat officer, Thomas Tell.
BY a recent act of Parliament, days OF
grace in the case of bills Of exchange and pro-
missory notes, payable at sight or on presenta-
tiop, are abolished in Great Britain.
1T is stated that FIVE hundred emlgrants
from Portugal will shortly arrive In Charles
CITY County, Va, to occupy tract of 10000
acres of land, about twenty-five miles below
Richmond.
The New Orleans Price Currents CONNER
cial review OF. the year makes the receipts OF
cotton at that port for the year ending August
81, l,54s, 1856 bales; average price lis cents per
pound. Last years receipts were l,2o7,s33
bales, and the average price was 22 cents.
A very large and enthusiastic gathering OF
Spanish aboltionists was held at Madrid re-
Gently, and was attended by many ladies. The
late Captain General Rhodas attempted to de-
fend the .'ins,Itution" by the old time conser-
vative arguments, but the meeting promptly
repudiated him and them, and appeared to re-
gard his notions as bad sentiment and worse
economy.
The Washington correspondent OF the Bal
timore Gazette writes under date of Wednes-
hapn made In nQWS.
papers, within q few days, 10 the effect that,
In anticipation of the stringent measures to be
enforced in South Carolina by the Admlnistra-
ton, all troops that could be spared from other
stations, and all recruits on hand, had been
ordered into that State. This report was prem
ature, and, thus far, erroneous. Although o
vigorous course will doubtless be decided
upon and carried out in the State by the ad-
ministration, no orders have recently been
Issued by the Secretary OF War sending sold
iers into South Carolina"
"A Washington dispatch of the 5lh, to the
New York Tribune, says: "There seems to be
40 doubt that there is a movement In the in
surrectionary portion OF the Southern States
among the Republicans, and those who favor
law and order, to send delegations to WASH
ington to represent to the President the exact
condition OF affairs in the various sections,
with view to inform the President upon the
subject in clear and serviceable manner,
that he may take such immediate action as
his powers permit, and bring the subject to
the attention of Congress in his next annual
message for additional legislation. 1t is pro-
posed to choose delegates Of such high charac-
ter that their statements would be received
throughout the country as trustworthy and
exact. The States OF Mississippi, Georgia, and
North and South Carolina, Alabama ard por-
tion of Tennessee, will be represented"
"A small cloud OF dissension shadows the
harmony of Bishop Potter's Episcopal diocese
In New York. An Episcopal minister, Rev
George E. Thrall, has sent In his resignation to
the bishop as presbyter of that church, in
order to inaUgurate in his church, the Emman'
nal, on Fifty-seventh street, the use of the new
Union Prayer Book, as it is called. This prayer
bock Is a revision OF the Episcopal Book oil
Common Prayer. The new edition has been
prepared by number OF diVines In this coun-
try and In England, and its purpose Is to ob-
tain o book o. common prayer which shall
exclude such passages as, in the old edition
have led to church controversies, aud also tc
present work which shall be acceptable tc
Christians of all denominations, who desire
liturgy. Mr.. Thrall, in This case the olsen
thralled, acts in this matter with the full ap
nrobstlon, and in accordance with the wishes
Of his veslry and congregation.
The Petersburg (Va) Index has the foi
lowing highly interesting account OF recent
discovery: "The workmen engaged in open
Ing a way for the projected railroad between
Weldun and Garysburg struck on MONDAY