The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-12-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold at New York yesterday closed quiet
at2a.
The New York cotton market closed steady.
Sales 27oo bales at 25Hc
AT Liverpool cotton closed steady; upands
ND; Orleans 125Sd. Sales 10000 bales, OF waich
1000 was FOR speculation and export.
Two millions In Confederate securities brought
SIS In New York, wednesday.
Guatemala contempates "Pacifc Railroad"
to stretch from the Atlantic.
: "A whale, seventy-five feet long, was washed
ashore lately at Economy, Bay of FuRdy.
The English have gotten another joke against
, the Suez Canal-sand drifts and bewidering fogs
this time
The Sublime Porte still keeps that medieval
functionary known as court astrologer, as well
as a sultan's dwarf.
Isabella has caused denial to be made OF the
report that she took with her, In her flight from
Madrid, crown OF diamonds.
One OF the greatest German painters, Fred
erick Overlook, died in Rome, on the 18th OF No.
Yeniber last, in his seventieth year.
-Richard Wagner, the composer Of Tannhau-
ser, is at work upon history Of music, which is
to be published in three large volumes.
--Ex.Queen Isabella, OF Spain, will reside at
the palace Farnese during her sojourn in Rome
as the guest OF the dethroned King Francis II, OF
Naples.
There are to be new postage stamps In place
OF those now In use, as large as the old red ones
and having profile marble busts Of great men en-
graved on them.
--Dr. .Ssheppe, the Philadelphia murderer, has
another chance for his life. writ OF error mas
been granted and he may prove, before the Su'
preme Court, his innocence.
g "A correspondent who has seen 1t, writes to
the chicago Tribune that the partly decayed arm
that lies under the Cardiff giant looks exactly like
that portion of Fort Dodge gypsum which rises
above the surface OF the ground and Is exposed
70 the weather.
q "A man deposited check for s3o,ooo purport-
ing to have been drawn on New York bank by
., frra of that city, in the National Bank OF the
Republic, at Washington. Saturday, and subsc-
uueutly attempted to check out six or seven
thousand dollars, but did not succeed. His thirty
Thousand dollar cheek WAS found to be worthless.
! 1t Is rnmored that vigilance committee has
been organized in New York. entitled Law and
Order Regulars the object OF which Is to execute
summary justice upon the roughs who escape
punishment through political influence. Some OF
the local authorities, including certain judges, are
said to be Included in the committee.
Owing to the breaking of an axle, the through
train on the Wilmington and Manchester Rail-
road, bound for Augusta, was, on Monday last,
thrown down an embanSment eight or ten feet
high, the car turning complete somersault in its
fall. The express messenger, Captain H. l.. Leon,
sustained severe though not serious injury IN his
breast and hip, by being thrown agains' tie siues
; Of the car, In its revolution. Mail agent
Virgins sustained some bruises on his snoul'
ders, and the preservation OF his life, IN
view OF the complete revolution OF the
car, Is subject Of wonder to himself even.
The conductors car. in which conductor jarvis
was OF the time Of the accident, was also thrown
from the track, turning half over In its iaii'
The clothes OF the colored stewardess caught nre
from contact with her stove, and were burned TO
her skin. but further bodily damage was pre-
vented as she maintains, by her hoop skirt. TINS
car was prevented from falling to the level OF the
mail and express car, by coming In contact with
a telegraph pole. The position Of the conductors
car arrested the progress OF the passenger car
down the declivity, and 1t was kept on the track
without other injuay to the passengers than lae
incidental shock OF the accident. AS soon
as Conductor Jarvis had recovered ana sur
sveyed the wreck OF his train, ne proceeoeu 10
KingyI!le and secured another train' with whicn
he returned to the scene OF the wreck, anu TOOK
all aboard.
The National Labor Convention OF colored
men, at Washington, which adjourned S'ns a'e
last week. passed resolution complmenting
Isaac Meyers, CT Baltimore, its originator ana
president. he made speech during the meeting,
IN which he said that in Baltimore about two hun
dred and fifty colored men men banded together
after being discharged, through white influence
from the shipyards, and purchased one OF their
own, at cost OF $40, ,oOo and to-day the yaru en-
ploys tHe hundred and fifty colored men ana
nfty-nge white men, and is In prosperous condi-
ton. Some Of the white men employed now In
the yard ore the same persons who helped TO KICK
the colored men out Of the yards OF Baltimore.
He would not endorse the political Working
mems Union OF this country, because the Repuo-
Aucan party had done too much for his race, and
= no colored man in the land should attach himself
"a tina former organization. as its object was to
break down the great Republican party, and form
democratic party. committee OF coiored
men waited upon the President on Saturday
when Senator Harris, colered, OF North Carolina
deie2n.e 20 the National Labor convention
made speech, in which he thanked the fresl-
dent, In tae nsme OF the colofed people, lor ap-
pointing back men to ofioe, thereby recognizing
their clalms as part Of the body polite. he