The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-30
HEHS OF TIE DAT.

In New York cotton closed at &c cents for
middlings.
Gold at the close was 2ss.
I'm Liverpool cotton closed steady al l2d
for uplands
Boston is raising subscriptions ''tO pur-
chase John Browns farm"
Twenty-Five persons were killed. or killed
themselves, in New York last week.
Charles 0Cunor, the Hcstor of tho New
York bar, began his career ncwsboy.
John S. Preston. Of South Carolina, will
deliver the address III the Richmond Fair.
"A new work by Dr. 0rcstcs A. Brownson,
entitled "The Church and I4ibcralism," is near
ly ready for publication.
"A man was recently executed in Altonn,
North Germany, who had murdered his father,
mother, two brothers, two sisters and female
servant, in order 10 secure u small bag OF
money.
-TclcgmNhic messages. afler November Isi,
will be transmitted in France mt low rlcs.
Messages twenty words in length will I've
transmitted between any two points In The
Empire for twenty cents, and between any
two stations In the same department for ten
cents. The old ruies were forty cents fnr
messages Of twenty words.
-Rcv Dr. Cumming thinks IL quite unhc-
coming in the Pope To refuse 10 let him have
his say nj The Ecnmcnical Council. Punch
thinks that tie Doctors efforts in this matter
may be summed up in the one Latin word
Fenio-'I am Cummihg' II Is certain, by
the way, that as far Us Rome is concerned the
Doctor is not the coming man.
in allutling to The departure OF Father IIyu-
0inthc for America, the Figaro Of Paris says
that he belongs TO san unlrockcd family
Father IIyacinihc himself was first Suplician,
then Domlnlcnn, and afterwards n Carmeliic.
His brother commenced life MS n Dominican,
and laid aside his habit for a profcssorship at
hlc Sorbonnc. Ills sister, who was also a Car
melite, left her convent, and now resides on
the Boulevard dc Ncuilly."
Garrett Davis agrecably surprise Il the Ma
tonal Capital Convention at st. Louis by max
Ing speech occupying less than two hours,
but grievously disappointed the ambitious
citizens Of st. Louis by advising them 10 let
capitals alone, and coninc their ambition to
the building Of factories, the construction of
railroads, and the development Of the ngrcul-
tural resources of Missouri. They had been
awaiting the venerable Kentucffan for week
past, and anticipated great things from The
speech he would make in favor of the measure
which called the convention together
"A singular document appears In the Toledo
papers Of Saturday. II is n card from Conrad
Meier, the condemned murderer, Offering to
exhibit himself for the benefit of his wife, who
has lately become Il mother. lie says !: ION
Monday and Thursday shall be happy to see
and converse with any one WHO is willing to
testify his or her sympathy by contributing,
however small, toward the support Of my poor,
hcartbroEcn wife and her infant. I am com
PEELED 70 ask that the public will not take Of
fence ut this appeal. My own fate shall try
TO meet will becoming fortitudc, but, oh ! IL
is anguish TO think that The wife and child
whom love so well will soon be pointed ut
with scorn rs the wife and son of u murderer
Rev. Mr. Spurgcon, the wcll-known Hap-
jotist preacher, used TO be famous for his comic
,ktrrh0ns and lectures; but increasing years
and corpulcncy and wife and children have Il
little sobcred him. The other day, however,
II hc came ont In his old character. He dclY-
cred lecture on bells, and provided himself
witlha large collection of different kinds OF
bells to Illustrate his subject Among others,
there was large alarm bell fixed in the roof,
which the reverend joker frequently pulled.
Here is one of his points "Thc ringing of n
bell was Rown to be n striking emblem of
prayer, the rope being pulled on earth, and
the bell ringing high up In Heaven. II was TO
bc regretted that some people pulled the rope
80 gently" This;is the way to instil exalted
ideas of religious truths into the mind.
"A New York letter of Monday says: "fath-
Be Hyacinthe gayo pcrcmpIory orders this
Inorning that no one should be admitted to his
z room. His visitors, yesterday, aftcr he re-
turned from Mr.. Bccchcr's church, were Sd n,i-
merous that the poor man had no time even
10 answer important letters which he received
from Paris tho dpy before. The Catholics now
say that his visit to Plymouth Church, and his
interview with Bccchcr, cut him off altogether
from whatever sympathy they may have felt
for him before, and hat henceforth, SO far as
they are concerned, he Is .as much beyond the
pale OF the Catholic Church as Beecher him.