The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-20
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 90, 1869.
NEWS OF THE DAF.

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-AtNew York cotton closed frmer. Sales
5000 bales at 262c.
The Liverpool cotton market closed un-
changed. Msales $4,000 bales, of which 1000
was for speculation and export.
Heavy frqsts on Friday night are reported
from various sections of the South.
"A cotton factory has been chartered at
Richmond, Virginia, with $4,000 capital.
"A London clerk was convicted Of forgery
on the evidence of the sheet of blotting paper
he had used.
Father Hyacinthe is to receive public
welcome from party of evangelical clergy
men In Boston.
Admiral Farragut's condition has greatly
imnurroyed. we and his physicians now have strong
hopes that he will fully recover his health.
The King of Prussia has presented the
Pope with the carpet which is to cover the
floor on which the Gcumenical Council Is to
De. held. a.,.!. nan
The laying of the corner stone of the
House of Mercy of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, took place in New York on Saturday
with imposing ceremonies.
THE receipts nom the exhibition of Presi-
dent Grants OK, at the late fair in st. Louis,
amounted to nearly $4,000, which goes to the
benefit OF the Soldiers Orphan Home.
.-Paraguayan news represents that Lopez
has established new lines Of defence at San
Estanislaus, and that the allies are unable to
continue the pursuit at present for want OF
transportation.
1t is asserted that the National Intelligen-
Ger and Express has been purchased by Mr..
"Pet" Halsted for Senator Sprague. Report
further says that George Wilkes will be edl-
tor. and will run the paper in the Sprague
interest.
Major. VIM. Allen, of Richmond, has sold
jamestown island to Northern gentleman
-Tms IsIund was the site OF the
hrst English settlement in Virginia. A portion
OF an old church and numerous grave stones
still exist
The London Times says, in reference to
Mr.. Summers late speech before the Massa-
chusetts Republican Convention. In which he
seemed to fall back on the extreme views of
his former speech ,relatisesto the English re-
cognition of Southern belligerency, that Mr..
Sumner has always been his own solitary dis
-ciple, and now seems disposed to turn rene
gade.
The croton aqueduct does not furnish the
City of New York with a sufficient quan tity OF
water for all purposes, and the Metropolitan
Board of Health has been inqniring into the
pfacticability Of obtaining supply of sea
water to flush the streets daily and to extin-
guish fires. The cost Of constructing the
works would amount to 81, 900, 600. and the an
nual expenditure for maintenance sl30.0OO-
IA numerously attended meeting of the
ssAliance Israelite Universal Society" has
been held in Berlin. The principal subjects
considered were the severe distress now pre-
yaIllng among the Israelltes in Western Rus
sia, and the prospect of the emigration OF the
Jewsfrom that part of the world to America.
Rresolution expressing the hope that the peo-
pie in America would cooperate steadily and
with. their accustomed . liberality with the
brethren in Europe, in relieving this distress,
was unanimously adopted
-AMr. Sargent, who seems to be the inventor
or proprietor of an ''unpickable burglar-proof
bank lock !" has just succeeded, after eight hours
effort, in picking without injury to the lock or
safe,ene of Yale's celebrated ''double dial bank
iocks'-a task which Mr.. Yale had wagered
$1,000 against 5000 could not be done in forty
eight hours SO We go. Next. we suppose,
we shall .hear.that Yale, the '.double dial' man,
has picked the ''unpickable burglar-proof" in
less time than Puck required to girdle the
earth, detached it from It's belongings, and
walked off with lock, safe and contents. And
then, what viii the ill-starred, dispirited rich
folks dos
A horrible accident occurred on Saturday at
the Ohio River BRIDGE swelling the number of
lives which have already been sacrificed in its
construction At halfTast 4P M. the tempo
rary trestlework being erected between piers
sixteen and seventeen, for the purpose ofswing-
ing span, gave way In consequence OF a jerk
Of the locomotive used in raising the timbers,
and six men were precipitatcd distance of
ninety-five feet. John R. Payne. carpenter.
was instantly killed; James Kirby, carpenter,
was cut in two, and his body, floating over the
reefs, has not been recovered; Oscar Gallagher
and william Irvine, laborers, were mOrtally
wounded, and Robert Gensby, laborer, and
Matt. Mcclure, carpenter, were slightly wound
ed. About O'Clock John Botkins, while walk
ing between piers thirteen and fourteen, miss
ed his footing, fell distance OF ninetyseet, and
was instantly killed..
"A Washington letter says: ''The Radicals
here are much disgusted at the appointment
Of Belknap as Secretary of War. They ask,
who is Belknap? I never heard of him. If
he was in the war he couldn't have done
much, or he would have figured in the news
papers, Some do not hesitate to say that
Grant seems determined to fill his Cabinet
with unknown, third-class men, completely
ignoring prominent members of the party, who
would have added strength and popularity to
the administration. 1t is not yet known
whether Belknap contributed anything to the
Presidential gift enterprise, or whether one
of Grants long lost relatives has suddenly
aturRed up One thing in relation to this ar-
Iointment is noticeable. and that is, that it
was not made until af.er the Pennsylva1la