The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gold closed IN New YORK at zosazox.
Cotton in New York, on Saturday, was heayJ
ana xe lower; ;sales of 1000 bales, at 25Ac.
!, --In Liverpool cotton closed dull, with uplands
at I'D ana Orleans 121sd. sales 10000 bales
Tom Thumb and troupe have gone to Hong
Kong.
4 The Dalmatian rebels ore giving much trouble
to the Austrian troops, but seem to be gradually
coming ogrief.
During the lest fiscal year, the government
has disposed OF between four and five millions OF
dollars, worth Of land under the homestead and
other laws.
Electoral meetings In Paris are unattended
Wlth disorder, and in no instance so far has the
Interference OF the police been required on such
occasions.
The English gunbost Thistle; while on her
trial trip or Sheerness; Oh Thursday last ex-
ploded her boiler, killing tenand severely wound
ing eight men.
partment, on Friday, forty books OF gold leaf he
had stolen from it. Another repentant sinner
sentback dollar gold piece.
"A large delegation Of clergymen from the
Church Of England, aud dissenting ministers and
aynen, viii attend the Evangelical Alliance to be
s held n New York next fall.
"A party OF priests returning from land ten
ure meeting In Ireland, day or two ago, were
attacked by persons lying in wait and brutally
beaten. One has since died Of his injuries.
y 1.-The regulators are abroad again in Southwest
ern kentucky. They attacked house in Pres
tonvile the other night and demanded surren-
der, but the occupants resisted and finally drove
them on.
-An extensive gang Of counterfeiters, regularly
s-organized for the purpose Of manufacturing and
selling counterfeit tobacco stamps, securities and
money has been captured In New York. Many
parties In good standing in that city and in Vir-
sefnfa and North Carolina are compromised.
The Prussian Ministerial budget proposes the
creation OF asinking fund to absorb one per cent.
annually OF the public debt, and the conversion
Of the present loans into four and half per cent.
.rentes lThe proposal for increased taxes will be
withdrawn IL these measures are agreed to.
:. Letters received by the British minister ut
washington indicate that her Maiesty's govern
nent is prepared to reduce the single rate OF post
age between the United States and Great Britain
to three pence, and that, therefore, the early
adoption OF this measure Of postal reform is high
II probable.
The siege OF Jacmel, Hayti, by Salnaves
forces has been raised, and the troops were at
forces under Brlce, who had already captured
Mirsgoane The revolutionists in st. Domingo re-
main inactive near Azna. A rumor OF the sale or
st. Domingo to the United States is gaining
: strength there.
THE New Orleans Times says: "Many Of the
:s:srman emigrants but recently arrived by the
steamer direct in this city have already found em
. 3ployment. We noticed yesterday batch OF thirty
or forty who were getting ready to go to sugar
plantations. They were flne hale-looking set Of
men, and are the kind Of people the South wants
s to sEelfher population and develop her material
resources"
8 The Washington correspondents say that q
movement has been put on foot looking to-tsie
erection Of an elegant new opera-house in fash
ionable quarter Of the city. Considerable pro-
sgress has already been made, and it is reported
that Mr.. Kendall has given the land at the corner
OF Fourteenth and L streets, Mr.. Corcoran about
. S200gc, and that Mr.. Riggs has taken some of the
stock. The cost OF the structure Is set down at
s$16o,000
: --There.is much comment upon the indifference
With which the administration treats the recent
expose Of Butterfeld with the Gould-Corbin ''cor.
nern In New York People ask, with good rea-
son, why the Sub-Treasurer, accused of such
grave charges is permitted to hold on to his po
sition for weeks after the development OF the
sdamning facts OF the affair. Uncharitable per-
sons win shortly suspect that there are reasons
not at oil credtable to the government for this
: loose way Of treating serious matter.
: "a number OF Jewish rabbis from the principal
cities OF the Union are in conference in Philadei-
phia on the subject OF reform in the Hebrew
Church. They adopted resolutions abollshng the
useo OF prayers in the Hebrew tongue as unintelli-
sgible to the masses; dsclaiming the doctrine OF
bodily resurrection or the removal of the Jewish
state by segregation from all other nations, and
declaring the Aaronic priesthood and the Mosaic
sacrifcial worship to have been merely prepara-
tory stems to Israel's national priesthood, and
: therefore things OF the past, to be mentioned in
prayer only in their educational capacity and not
: to be praeticed.
1t is reported, on alleged good authority, that
: q large number of clergymen Of the English Es-
tabished Church have signed petition to the
i Ecumenical Councii, praying THAT, should the
decision OF the council be un ayorable (as the Pc
titioners believe it not improbable it will be) to
the validity OF the Anglican orders, the petition