The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-12-15
NEWS or TIE DIR.

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The New York cotton market closed steady
Sales 200 bales at 25;sc.
AT Liverpool cotton closed steady; uplands
l1Hd.; Orleans 1a'Sd. Sales 10000 halcs, OF which
1000 was for speculation and export.
Two millions in Confederate securities brought
$35 In New York, Wednesday.
Guatemala comtcmp!atcs "paclnc Railroad"
to stretch from the Atlantic.
"a whale, seycnty-1vc feet long was washed
ashore lately at Economy, Bay OF Fundy.
\ The English have gotten another joke against
the Suez Canal-sand drifts and bcwiltlcring fogs
{ Shis time.
AN-Thc Sublime Porte still keeps that medieval
nNctionary known as n court astrologcr, as well
~ sutan's dwarf.
isabella has caused denial to bc made OF the
report that she took with her, In her light from
Madrid, crown or diamonds.
Ono Of the greatest German painters Frcl-
err:; Overlook died in Rome, on the 18th OF No
remhcr last, In his scrcntlcth year.
Richard Wagner the composer OF Tannhau-
ser, ia 1T work upon history OF music, which is
10 be published in three large volumes.
.--EX.Queen Isabella, OF Spain, will reside at
ylhn Palace Farnesc during her snjourn In Rome
as the guest Of the dclhr0acd King Francis ii, OF
Naples.
Of those now In use, rs large AIS the OLD rcd ones
and having profile marble busts OF great men en-
gravcd on them.
DIR. Ssheppe, the Philadelphia murderer has
another cilancC for his life. writ Of error has
been granted, and he may prove, before the Su.
preme Court, his innocence
"A correspondent who has seen IL, writes to
the Chicago Tribune that the partly decaycd arm
that lies under the CarlIlr gian, looks exactly like
that portion OF Fort Dodge gypsum which rises
above The surface Of the gronnd and is exposed
to the weather.
"A man deposited check for s3o.Ooo, parport.
Ing to have been drawn on New York bnnl by
firm Of that city, In the National Bark OF the
Republic, at Washington, Saturday, and subsc-
qucntly attempted TO cheek out six or seven
thousand dollars, but lid moi succeed. Ills thirty
thousand dollar check wns found to he worthless.
1t Is rnmorcd that vigilance committee las
been organized in New York, entitled Law ami
Order Regulars, the object of which is TO execute
summary justice upon tile 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. bnnnd for Augusta. was, OH Monday last
thrown down an cmbankncnt eight or tcu feet
high, the car turning complete somcrsaut In lis
fall. Tile express messenger, Captain H. l.. Leon,
sustained severe though not serious injury, In his
breast and hip, by being thrown against tie sides
Of the car, In its revolution. Nail agent
Wiggins sustained some bruises OH his sh0ul-
ders, and the preservation of his life, In
view OF the complete revolution OF the
car, Is a subject OF wonder to hImsclf even.
Tho conductors car, III which conductor Jarvis
was mt the Ime OF the accident was also thrown
from the track, turning half over In It's fall.
The clothes Of the colorc stcwartlcss caught fire
& frola contact with her stove, and were burned to
her skin, but further bodily damage was pre-
rented, as she maintains by her hoop skirt. This
Ger was prevented from falling to the level Of the
(, mall AMI express car, by coming in contact with
g. nlcgraph pole. The position OF the conductors
! car arrested the progress OF the passenger car
down the deciyty, and il was Kept oil tile track
without other njuay 10 the passengers than The
Incidental shock Of the accident AS soon
as Conductor Jarvis had recovered and sur
vcyed the wreck OF his train, he proceeded 10
Klngvillc and secured another train, with which
he returned 10 the scene Of the wreck, ami took
oil aboard.
The National Labor Convention OF colored
mon, at Washington, which adjourned sine die
last week, passed Il resolution compncntLna
Isaac Meyers. OF Baltimore Its originator and
in which he said that in Baltimore about two hun
dred and nifty colored men men banded together
after being discharged, through white influence
from the shipyards, and purchased one OF ilieil
own, at n cost Of $4,000 and today the yard en-
ploys two hundred and fifty colorcd men ant
Hfty-Gve white men, and Ia in prosperous conli
tlon. Some OF the white men employed now IL
the yard are tic same persons who helped to klcl
the col0rcd men out OF the yards Of Baltimore
He would not endorse the political Working
mems Union VI this country, because tic Ropub
lcsn party had done too much for b Is race ant
no colored man in the land should attach hinase.
10 the former organization. as It's object was Il
break down the great Republican parly, aud form
Democratic party. A committee Of coore'
men waitcd upon the President on Saturday
when Sonator Harris, colored, OF North Carons
sdelegate TO the National Labor Convention
made speech, In which he thanked tho Prcs
dent, in the name OF the colored people, for ap
pointing black men TO ONCE thereby recognizin,
their claims as o part OF the body polite. Il