The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-26
NEWS UM III d r z.

Gold in New York closed on Saturday 9
ssIas33.a
Cotton closed dull ut 2Ssa2S2c.; sales 9O(
bales.
Cotton in Liverpool closed dull sales 300
bales; uplands I'D.
Barney Aaron is thoroughly reconstructed
BE repudiates all distinction Of color in hi
challenge.
-Rossini's ''Wiiam Telis is excluded from
the Paris stage for the present, on account o
i is revolutionary character.
1t is foltunate Grant has been married bu
once. Were a 6rst wife's relations added t.
the present connections, the Offices would b
absorbed entirely.
-Eishty-four black men are studying in
college in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. The
Hexrect to be Presidents of the United States
Or at least members of Congress.
Mons. A. Cheyelier, the mronaut, who is tt
CROSS the Atlantic in balloon next summer
has nearly completed his arrangements for the
preliminary exhibition of his novel and mag
nl6csns balloon at Landmarks Park, New York
.M2iA bridge is to be built across the Missis-
sippi at st. Louis. A company has been formed
for this purpose, and with capital Of s3,00O,-
900. r. will have three divisions; one for rail
road trains, ore for vehicles, and third for
fo OF.
Five sons of the Harper BROTHERS have
been admitted to the great book publishing
house since the death Of Mr. James Harper.
They are: Messrs. Philip J. A., son OF James;
Fletcher, Jr., son of Fletcher; Joseph W., Jr.
son.of J. Wesley; John W. and Joseph Abner,
sons of John. All Of these have been trained
il the business.
The North German navy is being rapidly
increased. Last year the Parliament voted
$500, ,0G0 to bs exclusively applied for tle con-
struction of the navy and building the coast
desences. The expenditure of this sum, raised
by loan, was to be distributed over several
years, but the necessary works have proved so
extensive that new loan OF 81. 800, 900 has
been asked for.
From late English exchanges We learn that
the Preston cotton strike is likely to go on.
Themaaters generally Insist upon the adoption
R.the wheel system, and the men are equally
determined to resist it.. This step will greatly
extend the dimensions Of the struggle, ano
from six tha.iaaIi- aaHAa anaaad .zKea Xers
infaddition to those previously out, will DC
added to the large number idle, unless some OF
the masters withdrawte Q blackburn wheel
We learn from Beri i that Prusslan OH
@ er. who was in tine Confederate service during
our war, and who was on duty at Charleston,
has communicated to the Prussian Govern
ment the secret Of the construction OF the tor
pedo of American invention, which was found
very serviceable in the defence Of Charleston
haubor. Experiments were lately made at
Kiel with this particular torpedo, in the,pres-
euce OF naval and military officers designated
by the government and they were perfectly sue
oessful, as they blew vessel; which had been
prepared for the purpose, all to pieces. The
.osic,r (Von Scheliha) who communicated the
cssoret has received an appointment on the
staff ofthe Prussian service. ~ .1i
-Theloss OF the Pacific Mail steamship Her
mann, with two hundred lives, has been allu.
ded to ir our dispatches. Captain Newell states
.that when the vessel was about seyenty-6ye
miles from Yokohama he discovered breakers
;aGbad and ordered the helm "hard q port. ="
The ship at once answered the movement Of
ucltI, was SduSho W " sANNASANS~S
roller and thrown with great violence upon the
rocks, striking first forward and then oft,
when raised by the following swell. Success
.siye seas breaking upon the ship with great
violence forced her over the reef, the water fill
ng the ship, meanwhile, rapidly. Three boats
we're lowered and filled with passengers, but
t he heavy sea soon swamped them all. About
.~,,5n;oht an ~ thu fpnna1o Fell foryard N MN
the hurricane deck. causing loss Of life to a
raumhsr Of people collected there. Before the
Chimney fen, tho. foremast had gone. The SEQ
reaching the hurricane deck. broke up the
whole Of it forward, but the after portion float
ed off almost entire, and remained in this way
alongside, and seemed to save forty or fifty
/. people. Some of the people were washed Off
: some tried to save themselves on pieces of the
floating wreck. The boats being mostly life
fboats. although swamped, still floated, and were
washed into the small bay by the surf, and
those persons who clung to them were saved
Captain Newell speaks very highly of the con.
duct Of the japanese on board. When the ship
struck these brave men, suddenly reused from
sleep by the awful crash, seemed to compre-
n bend their situation in moment. No STAN
.:pede; no disorder. From the first thsy were
quiet and cool, retaining wonderfully their
presence Of mind, and calmly awaiting the
commands of tieir leader.
"A case ofiuhumanity occurred in beauti-
full New England village recently, which it
would seem difficult to parallel. On the night
Of the 4th OF March last there was terrific
snow storm in Vermont. The snow piled in
heaps, the roads were made impossible, and
the Green Mountains we're whitoned to an enor-
NOUS depth. Upon the afternoon preceding
such night, an overseer of the poor in small
town near Peacham turned family OF paupers.
widow aged seventy-four years, an unmar-
ried daughter aged thirty.fve, little child
e aged eight years, and a lad belonging to the
family, out upon the high road, and bade them
begone to some other town, where a relative
had offered them shelter. They plodded along
until overtaken by the storm. at one cottage
AT the foot Of the mountain they were refused
shelter; at another further up they we're
again refused aamittance, and in striving
to reach the third and last they all perished,
and when the storm cleared away and the
roads were broken out their frozen
bodies were discovered. Marks Of the struggle
hey made for life we're evident, the lad having
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