The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-12-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Gold at New York yesterday closed heavy
at 22X.
The New York cotton market closed firm at
.25X Sales 5000 bales.
AT Liverpool cotton closed buoyant. Uplands
1lNd; Orleans l2Xd; sales $1,000 bales, OF which
5000 was 10 spectators and exporters.
= The ratification OF the sale Of the Island OF ST.
Thomas to the United States has been postponed
by the DANISH Government fo- six months.
The survey for a proposed new route for an
undergro and railway has been completed in New
York. II report is favorable, and work will pro-
badly be commenced in February.
-Antono Plzzini, an old and esteemed citizen
OF Richmond, died last week. He was native OF
the Island OF Corsica, and came to Richmond In
1SaS.:
"A Republican motion in the Spanish Cortes,
Saturday, to censure the government for an arbi-
trary exercise ofpower, was rejected by vote
/, OF 14s toss.
Hunger and misery prevail in the interior OF
Cuba to serious extent. In one hut, near Pal
ma Sorlano, eight persons were found dead from
starvation.
The Giant Powder Mills, at San Francisco, ex-
ploded Friday night, killing the superintendent
and another person. and wounding eight or ten
others.
-Delameter. builder OF the Spanish gunboats,
OF New York, has fled claim to them as his own
property, andmakes answer to the libel that 1t is
not true-that the Spanish Government SO far has
not interfered in the case.
Dispatches from Rome state the members OF
the Gcumenical Council Will meet at the Vatican
on the sth Of December, and at the conclusion OF
the pi sliminary ceremonies the Pope will an
nounce the opening of the Council.
One report says the differences between the
Sublime Porte and the Khediye win be compro-
missed; another, that the former has sent an ultl-
matum to the latter, and that several Turkish war
vessels have been put in readiness to sail for Alex
andria. s'
Dispatches from Cork, Dublin and Tipperary
report that there. have been several Fenian de-
monstrations In various parts Of Ireland AT
~Tipperary and Clonmel the proceedings were
riotous, Fenian songs were sung by the mob
while marching In proc ession, and several houses
on the line OF march were stoned and ridded.
At Cork the partisans Of Rosa celebrated that
gentlemanis election to Parliament with grand
torchllght procession and other proceedings.
Everything passed Of without disturbance.
1t is said that General BabcocS, accompanied
by General Rufus ingalls,, left New York day or
twoago for St. Domingo, with sealed instructions
from the President, and it is surmised in connec-
tion with the proposition OF President Baez to an
mex the island to the United States. Baez, 1t is
also said, win shortly submit the annexation pro-
position TO q vote Of his people. The annexation
terms viii be an assumption Of the public debt OF
St. Domingo and purchase Of the public build
ings forts, DC.
The Isthmus connecting North and South
America. It is asserted, can be canalied without
any greater difficulty than the. Isthmus OF Suez,
which isseventy.two miles in width. The 18th
mus Of Pansmais only twenty.eght miles wide,
and the Nicaragua route up the River San Juan
would only require the construction Of canal
sixteen miles long, the remainder Of the route
being, by way Of Lake Nicaragua, ninety miles
long, and the River San Juan. The Tehuantepec
route, one hundred and thirty miles across, from
sea to sea, 1t is asserted, lies throughout along
the Coatzacoalcos River.
"A general belief seems to be entertained in
Europe, in the recent signing OF treaty OF ALI
ance between France, Austria and Russia, to re-
strain the grasping designs OF Prussia. To this
compact Italy,a is asserted, has been asked TO
give her adherence. The object OF the treaty IS to
compel Prussia to moderate her claims" to give
ND her plan Of annexing South Germany, to rem
der the North German States more independent,
and to enter into convention for general DIS
armament. Russia has been detached from Prus-
sia by means of General Fleury, the French Am
bassador, who has convinced the Car that his
Baltic provinces are not safe from Bismarck de-
sires OF universal annexation. Great Britain has
not been asked to join in the treaty, as Of late
years she has Withdrawn from Continental poll
tics.
"A meeting Of the alliance Israelite Union
tsts,n held at Berlin, under the presidency Of Mr.
A. Cremieux, Of Paris, took into consideration the
distress now prevailing among the Israelites of
western Russia. 1t was proposed to provide
means for their removal to America, and reso-
.lntion was adopted expressing the hope that the
Hebrews in America would cooperate with their
brethren In Europe with their accustomed libe-
rality, in relieving this distress. The Jewish
papers discouragelh project. One OF them says
that ..em grafton viii not subserve the cause the
benevolent have in view. That can best be served
by send IN. he means to exist for ashorttime
through he assistance afforded them, and in the
ensuing sp: ng they VIII be able 10 take care oi
themselves"
"A desperate ehara, er, named Cooper VINO
ssd been VIII ped by party OF regulators IN Pu-
1sski Comfy, KY, caused the arrest OF some Oh
his se'ghbo g. whom he accused Of administer