The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.

VIEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold closed dull in New York yesterday
at2oK.
in New York cotton closed dull and heavy;
niddlings 25a2sK cents.
Cotton closed in Liverpool at 111sd, with sales
efIo,ooo bales.
"A mastodon has been dug up in Stockton,
California.
-The stene giant draws 1000 spectators day
/, m Syracuse.
& The bicycle still wobbles over the wooden
{ pavements OF Brooklyn.
The New York sub-Treasury has ninety mil
Z lions In gold In its cellar.
"A wealthy colored man has been appointed
notary public at Chicago.
The Minnesota beavers are dotble-lining their
: .houses In anticipation OF cold winter.
Three to four thousand troops have sailed
( nom Spain, for Havana, since Sunday.
Z -The Prussian Government designs reforming
the press laws in force In that Kingdom.
!, New York City railroads propose return to
specie payment-on the part OF passengers.
{, Already there are six hundred subscribers to
the Peabody Monument Fund, started in New
Z York.
Nashville, where $500 900 cotton mill has just
: been put up, has four other large manufacturing
establishments under way.
The gale OF Tuesday was general throughout
Kentucky and adjacent States, as well as to
considerable extent on the Atlantic coast.
Flake, OF the Galveston Bulletin, gravely sug-
gssts that the shortest and surest way to get rid
OF the Indians is to supply them with all the
Whiskey they can drink.
s Suit has been Instituted at Louisville against
!, che leaders Of vigilance COMMITTEES BY persons
! whom they had arrested and detained Illegally
me damages are laid at 100000.
-Tae workmen on wednesday struck through
she tunnel On the Ohio and Chesapeake Railroad,
s between white Sulphur Springs and covngton,
4 and It win now soon be completed.
General Wade Hampton, in his address at the
j MACON, Ca, Fair, on wednesday, said he thought
4 that negro labor was better than that OF any
otltsr class the South could possibly procure and
: he cornselled the planters accordingly.
$ "a prospective duel between Rochefort and
the editor of the Pays Is the last sensation in
y Paris The former accused the latter Of COLLISION
with the police. Rochefort is about to commence
the publication Of paper to be styled La Aarseil-
s lsise.
LIN the United States Supreme Court, the
'osher day, Chief Justice Chase announced that
cases hereafter continued at this term shall be
nut at the foot OF the calendar OF the next term.
It IS understood that cases so disposed Of win be
delayed about two years.
III Is stated that the PostmssterG General will
coon issue an order prohibiting carriage through
{ the malls Of circulars gotten up by swindling
firms for the purpose Of defrauding the public.
Some twenty OF these drms are on the blacklist
OF che government detectives.
Buried treasure has been found by Mr.. Silas
5 Corwin, an old gentleman living at New Windsor,
on the banks Of the Hudson River, whlle digging
out clay few days ago, In the yard attached to
covered by q nat stone containing $50 Spanish
dollars, bearing dates from l72oto 177S
Young Bennett, Of New York, accepts chal-
senge for an ocean race between his yacht Daunt-
less and Ashbury's yacht Cambria. The race will
come on next March, and the start will be made
some time between the first and tenth day Of that
e month. The Cambria Is put forward as repre-
sentative yacht; but Mr.. Bennett distinctly dis
claims any representative character for his yacht
s or his races.
The London Tines money article, OF Wednes-
day, referring to the movement in American
bonds in Europe, observes it is necessary to recol-
lect people liable for debt are apt to complain OF
its burthen, forgetting the benefits 1t brought
them The ANIMAL heavy payment made tU
= foreigners has more dangerous element OF un-
popularity than would exist In the case OF liabii
ties held at home
Z General Sickles will hardly retain bis position
= without vigorous 1gbt or the senators anu
members OF Congress who have already arrived III
Washington several do not hesitate to say Openly
thnt GeneralSickes has showed his entire undtness
for his place, and that he should be recalled al
once. Whether the movement will develop sur
dcient strength to induce the President to max
new appointment cannot be foretold; but therc
seems to be good deal OF feeling exhibited i'll
the matter, especially by those who advocate
Cuban Independence.
The New York Herald says the national banks
are laying their heads together To induce tn
coming Congress to consent to 4 further eXpan
sion n he ,rency. "Not that the nationa
banks want specie payments or expect To rctur'
to them. They simply want the entire national
circ aistion, ths control OF all the money In TIL
country, the enormous proa:s OF forty or Nit
6 millions a year on heir currency. anu she vas
power all this would 6 70 them over the govern
ment politics. an he material interests OF TIL
republc. n s - wha tbs gigantic dangerou
{: monopoly 3 N ng at
Il 4.Jhe landjn mes OF Wednesday. In consluer
ING ths eject OF tae opening OF the Suez Canal VI