The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-02
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ding; eslrs l2OO bales.
In Liver oool cotton CLOSED active with
sales of Is 600 bales; upIauds 123d; Orleans
12Hls13I.
~ 2aey say London stockholders OF the old
line ale "lis ;urbed" at the French cable.
The .ea-makin2 colony Of japanese, in FL
Dorado County, Califorlia, is getting along
finely.
A little child named Finn was awfully
burned in New York on the 18th instant, by the
explosion Of kerosene lamp.
the florida Legislature sat but three
weeks in its late extra session. The members
have yearly salary and not per diem pay.
The Lonuon Times deems it impo ssible to
Keep the Chinese out Of this country, as well
"a impolitic. and considers them safe ele-
ment OF assistaace in colonization.
More han dozen Philadelphia .clergy-
men have united in the determination to at
tend no more sund.y funerals unless the ne
eessity is certified to by aphysician.
The death Of Hon. Isaac foucey, Of Con-
necticut, formerly Attorney General under
Polk. and Secretary Of the Navy under Bu-
ohanan, is announced. He died at Hartford,
on Friday, in his 73d year.
"A man committed suicide in England q
dayso or two ago By throwing himself under a
railroad tram. On his person was fond q
number OF the securities robbed nom the New
York Ocean Bank some tune ago.
The Memphis Appeal intimates that the
subscriptions towards the Chinese immigra-
tion scheme set on foot by the late convention
do not come in as rapidly as expected. OF
800, 600 necessary to make mp the capital OF
the society, however, So, 900 had been sub
scribed up to e-2lst.
"A. railroad is about to be made through
the wild region known as John Browns Tract,
n tin kdirondacks Of Western New York. The
feaiSG has been accessible only to hunters and
adventurous sportsmen heretofore. The road
i TO pass nom Saratoga Springs to Ogdens-
burg, cutting the great wilderness in two.
in Chicago, ON Tuesday and Wednesday,
the arguments we're resumed in the EccIesias-
ical court on the motion to dissolve the in
Junction lately issued to arrest the proceedings
ffSai Of the Rev. Charles z. Cheney. Proba-
bly, nc decision will be arrived at for day or
two.
-Workmen, in overhaulfng the old fort at
St. Augustine, Floaids, discoyefed several sub
terranesn cells, or prisons, each Of which con-
: tanned along iron upright box, aud human
skeleton IN irons. It Is supposed these were
refractory Spanish soldiers, or perhaps priso-
nefs OF war, who were incsroersted in these
sweat boxes and lett there to die hundreds Of
years ago.
Tho Prussiani government is the only
KuropesApcRer which owns . house in Wash
ipstcn for the permanent uae Of it's legation.
Isasbehsved that this example will be speedily
followed by the Russian and British govern
menss, and that stately pa.aces viii be built for
them in the, American capital. similar to those
they own in European capitals, for the accom-
modations Of their legations.
Tho Cunard steamship Russia. on her last
outward trip trom New YORK to Liverpool, is
claimed to have mads the fastest time on rec
ord, viz: Eight days four hours aud forty-aye
minutes. In this trip she beat the Jotis, who
had made the fastest time on II :ord. either
way, by two hours and a-half, that steamer
having made the run in eight days seven
hours and fifteen minutes. A vote OF thanks
and q handsome testimonial were presented to
Captain Lott by the passengers on his arrival
at Liverpool.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, the lea ling De-
mocratic organ OF Ohio, don't like the platform
of the California Democrats. It says: sWe
can tell these California Democrats that negro
suffrage is fixed fsct, and that the Southern
Democrats, under new organization, are
using it with success, and that the Chinese are
c5ming, and that 1t is sheer nonsense to fight
them in California with Democratic resolutions.
Haye these California Democrats heard Of the
Pacific Railroad, and who built lt2 This Cali
fornia platform is the stup,dest thing oat."
"A Washington letter says: "Tbe fact that
the proceedings in the Yerger oourtrnartialin
Mississippi we're sent to Washington for re-
view does not necessarily imply verdict Of
murder in the first degree. General Ames. the
commander Of the district. it should be borne
in mind, was In Washington when the court
adjourned, and Colonel Barr, the judge sdvo-
cate. brought the papers North to have him
review them here. But for the fact Of his
being here the papers would have been sub
mitted to him in Mississippi. Whstever the
finding, no sentence will be executed until
after decision upon the case by the United
States Supreme Court. This was the under
standing shen the agreement was entered into
between Yergers counsel and the Attorney
General"
One of the most heroic deeds on record
was performed on Saturday last BY the fireman
ON The westward bound mail train over the Og-
densburg and L. @. Railroad. AS the train,
under full headwsy, was approaching cross
ing about q mile east of Malone, New York,
the engineer discovered Q child, about two
years old, on the track. He at once sounded
the whistle for "lown brakes" aud reversed
his engine. The mother Of the child, on hear
ing the whistle, ran screaming toward the
track to save It, but the fireman, ". Lavanway,
seeing that she would be too late, leaped from
the locomotive aud, running ahead OF the train,
snatched the little one from the track just as
the wheels w,re about to crush it. When the
mother saw that her child was safe. she utter
edone loud CRY OF Joy and sank fainhng to the
ground. -
The New York Herald. Of Friday, in it's
none, report for the day previous, says: "The