The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-10
NEVIS, OF TIE D-iY.

-uoiu aI NcW iork yesterday CloScu duil nj
271S.
The New York cotton market was heavy and
lower ut 253s; sales 2300 bales.
AT Liverpool cotton closed steady; uplands
111ia1l7S; Orleans Il7sa12d: sales 5000 bales
Napoleon will probably spend some OF the win
ter in Nice.
Mr.. Seward has fallen Ill ON his journey to
Mexico, and is not expected to reach the capital
until the latter part OF this month.
-Ex-Governor Peirroint, OF Virginia, has been
elected TO the West Virginia Legislature: Ill great
or ambitions have proved vanity.
Germans are not to be stylish in New York
this winter. Small receptions and afternoon
dancing parties will take their place.
"A dentist in Western New York claims to have
extracted one OF his own teeth after putting him
self under the influence OF chlOrofOrm.
Tile theatre In Rochester, New York, was
burned Saturday morning. Several stores I'D
joining were involved. Total loss $4,000.
-Udolpho Wolfe left each OF his three daugh-
ters 100000. There's schnapps for three young
men who may like to bring the ssWoif to the
door,"
The Archbishop OF Paris maintains that the
French Concortlat is opposed to any decision by
the Hcumenical Council on the infalllbility OF the
Pope, without discussion.
The iags were hung at halr-mast ON the ship.
ping In the Thames, and numerous public build
ings in London were drapcd In mourning on the
announcement OF the death Of George Peabody.
Commodore Vanderbilt proposes to give New
York State two hundred thousand dollars and
build n new prison, If 1t will sell him Sing Sing
which he wants for railroad purposes.
Tho Onondas1 stone giant was removed on
Friday from the place where 1t was first dlscov.
cred and taken 10 Syracuse. 1T was found to kc
perfect on all sides, AMI n scientific report con-
cernlng the statue Is soon 10 Pe published.
Henri Roclcfort has bcen nominated rs sole
candidate for the Corps Legislatir from the first
ward In Paris. Lctlru Rollin has accepted the
nomination from another district in the city, but
without taking the oath OF fidelity to the Elm.
peror.
The concession for the proposed cable be.
tween Belgium and the United States was signed
In Paris Saturday by the Belgian Minister. The
cable Is to be laid between Ostend and 'tsomc
point between Maine and Georgia." by an Ame:i.
can company.
Ono oi the results OF the election in New
York-where the Democrats have concededly
elected working majority in bo!h branches OF
the Legisla,,he-will lie the repeal OF ali The laws
passed. during the Republican nscendency In re-
gard the government or New York City.
The papers continue to publish stories con.
cerning the reported marriage, nov said to he
near at hand, Of Mrs. Mary Lincoln, widow OF the
ucCchncu Pcs'ueut, 10 COunt CuHe.uenDuntZcn,
grand chamberlain to the Grand Duke of Baden.
1t is not known how much truth Is in the report.
Mrs. Lincoln Is yet In Germany.
"A Washington correspondent says: "The
West and South are bent on the passage OF free
banking law. The administration is already IA
Vorable to 1t, II it can be based on coin.-Onc Or
two members who have arrived express the opIn-
Ion that q compromise may be agreed on, whicr-
will require that all banks shall redeem fifty per
cent. OF their notes in coin. The Senate Is more
conservative OIL the subject than the House, and
the existing banks will make great fight over any
attempt to Interfere with their vested rights"
The greatest cooperative enterprise yet pro-
jected in this country Is the Sltro tunnel. More
than $500, ,0oo, 900 Is supposed to he hidden In &
most unuckily constructed mountain In Nevada,
thf precious veins running through the centre OF
tile mass rather than along the convenient sHDpcs.
Already the mines have been sunk to such depth
that they cannot be pumped out or ventilated cx.
cept at too great cost. Mining ingenuity proposed
tunnel into tho mountain, cutting the veins,
draining The mines, and laying open the Whole dc.
post. Congress was nsket for q loan to aid In the
work, but refused, aud Mr.. Susr0 was In measure
forced into the cooperative scheme. which IL al.
ready advanced to some extent. Three thousand
laboring men are asked to pay In nh average OF ten
dollars caoha month, to bc applied to the con.
strnction OF the tunnel, and secufed by owner
snip In the mines. Tho money, OF course, comes
back to the miners in the shape oft wages, with
the prospect OF rich interest when fhc silver ,le
posits arc reached. The plan scems to have
struck the fancy OF the Nevada miners, and many
arc responding to the call for thirty three cents
day, and becoming prospective owners OF what is
believed to be the greatest silver mine ON tile con.
tnent
The work OF recovering The bodies OF the
Stonewall Victims s being vigorously prosecuted.
Fortunately, the position OF the wreck and the
nature OF the reef or bar upon which II lies are
such Tint strong c'kly y formed, thereby pre-
venting the corpscs OF tho drowned from drifting
out into the swift current, ana being swept away
into the channel OF tho river Ont OF this eddy
one after another the remains OF the vIct ms are
drawn to the aurfacc, showing no signs OF decay,
and looking almost nie.llko until tho warm air