The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-30
NEWS OF TIE DAT.

in New York cotton closed at &c cents for
mlddlings.
Gold ut the close was 2Ss.
in Liverpool cotton closed steady at l2d
for uplands.
Boston is raising subscriptions Ito pur-
chase John Browns farm"
--Twenty-two persons wcrc killed, or killed
themselves, In New York last week
Charles O'Conor, the Ncstor of the New
York bar, began his career rs newsboy.
John S. Preston. OF South Carolina, will
deliver the address Mt the Richmond Fair.
"A new work by DR.. Orestcs A. Brownson,
entitled "Thc Church and Liberalism" is near
ly ready for publication.
"A man was recently executed In Altoona,
North Germany, who had murdered his father,
mother, Two brothers, two sisters and female
servant, In order 10 secure small bag Of
money.
-Tclcgrnphic messages, after November lst,
will be transmitted In France mt low rates.
Messages twenty words In length will he
transmitted between any two points in the
Empire for twenty cents, and between any
twO stations In the same department for ten
cents. The old rates were forty conts for
messages of twenty words.
Rev DIR. Cumming thinks It quite nnbc-
coming in the Pope TO refuse 10 let him have
his say at the Ecumcnical Council. Punch
thinks that HE Doctors efforts in this matter
may be summed up In the one Latin word
Tenio-"T am Cumming" II is certain, by
tho way, that rs far rs Rome is concerned the
Doctor Is not the coming man.
LIN alludng to the departure of Father IIya-
ointhe for America, the Figaro of Paris says
that he belongs 10 "an unfrockcd family.
Father Hyacinthc himself was first Suplician,
then Dominican, and afterwards n Carmelile.
His brother commenced life MS Dominican,
and laid aside his habit for a profcssorship at
ble Sorbonnc. His sister, who was also Chr
melite, left her convent and now resides on
the boulevard dc Ncully"
Garrett Davis agrecably surprise the Ma
tonal Capital Convention at st. Louis by max
ing speech occupying less than two hours,
but grievously disappointed the ambitious
citizens Of st. Louis by advising them to let
capitals alone, and confne their ambition to
the building Of factories, the construction OF
railroads, and the development OF the agricul-
tural resources of Missouri. They had been
j awaiting the venerable Kentucfan for week
past, and anticipated great things from the
speech he would make in favor OF tho measure
which called tho convention together.
z IA singular document appears in the Toledo
papers Of Saturday. 1t is q card from Conrad
Keller, the condemned murderer, offering to
exhibit himself for the bcneht of his wife, who
has lately become mother. He says {: ION
Monday and Thursday shall be happy to see
and co1versc with any one who is willing to
testify his or her sympathy by contributing,
however small, toward the support Of my poor,
heartbroken wife and her infant. am COM
PEELED " ask that the public will not take Of
. fence at this appeal. My own fate ! shall try
to meet with becoming fortltudc, but, oh IL
Is anguish to think that the wife and child
whom Hove 30 well will soon be pointed mt
with scorn as the wife and son of n murderer
Rev. Mr.' Sp,lrgeon, the wcl-known Bap-
,otist preacher, used to be famous for his comic
~ ,Befhghs and lectures; but increasing years
and corpulcncy and n wife and children have
little aobered him. Tho other day, however,
q he, ,cGIne out.in his. old character. Hc dcly-
cred lecture on bells, and provided himself
5iwitlNra large collection of different kinds of
bells to illustrate his subject Among others,
there Has large Harm boil fixed in the roof,
which tho reverend joker frequently pulled.
Here is one OF his points: "Thc ringing of q
! bell was SHOWN to. bg. n striking emblem of
prayer, the rope being pulled on earth, and
the bell ringing high up In Heaven. It was to
be regretted that some peoplc pulled the rope
90 gently. This is the way. TO instil exalted
: ideas OF religious truths into the mind.
"A New York letter OF Monday says: "Fath-
sr Hyaclnthe gave ,peremptory orders this
morning that no one should be admitted to his
Hroom.a :: His visitors, yesterday, after ne re-
turned from Mr., Bccchcr's church, were so n,i-
/. lmerous that the poor man had no time even
! 70 answer important letters which no received
= from Paris the day before. The Catholics now
\ I. say that Ills visit I'd Plymouth Church, and his
q interview with Dee9hcr, cut him off altogether
Il !, from, whatever sympathy they may have felt
for him before, and ttSat hence forth, 50 far as
they are concerned hs e .as much beyond the
pele 81 the Catholic Church as Beecher him.