The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold at New York yesterday was quoted at
2ss.
The New York cotton market was quiet
and dropping Sales 1000 bales at 26Ic.
AT Liverpool cotton closed firm; middling
upland I'D; Orleans l2ad. Sales Ia, 600 bales.
-Tis said that Father Hyaclnthe is going
out West.
jefferson Davis is said to have accented
the presidency OF u life Insurance company In
Memphis.
1t is roughly estimated that the reduction
Of tho public debt during the month Of Octo-
Der will amount to eight millions.
-Isabclla II, the ex-oucen of Spain, has pur-
chased near Paris small property belonging
to retired ohlfTonicr, or rag-pickcr, OF the
French capital.
Mr.. John Swinton, for MANY years an edi-
torial writer for the New York Times. is writ
, ing work entitled "Ten Years Of Journal
ISM" which Is likely to be very interesting.
Tom Thumb has been rendered disconso-
late by meeting a man smaller than himself in
Wisconsin, and unsucccssfllly cndcavorcd to
call in all the shorts for his own speculation.
Thomas Walker, editor of the London
IsC"st hao uecu dppoliCcu Wy mr. SlliClStOHc 10
tho edltorship of the London Gazette, a sine
cure with salary Of 5000 gold per annum.
The course Of General McMahon, late Uni
ted States Minister TO Paraguay, has been up
proved by the government as being marked
by commendable diligence, discretion, dignity
and firmness.
The forthcoming publication of ncwspa-
per In Washington, to be edited, written and
read by the "best colored talent of the co,-
try" is announced by one OF Forney's papers;
80 that 1t seems probable that no such enter
prise is contemplated.
. The Virginia State Fair, which commences
Tuesday, November 2, in Richmond, is the
first In that State since the war. The new
grounds comprise sixty acres, and nre nearly
covered with the new buildings. The entries
: already exceed those Of any fair before the
war, and those from tho Northern States are
five times as great President Grant and his
Cabinet, OF course, will bo invited to be present
y Railroads and canals, although in opera
tion night and day, prove to be insufficient for
the transportation of the grain which the West
desires to ship. At Buffalo, on Saturday, re-
solutions were pissed asking the presidents of
the New York Central and Erie Railroads to
.
impossible to- fill orders for points In the intc-
rior. AT the present time there is an unusual
call for railroad transportation, the breaks In
the Erie Canal, occasioned by the recent fresh
cts, having occasioned great accumulation
Of freight.
~ The London Times prints Mr.. Lange's ex-
PLANTATION of the report that n French vessel of
experiment had stuck In the mud of the Suez
!, Canal, and was extricated by being forced
back again. He says the vessel was the hea-
Willy armed Egyptian corvette LatIf, of three
hundred horsepower, which turned back, us
matter of course, because, on the llth of Sep
tember, the Bitter Lakes were not yet open.
He asserts thatvcssels can move through tho
canal at speed of five or six knots IN hour
without injuring It's banks, and that the entire
way from Said to Suez will be assuredly opon
for oil ships on the 18th Of November.
The press laws in Russia, 10 is announced,
will soon be made much more stringent BY
q decree issued four years ago, the principal
journals Of Moscow and st. Petersburg were
relieved from the control of the censorship,
but were still subjected to the modification u
which, in case of repetition Of the offence,
was followed by fine, suspension and conllsca-
tion. This restricted liberty, the Russian jour
nails anticipate, will be withdrawn in consc-
quence OF the fears entertained by the rcac.
tionists In the public Offices, hat tho State is
exposed to serious dangers from even the pre-
sent limited relaxation Of tho censorship
The onondaga petr6ed giant turns out to
be only radcly sculptured statue, the work
OF Canadian stonecutter possessed with tho
mania that he was o second Michael Angelo,
and attempting to embody his ideal of St.
Paul In sandstone. He worked in secret, and
the fruit Of his labors was only revealed on his
deathbed to fellow-workman who had rem
dered him kind offices during his sickness.
Tho cohfdant conceived the Idea OF making
use Of the statue to pepetrate o hoax on bis
neighbors, which ho did, 1t seems, with COM
plete success. He buried it In an old ditch,
and then discovered 1t at the proper time and
In tho proper manner To create the impression
that was q great curiosity.
1t is now an Sescertained fact that General
Bltterheld has resigned bis position as Assls;