The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-02
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ding, s"irs laQ0 baiee.
IL /. gorpoos cotton closed active with
aales-pt Id 600 bales; uplands 122d; Orleans
1as,le tai.
-fhey say London stockholders OF tho old
line are disturbed" at the French cable.
-lhe tea-making colony OF Japanese, in Ell
Dorado County, California. 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 it's late extra session. The members
nave yearly salary and not per diem pay
The Lonuon Times deems it impo ssible to
Keep the Chinese out Of this country, as we'll
as lmpolitc, and considers them q safe ele-
ment of assistance in colonization.
More than o dozen Ph,ladelphia .clergy-
men have united in the determination to at
tend no more Sunday funerals unless the ne
cessity is certified to by a physician.
The death of Hon. Isaac Toucey, of Con-
necticut, formerly Acknowledgement under
Polk, and Secretary Of the Navy under Bu-
chanan, is announced. He died at Hartford
on'Friday, in his 7Sl year.
"A man committed suicide in England a
day or two ago by throwing himself under
rallroad train. On his person was found
number OF the securities robbed from the New
YORK Ocean Bank some time ago.
-Ihe Memphis Appeal intimates that the
subscriptions towards the Chinese immiera-
tion scheme set on foot by the late convention
90 not come in as rapidly as expected. OF
$lOo, 600 necessary to make up the capital Of
the society, however, 100000 had been sub
scribed up to the 2lst.
"A railroad is about to be made through
the wild region known as John Browns Tract,
IN the Adlrondacks OF Western New York The
region has been accessible only to hunters and
adventurous spo1tsmen heretofore. The road
IS 10 pass from Saratoga Springs to Ogdens-
burg, cutting the great wilderness in two
In Chicago, on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The a1-FHynanta were resumed III Tue Ecciesias,
: tieai ct'ssss Oh the motion to dissolve the in
jasotion.lately issuesl Ssyeat the proeaea aInesI
Of the Ecclesiastical court. convened Gor the
trial If the Rov. Charles E. Cheney. proba-
by no decision will be arrived, at for day Or
two.
-Workmen. in overhauling the old fort at
st. Augustine, Florida, discovered several sub
terranean cells, or prisons, each Of which con-
tained long iron upright box, and a human
skeleton In irons. It Is supposed these we're
refractory Spanish soldiers, or perhaps priso-
ners of war, who were incarcerated in these
sweat boxes and lett there to die hundreds of
years ago.
The Prussian government is the onlv
European power which owns house in Wash
1ngton for the permanent use OF it's legation.
1t ls believed that this example will be speedily
followed by the Russian and British govsrn-
ments, and that stately palaces will be built for
them in the American capital, similar to those
they own in European capitals, for the accom-
modations Of their legations.
The Cunard steamship Russia, on her last
outward trip from New YORK ito Liverpool, is
Claimed to have made the fastest time on rec
ord, viz: Eight days four hours and forty-dve
minutes. 10 this trip she beat the Scotia, who
had made the fastest time on record 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 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 fact, and that the Southern
Democrats, under new organization, are
using it with success, and that the Chinese are
coming, and that it is sheer nonsense to fight
them In California with Democratic resolutions
have these California Democrats heard Of the
faclhc Railroad, and who built ltP This Cali
fornia plstform is the stupldest thing out.
"A Washington letter says: s'The fact that
the proceedings in the Yerger courtmartial in
Mississippi were sent to Washington for re-
view does not necessarily imply verdict OF
murder in the first degree. General Ames, tie
commander Of the district. it should be borne
IN mind, was IN Washington when the court
adjourned, and Colonel Barr, the judge advo-
cate. brought the papers North to have him
review them here. But for the fact Of bis
being here the papers would have been sub
mitted to him in Mississippi. Whatever the
finding. no sentence will be executed until
after q decision upon the case by the United
States Supreme Court. This was the under
standing when the agreement was entered into
between Yerger's counsel and the Attorney
General" @fs
One OF the most heroic deeds on record
was performed on Saturday last by the fireman
on ne westward bound mail train over the Og-
densburg and L. q. Railroad. AS the train.
under full headway, was approaching q cross
1ng about = mile east Of Malone, New York,
the engineer discovered child, about two
years old, on the track. He at once souaded
the whistle for clown brakes" and reversed
his engine. The mother Of the child, on hear
ing the whistle, ran screaming toward the
track to savelt. but the fireman, W. Lavauway.
seeing that she would be too late, leaped from
shs locomotive and. rurDiEg ahead OF the t-a;n,
snatched the little one from the track Just as
the wheels were about to crush it. When the
mother saw that her child WAS .safe. she utter
ed one lond cry Of Joy and sank pfaintlng to the
ground. %s.sS g,s. ~
The New York Herald. OF Friday, in it's
money report for the day preuous says: "The
market for Southern bonds vas steady sud