The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-29
!. :rEERIs OF THE DAE.
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The New York cotton market was quiet
& and dropping. Sales 1000 bales at 2sic.
At liverpool cotton closed firm; middling
uplSnd I'D; orleans l9sd. Sales II, 900 bales.
lis said that Father Hyacinthe is, going
out West
Jefferson Davis is said to have accepted
She presidency Of. 8 Life insurance company in
Memphis.
= It Is roughly estimated that the reduction
eftae public debt during the month Of Octo-
ber wiz amount to eight millions,
Isabella II, the ex-Queen Of Spain, has pur-
chased near Paris o small property belonging
10 retired chifonier, or rag-picker, of the
Z French capital.
g Nj. John Swinton, for many years an edi-
f0rial writer for the New York Times. is writ
:, lre 4 work entitled "Ten Years of Journal
Ism which is likely to be very interesting.
4 Tom Thumb has be.n rendered disconso-
3 late BIZ Getting man smaller than himself In
wise insil, and unsuccessfully endeavored to
caIRy al the shorts for his own speculation.
9ihomas Walker. editor Of the London
Nevis, has been appointed by Mr., Gladstone to
tse eSatcrship Of the London Gazette, sine.
cure githg salary Of 900 gold per annum,
ghe course Of General Mcmahon, late UNI
( tedSatssa Minister to Paraguay, has been ap-
4 proved by the government as being marked
by eommendsble diligence, discretion, dignity
4 snd Armness.
Tbe forthcoming publication OF newspa-
perin washington, to be edited, written and
4ead By the best colored talent Of the cou-'
'try,els announced by one of Forneys papers;
90 that It seems probable that no such enter
prise ID contemplated:
The Virginia State Fair, which commences
Tuesday, November 2, in Richmond, is the
hsst m that State since the war, The new
I grounds comprise sixty acres, and are nearly
3 covered with the new buildings. The entries
alresdy exceed, those of any fair before the
,ssf, and those from the Northern States are
dye times as great President Grant and his
Cabinet, of course, will be invited to be present.
Railroads and canals, although in opera
don night and day, prove 70 be insufficient for
! the transportation Of the grain which the West
desires 10 ship. at Buffalo, on Saturday, re-
solutions were passed asking the presidents of
the New York Ceptral and Erie Railroads to
imncdlately give further facilities, as it was
impossible to I'll orders for points in the inte-
rior. AT the present time there is an unusual
cal1 sor railroad transportation, the breaks In
the Erie Canal, occ ssioned by the recentfresh-
eta, having occasipned great accumulation
Of freight.
The London Times prints Mr.. Lange's e1-
PLANTATION 6f the report that French vessel Of
I experiment had stuck In the mud OF the Suez
Canal, and was extricated by being forced
4 back again He says the vessel was the hea-
vily armed Egyptian corvette Latif OF three
Z hundred horsepower; which turned back, as
matter Of course, because, on the 1lth Of Sep
tember, the Bitter Lakes were not yet open.
He asserts that vessels can move through the
canal alta speed Of five or six knots an hour
!. without injuring its banks, and that the entire
way from Said to Suez will be assuredly open
for all ships on the 18th of November.
-The press laws in Russia, it is announced,
win soon be made much more stringent. By
q decree issued four years ago., the principal
iotrpals of Moscow and st. Petersburg were
relieved from the control of tine censorship,
nut were Stil subjected to the notification"
which, in case OF a repetition OF the offence,
was followed BY, fine, suspension and contsca-
lion. This restricted liberty, the Russian jour-
nails anticipste, will be withdrawn in conse-
squence OF the fears entertained by the reac-
tionists in the public offices, that the, State is
exposed to serious dangers from even the pre-
sent limited relaxation of the censorship.
The Onondaga petriied giant turns out to
be only Fudely sculptured statue, the work
OF Canadian slonecutter possessed with the
mania that he was a second Michael Angelo,
and attempting 70 embody his ideal of st.
PauI In sandstone. He worked in secret, and
the fruit of his labors was only revealed on his
deathbed to q fellow-workman who had rem
dered him kind Offices during his sickness.
The confdant conceived the idea of making
use OF the statue to pepetrate hoax On his
neichbors. which he did, it seems, with COM
pletesuccess. He buried it in an old ditch,
and then discovered itat the proper time and
in the proper manner to create the impression
that IL was great curiosity.
1T is now an ascertaine6 fact that General
; Buttsrfeld has resigned his position as Assis-