The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-05-20
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

NEWS OF TIE DAH.
Gold closed In New York, on Saturday. a.
isaalli. ..,o.os ,,,,ot.
The New York cotton market closed qnlet'
uplsnds a44 cents; sales 1900 bales.
I'm Liverpool cotton closed steady; uplands
lid; shipping at Savannah or Cnarieston
ll4d; sales 10000 bales.
Ia Mrs, Logan, OF Akron, Ohio, has become
insane through the opportunities OF sewing
machine agents.
The Emperor of China, though not sixteen
years OF a-e, is about to be married.
The forest fires are raging In New York
State.
The red, white and blue-Gratz Browns
hair, Greeleys hat, and the countenances ol
the oficeholders next November.
-Ex.senator William Allen, OF Ohio, the
Democratic Nestor of that State, pronounces
in favor Of the endorsement of the Liberal
ticket by the Baltimore convention.
The Methodist Conferences In New YORK
on Saturday adopted resolution eiectnS
eight new bIshops-one OF whom Is TO De Irom
the South.
Commissioner Douglas sustains the de-
clsion that brokers mast pay tax on oerro"eo
money used as banking capital.
a mass meeting of carpenters IN new
York on Saturday rejected the proposition Oh
the bosses for the eight hour system on NO
yember LIST. All carpenters are ordered 10
stop work to-day.
The New York Tribune announces that
uMr. Greeley accepts no Invitation TO speak
on political questions while candidate" )" ana
expresses the hope that this announcement
viii be accepted as his final determination
ITO the objection urged against hr. Greeley
that In previous popular elections he had run
behind his party ticket, the Tribune produces
all the returns that tend to eluoldate the sub
iect. and In each case Mr.. Greeley Is found
Shead of his ticket.
John Russell Young, whose departure for
Europe was recently noted, takes the POSI-
OF Huuuuu CVrrCuPouu--~-->--A-
York Herald, at salary of eight thousand
dollars year, holding the same position IN
london that Mr.. snalley, Of the Tribune,
holds.
Among prominent Democrats who are
now openly quoted as warmly In favor OF the
nomination OF Greeley and Brown are General
John @. Breckiprldge, OF Kentucky, General
Richard Taylor, of Louisiana, and Duncan
Kenner, OF Louisiana.
"A Cuban letter states that two hundred
Spaniards surprised camp Of twenty-five
women, six children and twelve old men, Ia
the woods between Guantanamo and Arroyo,
and masssored all Of them. The spanards
subsequently were pursued by the Cuban rev.
olutionists and many Of them killed.
The Virginia press is the fercest Of any
for Greeley. They say the South is coming to
Baltimore to vote for him In the Democratic
National Convention against all comers. one
says .sVlrginia has her opinion without walt
Ing for Baltimore" They give Voorhees, and
..alI suchn the cold shoulder, decidedly.
The Springfield (Il.) State Register (Dem.) }
publishes list of forty-seven Democratic
papers published in Illinois, forty y-tour of which
support Messrs. Greeley and Brown, and three
advocate the nomination Of straight Demo-
crasic ticket at Baltimore. There are twenty
nine other Democratic papers In the State to
hear from.
THE N. Y. Evening Post reports that 'ln
conversation with Republican congressman
from Ohio, day or two ago, President Grant
said that In case of his reelection he Intended
TO make q general change Of of1ceholders
throughout the country" In other words,
Grant believes in his own perpetual reelection,
but thinks the one-term rule Is good for all
other oficeholders.
When Mr.. Greeley left his editorial room,
on resignlug the command of the Tribune, we
resa that sin one corner of the room there
are nearly thirty boxes, from the different
New York hatters, each containing a white
hat. They had come In so fast that Mr. Gree
ley distributed them to the employees In the
building. The compostors must have come
In for q good share, as the majority Of them,
as they passed to the composing room that
evening were crowned with white hats"
Our Atlanta exchanges of Saturday con-
tained call for meeting of Democrats op-
posed to nomination of candidates for Presi-
dent and Ylce-President by the National
Democratic Convention. The call was signed
BY about eighty citizens, subscribing them
selves as Democrats. Among the names we
observed those of Judge D. F. Hammond,
Evan P. Howell, Clark Howell, W. L. Gordon,
Colonel 3. A. Aston, Perino Brown, Colonel
Thomas @. Howard and Colonel Lewis Tum-
lin. :2he meeting was to be addressed by
Colone. Cnclnnatus Peoples and General A.
O. GS.lington.
The Democratic Convention Of the great
State OF New York has in effect endorsed
: Greeley and Brown. 1t has fairly and enthu-
siastlcally committed itself to the Cincinnati
platform. 1t thus puts behind it the whole
record of the war, accepts the work of the war
as final, constitutional amendments, negro
suffrage, and all, Hits Itself from the slough ol
continuous and certain defeat, and turns
hopefully toward the problems of the future
Tho Empire State is In full accord with Viz
ginia, Illlnsis, Texas, Connecticut, South Caro-
hns, and the rest. "New York casts her
aixty.six votes for Horace Greeley"
From Texas paper comes an appalling
story OF the massacre in that State of nine
teamsters and the capture of their'effects by a
mixed maraudlng party, consisting of Indians
negro deserters and Mexlcans. The tragedy
took place on the Ell Paso road, where sup
ply train had halted for the usual midday meal