The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-10
LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE STATE.
LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE CITY.
News SUMMARY.

Of our citizens, now in Europe. We hope To have
the pleasure Of presenting his favors frequently
to our readers.
Gen. JuBAL A. EARLY is engaged in writing
history Of the Valley campaign.
A jury just empanneled in New.York represents
seventy-fve millions Of dollars. BELMONT, AsToR,
STEWART, and others compose it.
The curious may be interested in knowing from
the official Austrian report, that the cost of the
maintenance of the Austrian army is 5000, 900 q
day, or $219 900 a year.
The Miantononah, in her voyage across the At
lantic averaged 16s miles per day. The monitor
WAS not disturbed or delayed in her speed by
rough weather.
According to the published proceedings Of the
Medical Association of the State of Georgia, the
Committee on Prize Essays has awarded the fret
prize Of that body to Dr. E. 8. GAILLARp, of Rich
mond Vs for an Essay on Diphtheria.
Senator NYE is preparing for the press a new
edition Of DR.. WATTS poems, in hopes, says the
Boston Post, he may 80 familiarize himself with
the text as to become Nyer right in his future
quotations than he has in those lately made.
Since July 1st, National Banks are not allowed
to pay State bank notes over their counters.
There is no law to prevent their passing among
individuals, and for all uses excepting at bank.
:. company IN Sheffield offers $4,000 to whoever
will find substitute for ivory, as the demand is
30 great that the teeth Of 90 900 elephants would
be necessary every year to furnish billiard tables
alone Here is a field for some American genius.
They do things in q hurry in California, as wit
ness the following programme of pleasant little
affair.": San Juan Nevada stage robbed at A. NJ,
OF $4,000; reward offered at A. NJ; robbers shot
nj he 5a{0 u
inquest at p. NJ; funeral of the thieves at P NJ
suicidal mania prevails in Hartford Conneo-
ticut, no less than five cases OF suicide occurring
In that place in the space of twenty-four hours
One man poisoned himself with strychnine, two
others shot themselves, and two women jumped
into the Connecticut River The two last we're
rescued before life WAS extinct and saved
In 1860 there were in st. Louis IL tobacco manu-
featuring establishments with a capital of $780,
600, but in 1865 these had grown to sixty-two
establishments, employing s2,5OO,000 capital
nearly three times the amount employed in that
branch OF industry in the entire State Of Missouri
In 1850. In 1865 the Government tax on tobacco
manufactured in st. Louis was 81, III ,6Si.
The Fourth was universally celebrated in New
Orleans. In Louisville the celebration was con.
fined to private picnics, there being no municipal
demonstration. HORACE MAYNARD and others ad-
n6-
groes held a celebration at Fort Gilen, near that
city. party OF the Fifth cavalry regiment broke
up the colored jubilee.
A letter from General ALMoNTE, MAx1,d111AN's
minister at Paris, which is undoubtedly authentic,
written from Paris under date of May 81 SAYS that
the Financial Committee will not pay the salaries
of the legations whose drafts had arrived in the
city. He asks advice in the matter, as this sum
mary proceeding interferes consider ably with his
household arrangements.
In Brooklyn man naMed HENRY DEvLM WAS
reported to have died Of Asiatic cholera, The
doctors who attended him pronounced it to be a
strong case Of cholera morbus, while the coroner
and Jury were Of opinion that it was a genuine
case Of Asiatio cholera, and rendered verdict in
accordance Herewith. DR.. B1ssELL reports all
well on board the hospital ship Falcon.
Tho Trustees Of Antioch College, at the Com
mencement recently held there refused to allow
the only female candidate to read her graduation
essay, solely because she wore the 'Reform" Tor
short) DRESS This is reported In the local papers
as peculiarly hard case, she having worn this
costume for years, with her husband's consent
Antloch college is the nursing OF the late HORACE
MANN, and has students Of both sexes.
The New York Express says: ssThe letter n,
Mr. Secretary SEWARD to Tammany Hall Ia full Of
meaning, and will bear reading and re-readinp
The secretsry,-f We read him right,-means
now, to part, body and breeches, from the dis.
union Radicals, and to act with the Union party.
II this be 30, it brings him at once back to his old
Wing and Democratic bearings, which, however
differing in minor matters were always Union
on all matters Of Importance"
The New York Herald says there is great want
of Southern fre-eaters just now at Washington,
D. O., where there are q lot Of Radical Congress.
men, all anxious for denomination, and all ex-
tremely doubtful about their chances Of getting
it. They feel that nothing will save them from
oblivion except some stirring excitement that
shall make martyrs Of them, and cause an out
burst Unpopular sympathy in their favor. For
good fcgging, trifiing and not very painful stab
or pistol shot, aimed at some portion of their
anatomy, not necessarily vital, they will pay
roundiy. If the attack upon them could be
mace by notorious southerner and were
performed in public and accompanied by the
phrase, Let me kill this great Union patriot" "
or words to that effect, five hundred dollars would
not be too much for ths job.