The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-31
NEWS SUMMARY,

They are luxuriating on fresh shad in Savannah
special Washington dispatch says that the
President will hereafter refuse the use Of troops IN
. the Southern States except in case OF riot.
The tobacco crop in Missouri this year is esti.
mated at from twelve to fifteen thousand hogs.
heads.
- The latest fashions in Paris is a bonnet with
chignon attached so that a lady buying her bon.
net can get her back hair along with it,
It is stated that member of the Tennessee
Legislature who is not satisfied with his pay, has
added trile to his income by becoming waiter
in Nashville restaurant.
The Alabama Legislature, by adjourning over
for the holidays, put the people Of Alabama to an
exnense of s28 900 for what is termed @ sfroic, :
and their course is bitterly condemned by the
naners in view Of the poverty prevailing in Ala
bama.
The Daay 7eegyuoh, of Montreal says that there
has heon 40 far almost complete failure Of justice
in the Fenian trials at sweetsburg, tia she pro-
ceed:ngs have been eminently suitable TO s"eets-
hnrp. and one now recognizes the wisdom OF the
9 trials being transferred to that locality.
General BUFFERS New York "apple speech" was
extensively copied in the French press. La France
made an editorial reference to it's translation,
saying ssWe publish General BUTLER's address,
with the omission Of such words as would offend
the French ear"
Mr. CHARLES READE has commenced a libel suit
against the proprietors Of the Round Table for the
articles which he so severely stigmatizes IN his
stprurient Pride" letter. The complaint, drawn by
his counsel Mr.. BooTH, recites the alleged libels.
Heasks 900 damages for his injuries.
e. BAYARp TAYLOR lectured before the Young Mems
Christian Association in Washington, D. c., on
Thursday night last. HORACE GREELBY is to de-
liver the next. TILroN, COUGH and AGAss1z are
among the lecturers engaged for the winter
special dispatch from Washington, December
~, to the New York Enen.g Post, says: s'1t is as
certained that a decided majority of the Repubi-
can members of Congress hold that Congress IS
bound to admit the Representatives of any South
ern State that adopts the Constitutional Amend
ment within reasonable time.."
The clipper ship Dausd Crockett ninety live days
from San Francisco, with cargo of G6, 900 bushels
of California white wheat, and 1000 bushels Of bar
ley, has arrived. The order for the shipment of
the grain was telegraphed to San Francisco Sep
tember 1st. Thi is the first direct cargo of Cali
fornia grain ever received at this port.
CIT is to be wished that Congress might return to
Washington in O better mood after the holidays.
The festival Of peace and good will ought to in-
spire them with sentiments of love and forgive
ness. But we fear not. We fear that instead Of
.speace on earth ard-o--'''' S'
.coz,zv back Breathing out war, hatred ano Von-
geance.
An attempt was made Sunday night to destroy
the south bound regular passenger train on the
Doll Of Srrn
arranging the switch SO as to throw the train OIL
the track. The locomotive and tender, and the
baggage and express cars were oyerturnedZIhe
passenger cars remained on the rails. Inc engl-
neer was thrown some distance, but not injured
The other employees saved themselves by jumping
of. No one was hurt.
The product of the Nova Scotia gold mines for
the past five years has been as follows 1852 70oO
ounces 1868, 1900; 1864, $4,000; 1856, $4,000;
1866. $4,000. The yield per man employed was :
1863, 95 cents per dav 1854 s1.39 1866, $2l3 part
of 1866, $2.45. At sherbrooke, in the month OF
September 1854 ounces were obtained, making S8
per day for each minor. At other places the sue
cess was much less1 but on the whole the mines
are paying.
An ingenious French arithmetician has calcu-
lated that the space which young Parisian belle,
who is fond of the exercises of dancing, traverses
in the gay saloons of Paris amounts, in the course
of one dancing season, to four hundred and thirty
four miles and a half He has also estimated that
q French lady, fond of performing the functions OF
q teetotum, would spin round in waltz IN one
night as manv times as the wheels Of q steamboat
reYolye while running the distance between Dover
and Calais.
The sale OF. the famous STEELE farm in Venango
county, Pennsylvania, recently, for q government
debt of s11 ,0OO, is ono of the most striking in
stances Of the reyerses Of fortune that has o5cr-
red in NAM years. In 1864 this farm when left to
jog W. STLELE, was returning an income OF $4,000
per W, and in the safe kept by Mrs. MoCLNTooK,
who # him the property, was $40 600 in gold and
800 10 in greenbacks. STEELE and SLooUM
{srEE1Es partner) were famous names in the oil
region-while their money lasted.
The Macon {Ga.) Telegraph says Sup to 1st
January, 1860, Forsyth shipped from the Macon
and Western Railroad depot to that place, 7348
bales cotton of the product Of that year. This
year TIE shipments, actual and established, up to
1st next January will not vary ten bales from 2460
which shows little less than third of the pro-
duct Of 1860. The same proportion would make
the product of Georgia 10000 bales or therea-
bouts, and Of the whole South about 400, ,000
But we think Monroe has done better than an
average. The talk among the planters of the
. county is, that but for the drought they would
have made half Of crop; but We presume this
would have been don at sacrifice Of corn, which
will not again be thought of in future agricultural
operations"
The New Orleans Times would have the people