The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-30
News Summary.

News Summary.
General JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON has accepted the
Presidency Of the Alabama and Tennessee Rail
road Company. he is expected at Selma soon.
Mr.. s. A. PATor, citizen Of Macon, was acci-
dentally killed in Southwestern Georgia, ehort
time ago, by being thrown from horse.
Income returns will not be allowed to be pub
Ished in future, nor will any journal or individual
be allowed in future to make copy Of them:
The grain crops are reported as looking and
doing we'll in Emanuel county. Georgia. Cotton
presents sickly appearance. ,zz~ !.
It is reported that there are more imbecile per-
sons, and more afflicted with goitre, in the moist
valleys OF the Susquehannsh, than elsewhere in
the United States.
The Louisiana cotton crops are calculated at
one-half Of last months estimate. The corn crops
are looking well. The sugar crops, where planted,
are abundsnt.
Orders have been issued for the removal Of all
the United States soldiers buried between Chatta-
nooga, Resacca and Tunnel Hill, on the Nashville
road, to Chattanooga for reinterment.
pelican, measuring feet II inches in height,
feet inches in breadth Of wing, and / foot
inches in length Of bill, was killed few days ago
in the vicinity Of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Last week the staging on the Georgia Central
Railroad was twenty-three miles; early this week
it will be reduced to thirteen miles, and by the
end of next week the connection. will be complete.
In Columbus, Ga, recently, MIR. R. ]. MOSES, a
son and partner of Major Moses, was admitted to
the bar. He sustained splendid examination.
This young gentleman is we'll known in this city.
The States of Georgia and Alabama have been
made new department, under Brevet Major
General O. R. WooDs, with headquarters at
Macon, Ga.
The Richmond and Petersburg Railroad bridge
over the James River, burned April 8. 1866, has
been rebuilt. The frat regular train went across
it on Saturday night last.
The Richmond Republic having suspended, the
Times Dispatch, and Examiner "put in" FOR the
sLetter List The Examiner got it, though the
Dispatch claims the largest circulation.
DR.. BowDrrcH, OF Boston, has been mulcted in
one thousand dollars for branding man with the
letter 3D." (deserter), while examining him dur.
ing the war.
The President, it is said, has requested Gene
raj Howard to resign, and il Howard does not
do it he will be removed from his present posi-
ton.
The Washington Star Of Saturday says that it
is satisfied that e1Presdent DAVIS trial will not
commence sfor at least four months after the 1st
OF June"
Maj. THos. o. DUDLEY, Jr., late of the Con-
federate Commissary-G Generals Office, in Rich
1nond, is candidate for Deacon's Orders in the
Protestant Episcopal Church.
Major WILEY 3. Pope, Treasurer Of Jones coun-
ty, while returning from Macon to Clinton, on the
10Th inst, was thrown from mule, and 30
seriously injured that he died the following We'd
nesday.
The steamer Sciota cleared from New London,
Mass, a few days ago, for Rio Janeiro, with car
go Of coal and heavy artillery; and it is stated now
that she was Ohilian privateer, and got off just
in time to escape seizure.
A most melancholy event was connected with a
recent Radical meeting at Etlenburg, Vermont
Four teams were sent into Canada for whiskey,
and on their return the whole concern, men,
liquor, teams, were taken by the custom-house
officers.
The editor Of the Winchester (Va.) Neos says
that the stray Yankee CRANE Ia relative of IcHA-
RoD's), who represented Frederick county in the
ate ''ferret" Convention, and whose name was
printed as Of the Winchester Ne,os," has no con-
nection with that paper.
Generals STERDMAS and FULLERTON arrived in
Augusta on Sunday, on their return from Savan-
nah and Florida. Their report, it is said, of South
Carolina, Florida, and the Sea Islands, will be
made in short time. Generals s. and F. will re-
main in Augusta for several days, in the discharge
of the objects of their tour.
It is in contemplation to build new and costly
Executive Mansion on the high grounds east of
the Capitol, and turn the White House into fire.
proof building for the State Department. It was
for that purpose leave was asked to bring in
joint resolution directing the proper committees
to make reconnaissance for a site.
At negro picnic Whit-monday, near Louis
vile, Kentucky, sanguinary afrsy occurred be-
tween negro citizens and soldiers, and five or six
were desperately wounded. The stampede OF the
blackbirds" for the city that ensued is describ-
ed as at the same time terrific and ludicrous. An
insult to colored maiden was the cause of the
war.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in recent
case, BAYAnD against the Farmers and Me-
cnanics oahh, ihFoNin6 tne leSailty OF translers
of stocks by trustees, has decided that trustee
cannot transfer stock belonging to the person for
whom the trust exists, without exhibiting the
authority under which he acts. The mere presen-
tation Of stock certificates is not sufficient au-
thority.
The Richmond Times of Monday brings the fol-
lowing little sporting item: Notwithstanding
the heaviness of the track, in consequence of the
rain in the morning, the race at Jackson's Park
on Saturday evening was very spirited one and