The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30
News Summary.

News Summary.
whishey distiller in New York has been hneo
s150,0O0 for false revenue returns.
The total packing Of hogs in the West, it is sup
posed Will foot up between 16O0 600 and zoo, 600,
against nearly 2,5O0, 900 last year.
Dirty Pistsburg gets her gas for $3.50 thou
sand feet. which is cheaper than other city in the
country.
Georgia and Florida papers speak very hope
fully Of che prospect Of this years crop. The
freedmen generally do as well as could be e1-
pected, in many instances much better.
There was meeting Of the merchants Of New
bern, N. O., on the 22d, to take proper steps for
the organization Of Board of Trade. The Times
says much interest seemed to be felt in the mat
ter, and perfect harmony prevailed.
It is stated by the Memphis argus to be the de-
termination of the stockholders to place General
BRAxroN BaAeo in the Presidency Of the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad, pice Hon. MILTON Brown, re-
signed.
One Of the greatest robberies Of the season was
perpetrated in Madison Avenue, New York, on
Friday night last, when burglars entered the
house, and carried of small tin box with 1884,
600 in stocks and securities.
DR.. MARION SnrMs, a native Of South Carolina,
has won such fame in France and Great Britain, as
an accomplished surgeon, that the French Emper-
or has conferred upon him the Cross Of the Legion
of Honor. he spends his time between Paris and
London; his family residing in the latter place.
The Alabama Legislature has undertaken to
tax Hayper's Weekly out Of circulation in that
State, by requiring $50 for the right to sell "any
pictorial or illustrated weekly, or any monthly
paper, periodical or magazine, published outside
the limits Of this State and not in foreign coun-
try"
WENDELL PHILLIPS has had hearing before the
Committee OF the Massachusetts Legislature on
the reduction of the hours Of labor. He began
by saying that not two-thirds OF the results OF
freedom had been obtained by the abolition of
slavery. We should not be surprised il Mr.. P.
would soon appear before committee, advocat-
ing the abolition of labor.
Commissioner Belts, in New York. has his
hands full investigating alleged Dstillery frauds.
The temptation to circumnavigate the internal
revenue .aw is perhaps greater in the case of
whiskey than in that Of any other article on the
schedule, tho tax is go high and q great deal OF
the whiskey so very mean.
"A whale, measuring ffty-six feet in length and
seven and half in breadth, came into the waters
Of Smithville bay, near Wilmington, N. c., at high
tide, few da~s ago, and the waters receding it
could not geS back over New Inlet Bar, opposite
Fort Fisher Wilmington, and was consequently
caught and "caged." 1t excites great curiosity
in Wilmington. Boats are advertised to go where
it is anchored, and see the monster.
The Richmond Times, speaking of the hand
some statue OF HENRY CLAY in the Capitol Square
of that city, says that it is dirty and mutilat
ed from head to foot. The thumb and all the
fingers OF the right hand have been broken short
off; the thumb of the left hand is gone; large
part of the rolling collar, which was originally
beautifully delicate is destroyed, and most of the
buttons are broken.
They have had row among the troops sta
toned at Galveston. About sixty OF them, be-
longing to three companies Of the 18th Ohio regi-
ment, stacked their arms AMI refused to do duty,
on the ground that orders to muster them out had
been several times sent from Washington, and
that, the war being over, they were entitled to
their discharge. The insurgents were arrested by
colored troops, and were still under guard at the
latest date-the 20th.
There are signs of trouble abroad. Austria and
Prussia are at variance, and the Prussian mon
arch is embroled with the Legislature of the king
dom. The Gear and the Pope have quarreled,
and the latter has snubbed the Russian Ambassa-
DOR revolt in Roumania has dethroned Prince
CouzA who is a fugitive, and the Count of Flan-
ders is invited by the nsurrectionsts to occupy his
place. England is troubled by the Fenians, and
NAPOLEON is plunged into hot water by the Mexi-
can business
Milledgeville papers say that more than one
thousand negro men have within two weeks pass
ed over ono railroad, from Putnam ard the ada
cent county, for the West. They have been ill.,
duced to leave their employers on the promise of
higher wages, although their contracts had been
ratified by the Freedmen's Bureau. The most
able.bodied and likely fellows are thus taken,
with only change OF clothing. Their particular
destination is unknown. The planters, thus de-
prived Of their employees, will be disappointed in
making their crops. This complaint comes up
from many counties. Several parties have been
arrested who are thus tampering with employees.