The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-28
News Sum mary.

call is issued for National Labor Conven-
tion to meet in Baltimore on tho goth OF August.
Gen. M. W. RANSOM declines to be @ candidate
for Governor of North Carolina.
DR.: BERNHARDT, he of Austr allan fame, is in
Wilmington at present.
Water has been selling in Norfolk at twenty-five
cents gallon.
Columbus, Ca, is recovering it's former pros
perity. The manufacturing establishments burnt
during the war are being rebuilt.
Judge TILDEN, of Cleveland, has, decided that
'shaving ON Sunday morning, before church, is q
work of necessity"
Colonel W. c. LANKFoRD, of Franklin County
N. O., has grown cabbages the present season
which weigh fourteen pounds and five ounces.
WILLIAM YOUNG, who attempted to rob the Ma
tionsl Bank at Atlanta, received twenty eight
lashes on his bare back in that city. 3D..
Petroleum is said to have been used with gr eat
success in cases Of asthma, exhibiting it by rub.
bing on the neck and breast. d.. -
There are but thirty-three places in Alabama
and Mississippi provided with postmasters duly
appointed and sworn.
The President, contrary to the expectations Of
many of his friends has signed the bill for the
organization of the Supreme Court and it is now
a law.
meetings are nelQ al over NOTGn CaTOund 1oI
the purpose of taking measures for proper repre-
sentation at the National Convention in Phlla-
delphia.
The Ironton Register says: "There were 2,699,-
III tons Of stone coal mined in this county last
year. This is GsG11 tons in Of the produc-
ton Of tho year BEFORE" ~
One hundred pack ages of gold and silver, be-
longing to the royal family of the Hanoverian
Government, have reached the Bank Of England
in safety. This is preparing for a rainy day."
The total amount Of exports from San FIR ncis-
co since January exceeds $685. 200, including
specie and merchandise with dutisf addhs 4ormnter ntr
period.
A riot between whites and negroes, occaeioned
by railroad conductor attempting to cut but
ton off negro's coat, occurred at Columbus,
Kentucky, on Saturday. Three or four negroes
were killed, and several whites arc missing.
Gen. BUTLER we are told, is in favor of,the
continued session of Congress-. II the General
had besieged Fort Fisher as closely as he has
Washington, he would have gained more honor
than he is likely to obtain in his present field of
action. So says the Boston Post
Gen. BLAIR, in a late speech in Missouri, ex-
hibited the turncoat Senator HENDERSON in his
true colors, proving his sympathy with the rebels
at the commencement of The WA, and his perse-
cution of Representative ROLLINS because he was
a LINCOLN man.
Pennsylvania has rival in the manufacture OF
paper from wood substances, in Maryland. The
Messrs. MARX Brothers, of Baltimore, have erect
ed factory, and by new process are making
paper pulp out of wood. 1t is aaid to be of excel
lent quality, and is manufactured at the rate OF
three thousand pounds per day.
Bombay is ruined, and all India heavily dam
aged by the cess alton of the war in America. The
war poured O river OF gold into India. Peace has
dried up this river, and tho commercial distress
and bankruptcy are unparalleled. There is also
grievous famine in Bengal, accompanied with
great suffering.
General GORDON GRANGER arrived in Washing
ton on Monday, having just completed trip on
official business through some Of the Southern
States. He gives an account Of the feeling and
temper Of the Southern people, who, in general,
he found we'll disposed towards the Government,
and ready il they shall be permitted, to give SUBJ
santial proof Of their loyalty and devotion to the
Constitution and Union of the States.
The Richmond Dispatch says sTt is reported
that ine crops OF tobacco and corn will be raised
iu Louisa, Marion, Orange, Hanover, Culpepper,
and Fairfax, these counties having been abun-
dainty blessed with rain. The corn crop In Hem
rico, Chesterfield, and counties adjacent, we're
vived by rains. The wheat crop has only zen an
average one anywhere in the State, 80 far as our
knowledge extends"
The New York Herald states that there is dis
crepancy OF some thirty millions of dollars which
has been discovered in balancing tho accounts OF
Judge CHASE while Secretary Of the Treasury; or
rather, that his accounts do not balance by that
amount. nice little deficit indeed in the cash
account. The Herald charges that Mr.. FEssEN-
DEN resigned on account OF the muddle In which
he found the Treasury accounts, and Mr.. MoCUL-
LooH has been unable to straighten matters.
In the French army every recruits supposed to
know trade on joining the army. If he has not
yet learned trade no ia taught some occupation
after joining is corps. Should he be ignorant of
reading or writing, or, knowing these, should he
wish to improve his education 80 as 10 qualify
himself for promotion, he goes to the regimental
school for four hours every day, when he is not
guard or tatiguet duty. Once his schooling is
over, he Ia. put to work at some trade or handi-