The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-22

officers of the Irish regiment that turned outre-
comfy, contrary to his orders.
Tho Maury county tTenn.) Herald says:
| Among the farmers in the city on Monday last,
we were glad to meet General EwELL, 80
distinguished as a soldier, who is now a resident
of Old Maury,' and is going largely into stock
farming. The General has magnificent farm is
entering upon his new life with his accustomed
energy end zeal, and we hope and predict for him
great success. He appears in excellent health
and cheerful spirits."
society has been formed by the Hebrew ladies
OF Richmond for the purpose of caring for the
graves of tho Israclitish soldiers of tho Confede-
rate army who have been inferred in their cemo-
terry on Shockoo Hill. This society will not come
in conflict with the others already formed, but is
merely intended for the deceased Of their own
persuasion, while they have all joined in tho gene
raj associations for Hollywood and Oakwood, re-
Gently established.
A London paper says: lin large glass case,
standing in one OF the upper chambers Of our
National Museum, is to be seen the skeleton, de-
Gently encased in ts original burial Clothes Of
PHARAOH MYKERINUs, and surrounded by frag-
ments of the coffin, whereon the name of it's oc.
cupant can be easily read by the Egyptologists Of
the present day; affording thereby conclusive evil
dence that it once contained tho mummy of
King who was reigning in Egypt more than CEN
tury before tho time Of ABRAHAM"
An old New Yorker, now living at Little Rock,
Arkansas, in letter to the World says "Sub-
agencies of the Freedmen's Bureau are consid-
ered worth more than the Presidents salary. But
few, if any, of the planters can get hands unless
they subsidize the Government agents In some
way-either as silent partner, or q per centage on
the profits Of the crop. Some agents are
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plantations"
There is some alarm in England ut tho probable
exhaustion of its coal-folds. The Pail Afdu Ca
zette observes that "by inevitable inference, the
exhaustion of our coal-feds must involve the
collapse of our manufacturing and commercial
supremacy, and therefore of our national pros
perity; and by an equally inevitable inference such
oxhaustion must ensue, and ensue Gro long, if our
present increasing ratio of consumption be con-
tinued."
The Berlin correspondent of the London Times
says that some priests of the Greek Church arc to
be stationed in Now York at tho expenee of the
government Of Russia, to meet the wants of many
Russian subjects whom business or pleasure
brings to this part. A church edifce is about to
be built at cost of $780, 000 Of which one tenth is
raised by private subscription, and the rest is to
be paid by the Russian government, partly, it is
said, for the purpose of showing that there IL a
religious life in the Russian Church.
The New York Euening Post, some time since,
published an affidavit Of one W. N. Nash, contest
ing the truth OF Gen. HAMPToN's statements in the
letter read by REvEnDY JOHNSON in the Senate
1t now appears that this Nash is q negro, who was
formerly slave The Euening Post suppressed
these facts in giving publicity to the affidavit and
evidenced by that very suppression conscious
ness that the testimony of black would have no
weight against the assertions Of gentleman 80
well and 80 honorably known as WADE HAMPTON,
of South Carolina. The General speaks of mat
ters of which he certainly knows mofe than any
other living person. He has already invited and
challenged q fair and honorable investigation of
the bnrning Of Columbia, y. O., and it is vain to
attempt to convict him upon the statement Of a
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