The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-06-11
LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE STATE.
LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE CITY.
N ewS Summary.

Tho State University of Mississippi at Oxford mum.
bers at present 2nO students
The warehouse cf Mr.. NUrr at Wilmington, N. c.,
WAS destroyed by fire last Sunday night Loss about
$3000
The New York Times says of General SCOTT "He
jealous of his literary than of his military fame
Ho would endure criticism In reference to his battles
with equanimty, but in matters of taste In literature
even of punctuation he could not brook contradic
tion."
The Raleigh Progress, of Wednesday, says "we
learn from private letter from Godsboro N. c. that
q difficulty occurred in that town Monday, the 4th
inst. Two negroes wcro killed and Mr.. GEO. MonRow
twhite) chief of police, severely cut in several
places. On Monday night extra police force sixty
citizens kept duty all night"
The Lynchburg Neos says: "The fatality of cholera
amongst the hogs in various sections around u.s. s be-
coming alarming particularly to those who arc addicted
to the of bacon We hear OF numbe of gentiem en-
especially in Amherst, who two three weeks since
had from twenty to seventy hve hogs who not
. single one."
Tho Shenandoah (va) Herald. speaking Of the mills
and barns burnt throughout the Valley by SHERIDAN
under GRANTS order to lay waste and devastae Says
In this neighborhood, we happy to say the most
Of the barns have been rebuilt and the mills pro-
crossing rapidly, and will be completed In time for the
growing crops"
The following gives list of the Bishops of the Epis
copal Methodist Church, with their salaries: Bshop
soULE $500; Pishop PIERCE, $4,000; Bishop EARLY
S25o0; Bishop KAvANAueH, $25OO Bishop ANDREW
s26o0; Tishop PAINE $4,000; Bishop w1GHrMAN, ssOOO
Bishop MARVIN, $4,000; Bishop McTYE1RE $4,000; Bish
op DoeoETT, $s000.
The Department of State has been informed by the
United States Consul at St. Crox West Indies that the
crop ofsugar this year will probably 600 hhds
with a corresponding quantity of molasses and rum
say from 5000 to 5000 hhds OF molasses. of rum
This Will be fifty per cent more than the crop 1866
and fully double that Of the preceding year.
The Newbern IN o. Commercial says: .swe rerret IN
learn that the residence Of Mr. SCOTT near Doep Gully
upon whose family great outrage perpetrated few
weeks ago. was, night or two since, burned to the
ground. We have not heard the particulars Tho ne
convicted at Trenton Superior Court of the last
outrage upon this unfortunate old man were to beva
been hung last week at Trenton"
The ladies of the Hebrew faith in Richmond have
formed Memorial Association, for the purpose OF be-
Allowing proper care on the of the dead Confed
rate soldiers of their people Mrs. SOLOMON DAVIS ia
the President and Mira ABRAHAM LEVI the Secretary o.
the Association Between forty and fifty young Jews
who were killed in battle died hospital arc buried
In the jewish Cemetery of Richmond.
In consideration Of the fact that no legal pevmsnt
can be made to any Southern officer Of the Treasury
who has not subscribed to the test OATH the secre-
ary OF the Treasury has notified all such that their
designations will be accepted. He has also made
request that Congress- provide for the payment OF
those who have been performing the duties of the de
parment for the time during which they have been so
engaged.
The National Intel,egenccr says: eat freedmen's vii
lages Rev. JOHNSON ia performing the ceremony of
marrying the people, of which three hundred coupes
will be married by night and making legal the old
marriage relations. The spectacle really amusine
Squads OF twenty or couples stand up and are mar
red at These consist of old and young the aged
aY,df fha aipnrn In ALL ~
nery that they could pick up. Many enter upon
the ceremony with reluctance and only consent to the
regulation which is insisted upon by the Freedm en-
Bureau when informed that 1t is necessary their new
condition of freedom" We suppose they will soon all
be marched to the creek and properly baptized.
On Tuesday, Judge UNDERWOOD, Of the United States
Court at Richmond, declined to give decision on the
question the right Of lawyers to practice IN that
court without taking the oath prescribed by Coppress
he remarked that he know to be in contemplation bv
some OF the most radical mon in Congress repeal the
dsqualiying act Of January 1884, and WAS OF the onn
lon that the act would be repealed before tho adjourn
Inent OF the present Congress- It's repeal had been
strongy urged upon Congress by majority of tho Su.
preme Court Inasmuch as this question had been very
ably argued before the Supreme Court of the limited
sates he felt great delicacy in under taking TO no r
ther than to simply acquiesce in whatever course the
gentlemen OF the bar were dsposed to take There
would be no departure from the usual course on tbe
part VI ts court uneBe an objection should be made
but he hoped ths objection would be made at tba
time believing that the act would soon be repealed
The Now York Tribune in referring to tho rejection
at the instance Of the Government of the application o
Mr. DAVIS counsel for immediate trial on the treason
Indictment, and tho adjournment of the Court till the
first Tuesday in October says that meantime It ia I'm
derstood that Mr. DAVIS will be released other on bai
or on parole and 1t presumes the Government feels tho
pressure Of public opinion far to recognize the
necessity of accepting the alternative Of Immediate
trial OR immediate release. congressional committee
It is true, is investigating the evidence on which COM
picity in tho sasasaDation OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN IA
charged yet bound to suppose that the Govern
ment has long had full knowledge of that evidence 90
in regard to the starving Of prisoners and other unm
tary crimes for which Mr. DAVIS ia still held to answer
at the bar Of public opinion. Their truth alsy ought
TO have been determine before II Mr. DAVIS is
Innocent It s gross injustice to keep him In prison.
Judge UNDERWOOD hints that action Of the @ ov.
ernment s likely to intervene between this and October
which may prevent any trial at tat time The Tribune
well says the Government will find frankness In this
matter the best policy and should s belief or It's
disbelief in the pending charges.