The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-26
a n ews Summary.

= is. +. BUTLER has been elected Major-General OF
Militia by the Massachusetts State Senate.
1t is rumored that General Howard will resign
the Commissionership Of the Freedmcns Bureau.
There are at present only 486 soldiers in Geor-
.gia and good order prevails throughout the tate.
The army rolls show that Tennessee furnished
II, ,123 negro troops to the Federal service during
:tthe war. ;.~,, .,.., ....... -. ....... ,
$40 The Natolez Democrat recommends planters,
convention to secure uniformity in laborers'
wages. a.,.u,.. -....... ....-...
An Havana correspondent describes the Island
OF Cuba as ''the land of the flea and the homo of
the slave"
a new ten million dollar telegraph enterprise is
forming in New York-1O, 900 miles of wires to 60
everywhere. a"
"rti At q Sunday school celebration in Brooklyn
the 22d instant, it is estimated there $4,000
children in procession.
Z, The wheat cropain many sections of the South
Still promises to be good, notwithstanding the
unpropitious weather.
Gsneral STEKDMAN, who is at present travelling
In the South, commanded division OF negro
soldiers In THOMAS army at the battle of Nash
vile. e .-fun,f,,..-i.r ..ti... 3. .aH. .
Nine men belonging to the crew Of the ship
Escort were before the United States Commission
yesterday, charged with mutiny, says tho New
York Tribune Of the 2Sd. .tE
The chief Of the Freedmen's Bureau in West
Tennessee, General RuNKLE, admits that the
negroes are responsible for the origin Of the riot
at Memphis - y
An Englishman is said recently to have invented
scarecrow 30 effective, that one crow who saw it
brought back all the corn he had stolen for three
years.
It is said that the hair, if rolled up in the New
: York Tribune, puts on it at once very crinkly
turn; and if one Of STEVENS speeches be used it
assumes a crisp instanter.
d" WILLIAM MURPHY has been sentenced to ten
years in the Missouri Penitentiary, by military
commission, for conspiring during the war to burn
Yankee steamboats,
gentleman who has just passed over the route
between Augusta tGa.) and Montgomery (AIa. }
says he did not see field on the route which was
not interlocked with grass or had been newly
ploughed up,
= The Meridian (Miss.) Messenger has letter
from East Clarke county, in which is described a
terrible hail storm. One woman was killed by
the falling of her house, and great many far
mers suffered by fallen fences, etc.
MIR. ALEXANDER JACKSON, for many years con-
. nected with the New Orleans Crescent died on the
2oth. He was native of New York, but had
lived in the South the greater part Of his life
''. Inc Gentiles are said to be pouring into Utah
In great numbers. They will soon be in a major
ity; in which case Mormonism must either knock
{ under, or else pull up stakes and emgrate to the
Sandwich Islands.
JOE MAYO, the renowned Mayor of Richmond.
had a Hibernian couple in his august presence a
lew days ago. Husband accused by wife Of steal
ing her COW. The Mayor vainy endeayored to
show Mrs. MoRrARTY that husband could not
steal from his wife.
plo hat tuaar IoI, ,lo l.. \
and Wilmington IN. o. are making arrange
ments to transport passengers through between
those two points in splendid sleeping cars travel
iers being passed ovor the entire route without
change Of cars.
The surviving members Of the First Louisiana
Brigade held preliminary meeting in New Or,
leans, on Saturday last, for the purpose of Or
ganizing an association to render aid and assis-
.tance to those who had faithfully served and are
now disabled or out Of employment. General
HAYS was Chairman Of the meeting.
" The present number Of students in tho Virginia
University is as follows: From Virginia. 167:
maryland, 18; Alabama, II; North Carolina. 10:
Tennessee, 8; South Carolina, 6; Louisiana. G:
west Virginia, 8; Georgia, 4; Kentucky, 8; Texas,
81 Mississippi, q; Missouri, Q; Now York 1; New
Jersey, l; Pennsylvania, Il Delaware, i; District
Of Columbia, /; Illinois, /; California l..
nv oho fooonV ueetlnB OF the Pre6bytery Of
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, MIR. WILLIAM B. BINGHAM.
who was Confederate soldier, and prosecuted
his theological studies carefully while a prisoner
ION Johnsons Island, was licensed to preach. our
readers will recoect thatin the officers prison ON
Johnsons Island schools for all tho yarious pro.
1essions were diligently carried on.
The President, in appointing the yisitors to
west Point Academy, in order under date Of 22d
'nst.' named one from each of the States of Yir-
gina, Florida, Texas, Tennessee and, Arkansas.
b. D. BARBOUR, the Congressman elect from the
M!chmond District is the Visitor appointed from
virginia; Hon. VIM. MARION, for Florida: Hon.
"CoslAH Snow, for Arkansas; Major ANsoN L. MILLS
1or texas; Judge 8. J. W. LucKEY, of Tennessee
Inc Washington correspondent Of The. New
H. tork ls''es says "a prominent person, who has
Just returned from the South, says arrangements
are 81 now nov being made by prominent Democrats to
secure the representation OF the eleven Southern
STATES IN the next Democratic Convention. Very
many OF the leading politicians North and South
nave held consultation and laid ont the work.
FERNANDO WooD is tho chief spirit in the move
ment, and expects the nomfaatlon for Vice -presi-
iaent' General SHEahiAN is named for President" /"
Yesterday morning, says the Cincinnati Gazette
%. .. the 10Th instant negro man, named John
thompson, was arreigned before Judge WAants
on charge Of assault with intent to kin q younp