The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-15
NEWS SUMMARY.

NEWS SUMMARY.
Five hundred and twenty-seven emigrants passed
shroush Columbus last week, Of whom 100 will re-
main il Ohio
The tenants Of Memphis have held meeting, |
and, by resolution, demonstrated with the land !
lords against the prevailing high rents.
The receipts Of the Government from internal re- |
venue since etheccmmenoement Of the present fs-
cal year. juno 30th, amount to s154, ,24O,4 ,42s
The Sun Antonio (Texas) Express states that
the arrangements for the new telegraph line
through that State to California are completed,
and the Inc will be in working order by spring.
It is believed that the reported old-bearing
quartz Of the vermillion region, Minnesota which
has occasioned so much excitement and newspaper
comment, is all a humbug.
Coal mining in the Schuylkill coal regions has
been generally suspended, and the supply here
after viii be light. The Iehigh region is also
sending but little coal to market. /:
Special dispatch to the Memphis Avozd7sche
from Little Rock, Arkansas, says the Senate Com
mittee on Federal Relations reported on the 10th
inst. IN favor Of rejecting the Constitutional
Amendment.
The copper mines Of Tennessee have yielded
since the than 1000, 100000 pounds Of
ingot copper. Want Of railroad facilities to get
the copper to market prevents q much larger
amount from being produced.
An important argument will take place in Wash
ington City, on the 18th, before the Supreme
Court, upon the question whether the stock IN
National as well as State Banks holding United
States securities is liable to taxation. Eleven
cases cf New York Banks and millions Of dollars
are involved.
Senator WILSON gave notice, last week, that he
would soon call up the Bill for prohibiting militia
organizations in the Southern States, and disba1d-
ing those already in existence The Constitution
of the, United States says: ga well regulated
militia. being necessary to the security ofs:a free
State, the right of the people to- keep bear
arms shall not be infringed."
Lieutenant LAw1ER formerly of the Ninth Con
necticut Regiment who has lately been imprisoned
in Ireland as o. Fenian, has arrived in New Haven,
Conn, having been sent home by the English Gov
ernment. He reports that there are 500, 600 well
armed and well drilled Fenians in Ireland who are
determined to strike for liberty by the first OF
January. Lieutenant LAWIiER will soon return to
Ireland, to assist in the revolution there
VIII pc commenced lmIn Inedlltely. Five hun
dred Thousand dollars have-been subscribed BY the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad in MD Of the en-
terprise. The road will be about one hundred
miles long, and will intersect with the louisville
and Frankfort Railroad at Lagrange, Kentucky
The population Of Canada last year was 2a81, 1862.
There are 214s miles Of railroad in Canada, which
cost s121 67s, and the receipts last year we're
s10,91G678. The length of telegraph wires is
5457 miles. There twenky-one hospitals, six
savings banks and ten building societies in
Canada.
Numerous measures for the relief of the people
OF North Carolina are pending in the Legislature
The Hent1nent of the members is decidedly adverse
to repudiating the State debt. The interest on the
debt is to be funded. Resolutions, asserting the
loyalty OF the State, and denying alleged perseen-
mons Of Union men, were adopted in the House ky
q large vote. -
silk mandatory is to be established at San
Jose, California. twenty-five acres Of ground
have been given to tale proprietors, upon which
they propose at once to erect buildings for the
1aanufactory and for the workmen. These viii be
mostly German and French. The California pa
pers urge the raising Of mulberry trees and CO
ooons.
1t is proposed, in order to provide for the rapid
increase OF Western produce, to enlarge one tier
OF all the locks the Erie$ Canal, so as to pass
boats of six hundred tons burden, moved BY steam.
The extension Of she Chenango Canal is rapidly
progressing, with prospect Of giving free access
from the interior Of New York to the Pennsylyania
soai regions, a year from next spring.
The English Government offers a reward Of five
4 .Inousand pounds sterling to any person, s1nan or
woman yeung or old" gho will deliver the body Of
kafrs STEPHENS, deador alive to any ofitts ofa-
GERS British protection for life" against Fa-:
nian revenge, it is to be presumed, is added.
'Rhe Castle Of Dublin was being fortified on the
28th ult, and the Under Secretary for Ireland had
vacated his do1nicil in the Phoenix Park, and taken
shelter within its walls. The Castle folks believed
that STEPHENS was then in Dublin. It is said,
however, he is still in New York.
It Is contemplated to erect hospital in the city
OF Ne" Orleans for the benefit Of poor Confederate
soldiers, and for that purpose the Southern Hos
p1tal Association have Issued tickets for sale a.
ranged IN such q manner that there viii be half as
many prizes as tickets sold. They will be drawn
% christmas day at New Orleans. General JEFF.
THOMPSON has sent MIR. JOHN BRADY 1D4 Iexin1g-
ION street. near Liberty, 200 tickets, which he is
ANXIOUS TO sell, and has but few days in which TO-
60 80 as they must be returned on the 18th day
d ,, 1n's month so as to reach New Orleans by the
@'sn' Fr1co OF the tickets one dollar each.
Gen. sEDow1cK, commanding the United States
FORCES on the Rio Grande who lately sent over. .
oetachment and occupied Matamoras is a young
man o. twenty-seven years Of age. he entered
sae service as Captain in Kentucky regiment
N m. may 1851 rose to Colonelcy, and so remained
.I Is Aas mustered out in 1854: He was recon-