The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-29
NEWS SUMMARY.


Noarly nine thousand pupils of the public schools
in Cincinnati arc studying German.
The meteoric display was witnessed to great ad-
vantage in London on the morning of the 18th in.
stant, about one o'clock.
Tho pork-packing season commenced at Louis.
vile November %. Seyen hundred hogs wero
slaughtered.
Thanksgiving day is to be observed in New York
by numerous festivals in tho various charitable
and othor institutions.
The New York Post is out against HORACE GREE
LEY for United States Senator on account of his
high protection tariff notions.
Hon. HERscHEI. V. JOHNSON has resigned the
Office of United States Senator to which tho Gcor-
gia Legislaturo elected him.
On Thursday tho Methodist Book Concern in
Cincinnati suffered damage of $4,000 by ire-in-
surcd.
Mr.. BRYDaEs, Of the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada, is experimenting successfully in tho
use of peat for fuel on locomotives.
N. p. WILLIS, the well known poet and Journal
ist, is quite i'll, having had severe paralytic
stroke.
The minimum strength OF the United States
army is now $500 men. The total maximum
strength would bo 70, 9S2 men.
Tho new route to Norfolk from the East, by way
OF tho Philadelphia and Delaware Railroads, WINS
formally opened on Monday.
bill has been introduced into the Legislature
of Georgia repeating the laws prohibiting aliens
from owning real estate.
j. P. BENJAMIN, tho celebrated Confederate
States nancier, is writing articles on America in
the London Telegraph.
The hog cholera is prevailing to great extent
IN several counties in Virginia. In Craig County
the disease has boon very severe that very few
hogs are left.
Washington dispatch says that during the
last three or four days about ono hundred and
thirty changes of Postm sters have been made.
but none of the larger class.
General b. S. ALEXANDER, long in command of
the defonces of Washington, will soon leave for
California, to superintend the construction Of tho
defences Of San Francisco.
Secretary McCULLocu, it is stated, has called
upon the National Banks for about thirteen million
dollars-bcing tho greater part of the Government
deposits in their hands.
Tho Texas Stay Law has been approved by the
Governor. It requires payments on all judgments
rendered before January l. 1867 to be made in four
annual instalments, OF ono-fourth each.
DR.. L. GUILD late Medical Director of the $3.50
called") Army of Northern Virginia, is now prac-
tising medicine in Mobile. Dr. G., before the
war, was q Surgeon i'll tho United States Army. He
is native of Tuscaloosa Ala.
BY ordcr OF Con. DAVIS, Capt. ". VEST Second
United States Infantry, commanding at Bowling
Green, ky., will detail guard of ten men daily to
protect tho Nashville Railroad train running from
Bowling Grecn to the State line and returning.
General SHERMAN and Colonel LEWIS D. CAMP
BELL, American Minister to Mexico, arrived at
Havana on the 18th instant, and were received
with marked attention by tho authorities They
viii probably remain there week
Half dozen franchise bills have passed n frs
reading in the House Of Delegates of tho Tonnes
see Legislature. ALI of them embrace in their
provisions negro suffrage, and two of them uni
versal amnesty. It is now thought that q bill
granting qualified negro suffrage will pass, but
there is moro doubt in regard to tho grant of am
ncsty.
living to the pressure OF business, in the pre-
paratlon OF tho annual Message. no definite action
has been taken upon the application of the Mis-
sssippi Legislature for tho rolease on parole of
JEFFERSON DAVIS Commissioners HnLYER and
LowERy are still awaiting the final decision of tho
Executive.
Tho Richmond Times, Of Tuesday, says: Gun
DERwooD, 'so called Judge Of tho United States
Court of the Eastern District of Virginia, having
failed to reach Richmond, there was no session
held yesterday. It is not believed that any Court
will be held this torn, though we have been un-
able to obtain any definite information on tho sub
ject."
The Cincinnati Gazette calls upon Congress to
pass law, convening the Fortieth Congress upon
the 9Th Of March, the day after it ceases to exist
itsolf It believes that tho public welfare demands
thai Congress shall be in session between that
date and the following December, and it finds its
authority for the action it advises in the following
proviso Of the Constitution:-srThe Congress shall
ot Loo i,,
meeting shall be on tho first Monday in December,
unless they shall by law appoint different day'
The Chicago Republican processes to have trust
worthy information from Utah that BINGHAM
YoUNa is about to retire temporarily to planta-
tion some sixty miles from Salt Lake City, Ieav-
ing tho charge public affairs in tho hands of his
son. This movement, it is said, is occasioned by
tho increasing age of BRIGHAM YouNa, and the
object is to tes! the ability Of tho young BRIGHAM
to WELD tho scepre before tho death of his father
shall rendor final any step which may be adopted
in regard to tho succession. II he manifest the
ability to manage the affairs Of Government that
his father and the elders hope, then BRIaHAM'a
abdication will be permanent.
WIN. p. BLAKE, California Commissioner to the
Paris exhibition, has issued an address to the peo
pie Of that State, detailing the manner in which
the mines and agriculture are to be represented
and declaring his purpose, after arriving at Paris
to publish In the English, French and German
languages an account Of the climate, soil, agricul
ture, quality and price Of the public lands in Cali