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

officers OF the lrlsh regiment thae turpeo outIe-
Gently. contrary to his orders.
he Maury county tTenn.) Herald says:
"Among the farmers in the city on Monday last,
We we're glad to meet General EwELL, so
distinguished as q soldier, who is now 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 and zeal, and We hope and predict for him
great success He appears in excellent health
and cheerful spirits"
A society has been formed by the Hebrew ladies
of Richmond for the purpose Of caring for the
graves of the Israelitish soldiers OF the Confede
rate army who have been Inferred in their ceme-
terry on Shockoe 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 the gene
raj associations for Hollywood and Oakwood, re-
Gently established.
A London paper says: 'In large glass case,
standing in one OF the upper, chambers Of our
National Museum, is to be seen the skeleton de-
Gently enessed in its original burial clothes, OF one
PHARAOH MYKER1Nus, and surrounded by frag-
ments OF the coffin, whereon the name Of its oc-
cupant can be easily read by the Egyptologists OF
the present day; afording thereby conclusive evi-
dence that it once contained the mummy OF
King who was reigning in Egypt more than CEN
tury before the time OF ABRAHAM"
An old New Yorker, now living at Little Rock,
Arkansas,.i lin letter to the World says: ''Sub-
agencies of the Freedmen's Bureau are consid-
cred 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 a per ccntage on
the profits of the crop. Some agents are
reported to be interested in five TO twenty cotton
plantations"
There is some alarm in England at the probable
exhaustion ofits coal-feds. The Pail Mall Ga
zette observes that, "by inevitable inference, the
exhaustion of our coal-felds must involve the
collapse Of our manufacturing and commercial
supremacy, and therefore Of our national pros
perty; and BY an equally inevitable Inference such
exhaustion must ensue, AID ensue ere long, il 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 the expenec Of the
government of Russia, to meet the wants Of many
Russian subjects whom business or pleasure
brings to this part. church edifco is about to
be built, st cost Of 500 900, Of which onetenth is
raised by private subscription, and the rest s to
be paid by the Russian government, partly, it 10
said, for the purpose Of showing that there is
religious life in the Russian Church.
Tho New York Etening Post, some time since,
published an affidavit Of one W. N. Mash, contest
ing the truth of Gen. HAxproN's statements in the
letter read by REvERpY JOHNSON in the Senate.
It now appears that this Nash is negro, who was
formerly slave. Tho Eoening Post suppressed
these facts in giving publicity to the affidavit and
evidenced by that very suppression conscious
ness that the testimony Of a black would have no
weight against the assertions Of a gentleman 30
well and so honorably known as WADE HAMPTON,
Of South Carolina. The General speaks of mat
ters Of which he certainly knows moro than any
other living person. BE has already invited and
challenged fair and honorable investigation Of
the bnrning OF Columbia, 8. c., and it is'vain to
as. ompt to convict him upon the statement Of
free negro.