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

white woman named NETTIE SMITH. LIE Hnan
occurred on Monday night, at the celebrated
ranch known as "s7" East. Sizth-street. Inc
negro and the girl became involved in dispute'
which ended in the negro knocking the girl down,
and stamping and beating her 30 severely tnae IL
is now a matter of doubt whether she Will survive
or not. The accnsed was held in s25Oo bah for nls
appearance to-day, in default OF which sum ne was
committed for safe keeping.
The Richmond Times, OF the 23d, says Aii'
CHARLES ]. Fox, native Of this city mas recen'iy
established what experience has long proven was
yery necessary, in view Of the increasing com
mercial trade of Richmond. We allude 10 1ne
erection of marine railway at Rockets, for the
purpose of hauling up steamers or other vesse's
and giving them thorough repairing ana over
hauling. There s now on the stocks at this rail-
way the Q. s. steamer Islander, which is being re-
caulked and undergoing thorough repairs II
has often been remarked among our shipping
merchants and trading captains here that mer-
chant vessels would often proceed up to Richmond
if it we're possible to have repairs done to them Of
damages received during the voyages from Euro
pean and Northern ports; and now that this de
sideratum has been supplied, we may confidently
predict the direct arrival here OF many vessels
that have hitherto stopped at other places, and
transhipped their goods to this city c!a railroad
and other conveyances."
| In the death of GEORGE BURGESS, the Protes
tant Epispopal Church has lost one of its ablest
Bishops, and the world of letters scholar O.
varied attainments and graceful poet Bishop
BURGESS was native of Providence: R. I. After
graduating at Brown University, he travelled il
Europe, and continued his studies at Gottingen
Halle and Berlin. His first pastorate was al
Hartford, Conn. where he remained thirteen
years. In 1S47 he was elected Bishop of Maine
He is the author of several works, both prose and
poetical, which have been favorably received
Among them are metrical version of some o.
the Psalms; Pages from the Ecclesiastical History
Of New England and the Last Enemy, a treatise
on death. He completed his 56th year in Octo
Der last. +.tl'.t II 'si-iJ
Serious disasters have come upon the State Of
Louisiana in consequence Of the great breaks il
the levees of the Mississippi River. At Morganza,
Grand Levee, and other points, the crcvesses have
reached the magnitude Of rivers. One of them is
stream twenty-five hundred feet wide, and the
immense volume of water pouring into the ad
jacent parishes suspends all the operations ,oi
agriculture. At Morganza volume of water four
hundred feet wide and ten or twelve feet deep has
made its way through the bank of the river, and
great losses of property have already occurred
It s feared that the great cotton and sugar.
growing parishes of the State will be ruined by
this terrible food. During the war no measures
of precaution were taken to prevent these disas-
ters, and the levees were frequently cut by mill
tary order. large expenditure will be required
to restore them to safe condition. Twenty years
will not suffice for Louisiana to recover the agri-
cultural prosperity which she enjoyed five years
ago.