The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-29
NEWS SUMMARY.
Gold closed at 1884 in New York yesterday.
The news by Atlantic Telegraph is again briof,
owing to break in tho lines east Of Sackville,

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at Waterford, r. T.. al the wooEen mills, com
prising somo fortysx sets Of machinery are run
ming half time, shutting their gates at / in the
afternoon.
Capt. JuDK1l1s, Of tho Scotia, reports west winds
and favorable weather the passage to Liverpool
Ho estimates Tho Of TIE New York yachts at
sixteen days.
Petitions being circulated in ali tic counties
Of Illinois, asking the Legislature Of the Ssate to
prepare amendment % the State Constitution,
to be submitted to the people, establishing impair
tial suffrage
Late advlces from Mexico bring the intelligence
TINT tho French lad scizcd tho Custom House ct
Vera Cruz and carried oE $500, 600 of the Impe-
rial treasure. The Frorcsl steamer Eugenie had
left with $4,000, Of which $4,000 belonged to the
French Government, and $4,000 to tho citizens
One thousand French troops had left for france.
very destructive confagration occurred ct Ell
mira NY, on Saturday evening. Twenty four stores
were destroyed, Involving a loss Of more than
S300,0o0 which is insured for only about half that
amount. Some Of the Hartford offices sustain
l3sses, bit tho most Of the insurance is in State
Institutions.
Tho Troy Wing states that the measles has
been raging in that city to unprecedented ex-
tent for several weeks past but the disease is now
somewhat abating. One physician has been called
in over three hundred cases, but has had the good
fortune to lose only or two patients. There
have been nearly one thousand cases in Troy
within q month.
On Friday evening last, as the train from Rich
mond reached Petersburg, small boy jumped
from the truck under car, covered with frozen
mud from head TO foot. An inquiry revealed that
he had slipped under the when it started from
Richmond, and gotting upon the rod to which the
hra ott o1,o17 I,,1o
the truck and in this position rode the whole dis
tance.
petition is being circulated in Western North
Carolina, to be presented to Congress, praying
that the loyal citizens Of that section may be en-
powered to form new State, the votes Of such
persons only hoing counted in forming tile new
state oveii:sment and e!ecting members qf Con-
hs 81 il hsz z5 sg s bsi!
Al Act has boen passed by tho Georgia Legisla-
ture, and signed by the Governor, providing that
all property Of the wife at the time Of her marriage
whether real or personal or chooses in action, shall
be and remain her separate property; and that all
property given to, inherited or acquired by the
wife during coverturo, shall vest in and belong to
her, and shall not be liable for the payment Of any
debt, default or contract Of the husband.
On Saturday morning as the Eastern train on
1k L. d
mile from that city, the engineer discovered the
body of man lying between the rails Owing to
the icy state Of the track the train ran about
mile before it could be stopped when it was backed
down, and it was found that the man was unin-
jurod. He was dead drunk and the whole train
nassed over him without waking him from his stu
por,
The Postofice at Elizabeth, N. J., was robbed Of
nearly all tic letters Sunday morning, bcslore
daylight. Several checks and notes were found,
besides tools of various descriptions, in the rear
Of St. Johns Church. The Office was lighted with
gas during the night, and police officer was fre-
quently passing and requesting until o'clock a.
N. This is the second time within month the
Office has been broken open.
French official statistics state that during the
s;z months terminating in May Inst, six thousand
seven hundred and ffty-fve cornmunes in France
were provided with adult schools. These afford
ed education to one hundred and seventy three
thousand two hundred and ffty-sx men and thir-
teen thousand five hundred and thirty-seyen
women and girls. The average payment was one
franc and eighty confines monthly. In two thou
sand seven hundred and seventy-ive schools the
teaching was gratuitous.
murderous affair occurred in Nashville on
Christmas evening, between a party Of the 34th
were cheering for LINCOLN and the Union, when
the latter came up with an answering cheer for
JET. DAVIS. A disturbance followed, in which
EDWARD CREGe, soldier, was shot, and died in q
few moments. Sergeant 81. B1sHLEY also received
serious wound in tie head Great excitement
exists over the affair; and the soldiers are making
threats Of vengeance .,
Tho Richmond papers state that the late order
issued BY Major General J. NJ. SoHoFE1D, direct
ing the Freodmen's Bureau officers throughout the
State of Virginia to take i1nmed;ate possession Of
all horses and mules which belonged to the United
staes found in the possession Of private citizens,
has been revoked. The order revoking it annuls
any action which may have already taken place,
and requires thai all animals taken by General
ScHorTLDs agents snail be restored TO the parties
who held them in possession.
The Philadelphia EnezSag Bulletin (radical) in
sists that 'sthe most onerous and odious Of all
taxes, the income tax, should be removed At the
time it was imposed it was the general under
standing that it was essentially temporary, and a
year or two would see its end. Its heavy amount,
made in single payment, its inquiaitoral nature,
and the publicity given to private affairs, oil unite
TO make it an especial subject Of dislike It should
be the first repealed, and many others as posi-
bic should follow after"
The London correspondent Of Saunders NeaosZet-
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