The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-06
. NEWS SUMMARY.


Tho Charleston Water Company has been incor-
poratcd.
A District has been established in this
State around the town Of Aiken, to be called Cal
houn; and Pickons District has been divided into
:wo districts.
A resolution has been passed in Congress to in
quiro INTO tho Presidents power to restore conis-
Gated property.
Tho New York Times Of Monday publishes in
full tho Report Of Colonel WAGNER to the South
Carolina Legislature on European immigration.
A Radical United States District Judge at
Huntsville, Ala, by the of BUsrEED, has de-
iverod charge to his Grand Jury instructing
them to find true bills for treason against persons
who have been engaged in war against the United
States Government and also against persons aoho
defanse tie Congress Of Tie Unizod States.
The treasury of Florida during the past year,
received on account Of the State $3.50 48O.84, and
disbursed, on the same account s130, ,A35 80; thus
leaving to the credit Of the State at the close of
the year, only the small sum of SA5.45.
DR.. HORACE GREEN, q physician o. note, recently
died in New York. He was the auth.- Of several
treatises the diseases Of the lungs anG cir pas
sages, and made tho treatment Of these specially
The great suspension bridge at Cincinnati is pro
nounced decided sGccess. Fully one hundred
thousand persons passed over it and back on Sun
day last, and the motion OF the roadway was hard
ly peroeptible.
The Columbus Enquirer says: ssLieutentant-
General LcNGsTREEr, Colonel P. W. ALEXANDER
the we'll known war correspondent, and Hon. JAS
H. SMITH, late of the Confederate Congress, are in
our city. We have been pleased to learn that the
two last named gentlemen are likely to become
residents"
Ihe Dalton Georgian says that that city is rising
rapidly from the ashes With the exception Of
Marietta and Atlanta, city in the State suffered
more Most Of what the fire spared was torn down
and carried up to Chattanooga. Now, however,
the people have gone to work with will, and
various manufacturing enterprises are in progress
The delegates to the French Canadian Conven-
hon were entertained at a banquet lately by the
New York members Of the Association. Several
patriotic toasts wero proposed, including one to
the President Of the United States, and Canada.
the fortieth State in the Union.
The North Carolina House of Representatives
has passed bill granting General Amnesty
and Pardon to all officers and soldiers Of the State
OF North Carolina, or Of the late Confederate
States Armies, of the United States for offences
committed against the criminal laws OF tho State
Of North Carolina
statement comes to us from Mexico by way of
San Francisco to the effect that the French are IN
favor OF OR1EaA's claims to the Presidency. Gen.
BAzA1NE Is said to have been supplying arms and
ammunition to the opponents of JUAREz, and to
have promised that, provided they use them against
JUAREz the partisans of ORrEaA will net be inter
fered with by the French forces.
Letters from the City of Mexico, dated Novem-
Der 10, received at Washington, state that Marshal
BAzA1SE had organized and armed two Mexican
regiments, and promised that the French troops
should not interfere with them, provided they
U0I1l1 fo,r ,.%-
him President. Positive information Of the occu-
patton Of Mazatlan, on the 18th ult by the Liber-
ais has been received in San Francisco.
The Nashville Banner says that agents from
Cincinnati and other points are travelling through
the South and buying all the railroad iron
torn up and damaged during the war. Large
amounts have been shipped from this place, and
there is still more to be sent of. Old and rusty
nails twisted into all sorts Of fantastic shapes
useless until remoulded are piled up to be sent
away and shaped for the new roads that are being
built throughout the oorntry, never again, let US
hope, to be torn up by ruthless soldiery.
In the Southern General Assembly, now in ses-
Eon at Memphis, overtures have been adopted,
and delegates appointed to bear to the Associated
Reform Church and the Cumberland Presbyteries,
IL order to effect the union of these bodies with
the Assembly. The attempt to remove the Theo-
-~esASs"A SOAAAAaAy IOu NO1ulIlDld, W., 10 M0u1
phls has failed The report Of the committee on
the freedmen is elicising much attention, and the
indications are that the debate viii be violent and
protractcd.
N the Alabama Housed Of Representatives, on
Friday, Mr. Brooks presented Bill to alter the
Constitution Of the State so as to admit Of con
dltlonal negro suffrage. The conditions are that
the voter shall possess property to the amount Of
Two hundred. dollars, and shall BE able to res2 the
Constitution Of the State and Of the United States
and write alegible hand. TIE conditions also to
hold good in the case Of white men Mr.. BRooKs
was closely identified with the Confederate cause,
having expended his last dollar in it's support, and
m presenting the Bill he said that he did so as 3
measure Of policy and for the public good After
An exciting debate the Bill was tabled.
The news from Central America is not Of special
Importance: The Guatemala Congress was to
have met on the 10th Of November On the LIST
and 18th ult, sharp shocks Of earthquakes were
1elt IN Salvador. Senior GUzMAN had been elected
freAdent OF Nicaragua. In Bogota the Arch
bishop had been expelled the State by the
Executive, and his palace and archives seized. A
movement was expected among MosQUERo's friends
to revolutionize the government and make him
monarch. complimentary resolution Of respect
for the memory Of HENRY CHAuNoEY and JOIN e.