The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-14
NEWS SUMMARY.

Gold closed in New York yesterday at 45S.
The new Baltimore Police Commissioners have
been released from Jail, and have entered on the
discharge of their duties.
About one hundred Pottawotomie Indians have
been naturalized in Kansas.
Tho annual session Of the Synod Of the Presby-
terrain Church of Virginia is now being held in Nor
folk, Virginia.
WILLIAM HAYDEN, o native of Louisville, Ken
lucky and one of the Fenian prisoners on trial in
Toronto has been found guilty and sentenced to
be hung on the 18th of December.
Information has been received that the herring
fisheries of Labrador complete failure and
the coast inhabitants are consequently rendered
destitute.
Gen. ]. C. DAVIS has prohibited any military dis
play in Louisville over the body Of ROGER HANSON,
formerly Confederate General, on the occasion Of
it's interment.
In addition to the ss5, 900 subscribed recently by
Columbia to the Augusta and Columbia Railroad,
that road has received a subscription of $4,000
from Augusta.
The bishops of the Episcopal Church left New
Orleans Thursday for Kentucky, where an assis-
tant to the Bishop Of Kentucky is to be consecrat
ed. The new Bishop of Louisiana stays OF New
Orleans.
The whole merchant fleet of Prussia before the
consisted Of 1865 ships of all dimensions, the
greater number of small tonnage employed in the
coasting trade At the present moment not less
than TO- 202 vessels sail under tho Prussan flag or
Prussian protection
The sum total of the hansoms and four-wheeled
cabs at present in London amounts to 6229, of
which 1916 arc licensed to pyaseven days, and 2414
for six. At a corresponding period Of last year
there in all 6224 cabs in the various streets Of
tho metropolis.
statement has been made at the Imperial
Academy Of Medicine to the effect that formerly
five children might be counted for each marriage
in France; at the commencement of the century
that number fell to four; and now each marriage
hardly produces three children in the country and
two in Paris.
The Baltimore Sun of Monday says: 1.-THE
steamship SeagaM, Capt. DuTToN, arrived yester-
day afternoon, having made the passage from
Charleston in the unprecedented space of tity-two
hours. This fine ship belongs to the new line re-
Gently established by Messrs. MoRDEcAI & Co.
Both Houses Of the Cherokee Legislature have
elected WILLIAM P. Ross Chief of the Cherokee
Nation in place Of the late JOHN Ross, by four
fifths vote. He delivered an inaugural, in which
ho paid tribute to his predecessor, and urged
them to initiate his virtues and congratulated the
nation on the return of peace.
Tho Washington correspondent OF the New York
Herald writes that at q meeting of the Cabinet on
Saturday, the President communicated portions Of
his annual message on Mexican affairs, in which
nc says that, should General SHERMAN find that
neither MAxIMILIAN nor the French intend to leave
Mexico, he will recommend vigorous action to
hasten thor departure.
About s54 600 worth of straw has been manufac-
tured into $50 900 hats and bonnets in the estab-
lishments for this purpose in Franklin, Mass,
during the present year. About one-eighth of the
stock is Of domestic manufacture and seven-
elghths imported. The value Of the goods made
is nearly 81, 100000,
Tho oitical investigation as to the causes of the
loss OF tho steamer Euening Star, ordered by the
Treasury Department. has been concluded. The
report says that tho principal cause Of the dis
aster was nm error OF judgment on the part of
tho captain, who, having strong promonitions of
storm, did not change his course, when, by
30 doing, he might havo avoided its main force.
The members of tho London Swimming Club
had swimming match in the Lambeth Baths the
other day, in which silver cup was awarded for
the best leaps over hurdles floating in tho water:
IN cgg-dlvinS contest was won by diver who
hshed up thirtoon eggs from the bottom; and gold
and silver medals were awarded to mon who suc.
ceedod in performing othor difficult feats.
There arc now building in England, or undo,
orders to bc built, twenty-six iron-armor-plated
vessels of war. The estimated expenditure on
these vessels from April last to March 81 next is
f256,G32. From the roturn moved for by Mr.
LAIRD relative to iron-platod ships and batteries
it seems that thore arc thirty iron-plated ships
afoat, and four building. Tho floating battorie.
arc the Ere5us, Terror, Thunder5oH, and Thunder.
The turpentino product Of Butto county, Cali
fornia, whero three companies are now engaged il
the distiaton Of that substance, amounts to abou
four thousand gallons por month. Another pro
duct Of the conforous forests Of this country is
oil distilled from tho haclmatack, colorless ant
light as camphene, and valuable as detergent
cleaning grease spots from the most delicate fabrics
without leaving stain.