The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-29

for n1iddling Uplands.
Noarly nine thousand pupils of the pubic school
in Cincinnati are studying German.
The noatooric display was witnessed to great adj
vanta oc in London on the morning Of the 14th in
stant about one O'Clock.
Tho pork packing season commenced at Louis
vile November o. Seven hundred hogs Wer'
slaughtered.
Thanksgiving day is to be observcd,in New Yorl
by numerous festivals in the various charitable
and other institutions.
The New York Post is out against HORACE GREE
LEY for United States Senator, on account OF his
high protection tariff notions.
Hon. HEEsoHEL V. JOHNSON has resigned the
Office of United States Senator, to Which tho deol-
gia Legislature elected him.
On Thursday the Methodist Book Concern III
Cincinnati suffered damage Of sS0C0 by hre-aa-
sured. red.s=z5=.
MIR. BRIDGES, of the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada, is experimenting successfully in the
use of peat for fuel on locomotives.
Mp. WILLIS, the well known poet and journal
list, is quite i'll, having had severe paralytic
stroke.
. The minimum strength OF the United States
army is now 553O2 men. The total maximum
strength would be 1882 men.
The new route to Norfolk from the East, by way
Of the Philadelphia and Delaware Railroads, was
formally opened on Monday.
bill has been introduced into the Legislature
of Georgia repeating the laws prohibiting aliens
from owning real estate.
j. P. BENJAMIN. the celebrated Confederate
States fnancier, is writing articles on America in
the London Telegraph.
The hog cholera is prevailing to great extent
in several counties in Virginia. In Craig County
the disease has been so very severe that very few
hogs are left.
A Washington dispatch says that during the
last three or four days about one hundred and
thirty changes Of Postm sters have been made,
but none Of the largerclass.
General B. s. ALEXANDER, long in command Of
the ~defences Of Washington, will soon leave for
California, to suporintend the construction Of the
defences of San Francisco. =#
Secretary McCuLLocH, it is stated, has called
upon the National Banks for about thirteen million
dollars-being the greater part Of the Government
deposits in their hands.
The Texas Stay Law has been approved by the
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DR.. L. GUILD late Medical Director OF the leo
ealled") Army of Northern Virginia, is now prac-
tising medicine in Mobile. DR.. e., before the
war. was a Surgeon in the United States Army. He
is native of Tuscaloosa, Ala.
By order of Gen. DAVIS, Capt. ". WEST, Second
United States Infantry, commanding at Bowling
Green, KY, will detail guard of ten men daily to
protect the Nashville Railroad train running from
Bowling Green to the State line and returning.
General SHERMAN and Colonel LEWIS D. CAMP
BELL. American Minister to Mexico, arrived ut
Havana on the 18th instant, and were received
with marked attention by the authorities. They
win probably ronain thero wook.
Half O dozon franchise bills have passed tirs
reading in the House of Delegates of tho Tonnes
see Legislature All of them embrace in thoir
provisions negro suffrage, and two OF them uni
yersal amnesty. It is now thought that bill
granting qualified negro suffrage will pass, but
there is more doubt in regard to the grant of am
nesty. =
lowing to tho pressure of business, in the pre-
paration Of tho annual Message, no definite action
has boon taken upon the application of the Mis-
sissippi Legislature for tho release On parole OF
JEFFERSON DAVIS. Commissioners H11LyER and
LowERY are still awaiting the final decision Of the
Executive.
Tho Richmond Times, of Tuesday, says: cum
DERwooD, so called Judge Of the Unitod statos
Court of tho Eastern District Of Virginia, having
failed to reach Richmond, there was no session
held yesterday. 1t is not believed that any Court
will be held this term though we have been un-
able to obtain any definite information on the sub
ject."
The Cincinnati Gazette calls upon Congress to
pass Inv, conyoning the Fortieth Congress upon
the 5th Of March, tho day aftor it ceases to exist
itself. It believes that tho public welfare demands
that Congress shall be in session between that
date and the following December, and it finds its
authority for the action it advises in the following
proyiso of the CONSTITUTIONS Congress shall
assemble at least onco i'll every year, and such
meeting shall be on the first Monday in December,
unless they shall by law appoint a different day!'
The Chicago Republican processes to have trust.
worthy information from Utah that BRIGHAM
YouNa is about to retire temporarily to planta-
tion some sixty miles from Salt Lake City, leav.
ing the charge of public affairs in the hands Of his
son. This movement, it is said, is occasionod by
the increasing age of BRIGHAM YOUNG, and the
object is to tes. the ability of the young BRIGHAM
to WELD the sceptre before the death of his father
shall render fnal any step which may be adopted
in regard to the succession. II he manifest the
ability to manage the affairs of Government thai
his father and the elders hope, then BRIGHAM
abdicaton will be permanent. z
VIM. T. BLAKE, California Commissioner to the
Paris exhibition has issued an address to the peo
pie Of that State, detailing the manner in which