The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-19
N ews SUMMARY.

General CARY, OF temperance notoriety, was lee
turing in Chicago at last accounts.
only ten dollars for frst-class cabin passage
from Savannah to New York. Freight on a bar
rel Of flour fifty cents.
The New York Police Commissioners have
changed the police standard of height from five
feet eight inches to five feet seven inches. No
person Will be taken however, who does not weigh
130 pounds.
The wicked editor of the Springfield Republican
says this "Gartcrs with diamond buckles are
worn with the new hoops in Paris. 1t is impossi-
be not to see that they are not introduced here
yet"
correspondent of the Memphis Appeal has
visited lsHAM HARRIS at Carlotta, in Mexico. The
Governor was found there under a cluster of
mango trees in Company with General STERLING
PRICE. The company atupon chairs made by the
Generals own hands.
The Prince Imperial of France recently furnish
ed sketch (or ecrawD Of flute player for the
Illustrated Partisan paper lie Euennent The sale
OF the journal was enormous. What has become
OF the imperial diapers2 Something handsome
might be made out Of them.
The Fernandinasl l{Fla.) Courier, Of the 10th,
ssys Dir. BEN. c. TRUMAN, who has been ap-
pointed by the President Special Commissioner
to visit Florida and Investigate the sales of lande
DC here under the Direct Tax Law, arxived by
the steamer on Sunday evening.
case'of prompt justice occurred in Chicago
on Friday. thief stole gun, was soon after
arrested, had his preliminary examination, was
taken before the Grand Jury, indicted tried, con-
victed, and sentenced to three years in the Peni-
tentiary, before three o'clock, P. RI.
Undetorrod by 80 many previous failures to
cross the boisterous Atlantic in Jelly boat ano-
ther candidate for fool-hardy nautical honors
named JOHN NJ. HUDSON, announces his determi.
nation OF trying to accomplish tI. feat with
boat twenty-six feet long and six feet wide. His
craft is q metallic Ifs-boat, full ship-rigged.
Attorney-General Gull, 'ot Wisconsin, has de-
cided that man who was elected Town Clerk and
Justice OF the Peace in the town Of Red River,
Kewanee county, cannot hold those Offices, Shay
Ing served as q volunteer in the late Confederate
army, thereby forfeiting all political rights under
the United States Government"
The murder OF Mr. LINCOLN has been dramatic
ed and performed at Mnlhausen. The piece is
entitled s. LIE Vie Mort de Abraham Lincoln" and
is divided into seven tableaux. In the fourth act
Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS appears upon the eceue, and
gives it as his opinion long as LINCOLN is per-
lnitted to live the cause of tho South is lost and
exclaims, who will get rid of this man for us ?'
81" replies his future murderer.
st. Louis dispatch, of the 11th, says: The
Radicals are much elated by the meeting last
night non,inally held to celebrate the capture of
Camp Jackson, but really to endorse Congress
agaiuet President J5HNsox. Mr. DRAKE stated
that three regiments Of loyal men can be armed
in three hours, to enforce the Registry Law
against rebels or anybody else. Governor FLErcH-
Ell avowed his resolve to execute the law at any
cost.
1t will doubtless be gratifying to our readers to
know that the freedmen Of South Carolina receive
more attention at the hands of the benevolent
Institutions Of the North than those of any other
State. There are 129 schools for colored people
in operation In our State; Virginia having the
next largest number, 104 The village HAappENs,
mute MILToNs, and suiltless CRoMwELLs, must
henceforth be looked for in the colored eemina-
ries. h~.
JAMES STEPHENS received an enthusiastic ova.
tlon from the Fenian Brotherhood at Jones' Wood
New York, on Tuesday. About six thousand were
present, but mono Of the RoBERTs men were in at.
tendance. STEPHENS made O forcible address
giving the history of the Fenian movement. He
said he had received but little money from this
country, and the heartburnngs and scandals
here were such as could only be compensated by
Irish liberation. -
A correspondent writing to the Baltimore Sun
from Lynchburg, says snow the negroes are be
seeching their former masters to take them back
and wherever the master or mistress can be as
sured that they will be safe in doing 30 by tn.
negroes remaining faithful, and can find any ust
for them at ALL they taken in, clothed and fed
greatly to the relief OF the halfstarved freedmen
But thousands still without homes where the,
are deemed untrustworthy."
Among the many collections of flowers whi 4
were cent to the Richmond Blues on last Thurs
day, was wreath which attracted considerable
attention as coming from Mrs. Judith O. Judal
tcolored). It was accompanied by the followin,
feeling and pathetic letter:
RICHMOND, Va, May 10, 1866.
s1n--I send you my willing contribution Of flow
rnond Light Infantry Blues, Of which my HUSBAND
was once musician, and who fell In the service.
hope they all sleepaweetly facross the river upde
the .hade OF trees" t., rise again at another trun
pet, as lovely and fresh these flowers, to flour
ieh forever in the mansions of tho blessed.
Ever gratefully remembering tho Blues to n,
and mine,
1retnain, respectfully,
- JUDITH G. JUDAH.
The power claimed by the great G4s Compan
OF London tn acquire land and erect new works /
the vicinity of inhabited neighborhoods. has beo
discussed and definitely decided by the Lord
Committee of Parliament, of which Lord LLAS
OVER was chairman. A formidable array of cour
gel, headed by Mr.. DEhIsoN, @. O., supported th
'olai1ls Of the companies, which were opposed b