The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-23
N ewS SUMMARY.

We learn from our advertising columns that tho
examination of students at the Virginia Military
institute, Lexington, will commence ON the 9th,
and the graduating exercises will take place on the
4th OF July. The Superintendent says that the
ooard OF VISITORS have made every arrangement
10 maintain the high scientific character OF tho
Institute, and to put in full operation it's we'll
tried and distinctive system of discipline and in
structon. The past gives the best assurance of
this. The Virginia Military Institute has been
made iliustrious by the career and achievements
OF her Alumni.
company ut San Antonio, Texas is running
an ice machine that turns out 1900 pounds Der
day.
Bishop MORRIS, Of the Northern Methodist
church, has had second attack of paralysis He
expresses thankfulness that it is no worse, and
says he will still try to be resigned and hopeful
The ladies OF the First Methodist Church in
Nashville are giving Fair at the Baptist Tabor
nacle. This shows better entente cordiale than
existed ip tho days of GRAVES and BnowNLow.
The Dyersburg (Tenn.) State Gazette hears very
untaVorable reports from all parts of the country
in regard to the crops. The recent cold weather
has seriously retarded the growth Of cotton, while
the army worms have played sad havoc with corn
and other vegetation.
The Nashville Dispatch says that about seventy
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since, notwithstanding they had contracted to re-
main with him until his crop was secured His
crop has been planted, and now he is without
force to work it,
The Columbias (Tenn.) Herald, Of May 18TH
says: "We learn that two negro infants we're dis.
covered drowned in branch OH the farm of COL
ANDREW j. POLK, on Monday last They had been
throWn there by their mothers, who, we learn,
gave as q reason their inability to support them"
Rev. THEODORE CLAPP, a native of Massachu-
setts, and for many years Unitarian preacher in
New Orleans, died in Louisville, Kentucky on
Wednesday last. Mr.. CLApp WAS one of the finest
ex-tempore speakers in the United States. His
autobiography, published some ten years ago, is
very interesting book, containing many useful
lessons.
Tho New York "house agent" who was lately
sentenced to three years in the State Prison. still
carries on his profitable business, weekly reports
OF profit and loss being sent to him at Sing Sing.
His business consists in hiring valuable houses ior
day and holding auction sales of poor furniture
advertising it as on account of tho departure Of
the family for Europe.
nav city slaughter-house has been erected a.
Bridgeport, near Chicago, intended for tho entire
slaughter work Of the latter city. It is two hum
dred and seventy feet long, one hundred and sew
enty-hve feet wide, and three stories high It has
a daily capacity for working off twelve hundred
head of cattle, two thousand hogs and one thou
sand sheep.
Hon. j. A. RAssoN, of Iowa, on Friday, presented
to the House a long and able report On the adyan-
tages Of the metrical system of coins weights and
measures, as substitute foi the imperfect system
now in use. 1t is understood that Mr. KAssos has
been aided in the preparation of this report bv
Prof NORTON, of Yale College, who was appointed
by the National Academy of Sciences to investigate
this important subject.
No less than seven different Commissions are
now, or soon will be, engaged in investigating
the facts relative to tho recent riots in Mem
phis. In addition to the Congressional Commits.
sion, and that created by General sroNEMAss or.
der, on which General MARCUS ]. WI1our WA.
placed the white citizens have organized one, tho
negroes another, the City Council aDotll r. aud
General FISK. or tho Frcednicn's Bureau, and
General Howard, have each ordered one.
Tho denth Of Mrs. THOMAS CARLYLE was even
m"re siguiar tlaa would Le imagined from the
telegraphic mention Of it. She WAS taking her
usual drive in Hido Park, when her pet dog, who
was running beside her brougham, was run over
by carriage. The animal was not much hurt,
hut his ms:ress was greatly alarmed. She lifted
the dog int, Tho carriage, and then died 80 sud-
denly and kiently that her coachman did not
Enuw anything had happened until he came to
stop.
Senator WILSON, OF Massachusetts,, delivered
lecture on Thursday evening, in the Douglass In
shtute, Baltimore-his subject being "Civil
Rights" The Hall was about half filed with
auditors, nearly all colored pcrsons-there being
some eight or ten white, and about the same num-
Der OF colorcd persons on the platform. The
truth Is, tho people all over the land have been
nauscated with over.doses of universal suffrage
ana civil Rights Bill, and now even Fred Doug
las himself Can scarcely command more than a
corPorals guard for an audience.
1he Supreme Court of Missouri recently gave n
very important decision. The suit originally WAS
Drought by JOHN WINN, for damages, being tho
difference between the cost of Transporting a lot
ol SAT- by rail or sail from New York, the tele-
gfaph having transmitted the word rail for sail In
inc dispntch ordering the salt. Tho Common
fleas Court decided in favor of the plaintiff, but
on the appeal the ruling of tho Superior Court
WAS that the te,egr"n: companies havo g. right to
establish reasonable rules and regulations to pro
tect them In their business, and that they arc not
liable for damages except where,gross negligence
1s apparent, uhleas their conditions, printed on
their dispatch III adings, are complied with.
The Northern papers even admit tho terrible
mortality Of the negroes in the late war. The New
1ork Journal of Commerce says "It is a re-.