The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-06-27

day morning.
News Summary.
Gen. GusrAvUs W. SMITH is engaged in superin-
tending rolling mill at Chattanooga.
Professor BLOT commences a series of lectures
on cookery at Worcester, Mass, on Mon day next.
A biography of john LEEoH, so long the lead
ing illustrator of Punch, is to be written by DR..
JOHN Brown, of Edinburgh, author of 'sR OBJ and
His Friends
W1LK1E COLLINS having completed his romance
of "Armadale' in the June number of the "Corn-
hill" it is announced that Miss THAcKERY will be-
gin a new story in the July number.
Lord NoRBURY having been asked to contribute
shilling to help bury ad attorney whip had died
poor, exclaimed, "Only shilling to bury an at
torney! Here's guinea; go and bury twenty Of
them!"
A few days since negro in King William coun-
ty, Virginia, killed monster blacksnake eight
feet long, and containing in its stomach a young
rabbit, five partridge eggs, two frogs, two hen
eggs a lizard, and small chicken.
A case of murder, too horrid for recital, occur
red near Medina, New York, on the 18th inst. A
clergyman, named L1NDsLEY, whipped his son,
child three years old, SO savagely, that it died
tqnder tho infiotion. In the statement before the
'Goronor's jury the father oonfeases to have con-
hnued the chastisement for NOR than two hou1 9.
The Macon Telegraph says &c Gen. B. F. BUT
LER, in his recent speech in Boston, claimed that
as conquerors we (Northern paople) have .ac-
quired the title by conquest to all the people of
the Southern States have of life, liberty, land,
rights, constitutional or otherwise. It the share
of the Beast should be proportioned to his part Of
the fighting and conquests the addition to his
fortune would not buy him dinner
person who had recently visited the shenan-
doah Valley says it is wonderful to see the pro-
fusion of cattle and poultry in this "denuded"
valley, after the devastation it was said to have
suffered. Except the absence of fences in some
places now and then a fertilization or burnt
barn, no one would suppose an army had been in
the valley. One or two years crops will replace
all the destruction that has been Ado,--A~""''t
~fosr Of tfre e-
ss;2che sugar lands which lie along the banks of
the nayigabs streams in Louisiana, are now chief
ly deyotedtescotton1.V During thewar.a good deal
Of the necessary machinery was destroyed, and
much Of the plant cane was lost. The planters
have not had the necessary means to renew their
material, and consequently sugar ceases for the
time being to be staple product Of Louisiana,
Notwithstanding the fact that she was once the
third sugar exporting country in the world.
They are going to have a new Metropolitan
Methodist Episcopal 'Temple" at Washington, to
cost 600. 1t is to be purely Gothic in style,
entirely built of stone 112 feet by 49, Tho ateeple
will beGoh hfthe corner 81 Four-and-a-half and @
street. t5o feet III height. The first floor will be
occupied on the east side with an infants depart
ment, 80 by 80 feet, beautifully arranged"
Ouery-Would not plain old john WESLEY be
somewhat surprised were he accidentally to lose
his way into this "Temple9" .==
: AnoYel insurance case has been decided in Mis-
souri,. The question arose upon the following
facts proved A building is insured against loss ny
fire. It falls down, being heavily overloaded with
merchandise; the fall occasions fire, which de-
stroys the fallen material. Query-is the insur-
ance company liable? The Court decided that the
building insured having fallen, ceased to exist
as suoh and that it ceased to exist by reason OF
peril not insured against, and hence that the COM
pany was not liable.
There was case short time ago before Judge
n. ". THOMAS, Of the Seventh Judicial Circuit OF
Virginia, a State Court, in which he refused to
admit the testimony Of colored persons, on the
ground that he must be governed by the laws OF
the State Of Virginia, which excluded such testi-
monv in cases between whites. It now appears
that Judge THOMAS was indicted for this offence
hy UNpERwooD's Grand Jury at Richmond, at the
time that Court was in session. No steps have
vet been taken to arrest Judge THOMAS to answer
the indictment.
The Wytheyille, Va, Dispatc2s has the follow
ing: ssWe are called upon to chronicle an awful
casualty which occurred at our depot on Sunday
evening. as the cars were about starting east.
Mr.. JAMES BYRN, an employee on the Virginia
and Tennessee Railroad while into xicated, got on
the train with some of his friends, but he got off
again for some frivolous purpose: his friends in
the meantime persuading him to get on again, ne
did so, but fell off, after the train had started and
gone but a short distance passing over him, cut
ting off both legs and one of his arms. He was
picked up, and lived but FIVE minutes In his
pockets were found two bottles of liquor"
The Richmond freedmen do not appear to have
settled down yet to the quiet status OF peaceable
citizenship. The papers are full OF rows anu
fights. We extract one at random from the DIS
patch Of Monday: Con Saturday might've negroes
living in the vicinity Of Chimborazo got into
fight. For a time they used nothing but the wea-
pons which nature had given them; but at last
Ill,