The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-24
NEWS SUMMARY.

There is a brisk demand in England for steam
ships to load grain for the Baltic and Sweden
About two thousand miles Of telegraph poles
have already been erected in Asia and America On
the Overland International line
Massachusetts, has three negroes in her Lecisla-
ture and three hundred and thirty-four in the
State Prison
At the late session Of the Legislature Of Ala
bama six counties were created, namely !:
Bainc. Bullock, Clay, Cleburne, Crensh aw and
Lee
The editor Of Good Words asked Miss MuLoca
the other day, to write tale for him, and she re-
Piled that she would do SO if he liked, but not for
a less sum than $500 in gold
The sum Of $4,000 per week IS paid to mechanics
employed on the buildings now erecting in place
Of those destroyed by the great fire at Portland.
Maine.
California paper tells Of a lady in Alma who be-
came grandmother on the day she was twenty
four years old. In this latitude such cases are
rare but not in tropical countries, where humanity
comes to maturity much sooner.
It is stated that at the recent New York Central
Railroad election, LEGRAND LOCKWOOD voted on
s46oo,ooo Of stock; HENRY KEEP On S., 500 600 and
CORNELIUS YANDERB LIT 81, 500, ,OOO-al standing
on the books Of the company in their own names.
In consequence of orders from Gen. SCHoF1ErD
commanding Department of Virginia. that all
Government horses and mules in the hands of
private parties shall be given up, those having
such, without 8 bill of sale, are rapidly running
them into the mountains.
Application was made on Wednesday before
Chief Justice CHASE for Writ Of Hd6eas Corpus
IN the case Of Dr.. MUDD, imprisoned at the Dry
Tortugas for alleged completely in the assassina-
lion Of LINCOLN. The application was made by A.
SrERRErT RmaLY, Of the Baltimore Bar Hon.
REvERDY JOHNSON is retained in the case.
Ihe Philadelphia Press, Of the 21s5 saws a re-
port was presented to the City Council Yesterday
by the Committee on the GIRARD Estate. It shows
the trust to be in fourishing condition the esti-
mated gross revenues for 1866 being $3.50 COO an
increase OF fifty per cent. over the revenues Of
1865.
Anew Orleans dispatch, December 20 saws.
Northumberland SHERMAN arrived here this
evening from Brownsville, his mission having
proven failure, because Of the refusal Of the I'M
per1al authorities to grant him pass across their
lines to reach Chihuahua He left Minister
CANPBEIL at Brownsville, who would proceed I'M
mediately to JuAREz's headquarters
Major-Generl THOMAS J. WOOD, commanding
the District of Mississippi has issued q circular
thanking Northern charitable societies for what
they have done to educate the negro, and also The
many planters who have assured them that they
would establish, during the coming year planta-
their colored laborers, and make arrangements to
have religious instruction given to the whole.
The New Orleans BuNetsn announces that sNash-
Vale has twelve cotton mills, which support 1920
persons, and represents q capital of 1878, 500"
Upon which the Nashville Union comments: SIT
means, doubtless, that that is just what we are
going to have when we wake up out o. our sleep.
rub the sand out Of our eyes, and see what would
be most Tor our interest individually and collec-
lively
The Ultimate effects Of English colliery explo-
slons 1s the subject OF article in the Philadel-
phia Ledger, which says: eCoal mining in England
has been overdone, and there is little doubt that
much capital now invested in it will seek new fields
OF labor Our coal and iron mines will thus. from
natural causes, draw both laborers and capitalists
Hom Europe. The former, when here, often be-
come the latter. There are mines owned in the
interior Of this State by men who worked in them
years ago, and there are banks whose presidents
formerly were coal miners"
Inc New Orleans excursion party left Washing
ton on Friday morning, under the escort Of Col,
a. q. MARYLAND. In the party Will be Senators
WADE, RAMSEY, LAME, and FOSTER, accompanied
by their ladies'; Senators HENDR1cKs and NoRroY.
and Representatives DELANo, WALKER, BuoK1ANp.
and HAYES, Of Ohio; KERR, Of INDIANA; LAF11N, OF
New York; NowEIL Of New Jersey; MARSHALL Of
Illinois; KAssoN, Of Iowa; WHALEY, Of West Vir-
g1nia; JOHN L. THOMAS, Of Maryland; General o.
0. Howard, Chief Of Freedmen's Bureau; GEORGE
r. BROWN, sergeant-at-arms to the Senate; and
son Of the Secretary Of War-SrANroN-will be Of
the party.
The New York Herald, Of the 21st, says 9 our
hles from the Bahamas are dated at Nassau, N. p,
on the oath Of November. The British war steam
or Ntosble was aaoat, having been released from
the position she occupied on shore since the hur-
rlcane. Int Nassau the work Of rebuilding con
tnued rapsaly, the arrival Of carpenters from New
York having given additional impetus to the resi-
dent workmen. The ruins OF Trinity Wesleyan
chapel are being cleared away. Several extensive
warehouses were also being rapidly pushed to com
Pietlon. Our special dispatch from New Orleans
states that Gen. SHERMAN and his staff arrived at
tnat city yesterday. He had an interview with Es-
coBEDo at Matamoras, where Minister CAMPBELL,
renamed, with the intention Of soon proceeding to
monterey. Gen. SHERMAN will await orders from
me War Department. and the Snsquehan,,a viii
await orders from the Navy Department..
The st. Paul Press gives some interesting facts
Watn regard to the navigation Of the Upper Missis-
appl. The last season began April IS, and closed
November %, lasting, therefore, two hundred and
Swenty-slx days, about the average period. The
season Is retarded by Lake Pepin, which does not
1na" out until week or fortnight after the river
above and below ia 0nor, ona &roo