The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-05
NEWS SUMMARY.

The first stad sold III New York for six dollars.
It took five hundred laborers to clcar tho track
OF the Westcin Railroad from Albany, Now York,
OF saow drifts after the lasa storm.
fine baby was disposed Of by raflle in Mobile
last week at the low pr;ce Of s25, and was won by
typo in the Register Office.
North Carolinas watch tax was sixteen dollars
last year. Georgia paid one dollar single gold
watch. Happily, tho tax is now abolished.
The tria Of the thirty ladies Of Grconfeld, Ohio,
for mobbing the liquor dealers, was concluded last
week. The jury returned tho verdict OF s625 for
tho plaintiffs.
skating park. Prizes to be hung in tho middle
OF the leo, and skaters arc to compete for them
blindfolded.
At q Catholic fair in Memphis, Tenn, o cane
was offered for the most popular county official. It
was voted to Sheriff WINTERS. The votes cost one
dollar each, and 40,836 votes were cast. The cane
originally cost s85.
GARRETT DAVIS was elected United States Sen
& " ss PIE 1ote Stood % 17s s
against Al for BRyrow, with few scattering
votes.
Mr. BEEcHERs congregation talk OF chartering
steamer next Summer, and making trip to the
Holy Land, Egypt, tho Crimea, Greece, and inter
mediate points Of interest, with their pastor and
his family in tho cabin.
Governor MORTON last Thursday sent in to tho
Indiana Legislature his resignation OF the Exeeu-
tive Office. He recommended his SUCCESSOR, Gov
ernor BAKER, as being 'saole patriotic, and faith
full"
The young and accomplished CHR1sropHER Co
LC1nus, descendant Of the great discovcrer has
takoa possession Of his fathers estates and title
OF Duke Of Vernagua, in Spain. Don PEDRO Co
Luanus, OF, as they call him in SPAIN Don Promo
Colon, tho father OF CHR1sTopHER ded 2Cth Dc
oember
Our Atlanta exchanges state that several citi-
zens are Ia jail i'll th.t place for innecently dis
playing the Confederate flag in tableau. 1t is
stated also that the Yankoc commander even or
dered tie ladies' to be arrested but the arrestinr
officer refused to obey him
From 1850 to 1865, 1882 persons we're killed and
1850 injured by railroad accidents in England. The
several railroad companies paid large sums in 1865
as compensation to passengers for injuries. The
ten principal companies paid total Of ST. 442 $50
Large quantities Of specie are constantly passing
through Chattanooga from New Orleans to New
York. It's ulEmate destination is, in most casos
England. The editor OF the American Union saw
the osaor day two kegs OF silver marked $4,000
each; and eight or ten boxes Of gold valued at
about s105 600.
An officer at Fort Phil Kearney writes that the
three post iorts, Reno, Smith and Kearney arc in
state OF siege. Their garrisons amount in the
aggregate to four hundred men and SIX pieces of
artillery, while four Or f1ve thousand Blackfcet.
Cheyenne and Apachees are encampcd in the
vicinity.
Tie Montgomery Adoerliser states that there
Is great dcstitution among the poor of that city.
Hof I've woeks thcre have boon no Government
a"pPnes on h"ad. and the unfortunate are obliged
Appoal " pt1Vate chssity. hany Of the women
assert that they have been two days succes,ve1v
without food for themselves and their ch;,dr., "
new and groat movement for tha retornoat;<,,,
OF the roman Church is said to be going on in
Mexico. Its objact is to break of from the old
roman church, for tho reasons, as charged that
through honalsh influences wore sent the French
armies which have invaded Mexico, and deluead
tho land With republican blood The ImperiaIists
propose to stop it by the old-fashioued plan or
hanging and shooting.
The Secretary of War directs that where Demo
sits are made to the credit Of the Treasurer the
United stetcs by disbursing officers or agents uu-
dor the direction Of the War Department or its B,i
reaus the original certificate of deposit should be
sent 70 the Secretary Of the Treasury through the
head OF the Bureau Of the War Department
The United States Treasurer has issued now
rules for the redemption of fractional and Other
United States notes, that from whatever cause
have become. unfit for circulation. Under these
rules all National Banks that have been desie-
mated as repositories Of public money are reouired
70 cooperate in the work Of redemption except OF
such notes as arc designated as mutilated by the
Department. 5'. MN
French newspaper states, with regard to the
pnrasites found in the potato that the microscone
reveals to us the existence Of small bIack snot
OF the diameter of pins head in the potato. m
This small space be detected some two h,n-
dred 1crocious animals Of coleophic form whic11a
bite and tear each other with continued fury. It
Is easy to comprehend the potato disease when
such an intestine warfare is raging 9u
1t is estimated by those who ought to know that
Mt present, IN round Numbers, thero are about
900 Free and Accepted alasons scattered nnon
the face Of the globe. OF this number. some tx,
600 are in England, 100, ,OO) in Scotland and so oo
In Ireland There are about GOO, 900 on the conti-
nent OF Enrope soc, COO in the United States. and
$1,000 IN other parts Of the world In ENGLAND
there are two or three Thousand persons initiated
every year..
Lie Nashville Dispatch, of January 29th. says
"A party OF twenty Indians from the Choctaw M
taon are IN che city, consisting Of young souays
and braves. They are well dressed and sae1n on-
trey divested Of the wild ferocity of their tribe
when they roamed the untamed forests Of North
America Those Indians, we are informed arc
here Tor The purpose Of going to school, They
and attracted considerable attention.
Among the rich coal fields of Southern 1ll;no;s
1s coal bed Of sone $4,000 acres, not far from
Chester, OF the Mississippi River, and abont a;.tr
miles below st. Louis. Over 18, 900 acres Of this
bed explorations have been made to suoh an ~
cent as will show that The creator part If not +bo
whole OF it, is underlaid with three strata ~ co.
the uppees1ne Of which is thirty-six feet beneath
the surface, and six feet thick, but with : cooa
limestone roof; the Eezt beneath it, seventv-se,.r
feet deep, and four and half feet thick ana +ha
lowermost one hundred and nineteen feet deen and
six feet thick. Tho coal found in this hcd ;s -
remarkable e1cellonce
The Mormon leaders are inclined to xao,er,+ e.
]. .ne'r numbers. and set down the popula ion Of
Salt Lske City at g, coo; but the Gonzales DC ntino
to the census OF 1860, which gave but 10 "a, =, ai1
Ctah, say tharc cannot be over rs, ,Oe0 now - t,,e
sntlre Territory. gertleman who has ;ovas+;-
gated the matter somewhat fully this season -
ievos the true population is about ion nm .or,1.
Tor tho Territory, and Is 900 or 900 for the St.
1et' because IN ordinary sized house, which at ~
East would scarcely be occupied by EIGHT ~ -
people, is here found to comprise, within its fo,,r
walls, from two to twenty wives, each surronnaed
Oy large, interesting and constantly incroo.;ne
Eamily, it is matter Of no small fl:ffnn,t