The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-25

the average Of the whole at death was tag years.
The Mississippi steamer Platte VaNey recentl:
etruck the wreck Of gunboat near Memphis
Tennessee. She was crowded With passengers
and it is believed that one hundred persons were
lost: among them were nearly forty women ant
children.
Rev. J. L. KIRKPATRICK, D. D., lately President
Of Davidson College, N, c., has accepted tho Pro
fessorship OF Moral Philosophy in Washington
College, Virginia [Dr. z. will be remembered b.
our citizens rs at one time the Pastor tht
Glebe street Presbyterian Church in this city. H'
iB now, it appears, associated with General LEE.J
DR.. CURRY editor Of ths New York Christian
Adpocate and Journal {Meihodist), in an article
on :.Color Blindness" says that Southern Metho
dist. can be admitted to the privileges o. the Mo
thodist Episcopal Church only upon condition O.
becoming 40 far blind as not to know black from
white.
WENDELL PK11LHs said, in speech at Albany
that if Southern representatives were admitted tx
Congress, they would distribute Confederate paper
freely to secure an assumption Of the Confederate
debt. and TINT he knew one Massachusetts, repre-
sentative. Who could not resist such an argumen
for six hours.
The Prussian navy .at present consists OF ons
iror. clad turret ship, one iron-clad ram, fou1
frgates four corvettes, twentythree gunboats, ant
three dispatch boats, all of them screws, with to
tai of two hundred and sixty-three guns. The
sailing vessels comprehend three figates, one cor
vette, three brgs, and forty gun-sloops, carrying
two hundred and eighty-fve guns.
During the year just closed, there have beer
59S2 deaths in Chicago. The largest number ir
any one month was in October-1l75. This is the
month in which the cholera prevailed so fearfully
The total numb OF deaths in 1866 was 1861, show
ing an increase over 1865 Of 2271. During the
prevalence of tho cholera there were 1851 cases
reported, nf which 800 terminated fatally.
A Jew named SIM. BARRY, rather got the bette,
Of the vastly moral authorities of Boston in suit
decided by the Supreme Court Of Massachusetts
on the Sd inst. He was prosecuted for keeping his
shop open on the Christian Sabbath, but tho court
held that he was not answerabe for doing business
on the Christian Sabbath, when he had already
kept the Jewish Sabbath.
A cubic yard Of gold is worth, in round num-
GERS, SIC, oO0 and at this estimate Ill the gold
in the world, it NOTED into ngots, might be con-
teen feet high. All the boasted wealth already OBJ
into an iron safe nine feet square and nine tcet
high.
Cardinal GouseEr,. Archbishop Of Rheims,
France, died on the ed December. He was tho
son Of farmer, and worked in tho field before he
entered clerical college for his education. He
was afterwards known as man Of extensive learn
ing, and became Bishop of Perigueux in 1885. He
was promoted to the Archbishoprio of Rheims in
1910, On the, acath Of Mgr. De LAru. He was
created Cardinal in 1850.
Thanks to the RussGn Embassy at Pekin, which
has offered to forward private dispatches, the Chi
nese now enjoy telegraphic communication with
Europe. kilograms are sent through the post or
b. express to Kachta, on the Russo Siberian from
tier, hftoen days journey, where the telegraph
begins. With the post, which goes four times
month, telegram to ST. Petersburg costs thirty
roubles; by one-horse express, ninetJ-eisht rou-
bles; and q two-horse express, one hundred and
forty-seven roubles.
The Montreal IPatness is in worry about young
BENNErr's admission to hob-nobbing terms with
the blood royal and piteously remarks: s1t is,
We may also remark, humiliatng to see this son OF
one Of the worst scotchmen that ever | 1T Scot
land, and representative of what is, by common
consent, c.llod tho s'Sstanic Press" OF New York,
coming out before tho world upon terms OF equai-
ty as competitor in = yacht race with the second
son Of Queen VICTORIA. This is oven worse than
the kiss which he- Majesty gave to LOUIS NApo-
LEON"
The Philadeiphia Ledger says ga neusboJ OF
this city, named HENRY MAHTR, has fallen heir to
$500, 900 in Texas. His father was farmer and
resident OF Rochester. He was killed in the first
battle Of Bull Run. His mother was unable to
support the family, and sent HENRY to charitable
institution, from which he escaped. The boys
uncle settled in Texas some years ago, and accu-
mulated o large property. Ee was killed in the
battle Of Shiloh, fighting for the Confederacy.
relatve had been searching three months for the
boy"
We saw on Saturday, says the Lynchburg (Va.)
Ne,ns, some twelve to fifteen negroes, more than
half Of them under fifteen years Of age al females
except one, who left thoir MASTER MIR. c. Owens,
Of Fauquier, in 1865, and made their way to this
county, where they have since lived. Some weeks
ago the grown members of the party wrote to
their former master, telling him Of their destitute
condition, and asking to be taken back as his SER
wants. Mr. OWENS consented to the request, for
warded money here to pay their fare ever the rail
road to their former homo. They left yesterday
morning on the Orange cars, and were rejoiccd at
the prospect Of again having kind master to take
care of them.
Mr. THOMAS 7. DAVIS, one Of the New York State
delegation in Congress-, has notified the people of
his District that he intends to select the candidate
Tor oadetship at West Point allotted to him, with
the advice and assistance Of two or three compe-
tent gentlemen, who, in February next, will make
regular examination Of MI applicants. The
competition is open free to ALL and tho matter ia To
have as wide publicity as the press can give it.
When Gen. SIoKLEs represented the city Of New
York in Congress, he doputed commission of
puplic school teachers to make similar selection
for him from among the most deserving boys
A dinner was recently given in Paris at which
all the guests were literary men, and i'll cooIis Ii,
Li6erte says: Among the company were Il. II. DE
PAGE, editor OF lie Petit Journal, AIM ]. Non1Ac,
RICHARD CLARETrE, MA1LLAnD, LAcouR, Baron
BR1ssE, &c. All the guests were dressed in cooks
costume $ the older guests wore the classic cotton
cap, the younger ones the toque. N. CLARET1E
made up excelentlv as scullion. After giving
the bill Of fare, Baron BRIssE writes in la Liberte
t'This dinner was given BY and prepared under the
direction Of N. j. GouFFE had the honor OF be,
ing one of the guests and when leaving declared
to him, on my honor, that never in my life ate q
dinner more deliciously and skiful1y prepared.
The Goth of December, 1866, will remain date
llustrious in the culinary FAST Of the 18th CEN
NY.