The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-06
NEWS SUMMARY.

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NEWS SUMMARY.
Cotton closed in New York yesterday ut BIC. for
Mddlng Uplands. Gold was quoted at 1869.
bill has just passed the Legislature of Illinois,
which virtually abolishes capital punishment.
The Legislature OF Tennessee has made call for
military force to keep order in the State. -
Secretary SEWARD has lately insured his life for
one hundred Thousand dollars. Nature seems to
have done that long ago.
The name Of SURRATT is one of the Oldest in
Maryland. The SURRAT1s were French Catholics
in Lord BALTn1oREs time. .s AZ i.
BAvARD TAYLOR intends to bring home from
abroad the greater part of manuscript Of fourth
novel; the scene to be laid the continent, though
the characters are American. {,
A compositor in the Jackson Aississippidn Office
recently set and corrected, il nine hours and thirty
minutes, sixteen thousand eight hundred en1s'
BREWER, one-third of which was solid.
There is great rejoicing among the department
clerks over the final passage Of the bill by Con-
gress giving them 20 per cent. increase on their
salaries, to date back one year. ." -
Five dead bodies we're fornd among tho freight
in the Grand Trunk Railroad Depot, at Buffalo.
resX gRsssd IL claey toTsrd enlisted
have been substantiated against General CUSTER,
which, with his political vagares last summer, will
probably cause his rejection by the Senate.
The extensive locomotive and car factory in Al
exandria Va, which has been closed for some time,
is to be speedily reopened. It will give employ
ment to large number Of mechanics and laborers.
The first College OF the University Of tho South,
projected By rishop POLK was opened at Winches-
ter, Tenn, a few weeks since, by Bishop QUmrARD.
It has five professorships four tutcrships, and
one hundred students. ~ gt~
The Montana Post announces that ten millions
Of gold dust were shipped from that city during
the past year. viz: Five millions by the Missouri
River, four millions by passengers and one million
by express
The Senate Committee on Commerce have re-
ported bill allowing the duties on foreign mer-
chandise imported into the port of Albany, to be
secured and paid at that place. The bill makes
Albany port Of delivery and provides for the ap-
pontment Of a Surveyor of Customs.
'sir," exclaimed excited Radical, ssR the
rebels are going to be allowed to rule over u.s. then
the blood or the colored substitute for whom I
paid three hundred dollars was shed in vain in
vainl" !.
At Leipsic and other parts Of Germany all the
washing is done in immense public laundries, and
during the year. Indeed this is the case in almost
every town and village of the whole country.
The Lynchburg (va.) Ne,os says: ssThe twenty
five hundred bales Of cotton which were at the
Tennessee Depot last week, have nearly all been
taken on to Norfolk by the Southside Company
But few car loads now remain to be shipped
The Bolton (Texas) Journal says large SCOPE
Of prairie land ranging through Coryen county and
entering the northwest corner of Bell, was swept
on the Sd by fire, which did immense damage to
the fine range and farms along its parkway. .'a
United States Commissioner FOSTER issued war
rants for the arrest of five Magistrates Of the Cor
poraton Court of Norfolk, for violations of the
Civil Cghts Bill, in refusing to allow colored per-
sons to give evidence in court.
The surveys for location Of cable to connect
the American coast with the Island Of Cuba has
been completed and the greatest depth Of water
found is 800 feet, and at one point in the line a
mountain 5000 feet high was discovered, rising
from the bottom of the sea.
The Indians in Arizona and New Mexico are re
ported to be still on the path. The military camp
on the Membres. had been broken up and the
settlers in that vicinity had been compelled to Zee
Several murders had been committed and a large
amount Of property destroyed or stolen
correspondent of the Audlunche saws that to
his personal knowledge, fifteen hundred subst n
tial houses have been erected in Memphis during
the last twelve months, and that most Of them are
the property of the ,tsdisfranchised Glass; he
predicts that Memphis is destined to be the com
mercial center Of the United states"t
Cephalona, one Of the Ionian Islands, has been
almost ruined by the occurrence Of an earthquake,
which did not leave single place on the island
where it found it. There was great loss Of proper
ty and considerable loss of life. This is the third
severe earthquake That has happened iq 1867, the
others occurring in Algeria and in Sierra Leone.
BISMARCK wants to clear the fashionable gam
bling hes Of Wiesbaden and Hamburg. But the
keepers Of these places have concluded contracts
with the Dukes Of Nassau and Hesse, which are
still running till 1851, with the privilege OF con
tinung their ruinous sports ill 1881. They refuse
to sell out or compromise, and are at present mas
ters Of the situation.
The Columbus Sun says the vertical rise and fa,!
OF the Chattahooehee is no less than sixty or sew
enty feet in the course OF the year. When the
river is low there is exposed to view not only the
horizontal tertiary strata, but the subjacent creta
ceous deposits, containing anmonites, Faculties
and other characteristic FOSSILS. At Snake and
Upatoic Creeks organic remains are found.
Mr.. JUAN YUEN, q Chinese merchant at San Fran
hos ~ only learned the English language
gehts AseaAer in the remaining giaHagiGAy iaHag epd Wze
civilization and commerce, but has interested him
self in arts and sciences hitherto sealed book to
him, and even learned to sing essweet Home" and
play Yankee Doodle on the jewsharp.
Chesterfield County, Virginia, has long been
noted for it's coal beds, and has of late created
decided sensation by giving vague hints about hav-
1ng IN her possession an immense property Of be-
troleum. still more recent discovery is now re-
ported. As a Mr.. W. A. STEVENS was digging
piece OF ground, he turned up some rich looking
ore, (which, on being tested, was found to yield
pure gold" .
Montana correspondent writes to the st. Louis
Republican, that where now stands the beautiful
city OF Helena, the present capital Of Montana. |
three years ago was but barren spot It is quite
an elevated place. and far as the eye could reach
over the Wiley OF Prickly Pear-some thirty miles
in e1tent-no improvement of the pioneer could
be aeen; no ranches or buildings Of any kind; no !
fields fenced. The elk, deer, antelope and other |
Wild game had full sway, and tripped along with
out g fear Of danger s--i5
Inc American press is now paying the Atlantic
Telegraph Company something over ten Thousand |
dollars per month for the transmission Of news.
and proposition is under adyisement that the |
American press shal. pay the proprietors Of the
cables two hundred thousand dollars per a1,nnm
and have set apart certain hours during which tha
cables shall be used exclusively for the transmits