The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-05
NEWS SUMMARY.

Hhoep IN MAINE last JehI.
The Judiciary Committee Of the House OF Rep
resentatves will report in favor OF an eight hour
law for the government works.
Havana correspondence says that the port of
samana, in ST. Domingo, has actually been secured
by the United States as coaling station.
The cell in which JOHN 81. SURRATT is confined
at Washington, is only few rods distant from his
mothers grave. sa:.J -
Governor FLETCHER has broughta suit against
f;Ie st. Louis Eoeang Dispdlch for defamation OF
CT aracsar. The damages are laid at 500, 900.
Ten or twelve prominent insurance Offices IN
Esw, York contemplate going into liquidation
early in the spring, on account OF recent heavy
losses. s-,..s, r ~ ..-,--.-
Two English lads were recently picked'up by a
Norwegian vessel one hundred miles out at sea, in
an open boat, in which they had gone for pleasure,
but were carried off.
The Legislature Of Illinois has abolished CAPT.
tai punishmant. They should next abolish crime.
Why not2 All things are possible in this nine
teenth century. -. .s.-r
The Richmond Examiner says: s'The brig Nellie
MitcheGis now loading in the dock with corn for
Charleston, s. c. She viii carry between 5000 and
10000 bushels. t.i.aa
Oneof the lions at Barnun's Museum escaped
from his cage recently, and aercely attacked a
visitor, wom,dng him seriously before the brute
mas knocked down by his keeper with an ircn bar.
They havs live seal on exhibition at Bangor
Which was captured among the snow drifts, where
it had become bewi1dered and lost, after having
come out Of an air hole on the ice on Mill creek for
food.S 49, AH-s; - -,
There ara N68 Baptist clergYmen in Great
Britain, Of whom 391 are without pastoral charges,
md 2ss2 churches, the smallest Of which numbers
four MEMBERS and the largest, Mr.. spUReEoN's,
1896.
The La Grange tTexssj Ne,o Era says: Son the
Brazos gentleman recently leased plantation Of
twelve hundred acres for $4,000, paying one-haf
down. At this time the whole force amounts to
six hands, which divided out gives one hand to
every two hundred acres" The Era puts this
down smong the ..fattering prospects"
The Petersburg L'dez says that "the South will
accept the terms extenaeiunder SHERstAN's bill. A
Thousand shaws show how the current is setting.
No hazard isnow in the prediction that ere sixty
days have passed, q majority Of the Southern
States VIII voluntarily have conformed to the new
order Of things, and We make it.
Judge ,ENoMAs, Of Virginia, has decided that the
hwof Congress-, passed during the war, authoriz-
ing the sale Of real estate belonging to rebels in
payment OF the direct tax, was unconstitutional.
This decision, if sustained by the Supreme Court,
will destroy the title to an immense amount Of
property in the South and has created considera-
Resxsiteuisnt araong; the purchasers Of property
under the aw in the South.
It is announced from England that one of the
smallest elephants ever imported into that coun-
try arrived at Liverpool on January 9th from,
Rangoon.a This elephant was but three feet high,
and very: docile, and on it's way up into the town
from the ship; it is stated that the young, but ev
IDENTIFY intelligent creature, walked into public
honse;;Gsnd inserting its trurk into jug Of beer
on the bar, sucked up the contents, much to the
surprise OF the people: present.
We 1ear1i from GA1IaNAN1's Messenger, THAT MN.
BLANCHARD; and CHATEAU, by mixing acid phos-
pfate Of non and msgnesia with night-eoil, have
succeeded in fixing aits volatile principles. Acid
phosphate OF maeuesia and iron Is cheap, and,
moreover; an e1csllent disinfectng substance, and
it appears from the experiments which the city OF
Paris has mode On q large scale, that both as an
agricultural and q sanitary agent this phosphate
win render great service to society.
It having been rumored that the impoverished
German princeing who. is married to- Queen V1o-
ToH1As daughter HELENA, was TO receive the
colonelcy Of one Of the crack regiments of the
Household Brigade Of Guards, the Liberal press
in England justly waxeth indignant. The London
Telegraph protests bitterly against 'tthe system of
fccling away, upon worthless members Of the
royaf family, honGs and enoluments that belong
toman Who, have served their country" ~ -
1T iB reported that q, biz has been introduced
into the New Jersey Legislature to incorporate the
IsDelSs1a,:s River Company" !" which proposes to
make the Delaware Riyer rnayigable from Trenton,
N. J.,t Deposit, n: y. This is to be accomplished
By constructing dams, and 80 forming a huge Ca
nal in tho valley Of the yHer, which shall be con-
tinuous nayigable highway, nine feet deep, sixty
feet wide at the bottom, and ninety feet wide at
tie. wata awfsca:a The capital Of the company is
fixed at $l5, 100000.
The New Orleans Picayune Gays that 'sthe In
dams aro still worrying the frontier people Of
Texas, ard win continue to do 80 uniil they are
wiped OUT In Montague county they recently
flushed G son Of DR.. GORDON, chased him. wound
ed him with spears and arrows, and although they
did not kill him outright, he is not expected to
live. In San Saba county they are .also down
every bright moon after horses and scnlps, while
IN Noe CuIloch and Bandera counties they have re-
Gently been prospecting for blood and plumber.
writer in Bandera county, close by Camp Verde,
says that aEx.shooter and swift horse are all the
protection he has"
The CfoGan (Texas), Of the 18th ult., says: cal
most every day we notice the arrival Of more emf
grants on our shores. The steamship Mdtagorda,
rom Brashesr, yesterday, brought forty three pas
,engers destined for Grimes County, in this State.
They we're from Fayette, Coweta, and Merriweath-
n Counties, Georgia. Let them come; we still
,ave plenty Of .room." The Csoi7ion says that the
ravel the street cars in that city is increasing
md that the enterprise is success. "From all
quarters Of Texas" says the New Orleans Picay-
me, 'or- accounts are most favorable as to the
industry and energy Of the people in preparing to
pitch the coming CROP"
Western editor, who has been LAWYER. in one
II his lucid intervals, writes the following ga
practice Of thirty years in the tri ounals of
,iv and criminal Justice, has satisfied us that any
nan whowin wilfully and deliberately lie, for the
purpose Of benehing himself or injuring another,
Vin as readily swear to that lie. Oaths have been
70 cheapened, by being so universally and unne-
,essarily required, that they have come to have no
,anctity at all. We should just as soon take
mans testimony without his oath as with it. We
,ave seen more than a hundred instances of direct
md deliberate perjury. AS to the moral guilt, the
nan v'ho attempts to mjure another by a lie, is
ust as guilty as the one who attempts to do it by
,erjury."
In the transactions Of the. Austrian Geographi-
al Society for 1857, just published at Vienna,
here is an article by Professor GoH1ERr on sThe
population of European Turkey" The author
ives the population Of European Turkey (exclud-
e Roumania md seryia) as 100000. OF these
200, 900 are Christians and the rest Mohsmme-
ans, Turks, Abanians, -Bulgarians and Bosnians.
The number Of Turks proper is 900 only. who