The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-23
NEWS SUMMARY.

petition to Congress for the establishment of |
Territorial government, are composed almost ex-
clusively OF the newly created colored citizens.
Areport from the South Carolina Murder Inves-
tigatng Committee, in Congress- viii be found in
our telegraphic column.
AL the labors OF the Thirty Ninth Congress, on
the subject OF Reconstruction, have resulted in the
bill just passed, reducing the Southern States to
Military Districts; allowing them to retain, for the
present, the existing State governments, subject |
however, to the military commanders !; providing |
Tor convention that is to amend the Constitution
Of the State in harmony with the legislation
and for their readmission into the Union and Con-
grcssional representation upon the adoption Of the
several conditions laid down in the Bill
There are 0,S02 white and SOFA colored Metho-
dists in the State Of South Carolina.
Catholic Church; exclusively for colored peo-
pie, is to be built in the city of St. Louis.
In illinois, the Baptist Churches have q total
membership Of 4612e, or one to every 46 inhabit-
ants.
The railway bridge over the Genesee river, at
Rochester, gave way on Thursday night from the
pressure Of ice against the piers.
a young lady in New York was recently pre-
sented with basket OF flowers valued at nine
hundred dollars. teFooln &c
Elopements are so common at Springfield that
there is talk Of establishing "a Home for Deserted
Husbands."o7 - ia HI s@ "A ,5FSs5''. n II
The number of barrels Of ;cranberries raised
and sold in Harwich, Mass, last year was Eve
Thousand Eve hundred and fifteen, and the price
received for them $50, ,e72. n H3;l
General CROOK has given the Indians esgoss"
once more in idaho. He had fight with them on
the I'd instant, in which he killed 40 and cap
tured ~. :'-% ~ - ,ssta: +. st 5G. rs
The Frankfort police have forbidden the sale Of
the fabric known as green tarlatan. it is dyed by
colors composed in great part of arsenica1 prepa-
rahons and consequently very injurious to health.
The import trade OF San Francisco last year was
fourteen millions, an increase OF over three and
half millions. The exports amount to seventeen
and quarter millions, an increase Of nearly three
millions. @lE...
1t may not be known to the majority Of readers
that the great city of London is comprised in IN
area Of only 6a2 acres and few poes-in fact, the
size Of farm which in the country could be had
fof rent Of S600 to ;s10O0 per annum.
Two new revenue cutters for the United States
service are building at Greenpoint and will be
launched in month or two They are each ninety
feet long, and of one hundred and twenty tons
burthen.
Rents and board are coming down in New York
city. The columns Of the daiies there showrthat
good board be procured in respectable parts Of
the city for three and four dollars per week, and
Heas ct Salasst rftii G1np p,,chsr
years preached on surch aged ninetv.tva :,
Aa 'ohn Street Church, New corning in the
Tba ro1,,-..,r...E r1.,.. s5&a. s.. t-5$ --'a CON
nnas, ooi4mous Sun learns authentically that Fl
- - ~ LANES JOHNSON has at last been confirm
Cd as Collector Of the Port Of soSsaae, .unnem
senate, and thst he has vithdr,nn tl,:s--. ~ .ne
recently rendered. :. 80. 90 90 -
Forty recruits Of the Eighteenth Infantry are
said to have mutinied while on the routa To Fort
Phi Kearney recently, and under the lead Of an
OLD soldier had shaped their course for Mexico to
join the army OF JUAREz,t s..z y. sls3.s,ia3 "A
AZ the Congressional Temperance Society meet:
ing Senator YATES said he intended to quit drink
ing whfskey and to fight it out on that line to the
Last hour Of his existence. The price will on down
at such falling off in the demand
AIPHoNso KARR, the French poet. vas .1ata,v
present at medical banquet, at which toasts vera
gwen to the health of every celebrity, when the
president remarked, Monsieur KARR, Won have
not proposed the health Of any onen The poet
rose and modaestly replied, st propose the health
of the sick" NJ
Among the new devices Of the day are paper
pantalets for ladies'. company has been or
ganlzed at Mechanics Falls, Maine. to rnannfac-
ture borders to ladies' drawers and chiIdrens nan
1alets-an ornamental appurtenance to be buttoned
10 the garment, which may be readily replaced
when soiled Ii.. ;t.s9.. !. t5::G.f-7' \.
The 2sth Of April VIII be celebrated BY the odd
feno~s throughout the country day Of spe-
cla1 thanksgiving. The Observance Will be in ac- |!
cordance to instructions from the Grand Sire. and
viii commemorate the preservation Of the Order
dur1ng.t .the war, and its peaceful reunion, ssss
Services at the Colebrook (Ct.) congregational
Church were suspended four weeks in conseon ance
OF the snow blockade Of the roads. One man ding |
tunnel from his house twenty-five feet LONG
through drift OF ten twelve feet deep, and has
heid communication with the outside. world for |
over fortnight by means Of this passage.
Under the head Of Oppressive" /" the Tauev Vz,-
gansdn says: 'FAYErIE McMULLEN is electicneer-
ing Tor the Goyernorship in the Valley. We have
enoured PEIRPoST and heap OF things, but We |
humbly pray that merciful Providence viii anara |
us further aflictons Of this kind. n -I
"A person in Cleveland, who has taken the tronbe I
70 gamer STATISTICS on the subject, says that dur
ing me iast TWO years the number or people I
burned to death from kerosene lamp exnlos;ons |
has been nearly 200, and these disasters hava a.
st:oyed property vaiued at sc, 600 0o0 .5..
Inc Savannah Republican. OF the 227 SAW
we learn from 9 source entitled to credit that the
oody OF man, supposed to have been murdered i
was discovered IN Beaufort District near the Sat-
Esasschle River, about week or ten daya since +
One arm was severed from the body. and aavarsi
gashes were noticed on the body and ex xtremit;aa
ow1ng TO high winds in the Adriatic, Venice b.a
oeen inundated to an extent which has never been
equalled within the memory Of aay OF the inhabi-
ta1ts. The plaza. OF San Marx was so aoodad Y,a+
boats and gondolas passed over it, and the whole
OF tne space had the appearance of q vast lake.
Last Saturday a firm in Portland, Ne. received
lot o. California four, forty days from San Fran
CISCO. Il came in sacks Of fifty and one hundred
pounds each, in capital order, the -four being put
arst into cotton sacks, and then these sacks bene
placed IN gunny bags Portland papers state that
hour can be obtained quicker hom San Francseo
man II can be from Chicago railroad facilities rom
ne West being so very poor s;ES
mr.. SEWARD, underdste Of February Is. sends
communicate TO General sA1aAn, the Colombian
minister at Washington, protesting against the
aecree OF hosoUEnA relative to the adjudication nY
prizes IN the Colombian Courts, as oontrarv ~ ~
avs OF nations, and gives his Government notice !
nat as faz as the interests Of ctizens Of Unita
States are concerned, such DEGREES viii ba cona;a
red null and void. q >'1A'te7 1'0u' !.
The Springfield Bepub1con says the State con
taoles we're on their muscle in that city few /
lays airce. force Of ten officers Commenced
perataons ct six O'clock A. NJ, and .continned u
Vork until two P. n. Over three thousand gallons !
various Ends Of intoxicating liquors. yainea -