The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-08

National Banks have been taken IN charge OF py
the Comptroller of the Currency.
Canadian eggs, under the new tariff, will have to
nav q duty Of one cent per dozen. Our national
debt will be paid.
There are about forty candidates for Governor
OF Iowa Gen. BAKER, Congressman GRINNEII,
and Col. MERRILL are the leading competitors.
Gen. Cs..EEsoN, who is now military director OF
the Fsnian brotherhood has given contract tor
two thousand uniforms to a large clothing firm in
New York. ss,.
II ia eaid that Prince SA1M SA1M, q German OIL
Ger, who served in the United States army during
the recent war, is now in command Of MAxM1I1AN!s
forces earrisoned in the city Of Orizaba.
Statistics show that the Northwest contains one
sixth Of the improved land of the country, and
produce onehaH of the entire bulk Of the products
of the United States.
The Bcandinavians of Chicago recently gave O
Grand ball, in which numbers Of Danish, Norwe-
.zian, and Swedish men and women appeared In
their old national costumes
Some ex-Fredericksburg darkies voted at the
alecton in Georgetown. One old fellow, however,
declined, saying, ssThey jist put the names down,
and the next thing is tax on every nigger that
voted"
The British steamship MG;ican, dispatched from
Baltimore to Liverpool by the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, and which left Cape Henry on
the fst ultno, arrived off Queenstown On the 16th
all we'll
The Chinese have numerous die eases Of the eyes;
every fifth man having some ocular defect, and
every fifteenth losing his sight altogether. They
ttribute it. to the excessive use Of rice and con-
,stant shaving.
The Gainesville (Fla.) New Era says that, with
q favorable season, the cotton crop Of Alachua
County Will far exceed that Of 1866, as o much
greater area Of land will be planted with the staple.
Better raise less cotton and more corn.
In the Maryland Legislature, the other day, MIR.
AppEznAN (Repubican) offered resolutions con-
demning the election Of the notorious rebel and
traitor, General Cusr1s LEE, to the Presidency Of
the State Agricultural College. Rejected. q
1t is stated in, the New York Tribune that under
The provisions Of the Naval Appropriation Bill,
psssed.at the late session Of Congress, at least
10000 employees in the Government Navy Yards
viii be discharged during the present year.
"A Paris correspondent states that there are
1900, 900 prop1ietors OF vineyards in France, 1850
varieties Of vine cultivated 5,4s50 900 acres Of Land
devoted 70 vineyards, and in 1864 the crop was
1890 000 600 gallons Of wine, worth $780, oO0, 900.
Two large floating cisterns constructed at Cher
bourg; have arrived at Havre, on their way to
Paris. They are intended to supply the aquariums
at the Exhibition with sea water, and during its
continuance viii make constant trips between the
sea md Paris ! -. .=s..s.. y
- Senator WADB, of Ohio, who has been elected
President Of the Senate, was born at West Spring
field Massachusetts, and is sixty-six years OF age.
He went to Ohio when about twenty years old,
after receiving q common school education. Heis
an extreme Radical. =.
We learn that the Right Rev. Bishop QUM1AN,
of tho Catholic Diocese Of Mobile which includes,
We believe, the States Of Alabama and Florida, has
been commissioned by Governor PATTON as one of
the representatives Of Alabama at the Paris E1-
position. .i
HARpER & BBoTHERs will publish Immediately
the new Bankrupt Bill, with notes, forms of pro-
cednre, and g collection OF all the American and
English decisions upon the law Of bankruptcy,
adapted to the use OF the lawyer and merchant, by
EpwM JANIS.
The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger says ssTrade Of all kinds remains ruinously
dull. Go where you will the complaint is uniform.
Many dry goods and grocery firms are behind with
their notes. and not few suspensions are reported
aIaong the smaller houses"
The st.. Paul Pioneer says: "Some people are
rerdant enough to ask, Can Congress do SO and
sol? Why certainly they can.. A railroad conduc-
tor once accosted LOLA. .MoNTEz thus, Madam, you
cannot smoke in the car But you see can, re-
piled LOLA, for am doing it. This is Congress
sional logic
= A cotemporary, alluding to the numerous cases
of suicide, and numbering Of children by mothers
IN the Northwest, says: sWhep the fathers in that
country determine to TAR and feather every fanati-
cal lecturer they catch in the act Of haranguing
ailly people the subject Of spiritualism, free
4oviEm and damphooism generally, the throats'
0f their children will be saf8'
: The New York Assembly on Wednesday voted
down proposition to let negroes in that State vote
Hor delegates to the constitutional convention.
Yet majority Of this same New York Legislature
ARE in favor Of thrustng negro suffrage upon their
.countrymen in the South ; and not only that, but
in favor also Of keeping them out Of the Union
until they consent to it.
Through the courtesy Of MIR. ROBERT RowEIL, of
this city, We have been permitted, says the Louis
vile Journal, to examine copy Of the AUSTRALIA
siGn published at Melbourne Australia, the
largest paper in the world. It contains thirty-two
pages Of five columns each, and if printed on
single sheet would be nine feet long by three wide.
meerschanm pipe manufactured in this coun-
try, and designed for the Paris Exhibition, is now
to be seen in New York. The pipe itself is eleven
inches In length, and the amber mouth-piece eight
inches long and two inches thick. The carving on
the trunk Of the pipe represents the meeting of
Macbeth and Banquo with the witches, on their
way to the battlefield. Sur1nounting the bowl
SHAKESPEARE is represented seated on chair,
looking down upon the scene.
. The Rabbis OF Europe are to assemble in council
in Paris next year, in order that the great Sanhe
drim may take place in conjunction with the Uni
versal Exhibition. The Central Jewish Committee
of Paris has taken the initiative of the meeting,
which viii be- especially called on to decide the fol-
lowing questions: The abolition Of the prohibi-
ton Of certain articles Of food the suppression of
polygamy that exists among the Jews in Algeria,
and the recognition Of female children as equally
qualified to inherit in that country with males
The State of Mississippi having an island with
the euphonious title of sBunch's Bend Island,'
for which it has no immediate OCCASION has offer
ed to trade it with the State Of Louisiana for
<fIsland No. 49," which may be Of some possible
use. Louisiana has not yet made up its mind to
the dicker The United States has also something
to say about the matter, and the proposition OF
mississippi is made conditional on the ratification
OF the Congress of the United States. AS the
State Governments OF the two parties to the pro-
posed dicker are not exactly recognized by Con-
gress, the trade will probably fall through for the
present. and the alhgators and mud turtles that
people those islands will nave to continue their
allegiance to their respective State Governments.