The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-11

z Inducements to immig grants as Texas.
The Galveston Ne,os announces the arrival o
,the Bremen bark Luba, with one hundred German
emigrants. The Netos says: They are the
finest, most intelligent and respectable looking
party cf emigrants ne have yet seen since this nsV
scheme Of emigration commenced, and We con
gratulate the agents fine selection they have
made. They Will depart for their new homes il
the interior Of the State in q few days."
y In the lower no. .se Of the Tennessee Legislature
on the Sd inst, there was o debate on the negro
suffrage bill, and o test vote was taken, which re-
suited So, nays Is. The friends Of the measur
are much e:ated. a company of the Thirty fourth
regiment LETT for Oyerton county to-day to protect
the citizens. ANTHONY FEpERAT, q soldier, under
sentence Of death for killing a Nashville police.
man, and his two accomploes, were sentenced to
twenty years. imprisonment, but have been par.
doned bYBRowNLow.
Anew and extensive gascmoter in the Rue Du-
pessis. ct Versailles, which was on, the point o,
being finished, exploded . few nights back with a
tremendous noise. 1T was capable Of containing
90 200 cubic metres. It had begun to be used; the
steam engine was pumping in the water, and 10 900
metres of gas had entered when the accident oc-
CURED. Gas worth from 5oOst to 60oof., and works
valued at ooo to 200 oook, have been lost, bat
no persona. injury was sustained.
Resoiuionswer introduced in the Maine Senate,
and referred to the Committee on Federal Rela-
kons, Friday, declaring that the people OF Maine
demand that impartial suffrage throughout the
United States ought to be incorporated into an
organic law; that the conscious intelligent traitors
who originated the rebellion should be forever ex-
Guided from all political power and privilege; that
SJEErERsoN DAVIS ought to be brought to q speedy
trial, and the extreme penalty Of the Law should
follow his conviction !; that the pretended State
Governments set up by President JoHEsoN are mere
usurpa6ons, and Maine demands their immediate
and total abolition, and the organization Of suit
able governments throughout the ten States lately
in rebellion founded on The organic laws Of Com
gress and the will Of the loyal people.
The FreewM Baptists have 1854 churches in the
United States, with about 5000 members and
1875 ordained ministers. These are all in the
Northern States,as their UNCONVENTIONAL opposi-
tion to slavery has prevented their extension in
alaye states. They have two colleges s-Bates, at
Lewiston, Maine ts new ins6tuhon), with 48 stu
dents. and Hilsdale, Michigan, with 600 students.
rhey have two theological institutions -one at
New Hampton, N. E., with is students, ana the
other at Hillsdale, Michigan, with q students.
They have also si1 literary institutions Of a high
order. that at New Hampton. n. r., reporting 741
rnn;ls for the four terms of last year. The Home
Mission Society has an income OF SIC, ,567. They
also employ general sgent for the freedmen
vi,p seventy missionaries, teachers and agents
anstainsd in ths whole or in part by the society
= 1,ev have Foreign Mission Society, whose re-
ca;nta last year we're sl2,1e6. They have in
orissa. India. where the famine has made such
havoc during the last year, four rnale and BIZ
l.ma1e missionaries, and six native teachers.