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

NEWS SUMMARY.
The 1000 citizens from Charleston, who sent s
petition to Congress for the establishment Of a
Territorial government, are composed almost ex-
clusively Of the newly created colored citizens.
Areport from the South Carolina Murder Iuyes-
tgating Committee, in Congress, will be found in
our telegraphic column.
All 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
for convention that is to amend the Constitution
oft State in harmony with the recent legislation,
and for their readmission into the Union and Con-
gressidal representation upon the adoption Of the
several conditions Laid down in the Bill:
There are 80, 800 white and 5O74 colored Metho-
dists in the State of South Carolina.
"A Catholic Church, exclusively for colored peo-
pie, is to be built in the city Of st. Louis.
In Illinois, thes Baptist Churches have total
membership of As 129, 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-
stnted with basket Of flowers valued at nine
hundred dollars sFool," &c.
Elopements are so common at Springfield that
there is talk of establishing ga Home for Deserted
Husbands"
The number of barrels Of cranberries raised
and sold in Harwich, Mass, last year was five
Thousand five hundred and fifteen, and the price
received for them So, ,072. .s..,gs:4 ... Z.
General Crook has given the Indians stgoss''
once more in Idaho, He had fight with them on
the 2d instant, in which he killed 40 and cap
tured n.
The Frankfort police have forbidden the sale of
the fabric known as green tarlatan. it is dyed by
colors composed in great part Of arsenical 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 q, =
may not be known to the majority OF readers
that the great city Of London is comprised in an
area Of only $50 acres and afew polesin fact, the
size Of Q farm which in the country could be had
fora rent .s6O0 to $1,000 per annum. :..a.-:t
Two new revenue cutters for the United States
servicesre building at sGreenpoint, and will be
launched in month or two. Theyare eaeh ninety
feet long, AND Of zene hundred and twenty tons
burehen.5 ,..z;;,.sss;Is
city. The columns Of the dailies there show that
good board can be procured in respectable parts Of
the city for three and four dollars per week, and
lodging rooms at proportionate rates.
Rev. HENRY BoEHN, the oldest living preacher in
the Methodist Episcopal Church, aged ninety 1.-TWO
years, preached on recent Sunday morningin the
Old John Street Uhurch, New York, to a. large con-
preestiiooiri. Il s,4 -,
The Columbus Sun learna authe ntically that Ex-
Governor JaMzs JoHNsoS has at Last been confirms
ed as Collector Of the Port Of Savannah; J; by the
Senate, and thsthe has with drawn the resignation
recently rendered. iiJ5ia = %; f =
Forty recruits Of the Eighteenth Infantry are
said Ito have mutinied while on thet route to Fort
Phil Kearney recently. and under the lead Of an
old soldier had shaped their course for Mexico to
join the army OF JuAREz. . - Y -
At the Congressional Temperance Society meet
ing Senator Yates said he intended to quit drink:
ing whiskey and to it out on that line to the
last hour Of his existence. The price will go down
at such falling off in the demand.
ALrHoNso KARR, the French poet, was lately
present at medical banquet, atwMch toasts were
given to the health Of every celebrity, when the
president remarked Monsieur KARR, you have
not proposed the health Of sany ons.n The poet
rose and modestg replied, Ipropose the health
of the sick 8 -.
Among the new devices Of the day are paper
spantaleb Dor ladies. --A company has been sor-
ganized at Mechanics Falls, Maine, to manufac-
ture borders to ladies' drawers and children's pan
talets-an ornamental appurtenance to be buttoned
TO the garment, which may be readily replaced
when soiled. s.ES ~. 81 'i...:A
The 26th ;of April viii be- celebrated by the Odd
Fellows throughout the country as a day of spe-
cisf The obserYance viii be- in ac,:
cordanas to instructions, from the Grand Sire, and
win cnaimaslnorate the preservation Of the Order
during tie war, and it's peaceful reunion.
Services at tha fColehook (Cta Congregational
Church were suspended four weeks in consequence
of sGe SNOW, bloSkade 81 the roads. One man dug
q tunnel tom shiz: houae twenty two feet long,
througha drift Of ten or twelve feet deep, and has
held communication with the outside world for
over 8 fortnight by means Of this passage.
Under the head Of Oppressive" the Valley Vir-
oiYtar seys, sFAYET1Ei MoMU JULIEN is electioneer-
ing for the Goyernorship in the Valley. We have
endured PEIRPoNr and q heap Of things, but we
humbly pray that q mercifol Providence will spare
us further affections Of this kind. ~
A person in Oevelaud, who has taken the trouble
TO e6ther statistics on the subject, says that dur
ing the last two years the number Of reople
burned todaath from kerosene lamp explosions
has been nearly 200, and these disasters have de-
stroyed property valued at Sc, 100000.
The Savannah Republican, Of tie I'D, says
eve learn from source entitled to credit that the
body Of man, supposed to have been murdered,
was discovered in Beaufort District, near the Salt
katfatchie River about a week or ten days since.
One arm was severed from the body, and several
gashes were noticed on the body and extremities.
Owing to high winds in the Adristic, Venice has
been inundated to an extent which has never been
equalled within the memory Of any OF the inhabi-
tants. The plaza Of San Mark was so flo oded that
boats and gondolas passed over it, and the whole
of the space had the appearance of vast lake.
Last Saturday firm in Portland, Me-, received
q lot of California -four, forty days from San Fran
cisco. L came in sacks Of fifty and one hundred
pounds each, in capital order, the -four being put
first into cotton sacks, and then these sacks being
placed in gunny bags. Portland papers state that
-four can be obtained quicker from San Francisco
than it from Chicago, railroad facilities from
the West being so very poor.
Mr.. SEWARD, under date Of February IS, sends a
communication to General sA1aAR, the Colombian
Minister at Washington, protesting against the
decree Of MosouERA relative to th6 adjudication OF
prizes in the Colombian Courts, as contrary to the
lava of nations and giYas his Govarnmant notice