The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-04
NEWS SUMMARY.


Gold closed in New York yesterday at 1874.
Prussia has ordered her officers at Bremen to
arrest Prussian subjects seeking to omigrate to
avoid military service. aG
On the 22d ult., gang Of Cinnamon, working on
the Pacific Railroad, in California, was buried
under snow DRIFT, and FIVE Of them persisted.
The United States Government, it is said, is
treating with Spain for the purchase Of the Island
Of Minorca. a5...
A difficulty occurred in Hampton on the 29th. A
party Of negroes made an attack on store to
avenge one who was shot while attempting to steal
They were dispersed by the military.
A. T. sTEwART is about to retire from active
business. We believe he is not worth more than
$50 900, 600, and should think he would remain in
business until he had amassed competency.
BHEoHER in his sermon last Sunday, entertained
his audience by Illustrations from the recent Ocean
Yacht Race; very complimentary to the winner,
young BENNETT; and it is in old BENNETr's paper
wa IRE informed Of the fact.
There were 12s railroad accidents in the United
States last year, involving loss Of life, killing 6ss
persons and wounding 1856. During the previous
year there 81 such accidents with the loss of
1858 lives, and the wounding Of 265.
A dispatch from Washington, dated Sunday
says BEN. BuTLER is stirring up the Radicals to
the work Of impeachment. He told wen-nown
Boston lawyer to-7ay that he was confident that
the South meant another war, and that the Radi-
Gals should lose no time. HM
editing newspaper is good deal like making
fire. Everybody supposes he can do it a little
better than anybody else We have seen people
doubt their fitness for apple peddling, OF driving,
and counting laths; but in all our experience we
never met with that individual who did not think
he could double the crculaton Of any paper in two
months. # "0uM
In the latest edition Of Carpenters Physiology
it is mentioned that out of three hundred and fifty
nine idiots in England, the condition Of whose
progenitors could be ascertained ninety-nine were
children Of absolute drunkards, and large pro-
portion Of the parents OF the remainder were more
OF less intemperate. or the three hundred and
ffty-nine idiots seventeen the children Of pa
rents nearly related by blood.
The amount Of -four inspected in Baltimore du-
ring the past year was 907, ,926 barrels, Of which
,576 were Howard street, 327, AS barrels City
Mills, 928 761 barrels Ohio and g. 544 Family. Be-
sides the above, there inspec ted IL 1877 barrels
rye -four, and 3,O52 barrels corn meal During
the year 1865 the inspections Of wheat amounted to
e84 GIL barrels, being 76 ,685 than during the
past year.
A Washington special says the Government has
been informed by Sir FREDERICK BRUCE that the
English man-of-war Bolsoar, while at Laauayra
was taken possession of by her crew, and had
cleared for parts unknown. Efforts will be made
to detain her should she visit American waters
This Is important. If q pirate ia adoat, it is well
to know it.
The Eastern question is assuming very serious
aspect. NAPOLEON is said to have proposed to
England, Austria and Italy to form with France q
quadruple alliance, in view Of approaching trouble
in that quarter. italy has addressed firm note
to Turkey on the subject Of the steamship difficult
ty on the Canadian coast. The relations between
Greece and Turkey are very critical, and England
has addressed note OF warning to Greece con-
ceKning an invasion Of Thessaly from the kingdom.
The Deputy Commissioner Of Internal Reven ne
has decided that q marriage certificate, issued by
Inc town clerk in compliance with the statute
Lew, and for public as well as private purposes,
and used not only as marriage license, but also
for town and State records, does not require q
stamp when issued by the clerk but the certificate
Of the clergyman or magistrate who performs the
marriage ceremony should have five cent stamp
About two years ago San Francisco judge SEN
tsnced young man to prison for having fitted out
q rebel privateer. After few months confinement
he was released. A penniless adventurer, he dis
severed quartz mine, which he succeeded in SELL
ing for several Thousand dollars. With tbs money
obtained he bought into another mine, and sold
hia interest Few weeks since for SITS, 600, the
judge who committed him to Jail being one of the
purchasers.
During the past year there were sol fires in the
United States, each involving q loss Of over $780,
600. Total loss by these fires s6e 610 OOO against
948 199 900 for the previous year, when there were
only 1854 Of such fires. There we're eighty-fve
railroad accidents in the United States in the year
just ended, causing the loss Of 115 lives, and the
Wounding OF 6W persons. For the previous year
there were 189 accidents, 1896 persons killed, and
1877 wounded. rl& a@3S
Tha financial condition Of Kentucky, IS il is re-
ported by the papere Of that State, is certainly
very encouraging. The debt is said to be between
9oOoo,0oo and 5000, 900. The state treasury now
holds between $4,000 900 and s5,O0O,0oo. The
Quartermaster General has just been notified that
have been made subject to mis- draft by the
proper natlonal authorities and between 81 900 900
and s2,0 900 additional ID expected within a few
weeks. The assets are therefore enough to Iqui-
date all Of the liabilities and to enable the State to
begin the new year free from debt.
The population Of New York City, which in 1900
was &C, ,O0o, is now about million. The valuation
OF property, real and personal, has risen from
900 in 1906 to s796 0s9 o5s; while the real
value is about 81 600 900 000 or thirtieth part Of
the property Of Great Britain. The banking capi-
tai Of the city is $500 ooo and the trans-
actions at the clearing house for the year ending
October 1st we're 81 800 100000. Its registered and
enrolled shipping 1866 amounted to 12s 264 tons;
and in 1865 there were 12,6s4 arrivals Of vessels,
2,O1s Of which were steamers. The exports that
year were $2os, ,85o, ,25o, and the imports s224,-
z42,41s. T Nm
large amount Of money is said to have been
lost and won on the yacht race between New York
and England The New York Times says seWe
heard yesterday Of ono well-known operator lin
every thing yet discovered) who had been fairly
hsntered into bets amounting in the aggregate to
4soO0, every one Of whichihe wins with the pcssi-
BILE exception Of one Of $4,000 that the trip would
be msde by some one yacht inside Of fourteen
days-this he may possib)" lose by fifteen minutes
He had bet of 5000 that the Teata would, but on
Thursdsy last a friend who desired to hedge q
little, begged, as special favor, that he would
,tfanater It to him. and with his usual good nature
(end his usual good lucky he consented"
The New Orleans Ptcayssne learns, from gen
hanan who left Cordova on the 9Th inst, that only
General PRICE, Of Missouri, and Governor HARn1s,
o. Tennessee, are now left there. They have
erected house, but it is scarcely comfortable,
and their families reside in the nitv Cnv HappYu