The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-05
NEWS SUMMARY.


NEWS SUMMARY.
The British Parliament will meet on the 9Th Of
February. 1t is said Queen VERONA will open it
in person.
It will be seen from our telegraphic dispatches
that the Congressional Committee appointed to
investigate the charges against the Anderson
prisoners, Messrs. KEYS, SHOWERS and BYREM, have
closed their labors. They arc satisfied with tho
action taken by the Court, and have completely
exonerated the President, STANTON assuming the
entire responsibility Of discharging the alleged
nurderers. #.@
The totsl debt Of North Carolina, up to the 1st
Of October including interest amounts to thirteen
million dollars.
A Sire broke out Christmas Eve at Warrensburg
Maine, which destroyed property to the amount Of
two hundred thousand dollars.
The Columbia Phanir, Of yesterday, says:
"One thousand freedmen haye passed through
this city during the past week, on their way to
Florida or the West"
There forty firms in the lumber trade in
Chicago, Illinois, employing 1000 hands, making
up al oo0 900 feet per month into DOORS surfacing,
flooring, siding, blinds and boxes.
Tho following is the specie shipnoen* for Europe
from New YORK on saturday 81 Laurent takes out
$3.50 600; Deutschland takes out s195, 900, and the
Citu of Boston takes ont none.
Bishop POTTER has been made the recipient Of
an elegant residence by his friends. In the mean
time, the subject of new diocese in Brooklyn
and second in Albany is actively discussed.
The track Of the railroad between Jackson, Miss,
and Clinton, is in course Of repair by chain gangs
from the State Penitentiary, under the supervision
OF one Of the lessees. They arc returned to their
coils ut night.
0r.~ 13>:1 ~ SO,
bale on cotton from Macon to Savannah, and has
lately had monthly iucome Of s225,0oo, and is
paying semi-annua dividend Of ive per cent.
The Charlotte Railroad charges IS per bale on
cotton from Charlotte to Columbia, Ito miles.
The Greenville Railroad gets $3.50 from Greenvine
to Columbia, 15G miles.
On the mail route between Santa Fe and FL Paso
they have new method Of disposng Of the news
paper mal-when wood is scarce, the mail riders
frequently kindle fire with il for cooking pur-
poses.
The present migration Of blackbirds to the
Flowery Land is unprecedented in this country.
History has had nothing like it since the great
migration Of the Northern tribes in the middle
ages.
A singular innovation was made at a funeral in
Paris the other day. Instead Of laudatory dis
course in honor Of the individual inferred one OF
<AA~A~AS
In his praise.
WuL1AM B. AsToR, JOHN JACOB Aston and W.
W. AsroR, and great many more rich men, are in
Washington. They are said to be frightened at
the extremes into which the Radicals threaten to
plunge the country. So are New England ship
pers and capitalists.
The Shanghai Chamber of Commerce advocates
the construction of railroad to connect the i'm
portant cities of Soochow and Hangohow. This
road is regarded as the first link in railway eys-
tenn to be introduced throughout the Empire.
The aggregate receipts of theatres and other
pisces Of smusement, not including concerts or
beer-gardens, in New York, on Christmas, was
twenty -four Thousand dollars. According to actual
count, sixteen thousand persons visited the Muse
um on that day.
The Washington Republican says: ssThe mill
between SAM CoILYER, Of Baltimore, and JOHN
Mnf:- 5azyfazd, on the 18th i6asc Dear Havre de
result among the ssfancy" is lively, the odds, at
least in Washington, being in favor Of COLLIER,
the Baltimorean.
The Petersburg hader, OF recent date, says:
seMr. MAcIRsEr, formerly member Of he North
Carolina Legislature, and Mr.. JOSEPH BAXTER, both
OF Currituck County, were arrested near the Court
House in that County, on Christmas day, by the
Federal authorities for being engaged in the cap
ture and robbery of a vessel during the late war
when they we're not employed in the Confederate
army
lunatic, from Knightstown Ind, on Christ
maz, went into Indianapolis establishment, pur-
chased small bill of goods. and drew check
foa 500, 600, which he rendered in payment, with
modest request that they would pay him the
balance in cash. He signed his name to the
check, 20. Q. Thorpe, Cashier and when asked
what bank he was cashier Of, he replied, call Of
'em."
The Fernandna (Fls.) Courier says ssWe learn,
from persons living in the interior, that tie tide of
emigration to this State just now is unprecedented
in her history. A gentleman informed us, few
days since, that he occupied twenty-seven wagons
in one company, containing emigrants and their
household gods, all bound for Marion County. The
most OF these families are from South Carolina"
On Sunday evening an intense excitement was
created at st. Peters Roman Catholic Church,
Philadelphia. One Of the candles upon thu altar
wao tipped over, and the fame coming in contact
with some drapery, set it on fire. panic ensued
among the congregation, but the coolness of some
Of the members allayed the fear OF those who were
making from the building, and thus prevented any
accidents. The burning drapery was speedily e1-
Hnguished.
The proprietor Of mammoth distillery at Pitts
burg has just made return for the closing year
nom winch 1T appears that the amount of whiskey
shipped by him, in bond, amounts to 261,079 gal
Ions. The United States revenue tax on this at 50
per gallon, amounts to s524, ,15s, and city tax
amounts to s16o,765, making total, in the way of
taxes Of $e8z92s It is probable that these figures
can be exceeded by very few persons in the United
States.
We learn from private letter from friend
(says the Wilmington Dzspatch), that negroes in
Edgecombe County refuse, in many instances, to
work for SIS per month and raHons, under q
manager, being desjrous of farming on shares,
where they can do go WITHOUT manager ooer uaen
And on the other hand they prefer to work for
wages without manager than upon shares under
one. The Nash farmers are Offering s12 per month,
without success, and it is thought many Of these
laborers will drift into Edgecombe.
The Developments arrived at respecting the salt
mines Of Nevada are almost startling in amount.
single bed there Is computed to cover Afty-two
thousand acres. It is solid rock salt, ninety-fve
Per cent. fine. 1t now yields at the rate Of two