The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-14
NEWS SUMMARY.


n complete the entire work, these will form, he
states, separate series.
Mr.. JOIN NEAL, of Portland, Maine, who con-
trbuted TO Blackoood forty years ago, still deYotes
his attention to law practice and literary Pursults
being frequent writer for the Atlantic Moaasty
and at the ripe age Of seyentyfour is as haie ano
hearty as most men of fifty.
The. New York Eoening Post, the New York Com
1eercid Advertiser, and the Cincinnati CONNER:
ciL ali of them Republican papers, agree with
the Herald, the Times, the Tribune, and other
Journals Of the same party, in opposing the I'M
peaohment Of the President.
The United Kingdom has 258 persons to the
= English square mile upon an average Italy, 225
F1Urgncg; 15u;-Pruss1a,, ITS; KHstrfa 155 Spain
81; Turkey 10; United States, II Russia, 9; bus.
sia in Europe. 81; Brazil, 8. The population o.
the eight above named States OF the world eA'
ceeds 27o, ,OOO,0 900.
Major JoaSP. sooTT, of Fauquier, who has written
a narrative Of Colonel MosBTs campaign, has gont
n Nav York to make arrangements for it's publica-
tion. He is said to be an agreeable writer and az
Colonel MosBY had placed all his papers and mem
oranda in his hands l. will, doubtless produce
very readable book.
CHARLES W. SLACK, editor Of the Boston Com
4non.ceaNh, (SUangER's weekly organ},. VINO has
written charming addresses, about Christianity
virtue, ETC., and who always deplores the wicked
ness Of the South, is charged by MIA. P. ROLLINS
in the Boston Post, with having offered him bribe
There are in Austria 726 monasteries and 29s
conyents the first with 50 abbots 6754 priests, 24(
noyices, and 1917 lay brothers.; and tho second
with 5198 nuns. Two hundred and elghty-two o.
these establishments belong to the FRANCISCAN
order 85 to sisters Of charity, 60 to the Piarists
Al to the Dominicans AZ to the Benediotines rs to
the Basilians, and II to the Jesuits
Mr.. JOSEPH CoaB ninety-6ve years old, was one
Of the skaters on the Muskngum River at zanes-
vile on Thursday last. BE borrowed pair OF
.sdumpeys," the wood Of which was cut from the
first apple orchard planted in Ohio, at Marietta,
and struck out first right, then left. After few
turns he challenged juvenile Of seventy to race,
but the banter was declined.
Just now there's are sold in Paris and elsewhere
ama1l packets Of cards purporting to be ''ticket.
tor Heayenn-ssbaess denhee pour ze ciel" They
are published by anthority-to-wit by G. LATAI1LE,
Edile,v Pomtifcale, Rue Garanciere, Paris-and
consist Of sixteen embossed cards, on each Of
which is an engraving depicting the particular
mode Of reaohing Heaven for which that ticket is
good.
The Duke OF Arsustenberg has ceded to Prus-
sia his cl.ime to the Duchies OF Schleswig and
Holstein. The Grand Duke of Oldenburg, the
other claimant, having made the same cesslon
some time ago, Prussia now holds the Duchies by
virtue OF treaty as well of conquest. The claims
OF the Elsctor OF Hesse Cassel and OF the Duke OF
Nassau to their former dominions had previously
been bought off in the same manner.
Prince ALFRED will have some advantage in the
Yacht race around the Isle Of fWigbt, widch he has
agreed to contest with young BENNETT next
August. The voyage will be short one, as the
area Of the island is only one hundred and thirty
six square miles and, moreover, the Prince ls well
acquainted with every point on the coast, and To-
miiar with all the tidal variations and pecuhari-
tiaa. Bennett ought to stipulate that q return
race be run around Staten Island, in New York
harbor.
The following suggestive statistics are taken
from the annual report OF the New York Police De
partment ssNumber Of houses Of i'll repute IN
New York, I'll; number Of inmates, 267O; number
cf concert saloons Of bad reputation, IS; number
of inmates in ditto, 620; drinking saloons in which
female walters are employed, II; female attend
ants. 127." The total shows the whole number Of
women Of known bad character in New York ls be-
tween three and four thousand.
It is expected that in Austria, shortly, military
service will be made compulsory for all with the
exception of such OF the clergy as shall have been
ordained, and only sons who have to support their
parents. Liablty:to service will last nom the age
Of II to S.; the first three years in the landsturm
for home service tho next three years in the regu-
Lar army, then three years on furlough three years
in the first reserve and three years in the second
reserve. From the agssof 50 to IS the men will be-
long to tka ndstu1n or militia.
Going through the Manchester warehouse says
AN English journal; few things are heard Of that
surprise strangers more than the amount Of the
salaries paid in some Of them to the heads Of de-
psrtments-f flO0O, s15O0, f2o00 a year. The spe-
cial talent required is, we may suppose rare. The
amount Of money paid annually to France for de-
signs must be very great. One printer alone
pays from s18OO to $4,000 year to designers in
Paris.
Three persons, the youngest of whom Was 81
years OF age, destroyed themselves in the west OF
England during one week in November. Two OF
these events occurred IN Cornwall, where one
JAxzs -sHAoNR1Ey, 81 years old, hung himself on
the farm premises Of his brother-in-aw, and where
woman named HILL, aged 50, OF Bfdinnick, threw
herself into the River Fowey. Both had for some
time been in desponding condition $50, also, had
widow, in good circumstances, named BAsTm,
aged 60, who hung herself at her farm house near
Rockear, South Devon.
The low figures at which crude oil is now selling
at the wells has induced some of the companies in
the oil regions to stop work. The Ttusville
Herald says The Ocean Oil Company, owners Of
the Stephenson Farm, at Petroleum Centre, on
which there are some twenty or thirty producing
wells, have shut down all their wells and discharg-
ed all their hands, coming to the conclusion that
the oil is worth more under the ground than
above it, at present prices. The Anderson Oh
Company, at Petroleum Centre, have decided to
ahut down unless they can bring their employees
down to q much lower figure on their rates for
labor than is now being paid This company is
one Of the largest in that section, having in the
neighborhood Of twenty wells on the MoCintock
Farm. There are but two producing wells on the
Story Farm at present, and those are small ones.
The able New York correspondent of the London
Spectator describes the social position Of the me-
gro at the North in manner that is not satsfao-
tory to that journal. The editor remarks that
sour New York correspondent, after detailing with
much triumph very adequate proofs Of the aver
sion felt to the negro at the North, tells us that
now, the negro passes out Of this story We
doubt it, so long as the story continues. "a Yan-
kee' believes-say in the Apostles creed and wide
berth to the negro particularly the latter He
evidently thinks that Christ, Il he had seen ne
gro would either have cured him by touch, as
ho did the 1ener md hid him ~ ,,,a -; - -