The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-28

send small brilliants, form the crown OF the queen
Of Belgium.
The wealthiest estate in Cincinnati is that OF the
late NICHOLAS LoSawoRTH, which is valued tor
taxation purposes at s12, ,oOO, ,oGO.
During eight months of last year steam engines
to the value Of s., 5,052,925 in gold were exported
from Great Britain to foreign countries.
According to tho annual report Of the Board OF
Trade for 1896 England has q: 2e1, 85s scros OF
farm land under c,lltivation.-or siztJ-cj5nt per
cent. OF her entire territory.
It is said that Mr. NEAL BRYANT, proprietor Of a
New York hotel is the lucky man who drew The
Crosby Opera House. Hc is brother to Dan BR1-
ANT, the Irish comedian
On tho 31st OF December there were 105 SCHOOLS
for freedmen in Tennessee, having 1872 teachers
and 6S1O pupils. The number Of school houses
owned by freedmen was 28.
Tie king of Prussia has decided to send Prince
ADELBERr, lately created an Admiral, to the United
States to study ths modern improvements in naval
;; construction.
The Lebanon rTenn.) Herald states that farm
ere in that vicinity find little difficulty IN hlr1ns
negro labor at s125 and $3.50 for the current year.
The supply is fully equal to the demand.
The Democratic Resident Committee at Wash
inrton will hold a meeting next Wednesday to con-
sider tho expediency of holding National ConSen-
tion. =
The United States Marshal seized all steamers
at the Mobile wharf on Saturday for aleSea Vloia-
ton of the law prohibiting vessels from carrying
cotton without tarpaulins. Subsequently they
were released under heavy bonds on payment OF
fines.
The on, ucky House of Representatives has ln-
structed ITS Committee on the Sinking Fund to
INQUIRE into the expediency Of selling the stocks
owned by the State in internal Improvements,
amounting to ST. $40 475, and applying the proceeds
to the payment Of the State debt.
The report Of j. Ross BROWNE, specia. eommls-
sioner, on the financial resources Of the States
and Territories west of the Rocky Mountains,
gives an estimate of the product for 1866, Of gold
and silver at s1o6 600, 900 from California, Monta-
ns, Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, and other
sections.
The Ohio penitentiary has now nine hundred
and twenty-five convicts, being but seventy-h7e
less than the whole number Of the cells IN the
prison. During the war the number diminished
to Eve hundred and ninety-seYen. At the present
rate Of increase that institution will be full by MD
summer.
The Pennsylvania Legislature voted last week to
have the table on which the Declaration OF lnde-
pendence was signed, and which has been for years
in the State Library at the capital, and the HAN
oocK chair, removed to Independence Hall The
table is an ordinary old-fashioned looking affair
with some half dozen small drawers.
Mrs. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON and SUSAN B.
ANTHONY appeared before the Judiciary Commit
tee at Albany, to advocate womens rights and uni
versal suffrage. Mrs STANTON made lengthy ano
forcib:e speech on the occasion. She claimed the
right Of women and negroes, under existing laws
to voto for delegates to the Constitutional ConYe!l
ion.
The Emigration Commissioners met In New
York on Wednesday, but nothing Of unusual inter
est came up The weekly return Of statistics show
ed the number of emigrants landed last week IN
New York to be 1859, making the total since Janrl-
ary J. 1906. The balance Of the communication fund
is now sac, ,s57 II.
A train Of cars, says the Petersburg, Va, laden
came through on the Virginia and Tennessee air
line on Saturday, carrying six hundred and fifty
bales Of cotton. It went through to Norfolk. We
learn that there are sixteen thousand bales at
Knoxville, which have been receipted for, and orc
now waiting transportation over this line.
Tive Scientific american has made q calculation
that twenty tons, or, by superficial measurement,
forty-eight and half square miles. of postage
stamps nave been used during tho year, enough to
roof large township, with al the houses, church
es gardens, barns, forests and farms, or, il you
choose to make ribbon Of them, enough to roach
nearly from tine equator to either pole or twice the
l:ngth.of tho Mississippi River.
There are in the United States II, ,220 Baptist
churches, valued at ss977, 600; 1888 Methodist
churches, worth sSc,666,0 00u; 50e1 Presbyterian
churches, at $25, ,3oJ, 900; 1884 Congregational
churches, at s1z.O 900; 2250 Catholic churches,
at oOO 2l45 Episcopal churches. at s21 49,
900; 40 Gernlau Reformed churches, at 81 100000;
and 264 Unitarian churches, at 81, ,583, ,0G0.
The quantity Of lumber Of various kinds shipped
from st. John, N. B., last year, was 260, 0,0oo,0o0
feet, against $50, 900 in 1865. Notwithstanding
the abrogaton Of the reciprocity treaty, there was
large increase in the shipments to the United
States also to the West Indies. There were built
during the year 81 ships and barks, and l8 brigs,
Of 8,255 tons. In 1865 the new tonnage amounted
to "a, ,31s tons.
Commissioners WILSON has just received returns
1S,CJV 1SA Pt&ol4S A"@AsAS
posed of during the month of December last at
the Bonneville, Missouri, local Office. The Com
missioner has sent to the register Of the iand Of
fee at Oregon city, Oregon, 10 be delivered to the
parties entitled thereto, ninety-seyen patents for
old settlement claims in that region, covering &c.
O67 acres.
A work has recently been published in Paris, by
NJ. TEroT, Of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
giving an account Of all the treaties Of peace and
commerce, the conventions and other alliances
concluded between all the powers Of the globe,
principally rom the peace of Westphalia to tho
year 1866. It appears from this laborious work,
that in the space Of two hundred years oless
than 7205 treaties Of peace have been signed.
There seems reason to suppose that incomes be-
low one Thousand dollars (instead Of six hundred
dollars, as at presently will be exempted from taxa
ton in the new bill. This is the only piece Of iegis
lation yet proposed in Congress Of any advantage
to our readers, and ne make our acknowledgements
accordingly, without inquiring into the amount OF
credit due that honorable body for the relaxation.
A few days aimee MIR. JOSEPH HUGHES, Jr., an
employee at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad De-
pot found in pile Of lumber in the yard what he
at first supposed to be a little fortune in these
days-s1809. A closer examination proved, how
ever, that the entire amount was made up of coun-
terfeit notes. There we're eighteen one hundred
dollar notes Of National Currency, on banks Of the
cities Of Boston, New York and Cincinnati, and
sixteen fractional currency fifty cent notes.
The Richmond Whig says: sC.tton is begin
ming to be cultivated almost up to our very DOORS
We saw, yesterday wagon losd Of bales, raised
on the farm Of Judge MEnEp1rH, near Old Church,
Hanover. Many planters not far from Richmond
have raised cotton during the past season, and,
with increasing experience, there is no doubt that
they will be satisfactorily successful in tho future
in producing an article which was once called