The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-08-23


York OH Saturday, T. NJ, August 81, arrived Mt this
port last evening, bringing three days la ter news
We are indebted to purscr GArLIAmD for files of
New York papers, from which we make the follow
ing interesting summary ofnews:
New YonK, august 10.
THE CABLE
In dispatch from st. Johns, Newfoundland
We furnished with further very interesting de-
tails descriptive of the parting of the Atlantic tele-
graph cable, and the subsequent efforts to- recover
it. The breaking occurred about half-past twelve
O'Clock III the afternoon of the I'd instant, at
point where the water was three thousand nine
hundred yards deep, after over twelve hundred
miles of the cable had been paid out in consc-
qience of its becoming injured by chatting on the
stern of the ship while rcliaung portion of it on
board the Great Eastern to remove another
defect in the insulation which had been dis
covered. After losing it it was grapplcd three
times, being one of the occasions brought
to within twelve hundred yards of tho waters sur
face; but the weight was too much for the Crap
pling rope, which each time broke and dropped the
cable. The last attempt to raise it was made Oh
the 1lth instant, when, not meeting with success,
buoy was placed ovcs the SPOT where it was lost,
and the Great Eastern sailed for England, and her
consorts, the Terrible and Galatea, for st. Johns
where the latter vessels arrived on last Tuesday
evening" as heretofore announced.
The Mississippi Convention, now in session at
jackson, has passed to first reading ordinances
ratifying all State laws passed during the war; all
Judicial proceedings, marriages, sales and con-
! tracts OF the same period, and prohibiting the
passage Ey tho Legislature of any law imposing
civil disabilities punishment forfeiture of estate
for having taken part III tLe rebellion. Memorials
were presented requesting of President Johnson
that the State shall not be garrisoned by negro
troops and that steps be taken in behalf of jeff
Davis and Ex-Governor Clark The Constitutional
Committee has reported in favor Of prohibiting
slavery.
, No new developments of Importance in the al
legged KctclIm gold cheek forgery case were made
yesterday, ard the excitement regarding the mat
| ter i'll financial circles has considerably abatcd.
No traces Of Edward D. Kctcum have yet been
discovered It is considered almost certain that
he has not gone to Europe and there is a strong
belief that he is still in the city vicinity. re-
ward OF five thousand dollars has been offered for
! his arrest hy the Importers and Traders Nation
al Bank. Tlic losses OF the firm OF Ectchum, Son
Il Co., Of which lie WAS member, are estimated
at two millions Of dollars. and those Of Graham &
Co. at million AID alf. The former firm yes
| terday made an assignment. Attachments have
been granted by Judge Sutherland, of the S,l-
premc Court, or Tie application Of ti!c- creditors
against the property of Mr.. Morris Krtchum and
! Mr.. Edward B. Ectchurl, ard about haE mi:v:l
dollars worth OF it has bcc! seized by the Sheriff
| severe earthquake shock, which shook build
inSs and prostratcd cliimneys and various other
objects, visited the portions OF Tennessee an Ms
sissipp lying along the Mississippi River on Thurs
| day of this week. 1t was very scnsibly felt III
Memphis.
OEr sovcrnmra. has received official infoima-
tion that the cholera has made its appearance on
the coast of Spain.
! Extensive fires occurred yesterday morning in
Philadelphia AMI Waterbury, Connecticut. In the
former place about sixty thousand dollars worth
of property, on Th;rd-strcot, above Poplar, was
destroyed. In the latter the button factory of
lIallhy, Morton * Co, valuel ut eighty thousand
dollars, entirely consumed,
The stock market was steady Yesterday. Gold
firm, and closed in the street at 1l3sG5143i.
The closing price at night was ll3!.
| Business matters We're nominally quiet yestcr-
| day i'll some cases, but active in others. Foreign
goods were quiet as general thing, but domestic
produce changed hands pretty freely and generally
at full priccs under the influence of the higher
price of gold Cotton, groceries, petroleum, &C.,
were steady. On Change flour and grain were
active and higher, but provisions were dull and
heavy.
Special teleSraplic dispatches from Washington
| to the Herald, dated 18th, state
| CABINET MEETING.
The usual Cabinet meeting was held to-day and
very few visitors were therefore admitted. Sena-
tors Doohttle and Foster were among the favored.
INTERVAL Il:rrHur DECISION.
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue has to-
! day decided that ''all persons travelling about the
country as the agents Of manufacturers or dealers,
seeking orders for goods in original or unbroicn
packages, are regarded as commercial brokers
within the meaning Of the law anu rs such must
procure license. Those acting as the agent OF one
person Or firm exclusively are also liable as abov
Licenses to this class should be made out 80 as to
show the place of business of the license, if he
have one but if not, his residence should be stated
Licenses thus filed out should be recognized bv
revenue officers i'll oil parts of the country"
.'' TIE TRIAL. OF wIRz.
The military commission before which Wirz is to
be tried has been increasedby the addition Of Ma
jor-General Lew. Wallace, Major General Geary
| Major-General Mott, and AIajor-Generai Lorenzo
Thomas. The court is announced to meet to-mor-
row for reorganization. 1t il also asserted that
Wirz will be tried totally different specifications
than those recently published.
In contradiction to the above, an opinion has
been confidently expressed to-day, by partics COM
petent to judge, that the Government will not I'M