The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-12-06
N ews Summary.

head synopsis of the Presidents Message. Judging
from tho dispatch its tone Is all that could bc expected
and tho Radicals have certainly beon disappointed.
Tho steamship Quaker City Capt. WEST, from Now
York December g. arrived at her wharf here Tuesday
evening She brings full freight and passenger list.
We arc under obligations to Purser JAMES p McELRoY
for Now York papers OF Saturday last from which we
make some extracts.
Tho Pinto River still continues, but the Para.
guayan appears to be desperatetho allied forces
being tho march Humuit the great stronghold Of
the Paraguayans.
Professor AoAssIz the distinguished naturalist, and
party had been heard from the frontiers Of Peru
Tho charactar of the Professors discoveries i'll South
America is stated to DO of the highest Importance to SCI
once. Tho source of the River Amazon had been def
nitely traced to Lake Lauricochn IN Bolivia, in north
latitude ton degrees and thirty mincs and west ong
tudc seventy degrees and thirty minutes.
terrible disaster occurred, December 1st, Oh tho
Now Jerocy Central Railroad, about two miles west of
tho White House, in Hantcrdon County. An express
train going collidci with i coal tram bound to
tho direction. The latter hat; been detained by
endcavorng to sop freight which hal broken loose
tho opposite track Tho baggage dashed through
tho first passenger car, ach ha tops Of the seats gull
lotning tho passenger. Of WHOM killed and
seventeen wounded
The System Of issuing army rloAs to destitute peo-
pie, white and black IN the Syuth will bc discontinued
during this month. tirrat sfarins is anticipate in
consequence, and the people Of Richmond propose to
appoint Committee ~ solicit donOtions in the princi
pal Northern cities II is said that order will
be promulgated ranins in service all the rcc,imen's
Bureau officers in the State Of Virginia.
frc of disastrous character occurred in cotton
and tobacco warehouse No. Is Satestreet, New York,
the morning Of the I'd inst in which two thousand
and eight hundred ba,os Of and other property,
to the value Of 100000 destroyed One fireman
was killed, and sevcral injured.
The Washington TntltgzHcsr Of the 10th inst, says
Senator SHERMAN will introduce bill, the opening
Of Congress- for the equalization and reduction of
tioa.
COLONEL w1IhERs Of Mississippi, General PEMBER-
TONS Chief of Artillery, during the siege of vicsburg
has just returned from Boston, where spent several
weeks inducing cpitaats to embark in cotton growing
and other speaulGons in the South. He reports his
efforts suc.easl and satisfactory. and that Boston cap
tasts generally prefer individual investments to
ganizcd stockhoidinS associations
Major General Wool has written communication in
which he maintains that Lieutenant General SCOTT, in
his autobiography, has committed in giving
account Of tho capture from the British by the American
troops of the heights Of Quconston, Canada, the
morning oi October 49, 1872 and of the death that
occasion of the English General BROCK. General SCOTT
gives the credit Of the capture of tho heights princ
pal1y to detachmctS cf the Sixth and Twenty third in
fantry coMpany ef light artillery, and Now York
militia, naming the officers by whom, they were COM
anded and also states that General BROCK received
mortal wound the foot Of the heghs Gen. Wool
that he himself then captain, led the "forlorn hope
which made the important conquest, AMI that it
sisted of two hundred and forty of tho Thirteenth
infantry, company under Captain OGILv1E, and a
small detachment Of artillery. Only three Of the officers
mentioned by General SCOTT he staes took pnr in the
engagement in which Captain (now GeneraD Wool was
himself severely wounded. General Wool also ,ntains
that General BROCK fell the heights and not their
foot, whie endeavorng to rally his for the purpose
Of recapturing the battery.
The northeastery gale OF Wednesday, November %,
very III the waters around Fortress Monroe
Several vessels in Hampton Roads slightly injured
and Is thought that there must have been great dam
age inflicted 70 others along the coast in that vicinity
Since the removal by Government Of the prohibition
Of the ahipcns of ammunition and frearms to the lately
rebelous staos, the transmission OF them thence from
New York has been heavy. From the 2Gth Of Septem.
ber to tho 2a inst there shipped that port for
the South 2ta,b37 pounds Of sporting powder, 70 925
pounds OF blasting POWDER 1.G4l o93 pounds of shot,
2o318ee4 percussion caps, 2244 400 cartridges 1929
guns, ond 562o pistols.
The correspondent of Northern paper says: "At tho
close Of tho there about two hundred thousand
bales OF cotton IN Georgia, Of which per
cont belonged to private individuals the residue to
tho Confederate Government and subjects of foreign
powore. OF this number fifty thousand balcs were
snlpped Nortn and 70 Europe direct, leaving hun
dred and fifty thousand bales unsod and waiting trans
portaon Tho United States Treasury agents have been
nosing out that belonging to the Confederacy but with
very indifferent success The accounts and operations
financially of thu Confederate Government anterior to
the administration Of Mr. MEM,nSGEn were upon such
loose principle that it was hard to tell whether it
owned great deal nothing at oil And here 1t may
bo remarked that Of the prime which led 10
tho downfall OF JErF. DAVIS Government the pecu
laons Of s quartermasters and other parties holding
its funds Az an instance thoro a acting as
IuartnrmasteY In Southern city, for four years He
pointed but when turned out Of oHco by Major enera
WILSON, U. q. A., he worth half a million. And
another is now one Of your chief Wast-eet bulls who
made all his money here in the way These cases
might DO summed up and enumerated indefinitely
They first caused the people to lose confidence in the
currency which was the entering wedge that split up
tho whole concern"
An Official telegram from Nevada says that on the It'll
November Lieut. ORMoR, with sixty California volun-
teers and hoWitzer, attacked large band of Indians
VINO had fortified themselves IN the Black Mountains
ABOUT ono hundred miles northwest of Dungele In the
northery part of the State of Nevada During tho en.
gagenent one volunteer killed and two were wound.
Cd Or tho Indians, ono hundred and twenty were kill.
Sd a fow escaped, and h their horses arms and am
muntion were captured. This was the band which
uree WeShs ago, robbed train, killed the teamstors
and Afterwards obliged thirty armed men, who were
scouting after thenn 70 retire after unsue on