The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-01
NEWS SUMMARY.

Highway robbcr;cs and garroting arc occurring
with alarming frequency i'll Boston.
WILLIAM WALES has been appointed Surveyor of
the Port Of Baltimore.
Quarantine vessels from all United States
ports has Ecoa abolished at Havana, provided tho
bills OF health arc cloan.
fire i'll lc"vcnworth, Kansas, on Saturday
evening, destroyed five buildings in tho principal
business portion of tho oity.
Tho New York Times of tho 9th ult, SAYS ::
"JErF and JOSEPH DAVIS plantations havo boen
leased to an association Of colorcd mon."
correspondent OF tho Atlanta IateUigencey,
writing from Athona, ToHn., says: ''East Tcnncs-
spare ono million bushels Of corn for cy-
port
The Lowor House of the North Carolina Lceisla-
ture has referred resolution declaring it to be the
sonse OF that body that tho Constitutional Amend
ment should be ratified.
Tho Indians on the Upper Missouri are said to
bo getting troublesome. Several boats have bocn
hrod into recently, and number of their passea-
gers killed.
Two gentlomon Of Richmond, whose names have
not boon mado public, have offered to defray tho
expenses Of tho Virginia State Agricultural Con-
vention out of their private purses
Thrce thousand mineral specimens have been
collected in California for the Paris Exposition.
The project for sending section of tho big treo of
Calavcras has been nearly abandoned
Tho Nashville Union and american and the
Nashville Dispatch newspapers have beon merged.
and will hereafter bear tho title of the Nashville
Union and Dispatch" and be conducted by tho
proprietors of the two former papers.
Capt ABEL ROBBINS, ono Of the few remaining
first settlers of Kentucky, died at his old home
stead IN Henry County, KY, on Sunday morning
before last, aged oighty-scvon years.
A ClQrlcStoWn (Vo ! panor yo ,urI,o ,,,.......
OF the oldest inhabitant cannot call to mind nm
autumn when tho wheat crop presented finer
appearance than now shown by the crop lately
seeded"
from recent experiments mado by tho London
Pneumatic Company, il appears that one hundred
and twenty tons of goods can be sent through their
eighteen miles Of tubes every hour at cost of
less than one penny wo conts) por mile.
The Virginia Legislature meets on tho first
Monday in December. 1t is probable that it will
reject the Constitutional Amendment. The tenor
OF the Governors message on the subject is un-
known.
Tho great lako tunnel just completed at Chicago
runs two miles out in the lake, and is capable
when Tho onginos and machinery are finished and
in operation, of furnishing two-thirds of million
OF people with fty-sevcn gallons of water each Der
day.
Gen. SHERMAN and Minister CAMPBELL, who nr-
rived Mt Havana OH tho 18th ult on their way to
mexico, were rendered q warm reception by the
Captaln-Gcneral OF Cuba. After socing what is to
be seen in the city, thoy will make short visit to
Matanzas.
1t ls stated i'll financial circles Mt Washington
that tho cause of tho recent monetary excitcment
was owing to n demand of Secretary McCUIIocu
on tho National Banks for the Government funds ON
deposit. Tho Government has, however, now
ceased drawing on these balances.
Tho Wilmington IN. c. Journal Of Thursday
says: "A private dispatch from Raleigh, dated yes
terday afternoon. informs us TINT the Hon. NJ E.
MANLY, Senator from Craven County, and Speaker
OF the present North Carolina Senate has boen
elected United States Senator for six yenrs from
the 4th of next March,"
The report that thero has boon large decrease
IN smuggling on tho Northorn frontier and tho Rio
drande periodically circulated and recently started
afresh, Is untrue. On tho contrary smuggling has
recehtly increased particularly upon tho Northern
frontier, in consequence Of changes in revenue
oniccrs, which hayo afforded unusual facilities for
smugglors to ply ther ncfarous traffic, Of which
they have largely avaed themselves.
The opening OF tho now route to Norfolk from
Philadelphia by the Baltimore and Wilmington
hallroad, and the completion of the grand struc-
ture Which now spans tho Susquehanna River ut
Perryvillc and Iayrc do Grace was tho occasion of
1estal excursion of railroad aud commercial men
from Philadelphia and Baltimore. The bridge is
An immense structure, and will mako the timo
between Now York and Washington shorter by
thirty minutes than heretofore. It's cost is est-
mated ut s1,5oo000, and it has boon in process of
erection for four years.
Inc Now York Tribune, Of Tuesday, says ga
southern Republican Association has been formed
Dy such mon as Governor PEAsE and Judge SuER-
WOOD OF Texas, Judge HrEsrAND Of Louisiana,
1udgo SAFFoLp of Alabama Judge BOND of Mary
iand, N. Q. MERCER OF Tennessee, Governor BonE-
NAN OF West Virginia, General j. w. Mckee Of
kentucky, and tho Hon. J. W. EpMosps. Dis
trict of Columbia. THOMAS j. DunANr, one OF
tho pures mon in tho South, has been chosen its
President rho Association will continue ;ts eos
sion until Congress adjourns, desiring to present
TO that body the Mows Of tho Southern I,oyalists
upon the issues that will arise"
The Rev. j. A. ALLAN preached at Kingston. G.
w., on Sunday, in favor of tho Annexation OF Cam
ada to the United States meeting is called in
Montreal to discuss the same question. Bitter
feeling is exhibited between Catholics and Protes-
tants in Canada East regarding tho recent Fonan
trials. The Catholics denounce tho Conviction of
MCMAHON and the rolease Of LUMsDEN as showing
partiaity to tho Protestants. It is believed that
II the condemned are hung riot will ensuo.
raid from STEPHENS faction Of the brotherhood is
now oxpecEod, No iudnment raspeotino Tho nm