The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-26
NEWS SUMMARY.

14ad. for Middling Uplands.
RIsroRI is creating great fttrore at Baltimore.
Several persons havo bocn arrested latoly in
Paris for singing seditious songs.
Tho yellow ioyor, ut last accounts Wns raging
badly ut Bathurst, Scmcgambia
Two young officers Of the household Of tho Prince
Of Higo, potontato of tho Japanese Empire, arc
Bojourning i'll New York.
company of young men has been organized in
Indiana for tho purpose Of joining the Liberals in
Mexico.
The postal service in the eleven seccded States,
which before tho war mover paid expenses, has
Noted over 100000 profit during the past year.
The Rctrcnchmcnt Comnittco now sitting in
Washington, havo discovered facts duplicating
high and responsible parties under the govern
ment in the cotton frauls.
The ship Mercury arrived at Now York on We'd
nesdny with cholora on board thirty three deaths
having occurred OIL the voyage. She was dotai4 ed
at tho Lower Quarantine
Ex-Governor WINSTON, Of Alabama, has been
elected to the position Of United States Senator
from that State for tho long term, commencing
next March.
slight fall Of snow occurred in New York on
Thursday, and also in Philadelphia, Poughkcepse
Buffalo, and Mt other points. Tho weather was
clear and bracing.
The story Of tho attempted escape Of MACMILLAN
from Mexico, and his detention by Marshal BAzANE,
is now generally known to have been n cnnard
General LOGAN, in q special dispatch to tho New
York Euenin3 Post. donies that he is in favor of
impeaching tho President.
OLBERs. the astronomer, contends that tho me-
teorio showers in cycles Of thirty-four years.
There was one in 1893, repeated in 1888, and will
reappear in 1867
The aggregate amount OF money appropriated by
Congress-, at its late session, for various publio
purposes, is $155 ss1, ,7S1 1G. Tho largest item is
the army appropriaton-s39 O04, al 83.
The Havana correspondent of tho New York
Times writes ON tho 17th instant "Genoral Ma
GRINDER camo as passenger in tho French mail
steamer from Vera Cruz yesterday"
It is rumOred in conservative circles in Now Or
leans that Governor WELLS will bo impeached on
tho assembling of the Louis Legi stature ON
the charge of attempting to subvert the State Gov
ornment.
1t is reported that prominent Radicals held
CAUCUS in Philadelphia on the Goth, when articles
of impeachment against the President were drawn
up, and will be submitted to q Republican caucus
Of the members of Congress- soon after the reas-
sembling in Washington.
Dispatches received at Montreal from England
by tho Governor General state that the possibility
Of trouble with tho United States renders an in
creas. ofvglance Indispensable on the part Of The
Canadian authorities.
Admiral SEMMEs, Of the late Confederate Navy,
has accepted the Chair of Professor of Moral Phi
losophy and English Literature in tho Louisiana
State Seminary at Alexandria. Gen. FrrzHUaH LEE
has reached New Orleans, en- route for Texas, for
tho benefit Of his health.
Judge DunKLh, Of the United States Court of
&c
ence to the duties and jurisdiction of the Commits
Honers Of tho Freelmon's Bureau. General MOWER,
it is said will rgidy enforce all the provisions of
the law.
YoUNa, the Rio Grande bandit, wns chief of
SHERrDAN's scouts in the Valley, and was the man
who captured tho dashinS HARRY GILMonE and
conveyed him to Fort Warren. Ho was the leader
Of the late ba I'D that hal boom pillaging the
ranoheros and that were pursued by United States
troops.
man in Lowisburg Preb1e county, Ohio, having
died OF de,i,iaH1 Geaeas, his wife brought suit for
damages against two men Of whom he had boon
accustomed to buy liquor. The County Court
awarded her 500 from ono of the mon, and $500
from tho other.
Tho steamer Savannah, Of New York, formerly
ablockade runner, has been purchased by the
Spanish Government for tho sum Of $4,000 in
currency, and will Immediately be turned into a
gunboat to look aftor ChiIian privateers and BUS
pected slnvers.
The Baltimore Gazette pronounces the highly
embelshed account Of MIR. DAVIS prison life
published in the Now York Herald, from time tc
time, as 30 many hctions. The truth is, he is only
allowed the rations Of private soldier, and suct
little luxuries as can be purchased for $18 month
which addition was granted on the recommendation
eft % surgeon, on account OF the bud health Of MIR
DAVIS.
Convention Of Life Insurance Companies wal
held in Now York on the 21st inst. twenty-five
companies were represented. The object Of tn
meeting was to obtain uniformity OF laws rogu
hstng life insurance, either by National or Stat
legislation. twas resolved to form an Association
OF Life Insurance Companies, to bo called tn
Chamber Of Life Insurance Of the United States.
The aReu Yook Sun, Of the 22d, says: "It i
stated that another shipment Of about eight
girls is to be made to New Orleans in next Satul
days steamer. 1t will be remembered that the lat
tl-fated EOsnin9 &ar contained number OF tn
nnforsunstss for the Same Market but whose ca
reer Was suddenly terminated by the sinking
fhe steamer. The person concerned in the pref
ent shpment ia 0 notorious proouress, well know
m Creaby etreot, who figured quite largely at Sari
toga lat summer"
a large annexation meeting wes held in Kinl
ston, g. ", On Wednesday night, in which anne
elton to the United States, on the terms propose
b7 the last Congress, WIS recommended, and til
provincial cabinet vno eeverely handled for lea
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