The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-27
N ews Summary.

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Heavy marine disasters are reported along the
coast.
It is estimated that the coat OF transmitting 6
messages through the Atlantic telegraph cable
will be about $4,000 for twenty words.
General SHERIDAN, at New Orleans, teegraphs
the Secretary of War that bodies of French troops
are still being landed at Vera Cruz.
WIN. B. AsToR, OF New York. this year returns
an income Of 81, ,I54 050, CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
returns $685. 1890, and EDWARD S. JAFFRAY $685.
681.
A Prussian soldiers daily ration consists of
half pound of meat sufficient quantity of vege-
tables and bread coffee, q little brandy and some
segars.
Major General JOHN A. DIX was recently ap-
pointed Minister Resident at the Hague, General
SiokLEs having declined and his name was sent
to the Senate.
mass meeting was held in Augusta on the
evening Of the 25th inst, to appoint delegates to
District Convention, which will choose delegates
to the National Union Convention at Philadelphia.
The Freedmen's Bureau in Princess Aune
county, Va, have decided that negro who stole
gentleman's breeding SOW and kept her until
she had pigs, is entitled to the pigs if he returns
the SOW. .
In reply to the question "What class of people
in the South are the most loyal to the Union?"
General STEEDMAN, instead of praising the negro,
as the questioner expected, answered very lacon-
cally: "The returned rebel sodiers.''
Gov. WORTH, Of North Carolina, on the 23d
inst, issued proclamation relating to the juris-
diction of the Civil Courts in cases where negroes
are concerned, similar to the proclamation issued
not long since by Gov. ORR in this State
The la will md festo ~ tba iata
CAss admitted to probate at Detroit, Michi.
gan, lately. The value of the estate is estimated
at one million dollars. The internal revenue
stamps upon the probats or the will is f5UU
Several persons died. in Baltimore on Tuesday,
from the effects Of heat. Horses gave out in
every direction, and nearly all outdoor labor
ceased before noon. Taken altogether, similar
intensity of heat has not been felt in Baltimore
for many years.
! A New York letter says s'The imports of dry
goods at this port for the week add 81, ,413 1s1,
against s1,396,O the corresponding week last
year, and $62O,414 the same week in 1864. The
dry goods imports for the past fiscal year were
the heaviest ever known"
Vessels now run direct from Europe to Chicago.
The brig Vidar, from Bergan, Norway, which port
she left April 13, arrived at Chicago recently,
having a cargo Of 1900 barrels Of Norwegian fish.
She detained at Montreal three weeks, to get
permit to pass through the st. Lawrence canal.
The National Inteuigencer understands from Mr.
GoBR1aHT, agent at Washington Of the Associated
Press that in case of the success Of the Atlantic
Telegraph enterprise, the expense Of two mes
sages day from London, of twenty words each,
will be two thousand dollars week to the news
papers receiving Associated Press dispatches.
The President, on Monday, pardoned A. E. MAX
80 a. Ga l.
recommendations of Senators Wilson and FOSTER,
JOHN W. FoRNEY and other Radicals. GEORGE
DAVIS of North Carolina, Attorney General Of the
Southern Confedoracy at the time of its collapse,
was pardoned by the President on Tuesday.
It seems that the rotten borough system Of
sending delegates to the so-called Southern Loyal
Convention has been adopted. Not being able to
secure suitable delegates from some of the South
ern States persons residing in the NORTH
t'Northern men with Southern principles" per-
haps-have been selected to fill the seats. The
name of q resident OF the State OF New York is
appended to the call for the Convention as hailng
from North Carolina.
The Lynchburg Republican says "Governor
HOLDEN, so-called, of North Carolina, has return.
ed from his visit to Washington, and in his paper
takes ground against the BoTTs- UNDERWOOD Con.
vention in September, because he wants to avoid
'entangling alliances He says both the Presi
dent and Congress are honest which is pretty
strong sign that HoLDEN is not. His feelings are
all radical, but he wants to keep in with the Pres
dent until he gets to San Salvador"
The Mayor Of Buffalo, New York, who is
Union man, having occasion to be absent from
the city, the Common Council elected Demo
cratic TEMPORARY Mayor, who withdrew all the un
confirmed nominations, and transmitted new onel
Of his own political complexion. They were
promptly confirmed; and the new Mayor also ap
proved several ordinances which had been passed
by the Common Council. This is regarded as
capital joke, as there is no chance to undo th
matter for year.
Duplicate and even triplicate fve-twenty cou
pons, upon which the gold has. bsen paid, ar
coming in OF the Treasury Department in larg
numbers. Whether the Government is to con
I, tinue the payment Of these spurious coupons
until the bonds become due, remains to be seen
as no way to detect the Bpurious from the genu
dine has yet been discovered. Was there ever any
where on the face Ut this habitable globe such OIL