The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-10-13
News Summary.


Dry BUTLER Beast has bren nominated for
Congress at Salem, Mass. ~ s=..a
& The Constitutional Amendment was adopted in
the Oregon Legislature by allowing two Republi
cans whose seats were contested, to vote. The con-
tested elections were afterwards decided against
the Republicans, land they were ousted, and two
Democrats took their seats. This gave the Demo-
Gratis the majority, and thereupon resolutions
were passed declaring the adoption Ct the Con-
stitutional Amendment irregular and invalid. 2
The proceedings of the Catholic Council at Bal
tinore are held entirely in Latin and with closed
doors. One or more Of the eminent Bishops
present, however, preach sermon every day.
In the Newark, New Jersey, charter election on
the 9th instant, the Republicans carried eight of
the thirteen wards, receiving majority Of 1159,
loss of two hundred on last years vote.
Two slight shocks Of earthquake were felt at
Oonstantinople on the evening Of the s1st of Au-
gust. Accounts have been received from several
provinces of the empire announcing similar oc-
currences.
Late Intelligence from -oandia, by way of Con.
stantinople states that in an engagement near Me-
leca the Christian revolutionists we're defeated,
and four of the insurgent districts had offered to
again submit to the rule of the Turks.
"A Paris letter in the London Times leaves it to
be inferred that q t'great conyulsion" is al hand
in Europe, and when it does come, Queen ISABEL.
Ia of Spain, .the, last Bourbon sovereign" will be
#deth roned.
Generaiy FRANK BEA1R attempted to address q
meeting at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on Saturday
evening, but was driven, from the stand with
Ho1 10 fho ho(o until
The windows on the side where Gen. BLAIR was
known to be were all broken.
Another city in Maine has suffered severely
from FIRE, the fifth in that State within oyoars.
A fire broke out in Wiscasset on the 9th instant,
and ragged for nine hours, destroying bali the
business portion Of the place, and rendering forty
families houseless. -
Richmond dispatch OF the 10th inst. says
.Six hundred thousand dollars of eight per cent.
preferred stock is TO be issued under an entirely
new organization, which will secure the success of
the National Expgeas and Transportation Com
pany. S n.
Hon. ALEXANDER 81. STEPHENS, as we are in
formed by a gentleman who recently had an inter-
unusually good health. He does not contemplate
some papers, but designs remaining at home du-
ring the Autumn and Winter, and devoting HIM
self to his profession.
The Parish Pat1ie heads an article on ethe sub
jeot of the Canadian struggle with the words ''The
Mediterranean Question:" the writer attaching
much significance to the presence of three Amer
lean war ships off Gambia, and the fact that Eng
lsh war vessels had gone to Palermo. The
Patrie argues that English agents fomented the
late outbreak in Palermo, as England wants to
gain possession of Sicily just as the Americans de-
sire to obtain Crete through the insurrecti on
against the Turks.
The late reform demonstration at Manchester,
England, was monster meeting" affair. Mr..
BRIGHT made q very able speech. He was severe
" personal to Lord DERBY with regard to his po
ltical career, and asserted that if the people OF
Old England were drunken, ignorant, .demoralized,
and unfit to be intrusted with the franchise, as al
legged by the governing class, they had become 30
from tho effects of an aristocratic rule which con-
trolled all the powers of the State for centuries
for the people of the same stock were moral, edu-
Gated, happy and exercising the franchise in New
England, under another. form of government.
dent, under date of the 9th instant, says 1t is
confidently asserted here by gentlemen who are
interested that SANTA ANNA and JuAREz have set
tied their personal difficulties, through the inter-
cession Of mutual friends, and that before long
an expedition, with SANTA ANNA at its head, will
land upon the Mexican coast in time to seize the
French and Austrian military supplies. thus pay
ing the expenses of the expedition. The bargain
is that JuAaEz is to wrest from MACMILLAN the
confiscated church property, and SANTA ANNA is
to recover his own confscated property, which is
said to be of almost fabulous value
The elections that occurred on the 9th instant,
in the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and
Iowa, passed off very quietly. Stormy weather
prevailed in some of the States, but appears not
to have affected the result to any appreciable de-
gree. The Republicans seem to have carried the
four States BY easy victories over their opponents,
and claim Increased majorities in Ohio and Iowa,
while they hold their own in Pennsylvania and In
diana. Pennsylvania is carried by about twenty
thousand majority, Ohio by about forty.five thou
sand, Indiana by twenty or twenty-five thousand \
and Iowa by twenty-five or thirty thousand in
favor of the socalled Radical party The contest
for members of Congress, concerning which the
greatest excitement was felt and which forms the
most important feature of the election, has re-
suited in decided victory for the Republicans,
who have suffered few, if any, losses in any of the