The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-01-03

| nah on the 23d, in company with the Leo and Sda
co,rodo,.. All of them put into Port Royal in con-
seonence of bad weather, and all of them arrived
bere safely last Wednesday. The Constitution was
,;+bdravn from the line, and the Nightingale takes
her place. to sail at o'clock to-day. Any hoax is
foolish enough, but one 30 wickedly foolish as this
ought to be severely punished"
The New Orleans Pieayune of the 10th ult says:
aGeneral WADE HAMPTON arrived in this city few
davs ago and proceeded to his plantation on the
coast. We learn that the General brought out a
large number of freedmen from South Carolina
to cultivate his fine plantation on the coast. The
Hon. PoRcuER MILES, formerly q distinguished
member of Congress from Charleston, S. c., is in
our CITY, and we are pleased to learn entertains
the idea of permanently locating here. We arc
gratifed to greet among the new residents of our
city. Colonel E. J. GooDE, late of Monticello, Miss
Colonel GooDE was one of the prominent members
of the late State Convention of Mississippi and
one of the three Commissioners to whom that wise
and dignificd body committed the revision Of the
laws of the State
The st. Louis papers report that the bush
whackers of Cass County are renewing their old
diabolical and murderous practices. On the 26tll
ult, as the train from Kansas City to st. Louis
was leaving Lees Summit station, twenty-five or
thirty shots were fired into two of the cars, con-
tanning about sixty passengers. bullet passed
through gcntlcmans coat sleeve, and number
of the windows were perforated, but fortunately
nobody was hurt Gen. BLUNT and several men,
bers Of his staff were on the train. The shots
were fred from rcvovcrs and were fired in the
dark, the marLsmen standing close to the track.
The conductor put spurs to his iron horse and did
not wait for repetition of the unwclcomc salute.
A Cincinnati merchant, in a letter to the Gazette
of that city. writtcn from "Down the Mississippi,
discountenances the lugubrious representations
of the state of tho cotton business which have
lately ccmc from the South. He says: Passing
down thc Mississippi River, after an absence OF
scyera months, one is struck by the fact that cot
ton is still coming out of the old Conicderacy, and
going to market in large quantities. The receipts
at New Orleans weekly, are from fifteen to twenty
thousand bales, and the amount in Memphis last
week was forty thousand. 1t was thought five OF
six months ago that, with the avenues of COM
mcrce so nearly opened as they then were. sixty
DAYS would suffice to get the great bulk to market;
but now the New Orleans factors estimate that
hardly before the first of March, or even April,
will it all be out. How the statistics will settle
that much mooted question, as to the amount OF
cotton in the Southern States at the close of the
war, have not the data at hand to state: but one
thing appears pretty certain, the cotton famine
will not be so great as so many have anXiously
sought to kavc us believe. The dearth will be
most felt during the summer months, but early in
the fall next years crop of cotton will begin to
pour into market, and am satisfied, from what
have seen and heard in my present trip, that it
will be very much larger than any estimate Ihave
vet seen placed upon it,