The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-07
N ews Summary.

Q. O. CLAY has left Petersburg for Lynchburg,
where he intends to stop short time. T..
The Masonic Hall in Atlanta, Georgia, WAS de-
stroyed by fire on Tuesday night. Loss s1o0, 900.
Aiken is now the only military post in Barnwell
District. Capt. BRYANT has been assigned to duty
Mt that place. ra t"-, ,.. .-. ,... ,.r5,. v',:
General FRANK BtA1n, It Is said, will be the next
Conservative candidate for the Governor Of Mis-
souri, z.'t' D. .'''.' 'i .i.5i t.o> %
Hon. A II. CLAYTON, of Marsbal, Miss,' sue
eeeds to the bench made vacant by the death of
Judge TRoTTER.
General FrNNEaAN has located at Fernandins,
Floridn, and La devoting himself to developing the
future metropolis OF that State. . 49,.
The, nineteenth annual session Of the American
Medical Association was held In Baltimore. Msy
1st. About two hundred delegates were present.
The Carron (Nevsdal Appeal reports that q
Chinanaan Of that section recently caught trout
Weighing thirty-eight pounds. '''' H' T
The first conviction Tor treason which has ever
taken place in Tennessee has been adjudicated at
Cambridge, Jefferson county. The mans name is
d. @. Williams, Jr. His punishment 10 fixed at
fourteen years in the State Penitentiary. . .s-;
Last Friday afternoon Mrs. ANNIE sEEAaNa,
the wife Of Judge WI. sErARIfa Of Princeton, H.
inois, was found dead In her room at the Briegs
House In Chicago. "A bottle OF chloroforr, held in
such manner that even her stbreath must have
been reighted with its deadly aroma, told pisinIy
enough how she had passed from life to death. .,
JosEpH EAsTEnBBoGK, Jr., Of Camden, Me-, in
sured his life for 5000 some time ago, and after.
wards became dsrangedi and committed suioide by
shootiDg. The insurance company refused to pay
the policy, but the Maine Supreme Court decides
that they must pay the $4,000, and the costs
beside. ~ ~ So ..oG, .!A,E ,a ID .r. :.
Suits were recently begun in the English Admi-
ralty Court, on behalf OF the United States Gov
ernment, to recover possession OF the Confederate
privateerg Sumter and Rappahannock. On April
17sh the Court decreed that tho Sumter should be
given to the United States Government, but no de-
cision had, atthe date of our last advices, been
announced in the case of the Rappahannock.
Hr. J. w. SEAMAN, Of North Hempstead, on
Long Island, 10 the owner OF Q COW which, on the,
9Th Of March last, produced four calves at BIRTH
They were all full grown and regularly formed.
but still born, and were two OF each sex.' Mr.
sEkatAN went to his stable about twelve O'Clock
and found two Of them born. He went again at
three O'Clock and there we're two more. He after
wards kept on the look out to see If there we're
others to come, but none made their appearance
Boston exchange estimates that "A Amer icsn
aea-going craft and 10 foreigners (bound to or
from United States ports) have been reported the
past month either totally lost or missing
They comprise steamers, ships. 10 barks, 10
bFige, % schooners, and sloop. 0f these Is were
wrecked, 8 abandoned, burned, foundsred, 4
run down, cspsized, exploded, and are miss
ing-total 81. The total value Of the above do
mestc craft exclusive Of cargoes) is estimated ut
81, 600, 600 in specie.
The New York Eoening Post gives long list of
remarkable events that took place on the 14th day
Of the month. We only give those connected with
the late war. General GRANT, after q sharp en-
connter, occupied jackson, the capital of Missis-
sippi, on the 14th May, 1868; General BuRNs1DE
captured Newbern, 14th March, 1862: General
BANKS arrived at New Orleans 18th December, the
same year; EwELL captured Winchester 18th
June, 1885, and on the 14th Of the following Octo-
ber the Confederates were repulsed at the battle
OF Bristow. "'' '"'| '''''
serious riot occurred in Memphis on the frat
OF May, between policemen and negro soldiers,
growing out Of an attempt Of the police officers to
arrest white man whom the negroes determined
to protect. Twenty to thirty policemen assem-
bed and kept up fight for about two hours with
about one hundred and fifty negroes. One police
man was killed and three wounded. Eight or ten
negroes were killed and several wounded, The
sixteenth United States Regular Infantry we're
called out to restore ORDER and at ton O'Clock
everything was quiet .nras
1t is announced that meeting Of deleRates OF
various Fenian Circles was held in New York on
Saturday, and Head Centre O'MAnosY was
brought before them and subjected to a rigid er-
animation. committee was then apuoiptad to
take charge Of the Union Square mansion and
oMAHoNY was deprived Of further power, in con.
sequence OF the failure OF the ridiculous expedition
70 Passport The delegates denounced KILL1As,
the commander OF the expedition, in unmeasured
terms; and the committee, as soon as they Cook
possession OF the manson, turned adrift all the
aalaried officers who lived there.
General BEAuREaARD enjoys excellent health. be
is great orer, and often, it is said induIped in
tho art with his staff officers, while at Charieaton
Like oil Whohavo q head On their shouldera 81
hlames the Confederate Government for proas In.
capacity; but it is specially to be remarked tba,
he was scrupulous In withholding his consent n
regard to JoRDAN's censure on Mr.. DAVIS. nubI,sh!
cd 10 the Now York Aagazine. LoaosrREEr Ia an.
gagged 10 Oil exactly opposite species of busipess
to that lately followed by him, being president Of
. company TO insure against the loss OF lilo lao
or arm. Gensral HAYS s sheriff Of the city. and
Dick TAYLOR a;osnai undertaken. ,.,gIT
The editor of the Richmond Examiner has hoe,
in New orleans lately, and says: 'Ths three
chief nowspspers- Tim 8, Picayans, Orescens--are
slnost void OF readable matter, being orammed
with advertisements, which thus yield their pro-
prietors great prohts ut small cost and no trouble
to the writer's. The Times Ia owned by Northern
capitalists, but adapts itself TO the latitude. The