The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-08-09
N ewS SUMMARY.

baoco were 6e1Hed ON friday lasG Oy the revenue
officer in New York for non-payment of revenue
duty.
Three French ships, the Bayard, the Fontenoy,
and the Napoleon, have beon dispatched from
Oherbourg to Mexico, to bring homo the French
troops in that country.
Two young men, JAMES A. PORTER and JAMES
MANNEY, belonging to families in high social posi-
tion at Nashville, were drowned in the Cumber-
land River on Wednesday.
There is report in st. Louis that s. s. HEAD
LEE, Presiding Elder Of the Methodist Church in
the Springfield tMssouri) District, killed last
Sunday by party OF Radicals, because he insisted
on preaching without taking the oath.
CYRUS W FIELD has chartered a steamer to run
between Newfoundland and Cape Breton, with
messages for tho Atlantic Telegraph, until the
line across tho Gulf be repaired which will be
done this week. This is the DaunRese, to which
our dispatches refer.l
The Jackson (Miss.) Standard says that JOHN
HENDERSON, Jr., one Of the Radical ring-leaders
who melted the recent mob in New Orleans, and
who killed, OF former United
States Senator from Mississippi, and was for some
time maniac Of the State Lunatic Asylum at
Jackson. He ought to have remained in that in
sttution, and the remnants of the Convention of
ga are crazy enough to deserve the same treat
naent.
The city of Boston owes, according to the au-
ditor's report, just published, s12 1sO, ,25O.7O. To
meet this she has a sinking fund, and bonds and
mortgages to the amount of over s., 600, 600, and
real estate valued at s135ls 400 The area of tho
Common and the malls is 49l acres, exclusive of
the cemetery, which contains ono and quarter
acres The public garden contaius 244 acres. The
cost Of the City Hall WAS S505 101. Quincy
Market covers a, ,0l2 feet of land.
The Lebanon, Tenn, Herald, of Saturday, has
the following: "Duri1g recent visit to the low
er end OF the county, we made particular inquiry
as to the state OF the growing crops and found it
to be the universal opinion that corn, cotton and
fruit promised q better yield than VIC have had
for many years. We have heard it estimated that
the cotton crop OF this county will be worth from
quarter to half million dollars, and some few
place it as high as ono million. Our farmers are
all in high spirits.
The Columbia South Carohnian of yesterday
learns "that, upon the warrant of THOMAS p
WALKER, Esq, Coroner, Messrs. WESLEY g. STAR
LING and W. SCOTT PosE have been arrested by
the Sheriff for the killing of the freedman John
Counts, alias Dawkins near this city, last week.
The parties made application yesterday after
noon, by their counsel, SAMUEL W. MELTON and
A. G. BAsKIN, Esq, before Chancellor CARROLL,
and were admitted to bail in the sum of ten thou
sand dollars each.
The New Orleans Crescent Of Friday says that
at conference with Mayor MONROE, Lieutenant
Governor VOORHEES, and Attorney General HER
RON, General BAIRD stated that he was now will
ing to permit the Sheriff to obey the mandates of
the Court, 1. e., allow the members Of the Con-
vention to be arrested upon the presentment OF
the Grand Jury. On the subject Of declaring
martial law, it is understood that Gen. BAIRD has
telegraphed to the Secretary of War that, by re-
sorting to that measure he had saved thousand
lives.
The same number Of the Crescent also has the
following item At half-past seven last evening
discharged United States soldier informed Off
Ger LEpAdE, OF the Third District police, that there
was gathering of about two hundred armed
negroes assembled some two miles below the bar
racks. Lieut.. JACOBS, in command of the police
in the Third District reported to the chief that he
had sent patrol down to ascertain if the state
ment was true. At II O'Clock last night nothing
additional had bsen hoard from Lieut.. JAcuBs in
relation to the matter"
The New Orleans correspondent Of the Memphis
Asdldnehe, writing on the 3Oth, says of the lato
riot: " The citizens and the military have taken
no part. 1t has been confined to the Convention
mob and the police. The four men who revived the
Convention, and have been instrumental in all
this trouble, were Judge HOWELL, Ex-Governor
HAHN, DR.. DosT1R, and R. KING BUTLER. Or
these DosTIB WAS kill d, HAHN was severely cut
in the back, but not mortaIly, and HOWELL and
GUTTER took refuge in chmneys, and camo out
after the fight, as sooty as any Of their naturally
black companions in crime"
ALEXANDER WILLIAMS RANDALL, Mr.. JouNsoN's
new Postmaster General, was born in Montgomery
County, New York, in the yoar 1919, and is there
foro only forty-seven years old. Ho emigrated in
early life, with his parents, to Wisconsin, studied
law, and in 1847 was member Of the Territorial
Convention that framed Constitution for the
State. He was elected Governor of Wisconsin in
1885, and held that Office when the war broke out.
He supported mr. LINcoLN's war policy very ener-
geticaly, and on the expiration OF his term Of
Office, in 1861 or 1862, was sent as Minister to
Rome. He soon resigned and returned to Anne
rioa, and in 1868 was appointed First Assistant
Postmaster-6enerai, an Office which he continued
IN hold until his recent promotion to tho head Of
the PostofEce Department..