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

a.
The steamship Quaker City. Captain WEST, ar
rived here from New York at an early hour ycster-
dav morning. having left on Saturday afternoon.
She brings good freight and passenger list
We arc indebted to Purscr McELnoY for valuable
favors.
KErcHUM, the gold defaulter, has been senten-
ced to four years and six months in the Penltcn-
tiary.
The Hudson river is open, but full of ice, at
Poughkeepsie 1t is the latest navigation in that
vicinity for several years.
CAPTAIN SEMMEs has arrived at Washington, un-
der the custody of Lieut.. FRENCH of the Marine
Corps. and is prisoner at the Navy-Yard.
Colonel JAMES DUNCAN GRAHAN, OF tho United
States Engineers, died very suddenly on Thurs
day. the 2Sth of December, ut Boston, Mass.
Colonel GRAHAM was brother-in-law Of Major
General MEADE.
letter from Guadalupe, dated November %,
states that the cholera had broken out there, and
was committing great ravages at Basso 1erre'
town of six thousand inhabitants. Ono hundred
and seven fatal cases occurred on the 22d.
The question of negro suffrage was voted
upon by the people of Georgetown, D. c., on
Thursday, the 2Sth December, with much the
same result as ct Washington. OF over seven
hundred votes cast only one was deposited i'll
favor of granting the franchise.
There is an ice flood in the west branch of the
Susauehanna, causing great damage. 1t IS cstl'
mated that from sixty to seventy million feet OF
saw logs valued at million dollars, have passed
there in the last twenty-four hours. 1t IS the
heaviest loss ever sustained by the lumbermen OF
that section.
The trial of GEE for the maltreatment of Union
prisoners, which was begun at Raleigh, has Dcon
removed to Salisbury, n. c. A. D. RICHARDSON
and s. II. BROWNE, correspondents OF the New
York Tribune, and W. E. DAVIS, correspondent OF
the Cincinnati Gazette who we're twenty months
in prisons in the South, have been summoned by
. the Government as witnesses for the prosecu-
ton.
On Christmas day al ARRAY occurred between
some negro soldiers and white citizens at Clarks-
vile. Tenn. The row is said to have originatedn IN
some way with an attempted arrest of colored
soldier by policeman. No one was killed, but
two or three we're seriously wounded. Major
Bosp. Agent of the Freedmen, was quickly on
hand at the scene of action, and soon restored
quiet.
An address has been issued by the Freedmen's
EQUAL Rights League of North Carolina, in which
they disavow ny secrcsy Of organization, designs
or proceedings and state that their principal OBJ
iect is to endeavor to secure, by political ana
moral means, the repeal of all laws that make dis
ordinations on account of color. They pledge
themselves to maintain good order, and place
their services at the disposal of Government, de-
mandng in return legal protection for their 'pro-
pertv, schools, presses and churches"
The Washington correspondent OF the Fhiadel-
phia Ledcer under date Of December q, writes
ssTbe chances arc more than even that the JOINT
Committee ou Reconstruction will make no report
at all. There have been good many changes
among the members who at first favored the ap-
pointmcat Of the committee, and, should report
thercfrom against the admission OF the Southern
members ever see the light it would receive
cross fire that would be certain to kill 1t. The
probabilities are, that tho committee Will smother
their indignation. rather than run the hazard OF
rejection of their report
Cautain A. L. GrsaIAN, Of the Confederate army,
and some wears ago studcn. of the University at
columbia. writes to his father at Ration Rouge
fsavs the Statesman, that he has been released
from Fort Delaware Oil condition that he leave the
TTniicd States within fifteen days from the date OF
bis rcloasc. Captain GusMAS WAS Tor long time
nrisoner Oh yolnSon's Island, and was ono OF the
two who persisted ill elusns to renew Their ale
,;onco to thc United States Government after the
e,o.n of t1c war The order for his release WAS
issned on tn. 18th ult., and Captain u. lett i"i
yoro Crrz. Pc commanded the Creole Guards OF
Rotop Pou.e. and fought under Stoncwall JACK
CO... and his successor until captured.
Secretary ST., IRE, with his daughter Hiss rAN-
~ srw,rn and his on FREDERICK and his wie'
,rsf Washington. Dec embcr Goth, III steamer l"f
thc West Iud:cs. lie goes first to santa Cr"H'
and will hc absent thle or four weeks. Ills OBJ
icct is mui,;.y relaxation and the more comp'c''
rcstors ton os his health. Mr.. HUNTER VIII oc
acting Secretary ,iurirg his absence. AS usual
rnmor has this af,nruoon attributed ali sorts Oh
objects tu ti;c lr..', cycn to the landing oil tac
honorable Secretary lpon Mexican soil, in search
of JuAgEz au;l his Government, but it positiEc;
has no other beet ,l,:n tic one stated
The New ior!. .Jnps, of the 30th December,
says ga ,.;micl. rom Raleigh, n. c., very brief
l., announces, the ip.s at sea OF tie steamship
Too.tJ,f;c, from Savannah for Ncw.iork II IL
soid that - i.c passengers (abous forty) were
Lost and IN, -u.rtrem crthe crew saved. Tho re-
nort i sal have come from responsible
sourcc. r + so, the responsible has rather
,r.r,1c,r l. Tie iai,stitntion sailed from Sfvail