The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-21

MAN, Secretaries SEWARD STANTON, WELLEs, an
Other members, which announcement produce
immense cheering. There was great ent4usia6m
Latte NEWS. I
News from New Orleans.
Ms M5w qh1EAAsl ga May le,-ssnator Gwyn has ar
conditions. Ho refused to take the oath or tt
leave % the country. He i5 visiting his friends to-
crossing, There is q great crowd and much ex
Wilmer, OF Virginia, is the favori.e candidate
Ior Bishop to-day. The steamer Circes, from
Havana, 12th, is at quarantine.
Late dates from Cuba say that Gen. Dulce has
ss1e M N the Isle OF Pines and was preparing
left Spain. Tho fiscal budget for tho years 1866
AMI 1866 exceeds for duties alone thirteen mil
ToomSs left Havap FOR on the
lQth. The sugar crop for this year is estimated
at half 2 million boxes. Freights were dull. The
A stock OF sugar in Havana is heavy, The Episco-
pal Convention at this city (New Orleans) has or
gsnzted: Tho port arstine ablishment has
The Mechanics and Agricultural Fair. for the
mississippi Valley opens November 20. Exhibit
nt ORB are solicited , from the whole country large
are to be handsomely adorned. .,
Louisianians propose to bring back ex-doyetnor
Aliens remains from Mexico.
News from Mexico, Honduras, &c.
new 0HiFaaSsss May17.-The gslipFFeesss Gat,etta
LEFT Mexico for Guernayaca on the Let inst.
has bsea plan for dEdnp the Valley Of Mexico
Inc lmPeriaiists have reoccupied the Pacific
coast and an Ii tho Empire" id unusually quiet.
been received. The Colony was healthy and pros
porous. Draining and agricultural improvements
on large scale we're progressing.E =
brownsville adyicea. state that Escobedo with
<2,ooO pen, was in the neshborhood of China, pre-.
e SParius for an adVanes on;hontexey.
- 80 Health. or Jefferson DnvIG
NEw YORK, May ia letter from Fortress
Monroe to the New York Herald says there is no
doubt of the fact that the health Of Jefferson
Davis is rapidly falling, and adds -......,.
Slowly, but surely, he has been breaking down.
He cannot walk but q short distance now without
quite senaiby'faibd. His breterhaturally pale and
emaeiated appearance, and. slow, totlering walk
narsS shGT SSsfs gTea hot hot
note these growing changes, and have serious
apprehonsions that ho m " die prisoner in their
hands From oil can learn, Secretary, McCulloch
went away impressed with the same idea. ''.
Condemnation Of the -throe
Federal Sofdiers DIui de red. .t..
SAN FnANcrsco; Nay .14--A letter from Charles
Hamilton, dated Willlams' Fork, Arizona, April 80
seems to confirm the massacre at Fort Goodwin
He states that the, massacre occurred ten days
previous and that OF two companies of regulars,
Third battalion, Fourteenth regiment, consisting
OF one hundred men, only seven escaped Tho
remainder were murdered and scaped. The
Apachcs reaped rich harvest, carrying on arms
ammunition, commissary stores. &c. A number
.: OF eupposed friendly Indians were admitted into
+ the fort, and surprised the garrison.
tribe called the Huolapes, had murdered one
man, and committed other outrages, in the vicini-
ty of Williams Rorh
Lieutenant Cervantee, Company A, with twenty
six men, attacked tho ApucEes, forty miles east nf
Camp Lincoln, about March "a, killing twenty
two, woundipg avo, and capturing two. The
no
largo ranches.
Conflicting Reports-The Story OF the Mns =
-sacre Denied. -
SAN Francisco, May 16.-Dispatches received at
the military 6eadquarterss, from General Mason,
at Fort Goodwinis without foundation.
Advices received at the military headquarters
from & from Arizona. % ,sats that the 5seent murder of
party Of whites MSrevengs for d tnurder COM 60 =
mitted by vagra1t Indians, fsIhe caie OF the taxi
Rs Ct Husspi .rl against
,,sa.,. ANOTHER, REpoRT.
ties have infoEhitfon nom qsheraI Macon, dated
Fort Goodwin. letter, with a late date from
Yuma, disoredits the report. II is now said here
that the Fourteenth regiment could not have
reached Fort Gibson before April 49,.
For orEnrope-Heavy Shipment or Specie.
NEw YoRK, May ,16-The steamer Scotia sailed
The @ steamer kangaroo also sailed to-day, taking
out 2S76,00O In specie. .,.a -...,r
Late Markets.'
NEW YonK, May le.-Flour declined 10 to 100; dodth:
srD. go 90 to lS 1s whsa. dsened to So; corn,
Cotton rm sales 1900 bales at &C., sugar and naval
stores quiet Gold, 1870. -
arm; white CSC; yellow, ssc. Oats advancing; sales a
ss to o4o. Provisions stoAdy. oofoe duh; demand
CHICAGO. Nay l7-Flour dnll and declined 16oaa5c: