The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-16
NEWS SUMMARY.

NEWS SUMMARY.
Gold closed in Now York yesterday at 49s.
The Jamaica Committee in London have resolved
to indict Gov. EYRE for murder.
The Liberals besieging Acapulco, in Mexico,
have received o battery of rife1 cannon from San
Francisco, accompanied by twelve veteran Amcri-
can gunners.
Tho cable announces that tho pending questions
between the United States and Messrs. FRASER,
TRENHOLM & Co. have been settled, and the prop
erty in dispute turned over to the latter.
At Bridgeport, Conn.,, the Roman Catholics are
erecting cathedral to seat four thousand persons,
at q cost Of s15O,O0O
Congress Hall, o new and magnificent hotel. in
course Of erection at Saratoga Springs will not be
finished until 1863
proposal has been made to unite under ono
government the city of Boston and the adjoining
town of Roxbury.
Mr.. HIRAM WoopnuFF AYERS that he has horse.
now in training, which will be far superior to Dealer
and which has already mado quarter of mile in
33 seconds.
Returns to the General Land Office show that
during the month Of October q, 2,446 acres Of the
public lands we're sold in the State of Florida for
ACTUAL settlement under the homestead law
The number Of deaths in New York last weel,
was 391, of which 81 were from zymotic diseases.
The number OF deaths in Brooklyn was 1sO, OF
which 20 wero from consumption.
The Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce have
rendered to the city, as gift, tho old Wm PENN
mansion, with certain provisos, which the corpora-
tion have promised to fulfill as noary as possible
Col SHAFFNER, Of kentucky, is in Washington
presenting to the Government the Feasibility of his
plan OF removing the rocks ut Hell Gate by means
OF nitro -glyccrne, which ho has already used with
success at the Hoosac Tunnel.
WM REDN, Esq, ono Of the Oldest and most
eminent members Of tho Washington bar, died at
his residence in Georgetown on Friday last. kIr.
hED1N was born in Cambridgeshire, England, in
1871, and settled in Georgetown in tho year 1s1s
A terrific gale visited Lake Ontario on Sunday,
In which Two sohoonors were totally wrecked and
i've considerably damaged. The schooner Worth
angton went ashore ut Cleveland, Ohio, on Sunday
night, and three men wore drowned while ATTEMPT
ing to rescue tho crew, who were all saved.
The New York HerdLi's Havana correspondence
is dated November 6. The customary reception
Was given to MANzANo, the new Captain General,
on his arrival. His first proclamation evnces q
settled determination to suppress the slave trade.
Tho bark On,oard, recently arrived at San Fran
CISCO, brings news from tho Russian-Amercan
Telegraph Expedition to August %. The mon of
the expedition were housed for tho winter at
Petropaulovsky. Colonel DULK1.EY would probably
arrive in San Francisco next month. Count
ANAsoFF, the Russian Commissioner, had gono to
Nicolaufski
The Freedmen's Bureau is advised by its Deputy
commissioner for Tennessee, that tho relations OF
the whites and freedmen in that State arc salts
factory. That the local Courts are adjudicating
IN oil casos that arise between tho contestants
with impartiality, and that tho negro farm hands
receive thor thirty dollars por month with general
punctuality.
The Morning Star, the third missionary ship
built by tho American Board Of Foreign Missions
sailed from Boston Monday, ON it's first voyage
The interesting event was celebrated by nppro.
pirate religious sorvices, in which Rev. Drs. AN.
DERsoN, BINGHAM, MEARs, and Rev. N. G. CLARE
and Rev. L. r. HOOKER took part This ship was
bnilt by tho contributions Of Sabbath school
children. Her present destination is tho Sandwich
Islands.
Richmond paper says ''We learn that cott or
con be and has successfully been cultivated else
whore than in North Carolina, and what wore for
merly formed par e1ceNence tho Cotton States
Dr. BLAn BURwELL is now picking his crop on
Saio Iurhoy DShuu CruCV, Oh JulloS iIVor, oD0u
fifteen miles below the city. Tho Doctor seeded
three hundred and ten acres and will realize tc
tho acre two hundred and twenty-five pounds oi
fine cotton. This is tho first crop OF this staple
that has been raised on the lower James for the
past thirty years. and IL it bo thus successful
ly raised by young farmor on one of the James
River estates why cannot it be done by older hoadf
who own larger tracts"
WILLIAM DUdaAN, ono of tho Toronto prisoners
was acquitted on Monday last "A number Of Irish
strangers wero noticeable in the court room, and
it is thought thoy ntond assisting in tho forciblt
release Of the condemned prisoners. Senator MI
oHARL MURPHY denies having writton tho letter re
Gently attributed to him, in which he said the
Irish had adhered to thoir enemies by voting the
Democratic ticket. Afidavits have been made in
Buffalo charging Acting Master WILLIAM G.. Nor.
uls, Of the ste ,r Aioh$gan, with being Britisf