The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-15
NEWS SUMMARY.

Gold closed in New York yesterday at 44s
Tho Baltimore police difficulty has been settled
in favor Of tho new Commissioners appointed by
Gov. SWAMI.
The banker ConcoRAS has returned to Europe
for good. He gave over quarter of million in
charity in this country.
The First Congregational Church of Greenwich,
Conn.,, celebrated its one hundred and fiftieth an
niversary last week.
The Common Council Of Norfolk have appro-
priated $500 to purchase another steam fire
engine.
Pennsylvania negro has recovered three hun
dred dollars In damages from the trustees of Green
township for refusing his vote.
Eght-room houses, in perfect order and in the
incest and most healthy part of London are rented
from $3.50 to $500 per annum.
Savannah landlady recently gave orders to her
agents to reduce the rents of her houses thirty per
cent on the 1st of November.
Tho estimated Republican majority in Missouri,
at the recent election there, is put at between
twenty and twenty-five thousand.
The remains Of General HANSON, formerly of the
Confederate army, were inferred at Lexington, KY,
on Sunday last, after preliminary service. Every
thing passed off quietly.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue is about
to purchase s5,Oo0OO worth of stationery for as
SCISSORS and collectors east of the Rocky Mountains
next year.
1t is stated in Washington that Chile and the
Liberal Government in Mexico will Immediately
form close alliance, the terms of which will not
probably be mado known for some time.
1t ia said that quite number Of the Governors
OF tho Southern States havo addressed letters to
the President, asking for his opinion as to what
the Southern States ought to do and it is said that
ho has the matter under advisement now.
1t ls reported that MIR. JOHN HOPKINS, the rich
@ in proposes t coahttS1 ttS ss
Of Six hundred acres on the Hartford Road
Tho Jackson, Miss, Clarion prints the official
census reports that hnvo been returned from forty
four counties in Mississippi for the year 1866
The figures show that the white population in
these counties havo decreased 67O9 since 1850,
md tho black population 45, ,2O5.
Tho Central Pacific Railroad Of California has
beon completed to Cisco, q distance of ninety-four
miles from Sacramento. At that point the grade
reaches on elevation Of sixty-one hundred feet
aboVe tldo water ut Sacramento. The rails will
probably be laid to Salt Lake City in 1870.
Inc Law Library OF tho late Col. ROBERT RAN
DoIpH Of Fauquier county, has, through the efforts
OF JOHN L. LAWSON, Esq., Of Baltimore, boon re-
stored to tho family Of this distinguished Virginia
cavalry officer.
SANFORD CoNoTER, tho witness charged with per-
jury IN tho plot charging JEFFERSON DAVIS with
r. LlNcoLNs nssas sination, is yet in jail. He de-
carcs that ho is innocent He has been unsuc-
cessfnl IN getting bal, and has been presented by
the grand jury. It is stated also that be has been
indicted for perjury.
From Brownsville, Texas, under date of the 9Th
inst, We learn that Genoral BnrEoh has boon r.
rested at Brazos by ordor Of General SHERIDAN,
VINO offered TO permit OnTEaA TO return to Now
oricans vi if he thought proper to do 80. OnrEaA
nicd protest against his arrest.
iho montgomery Mai says that although Gov
eiior ohI' OF south Carolina, opposes tho Consti-
tu"oHai Amendment, he shares the opinion of Mr.
hlAaAs' Oh IeXas that the Southern States should
''oop' negro suffrage. Governor OnR shares no
Huch opinion. Ho is as decidedly opposed to tho
one rs the other.
~ Is confidently stated that, under tho AUSPICES
oi FRANCE negotiations arc now pending between
hho Fopo and tho Patriarch of Constantnoplo for
1iie union OF the Greek and Catholic Churches.
Inns movement is looked upon with great interest
- S'no oPe' from tho important influence il NAV
tion." H"''otA 4i''-
MI. hAhidNrRE, formerly Secretary of the Mexi-
can Legation under Minister McLANE, has recentlv
to,uluou IRON chihuahua, md donies through the
eo,uhns OF tho Now Orleans Picays,e, that JuAnEz
a' consented 10 part with any portion Of Mexican
.oiisofy IN consideration OF assistance to bo rem
nm ~ tho Unitod statos Cover nmont in re-
es'aDilShing the Mexican Republic.
In THO case of tho schoolmaster at Charlestown.
ailss.' VINO "as charged with assault and ba attcry
ior Whipping Miss JOSEPHINE FosrEn, ono of his
puPi', Miiioh was tried before the Superior Court
~ Eo"'ii' last Week, tho Jury, after two hours
so.slou' returned o verdict Of acquittal. 1t is
nuou '.at on tho first ballot the Jury stood
nino for ecquttal to throo for conviction.
Iho N. y. Times Of Monday says "Tho OK
ANIMATION IN tho case OF Rev. G. T. WILLIAMS Of
rnsln'n' VINO htsnds charged with picking Mrs.
S'AHa " MooaEs pochot, whilo in Fifth ayonue