The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-08-03
LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE STATE
News SUMMARY.

General DIX has declined the mission to the
Hague.
It is said that the action of Congress in cutting
off the salary Of Minister HARVEY, at Portugal is
go adrotly fixed that the Secretary Of State can't
even pay him out OF the secret service fund.
regular pickpocket affair.
1t is said that CHARLES A. DANA is about to be.
come the editor of new Radical daily in New
York. Having killed the Chicago Republican, he
now seeks to repeat the murder in New York. In
satiate DANA, will not one suffice?
The ,Indianols Times gives an account Of the
"terrifc storm" which visited that place on the
18th: "On Sunday morning, the 18th ult, our city
WAS visited by gale OF greater violence and OF
longer continuance than has ever been witnessed,
probably, since the settle nent of Texas" ."'
The safe of tho United States Revenue Collector
NoRvELL, at Nashville, was robbed on the night
of the Esd, of $4,000 in currency and Government
funds, three checks on banks amounting to $780,
and private box containing s115o. Several gold
watches were overlooked by the robber. "A re.
ward OF 5000 is offered for his apprehension.
Aman by the name Of LYNCH, who robbed the
Southern Express Company at Memphis some
months ago, and escaped, was recently arrested
near st. Louis by the Company's detectives, who
had been on his track for months. The prisoner
was taken back to Memphis; tried, convicted, and
sentenced to nine years hard labor in the peni-
tentiary. >'1 . '.-a 'a1" ,H''-
The Secretary of War reports the number of
prisoners held and died on both sides during the
war as follows s'Number of Union prisoners
South, twenty-six thousand nine, hundred and
forty number of rebel prisoners North, two hun
dred thousand number of Union prisoners died,
twenty-five thousand FIVE hundred and twenty
six number of rebel prisoners died, twenty-six
thousand four hundred and thrty-six."
The Governor General OF Cuba has published
an official contradiction Of the reported insurrec-
tion ct Puerto Principe. He says the rumor grew
out of q collision between small party Of the
people Of that city and squad of Spanish SOL
diers which amounted to nothing serious There
is no truth in the reported landing of two thou
sand Chilians and the arming of the negroes by
Z the planters.
The mortality records of Philadelphia the last
week chow that the deaths from all causes
amounted to 472, or only 4S more than for the
ueru ur 1unurs unf1r M Oh iuse,-fvrs, n7E
only 1877 deaths, from all causes, over that age
The extreme heat Of the preceding week ran the
bill of mortality up to the extraordinary figure
of716.
The United States Consul at Antwerp, writing
to the State Department under date Of July 1st,
says: ''The cholera has recently appeared in
tnls clty. Inc deatns from 1t Tor the last two
days have been about forty, but on one or two
days the deaths have been many as seventy.
hye fear we must regard it as having assumed
On epidemic form. would suggest that vessels
arriving in the United States from Antwerp should
be scrutipized by our quarantine"
Official census returns Of the city Of st. Louis
make the white population 204, 1927. 1t ia claimed
however, that this falls short Of the real number
and that 100000 would be more correct. The
nationalities given as follows Irish 26, 1856 ;
Germans. 49,791 French 1888 English, 1909 :;
American, 1l8 376; other nations. 415s. Only
in 4s of the total population is over 60 years
Of age nearly one-half are under 21. The Oldest
person found was a Bohemian woman 109 years
old.
Information has been received by the Navy De-
partment Of the capture of SLAYER in Pensacola
Bay, Florida, by the United States sloop Augustine
having on board $50 freedmen from Mobile, Ala.
and bound for Cuba. The system has been to en-
list colored labortrs above Mobile, run them ND
the railroad to Greenville, Ala, switch on to the
Pensacola Road, and run down to q plantation in
Florida, near the Escaladia River, place the ne.
groes upon fatboats, float down to tide-water,
ship them on board sloops, and, passing by PEN
sacola, gain the sea and land their human freight
In. slavery. Persons In New Orleans, Mobile and
New York are implicated in the affair.
CORRESPONDENT Of the Baltimore Sun, who