The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-03-14
News SUMMARY.
day morning.

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ets THE steamship Quaker City, CaptSin WEST, ar
1fved here from New York early yesterday fore
<.noon, bringing heavy freight, including som
fifty horses and mules, and good psssenge
list. We are indebted to Purser McELRoY for fle
+. OF New York papers Of Saturday last
Governor BRowHLow Of Tennessee, has receiv
+ ed dispatch from Granada Missssibpi, telling
him to beware Of assassination.
1t is said that Secretary MALLORY, now in For
Lafayette, at the urgent solicitation Of severa
physicians, will soon be released and. allowed te
join his family, who are residing in Connecticut
- An order has been issued to quarantine all yes.
sells arriving at Texan ports, on account Of official
notice having been received of the prevalence OF
the cholera in the West Indies.
The National Inteligencer learns that the ex-
pedienoy is seriously discussed in official circles,
Of allowing the payment of ten per cent. Of the
duties on imports in ''greenbacks," and ninety per
cent in gold.
The True Southerner, paper published in the
interest OF the freedmen in Hampton, Va, and the
surrounding country, has been removed to Nor
folk, the support given to it not being adequate to
its further continuance,
The Montgomery Mail says that Gen. TooMBs,
VINO Is IN cuOa, has written letter, III which he
States That lie had met one ef lis former slaves in
Havana, and That this negro told him that he had
been inveigled to Cuba, and sold to Cuban Sieve
holder Tor thirteen .s.,a.nured dollars.
mo bureau chiefs of the Treasury Department
have been directed to reduce their clerical force
INV the a;cclS-ez-- 3 -e.-.,s ,si-->Sf'A0'' o-V
6lefks. This will be retrenchment OF Govern
-ment expenses at the rate Of over five thousand
dollars per month.
A Washington corre espondent of the Philadelphia
LEDGER asserts that Mr. STEPHENS final accept
ance Of the Georgia Senatorship WAS in conse-
quence Of an assurance from high officials in that
city that he would be admitted to his seat, and
the President is determined to do his best to Sc
cure that admission. His case is not an isolated
one.
1t has been ordered that hereafter, when au
thorized assessors or collectors of internal reve-
nue. or direct tax in the State of Mississippi find it
impossible to enforce the laws governing the reve
nue. OF the United States, owing to the absence Of
United States Marshsis and Courts in said State,
they will apply to the nearest military commander
for assistance, who, upon proper requistion set
ting forth facts will furnish all necessary as
sistance fofthe enforcement of the laws"
The Bennettsvile (S c. Eastern Journal says
that 1.-the prospects in that district, in reference
to the employment Of free labor and the crop for
This year. are encouraging. The freedmen have
generally made contracts, are demeaning them
selves verS qreditably, and working as faithfully
as could be expected. They accept the fact of
their freedom without embracing the idea OF its
delivering them from the necessity Of constant
labor"
CHu PAX, late President Of the See Yup Com
nany of San Francisco, died in that city few days
ago. Mr.. Gu Pax was very wealthy gentleman
of the Chinese persuasion, and died at the mature
age of sixty-nine. His funeral was splendid
: affair. Long tables we're spread in the streets
which were loaded down with sheep, goats, and
hogs roasted whole, and decorated with flowers,
feathers. &c. Incense was burned, bands played,
PRAYERS were said, dirges sung, and the deceased
enjoyed all the honors of a Celestial funeral.
The March number of DeBo,os Repieoo contains
several articles of interest by leading popular
writer's. Those by CHARLES GAYARaE, OF New Or
leans, and Dr. T. C. MORT, of Alabama, give some
eurious as well as novel statements. on the negro
.ouestion. and on oaths amnesties and rebellions.
The.work also contains its usual quantity OF sta
tistical matter in relation to the commerce and
agricultural pursuits of the country. The editor
annoapces in this number that hereafter his resi-
dsncs will be, at Nashville, Tenn, which will be
the Office. of publication for the Southern States.
There have been various conflicting estimates
in the Southern journals of the probable cotton
supply from the coming crop, varying from 1000
900 to 2,50O 900 bales. The growth OF cotton this
year depends on many contingencies, and in ma
king any estimate of the probable amount that
will be raised the comparative poverty OF the
planters and the scarcity OF labor must enter
largely into the calculation. The Richmond Wing
says that the Secretary Of the Treasury estimates
the average annual supply for 1866 and Z, i'll the
United States, at about 800 900 bales; the New
Orleans cotton factors generally agree in estina.
ting the coming crop at 100000 bales; but the
National hateuigencer publishes letter to the
Secretary OF the Treasury from Louisiana plant
er of twenty five years experience who expresses
the belief that scarcely 100000 bales will bt
raised this year in the entire South. At this early
Deriod it is extremely difficult to procure any dat
from which reliable estimate Of the crop cam b.
made.