The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-24
LARGEST CIRCULATION IN TIE CITY.
N ewS Summary.

Tho River Warrior has risen at Tuscaloosa q
trne over 40 feet
The tuxsble real estate of Montgomery is esti-
mated at sS, 900 600.
General SWEENEY looks upon STEPHENS, the great
Fenian Head Centre, as spy in En- lish employ.
Nebraska will vote State Constitution on
the 2d Of June.
Gen. SToEEMAN has mado a report relative to
the Memphis riot, in which he charges tho negroes
with bling the aggressors.
meeting was held on the 14th instant at Me-
ridian, Mississippi. for the purpose of forming
joint stock cotton manufacturing company.
"A package Of jack-knives made in 17G5, turned
up ia Now Haven, Connecticut, last Saturday, and
was sold at auction. One of them was sent to the
HistoricaE Society. NJ
The annual Episcopal Diocesan Convention OF
Tennesses met Mt Bolivar on the 14th inst. The
Convention sermon preached by Rev. J. A.
WHEELocK, D. D., rector Of Grace Chnrch, Mem
phis.
There is woman living in Lancaster, Erie
county, Now York, in whose etomach snake has
taken up it's abode-so the physicians have de-
cided. Two years aso O snake, one yard long,
was removed from the stomach of New York
volunteer soldier, while stationed in a Southern
State.
The Louisville Courier's eanctum, it appears,
HENRY 8. FooTE. He seems to be in good state
representation and in good health. He informed
the Courier that he intends to mako tho neighbor-
hood of Louisville his future residence we con-
gratulate the good people Of that city on SO dis
tinguished an acquisition.
1t il understood that the Secretary of War; upon
General GRANTS recommendation, will issue in a
Few days an order mastering out all the remain
ing white and colored organizations in service
All officers OF the volunteer medical corps except
those on duty with the Freedmen's Bureau, will
also be honorably mustered out on tho lat prox.
1t is announced that "Generat f. D. SEwA11 is
at this time engaged in making an inspection of
the Freedmen's Bureau in North Carolina, by
order Of General HowAED;" !" and it is added, that
his report will no doubt tell a different story
from that of the Presidents inspectors" Generals
srEEDMAN and FULLERTON. Thereport of these lat
ter gentlemen has given great offence to the Rad
icals.
The Washington City papers speak in high COM
mendaton of Miss MINNIE REAM, as q "talented
young artist OF Cincinnati" They say: "she ia
clerk in tho Postoffice Department. She has for
two years past been apupiltn the studio Of CLARK
MILLS, where she spends several hours daily aftor
leaving her desk in the Department, at which she
works from o'clock A. NJ. till 8 p. Nj. Her Indian
Girl, and some other busts, have been highly COM
mended, and art critics say she is making remark
able progress in the profession"
telegram from Washington, Of the 18th, says:
''rhe fact has been developed that upwards Of
$490,000 Government money, by some means or
another, we're placed last summer in the hands of
q man named CARLTON, and by him used in the
purchase Of cotton, which was then selling at
seventy cents pound. The cotton was co sign.
ed to n firm in New York for sale, when the price
of the article suddenly fell to forty-ye cents and
the reeult was that tho firm failed, and the Gov
ernment lost nearly half million Of dollars.
Considerable curiosity is manifested to learn by
what authority the money was originally placed
in CARLToN's hands for such investment"
The Mobile Daily Tribune, Of the 10TH says the
followingoficial order from Gen. wooDs sufficient
ly explains iteelf:
HEADouARTEas DEpAnTMENr OF ALADAMA,l
- MOBILE, ALA, May IL, 1866.
SPECIAL ORDERS No: ST..
II. In compliance with instructions from the
President Of the United States, 1t ia hereby direct
@ sad tho Of ef
Probate Conrt Of Mobile County, any other civil
or political Office Of trust, while he remains un-
psrdoned by the President.
BY order OF Brevet Major. General Charles r..
Woods A. RAMSEY NININGER,
Assistant Adjutsnt- General.
The Washington Star says: "The statement made
in some Of the newspapers yesterday that the
President has ordered the arrest OF all officers OF
the Freedmens Bureau engaged in culvating
lands in the South, goes a little too far. The
President has directed Major General Howard to
cause tho arrest OF every officer OF the Bureau in
North Oorolina who is engaged or pccuniarily In.
terested in the cultivation of plantations, and
Brigader.G General ". =. STRONG has been dis.
patched to execute the order. Judge Advocate
General HOLT has been instructed by the Presi
dent to make out charges and specifications
against these officers, with view to their tria
before court partial"
The Mobile Tribune OF the 10Th has the follow.
ing: "The case OF WATSON & Co., SrEEns & Co.
and BOONE & Co., against the owners of the
steamer Belfast, WAS decided in tho Oily Court
Judge CHAMBERLAIN presiding. Tho plaintiff.
sued the ownors Of the Belfast on the admiralty
docket fer the value Of thirty.iye bales OF cation
captured from tho boat by guerillas last f.li, ant
belonging to plaintiffs, holding them rtsp .nsibIc
under the bills ofladi e, as common c.r,irrr, fo
it's delivery. The case has been before tho .ur
for about week, and the resnlt OF the trial wa.
looked, forward TO, with consider able iuterest
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