The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-02-24
NEW s SUM M A RY

Thomas c. McCreery has been elected
United States Senator ::ro Kentucky. He ID
a Democrat, and has ncr'r held public Office.
Several clerks in the Revenue Office at
New Orleans have been doing good busi-
ness steahlg cotton permits and selling them
on the street.
The House Committee on Claims have
agreed to report bill making an award OF
500, 900 Of the reward offered for the capture
of JEFF. Davis.
-Advices from Wisconsin state that the del
eeates to the national convention who favor
MIR. Pendleton will receive the vote Of the State.
Dubuque county, Iowa, instructs for him.
The Dubuque Herald raises the Pendleton flag.
Fifty three persons, male and female, re-
oeived free breakfast at the Essex Market
ststionhouse, New York, on Thursday, and at
Jefferson Market sixty-seven. Some Of the re-
cipients said they had not tasted food for two
days.
The government has ordered the necessa-
~ buoys to be placedin the harbor and river
waters of brunswick, in Georgia, and supple
mentary orders to carry this into effect have
been issued by Admiral shubrick, Of the Light
house Board.
Another defalcation is reported from New
York. The house OF Ezra Goodrich & Co.,
importers in Exchange place, in that city. are
said to have lost from s1OO, 600 to $780, 900 by
the defalcation OF their cashier, who has re-
Gently disappeared.
"A letter from Senior Romero, dated Mexico,
January 10, says he accepted the Office Of Sec
retary Of the Treasury Of the Republic OF Me1i-
co. He las therefore given up his position as
Mexican minister at Washington and the idea
OF returning to the United States.
England seems to be thoroughly frighten-
ed by the Fe1ians. The English Government
has determined to fortity al its police stations,
and has begun with those of London, which are
now provided with bullet-proof iron shutters,
and stocked with small arms and ammunition.
The Cincinnati police are making arald upon
immoral picture sellers, and N the course OF it
ordered an optician to remove from his window
q stereogrsphic picture OF the Apollo Belvidere.
This, to be sure, is rather an excess OF morah-
ty, but both Cincinnati and Philadelphia have
set an example for Charleston to follow.
The United States steamship Wampanoag
arrived at Fortress Monroe on Monday. She
made the passage from Sandy Hook to Charles--
ton in thirty three hours. Her greatest speed
in one hour was 2Os miles; for twenty-four
hours, 1073 knots; and her average speed dur
ing the entire trial was 164 knots. The trial
was complete success.
The Carlist party have effected revolution
against the authority Of Queen Isabella in the
North OF Spain, and their adherents have taken
up arms in considerable numbers in Navarro.
skirmishes have taken place between the civil
guard and the insurgents in the City Of Ma
varre. Some few persons we're wounded during
the tumult. The movement appears to be the
result of deliberate and well-planned or
gani2ation.
The trial of Rev. Stephen H. Tying, Jr.,
was brought to conclusion in New York on
Tuesday. Judge Fullerton made an argument
for the defence, and Mr.. s. P. Nash made the
closing argument for the presenters. The
court then recited the canon directing them IN
the further proceedings, and adjourned. This
ends the case for the present. The next STEP
will be the report Of the courts decision to
the Bishop, who will then be called on to act
upon it.
The departure Of the Papal Zouaves FOL
Rome created immense excitement in Montreal
An immense audience was present at the
special services held at Notre Dame Cathedral
on Tuesday night, IN connection with the
event, and on Wednesday over twenty thou,
sand persons assembled at the station to see
them off Several parsons were nearly crushed
to death by the pressure Of the crowd. The
greatest excitement prevailed among the Ro-
man Catholics.
The New York poor are hereafter to be fed
at the public expense. The commissioners oi
public charities and correction in that city
have made arrangements to feed them daily
between the hours of 7 and II A. NJ, at three
Of the New York prisons. All the police au'
thorities are furnished with tickets to give tc
such of the suffering poor as they may deem
deserving Of relief, and these measures, 1t is
thought, will relieve much Of the distress nov
existing in New York.
y. J. MCGOWAN, tax collector Of Chatham
County. Ga, was arrested Thursday by the
military for refusing to carry out general
order from the Military Commander Of the
Third District, requiring him 10 collect taxes
which conficted with Governor jenkins in.
structions requiring him to suspend the col
lection Of State taxes. Mr.. MCGOWAN preferred
to obey the instructions of Governor Jenkins
and refused to deliver up the books and papers
OF his Office. He was arrested and imprisoned
in the United States barracks.
"A dispatch from Indianapolis to the Gin
cinnaG Commercial says ga prominent banker
Of this city has just returned from Washing.
ton, where he has spent some time to ascer.
tain the feeling among the senators AMI mem
bers OF Congress upon financial questions. He
says that il the Senate is compelled to vote
upon the question Of the right Of the govern
ment to redeem the hve-twenty bonds in legal
tenders, they will sustain that view. But they
will not vote to increase the volume Of the cur
rsncy at all. There is strong feeling in the
House in favor of issuing legal tenders to the
full amount contracted by the Secretary OF the
Treasury; but it could not pass the Senate, and