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Show XO SEIZURE COXTEM PLATED. The Charleston Win Return to the I". S. as Soon as Relieved. Washington", Nov. 14. Commodore Ramsay, Ram-say, who is acting today as secretary of the navy, denies positively that any orders have been sent to the United States steamship Charleston in China to seize the Hawaiian islands.- The Charleston when last heard from was at Yokohama, Japan, and it has been the intention to have her return to the United States as soon as the Lancaster, with Admiral Harmony aboard, reaches the China station. The Lancaster went around the Cape of Good hope from New York, and is probably now some where iu the Indian ocean. When the Charleston is relieved she will naturally touch at Honolulu on her way home, as she cannot carry sufficient coal to make the trip direct from Asia to the United States. |