The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-10-03

H,'Aee IlASG cloSed IN New York, was
the sale Of large guam tity' of Bibles,
prayer-books and other religious
works that had been captured from
blockade runners-saifl books beinn
a donation from the British and
/ Foreign Bible Society to the rebel
army.
MORE GOLD. has been reported
to.the General Land Office that ex-
tenslve gold discoveries have been
made on the Northern Shores of the
West end of Lake Superior, in the
North-castern Land District of Min
ncsota, which are attracting general
attention.
Philadelphia papers announce the
death of William j. Duane, ared
eighty five years. Ke was Secretary
OF the Treasury under President Jack
son, and resigned rather than consent
to the removal of the deposits from
the United States Rank.
HEAVY BANK ROBBERY. The Con
cord National Bank, of Concord. Mas
sachusetts, Was entered, a day or two
ago, while the cashier was at dinner
and the safe robbed of $500. 600
consisting of United States bonds and
money.
The New Haven Conn., P,nh,diu,u
which foH thirty years has used steam
as motive power for its press, now
uses d turbine wheel about the cir
cumferencc OF Il straw hat brim. driven
Dy stream OF water only an inch in
diameter.
At the annual meeting of the Grand
Lodge Independent Order of Odd
tellows of the United States, at Bal
tamore, the Grand Sire paid a tribute
to the memory of the P. G.. Sire. r.
3. .Boylston.
Accounts from Constantinople state
that 2, COO buildings were DESTROYED bv
the great fire, and upwards of $4,000
persons were rendered houseless.
The cholera has almost entirely dis
appeared.
At the Fenian meeting, last Monday
evening, in Jersey. City, one of the
speakers declared that movements
are progressing finely, and that bank
note engravers We're already at work
on bonds tpr the Irish Republic.
ALBANY BRIDGE. bridging of
the Hudson River, between ALBANY
and GreenEush, is now q fixed fact
All the piers are completed, and the
work on the superstructure is pro-
crossing rapidly.
Julia Mohtandevert, widow of the
celebrated Captain James Lawrence.
United States Navy, (''never give up
the ship, y died at Newport, Rhode
Island, on the 18th instant. i'm her
seventy-eighth year.
New York city crowds its popula-
ton of about q million into fifty-fye
thousand houses Philadelphia. with
less than sevel4 hundred thousand
people, has one hundred thousand
houses.
A report was lately set afoat in
Italy that the death o: the Emperor
would take place at his .fete day, Au-
gust Is. Fieschi's attempt to assas-
sinate Louis Philippe was predicted
in the same way.
The Shepherdstown 2egiste,' says a
Michigan soldier. who was arrested
for stealing a rebels goose, said he
found the bird kissing a; the American
flag, and arrested it for treason.
The Union Press announces the in
1ictment OF Maj. Gen. Palmer and
Brig Gen. Brisbraine for abductino
slaves and otherwise int erfering with
yiiiG slave law Of Kentucky
The freedmen Of Louisiana are
giving some trouble in 7iolating their
contracts, and leaving the planters at
the commencement of the packing
season.
A. ftc smile of the Presidents sigma
-ure has been prepared, and over 300
pardons are reported to have been
stamped with it at the White House
in one day. u
The children connected with the
Charleston Orphan House, who have