The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-25

| w. W. AAiShS, bo al COlAU On Vile Od-
,bine River, near Carthage, La., was
recently captured and hung by o
party of citizens, who were searching
for the perpetrators of the deed.
Both Goodwin and Hicks had been
III the Southern army. Goodwin was
found At the house of his father, with
Il mule in his possession which had
belonged to Hicks.
SPAIN IN A BAD WAY.-All accounts
agree that Spain is in very unsettled
state. Paper money is decreasing in
value every day. 1t is said that there
Is conspiracy to take away the
Queens life, and that it is headed by
the son OF General Ortega, who was
shot, in 1860, for having attempted
the life OF the Queen, and by the son
of u shoemaker
| \ ST. Petersburg correspondent,
speaking of the Imperial banquet ut
Peterhotf, says: For the first time
N the memory Of man, the Emperor
rose, taking Il glass, said, IN French:
81 propose the health of the United
States and American deputation, and
continued good relations between the
two nations"
The Washington .St(o says the gift
Of invisibility was formerly believed
to he procurabie by means of fern
seed; but no peculiar power Of rem.
dering people Invisible resides spe-
cially in the seed Of fern Put on
| any very secdy suit of clothes, and
walk about in the streets; you will
| very soon find that your acqnaintances
will pass you without secilS you.
! George \. Barber, of Detroit, has
published Il challenge to any printer
III the world to Il trial of speed for
F! ten hours, OF one week. at the rate
Of ten hours per day, to set solid,
straight NATTER for from s., 900 to
s., 600: the race to come of within
three months after the acceptance of
the challenge
Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont. re-
ports in his annual address. that the
theological department of the Yer
mont Episcopa! Institute is without
students. The Treasurer also says in
his report: ''Tlere are no Young men
i'll the diocese looking toward the
ministry, or preparing to enter it.
Gen. Beauregarl has left Paris eu
'o"e home. There would appear to
be no doubt of his;having been offered
a handsome position by one of the
European sovereigns. which, how
ever, he declined.
y negro was lynchrd III Owen
/ County, Kentucky. on Wednesday
last. Cor attempted rape on respect
able white girl 1t was with great
difficulty the infuriated people were
persuaded not to roast him over a
slow fire.
The colored Baptists of the United
States have organized General Mis-
sionary Association, whic!i recently
met at Richmond. The colored Bap-
lists prefer separate dcnominational
organization to a union with the
Northern or Southern. Churches.
\ special, from Ghicago-orobably
sensational l-suyS that II IrlsSian,
named Qni>:, being accused of steal
ing, called on God to strike him dead
if he was guilty, when he Immediately
fell dead The stolen money was
fonnd in his pocket.
y Southern paper takes the New
Orleans Journals to task for calling
Butler "A thief, coward, liar and
Scounlrcl. " as Il wholly unnecessary
waste of ink, and quietly adds
"Somc things should be taken for
granted.
The birth Of a son to Alexander
Barrett. Esd, last month, WAS telc-
! %raphca t. London through lhc ca
blc, ut :, cost of about ,E2O- making
the son II twenty pound baby at
the start
During the first seven months of
tl:s year, Great Britain imported Is, :
1Sl, 49, cwt of grain. In 1864, the
/ United States gave England most OF
her imported grain, but they now
give her less than any other country.
Private adviccs received at New
! Orleans, from the sugar region, state
that IL fair but not full crop Of cane
Will be gathered: but there will be Il
great demand for seed cane, whi i.h
will make tie sugar crop small.
New counterfeit $50 compound in
tertat notes, OF the issue of July 1G,
1861, have made their appearance in
various portions OF Virginia. They
are u close imitation.
Mrs t. NJ Harlan was caught in
the machinery of q flour mill. Il few
l,ys aoo. i'm Richmond. Va. and