The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-13

1Ai haoVAOuS very recently made q
speech to the freedmen at Hampton,
informing them that on the 1st of
January they must leave the lands
they now occupy, and emigrate to
FLORIDA. Some forty families, We
hear, have enrolled their names.''
A poor woman in st. Louis, arrest
ed for stealing shirt, created so
much sympathy when brought before
the court, that she was ACQUITTED
without trial, after which n purse was
raised Tor her amongst tho lawyers.
Ihe attorney who was to have pro-
secuted her then hired her as n ser
want and took her home.
4 German gardener, living on Ca
barat Island, near st. Louis, was
near dying Of cholera, when he d;.
vulgcd to his wife hiding-place in
the ground where he had hidden
$4,000. No one supposed he was
worth much, land the Joy Of the
woman may be imagined"
The Washington CA,-ouicze reports
having seen very rich specimens of
gold-bearing quartz and gold wash
lnSs which were taken from the Nir-
ginia shore of the Potomac River.
two miles above the chain bridge.
The bed of the Potomac is said to
abound with the precious metal.
a house was recently fired in Phil
adelphia. through the agency of ben.
zlne, which had been mixed in the
paint whcrewith the kitchen floor
had been painted. y hot fire being
made In tbs stove, soon ignited the
benzinc, and i'll an instant it spread
over tho floor, and then the house.
The Augusta ChroaicIe, OF the 3Oth
ult., says: eve hear it rumored that
Governor Jenkins will probably sus-
pend the collection of tho State tax
for the present year, owing to the
impoverished condition of the pco-
pie"
Y colorcd woman, OF Cairo, Ill. i,
who had died Of cholera, and been
fastened mp in her coffin, suddenly
surprised the attendants by bursting
open the lid and getting to her feet.
done gone yet"
The Vermont election on Monday.
resulted, of course, III the election of
radical candidate for Governor. Two
radicals were elected to Congress,
and the Third District is vet doubt
ful.
\ correspondent Of the Richmond
E":Hi''cr, who has lately visited
jefferson Davis, says that his health,
while it has been seriously under
mined, is ut the present decidedly
better than it was Il few weeks ago
y list of the accidents and deaths
on the railroads of France, for the
last year, shows there were 77,0OO,-
900 of passengers Out of these.
four were killed and one i'm every
900, 600 wounded.
San Francisco dispatches report a
fight between $50 Indians and tHc
guard of q train which they had at
tackled, near La Paz, Arizona, in
! which the Indians were beaten, with
loss Of twcnty-threc killed.
Only $50 Of the once famous Tou-
cawav tribe Of Indians now remain,
and they are in Houston, Texas. sub
sisting on the charity of the Govern
mcnt.
The man in Jail who looked out of
, the window OF his cell and exclaimed,
"Ihls Is u CRATE countrvr' is now
generally admitted to have spoken
within bounds.
The t.ot between Dexter, Butler
and pachcn, at Chicago, on Wcdncs-
day, for Il purse Of 50, 900, was won
by Dexter in three straight heats.
Best time, 22li..
The husband of woman who was
killed by Il locomotive, recently, in
Portland, Me, has sued the railroad
company on the ground THAT she
Was his only support.
The President and party were
brought from Alton to St. Louis by
river, tlirty-siX steamers being pro
vldcd for the purpose, representing
all the States in the Union
Parson Brownlow, the polccat Of
the tlesh-pot convention, ''donc his
level best" to bring that assemblage
into bal odor, but Jack Hamilton
''skuukcd" him.
The mountains of Virginia nre
represented to be more abundant with
! deer than has ever been known to
the oldest inhabitant.
Pacific RAILROAD. Gen. Pope, on
the 4th, entered the initial stone OF
the main Pacific Railroad, Southern
branch, at junction City, Kansas.