The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-25

The New York Herald calls upon
the business men of that city to meet
IN convention and ratify the platform
of the Philadelphia Convention, on
the ground that the material and
financial interests of the country de-
pend upon the reconstruction of the
Union and the admission of South.
ern representatives, in accordance
with the declarations there put forth.
An Illinois paper says: "Out of
35, 400, 600 acres Of land. Illinois con-
talns 33, 600, 600 of tillable land. Only
one-seventh of this has yet been
touched by the plow, yet this one
seventh has sustained our own popu-
lation Of 2,14S, 17s, and furnished a
surplus of food for expectation.
enough, no doubt, to sustain 2,OOO.-
600 more.
The Houston (Texas) Journal, of
August 8, says: eve are informed by
a gentleman, just up from Galveston,
that very fatal malady, nothing like
the cholera, has broken out among
the troops garlisoning that city, and
that the average mortality will reach
SIX per day. We have not seen
description of the disease"
TFB PnLoRY. Raleigh Pro-
gresS notes the erection of /. pillory
in that place, near the Court House.
"for the public punishment of offend
ers. 1t is constructed on the plan of
all other well-gotten up pillories, with
the appropriate places through which
the hands, head and feet are inserted"
GEN. BEAUREGARD's PRorERTY.-A
Washington letter says that steps
have been taken by the Government
to stay all proceedings, for the pre-
sent, III the matter of the contiscation
OF the late Confederate General Beau
regards property in the Southern
States.
n wandering paragraph says that
lump of ice, say ten pounds, placed
in Il we'll will render it's water de-
lightfully cool, and far more pleasant
than icewater from Il pitcher The
ice has to be renewed once in about
ten days.
Late advices represent the rains in
Western Texas as continuing. Every
portion has been reached by search
ing, soaking showers. Grass has not
been so fine for many years, and all
kinds of stock are in the best posi-
bic condition.
Iii reported out West that the town
of Monroe, Ohio. has been blown
away by hurricane. Anybody find
ing such a town will please return it
to its former position. and no ques-
tions asked.
4 tower, 80 feet in height, and
which will cost over half million, is
to be erected in connection with the
/ Chicago. Ill, lake tunnel, to supply
I the upper stories of buildings with
water.
There are no less than thirty diff
ferent varieties of plants used as sub
,stltntes for green tea, and probably
twice that number of substances are
substituted for coffee
/ DEATH OF a SOUTH CARoLNIAN.- A
letter from San Luis Potosi, Mexico,
announces the death there Of Colonel
James Monroe, of this State, and
late of the Confederate army.
Three members of the radical party
call a meeting Of the National Union
Republican Executive Conmittee''-
for the purpose, no doubt, of depos-
ing Raymond from it's chairmanship.
George B. Ginter, of Ohio, is an
other member of the National Union
Republican Executive Committee
who, like Mr.. Raymond. goes with
! the President
Josh Billings remarks with MS much
feeling as truth, that ''in the good
old daZe there was more fun in 80
cents than thee is now in 7 dollars
and half
ASA HAHrz Major George Nc
Knight has been appointed one of
the editorial staff of the New Or
leans PicnY,o'e.
The paid police system has been
abolished in Salisbury, and the patrol
by citizens re-establShed
The granite cotton factory, at Eli
colts Mills, Maryland, has been de-
stroyed by fire. Loss 100000.