The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-01-18

Gen. Barnes, who won his star by
his bravery in twenty pitched battles
and sieges, has worked as journey
man printer, since his return to Bos-
ton. Recently, however, he has been
given place in the Boston Custom
House
The Galveston Bulletin notices that
a number of United States troops are
passing en- route to the Rio Grande.
There has been q general decline in
dry goods and groceries at Galveston
and Houston, while cotton, crecially
the superior grades, has adv nce6.
A high wind which prey .iled in
Queens County, Ireland, , short
time since, blew the thatch ON the
cottage of one Patrick Murp y, and
revealed to him a horn file with
1000 guineas and several Spanish
dollars
The currency bureau has be- n re-
ceiving lately an immense amount of
counterfeit fractional currency, prin-
cipally of twenty-five and fifty cent
denominations. The bogus seems to
be lately increasing.
FROM LoUIs1ANA.-A party of ne
groes on the Red River rose on the
Cd, and tried to murder their overseer,
but failed. Subsequently they were
captured by the military, together
with several accomplices.
Major-General G. w. Field, late of
the G. S. A, is now principal of an
academy at Versailles, Woodford
County, Kentucky, teaching the
young idea how to shoot" in g. peace
full way.
Til The House of Representatives con-
sumed the whole Of Saturday III
discussion of the bill proposing to
confer the right of suffrage upon the
negroes in the District of Columbia.
Accounts from Bordeaux mention
that the port is nearly filed with
American ships, which will take away
q great part of the wines of the pre-
sent year.
The local of the Galveston Nea,s,
of late date, thus sums up the news
of the day: ''No robberies, burgla-
ries, murders or such like little mat
ters of interest. The town is dry"
Utah is likely to be admitted as
State at an early day, with the prohi-
bition of poiygamy. What will Brig
ham Young do with his hundred
wives?
1t is estimated that the cost of re-
pairing the levees between Vicksburg
and New Orleans will amount to $1O.-
100000.
Gerrit Smith has commenced his
libel suit against the Chicago Tribune,
laying his damages at fifty thousand
dollars.
The New Orleans Times is the
largest paper in the world. It has
sixteen pages, with ninety-two CO.
lumnS.
Government have contracted for
10000 barrels of flour at prices
ranging from $40 to $1O5O Large
quantities were offered at these rates.
The Treasury Department refuses
to settle any cotton or other claims
from the Southern States until after
Congressional action
The recent freshets have so eXten-
sively damaged railway communica-
ton in Georgia, that it will probably
be sixty days before it can be restored.
Thomas Carlyle completed his
seventieth year on the 4th instant
He dined with some literary friends on
that day, and was in excellent health
One petroleum company in New
York has declared dividends to the
amount OF eighty-two per cent. since
June.
The resignation of Major General
Fitzpatrick, appointed Minister to
Chill, and Gen. j. D. Cox, Governor
elect of Ohio, have been accepted.
New York fnanciers think gold will
be down to 13O before the end of this
month.
Josh Billings says he is astonished
that, lying being so easy, so few are
engaged III the business
The profits of the London Times
are $3.50, 900 per annum-but then
paper is lower there.
Rothschild lends Italy one hundred
millions of francs.
Schedule over South Carolina r r.
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