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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-10-30
Auction Sales
variety safe.
BY LEVIN & PEIXOTTO

THIS MORNING, 3Oth instant, at 10
O'Clock, we Will sell, ut our store,
\ variety of Dry Goods, Fancy Articles.
Shoes: Boots, SeSar7, Pipes, Wines, Ia
quors, China, Crockcryware, &c.
Particulars on morning of sale Oct 80
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BY TeleSraDh.
Gable Dispatches.

LONDON, October 27-It is said that the
relations between Austria and Russia are
assuming menacing character. The
1tnees says that the Russian Government
Is intriguing for q further disintegration of
Austria.
iARIs, October 27.-A project has been
submitted by France and England to the
Spanish Government for the settlement OF
the Chllian difficulty, and it has been ap-
proved by the Queen and her Min sters.
FLORENCE, October 27.-An arrival from
Gambia states that another great battle
took place on the 18th inst The Greeks
report that the Turkish army was re-
pulsed
LIVERPOOL, October 27.-Cotton steady.
with sales of 5000 ales-middiine up
lands 15d. Weather unfavorablc for bread
stutfs Market firmer. Corn advanced
LoN22N, October 27.-Consols S9I. Five
twentiego84.
LONDON, October 17.-Sunday's advices
from Japan are conflicting. The latest re-
port says the Tycoon's army had suffered
heavy defeat at the hands of the insur-
gonts, and that the tycoon had abdicated,
IN consequence.
1t ls stated that the British Government
Is about to ask of Parliament all increase
of f1,0O0,000 sterling in excess of the
amount voted for the army, and large
additional amount to that appropriated in
former years for the navy.
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BACON, LARD, BUTTER.

UST received and for sale LOW by the
~ package or at retail:
Pr1me new Western BACON.
Clear Sides.
Clear Ribbed Sides and Shoulders.
Eirkins and tierces primo Lard.
Kegs pure Family Lard.
Flrkins choice Goshen Butter.
Mackerel-Nos. /, and 8.
London Porter and Scotch Ale.
Pure French Brandy, warranted
Fine and common grades Whiskey, &c.
Canned Fruits-Pine Apple, Peaches, &C.
Silver Gloss Starch.
Cooking Soda-English.
- Crosse & Blacllwelrs Pickles, Chow
Chow, &c.
Fine Smoking and Chewing Tobacco.
Boxes Colgate's Family Soap.
Adamantine Candles.
Fresh Crackers-Butter, Soda, Vino, &c.
Maccaroni, Cheese.
takers No. Chocolate, &c.
YOUNG HYSON and ENGLISH BREAK
FAST TEAS, carefully selected and of ex-
KEROSENE OIL, of the purest quality,
Always on hand. Also, Lamps, Wicks.
Shades, Burners, &c. For sale at reason
able prices by GEO. SYNIN1ERS,
Opposite the ruins of Janney's Hotel.
Oct 25
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Real Estate
OF THE
STATE WORKS
Az GREENvILLE, S. G.,
Az PRIVATE SALE,

VIE Commissioners OF the State Works
II at Grecnville, S. c., offer at private
sale, tho REAL ESTATE Of said Works.
inc Tract OF Land contains twenty acres,
ana IS situated one mile and third from
the Court House at Grccnville S. e.. hav-
ing the Anderson Road on one side and the
Hrcenvlllo and Columbia Railroad on the
other. a Branch Track from the Railroad
runs INTO the premises. About twelve
acres OK the Land is enclosed with u high
ana cloSe Datten fence, and within the en-
closure are the following BUILDINGS. viz:
Office, 19 by 40 feet; ) finished rooms: .
Replaces =
Machine Shop, so by 300 feet. with brick
basement, and Boiler House attached. and
GO feet Chimney and Fluc.
Machine Shop, so by 100 feet, with Boiler
House and Drying House attached, and 60
feet Chimney and Flue.
blacksmith Shop, 80 by 100 feet, with II
Forges.
Iron Foundry, brick, with two Cupolas.
Air Furnace, Oven and Chimney.
Brass Foundry, 90 by 80 feet, with Cupo-
la, Double Furnace and Chimncr
Carpenter Shop, so by 100 feet, on brick
pillars, with Engine House attached.
Small Blacksmith Shop, 20 bv ~ feet.
with Double Forge
Pattern House, one and 3 halt story, 20
by 40 feet
store-room, 23 by so feet, on brick pill
lars.
store-room, % by 60 feet, on brick pill
Smoke-house, IS by 40 feet.
Corn Crib, II by 2l feet
Shed, 25 by 20 feet.
IRON House, Coke Shed, Stable, Fodder
Well House, IS by 20 feet.
Small Engine House.
TERMS.-A credit of one and two wears
IN. equal instalncnts, with interest from
date, on approved personal security, mort
gage OF the premises, and assigned insur-
ance Of the buildings.
There arc several small Buildings on
the promises, outside Of the enclosure,
which will be sold for cash, to borcmovcd
from TIE premises.
For further information, applyto
c. j. ELFORD,
Sec'y to Commissioners State Works,
Oct Is ! Greenvilc. S. c.
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Very Desirable Farm and
Residence at Private Sale!
GREENVILIE. s. G..
GREENNILLE. S. c

sr,s THAT very. beautiful and dcsirablc
ffoeA place, formerly owned and improved
GAby Robert Stewart, Esq, of Ncwberrv,
and now owned by Messrs. Kinck u Wick
enburG, OF Charleston, is offered at private
sale. 1T contains one hundred and forty
four acres, fifty OF which are cleared, and
well adapted to the culture OF corn. wheat.
rye, oats, potatoes and other provisions.
and is located at tho junction Of the Pen
dleton and White Horse Roads, three miles
from the Court House, ut Grecnvic. s. c..
to which place there is fine, ,rvand level
road. The dwelling is beautiiuliysitualc,l
with fine mountain view. 1t has ten
rooms-eiSht of them with tirc-Olaccs
three plaZzas, pantrlcs, airy passages and
9th conveniences. On the premises are
excellent kitchens, servants houses, wash
and ironing rooms, smokc-lousc, dairy, dry
well twenty feet deep, brickcd and cement
ed from tho bottom, with brick house over
1t: barns, stables, cow-houscs and every
other necessary out-building, all in good
repair; also, clstcrn containing twelve
thousand gallons, with unfailing water
supply, and bold spring OF cold water
near the residence.
The orchards contain more than \ thou
sand trees OF the finest varieties ofpeachcs,
apples, pears and plumS and there are q
number Of flourshing arbors Of grapes,
including the Isabella, C:.tnwba, Blands,
Madeira and ScuppcmunG, on the place;
'ti7O' u IiiiS 9VoeA VI stltWpcErlta, r3S IDtr-
rics and other small fruits.
The ornamental grounds about the house
arc extensive and beautifully laid out, and
are protusely supplied with rare and beau
tiful evcrSreens, hedges, roses and shrub
berry and other choice plants.
Altogether, the place presents very supc-
rior advantages for o pleasant, healtlful
and convenient residence, and such an one
as is seldom offered in the market.
The terms, both as to price and time of
payment, will be made very liberal, and
may be ascertaincd, together with any fur
ther information, upon application 10 c. J.
ELFORD, Attorney at Law, Grecnvillc, S.
c.. or to Mcssrs. kLINCK & WICKEN-
BERG, Charleston, $. G. Aug u tn
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In Equity---Union District.

W. &. Gist Executor et a. W.. Robert r.
Gist ct M.-BW Jor Pu1Uiou.
PY virtue of n decretal order in this
I'D case, [ will sell, at Union Court House,
on the first MONDAY in November next
all that TRACT OF LAND. situated in said
District, twelve miles North of Union Court
House, OH the Spartanbure Road. beIono
lnS to estate of n. Gist, sr., deceased. con
tanning twcnty-one hundred ana tfty-
seven (2,l3) acres. On the place is an
comfortable and substantial out buildings
and improvements, i'll good repair. There
are about four hundred acres Of woodland.
some twenty acres of bottom and o consi-
dcrabic portion OF old-tield pine on the,
tract
ALSO, AT TIE SAME TINE,
The TRACT, bounded by lands OF Col.
A. G. Rice, ID. c. Gist, \. Gregory, Dr.
}. Rice Rodgers and Berry w. Lee,
containing one thousand 0.00O) acres, be
longing to estates of James ID. Gist and n
Glst, 81. This is regarded one of the best
plantations IN Union District; has on it 4
handsome Residence, with substantial out
buildings, &c, is well improved, and in
good condition i'll every respect, embraces
eighty acres Of good bottom land and some
five hundred acres of well timbered land:
the balance being nearly all good, fresh
upland.
TERMs.-Crcdit OF one and two years,
except cash sufficient to pay costs of parti-
ton. Purchaser to give bond, with good
surctics, and mortgage of premises
WILLIAM MUNRO, G. Z. U. d.
October 13, 1866. Oct II IS
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Market Reports.

New YORK, October Noon. Gold 462
Exchange 1898. Cotton quiet, at 39@41.
Flour and wheat frmer. Corn 1@2c. better.
Pork lower.
P. M.-Gold 46t. Flour firmer, with
sales of 600 barrels-Southern s12.75017.
Wheat quiet. Corn 2@3c. better. Pork
unsettled; sales of 7,15O barrels; new mess
sS4:l :log4.5 so. Lard heavy, at 14}. Cotton
na arm; sales OF ! 400 Obales-middling uplands
80. Sugar dull. Coffee firm. Spirits tur-
pentine S2@S3. Rosin s5.623@135O.
NEW ORLEANS, October 29.-Cotton IN
cGnan6ged and tirmer-sales of $500 bales.
MOBILE, October 29.-Cotton sales to-day
i,5oo oales,middlings 35. Demand gene
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NOTICE

I s hereby given tha Ae city OF Columbia
Il will, at the next se IN of the Legisla-
tur" make application or authority to
issue bonds Of the cit substitution for
bonds and interest, pa. due and soon to
fall due. Aug IA tu3mo
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"a AMIBEST Y

NEW DISCOVERIES IN AFRICA; by
~ Livingstone, with plates, &c.
Homes Without Hands being q dcscrip-
ton of the habitation of animals accord
Ins to their principle of construction; by
hcv. .. G. Wood, +. l.. s., with plates.
Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac
4 critical history from 1861 to 1865; by VIM.
Swlnton; with fine portraits Of Generals
Grant, Meade, Mcclellan, Burnside, &c,
with maps.
The Art of Amusing y collection of
Merry Games, Tableau1, &C.
For sale at
J. J. McCARTER'S BOOKSTORE.
Opposite Columbia Law Range.
oct rs r. l.. BRYAN.
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Paints, Oils, Glass, Varnishes. &c

Athte Sign Of tie Golden Paa- Lock.
SlA THOUSAND lbs. WHITE LEAD, in
~ Oil
A complete assortment Of Co!ored Paints,
dry and in oil
300 boxes Window Glass, assorted sizes.
ALSO,
Linseed, Tanners, Kerosene and Ma
chinery Oils.
Furniture, Coach and Japan yarnishes.
Graining, White wash, busting and Scrub,
blng Brushes. In store and for sale at
lowest prices by JOHN G. DIAL.
Oct 80
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Columbia Wholesale Prices Current.
CORRECTED WEEKLY
BY A. L. SOLOMON
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From Cubn.

New ORLEANS, October 24.-Havana
.it ti&tes, OF the 18th, say it is freely reported
that Captain General Lersundi will soon be
relieved, and that his successor left Ma.
drid on the 10th inst. The Queens birth
day yo0 was celebrated as holiday. About
10000 troops were reviewed by the CAPTAIN
General, in the presence Of 40, 900 persons.
HAVANA, October 20.-It is said that this
Government has purchased Of the United
states two monitors, at an expense of
$1,000 900; and as the Government has no
available funds, two wealthy merchants of
this city, Trulueta and Baro, have gone
security for the amount.
Case OF Military Jurisdiction i'm Lou
isiann.
New ORLEANS, October 25.-Matthew
Gibson, citizen, charged With the murder
OF Sergeant Schuck, of the 9th United
States Cavalry, in Park County, Texas, has
been arrested by the civil authorities and
held for trial under bonds. He was after
wards arrested by a military order from
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Gen. Heintzleman. Ho was then brought
by writ Of ha6eas corpats before District
Judge Goode, who decided that the mill
tary had no jurisdiction Of his case, he
being citizen.
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IGheres iiber bas 6luseu Der Orei Ndrber.

usber ete Sinritatuns bon @lsm @rowsns, 2Stl'
liam @ccne unb S6rma8 Stepbens, trelbs tn Der
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Sbat an nisem Srte rorbsipalfrte, iprah bn ienen.
9a er atsr fene Mntmort srtielt, 10 elite sr, bon
larsdliasr aln8ft s,fiiat, 10 iansa sr tonnts nas
9ebanrn.
aus benz 9srtHt be5 llnterlieutsnants S. 8.
Rina, bss @cn,mannantsn BON eebancn, an BEN
8rsps 3tsut. Sol. Drum, tunSirsnoen Aiftsn .
Observation-Disclosures Der @lili,GrbrtRon Senudp
asbt sur e5snnss bsrprr, nab Die bortgsn BstSrner
Sisle 8olfsjuitis psrbinosn fonntsn, wenn Fss Der
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Eiertes gapitel.

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mciitern gtefert. Gie quite Orau bate IN Gem
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uno friihsfen Btet bu snsm snprhl cinien prs!s
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ma5se bic brapc fSrau un8enrtn per9nl8t, osnn
usnu alda g8pb!babsn9et! IN Dem 6auis esrrIGte,
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Slanss ssipartst, pists f,Sblih Die Strsn rnb
tratts lhnsusr babin, uno aa8suad l1panosn
aud Dem Geiter Die triibsn GeDanesn, Die tsOalt'
den g8siien, srf 70 pibsrmlig be8onnsn, sin8sn
nan rtid unb luiis nts iOnf iiter Die 2ippsn, rno
Ause uub 5erB Sffnsten Fa fiir Die nit Dem Ssnd'
seranne asf1mIdte Hatur.
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= Napolsrn BAT s.ne Siaientranfbstt, Stetor
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been attached to somebody else, and tha,
somebody else means to marry her
There's no mistake about Il; % bear up
and Try your luck elsewhere"
Hut Fred Evans was not to bo discour-
agcd by mere hcapay. That very day he
went to SEQ Belle, determined 10 know bis
fate from her own lips. Soon after be lefl
OakviIle and did not SEQ him again for
several years, when, meeting him In town
one day, ] insisted on bringing him home
with me and presenting him to his old fame,
Belle Bunson-the present. Mn Ever.
green.
"Ah, Fred :" said he, afler dinner, when
my wife and the little Evergreens had Ieft
us to ourselves" All, Fred, you served me
a shabby trick when you allowed mo to
lose my heart TO the girl you were all along
intending 10 marry yourself-a very shah
by trick, one OF which ] never suspected
you!'
So I had to tell him lin strict confidence
Of course, as ] tell you reader) all about the
bed room affair at the Oakville Hotel, and
the love that grew out Of it.
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10000 votes
Making . total OF Ok
Enough TO carry any charterelec.
5000 votes.
A COURAGEOUS FINALE BaEAKrSe Or

COURAGEOUS FINALE BRkAKISo Or
CARD PAsrT.-A courageous woman, some
erenings Hnce called at the residence Of u
friend, found party engaged in playing n
game Of cards. Actiated by zeal for the
Cause Of good momls and religion, SHE
seized tho cards and threw them into the
FIRE. Then turning upon the party. she
warned them Of their danger aud cxhorrd
them to repent and change their course o,'
life. This scene 30 impressed her that slc
went at once to the rooms Of an irisl,man
who hail formerly been n preacher, and h."
sought him to establish religious meeting.
and to form class for those who might lH'
induced to join with him. After some he-
itnting he consented to do %. Thus Wa
Mcth0dism established on this conIip'n
This scene occurred one htmdr,d years ago,
in the city Of New York. The name oi
our heroine was Barbara Heck that of ihr
Irish preacher was Philip Embnry. From
this feeble and unpromising beginning the
Me,hodia church has become numerically.
the largest Protestant church In America.
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NUMBER AZ.
SPARE LINES.

Lies have long legs but weak hacks.
Il has been ascenained that the man who
bed on to the last was q shoemaker
Whs, arc the features Of = cannon :
Cannons mouth, canpon-ize, and cannon
ee5.
Men arc generally deserted In sdversI'y'
When the sun sets our very shadows reinse
to follow US
ZONES wants 10 know whether the liberty
Of the press 10 proved by having your poek'
ct picked In crowd.
At what time Of life may man bc M'n
to belong to the vegetable singdom3 Whe"
"long experience has made him sage
Censure is the most efiectual when mlxe'i
with praise. 30, when fault Is discover.
ed, Il is we'll to look up virtue TO Dear
company.
Nature 10 moro polite than the generality
OF mankind. II you walk into tho woods
the very trees will greet you with proiu-
sion Of boughs.
"Nine tailors make man." Ninety.
nine tailon like Andy Johnson wouldn't
make man as good and loyal - tour
msryred President"
"Why, isn't my shin clean 2" quoth ono
bohemian 10 another. 1Well. yes" was
the answer, "it's clean for brown, but it's
awful dirty for white"
Whether your life Ia to be long or short.
let Il be lie In earnest-a life that shows
religion not as something among other
things, but a. absolutely everything.
A witty Congressman, who had never
been able to get the floor. remarked to
friend. II have been in Washington almost
two years and have caught almost every.
thing but the Speakers eye.
Some robbers having broken into gen
tleman's house, went 10 the bed oil the
servant and told him if he moved he wns
a dead man. That's q falsehood, said he
"for if move, LIN sure that I'm alive \"
The old gentleman who thought he could
stop rat hole with a toasted cheese has
Just been overtnken by another llallncina-
ton, that young women can he kept from
knowing "what is what" by sending them
to boarding school.
GLa INC !"sighed Mrs. Parington, "herr
I've been sufierin the bigmies Of drnl,
three mortal weeks. Fust ] wns seizrd
with bleeding phrenology in the lefl hen
shire Of the brain, which was exceeded u
a stoppnge Of the left ventillator Of H..
heart. This gave me an inflammation IN the
borux. and now I'm sick with the chloro-
form morbus. There is no bles,in' like that
Of health, particularly when you are sick
A Western friend sends the following:
"Well. we have in our town a goOd.heart.
ed aud well meaning man. who sometimes.
in endeavoring to be profound, -geis off"
some very queer sayings. Among. other
good qualities he has on implicit continenr"
In Providence, which he once qualified IN
this way: He had just returned from "a
long and tedious ride on wet and cold
winters day. Sitting down by the fire AMI
warming himself he remarked to a friend.
"Peter. ] really believe if il had not been for
the blessing Of kind Providence and these
hiek pants ! should have caught my death
OF cold""
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1866-11-16

nTA talented young African Of tho
booi.black persuasion, while dancing like
81. vitus over customers boots the other
day, observed . neighbor poring wisely over
newspaper, whereupon he addressed him
thus:
"Julius, what do debbel you lookin' AZ
dat paper fssl You can't read"
"t;o way, fellah. replied tho other in
disnsntly, "suss can read, l'se big mt
for dat"
"Big 'nuf." retoued the fn.t one, seon'
fully, cows big 'nuf to catch mice, ''''
che can't do ."