The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-03

son, ana so are half-a-dOZen or more
OF the fashionable places of public
worship up town. With such O prac-
tice in vogue, one would think the
churches were built only for the ac-
commodation of the wealthy, and
that when the wealthy ran off to the
watering places, there was no further
occasion for preaching the Gospel.
Two editors of the New York Times
recently died on the same day. One,
Hon. J. S. Thorn, late member of
the New York Legislature, died of
consumption; the other, Abram Fun
da, fell from the third story of the
Phoenix Hotel, at Laningburg, caus-
ing his death.
CAN'T GET AwAY.-The Raleigh
Sentinel says there are about seventy
five prisoners on Johnson's Island,
too sick to get away, and that they
are without means Of travelling to
their homes, even if we'll enough, and
the Government no longer furnishes
transportation
Two RADICAL Bills KILLED. The
bill for admitting Nebraska rs n
State, and the resolution to convert
the building erected for the orphans
fair into q political wigwam for the
radicals, were very properly killed
by the President, who declined to
sign them.
MURDER OF Mrs. SURRArT. 1t was
positively proved, on the examina-
ton of Merritt, that the Secretary of
War, Edwin NJ. Stanton, paid Mer-
ritt between 1000 and Sc, 900 for his
services as witness before the military
commission. Dirty work, but well
paid.-Broohlyn Eagle.
Reports received from various parts
of Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and In
diana, are to the effect that the wheat
crop will be more than an average
one in respect to both quantity and
quality: The barley, ont and rye
crops also promise we'll.
The female clerks in the Treasury
Department, Washington, and, per
haps, in the other departments, have
had their pay increased from $72O to
$500 per annum, and an extra hun
dred paid for last year.
CONFEDERATE DEAD. those
buried in n grove near Raleigh, N.
G., we notice the names of Sergeant
T. B. Fleming, Thomas Anderson,
lst, and d. f. Croswell, Palmetto
Battalion, from this State.
CAUGHT. The Charlotte Times
says that the fienl in human shape,
who committed the gross outrage
mentioned in Mondays paper, has
been captured and is securely lodged
in jail.
The celebrated Cavour irrigation
canal, from the River Po to the Ii
cino, has been completed and open
ed. 1t has 300 important works
along its banks, and is the most i'm
portant canal for irrigation in Europe.
Russia, it is said, has become
alarmed at the triumphs of Prussia,
and would not have any great objec-
ton to form a coalition with France
and England for the purpose of main
tanning the present equilibrium.
Washington has seldom been so
depopulated, at the close of session,
as it now is. But few of the hotels
are over half full. The lobby is nearly
deserted, and the galleries are almost
empty.
The First National Bank of Will
mington, N. c., was organized on
the 26th, with a capital OF 800, 900.
This is the fourth National Bank or
ganized III North Carolina.
We sec it stated that Rev. James
L.. MERIT, who recently died at South
Amherst, Massachusetts,, left hand
some bequest to the Theological Se-
minary at Columbia, S. G..
At Nauplia, recently, there was a
veritable shower Of small locusts, so
that the inhabitants were obliged to
have recourse to their umbrellas to
protect themselves.
The income of DR.. Aver, of Lowell,
for 1865, was S31, ,S61-so much for
advertising.
A gentleman in New Hampshire,
aged 80 years, has been sued for $40,
600 for breach of promise.
The colored men of Philadelphia
arc organizing themselves into mill
tary companies.
The first telegram through the
completed Atlantic cable was the an
nouncement of peace in Europe.
A young man of Richmond, named
Mannheim, has had n $500, 900 legacy