The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-15

guar epluemlc among the Havana
merchants. Everybody specnlates
in Celestials. Every few days ship
arrives with load of these ':white
nlggers, and the vessels are con-
signed in some instances to firms
that never went beyond calico and
linen. The price of good healthy
Chinaman is about $500. Those
who don't pass muster as first class
sell from $50 to $2OO-so says
letter from Havana.
An immense Catholic Church in
Baltimore is now approaching com
pletion. 1t will seat comfortably at
least 5000 persons on the ground
floor. Nearly 100000 of bricks
were used i'll its construction. The
principal sum required to erect this
immense specimen Of architecture
one of the most attractive and i'm
posing buildings in the city-was
raised by weekly contributions from
members Of the congregation, at
twenty-five cents each.
In Brownlow's State. his militia
are deliberately numbering men with
out any other reason assigned than
that they were Confederates. We
once saw an engraving representing
n mad bull pitching into a crowd as
sembled to witness hanging, and
one of the culprits standing on the
scaffold, with the halter round his
neck, remarking to the other, "How
lucky, Jack, that we are up here"
There is Hebrew Government in
the United States, which, like the
Fenians, has its headquarters in New
York. Its object is to aid in the re-
storation of the Jews to the Holy
Land, and it is now about to call for
loans, and issue bonds, in the name
of the Israelitish Government, bear
ing seven per cent. interest. We find
this paragraph "going the round" of
the papers, but know nothing of its
truth.
The indianapolis Jom-nalsays there
is q certain old gentleman in that city
who now revels i'll the connubial bliss
of sixth marriage. His last matri-
monial adventure is of late date.
He has had the same attendant Mt
each o. his weddings, who, having
stood by him through six troubles,
seems determined to see him through
the seventh, taking Scriptural view
of things.
President Johnson having patheti-
cally inquired in his Raleigh speech,
last week, where are the Smiths
and the Joneses?" the terrible Joker
of the Lynchburg RepubHcan re-
spends: I'VE saw n paragraph, o
few days since, to the effect that
John Smith had settled IN Memphis.
We haven't the slightest idea in the
world where the Joneses are"
Two GREAT EVENTS. The Mont
Gents Tunnel under the Alps, and
the Pacific Railroad, are expected
to be completed in 1870 Passengers
can then go by rail from New York
to San Francisco with hardly Il
change of cars, and European travel
ers will be able to go through instead
of over the Alps.
\ chemist, at Sydney, New South
Wales, has just found out that he
can fit n ship with an apparatus that
will keep in congealcd state 500
carcasses OF beef in tanks, these car
casses having been entirely frozen
through at starting. Beef killed five
months ago, is reported rs quite
good.
4 paper shell boat has been tried
on the Hudson River, with complete
success. 1t is about thirty feet long
and weighs but forty pounds The
paper is thin, but rendered impcrvi-
Gus to water by coating of compo-
sition and oil, which render it elastic
and tough. so that it will bear Il shock
which would staye wooden shell.
The Paris PreSSe says that tie in
terchanSe OF courtesics between the
Emperors of Russia and France in
dicate accord on the Eastern Ques-
ton, and it adds that Austria must,
whether she will or not, agree to the
great Prussian- Russian French COM
bination, and England can look on.
A man in Louisville, whose wife
died of cholera, has sued the city
for S25. 900, alleging that the i'm
punity OF the city caused the disease
John Randolph's former slaves are
settled in Ohio, and are highly
spoken of for Industry and good con
duct.
Frederick Douglas is boing urged
! by influential persons at Washington
for Superintendent of the Freedmen S
Bureau.