The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-09-13

/ Bound TO WM.-At the Saratoga
races, Tuesday, the singular spectacle
was Afforded of Red Dick, hurdle
{ Ieaping race horse, after throwing
his rider, continuing on his Gown
hook the race, taking the jumps in
fne style, and coming in second best,
two miles in four minutes and d
quarter OF q second, and afterwards
coming back to the stand to get the
Jockey weighed, whom he had dump
| ed q mile back. That horse deserves
to vote. Of course he couldn't be
allowed the second best fee, entrauce
money, because he had lost his
handicap weight by casting his jockey,
but 1T is the most sagacious instance
of equine equanimity ever heard of.
The death of Maximilian is now
being performed at Milan. Maxi
milan falls in love with the wife of
JuareZ, and the two lovers adore
each other in spite of obstacles. The
Empress Carlotta is sent to Europe,
SO as not to interfere with the in
trigues of the Emperor. Juarez
swears vengeance. He shuts, up his
wife in q nunnery, and lays siege to
Queretaro.
A Roman Catholic Chapel has just
been consecrated in Headfort, Coun-
ty Galway, Ireland, which is designat-
ed by its builders the "Irish Anne
rican Church of st. Mary" The
money for its erection was supplied
by Irishmen in the United States,
and its bell bears the inscription,
Presented by few Irish in America
who love their misruled country"
A PRoH1DIToRY TARIFF.-Senator
Grimes, of Iowa. has written letter
declaring his hostility to prohibi-
tory tariff. He says that he is not
aware that the Republican party has
ever taken any position on the tariff,
and that he believes that the people
of Iowa will be unwilling to destroy
their revenue from imports by q
prohibitory policy.
COUNTERFEIT FIVE CENT PIECES.
There are in circulation at the South
counterfeit five cent pieces made of
lead with cont of quicksilver, very
skillfully executed, and we'll calculated
to deceive. They may, however, be
easily detected by the difference of
weight between the bogus and the
genuine.
HE RULE ADoPTED.-Thed different
warehousemen in Columbus give
notice that hereafter, in pricing and
selling cotton, they will include the
revenue tax of two and a half cents.
This will make their quotations. cor
respond with those reported from
New York and other cities.
In consequence of numerous suits
brought by Northern creditors against
insolvent merchants in Richmond,
several of the latter have taken ad-
vantage Of the Bankrupt Act. Forty
applications we're filed on Friday
with the register.
A body Of policemen from New
York were detailed by the Snperin-
tendent, who is Methodist, to keep
the peace ct camp meeting. Many
of them were converted, and forty
of them held a prayer meeting on
their own account.
The reveaend scoundrel Wendt,
who committed rape upon number
of little girls in the orphan asylum
at Philadelphia, of which he was the
superintendent, has been. sentenced
to fifteen years imprisonment.
Washington was wont to say, be
courteous to: all, but intimate with
few, and let those few be well tried
before you give them your conf
dence.
'Cdpital weather, Mr.. Jones, capi-
tai weather. My wife's got such a
cold she can't speak. I like such
weather."