The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-09-03

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1t is also stated that by the 1st OF
September, the French Government
were to receive from the contractors,
fresh supply of 100000 Chassepot
rifles and 100000 pairs of shoes.
Few persons now give warlike con-
struction to these facts. The general
impression is that the Emperor is
augmenting his material merely to
increase his moral force in continent
al politics.
In the case of D. R. Gage, for vio-
lation of internal revenue laws, by
eXtortion in Office, the sentence of
the court is that he be imprisoned in
the jail Mt Greenyille until the 10Th
of March, 1868, pay fine of 5000
and the costs of prosecution, and, rs
the prescribed legal consequence, be
forever incapable Of holding Office
under the United States Government.
ESCAPED FROM PRsoN.-Informa
ton from Savannah states that James
Duncan, Commissary of the Confed-
crate Wirz at Andersonville, escaped
from Fort Pulaski last week. He
was IN confinement there, serving q
term of fifteen years imprisonment,
to which he was sentenced by court
martial convened ut Savannah imme-
diately after the close Of the war.
$4,000 men are steadily at work
upon the Pacific Railroad line, and
the money already expended has
reached the round sum of $35, ,OOO,-
600. OF this amount about 10000
600 have been paid in by private
stockholders, about 100000 have
been furnished by the United States
Government, and the balance bor-
rowcd by the company.
The Perricre, of the General Trans
Atlantic Company's fleet, which re-
Gently won the golden medal ut the
Paris Exposition for superiority in
speed and safety, eclipsed on her
last passage to Paris all her previous
accomplishments, doing the distance
between New York and Havre in
eight days and seventeen hours, the
fastest time on record.
FIRE IN ORANGEBURG, S. C.-We
regret to learn that the residence of
Rev. A. L. Dickson, Pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Orangeburg,
was totally consumed by fire about l
o'clock Saturday afternoon. There
was no insurance on the building.
The furniture and most OF the library
was fortunately saved.
BRIDGING THE PEE DEE.-We learn
that the Pee Dee will soon be spanned
by two noble bridges, one at Cheraw
and another near Society Hill. It is
expected that both of these bridges
will be opened for freight and travel
about the 18th of September.
While ten men watch for chances,
one man makes chances, and while
ten wait for something to turn up,
one turns something up-so, while
ten fail, one succeeds and is called q
man of luck or favorite of fortune.
There is no luck like pluck, and for
tune most favors those who are most
Indifferent to fortune.
Houston was illuminated Ly bon
fires on the 25th, to keep yellow
fever away. The Houston Journal
says, ''If he yellow Jack) does come,
we will give him such q rouser rs
to drive him away again" The 7sle
groph, of the 23d, says the city is as
healthy rs it ever has been.
Among the new and costly build
lngs in New York is that owned by
James Brown, and situated in Wall
street. 1t is of marble, with a
frontage of about forty feet, and
cost S1,O00,000. The entire rental
of the building is $1SO,OOO per an
mum.
Quilp, who has been rejecting on
the very slender framework with
which q fashionable lady often sup
eIorts the appearance of plumptitude,
says it reminds him of the Roman
nil niSi bonum-there's nothing of
her but her bones!
The Mexican correspondence of
the New Orleans Picdyune says that
no less than 500 Imperial officers,
prisoners of war, French, Austrian,
Belgian and Mexican, have been shot
since the 1st of March, and the work
goes on.
An old woman died in Milwaukee,
the other day, whose disease COM
pletely batfled the skill of the physi-
clans. Upon opening her stomach,
a number of large crabs, alive and
active, were found.
Applications for bankruptcy in Vir-