The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-10-04
The Edgefeld Advertiser learns

The Edgefeld Advertiser learns
that q quantity Of upginned cotton,
on the premises of Col. M. Frazer,
on Monday night last. Mr.. j. w.
fuckers large tannery, in the same
District, was entirely consumed on
Saturday night. Besides the build
ing, there was destroyed large stock
of leather, &C., n lot of unginned
cotton, and grist mill, Which had
been run in connection with the tan
merry.
PAYING THE NATIONAL DEDr.-The
Secretary of the Treasury has receiv-
ed notification from the executors
of the last will and testament Of
Captain Ralph s. Fretz, late of San
Francisco, that said testator has left
to the Uuited States the SUN of $780,
600, in trust, tol be applied toward
canceliing the national debt. The
executors express the hope that "this
legacy may be but the fore-runner of
numerous similar exhibitions of pat
riotism by other men,"
In 1860, the United States had the
largest feet cf aierohnut vessels
afioat, Great Britain second. France
third, and Germany fourth. Great
Britain now occupies the first place,
its tonnage being over 100000; the
United States 5000, 900, Germany
third, and France fourth. The COM
mercial, like every other American
interest, will be kept behind in the
competitions of nations by competi-
tions at home for political and sec
tional power.
Information from the rural districts
of Virginia, represents that the Union
Leagues formed by the radical negro
pholists are disintegrating. White
men who joined for fear Of contisca-
ton, are becoming ashamed of the
company in which they find them
selves, and the negroes begin to see
that they are to be the tools of de-
signing men and nothing more.
The various express companies do
ing business in New York, for the
first seven months of 1867, made the
following returns of receipts: Adams
Express, 1890, ,OS0; United States,
S1.312,858; American Express, ST.
2i7, $40; Merchants Union Express,
80, 2,O43, 1851.
A chap in Piqua, Ohio, was mar
ried last week, his father giving in
vitation to large company to attend
the bridal feast. They had scant
allowance of beer and cheap cake,
and the old gentleman charged his
guests fifty cents each for the "sup-
per-"
In recent conversation with Lucy
Stone, Mr.. Chase said: ''Be free to
say from me that I think there will
be no end to the good that will come
by woman's suffrage on the elected,
on elections, on government. and on
woman herself"
Hon. w. Porcher Miles, of South
Carolina, has purchased the magnifi-
cent estate of Judge Alexander Rives,
called Oak Ridge, on the Orange and
Alexandria Railroad, in Nelson Co.,
Virginia, for the sum of $40, 900, ION
terms equivalent to CASH.
HORRIBLE MURDER Ander-
son Lntelligencer states that John 81.
McGill was shot by freedman, at the
residence of Mr. J. P. Tucker, in
that District, on Saturday night, 21st
ult., and only survived few hours
after receiving the shot.
Gen. Joseph E. johnson has re-
signed the Presidency of the Alabama
and Tennessee Rivers Railroad, from
Selma to Dalton, and his place has
been filled by the election of Frank
lin 81. Deland, of New York.
Mrs. Fanny Kemble has arrived in
Philadelphia, from Europe, to see
her children. Her husband, Pierce
Butler, died few months since, in
|, Georgia.
One hundred and forty-eight bales
of new cotton were received in Mem
phis on the 9th ultimo. Business
is improving in that city, and cotton
coming in freely.