The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-07-17

over the Chicago and Great Eastern
Road. was forcibly seized the same
day at Logansport, Indiana, by 100
employees, who took this means to
procure arrearages of wages. The
raiders switched off the two cars full
of passengers and permitted the en-
gine to proceed with the mail. The
passengers had to ride fifteen miles
in omnibuses, in order to resume
their Journey. No personal violence
was offered
| CONSPIRACY Trial Disclosures
A statement was recently made that
the military commission which con-
demned the conSpirators, united in q
recommendation to the President
that Mrs. Surratt be pardoned. This
is i'll part erroneous. A majority of
that commission recommended that
her sentence to death be committed.
This paper has never been seen by
the President, nor has he heard of it
till recently, through the newspapers.
TEXAs.-The Texas papers deny
that the cotton in that State has been
damaged by the cotton worm. The
Houston Telegraph says the insects
complained of are nothing more than
grass or web worms, and that they
have been ehectually killed off by
the warm dry weather. The i'm
preston generally prevails in the
State that the cotton crop will be
very large in proportion to the area
of ground planted.
FAILURES IN NEW YoRK.-A few
OF the merchants of New York, whose
enormous store expenses and extend
ed business relations have carried
them beyond the bounds of financial
prudence, are unable to meet their
engagements, and stoppages have
consequently taken place. A large
importing house suspended payment
on Wednesday. Their Indebtedness
is largely abroad.
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON Road
A despatch from Charles B. Wallace,
Assistant Superintendent of the Mem.
phis and Charleston Railroad, dated
Memphis, July u, says: One span
of the Decatur bridge was blown
away by q tornado to-day. No de-
tention of passengers.
Political arrests in Spain aae always
made on the largest scale, and it is
therefore not matter of surprise
that, in consequence of q rumor of
conspiracy against the life of the
Queen, the Government has at once
made big haul of over 1000 per-
sons suspected of completely.
A fight occurred between q gang of
soldiers and the police, at Savannah,
on Thursday night, which resulted in
some severe fighting, but in no NOR
tai wounds. The soldiers had made
an assault upon house of i'll fame,
and resisted the attempt of the police
to arrest them.
Some English farmers feed each
head of stock from n pint to a quart
OF nolasses q day. 1t is diluted with
water, and sprinklcd on hay, which
is packed and left to ferment twelve
hours The cattle like it as we'll us
children do sweet cake.
a Chicago paper says they had
-andHiscock affair in that city
lately, except that it did not reach
the shooting point. The injured
husband demanded $4,000, but the
iniurer talked him down to $35.
which was paid and receipted for.
The Hypernion, the largest balloon
ever made III this country, with a
capacity for 20, 600 feet of gas, ascend
ed from Boston Common, Tuesday
afternoon, under the charge CT Prof.
King, who took seven companions
with him
The believers in the approaching
millennium are now at Warehouse
Point, Conn, anxiously waiting to
go up. The understanding is that
unless the present attempt is success
ful, there will not be another oppor-
tunity for 1000 years.
DIR. Robert j. Breckenridge, we'll
known III medical circles in the Con
fedorate States army. and, at one
time, acting Chief Medical Director
OF the Army of Northern Virginia,
died a few days since in Houston,
Texas.
Gov. Crawford, Of Kansas, declares
that 5000 persons have been killed
by the Indians within the past year.
He declares that if Congress will not
protect Kansas and her interests, he
will take tho matter in his own hands.
A band of missionaries under Rev.
Mr.. Taylor, sixteen in number, have
entered upon their labors in the
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