The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-11
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CHARLESTON, June 9.-Arriyed-&
Steamer Moneka, New York; ,schoon-
er Maggie Gray, Baltimore. Sailed
Steamers Champion and Saragossa,
New York.
CHARLESTON June 1O.-Arrived-
Manhattan, in forty-eight hours from
New York-the quickest passage be-
tween the two ports since the war;
schooner Bergen, Boston; ship Anne
lia, Liverpool.
WASHINGTON, June IO.-Surratt
was brought into q crowded court
this morning He was hand-cuffed,
very pale and wore q trouble look,
but when unclaimed and seated by
his counsel, became more cheerful.
The usual preliminaries are progress
ing.
The City Council has been organ
lied. The Board of Aldermen elect
ed white men throughout. The lower
Board appointed negro barber
Leading Clerk and negro NIessen-
ger.
Pension Commissioner Barrett, in
q letter to Col. Pennybacker, of Ken
lucky, State Agent, states that there
is no law, and probably never will be,
granting n pension to survivors of the
war Of 1912.
Revenue receipts to-day 5000, 900.
An expedition has started for the
newly discovered island in the Paci-
fc, in behalf of the United States.
The State Department has official
advlces Of the increase of the rinder-
pest in England.
SAN Francisco, June 9.-Arizona
advices state that the Indians have
commenced vigorous campaign,
attacking ranches violently near Pres
colt and Fort Whipple.
Idaho advices state that the Indians
are attacking the stages and stage
stations, taking off the stock. Tie
Indians are mounted on fine horses.
said to have belonged to the Second
Cavalry.
OMAHA, June 1O.-Gen. Sherman
has issued an order, saying the Pacific
Rallroad will be well guarded, and
freight and passengers will be for
warded from the terminus under q
sufficient guard. Sherman is SAN
guine of clearing the Platte Valley of
Indians i'll two weeks. Nine passen-
gers and twenty Indians fought with
III five miles of Moore's Fort, in
which one passenger was killed and
Gen. Davis son mortally wounded.
Two Indians were killed and five
wounded. The passengers returned
to Omaha this morning.
DUBLIN, June 10.--Two prominent
Fcnians have been arrested at Dun
garrin, and identified as Coils. Nagle
and Warren, formerly of the First
Irish Brigade of the Potomac.
Dispatches from Paris and St. Pc
tersburg report great rejoicing in
France and Russia at the Cars es-
cape.
The HeraAl's special says the Car
has assured the French Cabinet that
the attempted assassination has only
tended to strengthen the bonds
uniting him to Napoleon and France.
New ORLEANS, June 1O.-General
Griffin issued an order Saturday, dis
charging the entire police force of
Galveston, and has appointed q new
five of whom are coIored, but none
able to read or write
q RALEIGH, June 10.-In the United
teeates Circuit Court, this morning,
Chief Justice Chase ordered that, in
summoning grand and petit iuries,
no distinction of color should be
made
HARTFORD, June 10.-The Carpet
Company's mill, the largest in the
country, situated at Tariffville, two
miles from here, has been burned.
SAVANNAH. June 10.-The steamer
Forest City was burned ut 8 o'clock
this morning, lying at Venus Point.
The steamer is total loss, except the
machinery. She drifted to the Caro-
lima side and sunk.