The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-04

shown d letter from one Of the Mary
landers who recently visited that
place on tour of inspection, which
stated that a. .ompauy OF fifty had
already been formed for trip South,
and THAT they would leave Hagers.
town about the 10Th instant. And
that some of the gentlemen who were
here o couple Of months ago, contem-
plated settling in Lancaster County.
The Alex. Potion bombarded Jere-
mie, Hayti, on the 9Th instant. Sal
nave's troops surround the town
on the land side and an assault
was in contemplation. The inhabi-
tants of the town are cut off from
water. and the women are said to be
in full revolt. The revolutionists are
indignant at the United States for
her assistance to Salnave in fitting out
or repairing her gun-boats.
Mrs. William Duke, of Macon
County, Alabama, hung herself last
week, on account of discord with her
husband. They were married last
year, at the ages respectively of
eighteen and sixteen. She suspended
herself from one of the joists in the
house, and when cut down, her little
babe lay TRANQUILITY sleeping in a era
die near her feet.
The MEDICAL COLLEGE OF South
CAROLINA winter session of
this institution was commenced yes
terday, under auspices which indicate
chat it has lost nothing of its old and
well deserved prestige as the best
Medical College in the South.
Charleston Courier.
Wormald and O'Baldwin, the giant
pugilists, who were arrested and held
to bail in the sum of $4,000 each for
prize-fghting at Lynn, Mass, on
Thursday, were yesterday released,
their friends having dubbed together
and given the proper bonds for their
appearance in January next for trial.
A freight locomotive, working in
gravel pit on the Ohio and Missis-
sippi Railroad, eighteen miles from
Cincinnati, exploded Thursday night,
killing the conductor, fireman and
three boys standing near, and wound
ed the engineer and brakeman.
The new freight depot of the Hud-
son River Railroad, in New York, is
approaching completion. It covers
an entire square, and it is said will
be the largest building of the kind in
America.
The bronze doors of Crawford, for
the Senate entrance to the National
Capitol, have arrived in Washington.
They are pronounced artistically in
ferior to the House doors, by Rogers,
but are said to be better cast.
The Iowa Agricultural College,
which opens this month, receives pu-
pills without distinction of sex.
While the young men learn farming,
the young women learn to cook and
keep house.
There are 10000 Federal office
holders in this country whom the
people have to support by taxes.
One-half of the money wrung from
the people in taxes goes to support
these pensioners upon the Treasury.
Large bodies of immigrants are
pouring into Western Missouri, and
the st. Louis Republican claims that
State has gained 350,000 in popula-
ton since the war.
A drayman has been arrested in
New York, for robbing boxes of
goods placed in his charge for ship
ment. He has admitted the charge,
and duplicates several other parties.
A locomotive set fire to the grass
on the prairies, near Altoona, Iowa,
Famed by the high wind, the flames
dashed into the neighboring farms,
leaving swath of ruin behind.
The immense fire in the forests of
Washington territory is said to travel
at the rate of five miles an hour.
The houses of many settlers have
been destroyed.
Albert T. Benchly, q painter, fell
from O scaffold at the Holy Cross
College in Worcester, Mass, yester-
day, and was instantly killed.
A young gambler at Hamburg
staked 25O,000 francs, and his hair
turned gray while the deal was made.
But he won.
Extensive discoveries of gold have
lately been made in New Hampshire
and Vermont.
CAROLINA HALL.