The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-09-15

Mr.. Samuel ,Jacirson, an old and ho-
The Enieb.s ofsshe eite ganelia
numbet tSS, 000 in Texas y d said IS
4 gold nugget. weighing log 1ofads,
and valued lat $25, 900, ywas disc6y yeiesi
in Sierra Cdanty, Californiss d fem days
ago. h.uka. Sss7&e tsss .
Capt. Ellis and wife, the second mate.
cabin boy and two seamer, aof the bark
Ezra, of st. Johns, N. b., were drowned
on the 1st.
The new theatre and opera house to be
erected in Charleston, s. c., it is said.
will be one of the most complete of the
kind In the United States.
The San Francisco Herald terms the
California election thorough and COM
plete revolution. The Democrats have
swept the State by surprising majorities,
and the Legislature is safe against the
fifteenth amendment.
found Wednesday night, near Crims'
store, Edgefeld County, shot through
the back. He was living when found
Assassins unknown. So says the Charles
ton Republican.
Four men engaged in tearing down an
old building at the Ogden mine, in
Sparta township, New Jersey, were killed
Thursday by its premature fal', which
buried them beneath the ruins. All
leave large families.
Dispatches have been received by the
War Department from Adelaide, South
America, up to the 18th of Aug ast. The
rebellion throughout New Zealand was
increasing, and there was much alarm
among the people.
The assessed valuation Of real and per-
sonal property of the two Counties in
which New York and Brooklyn are stu
ated, is 81, 026, 402, ,5S6, against total for
all the Counties of the State of $780,
12O,770, being more than three-fifths of
the assessed property of the entire State.
On last Saturday evening, the large
and splendid mills belonging to Dr..
Walker Curry, situated on the railroad,
about six miles above Talladega, Ala,
were entirely destroyed by fire. Besides
the mills, some 800 bushels of wheat. the
mill books, and other property, was de-
stroyed.- Total loss fully 81, 500 or 81 800.
No insurance.
Information from Bourbon County,
Ky, is to tho effect that Col. Fry, who
killed Gen. Zollcoffer, was shot and
morta''y wounded by citizen, on Tues
day, the Oath of August. He had gone
with two soldiers to search a citizen s
house, and was told that if he persisted
in doing so he would be shot. He per-
sisted i'll his determination, and was shot
as he entered the gate.
y South CAROLINA Tp-FF.-The Au-
CrnSta GJD SiiI,JJjD;lI1jI GsNTr,
Yancy Anderson, (colored,) under arrest
for stealing q trunk in South Carolina,
was yesterday turned over to the author
tiles of Edgetield County This suspi-
cious scamp, about two years ago, rob-
bed n gentleman of this city of 5000, and
served twelve months on the chain gang
for his enterprise.
Koopmanschaap has left San Francisco
for New York, purposing to make tour
through the South en- route. As all know,
Koopmanschaap is the head d-centre of
''the coolie trade" and, rs we have
shown from the Statutes at Large that
there is now no law inhibiting Chinese
immigration, the act of 1862 being in
operative, he has good chance to run
IN divers thousands Celestials to the rice
plantations and cotton fields of Dixie
before Gong ress can meet and stop the
gap, if, indeed, under the treaties with
China. it can be stopped at all.
Ne,c York World.
GEN GRANT on THE TExAs ELECTION.
Gen ncral Grant said to Gen. Clark and