The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-04-11

Domestfc nIeIange.

~ Domestic neIange.
< Hon. Horatio Seymour ia still at Keokuk,
Iowa. laid up by the injuries he recently
received by the railroad accident near
Peoria, Illinois, .1ll.
rs The Pensacola and Georgia Railroad of
the Statei of Florida, has recently been sold
for more than 800, 600 above its bonded in
debtedness, thus bringing the old bonds,
most of which are owned by Northern men,
up to par @ .-,.f.,.t.,-....-..,,
The expenses of, the Chicago police de-
partment for the past year, and up to the
1st OF April, amounted to 1857 ,719, and the
fire department. $324,71l.
Brigadier-G General Howard, who was to
have been relieved by Brigadier-G General
Hatch, will lcontinue in charge Of the Freed
mems Bureau, and the latter will take COM
mand of his regiment.
paper in Chicago, recording the sale of
pews pIse no0 in new church. calmly catalogues
mo, l36' as knocked down to CDR. E. M.
Hale. the abortionist. at the extraordinary
low'Bum Of $4OO"
A Southern paper says there is no doubt
about the fact of General Grant having
great Northern lights in his Cabinet, for it
lswell known he has, the Hoar-y- Borie -alis
there. ~. l3r
General sJubaIA. Early, late of the Con-
tederate States army, arrived in Lynchburg,
ID
good health and looking remarkably we'll.
He was, an exile nearly four. years, during
which time he sojourned in Mexico, Cuba
and Canada. tl, 1885
genius; has constructed lamp. for
burning the cotton fly, which lays the egg
thataproduces the cotton worm It will
probably prove about as useful as the
famous flea killing machine, the directions
for using which were: First, catch your
flea. then carefully place him under the
knife, turn the crank, and he is neatly de-
capitated.t .peH... -.
It.is calculated that ut the present rate of
consumption, the entire pine forests of
Michigan will be cut down in less than
seventeen years; and, as Michigan is by far
the largest pine producing State in the
Union, there lis every reason to expect a
scarcity OF lumber before many years. In
1867, 2,37S, 275. .000 feet were. produced in
that State. Thirty acres of good ship tim
ber,aEe required to build common lake
steamboat. t1Y .I
To show how our. ocean commerce is
dwindling away, it may be stated that il
1861, out of a value of 1856, 900, 600 carried
to and from our domestic ports. only
1000, 900 went under foreign flag.
whereas. in 1867, out of $847, 900, 600 at ali
ports. $577, 600,0 900 were carried in alien
vessels, and last year the proportion against
uS Stai lurCner increased.
The Hamburg and American Steam Packet
Company, during 1865 despatched fifty
steamers, with 6,1M passengers, 55, COO
tons of freight, and $11,746, 1873 in specie,
from ,NewiYork to Hamburg, and fifty-two
steamers, with 37,357 passengers and
$4,000 tons of freight, from Hamburg to
New York,
Commissioner Hulburd was before the
House Committee on Banking, on Friday,
to explain the Senate bill He stated that
ifit is passed it will take from five banks in
New York. two in Boston and one in Balti
more, which have each more than 81 900,
600 of circulation, So, 333, $685. The State of
Rhode Island will have to surrender
$4,0OO,O0O, Massachusetts 5000, 900, and
Connecticut $3,3OO,OOO The West, under
the bill, won't obtain dollar of the
$50. 900, 900, but it will go to the Southern
States. whichahave but little now 4t.f.
Professor Robley Dunglison, the distin-
tlngolshed medical author, died in Phila-
delphia, ON Thursday evening, of heart
disease and dropsy. DIR. Dunglison was a
native Of England. He removed to the
United States forty years ago. He held at
different times Professorships in the Uni
yersitles of Virginia and Maryland, and in
the Jefferson Medical College of Pennsyl-
yania. He is most known as the author
OF several valuable medical works. the
chief among which are the Dictionary
OF Medical Science, "rpnblished in 1868.
"Elsmehts of Hygiene and Human Health, y
"Genepl Therapeutic and Materia Medical ?
published in 1886, "New. Remedies, !" in
1890 and Human PbysioIogy.n Oyer
100,000copies of works have been printed.
He WIS member of numerous literary and