The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-09-05
The great orimin lis

| AOA tho ALtPCIACCg laws upOu LDS SNDJGCG.
Too corrupt to fear jury, over half Of
| they may yet meet the frowns and indip-
nation OF an injured people, md be-
forced to enjoy their ill.gotten gains be-
yond their sight"
MERIDIAN, Miss, September 2.-The
square. bounded by Front, johnson.
Commerce and Rhodes streets. was
burned. this morning. except the Savings
Bank building. Luss, $l0U, 600. They
we're mostly wooden buildings, and very
little insurance. A large portion of the
goods was saved.
SAN FRANCISCO, September 2.-The
China null steamer Alaska arrived, thir-
ty-slx days from Hong Kong The cur
go includes 54,665 packages ten, the
largest quantity ever landed from one
vessel in an American port.
Ihe British war steamer King Dove
returned from Coren, with two English
men, captured from tue wreck Of tho
Chusan. They had been kindly trented
and no Indignity offered them. A Gel-
man. reported by tue Chinese as captured
ut the same time, wns found to have been
left with the Chinese, who, it is sup
posed, murdered him, and invented the
story OF his capture by the Corenns to
conceal their crime.
Shanghai papers publish authenticated
letters from the Corean Government to
to the ommander of the United States
steamer Wachusett, when thut ship went
mp the river in 1868 to inquire alter The
crew Of the ship General Sherman. The
letter is friendly and concillatory to the
last degree. mud had it been reoulved by
the commander ut the time it was in
tended to reuch him, subsequent blood
shed would never have occurred. The
letter Was delayed few hours, and mean
while the Wuchusett sailed without it.
The German iron schooner Volador
has been wrecked in the Corenn Straits.
The crew. who escaped in bouts were
picked up after suffering great hard
ships.
Japanese politics are quiet. Tea crops
are abundant The silk product is from
50 to 100 per ceut. grenter thnu for the
last year, and of superior quality, but
high prices check operations CHM
aud Japan nre quiet.
Advices from Tucson, Arizona, of Au-
gust 18th, announce new aud rich silver
mine discoveries near Prescott.
SAN Francisco. September 3.-The
brig Hattie Jackson, from the Arctic
Ocean, brings seven men who we're
wrecked in the British bark Japan. Nine
men were lost.
New YoRK. September 3.-Sadie G.
Cielland, Procnress. has been arrested
for enticing nine girls to leave on n
steamer for tho city of Galveston. Two
OF the girls Jumped ovcrboard after the
steamer got under way.
LITTLE Rock. September 3.-The Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas Railroad is
completed to within Eve miles of Fort
Gibson
The cotton worm has appeared in the
Red River region.
200 Kansians have squattetl in the In
dian territory, inceusing the Indians.
WASHINGTON. September 3.-The Trcn-
snry buys $1,000, 900 of bonds every
Wednesday. and sells 50. 000. 600 iu gold
every IN harsday of September.
The Light House Board is taking
prompt measures to repair the light
houses damaged by the cyclone.
published as coming from Mobile, stat
ing that severA! vessels are quarautined
with yellow fever aboard, are false.
There ls no yellow fever here, nor has
there been this season. No such mes
sa9es originated here. @
It is reported that the President hns
determined to remove Postmaster ones.
Two stabbing affrays yesterday. A
Ribbon man attempted to poison an
Orangeman with Paris green. An in
quest was held over dead baby at Ma
dame Vanbnskirk's house. A man with
two bullet holes behind lis left ear was
found in North River. Rev. George G.
Trail, of the Victor Emanuel Church.
has adopted new prayer book, and
withdrawn from Bishop Potter's diocese.
Officer Paul Wilde, of Newark, was + !
tally injured by gang of rowdies.
SAN FRANCIsco, September 4.-The
steamer Albion, from Australia, is week
over due. Indian troubles in South
Californin are over, tho hostile chiefs
having agreed with the commissioner to
submit tho questions of difference to q
vote of the tribe.
!. New YonK, September IA fire at
Railway, N. j., caused loss Of Sl4O,-
600. A body was found in the ruins.
WHEEL1Nd, September 4.-The Iron
and Null Company's mill was burned
to-day; loss 100000 800 men are out
Of employment.
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