The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-27

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at last, after much importantly. to the
African whale. Fred. has been placed at
Inc very head OF the Grant electoral
ticket In New York. It seems to us
strange that Fred, who really las more
Drains than half their white leaders
should not have been honored with bet.
ter places at the political feasts of the
great: party of equal rights to which he
nas been invited before this late dav.
10 oil the feasts, social, etc., he has not
been invited. So Mr.. Sumner says.
The French navy for 1873 will consist
of 81 armed vessels, OF which 8 are iron.
plated. OF the entire number. 60 will
De held In reserve. and will not be placed
In commission. The total of marines
and sailors will be 29,43I. This is a
large reduction, as the French fleet now
consists of 101 armed vessels, of which 7
are IRON -clads In the time OF the en-
pre-, Immediately preceding the Ger
man war, the French navy numbered 167
vessels, and the effective force of the
crews amounted to $4,000 men.
The Partisan journals are not slow to
express opinions very decidedly adverse
TO the claims of Mr.. Stanley. The whole
~. history they regard as colossal hoax.
Inc letters purporting to have como
denounce as rank forgeries. Iivinostone
himself they believe to be dead. and IN
that condition only do they think it pro.
bable that Mr.. Stanley would have
oraved detection and ventured to do
what ho has done.
And now the condition of riot and
bloodshed in Belfast has reached TO snch
height that many families are desert
ing the city. Every one is expressing
Inc greatest indignation at the rioters.
!ncendiaries arc still at work, and the
losses OF property owners are enormous.
Inc magistrates. acknowledging their
impotence, have unanimously petitioned
the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to place
the city under the operation of the peace
preservation act.
FROM South Africa we learn that the
yield OF diamonds at the Cape OF Good
hope mines continues exceedingly re-
muneratlve, the precious stones being
found IN large numbers. Dishonesty
was increasing also; robberies of the
gems being frequent. An American was
convicted OF plundering the mails, and
received q severe sentence.
GEN. E. P. ALExANDER.-The Colum.
bus Sun states that Col. Salisbury. it has
been pretty we'll settled, will be cucceed-
ed as President of the Savannah and
Memphis Railroad by Gen. E. P. Alex.
ander Col. Salisbury is to be the Presi.
dent of the Mechanics and Planters
Bank. soon to be opened in Columbus.
SAD AcC1DENT.-A child of MI. H.
baumgarten, about eighteen months old,
while playing in a tub of water, yester.
day morning, unnoticed by it's nurse.
lost Its balance, fell head foremost into
the water and was drowned.
ICharloAe Observer.
An historical French lady, 80 old as to
forget she had ever belonged to history.
has just died, in the load year of her age.
Madame Ulrich de Beauge ct de Mel.
guel, dame d'honneur" to Marie An.
toinette.
A difficulty occurred at Rikersville.
near Charleston, on Saturday last, be.
tween two colored men, named John
johnson and Simon Gale, when the for
mer received two mortal wounds from a
pistol in the hands of the latter.
Dan. Rice was recently arrested and
fined at Lansing, Mich, for assaultine a
boy. whom he had engaged to ride his
trick mule, but who rode it too success.
fully to please him.
The longest bridge in Germany ia
shortly to be bnilt across the Rhine at
Wesel. It will be $3.50 feet long. The
width OF the river at that point is 1880
feet.
A young lady at Long Branch receives
new dress daily from New York. and
yet. does not half cover herself when in
full dress.
Judah Benjamin has received ..pa.
tent OF precedence" at the London bar.
and now takes rank next after Mr.. Her
schell, Q. O.
Ruins D: Connolly. OF Terre Hau.e.
married his eleventh wife recently
Rufus is OF domestic turn of mind.
Mrs. Alice Carter, of Nashville. aged
fifteen years. has petitioned for divorce
from Samuel Carter.
Mr.. Dutchworth, of Iowa, has been
delivered of an active lizard, swallowed
IN the South during the war.
OF the eleven German newspapers in
Pennsylvania, only one supports Hart
ranft, and only two support Grant.
Sixty-four Republican papers which
supported Grant in 1868 now advocate
Of