The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-11-02

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porter called 1t their establishment,
this morning. end received the follow.
Ing ipIormAs,yE;f from iEr, ,D1IE,, cas- .:
the junior psrtners. Ha said: ,sWei ids..'
sire the public to know laverythipR:twe
do not wish to screen single faot.f II
is true, We are suffering little embar:
rsssment, by having alloweaa1 sonae sac-
counts to'mature, but as regards notess
they h.ve all been promptly met. We
do not sell our own paper, but We do
that OF other houses with our endorse
ment. Perhaps one of the principal
causes that hate led to our present en-.
barrsssment.' is that we over-reached
ourselves in our endeavors to assist
Hoyt, Spra8ue & 90. I do not care to
say that ws purchased of them to the
amount OF 81, 100000 this week, but we
bought very heavily. We are now ne.
gotiating for assistance from some
banks and other corporations. II such
assistance is not obtained, the firm will
aek for an extension upon open 40.
counts. Notes will be m ct at maturity
current receipts being ample for that
purpose; failnre is simply impossible, as
assets are far in excess of our liabilities
The police authorities have ordered
that boxes be placed at the various poll
ing booths throughout the oisy, On
Tuesday next. for the purpose of re-.
ceiving subscriptions in aid Of the Mem
phis sufferers.
a. B. ClaAin &c On. notified the assso-
ciated banks, ct their meeting o.day.
| through one of it's members, that they
were not in need Of any assistance.
New ORLEANS, November IA letter
from ex.Judge Merrill, dated Colfax,
| Grant Parish. October 90, says: "In
haste. and with feelings OF horror, 1
write to inform the public of the action
OF the Metropolitan police, sent here by
Lieutenant-Gove Antoine, during
the absence Of Governor Kellogg. On
Saturday night last. the house Of most
respectable widow lady, op Red River,
was fred into, near this place; doors
were broken open, and the unfortunate
lady and her daughter, of seventeen
sum mers, taken out aud, horrible to re-.
late, violated. Neither of the ladies
could be found until late Sunday after
noon. An infant, eighteen months old,
and grand-child Of Ex-Governor Wells,
WAS found out in the woods, some half
mile from the house, aud near the spot
where the foul deed WAS perpetrated.
The infant Was niece of the lady and
child OF Mumford Wells. Oldest son of
Ex-Governor Wells. The negroes MP
here all say that it was soldiers, and We
all believe that if they were not the per.
petrators. they instigated the negroes
to the horrid deed of infamy. It is
said here that when Col. DeKline was
informed OF the outrage, he smiled, and
said his troops were up here for higher
purpose than arresting men for such
petty offences. Antoine is believed to
have sent these creatures up here to
give the negroes chance for revenge,
a1d one OF them told the writer that he
had the right now, under the protection
OF the United States, to shoot any white
man he wanted to shoot, and violate any
woman he met. He said to him, tn at
these were State troops and not United
States troops, and he replied, that the
Colonel had said, at q negro ball, the
night before, that he wanted all the
colored people to come and see him
that now they could do as they pleased,
as they were under the protection of his
soldiers."
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., November L.
4OO men have been discharged from the
navy yard.
LOUISVILLE. November IA suit was
filed in the Chsncery Court, yesterday
evening. by the Farmers Bank against
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Com
pany and the Louisville, Cincinnati and
Lexington Railroad Company, to reoo-
yer on note for $50, 600, given by the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Com.
pany, and sold and discounted by the
Farmers Bank. at Frankfort. The note
was protested, after presentation at the
oompany's Office in New York. The
Farmers Bank then sued out an attach
ment and garnsheed tho Louisville,
Cincinnati and Lexington Railroad
which is largely indebted to the Chesa.
peake and Ohio Railroad.
PHILADELPHIA, November 1.-The
steamship Ohio sailed, to day, with
LOSS bales of cotton, 232 passengers
and assorted iron castings.
| WASHINGTON, November 1.-The debt
statement shows over $3,O00.O0O in.
crease.
Coin in the Treasury over $82, $50, 900;
currency, over 81, 750,O 900.
The President has appointed Isaac a.
Sturgeon, of st. Louis. to examine the
completed portion of the Texas Pacific
Railroad-some 800 miles.
Probabilities-For the South Atlantic