The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-10-23

culoIotoTm, euu Wuen!6O6 Ielli lnS6n6l-
ble. he stabbed her repestediy, and al.
most severed the head from the body,
aud bit her sAyagely iu his rags. Some.
time before the Judge provided himself
with znc travelling cass, and into this
case the body was forced and the cover
carefully Aoldered down. In day or
two the girl was missed, when the
Judges house WIS searched, and in the
garden, in the rear of tho premises, the
body was found inferred. Four per-
sons. supposed to have been concerned
in this horrible affair, wore arrested, but
the Judge, owing to his exalted situa.
ton, could only be placed under sur
veillanoe.
SHREVEPORT. October 2.-Three yell
low fever deaths yesterday.
PERksKiLh. October 22-The latest
reports show nine boats lost; loss $780,
600. It is now positively stated that no
lives we're lost.
WASHINGTON, October 22.-Chief En-
gineer Humphreys report for the year
ending June 80. 1878, recommends for
the upper Mississippi. $72,OO0; from
Missouri to Ohio, $500. 900; Mississippi,
Missouri, Arkansas and White Rivers,
1872, 900; Louisville and Portland Ca.
uai, $iU0, 600; Tennessee and Cumber-
land Rivers, S840, 900; mouth of the
Mississippi River, $3.50. 900; removing
raft in Red River, S5O,O0U; improve.
ment Of Mobile Harbor, $l45, 600; ship
channel in Charleston, s. &, Harbor,
Sl8. 900; Savannah Harbor aud River,
$780, 900; mouth of st. Johns River,
Florida, $4,000.
A despatch from Knoxville, Tenn,
announces the arrest Of seven more
Tennessee couuterfeiters, by Col. Whit
ley's force. Six of them we're locked
up in default of bail. Three moro per
sons will conclude the number of ar
rests to bs made i'll the immediate vioi
nifty Of Knoxville. II wuh thought
these would be brought ia last night,
when the secret servic. corps will leave
for North Carolina, 10 assist in complet.
ing the arrests there.
A forty-eght hours rain fell ut
Charlestown. West Virginia. The
streams are swelling rapidly.
New YORK, October 22-Bo.twell
lectured. last night, III New York. upon
the national huances. He favurs ex-
pansiuu. He does not approve OF the
resumption of specie payments until
the balance OF trade in this oou ntry's fa-
vor shall justify it. He opposes banks
paying interest on call deposits.
Four men are reported arrested Oh
charges connecting them with the re-
cent immense forgeries of New York
Central bonds. Tue evldeuoe. against
| then is said to hnve bseu furnished by
the engravers who made the plates from
which the forged bonds were printed.
The steamship Westphulia brings
e557, 600 in specie.
The Italian Consul snys the Italian
Chamber Of Deputies has, ut his re-
quest, passed bill prohibiting traffic in
children. aud this biz; Will be ono Of the
first taken up by Tue Senate in Noyem-
Der. aud will. When 1t becomes law,
cltnctually pu! an end to the Italian
slave question.
SAN FEAScisco, October 22.-Tha
eruption OF Mount Rainier, in Washing
ton Territory, followed slight earth
quake.
PORTLAND. ME, October 2i.-The
gale. Monday, wun very severe. 1t is
tcareu many disasters occurred, as many
innDrr laden ScnoOuers we're along the
coast.
ClScISNAr1, O..uier 22.-Snow foil
here yesterday.
BosToN, October -. Geo. W. Keith,
Il post Office clerk in'Suuih Boston, has
oeen arrested, charged with stealing
from registered letters.
WA5ill*droS, O:lo3cs D 2-Admirul
Amy, commanding the South Atlantic
Squadron, reports to the Secretary OF
the Navy that he has succseded in pro-
tectiuy the property and parsons over
the transit ut pupanp
The receiver Of the First National
bank expects, III two weeks, to an
nnunce u dividend of thirty per cent.
The Treasury ciark, took SlO,0 900, O0U
in bonds To Enrupo Saturday, maxim g
so .OOD. 0OJ negotiated by the syndicate.
Conyer- a;id McCicllund, coiored ca.
diets Il, West PolLt, are again in trou-
bic. Tncy are charged with disregard
of the discipline ol tiio school.
The United States steamer puwhuttun II
is fast on the sanl spit oil Governor S
lSlund.
PrObabiii;ies--For the Elsterp Gulf
States, S,utherly wiuds, with cloudy
and rainy weather. For the South aud
middle AtluutIc States, South east to
South west winds, partly clsudy ind
clear warm weather.
PHiLADEI.rHIA,O October 22.-$855, 900,
coined Ia twenty dollar pieces, were de-
livered this morning by the chief coiner
to superintendent Pollock, at the Phila-