The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-09-02

found with one hrm on broadway.
$50. 900; with another firm on Broad.
way, S32, ,000-making in ell $92, 900. It
was rumored last night that other stocks
had been counterfeited, and that bust
ness will be partially suspended in.Wall
street to morrow, till the truth is known.
Williamson has the alias OF n. II. viii.
liams, and is said to have been dis
charged years ago from the position OF
book keeper to Brooks Bros. for pecu.
lation and forgery. Every effort is be.
ing made to secnre his arrest
WAsHE.oToN, September 1.-The in
spectors Of steamboats, have made puh-
lie the officiul report of the Wawasset
disaster. They recommend the prosecu-
ton of the Potomac Ferry Company
and the captain and mate. and the sus-
pension of the engi r.; charges again st
the Forry Company CARRYING more pas
sengers than allowed. and the employ.
ineus of officers who did not bear certi-
tlcates; charges against the captain and
mate Tor accepting places without pro-
per documents; want Of discipline is
generally charged, and undue anxiety
on the part Of the captain to save the
boat, instead ot the passengers. The
Secretary has referred the report to the
Solicitor General for his action, with a
view to the prosecution of the alleged
culprits.
WAsHISGToN, September debt
statement nt-Decreasc Sc, 80. .0GO; coin in
Treasury SS7, ,125.C00; currency $l2,-
000.0U0.
Tue Treasury has discovered The exist
enco OF very dangerous countcrfe;. of
the sou legal tender note, of tile last
series OF 1867, SO perfect in its e1ecu.
tlon, that Treasurer Spinner declares it
Is calculated to deceive even the most
prac:iced experts Tie note was for
warlesl here by the Assistant Treasurer
ut New York, who suspected it, but 70 :
war:eu IT to the Treasurer for cXamiua-
ton by the experts Q: the department.
lhc differences between the counterfeit
aud the genuine issIa viii! le given fur
publication to.morr.w
Probabilitirs-For the South Atlantic
States, gentle and fresh S3uth- westerly
TO Westerly winds. MA generally clear
weather, excepting urea. OF light rain on
the coast.
New YORK, September l.-Leouard
Brown, who, on Saturday, enleavorel
TO procure the negotiation Of $50. 900
worth Of forged Ne~ York Central
bonds, WAS HrraigAed ut The Tombs po-
lice court, this Afternoon. Wooster
Sherman said ha borrow ed the bonds
from Brown to negotiate, and Only
knew Brcwn from the Friday previous.
Holbrook, Of the firm ot Eddy IL Co.
pronounced the bond numbered 1O4,
sumbitted to him, nE nnloubted for.
gerry.
C1ScINNATI. ONO, September IA
letter from prominent physician OF
Mlliersburg says: 1.-The cholera is fear-
full here. There were iifteen deaths in
town this morning. Several other per-
sons will bD dead presently. Most of
the victims are negroes. There have
been nearly thirty deaths here since
Thursday last" Tho letter is dated
September l.
ST. LoCIs, September IA special
despatch to the ReDuL. lean, from Setlalia,
Missouri, gives an account Of terrible
tragedy which occurred at knightiy's
Station, on the Missouri, Kansas aud
Texas Railroad, six miles West Of Seda-
lia, or Saturday las. 1t appears that
kuightly, who had been laboring under
mental arrangement for some time,
killed or caused the death Of his sister,
Adelaide, aged forty years, aud his
nephew, Louis Stobbs, set tire to the
house. and then killed himself The
house occupied an isolated situation,
and when the neighbors reached it, it
was mass of ruins. The charred re-
mains Of knighty were found neur the
window, with partly burned shotgun
at his feet, and the bodies Of his sister
and nephew near tho front door; but so
badly charrei that it could not be de.
termined whether they had been killed
by hnightly or we're suflocated. The
coroner's jury inclined to tie latter OPT
Mon, although the neishbors testified
to having heard three shots ircd while
the house was burning.
The same special says two horse
thieves were hanged by mob in Ben,
ton County, on Saturday. an,! another
OF the same gang hal been arrested and
Is now i'll jail nj Sedaiiu.
superintendent Joseph W.i,.cn, one
ol the victims OF the explosion q: the
steamer George &. Woii, iiel acre yes.
torauy.
The convention OF I;Aii:u Societies, IN
session here, last week, adopted pei.
ton to Congress, askin" that body 20 cl-
i.ctuaiiy suppress. the trn:,i: in Italian
children, which has been carried Oh sc
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