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

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$50. GOO: With mother Him .6nj Bfoad.
way, S32, 000.mak King io' Ill $49, 900. Il
was rumorsd lhst niRHt thst ofHaE SsScts & s.
had been connterfeited, and that bus;.
ness will be partially suspended sin.Wal)
street to. morrow, till the truth ID known.
Williamson has the alias Of H,'H. viii.
liams, and is said to have Been dis.
charged years ago from the position of
book keeper to Brooks Bros. for pecn.
ation and forgery. Every effort is,be.
ing made to secure his arrest. Y
WASHINGTON, September 1.-The in.
speotors OF STEAMBOATS, have made pub
lie the official report of the Wawasset
disaster. They recommend the prosecn.
ton Of the Potomac Ferry Company
ana the captain and mate, and the sus-
pension OF the engineer: charges agai rat
the ferry Company carrying more pas
sengers than allowed. and the employ.
ment OF officers who did not bear certi-
ficates; 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 OF the passengers. The
Secretary has referred the report to the
Solicitor.Generalf for his action, with a
view to the prosecution OF the alleged
culprits.
| WASHINGTON, September 1.-Debs
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Sc, 750, 00O; coin in
Treasury SS7, ,l25, coo; currency $l2,-
100000.
Tue Treasury has discovered the exist
ence OF avery dangerous counterfeit of
the $500 legal tender note, of tile last
series OF 1869, so perfect in it's e1ecu.
lion, that Treasurer Spinner deciares it
is calculated to deceive even the most
practiced experts. The noto was for.
warded here by the Assistant Treasurer
at New York, who suspected it, but fo :
warded it to the Treasurer for examina.
ton by the experts Of the department.
Ihe differences between the counterfeit
and the genuine is1le will be given for
publication to- morrow.
Probabilities-For the South Atlantic
States, gentle and fresh South. westerly
to Westerly winds, and generally clear
weather, excepting areas of light rain on
the coast.
New YonE, September 1.-Leonard
Brown, who, on Saturday, enaeavored
to procure the negotiation of $50, 600
worth OF forged New York Central
bonds, was arraigned at the Tombs po-
lice court, this afternoon. Wooster
Sherman said he borrow ed the bonds
from Brown to negotiate, and only
knew Brown from the Friday previous.
Holbrook. of the frm Of Eddy IL Co.,
pronounced the bond numbered lO4,
sumbitted to him, an nrdoubted for
gerry.
CINCINNATI. ONO, September Ia
letter from prominent physician OF
Mllersburg says: "rho cholera is fear
full here. There we're fifteen deaths in
town this morning. Several other per-
sons will bn dead presently. Most Of
the victims are negroes. There have
been nearly thirty deaths here since
Thursday last" The letter is dated
September l.
ST. LOUIS, September IA special
despatch to the Republican, from Sedalia.
Missouri, gives an account of q terrible
tragedy which occurred at Knightly's
Station. on the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Railroad. six miles West Of Soda.
liza, on Saturday last. 1t appears that
knightly, who had been laboring under
AASoAsoA AOA aug lOI SOEu6 tlme,
killed or caused the death Of his sister,
Adelaide, aged forty years, and his
nephew, Louis Stobbs, set fire 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 Knightly were found near the
window, with partly burned shotgun
at his feet, and the bodies Of his sister
and nephew near tho front door; but 30
badly charred that it could not be de.
termined whether they had been killed
by Kuightly or we're suffocated. The
coroner's jury inclined to the latter OPT
Mon, although the nci2hbors testified
to having heard three shots fred while
the house was burning.
The same special says two horse
thieves were hanged by mob in Beu.
ton County, on Saturday, anu another
OF the same gang hai been arrested und
is now i'll Jail ut Sedaiia.
Superintendent Joseph Widen, one
OF the victims OF the explosion of the
steamer George G. Wolf, died here yes.
terday.
The convention OF Italian societies in
session here, last week, adopted pe.i.
ton to Congress. asking that body to ef-
fectually suppress the traffic in Italian
children. which has been carried on so