The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-10-26
the Act Of July 17tH, 1862. are not


dispossessed of the right to those
bounties, fhe Attorney General being
clearly of the opinion that enlist fments
iR the United States army instantly
makes the slave freeman forever,
and places him upon a footing of
equality with the white volunteers.
A letter from Lexington, KY, states
that good deal of excitement pre-
walls over the removal of martial law,
and there will no doubt soon be a
conflict between the civil and military
authorities. Negroes hired on mill
tary passes are being discharged, and
all contracts made between masters
and slaves are deemed as at an end.
Owners are preparing to reclaim their
slaves, and all absent on military
passes will no doubt be hunted up,
driven back to their former masters,
and set to work. Judge Pearl, of
Whitley County, is reported to have
decided that the law Of Congress, of
March 3, 1865, IS unconstitutional,
and to have ordered black woman,
VINO is the wife OF Il soldier, to be
sold,as slave.
Gen. Brisbin has ordered the arrest
of Judge Pearl for violating the
United States law
In the case of Leroy NJ. Wiley and
Frederick Lawrence rerSuS George w.
Gooch, where tho defendant was az
rested for the alleged misappropria-
ton of funds collected by him in
Texas, which he invested in rebel.
bonds, negroes and other Southern
property. Judge Ingraham, of New
York, has rendered q decision. He
refus@ to discharge Mr. Gooch from
arrest, and orders the defendant to
pay ten dollars costs.
General Banks, on the 18th instant,
delivered a lecture before the Boston
Mercantile Association. on national
affairs, in which he advocated the
earliest possible restoration of the
lately rebellious States to 1neir former
position in she Union. Whether or
not they sEould be restored before
they conceded the ballot to freedmen
he did not consider a vital question.
The rG!pressible Wendell Phillips.
III a lecture delivered in Boston On
Tuesday night, Said that President
johnson had. made himself three
fourths rebel in order that the rebels
themselves might become one-fourth
Union, and denounced General Banks
as "a vagrant mountcbank, laden
with the curses OF every loyal man in
Louisiana and Massachusetts. The
Republican party, he insisted, i.aL no
longer all existence, and had had
none since the Baltimore Convention
which renominateQ President Lin
coin, though there is'a spectre walk
ing over the country in its STROUD"
lhe SHn, l4s conn, enting npon
Wendell Phillipy speech, remarks:
"Wendell Phillips is sort of ad-
vance guard for the radical party. He
is sent ahe;N as political skil1nisher,
to ascertain how fast the party can
safely travel upon the radical road.
When the agitation of the slavery
question was the special hobby OF the
radicals, Phillips always kept in the
van, feeling the way and drawing the
popular fire. When slavery ceased to-
be a theme for political discussion, the
radicals determined to make negro
suffrage their next hobby, and again
Phillips was assignedto his old posi-
ton in the front The radicals will
Row. doubtless, throw off the mask
OF support to President Johnson, and
will begin the open attack upon him.
Phillips is rs true IN indicator of the
radical course as the barometer is of
the coming storm. Therefore,, the
political almanac says about th!:&,
time. look out for {: radical hurr;-
cane.
Thc Fenian Congress at Philadel-
phla held a protsacted and continuous
secret session Oh the 18th inst. The
business under discussion was report
ed to be'of Il most important nature.
Delegations We're still arriving, and
: the national presentation was almost
complete. 1t is understood that each !
circle CT the brotherhood is ts act as