The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-12-07

The sun-boat Chickamauga, sunk by the
Confederates in Cape Fair River, below
Wilmington, North Carolina, on the cap
ture of Forts Fisher and Caswell, by the
national troops, in January last, has been
raised and taken to Wilmington for over
hauling and repairs. She is a screw
steamer, and her machinery is said to be
still in excellent condition. The Chicka-
mauga's career was q short but quite q
successful one.
The London papers publish long ac-
count of the funeral Of Tom Sayers, the
pugilist. The affair wound up with grand
set-to between the police and the roughs,
in which the former, after desperate
struggle, were successful. After the skir-
mish, the cemetery grounds presented the
appearance of quite an extensive battle
ground-wounded mon laying around in
every direction. 1t was disgraceful affair
throughout.
Sugar, it seems, can be produced by
other than slave labor. The production of
sugar in the Sandwich Islands has reached
to 5000, 900 pounds yearly, and is incrcas-
ing with such raIidity, that an intelligent
islands, estimates the production in 1865,
at 1G. .OO0, 900 pounds, and in 1866, at 49,
600, 900.
MINNESOTA ELECTIoN-NEGRo SUFFRAGE.
Negro suffrage has been voted down by
the people of this Republican State, as
well as in Wisconsin and Connecticut It
Northern States, any one will have tho
impudence to urge the measure upon the
South.-CincinndH Enquirer.
The Washington Union is severe on the
gentleman from Lowell. 1t says:
eff Gen. Butler had been in heaven
during the rebellion there he would have
stolen all the gold of the New Jerusalem,
and run away with the silver OF the Arm Of
the Covenant"
ly Of South Carolina, a Confederate officer
who commanded battalion of artillery in
1861, and who was present at Santa Ros't
Island and Shiloh, has received the ap-
pointment of chief Of artillery from the
Emperor of Mexico.
The Mississippi Legislature passed the
exemption bill over the Governors veto.
$4,000 worth of property belonging to the
head of family, children, &c. The I4egis-
lature did not pass the ''stay law over
the veto.
DEATH on ToBAcco.-Thc New York
Daily Netcs says: The Free VIII Baptist
resolution prohibiting the ordination of
ministers who use tobacco. The clergy
men addicted to the use Of the weed say
they 'sdon't see much free ,oM about that"
AHUGE BOUNTY CLA1M.-A Mr.. Burrill,
of Brookline, Massachusetts, has present
cd claim to the city authorities Of
Boston, for nearly 81 100000, which he
contends is due to him on written con-
tract, for obtaining soldiers for the quotas
of Boston.
W. A. Graham, Esq, has been elected
Senator from North Carolina for the long
term, receiving one hundred and thirty
eight out of one hundred and fifty-four
votes. Graham was in the Confederate
Senate, and has not been pardoned.
Connecticut, Of course, will not be repre-
sented in the next Congress, as (says the
Boston PoSt) no delegates from people
who refuse negro votes, according to the
Hon. Charles Sumner, can be recognized
at Washington.
The National I,,teNigencer has ascer-
tanned that both the French and Mexican
legations discredit the firing by American
troops on the Imperial war vessels, as re-
ported in the kilograms from the Rio
Grande.
The Louisville Journal attaches some
Importance to q rumor that an immense
quantity Of powder is being accumulated
at Cairo, and that commissary's, quarter
masters and medical stores are gathering
there for 100000 men.
The fine courthouse at Lexington, Da-
wilson County, North Carolina, and the
building near it belonging t( Mr.. Pennery,
occupied as the post office, was destroyed
by fire last Thursday night. 1t was doub.-
less the work of an incendiary.
The railroad depot at Medford Massa-
chusetts was broken into recently and the
safe blown open and robbed. One Of the
burglars was found on the floor in the
morning. with his skull fractured by
| piece of iron blown from tic safe.
The action Of the military authorities at
Mobile in refusing to obey writ of hdbeds
corpus in the case Of Dexter, charged with
cotton frauds against the Government,
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