The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-08-12

Twentieth 47.055 G75l9 $1,000
Twcnty-frst. 27,sl4 1907 1850
Twcnty-sccond 22,605 6l,725 10000
Total. .. 629, $50 s13,G69 1908, $50
The Last New York Situations.
We have New York papers-the He,
raid, Times and Army ,tnd Nury Jou'-
mui-of the 5th inst. We do not find
much news. in the sense proper of
news. There is really nothing scnsa-
tional, unless it be a horlid account of
the cr,lelties alleged to he practice1
upon the prisoners Of the Federal
army by the keepers of the prison at
Andersonvillc, Ga. A correspondent
of the Times, who claims TO have been
foreman of the grand jury in Geor-
gia, and who admits that he harbored
escaping prisoners, gives q detailed
picture of the horrors of the prison,
such as vies with the worst atrocities
of the dark ages. We are unwilling
to believe in any such authority. We
have no doubt that the prisoners snf-
fered Prisoners are apt to suffer.
We have horrible accounts of the
treatment of Confederate prisoners in
some of the Northern prisons; but we
really have no notion that the prison
CTS at Andersonvillc suffered from any
thing worse than unavoidable con
straint, crowded cells, and food of
inferior quality and q'1antity-the
Confederate soldiers living on Just
such food and under just such cir
cumStances during onc-half the war
A defensive treaty has been formed
in South America between the States
of Salvador, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile,
Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, bind
ing for fifteen ycars-fo,7ncd fu- COM
mon defe..cc against .to1rign intervcil-
ton.
naroled rebels arc forbidden to visit
Baltimore, unless ~ spcciA permit:
Doubts are beginning to bc enter
tained touching the prospect Of sue
cess i, the extension and working of
! the great cable between SheeTn 81 and
Nulentia Bay. The Great Eas. RI, it
is found, possesses not more than half
the necessary steam power for the
work; and the scientific theorists be-
Gin to I've greatly divided Us to the
ultimate success of the tclcgapil-one
party being decidedly of opinion that
! Though some few words may he trans
mittcd, the electric current will prove
too feeble, passing over a line Of such
length, to have ANY continued or
working utility.
| Gen. Breckinridgc is expected at
Mon re;,l, which is described by the
Ue,uiI as the rebel nest. Commnn-
der Wilkinson, of the Tallahassee,
and Capt. TAYLOR Mood, formerly Of
the same craft, were already there.
The United States Consul ut Alex
nndrin, Egypt. reports that there We're
i, 1855 deaths from Asiatic cholera in
that city, in twenty days, Of June and
July, and that over 80, 900 citizens had
tied the place. The accounts from
! other places, to the same effect, were
equally distressing.
Gold was l4411., a 1885. Cotton
was dull and heavy. Gold and cotton
both ut a decline argues political
force ut work rather than q CONNER
cial. Nous rero,sS.
We may add, to what is said Of the
great cable, that on the 5th, the Great
Eastern had already been out eleven
days-a much longer time than would
have been needed for her ordinary
voyage. Wemake some extracts from
these papers, but they are generally
OF little value.
TALL SoLD1ER-A parolel rebel,
scy'en and a half feet high, recently