The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-11

give them, some of the elementary
blessings of civilized life, they would
be dong an infinite wrong to the Mexi-
cans, to themselves, and the world, if
they drove out the French without
themselves undertaking to govern
Mexico. The Monroe doctrine be-
came at once ridiculous and unsup-
portably burdensome when it was
seen to carry with it the duty of
imposing decency and order on ell
the mongrel Spanish Catholics Of the
vast Southern Continent; and so it
was given up with much good sense,
and IN handsome, rational WAY.
without any pretence of saying that it
was not given up"
A Providence paper, referring to
the outlandish and utterly abominsble
words constantly coined by telegraph
operators. says '"The Associated
Press ponrs stream of cold poison
into the English language every morn
ing. We hear Of buildings being
'burglarized' ara 'incendaTized,' Of
steamers 'coliding' and Oil wells
'confagrating,' and the other day we
were told that an actress had 'debufted'
with success !! There ought to be a
law against such atrocities.
The Chattanooga Gazette saws
Cotton, after an absence of four
years, has again made its appearance
in our streets and in our railroad
depots. The platforms are crowded
with bales on bales Of the fieecy
material, and trains are daily loaded
with them and sent off to Nashville.
In return for the cotton which is sent
North, the trains going South from
here are loaded with dry goods and
groceries.
The Chattanooga Gazette says that
IN spite OF every precaution used by
the authorities, the small pox is spread
ing with fury among the negroes in
the camp on the North side of the
Tennessee River. On Thursday even
ing, thirteen cases were conveyed from
the camp to the Post Hospital. A
number of cases were also taken from
the camp, and few were discovered
in the city.
A writer in New York paper says
that in 1927, Judah P. Bel. .iamin
came to Rochester from Yale College,
and taught school. He borrowed
money from merchant by the name
of Stone. He afterwards went to
New Orleans and commenced the
practice of law. In 1887, he met Stone
In his office and paid him the princi-
pal, and ten years interest of the
money he had borrowed.
"How do you feel over the result
of the election in Connecticut ?'' said
a Copperhead the other morning to
an Abolitionist. Feel why, to tell
the TRUTH" he replied, ''I feel as bad
as did when Lincoln was killed"
''Then why don't you get up another
funeral ?" sung out the Copperhead,
as the mourner moved off, looking as
solemn as an italian beggar woman
with sick baby in her arms.
PROPERTY RESTORED. - The New
Orleans Picayume, of the 29th ult.,
learns that Gen. Fullerton this NOM
ing issued orders restoring the entire
property of two of our well known
citizens, Messrs. James Dick Hill and
}. W. Zacharie, and we learn that the
sale of the Soule property to the
Freedmen's Bureau, which was made
some time since, has been annulled.
From the first Of July to the present
time, $4,000 have been forwarded
from the Nashville post Office to the
dead letter office IN envelopes, having
nothing on them but the name of the
person to whom directed, without
town, county, or post office or with
out any address at ali, or with revenue
instead Of postal stamps.
The Vicksburg Herald learns from
the telegraph operators in that city,
that communication is now had with
Monroe and Shreveport, Louisiana.
Houston and other places in Texas,