The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-10-20
ss FroA Washington.
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rsertion is made positively in intelli-l
gent quarters chat there is now before
the Government something in the
nature of proposal from the British
authorities to pay damages arising
from the depredations of Confederate
privateers fitted out at British ports,
and also to arrive at some agreement
which shall prevent recurrence of
, like transactions hereafter, as between
the two nations, whether the hostile
condition exists in Great Britain or
in the United States.
The Wirz trial is near its close. It
is stated by the reporters, Messrs.
Kinks, Hayes and Browne, that the
amount of testimony is equal to that
given In the great conspiracy trial.
1t is stated here in inside Repubi-
eau circles that JOAN Sherman will be
returned Senator from Ohio instead
of Gen. Schenck, for the time expir-
ing with 1866. The former is regard
ed as favoring reforms in the currency,
just modification Of the revenue
and excise laws in the interest of tax
payers, and of reforms and reEench-
ment generally.
Chief Justice Chase reached home
to-day. 1t is considered that he is in
difficulties, since the rebuff. of the
Northern people to his doctrine of
negro suffrage, and Specially that of
the President to him in person for
political proselyting to that end in the
South.
WASHINGTON, October 15.-As the
time for the assembling of the next
Congress approaches, discussion and
speculation increase in all quarters
concerning the stand the President
Will take in his message on the prac-
teal question of admitting represen-
tatlves from the Southern States. He
may possibly say little that is new on
the subject All his words and deeds
attest that he believes the American
people are for the union of all the
States; that individuals who stand in
the way of that result will have to
stand aside or be trodden down in its
progress; that we made war for the
Union, denying the right of any
State to secede, proclainling all SC
called acts of secession utterly null
and VOID; that the men who strove to
break up the Union have mainly
given up the attempt in good faith
and offer to come back, and. that we
OF the North cannot stultify our past
action by now asserting that they not
only were out of the Union during
the rebellion, but shall remain out Of
1T after making proper submission. =.
These assertions have been expressed
or implied in almost every public adj
dress Of his since his installation, and
may be taken as the unerring indices
of his future action.
Among the more important reports
concerning the late war that Will be
brought to the notiee of the next
Congress is one now in rapid process
of compilation at the headquarters Of
the Commissary of Prisoners. The
above report Will be ready i'll about
six weeks, and will present q most
accurate and remarkable resume of
the captivity of Federal and rebel SOL
diers and all essential matters pertain
Ing to their imprisonment. In antici-
patton OF this important document
we may state the following: The prin.
cipal depots for the Government pri-
lsoners during the late war were loca-
ted at Point Lookout, Johnson's
Island, Alton, Elmira, Chicago, Nash
vile, st. Louis and Fort Delaware
These prisons, during the summer Of
1864, contained more prisoners than
at any other period of the rebellion,
the captives numbering between
$4,000 and $4,000 men. The report
in question will show that the number
of prisoners taken on both sides was
in the aggregate fully up to 500, 900;
and viii give in accurate numbers the
strength of the Southern armies at
the time of their parolement and dis
banding last spring. 1t will also in
dicate the number exchanged, enlisted