The Columbia daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1865, 1865-06-02

troops were Immediately put on guard,
and on the attemrt of the negroes to come
| out of the fort at given hour, they were
ordered back, when, refusing to obey,
sharp conflict ensued, in which twenty of
them were killed and wounded. The re.
mainder were driven back in confusion to
the fort. Gen. John E. Smith las super
seded Gen. Washburne in command at
Memphis.
NOVEL TEAMs.-A stranger passing
counties, iu Georgia, would imagine that
he had fallen among the Israelities or
Egyptians of old. Owing to the lack of
horses and mules, the planters have been
obliged to hitch up OK teams. and in many
cases the milch cows have been brought
into requisition.
The DEATH OF FoRnEsr.-The Nashville
U'tioa, of the 18th, asserts that its state
ment OF he previous day. that Gen. For
rest was Killed by Capt John Walker, is
corrob b,ra.ed by a gentleman from the
Tenn essee River line. who learned it
through reliable sources, and also by pa
rolled prisoners who have arrived al NasH-
vile.
The United States owns upwards of
1000 100000 acres of public lands suscep
tible of cultivation. They own 100000
acres of gold and silver bearing lands.
The urable lands are worth ut least
81 200, 900 900, and the mineral lands are
worth at least $4,000, 100000, making to-
gether total of $4,000, 100000.
The Sandusky Register says the Confed-
crates imprisoned on Johnson's Island
have become tired of imprisonment and
lost all faith in their ability to carry on
the war longer. Out of the $500 confined
there, all but about thirty-five have asked
permission to take the amnesty oath.
Letters from Europe bring advices
ers, including foreigners who have made
the South their homes for business pur
poses, are preparing to return to their old
haunts. now that the war is over
The Florida Union publishes the follow.
ing statement of the deaths in the prison
| at Andersonville, Ga, for eleven month
ending January 81, 1865: In prison hos
pital, S,4l6; in stockade, 4.l5O; in small
pox hospital, 74-tota', l2.64o.
The Confederate archives, documents
and other writings appertaining to the
| Confederate Government have been pack ed
and sent to Washington. They filled
ninety one boxes, and we're addressed 20
assistant Secretary Of War Doud
| Somebody has sent rope to President
Johnson, as hint tn at he should go ahead
in the hanging business At the death of
that fellow. rope, we guess, will be the
most prominent figure. The scamp him.
self will be seen merely as hanger-on.
Louisville Journal
A Washington special tc the New York
the Emperor Macmillan and Kirby Smith
no longer expected that Smith w ill surren. u.
der without farther lighting.
A fire occurred in the property room
attached to Niblo's Garden, in New York,
which threatened the destruction of that
theatre, as we'll as the Metropolitan Hotel,
adjoining. The loss is estimated at fully
$4,000
A youth named Solomon Pillsbury, aged
sixteen, has been sent to the Massachusetts
Penitentiary for fourteen Years. on g.
charge Of burglary and assault with intent
to kill.
The Presbyterian General Assembly,
now in session in Brooklyn, have decided
to place in state of probation, for the
present, ministers of the church from the
South who have supported the rebellion.
The New York Herald learns that many
citizens of Virginia contemplate moving
North, from an impression that they can
enjoy more freedom there than in the
South.
The ouly rational liberty is that which
is born of subjection, reared in the fear of
God and love of man, and made courage
GUS in the defence of trust and the pro-
secution Of duty.
The French Emperor has arrived in
Algiers end has issued conciliatory al,
dresses to the people, urging them to ac-