The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-18


1t is said that Gen. Sicklcs, who, it will
he recollected, figured prominently in the
Barton Key affair in Washington, is to re-
lievc Gen. Gilmore at Charleston. Ac-
cording to the correspondent of tho Herald,
the Government wanted q man there of
enlarged and liberal conception
Fitzpatrick, the famous raider, who has
been appointed Minister to Chill, is said to
be INSTRUCTED by the Secretary of State to
substantially advocate the Monroe doctrine
abroad"
Gov. Andrew, OF Massachusetts, is in
Washington, asking for the payment of
more war claims to Massachusetts,
Gen. Butler has rented house in WASH
ington, occupied for some wears by the
British Minister, and now owned bv n
wealthy colored man, named Albert Lee
The Farragut Court Martial, on Satur-
day, heard several witnesses in defence Of
nard c. McGill testified that from what he
had heard from the Spanish officers, the
rebel ram Stonowa!l was too formidable
to attack without instant destruction to the
assallnG vessel.
Old Col. DcHussy, who has been in ,Ae
United States army half Il century has
been brcvcttcd 4 brigadicr.
Capt. Wirz, in his incomplete diary,
under date Of October l, saws that a man
was at that time placed III his cell to pre-
vent any attempt he might make to take
his own life, but the man fell asleep He
writes that the reason why he did not put
an end to his existence, was because what
he suffered was the will Of God, and, in the
second place, he owed it to himself his
family, his relatives, and to the world at
large, to prove his innocence.
An officer in the old army, who went
South and joined the rebellion at the out
break, called upon the President and asked
for pardon. The President informed him
that he had not yet pardoned an officer
who had gone over to the South and taken
up arms against the North. He did not
know what he might do in the future, but
for the present he held their cases under
advisement.
Within couple OF days, the President
has been i'll receipt OF quite lengthy tcle-
grams from distinguished radicals, who
will figure in the next Congress, beseech-
ing him to change his reconstruction policy
before the meeting OF that body declaring
at the same time that it has proved a
failure. One OF these kilograms is from a
very prominent source, and is indicative Of
the radio al programme at the coming
session. The President, it is understood,
has replied to none Of these dispatches
Chief Justice Chase, it is said, complains
that he has been misrepresentedi in the pub
llcaton of the synopsis Of the correspon-
dence between the President and himself
relative to the trial of Jefferson Davis, and
1t Is not improbable that full copies of the
correspondence will be laid before the
public.
The effects of the late Henry Wirz We're
Yesterday afternoon sent to his wife, in
Kentucky, by his counsel, Mr. Schade.
They consisted of book entitled 'Nedi-
tations on Life and it's Religious Duties -
with this inscription on the tly-leaf: To
my dear children, Susan and Cornclia.
from their father, II. Wirz. Washington
ID. c., November 10, 1863" Next was a
copy of the New Testament, which con-
tanned tho following inscription: '' Novem-
Der 10, 1865, to Cora, from her father, H .
Nirz.' Also, a volume entitled, a
kempis. A Treatise on Christ 10 my
dearest child, Cora, from her father.
Washington, November 10, 1865" There
was also a Bible given to Wirz, en- the fly
leaf of which was this Inscription. Pre-
sented to Carroll Prison, roor. twenty
nine, for the use Of the prisoner j. Not to
be taken from the prison Washington
d. c., December 1S, 1864. ''Search the
Scriptures" Under this Wirz had written as
follows, My dear wife, this Bible I read
off reading. God bless you. Keep this
ber 10, 1865" In the package there were
also two letters, one addressed to his wife,
and one to his father, Abraham WirZ, who
was living when his son left Switzerland.
The Hon. C0 A. II. II. Dawson, a native
of Kentucky, but citizen of Georgia, who
made speeches in the South during the
war in bcbalf of the kcntuckians in the.