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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-10-12
Trade with Enxl..a.s

The London Times gives IN its
financial columns 9 statement OF ex-
ports during the first half Of The pre-
semi year, and says:
Is The total value of our expectations
was ETA, 128, ,63s, against s7S, ,O47. r~6
IN the same period of 1854, shoy, ing
"a falling off OF about FIVE ;ee- cent
which .is, however, merely nominal,
SINCE 1trepresents not any diminution
OF the actual industry of the country.
but simply the reduction in the cost Of
the raw material upon which that in
dustry has been exercised. Indeed.
there is reason to believe that the re-
ductaon In this respecis has been on
the average considerably more than
sufficient to account for the difference
between the respective totals, and
that IN point of actual receipts for
work the past half year has exceeded
IN prosperity any previous period.
At the same time, the list presents
changes in the direction OF cur trade
such as would formerly have been
deemed incredible III such short in
tervaf. As regards. our own posses
SONS, the usual steadiness is shown.
The shipments to India have been
larger In value than those of last
year, Notwithstanding the fall in
prices, and in those to Australia
there has been distinct revival.
But, a3 regards foreign countries,
the remarkable fact is exhibited that
the United States have taken from us
only one-half even of the amount of
goods they imported in the same pc
rod of last year, and that instead of
figuring as heretofore, far at the head
of all other nations, they now stand
considerably below Germany. With
France, Our trade, which had expe-
rlenced a reaction from the first
great impulse consequent on the COM
merciai treaty, now shows renewed
and very satisfactory increase. The
totals for Turkey and Egypt continue
large. Mexico figures for an advance
of more than fifty per cent. and the
Argentine Republic and New Gra-
nada, which includes the Isthmus
transit, likewise each exhibit nearly
equal Improvement With Brazil,
our business has been fairly main
tanned, and it may be remarked that
such is the growing importance of
British commerce with the States of
South and Central America, that it
amounts in the present list to s3, 222,-
$40, and is, therefore, above that
either of Germany or America. Spain
shows considerable falling of. With
Denmark likewise, there has been q
decline, which. is attributable to the
deduction of the shipments 10 Schles-
wig-Holstein, these being now alb
sorbed by Germany: With Japan,
there has been an extraordinary in
crease, from el62, 554 to G704, 713.
An increase in the apparent trade to
Greece is simply in consequence of
the transfer of the Ionian Islands.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-10-12
Fire II, Philndclphia.

PHnAnEIPHA, PA. October S.-A
fire occurred here to-day, which de-
stroyed the United States bonded
warehouse containing 1000 barrels
OIL, belonging to various parties. The
loss estimated at 500, 600, one-half
of which, is insured.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-10-12
500 -acres Good Land.
By Jacob Levin.

ON MONDAY MORNING, 10th inst, pre-
Hous to the sale of effects Of late Jesse
Drafts, will sell,
500 acres good LAND, situated near
klngsvi1le-50o Of which are cleared; bound
ed on the North by lands Of James Seay
and C4 A. Scott, East by John Bates, West
by South Carolina Railroad, and South by
lands owned by estate Of John Carter
Terms cash Oct 1S4
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-10-12

/ MOVEMENTS oSF CogToN.-A Cairo
despatch of September 25 says 1900
bales cotton passed for Cincinnati,
500 bales for Evansville, 415 bales for
st. Louis, and 80 bales for Boston.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-10-12

CHURCHES CLOSED. According to
q military order issued by General
Woods, al the Episcopal Churches
In Alabama are to be closed, on ac-
count of the refusal of Bishop Wilmer
to order the prayer for the President
to be read. The prayer has been
heretofore omitted, On the ground
that the authority of an ecclesiastical
council was necessary to amend the
prayer according to the established
facts Of the day.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-10-12
From Texas.

WAsH1SGToN, d. c., October s.
Accounts received from Texas show
that Reorganization is proceeding
rapidly. There had been no collision
Whatever between the State and mill
tary authorities.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-10-12
Negre SuMFags in Connectteu1A.rhs
sSsf Radicals Badly Whippsd. 81:

>>-es~6 sN~e~EkS
M Op the proposition for amending
the State Consultation by an exten,
SION Of the right sof suffrage to the
blacks, the people Of Connecticuts on
; Monday last, by decided majority,
rejected this proposed amendment.
The result, so far as Connecticut is
concerned, is g matter Of but little
consequence; for, had the amendment
been adopted, it would have added
less than three thousand votes to the
vote of the State from its black popu
lation. But q question and o princi-
pie were involved as broad as the
issue between the abolition radicals
and President johnson in reference
to Southern restoration, and upon
this issue the result of this incidental
Connecticut election is of the highest
national importance.
Whatever the white people of Con-
nccticut may think in regard to the
isolated question of extending the
right of suffrage to the blacks within
their borders, they have emphatically
declared that this is not the time for
this concession, when such concession
would involve condemnation of
PRESIDENT Johnson's programme of
Southern reconstruction The local
issue was merged in the nationa! one.
and Connecticut has voted to sustain
the President in his plan OF leaving
the question of negro suffrage in the
South to be settled hereafter bv the
several States concerned. The moral
effect of this vote of Connecticut will
be very great, North and South. It
will strengthen the President in both
sections, and it will go very far to
defeat the game of the radicals in the
new Congress.
President Johnson is now backed
IN this Connecticut election by a very
powerful argument. He has shaped
his Southern policy from the con.
vlction that it would be unwise and
!mlschievous to enforce negro suffrage
upon the late rebellious States to-day.
in Which the institution of slavery
was abolished only yesterday and he
may now boldly ask, am / not right
IN this If Connecticut, with mere
handful of citizens of African descent.
IS not yet prepared to give them the
right OF suffrage, relieved of slavery
as she has been for more than half q
century, what justice will there be in
forcing this thing of negro suffrage
upon South Carolina, in which her
bewldered freedmen of to-day were
yesterday her passive, ignorant Slaves,
and to the extent of more than half
the population of the State ? How
can the representatives of Connect
cut IN Congress vote for this test of
loyalty after this vote of their own
State against it?
These questions the abolition radi-
Gals will find it hard to answer. It
will not avail them to plead that this
Connecticut election went by default,
nor will it do to argue that this vote
of Connecticut does not apply to
South Carolina. Tie simple truth is
that Connecticut has approved the
course of Andrew johnson in the
South, of postponing the question of
negro suffrage to more convenient
season, and this we doubt not is the
popular sentiment of all the Northern
States.-New York Herald, Al.
ESYrr rYrcy- E0or
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-10-12

RoBBED.-Mrs. Mary J. Zernow, "a
resident OF Charleston, s. c., and
stopping at F'rench's Hotel, New
York, has been robbed of 81, 800 in
greenbacks. The chambermaid is ac-
cused Of the robbery,
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-10-12

NOTHING LIKE LEATHER. The
tanning mills in this State are now in
full operation, and some kinds Of
leather cannot be prepared fast
enough to meet the want of tho shoe
manufacturers. TIE tanners are
believed to have uade large profits
the last two or thee years. At pxe-
sent they are paying high prices for
materials, and we understand that
hemlock bark, which is yearly becom-
ing scarcer in the market, is now
worth seventeen dollars per cord in
this market.
Boston TrareRer, 27M uA.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-10-12

A correspondent informs us that
Gen. JEFF. Thompson had quite a
brilliant reception at St. Louis, last
week, not only at the Southern Hotel.
but on 'Change-for JEFF. is now a
New Orleans merchant and goes on
Change.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-09-20
as people reflect upon the dire destruction
that Copperheads would have brought
upon rs, had their counsel prevailed.
AnKNowIrnaEMENrs.-Mr. M

:. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Nc
Murry, Treasurer of the Metropolitan
Police, gratefully acknowledges the fol-
lowing sums, LETT at the Genital Office
for the relief of the widow and children
of Thomas Walker, brave and faithful
policeman in the Twenty-ninth Precinct,
who was murdered ON the night of the
18th of August, while rescuing woman
from brutal gang"
The above is from New York paper.
The amount announced, was in the aggre
giate 5000. Had this faithful officer
came to his death "down south at the
hands of some freedman we would all
have been duly notified of the fact by
every Copperhead journal in the country.
But as it takes place in the strong hold of
the Democracy-in the city where they
can roll up about 10000 majority, we
may expect to hear little from that quar-
ter
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-09-20
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

"A Number of parents in New
castle, England, have registered
their children by TIE name Lincoln"
as tribute to the memory of the
President.
A large number of letters are received
every day by the President requesting
he withdrawal of the colored troops from
the Southern States.
During August nearly eighteen thou
sand acres Of land were entered at the
Winnebago and Minnesota Land Oiiice.
under the Homestead Law. Thirteen
thousand five hundred acres were also Ia
ken up under the same law a st. Cloud
Tho cash sales at the latter Office. in Au
gust, amounted to about nine thou.ani
dollars.
During the progress of the late court
martial at the Navy Yard. Philadelphia,
the venerable Admiral Charles Stewars
was called upon to give testimony in "a
certain case. The appearance in the
court room ofthe gallant " old ironsides"
was the signal for considerable excite.
ment. A large number of officers who
happened to be present, many of whom
had served under the old hero, rushed
forward spontaneously and asped the
distinguished by the hand. The Admi
raj now, but who will be known in hist1
ty as Commodore Stewart" is eighty
five years of age, full of years and full of
honors.
The Odd Fellows of Mercer will
have celebration on the 10th at
Charlstown, in that county.
The news from Mexico is of a
contradictory character. A letter
has been received from Vera Cruz
showing that the Liberal cause is not
near SO hopeless as lately reprsente :.
A good position is still maintained
by Juarez in chihuahua.
An order has been sent to the
commanding Generals Department
of North Carolina, directing that al
organizations of colored troops raised
in Northern States be immediately
mustered out of service.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-09-20

ing no more water in the pitcher, hasten
ed to ,ne fifth and last part OF hisspeech:
Showing the hardest battle fought on
this continent, and the reasons why was
the hardest battle" i he very enthusi
astic demeanor Of the soul-stirred and
electrified audience left in oblivion some
Of the doctors peroration, but we under
stood him to say that on some other occa-
sion he would be delighted to spend an
other evening in the society of gathering
50 gentlemanly US that was. He then in
vited a general inspection of his medal,
his patent leather boots, and his epau-
lettes. Owing to much shaking of hands
the doctor become exhausted, asked for r
rink, and was last seel in the hands OF
comnetent protectors, going out the back
way When the gas had been kindly
exiting ished by the ofhcious and prompt
jantor, the last portion of the assembags
took their departure, each his various
ways TO laugh over the great speech OF
Df Jackson, at Lafayette Iall.-iaiHs
Com
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-09-20

General Howard to-day issued an
important circular to the assistant com
missioners Of freedmen relative to aban-
doned lands in the southern States. The
circular, which is approved by the Pres
ident, revokes all previous orders ON the
subject The following are its most I'M
portant provisions: Land will not be con
dcmned and sold by degree of the Uni
ted States Court for the district in which
the property may be found, and the til
tie thereto thus vested in the United
States.
Upon its appearing satisfactory to
any Assistant Commissioner that any
property under his control is not aban-
doned by reason Of its owner being vol
unfairly absent therefrom, and that the
United States has acquired no title
to it by confiscation, sale or other
wise, he will formally surrender it
to the authorized claimant or claim
ants, promptly reporting his action
to the Commissioner. Assistant
Commissioners are directed to pre-
pare accurate descriptions of all con-
fiscated and abandoned lands under
their control, keeping record them
selves, and to forward monthly to
the Bureau here copies thereof. They
are also instructed to set apart so
much of said lands as is necessary
for the immediate use of loyal refu-
gees and freedmen, being careful to
select for this purpose those lands
which most clearly fall under the con-
troll of the Burea, which selection
must be submitted to the Commission
er for his approval. Abandoned
lands held by the Freedmen's Bureau
may be restored to owners pardoned
by the President, by the assistant
commissioner, to whom applications
for such restoration shoul be for
warded, SO far as practicable, thro'
the superintendent of the districts
in which the lands are situated
Each application must be accompanied
by, First Evidence of special pardon
by the President, or copy of the oath of
amnesty prescribed in the Presidents
proclamation of May I'd 1865, when the
applicant is not included in any of the
classes therein excepted from the benfits
OF said oath. Second-Proof of title
The officers Of the Bureau, thro' whom
the application passes, will endorse there
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-09-20
RNiifipnl MpHfing.

A Republican meeting will be held in
theCourt House on Monday evening, 25th
inst, (beipg the first day of CourD, at
I o'clock which will be addressed by
Rev. r. Audley Brown-our nominee for
State Senate; Hon. Thos Williams, and
Gen. r. b. McCombs. A full attend
ance of the friends of the Union is solic-
tied. Let all turn out aud hear the is
sues of the hour fairly presented by these
eloquent patriots.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-09-20

sssS~ In our paper, this week, will be
found an advertisement for the letting of
a portion of the Bear Greek r. r., which
is to commence at the North western end
of the road We would advise all those
who feel ike trying their hands on this
great improvement, to examine the mat
ter and "pitch in" This is the conf
mencement of great Improvement, that
is destined to develop the resources of the
northern portion of our county, and will
therefore be benefit to all. We con-
gratulate the parties Immediately conneo-
tel with this improvement, on their pro-
spective success.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-09-20
Maine..Vermont.

Usually majorities fall off after great
national struggle like that of last year
So great is the popular indignation at the
course pursued by the Democracy during
the late war, that this rule is reversed this
year, so fur as elections have been held.
Not only has this rule applied to munich
pal, but even to general elections. The
two States, whose names head this arti-
Gle, are in point, both gaining on the rela-
tive vote of last year. The former, even
rolling up larger majority on smaller
vote So it must be everywhere, SO long
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-09-20
BUTLER COMPANY.
Captain Moore, Assistant Quartz,

Captain Moore, Assistant Quarter
master, who commanded the Burial Par
ty recently dispatched to Andersonville,
is in receipt of letters from the friends Of
the soldiers who died there, requesting
information as to whether their remains
can be found and removed. Captain
Moore desires to state in reply to these
inquiries that the record of burials, to-
gether with such other information as
was obtained, will be given to the public
in printed document on or about the
first proximo.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-09-20
GRAND JURORS
Drawn for September Term, '6J

Allen Wilson, Clay; John Pearce, Al
lesheny; Henry Wagner, Bcro Butler;
Matthew Storey, Fairview ; Adam Young,
Connoquenessing Jacob Ekas, Buffalo; (;
Daniel Graham, Esq, Brady; Elisha W.
Starr, Concord Robert Duncan, Gran
berry; John Say, Parker; Samuel Coop
er, Winfield; VIM. McElwain, Washing
ton Joseph Tebay, Muddycreck; Robt
Allison, Centre; Jos. Douglass, Worth !;
James Brown, of f., Mercer Jno. Will
son, jackson; Andrew Ziesler Lancas-
ter; Hiram Snyder, Slipperyrock J. Q.
A. Kennedy, Penn; Isaac Yetter, Sr,
Butler; Henry Kirkpatrick, Clinton; An
drew McCaskey, Oakland Robert Gille-
land, Summit.
TRAVERSE JURoRs-FIRsT WEEK.
James Richardson Adams Jno. Nc
Kee, Allegheny; j. S. Elliott, Buffalo;
VIM. j. Ayres, Butler, John Covert, Jr.,
Brady Andrew Albert, centre; Charles
Stewart, Cherry; J. Sutton, Clay; John
Mcbride, Clearfeld; William Gibson,
Clinton; William G. Stewart, Concord /;
Robert Walters, Connoquencssing Jos
Croft, Cranberry, Samuel Stewart, Done
gal; John Smith, Fairview; Benjamin
Brackney, Franklin; VIM. Fitzsimons,
Forward; Andrew ii. Ziegler, jackson
William Derimore, Jefferson; Jacob II
Ziegler, Lancaster; Hugh Murrin, Mar
ion; David Morrison, Mercer; Robert
List, Middlesex j. w. Stewart, Muddy
creek Lewis s. Mellinger, Oakland; A.
Storey, Parker; Chas. Hays, Penn; Jas
Jtephenson, Slipperyrock John Ester.
ling, Jr., Summit; Samuel Meals, Yenan-
go; II. A. Mifflin, Washington; James
SINNERS, Winfield John Bauder, Jr.
Worth; George Weber, Bor. Butler; Pc.
ter Hilliard, Centreville; p. L. Covert
Harmony; r. r. Wick, IIarrisville; Pc
ter Frederick, Mlllerstown.
| TRAVERSE JURoRs-sECoND WEEK.
Findley Brandon, Portersville; Isaac
Sponsler, Prospect; VIM. Allen, Zelieno
pie; Henry Aderhold, Saxonburg; Jas
Sproul, Adams Jacob Kinser, Allegheny
Jacob Earman Buffalo; VIM. Bryson, o
Joseph, Butler; Zephaniah Double, Bra
dy; Anthony Thompson, Centre; Jarvis
Tinker, Cherry; Elisha Wick, Clay
Daniel O'Donnell, Clearfeld Jas. Hay
Clinton; James Sutton, Concord Thos
G Allen, Compromising; John Davis
Cranberry sJas. Storey, Fairview Bry
son Black, Franklin; Alex. Douthett
Forward Abraham Ziegler, Jr., Jack
son; Sylvester Cypher, Jefferson; Isaac
Bellas, Lancaster; Geo. Mulberry, Mar
ion; James McFadden, Mercer; Wendell
Hickey, Middlesex; X. d. Alexander
Muddycreek; Robert Mellinger, Oakland
VIM. r. Turner, Parker; Jacob Hartzell
Penn; Samuel Taggert, Slipperyrock
Peter Esterling, Summit; Patrick Nc
Bride, Venango; Alex. McNaughton
Washington; William Stalcy, Winfield
Zebulon Cooper, Worth; VIM. Campbell
and Isaac Colbert, Bor Butler
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-09-20
The sout,lern Rsrcas.

As newspapers are the mirrors of pub
lie sentiment and public affairs, we look
into the Southern papers with considerable
interest, t. see something of the thoughts,
ceilings and every day life Of the people
there.
We read the advertisements or at least
glance over them, and find business re-
wing. Our Southern bre.hern, not
withstanding their professions of disdain
towards Yankee traifiokers are not Who'll
ly impervious to thoughts of money-ma-
king. Cotton principal circulating me-
dunn aud the basis Of business. In Ma
con, since September lst, it sold as low
as twenty-six cents a pound. Northern
connections, in business transactions, APP
pear TO be already formed in considerable
numbers. Trade regulations are not en-.
;irely out of Government control I'm
der the head of 'the game blocked" a
Montgomery paper mentions the suspen-
sion Of cotton shipments, the "whys and
where fores" of which it does not under
stand.
Schools appear to be opening and re-
opening in the South in promising abund-
ance. Tuition appears to be as high as
it is with us aud, we presume, with bet
ter reason. Twenty dollars quarter for
tuition, and in boarding schools, embrac-
ing all the extras, two hundred and fifty
dollars for half year term.
Negroes do not figure largaly in the pa
pers. No auction sales and no ruuaways
are advertised The slave interest ap-
pears to be extinct. A Macon editor
wishes that the article proposed for the
Mississippi Constitution on that subject,
might be adopted "word for word" in the
State of Georgia A local in the same
paper says, Of the railroad arrivals Of the
day, "there were comparatively few white
passengers, but full cargo Of the docend-
ants Of Ham. They were all hunting
freedom, we suppose, and hope they will
fiud it," The darkeys must have earned
some money, or they could not afford to
ride on the railroad In Nashville, nc
gro ball and dancing house is complained
Of, az a nuisance.
P0titicS engage some attention. In
Nashville, eicht candidates appear fol-
the Office Of Mayor. The South was al
ways great for Offices a Georgia paper
speaks Of Pennsylvania az, '.that sterling
old democratic State, and commends tht
proceedings Of the late Democratic Con.
vention, expressing the sanguine hope
that the Democracy will be cable to rally
strength sufficient to overwhelm all OPP
sition in the coming elections" The ed
itor may be pardoued for these wild aptici
pations, since he has been too much ac
cupled with the rebellion to keep tracl
of the politics of Pennsylvania for tn,
past four years. The famous Genera
Pillow presided at meeting in Columbia
Tennessee, lately apd endorsed Presilen
Johnson as the New York Democrat,
Convention has done SO the Repulicar
party which endorsed Andrew johnson
last November, is gaining converts al
around Pitts. Cam.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-09-20

on such facts as may as t the assittnt
Commissioner in his decision, stating es-
pecially the use made by the Bureau of
the htd No lands under cultivation bv
loyal refugees or freedmen viii be restored
until the crops now growing shall be Sc.
cured for the benefit of the cultivators,
unless full and just compensation be made
for their labor and its products, and for
their expenditure.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-09-20
ssy- The Democracy of New Yolkh,ve

gsS- The Democracy Of New Yo! k have
determined to out strip the Republicans
Of that State, at the coming election
Laying aside all consistency, they declare
in favor of Abolition, in favor of An
drew johnson; aud as the negroes vote
in that State, they don't even declare
against negro suffrage Looking rather
wise and quite hopeful, they tell us, we
go in to win" Well, we have no doubt
they would like to; butit is yet to be seen
whether their followers in New York city
those who distinguished themselves in
burning orphan asylums, and numbering
union soldiers will follow their leaders in
their new road to power These deluded
creatures believed the World honest
when it declared-last year, of the Re-
publican nomination. is all of
price. The tail does not shame the head
nor tho head the tail. A rail splitting
buffoon and boorish tailor, both from
the back woods, both growing up in un-
couth ignorance, &C." What a grand
surprise to see that same paper extolling
President Johnson.