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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-11
The Political Future.
We extract the following from

We extract the following from an
article in the New York Herald:
And now where stand We? If the
policy of Congress is to be endorsed
by the people at the coming elections,
then, indeed, we may abandon all
hope of seeing the States consolidated
into Republic, one and indivisible.
Will the people endorse it? We hope
not. We believe not 1t may be
that the Republican party will have
a controlling majority in the next
Congress; but we think it will be Il
majority that will be no more over
powcring. The people are deeply
disappointed with the present con
dition of public affairs, and want TO
see peace and harmony between all
sections re-established. The triupmh-
al procession of President johnson is
daily and hourly winning over to his
sensible policy thousands who before
were opposed to it. Let him continue
and extend his tour and the effect will
be beyond all estimate Not only
will its effect be great on the approach
ing elections, but we should not be
surprised to see it produce convert
ing influence on the Republican
members Of the present Congress. 1t
may not yet be too late for them to
save their party. Let the conserv-
ative Republicans, warned by the
signs OF the times, go to work,
organize an opposition, take into it
the conservative D emocrats, undo
thoroughly the destructive work of
the last session, get control of the
fortieth Congress, and taking up
Gen. Grant rs their candidate for
the Presidency, they may yet be able
to save their party, and at the same
time save the country.
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Missionary Orators.

The New York World notices that
the Erening Post is still harping OH
its favorite theme of sending Repub-
ican missionaries to the Southern
States. We have already expressed
our views in relation to this matter,
but the World takes different view
OF the suggestion, and thinks the
movement one of the most desirable
that could occur just now to tho
country at largo, for the following
reasons:
First--It would Immediately and
forever stif1e the abominable false
hoods which the radicals have been
g industriously circulating rs to the
dangers which Northern men incur
IN the South. Second-It would open
the eyes Of thousands of well-inten-
toned bat Ignorant Northern men,
as to the rue character of the much
vlhfied, peaceful and suffering people
who are being constantly pictured to
their frenzied imaginations, a., blood
thirsty t'rebels" and 'straitors,
Ao0>.y W p!"nSS Lne country lGto
another civil war. Third-It would
be the best schooling in the world for
such radical incendiaries as Phillips,
Stevens, Wade, Butler, and others,
not only by showing them the deadly
fruits OF just such attempts of de-
stroying the Union, as they are now
advocating, but also on account of
the excellent lessons in '.loyalty,"
and support of the Union, the Con
stltution, and law" which they would
get from our late foes in every por-
ton of the South, and which rebel
llous spirits like our radicals, are just
now SO seriously requiring. BY all
means, let our Northern rebels have
tfo benefit of little Southern edu-
cation.
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Andrew johnson said the other day,
at way station in New York, where
he was enthusiastically greeted by u
Large crowd, that he was for saving
the Constitution and the country, and
If anybody's party come in conflict
with it. the party might go to the
devil or anywhere else He did not
stop to consider what party was to
be taken care of before tho country.
he mad always been on the Constitu-
tion and the Union, he still stood
there' and he was going to fight it
out Oh that line. If anybody can
Improve that speech, we should like
to see it.
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RRLEAss OF Me, DAyw.-More than
half.n .n-dozen timee, in one paper and
another, and apqfher, we see the four
words put together rs IL our caption.
We .tremulonsly.drsw it MP to the
reading distance, and alasf it turns
out to he that Mr.. Somebody, the
reliable correspondent of such q
paper, says that he heard Capt. A.
tell Col. B. that he (Capt. A. heard
that President johnson told Senator
c., who told Gen. D., that he (Prcsi-
dent Johnson) intended to release
Mr. Davis. How sickening it is to
the heart of one who feels as he
should, for the prisoner, to read these
cruelty lying words. that "Mr. Davis
is soon to be released" when day fol-
lows day, and week follows week,
and the tantalizing falsehood is re-
peated again and again, as if with
ghoulish mockery And, after all, it
may be SO, that Mr.. Davis is soon to
be released-released by Him who
hath said: eff ruler hearken to lies,
aH his servants are wicked"
| President johnson has already too
long suffered MI. Davis to linger in
that noisome dungeon. He has par
doned men q thousand times wicked.
er in every respect. If that dungeon
door is not opened in ten days il
need never be opened, so far as the
fair fame of the President is con
cerned; for our honest belief is thai
a down-trodden people, thus vicari
ously incarcerated, after he, (th,
President,) at Philadelphia, smoked
with them the calumet Of peace, car
never forget or forgive him, howeve
much they may try.
Griffin (Ga. Herald
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An enterprising Yankee visited the
County of Fauquier, Va, recently,
and succeeded in engaging twelve or
fourteen of Mosby's men to go North
and ride tournaments. He IS to foot
all expenses, furnish them with fine
horses, and pay them three dollars a
day. He approached Mosby himself
with proposition; Offering him fifty
dollars day, and gradually increasing
the offer to one hundred and twenty
five, which was declined.
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SOUTH CAROLINA BANK NOTES.
The First National Bank of Charlotte
buys South Carolina bank notes at
the following raSes-,as we learn from
the Times. of Monday:
Bank Of Camden, SO; Bank Of
charleston, 21; Bank of chester. 21 !:
nank OF Georgetown, 2I; Bank Of
hamburg, II; Bank OF Newberrv
%; Bank Of South Carolina. TX:
dlanters Bank. Is; Bank of ths
o.ate oa OF South Carolina, before 1851
~; EIeSaI commercial Bank, Columbia, is:
Eange Earmars: Bank, Columbia, II:
Nfsrchants, % % an1 Exchange Bank, 8:
Peoples Bank, 4s: Plantaa.ws,' ~;
Mechanics Banks, al: SontS ao. ana
Railroad Bank, IS; state Rsns R~es'ern
Union Bank, 60. ~nA' 0;
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CooL1E LABoR-A Chinese Com
missioner, named A. II. Yue, is on
his way to the Atlantic States from
San Francisco. He is accompanied
by an interpreter and by Mr.. Robert
Stritchlan, who has been many years
in China. The object of A. H. Yue's
visit to the East is to introduce Chi
nese laborers into the United States,
and with this view he will travel
through the Southern, Western and
Eastern States, offering to furnish
field hands.
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A RENEGADE.

Ex-Attorney- General Speed, citi-
zen Of Louisville, Kentucky, was
chosen President Of the mongrel con-
vention. It is stated that he was ap-
pointed to the Cabinet. by Mr.. Lin
coin, not for his qualifications, but
because he was an old-fashioned Abo-
litionist, and in the hope that such
an clement in his zCabineS-tsiaskken
from a slave-holding State would
gain strength to the policy which the
radical pressure has driven him to
adopt. ..aAis = ste
AS legal adviser to the Government,
he has shown himself incompetent,
and his speech, on takir g the chair of
the mongrel convention, proves that
he was unfit fof the high position he
quit, or was driven from, as q man or
a gentleman. He speaks of the
President, his late political chief, as
the "tyrant Mt the White House,"
AID in such kindred remarks as be-
fitted the occasion and the conclave
he addressed His malevolence. as
exhibited in his speech, demonstrates
that he was unworthy of an Office. or
to be associated with .ligh-toned
officials or gentlemen.
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COLUMBIA.
Tuesday Morning, Sept. ii, 1868.
The Presadent.

4me xEe0A0cnIe - --s1--- =
There have been intimations pub
lished in several of the papers that
the President, during his present
tour, might extend his journeyings
through some of the 81 uthern States.
The City Council Of Nashville, we
see, have invited him to visit that
city, and one correspondent from
Washington amentions that his prSba-
ble route back to-shss city would be.
through this State, North Carolina
and Virginia. -
If such is the determination Of the
President, and his journey homeward
is to be by the route indicated, it
would be matter of interest, and,
perhaps, of importance, that he
should visit Columbia. Our people
would delight to do him honor, and
as our unfortunate city has occupied
a prominent position among the
closing scenes of the late conflict,
and as it has been the theme of pro-
tracted discussions in the newspapers
both North and Soutl., and is SO to
this day, we would be glad, if posi-
BILE. that President johnson could
see for himself the extent of the ca
lamity that befel her on the memora-
BILE night of the 18th Of February,
1865. He would see what some of
the Southern people have suffered
and lost, and would more highly up
preciate the honor and sincerity of
the people of this State in SO promptly
accepting the terms and conditions
he offered as means of restoration
to their old place in the Federal
Union.
From present Indications. this ex-
ira session of the Legislature will
continue long enough to greet him,
should he pass this way, on his return
home; and we would, the ,efore, re-
spectfully suggest that this body take
some action in the premises, and in
vite him to visit this city, and extend
to him the hospitalities of the State.
Our city authorities, we are sure,
would cooperate in making arrange
ments for that purpose. Such nm in
vitation would be q merited compli-
ment to our worthy CHIEF Magistrate,
and even if he could not accept mt
this time, it might induce him to
visit us hereafter; at all events, it
would be . manifestation of our re-
spect and esteem, and of gratitude
for the patriotic end manly course he
has pursued in his dealings with our
arch-euemies-the radicals.
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con,ussrv~sassa> an OhIo.

Wshave soa6e cheering news frVtn
the Nortls-ssest,, Notwithstanding The
few ofensive demonstrations Of black
eua-a:sm towards the President and
his party in that region. We are
grateful to observe that the Demo-
Gratis and conservatives of Cincinnati
net in convention on Tuesday last,
aud nominated q. A PendIeton for
Congress IN the First, and Thomas
Cook in the Second District. Mr..
Pendletcn is we'll known as q Con-
gresham, and Mr.. Cook as President
Of the Cincinnati Chamber of Com
merce.
Mr.. Pendleton, on receiving his
nomination, addressed the convention
in a strong conservative speech, from
which we extract:
ssThat question is union, or dis
union; peace, fraternity and strength,
on the basis of the old Constitution;
or discord, division and weakness,
until we shall try the experiment. Of
a new one; the restoration of the Co.
uernment on the practical Unionlsm
of Andrew johnson and the Philadel-
phia Convention, which has my hear
ty and cordial support, or secession
made effective by the disunion, ne
gro suffrage, centralizing policy of
the radicals in Congress. I mean
that Philadelphia Convention which
met two weeks ago, in order that, by
fraternal conference, it might unite
the thirty-six States-not the Phila-
delphia Convention which sits to-day,
to perpetuate the disorganization of
tie States on the basis of a union OF
colors.
"This great war could not pass
away without results. It is not like
the breeze which leaves no trace. We
were told that the doctrine of seces.
sion and the institution of slavery
were the only parents of discord in
our Union! y
''The doctrine of secession was pui
upon the issue Of battle. The deci-
| sion was against it, and the Southern
people, by the action of their State
Conventions, and by the unanimous
declaration of their delegates at Phil
adelphia, have abandoned it as q rule
of political action. and the basis OF
political organization.
~The institution of slavery was also
involved in the conflict Of arms, d. d
it. too, under the action of the South.
ern States, has passed away forever.
''These are the results of the war.
They are universally recognized, and
the question is, whether these results
having been thus attained, the people
will restore the Union to its integrity,
resume one flag with thirty-six stars,
and rebuild the shattered fabric OF
the Government"
To the people of the Northwest,
the question is thus presented in d
nutshell. 1t is to be hoped the,
will not rechlessly throw away the
fruits of victory, to follow Tie wild
fire of radicalism.
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Isate lten,s.

( saa-1s9-1,,ss.Ds state 1te.as. q si
i DAaxsnazuN.-The So,ahsrne-says:
MeaSa sale-day. passed off win
ont unnzxshl incidents. There was q
respeekahae gathering, and some mo-
party wns sold. The ruin of @the
corn crop, fhe probability OF
the cotton being stolen from the
fields, and the session of the Legisla-
tSre were ths topics of conversation
found most Interesting.
Speaking of n penitentiary, the
Soushe,7ae'- says: II .
The establishment OF State peni-
tentiary is being advocated ably and
judiciously, we think, by some OF the
leading papers of the State. Our cir
cumstances seem so evidently to call
for an institution of this kind, that
we suppose the proposal will meet
with general favor.
KERsHAw.- Camden Journal
has the following items:
We have heard, within the past few
days, much COL plant of the rust in
cotton. It will doubtless shorten
the crop in this and adjoining Dis
tricts.
We are informed that the Camden
Bridge Company will commence re-
building the bridge ere long. The
period within which they are re-
quired to complete it or forfeit the
charter is, we believe, moro than two
years from this date, but We trust it
will be done in much less time.
In an article on the branch railroad
to Camden, the Journal says:
At an evil hour for us, the Direct
ors of the South Carolina Railroad, in
their wisdom, sacrificed our interests
for tho benefit of other more import
ant sections of the road, which they
believed we would have assented to
if we could have known the Difficult.
ties they had to surmount in the re-
pairs of the road ut that time.
Admitting that such necessity ex-
listed in 1865, does it justify the con.
tinnation of the policy in throwing
out fifteen miles of our road, stripped
of its rails. as unimportant, leaving
to the chance of profits on the road
to restore it as the nett profits will
enable them to raise $3.50, 600 to buy
the iron? Can wo suppose that il
fifteen miles of any other part of the
South Carolina Railroad should, by
any accident, be destroyed, that the
company would wait day longer fol
profits to reconstruct? Are We moi
the victims of the tardy, slow and
uncertain policy?
BARNwELL. .Sentinelsays
The post Office at Graham's Turr
Out, in this District, has been re
established, and Mr.. Caleb j. Bow
man appointed postmaster.
Speaking of sale-day, the Sentinc
says:
Several tracts of land were disposed
of by the Commissioner in Equity ant
the Sheriff. Quite Il crowd was in at
tendance, and the bidding spirited
notwithstanding the stringency il
the money market After the sale
were over, we were visited with til,
heaviest fall of rain that we have ha,
for months. In this section, the cor,
crop is slim-many will not make
third or half crop; others, again, will
make enough to do them, but none t.
spare. Cotton, We understand,
turning out pretty well, and witt
good seasons for few weeks, the pc
and potato crops, we hope, will max
up many deficiencies in other re
spects. Nothing of interest trans
pired worthy of note during the day
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THE BURNING OF CoLUMB1A.-An inter
csting account of the t'Sack and Bcstrur-
ton Of the City of Columbia, s. c." has
just been issued, in pamphlet form, from
the PhGniI power press. Orlcrsi i6iled to
any extent. Price SO cents. Copies con be
obtained at this Office and the bookstores.
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Hon. William B. Reed, one Of tho
counsel OF Mr.. Davis. in the event 80
his trial at the next session ~ ~.
United States Circuit Court. which
meets in Richmond next Octohe,.
VISITED his client at Fortress Monroe
on Wednesday. 20
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RESIGNATION OF HANNIBAL HAM11N

RESIGNATION OF HANNIBAL H4AAlLIN.
ttVIEws" ON THE PREsIDENT.-Hon.
Hannibal Hamlin, Collector of the
Port of Boston, tenders his resigpa-
tion in letter to the President,
Il do not fail to observe the move
mcnts and efforts which have ;,"an
and are now being made to organize
party in the country, consisting,
almost exclusively, of those engaged
in the late rebellion, and their allies,
who sought by other means to cripple
and embarrass the Government.
These classes of persons, with small
fraction of others, constitute the or
ganlzation. 1t proposes to defeat
and overthrow the Union Republican
party, and to restore to power, with
out sufficient guarantees for the fu-
ture and protection to men who have
been loyal, those who sought to de-
stroy the Government I gave all
the influence I possessed to create and
uphold the Union Republican party
during the war, without the aid OF
which our Government would have
been destroyed and the rebellion a
success. With such a party as has
been inaugurated, and for such pur-
poses, I have no sympathy; nor can
l acquiesce in its measures by my
silence. [, therefore, tender to you
my resignation of the oGcc of Col
lector of Customs for the District OF
Boston and Charlestown, to take
effect from the time when a successo,
shall he appointed and qualified"
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There was an accident to the Presi-
dental party at Schenectady, New
York, which uptripped the President,
and came near being serious affair
to several bystanders. The cars were
put in motion which moved the
plank on which the President stood.
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Lo0a1 Erexns.

MAn AiERAlscRlaENTn.-An mails are
open for delivery at O'clock in the morn
ing, and close as follows: Northern, 81 p.
m; -South' Caroline Railroad, 8 p. m;
Charleston, 9 p. M; Greenville, 9 p. IN.
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We regret to learn from the ITALIA
hassee Sentinel, that Bishop Rutledge
IS now very i'll in that city, with but
very little hope of recovery. His
disease is cancer in the mouth.
CHATTANOOGA BRIDGE Co.
l!'mbus Sun says that this important
INK IN the railroad connection be-
tween Alabama and Georgia, at that
point; is now complete.
Miss Evans. of Mobile, author of
"Beulah," and Mrs. Warfeld, of
Kentucky, author of the "Household
OF Bonverie," both have novels in
course Of publication by Carleton.
A Washington letter says that the
Attorney General has already engaged
competent photographers to attend
the Davis trial early in October, to
take notes for the Government.
a school for girls, to be called the
Stonewall College, is about to be
established at Ripley, Mississippi.
Cotton spectators at Columbia,
Tenn, are Offering to contract for the
coming cotton crop at twenty-five
cents per pound.
Clapp, recently re'nved from the
Buffalo post office, is making o noise
about it. He wants TO go to Congress
and get revenged.
NATIONAL ExIREss. observe
III the New Orleans papers that this
company is now in full operation
from the Potomac to New Orleans.
John L. Francis. the colored King
street barber, who, for over forty
years, has conducted business in
Charleston, died on Sunday last.
Tt is the current belief in Paris,
that the Emperor Maximilian will
abdicate the throne of Mexico.
DR.. o. Holmes is said to be writing
q story of American life.
Head Centre Stephens was to bs
in Cincinnati on Monday night.
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A Raleigh IN. C.) paper exposes
the aims of the so-called .'loyal
Unionists" in that State. by statirg g
that they have but one principle, and
perhaps but one aim, and that is to
wrest the Offices of the country and
the control of public affairs from the
hands of the former secossionists and
Southern war men, in order to enjoy
them themselves. Being :. hopeless
minority, they have no prospect of
affecting this. only by the disfran-
chisement of the masses of the people,
and hence, for the sake of promoting
their own advantage, they are willing
to embrace the entire radical pro-
gramme, at the risk of the utter over
throw of the Government of our
fathers, to secure which, oceans of
blood may be shed.
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A. F.. M...-REsT1TUrIoN.- exam
incd, yesterday, some jewels OF the order,
returned from Fort Wayne, Indiana
transmitted by s. D. Bayliss, d. G. NJ, for
Indiana. Mr.. Bayliss mentions that he
received them from United States soldier,
member OF his lodge, who states that he
obtained them from colored man in CO.
lumbia. Tho jewels Aro silver cross
swords and silver trowel, with the fol-
lowing inscription: "ColumbiaAsIasonic
Hall. founded April %. 1922. Chapman
Levy, W. NJ; WI DeSaussure, J.sW.;
John Bryce, S. W." The jewels we're ma
nufactured by Alexander Young, and by
him presented to Richland Lodge, No. 80.
A. F.. NJ.
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MEETING OF SoLDIERs.-The attention of
all surviving members Of Bonham's, Ker-
shaw's. Conner's and Kennedy's late bri-
gade Of the Confederate army, from this
State, is called to the notice in another CO.
lumn. The brigade that has passed
through the leadership OF the above gall
liant commanders was the oldest in the
Army Of Northern Virginia, and was the
right brigade Of the right division Of Gen.
Lees army, and participated IN all the bat
ties Of the war-from the first battle of
Manassas until the surrender at Green's
boro, they having been transferred to
Johnston's army.
We hope the meeting OF these veterans
will be fully attended, and that the re-
union will be pleasant and profitable.
The COLUMBIA Posr OrF1cE.-It might
be thought that the resolution of Mr..
Hanckel, in the Legislature, tended to
reflect on the management OF the post
Office here, on account Of the delay in the
delivery OF the mails. The facts are, that
the mails do not reach the Office until
about 81 o'clock p. m, and cannot be open
~ ~SAAA '%'A N1c"AAousSo 0Ao pun up IN the
boxes til p. m. Those having key
boxes obtain their letters and papers
after that hour.
We presume Mr.. HanckeTs resolution
referred more particularly to the late hour
at which the Charleston train arrived.
which is the cause of the Inconvenience to
our citizens. AS to the management of
the post Office at this point, We psay say
that Mr.. Janney's deputies, Mr. Leaphart
and his assistants, are as courteous and
obliging officials as can be found anywhere,
and even after 0 p. M, while they ren,ain
In the ofics, putting up the Northern
mails, we are sure they would hand papers
and letters to those whose business ur-
gently required them to have them.
NEW ADvEKTTgEafENrs. -AttenS Sion la CALL
ed to the following advertisements, which
are published this morning for the first
time; St<D dg.E.@ EBss
II. n Pelt-Mules Stolen.
Meeting at Nickerson's Hotel.
Il. ONeal Son-Suporior Cotton Gins.
Edward Sill-Chewing Tobacco.
Levin 4 Peixoito-Auction Sale. i4v
John u. Seegers Il Co-Tobacco. &c.
4 )-Opening Of City Male Free Schoo