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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-07

Our citizens enjoyed another delightful
open ass concert, yesterday afternoon, in
sidney eerk.s The band, as usual, played
well, and everybody seemed pleased. -
MAIL ARRASGnazzrrs,-A mails are
open for delivery at O'Clock in the morn
ing, and close as foilows: Northern. 81 %.
m; South Carolina Railroad, %. M;
Charleston, 9 p. NJ; Greenville, sp. IN.
BLANKS FOR SALE At THIS OFF.oE. Let
ters OF Administration, Declaration ON
Bond or Sealed Note, Mortgages and Con-
veyances OF Real Estate.
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Attention is directed to. the sale. Oh
Tuesday next, by w. T. Walter, Of blooded
cattle. Those who wish to improve their
stock would do well to attend.
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TIE BURNING OF CoLUMRIA.-.,n inter-
esting account OF tho ''Sack and De, true
tion OF the City OF Columbia, S. G. ;" has
just been issued, in pamphlet form, from
the IHhGrniL power press. Orders 6lled to
any extent. Price 50 cents. Copies can be
obtained 1T this Office and the bookstores.
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DIsAppoINTED.-We learn that the Kun
kcls' have been playing to such remarkably
fine houses in Charlotte, that they were
compelled to prolong their stay-vhich
was the cause of much disappointment to
number of our fun-loving citizens, old as
well as young. The first concert in Colum-
bia will be given this evening, in 0ibbes'
Hall s1''
NEW ADVERTISEMENT. Attention is cali
cd to the following advertisements, whicl,
arc published this morning for tho first
time: E
Levin & Peixotto-Cows, Mules, &c.
W. T. Waltcr-Choice Stock f',--'
| Proposals for Building Bridges.
| Hostettcr's Stomach Bitters.
&. ]. Elford-Machinery, &c.
knnkcfs Nightingale Opera Troupe.
1layncsworth, Reese & Co.-Baths.
J. y. McMahon-To Owners Of Dogs,
Why FEE THE DENT1srs?-Use Sozodont
daily, and your teeth will seldom or never
need seraping or filling, for they will never
be detilcd by unwhoIesome concretions, or
| be honcy-combed by decay.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-07

The Houston Telegraph has good
authority for stating that General
Magruder will return to the United
States shortly. and become Il good
loyal citizen thereof.
A fire at Antwerp, Belgium, on the
10th ultimo, originating in a petro-
leum warehouse. destroyed $780, 900
to $500, 900 worth Of property
A Pekin, China, correspondent
states that the Chinese Government
has decided to send Il Commissioner
to the United States.
Wendell Phillips announces that
under no circumstances can he be Il
candidate for Congress.
Cotton factories are springing up ali
over Alabama.
Chicago is tunneling her streets to
accommodate increasing travel
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-07
Foster ssssi 1ssseosarass.

EO3uE UEn1<A kS14CO<-S&BOs
Prior to the late war, many articles
were writt0n and publishsd by the
newspapers OF Che Soath. pressing
upon her poople the duty Of fostering,
and encouraging all enterprises start.
ed among them, In every department
of industry especially in mechanics
and manufactures. These appeals
were too much disregarded up to the
commencement of the recent difficult
ties, and only when stern necessity
and the deprivation of all outside
sources of supply compelled them to
turn to their own capabilities and re-
sources, that the Southern people set
to work in earnest to manufacture for
themselves This they did with q
will, and the result of four years ex-
pefience demonstrated that, in almost
every department, the articles of
utility and prime necessity could be
produced from our own factories and
workshops. 1'.+ 7~
Now that the war is over, with all
our ports thrown open, through
which the amplest supplies can be
obtained; when material and ma
chinery are procurable on equal terms
with any other, even the most favored
section of the country, and when me-
chanics and artizaus have, by radi-
cal changein our labor system, a new
field of enterprise thrown open to
them, is it not her highest duty to
prevent a return to dependence upon
those who steadily and invariably op-
posed, and who still oppose, the ad-
vancement of our interests, both ma
terial and political?'
The encouragement of homo enter
prise has been sadly defective among
MS in tho past, and, as the Raleigh
Progress observes, Southern commu-
mites have universally rejected this
royal road to wealth. With match
less stupidity, they have maintained
the practice of approaching every
thing except native talents, or tho
home enterprises established amongst
them. This is all wrong. A COM
munity OF interests among any people
is nm unfaikng source of strength; but
no people can become truly indie
pendent who fail to develop the re-
sources which are everywhere around
them, or who fail to encourage and
foster every effort, no matter by
whom made, to develop them. The
Southern people must surely have
learned this lesson in their past ex-
perience, and we trust that in the
future they will profit by it, and act
upon its teachings.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-07

The remarks of Secretary Seward,
at Auburn, while introducing Senor
Romero, that MaximiIian had notice
to quit by the 1st of November, is
considered significant of movements
IN regard to Mexico, which will de-
velop themselves by the time re-
ferTed to.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-07

SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. The
Marion Crescent learns that the Bishop
has changed the time of holding the
South Carolina Conference, at that
place, from November 7 to December
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-07
state Items.

EDaEr1E1D.-We extract the fol-
lowing from the Atlcertiser:
A bold md fierce outrage was per-
petrated in the Beech Island vicinity
one night last week. While Mr..
John Glover, an unmarried man, liv-
ing alone, was asleep, two or three
shots were fred through the walls of
his house; one Of them wounding him
IN the hand. Immediately after this,
ruffians-perhaps black and white
entered the house, dragged Mr.. G.
into the piazza, beat him until they
thought they had killed him, robbed
his body Tor may be his house) of
$500 in gold, 500 in greenbacks, notes
and papers worth many thousands,
and his watch. The robbers then
fled. Since this, two negro fellows
have been lodged in our Jail, sup
posed to be of the rullianly party.
Speaking of sale-day, the 1Adce,4ise,.
says:
Sheriff Spires sold three or four
small parcels of land, and Commits
sioner Carwile three or four large
ones. Among the latter, was the ex-
tensive and valuable landed estate of
the late Mrs. Chloe Watson, of tho
Ridge. 1t brought something very
near $4,000, and was bought by
her grandson, Capt. Robert Watson.
The town house and lot of the late
Edmund Penn. Esq, was bought by
Mrs. S. Y. Golding for 1880. a
good looking bay horse was offered
for sale at public out-cry, but not
wlthstandlng vast quantity OF out
cry, no shadow of bid could be got
for him. Who wants to buy horses
to lie down and die of starvation?
What else? When crops were
mentioned, gloom overspread every
countenance. From what we could
gather, the rust, in the case of cotton,
IS about to complete the ruin COM
menccd by the drought. We found
people still harpins upon the debt
question-as we'll they may. Every
man queried his neighbor to know
what he thought the Legislature
would do. Public opinion is over
whelmingly in favor of a convention
of the people.
NEwnERRY.-The HeymAl announces
the return homo Of two citizens
Mcssrs. Mathis and Harris-who were
short time ago taken to Charleston
by military orders.
CHESTER. R.-The .StunuhuM saws that
the Company, l., 9Th United States
Cavalry, who have been the garrison
there, have received marching orders
for Charleston, and that Col. Bliss,
Commandant of the Post, has been
assigned to duty elsewhere. The
STANDARD notices the following rob-
berries:
On Saturday last, the dwelling
house of Mr.. John kearney, on
Fishing Creek, was entered during
the absence Of the occupants, and
completely Quilted, everything of a
ortable character being removed.
Sherman's "bummers'' could not
have cleaned the building more
effectually.
The same night, valuable horse
was stolen from the stable of DR..
Hlcklin, and mule from Mr. Sturges.
We are happy to learn that the horse
thieves have been arrested in Shelby,
n. c., and arc on their way to this
place.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-07

A state Convention.

Friday Morning, September z, 1885,,
"A State Convention. IS
An item in our paper, from the
EdgeHeld Adve,tiser, says shat the
general sentiment of the people in
that section, rs gathered from the
citizens DC the Court House on last
sale-day. is that the Legislature should
call Convention of the people Of
this State. @~s5' - r~'-'
Ata public meeting held at Winns-
boro, the following resolution was
passed:
"Resolred, Whereas the Constitu-
ton Of the State of South Carolina
distinctly affirms that the Legislature
shall not pass law impairing the OBJ
legations OF contracts, that we ear
nestly solicit the law-making power
(the Legisiature) to call a Convention,
TO take into consideration the anoma-
lous condition of affairs not contem-
plated BY the trainers of the Consti-
These and sinlilar expressions of
public sentiment at District meetings
previously held, all look to the pro-
posed Convention as o body having
more power in relation to; ON inter
ference between debtor and creditor,
and they take for granted that, be-;
cause the Legislature, by the Consti-
tuition of this State, is prohibited
from passing any law impairing the
obligation of contracts, a Convention
OF the people would possess that
power. This is an error, if South
Carolina is considered a State of the
Union. The tenth section of the
first article of the Constitution of the
United States declares expressly, that
no Ssate" shall "pass law impairing
the obligation of contracts. -
The Legislature is only co-ordi-
nate branch of the State Govern
ment, while Convention of the peo-
pie is. for the time being, supreme
is, in fact, the State itsezf-and the
prohibition of the Constitution above
quoted would apply very peculiarly
to such sovereign body as a Con-
vention. It could not constitution
ally pass such q law; and if they did
pass an ordinance, similar in its pro-
visions to the stay law, the effect
would simply be to throw claims of
my magnitude into the District
Courts of the United States, and
would there be disregarded, just as if
it were an Act of the Legislature.
If the desire for Convention were
simply to devise ways and means to
supply those of our citizens who
have suffered from the late war, short
crops or any other misfortune, it
might not be amiss; but we believe
with Governor Orr, that the members
of the Legislature, fresh from every
District in the State, are well quail
fled to judge Of the proper mode of
relief, and have ample authority to
make any appropriations for that
purpose. There is one thing certain.
that neither Convention nor tho
Legislature has power to impair the
obligation of contracts.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-07
Notice to Owners of Dogs.

CITY CLERKS OFFICE.
COLUMBIA, September 6, 1865.
OWNERS OF DOGS are notified that the
~ Ordinance with reference to Does win
be enforced on and after MONDAY next,
tho 10th. All dogs found running at large
without collar furnished by the city. On
and after that date, will be killed by the
police. BY order Of the Mayor. :
j. s. MCMAHON.
Sept City Clerk.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-07

A correspondent from the Dutch
city of Rotterdam, gives the follow
ing delectable description of the
cleanliness of the people. No ono
ought to be afraid of eating Dutch
cheese after reading this
Clutch beds, stables, barn yards,
in fact, everything that I have seen
i'll Dutchland, is clean and fresh.
In COW houses, the animals tails are
tied up to q hook in the ceiling, that
they may not get soiled by contact
with the floor, and when they go out
to pasture in the spring, they have q
cloth tied around them, as little boys
have bibs, TO keep them nice and
clean: Bugs and spiders stand no
possible chance of existence in Hol-
land. Every week the whole energy
of the inhabitants is devoted to scrub
bins and cleaning, and, indeed, the
city retains damp appearance all
the week from the effects of the terri
ble drenching which it gets on Sa-
turday.'
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-07
Office Commissioners of Roads.

0HCO OVH11ISSIVUbIS OI AOaQB,
UPPER BATTALION.
COLUMBIA, September 8, 1866.
DROPOSALS will be received by the
Il undersigned, until WEDNESD Az, the
18th inst, for building two BRIDGES, at u
point on the Bluff Road known "a eHamp-
toms High Bridge" The contract viii Be
awarded to the highest responsible bidder:
he giving bond, with security, guarantee
ing the work for five years Further infor
nation may be had by application to the
Secretary. BY order
THOS. TAYLOR, Chairman.
~. IL. MILLER. Secretary. Sept a,
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-07
SHIP VIEWS.
PORT OF CHARLESTON. SEPT. 6

ARRIVED YESTERDAY.
Steamship Saragos,a, Crowell, New York.
Steamship l.. G. Knight, Baltimore
Schr. N. W. Smith, Tooker, New York.
WENT TO SEA YESTERDAY.
Steamship Hendrich Hudson, Havana.
Br. bark Ella Adele, Anderson, Havana
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-07

WHY FEE THE DENT1srs?-Use Sozodont
daily, and your teeth will seldom or never
need scraping or filling, for they will never
be detilcd by unwholesome concretions. or
be honcy-combed by decay.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-09-28
New Work Episcopal Convention.

New YORK, September 27.-The Epis'
copal diocesan Convention re-assem
bled this morning in the st Johns
Chapel.
The report of the Trustees of the Epis-
copal fund was read. 1t appears that
the accumulated fund added to the dig
posable fund now exceeds one hundred
thousand dollars. The limit of the fund
to be obtained for the support of the
Bishop. The report set forth that
the interest on this sum will net support
The Bishop and Fay the taxes on the
Episcopal residence.
The committee was instructed TO con-
tinue the accumulation of the funds fol
the support of the Bishop, and it was
resolved 20 purchase house and lot as
an EPISCOPAL residence.
Bishop Taller then proceeded to deliver
bis annual address. After speaking al
hour and half without concluding his
address, recess Of half an hour was
taken.
Upon reassembling resolution was
adopted that the members would attend
tie funeral of Rev. Dr. Haws
The special committee on the salary OF
tho Bishop made their report. IL was
resolved to vote to the Bishop, in addi
tion TO bis salary Of $4,000, the sum oI
81 coo, making total for the year OF
| s. 5000.
The Convention then adjourned until
evening, when the report will be heard
from the committee and the Bishop will
, conclude the delivery Of his address
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-09-28
From Fortress Wonroe-kron Cind
Target Experimenis--For orgery'

FORTRESS MONROE, September 81
Result of experiments upon the iron clad
target may be thus stated: Eight feet
thick of Stonewall iron clad with four
inches of rolled iron, situated at dis
tance of $50 yards, offered scarcely any
resistance to shots fred by the 10 inch
smooth bore and IL iuch Rodman guns
The IL inch Dyer projectile, weighing 62C
lbs possessed greater power upon the
plates than the 15 inch spherical shot
weighing 420 pounds, but the destructive
qualities of the latter upon the heavy
masonry far exceeded the calculation OF
the officers present. A stronger target
with an additional thickness otiron plat
ing, will be required before any definite
result can be arrived as respecting the
manner of building fortifcations with
tbs greatest power of resistance against
the improved artillery of the age.
A close examination made into the
affairs of Mr. c c. Flint, proprietor OF
the Old Dominion newspaper, shows that
he has victimizcd the following: Ma
tional Bank OF Norfolk, $4,000; IpsuI
ance Trust Company of Norfolk, 6.20O
First National Bank Of Norfolk, $4,000
Total, Sl5. 500 The torgeries were mostly
upon government bills aud vouchers
No clue has yet been obtained ms to the
whereabouts of the defaulter.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-09-28
sudinu War on the Plains.

F0RT LARAMIE. Sept. 26.-Advices re.
ociyed from Fort Phillip state that the
Indians were very troublesome, stealing
stock and attacking small parties. On
the 18th they captured a Government
hard of mules, and wounded two of the
guard On the 18th private Jobson and
Ridgeway Glover, an artist for Frank
Leslie's paper, were killed and badly mu.
tilated. They attempted to capture the
pickets near the Fort, but were driven
off with q loss # two killed. Two men
of Bailey's mining party, while hunting
were killed after = small loss to the In
dians.
Reports received from Fort Smith
Dakotah. state that there are five hun.
dred lodges of Sioux Indians in Tongue
river valley, all hostile. They are deter
mined that the new road 10 Montans
shall not be travelled. Government
stock was stolen at Plat e bridge, Dako
tab to day.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-09-28
New York News.

New YORK, Sept. 27.-The Villa de
Paris brought 659000 francs IN treasure
She arrived to-day. Among her passen-
gers is General Beauregard.
Rev. DR.. Hawks died in this city this
morning.
General Sweeney publishes card de.
clining to take any part in the pr ceed
lngs Of the Fenian Brotherhood.
A man named Joseph German shot,
1t is supposed fatally, one of she proprie
tors OF the Bagnio, named Margaret
Nealy alias Celeste Carhart, last night
He is under arrest.
Morgan L, Harris is appointed col
lector of internal revenue in the Eighth
District, located in this city, vice George
p. Putnam, removed.
The cricket match continued today.
Young America at the last wicket fell
for u, and St, George for 40, both first
innings.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-09-28
Washington News.

WASHINGTON, September y. = Ihe
Nayv Departmeut has received lnforma-
r;ou of the arrival of the United States
steamer Mahaska froH TampicH, via the
Rio Graude and Galveston, at Pensacola,
on the 2lst inst. Commander Cusheron'
of the Mahaska, reports that Tue Ameil-
can interests have not suffered by VIC
lepee from either of the COntending
parties in Mexico, and that no vessels OF
war of the Imperialists had appeared OF
Tampico on the Rio Grande, aud no ap-
urebensions Of blockade we're enter
tanned.
The National Intelligoncer of to-day
saws that Samuel Tyler, Of Mary laud,
the counsel of JET. Davis, had az inteC.
view with the Attorney General yester-
dey in regard to the trial of Davis. We
have not heard what the result o. the
interview was, bu: suppose it was in &C
Cordance with what we learn from the
best source of information, that Judge
Underwood and Chief Justice Chase have
come to the conclusion that, by the legis,
lation of the last Congress, the adJourned
court oannet be held next month; conse
uuently the case of Davis, with al!
others, must he postponed to Il future
day.
The President to day mad0 the follow.
ing appointments: Hugh J. Anderson, OF
Maine. Auditor of the Treasury for the
| Postoffice Departments; J. j. Humphreys
of Tennessee, Agent for Indians of the
Cherokee agency; Chief Engineer Nor
timer Kellogg. U. S Navy has been Of
dered to superintend the construction a.
the Government buildings at B.idgewa
ter, Ma s
Congress At the late session authorized
the Secretary of the Treasury to sell
such of the revenue cutters as are not
adapted to service. The department
will, accordingly, soon dispose at public
sale of six of the steamers which were
built in q manner more suitable for waI
| than for civil service. There viii then
remain nineteen revenue cutter steam
ers six of which are on the lakes, and
nine sailing cutters. The rumber of the
| latter is to be increased by eight propo
sails for the building of which have been
| invited.
Sailing yesselsa are to be employed only
when they can render the requisite ser
vice, while their service will materially
decrease the expense of the service
Recently a delegation OF prominent
| Southern business men, most OF them
cotton actors and planters, visited Wash
ington to endeavor to obtain modifica
tion of the existing rules and regula
tions under which cotton is transported
70 market, the. revenue tax thereon, and
its final shipment 10 domestic ports The
Secretary of the Treasury to-day refer
red the subject to the Attorney Genera
for his opinion in the premises.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-09-28
Canadian Ney,.-The Feriaus

NEW YORK, September ga Herald s
Ottawa, Canada dispatch says: The
Fenians are again concentrating for a
raid in various portions of Vermont, and
troops are being placed on an extensive
war footing, Military forces have been
forned into field brigades and garrisons,
former being complete in themselves and
prepared to move at moments notice.
The commissariat, quartermaster and
medical corps have been ordered TO sup
ply themselves fully with everything
necessary for vigorous campaign. The
notes of the bank of Upper Canada were
quoted at nearly par, and no further fail
ures were anticipated.
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Adjournment of the Piftsburg Conven.
tion-A ssociafion of Rebel Prison
Survivors Formed. Js.i

PrTTsBURG, September pa meeting
of returned prisoners from number Oh
States was held after the adjournment
of the Soldiers Convention, when an as
sociation of rebel prison survivors was
organized by the election of General A.
D. Streight as Chairman. A constitu-
tion and circular was adopted, as follows:
We, the survivors of the thousands of
10y al men whe have been incarcerated In
Southern prisons, desirous of forming a
society for the purpose of collecting. ma
terials for a history of their imprison-
ment, and afording aid to those of their
number who have been rendered helpless
by rebel barbarity, and of renewing ana
perpetuating the friendship cemented by
mutual sufferings, have initiated such an
organization. A meeting of the returned
prisoners was held at Pittsburg, Sept.
Goth, at which meeting the Association
of Rebel Prison Survivors was organized
by choosing General A. D. Streigat, OF
Indiana, President, and a Vice President
from each State represented. A begin.
ming having been thus made, Ne ap.
peal to our late comrades in prison TO
Join with US in making this Association
co extensive with our country. To this
end, let each returned prisoner put him
self into communication with the
Vice. President appointed for the
State to which he belongs and
be eRrolled as member OF
the branch association of his State
Those becoming members will aid in col
lecting such information as will be use
full in compiling history of rebel prls-
ons, and especially in relation to those
Of their fellow prisoners whose fate is
unknown to their friends at home. With
such purposes in view, We feel assured
that our fellow prisoners generally will
Join us in carrying them into effect, using
every means conducive to that end.
The meeting then adjourned.