The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-02

toA NeUS, StaClDS tnat cotton anu
goods ean be shipped from Columbia-
to New York, via Charlotte and Nor
folk, cheaper than through Charles
ton; and says: 1--WE have advised our
house at Co1umbia to ship cotton win
Charlotte and Norfolk. to New York,
and receive goods same way. If, the
South Carolina Railroad Company
allows This, we cannot help it. We
must do what ia to our interest. -
The negroes of Memphis propose
to celebrate the 9th of June, the
anniversary of the capture of that
city by the Federal forces, and have
addressed the Mayor, asking his ap-
proval and the protection of the
police. His reply was: ''The sons of
Ham, and all other sons, can do
just as they please, provided they do
not break civil law"
THE FENIAN MOVEMENT. Sixty
Fenian recruits arrived in Nashville
on Monday from Memphis. 2,OO0
more were expected Destination un-
known. Head Centre Stephens has
.telegraphed to New Orleans that he
will visit that city. Another fiasco may
soon be expected.
Edward O'Brien, a switch-tender
at Newark. New Jersey, whose negli-
gence caused railroad accident and
several deaths on the New Jersey
Road in November. last, has beef
convicted of manslaughter, bat re-
commended to mercy.
Gen. Wigfall, ex-Confederate Sena-
tor from Texas, is in London, and
about starting out to lecture on the
negro, beginning in the jungles in
Africa and concluding with a review
Of his present position (?) in
America
Lemuel Cook, the revolutionary
soldier who died in Clarendon, N. Y,
Sunday night, was not the last of the
heroes Of the war for independence.
There are two others still living, viz:
Samuel Downing, of New Hampshire.
anu James Barham, of Missouri.
The freedmen's courts in Tennessee
were abolished On Saturday by the
Commissioner of the bureau for that
State, as the law making colored per-
sons competent witnesses before the
civil courts has gone into effect.
1t is stated that Austria in O. few
weeks will have 100000 men in the
held. A large body of troops sent
from Vienna have already effected a
strategic concentration on the Prus-
sian frontier.
IHE DIFFERENCE. Forney is sere-
naded by negroes, and the President
and his Cabinet by white men. Every
one IS known by the company they
keep Washington Union.
MORE s'TREAsoN. The ladies Of
Anderson, on Thursday last, decorated
the graves of the Confederate soldiers
inferred in the church-yards in that
place.
Lieut.. Gen. Stephen D. Lee, of the
late Confederate Army, was in Ander-
son this week, in robust health. He
is now engaged in planting cotton in
Mississippi.
Ex-senator Cameron is in Wash
lngton at the head of a powerful lobby
delegation from PENNSYLVANIA. with
the object of influencing legislation in
favor of protection.
\ correspondent of the New York
Times state that there are a number
Of ''native ladies' teaching large
schools of colored children in South
Carolina.
Gov. Walker, Of Florida, has issued
a proclamation in which he congratu-
iatcs the people that the military has
relinquished all control over the
civil affairs of that State.
1t is reported that the directors Of
the Western Union and American
Telegraph Companies have agreed
upon basis of consolidation.
In New York, enlightened Gotham.
the other day, the white Sunday
School children refused to walk in
procession with the negro children.
Two freight trains Oh the Nashville
and Chattanooga Railroad collided
near Chattanooga on the 26th. One
man was killed and several wounded.
The radicals cannot get over Stan
tons desertion. He was their sheet
anchor. They are now fearful he will
be the rock on which they will split.
All accounts from Georgia repre-
sent the crop prospects of that State
as the poorest tiiat has been witness
ed for years past.
A petroleum gas machine, which
gives clear light at less than half a
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