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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-05-05

The crops in the West and South
give promise of certainly average
and perhaps abundant yield. The
first appearance of the wheat in the
spring was quite discouraging, and it
was thought to be more than half
winter killed, but the later reports
are more favorable. Fruit, particu
larly apples, pears and grapes, gives
good signs; but peaches, in many
localities Of the West, are disastrous
~ nipped in the bud. In the South
the high price of cotton stimulates
the planters to put down q great deal
OF ground in that staple, to the ne
glect of wheat and corn. The esti-
mated yield of cotton is above 2, ,OOO,-
600 bales. In Tennessee and Ken
lucky much less than the usual
amount of tobacco will be raised, and
the sugar crop in the Southwest,
with the rice crop in the Southeast.
will be we'll nigh failures.
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Local Items.
Mortgages and Conveyances of Real L.
tate for sale at this Office.

-'Aoi eSaSes "no COnvevanceS OF Real Es-
tate for sale at this Office.
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The BURNING OF COLUMBIA. ,ntcr.
estlhg account OF the Sack and Destruc
ton OF the City OF Columbia. s. Cha,
just been issued, i'll pamphlet form, fr..u
the Fh1"I steam power press. Ord. r.
can be Tiled to any extent.
Book AND JOB PRINTING. Tile Ph,poir
Office is now fully supplied with card.
colored and white paper colored ink. wood
tSpe' etc, and is now in condition to exc
cute all manner OF book and Job printing
IN the shortest possible time. Give n. a
call.
Owing to the reduction in the cost or
printing paper and the tumble in prices
generally, we have reduced the subscrip-
ton to the PhPnir as follows:
Daily paper, one year $500
DAILY paper. per month *
Ir!-weekiy, one year & M
1rl-weekly, per month s0
hE-EsTAbLrsHED.-T Provost Count at
this Post IS re-established by orders from
Headquarters, Charlest,~ s. c.: Cant 7
A. Clark, 18th Maine Volunteers. presid;no
Judge; Magistrates Mcdonald and Walker.
Associate Judges. The Court meets this
morning for the trial Ct several cases.
The stockholders Of the Greenville and
Columbia Railroad Company met at 10
'ck yesterday morning, pursuant to ad-
)onrnment. The report Of the Committee
to whom the President and Directors re-
port and other papers were referred, was
presented by the Chairman, which, after
some discussion and amendments made.
was adopted.
The meeting adjourned at 90 late an
hoor that we cannot give a synopsis of the
proceedings, but will do so in our next
issue. The following is the result Of the
election for President and Directors for the
ensning year:
President H. p Hammett.
DHecsD"s Simeon Fair Robert Stewart.
L. G. Perrin, J. W. w. Marshall, Alexander
McBee, James 2. Boyce, b. F. Perry, ]. l..
Orr, J. p. Reed, L. d. Childs, Daniel
Brown. II. r. Farmer.
New ADVERTISEMENTS Attention is cali
cd to the following advertisements, which
are published this morning for tho frat
time
Jacob Bell-Citation David H. Adams.
c. II. Baldwin-Ha Fruits, DC.
\. K. Phillips-Bricks.
J. s. Mc1lahon-Final Notice.
Cohen, Hanckel & Co.-Earthenware
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Another Scoursc.

Another Scourse.
The country has suffered from
terrible civil Wharf.-The cholera has
reached our shores-and now we have
"pestilence among the animals,
which threatens to bring famine"
in its train. Corn cannot we'll be
made without horse power, and we
notice in the Nashville Union u.d
american that q gentleman of that
city has recently received letters
from Arkansas and Mississippi, stat
ing that terrible disease has broken
out among the mules i'll the neighbor-
hood of Helena, Ark. and Vicksburg,
Miss, which threatens the most Sc
rlous consequences. Already above
1000 mules have died. In one neigh
borhood, near Helena, 200 died in
one night So far, no means have
been found to arrest the epidemic,
nor any remedy after the animal is
attacked. Strange to say, ther. ire
no premonitory symptoms attenulng
the disease, which does its work in
about eight hours. The planters held
meeting, recently, at Laconiu, Ark.
to devise means for arresting the
plague, which threatens the destruc-
tlon of all the mules in that section
of the country.
Still again. A gentleman who ma
nages large farm near Detroit,
writes as follows to the Tribune, of
that city:
''Some time ago, Informed you of
a disease among my pigs. NV stock
before the disease came was eighty
seven; of these. fifty-nine We're at
tackled, and fifty died. The first
symptoms were great thirst, dullness,
groaning, etc; then followed hard
ness of the belly, heat of the skin,
difficulty of respiration, heaving of
the fianks and short cough, and the
eyes full of tears. All these symp-
toms came on in the course of twelve
hours. If the disease continued, the
succeeding symptoms were still more
alarming the animals began to stag
ger about, the limbs were stretched
out in an unnatural position, rattling e
IN the throat, grating of the teeth,
supporting themselves against the
wall only to fall and die in few mi
nutes after. Death generally came
on about the third day. The cause
IS irregular and over-feeding, feeding
on animal food, and short of clear,
fresh water to drink"
Should these terrible diseases
amongst the mules and the hogs be-
come widespread in the West and
Northwest, we may look ont for IL
great scarcity Of the principal nrti-
cles of food. 1t is a proper time for
all Christians to use the petition of
the liturgy: "F'rom war, pestilence
and famine good Lord deliver us"
DEBow's REVIEW THE Nav issue
of this excellent magazine comes to
us freighted with n large quantity of
reading matter from the best writer's,
rs the following table of contents
shows: Commerce and Finance in
History, by George Frederick Holmes;
The Political Crisis, by A. Greene;
The Causes Of Commercial Greatness,
by r. G. Horton; The Charms of
Rural Life, by w. j. Grayson; Cot
ton Manufacture; Life and Times of
George Dewitt, by r. G.. Barnwell; ;
Mexico and the Fenians, by George
Fitzhugh; Cotton Seizures by Fede-
raj Authority at the South; and the
usual amount of editorial miscellany.
FROM FLORIDA Anderson
LkeAigencer says that General J. w.
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The Methodist Episcopal Church
South, for the past twenty years. SAYS
the st. Louis RepnJlicnn, owned and
occupied church building in La
Grange, Mo. The Northern branch
of the society had none, but had been
kindly granted the use of the South
eTii socio:ys building After borrow
ing the keys for some time, while the
town was in possession of company
Of radical militia, they borrowed them
once more, this time putting them i'm
their pious pockets, and keeping the
rightful owners out, through mill
tary intimidation. They have conse-
quently had to resort to lawsuit to
regain possession. This may not be
"pious perjury but it looks very
much like stealing in the name of
virtue.
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A NOBLE BALT1AloREAN.- A.

A NOBLE BALT1AIoREAN.-Mrs A.
D. Egerton, of Baltimore, was and is
an angel of mercy to the South.
Thousands of our surviving braves
can testify to her untiring zeal and
hmitless charity She nursed the
dying, buried the dead, fed the hun
cry, clothed the ragged, released the
prisoner OF consoled him by letter.
We have said that thousands survive
to bless her from every Southern
State; we may add that thousands
bless her i'll the better land, thou
sands that no vigil nor sympathetic
love could preserve from inexorable
death. Since the closure of the war,
she has not folded her hands, weary
of we'll doing. but, if anything, re
doubled her exertions. Worn out
almost in her labor of love, she econ
omizes life for the sake of the unhap-
py South. .-AuguSta CoustttutiomuliSt.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-05-05

Gen. HOWARD AT THE AFRICAN Cox
FERENCE. an address to this BODY
on Monday, in Washington, Gen.
Howard said
"The civil rights bill was n good
thing like the magma charta, looking
bright and reading we'll. 1t will read
we'll thousand years hence, when
people will point to it as the begin
ming. But it must be executed. When
it is executed fully in Kentucky that
State will be free, and so in Mary
land. There is great sh,"ye,' M.n il rW
not be e.recuted"
To whom does Gen. Howard refer
when he speaks Of its not being ex-
cuted-to President Johnson or the
Supreme Court?
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The green, red, blue and yellow
.ors have been successfully rem
dered 10y means Of photography by
NJ. Niepce de St Victor.
The Astronomical Society of Eng
land has just issued sight views of the
planet Mars.
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A DECENT NEGRO NEWSPAPER.

A DECENT NEGRO NEWSPAPER -
The Mobile Nationalist, journal
owned and edited by negroes, has II
sensible colorcd correspondent at New
Orleans, who is not in love with tho
Bureau. He says: "A thousand times
better would it be for the colored man
were it abolished, for, instead of
being safeguard or protection for
the freedmen, it is only place in
which frcedmen's rights are burtered
away; it serves only to engender bit
terness and hatred i'll the hearts Of
the very people with whom we expect
to live, die and he buried X
The sooner it is out of the way the
better for all parties concerned" We
always khcw that the better class of
negroes objected to the Bureau as
strongly as the whites, and we are
glad to perceive that their opinions
are getting into print in way that
can throw no doubt over their ge-
nmneness.
James Littleworth, of Plymouth,
Penn, now seyenty-eight years old,
is the father of thirty-one children,
the Oldest of whom is fifty years, and
the youngest four months. He is
living with his fourth wife, whom he
married 1.-THE age of fifty-nine, she
being then n little Indian s0unw of
fourteen
The new Constitution Of Texas
fixes the basis of representation ON
the white population The old one
fixed it on the free population
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-05-05

George Bancroft, historian of the
the United States, denies the authen-
ticity of the letter of the Marquis de
Montcalm, written Immediately be-
fore the capture of Quebec, in 1893,
and containing remarkable prophe-
cy concerning the future of the
American colonies. The paper was
discovered by Mr.. Carlyle, and ap-
peared in the last volume OF the Life
of Frederick. y
A boy named Conrad Koch com
mitted suicide in st. Louis, on the
oath, because he was chastised by
his father In presence Of his sweet
heart and other spectators.
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NoRrHERN PHARrsEEs-Were the

scurviest thief in New York, says the
New York World, to appear at any
one of the religious meetings now
going on in some of the churches in
this city, and there declare his re-
pentance, and avow his conversion to
better life and his desire to unite in
the fellowship of those who profess
to pursue it; and were his acts to bear
out his words, he would be received,
welcomed, rcioiced over, baptized,
and admitted.
The next day, after applying to
erring men this test in morals and
religion, many of these same persons
would read the Sermon on the Mount
Mt family prayers, and then go and
declare their appreciation Of Con-
gress which treats worse than the
scurviest thieves our Southern fell
low-citizens, who have erred in a
matter of political Government. who
declare it, who desire to renew their
old political fellowship and their allie
glance to the Union and its laws.
These charitable men call themselves
Christians.
FREEDMEN BrREAU-IMpokr,S
ORDER. Gen. Scott, Assistant Com
missioner Of the Bureau, has recently
issued the following order to the
agents of the Bureau throughout this
State:
HEADo' RS ASSISTANT CoMM'SER,
BUREAU r., F. AND A. L., S. G..
Charleston, S. c., April 20, '6G.
General Orders No. l..
l. Hereafter, no officer of the Bu
reau will be permitted to charge any
fee Tor approving contracts between
the freed people and their EMPLOYERS
Ill. All contracts heretofore made
and approved by officers of the army
will hold good and be enforced. al
though the provisions in them may
not be IN exact accordance with the
views of the officers of the Bureau. as
1t IS deemed injudicious to interfere,
at the season of planting, with any
organized labor
LII. Should frauds have been com
mltted, or unjust contracts approved,
by officers acting as agents for the
Bureau, the matter will be adjudicated
by some competent authority, APP
pointed at n future day.
By order of
Br'vt Maj. Gen. r. X. SCOTT.
Assistant Commissioner.
Official: II. w. SMITH, Assistant
AdjntantGeneral.
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salaries, transportation, etc - &C, GAP
Interest on capital OF $3.50, 900. $4,000
Total ................... s237 ,O4s
Against this sum. which includes
the entire cost of manufacturing.
we have A. 10000 yards Of No. IA
sheeting, the product ofthe mill,
worth now seven and half cents
per yard. s326, $50
From this last amount, deduct the
cost as above. ..,......... 237, ,O4s
And you have balance of. .... ss9, 600
This sum is the gross profit to the
manufacturer, subject to the deduc-
ton for commissions, &C., on 1,9OO,-
600 pounds of cotton, after having
paid for the cotton and the cost of
manufacturing; while the planter who
produced that cotton receives but
9lO8, 900, from which sum he has to
pay all the cost of production, Incl
dental expenses and the interest on
his capital.
Gen. James truly says. that facts
like these should fix the attention
of the cotton planter, teach him his
true interest, and stimulate him to
become the manufacturer of the pro-
duct of his field, instead of permit
ting others to reap the entire profit.
Yet he acts differently. The small
profits derived from his cotton fields,
after the deduction from the gross
receipts, of sum sufficient to cover
the cost and tho incidental expenses,
are generally appropriated to the ex-
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-05-05

HAIL SToRM.-The Yorkville En-
qui'e1' states that a severe hail storm
and wind visited n portion of this
District, East of the town, on Sun
day last. Considerable damage was
done to the fencing and growing
crops. Much of the cotton will require
second planting The track Of the
storm wa, narrow, but the damage
done severe.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-05-05

CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE COM
paratively insignificant position oc-
cupied by Chief Justice Chase, on the
Bench of the Supreme Court, is the
subject Of general remark Marshall
almost invariably carried the Court
with him. Taney generally did 50.
But Chase never, in any case where
the Court is divided Thus is this
partisan Judge almost daily humiliat-
ed and rebuked by his own associates.
So the ''whirhgig of time has its re-
venges, and the fanatical sower of
dissension and promoter of discord
between the different members of the
American family, though raised to
the loftiest pinnacle Of the American
Judiciary. finds himself without in
fiuence and without obedience Like
Lear-that 'poor discrowned King"
he already begins to learn that the
! honors which "should accompany
old age are not for him, and that his
! future career is to be as barren and
rs proitless as though he were con-
signed for life to the remotest corners
of New Mexico. = Washington Cores
pQmle"ce Ner York Express.
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FROM FLoRIDA.--The Anderson
MteAigencer says that General j. w.
Harrison has recently returned from
Florida, and represents that country
as being in the enjoyment of almost
former prosperity The freedmen
are all at work, and the great demand
is for more labor. Civil authority is
in the ascendant, and the military
only an assistance to the civil officers
in the execution of the law.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-08
FoREIGNADVICEs.

The rumOr OF an alliance between
Russia and Prussia is denied.
The seven confederate ships seized
bv our Government. at Liverpool, are named
Penguin. Owl, Lark, Wasp, Badger, FOX ana
Arid. They are valued at SSOO,VGO.
A popular outbreak against the gov
ernment Of Spain is liable to occur at any
moment. There are vague rumors that the
Queen will abdicste to avert the threatened
storm.
There has been renewed fighting IN
Gambia. 1t is said that the Turks have been
badly beaten, and have suffered greatly. no
less tban 5000 having been killed and 2,OCO
taken prisoners.
Twelve thousand breo ch-lOading RI
fles are TO be sent 10y the British government
Ca Ireland, for the use Of constablts Arrests
of Fenians continue 20 be made ln Ireland
and the troops are vigilant.
Tuesdays London advices 10y the
Atlantic cable state that the FenIan troubles
are fast growing more serious, and hint That
it Is more than probable that an actual ont-
break has already occurred. The Buush
government is hurrying forward troops 10
meet the emery nCy, and general excite
ment is evident both IN England ana ireland
1t Is now said that the English cabinet,
acting upon the imperative demand from MI.
Seward in regard 20 the Alabama claims, mas
consented to reconsider its former dscisloh'
and that the matter now stands open for fur
Their discussion between the two govern
ments.
Tie rumor that Napoleon has mott
lied the Washington authorities OF post
ponemont of the withdrawal OF French troops
from Mexico until Spring, Is untrue. Our re-
lations with Mexico are much less compilcat-
cl than late dispatches would indicate. MINI
lister Campbell Eas no instructions %h~teVof
,nucLiua > triuartite treaty. nor is France or
French interests 10 be considered by HIM IN
any way. Neither is there any requirement
Of Mexican territory contemplated by our
Government but the constitutional party II
TO be supported, if necessary, by military
force The mission of General sherman Is
simply to view the military situation In Mexi-
co and add MS assurance that our govern
ment will sustain the constitutional party. 1t
is confidently believed that such representa-
tiOns will be sufficient to check all revolution
airy plots, and secure stability to the Juarez
government.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-08
AbdIcation of MaxImilIan.

New YORK, Nov. 26.-The Worlds
New Orleans special says: "Maximilian
has taken the decisive step of abdica-
ton, the rupture between himself and
the French Government being complete.
He has left Mexico In the hands OF
Bazaine and Castlenau, the latter OF
whom is understood to have full au-
thority from Napoleon to supersede IT,
Marshal himself, If necessary.
The late Emperor left Vera Cruz on
Thursday, and may be expected at Ha-
vana, on his way to Europe, on Mon
day or Tuesday next. The consterna-
tion of the Mexicans at finding the
question of their future RENTED abso-
lutely to negotiations between France
and the United States is general, and
confined to no party. / have the best
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-08

The headquarters of the department.
of Arkansas, is, by order of General Grant,
transferred from Little Rock to Fort Smith,
and the commanding general of the depart
ment il authorized to move the band now at
Little Rock to the post within his command
having the largest permanent garrison.
The Louisiana State Fair, though the
first attempt, is a great success. lte has al
ready auickened the disposition to the use OF
improved implements in the South. The as
ISOLATION have resolved to begin immediate
preparations to bold another fair IN NOyem-
Der, 1867, and to erect permanent bull 1lngs
for the use of the same.
Bill No. 90, defining the qualifications
of Jurors has passed both branches OF the
Tennessee Legislature, taking effect from and
after its passage. The bill provides that IN all
trials, civil or criminal. in any court OF Ten
nessee, ii shall be good grounds OF challenge,
as to competency of juror, that such person
is not a qualified eiector of the State. The
bill also provides that rape, as nov defined
by Tennessee statute, shall sufier death by
hanging, but the jury may commute to I'M
pr.sonment for not less than ten, nor more
than twenty years.
Having suppressed the slave traffic,
our Government il taking steps to arrest the
CoOlie trade. Captain Napoleon Collins, COM
manding the Sacramento, sailed few days
since for China, carrying with him full instruc-
tiOns from the State Department to look into
the Coolie trade, and after thorough examina
ton, report all the facts to his Government,
with a view to the early modification, if not
the entire suppression of this traffic. Mr..
Seward had Contemplated sending special
agent to China on this business, but as Cap
tain Collins seemed qualified to discharge all
the duties of such q mission, he was COM
missiOned, and his report will be looked for
with much interest.
At the second annual meeting of the
Baltimore Association for the social and NOR
al improvement of the cOlored people, which
was held last week, report was read, show
ing the result OF the last years work and the
modes by which the society had been aided,
as well as hindered. The receipts OF the
year have been $4,000; the expenses have
exceeded the receipts by over $4,000. Oithe
receipts, $4,000 was from the New England
| Freedmen's Aid Association, 500 from the
New York Association, 81 500 from the Penn,
sylvania Association, $500 from the Friends
| Association of Philadelphia, and 50 500 nom
friends in England. The society has in Oper-
alton seventy-three schools, including twenty
! two in Baltimore, numbering in all seventy
four teachers and 600 scholars. Most of the
| teachers are colOTed. The most encouraging
results have attended the efforts Of the assoc
citation, the cOlOred people everywhere mani
testing great eagerness to learn end a will
lingness to contribute to the support OF the
schools; &c, 600 have been contributed by the
colorei people during the year.