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Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-12-06
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CHARLES H. MOORE. Agent Shenandoah
Valley Feb. 8 1sG6=3ms
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FssO THE PEOPLE OF NORTH
WESTERN VIRGINIA.
RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG
AND POTOMAC RAILROAD.
7. V. DANIEL, Jr., President.
SAMUEL RUTH, GenH.SapGdafoadeW.

NOTICE TO TRAVELLERS GOING To
RICHMOND, VA. AND FARTHER
SOUTH.
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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-04
Washington Items.

1t is already definitely agreed upon
to give the President reception on
his return to the capital. Conspicu-
GUS in this work will be the Young
Mems National Union Club, who
have already appointed committee
to carry out the arrangements for the
welcome home.
I hear that the Collector and Post
master at Boston are marked for de-
capitation on the return of the Pre-
sident from Chicago. Both these
gentlemen are prominent for their op-
position to the Executive policy, and
on these grounds solely will they be
removed. The present Collector of
Boston is Hon. Hannibal Hamlin.
In other portions of Massachusetts
there will also be looping off of in
huential heads within few weeks.
An order will be published by the
Secretary of War, in a day or two, it
is expected, directing the honorable
muster out of service, on account of
their services being no longer needed,
of ali the volunteer officers now in
the army, including those on duty ina
the Freedmen's Bureau and those
doing duty as provost marshals in the
several military departments.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-04
Radical Spite.

The petty malice and spite of the
radical party exhibit themselves on
every opportunity. In Philadelphia,
it showed itself through McMichael,
the Mayor, and the members of the
City Council, in declining the usus,
ceremonies of a public welcome to
the Chief Magistrate of the country:
and now we have an exhibition of it
In the State OF New York. The
Senate of that State is now in session
trying judge of one of their courts
who has been impeached.
On the Goth, resolution was pro-
posed, welcoming the President,
General Grant and Admiral Farrngut,
to New York. A motion was made to
include the name of Mr.. Seward,
which was rejected-ayes 8, n.:ys 70.
A second resolution was offered, and
again Mr.. Stewards name was ex-
cluded, and the resolution, without
his name, was adopted by q vote of
16 to 8.
Radicalism, the Richmond Dispatch
seys, is bitter principle. 1t knows
no sentiment Of charity-not even
common civility. Cold It's ice, hard
and insensible as marble, and heart
less as granite. Such is pretty
good photograph Of the principles,
if principles they can be called, of
that political communion, at whose
affairs minister such men Us Fred.
Douglas, Thad. Stevens and W. G.
browniow. To eradicate such a
party and policy from the framework
OF our Government is the high mis-
sion OF Andrew johnson, and the
CONSERVATIVE party now rallying
around him.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-04
way.
The Legislature.

This body convenes tonight, in the
College Campus, a. O'Clock. There
may not be quorum present, as the
Charleston train arrives ut late
hour.
We trust that Senators and mem.
bers will go earnestly to work, and,
after mature deliberation, adopt such
measures as will prove beneficial to
the people of the State. Some mode
of relief for the destitute in the
State, the repeal and modification OF
the code, and, perhaps, other mat
tiers, will claim the attention of mem
bers, and we hope that whatever le-
gislation they adopt may be perfected
with an eye single to the benefit and
welfare of their constituents.
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FREE TO DIE.-The Cheraw Adrey.

FREE TO DIE.-The Cheraw Adcer-
tiser tells the following:
An inquest was held in this place,
on Wednesday last, by James Powell,
Magistrate. acting as coroner, on the
body of Mary, freedwoman, who
was found dead in her residence, early
that morning. The verdict of the
jury, based on the testimony and a
post naorteDs examination, was, that
she came to her death from sickness,
want of medical attendance and des-
titution.
Mary was a young woman, the
mother of three children. She came
from the adjoining District OF Marl-
boro. 1t appeared, from the evidence,
that she had been sick for more than
two weeks and had had no medical
attention, and there was no evidence
that she had had anything to eat, bnt
once, in the last seven or eight DAYS;
and, although there were two freed
women living in other rooms of the
same house, no one saw her from
Tuesday evening until she was found
dead, on Wednesday morning. We
learn that she had gotten employment
at three places, ut either of which
she could have remained and earned
a living, if she would have worked.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-04

ANTEEs.-Secretary Seward,
i'll q short speech made in New York,
said:
CHOW, let me tell you, once for all,
/ am in favor of all the wars [cheers
and laughter that the nation shall
require. But I want the nation to
put itself into the attitude of march
ing into the field with two legs; I
don't want to start with one leg. And
so am impatient to have union, be-
cause am not confident that we shall
conquer all the nations with one lame
leg. They are talking about guaran-
tees. They say in about two years
they will all accept the terms, and
then they will come into the Union.
Well, the time has come for the Pre-
sldent, I think, and for us who are
associated with him, to ask guaran-
tees of the other side. What guaran-
tees have we that if Tennessee shall
humble herself in the dirt, and North
Carolina and South Carolina, and eat
the leek, and give up forty represen-
tatives, to be given back when they
allow the negroes to vote, what qua
rantees have they that they will ad-
NIT them then? I don't see any"
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'Roorpacks," says the Boston
Post, will be prolific for few months
to come. Horrible Outrages at the
South will be multiplied faster than
Revolutionary Soldiers" were manu-
factured for political professions in
1910. The negroes will be subjected
to all sorts of cruelties in spite Of
the Bureau. They will be mobbed-
Observation-Disclosures
killed-untlhe members ofthe Fortieth
Congress are elected; then, attention
may be turned to crimes North.
Bogus cruelties-radical electioneer-
ing currency--pass just as we'll coun-
terfeit as genuine, and are circulated
with rs little scruple and more zeal.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-04

A STEAMER FOR HIGH SPEED. A
New York engineer has planned, and
is about building a river steamer,
constructed entirely of Bessemer
steel, the length 45O feet, the breadth
As, and the displacement 1,76O tons.
By constructing the steamer upon q
peculiar model, which he has plan
ned. the engineer claims that with
10000 Gndicated) horse power en-
gines he can secure speed of at least
thirty statute miles all hour. The
boat will accommodate ZOO passen-
gers, and is to run. if successfully
built, between New York and Albany,
making the trip in five hours.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-04

TIE LIE OF THE L1AR.-At Black
Republican meeting at Pittsburg,
Pa, Forney delivered himself at
length in style of unapproachable
lying, of which the following ,uorceaa
Is fine specimen;
''1t is said that the most delightful
music in the ears of Jefferson Davis
and his Cabinet were the shrieks and
groans of Union prisoners in Libby
prison, and it is recorded that when
one of these poor victims of pro-
slavery barbarity passed along the
Southern streets, he was greeted with
the derisive laughter of the Southern
chivalry."
''It is said"-by whom? By no.
body but that chief of liars and ca
lumniators-Forney.
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Southern History.

Tue South need be in no haste ia
have the history of her great struggle
written; nor need it alarm her chill
Edren that their late foemen are oyer
flowing every channel Of literature
with their accounts Of the contest. il
is often of advantage, says the Rich
mond Times, to permit en- adversary
to waste his ammunition and expend
his energies before we commence
fairly on our part. Truth is eternal,
immortal, indestructible, and knows
no decay from the lapse of time. The
record of our four years glory must
be, the work of some ,.transcendant
genius. Whether such q one lives
now or not, time and his book must
determine. But certain it is, that,
whenever this coming man." for
whom f,te has reserved the high ho-
nor of making an imperishable record
OF our great deeds, shall take up his
pen, single chapter, perhaps, may
suffice to scatter and annihilate the
host of libellers with whom, by that
time, the world will have become fully
disgusted.
How often have we seen, in the
eventful history of mankind, how a
single mighty book or pamphlet, by
the force and power of truth, has
been sufficient to reverse the senti-
ment of the world, and to consign
whole libraries of opposing literature
to the sepulchres of popular scorn
and contempt? All the dangerous
and incendiary writings of whole
army corps of Jacebins and revolu-
tionists were scattered by the genius
OF Burke, and checked in their mad
career through England and the con-
tinent by the batteries of his great
mind.
The glory and deathless fame to be
won by him who shall worthily cele-
brate the wondrous achievements per
formed by tho Southern people, will
never permit our history to be unwrit-
ten. Mans own selfish thirst for re-
nown and Immortality will drive him
to link his name with the history of
SO great q cause, if no other more en-
nobling motive shall impel his pen.
A great and glorious people, though
overwhelmed, nay, destroyed, never
yet lacked a fit chronicler of their
achievements. The colossal proper
tions of onr struggle will attract ad-
mirers thousand years to come, and
grow grander each year.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-04

The New York Tribune announces
that Frederick Douglass has been
elected delegate from Rochester to
the Loyal Southerners' Convention,
in Philadelphia, which, says the 15-i-
6uae, will make no objection to his
color" The Tribune adds:
"Such recognition Of the stake his
race have in the country is in noble
contrast with the admission Of the
worst of rebels to the Randall Con-
vention. Mr.. Douglass has said
little publicly, since his interview
with the President, in February,
when Mr.. johnson was considerably
startled by his replies, and, after
making long speech, declined to
enter into any discussion. The
Union party is perfectly willing-nay,
anxious-that the loyal colored men
should have voice in it's conven-
tons"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-04

SMALL CONSCIENCE ITEMS. The
Secretary of the Treasury and Gen.
Spinner are very frequently annoyed
Of late, and the time of the clerks in
the Department is consumed by idle
persons transmitting communications
in various styles of pleasantly and
styles of orthography and etymology,
containing one cent, or from that to
twenty, for the conscience fund. All
OF these contributors make the
request that the receipt of the amount
be acknowledged in the city news
papers. The Treasurer of the United
States has just ordered that, here
after, no sums less than one dollar
shall be separately acknowledged,
but shall be consolidated for a month.
and warrant for the aggregate
amount drawn at the end of the
month
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Financial.

The National hsselAgencer, of the
seth nit. says: :
United States Government bonds
are still on the rise in European
money markets. The last quotation
OF tive-twenties, by the cable, was 70,
with an advancing tendency-a rate
higher than they commanded the day
before. Respecting the differences
between gold and currency here, and
adding the usual rates of exchange,
the five-twenties are now as high
abroad as at home. The reported de-
mand for our Government securities
IN Paris may have been premature,
or mere stock-jobbing report. We
may expect speculative reports for
some time, until responsible men can
manage the news department of the
Atlantic telegraph. Any stock -iobber
IN New York may direct his agent
abroad, by private telegram, to
make q report by ocean cable that
will affect stocks on this side.
But there Is little doubt that our
Government and State securities viii
make their way in the Paris Bourse
ere long. unless, indeed, political
complications IN this country should
1nJure our public credit both at home
and abroad.
In 1850, on the eve of our domestic
troubles, the United States SKIES
stood firmly at lit. This was our
answer to all croaking about a civil
war. 1t showed the confidence of
our Northern capitalists in the STA
blhty and responsibility Of the Go
vernment. So, now, our publ
credit Is on the advance everywhere,
for the reason that everywhere our
ablhty to maintain our credit and pay
OF the debt within thirty years is
admitted. The question OF financial
discredit as the consequence of radi-
cal rule has hardly yet been brought
prominently to financial notice. But
we observe that in some very intelH-
gent and discreet Republican quar-
ters the subject begins to claim at
tention. The New York Ereninq Posi-,
though radical in regard to some
points of public policy, is conserva
tive as regards the public peace and
public credit. But the radical rulers
are just as desperate and as reckless,
and rs much bent upon general mis-
chief, as the rebel leaders of the
South were in 1861. They will not
stop short Of measures, if they sue
ceed, that will necessarily involve the
country i'll another war;" and de-
stroy the very basis of our national
credit.