The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-01-20
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n1ent realized ninety-ote million nine
hundred and fifty-si1 thousand one
hundred and thirty eight dollars from
the imports of dry goods at the port
Of New York for the wear ending
December 81, 1866, being an Increase
In receipts OF seventeen million three
hundred and seventy-six dollars, as
compared with the exhibit of 1864.
The gold receipts at the ports of
New York, Boston, Philadelphia and
Baltimore during the first half of the
fiscal year ending December 81, 1865.
amount to seventy-seven million five
hundred and seven thousand seven
hundred and seventy-five dollars and
forty cents.
The Southern States have bald
into the Treasury during the last
year revenue from direct tax amount-
ing to eight hundred and fifty-three
thousand one hundred and sixty. nine
dollars and forty-three cents. There
remains to be paid in five million one
hundred and fifty-three thousand
nine hundred and eighty-four dollars
and thirty y-eight cents.
A new counterfeit on the fifty cent
fractional currency has been detected
by the chef detective of the Treasury
Department.
All the old fractional currency is to
be called in.
The joint committee on reconstruct
ton had another long session to-day.
The proposition to send a sub-com-
mittee on an investigating tour
through the Southern States met
with disfavor. In it's place resolu-
ton was adopted to call upon the
Senate and House for authority for
the committee to send for persons
and papers. Several gentlemen have
offered to appear and testify to the
condition of things in the South.
The House Military Committee, at
their meeting to-day, agreed to re-
port the bill to revive the grade of
general i'll the army.
WHAT MAMMALIAN TulNKs.-The
correspondent of the New York
He,u'd gives the following account of
4 conversation that Maximilian re-
Gently had with Yankee, who en-
gagged Ill business in Mexico, came in
collision with the Government. and
applied to the Emperor i'm person.
The Emperor said he wished for
nothing more than to make the ac-
qualntance of President johnson and
Secretary Seward Il am convinced"
SAID he. ''thaS after a frank and
honest conversation, we should part
friends. No. one desires more than
| I
nelghbor. No one would reap a
better harvest from the seed which 1
have sowM than your nation. [ re-
greet nothing more than that, in my
former position rs admiral of the
Austrian fleet, l could not carry out
my favorite projects-to visit the
United States; for l love the Ameri-
cans and admire their practical talent
In all my works at Pola, Trieste and
Venice, employed Americans, and
l regret that j should not now, in nv
difficult task, have the support of
your nation. Your countrymen, to
be sure, are hostile to my Govern
ment, because I was obliged to bring
with me an army of invasion. But
was it possible otherwise? NY pre-
decessor, Juarez, left me nothing but
ruins and divided nation. | was
obliged to lay firm foundation, that
the edifice might not be overturned
by the first storm. [ have enough
material IN my people to give my
young State that security which it so
much needs; but then your people
must not intervene to disturb a peace
full neighbor. Your nation is too.
strong to have the least fear of so
young a neighbor."