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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-10

The beginning Of the new year will
witness the inauguration of unbroken
steam. communication around the
globe, to be thenceforth prosecuted
regularly. The steamship Henry
Chauncey will sail on the 11th of De
cember for the Isthmus; will connect
there with the Golden City for San
Francisco; and from San Francisco,
on the LIST day of January, the steam
ship Colorado will sail for Yokohama,
in Japan, and Hong Kong, in China.
If, arrived at the latter port, the pas
senger still wishes to journey West
ward, he can proceed by the boats of
the Peninsular and Oriental Company
to Bombay, and onward through the
Red Sea to the Isthmus of Suez,
which, crossed by rail, conducts to
the British line of Mediterranean
steamers, touching at Malta and Gil
braltar, and arrive in England, where
he can take passage
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\ DANGEROUS COUNTERFEIT :

A DANGEROUS COUNTERFEIT. A
new and dangerous counterfeit of
United States legal-tender notes of
the denomipaticn of fifty dollars, yes
terday made its appearance at the
Treasury Department, and was pro-
nonnced by Gen. Spinner, United
States Treasurer, to be one of the
most sklllfully executed ever brought
to his notice. The spurious note was
detected by the vignette of General
Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary
of the United States Treasury, which,
on inspection, was found to have
been split from two-dollar Treasury
note and neatly pasted7 on the coun-
terfeit fifty. The engraving of the
other portions of the note is cleverly
initiated, and can only be distinguish
ed from the genuine by the closest
inspection.-Nationa2 Republican.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-10

Ho! FOR AFRICA. A.-The ship Col
conda, which is to carry a cargo of
colored passengers to Africa, arrived
in Charleston on Thursday.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-10

An Arizona letter, dated October
~, says o scouting party from Fort
Mcdowell killed and wounded fifteen
male Indians and captured two
squaws and seven children.
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OFFICE G. & C. RAILROAD Coa1pAN,

COLUMBIA, November 9, 1866
To the Editors Qtkhe Phnn1r:
| notice IN your issue of yesterday, all
| extract from q letter written by 'sGeorgo
| Anderson, Esq, q prominent citizen of
Waterloo, Laurens District" in reference
to the movement of cotton across the
Greenville and Columbia Railroad in wa
Sons, on their way to Augusta-suggest-
ing that freight charges on cotton over the
railroad should be reduced, and urging
the merchants OF Columbia to offer in
duccments to planters and others to ship
to this market.
beg leave to annex herewith state
ment of the freight charges on cotton over
this road, which, as far as l am informed.
are as low, or lower, than the local charges
on any railroad in the South; and, taking
into account the depreciation Of the cur
rency, and the increased risk in CARRYING
the cotton, III consequence Of its increased
value, are considerably less than were ever
charged before the war.
arrangements have also been made
which remove all difficulties with reference
to the payment of the tax. 1t is necessary,
however, that where cotton has been as
sessed aud the tax not paid, that the as
sessment shall accompany the cotton; but
1T ls very desirab BILE that the tax on all cot
ton shall be paid at the points of ship
ment.
The charges on salt have also been ma
terially reduced
Littleton and Aston, per bale of 400
Hopes Ponlaria, Frog Level and New
berry, per bale of 400 lbs T 90
Chappell's and Ninety-Six, per bale of
4oolbs .......... .......... 1 %
New Market, Greenwood and Cokes-
bury, per bale of 400 lbs . / so
Donald's, Abbeville, Honea Path, Bel
ton, Anderson and WILLIAMSON, per
bale OF 400 lbs. .... 9 90
Grove Station and GreenVille, per bale
Very respectfully,
H. P. HAMA1ETT. President
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Attention Is call
ed 10 the following advertisements, which
are published this morning for the first
time:
p. 4 G. D. Hope-Flour, Rice, &c
Melvin M. Cohen-Wines, Liquors, &c.
%. E. Jackson-Gum Drops &c.
Meeting Stockholders ". Il NJ. Railroad
A. S. Wallace-Appointment of Deputy
A. Palmer-Box Stoves.
Mrs. James Clendining Boarding.
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About $4,000 worth of the cargo
OF the steamer Andrew johnson,
wrecked off the North Carolina coast.
has been recovered.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-10

Washington city, according to q
census just completed, contains 1O2,-
612 Inhabitants.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-10

The Pores ALLocUT1oN.-For a
wonder, the cable gives us an item of
interest, in the announcement that
the Pope is preparing to pull up
stakes and quit Rome. The intima-
tion is conveyed in an allocntion re-
Gently delivered by his Holiness. in
which, owing to the fact Of the Ita-
lian press denouncing the document.
it is to be inferred that he assails the
motives and conduct of the men who
have driven him to the contempla-
tlon Of this step. It is pity that
the venerable head of the Church
cannot yield to the inexorable logic
of events without giving vent to such
outpourings of bitterness. The men
who are at the head of affairs in Italy
are not alone responsible for his tenn
poral destitution. They could do
but little towards bringing about that
result, if the general sense of Eu-
rope, and, in fact, of the whole Chris
tlan world, had not been in favor of
1T. There is scarcely Catholic who
does not feel that the temporal power
Of the Papacy has fulfilled all the
useful purposes of which it was sus
ceptible, and that its further continu-
ance is detrimental to the best inte-
rests of religion
In announcing that he will seek the
free exercise of his ministry in other
lands, the Holy Father evidently
means that he Will act upon the ad-
vice that we long ago rendered him,
and that he will select the United
States as the future seat of his labors.
No other country can afford him the
freedom of action and security which
henceforth must be the guarantees of
his spiritual independence. Here he
will have wide field for his exer-
tions in the endeavor to bring within
the fold the thousand and one sects
into which our community is split
up. If he will only reclaim from
their errors the spiritualists, free
lovers, niger worshippers and phi
losophers in breeches who have pro
duced such q confusion Of ideas and
principles among us, he will amply
repay US for the hospitality which we
afford him. We do not expect the
millennium from his presence, but in
converting fanatics, controlling the
unruly Fenian element, and teachiug
the black population of the South
the duties and obligations incidentto
their new condition, he will be giving
us something like an instalment of
it.-Neac York Herald
-oee-
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DESTRUCTION OF. PRopERrY.-Wc learn
that the gin-housc of John Robertson.
Esq, at Longtowl, Fairfield District, was
entirely destroyed by fire about O'Clock
a. m, on the 5th of November Mr.. Ro-
bcrtson, who was present at the commence
ment Of the fire, thinks it was caused by
the saws striking a rock or nail. There
was no insurance on the cotton. The loss
of property is estimated at about S5,OOO
The freedmen, seeing their labor destroyed,
commenced q general fght-malcs and
females joining in. One of the freedmen,
becoming desperate, put a chain around
his neck, and attempted to hang himself
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Loo al Xtem mS

The Phgnir Office is on Main street, Il
few doors above Taylor (or Camden) street.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-10

THAT MONSTER TURKEY.-Wc wero ono of
the six hundred" who ofliciated at the
table where the monster turkey was served
up yesterday. Mr.. McGuinnis has como to
work III the right way, and by supplying
his patrons with first quality fare, is sure
to draw customers. His lunches are ex
cellent, and although he does not always
have twenty eight pound turkeys, vet there
arc other dishes which he prepares, that
are very palatablc.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-10

DISTRICT CoURrs.-We' notice that these
courts arc now.in full operation i'll most Of
the Districts in the State. 70 LAWYERS and
others, the manual prepared by the Secre
tary OF State and authenticated by bin,
viii be most valuable acquisition. Send
your orders to this Office
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RICHARD Is HIMSELF AG1ly"-Mr. f.
X. Stokes has his binderv again i'll opera
ton, and, with Il complete aud select stock
of implements, is prepared to execute any
and every kind of work i'll his hno, in the
very best manner. OF his abilities, it is
useless to speak-his reputation as IA
binder being known throughout the bounds
of tho ''so-called' Confederacy. Give him
an order and you will be perfectly satisfied
with his workmanship.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-10

SEVENTEENTH OF FEBRUARY, 1S65.-The
terrible incidents of that fearful night, to-
@ethcr with those of the day preceding
and the two days following, are infinitely
related IN the volume issued from the
F@@n'f Office They are all faithfully re-
corded by an eyewitness, and one of the
most graphic writer's in Tic State. Secure
copy before they are all gone.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-03-31

which are represented by Gallo views on the
one hand and ultramontane views on the other,
butin the Protestant body, chiefly due to judg-
ment for or against Remains book. To these
may be added, SO far as the Catholics are COLI
cerned, doubts as to the integrity OF the gov
ernment's protection of the Roman church' us
acts evidently tending to subVefsioh Vi the
Pooe's temporal mower. All these signs OF the
times affect minds according to their sympa-
thies Most conspicuous among those who re-
card these phenomena with suspicion is Guizot.
He has given voice to his suspicion in u EnqEise
ct les Societies Cretisnnes, pdblished in 1861, in
which he says, in substance that attacks made
in the name of liberty against the church are
in reality attacks on religion itself-in other
words, on Christianity. Believing this, he is
defender of the Pope's temporal sovereignty,
on the ground thai he secures positive ma
terial abiding place for religion among the
sons of men. This is certainly melancholy
view of Christian prospects, and one which is
an element Of dissension among the Profess
tants." .la .,.4 aa
The next session of the Vermont Annual
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
is to be holden at Montpelier, vt, commencing
April 10. Bishop Simpson is to preside. The
session is to be an important one as not only
the arrangements for the centenary celebra-
ton are to be made, but much is expected in
| reference to the educational interests of this
church in that State. 1t is very probable that
both Springfield and Newbury Seminaries will
be given up, and new and more central insti-
tuition established and literally endowed.
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ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

The new English Reform Bill reduces
the qualifications of county voters from fifty
pounds to fourteen pounds occupancy, and for
bOrOughs to seven pounds rental, and to lodg-
ers paying ten pounds for apartments. The
measure will add about 100000 to the present
number of voters. The total number of voters
in England, Wales and Scotland amounting in
1864 to 1,128,754. the new bill (which does not
affect Ireland) will increase the aggregate
number of voters in this part of the kingdom
to about 1,5000O0ip a total population of 49,
900 The bill deals only with the franchise,
leaving the distribution of representation for
another session. 5or 10 al. H5s.3 siis. .ifl g
q EY- Postmaster Cleveland of Connecticut
declared only a few days before he turned his
coat, that he would on no account consent to
see Gen, Hawley defeated. That is to be not
only rat but very dirty rat. ''o'-i- %
!, bB- Milledgeville papers say more than one
thousand negroes have within two weeks pass
ed over the Georgia railroads, from Putnam
and adjacent counties, in the West. They have
been induced to leave their employers on the
promise Of higher wages. 5gs.isszs ,le
+ BB-The Toledo Blade says that the ice. in
the lower end of Lake Erie is as firm as at any
time during the winter. From Buffalo to a
point some distance above Erie, the ice is solid
mass from shore to shore.
l. gB 1.-The Marshall (Texas) Flag is in favor of
dividing that state. It says : "The reasons for
such division are SO obvious that it is scarcely
necessary to mention them. That Texas CON
tains too great an extent of territory no one
willquestion. The interests of the east and
west also are too dissimilar to be under the
same municipal laws or regulations." 1as
Das- The point settled by the election of Mr.
Stockton of New Jersey from seat in the
United States Senate, is that a majority of
votes in the State Legislatures is necessary to a
lawful election. Mr.. Stockton was elected by
a plurality.5sBy the way, it is little more bra
zen than usual, for the argus to charge that
Mr.. Stockton was udseatedi by the Radical
leaders" and in the Same paragraph cite Trum-
bull of Illinois, the author of both the freed
mems bureau bill and the civil rights bill, as a
Republican Senator who conspicuously main
tanned Mr.. Stockton's right. o.
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A4ls--aHs
RECENT PUBLICATIONS..

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GEOLOGICAL SKETCHES. BY L. Agassiz. One
volume 16mo. Illustrated. Boston: Ticknor s.
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The contents of this attractive volume consist ola
series Of papers which were orisina y prepared from
11osssffsg: we are told
in the preface that they yet retain something of the
familiarity induced by the personal relation of q
lecturer to his audience, different from the more
distant OF the author to his reading public. They
must indeed be considered as familiar talks on scen-
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The feature thus referred to WILL we are inclined to
think, be found of the chief recommendations OF
the book to the general reader. treatment of such
topics too seyery scientific calculated to repel rath
er than attract the popular mind but the clear and
familiar style of these essays, accurate without being
technical, commends them strongly to that class OF
readers who always demand to be amused even while
they are instructed, and we think Messrs Ticknor &
Fields hsve performed genuine service to the pub
lie in reprintng them. The papers comprised in the
volume ten in number, and their titles Gamer
ioa the Old World" s'The Silurian Beach," sThe
Fern Forests of the Carboniferous Period" ssMoun-
tans and their Origin ''The growth of Continents"
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and its Characteristic Animals The Formation of
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The Illustrations are well drawn and finely en-
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Saturday Morning, March 81, 1865.
PORTLAND AND YTCTNTTY
RELIGIOUS NOTICES.

Religious notices of twenty-five words or less free:
all OF this amount will be charged ten cents
line, eight words constituting linc This rule here
after will be rigidly adhered to.-IPUB. PRESS.
THE Washingtonian Society will hold meeting
Sunday evening at Sons of Temperance Hall, 1858
Congress street, at o'clock. The public are in
vited.
TEMPERANCE HALL.-Free conference 10I A. M.
Chidren's Progressive Lyceum at o'clock P. M. to-
morrow. 9.'--' 4s-@
CENTRAL CHURCH.-Rev. DIR. Graham will preach
Sunday morning. Rev. H. II. Heath in the afternoon.
Young Mems prayer meeting this saturday. even
ing at73 o'clock. All interested are invited to at
tend.
NEW JERUSALEM CHURcH.-Easter Sunday
Subject tomorrow morning: "The Call to the Fowls
of Heaven, Rev. 19:17." Holy Communion In the
afternoon.
ST. LUKE's CHURCE-Easter Day.-Dvine
vice may be expected at 10I A. M, and at 2.
Nj. The children's Easter Festival will be Mt the
Church at O'Clock p. M, Sunday. -r4 . ......
| CAsco STREET CuURCH.-Rev. A. Heath, Of Lew
iston, will preach In the morning, and DIR. Graham
in the afternoon. .s. :.
MISSION CHAPEL. There will be a Sabbath
School Concert tomorrow Sunday evening, at Mis-
sion Chapel, behring's Bridge, commencing ut
O'clock. a friends of the Sabbath School are cor
FIRST UNIyERsALIsT CHURCH, Congress Square.
REV. K. c. Bolles, will commence Tomorrow
ing, course OF Lectures on 'The Great Inventions
of the World and their Relation to the Religious His
tory Of Man." Lecture I: "Guttenburg and the
Printing Press. Services at o'clock. -. ..tf. -
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HAsHEEsH CANDYI

The attention of the public is invited to Hasheesh
Candy, which is recommended to them as the best
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Throat, Lungs and Nervous System. The proprie-
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who always let their prejudices blind their Judgment
it is useless to present facts arguments but to 9TH
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no new discovery or experiment; goods stand
ard. In the East, Hasheesh is the beginning and
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those for whose relief it is prepared. Invads can
be assured that 1t contains not particle of OPIUM
or anything else that is in any way injurious to the
system, but that it is an agreeable and permanent
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$40, according to quality, for hardly any two
wells pump the same quality of oil, as hardly
any two pump from the same depth.
The product of oil is rapidly on the increase,
yet there is no reason to suppose that prices
will not keep up, and perhaps advance, when
the oil begins to be shipped to Europe. Inc
price necessarily suffers depression IN sum
mer.
As to the cost of working well, without
going into details. which lack of space for
BIDS. I will saw that one barrel and nan,
with oil at IS, will pay the needful running
evnenses of the largest well, leaving an am
ME allowance for repairs. Saying nothing
ahont ROYALTY. 5-barrel well, therefore, will
Weld daily profit of S2S IN gold; 1O-barrel
wen, $ss; 5O-barrel 1898; and 100 barrel
well $7SS.
GOOD endurance. -.rt
Since the last of December, new wells have
constantly got to pumping, and during the
next sixty daysa larger number still will
commence pumping, if the past success con-
tinues At present about 300 wells are down
or going down in the vicinity of Boutwell,
and throughout the whole oil territory the to-
tai number will probably reach 400 1t can
not go much above that number.
The average cost of these wells, indepen-
dent of land, is about $4,000 in gold, making
a total cost for the 400 of $l.600,000. This
large sum, the present product of oil at Both
well alone, saying nothing of Oil Springs
and Petrolia, would liquidate in 400 or 500
days. Should the wells, therefore, which are
now going down prove one half as produc-
tive as those already down, it will be seen
that there is vast margin left for pront.-
But as many of these new wells are upon un-
tested territory, we cannot count with any
degree of certainty upon them. It's reason
ably calculated that some OF them, at least,
will turn out excellent wells.
ANT I find [ must defer some further OBJ
seryations with regard to the wells, the in
yestments of our citizens, and few other
matters, until another day. p.
G.. B. STETsoN.
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ITEMS OF STATE NEWS,

= EB The Biddeford Union reports a new rea-
son in favor of Johnson's first veto me ssaee.
An economical Democratic chap somewhere
near Saco says he thinks the President was
right. 1t was too costly an undertaking. There
are four million freed negroes and he rejoiees
that ANDY has set down his foot agin givin
every niger bureau"
EF The American Peat Company, under
whose authority it is proposed to form compa-
MES for this State, claim to hold BY letters
patent the only process by which peat can be
manufactured in sufficient quantities to be-
come commercial article. g it =
ga committee of the citizens of Hallow-
ell have the matter. of a Soldiers Memorial in
hand, and have made preliminary report.
The Hallowell Gazette calculates from
data furnished by the War Department. that if
the whole number of men who persisted on the
field and in hospital during the rebellion, were
buried side by side and each body allowed to
occupy the space five feet, their graves would
make continuous line two hundred and thirty
nine and one-half miles long, - more than
enough to complete four rows of graves be-
tween Augusta and Portland
10 -The Bangor Times is doing its best to
keep open the breach between the President
and Congress- In nearly every issue it takes
occasion to denounce the Radicals" 1t seems
to enjoy such work as heartily as does the Port
land Advertiser Eastport Sentinel. D.
"a The machinery is already en- route for a
nsw factory recently erected at Bridgton Cen
tire by Messrs. Storer of this city and f. G.
Littleheld of Bridgton. The mill viii run ON
broadcloths and fancy cassimeres, making only
first class goods. ''1a1 .-tu,- y .a..las .-s'
Even the Bangor Times feels Compelled
to say" that the veto Of the civil rights bill
suggests painful doubts in the loyal mind, y
which reminds us of the man who on being
kicked out of doors said he feared he wasn't
welcome. l7Srz .lIt ,. ,.5f,1s-. 'sEr5 ,if.
BThe Bangor Times states that on the ar-
thority Of late assistant surgeon in the 18th
Maine Regiment, that q of the officers of the
regiment agree that their political views would
be represented eff those Of President johnson
and of the majority of Congress, including
Senator Sumner, aoere throaon together and then
Averaged"
EB% A correspondent of the Ellsworth
american gives alencouraging account of the
prosperity of the Normal School at Farming
ton. Prof. Gage has now four assistants, all
graduates of Normal Schools in Massachusetts
and the number of pupils has increased to Ill
or 100.