The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-10
IMPORTANT TO ALL PERSONS HAVING,

| IMPORTANT TO ALL PERSONS HAVING
CLAIMS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT.
BY the tenth section of al. Act ap-
proved March 3, 1868, az Statutes at
Large, 2. 1861 it is enacted that
every claim against the United States,
cognizable by the Court of Claims.
shall be forever barred, unless the
petition setting forth full statement
of the claim be filed in the Court, or
transmitted to it within six years
after the claim first accrues, provided
that claims accrued six years before
the passage of the Act, shall not be
barred if presented within three years
after the passage of the Act.
Thus, all claims against the United
States, cognizable by the Court of
Claims, and of more than six years
standing, will be barred after the Sd
of March, 1866
The claims cognizable by said Court
are: l. All claims founded upon any
law of Congress. 2. Upon any regula-
ton Of any Executive Depar tment.
3. Upon any contract expressed or i'm
piled, except O claims growing out
of or dependent on any treaty stipu-
latlon, and ~ claims for property
damaged, destroyed, or appropriated
by the army or navy engaged in the
suppression of the rebellion.
The above limitation, though con-
tanned In an Act respecting the Court
OF Claims, has been by many supposed
to extend to call claims against the
United States" whether prosecuted
before the departments or offered to
be set off by defendants in suits by
the United States against them as
debtors.-NmionM MteUigencey.
EA11GKAT1oA TO MEXICO. New
York Fleemdn's Journal, in an article
upon the subject of emigration to
Mexico, repeats what it has many
times said in former months, that
expert business men in possession of
SIO,OOO or more can make very great
profits in Mexico, but that for men
with only few hundred dollars, and
strangers at that, Mexico is as dreary
a country rs can be imagined The
scheme of settlement on lands has
remained, SO far, a mere thing on
paper, except Il little colony near
Cordova
If all but ''ten-thousand-d dollar"
men, and expert business men, at
that, viii find Mexico a 'sdreary
region" !" the South will not be likely
to furnish many emigrants to that
country. The war has almost univer-
sally impoverished the Southern
people, and they cannot emigrate if
they would. The little money that
remains, if combined with the pro-
ductlve capital OF enterprise and
labor, can be more usefully employed.
in improving their situations here
than by going abroad. It is, more
over, the impulse of that generosity
which characterizes the Southern
nature, to stand by the mother-land
and share its fate for veal or woe.
Richmond Dispatch.
HE REPUBLICAN PARTY BREAKING
UP.-The outrageously radical mea-
sures of Summer and Stevens are
breaking up the Republican party.
which could have ruled the country
Tor the next century, had it been pro- |
perly managed. 1t elected Lincoln
over Mcclellan in 1864, because all
the soldiers and friends of the soldiers
gave it their votes; but now we see
that all the great generals, like Grant,
Sherman and Thomas, have declared
against the radical policy in their re-
ports, and that the soldiers are indig-
nant at the efforts made for imme-
date universal and unconditional
negro suffrage. The result will be
the organization of new conserva-
tive party that will annihilate the
Republicans rs they annihilated the
Democrats. The only military men
who endorse Sumner and Stevens in
their crusade against the President
are Ben. Butler and Carl Schurz.
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