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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-10-11
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AN INTERESTING LAW CAsE.-The New
Orleans Times contains report of an in
teresting law case, tried last week in the
Parish of st. Martin
Jean Baptiste Allison, freedman, was
indicted for committing 4 murder on the
18th OF July, 1865. The defence moved to
quash the Indictment, on the ground that
at the time the defendant is charged to
have committed the murder, he was d
slave, subject to the laws of Louisiana
relative to slaves, and amenablc to Il spe-
clal tribunal created for their trial; that
the effect of the amendment of the Consti-
tuition of the United States was to set him
free and abrogate all laws enacted for the
punishment of crimes committed by slaves.
The prosecution held that under the
Louisiana Constitution of 1864, the defend
ant had become freedman, and was there
fore amenable to the laws for freedmen.
Judge Fred. Gates held that the Consti-
tuition of 1864 was illegal, and that slavery
was not abolished in the Parish Of st.
Martin until Dccembcr 6, 1860, when the
General Assembly of tho State ratified the
constitutional amendment prohibiting
slavery; that the defendant was therefore
"A slave at the time he is alleged to have
committed the murder, and that the mo-
ton to quash must prevail.
The validity Of President Lincoln's pro-
clamation was not decided upon as st.
Martin WAS one of the parishes excepted
from its operation.
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\ FAST WOMAN letter from
Hombnrg, a famous watering place
in Germany, has the following:
y ''lionne" here now. who plays
very high at roulette, is Russian
countess, Madame Rimsky Korsakow.
She has created great excitementin in
Paris during the past winter by the
particularly cloud style of dress
which she adopts, and her very free
and easy manner. She is immensely
rich, very handsome, and her rank
secures her eradmission into the highest
circles. 1t is said that the Empress
was very jealous Of her on account of
the attention which she attracted.
and that she attempted to Danish
Madame Rimsky from the court cir
Gle. She dresses here very extrava-
gantly, although with a certain kind
of taste, wears immense quantities
of diamonds and very short dresses,
making a huge display of striped
silk stockings. At the playing table,
she converses with the croupiers, or
anybody who may be sitting next her,
with most perfect freedom. In the
afternoon, she may be seen in the CO.
vered walk, drinking coffee and
smoking cigarettes.
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THAD. STEVENS DEcENcY. 1had-
deus Stevens, in speech at Lancas-
ter, Pa, last Thursday, spoke in
gross terms Of abuse and vituperation
of the President and the gentlemen
who accompanied him in his recent
tour, and had the bad taste to say, in
reference to the injuries received by
the patriot and statesman, William
II. Seward, for his devotion to the
Union: 1.-The elder clown, owing to
the wear and tear of age and suffer
lng-you know he had his arm broken
and his jaw broken, and his neck
broken, almost-inducing necessity
for certain opiates, which had very
much worn down his vigor,' &C., &c.
This coarse and unfeeling allusion to
the injuries received by Mr.. Seward
at the hands of the assassin, Payne,
which should have caused blush of
shame on the most hardened cheek.
was-and it is stated boastingly-re-
celvcd with applause by the pure and
hlgh-mlnded patriots present What
are we coming to?
Washington .SitO..
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A person protesting to be a coun-

A person protesting to be coun-
try buyer entered a large wholesale
store in New York last week, and
effected purchases to the amount of
nearly So, 900, the cash for which he
promised to pay on the morrow.
Having completed his purchases, he
informed the junior partner that he
was going to see lady friend, and
that he had thoughtlessly left his
watch at home, at the same time beg
glng the loan Of his time-keeper, to
prevent any suspicion in the breast
OF his fair friend. The merchant,
delighted with the business he had
done, not only fell in with his wishes,
but offered him ip addition the loan
of $50, which was readily accepted
by his willy customer The merchant
was ''sold," for his customer never
returned.
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INFORMATION WANTED. In 1859, the then
Governor OF Ohio, Salmon 7. Chase, in the
midst OF great excitement growing out
of an effort to enforce the fugitive slave
law, taking the form of the arrest. by the
process of the United States courts. of
certain persons who had released the fugi-
tive slave, for whom writs of hd6edS corpus
had been sued out in the State courts, thus
threatening Il conflict OF jurisdiction be-
tween the United States courts and the
State courts of Ohio, laid down the doe
trine Of nullitication. Governor Chase
said:
4 will only say, what | have frequently
said before, that as long as the State OF
Ohio remains 4 sovereignty, and as long as
l am her Chief Executive, the process of
her courts shall be executed
When l am called on to act. | will act"
[Immcnse arplause.l
Now, we wish to know if this Salmon T.
Chase is our Chief Justice Chase If this
be verify so, and Governor Chase and Chief
Justice Chase are one and the same per
son, we cannot but think that the trial of
Jefferson Davis before Chief Justice Chase
will be Very awkward affair. How will Il
nulitier try Il secessionist? We can readily
imagine, when the counsel of the accused
justities, on the ground of the sovereignty
Of the States, that the Chief Justice will
feel that his position OF presiding Judge is.
slightly embarrassing. We are curious to
learn what weight Chief Justice Chase will
give to the opinions of Governor Chase on
the question of State sovereignty.
National I4tejligencer.
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A Most VALUABLE BUREAU. Owing
to the extensive frauds which were
being perpetrated in this city, by the
circulation Of counterfeit money, it
was deemed advisable by the United
States Treasury Department, several
months since, to establish in Balti-
more detective department, which
was done, several shrewd and ener-
getic residents being appointed The
appointees entered upon their oner-
Gus duties, and, we are happy to
state, have labored SO assiduously as
to have almost entirely broken up the
operations of the counterfeiters, or
their aiders and abettors, in the cir
culation Of the queer, as it is vul-
carly termed. So far have their
efforts been successful, that there are
now no counterfeit Treasury notes in
circulation, except a few of the old
issue, which are easily detected.
Baltimore transcript.
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MILITARY RULE IN NTExAs.-Flakes S
Galveston Bulletin, of the ID, con
tains the following order, which was
issued at Brennan by the command
ant there, Immediately after General
Sheridan left there:
l. Immediately upon the issuing
of this, all guards, patrols or armed
parties. no matter by whose authority
organized, will be discontinued.
= In the future, any persons found
with arms in their possession will be
arrested by military authority.
). 1t having been brought to the
notice of the post commander that,
within the last three weeks, the cases
of outrage toward the freedmen have
increased to an enormous extent, it is
his intention to take immediate cog
niZance of all such cases, and render
every assistance to the agent of the
Bureau at this point, in order that
justice may be done to the freedmen
and the guilty brought to punish
ment
1. Any interference on the ,art of
the civil authorities in this Countv
will at once be taken cognizancc of.
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SOUTHERN Ho,rEsrEans The !

SOUTHERN HoJEsTEADs.- Ds.-The law
of June 81, 1866, providing for the
disposal of the public land in the
Southern States for homestead set
tlement. is now being printed, with
instructions, and will, in few days,
be ready for transmission to the Dis
trict officers in those States. The
first section of the above Act pro-
vides for the disposal of the public
lands in the States of Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and
Flor:lss, ior homestead settlement
only, according to the provisions of
the original Homestead Act, of MAY
20, 1862, and amendatory Act Of
March 81, 1864, but restricts each
entry to eighty acres, held at 81. .25
per acre, or half that quantity of
double minimum land. This restric-
ton as to quantity continues until
the expiration Of two years from the
date of the Act, and entries after that
will be allowed as provided for in the
original law and the Act amendatory
thereof, unless otherwise ordered by
Congress. In lieu Of the so fee re-
quired by Act of 1867, to be paid at
the time of entry, S5 must be paid
when the patent issues. The bene-
fits Of the Act are extended to all
citizens of the United States, without
distinction or discrimination as to
race or color. The above provi-
sions have special application to States
mentioned, while the second section
of the Act is of general application
to all the States and Territories, and
provides that, until the first of Janu-
ary, 1866, the applicant shall make
affidavit that he has not borne arms
against the United States, or given
aid and comfort to its enemies. The
law is of further general application,
in this, that the fee is reduced to So,
when the entry shall not embrace
more than eighty acres at S1.25 per
acre. The provisions Of the Acts of
1862 and 1864, except as modified by
the Act OF June 21, 1866, are made q
part Of the last mentioned Act.
Cor. Neu Yorh T-ibune.
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SHOOTING AFFRAY IN BALTIMORE

SHOOTING AFFRAY IN BALTIMORE. =
On Saturday night, 9Th inst, a shoot
ing atfray occurred in public house
in the Eastern part of the city, re-
sulting in the death of a man named
Benjamin F. Jones, and the wound
ing of George Goodrich and John
Betz, the latter seriously A man
named VIM. S. Richardson gave him
self up as the party who fired the pis-
tol, claiming to have done so in self
defence. The coroners jury subse-
quently discharged him. The affray
grew out of political excitement.
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On Thursday night last, furious
storm blew down Palmer's circus
tent in Vincennes, Indiana, and tum-
bled about 5000 people into pro-
miscuous pile. The scene is said to
have been at once frightful and ludi-
crous. Fortunately, no one was Sc
riously hurt.
DR.. Cole and his son, after an in
vestigation OF fourteen days, have
been committed to jail at Quitman,
Miss, for the murder of AIr. Harri-
son, the agent of the Southern Ex-
press Company, at Lockhart Station,
near Meridian.
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SCENE AT a RADICAL MEETING.
The National LateNigetcer has the fol-
lowing:
General Cameron, in speaking at
the late Harrisburg mass meeting,
seeing General Knipe in the crowd,
said: ''There's your Postmaster, Joe
knipe. l made him q General, and
no sooner had he uttered the words
than there rung out, in clear, sill
very voice. from the audience: "You
are iar I was made General
while fighting the battles Of my coun-
try, while you were at home specu-
lating in mule contracts. 1t was the
voice Of the gallant General Knipe,
and Of course there was a commotion.
A rush was made by the roughs at
Knipe, but he defied them and kept
them off.
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BRowNLow's ARMS AND AMMuN1-
TIoN. Writing to his Knoxville TVhiq
from Cincinnati, Brownlow thus
speaks of the arms he is procuring to
inaugurate new era of bloodshed in
Tennessee:
GA despatch in Cincinnati paper
from Knoxville, represents me as
having been arraigned there, in Il
speech by Col. Baxter, for having in
volved the State in a debt by the pur-
chase of thousands of dollars worth of
arms. [ have no other account of
this grave charge, and I am not will
ling to think that man of his stand
ing and intelligence would make a
statement so entirely false, and des-
titute of any foundation in trnth.
Every intelligent man in Tennessee
knows that the Legislature made no
provision for any purchase of arms
was not asked to do so-and that I
have no funds at my command with
which to purchase arms knowing
these facts myself, and seeing there
is likely to be Il necessity for arms to
enforce the franchise law, and to pre-
vent the State Government from
overthrow by q set of bad men in
Tennessee, [ have made arrangements
with loyal Governors to Jo,7,o.o what
arms may be wanted"
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that's THE DOCTRINE The Louis
vile Co"7ie,' urges the President to
recognize no longer ''the present
piece of Congress- until it admits
the Southern members-to ''protect
himself by denying its Legitimacy and
authority, and resisting its arbitrary
and illegal enactments. We hope
to learn, before long, that the Presi-
dent has taken up with this idea
There is no use in temporizing with
such men as the radicals, who have
no more conception of the binding
force of constitutional obligations
than blind man has of colors They
repudiate every duty they owe to the
Southern people as joint owners of
the Union, and speak of us and our
States as if we belonged to them. 1t
is no SANDER to say that the radicals
have lost all sense Of honor as be-
tween man and man, in their insane
hatred of the Southern people. If
they treat one another at home as
they propose to treat us, it must be a
delightful country to live Unequal
to Central America
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INFORMATION. The subjoined pa
ragraph may be interesting informa-
ton to Il Welshman, but we can't
translate it:
"Crwdglmpes Ap Thomas, the
Welsh bard, is coming to this coun-
try. He will be received by the
Llwglmntrsmstrath of PHILADELPHIA,
and his performance on Qthmdatt-
rurgwstlyn, OF Welsh harp, will be
the most interesting musical event OF
the season. He is native of Noel
gwstrnwbstwith, and his father was
the inventor of the Brnwrw Cymrst-
cgollWuSt."
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The Radicals for civil War.

Since Mr.. Raymond's disclosure
of the radical plottings for civil war,
the Brownlows, the Stevenses, and
Summers have given new proofs daily
of the desperation and the wicked
ness of the men who would precipi-
tate the country into that worst of all
calamities.
The Louisville Jomnal, long the
opponent OF the Democratic party,
is cordially cooperating With it now
in the effort to restore the Union,
peace, prosperity and harmony, and
to avert the radicals threatened civil
war. 1t says:
The signs are dieful. Our nation
ality seems more fearfully threatened
than it was at any time during the
late war, the worlds greatest war
The portents glow and redden like
bale-tires upon all the hills. The
country is covered with combustible
materials scattered around by fierce
hands, and the hurling road of a
single fre-brand from Washington
or the bursting of one flash of light
ming from the lurid clouds that hang
low over the Capitol, may wrap the
land in a confagration of civil war.
And let the Northern people remem-
ber that if civil war comes, it will
rage, and madden, and work its desc
lations first in the North, and, if the
South choose, be confined to the
North. The people of the North,
with the exception of the soldiers,
knew little of war, save from reading
about it. The flames Of burning
cities glared and the thunders of hos
tile cannon roared and died away a
thousand miles off from them; but
let civil war, such as large portions
of them seem now to be invoking,
burst forth among themselves. and
they will be the witnesses and the
victims of horrors wholly unparalleled
by the late dreadful experiences of
the South. 1t will be war less of
armies than of neighbors and neigh
bolhoods. The midnight torch will
be one of the chief weapons of the
fight. The air will be red with flame
and black with sulphurous smoke.
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A Case of Prescription.

1t seems that radical office-holder,
named Conner, has been removed,
and a conservative appointed in his
place He filed the highly impor-
tant Office of postmaster in little
village-North Vernon-in Indiana
He dies game, however, and pub
fishes to the universe fifteen solid
reasons that induced his removal
We omit the first five, and give our
readers the benefit of the balance:
6. I am removed because / do not
support the UNANIMOUSLY rebel Demo
cratic party, which Systematically
tried to murder me for fifteen long,
dreary months, by starvation and ex-
posure.
Z. [ am removed because L do not
support the Democratic party, which
starved me three days and nights at
Florence, South Carolina, for refusing
to point to them the modes of escape
of some of my comrades.
8. am removed because l do not
support the Democratic party, who
caused me to be shot at Chicamauga,
and because l shot some of said De-
mocrats.
O. L am removed because [ do not
support the Demo cratic party, which
robbed me at Richmond, Virginia
10. I am removed because I do
not support the DemocraticJ ohnson
party, whose members shot at and
starved me at Belle Isle.
II. / am removed because do not
support the Democratic party, one of
whom tried second time to shoot
me in Smiths building, at Rich
mond.
II. I am removed because 1 do not
support the Democratic party, which
endeavored to freeze me to death
during the winter of 1861 '64, at
Danville, Virginia.
13. am removed because [ do not
support the internal and reasonable
Democratic party, which came near
starving me, at Charleston, South
Carolina.
IA I am removed because [ do not
endorse the hellish party, which tor
tured me with hunger for six months
at Andersonville, Georgia
Is. / am removed because l do not
support the assassin's President
Was there ever such an unwarrant-
able case of prescription as the re-
moval of this long-suf;ering hero?
President ] Johnson, stop that merciless
axe you are now swinging about SO
Justify, especially in the case Of such
tough customers as the above. But,
after all, having suffered and endured
SO much, we imagine Mr.. Conner will
survive his removal.
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Cotton TAx-The New York
Chamber of Commerce, on Thursday,
appointed committee to prepare a
memorial to Congress, calling upon
that body to repeal the absurd and
ruinous tax upon cotton. Now that
the new crop is coming in, it is found
that the enforcement of the tax is
surrounded with difficulties 1t gives
the assessor a world Of trouble, en-
harnesses the planters, curtails trade,
puts the growth of cotton under the
ban Of the law, and offers a premium
to foreign cotton-growers. The tax,
at the start, was foolish and spiteful,
and was merely intended to iniure
the South. We have the finest cotton
patch in the world, and if we are
wise, we may regain the virtual mo-
nopoly of this great business; but to
do so we must encourage, and not
hinder, the production of that valuable
fibre
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DEATH OF AN ECCENTRIC The
Montgomery (Ala. Null records the
death of an old eccentric character in
Coosa County, named Howell Rose
By boarding his means for many
years he had been enabled to accumu-
late a property of nearly $500, 900,
all Of which passes by his death to
the use of his wife for life. The Mail
says: ''After the surrender, body
of Yankees went to the old mans
house in search of gold, and threat
ened to hang him unless he produced
1t. The old man coolly told them to
hang, and that they would find his a
pretty tough old neck. They hung
hin up three times, but produced no
confession
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CoUNTERFEITs-LooK Our The
Chattanooga Union, of Saturday,
says.
"Look out for counterfeit 'Twen-
ties on the First National Bank,
Portland, Maine, several of which
were offered here yesterday. A little
scrutiny only is necessary to detect
them, as the engraving is quite
coarse. Those seen were letter "A,
and No: 32,30l in right hand upper
corner"
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How Long.

The following paragraph tells of
anolher kind of humiliation to which
Southerners are subjected in Phila-
deiphia:
"While General G. A. Battle was
in Philadelphia, attending the late
National Union Convention, being a
man jealous for Sabbath schools, he
went to publishing house to which
he was recommended, and inquired
if they could get up Sabbath school
library unexceptionable in sentiment
to the South. They replied: we
publish such if they were offered to
u.s. He then went to the American
Baptist Publication Society, made
similar inquiries, and received in sub
stance the same reply"
How long will our people subject
themselves to these taunts and sneers
from the whining hypocrites of the
city of brotherly love? These so-called
religious publishing houses and So
cieties have no books to suit the Sab
bath schools of the South, and wonld
not publish them any way. The re-
medy is simple for all this, if we can
ever get out of the old beaten track
of dependence on the North for pro-
ductions of the press. There are
presses, paper, type, printers and
bookbinders throughout the South,
and competent men to write appro-
pirate volumes for Sabbath school
library unexceptionable. If we do
not use the means we have all about
us, and prefer to patronize our po-
litical enemies, we may expect to be
snubbed, and we do not know but we
deserve such treatment.
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ALLEGED FORGERY AT New Or
LEANS. is stated that claim
agent has been detected in New
Orleans i'll forging soldiers pay ac-
counts, by which the Government is
swindled out of over 81, 100000. He
fled from New Orleans on hearing
that warrant was out for him, and
has not yet been arrested. Several
paymasters and citizens of New Or
leans are implicated in the affair.
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Brownlow, in his Cleveland speech,
discoursed Of the future state as fol-
lows:
IF God, in his providence, should
call me off, I have no fears of the
consequences beyond the grave. If
the books have been correctly kept in
the upper world, as have no doubt
they have, there will be small ba-
lance in my favor
Such is the persistent blasphemy
of q man who is admitted to the
pulpit, and who aspires to control the
destinies of people. Was there
ever spectacle, exhibited In the per-
son of one man, so shocking?
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We learn that all the arrangements
have been made to inaugurate Stone
wall Cemetery, at Winchester, Va.
on the Goth of October. There have
been 1850 interments, and there are
about 800 more to be made
The Russian papers say that grain
to the amount of 10000, 900 of roubles
has been destroyed in that country,
by an insect called the "marmot. -
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GENEROUS PRoPosITIoN. Mrs. G..
A. Hulse Mcleod, Of the Baltimore
Southern Literary Institute, offers to
donate one full scholarship, with
board and tuition, to her native State,
Florida, and one for tuition to each
OF the other ten Southern States.
Application to be made through the
Southern Relief Association, Balti-
more.
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Gen. Grants pay is SIS, ,67S year,
and Lieut.. Gen. Sherman's S13, 518.
Each is allowed fifty horses. A
major-general gets $4,000 year, and
IS allowed five horses. The pay of q
brigadier is So, 94O5O.