The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-22

case tne Freedmen's Bureau, before
Judge Connolly F. Trigg, of the
United States Court, the Judge
decided that most of the powers
vested in the Bureau were given bv
military orders, and the war having
been officially declared. G. au era!
that organization was virtually power
less as to all cases involving civil
rights.
A New Orleans paper says: 1--WE
are glad to he able to announce that
in answer to an appeal made by his
ESceuency Governcr Moore, and w.
A. Walker, president of the Board of
Levee Commissioners, to Gen. Baird.
in behalf of the sufferers by the over
flow at Alexandria, that this officer
has very promptly issued All order
providing for the distribution of
Is, 600 rations to the whites and
freedmen at that point who may he
in actual want"
Herr Egestorff, of Hanover, one of
the largest engine manufacturers in
Germany, has withdrawn his propo-
sal to send specimens of his engines
to the Paris exhibition, on the ground
that the Emperor has appointed
child to be president of the exhibi-
ton, and that the exhibitors had
thereby been subjected to treatment
to which no German especially should
willingly submit.
The Atlanta Era says that all along
the principal thoroughfares hand
some new structures are going up,
while the suburbs are becoming
thickly dotted with new residences.
and among them many elegant ones.
Many new houses are being erected
for the use of mechanics.
The work of rebuilding the New
York Academy Of Music commenced
Monday. The old walls will be used
for the new building, after being
reduced in height about fifteen feet.
The Academy is to be ready by the
lst of November next, and is to cost
about S25O,0O exclusive of scenery.
A serious proposition has been
made to Head Centre Stephens to
unite with Santa Anna, for the pur-
pose of founding an Irish Republic
IN Mexico. The Canadian corollaries
are to be solved before the original
proposition is demontrated.
A Memphis contemporary speaks of
that fourishing village as the ''modern
city of the Pharaohs, whose vast river
rolls through seven territories, >
formerly called, States, and whose
network of railroads is destined to
catch fish in two oceans"
The mild young Earl Grosvenor is
heir to the great estate of the Marquis
of Westminster. By-and-by, he will
have an income of about thousand
pounds day, and not brains enough
to.prompt him to put up his umbrella
when it rains.
jeff. Davis, few days ago, on
being applied to by IL photographer,
declined to allow his picture TO be
taken, because he had changed SO
that his old friends would not know
him.
In the United States District Court
for Southern Alabama, AN indictment
for murder and conspiracy has been
found against G. w. Gayle, who ad-
vertised a reward for the asSassina-
ton of Mr.. Lincoln.
Blackguardism is getting to be
altogether too much tolerated in Con
gress of late, and needs to be severely
checked, says theSpringfeld RepubH-
cam. The slrests way to check it is
to turn the blackguards out.
just as anegro was about ascending
the scatfold to be hung. in Clayton,
Ala, on the 18th ult, II communication
of the sentence to ten yerrs' imprison-
ment was received from the Cover
nor. Rather close thing
The gold excitement is being re-
vived in Georgia. 1t is said that the
Bonner gold mines, in Carroll Coun-
ty, will soon be in full operation
again, with n prospect of abundant
success.
DR.. Paul Cullen, the new Irish
Cardinal, is the first of Ireland to re-
celve the hat. He started for Rome
recently, to be invested with his new
dignity.
The House Committee on Foreign
Relations will report resolutions
mildly censuring the course of the
Government on the Fenian move
ment.
The Broadway and Fulton street
bridge project has been again brought
up before the New York Board of
ldermen, and has been referred to
the Committee on Streets.