The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-01-17

not hurry themselves, expecting to hear
the welcome sound Of the steam whistle;
but in this they were disappointed, as the
locomotive moved quietly up to the depot
1t was the intention of Mr.. Peake to have
LOST TITLES TO PRoPERrY.-We
are pleased to know that the General
Land Office at Washington has Or
derea its agents throughout the
South ''to collect all vestiges and
remnants of records and forward
them to the Commissioner, in order
that new plots and evidences of title
may be supplied, as far as possible !"
Those of our people who have thus
suffered by theft, mutilation, or
abandonment of their titles, should do
all in their power to recover their
documents, or if destroyed, make
such exhibit of evidence as will prove
conclusive of the claim. To Presi-
dent johnson we owe the clement
and sagacious policy, and the graft
tllde of thousands of homeless, land
less individuals will be accorded him
without stint
Augasta ConstitulionoHst.
D1sGRAcEFUL.-A Washington let
ter to a New York paper speaks of
the condition of some of the Door
wounded soldiers there, and the favor
shown the negroes, in the following
terse language:
There is no lodging this matter.
P.'blic opinion will not allow the
government niger soup kitchen to
remain open much longer, when one
can see in walk through any of +ho
public thoroughfares in New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, Washington,
or any large city. hundreds of one
armed, one-legged, young white men
in ragged blue clothes, whose beg
carly pensions will scarcely keep their
souls in the little left of their bodies,
and who piteously beg, as I heard
one of them at the gate of the capitol
yesterday: For Gods sake, give me
ten cents to buy loaf of breadp'
Mr.. Boris AND THE TEsT-oATH.-
MIR. Bolts publishes letter in one of
the city papers, substantially avowing
himself to be in favor of the Con-
G1CluO6S
SO many Southern members of Con-
gress. He says:
L have, to those members with
whom l have conversed on the sub
ject, maintained that every Repre-
sentative econstitutionally elected, who
was prepared to comply with the re-
QUESTIONS Of the Constitution and
laarS, was as fully entitled to take his
seat as any of those now occupying
seats in either House"
The phrase land laws" means
''the test-oath. ."-Richuond Dispotch.
CoTToN THIEVES The New York
Journal Of Commerce mentions that
the high price of cotton has produced
regularly organized band of harbor
thieves to steal cotton lying on the
wharves. This system has been
carried to such perfection that no
cotton is safe day or night, either on
the decks Ct ships or on the wharves
themselves a. night, the scoundrels
have boats in which they board ves-
sells in the harJor, under pretence of
buying junk, and seizing the first
opportunity, carry off quantities of
cotton, sometimes whole bales- Where
are the police?
"DIx1E'' IN FLoR1DA.-The Talla-
hassee Floridiaa, in describing the
late Inauguration of Gov. Walker,
says:
At the close of the Inaugural, the
band of the Seventh Regulars struck
up ''Dixie," which electrified the
audience and called forth repeated
cheers. All felt its inspiring strains
Many among those who have periled>
their lives in defence Of cause now
gone forever, wept as they remember
ed the tolls, and the suffering they had
endured in vain, and their hopes for
ever blasted which once animated
them
The steamboat James Christopher,
with $50 bales of cotton, was burnt
100 miles above Savannah, on Satur-
day.