The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-05

!rns siAIzs 6s GovirnsMFNr Go1p.
The Washington correspondent of
the Philadsiphia Ledger, of the 2sth
+ : .sEhe reply of the Secretary of.the
| Treasury to,the resolution passed by
the House, yesterday, virtually cali
ing him to account for his sales of
gold, can be, IN part, anticipated.
Mr.. cgullocf's agent in these
transactions was Mr.. Peter N. Myers.
q elIknown banker of Wall street,
| whose. commission npon the sales
was one-eightF per cent. Hence the
fixed fg,ue'nf 1905 for the Treasu-
Ery gold. Mr.. Myers accounted to the
Treasury at l30, and the odd eighth
| per cent. was for his services as
agent It only remains now to an
| ssvcr, what amount Of gold belong
ing Is the Unitftf States las been
seltfwiace thcvlst i1stant?' In reply
TO this, all that can be said, with oo-
sitiveness, is that the orders of the
( Treasury were to sell thirty Millions
but whether these orders! were coun-
tcrnanded before tho whole am o,nt
WA disposed OF, is not definitely
known. Report. however, says they
were not, but that when the Govern
mont agent left the field on this day
week, he Rad run through the, thirty
| millions
ssThe objection raiscd tothe Secre-
tary'S course is. that I've should go on
selling I'M the face Of such adverse
news as was received pen. STEINER
Cuba, (tl4e Panic iio~is, when it must
have been apparent to any banker. or
moneyed man that the tendency of
the news was Such rs to Inevitably
force up The premium six or eight
per cent. lieue... f"r tho Treasury
1" c"ntimno a seller M tho low figure
Of '5o'a .. was not "nlyjust SO much
loss t" tn" Government in the differ
ence Of premium, hut it drained the
Vaults "F the Treasury of gold that
may not return for months. The
+ probabilities To day are, that an effort
will he H,arle in Congress- to prohibit
further sales of t;overnment gold
until such time Is the same can he
done without loss to the Treasury, or
4 arrangement "f the finances.
t"rroS IN MIsstssIpPI AND NORTH
CAROLINA. General Thomas, late
i'nr'an C"mmississoner for the State
of mississippi. and now on Gen~yal
Towards staff, reports that before
the war that State used tn raise about
900, coo bales Of cotton, or nearly
one quarter the entire Weld of the
United States. lie thinks this wears
crop will reac!. Gn9, OOu bales. He
says the hest lands along the banks Of
the Mississippi River are being culti-
waited lN Northern men withadeuuate
capital, who thus ENJOY special facili-
ties f.r securing labor and supplies
over the old planters who occupy the
lands OF the interior. The flooding
OF the river banks, he thinks, will
not injnrc the cotton crop; but, if it
$h"nld, replanting may be continued
mp t" the middle of June with assur
lnre of good crop Colonel Byron
iniilh. of New York, who has o cot
ton plantati"n in North Carolina.
ssir"s 4 tlatt.rin% account of the pros
pectivc yield i'll that State.-T T.ibu1ae.
CASES UNDER THE ClvI. R1GHrs
Law. The Assistant Commissioner
OF the Bureau OF Refugees and
Freedmen in this District is receiving
quite nnmher of ailidavits charging
murder up"n Individuals, committed
as far back as 1861, in order that
measures may bc taken to bring them
to trial under the provisions of tue
civil rights hill a coiored man
swrars that a Mr.. Samuel Cox, living
ah"ut five miles Snnth Of Port To
harco, Maryland, confessed to him
that he had whipped ono of his
slaves, named Jackson Scroeeins. to
death, in August. 1861, for running
away. Robert Garner. colnrcd. swears
that IN the fall OF 1861. Mir. jackson
sm"ot. OF Charles Comfy, Maryland,
then his master, had ordered irons to
j." placed ON tho wrists and legs Of
Mace Dorsey, another Of his slaves.
When the order was given, Dorsey
ran: upon which Mr. Slnoot shot him
in the head with bnckshot, killing
iim almost INSTANTLY
washington .S.0. 3OM.
\ despatch from Carlisle, Pa,
dated I bn oStl, ,,lt ;ntbn