The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-09
PLANTING IN M1ss1ssnpp1.-one of


cotton crop next year, in Mississippi,
is the immense number Of laborers,
both white and black, which are
being landed at this and other places
adjacent. 1t is estimated by gentle
men who profess to know, that over
1000 white laborers have been intro
duced into the counties of Coahoma,
Tunica and Bolivar. q
Minnesota imported good part of
the breadstuffs of her white inhabit-
ants down to 1859. In 1865 she fed
herself abundantly, and exported
8,112,565 bushels of wheat, with q
large quantity of oats. She will
grow more and more hereafter, but
probably export less, finding it more
profitable to export wool, butter,
cheese, &C., and to manufacture
more and more of the fabrics required
to clothe her people.
An exchange has the following hint
to housewives: We have used wire
clothes-line for over five years. It
has not been housed at all, and is
just as good as ever. It does not
iniure the clothes q bit. 1t is an old
telegraph wire about quarter of an
inch in diameter, End galvanized,
that is, coated with zinc. The wire
was present to us, so do not kno
what it cost, but can assure you it
will pay for everybody to get one.
A despatch from Washington says
that the Ways and Means Committee
have agreed to report bill providing
tov nf 70
&C Ston, and allowing drawback on
manufactured goods exported; also,
a bill exempting from tax all incomes
under 81, 900, and taxing all above
that sum at a uniform rate of five
per cent.
A young man in Quincy, Illinois,
while at church last Sunday week,
caught fire from some matches in his
pocket. There being some of ssPha-
raoh's serpents'' in the same pocket,
a grand explosion was the conse-
quence. Great CONSERVATION existed
in the church for some moments, but
no one was hurt save the young man,
who was somewhat burnt.
A Connecticut Yankee is in Wash
lngton with patent labor-saving
constitutional amendment machine,
for the use of members of Congress,
warranted to turn out 1900 amend
ments per hour. He will mike Il
fortune.
A Southern traveller writes to the
Boston Post: |'I was gratifed to
meet with gentlemen from the North
investing large amounts of money in
cotton plantations, in all directions,
within radius of fifty miles of Jack
son, the capital of Mississippi"
The Worlds special says: The re-
cent order of General Spinner, in
reference to the return of deposits, it
is said will involve one New York
city national bank in the payment of
one return alone of $36S, 900.
In our London files we find an ac-
count of firm in that city that
began business three years ago on
capital of about $3.50, and failed
about three weeks ago for more than
S1.OO0,OO0.
Among the latest wonders in the
animal world, is a talking dog, which
has been brought out in Sprinfeld,
Massachusetts. He can say ssGood
morning." "How do you do?" and
many other things as human being.
The editor of country paper says
that he felt called upon to publish
Father Lewis sermon on the ':Lo-
cality of Hell," as. it was a question
in which nearly all his readers were
deeply interested.
An exchange says the people mus
feel at home now op the Mississippi,
for the steamboats, are blowing up
every day just as they used to do in
the good old times of peace.
Rumors are in circulation that q
serious difference of opinion exists
between the Secretary of the Trea-
sury and the Comptroller of the Cur
rency, both in respect to financial
policy and the new political phases.
Two musical curiosities have ap-
peared in Paris-a young italian lady
with fine tenor voice, and a Mexican
who plays the flute and the piano AZ
the same time
Butter and lard should not be kept
In the same apartment with kerosene.
as all fats readily absorb and retai1,
odors, and the fine aroma of butter
may thus be seriously injured.
Now that the curtain has dropped
upon the last scene Of the rebellion,
the radicals are finding fault with the