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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-04
The IIalf Not Told.

Ben. Is. Truman, one of the travel
ing correspondents of the New York
Times, and who, some time ago, was
sent by Government to quiet the
feuds at Jacksonville, writes from
Beaufort, S. c.. in the Times, of the
23d. He says that Beaufort contains
from 1.50O to 1000 white people,
'salmost all of whom are genuine
Yankees-all rich, too-thanks to the
fate Of war and the existence of di
rect tax commissioners" After some
preliminary remarks upon the nature
and disposition of these people. he
goes ON to say:
tell the readers of the Times that
Gems. Steedman and Fullerton have
not told half. These colored people
have been swindled beyond all consi-
deratlon; and if the Freedmen's Bu-
erau bill now before the House be-
comes law, God help the colorec
men of the South, say T.
The most distinguished and most
successful of all these negro robbers
IS former chaplain, known as Father
French, who has in the past four
years accumulated n quarter of mil
lion of dollars in cash and real es-
tate. Even the Northern people here,
to man, pronounce Father French
the Tycoon of all the robbers. he
had Gen. Saxton completely under his
control, and got him into bad repute.
He was ordered away from the auc-
ton sales by the Direct Tax Commits
sloners, but managed to buy all the
property he bid on, which was consi-
derable. Gen. Saxton is frightful
fanatic, and while a Commissioner of
Eaeedmen did world Of harm. But
the accounts of Gen. Saxton swindling
the negroes are strictly untrue, as are
also the reports of his being mixed
up IN the direct tax sales greatly cx-
aggerated. The only case in the lat
ter charge that can be substantiated,
is the fact that through his influence,
he became possessed Of the most
palatial mansion i'm Beaufort for n
mere song. [ have met several of
the warmest friends of Gen. Saxtou
here, who scout the idea of his ever
personally being connected with any
negro swindling operations, who say
that his purchase of the house above
alluded to was fraud. If it had
been bid in fairly, and the Commits
sloners inform me this, it would have
brought $4,000. AS it was, Gen.
Saxton got it for $4,000, as there was
no competition-thp entire commu-
nifty agreeing that he should have the
property.
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The Petersburg Express, of Mon
day, says: ''Since Thursday last,
about 400 bodies of Federal and Con-
federate dead have been removed
from the immediate vicinity of the
Crater and that still a large num-
Der remain. These bodies are placed
in strong boxes, and re-interred in
t,s cemetery at Poplar Grove,
Were such Confeaarates rs are taken
up are buried in separate square.
In few days digging operations will
be commenced in the cavity of the
Crater itself, where some 200 or
more Federal soldiers were killed and
covered over. 1t is the intention of
the Government to have the remains
Of every soldier, Federal or Confede-
rate, removed from the lines of this
vicinity and inferred in the cemetery
at Poplar Grove, where such of them
as are known will be marked"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-04

GREAT BRITAIN. ohm Mitchell, in
his last Paris letter, alludes to the
speech OF Mr.. D'Israei, as furnish
ing the solution of the neutrality of
England in the late European war.
Mr.. Mitchell had predicted her atti-
tude, but did not attribute it to the
motive that is explained by Mr..
D'1sraei-namely, that England has
grown too great to be bothered with
the troubles of the continent. Mr..
Mitchell thinks this satisfactory. He
says:
England has outgrown these small
European squabbles. Time was when
she was but little more than q mere
European power-a leading and con-
trolling one, it is true; and at that
time she may have condescended to
regulate by treaties the differences
and boundaries of these little States.
But now she has grown so great as to
be above all that. She is no longer
mere European power, but an Asiatic,
an African, an American and an Aus
tralian power; and the metropolis of
q grand maritime empire, on which
the sun, ETC.; and, moreover, the
main hope and stay of civilization,
without which the nineteenth century
could never get along. tits too much
to expect that a people occupying
this noble position should spend it's
time and its money in the petty dis
putes of German princes and italian
kings and French empel ors The
displacement of some tribe in Central
Asia is of moro real consequence to
English interests than tho conquest
of an Austrian empire
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COPARTNERSHIP.

II SHE undersigned have formed copart-
Il nership for the transaction Of the AUG
TION and COMMISSION BUSINESS in the
city of Columbia, under the name and style
OF MCDONALD & MoELWEE. Our Office
and store-rooms arc situated on Lady
street, first door West of the Post Office,
where we will give strict attention to any
business entrusted to our care, and will
endeavor TO give satisfaction to all con-
cerned. d. =. MCDONALD,
Aug 1 3mo j. H. McELWEE.
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The New York Tribune says, sit is
notorious that the schools for freed
men lin the South) are only safe
when defended by United States bay
onets. " We scarcely know which
most to admire-the brazen impu-
dence that can lie in this manner, or
the presumption upon the ignorance
or prejudice of the people exhibited
by its publication.
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Market Reports.

New ORLEANS, August 2.-Cotton nomi-
nally unchanged, with sales Of 900 bales.
Sterling 62. Gold As. New York exchange
] discount.
New ORLEANS, August 3.-Sales of 400
bales cotton; prices easier. Gold 44}.
Sterling G2. New York exchange dis
count.
MOBILE, August 2.-Cotton salos to-day
300 bales-middling 32@33 market closed
quiet.
MOBILE, August 3.-Sales to-day $50
bales cotton -middlings 80. Sales Of the
week 5000 bales. Receipts of the week
6s7 bales, against 700 last week. Exports
of the week 1927 bales; stock 80, $50.
NEW YORK, August 3.-Gold 1879. Ex-
change ively-sight 81. Wool tending
downward. Cotton quiet, with sales OF
300 bales. Middling upland 36A@37; Or
leans 37A
kA7 P. M.-Cotton declining. Flour and
wheat dropping. Pork heavy, at s31. Lard
firm. Sugar quiet. Turpentine 7O@75
Rosin $3.25(99. Gold 4S.
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Information Wanted.

nF WASHING TON SCOTT, a freedman.
~ who is believed to be living in Sumt er
District, and who had wife formerly be-
longing to John Duggirs. Esq. Any in
formation respecting said Scott will be
TON SCOTT or SCOTT DAVIS. care of
John T: Sloan, Esq, Columbia, s. c.
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Companies of negro troops, Sc
creuy organized by Gov. Fletcher, of
Missouri, for the purpose of carrying
the next election, drillat night in the
city Of st. Louis. Their movements
are secret, but they have been seen by
citizens, and the popular feeling
which they excite is one of strong in
dignation.
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COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.


CHARLESTON, August 3.-During the past
week, in consequence Of the Advanced
rates demanded by holders, the business
IN cotton has been very small, and was
mostly confined to repacked cotton. The
SAFES OF the week foot up some 24O bales
at 290I36c.
COTTON STATEMENT
S. rd. Upd
Stock on hand Sept. l, 1865. =. 362 $50
hecelpts from rom Sept. l, 1865. to
Receipts from July 26 to Au-
gust l, 1866. SG6... 10 99S
E5Sayis. l25sl receipts" $: la: upa. 5'707 1oa's4S
Exports from Sept
l, 1865, to July
26, 1865; 5,514 98,33O
From July q to
Ang. !, 1866 . % 65S
Total exports. .5,542 ss, 1888 -
Clean Carolina rice li@12c. per 10 M Hay
s1.15Gl1.20 for North River, with an ample
stock on hand. The corn market has a
downward tendency; we quote s1.25@1.43
per bushel. Oats 70c. per bushel, with a
full supply on the market. The receipts of
flour are ample for the demand we quote
5000. so for super, 1925 for fine, and 81 so
Tor prime shoulders, and 22@223c. for clear
r1bbed sides. Liverpool salt So So per sack.
Frelghts to Liverpool I'D. on upland and Id.
on sea island cotton; to New York by steam
er, Sc on upland cotton; by sailing ves-
sells, sc. Bills Of exchange on England
s7M7 10 to the pound sterling; sight drafts
on New York of. Gold 49.
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S25 REWARD.

STOLEN from the subscriber.
A on the night of the I'd instant, by
aaAnG.a bare footed negro, light BAY
horse MULE, 6 or 7 years old; newly shod
in front, and the letters ''T. A. G." rather
indlstlnctly branded on the right fore
shoulder. The above reward will be paid
for his recovery. W. X. GREENFIELD.
Aug %
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-04

Havana dates of the 10Th nit. state
that tho Empress of Mexico arrived
there on the 18th. on her way to
Europe. She was received with the
honors OF royalty. Mexican news
represent the situation of the Empire
as daily growing moro critical. The
1ali OF Matamoras caused great dis
may.
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1t is expected that after the 5th in
stant, Tomorrow trains will run
through from Memphis to Louisville
in eighteen hours. The Memphis
branch road is to be completed by
that time
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Eolegc&ph.
European News by tho Cable.

LONDON, Wednesday, August 1.-Consols
closed at ss4 for money. Sales Of five
twenties at 6sa.
LIVERPOOL, August 1.-The cotton mar
ket to-day has ruled steady, with sales of
HEARTS CONTENT, August Ill A. M
wa Aspy Bay, August 2.-I6 the Associated
rress: We are now receiving messages
through the Atlantic cable at the rate of
over twelve and a half words per minute.
An the electricians are delighted with the
perfectly distinct character of the signals
through the cable. (Signed,)
CYRUS w. FIELD.
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Affairs I'm New orlcans.

<eNEw ORLEANS, August 2.-The armed
sentinels have been withdrawn from the
Municipal Hall, an1 martial law has been
withdrawn. Many arrests of armed me-
groes have been made since the riot A
street car was fired into by the negroes
last night and one passenger killed.
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The poorest man i'll the world is a
Kentucky editor, who declares that if
salt was selling at two cents per bar
rel, he could not buy enough to
pickle jay bird
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-04

Money cannot buy from man his
learning and talent, but it may bribo
him to make corrupt use of them.
Prentice
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The bill to increase the duty on
wool was tabled in tho Senate at the
last moment
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MAMMALIAN. The New York pa
pers have had Maximilian's throne
crumbling and falling for long time.
1t will become Il second Tower of
Pisa if it perseveres much longer in
It's leaning, though not fallen, condi-
ton. 1t is now said that the inter.
estlnlS young Empress is going to
Louis Napoleon to lay matters before
him, and that if she gains nothing
by that, she will present herself in
Washington to make terms of the
abandonment Of the Empire. Would
not that be an event-a Queen at the
feet of the President of the United
States! The world is full of prophets;
and the world is still, as in the days
of fallstaif, very much given to lying.
Richmo.U Dispatch.
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From Washington.

The Second Auditor estimates that
it will require about S5O,OOO,O 900 to
pay the bounties authorized bv the
recent Act of Congress- It is thought
that the claims of the widows and
other heirs of deceased soldiers can
be settled with $4,000, 900, and the
other class of claims with So. 600
OOO
Gen. William T. Sherman arrived
IN the city yesterday morning, and
received from the President ms COM
mission rs Lieutenant G cneral
Notice has been received from the
Prussian post Office, that in consc-
quence Of the war, letters for the
lonian Islands, Greece, India, China.
Australia, &c, cannot be forwarded
by the Prussian closed mail to lcsti
nation, rio Trieste.
The Secretary of the Interior YES
tcrday received from gentleman in
New Jersey, samples of paper manu-
factured from sedgc grass-a grass
which grows in great abundance upon
all tlde-water flats. The paper is
very white and clear, and will un-
donbtedly prove a good substitute for
ordinary writing paper made of cot
ton or linen rags. 1t is estimated that
1T can be manufactured for twenty
per cent: less than any variety now in
use. Chronicle.
Judge Hibbard, arbitrator Of the
mixed commission court at Sierra
Leone, on the Western coast of Africa,
who has recently arrived in this city,
yesterday presented to the Depart
ment Of Agriculture, specimen of
African tobacco, grown near the
upper waters of the Niger river,
nearly five hundred miles from the
Atlantic ocean. The leaves are of
large size, and the tobacco is said to
be fully equal to the best varieties
cultivatcd in this country Chronicls.
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The last thing done on Saturday, in
the House of Representatives., was the
reception Of veto from the Presi-
dent of land bill. 1t seemed to
nettlo the House that the President
should have the last word.
The Albany Ereniny Jowua1, of
the Goth instant, contains list of
lands in the State of New York, to
be sold for arrears OF taxes, which is
twenty eight columns Of nonpareil
type in length
Information was received at the
Freedmen's Bureau at Washington,
on Monday that it had been found
necessary to declare martial law in
Georgia, il order to protect the freed
men.
a peddler, at Cedar Falls, Iowa,
assumed female apparel, and went
round selling the ladies corsets and
such things fitting them. and so
forth. The ladies did not learn that
he was man till he was gone.
A SUBSTANTIAL PRINCESS. The
Princess Mary, it is said, was weighed
few days before the marriage, when
it was found that she represented the
substantial figure OF 252 pounds.
A colored woman, who weighed
79S pounds, was five feet eight inches
high, and five feet broad across the
chest, died in New York on Friday
last.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-01

reduce and systemaize the etamp duties, and
regulate and reduce the excise tax, Apart from
the justice of this measure, nothing could be
more popular.
The Internal Revenue system is very faulty.
1t is great burden upon the people, and it Is
said 10 be vast deld for peculation of every
description.
what the President Proposes.
Since Mr.. johnson has occupied the Presiden-
tial chair, he has not deemed any further
amendments to the Constitution necessary; but
in the forthcoming Message, in view of the exi-
gencies of the day, he will recommend several
matters as subjects to be embraced in proposed
amendments to that instrument Among them
may be mentioned the adjustment of the Elec-
toral College, and the election OF President and
Vice-President directly by the voters at large,
without regard to State boundaries. Another
amendment suggested is the election Of United
States Senators by the voters at large in the
several States, instead of electng them by the
State Legislatures; aud still another amendment
named is the appointment of judges of the
United States Supreme Court for a term of
twelve years each, one-third OF the entire num-
Der to be appointed every four years. These
amendments were proposed some years ago by
Mr.. Johnson IN the United states Senate, while
he was member OF that body. The amendment
proposing the election Of President by male
voters at large, in the opinion of Mr.. johnson,
will eventually regulate the question of suffrage
within the States, by making it of imperative
interest that each State include as many voters
as possible, and thus in proper time the fran
chse will be extended to the colored people.
1t is not expected that Mr.. johnson will propose
action on the amnesty question by Congress,
inasmuch as he holds that under the Constitu-
ton, the Executive has the sole power to grant
amnesty and pardon and therefore he will not
propose that Congress legislate upon that
subject.
The only sta,esmanllke proposition here is
that which takes the election of Senators from
the Legislatures, and puts it Immediately in the
hands of the people. This will be acceptable to
the masses, but the politicians will object
seriously. Why? Because it is the revival of
Hamilton's idea of having more centralized
Government. 1t is a step towards abOlishing
our State Legislatures. Its advocacy by John
son would seem to indicate that he has changed
his politcs-irom Democrat to Federalist.
Our Foreign Relations.
1t is said that General Banks Chairman of the
House Committee on Foreign Relations, has
pICpulCu piilo iOOhihS W dh OCbNOOu
the United States, Russia, and Prussia; and for
the purpose of occupying Mexico, dividing it
into fifteen States, guaranteeing them republi-
can form of government. We can only hope
that this is true, and that these bills will speedily
be passed and put into execution.
The "holy alliance" will give us not only
Mexico, Cuba, and the whole Continent and the
Isthmus, but it will secure them to US in a
peaceful way. War will be impossible if the
diplomacy is placed in good hands
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FURNITURE, BEDDING, ETC.

DUY FURNITURE AT GOULD q CO.'S
ID Union Depois, corner NINTH and MARKET and
n Cs. 81 and 80 North SECOND Street.
1he largest, cheapest, and best stock of Furniture
every description in the word. Send TOR Printed Cata-
ne and Price List 1he sOundness OF materal and
woIkmanship is guaranteed Of all we sell Furniture for
room, Library. Kitchen, Servants rooms, Ofaces,
~ Nools Churches, odd Fellows Masons, or other
Lodges, Ships Institutions Clubs, Colleges, Pub ic
Buildings Hotels Boarding Houses, Hospitals, Fairs,
a single piece OF Furniture.
Drawings and estima es furnished when required.
Orders by post will be executed with despatch,
and with liberality and justness of dealing. Country
Dealers the trade generally, continue to be supplied
the same liberal wholesale terms that insure the
iair pIot Parties distance may remit through our
Banker, the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank,
street by Express. Check, or Post Office Order
mediate attention will be Civ en- and satisfaction insured.
GOULD Dc 90,
Z. cOrne NINTH and MA RK EFT Streets and
Sos. 81 and 50 North SECOND Street.
l05p Philadelphia,
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What Congress may do with
ExecutiVes

What Congress may do with the
Executive.
1t lie proposed that, in place of impeaching the
President, Congress shall curtail his powers of
dispensing public patronage, and insist that Ex'
ecutive appointments shall be more Immediately
under the control of the Senate than they are
at present.
To this end we presume bill will be passed
which will prevent the President from issuing
commission of Office to any one until the
Senate has approved of the appointment. Such
a course would seem appropriate, whether Mr..
Johnson is removed or not, and we have no
doubt some such scheme viii be inaugurated at
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-01
The PubIio Debt-The Taxes.

Mr.. McCulloch has discovered that, with
our present revenue, our national debt can be-
liouidated in ten years. This is too rapid for
the interests of both the Government and the
people.
Congress therefore should, and no doubt will,
authorize the Secretary to pay OF the debt in
such time as to consume at least thirty years
IN its entire liquidation, and to do this properly
safely, and easily, long, popular five per
centum loan might be arranged for, into which
our present debt might be funded gradually at
maturity, at the option OF the bondholders.
This is but just. Our posterity will reap more
benefits from our success in saving the Union
than we will, and hence should be made to pay
some of the national debt incurred IN obtaining
security, prosperity, Union and power.
Such o course would enable the Government
to abroeats or lessen the tax upon incomes,
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IL precedent covering the case Of Andrew
johnson, and because 1t is one procured by his
own agency, and the authority OF which he is
estopped from denying.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-01-18
YoR XIV LILLE
FEMALE SEMINARY.

THE Exercises of this Institution will begin, D.
v. the First Monday of February.
commodious Building has been secured, both
for teaching and boarding purposes
Mrs N ". Thornwell will take charge OF the
Due attention win be given to Music and French.
Board and Tuition, per session, S96 in. Specie
or its equivalent.
Promising to devote their best energies TO their
work, the Principals would solicit liberal patron
age. e.,
nished on application to Dr.. Adger, Columbia I;
Rev j. D. White, Chester; Rev. J. N. Craig Ian
caster; Rev. w. E. Boggs, Winnsboro DR.; Ward
law, Abbevillc; Col F. E. Harrison, Anderson
Rev. A. W. Miller, Charlotte, N: G.; Rev VIM.
Brown, Richmond, Va; H. G. Witherspoon'
Mayesville, S. c.; General W. H. Wallace unlon'
Sc, or to -
Rev. R. B. ANDERSON. j
asg-. The. Lancaster Ledger, Chester Standard,
Columbia Phoenix, South Carolinian, Sumter
Watchman, Abbeviile Banner, Anderson lntelli-
gencer, Southern Presbyterian and North Carroll,
ma Presbyterian, will each publish three times and
foaward bills to this Office for payment.
Jan IL. 1866 30
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FEMALE ACADEM Y.
" III d u u ~ y u u = = 1-1-:1'' - M :
AT
JOHNSON UNIVERSITY.
ANDERSON G. H, S. c.

A FEMALE ACADEMY, ..of high grade, will be
opened at the Johnson University Building, on
MONDAY, 18th JANUARY, 1865, under the
charge Of the following Instructors:
Principal. THOMAS HALL, A. M.
Assistant.-M1ss SALLIE Y. ROBINSON, Of Pen
dleton.
Instructrss, in Vocal and Instrumental Music
Madame A. N. PINKIND.
The Scholastic Year will be divided into ttro
sessions of taUenty sceeks each.
Young Ladies and Misses entrusted to, our care
will be faithfully and thoroughly taught in oil the
branches Of solid English education, as well as
in French, the Languages, and in Music. -. -
Miss ROBINSON comes with the very highest re-
concentrations fromher former instructors, Messrs.
Kennedy and Hillhouse; while Madam PINK1Np
is too well known as q finished performer to need
further commendation.
The patronage of the Village and Of the Dis
trict is respectfully solicited Good Board may
be had at from $40 to $12 per month, (specie
rates, payable in provisions, exclusive Of wash
ing and lights.
Small Boys, under ten year, Of age, s0H be reeeiu-
ed into this school. ..,f-,,n
For circulars and rates Of Tuition, apply to
THOMAS HALL,
-. Principal. ;
Dac IA 1861 % 6
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Dec IA, 1866
Anderson High School,

To open on Tuesday, January 2. 1866
Corps of Tsachers-Rev. J.. B. H1LLHoUsE,
member Synod. s. C.; Maj: d. SLOAN, graduate of
West Point; and if the patronage will justify NY
fessor in the SC. Military Academy. ~ u :.
Fee, $500 per quarter of ten weeks, in specie
or equivalent. Boarding at many places on mod
crate terms.
The curriculum will embrace preparation for
College, and all the branches of o liberal educa-
tion. Several branches, including Hebrew and
some mordern Languages, and studies connected
with practical life, may be learned with extra fees
By uniformity in text books, having few class
es by the best methods Of study BY ascsr.anhg a h
cherishing love love of truth and honorable distinc,
ton, the Teachers hope to educate thoroughly and
So Greenvills Mountaincer, Laurensville Her
sid, Abbeville Banner, and .Keowee Courier insert
vice and send bills 10 this office.
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