The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-12-01


lumbia during the war. TO his old
home in Louisville. HI has been
perdoned by the President, and in
consequence thereof, an indictments
against him for treason has been
quashed in the United States District
Court of Kentucky.
THE SURGEON OF THE ALABAMA.-Jt
has been decided that the noble ser
vices rendered by the gallant surgeon
of the Alabama shall be commemo-
rated by the erection of Il tablet in
the hospital where he received his
education, and by the founding of a
scholarship, with which the name of
Llewellan will be associated.
The Legislature of Ohio is invosti-
eating the relations Of railroad and
express companies, with a view Of as
certalning whether the latter do not
obtain much of the business that le
ultimately belongs to the former, to
the injury of the stockholders.
The freedmen Of Macon County,
Ala, one of the best cotton growing
districts in the South, recently held a
meeting and passed resolutions dis
countenanclng idlers and loafers, and
condemnlng all violations of contracts
between white men and themselves.
John, can you tell me the differ
encc between attraction of grayita-
ton and attraction of cohesion?''
Yes, sir, p" said John, ATTRACTION of
gravitation pulls q drunken man
down, and the attraction of cohesion
prevents his getting up again"
The most astonishing sentence in
the English language, at least for its
great length, is probably the seventh
section OF the British Foreign Enlist,
ment Act, which is composed Of a
single sentence containing very
nearly 600 words.
tits stated that Governor Fletcher,
of Missouri, is about to visit Lafay-
cite County, in that State, for the
purpose OF Investigating the charges
that have been preferred there
against the conservatives.
The colored ladies Of Buffalo have.
in rivalry with their pale-faced sisters,
entered upon the fashion of height
ening the color of their sombre com
plexions with rouge. That is new
game of rouge ct noi7'.-I1'acey.
Revolutions DO not spend them
selves because patriots die, but be-
cause its Masses become satiated.
Drunkards do not reform from
lectures, but from experience.
Conference Of the Southern Metho-
dlsts, III session at jackson, Tennes-
see, have decided in favor of laydele-
cations, and y change in the name of
their church.
Some mischievous wags one night
pulled down a turner's sign and
placed it over Il lawyers door; in the
morning, it read, s'All sorts Of turn
ing and twisting done here"
a New York Commercial Washing
ton special says the President will
endorse in his message plan submit
ted by the Secretary of the Treasury
for return to specie payments.
The Albany New York; Jounal
says that Congress controls both the
purse and the sword" 1t NAV con
troll the purse, but it doesn't yet con
troll that other thing.
General Pillow, who made contracts
with large number Of freedmen to
work upon his plantation in Arkan-
sas, is said to have raised 5000 bales
of cotton this year.
A band of regulators has been
organized in Marion County, Ky.
They have hung three men, and
others are prisoners in their hands.
The Catholic Bishop of Savannah
has just issued q letter, suggesting
the education of the colored Youths
for the clerical work at the South.
Yielding to fanaticism will not stop
It's onward march any more than the
giving way of dam will arrest the
rush Of the waters s-Prentice.
Setting the police on the watch for
meteoric showers in all the. principal
cities, is supposed to have prevented
Its appearance.
During the past year the postal
service in the eleven seeded States
has paid for itself, and netted S291,-
600 profit.
The hogs are dying of cholera
round Cincinnati and pork is regard
ed with suspicion in that city Just
now.
4 monthly magazine, called the
"Radicai," published in Boston,
urges crusade against what it calls
"Bible Worship -