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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-29

INTERNAL REVENUE TAX ON C1Rcu-
LARS, CARDS, BILL-HEADs, &c.-In
response to letter received by the
Deputy Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, relative to the tax on letter
heads, printing on envelopes, posters,
circulars, &c, he has replied that the
paper is to be deducted from the re-
turns on letter-heads lone letter-head
to sheet or Leaf and on envelopes,
IN al! cases, regardless which party
furnishes the paper. If furnished
by the printer, the cost 10 him of the
paper only is the amount to be de-
ducted..
Circulars, programmes, cards, bill
heads, labels and tags, wholly or par
TALLY printed, are taxable on the full
value. Posters, designed for sticking
up exclusively, and generally in bolder
type than circulars and programmes.
are exempt. If designed to be used
in the two-fold manner OF posting
and distributing about to passers-by.
throwing into stores, putting on seats
In places of meeting, &C., they are
either circulars or programmes, de-
terminable by the character of the
matter, and are taxable as such.
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From Washington.

WASHINGTON, March 27.-The Senate,
to-day, unseated Mr.. Stockton, of New
Jersey, Democrat, by one ~ majority.
The present Republican, Legislature Of
that State will, therefore, elect one of their
own party.
In the House of Representatives, a report
was made from the Reconstruction Com
mittee, covering the evidence of General
Lee, who says, 80 far as he knows, the
desire of the people of the South is for q
restoration of civil government, and they
look upon the policy of the President as
the one which would restore it,
The President has transmitted to the Sc
nate his veto message on the civil rights
bill, the various provisions OF which are
subjected to rigid examination, and the
reasons for disapproval given in detail. He
says the bill intervenes between capital
and labor, and attempts to settle questions
Of political economy through the agency
of numerous officials, whose interest it
will be to ferment discord between the two
races-for, as the breach widens, their
employment will continue, aud when it is
closed their occupation will be gone The
bill also trenches on the rights of the
States, and would have centralizing ten
dency.
The President freely recognizes the obi
cation to protect the freedmen, and will
cheerfully cooperate with Congress in any
measure necessary for that purpose, which
accords with the provisions of the Federal
Constitution.
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The DEVIL K11ED.-One night last

The DEVIL KL1ED.-One night last
week man in Caroline was aroused
by an unusual noise in his yard and
went out and found that some one
had broken open his meat house, and
was making off with his meat. He
hailed the supposed thief, but found
to his astonishment that he had walked
up the most unearthiy looking Jour
legged customer he ever beheId. At
first he was tempted to leave the field
to the intruder, but not liking to lose
his meat, he concluded to make at
him. He was met by a ferocious
growl. He at once ran to the house,
got his gun, and blazed away at the
monster. The snoG had about the
same impression on it as would be
produced by shooting green peas
against brick wall. The devil ut
tered an internal growl, shook his
chains, spit sparks of fire from his
mouth, and filed the air with the
smell of birthstone. The unearthly
manifestations of the demon made
the hair stand on the mans head: but
he could not bear to lose his bacon,
He then, nothing daunted, determin
ed to have another fire at the devil
and took the precaution to put
minnie bullet in his gun. The shot
took effect directly in the eye of the
monster, aud he rolled upon the
ground lifeless corpse Upon ex-
animation it was found to be negro
man, wrapped in a mule skin, which
he had padded and fixed up. to
render it impervious to shot, and the
fire and birthstone was but an artifce
intended to frighten away intruders,
while he committed the robbery.
Euston (1Id.) Star.
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The Great Issue.

"What are all our histories?" well
asked Oliver Cromwell, "but God
manifesting himself that he hath
shaken, tumbled down and trampled
under foot whatsoever he hath not
planted. In the condition of our
public affairs, we are now realizing
the truth of this saying. Some of
our radical divines conceived that
they saw in the assassination of Lin
coin providential interference, by
which an over-ruling Providence had
removed man whose temper was
too mild and yielding for the great
crisis that would soon be upon us. to
make way for one ''whose little finger
wo1ld be heavier than the loins of
Lincoln" How vain and short-sight-
ed their speculations! The way seems
to have been cleared for Andrew
johnson, that he might rescue this
great people from the insidious de-
signs of an uncompromising radical
ism, whose only object was the over
throw of Republican institutions.
Disunion has now reached the utmost
limit of its mission of mischief. 1t
stirred up bloody exhausting civil
war through its fanatical agencies,
and had it been permitted, through
its chosen chief, to carry out its fell
designs, it would ere this have estab-
lished Northern despotism through
the overthrow of the Constitution,
and the entire destruction of the
civil rights Of eleven States of this
Union. We always believed and in
sisted that war would result in dis
union, If the party that commenced
it continued in power. The result
has justified our worst apprehensions.
Fortunately for the country and the
future of its institutions, a just and
wise Providence interfered to save
US, and to-day, through Andrew John
son, God is tumbling down and tram
pling under foot what he has not
planted, the radical power. The
great, the absorbing, issue now pre-
sented to the American patriot, is the
restoration of the eleven States, now
unrepresented, to all their rights and
privileges iii the Union and under the
Constitution. Like Aaron's rod, it
swallows up NIL the others. Partisan
prejudices and predictions must be
laid aside in view Of the all-absorbing
question, shall this Government be
restored as our fathers made it, or be
absorbed by a concentrated, consoli-
dated despotism? No patriot can
hesitate in the determination of such
questions. Men of all parties must
rally to the side of the President,
and, so long as he shall be true to the
Constitution and the principles he
has lately av Pwed, upbold and\de-
Tended him II rom the Vaccinations
and conspirae fes Of the bold, ,rbad
naen l.who now coni r'nZ
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The political crisis now existing in
the United States is not mere con-
stitntional struggle between the Pre-
sident and the Legislature. 1t in
wolves practical questions of vital
Importance to the futnre well-being
of the Union, and brings to definite
issue the conflicting policies which,
throughout the war, and even before
the war commenced, were contending
for the mastery IL the North. A
speech delivered by Mr.. Seward at
the Cooper Institute, New York, i'm
mediately after that of Mr.. johnson
at the White House, puts the whole
case in very clear light. X y
The general interests of the United
States manifestly demand the speedy
restoration of the South, and the in
terests opposed to it are so manifestly
OF party character that it cannot be
long delayed. The elections of next
autumn will probably leave the Presi-
Gent master of the field, if, indeed,
Congress does not give way during
the present session. The extreme
section of the Republican party, for
midable as is, no longer possesses
the advantage of contending for a
great cause. The slaves have been
emancipated, and even the conserva-
tives in the North claim for them
complete equality before the law, -
including all civil, as s'distinct from
political rights, especially the right to
sue and testify" So far as their Dos
session of these rights can be secured
by the legislation Of Congress-, it
would doubtless be secured, though
all the Southern States were repre-
sented there; so far as it depends on
State legislation, it would not be pro-
noted by shutting the door of Con-
gress on the Southern representatives.
By insisting on keeping the South in
state of subjection, under these cir
cumstances, the radical leaders ex-
pose themselves to q suspicion of
desiring chiefly to perpetuate their
own ascendancy at all hazards; and
this suspicion must sooner or later be
fatal to their influence.
London Times, 10M.
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REDUCE TAXES ON HOME MANurAc-

REDUCE TAXES ON HOME MANUFAc-
TUREs.-The Commissioners of Inter-
nal Revenue report, as the result of
their investigations, that "no nation
ever bore such a burden placed as
ours even for year; and can our
people bear it two years more? It is
now beginning to find its way to the
vltals of the productive power of the
nation, and the generous disposition
of the people is even now curdling
into impatience, which in another
year or two will become the root of O
party that will carry everything be-
fore it,
For this approaching and fearful
calamity, the Commissioners have
only the old quack panacea. They
propose to Congress an increase Of
the present rates of the tariff, already
averaging from forty to fifty per cent.
We would urge the removal of taxa
ton and burdens instead of their
increase. By genuine peace and re-
union with the South, let us increase
our markets and the demand for our
manufactures, while we also diminish
the expenses of Government; let no
just measure of economy be over
looked; and by a1means in our power
diminish, if not altogether abolish,
those duties upon machinery and all
our own manufactures which already
impede them so far as to justify the
strong language of the Commission
ers, and are as unjust in principle as
they are vexatious and mischievous in
practice.
Let the surplus revenue be devoted
to this emancipation of the industri-
GUS masses of the people, and the
stupid but romantic idea Of paying
any portion of the principal of the
national debt be utterly abandoned
for the present. By these means,
rather than by placing greater bur
dens upon the universal consumers,
who include the manufacturers, capi-
talists, and workmen, as we'll as ali
other members of the community
the impending danger will be par.
TALLY, if not wholly, removed.
NeU York World.
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The LOAN Br11.-The loan bill,
defeated on the 10th inst, and re-
ported back with amendments, passed
the House, yesterday, in its modified
form by a vote of eighty-three to
ffty-three. Under the provisions of
this bill, as modified, the Secretary of
the Treasury is restricted in his eff
forts to return to specie payments.
He cannot retire more than ten mil
lions OF the currency during the first
SIX months elapsing after the adop-
ton of the bill by both Houses, and
not more than four millions per
month thereafter. It is estimated
that, by the full exercise of this power,
the Secretary can retire the entire
issue of greenbacks in about nine
years. The bill thus prevents the re-
tlrement of more than eighteen or
twenty millions during the proposed
recess of Congress, when its further
operation may be entirely suspended
by the two Houses, if deemed advisa-
BILE. With view to such purpose,
perhaps, section was introduced in
the bill requiring the Secretary to
make report of his operations under
this bill at the commencement of the
next session. The bill, as thus adopt
ed, now goes for the first time to the
Senate.-Neo York Herald, 24tb.
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New Theory about Falling Stars.

New Theory about Falling Stars.
Nj. de Reinchenback, the chemist,
whose name is connected with the
discovery of cd, q new and mysterious
force of nature, believes he has dis
covered the true source of phospho-
rous and magnesia distributed over
the surface of the earth. He enun-
ciates the hypothesis, sufficiently
curious, that it proceeds from the
falling stars. NJ. de Reichenback
posses one of the most beautiful col
iections of @rohtes which is known
to exist; of these he has made
numerous analyses and published
twenty-three essays; SO he is not q
neophyte in his study.
One day, after rejecting deeply on
the physical character of falling stars,
which everything leads us to believe
are smaller kinds of @rolites, sort
of dust of @rolites, NJ. de Reichen-
back said to himself that this rain of
metallic powders which has fallen for
many centuries must have left some
trace upon the earth, enough for an
ingenious man to form a chemical
analysis; and as the metals which
chiefly characterize the meteorites
are nickel and cobalt, M. de Reichen-
back proposed to seek those in soil
exposed to the free air.
Charged with the demonstration of
this he ascends the Lahisberg, a
mountain of conical form, about nine
to twelve hundred feet in height, and
covered at the summit with beech
trees penetrates the coppice, and
selects q spot probably never pressed
by the foot of man. Of this earth he
secures in horn of paper several
handfuls. AS he expected, the analy-
sis gave him cobalt and nickel. Sam
pies taken from neighboring noun
tains gave the same result, one
yielded nickel, another copper also.
Finally, an analysis of the soil
called marchfeld gave also traces of
nickel. These results are so much
the more significant, as the great
mass of this part of the mountains OF
Austria is composed of sandstone and
calcareous matter, where there is
never found any metallic vein. The
traces of nickel and cobalt in the
samples examined by the German
chemist, made about the ten-thou-
sandth part of the composition OF
the earth, which seemed to indicate a
tolerably uniform distribution of the
two metals at the surface of the soil.
Connect this circumstance with the
uniform and con slant presence OF
Observation-Disclosures, substances
which also make part Of most @roli
ties, the hypothesis, though singular,
appears not unlikely. Falling stars
are thousands some nights, and il
we could see all those whose lights
equalled only that of stars below the
seventh magnitude, their number
would be incalculable, and this phe
nomena has continued for hundred.
of centuries. This is not the poetry
of stars" byron hated chemists bu1
shows us their every day attributes
throwing material to the agriculturist
Cor. Boston Adrertiser.
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The RICHMOND SPEc1E.-At the
time of the evacuation of Richmond.
the banking establishments of that
city continued to send away the
amount Of coin belonging to the differ
ent institutions to a point further
South for the purpose of securing it.
The amount originally reached the
sum of $3.50, 600, of which $3.50, 900
was lost by plunder and the remain
der placed on deposit at Washington,
Georgia, in charge of a special agent
of the Richmond banks, who, owing
to the unsettled condition of affairs,
was unable to get back to Richmond,
and was therefore compelled to remain
there for some time.
While this coin was at Washington,
Georgia, claim was made to It by
General Wild, of the Freedmen's
Bureau, on the ground that it was
captured property, and an investi-
cation of the case by General Wins
low resulted in giving the right of
possession to the agent of the banks.
Afterward, about the Goth of August
last, an order from the President,
through the Secretary of War, was
received by General Steedman, then
commanding the department., to turn
over the captured coin on deposit to
a Treasury agent. This was done,
and the coin sent to this city, when it
was placed on special deposit with
the Treasurer of the United States.
Claim is now made on behalf of the
Richmond banks for thesrestoration
OF this money, and it is alleged that
. that the order of the President was
made without full and careful inform
alton of the facts in the case.
After full and careful examination
by the Treasury Department, the
matter has been referred to the
President, who has ordered that the
coin be restored, provided the iden-
tity between the amount now on de-
post in the Treasury and that claimed
by the banks can be established, and
acomplance made with certain formal
conditions required by the Secretary
of the Treasury.
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San Francisco advices to February
% state that Mazatlan, Mexico, has
been closely invested by the Liberals,
under Corona, and the French in that
city are completely "bottled up"
Later advices, to March Is. state that
the Imperial General Lobasas had
marched to the relief of the besia IA
garrison --;th three or four thous3
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Variety Sale.
By LEVIN & PETXOTTO

THIS [Thursday) MORNING, the 2sth.
at 10 o'clock, we will sell, before our
A variety of FURNITURE. amonr which
are: ""i'n
, Chairs, Tables, Bedsteads, Mattresses.
feather Beds, Drawers, Looking Glasses
msattlng, Carpets, Stoves, Crockerywarc.
&C: ALSO,
Bbls; Sugar, boxes Soap, Molasses. Sc
CARS fireworks, Ink, Writing Paper, Mus
eard, , kerosene Lamps, Mems and Womens
Shoes and Bootees, Hats, CAPS. Iadies'
Dress Goods. sc. March 90
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SHIP NEWS.
PORT OF CHARLESTON, MARCH %.

ARRIVED YESTERDAY.
Steamship Quaker City, West, New York.
Steamship Emily B. Souder. New York.
Br. bark S. Morton, Hood, Liverpool
Schr. Adeline Townsend, New York.
Schr. Ida l., Bacon, New York.
Schr. B. N. Hawkins, Wyatt, New York.
Schr. Kate E. Rich, Corday, New York.
Schr. Ellwood Devon, Jarvis, New York.
Schr. Eclipse, Stout, Baltimore.
Schr. Rachel Vanneman. Boston.
Schr. Nathaniel Doane, Boston.
Schr. L. j. Palmer, Palmer, Baltimore.
AT QUARANTINE.
Sp. brig Beatriz, Pages, Boston.
IN THE oFFING.
a British bark and schooner unknown.
WENT TO SEA YESTERDAY.
Steamer Eutaw, Coffin, New York.
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COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.

NEW ORLEANS, March 20.-At the opening
Of the cotton market, this morning, there
was fair inquiry noticeable, but buyers
and factors views appearrd to be very far
apary, the former contending for lower
prices, on account Of the IN creased depres-
sion in exchange, and the latter demand
ing more stringent figures, owing to the
favorable tenor of the European advices
and to the heavy falling off in the receipts
of cotton in Mobile. AS the day advanced.
however, better understanding prevailed,
and $3.50 bales changed hands, at full pre-
vious prices for the better grades, which
are scarce and in request, at decline Of
about &c. on ordinary and good ordinary,
which appeared to have been in better
supply and more restricted demand. The
market is still toe unsettled and prices
are too irregular to justify any actual alter
alton of quotations, and we quote 33@42c
STATEMENT OF COTTON.
Ba;es.
Stock on hand Sept /, 1865. ..... .ss, ,23e
Received since Saturday . 3,216
Received previously. 49,. 595, Az
sos, ,esS-5ss, ,ess
e81, ,s27
Exported since Saturday . 4,s1s
Exported previously. -. .489,61S
45o, ooo-493, 800
Stock on hand and shipboard not
The exports include 2, ,5s7 bales for Liver Liver
pool, and 1,721 for Havre.
WLM1NaroN, March 23-2s bales cotton
were sold to-day, at 30c. for middling.
ATLANTA, March 25.-We quote good
middling cotton at 30c., and middling at
&c., with the remark that much i'm
proved feeling prevails. Receipts have
been light. Gold and silver unchanged.
we quote gold-buying, 26; selling, %.
sllver-buying, 20; selling, 25.
COLUMBUS, March 23.-The cotton market
HAT. No demand. Middlings, % cents. The
cotton IN this region is nearly exhausted.
Last week only 346 bales were received.
New YORK, March 27.-Cotton steady,
with sales OF 900 bales. Freights quiet
the rates on cotton to Liverpool being 5-16
Old. Gold 285.
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PUBLIC PEAcE.-Lord Bacon said:
'"Ihe surest way to prevent seditions
iif the times do bear it) is to take
away the matter of them; for, if there
he fuel prepared, it is hard to tell
wRcsthe spAEk shall come. that shall
suzat ik.of Hra 'A'''''
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oLGATE's HONEY SOAP.

oLGATE's HONEY SOAP.
( This celebrated Toilet Soap, in such
universal demand, IS maao from the
choicest materials, is maid and en-
lient in its nature. fragraA,ry -
and extremely beneficial in it's ,-S
upon the skin. For sale by all Drus
and Fancy Goods Dealers.
March %
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Durbec & Walter

WILL sell at their mart, TOMORROW
(fTiday) MORNING, the soth, at 10
The balance of STOCK of retail store
consisting of Sugar, Molasses, Mackerel'
s bacon, soap, Tobacco, Powder, Shot, So
cts, &c. Also, Scales, Weights and Store
furniture. Also, Rum, Sherry Wine and
Kerosene Oil. Sale positive and without
reserve. March %
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By Browne & Schirmer.

THIS Thursday MORNING, the 2sth,
ct 10 o'clock, will be sold at public out
cry, Main street, Volger's new store,
One lot assorted Crockery.
80 pairs Pants, 10 Coats.
~ pairs Ladies Balmoral Bootees.
40 yards Black Alpaca.
35 doz. Linen Cambria Handkercbiefs
l Sewing Machine, complete and new.
5000 Segars.
Lace Window Curtains.
BROWNE a. SCHIRMER.
March ~ Main street, Volger's store,
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MoNEY.-Nen will work for it.
fight for it, beg for it, steal for it,
starve for it and die for it. And all
the while, from the cradle to the
grave, nature and God are thunder
ing in our ears the solemn question,
"What shall it profit man, if he
gain the whole world and lose his own
soul?" This madness for money is
the strongest and lowest of the pas
sions; it is the insatiate Moloch of
the human heart, before whose re-
morseless altar all the finer attributes
of humanity are sacrificed. It makes
merchandise of all that is sacred in
human affections, and even trafics in
the awful solemnities of the eternal.
Between the French and the
English there exists great rivalry in
steam communication in the East.
The French line of steamships seems
to have the advantages of comfort
and speed. The French fresh water
canal, at Suez, now empties into the
Gulf Suez; but the maritime canal,
which is the great commercial work,
shows no signs of completion.
She who makes her husband and
children happy-who reclaims the
one from vice and trains up the other
to virtue-is much greater character
than ladies described in romance.
whose occupation is to murder man
kind with shafts from the culver of
their eyes.
In the Democratic State Conven-
tion of Rhode Island, resolutions
were adopted declaring the Constitu-
tion to be the foundation of American
liberty, opposing taxation without
representation, and endorsing Az
drew johnson.
At an informal conference of South
ern Senators now in Washington, it
was ag. ed that Senator Stewards 8 re-
solution does not represent the wishes
of the Southern people. They desire
no further amendments Of the Con-
stitution.
There is to be a grand tournament
and ball at Wilmington, North Caro-
lima, on the first ThursdayFin April.
The City Hotel, in Natchez, Mis-
sissippi, was burned to the ground on
Tuesday night last.
The tickets to the opera ball in New
York are said to be about the size of
an ordinary window shutter.
The President has recognized F. A.
Sauters as consul for Wurtemburg, at
Galveston.
Fifty dollars have been offered for
the pen with which the President
signed the veto.
A United States detective is arrest
ed In Macarthur, Ohio, for blowing
open the Vinton County safe.
S44, 900 worth Of Government trans
portation has been 'sgobbled" by four
citizens of Cipcinnati.
It is thought that the President
~" soon issTe his peace proclama-
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New YORK, March 27.-Cotton steady
with sales OF 900 bales. Freights quiet
the rates on cotton to Liverpool being 81
Old. Gold 28S.