The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-12-14

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they oppress themselves. They
sympathize tremena asly with Ire
land and Mexico-and until lately
they used to sympathize with Poland.
Ye hypocrites! "The Greeks are at
your doors!' You have made an
Ireland-think of it-cf Virginia.
Charlottesville Chronicle.
| 1t is announced that q site for q
new Presidential Mansion at Wash
ington has been determined upon.
It is to be located about two miles
North west of Washington, and will
be surrounded by park. The land
in that neighborhood is valued at
about $3.50 an acre, but before any
final action can be taken upon the
subject, an appropriation must be
had from Congress.
Letters have been received at St.
Louis reporting increased hostilities
among the Indians, especially along
Fort Kearney and Virginia city, Mon
tana. Communication with the former
post was apparently cut off; and the
friendly Indians report that the hos
tile Indians were moving in that
direction with the intention of taking
it. Another despatch will probably
pronounce this report much cxagger-
ated and possibly quite unfoundeI.
LOOKING AFTER LAND. D.-Wit.lin the
past several weeks there have been
large numbers of persons from Penn
sylvania, passing through this place,
on their way to the Shenandoah Val
ley, in search Of homes These per-
sons mostly hail from Lancaster
County, in that State, and were gene
rally men of means
Hagersto,rn Mail.
The purchase Of Lower California
has now been formally confirmed by
the Juarez Government, and the title
is settled beyond reasonable doubt
1t is the largest purchase by private
persons III modern times. It covers
$500 square miles, extending from
gulf to ocean, between the parallels
of "a deg. and 20 min, and 80 deg.
| of North latitude.
The Provincial Parliament of Cana
da has passed an Act requiring the
proprietors of churches, halls, thea
tres, or other buildings used for pub
lie resort, to have the doors of such
buildings so hinged as to open freely
outwards, to facilitate the egress of
the people in case of alarm from fire
or other cause.
Cutler, one Of the st. Louis firm
who recently fred their own building
in order to obtain the heavy insur-
ance, attempted to commit suicide
on the 9TH instant, by jumping from
a window. He failed to make the
connection. It will be remembered
| that two young clerks perished in the
flames kindled by the incendiaries.
The New York Times, of the Sth,
says that counterfeit coupons of the
United States bonds of 1861 were
offered for sale at Wall street brok-
ers' yesterday. The coupons are for
S15 each, and are remarkably we'll
executed. The numbers are rather
poorly engraved, and are larger than
the figures on the genuine coupons.
The Washington correspondent of
the New York Herald states that the
Senate will reject the nomination of
General Dix as Minister to France,
on the ground that he was prominent
in promoting the Philadelphia Con-
vention, and allowed himself to be
used by the Democrats to defeat the
Republicans.
The COTTON TAXA Washington
despatch says:
Many members of the House think
it probable that the internal tax on
cotton will be reduced by the present
Congress. There is strong outside
pressure in favor of the repeal of the
tax altogether.
Accounts from the interior of Ala
bama show greater breadth of land
than ever before is sown in wheat.
The wheat crop in Texas is heavier
than any year ever before. Great
quantities of reaping and threshing
machines, and great mill apparatus,
are being transported thither
Louis Napoleon understands the
art of type setting, aid the young
Prince Imperial is said to be quite an
adept. There is q small printing
Office attached to the Tuileries, in
which father and son exercise their
skill in the cart preservative. >"
A bill authorizing the Governor to
call out five regiments of ''ioyal"
militia, to put down insurrection and
protect the ballot-boxes, passed its
first reading in the Tennessee Legis-