The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-07

So(gS1a. Flour dropping. Wheat dull; in
ferior 2@sc lower. Pork heavy, at s3l.6O.
quiet and firm. Naval stores steady. Tur-
pentine 71@76. Rosin So 25t49. Gold AK.
NEW ORLEANS, August 6.-Cotton quiet,
with sales Of $50 bales; low middling $50
IS. Receipts 395. Sugar fair, at 12@14c.
Corn-mixed unchanged; white s105@
1.o74. Mess pork ss5. Gold Al.
BUSINESS PROSPECTS OF THE CABLE.
We learn that, Notwithstanding the
announcement that the Atlantic CO.
BILE was open for business was only
made on Tuesday afternoon, there
were twenty messages filed for Europe
on that day, and the cash receipts
therefrom at the New York Office
were So, 3,046 in gold. Nineteen mes
sages were filed in the New York of
fee on Wednesday for transmission
through the cable to Europe, on
which tolls were paid to the amount
of 80, 157 in gold.-Ne,c Fork Times.
A wholesale case of poisoning &C.
CURED at Winona, Illinois, on the
9th. Sixteen guests of the Dillman
House, including the proprietor, his
niece and cook, were poisoned at
breakfast by partaking of biscuit
made of self-raising, prepared -four,
made in Chicago. The victims were
seized with cramps and genuine
cholera symptoms, but an investiga-
ton showed that those who did not
eat biscuit escaped.
Dispatches from Austin, Texas,
say that j. H. Bell, the Secretary of
State, has been notified by President
johnson that the Legislature will be
permitted to assemble, without hin
drance. on the 9th of August; also,
that Gov. Throckmorton will be in
augurated soon after, and the Presi-
dent has given notice that orders will
be given for the transfer of tile State
Government to the elected autho-
rites
The freedmen and soldiers of
Selma, Ala, have had two or three
serious rows of late. The first began
by an unprovoked attack upon the
negroes at a ball, in which fsticuffs
and firearms were freely used. The
second was at the Baptist Church,
where the firing was lively, but no
one seriously hurt. The soldiers vow
vengeance against the negroes. who
are arming themselves for defence.
HOMICIDE. learn that on Mon
day last, about eight miles above
town, n freedman by the name of
Lewis - was shot and killed by
Mr.. VIM. Timmons. The only par
ticnlars that we have heard were,
that the negro was shot in the yard
OF Mr.. Timmons, after having been
ordered not to go there A judicial
investigation, of course, will be had.
CheruD Adreytise2..
CHINAMAN VS.. NEGRo.-Capitalists
are already discussing the question
of contracting with Chinese compa-
MES for an immense number of them
to cultivate the cotton crop of the
South for term of years, Mt q much
cheaper rate than negro labor can be
obtained. Soon the rivalry between
the Chinaman and the negro will
commence.
PROSPERITY OF MEMPHIS city
of Memphis, Tennessee, is rapidly
recovering from the effects of the war
1t is stated that over S665, 900 are at
present invested in putting up first
class buildings, and that there are
over 400 minor houses in the course
OF construction. Business of all kinds
Is said also to be improving.
General Martin l.. Smith died at
Rome, Ga, last week. At the close
of the war General Smith was Chief
Engineer of tho Army of Northern
Virginia, and was previously an
officer of Pemberton's army Mt Vicks-
burg. At the time of his death he
was Chief Engineer of the Selma
and Dalton Railroad.
The salary of Congressman has
been increased to $4,000, and mile
age is cut down to twenty cents. The
employees Of Congress, including the
Capitol Police, get an addition of
twenty per cent. to their salaries.
The addition does not apply to the
clerks and employees in the various
departments.
When were banking institutions
first known? In the time of Pharaoh,
when the Egyptians received cheque
(chech) on the Bank of the Red Sea,
and Moses crossed it, Ever since
Faro Banks have been popular, and
favorite places Of deposit, as they
hardly ever get broke.
The official IStaatsonzenger of Berlin
says: "We are authorized IN dac]ora