The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-23

LETTER FROM PRICE. are per-
mltted to publish the following ex-
tracts from letter written by Gen.
Sterling Price to friend in this
country: S &
oeRDovA, Mexico, :; Jan. IS, 1866.
Judge Perkins, Governor Harris,
Colonel (Pawnee) White and his TO-
mlly, the Episcopal Minister, Mr..
Holman and his family, myself and
others, are now living in our new
town-Carlotta. The Americans that
were in Monterey and San Louis Po-
tosl are now on their way thither, as
we learn from Capt. nj. F. Maury.
Several Louisianians have lately ar
rlved here, in search of new homes
for themselves and families. They
have thought best to purchase i'm
proved lands from private individuals.
and have done SO, paying down
S5, 900 in cash, and getting rs much
time as they desired for the deferred
payments. They have returned to
the United States for their families.
If the immigration from the States
shall be as great as I anticipate, pro-
perty of every kind will greatly in
crease in value, and I therefore think
that those who have made up their
minds to come to Mexico, should do
so at once. The inducements to me-
chanics to come here are very great,
While the native laborer can be hired
at fifty cents day, out of which he
finds himself, mechanics earn excel
lent wages. For instance, the rail-
road company offers to contract for
brick at $25 thousand, and lime Mt
$1.2 .25 per hundred, and the country
abounds in timber and in limestone
of nm excellent quality; wheelwright
or tanner would make fortune
very soon.
Near York Ne,rs.
DEMAND FOR LABOR IN THE SOUTH
WEST. We learn from the New Or
leans papers that the demand for
labor there in every department of
mechanics is such as to absorb the
entire supply. Never since the first
settlement of New Orleans, has it
been greater than it now is. One
paper says that the mechanics and
laboring men are in greater power
than ever before, and that they are
educating and elevating themselves,
and are maintaining an unbroken
front i'll their efforts to break down
the barriers that hitherto opposed
their rapid progress in society and
political position" Those who are
SO greatly exercised lest things in the
South revert to their former condi-
ton, and who fear that slaveholding
aristocracy will again resume their
former sway, should consider fact
like this. We hear the same thing of
other parts of the South. A new
class is coming into power, new ideas
are gaining the supremacy. It must
be SO, for that upon which the old
caste was based, and which gave it
power, has passed away forever.
The Court OF EQUITY. Y.-The pro-
ceedings of the Court of Equity,
which convened at this place on
Monday last, furnished agreeable
evidence of the close of the war, and
at least partial restoration of civil
law. It was the first time, we believe,
in years, that parties and witnesses
have been in attendance upon this
Court. His Honor, the newly elect
ed Chancellor, Henry D. Lesesne, of
Charleston, was the presiding Magis-
trate. e.-Darlingto,s Ne,c Era
This honest confession was made
by Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts,,
while discussing the Freedmen's Bu-
reau bill:
We proclaimed liberty to three and
half millions of people in order to
break down this rebellion. We did
it as q military necessity. We did
not do it because it was right to do