The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-16
Collectors through the Southern

Collectors through the Southern
States have been receiving for pay
ment of dues 7-3O Treasury notes
from which the coupons have been
detached. These notes are in these
States received as currency. In an
swer to letter from the Collector of
the First District in Texas, addressed
to the Secretary of the Treasury on
this subject, Mr.. McCulloch says:
Congress alone having the power
to regulate the lawful money of
the United States, and having de-
cided what shall constitute it, and
that nothing but lawful money shall
be received in payment of dues, the
Secretary OF the Treasury has no
power to receive 7-3O Treasury notes
in payment of dues, because they are
not'lawful money"
News from Galveston states that
q resolution had been introduced and
discussed in the Texas Convention,
declaring the secession of the State
null and void, and denying that any
State has the right to secede Amo-
ton to lay the resolution on the table
was lost by vote uf forty-five to
thirty EIGHT.
Last week a party of thieves and
pickpokets went aboard Brooklyn
ferry-boat in New York, at night.
When the boat got out in the river
far enough, they put out the lights
and went through the passengers,
robbing them of their pocket-books,
etc. On landing, they escaped.
There is Northern man in Athens
who is collecting all the negroes to-
gether for the purpose, he says, of
carrying them to Tennessee to work
on plantations. About 100 left last
week, ostensibly for Tennessee. but
who knows where they viii bring up?
Perhaps in Cuba.
There are 10000 bales of cotton
still in the hands of planters in the
interior of Alabama, waiting to come
to market. The owners of it, antici-
pating short crop this year, are
holding for rise in the market. So
says the Montgomery Mail.
The Mexican Times, of the 18th
ult., announces the arrival, in the
city of Mexico, of Gen. J. A. Early,
G. G. Clute and family, Georgia; DIR
L. c. Haskell, Charleston, S. c.; Sc
nor Schnierle and wife, Charleston;
Col. H. 7. Douglas, Virginia.
Though the escape of Prim, the
Spanish insurgent leader, into Portr-
gal, is now beyond doubt, the Go
vernment is still uneasy, and mar
tial law continues to be vigorously
enforced.
The proposition to Congress to le-
gislate for Northern creditors to Sc
cure Southern debts, was, on Wednes-
day last, by report of committee
appointed to consider the matter,
declared to be unnecessary.
The London Times is. much sur
prised at the vitality exhibited by
Fenianism in Ireland, and says it is
fact not to be disguised that it is
spreading, Notwithstanding the eff
forts of the Government to crush it
out
Gen. Butler says that if Gen. Lee
is not punished, then he has s'shed
his blood in vain.' Yet it should be
some consolation to him to know that
the rebels cannot get back their
spoons.
A spirituaist in Philadelphia has
impaired the information, received
by spirituaistic telegraph on the 4th,
that France is without an Emperor
You will get the news in ten days"
$500 worth of "water fall' was de-
stroyed by fire in Leonard street,
New York, on Sunday evening, the
hair roll and waterfall establishment
of Philip Walters being burnt up.
In pursuance of orders, General
Hooker, commanding Department of
the East, has just caused the Military
Districts in seven States to be discon-
tinued
Gen. John B. Gordon, late Con-
federate States Army, has erected five
steam saw mills at Brunswick, Ga. i,
and will soon have sixty ship-loads of
lumber for shipment.
It is reported that new Constitu-
tional amendment is to be offered,
restricting the tenure of the Presi-
dental Office to one term and abolish
ing the Electoral College.
A number of the iron mills, at
Wheeling, West Virginia, have sus-
pended on account of the workmen
striking against reduction. of wages.
DR.. William NJ. Gwin is still con-