The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-05-17

The new steamship City of par;,
peionglng to the Inman line. whic
1e!t New York on the 14th nit, fo
Liverpool. made the greatest distanc
IN one day that has ever been aeon,
Pilshed by any steamer. namelv
FROM noon on the 18th of Apr;I :,
noon on the Goth. twenty-three and ,
half hours actual time, she mad ae:
Knots which is equal to 1875 miles
oEcT1oNAL:-A single section o.
the amended internal revenue Act
now under discussion in CONGRESS-
contains matter to make fonrteen
columns of the Times. If the hin ;s
TO be considered by sections. as stated
we pity alike the readers and tbo
hearers OF this particular portion. It
Will take the clerk at least five bonrs
to read it.-Ne,c York Times.
A telegram from Eastport, Maine
states that an English steamer WING
at st. Andrews, on Friday night
fired at a parry of ladies and gentle
men IN pleasure boat from Rabbino-
ton. The ball struck near the boat.
and, richocheting. landed in front Of
house in Rabbington. The ball
was sent to Admiral Boggs at East
port.
A broken-down actor recently NOR
RED girl of the tender age of eleven
at Detroit. In another MICHIGAN
town, two men exchanged wives: and
IN a third, q man sold his wife for
maple sugar.
The Freedmen's Bureau is needed
up there.
The receipts from customs at the
four principal ports of the United
States, IN the week ending Nav s
1So6, were as follows: New York,
-, 2S3, 600; Boston, 1920. 451. 80:
Philadelphia, S1O3, 559.AS; Baltimore.
500, "a. Total receipts, 50. 7O7..
277.O5.
The Commercials special saws the
protest Of the New York Chamber of
Commerce against the cotton tax.
produced marked influence, and GER
tain Senators, in case of failure to de-
feat the tax, will attempt reduction
of five cents per pound.
At Newmarket, England, the great
1000 guinea stakes were won by Mr.
T.. Nj. Sutton's Lord Lyon. The
value of the stakes was S24. 900. The
1000 guinea stake was won by Baron
Rothschild's Wippa. Value of the
stakes, s19,25O.
NEGRO SUFFRAGE. are ONLY
two States in the Union where the
negro is allowed to vote without
property qualification. They are
Vermont and New Hampshire: the
former of which has eighty negro
voters, and the latter 100
Sterling King, the confessed assas-
sin Of Seward, and who stated that
Wilkes Booth was still alive, died on
the mail boat United States. at Gin
cinnati. He had starved himself to
death
CR1SoL1SE. A correspondent of the
New York Herald, writing from Paris
under date of the 9th ult., saws: Eve
can safely say that crinoIines are dis
appearing, but will not totally disap-
pear before the end of summer
When Mr.. Eldridge, Democrat, of
Wisconsin, a respectable member of
the United States House OF Repre-
sentatlves, rose to a point of order,
the other day, at Washington, he was
greeted by storm of misses from the
negroes in the gallery.
Our Raleigh exchanges bring us
the sad, but not unexpected, intelli-
gence of the death of that eminent
North Carolinian, George E. Badger,
who died at his residence in that city
OF the 18th inst.
The proposed new block of stores
in Charleston-the so-called Polais
Royol-it appears, is attracting atten-
ton.
One of the mills of the Hazard
Powder Company, at Enfield, Con-
nectlcut, blew up, on the 8th Four
workmen were torn to atoms.
A destructive fire occurred in Que
bee, on the Sth, which DESTROYED so
house and rendered $50 families
housnless.
The President has pardoned Gems.
W. Il. Cox, OF North Carolina, and D.
ID. Cooper, of Arkansas, who served in
the Confederate army.
The internal revenue receipts on
the 18th amounted to 1854, S4O.7l:
and the receipts for the week previous
to 81, PIP, 1850
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