The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-02

The New Haven Register SAYS that
about twenty Southern negroes passed
through that place, on their way to
Massachusetts, where places have
been secured for them by Mr.. e. A.
Newall, the agent of the Freedmen's
bureau at Springfield. Had they had
the misfortune to be poor whites,
they would have starved in Massa-
chusetts before they would have been
found places.
Social EoUAL1rY.-A yankee
schoolmarm" illustrated her idea of
social equality, few days since, by
promenading Brook Avenue and Clay
street with dirty, black, mean look
ing negro man. Whilst she did not
take his arm,' she walked as close
10 n1m as she could, and invited him
IN when she got to the school-house
on Clay street.-RicAnond Eramine7.
Mr.. Leonard w. Jerome, the
1ashlona5le stock broker, is the social
lion of New York. He has Just
started sleigh, called the Monitor,
which IS described as little else than
a beautiful boat on runners, with
erect prov and graceful stern. ;i,;i,;a-
ture guns projecting on either side,
both an ornament and defence. The
crew consists of twenty ladies.
FIRE AT ST. JAMES SANTEE.-We
regret to learn Of the destruction bv
fire Of the residence of DIR. Edward
Allston, in the Parish of st. James
Santee. The fire broke out about
midnight, and almost everything in
the house was destroyed, including
the effects Of Mr.. Bacot Allston, who,
with his family, was living with DR..
A. at the time.
The GAINESVILLE Times says that, in
a case of poison from laudanum in
that place. the patient was saved
when apparently near death, and un-
able to swallow, by injecting atropi-
ma, preparation of belladonna,
through an incision in the skin. The
antidote was further administered
through the mouth when the patient
got able to swallow.
An officer in the army in the Indian
country sends n letter to friend in
Lockport, which contains the follow
ing cheerful passage: Il would send
you lock of my hair, but I fear it
would be fraud upon the savages of
this vicinity. There is fair prospect
that one of these noble red men will
be my barber before spring.
A friend of ours lives next door to
q not overthriving undertaken. One
day our friends young son rushed
into the parlor in q state of wild ex-
citement, exclaiming, 80 father,
somebody is dead, for sure, because
the undertaker's children are eating
can!v:"
Mrs. Margaret Hawley, who keeps
small newspaper stand inside the
Fulton Ferry, New York, makes q
net gain of from 1925 to $500 per
week. In one day sixty dollars are
often cleared. She has thus been
able to educate her children hand
somely, and to lay by more than
$4,000.
The centralists demand negro suf-
frage as basis of CONSTRUCTION. )"
That is, they propose to "recon-
struct' something, by throwing a
mass of ignorance and idleness upon
the ballot-boxes sufficient to swamp
them. Reconstruct what? A
State that already exists, completed?
They mean destruction
The Houston (Texas) Telegraph
says that the Eureka Mills are now
| turning out fine sheetings and drills,
and will, in few days, put in the
market their various goods, both cot
ton and wool, and test the question
OF profit and loss. The Houston City
Mills will be erected this spring
The old nitre beds which were so
extensively prepared at Charleston,
South Carolina, during the last years
OF the war, are found to be rich de-
posts of manure, which the neigh
boring farmers are converting to pro-
| ductive instead Of the destructive
uses for which they were intended.
| A letter was received in Washing
| ton from q broker in New York,
whose name and address can be fur
nished, and who is vouched for as
reliable, charging that the sum OF
$4,000 was subscribed among the
brokers in that city, to induce the
offering of the impeachment resolu-
| iiOD in tho ROuaa