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The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-07-26

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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-27

ANOTHER ATLANTIC CABLE.
r. Everett, the chief engineer of the
International Ocean Telegraph Com
pany, sailed for Liverpool. on Satur-
day last. He goes to England to su-
perlntend the construction OF the
cable to be laid to connect the United
States, Cuba and the West India Is
lands. 1t is expected that the work
will be finished by June l.
The Maryland Republicans are
very generally signing petition ask
ing the United States Senate not to
admit Gov. Swami to seat in that
body next March, asserting that be
secured his election through corrup-
ton and fraud. Gov. Swami will
doubtless share Stockton:s fate. and
be ''histed" out of his.
The Mississippi steamer David
White, plying between New Orleans
and Louisville, was blown up near
Columbia, Arkansas, on Sunday. and
thlrty-elght persons are known to
have been killed and nineteen wound
ed. There are sixty-ive passengers
missing, whose names are unknown.
as the books were lost.
There is man out West whose
memory is so short that it only reach
es to his knees; consequently, he
never pays for his boots.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-27
WAsH1NeroN ITEMS We toke tbo /

WASHINGTON ITEMS. We take the
following items from the Herald, of
Sunday, the latest dates from that
point:
1t is stated from Richmond that
Virginia will, very probably, be the
first of the Southern States to fall
into line under the new Congress-
lonal plan of reconstruction. Gov.
Pierpont was in council with the
State Senate last evening, and ad-
vised the speedy endorsement of the
plan. His views seemed to meet
with general appreciation among the
members.
Senator johnson, of Maryland, has
received letter from General Fitz
John Porter, now in. New York,
highly approving his course on the
reconstruction bill, and stating that
he had conversed with many in New
York and New Jersey WHO held the
same views as Mr. johnson, who also
were much pleased thereat, believing
that the best interests of the country
were subserved by the bill. Mr..
Johnson asserts that, in his belief,
had not this bill passed, or if it shall
finally fail, that the next Congress
will parcel out the lands Of the South
among the negroes of that region.
The radicals in Congress having
achieved their great measure of mill
tary governments over the States of
the South, were, on Friday, in re-
markable good humor. The House
OF Representatives struck out clause
IN q Tennessee college bill, prohibit
ing Confederate officers from holding
professorships in the institution, and
they repealed the cotton tax.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-27

SMUGGLING. The Government has
received information of the seizure of
a lot of hogsheads of sugar imported
from Cuba, landed at Bulls Bay,
South Carolina, without payment of
duties, and then carried into the
country. On seizing and opening
them, each hogshead had barrel in
the centre of the sugar. Seven bar
rels were filed with West India rum,
on which the duty was over SIC d
barrel, and five barrels with high
priced segars, &c.
Charleston Courier.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-27

The TAX ON CIGARs.-The House
of Representatives, in considering
the amendatory interval revenue bill,
has fixed the tax on cigars as follows:
con ALL cigars, cheroots and ciga-
rettes, $5 per thousand, and twenty
per cent. at palorem on the market
value" This is an important change,
being reduction of rate reported by
the committee.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-27

THE New Custom HoUsE.-The
Collector of the Port has succeeded
in getting an appropriation of $780,
900, in addition to the $40, 900 appro-
priated last year. fo1 the purpose of
improving the new Custom House,
and placing it in habitable condition.
The Committee Of Appropriations in
the House have added this addi-
tional amount to their bill, which
passed that body, and the Collector
has received the assurance of Senators
that the appropriation will be F ,sed
In the Senate. Charleston Courier.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-27
The Sherman BIZ.


The New York Erpress is strong in
its denunciations Of the infamous
provisions of this bill, and says it
should be called q bill of the party in
power to keep ten States out of the
Union till after the next Presidential
election, unless the whites of the
South consent to be governed by ne
groes,
Elemeut /. The destruction of
State Governments, the State Judi
ciary, and State laws OF all kinds.
2. The substitution in lieu thereof
of five brigadier-generals, men of
epaulettes, "men on horseback"
3. The abrogation Of every princi-
pie of British liberty, as laid down in
Blackstone, or won at Runnymede,
as extorted by the barons from King
John-as fought for by he-Puritans
even, under Cromwell-as died for by
Hampden and other British patriots
as guaranteed in the revolution of
our British fathers, that took prince
from Holland and put him on the
British throne, and as solemnly set
forth in our Declaration of Independ-
ence and in the Constitution of the
United States, viz: the principles OF
magma charta, the right of petition,
the bill of rights, &c.
4. The President of the United
States (sec s. is clothed with absolute
power over the lives of $4,000, 900
of human beings, without Judge or
jury-for he creates the five govern
ing brigadier-generals, and their mill
tary commissions.
These horrible provisions of law,
known in British Jurisprudence only
in the Tudor days of Henry the
Eighth, and unknown even in the
reign of the Stuarts-that species Ct
law which Cromwell imposed upon
Ireland, and which British people
are realizing the fruits of to this day
in eternal Instructions and uni
versal neutrality-suspicious. adopted
from Austria, Turkey, Egypt, and
unknown, now, even in France or
Italy-powers more potent than even
the high Hierarchy of the Papal
Church ever grant even to the Pope
OF Rome, are to be grapsed, and to
be held on to, until the South concurs
to the following conditions:
l. That universal suffrage be given
to male negroes, (all the while exclud-
ing women, even white women,) ne
groes just emerged from slavery and
semi-barbarism, not SO much qualified
for suffrage, three-fourths OF them,
as are our small children.
2. That the late rebel whites be dis
franchised.
Until these important conditions
are complied with, it will not be pos
sible for the people of ten States to
have any voice in the Government of
the Union, or in the Government of
their own States, against the ''men
on horseback" there And even if all
this is done-there is not one man in
one hundred thousand from the South
who can honestly take the test oath
now required by law of a member of
Congress.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-27

HE INCOME TAx.-The income tax
is fixed at five per cent. on the excess
OF all incomes over $1,000. In addi-
ton to the $1,000 exempted, are also
to be exempted all national, State,
County and municipal taxes paid
within the year, all losses actually
sustained during the year from fires,
shlpwreck, or trade, all bad debts,
the amount actually paid for the rent
OF house or premises occupied as a
residence, and the amount paid for
usual or ordinary repairs.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-27

The natural phenomena of the last
few weeks well deserve the con-
sideration of atmospheric philoso-
pliers. Tremendous falls of snow
in nearly all parts Of the country,
alterations, of excessive cold and
almost summer heat, and destructive
freshets in various sections from the
extreme East to the Western frontier,
have combined to render the winter
of l866-'67 memorable in the annals
of meteorology.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-27

SOPRANOS. The New York E'ceui,,q
Gazette has capital article on the
various styles of sopranos who sing
at our churches, and thus photo
graphs the most offensive and hest
known class of all:
A very numerous class, alack, is
that for which we can devise no more
expressive and truthful title than that
of the impudent soprano This crea-
ture usually sings with energy, vigor,
and often with good taste, and is
popular with the congregation. In
the choir, however, she is q bosom of
destruction. TO be associated with
her there is to be tied up in coffee
bag with scorpion. She knows, in
her own opinion, far more than any
body else IN the choir She wants to
sing all the solos, and is bitter and
uncharltable to every singer who at
tempts one. AS to other sopranos,
she is pitiless. She was never known
to say Il kind word to any professional
sister
She refuses to sing the music Sc,
lected for her by the chorister; and if
he insists, she declares he is no gen
tleman. Then she runs with gar
bled story to the minister or music
committee, and assumes the air of
injured innocence generally. She is
generally spoken OF as "a Tartar"
which is an unjust aspersion upon a
remote and comparatively inoffensive
people Of Asia. She affects great in
timacy with the clergyman and his
family. BY her constant efforts at
predominance in the choir she ac-
qulres masculine and forward style
of behavior, which she mistakes for
dlSnltied independence. She thinks
the other singers are intended by
Providence as accompanyists to her
own singing, and is vehemently op-
posed to singin any music not calcu-
lated to show off her own ability.
She is altogether mysterious dis
pensatien Of Providence-like mos
quitoes, small pox or the income tax.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-27


In A HoRN.-The following, which
we find in the Meridian MeSsenqer,
touches the raw, but is good for one
of the prevailing diseases of this
country, which is regardless of color.
Col. Horn pitches into lazy people
like a unicorn:
"A great many people are greatly
exercised about the negro's working.
The way the negro works Tor don't
work. is the topic of conversation
everywhere, where two or three are
gathered together. The disposition
of the negro to labor Tor not to labor
is watched with intense interest, by
those who seem to take no special in
terest in anything else. We are sick
and disgusted with this everlasting
talk about the shortcomings of the
colored population. In Gods name,
can't our people elevate t!.eir thoughts
above the negro, or bestow them upon
worthier objects? We ci,iini to feel
as kindly towards the negro as he
deserves of us, and when we see him
about to be engulphed and lost in
idleness and vice, we feel, we hope, a
rational concern. But, at the same
time, we honestly confess to the in
stincts which gives our own race the
preference in all our thoughts. If we
are concerned about the disposition
of the negro to do or not to do, yet
our concern sinks into Indifference
compared with the concern we feel
for the conduct of the white. While
some are fretting and fuming about
the laxy negroes they see in the towns
and villages, who refuse to contract
and engage in regular employment,
we are immeasuraDly more distressed
at the sight of lazy white men and wo-
men. If tie negro, as free man, do
all the work and earn all the wages, he
will prove himself the better man of
the two. We are anxious for the
white man to assert his superiority in
all things by his works, and therefore
our anxiety for the white man to go
to work.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-27

MALICIOUS FALsEHooDs.- COM
mittee appointed by Congress to in
quire into the murder of certain
United States soldiers in South Caro-
lima, report that there is no safety for
Union men in the Southern States,
and that military rule is the only cure
for the evil. Never was baser false
hood uttered. The President having
been called on for violations against
the civil rights bill, few days since,
reported only three cases. Reports
were sent from all the departments,
and three cases were only produced.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-27
MARRIED

At Swan7boro, n. c., on Wednesday, the
10Th instant, ut the residence of the brides
father, MIR. DANIEL L. SEM, of this
the former town.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-27

A New Haven gambler, on his way
to Boston. won $4,000 in q smoking
car
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-27
Local Items.

The Charleston mail failed last
night, but we are indebted to the po-
lite agents of the Southern Express
Company for copy of the Courier.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-27

The Washington Republican says
1.-The day is breaking" Let it break.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-27

THE "HELP" Question: question OF
kitchen 'help' is one of great moment to
the American housewife The best help
our experience has found is box of Col
gates Soap for laundry purposes. 1t saves
a large proportion of the labor of washing
clothing or other articles.
The national Republican., 1867-05-03
Georaetoxxn nf.,s...

SERIOUS AcoIDENr.--Y Yesterday morning
as the workmen were engaged driving piles for
the reconstruction Of the wharf belonging 10 the
heirs Of the late J, N. Pearson, one Of ths han.
dies Of tho hosting apparatus broke, and the
other reversing suddenly struck . laborsr named
Samuel King on the back Of the head inhicting a
very severe wound. DR.. Magruder attended the
injured man, dressed the wound, and he was i'm.
mediately conveyed 10 his homo In AlerAndria,
whore he has . family. II was feared by hii
friends that the wound would prove fatal.
The CANAL. b.-Arriyed-B Boats James Fianna.
gan, limestone to Cooley; Sig Days, cement and
lumber 10 Geo. Waters; II. Wade, limstone TO
the kilnsi sallie Billmysr, -four and corn TO Geo.
Waters, and twenty-five boats with coal, con-
signed as follows: Hampshire and Baltimore Co.
1i5 04 tons Borden Co., 333. 0s tons; Amsrican'
Co., 9S3. 10 tons; Central Co., T730 tons; Cum.
berland Co., S20.lo tons. Departsd-Boats
James Flanagan, lumber 70 Hft Lock 81; 8. J.
Criss, hsh to South Branch; II. Wade, fish 10
Lift Lock 80; D. Knode, merchandise TO Mer.
cersvillei sir Days, fish, &o., To shepherdstovn,
and nineteen boats light.
The ExcHAsdE-Thsrs were no offerings or
sales Of Importance yesterday. There are some
boats with grain, &c., on the way, and were sx.
pected, but had not arrived during the business
hours
The national Republican., 1867-05-03
AMUsEM nNTs.

IT will be seen by an advertisement in
tho amusement column Of this paper that Wash.
ington Is soon 10 be visited by MIKE LrrNAs's
combination Of circus and trained arimals. Some
Of the most popular equsstrians, voltiguers,
lespsrs, acrobats and athletes In tho world con-
stitute this combination, and the entertainment
promises 10 be one Of the best that ever favored
the Washington public It will remain four
days only, and will give seven performances, in
cluding tho afternoons Of Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday. Our people are pretty liberal In
their patronage Of amusement, and doubtless
this company will draw full houses.
The NATIONAL TnEArRE.--There was q
good house at this theatre last evening, and
Miss WESTERN as Peg Wellington fairly took
tho audience by storm. We doubt whether she
has played To better acceptance during her short
engagement Tonight she takes farewell
bensnt, and will appear In BuoksroSE's romantic
drama entitled 'Flovers Of the Forest or, the
Gipsey Queens Devotion" She will personate
Cynthia, the principal character II Is very
attractive play, and Miss wEsTERS is fully com.
pstent to render complete and accurate justice
To her part.
On this occasion there will, doubtless, be a
crowded house. We advise all togo, as this Ia
the last but ono Of her nights In Washington for
several years We aro to hayea week ofcomsdy
after the departure Of Miss Lucille, and J. 8.
CLARK Is 10 lead of in the mimic scenes Hi
name suggests real and do-splitting fun.
The national Republican., 1867-05-03

A CONFIDENCE MAN.-Detectiyes Kelly
and Bigley yesterday arrested William Wambole,
a young man Of some % years Of age, charged
with playing the confidence game on Mr.. Ball.
boot and shoe dealer, Seventh street north, and
also on Mr.. Profit, who Is In the same business.
He wheAdled Mr.. Ball out Of one pair OF boots
and one pair Of shoes. Mr.. Prott was the tenn
porary loser Of three pairs Of ine boots, (since
renewed,) and for which offences Wambole was
arrested Tho detectives are certain he has
been operating on other parties, and they are
energetically eneavoring to trace him out In all
his nefarious schemes Of plundor, and wo will
probably hear In day or two Of some men who
have been vicdmized by him. wambole pre-
sents q very prepossessing appearance and al
fected IN easy nonchalanoo while under exami
nation. Justice Tucker sent him to jail for trial
The national Republican., 1867-05-03
[Communieated1


THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
The reporter for the IntelHgeneer must have been
misinformod, or else wilfully misrepresents tho
doings Of those in charge of the Government
printing office. 1t must be acknowledged by oil
candid men who know anything about the "fur.
Tough, " that the men who were "furloughed" or
"diseharged," as the aforementioned reporter
will have II, wero not discharged because ofthoir
political sentiments. Mr.. Defrees has always
been tolerant In this respect. well reeollect,
when the Government was assailed by armed
traitors, there were perhaps majority Of print
IRA employed at the Office who sympathEed with
tho rebellion. In fact some went so far as TO
openly denounce tho Government for attempting
to put down treasoDi and yet, whom such mon
wero reported to Mr. Defrees, he merely admon-
ished them that It would not do to assail the
Government which gave thom employment.
The changes made at the time the office Of Su
perintsndent was abolished and that Of Congress.
sional Printer substituted, must be looked upon In
quite a different light When Mr.. Wendell en-
tered upon his duties as Superintendent, he dis
charged several friends Of Mr.. Defrees, and gave
the vacant places to his own personal friends.
Whether these changes wtro made on political
grounds do not know. At any rate, when Mr..
Defrees took possession Of the office he discharged
these men and reinstated those who had been dis.
charged by Mr.. Wendell.
I do not know anything about the quali6ea.
| tions or abilities Of tho foreman, Mr.. Lathrop,
and therefore cannot speak understandingly on
this point. do know, however, that Mr.. De.
frees Is too thoughtful Of the interests of the Gov
ernment to appoint incompetent persons to re-
spopsiblo positions. TYPo.
The national Republican., 1867-05-03

Yesterday, in the Sew
enth ward the commissioners of registration re-
corded the names Of 637 voters, 4l0 Of which
were white and 227 oolorod. Tho books will re.
main open in that ward to-day, yet, from to 8
o'clock, p. m, so that any persons who have not
been registered will have an opportunity of do
ing so, ~
The national Republican., 1867-05-03

SUSPECTED LARCENY. - Mr.. Patrick
0'Brien, whose place Of business Is on the south
west corner Of Eleventh street and Pennsylvania
avenue, was robbed, on Monday last, Of $s7 In
his own house, and under circumstances very
peculiar. Two parties were arrested by Detec-
tiyes Clarvoe and McDevitt, and are under bail
for court. 0'Brien states that dose was ad.
ministered to him which has had the effect Of
purging him severely. lie lost, at tho same
time with the money, a pistol, which was found
this morning by the side entrance Of Mr.
o'Brien's hotel. Justice Tucker tried the case,
aud Messrs. Clarvoo and McDeyitt will no doubt
be able soon to clear up any mystery attached to
tho suit.
The national Republican., 1867-05-03

FOURTH WARD CONSERVATIVE MEETING
A meeting of the Fourth ward conservative
voters was called for last evening, to take place
in the Council chamber, City Hall. Only about
a dozen persons appeared, however, and the meet
ing was postponed to another time, The object
Of the meeting was, We learn, to nominate can
didatss for the ward offices.
The national Republican., 1867-05-03
Aatioual gepmhlifau.
RATES OF aDvERTIsINa.

One square, ono insertion, ei; subsequent inser-
tions 90 cents. One square, one month, ts Liberal
inducements to quarterly, semi annual and yearly
advertisers.
Every other day ADVERTISEMENT, 90 Per cent addi-
tionai. Twice week advertisement, 70 per cent.
additional
Eight lines constitute . square Less than square
charged In proportion, at the above ratios.
Editorial notices. IS cents per line each insertion
Local netiees, 20 cents per line each insertion.
Advertisements coming under the heads Of Wants,
For Sale, For Rent, Lost and Found, not exceeding
four lines, one insertion, 70 esns three limos, 90
cents. Anygreatsr number Of lines At propOr,lonats
rates.
Advertisements should be handed iu before p. m.
The national Republican., 1867-05-03

TIE DIGGINGs.- hear that nearly all
the companies which have located on tho gold
lands in the vicinity Of tho Great Falls are
busiiy engaged in shaiting or otherwise pre-.
pairing to develop their claims, and tho indica-
tions arc that tho most, II not all Of them, will
pay. Recently Mr. Moses Febry has found some
very fine specimens Of gold-bearing quartz on his
land In Vrginia-some very rich-and we learn
that parties from the North are negotiating with
him for the privilege of working the vein Mr..
Febry's farm Is less than three miles from George.
town, and just beyond him Dr. Gregory is busily
engaged in developing his claims.-Star
The national Republican., 1867-05-03

BRICKLAYERs' AssoCIATIoN-Last cven-
ing wo dispatched special reporter to the Brick
layers meeting, in Union League Hall, Ninth
street and he presented himself in due form.
He was, however, informed that reporters would
not be admitted, and he accordingly vAmOsed'
The national Republican., 1867-05-03
PREsESTArIoN.-On Wednesday night

PRRsRSrATIoN.-0n Wednesday night
a delegation Of Equal Division, Sons Of Temper.
ance visited Ontario Division, the new organiza'
tion, at Odd Fellows Hall, whom p. W. p. L. O.
Klopfer presented to the last-namod division, on
behalf OF the former, set Of officers regaia and
emblems. The present was received BY tho p.
W. P. of Ontario Division, (Mr. James Erly,
who responded in appropriate termsi and subse-
quently addresses were made by q. W. A. W. p
brow, and the W. p. of Equal Division, (Mr. 0:
AIexander,) who congratulated tho officers and
members OF the new division on their success,
and the aattsring prospects before the division.
The national Republican., 1867-05-03

FENIAN MEETING O'DonOyan Rosa
Circle of the Fenian brotherhood hold a meet
ing last evening at MRgee's Hail. on street,
between Twelfth and Thirteenth. Tho session
was secret one, and, Of course, our reporter did
not intEuda.
The national Republican., 1867-05-03

THE "BARBER-oUs AFFAIR."-John Her
bert, barber, was arrested on Wednesday even.
ing on complaint Of man named johnson, who
charged Herbert with assaultinB him in barber
shop with a cup striking him on the head, thus
injuring him so much that he was confined to his
room He was taken before Justice Thompson,
mot before Justice Morsell, as the Chronicle Of
yesterday has it,) who dismissed tho case, the
parties showing a disposition to amicably adjust
tho matter
The national Republican., 1867-05-03

LETTERS DELIyERED.-Mr. Jas. L. Bell,
superintendent Of the letter carriers in the Wash
ington post Office, reports that during the month
Of April the twenty five carriers employed in the
Office delivered 1OS 470 mail letters, IL, 0sS local
letters, and 81 $50 newspapers During the
month 70, 424 letters were collected by the car
riers from tho street boxes.