The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-09

SEIZURE OF AN AMERICAN VESSEL AT
AsPINwALL.-Phe brig Jacmel Packet
arrived ut New York, on Saturday.
in charge, of an officer and prize
crew of the United States steamer
Mackinaw. The Jacmel Packet left
Singapore, August 20, 1866, clearing
Tor Melbourne, Australia. She touch
cd ut Aspinwall, January 8, 1867,
when she was seized by the American
Consul for an alleged attempt, by
Capt. Doves, to dispose of her cago
at that port to the Venezuelan Go
ycrnment
CONGRESSIONAL An exchange says:
The largest man in the United
States House Of Representatives is
Mr.. Baldwin, of Massachusetts; the
smallest, Mr.. John T. Starr, Of New
Jersey; the tallest, Long John"
Wentworth, of Illinois; the shortest.
Mr.. Brandegee, of Connecticut; the
handsomest man (although there is
much dispute on this point is, per-
haps, james G. Blaine, of Maine. :"
We may add: The one owning the
longest pair Of ears. is Ashley, of
Ohio.
y novel elopement occurred re-
ccntly at Danville. New York. \ wife
became poisoned against her hus-
band through the Vaccinations Of a
lover, who furnished her with money
to procure a divorce and then married
her. After living with her second
husband Il while, she became con-
yincesi She had been deceived as to
her +ia.:t husband, and her ola love
returning, she clopel from her
second husband, running away with
her first
The New Orleans correspondent of
a New York paper says: cit is I'm
dcrstood that, if the Legislature
passes the bill for the new Constitu-
ton over the veto Of Gov. Wells, he
Will issue proclamation declaring
the convention of Oh. legal, and re-
assembling it. The radicals are or
SaniZing the grand army OF the re-
public all over the State, and Il conflict
W. hNNil WV itiNtitttio anu tA-NtoIlIpUC-
rates IS not Improbable.
A fire at Fairfax G. H.. Va last
week, consumed block of five build
ings Its further spread was pre-
vented, in the absence of engines, by
the citizens throwing snow-balls. An
old gentleman from the country, who
happened to come in just after the
fire, asked the first he met: care
they gomez" Who gomez" was the
answer. "Why, the Yankees-I see
they've been in again and burnt
something
DEATH OF Cor. b. f. SLOAN, SR.-
We regret to learn of the death of
Col. Benz. T. Sloan, which occurred
at his residence, in Pendleton, on
Saturday night last The deceased
was prominent citizen of the Dis
trict, and for twenty years had charge
of the Pendleton factory. He was in
the seventy-second year Of his age.
anderson Mtelligencer.
The Springfield Republican SAYS,
that Boutwell's recent anti-Supreme
Court bill will prove nullity."
Congress is not the final Judge Of the
validity Of its own acts, and cannot
make itself so, while there is a Con-
stltntion and Supreme Court. This
IS fact the contemplation OF which
occasionally may DO the radicals
good.
Gen. Banks has obtained certifi
Gates from his physician to the effect
that he was not intoxicated at Port
land, rs alleged. bat only sick. Per
haps he had been drunk the night
previous, and was sick from the
effects. We know a man whom it
affects that way once in great while.
y single lode in Nevada is turning
ont more silver and gold annually
than did the famous mines OF Potosi.
IN their palmiest days, and which, at
one time, built up city of 100, 900
Inhabitants.
There has been a large number of
heavy failures among the spectators
who t1ockcd to Van Couver Island,
and 4 general exodus is talked of.
The losses, in one week. reached over
1000, 900.
General Tillson, the head of the
Bureau in Georgia, has thrown up all
his commissions, and bought Sea
Island cotton plantation in Bryan
County, where he will devote himself
to the cultivation of the soil.
y Brooklyn skating park alvertises
a new sensation. Prizes ora to no