The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-07
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AUausTA, June 8. IA meeting of
the citizens Of Fulton and DeKalb
Pounties was held in Atlanta, to
prm 9 Conservative Union party.
q preamble and resolution were
adopted, denouncing the Sherman
bill as infamous, and preferring mill
tary rule to organizing under its pro.
visions. Tie press of that city have
no sympathy with the movement,
and pronounce it ill-timed and iniu.
dlcious. The feeling throughout
Georgia is to submit and organize
under the military bill. The people
are sick and tired of uncertainty and
agitation, and will conform to the re-
quirements of Congress in good
faith. The opposition will be incon
siderable, and a great majority of the
people are in favor of voting for g
convention. I'll
Hon. Joseph Henry Lumpkin, of
the Superior Court of Georgia, died
at Athens, on the 4th.
CHAPEL HILL, N. c., June 6.-The
Presidential party arrived here this
afternoon, and were welcomed by the
President (Dr. Swain gSof the Uni
verslty, who, in the course of his
remarks, said that, in the republic of
letters, there would be no parties,
and paid high complim ent to the
honesty, integrity and administrative
ability of the Executive.
tts prnaiIo,,t Tol,r,o,, ,,Al.-... I ~ 49,
for this manifestation of friendship,
not only from the faculty and scho-
lars of the University. but the large
concourse Of citizens present.
v CHARLESTON, June 6.-Arrived-
Schooners Jessie Smith and S. G.
Evans, New York; steamer Sea Gull,
Baltimore.
PETERSBURG, June GA conven-
ton of the chief officers of all the
impc tant lines of railway in Virginia
and North Carolina (fifteen delegates
being present. met here to-day, and
engaged in discussing schedule by
which the time between New York
and New Orleans may be shortened.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, June Ct. @.
Durant, late manager of the Union
Pacific Railroad, served an iniunc-
tlon against the further laying of the
track. The extensive complications
grew out of Durant's removal.
The citizens of Cottonwood are
ordered to remain as home guard
for houses. Six men were killed re-
Gently in the vicinity of the town.
Tom. Little, arrested on suspicion
of being concerned in the late Rich
mond bank robbery, was hanged by
q mob at Warrensburg.
RICHMOND, June 6.-The repistra-
ton of voters is directed to COM
mence in this city on the 18th inst. j.,
and continue one week.
NEW YORK, June 6.-The Directors
of the Western Union Telegraph
Company. at a meeting held in this
city, on the 9Th instant, unanimously
resolved to accede to the provisions
of the national telegraph law passed
by Congress, and directed that the
necessary notice be filed with the
Postmaster General immediately. By
this action, the Government will
acquire the right to purchase the com
pany's lines and property at n valua-
ton to be determined by commits
sioners-two to be chosen by the
company, two by the United States,
and one by the other four-whenever
Congress shall decide to make the
telegraph part of the postal system.
The company also acquires the
right to build and maintain their
lines along all the railroads and
highways in the United States which
have been, or shall hereafter be, de-
clared to be post roads, and over all
the public lands without charge. It
has been claimed that the law above
reverted to gives three important
privileges exclusively to another COM
pany. This is q mistake, as the pro-
visions are general; and as the West
ern Union Company owns or controls
nearly all the lines in the country,
whatever value they possess must 6e
greater to that company than to any
other. This action cannot fail to
exert an important and beneficent
influence upon the interests of the
telegraph company. If the Govern
ment shall hereafter decide to take
entire or even partial control of the
business, it will undoubtedly pur-
chase or arrange for the use of the
lines and property of this company,
which 1T is claimed could not now be
duplicated for a much larger sum
than Is represented by the present
price of the stock.