The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-08-28
News Items.

News Items.
CHARLESTON, August 27.-Number
registered to-day "a, of whom 81 are
whites and 43 colored.
Arrived to-day-Schr. Wanita,
New York. Sailed-Steamer Falcon,
Baltimore; schr. w. r. Beebe, for O
Northern port.
MACON, GA, August GA colored
mass meeting was held to-day, which
numbered from 6 to 5000. Speeches
were made by white and colored ora
tors in the interest of the radical
party, and the Atlanta radical plat
form adopted. General good order
and good feeling prevailed on the
ground and in the city.
RICHMOND, August 27.-Gen. Scho-
field last week ordered commission
of magistrates in Hanover County, to
Investigate whether colored military
organizations existed; the investiga-
tion showed secret military organi-
zation of formidable strength among
the blacks, which it is believed ex-
tends to the Counties throughout the
State. The fact creates alarm among
the whites, who have neither organi-
zation nor arms.
A meeting of ex-officers, soldiers
and sailors of the United States was
held tonight, and adoptedn n call for
a convention in Richmond, Septem-
ber 25.
AUGUSTA, August 27.-The Univer-
sity difficulty is giving rise to consi-
derable feeling. It is stated that the
speech of student, at the commence
ment exercises, caused Gen. Pope to
take steps to close up the institution,
and convert it into barracks, but
through the exertions of Chancellor
Lipscomb, the exercises have been
allowed to continue, on condition, it
is alleged, that the press of the State
would not refer to the matter. It is
also stated that Gen. Pope has or
dered the appropriation of $4,000,
made by the Legislature, to be with
held.
The freedmen in the First and
Fourth Districts are out in addresses
to their felow-citizens, irrespective of
color, as. candidates for Congress.
They claim that the right to vote
gives the right to hold Office, and as
they are in the majority, the whites
should not be elected by their votes.
The candidates are conservative, and
in favor of universal amnesty. It is
probable that large number of
whites will vote for blacks, in prefer
ence I'd whites who can take the test
oath.
Gen. Pope has issued orders re-
voking, temporarily, so much of his
jury order as interferes with the pre-
sent term of the civil courts, as the
registration lists are not yet complete.
White jurors will be permitted to
serve exclusively, provided they have
registered.
The rains of the last two weeks
have been -unprecedentedly severe.
Accounts from the middle portions OF
this State and South western Georgia
and Florida, where the cotton pros
pect had been 80 promising, now give
the most gloomy prospects. Cont
nued rains'have beaten off the blooms,
and the worm and caterpillar have
also made their appearance. It is
believed, notwithstanding the heavy
rains, fair crop has already been
made.
WASHINGTON, August 27.-Captain
Anus, who had recent fight with the
Indians, has arrived at Fort Hays
He reports three killed and thirty
five wounded and forty-five horses
lost. After the battle, the Indians
sent flag of truce, with the follow.
ing message: "Tell your Officers we
don't want peace. We shall keep or
fighting" 300 men, including the
Kansas volunteers, left Fort Hays
yesterday, after Indians.
The Sussex Indians are reported
incorrigible. The Grows are friendly
$50 cholera deaths are reportedin in the
Indian territory-South Kansas
Thirty-seven per cent. of the popula.
tion at Fort Gibson died. At Fort
Arbnckle, sixty soldiers and seventy.
five Indians are dead.
Removal of Gen. SicIkIes, Sc.