The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-08-29
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Divine service in the Presbyterian
Church to-day, at q o. m., and quar-
ter before 8 in the evening.
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General Candy, who has been ap-
pointed to supercede General Sickles
in the command of this department,
is, we learn, m old army officer, who
has been in command of the District
OF Columbia for length of time.
New GROCERY STORE. Richard
Allen, desirous of modating the
citizens residing below the State
House, and, Mt the same time, ''turn
an honest penny" has opened
grocery and family provision store,
corner of Pendleton and Assembly
streets, where he promises to dispose
of all articles in his line at low rates.
He will accept our thanks for his
remembrance to the Phenir. May
his shadow never grow less, and his
till never be empty
REGISTRATION INCIDENTS. That re-
gistration, in the powers conferred
upon the Boards and the Military
Commanders, is liable to be pervert-
ed to party purposes, is evident from
the result and after.action of the re-
gistrars in New Orleans. When re-
gistration in that city closed. the
whites had fifty majority, and this,
Notwithstanding that the disfran-
chisement of whites was so great, that
not one-half the white vote of the
city was registered. But we learn
from the Times, that even this result
was changed by the action of tn e re-
vision board, which body struck out
the names of $500 whites from the
registry. 1t says that the citizens
thus disfranchised after registering,
were not notified that an examina-
ton as to their qualifications was to
be made, but that they were first ad-
vised of it by printed slip, stating
that their names were stricken from
the list. The names thus stricken
off were all whites.
If this be true, registration in New
Orleans was simply farce, and ut
terly violative of the letter and spirit
of the Act OF Congress. With new
Commanding General of that Dis
trict, and with this statement of al
legged facts brought before him, we
should think that Gen. Grant would
be doing justice in ordering o new
registration. In Georgia, at least in
one Of the Counties where there was
large majority of white voters, q
newspaper applied for the result of
registration; the applicant was in
formed that Gen. Pope had given
orders that the result in that County
should not be published. Another
manifest perversion of the law.
The Wilmington Journal gives us
an illustration of the practical effect
of the registration law, which is
amusing, if not ridiculous. Three of
the best citizens of the County were
debarred registration, on the follow
ing grounds: One of them held the
Office of Coroner for q few weeks,
about .fo7tyJfre gears ago; another
served in q similar capacity, for a
short period, some twenty years
since; and the third remembers that,
about forty gears ago, he was a con-
stable Of the toaDn! Such are some of
the beauties of registration.
The registrars in this vicinity have
had lively time with some of the
colored registers. One was asked
what his name was. He replied
"Jim, sir" "Any other?" "Jeems
sir-Jim Jeems." Another was jest.
ingly told that his name, given appa.
| rentlv at random. was too lonp-