The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-08-23
News Items.

News Itcms.
PUNTA Rosa, Fla, August o.
The Havana and Key West cable has
been spliced, and is working well.
PHILADELPHIA, August 22.-Ex-
President Buchanan is here, very
sick.
SAN FRANoIsCo, August 22.-Thir-
ty-four vessels are here, loading with
wheat. mostly for England.
WASHINGTON, August 22.-General
Sickles telegraphed to General Grant,
asking the revocation or suspension
of Executive instructions suspending
his Order No. 10, in its application
to Federal Court processes, until
Sickles can argue the latter. In COM
pliance with this request, the Execu-
tive order has been suspended until
Sickles can give his views. :
Revenue receipts to-day $522, 900.
Col. Moore, the Presidents Secre-
tary, telegraphed to the Baltimore
Schutzenfest that public business re-
quires the President at his post to-
day.
All the additional paymasters have
been mustered out, to take effect on
the 1st October.
Sheridan telegraphs to headquar-
ters that the yellow fever has as
sumed an epidemic form in New
Orleans, and several of his officers
are i'll with it.
The suspension from the War De-
partment of the orders relative to
Sickles' Order No. 10 was issued. it
is said, oD the 18th.
The Governor of Washington Ter
ritory telegraphs the discovery of
lnexhaustible coal mines.
New ORLEANS, August 22.-Yellow
fever of n very violent type prevails
ut Corpus Christi.
Gen. Sheridan has not complied
with the request of the City Council
to remove certain officials, declared
by Council ineligible, under the Re-
construction Acts:
Yellow fever deaths in this CITY.
from the 10th to 6 o'clock this morn
ing, as reported to the Board of
Health, are thirty seven.
The Austrian sloop- -of-war Eliza
beth sailed to-day, with Admiral Tc-
gethoff, for Vera Cruz.
SAVANNAH, August 22.-The pas
senger train from Macon, this MORN
ing, met with q serious accident. in q
culvert between Stations 12 and 13.
and was badly wrecked. The engine
passed over safely, but the tender fell
through, throwing the train from an
embankment. The cars were crowd
ed with passengers, but nobody was
hurt except the express messenger,
who is badly injured. The freight,
express and smoking cars are com
plete wrecks.
RICHMOND, August 22.-Kanawah
County, yesterday, subscribed $780,
600 to the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
~. II. Hoppie, well known to-
bacco manufacturer, was arrested to-
day, charged with counterfeiting the
revenue inspectors brand.
Ex-Gov. Wise delivered an address
to-day ut Washington and Henry
Academy. He said we all now owed
natural allegiance to our country, and
any oath to support its Constitution,
or oath of registration, was n viola
ton of that Constitution. There is
now being made an effort to make the
white freedmen of the South subject
to the dominion of the black freed
men. Against this, we must appeal
to the white masses of the North.
who will not permit the sacrifice Of
natures law to political prejudice.
The whites of the New England. Mid
die States and Europe must not be
kept off from the South by this black
rule; this is the white mans land. and
must be kept open for the white man.
He said that, to ward off the ma
tional dishonor of reputation, inte-
rest on national bonds must be re-
duced to four and half per cent,
that interest taxed, and the whole
debtconsolidated; then the rich would
stop boarding bonds. He urged his
audience to renew their allegiance to
their country, and never desert the
Constitution; to preserve the purity
of their race and blood, and labor
increasingly to live in peace and
plenty.
CHAnLEsroN, August 22.-293 re-
gistered today, of whom 125 were
white, and 168 colored.
Arrived-Schooner d. +. KEELING.
Baltimore. Sailed-steamer Moneko'
New York.