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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

CRIME AND PUNIsHNIENT.-T
spring term of Mecklenburg Supe.
rior Court was in session last week,
Judge Gillian presiding. Dave
Blackwood and -- Peoples both
colored, were found guilty of larceny
eff our judicial authorities were
allowed to infiict punishment accord
ing to the laws in force in this State
for many years past, we should hear
of less stealing and have fewer de-
predations Of oil sorts. In these lat
ters days, however, a criminal must
either be hanged, or kept in Jail,
as n punishment, at County expense,
while his wife and children are suf-
fering or starving.
(Which is the most barbarous
practice; whipping q rogue when
convicted, and then, turn him loose
to work for the support Of his family,
OF keeping him confined in Jail whilst
his family is suffering for food?
The law givers of the present day
may answer" aw -.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

SENATOR STEVENS ON CoNFIsCA-
TIoN.-The New York Herald has the
following remarks on Senator Will
sons threat of confiscation:
eve have heard good deal during
some months past about the sword of
Damocles hanging over the heads of
the Southerners, and over certain
high officials, intimidating them to
do certain things and to abstain from
doing certain others. The last we
hear of this sword of Damocles is
through our special telegram from
Charleston, and comes from the dis
tinguished Senator Wilson, who is
stumping the South. Mr.. Wilson, in
his second speech at Charleston, on
Friday night last, told the white peo-
pie that if they coerced the negroes
not to vote for the Republican party,
or attempted to punish them by turn.
ing. them out of employment and
their holdings for voting for that
party, that would lead to confsca-
ton, and he (Senator Wilson) would
then vote for confiscating the pro-
perty of men so offending. Now, we
think there has been quite enough of
this suspended sword, rod or confis-
cation, especially when used, as in
this case, for partisan political puf-
poses. Such talk is puerile. childish
and altogether out of place. 1t is
even worse than that-it evinces a
disposition to exercise tyranny over o
people who are bowed to the earth in
political matters, and to make the
condition of their restoration the
support of political party. Be-
sides, such threats are entirely unne-
cessary, as the reconstruction Acts of
Congress have laid down explicitly
the rule of action for the Southern
people, and the conditions on which
they may be restored"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14
MEETING OF PRorEc11oNrsrs

MEETING OF PRorECTIoNrsrs IN
New YoBK-Gov. PIERPoNT MAKES A
Specs. H.-A,meeting of the friends of
protection to American industry was
held on Wednesday, at the Astor
House, New York. Peter Cooper
presided. Representatives from Mas
sachusetts, New Hampshire, Yer
mont, Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Ma
ryland, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee,
Illinois, Michigan and other States
announced their names. Resolutions
expressing the views of the meeting
were adopted unanimously.
Coy. Pierpont, of Virginia, on pre-
senting his name, said: Mr.. Presi-
dent and gentlemen: I received your
invitation to this meeting some days
ago. Ipromised myself the honor to
attend it. I represent very large
company manufacturing sentiment to
protect American industry in Virgil
mia. (Applause.) And L am glad to
inform you that the company is on
the increase, and that we number
many who formerly enlisted under
the banners of free trade. We have
immense interests in Virginia, and
they must be protected, and already
many are beginning to look around
them to see if they can find market
nearer home for their wheat and their
corn, and they find that they can do
it only by erecting the rolling mill
and the furnace, and the development
of those great interests to protect
which you have met here to-day. I
assure you, gentlemen, that this COM
pany is on the increase in West Vir-
ginia. (Applnuse.)
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

A Rio Janeiro letter says that some
Southern planters have purchased
land in the District of Champinas,
and are attracting the attention Of
the Brazilians by using the plough
and other implements, and the deal
ers in these articles are driving a
brisk trade. Those Americans who
settled on the coast South of Rio
have erected saw-mills, and are now
supplying the Rio market with excel
lent timber. " ~.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

Az AFFEcTIoNATE FATHER. AT
Sandyville, Iowa, recently, man,
who was annoyed by the crying of
his child, four or five months old, at
night, got up and deliberately stran-
gled it to death. He has been arrested
for the crime.
A committee in London has made
its arrangements to take man to
Paris, lodge him nicely for u week,
furnish him with n ticket to the Ex-
position, and bring him home again
for $3.50.
New YoRK.-When n heavy defal-
cation occurs in New York, for sun
dry and cogent reasons, the matter is
hushed up until the guilty parties
have time to escape.
San Francisco has sent q Yankee
fire engine to Japan, and a company
of resident citizens of that CITY went
with it, to show the Japs how to ma.
mage the ''grate squirt"
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Asword to Farmers.


The Milledgeville tGa.) Recorder
has the following sensible remarks:
AS it is our privilege to advise, we
must have a word or two with our
planting friends. We recognize in
them the wealth of the State, the
financial power and prosperity Of the
State; and such being the fact. it be-.
hooves us, in q modest sort of q way,
to have word with them about their
business, their interest, and the gene.
raj prosperity of the country.
True wealth is not in what we make,
but what we save; like reading, not
in what we have read, but what we
remember. not in what we eat, but
in what we digest. So with the pros
perity of any people; it is the inter
nal wealth, or domestic wealth, that
is felt through every fibre and nerve
of our social system. A community
of interests is true economy and
prosperity.
AS it is to-day, what do we see?
What money our planting friends got
for their cotton is fast leaving the
State for corn and bacon; our wealth
is but transitory-bu borrowed
we may 80 express ourselves; for the
Northwest say it is theirs; and sure
enough, they get it by sending lis
corn and bacon, that we must have
when we could have raised it, had we
studied political economy rs we should
have done. What we have to sny to
our planting friends rs this: Plant
QnOnOI1 fnt. l. Ill
means. Better plant enough to sell
few bushels to your city, town and
village neighbors, who make their
living by their professions, trades, &C.
Make as much cotton as you please,
for cotton is sure money at all times,
but do not forget the corn-feld, peas
potatoes, and especially your hogs
Ii you do not or cannot sell provi-
sions, do not come into the market
to buy, and thereby enhance the price
of such articles, to the hurt of those
who live not by farming. But where
you can sell, you do good in. two
ways. First, your. farming is IN ad-
vantage to your neighbor and State.
Secondly, you put in your. pocket
money that would. have gone out of
the State, if you had not have had
what was wanted. You are thus ena-
bled to improve your lands, or to in.
9est money in stocks, if desirable.
We must live within ourselves, help
each other, keep our money circu-
lating at home among ourselves;
build up our homes and towns; invest
in home stocks OF railroads. Such
can be and ought to be done, if you
will only be something more than
mere cotton planters. But when the
country is depleted of its wealth for
the necessaries of life, that could
have been had at home, it is premedi-
tated murder of our own financial
happiness and prosperity.
Let this year proclaim the fact that
oil of our planting friends have pro-
visions to sell, and that cotton must
play second fiddle to the corn-crib
and hog-pen. When such is the case,
the day of our prosperity as people
is dawning, and, if continued in, we
will soon stand in the sunlight OF
unembarrassed and true wealth. Cot.
ton is good thing in its place, but
not when cultivated at the expense OF
all our provisions--remember that
truth, and act accordingly.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

The Buffalo and Erie Railroad
Company have adopted for their
trains an invention called the "Hand
Station Indicator" It's object is to
do away with the custom of crying
out each station, by having ''ma-
chine" in each car which indicates
in succession the several stations as
the train approaches them. The
names of the stations are on white
cloth, which is moved by rollers,
and each turn of the rollers brings
the name of the next station to view
after the manner of some counting
room calendars, ut the same time
striking bell which calls the attcn-
tion of passengers to the change.
1t is operated by the hand of the CON
ductor or brakeman. The general
heading under which the name of
the station appears is: "This train
next stops at -." The inven-
ton appears to meet long existing
want, and will undoubtedly find favor
with other railroad companies.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

a Pennsylvania radical, who ad-
dressed the freedmen at Washington,
n few nights ago, advised them to bo
industrious, to vote the radical ticket,
and give up all idea of confscation,
as the party had done about all it
could for them.
The white people of Middleburg,
Va, and it's neighborhood, trans.
ferred good stone church (AIetho-
dist EpiscopaD to colored trustees,
former slaves of some of them, for
their exclusive use.
A TERRIBLE BLow.-A keg of DOW.
der exploded near Fort Lee, N. j.,
Tuesday, blowing man named Nc.
Galley fifty feet into the air, and
''landed" him into the river Ho
swan ashore, and is still living.
A DUTIFUL SoN.-A dutiful son.
named Dugan, the other day, sued
his father in a New York court for
the fHneral expenses of his mother.
and n verdict of SOL. was rendered
in hrs favor.
Myriads of squirrels are over-run.
ming some parts of Indiana, and, in
several Counties Of Iowa, pigeons are
destroying the newsown wheat.
During the month of April, there
were thirty nine fires in the United
States, involving n total loss of about
S3,000,000.
Two women have been eleete
parish. overseers in England.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14
upon the industrious freedmen. This

upon the industrious freedmen. This
is matter for them to- consider, and
after the growing crops are harvested
they win be able to come 10 knows
ing decision. When the present
owners of immense tracts of fertile,
but uncultivated, land awake from
their delusion, and offer such induce
ments to emigrants as they can
then will this reconstructed laugh
ing land" of the South welcome ell to
her territory, and we firmly believe
that, with her immense resources,
she can abundantly sustain all that
may come, rs we'll rs those now with
us; that is, if the old exclusiveness
and the policy of adding acre to acre,
for the mere sake of being n large
land-holder, is not persisted in.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14
Nearly n Riot In New York.


The New York Times, of Thursday,
contains the following details of an
alleged conspiracy in that city: !:
It has been for long time evident
that the enactment and enforcement
of the excise law has engendered
among the lower classes feeling of
hatred towards the police, upon whom
the duty devolves of enforcing its
provisions. We have foreseen that
this would be the natural effect of
such law, and have done our best to
enforce the necessity of SO shaping
its provisions as to avoid so serious q
public peril. This feeling of hostility
has been eagerly famed by sundry
politicians and liquor dealers, who
hoped by this means to defeat the
execution of the excise law.
For several weeks past, the disaf-
fected population in the different
wards have held frequent secret
meetings at various points. At these
gatherings, the language used has
been of the most hostile and bitter
character. Speakers have alluded to
the dreadful scenes enacted during
the draft riots of July. 1868, with
evident relish, as though they regard
ed them as triumphs. The police
and the excise commissioners have
been cursed and threatened with ven
geance for their strictnessin carrying
out the provisions of the laws. A
large number Of these liquor dealers,
who have been denied licenses, have
taken an active part in these gather
lngs, and they have spoken with
strong resentmentof the destruction
of their business. In short, the meet
ings are described as having been
wild and frenzied in their denuncia-
tions and threats of vengeance.
Fully aware of these proceedings,
the police commissioners, through
Superintendent Kennedy, have placed
select number of reliable special
detectives on the alert, and these
officers succeeded in obtaining access
to the meetings, in some instances
taking active part in them, when
they deemed themselves to be objects
of suspicion. The detectives have
''spotted" nearly every prominent
leader in the movement, and in some
cases they have kept continuous watch
upon their daily movements. The
superintendent Of police has the names
and residences of all these ring-lead-
ers, and the details of the entire
movement are also fully known"
The Times adds that the police au-
thorities have made every arrange
ment to preserve the public peace. In
this connection, the Times thus re-
fers to movement to more strictly
enforce the Sunday law"
Superintendent Kennedy has or
dered the police to notify all store
keepers who have been in the habit
of keeping their stores open on Sun
day, that the old Sunday law will be
strictly enforced on Sunday next. All
groceries, cigar stores, etc, will be
required to be completely and effect
ually closc2, and no business will be
allowed to De transacted on Sunday
in future. Store-keepers who keep
their stores open Saturday will be
compelled to be closed on Sunday
but those who close their places on
Saturday will have the privilege of
opening on Sunday.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

TEXAs.-General Griffin has issued
an order forbidding ex-Confederates
in Texas to sit on the juries. The
Houston Telegraph says:
The truth is, trial by jury in this
State, either in civil or criminal
cases, is now in. the hands Of the
blacks almost, entirely. There are
hardly enough white men in the
State who can honestly take the test
oath to make grand jury for Cir
cult Court More than half the
blacks cannot honestly take it. Not
only will most of our jurymen be
blacks, but many of the blacks them
selves are shut ont.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

SPARTANBURG AND UNION RAILRoAD.
We are authorized to state that there
will be an extra train on this road, on
the usual schedule, on Friday next,
for the accommodation of delegates
to the Methodist Conference, to be
held in Unionville. The trains will
commence running over the Broad
River bridge in few days.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

SHOW POSTERS, HANDBI11s, &C.
Our supply of type and facilities of
press-work enable us to turn out from
the Phenir office the most attractive
styles OF posters, hand-bills, &C., at
short notice, and in the most salts
factory manner.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

10 VIs1ToRs.-As several copies of
tho Ph9nic have been taken from the
file in our reading room, we hre COM
PEELED again to request visitors not to
carry away from the office any of the
papers which they find on file. A
word to the wise is sufficient.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14
Local Items.

Posr OFFICE HouRs.r- The Office is J
open from 8 am. until 31a p. NJ,
and from 6 until Z p. m. The North
ern mail closes at 31@fp. NJ, and all
other mails close at 8 D. m.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

The CEMETERY AT RALEIGH There
are now buried in the memorial GEM
etry at Raleigh, N. c., 312 North
Carolinians, 46 South Carolinians,
A Georgians, s Alabamians, 8 Mis-
sissippians, 4 Yirginians, Flori-
dians. 2 Tennesseeans, 1 Texan,
l Louisinnian, 1 Arkansian, 3 Con-
federate States navy men, and 16O
unknown dead. Total, 539.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

The SoIREE. Our citizens will
have an opportunity, this evening, to
enjoy pleasant entertainment at
Janney's Hall, for the small sum of
twenty-five cents. There will also
be chance to be charitable, by con-
tributing to the assistance of Trinity
Church.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

"A HOME JOURNAL. The best family
journal now published in the South
is the Cleaner, issued from this office.
1t contains weekly eight pages of
solid reading matter, excluding ad-
vertisements entirely. a specimen
number will be sent to any one de-
string to subscribe.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

CARDS! CARDs!-Show cards, busi-
ness cards, visiting and Wedding
cards, executed at the Ph@ni.c Job
Office, in the neatest styles of the
art. Cards of all sizes constantly
on hand, and all orders from town or
country promptly attended to.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

Jon PRINTING.-TheJ Job Office of
the Ph@nic is as complete rs any in
the South. It is furnished with new
fonts of type of all descriptions and
of the most modern styles. All work
executed promptly, with taste and
skill, and at reasonable rates.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

On Monday afternoon, n dog, Sc
venteen years of age, belonging to
Mr.. William w. Parsons, of Rock
port, left the premises of his owner
and deliberately walked to the break
water, and jumping over, swan with
his head under water until life was
extinct, thus committing suicide.
The dog was nearly blind, and quite
infrm.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14


It is said the Board of Directors
OF the National Soldiers and Sailors
Asylum have purchased the Ohio
White Sulphur Springs, to be usedas
nm asylum, as provided by Act of
Congress.
A British schooner, at Cleveland.
Ohio, was boarded by Fenians on
Monday, and its colors were torn
down. One of the Fenian Circles
has held q meeting and disavowcd
the act.
A law in Canada prohibits the kill
ing of insectivorous birds. A police
magistrate has decided snipe to be
insectivorous, and sportsmen are in
dismay.
The grand ball in New York, last
week, for the benefit of the South,
according to the World, "was fizzle
pecuniarily, and next to nothing nu-
merically."
The cornerstone of the new Tam
many Hall, on Fourteenth street,
New York, is to be laid, with appro-
PIRATE ceremonies, on the 4th of July.
The prospects for corn and cotton,
IN Southern Georgia, are better ut
this time than during the past five
years.
Snow fell, on Friday last, along the
line of the Virginia and Tennessee
Railroad, to the depth of two inches.
The Vicksburg Weekly RepubHcnu,
the only radical paper in Mississippi,
has suspended publication.
Rossini described the Steinway
piano. at the Exposition, as a night
lngale cooling in thunder storm.
Minnesota, it is estimated, is re-
ceiving an addition to its population
OF j, 900 day. 4
There are 10000 tailors on strike
in Paris.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

Kansas City, Mo-, contains about
5000 inhabitants, and it is hopeful
of leading the cities West of st.
Louis. She is striving for the Santa
F'e and Fort Scott railroads. The
railroad ut Wyandotte, Kansas, is
built so low under the bluffs of the
Missouri that it is now four feet
under water, and the river still rising.
Goods and passengers are taken from
Kansas City to Wyandotte by steamer.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

The tornado. which swept through
New Jersey, last week, is described
as n Ozark, huge, funnelled-shaped
mass, illuminated at intervals by cleo
trical explosions, whirling, swaying,
surging and forcing its way, rapid
in progress and fearful in power.
Now veering to the right and anon to
the left, plunging furiously forward
and sharply recoiling, it swept away
all that obstructed its course, and by
its eccentric evolutions made the
path of desolation much wider than
its own bulk could have effected had
it rolled onward in straight line
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

1t will be seen, by reference to Mr. II.
Z. Shiver's advertisement, that hc opens,
for the week, another lot of goods at his
popular low prices. Last week was har-
vest to house-keepers and furnishers in
selecting from, his stock, and this week
promises equally 81.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

The population of Washington is
claimed to be 10000.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-14

ALTrERARY YJOUHNAL.-The Cleaner
is large eight page quarto journal,
and from the first line on the first
column of the first page to the last
line on the orty-eighth column, it
abounds with select matter; em-
bracing, besides the news of the
week, choice tales, sketches and
poetry, which make it, rs its name
indicates, true "home companion"
which no family in the State should
be without.
AS will be seen by reference to our
advertising columns, Mr.. James w.
Smith has removed his timing es-
tablishment to the store on Plain
street, formerly occupied by Mr..
Kinard. His stock of tin-ware, stoves,
ETC., is complete, and his facilities for
executing work of all kinds in his
line are ample. ;r 81
CIRCULARS! CIRoULARs!-Comm
clal anu Otner circulars. III the various
forms-note, letter and commercial
post-neatly printed in our Job
Office, and all work of this descrip-
ton finishedin the best style of print
ing, and at moderate prices.
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New ADVERTISEMENTS. Attention Is call
ed to the following advertisements, which
are published this morning for the first
time:
Thomas II. Wade-Last Notice.
W.-House Wanted.
James Hunter-Stcam Flour Mill.
j. +. Dcnt-Sheriff7s Sale.
]. w. Smith-Rcmoval
r.. w. G. Swafiicld-Reduction
Soiree at Janney's Hall.
Many Constituents-A Card.
r. O'Neale Il Son-White Corn.