The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-07-14

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PARIs, July Is, 1.-The Trench Co
yeynnnent, hearing nothing from its
Mexican Minister since the capture Of
the City of Mexico. is about sending
q strong feet to Vera Cruz to protect
him Or resent ind entities offered him.
FLoRENcE, July 13. 1t is stated
that the Garibaldians are nenacing
the city of Veterbo. s5
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< WAsE1NdroN, July 12.AFurtber
accounts from the Fort Wallace fight
say SIX o'iyalrymen were killed and,
the soldiers driven into the fort; o
non-comnaissi ioned officer was cap
tured, tortured and mutilated. Thir-
teen negro soldiers died of cholera in
Fort Harker. 1SA t''Ne
RtcHMoND, July IL. Meetings of
citizens were held in Rappahannocls
County and Dinwiddie, Yesterday, at
which the Republican platform was
adopted, and delegates sent to the
August convention in Richmond.
Hon. Thos. IS. Flournoy and Hon.
Wm. M. sTreadway, both ex-members
Of Congress, participated in the latter
meeting The Whig has accounts Of
various other meetings of similar
character in the State. ~. .'s-'57
GALVESTON, judy 1.-Two regis
ters, OF the Washington (Texas) Dis.
trict Were shot yesterday, and badly
wounded. r, - a
CHARIEsToN, July 13. Arrived yes
terday ID. f. Keeling, Balti-
more. Sailed - Brig Esperanza, New
York.
Arrived to-day-Bark Annie Ken
dall, Newport, England. Sailed
steamers Manhattan, New York; Fal-
con, Baltimore.
MOBILE, July 13.-The steamer Red
GAUNTLET sailed this morning, with
ITO enaigrants for Brazil.
266 white and l, ,424 colored persons
registered. in the seventh ward this
week; total, number registered in the
city.5, ,S14. Sa2 ID. VI ~,
Geo. Fl. Hilliard, flour Inspector,
shot himself to-day.
New York, July 13.-Two Mexican
fillibustering expeditions here and
onein Buffalo are filling up rapidly.
WASHINGTON, July 13.-The schoo-
ner Bergen, from Charleston for Bos-
ton, loaded with cotton and rosin,
was burned at sea. The crew mar
rowiy escaped in q boat, and was
picked up and brought here by the
schooner Silyan, Capt. Blanchard. u
Raymond has been nominated as
Ministerto Austria, and Bancroft as
Minister to Prussia. t--
The internal revenue receipts to-
day yamount to $685. 900.
RICHMOND, July 13.-Registration
closed in this city to-day; the colored
majority is 1,119.
Accompany, with 1927, 900 capital
paid mp, was formed to-day, for the
purpose of purchasing lands in Vir-
ginia for the erection of manufacto
ries and developing the mineral re-
sources of the State. L. l.. Hamlin,
Of Ohio, is President, and Thos. H.
Wynne,s of Virginia, Secretary.
LANCASTER, Pa, July 13.-Boiler's
cotton mill exploded to-day. One Of
the boilers was carried over square.
The engineer was killed, the superin-
tendent's legs and one arm broken,
and several women were scalded. A
considerable &c 1a;ss pOrti0y Sf the factory is
NRw ORLEANS, July 13.-The fol-
lowing proclamation is being circu-
lated in the Rio Grande border:
AMERICANS: Shall we, o civilized
people of great nation, stand pas
siye, and, by their silence, assent to
the most barbarous act of the nine
teenth centary-the butchery, in cold
blood, by q mongrel race of God-for-
saken wretches, of man who, by
treachery, became prisoner of war?
For what else was MaximiIian but a
prisoner of war? He was certainly
not o fillibuster, for he would not
consent to become their emperor
until large and powerful delegation
OF the representatives of the Mexican
Government waited on him in Europe
and pressed his acceptance of the
Mexican crown; and which he only
accepted after much reluctance. His
tory teaches that the Mexican people,
Tor nearly the last half century, have
been incapable Of self-government,
while Maximilian has shown to the
world that he was the best ruler they
ever had, and was doing all that a
wise man could do to elevate the re-
sources of that country, until betray-
ed by q Judas Iscariot, in whom he
had trusted. Maximilian was one of
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