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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18

ALMOST HUNG.-We understand,
on good authority. tnat owing to a
strange oversight on the part of Gov.
Orr, in sending copy of the reprieve
of the negro John Jenkins, who MUIR
dered Richard Brantford last summer,
in a row on Trndd street, to General
Sickles and none to the sheriff of the
District, every preparation was made
at the Jail, yesterday, to carry the
sentence of the law into execution.
The sheriff having some outside i'll
formation that there was a reprieve,
sent to General Sickles to inquire
about it, and the General forthwith
despatched him copy, thus saving
the convict's life and disappointing
crowd of spectators who had gathered
to witness the execution.
! Charleston Mercury, 10TH.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18

Inquiry is made in South Carolina
of the Round Tube, of June 8. for
facts and dates in the lives of VIM.
Johnson, of South Carolina, and
Thomas Todd and Robert Trimble,
of Kcntucky-all of whom were for
mcrly Associate Justices Of the Su-
prcme Court; and of John Rodgers,
who was Secretary OF the Navy il
1S23-by Charles Lauman, of George
town, D. c., to whom information on
these subjects may be addressed.
The bonnets are as small as posi-
BILE. The aim of the political mo-
distes seems to be to copy butterflies
that have alighted for moment in
their flight.
Fat beef cattle are selling in Ken
tucky at from 1913 cents per pound
gross.
Printing without ink and shelling
peas by machinery are two novelties
at the Paris Exposition.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens writes
to a friend that he is very unwell,
and hardly able to be up"
Gen. n. B. Forrest, of Tennessee,
is in New Orleans.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18

The English are beginning to think
about adopting the American style of
railway carriages, or something like
it. Hitherto, they have clung with
characteristic tenacity to their system
of separate carriages, holding six or
eight apiece, bnt they find that the
advantages which they offer for rob
berry and other outrages upon pas
sengers who happen to be riding in
them without friends, are so often
ayailed of, that they are positively
unsafe. At present, lady riding in
one OF them is absolutely at the
mercy Of any one or more ruflians
who may get into the same carriage.
John Bull has held out stoutly for n
good many years against the threat
ened innovation, but it looks now us
if he would yield Mt last.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18


LYNCH LAW IN KANSAS. "A de-
spatch from Wyandotte, Kansas, of
the 18th instant, says that Senator
Wade's party passed through there
that evening, en- route for st. Louis
A crowd surrounded the hotel, and
called upon Wade for speech, which
he refused to make He said he
would not speak i'll n city where
Lynch law reigned and men were
butchered without trial. He alluded
to the case of two colored men who
were arrested last night, charged
with numbering farmer named
Mann, few days ago, and who were
lodged in Jail, but who were taken
out this morning by large mob and
hung up, but, the rope breaking,
they were shot to pieces in the court
house yard, where the bodies Law
nearly all day. The coroner had
refused to take testimony, and simply
gave n verdict of hung by mob.
Evidence developed to-day clearly
indicates that the men were inno-
cent, and that the real murd
were the ring-leaders. Of the mob.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18
ErsI1ine Colieg;te..

MEssRs. EDIToRs; Knowing that
you fesl an interest in all that per-
tains to the welfare of South Caro-
lima, and therefore in all her literary
institutions, we beg permission to say
q word in your columns about Erskine
Zone of the Oldest colleges in the
State) and her approaching COM
mencement.
Suspended, and greatly crippled,
during the war, Erskine is alive again,
aud doing what she can in educating
the youth of the State and country.
The number of students, the past
year, has been small, compared with
former years; but the exercises have
been regularly kept up, and q num-
Der of excellent young men have been
receiving the benefits of the institu-
ton. There is no senior class, and
hence there will be no regular COM
mencement, but still, at the usual
time, (the second Wednesday in July,
1Oth,) the college will celebrate it's
anniversary. There will be an exhi-
bition of the sophomore class; and,
by order of the board of trustees, the
faculty have been directed to confer
the degree of A. B. on the members
of the class of 1861, the most of
whom left the college, for the battle
field, few months before the time
for their graduation. Diplomas will
be given to such Of the class as may
be present on commencement day
this year.
In addition to the annual exercises,
the annual address to the Alumni
Association will be delivered by Col.
r. A. Fair, of Abbeville.
The undersigned have heen ap-
pointed a committee by the board of
trustees, to invite the friends of the
college generally, the members of the
senior class of 1861, and all the
alumni of Erskine, to come up to her
annual feast.
We feel that the simple announce
ment of this invitation is enough. A
remembrance of the good done in
the past by the college is enough to
make her friends willing to rejoice
with her in whatever of prosperity
she now enjoys, and to help her in
her efforts Mt reconstruction. Those
who are left of the class of 1861 will
be glad to meet again on the old col
lege grounds, and mingle their tears
over the memories of the fallen, and
recount the sorrows of the past six
years. The faculty invites them to
come up and receive their diplomas,
so long deserved, but which could
not be bestowed until now. And the
alumni, they, too, are invited; feast
is to be specially provided for them
a rich feast, feast of good things.
Gentlemen, lay aside, for one week
at least, the cares and business Of
the hour, come up and laugh together,
and weep together, once more. 1t
will do you good, and cheer your
Alma Mater, and may help to restore
her to the prosperity of former days.
We would further state, that the
annual commencement of Due West
Female College will take place next
day, July IL. Gen. Haskell, of Alb
beville, will deliver the anniversary
address. j. l. BONNER,
j. Q. MILLER,
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18

In trial of speed Mt a race in Ben
nington between famous walker and
fast horse of that place, in which
the man was to walk quarter of n
mile in less time than the horse trot-
ted one-half mile, the first heat was
won by the horse, but the man took
the next two with ease in 1.23 and
1.25.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18
THE WEATHER AND THE CRors.

THE WEATHER AND THE CRors, -
The weather continues fine, and tho
crops of corn, cotton, &C., is fully
coming up to the expectations Of
every one. So far, the labors of the
husbandmen have been crowned with
success, and, from all parts of the
District, the accounts of the growing
crop seem of the most encouraging
nature. Some few of our friends have
had one General Grass TO contend
with, recently, it is true, but the last
few days of hot, dry weather has
enabled them to get the upper hand
of him, and, from present appear
ances, it is very generally supposed
that the crop OF this year will com
pare favorably with any yet planted.
The wheat crop is excellent, and we
have yet to hear of the first failure.
BenneHScil J0mmdl.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18


SOUTHERN WHEAT IN New YoRK.-
New wheat from Georgia has made
its appearance on the New York Corn
Exchange. The ripening of the har-
vest will advance Northward at the
rate of twelve miles day. In the
tide-water regions of Virginia, the
harvest will commence by the 18th
instant. New Southern wheat and
-four will soon be in market. The
Norfolk Day BooG remarks that:
Cotton, tobacco and sugar, there
fore, bid fair to become secondary
considerations in comparison with
the grain crops. We are informed
that wheat, which is shown to be of
superior quality to that raised at the
North, can be cultivated in Il COM
paratively short season and with few
laborers. We notice that Southern
flour always commands the highest
price in the Northern cities, and its
production is unlimited i'll all the
Southern country. If the large plan
tations were divided into small farms,
emigration would eventually supply
the want OF negro labor, and the
usual crops would probably then be
made to pay. But the question at
present is, how to make the most and
the best Of the labor now on the
ground; and this will be answered by
devoting the best lands in the South
to crops that can be easily raised,
and which now arc in the largest de-
mand."
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18

SUIcIDE.-We see by our Charles
ton exchanges that Mr. G. r. Wolfe
has committed suicide by taking
laudanum. \ note was found in his
pantaloons' pocket, giving certain
reasons for the rash act. He was
quite a young man, being about
twenty-five years of age.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18

THE MASONIC CELEBRATION IN Bos-
ToN.-Boston will have n general
holiday on the 24th, to witness the
dedication of the new Masonic hall
in that city. The President will be
present, and encampments of the
order from almost every section of
the Union. Every band in New
England, assisted by Dodsworth' 8, of
New York, and the Marine, of Wash
ington, will make music for the occa-
sion.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18

John NJ; Washington, Mayor of
N,ewbern, N. c., has declined to take
the IL oath of Office required by Gen.
Sickles.
John Tyler, jr., son of President
Tyler, is giving lectures.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18

The Richmond Wig, of the 10Th,
says: "Within q square of each
other, yesterday, we saw one of the
most accomplished ordnance officers
in the United States and as gallant a
captain Of artillery as ever com
manded battery, with baton in hand
and clad i'll ponce uniform, walking
their beats"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18
COLUMBIA.
Tuesday Morning, June 1s. 1867.
The Labor Question.

capital; so long as sheremains unre
constructed; solong as the planters
tenaciously cling to old prejudices
and old ideas as land-holders, and
refuse to sell or lease lands they can
not cultivate-just SO long will the
freed labor the former slave labor)
be the only reliance of Southern
agrieulturists. The experience of the
past year justifies the expectation,
moreover, that this labor is being so
disciplined and regulated that such
reliance will not be disappointed.
The freedmen, in almost every sec
tion, throughout the Southern States,
have done their work well up to the
present advanced state of the grow
ing crops, and there is little reason
to doubt but they will continue this
proper and industrious course until
the crops are gathered.
Our attention has been called to
this condition of affairs more particu-
larly from the report of the Assistant
Commissioner of the Freedmen's
Bureau for the State of Mississippi,
which contains many interesting and
: encouraging facts. There have been
no cases Of extreme suffering among
the old, sick or infrm. The schools
are well attended, and the negroes
manifest fair appreciation of the
responsibility that has fallen upon
them. The whites are generally well
disposed towards them, and are will
ing to deal fairly with them, and the
sagent says the feeling in this respect
is rapidly undergoing o favorable
change, and that nearly all the able
bodied freedmen are working indus
triously, and many of them on such
terms as will insure them reasonable
profits.
This is as it should be, not only in
Mississippi, but throughout the whole
South. The natural excitement and
jubilations among the race, which
Immediately followed the change in
their condition, is now passing away,
and is giving place to that 'sober
second thought" which comes upon
all men who are thrown upon their
own resources for support for
themselves and those dependent
upon them. 1t is our conviction that,
if the whites deal justly with their
emancipated labor, encourage educa-
ton, morality and probity of conduct
among the heads of families, and aid
in the establishment of churches,
schools, &c, they will soon ascertain
that they have n congenial and eff
fective system of labor with them,
which, if properly fostered, will
render them, for some years to come
ut least, Independent of the foreign
article, which, under present cir
cumstances, with depleted resources,
the unsettled state of political affairs,
and the other obstacle of old-time
prejudices, it is almost impossible to
procure. If politics and its inconve-
nient concomitants, mass meetings
and partisan speeches. were ignored
by both whites and blacks, at least
beyond the action prescribed by the
laws of Congress, both would do
much better, and prosperity, as it al
ways does, would unquestionably fol-
low unremitting industry.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18
Eoca1 Itenaa.

Posr OFFICE HoURs. The officAa
open from Sa. m. until 81 p. M,
and from 6 until z p. m. The North
ern mail closes at 3la p. M, and all
other mails close Mt s p. IN.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18

Some four weeks ago, anticipating a
heavy decline in goods, Mr.. L. c. Shivcr
commenced his grand clearing sales, which
was success; for the decline has come
and with it large lot Of new goods. SO
that his will be the place 10 buy new goods
and at low prices.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18

REMrTTANCEs TO THIS OFFICE.
several letters have failed to reach us.
we desire to say to all our friends who
may be making remittances to this
Office, to do so either by Registered
letters or through the agency of the
Southern Express Company. The
latter is reliable and safe mode of
transmission on any line over which
it does business. We hope those in
terested will attend to this request.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18

To DE CONTINUED sale of an
extensive stock of dry goods, cloth
ing, &c, Mt W. L. Walters auction
mart, will continue for the remainder
OF this week. The sales take place
day and night. This is an excellent
opportunity to get good articles at a
cheap price.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18

Twenty-nine white and twenty
eight colored "knots were tied, in
Nashville during last month. ThereTl
be rebellion for somebody.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18

FAvoRs.-We are Indebted to Mr..
j. j. McCarter for copy of that
most excellent of monthlies, Godey's
Lady's Book. The fashion plates are
beautiful. Our lady friends can Sc
cure copies by application to Mr..
McCarter.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-18

and o'clock, on Monday morning,
the elegant and commodious resi-
dence of Col. W. A. Harris was dis
covered to be ON fire. The alarm was
sounded, but before the fire depart
ment could reach there, the mansion
was enveloped in flames. The house
and furniture, together with fine
private library, were destroyed; only
few articles of furniture and one or
two paintings saved.
The fire was undoubtedly caused
by an act of incendiarism, as the
family of Col. Harris has been absent
for two or three months, during
which time no fires have been kindled
in the house. We understand that
the incendiary's torch was applied to
three different localities in the build
ing, and this accounts for its rapid
destruction. Col. Harris slept in an
office on the premises, and was only
awaked to find his beautiful resi-
dence pile of burning ruins. He
had a fine private library, besides
works of art, family portraits, &C..
which were all destroyed.
We learn that an attempt was made
some two or three months ago to fire
this residence, but was frustrated by
the discovery of the combustibles in
the basement of the building. Since
then pretty strict watch has been
kept up, but at the time of the fire
no policemen were in the vicinity.
Mr.. Harris was insured for about
$4,000, which would scarcely cover
the cost of the building The freed
men, we learn, were prominently @
spicuous in trying to save the pSe
perty. We refer to the card of Mr..
Harris, in another column.
There were other buildings in the
vicinity which wero endangered, but
were saved by personal exertions OF
firemen and citizens.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-03-13
ORPHANS COURT SALE.

TN PURSUANCE of an Order of the Orphans
l. Court of Wy yoming County, 1 viii! expose t0
Public sale, on the Eth day of April 1867, q! % ons
o'clock P. NJ. at the premises hereinafter -, ~
one undivided ninth Fart of all that certain 'os o
piece Of land situate in Me.hOppen tGTnsnp aha
bounded on the North by lands of Daniel ell GSls Sas
Charles Mowry and BENZ min Baker on the S has, Isl
by land of Benjamin Baker, on tns south @ 'S iab. b.
Of Benjamin lbs and Arson Isy Grsrory and
nal CoIe containing one hundred and sixty
aerpn acres more or less late the estate of George
nnS; ,;ded niuth part being the share of the mnU'
heirs of savannah Carter, Decd in said piem,so to
Terms ofsale = One half the purchase Inonss sssr
be paid down, an / the remainder WITHIN S"'
ID cr1rpnEvINT Ward Carter and
. Geo. Il Garter.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-03-13
TUNKHANNOCK, PA.
Wednesday. Mar. l3, 1867.
The Veto Message.

We offer no apology--for none will be
required--for the amount of space given
in to-day's paper, to the veto by the Pres
ident, Of the bill organizing hell' in the
Southern States, of this once glorious un-
ION. ..4
No man, woman, or child, who can read
it should fail to do so.
1t has been pronounced by unprejudiced
minds, everywhere, as one of the ablest
and most convinci Nc state papers of this or
any age.
Let it be read and studied at every fire
side; and its startling truths imprinte d on
the memory Of every patriot in the lanC'
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-03-13

E8 An amendment offered to the Jury
Bnl, requiring the Commissioners to take
the jurors from the wAtte portion of our
population, was voted down by strict par
ty vote-the AbolltlouIsts voting against 1t,
and intau0r Of makt"g juryn1e" ct negroes.
The Radicals in this State are rapidly fol-
lowing in the footsteps of their tanatica!
eaders-Phillips, Greeley & Co. This God
forsaken party ale willing to vote, cat, drink
and sleep with the Niger. 1t is SAID that
one of their chief lights in this State does
cohabrt with one OF fhillps future Amerl-
can ladies.-EL.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-03-13

A MAN BURNED TO DEATH BY INTER
NAL FIRE,-A well authenticated case of
spontaneous combustion occurred in Co.
lumbus, for.y miles south Of Indianapolis
Indiana, on Friday morning. Andrew
Golte, German, very Incorporate in his
habits, was found dead in his shop, his lips
entnely burned away, leaving a ghastly
hole, his tongue burned to crisp. His
nose was also burned, as If by fire coming
out of bis nostrils, and his clothes were
burning when found. No other part of the
body save the air passages was burned
1t is supposed that the fire was communica
ted by attempting to light a cigar. Thi:
should serve as warning to hard drinkers.
1t is excellent capital for the Congressional
Temperance Society, aud should be brought
to the attention of Zach. Chandler anC
Long John Wentworth at once.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-03-13
The President and MIR, Greeley.

Gen. Halpin,ef the New York Citizen,,
reports il. that paper an Interview with the
Presidents. OfMr. Greeley and cabinet
changes, the report rlnneth thus:
"Oi Mrs Greeley he spoke with warm re
spect, eulogizing the sterling integrity of
his character aud his great talents, as more
than compensation for his occasional &c
centricities Of Judgment. but from inqui-
ries pushed in another quarter, your cor
respondent believes there never has been
any foundation for the report that Mr.,
Greeley Is about entering the Cablpet as
Postmaster General. Indeed, as to all ru-
mors of, Changes, long experience in
Washington has made the writer wholly
incredulous; but that Mr.. Seward may We
ry possibly contemplate retiring shortly
after next 4tb of March, in whichs case he
wishes Charles Francis Adams 10 be his
successor, has reached me on authority
more than COMMONLY entitled to credit
Gen. Halpin concludes by giving "a per-
sonal picture of Mr. .Johnson as he. appears
10 the audience chamber" the concluding
touches Of which are as follows:
II have seen Mr.. johnson very many
times and at all hours between midday
and eleven o'clock at night; and have new
er yet seen in him the slightest alteration
of manner--the slightest indication that
his habits ever were, or ever could be any
different from those which, when in the
Senate, made him the acknowledged stan
dard for decorum and propriety in that
body. These things am almost ashamed
to find necessary to be said when writing
of the President of the United States .
so high has party malice run, and so vio
lent and vindictive have been the slanders
which have assa|ed this officer, that in
some quarters the effect of an explicit
statement may be made. 81 believe An
drew Johnson to be as d vout and self-sac-
rifcing patriot as ever lived" said Chief
Justice Chase not Hany months ago to the
writer, That was high testimony from a
prejudiccd source and with that testimo-
1y this letter must close"
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-03-13

THE WIFE OF THE PREsIDENT.-The
Washington correspondent of the Lafayette
Qnd.) Courier thus alludcs, in describing
the late reception of the President, to his
wife. He says;
"Mrs. johnson appeared at the recep-
ton for the first time, felt deep ankle
ty to see the woman who had taught ber
husband to read, and inspired him with the
lofty ambition which lead to place and
power She stood near the President, to
his right pale, thin, stamped with care
and sickness-an expression of deep curl
osity, Looking for momeLt at each per-
son introduced, her eyes would drop imme-
diatcly in meditative theughtfulness, as il
her mind and heart were filed with thots
and emotions far different fiom the giddy
throng passing by. All who know her
speak well OF her.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-03-13

E2AGRICULTURAL REPoRr.-The following
very interesting table of statistics has been
recently issued from the Agricultural De-
partment at Washington. tits based up
onthe original returns from every State in
the Union, almost every county being rep'
resented in portion of them. 1t also in
cludes the general average rate of wages
for white labor without board, which is
made $28,00 per month and $3.50 per
month with board.
The average rate of Freedmen's labor is
1916 per month, and with board furnished
1915. ------.-..---.--
The highest rates by any of the States
is in California, which is about S45.
Massachusetts pays the next highest
which is $3S.
The average rate for the Eastern States
is $3.50 per month.
In the Middle States $3O,O7 per month,
In the Western States $2S,60 per
month.
In the Southern States for Freedmen
$500 per month.
The increase in the price of labor since
1860 Is about so per cent. Since 1865
upon average estimates 70 pei cent.
The rate ofwages with board of the
States forming the belt from Pennsylvania
to Iowa varies but twenty cents, varying
from 1882 to 1896.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1867-03-13

THE AMERICAN CnURcH IN RoME.-
An official communication has been re-
ccived from Minister King, In which he
says: There is no truth in the statement
that the American chapel had been re-
moved, by direcrion Of the Papal authori-
ties, outside the walls OF Rome aud that
he American Minister, asserting to the
arrangement, had hired a villa where the
services were henceforth to be held, \
letter trem Amos BendalI, however, says
that a Protestant congregation were r2quir-
ed to close their place of worship in Rome,
aud accordingly sought accommodations
outside the walls.