The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-22
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MOVIE Itomss =
Clarke against I. & e. Brooks, re-
garding the proprietorship of the Ec-
press newspaper, after four years.
litigation, hos been satisfactorily ad-
justed. Erostus Brooks having pur-
chased Clarke's interest, the publica-
tion will be continued by Brooks
Brothers.
There is rumor on the street that
Fraser & Trenholm have failed for
$4,000, 900. Gold is 373a in conse-
quence. This evenings Commercial
say" cable dispatches announce the
failure of Fraser, Trenholm & Co.,
and the report is confirmed by agents
OF the company in this city.
CHARLESTON, May 21.-General
Slckles has issued an order prohibit
ing the distillation of spirits from
grain in the Second Military Dis
trlct. Offenders are declared liable
to trial and punishment by military
commission. The reasons assigned
for the order are that the present
scanty supply of food in the Caro-
llnas is seriously, diminished by the
large quantity of grain consumed in
dlstlllcrics, worked in defiance of the
revenue laws; that this unlawful
traffic makes food dearer in places
where large numbers are depending
upon public and private bounty: that
the Government is defrauded of a
large amount of revenue; that the
authority of it's civil officers is brought
into contempt, and that the mischief
complained of tends to increase DO
verify, misery and crime. ,-,...,
Arrived-Steamer Champion, New
York. Sailed Schooner Alert, Ma
tanzns; schooner Ada Ames.
New ORLEANS, May 21.-The Plea
yme's special correspondence, dated
Orizaba, May 3, says the City of
Mexico is surrounded by 20, 900 Libe-
rails. The bombardment has com.
menced in earnest. Commander
Marquee announced his intention to
resist to the death. He is impressinp
water carriers and porters. No officer
IS to receive quarter from the Libe-
rails. Orders have been issued that
Miramon, Marquee and NIaximilian
are to be, shot if captured. Since the
surrender of Puebla, the Imperialists
do not number over 10000.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, May 2l.-The
Sultan of Turkey has gone on q visit
to the Paris Exposition.
LONDON, May 21.-Burke, recently
convicted of treason, is hopelesslv iii
in Dublin jail.
WASHINGTON, May 21.-Secretary
Stanton has furnished n certified copy
of Booths diary to the President.
which has been published. The first
entry is as follows: "April 13-14.-
Friday-The Ides.-Until to-day, no.
thing was ever thought of sacrificing
to our country's wrongs. For six
months we had worked to capture;
but our cause being almost lost,
something decisive and great must be
done. But its failure was owing to
others, who did not strike for their
country, with heart. I struck
boldly, and not as the papers say. 1
walked with a firm step through a
thousand of his friends, was stopped,
but pushed on. A colonel was at his
side. l shouted ".Sic Sempe," before
| fired. In jumping, broke my leg.
passed all his pickets, rode sixty
miles that night. with the bono of INV
leg tearing the flesh at every jump. I
can never repent it, though we hated
to kill. Our country owed all her
troubles to him; and God simply Y
made me the instrument of his pul:-
ishment."
The balance OF the diary is some
what incoherent, without any allu
sion to accomplices in the ass0ssina
ton, except n boy who accompanied
him. Certificates accompany the do
cument, showing that the mutilations
Of the diary occurred before the cap
ture.