The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-21

Ihe Legislature of New York is
about to grant to William Orion and
his associates the right to lay a tele-
graphic cable between the State of
New York and the Empire of France.
and use the same for the period Of
twenty years. Mr. Orton is the Pre-
sldent of the Union Telegraph Com.
pany, and this grant would greatly
extend that already powerful mono
poly, though it would at the same
time ensure international competition.
n LA MILirMHE.-In view of the
enormous frauds practiced bv the
whiskey distillers in New York. the
Washington Republican fears that
Congress will be driven to the expe-
d1ent of placing the distillinc dis
tl1cts under military rule, aboli shin q
AubedS corpus and detailing West
Polnters to scent out the enormous
frauds perpetrated in the manufacture
OF toddy for the million.
The following is from the Zanes-
vile (Ohio) Times: Among the mar
rlages occurring in this city last week
was one of highly respectable
young woman to an individual who
was Il Southerner, and at the begin
n1nS Of the war q slave. notwith-
standing the fact of his having, to all
appearances, no negro blood in his
veins.
The New York Nroll, of Satur-
day. laments the dullness of the
times and says: The spring trade is
not to be compared with that of last
year. so much for your counscls.
and such as You. You will hano
yourself with your own rope. and
the South will say amen.."
INnlIGRAGIoS ENCOURAGED. The
Virginia Legislature has passed a law
giving to immigration societies a bo-
nus OF 50 for each Immigrant settled
III the State for two years, except
such immigrant becomes charreable
as q panper, when the company has
to pay back 81.
NATHANIEL 2. BASKs.-A Wash
ington tattler says, while Banks was
making his speech in the House, last
week, q member, not understanding
the drift of the policy he was advo-
eating, said to Thad. Stevens, "Nhat
does he want?" ''Want?" said Thad.
"Why he wants brains"
IND1ANA.-The Lafayette C0urie,.
says it is doubtful if the short dress
style can be introduced in LaFavette.
All the ladies who wear No. 2 boots
are IN favor of it, but the No. 9's, as
we are informed, are largely in the
majority. and refuse to elevate their
dresses
Fogg, Of New Hampshire, rose like
an exhalation, in the Senate. the
other day, and endeavored to becloud
the prospects of the bankrupt bill.
An exchange says it is only few days
since this Fogg settled on the Senate,
and if he were to blow himself away
forthwith, he would not be mist.
Thirty years ago, the sterile plains
OF Texas-"the great desert of the
Southwest belonged to Mexico.
To-day Texas is doing more trade
with the world at large than is the
Republic of Mexico, with its 5000.
600 of inhabitants.
HoMICIDE.-A man named +. w.
Lockwood. residing in Barnwell Dis
trict, was shot in the house of E. b.
Rose Solomons, one day last week.
Both were gentlemen of good stand
ing. Solomons was arrested, and is
III the Jail at Walterboro.
Florence, the junction of the Viii
mlngton and Manchester and North
eastern Railroads, is rapidly becoming
town of considerable Importance
New stores and dwellings, are being
rapidly erected.
The Saturday Repiem says that
''the most dangerous kind of man in
all the world, whether in low or ex-
allied station, is he who just misses
being true genius
The political catch words ':univer-
sal suffrage, and universal arms-bear-
ing, have become as famous in Ger
manyas universal suffrage, universal
amnesty" p" in America.
The Rev. Henry Morgan has been
lecturlng in Boston on the virtue OF
early marriages. He declares that
politically, socially, morally and spi-
rltually, man requires q wife
A New Orleans paper suggests, as
a part of the plan of reconstruction.
"a Department for the Elevation of
the African Intellect to the Caucasian
Standard
Frederick Douglass, being at ST.
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