The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-31
News Items.

A' 10y cO'-Ctiuu Alien
and mate won three straight heats
to-day-2.29, 2.21 and 2. .19-tbe last
the fastest OH record. Ethan Allen is
eighteen years old.
NoRFoLK, May 3O.-A double tene-
ment building, on Market Square.
teil this morning. The lower floor
was used for stores, and the upper
floor as dwellings,. A number of nco.
pie were buried.
RIcHA1oND, May 30.-Gen. Scho-
field, yesterday, issued IN order for
the purpose of giving adequate pro-
lection to all persons in their rights
OF person and property, in cases
where the civil authorities may fail,
directing the appointment of military
commissions i'll sub districts hereafter
to be defined, giving them the COM
mand of the police. sheriffs and con
stables, and clothing them with the
powers of magistrates. These COM
missions are to take Jurisdiction in
all cases where they may have reason
to believe that justice is not done.
The order concludes as follows.
Trial by the civil courts will be pre-
ferred in all cases where there is sa-
tlsfactory reason to believe that JUS
tice will be done; but until the orders
OF the commanding general are made
known in any case, the paramount
jurisdiction assumed by the military
commission will be exclusive. All
persons-civil officers and others
are required to obey and execute the
lawful orders of the military COM
missions to the same extent ms they
are required by law to obey and exc
cute writs issued by civil magistrates.
Any person who shall disobey or re-
sist the lawful orders or authority of
military commission, shall be tried
by military commission, and, upon
conviction, shall be punished by fine
and imprisonment, according to the
nature and degree of the offence.
This order will not be construed to
excuse civil officers, in any degree,
from the faithful discharge of their
duties. 1t is intended to aid the civil
authorities, and not to suspend them,
except in cases of necessity.
CHARLESTON, May 3O.-In the
United States District Court to-day,
a bill of complaint was filed by Dis
trict Attorney Corbin against Charles
K. Prioleau, Theodore d. Wagner,
james T. Welsman, W. l.. Tren,
holm. George A. Trenholm and John
u. Lafitte, members of the firm of
John Fraser & Co., charging them
with violation of the laws of the
United States in blockade-running
operations, and claiming that in
other respects they are accountable
to the Government. Judge Bryan,
upon hearing the bill, granted nm
Injunction, restraining the aforesaid
parties from disposing of any real
estate now held by them.
Gen. Sickles leaves Charleston to.
morrow for Raleigh, to meet Presi-
dent johnson.
Arrived to-day-Steamer Alliance,
Philadelphia; schooner Shiloh, Balti-
more. Sailed-Ship Golconda, Mon
rovia; bark Guardian Angel, Queens
town; schooner L. S. Davis, Balti-
more; schooner Farland, Northern
port.
RICHMOND, May 3O.-Gen. Brown,
of the Freedmen's s Bureau, has issued
n circular, directing the officers, in
view of the hostility which may ex-
ist to freedmen voting, to see that
every freedman is instructed in his
rights, and that he is registered and
votes.
Judge Kelley spoke in Danville,
Va, to-day.
The steamship Virginia, from Lii
verpool, arrived in New York to-day.
She brings 14,200 bushels of wheat.
Internal revenue receipts to-day
S617,O00.
The Comptroller of the Treasury
advertises in the city papers, that the
bank notes of the First National
Bank of New Orleans will be paid in
lawful money. upon presentation at
the Treasury of the United States
ST: LOUIS, May 3O.-A Fort Kear-
ney despatch says the Indian war has
fairly begun; ranches have been
burned, stock stolen and settlers
murdered daily; troops are going
Westward rapidly
ALEXANDRIA, VA, May 3O.-A
freight train on the Orange and AL
exandria Road ran off the track to-
day, killing the engineer and fire
man