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Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1867-08-15
GIVE ME A TRIAL!

DLANTERs who have found It quito impossible
J. to secure sound dry lots of Br, ad or Feed
Urn, are solicited to < We me call, my stock on
hand being strictly choice.
apr27 JOSHUA BEAL
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COLGATE,s TOILET SOAPS.

A NEW SUPPLY of Honey and GIycerine
N 'oap. Just received at
jlyls-lOt BBAL's BOOK 4 VARIETY STORE
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WILL DELIVER.

DETAIL grocers disposed /, sell the best only.
4 now informed that | will take their or
de,s for boted or nnboIted Corn Meal Grits and
large Hnminy, having it delivered at their doors
free OF any charge for eartage-pfices mt tderate.
apra JOSHUA HEAL
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I,ua LANDRETH's GARDTN SEEDS 20 TO
II @. d. WADDILpS,
fab5 Main street, near Third
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TO BUILDERS.

I AM PREPARED to fill orders at short notice
J. for Dressed Flooring aud Ceiling, Pannel
Doors. sashes and Blinds of all sizes and quai-
ties, al lowest market rates.
msr5 JAMES MCvAY.
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cow PEAS,
cow PEAS.

cow PEAS, COW PEAS.
1 HAVE ju.t received several barrels Of fresh
l. ow Peas they are highly recommended ss
n chti 'e quality Tor planting purposes.
mBy23 SIMON MbNDLESOHN
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COFFEE AND SUGAR.

IN SACKS Choice Rio; 20 barrels Louisiana
~ sugar, for sale almost at cost by
aprIS A. JACKION
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BACON,

BACON, BACON, BACON,
, CASKS No 1"Cear sides, . fresh from smoke
- house. in store and for sale low at
MARI A. JAUKSON'S
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OATS AND CORN.
FRESH STICK CANDY.

~ BOXES, 90 pounds each, good fresh Stick
lU Candy, just received and for sale cheap
juy13 JOsHUA bEAL
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SOMETHING WORTH KNOWING

SOMETHING WORTH KNOWING.
rHEAP BREAD u he prices of Flour having
~ declined some three dollars per bsrr.i, per-
sons not posted and wishiI z to avail themselves
+ the benefit OF this large decline find well
assortei stock Of fresh ground Flour of assorted
grades and pricts-pricss based upon the decline
aaU1ed at The store of
june22 JOSHUA BEAL
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BOOTS AND SHOES

A LARGE assortment, for sale at moderate
IN prices, by BLUM,
Oct6 Corner Africa and st. Nanoleon Sts
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COUNTERPANES

+ HAVE Just received another supply of White,
l. Yellow and Pink Marseilies Counterpanes, at
aprls THE PEOPLES STORE.
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SHOT GUNS.
MOLASSES,
AXES AND NAILS.

NoU CAN be suited in quantity and quality at
Il. sprlS A. JACkSON'S
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CORSETS. CORSETS.

PARASOLs, PARASOLS.
fTNHE PEOPLES STORE has now on hand a
4 fine assortment of Black and Colored silk
Parasols OF the latest styles. aprlS
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28
Kelly In Charlotte.

Judge Kelly spoke in Charlotte on
Friday evening. The Times, in no.
ticing his speech, says:
He was kind and conciliatory in his
intercourse with the people, and his
speech was unexceptionable. We &c.
count for this "cooing of the dove"
from the fact that the Mobile riot
had filled the contract with his
Northern friends, and his best policy
here was to show the beauties of Re-
publicanism in another phase. A
certain old fellow is represented in
Sacred Writ as assuming the appear
ance of an angel, when it was neces-
sary to do so, to carry an object.
Had the ''plain Devil" appeared to
Eve without n disguise, could he
have deceived the mother of man
kind? Thus we take it to be with
Kelly & Co. He is violent and de-
nunciatory, or oily, when it suits
the purposes of his party to be so.
This particular speech in itself was
very good-of course it was. The
painful was never uttered. His
contrast between the different sys-
TENS of labor and the result was good
enough from Northern standpoint.
and If to make money, as some people
think, is the sole duty of man, very
practical and sound. We are glad
that the concourse who heard him
conducted themselves in quiet and
orderly manner, and for intelligence
and good behavior, must have i'm
pressed the speaker very favorably.
For the good of the country, for the
sake of the starving families, for the
interest of the farmer, for the hope
OF the merchant, and for the safety
of all, we trust this is the last itinc-
rant who will address the citizens
between this and the harvesting of
the crops.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28

IHE DEPRECIATION OF INCOMES.
The New York Sm gives plausible
reasons for the falling off in incomes.
It says:
Business has certainly been less
active during the last year than it was
the year before, but not to nm extent
corresponding with the decrease in
incomes. The discrepancy between
Mr.. Stewart's returns for the two
years in question is attributable
chiefly to the decrease in the value of
goods. SO with all other merchants.
a large proportion of the goods sold
by our merchants during the last
eighteen months have been sold with
out profit-in fact, ut sacrifice. 1t is
impossible for dealers to make much
money under such circumstances. A
buyer may secure line of goods.
and, before he can sell them again.
the price has probably fallen so that
he will lose money. Such experience
our merchants have been constantly
going through during the last year
and a half. AT the same time, how
ever. the amount of business trans
acted has been large. The sales of
the largest dry goods house in the
city-that of III. b. Clahin & CO.
are said to have reached seventy mil
lion dollars last year, which is the
largest business they ever did. The
fact is, that much of the complaints
about dullness of trade results from
the fact that merchants are making
no money, owing to the depreciation
in the value of goods. The time for
making fortune in It year has passed,
and until values reach their legiti-
mate standard, business incomes will
necessarily be comparatively light.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28

The advocates of confscation in
slst that the possession of land is alb.
solutely essential to complete the
work of emancipntion-that slavery
is but half abolished unless the freed
negro has a piece of land (about
forty acrcs Mr.. Phillips thinks, will
do) to stand upon. This is an ex-
tension Of the argument by which
the ballot was claimed for the freed
men, and it is not easy TO see where
1T IS to stop. Why, if forty acres of
land are essential to freedom, are
not men to work it also essential?
Why is land more essential than
horses, or railroad stock, oran invest
ment in Government bonds? All
these are convenient and it is comfort
able to have them; more so, very often,
than it is to have land and nothing
else. The Nation insists that education
IS what the negroes need more than
anything else, and that the Govern
ment cannot do too much towards
giving it to them. Habits of in
dustry and thrift-the faculty of
taking care of themselves, of think
ing and acting for themselves-are
their first necessities. Whatever
gives them these will give them the
best chance of getting all else they
nced.-Nem York Times.
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TIE EFrEcTs OF THE FAILURE. =

TIE EFFECTS OF THE FAILURE.
The National MteNigence, says:
The failure of Fraser, Trenholm {,
Co., of Liverpool, firm largely con-
cerned i'll the cotton trade, was
caused, it is said, by the late decline
in the value Of cotton, as was the
late failure of the cotton house in
New York, Watts, Crane IL Co. The
United States Government have de-
mands on the Liverpool firm, grow
ing out of their agency, financial
and commercial, for the Confederate
States, which Claims are in suit. The
Government has ample security,
however, for full payment of all its
claims, should they be legally estab
lished
The failure has unsettled the cot
ton and gold markets, aud it may be
the forerunner and cause Of other
failures i'll the cotton trade. Bills
drawn against shipment Of cotton to
Liverpool, &C., will undoubtedly be
returned for non-payment. Much of
the loss will fall upon business men
iii New York. It is not improbable
that failures from the same cause will
be numerous among persons con-
nected with the cotton trado abroad.
The shipments of gold during the
last week for Europe amounted to
nearly S3,000,OOO, and $4,000, 900
more are about to be exported. The
large disbursements of gold from the
Treasury i'll payment OF the interest
on Government bonds equal the
amounts sent abroad. Gold has risen
to 1889, on account Of the demand
for shipment, and the losses incurred
III cotton shipments. These losses
must be made good in gold or in
United States bonds, or more cotton
at deprecated rate.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28
Tho Spring Bonnets.

The Paris correspondent of the
London Queen writes about the new
styles of bonnets:
There is much talk about straw
bonnets, and, although there are
many to be seen in the milliner's
shops, there are none in the streets
absolutely in wear. On the 1st of
May, they will, doubtless, appear as
usual, with the fresh roses. The
Shapes are various; but those called
the ''Metternich" are the prettiest I
in, nave seen up to the present time.
iney are small, with q narrow cur
tam turned up at the back, and in
'front.' they advance as far as the fore
mead: They have strings likewise.
which are tied under the chin. This
form of bonnet is almost the only one
with which ribbon or velvet strings
edged with narrow blonde are retain
ed. The other bonnets have either
lace or tulle lappcts, plaits of silk.
narrow insertions embroidered with
Jet, or scarves of crepe bordered with
quillings. Wherever it is possible to
Introduce anything fancifulin a lady's
toilet, nowadays, the opportunity is
quickly made available. The bronze
bonnets made of shaded brown straw.
likewise those of black GRIN, or horse
halr, are very popular.
The brown or bronze bonnets are
usually made in the "NIario Louise
form, with fiat, low crowns, and the
front bent somewhat low on the fore
head. They are bordcred with bands
OF pheasants' feathers; sometimes a
small wing is placed ut the side, OF
Just below the left car; others have n
rose, pomcgranate flower, dragon
fly, or else beautiful butterfly, ar
ranged as pompon. These brown
6onnets are usually trimmed with
Bismarck leaves. The black GRIN
bonncts are made III variety of
forms, but decidedly that called the
"MlSnon" is the most popular.
These bonncts are covered with let
beads, and are trimmed across the
front with open black gimp worked
with jet beads. This gimp is CONT
nued down the sides of the bonnet
and forms strings. Black erin, lined
with pink silk, and trimmed at the
side with n rose, and another rose
under the chin, forms one of the
prctticst neglige bonnets it is possible
to conceive. Demi-saison bonnets
made OF crepe are more popular than
straw ones at the present moment.
Fanchons of blue crepe, with small
white field daisies arranged carelessly,
are great favorites. These bonnets
are tied with narrow crepe strings,
bordered with aruch of silk or ribbon
about half an inch wide. No bow is
worn under the chin now; it is re-
placed with either small bouuct or
a brooch. :
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28

Nor OPPOSED TO ASKING FOR A
PARDoN.-The Washington cores
pondent of the New York Herald
writes:
1t is now said that Jefferson Davis
is not averse to petitioning President
johnson for pardon. The state
ment published before, to the effect
that the ex-rebel President was too
proud to acknowledge the error of
his ways, and too lofty to stoop to
the humiliation of petition, would,
therefore, seem to be erroneous. I
am informed that Mr.. Davis lately
told q prominent Louisianian that he
would gladly sue for pardon, if he
could only think his effort would
prove a success. President Johnson,
it is believed, would willingly grant
full pardon to the fallen chief on
the presentation of proper petition.
have to-day seen copy of O. peti-
ton, signed by several Southern men
ofthe Sharkey Monroe stamp, PRAYING
Executive clemency in behalf of Mr.
DAVIS. No radical names are attached
to the paper, all the leading Senators
and Representatives having refused
to have anything to do with the
movement. President johnson, it is
sald, cares nothing for this omission.
expressing the opinion that LIE alone
mas Inc power to decide the matter.
ana That he intends to do Just as his
own convictions of Justice and nro.
Rrle!y dictate. Paul Bagley, the en-
thusiastic pardon manager, who has
travelled all over the country for the
purpose of agitating the question f of
MIR: Davis pardon, has charge Of tho
petition referred to, and has forwardo
ed it to Canada, with the hope of oh.
tanning q special petition from the
chief party interested.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28

RECONSTRUCTION CoMaIENCED IN
ALADAMA.-The Montgomery Adcer-
Hser, of Wednesday, contains the list
of registers appointed in that State.
The board is composed of three men,
bers from each Senatorial District
two white and one colored. The i'd
oertiser says: 'It is not yet known
how long it will be before the regis
ters enter upon the discharge of their
duties; but one thing is very certain,
that it is the duty of every one
allowed the privilege to register and
qualify for voting, when the oppor-
tunity is offered The reconstruction
or military law is the only way left
for us to get back into the Union,
and, by rejecting it, VIC only add to
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28

EXGovERNoR FooTE. This distin-
Gnished but eccentric gentleman has
commenced the publication of Il
series of essays in the st. Louis De-
nsocrM, advocating universal suffrage,
including female suffrage. The old
gentleman still wields trcachant
pen, and is, as usual, profoundly in
earnest.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28

INDIGNATION MEETING CALLED. A
despatch from Springfield, Massachu-
sets, says:
An Indignation meeting has been
called by prominent citizens for to-
morrow night, to determine what
action the people will take to sup
press uDmerciful crime, wanton bar
barity, and other heinons crimes in
the public schools.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28
COLUMBIA.
Tuesday Morning, May %, 1867.
What has been Done. .


Some of the New York papers are
writing on tho subject of what the
Northern business interests are suf.
fering from the political condition oi
the South. The New York E:rpress
has IN article on this subject, in
which it takes the ground that the
greatest evil inflicted, both upon the
negro and white men of the South,
was the cotton tax upon Southern
labor. 1t says that while Congress
failed to lay any tax upon the North
ern staples-wheat, corn, rye. barley,
oats, &c.-it selected out and inhict-
ed most oppressive and unjustifiable
tax upon On exclusive Southern pro-
duct.
1t then points out the injuries in
ficted on the business men and ca
pitalists of the North, who had ad-
vanced money to planters to hire the
freed negro to raise cotton, and says
that, from various causes, disorgani-
zation of labor, &C., but most decid-
edly from the burden of this tax, the
crop has not paid expenses, and the
advances cannot be returned by the
Southern to the Northern man. The
ErpreSS states, as a fact, that one
firm in that city ''has over So, 900, 900
in outstanding accounts in the South,
which could have been collected if
the cotton crop had been as product
i've for the past two years as it was
under the old system of labor.
Another New York journal says:
'Since the war closed, over SIS, OOO,-
900 have been invested in the plant
ing interests of Mississippi. Louisi-
ana and Alabama, by the firm
represented by Gen. L. J. Heron,
and it is to be presumed that but
little has been realized on the amount
invested. This is but tithe of the
Northern capital that has gone South
to develop the country, and which as
yet has not given return
The ErpreSS, in the last sentence,
gives us an intimation of the true
cause OF the falling off in the amount
of Southern products. The old sys-
tenn of labor" has been suddenly
swept away, and with it the produc-
ing power of the South, to large
extent. The investments made, even
by Northern men-the reputed, or,
rather, self-arrogated friends of the
freedmen-have utterly failed under
the new system, and it will take
many years for the Southern States
to reach their former productiveness.
Nevertheless, with the removal of the
tex, the settlement of political diff
culties, and q cessation of the med
ding interference of Northern politi-
clans with the freedmen, we believe
the South would speedily recuperate,
and in q few years, when, being thus
left alone, she will have replenished
her means and appliances for its pro-
duction, and her laborers return to
their duties on the plantation, undis-
turbed by political harangues or the
obligations of leagues or other politi-
cal secret societies, the amount of
cotton raised would soon approximate
to its former production. This expe-
rimcnt of non-interference with the
freedmen and his political tendencies
is well worth trying by the Northern
people.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28

FIRE.-Yestcrday afternoon, n little
before 3 o'clock. fire was discovered
Ill n small building adjoining the tin
manufactory of Mcssrs. Shepherd &
Duo, corner OF Congress and Oaks
streets, and although, considering
the distance, the engines were on tie
ground in Il very short time, yet,
owing to the impossibility of procur-
ing water, they were unable to arrest
the progress of the flames. The
building in which the fire originated,
and also the tin. manufactory, were
burned to the ground. The fire is
supposed to have been iucendiary in
its origin. The buildings belonged
tt Mrs. +. III. Due, and were valued
ut $1,000, and were insured for
$1,000. The stock of Nfessrs. Shep-
herd & Due, which was q total loss.
Was valued at about So, 500, and was
not notinsured.-CAarLeSton IMc..cuv.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28

A decree has been issued by Juarez,
President of Mexico, closing the port
OF Tampico to foreign and coasting
vessels so long as it remains disobe-
l. dent to the republican government.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28

PosT OFFICE HOURS. Office is
open from ga. m. until 81 p. m.>
and from 6 until Z p. m. The North
ern mail closes at 81 p. m., and ali
other mails close at 8 p. m.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28

Stonewall Jackson's colored nurse
died lately in Madison County.
Tenn, Mt the advanced age of lis
years and months. The General
set her free twenty-five years ago.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28

Tho proposed union OF the Old and
New School Presbyterian Churches
has already been announced. The
Committee, who have agreed upon
the terms of union, have, it is said.
among other things, prescribed that
no rule or precedent which does not
stand approved by both bodies, shall
be of any authority until re-estab.
hshed in the united body, and that
Jndicatories, ministers and people of
the united Church shall guard against
all needless offensive reference to
slavery. Thus the Presbyterians of
America bid fair to end religions
difference which has existed for thirty
years.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28

Jon PRINTING.-Tho Job Office Of
the Pho'nir is rs complete rs any in
the South. 1t is furnished with new
fonts OF type of all descriptions and
OF the most modern styles. All work
executed promptly, with taste and
skill, and at reasonable rates.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28

Somebody in the Chicago Times
nominates Mr.. Davis for President
and Mr.. Greeley for Vice.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28

In entering upon the third week o, H.,
popular clearing sales, Mr.. Il. c.. Sh,ycr
intends Offering some wonders in all atyl..
OF Embroidered Goods. The favor ana
popularity or the clearing move induces
him to continue TO dispense the great ba-.
gains as heretofore
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28

That MEDAL.-The Augusta Con-
shf"tonaltst makes correction in the
name on the medal for member of
the Palmetto Regiment, noticed in
Sundays issue. The name is Sha-
dreck Ready, not Brady, as the Con-
StitMiondliSt printed it.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28

We are informed by a gentleman
who hat just returned from some
what extensive trip through Virginia
and North Carolina, that the pros.
poets for magnificent wheat crop in
those States were never better.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28

NEW AnyE"TIshME>l, -At:.ut,ol. So ......
tc !" i''" following ADVERTISEMENTS. wi.-,a
.rc rnh!ish"'i thi+ n.nniae 40, lie s:..
time:
Jacob I.cv;n- Bacon, &c.
NJ. l.. Nnard-Dress Goods, &c.
=. u. Jackson- Vanilla Bean.
Palmctto Assoc!ation-Fu Funeral
McBnrney * Clcndining-D Dissolu:oa.
Alonxo Rceso-H -Hair-lressing 81 Saloor
butchers Lightning Fly-kiiler.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-28
Defying tho Union League.

We find in the Tribune, of Thurs
day, letter or proclamation from
Mr.. Greeley to and in defiance of the
Union League of New York. We
axfroof.