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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-04-06

The FIRST ARREST UNDER THE Mill
TARy BILL.-The two men, Sprague
and Castelloni, who assaulted a negro
named Jackson on Saturday last, and
who were tried Monday by Justices
billiard and Reese, and bailed in the
sum of $500 for their appearance at
Campbell Court for further trial, were
re-arrested yesterday by General Will
cox, and are now in confinement at
Camp Davis. The arrest was made
under authority Of the third section
Of the Sherman bill, which makes it
the duty of the military commander
to ''punish, or cause to be punished,
all disturbers of the public peace and
criminals, and to this end, he may
allow local civil tribunals to take
jurisdiction of and try offenders, or,
when in his judgment it may be ne
cossary for the trial of offenders, he
shall have power to organize military
commissions or tribunals for that pur-
pose. ."-Lynchbwy Ne,cs, Sd inst.
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THANKsGIyING.-By q proclamation
from the Most Worthy Grand Sire of
the Grand Lodge of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows in the United
States, the 26th day of April is ap-
pointed as day to be observed,
throughout the United States, as a
day of thanksgiving and prayer, and
that the Lodges do assemble on that
day, with their families, to render
thanks for His protection of this in
stitution.
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Show POSTERS, HANDBILLs, &c.
Our supply of type and facilities of
press-work enable us to turn out from
the PhPnic office the most attractive
styles of posters, nd-bills, &C., at
short notice, and in the most salts
factory manner.
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Rothermel, the painter, is steadily
progressing with his picture of the
battle of Gettysburg Kaufman has
finished q painting representing Abra-
ham Lincoln earning his first dollar
rs ferryman.
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I KERosENBaHsvs.a~ GAs.---It ~ is an
nounced that O manufacturer at Ball
ston Spa, N. Y, has invented an
arrangement for lighting his factory
with kerosene oil, conveyed from q
reservoir in theupper story by means
OF gas pipes to all portions of his
mill. He does away with cumbrous
lamps, easily broken and liable to
explosions. It is claimed that the
burners are always ready, like gns,
and do not leak. The Southern gas
companies had better take hint in
time, and govern their prices accord
ingly.
FIRE. .-Between 9 and 10 o'clock,
yesterday morning, fire occurred on
the premises of d. G. Thompson,
corner Of Main and Medium streets,
which resulted in the partial destruc-
ton of IN clubhouse, and the loss of
some hay and fodder. Assistance was
promptly rendered by the students of
the University and the United States
garrison, and most disastrous con-
migration prevented, as very high
wind prevailed during the morning
Had the fire made headway, it would
undoubtedly have consumed the
whole block.
About 8 o'clock, last night, there
was another alarm, caused by a fire
outside the city limits. We have not
learned the locality of this latter fire.
CIRCULARS! CIRcU1ARs!-Commer-
cial and other circulars, in the various
forms-note, letter and commercial
post-neatly printed i'll our Job
Office, and all work of this descrip-
tion finishedin chest style of'print-
ing, and ut moderate prices.
BEVERLY AGAIN. New York
Tribune, which has done so much to
bring about fraternity of races at the
South. is furious at the success of its
own counsel. It calls Nash terrible
names and makes:frightful mouths at
him. Abiding to the respectable
negroes of his class, it says:
Many of them arc mean, scamp
ish loafers, who choose to live bv
thlcving, selling rum or pandering to
lewdness, rather than honest indus
try; and these will probably vote as
whites of like prochvities usually do. "
To which the Baltimore Gazette
fifty responds:
"Thus, when these disreputable
journals suppose they can control the
negro vote, they villify the Southern
people because they do not acquiesce
in universal suffrage. When they
fear that the negroes may be influ-
enced wholly by their former mas
ters, they curse both whites and
blacks as scamps and loafers. The
radical party is bent upon taking pos
session of the South, body and soul,
and this fact accounts for all these
disgraceful exhibitions of tergiversa-
ton, mendacity and knavery"
New ADvEarIsEMENTs. Attention is call
cd 10 the following advertisements, which
are published this morning for the first
time FSs.t'f
| Jacob bLcvin-Valuable Real Estate
Mrs. Cathcart-Furnished Rooms
j. SulZbacher & Co.-Houee to Rent.
A. \. Colton-Stafford Cultivator.
H. d. Hanahan-Mattocks.
Il. l. w. G. Swaffield-Removal.
J. d 7. r. Agnew-Ale and Porter
A. Tollesbp--Stato Money at Par.
Fl. Z. Nichols & Co.-Gift Concert
Auction Sale OF Government Property.
Typographical Union-Meoting.
Grcenville 'Railroad-Local Freight.
1MMIGRATIoN.-The Lynchburg
Fnyinidm publishes the following ex
tract of q letter from the London
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Coral, and especially the very pale
pink variety, is becoming very fa-
shionable for trimmings.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-04-06

Horrible murders are now rife in
every State. It would be a pleasing
variety to bear of life being saved.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-04-06
The Rumorcd Injunction.

sition before May.
The Rumorcd Injunction.
The Tribune has the following de-
spatch from Washington:
The fears entertained by many be-
fore the adjournment, which may also
have operated in preventing a recess
until December, are likely to prove
we'll founded. 1t was some time since
stated in this column that efforts
would be made to defeat or delay the
operation of the reconstruction law.
Those efforts are about to culminate.
The number of Southern johnson
men in the city has lately been largely
augmented by large arrivals, and the
movement on foot has the sanction of
nearly the whole of the prominent
administration men of the South. 4
petition, very full and numerously
signed, has been prepared, addressed
to the Chief Justice and Associate
Judges of the United States Supreme
Court, praying for an Injunction
against General Pope, Commander of
the Third Military District, and An
drew Johnson, citizen of Tennessee
and President of the United States,
restraining them from taking any ac-
ton in enforcing the military recon
struction law until the constitutions
ality of the bill can be decided by the
Supreme Court. This petition will
be presented to the court on Friday
next. Eminent counsel have been
employed, three leading Democratic
members of the New York bar being
embraced to aid the petitioners.
Reverdy johnson has been consult
ed. and gives it as his opinion that
the Supreme Court has no original
jurisdiction in the case, and that it
must come before it on appeal from
the lower courts. If the petition
should not be received and acted on
by the Supreme Court, the petitioners
will improvise n case through the
lower courts, and Judge Underwood
will probably be selected for the test.
The opinion of Reverdy Johnson is
shared by Fessenden, Tfumbull,
Stevens and other prominent Repub-
lican lawyers. Governor Patton, of
Alabama, declines to be identified
with the movement, and the Cover
nor of Louisiana has not been heard
from; but it's certain he also will op-
pose the action. It is. believed by
prominent politicians here that Pre-
sident Johnson is the prime leader
of the scheme, and that its legal
points are made from consultations
with Acknowledgement Stansberry.
The whole matter is not known be-
yond the originators, excepting by a
few radical members of Congress.
The Baltimore SIN, of Thursday,
has the following contradictory de-
spatch:
There is not one word of truth in a
telegraphic despatch sent North, that
the President is advised of an inten-
ton or purpose to go before the Su-
preme Court, or aid or connect him
self with any movement to procure
an injunction to restrain under the
reconstruction laws.
HE FIRST ARREST UNDER THE Mill
TARY BILL.-The two men, Sprague
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'Eooal Ivexaas., ,

- REMovAh.-Main street, is being
filed up, as of yore, with business
houses. Messrs. r. & W. @. Swat
field have occupied one Of J. G..
Walkers new stores, and are opening
large stock of fashionable rs well
rs serviceable goods in their line.
JOB PRINTING.-TheJ Job Office of
the Ph@nic is as complete as any in
the South. It 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.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-03-29

On the 22nd inst, Senator Wilson intro
duced into the q. s. Senate concurrent res
olution concerning Jefferson Davis which
concludes as follows: " that moderate justice,
sound public policy and the national honor
are united in recommending the speedy trial
or release, on bail, of the prisoner"
The Washington correspondent Of the Bal
timore San states that members of Congress
of the Republican persuasion are urging
the President to release Jefferson Davis
on bail, or his own rccognisance, in as much
as the objections made by Chief Justice
Chase to holding court in Virginia have
been increased by the late enactments of Con-
gross, and that there is good reason for be-
lieving that within ten days or two weeks
Jefferson Davis will be released Oh his own
recognizance. We trust the correspondent
may be correct in his statement, for it is
burning shame that Jefferson Davis has so
long been kept close prisoner, without be-
ing allowed trial.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-03-29

The radical Legislatures Of some of the
Northern States are excited on the subject of
the establishment of Mo aarchy in Canada,
" IN violation of the right Of the peopze to
se!t- government. Wonder if their protesta-
tons would not avail more, as they would GER
talniy be more consistent, if they had first in
structed their Senators to prevent the estab-
ishmant of a Military Despotism' in the
South, IN siolation Of the right Of the people
to self-goaxywnaent? OF the two, Monarchy
or Military Despotism. We decidedly prefer
the former.
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Presidents Message.

The President Saturday afternoon re-
turned to the House Of Representatives the
Supplementary Reconstruction Bill, accom-
panied by the following message, giving his
reasons for not signing it:
To the House Of Representatives:
I have considered the bill entitled can act
supplementary to an act entitled AN act to
provide for the more efficient government of
the rebel States passed March I'd, 1867,
and to facilitate restoration, and now return
it to the House of Representatives, with my
objections.
This bill provides for elections in the ten
States brought under the operation of the
original act to which it is supplementary
Its details are principally directed to the
elections for the formation of the State Con-
stitutions; but by the sixth section of the
bill 'all elections in these States, occurring
while the original act remain in force, are
brought within it's purview. Referring to
the details, it will be found that, first of all,
there is to be registration of the voters
No one whose name has not been admitted
on the list is to be allowed to vote at any of
these elections. To ascertain who is entitled
to registration, reference is made necessary,
by the express language Of the supplement,
to the riginal act and to the pending bill
The fifth section of the original act provides,
as to voters, that they shall be "male citi-
zens Of the State, twenty -one years old and
upward, Of whatever race, color, or previous
condition, who have been resident of said
State for one year." This is the general
qualification followed, however, by many ex-
ceptions. No one can be registered, accord
ing to the original act, ''who may be dis
franchised for participation in the rebellion D
provision which left undetermined the
question as to what amounted to disfranchise-
ment, and whether, without judicial sem
tence, the ACT itself produced that effect
This supplemental bill super-adds an oath,
to be taken by every person before bis name
can be admitted upon the registration, that
he has "not been disfranchised for participa-
ton in any rebellion or civil war against the
United States" It thus imposes upon every
person the necessity and responsibility of de-
Gliding for himself, under the peril of pun
ishment by military commission, if he
makes a mistake, what works disfranchise-
ment by participation in rebellion, and what
amounts to such participation. Almost every
maG-the negro as well as the white above
twenty.oae years Of age, who was resident in
these ten States during the rebellion, volun-
tarily, or involuntarily, at some time and in
some way did participate in resistance to the
lawful authority Of the General Govern
ment
The question with the citizen to whom
this oath is to be proposed must be fearful
one; for while the bill does not declare that
perjury may be assigned for such false swear
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cious time to commence the work OF recon-
Citation then, when the people sought once
more our friendship and protection, consid-
cred it our duty generously to meet them in
the spirit Of charity and forgiveness, and to
conquer them even more effectually by the
magnanimity of the nation than by the force
of its arms. I yet believe that if the policy
of reconciliation then inaugurated, and which
contemplated an early restoration OF these
people to all their political rights, had re-
ceived the support of congress, every one OF
these ten States and all their people would
at this moment be fast anchored i'll the Union,
and the great work which gave the war all
its sanction, an made itjust and holy, would
have been accomplished. Then, over all the
vast and fruitful regions of the South peace
and its blessings would have prevailed, while
now millions are deprived of rights guaran-
teed by the Constitution to every citizen, and,
after nearly two years of legislation, find
themselves placed under an absolute military
despotism. "a military Republic Gov.
eminent formed on mock elections, and sup
ported only by the sword" was nearly
quarter of century since pronounced by
by Daniel Webster, when speaking of the
South American States, as "a movement
indeed, but retrograde and disastrous move
ment, from the regular and old-fashioned
monarchical system" and he added:
IF men would enjoy the blessings of re-
publican government, they must govern
themselves by reason, by mutual counsel and
consultation, by sense and feeling Of gen.
eral interest, and by the acquiescence of the
minority in the will Of the majority, proper
ly expressed and above all. the military
must be kept, according to the language Of
our bill of rights, in strict subordination to
the civil authority Wherever this lesson is
not both learned and practiced, there can
be no political freedom Absurd, prepos-
ferrous is it, scoff and satire on free forms
of constitutional liberty, for forms of govern
ment to be prescibed by military leaders, and
the right of suffrage to be exercised at the
point of the sword"
I confidently believe thata time will come
when these States will again occupy their
true positions in the Union. The barriers
which now seem so obstinate must yield to
the force of an enlightened and just public
opinion. and sooner or later unconstitutional
and oppressive Legislation will be effaced from
our statute books When this shall have been
contaminated, | pray God hat the errors Of
the past may be forgotten, and that once more
we shall DO happy, united and prosperous
people, and that at last, after the bitter and
eventful experience through which the nation
has passed, we shall all come to know that
our only safety is in the preservation of our
Federal Constitution, and in according to
every A american citizen and to every State
the rights which that Constitution secures.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON. March % 1867.
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.NeaU entertainments.
OF CO-PART-

- NERSHIP.-The firm Of Piper Funk
no user has this day been dissolved by mutual con-
sent, NJ. P. Funkhouser having sold his interest
in the stock of goods to James A. Piper, D. w.
Drake and Geo. A. Piper, who will continue the
business in the store room of the late Piper
Funkhouser, under the style Of Piper, Drake 4 Co.
The retiring partner NJ. P. Funkhouser, is au-
thorzed to settle the 2siness of the firm of Piper
& Funkhouser, and will always be found at the
counting room of the new firm
1t is expected that persons indebted to us will
come forward promptly and make a settlement Of
their claims.
Persons who are indebted to us upon open ac-
count for purchases before the war also expec-
ted to close the same by note or make pay ment at
interest Justice to ourselves requires that-a
more positive evidence of debt should be held.
PIPER 4 FUNkHOUSER.
March rs ls67-Spec and Vir copy.
March OQ-1 N,
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DONES WANTED.-I have purchased
ID the Winchester Bone Mil, which intend
to put up at my Mills on North River one mile
below Bridgewater, Rockingham county, Va, by
the middle of June next, to manufacture
BONE DUST 4 PHOSPHATE OF LIME,
and thus supply our Farmers with n pure and un-
adulterated article of Bone Dust aud Phosphate
Of Lime, as well as saw their lumber and grind
their wheat and corn.
l WILL therefore, on and after the 1st day of
June next, receive and pay Cash for all the Bones
that can be procured in this and other countless at
$1,000 PER TON OF 1000 POUNDS,
delivered at said Mill. wish to call the atten-
ton of the Country Merchants especially to the
above, for they trade goods for large guam
titles of bones at such rates rs will leave ample
pay for transportation, for which bones will pay
them cash at the time above stated, or give thu m
Bone Dust or Phosphate of Lime in exchange for
the same. Farmers may also do we'll to consider
this last proposition in reference TO exchange for
bone dust or phosphate Of lime for bones.
March 29-6m G.. w. BERLIN.
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A meeting of the Stockholders of the Vir-
ginia Central Railroad is called by the Direc-
tors to be held in the Office of the Company
in Richmond, on the 22nd Of May, to con-
slider the expediency of authorizing the
Board of Directors, in conjunction with the
Commissioners of Virginia and West Virgin
ia, to negotiate for the completion Of the
Coyington and Ohio Railroad This is a
step in the right direction and every effort
should be made by those interested to COM
plete this great feeder to the Va. Central
Railroad.
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TMPORTANT NOTICE. /.

JAS A. PIPER, D. W. DRAKE l. GEO. A. Pr
PER have this day formed Co-partnership uD-
der the name Of PIPER, DRAKE & CO., for the
purpose of carrying on the DRY GOODS BU-
SINESS in the Store Room lately occupied by
Piper & Funkhouser, and special and pressing
invitation is given to the friends of both the old
firms of Piper & Funkhouser and Drake Piper,
and the public generally, to give the new firm as
much of their patronage as in days gone by, and
they promise in return to sell goods at as low
prices as they possibly can.
As we are about entering upon new business,
we have adopted the motto of "Short Profits and
Quick Sales" and intend to eon6ne ourselves as
near as practicable to the Cash System, which
will enable us to sell goods much lower than un-
der the old system of long credit.
eintend to give our undivided attention to
the business. and will spare no pains in keeping
ourselves posted in all the nice points of trade, so
that persons, who may patronise us, may rest as
sured that no unreasonable profit shall be charg-
ed for our goods.
rs We expect in short time to have select
stock of all the newest and best styles of goods in
market, and if we mistake not we will be enabled
to sell them at from 10 to 70 per cent lower than
they could have been sold had we purchased ear
lier REMEMBER THIS.
PIPER, DRAKE l. co.
March 20 eft MD-Spec & Vir Copy
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Although we were opposed to the calling
ofa Convention by the Virginia Legislature,
under the S. S. S. Bill, preferring decidedly,
if come it must. that it should be forced upon
US, yet we have not thought proper to join
IN the cry of some Of our contemporaries
against the Virginia Senate for having, un-
der the provisions Of the Military Recon
struction bill, before the introduction of the
Wilson Supplementary bill, passed law
calling Convention. At our stand point
we thought the action of the Senate wrong,
but we have no idea that any craven or un-
patriotic impulse induced the Senate, by an
almost unanimous voice, to enact the law
When one looks over the roll of those voting
in the affirmative, and finds there the names
Of those venerable and honorable gentlemen
Washington, Gait, Crockett, Carter, Alex
ander, Coleman, Miller, Boiling, Mitchell
and our own Senator, (who for great por-
ton of the session has been President pro
tenn, the intimation that such men would,
under their oaths and due sense of their
high obligation to the State, do deed cal
culated to degrade themselves and their con-
stituents, needs no other refutation than its
mere statement. Editors are as liable to err
as Legislators, and for ourselves we have
charity enough to believe that they were en-
deavoring to do the best they could, in their
opinion, for our down-trodden Common
wealth. We deem it unwise at this dread
hour to resort to acts or words calculated to
create asperity of feeling, when we should be
shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart in
common cause.
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FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 90, 1867.

We publish elsewhere the Bill supplement
aary to the Military Reconstruction Bill,
which was passed over the Presidents veto
by vote of 40 to in the Senate and ia
to 25 in the House, and is, therefore, a law.
In this bill, together with the propcecd Con-
stitutional Amendment and Military Recon
struction bill, the South has the programme
Of construction, to the completion of which
the time and labors &c will not say wisdom
Of Congress has been devoted for the past two
years. The best comment on the various
acts Of Congress. on this subject, have been
the veto messages of the President, which for
clearness, concisencss and critical analysis,
and desire to preserve the Government OF
our Fathers, are remarkable State documents.
The message vetoing the Supplemental Bill,
which we publish in connection with it, is an
able paper and forcibly shows up this bill,
Our readers will, no doubt, read the message
carefully, but we desire to call their attention
to a point made by the President that the
present Constitutions of the Southern States
are, if possible, more republican than when
the Union was originally formed, and thai
Congress demands no change to be made In
their provisions, except those which confne
the suffrage to whites and draws this patent
conclusion, that, in the exercise of the Con
stitutional provision to guarantee republl-
can form of government to every State in the
Union, if Congress makes Gas seems to be
the case) negro suffrage SINE qua non, then
reconstruction might as well commence ii
Pennsylvania or Ohio (both having lately
refused TO allow negroes to vote) as in Vir-
ginia or North Carolina.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-03-29

Winter Garden one of the finest and most
popular theatres in New York city, was de-
stroyed by fire, on Saturday morning last.
The loss is estimated at 5000, 900. Edwin
Booth, the Trag edian losthis entire wardrobe,
among which we're many valuable family
Jewels and other relics which cannot be re-
placed, valued at from $50 900 to 500, 900.
The Southern Hotel adjoining was consider
ably damaged by fire and water.