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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-07-25

PRoGREss OF LIBERIA. ac-
counts received from Liberia are
uniformly favorable as regards the
condition and prospects of the A fri
can republic. Agriculture is still the
leading interest, and the facility
with which largo crops of sugar,
rice, coffee, &C., are raised and put
into market, gives promise of an i'm
portant development. One of the
largest planters raised cane enough
last year to make 100000 pounds of
sugar, 5000 gallons of molasses and
1000 gallons of syrup. AS wealth
Increases, mercantile enterprise be-
comes more extended, the manufac-
ture of sugar is conducted on a more
liberal scale, and the principal towns
boast of better specimens of archi-
lecture. Ten years ago, there were
only two sugar farms on the banks of
the st. Paul River; now there are
more than 100.
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REPRESENTATION FROM THE REBEL.
STATES. Mr.. Mason, the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Iowa, in
an able letter, says:
But the right of q rebel State to
representation is no longer an open
question. 1t has long been settled
by the acquiescence of the very men
who now, for purposes of their own,
most vehemently deny such right.
The State of Virginia was represent
ed in the Senate of the United States
throughout the war. Not Western
Virginia only. but old Virginia, the
backbone of the rebellion, the fore
most among all the revolted States
in furnishing men and money and
generals for the war; and yet at the
very time when her Lees and her
Johnstons. her Jacksons and her
Stuarts, her Ewells and her Mosbys,
were Drawing and often defeating our
armies in the field, invading the loyal
States, placing the capital of the ma
ton in jeopardy, and causing our
chief officials to keep an eye to the
means of their own escape-while all
this, L say, was being done, there sat
John s. Carlisle in the Senate cham
ber, the representative of that same
Virginia, voting, consulting, debat-
ing-the peer of the Summers and
Wades of that body, with his seat
just as unquestioned rs theirs-until
the end of his term of office, in
March, 1865, when the war was vir-
tually at an end. 1t is not now too
late, with any show of consistency, to
raise the question of the right Of
representation, now that the war is
over, now that the rebellion is effect
ually crushed, now that not hostile
gun has been fired, nor hostile arm
raised, for more than two years; now
that Virginia is as peaceful as Ohio,
and South Carolina rs "loyal" as
Massachusetts, and as little likely to
engage in rebellion against the Fede-
raj Government; now that throughout
the length and breadth of the South
there goes up one general and fervent
wish for the return of peace, and or
der, and fraternity, and union. The
men who have seized upon the abso-
lutte control of the Government at
Washington, are the only obstacles
to the immediate advent of returning
peace, and union, and prosperity.
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HE CoNvOCATIoN AT ROME. Tho
French papers have some interesting
facts with regard to the Episcopal
Oonvocation in Rome. It is stated
that the address to the Pope, signed
oythe bishops, had 537 signatures.
1t seems, therefore, that more than
one1half of all tho bishops of the
Catiplic world had followed the in
yitatRn of the Pope. The bishops of
each nation held q special meeting
1or APPOINTING the members of the
committee charged with drawing up
the address. In this committee,
france Ras represented by four hi.
shops; Austria, Spain, Italy, North
america dpd the East by three each /;
England, ireland and Prussia by two
each, and BELGIUM, Holland, Bavaria,
sSwltzerlana, Portugal, Brazil and
MEXICO bylone each. The Eastern
bishops in. the committee were tle
Patriarch of Jerusalem, the Arch
bishop Primate of the Catholic Ar
mn,enlans, and Vicar Apostolic Of
China.
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News Items.

RICHMOND, July 24.-Gen. Brown
has issued an order discontinuing the
issuing of rations to the destitute.
authorized by the Congressional ap-
preparation. fund, after the Goth of
August.
New York, July 24.-The steamer
Persia. with European dates to the
l4th instant, has arrived. The 10Th
OF July was celebrated by the Orange
men. Everything passed off quietly
in Belfast. $4,000 persons passed in
procession without molestation.
DIR. Higgins, Bishop of Derry,
died suddenly on the 18th.
The steamer Columbia, from Ha-
vana on the Goth, has arrived. The
Cuban Government is taking great
precautions against Revolutionary
movements. Yellow fever still pre-
vailed, but is less malignant. Sugar
trm and active, at 815@S24 reals.
Advices from Mexico report the
arrest of Necrete. the late Maxi
milian's Chamberlain. Father Fischer
and others, including Marquee, have
not lbeen found. Col. Redone and
Gov. Vidaurri were shot.
Internal revenue receipts to-day
$739,OOO.
The military post established along
the routes which are to become the
great national thoroughfares, cost
the Government in 1864, $25, ,OOO,-
900, and in 1865. $57, 100000 and
from present Indications $3.50, O,OOO,-
600 will not cover the expenses for
the past twelve months.
SAVANNAH, July 24.-W. G. Wylly,
one Of our Oldest and most respected
citizens. and O veteran of the war of
1872, died last night.
CHARLESTON, July 24.-Sailed-
Ship Galena, Frontera, Mexico;
schooner Lilly, Baltimore.
GALVESTON, July y24.-Leading cot
ton factors agree that the worm is
already in the cotton-not the true
worm, but the gross worm, which
precedes the destructive worm fifteen
days The freedmen, in some places,
have not worked well. All accounts
agree that the crop will at least equal
that of last year.
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A letter from Wiesbaden gives some
details of q singular calamity that has
befallen that town. A few evenings
since, a water-spoht, greater than
those of 1910 and 1882, broke over
the place, causing incalculable da-
mage. The Kursaal had been all but
destroyed. Enormous stones and
articles of furniture were carried
along the streets by the torrent,
which in one place made channel
for itself nearly six metres deep.
Three houses are said to have fallen
and the celebrated Neroberg vine be-
longing to the Duke of Noyan is to-
tally ruined. Two women and three
children are reported to have pc
rished. In the evening, the mud and
the dead fish-several carp had been at
an ~, earlier hour caught in the Place du
Theatre-exhaled so bad an odor that
an epidemic is feared. Some persons
say that they felt the shock of an
earthquake.
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SOUTHERN GENERALS. We take
the following from the New York
Times:
We feel impelled to say a word
in behalf of the military skill, the
valor and ability of certain OF the
rebel generals whom the Southern
papers are now denouncing for in
competence and imbecility in the
field. Since JEFF. Thompson, Chal-
mers, Hindman, and especially Long
street, have come out in favor Of re-
construction under the military bill,
we find that their services to the re-
bellion are spoken of with utter con-
tempt, and Longstreet is said to have
proved himself failure and a
nobody" throughout the entire
war. Now, we are quite certain tkat
Longstreet, Mt least, was not rated in
this way by any of our Generals or
by our soldiers who fought him. 1t
was conceded by them all that, with
the exception of Stonewall Jackson,
Lee had no subordinate, and the
Confederacy no upholder, who ten
dered more efficient and signal mill
tary service than Longstreet. We
need not recall the long list of terfi-
Ele battles in which he and his corps
figured, nor the hundred times in
which he put to test the genius of
our greatest commanders. We are
sure that neither Grant, Hancock,
Sheridan nor Warren would speak of
Longstreet, MS soldier, in any such
way as he is now spoken of by his
unreconstructed citizens of the
South: But in daring to exercise his
own judgment upon politics, he
could expect nothing better than he
is receiving at the hands of the
Southern "bomb-proofs."
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Much attention is now being paid,
in the interior of Louisiana, to the
propagation of new grass, called
the Hungarian, which yields two tons
to the acre on bottom lands. If 80,
and it equals timothy, and it is sure
crop, it is far better than cotton. Let
cotton go to Egypt and Brazil, so we
raise our own stock, grow our own
food, and make just enough of the
cotton, OF other snch crops, to reap
the fair and average per centage of
farming profit. Then, and not till
then, will we get rich.
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TINAMCKAr AND CoSffnfiTs6Tsutlfall,IS. = 81 4,


New YoRk, July "a Noon.Cot.
ton quiet; middling uplands 27(d
2T1G. Flour rather more active and
steady, with sales of T,400 barrels;
Southern 80. 30916.75. Wheat very
dull and 2(93c. lower. Corn O shade
firmer, with sales Of 5000 bushels;
mixed Western 9S(6S1. Oats 1c.
better. Beef quiet. Pork heavy,
with sales of 500 barrels; new mess
$23. 80. Stocks strong. Money 5(a6.
Gold 3934. Sterling exchange I0]6
@102a. %
z p. M.-Stocks strong. Gold
39%. Cotton irmer; sales 900 bales,
at 27@271S. Wheat 5000. lower.
Corn 99@$1.01. Mess pork 1913. 90.
The Express financial article saws
the money market is still unchanged,
the supply exceeding the demand.
BALTIMORE, July 24.-Cotton firm
er, and stock scarce; low middlings
24C@241a. Rio coffee market favors
buyers. Flour steady. Corn scarce
prices unchanged. Mess pork 25(0
25ts. Bacon-rib sides 151@: clear
rib 13I.
CINCINNATI, July 24.-Flour de-
clining-family $9.5001O; more sell
ers than buyers. Wheat firm-some
shipping. Corn dull and unchanged.
Pork in good demand. Bacon-sales
10000 lbs. shoulders 10; clear sides
16.
New ORLEANS, July 24.-Sales of
cotton $50 bales; market dull-low
middling 241a(925; receipts 25 bales.
Sugar and molasses nominally nm.
changed. Flour quiet, and stock
light-super $10,75; double extra SO.
Corn firm. Pork-holders very firm,
asking $2G.50. Observation-Disclosures
scarce, at 14114 clear sides 1614M16ls.
Lard quiet and firm-stock of tierces
exhausted; holders of kegs asking
14L. Gold 40. o
AUGUSTA, July 25.-Cotton active;
market closed less firm, but prices
unchanged; sales 2S2 les-middling
24@241a. Q
MOBILE, July 24.-Sales of cotton
$50 bales-low middlings 221s; re-
ceipts 46 bales; market closed firm.
SAVANNAH, July 24.-Cotton quiet
and little easier; sales ITO bales:
middllngs 25925L.
CHARLESTON, July 24.-Cotton mar
kct steady; sales 81 bales; middlings
25la@26. Receipts $50 bales.
LIvERPooL, July 24-Noon.-Cot-
ton unchanged, with sales of 10000
bales. Breadstuffs and provisions
unchanged.
LONDON, July 24-Noon. .-Consols
9414. Bonds 7234.
LONDON, July 24-2 P. M.-Con-
soils and bonds unchanged.
LIVERPOOL. July 24-2P. M.-Cot-
ton and breadstuffs unchanged.
LONDON, July 24-Evening. Con
soils 9414. Bonds 7234.
LIVERPOOL, July 24-Evening.-
Cotton irregular-uplands 1O14; Or
leans 10la; sales 10000 bales.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-07-25

1HR SULTAN OF TURKEY AT Lon.
DoN.-The reception of the Sultan at
London was q grand affair. A cable
despatch of the 18th says:
He was received by the Prince of
Wales, acting for the Queen, and by
his Majesty -Ismael, the Sovereign Of
Egypt, and was by them escorted to
the city OF London, where he met an
unusually brilliant and imposing re-
ception.
The streets through which he D ass
sd were covered with flags and
strcamers, and spanned by arches
and festoons of flowers.
The entire route of the procession,
from the railroad depot to Bucking-
ham Palace, was guarded on both
sides by unbrokcn lines of troops;
behind, vast crowds were packed in
solid mass on the walks, and
crowded every window and house
top. When the Sultan, accompanied
by the King of Egypt and the Prince
OF Wales, passed between the lines
OF soldiers, the people manifested
great enthusiasm, and the shouts of
welcome, cheering, and waving of
handkerchiefs and banners didn't
cease till the Sultan had entered the
gates OF the palace. The royal resi-
dence had been placed in state of
complete preparation for the Sultan,
and will be occupied by him during
his stay in London.
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LIGHTHOUSES OIL.
NOnslEzkplosiYelI

IN introducing this article, it's merits are
Il 30 evident that it must supercede any
other artificial light hitherto offered to the
teed: Non-e1ploslve.e foD Free from gasssn sreaae
Will not soil the hands or clothing. Is
more brilliant and cheaper than gas. Pro-
duces soft and beautiful light. Is not
trying to the eyes. Can be used in any
ordinary lamp by simply changing the
6nrner. The Oil, Lamps, Wicks, Burners,
Chimneys, &c., on hand, and lamps altered
without charge. For sale, and may be seen
burning, after dark, at the store of the
undersigned, Main street. -
GEO. SWIMMERS.
n. B.-Kerosene Oil, of purest quality
ana lowest price, constantly on hand.
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United States Internal Revenue.
COLLECTORS OFFICE.

COLUMBIA, s. O., July II, 1867.
NOTICE is hereby given that all TAXES
IN assessed in Lexington District, for
the years of 1864, 1865 and 1866, are now
past due, and payment thereof is REQUIRED
to be made to A. II. MONTEITH, at the
following places:
Kinsler's Ferry, August /, and 8.
Lexington G. H., August and6.
Sanford Eleazer's Store, August 10.
The Taxes can also be paid at the Col
iector's Office, over Hopes store, at Colum-
date penalty will be added to all default
ers. A. S. WALLACE,
July Is Collector Sd District s. C.
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sNaUnAR Discovery, -1ae Wash

M 81 y . ta b.
< S1EauIAR Discovery. .-Ihe Wash
ington Epening Union, of Monday,
has . lengthy communication from
Thos, 9. Rafiinson, Fellow of the Roy
al Society of North Antiquaries, Co.
penhagen. giving description of a
discovery made by him recently of a
Runic inscription on a rock near
Georgetown, which, translated, reads
as follows:
"Here rests Syasy, or Susan, the
fnlr-haired, person from the East
OF Iceland, the widow of Kjoldr, and
sister OF Thogr, children of the same
father, twenty-five years of age. Nav
God make glad her soul. 1051."
Upon digging in the earth at the
foot OF the rock, a few human teeth
and bone, which crumbled, upon
being exposed to the air, two Roman
coins, and three bronze trinkets were
found.
Above the Runic inscription the
name OF "W. Langley, 1853" is
carved. Mr.. Raffinson considers the
discovery of these things as unques-
tionable proof of the Icelandic voya-
gers to this continent, but it is still
more remarkable, as confirming n
statement made in an ancient manu-
script, which was dug out of the ruins
OF tho ancient college at Skalholt,
in Iceland, in which it is affirmed
that, under the command of Her
bardur, his countryman sailed in
Southern direction from Vineland,
Tor Martha's Vineyard where they
wintered, and thence up q sen and
various rivers, the ascent in one of
which was stopped by succession
of falls, to which, from their shape
and foamy appearance, they gave
the name of Hvidsderk, or white
shirt; and the MS. further states that
in this neighborhood the illegitimate
daughter of Snorri was killed by q
small spear Tor arrow and buried
near the spot where she fell
1t was the reading Of this narrative
which led Mr.. Raffinson to explore
the country around these falls, and
his labors have been abundantly re-
warded-if he has not been hoaxed.
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Sister Fanny Jordon died at ST..
Joseph's Sisterhood, near Emmetts-
burg, Maryland, recently, in her
eighty-fifth year. She was one of tle
original band with Mrs. Seaton at the
organization of the order in this
country, and the last survivor of the
founders. Ten years ago, her semi
centennial anniversary as Sister of
Charity was celebrated, being the
first instance Of one who had been a
member of the community.
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ARE GREENBAcKs LIABLE TO TAXA
TIoN?-This question has been
brought up in Cincinnati court, by
Faran and Mclean, of that city, who
have applied to Judge Storer for an
injunction to restrain the Auditor
and Treasurer of Hamilton County
from collecting tax charged against
them on S31, 900 held by them in
United States legal tender currency.
The plaintiffs assume that, by the
statute, no State, County or national
tax can be charged on Government
issues, whether bonds, Treasury
notes, or other evidences of debt.
TO test the question, the Judge grant
eda provisional injunction, with leave
to the defendants to show cause why
the order should not be made abso-
lutte.
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Notice to MERCHANTS.

IT WILL call on them on SATURDAY
Il NEXT, the 9th instant, to receive Their
returns for the second quarters taxes for
the year 1867, which was due on the 1st
day OF July, 1867. THO. 81. WADE, 20
July 25 I n O n n
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DR.. Robinson, of Bennington, Mi
chlgan, died on Sunday night of last
week, in consequence of sprinkling
chloroform on his pillow to produce
sleep.
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The Boston TrdueNe, states that a
lady in Reading, Mass, while con-
versing with some callers, suddenly
turned pale, and, sinking into n
chair, exclaimed, did you hear that
gun? it affected me strangely" and
wept inconsolably. Her visitors had
heard no report, and it afterward
appeared that no gun had been fired
at that time on the place. News
came, however, that her brother, re-
siding 100 miles away, was at that
very hour fatally shot by the acci-
dental discharge of his fowling-piece,
while hunting in grove near his
house
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The New Orleans Times protests
with great earnestness against the
popular idea that New Orleans is
sickly. 1t bases its argument upon
official figures. Since the 1st of ia
nuary, 1887 persons have died in tie
city. Of these, 728 were children
under one year of age. OF the 80
deaths from consumption, probably
the greater number wero cases of per-
sons coming to the city as q last at
tempt for life. The entire number
of fatal cases of fevers was only 143.
Considering the fact that the city has
been crowded with freedmen, death
rate of one in 5000 is certainly not
very large.
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Notice

s hereby given to all persons who may
i hold receipts or other obligations from
me, to which have neglected to affix the
proper revenue stamps, that I am ready
and willing, at any time between this and
the first day of August next, to comply
with the requirements of the revenue laws.
Such omissions have been accidental and
not Intentional. r. N. LEWIS.
July y23 tuth2t
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NOTICE.
BREAKFAST HOUSE.

DASSENGERS leaving Columbia on
Il the South Carolina Railroad by the
morning train, can get BREAKFAST az
Kingsylle, as ample time is allowed for
that purpose. G. A. SCOTT,
Juno 30 Proprietor
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Acacia Lodge No. 94,lA. M.

1AOtEO4W HUtKS0O 11O' U@j'1A T III,
a A regular communication of this
WyFLodge will be held THIS EVENING,
w 25th inst, at 8 o'clock, at Odd Fell
lows Hall. The Second Degree will be
conferred. BY order of the W. NJ.
* July 81 /
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MOUNTAIN AIR.

MOUNTAIN AIR.
S4l PERSONS who desire to pass the
A'I~ summer months in a healthy section,
where good water and mountain air are
the principal attractions, can be comfort
ably accommodated at the WALHALLA
HOTEL. Trains now run daily each way.
Board by the week Or month at reasonable
rates. d. BIEMANN.
july 3mO
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-09-13

nsA. If the radicals carry OIL. their
principles to the logical conclusion they
will refuse to admit another conservative
to seat in Congress Opposition is
rebellion. The radical rule is simple
despotism, against which opposition
cannot be permitted. Abiding to Mr..
Wade's blasphemous speech at Ports
mouth, Ohio, the National hteIligencer
speaks as follows:
According to Senator Wade, Kentucky
is rebel because her people would not
elect radicals to Congress. Therefore,
the men who were recently elected to
Congress arc rebels, and are to be ex-
cluded from their seats. This would put
that great State, which sent far more
native Union soldiers to the war than
Massachusetts, in the same situation as
we're the ten rebel States before Congress
established military despetism over
them.
Mr.. Wade, to be consistent, must apply
the same rule to the other border States,
like Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia
and perhaps Missouri. Tho report is
going the rounds of the papers, that
Senator Sherman has said that the next
Congress would be entirely radical. So
remarkable declaration would indicate
that no Democrat elected from any Con-
gressional District of the North is to he
admitted to seat. Long since we pre-.
dicted that this would be the landing
place of the radical disunion party.
1t will be next held by these radical
disunion traitors, that if the Northern
States are so rebellious and disloynl as TO
be unfit to be represented in Congress,
then their local governments are disloyal
or rebellious, and military despotisms
shall be established over them. Why
not station troops in such Demo.
cratic" or copperbead, or rebel "
Congressional District as Berks, in
Pennsylvania To this must we come
ut last, if the Wade Sherman idea is to
rule All of their class talk of going on
in the logic of events, to tho establish
ment of true republican government,
by breaking over State barriers. Here
is an issue of vital Importance to the
great central States, where the struggle
of people against the corrupt and tyran.
nical congressional usurpers has assumed
form, whether whites are to control
the destiDies of the nation and the con-
tinent, or the blacks.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-09-13
Artless Simplicity.

One of the sweetest incidents which we
have noticed for many day-And one
which shows the effect of early training,
assisted by pure and undefled imagin-
alton has just fallen under our observa-
ton. 1t is thus related
A lady visited New York city, and saw
on the sidewalk a ragged, cold and
hungry little girl, gazing wistfully at
some of the cakes in a shop window.
She stopped, and taking the little one by
the hand, led her into tho store Though
she was aware that bread might be better
for the cold child than cake, yet desiring
to crafty the shivering and forlorn one,
she bought and gave her the cake she
wanted. She then took her to another
place, where she procured her shaw
and other articles of comfort. The CRATE
ful little creature looked tho benevolent
lady full in the face, and, with artlsss
simplicity, said: Are you God's wife y
Did the most eloquent speaker ever en-
ploy words to better advantage7