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The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-08-14
A Rebel Cr.lumny Refuted.

To tie Editors ofMe TriJune-lSiirs
Your letter of the l4th is received
inclosing a statement now going the
rounds of the Democratic press, thai
the records of the War Depart
ment show:
EIDE raj prisoners held South. 966 9Ii
Rebel prisoners neld North. 200 90,
ReSsi pr,sanens died .a
In answer / send the following
official document, which exposes the
falshoOd of the statement:
Seth Congress, lst Session, Execu-
tive Document No. 152, House OF
Representatives.
PRISONERS.
LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR,
In dnswer to resolution of The
House, July =, relahce TO the mum
Der of Union and Rebel soldiers sohO
died,ohiie held as prisoners ofscar:,
July %, 1868 Laid on the table
and ordered to be printed.
War Department, Washington City,
July 10, 1S6S.-SI:: In compliance
with resolution of the House OF
Representatives, dated July II, di-
recting the Secretary of War to re-
port the number of Union and Rebel
soldiers who died while held as pris-
oners of war, l have the honor to
state that it appears by report OF
the Commissary General of Prison
ers
l. That twenty.six thousand four
hundred and thirty-six deaths OF
rebel prisoners of war are reported.
2. That twenty-five thousand five
hundred and seventy-six Union SOL
diers are reported as having died in
Southern prisons.
The report also shows that two
hundred and twenty thousand Rebel
prisoners were held in the North,
and about one hundred and twenty
six thousand nine hundred and forty
Union prisoners in the South.
Yeur obedient servant
EDWIN d. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
The Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Speaker
of the House of Representatives.
This shows that as the record stood
two years ago, of all the unin.' r., ::
onsrs held Sent,r''fTo o per cent. dled
in the hands of the rebels, while but
lllper cent. Of theirs died in our
hands. But the difference against
the rebels is tar greater than appears
from this document. We have q
complete official record of all rebel
prisoners who died in our hands, but
we have been able only to make out
the record of Union prisoners who
died in rebel hands as the proofs o.
death have been filed from time tC
time in the War Department or th'
Pension Office. Thousands OF pen
sioners are being added to the lis
each year, as the proofs of death arr
finished. The document | send yol
is the only official record that ha
been published.
Very truly yours,
| .r r J.A. GARFIELD,
IC.,;ttoo m, MILITARY fairs Hons
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-08-14
e. T.DU N N
Attorney at Law,

VITILL practice IN H&ncoeb and adjoining
w counties. ~illAakes collections q yery
reasonable fxtes. regular authorized
Claim Agent. win prosecute elsims for Boun
ty, Back Pay, Comm utation Of Rations, Lost
Horses, q any other clsims against the Gov
srnmsnt. A Justice of the Peace, viii make
Deeds and Mortgages, and always promptly
attend to 81 business estrusted TO bis care
wilson's Bio6t, lain street, Ffng, ohio.
dec9Sno32.ly
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-04

1869, oil smoking and fine cut tobsac,.. !.
co and snuff, and after July, 1869, oil
other manufactured tobacco is To- be
deemed as having been manufactured
after the passage of the Act, and
will be required to be put up in
packages and stamped as required by
law. Every dealer in domestic or
imported segars, having more than
5000 segars on hand, must file a
sworn inventory every month until
the 1st of April, 1869, ut which date
all segars shall be decreed to have
been manufactured since the passage
of the Act, and are required to be
stamped accordingly.
Howard, of the Freedmen's Bu-
reau, started South, this afternoon,
to visit the principal Bureau sta
tions, aud make preparations to
wind up the concern by January.
Three gamblers we're Lynched at
Sioux City, last week, for cheating.
The sub-Treasury business to. day
was heavy. Receipts $16,517, 900;
payments SIS. $780, 900; balance $780,
628,O0O.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-04
Affairs In Washington.

WASHINGTON, August 3.-McCul-
loch has issued orders to the heads of
departments, to classify clerks ac-
cording to their capacity and atten-
tion to business, with O view of re-
tanning the more skillful and faithful.
Rollins issues the following order:
"Eyery dealer in manufactured to-
bacco having more than twenty five
pounds, or dealer in snuff having
more than ten pounds on hand, must
deposit Immediately with the AS
sistant Assessor of the proper district,
a sworn inventory OF the amount of
tobacco and snuff, respectively, and
a like inventory on the first Of every
month hereafter. After January i,
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-04
OBITUARY.

Died, on Monday morning, July the
18th, Mr.. SAMUEL VANCE, IN the seven
ty-ninth year of his age.
1t was manifest to his friends, for
months, that his tinc constitution was
rapidly giving way, yet 10 apprehension
of an early dissolution was felt, until a
very short time before his death, when
the alarm was given, and his devoted
children, living at a distance, fastened to
his bedside, but Only in time to see his
precious life pass away.
Mr.. Vance died near whore ho was born
and reared, and had lived nearly four
score years, universally respected and
beloved by all who came within reach of
his kind ana conSenial smile. Few men
have ever lived a more blamclcss life, and
few will bc moro missed by friends and
ncighbors, for ut home he was remarka-
bly, kind, ailectionate and cheerful; and to
his ncighbors charitable and obliging,
carrying out, to the best OF his ability, the
injunction ITO visit the fathcrlcss and the
widow in their aillietion, and to keep him.
self unspotted from the world"
MIR. Vance filed no place of public
honor or profit, but tho place filed by him
in the hearts of his family, friends and
neighbors, was of much moro value to him
than all the empty distinctions the world
can bestow. Indeed, few mon discharge
the various duties OF husband, father.
father friend. master, neighbor and
citizen in manner 80 blameless and sat
lsfactory as our deceased friend.
Mr.. Vance was thrice married-first to
Mrs. Armstrong, next to Mrs. Ligon, and
last to Miss Clarissa Simmons, who sur
wives him, and, with his children and
trends, mourns the loss Of one Cf the best
Of husbands.
The subject Of this notice was gentle
man OF the old school modest and unaf-
fected in his manners, strictly honest in
all his dealings, candid and faithful in his
friendship, always ready to sacrifice per-
sonai comfort for the good Of others, sit
may be truly said of him, he lived without
biemish and died without reproach."
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-04

John Dnpree, colored citizen of
Georgia, sis tired of the rnet-bag-
gers, and advises his brethren of the
African persuasion to vote with the
Democrats hereafter. He alludes TO
the false promises of the carpet-bag-
gers, and asks his colored friends:
"Have you got your mule?. I ain't
got mine yet; and they told us, right
here in Irwinton,. they was going to
give us one. Have you got your
forty acres of land? Have you got
your one thousand dollars in green
backs? Echo answers, Whar's your
mule, instead of Here's your mule"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-04
FINANCIAL AND COnIMERCIaL.

New YonK, August a-Ncon-
Flour 10@20c. better. Wheat 162c.
better. Corn 1c. better. Pork firm
mess 2S.621s. Cotton quiet, at SOFA
301a. Stocks firm. Money easy, at
3@4. Freigh!s quiet.
P. M.-Cotton quiet; sales 600
bales, at 301a. Flour 15@25c. bet
ter-chiefy lower grades; market
active for common to fair-Southern
extra 9@101a; good to choice 10. GO
@15. Wheat 3@5c. better, and
quite active. Corn 1@2c. better.
Mess pork firmer, at 1855. Lard
1874. Gold 4556. Southern bonds
more active and tirmer.
BALTIMORE, August 3.-Cotton
guiet-middling 80. Flour active.
Wheat in good demand-prime to
choice red 2.4O@2.5O. Corn-white
1.3O91.33; yellow 1.27 Pork firm,
at 80; rib sides II: shoulders 144@
141S.
r. CINCINNATI, August 3.-Corn dull,
at 80. Cotton dull-middling 295.
Lard 1S1s. Mess pork held at %. rs.
CHARLESTON, August 3.-Sailed-
barkentine Z. Williams, Philadel-
phia.
AUGUSTA, August 3.-Cotton mar
ket dull and inactive, to-day; no
transactions.
SAVANNAH, August Cotton oui-
ct; no -middlings 296291s.
New ORLEANS, August 3.-Cotton
very dull; no sales or exports. Gold
454: Flour slightly Grm-super-
fine s. Corn 92@1.O5. Pork-hold-
ers firm, at 3OT. Bacon-holders
firmer-shoulders 13E@132l; clear
III.
LONDON, August 3-3 p. m.-Con-
soils 94as. American securities heavy
and all declined. Bonds 7115@713i.
LIVERPOOL, August 3-3 p. NJ
Cotton firm and unchanged.
LONDON, August 3-Evening. -
Consols 944@942s.
LIVERPOOL. August 3-Evening. =
Cotton easier, butquotably unaltered.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-04

AT the ratification meeting at New
ark, New Jersey, (says the Alrey-
User, rad.,) the Opera House was
denseiy packed, and large crowds
were unable to obtain admission.
The music on this occasion was
furnished by the Jefferson band and
a quartette club. Mr. Ritter favored
the audience with a solo, of which
the following was the chorus:
We Polked them once,
We Pierced them well,
And then we Bucked them sore:
And with Frank Blair
Well make them stare.
That they may all Seymour.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-04

In all parts Of the country Demo
cratic clubs, white and colored, are
being formed. The Barnwell Senti-
net says: "Bamberg formed club q
few weeks ago, which now numbers
over 100 members and there are
accessions daily to its ranks. Black
vile, Williston, Aiken. Graham's
turnout and many other places in
the District have formed clubs, and
are all in fine working order. Our
Democratic friends have determined
that the ball shall be kept rolling,
and have rolled up their sleeves to
the work. "
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-04

LET EVERY CoLoRED MAN READ
THIs.-Some days since, n colored
man was up before Mayor Neff, on
some charge, and was fined $4,000.
At the instance of "rebel," who
spoke we'll of the prisoners charac-
ter, the Mayor reduced the fine to
$1,000, which was all very proper.
The prisoner had no money, and, in
company with policeman, he called
on number of his radical friends
to pay the fine, that he might be re-
leased from confinement and resume
his work. Old "uncle" Anthony
Howe was one to whom he applied,
but "uncle" Anthony didn't have q
dollar" His other radical friends,
without regard to race, color or
previous condition." were just like
uncle" Anthony Howe-.they
didn't have dollar" Finally, the
poor colored man, disappointed and
disheartened. applied to one of those
"d-n rebels" as the disunionists
are pleased to term their betters, and
he did have the money; and not only
had 1t, but cheerfnlly paid the amount
OF the fine, and the colored man was
released.
Let every colored man read and
ponder these facts, and he may then
be able to determine who are his
friends. = Wilmington ". g. J Sta.
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The (so-called) Legislature OF South
CSroIfHR--.Status and Color

The following is believed to be correct
list of the individuals at present holding
high court in Janney's Hall, and called
tho Legislature. The Districts (or Coun-
ties) which they claim to represent have
not been specified, from the simple fact
that many of tho so-called hail from very
remote points. If we have accidentally
made black man white, or uice versa, We
nope the unintentionally slandered indi-
vidual will inform us at once, so that the
correction can be made. Those who are
known to be Democrats are marked with
an asterisk+:
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-04

"a tne anenument, under the opera
tion of the previous question, and
resulted yeas, 90; nays, 167. So the
amendment was lost, q s,. ,,l,tfl
Ransier then moved that the bill
be amended by inserting $50, 900,
instead OF $40, 900, but this was also
lost. The bill was then passed. + I.
The House then adjourned.
SENATE.
JOINT resolutions from the House,
favorable to the removal of the poll
tical disabilities OF r. G. Camp and
A. E. Smith, were received and re.
ferred to the Special Committee on
Disabilities.
The same disposition was made of
the petition of A. l.. NIcCaslin, pray
ing the removal of his disabilities.
The bill to provide a Private Sec
retary for the Governor was read the
first time and referred.
An account of Il. Nj. Paysipger.
Sheriff of Newberry District, against
the State, was referred to the Com
mittee on Claims.
The bill to establish the Citizens
Savings Bank of South Carolina, was
taken up and, after some verbal
amendments, passed its second read
ing.
Wright introduced bill to fix the
salary of certain officers, which was
read the first time and referred. It
provides that the salary of Chief
Justice shall be $1,000, Associate
Justice $4,000, and Circuit Judges
81, 600, oil payable quarterly.
The favorable report of the Finance
Committee, on the petition of Mrs.
Mary A. G. Hobbs, of Lexington.
praying to be relieved from a double
tax, was agreed to and sent to the
House.
AS was also favorable report on
the petition of Edward Livingston.
to be relieved of his political disabi-
lities.
The House resolution, favorable to
the removal of the disabilities of r.
l.. Heriot, of Orangeburg, was
agreed to and returned to the House.
Randolph reported the bill to de-
fine the jurisdiction and regulate the
practice of Probate Courts, as en-
SfOSSeu, lor II Cnlrd reading.
The bill to quiet rights vested un-
der military orders, was taken up
and, after some amendments,
adopted.
The most important of these was
the following: "All persons who are
now holding Office, by reason of any
general or special orders issued by
any military commander in this State,
are hereby continued in Office until
their successors shall be elected and
qualified.
The bill TO authorize the Governor
to negotiate n loan of S125, 900, was
passed.
The Committee on interpretations
reported favorably, and by bill, on
the petitions of the Neptune and
Palmetto Fire Engine Companies, of
Greenville, praying acts of incorpo-
ration. The bills were read the first
time and ordered for consideration
tomorrow
The Senate then adjourned.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-04

EFFECT OF PAPER MONEY on LA
BORING MEN AND TAXPAYERS The
following are plain figures, which
every day-laboler and every tax
payer can understand. ga Laboring
Man" writes the following to the
Bangor Me Democrat:
For four days work, in 1852 I
could buy barrel of excellent flour.
For an equally good barrel, now, I
have to work eight days.
For one days work, in 1859.
could buy five pounds of tea. For
same days work, / can now buy but
two pounds.
For one days work, then, could
buy, thirty pounds of sugar. For
days work, now, L can get but fif-
teen pounds.
For a days work, in 1859, could
buy eight pounds of tobacco For u
days work, now, 1 can buy but
three pounds.
For a days work, in 1859, 1 could
buy fifteen pounds of coffee. For q
days work, now, L can buy but five
pounds.
For one months work, in 1859, I
could clothe myself and family for
one year. To do the same, now, I
am obliged to work two months and
II half.
might thus go through the whole
list OF articles that laboring man
aud his family consume. The fact
is, that we are permitted to enjoy
but one-half of the fruits of our
labor; the other half goes to the
public treasury.
Is it not time for me and my fell
low-laborcrs to look around us,
ascertain the cause of this robbery of
labor. and apply the remedy?
Indeed, it is time; but the cause
of thls robbery of labor is already
ascertained, and the people will
apply the remedy next November.
The "Laboring Man" is right, when
he says that the people are permitted
to enjoy but one-half of the fruits of
their labor, but he makes an error in
stating that "the other half goes to
the public treasury" If it did, the
public debt would be paid. 1t goes
to support the Southern negroes in
idieness; to keep the whites under
the bayonets of huge standing
army; and to enrich the plunderers.
This is what is done with the peo.
pies money; and the cormorants
who are sucking the life-blood of
labor and industry in the country
ask the people to sustain them in
another four years term of robbery.
The country cannot afford it.
! Ne,o York Word.
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TSle &Eaph.
Cable Despntchos,

LONDON, July 31.AA session iof
Pariiar>ent sxas prorogued to-day.
The Queen was not present. Her
speech was read by royal com mission.
It speaks of the foreign relations of
Great Britain us most friendly and
satisfactory, and says there is no rea-
son to fear war in Europe. No re-
ference is made to the United States.
The Abyssinian expedition has vim
dlcated the honor of the crown.
The cessation of the attempt at re-
bellion iISGreland renders the further
use Of exceptional powers gran ted by
the two Houses needless. The Queen
thanks the House of Commons for
supplies voted, and congratulates
them upon the passage OF the Irish
and Scotch reform bills, the public
school bill, the bill for the purchase
of telegraph wires throughout the
kingdom, and other bills of less i'm
portant character. The speech also
announces that q dissolution of Par
Lament will soon take place, in order
that the people may reap the advan-
tages of the more extended system
of representation recently provided,
conndenG OF their fitness for their
new duties, and that their voice will
be for the perpetuation of that civil
and religious freedom which is Sc
cured by the institutions of the
nation and the settlement of the
realm. ii t5-,
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, August 8.
A dreadful accident, occurred here
night before last. During the regu-
lar performance at Lang's Music
Hall the alarm of fire was raised,
when the entire audience Immediately
rushed for the doors, completely
blocking up the passage ways, and
the widest excitement prevailed.
When order was restored, by the re-
peated announcement that there was
no fire, itwas found that no less than
twenty-three persons mainly women
and children-had been crushed to
death in the stampede A large
number had limbs broken and we're
otherwise injured. l..
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News items.

CHARLESTON, August 3.-Cotton
dull; no sales; buyers Offering 2S for
middlings. Alarming reports of the
appearance of the cotton caterpillar
are brought in from several of the
sea islands. t'r'
SAVANNAH, August 3.-Reports
from crops in this section show that
the rains are injuring the plantations.
Florida reports are to the effect that
the worms are at work ON most of
the plan tations. IU4 i..,,a
New ORLEANS, August IA CO.
lored man, named Walter Rollins,
who has been making Democratic
speeches, was set upon by radical
crowd of whites and blacks, who
attempted to kill him. Governor
Yarmouth put a stop to the affair,
and addressed the radicals, who
afterwards quietly dispersed.
TALLAHASSEE, August 3.-The Le-
gislature, to-day, passed bill, re-
curing all telegraph operators in the
State to take the oath Of secrecy, and
making it fine and Imprisonment for
divnlging any message; also, bill
taking the election of delegates to
the electoral college from the people
and placing it in the Legislature;
also, passed bill, giving negroes
every privilege of whites, on ali rail.
roads. A similar bill, relating to
hotels, was introduced, and will pro
badly pass.
A large Democratic ratification
meeting and nominating Convention
was held here on. the 1st. W. D.
Barnes, of Jackson County, was
chosen for Congress. A large torch
light procession and fireworks ut
night. Everything passed off with
out disturbance.
ST.. Louis, August 3.-The recent
fight in Saline County is greatly ex-
aggerated. Drunken mon disturbed
the meeting. Only one was killed
and three wounded.
NASHVILLE, August Thirteen
general officers OF the Confederacy
are in convention to-day, to consider
ways and means of. reconciling po.
litical troubles in Tennessee.
r. j.. Brent, Esq, in card, pro.
nounces Buffers statement regarding
his arrest in Baltimore uneuuivocally
false.
st. Marie has at last received his
$1,000 for betraying Surratt, and is
af for Europe.
New YoRIl, August 3.-Charles G.
Aaipine, nlias Miles C'ReiIIy, editor
OF the Citizen, and late Register oi
the city, died this morning, from al
overdose of chloroform, to relieve
neuralgia.
ST.. LOUIS, August 3.-Extensive
preparations are in progression TO,
the grand encampment of the knights
Templar, next month. Commanders
will be present from all parts of the
country.
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Funeral Invitation

The relatives, friends and acquaintance
OF Mrs. P. b. Smith and family, and of
her son, DALLAS P. SMITH, are invited
to attend the funeral services of the latter,
at the Baptist Church, THIS (Tuesday)
MORNING, at 0 o'clock. y
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Hon. B. Fl. Hill, in his recent
speech ut Atlanta, Ga, said: ga gen
tleman who is the only real Governor
of Georgia, (meaning Ex-Governor
Jenkins, ''is making a case to test
the reconstruction laws, in which
jurisdiction is given the Supreme
Court by the Constitution.
A young woman astonished the
assembly ut ball in Nashville, by
gong into mesmeric trance between
the dances and treating them to
declamatlons, prayers and exhorta-
tons. Too much chicken salad and
champagne were the probable cause.
Charles E. Becker, keeper of q
lager-beer saloon in PHILADELPHIA.
was struck in the finger by a rattle
snake which he had on exhibition n
few days. He rushed to drug store.
but whiskey and drugs failed, and he
died in short time.
Gen. Butler said in speech, two
or three days ago, that President
johnson was more guilty than Judas
1scariot. It is very natural that
Ben. should have q kind feeling for
Judas, for the latter took sundry
pieces of silver and carried the bag.
The papers in different sections of
the North notice the death by
drowning of number of ladies.
Scarcely a day passes without case
OF the kind being reported.
Who gives employment to nine
tenths of the negroes in the South
Is it GUS" carpet-b -baggers or "us'
rebels? Any negro can answer this
question.
The White Cane Democratic Club,
of Orangeburg District, have passed
series of practicable and sensible
resolutions, looking to the encourage
ment of white immigration.
Tim Hurley, the facetious, has filed
his bond, and will, in short time,
assume his official duties as Coroner
of Charleston.
The dwelling Of Mrs. Frances Will
liams and the kitchen of Mr.. B. F..
Smith. both in Abbeville District.
were burned last week.
POSTPONED. The Republican
-hSho pioCSoSlou, announced
for last night, was postponed until
an early day.-Augusta Chronicle.
During the past month no fewer
than twelve policemen havo been
MANNED or murdered in New York.
In the week ending on Saturday,
the 25th inst, there were 7S1 deaths
in New York, and 296 III Brooklyn.
Report says that several parties in
New York are after Gen. Butler for
"acts done during the war"
Over seventh part of the State of
Mississippi is advertised for sale
under execution.
New York bonded warehouses hold
5000, 900 gallons of whiskey at pre-
sent.
The radicals harp on Grant. They
don't allude much to that Jews harp
he played in Tennessee.
The Asiatic cholera has broken out
in New York, and several deaths
have occurred.