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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-11
Charleston Advertisements,
CHARLESTON HOTEL.


CHARLESTON, S. c.
A MNCO THE undersigned having
feTaHSA-k taken charge Of the above
4 r1IFI 6l1' well-known HOTEL, re-
- eEz14e.zE4 spectfully informs his
friends and the travelling public that it has
been REFURNISHED, in all of it's depart
ments. The table will, at all times. be
including every delicacy in season, while
the cuisine will be unexceptionable. The
Bath Rooms attached to the Hotel are sup
piled with the celebrated Artesian Water,
and Hot, Cold or Shower Baths can be OBJ.
talned at any time. The same attention
will be paid to the comfort of the guests
as a. heretofore, and travellers can rely upon
in the United States. Tho patronage Of
the travelling public is respectfully solicit
ed. j. P. HORBACH, Agent,
Jan II 9mo Proprietor.
National savings bank., 1868-06-01
NASHVILLE.

The cashier, Mr.. j. J. Cary, Of this branch
writes: One serious drawback tothe people
in manyfocalities is the lack Of schools. With
reference to the crops, .the accounts are
favorable vegetation has, however, been
retarded by severe frosts in the month of
April. The promise, however, on the whole
is for fair crop. The demand for labor
is not SO great as it has been for several
back seasons. Laborers on farms are
getting 10 and II dollars per month and
found
The deposits of cash at this branch in our
Bank are $35, ,58l 80.
The following is from the Nashville Press
and Tines
a" INTERESTING MEETING.-On Monday
night large and interesting meeting was
held at st. Pauls colored church, on Cher
ry street, in South Nashville. The occa-
sion was not one of politics, but was for the
intoxicating into the minds of the colored
people thu greatimportance of economy and
money saving. D. w. Peabody and Judge
Lawrence delivered short addresses, urg-
ing upon their hearers the propriety of
making homes for themselves and acquiring
property. Several ether speeches were
made, anu the colored people appeared to
be deeply interested in the theme of the oc-
casion.
National savings bank., 1868-06-01
MEMPHIS.

This branch, under the care of Mr. A. NJ.
Sperry, cashier, is rapidly advancing in
prosperity. The colored mans bank there
is known to be perfectly safe. 1t promises
no great amount of interest or dividend,
but it is sure pay. We trust the colored
people will see where their true interest
lies, and put by their small earnings every
day. Each Saturday night let them put in
the bank all they have been able to save
during the week-be it more or less, and
they will be surprised soon, at the way it
will accumulate.
National savings bank., 1868-06-01
NEW ORLEANS.

The local Advisory Committee of our
branch at New Orleans has been remod-
eled and such notifications made as will
increase the patronage of this excellent
institution. Rev. DR.. Newman is chair
man of the committee G. S. Sauvinet,
cashier, is secretary, and with them are
associated such gentlemen as Messrs.
NAPLES, Crane, Bowie, Turner, Banks,
Pemberton, etc. And we now invite the
attention of our friends to the advantages
of such a bank, where they may deposit
their savings and receive a fair interest
thereon. If You have spare dollar put it
in the bank, and this will not only increase,
but will incline you to put another there.
National savings bank., 1868-06-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Branches of the Feedmans $ Sar-
ings and Trust Company. :.
AUGUSTA, GA.


We learn from this branch that many Of
the colored people are losing their situa,
tions on account of the way they saw fit to
vote at the recent election. Great rains
are prevailing there, to the damage of the
crops. Yet we know the promise to the
Industrious and the sober man never fails,
and in due time he will reap if he faint not.
We trust that at Augusta, as well as every
where else in our broad land, the day wilf'
soon come when no man will be prosecuted
for opinions sake. We advise the workers
to go on; save their dimes and coppers
buy themselves garden patches if they can
not buy acres and fortune, q, e, God will
favor the brave. Let every man strive to
become the owner of land--ever so small
tract even.
National savings bank., 1868-06-01
RALEIGH.

We have the pleasure Of announcing that
a very promising branch of our Bank has
just gone into successful operation in the
capital of the good old State of North Caro-
lima, with Mr.. G. w. Brodie as Cashier.
Gov Holden and other Of the best citizens
and most prominent men of the State, and
Col. Devices, member Of Congress elect,
have used their influence in establishing it,
and are still lending their aid. in its behalf.
National savings bank., 1868-06-01
CHARLESTON.

Owing to depositors at this branch
drawing their money temporarily for
farming and trading purposes, the amount
Of deposits here has fallen off in the
last month, but it still has no less than
S5o,465 O6 to the credit of its customers.
Considering that the branch has been in
operation but short time under the direc-
tlon OF our cashier, Mr.. N. Ritter, this
sum is highly creditable to the colored
people. We call upon them to strive and
keep good their balance, and show steady
gain OF deposits each month.
National savings bank., 1868-06-01
WASHINGTON, D. c., JUNE 1, 1868.

and furnished in plain but becoming
style, under the direction of our general
inspector, Mr. S. L. Harris 1t is expected
that a large amount of deposits will find
their way during the coming summer to
this branch.
National savings bank., 1868-06-01
RICHMOND.

The Despatch Of recent date says the
branch of the National Freedman's Savings
and Trust Company in this city seems to be
in prosperous condition. The last re1
port shows the amount Of deposits to be
81, GAL 3d. drafts, 1891 81; amount due
depositors, $14,407 46.
National savings bank., 1868-06-01
NEW BERN, n. C.

We clip the following from the Newbern
Republican:
FREEDMAN's SAVINGS AND TRUST Con-
PANY.-We learn from Mr.. G. A. Nelson,
cashier, that the Newbern branch of this
company is in very fourishing condition.
Notwithstanding the dull timesand scarcity
of money the deposits for the last two
months-March and AprA-amounted to
$ll ,976 05, while the drafts for the same
period amounted to $1O,l97 81, showing
net gain Of Sits "a since March l.. AT
this season of the year the drafts are unu
sually heavy, owing to many depositors in
vesting in land, and buying stock, imple-
lnents, seeds, and provisions for carrying
on their farms. Tie amount due deposit
ors at this branch, May |, was $l5,663 81:
This is irrefutable evidence of the colored
mans ability and intention not only to
take care Of himself, but also to provide
for the necessities of the future.
National savings bank., 1868-06-01
BALTIMORE.

The branch of this Bank at this city is at
No. Z S. Gay street, and is under the direc-
ton of Mr.. S. Townsend, as cashier. 1t
has the entire confidence of all people who
take the pains to learn anything about it.
The amount of deposits there is S60,760
National savings bank., 1868-06-01
BEAUFORT.

This branch, among the Sea Islands, is
well known to the laboring people of all
that region as a place of safe deposit. The
crops are believed to promise very well
there, and it is confidently expected that
the coming harvest will give every man
some money to put by for dark day. Mr..
Scovel, the cashier there, is always at his
post. He is careful in guarding the inter-
ests of the colored people against those who
are wiser but no honester than they. We
commend our patrons to him.
National savings bank., 1868-06-01
JACKSONVILLE.

The Bank in this beautiful southern
city is now in charge of Rev. w. L.
Coan, SO well known in connection with
his labors through the South in the
Tract Society's employ. He ENJOYS the
confidence Of all who know him, and will
build up our branch there. The Bank
office has recently been changed to the cor
ner Of Bay and Ocean streets, and reftted
National savings bank., 1868-06-01
LOUISVILLE.

The branch of our Bank in this splen-
did city has done great work for the
colered people, but yet it has not half
covered the ground open to it. An inter
esting report as to the moral condition of
the colored people in that city has been
prepared and forwarded to the principal
office, in Washington, by Mr.. Joshua Tevis,
colored man of Louisville. A few extracts
from that report will show the status now,
and afford ground for some comparisons
1t appears that there are there twelve
schools for colored children the number
of children enrolled on the school lists in
these schools, l l,5l5, and the average attend
ance l,090.
There are ten churches in Louisville for
colored people,; the number of church
members in them 4,230, and the number
attending, as church and congregation,
6,3l0. We may state that at the COM
mencement of the rebellion there were but
three such schools in that city, with an at
tendance of two hundred and fifty. Much
of this great increase is due to the energy
and kind care of General O. o. Howard,
who has directed the influences of the Gov
ernment into these benefcent channels.
About thirty per cent. of the population of
which we speak, are readers, and about six
per cent. are already able to write. As a
general thing these people are Industrious
It's true that some idle persons hang about
the city, but the cause of it to a great ex-
tent is, that bands of regulators in the
country districts have spread q system of
terrorism, which prevents men who would
otherwise gladly become farm laborers from
going out to work beyond the reach of the
city patrol, who would protect them.
The estimated wealth of the colored pop
ulation Of Louisville is $500,OOO There
are IS painters, 90 carpenters, 25 brick
masons, 20 wagon makers, As blacksmiths,
20 plasterers, and Is shoemakers pursuing
their avocations here. The average daily
wages for laborers, mechanics, etc., 81 62
per day, and the average cost of living
about 81 %.
The above facts were ascertained by q
careful canvass of the city, and, we think,
show fair average condition of, the col
ored people, highly creditable to them. We
add, they have on deposit at their own
Bank there S56,7l5 Is. Can't they double
it in q year2
National savings bank., 1868-06-01
SAVANNAH.

SAVANNAH.
Our Cashier, Rev. |. w. BrinckerhoA,
writes as regards>the future of the colored
people here, the elements Of success are ap-
parent.
Their Industry
The rapid increase Of depositors and de-
posits in this branch of the Freedmans
Savings and Trust Company show that they
realize increasingly that industry, econ
omy, and the safe-keeping Of their smallest
savings, are essential to their prosperity
and influence as people. AS the over
flowing cisterns indicate the quantity Of
rain drops thatwere gathered in the clouds,
so the Savings Bank, we'll patronized, un-
mistakably shows the quantity of mint
drops and greenbacks gathered by an in
dustrious people. Nothing demonstrates
industry and economy more clearly than the
Savings Bank.
Their Intelligence
lie is an intelligent man, comparatively.
who knows that he is ignorant. And he
will surely become fully intelligent who
feels so much the need of knowledge as to
strive to obtain it,
The school for the colored people here is
one of the finest school buildings in the
State. 1t is called BEACH INSTITUTE" in
honor of Alfred E. Beach, Esq, editor of the
Scientific american, New York city, who
purchased and donated the ground upon
which the building stands. 1t was erected
by the F'reedmens' Bureau at q cost Of
about fifteen thousand dollars. The Amer
ican Home Missionary Association have
erected on the same lot a pleasant and com
Portable home for the teachers, which cost
three thousand dollars. There are eleven
teachers. The scholars in the day and
night schools number nine hundred and
twenty-one, all of whom pay moderate
tuition fee. About three hundred and fifty
of these scholars also attend the Sabbath
school connected with the institute. There
are also several private schools kept by
colored persons, which are we'll attended.
Attention to Religion.
They have five churches in the city
Their church property, free of debt, is in
value $35, 900; besides defraying all other
expenses they pay to their pastors over $4,-
900 in salaries. The total city membership
of these churches is between four and five
Four of the churches have
fourishing Sabbath Schools, containing
l 900 scholars in ALL
Surely there is hope for a people Of whose
total population nearly one-half are church
members, more than one-tenth attend both
secular and Sabbath schools, and over six
hundred have in the Saving Bank an dver-
age deposit Of sixty dollars each, with the
number Of depositors increasing rapidly.
National savings bank., 1868-06-01

Our Cashier, Rev. |. w. Brinckerhoff,
writes as regards the future Of the colored
people here, the elements Of success are ap-
parent.
National savings bank., 1868-06-01
PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY AT

Augusta Georgia. Newbern North Carolina
Baltimore, Maryland New Orleans louisiana
Beaufort, South Carolina New York CITY
Charleston, South Carolina Norfolk Virginia
Huntsville, Alabama. Richmond Virginia
Jacksonville, Florida, Savannah, Georgia,
Louisville, Kentucky, Tallahassee Florida
Memphis Tennessee Vicksburp Mississippi
Mobile, Alabama, Washington, d. c.,
Nashville Tennessee, Wilmington, N. G.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-22

posted the earth. They were all of
faint hue, owing to the pale light they re-
ceived, although of every shade, and en-
tirely different from plants that | am IA
miliar with that vegetate upon dry land.
One in particular attracted my atten-
ton 1t resembled a sea-fan of immense
size, of variegated colors and the most
brilliant hue The fish which inhabit
these '' Silver Banks " found as different
1 kind as the scenery was varied. They
were of all forms, colors and sizes-from
the symmetrical goby to the globe-ike sun
fish, from the dullest hue to the changeable
dolphin; from the spots of the leopard to
the hues of the sunbeam from the harm
less minnow to the voracious shark.
Some had heads like squirrels, others
like cats and dogs, some small size resem-
bled the bull-terries Some darted through
scarcely be seen to move.
To enumerate and explain all the var
ous kinds of fish | beheld while diving on
these banks would, were [ enough of
naturalist so to do, require more than my
limits aliUu, lv, / iIIvvI that most
of the kinds of fish which inhabit the
tropical seas can be found there. The sun
fish, star fish, white shark and blue or
shovel-nose shark were often seen.
There were also fish which resembed
plants, and remained as fixed In their po-
sition as shrub; the only power they
possessed was TO open and shut when IN
danger. Some of them resembled the rose
when in full bloom, and were of all hues.
There were the ribbon fish. from four or
five inches to three feet in length; their
eyes are very large and protrude ike those
OF frog.
Another fish is spotted like leopard,
from three to ten feet in length. They
build their houses like beavers, in which
they spawn, and the male or female
watches the egg until it matches. | saw
many specimens of the green turtle, some
five feet long, which | should think would
weigh from 400 to 800 pounds"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-22
The Ocean Bottom.

Mr.. Green, the famous diver, tells singu-
lar stories of his adventures, when making
search in the deep waters Of the ocean.
He gives some new sketches what he saw
at the q Silver Bank" near Hayti; '' The
banks Of coral on which my divings were
made, were about 40 miles in length, and
from ten to twenty in breadth. On this
bank of coral is presented to the diver one
of the most beautiful and sublime scenes
the eye ever beheld The water varies
from ten to one hundred feet in depth, and
so clear that the diver can see from two
to three hundred feet when submerged,
with but little obstruction to the sight.
The bottom of the ocean, in many
places, is as smooth as marble floor; in
others it is studded with coral columns,
from ten to one hundred feet in height,
and from one to eighty feet in diameter
The tops Of those more lofty support a
myriad of pyrimidal pendents, each form
ing myriad more, giving reality to imag-
mary abode of some water-nymph. In
other places the pendants form arch after
arch, and as the diver stands on the bot
tom of the ocean, and gazes through in the
deep winding avenues, he finds that they
fill him with as sacred an awe as if he
were in some old cathedral which had long
been buried beneath old oceans wave
Here and there the coral extends even tc
the surface of the water, as if the loftier
were columns to those stately temples that
are now in ruins.
There were countless varieties of dimin
utive trees, shrubs and plants in every
crsvics of the corals where water had do.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-22

THE Blue LAws"-The following,
from the last weeks Independent, answers
a question sometimes asked: =" A CORES
pondent desires to know if the Blue Laws
of Connecticut were actual, bona-f stat
utes. No. They were satires. A tory
Churchman, who was driven out of New
England for his toryism, INDUCED himself
in the luxury of revenge by drawing up
code of laws as caricature of the laws of
Connecticut. The first publication of these
pretended statutes (which never existed
except in the authors brain and book) was
in London, in 1871. The name of the
splenetic exile was Samuel Peters Like
the author of the Moon Hoax, he had
good many believers at the time. And a
good many innocent people (like those. for
instance, who think that Andrew jackson
is still alive) still believe that the Blue
Laws were veritable statutes, once on the
statute-book of the Nutmeg State. But
let our correspondent ease his mind /; the
present distinguishing laws of Connecticut
are not blue, but black"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-22
THE STANTON CASE.

The defence of Mr.. Stanton has appeared
this week in the shape of report Of the
military committee of the Senate Senator
Howard, by whom it was written, plainly
shows the falsity and unscrupulous meanness
of some of the President 9 charges, and hurls
back on himself the charge against Mr.. Stan
ton of being the cause of the New Orleans
riots. The committee conclude with the
recommendation that the suspension be not
concurred in. This Will probably be the ac-
ton of the Senate, and then the President
will appeal to the Supreme Court for the
purpose OF trying the constitutionality of the
civil tenure bill. What the consequence viii
then be, can perhaps be promised, from the
fact that the reconstruction laws are soon to
be pronounced unconstitutional by the Su-
preme Court, who stand on it five to three
Now, more than at any other time, is it
incumbent on all true patriots to to it
that principle IL sacrificed, and that the
country be not ruined by rash and unscru-
pulous men. W
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-22

lntooriated monster sailed into me, the
skool marin yin over on one Nv the benches
explodin in peels Nv latter, the like Wv
wlch [ never heerd. The three girls. in
dignant at bein mistook fur niger wenches
ASSISTED ther parent, and between EN- il
about four minits | wuz insensible. One
Nv the trustees, pityin my woes, took me to
the neerest ralerode stashun, and somehow
how L know not, [ got home, where am al
present recooperatin.
| hev only to say that when | 90 on sch
trip agin, [ shell require as condishiu
precedent that the Afrikin to be put out
shell hev enuf Afrikin into EN- to prevent
sich mistakes. But good Lord, wat hevent
L suffered in this coz?
PETROLEUM Y. NAsBY, p. NJ.
(Wich is Postmaster)
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-22

Mr. Grover, an Irish comedian, lost his
wallet in Rochester the other day and adj
vertised that he would give the finder the
money it contained $3.50 if he would re-
store the papers. He received the pocket
book on Monday morning through tho
post office, and with it the following letter
Mister j. Holmes Glover Irish Acter
back by the post offs, i seen by the muse
paper that you wood give reward of 81
dolers, and as there was So dollers in cash
enclos the doller al but the prise ov the
stamps wich put on the package, my ad-
wise in futur Is not tn offur sich big re-
ward
Yures Respictbly honest man.
P, 5, the papers aint bin teched, and
are inside al safe.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-22

CLERICAL ANECDOTE-A respectable (?)
well-to-do farmer had, TO the astonishment
Of the community and the great mortifca-
ton of his friends, been found guilty of
sheep-stealing. The discovery of the crime
having been made on Saturday, knowl-
edge of the fact had not on the following
Sunday reached the ear of either of the
pastors of the two village churches.
On Sunday morning the good lover of
mutton-whose Christian name, by the
way, was Adam-repaired, as usual, to
church. Imagine the effect, not only on
the guilty Adam, but on most of the audi
ence, who had heard of the affair when the
minister announced as his text, "Thou
shat not steal" and proceeded TO discuss
the subject in the most practical manner,
denouncing, among other forms of the sin
in question, that of sheep-stealing as the
meanest of all This was the last straw
that broke the camel's back and the
abashed Adam sneaked out of church at
the close of the sermon, in no enviable
state of mind.
In the afternoon, our hero sought conso-
lation for his wounded spirit by attending
the neighboring church of different de-
nomination, large number of whose MEN,
bers consisted of his intimate friends and
relatives The latter, of course, were al
ready informed of the crime laid to the
charge of their kinsman.
All the consolation our friend Adam OBJ
tained, however, by his change of base"
was a remarkably pointed and personal
discourse from the words, And the Lord
called unto Adam and said, Where art
thou ?"
AS matter of course, some time after
ward both clergymen found themselves
" in hot water" and it was difficult mat
ter to convince their parishioners that they
had been innocent of any design in the Sc
lection of their texts.-Boston Transcript.