The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-12-08
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AN EludRAT10N IDEA.--A8 Iowa
and Minnesota, two States in which
there are very few colored men, have
voted to give them the elective fran.
chise, and Missouri, which contains
large number, has refused to con-
fer upon them that privilege, a citi-,
zen Of n. souri, suggests to one of the
Washington journals that emigrant
aid societies should be formed, after
the bleeding Kansas" pattern, to
enable she freedmen off of Missouri to
emigrate to Iowa and Minnesota,
where they can enjoy t'liberty" and
possess their fright of manhood"
Mrs. A. Gatewood, of New York,
day or two ago. stole quantity of
lace. Tuesday morning, detectives
arrested her, when she confessed her
guilt, and asked few minutes pri-
vacy before accompanying the Of
ficers. She was permitted to retire,
and failing to return, the officers
went MP stairs and found she had cut
her throat with razor, and was
dead. Her friends state that che was
subject to "kleptomania."
Horace Greeley delivered all adj
dress to meeting of colored people
on Monday evening: in the Abyssi-
nian Church, New York. He recon-
mended them to be more self-reliant
be temperate, to establish co-opera-
tive societies. to learn trades, to con-
tract for building houses, but above
all, to secure farms and houses and
lots, on which they could reside and
befit themselves for the altered con-
dition in which they are placed.
It is said that one of the most i'm
portant traffics carried on in Wash
ington is the trade in public docu-
ments. The regular booksellers do
good deal in it; while here and there
you may find a government clerk
clandestinely engaged in the busi-
ness. Books are purchased directly
from Congressman for mere trife,
and then sold to distant purchasers
for large prices.
WHAT Is IT?-The Wilmington
IN. o. Star has been informed of
the existence of new political or
ganization. called "Harons-- -fon--
Ammerekan. It is said tho new
order completely throws the Ku-
Klux in the shade 1t certainly has
q very mysterious name. Look out,
somebody will get alarmed, if not
hurt
A meeting of citizens of Valladolid,
Spain, in favor of establishing mo-
narchical form of government, was
broken up on Monday last by the
Republicans. Gen. Prim has pub
lshed letter in Paris, declaring that
, the Provisional Government of Spain
will have no dealings with the Bour-
bons. and denying Indignantly the
report that he intended to usurp the
Spanish throne.
The party of disguised men who
hung Williamson Smith, near Hunts
vile, Ala, few nights since, affect
ed friendship for him, received his
confidence, and then asked him if
there was any one in the neighbor-
hood he would hang. He named
two men and accompanied the mask
ers for the purpose of hanging
them, when he was himself hung.
The Baldwin place Home for Little
Wanderers, at Boston, which has
been three and hall years in ope-
ration, has cared for 2,054 children
in that time. It's last six months
expenses were SIT, ,O51, and it is in
fourishing condition.
RUSSIAN ARMY. A levy of four
persons in every thousand inhabitants
has been ordered in Russia, with the
object of completing the full strength
OF the army and navy. The imperial
ukase directs the CONSUMPTION to
commence on January Is, 1869.
A bill is on its third reading in the
Tennessee Legislature, providing that
lawyers who do not gain their cases
shall not receive any fee. The idea
is to prevent the needless litigation,
which is stimulated by unscrupulous
lawyers.
The Post Office Department. dur
ing the last fiscal year, instituted 300
suits for the recovery of balances dle
the United States, and obtained 278
Judgments. A large portion of these
were in the Southern States.
ASMALL AFFAIR. "A radical iour-
nal says: 1T is said that the Ku Klux
hung negro for small affair. He
had done nothing but murder two
white men, one white woman and q
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