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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-09
Congressional.

WASHINGTON, January SIN the
House, the Committee on Foreign
Affairs reporte 4 a resolution REQUEST
ing the President to intercede with
Queen Victoria for Father Mona
hons release. The report maintains
the innocence of McMahon, and the
committee refused to couple other
names with the resolution, as the case
was homogeneous. The resolution
was discussed broadly, some members
maintaining that the American view
regarding alienation and naturaliza-
ton must be enforced by arms if
necessary. McCullum held that the
nation that wont strive to protect
those who swear allegiance to it
should be blotted out, and held that
the rulings Of the English courts re-
garding expatriation were monstrous.
Pending the discussion, the morning
hour expired, and the resolution went
over. The Senate amendments to the
cotton bill was referred to the WAYS
and Means Committee. The Missouri
election case came up and consumed
several hours, when Van Horne was
declared entitled to the seat. Ad-
journed.
In the Senate, amendments to the
bankrupt acts were indefinitely post
poned. The Finance Committee was
instructed to inquire as to the expe-
dlency of affixing n penalty when
Government officers disburse money
without legal authority. Mr.. Conness
said the resolution was aimed Mt those
whom the Senate rejected as unfit for
positions, but who were afterwards
sent on special missions to do nobody
knows what, and paid from public
funds. The joint resolution to con-
vey into the Treasury the proceeds of
captured cotton and other property
remaining in the hands of the Trea-
surer, was resumed and elnborately
discussed. The gross amount was
S34, O00, 900, of which $4,000, 900 re-
main in the hands of the Treasurer as
special agent; 100000 have been
paid to owners and for expenses. The
action of the Treasurer in disbursing
the 1000, 900 was seriously question
ed and the matter postponed. A re-
solution instructing the Judiciary
Committee to report q bill to vacate
the present illegal and unauthorized
governments i'll the Southern States,
and provide good provisional govern
ments until reconstruction, was laid
over. The President was called on
for information, whether the bill abo-
fishing "white" in the District laws
and ordinances, was considered as law
by the Executive. After executive
session, adjourned.
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@a1ea.
Ersensire Sale off Fine furniture.
BY D. C. PEIXOTTO & SON.


BY permission of JACOB BELL. ESQ.
Ordinary for Richland District. we Will
sell, at the residence OF the late Rev. j.
!. Munds, deceased, on the corner Of
Assembly and Lumber streets. on
THURSDAY, the 23d inst, at 10 o'clock
A; NJ, precisely, the entire personal
ehects and household articles, consist
HANDSOME ,PARLOR FURNITURE,
Tete-a-Tetes and Etegeres,
Mahogany Sofas and Rockers,
~ Arm and Hair-Seat Chairs,
Handsome Mantle Clock,
Large China Vases.
Gilt frame Pictures.
e" Papier Mache Table,
Marble-Top Tables.
ALSO,
liagnincent 7t Octave Rosewood
PIANO, with Fine Stool and Music Rack.
DINING ROOM FURNITURE.
Mahogany Marble-Top Sideboard.
Walnut Extension Table,
. Mahogany Hair-Seat Arm Chairs,
Mahogany Tables and Etegeres,
Walnut Cane-Seat Chairs,
Walnut Book Cases,
Handsome Mantel Vases,
Carpet and Ingram Rug,
Fine Window Shades,
Shovels, Tongs and Tenders.
Drop Lights and Gas Chandelier.
PASSAGE FURNITURE.
Fine Damask Lounge,
Mahogany Table and Hat Rack,
Rosewood Table,
Cane-Seat Chairs,
Fine Silt Frame Pictures.
bedroom FURNITURE.
Cane-Seat Chairs,
Large Rocking Chairs,
Trundle Bed and Mattress.
mahogany Bureau,
Washstand and Towel Rack,
Basins and Pitchers,
Fire Dogs, Shovel and Tongs,
Fine French Bedstead,
Mattresses, Feather Beds.
Cribs, Cradles and Thermometer.
ALSO,
full assortment OF KITCHEN FURNI-
LUXE and UTENSILS, and q splendid
COohING STOVE, in fine and complete
A complete set Of CHINA, CROCKERY
and GLASSWARE, and many other arti-
mention.
TERMS OF SALE,-An sums under 800.
cash; above s1G0, note secured with suf,
ncient security, at six months. Sale posi-
'i'e' @ = Jane
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Cabks' DespatcI,es.

LONDON, JANUARY S.-Nearly oil of
the great journals Of the city have
editorial comments on the resolution
recently adopted by the House of
Commons, on the question of citizen
ship. The abatement of British
claims and acceptance of the Ameri-
can views, ms expressed by President
johnson in his annual message to
Congress, are urged with singular
unanimity.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-09

Late dispatches from Japan an
nounce the release of persec1ted and
imprisoned Christians at Nagasaki.
There are 800 houses of prostitu.
ton and $500 courtesans in Chicago.
Eighty-two persons suicided in
New York last year.
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PAINTINGS IN THE CAPITOL
Washington correspondent of the
New York Times says:
Wier's new picture of the Genius
of Liberty, triumphant over the hosts
of rebellion, which is the idea rather
than the name of the subject, is at
tracing much attention in the ro-
tunda of the Capitol, where it has
been placed over the Eastern en-
trance. 1t is spirited subject, and
has received vigorous treatment at
the hands of the artist. Congress
will probably be asked to buy it, but
it will probably plead poverty.
Pcale's picture of "Washington
Before Yorktown" which has so long
adorned the Eastern staircase of the
Senate wing of the Capitol, until
everybody supposed it belonged to the
nation, has, learn, been purchased
from the artists heirs by some phil
anthrophic gentlemen, and will be
presented to Gen. Grant. What he
will do with it remains to be seen, as
he certainly can't get it into his
house. Perhaps he will let it remain
where it is, in the absence of any
gallery of art in this city.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-09

aour beauty, your health, your ease
may may be restored, by using Heinitsh's
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-09
POMARIA NURSERIES l867-8.

~---~>~>~~ ~ S~-s~-1AtAAAS
NHB SUBSCRIBER begs to inform his
Il patrons that he is now ready to send
out choice variety of FRUIT TREES of
every description, adapted to our climate,
from, the earliest to the latest Apples,
Peaches, Pears, Plums, Cherries, Necta-
rines, Apricots, Almonds, Ounces. French
Marion Chestnuts, English Walnuts, Pc
can Nuts, Ever-bearing Mulberries. Fill
berts, Medlar's Pomegranites, Grape Vines,
many new and choice Table Grapes,
Strawberry Plants, choice kinds Albany
Jucunda, &c, Raspberry Plants, Lawton
blackberry, Asparagus and Horse Radish
Roots; new and rare kinds Roses, Ever
greens. in great variety, many new and
beautiful kinds for burial grounds, &c. :;
Ornamental Evergrecns in great variety,
new and beautiful Dahlias. overy shade
and color; French Hybrid Gladolas, Japan
Lilies, Tube Roses, Crysanthemums, &c. !;
Hedge Plants, Usage Orange and Macart-
ney Roso--plant these to protect your or
chards and vineyards. Catalogues sent
to applicants. Mr.. l.. II. Levin is my
agent i'll Columbia. Address
VIM. SUMMER,
NOV ~ i6+2mo. Pomaria, S. C..
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-09
Yarns at Manufacturers Prices.
New Presbyterian Hymn Books.

OST received, an assortment of tho
- new Southern PSALMS and HYMNS,
IN plain and fine bindings. For sale at
McCartt a Bookstore. II. l.. BRYAN.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-09
To the Dental Profession.
IHAYE PATENTED, an
a0w Ansira tN ;ptrol

HAVE PATENTED, and
~ now desire to introduce, an
UEfy$A important improvement in
I!I-Il-I the construction of ARTIFI-
OinL DENIUnES, whereby the strength,
reliability and facility OF repair, pertain.
ing to swaged plate work, is communicated
TO moulded metallic or vulcanizable baae.
Strong Plate Teeth as firmly attached to
the base as il soldered to swared
plate, are, by this process, substituted for
those specially designed for moulded base.
by their use the operator is left free to ex-
etei7e MS own Judgment In their arrange
ment, and finds himself no longer confined
20 the sameness of the present style of
Dlocks, or single teeth weakened by cary-
ing for moulded work
NO new appliances are required in this
process. 1t is easily acquired by any one
1amiliar with either moulded or swaped
work. 1t gives to the operator confidence
IN the reliability of his cases, exempting
him from the disappointment and per,
Plexlty often attendant on his most faith
tui efforts. 1t renders partial cases as reli-
aole as fuli sets, and, consequently, will
tend to ameliorate the present deplorable
practice of extracting every tooth. sound
or unsound, which stands in the way OF the
latter. o- 'H'
The method has been thoroughly tested
and Is now submitted to the profession
with the assurance that it will be found to
lulhii all that is claimed for it. It's results
are highly artistic, very beautiful, and af-
ford tie utmost satisfaction to operator
and patient
OFFICE LICENSES will be the system
adopted, in relation to which-and other
m tiers III OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES will be
furnished, on application to the subscribe
er: WM. REYNOLDS, NJ. D.,
Jan f3mo Columbia, S. C.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-09

Heinitsh's Crimson letter Wash.
Tor Tetter, Ringworm, Pimples, Worm
spots, Roughness OF the Skin-a cure for
Tettor and Ringworm.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-09
NOTICE.

HNHE partnership heretofore existing be-
i tween JAMES CRAWFORD, JOSEPH
TAYLOR & 7. j. HARPER, under the
Co, will be dissolved, to take effect on the
lst day OF FEBRUARY, 1868 Parties
having claims against them will please
present the same to JAMES CRAWFORD.
at the Store Of B. III. Rice. for payment.
The TEAMS, WAGONS and HARNESS.
OF the said firm, will be sold at public out
cry, on the FIRST MONDAY IN FEBRU-
AIRY, in front of the old Court House.
Jan JAMES M. CRAWFORD & co.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-09
Funeral Invitation.

The friends and acquaintance OF Mr..
and Mrs. J. HENRY MEYER are invitod
to attend the funeral of the former, THIS
AFTERNOON, at o'clock, at Elmwvod
Cemetery.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-09
NOTICE.
CITY CLERKS OFFICE

COLUMBIA, January 2, 1868.
\AAES Oh sales of Merchandise. sales
i at Auction, sales on Commission, Re-
celpts OF Hotels and Houses of Entertain
ment, Eating Houses, Saloons, &c, for the
quarter ending JANUARY 1, are due, and
prompt payment Of the same is required.
Jan . ). 5. MCMAHON, City Clerk.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-09

The two Brittons, E. II. and ].
father and son-have located in
Charlotte, N, c., and are each pub
lIshlng daily papers-the Courier and
Bulletin.
The Herald states that telegraph
line between Columbia and Newberry
is again being talked of.
Gen. Butler has been defeated in
ms great lawsuit in New York about
his brothers will.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-11-12

Lee & Shepard, of Boston, have published
Changing Base; or What Ed,card Rice learned
at School, by William Everett, author of son
the Cam" The book is a capital picture of
American schoolboy life, suggestive of and
perhaps suggested by, those representations Of
English school-life which Hughes has given
us in tom Brown at Rugby" The distinctive
characteristics of our school system, and the
influences and tendencies which it develops
are represented with remarkable faithtulness.
The ideas, the ambitions, the sports, the trials
and the temptations which belong to it are
well shown. The hero, Edward Rice, is as
genuine boy as Tom Brown. He likes base
ball, is made happy by a"hunky" pair of new
skates, and is not insensible to the merits of
some "bully sugar-plums," but he is clear
eyed, courageous, manly and generous little
fellow, whose vicissitudes we follow with a
strong interest to the end. His companions
are hardly so well done; they do not strike one
with the reality which belongs to East and
other of Tom Browns friends. Mr.. Ham
mond, too, will never do to stand beside
Hughes portrait of the beloved Dr. Arnoiu'
but he is very fairly dore. The sfor has P,e"-
ty of excitement without any sensational o,"p
trap, and the whole boy reading puplc s lalu
under obligations to its author and publishers.
Received by Loring, Short and Harmony
From Lee & Shepard we have also The Phi
,,sonhv of Domestic Life, by DR.. w. II. By
ford. a series of short plain essays on themes
much discussed in these days. The Doctor
diseourses in kindly and sensible, though
not profoundly philosophic fashion of education,
marriage, family government, the legal rela-
tions Of the married, and other topics which
can hardly be adequately treated in the space
he bestows upon them. He dedicates his
book to 'the memory of sainted wife,. (Re-
ceived by Loriug Short and Harmony
From the American News Company we
have a thin octave volume containing some
recent Correspondence of Gerrit Smith and Al
bert Barnes, which originally appeared in one
of the religious newspapers. The subject OF
the controversial discussion in these letters is
'The Cause and Object of Sin and Suffering In
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-11-12
'e'nss $500 per o',aatns, Ia. ADVANCE

the Universe" This weighty sub,ac, !. A..
eussed at great length by these two earbas,
thinkers, and in a spirit OF eandor and kind.
ness on both sides which unfortunately ia
somewhat rare. The volume has an appendix
containing two essays by Mr.. Smith on "The
Iheologies," and Mature, the Basis of True
lheoiogy." (Received by Fessenden Broth
ers)
me Life Of General U s. Grant, by the Hon.
ienry y. Deming, which we noticed some
s'nee from the advance sheets, has been
Da W >. 5. Scranton & Co., of Hartford,
" - ,""Hes handsome volume OF some Ave
huhuIeu qua pages, aud in every respect fulfils
the high expectations concerning Il. Tba
agent in this city is prepared To delivar tha
book to subscribers.
Masters, Smith & Co., Halowell, have issued
The Maine Farmers Alnaaac for 1869. being
the tiity-f number of this venerable and in.
dispensible fireside companion. 1t has all the
familiar features of its predecessors; the care
fully prepared and accurate astronomical mat
Ter, tide tables, &C., the "solid chunks" of wis
dom III the Farmers Calendar, and the rich
fund OF amusement and in terest in the ridd les,
puzzles and jokes at the end. 1t is probably
NSSS'ASN w NS ii"AO icttu lOt Aue next LWolVo
months than any other book in the State.
The Quarterly Journal Of Psychological Msdi-
cine and Medical Jurisprudence for October is
received. This Journal has now completed its
second year. 1t is conducted with evident
ability and intelligence by professor William
Hammond of the Bellevue Medical College.
The present number contains an interesting
paper by the editor on "The State of the Mind
During sleep:" Considerations Concerning
the Roots of the Spinal nerves." Animal
Magnetism" by DIR. I. Edwards Clark; "Mi-
croscopic Appearances in the Brain and Spi-
nal Cord in Two Gases of General Paralysis"
Statistics of Opium Poisoning" an" Induction
and Deduction in Science" Besides these
articles there are fourteen pages devoted to
Contemporary Literature" and about one
hundred and fifty filled with "Chronicle" Of
interesting matters relating to the Physiology
and Pathology of the Brain, and to Medical
Jurisprudence.
The Appetons have added Quentin Dur
,oard to their neat tartan edition of the Wa
verley Novels, sold for twenty-five cents each.
In the cheap edition of Marryatt, published by
the same firm, The NapaI ORcsr is the latest
issue. (Received by Bailey & Noyes,)
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-11-12
RocKLANp, Nov. 0, 1868.
To the Editor OF the Press.

RoCKLAND, Nov. o. 1868.
To the Editor OF the Press:
BUSINESS PROSPECTS
You will not be surprised to learn that we
expect next year season of great CONNER
cial prosperity. Among the vessels to be
built, will be at least one ship much larger
than any which have been built here for
some time past. This year we notice but
three vessels launched Two of them, a,
schooner and brig of some 300 tons bur-
then, will be owned in Rockand; the other
a barque of S27 tons, has been purchased by
California merchant, for 100000. 1t was
thoroughly made.
NEW METHOD OF MAKING BRICKS.
We are very much interested in an enter
prise, iu which OUR Representative to the
Legislature, Mr.. John S. Case, with some
others, has engaged. 1t is new process of
brickmaking, destined to supersede the old
horsepower machines, as it makes an elegant
finished brick at comparatively lower rates.
There are but five or six of these machines
in the country and this is the only one east
OF Philadelphia. One OF the machines viii
be set up in Portland, l think, next year.
The patent dates Sept. A, 1866; the patentee
is R. A Douglas. The bricks are made of dry
clay and are subjected to a greater pressure
than has been employed in any other process.
The dry clay is shovelled into a hopper, is
broken into small Jumps, falls upon toothed
cylinder revolving in too.hed concave which
resembles the beater OF threshing-machine
and by which il is pulverzed, is elevated by
system of buckets to the loft, is there siitei
and then descends through SPOUT to the
press. Here box is pushed along the bed of
the press into the spous and, being filed to the
top with the powdered clay, is withdrawn by
the returning shaft and stops just under four
iron lemons of the size, transversely, of the
largest surface of the brick. The box has no
bottom, and below il now are four sockets
aching we fancy, for down come the masto
| don teeth with terrific force, as we sometimes
try to still a throbbing nerve. The clay Is
solid brick; so it should be, under one hun
dred and thirty tons pressure. The bottoms
of these four mortises now rise to the level OF
the press, the iron box briskly pushes the
bricks from the presided to waiting work
man, who is to pile them for kind rying or
baking, AMI then it returns to the spout.
Driven by the same engine, is the double OF
this press-machinery, and alternating with it,
so that while one press is receiving clay for
moulding, the other delivers its finished work.
An engine of twenty-five horse-powers is
sufficient for propelling the machinery and
doing the work; but this engine is twice as
powerful.
To mould twenty thousand bricks is consid.
cred an easy days stint for the presses.
The factory is upon wharf, so that wood
can be brought within convenient distance
and vessels can load with bricks at the yard.
DENNETT.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-11-12
No. o..
SIMILIA SIMILlBUS 0UBANTUR.
Humphreys Homeopathic Specifies,

UAVE PROVED, from the most ample expert
IL ence, an entire success; Simple-Prompt-E Eff
cient. and Reliable They are the only Medicines
perfectly adapted to popular use-so simple that
mistakes cannot be made in using them; so harmless
ways reliable. They have raised the highest COM
mendation from all, and will always render satsfac-
ion,
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Established June 23, 1862.

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THE MAINE STATE PRESS, is published al the
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and 80 cents per square Tor each subsequent inser
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ana Is authorized to appoint local Agents. receive
subscriptions and to settle bills.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-12-25
The -Legal-Tender Act on Trial.


The New York Post does not appre-
hend disastrous results from a decision
in the case now pending before the
United States Supreme Court, adverse
to the ConstitutionAlity of the Legal
Tender Act. It says:
On this point there is no reason for
such alarm as some express. II the
court finds that Congress has no consti-
t0tional power to pass the act, then the
act is void from the beginning. Green
backs are not now and have not at any
time been in law legal tender for the
payment of debts, public and private.
Any man agreeing to pay dollars is
bound in law to pay coined gold.
But contracts made since legal tender
notes became the money Of account by
the custom of trade, will be held by the
courts to be bound by that custom.
Contracts made since the publication Of
the pretended legal-tender act as law,
and in view of that act will be held to
refer to that act and to include it; so
that the legal-tender clause will control
Them, not as law, but as part of the
contract,
Such decision, therefore, if made,
Will not stop all business, disturb ali
accounts, and ruin all debtors, as some
people imagine. 1t viii not even unset
tie again contracts which, made in spe-
Cl5 BAAlA6S udk6 U5Gu sHUL1E4. Auu6E. Lub
legal-tender act. But old debts, con-
tracted before 1861, will no longer be
payable in anything but gold coin.
New contracts, made after the decision,
viii be payable in such money as may
be agreed upon by the parties. All re-
strictiOns now made by law on the use
of gold and silver will be removed; and
a more important step win be taken
towards the resumption of specie pay
ments on the part of the governments
and of the country than can be taken
by any legislation yet proposed.
The influence of such II decision on
the part of the banks would be great,
Those of them which are able to open
specie accounts, and to issue notes upon
a specie basis, could do so at once, and
and this would drive the others to adj
just their business and circulation to
the same standard as rapidly as possi-
BILE. Congress would be compelled to
fund the greenbacks as fast as a new
and more stable currency could be sup
piled and, doubtless, within a very
few years, the whole country would
wonder that any one, with eyes to see
our present disorders and dangers,
could have been afraid of a remedy so I
necessary and so effectual.