The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-12-19
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coloreR people Of sSpth Carolinai IN the
Federal House of Representatives, offered
o joinf resolution, ;on Thursday last, ap-
proprieting $3.50; ;OOOto enable the Score
tary Of the Interior to contract with Fisk
Mills for group of statuary in marble
for the South wing of the Capitol, so
that the building may be completed by
1875. The group proposed is match
piece to the Progress of Civilization"
now upon the pediment of the North
wing. to ''embody the great feature of
emancipation and fix in an imperishable
form the Act whereby 1000, 600 bond
men were made Free" Referred to the
Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds.
FREEDMEN AND Forty AcREs.--On
Tuesday, in the House of Representa-
tives, Mr.. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, pre-
sented memorial of the national colored
labor convention, held in the city of
Washington, on Monday, the 9Th day of
December, praying that the surveyed
public lands in the Southern States may
be sub-divided into tracts of forty acres
each, and TINT any freedman who shall
settle on one of such subdivisions and
cultivate the same for one year shall re-
ceive patent for the same, the title of
such land to vest in the settler and his
heirs, and to be inalienable for the period
of ten years from the date of entry; and
further, that the grants of land made by
the Government to railroad corporations
in the Southern States, and forfeited by
reason Of Noncompliance with the con-
ditions annexed to such grants, be not
revived, but that the lands embraced in
such lapsed grants be brought within the
operations of the homestead act Re-
ferred to the Committee on Public Lands.
CRUMBS. The pastor of the A. NJ. E.
Church requests us to state that there
will be Sabbath School exhibition, in
Janney's Hall, tomorrow evening-sing-
ing. declamations. dialogues, etc. Ad-
mission twenty-five cents
E. E. Jackson's Drug Store presents
quite an attractive appearance. Shelves
and cases loaded with beautiful articles,
suitable for Xmas presents. An inspec-
tion will repay the trouble.
George Franklin (white) and John
Cannon (colore6 have been arrested by
Chief Constable Hubbard, and lodged
iu Jail Mt Newberry, charged with being
implicated in the murder of Mr.. Dun
woody.
Commissioner Capron will accept our
thanks for pamphlet copy of his report,
showing the operations of the depart
ment for the year 1859.
The Home Insurance Company of New
York (of which Capt. Leaphart is the
Agent in Columbia) has issued o neat
and very handsome calendar, containing
beautifully colored emblems of the diff
ferent months-one of the neatest we
have seen.
At an early hour yesterday morning,
the dwelling of DR.. E. E. Jackson, on
Richland street, was entered by m un-
welcome individual, and robbed of seve-
ral articles-among them silver doiley
ring, marked 'E. H." The thief was
apparently very deliberate in his opera
tions; as chair was found by the dining
table, and tEe remains of box of sar-
dimes, bread, meat, etc., on it. A quid
of tobacco was also found, which E. E.
thinks is conclusive evidence that the
robber was dirty fellow"
The State Treasurer gives notice that
"the interest maturing January l, 1870,
on the bonds Of the State of South Caro-
lima will be paid in gold, on demand, ut
the banking house of 81. H. Kimpton,
Financial Agent of the State of South
Carolina. No. 9 Nassau street, New York,
and at the Treasury Office, Columbia, s.
@. The interest on registered stock of
the State will be paid in Columbia only. +"
The New York Herald, of Wednesday,
while reporting the market for Southern
| securities generally unsettled and xyeolr