The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-13
WnsIltnRton Ne,ys.

occur daily. Captain Lamber has been
shot, fatally.
WnshinEton News.
WASHINGTON, July, 11.-The currency
balance is $50, 1000, 900.
Money bonds deposited by banks as
security for public deposites will proba-
bly, be placed on the market.
Boutwell, has directed the purchase of
So, 900, 900 of bonds each Wednesday dur
ing the present month, to be held sub
ject to the future action of Congress.
WASHINGTON, July 12.-Gov. Gcary,
OF ,Pennsylvania, President of the Grand
Council of the Union League, promises
material aid to the Texas radical Repub-
ncans. Several speakers will canvass the
State, after the sickly season, in the in
!, terest of the Davis ticket.
VIZ Gov. Walker, of Virginia, had q long
and satisfactory interview with Grant,
this n, orninga 't'.
OF an application for a. writ of Iabeds
corpus in the Yerger case now under
trial in Mississippi, by military com
mission, for the killing of Col. Crane, at
IL o'clock, on Wednesday. Chase has
ordered notice of the hearing to be
served upon the Attorney-G General. Judge
Chase, it appears, has no discretion in
the matter. The first point argued will
be the jurisdiction that decided affirma-
lively the merits of the military commits
sion, which will be argued because the
Judge will not grant hdbeas corpus un-
less the facts alleged in the petition
would enable him to discharge the pri-
soner. In other words, Judge Chase will
not have the prisoner brought from Mis-
slsslppl only to recommit him to the
custody of the commission. In this
branch of hearing, the recent opinion of
Hoar, III the Weaver case. comes up for
review, and adjudication and q decision
on the constitutionality of part of the
Reconstruction Acts, authorizing mill
tary trials in the present condition of the
country will be given. o..
Judge Louis Dent writes letter, ad-
dressed to j. l.. Wofford and A. l..
jerks, responding to the letter rendering
Dent the nomination of the conservative
Republican party of Mississippi for Go
vernon, wherein Dent says: eff I can in
the least be instrumental in restoring the
State of my adoption to her normal
place in the Union, and securing to her
good local administration, YOU have
my permission to use my name for any
position within the gift of the National
Union Republican party of your State.
The platform adopted by your conven-
ton, at Jackson, on the 23d of June
last, L most heartily approve and en-
dorse.
The Howard Asylum, of Georgia. for
aged and infrm negroes, has been or.
ganized, with Jacob r. Davis, President:
VIM. P. Edwards, Vice President. and
seven Directors.
Internal revenue receipts to-day will
reach nearly 81, 1000, 900.
Robson, responding ito his New Jer
sey friends, said, regarding Grants ad
ministration as the policy by which the
rebellion was finally subdued, was the
policy of action rather than profession.
The policy of the present administration.
under Grant, must be judged by its
fruits. With no startling annou4 ,ement,
with no professions of splendid policy,
the administration of Gen. Grant endea-
vored quietly, persistently and honestly
to perform each day tho duties which
each day finds before it,
The conservatives of Texas and NIissis-
sippi have little hope, this evening, of
securing an election earlier than tho last
OF November.
Nothing pointed has transpired re.
gafding Gov. Walkers interview with
Grant, beyond non-commital of COR
diality.
Domestic News.
NEW YORK, July 12.--The bark Re-
pecca Carman has arrived from Matan-
Zas, with several cases of yellow fever.
-Four deaths occurred during The pos.
sage. F'''
SAVANNAH, July 12.-Advices from Co.
iumbia and Alachua Counties, Florida.
state that the caterpillar has made its
appearance there to the great damage of
the cotton crop.
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