The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-11-23
Washington NeHEs.

WAsHINoTON, November 22.--Mr.
sumner is on % lecturing tour; he says
the Chinese question must be met with
attention at once. Justice to the negro
as we'll as the Chinaman, demanded it..
They must have equal lcopartnership-
justice is the best policy and the best
practice.
The Secretary of War has ordered the
Baton Rouge Arsenal to be discontinued.
A despatch from Memphis, says Mr..
Davis has been elected President of the
Carolina Insurance Company, Of that
city, and will reside there.
900.
Gen. A. A. G. Gilmore has been order
ed TO Charleston. to take charge of the
coast engineering of North and South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
There were no opinions delivered in
the Supreme Court to-day. Among the
cases argued. was that, of Hickman,
plaintiffin error, Uersus Belts and others.
Hickman, a citizen Of Alabama, sued the
officers OF the court and grand jury of his
County, for arrest and imprisonment for
treason against tho Confederate States.
The verdict was for the defendants
From this, an appeal is taken.
The Herdld's news summary says: Cho-
lera, yellow fever, and small pox, are
raging fearfuly ut Santiago de Cubn, 800
deaths having occurred from cholera
alone, within the period of thirty days.
It'was found impossible to give the dead
proper sepulture-the bodies being CO.
vered only with few inches of earth.
AS q consequence, the stencil from the
cemetery has almost become pestilence.
The Cnbaps in the interior profess to
be confident OF success, and are giving
the Spanish troops much trouble.
Responding to tho Haytien Minister,
(colored,) Grant said: General, if any
proof were wanting of the unfoundod
character of the prejudice which, until
recently, pervaded, at least parts Of this
country, against the race from which
you are sprung, it might be found in the
high tone aud polished style of tho re.
marks which you have just uttered.
That, however, like all similar preju-
dices, no matter how deeply implanted,
must, sooner or later, yield to the force
of truth. The throes by which the new
birth here was accompanied, were indeed
agonizing, and their effects even now ore
scarcely over. Providentstatesmen how
ever, have neglected no fit opportunity
for sanctioning and securing by law those
privileges for your kinsmen which have
been the inevitable md natural result OF
our great civil convulsion; among them is
their right to employment abroad, as
we'll as at home, in the public service-a
right, which, as you say, has been ac-
knowledged by the appointment of one
of the formerly prescribed race to repre-.
sent the United States in Hayti. I CON
gratulate myself for this occasion, to
render homage to the change in public
continent adverted TO, by receiving you,
rs I cordially do, as the first Envoy Elk.
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
from that republic.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
returns from 1 1913 National Banks, to 9th
October, showing theaggregate resources
$1,500,000 200, including discounts,
100000, GOO; specie, $23. 1000, 900; lega
tender notes, $s4. .OOO,OOO; three per cent
certificates, $46, 100000. Among the
liabilities are $83O,O0O, 900; surplus
funds. $41 100000; undivided profits,
S293. 900, 900; circulating notes, $780,.
100000. Among the resources to secure
circulation and depositors are 945, 900,
600 Federal bonds.
Domestic News.