The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-04-18

continues to be held at 6O@61. ~
The British steamship Camilla, cleared
Friday, with a cargo valued at s240, 900.
Sargent. the Illusionist, is drawing i'm
mense b ouses. -
"a hand engine, it is reported, has nc.
complished the test in two minutes and ten
seconds"
Poor time for Charleston. Our Palmcttoes
under disadvantageous circumstances, have
already beat that, and said nothing about it,
| Says the Courier, ''The ladies of Charles
ton are busy making artificial flowers Tor
their favorite machines on the approaching
parade"
Many of the leading firms in Charleston
have set their faces, at the instigation of the
Chamber OF Commerce, against purchasing
rice, which separate charge for the pack
age is made.
The Treasurer of the Washington Light
Infantry Association acknowledges the re-
oeipt of fifteen dollars donation, from three
ladies of Philadelphia, through w. G. Court
ney, Esq.
On Wednesday morning, an attempt was
made to set fire to the cotton on Atlantic
wharf Fortunately the attempt was disco
vered i'll time to be frustrated, and no serious
damage resulted.
"Beatrlce, the fair correspondent of the
Newberry Herald, writing from Charleston,
under date of the 10th instant says that the
specialties of Charleston are velocipedes,
asphaltum pavements, Grccian bends, ICON
siderable bend, with but little of the Gre
clan, fish, Daddy Cain and Senator Corbin
''Beatrce" means no disrespect to Daddy
Cain
There are i'll the Ne,cs Office samples from
lot OF thirty five barrels Of rosin, new crop,
made on the line of the North eastern Rail
road, by Messrs. j. W. Edwards & Co., and
sold by Mr.. John Marshall Jr., for nine
dollars per barrel-2S0 pounds-bcing the
highest price obtained in Charleston for
rosin since the close of the war.
The change which has taken place in the
weather during the past few days is the
topic OF general remark. On the 18th of
April, 1S49 there was snow here, and on
the same day iu 1860 there was frost AT
p. M. Friday evening, the thermometer
was ten degrees lower than at tho same
What effects this cold snap has had on
early vegetables is not yet definitely known
AFFAIRS IN GREENvILLE-A oorrespond-
ent writing from Greenville, South Caro-
lima, under date of the 18th instant, says
t" We have had q bleak and coldIsprng, and
the peach crop and early gardens are ruined
The mania hero for planting cotton and buy
ing fertilizers is rigging Mt white heat, moth
ing can exceed it. Cotton seed SO per
bushel of favorite kinds, and tho demand
for Peruvian Pacific and Wando fauJau,
exceeds the supply. Every field-patch, and
iii some cases part of gardens are to be put
in cotton. 1t remin Is one of the Morus-
Muticaulis fever, which ended in SO much
loss and chagrin, 1t is, however, to be
hoped that this will be otherwise Enthu-
siasm and fanaticism are not confined to re-
ligious people or religious things. Politics
here are stone dead. The Interpretation of
the homestead law puzzles the lawyers, as
where the Homestead is worth moro than
81, 200, what shall be DONE
IMPoRTANT TO LETTER WRITER'S AND AD-
vERTIsERs. "A Chicago contemporary warns
its readers of a fact not generally known,
viz: That according to recent change in the
regulations of the Post Office Department,
no letters addressed to initials will be de-
livered to any residence or in any post Office
box. The man who addresses his commu-,
nication to A B G, box 10000, may rest as
sured that his epistle will never be deposited
in the box in question but that on the
other hand it will be Immediately and effect
ually DESTROYED