The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-02-08

The FRAMING PRIVILEGE. 1t is now
feared that if the sweeping law for the
abolition Of dead-head postage is passed,
much inconvenience will result-tirst to
the Government itself, and next Ito
country ne Wspapers. We hope, never
theless, that Congress will not hesitate.
1t is not for the Government TO go into
the newspaper business and support
valetudinarian press by the quasi subsidy
of free postage. If there are many
papers that cannot outlive the require
ment of paying their postage, let us
have the luxury of shedding few pions
tears to their memory. AS to the Go
vernment, it is said that if franking were
done away with, Government business
would be entirely suspended for a time.
Well, maybe that would not quite ruin
the country. Let it be tried
Nep lUyh WsrnM.
\ FIENDIsH PLOT FRUsrRATED.-A
most iendish plot to destroy tho Color
ed Orphans Home, on Washington
Heights, was discovered few days ago,
and special police officer was detailed
from the police precinct there to watch
the premises. A night or two ago, lie
discovered II large bomb shell, heavily
charged with gun-powder. laid on the
range He promptly removed it, and
thereby no doubt saved the lives 800 or
400 inmates of the institution.
Me,c York Times.
ARMS TO DE TAKEN AwAY.-It is said
that Gen. John B. Dennis has been or
dered by the Governor to proceed to
Tutt and Wilson's precinct, on Four Milo
Branch, Upper Three Runs, Bnrnwell
County, to take charge of ninety-six
stands of arms in the possession of w.
Newmos, who is considered an improper
person. It is understood that this has
been done at the urgent solicitation of
the inhabitants.
A fire at Lowanda, Pa, on Saturday
night, destroyed property valued at
$3.50, 900, including the rooms Of the
Christian Association, the New York and
Philadelphia Railroad Office. Powell &
Co. 8 dry goods house, L. j. Campbell's
boot and shoe store, Tracy g. Moore's
dry goods house. Coading, Russell & Co.,
agricultural implements, and many small
stores.
HIGH LIFE.-We clip the following
from the New York Times: Mrs. Re.
vels, the wife of the colored Senator
elect from Mississippi, was in the Senate
gallery to-day. while her husband occu-
pied a seat on one of the sofas of the
floor. Messrs. Sumner and Upton pro-
ceeded to the gallery and we're intro
duced to Mrs. Revels by George t.
Downing, the oysterman.
The HAYTIEN MINISTER. R.--General
Folsom, the new Haytien Minister, who
comes as the accredited representative of
~.
at Washington Tuesday morning, pre-
partment, and was formally presented to
the President yesterday by Secretary
Fish
The WINNIPEG REvoLUTIoN.--De-
spatches received yesterday from st.
Paul report o startling change in the
situation in Winnipeg. 1t is stated that
the Hudson Bay Company has resumed
governmental control, and arrested Riell,
who, it is said, has excited considerable
dissatisfaction among the half-breeds by
his inactivity.
The building at Williamson, on the
Greenville and Columbia Railroad, known
as the Williamson Hotel, was sold, last
Monday, by W. T. Shumate and A.
Blythe, assignees of j. W. Grady, for the
sum of 50, 525. and was purchased by
company of gentlemen from Greenvillc.
Mr.. Lanier, well-known hotel keeper,
died. last week, in Montgomery, Ala
bama. He was once proprietor of the
Lafarge House, New York. He was also
for many years resident of Macon,
Georgia, and kept there the well-known
"Lanier House."
The FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT COMPLETE.
The Georgia Legislature has ratified the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments.
This completes the list of States neces-
sary to make the fifteenth amendment
part of the Constitution.
1t is reported that a Spanish editor OF
New York, who fought duel near
Niagara Falls, last summer, with Gu
ban, had similar meeting with the same
person, in the same locality, a few days
ago, and the Cuban was instantly killed.
Eighty-fve persons are down in New
York with the recently imported disease
called relapsing fever. 1t is contagious
and epidemic, and resembles the famine
fever which prevailed some years ago in