The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-04-19
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C9ggMps.- An extra train leaves. Co.
lnmbia to-day, at 1. 20 p. M, for the con-
venience OF stockholders attending the
qhatIOtte. Colombia and Augusta Rail
roadConvention, in Augusta. tomorrow.
Le Bon Ton. for May, has been re-
ceived, and, as usual, is full of beauty
and style. 1t is, beyond doubt, one of
the leading journals of fashion. Itgives
fonr highly-colored steel engravings and
two full-sized patterns each month, be-
sides sixteen pages Of useful reading mat
ter. Send sixty cents for specimen.
Yearly, Sc. Address, s. T. Taylor. In
porter of Ladies' Fashions, 39I Canal
street, New York.
After the reign of summer for several
days, winter resumed his sway on Sun
day, and yesterday overcoats were found
very acceptable. It is hardly probable
that tho fruit will bear up under this
variable weather.
The PHGNIx Office is supplied with
every style of material from the small
metal letter to the largest wood type,
together with plain and fancy cards,
paper, colored ink, bronze, eto. It is
the only establishment in the interior of
the State where two and three sheet
posters can be printed. All kinds of
work in the printing line attended to Mt
short notice.
THE CITY COUNCIL MUDDLE.-The Su-
preme Court will, to-day, announce
whether it will hear the mandamus ap-
piled for last week by the Republicans,
who claimed to have been elected to the
Offices of Mayor and Aldermen of this
city, at the recent election, without re-
quiring the process to be sought through
the channel of the Circuit Court. The
matter was argued thoroughly last woek
by the counsel of the claimants, and by
that of the contestants, the latter being
the present incumbents, who contend
that the election was illegal and fraudu-
| lent, and the Court reserved its decision
until to-day. The result is expected with
some curiosity, as the final determination
of the case will be reached far more ex-
peditiously without the Intervention of
the Circuit Court, from which it would
undoubtedly be appealed, if it was there
decided adversely to the contestants.
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HABEAs CoRPUs.--The Charleston
train, of last evening. brought to this
city the colored man Friday Nixon, who,
with his son Anthony, was convicted
some time since by the Charleston Court
of Sessions of The murder of another
colored man on Ashley river. This
Nixon was sentenced to be executed, but
has twice been respited; and now an
effort is about to be made in the Su-
preme Court by his counsel, W. J..
| Whipper, to obtain his discharge on a
writ OF habeas corpus. The prisone
was in the custody of E. W. M. Mickey,
Sheriff of Charleston, who committed
him to Jail, from which he will be pro-
duced in Court this morning. His son
Anthony was also convicted and sentenc-
ed to be executed, but his punishment
has been commuted by the Governor to
imprisonment for life in the peniten-
tiary.
EASTER ELECrIoN.-ITiniiy Church.
Wardens-Dr. M. LaBorde, A. r. Tay-
10y. Vestrymen-John B. Palmer, A.
@. Haskell, W. Fl. Talley. E. H. Hell
nitsh, Wade Hampton, DR.. r. W.
Gibbes. H. 8. Thompson. Delegates to
the Convention-John B. Palmer, A. @.
Haskell, e. 81. Heinitsh. Treasurer
| G. J. Iredell.
BURGLARS AT WonK -RoDBRRY OF THE
BANKING HOUSE OF SCoTT, WILLIAMS &
Co.-On Sunday morning, about 9
o'clock, rs MIR. A. G. Davis, one of the
officers connected with the Internal Re-