The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-02-09

forms OF the courts or this state, OCCu-
pied the House up to the hour of ad-
journment.
OUR CUBAN NEws.-The latest intelli-
gence from our correspondents in Cuba
is most favorable to the cause of the
revolutionists. Two expeditions recently
left Nassau for Cuba, with men, arms and
ammunition, and there is every reason to
believe that they have proved successful.
A steamer is reported to have landed on
the North coast of the island with arms
and ammunition. In the neighborhood
of Santiago de Cuba the Cubans are up
and doing. A greater degree of activity
luton than has previously characterized
it. The patriots have also learned the
advantages of silence, in keeping to
themselves their proposed movements,
and not to blazoning them forth for the
benefit of their enemies. Let results tell
their own story. The prospects for Cuba,
taken altogether. are Frightening.
Ne,c York Herald.
A white man, named Allen, married a
negro woman in Corpus Christi, Texas,
on the night of the 18Th ult., and the
Advertiser says: ALIENS friends we
understand, did not relish the Joke
much. A number of Company B, Tenth
Infantry, (Allen formerly beIonrSScc:;.. 20
that company paid him their respects
by painting him black, greasing him so
he would shine: and afterward throwing
him into the bay. We understand he
has turned up missing"
HAYTIEN AFFAIRS. .-Bassett, our CO.
lored representative to the Haytien re-
public, has narrowly escaped outrage ut
the hands of the opponents of Salnave.
1t seems his Excellency attempted to
obtain the body of the defunct President
for proper burial by the family of the
deceased, when the mob became SO in
furiated that Bassett was grossly insulted
and his life threatened. A ministerial po.
sition in the Haytien republic is evident
ly not an enviable one.
The HUDSON AGAIN C1osED.-After
being open through almost the entire
month of January, the Hudson River is
again closed with ice. The steamer
Connecticut, which came down on
Wednesday over clear course, was COM
PEELED to lay up and unload at Hudson
yesterday, on her return trip. The ther-
mometer indicates such low figure,
that there is some hope Of cold weather
yet.
Says the Raleigh IN. C.) Sentinel: ga
sheriff from heavily-taxed County came
in recently to make his returns. He
said he had sold some men out of house
and home to satisfy the Governments
demand for taxes, and he knew women
and children were suffering for bread,
and the money he paid into the Trea-
sury for taxes should have gone to sup
ply their wants"
At Mexican, Pa, it is the rule in the
church that the men shall sit on one side
and the women on the other; an unusual
cruelty, by the way. A few days since,
a young man refused to be divided from
his girl, was arrested, and the jury ac-
quilted him by his paying half the costs.
A musician at a Monaco casino lately
bought bottle of champagne, and, sit
ting down to the piano, he played the
gayest music and drank his wine until
but single glass remained; into this he
poured q vial of prussic acid, drank it
of, and began solemn funeral march,
which only ended with his death.
OF kerosene horrors, there appears to
be no end. We take up no paper that
some record of death by explosion or
acc.uental 1BnltlOn OF this lllumlnatOr
does not greet the eye. An entire
family was dreadfully burned, in Buff
falo, on Monday night, by an explosion
of kerosene
Chicago is cutting down rents, but
local taxes do not decrease, and the
young city is called upon to pay about
IS, 100000 per annum for general and
local municipal purposes, which is quito
up to New York, if not long stride
ahead.
The Barnweil Journal says freedman
named Richard Havenir was shot by
another freedman, named Chester Gra-
ham, near Boiling Spring. The muir
derer has escaped. jealousy was the
cause.
DISTRESSING CASUALTY. We learn that
tho residence of Mrs. Gain, in the
vicinity of Pleasant Hill, Lancaster, was
destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning
last, and that the youngest child of Mrs.
q. perished in the flames.
The official statement just published
shows the Ecumenical Council has 760
members.