The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-31

River troops hsfe been detailed to meet
any contingency.
PHnADELpuL4, May 3O-The Presby-
terian Assembly, tabled IL resolution ap-
proving of Gra It's Indian policy. The
Homo, Chinese. jews and Indian Mis-
sions have been, transferred from Foreign
to Home MissioAs.
AUGUSTA, Mal33O.-The wheat crop of
Georgia is goot1 and promises large
yield.
W1hz-ScRApsloF HISTORY. The New
York World, in lriticising Judge Blacks
defence OF Stanton in the Gala.ry, intro
dVced the following incident:
"Nor is it amiss here to state fact
not generally known, but susceptible of
proof that when, on the trial of Wirz,
Judge Ould, thd Confederate Commits
sloner'of Exchange, came to Washing
ton, asa witness dnder subpoena, to prove
the facts we ha'$ stated, Stanton sent
him word that Rhe did not return homo
at once, hia parole would be determined
He went away, ind Wirz was hung!'
To whichwe Would add the additional
fact. not GENERALLY known, that General
Robert e.. lee and Generol Howell Cobb
were also EsubpDnaed and ordered to
Washington as witnesses for the accused,
but were subsequently, met en- route by
dispatches Fom the Government. order.
ing them nit to come on. Gen. Cobb
got as far af Savannah, and, receiving
his despatch turned back. The prose-
cution had lpoth these gentlemen rejected
as witnesseslpn the ground that having
engaged in rebellion, they were personal,
ly Infamous and not to be believed on
oath!
We may also state, rs IN interesting
fact IN this connection, that Gen. Cobb,
who was in command Mt Macon during
the year 1864, had he been allowed to
reach Washington, would have testified
that upon receipt of n very large num-
ber of wounded Confederntes from n re-
cent battle, more than could be accom-
modated in Macon, he wrote to Ander-
sonville to have nquantity of lumber that
had been collected there, sent up immo-
diately, to be used in the construction of
temporary hospitals. Wirz refused to lei
II 90, alleging that lie had been trying
long and had procured it with great diff
fculty in order to shelter lis prisoners.
We had this cilI Ihmstarce from General
Cobb's own lipA
Thus it was t|Pt witnesses for the de-
fence were silep1ed by that blood thirsty
court. and pool Wirz, innocent though
he was, sent td)is last account. Stanton
has gone to m t him before higher
tribunal, wherl lbo2witnesses will be re-
quired. 1SaoaKEA Republican.
The ''Repub1aan Party" of George
town County, 6} mass meeting assem-
bled, adopted ! lolutions declaring that
Whittemore is no longer worthy of the
support of the Republican party; that
the action of Congress was lust. and
that to support Whittemore is to Justify
the assertion I'll Mt the colored people are
unfit to exercise, intelligcntly, the right
of suffrage.
A most disastrous fire occurred at &C.
dar Keys, Fla, on Friday night last,
which resulted in the destruction of n
large portion Of the spacious railroad
wharf and warehouse, freight car and
some fifty bales Of cotton, together with
the steamer Louisburg. The fire is said
to be work of an incendiary, and suspi-
cion rests upon the mate of the steamer,
who has been arrested.
A. New ALBANY, Indiana, man stood by
while an exciting fight was going on be-
tween two woIp pen, every now and then
exclaiming: 81 OK her, Betsy, lick her:
you're my wife, and if you don't lick her,
LII lick you" Betsy obeyed her lord.
An Indiana editor advises a correspon
dent not in futufe "to snatch up his pnn
and go rip-snorting along in the style of
an unconscionabie ass"
Last Friday, there was n hail-storm in
Lancaster County. On plantation on
Camp Creek, the hail was eighteen
inches deep.
The evergrecns in Iowa also aro dying
everywhere, and tho nursery-mcn mo
more know tho reason than do those of
Illinois.
The Marquis of Cholmondeley is dead.
He was remar knble only for his name,
which is invariably pronounced, for
short "ChumH.
800 passenge Fs sailed from New York,
on the 2Sth, on European steamers.
DriIl lniafn "a a Dnllnol,,n