The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-06-28

representative, demonstrates the utter
unitness of the Southern negroes for
the political functions thrust upon them
by the reconstruction nets. By their
fruits shall ye know them. The re-elec-
ton OF this disgraced felon and thief is
an instructive commentary on the wis
dom of negro reconstruction. It is no
longer President Johnsop's vetocs or
Democratic denunciations that bear wit
ness against that insane experiment, but
q solemn, deliberate, and almost unani-
nous vote of the radical Congress itself.
It is n Republican House of Representa-
tives that has impugned the character of
q negro constituency, md declared it's
untitness for political duties. It is not
Whittemore alone that is condemned,
but the black voters who sent him back
to represent them in Congress.
The Columbus Enqnirer asks: Don't
Massachusetts need demonstrating"
more than any other State, when com
pany of Chinese, carried to North
Adams to operate in n shoe mandatory,
arc booted and pelted through the
streets, and have to be guarded at night
to protect them from greater violence;
and all on account of ''raco or color?'
How soon the military would havo pos
session of any place in the South in
which such state of things might ex-
ist?
Three deaths from violence occurred at
Savannah, Ca. on Thursday. Joshua
Keene, ship carpenter. shot himself
cause, whiskey. A small negro boy who
was standing on the platform at the Re
lay House, was killed by the accidental
discharge of pistol in the hands of Mr..
Henry Hensler, n conductor on the Sa-
vannah, Skidaway and Seabonrd Rail
road And negro working ut saw
mill near the oity, fell under rolling
log and was crushed to death.
| Out on the frontier, in Kansas, audi
ences at the theatres have an original
way of applauding actors and actresses.
They give regular Indian yell, patting
their mouths with their hands all the
| time. A certain Eastern actress was SO
applauded, which frightened her so, she
ran out the back way, hired O carriage,
and rode twenty-five miles to the near
est railroad station, leaving tho play in
the middle. She snid she was afraid they
would scalp her.
Tclegraphic communication between
Bombay and London being complete,
Lord Mayo, the British Viceroy of In.
dia, sent from Bombay q congratulatory
telegram to the President of the United
States. It was dated Thursday evening,
and was received in Washington Thurs
day morning at TO- 80 o'clock-somewhai
ahead of time
A lad named Robert Boyd, living in
Atlanta, Ga, playing with o pistol,
which he had laid away unloadcl, point.
Ell the Weapon at Il cousin and pulled tho
trigger, killing his cousin, Jessie Owens
instantly. Upon inquiry, it was founC
that M elder brother, finding the pisto
unloadcd, charged it and put it down
again.
FIRE IN CuAnLEsroN.-On Frida,
evening, q fire broke out in tho store O.
Mr.. j. II. Rcnneker, on East Bay
Charleston. 1t was extinguished, after
having entirely destroyed the building il
which it originated. by earnest anC
persistent efforts, q disastrous connugra
ton was prevented.
Hinton r. Helper. tho Impending
Crisis man, denies that he is a candidate
for Congress from North Carolina, and
says: II certainly should not esteem il
al honor to be sent to Congress or any
where 10y such voters rs have delighted
to elect and re-elect to Office individuals
like Whittemore and Devices"
In the suit of Newton Siebert and wife
rs. John Leeson, for assault, tried in
Baltimore on Friday, the plaintiffs OBJ
tained verdict of $4,000. The assault
consisted in Lessons having kissed tho
hand of Siebert's wife, against her will
during her husbands absence from
home.
Woodruff g. ClaAin, tho womer
brokers of New York, were ycsterda,
dismissed from the charge of stealing
the Princess Montez's diamonds and
money, and thelPrincess was remanded te
the custody Of the commissioner of cha
rites and corrections.
A colored girl, named Lucinda White,
while picking blackberries near Savan
nah, Georgia, on the 25th instant, was
bitten by rattlo-snake, from the effect.
of which she died in few minutes
Blackberrying has been discontinued in
that vicinity.
Two LITTLE GIRLS KILLED BY LIGHT.
NING.-Two little girls-Roselle Spence
and Mamie Hood-were struck by light.