The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-01-27

triumph Of Commissioners! Pleasontor
over Secretaries Boutwell, and Delano
The vote was much mixed, politically.
No confirmation of the surrender OF
Paris.
New YORK, January 2G.-A general
snow prevails. The mails are one and
two hours behind from the North and
South-none from the West. The ice
IN the bay is unequalled for many years.
Dr.. M. A. Wolff, notorious abortion
Ist, was convicted of manslaughter and
sentenced to seven years imprisonment.
Another indictment is pending against
him.
AN IMPORTANT ADMISSION In the Fe.
oruary number of the Gatt,ry, Mr.. Thur
low Weed virtually admits tEnt he was
the author of famous article in the AL
bany Journal which gave tho keynote to
the war against the South. The aim of
this article was to disguise tho real OBJ
lect of tho war, viz: Northern nbsolut-
ism through the abolition of slavery. un-
der the false prctexts of Union, Consti-
tuition, etc. 1t is positively refreshing
10 read the confession of this old mon.
ster. and fairly to see in every word of
Ills writing II chuckle ut the consumrnn-
tion Of his deceit. We can now under
stand how so many Democrats, hitherto
true, were drawn iuto tho vortex and
powerless aftcrward TO go back from the
Whirlpool. Tho mcaner sort of them
have cling to Radicalism which oave
them pap. The better sort, like Frank
Blair, have issued forth to strike earnest
blows Tor liberty on other fields a war
begun with m evil motive and prolonged
by q gigantic lie shull never ultimately
nc victorious for the tramplers of right.
We are much obliged for Mr.. Weeds
reveintlon aud are curious to know what
Mr. Beck and the war Democracy are
going to do about it. We know where
frank Blair is, but how about Beck X
Co.?
The Evansville (Fla.l Nem Era SAYS
that several of tho largest plnntcrs in
Alachna County have determined to
abandon the idea of planting, during
this year nt least. The reasons Which
have impellcd them to tho adoption of
TINS course arc too numerous to be de-
tailed. The principal one, however. is
this, that under the present Radical
Administrations, the farmers, (uar no
one else for that mattcr,) can pay the
present enormous taxes. Besides this.
their gin houses and barns nrc set ON fire i
and destroyed, their stock is "butlcr- !
lHeu and crops stolen: and tho rasrals
VINO pcrpetratc the deeds nrc permitted
~ - - i'ror This ,luy. wc vortur
lhe assertion, there are -nr, ~ -, r
fifty pcnitcntiary Jail birds at liberty j..
this County, "with nunc IT, mu!c:,t ur
make thrm afraid
CONFEDERATE CorroS LuAS = -Un,lrr
the heading of "a Permanent Invest
mcnt, the New York Posi- says: "rhc
Confederate cotton loan. retlcrmab!c in
gold by Mr.. Jefferson Davis Govern
mcDt i'll 1863, is still bnuelit and sold on
tho London stock exchange. There arc
C2, 40, 700 OF it in the L0udnn market,
which cost the subscribers about 80 per
cent of its nominal value Sir Henry
dc Houghton is said to have 1856, 600
which cost him nearly pur. Sales were
actually made during December NJ from
3:aiW5 per cent, closing ut the highest
rate. The only value of the stock, it
appears, lies in the hope of the sangnine
purchasers that the United States will
ono day redeem it..
On Saturday night. while the East
ward bound train on the Central Pacific
Railroad was stopping at Alto Station,
near the summit of the Sierra Nevada,
the mail car was opened with false keys
and robbed of all the registered letters
and package continuing $4,000. The
passengers and mail agents were at sup
per when the robbery was committed,
and n guard in the next car says he
heard nothing. AS the mountains are
covered with snow, it is believed that the
robbers must be captured.
Father Hyacinth, in his London lee
ture on the war, displayed his usual
independence of thought He recog-
nized the blunders of France. The loss
of Alsace and Lorraine would not be
fatal to France. AS to the results of the
war, ho declared that Germany would
become centre of civilization; while
France, again free, would carry to their
Legitimate end the ideas of the great
revolution, and put Oh end to the coun-
try's threatened ruin.
DISTRESS AMONG CoLoRED PEopIE.-A
writer in the National Standard, wash
ington,j gives q pitiable account of the
squalid poverty prevailing among many