The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-05-22
June or July, z 1916; basis middling up-
lands. nothing below low middling de
hverable July or August, z 1915.


Bishop Wilmer, of Louisiana, has pub,
lished II pamphlet, entitled "a Defence
OF Louisiana, in which he replies to the
attacks made upon him for his evidence
mittce, md for his protest Intended to
purge the people of his diocese from the
charge of disloyalty and lawlessness.
Bishop Wilmer declares that the people
OF his State have accepted the results of
the war without mental reservation, TINT
they are suffering from oncrous taxation
without representation, that the State
Government is powerless to inspire con-
fidcnce, and TINT the nlvcnturers who
are feeding upon the strength of the
Stnte lnstigate the negroes to acts of n.y.
gression and armed instruction against
the whites.
STOCKS AT AUCTION. r. NJ. Marshall 4
Bro. sold the following securities mt alc-
ton, i'll Charleston, on the Goth: $3.50
city stock (current) mt ST. &C.; So, $50 city
stock, payable in 1851, at SIC. two shares
Bank Charleston National Banking Asso-
citation stock ut $50; two shares Union
Bank stock at $3.50; fifteen shares Plan
ters' and Mechanics' Dnnk stock Mt S8.
$3.50 State South Carolina stock, with in
terest, Mt 30c.; four shares South Caro-
lima Railroad and Bank stock Mt 50. so;
eight and onc-hHlf shares South Carolina
itallroad stock at 81; ten shares Charles
ton Gns Light Company stock at S26 25: :
500 Charleston fire lonn bonds Mt G9Jc.
The gold and silver crop Of the United
States promises we'll. Professor Schir-
mer, of the Denver mint, has been
making visit to the Nevada md Califor-
nln mines, and he estimates that the
product for the year 1875 will be $S5,-
0O0, 600, and for 1876 500, 900, ,OOO Of
these sums the Comstock lode alone will
yield S35,000,0 900 for 1875, and $50, ,OOO,-
200 for 1876. These estimates are care
fully made for information of the dircc-
tor OF the United States mint, and they
are more to be relied on than the reports
of stockholders.
hr. Judson A. Hasscltino, the Presi-
dent of the Cheraw and Chester Rail
road, which is under contract as fnr rs to
lancaster O. H., has just returned from
New York, whore he lrad been in the in
terest of this road. Ho disposed of some
bonds on favorable terms, and made mr.
rangemcnts to sell n large amount to n
corporation of Northern capitalists. AS
soon rs this transaction is consummated,
large force of workmen will be placed
upon the road, and it's completion en-
sured.
It is automatically stated here that
David Reed, who was mobbed in Nash
vile two weeks ago, for the murder of
the policeman Frnzier, whom he shot
twice in the head, and who was thrown
over the suspension bridge by an indig-
nant crowd, has escaped. He fell on the
tree side of the bank and thus broke the
fall. 1t has been ascertained that he was
shot in the back of the head, through
the cheek, the nose being shot off, His
injuries, however, are not fatal, MS the
mob supposed.
j. Preston Davis, A. j. Fryer ani T.
w. Ayers County Commissioners, have
been indicted for diverting the funds
realized for the levy of two mills to pnv
the past Indebtedness Of Marion County,
to tho payment of debt Of the County
contracted previous to November /,
1874. The Act in question directs the
fund to be used to pay the Indebtedness
Tor the fiscal year commencing November
l, 1874. State Senator c.. Smith is the
prosecutor.
Close upon the heels of the whiskey
ring revenue frauds come the interesting
Developments in the great silk smuggling
case in New York. In the latter rascality
only one official of the Government, az
fur as known, was involved. The dis
honest official was Deputy Collector
Robert Des Anges, who, it is since dis
covered, had absconded from the British
army with funds in his hands rs pay
master of her Majesty's forces.
convention of colored people assem-
bled in Nashville, Tennessee, recently,
to mature measures for emierntion to
some other State. Voluminous resolu-
tons were adopted. An impression
prevails among colored people that they
can obtain free transportation to Kansas
and forty acres Of land, with q wears
rations and n mule. Perhaps this rumor
has caused the reported disappearance
of grasshoppers from that State
The hearing of Mr.. A1oore's petition
against the validity of the election of the
inte John Mitchell, in Tipperary. began
in Dublin, on the 10Th. Tho petitioner
claims the seat on the ground that he
was the legal candidate, and was legally
elected, his opponent being ineligible
from the first, because he had transferred
his allegiance from the Queen of Eng.
land to the Government of the United
States.
Jeremiah Hamilton, well-known
colored broker and banker in Wall
street. New York, died there recently,
aged G2 years. He was said to be the
richest colored man in the United States,
being reputed to be worth $4,000, 600.
He was formerlya West Indian slave,
and leaves two educated and accom-.