The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, October 26, 1865, Image 2
COLTJMBM.
Thursday Morning, Oct. 1865.
' From tllie North.
We have received Xew York, papers
of the 19th,-but they bring little news
of interest beyond the fju.mni.iry pub?
lished elsewhere in our columns.
Thc World, of that di'te, contains a
full report of the speech of Wendel^
Phillips, at Boston, on the 17th, de?
nouncing President Johnson as
"three-fourths a rebel." It also con?
tains a full report of a great ratifica?
tion meeting of the Democracy of the
city of New York, held at Cooper
Institute on the previo' . evening.
The World also*ha%a graphic sketch
of scenes %and incidents at thc. Astor
Housed consequent on the arrival, at
that hotel, of Hon. A. H. Stephens
and J. C. Koa gan. The conversations
between these gentlemen an% their
visitors show that they both strongly
support President Johnson's policy of
reconstruction. They also give us
reliable accounts of the flighty and
subsequent capture of Jefferson
Da-s is and his pa?ty, which will prove
interesting to our readers as soon as
?wo can find space for its publication.
The foreign ibains of news contain
nothing of - great interest A loan of
?42-4,000 for the State of Massachu?
setts was being privately ^subscribed
for in London. Additional fatal eases
of the cholera had occurred at South?
ampton. A recruiting depot for the
"Mexican army had lately been estab?
lished at Lille. .'
ComptroUer-Gcn ral"? Office.
We wore pleased to meet the other
day our very efficient Comptroller
General, J. A. Black, Esq., and ?'. el
gratified to learn from him that all
the documents and papers belonging
to his office have, through bis exer?
tions, quick travelling and judicious
selection of traveling routes, been
saved to the State. Mr. Black, like
Mr. Huntt, Secretary of State, de?
serves great credit for his successful'
efforts to save the^records of fris office.
His annual report will be forthcoming
in a few days.
Election Returns.
UNION.-For Governor, General
Hampton is about 125 votes ahead.
Senator-Robert Beaty.
Representatives-T. N. Dawkins, i
Dr. A. W. Thomson, Chas. Petty. j
-< ? _
We aro so much engrossed in do- j
mestic affairs, and 'war intelligence
from ftouth America comes, so irregu?
larly, that wo pay but littlo attention
to the war raging there between Para?
guay on tBc one side. and. Brazil and.
Uruguay dh the other. The forces oil
either side number from? 55,000 to
60,000 men. Lopez, the Paraguayan
leader, is fighting for his"very exist?
ence, and Iiis men arc courageous
and fight "?'ith despi ration. Where
they have been victorious they have
acted with cru< Itv. The allies have
large resources, which in tho cud will
have its effect- on the- result of the
war. though at present they do not
manifest much activity.
THE GOVERNOR'S ELECTION.-As
-E??IVV* of our readers expect io learn,
from this morning's Phoenix, thc re?
sult of the .election for . u ?vorm ir, it
is proper to state that no ft ill returns
htive been yet received. After care?
ful inquiry and" from the returns
already come to band, the result is
Still ill doubt.
?-,
Col. James Farrow, of Spartan
burg; lias been pardoned by the
President. It lias been gene rally sup?
posed that all thc; members of the
South Carolina Convention were prr
doned; but this is a mistake, as ex?
ceptions were math; in scveral.cas.es.
It is stated that Sterling Price and
other officers <>r tho late Confederate
* army hav? received from the Emperor
.Maximilian tko commission of gene
lu,]:, - rlint? Price* lias gone to
IjCLteat frojm tine N'orth. ^ j
The steamer Moneka arrived in,
Charleston, bringing New York pa-' I
pers to the 19th. We clip from the j
Charleston Netcs the following sum-1
mary of intelligence :
Hie war in South America, between j
Paraguay on the one side, and Brazih J
Uruguay and the Argentine Confede?
ration on the other, has been coin
?leucfd in real earnest. Newspaper
I files, giving details of the recent bat
! tie of Yatay, show the sanguinary
character which the struggle i* likely
to assume. On the 17th of August
? the allied forced, eight thousand five
I hundred strong, anderGenerals Flores
j and Paunerp, encountered threethou-1
; sand four . hundred Paraguayans, un?
der Major Duarte, on the right bank
of the Uruguay river. The Paraguay?
ans were unprovided with artillery, !
j and were outnnmberef more than two
I to one. A summons was sent to them
j to surrender, but they replied by
i shooting the messenger. For an hour
I and a quarter the Paraguiflyans met
I the fierce assaults of the allies with
I desperate resistance, neither asking
j nor receiving the quarter which their
assailants were little disposed to ac?
cord them. At the end of rV.at time
L they brqke and fled to*tItc river, pur-^
j sued by four thousand cavalry. Kore
I a slaughter took plaee which one of
the victorious generals characterizes
as a regular butchery. Scarcely ono
o? the devoted army escaped. They
left one thousand five hundred dead
on the field, and only three hundred
wounded-a conclusive proof pf the
fearful nature of the struggle. Their
; leader, Duarte, and twelve hundred
j of his troops, fell into the- hands of
?the .Brazilians, and ail their stores*
j were captured. The allies state their
loss at only two hundred and fifty j
? killed and wounded. Another de- j
! taclnnent o^the Paraguayan anny, j
j seven thousand strong, on the oppp- j
? site side of the river, was prevented
i by thc Brazilian gun-beats from rein- !
j forcing Duarte, and at the time of our ?
' last dates were securely hemmed in at !
? Uruguayana by an immensely supe
rior force. . j
i News from Havana to the 11th in?
stant, wa ? brought by the steamship j
Moro Castle, which arrived at New i
York on the 18th instant. During j
the first week of the present month
i heavj reins and high winds, in some i
I places amounting almost to ahum
cane, and putting a complete stop to
business, swept over ti'." island of
I Culta. So milch rain fell that the I
land in many places was submerged
and several persons were drowned.
The thirty-fifth birthday of Queen i
Isabella fhe Second, of Spain, was'
celebrated on the 10th instant with
all the honors.
It is said that tao rel ?els in there
public of Mayti have captured the
only blockading vessel which Presi
dent Ge?rard possessed.
^Mississippi, in ?tdvance of all the !
other lately rebellious States, has re- :
sumed her old position in the Union. J
: and is one..- more under th?control of j
I her own State officers. Her Legisla- j
ture? assembled "on Monday of last
week, and on the following day Gov- j
I ernor Humphrey was inaugurated {
| and delivered his inaugural address, j
He argued agaiust the right of a State !
j to secede, and regretted that the ad
j vocales of this doctrine had put it to !
the test Of thc sword. 'approves
of the. emancipation of the negroes,
I but is opposed to giving them the
j privilege of voting.
! Complaints continue L> reach Gov- i
! ernor Lev.is. <>{ Wisconsin, in regard ;
j to tin treatment ot" Wisconsin soldiers !
.serving under General Gustar in ?
! Texu.-., Vetting forth that rations.are !
I short in quantity and of the poorest ?
quality; that-men have been-unpaid :
formauy months; t'uuu men arc flog- j
ged, :?*'iii 25 to 100 lashes having!
; been ndmiinist* red ?>n the bare back,
i of volunteer^ for small offences, in I
1 violation of law; that men have their
heads shaved without trial by court !
martial; that pther unwarrantable in- j
j dignities ari- inflicted on veteran sol- i
j diers, by General ?ustar's Orders. I
Governor Lewis has entered aij ear- j
i nest'protest to the Secretary of War
' agai .st such outrages, requesting au I
i investigation into the matter.' He j
i his also requested that all Wisconsin
regiments serving in Texas be mus
; tered ont at the < arliest period com,
patible with the int? rests of the j
service, lt is iniderstood that the I
I Governors of Illinois, and Eowa have
: taken similar aetion.
Mr; J. M. Broadhead, the second
Comptroller of the Treasury, lias
? issued a circulai" snstaining the claims
of colored soldiers to bounties, and
1 affirming their right to be regarded as
freedmen from '??c date of theil n
?listment. Colored soldiers who may
' April, bS???. and who volunt oreti be
the Act oi July 17tli, 1862,. are not
dispossessed of the right to those
bounties, fhe Attorney-General being
clearly of the opinion that enlisfjments
iij the United States army instantly
makes the slave a freeman forever,
and places him upon a footing of
equality with f;he white volunteers.
A letter from Lexington, Ky., states
that" a good deal of excitement pre?
vails over the removal of martial law,
and there' will no doubt soon he a
conflict between the civil and military
authorities. Negroes hired on mili?
tary passes are being discharged, and
all contracts made between masters
and slaves are deemed as at an end.
Owners are preparing to reclaim their
slaves, and all absent on military
jiasscs will no doubt be hunted up,
driven back to their former masters,
and set to work. Judge Pearl, of
Whitley County, is reported to have
decided that the law of Congress, of
March o, 1865, is uneonMitutional,
and to have ordered a black woman,
who is the wife of a soldier, to bc
sold-as a slave.
Gen. Brisbin has ordered the arrest
of Judge Pearl for violating the
United States law.
In the case of Leroy M. Wiley and
Frederick Lawrence verstts George W.
Gooch, where the defendant was ar?
rested for the alleged misappropria?
tion of funds collected by him in
Texas, which ho invested in 'rebel
bonds, negroes and other Southern
property. Judge In graham, of ,New
York, has rendered a decision. He
refuse to discharge Mr. Gooch from
arrest,' and orders tho defendant to
pay ten dollars costs.
General Banks, on the IStli it&tant,
delivered a lecture before the Boston
Mercantile Association . on national
affairs, in whick he advocated the
earliest possible restoration of the
lately rebellious States to tiipir former
position in 4he Union. Whether or
not they jsbbuld be restored before
they Conceded the ballot to freedmen
he did not consider a vital ques-tion.
The irrepressible Wendell Phillips,
in a lecture delivered in Boston On
Tuesday night ftiid that President
Johnson had?'made himself three
fourths rebel in order that the rebels i
'themselves might become one-fourth,
Uni? m. and denounced General Banks*
as " a vagrant mountebank,. laden
with the curses of every loyal man in
Louisiana and Massachusetts." The ?
Republican party, he insisted, lind no !
longer an existence, and had had I
none since the Baltimore Convention
?which -renominated. President Lin
coln, though "there's a spectre walk?
ing over tue country in its shroud." !
The St-//, iii. conunenting npon
Wendell Phillipa speech, remarks:
'.Wendell Phillips, is a sort of ad?
vance guard for the radical party. He
is sent ahe&l as apolitical skirmisher,
to ascertain how fast the party can
safely travel upon the radical 'road. :
When the agitation of the slavery
question was the special hobby of the
radicals. Phillips always kejit in thc ,
van. feeling the way and drawing the j
popular lire. When slavery ceased to" i
boa theme for political discussion, tho
radicals determined to make negro ?
suffrage their next hobby, and again
Phillips was assigned^o bis old posi?
tion in tho front. The radicals will '
?ow, doubtless, throw off the mask
of support to President Johnson, and
will begin thc open attack upon him.
Phillips is as true >:u indicator of the 1
radical course as the barometer is of I
the coming storm. Therefore, thc i
political almanac says '"about this?
time, look out for :i radical burri- ?
cane.' "
The Fenian Congress afc Philadel- j
pida held a protracted and continuous
secret session on the 18th inst. The j
business nuder discussion was report?
ed to Le'of ?i most important nature.
Delegations were ?till arriving, and
the national n presentation was almost
complete Et is understood that each
chele o? the brotherhood is t# act as
a committee for the disposal of the
l'omis which ar.- soon to be issued.
Late Washington dates mention
that up to 2 o'clock on the i'Jth inst.,
no visitors of any distinction, had
called at the White House except
Gov. Pierpont, of Virginia, who was
received by the President for the pur?
pose of consulting with reference to
affairs in Virginio
Quit? a largo number of pardon
seekers called during tho day, but
many of them retired after reading
the notice on me of the doors of the
mansion to the effect that all pardons
in tin; office would 'oe signed as soon
its possible.
In the morning thc President dc
voted a portion of his time to con
sidering the applications o? parties
'for pardons, about one linndred au I
thirty of which he granted.
Thp President is daily in receipt of
memorials in behalf of Jeff. Davis.
A u v J vs ago, Judge Phillips, of
*
titioners, presentid one signed # by
nearly five thousand ladies of Geor?
gia ; and on Monday an anonymous
communication, eight pages long, ap?
parently -written by a female* was re?
ceived, appealing for mercy for Davis,
on the ground that he had rendered
valuable service to the country in
various, pfRriie positions, as Cabinet
officer, and fought bravely in thc
Mexican war; that he was nc? more
criminal than the others .who figured
in the rebellion, and who have been
pardoned. .
In tlxo House of Delegates of the
Philadelphia Episcopal Convention
.on Wednesday last, Mr. Washington
Hunt offered a preamble and resolu?
tions, to the effect that the Conven?
tion should not entertain thc protest
of ?ev. Dr. Ninton, entered on the
previous day, against thc vote by
which it was refused to give thanks to
God for the destruction of slavery?
Mr. Hunt supported, his proposition'
in a speech of some length, and 'final?
ly it was agreed to strike from thc
minutes all reference to the ?protest.
The pr oposed canon prohibiting Epis?
copal clergymen entering the army or
navy excepting as chaplains was on?e
more under consideration, and was at
last-disposed of by the adoption in
its stead of a resolution declaring it
incompatible with the calling of the
clergy to bear arms. During the de?
bate on this matter much excitement
and conf usion was caused by the Kev.
Mr. Clements, of Ohio, in ??.he course
of his remarks, saying that "Wo can?
not bo too sure another rebellion will
not break out when we find a body
like this refusing-to thank God that
the late rebellion has boon crushed."
He was loudly called to order from all
parts of the hanse. A report in fa?
vor of establishing a freedmen's mis?
sion was adopted, and it was agreed
that after to-day no new subject for
discussion or action shall be intro?
duced.
Late dates from Galveston (Texas)
say that large stocks of merchandize
aro constantly arriving, and every?
thing begins to wear the aspect of the
prosperity of by-gone days. The
wharves are crowded with cotton,
wool ni^ hides, waiting . shipment,
aud witli merchandize for storage,
J while in the shipping in the harbor,
New York, Boston, Liverpool, New
Orleans, and other cities are repre?
sented. Cotton" is coming in quite
rapidly, most of it in good-order and
! of good quality. Wool is abundant
and fine. The same can be said of
ludes. The new crop of cotton will
I be small, the worm having destroyed
large quantities. In some sections
the loss is total. In consequence of
I this, cotton is held at increasing rates,
j Specie is used altogether in trade. In
the country among the planters you
i can't buy at all without it.
j A rumor is mentioned in the Mcxi
! can papers that the grandson of
\ Iturbide, two years old, boru of an
American mother, belonging in
' Georgetown, D. C., has been adopted
as their heir by- the Emperor Maxi?
milian aud his wife, aud also as their
successor to thc Mexican throne.
Augustine de Iturbide was proclaimed
[Emperor of Mexico in ls.22, against,
the wishes of leading Mexicans, and
abdicated tile following year. On
July 19, IS'ii, he was shot for making
an attempt to recover his imperial
authority. The youngster, therefore,
it.will be seen, has a drop or two of
imperial blood in bis veins, saiflgled
with that of more noble American re?
publican sovereignty.
The New York * World speaks as
follows of the Freedmen's Bureau :
"Mr. Johnson is as rapidly as pos?
sible uprooting the Freedmen's
Bureau, which, under the regime of
Stanton, was eating out the vitals of
flu; South, : ..d is getting rid of the
enormous stud'connected with it; and
"it is not morally possible" that the
Kepnblican party approves the de?
struction of what was but yesterday
hs pet creation. '
The New York papers speak thus of
the currency. *Th<0 World very cor?
rectly remarks:
t If the Republican party or tke Go?
vernment sincerely desire to return to
specie payments, let them advoi te
tb<? im.mediabjjprepea! of the Legal
Tender Act, and thus place all the
United States on tho same footing
that California has always maintain?
ed and maintains to this day. The
people wan!?this and nothing short
of it. The contraction talked of ly?
the Republican journals Ls an impos?
sible humbug, ami every intelligent
man knows that it is.
The Herald said: *
The redundancy of tho currency lie
(Mr. McCr?looh) should hav< known
pealed bel*? ?re we can go back t
Lsocal itemg.
"CottonBlanks" and permite-indispen?
sable to all persons purchasing or shipping
cotton-?an bc obtained at tbis office.
CASH.-Wo wish it distinctly understood
that our terms for subscription, advertising
and job work are cos/o The money must
in every eas?? accompany orders, or tiiey icill
be attended to. This rule applies to all.
JUST PUBLISHED.-TheSacff and Destruc?
tion of the City of Columbia, originally
publishes in tho Columbia Phoenix. A
pamphlet edition ?f thc above has just
been issued and is for salo at this office
price il a copy.
THE MAUS.-From a conversation with
our postmaster, Xr. .Tanney, we are in?
clined io believe that the irregularity of
tho dolivery of, our papers on certain
routes, results from the fact, that <>:i these
said routes, the route agents of the Post
Office Department have not yet, entered
upon their duties. We hopo this will bo
remodied in a,short time, and, in the mean
time, we will endeavor to do our best to
insure the dolivery of thc Phoenix to its
subscribers in due season.
g}"AUTUMN.-Poets may sing of the charms
of "flowery May," painters may delineate in
glowing colors thc beauties of bright sum?
mer, but, after all, give us tho sweet days
of golden autumn. Who docs not love to
ramble out into the old grey woods and
listen to thc falling of thc brown nuts as
phey come rattling down from their lofty
elcvation, and watch tho squirrel as ho
leaps from branch to branch in search of
tho treasures which full well be knows must
be stored away against the' coming of the
mighty storaoJdng? Who-does not love to
visit the mountains in autumn, and ?lam?
ber cfrertho rocky lodges, and hunt grapes,
and pull down the great long vines laden
'with the rich fruit, and look fer chinq?cpins
and search for antediluvian relics; anfl
thou, at last, when you aru tired of every?
thing else, to wander away off by yourself,
and, scated upon some mossy stone, watch
the pale yellow leaves, as, detaching th< m
selves from their parent stem, and flutter?
ing awhile in the air as if longing to remain
in the etherial elenymt, they drop; at last,
with suoh a sweet, sad rustle- to thc bosom
of mothor earth?* Gazing far out into the
dim distance through the blue autumnal
haze which hangs like a thin.voil over the
surrounding scenery, and listening to the
melancholy wailing of thc winds as they go
meaning and sighing through tho trees of
the lovely forest, an indescribable sensa?
tion is experienced. The heart is.at work,
the wild, sad sweetness of the 'nour has
aroused all tho liner faculties of thc soul,
and from its most sacred recesses there
comes welling tip a dim, mysterious and
undefinable tide ot ciuotion, which no pen
has power to describe, and which none but
those haring some poetry or sentiment in
their- composition can appreciate. The
waters cf the fountain of'Lethe arc now
turned back to their source, and memory
busies herself with a full rehearsal of the;
past. By-gone sorrows are again endure d
with thc most poignant anguish; joys long
sie.ee sped by aro again renewed with the
most exep?sito delight. Earth an.) its
earea are cast aside, and tue soul, h aving
thc cold, heartless world behind, eoars
away to the regions of.idealty, and moots
ami h.dds sweet converse with kindred
spirits in the ideal Paradise it has created.
But everything lias an end, and at length
you ar.1 aroused from your delicious reve?
rie by tho well known voice of ,eomo one
wlio has bren "hunting for yon ever so
lon-';" and as 'you star; tu>. von Dcrceivo
11 ini you ari still on this earthly sphere,
that the p&le^cav?s are still falling, that'
the wild shiels ?re stol moaning and sigh?
ing, and you awaken io this consciousness
with a deep-drawn sigh of reg ref that it ia
NEW AJIVKRTISEMEXTS.- -Aitentionas eall
L-d to thc followingydvertisemerits, which
wt published for ti:? first time this morn?
ing:
J. G. Gibbes . Ladies' Dross Goods.
Shelton, Calvo .V Walsh-Butter, .Vc.
" -Dams. <vc.
" " -Crackers.
" ' '" -Liquors, fcc.
': '. " '-?Shoes.
iTfirriufifs Paten) Chain Mon Safes.
Stoinmeyer AV... - Cor... Merchant.-.
Dr. A. N. Talley rim ton for Sale.
Nomination of T. N. Dawkins.
::. gular M < ting Acacia Longo.
^Mad. Sosnowski To Members Legisl're
.Mrs. J. A. L( sher Dress-making.
Mrs. S. A. Smith N. w Goods.
E. & <'. lb Hone Flour and Rice.
;- -Brandv, &c.
G D. Vlmnu Declination.
Darbee ft Walter-VarictjiSalc.
?
Vmonn A A N 1 r Xr.\x ESSE 1:1. M r.ui >A
U a late meeting e>? the stockholders
?f this road, hehl in Lynchburg, Col. '
?obert li Owen was unanimously re?
jected President^ and his salary, on
notion of bishop Early, who" pre
ided, was fixed at $4,000 per year,
twas resolved *to apply to thc nixt
j?gislaturc oL"\ irginia for permission
. ',i:-:-.nv one million of dollars on a