The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, May 30, 1867, Image 3
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\tw? Items.
PARIS, May 29.-The Government
has taken measures to greatly reduce
the number of tromps in the standing
army.
MADRID, May 29.-The Spanish
fleet in tho Pacific Ocean is to be
materially strengthened.
WASHINGTON, May 29.-General
Thomas' visit here has reference ex?
clusively to Tennessee matters. Pre?
cautions have boen taken for prompt
Federal action in case Brownlow's
militia and the people quarrel.
Tho President leaves hero on Sun?
day, accompanied by Mrs. Storer and
one private secrotary. Ho will be
absent about a week.
Tho Japanese Commissioners are
negotiating for tho purchase of the
Confederate ram Stonewall.
Congressman Boutwell is going
South on a speaking tour.
Tho Government expenditures for
tho quarter ending March 31, aro
$232,000,000; receipts $239,000,000.
Internal revenue receipts to-day
$510,000.
Advices from Montana indicate a
sharp campaign against the Indians.
There is little hope at the State
Department of Maximilian's safety.
The Strakosch Opera Troupe had a
narrow escapo on Tuesday. The
train ran off tho track near Chicago,
and slightly injured nearly every
member of tho troupe.
RICHMOND, May 29.-Tho City
Council have invited President John?
son to visit Bichmond, on his way to
Haleigh.
A fight occurred yesterday at Dan?
ville between members of the United
States Burial Corps and tho negroes
of Danville. Bricks and pistols wero
used, and tho Burial Corps was driven
out of town. Two were wounded on
each side.
CHARLESTON, May 29.-Arrived
steamer Emily Sonder, New York;
brig A. Taylor, Boston; schooner
Nellie Tarbox, Matanzas. Sailed
steamer Falcon, Baltimore.
COMMEHCIAL AND FINANCIAL..
NEW YORK, May 29.-Stocks very
strong. Money 6. Gold 37a?. Ster?
ling-sixty days, 9%; sight, 10'.,@
115?. Flour 15(^20c. lower. Wheat
l@2c. lower. Corn drooping. Mess
pork $23.12!?0i$25. Cotton quiet
aud firm, at 27c.
7 P. M.-Cotton firmer and active;
sales 2,500 boles, at 27 for middling.
Flour dull and heavy-State $9.90@ I
13.50; Southern dull and lower
mixed $12.50(<rl4.25; fancy extra
$U.35@17. Wheat dull. Com heavy, |
and l(Vi2o. lower-mixed Western,
new, $1.20@,1.27. Pork dull and
lower-$23.15@23.20. Bard heavy,
at 12,%. Bice quiet-Carolina Illa?
12%. Turpentine GO'.??Cl. Gold
firm and higher, closing at 373.?. I
Money more active, at 5(? G per cent. !
on call.
BALTIMORE, May 29.-Cotton more |
aetUre-low middling 25(" 25'._. ; mid- |
diing uplands steady, at 27. Bio cof?
fee lG(o ll). i Sugar dull and un?
changed. Flour dull and heavy.
Corn more active* and advanced 2c.
white $1.15; mixed $1.10(3 1.12. Pro?
visions unchanged.
CINCINNATI, May 29.-Flour and
corn dull. Cotton firm and improved
in demand, at 21. Mess pork $22.50.
Bacon shoulders9)4', sides ll; clear
sides 12 >.v. Lard dull, at 12 '.
AUGUSTA, May 29.-Cotton market
active and firmer; sales 257 bales
middling 23,j(f/24; receipts 72.
NEW ORLEANS, May 29.-Cotton
market quiet nnd unchanged;sales of
1,050 bales-low. middling 24j??@25.
Beceipts 160 bales. Louisiana fair
sugar 12. Nothing doing in molasses.
Flour firmer-superfine $11.75@12.
Corn dull-yellow mixed $1.17 >.<(<?
1.20; white $1.23<? 1.25. Oats ~ad'
vanciug-02J?@$1. Lard firm
tierco 13'.j; keg l???@14L?. Bacon
firm-shoulders 9,1.; ; clear sides 1B}?.
Pork dull, at $24. Fair to prime cof?
fee 24%. Gold 37.
SAVANNAH, May 29.-Cotton very
firm; sales 20D bales-middlings 25.
Beceipts 330.
CHARLESTON, May 29.-Cotton is
firmer-middling 24,)??25; sales 57
bales. Beceipts 300.
Monii.E, Mav 29.-Cotton firm, at
23'._,(V/.21; sale's 500 bales. Beceipts
157 bales.
LIVERPOOL, May 29-Noon.-Cot?
ton firm-uplands, ll; Orleans ll Stfa
ll?Nd. Breadstuff's unchanged. Corn
39s.
A TEEHHT.E WEAPON.-Tho Paris
pupers say that the story about the
new French gun which shoots peo?
plo without powder or smoke, is
quite true. The weapon is really a
sling, improved np to tho nineteenth
century standard. Bullets are placed
in a circular groove on a disc of steel,
which, driven by a wheel of much
greater diameter, revolves at a pro?
digious paco, and hurls ont the
bullets at the rate of about three
hundred per minute. They strike as
hurd as l ille balls.
INCREASE OF THE PUBMC DEBT.
Tho next Treasury monthly state?
ment will show a slight increase of
the public debt, owing to the largo
amount of $25,000,000 recently paid
as interest on tho public securities,
and the smallness of the receipts
from internal revenue sources, which, ?
according to estimates, will not ex?
ceed $15,000,000 for the present
month. Tho revenue, however, will
bo largely increased during June, tho
income tax being then due.-Herald.
* f J
Tho VnrlouD lasses. -
. HOPE STATION, Vay 27, 1867.
MESSBS. Enrrons: I have read with
somo care and interest the letters of
ex-Qov. Perry on tho political situa?
tion of our Stnte. They had the
greater weight on me on account of
our former political affinities and
sympathies, and because of my ad?
miration for his cultivated talents nud
manly efforts to preservo his consist?
ency and maintain his personal honor.
There are many things which ho
utters which meet with acceptance;
but, on the point of voting "Conven?
tion," or "No Convention," there aro
just grounds for a difference of opi?
nion. Great nud grave questions are
involved in this decision. Our situa?
tion is a new and critical ohe, and it
must be met in some form. Now,
what is tho best form for which to
strugglo? Hero lies the rub, nnd it
becomes every citizen to think seri?
ously on this matter, and wake up to
au energetic discharge of his duty.
Confiscation and its concomitants
come in view of all parties concerned.
Stevens' bill, offered already to Con?
gress, is to be considered at tho regu?
lar session, in December next. He
regards it a mild ouo in its provi?
sions; and so it is, when we consider
tho extremo foolings of its author.
I do not dread this so much, as it is
comparatively mild, and may not be?
come a law. We oro advertised
through the papers that the general
and peaceable acceptance of the plan
of reconstruction proposed now by
I Congress, will surely defeat tho mea?
sure there. This is iu tho futuro and
I is to bo put on trial. If the outside
States reject this plan of reconstruc?
tion, aud continue to struggle for
their former constitutional status ou
the suffrage question, where is Ott
chance or hope of success? Will the
party iu power, struggling for a lease
of power for years to come, yield
their position, or meet us on mildei
or compromise grounds? Will thc
Democratic party bo able or willing
to do anything for us in this direc
tion? No! To get better terms ]
believe to be utterly hopeless.
Wo will uotice uext tho work o:
reconstruction in progress in tin
State, and the probable results. Tin
machinery for the registration of tin
voters, and for holding the forthcom
ing elections, will bc put iu operatior
in due time, by our citizeus o:
strangers. All the counsellors of tin
people see the importance of urging
those who eau to register, and uot In
default disfranchise themselves. Hu
Mr. Perry, then, counsels to voto
"No Convention," asa remedy agnins
confiscation and its concomitants, b;
State conventions and legislatures
I propose a different logic of reat 3n
ing, on the admitted facts an?
grounds of danger, on this branch o
I tho geueral subject. Ho assume
that tho newly made class of voter
numbers 60,000, against 10,000 whites
Upon trial, this may prove a mistake
if all register who, we think, are nc
disfrauchised. Of the number, realbj
uo one can yet bo certain. But, fe
the sako of tho argument, admit th
correctness of the estimate, and the
add to it his other assertion: "The
are going to enfranchise 60,000 bl ac
votes, and surrender the politic!
power of the State into the hands t
tho negroes. What avail will -10,00
white votes have in South Carolin
with this watch-cry (confiscation
ringing at tho polls? There ai
thousands of unprincipled white me
among us who will unite their destin
with the negro for the sako of tl
spoils and plunder." Alas! can th
be so? I do not want to think of i
Supposo these statements to be a
true. Does it leave any possibl
chance to defeat the results predicte
aud tobo dreaded by us, byattemptb
to vote "No Convention?" I hold tin
tho assumed 60,000 new voters wi
bo urged to register, aud icill registe
which enfranchises them airead;
Nor do I think that many of the:
can be persuaded uot to ve>te for
convention. Mum/ whiles will ah
register, (and all who can should
aud a majority of them, I nssum
will vote ' 'Convention. " It is impo
siblo to prevent a favorable vote f<
a convention. What, then, are tl
non-registered and non-voters to ga
by their default? Better look to co:
sequences here. Even if tho call
a convention could be defeated, cou
tho State gain anything by it, esp
cially as wo believe all tho other Stat
will vote for conventions? In vie
of all these facts and probability
my hurable'conclnsion is, that all wi
eau should register without fail, V0
for a convention, and take an ncti
interest in choosing as many wort]
delegates as possible, who are hone.
just, and have au appreciative roga
for tho present and futuro int?r?t
of the country, as tho very liest th
wo can do in our situation. But o
rights, under the old Constitutio
consistency and honor are held o
to our view, prominently. Alas! t
old theories and the old constit
tional arguments are played out, ai
I wo threw dowu our club of truro
when wo surrendered, and came f<
ward and took the oath of amnesl
under the proclamation of Preside
Johnson. We have now to act
view of a new political conditio
which requires the exercise of w
dom, and a suitablu eonsisteucy, tt
O Mi WHO LOOKS ON HO TH HI HEH
It is estimated by the Baton Bon
Advocate that tho total vote of Loui
. ana, if all were registered, would
47,000 whites aud 22,000 blacks.
The New York lier aid publish ea
the following special despatch: .
"TBOY, Kt Y., May 28.-A Sister
of Charity, named Helen Taney, was
buried here this morning, with Bo
man Catholic honors. Sister Helen
was a niece of the late Chief Justice
of the United States Supreme Court,
Roger Brooke Taney."
Mn. BEECHER AND MB. DAVIS.-On
Friday evening lost, the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher delivered a discourse
in his church, in Brooklyn, in which
he strongly defended the release of
Jefferson Davis. His remarks created
considerable sensation, especially
among his political friends.
A Kentucky paper makes the fol?
lowing briof and comprehensive com?
ment on tho election in that Stute :
"Was there ever such a day os Sa?
turday last? Nine Congressmen elect?
ed, and votes enough left, over to
elect nineteen moro."
Tho Emperor of Austria is greatly
alarmed about tho fate of his brother
Maximilian, and has instructed tho
Austrian Minister in Washington to
enter into negotiations with Juarez
with a view to saving Maximilian's
life.
Tho christening of the infant
Princess, third child of tho Prince
and Princess of Wales, took placo in
England on tho 10th. Tho Princess
received the names of Louise Victoria
Alexandra Dagmar.
THE FAILURE OF FRASER, TREN
HOLM & Co.-The Mobile Tribune
says: "This disaster, if tho news
should be confirmed in its full extent,
will involve losses in our own citv
little, if nny, short of $600,000."
Tho Cincinnati Enquirer saj-s thc
tendency of the Mississippi River
above St. Louis, is to form a new
channel, which will leave that city
high and dry.
In tho past few days, $50,000 boun?
ty money havo been paid out to the
36th United States Colored Troops,
at Norfolk, Va.
TURTLE SOUP THIS DAY !
m&nw FROM ll until 1 o'clock, at thc
<9wnSK CON ? A lt E E RESTAURANT,
^5^^* next door to the Tost Oflice.
May HO_1_
PURE VINEGARS.
I CASK FRENCH WINE VINEGAR.
L 3 bbln. pure CIDER "
For sale bv E. A O. D. HOTE.
Mav 31)
HAMS, TONGUES, &c.
OAA CHOICE Sugar-cured HAMS.
^UU 2?0 lb?. SMOKED BEEF AND
SMOKED TONGUES. For sale low.
May 30_E. A O. P. HOTE.
BUTTER AND CHEESE.
TUBS choleo GOSHEN MAY BUTTER.
10 boxee F.. D. and Cutting CHEESE.
For ?jalo bv E. A G. D. HOPE.
May 30
SHERRY WINE.
5CASKS prime SHERRY WINE, for bale
low to dealers. E. A G. D. HOPE.
May SQ
A Grand Success!
--
..Pro Bono Publico" or "Pro Bono Millo !" |
WOOD'S SELF-HAKE REAPER,!
. :
SEEING TS BELIEVING.
\KTl\Ai be in operation THIS EVEN- '
YV INO, at 1 o'clock, at Mr. James
Crawford'? place, near Boundary street.
Planters and others interested are re- ;
spoctfully invited to "como and see.''
May 90 1 W. B. LOWRANCE.
State South Carolina-Richland Dist.
By Jacob ];>", Ordinary of said District.
WHEREAS Robert J. Dunsford hath
applied to mo for letters of admi?
nistration on tho personal estate of Dorcas
Wilson, late of the District aforesaid, de?
ceased:
Those are, therefore, to lite and ad?
monish all and singular the kindred and
creditors of the said deceased, to bo and i
appear before nie, at our next Ordinary's
Court for the said District, to he holden at I
Columbia on Friday, the fourteenth day
of June next, at ten o'clock a. m., to j
ehow cause, if any, why the said adminis- j
tration should not lie granted
Given under my hand and seal of thc Court !
this twenty-eighth day of May, in tho I
year of our Loni one thousand eight hun- j
ilred and sixty-seven, and in the ninety
first year of American independence.
JACOB BELL,
Mav 30 th2 Ordinary Richland Dist.
THE undersigned has just opened, with
an entire NEW STOCK of
DRY and FANCY GOODS,
CLOTHING.
BOOTS and SHOES,
In all varieties, which will be sold below
NEW YORK COST PRICES ! !
nt)- Call and seo for voursolf, at
M. DAVIS".
Cor. Asscmblv anil Washington sis.
May SO '1
Bacon! Bacon!
-| /\ HIIDS. primo Clear Rib BACON
IA" SIDES, just received and for sale at
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, by the
hogshead, or at retail, bv
May ._>._> J. ft T. R. AGNEW.
Tlio New
STEAM FW HUI!
WHICH I have built in Columbia, near
the Asylum, is furnished with thc
best inachim ry used in that linc; and with
experience in tho business, farmers and
others having WHEAT TO GRIND, will
lind it much to ttieir interest to have it
ground at this mill.
Do not wash your wheat, but bring it
perfectly dry; and nil who have their wheat
ground for' market, can be supplied with
1(0-11?. baga nt 35 cents each. Corn ex?
changed for wheat at fair rates.
May H ?lmo* JAMES HUNTER.
THIRD WEEK !
OUR STOCK COMPLETE YET !
THE UNES ANO ASSORTMENT NOT B8?KEN?
THIS THE GREAT WEEK FOR THOSE WHO USE FINE
4.9 WE EUX OX THEM ESPECIALLY THIS WEEK.
Heavy Staple and Domestic Goods !
For Supplying City and Country Mer cha: s,
CONSTANTLY ARRIVING.
R. C. SHIVER.
May 21
It is Getting Late in the Season,
AND WE WILL SELL TUE REMAINDER OF OUR
STOCK OF DRY GOODS
AT
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES!
S. H. MYERS & CO.,
Mav 19
OPPOSITE SITE OF CITY HOTEL.
PREMIUM FARM GRIST MILL.
A. li. COLTON, Proprietor.
W. ii. LOWRANCE, Manager.
G To WASHINGTON
Eufaula Home Xnsuanoe Company..
SIXTH Annual Statement, rendered in
compliance with chattur, showing con?
dition, assets and liabilities of Company
on let January, 1867; commencing from
22d Juno, 18C5, first day of business nineo
tho surrender-previous receipts being
rendered unavailable by that military ne?
cessity.
BECXIPTS IN 13GG.
Firo premiums at ?
Homo Office.$ 5,646 76
At agencies. 16,553 90- $22,202 66
Hiver fy Marine pro?
m's at Home Of'co. 1,580 29
At agencies. 3,214 88 - 4,795 17
Lifo premiums. 800 80
Real Estate-proceed? of rent 2,260 92
Intei est account. 599 49
Exchange account. 86 16
Profit and loes account. 66 00
Expense accouut. 466 29
River and marine loss account
-Salvages. 292 23
$31,569 72
Balance rec'ts Jan. 1,1S60- 18,711 62
$50,281 34
LOSSES PAID IN 18C6.
Fire Losses.
In Richmond, Va.-occurred
January, 1863.$ 102 25
Dctectivo. 50 00
Atlanta. 122 79
Fort Gaines. 33 33
Columbus-occurred March,
1865 . 385 83
Monticello, Fla. 1,031 26
Macon, Ga. 357 25
Selina-inveetig'n expenses.. 105 12
$2,187 f;2
Uiver and Marine Losses.
Columbus.$2,580 00
Macon. 2,925 25
Eufaula. 596 16
Montgomery. 85 00
Savannah. 5,170 69
Selma. 10 90-$ 11,368 09
$13,555 91
Reported and still uu
justcd.$3,116 75
Adjusted, not due,
(now paid). 4.083 33
Resisted audundee'd 5,190 00-$ 17,390 08
$30,945 99
Proportion of losses paid to
dato to prem's received_$ 30 3-5 pr ct.
Proportion of all expenses to
rec'ts, losses included. 53 2.5 pr ct.
ASSETS.
Credits.
Cash and cash items at office.$ 13,770 17
Duo by agents and others_ J0.387 S7
Instalment collections. 12,365 00
Instalment balance still due,
part paid since. 8,285 00
Bills Receivable, drafts. 2,031 00
2,400 shares stock in South'n
Ins. and Trust Co. 7,200 CO
49 shares stock in Macon and
Brunswick Railroad. 1,960 00
Real Estate-threo business
lots *n Eufaula. 12,000 00
Oftice Furniture..,. 700 00
50 shares Eufaula Homo Ins.
Company stock. 406 00
Stock notes... 185,850 00
$255,555 04
Liabilities.
Unearned premiums.$ 13,300 78
Outstanding losses
still unadjusted. ...$8,116 75
Outstand'g losses ad?
justed, since paid.. 4,683 33
Outstand'g losses re?
sisted. 5,190 00 - 17,390 OS
30,690 86
Available balance.. $224,864 13
$255,555 04
J. G. L. MARTIN, President.
H. E. NICHOLS A CO., Agents,
_May_30J_Columbia. S. C.
CITATION""
THIS DAY, Henry A. Mcetze, Commis?
sioner in Equity, filed a petition in tbo
Ordinary'? office, praying for letters of ad?
ministration on tho estato of Jacob Drafts,
jr., deceased. These aro, therefore, to cito
and admonish all and singular tho kindred
aud creditors of tho said deceased, to bc
aud appoar in tho Court of Ordinary, to be
holden at Lexington C. H., for Lexington
District, on Monday, tho tenth day of Juno
next, to show cause, if any they can, why
said letters of administration should not
be granted. A. EFIRD,
Ordinary Lexington District.
Ordinarv's Office,"Lexington District, S.
C., April 29, 1867. May 3 thC
New York Hotel,
NEW YOEE CITY.
THE subscribers, successors to H. Cran?
ston, Esq., and Cranston A HUdreth, in the
proprietorship of this well-known
POPULAR HOTEL.,
Wish to assure their friends and the public
generally, that they shall spare no pains
nor expense in their endeavors to maintain
its reputation so well merited uuder its
former proprietors, as> one of
THE FH18T OF FIRST-CLASS HOTELS.
D. M. HILDRETH & CO.
April 7 _8mo
SOUTHERN BANK NOTES!
SOUTHERN SECURITIES:
Bought and sold on commission by
LAWRENCE, BROS. & CO.,
8 A ftKERS,
NO. 16 WALL STREET. NEW YO UK.
MONEY recoived on deposit from banks,
bankers, merchants and others. Or?
ders in Gold, Government and other Secu?
rities executed at tho regular Stock Ex?
change by a member of the firm. Consign?
ments of Cotton solicited. April 8
DEWITT C. LA WHENCE. JOHN R. CECIL.
CYRUS J. LAWUENCE. WM. A. HALSTED
STENHOUSE &~M?cT?XAYr~
Commission Merchrnts,
I^OU the salo of COTTON, COTTON
' YARNS, SHEETINGS, Naval Stores,
Ac., and for tho purchase of Merchandizo
generally, 66 Pearl Street, New York.
Consignments to us from every point ir.
the South fully protected by insurance as
soon as shipped. .Tulv 14 Iv
J. E. STENHOUSE, ALLAN MACAULAY.
JAMES CONNER'S SONS
UNITED STATES TYPE FOUNDRY
AND PRINTER'S WAREHOUSE.
?TOH. 28, 30 and 32 Centro streot, (corner
S J? Reade street, ) New York. The type
on which this paper is printed is from the
above Foundry. . Nov 18