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COLUMBIA, ad . -??L-, . ;,-./? Tuesday Morning, June 1, IMP: The 1st ol Jane usber? in ?; u?gro postmaster for the oily of Columbia exit white, enter black. But a few weeks ago, the people of this city, bj petition and a special committee, solicited the appointment of au ex-Union officer and soldier to this office. They protested against the appointment of the negro; they urged that a soldier who had "done the State some service"-whose record was honorable-exhibited higher claims to the office, and were paramount to those of the negro "Wilder," whose ohief and only virtue was-"God savo tho mark!"-the endorsement of the Congressional delegation. This appoint? ment is iu perfect consistency with the course adopted by the Administration to? wards the Southern States. Amidst so many instances of direct oppression and cruel tyranny, directed against this sec? tion, it is a difficult matter to determine which are the most prominent; but from all may be deduoed the same painful conclusions-from one and all may bo learned the self-Bume lesson-that this land, shackled, down-trodden, and over? run by native and foreign peculation, must expect from the Administration every official obstaole and hindrance to honer,t industry; every abrogation ol local and sectional prejudice. Genera] Grant orders the elections to take place throughout the Southorn States in the fall, at a period when the services of the laborer are indispensable to the planter. Every day spent at the polls is an incal? culable loss to the planting community. Not only to them, but to the North, foi Northern money has been largely spent in the enterprise. The whole Union aye, Europe also-views the success 01 failure of the cotton crop with the olosesi interest. The planters of tho South, . pledging their lost resources, straining credit to its utmost tension, have em? barked their all in the ventare of a cot? ton crop, to be realized in the autumn. Undeterred by the contingencies ol weather, worm, and unreliable labor, they have made the trial to make a livelihood, and pay the moneyi advanced by factors and merchants, A wise and benevolent Government, il would be presumed, should lend its car? and fostering aid to so laudable an un dertaking, and yet it orders the electioni to toko place in the South at a time prc cisely when the abseuco of the freedmet will be-if not fatal-at least of infinit? damage to the harvest. Every impedi ment, every obstacle, has been ofiiciall; thrust upon our people. Every mortiii cation, the most carefully selected spc cies of humiliation, has been heapei upon ns; and still General Grant rc peats, "Let us have peace." Certain! the circumstances of which we hav . written, in common with others of sim: lar nature, do not conduce to the estai lishment of that blessed element s ardently desired by the President. Cii cumstonces which "would stir u fever i the blood of age;" the fearful extrem ties through which we have passed, < the sad lessons of tribulation, may pr? duce an apathy to the blows inflicted, an the hand which strikes; but never will tl " peace "-which it is presumed Gener Grant desires-be produced betwee North and South, until a more libers more protective line of administration 1 inaugurated. These two sections ct never be united in heart and hand, so loi as the South groans under a syste of wholesale persecution and ro bery; so long as she is a prey domestio and foreign peoulatit whilst her local sympathies aro d regarded, her traditions despised, h interests contemned and her honest < forts for a livelihood and payment debts, neutralized and destroyed by t very Government which should gun and defend them. Ls there no stat manship in tho United States, that cannot foresee how vastly important t growing cotton crop is, and take rneasu to protect it? is lhere no magnanimity the Executive, that it cannot respect I social and sectional prejudices of a p pie, who ha\e so Boverly expiated th bin-if it be snch-in lighting for w! they bearii" j believed to he right fi principle ? Let the elections bo ordei for a day in which tho interest and c venienco of tho planters will bo consi ed. Let them reap the reward of iud try and honest effort to live and re] their advances. Let ns have sc honest men in office, and less of the gro, and we may yot realizo that beat peace which Geu. Grant calls for so of aud so loudly. T'U'?-?J'.J"'" V - ' ii', 1 f'-T ,**.',, s',! fij'" *? " j l*Ml *f)?T^frfflR9N[MKrAL' 5 li wnd r> -1. ? For th? last ten mont^say? an ex? change, our importations of foreign goods hare amounted to $280,000,000, at a gold valuation, and our exports of do? mestic produolious to only 6147,000,000 valued in currency, or a little over $100, 000,000 valued in gold. To offset the heavy foreign balance against ns, ire have been regularly sending abroad Govern? ment securities. The bonds purohased by Mr. Bontwell and kept in the Trea? sury cannot be exported; and gold, as far as gold is available, must bo sent in their stead. If the supply of bonds for exportation were inexhaustible, the weekly withdrawal of a million of bonds, and tho weekly substitution in tho mar? ket of the samo amount of gold, should have no effect on the price of either gold or bonds. In commenting on this sub? ject, the Richmond Dispatch says: "Tho stock-jobbers and gold specula? tors in New York are much opposed to the weekly sale of $2,000,000 gold. Ol course, for it gives a surfeit of tho thing they speculate in, and diminishes theil chances for moving the market up and down to suit their purposes. And whj should not the Government sell its goldi Why should not the interest upon sc large a sum as has been heretofore kepi idle in the Treasury be saved to the Go vernment and the people? There car bo no reason that we can pcrceivo, un less it be that the public weal should b< shoved aside to promote the ends of thc gold gamblers, that that corrupt clique might prey upon the public necessities and accumulate millions out of the han earnings of the people. Mr. Boutwell is right in considering that no such obli gation attaches to the Government. Hi has done his share of evil in his day but he is now doing 'a great deal o good.' " -o BoUTWEIiL AND THE GOLD GAMBLERS The New York Herald says that in hi first brush with the gold gamblers th? Secretary of the Treasury has bafHet and beaten them. That when ho an nounoed his purpose of selling a million o gold weekly in exchange for gold-bearinj bonds, the Wall street rings formed i coalition against him, and, for a shor timo, managed to run gold up from 13 to 144, and then sent Ohittenden to wari him that unless he changed his plans the precious metal would go up to 175 but that the trick met with signal failure and they soon found that ho had them i his leading strings, and can now bru. them short at his pleasure. It says: "Here we have an important poiu settled. The gold room is within th oontrol of the Secretary of tho Treasury Next it appears that his general repoi for the month of May will exhibit th handsome figure of $7,000,000 in the r< duction of the public debt. He lu giveu us the same for the month < April, or $14,000,000 in two months, an he can do better as he goes ou and mot fully realizes the advantages within h grasp in tho way of retrenchment au savings. * * * He carries the whole weight of the adm nistration upon his shoulders, and n; pears to be the only member of the Cab net who is doing anything to meet tl opportunities before him and the expe tations of the country. Let him pue forward in reducing the debt, the int rest on the debt, and the expenses of tl Treasury, and let him avoid meantin any contraction of our needful ciroul tion, and the country will sustain him -o Mu. EDITOR: Passing along Washiu ton street, a few days since, my attc tion was attracted towards a newly ma article of domestic manufacture, kno\ as a mattress. Myself and friends < amined it carefully in all its parts, t materials,', sewing, height, elastici Seo., and if wo are not very much m taken, it is fully equal, if not supori to anything of the kind brought hi from tho North; and, more imporb still, in point of cheapness it cannot surpassed. Mr. Gricshaber is the mai facturer; and I would advise all who in want of a cheap, durablo article, give him au carly call. AN OBSERVEE -o Tho French Atlantic Cable, it is nounced, will bo completed by the si of Juue, only 170 milos of tho 1 having to be made. The Great Eastc with tho cable aboard, and with tenders, will leave Sheerness, near mouth of tho Thames, on June 10th, i after coaling at Portland, will procee* Brest. From Brest the Great East will immediately start for St. Pierre, Newfoundland, while two other si will sail for St. Pierre direct, to lay portion of the line between St. ?'ii and Duxbury, Massachusetts. The 1 line from Duxbury to New York already in course of construction. -.-o-. Mrs. Amelia Halse and her son v fatally burned at Hoboken, N. J., night, by a kerosene accident. I Hulse's husband was badly injured. The Rhode Island House of Repre tatives has postponed tho considera of the fifteenth amendment until January session, and then adjourned TAIT.-Tais singular set ot people ara de? scended from the ancientAztecs of Soutb ora Mexico, and still retain some bf the peculiarities whiuh Stephens ?nd Pres? cott gave of their ancestors. Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co. employ ? email army of them in digging sarsaparilla root Provided with narrow spades, a coil of rope, and n bag of water, they are ready for the forest where the wild banana furnishes them food, and thick-leaved trees their only shelter. Few of those who find themselves rejuvenated by this product, know how much they are indebted to the toi) of these bumble laborers, who dig health for thousands of Doctor Ayer's pntronR, while they sometimes lose their own.-Bosloti Commercial. -o THE FIRST CASE OF DIVORCE IN SOUTH CAROLINA.-The Greenville Entarpi ise says that three petitions for divorce carno up for henring before Judge Orr on Fri? day last. Two of the application? wero from the wives of wicked husbands, ono from the husband against tho wife. Tho first caso was from a lady, Mrs. Mary E. Cameron, residing in Charleston, for a divorce from ber husband, Robert Cameron, in Philadelphia, from whom she was by his cruelty compelled to se? parate several years ago; he having nlso since the separation unlawfully married another woman in Pennsylvania, with whom he is now living. Tho unlawful wife on application furnished an affida? vit, stating that the husband represented himself as a widower; and so 6he married him in ignorance of the existence of the lawful wife. Judge Orr, after hearing the petition and evidence, readily grant? ed the order of divorce in this case, on motion of Perry ?fe Perry, solicitors for the petitioner. The other parties all reside in Green? ville. The applicants were represented by MessrB. Sullivan ?fe Stokes. Judge Orr granted the order of divorce in the case of Mrs. Amanda C. Lindeman from her husband, Francis M. Liendeman,wbo, it was proved, had cruelly treated her, and had married or taken up with an? other woman. In tho case of the petition of John W. Walker, for a divorco from his wife, Mary J. Walker, on the allegation of ber desertion some six or eight years ago, and her violent temper and abuse which occasioned it, and the hopelessness of a re-union, the Judge was not satisfied that he onght to grant the husband a di? vorce, but intimated to the counsel that he would further consider the case. These are the first cases of divoroe that havo ever been granted by a law court in this State. -o CORRESPONDENCE DETWEEN AUDITOR CLARKE AND GENERAL BEAUREGARD. An amusing correspondence has takeu place between Third Auditor R. W. Clarke, of tho Treasury Department, and ex-Confederate Gen. Beauregard. Soon after assuming the duties of his office, Mr. Clarke discovered that tho Genera was on his books as indebted to tho Go? vernment in the sum of $10.30. Mr. Clarke tiierenpon notified General Beau regard of his discovery, and received th( following letter in reply: OFFICE NEW ORLEANS, JACKSON AND GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD CO., NEW ORLEANS, May 20, 1869. SIR: Your letter of the 1st instant ha been received, informing me that I an charged on the books of your offic (Third Auditor's) 810.30 on account o the Quartermaster's Department, am that I am requested to pay ovor said SUE to tho nearest disbursing quartermaste and transmit his receipt for the same ti your offioe. Absence from the oity ha prevented me from acknowledging soon er your letter. In answer to this clain 11 beg leave to enclose you herewith th duplicates of my account, amounting t $165.50, for transportation from Wei Point, N. Y.i to New Orleans, La., i January and February, 1861, in obi dience to War Department Order No. 1! a copy of which is herewith enclosed marked "A," relieving me from duty i Superintendent of the United Stat? Military Academy and sending me bac to my former post at New Orleans. M account for transportation was presente for payment to Colonel D. D. Tompkin Assistant Quartermaster-General in Ne York, the Quartermaster's Departmei here being out of funds nt the time, < the 23d of February, 1861; but it w not paid by him, as per copy of his lc ter, herewith enclosed, marked 4,B," tho Quartermaster-Geueral at Washin ton. It has never yet been settled. Y< will, therefore, please dednot the arnon ($10.30) claimed by you in your letter the 1st instant, and remit to me tl balance of $155.20 at your earliest co venience. I will remark hero, for t information of your department, th my resignation from tho military servi of tho United States was acoepted, take effect on the 20th February, 1861 I remaiu, very respectfully, your ol dient servant, G. T. BEAUREGARD, President N. O., J. and G. N. R. R. Co. Mr R. W. CLARKE, Third Audito Office, Treasury Department, Washii ton, D. C. The Third Auditor has written Second Comptroller Broadhead on i subject, cnlling attention to the joi resolution of 1867 forbidding payuu to parties who were not loyal to the C vernment on any claims accruing befe April 13, 1861. -o The statistics of divoroe in Connects are startling. Daring last year the vorcos numbered 478, or more than oi tenth of the number of marriages. ? THE QitKEXS AT THEIR OWN DOORS.- | The Working Women ot Boakn, at their meeting last week, adopted this sensible resolution : Resolved, That the white women and girls who to-day give a long and hard day's work for twenty-five cents in cur? rency, are quite as much the object of Christian and benevolent sympathy as were the negro slave women of the South? ern rice swamps. Joo Adkins was killed, not because he was a Radical, but because he had in? sulted a respectable young lady, by mak? ing the most bnse and infamous pro? posals to her. (The original letter con? taining tbeRe vile propositions will soo? be given to tho public.) Tho sumo fate would have befell auy person in the city of Boston, under thc same circum? stances; and every right-minded father and brother would buve pronounced it right.- Warrenlon. Clipper. A TERRIBLE THING.-Tho Now York Sun keeps np its tiro on tho recent deci? sion of Judge Chase on the fourteenth amendment. In its issue of Tuesday it. states tho case in italics, thus: "Tho recent decision of Chief Justice Chase is jost so important as this: If it\ elanda as law, all ihe fruits of the war which have been planted in thu Constitution \ are plucked out." where aro Jtbo Loyal Leagues-dumb dogs-that they take no notice of this important event? Whero is tho Repub? lican press? Where is the religions press? Whero is tho conscientious Tribune? Where is tho sneaking Independent? Whero is tho eloquent Beecher, that his voico. is not yet raised in Plymouth Church to denounce this first bold but insidious and dangerous thrust of the great apostate to law and to liberty? SOLDIERS' GRAVES.-Tho reverent care taken of the remains of tho soldiers who fell during the rebellion in the United States has recently been cited with high commendation in England. The visit of the Prince of Wales to the Crimea has revealed the fact that, the graves of the English soldiers are in a shamefully ne? glected condition, and that the unburied bodies of many others are "lying broad? cast over the land." The remains of tho French and Russians have been collected in carefully tended cemeteries, but co more regard is paid to tbo dead English soldiers than if they were so many ani? mals. The Euglioh newspapers aro draw? ing unfavorable comparisons between tho conduct of the English and the United States Governments, and insist that even at this late day the bodies of the Eng? lish soldiers should be collected in ono large cemetery, and that head-boards and other means of identification should be placed over the graves. -o TERRIBLE ACCIDENT IN ATLANTA. From the Atlanta Era wo learn that a terriblo accident occurred at the rolling mill in that city on Thursday. It seems that Hiram McGill, a puddler, among tho iron which ho was throwing into the fur? nace, found a bomb shell which had not been exploded. Not wishing to throw it into the furnace until the powder had been removed, he took it into tho black? smith shop attached to the mill, and asked Milton M?ckle, a colored smith, to break it for him. M?ckle objected to doing so, on the ground that he feared an explosion. McGill then told him he would strike it himself, and laying the shell on the anvil, told Mackie to hold it there while ho struck. M?ckle very foolishly did so, and when the blow came down, the shell exploded with a terrific report, tearing off both of Mnckle's bands at the wrist, tearing his bowels ont and seriously injuring McGill and George Alexander, both white, be? sides injuring several others more or less. Fragments of tho shell flew all over the shop, and fairly riddled the roof. M?ckle has since died of the in juries received. -o THE WAY rr WORKS.-The New York Journal of Commerce, in giving particu? lars of the enormous imports of the last four months at that oort, shows that of the $119.517,750 to w'hich they amount, only S38.121.941 were of dry gooda; that I is, contrary to general belief, dry goods I constitute only about one-third of all the | foreign products for which we have to pay. Our legislators havo made the United States tho dearest market in tho world; consequently we sell little and buy much. That proposition is so plain that tho most illiterate reader can under stan 1 it. Tho theory of| tho protection? ists is, that by making tho home market | dear, wo oncourage homo production. The result, as shown by experience, is that when our markets are made dear wo lesson our sales to other countries, our produce costing so much they can buy cheaper elsowhore; while everybody who can, comes hore to sell his wares, because everything is high. This business would collapse of itself if wo havo to pay 6peoie for the difference. But as long ns we can pay in bonds, only close observers see any danger ahead. To SKEPTICS.-The almost daily ro ceipt of voluntary testimonials from every part of the country, from Physi? cians, Clergymen, old and youug, male aud femalo, is sufficient to convince the most skeptical that DR. Torr's EXPECTO? RANT is the most valuable LUNG BALSAM cf the age; many wonderful eures have been performed by it, ss may bo seen by hundreds of certificates in the hands of the proprietor. Try it, and you will doubt nc longer. M30 6 The publication ol the &H?Aern Guard? ian, (the first number of which waa to appear on tho first of May,) has been in? definitely postponed, as we are informed. -o--. Mr. Smythe, the boot, shoe and hatite, issues his prouanciainento, this morning, and calls upon the people in general to examine his stock-to which extensive and seasonable additions have recently been made. -o OURSELVES.-lu a day or two, tho Phonix will bo materially enlarged; and we are concluding arrangements which it is believed will add materially to the attractions of tho paper. Tho Gleaner will ot tho same time bu increased in size, and will thon contain a larger amount of readiug matter than any fami? ly paper published in the South. -o A few copies of the 'Sack and Destruc? tion of Columbia' can bo obtained ot the Phonix office. Price twenty-five cents. -o MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.-The following aro the hours for opening and closiug: During week from.. 8)? A. M. to 6 P. M. On Sundays from.G to 7 P. M. CHARLESTON AND WESTERN MAILS. Opens at..5 P. M. Closes at. 8>? P. M. CHARLESTON NIGHT MAIL. ~ Opens at8)? A. M. Closes at.4}? P. M. GREENVILLE MAIL. Opens at. .5 P. M. OloseB at 8>< P. M. NORTHERN MAIL. Opens at..2 P. M. Closes at 12}? P.M. -o NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.-Attention is called to the following advertisements, published the first time this morning: Meeting Palmetto Fire Company. Meeting True Brotherhood Lodge. George Symmers-Arrivals. Leaphart & Sloan-Fresh Goods. Great Bargains in Boots and Hats. D. C. Peixotto & Son-Bacon, ko. -o JOB OFFICE.-The Phonix Job Office is prepared to execute every style of printing, from visiting and business cards to pamphlets and books. With ample material and first-class workmen, satis? faction is guaranteed to all. If our work does not come np to contract, we make nocharge. With this understanding our business men havo no excuse for sending work North. -o It is seldom that we use the columns of this paper to "puff" or no tico the "thousand and one" articles known as "patent medicines." We, however, vary from our mle in tho present case, that we may call attention to the artiole known as "S. T.-1860-X, Plantation Bitters." We desire it understood that we do so without any solicitation or promise of benefit from the proprietor or other in? terested parties. We simply do it as an net of duty towards those who are labor? ing uuder physical disability, weakness and the various complaints arising from impurities of the blood. Having used tho Bitters at the instigation of a friend, (and, we confess, with some misgivings at the outset,) we found them a most valuable medical compound, and to our great satisfaction, accomplished the ob? ject for which they were used. MAGNOLIA WATER.-Superior to tho best imported German Cologne, and sold at half the price. M30Jlt3 -o HAGAN'S MAGNOLIA BALM. -Thia article is the true secret of beauty. It ie what fashionable ladies, actresses and opera singers use to produce that cultivated, distingue appearance so much admired in the oircles of fashion. It removes all unsightly blotches, red? ness, freckles, tan, sunburn and effects of spring winds and gives to the complexion a blooming pnrity of transparent delicacy and power. No lady who values a fine complexion can do without the Magnolia Balm. 75 cents will buy it of any of our respectable dealers. Lyon's Kathairon is a very delightful hair dressing. M22 113 -o It may be truthfully said that the greatest of all blessings is health, for without it, it is impossible to enjoy the life that God has given us. A healthy stomach, a good digestion, a good con? science aro requisites so important in a physical and moral point of view to human happiness, that we presume no one will question it. To all alike is health essential for life's enjoyment and pursuits; to old and young, to rich and poor, to man and woman. Are you in search of wealth? health is essential; do you desire office and worldly hours? of what avail would these be without health? The beauties of spring, the song of birds, the deep blue skies, all have a poetio fascination with the pure in mind and body ; but what are they without health? To say with the poet, as one feels the throbs of a health? ful heart: "This world is very lovely! Oh, that I may live." And so to continue, make use of the means within your reaoh, Heinitsh's Queen's Delight, the panacea for all the ills incident to bad blood. It is a tonio, invigorated, liver regulator cures disorder of the stomach and diges? tion, headaches, nervousness, consump? tion, ?fcc. M15