Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Daily Paper $L0 a Montbr) .' "Let oar just centre v J Tri-Woekly $10 a MOD th. ' Payr.!:! J ?n Advance. j" ' Attend the .true event."-Sh?kspcare. ^ { Payable ia Advance. BY J. A. SELBY COLUMBIA, S. C., JONDAY, APRIL IO, 1865. VOL. 1.-NO. IO. PHOENIX, A.Y. 5 r?id B ST. Irnos. ?a ' - 1 |e .)oce '.und, 5 cte ?nb. - 3.1 cts J Byron-Cant * 4?QO. [Taking a N*w>:paper. lids as much ii.k*-; U.\?ti itu rh ps; i fto phnAuliJgirt ?oiiM fi i? . UljiiTereetv is tht?r huioiv-. ^ th? pajper, arul h.a we f.- "bappu. than a kforgfa I^?hildren al?fcouj? read an? writs, I And talk ><i rjiuQ ano Lliintp. 'luso t her t- il? UfJ paper, a?nf ?While ?&dj?;g through tb wu<>d, tree felld-rwii and broke t? ?r.vn. And burl hit , as it should d,h'?"oee? reading of trie ' 2V? *j;hotn?vlke Brother J i rr?,. y~ ... dev a ct^vi th ts accident t?ad notiwt'??et? bim. TUNCH. Xtjf? H JUT fSEPtjuc'iill^iyihe Em ^of tb* French b is jW issued o Jir ti the queen sovtivigns of fi respecting . the cortiition ann i pfajt?s?u into decay lo |hich the jjPprite Church of the, Holy Se jifr??-ijas been filing f.r many In this interest! ? Hocu Jth> Boipress .fabe* ?i esraest j rQR>Ie aupad ?O her sjjb?r no?*- j Vi unite anr" repair ,t ? holy t^ing how i, is that if Chris ' tfirs luye r?V h astern! to at- I Ito, a state ti ta in ss s.oi}Sicf.h.'g ! faithful of a.l comm don *s. . { jrropciitnui is not rrjh >lv to j > ijAi.-ay iffy - ?c^m^?fi^?f Si MT (e Church on an entirely*atti so as toafiord abundant yvn [e to tho pilgrims of every con - of Christians fi om every clime ta aisit ?nd worsbp tbeie. J circular says: It would be ad |, after having obtained the con the Sublime -Porte, to entirely the. Church of tb? Holy Se? aton a new plan, and ona larger .f that it inigbi afford sr rointno tr all oom^pions. Thus, for L there should^ be on one side Land even .anave consecrated Ve o? thp> Latins, aud on the ]ave and a chap??! reserved for taf^?fc'e Greeks, 'fbe principal acul4 be open to all, and the tue faithful to the Holy Se? at present *>o difficul , giving j Loqneot disturbance, would be .Ul Jiiu<i-;atices. Ti t majesty Kjnev samtuary should as much sb e equal tb at of the Sacred" asso? is which are recalled by these jriaces. For these reasons a ^on might be opened, in which leets aid artists of all coun [ild be invited to t;ke part, Uernational jury might select lng the designs ??nt by them |h, in, a purely artistic point (might be deemed the most so great an idea. As to the ^e*isi?y for commencing and fritiiout delay the New the Holy Sepulchre, they jurs iah cd by a universal sub |at the head of whicb all the Princesses would no doubt act other iu inscribing thei \.n> ^C?SF.-One of our ibo cuntid: KI eves it ?e? ra mai'to ?jH Cte occasion ier tu know positively when ibtf, ts;.ys that his maternal j gli oi . of ti fondest of > fcf* !.. '. t f t?-; iuallv I our i |)< ; m tn;*V, said the m's net (Li-.) my fault, no foou kin lix it-because faV lucy (l e) vealed nie fis.' 1 hui? been dry, e-f indeed ? lave. [MbntgoTr.ery JJaii. Important latter fx o m J. W. Booth. We. ..ave just received, says the PhiluJtiphia I'ref S April 19, the foi? lowing 'letter, writ' in by John Wilkes Booth, and placed by biro in the hands of his brother in-kw, J. S. Clarke, io a sealed envelope and addressed to himself, in his ow a hand-writing. In tiie same envelop') were some United ?.ates bonds ai.J oil stocks. This letter waa "opened by Mr. Clarke fer? tile first time on Monday last, and im medrately bc id'-t! by him to Marshal Millward, who has kindly placed it in our hands. Most unmistakably it proves that he must for many months have contemplated seizing- the person of the late President, lt is, however, doubtful whether he imagined the black deed which has plunged the nation into tb? deepest gloom, and at ?he same lim* awakened it to just and righteous indignation: -, -,1804. , Mr DEAR S{R: YOU may use -this as you thiiik best... But as some- mayrt wish to know when, who and 'WV;/ j and asl know, jiot how to ./direct, I give it. (iii the words W you roaster:) 'To whom it may cot.Siern.'f Right or wrong, God tpdflB nie,pct nmi. For he my motive gHH1 or had, ol- one thing I am sure/^H last.rig condemnation of the > ort^B I love peace more thanHfe. Have loved tiie Union beyor^^Bxpres-ion. For four years liavt \ > ??-*?'h ' oped and prayed fur the ?j'jH c.' r*is to break, nuil fhr a r-BVicn . f our former atti ishine. 'JHB.-ai:. longer would t-e a clime. .flBpe for peace is dead.. M;< pr;\ye I He preved as . fc'le as ?n v hopes. J^^H"''-- i e done. 1 go t'Msee and >h.-.H ? .?U-.K- end. [ ii;?1'} ever 1;''H H 3onih were j him Lincoln, 'our ye.fr ?...<>, ?q^s plainly war - Wr.r npoa Sou': tiern rights and institutions. Hi's election proved it. 'Await an overt act.1 Yes. till you are bound and plundered.^ What folly! The South were wise. Who thinks of argument ot patience when the finger of his enemy presses on the trigger? In a foreign war, I too could say, 'Country, right ir .wrong.' But in a struggle such as ours, (where the brother trieB to piene the brother's heart,) for God's s ike choose the right. When a c JUD try like this spurns justice from her side she for? feits the allegiance of every honest freeman, and sbou'd leave him, un trammelled hy any fealty soever, to act | as his conscience nay approve. People of the North, to hate ty? ranny, to love liberty and justice; t? .?.trike at wiong?n?nd oppression, was the.teachhig.of ovr fathers. The study ; t our history nil not let me lorget it, and may it ne er. This country wa? formed for the white, not for tie Mack man. And, looking upon AjHoan slavery from the J same stand-pom, held by the noble framers of our Constitution, I. for one, have ever cons lered it one of the greatest blessing;-both for themselves and us-that Gtd ever bestowed upon a favored nation. Witness heretofore our wealth aw, power, witness their elevation and enlightenment ablive their race elsewhere. I have lived amongst it mo? ", of my life, and have seen less harsh iref-tnoebt bom master to man than J have beheld in the North from father to son. Yes, heaven known, noone wobld be willing to do more lo; .,Jis negro i?*c? than 1, could 1 but rie? a war to still better their conditio .. . But Lince'n's policy is only prepar? ing the way f?,r 'heir total annihila? tion. The South are not, nor have they been fi di't?rg for tho continuation ot s;avery. The first hattie ol' Bull Run did away with that idea. Their carnes sine* for war have Leen ns noble and grea?x: ;ar than thofo that urged our fathers on. Kv? n should we allow tb?y were wrong at the beginning of this contest, cruelty and injustice have made the wrong become the right and they stand now, before lue wonder and admiration ot the world, as a noble baud of patriotic heroes. Hereafter, gading cf their deeds, Thermopylae will be .forgotten. ;^Syrb<>n I aided in the capture and execution of John Brown-who was a mutdcrer on our Western border, and who ?as fairly tried and convicted, before an impartial judge and jury, of treason, and who, by the way, has since been made a god-I was proud of my little share tn*the transaction, for I deemed it my duty, and that I was helping our common country to perform an act of justice. But what was a crime in poor John Brown is now considered, by themselves, as the greatest and only virtue of the whole Republican party. Strange transom gration! Vice to become a virtue simply because more indulge in it! ? thought then, as now, that the Abolitionists were the only traitors in the land, and tbat'the entire party-de? served ?the same fate as poor old Brown; not because they wish to abolish slavery, but on account of the means (ney have ever endeavored tri use to effect that abolition. If Brown were living, I doubt w hether he him? self would set slavery against jue Union. : Most,.or many tu the Nrjrth do, and!openly, curse the Union if'the .South a-e to return and retain a single right, guaranteed.to'them by ever' tie which ?e once revered as sacred. The South can make uo choice. It is either I'Xtermination <-r slavery tor themselves, woVse than dealb, to draw from. I know my choice. I haye! ft?30 studied hard to discover upon, what grounds the right of a State to ?acede has been denied, when our very name, United States, ar.J the De \nw*?-M?./?f In-lcjpeu?'. '.7-' U-Ui. pr?? vido i'jr secession. Uni r'.x-re is oe time fer words. I writ?: iii baste. . I knowhow foolish I sir: il.be deemed for undertaking such a Ktep as this where, on the one side, I have man) friends and everything to make rn? happy, where my profession alone hal gained nie an income ot more thar twenty thousand dollars a year, ant where my great personal ambition it my profession has such a great fiele for labor. On the other hand, tb? South have never bestowed upon rn< one kind word; a place now where have no friends, excep. beneath tb sod; a place where I must either be come a private soldier or a beggar To give up all the former for the latftr besides my roYj^er and sisters, w'non I love'so dearly, although they s< widely d.fferwith me iu opinion,seem insane; but God is my judge. I iov justice mdre thau I clo a country th? disowns it; moro 'ban fatu?? aru wealth; more-Heaven pardon me i wrong-more than a happy home, have never been upon a battle field brit oh', ray countrymen, could you bu see the reality or efi?ets of this horn war as I have seen them, in ever State, save Virginia*- I know yo would think like nie, ;.nd would pra the Almighty to create in tie North ern mind a sense of righi ani justice even should it possess no seasoning c mercy-and thatiia would dry up tili sea of blood between us, which i caily growing wide*. Ala;! poe country, is she to meet her threatens doom? , Four years ago 1 would have give a thousand ?ives to see lier remata, ? [ had always known lier, po werft and unbroken." And even mw wo.dd hold my life as naught ha se her what shts was. Ol?! my friend, if i.ie fearful scenes of th? past foi yeais had never been enacted, or \<b\h, has beeo had beeu but a i'rigl cried dream, from which we could nc awake, with what overflowing heat could we bless God and pray ?' >r 1 cm tinted favor! How I haye* lev t.ie ol? flag can never now be^tiow A fev years since and the enii world could boast of nene so purey< stpolicss. But I have of late/o-} seeing and loaring of the bloody deeds of wliicf she has been laade the emblem, and/would shudder io think how Vcbange/i she had,grown. Oh! how I have/ longed to see hfr break from the p'dst of blood ano "death that circler round ber fold?, smiling ber beauty and tarnishing ber '?onor. But no, ?ay by day has sh? been dragged peeper and deeper :.nto cruelty and oppression, tili now in rriy eyes, ber once bright red /ri/es look like bloody (gashes on the fare of beaven. I lode now upon my early admi? ration of her glories as a dream. My love, ns things stand to-day, is for the South alone. Nor do I deem it a dis? honor in attempting to make for her a prisoner of this man, to whom she owes so mu?h of misery. If success attjnd me I go penniless to her side. They 6ay she has found that 'last ditch' which the North have so long derided and been endeavoring to force her iu, forgetting they are our broth? ers, and that it is impolitic to goad an enemy to madness. Should I reach her ra safety, and if true, I , will proudly beg permission to triumph or die in that same 'ditch' by her side. A Confederate doing - duty on his own responsibility. J. WILKES BOOTH. CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICU THE LETTER WAS RECEIVED DY CLARKE. The Philadelphia Ledger, of April 19, states that J. Wilkes Booth, the wretched assassin of President Lin? coln, in January last left a letter io a sealed envelope, directed to himself, at j the house ofj Mr. J. S. Clarke, his Brother-in-law, in this city, with the statement that trey contained oil i stocks and bonds. The;. remained at j the ho*;se of Mr. Clarke until ; ftor the J crin e of Fi .uv. night, when Mr. j Ciar, <e opened tie-in HU?.! Lauded the:;; over to the United, S:ates Mar-bal. Tibia letter is undated, but it could not have been written later than Janua-*--, aBd was probably written in November. It shows that if John Wilkes Booth did not then contem? plate killing tho President, he bad at least resolved to aid tho rebelhou in some striking and startling way. It is probable that he was theo bound by an oath to obey some secret ba:.d of conspirators, and his object in address? ing the letter tu himself was to insure secrecy till he had taken some step which would give the family reason for opening it. So strong were his sympathies for the rebel causo that he would undoubtedly have joined the rebel army at the beginning of the war, if it had not been for the firm opposition of his family-, and the grief of his mother. His brothers, Edwin and Junius, considered his declarations that the rebellion was right, as merely the wild talk of a reckless young man. His opinions and feelings were so dif? ferent from those of his family, that a virtual separation became unavoidable and he has visited neither his. brother nor brother-in-law since January last. Wben Br. Rush was a young man, be was invited to dine in company with Robert- Morris, a man celebrated fer tho part be took io the American Re? volution. It so happened that the sordpany had waited sometime for Mr. Morris. Who by bis appearance, apologised for detaining them, by say mg he had been engaged in reading a sermon of a clergyman who had just ?oiie to England to receive orders. Well, Mr. Morris, said the Boctor, :iow did you like the sermon? I have leard it highly extolled. Why Doctor, said he, I did not like t at all. It is too smooth and tame br me. Mr. Morris, replied the Doctor, ivhat sort of sermon do you like? I like, sir, replied Mr. Moiris, that iind of preaching which drive.? a man .ito the corner of his pew, and makes Lim tbink the d j-il 9 alter Lim. ? It is a misfortune for a man to have a crooked nose, for he bas to follow it. FEMALE INFLUENCE AND ENERGT - I hare noticed that a married mnn falling into misfortune is more apt to retrieve his situation tn the world finn a single one, chiefly because bis soirifs are soothe! and relieved bj domestic endearments and sel'-resp^e*. ker t alive by finding that, though abroad may be darkness an J humiliation,}et thero is still a little world of love at home of which be is monarch. Where- - as, H single man is apt to run to waste and self-neglect; to fail to ruins like somo deserted mansion, for want of ao. inhabitant. I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with "which women sustain the most overwhelm? ing reverses of fortune. Those dis^ asters which break down the spirit of man and prostrate bira in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intre? pidity and elevation to their characters, that at times it approaches to eub limity. .Nothing can be more touch? ing than to'behold a soft and tender female, who bad beon all weakness and dependence, and r.live to every trivial roughness, while treading tbe prosper? ous path, suddenly rising in mental force to be comforter and supporter of her husband under misfortunes, abid? ing with unshrinking firmness the bit? terest blast of adversity. Aa the vine which bas long twined its graceful "oliage abou* the oak, and has been ifted by him into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is riven by tbe thun? derbolt, cling around with its caressing tendrils, and bind up the shattered brow, so. too, it is beautifully ordained by Providence that woman, who is the o'nament and dependent of ?nan, in his happier hours, should be bis stay and solace when smitten with dira and certain calamities;, winding herself into tl.e r-.sgged recess of his, nature and bindiug up the broken heirt-Irving. A FI.KA UNDER A MICROSCOPE. Chambers' Journal furnishes the fol? lowing very interesting paragraph about a very small subject: ''When a flea i? made to appear ai la-ge as an elephant, wa can see all the wonderful parts of its formation, and are astonished to find that it has a ?oating of -armor much more com* pl .?.te than ever a warrior wore, and composed of strong polished plates, fitiei over each other,eacb plate covered like a tortoise shell, and where they ratet, hundreds of strong quills pro? jectlike tbo*e on the back ofthe-por cunine or hedgehog. "There are the arched neck, the bright eyes, the transparent cases, piercers to puncture the skin, a sucker to draw away the blood, six jointed legs, lour of which arc folded on the breast, ready at any moment to be thrown out ?vi th tremendous force for tha: jump, which bothers one when they want to catch him, and at tbe Br.d of each leg hooked claws, to en ? able bim to cling io whatever Le alig'its upon. A flea can jump a HUT dred times bis own length, which is the .same as if a man jumped to tue height of seven hundred feet; and be :an draw a load two hundtei?' times bis weight." A ?SOSOLOGIST.-During the late ;anvass in Michigao, a. surge?r.?j lentist was making an excellent .peech in one of the interior towns. A. low fellow, belonging to the O'hei party, interrupted Lim with the ques? tion, 'What do you' ask to pul! a ;ooth. doctor?* 'I will pull all your ;eeth for a shilling, and your ::c-f gratis,' replied the speaker. * f Galt .Reporter Bieres ANT? TESTAMENTS.- Ts hem there bibles?' asked a verdant specimen, of thc clerk or the supreme ;ourt, fis he pointed to a pile of blank lecords of wills. 'No,' ans were J ;lerk 'those are testaments.' Ten thousand dollars is a large sum but we Lave all spent a Bummer.