The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, September 29, 1865, Image 4
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M?SGE IiLANTT'
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Going to Sleep.
Tho light is fading down the sky,
The shadows grow and multiply,
I hear the thrushes* eveping song;
But I have borne with toil a?d# wrong * !
So long, so long!
Dim dreams my drowsy senses drown- ?
So, darling,- kia*s my eyelid down!
M/ life's brief spring went wasted by
My summer ended fruitlessly;
I leajrned to hunger, strive and wait
I found you, love-oh! happy fatel >
So late, so latei
' Now all my fields are turning brown
Ni? darling, fct??i my eyelids COTO!
Oh! blessed sleep! oh! perfect .rest!
Thus pillbwcd on your faithful breast,
Kor lib nor death is wholly drear,
0, tender heart, since you are here,
So dear, so dear!
Sweet love! my soul's sufficient .crown!
Now , darlings, kiss my eyelids down!
"THE WAY THAT SCANTMX GOES.?- !
An English paper contains thc" fol- ]
lowing, which should go the rounds: !
A wise man gave his friend tfcis ad
vice: If you take a house in a terrace
a little way out, of town, bc careful i
to select the centre one-because a !
story never loses by telling; and if
you live in the middle house, tales j
which might be circulated to your j
prejudice will only have half thc dis?
tance to travel thi:t they would if you
lived at cither extreme, and so you
. will have twice as good a character as
those residing at either end. The
following fact will prove thc wisdom of
my advice: The servant at No. 1 told
the servant at No. 2, that lier master
expected his old friends theBaile3"s to
pay him a visit shortly; No. Sftold No.
3 that No. 1 expected to have the
bailiffs in his house every day; No.
3 told No. 4 that it was Mp with Nq.
1, for he could not keep the bailiffs
ont; and No. 4 told No. 5 that the
officers were after. No. 1, and that it
was as much as he could do to pre?
vent the le vj- of an execution in
his house, and that it was nearly kill?
ing his poor dear- wife! And so it?
went on increasing until it got to-No.
32, who confidentially assured No. 33
that the Bow street officers had taken
up tho gentleman at No. i for kill?
ing his poor dear wife, with arsenic,
and that it was confidently hoped
and expected that he would be exe?
cuted."
. . . - ? - ...
A MATRIMONIAL INCONSTANCY.-A j
queer instance in illustration of this
vibe has recently been brought to j
ligkt ^n a neighboring town. A j
married woman moving in high
Circles, left her home one evening
last week, ?nd taking :v conveyance to j
a'hotel in the rural districts, was '
soon joined by an unfaithful husband,
who ought to have been.,at home !
taking care of bis own family, in?
stead ot' engaging ir. intimate com- i
panionship with those outside of his
own Household The couple ordered
. a roon together, representing them
selves as husband and wife. At a !
inter hour tho1 same night a carriage :
drove up to the door of the hotel with
another couple, who engaged lodgings :
in an adjoining ?hamber. All passed
oft quietly enough until the next
morning,, when tin: two couples were i
summoned to the breakfast table, i
There they met when--lo and behold! ?
-there was a mere change of partners, j
each gentleman having upon bis arm !
the wife of the other! Although there |
was mutual blushing, mental eui sing
and recrimination, it was deemed ?
best, after a sober, second thought, I
to let toe matter resfc as quietly as |
poe lille, but the coincidence was a
too ?.-."arkablo one to avoid the ear
of th. ?vcr curious.
[Lowell (Mass.) News.
A VESEHATCTIT!NEGRO.-Alate ama
ber nf the St. Louis Evening Neics
says:
"The oldest colored man in. the
State reported at the ('entrai Station,
this morning, that he had been rob?
bed of a wat^ph which h? had carried
fyr thirty' years. Jones will be one
htvndred year:-, old on the first of
January Jiext. He remembers the :
surrender of Cornwrllis at forktown.;
hi1-- master, Col. Simms, who owned
several plantation.'; and six hundred
slaws, being present at the surren?
der. Jones has ploughed the glebe
with Henry Clay in tho ''Slashes of
Banover.' When Aaron Burr was
tried at Richmond,-he ran away to
get a sight at him, and 'got one Of
the most devillisluv.t whipping.1? for it'
he ever received. When Admiral
Cockburn sailed witWiis fleet up the
Chesapeake Bay, hi sent word to
Richmond that he would bo there
next day to dino. The chivalry went
out to moetliim. Jones marched out
with AjidreW J. Stevenson, who com?
manded the 'foQt artillery.' William
Witt was Captain of the 'flying artil?
lery.' and Robert (?amble of the
tooopc:s.' Jones shook hands with
Wa\elt<> and nov. Im* lost hi..
?teb."
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President Jokftion na n Tailor. |
i A correspondent pf the New York
I Herald mites from Greenville, Te?
jnessee: fe'"
j "Mine ?o3t" of the hotel had been
I a "brother, chip," and worked upon,
j the tailor bench with President John
? son in days lang syne, and I obtained
i from him some valuable information
concerning* "A. Johnson, Tailor,'*
which sign-a fae simile of the. old
one which w; s sent to the' Chicago
Sanitary Fair-now hangs over the
door. T he old^jen tleman's storv con?
cerning our President, runs Lb un.
There was a vast difference between
Andy and I when we worked on the
same bench. . I could spell B-a-k-e-r,
and he could not; but he could "flax"
me on,/wpair of breeches or a fine coat,
and^fconld gvu a better price for his
work than I. He never made a gar?
ment that didn't fit, and never had a
job returned. He was the best tailor
I havo. ever met. When Andy got
married he hadn't ten dollars in-the
world, and his wife was as.poor as
Naomi's daughter. Her mother said
to her before she wa%married, (call?
ing her by name, ) ' T eau give you all
the money there is in the house.-fif?
teen dellar?-to help you about going
to house-keeping; or I will take the
money and give a wedding-which
will you prefer? ' 'Mother, " said she,,,
"I will take the wedding, and Andy
and I'll work for money-won't we?"
appealing to her lover. He assented,
and the consequence was that the
young couple had not one cent with
which to "set up" for themselves.
After they were married she taught
him tq read, and the world knows the
lest, said the old man with a sigh of
relief, as he stroked duwil Iiis sandy
wig, and puffed away at his oM clay
pipe. Oh, wonderful plebian, it is a
long and rugged road that leads from
the tailor's bench, in Greenville, to
the Presidential Chair, al Washing
t m; but that wonderful trip through
Cumberland Gap has told its tale.
RESIDENCE OF ANDY JOHNSON, THE
"F TAILOR.
The old residence of. President
Johnson stands on the mitin street,
only a few rods from the hotel. We
walked down and surveyed its out?
ward structure, though we did not
enter, as it has been prostituted to the
most vile purposes since the rebellion.
It is a simple brick house, two stories
high, with an L extending back, Arith
a porch on one side. Very like other
house.-? where destined Presidents
have never lived. It being, howe-vcr,
tho place where President Johnson
had made bis struggle for greatness, I
had a desire to sot: it, and have given
mjferenders the benefit of my short
vjsit.
THE TALLOU'S SIIOI*.
The place where the famous knight
of the scissorslie?q forth was the next
thing that attracted my curiosity, and
so 1 went to seo that. "A. Johnson,
Tailor,* painted in crude letters, en
imitation of the original, said Eureka
to me, and I stopped before the magic
symbols, gazing intently on the little
eight by ten frame building. It was
plebian in the extreme, built very
much in tho style of a tanner's smoke
house, of rough weather-boarding,
whitewashed. On tho other end the
boards are lora off in places, and the
chimney is tumbling to decay. An
old negro, raised by ^President John?
son, and assuming his name, is the
sole occupant of the building, ?md ho
is the successor in business of "A.
Johnson, Tallow." fie says, "Massa
Johnson been in de trade de bes tailor
in dose diggins." President John?
son's firsi: public office was Mayor of
Greenville. ?
THE TABEES* T?ENED. - Aletter from
Beaufort, S.' C., says Dr. Sams, who
owned "Oakland," on St. Helena
Island, has returned and lives in one
of the deserted negro cabins. One of
his former slaves lives in tlw? mansion
house, which he bought >t the United
.States Tax Commissioner; the Doctor
tried to get a room in the house, but
Harry would no.t-sntfer him to?cfcnpy
any part of it. The building is ]:
poor one; but the cabin where Sams
now liv? :; is hot a?j habitable as many
'.sorthern pig pens. Thc former owner
of a hundred slaves now lives in an
abandoned hovel on the plantation
which he O? iee owned. Dr. Clarence
Fripp asks the patronage o? the peo?
ple of St, Helena; his card (written
by himself) says: "He will *be found
from 10 a. "m. until -x p. m. at the
house of John Major." That. John
Major was formerly his slave.
I Brjuion Journal.
- i .??- .
A few weeks ago, a young woman
named Mary Scott, about twenty-five
years of aga, residing in Soho, Lou?
don, was going down stair.-. + o the
kacie i., when her foot e: ught in her
crinoline, and she was precipitated
from the top to the bottom .of the
stair.:. Sile fell on her head, and was
tillprl on +5 f. snvr*. :
EGKNATIOX!-Strange ideas float
gb. the minds of some of the
eedmen and women hereabouts.
We had a conversation with a s,tout
colored woman, at present'in our
employ-one, too, of tho very best
that we have met with, and she says
that the ?jnderstandHig among the
black folks all through the country
is, that the whites and the blacks are
to/tye forced to marry; thefrlack men.
to maVry our white women, and"" the
white men thc black women. "If
think,'' ?aid she, "that Juke will be
.??j wubu Cuauppoijaiiett, iK> xif ex?
pected long 'fore this to have been
married to a white, lady." Jake had
been her husband, and bad actually^
abandoned her with the view of mar-'
rying a white woman. It scorns, from
what we could learn, that wags, both
Northern and Southern, had been
playing offc their jokes upon the moro
gullable ol-thc black people, and thc
laffc?r, without questioning, accepted
the joke as Gospel. Tho fact is, the
general intermarriage of thc whites
and blacks is, to sonn- extent, believed
hy thc more intelligent class of ?ol
orcd people about town. Wo heard
an mtell?ent colored.woman say that
as it was now lawful .for whites and
blacks to marry, slio would morry a
white man, as she never "eared-much
about negroes anyway."
[S7irevefi>r^(La. ) Newsl
THE WITHDRAWAL OF WIRZ'S COUN?
SEL.-Hon. James Hughes, the former
counsel for Capt. Wira, is out in a
long letter to the Indianapolis Joicmal,
'giving his reasons for his desertion ol'
the Amiersonville jaile r, He says:
"I did not withdraw fironi the de?
fence on account of opinions ns to tlic
legality of military commissions, or
their expediency at this time. I
withdrew because I believed that tho
prisoner could uol obtain a fair
trial, and I could not secure it . for
him. I mean to say that if all tech?
nical rules of law were thrown aside,
Captain Wirz could not, in my opin?
ion, receive before a military commis- i
sion, subject to orders from th? office
of thc Judge Advocate General, that
fair play on the merits '?of his case,
that rough justice which usually cha?
racterises the decisions of the rudo
and unaltered but equitable frontier
men who hold t?ie courts of Judge
Lynea in the West. Their proceed?
ings are quito as illegal and irregular
as those of tho 'regulators,'tis they
are cal]ml in thc Mest, ami not half
?Vs- EXODUS OP NEGROES. -Yester?
day evening, ?i procession of negroes
marched down Franklin avenue at
"charge" step. Inquiring nf an old
gray-headed darkey the reason of the
procession, ho informed us that ho?
und his party, .consisting of five fami?
lies, numbering thirty-three adult
members, with a miscellaneous quan?
tity of "picaninies,'" wi re on their
way back to. their old homes near
Boonvillc, Missouri, to seek work
with their old masters. Ho said they
had been hero about two years, and
did wry well at first, but having
found it hard to get work nov/, and*
receiving no move government ra?
tions, they were fearful they would
starve if they remained in tho city ^
this winter: but he Knew if they could
get back to the old farm they could
get plenty of "hoe-cakc." There were
about two bundie.1 other darkies fol- j
lowing the "homeward bound," and
an inquiry elicited tho information
that they were nearly all field hands,
could' get nothing to do here, and
would go back to their old homes as
soon as they coald.- St. Louis DisjiatcJi.
QUITE CONTRAKIWLSE. -"We are told
that "like cures like." Wo wish our ,
clever homeopaths would invent a ;
much more valuable system to society !
by which "dislikes should ?euro dis- j
Fits Axe UFE mmml j
H. E. NICHOLS, Agent,
T710R thc following i- .'-T CLASS COM- j
tfl PA?IES: *
.New i'ork Und rv.: rcr's Agency,
Capital.S3?000,00?
Ilome Insurance-Company, Nev.
i'ork, Capit.ii . 2,000,000
Hartford eire Insurance; Com- .
pany, Hartford, Capita] ... 'J.IKIO.OOO
Homc Insurance Company, Sa?
vannah, Capital... 2,500,000
New England Mutual :.ii>- Insu?
rance Companv, ['.oston, Capi
i*?t?l. '. 5,000,000
Nc v York Accidenta] Insurance Company,
insuring against accidents of every descrip?
tion resulting i'i LOSS OF LIFE orJPER
SONAL INJURY.
With several other well known pnfl nlia
ble companies, tb aggregate capital I
amounting to
. $50,000, WK). I
Risks taken on reasonable terms and in J
anv one spot to thi amount of ?200,000, 1
?LL LOSSES PROMPTLY ADJUSTED. 3 !
Office at Mr. Hus! aug's ?house, coiner of i
Asserab!} and Washington streets, Colum?
bia, H. c'. . Aug 15 J6ni J
GOOB I. EWS 'FOB, ___ 2
w~vmm OF Tttfe TBAOH m camtmom
?? ' .- ?- -.- #
S IMMENSE . ATTRACTION AT TUE
Wholesale. Shoe House!
N?. -495. mitt?H? STREIT, .
ESTJU??-ISI-I-?) IK 1S30,
ISoow re-open/ii, afU-i^.suspension pf fortryears, wi}& greater facilities ?han
Tho proprietor now offers i?r sale .
AT WHOIiESALE ONLY, at the lowest possible quotations, and receiving .1MMKNKK
CONSIGNMENTS aemi-wiicSly from tl-k largcfet and most reliable manufactories.
Thc proprietor takes pleasure tn calling tlTe attention of thc trade-the local mer?
chants of the States of Georgia. Tchncssoc, Alabama atm Florida -to the cxteneir*
Stock of BOOTS. SHOES, HATS. TRUNKS, cte. J? . 1
ORDERS NEATLY AND PROMPLY ATTEND?E) TO.
ET)WART) ITALY,
Sept 24 AGENT.-FOR MANUFACTURE! tS.
HAVING been appointed Agent for the sab- of BOOTS, Kl?t)?;, TRUNKSjudHATSt
hy several of the most, prumincnt manufacturers at tho North,and now located a,
NO. IS? MEET1NO STREET, CHARLESTON, S. C..
I offer this CHOICE STOCK OF GOODS for sale by the PACKAGE ONLY.'
a ?"Wac Trade will please notice. *_?
EDWARD DALY, Agent
Sept 24 J - 00 .
School Furaitm^. I if & fjj
^^^^^au^n^?^a^e^?^?^kc. fl UU. ll illili IX LU I 0
i Lecture Boom atftl Sabbath School Settee?. ! . . ; _ . .
AU kinds of Kehool Material. ! * Snipping, COIUJUISSIOII
. ROBERT PATON. . Fxr
Septrt7 1mo 2* Grove st., New York. , j?0I?wjkDING MERCHANTS,
SPECK & POlOCKv ? 76?EA8rw
V? ? vg?VV*%t , Tiro ll?ors South of North AtUtnti* Wharf
General * Commission. l?rcnants, CKAKLESTO:., K . t.
Plain sjreet, 'UH door from Assembly, i TTAVE constantly on ha ml a full ?upnly
COI UMBI \*S C ; Xl of GROCERIES, at lowest ruarkot
TY7E respectfully solicit' a 'share of tho : ".tem. **- Advances mad-, (ft. eonsign
W {public patronage. All basia.; sr, en- n,(',,t*- ' ,'.*-* >7".
I trusted to u.<? will roeeivi? prompt and per- ? T-j? un "I_T _"_?_*".? XI Or
I sonal attention. Wc have now in S'?IT an 0 J_ a ?* W __ __? C* _"_??_.
assortment o?" DRV GOODS, CLOTHING; " , _ ?_^?_!_, _
PERFUMES, Ac. Also, (iroeeries, provi- . W HOLESA_E DEMEBS IN
?ions, sno^ as Sng.tr. Coffee, Tea. New Or- -|j "*_? A
leans Molasses, Cheese, Crackers. Brandies, j inir? '
Wines and Liquors, Segars, Ac, Ac, all of ? ?
lr|ch^ ?ftererer at wholesale or retail, j FANCY ?RY 6?$??
Moimcefie; Calhoun, AND YANKEE NOMS,
COMMIS. MEftCHAtfTS, Vu f*:*f* ?f ifc-MAj^ >. g
(CORNER Curv?is anti Gato streets,! A RE now receiving fcbuir EALI.and WTN
U (nearS. C. andi}. A C. R. 1!. D?pota,; ' -3- TERSTOCK, to whiwh they invite th?
Columbia, S. C" rcTcive and forward all ! attention of dealers._S<h>t 21
kinds of __er_a__ize,*Fobftcco, Cotton and ' ~ "".._ , "">3R
aU Produce, or store thc same. Parties | T CESTABWSHED IN.18.?.] V
sh?ppod^th?de^a^eh ?rom ^ang^brrrg! j "W?i SMITH' BROW\ _ (J?ij
Alston. Winnsboro or other points, hy wa-;
gon, during the breakage on stud roads. ; - WHOLESALE DEALERS EN
SS? tW? tV-U-)m Wa?Ona fu? d*y.|..^%^jSi V* _
R. H.* MOUNCE. ?? W. CALHOUN. Avi ' ??'flLn.h~? ? V* .. V
REFERENCES.-J. ('...Gibbes, Edwin a. -Xo- Chambers St., Nr>r Fork.
Stott, Columbia; Johnston, ('rews A Co., . _____ "SI-,- '
Charleston; Linton* Dowty, Augusta, Ga.: \\TM- SMITH BROWN will receive con
Wm. Taylor A Co., Jff?ntgomery, Ala.: Cox, j. *? si?nments of. COTTON for sale ou
Bramar?! A Co. Mobile, Ala*.; W. A. ,T. commission, and make cash advances on
Finney, Danville, Va.; Robert' Lnmpkin, ?bjp-ents. His arrangements are such a.?
Richmond, Va. Sept 14 Imo* j maure faithftil attention to tht; int.Test
--"-. of the consigner. Sent 17 'imo
W. H. JOHNSTON, P- -
___.si__t_.__te., ; ARCHIBALD GETTY & GO.,
O?ice on Pickcnsrstreet East erid of Lady, j
WILL attend to al! ofiicial business j _^__1?TP!>______
brought be.fo-.e him; will also attend j ^XT>
to drawing up Deeds, Conveyances, Mort- | '
gages. Contracts, and other ordinary legal ; A /\ RTI HU a? f? ? a a ft Ki"- (?
instruments of writing. Fair copies of any : |j ?j gyj 9 ?V? __a 3_ ti JJ M1H 8 _3 ?
docunf?nt executed wi di. neatness and de- *
p:ltch. _August 1 1 V2r< and 12S Meeting Street, ?? !?_3!
LAWI_NC_r F CHARLESTONS. C.
SAMERS AND
NO. 70 WALL STREET-, NI
VORK.
P. A. WIIiCOXSON, Aibiit,
Orangcburg, !>. C.
EDMUND A. SOUDEE & CO.. '
Pidlad? lphia.
LIVINGSTON ? FOX & CO., Agents,
New York,
jerg- LIBERAL ADVANCES made <->
CONSIGNMENTS. Aug 15 2mo*
GOVERNMENt SEGWR?T?ESj |]||\BL?ST0" TO KEW YORK.
4 ND other STOCKS, BONDS. _c. ! _____
fcs?^T?.^ v. ! ATiLAMTI ? ???ST
Si (?ck Exchange. i ____ _ _ __
SIMEON BALDWIN,_ Jr... m-tubc. N. Y j 1? . | J0 e |
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