The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, October 06, 1865, Image 2
COLUMBIA,
, riday Morning-, October 6, 1865.
A homicidal mania of tho most
frightful character
the United States. The cessation of
hostilities between the North and the
South, has by no weans stopped the
effusion of blood. On the railroads,
rivers and inland seas of this .country,
the -chapter of homicidal accidents
reminds ns of the bloody battles of
Grant and Loo. On many of the
leading railroads conflicts between
locomotives moving in opposite di?
rections axe of almost daily occur?
rence. Two first-class engines, con?
stituting the motive power of passen?
ger *rains*half a mile long, dash at
*' each otter like infuriated bolls. When
they strike, humdredsof men, women
and children are suddenly crushed to
death, or maimed for life. "Scores-of
cars full of human beings are as com?
pletely dashed to pieces as if they
had been pitched over the Natural
Bridge of the Falls -of Niagara.
Steamboats also "collide," (as the
' 'horrible accident men' * mildly term
it, y one boat cuts the other in two,
there is a sad, gugrling shriek heard
for a moment above che noise of tho
wind and waves, :aaid hundreds sink
to their long homes in the depths of
the sea.
The work of taking human life is
going on bravely in the hones of vice
as well as in the work-shoms of the
land. Indeed, the Carnival ot Death,
says the Bichmond Times, seems to
be ?s fast and furious as it was before
grim-f?saged war smoothed its wrin?
kled front.
But the most alarming feature of
this mania for taking life is that it has
seized upon the female sex. The
ladies no longer permit the wrongs
inflicted by the sterner sex to be re?
dressed by magistrates and male rela?
tives. . Indeed, it is now very hard to
determine Which is the sterner sex,
as the "gray mares" are everywhere,
in pistol shooting, proving themselves
."the better horses." The women of
America not only redress their wrongs
with the pistol, but they shoot with
the most wonderful accuracy and pre?
cision. Of the dozen or so men who
have recently been shot by women
for various offences, ranging from se?
duction to forgetting to walk to
church with a high- spirited lady, all
"have been struck at the first fire, and
in vital parts of tho body. The
almost invariable and favorite weapon
is the beautiful little four-barreled
pistol of ?Starke's patent, which is not
much bigger than a front door key,
and shoots as strong as a "pocket
Colt." The gentlemen of this coun?
try being proverbially gallant, the
mania recently manifested by the fail
sex is treated as a good-humored
pleasantry.
The reason of this is that the pri?
vilege of shooting men who have be?
haved badly has not yet been abused.
Several of the men who have beor
shot by women whom they deceivec
and deserted, were, we think, verj
justly punished.
But this mania, to which loveb
woman is fast falling a victim, maj
be carried too far. The pistol is si
convenient a mode of redress of smal
injuries that it may be eventually re
sorted to by irate chambermaids, salet
women, seamstresses, milliners, w&sl:
erwomen and market-women, whe
their little bills are not speedily se
tied. Fashion, the most imperious c
all tyrants, may exact from eyei
woman of decided ton the shooting <
half-a-dozea men. When pistol gil
leries find their way into the ' 'firs
class finishing schools," the privllej;
of being a mun will be a very dange
ous and uncomfortable one.
BEPORTED ARREST OF HOWEI? COB
The Washington correspondent of tl
New York Post writes: "Itisbelievt
here that Howell Cobb has been a
rested, on a charge of participating
the Anderson ville atrocities. "
j > iMtU CaNllB? ConrciBtiion. ?
? The Convention met at Raleigh, on
Monday, ?nd promptly organized by
electing E. G. Reade permanent Pre?
sident. One hundred and bight mem?
bers answered io their names. The
prospect now is that barmony and
accord of opinion on all. important
questions will prevail, that they will
make the amendments and do all
things needful to take the State back
inj? the? Union without delay, and
then adjourn.- The Convention is 'of
more than average ability, and few, if
any, politicians by trade ?re. members.
' U? tfee Frccdnca. M
From the Raleigh ?Progress, we take
the following exccllmit ?dvice to the
freedmen. Notwithstanding the ti?
rades of such papers as tSie New York
Tribune, we imagine that the negroes
will find truer and more practical
i sympathy from their fermer masters
? and mistresses *thau fn?>ni the whole
host of fanatics who are endeavoring
i to make trouble and get money by
exciting SI feeling between the em?
ployer and the employed :
"As the friend of the freedman, we
advise him to have a thought for the
rigors of winter, now fast approach?
ing. To the colored man who has a
wife and six children, a dozen cords
of wood and a few barrels of corn will
be worth all the eenventions, loyal
leagues, and universal suffrage prayer
meetings ever held We would not
have the spiritual wants of the blacks
neglected, but we leave them to the
preachers for that ; and we leave them
1 to the radicals here, as well as at- the
North, for their political rights. It
is their physical wants we think of,
and we would admonish them to be
up and doing before the freezing time
comes. Easy enough to loaf on the
streets and sleep on the common when
the thermometer is at 90, but when
the mercury falls to 20 or below, warm
j blankets, worm houses, com dodgers
I and bacon sides will go much farther
to make ye African happy than the
wild hunt after equal rights-on pa?
per. .
?"Think of these things, colored
men and colored women, and go to
work to lay up something for the
many rainy days that are 'coming. To
a hungry, shivering person, a bushel
of meal and a load of wood is worth
more than the right of suffrage.
Work hard, be fingal, behave and be
content with your condition, or you
will soon secure a right that will ex?
terminate your race in this country
-the right to starve."
ANOTHER NEW ?STATE.-In 1861,
Colorado was organized as a Terri?
tory, and on the 5th of this month
the inhabitants thereof adopted the
Constitution proposed to them by a
Convention assembled for that pur?
pose. Application will be made at
the ensuing session of Congress for
admittance, and, as an enabling Act
has {Arcady been passed, Colorado
will enter the American Union, ere
the year expire, as the thirty-seventh
member of that sisterhood of States.
By the Constitution just adopted,
the Legislature is to consist of thirteen
senators and twenty-six members of
the lower house, to be afterwards in?
creased as circumstances may require
up to the maximum-thirty-seven
senators and seventy-eight represen?
tatives. Colorado hes just North ol
New Mexico, has Denver City as its
capital, and, though closely land?
locked, bids fair to wax great in popu?
lation and rich iu well developed re
j sources. Some other of the adjacent
Territorios are, it is understood, ?1st
fitting themselves for habilitation ai
States, and, perhaps, some now living
will behold a century of Senators a
Washington, even as Rome had he:
august court of the Centumviri.
UNITED STATES LAWS.-Thc Go
vernment intends publishing the law
of the United States at each one o
tlie capitals of the States lately ii
insurrection-papers to be selected oi
the recommendation of Provisions
Governors, who have, with others
been already notified,
.?The Vicksburg Journal, of the 10t
ultimo, contains an order from th
Assistant Commissioner of Freedme:
in Mississippi, ' providing for negr
education by taxes laid on negro ix
dustry and resources.
We see many evidences in the
Northern press that our late enemies
no longer cherish in their hearts a
bitterness towards us, but, on the
contrary, evince a commendable dis?
position to . cultivate amicable rela?
tionships, It becomes us to meet
that spirit cordially ?nd consign the
dead past to oblivion.. We clip from
a leader, in the Kew York Ihnes, this
paragraph:
. There are a great many Southern?
ers in this city trying to make ar?
rangements for a resumption of busi
nesss. As a general thing, their
conduct is manly, frank and sensible
-calculated to ?in the confidence
and respect of every generous and
just community. Nine in every ten
of them have been utterly ruined tey
the rebellion. Most of them cast
their fortunes into the struggle for a
cause which they believed to be Tight,
but whick they see and acknowledge
to have been fatally and finally de?
feated. They have lost position, in?
fluence, property, children, friends
everything which makes life desirable.
Under such circumstances, weak men
sink down into abject despair, or
drag out the rest of their lives in tho
safe obscurity of foreign lands. The
defeated Southerners meet their ca?
lamity in a more manly style. They
show in their defeat, as they did in
their struggle-courage, desperate
tenacity*of purpose, and that high
spirited readiness to meet all the re?
sponsibilities of their conduct, which
never fails to command the respect of
the world.
SUSTAIN PRESIDENT JOHNSON.-The
malignant speech, so characteristic of
the fanatical Senator, Charles Sumner,
delivered by him in the Massachusetts
Republican Convention, is precisely
what was anticipated from such a
source. It is a refined repetition,
with a few variations, of the speech
recently delivered by Grand Man?
darin Thad. Stevens, of Pennsylvania.
When Congress meets, Wilson and all
the rest are to be let loose. The storm
is brewing. Radicalism pouring its red
hot wrath upon, the devoted head of
our President, who moves calmly
along, regardless of his enemies, who
are equally the enemies of their
country. The people are his reliance,
and they will nobly sustain him in
the patriotic position he so strongly
occupies. He is entrenched in tho
hearts of the people, defying the
puny efforts of radical madmen.
With Andrew Johnson at the helm,
the good old ship of State will safely
ride out the storm.
THE CHTJBCH WAI:.-The rupture
between the Low Church clergy
ind Bishop Potter, in New York,
growing out of the practice of the
former in permitting non-episcopal?
ly ordained .ministers to officiate in
their pulpits, is approaching a crisis,
?n Sunhay evening, 18th instant, as
it to make contempt for tho Bishop's
recent pastoral forbidding any such
practices as emphatic as possible,
Rev. S. H. Tyng, Jr., invited Rev.
Dr. Storrs (Presbyterian) to preach in
Iiis pulpit, and the invitation was ac?
cepted. Among tue clergy present on
the occasion was Dr. Tyng, Sr., and
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Bishop
Potter's organ, the Church Journal,
noticing this event in a double-lead
sd editorial, employs this emphatic
language :9 "After what has already
taken place, this act can no more pass
unnoticed than the attack on Fort
Sumter. It is an open declaration of
war,"
One of thc new fall bonnets in New
York "was made of fine grey felt,
powdered over with steel powder so
thickly as almost to 'conceal the felt.
The effect was very beautiful, like
moonlight upon the wrought silver. '
This bonnet was bound around the
front edge and around the curtin with
a narrow band of mauve velvets,
trimmed across the top with a brond
band of velvet . of the same color,
ornamented with a tuft of black oats
and steel flowers at one side; the
inside trimming to match, and strings
of maroon colored ribbon. Another
bonnet, somewhat similar in material,
was of white felt, powdered with gold
dust, and t.immed outside abd inside
with golden oats and blue velvet. Tho
strings were of broad blue ribbon,
edged with blonde."
ACCIDENTAI. SHOOTING.-Two cases
of .accidental shooting have occurred
within a short time, within a few
miles of this place. In one instance
a wife shot fur husband *vith a pistol
endangering his life; two servants in
Co. D.,29th Maine Vet. Vols., now at
Society Hill, while fooling with a
r.tle-sbot a fellow*servant, killing him
instantly.-Darlington JSIew JCra.
TThe President's A<Mr?M to tkc ITiVT
Brazilian Minister.
The rulers of great States, -whether
monarchs or presidents, frequently
avail themselves of the opportunity,
when a foreign minister is presented,
to give sign incant lim ts, or even to
declare l>oldTy, sometimes, their po?
licy upon important international
questions. The present Emperor of
the,French has become famous for
that. At innes, when the political
horizon of Europe looks threatening,
and thc nations of that continent are
troubled with fears of a storm brew?
ing, as animals are said to snuff an
approaching'volcanic eruption, every
word, look and gesture of that extra?
ordinary man are eagerly watched,
j Every ?ne will remember his language
I to the Austrian Ambassador just be?
fore the war in Italy, or his remarks
to the Ambassador of Russia, just
before the war in the Crimea. No
utterance of the Delphic Oracle ever
startled the nations so much as his
have. .
The language of President Johnson
to the Brazilian Minister, Mr. Joa?
quin Marie Mascontes dc Azambuja,
when that gentleman was presented
on Saturday last, was of the same
character, if it did not threaten war,
as to the policy of the United State?
with regard to the nations of th<
American continent. It was a propel
occasion to enunciate his views, ant
the views of thejpeople, and he avail
ed himself of it. He said: "Our po
hey is one which is simple and easily
to be understood. We wish to pro
j mote the progress of civilization n
this hemisphere, f?nd, for that pur
pose, the development of material re
sources, the improvement of com
inerce, and the introduction, as fas
as possible, of free, intelligent labo
into the virgin fields of the continent
Instead of weakening new America]
States in our vicinity, we wish to im
part strength to them by reposing i:
them a generous confidence, rathe
than by indulging jealousies of thei
prosperity, or a querulous dispositio:
in regard to the manner in whic'.
their governments are administered
Above all, we wish to impress ther
with the conviction that all the nation
of America, if they would continue t
exist, must aspire to absolute sell
sustaining independence, and to
perfect political equality with th
other nations of the earth."
These words are couched in court(
ous phraseology, and are very niodt
rate in tone, but no one can mistali
their meaning. He wishes to inipai
strength to all these new States <
America, in order that they may exi:
in self-sustaining independence au
in perfect political equality with tl
other nations of the earth. That 1
considers it their right, and their pn
per position in the world. He lool
upon the American system of govern
ments, and the relation of these gi
vernments one to the other, as uniqu
as being detached from thc Europea
system, and as having internation
relations apart from and independe]
of the Old World. Consequently, au
interference with, or attempt to su
jugate or change the government >
auy of the States on this contine]
by European Powers, is a gross usii
pation. and must be regarded as inti
restly hostile to all. It is an invasic
of and an assault upon our Amerira
system, and specially aimed at tb
country, which is the great controllir
power. The President means, e\
dently, that the American States mu
work out their own destiny, uninfi
enced and uninterrupted by Franc
England cr any other trans-Atlani
Power; and in giving expression
this idea iie expresses the sentime
of the whole people.
Nor were these words uttered u
advisedly or without any obje<
They were intended for others 1
irides the Brazilian Minister, and,
our judgment, are very signifieai
Mr. Johnson is not a person to s
unmeaning things. We think we c
tell the Emperor Napoleon, the B:
bish Government, and "whoever dst
may concern," that they foreshad<
a clore emphatic; declaration on t
jame subject in the forthcoming mi
?ige to Congress. The idea of <
duding absolutely European influer
on this continent is as fixed and ii
alterable as the laws of the Medes a
Persians. Indeed, it grows daily
the public mind. The offensive :
herference with American institutic
when our hands were tied rank
deeply in the heart of the peop
Unless allayed by an early settlenn
of the Mexican and other difficulti
it will break out in a manner that vc
listurb the peace of the world. ^
reiterate, therefore, what we haye si
before-that the proper way, ai
perhaps, the only peaceable way
adjusting these questions pertain]
to America, is to call a Congress
Nations, in which the due weight
the United States should be felt.
[New Fork Herald, 25t?.
Iiooal Items.
..Cation Blanks" and peraits- -icdisps?
sablc to all persons purchasing er shipping
cotton-eau be obtained at this^bffice.
EarLOTMEKT.-Eight or ten^pood print?
ers can ob te in employment in this office,
during the approaching, session of the
Legislature. _
CASH.-We wish it distinctly understood
that our terms for subscription, advertising
and job work are cash. The money must
in every casa accompany orders, or they will
not be attended to. This rule applies to ab.
Mr. W. "H. Orchard, a? will bo seen-by
reference to our advertising columns, bas
renewed hiff old business-that of Professor
of Music. By the way, Mr. O. will please
accept our thanks for an Augusta paper, of
tho 1st.
PEOPLE'S STEAMSHIP COMPANY.-We call
attention* to the advertisement of Messrs.
Willis & Chisobn, in relation to the estab?
lishment of the Potpie's Steamship Com?
pany. This will he a favorite line, and will
no doubt Ho successful. Their steamers
leave Charleston every Thursday. Their
vessels arc new and first-class steamers.
MEW ADVERTISEMENTS.-Attention is call?
ed to the following advertisements, which
ar? pvbbsked for the first time this morl?
ing: . .
Mrs. H. E. Buff-Land for Sale.
W. H. Jeffers k Co.-Forwarding Notice.
Gen. Ames-General Orders No. 16.
I. O. 0. F.-Meeting of Palmetto Lodge.
W. McGuinnis-Wanted to Exchange.
A. ll. Phillips-Furniture, Books, &c.
Jacob Levin-Furniture, &c.
W. H. Orchard-Musical Card.
Meeting of Citizens of Bichland.
J. C. Janney-Election Notice.
THE MAKUFACTUKE OP CHAMPAGNE.
-There is in New York a house in
which is displayed, a sign, "-,
Manufacturer of Champagne." The
English Wine Trade Review relates
that this branch of industry is also
pursued in England. A chemist has
recently been purchasing low French
white wine or sherry, with which the
market is at present glutted. The
operator places it in bottles of the
orthodox shape, and submits it to the
action of a soda water machine, by
which it is copiously charged with
carbonic acid, giving it the required
degree of efiervescence, which, of
course disappears soon after the
bottle is opened. A tin-foil capsule
and an attractive label are then added,
which render this exhilarating beve?
rage fit for the market, where, to our
knowledge, it has been sold and is
now un ofter.
The South Carolina Presbytery
convened here last Thursday, the 29th
ult., Kev. S. S. Gaillard, moderator.
The body, though not as large as
usual, was very harmonious, and a
great deal of business was despatched.
Delegates were appointed to the
General Assembly at Macon, Ga., in
November next. Presbytery adjourn?
ed to meet at Greenwood, S. C.,
Thursday before the third Sabbath in
April, 18G6.-Newberry Herald.
Benjamin G. Green, the postmaster
of Mystic, Conn., was sentenced to
ten years in the State prison at Hart
Ford, "Wednesday, forstealing between
$200 and $300. Jerry Townsend,
who stole 3100,000 got only seven
pear?. Green was tried before a
Quited States Circuit Court, and
Townsend before a Connecticut jury,
md that is tho difference between
United States and Connecticut justice.
At a meeting, Tuesday evening, at
lie Union League (of Washington)
.corns of ?hose preparing to leave for
heir homes at the ensuing elections,
i was announced that ail desiring
eave of absence in the several depart
nents can procure the same on appli
:ation to the chief clerks. Arrange
nents have also been perfected to
>rovide half rates of fare for all tra?
veling to their several homes.
It is said that the Minnesota State
geologists have discovered gold in the
icinity of Vermillion Lake, in that
5t*te, in such quantities as to justify
he immdiate working of the mines,
rho discovery has caused considerable
xcitement, and emigration has al
eady set in to that point.
Davenport, Iowa, was a good deal
gi tated over the attempt of a man to
ut his throat and pull out the tongue
f his wife at a hotel on Saturday,
"hey were strangers and claimed to
e from Iowa City. He had been a
outeuant in the 3d cavalry. ,
Rev. Dr. Sehon and Rev. Dr. Me
'errin, of the. Methodist Episcopal
Ihurcb South, have been pardoned
y tho President.
Buoyant inscription for the Atlantic*
ible-"To be left till called for."
[Punch.
The revenues of Cuba for the fiscal
eur were $29,021,588.45.