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BY JULIAN A. SELBY.
COLUMBIA, S. C., TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2. 1866.
VOLUME II-NO. 16^
THU; FHONIX,
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KVr.UY WEDNESDAY MORNING.
BY JULIAN A. SELBY,
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ireland.
Thc London* Times, of the 28th
ultimo, in a long loader upon nation?
alities, thus discusses thc claim of
Ireland to be recognize d as a distinct
nat ion :
To the Irish claim to legal nation?
ality and ft preferential national treat?
ment, wc sirnpl}' reply, that nation?
ality is a question ol' fact, and there
is no such Irish nationality iu the j
Greek, Italian or German sense.
Foreigners, wilfully or ignorantly,
ohoose to believe that there is, but
there is not. Tho fusion of races has
been very much greater than is gene?
rally supposed; for, besides those
whose religion indicates a mixed
blood, it has very long been observed
that a vast number of names held by
the Roman Catholics show English
extraction. As to half thc popula?
tion of the island, it may now be pro?
nounced impossible to say they are of
pure Irish blood. That difficulty in?
creases the higher we ascend in the
social scale, and even when we come
to the smallest Irish "squireen," we
find English intermarriages. An at?
tempt to make thc native Irish the
governing class of the island could
only bo compared to an attempt to
reverse our own Norman conquest,
after eight centuries, by a general
rising of all who might chooso to call i
themselves Britons, Saxons or 33anes. j
Such an attempt here is not only im- |
possible, it is inconceivable, for it is I
almost impossible to put one's linger j
on a pure Briton. i
The French revolution of tue List
century has been described as a
rising of the Gaul against tho Frank
element. Tt might have something
of that in it, but, takes a quick eye
and a fine touch to detect these in?
gredients, and the French themselves
were not consciously fighting a war
of race when they asserted tho rights
of the people. There was too great a
variety and mixture of races among
them to allow of Frank and Gaul
being more than matters of history a
century ago. In like manner Celt
and Saxon have boen pissing for
centuries from ont of the world of
facts into that of history and ideas;
and for the past g?n?ration this
change has gone on at a greatly ac?
celerated pace. Meanwhile the old
fusion of races in this island has
latterly been quickened in even a
greater ratio. In this metropolis,
especially, and in the other first class
ports and cities of the island. Eng?
lish, Welsh, Scotch, Irish, and even j
Germans and French, have been con- j
tiaually intermarrying. ?Many, in?
deed, arc! the households in every
class of life among ns, in which there
is not an individual who c-.ui claim
pure English blood. Our towns are
the hospitable refuge of wandering
poverty, wandering enterprise, wan?
dering misfortune, and wandering
duty from every place, far and near.
These people are not English in such
a souse as that tiicy can be held
answerable for any old misgovern- j
ment ol' Ireland, or made objects ol'
political antipathy.
If the laois of the ease wore more i
fully known, they would dispel, both
at home and abroad, a good deal of
the misapprehension fostered by
Irish talkers and writers, and tile
still less scrupulous Englishmen,
who, in spite of better knowledge,
choose to take that side. The fact
of ti common refuge for all emigrants
from these islands in our in. -use
colonies all over the world and in the
United Slates, speaks for itself, and
grows too fast for .description, lint
there are two other classes of facts
which we could wish to sec rescued
from speculation and conjecture by
careful observers. The first is the
proportion of the races and the ex?
tent of intermixture in Ireland; and
thc second is the respective propor?
tions, thc intermixture, ?ind the local
predominance of all the races in this
island. Before railways and our in?
ternal migrations and currents have
entirely obliterated all local peculiar?
ities of race, whether in physical ap
pearnnco or in languag :?" full
and exact description ' tpetent
persons would be one o ^ most
! import-tut public documents we could
j bequeath to our posterity. Even in
i thc internal districts of England there
j is :i very great variety. The differ?
ences, of course, are not modern;
I and if they have been modified by
time, they have only shared the gene
i ral change. They are ancient land
? marks, which it would be as well to
! survey and record before they are
finally lost and buried. They testify
to tin: forme:- existence cf raes that
have allowed themselves to be quietly
absorbed in the general unity, lo
their own great advantage.
And which is thc more impor?
tant--which the larger stake, which
thc better investment-the private
and peculiar, or the public and com?
mon? Surely there ks both more safety
and larger gain in joining the com?
mon fortune and sharing the com?
mon advantage. A little proof of the
ill-success attending the other course
must have presented itself to many
observers. In most of our villages,
there are families of the laboring
class, whose names may be lound on
the oldest register, and who have a
probable descent from land owners,
and even well-known personages.
They arc too often just the families
most, incapable of self-control, good
? habits, regular industry and proper
j subordination. They have fallen iro m
a higher place, and not settled in an?
other. They can neither remain with
credit where they are, nor seek their
fortune elsewhere with much hope of
success. They are the very type of
the weaker race, that seek to stand
out against thc great law of change
and the constant process of fusion,
yet has not whereupon to stand or
support itself. They cannot lead
others; they cannot be independent,
so their best course is to make ii com?
mon cause.
-? -o- ?
AN OMINOUS SIGN.-The Richmond
limes has the following notice of a
very ominous sign of degeneracy in
this country:
That political and social demoral?
ization go hand-in-hand, we have a
painful illustration at present in many
of the largo Northern cities. The
decent, conservative press teems with
strictures upon the once extraordina?
ry, but now common, spectacle ol
drunkenness among the fashionable
women of the people of "grand mo?
ral ideas." That- such . sights wert,
common in Sodom and GomorraL
before :i tatt: of brimstone and fir<
fell upon those places, we have everj
reason to believe. Wo know, fron
the reiterated assertions of hist? ry
that ?iii tho corrupt and wicked na
tions of antiquity commenced rotting
iltur going to pieces in this way
When woman takes to liquor, th<
house or community in which sud
practices prevail may be safely eon
sidered to be ii: a very desperate way
There is no sig..- of tho decadence o
popular virtue, and morality so alana
ing as this. Tito mission of womat
in America Las heretofore been :
high and lofty que. She has beet
the custodian of those virtues ?un
proprieties which have not been .-alt
m the keeping of the s'.ruer six. 1
is a most gloomy ?iud ominous syrup
tom of social and moral disintegra
tion, when we sec females, moving ii
circles deemed respectable, fall vic
tims to vices and debaucheries whicl
have hitherto been assigned ?limos
exclusively to the male sex. All mo
ral and religions barriers must b
broken down in a community whor
women, with features of loveliness
and draped with ?ill the adornment
of the latest fashions, stagger froi
their carriages and reel through tit
throngs of Broadway, in the blaze i
mid-day and ibo glare ol' gas-lighl
Rome saw such appallingsights.whe
plunging to her doom, ?ill rc.-kin
with corruption and wickedness. Bu
Las the North, in the pride and zenit
of its boasted power and virtue, com
to this? If so, let her mourn in c.
her b >rders.
LrxTuitE <>i'' HORACE GRIIELEY t
ALEXANDRIA.- Mr. llorac-' Greele
lectured in Ah xaudria, Va., last wed
before about 150 persons, inc' idin
all lite Union men and quite a nun
beroi ex-Confederate officers. Jink
Underwood introduced "the pkilosi
plier" as "ourfriend and everybody
friend." The Alexandria Gazelle
I very minute in its description of M
Greeley, informing us that, if hedi
not wear thc renowned white hat, 1
had a "white over-coat, .and a pref!
old one, too, for it looked as though
might have served twenty years, bi
'beneath, was a very nice suit
black, much moro fashionable ai
? neater than we had supposed the pl:
losopher ever wore." Tho lectu
was upon "Self-Made Men,"
which the Gazette anya, the style w
constrained, language high-flown, tl
only relief being great originality
ideas.
The Supremo Court of the Unit
States has just decided a suit again
a dead man.
Thc I m ii?-n.t.-h m cut Movement.
"Mack." writing from Washington '
to the Cincinnati Commercial, under i
date of the 12th inst., .says of the |
impeachment movement :
"The recent Senatorial election in I
Pennsylvania ia a .straw thrown up |
that shows hew the wind blows ou j
this question. Of ali the candidates
wli<? sought the office. Mr. Cameron
was the mo .t conservative on the Re?
publican side. Mr. Stevens was the
most radical, and from his speeches
in caucus and in the House, he had
placed himself in such a position
that the Pennsylvania _ Legislature
could not have elected him without
giving at least a quasi endorsement
to tho proposition for impeachment.
His enemies expatiated privately on
this fact among the members at Har?
risburg, and thc overwhelming and
humiliating defeat he received-get?
ting but seven votes out of eighty
two in the caucus-is attributable to
the unwillingness of the Legislature
to endorse his revolutionary preject
more than to anything else."
In his lotter of the 13th, "Mack"
says :
Governor Dennison has been in
feltis city, on a visit, for some day. It
is not correct, as I hear it rumored
in some quarters, that he came here
to exert his influence against the pro?
ject of impeachment. He has, how?
ever, during his stay, taken occasion
to refer to the subject, iu conversa?
tion with Senators and members, to
ascertain, for his own information
more than anything else, what were
the views entertained with regard to
it by the men in whose hands its dis?
position must ultimately rest. He
told me, yesterday, just as he was
leaving for New ?York, that he had
found not moro tuan three men, in
both Houses, who sanctioned im?
peachment, or believed in it as a re?
medy for the ills attending the politi?
cal situation. Even Mr. Sumner, who
of all others would be supposed to
favor thc project, he found entirely
opposed to it, while all the moderate
men of the Republican party, in the
Senate, were even free to denounce
it ns a folly of unparalleled dimen?
sions. Mr. Wadej whoso, radicalism
will certainly pass unchallenged, gives
it no countenance. He takes the very
sensible view that, in the late elec?
tions, the people decided against the
President and in favor of committing
the Government of the country tc
the bauds of Congress; sud that it it
the duty of Congress to go righi
ahead, passing what laws it deems
best for the interests of the nation,
without regard to the humble indi?
vidual at tin; White House. *
Tiru STORM AT TUC NORTH.- -Tin
New York ll,?rall, of Saturday, .says
The disasters attendant on the re
cent snow storm begin to become
apparent. All the mails to this citj
were delayed yesterday for a longe]
tinao than bas ever been known be
fore. Lour trains from Washingtoi
nr.; blocked up at New Brunswick
The train on the New Jersey Railroac
which left New Brunswick at :
o'cleek yesterday afternoon for Nev
York, ran off the track at Unionville
while two locomotives were jut liing it
ami two ears were smashed and an
otb> r and a locomotive were- over
turned. Several* of the passenger
.vere injured. Too track was mucl
obstructed by snow. A little girl
aged twelve years, was smothered i:
tile snow in Boston, and Comtnodor
Blake, an cid officer of the navy
sixty-two years (d' age, was lost in th
storm on Thursday, in that city, am
lias not since been heard of. On th
North and East Rivers, navigation b;
the ferry-boats was very difficult am
attended with great danger, bot!
rivers being lillie! with massive, cake
Too LARGE A CONTRACT.-Mr
Sumner introduced a r?solution ii
tlie Senate, on Wednesday, declarioj
that "il is the duty of this Govern
meut *o> give effect to the moral sen
timent (d' tho nation through all it
agencies, for the purpose of prevent
ing the further introduction of Cool
ies into this hemisphere ..nd the ad
jacent islands." That reminds us o
the notable allusion, which anotbe
distinguished man once made, to "a]
the world ami the rest of mankind.
This hemisphere comprises just hal
the world, taking in the quarter pat
of both thc Atlantic and Pacifi
oceans, with all their islands. Doe
Mr. Sumner propose that wc sha
c.v.! reise a protectorate over New Zo;
land and the other islands of th
.S.mth Pacific, whose inhabitant
have a weakness for raw rnissioi
aries? And in spreading ont ou
protecting mantle to the "adjacei
islands," shall wo include Van Di?
man's Land and tho Botany Bay di:
trict? Senator Sumner's idea wu
probably less expensive than his lat
guage, but a representative of tl
modern Athens ought not conftmn
"hemisphere" with "continent."
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GENERAL SUP'TS OFFICE,
CHARLESTON, S. C., Nov. 3, 1866.
p.VSsESGER Trains will run as follows,
Leave Charleston.s.oo a. m.
Arrive at Columbia. 5.20 p. m.
Leave Columbia. 6.50 a. ra.
Arrivent Charleston.i.OOp. m.
THKOUGU MAH. THAIN
Leave Augusta.5.50 p. m.
Ar: ive ::i Kingsville. 1.05 a. m.
Arrive at Columbia. :{.<!() a. m.
Leave Columbia.2.00 p. m.
Arrive at Kingsville.3.40 p. m.
Arrive at Augusta.12.00night
Nov (1 ' H. T. PEAK E, Gen]] Sr.p't.
Greenville and Columbia Railroad.
GJpl Y.;.' ' ?..
1PASSENGER Trains will run daily. Sun?
days excepted, as follows:
Leave Columbia at. 7.15 a. m.
" Alston at.9.05 "
" Newberry at.10.35 "
Arrive at Abbeville at. 3.13 p. m.
" at Anderson at.5.10 "
" at Greenville at.5.40 "
Leave Greenville at.0.00 a. m.
.' Anderson at.0.30 .'
" Abbeville at. 8.35 "
" Newberry at.1.20 p. nt.
Arrive at Alston at.2.45 "
" at Columbia nt.4.40 "
General Superintendent's Office,
CHARLOTTE .t S. C. RAILROAD,
COLUMBIA, S. ('..Nov. 5, 18G0.
ON and after WEDNESDAY, Cth inst,.
Through Passenger Trains will bc run
over this roael as follows:
Leave Columbia at. 3.10 a. m.
Arrive at Charlotte at.9.40 a. m.
Leave Charlotte at. 6.10 a. m.
Arrive at Columbia at. 1.40 p.m.
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