The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, February 13, 1868, Image 2
COOMBIA.
Thursday Morning. Feb. 13. 1868.
Thc British Lion ?nil tho American
( Single. .
Tho. Rriti?h Ho:;, -crhese froWhtug
?aspect has always furnished a pro?
minent pi?turo in the gallery of bel?
ligerent Congressional rhetoric, is
resuming his bid.place in tho debates
of that body, figuring at present, in
'tho -words of one of the speakers in
a late debate;, as "the toothlosa and
clawless British lion. " The venerable
brute ha? been made to pull BO long
in the harness of oratorical aspirants,
and been goaded aud beaten so un?
mercifully, that it is not at nil sur?
prising to hear of his dilapidated
condition. It seems impossible, even
by stirring him with the longest
kind of a pole of invective and
-anathema, to make him roar. Qeo.
Francis Train has actually invaded
?his own dominions, ant tells him to
his face that he is a gassy creature,
which is naturally a mortal offence to
monopolists of that article, and orders
liim to "dry up." Nothing more
-comp??l??y illustrates tho decrepitude
of the lion than that, after such au
insult as that, he does not notice Mr.
Train. The same singular impertur?
bability is manifested towards all his
revilers in this country, his friends
being in the habit of treating our
demonstrations of wrathfulness ns
the wayward humors of a spoiled
progeny who, after all, really admire
the old king of beasts, aud are secretly
-proud of their descent frpm him.
Tho Baltimore Sun reminds the Con?
gressional disputers that if tho Bri?
tish lion is becoming old aud feeble,
ho seems to be making up in wisdom
what ho loses in strength. The
trans-atlantic game that he could uot
bring down wheu ho was strong of
muscle and fleet of foot, is bagged
now by a cunning that has proved
moro irresistible than his prowess.
Or, to drop tho favorite figure of tho
orators, England, old and infirm os
she ia represented, has availed herself
of our internal dissensions to become
richer than she ever was before. In
commerce, in manufactures, and oven
in cotton, tho United States have lost
and she hos gained. Both nations
have crippled themselves by au enor?
mous debt, and though our own
shoulders being younger, wo ought
to bo more able to bear it, yet it is to
be observed that we aro acting upon
.a policy which must iucrease our
debt aud diminish our resources to
<meet it, while the rule upon which
England acts is the very reverse. If
we really desire to take tho teeth and
claws out of tho "British lion," it
would be wiser, instead of hurling
empty epithets at him, to develop
.and cousolidate our own strength,
reconcile and re-unite our own people,
and thus put ourselves in that posi?
tion which is tho most formidable for
the protection of our citizens and
vindication of their rights whenever
it may become necessary.
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Supposing Mrs. Liucoln to have
become, indeed, deranged, there is
a striking coincidence between tho
Presidential family of tho United
States and tho lato Imperial family
of Mexico. Maximilian was mur?
dered, and his Empress is a lunatic.
Mr. Lincoln was assassinated, and
his wife is said to have gone daft.
Tho characters of tho two families
aro as wido apart as the polr?: but.
their fates aro aliko.
A Nsw FLYING MACHINE.-An
English lawyer, who evidently spurns
tho things of earth, hus forsaken the
gown and bar to invent and perfect a
flying machine. Ho proposes to
"oonvoy passengers through the air by
a steam bird or flying steam engine,
fitted with wings fiupped by tho no?
tion of steam." A patent has been
taken out for this contrivance, but
.the machine is uot yet ready.
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The South Cauro!Ima. Railroad.
The annual meeting of this cor?
poration was held in Charleston, on
Tuesday. The following is nn ex?
tract from the report of the General
Superintendent-published in the
Charleston News-whioh shows fully
and clearly what has been done dur?
ing the year in the practical working
of the road:
Tho gross earnings during the past
year from passengers, freight, mails
and incidental sources, amount to
$1,316,006.50, being au increase over
1866 of $3,267.98. The expenses of
operating have been $702,229.34, an
increase over 18G6 of $22,772.89.
The smallness of increase- iu tho
gross earnings is stated to be due to
reduction of rates and tho general
dopressic-u of business. Tho tonnage
for 1867, however, was 126.222 tons,
against 73,486 tons for 1866.^- Tho
increase in operating expenses is
due to the fact that a greater number
of miles of road were operated in
1867 than in 1866, when the entire
maiu line was not open for the whole
year; also to tho greater number of
tons carried, this latter requiring ad?
ditional transportation aud causing
an increase in the expenso for rolling
stock and maintenance of way.
Tho number of passenger trains
run in 1867, was twice ns great as in
1866, and, iu the caso of freight
traius, tho number was three times
as great. This accounts for the in?
creased expenditure, a great part of
which wits owing to the action of the
company in putting on additional
traius for tho public acconimodatiou,
which additional traius did not pay
their expenses, as is shown by the
statement that tho number of passen?
gers carried in 1867, was 112.043,
while in 18(36 tho number was 100,-'
711- a difference of only 2,332. Al?
though there is a largo increase iu
tho number of tons of freight car?
ried, this increase has had but little
effeel upon the gross receipts. Kates
wero lowered to meet competition,
this competition and tho additional
tonnage involved tho putting ou of
additional trains, and, more than all,
thero was n far larger quantity of
freight coming to Charleston than
was going from Charleston.
The local depot at Columbia has
been completed and opened at*a cost
of $26,095.52, and tim joiut depot of
tho South Carolina Railroad and tho
Greenville and Columbia Railroad,
at the sumo places, has been finished
at a cost of 83,721.20. The Genoral
Superintendent repeats his recom?
mendation mado in 1865, that a joiut
dopot for all the railroads centeriug
in Columbia, should be erected. The
rebuilding of the Camden depot has
cost $7,010.57.
Of the stock of locomotives, forty
seven in number, reported on baud
December 31, 1866, four have been
coudemued, 23 aro classed aa old
stock effective, aud 20 are awaiting
repairs. Tho total number of cars,
effectivo and repairing, at date cf
last report, was 377. Of this num?
ber, 57 have been condemned. 62
now cars have been built in tho com?
pany's shops, viz: two first class
passenger cars, five second class pas?
senger and mail cars, 44 box cars,
threo stock cars and eight platform
cars-making an effective total of
382 cars of all classes.
The Congareo Bridge was com?
menced on March 23, 1867, and the
trains passed over it on July ll of
the same year. Total cost, $28,049.86.
The General Superintendent men?
tions iu his report, that during tho
year 1867, no less than 1,626 tons, or
3,252,000 lbs., of grain were carried
freo of chargo over tho South Caro?
lina IJailroad, for the poor of this
State and tho adjoining States.
During tho year ending December
31, 1807, thero was expended for re?
storation of property $339,626.50.
Of this amount, $158,497.27 was
spent for new iron rails, $33,776.35
for renovating locomotives. From
Juno Ii), 1805, to December 31, 1867,
there has been expended for restora?
tion of property $1,043,044.85.
Tho greatest number of passen?
gers carried during tho year was in
j January, when there wcro 6,727
j whole seats and 6,739 half seats. The
, smallest was in April, when there
I were 4,902 whole seats and 2,509
I half seats. The total for the year
was 73,015 wholo seats and 39,028
half soats, representing a total of
$355,599. lu 1866, tho total was
69,489 wholo seats and 42,222 half
seats, representing a total of $881,
562. In 1800, tho total number of
passengers was 164,200, representing
$461,083.
Tho total amount of freight re?
ceipts was, in 1867, $940,549, against
'il i i - ? la^isssasssasaaS?ssasM?assMa??
$970,011 in 1866, and ngh> ist $068,
672 in 1860. The ueavii it freight
business during 1867 waa in the
month of November, -when the re?
ceipts were $110,008; the Jeast was in
Jnne-$48,467.
Amcng tbs icao?ulioua introduced
at the meeting, looking to the econo?
mical management of the road, were
the following:
That the sajary of the President
shall not exceed $8,500; that of the
Superintendent $2,000; that of ono
supervisor, (instead of $3,004.)
$1,500; that of the several agents nt
Charleston, Columbia aud Hamburg,
(or Augusta,) each, $1,000; and that
of all assistant agents (or servants)
and assistant clerks shall be dimi?
nished.
That, in the opinion of this meet?
ing, a rigid economy should bo ob?
served in tho management of the
road; that, in vi?w of the impover?
ished condition of tho country, and
the prospectivo diminution of tho
business of the .road, in comparison
with that of former yours of prosper?
ity, it is but reasonable and proper
that the salaries of officers, agents
aud employees should bo greatly re?
duced, aud their numbers diminished
to tho netual exigencies of a well
munuged road.
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S rinn LOOKING FTEII SUIWECTS. -
Tho boundless and indomitable phi?
lanthropy of tho Northern people
will never rest with righting the
world. The extension of tho territo?
ry of tho United States opens new
Holds to them greatly to their satis?
faction. They have ?ont petitions to
Congress, "praying thc appointment
of commissioners to go to Aliaska to
examiue into the condition of the
Indians." One would thiuk that,
recent events having multiplied im?
mensely tho objects of charity and
commiseration at their doors, tho
poor fish-eutiug Indians of Aliaska
would, for a time nt least, be neglect?
ed, from tho utter inability of tho
philanthropists to attend to them.
But no! the cases hero are too con?
venient and too near! Tho familiar
cries of distress-tho gaunt forms of
famine that traverse neighboring
walks-aro too common, too mo?
notonous, to excito tho generous sym?
pathy of a genuino philanthropist.
Appeals must present themselves in
all the imposing consequence of wails
from another hemisphere, or from
tho other side of this; and charity
must bo attended with tho world?
wide 'notoriety tho necessary steps
for their relief will give. Theso
people aro too elevated for neighbor?
hood charities-they placo their light
ou n high hill, that it may bo seen
afar off. Tho Rion mond Dispatch
calls tho attention of these philan?
thropists to tho anecdote related of
John Randolph, concerning a matter
of tho same character. The dignified
and sarcastic Virginian once visited
the house of a lady friend, an enthu?
siastic sympathizer with the Greeks.
Seeing her household engaged in
making clothing for the Greeks; and
having obsorved somo little Africans
in the yard well-nigh naked, he said
to her: "Madam, tho Greeks are at
your door!" Sho treated tho remark
with scorn, just as ono of our modern
philanthropists would treat ono of
similar purport made to him now.
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A DASTARDLY ACT.-We learned,
last evening, soys tho Churlotto Bul?
letin, of yesterday, of a most fiendish
act, having in its object diabolical
murder, perpetrated on tho truck of
tho Charlotte and South Carolina
Railroad, about one un.I a half miles
from our city, on Sunday night :>r
Monday morning hist. Some ??uo
had driven a huge log deep into tho
ground and up against ono of tho
cross-ties holding tho rails on the
road, and just at the, commencement
of a deep cut, leaving about two feet
sticking up, so as an engine and
train of cars passing would .strike it,
and would thereby bo tlirowu from
tho track. The train which left our
i city Monday morning carno in con?
tact with this projecturc, but its
speed was so great that the log broke,
and thus, perhaps, saved a terrible
sacrifice of life.
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Local Xt; o Tic*, ca.
The trains over the Columbia and
Augusta Railroad now run regularly
twice a week-Tuesday, and Friday-,
tc and ires. Le A in g ton Court House.
DemoresCs Monthly for March is an
extra fine number for the ladies
fashion plates, embroidery patterns,
illustrated stories, etc. W. Jennings
Demorest, New York, is the pub?
lisher.
The robbers are again at work.
Several houses were entered last
week. On Tuesday night, the store
of Mr. W. T. Walter Was forcibly
eutered through the back window;
nothing has been missed, however,
ns yet, but a pair of boots.
POSTPONED.-Mr. Bythewood re?
quests us to say that, owing to cir
j cumstances beyond his control, he
has boen compelled to postpone the
j sale of furniture advertised for this
I moruing. Hold on to your green
! bncks, all ye who are in need of tarni*
! turo, as tho sale will probably come
I off in a few dav?, aud the articles are
j very desirable.
THE EDITOR-LOOK ON THIS PIC
j TUBE AND THEN ON THAT.-A dissatis
i tied mortal indited tho following:
! I wish I was an editor- .
T really do, indeed;
It seems to me that editors
Get everything they need.
They get the biggest and tho beat
j Of everything that grows,
And get in freq to circuses
And other kinds of shows;
Aud when a mammoth cheese is cut,
They always get. a slice,
j For saying Mrs. Smith knows how
j To make it very nice;
j The'largest pumpkin, longest beet,
And other garden stuff,
i Is blown into the sanctum by
An editorial puff;
j Tho biggest bug will speak to them,
No matter how they dress
j A shabby coat is nothing, if
I Yon own a printing press;
; At Indies' fairs they're almost hugged
By pretty girls, you know,
: That they may ora.de np everything
I The ladies have to show
I And thus they get a blow-out free,
I At every party feed;
> Tho reason is, because they writo
And other people read.
I)pou the perusal of which, Dr.
Tickner, of the Metropolitan Record,
penned the following:
Up-stairs, into an-orifico,
About as big as a well;
Where truth must fly if ever she lie
Where tho editor doth dwell!
Up to his kueos in litter
Up to his eyes iu ink
'Twas of a lion, an old, old lion,
Tho editor made me think.
Or of an ancient spider,
Grizzled and gaunt aud grim,
Watching tho wires for what the flies
Might furnish of food for him;
With a devil hard at his elbow,
i And a dun at his other arm;
I thought it straugo that he didn't
exchango
At once to a little farm;
And tiud at least what his office
missed
Tho delicato perfumo
Which sometimes goes with an open
rose,
I " Or a violet in bloom.
Where tho winds of heaven might
visit bim
Instead of a wicked bore;
And his forehead gather a furrow less
As his field gained a furrow more.
So I tumbled his papers, I split his
quill,
I toro his proof into bits,
I lit my weed with his leader! Iu
deed
I worried him into fits!
I And I heard him say, as I wont my
way
1 And left him mad with cares,
; "I've lost a day, and I hope and pray
j He'll break his neck down stairs!"
I And I said, "I f this be the editor and
i Such bo the editor's fate,
Then put mo down for a corn-field
hand,
j With 'ono suspender' strait."
A small amount of tho latter, with
a liberal sprinkle of tho former, we
' suppose, would satisfy any reasonable
j mortal, and verify tho aduge:
"All work and no play
Makes Jack a dull boy;
But all play ?lid no work
Makes him a mere toy."
Mesare. Graeser, McJunkin & Senn
ou tor tho field supplied with a variety
of first quality guanos, prepared and
imported by Mr. John B. Sardy, bf
No- Yurk. -The attention or planters
is invited to their advertisement in
to-day's paper.
GUYOT'S GEOGRAPHICAL SERIES
INTERMEDIATE GEOGRAPHY.-We havo
received from the publishers, Mesara.
Charles Scribner & Co., G54 Broad?
way, New York, a copy of the above
truly valuablo work. It is hand?
somely illustrated, and contains a
large number of neatly colored mapa.
This series of geographies have been
generally introduced at the North,
and are universally commended.
Superintendents of schools aro in?
vited to examine their merits. Speak?
ing of the author, thc Superintendent
of Instruction in Kansas says:
For years, Prof. Guyot has been
kuown as the world's greatest geogra?
pher. This subject has been bis
favorite pursuit-a life study-and in
his investigations, has taxed his
strong intellect to the utmost, We
have the results in a serie? of books,
referred to above, finely illustrated,
and published in Scribner's very best
style. These are accompanied by
four series of maps, styled tho large
series, intermediate series, primary
series, and the classical. The great
iden is that physical geography is the
philosophical basis for the study of
political geography, and should be
first studied. These maps convey to
tho eye, at a glance, importaut in?
formation that formerly required
long study, nnd tho impression is far
more agreeable and durable. Great
care hus been bestowed upon the
mechanical execution of the maps,
nnd in accuracy, urtistic skill and
workmanship, they will be found.un?
equalled by anything ever before
published.
DBUT.-Debt is a perfect bore, isn't
it? how it haunts a man from pillar
to post; lurking iu his breakfast cup,
poisoning his dinner, embittering
his tea! how it stalks from him liko a
living, moving, skeleton, seeming to
annouuee his presence by recounting
tho amount of liabilities. How it
poisons his domestic joys, by intro?
ducing its infernal 'balance' into tho
calculation of madam respecting the
prico of a new carpet, or a now dress!
At bed aud board, by night or day,
in joy or grief, in health or sickness,
at homo or abroad-debt-grim,
gaunt, and shadowy-falls as an in
eumbrance.
MAU, ARRANGEMENTS.-Tho post
office open during the week from 8J?
a. m. to 6 p. m. On Sundays, from
1 % to 2J? p. m.
The Charleston and Western mails
are open for delivery at 2 p. m., and
close at 9 a. m.
Northern-Open for delivery at
10V? a. m., closes at 1 p. m.
Greenville-Open for delivery at 3
p. m., closes at 8 p. m.
NEW AOVERTISKHEMTS.-Attention in call- \
ed to thc following advertisements, pub?
lished this morninp; for tho tirst time:
Extra Meeting Richland Lodge.
Columbia and Augusta Railroad.
John li. Sardy-Guano.
MILITARY APPOINTMENTS.-Tho fol?
lowing appointments for Intcndent
and Wardens, for tho town of New?
berry, have been made by General
Cunby:
lntendenl.-Chas. W. Montgomery.
Wardens.-William C. Johnson,
Fred. Werber, Summerfield Mont?
gomery, George Boland.
I Newberry Herald.
FOI-ND DEAD.-A negro man, Ally
Pollard, about forty-five years old,
was found dead on Wednesday of
hist week, lying on tho road side
about four miles above this place, on
Hie Howard Gap road. J. C. Cald?
well, Esq., held a jury of inquest, tho
verdict of which was, that tho de?
ceased came to his death from ex?
posure and intoxication.
[ Carolina Spartan.
Ono Bates bet that ho will go
through the Southern Wtates with au
American Hag and without a cent.
Butler beats Bates. Ho "went
through" a section of tho South with
nn American flag, and loft the sec?
tion without a cent.