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PHONIX CALENDAR FOR I860. B. 2 JAN. 5 6 7 12 13114 19120121 26127128 ? 4 ll i 12 118 8 4 10 ll 17118 24125 20 21 27128 3 4 10 11 IT IS 24 nt 7 14 21 28 5 12 19 2? 2 9 16 22 23. 29l30l 25i2G G 7 13 14 20121 27128 29 30 5 6 12 13 19120 2G|27 2| 3 9|10 16 17 23 24 COLUMBIA, S. C. Friday Morning. January 1, 1869. The New Ycur. To tho many readers of tho Phoenix we extend our hearty congratulations on the marked improvement in the appearance of things mnndanc. The crops of the past j year were excellent,, business, per conse? quence, brisk, and our people, as a whole laying politics aside-seem disposed to take things os they find them, end go to work with a will, keeping in mind tho old couplet: "As Time glides on witb rapid wings, "Wo look witb hope to better times." Lot us all look encouragingly to tho fu? ture. If we should sit in idleness, wonder? ing whether our future will be dark or bright, it would assuredly be dark. Let us determine that it shall be bright, if human energy, industry and endurauce can make it so. "When the unchristiauized Roman worshipped the fabled Janus, (from whoso narnu our January is derived,) they repre? sented him with two faces, because he was supposed to view both things past and those inevitably approaching. Upon the calends of Jauuiry, fresh garlands flushed over his statues. " Twelve ulta rs, representing thc months, were erected to him, aud ho was moro especially denominated Father, be? cause deluded mythology deemed him the nu thor of all things. A bettor revelation has taught us mor? sublime conceptions, und, with Heaven-derived Christianity, let us devote not only our earthly but celestial hopes to that God whom the Ephesians ignotantly worshipped, who expiated on his cross the errors of mankind, aud who is alike the Lord of time aud of eternity; to whom years are but as duys, aud who will balance in his eternal book, with just aud pitying hand, the multiform accounts of orring humanity. THK WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONUMENT. Thc Washington National Monument So? ciety bas addressed an appeal to tho pastors of thc religious congregations of the United States, asking them to cause collections to be taken ut) in their respective churches on the Sunday immediately preceding the 22d of February next, the amounts to be remit? ted to the treasurer of the society, in order that work on the monument may bo re? sumed. Tho nppetil is sigued by Andrew Johnson, President ex officio; S. J. Bowen, first vice-President; Ulysses S. Grant, se? cond Vice-Presidont; W. W. Corcoran, third Vico-Presidont; J. B. H. Smith, Treasurer; John Carroll, Brevet Secretary. We aro glad to hear something from the survivors of Black Kettle's villugo; they lia' i arrived at Fort Dodge, iifty-threo sou s, all told, chiefly women und children, and "the kind Quartermaster" issued "blan? kets to keep them warm," ?iud had "u horse killed ?nd also a large dog for them to eat, which they thought very nice." We were linlf ufraid wo should never hear from those Indian relies nguiu-Iudiiiu relics are so apt to disappear. But it is pleasant to know that they uro safe, and were handsomely treat r> "j; for frith "<v hui ar, a dog und a blan? ket," what could an Iudiitti ask more? Travelers on the Ogoeeho road, leading to S.ivunnuh, arc stopped ut various points and questioned by armed negroes. There ure armed and organized bodies of negroes on every road leading to that city, who have their pickets stationed at short intorvuls to give notice of the approach of travelers. -<-??-.-. Mr. George W. Childs, the proprietor of tho Philadelphia ?Mlger, gave the news boys a Christmas dinner this year, as usual. Mr. ('hilds is absent in Europe, but mindful of his little friends, bo sent tho needful in Hlruetions, and, nt the appointed hour, 130 happy a robins sat down to a plentiful and wholesomnfeasf.it their philanthropic pa? tron's oxpense . Tile Proposed Dlr inion or Certain State?. The New York Times intimates that the distemper of State secession seems, curi? ously enough, to have left, in dying out, a ra nob milder, but yet quite marked "mania" for State division. The proposed dividing up of Texas iuto two or three States was the first symptom of this supervening con? dition. This was one of tho late Mr. Stevens' pot projects; and it is just to say that it wus probably entertained by him moro as a political scheme, or as one in vol v iug a fundamental governmental dootriue, than from any special regard to geographi? cal necessities, to climatic and agricultural ?iuerences, or, in a word, to tho alleged commercial and oivio needs for the proposed separation. His plan was to effect the scvo rauoe of Texas into parts by a declaratory Act of Congress-indeed, be introduced one into the House, and gave notice of bis pur? pose to puah it, as bo probably would have done bad ho lived. Doubtless ono object with him was in this way to fix a monu? mental statue, as it were, upon tho records of tho Government, showing that Congress bad regarded the seceded States as Terri? tories, not only for military, but for legal purposes, andiudced for all purposes, even tbo most practical. But, with Mr. Stevens' deatb died this Tpxan project, so fur as con? cerns the special form in which be on tort nin? di it. It survived, however, in another pro? position, divested of bis animus and moral purpose, but yet driving at exactly tho same end; berbaps, wo might add, just as Butler's Dutch Gap Canal accomplished nothing for tbe military uso whereto be desired to put it, and yet os a piece of possible engiuecr iug for commercial purposes, attracted ot tentiou nt once, when thc war was over. Tho Texas Becoustructiou Convention, wbicb will meet at Austin, is certain to take up this important subject. If tho Couvon tion bo coutrolled by tho political desires of Cougress, or if it be in harmony with the majority of Cougress, tho legal and cousti tutiounl issue raised by Mr. Stevens will, of course, bo avoided, whether this barmouy secure division or not. The Galveston iV?ifs, however, assures us that "Ibero eau bo but littlo doubt that a division of our State bas beon pre-determiued upon." Turning from Texas, wo find other States contemplating peaceable division. The people of the upper peninsula of Michigan are, as their petition to the Legislature of that State alleges, "almost nuauimous in desiro" to separate from tho lower peninsu? la, aud form "a new Territory or State." They disclaim any "disrespect or disloyalty to our State," and put the proposed change on the ground of. "tho development of our mineral and agricultural resources." They desire, in fine, "immediate action"-which would consist, of course, in Michigan'? ceding tho upper peninsula to Cougress foi the purpose desired. Next, we fiud Ten? nessee talking of "seceding" from tho res! of the State, the Nashville Dannel' saying, ''Wuyward sister, depart in peace," and th? Knoxville Whiff, over Brownlow 's own sig nature, adding that, "East Tennesseeani will all be a unit for separation. Wo on ready to go ompty-hunded." A gravo pro position has also been started for bi-sectiuj Pennsylvania, and a less serious one fo sepurating tho city of New York from tb Stuto. Tho West Virginia division ho already been consummated; but tho Time believes tho project to "leave Now Englam out in tho cold" has been abandoned sine tbo lost celebration of "Forefathers' Day. However, with bi-sectingMichigan, and tri secting Texas, aud Brownlowing Ivist Ter 068860, thero is ouough serious business i this diroctiou to attract attention, withoi tho comic propositions. What will be th up-shot of this new fever, is, of cours* dependent nu the particular needs of euc case. --- lu the cuso of Daniel Dechert against ll Mayor and Council of Hngerstown, Md for the destruction, in 18fi2, of the offieo i tho Hngerstown Mail, a Democratic week -of which newspaper ho was, at that tim the editor and proprietor-a verdict li boon given for tho plaintiff, with dsranges $7,500. Tho office was destroyed by o im at tb- ti?i6 ?uinriated ut a report that C< Kcnley's regiment of Maryland volunteei had beeu captured by the Confederates, ai after their surrender had been massacred. was urgued, iu the trial, that the Mayor wit held protection when it was asked for by M Dechert. This decision is important, at number of COSCB of a similar character ii now ponding in the courts against tho ci of Ilagerstown. .-? - Tho account of a contest of wits botwe a police justice ut tho Toombs und a sun girl, who was arraignod for stealing, mal a good four-lino verse: "Tho brass in your face," ho said, "Would make a fonr-qaart skillet," "Your Honor's head," the girl replied, "Hus sap cnoagh to fill it." DKATH-BRD CONFESSION OF A MURDERESS SHE POISONS HEB HUSBAND, CHILD AND FATHEB-IN-IJAW.'-The township of La? fayette, Sussex County, New Jersey, is con? siderably exoited nt the present time ovor some revelations made by a woman named White, just previous to her dissolution, which took place last Saturday. Tho par? ticulars of her confe8Son are horrible in the extreme, and wonld indicate that the fero? cious spirit of Lucretia Borgia has found another shocking parallel in these latter days. Our correspondent writes us that the womau White, who was ? widow, fell a victim to consumption. Being a member of thu Methodist Church, sho sont for her fellow-members to attend her in her dying hours, und stated to them that nbcut seven years ago she poisoned her infant child, so that it died. A year or so after, she administered poison to her husband's father, and he died too. Later still, on the return of her husband from tho army, sha lealt to him^ilso a fatal potion, and ho too passed into the spirit laud. Tho miserable woman has borne a good character, as also her relatives. They are poor pooplc. Tho only reason assigued for making this dying declaration is that sho desired to rid her conscience of this immenso load of crime prior to her death.-Newark Journal. A band of Mexican robbers, on the even? ing of December 18, attacked tho village of Clurksyille, Texas, nt tho mouth of tho Bio Grande, and killed two citizens and wound? ed another. In three years, the number of Russian land owners in Boland hus increased forty per cent. Moro than one-third of the land owned by Poles in 1865, hus been confis? cated und sold to Russians. Tho Sultan has issued an edict liberating Jerusalem forever from military service, and from the payment of nny taxes levied on account of military operations._ , Notice. ALL pernoto? are hereby warned against credit? ing my wife. MARTHA LOUISA GABLE, a? 8he has left mv lied and board without cause or provocation. ' GODFREY GABLE, Jan 1 th3* Lexington County. Special Notice to Debtors. THE undersigned particularly roquesls all per? sona indebted to bim to come up at once and nettle their accounts. His friends and patrons are informed that hereafter ('ASH will bo required in all cases. RICHARD BARRY, _ Jan 2 S Carolina House. Administrator's Notice. ALL persons indebted to thc estate of JAM KS S. GUION ARD, SR., deceased, are requested to come forward and settle up; and all persona having claims against said estate will present thom, properly attested, to J. S. G. MAYRANT, Jan 1 f Qualified Administrator. Emancipation Day-Sixth Annual Return. i.t THE difforont male societies, and the citizens I . generally of Richland County, are invited to jBsemble in front nf Wavman Lodgo, in Bull street, I THIS (Friday) MORNING, January 1, at half-past ) o'clock, when a procession will be formed, and marched to tho A. M. E. Church, where addresses | rvill be delivered by Hons. D. H. Chamberlain, F. 1. Mosea, jr.,T. J. Robertson, F. A. Sawyer, F. L. . 'ardo/.a and others. Tho procession will bo uudcr lireetion of tho Marshal ot the Day, S. B. Thomp? son. Tho following will be the route of the pro? cession: Up Bull street to Richland; through Rich? land to Main; down Main to Gervais; up Gervais to Sumter; up Sumter to the Church. JAMES DAVIS, WALKER KENNEDY, J. B. BYNUM. C.WASHINGTON, J. C. FITZSIMMONS. D. WASHINGTON, B. D. MONTGOMERY, D. GOODE. S. STARLING, 8. B. THOMPSON, Jan 1 2* Committee. AYER'S CHE.il RY PECTORAL. For Disease* of the Throat and Lungs, such as Coughs. Colds, Whooping Cough, Bron? chitis, Asthma and Consumption. PROBABLY never before in the wholo history of medicine, baa anything won ao widely and so deeply upon tho contldcnco of mankind," as this excellent remedy for pulmonary complaints. Through a long s?rica of years, and among most of tho raceaof men, it bas risen higher and higher lu their estimatiqn, as it has become better known. Its uniform character and powor to euro tho vari? ous affections of tho lungs and throat, have made it known as a reliable protector against thom. While adapted to milder forma of disease and to young children, it is at tho samo time tho most effectual remedy that can bo given for incipient consumption, and the dangerous affections of the throat and lutins. As a provision against sudden attacks of CROUP,' it should be kept on hand in every faintly; and, iudeed, as all aro sometimes BUbJ?ct to colds and coughs, all should be provided with this antidote for them. Although settled CONSUMPTION is thought incurable, still great numbers of cases where the disease seemed settled have beon completely cured, anti the patient restored to sound health by tho CHERRY PECTORAL. So completo is its mastery over thu disorders of tho lunn? and throat, that tho most obstinate of them yield to it. When nothing else could reach them, under the CHERRY PECTORAL they subsido and disap? pear. SINGERS and PUBLIC SPEAKERS lind groat protection from it. ASTHMA ia always relieved and often wholly cured by it. BRONCHITIS is generally enivd hy taking tho CHERRY PECTORAL in small and frequent doses. So generally are its virtue? known that wo need not publish tho certificates of them hero, or do moro than assure tho public that its qualities are fii 11v maintain! d. ' AYER S AGUE CURE, For Fetter and Ague, Intermittent Fenn; Chill Fever. Remittent Fever, Dumb Ague, Periodical or Bilious Feocr, tf.c., and inilcc.d ali the affections mhich arise from malar ions marsh or miasma tic //oisons. Aa ita narno implies, it docs Cure, and (looa not fail. Containing neither Arsenic, Quinino, Bis? muth. Zinc, nor any other mineral or poisonous substance whatovor.it in nowiso injures any pa? tient. Tho number and imnortance of its cures in the aguo di tricts, aro literally bojond account, and wo believe wit Inuit a parallel in tho history of Ague medicine. Our pride io (.'ratified by tho acknowledgments wo receive of tho radical cures effected in obstinate casca, and whore other reme? dio? had wholly failed. Cnacclimated persons, oithcr resident in, or traveling th i or. gb miasmatic localities, will bo protected by taking tho AOUE CURE daily. For LIVER COMPLAINTS, arising from tor? pidity of tho Liver, it ia an excellent remedy, stimulating tho Livor into healthy activity. For Bilious Disorders and Liver Complaints, it ia an excellent reineky, producing many truly re? markable cures where other medicines bad failed. Prepared by Da. J. C. AYER A CO., Practical and Analytical Chemists, Lowell, Massachusetts, r.nd sold all round 'he world. PRICK 91.Ot? PKH BOTTLE. Sold by all Druggists and Doalera in Medicines ove ry whero. Jan 1 8mo Local Items. -o CABII.-Onr terms are strictly cash-no exceptions. If an advertisement is to be inserted, band over the money; if a paper is subscribed for, tho money must accompany tho order-otherwise no attention will be paid to them. This rule will be adhered to. -o AH New Year's Day is usually regarded a holiday, no paper will bo issued from this oilier until Sunday morning. Mr. Barry, of tho Carolina House, requests us to extend a general invitation io his friends, to call to-day and partake of a glass of egg-nog. Attention is called to tho salo of valuublc property, by the Sheriff of Lexington Coun? ty, on Monday next. Full particulars can be obtained from W. S. Monteith, Esq., in this city. -o Mr. Moses is not one of tho committee on tho Emancipation Colebrotio?, as stated yesterday, iu an advertisement. Ho it merely io address tho assemblage. -o 1809.-Miller's "Planters' and Mord?ante Almanac*'-the old stand-by-which is nov in the fifty-second year of its publication lias been pjaccd before us, by Messrs. Duf So it Chapman. It is arranged withspecia reference to this particular section of couti try. Peters' Parlor Companion for the Piule tan \'iolin is au excellent monthly musical pub ?cation, which is fully understood and ap predated by musicists. It is furnished a ?3 per annum, or thirty cents a copy. J L. Peters, P. O. Box 5,429, New York, is th publisher. -o BROAD COLUMNS.-?Lt tho earnest sugges ion of several friends, wo have determiuei o change the measure of tho Phoenix inbstitntiug five broad columns for the si: uirrow ones heretofore employed. Ou .caders will lo.se nothing by the change, a ho full amount of matter will bo furnished vhilo, at the same time, we believe th >aper will prosont a moro neat appearance Nc hopo iu a short time to be enabled t ularge the Phoenix permanently; butin th ncautime will furnish supplements when .vcr required. -o THE OLD YEAH.-The following line rere suggested bv the poem in Thursday' n]itt'ttix: . The old year is going, how slow beat hi pulses! low cold arc the hands that he folds on hi breast; future stands by him, with eye-lids tc.11 laden, Lud pall of "thick darkness" to fold bim t rest. low sadly we gather around the departin) Ye cling to bis skirts, and beg him to sto> Tor he holds all tho hours that passed us i sinning, Lud to seal them against us, he bears the; away. )h, Time, fold your pinions, and let tl year linger, inst ouo lRtlo moment, till wo whisper forgive! Then plume them aguin, aud in Got: eternity, lict the old year find rest, whore the dyii shall live. Chen upward, old your, mount theglistenii path-woy Chat thousands before thee, with gladnc hnvo trod; Chen thou shalt stand'iu tho moon-light glory, [lore, in darkness and .silence, thou di? Uko a god. S. B. -o Po LITEN ESS rs BDSINESS. -There is a go leal of sound philosophy in the followit vhicb we extract from the column of "Wi Si nts," in the Christian Register: ".What a pleasant thiug it is to deal w pleasant men. How much a tono help '/rade, reconciles you to a price, and set you oft'with u nearer feeling of au equi lent for your outlay. A smilo and a 'thu yow' go a great way, and when they are sheap, cost so little aud go so far, < wonders that they aro so dear, and that little of minor courtesies enter into the int jonrso and interests of men. It is a v pleasant thing to go out of a store with iouso of a favor conferred. Indeed, ; minds a attie petty evident cheating will placid complacency, if only tho cheater ai .ho suavity of manner aud of tone to irt. And what an art that is which ma you buy when you had determined not iud reconciles you to a price you knov ac not ouly abominable, but one you on >ot to pay. Is there a harder thing to f ,han that very industrious store-phrase, .hero anything elso to-day?' Only le nan get tho right tono and manner, i pou bavo more moral courage than rc jeoplo, if you dou't begin to bo rat tslmmed of tho smallness of your ordei rour purchase, look about and rcmem hat there is something else, and so run ?our bill or deposit your pocket-book, fi ?rant of couruge to meet a stereotyped b less phrase-the moral history of wi rour tormentor perfectly understands. h neun a mun feels when, wulking homo, oolizes tho little trick of tradn to which las succumbed." HOOF-DE-DOODLE-DO.-A gentlorenn, con? versing with a lady friend, a abort time since, claimed, tbat be could parodize on the hoop question any verse that she might chooso to repeat. She accordingly selected one from tho ' Old Sexton;" whereupon the graoeless fellow took bis pencil aud thus wrote upon a scrap of paper lying by: "Nigh to a church that was uowly made Stood a lady fair, and thus sho said 'Too bad, too bad-lhere must wait While they measure the breadth of this open gate; Ahl 'tis only NINE BY MIX, I seo! Toe narrow, lue? narrow, alas! for mo.' And she sighed from her quivering lips so thin *I cannot get in-I caunot got in!' " THE UNITED STATES COCRT.-Hon. G. S. Biyan providing-Wodnosdoy, Docembor 30. The following petitions for voluntary bankruptcy wero read and referred, as fol? lows: William Knotti, of Lexington; J. W. . Gordon, of Williamsburg; A. A. McDowell, Kershaw; J. M. Muirhead, Mount Pleasant; James L. McDowell. Kershaw; li. T. Muir? head, St. Thomas; H. L. Benbow, Claren? don; E. H. Barnwell, W. F. Redding, ?Charleston; C. G. Reudell, Beaufort; Wil? liam J. Vereen, Cberaw; George Tupper, Charleston; J. McD. Law, Sumter; P. C. Palmer, St. John's Berkeley; F. H. Ken? nedy, Sumter; O. D. Prentiss, Barnwell; William S. Hudson, Sumter; T. M?D. Hud? son, Alexander R. Knox, Charleston; R. W. Durant, Sumter; George O. Robinson, Charleston; A. C. Shaffer, Walterboro; J-'cob Goldsmith. Charleston; S. W. Roque, Georgetown; Joseph W. Seabrook, Herr & John Hoffniau, Oraugeburg. Referred to R. B. Carpenter, Register. J. J. Lewis, Pendleton; James G. Gibbes, Columbia; John A. Myers, Fairfield; J. W. Norwood, Greenville; George W. Raser, Andor.son; Thomas Wbitteraore, Newberry; B. F. Yoe, Abbeville; Robert H. Williams, Laurens; James. W. Hill, ? ^wherry; C. W. Rawlinson, Richland; Joseph Dutchett, Newberry; J. H. Arnold, Greenville. Re? ferred to Henry Summer, Register. J. T. Atkinson, Valeutine Atkinson, Jr., Chester; J. F. C. DuPro, Wm. C. Hunter, T. J. McCracken, J. C. Walker, W. H. Lawton, Abbeville. Referred to W. J. Clawsou, Register. The People's National Bunk, in re Thoa. C. Richardson. Petition for involuntary bankruptcy. Debtor ordered to show causo beford 18tb January, 18G9. Ex parte A. '?. Stewart, et al., in re Levi Drucker. Petition for secoud meeting of creditors. Order issued calling meeting of creditors on 12th January. Ex parle Strauss, Vanees k Co., and ex parte Graeser, Lee, Smith & Co., tn re P. S. Worsbam. Petition to establish lien. Salo postponed to first Mouday in February. Ex parte W. E. Huson. Petition for final discharge. Referred to Hon. R. B. Car? penter, Register. . -o FA?>T ANO CiiEAr FEINTING.-Wo have added a fast card press-of tho Degenor ?fe Weiler patent-to tho machinery of the Phonix office; and have also made additions to our stock of fancy type, cards, pupor, etc. Persons in want of any styles of book and job printing, aro invited to call and examine samples and prices. Cards printed at short notice, and at prices varying from $3.50 to $10 per thousand. -o MAH. AEHANGKMENTS.-The post office is open during tho week from 8}? a.m. to 6p. m. On Sundays, from 4 to 5 p. m. The Charleston and Western mails are open for delivery at 5 p. m., and close at SJ? p. m. Charleston night mail open 8)*, a. m., close A\% p. m. Northern open for delivery a. m., closo 2.45 p. m. Greenville open for delivery 5 p. m., close 8)? p. m. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.-Special attention is called to tho following advertisements, published for tho first time this morning: Hostotter's Stomach Bittern. Miss S. G. Huntt-School Notice. Mrs. Cordes-School. Godfrey Gable-Notice. Misses Martin-School. J. S. G. Mayraut-Administrator's Notice Richard Barry-Notico to Debtors. Wanted to Rent a Plantation-Box 40. A. M. Hunt-Notico to Legislators. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. R. M. Wallace-Notice. R. M. Wallace-Salo of Stills. Hugh S. Thompson-Malo Academy. S. M. Roof-Sheriff's Sale. A distinguished Methodist Minister and prominent Tempor?neo Lecturer once re? marked that go whero ho would, from ono end of the country to the other, ho hardly ever failed to find PLANTATION BITTEKS, and while ho condemned tho practice of using these Bitters too freely, ho could not con? scientiously say that ho wonld disenrd them from tho side-board, for "lie himself had ex? perienced beneficial results from their uso, and that, from a long and closo observation, he was convinced that when used moderately and as a medicino exclusively, they wore all that was recommended. At tho same time ho wuruod his hearers not to pull the # cork too often, for they were far too pleasant a tonio to trifle with. MAGNOLIA WATHE-Superior to tho best imported German Cologne, and sold at half tho price. ^ Jljlf3 Six divorces wero granted recently at . Keen, N. H. At tho present rate, tho courts will divide all tho married people of Now Hampshire beforo long, and will then be ready to take hold of Vermont and Massa? chusetts. The Olympic Theatre in New Orleans waa destroyed by fire on the night of tho 23d ultimo.