The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, August 21, 1869, Image 2
COLUMBIA, S. Cv
Saturday Morning, August 21, 1869.
Th? Spirit of th? Present Age.
Taking a broad,'comprohensivo view of j
the world aa we find it and are informed
about it, no one ?aa hesitate to acknow?
ledge that great, striking and marvellous
changes are taking piase. There may
have been periods of as great intellec?
tual and of even greater religions
activity; bnt we affirm thal never before
in the history of the woild has tbere
been a revelation so vast and general
and far-reaching as that now imminent j
and partly upon ns. Heretofore, revo?
lutions have changed tho relations be?
tween nations, or between the governors
and governed of some particular country ;
bat now, a rovolution impenda whioh
promises to chango the aspect of the
World. It has been truly said, that the
Spirit of the present age is cosmopolitan,
and not provincial. It points to a break?
ing down of tho barriers that havo
hitherto separated continents. China,
shaking off the dust of antiquity, looks
with longing eye to the Paoifio shore,
and seeks to enter a new world of ideas.
And Japan and India are "confronted
with European civilization and European
phenomena." It is estimated that in
Asia there are 600,000,000 of the human
race, that are either Mohammedans or
Pagans. Through the medium of trade,
and' emigration and intercourse with
Christian nations, see the possibility of
these people being converted to the
pure religion of Jesus, and look at the
matter in its sublime religions aspect.
In the departments of agriculture, com?
merce, manufactures and mechanics, con?
stant improvements aro going on. And
great achievements in engineering are
consummated in rapid succession-ns
witness "the great routes across the
European continent, the railways in
India and China, the projected railways
into Asia from Russia, the Pacific Rail?
road in this country, the Atlantic cables,
the Mount Cenis tunnel, the projected
Darien Canal, and lastly, the greut work
across the isthmus of Suez," to say n
thing of M. Lesseps' suggestion that tho
waters of the Rod Sea may be let into
the interior of Africa by means of a
canal, thus converting the'desert of Sa?
hara into a large inland lake, and thereby
giving oasy access to the surrounding
fertile country. This is material pro?
gress. Nor are the indications wanting
of great political changes in tho direc?
tion of liberal ideas and popular rights,
os witness tho political events transpir?
ing in England, France, Germany, Aus?
tria and elsewhere. Even in this coun?
try, an insane radicalism, that calls itself
true Republicanism, changes its proscrip?
tive features, and seems disposed to
adopt more liberal views. Truly, is the
world striding on like an Arab courser.
The result of the scientific observa?
tions of the sun at the late eclipso, goes
to show that after all it is only one huge
ball of fused metal, embracing in its
composition almost precisely similar cle?
ments to the earth. Copper, sodium,
zinc and iron were distinctly detected by
the speotrum, as well as many other
metalio substances which could not be
accurately defined. In the opinion of
the savan?, tho sun is merely another
huge world undergoing the same cooliug
process by which the earth was iu time
fitted for habitation. The happy, or
unhappy consummation of this process
is, fortunately for us, fixed at so remote
a period that the value of real estate and
?the interests of life insurance companies
?need not bo affected.
SARATOGA.-"Saratoga Seen with the
Naked Eye," (it being a woman's,) is the
title of a letter in the New York Tribune,
by Mies Kate Field, somewhat of the
character of tho "Smoked Glass"
Bketches of Orpheus C. Kerr. It ridi?
cules the idea of going to Saratoga for
pleasure, and brings a long series of
oharges against the place-that tho
scenery is poor, and the dust fearful;
that there is neither publio school nor
library in the town; that the oharges for
every kind of service aro exorbitant and
t nen durable; that Saratoga is even a
>oor place for match-making; that the
Measures of the place are frivolous and
Biurtful rather than useful to health; that
fhe bntl ".rf 1 ios and girls of the period dress
pike the supernumeraries of the Black
Crook and the White Fawn; and she
concludes by saying that after seeing and
faking it all in, "if you are aman you
lespise women, and if you ave a woman
foti despise men. Tho lesson, thereforo,
ts bad, and the sooner you fiud tho anti
Hoto the better." The sketch is en?
livened by some touches of humor. Tho
Description of race weok-"hurly-burly,
blam-bang, topsy-turvy, hurrah, hi-hi,
mst and chaos"-is good. "Natives call
|t burglar week, and lock up their
Spoons." Miss Field evidently reineni
>ers the hit sho made by seeiug a gentle?
woman open his umbrella in his enthu?
siasm at tho Peuco Jubilee, and she
renews tho sumo, but this time it is a
roman with a parasol at tho races. She
plinks tbut the poor young women who
fo to Saratoga year after year to find an
riigiblo mate, should enter for the "Con?
fution Stakos."
Th? Heaven ot Sad I^ov??.
Oueof tb? granel 'wklozp?aiM the,
world ?s. that?e? *n4"women cannot be
brought to p^-pff properly. We havo
come to set snob' store upon certain
graces and virtues, that a man is never
satisfied until he discovers some particu?
lar woman possessed of these, in greater
or less degree, whom he may make his
wife. The sexes are. all at sizes and
sevens. Here a woman be a dozen
lovers, all anxious io become her hus
band; while her sister has none. Some
women account themselves ill-off unless
they have at least a couple of suitors. It
is olear that tho wooed cannot m firry both
wooers; nor does she oonsider it her
business, like Peg Wo flin g ton, to choke
off, in the interests of humanity, the as?
pirations of that lover whose case must
necessarily be hopeless. She is not re?
sponsible. Nature has given her big
eyes and small fingers; she is not aware
of having granted any special encourage?
ment to the young mau; and if he, in
the face of the obvious faot that she has
already a lover and a suitor, likes to fol?
low her about-why, it is his affair.
"Who knows," she asks herself, "but
that some men rather like to nnrse the
sweet misery of a hopeless passion?"
Old women aro intensely proud of n
rheumatism which they have petted and
paraded for twenty years; young womou
find a delicious satisfaction in exagge?
rating sumo trifling illness, and feigning
the airs of consomption, in order to in?
terest their friends; and very young men
are rather cager to got hold of ubig mis?
fortune, wrong or misery, in order to
feed misanthropical bluster upon it, ot
use it as a wbet-stono for thin Byronic
sarcasm. In short, sho is tho young
man's sweetheart, not his mother; and
her role is to amase herself, not to pro?
tect bim.
Finally, she marries one of thc twe
suitors, and the other is turned into thc
herd of disappointed lovers. They arc
a numerous body; constant secession:
from their ranks ocoar through some ol
them going off in search of now con
quests, and meeting with greater succesi
than attended their first effort; but
these vacancies, on the other hand, an
always being filled up by new-comers
Some men remain sad lovers all UH?ii
lives; they never get over their first dc
feat; they never ceaso to dream of thal
one woman who alono among all womer
they sighed for. No amount of argu
meut or experience ever dulls tho keei
senso of wrong they suffer-wrong vvhicl
they never attribute to her, but to th<
world in which they live. If sho mar?
ried sonio one else, it was evil circum
stances of some sort that compelled her
It was a temporary infatuation of he
ignorant yonth; or it was tho persisten
misrepresentations of friends; or it wa
the coercive tyranny of family interest
Thoy rebel against the order of things
When they meet together, they talk o
our present social conditions us being
in some incomprehensible way, a villain
ous power, against which love and bono
and simplicity have to wago an almos
hopeless fight. For sad lovers are gre
garious; they meot together as tho cxpa
triated Poles do; bot instead of tr?n.?
forming dry tobacco into clouds c
smoke, playing chess, and blasphemin
the powers of Schonbrunn, they con:
plain of the crnel bonds that society hs
wovon around our emotions. Who
they do smoko, they revenge themselve
upon tho world by constructing a newe
and mure beautiful world out of th
cloud-wreaths; and this world of anthrc
pomorphic fancies in time becomes
sort of reality to them-a solaco for pr<
sent evil-something to which they ca
always look forward and bo comforted.
Tho heaven of sad lovers has nothin
to do with any religious notion or coi
ccption. It is held quito distinct froi
that Heaven in which there is neitln
marrying nor giving in marriage. It :
moro liko a Mohammedan paradiso ui
der Christian rule. Tho heaven of tl
sad lovers is tho place in which all tl
present wrong shall bo righted; in wuk
faithful love ?hall finally be trinmphan
in which great life-sccrets shall be n
vealed, and people who have loved cac
other hore under hard conditions shn
be united, and enjoy thc beautiful r
compense that is supposed, in son
world or other, to be the inevitable r
ward of constancy. It is curious to n
tice how pooplo coufuso this lovers' he
vcu with the religious Heaven; tho tv
are totally distinct. Poets, for exampl
almost invariably talk of tho form?
and yet they are always supposed to 1
talking of the latter.
Arthur cannot touch Guinevere, soil
with the love of Lancelot, in this worl
but ho pictures their meeting in th
other world whero truo lovo shall ha
its deserts:
"Hereafter, in that world whore all are pu:
Wo t\ o may meet before high God, and th
Wilt spring to me, and claim mo thine, a
know
I am thy husband-not a smaller soul,
Nor Lancelot, nor another."
I There all sad lovers aro to be ma
happy, as they would havo been, und
different conditions, here; and thero
the grand poetic aspirations and idei
isms of this contracted world blosse
out iu tho freer and happier sunshii
This heaven is very ill-constructod.
is as delusive as tho "Earthly Paradis
which tempted Mr. Morris' droami
mariners to sail patiently westwai
Even were it altogothor realizable,
would only perpetuate the very wron'
ovils and hardships of this world whi
it is supposed to set to rights. Lot
take our first caso of tho woman w
two lovers, who marries one. The otl
lover is at first nigh distracted ; ho pas
through tho gloomy, or "Conrad <
Corsair," period; the contemptuous,
"Locksley Hall," period; tho tender,
"Annabel Leo," period; and then fr?
this charitable, kindly sentiment
? omerges into reflection and philosopl
He begins to understand and forgive <
natural weakness of woman. "A woma
he will observe, "of loving and goner
temperament cannot exist without
~~" 1, I j"-,'
presence of some object on -which to be?
stow these bountiful treasures. . She be?
comes afflicted with a plethora e&fcia?
nea?, and must expend somo of tai? in?
creasing affection on soma,one? If you,
her afflaucod lover, are such a foci at to
go away and leave a vacuum behind yon,
do yon think she will not, prompted by
nature, dil it up? With so much love,
she must have some one to love; and She
oannot find a proper outlet for her emo?
tions on scented paper. Worse than all,
if you quarrel when you aro thus absent,
you compel her to seek tho afleotion o?
some one as a solace for your cruelty.
Besides this immediate dauger, there aro
a hundred contingencies interfering with
the chances of her remaining constant
the hints of friends, tho misunderstand?
ings of correspondence, the attraction of
n6W faces. If she is led into marrying
some one else, tho poor thing is not to
blame. She is only a woman. And these
temporary ciroumstauces may not have
altered her old love a bit. You cannot
tell what has influenced ber to take such
a step; in time, when reflcctiou aud me?
mory oomo to her aid, she may deeply
regret it, and think very fondly of bim
whom sho onccd loved."
This is tho final step preparatory to
the construction of a sad lover's heaven.
Tho rejected one immediately proceeds
to assure himself that, iu the far future,
when tho fogs aud mists of the nether
world shall have becu dissipated, abo
and he will once more come together, on
the old terms, with tho old love still un?
broken. Then there will bo no harsh
voices of intermeddling relatives, no ig?
nominious squabbles, but a perfect mu?
tual understanding, consistent with tho
sereno atmosphere of tho new universe.
This is the future to which tho disap?
pointed lover, bo he a passionate poet, a
melancholy sculptor, a meditative mer?
chant, inevitably looks-tho beautiful
goldcu futuro that lies just outside tho
grey horizon of his life, whither he is
never done straining wistful eyes.
Ile forgets ouly one thiug-what is to
become of his rival? Wo presume that
he dies too. He has had as great a love
for this particular womau; he, too, has
looked forward to the cairn sun-shine of
settled love after the cold mists of life
and tho sharp frost of death shall have
been passed. Tho heaven of sad lovers
provides for the full fruition of all love
that has only partially blossomed hero.
But it docs not furnish duplicates of tho
women loved on earth; and so, when
both lovers reach that happy sphere,
how oro they both to be satisfied? It
would bo very hard, indeed, if a man
who married a woman on earth, and
loved ber devotedly, were forced on en?
tering this other sphere, to give her up,
simply to satisfy the longings of somo
other one who had also loved her on
earth. Na}*, thc problem is more com?
plex. There ore some women, as we
have said, who are faithfully and truly
loved by three or four men. When all
theso got into tho heaven of 6ad lovers,
what is she to do? The lover who in?
dulges in theso musings never takes ac?
count of this ugly stumbling-block.
Each of the three or four lovers looks
upon his particular love as tho lovo which
the coming heaven must necessarily^ ac?
complish. He it is who has been so dis?
gracefully ill-used upon earth. As he
constructs his anthropomorphic heaven
for himself, he surely must have the
benefit of it. But then he constructs it
upon a principle which is universal in its
application, and must, therefore, include
all his rivals. If this future court of
equity, in which the rights and wrongs
of faithful love are to bo righteously set?
tled, is to be a court of justice at all, it
will not shot ont claimants who have
equal rights to be heard.
So far from this future sphere of con?
solation answering tho ends proposed, it
would increase and aggravate the wrongs
complained of here below. In this pre?
sent life, when the awkward social co?
nundrum occurs, of two mon loving one
woman, an always possible solution of it
is for ono of tho men to go and force
himself to fall in love with somebody
else. Let him, at least, marry a womau
whom he admires and respects, and the
kindly ties of marriage will bo found tc
have a wonderful effect iu inducing love.
Or ho may do what the compassionate
heroine invariably asks him, at the end
of tho second act or the second volume,
to do; he may "strive to forget his un?
fortunate passion" in taking to tiger
hunting, billiard-playing, or roe-deei
shooting. Anything, in short, is bettei
for him than to go on nursing his woes,
and reuderiug himself a nuisance to hie
acquaintances. But in this heaven ol
the sad lover there is no option. The
wholo placo has been "got up," as il
were, for the purpose of settling Jove
affairs. The functions of an angel have
been described as "sitting on a damr
cloud aud playing a harp;" but tho func
tions of au occupant of tho lover's heaven
must bo infinitely moro monotonous.
Particularly, too, when tho lover has nc
occupation beyond boing disconsolate.
What is ho to do, then ? Ho cauuol
complain to his friends; tho sphere i.'
supposed to bo one of such pure delight
that no grumblings aro permissible. H<
caunot look forward, as tho Brahmin:
might, to tho next sphere; for tho lover'i
heaven is constructed on principles o!
finality. Then consider tho frightfu
anti-climax of disappointment. On earth
a mau is generally prepared for th?
chauce of unfortunate love. Ho doei
not look forward with certain anticipa
tiou to a joyful triumph. But the sai
lover, when ho dreams of tho futuro re
gion in which ho nnd his too beautifu
mistress aro to wander forever, takes n<
thought of any possiblo blunder. Hil
and her futuro happiness is as certaiu
to him, as tho welcomo death that leadi
to it. Consider, then, tho horriblo re
vulsion of feeling when he finds, on cn
tering tho new sphere, that his rivals an
there too, all armed with tho same anti
cipations and logical theories of persona
right as he himself possesses. He ha
not been prepared for this. Is the wo
man again to have the right of choice
or is she to remain with him whom sh
oh oso upon earth ? IsGuinevero toclect
to ?Unc? by Artlinrw'LBwelot r Lanct
riot? we presumo, isjPuriflsA too, and baa
.lao had upon eaitlf dreams of a possible
sphere in wbioh ho and his over-yielding
lady-lovo may indulge their .flection
without sin and without stint. Who is
to decide, in this lover's beaven, whether
Guinevere shall give her hand to her
former sweetheart or her former hus?
band ? One might say, by way of con?
solation, to ber husband; but what then
comes of Lau eel ot ? Doubtless he has
bitterly bemoaned to himself the hard
circumstances that made their earthly
loving sin; doubtless he has bitterly re?
pented him of that sin; doubtless he hos
boldly said that he lovedGuinevero moro
fervently than her husband did, and that
she loved him more warmly than she did
her husband. Who, then, is to be cast
into the herd of sad lovers ?-for that
i this heaven of sad lovers shall have snob
a company is olearly inevitable.
If the poets must bnve a beaven iu
which there is marrying and giving in
marriage-in which thore is recoguitiou
of old lovers and tho consummation of
earthly loves-they must invent a better
ono. Tho present effort of anthropo?
morphic imagination is wholly unsatis?
factory. It does not satisfy one of the
requirement that such a "place of futuro
reparation is meant to meet. The awk?
ward problems it suggests aro ev??u more
puzzling than those which perplex our
present life. Here we do manage- lo
bury and forget some unsuccessful love
affairs; but there they would bc all resus?
citated, with tho most disastrous conse?
quences. Most men, at the smallest
I computation, fall in love half a dozen
times in their life. If they marry the
sixth lime, they moro or less entirely
forget tho previous coqnottiugs with
marital responsibilities. But though
they forget, they do not know that the
j young persons who were made tho sub?
ject of these successive experiments have
also forgotten. If they only properly
recognized the position, they might well
I tremble to think of entering that future
sphere of accomplished love. Which of
I all these girls is to meet them on the
? threshold? Or shall all the lot meet the
new-comer, and confront him with mute,
imploring, or reproachful eyes? Which
shall he choose, to thc discomfit uro and
rage of all thc rest? Julia, whom ho
liassionately loved nt nineteen; Kate,
who nearly broke his heart at twenty
one; tho brisk young widow who had
almost run away with him and married
him the next year; tho young French
girl whom ho vainly besought to give up
her intention of entering a convent; that
j stately Miss Desmond, who held him,
with thirty others, her slave for thc space
of eighteen months; or that quiet cou>iu
of his, whom ho was on tho point of
marrying when she died? He cannot
tell how many of these may bo looking
j forward to this new world of enfran
' chised hearts for tho consummation of
j their innocent and unhappy earthly love.
This special heaven which sad lovers
construct for themselves may bo very
good as a sentiment; but it is poor as a
picture; and weak as a doctrine. We
cannot quito afford to do without it,
however; for it gives such beautiful
opportunities for poetical post mortem
anticipations which the biblical heaven
would in no wiso countenance. But the
sad lover should avoid accepting it as a
reality, and thus throwing away present
chances for future impossibilities.
THE GETTYSBURG RE-UNION.-Free
travel to all invited officers is secured
over tho Gettysburg Railroad, Hanover
Branch Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad,
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad,
Central Railroad of Now Jersey, and
tho Stonington steamboat Hue, with rail?
road connections to Boston. Only ouo
railroad remains, which, obtained, would
completo the connections from Gettys?
burg, Philadelphia, New York and Bos?
ton. Until that grants freo travel,
officers will como ?ii Philadelphia direct
to Columbia, and thonco by York to
Hanover Junction, a gap of twenty
three miles only over which they may
havo to pay. Tho Gettysburg and Hano?
ver Branch Railroads will pass officers
on tho production of the Secretary's in?
vitation. Officers should present their
invitations at tho ticket offices of other
railroads, which will also bo suppliod
with lists of those invited. To further
facilitate the procuring of freo tickets,
officers invited can apply to Edwin A.
Souder, Director of tho Gettysburg
Battlo-Field Memorial Association, Dock
street, Philadelphia, and to Col. John
B. Batchelder, No. C9 Beckman street,
and to military headquarters, Houston
street, New York, who will aid in pro?
curing them tickets from tho West,
j North-west and South-west. Free travel
is expected over the roads connecting
j with the Pennsylvania, tho Pittsburg,
? Fort Wayne and Chicago, and tho Pitts
I burg, Cincinnati and St. Louis roads.
Tho Baltimore and Ohio Road has not
I yet offered freo travel, but excursion
I rates. Lists of Southern officers will bo
sent to tho Washington ticket office-,
j Ollicors should in all cases preserve and
I produce to railroads thc invitations from
' tho Secretary.
? ANOTHER BRUTAL OUTRAGE KY NE
> OBOES.-Ono of tho most brutal outrages
occurred near Front Royal, Warren
; County, Va., on tho lGth. A Miss
! Thompson, tho daughter of a gentleman
residing on the placo of Mr. Thomas
Marshal, whilst returning home, was in?
tercepted at a point of tho road that was
very secluded and wild, by two negro
men, and foully outraged. Tho fiends
were af forwards arrested and fully iden?
tified by tho injured lady, and handed
over to a party who took chargo of them,
and tho supposition is that they havo
been lynched.
A NOVEL CIRCUMSTANCE.-Wo learn,
says the Atlanta Constitution, that awhito
woman, in Decatur street, gavo birth,
not long since, to twins- -both boys-ono
white and ono colored. Tho reputed
father is a scalawag.
CARPET-BAOGERS.-The New York Sun
is a very harsh judge .of Sea them peo?
ple, but, it is vet not willing to join In the'
acousa?on that wa. are inhospitable to
"bona $de emigrants." It advises any
who may feel inclined to depart'because
the ultra-radical oiiice-huuters have been
defeated, to stay where they are. It
say?:
"Let these emigrants, then, resolve to
stay in the .South, minding their own
business, cultivating good-fellowship
with tho old settlers, and voting as thoy
please, whilo they accord to all others,
white and black, the right to do like?
wise."
Exactly ! It's a bargain ! This is all
that wo have asked.
THE ALMIGHTY SPEAKS.-One of the
most signal strokes of the Almighty God
has just occurred in Watnuga County in
this State. One Philip F. Gorms, a
trader in tobacco and other commodities,
died suddenly last Tuesday week, under
unusual circumstances. His team had
become stalled in a mud-hole, aud be?
coming incensed at the consequent delay,
Gorms swore ot them, and beat them
uutil he had worked himself in a frenzy.
While in the midst of his blasphemy, he
was stricken dead with apoplexy. His
remains were interred upou a neighbor?
ing farm, aud his team cared for until
his family could be advised of his fate.
Gorms is said to be from Granger Coun?
ty, Teune.ssee.-AsJa-i!l>;, (X. C.) 2feics,
August 13.
GRANT AND COLFAX LOSING POPULARI?
TY IN THE WEST.-The Washington cor
! respoudeut of the Herald states that a
I promiuent Republican politician of In
j diaua, who arrived at Washington Mou
j day evening, gives it as his opiuion that
the Democrats will be successful at the
j local elections iu that State this fall. The
! dissatisfaction with thc administration is
very great, aud has been brought about
by the character of Grant's appoint?
ments, his lack of a deeided foreign
policy aud tho extravagance of the Con
grcssioual Traveling Committee. Col?
fax, this gentleman says, has lost what?
ever popularity he had in Indiana, and a
strong party of politiciaus is being or?
ganized to oppose his aspirations to the
Presidency. The Republicans have lost
all confidence in Graut, aud aro bitterly
regretting his election. The gentleman
who brings this report was a delegate to
thc Chicago Couventiou aud thc most
prominent manipulator for thc nomina?
tion of Colfax.
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cure you and allay the apprehensions of
i your friends; moreover, it is pleasant to
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! ens the Lungs and Throat to resist attacks
I in tho future. Mothers need not dread
: tho Croup when they have a bottle of
I this valuable compound ou their mantle
I piece. A21 G
TAKE IT, TAKE IT ON, AND KEEP A
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a gentle laxative, aud continue it on
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strengthen you. It took a long time to
confirm your disease, and you cau't get
well in a day. Simmons' Liver Regula?
tor, if persisted in, will cure the most
stubborn liver disease. There is no fail?
ure about it. A21 !.(>
WHAT IT WILL DO.-Judge by what
it has done. Heinitsh's QUEEN'S DE?
LIGHT. It has cured a sore leg of twen?
ty-five years steading. It has restored
to health persons long diseased. It has
cured cutaneous eruptions, tetter, &c.
It has cured the dyspeptic of his com?
plaint of long standing. It has restored
to lifo tho child supposed to bo dying.
It has produced a radiant glow on the
female cheek. It has invigorated the
feeble and languishing. It has imparted
vigor to the young. It has vitalized the
decaying fnnctious of age. It has puri?
fied the blood and invigorated life. It
has cured Liver Complaint aud nervous
disorders. It has proven to be a great
blessing to females. It establishes regu?
larity of the orgaus. It is tho lamp of
life aud way to health, and everybody
should try a botte of HEINITSH'S QUEEN'S
DELIGHT. All
PRETTY WOMEN.-A comparatively fow
Ladies monopolize the Beauty as well as
the attention of Society. This ought
not to be so, but it is; aud will be while
meu are foolish, aud siugle out pretty
faces for companions.
This can all be changed by using Ha?
gan's Magnolia Balm, which gives the
Bloom of Youth and a refined sparkling
Beauty for tho Complexion, pleasing,
powferful and natural.
No Lady need complain of a red, tan?
ned, freckled or rustic Complexion who
w ill invest 75 cents in Hagan's Magnolia
Balm. Its effects aro truly wonderful.
To preservo and dress the Hair, usc
Lyon's Kathairou. AIT J13
There is no mistake about it, PLANTA?
TION BITTERS will ward off Fever and
Aguo and all kindred diseases, if used in
timo. No family need suffer from this
distressing complaint if they will keep
PLANTATION BITTERS in tho house, and
uso it according to directions. Tho most
important ingredient of this medicine is
Calisaya or Peruvian Bark, which is
known to bo the finest and purest tonic
in tho vegetablo kingdom. The oxtract
i of this Bark is tho active principle of all
tho good Fever and Aguo Medicines pro?
scribed by intelligent doctors. Calisaya
Burk is used extousively iu tho manufac?
turo of PLANTATION BITTERS, ns well as
quinine, and wo daro say they owo their
popularity mostly to that fact. Wo eau
recommend them.
MAGNOLIA WATER.-Superior to tho
best imported Gorman Cologne, and sold
at half tho price. A21J3
Fr UMAX UNIVERSITY.-Au advertise?
ment announcing the re-opening of this
well-known University, located in Green?
ville, is published in another column.
The Bov. James Forman is President,
assisted by an able corps of instructors.
There wera seventy students in attend?
ance during the last session.
Miss Mary Anu Baie, the "Confede?
rate Soldiers' Friend," is at the Nioker
son House. Her business is to see Gov.
Scott and ondeaver :o make arrange?
ments by which her behool at Edgefleld
can be kept up; otherwise she will bo
compelled to remove to the Empire
State.
SUPREME COURT.-This Conrt has been
in conference for the past three days in
tho case of James U. Adams vs. John
Kleckloy, and has decided-opinion by
the Chief Justice-that "where the
I Court intends the Hale to be made by the
j proper officer, the Sheriff, and not the
Clerk, is such officer." This is the only
opinion filed.
We have received from Mr. J. W.
Denny, a copy of the "Triennial Cata?
logue of thc University of South Caro?
lina-1867-68-69"-which contains valu?
able information pertaining to this tinie
houored institution. The different
schools havo competent professors, and
the University appears to be in a flou?
rishing condition.
THE MARCH OF IMPROVEMENT.-Wo
had the pleasure, yesterday morning, of
examining, at tho machine shop of Mr.
Thomas Lyall, cn Gervais street, a forty
five horse-power tubular boiler, manu?
factured for Capt. John P. Aull, proprie?
tor of the Newberry steam flouring
mills. This boiler is tho largest ever
constructed in Columbia. The length is
twenty feet; diameter four feet; lire box
five feet four inches ; with fifty-five
threc-incl) flues. It is built of A No. 1
American charcoal iron, and weighs
about 9,000 pounds; has the latest im?
proved gauge-cocks, whistle, etc., and one
of Wood's patent steam gauges. The
workmanship is highly spoken of by all
machinists who havo examined it, and
shows conclusively that we havo compe?
tent mechanics in our midst, who only
j requiro the opportunity to develop their
capacities.
HOTEL ARRIVALS, August 20-Columbia
Hotel.-John A. Graham, Chester; R. N.
Miller, L. Brooker, Barnwell; G. W.
Smith, L. W. White, Ark.; Mrs. E.
Sprouls, Miss Sprouls, Cartersville, Ga. ;
R. D. Brown, N. C.; O. M. Saddler,
South Carolina; A. A. Pelot, J. D. Cole,
W. A. Bradley, Augusta; H. T. Peake
and lad}-, Charleston; W. Milligan, G.
& C. R. K.
National Hotel.-B. T. Alford, Charles?
ton; J. W. Browning, Barnwell; W. A.
Garret, Augusta; W. H. Caler, Anderson;
Misses Gallaways, Abbeville; W. H.
Webb, Newberry; J. Robert Seay,
Ringville; M. J. Blakely, Clinton; S.
Morrison, city; W. A. Adderson, Macon,
N. C. ; Thomas G. Clemson, Pendleton.
Nickerton House.-George E. Denny,
Richmond; J. H. Steutwant, C. D. Dela
field, G. W. Palmer, New York; John
Blundell, Philadelphia; Robert N. C.
Grier, wife, three children and neice,
Due West; Miss M. A. Bower, J. H.
Gay, Colonel Lewie, South Carolina; E.
S. J. Hayes, Lexington; Colonel Wm.
Johnston, Charlotte; Hon. E. S. Keitt,
J. B. Seigler, Newberry; J. C. James,
Wilmington; James O. Meredeth,
Helena.
JOB OFFICE.-Tho Phoenix Job Office
is prepared to execute every style of
printing, from visiting and business cards
to pamphlets and books. With ample
material and first-doss workmen, satis?
faction is guaranteed to all. If our work
does not come up to contract, we make
no charge. With this understanding our
business men have no excuse for sending
work North.
A few copies of tho "Sack and Destruc?
tion of Columbia" can be obtained at tho
Phoenix oflioe. Price twenty-five cents.
MERCANTILE PRINTING.-All kinds of
mercantile printing, such as circulars,
letter heads, cards, bill heads, state?
ments, ko., for counting-rooms and
offices, promptly attented to at the Phoe?
nix job office.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.-Attention is
called to tho following advertisements,
published tho first time this morning:
James Furman-Furman University.
P. Cantwell-Northern Hay.
D. B. Miller-lu Common Pleas.
IMMENSE SACRIFICE OF SPRINO AND
SUMMER GOODS AT C. F. JACKSON'S.-In
order to mako room for onr Fall Stock, I
am determined to sell off Summer Dress
Goods, Cassimoros and Linen i for gen
tlemon's wear, together with roany other
articles, at and below original Now York
cost, from this date. A21 12