The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, July 16, 1870, Image 2
COLUMBIA, g. C.
Saturday JlorninR, July 16, 1870.
War Declared-France ?nd PraMla
Driin their Swords.
Tho difficulty brewing for somo days
past, between France and Prussia, has
culuiiuatod in a declaration of war. Our
telegraphic columns furnish tho latest
uews upon the subject. French and
Prussian columna arc moving each with
eelerity to the historic Rhine. As when
two clouds, each surcharged with elec?
tric fluid, are rapidly approaching, and
we look to soo the sharp lightning, and to
hear tho deafening clap of thunder, BO
now an expectant world contemplate
with interest the meeting of tho French
und Prussian columns, and are awaiting
the glittering of steel and the roar of
artillery.
Tho issue will be settled between the
needle-gun and the Chassejiot, and the
genius that triumphed at Sadowa is to
try tho metal of thatjwhich conquerod at
Magenta and Solferino:
The contest has come which we ex?
pected. Two great powers contend for
tho mastery in Europe, and the question
hos been left to the arbitrament of tho
sword. The struggle will be a grand one.
Both Franco and Prussia have vast mili?
tary resources, and each will put forth
all its strength. How far tho circle of
' war will extend,1 no one can accurately
tell. It may widen until it sets all
Europe ablaze, and gives it a new map.
Impending Couillvt.
Nothing is moro astonishing than tho
rapidity with which the public loses in?
terest in old issues and becomes absorb?
ed in new ones. Such a transition stnto
is now being undergone at the North, iu
which the negro is fast beiug lost sight
of in the magnitude of the great labor
and trade problems. From present ap?
pearances, the old and never to be ended
war between labor and capital is, in a
new form, to supercede all other ques?
tions of partisan policy in this country,
for at least a score of years to como. If
any confirmation of these views were
wanting, we can Teadily discover it in
the avidity with which prominent politi?
cians, always first to feel the public pulse,
are now seiziug every occasion offered,
in Congress or out of it, to array them?
selves as leaders on one or the other sides
of the question. Nor are the public
journals bohiud in the race. For ouce
an issue comes before the country supe?
rior to, and entirely independent of auy
political organization, aud possessed of
elements requiring au entirely new di?
vision of parties-and one purely sec?
tional in its nature. The consequence
is, that we fiud tho great lights of Rad?
icalism and Democracy about equally di?
vided in their councils, aud everythiug
indicates their absorption by an entirely
fresh division. Already tho papers of
the Eastern aud Middle States boldly
charge the West with fomenting rebel?
lion, because tho latter insist upon anew
apportionment of representation, which
will largely increase their strength in
Congress. The East does not hesitate
to say that this must be resisted; that
commercial and manufacturing interests
must not be left subject to the control of
a more plurality of numbers. Of the
temper iu which this controversy is con?
ducted, the following extract from a
promiueut Pennsylvania radical journal
will afford an illustration:
"Wo called attention to the extreme
danger of this Western fanaticism at tho
outset of tho trouble, aud said that it
bade fair to be as ultra as that of the
South had ever beeu. Our views were
endorsed by influential Eastern journal?
ists; but tho Pittsburg press seemed to
think wo were making danger, rather
than guarding against it. Nevertheless,
it has all happened just as wo foresaw.
The Chicago Tribune braves tho power
of the National Government, dares Con?
gress to be governed by tho regular laws
of apportionment rather than by West?
ern dictation, and threatens that the
West will not submit. Of course, it
hopes to bc backed up in this by the re?
bellious element at the South, in which,
we think, it will bu mistaken. Tho
South has had an ample trial ut olecting
representatives ou its own account, and
then daring Congress to reject them.
Congress has dared over and over again,
and will dare do it again in the case of
thc Western rebels. Tho middle States,
which resist this scheme, aro all gainers
in tho representation under tho new
census, or what it is expected to bc."
As the prosperity of the South und
West now depends mainly upon a boun?
tiful supply of cheap labor, aud as cheap
labor is entirely inconsistent with high
revenuo duties and oppressive taxation,
both of which are of vital necessity to
the welfare of the East-tho policies of
tho two sections are necessarily opposed.
For a time, owing to tho vast resources
of our country, and the patience of our
people, tho conflict has been delayed.
But tho necessity of a constant increase
in protection, to meet tho constantly iu
creasing demands of labor organizations,
was all the while tending toward that
point where the balauce could nu longer
bo maintained. Opportunely, as though
designed by Providence, tho completion
of the Pacifia Railroad at almost the
same time, has placed the country within
reach of an inexhaustible supply of the
cheapest labor on the face of the earth
thns precipitating tho issue with the real
and i rn m i nun t danger of a labor revolu?
tion. Upon thu question of Chinese
immigratiou, therofore, tho first groat
campaign of a loug aud bitter contest is
to begin.
This is to bo the dawn of the great in?
evitable strife Lord Macaulay prophe?
sied a quarter of a century ugo, as likely
to test not only tho stability of our in?
stitutions, but our political faith and
existence. Free labor is only tho key to
free trade, and long ere the fate of tho
pig-tail is decided, both principles will
be written in" tho samo party gospel.
This, then, is to bo tho bone of conten?
tion in future elections. On tho ono
hand will bo arrayed all the manufactur?
ing and a majority of tho commercial
interests. Upon the other all the agri?
cultural and other industrial interests.
John Chinaman is to bo tho watchword,
the piece de resistance, just as the negro
was in tho lute unhappy war-tho wedgo
driven in between the pi i-ctive and
free trado policies, splitting ti.,1 popular
vote of tho couutry into two great par?
ties, both sectional and both selfish in
their naturo. We eau, therefore, regard
with some amusement the efforts made
hythe "old wool dyed," full of sacred
traditions and strong in mouldy creeds,
to rally their skeleton forces sud galvan?
ize some lifo iuto parties that died with
tho issues that begot them. Hence?
forth, at sea upou the futuro, surround?
ed on every hand with new dangers, wo
will havo but little time for old memo?
ries. Tho struggle will bc oue in which
bread and butter will bo too closely in?
volved to permit of fine-spun theories, or
their political abstractions.
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The Democratic aud conservative party
of Alabama propose to meet iu conven?
tion in September next. All opposed to
radicalism ure invited to uuito iu the
effort to reform public affairs.
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EDUCATIONAL.-Tho Abbeville Press
and Banner gives a full accouut, of the
commencement exercises of tho flourish?
ing college, male and female, at Due
West. It alludes, also, to the receut
public exercises of the Cokesbury malo
school, of which the thorough teacher,
Mr. Benet, is chief.
Thc incomo tax was settled by tho ac?
tion of tho House of Representatives on
Saturday. The obnoxious Senate amend?
ment, fixing tho iucomo tax at two aud
a half per cent., with an exemption of
$2,000, was agreed to. Tho House also
concurred with tho Senate in au amend?
ment striking out lie $500 limitation,
allowed for house-rent. Under the er
istiug law, actual house-rent paid, eau
be deducted from thoamouut of income.
Referring to minority representation,
tho Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer says:
"That it is destined to be generally
adopted beforo long, wo have no doubt;
nor have we any doubt that it will cvou
tually bo applied to all elections. Wo
notice as a siguilicant sign of the times
that the plau was fully endorsed at a
meeting of Republicans from tho minor?
ity Counties iu this.State, which'was held
at thc Girard House tho other day.
Democratic and Republican politicians,
in strong majority Counties may endea?
vor to prevent the adoption of auy plan
which will lessen their power, but tho
people of both parties will ero long take
hold of tho matter and insist upon a
chango which promises to bo productive
of so much good. Wo nolico with pleas?
ure that many of tho best newspapers in
this State, irrespective of party, are ad?
vocating the proposed reform. Let them
uittko tho fight an earnest aud vigorous
oue, and thoy can speedily compel the
calling of a convention to introduce the
desired changes iuto our Stato Constitu?
tion."
"Brick Pomeroy" says:
As wo have stood by tho rights of the
people and tho eternal principles of
Democracy from tho first, so shall we
stand in tho future till tho folds of our
Hag will give shade and protection to
every man who toils, and till the labor
party of tho couutry becomes but the
broad, liberal, protective Democracy,
without which there eau bo no greatness
to us as a people, no matter what wealth
may result to tho few.
JUDGE CARPENTER'S RESIGNATION.
Tho resignation of the Hou. R. B. Car?
penter, as Judgo of this Circuit, has
been forwarded to his Excellency Go?
vernor Scott, to tako effect ou Monday
uext, the 18th instaut. It is propor to
add, in this connection, that Judgo Car?
penter deferred his resignation in ordor
to enable counsel to complete the formal
record ia cases previously dctormiucd in
his court.-Charleston News.
Hon. Hiram Appleton, of Mystic,
Coun., recently forwarded a lotter to a
neighboring town, requesting the Post?
master to deliver it "to auy respectable
attorney." After ten days it was re
turnod with tho siguilicaut endorsement:
"None hero."
Conuuisseur.s, go to Pollock's.
Til? I?Io?t Frlghtfol ft nrrntlvo of Modern
. .__ Ttmm, ?
Tbe currant number of the Overland
Monthly describes afresh, and no doubt
with mitmt? accuracy, a chain of events,
which for ghastly horror are probably
without equal in authentic records. The
tale realizes, in troth, the frightful de?
nunciation of Othello; for in it "on
horror's head horrors accumulate," and
surely imagination can picture nothing
in tho wny of tho piteous and awful more
extreme than what was Buffered by the
unfortunates concerned. lu various
forms, by books, nowspnpers, und moro
frequeutly, by private report, tho story
has buen told; for it happen eil long ago
-iu 1816-before Captain gutter had
mndo his discovery, and before every old
whaler from Casco Bay lo Hatteras had
been fitted up, to bravo once more tho
perils of Capo Hom. But mnuy have
persisted in disbelieving it. It was too
horrible, they said, to believe. Aud it ia
true that there seemed to be a raw-head
aud bloody-bones air about tho narra?
tive that more frequently attends fiction
than fact, uud which, nt all events, lent
warrant to the suspicion that it had beou
expanded and embellished. There is,
however, no doubt about tho melancholy
truth of it; and tho minuto accouut uow
published is to be accepted as tb? pro?
duct of all tho sifted and collated testi?
mony that it has been possible to obtain.
Donner Lake-named uftcr tho leader
of the party who met their death hard
by-is one of tho most picturesque uud
lovely spots among the elevated valleys
of tho Sierra Nevada. "Starvation
Camp"-tho immediate scouo of the
calamity -is close at baud, nud by it
mus tho railroad, a straugo contrast iu
tho plenty aud succor it suggests to tho
helpless misery the spot once witnessed.
Tho Donner party left their home for tho
Pacific slopo iu search of a healthful and
eligible soil, aud having penetrated this
great distauce toward thoir promised
laud, were "snowed up" near tito lake.
Their Indian guido, ono Truckee, warn?
ed them oue afternoon that dreadful
weather was at baud, and urged them to
push ou. But-for tho grouud was as
yet uncovered-they had found wood,
water and grass, aud determined to halt
for tho night. lu the morning, a foot
of snow hud fallen, and their cuttle bad
wandered away so that fow of them
could bo found. Alarmed, the way?
farers begau to build cabins and to take
such other measures as they could to
protect themselves from tho elements.
The snow continued to fall, and present?
ly became impassable. In u few days,
it was eight feet deep. During nearly
tho whole of November, the long storm
continued, and the snow ou thu moun?
tains ultimately reached a depth of more
than twenty feet.
There wero eighty-two souls in tho
party, thirty-two being women and a
large proportion children. Tho Cap?
tain, George Donner, was a man of souio
sagacity aud considerable wealth, aud
his wife and children being with him,
had every incentive to prudence and ac?
tivity. But all efforts to escapo from
their frightful situation proved vaiu. lu
a short time everything in tho shape of
wholesome food was goue. They de?
voured their dogs, tho hides of tho cat
tlo they had saved aud their own boots
aud shoes. Finally the miserablo crea?
tures begau to think of eating each other.
At this period u death occurred-thus
deferring thu need for violeaco, sud
horrible to relate, tho corpso was eagerly
consumed. Other deaths followed, aud
tho survivors continued fr? ?ubsist on the
flesh of their dead companions. After
six weoks, tho storr;;- having subsided,
eight meu aud live women, guided by
two Indian;), set out to try to make their
way to California. Tho hopes of all that
remained hung ort their efforts, and they
struggled desperately to succeed. But
in a week, and before they had passed
tho Divido, this forlorn hope was again
overwhelmed by snow. Three died al?
most at once, and the rest ato their
bodies. "Having," says tho Overland
Monthly, "now been without a morsel to
eat for four days, thoso wretched people
cut tho flesh from tho bodies of thc dead,
aud having refreshed themselves upon a
portion of it aud dried tho balauce foi
future use. again pushed on. This was
their New Year's feast, it now being tho
first day of January, 1847. Fivo days
later their food was again all gone, aud
they had only tho strings of their snow?
shoes left to eat."
Tho unhappy wretches then desired to
devour their ludion guides; but tho lat?
ter, seeing their intention, lied over the
hills and were seeu uo moro. On the
17kh of January all but three of tho thir?
teen were dead, and of the survivors two
laid dowu to die. The third had fallen
in with a friendly Indian, who conduct?
ed bim to a settlement on Bear Uiver.
There the story was told, and immediate?
ly expeditions sot forth from San Fran?
cisco aud Sutter's Fort to rescuo thoso of
tho original party who might still bo
alive.
What tho benevolent advonturcre
found almost beggars description. Those
that had died remained whero their last
sigh had been breathed-but they were
stripped of their flesh. "Bodies half de?
voured layjstrown around tho dismal cab?
ins, from which issued a stifling ftutor "
of thoso who yet lived.
"Not only were their bodies enfeebled
and emaciated to the last degroe, but
with many tho very soul had become n
desolation. While some welcomod theil
deliverers with ecstacies of joy, others,
gloomy and cadaverous, regarded thom
with a coldnoss amounting almost to in?
difference, they having becomo not onlj
reconciled to thoir cannibalistic diet, bul
preferring it to wholesome food when eel
before thom. Monstrous os it may seem,
to such au extent had tho natural tastes
of somo of these people becomo pervert?
ed that thoy pushed aside the flour aud
bacoti tendered them, choosing rathei
to partake of tho horrid 1 feast to whick
thoy had so long been accustomed. Pa?
rents were seen feediug on tho remains
of their children, and children ou those
of their parents. Uero a wife was broil
ina on tho coals the flesh of her husband,
ana elsewhere a company were making a
repast upon the roasted limb of n dead
companion. AH filial and parental affec?
tion seemed dead, tho one instinct of
self-preservation reigning supreme.
Rapidly somo of those most wretched
creatures were being transformed into
ghouls and demons, having already lost
many of tho divino traits of humanity.
Haggard and attenuated, they spoke but
little, while their looks and demeanor
woro wild and unoarthly. Too incredi?
ble for beliof aro the stories told of the
ravenous groed exhibited by somo of
theso starving wretches, ono of whom is
said to have eaten tho entiro body of a
child during tho courso of a singlo night;
while another insisted on appropriating
to his own use tho hearts and othor visce?
ra of his dead oompanious. Ou the
other hand, many refused lo touch tho
flesh of those who had perished uutil tho
very last, and then partook of it sparing?
ly, aud with evidont feelings of horror."
Thirty-six of tho company had perish?
ed, aud many of tho remainder were on
tho point of doing so. Amid devasta?
tion nud woo, thero were gleams of hero?
ism that almost seemed needful to show
that theso afflioted souls shared a com?
mon humauity. Donner, the leader,
was too far reduced to be taken forward
by tho rescuing party. His wifohad hor
choice to be saved with her childreu or
to stay behind and die with her husband.
With wonderful fortitude and devotiou,
aud iu spite of his earnest entreaties,
sho chose the latter. Auother man, one
Keisburgb, was also too weak to bo re?
moved. The rest were taken iu safety to
California. In the following April, an?
other small party repaired to Douuer's
Dake, to see if by chance either of those
left behind yet survived. They found
Keisburgb living, ho having subsisted
for several weeks upon tho body of Mrs.
Donner, who bad died soou after her
husband. The story is almost too shock?
ing to bo repeated; but as a remarkable
and trust worthy instance of thc beha?
vior of mankind, under tho most trying
circumstances of which it is possible to
conceive, the narrative has au iu ter est
and importance that justify its recital
and preservation.
AGRICULTURE.-Thc Buhner of thc
South says :
No botter evidcuee can produced of
tho determination of tho Southern peo?
ple to develope their immense industrial i
resources than is observable iu tho num?
ber and character of the agricultural aud
mechanical societies which uro springing
up throughout thc country. Proviousto
the war, Agricultural Societies wero very
little thought of-tho naturally fertile
soil and poculiar system of labor, left
comparatively littlofor tho rich husband?
man to think of. Ho had laud nud lubor
in abundance and subject to his call. As
a cons?quence, tho wealthy and indepen?
dent lord of tho soil turned his ambition
to other pursuits thau the noble ouo of
tilling tho ground.
But tho war and the steru hard truths
that its results have taught us, chauged
the aspect of men's minds. Nothing was
left to us but our lauds, and that indomi?
table will and pluck which our Anglo
Saxon ancestry planted upon the virgin
soil of Virginia, the Carolinas and Geor?
gia, and which, true to its history, shows
tho more brightly nuder tho trying and
desperato ordeal of the unequal and
bloody contest from which wo have just
emerged. The brilliant intellect of tho
Southern people, which, before tho war,
made tho halls of tho National Congress
celebrated and respected throughout tho
world, is hoard there now no moro. We
aro no moro a nation of politicians.
That samo intellect and talent made us
so pre-eminent ns a people in the past
exists still. But tho logic of eveuts hus
diverted our intelligeuco into new chan?
nels, and moro generally thau any other,
into that most exalting and honorable of
all professions-agriculture.
THE BATTLE OF MANASSAS.-Tho cor?
respondence botween President Davis
and General Joseph E. Johnston, after
tho first battle of Manassas, in respoct to
the responsibility for tho latter's failure
to follow up his victory and march upon
Washington, has just como to light
through tho columus of the Mississippi
Clarion. Mr. Davis, under dato of No?
vember 3, 1PG1, asked General Johnston1
whether ho (Mr. Davin), "obstructed the
pursuit of the enemy after tho victory at
Manassas," or "oveu objected to au ad?
vance or other active operations which
it was feasible for tho army to make."
General Johnson's reply is as follows:
To tho first question I reply no. Tho
pursuit was obstructed by tho enemy's
troops nt Centreville, as I have stated in
my official report. In that report I have
also said why no advance was mado upon
tho enemy's capital, for reasons aa fol?
lows: Tho apparent freshness of the
United States troops at Centreville,
which checked our pursuit; tho strong
force occupying tho works near George?
town, Arlington and Alexandria; tho
certainty too that General Patterson,
if needed, v.'ould reach Washington
with his army of moro than 30,000
sooner than we could, and the condition
and inadequate means of tho army in
ammunition, provision and transporta?
tion, prevented any serious thoughts of
advancing against tho capital.
To tho second question I reply that it
has never been feasible for tho army to
advance farther than it has dono-to tho
lino of Fairfax Court House, with its ad?
vanced posts nt Upton's, Munson's and
Mason's hills. After a conference at
Fairfax Court Houso with tho threo
senior generul officers you announced it
to bo impracticable to givo this army
tho strength which thoso officers con?
sidered necessary to enable it to assume
tho offensive. Upon which I drow it
back to its present position.
Garrett Davis denounces the Chincso
as a race with a language without an al?
phabet, a roligiou without a God, and
death without au immortality.
The Reform Movement as Viewed
Abroad?
The Now York World referring to the
paper put forth by the Executive Com?
mittee of the Union Reform party,
says:
"Thero ?ire only two conceivable reme?
dies for this deplorable state of things:
one by depriving tho negroes of the
suffrage; the other by abandoning that
mutual hostility of the two races which
radicals and carpet-baggers have so in?
dustriously fomented. Thefirstof these
remedies might bo the best if it were
practicable; but it would be a wild and
crazy quixotism to attempt it. It could
uot bo accomplished without plunging
the country into another civil war, aud
we havo had quito enough of tho bitter
fruits of civil war. Tho only practica?
ble way of restoring good goverumeutin
tho South is by thwarting the too success?
ful nttemps of tho radicals to stir up
jealousies aud animosities between the
two races. Their interests aro really
idoutical, and if tho conflict which hus
been caused by the Freedmen's Bureau
and carpet-bnggers were healed, tho best
citizens of both races, even in a State
like South Carolina, where tho negroes
aro a majority, could control the govern?
ment and reform existing evils. The only
practical solution is to recognize uegro
suffrage, aud establish friendly relations
with the better part of the colored popu?
lation."
A RBMAKKAUL-E SYNAGOGUE.-The Is?
raelites of Turin nrc building a new place
of worship, which, according to an ac?
count in the Puris 1'emps, is a very ex?
traordinary affair:
"Tho most remarkable of all structures
at Turin is thc synagogue of the Israel?
ites. It is likely the fiueit and riebest
synagogue in the world, and at the samo
time tho most remarkable monument of
Turin. Upon a small square bill, with '
adiipted stairs, stands a Greek temple in
white and pink. Above, a little back?
wards, is a kind cf second temple. Tho
wholo is traversed l>3* galleries, adorned
with small pillars and thousands ol'
splendid embellishments. White and
reddish colors predominate. It is Greek
and Moorish-it isRomauic and Gothic;
thero is a blending of all styles, without
overstraining and without bad taste. !
But -what makes this structure some?
time bizarre and unexpected is a mas?
sive tower, with pierced walls arisiug
above this ornamented, beautiful con?
struction, reminding of Asia and Egypt,
of Thebes and Nineveh. Surely the
architect of this building was gifted by
imagination. Ile was an ablo interpre?
ter of tho Hebrew dream of tho temple
to bc erected ut tho brink of a strange
river. Never since the great destruction
has Israel possessed a more magnificent
edifice iu which tho hymns of David re?
sounded. This building is entirely fit
for tho talented Italian Jews, who are a
power at the exchango, at the press and
iu the parliament.
SMAIIII INDUSTRIES.-The resources of
tho Southern States ore almost innume?
rable. There are a great many ways of
earning un honest penny, which .have
never outered into tho heads of our peo?
ple, for the simplo reason that wo have
always lived under tho delusion that
there was no money in anything but
cotton. Under the old regime, this was
well enough; but wo may as well wake
up to tho truth at oucc-this is no longer
a planting couutry-wo must direct our
attention to other resources, or come to
grief. The sooner wo begin to realize
tho foot and act upon it, tho better. It
is trno that it is very difficult, with a
spnrso population, to introduce reform,
but onco begun, good may come of it.
Dr. Porcher has pointed out, in his
admirable work on tho resources of our
fields and forests, a great many impor?
tant features. We have roots, herbs,
trec3 and shrubs, containing valuable
medicinal properties. We lmvo fruits
growiug wild, capablo of being converted
to valuable purposes; we have barks for
tanning and dyeing, aud wood for furni?
ture, carriage-making, clay for pottery,
and a thousand other small industries
worth looking after. - Union Times.
Tho manufacturo of cotton in tho
South seems to yield handsome profits.
Tho annual report of a cottou mill at Au?
gusta, Georgia, recently submitted to the
stockholders, shows tho following results:
Tho cnpital stock of tho company is
$000,000, and during tho pnst twelve
mouths tho factory used 2,907,075 pounds
of cotton, at an average cost of 2-1.29
cents a pound, aud manufactured 8,222,
181 yards of muslin. Tho bauds em?
ployed were 489 in number, and tho an?
nual wages amounted to 8159,970, Tho
gross earnings, including interest,
amounted to -$175,380, and after deduct?
ing expenso account, repairs, taxes and
water rent, tho net earnings were $127,
779, out of which four dividends of five
por cent, each were declared, leaving
$7,779 to bo added to tho surplus fuud,
which has been increased to tho sum of
3233,295.
Tho Pacific slope, whoro Democracy
flourishes, is destined, in time, to au
empire of itself. For instance: Tho
Stato of California, yet in its infancy,
with a popoulntiou of 600,000, of whom
70,000 aro Chinese, Iudiana and ne?
groes, produced last year 20,000,000
bushels of wheat, 8,000,000 bushels of
barley, 1,200,000 bushels of oats, 1,000,
000 bushels of corn, 4,000,000 gallons of
wino, 300,000 gallons of brandy, 220,
000,000 feet of sawed lumber, 5,000,000
pounds of butter, and 18,000,000 pounds
of wool. Of metals, thero were pro?
duced 3,000,000 pounds of quicksilver,
all tho rest of tho world producing but
3,500,000 pounds; $1,000,000 of silver,
aud $21,472,851 of gold. Manufactures
yielded last year $75,000,000, and tho
total voluo of industrial products was
$182,000,000.
Everybody, go t" Pollock's!
Xaooal Ito TTTL S .
Reading matter on every pogo of the
PHOENIX.
Two companies of mounted men,
(white,) have beeu formed at Laureas,
und tendered to Gov. Scott as a part of
tho militia. Will ho occept them?
Messrs. Bryan ?fc McCarter have laid
upon our desk the August number of
that magazine so popular with tho ladies
- Godey's Lady Book. Wo have also re?
ceived tho August number of Die Mo
demcelt.
Any ono desirous of establishing a
newspaper in the country, can be sup?
plied with nearly all tho necessary mate?
rial-second band-at a low rate by ap
< plying at PHCENIX oflico.
j RICHLAND VOLUNTEER RIFLE COMPA?
NY.-The meeting of this Company,
which was to have taken place last night,
will bo held next Friduy evening, at 8
o'elock, at the Palmetto Eugine House,
wheu, it is hoped, that every member
will be present, as business of impor?
tance will be brought before the Com
v ?uy.
The PHOENIX office is supplied with
every style of material from the small
metal letter to tho largest wood type,
together with plain and fancy card3,
j paper, colored ink, bronze, eic. It is
j the only establishment in the iuterior of
j thc State where two aud three sheet
posters can be printed. All kinds of
work in the printing line utteuded to at
short notice.
Quito an exciting race came offj-ester
day eveniug, betweeu an escaped lunatic
from the Asylum aud some four or five
of the attendants at that institution.
It nppenrs that the crazed subject eluded
the vigilauce of his keepers, in some
I way, and rau, yelliug as he went, through
j the Eastern port of the city, closely fol
j lowed; wheu gaining a skirt of woods, he
i was lost sight of, and is.still at large.
MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.-The Northern
mail is opened for delivery at S a. m.;
closed at 8.30 n. m. Charleston, opened
at 5.30 p. m.; closed at S.30 p. m.
Greenville, opened at 5.30 p. m.; closed
at 8.30 p. m. Western, opened at 9.30
a. m. ; closed at 4 p. m. Charlesto,.,
(evening,) opened at 8 a. m.; closed at
4.30 p. m. Ou Suudoy, the post office is
open from 9 to 10 a. m.
HOTEL ARRIVALS, July 15-dickerson
House.-J G Jones, Miss Zeriu, Ga; A S
Hinton, Mrs J H Ancrum, Miss Mary J
Ancrum, CH Averill, Charleston; Wm
Bernhardt and wife, J H VunPelt, New
York; H S Brantley, Ala; EL Dean, Co?
lumbia; J H Aucrum, Jr, D B Williams,
Pa; G J Porter, Aikon; A S Dargau, Ark;
Joseph H Gay, Cumberland; Wade H
Haskell, Baltimore; John P Chose, wife,
two ebildren and servant, Florence; F A
Connor, Cokesbury; Wm Johnston,
Charlotte; J E Nesmith, Marion; S F
Houston, Southern Express Company; J
M. Seigler, Newberiy.
Columbia Hotel.- D. T. Corbin, E.
Mautoue, J. Pollok, Miss Fraser, Miss
Brawley, A. Lucas and servant, Mr. and
Mrs. C. D. Brahe, Charleston; T. H.
Cooke, Thos. Alexauder, Miss Adele
Buchanan, Orangeburg; Miss Jennie
Palmer, C. W. Hutsou, Baton Rougo,
La.; J. R. Gurmuny, wife, three children
aud servant, S-ivonnoh ; R. B. Holman,
daughter and two children. Miss Pratt,
Miss Harrington, Miss.; J. D. McLueas,
Miss A. McLaurin, Miss Effie McLaurin,
Miss F. E. Carmichael, Miss R. J. Al?
ford, Marion, S. C.; W. A. Bradley, Au?
gusta ; A. E. Gibbs, New York; Alex.
AlcBee, ^Greenville ; T. H. Svinmes, J.
W. Hill, S. C.
"A TIIINO OP BEAUTY is A JOY FOIIEVEH."
What is it? Something prepared for women
only, mid to be used hy women exclusively.
lt is adaptcil especially to casca whero thc
womb is disordered, ami will euro all irregu?
larities ot tho "'mennon" or "monthly coursea,"
hy restoring the diachargo in every instance,
whether acuto or chronic. Wheroieit? Dr.
J. Bradfield'^ Female Regulator-Woman's
liest Friend-is prepared and sold hy L. H.
bradfield, Druggist, Atlanta, Ga., and may bo
bought tor $1.50 per hollie, ut any respectable
Drug House in tho Union. J10 (j
Tho attention of our readers is called to?
day to tho advertisement in another column,
headed Lippmau'a Groat Gorman Bittere, a
preparation that has been uaod for upward of
a century in enlightened Europe with the
greatest "aticcesa in tho euro of Dyspepsia or
Indigestion, Constipation, Loss of Appetite,
Liver Complaint, loas of tono in tho digestive
organs, etc. Tho proprietors, Messrs. Jacob
Lippnian A Bro., Savannah, Ga., havo, at con?
siderable outlay, succeeded in obtaining the
original recipe for making thia delightful tast?
ing Ritters, and pledgo their reputation that
in preparing it, tho original standard shall he
kept up. J une- 2
Tho best LIVED medicino is ?ElNlTSn'a
QUEEN'S DELIOUT. Thia wonderful vegetable
compound acta with certainty upon tho Liver
and stomach, without impairing tho lunctiona
ol' any other organ. It invigorates, reBtores,
improves tho general condition of the syatom;
rcgulatea tho Bowola by its aperient propor
tioa; stimulates tho Livor and makes it act;
strengthens the digestion and givos tone to tho
man. It awakens the dull and sluggish Liver
to activity and lifo. Thia ia, of nil the season,
tho timo to try it. Go and get a bottle from
Heinitsh- yon will not regret it._J5
To all Whom it May Concern.
HAMBURG, S. C., JA.NUAUY 1G, 1870.
BF.ING appointed and commissioned na tb?
Receiver of tho Hamburg Bank, all par?
ties having transactiona with Haid Bank will
communicate with FRANK ARNIM.
Feb?_
Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powders,
rpiIE beal now in usc, for sale hy
X MaySd HARDY SOLOMON.