The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, February 23, 1871, Image 2
(>) KUMBIA, C.
Thursday MorninR, February 23, Iu71.
'J bc Staion or Lent.
Yesterday, the season of LENT began.
That thoro aro pernuna even of tho
church, who have no just idea of this
season, invested with so much impor?
tance by certain Christian denomina?
tions, is but too true. It is a superficial
viow to consider Lout simply as a season
of abstinence from food and a period of
self-denial. It is this, but also moro
than thin. It is designed to bo a season
of active as well as passive devotion on
the part of Christian pooplo impressed
with the duty of its observance. For
moro than 1,500 years, this institution
has been observed by mon. It is tuen v
tioned, we are told, by various write\fe
in the second and third oenturies. .ita"
divine philosophy, rightly apprehended,
is reasonable in its conception and beau?
tiful in its operations. It comes to the
citizen of the world with the suggostion
that this lifo is but a period of proba?
tion. It bids him turu away from the
things of lifo to tho mysteries of re?
demption. It is intended to bc a season
of special prayer, of earnest self-exami?
nation, of serions m?ditation, of with?
drawal from merely worldly plousurcs,
of tempor?neo, of alms-giving-in liue,
it is a season of special exorcise of all
Christian virtues, graces anti acts.
Tile Subject of minority Representation
Again.
The rights of MINORITIES is a subject
woll worthy of serious thought iu these
times when, in our country, wo are expe?
riencing the fruits of tho tyranny of
mero MAJORITIES. WO have never seen
a more pointed illustration of tho injus?
tice, of majority rule than that embraced
in the figures furnished by Air. Wood, nt
a meeting of the members of thc Repub?
lican State Central Executive Committee,
from the minority Counties of the State
of Pennsylvania. In order to show the
numbor of citizens not represented in
the Legislature, ho takes his figures from
tho vote for Governor, in 1869. There
were 576,508 votes cast for Governor
290,652 Republican and 285,956 Domo
oratio, giving a Republican majority of
t,59C. Of Republican voted, in Demo?
cratic Counties, there were 113,661. Of
Democratic votes, in Republicuu Coun?
ties, there were 136,213-making 219,874
notts not represented in the Legislature. Of
the whole number of voters in tho State
of Pennsylvania, 326,634 were represent?
ed and 2-19,874 were not roprcsonted.
That is, over 43 per cent, of tho votere
were not represented in tho Legislature.
This shows the beauties of the so-culled
popular representation under the majori?
ty system.
-? -c. -c^ >
A. correspondent from this Stato, veil?
ing to the New York Herald, says:
"You can form no idea of our condi?
tion. Intelligence, patriotism and vir?
tue have no voice in the Government.
Pauperism alone ia roprcsonted, and ig?
norance, vice and corruption aro ram?
pant. Irougine your great Stato and
city, with their teeming and magnificent
rosources, immense wealth, intelligence,
patriotism and virtue, crushed and held
down by a stronger power, nt the point
of tho bayonet, nod their Government
given over to thc denizens of Fi vo Points,
ami (hoy hounded <?n by Ibo scum of thc
Old World, and you will havo only n
faint idea of our condition; for it i*
(Vor.se than even that would be, because
uv have been put nuder tho government
of au inferior race. All the ages that
have preceded us give no parallel where
it people have been hunted down and
persecuted as wo have bueu. Tho clock
of time has buen rolled back and u stuiu
put upon our Christ ian civilization. All
this has beeu brought about by a po wet
external to ourselves. In 1868 sud 1869,
I traveled ovor the North, aud converse!
freely with gentlemen ol' every shade ol
political opiuiou, by whom I was kindly
received, and I um satisfied if our real
condition was kuowu, they would not
tolerate it for n moment. Wo want no
thiug but what is right, and just. All wi
nsk is, that I he North will give tts, throng!
Congress, such a Government us the,)
would willingly live under themselves.
Is it magnanimity to the South, or 3el
justice to the North, to depress al
chances of recuperation? Let iutelli
gonce, patriotism and virtue be brough!
to tho ptirface, und let us have fair rep
resen tation.
"1 seo that Congress hus appointed 1
committee to investigate tho couditint
of atlairs in this State and report back
1 trust they will make a thorough iuves
tigutiou, aud in doing so will not cou Qui
themselves to high oUictuls, but will sent
out iuto the rural districts and invit<
gentlemen to certify, thut the muludj
may bo probed to its profoundest depth;
und bo healed."
A STATU CONS1 IT 1; r IO N A 1, CONVKNTIOS
IN PENNSYLVANIA.-In the State Senat
of Pennsylvania, Mr. Buckalow, from Mn
Committee on Constitutional Reform
lins reported a bill providing fur the call
ing of ti couveutiou to revise tho Stat
constitution' Tho oleolion for member
of tho convention is to hu held on th
Bosond Tuesday of next Juin?. Thirtj
two members ut largo and 108 dis: ru
members ure lo be chosen, of Which Ph
ladet ph iu is to huvo niqoteeu. Th
members except itt Alfrghuny and Lt
zeroe, aro to bo elected by the cumuli
tivo system.
Tia? Ka Klux Klan.
A correspondent of the Charleston
Neies writes as follows of tho origin and
aims of this mysterious organization.
Tho letter is dated Union C. H., Febru?
ary 1G:
The mystery whioh surrounds tho
movomontof tho Ku Klux Klan, has led
the superstitious to regard them aa spirit?
of thc disembodied, while tho educated,
beyond tho field of oporation, havo b' -
lieved tho wbolo story to bo a myth. Bt.t
of their existence, asan organized body
of living men, wo, who have seen them,
entertain no doubt. Of their numbers
and extent, il is impossible to speak.
Thero must bo 1,000 in a day's march of
Union. You have them, no doubt, in
Charleston, and they certainly can be
found throughout Georgia, North Caro?
lina and Tennessco. They occasionally
leavo behind them loiters explanatory of
rtheir pupose?. Those of them who op??
rate in South Carolina, say that they
want peace, but must have justice; that
\the courts are guidod by weak judges;
and jnries composed of ignorant ne?
groes; that a thief, convicted with much
cost of time, money and labor to the
prosecutor, remains at tho penitentiary
scarcely a week, and then returns home
with a pardon, prepared to steal nguiu.
Thoy say that when their race have jus?
tice, and are no longer robbed by public
thioves, their mission will end.
Thcro uro some erroneous opinions en?
tertained as to tho feelings of the people
of upper South Carolina towards the Ku
Klux. They aro not a band of cut?
throats and desperadoes, as some sup?
pose; uor, on the other baud, are they
universally approved of by tho white
people hero. They aro men of firmness
and ucrve, who strike because they be
lievo it necessary for tho protection of
their life, property and liberty; they
striko nt night, because circumstances
rcudor it imperativo. But very runny
citizens disapprove and condemn the
actsof violouce committed by tho Klan.
Wo feel tho oppression of tho present
Stato Government, but wo would not
havo it overturned with violence. "Wo
might iudulgo in hard words against th?
Ku Klux, but wo find that they despise
our strictures, and tho State ofliciula be?
lieve all of us to bo members of the
band, no matter how much we abuse it.
Noa-, sir, before wo can successfully
opposo aud cud this evil, wo must appre?
ciate tho causes. It is bad practice to
administer a remedy before wo make, a
diagnosis. If wo went back to first
causes, we would indicate the recon?
struction Acts, tho greatest political
blunder of thc century, as tho inciter of
tho Ku Klux. In our Stalo, however,
the organization would never have taken
root if we had boen spared tho lalo in?
iquitous ?lection laws, the arming of ne?
groes with guus and cartridges, (the lat?
ter being unnecessary for purposes of
drill,) the gross frauds of tho election in
October, tho numerous pardons issued
by tho Governor, aud the wholesale rob?
bery by State officials of money wrung
from our pooplo by enormous taxation.
And again, it is well known that Joseph
Crews, prominently connecied with the
State Government, honored by thc
Speaker of tho House, and tho traveling
companion of our Governor, in effect
encouraged murder, orson aud rapine,
last summer, iu Laurens. Whnt might
have been tho consequences of thal ad?
vice, it is fearful to contemplate. He
may be more successful next summer.
In September or October hist, June
Mobley, member of tho Legislature, iu
form.'d his negro friends that tcu white
men should be killed for every negro
murdered. Little did Juno then think
that his threat against our race would so
literally bo fulfilled against his own. The
animus of tho black race, and their ad?
visers towards the white people, may
bo also gathered from the murderous
plans of Crews and others, (then and
now State officials,) towards citizens ol
Union aud Laurens, ao recently exposed
through your columns by Kerrigan and
his men. It was only a further proof ol
what wo already felt, that tho white race
would be taxed out, driven out or killed
out-by negroes aud their allies-if pos?
sible.
Hort: were the causes which operated
to plant thc Kn Klux in South Carolina.
Tho murder of Mat Stevcus gave them
great strength. It was a foul murder
the foulest ever known in this Stale.
A one-armed, inoffensive white man, ol
good character, who toilod honestly for
his ?lady bread, and did harm to no one;
ho was waylaid and cruelly murdered be?
cause ho had a "white skin." Tho mur?
derers wore a body of negro militia, al
least twenty-five und moro probably forty
iu number; instigated, tho white people
of Union believe, nnd may, in time, bc
able to provo, by Elliek Walker, captain
of militia, and jillie S. Mobley, a legis
lalor. Bad as this murder was, it was ti
sign of worse things, to seo Iho entire
negro race of Union in active sympathy
with the murderers. Had it been left
with tho negroes, not one of them wonlc
havo been arrested, although they pro?
claimed their guilt wherover they went
among their own people. It is wilhir
bounds to assert that 200 negroes it
Union County wero accessories after the
fact to tho murder of Stevens, and tha
there aro not two dozen of t li at class wi H
would havo refused to shield the crimi
nais. Ten prisoners have been takoi
out. of the j iii by tho Ku Klux um
killed, nine of whom were murderers o
Stevens; thu tenth was the negro win
shot thu constable (Smith) on tho 1st da]
of January. Wo condemn the net as un
lawful and criminal, but for tho victim
wo have no sympathy. Tho negroes, 01
the contrary, regard willi iudifforeuei
the deed in the abstract; their only feel
ing is iy m pu l by for tho murdered pri
Koliei fl.
Tho manifesto left hero by tho K
Klux sufficiently explains the imm?diat
cause ol the last raid <M> OUT j til. T
lake, these prisoners-two of them red t
the elbow with the blood of Stevens-t
Columbia, where, the Legislature was i
session, oompuse?; it was believed,' c
mea in activo sympathy with the mur?
derers, was thought to be tantamount to
a release. It ?as na fortunato that Judge
Thonmo did not order the roturn to the
writ of habeas corpas to be made before
him at Utiiou, or ut his home, whiob, it
is presumed, is within the limits of his
oirouit. The letter of the Judge indi?
cates that ho would saorifloe the peace
of society here, and turn the prisoners
loose, to savo his office. The Ku Klux
thought the escapo of the prisoners
would he un evil, compared to which the
loss of Judge Thomas to the bench of
tho Sixth Circuit would bu insignificant.
Such escape would bo a wrang to their
race, and ouo of those wrongs which
could fiud redress only from their band.
They wero-under auothor mimo-a vi?
gilance committee, with this difference
j vigilance committees generally bavo thc
, tacit approval of their govornmeut; the
i Ku Klux operate upou crimes committed
by a elliss of citizens specially protected,
bciriondcd aud' honored by our State.
Tho vigilance committoe is, however, an
unlawful organization-so is tho Ku
Klux. Tho acts of the ono find an exact
counterpart in tho other; for, HO far as
known, the victims of the Ku Klux have
been bad men-dangerous citizens and
well-known murderers.
Wo aro no npologist for tho Ku Klux.
Nothing here written is an apology.
The reuder who so construes this letter
finds excuse sufficient iu whut we have
enumerated simply aa causes. We can
not excuse these self constituted avengers
of white men's wrongs. Crime begets
crime, but does not excuse it. To kill a
murderer is murder. To bo prosecutor,
judge, jury and sherill', is a fearful sin
\ a bin legally und morally, nod n sin in
His eyes to whom belongcth vengeance.
We may have no justice, but better to I
suffer aud to wait. A bad govern meut I
is better than no governmental all. In?
justice is better than anarchy. Negro
militia can never stop the evil, uo matter
how B tren g iu numbers.
Tho Columbia Union advisee* that they
bo sent, and the County taxed to pay for
them. We advise the Union to make a
calculation of tho cost 01 maintaining a
thousand soldiers for a your, and coin
pare it with the assessed value of pro- j
perty in thia County. Tho proposition
is ridiculous. Negro militia are power- !
les/* against them. They may be stop- |
pod, but only io ono way-remove tho
causes which made them fancy their
organization a necessity; restore good
government; give tho State upright aud
able judges and honest officials; stop
tho frightful expenditure of public
money in Oolumbiu; prosecute, indict
and bring to trial such men as Neagle,
Parker and Crows; disband thc negro
militia; give tho pooplo intelligent jurors,
aud lot convicts be punished, and thou
will the Ku Klux bo a thing of the past.
But let the Legislature and tho State
officials go on us they have gone on, and
the time will Boon bo when raids into
Columbia, and around that capitol build
iug, will cause our highly virtuous and
intelligent Legislature to forgot Union
and Union murderers.
Oue moro word. We aro all suspected
of active sympathy with tho Ku Klux,
bccutiso wo do uot bring tl ?fm to trial.
The thing ia impossible. They shroud
themselves iu a mystery which no one
can unravel. Whence they come, and
whither they go. no ono kuows. Their
voices aro not recognized; their horses
aro not known. They aro never aeou in
day-light; only in night. It would seem
that negroes would know when their
masters left home, aud took their horses
out of tho stable; would sometimos see
their disguises, notice the jaded appear?
ance of man aud horse after a night of
wakefulness and hard riding. But it is
uot so. No uegro knows a single mem?
ber of tho band; if they did, they would
tell it, if not here for fear, at any rnte in
Columbia. Tho whole uegro race desire
tho suppression of tho Ku Klux; but
they can muko no discoveries. Is it
singular, thou, that the white mun, who
spends his evening at home-whose
opportunities for detection ure ao much
leas-should fail lo find ont names? Wo
do not say that all condemn the Ku
Klux. Many see tho immediate good,
and think not of tho consequent evil.
But many, very many, oppose and abhor
them: deeds, committed without utiy
legal sanction, and they express their
abhorrence in nu measured terms.
This lotter has been mado too long.
Wo wrote, however, to show that the
Ku Klux were combating evils as dan?
gerous lo tho peace of society i?i the
counter evils they perpetrate; und that
these fearful counter evils were not ap?
proved of by all tho pooplo of upper
South Carolina. BRUTUS.
STILL Arran BOWES.-A parly from
Charleston has been in Augusta for thu
past two or three days, looking up testi?
mony against Congressman Bowen, iu
the bigamy cuso brought against him by
Mr?. Frances Boweu, of that oily, the
preliminary hearing of which ?H to be
iieid in Washington, on the 28th instant.
Monday, a number of highly respectable
witnesses wero summoned by Deputy
United States Marshal David Porter,
and will leave for Witshiogton on Satur?
day next.
A. copy of the original murringo licenso
granted Bowen for his marriage with
Miss Frances Hicku, bearing date Octo?
ber 31, i8i>2. hus been procured from tho
Ordinary's office, bearing tho name of
Lcou P. Diigus, Ordinary, which attests
tho original record. Tho lady in ques?
tion is now a resident of Augusta, of
most repa tu ble character and respecta?
ble connection.
Finis.-Weare informed that the dwell?
ing bouse, kitchen and corn crib of Mr.
Felix Dillard, who lives about ttvo miles
North oust of this place, were destroyed
by fire on Thursday last. Tho entire
contents were also destroyed. Tho fire,
we aro informed, waa Accidental.
[Spartanburg Spartan.
Them were 26 deaths ia Charleston
for tho week ending on the 18th instant
-*J whites und 17 colored.
LEOIOLATIVE PROGBRlMtfO*
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1871.
SENATE.
Tho Senate met at 12 M.
The following bills paseod: To permit
William L. Wood to adopt Napoleon B.
Smith, change his namo, aud make him
his heir; to incorporate the Walhalla
Hook and Ladder Company.
Tho accounts of tho Wiunsboro flews
and Fairfield Hera'.d-wvro ordered to bo
paid.
The following passed their second
reading: Joint resolution authorizing A.
R. Taylor, Henry Arthur and others to
oontinuo two gates across tho old Slate
road for a term of years; bill authorizing
tho Town Council of Newberry to erect
a market house npon a lot of land bo
longing to the County; bill to enforce
the payment of the poll tax.
A bill to establish a now judicial und
election County from portions of Edge
field, Barnwell, Orangeburg and Lexing?
ton, was made tho special order for to?
morrow, at 1 P. M.
Tho following were rend and referred:
A bill to abolish tho Sixth Judicial Cir?
cuit; and a bill to authorize Clerks of
tho Court to take testimony in certniu
cases.
A concurrent resolutiou wus sent from
tho iloii60 instructing tho Clerks of both
Houses to draw pay certificates for the
members and employees of tho Qencrai
Assembly from February 1 to March 1,
iuclusivu. Adopted.
The following passed: Bills to regulate
the mauner of drawing juries; to regulate
the grautiog of writs of J/ubcus corpus;
to enlarge and defiuo tin' powers of the
Board of School Commissioners of thc
oily of Charleston, and to authorize Hiern
to levy a tax; lo reg?lale the disposition
ot ?ties and penalties hy thc? Courts; tc
j incorporate the Union Cold Mitling Com?
pany; joint resolution to appoint trustees
of tile De La How- fret- t-chooj, m Ab
! bevillo County.
A bill to regulate tho measurement o
timber and lumber in the city of Charles
ton was indefinitely postponed.
I At 3 30 P. M., the Soneto adjourned.
I HOUSE OF RE PRES KN TAIT VES.
Tho House met at 12 M.
Tho Committee on Ways und Meaui
reported favorably on a bill to relearn
the lien of the St it?- npwi a lot of l im
in Charleston.
The special comiuiltee ti- examine tin
accounts for lining np the bull of tin
House mid committee rooms, reportei
upou the same, recommending that th
bills, amounting to the sum of $90,
550.31, be paid; nfter a lengthy dicus
sion, it was decided inndvisablo to hav
thu accounts itemized and printed; th
accounts wore ordered to bo paid. Th
debato on this matter occupied th
I grenier portion of the day.
i -
lt now appears that President Clrau
hus been carrying on a war without eve
the kuowledge, much less tho consent, c
Congress. On the 2d of December las)
Lieut. McCook, commander of th
United States steamer Nantaskot, nctin
nuder instructions fruin Grant and Baez
usod tho forces under his command t
repel an attack mado by the partisans c
Liiperon upon Puerto Plata. This fe
low Luperon is a Sau Doiningoan, wh
does not relish tho rulo of Presider
Baez, and haa taken the field aguini
him. Why the forces of tho Unite
Stu&s should espouso the causo of eithi
of those dusky warriors does not Appeal
Sau Domingo is not a part of the Unite
Statos; Baez is not a citizen of our com
try; and if Luperon should devour Bae;
or tho latter gobble the former, it is
matter that gives ns, as a nation, bl
little concern. These being tho fact
tho conduct of Grant in lending th
army and navy of tho United States to
foreign State is a gross usurpation i
power, such as was never attempted li
any former President, und should insut
his impeachment.-Pittsburg Paper.
Revels, tho negro Senator from Missi
"ippi, proved, tho other day, that ho hu
far more good souse than bis brother S
nators of the white race, by denounoiu
thc clause in the District School bi
which provided lor mixed schools. I
declared that "this effort of Legislatur
to foist social equality upon commue
ties, was the very thing that operati
disudvantageomdy to the negro race
Such fanatical fools as Sumner und W:
sou opened their eyes ut this dccluratit
from their negro peer.
ANOTHER NEGRO MINISTER.-The Pr
lident has nppoiuted Milton Turner,
colored man from Missouri, who ts qui
prominent amoug his own people iu th
Stute, Minister resident and Cousul-G
lierai to Liberia, tluiB relieving J. \
Mason, who tills tho position now. I
is tho second diplomatic reprosentntr
of color non-in thoservicoof thoUuiti
Stutos.
NEGRO KILLED.-Yesterday afternoo
about 5 o'clock, a uogro mun, employ
by tho Charlotte, Columbia mid Angil?
Railroad, foll from the dirt train, abo
two milos from tho city, and was rt
over by tho train and instantly kille
his body being cut in two.
[Augusta Constitutionalist.
It is reported that Col. E. B. C. Ca
wau called to hin door one night h
week by some unknown parties, and
soon as ho appeared ou his threshol
the robbers ordered him to give up I
money. The Colonel responded wi
his repeater and killed ono of the won!
bo robbers.
A wbitonightpolicnman, named Solu
long, assailed a colored boy in Charl
ton, with a whip, a few days ago, a
because tho boy resisted, stabbed him
the neck. Tho policeman was into:
outed, und the boy fatally injured.
At u meeting of the Typographi
Union of Washington, D.C., held
last Saturday night, n colored prin
was admitted to loomberah i p by a vi
of 223 for bis admission to GS ugainst
j Mr. Wash. Floyd, an old and. w
known plauter of Newberry Couti
' died on Suuduy morning Inst, nt ilia rt
I dence, aged 76.
Senator Robertson bas furnished co
with a copy of the following beneficent
Act, ji . passed by Congress:
AN AO* GRANTING PENSIONS TO CERTAIN
SOLDIEIIS AND SAILORS OF THE WAR OF
EIOHTERN HUNDRED AND TWELVE, AND
THE WIDOWS OF DECKA8ED SOLDIERS.
Tte il enacted by the Senate und House
of Representativos of tho United States
of Am?ricain Congress assembled, That
thc Secretary of tho Interior be, and he
is hereby, authorized and directed to
place ou the pension roil the mimes of
tho surviving officers und enlisted and
drafted men, including militia and vol?
unteers, of tbo military and naval servico
of the United States, who served sixty
days in tho war with Great Britain of
eighteen hundred and twelve, and were
houorably discharged, aud to such other
officers anti soldiers as may bavo been
personally named in nuy resolution of
Congross for any specific servico in said
war, although their term of service may
have been less than sixty days, and who
ut no time, during the lato rebellion
against tho authority of tho United
States, adhered to thc cause of tho ene?
mies of tho Government, giving them
aid and comfort, or exercised tho func?
tions of any office whatever under any
authority or pretended authority in hos?
tility to the Uuited States, and who
shall take and subscribo an oath to sup?
port tho Constitution of tho United
States; and tho surviving widows of such
officers and enlisted and drafted men:
Provided, That such widows shall have
been married, prior to tho treaty of peace
which terminated said war, to an officer,
or eulistcd or drafted mun, who served
as aforesaid in said war, and ebal) not
bavo re-married.
SEC. 2. And be il further enacted, That
ibis Act shall uot apply to any person
who is receiving a pension at the rato of
eight dollars or moro per month; nor to
any person receiving a pcustou less than
~ight dollars per mouth, except for the.
difference butweeu the pension now re?
ceived and eight dollars per mouth.
Pensions under this Act shall be at the
late of oigut dollars per month, except
.ts herein provided wheo a person is re?
ceiving a pension of less than eight dol?
lars per month, and ."-hall be paid to tin.
persons entitled thereto from and after
the passage of this Act for ard during
tho term of their natural lives.
SEC. il. And be il further enacted, That
be-fore the narnu of auy pcrsou shall ba
placed upon the pension roll under thia
Act, proof shidl bc made, limier such
niles and regulations us tho Secretary of
thu Interior may prescribe, that thc im?
plicant is entitled to a pension under the
provisions of this Aet; and nuy person
who shall falsely tako any oath required
to be taken under the provisions cf this
Act shall bo guilty of perjury; and the
Secretary of tho Interior shall causo to
bu stricken from tho pension roll tho
name of any person whenever it shall
appear, by proof satisfactory to him,
that such name was put upon such roll
through falso or fraudulent representa?
tions as to tho right of such person to a
pension nader tho provisions of this Act.
The loss of a certificate of discharge
shall not deprive the applicant of the
benefits of this Act, but other proof ol
services pei formed und of an honorable
discharge, if satisfactory, shall be deemed
sufficient.
SEC. 1. And bc il further enacted, That
tho provisions of sections twelve and
thirteen of au Act entitled "An Act sup?
plementary to an Act to grant pensions,"
approved July four, eighteen bundled
and .sixty-four, aud of sections two, three
and four of an Act entitled "Au Act sup
plemeutary to several Acts relating to
pensions," approved June six, eighteen
hundred and sixty-six, shall be applica?
ble to thc pensions granted by this Act.
Approved February 14, 1871.
A WIER'S REVENGE.-On Thursday
ovoning last, a terrible tragedy was en?
acted in Havannah, which wus tho ge?
neral topic of discussion there. Sue
Hungerford", ono of tho demi monde,
about twenty-four years of ugo, living ut
the corner of William and Funner
streets, wa? attacked by a Mrs. John A.
Staley, whose husband had been acting
as u "friend" to the girl, and cut ber
eleven times with a knife.
DIHECT FROM CHINA.-Tho Now Oi?
lcans Picayune chronicles tho arrival at
that port of tho bark Lawrence, direct
from Hong Kong and Canton, China,
with an assorted cargo of teas aud ge?
neral merchandize ot Chinese aud Ja?
panese production, destined for salo in
that markot. Tho arrival of tho Law?
rence is of significance, as ber cargo is
tho lir.it direct shipment from any of tho
numerous Chinese or Japanese porta to
any of tho Gulf cities.
Mr. Mungen, a Democratic member of
Cougrcss from Ohio, gotoft' agood thiug
in his speech on Paraguay the other duy.
He said :
"I am down on Lopez;. I am particu?
larly down on bim because hu murdered
all his relatives. Ho shot his brother,
tortured his mother, and starved bis
brother-in-law. Now, our President
dou't trout his brother-in-luw that way."
Thren or foir months ago an Italian
fisherman climbed Vesuvius aud threw
himself into tho burning crater. Since
then, five or six Neapolitans have com?
mitted suicide iu the same way, and the
Vesnvian mode of obtaining *\jrater
Lomforts" threatens to become fashiou
nblo.
An election for Intendant nud War?
dens of the town of Frog Level, on tho
17th inst., resulted as follows: David
Kibler, Intendant, and Messrs. L B.
M.iflV.tt, Dr. Wm. McFull, L. C. Kiblor
and P. E. Wise, Wardens.
MAN KILLED -Wo learn that a son of
Mr. R. B. Exum killed a mau by Ibo
nutuo of Ayeoek ' tho other dny. We
know nothing of tho oiroiimstuuces oi
ibo kiding.--.Merson Crescent.
A Vermont old mun, who was "good?
hearted wbeu not d ru uk," pointed a shot
gun at his sun. Thu boy responded with
a needle-gun and became au orphan.
Hs ?SP O ? 1 I t o m IS .
MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.-Tho Northern
mail opens at 3.30 P. M.; dosen 12.15
P. M. Charleston day mail opona 4.80
P. M. ; closes 11.30 A. M. Charleston
uigkt mail opens 8.30 A. M.; closes 6.00
? P. M. G roon ville mad opens 4.30 P.
I M. ; closes 8.30 P. M. Western mail
j opens 1.30 P. M. ; closes 1.30 P. M. On
Sun Jay office open irom 3 to 4 P. M.
PHONIXIANA.-The price of single
copies of the PHONIX ?B five cents.
Book nnd job printing of every kind
attendee! to promptly at PHONIX oflloe.
Tho proprietor of tho PHONIX-being
tho lowest bidder-was awarded the oon
traot for tho city printing, on Tuesday
night last.
The Galaxy, for March, is an excellent
number. Tho roading matter is particu?
larly interesting. The aerials, "Over?
land" and "Ought Wo to Visit nor," nre
ad van oed another stage, and there are
several other shorter stories and some
poems, which do not call for spacial men?
tion. In tho "Scientific Miscellany"
and "Nobulio" will bo found many valu?
able nnd curious facts, and some clover
comments on passing topics. Published
by Church Sc Co., Park Row, New York.
Scribner's, for March, is a number of
large nnd vuricd interest. It opens with
a second article, by I'rof. ssor Maury, on
"Weather Telegrams and Storm Pore
casts bj' the American Signal Service," in
which hu demonstrates tho law of storms,
contends that as laid down by Mr. Red?
field it holds good for general ntorru
waruieg purpose*), discusses tho origin
of cyclones, tho premonition of storms,
and tho instruments of meteorology,
giving in conclusion some recent results
and a sketch of the futuro plans of tho
signal service. There aro other topics of
interest-many of them illustrated.
Scribner & Co., New York, are the pub?
lishers.
Messrs. Armstrong, Cator & Co., tho
well-known Baltimore house, publish
their regular semi-annual announcement
this morning. Our dealers should bear
this in mind, when forwarding orders.
Iti the Court of Common Pleas, yes?
terday, the case of Scott, Williams & Co.,
vs. J. Crews, a verdict was rendered
against the latter of $3,763.60. A ver?
dict was also rendered for the defendant
in tho caso of E. S. J. Hayes ra. Scott,
Williams ?fc Co.
S. E. Gaillard, the nominee of the Re?
publican Convention, has been declared
elected Senator from Charleston by a
uinjority of about tweuty-fivo votes; but
Daddy Cain protests against tho count?
ing of tho White Oak poll, as the ballot
box, ho asserts, had been tampered with.
The tolul vote was only 5,4'?7-a great
fulling off from tho October election.
The "moon sign" ia not to bo depend?
ed upon. Yesterday wns a dull, drizzly,
cold day.
NEW BOOKS -Shakspearo's comedy of
tho MERCHANT OF VENICE, edited with
notes, by William J. Rolfe, A. M. Tois
will bc found a neat nnd handsome
edition of this well-known play of the
great dramatist. Tho copious notes at?
tached to tho play, as well as tho intro?
duction, add much interest to tho play
itself, and throw thereupon not a little
light. We commend this work to our
readers.
2. FA in FRANCE. Impressions of a tra?
veler. By the author of Jona Halifax,
Gentleman. At this time, when every
thiug connected with Frnuco is invested
with more or lesa in'ercst, this volume
will be retid with more than ordinary
pleasure. It will be found pleasant
reading. For both of theso books we
are indebted to the courtesy of MesarH.
Bryan k McCarter, who have them for
salo.
HOTEL ARRIVALS, February 22 - Co?
lumbia Hotel-W. Gurney, W. M. Bird,
S. C. Gilbert, G. H. Linftedt, P. S.
Lintenlhal, R. Lathers, F. W. Dawson,
Charleston; G. W. Auderson, S. S.
Champion; N. E. Carrol), Fort Motte;
M. C. Butler, S. C.; S. B. Olonney,
Winnsboro; T. L. Ruy. N. C.; G. H.
Porter, H. M. Cutler, New York; J. 8.
Hannah, Baltimore; J. Hollingshead, G.
B. King. Abbeville; B. Y. Sage, Atlanta;
R. A. Thompson, Walhalla; G. Capels,
Spartanburg; W. H. Brickman, S. C.;
VV. H. Hancock, Allanta; L. Ingersoll,
wife and son, New York; J. Vrooman;
Brooklyn; W. J. Mimma, Montgomery;
O. B. Bo mar, Georgia.
Nickerton House-Mrs. A. Calhouitj
Mus M. M. Calhoun, Andrew P. Cal?
houn, J. M. Selkirk. S. C.; W. W.
McGowan, Jackson; G. A. Seymour, E.
Pinaou. Quartet too; W. L. Hull, Louis?
ville; T. A. Fanning, Boston; Peter
Maequene, Chai leaton; J. B. McCauts,
L. W. Duval!, Wiunaboro; J. H. H.irri
a<m, B. Harrison, Greenville; Mr*. H.
HvaniH, Miss Hearns, Mobile; Wulluce
T?lbett, Edgefield; M. Aldrich, Spurtaii
burg; J. K. Vance, Cokesbmy; Thomas
Mahon, New York; Mrs. E. W\ Cain,
Abbeville; Mis. Nider, Baltimore; J. M.
Smith, Boston; J. H. Gay. Newborn.
LIST OP NEW Ar> VRRTISRMIUTTU.
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