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COLUMBIA. S. C.
Wednesday Kerning, May 29,1872.
We "Can't Bee lt."
The Charleston News thinks that we
can take part in the deliberations of the
Baltimore Convention on the question of
endorsing Greeley and Brown and still
not be bonnd by the decision, but that
we may be bonnd by the aotion of the
Convention, if we tako part in the nomi?
nation of candidates. This the News
pronounces "clear enough." It is not
by any means clear to ns. We are una?
ble to Bee how the nature of the ques?
tion to be decided can in any way re?
move or determine the obligation to ac?
quiesce in the will of the majority,
unless the question be one beyond the
legitimate sphere of the meeting, as set
forth in the call. What is the difforonoe
between voting for tho ooceptanoe of tho
Cincinnati nominees, and for the selec?
tion of Demooratio candidates, that the
participation in the one should entail an
obligation to abide the result, while in
the other itshonld not?
The News argues as if thoro were to
be two conventions-the one to deter?
mine whether Greeley and Brown shall
be accept ed or rejected, and the other a
sort of contingent affair, dependent
npon the action of the first, aud de?
signed to Boleot a suitable Demooratio
tioket, provided its predecessor demurs
to Greeley and Brown. There does not
happen, however, to bo any arrange?
ment of this kind. But one convention
is oalled. It is to be a Demooratio Con?
vention to determine what is the best
course to be pnrsued in the coming
Presidential eleotion for the welfare of
the country and of .the Demooratio
party. The very same delegates who
aro to discuss and determine, the ques?
tion of a coalition with the Liberal Bo
publioans, will proceed, in oase there is
a negative decision of the first question,
to select Demooratio standard bearers.
We respectfully submit to the News
that it makes a distinction without a
difference. The fact that such jophieti
cal arguments have to be resorted to in
order to justify our sending delegates to
Baltimore, shows that we cannot with
propriety do it. If we understand aright
the publio sentiment of the State, it is
opposed to the reorganization of the De?
mooratio party. The prejudices of the
colored people against that party are
strong, embittered, and beyond hopo of
removal. What folly it would be, then,
to take such steps as will sorely revive
their slumbering prejudices at the vory
crisis at whloh we are anxious to use
every meaos in our power to influence
them to give us a better Government in
the State. But, says the News, the as?
sembling in oonvention is not a perma?
nent reorganization of the party. This
means, we presume, that it is a tempo?
rary reorganization whioh is aimed at.
If it iatiot a good thing to have, we pre?
fer not to have it at all, neither perma?
nently nor temporarily. There is no
way to esoape the conclusion, that if a
Demooratio Executive Committee, as
such, issues a call whioh is responded to,
and a oonvention assembles and takes
action pursuant to the call, there' is,
ipso facto, a rebrganization of the party.
Furthermore, it most be plain that if
they rio not go as Democrats, our dele?
gates have no right to a seat in the Bal?
timore Convention, which is Democratic.
Simple opposition to tho Radical faction
of tho Republican patty cannot furnish
a sufficient qualification for membership
of the Baltimore Convention. If that
were true, then Greeley, Sohurz, Trum?
bull, and all the other Liberal Republi?
cans, mast be allowed to take part in the
proceedings or to have their representa?
tives there. Ours is quite a different
ease from that of the Conservatives of
North Carolina and Virginia. They aro
Democrats in national politics, and ex?
pect to aot with that party, and to abide
whatever decision may be made at Balti?
more. We propose to aot with perfect
independence of the Demooratio party
or the Baltimore Convention. If that
body aots as we think beet for the coun?
try, and know to be best for Son th Caro?
lina, we will be gratified. If it does not,
and adopts some other course, we have
not the remotest idea of agreeing to it.
To som np, we maintain that for South
Carolina to send delegates to Baltimore
would be improper, unwise and useless.
Improper because we have no Demoora?
tio party, and do not propose to have
one;unwise because it will prejudice the
oanse of Greeley and Brown with the
colored people, and, what is worse, im?
pair oar influence for reform in the State
Government; and nseless because Gree?
ley and Brown will, in all probability,
be endorsed any way, and because South
Carolina would exert equal, if aot greater,
influence ia that direction by remaining
away than by cae ting the few votes to
whioh she is entitled.
Twisted hemp cures felons.
\Vh?t Does Tilla Mean?
We are creditably informed that Se?
nator Nash, In the oonrse of his epueoh
before the Republican Club of Ward 2,
on the evening of the 27th instant, made
the following declaration: "Thu Repub?
lican party must be sustained, if it cost the
life of every so-called land-owner in the
country." The Union tells ns that Sena
tor Nash made a fanny speech. If the
above was meant for fun, it is certainly
0 very grim way of joking. We have
never known Beverly to be belliooso be
fore, bot this is considerably ahead of
even the incendiary remarks attributed
to the worst of the white Radicals in the
campaign of 1868. Beverly NaBh is a
delegate to the Philadelphia Convention,
and is among the prominent leaders of
the colored Be publicans in the State.
Suoh an outrageous and barbarous sen?
timent as the above from him should not
pass nnrebuked.
There are 106 Democratic Representa?
tives in Congress, and a change of nine
teen is all that is required to givo Demo?
crats the oontrol of the HOUB?. The
support by the Demooraoy of the Libe?
ral Presidential tioket will naturally have
the eSeot of increasing our Congressional
representation. Let the Democrats but
do their duty, and the day is at hand for
the restoration of constitutional govern?
ment.
Among the other reasons given by the
Arkansas Liberals, at their convention
in Little Book, last Thursday, for repu?
diating Grant and supporting Greeley
is, that the former has "intermeddled
with Arkansas affairs in the interest of
crime and disorder." Yet the advocates
of the Ku Klux bill pretend that tho
object of that infamous measure is to
enable the President to maintain law
and order at the South.
ALL IN BUT ONE.-The Senate, a few
weeks sinoe, was made complete by tho
swearing in of Gen. Ransom, of North
Carolina, and the admission into the
House of Mr. Sion H. Bogers, a Repre?
sentativo elect from North Carolina,
whose disabilities were romoved by the
amnesty bill, leaving but one vacancy in
the representation in the House; the
only District in the United States not
represented being tho Seventh Massa?
chusetts District, no successor having
yet been ohosen to Hon. George M.
Brooks, who resigned to accept the office
of Judge of the Probate Court of Bos?
ton. There are now 106 Democratic
members ia a House of 243. A change
of nineteen members only would give
1 them a majority. The House to be
eleoted this fall, with the now apportion
tionment, as increased by the supple?
mental bill, will consist of 293 members.
OFFICE OF SPECIAL COMMISSION EH,
U. S. CLAIMS COMMISSION,
COLUMBIA, 8. C., May 28,1872.
MR. EDITOR: The Commissioners of
CM ai m H have granted the following in?
creased jurisdiction to Special Commis?
sioners, which many claimants will be
glad to learn:
. ?* * ? Hereafter Special Commis?
sioners will be authorized to take depo?
sitions in cases amounting to not more
than 85,000 in amount, aa heretofore in
oases amounting to $3,000, or less. In
cases between $5,000 and $10,000, Spe?
cial Commissioners will be allowed to
take depositions when specially directed
to do BO by the commissioners, and in
suoh cases they will reoeive special in?
structions, and then, and then only, they
.may take the depositions. ? **,?* Re?
spectfully, yours,
T. W. PABMELE.
Special Commissioner.
THE MICHIGAN DUMOCRACT.-OU the
22d instant, a largely-attended meeting
of the Democratic Association of De?
troit, Michigan, the only regular Demo?
cratic organization in that place, was
held at the board of trade hall, having
beon called for the purpose of consider?
ing matters pertaining to the coming
Presidential campaign. Tho attendance
was quite large, and inoluded suoh men
as William A. Moore, one of the mem?
bers of the National Demooratio Com?
mittee, Wm. W. Wheaton, Chairman of
the State Central Committee of the
State, ex-M?yor Mille, ex-President of
the Common Council; Dr. Wm. Brodie,
and others, acknowledged leaders ol the
Sarty in that oity. Mr. Moore presided,
everal speeches were made, all breath?
ing the same spirit, favoring the burial
of dead issues and uniting with the
Liberal Republicans of the country in
redeeming the Government from mis?
rule. Resolutions were adopted en?
dorsing the Cincinnati platform, and
pledgiog support to the nominees of the
Baltimore Convention.
Too GOOD TO BB LOST.-It is rumored
by the quid nunca that when bis Excel?
lency the Governor read the letter of
Representativo Harley, declining to
favor the calling of the extra session of
the Legislature, he remarked, after knit?
ting his brows over it awhile, "Well, I
really believe Tim. is trying to pole? fan
at me," Just at that moment, the by?
stander laoghed, in a way that was truly
provoking.-Charleston Courier. "
The German army is to be furnished
with a rifle of a new pattern, said to be
aa improvement on the old noodle-gun,
and greatly superior to the ohassepot.
..Despotism, Corruption, Nepotism sad
Incapacity."
Snob, axe the leading articles of accusa?
tion in the indictment against Grant and
his administration, recently drawn np
by one of his former friends and sap
porters in a neighboring State, and
whioh carried the thousands of similar
disgusted Republicans to Cincinnati.
For the charges thus made are suscepti?
ble of the plainest proof, and as palpa?
bly perceptible as the light of day.
Never since the formation of this Go?
vernment has there been at the same
time so.rotten and corrupt and so cynical
and shameless an administration of the
Government, both in its greedy lunt of
the profits and jobs procurable through
high position, nud the utter disregard of
publia policy for private ends.
Let as take up those charges mado
against Grant by his Republican friends,
who held a coroner's inquest over his
body at Cincinnati, and seo whether
they be merited or not. And first as to
the despotism. Is it not undeniable
that this has been and is a shoulder-strap
Administration, from his personal at?
tendants nt or noir tho White House,
who aro all Generals and wear the army
livery, as well as the President-giving
an air of encampment to tho Presidential
mansion-down to his military satraps
whom he has procured to be returned to
the Senate from States he has not recon?
structed in the South?
Has not the military ring at Washing?
ton become as notorious and as nauseous
to tho public as evor was the deceased
Tammany ono it has imitated and sur?
passed in the practice of publio plunder?
ing? Has not despotism stamped every
act of the stolid soldier, who baa tried to
play statesman, but has only succeeded
in acting tyrant? The mingled chorus of
groans and ourses which bas como up
from the persecuted and plundered
South during his three years' reigu of
terror over that section, eau best respond
to that inquiry.
Nay, passing from that conquered pro?
vince, (aB he regarda it,) coming North,
do we not see tbe manifestations of Ins
desire and intention to aot the despot,
trampling upon the cardinal doctrines of
his own party, and suppressing "free
soil, freo men aud free speech," when?
ever he bas tho power?
Nor, content with this, has ho re?
frained from assailing States' rights, as
well as individual, and the "growing en?
croachments of the executive power"
have formed the thorne of eloquent ex?
postulations from Republican Senatore
on the floor of Congress.
As oar ancestors said of a previous
despot, against whom they successfully
rebelled: "A monarch, who has commit?
ted acts like these, is unfit to be the
ruler of a free people"-yet he was ac?
knowledged as a king!
The second charge is corruption
Here "the offence is rank, and smells tc
Heaven." It would be as absurd as idU
to produce proofs or cite instances ic
confirmation of a fact so notorious, anc
already so repeatedly proven against the
President and his olique, who control
the policy and share the plunder, tbrougt
which, in three years' time, coming inte
office ns poor as Pharaoh's lean kine,
they now lard the lean earth with theil
fatness; and beooming insolent witt
prosperity, like Jeshurun's ass, "wax fa
and kick," crying aloud, "Great ii
Grant, and our profits; shoot tho de
sertersl"
Against the charge of nepotism-thi
gorging of the whole house of Cirant
with Dent attachments, with the fa
drippings from the Presidential larder, i
were equally idle for any of his partisani
to make denial. The record proves th<
fact, and the long list of family pension
ers, like the royal line of Banquo, seemi
to the astonished gazer, as it passes it
review under his eye, to "stretch out tc
the crack of doom."
Net otherwise much mindful of th<
Scriptural precepts. Grant certainly ha:
obeyed, and exceeded, the admonitioi
to "provide for his own household" a
publio expense. On the general obargi
of gross incapacity, his whole policy
foreign and domestic, convicts him. Hi
bas neither succeeded at home in rican
structing the Southern States, whioh hi
has given up as a prey to his militari
and carpet-bag jackals, nor in his fo
reign policy, which has been a scries o
bullrings in the beginning and bucking:
out in the end. .
Witness this last most humiliating
conclusion of the English treaty, when
the preliminary roaring of the lion hai
toned down into the whining of tbi
wbipt our, and oar country stands bu
miliatod by boastful threats succeedci
by unqualified surrender.
Well may England address our Presi
dont in the language of her Shakspeare
"On, doff tho lion's hido,
And hang a calf skin
On those rooreant limbs."
To have set up those high pretension)
in the first place was a folly und a fraud
but ignominiously to abandon and re
treat from their enforcement, undei
throats, was sadder still for the peoph
this Administration misrepresents. In
oapaoity bas been stamped on each anc
every aot of thia feeble but despolio Ad
ministration. It has proposed or at
tempted nothing whioh baa succeeded
what it has originated ha? been wiokec
and mischievous, and it has only beei
noted for the four characteristics whiol
figure in the bill of indictment agains
it qaoted above.
To perpetuate suoh a state of thing
and renew for four years, more a roi
like this, would arguo on the part of tin
American people a fatuity and a frenz;
whioh would be the forerunners of th
dissolution of oar free Government.
No people having due respect for itsel
or ita liberties or honor, could possibl;
tolerate the continuance of a state o
things whioh has disgraced and lowerei
the Amerioan name in the eyes of it
own people and of foreign nations, mat
voling that so great a body should hav
so small a head.
Bat we have a remedy here in th
peaceful revolution wrought through th
ballot-box at tho expiration of every
four years' term, and the days of power
and plunder for the Washington ring
and its head are already numbered.
Tbe Oinoinnati Convention has pealed
i the death knell, the funeral ceremonies
will take plaoe on the 7th of November,
and the reign of despotism, nepotism,
corruption and incapacity will Boon pass
only into a disagreeable mnmory, under
the better hopes and brighter auspices
which a renewed era of good fooling is
to usher in.-New York News.
Wax Bu ii NEVEB MABBIED.-Mrs.
Slimper said it was because ebo ooold
get no one to have her, but Mrs. Slimper
did not know, and then besides, ia the
little village where they roeided, folks
did say that Mrs. Slimper need not
boast, because what was Mr. Slimper,
anyhow? nothing but an excuse for a
man, who had been refused by every girl
in the village in rotation, and had turned
in very desperation to M?SB Jane Gibba,
she was theo, and not so young, either,
Heaven knows; and she had aoceptcd
him, but Slimper had often wished be?
fore bis life was worried out of him by
that woman that RUO had followed suit
and said no, too.
She died ono day, nil alone in the still?
ness of her room, with no one nigh but
the angola to sooth her last moments,
and yet there clung around her * s-juse
of peace, and the hard-drawn mouth bud
relaxed and was wreathed in a emile
such a proad nnd happy smile. Her
face was turned toward a picture on tho
wall-a picture of a coblo, handsome
looking fellow-and one baud roached
out to it, on the bony fore-finger of
which glistoned u largo solitaire diamond
ring, making a weird and strange con?
trast.
On the floor, beneath tho picture, lay
a piece of faded black crape, which bad
fallen from tho frume, around which it
had been twined, probably torn from
thence, who knows, by angel bands, so
that it would not inf erf ero with ber last
fond look at tho face within it. They
found her thtiR, and her ouly friend, uu
old gray-bearded man, the sexton of the
place, was called to see her. He en?
tered, and gently murmuring, "Ho hus
come for her at last," hu went to the bed
on which she lay, and with a trembling,
tender hand, arrunged the withered form.
They buried her. A few of the kinder
hearted villagers followed her to the
grave and saw her placed from sight,
und then they loft; not ouo remained,
not ODO save the old sexton, who leaned
upon bis spade, and murmuring again,
"She has come ut last," gazed sorrow?
fully on the grave. 'Twas thus we found
him, and in the fullness of his heart he
told us of her.
Years ago, he said, thirty long years
ago, sko was a winsome lass, and the
pride and belle of tho village-a prize
that all tho gay lads of the time strove
to win, but without success. But one
day-here his voice sunk low-but one
day, there came to the village, from
wbence no one knew, a daring, hand?
some maa, whose winning ways and
straight-forward manner made him a fa?
vorite with all the lassies, and he won
the heart of "our birdie"-that is what
they called ber then. Ho was a proad
and happy man, and valued his treasure
at full value, if that were possible; and
that he loved her, none oould doubt,
when looking into his bright blue eye
and hearing him breathe her name. All
went well; he gave her the ring we
buried with her. All went woll, till one
day there came by the stngn a oouple of
lynx-eyed, determined-looking men, one
of whom went to him, and tupped him
on the shoulder and simply said, "I
want you." He turned deadly pale, and
threw his hand to his forehead, and
would have fallen, had not the man that
bad spoken to him caught him, and sus?
tained him until ho recovered himself.
He said never a word, but walked away
between the two with a firm and manly
step, but with a faoe as white as death.
It leaked out after awhile that the two
men were detectives, and that he was
arrested for forgery. He sent for her
before they took him off, bot what he
Kind no one ever knew. When he left he
waved his hand from the sta go coach
wiodow, and said: "I will come for you,
my little one; wait until I do." And
she, with a proad, confiding look which
showed no matter what the world might
think, sho would never believe him
guilty, firmly and proudly replied, "I
will." Bat he never came again. They
found him gailty; they pat him in prison
for a number of years and there he died.
She waited for him long and faithfully,
even after they told her he was dead; but
as I said he never came until the other
night, and then she went to Heaven with
him.
OOT wrm THU DRY BONES -Thimble
rigging politicians of the Vorhees-Bel
mont Stephens School, would sacrifice
the welfare of a whole nation, in order
to keep their skeleton of a party from
tumbling to pieces. We say let her
tumble. The Democratic is as dead os
the Republican party; they both have
died a natural death; and there is no
power under Heaven to resurrect their
dry bones. The sooner the debris is
swept from tao political arena, the better
for the country. Old Horace, with the
broom of Liberalism, will begin the
sweeping the next 4th of March, and
we'll have a eleanor and a nioer govern
meiit.-Rock Hill Lantern.
Mr. Disraeli, the author of "Lothair,"
was present at the recent marriage of
the Marquis of Bute, the hero of "Lo?
thair," and signed his name to the mar?
riage certificate as one of the witnesses
of the ceremony.
ARKANSAS FOB GREELEY.-The Repub?
lican State Convention, which met last
week, deolinod to sond delegates to the
Philadelphia Oonvontion, and adopted
resolutions fully endorsing Greeley and
Brown.
The largest aqueduct in the world is
the Croton aqueduct in New York. It
cost S12,500, OOO.
Eiooal Ito rn ?ai.
? ? .
O ITT MATTHUS.-The price of single
copies of the PHOENIX is five cents.
The contraot for the erection of the
monument to the Confederate dead, in
Charleston, has been awarded to Messrs.
Heath & Roberta, atone masons of this
city, for the sum ol $2,700. These gen?
tlemen are competent workmen, and
will, no doubt, perform their work to
the satisfaction of all. The monument
will be of native granite.
A caso of mistaken identity occurred
in au ico cream saloon, in this city, on
Monday afternoon. When the faots be?
came known, ample apologies were made
and acoepted.
I Skiff & Gaylord's highly popular
minstrel band givo two exhibitions in
Irwin's Hall, commencing Friday even?
ing, May 31. The entertainment is
varied and pleasing.
The genuine Greeley hats will be on
eulo at Swaffield'e in a few days. Due
notice will bo given of their arrival.
M. H. Burry has commenced opera?
tions on his new building, next door to
Major Meigban's.
Proper sanitary regulations should not
bo neglected. "An ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of cure." Bead tho
ordinance to establish a Board of Health.
The following is tho programme of
music, for this afternoon, by the baud of
th? 18:h Infantry:
Coucordia Quiokstep-F. Goetz.
Overture Caliph de Bagdad-Baildiew.
KiH8 Wallz-Ardity.
Cavt?iua Lucretia Borgia-Donizetti.
Flyiug Cloud Galop-F. Goetz.
MAIIJ ARUANQEME??TS.-The Northern
mail opens at 2.30 P. M.; closes 10.45
A. M. Charleston day mail opens 4.30
P. M.; closes 6.00 A. M. Charleston
night mail opens 7.15 A. M.; closes 6.00
P. M. Greenville mail opens 6.45 P.
M. ; closes 6.00 A. M. Western mail
opona 12.30 A. M.; closes 12.30 P. M.
Wilmington mail opens 2.30 P. M.:
doses 10.30 A. M. On Sunday office
open from 3 to 4 P. M.
PHCENIXIANA.-Why is a sheet of post?
age-stamps like distant relatives? Be?
cause they are bat slightly connected.
The tourist's best motive for traveling
-a locomotive.
What is that which works when il
plays and plays when it works? A foun?
tain.
A rare flower-the pink of politeness.
Uncomfortable snits to wear-libel
suits.
How to prevent bad dreams-don't gc
to sleep.
How to save your coal-bara nothing
but wood.
The Illinois farmers are discouraged
their cora crop is so great.
"You're a queer chicken," as the her
said when she hatched out a dock.
If a man doesn't take care of No. 1 hi
will soon have 0 to take care of.
There have been more fashionable
ladies dyed during this year than ever.
Dying Frenchmen make wills be
queatbing their sins to Prussia.
The first new baby in Cairo since thi
Cincinnati Convention has been namec
Horace Greeley Comings.
Tho Boston Post says "Senator Wilso:
is indeed to be pitied." Then, let it bi
done by the small-pox.
The words Dolly Varden may now bi
fouud in every printer's "save galley,1
but not in tho dictionary.
Papers whioh part their names in th
middle: The Chicago Inter-Ocean and tb
Louisville Courier-Journal.
FIRE.-The alarm of fire last even in;
was caused by an aooident in the celia
of Mr. Niles G. Parker's residenoe, oi
Assembly street, near Taylor. Mr
Plumer was putting up one of the ma
chines manufactured by the Columbi;
Portable Gas Company, and in the ooma
of his operations, overturned a can o
gasoline. He struck a match, short);
afterwards, and the gas arising from th
liquid ignited, when the whole machin?
was immediately enveloped in flames
bot it passed through the ordeal un
scathed, thus proving what has beet
justly claimed for it-non-explosiveness
It is quite a feathor in the oap of th
manufacturera of the machines. We re
gret to learn that Mr. Plumer, and hi
son, who was assisting him, were se
verely burned on their hands, arms am
faoe.
The journeyman printers of Bostoi
and vicinity have inaugurated a move
ment looking towards the support am
eleotion of Greeley and Brown, whiol
they will labor to make general arnon,
the mombers of the craft throughout th
country. It is thus far confined to th
newspaper workmen; bat the idea is t
embrace all branches of the professioi
who desire to seo one of their cumbo
placed at the head of the nation. At th
preliminary meeting, all the offices ii
the city were represented, tbe larges
number present from any single esta
blishment being from the office of a re
contly established and Radical Gran
organ.
TIGHT BOOTS.-Of ?ll idiots he'll one
of the greatest who willingly lends him?
self to the attempt of wearing a boot or
shoe about two sizes too small for his
feet, giving to himself, forsooth, as a
reason, that a weakness, common to hu?
manity, leads him to redaoe the size of
feet which nature has made so Tory large
that "truly he is ashamed of them." Let
him who has suffered a martyrdom to
this absurd and foolish pride say whe?
ther the small gratification to his feel?
ings has balanced the hours and days of
misery spent in hobbling about, wishing
a thousand times in his heart that "some?
body had kioked him before he made
such a fool of himself;" yet the chances
are ten to one that ho will do the same
thing again when occasion offers.
A viotim to this infirmity for the
ninety-ninth time has finally determined
to swear off forever, and apo the man?
ners of sensible men, but desires to de?
liver a parting wail which he dares to
hope may prove a warning to many to
"flee from the wrath to come." "Of
conree it isn't my fault if my feet are
big, and I suppose I ought to be philo?
sophical and accept as a dispensation
what nature has overdone for me, but
when will men learn to be philosophers
unless they can be so without any sacri?
fico on their part? Number nine is about
my size, and with a brogan of such di?
mensions I might get along quite com?
fortably, but how I would look going
about town with such immense projec?
tions tacked on to the ends of my lege,
for I couldn't well get rid of the idea
that I would be a marked individual
wherever I might go, and even if I
couldn't hear the remarks "look at them
feet," I would at least imagine that they
were being made, and therefore the con?
s?quences would be all the same. I
know, too, that a fellow with big feet
can never expect to find much favor with
girls of a turn of mind artistic, to the
truth of which I eau testify through a
bitter experience, full of mortifications.
I well remember once that at a party np
town I was having a charming tete-a-tete
with a girl on whom I was sweet, when
a gent, in walking past, stumbled over
my feet, end, aching from the pain in?
flicted on my biggest corn, I exclaimed,
"Can't you hove a care?" "Well," said
he, "thia room is a small one, and them
feet don't leave a fellow muoh space."
Of course everybody laughed, and I felt
Eo mean that I loft as soon as I could,
having ever since been ashamed to look
at the girl who seemed so delighted at
my humiliation.
Some evil-minded chaps tell a villainous
story about having experimented with
one of my shoos, by dropping it from a
third-story window to the banquette. It
ia said that the article in question went
crushing through the earth, leaving a
hole of bottomless depth, and suggest?
ing the propriety of making of the
cavity an artesian well. Spurred by
such recollections, I determined, como
what would, that I would get "them"
number nine feet into number eight
shoes, and accordingly I purchased a
pair of the latter size, and, despite the
warnings and protestations of Crispin,
insisted on wearing them and none
others, "if they killed me."
Alan! could I have foreseen the days
of anguish and suffering in store for me,
I would have paused ere I took a step,
the mere recollection of the conse?
quences of which even now make me
turn pale. ?
My first day's experience closed on a
mournful record of mental anathemas
against everybody and everything,
slightly mingled with heroic determina?
tions to stand it for a few days, until
the darn things got "broke in." The
morning of the second day was a beauty;
but its loveliness was lost on me, os,
with many a swear and tear, I finally got
into those shoes, and thereafter limped
and hopped all over town, torn by physi?
cal throes, compared to which, in my
fevered imagination, a life-time on the
rack would be bliss. On the third day
matters grew worse, and it seemed that
the confounded shoes were constantly
growing smaller, while at the same rate
my feet were growing larger, until,
nerved to a piton of desperation, I re?
solved to tear from tho misery to which
I had oondemned myself, heedless of all
consequences to pride or anything else,
thinking of nothiog bnt of a way to
escape the horrors of tight shoes.
The fourth day saw me a happy man,
as in a spirit of calm resignation I grab?
bed those ill-fated shoes and gave them
away to an incipient darkey, remarking
to him incidentally, "They have caused
me many an unhappy hour; may yon
never know Bach misery," and as I gazed
into the depths of his soul, I knew in
that moment that I was free.
HOTEL ABBIVALS, May 28, 1872.-Oolumbia
Hotel-ii B umith, W K Anderson, J W Bruff,
Md; W J Brittian. lt W Bloom, Now York; A F
Broda-ille, W, O A A lt lt; MW Qarov, Edge
deld; Dr and Mrs DeUossett, Miss S H Gowan,
8 Haas, NO; JW O'Brien, Charleston; D M
Cobb, P P 0 Co; J A Malry, Tenn; H D Gil?
bert, Wilmington; ? H brooks, J E Tharne?,
8 O; 0 Well?, Pa; P B Whlsnant, N O; Wm 8
Green, Va; J U Averill, Branchville: W J
Crosswell, B 0; Mr and Mr? E W Meroe?,
England.
dickerson Iloute-Miss MoDnffy and sister.
Master MoDuffy, Ga; J 8 Harmal, Baltimore;
F D Boah, Pendleton; H Chatham, Flat Book;
E W averian and wife. 80; J B Brown, Mas?
ter Brown, Florida; W H Tresoott Pendleton;
G Patterson, Wilmington; F Goott and wife,
NY: B P Hammett. Greenville; J I Lowry,
York; W Johnston, J B Davidson, Mrs J M
Jones? Charlotte; W T Batt, Augusta; 0 Ri?
ver?, Book Hill; J Taylor, Muse? A and 0
Tailor, Mobile; Mr Rutledge, Miss Rullodg?
and servant, Charleston; J M Soi g lor, New?
berry.
IiTST OF NSW ?DVBBTiaKiiEKTS.
E. Williams-Notice.
Meeting Democratio Club.
Skiff & Oailord-Irwin Hall.
T. P. Walker-Notice. '
Peixotto & Sou-Auction.
A modest Buffalo girl recently had
2,000 photographs of herself struok off.