The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, August 01, 1872, Image 2
COLUMBIA? ;&[C.
For President of the United States.
HORACE OHf??fiK?ttlr. br New York.
., ?J For^e-President '
B. OR4TZ BttOWS, o? ?to>Bil. ?
Til? Itu Klux OatrsitM.
The Union speaks often and with muet
seeming horror of th?* "terrible ont
reges", which have been oatmmttted bj
the Ea Klux. -There is no telling'whore
the Union would Btop if its wild imagi?
nation were not .stayed now and then Itv
its "Ea Klux iriund." Borne time since,
wbilo in ono of its mauufaoturiug moodf
-for the Union is a great mannfaoturei
ajr?^nllitflry: pro?eetionis*-it alluded^
xiilh 'great patboajlto .tho''"thousands ol
victims who ?ll bloody graves." Thil
was a pretty rapid stride, even for thc
Union, and we began to suspect, righi
away, that onr Eu Klux martyr had been
adding to his outrage manufacturing
machinery, in anticipation of a heavy
press of business daring the Presidential
campaign. So we set about to ascertain,
if possible, what genuine and original
materials these "thousands of viotimti"
bad been made from. We had been told
by ? reliable gentium au, who had takeu
the trouble >ta go through th?v?lumiuout
testimony1; takeu in thu Ku Klux oases,
and printed foy the Union, that f oar toen
was the oqt^tdp number of bomioidos
referred to by ?ny and all the witnesses.
We called appa the Union then to name
twenty homiouloa, .which had-.boen com?
mitted byihalEoi Klux as each, except
the men who were taken from the jai]
at Union and executed by Lynch law,
Two or three days thereafter, tho UAior
replies with a list "hastily thrown to?
gether from memory," comprising just
even twenty names,, and.challenges as tc
deny a ?ingle oae ot. thom. Kere'is thc
list:
Mao Bobo, Union Gonn ty, February
1871; shot, disembowelled, his body
filled with stones and'thrown into Broad
Biver.
Alfred Owens, a TrialJustico in Unior
County, Majjpb, 1871; taken .from hu bec
at night;!??al??idtally m?rdorod in hil
Tiimtm^waroHuhion County, abou
the same jime.. ; :
Lewis Thompson, a oolored preaoher
shot, dtsf?m;bo\v5ll"ed " and other wis?
shamefully mn ti lited 'in ?manner wbiot
deoenoy forbids as to describe, Jane
1871.
Strap Jeffers, Union County, January
187?;' Wallace Pgfcf?r. lUh?o.njdoaaty
May, 1871; Thomas Roundtree, Yorl
County, December, 1870; Matthe?
Boyoe, York County, March, 1871; Lo
Campbell, York County, April, 1871
Anderson Brown, York County, Feb ru
ary, 1871; Harry Miller, York County
March, 1871; Jim Williams, York Coan
ty, March, 1871; Alexander Leech, Yorl
County, Maroh. 1871; Charles Good
York County, March, 1871; Sam. Soaife
York County, Maroh, 1871; Eli MoOol
lum, York County, Maroh, 1871; Isau
Coles,, Lancaster . Oounty, Apr i 1, 1871
Mr. Rob ort Melton ?nd < M rsi Melton
(his wife,) Chesterfield Oounty, April
1871; Wade Darby, Chester County
March, 1871.
T(tjsj$jy fpe ^rtjion,'."includes non
of your - pretended Lynch. law, exoep
tiona." If it does not, it comps hex
door to it: The list includes One/'l
least, who should be excluded on th
same gronpds as the exception? whio
we.made. . . f
Since thia list waa published, we;bav
been told -by a gentleman from Unip
that Mao Bobo, who heads it, macje "hi
escape'from Union jail the night thc
the Mat. Stevens marderers were ehe
or hang, and that he was afterward
caught and , killed on Broad River. H
was about as fit a subj eot for Lynch la
as the Stevens mur dor ora. / He ha
barned the dwelliog-house, smoke-hone
end all tho out-houses of a JMr. Este
leaving him. and hie family without
shelter; had acknowledged bis orimi
and boasted that he couldn't bo pnnishe
loir it. So maoh for Mao Bobo. Sorel
his death,' Mr. Union, was not, a E
Klux outrage, in the sense in which yo
wonld have them ihterpre^pd^/Whioh
wilful ai 1 malicious murdos, Mth pol
tical animosity as th? motive.
As to tho balance of the li?t, wo recoj
niee the greater part of the names i
those upon whloh pto^eouliopa ha\
been based in the United'Stetes Court
Borne of the names wer have ?never sec
or heard of aa being those'of persoi
killed by the Ka Klux; but wo know n
thing of them, and, therefore, will m
undertake positively to. deny that the
were to killed. . How, though, Mr. Un io
are we or the .pubjia generally to knoi
from aught that you ? have Bhown aa
your ar tide, or anywhere else* that son
of the names of these unknown inda
duals were not shoved in to make up tl
even twenty,, qr that, in throwing the
together :''hastily from memory," y<
did not make come mistakes?
By-tbe-way, Mr. Union, you mn
have a remarkable memory. When oi
reads that list over, with all these quo
names-Strap, EH, Lot, Bobo, Seo.
and sees kow you *'hastily" threw snob
' a list of ihcm together from "momo?;,"
giviDg the y*ar, and ev^a ts? ason^, in
which eaoh ono was kihed, ibero ?ieca?
pomothiDg akin to mcigio in the'rart
powers y?u possess. Your wonderful
' Beif-depial, too, should not pass ion
) praised. Though Major Merrill, thc
?great Ku Klux prosecutor, and whe
knows, probably, moro about the 'tout
rages" than any other person, wai
, ploaoted with you in your office tho ver3
j eveni?g-beforo th?B list was published,
and ? nxesumahly at--tho very timo, yoi
w'e'r'e proparihg "it, yet you rew?lnec
from calling upon bibi, and trusted en
tirely'lo "throwing it together hastily
from m?mory." Truly, you are a won
derful mani
But to our main subject. There an
tho names of two persons, Mr. Union, ii
your list, which we do deny to have beet
murdered by Ku Klux. They are Mr
and Mrs. Melton, of Cheater field. Theirs
if the accounts we have heard of it b<
true, and we have no reason to doubt it
was a most dastardly and brutal murder
bat what authority have you for sayinj
that Eu Kjax committed tho deed, 01
that there ever was a Ku Klux Klan it
Chesterfield County? -
Wc have heard of kiana, or bodies o
men, armed and in disguises, ia thc
Oounties of York, Chester, Fairfield
Union and Spartanbnrg. We have neve:
heard of any iu the other twenty-six oi
seven Counties of tho State, and cer
toinly not in Chesterfield County. Mr
Melton was, we have heard, a Bepnbli
oan, and we are inclined to believe wai
assaulted and murdered on account o
his political opinions. Suoh being thi
case, his murderers are proper subject
of punishment under the Enforcemen
Acts of Congress, which is more thai
oan be said of many others.
This article is already drawn ou
longer than we like, bat before we close
Mr. Union, we desire to say a few word
in relation to what you term our sympa
thy with, and defence of, Ku Klux out
rages. We justify none of the murder
whiob have been oommitted, but we ex
ouse or apologise for, if , you like tha
term battery; dome of the homicide
which have boen committed, and whiol
you term Ku Klux outrages. Suoh, fo
iuBtanoe, as tho execution of tho mm
dorera of Mat. Btovens, the hanging c
Jim Williams, and the killing of Ma
Bobo, perhaps, and one or two otheri
It is a miserable state of affairs, whe
the people have to take the law in tbei
own hands, and suoh a course shoal
not be resorted to exaept under the mot
dire necessity. Saoh neoessity, we b<
lieve, existed io the caaes we have mei
tioned.
The Ka Klux, then, in our judgmon
did some things which were necessary I
be doue,: and are, therefore, excusable 1
to them. They afterwards oommitted
number of inhuman atrocities for whic
there ?&. noi excuse, and they deserve tl
foll punishment of the law ihereio
Tho original purpose of the organizatio
.called Ko?Klux was manifestly to seri
tho leo?s of., a vigilance committee, i
order to proteot Ufo and property, g
long as it followed that line, and the:
was a necessity for it, tho laws not bfM'r
daly administered by.the proper oour
of justice, it was d'efenrnble; when it f(
from that high-estate and became the i
s tr a mont morely of private and politic
revengo and malice, it became indefeni
ble, ; and ita nets may, with truth, 1
balled outrages.
ht But wo do not mean to allow you, ii
Union, or your, party in this State, wa
toniy to exaggerate the twelve or foo
teen murders which were oommitted
the Stato, foul though they be, in
"thousands," and thus attempt to justi
the tyrannical nota ol Gen. Grant, i
your testimony.before the courts abc
only fourteen murders. No effort w
made to bring the offenders to justioe
the State courts, nor even by the cr
authorities in the United States Oour
For fourteen murders, then, and whe
there had been no resistance whatever
oivil authority, the writ of Jiabeas corp
was suspended and nine Oounties of t
Stato, in several of whioh a Ku Kl
Klan had never been seen, were puto
der martial law.
Finally, Mr. Union, you lay gr?
stress upon the fact that a largo numb
of ignorant white men, nine-tenths
whom could neither read Dor writ
plead guilty before a "packed jury am
court organized to oonviet." They <3
plead guilty, it ia true, but of what? \
wore there, and heard all the coofessioi
Not a single one, as we recollect, thou
they were all anxious to say overythi
that would please Judge Bond, admitt
that the alleged outrages were committ
on account of politics, whioh was t
whole gist of the offence When askc
they would say, "I plead guilty to bei
on one or more raids." "What did y
do?" "Well, we whipped this man 1
stealing, or that man for killing anott
? i i ,i , , ... '...Ljumnrm;
colored man's oz, or another (or selling
whiskey near a ohnrcb," &o. Many o!
these were shameless outtages, some
wfafre sot, pad none were violations of.
the Enforcement Acts of Congress.
POIATI c A JJ JOT TINO n. -The Washi ngtcm
Patriot makes ont a liet of. 2,104 p^era
which support Greeley, to 1,407 whibh
.support .Grant.
The Metropolitan Record deolares that
"tile Irishmen i?, America owe Horace
Greeley a dept which can _only be paid
by eleoting ,him .President," Thia is
true, and the Record is assured .that the
Irishmen in America Intend to see to it
that the debt is promptly paid.
General Grant liss taken the liberty of
inserting his band into tho public treasu?
ry and taking therefrom {?75,000 of the
people's money to pay for an old letter
or two, the publication1 of which he
thinks will help him in the campaign.
Oonld a more striking argument be
made in favor of Mr. Greeley's one-term
prinoiple?
. Says the St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazelle: "A
gentleman who has visited every portion
of Nebraska recently, informs us that
there is not the shadow of a doubt that
Greeley and Brown will carry that Stato
by a handsome majority. The solid old
Republicans of the State are coming
over to the wood-chopper's standard by
hundreds."
FRAUDS DETECTED.-D.'M. Barringer,
Esq., publishes the following in the
Charlotte Observer:
"The Democratic Executive Commit?
tee have positive information of frauds
in registration in Wako, Halifax - and
elsewhere. 285 negroes are challenged
in one township in Wake, and 229 in one
in Halifax."
Mr. EDITO?: lu a communication,
published in your isBue of the 26tb,
signed "A Fireman," the motion of post?
poning the building of a track honse for
the Pheonix Hook and Ladder Company,
was charged to Mr. Wilder. Sinoe thon,
it . has oome to the knowledge of the
writer that -Mr. Wilder disclaims all
knowledge of snoh a motion, and aa it is
not.my purpose to wilfully misrepresent
any one, I take pleasure in making the
correction. A FIREMAN.
THE SPECIAL TRBM OF THE UNITED
STATES Cinoon COOBT NOT TO BB HELD.
It was recently intimated in the News
that some difficulty had been encoun?
tered in the arrangements for the spe?
cial term of the United States Circuit
Court, which was ordered to be held at
Columbia next month, and it is now offi?
cially announced that the proposed spe?
cial term will not be held, and that there
will be no session of the United States
Circuit Court until the next regular
term, which will begin in Columbia on
the fourth Monday of next November.
Aaa matter, of form, the special term
will bo opened by Judge Bryan, in Co?
lombia, next Monday, being tho first
Monday in August, and the date to
which the Circuit Court was adjourned
last May; but it will bo immediately ad?
journed again, and the cases on the Cir?
cuit Court docket will be continued nntil
the November term, while Judge Bryan
will proceed to Greenville to hold 'the
regular August term of the United
States District Court.
This announcements important, na-it
will enable the large number of defend?
ants who have given bail to appear, and
who are securing their testimony and
making their other preparations for trial
during tho special term, to make such
other arrangements ag they may desire,
in view of tho change in the time of the
trial, and all BOOB persons may place full
reliancein^'tho accuracy of the informa?
tion, and govern themselves accordingly.
There are n?w bot few defendants await?
ing trial bf the; G kim it Court who are
actually, in/'donfln?mept, and those are
only auou'aa haye been nuable to obtain
bail at.'the sum? demanded by the order
of the court; sc that this postponement
of the trials can operate as a hardship
only npon a fen individuals, while to the
majority of those who have given bail
for their appearance, it will probably be
a relief.-Charleston News.
THE SPEAKING MONDAY NIOHT.-At
the conclusion of Gov. Graham's speech
in the afternoon, it was announced that
there would be speaking from the stand
at night. At about 8 o'clock, quito a
large orowd of both ladies and gentle?
men gathered together. The grove was
beautifully illuminated- with Chinese
lanterns, bearing the devioe of Greeley
and Brown, and everything presented a
pleasing appearance. Patriotic speeches
were made by Messrs. Tipton, of Kansas;
Shober, of this State; and Col. H. C.
Jones, of this city. The speakers all
maintained their reputation, and every
one present went homo well pleased with
what they had heard.
[Charlotte Observer, Juli/ 31.
Many harrowing facts have been given
of the lato dreadful famine in Porsia,
but one incident is now related so in?
tensely horrible as almost to surpass all
belief, although seriously mentioned in
the Levant Times. In tho Persian city
of Flamatan two famishing women, aid?
ed by Beven others, stole threo children
and ate thurn. They were arrested, and
the boues of tho dead ohildren found
partially concealed in their clothes. The
Grand Vizier condemned the two womou
to the gibbet, and their companions iu
guilt to bo starved to death in prison.
At the end of a weok five of theso seven
wretohoa were found dead in the prison,
after having devoured tho other two.
F THE STREBT CAB Drrricrji/rY -We
baye already noticed tba Radical schemes
to foment tronble and or?ate political
capital by iodtfOtog poor, ignorant nc
g?oes to foist theta selves upon tho white
people of tbia city. That trouble /will
eena lt from thiSdf the eoeneS of Satur?
day night and ? Sunday are . re-enacted
there oan be buv little doubt, and when
! ?k begins God only knows where it will
: epd:.. The attempt of certain negroes to
force themselves, into street uara reserved
for the'whites, is entirely uncalled for by
the existing state, of affairs. The .object
sought to be gained by the wire-pnAlor?
ia ?ho lladioal .party is apparent to every
one. They care not whether two or three,
or a dozen negroes pay the penalty of
t'ieir raahuoes and impudeuce with their
lives, or how much inoooent blood may
be shed. .'They will take good care to be
out of harm's way when danger may
arise, Bat wo trust the good, sober
sense of the community will avert this
threatened danger and preserve oar city
from a scene of bloody riot and tar moil.
On Saturday night, however, the fir.-1
of these disturbances ocourred. A party
of negroes, including a low mulatto
woman, entered the 10 o'clock car at the
Ex bange, and rode BS far us I .liberty
street, when several gentlemen got
aboard, and the negroes were ejected,
the woman using the vilest language. A
crowd of negroes thereupon gathered, at
if by preconcerted arrangement, and re?
fused to let the car pass. Ono of the
negroes seized the horses by the bridle,
when a gentleman residing iu the vicini?
ty, who was attracted by the crowd, or?
dered him to release his bold. The
uegro refused, when thu gentleman
Htrur*U bim in tho face with bin fist,
knocking bim down. At this juncture,
another negro struck the gentleman men?
tioned with a heavy stick, outting hit
face and bruising his arm. One of thc
young men present then drew a pinto
ana oriud be was "going to shoot,'
wbereapon the negroes scattered in u ver j
direction. The negro driver of the cai
joined ia the.fracas with the disorderly
Africans, and refused to drive.
Yesterday morning, the oars wen
scarcely patronized at all, an uncommoi
occurrence on Sunday, and the first re
unit of this miserable attempt at socia
equality was seen. There was, however
au uneasy feeling throughout the city
as it was generally believed these ne
groes would attempt the same thing, ant
i rouble would ensue. Trae to expeota
timi, on tho arrival of the Isle of Hopi
train, yesterday evening, at 6 o'clook, i
large number of negroes made a rust
for the: street ours at the junction, anc
three of them were soon tilled, leaviof
two empty. lb to one u? -.hese, how
ever, in whioh. were a nnmL.r of whiti
persons, including several ladies, a negri
by the name of Dick White thrust him
self and took a seat. A lady coming ii
shortly afterwards, ho was told by Bom
young men to get up. This he refuset
to- do, when be. was seized by the heel
and head and pitched out.
Several of the negroes, who hai
rushed into the other oars, thought bet
ter of themselves, and . went into thoa
reserved-fot'them. Considerable excite
mont was created at the junction by tbi
affair, but no serious disturbance oe
curred. About 7 o'clock, as the car wa
passing down Whitaker street, nea
Broughton, a negro boarded tho plat
form, shoved by two young men, am
entered. He was ordered to leave, am
on refusing to do so, was "fanned o:
with a boot.". He yelled out, as he rai
off, "Never mind? sports; I've spotte
An the 8 o'clook car .was/.passing.th
Exchange, on -the return . Trip, ?im
scoundrel throw two bottles a tit, strikin
against the ?ide, and., the shivered; glui
flew inside. Fortunately, only a.-ie'
p orson s were in : the ear at the time, an
no injury resulted.' .The driver, frighi
ened by-tho noise, dropped his reins an
jumped oil the oar* and: tho horses brok
into a gallop. ?. His* nerves were settled
however, by the time the car reache
Whitaker street, and he resumed his pc
sition. ? ? il O'1]
Wo are informed that the riotous ni
groes who created tho disturbance o
Saturday night have their headquarter
in a negro shop, on Liberty street, net
Whitaker, and remained in that vicinil
to a late hoar, blustering and tbreatei
in g about fwLoit they were going to do.
As we have said before, there is r.
justification whatever in this conduct <
the negroes, and they will learn in tl
end that such attempts will inevitab
result to their own injary. We, hoi
ever, deprecate any action tending t
produce riot and bloodshed, where tl
guilty most frequently escapo, whilst tl
innnocent suffer. There aro other meai
of thwarting this vile attempt of tl
Radicals <to embroil the oity in troubl
and the more thoughtful of our citizei
eau but on reflection divine whut thi
are. The question, as it stands at pr
sent, is altogether with the railroi
company; they own tho oars and posse
oertain chartered privileges. If thi
feel constrained to temporarily acqaies<
in this state of affairs and allow the n
groes to ride in any and every car, tl
public? have no resource. Individual cos
of impudeuce or insult from these n
groes oan be resouted by tho parties co
ocrnbd in the most effectual manner.
Again, it is the general impressic
that the better class of the colored po
plo don't participate ia those prooee
legs nor favor them iu any degree,
would be well, then, to obtain tho nam
of every one of these negroes, whi<
oan be easily done, and have them pu
libbed, in order that it may bo definite
known who are seeking unnecessarily
fomont strife by this attempt at enforcii
social equality. Let our merchant
business men, and citizens generally, r
fuse to givo employment of any kin
not even a doy's work, to any who
names shall appear ou that list, and
such bc iu employment, discharge thc
ut once.
If this wore a case involving ai
rights of the negro, it would be unotb
question; but it is simply and unequiv
oalTy a diabolical offert upon the part of
Radicals to bolster tbeir sinking cause.
Sooial equality dootrine will never be
recognized for an instant by the South?
ern peoplo, no matter what the oonse
Su?neos. Just on the eire of the Presi
ential eleotion, however, the greatest
prudence is necessary upon our part to
prevent any interference from the pre?
sent Federal Government, and uone
sh mid realize this more fully than tbose
who consider that Mr. Greeley's elec?
tion is tho sine qua non to our political
salvation.
The names of these disorderly negrooe
can be preserved for future reference.
[Savannah Republican.
THB RHAL IBHUE.-The country is, or
ought to be, indebted to Mr. Secretary
Boutwell for stating, foroibly, the real
?HBUQ between the Greeleyites and.the
Orantitea. Mr. Greeley, in accepting
the Oinoinnati platform, well and happi?
ly naid:
* * "I aooept yonr nomination, in
the confident trust that the masses of our
countrymen, North and South, are eager
to clasp hands across the bloody ohasm
which hus too long divided them, forget?
ting that they have been enemies in the
joyful consciousness that they are and
must henceforth romain brethren."
Mr. Boutwell, Gen. Grant's pet Secre?
tary of the Treasury, and despatched to
North Carolina us his organ to speak for
bim, snye:
"Wo are advised to clasp bands across
the bloody chasm made by the war. I
protest against this advice."
Hero.is the whole issue! Greeley ie
for peace; ? moro especially for peuce,
now, six years after the war. And Graut
sings "w?r, war," only war; not .exactly
war in arms, but war in peace-war with
Acts of Congress, wur with enforcement
laws, war without the habeas corpus writ,
war with election laws, war to plunder
the Southerners through carpet-baggers,
and to ruin them more by that species of
plunder than did Sherman's army and
the outriders therewith I Indeed, the
ourse of a carpet-baggers' war, which
Grant bas instituted and upheld from the
H birt, bas aost the South more,, far more,
than the emancipation of. the slaves-foi
that is no real calamity to the white men
of. the Sooth, and the - taxes, losses and
devastation of the war itself.
The Express has published in detail
the State debts Grant's carpet-baggers
have oreated in the Sooth, bnt here ie
the aggregate now in ten Southern States
Before the War. Af ter the War.
?0-876,415,300. fl@r$291,626,015.
-for which increase of $215,210,715,
the State has nothing to show I
Greeley pledges himself to end tb.it
sort of robbery-to shut up the "chasm'
-but Boutwell, in behalf of Grant, ex
claims:
"I protest against thia advice" (ol
Greeley.)
Well, we take issue with Grant anc
Boutwell on that, and we go to the coun
try thereon. Do yon, Mr. Merchant,
Mr. Banker, and Mr. Railroad Bond
holder of the North-do you want tc
keep open Buch a chasm? Does it pay'
When millions of people are thus oom
polled to raise mouey to pay taxes, and
are thus defrauded of the means to bnj
your goods, do you want more of these
taxes, and of these bonds? Do yoe
want to impoverish the Sonth beyond
and after the war, and so to impoverisL
her, that all her surplus cotton, sugar,
rice and tobacco must be used to paj
taxes-not to recuperate, so as to buj
fresh manufacturen and goods? Is not
eyery interest of the North and West ii
making the South richer, if not rich
and in not thus trampling he? dow?
i more? Do you, Mr. Western Farmer
' who sell your corn, your bacon, yoni
mules, your horses to the South-do yoi
wish a good market there, from well-of
men, or a rained Sonth, which can ooh
raise ootton to pay interest on bonds ?
rotten carpet-baggers of the North am
West?
Then the issue is not one of moue;
alone, bat of morals, principles, and o
"the general welfare." It ?B wicked t<
govern the Sonth, os it has been go
[verned ander Grant's administration, b;
arms and public robbers. It is in deft
ance of every law of God and man. Th'
American people can. never prosper a
oppressors of their fellow-men-as ty
rants, or as the aiders and abettors o
robbery. Nor can we thus strip th
South of law and liberty, and govern.i
only by force and fraud, and long main
tain our own liberties. The suspensioi
of the habeas corpus, which ground dowi
the Sonth, will soon be used to grin
down ns, if we sanction this overthrow
of the Palladium of the Constitution
Nor can any country long prosper whe;
a part of it is crushed out, as the Sont
is now crushed, and hos boen crushed
daring all of Grant's administrador.
The general welfare of the whole is tb
prosperity of every part, and equalit
and equity among all. Hence, Mi
Boutwell, we cheerfully accept you
issue, and we go to the country
PBACB, PROLONGED PEAOB, UNITI
HARMONY, HAPPINESS, OR
YOUR orEN CHASM WAR.
[2feu> York Express.
.-. -?
Dr. Livingstone, in one of his lettei
to Mr. Bennett, speaking of the countr
around Lake Tangyanyikadoodledandt
or something of that sort, says "mac
of tho women are very pretty." Tl
old rascal! And ho protends that he
staying there trying to find tho sourco <
(he Nile!
A little child, the daughter of M
Bnrbet A. llutto, of this County, wi
bitten by a largo rattlesnake, while pla;
iug in tho yard, on Friday last. Med'
cal aid was procured immediately, ac
tho child is now in a fair way of reci
veiy.-Lexington Dispatch.
During tho past week, Messrs. Tho
L. Smith, of Sumter, Edwin J. Porte:
of Kingritrco, and Charles Newbold, <
Korry, have departed this lifo.
Tho property in New York exemi
from taxation, including that owned h
the city, amounts to $275,000,000.
OiTT MATXBQS,T-^rli? ?tifi? o? single
copies of the Pfiafcnx is fire cen ta.
Rev. Tilmau B. Gain?s retires frota
the* Working C/?r?siian-^succeeded bj
Mr. O. M. McJuukio.,
The Bale of city of Columbia BO ven per
cent, bonds is advertised to come off to?
day. As the money market is particu?
larly tight, just now, it is probable the
sale will have to bo again postponed.
It ia understood that the Directora of
tho Carolina and the Union Savings
Banks are in treaty for tho erection of a
banking house, on,' the lot immediately
North of the former establishment. ;
Our former fellow-citizen James Wood
Davidson, it is understood, bas accepted
a position under the Japanese Govern?
ment-something connected with the
printing department, as we are informed.
Josephus Woodruff, Esq., will accept
our thanks for a bound copy of the
"Acts and Resolutions of tho last cession
of the Legislate-e."
We learn by a despatch received at
the Executive Department, that William
Ford, the supposed murderer of George
Creswell, at Chester, on the night of the
23th, has been arrested in York County.
There is a screw loose among the mails.
The Charleston News, of Tuesday,
failed to reach this office. Yesterday, a
package of newspapers from another
! office, directed on the inside to York
ville, S. C., was returned ia. a PHOENIX
envelop, directed to Ridgeway.
The following is the programme of
music by the band of. the 18th Infantry
for this day:
Overture Slave. Bishop.
? Waltz Traviata. Verdi.
Capriccio. Hagen.
Selection from Fra Dia vola. Auber.
There is to be a slight chango in the
schedule of the Wilmington, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad. See notice.
Pollock's thermometer recorded as fol?
lows, yesterday: 7 A. M., 63; ll A. M.,
95; 2 P. M., 93; 7 P. M.',.89.
Gov. Scott has appointed Henry S.
Labntutt a Trial Justice for Beaufort
County, rice J. P. M. Epping, resigned.
Mr. Mercer is pushing on rapidly with
the Congaree River Bridge. The greater
portion of the iron work hos arrived.
Mr. Berry's furniture emporium will
soon be ready for occupation. Mean?
while, his customers are being accommo?
dated at the old stand.
The "Wig-wags" held their regular
convocation, last night, in the "Bache?
lor's Den"-the quarters of the only
"single" member of the fraternity-over
the Western Union Telegraph Compa?
ny's office. Unlike the leopard, theolab
changes its spots, (or places of meeting.)
There are only twelve or fifteen members
-every one officers-and a jollier set of
individuals it would be bard to pick np
with the solitary exception of tho bache?
lor, who, having been disappointed in a
would-be affair matrimonial, now endea?
vors, after the fashion of tho. Afr loan
Caps flat, to grin his "mor** fortunate
neighbors oat of countenance-which,
of course, is invariably a miserable fail?
ure. There is hope for him y?t, how?
ever. The proprietor of the Pollock
House came to his assistance on the pre*
sent occasion, and famished a capital
collation, which was heartily enjoyed.
The first toast of the occasion, was "Oar
boo bel or friend-may he, on the return
of his turu, be prepared to greet his fel?
low-members ia a berne, presided over
by a feminine deity."
PHCHXIXIANA.-A Pennsylvania paper
thinks that the General who now occu?
pies . the White HouBe? when he is at
home will next November be reducod to
the rank of a "left tenant."
An artesian well in Lincoln, Neb., is
so magnetic that it will dra rv a tin cup
toward it. That's nothing, though, for
a small black bottle will often draw a
whole crowd toward it.
If you desire rosy cheeks and a complexion
fair and free from Pimples, Blotches and
Eruptions, purify jour blood by taking Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
Teas and Neighs.-If horses could make
themselves understood in human language,
they would signify, by a universal "Yea,"
their assent to the statement that the Mue
TANo LINIMENT is the best remedy extant for
all these external ailments, and by a most
emphatic "Neigh," show their displeasure at
every attempt to use any other preparation
in its stead. Ever since its introduction at
st. Louis, at the sloao of the Mexioan war, in
1810, it haB proved a signal blessing to horse
and man-curing, with absolute certainty and
wonderful despatoh, snoh equine diseases SB
spavin, ringbone, poll evil, swatches, hoof
alo, Sta., and relieving and finally removing
the painful affections which attack tho mus
cles, sinews and external glands of human
beings. It is a faot beyond contradiction
that for all injuries or complaints of man or
quadrupeds to whioh an external remedy ia
applicablo, tho M?STANO LINIMENT is prefera?
ble to every other. Aug 1 i3
LIST OP NSW ADVBIOTSEITENTS.
Jas. E. Black-Notice.
Indian Girl-Cigars.
Thos. P. Walker-Notice.
M. J. Calnan-Tax Returns.
Cow for Sale.
Miss M. A. Baie's Instituto.
Booms to Rent.
Geese Featbers Wanted.
J. C. B. Smith-Savings Bank.
Thos. E. Bramlette-Gift Concert.
Dr. Heinitsh-Cabbage Seed, Ac