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THE BIfMIX, fubUoho a Daily and Tri-WocJdy, Every Wsdneaday Morning, BY JULIAN A. SELB Y. "v " Editor and Proprietor, Office on Richardson St.. near Tay lor, ?3* Taa Phoxnix 1b theoldost Dally Paper n atraU?OArolina,has the xjlboxstoibc? latioh 10 the nppor portion ot the State, and has 3*en regularly iaauod ainoeitsiu oeption-?March 21,18G5.. 1 .f ;.t ' SDBSOniPTlOK. *i Daily.' six raontha, $4; Tri-?W?ekly, 2 50; Weekly, 150. . AOVEUTiaEXENTa . Insert od in the Daily, art SI ? eqnn.ro ot nine lines for first, and 50 cents ?ach ??ubsequont insertion; if not oxoooding five lines in longth, 75 ooutu.' Sjongrf?vertisementaby the wo ok, month of year, r?t leeti rate a. Marriage*. FuneraL Invitations, io., $1. Bdobtand !#ab Printing ot every de? scription faithfully attended to. aof.Mts. Julius Poppe, Andereon. Bobort Bryoe, Spartanburg. Jt A.GrigVjyJlidgoway. B. A. Soolt.Nowberry. U. W. Iiawaon, Ahbevillo. 1 ? ? My Baby. ? ? BY MAIIY n. DorOE. ? baby, my baby, my darling! As I poudor my newly won blies, As I bask in thy beautiful boing,' And h-ti? theo with kiaa upon kiss, I wonder how oarth ever charmed mo. How its joys seemed to me ao divino; Thosa'joys lnow meaaure oa human, Since thia one I know is divine. 0 baby, my"charub; my daTling! Whose "cao" le the awooteet of thlugs; 1 wondor if ever ouch munic, So porfeot, was borri without wings; And I tremble with rapturo to listen, So droad I the pinions?ah, rue! But no! tho good God is no mookor, Aad ho gave theo, ewoot baby, to mo. O baby, my queen, and my darling! Thouruleat andlifteBt mo ao, Exalting my bou! to its hfgheat. G,ad gave theo thy aooptro, I know; From hi? throne in the uppermost heavens Thou hast oome to our home like a star, And the H?ht of, it Joadoth me upward And ouwftid no Ioadoth a otar. O baby,rov baby, my darling! QnooUjUhorub, andetar though thou be, Mo sign to exproDQ thee seems worthy, When thou artaUawoetness to mel In thy voloo ia the Ron? or tho morning; In thy fingera.iatoaunof delight; 1 In thy cmllo id the giert of awn-shine; In thyoolf-ob, thyfeoff la delight 1 Deerbaby.mtba^imy dkrling! . l^ve.lovehilattafnateaUaatr- , The love that wluf thrUled Into promiae, The love that grew atrong-as It pkssod Into bloaoorri, so myotio and holy We givo it the aweet name of cft?d? Two b clngo la 000 made complo tor, A baby?our dftjUng, our child! -1 ????.i ?? .?t How .His Ship Oaub La.? Thio ekotcb, from tho pen of Don Piett, is equal to some Of Air. Diakons' finest; I ran across what firs* struck mo aa a very singular genisa on my road from Springfield to Boston'. This was a otoot, tiiaok-whlokerod man, who pat immediately in front of me, end who indulged, from time to time, in the most strange and nnaooountable ma ncoavrea. Every now and then he vrould get'up and hurry away to the narrow passage which leads to the door in the drawing-room cars, and Tvhon hie.thought himself aeoore from observation, would fall to laughing in the most violent manner, and continue the healthful exercise until he was ab red in the fnoo as a lobster. As we noared Boston, these demonstrations increased iu violence, save that the stranger no longer ran sway to laugh, but kept his seat and ohnckled to him? self, with his chin deep down iu his shirt collar. But the ohanges that these portmanteaus underwent 1 He moved them here, there, everywhere; he put them bobind him, in front of him, on eaoh side of him. He was evidently getting ready to leave; but, as we were yet twenty-five miles from Boston, the idea of such early prepa? rations was ridiculous. If we bad en? tered the city, then the mystery wonld have remained unsolved; bat the stranger aft last .became ao excited that he could keep hie secret no longer. Someone most help him; and as I was the nearest, fboseleoted me. Sudden? ly 'f dr?ihg, as if I had asked a ques? tion, no ?rddt rocking btmtelf to and fro in his ohnir the meantime, and slapping his lege and breathing bard: "Been gone three yearsl" "Ahl" ?*fg| Wen la Europe. Folks don't eipecfc.mo fpr els months yet baft I gel ibroogh and alerted. I tele ? g*?p&ed them aft tho last station; f tteWe got il by thia time." As he eaid this, he rubbed bio b?nde, and changed hie portmanteau on hie left - to tho right, and tho ooe on the right to the left again. "Got a wife?" said I. VXee. and three chil? dren," he returned, and h? got op and folded his overcoat anew, and hang it over the baek of the eeat. "You are pretty nervous over tile mitter, ain't you?" I said, watching his fidgety movements. 41 Well, I Should think co," he replied; *'I haven't slept soundly for a week. And, do yon know," ho treat on, glancing aronnd aft tho posse ngers, and speaking in a low tone, MI am oertain this train will rah off the track and brssk my neck before I get to Boston? Well, tho faot is, I have had too much good look for one man, lately. The thing can't last, 'tain'ft natural that it should, yon know. I've watehed it. Fir*tit rains, then it shines, then it raioB again. It rains so bard you think it's never go- ' itig to stop; theo. it shines so bright you think it's always goiog to shine; and just as yon are settled in either belief, you are knocked over by a change, to enow that you know no? thing about it," "Well, aooordiog to t\itfphilosophy," said I, "you will continue to -have sun-shinc, beause yon . are expecting a otorm." f'lt's cari? ous-,'> be retarned; ''but the only thing whioh'makes rhO think that I will get through safe is, because I think I wonV "Well, that Is wri oaa," said I. ''Yes," he replied, "I'm I a maohioiBt?made- a discovery?no? body believed in it;, spent all my money trying to bring it out?mort? gaged my home?all went. Every? body laughed at me?everybody but my wife?spunky little woman?said she wonld work her fingers off before I should give it up. Went to England ?no better there; oame witbin.un ace of, jumping off London bridge... Wont into a shop to earn money enough to oome homo with; there I met the man I wonted. To- moke a. long story short, I've brought .630,001) homo with me, and here I- am." "Good for yool" I exclaimed. "Yes," said he, "X^O,000; and the best of it is, sho don't know anything about it. , I've fooled her. so muoh, that I joEt concluded I would say nothing about it. When I got my money, though, you better bcliove I struck a bee-lino for home." "Arid now you will muke her happy," said I. "Hap? py!" he replied, "why, you don't know any thing about it. ?be worked like B dog while I have been gone, trying to support herself und her children de? cent ly. They paid her thirteen cents apiece for making course shirts; and that's the way shu'd live licit' the time. She'll come down there to the depot to meet mo iu it giu^hani dress, uud a shawl 100 years old, and sho'ii think sho is dressed up. O, she won't have no clothes after this?O, no, I guess not!" and with thoso words, which im? plied that bin wife's wardrobe would soon rival Queen Victoria's,thestrangor toredown the passage-way, and getting in bis old corner, where ho thought himself out of sight, went through the strangest pnntomime?laughing, put? ting his month in the drollest shapes, and then swinging himself back and forth in the limited epaco, us if he was "walking down Broadway," a full-) rigged metropolitan belle. And so on till we rolled into the depot, and I placed myself on the other car, oppo? site tho strangor, who, with a portman? teau in each hand, had descended, and was standing on the lowest step, ready ! to jump to the platform. I looked i from his faoe to the faces of tho peo pie before ns, bnt saw no signs of re? cognition. Suddenly he cried, "There | they are!" and laughed outright, bnt iu a hysterical sort of a way, as be looked over the orowd. I followed his eyes, add saw, some distance back, as if orowded out and shouldered away by the Well-dressed and elbowing throng, a little woman in a faded dress and a 1 well-worn hat, with a faoa almost pain-1 ful in He intense bnt hopeful expres? sions, glancing rapidly from window to Window, as the ooaches glided by. She had not seen the stranger; bnt a mo? ment after, she caught his eye, and in another instant he had jumped to the platform with his two portmanteaus; and making a hole in the crowd, posh? ing out here and there, and rnnning | ope of his bundles plump into the well-developed stomach of a venerable old gentleman in spectaoles, he rushed toward the place where she was stand? ing. I think I never saw a face as? sume so many different expressions in so short a time as did that of tho little woman while her husband was on his way to her. She didn't look pretty. On the contrary, she looked very plain; but some way I felt a big lump rise in my throat as I watched her. Sho was trying to laugh; but, God bless her, how completely she failed iu the attempt] Her mouth got into the position, but it never, moved nftei that, eavo to draw down tho eorucis and quiver, while the blinked her oyes so that I suspect sho only caught occa? sional glimpses of the broad-shoul? dered fellow who elbowed his way so rapidly toward her. And then, as he drew near, and dropped those ever? lasting portmanteaus, she [just turned completely ronnd, with her back to? ward him, and oovered her face with her hands. And thus she was when the strong man gathered her np in bis arms as if she had been a baby, acd held her sobbing to his breast. There were enough gaping at them, Heaven knows; and I turned my eyes away a moment, and'then I saw two' boys in thread-bare roundabouts standing near, wiping their eyes and noses on their UftUo- coat-sleeves, and bursting ont anew at every fresh demonstration on the part of tho mother. When I looked at the stranger again, he had his hat drawn down over his eyes; bot his wife was looking up at him, and it seemed as if the pant-up tears of those weary months of trailing were stream? ing through her eye-lids.?The Capital. jt-'? A large lot of North Carolina moon teiixapplee, fast received and for sale cheap, ob Solomon's. Elaine Oil. THE undersigned aro sole agents for the celebrated ELAINE OIL, MS F1RH TEST, Perfectly secure and cannot be exploded. Absolutely save. Price.* at retail 40o. per gallon. JOHN AGNEW A BON. Jan 5_ C0N?ABEE IRON WORKS COLUMBIA, 8. C. JOHN ALEXANDER, Proprietor. MANUFAOTU BEK OFSTEAM ENGINES. BAW AND O It 1ST ? UILLP. <?IN 'Gearing, ai <l all kinds of iron Castings for Ma? chinery and Or namontal Cast? ings for Stores and Dwellings', Patent Bailings for Gardens and Cemeteries, iron Betteee and Arbor Chairs!', also, Braes Castings of all kinds, Bells for Ohurohen, Schools, Work-shops, Ac Guarantee all my work first olaea and equal to any North or Booth. Works at foot of Ladyntreot and near to South Carolins and Groenvillo A Columbia BiUrtftd Companies' Depots*_Nor 18 -fWWfcl CALIFORNIA-MADEIRA. TO THE READING PUBLIC! If you Want a Thorough Newspaper. .subscribe fob THE PHOENIX, Daily and Tri-Weekly; or Issued every Wednesday, IN COLUMBIA. SOUTH CAROLINA Tho Phojnix i3 tho oldest daily paper in the State, and uns been regulaily issued siuce March, lrJ65. THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE, By Telegraph and Mails, from ner.rlv all parts of tho World; together with FULL MARKET REPORTS; Besides well selected Miscuu.aneoe? aud Reading Mattet., of iutcie?t to everybody, will be found in these publi? cations. Tho Daily usually contains twelve columns of reading matter; the Tri-woekly twenty-four, and the Week? ly forty-eight. THE EDITORIALS Aro carefully prepared, by competent wiitcr;; while special attoution i> given THE LOCAL DEPARTMENT. Taken us a whole, no better or m0r3 satisfactory investment CUtl be made, than n subscription to one 01 the other of these publication. They are Conservative iu politico, und ?re devoted to the best interests of the Stato. The following nro tho TERMS FOR SIX MONTHS. Daily Phojnix.$4 (XI Tri-Weekly.2 50 Weekly Gleaner (-48 columns)... 1 50 These papers were the first issued in Columbia, in 180*5, after its partial de? struction, and have be?n regularly published ever since. Tbey CIRCULATE EXTENSIVELY Throaghont middle and upper Counties of the State, and are excellent MEDIUMS FOR ADVERTISING. The Pbxbntx Vas a greater circulation through the upper part of South Caro? lina than any other daily paper. Mer? chants andothers will find its oolnmns an admirable means of oommnnication with the people of the entire up-coun? try. Advertising rates are reasonable. Send advertisements marked with the number of insertions desired, and tbey will be stopped upon the expiration of the time. Office on RiohardBon street, between Taylor and Blanding. JULIAN A. SELBY, Proprietor^ Have your Job Printing done Home. ESTECIABTjY when Style and Price are the Same THEl^H?ENIX Book und Job Steam Printing Office Is thoroughly supplied with POWER PRESSES of the Latest Improvement; TYPE of various grades and styles from one foot to the fiftieth part of an inoh in rizo; BORDERS, OUTS.Ao.; Black, Colored and Transfer INKS; PAPER, CARDS, <ko. Work executed at shortest notice, in latest and beet stylos, and at New York prices. GALL and EXAMINE SPECIMENS of 1,2, 8 and 4 Short Posters,Hind-bills, Programmes, Circulars. Pamphlet?, Bills of Fan?. Brief?, Leiter Heads, Dodgers. Bill Heads, Checke, Horeo Bills, Receipts, Label*? Railroad Blanks Legs! Blanks, Tags, Cards all kinds and sizes? Wedding, Visiting. Boldness, Show. JULIAN A. BELBY. Proprietor Phoenix and Glfaktr Establishment GUANO IB EXOUAVGB rOH COTTON. The Celebrated Fertilizer* for Cotton, Corn, Wheat and Tobacco. REDUCED PRICES! LIBERAL TERMS! Wilcox, Gibbes & Co.'s Manipulated Guano, Prepared at Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, B.C., and Imported in bulk direct from Pbconix Islands, South Pacific Ocean, WE are offering the above celebrated FERTILIZERS, this season, at considerably reduced pricos, and give purchasers the option of paying in cotton on the basis of seventeen cents for middling, delivered at planters' nearest depot, by November 1, 1875, the cotton to be packed in good merchantable bales. By tbiB arrangement, the planter has a guarantee of realizing a good price for bis cotton to pay for his fertilizers. These GUANOS are too well known to require comment. Those who have used them know bow to appreciate their value; those who liavo not, as yet, will find, on fair trial, that their liberal use will pay on present crore, besides being of future benefit to their lands. For iurther information, call on the undersigned for circulars, containing | analysis, opinions of planters, Ac. BETHELS & EZELL, Agents, Jan 21 4mo Columbia, S. C. PLEASE TAKE KTOTlOE HAT TUE LARGEST AND MO? L' COilbLETE STOCK OF MEN'S AND BOYS T Mil, miBBll ERB IB HATS, That f vi r enmo to Columbia can be found at D. EPSTIN'S, Und. v Columbia II Lv ryJivpai tutor.: for this utatl;< ! 3Lowest Prices. ?-? (toodn iii the season, made ' X] rem!}' the IV.'. .:? .? ? 1 1J-71 J.-".">. fie rnpvin id <: iH* tj ?IM: "? ?'????TIN, Tim l*??pul'?r Clothlvr, WM.E. R03E, Proprietor. Another First Class Hotel?Fare $2.50 a Day. including Omnibus Side. SITUATED NEAR TUE CAPITOL and in the centre of the businees part of the city. Bose'e Omnibus will convey passengers to and from every Train. Tbo Ladies' Apartments areoomplete, with private ontrance on Assembly streut. The BILLIARD aad BATH ROOMS are all new and superior to any in tbeoity. April 5 nllTHiSMlHTBSSEIICllIJini VIA CHARLESTON, 8. C., TO AND FBOM BALTIMORE, PHILADELPHIA, NEW YOIIK, BOSTON, AND ALL THE NEW ENGLAND MANUFACTUBING CITIES. Three Tlmnil Week from New Yoi Is?Tur nl n y, Tl? urbil o y and Saturday. jj0 .iltcant Htate Room Accommodations Sea Voyage 10 to 12 Hours Shorter, "via Charleston." TOTAL CAPACITY, 40,000 BALEH MONTHLY. The Soutli Carolina Hailroad Company. A ND connecting Roads West, in alliance with the floet of thirteen lirst clas-s Steam* ships to the above ports, invite attention to the quick time and regulai du.4p-.1tck afforded to the business public in the Cotton .states at the PORT OF CtiABLEsTON. offering facilities of rail and sea transportation for Freight and Thsm nge i b not excelled iu excellence aud capacity at any other port. The following splendid Ocean Steamer* regularly on the line: TO NEW YORK. CHARLESTON_J? 8. Berry, Commander. 1 CHAMPION.B. W. Lockwood,Onm'cr. JAMJES ADGER...T. J. Lockwood, Com'der. | MANHATTAN .. .M. B. Woodbull,Com'er. JAMES ADGER tt CO., Aneuts, Charleston, S. C. GEORGIA. S.Crowrll.CommaHder. | SOUTH CAROLINA..T. J. Becket t.Com'dcr. WM. A.COURTENAY, WAGNER, BUGEB A CO., Agtnib,Charleston,B.C. Sailing Dayf Wednesdays and Saturdays. TO PHILADELPHIA. Iron Steamships ASHLAND. Alex. Hunter, Com'r. FQOATOR,[C BiMklty.Com'r. Sailing Days?FRIDAYS, WM. A. CODRTENAY, Agent,Charleston, 8. C. TO BALTIMORE. FALCON.Uainie,Commander. | SEAGULL_Dutton,Commander. BaUing Days?Every Filth Day. PAUL C. TBENHOLM, Agent, Charleston,8. C. TO BOSTON. 8teamships MERCEDITA and FLAG. Bail every Saturday. JAMEB ADGBB A CO., Agents,Charleston, B.C. Eateagnaranteed as low as those of competing lines. Marine Insurance, ono-b&Hof one percent. THROUGH BILLS OF LADING AND THROUGH TICKETS Can boprolured at all the principal Baiiroad Offices in Georgia, Alabama,Tennessee and Mississippi. stato Rooms may be secured in advanoe, without extra charge, by addressing the Agents of the Steamships in Charleston, at whose offices, in all oases, the Baiiroad Tickets should be exchanged and Borths assigned. The Through Tickets by this route inelnde Transfers,Meals and Stato Boom, while on ship-board. TUR SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD. OESROIA RAILROAD ? And thor connecting lines, have largely increased their facilities fpr the rapid move? ment of Freight and Passengers between the Northern ciliea and the South and West. First Class Eating Saloon at Branch vibe. Cn the Georgia and South Carolina Bail roads, firstolass sleeping Cars. freight promptly transferred from the ateamtrato day and night trains of theSocth Carolina Baiiroad. Close connection made with other Boads,delivering Freights at distant points with great promptness. The< managers will use every azertion to satisfy their patrons th*t the line via Charleston cannot bo surpassed in despatch and tbo safe delivery of goods. >. For further information, apply to T. J. Claim*, Western Agrnt. Atlanta. Ga.; B. D. Gabbli.. General Agent. P. O. Box 4 97'J: Office 817 Broadway. N. Y.; B. B.Pickkks, (mineral Paeeonger aud Ticket Agent. South Ca- jlina Railroad; or J. M.Selkirk Saper mteudent GreatSouthern FreigM and Passenger Line,Charleston. S. C. JanSOilv Cottage House. j .Vo. 15 Washington St., next Masonic Hall. MThe underpinned iiaf/flfe. f*Z\ rr.-opencd this ''H,ai,->^\j?y iittliment, and Informs xat?/^ ?ho public tltat ln> is prepared to Ntinpl.v Hiera with the very bett of WJNFS, MQUOR'.t, SlIOAliH, TOBACCO, vie. Ovp Ivth in I'vory Htyle, and at oil honm. Ro? frealtm*! nt various kind*, (live a rail. Herat <5. K. FitANKLlN.?np't. CAR LOAD CALIFORNIA Wine, Lrandy & Champagne _ JUST 11EOE1VKD direct >jfflyfHA from California. XL cue Wioca ^fcawag^>ind UraruU^b tiro made of do IBBBrX ticionH irmnert of California. ? ^P*^* Per galt? bv He;-It! i. C.SEKCEH8, MONEY TO LOAN, On Marketable Collaterals. EXCHANOE on Now Y-irk, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Ponton and alj promi? nent r? ic< of the United Statea and Eu? rope bourrhl and Fold. I DEPOSITS received and inti real-bearing j certifleateaiftBued. j STOCKS, BONDS, GOLD and SILVER bought and Bold. ACCOUNTS of incrchanta and othera 'from tho cltv and country aolicited, and LIBERAL LINES OF DISCOUNT8granted bvtbe CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK, Corner of Plain and Riohardaon streets. JOITN 8. PRESTON, rrealdont. j. H. BawybBji Oaahier. j Subscribe for tho PnozKix. THE PHOENIX Book, Job ?ad NewupaperSteam PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT! pppppppppp pppppppppp ppppp ppppp ppppp ppppp pppppppppp pppppr p p p ppppp ppppp ppppp ppppppp ppppppp THE Proprietor ?Jlr of the Phoenix has thoroughly fitted hia oflice with the Latest Improved Materialfor doing all kinda Printing. . 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