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COLUMBIA, S. C. Friday Morning, June 18, 1675. That saucer of ice cream which Vice President Wilson enjoyed with Jefferson Davis at Memphis, and his kindly recep? tion throughout the South, have excited the wrath of the Washington Republican. Very angry, indeed, is the organ at the reception given to Henry Wilson. "If ho had only been insulted jnst a little," thinks the organ, "how happy we would be." The Vice-Prcsident was not in r.ulted, however, and took his strawber . ries with relish, even with tbe late Presi? dent of the Confederacy. Suffused with rage, the Republican says: "There is nothing in the Constitution or the social code which should interdict this; but that the Democratic press, which constantly abuses and traduces the President, should bo allowed the privilege of extolling the Vice-President because of his dalliance with the Presi dentess of the late Confedenicy, and, by comparison, to the prejudice of the Pre? sident of the United States, does raise a question of seeming consistency and propriety." Now, it is distressing, indeed, that Mr. Wilson meets with commendation for burying the hatchet quietly, and General Grant docs not get any praise for his war-paint, scalping-knife and an? nihilation policy. It is, of course, very much to the prejudice of the President, but then he has no idea of trying a third term, of course, and he can possibly stand it, and continue to make his tre? mendous sacrifice for another year. Thx Antiquity or Draw.?The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done, is that which shfLU bo done; and there is no new thing nnder the sun. Our freshest slang ?comes from Shakspeare; the Chinese grew tired of gun-powder many years ago, and Beeoher-Tllton scandals were ^quite common among the anoients. We had believed that if there was any new thing under the sun that novolty was the science of poker. We had learned to look upon this as a discovery by an Ame? rican for the benefit of Americans, and always favored an export duty which would prevent its mysteries being mas? tered by the barbarians of Europe. When Gen. Schenck published his poker brochure for the benefit of Great Britain we experienced a pane of anguish, and almost felt that the Minister deserved the fate of Morgan. But now there comes a Scotch woman, Lady Minto, and makes poker older than steam, and, ibr aught wo know, as old an the Pyra? mids. In an edition of the corres? pondence of her grand-uncle by mar? riage, she tells us that as far back as 1762 Gilbert Elliot was "a member of the Poker Club, of Edinburgh, which was for several years supported by Borne of the most distinguished men in Scotland." We suppose there is no use in. denying the fact so circumstantially stated, and America may as well throw up the sponge. We may as well admit that America stolo poker from Scotland, Scotland from the Romans and the Romans from the Egyptians. There is no evidence, how ever, that the chief feature of the game, bluffing, was known to the ancients, and this may still be claimed as a purely American variation. Whether the varia? tion is anything to bo proud of, is a mat? ter of considerable doubt Lady Minto informs us, that among the regular at ' tendants upon the Edinburgh Poker Club, were Adam Smith, the great politi? cal economist, and David Hume, the famous historian. Though Lady Minto docs not expressly say so, we judge from her statements that the Edinburgh game was that deceptive pastime known as the cents ante, with no limit. Mr. Smith scorns to have played a safe game and to have waited patiently for pairs, occasion? ally, however, taking advantage of his reputation to fetcal a spot by standing pat on nothing. Mr. Hume's game was bolder, his play being that of a man who did not believe in n hereafter, though, atheist as he was, we will do him the justice to say there is no proof that he was ever guilty of the ineffable baseness of drawing to a three card Hush. Such meanness was reserved for the Western hemisphere and the boasted civilization of the nineteenth century. An ex-Confederate officer has won re? nown in the field of exploration. An exchange states that Col. Long, the ex Confederate officer attached to Col. Gor? don's Central African expedition, who not long since discovered a third great lake at the bead-waters of tho Nile, has reached Egypt on his return from a jour? ney to the country of tho piumies, dis? covered by Schweinfurth. Iiis journey has been a successful one, and ho has made discoveries of very great interest to geographers and ethnologist*. As his term of service has expired, and he pro? poses to return home, a new volume of African exploration, inferior in interest and importance to no recent work of the kind, may be anticipated. Tho bravery and enterprise displayed by Col. Long reflect credit on the American name, and havo already been rewarded by the offi? cial commendation of Col. Gordon and tho presentation by tho Sultanol'a badge of the Turkish order of merit. A torpedo ohicken has been invented for the benefit of the robbers of tho hen? roost. It is a/?c simile, of tho genuine article, but is charged with explosive material, which makes tho thief think lightning has struck him when he touches it. Perhaps Gabriel may as well sound his trumpet now. Editor Phosnix: Who is at fault, I would ask? Some time ago, I directed a letter to Helena, near Newberry village, and it was eleven day a. before it was de? livered to tho party. I have one now on the way some dayB, marked important, and I hopo those charged with the.sc du? ties may deliver it, if the labor is not too sflvcre; and, if so, I will assist them pro? fessionally, if called on. MASK Twain on SrEI.lino. ?There was a spelling match at tho Congregational Church, Hartford, Conn., and Mr. Sa? muel L. Clemens (.Mark Twain) being called on for a few preliminary remarks, spoke as follows: Ladihh and GbntTjEMKK:'I have been honored with the office of introducing these approaching orthographical so? lemnities with a few remarks. The tem? perance crusade Bwept tho land some time ago, that is, that vast portion of the land where it was needed, but it skipped Hartford. Now comes this new spelling epidemic, nnd this time we aro stricken. So I suppose we needed the affliction. / don't say wo needed it, for I don't see any use in spelling a word right, and never did. I mean, I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. Wo might as well mako all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is fdeasing. I have a correspondent whoso ettcrs are always a refreshment to me; there is Buch a breezy, unfettered origi? nality about his orthography. lie always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader field, a wider scope. ItBUggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive, new kind of cow. Superb eflfects can be produced by varie? gated spelling. Now, there is Blind Tom, the musical prodigy. He always spells a word according to the sound that is carried to his ear. And ho is an en? thusiast in orthography. When you give him a word, he shouts it out?puts all his soul into it I once heard him called upon to spell orang-outang before an audience. He said, "O, r-a-n-g, orange, g-e^-r, ger, oranger, t-a-n-g, oranger tang?" Now a body can respect on orang-outang that spells his name in a vigorous way like that .But the feeble dictionary makes a mere kitten of him. In the old time, peopled used to spell just as they pleased. That ?was tho right idea. You had two chances at a stranger then. You knew a strong man from a weak one by his iron-clad spelling, and his hand? writing helped you to verify your ver? dict Somo people have an idea that correct spelling can be taught?and taught to anybody. That is a mistake. The spelling faculty is born in a man, like pootry, musio and art It is a gift; it is a talent People who have this gift in a high degree, only need to see a word once in print and it is forever pho? tographed upon their memory. They cannot forget it. People who haven't it must be content to spell more or less like?like thunder?and expect to splin? ter the dictionary wherever their ortho 5raphical lightning happens to strike, 'here arc 114,000 words in the una? bridged dictionary. I know a lady who can only spell 1^0 of them right. She steers clear of all the rest She can't learn any more. So her letters always consist of those constantly recurring 1H0 words. Now and then, when she finds herself obliged to write upon a subject which necessitates the use of some other words, she?well, she don't write on that sub? ject. I have a relative in New York who is almost sublimely gifted. She can't spell any word right. There is a game called \ crbarinm. A dozen people are each provided with a sheet of paper, across the top of which is written a long word like kaleidoscopical, or something like that, and the game is to see who can make up the most words out of that in three minutes, always beginning the initial letter of the word, t'pon one oc? casion the word chosen was cofferdam. When time was called, everybody had built five to twenty words except this young lady. She had only one word ? calf. We all studied a moment, and then said: "Why, there is no 1 in coffer? dam!-' Then wo examined her paper. To the eternal honor of that uninspir-jd, unconscious, sublimely-independent soul, be it said, she had spelled the word "calf!" If anybody here can spell call any more scnsibly'than that, let him step to the front and take his milk. The in? surrection will now begin. In the Tillon-Boecher trial, at Brook lyn, X. Y., on the 8th, Mr. Beach con? tinued his argument He reviewed the history of tho scandal, to show that Tilton and Moniten had both acted in good faith with Beecher in seeking to suppress the scandal, for the sake of the two chief parties to it, and that it was not until Beecher had packed a church committee and enticed Mrs. Tilton from her home to testify in his behalf, that they took final and decisive action. He combatted the argument of Mr. Evarts, that it was impossible for the jury to convict on the ovidenco of tho accusing party, and also claimed that tho confes? sions of both Mrs. Tilton and Mr. 1 Beecher wore of full capacity to warrant a conviction. In regard to tho charges of conspiracy and black-mail, ho showed that at tho time this conspiracy was alleged to have begun, Tilton wanted neither money nor fame, for he possessed both, while Moulton stood higli in his business and lacked nothing. For four years, theso "conspirators" had been struggling to koop down tho scandid. Would Mrs. Moulton, Mrs. Bradshaw and Mr. Moulton, ho asked, all peril their souls for the sako of Mr. Tilton? Mr. Boaoh continued thus at some length, to demonstrate the absurdity of tho charge of blaok-mail and conspiracy, and also of tho allegation that Mrs. Tilton made her confession, acting under the ! control and at tho dictation of her hus 1 band. "The Wild So?thebnxr."?Wendell Phillips is a rare genius, and he is one of the few wild New England fanatics in whose sincerity we bolieve. There iB as little blarney and humbug about Wen? dell as any Northerner of his generation. His candor is sometimes overpowering. He makes tho following characteristic remarks about our people, in which he shows that tho method in his madness still remains: "The wild Santhcrner has been tamed; he will never light the flag again. Tho cunning of madness is left. He seeks J to write over the llag its old lie. Calhonn taught, and every white adult in the South believes, to-day, that this is a white man's government. Though you bray them with the pestle in n mortar, you will never crush this folly out of them. Heaven forbid that I should do the white race of the South such foul wrong as to bclicvootherwi.se. I respect their sincerity, their persistent loyalty to conviction; I remember the long suf? fering, the faithful cavalier whose party ended only when its lust adherent sunk into the grave. Though the glorious Roundhead conquered, and had, in the name of justice and liberty, the right to conquer, God and human nature being his allies, still all honor to the .stout English blood that never shifted sides nor traded in convictions. I will not do such discredit to the English blood this side of the ocean as to believe that we cannot show as stout hearts to-day, spite of Generals, Senators, Vice-Presidents and debaters in verse and prose. The South holds to-day the same souls?un? selfish, untiring, faithful to death- -as England did in 16G0, 1088 and 1715. The North will yet find her Somers, Hamp den and Vane. Does blood hero run so thin that the stout conviction which in England it took 100 years to root out, Bells out and skulks away in ten years? Those who think so do not know the South." The Laboest Fajim in the Would.? Mr. George Grant, the enlightened founder of Victoria colony, in Kansas, who has been spending a couple of days in this city, left for Kansas, hist evening. Tho owner of 576,000 acres of land, em? bracing the County of Ellis, which is lnrger than any dukedom in Europe, he is entitled to tho credit of a public bene? factor, by the introduction of the best blooded stock, and showing, by exam? ple, the best manner of rearing, feeding and improving the foreign and domestic breeds of horses, cattle and sheep in this country. He has just wintered 7,000 sheep, with a ltss of less than one per per cent He wintered 537,000 cows without feeding them, except on several cold nights with hay, with only a loss of four calves and one cow. His success in this respect is due mainly to good shel? ter. The secret of saving f< cd and pre? serving stock is shelter. During the past year, Mr. Grant expended SG.'iOO in constructing shelter, and be has such faith in its advantages that he will ex? pend double the amount during the coming season. He has $250,000 in? vested in stock, and is the owner of the thorough-bred English stallion Flodden, valued at $25,000, the father of which won the race in I860 at Derby, in which half a million dollars changed hands. Mr. Grant has just returned from the East, and has on the way to his farm thirty odd brood man s, purchased in Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky. Mr. Grant is disposing of bis land to actual settlers, and sells only to such as can afford to purchase a mile square or up? wards. Among tho large number of re? sident colonists and stock-raisers who have purchased land of him, and are now raising stock in Victoria Colony, are nianv young mi n of prominence, both in this country and England. The Hon. Walter Maxwell, younger son of Lord Horrics, of Evcringhnm Park, Yorkshire, England, owns two sections, and is comfortably settled down to the healthful life of the ranchers. Then there are threo bachelor sons of a Der? byshire clergyman, and the nephew of the Earl of Winchclsca. who is now on his way over from England to take up his home there. Two nepbows of Mayor Guthrie, of New York city, and two young Shields, of Boston, are also among the number. St. Louis Hrjuibltc'in. The grass-hopper plague in the West has directed attention to the terrible waste and destruction of game that UHcd to bo so abundant in the country now afflicted with insects. Formerly, when grouse, quail and other insectivorous game birds were abundant on the prai? ries, people never heard of grass-hop? per plagues. They have only been known since the people of the West have in? dulged in wantorf destruction of the birds, so that they might make money by selling their carcasses to the Eastern markets. To such a degree has this business been carried on, that of late years dealers have been offered high prices for squab grouse, as a dainty, and the young birds have thus been slain be? fore they had done their part in replen? ishing the earth. Once the prairies used to be covered with lvfxuriant vegetation, in which were myriads, of grouse; and nobody ever heard then of grasshoppers eating up the .prairie grass. Tho birds had the advantage over thorn and ate them up before they got time to lay waste an acre. The birds have now been destroyed or driven away to remote and unoccupied territory, where, of course, they will again be pursued by the gun? ners, unless the Western legislators pass laws by which the destruction of the birds may bo prevented und their in? crease be promoted. The grass-hopper is just as dainty to the grouse and the quail as is the measuring worm to the English sparrow, and the way to abolish tho annual plague of the grass-hoppers is to prevent the destruction of all such birds by legally punishing their de? stroyers. The Growth or London.?The metro? polis of tho British Empire, tho largest city the world over saw, covers, within fifteen miles radius of Charing Cross, nearly 700 square miles, and numbers within these boundaries 4,000,000 inhabi? tants. It contains more Jows than the whole of Palestine, more Boman Catho? lics than Home itself, more Irish than Dublin, more Scotchmen than Edin? burgh. The port of London has every day on its waters 1,000 ships and 0,000 sailors. Upwards of 120 persons are added to the population daily, or 10,000 yearly, a birth taking place every five minutes, and a death every eight mi? nutes. On an average, twenty-eight miles of streets are opened, and 9,000 new houses built every year. In its postal districts there is a vearly deli? ver)- of 238,000,000 letters. On the po? lice register, there ure the names of 120,000 habitual criminals, increasing by many thousands every year. More than one-third of all the crime of the country is committed in London, or at least brought to light there. There are as many beer shops and gin palaces as would, if their fronts were placed side by side, reach from Charing Cross to Portsmouth, a distance of soventy-three miles, and 38,000 drunkards are an? nually brought before its magistrates. Tho shops open on Sundays would form streets sixtv miles long. It is estimated that there* are above 1,000,000 of the people who art: practically heathen, wholly neglecting the ordinance of reli? gion. At least H00 additional churches and chapels would be required for the wants of the people. What the Weak Need.?Why do tho debilitated and feeble dread the sum? mer? It is because heat is an exhausting element, and they are not in a condition to beur the new drain upon their lan? guid systems, which they think must necessarily commence with the warm weather. But cannot this evil be ob? viated? Most indubitably it can. What these weaklings need?in fact, whatnine tenths of us need at this season?is an accession of physical vigor, and this desideratum can be secured, with abso? lute certainty, by a course of the might? iest, yet mildest, of all vegetable tonics, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Thousands of men of business, me? chanics and professional men, break down, partially or wholly, under their summer labors, simply because they have neglected to reinforce the powers of nature in this way. To persons who use the celebrated invigornnt and cor? rective regularly in hot weather, the ex? haustion which excessive heat is apt to produce under other circumstances is unknown. They are not troubled with nausea, their appetites are good, their digestion exc client and their habit of body all that can be desired. This for twenty years has been the uniform testi? mony of all who have taken tho Bitters as a summer tonic and alterative. Its efficacy is due to the care and scrupu? lous fidelity to the teachings of experi? mental science, with which its medicinal ingredients have been culled from the vegetable kingdom, the admirable pro? portions in which they are combined and tho unequalled purity of its stimu? lative basis. * J18t3"l A negro revivalist named Andrew Coon is said to be as effective with his own race, in Mississippi, as Moody and San key are with white people. He is a pow? erful fellow, physically and vocally, and the scenes that attend his fervid exhorta? tions are described as being the acme of religious excitement. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial attended one of his meetings. After a harrowing sermon, that wrought the impressible hearers to intense feeling, he made the following admonition and appeal: "Now, biedren and sisters, we want mounahs heah to-night. No foolin*. Ef you can't monhn for you sins, don' come foolin' round dis altah. I knows ye. You's tryin' mighty ha'hd to bo con varied I 'thout be-in' " hurt. The Lord 'spiscs mockery. Sometimes you sinnahs comes foil'rd an' holds your head too high it-comin'. You come foah you's ready. You starts too soon. You don't repent; you's no mounnh. You's foolin' wid do Lord. You come struttin' up to tho altah: you flops down on your knees, an' you peeps fru you lingahs, dis way, an' you cocks up yon cabs to see who's iiiakin' do bes' pray'r. Y'ou's 'tiroly too peart for pen it en's. You's no mounahs. Et you conies heah to fool, you bettah stay away. Bettah go to hell from de pew asleepsn'. or from your cabin a .swearin", dan from the numnah's bench a foolin'. He was an awfully mean man. He carried a 850 counterfeit bill to make a show of it sometimes when lingering for a little change. His poor, hard-working wife had been begging him for a nice gold chain she had seen in a shop-win clow down town. One day he felt in a merry mood, gave her the counterfeit bill, and told her to buy tho chain. Then ho left home laughing, and ho catno home feeling full of jokes. It ap? peared to be tho happiest day of his life. Ho made a tool of the old woman. But the old woman wore that gold chain at the dinner-table, and called the brute her "dear old darling." This put an? other face on the whole affair. It had censed to be a joko to him. The jeweler called before dinner, and handing him the base note, told him to "shell out" fifty dollars, if he wished to escape an? noyance. He shelled out, and has nover been able to see the point of his own joke. But the poor woman enjoyed it. "Are the young ladies of the present day fit for w ives?" asked a lecturer of his audience. "They are fit for husbands," responded a female voice; "but the trou? ble is, you men are not fit for wives!" The applause was great, and so was the discomfiture of the lecturer. Crrr Items.?Subscribe for (don't bor? row) the Phoenix. GOO dozen hosiery, put this day on the bargain counters of Wm. D. Love <fc Co. When you see a man bend forward with woe upon his face, and hands upon his stomach, yon may know that early cucumbers have arrived. Bargain counters, loaded with choice goods, at half price, at Wm. D. Love A Co.'s. Notwithstanding storms and other at-' mospheric disturbances, the Pikenix de? spatches come right along. Vide our telegraphic columns. There was another storm, yesterday afternoon- wind, rain, thunder and lightning. 1875 will be remembered as the year of gales. The ruffle for the benefit of the Catho lil school came off Wednesday evening? Mr. Jerome Pagan winning the silver cup, and Miss Doyle and Mr. W. Wood? ruff the pictures. I In Norway, the longest day lasts three months. The man who, six months ago, promised to call in a day or two and set J tie that little bill, must have gone to I Norway on a visit. The entire stock of Hamburg edgings and insertings placed on the bargain counters this day, at Wm. D. Love & Co., at a sacrifice?must be sold. The Greenville Enterprise and J/bun taineer has passed into the hands of Messrs. John C. and Edward Bailey. Mr. B. C. Logan retires from the edito? rial chair. When they build a railroad, the first thing they do is to break ground. This is often done with great ceremony. Then they break the stock-holders. This is done without ceremony. Yesterday afternoon, while the gale was at its height, a burning chimney in the house of Mr. E. 8. Bouknight, cor? ner of Plain and Gates streets, caused a fire alarm. No damage was done; men and horses had a ran, however. The ovidence in the Beecher case is to be re-opened, and the old adulterer made to face some very damaging evi? dence?from a druggist, named Leys, from whom he purchased poison, and Loader and Price, upholsterers, who testify to direct crim. con. Pity this evidence had not been introduced several months ago, and at once put an eud to this disgusting trial. The intimacy at tho Long Island hotel may yet be proven. Our dry goods men aro cutting down prices in nearly every department; so that a little money will go a long way. Messrs. W. D. Love & Co. have bargain counters, where goods are disposed of at and below cost. Messrs. Jones, Davis A Bouknights keep the ball in motion, and won't let a customer leavo without being fully snpplied. Mr. Kinard steps up to the front, and asks an inspection of his stock and prices; while Mr. Jackson, who claims to be the "leader of low prices." will prove satisfactorily that'he will not be under-sold. Each ol these establish? ments arc doing a driving business. ??? - A Gap.at Stokm and Bi'sh.?Not at Love's, Jones', Jackson's or Kinard's, but at "Heinit8h's City Drug Store," not for linen and fine clothes, but for good and cheap medicines, to make you feel well in the clothes you have: The "Rose Cordial,-' "The Balm of Gilead," "The Blood Pills" for tho liver, the Queen's Delight, the Lamp of Life, and Mother "Darling's" Baby Cordial. Life is al? ways worth preserving. Save It at the least expense, and do it by getting your medicines at Heinitsh's. Hotel AnnrvALs, June ll.?JIendri.r House-T. B. Lewis, N. Y.; T. S. Wil? liams, Aiken; S. B. Chinnis, N. C.: W. P. Boof, Lexington; C. T. Ligon, city: E. A. Wagener, Charleston; J. A. Sence, State Ridge. It is truly wonderful, the variety and ingenuity of tho conveniences for the desk and office?pens of varied patterns, inkstands possessing uninberless ad? vantages, letter files, each one the best, envelopcsjof size and qualities infinite. It is almost bowildenng to enter tho largo Broad street store of Walker, Evans A Cogswell, in Charleston, and see the number of these attractions. Here you find the largest stationery stock South of Baltimore, and you only have two troubles?first, sufficient cash; and, second, the difficulty in deciding among the many things offered, each j equully suitable to your wants. M7t At an auction of household goods on Harrison avenue, yesterday, when a wo? man had made a bid on an old bureau worth about two dollars, a boy slipped around to another woman and whis? pered: "You see that woman over there with a blue bow on?" "Yes." "Well, she says that no woman with a red nose can buy anything at this sale!" The wo? man with the red noso pushed hor way into tho crowd and run the price of tho bureau up to twelve dollars, and as it was knocked down to her she remarked: "I may havo a rod noso, but no cross? eyed woman with a blue bow on can 1 bluff me!"?Detroit Fre* Press.