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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-09-29

QUrrE CoNrRARlw1sE. We are told
that ''lillc cures like We wish our
clever hommpaths would invent a
much more valuable system to society
by which ''dislikas should cure dis
likes. "rPnmch.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-09-29

\ MATRIMONIAL INCONSISTENCY. A
queer instance in illustration of this
vice has recently been brought to
light 4n a neiShboring town. A
married woman moving in high
circles, left her home one evening
last week, and taking i conveyance to
a hotel in the rural districts, was
soon joined by an unfaithful husband, :,
who ought to have been Il at home
taking care of his own family, in
stead of engaging lii intimate COM
panionship with those outside of his
own Household. The couple ordered
a room together, representing them
selves as husband and wife. At Il
later hour the same night a carriage
drove ZIP to the door of the hotel with
another couple, who engaged lodgings
in IN adjoining chamber. All passed
off quietly enough until the next
morning. when The two couples were
summoned to the breakfast table.
There they met whcn-lo and behold!
there was mere change of partners,
each gentleman having upon his arm
the wife Of the other! Although there
was mutual blushing, mental cmsing
and recrimidation, it was deemed
best, after a sober, second thought,
to l"t the matter rest as quietly as
pos Ole, but the coincidence was a
too remarkable one to avoid the ear
of tEf >ver curious.
Lo'ceH I -Nuss.) Ne'cs.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-09-29
MI5CEELANx'
Going to Sleep.

oAA5 ~ SAcCps
The'hght is fading down the sky,
The shadows grow and multiply,
hear the thrushes' evening song:
But have borne with toll and wrong
So long, SO long!
Dim dreams my drowsy senses drown
So, darling, kiss my eyeGd down!
NJ LIES brief spring went wasted by
My summer ended fruitlessly;
| Learned to hunger, strive and wait
1 found you, love-oh! happy fate! .
:. So late, so latei
Now all my fields are turning brown
So, darling g, kiss ny eyelds down!
Oh! blessed sleep! oh! perfect rest!
Thus pilbwed on your faithful breast,
Nor. lie nor death is wholly drear,
q, tender heart, since you are here,
So dear, so dear:
Sweet love! my sou:'s sufficient crown.
Now, darling, kiss my eyelids down!
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-09-29
$pEcK & pollock,
General Commission Merchants,

F7aa'f |reef, 21s doo1' .t,'4m .1ssemby,
COLUMBIA, s. c.
WE respectfully solicit I share of tho
w tpublic patronage. All business en-
trusted to US will receive prompt and per
sonal attention. We have now i'll store an
assortment Of DRY GOODS, CLOTHING; !;
PERFUMES, &c. Also, Groceries, Provi-
sions, such as Sugar, Coffee, Tea, New Or
leans Molasses. Cheese. Crackers Branslics
VINES and Liquors, Scgars, &C., &C., all of
Which we offer either at wholesale or retail
Sept
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-09-29

l1IscEaENATIoN. ideas float
thfough the minds of some of the
freedmen and women hereabolits.
We had Il conversation with g. stout
coiored woman, ct present" in our
employ-one, too, Of tho very best
That we have met with, and she SAYS
tnat the understanding among the
black folks all through the countsf
IS, that the whites and the blacks are
to be forced to marry; the black men
to mafry our white women. and the
white men the black women. sT,
think, said she, ''that Jake will be-
'TTo-y much disappointed. US he e1-
pected long fore this 10 have been
married to u white lady" Jake had
been her husband, and had actually
abandoned her with the view of mar
rylng white woman. Itsee1ns, from
what we could learn. that wags, both
Northern and Southern. had been
playing off their joke$ upon The more
gullable Of the black people, and the
latter, without questioning, accepted
the joke as Gospel. The fact is, the
general intcrmarri.yc ot tle, whites
and blacks is, to some extent. believed
by the moro intelligent class of col
ored people about town. We heard
an INTEL igent colorcd woman say that
as it was now lawful for whites and
blacks to marry, she would marry !.
white man, as she never cared much
about negroes anyway
Shrercp"rt (La.) NcrS.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-04-06
The Story Of a Tree.

A correspondent with the army before
Petersburg tells curious story of large
pine tree, which has long stood midway
Between the Union and Rebel pickets, at
a point where the lines are only twenty.
FIVE yards apart. The trees neutral posi-
ton long protected it from destruction,
but scarcity of fuel suggested compro
mise, and it was agreed that it should be
cut down, aud that both claimants should
divide its wood A delegate from
each picket line accordingly went forth to
the task, and by the vigorous axes of both
the trunk was soon leveled to the earth
Then arose an animated debate as to
which of the soldiers should have the butt
and which the branches. Words were
not conclusive enough to decide the ques.
ton, and were soon changed to blows A
brisk and bloodless combat ensued, in
which the Union man proved the most
skillful pugilist, and the victor triumph
antly carried to his campfire the largest
end of the log.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-04-06
How to Prevent a Divorce.

When the senior Jonathan Trumbull
was Governor of Connecticut, gentle
man called at his house, requesting to see
his excellency in private. Accordingly
he was shown into his sanctnm sanctorum,
and the Governor came forward to meet
Squire w, saying =
"Good morning, sir; am glad to see
you"
W. returned the salutatation, saying
as he did So
81 have called to see you on a very un-
pleasant errand, sir, and want your ad-
vice. My wife and do not live happily
together, and I am thinking of getting a
divorce What do you advise, sir ?"
The Governor sat few moments in
deep thought, and then turning to Squire
W., said:
"How did you treat Mrs. w. when you
were courting her, land how did you feel tow
ard her at the time of your marriage ?"
Squire W. replied
81 treated her as kindly as I could, for
l loved her dearly at the time"
"Well," said the Governor, ego home
and court her now just as you did then,
and love her as when you married her
Do this, in the fear of God, for one year,
and tell me the result"
The Governor then said
"Let us pray"
They bowed in prayer and separated.
When year had passed away, Squire
w. called again to see the Governor, and,
grasping his hand, said
81 have called to thank you for the
good advice you gave me, and to tell you
that my wife and l are as happy as when
we were first married. l cannot be CRATE
full enough for your counsel p
81 am glad to hear it, Mr.. W., and
hope you will continue to treat your wife
thus long as you live"
The result was that Squire w. and wife
lived happily together till the end of life.
1t is useless to ask those who are think
ing of separtion in these days to go and
do likewise.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-04-06
The Oldest Man In the World,

We will not assert that the oldest o
living men is resident of Wisconsin
but we challenge any other State or coun
try to produce man or woman who ha.
attained the age reached by Joseph Orele
now residing in the town of Caledonia,
Columbia county, in this State
During the French Revolution one
Jean Claud Jacob, a member of the Ma.
tional Assembly, was called the "Dean of
the human species, the eldest of men. -
On his smeared worn face were ploughed
the furrowings of one hundred and twen-
ty wears. But our "Dean of the human
species" is nearly twenty years older than
Claud Jacob, who did not complete his
one hundred and twentyfrst year.
Joseph Crele was born in Detroit, of
French parents. The record Of his bap-
tlsm to the Catholic church of that city
shows that he is now l59 years of age
lie has been a resident of Wisconsin for
about century. Whenever mention is
made of the earliest inhabitant, there
need be no question as to the person
Joseph Crele is undoubtedly the man.
He was first married in New Orleans, 1O9
years ago. Some years after he settled
at Prairie du Chen, while Wisconsin was
yet province of France. Before the
Revolutionary war he was employed to
carry letters between Prairie du CHEN
and Green Bay. 1t is but few years
since that he was called as witness in
the Circuit Court, in case involving the
title to certain real estate at Prairie du
Chen, to give testimony in relation to
events that transpired eighty years before
He now resides with daughter, by his
third wife, who is over seventy years of
age.
The residence of the family is only four
or five males out of Portage City. From
citizens of that place we learn that the
old man is still active, is able to chop
wood, and to walk several miles. He
speaks English quite imperfectly, but
converses fuently Ia the French Ian
guage. He stoops a little under the bur-
den of years, but not more than many
men OF seventy. In person he is rather
above the medium height, spare in flesh,
but showing evidences of having been in
his prime man of sinewey strength
Concerning his habits, subject of much |
interest in connection with an instance of |
such longevity, we have been able to
learn but little, except that he is an in
veterate smoker.
A very good daguerrotype picture of
him taken in 1856, may be seen at the
rooms of the State Historical society,"
Wisconsin Journal
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-04-06
A Curious Centre Table.

A Milwaukee mechanic has presented
to President Lincoln handsome centre
table, of octagonal form, which is com
posed of about twenty thousand different
pieces of wood. The top has beautiful
aud graceful border, made of black wal
nut and white holly, about three and half
inches wide. Within this are perfect
of our most beautiful
birds, faithful likenesses of Lincoln, John
son, Grant, and Butler, baskets of the
rarest flowers and fruits, and other designs
in most excellent taste. Six months la
Dor was required to complete it, and it is
valued at $1,000. The same person pre-
sented Mrs. Lincoln with work-stand
which he got up with similar elaborate
ness 1t contains one thousand pieces,
is finished with every conceivable conve-
nience, and cost two months of patient
labor.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-04-06

"Axe grinding" is a term borrowed
from one of the most charming stories
told by Benjamin Franklin. A little boy
going to school was accosted by man
carrying an axe. The man calls the boy
all kinds Of pretty and endearing names
and induced him to enter yard where
there is a grind-stone.
"Now, my pretty little fellow" says
the man with the axe, "oniy turn that
handle and you'll see something pretty
The boy turns and the man pours water
over it until the axeis ground. Straight
way he turns with strident voice and
fierce gesture on the boy :"You abandon.
cd little miscreant," he cries, "what do
you mean by playing truant from school ?
You deserve good thrashing. Get ye
gone, sirrah, this instant 7 Adds Frank
lin, "whcn any body flattered me | always
thought he had an axe to grind.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-04-06
Indignation Superinduced by Petroleum.

The other day / came across Western
Congressman who appeared to be in higl
state OF indignation at something or Other
and In response to an inquiry as to what
was the matter with him, he unbosomed
himself as follows:
Its enough to make anybody mad
just to think of it. just now met a fel-
low that l used to know out West as a
poor Journeyman carpenter, and botch
at that. He couldn't earn his salt, ex-
cept at the meanest kind of mending and
patching. [ thought as [ saw him com
Ing up the avenue, dressed to kill, with
a great big watch-chain hanging out of
his vest and diamond ring on nearly
every fnger-I really thought the fellow
had been robbing somebody, for when l
saw him before he looked as if he really
needed somebody's cast off clothes to COW
er his nakedness.
II told him | was glad to see him, and
congratulated him on his healthy appear
ance. Then said | to him, Jim, what
have you been doing since saw you last,
good while ago?' He fingered his
watch-chain while, and looking at me,
said coolly, 1--WE been in business in Wes-
tern Pennsylvania what kind P said
L. in the oil business said he. 'Ah,
indeed, said l. L suppose, then, you've
done pretty WELL | expected to hear
him say yes, that he had done very we'll
had made forty or something that way
but instead of that, he says to me. well,
no, [ haven't done very well /; I've only
made $4,000, but [ think 1 will do bet
ter next SPRING"
This was the eliminating point of the
indignation-the impu-
ience of the carpenter, thinking he hadn't
lone well at $50, 900, when few months
.go he was looking for jobs at dollar
lay, and couldn't get them. And all on
account of lie. - Cincinnati Commercial
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-04-06

The Normons have commenced cutting
canal of a magnitude far exceeding any.
thing OF the kind ever undertaken in t6e;
Territory before, for the two-fold purpose o
OF irrigation and navigation. Starting
near the boundaries of Utah and Salt
Lake counties, it will wind its way along.
the eastern side of the valley, watering
the land on its course, including very.
considerable tract yet unbroken, and
reaching terminus in that city, short
distance south and west of where the ar
tesIan well is being sunk entire length
being over thirty-two miles.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-04-06
a Bows PRAYER.

A Presbyterian clergyman in Northern
New York had too smart boys, just old G.
nough to have inquiring minds, but not
to discern the reason of things. They
were taught to pray, and the efficiency
and need of prayer were daily impressed
upon them. Both boys had patch of
"tucket' or 'pop" corn in the garden
and the growing blades were watched
with intense interest, small reward be-
ing held out to stimulate their industry
One day the father walking near the path,
heard the voice of the youngest solemnly
engaged in prayer, and drawing near lis
tened to the following petition: 80 Lord,
make my corn grow great big corn, but
make brother Sans grow all little nub-
bins !"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-04-06

Park Goodwin, at meeting held in
New York, recently, said:
Europe says VIC arc too slow. / re-
member that the great Wellington took
six years to drive Napoleon out Of Spain,
a country as great as Virginia, and then
he retired because of reverses elsewhere.
Four nations took two years to occupy
the Crimea, country as large as New
Jersey. England took eighteen months
to suppress the Sepoy rebellion, about as
great an undertaking as to put down q
rebellion among the negroes of South
Carolina county. France has in more
than year succeeded in getting only
about one hundred and eighty miles into
Mexico, where she holds very insecure
position. We think that England had
better look at home before criticising the
movements of armies"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-04-06
An Ingenious Scoundrel.

We yesterday learned from gentle
man in this city, Of the following outrage
perpetrated in Mechanicsburg last week
A we'll dressed and honest seeming fellow,
whose name has not been obtained, called
at the residence of Mr.. Elkin, merchant
in that city, about l o'clock on the night
mentioned, and, with tear moistened eve
and damp handkerchief, which was fire.
quently used in the direction of his ocu-
lar organs, pitifully requested Mr.. E. to
go with him to his (Mr. Esq store, in
another part of the town, and sell him a
shroud for the burial Of his deceased and
only brother.
Mr.. E., touched by the fellows grief,
and ever willing to perform any act of hu-
manity, put on his overcoat, felt in his
pocket for the key of his store, and dis
covering it to be there, started off with
the stranger to sell him shroud. Tears
were shed by one, and words of consola-
ton were breathed in sympathetic voice
by the other as they passed down the
street arm in arm. The store at length
was reached, the key was inserted in the
lock, the door yielded, and the two men
entered.
Mr.. Elkin found match, lit candle,
and proceeded to measure off the pattern
for shroud. His bereaved customer, in
the midst of his lamentations, suddenly
gave most startling whistle the door O.
pened again, as at the very utterance of
magic sound, and in bolted two rufians,
who, together with the third, who had
played his part SO well, drew pistols on
the oblising Mr.. E., and kept him silent
and secure until they helped themselves
to his goods and safely made their escape
with the plunder This ungenerous out
law and his two associates, have not been
heard of since the preparation of the a
bove outrage, Notwithstanding the efforts
of the officers of this city.-Springtield
(IU.) Register.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-04-06
The Victims Of Rebel Cruelty.

The Wilmington n G. correspondent
of the Philadelphia Press writes of rebel
cruelty to Union prisoners as follows:
Everywhere in the lower part of the
city the eye is afflicted with the sight OF
skeletons arrayed in every sort of uncouth
garb. You look at their strange, unnat-
ural faces, and wonder whether these are
the visages of living men, or not rather
parchment skins tightly drawn over a
feshless skull. Their eyes are sunken,
and you scarcely see that they have WIS.,
ION. They are often hatless, and you will
see the head of young man or boy as
bald as an old mans pate. A few weak
struggling hairs are all that suffering has
left, or that starved nature has been able
to sustain. These poor beings, when
they are strong enough to creep about,
wander little way from their hospitals
and sun themselves upon cellar doors, and
lie upon brick pavements. In the hospi-
tails are men with wounds on which worms
breed and feed upon the living flesh. You
see men whose toes have been eaten into
by maggots till the joints have dropped
off. These men have their feet bound up
in rags, and hobble slowly alor g support
ing their faltering footsteps by rude sticks.
You would suppose that these men had
reached the very pit of human misery,
but If you converse with them they will |
tell you that they are happy. They have
been In the hands of inhuman creatures,
men without hearts, almost without souls;
now they are with their friends they are
happy. They have been most foully NAL
treated and starved now they are tender
ly cared for and fed. Home is beckon-
ing to them. The liberated prisoner on
ly waits for health and strength, which
hope will soon breathe into his veins, and
then he will be in an earthly paradise
home.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-04-06
NO. s.:

An individual who owned a small tav.
ern near the field of Waterloo. the scena
OF the last great action of Napoleon, was
frequently questioned as to whether he
did not possess some relics of the battle.
and as in invariably and honestly answered
in the negative.
But ne was very poor, and one day
while lamenting to neighbor not only
his poverty, but the annoyance to which
travellers subjected him, his friend cut
him short with
well, make one help the other, Make
some relics 2
But what can I do P inquired the poor
man.
Tell them that Napoleon or Yelling
ton entered your shop during the battle;
and sat down on that chair
Not long after an English tourist en-
tered the tavern, and enquiring for re-
lies, was told the chair story. The chair
was bought at an incredible price. The
next conner was informed that Wellinel
ton had taken drink, and the "Welline.
ton tumbler" was accordingly sold. The
third Carnival gazed with breathless won
der at the nail on which Bonaparte had
hung up his hat. The fourth purchased
the door posts between which he had en-
tered and the fifth became the happy
purchaser of the floor on which he had
trodden
At the last advices the fortunate sss-
ern keeper had not a root to cover his
head, and was sitting on bag of gold in
the centre of deep pit, formed by SELL
Ing the earth on which the house had
stood.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-04-06
Nasby and the Draft,

, Petroleum V. Nasby gives the follow
Ing cogent reasons why he should not b,
, drafted:
;. see in the papers last mite, that tn,
Government has institooted draft, anc
that In few weeks hundreds NV thous
ands Nv peaceable citizens will be dragged
to the tented feeld. know not wat 9th
ers may do, but ez fer me [ can't CO.
Upon rigid eggsamination NV my izzi.
kle man, find it wood be wuz nor mad.
ness for me 2 undertake a campane. to
wit:
/ l. I'm bald heded, and hev ben obliged
to ware wig these % years.
2. | hev dandruff in wat scanty hair
stlll is round my venerable temples.
). heV chronic katarr.
4. | hev lost, since Stanton's order to
draft, the use of one eye entirely, and
have chronic inflammation in the other.
5. My teeth is all unsound, my palit
aint eggsa actly rite, and 1 he'd bronkeetis
81 years last Joon. At present hev
kotf, the parexisms Nv which is friteful 2
behold.
Z. | am afflicted with chronic diarrear
and kostlveness. The money | hev paid
icr Janeses karminnativ balsam and pills
wood astonish almost enybody.
8. am rupchured in 9 places, and am
entirely enveloped with trusses.
9. hev varrykose vanos, hev white
swelling on wun leg and fever sore on
the other-also one leg is shorter than
tother, though l handle it so expert that
nobody never noticed it.
10. | heV korns and bunyans on both
feet, which would prevent me from mar
chin.
| dom suppose that my political opin-
on which are forriest the prosecution of
his unconstitooshnel war, wood hev any
vat with Il draftin osifer, but the above
named reasons why | can't so, will, Imaik
40 doubt be sufficient.
PETROLEUM Y. NAsBY.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-04-06
New Way Of Paving old Debts.

In the Norwegian mines singular
custom is observed in paying the weekly
wages of the men. They all present
themselves on Saturday evening to the
Inspector, who, having settled accounts
with each, bids him turn round, and
writes in white chalk upon his black
back the sum due to him. Thus num-
bered, the man goes to the cashier, who
also turns him round to look at the T.
cures, and pays him without having a
word to say.