The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-10-09

pOuII 10 UdKc CtlC constitutional
amendment, says:
Every day furnishes renewed in
dications that the Republicans will
at the approaching elections sweep
the entire North and West bv tre-
mendous majorities. We see this in
the numbers present and the en-
thusiasm manifested ut their State
conventions, at their mass meetings.
at their county and municipal primary
meetings, and in the vigor and deter
mlnatlon evlnced in private CONVEX
satlon. If they quarrel among them
selves, it is only because they feel
themselves strong enough to do so
without endanSerinS victory, as the
Democratic party of old once did.
That "cohesive power which sealed
the defunct Democracy in cordial en-
brace whenever the final issue at the
ballot-boX came, now imbues the
Republicans, and it will be only
through miserable mismanagement.
lmbecility and corruption, which
killed the Democratic party, that q
similar fate will attend the present
dominant party.
PRoSPECT IN PENNSYLVANIA Our
friends speak hopefully of the con-
test in Pennsylvania Enthusiastic
meetings, largely attended: are being
held all over the State, and our ex-
changes give the most hattering ac-
counts Of the energy and determine
ton of the people. The Philadelphia
Age says:
The State is being fully and tho
roughly canvassed, and from every
election division and district come
cheering reports of changes in our
favor, amounting in the aggregate to
such a number rs to preclude the
possibility of Il failure at the polls.
In some Counties, whole families,
formerly active and influential in the
ranks of the opposition, are now
zealously cooperating with the anti
radical party, while in all the addi-
tons to the Democratic and conserv-
atlve clubs are challenging the Won
der and chagrin of the leaders of the
Torch and Turpentine' faction"
The New York He,'ulI, of Tuesday,
has an article slightly 'sarcastical"
upon the Rev. Theodore Tilton, edit
or of the New York independent, who
is now acting us leading torch bearer
of the. radicals. The article, which is
singulary epithetical, mentions Tilton
as the ''Rev. Twaddling Tilton," the
REV. Toddling Tilton,' the "Rev.
Tattling Tilton.' the REV. Twid-
ding Iilton,' the ''Rev. Throttling
Tilton, the "Rev Trotting Tilton, y
the ''Rev. Thinking Tilton, the "Rev.
Tonsorial Tilton," the REV. Tum-
bling Tiltop, and the ''Rev. Turpen-
tine Tilton."
The Hartford Cow'uu Of Monday
says: We have for some days past
been IN possession of facts connected
with Il bold and successful robbery of
bonds to a large amount from the
vaults Of Il city bank, which we have
withheld from publication at the re-
quest of the parties interested. The
amount stolen was, we learn, between
$50, 900 and $50, 600.
The Springfield (NIass.) Union says
that 'sensualism, in all its more
beastly and disgusting forms of
licentiousness and profigacy, is on
rapid increase in all our New Eng
land cities and towns, and nobody
can blink it ont Of sight without
doing violence to his knowledge and
sincerity
a large swindle of the Government,
at New Orleans, to the amount of
about half a million dollars, has been
anearthend by United States detec-
tives. The party implicated is J.
Lowenthal, of No. 2O7 Pennsylvania
Avenue, Washington, who is a claim
agent there
\ witness has just been discharged
in Fall River, Mass, who has been
kept at public expense (S1.25 a day
and boarO since July 26. The public
prosecutor has just found out that he
does not want him.
The grasshopper pest has reached
st. Joseph, Missouri. SO thick are
they that In some parts of the city
the people have to close The doors
and windows to keep them out of
their houses
y lot of fine coal-cured leaf tobac-
co, made by j. J. Adcock, of Gran
vile, North Carolina, sold in Peters
burg, Thursday, for the extraordinary
price OF 5000 per cwt., the highest