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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08

The ERROR OF THE NoRrH-If,
says the Richmond Wig, the North
crn people could, by miracle, be
shown the real condition of the
South could see into the interior of
our households and business affairs
could see how straitened we are in
our circnmstances-cou learn how
many families that hitherto knew,
experimentally, little of life save its
enJoyments and luXuries, are now
brought face to face with it's hard
ships and privations-could see the
struggle that is going on i'll every
household for the bare nccessaries of
life, the economy that is practiced,
and the patient endurance of old and
young, male and female if they
could see how eager all are for some
honest employment, however humble,
that will yield q bare livelihood
could see how tolerant those who
owned hundreds of slaves, who were
at their beckEand call, now are of
the freedmen in their newly acquired
Privileges, and with what cheerful
good humor they conform to the new
order of things-treating these for
mer slaves with the utmost kindness
If, too, they could see the perfect
Indifference of Ill classes to politics,
their freedom from passion and par
tisanship-if, we say, the Northern
people could, by miracle, be shown
these things, they would wonder at
their own excitement, and exclaim
against the mischicvous demagogues
who have deceived and misled them.
While the Northern people, thus de-
luded, are going abont like roaring
lions, the South is as quiet as a lamb.
The radical measures are all calcu-
lated for condition of things bor-
dering on revolution, when the South
ern people are as free from every
thought or purpose of revolution as
the dead who sleep their last sleep in
the ancient catacombs. We are all
utterly disgusted with politics, and
desire only to be allowed to attend in
peace to our business affairs.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08

gy in, our people which such m OBJ.
.stacla cannot resist.
Should it prove otherwise, (but that
is impossible,) then it might, with
truth, be said, that life and heart are
completely crushed out of Maryland.
But it will not be otherwise, and we
will show that her heart is as it was
m the Revolutionary struggle-de-
voted to freedom, careless of danger.
and preferring death to slavery. The
present canvass opens way to her
emancipation. Let patriotic men be
elected to the Legislature, andall will
soon be changed. The letters which
now bind and dishonor her people
will fall to the ground and ere long,
they will be seen to be amongst the
freest and happiest in our entire
land"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08

FoR THE AMENDMENT We find
the following paragraph in the Nash
vile Union 01ad ADae1ican:
''It is understood that Holden. OF
North Carolina, and Judge Magrath,
of South Carolina, favor the adoption
of the constitutional amendment. It
true, they are the only two men in
the South, Of any distinction, who
have degraded themselves by taking
that position.
We know nothing of, and care less
about, Holden's position on any sub
ject; but we are much inclined to
doubt the position assigned Judge
Magrath. If he be correctly repre-
sented in the above, he is the only
man of any sort OF position in this
State who is in favor Of the bill of
abomination.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08

BLooDsHED IN MEMPHIS. The
Memphis Aralunche, closing an artl-
Gle on the carnival of crime in that
city, says:
1--WE Will now close this article by
stating, that not in the wide world is
there as much shooting, stabbing and
killing, as in Shelby County, when
we take into consideration the intelli-
gence of the community. Night
after night affrays occur; men are
shot within few yards of our office;
bullets are fired into windows-and it
IS damn you! click! bang! Tn shot
nightly, from one end of the city 10
the other One of che most astonish-
ing feature In this revelry of blood is
the nonchalance Of the participants.
They go fo one another like men at
"a rowing match. While wrestling,
two persons became engaged in
difficulty under our window, some
nights ago One made at the other
with knife, who replied with a%ehot
and exclaimed, I've killed himl'
You are liar! says the individual
hit, while he had q hole in him you
could put your thumb in. The city
is mad; crime is epidemic, and the
poisonous elements consist in the
evil practice Of carrying weapons.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08

A BAD BREED. D.-AppIeton's Cyclic
pndia of Biography gives the FOLLOW
ing account OF one of Beast Buffers
ancestl al relatives:
"BuAe1', John. The atrocities com
mitted by this miscreant during the
revolutionary war almost exceed be-
lief. He was u native of Connecti-
cut, but removed to the Valley of
Wyoming, where, in ITS, at the
head Of 1,600 men, of which 800 were
Indians, and the rest Tories painted
like Indians, he attacked the towns
and villages of that romantic region,
and indiscriminately massacred those
who submitted, as well as those who
fought; women and children, as we'll
as. men. To the question, What
terms would he grant?' he replied,
'The hatchetr People of both sexes
and every age were indiscriminately
shut up in houses, which were then
set on fire: some were held down in
the flames by pitch-forks, and in one
instance, at least, poor wretch had
his body stuck full OF pine knot
splinters, and then burned, etc"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08
Tho Rofor,n l,foxemens.

We are indebted to our fellow-citi-
zen, Mr.. John Alexander. now on o
visit to his home in Scotland, for Il
copy OF the Glasgow Journal, of Oc
tober IT. It is filled with an account
of q popular demonstration of the
Reform League, which, i'll magnitude
and enthusiasm, exceeded every de
thonstration ever made i'll the city of
Glasgow. The procession-about
seven miles long-of the trades, car
penters, masons, ship-builders, and
almost every other craft, numbered,
at II moderate estimate, between So,
900 and $4,000 citizens, all orderly,
and mostly dressed in their holiday
array. On the green. Of Glasgow,
some six OF eight platforms had been
erected for the public speakers: and
it is estimated that not less than 500, :
900 people responded to the trades
and working-men who raised, on this
occasion, the watch-word of reform.
In the evening, John Bright and
other speakers addressed the meeting
in the City Hall. In the course of
his remarks, Mr. Bright said that,
out of every 100 grown men in the
United Kingdom, 81 had no votes.
The whole affair passed off very or
derly, and the mostoes on the ma
iority of the banners-s' manhood
suffrage and the vote by ballot" &c
indicated the general object sought to
be obtained by thereformers, through
out Great Britain.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08

The European Governments, since
the exhibition OF the superior value
Of American arms made during the
recent war, have become very anxious
to have them. American breech-
loading rifles have taken several
prizes at competitive examinations in
Europe, and it has just been an
nounced that the Russian Govern
ment has ordered the manufacture of
100, 900 breech-loaders by the Colt
Manufacturing Company, at Hart
ford
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08

A GLOOMY FoREBoDING.-Dr. L. Z.
w. Andrews, senior editor of the
Macon Georgia Citizen, now on visit
to the North, writes the following,
among other things, Of date October
%, to his paper: The Doctor is no
sensationalist, and what, therefore,
so sober-minded q man as he may say,
should challenge the most serious
consideration. Right here, observes
the Griffin Herald, let us say, for fear
of being misunderstood, that we hope
the South, guarantee or no guaran-
tee, never will pass the 'sconstitu-
tional amendment, even If the act
keeps her out of the Union for the
next five hundred years. But to the
extract:
''With reference to: the action of
the South on the constitutional
amendment to be submitted to their
consideration, have this to say, as
my Opi9al0n-aaot my acish-that 9ce
acW h0rc to sr0lio,r tie bitter braun,
TO the d,'egs, or content ourselves with
taxation without representation for,
perhaps, Years to come! With this view
of the subject-without intending to
advocate the adoption OF the amend
ment-it We're perhaps best to let
things take their course. Could the
South have any guarantee that no
more would be required of her than
that now presented, it would perhaps
be best to yield to. the imperative cir
cumstances Of the condition, as has
been done before, and submit, with
the best grace we can, to the exac-
tlons and humiliations imposed on a
down-trodden people
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08

A merchant examining hogshead
OF hardware, on comparing it with
the invoice, found it all right except
one hammer. ooh. don't be troubled,
my honey" said his Irish porter,
"sure the nager took it out to open
the hogshead with -
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08

NEGRO EDUCATION YANKEE TEACH
ERs. Rs.-Every man or woman who
comes to kentucky to teach a negro
school, comes to instill into the minds
of negro children hatred to the
whites-their late masters. and mis-
tresses. Yankee policy is to educate
negroes in such a way, that if, here
after, they are allowed to vote, they
will vote with the North against the
South. Hence the zeal Of Yankee
teachers to take. negro schools in
Kentucky. If our people would act
wisely, they would take the education
of the Kentucky negroes in their own
hands, and, with the enlightenment
of their minds, give to their affec-
tions right direction. Better endure
almost any evil, than entrust the
training of the young negroes to the
pcstllent swarm of Yankee teachers
who will, in short time infest our
State .-Leciagton Observer and Re
publican
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08
A PERJURED VILLAIN ARRESTED :

A PERJURED VILLAIN ARRESTED. :
Sanford Conover, alias Charles A.
Duncan, who was implicated in the
recent conspiracy to convict Jefer-
son Davis of being an accomplice in
the assassination of President Lin
coin, by means of suborned witnesses,
was arrested in New York, On Satur-
day, and taken to Washington. The
arrest was made on the affidavit of
VIM. II. Roberts, j. A. Hoane, and
L.. c. Turner, charging Conover with
forgery.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08

The Kentucky Court of Appeals
has rendered a decision which is in
effect equivalent to o declaration
that Maj. Gen. John NJ. Palmer
committed felony while in com
mand of the Department of Ken
lucky. by aiding the escape of a fu-
gitive slave.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08

The Montreal Witness publishes q
map OF the burnt district of Quebec.
which shows that space equal to
twenty acres in length, and nine in
width, was desolated. Fiftv-6ve
streets were burnt over.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08

The last rebel prisoner was recently
released from prison in Washington.
His friends had mourned him lis dead,
and respect of funeral services was
paid to his memory year ago.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08

CoNTEDERATES IN MExIco.-A cor
respondent of the New Orleans Times.
under date Of. September 26, writes
from the city OF Mexico, and states:
Among the ex-Confederates still
remaining in this country may be
mentioned Ex-Governor Thomas G.
Reynolds, of Missouri, who is en-
gagged In the practice Of law, and as
he speaks no less than four different
languages, the Governor is driving Il
very thrifty business He has also
recently received the appointment of
general inspector Of the Mexico and
Chalco Railroad, representing the
interest OF the Government IN the
same. Gen. Joseph Shelby, OF Mis-
souri,, has just arrived in that city.
He IS at present engaged in transport
tation between Vera Cruz and the
capital. Maj. Gen. J. B. hIagruder
is also here, and says: "Tell my
friends that [ am still proud as Luci-
fer, and defy misfortune. The
Generals family is also here with
him. Major Lawrence, of Missouri,
and Major Edwards, of the same
State, and Major George W. Clarke,
Of Texas, are all here, and though
none of them are getting decidedly
rich, they are all making comforta-
ble living, and have great expecta-
tons. " Gems. Hindman and Slaughter
are at Orizaba, and N. o. Green,
Esq, Gen. Price, Judge Perkins and
Gov. Harris are at Cordoya.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08

An Irish schoolmaster wrote the
following copy for one Of his pupils:
"Idleness covereth o man with naked
ness"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08
a New York Merchant OF, the Con-
st1tntiOmaI AInendnlcs,t.

A New York merchant, in a letter
to well-known business man in
Washington, Expresses confidence
that Hoffman, the Democratic candi
date in New York State for Governor,
will be elected, and speaks of him in
the highest terms as "a man beyond
the reach of calumny," so upright has
been his life. In regard to the con-
stitutional amendment, he says:
cit will not better your condition;
no, it will make it Infinitely worse,
because its ratification will degrade
you, not only IN your own estimation,
but also in that of all Tho value the
right of seif-govcrnment the world
over They want guarantees! You
have already given all the guarantees
that 1t is possible for any people to
give, consistent with self-respect and
the true dignity of human nature
But this guarantee business is Il
swlndle; its intent is not at all what
the meaning of the word implies,
but in plain English it is this: We
want yon to surrender portion of
your right Of self-government into
our han Is, and according as You are
weakened, we shall be strengthened
in tyrannical power Thus shall we
be enabled to gain full control of the
Government, and you shall become
our serfs foreverr
N "Guarantees! What guarantee have
you when you accept the amend
ment, that you will then have the
diminished representation it would
give you? Do not the more out
spoken of their leaders say you shall
not? Have they not deceived YOU
often enough already? Do you want
still further to degrade yourselves,
only that they may the more securely
place the iron heel Of despotism or
your neck? No, my friends; the
spirit of radicalism is relentless in
its savage ferocity and cruelty, anc
the more concessions you make, the
more stringent will be the chains tina
bind you-the more CALLING will be
your yoke.
Il wish my feeble voice of warning
could be heard through the entire
South, that they might stand firm il
this their hour Of trouble and adver
sity; and though portentious gloon
may now enshroud their land, yet, S,
sure rs day followeth dawning, Sc
sure will the eternal principles O
truth and Justice prevail, and the
Southern people stand before the
world IN the power Of their might,
redeemed and disenthralled people
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..Es@ C&g vGS,12a s. :.

~~S-S- - - ~ - ~ -
The Fheai1 Office is on Main street, g
few doors above Taylor (or Camdcn) street.
DIRECT IMPoRrATIoNs.-M Mcssrs. Gregg g.
Co. have just received another lot of hand
some goods, direct from Europe Persons
IN want of crockery can get suited by Civ
ing them q call.
For HIsTouY AN In-LooM.-Prescrve
the record of the destructio" y; Columbia,
written by one OF south Carolna's histo-
ri@ns, who WAS present during the whole
sack and destruction of our city. 1t is the
most authentic account published
-~--o-- -~---o--.-oO---
bi-ANkS FOR SALE AT THIS 0FFIcE.-Let-
ters of Administration, Declaration on
boad or Sealed Note, Mortgages and Con-
vcEaace,. ot Real Estate.
COLUMBIA AND 1r1:E BUSINESS PROSPECTS.
We have been favored with the pcrusal OF
a letter froni George Anderson, ESQ. =
prominent citizen of Waterloo, Laurens
District, in which he says:
''Fccling Il deep interest in the fnture
prosperity of those who are engaged IN re-
building the 9ity of Columbia take the
libery OF suggesting Ito the people of the
city, the rropriety OF dcvising some mea-
sures whereby the greater portion OF tho
cotton crop made i'll this section, now
going forward, may lind a .rket in Co.
lumbia. The article is now rapidly being
disposed of in Augusta, Ga. Fifty-four
wagons, going and returning from that
+ market, passed Waterloo on Saturday last
anu there are two other main roads falling
INTO this road between here and Ninctv-Six
Depot, where the cotton crosses the Green
vile and Columbia Railroad. Wo Id it not
be advisable for the Grccnvillc and Co.um-
bla railroad Company % reduce the freight
on cotton, and the Columbia merchants 8 to
give as much for cotton as the planters arc
getting in Augusta? The cotton is going
to market earlier this season tl.an have
known it for many years. l think half the
crop Is now gone to market. We have had
heavy frosts, which have killed the lat0
bolls. estimate the cotton crop of Leu
rons District at 5.400 bales. The crop of
1850 was about II, 500 bales"
| NlsW ADVERTISEMENTS. Attention is call
ed to tn" following advertisements, which
are published this morning for the first
| time:
Levin 4 Peixotto Variety Sale.
II. ID. Hanahan-Seed Wheat
Elections for Alderman and Policeman.
Jacob Levin -Gas-LiSht Bills.
\. FeininSer -Segars, Tobacco, etc.
NJ. David appointment of Agent
}. 9. Dal--Sausage Cutters, &c
Gregg e Co. China Dinner Sets
T.. G. ID. Hope-Secd Oats.
Nomination Of Colonel VIM. Fort.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08

bi.ANKs FOR SALE Al THIS OFtIcE.-Let-
fers of Administration, Declaration on
Bond or Sealed Note, Mortgages and Con-
vcEance,. nf Real Estate.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08

New ADVERTISEMENTS. Attention is cali
ed to tn" following advertisements, which
are published this morning for the FIRST
time:
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-08

Foa HIsrouY AN HEIRLOOM.
the record of the destructior -; Columbia,
written by one OF south Carolina's listo-
ri%ns, who WAS present during the whole
sack and destruction of our city. 1t is the
most authentic account published
The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-02-24
I'M DYSPEPSIA

And IT. attendant train Of symptoms IL acts more like
A CHARM than a medicine. 1hare il nothing in the
whole range Of MateEia Medi that can for moment
bear omparison with 1t in this disease.
full account Of this wonderful plant may he found
IN the eleventh edition of the United sates Dispe
atory, pages 1887 and 1898.
series Of experiments in which Dr. Bull has been
for years engaged, has Just been brought success
ful termination and he a now enabled TO otter to the
public aeombinaton Of CBDkON with other approved
copper distilled Bourbon Whisky, which he IL conh
dent has no equal in ths world.
He might furnish volume OF cerlIfc.tes but the
public have long since learned estimate such things
by their true value. The safest lan is for every one
to tesdor hmselfthe virtues oianew medicine
The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-02-24
DIR. STEVENS & CO.

-
Il RIVATE DISEASES CURED IN THE
shortest possible time, at the Cincinnati Lock Hos
pitu n West Fhini street, between Walnut and
Vine, up stairs, without the use of Mercury, loss
Of time or change OF diet
DR. STEVENS, by special study and experience
In the hospitals Of baltimore London and Paris, is
enabled 70 guarrantee acure in the most eompli-
eated cases Recent cases Of GOnorrheaor or syphilis
cnred IN u few days, without change OF dict or
hindrance from business. Secondary Ayphils-,the
last vestige-eradicated without The use Of MeT-
curry
Vlctimsof self.abuse and excessive venery. suf
fering from spermat0rihea, and loss Of physical
and mental power, Indigestion or Constipation
Eruptions, Nervous Coughs Hypoohondris, Be-
are treated for Liver Complaint Dyspepsia, and
Consumption, by ignorant men, who mistake the
effects for the causes OF the evil, and thus multi
Married men. and those contemplating marriage,
should restore vigor 10 their bodies and minds ere
they entail misery and disease upon thOssor their
Diseases peculiar 10 females treated. A eure
guaranteed In all eAses Persons at q distance
promptly cured, By addressing, with statement OF
case, Dr, sTEyENs CO, ~ West Third street.
oniceh ours nom A. NJ. tOSP M Sundays to
II A M' deee-lyd
The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-02-24
GREAT BAR AIMS
Sale of Lots, Lands, &c.

l. HE UNDERSIGNED, ADMINISTRA-
TORS Of Joseph McReynolds deceased will offer
for sale at public auction.
SATURDAY, THE 81 DAY OF MARCH, 1866,
At two O'Clock p, M, on Me prenises, the following
real estate:
Part of outlot No 81 situate on the southeast
corner Of Fifth and MGReynolds street in tho city
OF Dayton, Ohio, containing 70,l00 of an acre.
7 AlaSO-i.Ots numbered and :, ,cOntsiningi 40-1OO
acres each; lot No. B. containing 10 100 acres lot
No. L. containing 6-10O acres and lot No. o. con
tanning 2 S6-lOO acres, as numbered and de
seFibed the plat Of subdivision OF eight acres
Of land of the south end of the farm and premises
lately owned by Joseph MeReynOds, deceased.
situate in the s. w. quarter OF section 81, town O.
range east, sc, in Mad River Township, Mont.
gomery County, Ohio, which plat and subdivision
was made by Onler OF the Superior Court Of
Montgomery County, Ohio, in the case OF the
administrators Of Joseph McReynolds VS.. the
said part of Outot No 81 Is appraised OF G52b; lots
Nos and at $T45 each lot No-3 at $3.50; lot No
at 1874 and lot No. 5 at $t,i44.
Any one Of said lots may sell at two thirds the
appraised value thereof
Lots numbered one, two three four and five lie
Just outside the corporation line OF the city OF Day
ton desirable locations for residences suitable
also for gardening purposes, and we'll adapted for
subdivisions 10 meet the growing demand for city
lots in that locality; and will be sold free from
dover and all claim OF the heirs of said deceased
JOHN M'REYNOLDS,
MICHAEL MREYkOLDS,
Adm'Ts OF Joseph McReynOlds Decd.
ODLIN CAHILL, AHy's. feb7-dts
The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-02-24
THE DAILY EMPIRE.
WIT AND WISDOM.

The last case of Incidence is that Of a
man named John Hole. who was so lazy
that In writing his name he simply used
the letter ~, and then punched hole
through the paper
A Frenchman can not pronounce ship.
The word sounds 'sheep" in bis mouth.
Seeing an iron-clad lac said TO boy; 'Ish
dish a war shoep?" NO" answered the
boy, 'it's a ram
There is boy down East who Is accus-
toned to 90 out on railroad track and
initiate the steam whistle so perfectly as to
deceive the officer at the station. His last
attempt proved eminently successful the
dcpot-mastcr came out and switched him
on.r
"Unripe fruit is dangerous said an old
maid to her younger niece. so is de-
caycd," replied the impudcnt hussy
The OPINIONS OF PETERSBURG DARKEY
--"Wish Massa Lincum had done kept his
freedom It's jes like Confederick money
more you get on ii, the less count it Isl"
--Ia3eI.
The New Haven Palladium saws the last
new hat for ladies I'm New Haven Is a
''brown velvet dice box with dead wood
cock perchcd over the forehead of the
wearer, trying to peck out her right eye
If the Federal Constitution needs as many
amendment rs the Congressional thinkers
seem to thiuk. it might perhaps be well to
follow the pXample of that other tinker who
melted down the brass kettle for mettlc tc
stop the holes.
A Farmer, son, few days since asked
his father what 4 mau-of-war was like
why" said his father, who had never
seen one, lit is jUst like our thrcshing ma-
chine"
Charles Lamb, when little boy, walk.
ing with his sister in church-yard anC
reading the epitaphs, said to her: "WherC
are all the naughty people buried ~
An Irish gentleman having small pic
ture room. several persons desired to sec i
at the same time. Faith, gentlemen,
said he, III you all go in, it Will not hold
half Of you