The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-10-04
Look at Homo.

Inc NOrGnern ana WoSCeIl pdpSIS
are continually filed with sensational
kilograms from the South, and more
especially has this been the case since
the present election canvass COM
nenced. To such an extent has this
reached. that we notice in one of our
exchanges that one of the Generals
at the South sends u despatch to
General Howard that a large number
of these kilograms are manufactured.
The New York Journal Of Commerce.
calls attention to this growing evil of
false special dispatches. The Louis
vile papers expose q large number of
them, and yet, day after day, Il large
number of Northern papers are filled
to overfowing with the same lying
bulletins. A long and sensational
account of murder in Mississippi
OF Alabama is read with avidity and
accepted as proof of the utter de-
moralization of the entire State in
which it is said to have occurred.
But there are some reliable and
conservative journals who expose
this wholesale maligning of the South.
OF these, the Journal Of Commerce is
one. 1t says that after careful sift-
ing of the truth from the falsehoods
now current, it is led to the conclu-
sion that the average of moral good
ness and peaccable living is not
higher in the North than it is in the
South, and adds, that if it was to
judge from specific cases, it would
be compelled to give judgment
against the North in the comparison,
and alleges that the issues of the
press from all parts of the North are
| filled with accounts Of riots, arson
and murder, and every crime known
to the laws.
The .Joeunm cites the following
case:
"The truth is, there is ample work
at home for those who devote their
energies to improving the moral con-
dition of their fellow-men, wherever
home may happen to be. We were
riding i'll a railway car, in the Con-
necticut Valley, from Springfield,
Northward, on the 4th Of July last,
and had an opportunity of seeing
some of the young men of that part
of the world, for they crowded the
train in the evening, on their way
home from celebrations at various
places. We have not, for years,
heard such an out-burst of profanity
and indecency, as made the car in
which we rode hideous for all hour,
between Bellows Falls and the sta
tions North of it. About fifty yonng
men We're in the car, mostly half
drunk, and Notwithstanding the pre-
sence of several ladies, the boisterous
language and conduct of these young
men indicated the most thorough de-
basement of character. Certainly
there is ample room for the labors Of
good men among this class in the
Connecticut Valley. But it is not to
be imagined that the beautiful valley
of the Connecticut is any worse in
this regard than any other parts of
the country. We have stated the
fact only to show that it is desirable
for all parts of the country to look
at home"
When we read of such murders as
those half-dozen which were COM
mitted in and near the city of bro
therly love; the riots at Indianapolis;
the continual denunciations and bias
phemies of radical orators; the hun
dreds of thousands of dollars abstract
ed or stolen by so-called defaulters,
we think the advice in the closing
sentence in the above extract very APP
propriate to the revilers of the South
-''look at home"
FIRE IN CHARLEsToN.-A fire oc-
Cured in Charleston, OH Tuesday
morning, in the building occupied by
Messrs. Mckay and Campbell, Oh
Hasell street, as an auction sales