The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-17

snap. 1t is probably sharp winter
weather:
When you think that you don't
know whether the first bell has been
rung or not.
When it strikes you that your watch
is at leasat ten minutes fast; and so if
you get up when the minnie hand Isl
'sat a quarter to, you'll be in capital
time.
That if you could only be taken
out of bed to be washed and dressed
lin a second by machinery, YOU
wouldn't mind getting up.
That another five minutes sleep
would make you all right for the day.
That it's three minutes to the half
hour. and you'll get up exactly at the
!half-hour.
That it's just one minute past the
|half-hour, so you'll get up exactly at
the thirty-fve minutes.
That as five minutes won't make
much difference. say get up at the
3quarter punctually.
The following considerations will
]also lead you to the conclusion that
the winter has come at last:
That you can't get up without hot
water
That you don't think that water is
quite hot.
That he had better bring little
more water, please, and take care it's
quite hot.
That you can't get up until your!
clothes are all ready for you.
That little snooze while James is
sbrlnglng the clothes, land while he
3Fetches some more hot water, will do
3you all the good in the world.
That wheu you do get up, you
won't be a second dressing.
That you'll get up in exactly two
minutes from now.
That (the two minutes having pass
3ed you'll just settle what you're
going to do to-day, and then get up.
That, if that's the first bell, you've
plenty Of time; and if it's the seconck
PTS no good hurrying up now, as
you're late anyhow.
The consideration that is generally
required before making move ont of
bed, Is in itself pretty sure sign OF
i the presence of winter
MIR. FooTE REDIvIvUs.-The New
York Times, of the 18th inst, has q
review, four columns long, of the
book recently published by ex-Sena-
tor Foote, called ''Scylla and Charyb-
Sdis." Who would have supposed
Sthat anybody in the world would at
Stach so much Importance to anything
written by Mr.. Foote? The secret
lies in the fact that he roundlv
sabuses his late associates in rebel
allen, tells dinner table stories of their
sdlfferences, denounces Mr.. Benjamin,
Mr.. Seddon, and nearly all of Mr..
sDavls' advisers, as fools or scoun-
sdrels, and processes to have been
livery like" Union man throughout
the war. It would not surprise us if
5F,oote were elected to Congress from
New York next fall That is one
Estate which he has never vet repre-
5sented either at Washington or Rich
5mond.-Richmond Dispatch
GREELEY's ULT1MATUM.-Greeley
lis willing to compromise rather than
9fall out with the President. Hear
shim:
Establish honestly and fairly the
5rule that all men who possess the re-
Squlslte intellectual and moral oualifi-
5catlons shall thereupon be recognized
members of the body polite, and the
restoration will forthwith be complete.
sSay, if you choose, that man must
sread, or read and write, before he can
svote; say that he must have paid a
stax, or even that he must be the
sowner of real property-and we are
acontent, so long as you interpose no
barriers to the acquisition of what
lever you require, even though its
instant effect should be an exclusion
5of ninety-nine of e-ary hundred
sblacks from the electoral body"
The friends of Messrs. Stanton.
Harlan and Attorney:General Speed,
SAY that these gentleman will resign
their positions in the Cabinet, if the
President vetoes the negro bureau
hill.
If the radicals think that their pro-
sposed measures are to the South
BLESSINGS in Disguise" the South
would no doubt thank them to make
their disguises a little less impene-
bIe.-Prentice.
The New York Tribune says the
municipal election at Reading, Penn.
asylvanla, Hast Friday, resulted in the