The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-01-11

request Of some Of the foreign ministers
they will bc sent TO their Governments.
The LABOR QUESTION SOLVED IN
ARKANSAS, s,-The large Arkansas plan
ters along the Mississippi River have
at length solved the labor problem so
far as they are concerned Here is
the way it was>done, as narrated in q
letter from that section:
Labor is good natured, but very
trifiing. The freedman is for frolic
and fun; he quits work on Friday
afternoon, goes to Memphis, spends
his money, gets demoralized, and
gets back about Monday night. Two
or three days are lost to the work
every week. What is the use of this
worse than IDLE frclic? The necessity
of this has been felt in many cases
and many remedies have been pro-
posed, and at last Col. Dixon, a large
planter, has solved the problem-cut
the gordian knot. He went to New
York and returned with one hundred
and fifty sturdy Germans, with their
frows and families The experiment
pleased so well that Malone, another
large planter, went to New York last
week for a fresh supply of the same
sort for his plantation. With such
competition, Sambo must compete. or
leave the labor market to the frug
and Industrious Saxon. These Ger
mans bring their families, which are
the best pledges of their good beha-
vior."
This is the only course left for our
planters to pursue. If the negro will
not keep his contract, but trifes away
his time to the detriment of his en-
ployer, turn him off and introduce
white labor at once. The day of tenn
porizing has passed. The great idea
at present that ought to be inculcated
into every negro head is, that he must
either work or starve.
SOCIAL LIFE IN PARIS. A few lines
about matters of everyday life. The
crusade begun last year, against the
extravaganza in ladies' dress, does not
seem to have had much success,
though our dramatic authors have
given their aid in this laudable work.
hwz fie Paisienne, a journal of high
Hfe, informs us that the members of
the fair sex mean to out-Herod Herod
this winter in costliness of toilette
dresses the antique fashion is to be
the thing, with canoes adorned with
owls, in honor of Minerva, and hero
glyphics. Short bodies will be made
shorter still, the jewelry is to be
fashioned after the models in the
Musee Cd,npana. The head dresser
means to add to the complications of
head-dress, by all sorts of ornaments,
such as bells and turn-cocks the
chignon to be frizzled and brought
forward on the forehead. We are
evidently returning to the manners
and customs of the Directory. AS a
proof of this, L must tell you that a
lady of the court, being desirous of
seeing the horse Of one of our pretty
horse-breakers, SO far forgot herself
as to write to the proprietor for per-
mission, which was, as may be sup
posed, Immediately granted. Tie
Lady OF honor lett the cOurteSan'S
house full of wonder and admiration,
putting five golden pieces into the
hands OF the maid. A few days after,
the modern Aspasia returned the
visit, and left five hundred francs to
be divided among the servants. We
shall soon return to the corrupt
practices of the time of Louis XIV.
The BEAUTY OF A WoMAN's ARM.-
Who has not felt the beauty of a
woman's arm-the unspeakable sug-
gestions of tenderness that lie in the
dimpled elbow, and all the varied
gently lessing curves down to the
delicate wrist, with its tiniest. almost
imperceptible, hicks in the firm soft
ness? \ woman's arm touched the