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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-20

The "Blaine amendhent" seems
to go beyond the constitutional
amendment" That authorizes ''im-
partial suffrage" but Blaine demands
that "the elective franchise shall be
enjoyed by all male citizens of the
United States twenty-one years old
and upwards, without regard to race,
color, &c. The proposition was un-
derstood to be somewhat popular.
1t is another instance Of the unmiti-
gated rigor of radicalism. Blaine
makes the act establishing the econ
stitutional amendment" as the basis
for admission of the Southern States
worse than that amendment.
Richmaond Dispatch.
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The EXPECTED FAs11NE.-The Ne,

The EXPECTED FAMINE. The New
York Eoening Post says:
''The reports received by the
Southern Relief Commission of the
destitution in South Carolina are
appalling. The distress reaches over
the State, and not fewer than 100, 900
persons. about one-quarter of the
population, are now without food to
last them week.
"On Wednesday, the commission
ordered 1000 bushels of corn to
Sumter District, of that State, and
nearly every other District is in little
better than famine"
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MIR. JOHNSON AND THE RADICALS
We expressed, some days ago, the
fear that Mr.. johnson had gone over
to the radicals. A Washington tele-
gram in the SIN says that no formal
conference has been had, but it is
satisfactorily established that the
Legislative and executive branches
can move harmoniously together
hereafter, if the extreme radicals
shall not prevail in their efforts, now
lndustriously prosecuted, to deter
members of both Houses from any
reconciliation whatever between the
latter and Mr.. Johnson. He can't
help himself now. 'tThe President
that hesitates is lost"
Richmond DisDutcL
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RAISE Provisions. The New Or
leans Picoyune, in remarking upon
the policy of devoting less attention
to the cultivation of cotton, and more
to the raising of provisions, says:
In the name of common sense, let
our planting people grow their own
corn, and make their own bread and
meat. Do this first, and give up the
exploded idea that cotton is king
And when home wants are supplied,
then grow cotton, and the country
will grow richer.
If the whole South could be in
duced to adopt a self-sustaining policy
by making their own food and raj
ment, and give the balance of their
time to the culture of cotton, no peo-
pie on earth would be as rich as we
would soon be.
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Notice to Water Tenants.
CITY CLERK'S OFTICE.

COLUMBIA February Is, 1867.
A ny person or persons using the cit;-
N water who shall allow a waste Of
water in their premises, or of the pipes
lead Is thereto from the main pipe, for
twcnty-four hours after the leak has been
discovered, shall be subject to the fines
imposed by the Ordinance regulating the
same. Water tenants are authorized to
have the work done by any competent
workman, other than the Superintendent
of the Water Works; his duties at the
works requiring all of his attention.
BY order of the City Council
j. S. MCMAHON,
FEB ~ g City Clerk
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TRIP OF a VENERABLE EDIToR-We
learn from the Augusta Chronicle and
Sentinel that the venerable editor of
the Milledgeville Recorder has been
on trip North, and says that he is
apparently as youthful in his feelings
as when boy, and, by his own ae-
count, enjoyed looking at the pretty
jewelry in Broadway as much as
when. fifty years ago, he was seeking
to purchase his first wedding ring.
In addition to this, the ''venera-
ble' must have look at tho s'Black
Crook" and discourses thereon as
follows:
"We had fancy to visit Niblo's
Theatre and witness the performance
of the Black Crook, kind of necro-
mantle play, and also to see the bal
let dancers. The night we attended
was the one hundred and eighteenth,
and the house was crowded to over
flowing. We will not attempt to de-
scribe the play, the dancers or the
scenery. Ine scenery, we are tOld,
cost $50, 900, and the closing part of
the performance was truly magnifi-
cent. The ballet dancers skirts were
about twelve inches long, perhaps
not SO long. We had fine opportu-
nifty of studying the human form
divine and beautiful forms they
were. The dancing was elegant and
no mistake.
AS the Chronicle says, how the sad
boy" must have enjoyed the sight of
those skirts "about twelve inches
long" and the beautiful desme,es
which they did not corer. And then
how he must have studied the ''hu-
man form divine" is evident from
the rapturous character of his long
letter.
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No EXCUSE There is no excuse or pal
lation for uncleanl;ncss OF person or ap-
parcl. so long as Colgate e Co. : Soap is in
the market. This Soap has a national
reputation, and is unequaled by any COM
pctinS article. 1t is vel! made and OF cs-
tablished value. Take none other to your
house but COlgate's.
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The coins intended by the United
States Government for the Paris Ex-
position were finished on the 14th.
Their manufacture was trusted to the
Mint of Philadelphia. They consist
in sets in duplicate of each of the
coins of the country-gold, silver,
nickel and bronze. The gold coins
are double eagles, eagles, half eagles,
three dollars and two and a-half and
one dollar pieces. The silver coins
are a dollar, half dollar, quarter,
dime, half dime, and three-cent
pieces. The nickel are five and three
cent pieces, and the bronze two and
one cent.
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STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

A MEETING of the Stockholders in the
N Kings Mountain Iron Company is APP
pointed to be held at Yorkvilic on FRI
DAY, tho 1st of March next. As matters
of great Importance will come before them,
Il full meeting is earnestly requested.
ROBERT BRYCE,
Prcs't Kings Mountain Iron Go.
Fob %
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Dissolution of Copartnership.

HNllE copartnership heretofore existing
4 between MEssRs. LEVIN u PEIXOT-
TO was dissolved on the 18th inst, by
mutual consent.
The business will be continued by Mr..
JACOB LEVIN, on his own account, to
whom all demands against the concern
Will be presented for payment, and those
indebted make payment to him.
JACOB LEVIN,
February 10, 1867. D. c. PEIXOTTO.
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A man named Gilgan recently shot
his wife, near Mobile, and then shot
himself. Cause-desperation from
recent losses, and from the peculiar
cir distances attending late fire
who destroyed his store.
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A Card.

THE SUBSCRIBER returns his grateful
i acknowledgements to his friends and
citizens of Columbia and Charleston FOR
the liberal encouragement extended to the
late firm of LEVIN Il PEIXOTTO; and, as
ne will continue the Auction and Commits
sion Business on his own account, hopes to
merit q continuance Of share of their
former encouragement.
JACOB LEVIN,
Auction and Com Merchant.
Corner Assembly and Plain streets.
Feb 10 .
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Will the American

nails of history Will the American
people, enlightened and Intelligent as
they are, consent to the utter de
struction Of the Government founded
by their fathers? We will see.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-20

The believers in the doctrine that
the second advent of Christ will oc
cur thus year are numerous andIactive
In Bangor, Me.
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To THE CITIZENS OF South Caro-
LINA.-Bills receivable of the State
are at heavy discount The remedy
is easy, and can be effected in very
short time, provided the regrets uni
versally expressed at this unfortunate
state of things are sincere, (Which is
doubtful Call on the tax collector,
make yonr returns, and at the same
time pay your taxes. In ten days,
the bills receivable will be at par and
in demand. If the taxes were only
payable in bills receivable or coin,
they would to-day be at par with gold
or silver. The amount OF bills re-
ceivable now in circulation is not
equal to onefifth of the taxes to be
collected. TRUTH.
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LaoCal Ytoma.

|'DrvIDE AND PROSPER. The cards
of the individual members of the
late firm of Messrs. Levin &,rPeixotto
will be found in our columns. The
senior member of this firm has been
long known in this city as reliable
representative Of the auction and
commission business. He remains at
the old stand. Mr. Peixotto, also a
capable and experienced man Of bust
ness, occupies the corner South of
the old stand, formerly Mr.. Palmers
shop.
The INDEPENDENT FIRE ENGINE
REJUvESATED. This rcnginc, which
was 50 seriously injured during the
burning of Columbia, has, through
the perseverance of our old friend
and lifelong fireman, Lewis Levy,
Esq, and other members of the com
pany, been thoroughly overhaulcd,
re-painted, repaired, and, after trial,
has not ''been found wanting" 70
the skill and workmanship Of the fol-
lowing citizens are the community
indebted for the renovation of the
machine: Iron and brass worlz-Mr.
r. Tozer; painting and ornament
ing-NTr. James Milne; polishing
box, etc.-M. H. Berry, Esq.
This engine was built for the com
pany in 1853, by Messrs. Button K
Blake, of Waterford, New York, at
a cost of $1,000, which amount was
contributed by our citizens
IN April, 1859, the ''Indepcndent,
accepting an invitation from the
Eagle visited Charleston, and par
ticipated in the Mayors parade and
trial of engines, and took the pre-
MUM, contcndinG against fourteen
first-class engines, built by various
makers. In May, 1860, at the fire
mems tournament in Columbia, the
''1ndependents' were again success
full. On the er-to-be-forgotten
18th of February, 1865, this engine
passed through q fiery ordeal-the
firemen being compelled to abandon
it at the crossing of Washington and
Sumter streets. where it was exposed
to the terrible heat from the burning
of several large wooden buildings,
and, the next day, presented a sad
scorched, blistered, and
apparently played out" the extended
hose looking like the discarded skin
Of an immense serpent.
The rejuvenated machine has been
temporarily housed in Mr. A. Palm
cr's new building, on Main street.
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BREAD RIOTS IN ENGLAND Late
English mails bring particulars of the
bread riots that occurred in Dept
ford, on the 23d ultimo. A vast num-
ber of laboring men and citizens, who
had been thrown out of employment
by the severe weather, assembled to
demand bread from the relieving
officers of the parish Tickets were
distributed as rapidly as possible, but
the crowd became so clamorous that
it was impossible to satisfy them,
and they broke into and ransacked a
bakers shop i'll the neighborhood.
Proceeding in riotous procession,
they pillaged successively all the
bakers shops that came in their way,
until stayed by the arrival Of strong
body OF police. Such occurrences
among a class generally orderly and
well-behaved indicates an extremity
Of want pitiful to contemplate. In
many parts of England, the same
distress exists, and there is no pros
pect of immediate relief. Destitntion
SO widespread is beyond the reach of
ordinary measures Of charity, and
the Government will probably take
some action for the abatement of the
evil.
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ANTI EMIGRATION. THE colored
people of Charlotte, N. c., have held
a meeting and adopted the following
very sensible resolutions:
l. Resoloed, That we hold it to be
the duty of every good citizen to give
his aid to the development of the re-
sources of his native State.
2. Resolued, That we protest a gainst
the furnishing of transportation at
the expense of the Government, to
remove labor from where it is needed,
to forward the interest of spectators
who come here and pay bonus of
from SIS to $50 per head to runners.
to induce hands to leave their en-
ployment, or refuse to make con-
tracts at home, and then deceive the
Government by representing that the
people arc suffering for want of
work, that they may obtain trans
portation.
B. Resol0ed, That we form our
selves into an anti-emigration league,
and that we invite the cooperation of
farmers and others favorable to the
course
4. Resolced, That copy of these
resolutions be sent to General O. O.
Howard, Superintendent of the
treedmen's Bureau; and that they
be published in the city papers.
The FENIAN INsURREcrIoN.- The
following are the kilograms in full,
abstracts of which have already an
peared in our columns:
LONDON, February 14-Evening.- 4
The Government denies the vide
spread stories of the landing Of ship
loads Of Fenians at Valentia and in
the Shannon. That there has been
serious revolt at and near Killarney
is admitted. The telegraph wires
near Valentia were cut and DESTROYED
tor long distance, and in all direc-
tions riot and pi1lage were the order
OF the day, and several establish
ments were sacked.
A coast-guard policeman was killed.
LONDON, February 15-Morning.-
About 800 Fenians, under commaHd
OF Col. O'Connor, have retreated to
the hills lying about Killarney, County
Kerry.
The British Government has posted
troops, under command of Colonel
Horseford, at Mallow Junction, in
Cork County, commanding the hill
district. Excitement in the neighbor-
hood is intense, and many people
living in these Counties are precipi-
lately leaving.
An ex-captain of the United States
volunteer army has been arrested at
Killarney 4 on suspicion of being q
Fenian leader.
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The SITUATION AT THE SOUTH. A
wellinformed citizen of Virginia,
thoroughly Southern in his princi-
pies and sympathies, writes private
letter from Richmond, in which ho
says:
"With Slight changes, [ would
agree to the North Carolina plan as d
basis Of settlement. I wish our LIE
gislaturc would at once propose
amendments declaring the public
debt inviolate and the Union per
petual. Our people believe there is
nothing they can do that will disarm
the malignity of this Congress, and
this feeling prevents action. would
myself be willing to yield the repre-
sentation founded on negroes, pro-
vided it would give us peace x
We have great suffering, present and
prospective. The policy of the domi-
nant party tends to make perpetual
enemies of a population who are per-
fectly content to live quietly under
the Government, and who only ask to
be let alone. ''-Ner York Times.
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A DISAPPOINTED CoLoNY.-The
most of our readers in this and ad
Joining Districts know that Gen.
Ely came to this State some time
since and gathered up a large num-
Der Of freed people, of both sexes,
and carried them to the plantations
which he is running in Florida. The
Ocala Florida) Banner learns from
an intelligent freedman who, with
his family, went with the General,
that large numbers of the people are
anxious to get away into the interior
of the State, where they may get
ample reward for their labor. They
are represented as being sadly disap-
pointed and discouraged, as they see
no means of providing themselves
and families with "su6iciem food to
prevent staroation +"
What commentary upon the
freedom, $50 called" Of the poor
negro! 1t should teach an instruct
i've lesson to those who still remain
with us at their old homes, and who
may be tempted to emigrate.
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Musical. The local editor of the
Staunton (Va.) Spectator is musical
cuss. After attending rehearsal at
some ''female institute" he unblush-
ingly says that's characteristic over
ture on two pianos represents the
struggle Of the Confederacy for free
dom from Yankee rule" After this,
we can readily understand his aver
ment that the rehearsal ''only needed
a few things to make it an enchant-
ing affair. - Rank treason. That
local viii have some of Gen. Scho
fields blue jackets after him, certain.
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The SWORD OF ROBERT LEE.-We
have received from the publisher, A.
E. Blackmar, 167 Canal street. New
Orleans, piece of music, with the
above title-arranged by Armand;
words by Rev. A. J. Ryan. 1t is
tastefully gotten up, and the air is
decidedly pretty. The reverend au-
thor, in this composition, will touch
the hearts of many of the $50 called. :"
New ADVERTISEMENTS. Attention is call
cd 10 the following advertisements, which
are published this morning for the first
time:
Special Meeting Independent Fire Co.
ID. G. PciXotto- Auction and Commis'n.
Rob't Bryce-McctinS of Stockholders.
Colgate's Toilet Soap.
Northern Stone Lime, at Pcixotto's
Thos. p. Walker Magistrate. etc
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a O q II ID

THE undersigned respectfully informs
i his friends and the public generally
that he ha located an Office on the corner
Of Washington and Assembly streets, for
the purpose of carrying on the Auction
and COMMISSION BUSINESS on his own
account.
Thankful for past favors extended to the
late firm of LEVIN S PEIXOTTO, he trusts
to have continuation of the same.
Feb 20 ID. G. PEIXOTTO.
The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-10-17
A Man Strangled in a Well Won
derful Subterranean Cavity in
Dark County.

Last Thursday, 26th ult., some
workmen we're sinking a we'll in Wa
bash township, Dark county, about
fifteen miles northeast Of Greenville;
and having got down some twenty
FIVE feet without finding water, they
began to bore for it. They had
worked through the earth about ff-
teen feet further, when the auger sud-
denly sank into a hollow, whence is
sued a strong stream of gas, which
made so loud noise that it could
easily be. heard an hundred aud fifty
feet from the mouth of the well.
A man named Supinger, who was
in the we'll, managing the augur, was
instantly prostrated; and rendered
iu,, ,nsiblc, end he died before the
workmou we're able to rescue him.
and he was removed with hooks at
tachcd to ropes.
On Friday; our informant says, the
gas was continuing to escape with the
same violence as the day before; aud
crowds of the curious people from the
surrounding country focked to the
place to see it, and hear the wonderful
sounds issuing from the well The
odor of the gas is that Of coal oil
and it is uot Improbable that oil will
be found there in quantity, whom the
gas has all escaped. Dayton Journal
lst inst.
The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-10-17
S&Mness the Cause Of Defeat.

Everywhere that the Union MAORI.
lies in the recent election were re.
Sueed from the vote Of last fall, IL is
clearly attributable 10 the lukewarm'
nees and indifference Of republicans in
taking no part in the campaign aud
rtmsiniBg AZ home on election day.
In our own county, do VIC know this
70 have been the case, to such an cx-
tent that whole neighborhoods re.
maInsd at home either Indifferent TO
the questions at issue or moro inter.
estsd In personal interests than In
political issues. BY this neglect on
,hs part Of msuy, the Legislature has
been placed 10 the hands Of the rob.
els, And-the Governor merely reaches
his chair over a narrow and wavcring
majority. We hope that this result
will teach our people lesson at once
beneficial aud practical, so that when
ths great Presidential campaign Of
'6s, which we are now almost upon
the Of, reaches US, we will not be
found tagging by the way, uotil the
enemies Of our country shall have
bound US hand and foot, and laughing
derhoniscally in our cars, at our own
helplcssness.
Eternal vigilance is the price Of
liberty" and if we fritter away our
precious right of suffrage to the de.
sriment Of the nation, we alono are
responsible for the wrong.
Work while Il h yet day, for the
night oOmeth when no mau can Ia.
bor," should ever be borne in mind,
during political canvass fraught
with vital interests to our country.
BY our inaction, Senator WADE.
the sturdy answering friend Of the
country all through her most trying
hour,in the dark storm Of seccssiou,-
will be deposed, and either the rebel
VALLASDIdnAM or his inferior sym.
phtbiEer, THURMAN, will take the
place Of our sterling patriot, for the
next Elk years in the Senate Of the
United States. Oh, yc of little faith,
that remained at home on the sth
day of October, 1867, you may yet
have cause to call upon the rocks and
hills to fall upon and cover up your
own self.dispisedness in the deep re.
gret you may yet feel at your own
supineness in tho hour of your coun.
sry's need.
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in the national amuse ment. ."---BeiIe-
rue Gazette.
MAN KILLED.-A man by the name
Of FAUcHMAN was killed by having a
burning tree fall on him, which he
was chopping, on Tuesday last, in
Washington township. The accident
happened in the deadening" farm
Of the widow 0vERMEYRR, near
Washington Station. The unfortun.
ate man lived about thirty minutes
after the accident He was badly
bruised and burned by the falling tree.
He was a German, in poor circum-
stantes, and leaves a wife and five
children penniless. We are obliged
to Mr.. J. j. WALTERS FOR the above
information, the accident having hap
pened within few yards Of his house.
Fremont Journal.
The death Of Joseph Schmorietz,
on last Thursday, the 36th ult, aside
from its distressing details, affords q
stronger argument in favor Of tenn
perance societies and the cause gen
orally, than has been presented here
before in the history of the village.
lie had been drinking freely for
sometime before the morning of Sept.
10, when the spree eliminated in a
fight with his wife, in which he evi-
IDENTIFY got the worst, but for his share
in ihe Transaction it was proposed to
give him a turn in the calaboose.
The Marshall found him raving
maniac, perfectly wild with drink, his
head swollen from a severe bruise on
the temple, and his general appear.
ance testifying to the length Of his
carJusal.
Before he could be sobered he had
swallowed a glass Of beer, in which it
is supposed he had mixed a quantity
of corrosive sublimate. His death
was a horrible one, and a warning to
all moderate" drinkers.-Ciyde
Times.
The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-10-17
Our Pilgrimage.

The election feast is now over.
The dishes have been washed and
tho table cloth has been shaken. The
last bone has been thrown TO the
dogs. II appears that some of the
viands we're too highly seasoned for
some Of the guests. New dishes gen.
orally are. Well. we'll, the majority
rules, the people are soyereigus, and
theirs arc the nppotitss to bo catered
for.
For a season then State aud local
politics, will not so much engage the
alteaticn Of the people, aud tho
Tribune will hereafter contain less
politics aud moro local aud miscella
neouS matter, and for that reason may
Be more acceptable to some of Our
readers.
But We want to put in word here
Our readers will bear US witness that
no "dunh has appeared in our col.
umas for Z long time. We dislik,
that mode Of securing our duOs, bu
We nevertheless DO want "greeubax.
Strange as il may seem, that is just
what We publish paper for--to max,
money. We propose to devote a fcv
months TO collecting back dues, W.
have heavy bills to meet, and We
wouldilike 10 meet some Of our do,
liaqusuts against whom wo have
comparatively light bills. II they
meet us 10 .hO fright spirit" they
will meet US with money in theil
hands, aud thou We eau in the same
spirit meet our bills,
We arc also going to pilgrimisC
for subscribers aud with this viov
viii meet Sin friendly discussion
any nan Of family upon the srfim
stivs Of the following question; RI
seted, that good county paper is
good thing to read by good hickOr,
arson AsbAd winters evening"
That's the question, but we will
waive discussion IL our opponen
siyss us u' his pane and tFo dollars,