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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-04-13

The balance consists of the f,llowinc
articles:
Musical Instruments,
Music Boxes,
Ladies' Work Boxes,
Ladies' and Gents Gloves,
Ladies' and Gents Riding Whips,
Opera Glasses,
Office and Parlor Furniture,
Writing Desks,
Black Walnut Frames,
Engravings, &c, &c.
-od The he whole amounting to an aggregate OF
500, 600 Valuable Gifts.
PLAN OF DRAWING.
Duplicate numbers, from to 10000,
arc placed i'll n wheel; tho first number
whom drawn out, draws the highest or first
gift; the second number, when drawn out.
tho next highest or second gift, &C., until
the whole number is drawn.
Ihe distribution will take place after tlIo
Concert, where 5000 persons can witness
it. A committee will Be chosen from the
audience to take charge OF the same.
All agents and purchasers will be sup
soon as published.
HOW TO OBTAIN TICKETS.
Tickets will bee supplied to all Booksell-
ers, Druggists, Music Dealers, &C.. where
they can be obtained at 81 each, or in
quantities at club rates.
Circulars, containing full instructions
and terms to agents, will be mailed upon
receipt Of stamp for return postage.
Orders may be sent to us enclosing tho
money, from 81 to s25, in a registered let
ter, stamp enclosed, at our risk. Larger
amounts by post Office order, draft or ex-
press. at the following club rates:
!, Iickets to one address. s...........s 4 so
~ tickets 10 one address. 8 90
~ tickets to one address. ......... 18 90
% Tickets to one address. ...... A 90
The names Of the agents will be pub
lished from the Central Office.
Tickets will be supplied to agents at IS
per cent. discount.
Under and in pursuance of the provi-
slons OF tho Internal Revenue law, his
Honor, the Commissioner of Internal Reye-
nue., has, upon due proof, granted per-
NIT to the Southern Orphans Association
TO hold its Gift Concert exempt from all
charges, whether from the special tax or
other duty, in respect to such Gift Con-
cert.
eXempts them from any and all liability for
license, tax or otherwise.
This exemption is made upon the ground
That the proceeds of the sale of tickets for
this concert are to be devoted to a chari-
table object, and is but another evidence
OF the favor and consideration with which
our efforts have been constantly met in
nearly every direction.
REFERENCES.
Lieut.: Gen. G.. Il. Beauregard, New Or
leans; G. McKcever & Co., Baltimore; Brig.
Gen. JEFF: Thompson, New Orleans; Mai
Gen s. b. Buckner New Orleans; J. Is.
Bean, NJ. d., Baltimore; j. Baldcrston. NJ.
D., Baltimore; j. s. Morrow, Publisher,
Baltimore; j. Il. Nimmo, Baltimore; c. NJ.
Steif, Baltimore.
H. CLAY DALLA1l, Esq, Counsellor.
All orders and communications should
be addressed to the Central Office.
l.. II. PALMER IL CO.,
No. 13 Holiday street, Baltimore,
March IL Managing Directors
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A telegraphic despatch states that q
company of American merchants
have acquired possession of the en-
tire Northern portion of the great
Island of Borneo, and three valuable
islands adjacent, and are making ar-
engagements for the immediate de-
velopment of their acquisition. For
this purpose a company has been
organized, under the name of the
american Trading Company of
Borneo."
Five girls, who wero arrested in
New York on Saturday last for disor-
derly conduct, in wearing dresses
that were short and low-necked, were
discharged by q police justice on the
ground that the dresses were not so
immodest or indecent as those of a
certain ballet troupe performing at
one of the theatres in that city.
The San Antonio (Texas) Ledger,
April 1, says: "Moving seems to be
the order Of the day now in our city,
such AS changing residences and going
into new ones lately built. Many
freedmen are still leaving, and we
hear of freedwomen Offering to work
for board and clothing and being re-
fused. So we move along"
A young lady was denied admit
tance toa female college in Pitts
burg, OH the ground that she was
lone thirty-second part Ethiopian.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

THE FRANKLIN BRICK MA
CLINE justly celebrated for perfect SIM
phcity, great strength and immense com
pressing power, is guaranteed, with eight
men and two horses, to self temper the
clay and make 5000 to $500 elegant bricks
per hour. J. II. RENICK, Proprietor, No.
II Broadway, New York, Room %.
Feb ONO
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LOOK AT THE ARRAY
Cheap Goods!

PRINTS, from 12t to 90 cents.
Bleachcd Lonscloth, 12l to 20 cents.
Colorcd Muslins, 12A to rs cents.
Ladies' Hose, 125o. to'*1.50.
Misses Hose, 25c.-somctbing extra.
Pantaloon Goods, (Men's,) 25c. to 81.
" (Boys',) Csc. TO 81.
Trunks, from $3.50 to $50.
Swiss Muslin, 25c. to $3.50.
Nainsook Muslin-overy grade and price.
Jaconet Muslin-a beautiful and attract
i've line.
Corded, Dotted, Embroidered and Tuck-
cd Swiss, SIC. to 81.
Linen Cambric-all prices.
Lawns &C 4"
The finest collection of the following:
Challics, Berages, Sheer Lawns,
Printed Muslins, Silks,
Jaconot, Swiss and Nainsook Bands.
Edgings and Insertions,
Linen Embroidered Bands, Edgings and
insertions,
Real Laces, in Honiton Guipure,
Maltese Eng. Thread,
Valenciennes and imitation of tho same,
Table Damask, Bleached and Brown,
Toilet Towels, Doylies, Napkins, Gloves,
Table Covers, Curtain Damask,
Emb'd Curtain Muslin and Lace do.
Linen Sheotings and Pillow Castings,
Hoop Skirts, Ladies' Hats, Wholesale,
Mems Straw, Leghorn and Panama Hats,
Family Colognes and Extracts,
CASTLE and Toilet Soaps.
Superior and approved makes of
Thread, Needles, Pins, Buckles, Braids,
Bodkins, Buttons, Emb'd Silk and Braids,
brushes, Combs, Suspcnders, Collars,
Cravats, Shirts, Belts, Bcltings, Ribbons,
Toilet Powders and Puffs, POmades,
Bandoline, Tooth Brushes,
Nail Brushes and Infants Brushes,
Fancy Skirts-somcthing new,
Yokes for Gowns, &c., embroidered on
hnen-something new,
The most attractive style OF Lace Col
lars, with Embroidered Collars, at PRICES
THAT ARE ASTONISHINGLYLO LOW.
In addition, We offer to merchants q
beautiful line of DOMESTICS-hayin the
sale of several we'll known and popular
makes OF Brown Goods. We can offer in
ducements.
7 ~
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YAUKBHS OUTDOuB /!
City of Columbia Bonds.

MAYOR'S OFFICE. ApRu /, 1867:
DARLlES holding BONDS and COU-
Il .PONS'of the city of Columbia. ara
respectfully notified that the City Clerk 10
now prepared to issue NEW BONDS for
such as are past due, and to fund tho in
terest due to the first of Jnly, 1867, upon
all the bonds issued by the city by this
issue OF new bonds, according to the Aet
last. Bonds of the denomination of Five
Hundred, Two Hundred and Fifty and Ops
Hundred Dollars vii! only be issued.
Claimants are requested to apply at this.
City Clerks Office with as little delay az
possible. THEO. STARK. Mnyor
Aprll3 12
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Furnished Rooms to Rent.
TO RENT.
AL0NZO REESE, Barber.

IA'O+tAO NEEOO, OuI UtI,
HNAKES pleasure in informing his old
Il patrons, and the public generally, that
he can be found at the Barber Shop con-
nected with the Central Hotel, where he
will be most happy TO render them any ser
vice they may require in this line.
April 1mo
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GRAND CHARITABLE
PRESENTATION CONCERT !
IN AID OF THE
SOUTHERN ORPHAN ASSOCIATION I!
Incorporated by The Legislature of Fir-
9inid, January so, 1SG7.)
TO BE GIVEN AT THE
Maryland Institute, Baltimore,
APRIL 80, 1867.

THE profits of this Concert will be given
Il to tho Southern Orphans Association,
to the subjoined address from the officers
| OF which we call the attention of the public:
We, the officers of tho Southern Or
phan's Association, for the mai -tenance
and education of the destitute orphans Of
deceased Southern soldiers and sailors.
! earnestly solicit the sympathy and co-ope-
ration in our Grand Presentation Concert.
OF all who desire to see the
"HONE 4 I'D SOHO OIL"
Enabled to receive and ca,e sor ali the
needy ones who seek it's shelter and pro-
lection.
Thanking our friends for their past con-
tributlons and assistance, we again appeal
to them to help us in more. extensive en-
terprise. It is the design of this Associa-
ton to erect s:HOME AND SCHOOL" for
the orphans Of the South, both. male and
female, on ON extensive scale, in the city of
Richmond, Virginia. AS an inducement to
have the building located there, the Com
mon Council of that city have guaranteed
sufficient lot Of land, in an elevated and
quantity Of land if needed.
1t Is with confident hope in o favorable
response to this appeal to public which
has never yet failed to sustain charitable
institution, that VIC have entered into an
arrangement with Messrs. L. T. PALMER
a. w., NO. Id IOlllday street, baltimore,
to organize q GRAND MUSICAL PRE-
SENTATION CONCERT for it's benefit.
and earnestly solicit the kindly aid and pa
tronage of the public to insure its success.
(Signed,)
Mrs. J. l.. HAMMOND, President.
Mrs. DR.. j. B. BEAN, Vice President
Mrs. y. A. +. MEARs, Treasurer.
Mrs. DR.. a. G. KIMBERLY, Cor. Scc'y.
Mr.. 5. II. SCH1ERs, Recording Secret ary.
Or; 4. G. KIMBERLY, Financial Sec'y.
Baltimore, February -, 1867.
TRUSTEES.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-07-01
TIE Ar or SPEAKING.

We modestly but decidedly take a modicum
of credit to ourselves for reading all the
speeches made by the President and his Secre
taries, by Mayors and Grand Masters, by Gov
erors and Lieutenant G overnors, during the
Executive progress. We have grapplcd with the
disagreeable duty, and we claim it as evidence
of vital tenacty that we have survived the in
fiction. We by no means intend to intimate
that the speeches are not good OF the kind. To
say nothing and to say it impressiyely-to be-
guile crowds into the idea that words are
thoughts-to make four or five creditable little
speeches in perhaps as many hours-to talk
out of barOuches, from tavern windows upon
the edge of car-platforms, to respond promptly
to the plaudts of the population, requires, of
course, the swift exercise of whatever intel
lectual faculties the President or any other
man may possess. A cOpious supply of words,
with corresponding afiluence of wind, seems
to satisfy everybody. Only too happy to
praise, when we7 can do so conscientiously, we
cheerfully admit that the President can talk
longer and say less than Mr. Seward or Mr..
Randall, or any other gentleman of His Ex-
cellency's train. Mr. Johnson's speech at the
Masonic banquet in Boston was masterpiece
of hand -to-mouth rhetoric. Walking is said to
be only succession of falls and recoverics.
The Presidents oratory is perpetual vibration
between breaking down hopelessly and horri-
bly,, and still ggoiDg on huently and triumph
anty A brief syllabus of the speech to which
we have alluded would be entertaining and
instructive. He begins, of course, by saying
that his language is inadequate to express the
emotions and feelings Of his heart. He then
adds that he does not rise for the purpose of
making an address lie then expresses his
wonder that the Masonic procession was not
Kissed and jeered at. He then informs the com
pahy that he keeps a conscience. Upon this
fruitful topic he enlarges to the end claiming
that he does not keep conscience for nothing;
that his is very wide-awake and serviceable
conscience; that he loves principle" better
than anything else in the world; that he not
only cloves" principle but that he is "devot-
"ed" to it; that being so devoted, it is impos-
sible for him to make mistake, and that he
thanks God" that he is in Boston. This Is
all. Having said this, the President undressed
himself and went to bed, to dream of new
vetoes and TO wake in the morning with his
conscience as fresh and lively as ever.
Asked if we have any fault to find with this
speech, we answer that we admire it exceed
ingly, and have often wished that we could
make one just like it. y is quite as spod a
speech as that of Mr. Banks, who speedily fol-
lowed, except, perhaps, that the ex-Speaker
said nothing little more neatly. We have
read all the speeches between Washington and
Boston, and they are all alike. Mr. Seward
praised Massachusetts, although everybody |
iflows that he likes nobody in 1t except the
Adams family. Mr. Randall glorifed the pro-
.ress of'the great American people, which is
lways safe and prolific theme. AS for the |
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-07-01

bellion and revolutionary movements at
home"-he might truthfully have added, "and
in the British dependencies abroad There
was q time when for man TO utter in Parlia-
ment such sentiments as are now freely ana
fearlessly expressed by the Radical members
of the House of Commons, would have been
to lay himself open to the charge of seditlon,
and to imperil his seat in that body. But
there is now noble band in Par
lament, having the ability and the
courage to plead in the interests of freedom
and humanity, and who address themselves to
their task undismayed by the terrible frowns
of the privileged classes. In the Reformed
House of Commons we may expect large adj
dition to their number; and who can tell but
that in that "good time coming" for England
John Bright, now villifed as an unprincipled
demagogue and preacher of assassination, may
be counted worthy to take part in the Execu-
tive Government of his country, in preference
even to one of her hereditary legislators
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-07-01

The President declaring that his visits to Ra-
leigh and Boston seem to him the work OF an
overriding Providence, and denouncing a ty-
rannical majority-that majority being the
loyal people of the United States; the
Secretary of State declaring that after Mr.
johnson had spoken it seemed sacrllege for
him to open his lips; the Governor OF Maryland
peryerting facts and insulting freedom by
defining the loyal plan of Reconstruction as
an effort to transfer the whole South to the
custody of the negroes-these form sad spec
tacle for the American people. The speeches
made at Mr.. JohnsOn's reception by the
MARYLAND Constitutional Convention show how
radically he and his Cabinet are opposed to
the nation. These gentlemen seem not
to have the slightest conception OF their
true relations to the country. MIR.
Johnson said that only the other day it would
have been impossible" for him to have gone
as far North as Boston and in Baltimore Mr.
Seward actually asserted, as one of the
Presidents merits, that che had laid down the
"sword which he might have used to cut down
"the ueople over whom he had been elected to
"ruIe.r Does Mr.. Seward really believe this
nonsenseR Does Mr.. johnson think himself a
martyr who has escaped martyrdom, or make a
virtue of his kindness in refusing dictator
shinq
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-07-01

Now look at the actual prices at which
Iron is selling in our market. We quote from
the Prices Current given in The Journal Of
Commerce of last Wednesday:
Iron, Scotch Pig, 81 TO si9 per tun.
Iron American Pig. No. I, $4S 10 - per tun
English Bar refined, sos 10 sl1o per tuu
do do. common, 500 to sos per tun.
Sheet Russia, SIT so TO t1s 80 per cwt.
do. English and American, S rs to a.
Reader, whether Free Trader or Protec-
ZIONIST! is it true that we are paying S7S 80 per
tun extra for our Iron because of Protection
Look at the figures and judge
Is it true that but $4,000 persons in this
country are employed in the production of
JronP Do you not know that far, more thn"
this draw their subsistence from lron-maklng
in three Counties of Pennsylvania alonef
We choose not here to be diverted from
the main point. The Post, and other journals
enriched by the importers advertising, a'e ac-
customed to put forth and reiterate assertions
as reckless and untruthful as those above
quoted. We cannot devote space to the special
refutation of each misstatement. Look care
fully at the above, and judge how far they can
deserve or need it!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-07-01

Governors AID the Mayors, they did the best
they codld, but nothing came from them OF
the smallest consequence If we were not
afraid of being disrespectful, we should classify
all these outpourings under the head either
of flapdoodle or rigmarole. We are sorry to
say this, because we have great name In the
world for eloquence and every American 1t
is claimed, is good public speaker. The
trouble, perhaps, is that we make incessant de-
mands upon the rhetorical powers of our men
of affairs, calling them out of their beds, ana
away from their dinner-tables, summoning
them from their desks, or the sweet secluslon
of their families, and ordering them to amuse
us by emitting an extempOre Grafton, just as
Eastern story -tellers were obliged to amuse
the Sultan when the Sultan felt like being
amused. What, in consequence, do we get
Simply slop. Merely words without meaning,
and eternal repetitions. Nine parts apology
for having nothing to say, and one part graft
tude for having been patiently listened to.
The crowds care nothing for what Is said;
they are merely anxious that there should be
speech and, given that, they shout comfort
ably or howl with rapture. Nobody pretends
to remember anything except the reporters,
taxed Poor gentlemen! they have heard it
all before!
| Pehaps il would be as well if we could have
less speaking, and that of little better quality.
| The Inference between real and sham oratory
| is tn, difference between real talking and the
garr,ty of spinsters. There may be such a
| thin1 as popular eloquence of very high order.
| The Athenan crowds were fastidiOus to de-
gree, and the best of Demosthenes was not in
the east too good for them. We are inclined
to bdeve that, at 'one period, the American
peope, or at least the inhabitants of tie older
Stats, were equally nice; and the result was
BODY of orators who have left few II any
SUCCESSORS. Refinement, culture, strict propriety,
breathing thoughts as well as burning ,cordS,
havebecome rare. Every gourmand knows the
danger of eating too much, and that mdscrim-
mate gorging blunts the palate. There is a
limitto what may be said judciously and wisely
of public affairs, and all that may be put for
ward with no reference to these is merely
pratte. fit neither to be uttered nor to be lis
tened to by those whose lives are short and
should be prOftaby busy. The public habit OF
calling upon everybody for speech, and OF
wasting time in listening to mere talk, has
measrably affected the public taste, and low
cred the standard of rhetorical excellence. 1t
is only to small and garrulous men, it Is only
to administrations which cannot afford to dis
cuss measures and policies in the forum, that
this condition of things can be agreeable or
profitable With better days may come fewer
takers and more genuine statesmanship-the
nod of Bureigh and his brains
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mencement, viii hear the "orations" of tho
graduating class and, if he be boy of some
taste and little culture, will notice how feeble
and fabby they are, how little thought they
contain, how clumsily, in spite of the patching
of the Professor of Rhetoric, they are COR
structed Let him resolve that when he comes
to graduate he will have something to say
"out of his own head" and in his own way.
If he sticks to this for four years, he may be able
at lastfo prove that an A. b. is not necessarily
parrot and need not he an ape; and he may aston
ish the most hardened frequenters of the college
meeting house by giving them assurance OF
man. If he can do this, it is no matter who
speaks the dog-Latin of the salutatory," or the
mournful strains of the "Yaledictory." The
best prizes and honors are forty or fifty years
ahead, and do not come in the shape of medals
and sheep-skins. We do not mean to say that
these things are to be despised, nor that whole
some discipline is to be avoided. We pre-
suppose little common sense in the young
freshman, and ardently hore that his college
course may not diminish it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-07-01

If our dispatches are correct, Mr. Campbell,
ex-Minister to Mexico, did not go there, because
he had peremptory orders from Mr.. Seward to
remain in New Orleans OF course, this exoner-
ates Mr.. Campbell, for what man would prefer
to stay in New-0rleans, paid $1,000 a
month for doing nothing, to attending
to his business at the headquarters of
Juarez2 1t is plain that somebody has terri
bly, Numbered, and Congress should look into
this mismanagement of our Mexican relations.
If Mr.. Seward had shown half the energy in
sending minister to Mexico that he did in re-
moving Mr.. Motley, sending Gen. King to
Rome, or Mr.. DOolitue to Russia, he would
have better sustained his reputation as a
statesman.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-07-01

John Bull, it is to be feared, is in bad
way, for he seems to be fast losing his respect
for those venerable institutions" without
which, he has all along protested to believe, chaos
would come again in England. He has not
only dared to question the utility of the House
of Lords, but he is now positively "Poking
fun at that aristocratic and dignifed assem-
bly,. Lord Shaftesbury moved, it seems, by the
structures in which the English press is indulg-
ing on that time -honored body, has proposed,
as a measure of reform, that the House should
meet an hour earlier each day, to afford the
young peers opportunity Of coming forward
and taking part in the debates. This PROPOSE
ton, made evidently with the best intentions,
has set Bull laughing immoderately. If nobody
"has anything particular to say. what is the
"use of meeting an hour earlierp he asks.
And then, affecting a kindly feeling for the
Lord, he adds: "Why disturb and bother the
ancient and august assembly, 1t is unhap-
PLY too plain that Bull is turning Radical In
his old DAYS