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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-09-02
WIL'M HENRY HOWARD.
P. S. Who is Mr.. Haly?
The Work and the Cost.

The following Acts and joint reso-
lutions, says the Charleston Ne,cs,
have been passed by both houses and
been signed by the Governor. They
represent about fifty days in work
and at least S70,0 in United States
currency:
L. An Act to accept the benefits of
an Act donating public lands to the
several States and Territories which
may provide colleges for the benefit
of agriculture and the mechanic arts.
2. An Act to authorize and empow-
er the Governor to effect loan in
behalf of the State of $125, 900.
B. An Act to incorporate the Che.
raw Hook and Ladder Company as q
part of the fire department. of the
town of Cheraw.
4. An Act to incorporate the Lang
ley Manufacturing Company of
Edgefield County.
5. An Act to provide for recording
certificates of sale issued to purchas.
ers of lands sold under direction and
authority of the United States Direct
Tax Commissioners in Beaufort
County.
6. An Act to make appropriations
for the payment of the expenses of
the present session of the Leeisla-
ture, and to meet certain deficiencies
in the appropriation for the fiscal
year commencing 1st of October, A.
d. 1867, made by General Orders
No. 139, dated Charleston, Decem-
ber 5, 1867.
7. An Act to regulate appeals and
writs of error to Supreme Court.
8. An Act to provide Private Sec
retary for the Governor.
8. TO regulate the manner of keep
ing and disbursing public funds by
certain officers.
10. An Act to organize the Circuit
Courts.
II. An Act to establish police force.
II. An Act to authorize q loan to
redeem the obligations known as
'bills receivable of State of South
Carolina.
13. An Act to authorize State loan
to pay interest on the public debt.
IA. A joint resolution for fitting up
and furnishing residence for the
Governor.
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a suggss.iorl.

Mr.. Ep1roR: I Iwonld respectfully
suggest. through your paper, to the
Democratic Clubs of the State, that,
in our opinion, the whites would auc-
ceea mucn better in maung Demos
crats Of the colored population. If
the Democratic Clubs would detail
certain suitable members of their
clubs to talk to the colored people.
The plan that has met with success
in the neighborhood of the writer, is
for some sensible man to collect the
negroes of his neighborhood together.
and not make o speech, but q talk,
and ascertain the complaints that
the negroes make against the Demo-
cratic party, and show them the
folly. of their objections. Mass
meetings do very little good with
this class! Democratic Clubs that
have tried this plan have met with
much success, and South Carolina is
the State for us to try every means.
II. T. j.
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Mr.. EDITOR: On Friday morning
last, between s and 0 o'clock, as the
mail carrier between Lexington @.
H. and Mount Willing, in Edgefeld
District, was pursuing his journey,
he was waylaid near the line of
Edgefeld ard shot from his horse.
The assassin shot at him five times,
the last shot only taking effect. The
ball struck near the hip joint and
lodged, it is supposed, in the bowels.
The carrier was an old colored man,
upwards of sixty years of age, and
was man of irreproachable charac-
ter-distinguished for his urbanity to
all white people. The service on the
route will necessarily cease from this
date. B. J. HAYES,
Contractor on the above route.
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General David Hunter. the Presi-
dent OF the military commission That
tried and convicted Mrs. Surratt. is.
out, in Q card this morning, denying
the abatement first made in radical
papers. that he had refused to sign
the application for the pardon of
Mrs, Surratt. he says in his card,
that he has Railways looked with utter
contempt on the execution of the
poor woman" Thus, one by one.
the members of this court are irving
to get away from responsibility in
this case. Mr.. Bingham, the Judge
advocate of the court, says he pre-.
pared the petition for pardon, and
added that every member Of the
court, with one exception, signed it.
That exception, the radical papers
said, was Gen. Hunter; and now the
latter not only denies it, but says he
looked with utter contempt upon
the execution of the poor woman"
Can the members of the court explain
why it was, then, that Mrs. Surratt
was pronounced equally guilty and
deserving OF death with Paine,
Heroid and Atzerodt? Why was she
pronounced one Of the chief crimi-
nails, instead of being placed in the
category with O'Loughlin and Mudd,
who were not adjudged guilty Of
offences deserving of death? 1t is
rather late in the day for the men,
bers of the court to attempt to escape
from the responsibility of Mrs. Sur.
rats hasty execution.
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LETTER FROM Hon. HoRAr1o SEy-

LETTER FROM Hon. HoRATIo SEY-
MoUR.-A letter has been received in
Washington, from Hon. Horatio
Seymour, dated Utica, New York,
August 9th, in which the great
banner-bearer Of the American peo-
pie announces himself in good health
and spirits, and "certain of the sue
cess of the Democratic ticket-for
the rights Of the whole people, the
maintenance of the Union entire.
with the same privileges in one Sec
tion as the other.
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The following communication will
explain itself:
Ito BROADWAY, New York,

Ah0 AOlOnlnS COumuulCutlOu WILL
explain itself:
Ito BROADWAY, New YORK,
August q, 1868.
MessrS. H. E. Nichols & Co., Colum-
bid, s. c..
We are in receipt of your favor of
the Goth inst, covering a newspaper
slip, relating to an attack on us by
Montgomery, of Newberry, and
thank you for the attention. The
fellow is bully and a coward, and
unworthy of notice He shelters him
self behind his accidental position,
and utters libel he would not dare
to publish under other circumstances.
TO crafty any curiosity, you may
have to learn the ground of his hos
tility, ana the petty malice he ex-
hibits, we will briefly state, that tho
firm of Montgomery & Miller we're
insured by us, in the sum of So, 900,
on their stock of groceries, Novem-
Der, 1865; subsequently, Miller sold
his half interest to Montgomery, but
made no transfer of the policy-under
the conditions Of the policy, (condi-
tions common to all policies this
''change in title or possession" rem
dered the policy void. A fire after
wards occurred, damaging the stock.
Montgomery made an exorbitant
claim, stating his loss in his proof, at
50, 1854. In reality, according to
the best evidence we could get, his
real loss under the policy, providing
the same had remained binding, was
not one-half what he claimed; but
though he had no legal claim on us
for dollar, yet, looking at it in the
light of equity, as we do all honest
claims for loss, we concluded to pay,
and did pay him 81, $50, taking his
receipt and discharge in full This
is the whole story. briefly told; and
you will perceive he has nothing to
complain of, but liberal and honor
able treatment; and to one who must
be conscious that he was unworthy
of it, this may be regarded, perhaps,
as good ground for complaint and
legislative interference. The attack
OF such worthless fellow, is harm
less. Your good people know the
value OF our policies; and the record
OF losses paid by us, for three years,
a copy of which you have shows
that we have paid to citizens of the
Southern States, during that time,
the sum of 1854, 546.4 46. If they can
spare our protection. we shall gain by
leaving the field. Very truly, &C.,
(Signed) o. E. HOSMER,
Asst. Genl. Agent.
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INNOCENT GAIETY. 1t should not
be q cause of surprise that gaiety and
iveliness of spirits are objects of uni
versal encouragement and commend
alton. They are, as we may per-
ceive, from daily experience, abso-
lutely necessary for the maintenance
of goodwill among men; nay, we
may assert that the very existence of
society would be questioned, if thoss
indictments to mutual converse were
wanting in the human heart, to say
nothing of their contributing to bodi-
ly health.
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The mulatto fellow who was at

The mulatto fellow who was at
Williston, Q week or two ago, for the
purposes, as he said, of taking down
the names of colored Democrats, as
they were to be shot or banished
from the country, has been at several
plantations below BarnwelI Court
House, recently, deluding tho poor
negroes by telling them that he is o.
surveyor, and that he has come to
measure OF their land. BY this means
ne got many of their chickens, eggs,
&c., which he barters off. AS he
brought no mule. some of the more
intelligent class of freedmen have
discovered the trick, and are after
him with sharp sticks, swearing re-
venge. ~
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Count Sponneck, the confidential
adviser of the King of Greece, is o
gentleman of fifty, possessed of ex-
traordinary presence of mind. When
he first went to Greece he had with
him, on board the steamer, O power
full Newfoundland dog. to which he
was much attached. The dog, one
day, fell overheard, and Count Spon-
neck asked the captain of the vessel
to have the engines stopped that his
dog might be saved. Your excel
lency," replied the captain, "my
instructions are to stop only when a
man has fallen overheard" Every
well" said the Count, who is an ex-
cellent swimmer, and jumped over
board. The steamer stopped, and
both the Count and his dog were,
five minutes afterwards, again on
board.
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The PUBLIC DEBT INCREASED OVER
$3.50, 100000 SINCE THE CLOSE OF
THE WARl-The following is the Off
cial statement of the public debt
made by Secretary MoCulloch on
the 3lst uItimo, as compared with
his official statement on the 31st of
March, 1865, at the close of the war:
July 81, 1868, $2,523, ,534, 49O. CT;
March 3l, 1866, 80, 366, 965, OFT. "a;
increase, $156, $40, 4O3.33. Such is
the effeot OF three years of radical
rule in time of peacel
Washington Eeening Star.
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TO j. G. Jdmasy. Esq. sit5

TO J. G. ,1dplasy, Esp.
MY DEAR SrR: Your fellow citizens,
who know you we'll, know you te be
q kind-hearted, benevolent and most
humane man. Words of kindness
are always on your lips, and the I'M
.dustry you ave shown in finding
out and informing ms aeho De Goser-
nor Of The State is. surely must be
considered an act Of great Kindness
to the people of South Carolina. A
stranger would suppose that the peo-
pie of the State must know some
thing land should know everything)
about the character and antecedepts
of the gentleman who has | cen elect
ed to a place of authority by them
selves. Bnt, strange to say, such is
not the fact. Why not, with the
same benevolence, 90 on and tell us
who is Gov. Pickens, or Gov. Bon
ham, or Gov. Magrath? By the way,
do you think that. you are better
known than Gov. Scottp The peo-
pie did not, until your act of kind
ness. even know the name of Gov.
Scott, (whether it was Waller or
Robert3 but now they are informed
by you after he has been chosen by
them. This is singular. Doubtless
many of your fellow citizens we're
equally at loss to know whether the
Governor came from Scotland land
had, therefore, never been natural
lied, or whether he was from Ohio
and required only two years residence
to qualify him for his place. In all
these matters you have conferred q
lasting obligation upon those who
elected him. We now, through your
kindness, begin to know ,oho tie Co.
Oernor is, and we must certainly
respect him the more when he is
endorsed by you, and We learn, for
the first time, that he has never been
lawyer, but has, all his life, been q
doctor of medicine. You tell us he
has been mixing pills and alleviating
suffering all his life. In his present
position he certainly is not out of his
sphere. He has q very sick patient
to cure; some say, laboring under q
disease called the black vonaU, caught.
in part, from the Governor himself.
We trust that the doctor will be
equally skillful now rs in the past,
and that he may not have to resort to
the scalpel. It may be, however,
that while he is excellent as a physi-
clan, he may not be so good as sur
geon; in other words, in the use of
instruments. BE good enough, if you
please, my dear sir. to draw upon
your kind heart again and inquire
into this last matter, and inform your
obliged fellow-citizens. How is the
doctor as an accoucheur? Yours
truly,
WIL'M HENRY HOWARD.
P. S. Who is Mr.. Haly?
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ELooUENcE. True eloquence does
not consist, as the rhetoricians
assure US, in saying great things in o
sublime style, but in simple style;
for there is, properly speaking, no
such thing as a sublime style. The
sublimity lies only in the thing; and,
when they are not so. the language
may be turgid, affected, metaphori-
cal, but not affecting.
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THE CHARLEsToN MUTUAL I1BE
INSURANCE ASSOCIATION. This organ
ization was effected, yesterday after
noon, by the election of the following
officers: O. L. Lowndes, President;
Direetofs-J. M. Eason, B. G. Press
Icy. b. Z. Evans, w. G.. Whildep.
James Conner, w. s.. Henery, Will
liam Lebby, George s.. Hacker, Zim-
norman Davis; William Thayer, Sec
retary and Treasurer.
tl a8aHo lCharleston Mercury.
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MArNE.-A correspondent of the
Herald writes as follows.

MA1NE.-A correspondent of the
Herald writes as follows:
"Fnrther investigation in the inte-
rior of the State shows increased
hostility to the radical Congressional
ticket by the laboring masses. The
lumber booms are almost deserted.
The ship-yards are barren monu-
Inents of ruined fortunes, and their
operatives are at work on the farms.
The radicals are denounced for rob-
bling them Of their occupation, and
their votes will be generally thrown
for the Seymour ticket. Radical
leaders admit that several towns on
the Kennebec and Androscoggin,
last year radical, will swell up Demo
cratic maiorities, and that Augusta
will wheel into line The Republi-
cans have entered into the canvass
with renewed energy.
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board.
A great run at billiards astonishes
the Detroiters. A young fellow only
sixteen years old has run 15,Ol5
points carom, and has not yet COM
pleted the run. The balls have been
out of position several times. The
run was begun on the 18th instant.
The young man plays until he gets
tired, and then stops for the day.
The Tuskegee (Ala.) Ne,rs says
that the State University, with libra
ry, apparatus and endowment fund,
has been turned over to set of
worthless, characterlcss carpet-bag-
gers. The few Southern men who
were magnanimously retained in the
faculty by the ''powers that pretend
to be-" have very properly resigned
their professorships.
1t costs negro man two dollars
and fifty cents, in Richmond, Vir-
ginia. to slap white lady in the
face, curse her, and threaten to kill
her.
A few days since, one "Rev." Jas.
j. Goodwin, of Halifax, North Caro-
lima, radical preacher, advised the
blacks to steal from the whites, if
they wouldn't employ them, &c.
One of them took his advice and
stole a large quantity of corn from
him.
The French papers report that two
burglars were recently run down and
captured by two amateurs, mounted
on velocipedes, and suggest that the
police might profit by the fact.
The men who marshaled rebeldom
in the field are marshaling Democra-
cy for the ballot-box.
Raleigh Standard
The men who didn't marshal any
thing in the field are now marshaling
their colored dupes for the cartridge
box Wilmington Star.
Official advices from Bokhara state
that the Emir has made treaty with
the Russians, accepting the terms
offered by the imperial Government,
and the Russian troops have evacu-
ated Samarcand.
CAUGHT IN STEEL -TRAp.-It is
confessed, by Senator Thayer and
others, who have just reported ut
Washington, after a thorough tour of
the South, that there is no look for
Grant here; that the negroes can
no longer be relied on; and that we
have got caught in our own trap.
DEATH OF AN OLD CHARLESTON
MERCHANT. Mr.. Albert L. Hasel-
tine, for many years prominent
wholesale merchant of Charleston,
died suddenly on Sunday evening.
His death was the result of over
eXertion.
A Northern paper says that the
German population of the South is
unit for Grant and Colfax. That is
true-very little more than n "unit"
in any District. The tens and hun
dreds are all on the other side.
The railroad timetables between
New York and Washington will be
changed on the 9th of September.
and the running time between the
two cities be reduced to eight hours
and-a-half. 81
The Abyssinian expedition has ad
ded new drink to the list of beve
RACES. Its name is Tel, and it is
described as semi-acidulous, cidery
sort of liquid, slightly Intoxicating. i
The last strike-that of the shoe.
makers.
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Buffers New ORLEANS CAREER
The New York San. in its issue of
the 18th instant, asks for4evidence of
General Bntler's propensity to- APP
propriate the spoons of others. iaiThe
instances are innumerable, and are
easily susceptible of proof. AS "a
specific one is required, we will select
that of DR.. Campbell. During the
occupation of the city, Butler seized
his house, and, upon its restoration,
the silver was retained and carried
North by Butler, some of it having
since been seen in his own residence.
1t consisted of nine dozen pieces, all
marked. A suit for its recovery is
either about to be, or has already
been brought against the spoon-fan-
cier. 1t is notorious that the first
act of Butler was to institute search
for silver-plate, all of which he pro-
fessed to confscate in the name of
the United States. SO actively did
he prosecute the search that many of
the resident families endeayorded to
transport their plate to Europe.ipMr
Hamilton Wright and Mr.. Gillis, two
of our most respectable merchants,
were arrested and sent to Ship Island
on this charge. In one case, Butlee
succeeded in capturing the silver; in
the other, it eluded his Vigilance. 4 If
the New York Sun is sufficiently
honest in its desire to investigate
this subject, we shall return to the
subject again, with numerous other
well credited and traceable charges,
selected from the host of instances of
the spoon spoliation, either commit
ted by Butler himself, or. in his
name by the creatures under him.
-Ne1o Orleans Times, august 23.
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One of the London magistrates, in
discharging woman for disorderly
conduct said she was ''too con-
temptible to be sent to prison.
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An Irish and italian Democratic
Club was organized in Charleston,
on Monday.
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Hs9ca1 Iteaaa@.

E-aCCa1 IGe11a@u es
E{Il6Gs GSH{s,N 3
y All persons having in their posses
sion transparencies used in the late
Democratic ratification procession,
wit confer a favor on the COMMITTEES
by sending them to the store of John
Mckenzie, Esq, at once, as they are
required for use.
: . ALMOST AN ACCIDENT. "A freedman,
employed on the building being
erected by Mr.. Lewis, fell off the
scafold, but, luckily, struck on his
head, and escaped without injury.
A soldier, while under spiritual
influence, yesterday afternoon, made
an indiscriminate assault on several
freedmen, when two of the darkies
pitched into him, and used him very
roughly, leaving the son of Mars
stretched senseless on the ground.
The immense Seymour and Blair
banner, presented by several De-
mocratic merchants of New York,
has been placed in front OF Demo.
cratic NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Hall.
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THE LEGISLATURE two ex-
ceptions, no measure of any public
interest was presented to either
House of the General Assembly yes
terday. These were the passage by
the House of the "bill to close the
operations of the Bank of the State"
and the refusal of the same body to
pass the bill "to amend the charter
of Charleston" over the veto of the
Governor, which we published yes
terday. Both excited q great deal of
Africano-sophomoric debate, the
particulars of which need no further
mention, than that they were wholly
in the interests and for the support
of the great Down-East, carpet-bag,
scalawag, Republican party.
From those Republican members
of the Great Unlawful who had the
courage to vote according to their
convictions of right in sustaining the
veto of the Governor, we do not de-
sire to withhold full need of praise,
but justice compels us to add that
their example was more than coun-
terbalanced by their confreres, who
endeavored to pass the bill over the
veto, on the express ground that this
action was imperative and demanded
by the necessities of the party. This
meant nothing more nor less than
that, without some such provision as
that contained in the bill, enabling
any person who had resided in
Charleston for thirty days, the NUM-
cipal government of our "City by the
Sea" would be under the administra-
tion of respectable and intelligent
gentlemen, instead of such canaiHe as
Gilbert Pillsbury. Justice has tri-
umphed, however, and, for so much,
our Charleston friends may be CRATE
full, even if it was accomplished
through the fear of the party to come
in conflict with their chosen leader,
the present SO called Governor of the
State.
At the passage of the bill to close
the operations of the Bank of the
State we feel no disappointment.
We were, and still are, perfectly pre-
pared to hear of the Inauguration by
these misrepresentation of any
scheme which promises their per-
sonal aggrandizement at the expense
of our people; and it would have
been surprising, indeed, if they me-
elected so tempting q chance to
attract 81, 100000 from its legitimate
place Of repose. We will be aston
lshed, however, if the reDresenta tiyes
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If white man had killed negro,
as Smith was killed, what would
have been the consequences?
SUBSCRIBER.
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COLJIMBIA.. /.
wednesday morning. Sept, 2, 1858.
sfCafivassers Appointed.

y : a. - d.
Agreeabiy to d resolution adopted
by the recent State Convention. the
following gentlemen are appointed
by the State Central Executive Com
mites canyassers in the interest of
the Democracy: ,.e,a.. T..
State at large Gabriel Cannon
and a. p. AIdrich. - ~. :,
Second Congressional District--J.
B. Kershaw. o' t't ,,au
Third Congressional District-D.
Wyatt Aiken. 5I a.. I. - 4, ~.
Fourth Congressional District-W.
D. Simpson, 80,
Canvasser for First Congressional
District to be hereafter appointed.
WADE HAMPTON, Chairman.
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WHY GOLD DOES Nor RISE JUST
Now. The Baltimore Gazette gives a
singular explanation of the recent
fall in gold, or, rather, the reason
why it does not continue to rise.
That journal says that certain Ger
man bankers are about to- ship one
million of dollars in gold to New
York for the purpose of lending it
out on United States securities. By
the withdrawal Of q million of bonds
thus hypothecated from the market,
or of bonds to any extent that may
be necessary to effect the object in
view. the German capitalists hope to
secure o firm market here, which
would thus enable them to dispose
abroad of their own United States
bonds, if not at q profit, at least
without sustaining any material loss.
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The WEATHER.
II shines-then rains,
Then shines again.
What does the weather mean?
1t hangs in dohbt-
The sun comes out,
With drizzling mists between.
Now dark, now light,
Like day, like night
lis changing, tickle weather;
1t mists at times,
Then rains or shines
And, sometimes, all together.