The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-07-28

For the first time in several months,
there was total failure of the North
9ern mail, yesterday owing. doubt
less, to the high water in and around
Baltimore. 1f. s.ss...st
We are indebted to the "Colum-
biz Club" for delightful serenade-
vocal and instrumental (piano in
cludcd) last night. It was fully
appreciated, we can assure our
friends. "a
RADICAL BY-P1AY-Upon the
question of taxing out Of existence
cotton and rice, which was up a day
or two since before the South Caro-
lima (D Legislature, one rad. said, it
was "a great bill, wise bill, it will
raise 50, 600, ,OOO." "It will do more
than that" said another rad.lf Glow
is that?" said the first. s'It will raise
hi !" Here the discussion dropped,
and the sanguine party sloped. This
is legislation with vengeance. tst,
FLAG -RA1s1NG.--our irrepressible
and whole-souled fellow citizen, Mr.. /
A. Palmer, had a pleasing display. 4
yesterday the erection of a, flagstaff,
with handsome United States dag,
12x1S feet, over his building. A
number Of citizens participated, and
upon the conclusion of the fag-rais-
ing, several bowls of punch, kegs of
lager, etc., were disposed Of, and the
health and long life of the proprie-
tor-as we'll rs success to the Demo-
cratic candidates, Seymour and
Blair-were drunk with vim. IIfNia
BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN,
FOR THEY SHALL BE CoMFoRTED.'' -
Senator Jillson, yesterday, introduc-
ed resolution, proposing to appro-
pirate the sum of $1,000, for the
benefit of the widow of Hon. Solo
mon George Washington Dill, mem
ber elect to the House of mis-repre-
sentativcs from Kershaw Keounty. .
A good move, gentlemen-a good
move! And behold, in the days of :
the November. election, the tax-pay..
ers of Carolina shall rise and call you
anything but blessed forevermore.
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RENDER UNTO CESAR THE THINGS
WHICH ARE CKsAR's, &c.-We are by.
no means disposed to be captious or
fault-fnding as journalists. Our
position is too obscure, when brought
into comparison with that Of our
friends of the Charleston Daily Ne,vs;
but we think that the extreme origi-
nality and wonderful enterprise of
that new offspring of the Democratic
party, might enable it to give us
credit for the reports of the legisla-
tive proceedings, which they copy
from our insignificant columns.
HOME AGAIN! HOME AGAIN 1T
affords us sincere qualification to an
nounce that the excursion party of
the General Assembly of mis-repre-
sentatives of this State, returned last
evening, in good condition, from the
Greenville trip, and without having
encountered any obstruction at the
hands of the Ku Klux Klan. We
say this safe return of the honorable
gentlemen, is peculiarly gratifying,
rs we had great reason to apprehend
that this Greenville excursion was
projected exclusively in the interests
of the Klan, which is known to have
more than two or three million nd
herents in the upper Districts of our
State. and tc be ruling with absolute
terrorism over the truly loyal:people
of our State. How the party man
aged to escape being thrown down
some bank, preoipitated in some
river, or bayonetted to death by
these dreadful bugbears, is some
thing that the unreconstructed can