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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-10-18
SPECIAL NOTICES.
A MISERABLE SHAKER rs TIIE

A MISERABLE SHAKER IS THE
Victim to Fever and Ague. This tedious
and enervating disease is, unfortunately,
too well known to need o description. It
is strictly malarious disease, caused by
exhalations from the soil, especially from
marshes, swamps and newly cleared lands
encountered with decomposing vegetable
matter. The chiils is one of the most
troublesome of maladies, as the patient,
though he may not be confined to his bed,
is incapable of action. The experience of
years has demonstrated the fact that
HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS is
sure means of fortifying tho system
against all atmospheric poison, breaking
up the parnxysms and rapidly restoring
the strength. Quinine, which has so long
been the great remedy for chills, has been
superseded by this powerful and harmless
agent; While as preventive it is un-
cqualied, as its use will certainly exempt
all who may live in unhealthy localities,
from the ravages of this disease.
Hostetters Stomach Bitters is now
among the most popular, and, at tho same
time, valuable specifics in tho medical
world. In recommending it to the public
we arc fully conscious Of doing them a
great service, knowing, as we do, their
many excellent qualities, and sure and
speedy action i'll all cases where tho dis
ease is caused by irregularity of the digcs-
tive organs.
AS tonic it is both mild and agreeable
to the taste, and stimulating in it's action
upon the system. Oct 1G t6
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Woodenware and Brooms,

Woodenware and Brooms.
NNUBS, Painted and Brass Bound Buck
j. cts, Churns, Well Buckets. Cothas-
pins, Bung Floggers Barrel Covers, Wash
Boards, Measures, Flour Pals, Sugar
Boxes Boxes len Lemon sgueezers, Bowls, Trays,
received and for sale low by
Sept is d j. ~ L. II. AGNEW.
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VOLUME NO. 1862
Goods Down.

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.,zSGH
In sympathy with the
Staple, all GOODS have have
declined, and our system Of
QUICK SALES and weekly
arrival of FRESH GOODS,
places us in position to give
our PATRONS the full and
undivided benefit Of the re-
cent decline. a
We are handling a rapidly
increasing and very datter-
ing BUSINESS, but desire
to add to it; and are earnest
bidders for a CHANCE 8 a. at
every BUYER who comes ls
to Columbia, relying upon
the moderate prices we ask,
and our rigid system of fair
ness, to make us friends.
We will not at present
enumerate any articles, as a
mere glance into our
Large Room, m
Will satisfy that we are full
on every LINE OF GOODS
that belong to the trade.
We are doing a good
JoBBING BUSINESS
With the adjacent country
| and city .... 81,
Merchants,
And are paying especial at
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-09-03

The Milwaukee Democrat states that
some eight months ago, Mr.. T. B. Masua,
of that city, ascertainsd that he had can
Ger on his face the size Of pin. 1t WAS
cut out by DR.. Wolcott, and the wound
partially healed. subsequently 1t grew
again. and while he was at Cincinnati or
business, it attained the size of hickory
nut. He remained there since Christmas
under treatment, and is now perfectly cur
ed. The process is this: A piece Of stick
ing plaster was put over the cancer, with
a circular piece cut out Of the center, "a
little larger than the cancer, so that tho
cancer and a small circular rim Of healthy
skin next to it were exposed. Then y
plaster made of chloride Of zinc, blood
root and wheat -four, was spread on a
piece of muslin she size OF this circular
opening, and applied to the cancer for
twenty-four hours. On removing it the
cancer will be found burnt into, and ap-
pear Of the color and hardness Of an old
shOe sole, and the circular rim outside uf
it will appear white and parboiled, as II
sealded by hOg steam. Tho wonud is now
dressed, and the outside rim soon separates
and the cancer comes out in hard lump,
and the place heals Up. The plaster kills
the cancer. so that it slOughs out like dead
flesh and never grows again. The rene
dy was discovered by DR.. Fell, OF London,
and has been used by kim for six or eight
wears, with unfailing success, and not n
case has been known of the re appearance
| of the cancer when this remedy has been
/ applied.
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Miscellaneous.

Leading CO1Ored Democrats -
That is the respectful title given by
the Charleston Daily News to some
"niggers" who mean to vote, but who
have consented to vote the Democrat
ic ticket. We beg Northern Demo-
cratic orators to take warning in time.
The "white mans government" has
"gone up" to use an expressive
though inelegant western phrase.
That grim joker, the Rev. Petroleum
V. Nasty, who prOfessed lately to have
discovered that ssDemocratic nigger"
smells quite differently from "Re-
publican Niger" ought to have pat
ented his discovery, for the Southern
Democrats have adopted it. A Ten
nessee Democratic Convention has
even issued an official welcome to
freedmen into the ranks of the Demo
cratic party. It is in these words:
"Resolved, That if the freedmen of
this State unite with the Democra-
cy, and by their votes secure the en-
franchisPment of the white men who
are now disfranchised, common jus
tice and common gratitude demand
that we should not disturb them in
any rights they may now possess"
That is fair bargain, and we ad-
wise Tennessee freedmen to make a
contract on those terms.
Meantime ''Ieading colored Demo-
crats' are "stumping" the Southern
States. Charleston has several color
ed Democratic clubs; with at least a
thousand members. Every county
in South Carolina will soon have a
colored Democratic club. The same
movement is going on in North Caro-
lima, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi, and even in Texas.
In Mississippi, indeed, a Democrat
ic meeting, held at YazoO last week,
passed a resolution declaring that the
Democrats mean to confer "impartial
suffrage on all men, irrespective of
color"
The NOV ement is really getting to
be of frst-rate importance. 1t seems
to be something more than joke.
IF the Southern Democratic leaders
will accept the negro votes, and call
the freedmen to work with them in
politics, a very troublesome and mis-
chievous question will be settled in q
way against which no one can COM
plain. We advise the Republican
leaders to pay attention to the South
ern States. They ought to canvass
those States thorOughly.-[N. Y. Eve.
Post.
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seymOur's Lseiter Of Accep-
fslmpn

Lfsmces
After four weeks of weary and
anxious waiting on the part Of thg
faithful, the "great statesman" has
finally published his letter of acceP-
tance. 1t is carefully-worded,
non-eommittal document, and cannot
add a particle Of strength to thg
party. On the question Of finance,
bonds, grsenbacks, etc. which has
agitated the party from center to
circumference, Mr.. Seymour is omi-
nousIy silent, merely saying of the
resolutions
As presiding officer Of that conyen-
ton, / am familiar with their scope
and import. As one of its menibgrs,
I am a party to their terms; they are
in accordance with my views, and [
stand upon them in the contest upon
which we are now entering; and l
shall strive to carry them out in fu-
ture, wherever / may be placed in
political OF private life.
With Mr.. Seymour's record in IA
vor ofpaying the bonds in gold, it is
evident that somebody is to be cheat
ed. On this point the Commercial
says:
Mr.. Seymour very well knows that
two constructions are put upon that
part of the platform-of which ho
assures US he has a copy-relating to
the finances. In the East, it is claim
ed as favorable to the payment Of
the bonds of the Government of the
United States in coin, or in currency
when currency shall have been made
as good as coin. In the West, it is
claimed that the resolutions commit
the party AMI its candidates to the
payment Of the bonds in green0acks
where coin payment is not expressly
stipulated in the bonds, whatever be-
the gold value Of the greenbacks at
| the time the bonds are redeemed.
Nothing could have been easier to
! SHY blan lhhl Aio WIS bAi l1h Va VI OttO
or the other ofthese plans. Yet Mr..
Seymour dismisses the whole subject
with the vague remark that as Il
member Of the Convention he is q
party to their terms, and that the
terms are in accordance with his
views-which is precisely the point
at issue between the bond holding
and plow-holding Democracy. The
pressure in this case is evidently so
equal that Mr.. Seymour does not
know his own mind. If the platform
is in accordance with his views, of
which we have had no later EXPOSE
/ ton than that given in his Cooper
Institute speech, then Mr. Peudleton
and his Western disciples have mis-
conceived the meaning OF the resOlu-
tions. Either Mr.. Seymour or they
are in false position, and we leave
them to wriggIe out Of it as best they
can.
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A correspondent of the Meriden
(Conn.) Reporter gives the date, place
and circumstances under which he met,
in 1864, two strangers at a tea-table.
One of them said to the other:
nWhat do you think of Grants cam
paign ?" CThe General was then be-
fore Richmond.) The reply was, "The
most stupendous military failure in
Che world" "How long," said the
gentleman, edo you think the war
will last ?'' "Four years longer" was
the reply, "four years longer, unless
concessions are made to the South
I whispered in my walters ear: "Whc
is that gentleman ?" indicating the
one who had replied. He said, "GOv-
ernor Seymour"
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have confscated $4,000 Of old Mrs.
Ct}s property.
Well, said the Democrat, am not
responsible for the Legal-tender actj
your Republican Congress made the
law and forced Mrs. c. and me tU
take the notes.
Mr.. A.-Yes, you and your party
are responsible; you refused to sub
scribe for the bonds, you impeded
the government, you rendered aid
and comfort to tue rebels in sTsfy
way that you knew how 10, without
risking your necks-your mob-loader'
Seymour, brags that he never sub
scribed a dollar to q loan and never
owned a bond-and 50 you made it
necessary for the government to col
leet forced loan or give up to the
rebels.
Well, said the Democrat, attempt
ing to dodge, Mrs. C.'s case is only h
solitary one; most of the bonds were
subscribed for by men who made
their money in the rise Of prices
shOddy men and such.
Mr.. A.-1ndeed, are the active ba-
siness men among your acquaintance
large owners Of bonds, or were they
subscribers? You know better. You
know that your saving banks hold q
large amount, you know that your
insurance offices has its funds in
bonds, and you know that the men
in active business, the shoddy men
least of all could not spare their mon
ey from their business, except few
like our neighbOrs H. & Co, who
made it point Of honor to subscribe
for every loan.
The Democrat-Why don't you
go to work and take up your green
backs; your failed paper, as you call
it.
Mr.. A.-That is what we mean to
do; we know that greenbacks are the
peoples money, and when we hav5
elected Grant, we mean to make thcm
as good as gold, and we intend to do
that by burying your rebel repudia-
tors and mob leaders out Of sight and
hearing.
Here the conversation ended.
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A Conversation about Bonds
and GreenbacIks.

The following, from the Norwich
Bulletin, relates bit of true history,
and is interesting in more ways than
one;
The following conversation took
place in the counting room of one Of
our friends few days since. A prom
inent Democrat, a man Of strict hon
esty in bis private life, had just put
the following question, some discus
sion having preceded it:
Well, Mr.. A., lot US drop all po-
litical antagonism and argue this
question on its merits. Upon what
ground can YOU maintain that one
hundred gold dollars shall be paid
upon bond for which the govern
ment received only fifty, unless the
exact letter of the law demands such
payment?
Mr.. A-That question is easily an.
swered, and l will give you case in
point. You know old Mrs. c., Oul
Ineighbor, whose husband died in
1859, and for whom I am trustee
Her husband left her the house she
occupies and about $4,000 in money,
the income of which is all she has fOI
the support Of herself and her sick
daughter, who is now dying of con
sumption. As soon as / could collect
the sums due her husband invested
the whole in q mortgage at seven per
cent. interest, due in five years. The
notes became due in 1864, when the
price of gold was 1870, and | was fore
ed 10 take my pay in legal tender
notes, and l again had to lock round
for an investment. The interest on
the mortgage having been paid ir
currency, the old lady had been very
much straitened for the past year, and
| l concluded that in order to meet hel
EXPENSES she must have her interest
in gold, and that even then she would
/ lose, as I had lent her money before
the war at seven por cent, and could
now only get six per cent. on the $40
bonds, but | took them.
Yes said the Democrat, bnt you
took them at less than sixty in gold
value.
MIR. A.-On the contrary, Mr.. D..
the government borrowed old Mrs
IC5s ten thousand gold dollars by
force, when it forced me TO take it'
demand notes in settlement Of the
mortgage on which I had lent the
cold. and these demand notes bearing
no interest, and although due on de
mand, being nothing more nor less
THAN failed paper, l gave the govern
ment an extension by subscribing
them for $50 bonds. / got ten thou
sand dellars of the bonds, and by SC
doing got no more and no less thar
the original capital, and when 1 ask
the Government to pay me ten thou
sand dollars in gold, ask no morl
than the payment of what l had il
i1859. If you now force me to TAX
green backs, which are worth onl,
20 cents in gold, for my bonds, I shaI
get $1,000, and the government vii
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General Grant and Cotton Spec
ulafOrs--Letter from w. II.
MelIen, Former Treasury
Agent.
FLUSHING, Aug. 16, 1868.
TO the Editors Of the ". Y. Egeaing
Post:
In Saturdays paper you express
satisfaction that the slauder has been
denied which accused General Grant
Of venality or favoritism in granting to
Mack Brothers a permit to trade, dur
ing the war, through the influence of
his father. I cannot think that any
accusation of that character against
General Grant needs refutation. But
as others differ with me, 1 will give
my testimony for such use as you think
proper to make of it.
All trade in territory recovered to
our possession by the western armies
was conducted under my general SUI
pervision, subject to the regulations of
the Secretary of the Treasury, from
the beginning to the end of the war.
This made it necessary that I should
be constantly comforting with General
Grant, and other commanders of the
western armies, in regard to their
views and wishes concerning trade in
the rear, and also with the assistant
agents of the Treasury Department
who issued the permits.
am satisfied that no permits to
trade could have been given by Gen
eral Grant which would not have
come to my knowledge, and I feel cer-
tain that he never gave one to any
body at any time or for any purpose.
He steadily and uniformly refused to
have anything to do with matters of
trade, except as to general regulations
and orders which the operations of the
army made necessary. 1 could name
numerous instances illustrating his ac-
tion in this respect. Soon after he
entered Vicksburg he desired to have
the citizens supplied with necessaries
without drawing from his commissary
stores. This could only be done by
traders, and the fewer the number the
less trouble he would have in watch.
! ing them. He therefore limited the
number to two. As this would create
monopoly very profitable to those
who should receive the permits, 1 in
sisted that he should name the traders
but he absolutely refused to do it, al
though q near relative was pressing tC
be one of them. At another time
while in Vicksburg, he thought 6
brother-in-law had been guilty Of i'm
proper action connected with trade
there, and Immediately ordered him
north of the Ohio.
It seems to me that denial of such
ISLANDERS implies that General Grants
character needs defense, and this think
I have had opportunity to know is moi
true A purer, juster, and more in.
cOrruptible man never was assaiIed by
meaner or falser accusers. I wish
therefore, to add, that I have written
this, not because I think it necessary
to defend General Grant, but because
I am requested to do by other friends
of his.
Very respectfully, &c.
WIN. p. MELLEN.
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T Whole No. 1854.

| lFrom the Record Ofths New York Convention
Frank p. BIair--.BY Whom He
was Nominated aud What Is
Expected Of Him.
"I now have the privilege Of nom
mating as q candidate for the Vice
Presidency Of the United States, Gen.
Francis P. Blair Of Missouri II ZAP
| plause. THE Rebel General Preston
Of Kentucky.
sMr. President, North Carolina
makes no nomination for Vice Presi-
dent, but in order to show the people
of the United States that we have nc
prejudice against a gallant soldier who
fought for his section of the country
We desire to Second the nomination OF
General Francis P. Blair [Applause.
A Rebel Delegate from North Caro-
lima.
"The State of South Carolina an
swers her CALI not by her chairman
but by her best beloved son, a soldier
who knows better than how to in
terchange the cOurtesies which belong
to enemies in war and friends in peace
have the honor to introduce to thi
Convention Mr.. Wade Hampton.
| loud cheers. II Judge Campbell, 0
South Carolina, one Of the Rebe
Peace Commissioners at Fortress Mon
roe.
ait is due to that Convention whicI
so cordially approves your platform
it is due to the South, and I, for M
State, most heartily aud cordial
ly second the nomination. ."-TThl
Rebel General Wade Hampton, o
South Carolina.
"As a rebel soldier Of Alabama.
take pleasure in casting her vote fo
the gallant Union soldier, Frank P
Blair. - A delegate from Alabama
GAS a son of the old Commonwealth
of Virginia, I am instructed to strik
hands with the soldiers of the army 0
the North, in the name Of Virginia, f
accept and ratify as token of tn
perpetuity of this Union, the nomina
tiOn of Major General Francis P
Blair, Of Missouri. 1.-THE rebel Gen
eral Kemper, Of Virginia.
81 have the pleasure, sir, to cast tn
vote of Tennessee for Gen. Blair. Ant
I wish to take this occasion to thanl
the delegates here for the kind ant
uniformly courteous treatment tha
the Southern delegates have received
in this Convention ,5'-rGreat Cheer
ing. 1.-THE rebel General n. B. For
rest, of Fort Pillow memory.
''ar. President, I esteem it q grea
honor that 7 have been requested b,
the chairman of the Texas delegation
and members of that delegation Oh
this occasion, to cast the six votes @
the State of Texas for Major Genera
Frank P. Blair." 1.-THE rebel Genera
Ashbel Smith, of Texas.
In a speech delivered at New York
during the recent Ku Klux Demo
cratic Convention, General Wad
Hampton said:
81 want you to register an oath tina
if there's a majority of lChHe Uotes yo
will place Seymour and Blair in th
White House ia spite Of all the 6ayC
nets that can be brought against them
GAS we have now no possibility 0
fighting with the sword, let US fgh
with the ballot box" - TRObeI
ToOmbs, ez-rebel Secretary Of State
Atlanta, July 8.
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What He Thought it Was.

A passenger by a night train on the
Hudson River Railroad tells the fol-
lowing The train was detained at
Greenbush for a little while, and,
while waiting, a cattle train came on
the other track and stopped. Such a
noise has seldom been heard the cat
tie beloved, the sheep set up bleat-
ing, the hogs grunted, until the passen-
gers were nearly crazed. One old fell
low had selpt for hours, but this noise
awoke him. Rubbing his eyes, be
listened in amazement. "Good God -
SAYS be, "What's this ?" Peering into
the darkness without discerning any
thing and listening more critically, he
at last satisfied himself, and set the
passengers roaring by his exclamation
uWhy, this must be a Democratic
Convention"
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Youths Department.

Torignal Problems Puzzles, &C., solicited The real
name Of the author and the answer to each must &C.
company al contributions
Enigma.
We are composed Of 81 letters.
Our q 43 II 40 81 was King Of Persia.
Our % 4 3s 81 50 was a Disciple.
Our 81 2 II 20 % WAS a King
Cur "a 7 "A 435 I3 Sc 2I WAS Martyr
Our IS I9 5 is what woman should bs called.
Our l 8 "A 40 p Is the latest fashion for cutting
dresses.
Our 46 "a 4s IS 81 IS is a book in the Bible.
Our l6 AZ 80 was Patriarch.
Our 9 80 25 is beverage.
Our A 30 26 "A IL Is a vehicle.
Our 10 l6 80 10 is a useful article.
Our A Al 70 is a mean little animal.
Our & Al 20 is girls name.
Our % IA is part Of one huBdred.
Our answer is command given by Christ to hi
Disciples.
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THE DEATH RATE.-Prof. FOOmis,
in opening a course of medical lect-
ures in New York, said that the i'm
provements in medicine have increased
longevity seventy-one per cent. in
Paris in sixty years; that one hundred
years ago the death rate was one in
twenty, and that there is a greater
difference in the average longevity
between the the eighteenth and nine
teenth centuries in London than there
was between a year of general hea Ith
in that city and a yearo cholera.