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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-12-10

1 "NICKERs0N HOUSE."
' Y COLUMBIA. s. O.,
First Glass Hotel, @3 Per nay.
WILLIAnT A. WRIGHT
A NkS~S HAVING assumed the ma.
nagement of this HOUSE,
AlR1ff EISf respectfully solicits share
F,REE OMNIB US TO and from lie Hotel.
Nov 10 limo - -
WASHING GTON HOUSE,
By MRS. M. W. STRA TTON,
fohNER Gervais and Assembly streets,
~ Columbia, s. G. Convenient to the
Greenville and Charleston Railroads, and
the business portion Of the city. 7 -.
Rates OF transient board-$1a per day.
Lodgings can be obtained With c. -Sith-
out meals, at any time. Sept 80 3m
Charlotte & South Carolina &. r. Co
b. EEL q I - -
SUPERINTENDENT's OFFICE,
COLUMBIA, 8. c., August 8. 1868.
nN and after WEDNESDAY, the 10Th
" instant, the Trains over this Road
will run az follows, viz:
Leave Columbia at. 4.15 d. m.
Arrive at Charlotte at. Ii. .Oo D. m.
Leave Charlotte at. .85 n. m
Arrive at Columbia at. GOO q. m.
nJ Close connections, beth vaJs. with
Trains of Greenyille and Columbia and
South Carolina Roads.
a1- Passengers for the North, taking
this route, have the choice of -FOUR DIE,
FERENT ROUTES, viz: From Green's.
boro, either via Danville or Raleigh.
From Weldon, either via Petersburg or
Portsmouth; and from Portsmouth, either
via Old Bay Line and Baltimore or Anna
messic Line and Wilmington. Delaware.
HS TILE AS QUICK and FARE AS
LOW az by any other route.
BAGGAGE CHECKED THROUGH,
For THROUGH TICKETS to Richmond,
Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York, apply al Ticket Office, foot Blan-
ding street.
An Accommodation Train will be run
as follows:
Leave Columbia on Mondays, wednes.
days and Fridays at Z A. M, arriving at
Charlotte at 6S5 P. M.
Returning-leave Charlotte on TUESDAYS,
Thursdays and Saturdays at A. NJ, ar
irving at Columbia at sos P. Nj.
Passengers taking the A. M. Train
from Charlotte can connect with MIGHT
Train of South Carolina Road for Charles
ton. Passengers from Charleston can-by
leaving the South Carolina Train at juno
tion-connect with the z A. M. Train from
Columbia. CALEB BOUKNIGHT,
August superintendent.
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Change Of Schedule on G. & C. z. r

&1sA lsl lsssl "a 3 s.
ON and after WEDNESDAY, the 12th
" instant, Passenger Trains will run
daily, Sundays excepted, connecting with
Night Train on South Carolina and Char
lOtte and South Carolina Railroads:
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-12-10
$3.50 Per Month Guaranteed

bGoU Fer Month Guaranteed.
CURE pay. Salaries paid weekly. Agents
~ wanted Immediately everywhere
throughout the Southern States to sell our
Patent Everlasting White Wire CLOTHES
LINES; Call at, or address, the GIRARD
WIRE MILLS, Philadelphia, Pa. Nov II
TNHE GREAT NEW YORK AGRI-
= CULTURAL, HORTICULTURAL AND
FAMILY NEWSPAPER.--The RURAL
AMERICAN, published in the city of New
York. is now the LARGEST and MOST
ELEGANT paper of it's class in the United
States: Price $l.50 year; 10copies $12. so:
2o copies $40, or only ONE DOLLAR year
Every subscriber in clubs of ten, at s15O.
will receive a free package of EARLY
ROSE POTATOES, selling at $40 per bbl.,
post paid, worth s1.25. The Rural Anaeri,.
can is everywhere admitted to be the BEST,
CHEAPEST, and the most PRACTICAL farm
ers' and fruit-Srowers' paper in this coun-
try. It's editOr-in-chief is an old farmer
and fruit-grower Of Forty YEARS experi-
ence! The publication of this paper was
removed in June last from Utica, N. Y. to
New York City; and the Editorial and Busi-
ness Office to New Brunswick, N. j., (near
New York. whero its proprietor owns a
farm within the city limits, of l22 acre.
worth 500, ,0O0; and also has largo Cash
Capital to insure permanency to his publ.
cations. Club Agents wanted everywhere,
who are paid very liberal compensation.
Samples of paper, blank subscription lists,
&C.. free. Address T. b. MINER, New
Brunswick, New Jersey.
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COLUHEBIA RESTAURANT.

{ $500 = s'ssa y
WE have remedeled our RESTAU-
TIERS, Fish, Game, Venison, de-, OF choice
quality. Our motto shall be punotual at
tendance, moderate prices, and q desire to
please all. AS usual, our WINES, Lii
quors, Segars, &c., are Of the best. Give
US call and judge for yourself.
LUNCH from IL to ! o'clock.
JOHN CROWLEY Il CO.,
Opposite South End Of Market.
Oct 20 t3mo
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Leave Columbia at.... 700 a. M.
Alston at....... -. $40 &c
Z" Newberry at. ........ ..1O.1O
Arrive at Abbeville at. 500 %. m.
" at Anderson at. APO
I" at Greenville at .... 800
Leave Greenville at. ............. 5.45 q. NJ
" Anderson at. ....... Gas +"
Abbeville 't............. 800 &C
Newberry al. .......... ..12.35 p. m.
" Aston at. 2.15
Arrive at Columbia a., S.45 I"
Trains on the Blue Nidge Railroad will
also run daily Sundays excepted.
Leave Anderson at. 4.3O D. nj.
" Pendleton $50
Arrive at Walhalla ...7.3O "
Leave Walhalla at. $50 a. III.
g Pendeton at. $50
Arrive at Anderson at. G2O ."
The train will return from Bolton to An
derson on Monday and Friday mornings.
JAMES o. MEREDITH,
Aug General Superintendent
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-10-31

AT all times, even when it feels the wRrmest,
one experiences the difference which is so
marked, between the autumn atmosphere
and that Of summer There is something
more than the mere difference in tempera.
ture Il may be in the electricity. An occas.
ioual IRE in room dries the walls and pur.
lies tho atmosphere. A little timely atten.
ton 70 all these things would prevent a
great deal OF the disease and suffering which
humanity is liable.
There are ready. made collins at the cab.
net shops and undertakers-ittle, short, tiny
cOtlins-Which are going to be filled up soon
by little children-some of them as sweet,
beautiful little children as anybody's but your
OwB aud Just to think Of il, these collins
might he left empty, and the little children
might be left in their homes to play and
frolic, and make those homes bright, if only
warm shoes and stockings, which keep little
feet dry, and warm clothes aud soft wollen
blankets were more plenty.
Do not bother yourself to hunt up mis-.
souary. Be sure that whenever you send u
pair Of warm shoes to a needy child, a good
enough missionary, though you do not see
him, ALWAYS travels inside Of them. In
warming feet and warming bodies you warm
hearts also and besides, it warns your own
heart to do this.
If the physician of the Board Of Health
would omit some of his techanical, scientific
terms, and give the people Ineligible, time.
y advice on these subjects, he might not
appear as learned as now, bat would not his
services be more useful ?-NHo York san.
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panlsl woman nnd I.nnn Ilna.

Jenny Lind gave concert at Washing
ton during the session Of congress, and as q
mark Of her respect, and with view to the
eciat, sent polite invitations 10 the president,
Mr.. Fillmore, the members OF the cabinet
Mr.. CLAY, and many other distinguished
members Of both houses of congress. 1t
happened that GU that day several members
Of the cabinet and senate we're dining with
Mr.. BOdiseo. the Russian minister His
good dinner and choice wines had kept the
party so late that the concert wa nearly
over when Webster, Clay, Crittenden and
others came in; whether from the hurry in
which they came, or from the heat Of the
room, their faces were a little flushed, aud
they looked somewhat hord.
After the applause with which these gen.
tlemen were received had subsidized, and ST..
lence one more restored, the second part of
the concert was opened by Jenny Lind with
"Hail Columbia"
This took place during the height. of the
debate and excitement on the slavery auss.
ton, and the compromise resolutions Of Mr..
Clay and this patriotic air, as part Of the
programme, was considered peculiarly ap.
proprAte at q concert whore the head OF the
government and large number of both
branches Of the legislative departments were
present. At the close of the first verse,
Webs,ers patriotism boiled over he could
sit no longer, aud, rising like Olympisu
Jove, he added his deep, Sonorous bass voice
to the chorus, and | venture to say. never in
the whole course of her career, did she ever
hear or receive onehhf Of the applause rs
that with which her song aud Webster s
choruSIwas greeted.
Mrs. Webster, who sat Immediately be.
hind him, kept tugging at his coat tail, to
make him sit down or stop singing, but it
was Of no earthly use-and at the close OF
each verse, Webster joined in, and it was
hard to say whether Jenny Lind, Webster,
or the audience we're the most delighted. l
have seen Rubin, Lablache, and tho two
Girls, on the stage at one time, but such a
happy conjunction in the national air OF
Hail Columbia" as Jenny Lind's tenor and
Daniel Webster's bass we shall never hear
or see again.
At the close of the air, Mr.. Webster rose
with his hat in his hand, and made her such
bow as Chesterfield would have deemed q
fortune for his son, and which eclipsed d..
Orsay's best. Jenny Lind, blushing at the
distinguished honor, courtesie1 to tho floor !;
the audience applauded to the very echo
Webster, determined not to DO outdOne in
politeness, bowed again-Jenny re.courte.
sled, the house re applauded, and this was
repeated nine times.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-10-31
Radicals Less Confident.

The Cincinnati Gazette, (radicaD com.
menting upon the result Of the October cleo,
tons assumes less confident air than that
worn by the radical papers generally, and
thus admits not only the possibility but the
probability Of radical defeat on the Sd Of
November. 1t says:
taking the October elections as the cri.
terIon, less than 10000 votes would he ra.
quired to change these three great states .
not more than 900 to change PennsvIvo'
MIA and Indiana, and put the presidential
election in doubt We cannot afford ,C
lose one of them, and, besides, we need the
moral effect of a united north for the paci6
cation Of the country. They who talk of tn,
victory being won, and of the democrati
party as being routed and panic stricken
are simply INDUCING in the puerile policy o
trying to make victory out of an indecisivt
contest by the force of growing. The pre-
nm1nary firing has only developed the posi-
lions OF the two armies the great battle il
yet to be fought. They who exult in tn,
cry that the enemy are panic stricken arr
foolishly leading our own soldiers to throw
down their arms and relax their orgauiza.
ton.
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what You Nay and Nay Not Cal Man.

There is more or less of the animal about
man; that nobody will deny. Platos def
| milton of mal was "An animal without
feathers, walking on two legs" This WAS
too much for Diogenes, who caught an old
rooster, plucked it, took it into school, and
scornfully asked "if that was PlRto's man p
We don't know how Plato got out of it, and
don't care, ss this has but little to do with
the matter in hand. Though an animal,
a man does not like to be called boast
yet there are many known as "bulls' and
'bears" that accept these appellations as
rightly bestowed and properly belonging to
them though individually, in another sense,
they would object to being called bears
There are many who would like to be known
as"ions, and even tiger would DO considered
more complimentary than calf. Many q
young fellow would like to be regarded as q
"buck," and you may call man "a dear
fellow but don't think Of calling him 8
moose. To DO called "duck ofs man"
would please many an individual who would
take it to heart if called o goose, indepen
dent Of the msnomer. Call man pup
py, and he'll resent it but call him "sly
dog, and you'll rather please him. Don't
call man Il hog, even If he is n bore, nor
an elephant if he happens to be "heavy
weight :" but you may call him "fox" or a
"cOon" with IMMUNITY. A man doesn't like
to be called shark, but you may call a
man queer fish" without oGense. Never
call crosseyed man lynx.eyed-he1l think
you are Sarcastic" Call man a jacksss,
and he'll "talk back" but you may call him
an "old rat, and il is ten to one he'll ask
you to''take suthin." A man who would Mt
feel Complimented at being called q cormo.
rant would smile at being called "night
owl" Don't offend by calling man Cos
ling, but you may call him q "gay rooster"
without oifense. Don't call man a fool /;
call him clever fellow, which amounts to
the same thing but sounds prettier. A man
would be we'll pleased to know that you said
he was keen as a razor, yet he would object
to your calling him Sharper" To call
a man a stone would be considered as re.
aecting on his intellectual powers, but you
may call him "brick" to his great salts.
faction.
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The Material Of Paper.

For while, the various supposed sub
stitutes for rags, in the manufacture Of pa
per, we're looked at only rs so much saved
a cheapenng merely Of the article. But Of
late it has become serious necessity TO FIND
something to supply the deficiency occS
stoned by the miraculous increase in the de
mand for paper 1t is hardly so much @
| question Of economy now, as Of actual exis
tence. Of all the hundreds of schemes for
dispensing with the accepted material of this
mAnufacture-and Eve hundred patents for
substitutes have been taken out in England
slone--not one has proved itself really and
largely practicable The discoveries that
bewildered the inventor, and the demonstra.
tons that convinced reluctant and cautious
capital, have led TO no important results
The sole test of utility has been applied
and one by one, the patent schemes for OBJ.
tanning superior or cheaper pulp have
fallen into dsuse or contempt. Almost ev.
cry vegetable and some animal substances
have been experimental on, aud many have
been introduced az substitutes with partial or
temporary success; but though some OF
these are still used, and on "a small scale
with success, only one has yet been found
which promises adequately to supply the
growing deficiency in paper material. And
that IS 80 great success, as to promise
an early revolution In the manufacture.
ESpRrto grass is now the successful rival
Of rags; and the production and use of this
substance has become so general that it is
no longer an experiment. There is no as
signable limit to its production, and no
point has yet been discovered where it is not
practically preferable to rags, in furnishing
a pulp for paper, Its general adoption is
therefore, only matter of time. TheDRme
of the product will indicate its origin to CIV.
cry reader 1t is the growth of Spain and
Portugal. 1t is, in color, between hay and
straw, and may be bleached or not, accord
ing to the purpose to which it is to be put.
1t is an annual, and though the surface GOV.
cred with it is now limited, il can be in.
creased indefinitely with hedemand. Eng.
land imports $4,000 tons Of it year, at a
cost of thirtytwo to thirty,fve dollars ton;
and it is estimated that two-thirds of the
paper manufactured in the kingdom is made
from Esparto grass. As yet it is almost
wholly unknown in the United States and
English importers have had the shrewdness
to secure the bulk of the probable crop for
years to come, so that we shall have to buy
in their markets. Thus, after two hundred
years of experiment, with more than twice
that number of different substances or pro.
ceSses patented, for securing cheaper or
better paper material, perfect substitute
has been found. This industry may yet
become to the lberan peninsula almost what
cotton is to the United States while the
benefit will not the less be for the whole civ.
ilized world.
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racted more than sixty millions within the

tracted more than sixty millions within the
year,
Does any man wonder why the markets
have broken down. Why grain.buyers are
ruinedY Why farmers have lost fifty cents
on every bushel Of wheat, and sustained
losses in proportion on everything else that
ihey have grown
Tho aggregate Of loss to the farmers, in
The four states Of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin,
and Minnesota already amounts 70 not less
than $35,000,000, by the fall in prices on
wheat alone To this must be added the
aggregate Of losses 70 western producers on
all other agricultural products.
This enormous loss To the farmer is a loss
to the merchant, the grocer, the manufac
turer, the mechanic, and to every man whose
income results from the labor OF his hands.
II Is a loss Of such magnitude as renders a
general financial crash perfectly certain, I'M
less something be instantly done to stop
contraction and give the country more mon.
ey.
Will the money.lending power, whose
gains lie in the direction Of still further con.
traction, do it? viii the party which,
through it's principal newspaper organ in
this city, demands further contraction of
$500, 100000, do it?
Let every man answer the question to
himself before next Tuesday.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-10-31

Col. Isaac Barnes, Of Boston, now dead
was an officer under the United States gov
er nment. He was a man Of great wit and
hu NOR, full of rare aud racy stories, which
he always told with the most impurturablO
gravity, while his listeners were convulsed
with laughter. His stories ALWAYS received
favor from his peculiar voice, which was
quite thin and pitched upon a high key, and
in his latter years "turned towards childish
| treble"
In his last sickness, he very forcibly illus.
trated Pope's well.known line of the
"Ruling passion strong in DEATH
His physician came in, an evening or two
before he died, and asked him how he was
feeling.
"Shan't live till morning" said the colo.
mel feebly.
"Oh,yes, think you will you don't seem
to be very near your end"
ayes, | am piped out the colonel
The Doctor then felt of his feet, and find
ing them quite warm, said, ~ think there is
no immediate danger
Cant help it shan't live till morning."
persisted the sick man.
"But,' said the doctor, "your extremities
are warm, colonel. Did you ever know one
to be very near dying whose feet were as
warm as yours? ?"
That's nothing to do with it. / shan't
live till morning. wheezed out the colonel,
as if he we're determined to die.
"You are quite unreasonable, colonel"
gently nterposed the doctor. ~ never knew
q man to be very near his end whose feet
we're as warm as yours"
"Wel, have"
"Who, pray?'
Turning toward the doctor. with a drol
twinkle Of his eyes, he lsboriously gssped
out-"John RogerS'
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-10-31
Keep Warm and Save Your Lifo,

Within thirty days from today there will
be many deaths which might be prevented
by warmer clothing. Many fatal case of
dysentery is CEASED by the want of a woilen
undershirt or of an extra blanket at night.
The sudden changes of temperature which
occur at this season Of the year are very
trying to the constitution. People with
weak lungs quickly feel the effect of
them. Frequently the thermometer falls
many degrees within a few hours. Not only
the feeble, but robust and strong persons
suffer from such great variations Of temper.
ature. When the weather grows cold rap
idly, the pores of the skin are suddenly clos.
ed, and the result frequently is bad cold,
which may hold on all winter and terminate
in consumption, or fatal attack of dysen.
terry, or that dreadful disease the typhoid
fever.
If the day seems ever so warm and bright
it is much safer to wear plenty of under.
clothing at this season. In the evening the
dews fall, and it grows chilly very suddenly.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-10-31

II. I. Helmbold, of New York city, a
gentleman reputed to be worth several mil.
lions Of dollars, announces his readiness to
wager one million dollars on the cleo.
tons, as follows; S2jO,OOO that Grant will
not receive majority Of the electoral votes
Of the United States, or a majority of the
votes cast by the people $780, 900 that In.
diana and Pennsylvania will, in November,
go for Seymour and Blair; $25O,OOO that
New York state will go for Seymour and
Blair and Hoffman, and $25O,OOO that Sey-
mour and Blair will be elected President
and Vice President Of the United States.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-10-31
THE RESULTS OF CONTRACTION.

The statistics of the treasury department
show that there has been contraction OF
the currency of more than sixty,one millions
OF dollars during the last year
On the first of August, 1867, the whole
volume of the circulating medium was
$500, O47y00O. On the first of October, in,
slant, the whole volume was S744, 1885, 900.
Amount OF contraction in fourteen months,
$6l 1852 900.
A good deal Of difficulty was experienced
last year for the want Of sufficient currency
to move the agricultural products of the
west Yeti hsrvests of 1867 were vastly
less in quantity than those Of the present
year, and the country then had $6l,S52, 900
more currency than il has now.
The growth and development of an entire
year have interviewed. Every one at all
acquainted with the west knows what tba.
means. 1t means the opening of hundreds
| OF new isrmsi the construction Of many
| leagues OF new railways the building az
scores OF new towns and cities the estoh,
IIshnent of thousands Of new shops and
mills, and factories; the inaugurR.ior NJ
thousands OF new business enterprises,-all
necessitating an increase in the circula,;ng
medium of commerce, and preparing the
country to absorb larger amount Of mon.
| ey.
Yet the source of supply has been dimin.
ished by contraction Of more than sixty
millions within the year.
And then comes harvest, more bount.
ful than any that has preceded it in many
years, and requiring twice the amount Of
| currency in the process of its exchange
than was required by the harvest of las
year.
Yet the volume Of currency has been con