The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-29

Boston correspondent thus
Speaks of the Grecian Bend. as
.done"at Saratogasa''You remem-
her, my, dear C Colonel, q stoopinrI
habit that prevailed among The
fashionable women-chiefly Girls
of twenty years ago, which wan en-,
titled the tGrecian bend Well, it.
has come again, and is really painful
to behold Mix calls it, with singu-
lar felicity, the 'choiic stoopr why
don't they try peppermint lozenges?'
inquiries Nix, compassionateIy: sit
might help the poor things"
LARGE ColoRED CoNaREeAr1ou.
The African Baptist Church, Rich
mond, Va, is said to have q larger
membership than any Baptist Church
in the world except Mr.. Spurgeon's.
in London. A gentleman writes that
he recently attended there, sitting by
the side of Chief Justice Chase and
ex-Gov. Wise, when 214 persons were
baptised. Their evening PRAYER
meeting is attended BY over i,5GG
people, and crowds go away for want
OF room
A NEW SUFFRAGE MovEMENT.-A
political philosopher in Boston is
trying to arouse public sentiment
in favor of the extension of the right
OF suffrage to native born young
men between the ages Of eighteen
and twenty-one. He takes the
ground that young men of this class
are called Oh to do mems duties in
war times, and are otherwise treated
rs men, and therefore are entitled to
the full privileges of men.
Vesuvius. still gives signs of life
and activity, and on one or two even
ings recently the spectacle was scarce
ly less grand than during the time
the mountain was in full eruption.
Large streams of fire issued from the
crater, and red hot stones were
thrown an immense distance into the
air. The old mountain shook its
Jolly sides, and the shocks were dis
tinctly felt in Naples.
The trial of the California steam
plough, which took place at San
Francisco on Saturday, is pronounced
success. The machine moved along
Mt about tho usual speed of horse,
cutting the earth six inches in depth,
casting the weeds on one side, and
leaving the ground as if dug with
spade. There was large attendance
of farmers to witness the trial.
The New York papers speak in
harsh terms-and justly. too-of
party of sheriff's officers, who forced
themselves through the private en-
trance into theatre, and attempted
to stop the performance of copy
righted piece-"Fou Play"-by
firing upon and wounding several
performers. The assassins have been
arrested.
"Our remedy, says Gov. Seymour,
sis to use the public money to pay
the public debt" That don't suit
the radicals, rs they prefer using the
public money for party purposes, and
throwing the debt over upon the
backs of posterity; we, in the mean
time, to pay in interest two or three
times the amount of the principal.
A colored man was overhauled in
Charleston, day or two ago. having
in his possession quantity of crocke-
ry, stolen from Mr.. w. L. Webb.
On searching his premises large
amount of goods, of various kinds,
stolen from Messrs. Strauss & Co.,
and Webb, were recovered. Two
arrests were made.
The enthusiasm for Seymour and
Blair throughout the West is so great
that the attendance ot meetings is
estimated by the acre-''acres of live
Democrats. Grant had the pleasure
of witnessing one in st. Louis the
other day, and doubtless thought it
an ''acher."
A gentlemaniy-looking farmer
reached Bristol, Thursday, from his
home in Pulaski County, Va, in
search of man by the name of Bar
ney Hill, who, after sharing his hos
pitality, had stolen his wife, his
horse, papers and $10O.
Bristol Ne,cs.
AN old clergyman of seventy, and
his daughter of twenty-eight, both
highly educated and accomplished,
have been discovered living as her
mits about thirty miles from Chicago.
They have lived thus in most out
rageons filth, and with no diet but
corn bread, for twelve years.