The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-15


than ''iiberal Republicspisni r. This We
suggest - food for tlaoa6hs 4
The KeoHee Courier aongrasa
IWalhalla upon the prospacss Sk soon
having court houes and jsit
= The Grgensille ,Es,sapriss, ID a long
article on the Chinese qas1 Hon, takes
ground against "the coming man." j" l:
The Abbeville Banner contains card
from Col Aiken, the energetic President
Of the County Agricultural Society, urg-
ing that the movement be made success
full. t.1
The Darlington Soulheraer reiterates
It's opposition to the importation of tho
Chinese. It does not want them there;
but, if they are wanted elsewhere, why
not let the experiment be tried? Chacun
a son gom.
The Abbeville Press, alluding to the
probability of negro suffrage being turn
ed against its authors, asks if radicalism
cannot stand upon this ground, upon
what can it be sustained? It ventures
to suggest that no very violent effort was
made to prevent Tolbert's escape from
tue Penitentiary.
The Unionville Times contains an in
teresting letter from correspondent in
Kent County, Maryland, giving the agri-
cultural methods practiced there.
The Charleston Courier, referring to
the liberal reforms consummated recent
ly in France, England and elsewhere,
and to the liberal tendencies of conserva-
tive Republicanism in this country, sees
in these auspicious signs the dawn of
better days for the great popular mass.
It speaks word for Cuba, and argues
that she is clearly entitled to the inde-
pendenoe she is fighting for, and that
liberalized Spain is estopped from deny
ing the boon of freedom to the "Gem of
the Antilles" Well, as the world goes,
"might is right"-at least, in q national
sense; and we decide that Cuba is enti-
tied to independence when she wins it.
The Courier, Of the 18th, contains the
terrific assault of the nestor of the Mac
keys-the old man-ugly-upon the head
of Representative Bowen, who is repre-
sented as smart fellow and worthy con-
frere of some other congressman from
this afflicted State-which we trust bears
the CROSS to-day to win the crown to-mor-
row. This is but one of many sharp
things which Mackey tells Bowen. Says
Mackey to Bowen: elm the words of
Congreve, ferdinand Mendez Pinto was
but type of thee, thou liar of the first
magnitude >" We quote Shakespeare
clay on, Macduff," &c.
The Charleston Ners, referring to the
statement of its correspondent ".Santee, -
that in his section no taxes are exacted
from the negro population, and that the
burdens upon the whites are therefore
made the heavier. ventures to exr ,ss
the opinion-no doubt true-that not
one-tenth of the colored people pay any
tax whatever even the poll tax AS
to the remedy for this and other evils
entailed upon the white and colored per
sons who do pay their taxes, the Nescs
rightly says that the remedy lies in
sweeping the present set of officials from
their places at the next general election.
This is, indeed, the only practical re.
medy. It is to the interest of all that we
have here cheap, honest, wise admins.
tration of our public affairs. And to
effect this. there must be union
of all good men of all parties and
colors, upon reasonable grounds. The
Ne,us, of the 18th inst, urges Charles.
ton to respond to the circular of the
Executive Or mmittee of the State Agri.
cultural and Mechanical Society, and
alludes to the Importance of the Fair
movement. It points to the Mackeys'
exposure of Bowen's antecedents as illus,
trating the personnel of Southern radical.
ism. The Ne,os also contains T. j.
Mackey's cruel and merciless and pointed
attack upon the said Bowen. Mr.. T. J.
NJ, ex-Confederate, but now President