The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-04-24
Coinbutive-Very.

Combntive-Very.
One of our old friends of the August,
Chronicle and Sentinel 1--WE know not whethe
1t is the brigadier of the late "so-called,
or modest Pat Walsh, the efficient agent O
the Associated Press,) has evidently got hi
back up. It seems that the Chronicle pub
lished, few days ago, batch of bogu:
kilograms, which it said had passed between
Bullock and Foster Blodgett, copies O.
which had been accidentally secured by the
very cnterprising ''local" of that journal
On the strength of this pleasantly, comes c
threat to mob the office, and our editoria
friend opens fire as follows:
eve take great pleasure in announcing
to belligerent Republicans, that this Office il
now in state of complete defence. We
have lately procured, and at large expense
from the celebrated cannon foundry at Pitts
burg. Penn, 240, 700 FOUNDER, breech
loading, double-back action, self-adiusting
self cooking, self-shooting, revolving Whit
worth cannon, which has been mounted on
n pivot in the passage leading to the count
lng-room, where, crammcd to the muzzle
with grape shot, canister, brick bats, type
metal and hard tack, specimen turnips and
potatoes, 1t but awaits the presence of the
invader, to be fired by electricity. We flat
ter ourselves that it is the most destructive
weapon of warfare ever introduced in this
city. Thanking this gun, is new patent
lever, double cylinder, high pressure. duplex
attachment force. pump, of our own inven-
ton, which, by the turning of screw in
the editors DESK will discharge As, 900 gal
| Ions, two quarts and one-half pint of gas
tar, from our own gas works, in the face o1
the advancing enemy. In rear of these the
two fascinating errand boys and two
equally fascinating devils of the estab
':shment, will serve up boiling hot
paste, in such quantities as the occasion
may require. One hundred dozen superfine
Derringers, each one warranted to blow G
hole in a man as big rs q pumpkin, have
been received and are distributed about the
persons of the editors of this paper.
IN. B.-These Derringers are of the same
pattern as those given by Governor Bullocl
to Blodgett's Chief of Police. and are GER
tain death, eide the murder of Cornelius
Red. The printers are all armed with
Spencer shooting sticks shooting 237
times. This force has been fed on regular
ratlons of scalawag juveniles for the past
three weeks, and is now in O most savage
condition. Commanding the Ellis street
| entrance are the identical two pieces of ar
tillery which DIR. Powell testified before the
Reconstruction Committee were used in
this city at the Presidential election, both
heavily loaded. The walls of the building
have been loop-holed for musketry, and
crack marksmen have been engaged as
sharpshooters. In the second story of the
rear building is kept confined n man en-
ployed, at regular salary, to do the fight
ing for the establishment. This gentleman
is pugilist, who was trained by John c.
Heenan. He is six feet ten inches in height
weighs 800 pounds, practices every day with
oOO pound dumb bells, and can cut n silk
cord at fifty PAGES with Colts pistol min,
times out of ten, shooting off-hand. Col
James Meredith has the command of g
company of Kl Klux scouts, whose dut,
1t IS to constantly patrol the sqnare, while
on tho roof of the building a look out, {
competent veloci ocipedist, rides q bycicle al
day and night, so that any attempt to sur
prise us will be useless. Upon every dool
OF the building is placed tub of 'Baugh's
Raw Bone Dust and Soluble Pacific Guo6o
which has been arranged with such deyilisl
ingenuity as to fall upon the head of {
scaiawag the minute he attempts to enter
Both OF the articles first named have beer
procured from the store of j. 0. Mathew
son, ana are warranted genuine. From this
IL VIII be seen that we are fully prepared. tc
meet any emergency which may arise"
Miss Clara Louisa Kellogg, after consent
ing to sing in New York for the benefit n
the Cuba revolutionists, reconsidered thu
matter, and refused, because the gentlemor
with whom she has contracted her profes
sional services had engaged to bring her on
at Havana next autumn, in which case an,
apparent manifestation of sympathy for the
insurgents here would be likely to prejudice
| her nOpularifxy