The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-09-11
{ THE Loniayille Conrier. .Jourmal Says:

x The louisville Courier-Jourmal says:
snt thstauding the thick crust of
boy with Szhich General Gssat tries
oeep himself Sggsed 4 shaxb fellok
seB along occaAi 9hally ado mthages "a
- tract twhatever there is In hinia lust Es
|4lle ah called thsabo1er Gimlets hale
EtdESnSh the cloSeR sAelIA the oyster
And devours all the suoculenoy within.
The 6pringaeld Republican, the princi-
Epal radical mouth-pisce in New England,
thinks that such Democratic organs as
the. Courier Journal and the Chicago
Times. twill bear little close wotchina. {"
We don't know q better watch dog than
the Springfield Republican.
1t cost the Government $45, 600, 900 to
redeem $4,000, 900 of bonds, not ;dpe
for eighteen years. THIS is what Bout
we'll calls making money. Some people
think 1t is increasing the public debt.
How much time will he want at this rate
to pay it2 .lr,..r
The news from Washington is that
George Wilkes, the sporting editor, who
has been stakeholder in several prize
fights, and q standing referee upon all
disputed points growing out OF such
affairs, is to bs United States Minister
to China.
How can specie payments ever be re-
suhned when there is an acthal drain Of
500, 900, 600 Q year in gold to Europe for
the payment of interest, to the European
bond-hoidefs, who don't pay farthing's
tax upon theif, bopds2
General Grant, who thinks his case q
hard one in Being continually bored by
che office-seekers, ate by invitation Of
his Rhode Island fHends, last week, u
dinner OF baked claims, whose cases were
as hard as his own. r-
Why Should the Federal Government
pay $50, 200, 000iper year to the national
banks for issuing a blueback currency
when it cnn issue !greenb backs, a better
currency, ~ 1ey Without paying anything at
Why should we keep up an army of
10000 men, at an expense of $50, 600, :
Oeo year, when an army Of l0.000 men,
well-managed, would do more than the
It is said thate the JAPANESE % clergy
pause every fifteen minutes in their dis.
courses and say to their congregations.
"Let us take smoke" They preach
sermons very much as Grant administers
affairs.
There was dance at the late reunion
at Gettysburg. They should have had
the negro minstrels there. The performer
with tho i.bones" would have found a
plenty of instruments at hand.
Why is the Yankee fisherman per-
mitted to have his salt free of duty for
curing his fish, while tho Western packer
Of beef and pork is heavily taxed for
every grain of salt lie uses?
Why should we have far less amount
Of currency now to do the business of
the country than was required and used
when tho South was not party to the
Union?
There is good reason for Grants using
so few words. The object of words, ac-
cording to Talleyrand, is to "hide
thought" and Grant has very little
thought to hide.
Why should We first take up, as Bout
we'll does, the debt bearing no interest,
like the greenbacks, leaving unredeemed
the bonds which bear q heavy interest?
George w. Shanks is establishing in
Florida cotton factory with an immense
number of spindles. We wish spindle
Shanks all snccess.
The New York Herald says that 1.-The
radicals are going to hell" Perhaps Sa.
tan will lock the gate to keep them out.