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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-01-16

WEDDING CARDS AND ENvELopRs.-A
lot of wedding cards and envelopes. of
latest styles, has just been received ;
which will be printed in imitation of on :.
craving, and at less than one. tenth the
cost Call and see specimens at PB3NIx
office
New-York tribune., 1870-04-26
GOLDIIa-U s. BONDS IOO-I0.

These facts embOdy an argument. They tell
so plain story that little elucldahon Is
needed.
Gold in the U. s. Treasury subserves no good
purpose. 1t lies there dead as a log and use
less as a glacier in Greenland. Whether 1T
amount to Ten, Fifty, or One Hundred Mil
lions, it is equally inert and impOtent.
Not so Gold in the banks and in private
hands. 1t upholds credit and stimulates enter
prise. Whoever holds it seeks to make it earn
something. The moment it comes into their
hands, they begin to devise ways and means
for advantageously getting rid of it.
The May interest on the National Debt is
not vet due; yet Mr.. Boutwell, has begun to
nav it without rebate. This is right, though
slow. We wish he had paid it all month
ago. The Coupons would have been just as
valuable to him; the Gold would have been
more useful out of his vaults. Some of the
Gold belongs to persons who have deposited
and taken Certificates Of Deposit for its face.
Ask them to take it back, and surrender the
Certifcates Put the Gold where those who
want it may have chance to get hold of it!
As to the Gold in the Treasury which be-
longs to the United States, let it be set to
U1dWlnp lnlcTtSJ ny ~ ioi pohuS
Time was when $l0,OOO,OOO of it would have
bought $12,OOe0OO of United States interest
bearing bonds; and the exchange should then
have been made. So long as the Government
had a spare dollar and that dollar would have
purchased more than dollar of our National
Debt, the dollar should have been paid out and
the bonds called in. Suppose Mr.. Boutwell,
might have sold, one year ago. S2OOOO,OOO OF
Gold and bought Herewith sA,0OOOOO of bonds,
the saving up to this time would have been,
not merely the 100000 difference, but the
interest on the bonds, amounting to $1,4fOOOO
more. And that $2O,OOOOOO could have been
spared as wen as not.
Mr.. Secretary! please to turn the Gold out Of
the Treasury 1t is not wanted there-it is
wanted elsewhere Don't use it to buy new
Alaskas, but to pay old debts. There is no
safer operation than to use your money to pay
your debts. Especially when you can pay off
more than dollar for dollar with it, you should
draw down your surplus to the lowest point
Do not let the Treasury block the way to Re-
sumption, but go boldly forward!
New-York tribune., 1870-04-26
THE DRAMA.
MAIIACK'S THEArER.

The old comedy of 1.-The Bellies Stratagcm'
attracted and in several particulars rewarded largo
assembly last night, at Walacks Theater IL Is one OF
the old stock pieces Of this house. and IL requires no de-
tailed description. As matter OF course, t was pro
duced with careful correctness but from the representa-
ton, q whole, the very requisite element OF cham
pagne-the volatile and brilliant luster indispensable In
pieces OF this class-seemed in great measure absent
Probably the second performance Will excel the nst In
this particular AS it the pungent hits al social
vanity and holowness with which the dialogue Is gar
nished, were torsey made and by many of the spec$
tors were quickly appreciated Society in these days
needs the rebuke than 1t did in the last cen
tury for shaowness and the sacrifice of home 10 fashion
Had nothing but the moral been offered however. tho
performance night would have avaied little What the
audience took particular delight in the fresh sweet
and delightful performance OF Letiha Hardy that wa
given by Miss Madeleine Henrques. This charcter bend
gaiety humor, and elegance, with womanly tenderness
and with remarkable intellectual spirit and vim. Mis-
Henriques showed right understanding OF the part
and adequate ability 20 execute her ideal The specs
tors rewarded her with frequent and really enthusiasts
applause which her naturaneSs and sincerity deserved
The merit OF this performance is all the more notable
from the fact that Miss Hcnrques, ON this occasion
played Letitia Hardy for the first time Mr.. Gilbets
old Mr. Hardy is well known, and Is known 10 bc
superb study OF humor fssiness comic sapiencc and
old dgentemanly grace. II was vigorously applauded
characters we find no occasion for specific remark
certain amount OF merit in these matters is to be taken
for granted 1t surprises nobody that water should rus
down hill.
The comedy was prepared with the following cast Of
parts:
Dorcourt, Mr. J. W. wallack Hardy. Mr.. John Giber
Flutter, Mr.. .. Marlowe; Savie, Mr.. u. T. Ringgold
Sir George Touchwood, Mr. C. Rockwell; Courtall Mr.
j. Williamson; Vilers. Mr.. E. NJ. Holland Dick, Mr..
Gurran; Gibson, Mr. J. Peck; Letlta Hardy. Miss n
lienriques; Mrs Racket, Miss T.. Mes,ayer; Lady
Frances Touchwood, Mrs. Laura Phillips; Miss ogle,
Miss h. Green; Kitty Willis, Miss A. Rowe.
Tonight Married Life" will be acted for the first time
this season. Tomorrow evening, "The Love Chase"
On the last three nights OF the week these three plays
will be repeated in the order named For the Matinee
Saturday Mr.. wallack announces Home" and "IHying
il on" In the former OF which he will himself appear
:" An Unequal Match" "The School for Scandal" and
Masks and Faces TO be repeated later In the season
MR. FECHTER AS CLAUDE MELNoTTE.
1t is announced that Mr.. Fechter has entirely
from his recent Illness and will posisey ap
pear for the first time in NewYork In The Laay Of Lyons
Wednesday evoning. April a. At tho French Thestes.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-26

criminals who do their fOuest work mt eiectlon
t;mes and other times, demanded this; ana IL
was not at all hard work for them to succuino
TO these demands. They did it, however, Ill
their own way, by pretending, after fashion,
not TO do it. While changing the law, they
asserted that its leading features were retainer
i'm their new enactment and we learn Dy us,
patch from Albany that the Attorney-Uenerh
of the State has just given an elaborate OPINION
on the subject, in which he shows that there
il no conflict between the laws OF 1867 ana
1870: that the only essential and important
difference is in the change of the authorities
empowered to grant licenses, and that the re-
failing of liquors or Sunday is still prohlDlted.
He also gives his opinion on some other points
of the new law; but, as it appears from the
proceedings in the State Senate yesterday tliat
his opinions are likely to be Overruled by the
Legislature, we need not give much heed 10
them till we are able to find out their actual
and practical value. In any event, whatever
be the terms of the law, or whatever be the
legal Interpretation of its terms, the fact that
there is, and will be, no sort of effective pro-
vision for its enforcement, is the main 1act ol
the whole business. When the police are not
required to enforce the law, what is the use OF
plaving the farce of its enactment1
Already we aye beginning to see the results
of the Democratic liquor policy. On Sunday
last the lquor-dealers, who during the
last few weeks of uncertainty have ventured to
KEEP their doors unlocked, opened their shops
and their bars to all who desired to drink, or
get drunk. In many parts of the city the bar
rooms were in full blast, and in many places
there were scenes of drunken disorder, when
brought back to public consciousness the OLD
times of Democratic license. The number Oh
arrests made by the police for various oiienses
was far beyond anything known on any Sum
day for years past; and the day was further
signalized by horrible fight between gang
of drunken rowdies in a bar-roOm, which cul-
minated in the murder of one of their number
The citizens of New-York must now look for
ward to the realization Of all the evils OF an
unrestrained liquor traGic-riotous bar-rooms,
uproarious night scenes on the streets, drunken
Sundays, and a great increase Of crime, dis
order, and indecency, on every night OF the
week. but especially on the sacred day.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-26

The industrial humor of the House was of
brief duration and fruitless of good result.
Two hours or more were wasted yesterday IN
renting the fines inflicted at an expense of
several hours on Friday and Saturday. An
effort was made in vain to dispose of clause
or two of the Tariff bill and the session of
the entire day was productive of no business
like result whatever. There has been no
duller day in Congress these four months. We
wish we could hope that there may be no more
as idle We have been compelled to charge
procrastination on Congress so frequently OF
late that we are heartily ashamed to be found
repeating our complaints, lest they be thought
the mere carpings of fault-finding nature.
But does not Congress recognize that this out
cry is become generalq And, further, looking
back at the net results of the past four months
of legislation, that it is justq
New-York tribune., 1870-04-26

Have the English friends of the men muir
dered in Greece to thank their national sloth
and circumlocution for such victimsf we
trust not. Yet we have seen it written that
the Greek brigands carry on their business
punctually, sharply, ruthlessly. When they
demand ransom, they mean, with all the
spirit of murder in their nature, to be paid
either in money or blood. The captives lately
sacrificed were well known, widely advertised,
and powerfully connected and their ransom
should have been prudently forthcoming. 10
attempt their rescue was, so far as we can
now Judge, ill-calCulated and rash.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-26
RUM IN NEK- YORK.

If the Democratic party of this city had any
intellect to be reasoned with, or any conscience
to be appealed to, it might be worth while for
us to implOre it to apply the principles of
common sense and morality to the recent leg
isation for which it is responsible in regard to
the liquor traffic. For some years past this
dangerous business has been kept under some
measure of restraint by the enactment and en-
forcement of the most effective Excise law
which the city has ever known. Before the
passage of this law, the business of liquor
selling went on, under full blast, night and
day, every day of the week /; there was nom
inal system of licensing, but there never were
any returns or any results from it there
were regulations for the suppression of disorder
and the maintenance of decency i'll bar-roOms,
but they were never enforced; and the baser
orders of rufiianism in New York ran riot in
their drunken Obscenities. The change for
the better which resulted from the law passed
by the Republican Legislature was quickly
recognized by the respectable portion of the
community. The drunken orgies of the
rum-shOps terminated with midnight on
the secular days of the week; the
business of liquor-selling on Sunday was alto
gether prohibited, and, in consequence, the
sacred day, instead of being the day on which
drunkenness was most rampant throughout
the city, became by far the most orderly day
of the week-the streets being quiet and de-
cent, and the police arrests for Ofienses against
law exceedingly few. The traffic, as a whole
was kept under rigid system of surveillance
both for its own good and the public good.
The returns to the public revenues from
licenses amounted to million dollars or more
annually, large portion of which was en-
ploycd in sustaining institutions designed to
palliate the evils flowing from drunkenness and
the liquor traffic.
To these stringent laws and regulations there
was but little opposition that ought to have
been listened to. A portion of our German
American population, it is true, disliked to be
deprived of their lager on Sundays but, at the
same time, they rather enjoyed the necessity of
making Sunday excursions to the suburbs
where lager was sold without restraint. Some
of the liquor-sellers also objected to being
restrained for a single hour from carrying ON
their traffic; but the great body of decent
lquOr-dealers were rejOiced at the Opportunity
furnished them hy the law for daily, or
rather nightly, period of respite from their
duty of standing behind the counter. In
fact, the rowdy class, the criminal class and
the regular sOakers, were the only people who.
as a body, felt seriously aggrieyed at the ex-
istence and enforcement of the Liquor law and
the police regulations on the subject. But, of
course, when the Democratic party obtained
control of the Legislature, at the present ses-
sion, its leaders very quickly took measures for
modifying and practically multiplying the Excise
law. The noisiest of their supporters in the
rum shops, and the biggest bullies and worst
New-York tribune., 1870-04-26

It is an odd enough circumstance that there
;s q man now under sentence of death in En-
gland who, by all the laws, should be hung,
but who. by some curious deformity OF the
neck. cannot be hung-at least, hanging him
would be a kind of cruel experiment, with the
chances against its proving fatal, even after
acute and prolonged suffering, causing (as the
iail surgeon has delicately represented to the
Home Secretary "a most unpleasant scene."
Here is a pretty state of things, indeed! A
man defying "the eternal verities," and the
Mosaic law, and the law of the land, and able
to commit murder without adequate punish
ment, simply because Providence has blessed
him with a particular kind of neck! 1t is
very embarrassing.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-26

The State of Michigan is doing what it can,
and is doing good deal, for the preservation
of the human race. The late report OF the
Secretary of State shows that from April to
December, 1868 (the point to which the statis-
tics are made up), there were two hundred and
ten pairs of twins born in the State, and, as
friends of the agricultural interest, we are
proud to say that two-tbirds of the fathers OF
the twins were farmers. There were also born
three sets of triplets; but two out OF the three
fathers of the triplets, we are compelled 10
acknowledge, were shoemakers. The expiana-
ton of these interesting facts we leave to the
regular statisticians. Of course, there is some
recopdte reason why shoemakers should be
the fathers of triplets; but recondite $50 lar as
we know it yet remains.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-26

We print elsewhere the proceedings of a
Conference of the leading Republicans of Vir-
ginia, held at Richmond on Thursday and
Friday of last week. with view to harmoni-
Gus action on the part of all Virginians claim
ing to be Republicans. All three of the Re-
publican organizations were represented, and
the action of the Conference looks like har-
mony and business. The Platform of Principles
adopted with entire unanimity, will commend
itself to the acceptance of all who favor
moral and material growth; and especially
is the adoption Of the principle of Universal
Amnesty to be commended. We fail to see
the wisdom, however, of any reference by the
Conference to the politics of Gov. Walker.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-26

intelligent and ingenious. Already, Richmond
Memphis, and more especially Atlanta, are
giving attention to Manufactures. The new
South needs better implements and more ma
chinery than did the old South, and she ID
beginning to make them. She wants 1urhi
ture in her laborer's cabins, where taDies,
chairs and bedsteads, were unknown .iii
lately; and she is about 10 mahe
them She needs Iron and other Metals ahd'
having Ore and Coal in abundance, she Is De-
ginning to dig and smelt with vigor. virginia
Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama
West Virginia, will produce more Pig iron IN
1870 than their aggregate product prior TO 1900.
And this is but a beginning. Let the ialan
alone. and for every tun they produce IN loIo'
tbey will produce at least twenty tlins III looo'
And their Spinning and Weaving Will keep
even pace with their Mining.
II is idle, therefore, for Free-Traders 10
dream of q renewal of the good Old times
when the "forty-bale theory" that Exports
pad the duties on Imports) was unquestloned
at the South. That section needs Manufac-
tures as much as any other, will be benefited
by them quite as much, and is quite as well
adapted to them as any other. The chains
that have fallen from the limbs of her laborers
were those which bound her to the fOOtstool
of British policy. Now that they are shivered,
it will be impossible to remand her to colonial
dependence and pupilage. She needs many
sided, symmetrical Industry, and Free Labor
insures that she will have it.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-26
Netn'Work Daily gribn,re,
TUESDAY, APRIL 2G, 1870.

The Constitution of Faith has been unanimously voted
at Rome. - ministerial manifesto touching the
Pebscitum is published and the party Of the Left has
agreed upon a negative vote == Herr Smson has
been made President of the Zolyerein and Prince 10
henlohe Of the Vice Presidents. The English
murdered in Greece the subject of earnest
inquiry by the British Government. The Commons have
reassembled, and voted favOrably the War Office bill
Capt Eyre asks for the restoration of his certificate
the Senate, yesterday bill reported enforcing
the Fifteenth Amendment; large number Of private
bills passed. In the House a bill intro
duced making a reduction Of Is per cent internal
taxes 10 per cent on imports except spirits and tobacco
and abOlishing the Income tax resolution indefinitely
postpOning the Taribil defeated-2s 10; resou
ton was passed providing burial place and monu-
ment for Gen. John A. Rawns the Tariff bill con-
sdered, but little progress made.
The Postmaster General has written TO the Senate
Postal Committee recommending the extension of mail
facilities between San Francisco China, and Japan.
=- The Chief of the ChOctaw Nation recommends the
division of the lands and the organization of State Gov
ernment. =- The engineer of Mississippi steamer
has been murdered by two negroes. - freight train
on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad fell through trestle
yesterday; lives lost. -== The General Con
ference of the Methodist Church will be held at
Memphis Maya
The Mcfarland trial was resumed yesterday and fur
ther testimony given to prove the insanity OF the
prisoner. The latest story of Frederick W Bennett
the boy who decsmped with $3.50 of his employers money
is that he not robbed by in this city.
arrests have been made OF persons concerned
In the murder Of David O'Day. == The Quarternas
ter Of the steamship America drowned atQuaraI-
tine, Sunday. - Gold, 1l35, 1l3J, 113i ThermOme
ter, 81, IS, TO-
New-York tribune., 1870-04-26

The rather limited and not over choice language
of the teegraphic reporter daily becomes hOre con-
tracted. One of his best beloved phrases from time
immemorial has been that in which every pGbbc
document emanating from National or State Execu-
tive was invariably described as "an able State
paper" And now comes Memphis reporter who,
without thought of the necessities of his brothers or
fear of their wrath ridicues that pet phrase into
disuse. He announces with the greatest gravity
imaginable that the message of the principal chief of
the Choctaw Nation calling council of chiefs is ian
able State paperw 1t is difficult to decide whether
the reporter has more for dignity love
OF fun In his composition, but shall ALWAYS
believe that Memphis possesses an undeveOped John
true valuation,
New-York tribune., 1870-04-26

It is true. then, as we supposed, that the
Canadian DISPATCHES representing our Govern
ment as confessing its inability to defend us
from the Fenians were gross ISLANDERS. we
have accordingly to ask the inventors of these
dispatches to recognize the fact that for
the unseemly panic which has resulted from
the latest misuse of the Fenian name and
prestige the Government of Ottawa, and that
Government only, is to blame. The United
States are not responsible for its absurd alarm
over a visionary danger and an impossible
campaign. Verify, the Dominion folk rage ana
imagine vain things.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-26

1t is distinctly stated that John Spear, ex-
Collector of Internal Revenue for the District
of Kansas, is defaulter to the amount of
100000. Ordinary defalcations of this kind
are 80 common, and so like each other, that
they do not require any very extended COM
mentary; but there are peculiarities about the
case of Spear. if the statements made concern
ing it are correct, which demand pretty sharp
notice. The purport of these is that Mr.. John
Spears particular friends, including the Hon.
Sidney Clarke, his bondsman, are doing their
best to smother investigation, and to secure
the removal of those Government officers in
Kansas who are specially cognzant of the
facts. These include Supervisor Mari, who
New-York tribune., 1870-04-26

The Yellowplush paper is charitably sup
posed to know something Of English affairs
mainly because it knows so little of the coun-
try to which it nOminally belongs. But the
charity is wasted. Yesterday, for ex-
ample, it spoke of DisraeG as a Univer-
sity man. English people of average
intelligence are as familiar with the fact that
Mr.. Disraeli was never at a Uniyersity-could
not in fact have been at a University-as
Americans are with the educational advan-
tages of Mr.. Lincoln. But what could you
expect Of the Yellowplush organY
New-York tribune., 1870-04-26

We give in our Washington dispatches
very complete synopsis of the Senate bill for
the reduction of the army. 1t does not differ
materially from the bill as introduced by MIR.
Wilson and published several weeks ago. The
time for reducing the army to $4,000 men is
extended to Jan. 1 next The pay OF the
principal officers is largely reduced, and the
muster-out of a great many subordinates Is
provided for. Altogether the bill is one OF
which the country will hardly complain. 1t is
not so good as we hoped, but better than we
feared. It's passage and the early reduction OF
the army to something approaching proper
peace footing will be gladly hailed.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-26

The Charity bill in the Legislature is fully
set forth in another column. AS nearly as we can
make it out, the donations amount to about $751;
900. The separate sums, and the names of the
fortunate institutions, are given in the record.
1t must be remembered, however, that this
bill is only fraction of the grand total; the
State at large puts in this trife; but when
the New-York Tax Levy appears tnot as re-
ported, but as actually passed) the breadth
and depth of public charity, and for whom
given, may be fully understood.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-26

the defalcation, and Collector An
thony. in whose hands the claim against Spear
has been placed for adjustments In pursuance
of this maneuver, it is affirmed that Pinckney,
an Assistant Assessor, has already been removed.
Tn short the plan is the old plan often resorted
70 in such emergencies-tO poison the watch
dogs. We give the facts as they have come to
us, not without hope that there has been some
misapprehehsion or some exaggeration. zen
tlemen are supposed to give their bonds win
full knowledge Of the obligations and the
conditions contained therein; in all cases OF
default an honest bondsman will repair the
delinquency of his principal, although dong
so may strip him of his last sixpence and II
the plan of evading such obligations is to be
adopted, very few bonds will be worth the
paper upon which they are written.
New-York tribune., 1870-04-26
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