The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-11-05


opens 4.3O P. NJ; closes IL A. NJ.
Charleston and Greenville, open 4.3O
P. M. ;close $50 A. M.
Western, opens 1890 P. NJ; closes
2.45 P. M.
Charleston, evening, opens 8 A. NJ. ;
closes p NJ
Office open Sundays from half-past
o'clock to half-past 5.
Delegates to the Temperance Conven-
ton will find at the reading room Of the
Young Mems Christian Association, situ-
ated over the Carolina National Bank, a
committee who will take pleasure in rem
dering them assistance in procuring
boarding-houses. The Convention will
assemble at ~ o'clock Thursday eve
ming. 10th instant, at the hail of the Pull
metto Fire Company.
There is great complaint relative to the
irregnlarity OF the mails on the different
railroads. One day last week, no agent
went out on the Greenvile Railroad
consequently, no mail was distributed
On Thursday, there was no Northern
mail received here-owing to the absence
OF the mail agent from the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railrond. Yes
/ Gerday, there was no mail from Augusta.
These Irregularities should be looked
into, and, If the present agents are in
competent, others should be appointed
| We coll the attention of the officials at
| Washington to the matter. rs it is u
growing evil. If the work cannot be
done by the mail agents, we hope an
arrangement will be made with the
Adams and Southern Express Compa-
MES, and our word for it, there will be
no cause of complaint
The DAvESPoRTs. These truly Won
dcrful mystificators give two of their
undiscoverable performances in Januey's
Hall, on Friday and Saturday evenings
of next week. Tie brothers enter q
common cnbinet, and after being Sc.
curely bound hand and foot by a com
mittee selected from the audience, and
the doors of the cabinet closed, musical
instruments are played and human hands
appear ut nn opening in the cabinet, and
when the doors are opened they arc
found to be securely bound tc their
seats. In the dark scene one Of them is
bound by strong ropes to chair, and in
that position his coat is stripped from
him. and seen to fly across the stage.
The Richmond Dispatch speaks thusly OF
their performance in that city:
"The second performance OF the Da.
vcnport Brothers was rs great success
as their first. The gentlemen selected
last night by the large audience to
represent them on the stage were Mr.. A.
M. Kelley and Major Willie Caskie,
General T. L. Moore, Mr.. John Purcell.
Jr., Mr.. Mayo, and Major w. W. Hur.
rison also assisted III efforts to get ut the
bottom of the mystery, but in vain.
Mr.. Kelley took his place in the cabinet
between the brothers, who were first sc.
curely tied. One of his hands was plac
ed on each OF his companions, and his
feet were also bound to theirs so tbut
the slightest movement on the part oj
either of the performers would be de-
tected by him. The doors were then
closed, and the audience, listening, heard
distinctly and successfully the playing
upon the guitar, violin and tamborine
and the ringing of the bells, obCdient tc
Mr.. Keiley's request. The door was
then opened, and Mr.. Kelley was dis
covered with n tamborine on his hend
and guitar ut his lack. He stated thai
the brothers had not moved Mt all, bu,
that Mt his command some mysterious
invisible power, had raised the instru
ments and played upon them, and that q
hand had passed across his face and
another had been tugging away at the
ropes on his wrists. Like Speaker Tur
ner on the previous night, he was to-
tally at loss to account for the pheno
mena.
''But it is not our purpose to give q
statement in detail of the performances
of the Dnvenports last night, nor to try
to account for them. They offer no ex.
planation Of the mystery, and no one in
the audience was able to give one that is
satisfactory. COMPUTATION, legerdemaiu
spiritual manifestations, or whutever else