The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-01-04

T. KsslNG THE Ron. : Mack" the wicked
correspondent of the Cincinnati Enoui.
re,3 in one Of his recent letters from
Wghiagton, writes:
eIconfess to q feeling of malicious
| joybver the demonstration Of opposition
/ to the admission of Virginia Senators
4 yesterday. 1t did mo vast amount of
gobd to see the credentials of the two
i Senators elect referred to the Commit
|fee on the Judiciary, which may appear
tstrange, when it is remembered that they
Shre conservative 'persons-elected in op-
position to the radicals. But have not
Forgotten that when the Virginia election
Twas over, and the Democratic party of
II the North had begun to rejoice over it,
EIr. Walker and his associates rushed
Vfrward to assure them it was all u mis-.
hke, that the triumph was not one to
fhallenge the sympathy of Northern
Fpemocrats at all, that it was al Admins
}ration triumph as opposed to the ex-
ltremists. A nice distinction without q
iparticle of difference. Nor have T for
Igotten that the first net OF these CON
lservatives' was to send delegation to
Washington to knock gently at the White
House door, approach the holy of holies
lon tiptoe, and, hat in hand, nsk tho great
high priest Of Isadicalism il he would
!deign to name the persons he would like
to see elected to the Senate.
swell, they have stooped-and haven't
conquered. they have fawned and haven't
fattened; they have kissed tho rod of
chastisement, and been kicked in return
for their mean docility. They have sup
plemen:ed q manly. struggle for what
they believed to be right with low-lived
compliance with what they know to be
wrcng And as in the former they chal-
lenged the admiration of their enemies,
so in the latter they have invoked the
contempt Of their friends"
REcoaNrrroN OF CUBA-A letter from
New York says: "Persons usually we'll
posted in Cuban matters, from the Wash
ington administrator standpoint, say
there Is something in q double-leaaded
telegram the Tribune publishes. to the
effect that recognition will como at an
early day. The pressure on President
Grant, in favor of the step, is known to
be very powerful, from prominent men
OF the Republican party, here and here
about, and to that pressure it is thought
he must yield, notwithstanding the scru-
pies of Secretary Fish
THE VILE CURRENCY. designs of
tue new national currency may be very
tine, although to our eye they are greatly
inferior to those with which the public
have become 80 familiar; but every one
not directly interested will agree with the
New York Journal Of Commerce, that the
paper is the vilest fabric ever used for
first-class work. 1t is shade better in
appearance than the specimens Of Con-
federate currency issued during the war,
but lasts not quite rs long, It wears to
be rough, and is brittle and tender.
/. FATAL ACCIDENTAL distressing acci-
dent occurred in the neighborhood of
Thaxton's Switch, Bedford County, Va
on Christmas day. Mr.. James Hawkins
went out hunting and while standing on
a log his gun slipped, the hammer of one
of the barrels striking against the log,
discharging the piece, and the load took
effect in his abdomen. He survived un-
til the next day. when his injuries te rmi-
mated fatally.