The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-07-09

AAcAng soliojtH Basnxsjl nMed for
the Hsesent term Gf the CoErt. Il
Ms' Tradewell, IN AH- -biief remarks,
stated to the Court the reasons Of him
sell aud his colleague. Mr.. Slonn. Jr.,
as counsel for John Lee, convicted OF
manslaughier. in Withdrawing the notice
given to the Court of motion in arrest
OF Judgment, and statodth th6prisoner
was ready for sentence.--...
Walter Cannon, alias Campbell, grand
larceny: Mr, Sloan. Jr..Ef fm6ted for a
new trihl. :. Mr. Barnwell contra. Not
granted. l''Hi:t
Dayton R. Gage. forgery and uttcrihg
school toacher's order on State Trsa-
snrer; one year Mt hard labor in peniten-
tiary ',il .aa'.
John Leo. otherwise called Jack Lee,
mansiaughter; ten years hard labor in
penitentiafy. ip f,iiht
o. r. franklin, assault and battery;
S25 fine and costs of court. ~.
Levi Hampton, (ooiored.) receiving
stolen goods, knowing them to have
penitentiary. 3}fh.
David Hunter. (colored.) uttering a
forged paper; one years hard lnhor in
the ponitentiary. 2
Simpson Hobb, (colored,) receiving
stolen goods, knowing them to have
been stolen; recommended to mercy by
jury-three months in County JAIL
Walter Cannon; alias Campbell, grand
larceny; two years and six months in the
peniten,inry.
Frank Campbell, (colorcd,) assault
and battery, with intent to kill; one
yenr's hard labor in panitentiary.
| Frank Davis, (colored) petit larceny;
ono years hard labor in penitentiary.
Wm. White, (co)ored) grand larceny;
three years hard labor in penitentiary.
This man has served out two terms, OF
twelve mouths each, in the pen;tentiary,
for the same offence, and had been par-
doned but two weeks before tie last lar
ceny was perpetruted.
Joseph Brown. (colote1) burglary
and grand larceny; three years hard la
bor in penitentinry.
| VIM. Morris grand larceny; three
years hard labor in penitentiary.
Heury Mckenzie, {oolo7s sd j-as=au,t
and battery; fined $40. 90 and costs of
Court. or ons months imprisonment in
County Jail. m
| Col. J. ?. Thomas, upon his own Pc
tition. wns examined in opnn Court by a
committee appointed for that purpose,
and duly admitted to practice in the
Circuit and Probate Courh OF this State.
After passing the usual orders. the
Court adjourned until the first Monday
in October next.
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sPIuR 0T,D q
sentative man" writes thus in Some rep
resentative paper:
''The deadest thing to-day is the pull
pit. It is traditional. It does not dare
fill it's lungs with the great, broad. cheer
| ing spirit Of the day. as everything else
does. It lags behind in fnith, courage,
knowledge. love aud practice. It keeps
blindly delving amid the debris of the
old dead things of old dead centuries; q
drad prating Of dead truths. It is
| afraid to let go their thin, cold, cfammy
hands. and trust itself to the living hand
OF God. It is tramme elcd; tied; creed
and-sect.driven and ruled: sLife is teem-
ing with new truths, and souls are gnsp-
ing for n diviner' life, and the pulpit
drones and drivels, and sends men to
husks out Of which the golden cars have
dropped. Lille is in revolt against the
pulpit. 1t is not dissatisfaction, MUIR
muring. it is reYolt."
It is just tlnt clinging to the old
truths TINT keeps the world from ruin.
It is just those sold dead things" that
"dead prating," that keeps US from going
to tho bad on . down n-grade. without
brakes. The world is mad for something
new. And yet oil truth IN religion and
morals is old It is the mad rage for
something new that has created the
Communism of Paris, the free.loye and
woman's rights of New England. the
hallucinations Of spiritualism, the vaga-
ries Of evolution" and .natural selec-
ton" If there is my new truth, let us
have it. by all means. But lis not truth
that men cry out for now; it is novelty.
We verify believe that there is no help
for mankind, in religion, in politics, in
science, in social order, except by adher-
ing to old truths-by holding fast to
what the wisdom and the experience of
ages have established. Heaven help
those who discard any truth becanse it is
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