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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-09-05
Notice.

Notice.
NhHEE months from this date. apple ltion
Il will bo made to the GrcrnviIlr and Colnm.
bia ltailroad Company for tho renewal OF the
following SCRIP, belonging to the estate Of
> t.SSti DEBhUilL, which has been lost or
mislaid, viz:
Stock Scrip No. 1,1G2. $50 shArcs.
$1,000. 'O-
Scrip No. l. 337, shares.
Assessment Certificate on same No 15l4
S2o. VIM. II. PAkKER
Receiver Eatate OF Jesse DeBruhl, deed,
JUNE x 1871. Abbeville 9. II.
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7 Theee is a genemtien. Oh, how lofty
nEe their EYES! and their eyelids are lifted
uP.-Proverbs.
Il is wonderful the amount Of vanity
which hal characterized the human fam
ivy in every age of the world. Every age
boasts Of their progress in the Arts aud
Sciences, and views preceding ages as ig.
norant and halfcivilized il,comparison to
their gigantic strides in oil that adds lus-
tire to nations or individyals. A calm,
sensible'and u%nprejudieed retey of the
History-Of NatiOls-the progress which
each hRs made in the period Of six thous.
and yeuB IN the Arts and Scienees-it is
a matter Of astonishment that SO little has
been achieved. Rather than we should
pride ourselves upon our superior knowl-
edge, compared to generations that have
gone before us, We should feel Inundated
at our tardy progress in all that consti-
tutes National or individual greatness.
Out Of the countless m%ilIions of human
beings that have lived and figured upon
earth since the creation, the number is in-
considerable who have astonished the
world by the brilliancy Of the light they
have shed upon the darkness which has
cnveloped the greater portion of the globe.
If we should allow our great genius to
have been born into the world each year
since the creation, the number would
reach near 5000, which will be admitted
By all who are conversent with ancient and
modern history to be a liberal allowance,
including Orators, Writers, Statesmen,
Philosophers-in fact all who have dis
tinguished themselves above the masses
the tOiling, hard-6sted yeomanry in other
words, the COmmonality, upon whose
shoulders rests the responsibility of i'm
proving, feeding and clothing the world of
mankind.
This subject might be elaborated by a
review of the past history of the world by
enumerating the distinguished men who
have from time to time appeared upon the
stage Of human action, but it would re-
quire research that would not pay for the
labor bestowed. Should any of the liter.
att doubt the truth Of the position assumed
by the writer, we trust that a full list of
the illustriOus dead, as well as the living,
will be furnished to the world, that after
all we may have something amounting to
demonstration, Of which to boast.
The foregoing remarks are by no means
designed to discourage education, or to de-
tract from that class who are not gifted
by nature to rise to that height Of emf
hence and distinction which has only been
reached by so few of our species; but OH
the contrary to stimulate to greater effort,
and to depend less upon the character Of
our prGgenitors fer that fame which is in
dividual and not transferable; and we
have great reason to be thankful TO a kind
Providence that we have different gifts,
that the complicated wants and necessities
Of mankind in a state Of society may be
supplied by that endless variety ofgenious
which God in His wisdom has bestowed on
His fellow creatures. 10 be zealously
and industriously employed in the voca-
tiOns for which We are designed by nature,
should be the ambition of all, and when
attained, constitutes the only true no.
Dility. ''' Il
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All this is but echoing the complaints
Of the Bar. Thus, among you, gentlemen,
the criticisms are loud aud frequent. But
submit, in all respects this is but a cheap
kind Of patriotism, 1t is easy to find fault
with unjust laws and you may readily
secnre the thanks Of clients with whose
sufferings seemingly you SO warmly sym.
Pathise. But pardon me if suggest to
those clients aud to the people that it is
upon the heads of the lawyers Of the
country that evils rest. They should be-
held responsible for them. If the inau.
entail members of the Bar in my circuit
alone, those only who appear in its courts,
would expend half the zeal in a we'll or
ganized effort for the amendment of those
statutes the remedy would be afforded in
sixty days after the next meeting Of Con-
gress. Let the glaring and readily appre-
ciated defects be pointed out, the far more
beneficial and repressive effects Of more
rational and kindly enactments be stated
in a respectful and earnest mode and the
desiled result is as certain as the action is
easy. To be influential, imputation of
bad motives and all the %Aippant criticism,
OF course would be avoided. l have a
right from my own activity in this matter
to make the appeal. l have spent much
time aud hard labor and some hundreds of
dollars in as yet gu abOrtive attempt to
accomplish this alone. | shall be glad to
cooperate in all sensible measures for the
enforcement Of all such alterations in the
statutes as will render an indictment high
evidence that the defendant has done that
which good citizens will condemn. As
they now stand a most injurious spirit of
opposition to the government is engen-
dered. A sort of Ireland in America is
enacted by the great number of arraign.
ments for crimes of the highest theoreti-
cal character, so far as punishment is con-
cerned, while the facts show absence of all
criminal intention to violate the laws of
the country. Surely there should be q
difference in punishment between the de-
liberate fraudulent omission to comply
with a statute and thatneglect which even
with the prudent and careful will some
times occur in our most important con-
Germs. 1t is no answer to this that a dis
taht unknown official 10 a Washington de-
partment may compromise with the re-
spectacle citizen, who is forced first to be
elected a criminal and crave the mercy of
a Judge, that he may be let out of prison
long enough to go some thousand miles
away and buy his liberty. Congress nev.
er intended those things. It's members
no more want them than we. They all I'M
dcrstand the %impolicy of the conditions,
if these conditions were laid before them.
None know them half SO we'll as the law
yers Gf the country, and none are half so
guilty as they if they remain unrepre-
scented.
| have over and over again suggested
action on your part in reference to writS
Of error in criminal cases. 1t is a mere
relic of barbarism that noue is authorized
even in the most important criminal cases.
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A Leaf Out Of Life.
By OLIO STANLEY.

Many years have fled away into the 81
lent past, since the May morning when
Auberrie Stanleigh became my wife.
She was different from other women
with whom 1 had come in contact.
There was q g~entleness and a sympathy
about her that forbade q rough or harsh
expression. A rude man could not be
rude to her, an impure woman must have
yelled her face.
I had watched, jealousy, the approach
OF other men-more gifted, more noble,
than myself-but never detected a quick
er throb of her pulse, or an added shade
Of brightness on her face.
had almost forgotten, then the young
and talented lecturer, who had spent
part of two summers in our quiet village.
She had seemed different in his presence,
but I felt sure he had gone away with
out asking herto be his wife and indeed,
since then we had heard that he was
dead. After that my darling grew thin
and pale, and 1 longed so to care for
her, and to shield her from every storm,
that at length I grew brave and asked
her to be my wife.
1t was only q moment that she hest
tated. Then she held out her hand to
Inc, and as 1 took tin my own 1 feltas if
the whole world had grown radient with
new delight.
How joyously the days wore away,
whether 1 watched her, busy with pleas
ant household duties, or sitting apart
from the merry group, her mind full of
thoughts, which l daredhope were happy
ones, or looked in her face as we walked
on the lawn or down through the green
old woods in each and every mood 1
found her growing dearer and dearer to
me, this faif woman who had promised
to be my wife. '.s'7 '
Sometimes I felt there were depths in
her nature which i had never sounded
CLEANS there of o possible happiness
which my voice and stey failed to awake.
And then l wondered if 1 were selfish
in the desire to bind our two lives to-
gether. ALI, if / had but claimed her
confidence then, how much grief might
have s~ed her gentle heart! But when,
an expression, of unusual tenderness
escaped me, her face lost its usefulness,
I'felt reassured.. -
In the one snort year that followed
n marriage Learned, perhaps, as much
of joy and content as ever falls to the
lot of man but the end came, and since
then l have had many o earn battle to
fight with my W unthankfulness. ~
Hook for a face and listen for a voice
that made bright that far-of summer of
my life, whose fragrant breath has van
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ished out of the world but all is silent.
Igo back over the years that lie be-
tween the now and then of my life, lin
gering beside the grave of buried desire,
and have onlya sad ghost to comfort
me.
All the manifold voices of nature,
which she learned to know so well, speak
to me, all the beauty in sky, and woods,
and flowers, and waters, which she loved
as she did all the beautiful things OF
Gods creation, appeal to me with ten
der memories of the friend / have lost.
/, who would have held her in my
clasp against death itself, had no strength
to battle with her own desire.
She faded like a flower, day by day,
until she was but a shadow of the beau
tiful woman 1 had won a year before.
1t wa Just at twilight, on a clear June
night, that she babe me farewell.
"You have loved, asfew men love their
wives, Herbert, but even your unselish
love cannot avail longer! l must fol-
low"
And with that sad, sudden pause, her
gentle spirit had left its tenement of clay.
When she was dead, 1 took from her
bosom a bit of paper, worn with tears,
the letters half effaced, and could Just
make out these words
"Auberrie st. Maur-I am dying now,
but the love 1 have given you is the bur-
den of my last breath-John Lyle"
That was all! Yet 1 knew, as well rs
If L had read her thoughts all these
months back, how deep had been her
grief. How her love for him, and her
feeling of duty toward me, had warred
within her, until her poor body vas worn
out. nos.
And then the angels claimed her!
Now / sit and watch the light dying
out of my last day, and know that the
bitter waiting and fearless watching of
these thirty years of loneliness are almost
over that on beyond these hills, when
the mist clears away, 1 shall open my
eyes to a happy Hereafter.
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Congressional.
North Carolina Defends Herself.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-The Kuklux
bill being under consideration, MI. Wad-
deli, of North Carolina, most emphatically
denied the. property and lives of loyal men
(which often meant loya! thievos) are un-
safe in North Carolina. The great mass
of the people of North Carolina are loyal,
peaceable and ~law-abiding.. He ridiculed
the idea that Confederate soldiers are
skulking assassins. They were true to
their honor and plighted faith.
Mr.. Shober, of North Carolina, said the
feeling in the South was daily becoming
better, the influences now at work being
sufficient to pacify it. There was no de-.
mand for interference. Amnesty would
do more good than any other measure.
Mr.. Hawley, Of Illinois, said the Gen.
eral Government was supreme and above
all. Congress had nopower to enforcethe
guarantees of the Constitution. \
MIR. Lewis said the evils existing were
to be attributed to corrupt and unwise
legislation BY %unprincipled white men and
ignorant negroes, respectable Southerners
being precluded from the. management of
AFFAIRS,
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Facts for the People.

The Knoxville Press and Herald is the
largest daily paper in East Tennessee.
The Knoxville Press and Messenger is
the largest weekly paper in East Tennes-
see.
The Knoxville Press and Herald gives
more reading matter than any other daily
paper published in East Tennessee.
The Knoxville Press and Messenger
gives more reading matter than any other
weekly paper published in East Tennessee.
The Knoxville Press and Herald is the
cheapest daily paper published in East
Tennessee.
The Knoxville Press and Messenger is
the cheapest weekly paper published in
East Tennessee.
RESULTS. "."
Therefore the Knoxville daily Press
and Herald has the largest circulation of
any daily paper published in East Ten
nessee. .rF
Therefore the Knoxville Press and Mes
senger has the largest weekly circulation
of any newspaper published in East Ten
neSsee. mar30.2w
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hsion at Bridge Of Seyeres, with Duer-
ats men and adds that o battalion of
the committee were on the alert last
night fearing nm attack. Ten Thousand
were en- route to Boise and Bologne, and
large numbers bfvouacked in Camp
Elsies. II =
BERLIN, April A bill for the union
OF Alsace and Lorraine with the Ger
man Empire, was referred TO the Special
Committee in Reichstadt. A motion
that Polish territories be not included
| the Empire, was rejected.
Bismarck explained That the policy
towards France was to facilitate the task
of the republic.
The Emperor decided not to inter
vene unless the interests Of Germany
were endangered.
VIENNA, April IA heated debate is
progressing in Reichserath on army
matters. Opinions are widely divided
on the proposition TO raise a fresh con-
tingent.
VERSAILLES, April 1.-The Govern
ment has charged Gen C~linchamps with
the organization Of the troops. Gen.
Charitte holds Nautes.
A movement is on foot in Paris to dis
arm all battalions that do not recognize
the authority of the Committee. The
Chi du peuple demands hat this propo-
sition be speedily carried out.
LONDON, April 1.-The following is
just received from Versailles {: Several
thousand national guards occupying
Putean, COur, Bevoic and the bridge of
Neuilly have Been routed by troops who
carried barricades and captured many
prisoners. The Nationals fled into the
city.
LONDON, April 1.-The Paris dispatch
es of the 31st contain the information
that q Committee will leave the Hall de
Vile for Luxembourg. The members
of the Commune now administer the af-
fairs of the different ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
The inhabitants continue to leave Paris
many streets look deserted. The Con-
stitutionel was seized yesterday. Bis
marek consents to the augmentation of
the Paris army to eighty thousand men.
Paris, April Bismarck asks Theirs
III q note to define q time in which he
would accomplish the suppression of the
Instruction in Paris. Theirs resisted
the demand by expressing the hope that
he w6hld succeed in his conciliat;ry eff
forts and concluded by asserting the
right to Judge when other measures are
necessary.
A Florence dispatch says Yiscount
Harcount has been appointed French
Ambassador to Rome, and Count Prastin
Choisend comes to Florence in o similar
capacity.
Communication between Paris and
Versailles is interrupted. No letters or
papers were received Between the two
cities on Friday.
A rumor having arisen that a body of
troops, intended for an attack on Paris,
had reached Neuilly and st. Cloud, all
the western gates of Paris were closed,
and several officers of the Orderly Eighth
Battalion of the National Guards were
arrested The complete isolation of Par
is is m%omentarily expected.
The journals Francois and Electieur
Libre have ceased to appear.
The Commune has summoned Colonel
Chatteton, who surrendered Fort Mont
Valerien to the Prussians, to appear for
trial, but lie has refused to obey.
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FL 10y T

IN III lgth day 81 February on. the main road
" from Gus, Gains, leading to Madisonyille. 3
small red pocket book, containing $50 In Green
back and fouy. notes'oI John And s. II. Henry
amounting to about 1856. 60. Also some tax
receipts and receipts from Telico Lodge. 81
turning i TO me viii. receive q reward Of go.
l forewarn al lpersous from trading for the said
notes. III sfqSfEa J. W. lIOWARD, |,
S~weetwatcr, -Tenu-mAf30sasdl- Az
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Organized.

On Wednesday last Revs. Breaker and
Lee organized a Baptist church at this
place. The sermon for the occasion was
delivered by Rev. Nh, Lee, and was an
impressive and logical discourse. The
Deacons were set apart toatheir Offices
by Revs. Lee, Breaker and McCarroll,
which was d beautiful and imposing GER
emony. We were informed by DIR! Lee
that this church, like all others of the
denomination, was independent, andhad
no confession Of Faith Or Greed than
that contained in the Bible. The mem
bership numbers seventeen, Marygille
Republican, ,,; ha $780,. i, .T -
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Markets very dull. No speculative
demand. Stocks heavy. Corn in some
better demand Than last week with re-
duced stocks. Wheat firm, and all offer
ings taken at quotations. Butter and
Eggs in very light supply, and we would
advise shipments. Flour active, with
light stocks.
Respectfully,
STEPHENS, FLYNN & co.
Atlanta, April 8, 1871.
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e The Augusta COnstitutionalist of Satur.
day has the following:

Noy % Nv AOliON iuS
VINO ARE TnEY!-A loyal gentleman
has made a tour Of the South and writes
his impressions to the New York Tribune.
He seems to have been wide awake in At
l%anta, and to have CLEANED much loyal in
telligence, which he imparts regardless of
consequences. The following extract will
tell what he learned in that city:
SIR: returned last night from a Sou
thern business trip, | saw and conversed
with nearly all the leading men in my bu.
%siness, aud with a good many newspaper
owners and editors. At Atlanta, the
leading jeweler informed ME that two
prominent State. officers we're formerly
express agent and conductor on the Geor-
gia, road. The jcveler assured me that
both were poor before they became poll,
t@icians, but that FIVE days after one sGcur.
ed his position he bought Eve gold watch.
es, costing $40. The jeweler further told
me that the two bought about onc-third
of all he sold last year. The jeweler was
a Northern man, aud he said they were
fully as corrupt as our New York politi-
clans. 1911. -
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An Important and Valuable Compil.

IN A"poAt"iAt anu ihiuADlC NOillpll'
Che Bpndsr Of The South md Planssr
Journal of Augusta, Ga,h com ,eS Jed
tie publication Ola very va cable and ia.
tsEestidg Roster bf Regiment, Rtta lions,
Batteries and Division Staff Organizations
of LOngstreet's Corps, prepared by Gen
eral Il. p. Alexander, late Chief of Ar.
tillery of Longstreet's Corps.
This Roster gives in detail tho engage
ments in Bhichths several regiments, bat
talions aud batteries participated, with the
number engaged, the humber Killed, wodn-
ded and missing, and other interesting
facts and incidents in connection with the
movements of this celebrated army corps.
Every member of tile corps should have
and preserve a copy of this qrOll of hon.
Or.a' to be transmitted to posterity as a
full and complete vindication of the valor,
proves, and heroic deeds Of the meubers
of this distinguished branch of General
Lees noble army Of patriot soldiers.
The author earnestly requests members
of the old corps to examine carefully this
Roster and begs that they will point out
any unlntentional errors which he may
have committed, and supply any defects
which may be found in the preparation of
the work. He desires to have the Roster
perfect and INDUCES the hope that the
surviving members and friends of the
corps will lend him their aid in securing
that result. Communications on the sub
ject may be addressed to him personally
at Columbia, s. G., or through the columns
of the Banner of the South and Planters
Journal. 20!
The first number embraces Laws cele-
brated Alabama Brigade, composed of the
4th, 18th. 44th, 47th, and 4Sth Alabama
regiments and the 9Th North Carolina.
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Duluth.

It is related that a farmer living some
where I'M the interior of Illinois was
greatly excited over the wonderful ac-
coHnts of Duluth in the glowing adrer-
tisements of Jay Cooke, and resolved to
pay the city a visit, d Arriving there, to
his great disgust, he saw nothing but
some mean wooden houses scattered
about at random amongth the dismal pines
that skirt the lake. On his return a
neighbor asked where he had been.
Ave been up to Duluth to seethecight,"
wasa the reply. Slight, what fghtq"
"The fight between tho Almighty and
Jay Cooke" "Well,s how's it going?"
T"Why Jay Cooke seems to have all The
Radicals III Congress backing him up
With land grants, still, / think the Al,
mighty is3bound to win" ''l'
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~ IaN. FDTTg 49, t.mr
Down-east editors have i familiar and
free-and-easy way, Of ,speakings of each
other, The following for example 4;
Gle is too lazy to earn a meal and too
mean to enjoytone., He was never gen
errors hut once, and that was when he
gave the itch + his apprentice, 50 much
for his goodness Of heart, Ofhis INDUS
tEy,. III ,ppbIie may be tle better Judge
When we state that the only way he ever
worked vas the day Pc mistook caster
eApf money! III n,73 yab aisgfF5n Esi
An irascibls old gentleman was taken
with sneezing. in the cars lately.a After
snesSing'in d most spasmoaic way eirht Of
ten time, be arrested the Jparox ysm for 1
inpSeenE, and extricatng lis Handkefcbief.
he thus Indignantly addressed his nasal
s+gdnEs'o on e. oa-1gbobh yodInI blow
your Internal brains out ptSssalya'dtte
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WAR;!

NEARLY all the Nations on the other side Of
~ the Big Pond are in a state Of warfare, but