The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-02

oe less ulIHculCy III conTlctlng the plum
derers who have done the work here
than there was in settling the unconsti-
tutionality of the Blue Ridge scrip in
Columbia. Yours, truly, STEAM.
New York, July 90, 1872.
A TOUCHING OBITUARY. is, we
hope. with the emotions proper to 80
solemn duty, that we announce to our
readers the sudden demise of tho Bing-
hamton roorback. The affective dispen.
sation-to borrow phrase from our
reverend friends of the clergy carry
mourning into half the organ offices in
the land. The deceased was O roorbaok
of unusual PROMISE; the New York
Erenimg Post and Times, in particular,
had the very highest hopes of it. They
assured us over and over again that 1t
would infallibly kill Mr.. Greeley as dead
AS door-nail. He had been convicted
OF corresponding on the sly with Horatio
Seymour, through the bucoic Carmi-
chael. about the Democratic nomination
for the Presidency. He had committed
himself in black and white for paying
pensions to the rebel soldiers. Young
Mr.. Carpenter had made his affidavit to
it, and he saw the letters. OF course, no
candidate could survive such al expo.
sure as this. Thus the Times and Ecen-
ing Post. passim. About this time, they
are probably pondering with added ap-
probation familiar stanza Of DR.. Gold
smith, the first two lines of which it
would be rude to qubte. but which closes
by announcing that
"Thc man recovered from the bite,
The dog it was that died"
Mr.. Greeley still lives; the roorback,
alas! is no more. The poor thing had
been troubled with q huskiness ever since
Mr.. Carmichael told the Herald reporter
several responsible gentlemen who had
read the correspondence corrohorating
his statement-tha Mr.. Greeley letters
didn't contain q SYLLABLE about the pen
sioning Of rebel soldiers, but merely ex-
pressed the opinion that the Democrats
ought to have nominated Chase in c9,
and informed Mr.. Greeley's correspond
ent that Mr.. Greeley-the sly old fox
that he is!-couldn't, as yet, 'see his
way clear" to the end Of 1872. But the
immediate cause of death was q card
from the same young Mr.. Carpenter, who
swore to having seen letter III Mr..
Greeley's handwriting advocating the
payment OF pensions to disabled rebel
soldiers. This card closed as follows:
Several gentlemen residing in Unadil-
Ia, of unquestioned integrity, who have
seen all Of Carmichaers letters from
Greeley, inform me that no such letter
was written by Mr.. Greeley; therefore, I
conclude, 1 may be mistaken, and that
my impression of the purport of the let
ters was obtained from Carmichael per-
sonalIy. in stating what he had written
to Dir. Greeley, or intended to wrto. At
the time of Carmichncl's visit to the
Herald Office, I did not regard the matter
he was working up as possible, and gave
him but little attention. 1 make this
statement thinking may be mistaken,
and hope for public production of the
whole correspondence between Car
michael and Greeley, until which time
retract the statement made in my afli-
davit!
"Here's rum start" as Sam. Weller
somewhere remarks. Truly this is
vale. and truly the New York Times and
Ecening Post are the unluckiest and nm.
happiest of all the pilgrims that sojourn
in it, At suoh time, words of consola.
ton are mockery. Let us unite in
silent weeping. Republican.