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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-25
Imported Negro Vote in 1adlann.

We all know in South Carolina what
aptitude the colored man has for voting.
1t is one of those things which he cannot
bear to miss. He is sure to vote. He
does it early, late and often. He votes
ns if he were endeavoring to make mp for
lost time, for those years in which,
under the laws, he was not allowed to
vote. White men may be, and often
are, remiss in this matter. They require
TO be argued and expostulsted with, to
induce them to go to the registration or
the polls. They shrink from the scenes
which they are compelled to witness
there, and they are despondent of pro-
duoing any good effect by their votes.
They show reluctance. Not 80 the
colored man. He has no delicacy and
NO soruplesAbout it. He likes to put his
ballot in, whether it will do any good or
not. In his view, it always does good,
and is always good thing. He never
tires Of voting for Aristides, the Just, as
the Ashenjnn boor did, or any one else,
the unjust. He just likes to vote and to
keep on voting. It iH his affair to cast
the ballot, not to regard the oonae-
9uences. These he leaves to his ma
nagers. The vote 10 the, Sign of his
manhood, the proof Of his equality, md
it pleases him, as often as possible, to
exhibit it. Voting never bscomes stale
to him, no matter how often, or how un-
justiiably, exercised. It has perennial
freshness and sweetness for him.
Knowing how he loves it, how he is on
the qui uiue to assert himself by this act,
knowing also that he puts moderate
money value upon his right to suffrage,
rs compared with white men, the Radical
managers in North Carolina largely
avsiled themselves of the abundant sup
ply Of free and easy colored votes in the
border Counties Of Virginia and South
Carolina. They poured into that State
and turned the scale. And now on elec-
tion approaches in Indiana. The Radi-
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A Kentucky paper graveIy announces
that a COW, being cornered in one Of the
deep railroad cuts at the foot OF Lookout
Mountain, climbed up the side and held
to the rocks by her forefeet until the
train had swept past. It is lawfnl to be-
lieve almost anything about Lookout
Mountain; but when it comes to cows
hanging to perpendicular rocks by the
toe nails, it is best to Lookout" in
order not to be taken in.
In Mobile, there are twin sisters who
cannot be punished for any offence, be-
cause neither can be beidentified. Recently,
one of these young ladies put to flight
two dog-catchers and policeman. In
court, she proved to be her sister.
policeman accompanied her home to AK.
rest the other, but, on arriving, cOuld
not tell which he had brought and
which had already been there, and went
away sorrowing, without either.
Two little boys living in Fairfax, Va,
lately played an interesting little game,
in which the youngest put his finger on
a log which the older ono was ohopping,
to see how near he could come to the axe
without being cut. Unfortunately, he
forgot to keep any measurement, 80 that
IL ID uOt kuOWu uOW uSak no CASu6as AAo
finger to the axe tho time before it was
cut of.
a little four.year old beset his mother
TO talk to him and say something funny.
"How can I?" she asked; 'don't you see
how busy I am baking these pies?"
"Well, you might soy, Charley won't
you have pie?" That would be funny
for youl"
A Kentucky Shaker jumped off his
load just as his horses backed $50 feet
down a precipice. and he is very pro-
nounoed Shaker whenever lie thinks
about it.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer thereupon
goes for it, and picks it easily to pieces,
thus:
(c.) Maine has been carried by the
Grant party, with loss of 3,40O on
l25, 600 votes. A corresponding loss on
that vote will lose to Grant Ohio, Penn
sylvania and Indiana. With this pro.
viso, it may stand ut the head of the
Grant pyramid.
%. The State of Oregon has not voted
since the nomination OF either fresiticn.
tial candidate ut Philadelphia or Da!ti
more.
&c. J Vermont was always conceded to
Grant, as the Republicans there have
been three TO one to the Democrats for
many years. Its majority, however, has
been reduced.
~ Connecticut has had no election
since the Presidential contest with Grant
and Greeley opened, and since the
Liberal Republican party was formed.
(e.) West Virginia voted for Grant in
1865 by 5000 majority. At her late
election the present Democratic Govern
or, Jncob, who is for Greeley. was chosen
over another Greeley candidate, Camden
There was not Grant candidate in the
field for any State Office. The new con-
otAeu'Aou, uuop!eo Wy u DcluOcTAtlc 'OIutc
Convention. and opposed by the Grant
party, was ratified by the people by /,
handsome majority. Isn't this pretty
brick to put into Grant pyramid?
~ Rhode Island The Times and
Chronicle editor forgot that there hud
been no election in this State since
Grant and Greeley we're made the
standard bearers of the respective
parties. It, therefore, makes, like Ore
gon, Connecticut and New Hampshire,
pretty thing for purely imaginary
pyramid.
(g.) New Hampshire. No election
has been held here. The same remnrks
apply to it that we made on Rhode
Island.
(A) North Carolina. This State gave
IL. 900 majority for Grant. It gave the
Republicans 5000 majority last year.
This year the Grant men have chosen
their Governor by the trifing majority
Of 1000, but the Greeley men have the
Legislature, United States Senator, Con-
gressmen. and everything else. 1t
doesn't, therefore, make very sub
stantial base on which to construct q
Grant pyramid. Knocked out in No
vember, as it will be, the whole structure
falls, if what really belongs to it, after
our deductions, is of sufficient impor-
tance to be called "a structure.
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HOTEL AnnlyALs. September 24.-Colu,noic
Hartford; 8 Schoolbred, Gadsden; S
Browning, W D Clancy, Tupper. Charles
ton; " Il Gardner and vile, Sumter; W g
Manning, Mrs E Manning and daughter,
Clarendon; Z 81 Brooks and wife, q; P nj
Cohen, Union; X Robinson. Orangeburg; VIM
Beattie, W II Evans, sc.
Nickerson Houses McGowan, Mrs Me-
Gowan. Abbeville; R O Robley, N c; A M
Fraser, D Mcqueen, Jr, Sumter; E West,
Branch. Ga; Il Hyde, G, 4
& A r r; L Schriner, ND; G Staples, VG; F
Blodgett, Blodgett, Newbe,ry; III J Seig-
ler S G.
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PHGNIxIANA.-An exchange, describ.
ing fashionable party, speaks of gal
liant who whispered to lady. ''and took
her e.'ar.;" and ungallantly adds that ''it
il not :. very difficult feat to take lady
apart these times, but there is very little
left of her afterward."
How to keep your head clear-Shave
every hair of.
No man will do his duty "by and by"
A night-blooming serious-A curtain
lecture.
Continual cheerfulness is certain eyi-
dence Of wisdom.
Grace and beauty are flowers from the
root Of utility.
The United States Government hrs
just issued patent for an Improve
ment in vices" They need it.
To dispel darkness from about you,
make light of your troubles.
A book entitled "Lectures to Married
Men, has appeared. Heaven save the
mark! Haven't they enough already?
Hugging set to music is the term ap-
piled by a White Sulphur Springs cor
respondent to German" which lasted
two hours.
Somebody says that females go to
church to look at others bonnets. That
is downright scandal. They go to show
their own.
/ "A furniture man is said to be the mem
Der OF society, because he keeps chairs
md lounges about oil day.
Sour SToMACH.-If the food taken
into the stomach is not digested, it de-
composes. In the latter case, pungent
gas is developed, which causes sour
eructations, or else the stomach itself
secrctes an acid, which, rising upward,
at intervals stings the gulet sharply.
These extremely disagreeable sensations
are attributable to impaired digestion.
10 get rid OF them or prevent their re-
currence, it is only necessary to tone and
regulate the gastric organs with Hostel
ter's Bitters. It will not answer to post
pone the great corrective with the idea
that the unpleasant symptoms will dis
appear OF themselves. So far from that
being the case, they almost invariably
culminatc, if neglected, in chronic dys-
pepsia, with its concomitants of gnawing
in the stomach, dizziness, perverted
vision, headache and sleeplessness. tits
true. that all these disagreeables may be
obviated by course of the Bitters; but
how much wiser to anticipate their ar
rival with one or two doses of that sure
preventive of indigestion and strength.
ener of the alimentary organs. S21t3tl
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The BLACKvILLE HoMIcIDK-ACQUIT
TAI OF THE ACCUSED. D.-During Thursday
and Friday, of the past week, the Court
of General Sessions for Barnwell Coun-
ty, s. O., was engaged in the trial Of
Capt. Black. who was charged with the
killing of Mr.. Turner. the Town Mar
shal OF B!ackville. The particulars of
the affair arc we'll known to the public.
There was on alteration between Black
and man named Groves. Turner, with
whom it is generally supposed Black was
friendly, interfered to prevent fight.
and in the melee was shot and killed by
Black. In the same fracas young man
name.l Groves was shot and wounded.
The jury was composed entirely of ne
groes, and the prisoner was represented
by ex-Judge Aldrich and Robert Aldrich,
Esq. Col. 2. l.. Wiggins conducted the
prosecution OH behalf Of the State.
After hearing the evidence and the able
argument Of the counsel, on both sides,
Judge J. j. Maher, who sat on the bench
for the first time, charged the jury
clearly against the prisoner; but the
jury, after nm absence of three hours, re-
turned verdict of mot guilty" The
prisoner WAS then discharged, but was
subsequently arrested on a warrant for
assault and battery upon young Groves.
who was wounded in the same fracas.
He gave bond for his appearance at court,
and was subsequently, released.
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An elderly millionaire, being pestered
with all manner of application for
money, says: II was good-natured once;
but 1 beg to state, in the most positive
terms, that I am now old, tired, very ILL
natured, and want that fact generally
known"
A gentleman named Dunlop remarked
that ho had never heard his name punned
upon, and did not believe it could be
done. '"Thcre is nothing in the world
moro easy, sir," remarked punster.
Just lop off half the name. nnd it is
Dun"
Rev. Mr.. Landsum, n Baptist minister
OF Rover, Tennessee, recently died in
the pulpit while preaching. He is the
second ono in two years to die in tho
same pulpit.
Cast iron idols, for tho Indian mar
kets, is an important branch of trado in
Birmingham, England.
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Candidacy or Hon. b. E. Perry.

OhuAAACt 0A xxOhs os Be feECys
In note published yesterday from
Hon. B. T. Perry, the Liberal Republi-
can candidate for Congress in the Fourth
Congressional District, he makes ap-
pointments to meet and address the peo-
pie at Laurens Court House, Spartan
burg Court House, Union Court House,
Yorkville, Rock Hill, Chester Court
House and Winnsboro, beginning 30th
September and ending 18th October
Colonel Perry is bold, honest and con-
scientious man. He has all his life been
distinguished for the frank expression,
and the firm maintenance of his political
opinions. These have often been at
variance with those entertained by the
people of South Carolina. But during
oil this time of quasi opposition to the
sentiments that were dominant in the
State, and sometimes to those held
among his own immediate constituency,
he has been respected, honored and
supported. He was know .o be honest
and sincere, and these qualities sustained
him in the advocacy of even unpopular
views. Colonel Perry is now presented
to the people of the Fourth Congress
sional District as their candidate for
Congress. They have been practically
without representative for several
years. Having the requisite majority,
they naturally desire that they shall be
represented. and very strongly that
they shall not be misrepresented any
longer. Other portions of the State
Bympathize with them in this desire, and
feel an interest in the election. AS they
cannot be directly represented them
selves, they the more anxiously wish that
atleast one man, worthy of the State. and
whose ability. eloquence, requirements ts
and spirit, qualify him 6tly to represent
it, shall be heard in Congress. Col.
Perry can present our case with telling
effect. If any man is entitled to be
heard in Congress as national man, and
because always consistent Union man,
it is he. Retaining his loyalty to his
State, still fred by the love OF home and
friends, and amid all the defections to
principle keeping his honor and his in
tegrity bright and unsullied, and repre-
senting as he will prostrate community,
an insulted negro and Government-rid-
den people, he will have wrongs to exhi-
bit, themes to expatiate upon, which
would "stir the blood of age, and make
an infants sinew strong as STEEL" Con-
gress is the field where Col. Perry can do
honor to himself, aoceptably serve bis
own constituency, and make on impress
sion in favor of the whole people OF
South Carolina, which will do them sig
nal service in the dirk times and circum-
stances whose gloom and shadows en-
velope US now, and are projected far into
the future.
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THE "BABY" RAILROAD. enter
tanning correspondent of the Now York
Erening Post, who has been taking
ride on the Denver and Rio Grande
marrow gauge" thus relates his railroad
experionoe:
A great pet with the Denverians is the
"baby railrohd," so-called. because its
narrow gage (only three feet wide) and
single track remind one rather of some
arrangement for the delight of the nur-
sery than of any method seriously con-
trived for the transportation of adult
passengers and their belongings. It's
real name is the Denver and Rio Grande
Railway, and it will not be long before
the City of Mexico, old, romantic,
almost forgotten Mexico, will be directly
connected by its means with Eastern and
Northern civilization. Even as now
finished to Puebla, it connects Denver
with the heart of the most remarkable
region Of this land of wonders. Hither-
to wo had only seen the mountains from
afar, but the FIRST minute out of Denver
by this route showed difference, and
established the magical Arabian Night
sey feeling which never left US since. In
the first place, the comfortable little Cur,
with two seats on one side and one on
the other, suggested o pleasant remi-
niscence of our first stage coaches, con-
structed of chairs, with papa an honored
passenger, and inclined US to believe the
nonsense gravely told us that the long
straps which hung over the seats were
intended to tie in the passengers, as little
children are fastened in high chairs, for
fear single tilt of the steam cradle
should send lib over the engine. Find
ing that these straps we're. only window
supporters was, of course, disappoint-
ment, like discovering that Santa Claus
is not real existence; but the glamour
remained, and if We had found ourselves
dwindled to the dimensions of Tom
Thumbs cortege believe that we should
have been rather pleased than much nur-
prised. To these quasi infantile intel
lects the telegraph poles along the way
were sources of inexhaustible interest,"
every one being marked with it's number
and the complete mile accomplished with
delightful certainty ut the twenty
seventh. Does not everybody remembe
how long walk used to be shortened in
the early days by cutting it into pieces
mentally and counting the divisions Seri-
dtim9 We felt as il tho whole arrange
ment were contrivance to amuse the
baby railronders, and secuted the idea
that it was for the benefit of section en-
gineers and such people.
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The Paris Churiuari, the comic paper
OF the French metropolis, recently con-
tained pictorial hit at the then impend.
ing meeting of the Emperors of Prussia.
Russia and Austria. Three eagles in n
row, each wearing orowD, are seen flap
ping their wings and giving vent to a
sort of mutually y-oongratulatory crow
over coming feast of good things.
Perchcd at little distance is fourth
eaglo, representing the ex-Emperor Ma
poleon, his beak hanging down, his
feathers torn to shrede, and his whole
aspect fallen and melancholy. while he
ruefully says to himself, 81 laid the
cloth for them, and they no longer in
vite NO."
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The money order system between the
United States and the German Empire
will go into operation on Tuesday next,
October l. The maximum of each order
is fixed when issued in the United States
at $50 in currency, and the rates of com.
mission are as follows: Any sum not ex-
ceeding SIS, cents; above 35, but not
exceeding $40, Is; above $40, but not
exceeding 800, 80; above 800, but not
exceeding $50. Is; above $50, but not
exceeding $40. 81; above $40, but not
exceeding $50, $l.25.
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The death is announced, in his eighty
third year, OF Capt. w. d. Evans, well
known among cbess-players as the in
ventor of the "Evans gambit."
There are seven ships at Bull River,
S. c., loading with phosphates. All are
foreign vessels-three from England and
four from Spain.
Bertha Davis, OF Rochester, says:
"The modern belle is leaning tower,
with an eruption on her back" Bertha
ought to know.
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LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
VIM. Johnston-Bonds for Sale.
D. @. Peixotto g. Son-Auction
Mrs. Peck School Notice.
Building and Loan Stock for Sale.
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The ''funeral" OF Pere Hyacinthe took
place, according to the London Echo, on
September 5. It is the custom among
Roman Catholic religious communities
to consider any member that deserts
them as dead. and the ceremony Of
burying him is gone through. This was
done at the Convent of Dominicans to
which M. Hyaointhe Loyson belonged.
A coffin was placed in the middle of the
chancel. and the customary burial
service chanted.
The Aiken Tribune says Judge T. j.
Maokey has just returned from visit to
President Grant, who assured him that
he had no sympathy with the boiling
movement in this State, and would havo
Major Merrill court-martialed if the
latter exhibited any future interference
with the State canvass.
The meteorological records of the Penn.
sylgania Hospital at Philadelphia, which
go back to 1880, show that the summer
which has just closed with the month of
August, has been the hottest ever known
in the history of the CITY.
It is now o penal offence to play cards
even for amusement in Georgia bar
room.
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The GRANT PYRAMID. a vast
deal of bosh that the Grant papers are
constantly filled with, in place Of argu-
ment and reason, the so.called Grant
pyramid has been considered quite
hit. It is copied from one to the other,
without alteration, and evidently with
out consideration, as the following prick
ing Of the bubble will show. We repro
duce it, simply because thoughtesa
readers may glance at it carelessly, and
take its falsities for political. gospel truth.
The Cincinnati Times recontiy produced,
at the end of an editorial review of the
State elections that have taken place
since the nominations of Grant and Gree.
ley. the following rotten fragment of
campaign shoddy:
"Greeley has Us yet not State to
show--and what one will he get in Octo.
ber?-to compete with the assured results
summed up in this Grant pyramid:
"NIAINE (aJ
ORE G. ON (6)
YER M o Mt (c.)
CONNECTICUT(d)
WEST VIRGINIA (e.)
RHODE ISLAND IN
NEW HAMPSHIRE III
NORTH CAROLINA. III. ~
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SwEDEN's New K1Na.-By.a a cable de-
spatch, We learn that on Friday the State
dignitaries OF Stockholm took the oath
Of allegiance to the new Sovereign of
Sweden and Norway. Oscar Frederick,
late Duke of Ostrogothic, now pro-
claimed King Oscar II, is the eldest bro
ther of the late King Charles XIV, and
son of King Oscar I. He is now forty
three years of age, man of acknow-
lodged ability, and will begin his reign
enjoying the good will and confidence of
his subjects. In accordance with usage,
he will bo separately crowned in the two
ancient kingdoms-at Stockholm for
Sweden. and at Drontheim for Norway.
While the united nations mourn for the
death of King Charles they will rejoice
over the accession OF King Oscar.
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The New York Elevated Railway,
which. when fret built, in 1870, WAS IL
decided failure, for the reason that the
public feared to trust themselves in the
new contrivance, aud because of the ter
rifying effect upon the horses produced
by the noise Of the cars overhead, is now
said to have become paying concern.
The road has been mortgaged two or
three times since 1870, and is now car
ried on by an entirely new administra-
ton of affairs. Twonty-four trains are
at present run daily between Morris and
Twenty ninth streets, the lower md up
per termini of tho road. In tho begin.
ming, the cars wero propelled by an end :
less cable, kept in motion by steam en-
gines built below the streets at various
points. Now, however, steam dummies
are used for the motive power, and the
change seems to have popnlnrized travel
on the rond. In order to avoid acci-
dents, each car is furnished with six
wheels, instead Of four, 30 that if any
one of the wheels should lie fractured,
the car will be amply supported by the
rest. Other precautions havo been taken
to render it impossible for any car to be
precipitated into the street. The run
ming time from one end of the route to
the other is fifteen minutes-a gain of
sufficient importance upon the time by
the ordinary street travel to induce
great many naturally timid people to
patronizs these cars.
, 1872-11-28
STABBED WITH AN ICE.PlCK,

About 10 O'Clock yesterday forenoon two men,
named Charles Barhite and Michael Bowling,
entered the saloon No. IS North Clark street,
owned by German named Kattenbach, and
called for drink, which was furnished them by
the bartender, Norman smea1e. The refresh
naents were rapidly disposed of. but before the
men left the place they became involved in q
y,;ordy altercation with Smoale, probably about
the. settlement Of the bill. The bar
tender seized an ice-pick aud stepped from be-
hind tho counter to eject his troublesome cus-
toners. In attempting to do eo be stabbed
d;att gathte IN the back With the ugly weapon in
fled. He lad not been arrested at q late
hour last night. Barhite was taken to
St. Joseph's Hospital for treatment. He was
once employed by the North Division Street
Railway Company as driver, but had been
AWAY from tue city for some time, and only
returned on Tuesday from Michigan. He and
his companion wero perfectly sober when the
disturbance commenced, and the bartender does
not appear to have been under the influence of
Iuupr