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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-17

RELIGIOUS SERVICES THIS DAY.-Tri
nifty Church-Rev. P. J. Shand, D. D.,
Rector, / A. M. and p. NJ.
ST. Peters Church-1st Mass, IA. NJ.
2d Mass, 101s a. NJ. Afternoon Service,
P. M.
Lutheran Church-Rev. NJ. Waldo
D. D., 10H A. NJ.
Presbyterian, Church-Rev. Jos. r.
Wilson, 1OM a. NJ. and 7 P. nj.
Washington Street Church-Rev. Man.
ming Brown. 10% A. NJ, and SO P. NJ.
Marion Street Church-Rev. ". D.
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Baptist Church-Rev. J. I. Reynolds,
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toI, no WIS ccTtllnIy most remarkable
impostor, for ho ind submitted to an
ordoul that would havo tried tho most
profound and accomplished intellect.
He held to his story, aud the trial went
on until the defence presented its case
and advanced q part of tho evidence.
The result of the evidence has been to
convince the jury that the claimant is an
impossor, to throw him out of court,
and to send him to Newgate rs an al
legged perjnrer, awaiting bail in $50, 600
This is sudden and dramatic close OF
tho case. if it really ends here. We do
not zee. however, that it is tho end.
The claimant was sustained by cxtrnor.
dinary evidence, md there is no doubt
that there is large party III England
who regard him rs the real baronet, ms q
man deprived OF his rights by an ars-
tocracy, which does not caro- to admit q
butcher, vagnbond and a horse-thicf to
| share precedence with nobiemen and
bnronets. But the common English
mind has heard of tho Marquis of Hast
ings and the Duke Of Newc stle, and
even of His Gracious Majesty George
~. and it sees in this stolld, nngainly,
ignorant Tichborne quite rs much no
bility as i'll any of them. Tho severity
of tho courts action-his committal to
Nowgate Under bail which makes his re
lease lmpossiIle-will excite sympathy
Somehow there is an impression That
the court has been unfair towards him,
and that in no event has he had ahund-
ant and even-handed justice What the
details of tho last few days proceedings
will develop. We do not know; but it
would not surprise us to find tho New
gate prisoner tho cause of as much ex.
cltcmrnt as was known in tho days OF
the Monmouth who was believed to
have been the legitimate son of Charles
Ii, and who, but for his own foolish,
feeble vanity, might lave risen by the
crednlity OF the common people to the
English throne.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-17
Ho q al Irenn..-

MEETING OF CITIZENS OF WARD 2.-We
are requested to state that there will be
a meeting of the citizens of Ward 2, of
both races and without regard to poll
tics, at the Court House. on Tuesday
evening next, at 8 O'Clock, to nominate
Aldermen for that Ward. Every citizen.
not fully satisfied with all tho present
nominees, is expected to attend.
New-York tribune., 1872-08-31
VERMONT.

The Green Mountain State holds her cleo
ton next Tuesday, and as the first In which
State ticket was expressly nominated and sup
ported on the Liberal platform, the result will
be regarded with lively interest. The Demo-
cratic vote of Vermont is about twelve thou
sand; we believe the Liberal vote will
considerably exceed twenty thousand. / so,
there can be no reasonable doubt as to the
Presidential contest, since similar result in
other States would give the Liberal Party
about five millions of votes in the Union,
enabling it to choose more than two-thirds of
the Electors.
The Liberals of Vermont have made this
canvass under most discouraging auspices. All
the Federal and State offices are filled with
their active, envenomed foes. Postmasters,
Custom house officers, Internal Revenue ditto,
Senators and Representatives in Congress,
with State functionaries of all grades, are
leagued to crush out the New Departure. Fear
ing majority intolerant and proscriptive, the
weaker brethren succumb to the terrors OF
power, and suppress their convictions that
they may escape bullying. Whatever the
Liberal vote may be, it will fall short by
thousands of the voters who wish well to the
cause, and will heartily rejoice in its success.
But" (they say since we cannot carry the
estate, why subject ourselves to scowls and
courses from the wealthy and powerful to
"no purposei" This sort of trucking will
deprive the Liberal ticket of support to which
it is entitled; and yet we look confidently
for result which will inspirit and assure the
advocates of Reconciliation and Reform from
one end of the Union to the other.
New-York tribune., 1872-08-31
LUNACY TREATMENT.

The narrative of THE TRIBUNE reporter who
was confined in BloOmingdale Insane Asylum
is continued in other columns of this issue of
THE TRIBUNE. ALI candid readers will admit
that the story is told dispassionately. In fact,
so impressed has the writer been with his
instructions to set down nothing he cannot
establish on oath, and to divest himself of any
feeling of prejudice or animOsity toward the
physicians or keepers, that he appears to
err on the other side and to have
lost something of the natural feeling
of sympathy for the helpless creatures his mis-
sion was devised to aid by giving voice to
those whom nature and man combine to ST.
lence as though entombed. In spite of a tame
ness which this conscientious precaution has
given the narrative, it is nevertheless not
wanting in the elements which make 1t alb
sorbing reading. and the combined narratives
form powerful argument in favor OF that
reformation in the legal and medical treat
ment of insanity which must grow out of the
agitation thus begun in this State.
The two narratives now published establish,
beyond any sort of doubt, that greater facili-
ties are offered for getting a sane man into
an Insane Asylum than out of it. The whole
medical profession is at the beck and call of
all who can pay to aid in the commitment.
The sane man, once committed, has only the
medical skill of a single physician to call to
his succor; and that physician is already
prejudiced against him, for divers reasons.
1t is his interest-to put the baser motive
first and dismiss it soonest-to keep the
paying boarder as long as his friends
pay his keeping Then the Endorsement of his
infrmity by two reputable professional breth-
rem leads the Asylum physician to hesitate at
reversing their sworn decision. 1t is not merely
a thing that seems to lack professional courtesy
but delicate one; if mistake be made it is
damaging TO the reputation Of himself or asso-
ciates and in any event is derogatory to
profession in which the members take unusual
pride. Thus prejudiced, it is natural that there
should be hesitation on the part of Asylum
physicians, and disposition to torture q
patients protest of sanity and appeals
for release into evidences of idiocy, con-
frmatoTy Of tho certificate of commitment.
New-York tribune., 1872-08-31
STUNTkG ZIP

One who has attentively read the speeches
and editorials of the Renominationists for the
last two months sums up their propositions as
follows:
/. Greeley always was a Secessionist and a
Rebel.
Q. Greeley has turned his back on himself,
and, in his mad quest of the Presidency, Is
now going against all that he has professed
and advocated up TO last year.
9. Greeley has turned Democrat and accepted
the very principles which he has always Bit
terly opposed.
4. The Baltimore Convention sold out the
Democratic party. turning it over to its Bit
terest, most implacable enemy.
5. There were no Liberal Republicans repre-
sented at Cincinnati-only few sore-heads"
and disappointed office-seekers.
@. The Liberal Republicans have discovered
that they were sold out at Cincinnati, and are
returning to Grant in Crowds
2, Tens of thousands of Democrats, disgusted
with Greeley's nomination, have come out for
Grant.
8. The Straight Democratic (BOurbon) move
ment will draw votes from Greeley, but none
from Grant.
0. Greeley is the weakest candidate that
could have been pitted against Grant.
10. Though Grant alone could not beat
Greeley, yet with Bourbon running in his
interest he will be able to do it.
New-York tribune., 1872-08-31

the Know-Nothing delusion, but constantly OPP
posed and defed it. But we do not forget
that some pure and able men were influenced
by il, who have since done important service
to the country, who have worked with us in
many fields of social and political reform. We
have not declared such an error dshonoring or
disqualifying one. We think this whole business
of the disinterment of dead political utterances
rather trivial. We did not begin it, and would
be glad to see il ended. But this charge having
been made against Mr.. Wilson, he was free to
admit it and avow his changed opinions, or to
take refuge in silence and ignore it. Instead he
seemed struck with fatal short-sightedness,
and began to evade the question by platitudes
intended to deceive, and at last, driven into
corner by accumulating accusations, he shut
his ewes, like baited bull, and fatty denied
what fifty thousand people knew TO be true.
AS well might Gen. Dix deny that he attended
the Philadelphia johnson Convention.
We will not be misrepresented upon this
point. We are not assailing the antecedents
of Mr.. Wilson. We think he committed an
error in joining the KnOw-Nothings, but we
are not here discussing that matter. The
question is one of far greater Importance.
He is candidate for the second office in
dignity in the nation. He is supported by
thousands of men on the ground of his hon
esty and his Christian principle. He assumes
high moral tone whenever he addresses a
public meeting. He pretends to make his
political course purely matter of conscience.
Yet the ugly fact stands against him that,
for the purpose of saving few votes, he
deliberately writes and signs his name
to statement which he knows to be
untrue, and which cloud of reputable
witnesses instantly prove to be untrue. We
record the fact with inexpressible sadness, for
we all lose something in a lapse like this of a
man who has held such exalted position and
possessed so fully the confidence of a great
party. But the facts are before us. To save
a possible loss of votes, he blindly denies in
cdents of public notoriety in his own career.
Is such man fit for e-President---pos-
sibly Presidenti Can any. one who believes
that the first requisites of high station are
honor and conscience vote for such mani
New-York tribune., 1872-08-31
euslness NcIlteo.
How ABOUT ACCIDENT INsuRANcEs

Col. H. E. Valentine of Gov. JEWELS Statf'
eknouu Insurance Hartford who died Aug Is from nnres
received BY falling down hahwy Of Wtslshp at BdgirtoWn was
insured the Insurance COMPANY for s6o The IN
paid Aug 20
Mr.. Z. B. Smith, bookseller and prominent
bose man Of Detroit Rev Bh snh D. d. fres'
deaf OF the New Hampton InstaVp. killed July ~ by oonson
on the y Genital Railroad He usod sOae Al accident p0he
IN the TRlvELERs for $1,000.
Mr.. Vim. E. Jones of Scmerville, Mass,
boollepe- IN Boston drowned while fishing near Bellows
PAIL. W. Juy IS HsYTcd accident policy the TRAVEL
for S;,9Jl
Mr.. Jas. A. Sumner Of Akron, Ohio, who
fell overheard from Pscfe Lake Huron Jay a. and
"a. drozae bed accident policy in the TRAvELzs or slOO
Mr.. Jss L. Malbon of La Crosse, Wis, who
uas d Aug by explosion Of sie;ag Insured in The
TKAyEL.ss fsr - O0o.
Mr. John Rozell of New-York, p stationary
srserr Va death by scaling from escaping
sc,n r sa1es accident policy in the TRAVELLERS to
s2,1n
More Than 10000 General Accident Policies
have boe gf8 INSURANCE. COMPANY OF Hartford
Goa a Is Apply to the Company or TO any
Aseal Aru-.s.ACisy Oace, 2Js Broadway.
New-York tribune., 1872-08-31
HENRY WILSON CONVICTED.

1t is with unfeigned regret that we have
read the final letter of Mr. F. w. Bird, i'll
which he makes an end Of Mr.. Henry Wilson's
denial of the fact that he ever was Know
Nothing. Mr.. Bird has a relentless memory
and never akes mistakes. Mr.. Wilson was
very foolish to deny any of his statements.
The result is just what might have been ex-
pected. Mr.. Bird proves, point by point,
every assertion he has made, with a full
ness of detail which leaves nothing to be
said. AS supererogatory confirmation of Mr..
Birds letter comes dispatch from Washing
ton stating that Gen. Pike can show by his
own and twenty other affidavits that Mr..
Wilson was o delegate to the KnOw-Nothing
Convention in Philadelphia in June, 1855.
Both gentlemen express their amazement at
his recent letter denying this, which both Of
them considered forgery until it was printed
by the Grant papers in Boston. To our deep
regret therefore, and the regret Of all who
have in former times given their support and
confidence to Mr.. Wilson, these two facts re-
suit, as absolutely and conclusively proved:
/. That Mr.. Wilson did belong to the
Known Nothing or American Order, and
2. That he says he never did belong to it.
This, we must hold, is a very serious mat
ter. We do not attack Mr.. Wilson upon his
former record. Tue TRIBUNE never shared in
New-York tribune., 1872-08-31
CLEWS.

The Neir- York World published a few days
ago copy of the documents in the case of
the naturalization of Henry Clews, the Treas
urer of the Grant Committee, which showed
that he allowed eleven years to elapse between
his declaration in 1854, of his intention to be-
come an American citizen, and the consumma-
tion of the process of naturalization IN 1861
We publish this statement, as we do all
manner of news, as we published VII
sons Know Nothing record, Gen. Grants real
estate speculation in Chicago, The 1fmeS's at
tack on Senator Doolittle, reserving our own
Judgment upon all of them until some reply
should be made by the parties concerned.
We take the dolorous cry in The Times OF this
morning to be confession OF all the facts
charged in this case. 1t feels mysterious
sympathy with Mr.. Clews, and pleads that 1t
is no crime to be an Englishman and an alien.
IL certainly is not, unless you pretend to be
something else.
Take the case of this Mr. Clews for instance.
There is not man in New-York more tusslly
and Extensively conspicuous in his advocacy OF
Mr.. Grants reelection. He goes to merchants
of the eminente of Mr.. Stewart and tells them
what they must do in the canvass. lie rises
in the Republican Convention at Utica and
pledges the vote of Wall Street to the can
didate nominated there. He manages to have
himself designated as the person through whose
hands the vast corruption fund OF the Grant
Committees is TO pass. He has even succeeded
in substituting himself as the banker OF the
United States in London in the place OF a
house of worldwide credit and unquestioned
probity. He has done all this solely by an
affectaton of ardent and peculiar loyalty.
For ten years past his mouth has been
as full of patriotism as his pockets
were of greenmcks. He is one of those
men who could rot live except in land OF
republican privileges, nor die happy unless
wrapped in the American flag. And yet after
all these years of theatrical humbug, it appears
that during the crsis of the nations existence,
from 1860 to 1865, this thrifty patriot
declined to complete his naturalization.
We all know what patriot he was ;
his veneration for Bonds and Currency Was
even then religious in its fervor. But be care
fully stayed away.f:Om the Clerks Office where
his inchoate citizenship awaited him. The
marching men on tie border called over and
over for companions. Neither call nor con-
scription could touch him, under the safe
shelter of the Red Cross. The life OF the ma
ton, we all thought sometimes depended on
a days voting. Mr.. Clews never voted while
Lincoln was President.
In this he exercised his undoubted right. He
kept his shop and his shop kept him. But,
considering his attitude in that historic epoch,
would not a penny-worth of reserve become
him nowf As soon as the war was ended, the
danger over, the credit of the country estab-
lished on firm basis, he became citizen.
And to-day there is not patriot on Manhat-
tan Island, not battered relic of 1872, not
one-legged veteran of Chattanooga or Gettys-
burg, not even bronze statue of the Reyo-
luton SO saturated with patriotism as
this six old citizen. When YOU think Of
New-York tribune., 1872-08-31
N>ip.2lork Daily gtibma1e
SATURDAY, AUGUST 81. 1872.

Mr.. Stanley has been presented with snuff'box on
the part Of Queen Victoria go The Geneva Tribunal
was in session yesterday go The Emperor OF Russia
will arrive in Berlin August and depart on August
TO- -= The cholera has appeared at Grodno Russia
The steamer Metis wrecked by collision with an
unknown schooner of Stonngton and about 10 lives
were lost. -== Jacobs estimated majority In West
Virginia is reduced to 263
The Apollo Hall Democracy Of four wards has repudi-
ated the action Of the General Committee, and has de-
elared for Greeley and Brown -= Primaries were
held for the election OF delegates to the Syracuse Con-
ventons. - Gold, 1l25 1l2s Thermometer, 70i9,
slo sOo
New-York tribune., 1872-08-31

what he was doing from 1860 to 1866, and
then hear him denounce Schurz, and Trum-
bull, and Sumner, and Greeley, as false to the
interests of freedom, and give Tom Murphy
certificates of character, and pledge the
mOneyed power of New-YOrk to the service
of a political faction, the performance has 100
much insolence in it to be amusing, and too
much absurdity to excite anger.
New-York tribune., 1872-08-31

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New-York tribune., 1872-08-31

Whatever doubts may have been engen-
dered on this side of the Atlantic by the
ingenious discussions over the authenticity Of
the Livingstone letters, they do not seem to
be shared IN England. The Queen has directed
Lord Granville to express her personal ac-
knowledgmen,s and thanks to Mr.. Stanley,
and has accompanied these expressions with
the usual royal gift of that obsolete utensil, a
gold sDuff-box. However the pending contro-
versy siay result, it is certainly clear that Mr..
Stanley Is an obedient and energetic reporter,
and that The Herald, in sending him out and
supporting him, acted with a princely enter
prise and liberality.
New-York tribune., 1872-08-31

nol;tical capital TO be made out OF this. we
nrofor seriously to ask the gentlemen of the
Civil Service Commission whether, as honor
able men, they can continue to profess to the
country that this is the Reform entertainment
to which they invited us.
That Senator Cameron should travel from
Philadelphia to Washington to consult the
President about the alarming exigencies Of the
PENNSYLVANIA canvass, only to find that the
President had left things to take care OF
themselves and had gone to Long Branch, is
of tri6ing consequence. The washington
dispatch, however, which narrates this small
affair adds something of more moment IN tne
statement that Cameron, in his rage, cohlesseu
his certainty that Gov. Curtin would oppose
Hartranft and support Greeley and brown'
and thereupon proceeded to abuse that gen
tleman to his hearts content. Inc remark
able need for an increase of the force IN the
PHILADELPHIA Navy-Yard Is also one OF
the significant signs of the times. to
which our Liberal Republican friends In
Philadelphia cannot give too earnest attehIlon'
II is very singular, and wholly unaccountable'
this sudden and startling need Tor more men
in the Navy Yards, alike IN Pmladeiphla'
Brooklyn. and Portsmouth. What bad way
our navy must be in!
Mr.. James O'Brien is a politician OF lis
CITY. supposed to deserve respect in conse-
ouence of his Irish birth and alleged influence
over Irish voters He has claimed to control
the Apollo Hall organization, and now pur-
poses to send it to Grant Uid Louisville.
To that end he has placed Judge
A. Spalding at its head. What will lrlshmen
say TO the fact that this person, who trades
on his bOasted ability 10 control their votes,
has thus put at the head of the organization
which is to direct and represent them an OLD
and notorious KnOw-Nothing Judge Spald-
ing was nominated as the Hindoo and Know
Nothing candidate for Judge OF the Court Oh
Common Pleas in 1866, against John H.
Brady, who was Democratic candidate
of both Hard and Soft-Shen factlons'
and against Cambridge Livingstone, the
Whig candidate. In 1856 this same
present leader of Mr.. James OBrien's Irish
forces ran as the American or KnOw-Noth-
| ing candidate for member of Assembly In the
Xth Assembly District, then the XiIth Ward.
| In 1857 he ran again as the American or Know
! Nothing candidate for Recorder, having also
the Republican Endorsement, and being op-
posed by George G.. Barnard, Democrat. MT.
James OBren now puts this man forward as
| the proper person to lead the Irish Democrats
of Apollo Hall to the support OF President
| Grant.
New-York tribune., 1872-08-31

information on political and economic sub
"iects.n Those who pay are retained; those
who do not pay, good or bad. are to lose
their places. We do not care for tho mere
nol;tical capital to be made out of this. we
nrefer seriously to ask the gentlemen of the
Civil Service Commission whether, as honor
able men, they can continue to profess to the
country that this is the Reform entertainment
10 which they invited us.
New-York tribune., 1872-08-31
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New-York tribune., 1872-08-31

The Straight-out" diversion in favor of
Gen. Grant which Mr.. Duncan is managing in
Louisville appears to shrink perceptibly as
its time draws near. 1t will be difficult to
get enough Democrats together to make a
show, and it would hardly be effective to ex-
hibit the auxiliary Grant men. But of course,
some sort of meeting win be held, and
afterward, notwithstanding Mr.. Duncan's plea
of poverty, there will be money enough fur
nished by the Grant Committees to get up an
apparent organization in most of the States.
. This dishonest proceeding will probably over
reach itself. The few Democrats who will
bolt from Mr.. Greeley would, in default of
third ticket, vote for Gen. Grant. There is
no possible objection to the Grant peoples pay
ing the expenses of keeping this vote away
from them.
New-York tribune., 1872-08-31

The difficulties of Messrs. Geo. Wm. Curtis
e. Co. in explaining the progress backwards
which their Civn Service Reform makes under
the ad,airable management of the President,
is further increased by the revelations in our
Washington dispatches to-day. All disguses,
It seems, have been dropped, and the Grant
Committee send peremptory requirements to
the Government employees for contributions
"for use in the preDarati0n and circulation Of