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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-01-18

DEMOCRATIC ABsENrEEs-All the re-
cent votes in the House of Representa-
tives at Washington reveal that Mt least
twenty-five Democratic members are ha-
bitually absent. AS the Republican ma.
jority is not over thirty-and in these
disintegrating times there are always a
dozen or score of mslcontents who do
not vote with their party-it is plain to
SOC that il Democrats were in their seats,
many important measures might be de-
cided rightly. Washington correspond
ents writo, that had oil the Democratic
members been present on Wednesday,
when the case of General Clark, the
Texas member, came up, he would not
have been admitted, for there were seven
Republicans who would not subscribe to
Governor Davis shameful outrage on
the voters of Texas. Our congressman
were elected to attend to business. and
II they arc away on their own affairs ut
home, or in the metropolis, thcy deserve
to be reminded sharply of their duty.
Ne,o York Ne,cs.
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ThI.EGEARHIO
EareIgn AHAIrs,

LtogpoN. January 1.-THE riotous ex,
cesseS IN Knight Bridge was ,repeateH
last nights At ! the school house. the
turnitnre was smashed; and the house
tired. The police Dispersed the mob.
1t is stated that Baron, Won Offens-
burg will succeed Cataoazy.e 5.'a tfi
PARIS, January. THE committee Of
the Assembly agreed to report bill
making offences against the press laws
triabls by jury. - W. '.,5.,}1 .
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Mr. Jasper Gonzaies and lady attended
an Episcopal. festival. one. night last
week, in Pensacola. Florida, leaving
their little babe i'm the care OF "a nurse.
Upon their return they found the babe
sleeping, they thought, and did not dis
turb It. Next morning the babe was
found to be- dead, and upon examination
it is believed that its nurse administered
q too powerful narcotic to quiet it, and
thus the little babe dropped to an eter-
nal sleep. u. l
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-01-18

The question of submarine tunnel
undor the Dover Straits, connecting tho
coasts of England and France, has been
long discussed, but lately moro FEAST
bic plan has been broached. This is this
establishment Of nteam ferry on a
grand scale, and it is said that both Go
vernments look with favor on tho pro-
ject. The boats will run from Dover to
point near Calais, and will transport
whole trains Of cars boldly from the one
port to the other. OF course, to accom-
plish this they must be of mammoth
proportions and of prodigious strength.
These ferry-boats are to be $50 feet long,
with so feet beam, and so feet depth Of
hold. The draught is to be 1917 feet,
loaded; the diameter of the paddle.
wheels 30 feet, the displacement 1000
tons, and the engines of 1000 horse
power. The estimated speed is an ave.
rage of eighteen knots an hour, taking
for the passage, in fair weather, seventy
minutes. and in foul, twenty more. Six
passages day are to be made. If this
project be oonsummated, and there is
strong probability that it will, the ira
veler may go to sleep in the night coach
at London and wake up the next morn
ing in Paris-never having been dis
turbed in the meanwhile.
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~ mas barked at our heels for weeks. but
to mind it:"A Uistoa: '!en
This reminds us Of 2 drunken fellow whom
we once saw try, fer long time, to provoke
q gentleman to notice him, and who tlnailv
sncoeeded in obtaining a slight vecopnitin,,'
when he threw himself on his diRnityt snd az
claimed. in avery indignant tone: ssDLn vo1,
I am beneath your notice." ARHHSS HSSu'
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SHOOTING AtrRAY-A couple of weeks
ago, an alteration arose between st.
Clair Locklier, q Scuffietown mulatto.
and Handy Platt, negro, formerly be.
longing to MIR. James Roberts. Lock
lior got his gun and shot Platt in the
knee. The wounded man had no surgi-
cal attendance until the horrible odor of
the mutilated limb admonished the poor
wretohes that something must De done at
once, otherwise they would be driven
out OF the house by the stencil. Doc
tors Walter and Monroe we're summon
ed, and the limb was anputated above
the knee. The deed was O most wanton
one, there being. as we hear, little or no
provocation. It was done, also, by one
OF those Robson County rascals-one of
the far-famed Souf1etown gang, who
came here from Cumberland County
Jail.
Nothing has been done about it in any
way-no information lodged nor any
warrant issued. We are inclined to sus.
pect that if the deed had been done by
white man the Aabeas corpus would have
been suspended, and we might have had
detachment of the United States army
among us.-Ma,-ion Crescent.
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The great diamond, weighing 154
oarats, which has been found at the
Cape and is now on its way to England,
is already furnished with its legend. It
is said to have been found in the wall of
one of the native huts. where poor
Irish adventnrer had received hospitality
for the night, and that being surprised
by the light shining amid the darkness,
he, upon examination, found it to pro-
coed from clump of the earth of which
the wall was built. OF course the dump
was soon detached by the visitor, and
this Koh.inoor, with many other smaller
diamonds, found within.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-01-18

Why California does not grow faster
Two men own nearly 5000, 900 acres OF
land III tho Sun Joaquin Valley. The
traveller may rido forty. five miles in a
line upon it. aud may follow fence
around single pasture for sixty. five
miles; while ono other man monopolizes
$50, 900 acres.
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FIRE AND PROBABLY FATAL SHOOTING.
Between and 2 o'clock. Monday morn
ing, fire broke out in -- Buchheit's
store, Florence. s. c., which, with the
miscellaneous stock, value unknown, and
insured for 81. 500. was totally destroyed.
The flames extended to the building re-
gently erected by Schonbe & Co., at o
cost OF 81, 200. and containing an assort-
ed stock, valued at $1,000, on which
there was an insurance OF $4,000. The
building was consumed and the stock
partially saved. During the excitement
colored man, named James Hamilton,
was shot in the abdomen by George
MoDuffle Stoll, and little hope is enter
tanned of his recovery. Stoll was ar
rested, and bail of $1,000 required of
him.
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Rcv. George II. Hepworth, very po-
pular Unitarian clergyman of New York,
has recently renonncel his faith, and
gone over to the Triiitarinns. His SER
mon announcing this was loudly up.
plauded by his hearers.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-01-18

MODEL LIGHT.-A French chemist
has discovered light as superior to gas
as gas was superior to its predecessor,
OH. An opportunity will soon be al
forded of beholding this beautiful, clear
and healthy light, as the officials of the
Crystal Palace Company have laid pipes,
placed gasometers in position, and in
the course Of q few days will illuminate
their crystal fountains and rare works Of
art with the new ox-hydric light, and in
order that the public may have ocular
demonstration of it's vast superiority
over gas, the lights will alternate, and
then the dull yellow haze of the flicker
ing gas-l lamp will become doubly so in
the steady. bright light emannting from
the other, which is 30 intense that it
causes the flame of gas to cast shadow
Itself on the wall it is intended to illu-
inmate. This new light can be obtained
at a much lower rate than gas, and it is
not only brilliant and clear, but healthy.
Above the Issue aperture in the ordinary
gas-lamp, when lighted, there is a dark
space, surrounded by the fame, with
sparkling atoms floating upwards, many
OF which escape unconsumed and pol
lutte the surrounding air, much to the
injury OF eyes and lungs, while Others
that enter the flame, in passing through
1t, are only partially consumed, and in
the shape Of smoke or dust, escape into
the surrounding atmosphere, to the dc.
triment OF pictures. ceilings, or gilt
frames, &c. Nothing of all this occurs
with the new light.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-01-18

DEATH OF PROMINENT CoLoREp MAN.
At half-past 6 o'clock, last evening.
while the members of Council were
assembling for a special meeting, the sad
news of the death of Alderman Elias
Garden. which had just occurred, was
received. He had been sick for about
ten days with disease contracted from
his horse, which he had been attending
for glanders. At the time of his death
he was in the fifty-sixth year of his age.
For more than third OF his life be CON
Quoted the business of a butcher in the
lower market. to the general satisfaction
OF the many citizens who dealt with him.
In his capacity of Councilman he was
never obtrusive, yet shrinking from
nothing that he esteemed LII, dnty. and
only advancing his views when thew
were we'll fixed upon the subject, and
with becoming dignity and decorum.
In his death his race has lost a repre-
sentative, whose life was an illustration
OF what sobriety, integrity and industry
can DO. He goes to his grave respected
by all classes, and leaving a large family,
embracing ten well reared children, to
mourn their loss. Charleston Courier.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-01-18
THE LAWS OF DOMESTIC STORMS

The LAWS OF DOMESTIC STORMS
HOUSEHOLD HINTS. are periods
ia life. says the Pail Mall Gazette, when
blood relations seem born to harass and
bewiider each other. Where is the son
who, on arriving at age. has not gone in
the very opposite direction to his fathers
wishes, either with regard to calling,
opinions or marriages? Where is the
father who has not walked up some morn
ing to the conviction that, with the best
Intentions in the world, the parental re-
latlon Is failure? II he is philoso.
pher. he vii! submit to the inevitable
With o good grace, and argue thus: "Yes,
1t was all Very we'll to dream, when my
son lay In his cradle, how happy I should
pc II he ever grew to be man. To
nave him as friend, companion and ad Z.
wiser. Ahl life would indeed be worth
having. But how differently things turn
out to what one expeotsl He has taken
up. with hateful opinions on politics. re-
ilg'on and everything else worth think
ing about. He is determined to marry
an odlous woman. He criticises and dis
trusts my most serious convictions. We
shall always maintain affectionate rela-
tions, but. as to friendship, that is quite
-, " ono oLucT uUuu, lie l6 Qull-Dend-
ed and iron-willed, the transient cold
ness is sure to lead to an irrevocable
separation. On which, indeed, of the
domestic relations does not disenchant-
ment, at some time or other, wait?
The laws Of domestic storms are Sim
pie enough when studied practically.
Some unfortunate men and women spend
their lives in devising how this or that
sauall is to be avoided. Like the Dukes
daughter, in Mr. Disraeli's amusing
novel, who, if her husband cried for the
moon, promised it to him Immediately,
they are always ready to say black is
white for the sake of being agreeable.
At night. if they say their prayers at all,
they can't help wishing that they might,
with propriety, include q Thanksgiving
for having kept the dreaded object Of
their affections il good temper for day.
But the sort Of people who subject them
selves to such life of shifts, shame and
petty little secrets, know nothing of tho
tragedy of great storm. They get bat
tered about. and are always in dirty wea-
ther. but they do not 60 wholly to pieces.
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Sale Of Kings Mountain Railroad.

SHAo Va A1uB mouuL6lU h81lrOaQ.
Theodore D. Wagner and Asbury Coward.
Trustees. us: the Kings Mount ain R. .iirosd
Company.-Forectos Of Mortgage
By HI. II. DeLEON.
IN pursuance OF the terms Of Mortgage
y, executed by the Kings Mountain kaif.
road rIoosaSd Company: on the 18th day Of March.
1866, and by virtue OF the powers therein
shs granted, we vii eel. at public auction, at
70. 1871, at II O'Clock. at corner East Bay and
ny, including the bed and superstructures OF
said Road, the materials used in construo-
ton, the stations. station-house depots,
store- houses, workshops, machinery and FIX
tnres thereon, and all the engines and rolling
stock, together with all the rights, privileges
and easement belonging or appertaining to
Terms cxsh; purchasers to pay for papeys
and stamps.
THEODORE D. WAGNER,
AsBURY COWARD,
Jan la Trustees
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SAD DEATHS. little girl about six
old, child of Mr.. Wesley Norton, was
instantly killed few days ago in the
machinery of cotton gin on the
plantation of her grandfather, near
Miller's Church.
We were panied to hear that Mr..
Alfred M. Smithy lost mis- life by an un-
fortunate accident on Monday last. He
cut down tree which fell upon and so
injured him that he died in few hours.
MIR. Smithy leaves wife and large
family of small children to mourn his
untimely end. He was an honest, hnrd-
working man, and his death is n severe
loss to his family. TO them we tender
our sincere sympathy. Marion Crescent.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-01-18
Auct1on sals.-
bankrupt Sale.
BY JACOB LEVIN.

On FRIDAY MORNING., 18th instant, will be
sold, ut the Store recently occupied by
90 Goodman Son, bankrupts. ;,
sisting OF Ready made Clothing, Gents Fur
nishing Articles, Trunks &c, &c.
Jan IA ". g. MONTEITH. Trnstae
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Jan II
ByD.C. PEIXOTTO & SON, Auctioneers

ByD.C. C.PEIXOTTO & SON, ,Auctioneers.
PY virtue of a power of attorney to me- di.
~ rected, will sell at public auction, on
MONDAY, the 29th instant, at the Exchange
House, at 10 O'Clock,
Az the STOCK IN TRADE and FURNI-
LUXE OF the Exchange House, consisting of
Chairs, Tables, Cutlery, Crockery, Glassware.
Wines, Liquors. Cigars, Kitchen Utensile.
miscellaneous articles.
Janl4 W. 8. MONTEITH, ATTORNEY in fact.
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Epitaph for Fisk: Charity covers
multitude Of sins.
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There were sixteen deaths in Charles
ton for the week ending the 18th inst
whites two; colored fourteen.
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Acacia Lodge, No. "a, A. FIN.
"A AN Extra Communication OF this
x&Lodge will be held in Masonic Hail.
~TAlS (Thnrsday) EVENING, at I
By order OF the ". HI.
Jan 1s1 F.M. BRENNAN, JH., sec'y.
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What's the use OF young man strug.
Cling along on bean soup and bed of
straw? Julian Carter, of Lexington,
Mo-, got post Office, defanlted to the
amount Of $1,000, settled for So 900, and
is now lonning money on mortgage.
Detroit Free Press.
Mr.. Frank Phillips, respectable mer-
chant of Atlanta, Ga, was murdered on
the 10th, by MIR. Milton Malone, of Co.
lumbus, Gn.
HUNG. Newton Chandler was hung in
Charlotte, N. C., Friday last His of.
fence was the committal of rape.
Every one in Rolls County, Mo, was
nearly drowned by recent water spout.
The gay widow Of the slate lamented"
will make Paris her permanent home.
Mrs. Nell was drowned in Black River,
near Savannah, Ga, few days ago.
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HOTEL Arrivals, August 19.-Columbia
HotelaA Wallace, oity; Il Johnson, Gal; W
= DuBell, Nd; q Q Rockwell and family. N Q;
r Spratt, " L spratt. w 81 Evins, Miss L
berg and wife, Bamberg; A q Brenizer. city;
3 g Yocum, chester; L W Duvall, q A Smith,
Winnsboro; L W Gutter, " Craycroft, 2 y
A; D Farrar, s c; W II Mounce. Greenville;
O Folgsrs II Foiger, Pickens; Ham
ton.
Nickerson House--E Walker. wife and
servant, Mrs Graham, child and servant, L
ohia: Aen wilG MeNs;p
Miss Quinn, Chcraw; N BsSph, NY; E H
Hamilton, Ga; E West. So Ex Co; W Butt,
Ga; Douglas, Yorkville.
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Advices from Peru state that a revolu-
ton was begun by Gutierrez, who assas-
sinated President Bulta aud proclaimed
himself dictator. The people seized
Gutierrez, put MIN to death, hung his
body to q lamp post, and burned the
corpse. Senior Pardo has been inaugu-
rated President, aud the insurrection is
over.
A batteau containing Soipio Smart,
Joseph Grant and another oolored man,
name unknown, was capsized on last
Thursday, while crossing Accabee Flats,
on Ashley River. Smart md Grant
were rescued by Capt. II. G. Palmer, of
the sloop Blackbird, but the other man
was drowned.
young man, named Theodore Farm
or. native of Williamson, in this
State. was accidentally killed, on the
9th, near Chattanooga, Tenn, by bei ag
run over by freight train, with which
he was employed. His remains have
been carried to his late home.
Canadian detectives are in Savannah.
awaiting on order from President Grant
to carry the swindler Anderson to Cana
la. to answer to certain offences com.
mitted there. Anderson is in prison in
Savannah.
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How THE MONEY BAGS SwINa.-A
~teWall Street Man" writes to the Cincin-
natl Commercial that it is mistake to
suppose that Wall street is opposed to
Greeley. Flo says that Commodore Van.
derbilt, the heaviest operator in the
street, goes for Greeley, and so does
Daniel Drew, the great Methodist specu-
lator; and 30 does Anthony Dimock, the
great steamship owner, and the boldest
of ell the young operators on the Stock
Exchange; and so do Davenport and
Van Schaick, and hundreds of other
bulls and bears.
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LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meeting Columbia Chapter.
T.. P. Observation-Disclosures Train.
D. @. Peixotto & Son-Auction.
Meeting Richland Lodge.
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Ine express arrangements with these
gentlemen, that they would consent to n
change in tho Financial Agency. if 1
could find parties to accept the agency
and take care of our loans in Now York.
The idea of signing bonds was the most
foreign to my mind, and am certain
this will be attested to by Judge Porter,
who spent nn entire week here, urging
mo to do 30, which I most emphatically
declined. Judge Porter failing, Mr..
kimpton also came, in the hope Of in
dncing me to sign bonds, and urged me
to do 80, under the same plea as you set
forth-"to save large amount of bonds
from sale which were then in New York,
under hypothecation."
Now, sir. having absolutely refused to
sign the bonds, is it reasonable to sup
pose, for moment. that wonld concur
in your taking suoh an extraordinary
step as to carry the seal of tho State to
New York for tho purpose of executing
bonds there, that had refused to sign
here?
I Lave stated the foregoing to show the
fallacy of your assertion that I said it
was necessary for you to carry the seal of
the State to New York. A simple state.
ment OF the facts is all propose to
mako, and the public may Judge of the
reasonableness Of our statements. With
in three or four days after my arrival in
New York, I unexpectedly met You at
the st. Cloud Hotel. In conversation
that ensucd. Mr.. Kimpton inquired of
you if you had brought tho seal of the
State with you. This inquiry surprised
ME, rs any ono may imagine, and you
very naturally noticed my astonishment
ut such an extraordinary question. You
prevaricatod in your reply to MIR. Kimp-
ton, and expressed the desire for pri-
vate interview with me. when you stated
that MIR. Kimpton had telegrnphed you
to come to New York and bring the seal
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knowledge, from the fact that nv name
was not upon tho bonds: and yet, with
an industry that was unaccountablo, YOU
placed them beyond my control, know
ing, as assume you did, that had pro-
posed to the American Bank Note Com.
pany to hive my name printed upon this
issue, if it had ever been determined to
negotiate the loan, thereby saving my
self the unnecessary labor of signing
my name 1900 times.
Now, sir, you state that you had suspi-
cions that everything was not right re-.
gnrdlng the issue of conversion bonds
Will you explain to the public what
secret motive impelled you to place the
seal of the, State surreptitiously upon
$3. 500, 600 of bonds, which you claim
was intended in their turn to be convert
ed into conversion bonds?
You must have become aware OF the
fact that. about the LIST OF October last,
l, for the first time, through public
rnmor, got the information that these
bonds had been sealed by you and trans
mitted to New York. Icould not believe
it possible that the Secretary of State
would have discharged suoh an impor-
tant public duty, without at least having
mentioned the fact to the Governor,
who, more than any other person CON
nocted with the State Government, is
held responsible in public opinion for
whatever is done to affect the interests of
the State and people, whether he has the
power to control it or not. On learning
from the Treasurer's chief clerk TINT you
had taken these bonds to your own pri-
vate residence, and placed the State seal
upon them, and thon returned them to
New York, 1 Immediately called upon the
Comptroller General, stated the facts.
and he consented to go to New York and
learn what had become of the bonds
The following extracts from my letter,
giving him authority to take possession
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-31
Sneaker HAIRS Lecture. lee

tSDSufCCr FICtEtS -LCCtof
ture of Speaker Hall on Celestial Phenom-
ena delivered before the students and fac
ufty Of the University at the Assembly
Chamber, Madison, Wednesday evening OF
last week, was listened to by large audi
ence, the chamber being crowded on the
occasion. The lecture is spoken of as
fire production, and elected the most mark
ed attention from those present. AT the
close Mr. Hall spoke as follows:
In this rapid survey have only brought
you to the thresho d of the great temple OF
Nature. You must seek the companionship
of the great and good; yon must purify
yourselves by careful study and reflection
if you would enter and have its full glories
burst upon your enraptured vision
But however much we may explore those
fields surveyed by star-eyed science, there
are questions, of deepest import, which we
may never solve, while the spirits confined
in its mortal casket; what beings people
those bright abodes '.Has Sin breathed
his deadly blight abroad and sowed corrup-
ton in these fairy bowers? or does inno-
cence still wear her native and untalnted
loom 2"
In some one of those bright worlds, far,
far from the cares of earth, shall we find
that city, whose walls are of Jasper, whose
gates are of pearl, and whose streets are of
transparent gold? No response comes back
to US from those orbs OF beauty The ans
wer shall be heard not till the soul, burst
ing from its Imprisonment, shall grasp the
destined off of TmmOrta ljty
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-31
Real Estate Sales.

C. C. Morril to Marshal Lane Lot 4, Blk.
Z Savage's Add. Jefferson, $500.
Mich. Nee to Coleman Nee, 10 acres Town
Jefferson Sl,Co.
J. Waterbury to Vincenz WnIente ten, 10
acres Town Aztalan $500.
A L. Prtchard to Frederick Block, lots
10. IL, and Is, block 20 PritchArt add
Waterfowl, So so.
W. H. Clark TO FIR Block, lots ID, IA and
10. block 20 Pritchard's add. WATERFOWL,
1925
VIM Tasche to George Philippi, acres
town Watertown, 81 900.
Christian Muck to So On Brown Is acre
town jefferson, 1915.
S. B. Hammond to Philia Wenham lot
block 3, lot block 4, and lot block 6, Will.
Cold Spring, $3.50.
S. B. Hammond to Phil'ia Hammond, lots
9 and block A, Jones' add. Fort Atkinson,
$3.50.
Geo. P. Marston to Janette Prosser, part of
lot block IL, Fort Atkinson, $500.
W. Modenhauer to f. Winkenwerder,
lots and block q lst Ward, WATERFOWL,
$1,000.
James H Townsend 70 Edward N. Potter
undivided 40 acres, Oakland, 5000.