The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-25
NEWSPAPER PArRoSs.-The Athens

Post says this: "One thing we have
noticed from the time we entered upon
our apprenticeship, forty eight years
ago, the 10th day of this month, that
Providence generally smiles benignant!y
and prospcrously upon the man who
keeps himself square on the printers
books. You take tho subscription list OF
any country paper, where the advance
system is not rcligiously adhered to, call
out the names Of those who pay prompt
ly. then visit their habitations, and, in
nine cases out OF ten, you will find them
in the enjoyment of oil tho ordinary
comforts OF life-pleasant and contcnted
households husband kind and in-
dustrious, the wife happy and affection
ate, children sprightly and woll behaved
at home and abroad, sleek cattle grazing
In tho green pastures and good stock
feeling in the stalls, thrifty fruit aud
shade trees around, flowers blooming in
the garden and about the yard, and an
air Of neatness. comfort and snbstnnce
without and within. Now, take that
other class of patrons-those that never
pay ut all, or have to be ding -donged
oit of it. at the eud of tho third year;
what is still worse, tho newspaper sponge
who is not ab!e to pay for paper, but
ever ready to borrow from his neighbor
ten to- one you will find u majority Of
these always afflicted with short crops,
always Lard run. always 'out Of keller,
axes, plows and hoes externally dull
horses that look like the genius Of,
famine, cattle nearly related to Pbaroah' y
lean kline, ard too poor to low without
leaning up against the rickety fence,
gates of the hinges, dours half hung,
windows gn!!tless rf ginss. not fruit or
shade tree in sight, rank jamestown
weeds blooming around tie door-sills,
and, instead Of lnxuriant meadows and
perennial pastures, sassafrns aud briur
bushes growing in the fence-ruws and
broken places, and hill-sidea furrowed
with gullies, anil lunches of tall sedge
waving mournfully in the wind ali o. er
the farm. and, worse than all, u morosc
and unhappy husband, discontented
and ill-natured wife, and disobedicnt, in
tractuble children"
The reader may think this 4 fancy
sketch; but it amt, by good deal.
"There is more truth than poetry in it. +"
Mr.. THAEIN IN New YonK.-A. IL
Greeley meeting i'll tho city of New York
Mr.. r. S. Tharin, o: Charleston, was one
of the speakers. The Tribune gives the
following synopsis Of his <rmnrks
The Hon. II. S. Thnrin, also of South
Carolina, then made short remarks,
cluiming in regard to the condition of
the South, that it was the white people
of tho South who needed the care Of
their Northern brethren, instead of the
negro. lApplause. They appealed to-
night from the blood-stained land, and
asked that in Horace Greeley they might
find lender and pioneer into That
future into which the country is ap-
proaching. Applause and cheers. The
majority Of the South, with the cxccp-
tion, perhaps, of a single State; are
white people, and as this is q Govern
ment of the people, by the people and
for the people, the South has right as
a white population to govern the South,
and not the minority, the blacks, many
of whom are ignorant, rude, and unlet-
tered, and who are galvanized into power
by legislation as corrupt rs those who
have forced it upon the South. If Mr.
Greeley was right when he said that
planters as minority should not govern
the South, then lie is right again if he
says that the negroes as minority
should not govern the South. APP
plause. Horace Greeley and B. Grutz
Brown must be placed ut our head to
save us from chaos, from anarchy, and
from bloody revolution. Applause.
The New York Elevated Railway,