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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-05-25

efforts. .of. the Universal. Poaoa, Alliances.
there are now number, OF wars going
on. Men have not yet even begun TO
beat their swords into plough.shares and
their spears into pruning.hooks. There
are noWigoing on: .. "a. :L
I. An, internicine war between the
republican Government Of Spain and
Don Carlos, the legitimate heir OF the
Bourbons to the throne. This war has
continued for some time, with varying
success. At present. there seems no
hope of decided victory by either army.
III. The war between Cuba and the
mother country. This struggle has con-
tinued for yeare. It has been prosecuted
with vigor on both eides and ierocity on
one. The end ia not yet.
III. The war between Russia and
Khiva. The telegrams have informed
us lately that Khiva was captured and
the Khsn conquered. Our morning de.
spatches contradict this rumor. Russia,
though che will doubtless ultimately be
successful, will have to earn her conquest
OF the KhRnste of Khiva by marching
over the deserts OF the Khan and fight
ing his soldiers.
Nv. The war between Captain Jack
and his Modocs and the military power
OF the United States. This unequal
struggle. unequal more especially on the
part OF the United States, has continued
for months. It has cost us brigadier-
general Of the army, a number Of officers
OF lower grades, and not few non com
missioned officers and privates, not to
mention the great expenses OF war in
Oregon. Captain Jack. too. has lost, if
the kilograms are to be believed, num-
Der OF redskins equal to more than
double the number OF his original force,
unfortunately for us, without diminish
ing his ardor or lowering the efficiency
Of his corrs of sharp. shooters. The
Universal Peace Alliance has not yet, We
regret to say, converted Captain Jack
from the ends OF his martial ways. Hinc
iNe lachrymg.
". The war between the Dutch and
the Sultan of Atcheen. This conflict
will, after the close of the present armed
ns:r:lisy, break ou. before many months
with renewed fury.
vi. The war between Sir Samuel
Baker and his forces and the slave-deal-
ers of the White Nile. Late dispatches
show that the painful rumor of the death
of this hardy explorer and his accom-
pliehed wife hns no truth in it. Sir Sa-
mual is, therefore, now executing his
mission in the very heart Of Africa.
To all these wars must be added the
occasional conflicts that occur on the
banks Of the Rio Grande, between the
Mexicans and the Texans; the chronic
revolutions of Central and South Ameri-
GA; the difficulties between the English
in India and the wild tribes on their
Northern frontier-dif6culties finally to
be settled only by force Of arms; md the
internal struggles, leading to occasional
bloodshed, in most countries of the
world, not excepting our own. Peace
may come, but IL has not come.
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Josiah W. Begole, Representative in
Congress from Michigan, is in trouble.
The United States timber agent has
arrested him for cutting down and haul
ing off 100000 feet of lumber from Go
vernment land in Lapeer County. This
looks little like the free style OF mo-
rality which prompts some gentlemen to
furnish themselves with horses from
other mons stables after dark. Bot
Josiah should not be judged harshly.
He is Q member of Congress, and there
is olas, Of duties .scrupulously per-
formed by the modern Mobilier Con-
gresham which he is naturally anxious
to do we'll. 1t consists of the appropria-
ton to ones private use Of the contents
OF the public treasury, by every possible
artifice and contrivance, from Union
Pacific down. As this is vacation sea-
son. Begole is merely keeping bis hand
in practice by trespassing upon the
public lands and helping himself to
several thousand dollars worth OF lum.
Der, until Congress shall meet again.
We don't see that it is practice worse
to carry off the timber from the peoples
land illegally than it is to carry off the
money from their public treasury lille.
gally.
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There is scarcely . day passes that
some one ofttheE Northern papers do not
treat their readers TO o homily upon the
subject Of the barbarism of Southern
society, and ills fact worthy OF note in
this connection, that this sort OF twaddle
is INDUCED in. by papers Published in the
city of New York. The'reoent duel near
Richmond, Va, set the whole tribe to
,croaking about Southern society, duels,
murdere, Ku Klux, etc., whore at the
every time there was not Northern State
exempt from cases OF the most diabolical
character, running, through almost the
entire catalogue Of crime. Nor is this
the only thing connected with the sub
ieot. for the papers which have indulged
in these unkind ,oritioiems have omitted
to state, that by the law of Virginia,
killing man in duel is murder. and
that the Witnesses of the deed are held
as accessoriea; and, besides this, any
person who may be in any way connected
with the giving or sending of ohal-
lenge, whether duel takes place or not,
is debarred from voting or holding Office
ever after.
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MAIL ILARRANaEMzNTs.-T Northern
mali opens 8. 80 e. II. ana 8.W Pm;
closes 8 P. RI. and 11.00 A. M. Charles.
ton day mail opens 6.15 2. NJ; closes
4. NJ; night opens TOO a. NJ; closes
6.15 P. NJ. Greenville opens 6.45 P. H.;
closes 4. Nj. Western opens 6.80A.
NJ. and 80 P. M. closes and P. M.
Wilmington opens $50 +. H.: closes
1920 A. N. On Sunday the Office is
open from 3 to 4P. III.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES THIS DAY.-Tri-
nifty Church-Rev. Peter J. Shand, 1O1z
A. NJ. and Pm.
Catholic Church Rev. J. L. Fullerton,
First Mass, at A. NJ; Second Mass
at 10 A: M; Vespers at41z P. NJ.
Baptist Churoh-Rev. DR.. Howe, IL
a. H.; Rev. 9. B: Jones. P. M. Sun
day School, 8 A. M.
Presbyterian Church-Services at II
A. NJ.
Lutheran Churoh-Rev. A. R. Rude,
104 A. NJ.
Washington Street Church-Rey. O.
A. Darby, IL A. M. and s P. NJ.
Marion Street Church-Rev. W. d.
Kirkland, 101a A. NJ. and SPIN. SIM.
day School. ga. NJ.
TIE SToRh.-On Friday night, about
IL O'Clock. gale arose. which conti.
nued several hours. The wind blew
savageIy. and with March whistle; the
thunder roared; the lightning kept up
an almost incessant glare. while the
rain poured in torrents. Much OF the
corn and early vegetables was prostrated,
but not seriously injured, and limbs of
trees were sent flying; bnt beyo nd this,
We have heard OF no damage IN the city.
The patent awning frame in front of
Love & Go. q dry goods store was twisted
and several rods drawn from their
sockets-the tightly stretched cloth
offering considerable resistance to the
gale. Luckily, the rods fell without in
juring the immenss plate glass in the
windows. In the North. western por-
ton Of the Co1nty, corn and cotton
was badly washed and the plants pros
trated. The storm ftend resumed bis
sway again, yesterday afternoon. and for
length of time had things his own way.
A large quantity Of hail also accompanied
the storm. The damage yesterday sfter-
noon far exceeded that Of the night pre-
vious, in the city. In addition to gen.
eral prostration Of corn and hieh-grow-
ing vegetables, fences, trees, &C., were
laid low, Several large trees we're taken
up by the roots, while others were easily
rivsn or snapped aaunder. The fencing
around the State House grounds was. as
is generally the case in sterm, ,eonsid-
erably damaged. both is front and rear.
The. damage ia the city was very. gene.
raj. few squares escaping. Last night.
the electricity came thick and fast, the
clouds black and lowering, aud thunder
.peeling, with every indication Of rere-
tition OF the storm. E ~A,tTr
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Sn nday Morning; May 25. 1873.

Sunday Morning; Nay IS. 1872
It is not surprising at all that under
Radical rule, honesty is regarded as a
crime, aud uice rersa. A case in point
has just come to light in New York. A
diamond gatherer in South Africa want
ed to get his diamonds. upon the New
York market, but was entirely unac-
quainted withssthe revenue laws of the
United States. IT he had been in pos.
session Of the laws with the thousand
and one deoisions. and constructions
placed upon them by every little seven
by-nine official who feeds at the public
crib. he would still. have been ignorant
aud confused into, the bargain. Under
these embarrassing circumstances, he
concluded TO guard against the possibility
OF 4.faaalty, and sent his diamonds
through The male. addressed to the col.
lector q the port. requesting that officer
to tsssssa the proper. duties on. them.
charge his iees, aud COLLECT Of the agents
TO whom The diamonds were consigned,
on delivery. Nothing could have shown
a more honest desire 70 conform to the
:strietsst letter Of the Law. OF which he
was ignorant: !, Nothing could have
pleased the collector better; it was just
into his hand -for the endeayor to be
honelt and to pay every legal charge on
tho part Of the South African English
man was direct violation OF the law,
and subjected the poor fellows diamonds
to eonascation, and he was adjudged
guilty of an attempt to defraud the re-
venue, Is there is . regulation forbidding
the importation of diamonds through the
mails. The officials did not infer that
-the importer meant dishonesty; they
never do that when few pennies can be
made by . contrary inference, and no
notice was given the agent of the i'm
porter, but the diamonds were promptly
advertised for sale as forfeited goods.
Bysthis means, fortunately. the agents
81 the importer got wind OF the affair.
The next movement was to obtain the
assistance Of . Radical in high political
favor at Washington: and by his assist
Anoe. the diamonds were finally rescued,
by paying dnties. costs. fees, commits
sions. etc. 1Ir. United States Attorney
Bliss has published q defence of the GUS
tom house officials, which completely
whitewashes them. iThis will surprise
no one; and now some one ought to
write defence Of the South Africa dia-
mond broker, who. In lis, efforts to be
honest, was adjudgedl q Bmuggler. Such
laws and such officials are admirably
suited TO esoh other Snd, the facts go a
great way In ex.snuasiog the charge Of
swindling the Govern nment made against
such firms ~ Phelps, Godge & Go.
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Horrible DEArH.-Leyi Souls, who
killed Noah Sutton, both white men, in
Marion County. in February last, was
hanged, yesterday. The two mem were
employed as fat hands on the Pee Dee
River. and the testimony was that all
bands on hoard had been freely drink
ing. Souls, drawing pistol, under
drunken excitement, discharged it to-
wards house on the river bank. Sutton
demonstrated with him against this ac-
ton, being less reckless or more sober
than his companion, who, provoked at
the interference, fred upon Sutton, kill
ing him instantly. The murderer was
promptly arrested and brought to trial at
once beiorethe court then III session, con.
victed and sentenced to be hung on the
10th Of the present month. He was,
however, respited until the 23d, by the
Governor Of the State, when the sen.
tenoe Of, the court was duly put into exc
oution. In appearing upon the gallows
he presented thin md worn look. with
indications that life could not be long
spared him even if the gnllows was
cheated OF it's prey. His OWL statement
of the affair was that he was drunk and
could not remember committing the aot.
On the scaffold he expressed penitence.
repentance and the hope of eternal saliva
ton. At fifteen minutes pnst clock,
the drop fell, and then ensued harrow.
ing and distressing scene. His neck was
not broken by the fall, and he died from
slow and painful strangulation or apo
plexy. His breathing was loud and
hoarse, like q person snoring, and his
body, in excess OF torture, was swayed
and swung frightfully to and fro through
space of several feet. It was dreadful
to witness. His more violent struggles
continued for fully six minutes, and
there were evidences of life for eleven
minutes. There was large conoourse
present, probably 1,500 people, all told.
I Wilmington Journal, 24M
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NERVOUS DEBILITY. DEPRESSED, 1a
RIrADLE STATE OF MIND; WEAK, NERVOUS
EXHAUSTED FEELING; NO ENERGY OR AMI
NATION; CONFUSED HEAD, WEAK MEMORY
OFTEN WITH DRBILrrATING, INVOLUNTARY
DISCHARGES The consequence Of ex.
cesses, mental overwork or indiscretions.
This NERVOUS DEBILITY finds SOVEREIGN
CURE in HUMPHREYS HOMEOPATHIC SpE-
orFIc, No. %. It tones up the system.
arrests discharges, dispels the mental
gloom and dependency, and rejuvenates
the entire system; it is perfectly harmless
md always efficient. Price SIS for o pack
age of five boxes and large s. vial of
powder, which is important in old serious
cases; or 81 per single box. Sold by ALL
Druggists, or sent by mail on receipt Of
price. Address Humphreys SPECIFIC
Homeopathic MEDICINE COMPANY, No.
562 Broadway, Ny. For sale by GEIaER
& McGREaoR. Columbia. 8. G. Ap14 lily
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, ILL.
FRosPKor OF TIE FALL MONEY MAR.
kET.-The following is the speculation
of Hunts Merchants Magazine in regard
to the future OF the money market: "For
anything that appears. !,E:s we shall have mo.
three months. The best authorities
anticipate trouble in the fall. Conse-
quently there will be more disposition to
provide time loans beforehand, aud
already some heavy transactions are re-
ported running to January. This dispo-
sition to seek time loans in the summer.
reaching through the fall and winter, il
it extends, as it bids fair to do, will have
the two-fold effect OF diminishing the
pressure in the fall and winter, and of
increasing the activity during the dull
months between seasons. II, for this
and other reasons. money should not
lend at as low rates as usual this summer,
there will probably be compensation in
the prevalencs of easier rates in the fall,
especially as the drain OF capital from
this centre, in consequence OF the fires
at Chicago aud Boston, has ceased, and
will, in all probability, be followed in q
few months by return current setting
this way. As the outward flow Of capital
contributed 30 much toward making our
money market sensitive, tight and bare
of funds, so the return Of that capital
should tend, when it sets in, to develop
ease"
DULL TEADE-A letter Of Wednesday,
from New York, says:
The spring is wearing away without
bringing with it any material increase in
city trade. Very few of the merchants
in any department. are making money,
while tho majority Of them think them
selves doing we'll If they can only work
along and meet current expenses. This
rcmark applies more particularly to the
dry goods business. but it is also misera.
bly true Of other branches. The retail
trade is doing better, as result of the
numerous orders which the sum mer
trade is always sure to bring"
The New York Tribune says: ut is
thought to bo very extraordinary thing
that Messrs. Cain and Ransier, colored
members of Congress from South Caro-.
lima, should have nominated white boys
who excelled in the competitive examina-
ton for West Point cadetships. It is to
be hoped that the time will come when
such circumstance will exotic no atten-
ton. These congressman show good
sense, il a sense of justice be good; and
If all their kind will be equally fair. half
the troubles, if not all Of them, in South
Carolina, will disappear. There mnst
always be two parties to oonoiliation. I"
CAPTIVE CORRESPONDENT NUMBER Two.
The New York Herald correspondent,
Mr. Leopold A. Price, who hos been ar
rested in Havana, is German by birth,
bnt was natnralized in this country, and
removed to Havana, where he succeeded
in acquiring fortune by marriage. His
estates we're confscated by the Spanish
authorities, and he acted for awhile as
American Consul OF Puerto Principe.
He afterwards went to Havana, and be.
came the Herald correspondent,
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Such horrid feelinga as I experience
no one can imagine. feel despondent.
as though netting awful was going to
happen. Use Simmons Liver Regulator,
if you would avoid suoh feelings.
M24t3T1
An accident at Savannah, on Wednes.
day morning, in disoharging the cargo
Of the steamship Montgomery, resulted
in the drowning OF two colored men,
Ben. Campbell and Jack Cook.
A queer Delawarean, by his will, di.
vided his property among his children,
and left his bones to his enemise "to
make whistles Of"
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DWELLING HOUSE BURNr.-Tho fire
referred to in yesterdays PHOENIX de-
stroyed the dwelling, kitchen and smoke
house of Mr.. Simeon Rawl. near Bar
hamville, about three miles from Colum
blu. The entire contents, with the
exception Of o bed and some provisions,
were lost The fire was, doubtless, The
work Of an incendiary, as Mr.. Rawl is
satisfied he heard something moving
about up stairs; but supposing it was
dog, paid no attention to it; shortly Of
terwards he discovered tic fire, which
burnt rapidly. 1t is believed, however,
that had bucket or two of water beeu
on hand, the flames could have been
checked; but as there was no we'll on the
premises, and the spring was some dis
tanoe off, the flames had full sway.
a CURIOUS PArENr.-A Washington
correspondent says gentleman recent
ly applied for patent for boring the
earth for artesian wells for purposes Of
irrigation. Ho gravely set forth that he
made the discovery that quicksilver was
heavier than the common earth. He
therefore proposed to start a hole and to
empty into it little mercury. By the
laws of nature that mercury would be sure
to work its way downward until it struck
water, and tho water would then be sure
to work it's way upward till it struck air.
The Chinese would object to that.
The Republican journal., 1873-06-05
Farm, Garden, and Household
Raising Potatoes.

AS potatoes form one of the important
crops in this part of the country, and as
Iopr Is not VNcr-ahundant nor at low cost
method ol saving human elbow grease
worth attention II is for This reason
Nc copy The Susg sfiQns contained in
i1Ce copied below, on the planting
r cultivation O; potatoes from a CORE
'naen' thc American Farm journal.
says
Ia rai>5 a good crop OF potatoes it is
necessary 10 plant on land that is adapted
Nd potatoes In western New York, and
#"ihap~ anywhere, gravelly soil is the
#r>t prefer old ground, where the sod
a~ 'OUcu under the year previous Ii the
Hiul resls manure. let it he used the year
'rf1re. on some other crop, and the land
got up in condition before vou plant pota-
'oeS The plogghing should be done in the
.l, ani "A little deeper than for any other
T'p- IAe earlier that YOU plant in the
-pring The better. in the majority of cases
/ usually plant al sizes except the very
smallest. aud uSe from four to six bushels
n-r arrc. In cutting I leave from one to
.,, ewes ou piece, generally about three
J .ani lu drills. with the pieces about four
rtu !uche~ apart. Most people use from
'"N '' l'urtn'n o. bushels per acre. get as
fAAs i.fi 'r~ as they do, and often use
at thr-thiri A. much seed. TO plant fast
needs horse, a plough, a man to hold the
...l-A. bay To ride unless you drive),
.'.t man TO drop. | first mark out four
~ ou oue side ot the piece. When this
ioH' [ am ON he same side of the field
ai WAS when started. The next time
-l across 'he piece cover the outside
N When ! gef to the other side Of the
-e. / drive across the three rcws not
t.r-l. -ud coming back I make another
Iarb Every time | % across the piece
ni @, side from which started [ cover
". and ON coming back make a mark.
Hi'- turn> the fnrrow right back, that you
WUalr Up making the mark. Some object to
waf NJ planting ~ il leaves a ridge in
'.- Wa, 90 the cultivator. | drive my drag
'rrt 4ts Ahau, oue-third. and when the
n..t.-a. '~ begin lo show. l drag them length
t .-~ ol 'hr rpw. This removes the ridge
.a, objection, and they are as good as
ucc. Nj the ground is not weedy
Nill want hut one more hoeing until
i-o~-om-bud~ prgin to start, when they
Hu-i he hilled. Don't make little mar
piI. a~ au apology for Il Hill, but a
a Hat one. That will hold all of the
'tor- without c-owding
The Republican journal., 1873-06-05
A Wild Huntress,

The Wheeling Register Of the goth inst
tells the following story on the authority
of Julia Messenger of Windridge, Green
county, Pa, for whose veracity it vouches ::
man living near Windridge, Green
county, Pa, had born to him five children,
four girls and one boy His name is
Daniel Lewis. When duite Young the
boy and second daughter, named Lucinda
Lewis, developed quite a fondness for
hunting. and were out nearly all the time,
roaming the woods in search Of game
They seemed to delight in nothing so
much as the fall life of a hunter, and
would be gone from home for weeks at a
time. After some four or five years the
boy quit it, and entered on the more in
dustrious pursuits of life, but the girl
continued in the chase Drawing herself
more and more from human intercourse
and restraint, she has become a wild
woman, fleeing from the approach of her
kind with the speed of deer
During the early years of her solitary
life she used to approach her fathers
house and entice the dogs to follow her,
learning almost any breed of dogs to be-
come good hunters. In the hope of bring
ing her back to her home and to civilza-
ton, her brother followed her and shot
the dog she had taken away, using every
inducement to get her TO 90 back with
him. But all in vain.
For eighteen years. since she was twelve
years of age, she has lived this wild life,
sleeping in the centres of straw stacks
during the night and hiding in them dur
ing the summer the wild and cultivated
fruits she intends for her winters store of
provisions. She is now thirty wears old.
and is AS wild as the most unnamed deni-
zen of the forest.
Mr.. Messenger says he at one time,
while out hunting, met her in the woods.
Her long black hair, covering her face and
eyes, was matted with burs and leaves.
and her black flashing eyes made her a
startling picture. She remained perfectly
still until he got within twenty feet OF her
when she turned and fled with the swift
ness no man could hope to rival.
A few days since she was seen again,
and then had in her hand three pheasants
and lour rabbits, but although these en-
numbered her she eluded every attempt to
capture her. She has been so long in the
woods that she has become perfectly wild.
Her dress is made of the skins of wild
animals and blanket that she has taken
somewhere during some of her nocturnal
predatory tours.