The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-04-23

tFHE EhHnHAsR'or.AffR.-E -EDwkRDa aBoorH.
!P fhs tRnpsrfot Dfttfiot Do6ftsbn Fri
day last. 10 tho cas6 Of the State ps.
Ed ward Booth, now pending, to oompel
defendant to pay his license tar. the
lcourt adjadged that Mr.. Booth had yio-
lated anSorder of the court, for whiol,
lndee Hawkins sentenced him TO ,n
oondned in the parish prison for twenty
i9ar hours and &to pay fine OF twenty
Fsom the present attitude of many of
the citizens Of our city to the State Go.
yaennaent, the case naturally excited the
ptoioundests Interest. and the decree Of
the court in fning Mr.. Booth and send
ing him to prison, naturally created O
wide spread sympathy. According to
Instructions, Mr.. Booth was imprisoned
on Friday, at o'olook P. NJ, for twenty
four hours.
On Saturday morning it was agreed
among his Immediate personal friends,
the members OF the tax resisting associa-
lion and their sympathizers, to make
grand demonstration, at the hour of bis
release, and escort him to his place ~
business, to show their sympathies. and
in what appreciation he was held for
having become the object OF an oppres-
sion, in the defence of his PERSONAL
rights.
before the hour OF his release, largo
conoonrse OF people assembled before
she doors OF the prison, to hail the dc.
ifverance OF the prisoner. and the ante
room was thronged with friends anxious
to proffsr the hand of sympathv and
condolence. Presently, at / O'Clock.
captain freneaux approached Mr..
Booth and told him that he was free.
Taking the ar,n Of Mr.. E. j. Ellis, M.
Booth filed out of the room and stepped
into carriage in waitilg amid ronsino
cheers and u stirring air from the band
The cnrriage led off, followed by the
band and the large concourse of people.
who gradually fell into an orderly line oi
t~os, to tho number Of about 400.
% the way, the marching assembly
gave repeated and loud cheers. which
were vociferous on beholtling an elfipy at
tue corner OF Camp and Gravier streets.
hung to telegraph pole. All exclaimed.
"fhats Keilcggi That's Kelloggl" and
the cheers were renewed. From thence
The tfh5y was taken to the corner of
Magazine and Gravier. and again strung
tup, this time to q lamp-post. Here q
lHrge crowd gathered, when some one
applied q match to the efiigy, und it
vas in short time entirely destroyed.
fhe carriage containing Mr.. Booth
drove to the door OF his place of business
and, on alighting from the vehicle, the
crowd called loudly upon him for IN nd :
dress, to which be gave heed by mount.
ing a,box and motioning for silence. He
thanked Inc assembly for the grand de.
monstration which they had nude on the
event of his release, but regarded The
ferVor rather to the merits of the .psinci.
Piles which we're involved, than q feeling
appertainiES to his case individually. He
denounced the steps taken against him
as move showing that the most sacred
rights OF the people were jeopardized,
and that the present administration was
arrayed against the liberty OF the people:
that they had been outraged, and that it
now devolved upon them to re-, list, by
every legitimate mems. the advances Of
this oppression. He cited to them the
faot that their cause was now before the
congress OF the People-the nation itself
-and not that body termed a Congress
woloh assemble at Washington. Tie
people OF this country would eventually
CRY against the wrongs now being per-
pstrated, and they woald be adjusted
ae e1horted them to remember that
"etsrnal vigilance ia the price of liberty, +"
and fhat to lie supinely dormant was to
see every veatige Of freeman's boon
swept from them. Mr.. Booth closed his
remarks by saying: This is State
where men know their own rights, and.
knowing them, dare defend them"
Colonel Smith took the stand, and, in
the name of Mr.. Booth, requested that
tho crowd now retire, at the same time
urging them to be prepared and nerved
to their work, aud il occasion demand,
let tho halter be applied to him who
would be tho despoiier OF peoples Ii.
berty. -New Orleans Times.
a REMARKABLE CAsE.-About three
weeks ago co!ored man by tho namo of
George Mcfarland. residing on the cor.
ncr OF Seventh and Bladen streets. acci.
aentaliy stuck SMALL ligLtwood splinter
IN the ball OF his thumb. Upon with
| drawing the splinter blood commonc.a