The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-09-15

%Ao,UuU, tnron8n the COLUMBIA agent
OF the company, j. 81. Sawyer. Esq.
The value OF life insurance, in relia.
BILE company, is hereby demonstrated.
1t ia understood that the dissatisfied
delegates to the Republican Oonven-
tion, which adjourned yesterday, held
q caucus in the evening. and deter
mined upon the organization OF an
Independent State Central Executive
Committee Of the Republican parity
one member to reside permanently in
Colombia.
FHGNIxIANA.-A sud exterior is
more snre TO repei than TO attract pity.
The best way to strike for wages
With workmen's tools.
Yon can always find sheet of wat er
on the bed of the ocean.
The home should be like lullaby in
this noisy, headlong world.
Thn language of hower4- when the
LO"t5 olfhtCo u QeH.
Goldsmith nude himself famous for
all time. Goldsmith Maid herself
famous for 214
The REPUBLICAN, NoMINATING Con-
vENTIoN. This body convened ycster-
day morning, ut 10 o'clock. President
Wilder in ihe chair.
number OF resolutions were intro.
duccl and referred to the Com mittee
on Platform
The platform presented by the COM
mittee was adopted, with but slight
amendment. It is as follows:
Z I. We re-ufirm our earnest adhesion
to the platform and principles adopted
by the National Republican Conven-
ton. ut Philadelphia, On the 9th dny-
of June. 1872, us eubodyiug the true
ideas of American progress.
II. We maintain the authority of
the General Government to Interfere
for the preservation of domestic tran
qniIlity in the several States, and we
uck Wedge with gratitude such inter
position IN this State.
III. We deprecute lawlessness q any
form, condemn turbulent agitations in
auy place, deplore violence, intimida-
tion or obstruction of personal or pu-
litical rights by any party, demand an
universal respect and conservation Of
the elective franchise in the hands of
the weakest, and shall hold all men ms
enemies to equality of rights who in
terfere with or deny the free and law
full exercise of its use to any citizen,
whatever may be his party creed.
Nv. We pledge ourselves to con-
tinue, scrupulously, to enact and en-
force the financial reforms promised
two years ago. and in large measure
fulfilled, n proof of which we point to
the following laws, viz: 1.-The law to
Levy Specific Tax" 1.-THE law to Re,
duce the Volume of the Public Debt, \
'the law to Regulate the Number OF
Attaches. "the law to Regulate the
Public Printing" 1.-The law to Regulate
the Disbursement of Public Funds, y
"the law to Regulate Assessments.
| Y. We pledge ourselves to reduce
the public expenses within the public
revenue. and to secure the enactment
of law requiring all public officers
who disburse moneys, to give to the
public detailed monthly statements ol
all receipte and expenditures derivable
from moderate assessment and tai
rate. > { n
vi. We earnestly entreat the Con
gress OF the United States to pass the
Civil Rights Bill, which is absolutely
essential to enforce the constitutions
guaranty Of equal rights for all Ameri
can citizens.
VII. We especially pledge ourselves
to maintain the settlement of the pub
lilo debt, as made los: winter, ana te
reject all claims against which there i,
a shadow of suspicion.
VIII. We hold that all franchise.
granted by the State should be sub
servient to the public good; thai
charges for travel and freight shoulG
be equitable and uniform, and ne
unjust determinations be made be-
tween through and local travel anc
freights
TX. We shall advocate such modi
fication of our present system of taxa
ton rs will prove of the largest ad
vantage to our agricultural interents,
and shall lend our earnest endeavors
to the enactment of such laws and to
the encouragement Of suoh means as
will the most speedily develop the re-
sources and build up the man ufactur.
ing and industrial prosperity Of South
Carolina, and the construction of such
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