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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-04-07

OF the 3Gs Senetors, Representatives
and Delegates in Congress, nearly iiltn
are natives OF New Eugland. Just one
in 3G fails to remember when and where
he was born, and il consequently uucer.
tain as to his age. One member has it
from good authority that he was born
in Virginia. but the residents in the
vicinity OF his birth. place can give him
no Information as regards his progeni-
tors. He is one Of the few specimens
OF humanity who has not at some period
OF his life been reminded that he strong.
~ resembled his father or mother.
Twelve States are represented in the
Sennte by Senators born out OF the
State, ten States by only one Senator
born within tho State. and twelve by Sc.
natois each of whom was born in the
State.
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Then and Now.

1t is related by, the late Judge 0 Neale,
that when the Legislature of South
Carolina elected General David r. Will.
liams Governor Of South Carolina, a
courier was sent on horseback, with de.
spatohes to his home III Chesterfield or
Darlington, to inform him of his cleo
tion, and to require his immediate pre-
senoe in Columbia. The messenger
reached the neighborhood of the Go
vernur-eleot late in the afternoon, and
falling in with man driving q wagon,
asked him the way to General Williams
residence, stating that he was charged
with important papers. to be delivered
to him at the earliest possible moment.
We can imagine the surprise of the cou-
rier, upon learning that the driver Of
the wagon was the man whom he was
seeking. BE delivered the documents,
and after examination that night, and
hasty preparations for his journey to
Columbia, the General left next morn
ing on horseback. and travelled rapidly
to the capital. He-went directly TO the
State House. hitched his horse at the
common rack, and, arrayed in suit Of
homespun, presented himself to the
Legislature for Inauguration as Go
vernon. In those days, the State was
regarded as an honored mother, worthy
of earnest devotion and uncaculating
service. Fast horses, stolen diamonds
and shoddy splsndor were not then ue-
cessary adjuncts to the public man.
Fraud was not then his chief accom-.
plishment. Now South Carolina has
fallen among thieves. Now she is
plucked and ruined. Now her resources
are dried up, her credit gone. her good
name tarnished, her people unhappy,
outraged and maltreated on all hands
Simplicity. honesty. economy and gene
raj contentment existed among the peo
pie in the time of Williams, who wa
called under the circumstances we huv,
mentioned to the helm Of State. Whu
contrast il here presented to the reck
lessness, the extravagance, the disho
Mostly acquired wealth and the insolen
uirs Of those whom fate has appointed
over the people now, riding in splendit
vehicles and clothed in purple and fin
linenl
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A CURIOUS CALCULATION. The ave
rage value Of each Immigrant arriving
in this country has been frequently esti-
mn.ed by writer's ou political economy,
but no two of them agree on this ques
ton. This value varies from $3.50, nc.
cording to tho lowest estimate, to about
81, $40 in the highest; bu, in either
case it is evident that in more re.
stricted material sense, it is cheaper to
import our population than it is 10 pro-
duce 1t ourselves. Assuming ench child
OF fifteen to have cost $1,000, and that
the money thus expended would have
been otherwise saved. we find that the
man who has raised II family OF five
childron and remained poor might have
accumulated u sum sufficient for the
wants OF old age had hn not been sub
jected to this expense.
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{ { COLUMBIA, ] S. G.
Tuesday Morning. April z, 1874.
Probe tho Evil.

y
We have been very we'll content with
the progress Of the committee OF the
Tax.Payers' Convention in Washington.
We knew that they would have to en-
counter prepossessions against the cause
they represent, and that the barriers Of
prejudice and misconception would rise
before them at every turn. All things
considered, they; have been favorably
received. and the first steps ha76 been
successfully laid OF an intelligent con-
sideration of the anomalous state of
things in South Carolina. Direct and
immediate sc.;on, in The waJ G; irterpo-
sition in our affairs, we have never
anticipated would be taken. It will be
better for us, il will at length give a
more satisfactory solution of our diff
culties, il time be allowed in which our
case shall becomeadequately appreciated
by the people of the eoountry at large, and
matnred, wise and lasting conclusion
be reached by Congress. It is 10 holiday
work. It cannot be finished in morn
ing. There are facts to be explored,
there are frauds to be exposed, there ore
investigations to be conducted. The
organized machinery Of crafty and un-
scrupulous Government will be brought
to bear to baffls every honest effort
to right the wrong. and will con-
tend with all the resources OF ill.gotten
sbut dearly-loved power to perpetuate it
in the unworthy hands where it is now
lodged. The more full and complete
the inquiry, the more scarchingly the
probe is applied. the moro likely is it
that we shall bring to light, so thuL
strangers and even persons prepos-
sessed against US shall admit them, the
enormities and wickedness which, under
the name of republican government,
have been perpetrated and built up into
system here. It is matter of con-
therefore. that our repre-
sentatives in Washington have addressed
themselves to accomplish the point of
having an investigating committee up
pointed by Congress. In this way, i,
may become officially and thoroughly
instructed in the condition of affairs
here. Aud when that is done, there
will none be found so brazen as to up
hold the mockery Of government we
have. It must fall into universal con-
tempt; for it will be found. like
"Vice, q monster OF such hideous mien,
That to be hated, it needs but to be seen"
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AN EXCITING RACE.-The match race,
mile heats, best three in five, to harness,
for 81 900, between Hickory Jack and
Basil Duke, will take place in Augusta,
on the 18th. Both horses are great
favorites. and an interesting race is an-
ticipated.
The High Shoals Factory Company,
Anderso' Is about to organize.
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There should be statnte OF limita-
tions against these untimely re.appear-
ances OF husbands. For instance, John
Fowler, of Butler County, Pa. who
went to the wars in 1862, leaving wife,
three children and u 100 acre farm, we'll
stocked. He was taken prisoner and
reported dead. His wife waited seven
years, then married, and now John
Fowler comes bothering around, de-
mandlng his furm. His wife won't re-
cognize him.
An Iowa paper tells of woman
named Mary McCarron, living in Frank
lin County, in that State, who has been
confined to her bed with spinal disease
for the last eight years. Her friends
recently sent to Bishop McClosky, of
New York, for some water from the
Virgin Mary's well. in France. AN ap-
pllcation of the wnter was made, and it
hours thereafter, the patient could walk
ns well as ever.
The preparation of the joke, which
consists in wearing white sheet and
frightening some ignorant person into
the belief that you are u ghost, is rapid.
ly ceasing to be amusing. A young man
in Carroll County, Ga, tried this SOUL
stirring fun tho other night, at tho e7
pense of O negro, and was rewarded with
stab in the abdomen, which proved
fatal in few hours.
a youth who desired to wed the oh.
ject of his affections, had an interview
with her parental ancestor, in which he
stated that, although be Ind no wealth
to speak of, yet he was "chock full Of
days work" He got the girl.
A Western paper says Of the air, in its
relations to man: ut kisses and blesses
him, but it will not obey HIM" Blobbs
says that that description suits his wife
exactly.
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The Lynohburg Virginiam says that
never hince the war has the tide Of
Northern immigration set so strongly
toward Virginia q. at present
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HOTEL ARRlvALs. April 6. 1874
Wheeler House-Mrs Judge Grier, Mrs
Beck. Pa; J L Clubhouse, Chester; N T
Stuart, N G; J Fletcs, Pa; Mrs Ausman.
Atlanta; " P Geiger, Scott Pope. z
Hope. p Southern, @ X knowles, city;
A A Post. Fork; T W Woodward,
Winnsboro; @ l. B Marsh. Wilmington;
T 81 Barnhart, U S A; F A Buchanan.
Cincinnati; G A Hammer, Gadsden; J
McManus. b Fl Benner, Chester; Chas
Foster, York; j + Bowden, H w Shure,
Wilmington; A Gwyner, N Y; DR. J M
Sullivan, Greenville; Mrs Benedict, n
Y; A N Talley, G, @ & r r; w r Ed
munds. Rdgeway.
Hendric House-J. P Hopkins, Gin
cinnati; S Adams. wife and child.
Michigan; j N Perkins. Richmond; Mrs
s l. Anderson, LaGrange, Ga; D s
Williams, Y Z Bud. Western Telegraph
Company; B Wallace, city; james 81
McMillin, Spartanburg; G L Willis,
Greenville; S 8 Bookhurt, wife and son,
Doko; NJ Mackerel, L L GLADDEN.,
Binckstocl; N McDill, Yorkville;'J Z
Hendrix, Hicko kory, n G; Nj E Black,
Cherokee Springs; NJ Cooper, st Louis.
Colmnbi1 Holei-J Loughan, Ireland;
Fl Z Madden, N J; p Reed, Conn; w
L Butt, Ga: w u McGhee, n Y; John
Davis. Glenn's Springs; w B Goodrich,
} \ Biackwelaer, n q; B b Kupp. n j;
} s Land, II W Mustcn. G. & G Il r; G.
L feab, Ga; G p Gardner, S G.
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PHGNIx1ANA.-The tongue--The latch.
key that lets ont the mind.
{ Those who have tried it, say that
kissing is like sewing machine. be-
cause It seams good.
Those who serve you because they
love you, will exact no return; those
who serve You from self-interess, will
exact both principal and interest.
Men are said to be like bugles-the
more brass they contain, the more noise
they make. and the further you can
hear then.
When a man talks about "knights OF
the oue, how is one to know whether
he means q billiard-player or China.
man?
Women are slaves. not to men, but to
fashion. Who blames them?
MIRACULOUS EscAPE.-On Saturday
last, the locomotive OF the down passen-
ger train over the GreenvilIe and Colum.
bia Railroad jumped the track, and
threw the engineer, Mr.. j. NJ. Sejgler,
between the locomotive and the tender.
stick OF wood on the tender was
thrown off at the same time, and caught
between the two parts of the machinery
acting as ''chock,1, and enabling
Mr.. Seigler to withdraw himself, with
out injury. It was miraculous pre-
seivation. and Mr. S. should hereafter
be known as the ''praying engineer"
The train did not arrive until o'clock,
Sunday morning.
SUPREME Court DECISIONS The fol.
lowing opinions were filed in the Su-
preme Court on Saturday:
Daniel Hand, respondent, rs. the Sa-
vannah and Charleston Railroad Com.
pany et al, appellants. The appeal dis
missed for irregularity, without pre-
judice. In the matter of Joseph D.
Pope, a. @. Haekell, F. W. McMaster,
L. E. LeConte. W. K. Bachman, L. F,
Youmans, order Of January 12, 1874,
set aside, and the rule and returns re.
manded to the Judge for such further
proceedings az may he regarded proper
therein. Both opinions rendered by
Chief Justice Moses.
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
u. w. Wagner
Meeting Richland Lodge.
Central National Bank-C;ty Taxes.
Missouri State Lottery.
Meeting Palmetto Fire Company.
Earle & Lyles-Coru.
j. 9. Seegers-Ice Machine
Nomination for Alderman.
q. +. Jacksor-To the Front.
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TELL THE TALE! The com mmittse Of
five appointed to memOriuliZe the State
Legislature on the subjec. Of the re-
glstratlon OF voters, Of proportional rep
resentuiion, and Of the election Of JUS.
tices of tic Peace and Constubies by the
people. were instructed by tho fax
Payers Convention "to report, within
thirty days, through tie public prints,
tho result of their eiiorts, especially
upon the question OF cum;:;iti, e
voting" The thirty days expired on
the 22d ult. Who're is the report Of
the committee OF five?
ACcIDESr.-A negro woman had her
leg broke in Wootten & Andrews circus
at this place on Friday, by the falling
of the seats upon which she and others
were at the time sitting. The company
promptly paid her $50 damages, and
we are Informed that after she had paid
her lawyers fee and doctors bill, sho
had the snug sum of $40 left her.
PichehS Sentinel.
1900 quarts Of strawberries from
Charleston were qunrtcred among New
York opicures on Tuesday, and they
we're srooney over them.
The Comyregniona'isl states tha. out
OF l, ,525 foreign missionaries sent ont
by Tho American board, only eight have
died from violence.
The scattered remains Of Peggy Ter.
reii, of Darlington. who mysterousiy
pegged out some time since, have been
found.
Charlotte Stewart, of Beaufort, killed
her child. last week, by placing it under
trnnk, Hannuh Fields being accessory
to the act.
a lady in Maine boasts Of hair seven
feet five inches long.
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can be obtained.
a coorcd man, who was asleep on a
trcste near the sixty.six mile turn out
on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad, on Sunday lust, was knocked
cT the track by the COW catcher and
seriously injured. The trnin backed
and assistance rendered, but the Injured
man snid he did not require it.
The annual meeting OF the Medical
Association Of South Carolina vii! be
held in Columbia, on the 14th instant
This association is now firmly estab-
lished, but larger membership and O
fuller attendance at the annual meetings
are needful, in order that it's usefulne IS
to the profession and the public may he
increased.
Tho Lannier Dramatic Company per-
form in Parker's Hall, this evening
tho drama selected being Ned Buntline's S
Border Story, "Dulfalo Bill" The
company is said TO be good ono, and
the piece selected introduces number
Of genuine Comanche Indians. Red
fire, war dances. etc, will electrify the
audience. Reserved seats can be secured
mt Ly Brands.
AT the quarterly meeting of the CIa-
riosophical Society, held on Saturday
evening, tie following -iiicers were
elected: CD. Babbitt, L. esilent; Fl. E.
Hayne, e-President; W. r. Jones,
Corresponding Secretary; E. Babbitt.
Recording Secretary; p. J. Mishaw,
Librarian; Thad. Saltus. Treasurer; A..
j. Townsend, Recorder; 8. W. Cum
mings, Controller.
The New York herald., 1874-10-11
THE sPENDTHRIFT PRINCES.
NEW YORK. Oct. 8, 1874

NEW YORK. Oct 9, 1874
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
Your article In this days HERALD on the
'Prncely Extravagance OF the Three Princes of
wales'-Frederic, George and Albert Edward
reminds me OF the bitter lampoOn that was
written on the death of the first named Prince. Il
was called an epitaph. but 1t expressed the ioath-
ing and contempt the English people OF that day
felt for the greedy, grasping, licentious royal
house that the great wing families OF the ari0-
tocracy had seated on the throne OF England to
keep out the Stuarts or "the Commonwealth"
quote from memory -
AN EPTTAPH.
Here lies Fred,
VINO was alive and Is dead.
Had 1t been his father
had much rather.
had t been his mother
II were better than another
Had it been his sister,
No would have niis'd her.
Had 1t been the whole generatiO0
1t better for the nation.
But since tits only Fred,
Who was alive and Is dead,
There's more to be said
Respectfully yours :. "
The New York herald., 1874-10-11

what inadequate ana wholly dull book OF Judge
Holmes IS an indication OF this. Two Judges ol
the United states Supreme Court-Swayne and
Miller, ! beAeye-ase understood to have been
converted by Judge Holmes book. Even hard.
Engilshmen. had to yield to the iorce Of the argu
ment IN favor OF Bacon. But pause at
ia ins na to
even In TINS cursory way. other points, more
conclusive perhaps wGifh en- might os urged ieenng
ably, but one man In America fully competent 10
treat this subject IN all It's uness and richness as
a defender Of the Baconian or anti-Shakespeare
theory--I refer to Mr.. William d. O'Connor, now
occupying subordinate position in the Treasury
Department at Washington, but well known to
literary as one oil the most eloquent and
effective 0l living writer's. He Is STEPPED 10 the
very lips IN the Elizabethan literature, having
been close student OF 1t from his boyhood, and he
has watched with the iDtensest interest the whole
question, from its development IN the WORK OF
Della Bacon TO the present time and has carelully
investigated every phase OF the subject. He is
the one TO whom Hawthorne refers in "Our old
Homer as the 'young man OF genius and enthu-
silsm,n who was the only person he had ever met
VINO mad read Miss Bacon's book entirely through,
cae aa he res deaa scholar ~ her
OiConnor has long contemplated an exhaustive
% worS on TINS hiss subject sno when ms powerful tn and
It VIII be settled IN the minds OF all candid men
forever. INDEX.
A Good Chance for the Dramatic Fund.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
Will you not arrange with some publisher to
give US pamphlet containing all the learned dis
courses on the authenticity of the great dramas,
known under the name OF "Shakespeare's Works."
as they appeared In the HERALD, with, OF course
your own powerful editorials on the subject You
have walked up new interest in the Bard OF Avon
which has never been equalled IN journal contro-
versy here in the Old World. The men VINO
nave written our best lntellects and what tney
have said for and against Is argued IN plain Ian
guage, and tor the most part. logically sustained.
The Shakespeare students have read every line
with intense delight and so have ali educated
men throughout the country; but tue papers are
now scattered, ana those who will wish to read
those instructive documents again Will ind 1T
difficult to collect them. Can you not or rather,
will you not give us the Whole In q neat volume
with portrait OF the great William and another
or Bacon, If 1t is worth whle9 This, of course
when the controversy ls concluded all the learned
men having given the public their opinions fully
and exhausted the subject.
No doubt the book would sell wen among all
classes, and especially the admirers OF the drama,
and they are legion And here let me suggest
that the proceeds be given to the dramatic
Fund" which needs constantly helping hand
because the calls on 1t are irequent and the
good work it does needs no comment from
NEWARK.
The New York herald., 1874-10-11
THE ARCTIC REGION.
Respectfully yours,

European Commerce Endoavorfng for .
New Vent to Asia.
From the London Telegraph, Sept 26.l
Captain Virgins has just returned to Dundee. In
the steamship Diana, from voyage OF explorar
ton in the Arctic regions. having started from
tnat port on the Atm OF June last. His object was
to reach the Gulf OF OBJ by way Of the Kara Sea,
In order to ascertain whether commerce could bS
carried on by water between Europe and Asia.
lie arrived at the mouth OF the Gull on the 5th Of
deavored TO find the Austrian expedition. Gap.
tam Virgins Is OF opinion that the Kara Sea win
be entirely open till the middle OF october, and
sees no reason why steam navigation should NOT
be carried on annually between England and the
Gull OF Obi.
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What the Old Actors Thought.
HIGH BRIDGE, N, T.. Sept, 28, 1874

HIGH BRIDGE N. T., sept. 28, 1874.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
The controversy in your paper in relation to the
authorship OF Shakespeares plays having created
so much discussion among playwrights, professors,
actors and others leads me, as an old New Yorker
and an intimate friend OF the late tragedian,
Thomas s. Hambin, to say to your readers that
was present. over twenty-six years ago, in Win
dust's house, in Park row, in company with Ham,
bhn John R. Scott, Manager Mitchell, OF the old
Olympic; Tom Flynn. W. b Blake, William H. Bur-
ton and other well known actors OF that day, when
the subject matter OF the present controversy was
discussed, and the opinion OF all was at that timo
that Shakespeare wrote the plays which bear his
name. DAVID POLLOCK.
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Physical Requirements for Polar Nav1.
cation.

From the Eastern Budget (vienna), Sept. al
1t Is remarkable that the sailors who took part
in the Austrian Polar expedition ali come from
the coast OF the Adriatic. near Fiume. Captain
Weyprecht selected these men in preference ts
North Germans and N0rwegians, being OF opinion
that they would endure the cold OF Polar rcgiOn2
better than nortnerners; ana the hardships OF the
expedition certainly seem to have had rather Q
beneficial eject than otherwise on their health
and Hplrtts.
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One More Baconian Heard From.
WASHINGTON, ID, c. Oct g. 1874

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
have watched with interest the discussion
inaugurated in your cosmopolitan columns rela-
tive to the authorship OF shakespeare. There
must be some correspondence between mans
life aud his WORKS. All history and all science
proclaim It, Yet In Shakespeare's case there is
none, and this is the Gibraltar against which the
defenders OF the '.divine Wllliamn beat their
heads in vain. The Baconan theory has been
rather feesly defended In YOUR columns. but
have reason to believe that 1t is much stronger
among the people than is there indicated. 1t comes
home with peculiar Iorce to the legal pro esston,
VINO realize. probably more tnan others, not only
the learned and accurate use OF legal terms In
the plays, but the strong legal bias shown every.
where, especially in the historical ones which
leads the author to seek legal metaphors con.
stantly as favorite form OF Illustration. No tyro
uses these edged tools with impunity. The best
modern writer's have bundered sadly In their
attempts to introduce legal phraseology and cases
into their works But Shakespeare, as Lord CHEF
Justice Campbell has eaDOrately shown, never
makes a mistake. He knew law not only
| No suppositltous experience as an attorney,s
clerk Will explain this phenomenon. Coke
| contemptuously said that Lord Bacon wrote phi
| i0sophy like a Lord Chancellor Ii Will hereafter
appear that he also wrote plays like Lord Chan
! ceilor. The powerful character OF this internal
/ evidence In favor OF Bacon few legal minds can
| resst when once presented 70 them. The some.
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The Progrsssfve Development OF Shake
speare's Educa tfOn I'm HIS Plays.
70 rHR EprroR OF THE HERALD
Ia q former communication I presented the
argument, In proof OF shakespsares author
ship OF the works Atribntad bI ras