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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-09-22
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Tues lay Morning. September %, 1874
The Great New Road 10 tho North
western Cities.

The Great New Road 10 tho North
western Cities.
The prospect now seems good that
Cincinnati and Chicago will have, be-
fore many years. direct rail connection
with Charleston. The projected road
from Spartanburg to Asheville, North
Carolina. seventy.four' miles, COM
mands much enthusiasm. and the por-
tion to the foot Of the mountains from
Asheville will be Immediately put
under contract. From Asheville to
Wolf Greek, Tennessee, forty miles,
the projected Western North Carolina
Railroad. is graded for three.fourths
OF the distance. This company is
said to be strong and will go to work
;Sa@ediately and complete TIC lax.
A railroad is already running from
Wolf Creek to Morristown, thirty
miles, where it strikes the East Ten
nessee and Virginia Railroad to Knox
vile. From Knoxville to Coryvillc
North, forty miles, is the Knoxville
and Ohio Railroad. The dis ance
from Coryville to. Chitwoods. tue in
tersection of the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad. is thirty miles, of which
about one.third is graded. This latter
work is progressing finely. It is re-
garded with great interest by the mer-
chants and railroad men Of upper
South Carolina and Western North
Carolina, and connected in their
minds with the Asheville and Spartan
burg connection. From this state
ment it appears; that when it is built,
land Cincinnati has voted $40. 100000
for it,] there will remain but three
gaps. amounting to scarcely $50 miles,
which, when filed, will give direct
communication between Cincinnati
and Charleston. Fifty miles of this
ore already graded. We gather these
encouraging statements from letter
Of Mr.. Redheld, correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial. He shows
also that the Louisville and Nashville
corporation feel equal interest in this
great connection. Quoting from let
ter of Col. Fink, the efficient and long
headed Woe President of the Louis
vile corporation to the Vice. President
of the Spartanburg aud Asheville
Railroad, 81 am glad," he says, "to
aee that you propose to finish the
Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad.
With that road completed, aud the gap
between Asheyille and Wolf Creek, it
would be great incentive for us to
finish our road to Cumberland Gap
and Morristown." The correspondent
concludes, with q slam al. the political
rascsls in South Carolina. They have
stolen. he says. in the last seven years
enough TO build double-tracked,
steel railroad, fisb- jointed road
right through the)mountains to the
Ohio River. Perhaps you don't be-
lieve it? Go to that unfortunate State
and you will be convinced. and the
longer you stay the longer will be the
road that you will conceive could have
been built out of the aggregate OF
stealings., ID a.l
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The following Trihl Justices wore
deposed on Saturday: Abraham Smith.
OF Mount Pleasant; II. Gathers. of
Johns Island; John Vnnderpool, of
Cllnhoy; Thomas Il. Mlshaw, of ST.
Andrews; = Gibbes. of one OF tho
islands. and NJ. F. Becker, of James
Island.
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HOTEL ARRIVALS, September 2l.-
Hendrix House-H r Bamore, J M
Moseley, Hodges; B s Gaillard, G RR;
J L Bailey, Ga; L W Davall, Winns.
boro; j B Clarke, Md; Nj G Ieas,lale,
Pa; Taylor, Charleston.
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Many of the best speeches made in
Congress are said to be tho production
of literary hacks resident Ut Washing
ton. One man is reported as having
written three addresses for O notorious
South Carolina negro.
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LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Il. j. w. @. Swafiield- Goods.
Meeting Eutaw Encampment.
Meeting Capital B. and L. Associ'n.
Three Rooms to Rent.
Fine Bull for Sale.
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A WoRN. Our PuprEr. -Whether th

A Worn Our PUPpET Whether the
nsurping Governor of Louisiana, Mr..
Kellogg. be re-instated in the Execu-
tive chair of that State or not, be can
no longer command the respect even
of his own retainers, white or black,
nor, unless he is hopelessly bliud to
his own character, Of himself Placed
in power by fraud. and held in it by
force, he collapsed the very moment
there was trial Of strength between
his usnrped power and the real people
of tho Stats. The SO called election of
Kellogg was the culminution Of the
woes Of Lonisiana. Never since that
shameful event have the people been
recOnciled to the situation. No man
acknowledging American political
ideas, or having the sensibiities of a
man, would have held governorship,
or any other office in the gif, OF IL puo-
pie, knowing that it was fraud and not
their choice which put him there, and
force, not willing submission, which
kept him in his position. If he had
even possessed tho courage to defend
his position, his character would have
bad some redeeming light; but his in
glorious escape to the custom house
has excited the ridicule of his own
friends in Washington. II this mere
Punch and Judy government of Lon.
isiana. with it's puppets pulled by
parties in Washington, is to be once
more lnangurated, it will be amidst
the general contempt of all mankind.
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Nor CoRREcr.-It has been stated
by some Republican journals that Nc
Eoery was never inaugurated Govern.
or Of Louisiana, and that, consequent.
ly. Mr. Peun had no right to act as
Lieutenant. Governor. The truth.
however, is that kellogg and McEnery
were inaugurated on the same div. by
rival Legislatures. Both appealed to
Con. Grant, who finally sustained Kel.
logg, and that's what makes all the
difference.
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HE COTTON CROP OF 1873 The
New York Commercial uua }Timunciu,
Chronicle has just issued its annual
statement Of the cotton crop of 1873,
from which it appears that the total
crop reaches 4, l85, 534 bales, while the
exports are .2,S40. .9Sl bales, and the
spiuners' takings 1921, ,O89 bales,
leaving stock on hand at the close of
the year of 108. 1872 bales. The total
receipts at the Atlantic and Gulf ship
ping ports this year have been 1885,
436 bales, against 1861 ,346 bales last
year. The movement direct to manu-.
features this year reaches 237, ,572 bales.
This Is somewhat larger than it would
have been were it not that the South.
ern spring floods forced some cotton
over Northern routes which would
otherwise have passed through South
ern port. The product of each State
Tor the last two years compares as
follows: Louisiana, 1884, l,22I, ,698
bales; 1928, 1,240,384 bales. Ala.
bama. 299. .57S; 332.457. Texas. $780,
O44; 343. $50. Florida, IA, 1875; 14,O88.
Georgia. 625, 1857; 614.O South Ca
rolina, 43S, 1874; 374, ,476. North Caro-.
lima, 1886; 6l,576. Virginia. $685.
SIG; 433, ,583. Tennessee. &c., 489, ,534;
37s,913. Total. 4.057. 008; 1892, ,S46.
Add consumed in the South, 1913, ,526;
1862 Total crop, 4, 1875, 534; 3, $780,
5)S.
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IHE RECEPTION OF THE BOYs IN
BLUE. The eSpartanburg Spartan saws:
"Col. Woodruff, of the Second Artil-
lery Regiment, United States army,
with fifty men, (aoting as infantry,)
have arrived in Spartanburg, and gone
into "winter quarters" till after the
election. We have no objection to
troops being garrisoned here. Our
people are a peaceable, lew-ahiding
people. and have nothing to fear from
their presence.
The Barnwell Sentinel, of the 18th,
says: Company d. Second United
States Artillery. under the command
of Lieutenant Vose, arrived in our
village on Sunday evening last. They
are fne.looking set of soldiers, and
the people of Barnwell are pleased With
their visit. and welcome them in our
midst. When they leave us it will be
with favorable impression Of our
people,"
The Winnsboro Neus says: 1--WE
look upon the presence of troops only
in social and financial light. The
officers in Colu umbia are set of gen.
tlemen, and highly esteemed by the
citizens OF Columbia. They will be an
acquisition to Winnsboro. For the
benefit of our merchants, We asked
Capt. Ogden whether his troops had
mouey. He replied that they now
have two months pay due them. Their
presence in the borough with their
pockets full of money would be a good
thing financially. We, therefore, re-
qnest the commandnnt to send nc that
company forthwith before they draw
their pay. Let us have peace.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-02-21
BUDDING GENIUS.

Below we give an article written nearly
twelve years ago by Joaquin Miller, for the
Washington Statesman, paper published
in this city at that time by Northrop &
Rees. At the time of its production the
author wrote over the nom de plume of
"Gastin," and was unknown to fame, ex-
cept that he carried express between here
and the Idaho mines. Neither is there any,
thing in it that would indicate the budding
genius of the man who has since drawn upon
himself SO much of both admiration and
condemnation. But it is just possible that
the writer did not have to draw on his imag-
ination very strongly. Jeremiah's domestic
relations, as set forth in the fourth chapter,
are SO similar to those maintained by Mr..
Miller for some time after he got into trouble
in Southern Oregon and Northern California
about that "spotted horse" that one would
suppose he and Jeremiah were one and the
same person. The reader will doubtless
see that there is as much difference between
Mr.. Miller's prose of twelve years ago, and
his poetry of later date, as there is between
the humble expressman of that time, and
the renowned poet of the present:
jeremiah the Webfoot.
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NUTMEGs.

From the Danbury News, Jan. 31et.
The seat of the Chief Justice has been
long in filing yet it was easy to Waite.
Longfellow is still at it; he promises a
new poem. His last, the hayseed poem,
Aftermath" +" has had large sale, both
here and in England.
A horse fell dead in Brookfeld Friday.
He ought to have come to Danbury to do
it. A horse might fall dead here forty
times, and not hurt himself, the mud is SC
deep.
Among the conversions accomplished in
the late Reding revival was that of man
who had been coal dealer for over fifteen
years. ...r...
ANY boy can learn to chew tobacco by
being hopeful and persevering, but unless
his hips are fully developed he cannot wear
pants without suspenders, and have his
shirt foam jauntily out over the top.
Two men slipped and fell simultaneously
in front of the depot Friday. They fell SC
close together that they bumped foreheads,
and in the light of the sparks brought tt
their eyes by the concussion they recogniz
ed each other as long lost cousins. Neither
of them had a strawberry marx on his arm,
but had instead a mark as big as pineap.
pie on another part of his anatomy.
Naugatuck is the only town in Connect.
cut bearing an Indian name. Fifty-foul
Connecticut towns or districts are named
for English localities; seven for places not
i'll England; eleven from Biblical sources,
and thirty-three from distinguished indi.
viduals, either native or foreign. Ridge
bury derives its name from being formed
from a union of parts of Ridgefeld and
Danbury, the latter place getting it's name
from Danbury, (town of the Danes), in Es-
sex, England.
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The SUN.-An Armstrong gun fires bull
let at the rate of 400 yarrisper second. A
bullet fired at that rate, and maintaining
1t to the sun. would take Is years to get
there, and the sound of the explosion would
reach the sun half a year later. In other
words, those beings, those men who wor-
shipped the sun and raised their voices in
prayer to him, if their voices could have
been heard and there was an atmosphere,
a medium of intercommHnication by which
the sound of their voices could reach him,
13s years would have been needed before
their prayers could have reached their God.
Ii there We're q steel rod connecting the
earth with the sun, and the pole of the earth
were brought into communication with the
sun. 300 years would elapse before the
strain would reach the earth. Another
consideration-and this was suggested by
Professor Mendenhaff, of your country, and
by Holmes and others--is this: Feeling is
conveyed along the nerves ten times slower
than sound travels. If, therefore, an infant
were born having an arm of the somewhat
inconvenient length of o,000, 600 miles, so
as to reach the sun, and if in the cradle,
while in boyhood, he were to stretch out
his arm and touch the sun, that infant
might grow to the three seore years and
ten allotted to man, or even to foaarscore,
but he would never be conscious of the fact
that the tips Of his fingers were burned; he
should live 1a5 years before that would be
experienced. Professor Proctor.
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aAsTIN's LAST STORY.


CHAPTER j.
Kate was peerless beauty; lovely was
she, indeed, as she wandered across the
meadows green, driving up the cows for
milking time. She was in love. Oh, yes;
with q hearts true devotion she loved her
tall, fair-haired jeremiah. An hour passed
away, and she stood in the yard with her
betrothed, leaning against the pig-sty, but
grief was IN her heart and sorrow sat upon
the face of jeremiah; for the time had come
for their separation. jeremiah, tho bold
hearted man, had determined to go to Salmon
to seek his fortune. Long and earnestly
did they stand there in converse sweet"
Twilight came and went, and gentle luna,
"with all her glittering train," took her
place in the broad, blue sky, and still they
stood there by the pig-sty. At last the
shrill, clear voice of Chanticleer told the
lover he must indeed be gone. One long,
fervent hug; one last feverish kiss, and our
hero disappeared in the gathering dawn.
The peerless Kate was left alone, her fair
form trembled like cabbage leaf in the
winds of Autumn, and the breezes caught
and bore away upon their bosom sigh Of
sorrow that few have ever felt and lived.
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Postage Stamps.

Postage stamps, although they carry all
kinds of information to every part of the
world, tell but little in their travels of their
own history, or of the care required in their
manufacture and distribution. In the days
of their virgin beauty they show us some
thing of the engraver's and printers skill,
but nothing after they have commenced
the stern business of life and been subject
ed to the ignoble fate of all stamps--to be
disfgured. Small and Insignificant as they
are individually, collectively they are
numbered by billions, and are worth mil
lions of dollars. There are now in use one
hundred and three different classes of post
age stamps, and twenty-six thousand sheets
of one hundred stamps each are printed each
working day. The number of stamps used
annually is about six hundred and fifty mil
lions, and their average value is about
$4,000. To prevent error and fraud, the
sheets are counted and recounted ten or
twelve times, registered, receipted for and
counted again, until what with handling
and cumming they lose their original fresh
ness, and have to be polished up in a hy-
draulic press. They are distributed by
mail to thirty-five thousand post-ofices in
the United States, and orders are received
daily for about 100000 stamps.
A government agent gives his receipt for
the stamps and obtains corresponding re-
ceipt from those to whom they are distrib-
uted. They are manufactured by the Con-
tinental Bank Note Company, and during
the month Of July the company had stock
on hand of 100000 stamps, valued at
81, 900, 900. OF these 81, 770, 900 were three
cent stamps, II, ,167, 500 one cent and $751;
700 two cent stamps. The little stamp that
does its work SO cheaply for all of us-that
impartially carries good and i'll news to a
friend and foe-belongs to most respecta-
BILE and important family, and is not to be
despised even when it's usefulness has been
somewhat impaired by the post-master's
Disagreement of its polished face.
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RIFLE: BALLS.

Louisville Courier journal.
Somewhere in Europe an effort is being
made to substitute drowning for the pres
ent mode of capital punishment. The fact
was long ago established that the man who
is born to be hanged will never be drowned.
A Pennsylvania pair have just been mar
ried in graveyard, at night. They clasped
hands over q grave and made their vows in
that position. AS the moldering dead did
not rise and rebuke this piece of ffoolishness,
perhaps the newspapers ought to take no
notice Of it. .
| A married lady Of Rochester, N. Y, re-
turned permanently to her parents the other
day because somebody left a little baby in
basket at the front door. To ninety whine
husbands out of every hundred, the violent
antipathy which wives manifest towards
little babies left at the front door in that
way is one of the strangest things in the
world
The London Saturday Reuioso doesn't adj
mire John G. Whittier's poems much, and
the Brooklyn Argus thinks " the trouble is
| that Whittier was born on the wrong side
of the water The Argus ought to know
that with an Englishman's estimate of a
| poet water has nothing whatever to do, un-
less there is great deal of brandy or gin
mixed with it,
The New York San wants to see the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher the successor of Ros-
coe Conkling. 1t says "He would carry
| religion into the Senate He might pos
sibly carry some little religion into the SEN
| ate; but, if he stayed there long, he would
bring precious little out of it.
We have just thrown into the fire copy
of Shakespeare which bore the imprint of
| one of the leading publishing houses of
New England. The Typography and bind
| ing of the volume were well enough, but
the punctuation seemed to have been done
by a Digger Indian idiot who had been in
bed with the delirum tremens from his
infancy.
There is a violent dispute as to the birth
place of the new q Governor of Ohio.
Some people furiously assert that he is a
Virginian, while other rampant persons in
sist that he was born in North Carolina
If it were not such an excessively long time
since this enduring old gentleman made his
first appearance, his own statement in re-
gard to the matter might be Of Importance
in this emergency s
The newspapers are still talking about
the attempt of Lieut.. Col. Fred Grant to
whip a Washington editor not long ago.
but the affair was really not a. matter of
surprise. It win be remembered that we
declared in these columns, when that father
of his graduated at the foot of his class at
West Point quarter of a century ago, that
the ensuing generation of Grants would be
too warlike for the present age if matters
were not managed carefully.
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Bierstadts ssDomes Of the Yosemite. y


Bierstadt's famous picture, The Domes Of
the Yosemite, has had curious history, and
has just made its appearance in Court only
by proxy, however. 1t was originally sold
for $50, 900, but its owner, Legrand Lock-
wood, first failed and then died. and it was
sold at auction. It was bid off by A. s.
Hatch, the New York banker, for S5, ,O5O,
but he says it was unexpectedly knocked
down to him, and he concluded he did not
want it. He accordingly left it with a
dealer, whom he told, as he says, that if he
could get anything like it's real value he
might sell it, and he would pay him a liberal
commission. 1t was on exhibition about a
year, and finally sale was negotiated
through Mr.. Hatch's brother to Mr.. Fair
banks the scale-maker, who wished to give
it to his town Of st. Johnsbury, vt. On
account of the object for which Mr.. Fair,
banks wanted the picture, it was sold to
him for what Mr.. Hatch paid for it. Here
the dealer stepped in and claimed his COM
mission, and the Court has decided that he
had not earned it. Now the Domes are
doomed to the seclusion of Vermont town,
where it win astonish the natives.-Boston
Globe
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THE NAVAL REv1Ew.-The exigencies Of
the Virginius question required the assem-
blage at Key West of quite large fleet of
the United States Navy. There are at
present in that harbor twenty-five vessels,
four of them being iron-clads---the Manhat-
tan, Mahopac, Dictator and Saugus.
Among the others are some of the largest
ships in the navy, such as the Wabash,
Colorado, Franklin, Worcester, Congress,
Powhattar, Brooklyn, Lancaster, Canaan
daigua, Ticonderago, Alaska and Shenan-
doah. 1t has been very long time since
so imposing an American naval fleet has
been gathered together, and the Navy
Department intends taking advantage Of
the occasion by having review and ex-
tended series Of nautical evolutions for the
purpose of familiarizing the officers and
men with their duties. The review and
drill will take place in the Florida Channel,
and there will also be short cruise. The
date of the eyolutions is not yet fixed.
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The Wizard Of the Billiard Table.

From the Spirit of the Times.
Adrian Izar, the celebrated French bill
lard player, gave one of his scientific bill
lard entertainments in the Newcastle
Town Hall, England, lately, before an ap-
preciativc assembly. Though an expert
with the cue, his favorite mode of play is
by spinning the ball between the thumb
and forefnger of the right hand, and he
has this great advantage over his opponents
who use the cue, that he can move his
ball from any part of the board and spin it
from whichever side of The object-ball shall
be most favorable for the intended carom or
hazard. The first item IN the programme
was earom game of $50 points up, where
in Mr.. G.. Ell. Banks of the Black Boys
billiard rooms, received fifty points start,
and welded the cue in opposition to the
powerful thumb and forefnger of the French
professor. Nothing remarkable was done
until the Frenchman strung together eleven
consecutive caroms, shortly after which the
game was called-S8 all. Here Banks,
by some good play, got away away little,
his following shots being particularly good;
but it was only on sufferance, however, and
Monster liar made his 100 points, while
Banks only reached 130. Next followed an
ordinary game at billiards of 500 up, the
cue again welded by Banks, receiving 200
start. This time Banks again played well,
though his luck was rather
against him, his highest break
being about AZ, while the professor, who
seemed able to repeat losing hazard in
one of the corner pockets any number of
times, won, after marvellous exhibition of
skill, by nearly $50 points, his highest
break being good all-round one, in which
he scored 135 points. Then followed an
exhibition of fancy strokes, among which
Monsieur liar played new stroke known
as the snake carom, the ball running the
gauntlet of two decanters and sixteen tum-
bier glasses before making the desired ca
rom. He made caroms after causing his
ball to describe all sorts of curves; made
caroms from miss strokes made caroms on
the wood work Of the table, from the table
on to the floor, caromed with fifteen pyr-
amid balls, spun the balls into all the pock-
cts from every conceivable angle, and
wound up most marvellous entertainment
by spinning one of the balls upon a plate
for four minutes and half.