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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-10-18

MR EDITOR: In your paper of the
14th, I made the point against Mr.. J,
T. Sloan. Jr., that while he might pos
sess the kind feelings OF the Couserva-
tives. be would receive but little aid
from them. 1 stated that he uas not q
representative man. either as a repro.
sentatioe Of tho Columbia bar OF
Of the tar payers of tbs County.
In this I was notinfnenoed by any uu
kind feelings to Mr.. Sloan, personally,
but as q matter of principle, that repro
suntatives of the tax payers should
themselves be payers OF taxes, and in
direct opposition to the statement
m ade by Nash and his friends, that by
such nomination they had made con
cessions tu the Conservative element,
,uhich claim l. as ,reN as many Others,
can neuer admit. When candidate is
placed before the community for their
suffrages, his record becomes Il fit sub.
ject for discussion. This his real
friends Or himself camel attempt to
deny. a writer. however, under the
signature of lone Who Expects 20
Pay His Taxes" and who has no more
interest in the welfare Of the State
than Moses or Patterson, without ut.
tempting to refute my assertion. replies
to me by abuse and innuendoss, on
myself personally as we'll as my mo-
tives.
I replied to tho effect that his ms-
hufhfutneSs was only eAoeoded by his
scurrility, and as he had villified me, I
retorted by describing the kind Of man
supposed him to be. In this missed
my aim, like many gunners out of
practice, and shot IL buzzard when
expected to shoot turkey. A friend,
looking over my shoulder, suggests
that it was taiThey duzz1sd Killed,
nnd accept the amendment, apologize
ing to the real game I supposed I aimed
at.
AS have never raised the question as
to comparison Of Mr.. Sloan with our
representatives for tho past six years,
must he excused from raising new issues
started by suoh an individual who rests
under the imputation of uniruth/ /ulneSs.
can gain no credit in o controversy
with man Of such associations, and
whose only merit lies in his crpecia-
lions The game is not worth til pow
moro money by writing up Patterson,
Moses, Chamberlain, Nash. Minort and
Cadet Whittemore, than by volunteer
ing his services where they arc SO little
Appreciated
He would, no doubt, cave some un-
pleasant troubles ut the gubernatorial
levees which nre to be. il lie would
solve the question why Nash, Minort,
or Slosn do not have the nominations
in the Union Herald Is Chamberlain,
Melton, Whittemore. and Elliott bet
ter than our County representatives
that are to DO ? What are your expecta-
tlons in that matter? Areyou Greene
and Delany man2 IF you are not,
what business have you poking your
nose in white mems yictuals =?
TAX PAYER.
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The New York Tribune says that as
q campaign war cry the Southern out
rage business hos proved very bad
failure. The people refuse to make
fouls OF themselves by getting excited
over It. The Tribune asks il the Ad.
ministration people can't start some.
thing else. In the light of the victo.
ries OF Tuesday, won since our contcm-
porary asked the question, We should
say they would have to start something
else, and that very soon, if they ex.
pect even to ''save the pieces" in No
vembor.
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CARrET-BAaaERs.- General Randall
Gibson, a well.known lawyer and poll.
tician in New Orleans, and late OF the
G. $: A., recently made speech, which
has been received with much favor.
Touching upon carpet bsggers, he
thought that was vile phrase, and
preferred the word plunderers. "
Continuing on this strain, he ssid
" The men who famed this strife we're
not all born North-some of them we're
natives OF this soil, and he was opposed
to any term OF reproach being applied
to man simply because he came from
abroad or from different State. [Ap.
plause. He was hostile to it's use, be-
cause the person to whom it was given
had come here only with carpet. bag
1t was not the clothes, the wealth, or
the birthplace Of man thnt entitled
hlm to respect; it was his character;
ana 1t was because he know how much
TINS CITY and this State had boon bone
nted oy men from other sections who
had arrived here with no other posses
sions but their own inteIleots and their
own strong energy, that he should for.
eyer rantagonlze anyand every effort that
should savor OF al attempt 10 disorimi-
nate between men because of The
length OF their residence here. precise.
~ as he should disoountenanne anv
discrimination between men beoansa
OF their nativity or of their religion. y
Loud and continued applause.
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FURcuGoTT, BENEDICT & Co., Charles
ton, S. O., are Offering ono of the
largest stocks Of DRY GOODS and CAR
PETS in the United States. Parties in
want Of the same will save from 25 to
to 30 per cent. by ordering from them.
They are prepared to send samples on
application. All retail orders over $40
will be sent free of charge to any part
of the Southern States. Remit by 2.
Q. Order, Express or Draft drawn to
our order, or Goods will be sent @.
0. d. OF
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a MI1L1oNA1nE BECOMES A PAupsn

a MILLIONAIRE BECOMES PAUpen.
We find in one Of our exchanges q
sketch OF one Francis Lacroix, q
French octoroon. who, before the war,
was the fashionable tailor Of New Or
leans. He became millionaire, and
retired from business. The war di-
minlshed his revenues, and then came
the oarpet-baggers, whose tax bills be-
came larger and larger every year. At
length his taxes amounted to S75, 900.
He could not pay them. and his pro-
perty was sold and gobblcd up by the
ravenous carpet.baggors. The million.
ARE is now pauper.
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FInE.-We regret to learn that 90
Wednesday night, MIR. Robert Simon.
tons clubhouse and press were con.
snmed by fire, with fifteen bales of cot
ton and two head of cattle. Mr..
robert Sloan lost five bales and several
soolored men lost cotton also. It is no,
known how the fire originated.
|Vinns60ro Ne,rs.
Subscribe for the ruGNIx.
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The New York Nation. the ablest OF
the Republican journals, has fully e1.
amined the statistics of Southern ont
RACES, and, giving the facts and fig
ures, shows that in those Southern
States in which the whites. in virtue OF
their numbers, hold the State govern
ments, there is as much order and se-
curity for blacks as whites, while in
those States in which the blacks have
the majority. or the two races are near
~ equal in numbers, there is constant t
disorder and violence. 1.-The meaning
OF this, the Nation concludes, sis that
the whites are restive under the rule
OF poor Ignorant negroes, led by North
ern thieves. defaulters and adventurous,
and try in wild and lawless ways to get
rid OF their oppressors. It furnishes O
complete answer to those who say the
negroes cannot trutt the whites to gov
ern them
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Raklng In tho Ashe. OF the Pa.t

There is no question of a ''Black
Code," that we are aware Of, to be pre-.
sented to the voters OF South Carolina
at the ensuing election. The Union
Herald has discovered SON methipg which
it designstss by this opprobrious term,
which was once far back in the dim
past. considered, and, as it says, passed
in general Act in this State. Will
the Herald please give as treatise on
original sin, or the persecution OF
! witches in Massachusetts? It would
be just as appropriate as it's stage
thunder on a defunct and forgotten
code. Will it also study and profit by
the following passage, from an article
in the last Nation, entitled, "Some
Considerations for both North and
South"
"There is one thing, in which the
treatment of .he Southern problem. by
o large proportion of tho Republican
press, is without excuse, and that is,
the amount of attention they bestow
on the consideration of what might
have BEEN at the South at the close of
the war. Whenever you call the at.
tention OF large class Of writer's to the
evils of negro rule, they tell you that
it is the fault of the white men, who
ought, at the close of the war, to have
taken the negroes at once into their
confidence. and have bestowed equal
rights on them instead of passing black
codes. There is no doubt they ought;
but If they had, it would have been an
act OF almost superhumen wisdom. To
expect anything of the kind from q So
cisty like that of the Southern whites
at the close of the war, with their
training, sbits. education, experience
and mental and moral condition, was
ridiculous; and it was doubly ridicu-
lous OF the part of those who had been
most active in depicting the evil inhu-
ences of slavery. What The Southern
whites tried to do with the emanoipa-
ted blacks was the logical and natural
result OF their situation, character and
antecedents. They acted as slave.
holders beaten in battle ought to act i.
We got angry with them because they
did not act as the members of the anti
slavery societies would have acted, and
we have treated them ever since as we
might treat Wendell Phillips if we had
caught him trading in negroes. In
other words. we are furious with the
South because the obvious and ineyi-
table facts of the situation are not such
as we should have liked. It is, how
ever, with the real Sonth-the South
az slavery and the war left it-that we
have to deal, and not with the South
as phiianthropic imaginations ut the
North dream Of it."
Codes indeedl Give US some news
OF the fl BOD and Noah's ark. Launch
out into criticism to show that it was
not built as we'll as Yankee could
have built it.
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From the Ohio returns it would nm.
pear that the Northern people do not
place all their confidence in the South.
ern ''outrages" that occur so regularly
Just before election time.
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LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
r. & ". @. Swaffield-Clothing,
P. o. Box 167-Wanted.
W. P. Hix-Photographs.
Knights OF Pythias-Meeting.
Columbia Lodge, No. 108-Neeting.
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better regime, they will do what they
can to discoantenauce and prevent all
attempts to procure redress or revenge
by force. This the Southern people
have done and will continne to do in
the future. They are perfectly aware
OF What stands behind the vile carpet
bagger a1l IS lawsg. and arc gra.iAed
in believing that the people OF the
North are beginning to open their eyes
to the weakness and wickedness of the
government who has so long protected
them in their corruption and wrong.
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The following was the conclusion OF
Judge Randall's recent charge to The
Breathitt County, Ky. grind jury,
where the militia now ure "Gent,e-
men OF the Grand Jury-I say to you
and to those who may be affected by
your action, that will not be bound
from giving every man brought before
me FUR and impartial trial, according
to the best Of my abilities no con-
sideration whatever shall induce me to
screen guilty party and in conclusion,
allow mo further to say, that if there
are any Of you afraid to make the
statement required Of you rs grand
lorors /; it there are any of you afraid
or unwilling to indict the most power
ful man In tho County or il there ara
any of you unwilling to indict FREUD
or relation, want such of you to stand
up. aud will now discharge you.
Again, If there nre any of you who
feel that as against certain persons or
parties you would be disposed to screen
them or hunt up EXCUSES to keep from
indioting them or if there br any
who are uuprepared from any cause
whatever to discharge your whole duty,
l want you to let ms know, that may
discharge you also. The record shall
give You credit for honesty in ack now
Lodging you have not the moral courage
bedtting n grand juror, and your places
filled by men who have tue nerve and
disposition to vindicate the law"
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A SINGULAR OcouRnENoE-A CHILD

A SINGULAR OcouRRENoE-A CHILD
6TRANaLRD DY A OAT.-A strange CO.
ourrence took place a few mornings
since in the family OF Mr.. Silas Dolo-
way, engineer in Baboock, Fuller &
Cs.'s new hat factory. who occupies j.
w. Canfield's house, on Mulberry
street. in this village. Mrs. Doloway
is accustomed to leave her babe, q
little girl four months old, on the bed
cp stairs while she does her mornings
work in the basement, from whore she
could easily hear the least noise. On
the morning in question, she heard
the little one Growing as usual, but
finally noticed that the sounds ceased,
and shortly after heard strange,
gurgling noise. Supposing that the
child had got it's head under the bed.
clothes and was suffocating, she run
up stairs to see about it, aud found
the house.cat with it's nose in the
child's mouth. The child wns stran-
gled black, and was fighting feobly
with her hands. She caught the child
and shook 1t several times, when it
canght its breath. and came out all
right. In q few moments more it
would probably have been ttrunRlcd
to death. Mrs. Doloway had to pull
the cat off the child, 80 eager was it to
remain. It had paw on either sido
of tue child's head, aud had its nose
pressed deeply into the child's mouth.
The cat wns instantly killed.
Midiletp'0n Nv. Y )Nercury.
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RELIGIOUS SERVICES To.DAY.-Pres.
byterian Church-Rev. T. T. John
son, of Canada. at II A. NJ. and TIP.
M.
Trinity Church-Rev. J. n. String.
fellow, at II A. NJ. and 4PM.
st. Peters Catholic Church-Rey. J.
L. Fullerton, 6rst Mass 7 A. NJ. second
Mass 10h A. NJ; Vespers AZ pm.
Baptist-Rov. Geo. Howe, D. D.,
IL A. NJ.
Second Baptist Congregation-Rev.
A. NJ. Cartledge, IL A. M.
Washington Street Methodist-Rev
w. d. Kirkland, IL A. NJ. =
Marion Street Methodist-R s.
b; Jones, II A. NJ, and Rev. R. G.
Oliver, 7H P. M.
Lutheran-Rev. Mr.. Witherspoon,
from Mississippi. 101SA. NJ.
HOTEL ARRIVALS. October 17.-Co!.
um6ia Hotel-A B Matthias, Charlotte;
J + Numan, Charleston; T Miller,
Boston; G Mills and wife, Savannah;
Mrs Wiggin. Beaufort; g a Muffer. s
O.; j " Smyzer, Charleston; j J Ham.
ton, Ga; r Witherspoon, Sumter; W
Sprinkle, Charlotte; j McElroy, Char-
leston; A w Thompson. Seneca City;
J T Steele, Go; Miss Baruohe. 8 g; "
d Hayne, Jr, J T. Thames, D B Nc.
Lauren, Charleston; D " Simpkins,
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Laughlin, q s A; w 81 Evans, Charles.
ton.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-08
CHAPTER VII.

Irving Mcdonald was decidedly one of the
handsomest men in the State of Tennessee.
He was tall and proportioned magniGcently.
His features were finely cut and brown as
bronze, almost, while his eyes-large, lustrous
and dark, with wonderful magnetic power
subdued and controlled all upon whom his
gaze fell.
People said his ancestors were Italians; but
nothing was known about him positively, for
his hauteur and supreme dignity deferred ev-
erybody from daring to touch on the subject
of his birthplace, of his belonging, or his an
cestors. He appeared to be in possession of
enormous wealth, and his mode of living was
one of great splendor and elegance, while the
aristocracy of the whole country paid court
to his magnifcenee
| He gave superb banquets sometimes, at
which his guests were RECALLED from off solid
golden dishes, and the choicest wines-amber
and ruby, golden and purple flowed as freely
as water. He was Il patron of the fine arts.
The enormous sums he paid for pictures at
tested to this u and the statues and landscapes,
and still,life renditions of game and fruits and
flowers, and fairy forms and lovel ly heads, after
the first masters, that filled his studio proved it
still further. But more than all, it was no.
ticed that the poor and the needy never asked
without receiving-not only aid and money
but consolation
Yet in spite of all this, Irving Mcdonald
was mysterious man and nothing that he
did, could divest him Of that air of secrecy
and protoundness he always wore. Some
times he would disappear for weeks, or even
months, and no one could tell whence he had
gone or from whence he would return. Even
Gertrude his young and beautiful wife, was
as ignorant as the rest of the wondering
world. She sometimes asked herself why he
never invited her to accompany him. But
she usually took no note of his going or COM
ing, because he grati6ed her every wish and
surrounded her always with gay and agreeable
company; and no matter if, in his absence, she
made thousand mental resolutions to ques-
ton him about his mysterious movements, just
as soon as she had met his tender glance, or
listened to his loving voice, her resolve would
have been forgotten and so it was that neith-
er query nor explanation passed between them.
However, all was loving confidence and afiec-
tionate attention, and they were accounted
the happiest pair in existence.
There was another thing that was noticea-
BILE when Irving Mcdonald entertained guests.
Under his hospitable roof the gaming tables
were spread out, and thousands and tens of
thousands were lost. Irving played more
recklessly than any one else. The piles of
money that he alternately lost and won SEEM
ed no more than vile dross to him for his
features never lost their supreme repose for
an instant, and the hand never trembled that
swept the money from him, nor did it show
eagerness when drawing it into his own Golfers
Gertrude would entertain, on these occasions,
with her husband, and she was so naturally
graceful, 80 extremely cheerful in her temper,
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py YOU show it, and 1 would undeceive you
utterly"
"You are his mother? O, God! and you
say all this to me?"
II do! and 1 would say more, if you will
allow me-"
"Continue; I am listening"
"Do not grieve about your husband. Men
love bright and smiling faces. Swallow your
tears, if they choke you. Do not watch him;
men despise espionage; let him 60 his way.
Never cast an objection to obstruct him.
Mark me, you will be happier. Beblind; be
dumb be deaf; and if Irving will love Mrs.
Vaughn Fessenden, you should find some ny
and agreeable gallant also, and amuse your
self with him. 1t is modern fashion,
and"
"Hush! mother-in.law, hush; for Gods
sake, or you will drive me mac" interrupted
Gertrude, shudderingly, and with an express
sion of horror and CONSERVATION upon her
pale and agonized face, and in her great, wide,
dark eyes.
~"Y ou are mortified p laughed the old lady;
II have wounded your refined Southern SEN
sibilities, haven'tI? A second thought would
have made me silent. l beg your pardon ]"
she continued with mock humility, and then
went away to take her afternoon siesta, care
less of the wounded heart she left behind her,
fro BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK
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ecration. "Well, daughter, its done and ii
can't be undone. We must not break our
word to the poor thing there, although We
have lost our money. She mustn't suffer be-
cause that horrd creature robbed US.
couldn't help fallin' to sleep-no more could
your
81 know all that, granny-but blame my
self for it-all the same"
"Blaimin' yerself, or nae either, won't bring
the money back, daughter"
II know that, granny" she replied, sobbing
louder than before "but Oh if I had wicked
Miriam Hastead by the throat" she cried
out suddenly and fercely. "Let her keep
away from me! Let her keep away-or
twill be the worse for her! I never did any
body harm in my life, but l feel that could
murder her if met her this morning."
"'Vengeance is mine saith the Lord, quo
ted the humble and pious old workwoman' and
with meekness and no sign of anger, she went
to the chest to discover the reality of her loss,
while Benna drew the curtain folds so as to
shut away the sunlight from Lide's sweet face
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bound and flowed about her like billows o.
light. The lashes dropped low over her violet
eyes half smile was on her parted lips one
snowy hand supported her cheek amid the
cushion the other, with its beautiful arm
was half hidden in the folds of a white null
muslin wrapper, girdled at the waist with the
most delcately tinted amber silken sash Of
Canton crepe. Irving Mcdonald followed
the direction of Gertrude's shapely finger, and
opened his eyes in such astonished admiration
that she laughed merrily.
"Who is she? Who Is she' Where did
you find her % he asked, when he found his
voice again.
"What do you think of her ?" she rejoned
II think she is peerless" he answered; 81
am almost dumb with admiration"
$50 was II" echoed Gertrude, an expires
sion of delight spreading over her fair face
20, I think she is the rery lovelest creature
| have ever seen %
Mrs. Mcdonald, senior, who was present
at the time, laughed and rubbed her hands to-
gether with an air of the greatest amusement
and satisfaction.
"Aha! Did I not tell you your husband
would sextuple the wages?" she cried, exult,
anty "two hundred dollars, indeed"
"'Two hundred dollars, indeed,'" said Ir.
wing, turning to Gertrude for explanation
"what does my mother mean ?"
Gertrude blushed intensely and pouted a
little; but seeing that she had nothing to do
but avow the entire truth, she did so as sue.
cinctly as possible And Irving became ac-
quainted with the whole story herein written,
with the addition that the sister, Miriam Hal
stead, had fled, with the two hundred dollars,
"to parts unknown" and in deep sympathy
Gertrude caused Lide to be moved to her house,
as soon as the fever had passed, and that now,
since she had proper attention and comforts,
she was convalescing rapidly that she found
her intelligent, educated and charming, as
we'll as beautiful, and that she loved her
dearly.
"And you will'et me keep her here, Irving,
for a companion? You will love her too.
And she will be such an acquisition to our
circle Tell Ne that you will, she entreated,
looking up into his face
He listened to her with grave patience UNI
til she had concluded her explanation then
he said, patting her cheek tenderly-
"When man undertakes to shut from his
wife all that makes her happy and brghtens
her life, he isa fool. Keep the girl if you
wish, Gertrude, if she is willing to stay; but
be careful that she isa proper person to reside
with you and to be loved by you"
II declare to you, Irving, she is perfectly
lovely, and good as can be- Old Mrs. Din
widdie, the woman who nursed her when she
was sick, says she's perfect, and even Sadie
says she's all angel!''
$50 be it, said Irving Mcdonald, briefly,
as he turned away.
Gertrude looked triumphant, and the old
lady, while she watched her, had horrible
grimace on her face, and shrugged her shoul-
ders like French woman.