The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-02-18

mail opens $50 a. NJ, 8 P. H.; closes
IL A. NJ, 6 P. M. Charleston opens 8
A. NJ. 30 r. M: elosesa M, eP,
NJ. Western opens 6 A. NJ, 12.8OP. M. =;
closes 6. 1.30 P. Al. GreenviIle opens
|6.4 As P. NJ; closes 6 A. NJ. Wilmington
opens 4 p. NJ; closes 1890 A. n. On
Sunday open from 2.3e to $50 P. M.
The note with respects of W. NJ. L., !,
of Charleston, enclosing extract from
the New York Journal Of Commerce, has
been duly received at this Office. It has
not suited our convenience to give it in
sertion as yet. but we will endeavor to
do SO at an early day. Our thanks are
duo to our friend for his attention. We
Join him in the hope which he expresses,
that We are approaching turning point
for the honest people of South Carolina.
! SUPREME Court DECISIONS. February
Is. 1874.-W. i. Redding et TIC. vs. the
South Carolina Railroad Company. Ap.
peal dismissed. Opinion by Willard.
a. j.
In re Kuox s. Gill us. the South Caro-
lima Railroad Company. Petition re-.
fused, pe'' curiam.
E1 porte Edward f. Stokes-hu6eas
corpus. Motion refused. Opinion by
Moses, @. J.
! We learn that Rev. Robert Neumann,
chaplain to immigrants at Castle Gar
den New York, and who has been in
strumental in sending considerable
lumber of immigrants into South Ca
rolipa, left New York, yesterday. for a
visit to Charleston, and may probably
come as high as Columbia. Parties who
desire to do so may communicate with
him through Major Melchers. of the
Demsche Zeitung. Of Charleston.
PnGax1ASA.-Expensive furniture
Indian bureaus.
/ The discoverer OF America-One ap-
preaching our shores.
i When woman can't do anything
else, she makes an apron.
!! The lining of purse should be more
valuable than the outside.
!. That which has been thrown awny has
often to be begged again.
! Cooing is we'll enough before mar.
riage, but the billing doesn't come till
after. and thcu it comes from the trades.
men.
! MR. PoITER's ADDRrss.-A word of
explanation is due to our readers, this
morning, in connection with the non.
appearance of the opening address of
Hon. W. D. Porter to the Taxpayers
Convention. yesterday. Immediately
upon its delivery, about P. NJ, a gen.
tleman connected with our Office made
application for the copy for publication.
BE was informed that it had been given
to reporter for the Charleston Ne,rs
and Courier. He next applied to this
reporter for the privilege of using it,
with the condition of returning it to him
IN :in:= :3- :;io Charleston uaii OF last
sSaniug. This was refused. Next ne
'proffered to have it put in type, but not
bring it out in the PuGN1x until the day
it would appear in the News and Cou.
Irier. This was also refused. We could
do no more. Our readers will thus
clearlJ see that it was impossible for us
to serve the interests of the public and
the convention by presenting this mas
terly address to them this morning
=, A SECRET ORDER EXPOSED. We
!, have heard that q person who takes an
, obligation to secret society, and then
3 undertakes to expose the order. puts
, himself in either of two positions: BY
violating his obligation. he proves him
self perjnre-; CT, by pretending to ex-
pose the order. he proclaims himself q
liar. In the instance which we propose
Ito chronicle, tho exposition was made
Through inadvertencc. And the most
mortifying part of tho matter is, that
, the order exposed has but recently been
a established in our midst. We refer to
: the Improved Order of Red Men. A
. member of the order, while walking up
, Main street, Yesterday, saw what he