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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-01-08

|. The SOUTHERN FoRoEs In the No.
vember number of the Eclectic and the
Land We Loue. for 1869. an interesting
aud important correspondence was
published between DR.. Joseph Jones,
Secretary of the Historical Society,
and General 8. Cooper, ex-Adintant-
General OF the Confederate States.
From that sonr.e we take the follow.
ing startling facts:
l. The available forces OF the Con-
I derate army did not during the war
exceed 100000.
2. The Confederntes never had for
their defence more than 1000 meu
in the field at Que time.
3. From 1861 to 1865 the Confcde,
rates actively engaged were only 60O,- :
600.
1. Losses-the total number of
doaths during that time WAS 100000
D. Losses of prisoners, count..d az
tot"i losses, on account Of the United
Stntes policy Of exchange. 10000
q. The loss of the Confederate States
army by discharge, disability and de.
sertion amounted to 100000.
Z. At the close OF the war the force
Of the Confederate army was less than
100000.
8. Out of 6Oo.o 900 men, 500, 900 los.
to the 8. rvice.
These facts are taken from calculu-
lions made with great care by DR..
Joseph Jones, submitted to aud ap.
proved by Gen. s. Cooper, Adiutant-
General of the Confederate States.
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TELEGRAPH WITHOUT WInEs.-A
Pennsylvania paper says: lit Is re-
ported that IL DJuylnssvllle man, who
has been tor some time engageu IN the
endenvor to invent IL telegraph thut
will he equally efficient az the one now
III use, and dispense entirely with
wires and poles, reports that ho has
Succeeded III his efforts, and AS soon ns
his oaveAs Is iiIed Will make known his
plans"
"DowN AND OUr. when sanity
preachers stoop to folly, uud fluid, too
late, their slns betrny, what charm can
soothe their melanrhUly-what art Can
wash their guilt away? Tie only art
their guilt to cover, to save their being
talked about, IL, not to hope twill ull
blow over, but simply to ''step down
and out"
A Missourian who attended prayer
meeting with his daughter felt com-
pelled To rise up and remark: II want
To be good md go to Heaven, but if
those fellers don't stop winkiuK ut
Mary, there will be good deui Of
prnuclng around here the fust thing
they knowI'
A Richmond (Va.) lotter says ex.
Confederate officers III that city are
quite stirred up by Liberal induce ~ ents
offered them TO go to Egypt to tnke
service under the Khedlve, aud a num-
Der are likely to go over and try the
service for awhile.
II can't say as he went to Heaven,
remarked Fort Scott citizen Of de-
ceased townsman, "Dut he paid q bili
Of eleven years standing only the day
before he died, and you can Judge for
yourself"
The dwelling.honse aud contents of
Mr. George Finch, OF Spartan burg,
was accidentally destroyed by fire on
the Goth uit.
Butler looks upon his defeat as q
blessing in disguise. Other people,
aiso; but they regard the disguise as
thin.
Foremen in luger beer breweries ut
Cincinnati get about SlU, 900 u year, or
three times as much as circuit judges
in that vicinity.
6ottor run ;n old clothes than rnn
in debt.
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DEATH OF M1LL1oNAInE.-Captain
a. Is Ward, the great ironmaster of
the West. died at Detroit, Michigan, ,
his home, on Saturday. OF apoplexy.
When thirteen years OF age, he com.
menced as u cabin boy on lake
schooner. from which he worked him
sell up to the proprietorship of line
OF lake steamers. OF late years, be
had abandoned the marine interest
and engaged largely in iron manu-
facture in Chicago, Toledo and other
places. and he was the principal owner
OF tue American glass works, at st.
Lonis. Captain Wards estate ia esti.
mated at from $4,000. 900 to $40, OOO,.
D00
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Paris has had it's FIRST bal masque OF
the season, and it was as naughty as
usual. One costume, worn by an in.
ventive genius, consisted of a square
box, which extended from his throat
nearly to h,s knees. his legs and srms
being clothed in their every day garb.
AT the back of this box was door
with this inscription: "Do not open ~
or course, everybody who saw him
hastened to open the door, and as
within there was nothing at all, 80 far
81 clothes were concerned, the effect ca
better be imagined than described. OF
course, his career was a brief one.
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Boss Tweed's prison privileges has
been suddenly stopped. In reply to
the inquiries Of reporter, the Prssi-
dent OF the New York Board Of Com
missioners of Charities und Correction
said the Tweed matter needed no dis
cussiop; the board had decided in his
cuae long ago. They had given verbal
orders recently that Mr.. Tweed should
be treated al other prisoners, aud they
meant their orders to be obeyed. In
reply to further Inquiry, whether
Tweed wore u convict uniform, was
confined in one Of the ordinary prison
cells, and given only prison fare, ho
responded that he supposed so. The
order was that he should be treated
like all other prisoners.
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The Petersburg IVA Mder says: A
very curious sale will probably be con-
Hnmmated from the steps of the Court
House this morning. The Mayor has
ordered that Charles Rogers. white
man who has no visible means OF sup.
port. shall bs sold or hired to the high
est bidder for period of sixty days.
aud Rogers will bs brought from Jail
to-day and pnt upon the stand. The
money paid for his services will be de-
voted to his own benefit. provided he
works bis time out; but if he runs
away he will get nothing. We under
stand private bid of So SO per month
hus been made for him, but a little
competition in public will probably
run him up to higher figure. We do
not know whether to congratulate or
condole with the man who will get
him.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-01-08

The New York World s not at all
satisfied with the new tinanclal mea-
sure Of Congress. II thinks the bill is
not calculated to bring the currency
down to hurl pau basis, 30 much
coveted by the bond-hoidcrs und
money monopoiists of the North and
East, but, on the contrary, tends to
postpone the day OF specie resump-
ton. 1t thus illustrates its view of the
subject: "a man in boat rows awny
IRON the point he looks at Precisely
SO Sherman's Santa Claus Sham dis
tinctly contrmpintes resumption and
rows towards 10l, 600, 000 imitation.
$40 o0O,00O enacteL and So OUO, 600
not prevented.
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notice..
BY JACOB LEVIN.

ME undersigned, having been appoint
K ed Trus,ees to settle up the nffairs of
Messrs. HOFFMAN d ALBRIGHT, hereby
give notice that all those indebted to the
hrm will make payment at once to Mr.. W.
stieglitz, and all those who have claims
VIII send the same in, properly affected,
Ior payment. W. STIEGLITZ.
g. DIERCKS,
W. WERNER.
Jan q D. GOODMAN
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IA Clon
Sales. .
SAFE Of Fine Fruit Trees and Euerqresns
direct from the Nurser,j. =. = 4

II n
SAFE of Fine Fruit Trees and Euerqresns
direct from, the Nursery. = =
BY JACOB LEVIN. e.
On TUESDAY MORNING, 18th inst. 7 will
sell; Ut my Auction Room, commencing
at 10 O'Clock, large collection of choice
FRUIT IhEES ana 95EVEhGhEENS.
among which are the following,
,vi vPieaches7stunp the World, Orockst's
White, Old Wixon, Early~York, sHole,e
EARLY, Crawford's Early, Crswford's Late,
EoAs Seeding, Bolway Large Yellow.
Wards Late, Beers Smock. Z :
Pears-First class, selected kinds.
Apples-First class, selected kinds. :. "i.s
Cherries s-Kentish or Large Pie.
Cherry Currants, large.
Vines
Evergreens-Hemlock. Spruce, American
ArbOr Yitn. t 49, - :
The above may be seen and examined at
my store and warranted IA described. -
Jane
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To Holders Of City Bills,

V0ERsONs holding CITY BILLS will
l. please send a memora ndum OF such
amounts AZ they may have had on hand
December 81, 1874, stating signature, to
the undersigned at the Union Savings
Bnnk. The object is to ASCERTAIN how many
bills are now outstanding.
w. B. GVLICK, A-
Jan 80 Chairman Of Commfttee.
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AAS $olO Wdo u hEleI OQ6.
LoNGsrREET's RETIREMENT. T.-Intelli.
gence from New Orleans, coming from
what IL regarded AZ good authority,
appears to confirm the reported retire.
ment OF Gen. Lnngstreet from the
service OF Mr.. Kellogg. The ill.health
OF Gen: Longstreet is assigned as the
nominal cause. The true cause il said
to be that the e1-Confederate General
III not only disgusted at the personal
cowardIce evipoed by Kellogg on the
l4th OF September, and on other occa.
sions, but Is at last ssdly conscious of
the mistake he made in dimminp the
iustre of un honorable name.
James Fisk lived like millionaire.
but he died virtually bankrupt. The
Inventory of his estate, presented by
Mrs. Fisk. shows that his assets
amounted to 1854. 423, whilst his debts
and losses were 81. 1872. 924-showipe a
deficiency of S17S, 500. Among the
expenses OF the estate nearly SlUO. 600
appear AZ lawyers fees and legal
charges. The losses on stocks held at
the Tune OF his death nre put down ut
S159,S40.
The New York Tribune says that the
new King Alfonso XII Is neither
strong III body nor in mind. The
If:r0hi says "he is robust OF person. Of
active habits. and has enjoyed good
training under French aud Eugiish
military Instructors" There is some
difference of opinion here. II the
Hs''uM speaks advisedly. the boy is
! good for half dom revolutions nt
least. lie Is sure Of encountetiup
them
The TExAs PACIFIC. c.-The Kansas
City Jonrnal says that Tom Scott's
read to tue Pacific, with liberal
policy III regard to mines, would do
moro to bring about specie payment,
or to secure the precious metals to do
1t With. than nll the Acts of Congress.
or theories Of secretaries from the
time of Alexander Hamilton to the
present.
What cnn be accomplished by vic.
lenco III enforcing social equality, is
not inaptly illustrated by sentence in
one Of Won Arnim's letters to Bis.
mArck: ''In spite of all our victories
anu our army of occupation, I canno,
compel private Frenchman to treat q
German with deoency," Whites the EN-.
bassador to the Chancellor.
Granite aud Mscadam pavoments
arc to be abolished in the streets oil
London, and only asphaltum or wood
Is to be used in the future. The Mao.
adam pavement is too dusty, and Ora.
mite. probably. too slippery. The
asphnitum used in London is rea
natural nsphaItum, and is as hard as
stone.
The Clubhouse Of Captain John A.
Salters, of Williamsburg, with its con.
tents, was entirely consumed by fire
last week. The fire was accidental
aud is supposed to hive been caused
by match. Losa about $500 and nc
insurance.
NJ. l.. Murray, general agent Of I'll.
Singer Sowing Machine Company 10,
tho State OF Georgia, committed ami.
cido at Macon, on Saturday last, by
taking laudanum. He committed ami
eide because OF business com plioatio ons
A clergyman at Kansas City said n
there 9as any ONE ssithin hearing o
his voice who would cry to put sto1
to Sunday dog fighting. he'd like t.
have 'em rise up. A small boy and an
old woman rose up.
a Chicago preacher has looked him
self up in the fourth story, and draw,
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Curiosity is excited in Cambriaville.
Pas as 20 whether John RiRhtbover's
new wife orders him up in tho morn
ing or whether he euchres her.
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To Rent,

70 Rent,
THREE CHOICE ROOMS, in the second
Il story OF Il private house; also, the
rear room OF an Office; furnished If de-
sired; only one square East OF Main street;
convenient to the most central and busi-
ness part Of the city; meals can be- fur
nished from a boarding house, distant only
q few doors. Only those 0i undoubted
character need apply. Apply ct this Office.
JAMS f9*
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TIE BARBER OF SEVILLE,

The company includes the following dis.
tinguished artistee: 1Iiss ADELAIDE
PHiLL1PP3, the great American Contralto;
Mr TOM KARL. Tenor; SIdNOR ORLAN-
DINE. BaritoEo; SIGNOR BACELLI,
GEO. ". CJLBY. Musical Director.
:, Admi mission. 81 90. deserved Seats, 81 5U.
For Sale at -- JanS5
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GRAND OPENINGS!
GRAND OPENING.
EVENING, JAM,F "a.
City Opera House = One Night Only. b,
Adelaide Phillipps !

Grand Italian Opera Company!
NDER the auspices Of the Columbis
" Choral Union, when n will be presented.
with appropriate costumes. scenery and
stage effects, Kossini's chef d'eurre, in two
acts, 90
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New YORK, January THE follow
ing address to the citizens of New
York, dated January S, was issued this
evening:
10 THE CITIZENS OF NEW York: To.
days Associated Press dispatches of
the events which took place in our
sister city of New Orleans present q
most marked attack upon tho rights of
American citizenship which has been
made since the establishment of our
Government. The Legislative body of
sister State, peacefully assembled, has
been broken into and dispsrsed by Fe-
dsral troops, acting uader orders from
the President of The United Statea.
10 give expression to the outraged
feelings which every citizen Of FREQ
commonwealth must experience as n
crime. happily in this oounrty 80 mn.
paralleled, against the underlying
principles OF our Government, we ask
you to assemble. irrespective Of party
::ss. :. Gccrss Ias:::a.s, MMonaasy
evening. January IL. at g O'Clock.
Signed by William Cullen Bryant
Wm. 81. Wickham, VIM. M. Evarts.
VIM. Is. Danoan, August Belmont.
Manton Marble, Whitelaw Reid. Ohas'
A. Dana. Sydney Webster aud otfefs.
The Post says the interest in the
subject OF the proposed meeting is
The daily gazette., 1875-12-15

THE Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette, Administration organ
telegraphs that paper: "The whiskev
men are Jubiiant, as they have reason TO
be, since, in the removal of Henderson
who has been familiar with the details Of
the ring for months, their chances of es.
cape are greatly increased. Nonew man
can take up the complicated threads of
evidence so as to become 80 dangerous a
prosecutor. Under the circumstan, es II
is not too much TO say that the removal
s considered high handed and arb;trarx
exercise OF power, which, if not in tbein-
terest OF the ring, amounts in its results
10 the same thing. 1t is known that n
verbatim report Of Hendsrion's speech
was sent to Washington some days ago.
and there can scarcely be the professed
ignorance here of its real nature. Nc.
kee and Mcguire have succeeded in get.
ting their cases transferred to the United
States Circuit Court. and the trial post.
poned until the first Monday in January
another point for the ring"
The daily gazette., 1875-12-15
Hancock on the Civil Power.

There is a timely remark in the obser
vations made by General Hancock sitting
on the Babcock court of inquiry, to the
effect that by the Federal Constitution
the military is subordinate TO the civil
power. His translation OF the effect OF
that instrument into a concise formula
is creditable to his patriotism and hon:
orable to his profession. 1t Is the civil
power alone which can 'crea and sup
port armies" and make rules" for their
government. 1t is the civil power which
has made such rules in the Articles OF
War" II is the civil power which has
given, and which can take away, the )ur-
isdiction of military courts. No person
can be tried by a military court unless
one who has voluntarily surrendered
himself thereto by entering into the
army, or unless by insurrection or rebel,
lion civil courts are closed. General
Hancock expresses with admirable force
the idea that, while military courts are
as lawful courts, within the limits con-
ferred by the civil power, as any other
courts, and military law is, within its
limits, as precise and solid as any othcr
law, yet due Difference to the spirit OF
our institutions, and to the civil author
ity, suggests that the court on BAbcock
suspend its inquiry for further orders
from the President IN presence OF the
indictment in st. Louis. 1t is not only
the thing which General Hancock did,
but the sensitiveness about coming in
contact with q civil court prompting
him to do it suddenly and instantly,
which is 30 commendable. And yet his
reasons are as good "a either Of these
With him, evidently, it is the part of an
officer and a gentlemen to obey the spir-
it as well as the letter of the law of the
hand. With him the army is no sanctu-
ary for defiance of the civil power. Bah
cock, az General Hancock quickly saw,
has committed two offences if he con-
spired against the whiskey tax-one that
for which he 10 indicted, and the other
for unbeooming conduct as an officer;
and that the army, though first in order
of time, should yield to the civil courts
before the service On Babcock of the
warrant of the civil court under the in
dictment created any possible conflict.
Possibly under the order of the Presi-
dent the army court could have main
tanned its jurisdiction of the self-accused
till its inquiry was completed, but Cen
eral Hancock rightly preferred to aid
the people," who, through a grand jury
complained that Babcock had commit
ted crime against the nation, as well as
the army.
We repeat that the quick action of
General Hancock is creditable to the
army and to himself.-Horld.
The daily gazette., 1875-12-15
The Louisiana Case.
Ispecial Despatch 70 the Wor. d

special Despatch to the World
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14-Thsre was a
spirited discussion in the Senate to-day
over one phase of the much worn Louisi-
ana case, being a request of one Of the
Senators-elect, McMi, Ian, who was COM
missioned by Governor McEnery, for the
return of his credentials. Mr.. Bayard
energetically protested against granting
the request. He regarded the papers as
a part Of the record of the Senate and
insisted that they ought not to be re-
moved. Nj. Howe with great confidence
declared that McEnery had never been
Governor Of Louisiana. Mr.. Bayard
said he believed in his soul that McEn-
cry was the lawful choice of the people
of Louisiana for Governor elected in
due form; and that he had been kept
out of his Office by the usurpation of the
Federal power directed by the President
Of the United States. The credentials
were finally returned to Mcmillan by a
vote of 80 to %, Mr.. Dawes voting with
the Democrats. The Pinchback lobby
is voting for the colored claimant. aud
are taking advantage of the Republican
Senators fears that they are rapidly
losing their majority in the Senate, a,
the vote Just given indicates.
The daily gazette., 1875-12-15
Three jolly Couples Too Tightly Mar
ried by jolly Alderman.

Three Brooklyn girls v ent with others
on a picnic to Spring Hill Grove last
summer, accompanied by three young
men, and had a jolly time. An alder
man was at the picnic, and he had very
good time, toe. Somebody proposed that
they should have a mock marriage, and
the alderman consented to perform it
The three young ladies and the three
young men stood up, each with their re-
spective witnesses. The ceremony was
performed, all had a laugh, separated
is 8 serious aspect given to the matter.
It is .held, and plausably enough, that
the action of the alderman was legal and
binding. and that the parties are really
married according to the law of the
State.
The daily gazette., 1875-12-15

The Poor and the uneducated have
enough to bear. The buffetting of the
hard times in the endeavor to secure
the means of keeping the family compar-
atively well clad and fed is quite enough
for the poor, while the scorn and derision
cast upon the uneducated is not unfre-
Quently terrible to them. This is enough
without charging upon these two classes
the evils which the people of this coun-
try now suffer from crime. 1t is not
fair. The poor negro robs hen roost.
gets his back lashed and six months, in
Delaware, in a more southern State in
times past he got a kick or knock and
passed on iuntil, perhaps. his impro-
videnoe caused him to steal again. 1t is
not from these small offences the people
suffer. They are bad enough, it is true.
But our worst troubles arises in higher
circles and with larger game.
We suffer from the Ministerial scroun.
del; the Congressional thief; the Bank
speculator the defaulting treasurers +;
the speculators in official patronage; the
municipal rohberies the savings fund
scroundrels, and private bank rascals ;
the innumerable political official villain
o., the whiskey Ring, and other Ring
thieves, and the Pension Bureau thieves
These are the people that fill the coun-
try with complaint. and give the news
paper reporters an immense deal of toll
and trouble.
But these people are not lacking in
education. They are usually well advan.
ced in all the learning Of the day, and in
most cases tine most fashionable in dress.
refined in language. suave in address,
and often hospitable to q fault. The
Credit Mobiher, the Tweed Ring; The
hcDonald-Rabcock Ring, the Shepherd
Ring, the Cookies, the Clews, Cadwalder
Schoumakers, King. Durrell Kellogg
Ames, and a host Of others, who mostI,
get OF without adequate punishment
and often without any. II refined anG
educated people were only free from
crime, we should verJ soon feel chang,
IN all our communities that would tel
strongly upon the uneducated who com
init small thetts, and others who ar,
sometimes found drinking in bar room,
and disturbing the peace careless of tb,
wants and even destitution that may er
ist at home in their families.
The daily gazette., 1875-12-15
WATER DFPARTMFNT,
CHIEF ENGINEERS OFFICE,
No. 100 Market Street
WILMINGroN, Del Dec. Oh

WILMINGTON, Del Dec. 9th, 1879.
NOTICE To WATER RENTERS
~ Office City Water Department
The bills for 1876, are now ready and pay
able at the Registrars office, 1901 Market st.
The law requires that all bills paid on or be-
fore January Slst 1876. The face Of the bill.
shall be received and receipted for;
those paid during tho month of February,
five per ct. additional, thhse paid during the
month OF March ten per cent. addit'oa Il /; anil
where amounts remain unpaid aitw April
LIST 1877, the Registrar is required " nave the
Ferrules withdrawn and suit instituted for
the recovery OF the amount due. The water
will not again be let into such premises un.
til such ar O. rs with assessments, ard SO for
drawing Ferrules are paid.
Oflice hours g. m to 4 D m.
EUW. MCINTYRE.
declO-u Registrar.
~ 0TlCE.-Nnticc is hereby given that the
~ co-partnersbip heretofore existing be-
tween the undersigned under the firm name
of Bickta Il Co., is this day dissolved by mu-
tual consent, the interest OF James Clark.
kdward McManus anu James Murphy
having been purchased by Joseph Stoeckle
and Francis Rickta who alone are authorized
to use the firm name in liquidation:
JAMES CLARK,
f J McMANUS,
JAMES MURPHY,
FRANCIS BICKTA.
JOSEPH STOECKLE,
WILMINGTON, Del, Dec. let, 1873.
NorCE-- Joseph steeckle and Francis
Bickta, having purcha ed the Interest OF
James Clark Edward j. McManus and Jam es
Murphy, in the late firm OF Bickta Il Co.,
wi continue the businels OF the bI every. at
the northwest corner of Fifth and Ad .ms
treets, in the city of Wilmington, under the
firm name Of Bickta a Company
FRANCIS BICKTA,
JOSEPH STOECKLE.
December lst, lS15-s.lm