The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-07-31

passengers have q choice of routes.
ether via Richmond or Petersburg
and City Point; We chose the1atter.
| CITY PoINT-LIFE AND ANIMATION. =,
At City Point, the ex-Confederate
begins to feel that he is in different
atmosphere. Railroad cars running
every horr; steamers and vessels ar-
irving andi departing; teams passing
to and fro; soldiers, black and white,
hurry backwards and forwards, and
the hustle and confusion incident to
what appears to be quite business
place place are seen pa saSens heard on
wharYes have been constructed along
the bank of the river, which are
principally used for Government pur-
poses. Entcrprising Yankees havc
built quite respectable town on the
bluff, which is reached by long flights
of stairs. Quite comnodious hotel
has been erected, which is occupied
almost exclusively by officers, but
where civilian can get a fine meal.
capital iulep and good nights rest.
STEAMBOAT TRAVEL.
Two lines OF steamers now run from
Richmond, via City Point and For
tress Monroe. to Baltimore. The
''Ncw Line rs it is called. composed
Of the steamers City Point and Die
tator, for Fortress Monroe, and the
George Leary and George t. Brady,
are the Avoritcs, and are generally
thronged with passengers. The fare
and accommodation are excellent.
The Le1ry is regarded rs one of the
fastest steamers atlout, and makes the
trip to Baltimore in two hours less
time than either Of the others.
IMPROVEMENTS RAILROAD. AGAIN.
And now for Baltimore, and thence
to Philadelphia and New York. An
accommodation train leaves the Monu-
mental City at 8 o'clock, followed 10y
the express at ga. N. the former due
in Philadelphia at p ~, the latter
in New York at i p. nl.-q,ick trip.
You may we'll say The road bed has
been changed in several places: the
change OF cars at the Susquchannah,
at H;;vrc-ue Grace, has been obviatcd
= the entire train being carried over
on &n immense boat-and YOU run
through to New York without change
Of cars. a railroad bridge is being
built over the Susquehannah.
CIIANGES-THTNGS AS THEY ARE NOW.
To one who has been shut up in the
Confederacy for five years, numerous
changes, trivial, perhaps, in them
selves, arc apparent few of which
we mention.
IIATTEEs AND THINGS in PHILADELPHIA.
Stages (or omnibus>es, as We term
them, have entirely disappeared from
the streets OF Phladelp phia-horse
cars having taken their place. All the
principal streets have the rails laid
through them.
A large park, in imitation Of the
great Now York Central, has been Laid
out near the Sch1lylkill Water Works.
The New Jersey Central and the
Camden and Amboy Railroad Compa-
MES have been merged into one CON
cern.
A GOOD IDEA.
Post Office boxes arc attached to the
lamp posts, where letters can b.,
dropped and they are promptly deli
/ vcrcd.
70 YONKvILLE AND HARLEM.
40 We IilIVt our ut'itlli uliGclS VIII Il
reiative in Harlem, and consequently
rode up and down every day, good
opportunity was afforded of obscr, ing
1.-THE Improvements and extension Of
the city. The Third Avenue Railroad
Company run cars through to York
Will and Harleln-a distance OF eight
miles from the City Hall-for the low
price OF seven cents. Some idea n0t
be formed OF the business done by
this horse car institution. when it is
known that cars leave the City Hall
and the stables in 6lst street from
| daylight until 12 p. m., every three
minutes, and from that hour to day
light again, every fifteen minutes, and
they are always full.
DUMMIES.
HE Ist and 2d avenue railroad have
neat and extra wide cars, called dam
mics, with a small engine in one end,