The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-04-04

upon the cheek of every enemy of
peace All that the North and South
need to come together and to live
happily and harmoniously, is to be
let alone. Why is it necessary to be
forever stirring anew the elements Of
discord? Did abuse ever produce
any other crop but hate? Can sneers
and epithets move the breasts of the
people to anything but discord and
malice? If common charity and
love be wanting, where are common
sense and sef-interest, that men
should still continue to SOW the seeds
of strife? It is high time that the
pandemonium of political agitation
had been abated. We quarrelle,l and
fought are we still to quarrel again
and keep it up forever?
Indecencies of Modern City Fashions.
The Freeman's Journal is scandal
lied at what it calls s'The Indecen-
cies of Modern City Fashions. The
editor says:
A few weeks ago, on a muddy
day, we saw walking, some way be-
fore us, pitiable object In the dis
tance it resembled poor German
peasant woman, with her short petit
coat falling somewhat below the knee
There is nothing immodest in that
peasant dress. The German peasant
walks with her ankles exposed, but
there is no illusory pretense of cover
ing them. The poor creature we
saw seemed to be such an one, with
huge clothes line strung around
her, on a frame, on which she seemed
to be carrying various gewgaw dresses
for different people.
She seemed to be the humble er-
rand-girl of some lressmaker's estab-
ishment. On passing the unhappy
creature, we noticed that she was sail
ing along with the idea that the
dresses hanging around her shoulders
were her own, and she looked as
modest and unconcerned as if she
were really decently covered. Speak
ing Of it to those more au fat in such
matters, we found that such kind of
dress is call the rage" for some time
past. It is effected on purpose, by
having hoops made with a sharp and
stiff curve at the foot, that will tilt the
dress above, and expose the legs to
the knee. Another progress" keeps
pace with it.
It has been told in the daily pa
pers, but we rarely believe anything
we see in them. A very truthful wo-
man, however, living in the country.
came to town last week, and told q
near friend of ours that she had tried
to get a corset made, but was told it
could not be done under two weeks,
because all hands in the large estab-
ishment she visited were engaged in
making false calves for "ladies who
wear the fitting hoops!
Onlast Sunday, walking home from
church through several fashionable
streets, we noticed women walking,
with fitting skirts, from where they
had been pretending to say their
prayers; and on all the corners, and
on hotel fronts, we saw rows of we'll
dressed black-guards, standing, OBJ
serving and laughing, and comment
ing on what these women were exhi-
biting.
Out on this indecency, that would
disgrace honest Pagans. Let every
modest woman who has been tricked
into getting these traps OF the harlot
as the latest fashion," pull them off
and burn them Let every parent
see to it that his guileless daughter is
not disgraced by following the IA
shions. Let masters of households
do the charity to servant maid that
has kept up with the fashion, to pro-
vide her with such as are modest, and
forbid her, while in his house, to
PLAY the airs of the wanton.
Why, even in Pagan times, when
the men abandoned themselves to the
most vile practices, they tried to keep
their women uncorrupt. What are
we coming to?
CURIOUS AND INTERESTING Historic
FACTs.-The whole number of men
in the United States army from April,
1861, to April, 1865, was 2,6OO,0
the State of New York alone furnish
ing 464, 156. The entire number of men
in the Confederate army from the
first to the last of war amounted only
to 100000. At the close of the war
the United States had an army OF
1000, 900 men. A statement, COM
piled from the official records of the