The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-04-27
COLUMBIA.
Friday Morning, April 81; 1855.
Refrigeration.

Ao 10 UAeA PltdSuGS Sh"o VIC AolAy
record the increasing prosperity Of
our neighboring cities The energy
and perseverance displayed by the
Southern people Immediately after
such q devastating war is unparal-
leled. Instead of sinking into de-
spondency, and giving up all rs lost,
they have heroioally placed their
shoulders to the wheel, and extncated
themselves from the quagmire Of de-
spair into which, for some months at
first. it was supposed they had sunk.
Atlanta, which, like our own ILL
fated city, was consigned to the torch,
is being rapidly rebuilt. The rubbish
of burnt brick and charred lumber
is fast giving way to stately edifces
and capacious warehouses, and, above
all, to large and numerous foundries
and workshops. Atlanta has always
been the great mechanical city of the
South. and again is the hammer to be
heard within her walls, which plainly
tells OF her return to her former self
With excellent railroad facilities
three or four railroads diverging FROM
its centre, Atlanta is destined to be
oae among the leading commercial
enporiums of the South.
In our own once beautiful city, the
work Of recuperation is going bravely
on. We have already noticed several
OF the new and substantial stores
erected on Main street. We now OBJ
serve that Mr.. John Agnew has
erected a capacious brick building cor
ner of Plain and Richardson streets,
intended for hardware store. Next
door, Mr.. R. G. Anderson is con-
ssrncting two new large and handsome
stores, and on the same block, for
merly known as Granite Range, Mr..
I. d. Davis is erecting several stores.
Messrs. Gregg & Co. also intend to
erect o store on the same block, Oh
the former site of the Commercial
Bank. South of Plain street, Mr..
Bedeu Is about erecting handsome
store on the site of his old stand and
that adjoining, formerly occupied by
Messrs. Falls & Kinard.
We have already noticed the large
and substantial stores occupied by
Messrs. Kenneth & Gibson, Brown,
Stenhouse and Others. We now learn
that Messrs. E. & G. D. Hope are
preparing to put handsome iron
front two-story building on their old
sites and Immediately in front of
their present store, which, when com
pleted, will be one of the largest
stores in the city. Mr.. Brennan is
erecting extensive carriage fac
tory; Goldsmith's foundry is in full
blast, and Mr.. Alexander's will soon
be in active operation. It is thus
that our citizens are bestirring them
selves to retrieve their losses by the
war, and restore their city to her
former prosperity and beauty. We
CLEAN from our exchanges that other
neighboring cities and towns-Char-
lotte, Charleston, &c.-are all ener-
gatically at work. rebuilding and
establishing manufactures, &c.
Many other evidences of the ener-
gy and spirit of our people are being
developed here and elsewhere. We
are truly gratifed to see that, although
well nigh utterly prostrated by the
ravages Of wa-, the Southern people
have not succumbed to the dire disas-
ters which stunned them for a time.
but have gone earnestly to work to
retrieve their shattered fortunes. ALI
honor to the men who have cluno to
the South in her darkest hours, and de-
voted their energies aid the slender
remnant of their fortunes to the work
OF recuperation. This indomitable
will and persistent effort will ere long
rebuild our desolated towns and
cities, and restore them to their for
mer prosperity.