The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-08-21
Correspondience.a Of {ile pRsnis.
NEW York, August le, 1867. =

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BILE, more tediously monotonous than
in less densely packed localities. sIt
is Pleasant to look out on the coun-
try scenes, and sec the thirsty vege-
tation drink the bounties of Pluyius;
but to look ont here on the dirty
streets, and see and hear. nothing
but bustling throngs aud rattling
cars and carts, is ali infliction that is
grievous to bear. So. to compound
the infiction, I will infict your read
ers with column of rainy day gos-
sip; provided, of course, you consent
to administer the dose.
The complaint of dullness in trade
circles is general, and but for the
abundance and cheapness of money,
which may be had at three to five
per cent. would have, ere this, culmi-
mated in serious failures. A few have
occurred, but the cheerful crop pros
poets reported from all sections are
confirming sense of hopefulness in
the future, and the panic-mongers
are more reticent than usual. Mer-
chants from the South and West are
beginning to arrive, but they all
seem disposed to buy sparingly and
keep near the Shore" until finan-
cial and political affairs are more de-
finitely settled. Prices are firm, with
an upward tendency in some grades
of cotton goods, and there is no
reason to expect any speedy decline.
Newspaper circles here arc busy
with speculation as to the result of
the withdrawal of the Herald from,
the Associated Press. 1t is stated
that a new association has been form
ed, with very thorough and complete
facilities, and will soon invite the
press Of the country to unite in an
association where all will be on a
perfectly equal footing, and where
the news will not be peddled out to
private parties in advance of its deli
very to the press.
In politics, there has been n signi-
fcant lull during the week-the re-
moval of Stanton and appointment
Of Grant evidently taking the ultra
radicals by surprise. They have been
so long trying to use Grants prestige
to advance their ends, that they hest
tate about making war upon him.
A few provincial journals promptly
opened thair batteries on him, and
yesterday the Tribune assailed him
with q number of interrogatories,
asking where he has ever signified
any disapprobation of any acts of the
President, and pointing to his tour
South, at the time Schurz was sent
out to manufacture report on
Southern outrages, rs evidence of his
hostility to the policy of Congress.
His trip with Johnson Ground the
circle" last year, and his presence at
his side when executive clears flow
ed at the time of the Philadelphia
Convention" are also referred to as
evidence that Grant and the Presi-
dent have been working together to
enclose the radicals. And ii is pretty
evident that there is force in the
lachrymose lamentations of "H. G."
The Times and Herald arc delighted
with Grants appointment, and it is,
of course, gratifying to the World
and Express. The Post is mum as
an oyster.
The radicals have evidently reached
a eliminating point in their career of
recklessness. Not one in ten, even
of the SO o-called leaders of the party,
pretends to defend the policy of white
disfranchisement, which places the
excluded States in the control of the
negroes. They see in it nothing but
danger to society-danger to trade
danger to all the best interests of the
whole country; and their sole pretext,
that it was necessary to keep the
South from passing into the control
of rebel influence, is revolving and
odious, because it is known to be only
another name for device to carry
the Presidential election. While the
popular mind, North and East
where L have had a good opportunity
for personal observation-does not
approve the radical policy, I have met
few who think the South can gain
anything by resisting or opposing the
military bill. Let the folly of those
who enacted it culminate in tempo
rary triumph, and it will only the
more surely cement the conservative
element of the country, while fac
tious opposition serves to array the
races in antagonism at the South, and
to hold the discordant elements of
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