The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-08-17


SOMETHING New AND ENTERTAIN
Mo. -Messrs. Harper Sc Brothers
have issued series of writing books
Nos. 1, Q, 8 and 4-entitled "Sym-
metrical Penmanship, with Marginal
Drawing Lessons, for schools and
colleges" These books are really
useful. and at the same time will
prove attractive to beginners. They
are writing and drawing books com
bined. An inspection of the books
will prove interesting. Mr.. McCar-
ter has placed copies of each work
upon our desk.
KIND Feelings are gratified
to learn that the colored men of Co
lumbia have taken steps to petition
Gen. Sickles for the release of the
young men Radcliffe and DAILY, or
rather, we should say, for remis-
sion of their severe sentence.
Such evidences of the kind and
sympathetic relations between the
two races speak louder than all the
platforms, speeches and resolutions
in the world. The colored commu-
nifty know, like others of our citi-
zens, that these young men are
wrong; but they are also assured that
they did not mean wrong, and in this
action which they have taken, they
demonstrate that no mere political
differences of opinion can alter the
allegiance which they have ever held
towards old friends, associates and
citizens. '.t@'
This petition is one of the hap
piest signs of confidence we have yet
heard of. and it is to be hoped that,
coming from such an honest source,
it will be entitled to some weight in
its consideration by the military au-
thorities. It is the white man who,
when the colored man is in trouble
before our courts and magistrates,
affords the latter assistance; and now,
when g young son of Columbia is in
bad box, why should the colored
mad not reciprocate? He is doing 80.
-~~>O~--~~~.oo~-
DEAR PHOENIX: I venture to send
you an extract from letter just re-
ceived from an accomplished pen,
that has been taken from Columbia
by one who is enjoying life to the
full in the North Carolina mountains.
AS it is not written in the interests of
any hotel concern, I hope it will be
found of interest to all of us sum-
mer-bound folk, who would like to
know of agreeable places-in the event
of our getting able to get off to them.
The extract is written, as they seem
to live at cleveland Springs, con
a'nore and with spirit:
"Why are you not at Cleaveland
Springs, with nll your friends? If
you are sick, tired, old, hungry,
thirsty or bidSe, twenty-four hours
ride from Columbia will bring you
to that place of places, to be made
well, young, fat and handsomei Such
rolls on the bran new ten-pin alley;
such MONDAY baths in the perfectly
appointed lighthouses; such sunset
strolls to the springs of white or red
sulphur; or the still more romantic
one round to the iron and free stone
Such evenings of interspersed music
and dancing, or of charades, farces,
pantomimes and tableaux, acted in
the well-fitted-up private theatre;
such nights of comfortable beds,
cool breezes and no mosquitoes;
tables spread with fare which would
tempt an anchorite call these make
the old young, the sick we'll, the sor-
rowful glad, and contrive to make all
forget for time the existence of
such blue realities as national con-
ventions and radical platforms. Nor
must / forget the drives to the lovely
mountain village of Shelby. Every
day, the ladies appear in new style
sometimes in blue vehicle, some
times in yellow, sometimes drawn
by horses, sometimes by oxen. We
rily, 1 believe, if they demanded q
team of elephants, they would be
supplied by the gallant proprietors.
One thing / do know-never yet has
n r,,ock ~ CIao-olo.J Gar;poo nv