The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-12-12
Iaocal :Tee11ns.

IHE FIREMEN'S S FAIR.-Those who
are charitably or industrially dispos-
ed, can lend q helping hand-never
mind how fair and delicate the hand
may be-in carrying through to a
successful completion the fair for the
purpose of assisting the Independent
Fire Company to re-erect their en-
gine house. Our Masonic brethren
have put their shoulders to the wheel,
and are doing all i'll their power to
assist in housing the unfortunates.
''THE LADsoN MEMORIAL CHAPEL. I"
A place of worship with the above
appropriate title is about being erect
ed by the colored members of the
Presbyterian Church, on the site of
the old Presbyterian Lecture Room,
in Sumter street, near Laurel; and in
order to have ample room, the ada
cent lot on the North has been pur-
chased. Ground was broken for the
new edifice yesterday, and the work
will be rapidly pushed forward to
completion. 1t is to be we'll
ventilated and roomy building, with
auditorium sufficiently large to COM
fortably seat 400 persons; there are
also three or four ante-rooms, which
are to be used for the infant schools,
Bible classes, etc. A. Y. Lee, ESQ,
is the architect. The Rev. james
Ladson, to commemorate whose
memory this building is to be erected,
was tue pastor of colored congrega-
ton for many years, and by his kind
ness, patience and true Christianly
department, endeared himself to one
aud all.
COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Through the courtesy of President
Johnson, on excursion train was run
to the terminus of this road, yesterday
afternoon, and ample time allowed the
passengers to thoroughly examine
the whole bridge, as well as the gen
eral moduS operdndi of railroad build
ing. The track-layers have reached
q point little more than four miles
on the Lexington side of the river,
and it is thought that within the next
two months, the snort of the iron
horse will announce to the quiet in
habitants of the village of Lexington,
that bona .fde railroad train is ac-
tually making its way through that
District. The bridge over the Con-
garee is deserving of more than q
passing notice. MS it is truly skillful
piece of workmanship. It is an
"Undergrade Fink suspension truss, +"
total length of 1,040 feet, in ten
spans, single track roadway; depth
of truss 81 feet; all compression
strains in cast iron; all tensile strains
in wrought iron; pier towers in tripod
form of wrought iron, capacity 1000
pounds per lineal foot of roadway,
and equal to passing over with safety
train composed of fifty locomotive
engines, averaging twenty tons each.
Cost of structure about 800, 1000.
The excursionists returned to Co.
lumbia about 6 o'clock; but from the
bright light impaired by full moon,
we could very readily have imagined
that the usually short day of this
season of the year, had been con-
siderably heightened, and that the
day god had not yet retired.
A pamphlet has recently appeared,
entitled ''Spcculum, by Optician, :"
from the pen of an esteemed clergy
man of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, in the Diocese of South
Carolina, who was resident of Co.
lumbia and its vicinity during the
war, and is, doubtless, known to
some Of our citizens. 1t is in reply
to remarkable publication, entitled
"The Negro" by Ariel, many thou
sand copies of which are said to have
been scattered throughout the coun-