The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-07-24

Posr ORFtoE HouRs. The Office is
open from 8 q. m. until 31s p. m, !,
and from 8 until p. m. The North
ern mail closes at 81 p. M, and all
other mails close at p. m.
UNION REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
This body convenes in Janney's Hall
this morning. A number of delegates
arrived last evening.
AS a good many inquiries have
been made relative to the distribu-
tion of prizes in the entertainment
for the benefit of the Ladies' Associa-
ton for the relief of the destitute in
the South, we publish the following
note from the acting secretary of the
association. There are still o few
tickets on hand, which can be had on
application at the Phenic Office:
296 9TH AVENUE, New YORK,
July 20, 1867.
\ Owing to the unprecedented
sole of tickets, we hope to close our
entertainment on the 1st of August.
If, however, the tickets are not all
sold one week prior to the close, it
must be postponed until they are
sold, which would cause few weeks
delay. California has done we'll The
President of the Panama Steamship
Company (also President of Wells,
Fargo & Co.'S Express) has ordered
25, 600 tickets, and in this way re-
lieved the managers Of quite num-
ber.
Our distribution will take place ut
Ford's Theatre, Washington, d. c.,
and twelve gentlemen from our ho-
norary members will take the control
OF the two wheels, one for names and
the other for numbers. The first
drawn number takes the highest
prize, and, of course, the first name
drawn from wheel No. > is the lucky
winner.
The CHARLOTTE AND SOUTH CARO-
LIMA RAILROAD Tho Post Office De-
partment has ordered contract with
this road for twelve times a week
service, with route agent accommo-
dation. The line is 11O miles in
length.
Raymond's Heroine. A Novel. New
York: Harper ~ Brothers.
This novel comes to the reader
without the prejudice of an authors
name, or even nom de plane. It is
No. 292 of Harper's popular series of
novels. The scene is in the Northern
part of England, and the characters
of all grades, from the ignorant poor
up to the formal and naughty Lady
F'itz John. Love is, of course, the
theme, money the machinery, and
fraud, rustic courtship, aristocracy,
poor pride, funkcyism, mesaAiance,
woman's nobility and the triumph of
truth-these are some of the Incl
dents that move through the good
sized volume, with spirit and pith
that remind one sometimes Of Jane
Eyre and those man-women books
that made such n sensation in their
day. At Dul,io e Chapman's; sells
at fifty cents.
At the request of an old citizen-a
lady-of Columbia, we publish the
following communication, relative to
a movement which, we hope, will
prove of advantage to the unfortunate
class for whose benefit it was inau-
gurated:
MEssRs. EDIToRs: Eight or nine
months ago, the state OF our commu-
nifty was in such q sad condition that
number of ladies felt inclined to
make an effort to put stop to the
frequency of street begging Antici-
pating from the scarcity of food
there might lie suffering and death,
but there has been so much sympathy
manifested from benevolent hearts at
distance. and supplies from all
quarters of the country, there has
not been the suffering we anticipated,
and since the harvest of blackberries
has set in (for this is the harvest sea-
son Of that class.) But it will not
last, and the season of want will set
in. Now, our object is to encourage
them to go to place specified, to