The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-06-16

| Daughters OF COnfedel. S0ldterss
for the Half Year Er ing 18TH
April, 1868. 3' ~
The ladies in charge Of the Home, .
believing the public to be interested
in their mission of love and mercy,
would lay before those who have so
kindly aided in this charity brief
statement of what has been accom-
plished for the welfare of its inmates.
The Home" has been, in opera
ton for six months, and numbers
over eighty occupants. Here these
destitute ladies and children, some
OF whom have been reduced from
affiuence to poverty, by the misfor-
tunes of war, find comfortable
shelter and pleasant home. In the
seclusion of her apartment, each
mother can carry on the work of
training her children with the same
privacy and care that she could in
her own home, and the children can
still enjoy the privileges and plea
sures of the domestic circle.
Three times week soup is sup
piled in the institution; and, from
time to time, such provisions Us have
been sent by friends have been dis
tributed among the inmates and
most gratefully received.
A school, numbering over fifty
children, and constantly increasing,
gathered from the families in the
"Home," and from those unable to
secure education elsewhere, has been
organized, and is regularly and gra-
tuitously taught by young ladies of
refinement and culture. The pro-
gress of the children in acquiring
knowledge has already been such as
to reward and stimulate their disin-
terested teachers.
The large and commodious build
ing rented by the board of control,
affording the facilities, it is proposed,
as speedily as possible, to admit a
limited number of girls, daughters of
Confederate soldiers, who have been
impoverished by the war, and to
afford them home, in order to
secure them the means of thorough
education. They will be placed
under tho supervision of discreet
and experienced lady, as matron.
For the means of their education and
board, however, the board of control
makes earnest appeal to the liberal
and benevolent. Tuition for them
can be obtained, at some of the best
schools in the city of Charleston, at
one-half the usual rates; and the
zeal and determination of the young
ladies to secure the means of self
support, will, doubtless, ensure
double the ordinary progress to that
coveted result.
Fortunately. also, the spacious
premises occupied by the Homo"
has afforded shelter to persons in
need who do not come within the
exact letter of the purpose of the
institution, but who have gladly
availed themselves of tho privilege Of
occupying rooms in the building
which were not Immediately required
by those for whom they were origi-
nally designed. The eagcrness with
which ladies have availed themselves
OF even n temporary shelter, which
they covenantcd cheerfully to resign
so soon as it should be needed by
those having prior claim, does but
indicate the extremity to which we
are reduced, the patient magnanimi-
ty with which it is borne, and the
timeliness of even the least effort
and prayer for its relief.
While thanking, most gratefully,
al who have assisted us in this un-
dertaking, we earnestly entreat them
not to relax their generous endeavors
on behalf of the "Home."
There are many wants of its in
mates which we are unable to relieve;
and we feel that our work is incom-
plete until we pour out the full mea-
sure of comfort upon those whose
protectors yielded up their lives in
defence of their homes and ours.
We fully realize the vast impor-
tance of our undertaking, its grave
responsibility. We know our work
to be noble one, to comfort the
widow and the fatherless, and to
shelter the homeless. Therefore,
with an abiding faith in the kindness
OF onr people, and Il confident trust
in the benevolent promptings of hui
manity, We earnestly commend the
'Homc" to the liberal and the phi
lanthropic everywhere.
Mrs. M. A. SNOWDEN,
Mrs. p. G.. GAILLARD,
Mrs. ID. T.. HUGER,
Mrs. GEORGE ROBERTSON,
ID