The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-06-23

FORWARD THE NAMES. Es.-During the
past few days, we have received large
accessions to our list of subscribers,
from Due West and Level Land,
Abbeville District. Make up your
clubs at once, gentlemen.
COOLING BEVERAGES. Mr.. Richard
Barry, of the "Carolina House," in
Washington street, ever mindful of
the requirements of the season,
favored us with several glasses of
claret sangaree, and other things,
yesterday morning. His compounds
and pre~arations are unusually ad-
mired, and justly so.
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The COLUMBIA BAR AND CHANcEL-
LoR LEsEsNE. We learn that touch
ing scene was presented in the room
of the Court of Equity, on Saturday
last. That esteemed and respected
gentleman and distinguished jurist
had presided in Columbia for the
first and, perhaps, last time. The
OCCASION seemed, therefore. a proper
one for he gentlemen of this bar to
show their appreciation of the Chan
cellor, not only as man, but as
representative of that noble Judi
ciary, soon to give way to new
regime. The venerable Mr.. DeSaus-
sure spoke as follows, and Joseph
Daniel Pope, Esq. seconded the
resolutions:
May it please your Honor, I am
charged by the bar Of Columbia with
the duty of presenting to your
Honor the resolutions which 1 hold
i'll my hand, and more grateful
Office could not have been assigned
to me.
In ordinary times, tribute so COR
dial to q high public functionary,
whose course has commanded our ut
most respect, wonld be just, and to
the bar most grateful duty; but it
is eminently proper, under the cir
cumstances which attend our parting
with your Honor. A noble and high
toned Judiciary, which has for SO
many years challenged the respect
and affection of tie people of South
Carolina, is about to be swept from
existence. We mourn over the
threatened annihilation of a great
institution, around which our re-
spect and affections have so long
clustered, and we part with your
Honor US the last representative we
shall be permitted to see.
Whereas, the bar of Columbia has,
for the first time, been favored by an
official visit from our distinguished
and esteemed fellow-citizcn, his
Honor Chancellor Lesesne, whose
purity of private life, legal learning
and clear Judgment, commended him
to the State rs one who would ad-
minister the law with ability, purity,
and with the single purpose of doing
impartial justice as an upright Judge;
and whereas, in the course of events
by which we are now surrounded, it
may be possible that this, his first,
visit to us may be his last, in his
official capacity as Chancellor of
South Carolina, therefore be it
ResOlced. That the bar of Colum-
bia recognize in Chancellor Lesesne
tho virtuous man, the useful citizen,
the upright Judge, and the Christian
gentleman, to whom the affection of
the people of South Carolina will
continue to cling, whether during
the remainder of his years we shall
greet him in the walks of private
life, or shall behold him in the vi
cissitudes of the future, still called to
the administration of the law as a
Judge upon the bench. And amid
all the chances and changes of life,
we extend to him q sincere and affec-
tionate God speed.
The Chancellor responded, with
deep feeling, and in that courteous
and refined style SO eminently charac-
teristic of one, the brilliancy of whose
intellectual traits is not unattended
by the radiance of moral feeling.
When he closed his remarks, it was
observed that there were none pre-
sent who did not feel the emotions
which the occasion properly pro-