The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-06-04

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RE-IssUE OF THAoKERAY's NOVELS
Messts. Harper 6 Brothers have pre-
sented us, through Messrs. Dufiie &
ChapmaR, with q copy Of Thackeray's
well-known and universally y-admired
novel without a hero-"Vanity Fair"
with the authors own illustrations; COM
plete in one volume; price fifty cents.
The publishers state that Thackeray's
other novels will be issued Immediately,
at ecorrespon dinghy low prices.
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DR.. Jackson, OF the Plain street drug
store, presents fearful looking picture
tothe public this morning. representa-
tion of deaths head. But it is hoped
timid people will not become alarmed
before perusing the accompanying para
graph, which imparts the gratifying in
formation that, through the inventive
powers OF Green Mountain firm, flies
can be disposed of suddenly and sum-
marily. DR.. J. has presented us with
several sheets of the prepared paper, and
in day or two, it is confidently expected,
a fly will be regarded as great curio sity
in the PHOENIX Office as one of Uncle
Sans mint drops would be.
Uneasy is the head which wears a
crown" The new postmaster, it is re-
ported, finds that his ways are not ex-
actly those of 'pleasantness, and his
paths not those of "peace." There are
rumors of trouble in the post Office
camp, and its officials find in the distri-
button of their matter task more diff
cult than was the cleansing of the
"Augean stable" From the troubled
waters of the post Office department
comes a wall, "Help me, Cassius, or I
sink" 1t is whispered that the old
officials have been conjured by the new
chief of the department to lend their
charitable aid to work order out of
chaos, and to rescue from "that bourne
from which no traveller returns" the mat
ter which was shipped for q very differ
ent port. Mails accumulate upon the
shelves; the widest confusion exists in
the construction of the alphabet
gets the letters which were designed for
Smith, and Robinson is the happy reci-
pient Of newspapers which were blindly
confided to the mail for the reading of
Jones. The murdered mails make
solemn and tangible protest against the
department., as the spectral ghost of
"Banquo" 'shook his CORY locks" at
Macbeth" There is no doubt that an
archy and disorder in the post Office de-
partment have usurped the place of
regularity and system. 1t could hardly
be otherwise, when method and disci-
pline are supplanted by inexperience and
Ignorance. It would have been infinitely
better, not only for the convenience and
interest of the community, but for the
comfort and protection of the new post
master, had he retained the manager
and corps of clerks who administered
the postal affairs in the city of Colum-
bia under his predecessor. AS it now
stands-if our information be correct
with but one subordinate competent by
education and clerkly training to dis
charge the duties of the Office, and
granting to him every qualification of
Office merit and despatch in business,
it is clearly patent that an Office con-
Quoted by the one efficient clerk and
corps of colleagues deficient in capacity
for the posts which they have so reck-
lessly assumed, can never be otherwise
than scene of chaos, and source of
enormous discomfort and serious detri-
ment to the general welfare.
So keen are the principles of political
determination with the Republicans-so
vivid the instincts of party. and so deep
ly rooted the disposition to reform-that
in nearly, if not all, the instances of ap-
pointment to Office of member of the