The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-04-13

CHARnEsroN ma NUr-SHEhh. The fire-,
men are making great preparations4toc cele-
hrate the annual parade OF the department.
J. H!Jeuks mot OF sthe Horse Marines,
but of the Lsgalat,,re9 is feported>by the
Ne'os to be in Washington, trying to get
the position of Postmaster Of Charleston.
The same sheet says s'there is a new po-
lltical organization in the city, embracing
men and women, who are working in the
Republican interest,"" but does not tell us
how they are working. There is room for a
strong inference, however.
Mr.. John Chadwick, the owner of the
Adger building, has gene North with Mr.
David Lopez, the architect, to examine
plans for the conversion of that building
into an opera house. We are ahead of
Charleston in that line, because the plans
Tor our opera house are already settled, MS
published in this mornings Phenir.
District Attorney d. t. Corbin has gone
to Washington, it is said, to seek the Judge
ship OF the intermediate Court for hearing
appeals from the District Court. which Con
gress is about to establish
The schooner Lion, which sailed from
Cuba some weeks since, and was thought to
have been lost, is SAFE but ashore ON the
Berry Islands
The engineer Of the Savannah and
Charleston Railroad, advertises for bids to
build that road from Coosawhatchia to
Savannah
The Elliot Mansion, in George street, is
to be converted into first class boarding
house.
The Brignoli Opera Troupe is achieving a
great triumph in the Getty by the Sea-
The vegetable trade with the North is
prospecting.
SOMETHING WORTH KNow1NG.-One of the
most gratifying evidences of public conf
dence IN the growth of material prosperity
IN our midst, is to be found in the fact that
our merchants, native and adopted are
bringing to our markets the finest assort-
ment of goods of every description that has
been opened in Columbia since the close of
the war. Never, within our recollection.
has there existed o more universal and gene
rous rivalry in business in this particular,
and we hail the prevalence Of this feeling
with genuine delight as indicative of the ex
istence of a progressive spirit, and one which
can ultimate only in good to the community
at large. The fact has been most forcibly
presented to our minds by gazing accident
ally into the show windows of our neighbor
Smythe, who has just received from the
North all immense stock Of shoes, bootees,
CATERS and everything else in that line of
business, from the pretty, piquant little red
topped boots that we put on the feet of the
youngest male of the Phoenic brood, to the
canoe shaped ant-killers which our own No.
9s require for our personal comfort. Time
and language would fail us in any effort to
describe the hats and other good things
which Mr.. Smythe has in his inexhaustible
and attractive establishment, and We have
taken the liberty to draw attention to his
store, because we felt justified in the belief
that to do SO was to render positive SER
vice to those Of our readers whose soles need
attention.
HABEAs CoRrUs John W. Hatcher,
charged with the homicide of Ben Mosely,
alias Bnuskett, (colored,) in Edgefield Coun-
ty, IN March last, was brought before Asso-
ciate Justice. Willard. yesterday. on writ OF
habeas corpus After hearing the nffidavits on
either side and arguments of counsel, the
Judge refused bail, and ordered him to be
remanded to Edgelield County, to await his
trial in June rext. d. 3. DeSaussure for
prisoner; w. Fl. Talley, Solicitor for the
State.
GOLD, SILVER AND PRECIOUS STONES FOR