The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-06-14
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The DEATH OF WILLIAM G11MopE

charleston papers brought
ito us last evening the sad intelligence of
the death of this eminent South Caro-
|linian. On Sunday, it was our task to|
announce the death of Dickens, and now
wo have to record that kindred spirit
has "fallcn on sleep" To tho reading
public of this country, and especially oil
the South, the news of Mr.. Simms' DEATH
will be received with mournful Interest.
Many knew him in the social relations of
life, and more were conversant with the|
man in the productions Of his pen. Thel
|Nestor of literature in tho South is dead.
Ia Carolinian, self-made and distin-I
|guished in the department OF history,
romance and poetry, is no moro. And in|
him also the State has lost citizen trueI
|and devoted. We know that others will
|be found to pay becoming tribute to his
services and his character. We shall del
fer to them this task. Mr.. Simms was
|the first editor of tho PHOENIX, and fol
more than one year he discharged the
duties Of this Office. We unite in the
respect and consideration due to the
memory of this gifted son of Carolina
The Charleston Courier says:
Perhaps there was not single heart
lin our city, yesterday, which did not
realize with what an opposite beauty, with
lwhata graceful comcliness, and how de.
|servedly rendered, wns the Offering, MS
from the turrcts Of old st. NIichuel's,
the plaintive chimes pealcd forth thel
requiem for the gifted Simms! For who
had been more filially true to the ancient
1heir-looms, DER which in sacred guard,
their sonorous chant, has kept watch and
ward? Who, with the loving tenderness
3of son for mother, had with moro pious
zeal, more unremitting devotedness,
]lelved in the rich archives OF that
mothers honorcd past, and made to
lglow with the burnish of his pen, the
wealth and glories Of her storicd long
|ago?
Mr.. Simms' whole life has been one OF
public contribution. Unaided, with
nothing but his own great endowmcnts,
ahis own high promptings, self-cducate,l
and self-reliant, he has wrought out n
nano for himself, in history, poetry
imaginative literature, criticism, and the
3broad realm of letters, which, whilo il
rears for him IL monument enviable and
enduring, reflects its lustre upon the
jcity and State, of whose treasured re-
cords he was at once the cxpounder and
idorner Without any of those i'm
dportant aids which spring from wealth
afamily connection. and those auxiliaries
which, though adventitious, are yet sc
apotent, Mr.. Simms qualified himself
Thoroughly for his work, and with Iii.
lown right arm unsealed the oracles con
served with more than Delphine hedge
aproving and earning his title in the grcn
temple of intellect, Us prophet, ant
priest and master.
at 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon
l1th instant, Mr.. Simms closed hi
earthly existence. He had just reached
1 his sixty-fourth year. Our departed
Friends relations with tho Courier, cause
! his death to como to lis with all the sen
1sibility of personal af1liction. Over ,
1period reaching through long vista O
years, this journal has been vehicl,
Through which almost unintermttedly
ahc has held converse high, with ou,
irenders, and the people whom he loved
In tho fullness and freshness of ou
dgrlef, We feel how inadequate must b.
Sany tribute we can render to our departed
Hfriend! We desire only to commingl,
our sorrows, and to share in the sympn
dthics which everywhere throughout th'
Estate, wo feel. will outpour themselves
as the sad titlings are announced, n
Zone, who has done so much, SO honora
4 dbly, and SO uscfully, for the common
good, and in promotion Of the laudabl,
Pride of onr people, is gone from us
FOREVER!
Both colored cadets were rejected b.
the West Point Board-H Holloran becaus,
aof deficiency in scholarship, and Smitl
Ion account of weak eyes. Smith wa
Furthermore advised by the Republican
aboard not to study, or he would bccom,
blind in few years. Forney indignantly
3says that the candidate never before
knew that he was so near the blind asy
I ]lum, and very much doubts if, during
the war, this boy had been Of an ago tt
enter the army, and had been drafted
Jhc would have cscapcd carryinr n mns