The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-08
COLUMBIA. s. G.
Sunday Morning, May 8. 1870.
Fruits and Flowors-The Assemblages IL
CharlesIon. So.

of the events Of the past week in the city
of Charleston, but this abstract can give
no proper idea of their earnest, whole
some, interesting character.
The Floral Fair, gotten up under the
auspices of s'the Charleston County
Agricultural and horticultural Society" +"
was al attractive exhibition. The open
ing address was delivered by Mr.. W.
Gilmore Simms, and was most admirable
and appropriate. He elaborated the
thought that 'the sense of beauty is q
soul forever" and gave IN address in
keeping With the flowers around him,
and the philosophy that they suggested.
The Academy of Music was one Of the
attractions of the week, and those visit
ors fond Of such amusements we're graft
fed by the performances OF the Rioh-
ings' troupe in English operas.
The harbor excursion vas pleasant
feature. Tie delegates to the conven-
ton and other visitors were thus enabled
to pass in review the historic points in
the hatbor connected with the late war.
Tho battered walls land the speaking
ruins Of Sumter were there to remind
the spectator of the grandest defence
that history records.
The rooms of the Charleston Board
of Trade. No one who visits these rooms
can fail to be impressed with their ele-
CANT appearance and complete accompa-
niments. Here the members of the
Board of Trade, and of the club there
with connected, meet for business, or
reading, or conversation, or social enjoy
ment; and here the courtesies of the city
are kindly and freely rendered to
strangers visiting the city on missions of
business or recreation. It is one of those
institutions that reflect the tone, the
hospitality and the social spirit of the
citizens of Charleston. But the main
event of the week was the Agricultural
and immigration Convention. This
convention brought together q large
and earnest body Of delegates, repre-
senting Georgia and North Carolina,
together with most of the Counties of
this State. The convention met in the
hall of the Academy of Music. After
organization, it proceeded to business,
and the desire was unanimous to eschew
mere speculations, and to secure practi-
cal results. The subjects brought before
the convention were IMMIGRATION, DIRECT
TRADE, COTTON MANUFACTURE, AGR1cULTU-
RAh EDUCATION, THE FLORA OF SOUTH
CAROLINA, THE HYGIENE OF SOUTH CARO-
LIMA, THE CHINESE QUESTION AND THE
INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES OF THE STATE.
Upon oil these questions, full and we'll
digested reports were submitted, dis
cussed and adopted. Matters of vital
Importance to the South were freely dis
cussed, and the point was made and
accepted, that to develop the resources
OF the South was the great work of the
day, and that this development was to be
effected by immigration. direct trade,
manufactures, and in general by an
active. enterprising and diversified in
dustry. To use the means we now pos
sess, and to supplement these by new
agencies; this was conceded to be our
true policy, the policy whereby our
prosperity was to be re-established. The
practical measures proposed for imme-
diate and specific action are embodied in
the propositions Of the Committees on
immigration and Direct Trade. Here a
PLAN is proposed. A convention can
do no more than to give the skeleton of
action. 1t is for the people of the State
to add the flesh, the blood, the muscle
and sinews, and to breathe into the life
less body the breath of life.
AS to the results of the convention,
they cannot but be advantageous in a
moral as we'll rs practical aspect. Gre
dit is due to the President of tho Mocha
MICS Institute, Of Charleston, for the
success which has attended his desire to
bring together such body as that
which recently assembled. It will be
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