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

CRUMBS. -Messrs. Bryan & McCarter'
have furnished us with copy of the
June number of Godey's Lady's Book.
Packing trunk" is what good many
! of US have unsuccessfully attempted
The book is filled with good things.
The young men who have been con
suited in reference to forming riAe|
company, aro requested to meet, this
3evening, at the Independent Fire Hall,
/ ]at o'clock.
DR.. Irwin, of Cincinnati, with his
family. has removed to Columbia-at
attracted by the magnificent climate. TIL
doctor, wo are informed, has madel
arrangements for the immediate erection)
lof brick building, on Main street,
directly opposite the Columbia Hotel,
3the frontage of which will be fifty-two
| ]fect-sufficient for two good-sized stores.
Put q concert hall above the stores,
3Doctor.
Chicken thieves are around again
About thirty fowls were stolen from Mr..
3G. W. Wright, on Saturday night or|
Sunday morning.
We are authorized to state that the
Convention will assemble on Wednesday
]evening, at s o'clock, at tho Columbia
Hotel-a large and convenient hall hav-
ling been procured.
The Euphemian Society of Erskine
3College return many thanks to the Pre-
sident of the Greenville and Columb biu
4 Railroad, for favor conferred.
General Wade Hampton arrived in
dColumbia, yesterday.
We have received from q friend at
aChappell's Depot, on tho Grecnville aud
aColnmbia Railroad, two stalks of cotton,
lover two feet high-the one grown on
3tho plantation of Mr.. Silas Walker-a
! fair specimen of ten acres; the other by
IL freedman named Page, OH fifteen
acre field. Both stalks are full of forms.
Delegates from Orangcburg have been
aappointed to the June Convention.
In reading list of the works of Gill
more Simms, Esq, in connection with a
anoticc of his death. MS published in the
3Charleston News, we were surprised to
aiind strange omission. Among his
works, no mention is made of his gra-
aphic and truthful account of the sack
land destruction Of the city of Columbia,
aas witnessed by himself-an account
(which will go down to posterity as
authentic history, when the lighter
works of tho present age will have been
3forgottcn.
The Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
dRairoad has extended to the city autho-
critics Of Augusta, the same privilege
accorded by the Central and South
aCarolina Railroads-that of allowing the
Apassage of moneyless applicants over its
dlinc free Of charge to the city, when re-
recommended by the Mayor
A THE DEATH OF PLEASANT GooDE.-.T This
acommunity and the State at large will
1learn with deep interest of the death OF
HPleasant Goode. He was the serving
FL man and friend of General Maxcy Gregg.
III 1iAo was HlthCllttt " ulm III lie, ana re-
E3mained true to General G. S memory afte,
E death. The most conspicuous elements
Hin Peasants character were his personal
Hinfeg'Hy, his .tirmancss, and his FIDELITY.
Elm the political divisions that arose in
Hthis State, Pleasant Goode deemed it his
EIluty to repose confidence in the native
awhites Of South Carolina, and to cast in
I]his lot with theirs. He was ''A Demo.
Ncrat" in his party relations, and he con
mtinued SO to the end. He never turned
Hhis back upon either his principles or
Hhis associates. Nor was he unfaithful to
Hhis own race. His idea was that the
awhites of South Carolina would do his
Hrace justice, and he had faith in the peo-
l5plo with whom he had been reared and
with whom he was to live. He had to
Ebear much odium and vituperntion, but
Hhe stood up bravely for his views, and an
Ejbumble man thOuoh ho was vo do moi