The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-01-09

AoA supply Va uT6-WOOu, ana 10 make The
business a speciality. This is what the
citizens need.
"R1oHLAND," January 6. 1879.
DEAR PHOENIX: We see by M article
recently published that you are bringing
forward the claims of "Columbia" to be
the future great railroad centre and
manufacturing city of the South, despite
the two great evils operating against it.,
viz: "Ku Klux" and ''carpet- -bagism."
We read with interest your account of
the great dry goods and grocery houses,
&C.; and now, won't you reciprocate by
noticing the advantages offered by the
country people? Where would your
great grocery aud dry goods houses be
| without us? And while we are talking
| about :hsm, allow us !;tt!s depression,
80 as to ask question. Why do YOU
not try to restrain the envy or malice of
such gentlemen as Mr.. E. Hope and Mr..
Shiver? 1t is whispered (you may not
| have heard of it) that few gentlemen
from-God knows where--recently ar
rived amongst you. and Notwithstanding
the fact that their time was both limited
and valuable, kindly consented to run
your city government for you during
! their leisure hours, (bofore engaging
themselves on "Scott's" farm, which,
by-the-way, is run by ''guests of the
State hotel" which reminds MS that
"fellow-feeling makes one wondrous
kindly and they had hardly got the
machine fairly going. before the above
| named Messrs. Hope and Shiver, fol-
lowed by host Of others. stepped into a
court house, (think of itD and charged
these generous gentlemen (.'so. .called")
with an attempt to make fifty thousand
dollars out Of City Hall contract
What shamel Why, Messrs. Shiver
ana Hope forget that they make that
Paltry sum every yeMr of their lives, and
have made it Tor years past, and have
the prospect of long future before
them; while your kind friends from -
which don't stand for h-ll) have never
had chance before, and will never have
one again, on account of the too public
recommendation Of Messrs. Shiver,
Hope & Company. and their present
time Is limited by the engagement we
mentioned as contemplated.
You may. if you feol wickedly in
cilned, retort upon ns by saying that
Mr.. Shiver or Mr.. Hope make their
money honestly. in honest callings.
But then, "Our very dear PHGN1x," you
don't see that that don't help their case;
they don't belong to the party of ..great
moral principles" and "progressive
ideas" as represented in South Carolina!
We read you regularly, and are satisfied
that you are not sufficiently imbued with
moral principles or progressive ideas to
understand it, but we will endeavor to
elucldate it by stating the following fact,
('parol a. honneur,' viz: One contract,
signed by your ubiquitous friends of the
oity government, pays better and more
In minute than your advertisement
list, or either Mr.. Hopes or Mr. Shiver's
sales for year. Is that lucid? None
OF you belong to the party of great, &c
We country people believe that your
Shioers and Hopes are jealous Of other
people getting rich; "thats what's the
matter" They want people to go into
business, and enter into competition
with them, and make their money that
way. That's all "fol.de-rol" Your So
journers belong to that class commonly
represented in fiction by tho English no.
bleman. but not followed by the Duke
OF Argyle's sons business or labor, as
means of obtaining All honest liveli.
hood, ID lor and Dutgur." But you South
ern people don't uudersta nd these higher
ideas OF life. Pshawi Your ignorance
and stupidity is disgnstingl We won't
even discuss the question with you; we
will only talk to you about our little
community, just outside Of your sacred
city limits, aud if we emit say that we
all belong to the purity of great moral
Ideas, we can sny that we have AZ rioh
country rs ever u plow ran through,
and that our lands can be bought or
rented as oheaply. Except those belong
ing to the Land Commission, if any,) as
any in the world. and that we don care
fig for any mans politics, or what his
nationality liz. We will gladly accord to
him that position i'll our little society
that his own merits, education and con-
duct entitle him to hold. and that we
will lend him our wagons to go to the
polls, to vote for who be "darn pleases,"
without question. We can't help it, if
he votes for few extra heavy taxes to
be imposed upon himself, for tue sup
port OF tho self sacrificing gentlemen
who give their whole time, free of charge,
to protecting and governing him.
We could give you great deal OF in
formation concerning the merits of the
country adjacent to Columbia, but we
are neither members Of the Oily Council
or the Land Com MISSION, and our pnper
has given out. Yours. in
"THE VICINITY"
A colored woman, named Ann Cbavis,
was killed by another oolorsd woman,
named Mary Walker, at Beach Island,
day or two before Christmas. diff
Guilty had occurred between the two, and
fight ensued, and Chavis getting the
worst Of it, started to run, but was pur-
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