The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-02-18
Tho Burning Of Columbla-ChanEes.
Yesterday, the 18th Of February, was

Tho Burning Of Columbla-ChanEes.
Yesterday, the 18th Of February, was
the anniversary of the burning Of CO.
lumbia-s day memorable in our annals,
and forever to be marked with black
stone. No tongue can depict its horrors,
no pen Is capable of bringing sufficiently
into view for clear realization the terrible
destitntion which ensued upon it. Who
does not remember how precarious were
supplies Of the plsinest kind with which
we fought against gaunt hunger? Who
cannot recall the ration house? Upon
chose heart is not imprinted the re.
membrence of that community of pinch.
ing want, which quickened sympathy,
and caused tho hand which held any
thing Of general value to open like day
to melting charity2 Time wore on. and
by and by slightohange for the better
was noticed. The PHGNI1 rose from its
ashes, and the ,braye spirit OF w, Gill
more Simms spoke out in its columns it's
daily Lessons OF manly endurance and
manly exertion, scouting and rebuking
uumanly despair. Shanties and sheds
were erected here and there. Business
gradually recovered some tone and ao-
tivity. Small stores and humble dwell.
ings went up. The broken links in our
railroad lines were mended, and i'm
provements set in at last, and proceeded
with marvellous rapidity.
We see now innumerable new stores,
and many private residences of tasteful
and elegant, if not of costly, plan and
structure. In our palmiest days, we had
no dry goods stores superior or equal to
those we now have, and in hotels and
drug stores, we are in advance of those
of the olden time, "before the food" or
before Sherman. We miss the buoyaut
young men who used to attend the col
lege, scattering with no stinted hand
their money through the town, and
bearing away, when they left. not only
the degrees and distinctions conferred
by their alma Mater, testifying to their
proficiency in knowledge. and to their
qualifications for usefulness in life, but
also the impress on their manners and
character OF the refined aud cultivated
society of tho place. The cotton busi-
ness has been reduced since that day,
bnt there are reasons to hope that it may
be recovered in all it's original fuilness,
with additions. II we have more crimi-
nails now, We have more ample and suit
able accommodations for them in the
penitentiary.
It becomes US to look forward. Manu-
factures are what we need to make our
waste places in town and country bios
som as the rose, and give activity to all
departments and classes of our retail
trade. The town of Columbus, Georgia,
has monthly receipt of $4,000, or
$1,000 day. from hands employed in
it's manufacturing establishment. Why
may We not do as we'll. or better, with
such magnificent water power as We
have in the canal? We eieh to see that
water power no longer lie idle. We
wish also to. SEQ paper mills, WOODEN
mills and cotton mills in or Grafton on
the many hne streams in the neighbol-
hood. upon the lines of our railroads.
We have done something since 17th
February, 1865. Our merchants and
bankers have dono we'll. 1t now de-
wolves upon us to develop the great inte.
rests Of manufactures, comparatively
speaking, now i'll its infancy. What has
been done only shows the more Clearly
What romans for us to do. We must
wake up, and help to inaugurate the
promises, if not the glories, of u new era.
1t may never vie with the old, but it will
hnve its own distinctive characteristics
Of progress, wealth and material ad-
vancement.
AFTER THE SOCIETIES. members
OF the Wilmington IN. C.) Chamber of
Commerce have taken up the matter OF
the discrimination against local freights
praoticed by the railroads nndor the