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fHE roi^MBtft PHC?NiX. ? TOrigin?L] * Spoak Not of IM*. . 9f*t?k mot of lifo, unless it be, > * That being, ia m parer ol ima, . From all th? guilt of thia, made Tree; And troubled not with doubts of tim?.' I oak no weary term of year? ? Enough of toil and razing ?trife. Hath taught mo ?ll th? trick.of Uara, - And what the wo Chat watt? om life. - Vor could the past be all restored, The power.bo mine, with wisdom caught From toils o'eroome and griefs endured. To totter shape th? court* of thought; Ifould I imploro of fate the gift. Of past sad pr?sent hoars agata, If still th? awrt? of memory loft. May blight the joys that yat remain, '".oar mo ia quiet to sons dreamless shore, ;;at bring me of tho past, no morrl no morel Better tbs samel sss futur* bring, . Th? alf untried, tho still unknown;" Sure that no sterner fate caa spring Frota soaring, thau from seaaoaa gan?. Tko ehsags thai than ?hall work in rn?, OWaatere, thoaght, condition, mooit Must find some chang* is all I aee, While fresh wxpsrien?* mskss it good. What rang?, what flight, shall thea be omi, What anpocta most, what comm?res know, How shape oar aims, how feel oar powers, And how explora, and whither gil i Benowa the wing of'hop?? Awake? Vow powers of seal f?r aim and flight, Wail? th* freed spirit soars sad shah??, Tho dust that:mad? tor mortal dight! This, or tho pe*** of that still dreamless .hore Whare tho wreck koolders, hsodlees'of the roar CMss* ia Hew York . We ?ra far from perfect, beaven knows in oar overrun -and underfed part of? tin vrotld. Even now, when the Yankee have left us, we bear of breakings an< stealings, burnings and plunder i ogs, fron people Of irregular .habits, wno ?re aimiug in their .own way, at tb? highest civiliza Con,. that being implied in the Norther code as doing, pretty mach what on pleases. Bat, irregular as we are hen New York is ? huckleberry above our pei simmon, if wo take the reports of its ow Police Gazette as true. We make a fei estreats ?or the benefit of young beginne^ The ladies, also, may take.some btu ts Trot the habits of Ibe politer circles of tit modern Babylon: The Board of the Metropolitan Polk hare .recently submitted to tTie Gov cr nc their annual report, in which they sho what we have r en ea ted ly demonstra te> ' that crimes of ( all kinds are increasing: am unparalleled sate ..in the cities of Nc Yerk and Brooklyn. *The raport also u iterate* the slaternerits so ofte-j made i our journal, 'that in no other cities in tl civilized world- not the th??tre of aclu war-is human life so lightly prized an subjected to-so great hazards inora viole nc as in thia metropolis and its suburbs, anl furthermore, "that iu no other Buch, cid does the machinery of criminal justice t signally fail to restrain or punish r.erio> awi capital offences.1 ^ Tb? na nabar o?' ?resta last yew, for crimes of a riolent ead ?erie*? ch erecter, reached the aggregate of 7,400, being an excess of more than 2,000 orer those of the ! preceding year. ? Fire policemen were kill I ed and thirteen seriously weaaded in des? perate encounters with rufiana. .. These I and other s ta tia tica embodied ia the report, s how jn deed that crime and rice are making appalling inroads in our midst; hut full aa are tbe?e statistics; they are far from giv? ing ? complete picture of the actual condi? tion of things, and of the thousand influ? ences that" are at work to corrupt and poison Ibo very fountains of social life. To comprehend the enormity of the evil 'one must look beyond the police and prison records. He must consider the indications ?the courts are giving, evsry day, of a wide? spread, shameless political corrupci?n. Su 'ch cases as "Weed vs. Opdyke, and scores of others we could name, speak in thunder? ing tones' of the rot that is spreading ? through oar whole political system. He must observe the rapidly multiplying proofs of a g?nerai decline of virtue, as shown in the endless aeries of divorce and seductions for crim. con?, bastardy and rape, and in the numerous and flourishing brothels that are allowed to be kept open on every hand without any show of regulation or restraint. He mast see the ministers of religion de? serting the sacred duties of their office, and turning their palpita into cameos stands for electioneering harangues and appeals to the most unhallowed' passions and fanat aoism. He most note the general thirst for sudden wealth, and the frequent- defalca? tions, embezzlements, swindles, aird' all similar forms of dishonesty, inducing gen? era* distress, and betokening a lamentable, wide spread decay of the ajragL-st princi? ples of commercial integrity. He mai mark, also, bovr many of the young are be? ing brought up in habits of insubordina lion, in ignorance, and even positively trained .to theft and crime by their own parents. He must Observe society not only in business and in domestic life, but in its amusements and gala day celebra? tions. m The villains that swarm iu the streets and gat reta, and collars, and princely palaces of the city, re-appear on the ?tage in the theatres, and, decked out in tinsel and. gauze, entrance, night after night, eager crowds, of rich and poor, old -and young. To see the Don_.Ju.ans and Dick Turpins,"and their various grades of rival?, re enact their successful career of crime, is to the New Yorkers of to-day what the right of the blood and butchery of the am? phitheatre was to the mern and women of ancient Rome. Which is the lesa deprav? ed taste of the twp it.would b? bard to decide. If we note amusements of the sexes else? where; what do they show? Men herding by.themselves in revel, ?nd in. conclaves, tor a thousand different forms of dissipa? tion; and women following hard on'their example. See the young women and girls at tho Central Park, for instance, pursuing their flirtation adventures io- lb? Ramble, ?ad stppiag their cobbtsra ami toddles in the Casino, Bo Utile of trae womanly modesty do some of them manifest, that the noble n?treos of a few 'generations ago would DO benger recognize them as tho same sex; and still lees would they own them as de see nd aa ta. With what boldness'' they solicit advances on the fashionable prome? nades hy day, and in the streets by night! There ia always much of this in a great city dike New "York, but now it appears to an unparalleled extent. It seems as if a ?ort of Bkadaess had taken possession of av large number of the "weaker vessels," and, catting-loose from tito refinements and modesty of their sex, they were giving free relato their wildest passions. How.'can we explain this? They belong to no one class of society; among them ara the rich and poor, the high end- low. Woman have been ?cen ia their carriages, with their retiuue of servants in livery, and the proud escutcheons of their families emblazoned oa the panels, ride through the streets in a state of disgraceful intoxication. Do these out? rageous exhibitions come from the widows and wives of army officers and soldiers, trom women whom death and prolonged absence have deprived of their natural protectors, aud of the endearments and restraints of homet Or is it ou ly one of the results of that feverishness, that, breaking up of old habita and restraints, which war always induces in the-publie mind? Is it to be traced te the causes that made our city last yeer, *ntt still make it, the very reveling hell of criminal violence? * <. > : ? Wbile'the* streets are rad with the blood of murdered victims, and the rinsj-of pistol shots is almost aa constant ?Ss the picket firing before the array of the James, is it that we should seemor re? ponding enormi? ties perpetrated by the female part of society? It seems to us not? When women, ap? parently respectable, are caen ie the streets nuder the influence of liquor, ashbey were the day succeeding last New Year's^day, it nay be well said to-be a mournful commen? tary on the civilization of the 19th century .f the Christian era. . Headquarters Mil. Div. of the West, - -. AUGUSTA, THiCRCa 4, 1865. SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS NO. IS. > [Ertratt.] ?COL A. F. KUDLEK is h*reby assigned . as Commandant Of the Post at Columbia, ?s. C. * * * ** * -By command Ge? BEAUREGARD. Official: Gc?. W. BHXNT, Col. aar" A- G. HEADQUARTERS, COLUMBIA, 3. C., Marok 15, 1866. ??? GENERAL ORDERS NO. I. In obedience to the above order, I hereby assume command of this Posfe By order of . A? F. RUDLER, - Colonel Commanding. W. J. MEAUHS, A. A. A. G. march ai -J Notice. A LL fvrrymen throughout the District ar? XJL respectfully requested to cross DO- slav* over the river, either.by fiats or small boats, without his pasa ia endorsed by either Mr. J. G. GIBBES, Capt. JOHN CARSTEN or myself, marah SO T. J. GOODWYN, Mayor.