JXTM3T1 IC .v.. 'Torning, J" - . ir-Its T ." > ... : T ?'? ??> -- ' .' : to diminish the . *. >..~fu?mane?! amnng a popple ..'."sen the rrand results of' human lal < -i? of necessity evil. There is unhappi . .1 our cruntr}-, a very uni? versal distaste to labor. Our lnbor is but-1 too much imported from abroad. We loathe and despise the severer tasks of that in? dustry which removes mountains :\nd fills the deserts with fruits and blossom?. Our j people, afflicted with certain childish vani- I ties, prefer to fill thc ranks of the profes? sions with useless recruits, who add no thing to their dignity or character, and lessen, by just their own strength, the number of th- legit imate producers of the country. This is to multip'y unueiessarv consumers of thc capital they were in? tended to produce. Society is very much like a bee-hive; if the drones are allowed to remain, even where th?;y do not propa? gate, the contents of the hive will verv soon be. exhausted. That society which dares not grapple heartily with the essen tint tusks of field and highway, must for? bear, only with daily loss of its most wholesome characteristics. With us the cry seems evermore for money. The want of motiey is the one wnnt which we every- j where unite t<> deplore. Th? proper sub? ject of complaint is want of industry. Moue}- is one of the most dangerous of all socbil possessions, lt is a wondrous power, the very use of which requires a pievious training of head and heart, which cannot be too car. ful or too strict. Few people know properly how to use it, keeping | moral standards before their eyes. Most persons not neenstomed toits employment, j not trained to thc use of power.jbecome gamblers with wealth, and the fancies and the appetites take the control of that | which can bc used with safety only by a i justly judging morality and a sage expe j rience. The Americans, a young and con- i sequently a poor people, were, of all j others, the least prepared to use it judi- | ciously. In many respects, at one period in the history of thc world, the Spaniards j were thc richest people in the world. But they were previously among the poorest, and their riches, after a brief career of recklessness, pride, lust and other passions, engendered by this very sudden excess of health, brought them to soniethinfr. wors* than their oiiginal condition. The Spa? niards ar? now not only thc poorest and feeblest, but the most degraded of all the powers of Christendom. The present is H fruit of their immediately previous con? dition. It was the discovery of Spa-iish America and its rich possessions to which their poverty i's due. They wore not pre? pared to use judiciously their own re? source0, and squandered wastefully what thev had unexpectedly acquired, but not ? till it had taught them wants, habits ano' j indulgences which they are no bmger able to ?upply. As the descendants of the j expelled Moors of Granadastill keep the . k'-vs ot the ancient homestead, still dream- j ing to get back; so theSpuniard still waits, | dreaming that the Piovidence - which I brought him Mexico and Peru will again j restore them to his possession. The case of n nation is not. improperly illustrated by individual example. Take the instance of the youthful heir of the old miser-one whom the sordid passion of the sire has, while he lived, kept, within the most con? tracted limits of a base and slavish econo? my. Let him. whfle still young, be ad? mitted freely among the hoards of which i he has only dreamed before, and note with what pains taking earnestness he dissipates them- It is his boast, indeed, thu' he does so, even ns expensive frivolities and mere? tricious lifo are become a boast'with us. "It's gone at last!" was the only half desponding exclamation of one of these profligates a few years ago, as he acknow? ledged his ruin; but, suddenly looking up, with a sort of exultation in his manner, as if there had been 6ome degree of merit in | the very recklessness of his waste: "But I maybel didn't hum it while it lasted." Was there ever a moie?perfect boy? That his top hummed while it was going, was a great consolation for its loss. A whole people become thus profligate at seasons, sharing the vices of the individual, for such excesses a. o epidemical. The South orners have presented for a nu nber of vcari tho mcla-icholy spectacle of a people humming it, j - hke th" silly boy; with citron, th i,u g v of posi which. S SBgg?BSEB?a-?wrimraa ! ti:? simple difference that their humming ii no eera .-ulject of congratulatory .u:cklc\ T'or Rome ten years longer, wc !.. ove.rLent enough to forbear to ? ? * ?Isifre ore periodical returns *.-.. ? ' st -li ma'"-ii"-, and a return of : r>"?'ry and the might of luv. Oh! give me . ck 'my youth.-' The New York papers are filled wit counts of the review of Sherman troops in Washington by the President an .. ?.billet. The display was continued sev? rai days, and il is stated that over 2O0,0( troops were in line. The Herald thin] that neither Napoleon or Wellington ev. saw so many veterans in one army at time. Thc city was crowded with strange from all parts of the Union. To be infirm of purpose, is to be evil purpose. A strong will, if not absolute virtue itself, is yet absolutely necessary nil thc virtues. He who does not resol* well, will perform ill. Weakness of resol' is mostly wickedness. Indecision of ch meter is laxity of principle. It leaves tl mind at the mercy of the passion; ar impulse, which is seldom found associ?t' with a rigid will, is unite as (instead v principle ns in performance. Such a eli racter works precipitately and rashly, wi the purpose of concealing the delicien of which ... is Mmself conscious. He th frequently precipitates himself in actio Winch he dare not subject to argttmei Ha may tremble nt the danger which i pends, but. he dreads still more lest, y should suspect thc true nature of his fea Tn addition to thc gold snuff book mc tinned as having been presented by t Free Masons of this State to brother Alb G. Mackey, of Charleston, S. C., on Sat day night, he was also presented with handsome volume, illustrative of the pr eiples of masonry, and a check for SI,5' It is understood that a much larger s bas been subscribed hythe brethren, mark their appreciation of Mr. Macke lovalty as a mau and fidelitv as a mas [NCIB York Herald A Frenchman was tried in Richmond other dsy by a drum-head court mart for striking a woman in one of the n; k -t ? with a cane. He was convicted, i in i Jnishment was paraded through streets to thc tune of the "Rogue's Alare with a placard, labelled, "This(orstrik a woman." The populace enjoyed nfl'air more than the Frenchman. A FUND FOR GEN. LEE.-Thc New V Expresa says a fund is being raised in ] timore for presentation to Gen. Lee; ? Oof) hus been airca ly secured, with promise of ?60,000 additional. At a recent Sabbath r >! celebra' in Brooklyn, it is eilim cd that '20, children participated. Proclamation by the President. Whereas, by the proclnmalioc of the President, of the. 11th day cf A pr i i hist, certain ports of tho United States therein "pccificd, "which liad previously been sub? ject to blockade, were, for objects <>f pub? lic safety, declared, in conformity with previous special legislation of Congress, to he closed against foreign commerce during the national will, to be thereafter ex? pressed and made known by thc President; And wherens events and circumstances j have aince occurred which, iu my judg? ment, render it expedient to remove that restriction, exc?*pt a3 to the ports of Gal? veston, La Salle. Brazos de Santiago, Point Isabel and Erownsville. in the Sliite. of Texas; Now. therefore, be it known, that I. Andrew .lohnsrm. President of the United States, do hereby declare that thc ports aforesaid, not excepted os ab?ve, shall be open to/oreign commerce from the first ! dav of July next; that commercial inter ! course willi the said ports may from that ; time Le carried on subject to the laws cf the United Slates, and in pursuance of such rtgulations ns may bc prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. If, how ! ever, any vessel from a fjreign port shall enter any of the before named excepted ports in the Slate of Texas, she will con? tinue to be held liable to the penalties prescribed by the Act of Congress, ap? proved on the IStli day of July. 1SG1, and the persons on board of her to such penalties as may he incurred pursu? ant to the laws of war for trading or at? tempting to trade with an enemy. Arni I, Andrew Juhnson, President of tin' United States of America, do hereby declare and make known that the United States of America do henceforth disavow to all persons trading or attempting to trade in any of the United States in vio tatton of the laws thereof, ?ill pretence of belligerent right and privilege?; "find I give notice, from the date of this procla? mation, all snell offenders wdlbe held and dealt with as pirates. lt is also ordered that nil restrictions upon trade heretofore imposed in the ter? ritory of tfte United States East of the Mississippi River, favo those relating to contraband of war. to the reservation of the rights ol' the United Stater1, to property purchased in the territory of an enemy, ami to thc twenty-five percent, upon pur? chases of cotton, are removed. All provi? sions of the internal revenue lav/ will bc carried into effect un<3er the proper officer. lu fitness whereof, I have hereunto sit my hand and caused the seal of the United States to h?, affixed. Done at the city of Washington thirtwen ty-second day of May, in the year of our Lord . .<-.o thonsnnd eight hundred and sixiv ?ive. ami of the independence ! of the United States of America, the < eighty-ninth. ANDREW JOHNSON. j Ry the President: W. Hu:: ri:rt. Acting Secretary of State. | Land is in demand in London, and has been sold at the high ??rice of ono million dollars per acre. ?...The new sew--rr.ge system OJ London is going to cost four millions r-terjinu. Funeral Invitation. The friends and acquaintances of tho Drs. Gibbes and their families, arc invited to attend the funeral of ROBERT WIL? SON, the youngest child of Dr. R. W. lid.bes, Jr., at Trinity Church, THIS AF TERNOON, at. -t oVioek. BACON AND MOLASSES "\^7 ?e .c"'1* frf,ni m.Y wagon, corner I ? of Boundary and Richardson streets, THIS MORNING. R. M. STOKES. j june .>_ 1 PROVISIONS FOE. SALE. IWILL sell, nt Mr. Troy's store, on { Camden street, n stnoll quantity of FLOUR. BACON, FRESH BliTTER and LARD. R. M. STOKES. j ?n?a r>_. Borrowed without Leave, ABLACK TAN HOG. named Jack. He was seen on Wednesday bastin posses? sion of a red-headed man currying him out of town. The captor or raider is supposed to be known. Bring him back or at least turn him loose. t A. G. BASKIN. June ti 1* For Blackst.ocks. rA^^?? FREIGHT and PASSAGE ?S?g!g?^?tor Blackstocka can bo had on TUESDAY or WEDNESDAY next, on application to DURBEC ? WALTER. June 1 8* Wagon for Orangeburg. v. THE un.lersimied will run an VfoyjfJftS Ex press Wagon to Orangeburg on MONDAY MORNING next, ? th in9t.; leaving Columbia at half past fi o'clock, and connecting with the train for Charles? ton on Tuesday. Four stats, with twenty-five pounds of bacgage each, can be secured (when paid for) on application to DUTSON LEE. Fare $7.o0 in. .specie, itt advance. June T.. 1* MISS M. MclCLRO.NE respectfully in? forms tho bluies of Columbia that .ate is prepared to execute all orders in the MILLINERY line. Also, STRAW HATS fly- d, made and pressed to order. Resi? dence corner of Lumber ?nd Marion street?. June Z ?* Local Items. The"?ffive of the Columbia f'hcenix is on Gates street, second door from Plain. General G i ll mo re ai rived iu Charleston yesterday morning. It is believed that he will pay Columbia a visit; If any of our readers are desirous of renewing their acquaintance with old friends-Messrs. Codfish. Mackerel, Her? ring and Cheese-they havc'only to glance over the advei fisernents in the Phoenix for the past few days, to find faeir where? abouts. * ?g?sT PKBSONAL.-All subscribers lo the Phoenix whoso subscriptions have ex? pired, will please come forward and renew, in specie or provision.-; otherwise their papers will be stopped. Cgf" We wish it distinctly understood that our terms are cash. No advertise? ments will, therefore, bc inserted uuless paid for iu advance. We present the following schedule of rates, in tho case of the mest obvious com? modities. F'jr one month's subscription to the Phctnix, we Xviii receive either of the following, vis: 1 bushel corn. 1 J- bush, peas or potatoes 5 pounds butter. 20 ?bs. flour. 1' '. lard. .4 lhs. candles. 7 " bacon, i? qts. rice. 8 dozen eggs. 4 head of chickens. Wood, vegetables and provisions gene? rally received at fair market rates ap? proaching the specie standards. Something cf the Placa of Davis' Confinement. Fortress Monroe, within whoi'o sturdy waits Jeff. Davis is now studiously guard? ed bv United States soldiers, is situated on the extreme end of thc peninsula formed by the dames and York Rivers, and is the lower extremity of the st-r-ti-ni of country whereon McClellan fought, his campaign of lS?'2. By reason of Hampton Creek being on the one side an.l tho Chesapeake Bav on thc oilier, a promontory witlNn a promontory is formed. It is nearly insu? lated hy Hampton, leaving a narrow strip of land on the side nearest to Chesapeake Bay. which connects it with the main land. To escape from Fortress Monroe, if it is earnc3tly desired to k.-ep one there, is simply a pure impossibility, io its East? ward i^ the wh.de width of Chesapeake | Bay nt. its junction with the Atlantic Ocean, a distance of pei hap", more than twenty miles intervening between it and Cape Crd. To tie- Sont .. it is separated from tile nearest, pohit. ot lund by the Hampton Roads. To t' . Westward is Hampion Creek, broadening as its comes j Southward into an ampie hay separating the fortress; from the nearest, point of laud to thc West and Northward, except on t;i- : North, where is the strip of beach previ? ously referred t<>. The foi t itself ir, a regular nolyeon, aid is surrounded by a wet ditch thirty yards wide. It is the most extensive ami .mass? ive of the permanent fortifications of th? United Stitej, its enormous area ?eing fuilv* capable of holding several Fort Suinters. It has a water battery towards the sea, which is of itself a formidable work. The immediate placo of confinement of Jeff. Davis ? iii be in the casemates, seve? ral of which have been thoroughly pie pared tor this purpose within the past, few da\?. These casemates are rock ribbed and arched mansions within the fort, each we.l niich conatitntin : a fort within itself. Within a few days, they have been made doubly secure; t he em!.rasures look mg lo tito wet ditch, ar well ns the win dows looking to the interior of the work, having been mos? heavily barred with iron, in the form of gratings. Ou the arches of these casemates are mounted 15 inch Rodman guns. As an evidence of the capability of these case? mates and arches to withstand resistance, it. may Oe stated that the}' are fully com? petent to sustain the shock of the explo? sions of thc monsters o! modern warfare. The only connections from the fort with the mainland aro by the main sallyport and a small postern in one of the bastions; the wit ditch being spnnned at each of these points by a drawbridge, which can be raised at pleasure, thus cutting off all communication. The other State prisoneiv>nccompnnving Davis will be provided for in a manner similar to himself. At all events, they will be secure against esenpo. A pleasant ?Assurance for the country to have. [Ann i'or?- Fit ru/J. JUST R1C????D FROM CHARLESTON. CIHEESE, ' CODFISH, IRISH POTATOES. SMOKED HERRINGS, MACKEREL, PICKLES. FAMILY SOAP, CANDLES, CAKES, , will, for the present, be permitted to retain the same for the purpose of carry? ing on their work. Any person failing to comply with this order within a reasona? ble time, will not only be deprived of any farther us? of Paid property, but will also I 3ul.jtct themselves to punishment by radi I tary authority. By command of I ' N. HAUGHTON*. Lieut. Col 25th O'. V. V.. Com Mg C iiv of Columbia, S C. i W. J. K Vi c.'Lieut. 2?th O. V. V. I. and I Post, adjutant. may Hea&q'rs United States Forces, CITY OF COLUMBIA. S. C., MAY 27. 1SG... 1 GENERAL ORDERS NO 4. J.N order to prevent any disturbance which 1 may arise {non tin? improper use of in? toxicating liquois, it if li Ireby ordered that, for thc present, nc intoxicating It qu >rs will be sold or given away to anv citizen or soldier, unless permission is granted from these headquarters. Any one found guilty of disobeying tb;-1 ord-r, will not only have his goods confiscated, but will be subject to punishment by mili? tary law. By command of Lieut. Col. N. H AU HUTON, Commanding P .si. W. J. KYLE. Li? ut. ?l?tli u. V. V. 1. and Post. Adjutant. may Headquarters, Northern District. DEL'ARTMKNT OF THK SOUTH, CHARLESTON-, S. C., April 2."), ?b-J?. Circular lo Clutters, ric. T^TUMEROUS applications have been niade to ino for infotmatson as to the policv lo be adopted un thc subject of lubor. All can understand the important- ot making a crop the present season, and foresee the misery and suifei ing consequent upon ils ia i tu ie. In the present unsettled flat'- of the country, and in the absem-e o? ?nv r>eou? nixed State authorities. I fin?! it ur, duly lo assume Control of the plant?t' rr rn-ur the military lines, and order .??> follows: 1st. The planters, aller taking the oath of allegiance, will assemble trie freedmen (lately their slaves) mid inform them thar, they are free, and that henceforth they must depend upon their ow ri exertions lor their support. 2d. Equitable contract 3 in writ ing will be made hy the owners of the land with the freedmen for the cultivation of the land during the present Year. Payment will be rna-e in kind, and the allowance of ?-ne half the crop is recom? mended n*i fair compensation for the labor. :he landlord furnishing subsidence ULtil the crop in gathered. These contracts will be mbmitted to tho nearest m?itarv or naval commander for approval and endorsement. Wlien the above requirements are com? plied with, protection will bc granted as far i.s military necessity will allow; hut where no com rac; is made, the crop raise 1 will he considered forfeited for the use of the laborer*. Should the owners refuse to cultivate it. they will be considered as en? deavoring io emb.i. rass the Government, and the land will be Used for colonies of tile freedmen from the interior. JOHN p. HATCH. June 1 Er'g- ^'<>" Commanding. Headq'rs United States Forces, 1 CITY OF COLUMBIA. S C.. MAY ?7. IIMI?. GENERAL ORDERS NO. 2. INFORMATION having been received af. th esa headquarters of the existence of armed bandi of marauders infesting tho country and committing depredations on the properly of peaceful citizens, it is hereby ordered that all persons composing such will !>e considered and treated as outlaws, and if caught, will receive the severest, punishment ?'t military law. The United Stales Government is desir? ous of protecting all peaceful and law abiding citizens, and they will confer a favor on these headquarters, and ?ki justice to themselves, by giving any information they may have in their possession respect? ing the names und movements of stn-h bands, and, if possible, aiding in their capture. The time lian arrived when it behooves every citizen to do all in his power to assist the military force? of the United Slates to restore peace and harmony throughout, the land. By order of ^Lieut. Col. N. HAUGHTON. 25th O. V. V. I., Coinda V. S. Force?. City of Columbia. W. J. KYLE. 2d Lieut. 25th O. V. V. I ar.d Post Adjutant ci m