Columbia phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1865, April 17, 1865, Image 3
fHE roi^MBtft PHC?NiX.
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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.