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COLUMBIA. Wednesday Morning, May 23,1886. Honoring our Gallant Dead. It is known to our readers, that on j the 26th April the ladies of the South determined to do honor to the dead Confederate soldiers, buried at dif-| feront f>oints throughout the South, by decorating their graves with gar? lands of flowers. The New York News very justly says: "There scarcely can be conceived a more touching spectacle than this. These women, orphaned of their treasures-for -where is there, at the South, a woman who has not been called on to sacrifice to country a father, or brother, or husband, or son?--decking, with tear-bedewed wreaths, the humble tombs of the la? mented dead; this quiet, unostenta? tious sorrow, these tender regrets, this homage of a whole people to the I memory of those whose gallantry, lofty patriotism and heroic devotion posterity will embalm in song and j story, make np a picture that no one with a spark of generous feeling can j contemplate without emotions of j sympathy and tender pity. "But there are people who have so Little heart, and the motives for whose actions are so thoroughly gross and sordid, that the possibility of an act being suggested by any motive but self-interest never occurs to them. Such people have neither sense enough to see, nor feeling enough to understand, that the right or the wrong of the cause for which the Confederates fought and died has ? nothing whatever to do with the sen? timent that prompted the women of the South to decorate the graves of their dead kindred; that they honor the memory of the dead because they exhibited many great and noble quali? ties;, they weep bitter tears over their untimely graves because they were near and dear to them, and because clinging affection of woman follows its object beyond the grave. "When the negroes of Richmond, I at the suggestion, doubtless, of the j agents of the Freedmen's Bureau, ! stole the flowers that the loving hands j of the Confederate women had strew? ed upon the graves of their honored dead, and transferred them to the j graves of the Northern soldiers, many Republican journals published the fact, not only without censure, but j with an implication of praise, as j though it were, upon the whole, rather a clever performance. And j when the attempt of a parcel of Northern school-mistresses, at Augus? ta, Georgia, who inspired a motley crowd of negroes and mulattoes to >yesty the oblation to the Confede- j 'dead, in the cemetery of that ?was^put down by the civil au? thorities, Republican journals raised a howl of pious and patriotio- indigna? tion over Southern insults to tho graves of Union soldiers." We noticed this outrage at the time, and were pleased to see the po? sition which Generals Brannon and Tillson took, in excluding from the cemetery those had purposely gone there to insult the noble women who were paying the only tribute they could to the brave men who had fallen in a cause they deemed to be patriotic. This howling of the radi? cal press, and its endeavor to distort this simple mode of testifying their love and regard for their dead sons and brothers, by the women of the South, into an insult to the fallen soldiers is so puerile and contempti? ble as to show that the party is in extremis-in its dying throes. THE FARMERS OF THE FREEDMEN'S BURHAII.-The President, says For? ney's Chronicle, has issued an order for the arrest of all officers of the Freedmen's Bureau interested, di? rectly or indirectly, in the cultivation of farms in the Southern State*. We are undoubtedly on the eve of great revelations as to this mammoth cor por^^^^udgood-rensou, -wethink, ^?jpKe^snownT why its officers have ffijfl^cn so loud" in their declarations F^T?at its presence was absolutely ne * cessary. We hope tho President's order embraces not alone those en? gaged in farming, but also those run? ning saw-mills, and otherwise specu? lating in and profiting by the "sweat of the freednlcn's face," as the New York Tribunms fond of expressing it. TUE ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS. The question ot the adjournment of Congress in Jtne is claiming tho at tentionoQ|MfcLshingt( ?n correspon ^'i? and doubtless the radicals are prolong the as possible, for ting the Presi ppointments. vanees, how Communication (Vont titentenant Gcjicrnl Om nt. The President sent a message to the House on the lGth, enclosing the following communication from Lieu? tenant-General Grant: HKADQ'RS ARMIES UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON, 1). C., May 1G, 1866. Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War. Sra: In view of the long delay in the lower House of Congres" in agreeing upon a plan for the reor? ganization of the anny, suitable to our present requirements, and the urgent necessity for early action, I am induced to present the matter to you officially, and to ask the atten? tion of Congress to it, believing that when they have the mutter fairly before them they will do what should be done speedily. At tho present time settlement? aro springing up [ with unusual rapidity in the district of country between thc Missouri River and the Paci?ic Orean, where heretofore the Indian was loft in un? disputed possession. Emigrants are pushing to those settlements and to the gold fields of the Rocky Moun? tains, by every available highway. The people flocking to these re? gions are citizens of the United States, and are entitled to the pro tection of the Government. Thov aro 'developing the resources of th? country to its great advantage, thus making it the interest as well as duty to give them military protection. This makes a much greater force West of the Mississippi necessary than was ever heretofore required, A small military force is required ii all the States lately in rebellion, ant it cannot be foreseen that this fore? will not be required for some tim? to come. It is to be hoped that thii force will not be necessary to enforci tho laws, either State or national, bu the difference of sentiment engen dered by the great war which ha raged for four years will make tin presence of a military force neees sary to give a feeling of security t< the people. All classes disposed to obey th laws of the country will feel thi alike. To maintain order, the Go vern m eut has been compelled to re tain volunteers. All white volunteer have become dissatisfied, and clair that the contract with them has bee violated by retaining them after th war was over. By reason of dissati? faction, thej- are no longer of ust and every one now remaining in th service might as well be disclmrge at once. Tho colored volunteer ha equal right to claim his discharge but as yet he has not done su. Hu? long will existing laws authorize tl) retention of this force, even if the are content to remain? The Unite States Senate passed promptly a bi for the re-organization of the arm} which, in my opinion, is us free froi objection as any great measure coul possibly be, and it would supply tl: minimum requisite force. It givi but a few thousand additional mt over the present organization, bi gives a large number of addition battalions and companies. The public service, guarding rout over the Plains, and giving proteetk in the Southern States, demands tl occupation of a great number of post For many of them, a small compai is just as efficient as ono with mo men in it would be. Tho bill befo Congress, or the one that has pass? the Senate, gives an increased nur beroi companies by diminishing tl number of rank and lile of each coi pany. It is an exceedingly appr priate measure in this particular, f it provides for tho increase, whi i occasion requires more men. Tl ! company is the smallest unit of < I ganization that can bo used witho j materially injuring discipline ai j efficiency. The belief that Congre , would act promptly on this matter, their attention was called to it, li induced mc to resj>ectftilly ask yo attention |b it. If you agree wi mo in this matter, 1 would also as if you deem it proper, that this, wi such endorsement as you may pleased to make, be laid before Ci I gross, through tho Speaker <>f t , House. Very respectfully, your obedu i servant. I"! S." fi RANT, Lieutenants ?eneral. i THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU.-Ge: j Fullerton and Steedman had an j terview, on Saturday last, in Savf nab, with a large number <>f them? influential citizens of that placo, free interchange of opinions ti place, and in the progress of the tv versation, Gen. Steedman remar! "that tho negroes, wherever he I ? passed, had borne testimony to j kindness of the intelligent people j the South: they regarded them their friends, and had made uo cc plaints, except of a certain class tho cities, whom they denomina I roughs." The conclusion arriva j is reported in the Weirs ami Hei : in the following terms: "That the tendency of the Fre ; mon's Bureau was mischievous in cognizing the whites as the enon ! of tho blacks, and that if it w withdrawn, tho responsibility fell \ the people to protect and care for ' freedmen would be increased," Gens. Steedman and Fullerton h i gono to Augusta. j Jenny Lind warbles at Hamb j in May Her dear Otto conducts 1 affair. * ^ . . J?? Thc Burean In South Carolina. We extract tbe following from the ! Charleston correspondence of the ' New York Herald: In South Carolina thc Bureau means neither a throe-man power nor a one man power, but simply a disturbing agency, without any power at all, ex? cept to foment ill-feeling and to eollect charges for the provost courts to dispose of. Soon after the evacuation <>f Charleston, a contest relativo to their respective powers be? tween Gens. Gillmore aixl Saxton led to the establishment of provost courts, by whose ageney the judicial busi? ness of the Bureau is virtually trans? acted. Hence in and around Charles? ton there is confusion, and a conti? nued clashing between tho military authorities und the agents of the Bu? reau, and the abolition of one or the other is imperatively called for. or the consolidation of both in one. Tlie powers and mode of adminis? tration of the Freedmen's Bureau in these three States, (Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.) it will thus be seen, differ as widely as do the organic laws of Dahomey und Massachusetts, and to talk of the Freedmen's Bureau in the abstractas some wiso and beneficent institution, shedding a benigna?'t influence over the colored race throughout the South, is to speak of something that does not exist, and never has existed. The Bureau is a good or bad institu? tion according to th" personal char? acter of the agent who administers it; it varies in every County and changes with every change of officers. This is one of its greatest weaknesses, and one of the strongest arguments against its permanent continuance. A few of tin- representative citi? zens of Charleston waited upon (icu. Steedman lust evening. They told the same story we have heard every? where. No outrages, no burning of school houses. no antagonism of races, kindly feeling towards the freedmen and a disposition to net fairly and indulgently towards them. The ex-rcbel General, James Connor, who was present, asserted that the Bureau waa doing a serious injury to the class it was designed to benefit in this way. While the Bureau was in existence the freedmen would not abide by their contracts, and the planters were employing white labor? ers. 1 cannot tell how far this may be the case. 1 only know of one in? stance of the kind. A Sea Island planter, a Mr. Johnson, brought down fifty white laborers. They cost him S?OO for transportation, and when he got them fairly to work, they struck for higher wages. Mr. John? son is rather likely to go back to co? lored labor. Ii was maintained bj another gentleman at the meeting, a. a proof of the disposition of the plau? ters, that in Districts where there wa? no Bureau there were ten to one les; destitution, ten to one fewer deaths, and ten to one less ii position on th< negroes than in Districts where a Bu? reau existed. Gen. Connor state?! that in Kershaw District, w here then was no Bureau, the freedmen made their own contracts, and were getting on much better there than elsewhere Of the present state of affairs <>i the Sea Islands I shall be better abb to speak in my next, but (Sen Beecher, who took command of : department, including these islands in August last, gives a strange pic ture of the lawlessness and disorde that then, and had for some time pre vionsly, prevailed under Gen. Sax ton's administration of affairs. Fraud and rascalities of every description from petty larcency upwards, wer perpetrated under the shadow of tb Freedmen's Bureau. Thc negroes instigated by unscrupulous civiliai agents of the bureau, who told theil they had a right to the land, am must keej> every white man off th island, formed an armed organizo tion and arrested every white ma: who attempted to land. Arnie bands of negroes made predator forays on thc main land and drove <> all thc cattle that came in their wax Tho allotments of land set apart fe the freedmen under (Sen. Sherman order were universally left uneillt vated, [n January last, don. Beech ot found but two acres -"listed out" f< planting in the whole Fdisto islam and it was only by stopping th supply of rations and placing the a tentative of work or starvation befoi the negroes that he could get them t take a hoe in hand. These sam "forty aero" allotments were foun of most hlastie dimensions. Tl smallest was three-and-a-half acre and the largest 450, and they rango all along between these two point Dozens of negroes holding lan orders for tuie island were found i possession of lots un another islam and tho greatest difficulty was exp rienced in dispossessing them. Get Beecher suppressed the armed lax lessness, and was in a fair way to o ganize a system of labor, when tl Freedmen's Bureau bill passed Coi gress ami again threw overythii into confusion and renewed the lui lessness. Since the veto of that me sure by the 1'resident the stat?; i affairs has improved, hough tl islands are still far from being in satisfactory condition. From nine to a hundred plantations on the foi islands are in lair working olde Tho freedmen are getting over tl idea of a necessary antagonism b tween the races, '.fhey find they a not oppressed, find are beginning a-*t up to their contracts. The gre drawbacks here, as everywhere in ti South, are want of capital and b much of the Bureau. _ J ... 1 Ck Ou this correspondence, the' Charleston Courier remarks: "Although in writing upon this topic we preier to base ourremakson the o facial report of tho Commission, when it shall appear, yet we do not herniate to form conclusions from the account as given by the Herald's cor? respondent, inasmuch as his intimate connection with tho Commission leads us to believe that his views are a reflex of tho opinions of the two Generals. He represents affairs on thc Sea Islands to bc in an unfavora? ble condition, and as thc chief cause of it refers to the regime of Gen. Sax? ton, which he intimates was replete with demoralizing results. The freed? man became imbued with tho notion that the property was their own, and that nothing remained for them to do but to livo a life of easeaud pleasure, aud rely on tho Freedmen's Bureau for the necessaries of lifo. "l>y dint of great effort 0*1 the part of Gov.. Saxton's successor, and other prominent officers and individuals, thc erroneous impression conceived by tho freedmen is partially dispelled, and although this change effected an improvement in the condition of the lands, it is yet apparent that the field for further progress in the same di? rection is very wide. The corres? pondent says, "too much of the Freedmen's Bureau" is one of the causes of the drawbacks to prosperi? ty in this State. We infer from this remark that Cons. Steedmnn and Fullerton will incorporate in their re? port a recommendation that the du? ties now devolving on the officers ol the Bureau should be performed by commandants of troops. A groat want of capital is also noted as anothei drawback to advancement in agricul? ture. Of tin* we ure all of us wei aware. Tt is u fact undeniable. Wc have repeatedly asked the attention of capitalists to this subject." THE COL? >KAJ H > SWINDLE. -Foi once, tho radicals have been utterly silenced and confounded. The mes sage of the President, returning t< the Senate with his objections, th? bill erecting Colorado into a State so completely exposes the scandalou character of this particular radica scheme for perpetuating power ii their own party, that no reply to it i found possible. In the Senate, tin message was put aside with delil>e rato insolence; the radical press print it and makes no signs. But the failure of this nefarious at tempt to foist a factitous common wealth upon the Union for the sak of getting three more radical vote into Congress, docs not make the at tempt itself less nefarious, nor ough it to be suffered to pass out of men' memories without leaving there it lesson of tint reckless and unprinc: ] ltd temper of those who conceive it. 'carried it successfully throng both Houses, and, but for the com ago and tin? patriotism of the Pres dont, would have consummated it. b welcoming the repr?sentatives of fabricated State to the halls froi w hich they shamelessly exclude tl Constitution!11 delegates of three mi Hans of free-born Americans. But 1 it is. this latest assault of the radica upon what they themselves denom nate the "life of the nation," is 1 worse than scores of other acts doi by thom in the past, tending all ono direction. It has been dofoate happily for us all, by the Presider and we ask every honest man, wi still hesitates between the policy tho President, and that of the Pro; dent's enemies in the Senate and tl House, to contrast this veto messa of Andrew Johnson, boldly defen ing principios essential to our natior existence, with tho attitude of t men who have boen crushed by tl message into a silence which is t most eloquent confession that cou possibly bo made of their conscio guilt in the transaction thus broug to nothing.-AV?C York Herald. I'ooi.in LABOR.-The subject Coolie labor for the rico fields of t South continues to attract consid able attention among tho Southe] and, indeed, the Northern pre For our own part, we are unwilli to conclude any opinion upon t subject till further experience of t capacity and conduct of the negro a free laborer. Tho Norfolk I oint'in says, however: .'The malaria < if tho rice fields fatal to the Caucasian, and no m certain death can bo incurred tl that which follows exposure on t great plantations of tho Peo Dee t Savannah after dark. It is equal prussic acid -not so swift, but as fallible. "There is a race, however, wh can bc made available for rico culti and it will not bo until tho Orient boen made tributary to our noce ties that this groat staple can ap be grown to any considerable ext? Thc Coolies are the people who do this work; who can stand tho mate: who will do it, and gladly, 1 for a compensation bu- below tha half the crop, which to thom wc be what th? possession of Aladd iamp or a Koo's egg would ImVG V to us-the realization of a table substantiation of magic. They inured to a burning sun; they aro cile and easily subsisted. Conti could be aiado for their import?t! A single salo of gold is reporte have b >en made in New \ork, or 18th instant,, on Government count, of S 1,500,000, at30>?. It expected that the export of gol Europe Kv> next ^lav would am to ?3.000. loo. k i A THE WAT rkv FENIAN YxrHtm WENT.-The Ne|*- York papers, of Monday, say: The committoie of investigation, appointed to exa nine the accounts of the O'Mahony fa ction, are beginning to unearth very strange facts. It seems that, until the Philadelphia Congress had closed its sessions, there had not been any such thing aa an account book in the possession of John O'Mahony & Co. Immense sums were received daily from tho organizations throughout the coun? try, but nobody can tell what was done with the money. It appears that Col. O'Mahony drew ?30, OOO for. some purpose or another given to our reporter. Money was paid out in profusion to centres, organizers, agents and other officials in thc most indiscriminate and reckless manner. A Col. Mulcahy was given a roving commission, with tho snug little sum of $7,000, for some unknown and mysterious cause. 700 copies of the Daily News and 500 copies of a news? paper called tho Citizen, containing laudatory articles on the late Head Centre O'Mahony. 83,000 were drawn to remunerate pilots who were to lead an imaginary fleet to Ireland around the Horn, probably. A head directress of the Fenian Sisterhood received S1,500 a year for her ser? vices, and her clerk received $500 a year for his onerous duties. A bond agent received salaries for three dif? ferent offices under the O'Mahony regime. One Mr. J. J. Bogers, now resigned or decapitated, received $12 per day for Iris s? rvices in the army of suffering Ireland. Mr. Rogers was verv bitter against the reporters, and had an excellent taste for com? fortable winter clothing and French calf boots. Besides the highly pa? triotic individuals mentioned, there were scores of others paid large sala? ries for traducing and slandering all Fenians who had the temerity to dif? fer in opinion with John O'Mahony. The board bill of the military con? vention, which was in session at 814 Broadway during the interval that the Congress at Philadelphia were in ses? sion, amounted to $23,000. Canvass back duck and game of all sorts com? manded a very high price at the period named. Killian made large drafts on his imagination, and the Fenian treasury, at the same time. Hundreds of thousands of dollars disap}?eared in a most miraculous manner, and still contributions came without stint. GLADSTONE ON AMERICA.-In his speech at Liverpool, on the reform question, Mr. Gladstone said: I think it is our business, as men of sense, to draw leasons from the ex? perience of mankind, [hear, hear,] and from the facts that come under our view, whether they be in despotic countries, or in constitutional coun? tries, or in countries Republican or Democratic. [Bear, hear. ] And the point which I ask you to observe is this-not the comparative merits of English or American institutions, but this single and important point of the effect that has been produced in Ame? rica by largely extended popular franchises, by a widely spread parti? cipation on the part of the people in the choice of the governors, the won? derful, unexampled and almost in? credible effect that has been produced by the system in giving forcible ex? pression to the national will, and in enabling the Government to develop energies for the purpose of giving effect to that will, such as have pro bably never been developed in equal times and almost equal numbers of men since the race of man began upon the earth. [Applause.] Leas than 50,000,000 of people-I do not. sneak of the negro population, who can hardly bo said to have entered distinctly into the war, thankful as we may be at the change it has ulti? mately had upon their destinies 26,000,000 in the majority, and 6,000,000 in the minority, coming to the bloody issue of war upon a mat? ter which, upon the one side and the other was held vital by both, have, I am bound to say, common justice re? quires us to admit, developed an amount of heroism, a power of self sacrifice, [hear, hear,] an energy, a perseverance, a forgetfulness of every personal interest, an amount of ac? tual force arrayed and marshaled by the subjects in support of their chosen rulers, such as I know not where to seek for in the annals of the history of the world. [Applause.] What I would say is, let us learn lessons where we can, and amongst others let us learn them from our brethren, the children of our loins in America. The New York World is not in the least mollified by the recent con? version of Stanton, the Divine. The editor says: "Tho men who really ought to be hanged for the suffering at Auderson ville were men, not like Wirz, but men like Stanton, whose (iespotic and arbitrary nature stopped tbte exchange of prisoners. As it was (he interest ?*f the Confederates to exchange, we assume that they wanted to; for though impulse may be| mistaken, and reasoning may be wrong:, interest can always be trusted." In Cincinnati, a lady breite her ankle by a fall, the cause of which was that she put her foot through another lady's crinoline, wholwas going the other way. Decay'? effacing finger wilt never the teeth that are brushed daily '< odoriferous Sozodont. It lends fragrance to the breath, as well as teeta the u-et".. from corrosion and decoj position. ?iooal Mortgages and Oonve;Wioes of Kcal l?? tate for sale at thia ofHc4 THK WEEKLY GLKANEI--The subscrip? tion to this mammoth wfkly "Home Com pam?onn has been reduce! and it viii now be furnished at the folio iig rates: Ons year, fS; six months, $1.4. To SMOKERS.-Wc call Attention to the advertisement of Mr. Ft uing in another column. Being an old nd experienced smoker, we can safely attire those who use the weed that the toacco he adver? tises is the genuine "Scariletti." BOOK AXD JOB PRIXTIH?.-The Phoenix office is now fully supped with cards, colored and white paper, olored ink, wood type, etc., and is now in condition to exe? cute all manner of book sid job printing in the shortest possible ime. Give UH a call. THK BUB NIKO or COLUMBIA. -An inter? esting account ol the "Sick and Destruc? tion of the City of Colunbia, 8. C.," un? just been issued, in pam-hlet form, from the Phoenix steam pow?r press. Order* can bo filled to any extert. Single copies 50 cents. COURT or APPEALS. -lu the Court of Ap" peals, on Tuesday, Gen McGowan con? cluded his argument in Henderson et al., va. Haddon et ni. Mr. Bu t in reply. Executors of Houston af*. Wm. McKel vey. Mr. Noble for appelant. Mr. Fair contra. J. Bolin and J. H. Davin w. M. E. Thomp? son. Mr. Wilhams for . jtion. No reply/ J. T. Porcher, Executer, cs. Joshua Daniel et cd. Mr. McGowan for motion. Mr. Noble contra. John Robertson r.t. Hawthorne. Straefc off. Exparte Elizabeth You. Abandoned. T. J. Pickens ad?. Ezekiel Picken?. Con? tinued. NEW* ADVERTISEMENTS. - Attention is call? ed to the following advertisements, which are published this morning for the first time: T. C. Lee-New Bricks. Fisher A Heinitsh-Drugs, Ac. P. Baumann-Beer. John Fanning-Scaxfaletti Tobacco. Parker A Fripp-Lumber, Ac. The Fortress Monroe correspond? ent of the New York. Herald is a per? son of sufficiently gentlemanly in? stincts to denounce a recent "verbal order" prohibiting officers, soldiers and others from taking off their hats, saluting or shaking hands'with Pre? sident Davis. These indignities be? speak a contemptible malignity and bitterness like that which has gibbet? ed the memory of Sir Hudson Lowe in chains for the petty insults, indig? nities and slights which he inflicted apon Louis Napoleon when a pri? soner at St. Helena. When Jefferson Davis was the President, of the Con? federate States, the people of Rich? mond were not in the habit of na? so vexing at his approach, but venture the prediction that when that heroic and unfortunate martyr is brought to this city for trial, 50,000" tearful and pitying men, women and children will fill the streets through which he passes to hia prison, to tes? tify in every way consistent with law ind order their esteem, respect and rympathy for the persecuted states nan. . - - We honor Secretary McCulloch for lis open disregard of .he contempti? ble rules and orders to which we have ?eferred, for ho is said, when he called ?pon President Davis, to have warm y grasped his hand, and to have* ?xpressed all - that \ sympathy which nisfortune excites fi every good nan's breast. We afco learn from ?he New York Herald, that the atten? dons and politeness which wa?? ex libited towards Mrs. Davis by several . Federal officers have also been pro ?bited by special order. Interdict ng politeness to a lady is, as the Herald suggests, a standing novelty in be way of military etiquette. The officials who indulge in such exhibi? tens of malignity to the unfortunate look too good care of their personal lafety during the war to be killed, md their escape is greatly to be re? gretted.-Richmond Tunes. NEW SYSTEM OI? . WsaoHh-s AND MEASURES.-Mr. Kass?Kj reported to ;he House of Representatives, on Thursday, a bill and two joint r?solu ions, which will pave the way for ihe introduction of the metric sys? tem of weights and measures. The House passed them at once, after a brief explanation ly Mr. Ka? who has drawn up a report on uibjeet, which will te a valuable i tribution to pol?tica science. / An Antwerp letter states that ship Due de Brabant has just arri there froVn India, with 3,500 bale cotton. For the last eight or -'ears not a ?'ugle bale has re that port direct. A train of cars was precip from the bridge at Clarksville, ?essee, on the 18th, a distance hundred feet, into the water, life was lost. Captain Thomas Joynes, white mare born in Louisvi in that city, on Friday, in year. We cannot censure a man ness who do? not advertise, nothing woita advertising. "To-morow" is thri day