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I will reserve this performance to another day. It shall be done tomorrow, provided the day be calm. With this assurance the mayor retired. But the work of pillage had begun when the Federal troops had first reached the head of Main street. Stores were broken open, and the contents strewn on the side-walk; citizens were robbed in the street; no one felt safe in his own dwelling. We are indebted for many incidents of the sack and destruction of Columbia to a publication in the Daily Phoenix. We group some of these incidents to make a partial picture of outrages innumerable and almost indescribable: At an early hour in the day, almost every house was visited by groups, averaging in number from two to six persons. Some of these entered civilly enough, but pertinaciously entered, in some cases, begging for milk, eggs, bread and meat — in most cases, demanding them. In the house, parties less meek of temper than these pushed their way, and the first intimation of their pre