The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-31

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Iiro LOUIS JACOBS. 8. D.
..=Ero j. A. SALTERS j. D.
Ero. HENRY sOLOMONs, Stewards.
pro. CONRAD GWINNER, Tyler
snxn4y goHoo1, CE1EBRArIoN.-We would call
attention to the instructing and entertaining ex-
h;hitio, to take place at Trinity Church, Hasel
street. tomorrow evening at q o'clock P. NJ. All
Who an,oyed tho views Of the Binoptric Lantern
zxhan exhibited in the Charleston College, will be
glad os the opportunity now presented to renew
their acquaintance with PALESTINE the Aurora, and
{ the war scenes. The price OF admission IS mere
t1ife, and the amusement and instruction to be
do.iyes! from d visit fully repays the expense.
Tue COLD SNAp.-Although our venerable friend,
# Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-six, is on his last
legs. he has apparently collected all OF his energies
10 .lt,ss the world he is not yet dead. Saturday
morning was ushered in with sleet and ice, and
daylic.st broke on majestic scene-the trees had
boone their wintry fruit during the night, and
every limb was pendant with icicles, while tho
caves cs the houses and every prominent object
nlittered with the same icy drapery. The Old Year
was evidently weeping over its approaching disso-
,ution and its tears had congeaed before reaching
ti,e Garth. BY advices from the country we learn
That other sections have been favored with snow,
and in Augusta and Columbia snow-baling was
played with great yigor by the urchins, who, "Ex-
ce:s;olr like cared nothing for SNOW os ice.
barre 81 tbs article was forwarded to this CITY by
exIress tto,n Florence, and the -esnposeos cs
hAoe & fo ou .sil,crs tnIulsed i'll small game
inst tsap their hands in. At present the streets
o,spo Ia rom ~
ping tscss rain, that we could wish that Mr. Sixty
six ha( fa5tfanlea his emotions.
PEsAMDuLAroRY-Mr. SHEPARD, the walking
gentleman, we learn, finished his feat at 10 o'clock
last night. He walked one hundred hours with
but twenty minutes recess in the twenty-four
ho1Us, OF course he was very much used up; his
hei, swollen, his legs oongested, and the whole
1a:ne exhausted. The feat performed certainly was
tno of great difficulty, but would the world be the
worse il the said feat was altogether impossible? /?
What useless expenditure of muscular force We
ldaow that there are men in every community
(,suay known as ssporting" men) who dsightin
such exhibitions, forgetting, as they generally do,
that what is sport to them is death to the per-
fdrnlor. That the pedestrian is his own master,
add ,lndergoes this torture of his own free
will and accord, is no excuse to his abettors
Itis 30 vita the dog, the cock, tho bull, and the
adtlcInon of the Clancy" Such exhibitions do
nat conduce to public morality, nor in any possible
way to the public good, and should be discouraged
hy overy@ ght-mnded citizen. If public opinion
wil only be just to ITSELF an exhibition of such
Questionable character could be readily frow1ed
dotn, aud we hope tho day is not far s.ant whom
>S,,edcstrianism," understood in Mr.. sHEPAnD's
sense, will be counted among the relics Of bar
.harous pa st.
,fgT, O1D YRAR-Tho 91st of December, the last
day OF 1866, is upon us, and brings along with it
mingled feelings of gladness and melanchoy-of
s!adness in the hopeful anticipation of brighter
daya TO eolne with the advent Of the New Year, and
Of of1aelancoly in reflections on the feeting nature
of time, and on the destruction Of hopes once
proildiy cherished but now crumblod to the dust.
There is great truth in the remark Of the wise
man: syanty Of yanities, all is vanity
A5such time painful recolections will obtrude
tho11selYes, Of time misspent and opportunities
negsctcd--oP the feeting nature OF human life
end human joys, and that Gro many moro
years. have elapsed, our joys and sorrows, our
ASFoo vim 5Ae6lS, Will d1Ous5 WILL ouAo0An0o3
have become things of the past. Such is the dark
side of the question, but it also has it's sunny side
and its silver lining IT.
.En1 Hope WI brighten days to come,
And memory g1' the past.''
On aucll en occasion vs. this, the close Of an
aventfui yoat. it is both more noble and more
profitable 10 take cheerfm and reassurine view
Of our condition. "The past ism the eternal past,
snt! tbs opening future, althoughit holds out no
alnreu,ente can not be worse, hleed must be
better. scr the bitterness of defeat :. over and
stern necessity demands no relaxatic of onr
efforts until we once more assume the position tn
which we ere rightly entitled by the laws U our
country.
New Yoar's Eve has always been distinguished
~ sone observance or ceremony that rendered il
sssare9I less Interesting and attractive than Christ
.us,, Tine u he best known and most general o.
these custon5is that of sitting up until IL o'cocl
on tl.9 liE;its >t the 31st Of December, and then
,7j,en shs ayen5fm hour has struck, proceeding te
Tie aooi ,i.f great formality and unbarring it te
iesaAnt The old and let in the new year.
4 slatom prevails, more especially among the
English Dssenters, and by the Methodists
and aacso other Protestant denominations in
Amer'oe, Of having midnight services on the