The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-06-25
CURRENT TOPICS.

country, md tho universal scarcity Of monoy, |
oyory oyo looked hopefully forward to tho noxt |
harvest tho timo for general acltoraton OF our
social, financial, commercial vol political
relations. Tho wish was father TO tho thought. |
Many OF US can always eco whatsoever wo may
wish to seo Reports camo in from ovcry quarter
Of unprecedented "lns stands" There Is not
paper In oil tho South for tho past two months
TINT has not boon filed, day after day, with tho
mout glowing accounts Of tho crop prospects. wo
had our misgirings as to tho corrcceloss OF tho
dnta knowing that it too soon in tho history OF
tho cotton plant confidently to predicate any
result upon 1t. Moreover, it was bad policy
To blnzon forth such BurmiBos, for whio
loy eau 10 mother good nor harm l,cro at homo.
thoy layo undoubtedly oxorcised a considerable
influence in tho North and in Europe, In kooping
cotton at ils present low figure. Calculations
hayo already bron male by Bpoculalors, baRcd
upon thrBo facts t7) That tho coming crop woul1
DO fully g. 000, 900 OF bales. Now there is nothing
to warrant such calculation. Tlloro is moro corn
and othor corrnls planted this year than thore was
last your, or tho yoar boforo, whlo VIC do not
think that thoro is any moro land undor cultiya-
ton thnn bororo and ns far wo liaro boen ablo
to observe upon recent trip to tho interior,
tho stands OF cotton arc nothing to boost OF.
Tho weather hns not been favorable thus far
too much cold nnd too much rnin. II the romniIl-
der OF tho season provo propitous, wo may still DO
blcasod with good crop, but il is too soon Ger
tninly to Bivo won't to reoklcps predictions tho
extent Of tho CROP, sceing what Importance 10
| attachod abroad 10 oyory such uttcranco. Wo
shall always, however, bo glad to rccoyo from our
friends in tho country accounts Of tho condition OF
| tho crops in their vicinity.
PARIS ottor writor tells this story Of tho cdor
| DUMA6: "M. ALEXANDER DUMAS wont boforo
court Of Justice lately unilor thoso characteristics
circumstances. Ho had, for gront many years,
M. FoaTA1NE ms Bccrotary. The latter rccontly
dod. His widow and daughter claimed to DO orod-
| itors OF NJ. ALExADEn DUMAS, and lovicd un at
tachmont on tho money Mt his crodit with Mcssrs.
MIcuEI LEVY FREnEs They alleged ho owed tl,on,
$50 francs, tho amount of soyen notes given by NJ.
| DUMAS, and 3577 francs, with nLerest being tho
amount OF tho balance OF M. FoNrA1sE's salary
from 1856 10 1861, M DUMAS most positively loniod
ho owed o single cont. Thcrcupon the plaintiffs
| tas warrnntod by Fohch law) ,ichnllonged him 10
| answcr upon ouih wllcthor NJ. FosTaISE had not
bsen his secretary, and whothor ho did not owe
| Tho latter balance OF account. nj. DUMAS mado
this explanation THAT oxcollont follow, COR
| foss, remained with mo for nonrly twenty
years NJ accrotary. I employed him TO
mako researches for mo. Ho lodged and lirod
with me. Like everybody, whom no wanted
money, ho took il from my Secretary
| when thero WAS any thore. Ono day his
mother WAS III. 1 gavo him everything had
about mo- Il was fivo hundred francs. Thoro wns
mover any agreement between us. Ho drew money
out OF my secretary just myself did, md us no
wanted il. Ny confidence in HIM was boundlcss,
| and must say ho dcsorvcd it. Whom wns on
tho oyo Of going 10 Caucasus, gayo him money,
not because L owed Linn monoy, but because had
money, anu found pleasure in sharing it with him.
| When, subsequently,, wont TO Italy, carried him
with me. Ho accompanied mo to Naples,
but must say horo was obliged to dismiss him,
as tho Hcapolitan vino did not agreo with him.
Tho court decided in favor OF tho defendant.
THE BRUTE IN haman form, tho Rov. JOEL. LIND
sEY, who whipped his littlo boy to death, taking
two or throo hours to do tho work, and thon caro-
| fully covered tho MANNED, bruised md blackoncd
corpse, nnd plnccd it himsolf in tho coffin aftor be.
ing onco convicted Of his crino was granted nnew
trla at Albion, N. Y, last wcak, md the jury-ds.
eliminating inen-failcd to Rgreo. satiHHed with
the doubt, hiSSnwyors had succeeded in throwing
about his wickodncss, tho rovorond scoundrol and
murderer was good enough 10 plead guilty 10 man.
slaughter in tho fourth dcgroc, md was promptly
sentenced by tho court to pa fino OF $3.50
Whether tho costs wrro also included a mol
stated, but it was certainly ehoap at the
| .rinn. Hereafter littlo children in Now Ynrl
human creatures for what may bo considered
slight cost FOR tho qualification thLs Afforded 10
atrocious md barbarous instincts. Tho strotor
codo OF Justice might havo imposed, il not hang.
ing, Mt least serios OF ffoggings which would have
allowed tho rororond JOEL q fair comprehension OF
his littlo ciildis suffcrnga or, il his tender
syatom royoltcd ut such discipline, an impris-
/ Onm0nt finD Ia rnnn
could not probably foel-would hayo boon ssluta.
~. But these nro singular days. Tho child
was whito, and 80 was his pnrent. Had ho boon o
\ southorner and tho victim OF his cruelty black
boy, not entitled by relationship TO any special
affection, tho papers would hayo runR with Do
| inands for o sorero ponalty. Bat color oondones.
Muon INTEREST is felt In tho attempts still ma
KING to cultivate cotton on lnrgo scale in Cali
fornia, and it IL beloved considerable breadth
OF lnnd will bo planted to tho staple tnis
yoar. We woro shown to-day somo samplos
OF green soed or upland cotton grown in sa-
cramento county last season, and represent
ing shipment Of six bales, or about ono ton
In woght, Tho ssaplo is OF fair quality,
and will compare we'll with tho medium grades
OF the same variety grown in tho Southern States.
Tho hbro is about lvc-oights OF an inch long; is
VI Booo cotor anu nnoneSs, and remarkably strong
whom tWistod In tho absence Of knowledge as to
tho yield and cost OF culture it is not possblo TO
speak as to its proltablonofs aa q crop, but tho
quality OF tho cotton is good beyond o.viI. II is
now over three years ainco tho first experiments
in cotton-growing was m,de in California, and
Its culture has sinco been steadily prosecuted
In several districts. Ono would naturally SUPPOSE
that by this timo tho business would have formed
regular channels through which some accurate
knowledge could bo derived as to culture, yield,
otc.; but such is not tho caso Tho salo OF homo
raised cotton is confined TO o very few parties in
this city, yet those parties so much in tho dark
as to the oxtent Of the crop OF 1860 as to bo unable
to definitely state uhothor il was TO- 900 or 100 900
pounds Mother can they givo any particulars CON-
nccted with It's growing.
IHE PRESENT season seems to BIO ono OF unusual
moisture throughout tho longth and breadth OF
tho Unitod Rtates. How remarkably wet our
spring has boon, from beginning TO ond, In this
part OF tho country, Is present to tho mind OF
oYery ono OF our readers; but we flntl that New
England, tho West, and far-off Toxas, h.yo sur-
ierod rom tho same cnuso. IouIhiana psper.
the caddo Gniette, says: "wo have conyersed with
our planters from several Parishes In thia State,
and from Counties 10 EaHtorn ToIas. Thoyroport
that tho prospect for corn crop is very unfayor-
abio Tho plant is small, and ON many plantations
OTerfuD with Rrags and woa1o w1,;Io ~