The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-15

the Judiciary Committee begin to fear that Provi
dence has interposed the wrath and fatality Of tht
elements to despol them Of their best and chiefes
evidence in making up the case against Mr.. DAVE
The eunbost Suatora, with JOAN SURRATT on
board, now some twelve days over DUE has Eo'
bsen heard Of since she coaled at Lisbon, and
the Navy Department, with admirable equs-
nimity, admit that the craft in question was
crazy old tub, whose laundering at sea
could result in no very material loss to the mari
time strength Of the republic. Should such indeed
be the case, and the oarus Of taking yet another
mans life, as an offering for that unfathomable
plot of assas sination be happily taken from us by
the AIl-wise Rnler Of the winds and floods, the
Radicals or at least that implacable iunto Of the
Judiciary viii never cease to rail at the cissitlde
that has defrauded them Of weaving another tissue
in the mantle of guilt with which they are pre-
pared to cloak Mr.. DAVIS. And until this wanting
link in the chain Of evidence, upon which it is de-
ipned to convict DAVIS Of direct eonnvance in the
assassination Of LINCOLN is dug up either by the
resurrection Of the now apparently lost sURRATT,
or through the apprehension Of another CoNovER,
be sure that the captive at Fortress Monroe will
not be allowed beyond the postern which now de-
bars his way to the world and his own.
WASHINGTON A MINIATURE PARIS.
declare to you, candidly, that something Of
the Parisian style Of doing things, both as
regards moral and socisl effects, is now
in vogue in Washington Fashionable oracles
say that there never was such whirl
in the circles Of the beau na"nde aa is noticeable
now-srdays. All the gsudiness and flash that was
the ton in Mistress LMooLH's time, is now su-
premsiy eschewed, and quite the contrary prevails.
Magni6cence, aoi an ability 70 maintain II, is now
the principal disederatm among the leaders Of the
present gaities, and among all but very few, the
exaction in this regard is not rendered to the in
vestigstion Of society without deal fembarrass-
,ment, and not unfrequently an utter failure to
come up to go rigorous requirement, But in the
main the snobbery Of the hour is pretty thorough
" and solidly sustained by the une1ceptionably
long purses Of Senators REvERDY JoHNsoN, NOR
GAN and spRAauE, and Congressman! HooPER and
DODGE besides host Of local people, very well to
do in affairs temporal, and ambitious to keep up
with the scale Of hospitality put forth by the more
distinguished personages alluded to. The fame
and scandal growing out Of all these brilliant
flashes of fashion and folly has had the effect
of importing very fast crowd Of social idlers
from New York and. adjacent cities,-so that,
what with it's over extraordinary assumption
Of the frivolities OF the season, Washington is
completely metamorphosed, by the introduction Of
an additional element Of dissipation and recklesf
ness. The galleries. Of Congress- are crowded the
whole day through with an array Of womanhood to
the number OF Thousand or two, costumed as for
q ball, and 80 charmingly yiyaoiuus in action 80
fatteringly attended by distngue cavaliers that it
is hard believe that the event of the hour is not
the brtsdest Of comedies, and that those grave,
saeacious looking men on the stage, beneath are
not the lay figures Of scene OF e!aggerased Sc; s
verify, to make way for another with heightened
and sparkling effects. In fact, you continually eI-
pect the tinkle Of the bell, and the grand flourish
Of trlmpets that announce, the bale. "Ihe
Black Crook would not be .inappromiate, and
Judging by the indecencies which are daily prae-,
ticed in the House, and which the fair occupants
Of the galleries gaze upon and hear with undis-
turbed equanimity, fancy no protest would be
offered to the substitution. M VlDEA2l