The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-09
CURRENTLY TOPICS.

DGT vi II w 'hC ~ Z" tVaOhcN i
ITS, 423 at the close Of tho year 1866. The shares
are commonly 81 zach. Generally speaking, sales
are tor cash, but several societies give credit to
members, and in some instances to au amount OK
ceeding their paid-up capital in shares. In the
course of the year 1866 those associations received
for goods sold cash amounting to no less than
94,455, 500. The expenses amounted to 82SS,454'
The profits realized, after payment OF wages, ront,
repairs, and oil other expenses, were sa7e, 294. Az
the end Of the year the amount OF share capital was
41,G48, O98, and Of loan capital, f113,023; the trade
liabilities, 1854, 561; the assets and property, e.
OO9, $40; and the cash in hand, f192,SG3. AS many
as tbirty-nino OF these associations, almost all OF
them in the North OF England, sold goods in the
wear. each Of them, to an amount exceeding f20,-
600. six to an amount exceeding f100, 600. The
Rochdale Equitable Pioneers," established in
1914. still take the lead. This association had, at
the end OF the yoar 1866, 6246 members, and q
share capital Of f97, 4s9; grocery and provisions
| sold in the year TO the amount OF G249, 122 cash;
realized a profit Of f3l 1881. There is a quarterly
audit by members. The profits were disposed Of
thus: For interest, G3823; dividend on tho amount
I OF purchases made at the shop, f25, 829; education,
a6Sl; reserve fund, f252; for depreciation Of fixed
| stock, f1197; charities, f165. The Rochdale Co
operative Cotton Spinning Association had not
such a favorable account to give Of the years bu-
siness. The share capital Of this society is f92,-
1888; the loan capital. 600. o4s; the years profits,
a4824; value of the assets, f1i8,263; cash In hand,
97986. A cooperative association In Cheshire con-
duoto q farm; thoro ORC ~ memhors, but the CAPT
tai is only 4180, and the years profits were but
f25. A farriery company and q coal company in
the metropolis appears to be in a more prosperous
state. or the entire number Of cooperative So
clothes in England, nearly half, and nearly all the
larger societies are in Lancashire OF Yorkshire.
The rules OF 264 moro societies or companies have
boon certified since the commencement Of the
year 1866.
AS NEARLY as we can mako out, tho Geneva Con-
gross, about which 80 much is said, was a con-
gress which proposed to define, rather than to adj
vocate, peace. Its leading thought was the CONTRA
diction of Napoleon's famous dictum, LEmpire
cest la Pain. The sum total Of its deliberations is
this: La Republique c'est la Pair. In other
words, it WAS a council Of republican propaganda
ism, under the guise of q Peace Conference; nor
did it propose peace apparently, except SO far as
it could be had under republican institutions. In
this view, at least, the letter Of Mazzini and the
speech OF Garibaldi, which have been made the
butt Of much wit, become perfectly in accord with
the sentiments Of those they addressed. Take the
Committees final report, laying down their plat
form Of principles, Of which tho most important
wore, Democracy, the abolition of standing
armies, and sympathy with oppressed nationals
ties" Take their resolve, that the 'great Govern
ments Of Europe have proved themselves incapa-
BILE Of preserving peace and developing the moral
and material forces Of modern society,"" Is this
peace or red republicanism2 Take the speeches Of
many members against military monarchies;'
the declaration of Mazzini in favor of forming g.
Omitted States of Europe and the action Of the
Congress in establishing at Basic, q newspaper,
part French and part German, to be called ssThe
United States of Europe" is it hoped to reach the
end these things aim at by peace? No war note
ever sounded more clearly. 1t is a cry to make
1868 another 1848-with better success for republi-
canism. 1t is, as we said, q definition of peace
and wealth as consisting in republicanism. Alas |
we must own that war and taxes have come to our
Republic; and it is not likely that any new Repub-
lie will fare better in this respect.
MIR. MEUNIER, in his reoent book, "Lag rande
Chasse," describes the different modes used for
entrapping the elephant in Ceylon and Hindostan,
where lhe. is famed and employed as a beast Of bur.
his tusks and then proceeds to speak OF ostrich
es. Ostriches are generally hunted on horseback.
When the rider comes in sight, the ostrich will
make of at full speed, but the hunter ~abstains
from pressing his horse, and follows slowly on his
track. The ostrich, mean while, having made some
three or four miles start, will halt, and allow the
hunter TO come within q short distance of him,
and will then run of again. A third course will,
however, generally be found to have wearied him
out. The hunter then rides up at the swiftest
gaHop no can get out Of his horse, and fells the
ostrich with his club. Dismounting, he Sits open
the neck, and bending one Of the legs, passes the
foot through the wound, 80 as to prevent the o.
trich from bespatting his feathers in blood. The
old stories of ostriches eating their own eggs
seems to have originated from the method which
Nature has taught them OF raising their brood.
As soon as they are laid, the ostrich places it's
eggs in holes in the sand, made with it's beak.
They are ranged in a regular figure, and the bird
Bits upon them and accelerates incubation by the
heat of it's body. Outside the eggs which are be-
ing Matched are some three or four eggs laid at
the same time as the rest, but destined by the pa.
rent for the nourishment of it's offspring and
these it breaks one by one, gives them to its chicks
as they leave their shells. ~
Now THAT DUB Specie circulation is based 80
largely upon nickel, it may be. interesting to the
reader to know something Of the locality and
character Of the mines whence the mineral in
taken. The few facts about to be quoted with
reference to them are taken from a Pennsylvania
newspaper published in the vicinity OF the mines.
the largest OF which are situated in that State,
Fourteen miles from Lancaster, - says the journal
in question, .are the Gap mines and smelling
works. These mines were discovered many wears
ago, and about the time of the Revolutionary Wal
were worked for copper, but we're soon Abandoned
the crude machinery Of that period being i'll !
adapted to working them properly. Two genera
tons had passed away, and the circumstance had |
been forgotten, when about fifteen years ago the |
mines were reopened by a company Of capitalists
from Philadelphia, since which they have been |
steadily worked. They were reopened With the !
view Of obtaining copper, but the ore was soon
discovered to be richer in nickel, Q more valuable !
mineral, and since then they have been worked for
that metal exclusively. In all about one hundred |
and fifty men are employed at the mines and |
smelling works" The nickel produced by these |
mines is nearly all used by the Government in the
coinage OF It's small pieces, in ali Of which, from |
one penny up to the Ave cent piece, a large adj
mixture Of this metal is used.
A LETTER from Havana says s'The ladies' here |
90 not wear anything on their heads. You think
at home that our ladies wenr next to nothing. INT |
the bonnet worn by our party attracted such att4n-
ZION. because there was anything at all worn, that !
the ladies feel it a great annoyance to be stared at. |
and have taken the veil. which 10 all that ia worn.
The Havana ladies' do not come ont fill ovarino /