The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-07-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
WHAT AN INTERESTING HISTORY that would mako
Of the unsuccessful newspapers. Thousands are
projected annually; many Of them have not suf-
ficient strength to parturiate, others fall still
born, yet others arc pulling infants, nipped in the
bud by the first blast in the shape Of 'strin-
gency Of the money market )" and 80 they drop
all along the highway; but few reaching the
strength and maturity CT full manhood. The his
tory Of one of these failures is contained in the
following paragraph from the Pail Mat Gazette:
ssThe affairs OF the Doy newspaper were yesterday
| ventilated in the Court Of Bankruptcy. It seems
that Lords GRosvENoR, ELcHo and LrToHf1EID,
had formed themselves into constitutional
Liberal party, and required AN organ So they
called into their council, Mr.. JAMES HUTTON, who
undertook, in consideration of subsidy OF &SOOO,
to launch and carry on for o year daily penny
paper to be called the Day, and to make himself
solely and wholly responsible for all liabilities in
Cured on behalf Of that Journal whose political
\ teachings were 80 be guided and controlled by
their lordships. The demand for constitutional
liberalism not proving equal to the supply, in
few weeks the newspaper came to an end, the
fSOOO advanced by its noble originators having
/ been e1penced, and debts to the further amount
of fasss 2s. Sd. remaining TO be paid. Matters had
been 80 dextrously arranged that the creditors Of
the Day now discover that they have no legal
claim against anybody but Mr.. HUTTON. who is
bankrupt; but as they unquestionably would not
| have trusted that gentleman had it not been
notorious that he had the conservative liberal
Trinity at his back, these noble lords have very
properly determined that everybody shall be paid
in full and they will in consequence, have to dls-
burse between f1sO0 and f1sO0 each for the
qualification of having led party and guided and
controlled an organ for some six weeks."
J. W. FoRNEY, writing from Paris, gives tho fol-
lowing interesting coup doeI of the French Low
er House: "The Emperor's government, being the
great political European problem, trio to get o
close view Of it, and this afternoon visited tho
Corps Legislatif the same as the House Of Com
mons in England and the House Of Representa-
tives in tho United States. Procuring ticket
from the President, took my seat in the strangers
gaIlary about 24 O'Clock, and looked down upon
strange sight to American eyes. The hall is very
much tho shape, though larger than our old Senate
the United States. Like all the public buildings
in Paris, it is airy, well lighted, and very commo-
dious. The seats and desks, five hundred In num-
ber, are raised, one Iow above the other, and e1-
| tend back with gradual elevation, the highest
| being about three feet above the lowest. The
Presidents or Speakers chair, raised much more
than our Speakers is in the centre Of the axis OF
the semicircle, 30 that he nearly faces the NOM
bars who sit around the best half Of the hall. He
stands while stating or taking the question, and
when he demands order, which is nearly all the
time, rings sort Of dinnerbel at his right hand,
and calls silence which is echoed by three or four
officers In uniform, above and below him. Over
the Hpesker's chair or throne is the motto which
reads like one Of voLrAIaE's bitterest satires,
"Toz PopWi, vox Del" On his left was inscribed
the word "order," and on his right the word
s'Rba7en. Although thero is tribune from which
The members deliver their set orstions, observed
that they spoke from their seats. The arrange
ment Of the latter is much like our own, and infn-
itely better than that OF the English House OF
Commons"
WHETHER THE VISIT to Europe Of BRIGHAM
YouNa, Junior and brother "saint" or two, has
any effect in propagandist sense, we cannot Say,
but there certainly Is revival of Mormon emigra-
tioh. A steamer sailed from Liverpool only
fortnight since, with four hundred Mormon con-
yerts on board, bound to Salt Lake City. "There
was about an equal proportion Of men and women
among them,' ssys British paper, ''the princ-
pal part Of whom were young, perhaps ranging
nom eighteen to twenty-eight years Of age.
nmall minority was made up Of persons who must
have reached between thirty and fifty years. The
forward part OF the ship Was devoted to their e1-
elusive use, and according to contract with the
company, no persons were permitted in that part
Of the veesal, or to associate with the Mormon
proselytes. The emigrants belonged to Wales, the
western counties OF England and some came from
Scotixnd, but there was not . single Irishmsn OF
Irish woman among them" This last fact, by the
way, is curious one, yet not surprising to those
acquainted with the Iish character. Tue most
gallant ofmen, they are at the same time also the
most constant; and the women OF no country pro-
baby more chaste than those OF poor old Ireland.
Ny wonder that Mormanism has no hold upon
them. Moreover, m matters Of doctrine, the
Eishman is safely anchored upon thn rock OF the
Church, unsssailable by the follies ct your JOHN
snrHs and BRIanAM YouNes E1,itable in other
things, the Iriahman is very calm and sober in
matters Of religion.
: FoB CONTINUED succession Of monotonous and
uninteres6ng scenery, We have always thought
the country along the lines OF railway IN South
Carolina, and the greater part Of North Carolina
are sshard to beat" But it would seem nom the
following picture Of the Platte River bottom given
by correspondent Of the Cincinnati Commercial,
who has recently made trip on the Union Pacific
Railway, that there is even less romantic scenery
than we suffer under in our low country swamps.
he says: 'sThere is no other railroad in the world
where the scenery is 80 monotonous. Heeiess
valley is the Platte, shut in few miles on either
side by naked slopes and mounds. broad, thin
river skms the southern part Of the valley; river
Of swift current; but 80 fimsy In depth that it's
progress Is tormented with ten thousand islands,
whose natural moats have protected them from the
prairie fires and 90 permitted . stunted growth OF
cottonwood trees, the only forest plumage IN sight
For two hundred and ninety miles the railroad
skirts the northern rim lit can hardly bo said to
have bsnks) Of this feeby river. The same Wow
apparently meets the eye when you awake in the
morning that you saw the evening before, though
In the meantime you have rolled westward hun
dred and fifty niles. You are still in level valley,
environed with bare and misty hills, an endless
stretch Of track ahead and an endless stretch be-
hind. The difference in the pictures is that be-
tween sunrise and sunset, and far most delicate
companion pieces they make"
A PARTIAL IDEA Of the extent OF the lumber
business Of the Northwest can be obtained from
the following article, which we copy from the ss.
Paul Press: .tOver one hundred million feet OF
logs have fosted upon the spring foods down the
upper tributaries OF the Mississippi, and are now
safely doomed at various points on the Mississippi
u 4. a Al. kah into