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

the judiciary. Committee begin to fear that Provi
dence has interposed tho wrath and fatality Of tn
elements to despoil them Of their bost and chiofes
evidence In making up the case against Mr. DAVIS
Tho gunboat S,cdtord. with JOHN SURRATT OIL
board, now some twelve days over due, has no
! bHen heard Of since she coaled ut Lisbon, ant
the Navy Department, with admirable equa
nimity, admit that tho craft in question wal
crasy old tub, whose laundering at SET
could result in no very material loss to tho mari
time strength Of tho republic. Should such indeed
be the case, and tho onus Of taking yot another
mans life, as an offering for that unfathomable
plot Of assassination, be happily taken from us by
tho Ml-wiso Ruler Of tho winds and floods, the
dicals, or at least that implacablo junto Of the
Judiciary, will mover ceasoto rail at tho vicissitudo
that has defrauded thom Of weaving another tissue
in tho mantle Of guilt with which thoy uro pre-
pared to cloak Mr. DAVIS And until this wanting
link in tho chain OF evidence upon which it is do
igued to convict DAVIS Of direct conniyance in tho
assassination Of LINCOLN is dug up, either by tho
resurrection OF tho now apparently lost suRRATT,
or through tho apprehension OF another CoNoyER,
bo sure that the captive ut Fortress Monroe will
mot BIO allowed beyond tho postern which now de-
bars his way to the world and his own.
WASHINGTON MINIATURE PARIS.
declare to you, candidly, that something OF
the Parisian style Of doing things, both as
regards moral and social effects is now
in vogue in Washington. Fashionable oraoles
say that there mover was. such whirl
in the circles Of the bedu monde, as Is noticeable
now-a-dnys All the gaudiness and flash that was
tho ton In Mistress LMooLs's timo, s now su-
premely oschewed and quite the contrary prev ails
Aagniticerce, ,oih an ability 70 maintain Il, is now
the principal dsederatum among the leaders OF tho
I'll 1,,,t~ u,
oxaction in this regnrd is not rendered to the in
yostigaHon Of society without deal Of ombarrass-
mont, and not unhequently an utter failure to
como up TO so rigorous q requirement, But in the
main the snobbery OF the hour Is prottY thorough
ly and eoiidly sustained by tho uneIceptionably
long purses Of Senators REyEADY JOHNSON, MoR-
GAN and SPRAoUE, and Congressman HOOPER and
DODGE besides host OF local people, vory well to
do in affairs temporal, and ambitious to keep up
with tho scalo OF hospitality put forth by the more
distinguished personsgos alluded to. The fame
aud scandal growing ont Of oil these brilliant
flashes Of fashion and folly has had the effect
OF importing q worry fast crowd OF social idlcrs
from Now York and. adjacent cities,-so that,
what with It's over extraordinary assumption
Of the frivolittes Of tho soqson, Washington. is
completely motamerphosod. by the introduction Of
an additional eleeht OF dissipation and reclless-
ness. Tho galleries Of .Congross arc crowded tho
whole day through with On array Of womnnhood to
tho number OF o thousand or two, cpstumod as for
Q ball and SO charmtngly viyaciUus in action, 30
fatteringly attended by dslingue cavaliers that II
is hard to believe that event Of the hour is not
the broadest Of comedies, and that those grave.
sagacious looking men' on the stage beneath are
not the lay figures Of scene OF exaggerated So
Worthy, to make way for another with heightened
and sparkling effects. In faot, you continually eI-
peot the tnkle Of the boil, and the grand fourish
Of trumpets that announce the ballet. "The
Black Crook would not >bo, Inappropriate, and
Judging by tho indeoenoiei which are daily pTac-
tteed in the House, and which the fair occupants
OF the galleries gaze UPON and hear with undis-
turbed eGuanimity, fancy no protest would be
offered to Tho substitution. VIDEX