The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-28
CURRENT TOPICS.

SEWARD 10 'ne8ouatnR Ior tne purchase oi Ill
British America from the Pole to forty degrees
north latitude, and from the Pacific to the
Canadas;" and Lord STANLEY is said not to be
averse to such a transfer. The Spectator there
upon remarks: "H Mr.. SEWARD has made any
such offer, we trust Lord STANLEY will remember
that the owner of the American Pacific seaboard
will always be the most formidable enemy India
could have" Whether or not there is any truth in
this rumor, it is Of course impossible to say. We
surmise, however. that it is nothing more than q
canard. Since the Russian purchase all the wits
in Yankeedom, and it would seem, some even out
side the pale have been at work, oonjuring up new
plantations, to be bid off by Mr.. SEWARD. To be
sure, there is some excuse for his eoveting the
West Pacific coast, for be wants the right Of way
to Walrussia.
Sunday was very hot day, and yesterday more
so. OF this, however, we have no right to COM
plain, az this has unquestionably been one Of the
longest and late't springs we have ever known.
While this has given us dwellers in the CITY very
aereeab atmospheric condition, We fear our coun-
try friends are not equally contented; for while the
nights were cold, and thus retarded the growth OF
the infant cotton plant, the grass, thanks to the
copious and frequently recurring showers, has not
suffered under similar arrest Of development;
and we are in daily expectation Of receiving long
letters from the interior full Of loud laments, and
bristlng with the woful wit about fine crops ofhay
In the cotton fields. and covert illusions TO snake
bites. and other kindred subjects, well known to
our cotton planters, for have they not been the
regularly recurring themes Of wit, well worn, every
summer during the last ten decades2
General BAKER is getting 8 very unenyiable no
toriety, in connection with the BOOTH and SUR
RATT ceses. The New York World a few days ago,
pronounced the so-called Booth Diary lame
forgery, manufactured to order by some news
paper correspondent. This charge, in our opin-
ION, is sustained by excellent circumstantial eri
dence Riding sixty miles that night after the
assassination. when he had broken his leg jump
ing off the stage at the theatre, and the "broken
bone tearing his flesh at every STEP" can hardly
be called very probable story, even after all the
circumstances Of danger and urgency are taken
into consideration; 8 I'd that then he should have
stopped, not to have his leg sPlinted and band
aged, bu. to see what the newspapers said about
him, and to make entries into his dary-is, to say
the very least that can be said, passing strange.
Now, we soc that General BAKER says Mrs. Sur
RIrT confessed to him "her completely with the
consprators, 80 far as the interded abduction WAS
concerned, but affirmed that she reluctantly yield
ed to the urging Of BOOTH in aiding the plot Of
assassination" The New York Times very peril
nently asks why he did not testify to this fact on
the trial OF Mrs. suRRATT.
The following from the New York Tines, Of Fri
day, while not yet applicable to this latitude may
serve the useful purpose ofavertin1 such conjunc-
ture: "The unusual punishment Of fine and one
months imprisonment, WAS yesterday imposed by
Justice DowLrNa at the Court Of Special Sessions,
upon Third Avenue Railroad Conductor, who
was found guilty Of assaultng and ejecting from
his car, a boy-passenger, who refused to yield his
seat after he had paid the full fare. We trust that
this exemplary penalty will not be without it's
warming effect upon the class to which the prison.
or belonged, many Of whom, by their rudeness to
passengers, have disgraced their employers and
aforded much cause for complaint on the part Of
the public. In the case under consideration, the
magistrate found no palliating circumstance in the
taot that the conductor wished to find room for g
female. He held that the yielding of seat was
entirely matter Of courtesy md took occasion to
make some suggestions to tho fair sex, in connec-
Lon with this matter, which arc OF .-timaly char
acter."
Boston is christian town, and has q christian
people; it is in fact the teetotalest city on this
mundane sphere. The very smell Of Monongahela
is penitentiary offence; how strange and at the
same time how sad the reflection induced by re-
port from that godly city, that "there is no
iiminution Of arrests for drunkenness in
Boston, since the closing Of the 8ar-rooms "
py legal process. The New York Times,
contrasts this picture Of the Puritan city
with Paris on Sunday as recently portrayed by its
correspondent This, too, during the carnival
times OF the Exposition. He says: "Neatness,
order, decency are every where and If there is
anything else in Paris, it does not make its
appessance in public. People come out by the
hundred thousands-all the liquor shops Of Paris
are ope.; there is nc Maine Law; the supply Of
liquor is unlimited, and not one person Is seen
drunk" Jarkest night, where should be greatest
light
M. EMILE GmARDN appealed against the judg-
mont OF the Correctional Police Court which had
conviction), for holding up the Government to
hatred and contempt in an artlcle in his journal
La Laberte. The appeal which came on before
the Cour mperiale, has just been dismissed with
costs, and consequently the judgment Of the
lower Court confirmed. The article for which
he was prosecuted was sort Of comment
on the first judgment, in which, according
to the Curt, the same offences were re-
peated. In the preamble to the present
sentence the Court finds that, being condemn
ed for having excited in his first article
hatred and contempt against the Government, and
having stated in his second article that he WAS
condemned for speaking the truth, he reproduced
I'LL the assertions contained in his spirit. He de-
clares that truth finds no favor under the present
Government, and that it is by serviGty people gain
all they want; that if dangers are pointed out to
the Government the person who does so is charged
with having occasioned them, and is condemned;
that fatterers only are loaded with favors, where
as the champion Of truth incurs nothing but se-
verify calumny, persecution, condemnation, i'm
prisonment and exile, etc.
NJ. Girardin announced his intention before the
case came on OF appealing 10 the Court OF Cessa-
ton if the Cour Imperiale decided against him.
Our readers may not be aware that there is, at
this time fierce wsr raging in the Kingdom OF
Massachusetts, or more properly speaking whis-
key rebellion. MILTON somewhere asks the ques-
ton: ssWhy should we affect rigor contrary to
he manner of God and Of nature2' That ques-
Il on has often been asked, and never more beauti-
iully than IN FRANKLM's celebrated apologize Of
the Eastern Patriarch and his heathen guest,
whom he cast out because he did not worship the
rue God The Lord then reproved him, saying
that be had suffered this old man for ninety and
nino years, gave him food and raiment, and yet
ABRAHAM could not give him shelter for one night.