The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-12
CURRENT TOPICS.


TIE PARIS CORRESPONDENT Of tho London Star |
says: s'The subject OF sanitary reform is daily /
assuming o more extensive and interesting charac-
ter in this country, and more especially in this |
CITY. Active minds arc being directed toward it, |
and speculation, observation and experiment arc |
causing new light to be thrown on this subject |
from div to day. Thus it is that the French Gov
eminent has at last acknowledged that in great |
cities feyers and epidemics always haunt tho
vicinity of burying grounds, and that the time has
now come to do away with urban cemeteries. Be-
fore the eleventh century the Parisians buried
their dead in the Roman fashion, without tho city
walls and well would it have been had they con-
tinued this practice. Eight cemeteries now
lie within Paris, and it is thought tnaS
in less than year all the Doaies
which are here buried will be removed TO
Pontoise-no easy task when you CONSIDER
that at Pere Ia Chaise alone the NUMBER OF
tornbs amount to more than 10000. Henceiorth
We shall no longer see the gorgeous funerals OF tho
Madeleine. or the plain coffin covered with white
pall and preceded by the professional crucitx,
carried by an acolyte, followed by officiating
priests and distracted parents walking close to the
coffin. sobbing and leaning on the arms OF their
friends. .sYou may imagine the sensation which
has been produced among certain population by
the decision of the French government as regards
the removal of tho dead from Paris, when inform
YOU that there are no less than nine thousand peo-
pie in this metropolis who gain their living by tho
solemnizstion OF burials, the monopoly OF inter-
ments being granted to company under the title
Of sEnterrris des Pompes Funebres. funerals
are distinguished into nine classes, the lowest
costing eighteen francs, including the fehgions
ceremonies, and the first class 7181 francs Gov
ernment receives from the Pompes Funebres SS5
per cent. on produce of funeral ornaments and 15
per cent. on articles furnished. Les mort cont
uite,' says the ballad but, considering that they
will now be conveyed to tho grave in special
train instead Of in hearse, their poor corpses Will
be literally snatched away from our last embrace"
An ARTICLE in an English periodical, purportlng
to be written by an editor, says that the editorial
sswe of the London press is literal fact, because
The leading articles, with hardly an exception,
ssare the work not Of single person. but OF an as
sociation Of gentlemen combined for the purpose,
| almost all Of whom have had some hand IN the
dish which is finally set before the public" These
ere the leader writer's. Some OF them may ipe
editors, but usually they are not. They are out
siders, and for the most part either mon, strong
upon particular subjects, or literary Bohemlans
with skill of the pen upon any topic within range
more or less wide. The manner In which thus
writing force is brought to bear upon the
editorial columns is too detailed FOR us to
CODY in full but We give its principal
features. At first there is consultation between
the Underwriters and the editor-in-chief, about
noon of each day, at which the topics for
the next mornings editorials are selected and as
signed. This is represented as o work of no little
difficulty, and as sometimes occasionng ferce de-
bate. By six o'clock in the evening the articles
| must be handed in. Each goes Immediately into
type and then has two proof readings, the first for
errors Of the press, and the second for 1.-THE
sense.n By eight o'clock the final proof Of the lead
er. ssprinted on q great sheet OF paper, which
leaves margin seven inches wide on either side
OF the type" is ready for the hands of the editor
The latter, with his revising editor, then enters
| upon thorough overhauling Of the essay, COM
pairing each with the others and with previous or
ticles, and altering and revising till he is finally
satisfied. every frequently" says this account,
"ths revision amounts almost to the writing OF
the article; and sometimes the original writer fails
to recognize single sentence of his own composl-
ion In it as it appears the next morning." 1t will
be scsn then that the selection OF the subject OF
the editorial is done by o body, who also deter
mine the line of argument to be used, and then
that the expression, the work of one person, is to
be revised, together with the thoughts by two
more.
| TIE REFUSAL of the Swedish legislature to To-
galize marriages between Swedes who were not
members and communicates Of the National Lu-
theran Church was recently announced. This de-
cision, says tho PAT Mall Gazette, was received
with mingled shame and sorrow by the liberal
section Of the nation, and was regarded as cruel
denial Of justice to an increasingly large number
of their fellow countrymen. BY Swedish dissent
ers, especially the Baptists, whose 'churches" are
now numerous, it had been expected that the
abolition of the House of Clergy and the inaugu-
ration Of the nav Constitution would be the signal
for liberty in this matter. Eight years ago DR.,
SrRANp and MIR. HINTON went to Swedenlas depu-
tato from the Bapsts Of England, to try to obtain
for their coreligionists from the then government
the concession Of liberty to worship and marry
according to their own rites. The demand was
received in an evasive and temporizing manner,
and nothing having been done in the first few
years Of the reign Of the present king, the new
Parliament was confidently looked to for LIBERIA
ton. But the old leaven Of clerical intolerance
was found to work strongly in the upper house.
| The rejection Of the measure has consequently
driven the Baptists TO set at defiance laws which
would keep them in ceibacy or force them into
| exile or dsmoralizing hypocrisy. newspaper
| Of the province of Nerike describes the opening
celebration at Orebro of Baptist marriage. The
ceremony commenced with singing, prayer and
Bible-reading. Then followed an address setting
forth the disappointment at the decision of the
legislature, and that, as the New Testament had
prescribed no particular ceremony of marriage,
this union in the presence Of the church had been
resolved on. The bride and bridegroom then
came forward, and the bridegroom declared that,
| sin the presence of God and that Of his church,
he took his sister in the faith for his true wife, to
be faithful to her by Gods help. and to love her
in life and DEATH" The bride on her part thon
made similar avowal, and further religious exer-
cises and wedding feast followed. 4;
| GENERAL PAM denies the statement that he sug-
gested the Mexican Expedition to the French En-
peror. He then quotes the following passage con-
tanned in o letter from him to LOUIS NAPOLEON,
and dated at Orizaba, March IT, 1862: 'sFar be it
from me, Sire, to suppose that your Imperial Maj
esty's power could not raise up throne in Mexico
for the House Of Austria. Your Majesty guides
the destiny Of great nation, rich in intelligence
and brave men-rich in resources, and carrying
out with enthusiasm the views Of your Imperial
Majesty. 1t would be easy to conduct Prince MAX
n111AN to the capital and to crown him King; but
this King will never meet in the country with any
s,,nnort hnt that of the ConsoryatiYe chiefs, who