The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-07-26


from the fame OF the wits who were ac-
customed to assemble around its tables-VoL-
rA1RE, Bo1ssY, VERNEr, the Abbe ARNAuD, Gre
BILLION .tls, &c. It is still in existence. Cafes
rapidly became centres Of tho literature, and
more especially the wit Of the time. In those days
man made his debutin cafe with new poem or
epigram, as to-day in the columns Of a newspaper.
It was at the Cafe Procope that ROUSSEAU went to
play chess and OF the Cafe Of the Regcnce, at the
corner OF the Place du Palais Royal, that RoUs-
sEAU, VoITARE, the Marshal DE RIcHEL1EU, tho
Emperor JOSEPH IL, FRANKLIN, MARMoNTEL,
DmERor, ST. Fox, DEscHAPELLE, BERNARDN ST.
PIERRE and BoNAPARTE were among the frequent
and distinguished guests. In 1889 there were
eleven hundred cafes in Paris and every one knows
the prominent part they played in the Revolution.
But, at the time Of 1.-The Restoration, the number
had amounted to three thousand, and to-day they
are as the stars of heaven-innumerable It is
said that now whenever store is 10 be let on the
boulevards, it is Immediately engaged for new
cafe, 30 thirsty have grown the people OF Paris.
1T rs WASHINGTON IRVING who discourseth thus
beautifully on woman and marriage. always "Cur-
rent Topics" I have speculated great deal on
matrimony. have seen young and beautiful Wo-
men, the pride OF the gay circles, married, as the
world says well. Some have novel into their
costly houses, and their friends have all come and
looked at their furniture and their splendid home
for happiness, and have gone away and committed
them to their sunny hopes cheerfully and without
fear It is natural to be sanguine for them, as the
Young are sometimes carried away with similar
feeling. love to get, unobserved, into corner,
and watch the bride in her white attire, and, with
her smiling face and soft eyes meeting me In the
pride of life, weave waking dream of future hap
piness, and persuade myself that it will be true.
think how they will sit upon the luxurious sofa as
the twilight falls, and build gay hopes, and muir
.mur in low tones the not now forbidden tender
ness; and how thrilling the allowed kiss and beau
itiful endearments of welded life will make even
their parting joys, and how gladly they will
come back from the crowded and empty mirth
of the gay, to each others quiet company. pic
ture to myself that young creature, who bushes
even nov at his hesitsting caress listening eagerly
for his footsteps the night steals on wishing he
would cone, and when he enters at last, and with
an affection as undying as his pulse, folds her to
his bosom. can feel the tide that goes flowing
through the heart, and gaze with him upon the
graceful form as she moves about in the kind
offices Of affection, soothing all his unquiet cares,
and making him forget even himself in her young
and unshadowed beauty. I go forward for years
and see her luIuriant hair put soberly away from
her brow and her gir'ish g1aoes resigned into dig
nifty, and loveliness chastoned with the gentle
meekness Of maternal affection. Her husband
looks on with proud eye, and shows the same
fervent love and delicate attentions which first
them, and they go on full Of honor and untroubled
years, and are remembered when they die.
An ENGLISH CLERGYMAN named FRASER has late
ly made report to the Educational Commission
on the subject Of the common schools OF the United
States and Canada. After diigsntnquiry during q
recent visit, he found much TO commend and some-
thing to condemn in the American system Of pub
Lilo instruction, and his general conclusions are
summed up as follows: s.I am afraid that We inl
England, IN our zeal for fdenominational educa-
ton, lay too much stress upon the adjective, too
little upon the substantive; we seem to care more
for the connection of our schools with particular
religious communities than for the fruit they re-
ally produce; we are too often content to hear that
reigir- , instruction is given, and don't pursue
the inquiry far enough to ascertain whether it is
given inteIligently, by competent teachers. Icon
fess to the conviction growing more and more in
my own mind, strengthened, too, by what have
heard and seem in America, that what we need
more Of in England is intelligent education-a real
quickening Of the minds Of the people. And
say this quite as much in the interest Of religion
as at the prospect Of political changes" Then
follows damaging confession-one of those acci-
dental rays Of light which sometimes dart into
mass Of ignorance, and exhibit it's deformity at
glance. Mr.. FRASER said: eThe difficulty find
as country clergyman, in teaching and preaching
to an adult mixed congregation, lies in the slow
and heavy intellectual movement Of the mass Of
my hearers; their scanty vocabulary; their inabi-
to appreciate an argument or follow train OF
Thought; their want Of general and broad mental
culture Nor is this all; for he adds: 81 do not
think it can be maintained that the religions
teaching Of our schools has produced religious in
telligence or religious stability in our people, at
any rate, not in that class of our people who In
their school days had most Of such teaching; for
the religious instruction given in one of our ele-
mentary schools is three times larger in quantity
and time than is received by boy at Eaton and
Rugby" These brief passages tell their own
story.
ONE OF OUR exchanges, the Rochester Union,
has the following: A young Miss in Auburn hav-
ing heard that arsenic had been successfully enl-
ployed by fashionable bellies for beautifying COM
plexion and rendering the cuticle Of the counten-
ance soft and transparent, one day last week pro-
cured q supply Of the deadly drug. As might
have been expected, tho foolish girl had little
idea of what quantities of the poison might be
taken without incurring the danger OF fatal re-
suit, even though aware, even if consummate
vanity did not preclude an atom of common
sense, that its introduction in the system in the
most minute portions must be attended with
ruinous results. The consequences were that the
unusually quiet section Of the city in which she
lives, was appalled, on tuesday evening by the re-
port Of an attempted suicide on the part Of one OF
the fair daughters, and rumor was very busy in
divining the cause of the painful affair, until the
victim, in an interval from violent retchings and
the energetic operations Of stomach pump, was
enabled to give an explanation herself A fatal
result was averted by the sllful attention OF the
physicians, and the patient is in a fair way Of
Quite q number Of similar instances
in which the same result was obtained although
in all cases the doses have been continued for
q longer period before the denouemen!.
The DIVISION oa the cumulative vote in the
House Of Commons was very remarkable one,
and worth remembering by all who take an inter-
est in the question. The proposition seems,
priori, to be reasonable enough. Say that a con-
is represented by throo members, then
every voter may cast three votes, either for one
candidate in lump, or distributed among the
three, and thus the minority could secure repre-
sentative. The support given to the resolution
nrocaedad chiefly from the Liberal party bnt