The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-17
CURRENT TOPICS.

eiyes an account OF the rose-uoiu' VA Ne1 '"oopS'
extending over T. 900 or H. 0oO acres ana supply
;nc the most important source OF wealth IN the |
d;.tr;ct The seasons for picking the roses is
sro, tho latter part of April to the early part OF
Irne and at sunrise the plains look like q vast
oorden fell OF life aud fragrance, with hundreds Oh
Bulgarian boys and girls gathering the hoWers
into baskets and saCds, the air impregnated
with the delicious scent, and the scene Gu
vened by songs, dancing and music. II
is estimated that the rose districts OF Adrlanopie
produced in the season Of 1866 about IOo'ooo nis-
calls of altar Of roses (the mlscai peine y
drachm), the price averaging rather moio 'nan
Ss sterling per miscal. II the weather s cooi IL
Sprinp. and there are copous falls OF dew anu
occasional showers, the crops prosper anu Ill
abundant Weld of oil is secured. The season IN
1856 was SO favorable that eight okes OF petals
less than 23 pounds), and in some cases seven
okes, yielded miscal OF oil. Tue ."ea'nsi
| is very hot and dry, it takes douDie' lna'
quantity of petals. The culture Oh tne fose ooes
not entail much trouble or expense. Lana 10
cheap and moderately taxed. In q favorable Sea-
son, donum 40 PAGES squars), we'll cultivated,
g,l produce 1000 okes of petals, or 100 miscas OF
oil. valued at 1900 piastres; the expense would Dc
about $40 piastres-management OF the land' Do;
t;tbe 150. picking. 70; extraction 26O-leavlng
net profit of 96O piastres, or about Is ils' AL
average crop generally gives about to per aonu"'
clear Of ell expenses. The oil is extracted iioiu
the petals by the ordinary process OF distia'ioi'
The sitter is bought up for foreign markets. TO
which it passes through Constantinopie ana omii-
ma. where it is generally dispatched TO unosrso
| the process of adulteration with sandsi"oou anu
other oils. 1t is said that in London the Adrlan-
ople after finds reader sale when it is aduitef
ated than when it is genuine.
Just AS FAST as the Pa .iic Railway passes thei
| great military posts upon it's line, these Deeono
| unnecessary and are in effect, abandoned. roi'
| Ieayenworth, which was Of such magnitude as 10
be little city Of itself, is reduced to vast store
house of war materials, and pleasant place OF
call for army officers their way to, or returning
from. the Plains The road went by Fort Harker,
and three miles beyond created Junction CITY,
| The frontier was changed in day. Immediately
the large military work at Harker ceased to be an
OUTPOST. and the troops quartered there went 70
the West. This very month Fort Hayes will also
cease 10 he an OUTPOST and become an impost. So
will Fort Wallace by the middle OF May next The
Kansas Pacific Railway pushes ''the Plans rar-
ther and further West, saves the Goyernment the
necessity and expense OF permanent forts, ana
narroWs the feldo operations agsinst the In
dians The army officers regard 1t PROFESSIONALLY
and consider it the most important military
agency in the effectual settlement OF tho lndian
question. 'Tis peaceful conquest the road makes
as if goes over the unsettled Plains snd the
Government should feel that the warfare upon the
Indians which will shed the least blood, waste the
least money, and soonest lead to permanent
peace, will be generous aid to the road to reach
the Pacific at as early day as is possible.
THE NATION, of October 10, says the news of yes
terday morning would seem to Indicate that
France will leave the F;oman question to be solved
by the "march OF events" which In this instance
means the march Of the Garibaldian volunteers,
and that the Italian Government will have to in
terfere for the Popes protection. The plan OF al
flowing Plus TX to retain the government OF the
city during his lifetime even if agreed to, would
| be certain not to work, and it is probably only
Itslked of as means of letting his Holiness down
easy. The Roman population could never be kept
in order or the Italiads deprived Of their capital
by potentate OF this sort. The Papacy viii pro-
badly be enabled before many months to boast
that 1.-THE vicegerent OF Christ on earth-was
the last power in Christendem to employ merce-
nary troops, and that its troops we're individually
and collectively, the most worthless vagabonds
that ever stood in line. II st. Peter were 10 see
them in time Of peace. We may perhaps imagine
his disgust; but we doubt very much whether We
can form any adequate conception OF what his
feelings would be If he were to see them coming
out Of action with victorious heretcs and infdels
in their rear
THE PMIApE1 pR1A AGE says: "It is long time
since we have read fairy tales and we are not pre-
pared to say in what part OF the world it was that
the old man got on Sinbads shoulders. Possibly
it was Africa, and he who stuck to the poor unfor-
tunate was q negro. The Republican party is
sinbad. They have got something on their shoul-
ders which they cannot get rid Of Like pvor Sim
| bad they invited him to bestride them, and now
they would give up everything to get rid Of him.
But there he sits and dehes them. Let any one
look at tho Republican newspapers before the cleo
tion and see how persistently they contended for
absolute negro eqnalt.y-how they insisted on
theu riding in the cars, not as matter Of charity
and9indness but Of social and political equality
Sow they blszonsd the deeds 5fnesro soldieru1
how instituted charitable agencies (of which
We do not at all complsn) for negroes as distin-
guished from whites@how vigorously they con-
tended for negro suffrage. Let any one see all
this, and then he will comprehend the perplexity
Of the Republican position now. They dare not
abandon their negro allies, and since the vote in
Ohio, they dare not advocate his claims.
To REGISTER the direction Of the wind; . simple
| westhercocka is used, which is connected alter
nately with system of four electric magnets cor
responding With The four, cardinal points. Each
Of these magnets directs particular penoar when
the vane turns to- the North, it communicates
with the first pencil when it turns to the East,
with the second, and So on tho pencil Slen traces
series Of black strokes ON the paper, as long as
the wind blows in the same direction. This is the
Registering thermometer Of NJ. Du Moncel. This
is how the rainfall is measured The water that
falls is collected by a funnel from which it flows
into little cistern. When the level in this reser
yoir sscends, it raises o Aoater which acts on Q
great pencil. Another pencil marks on the great
metsorograpbical tablet the hour at which. the
rain has fallen; is put in molten by wire which
connects with little hydraulic wheel placed uni
der spout. last pencil is charged with noting
the state Of humidity or dryness Of the air i is
carried on o chariot, which goes or comes before
special tablet, on which it, traces series OF
black parallel lines, the explanation of which
would lead us too far .-- .i..'
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NoH.THAr THE English have resolved on war
against the King Of Abyssima, everybody is trying
to show how expensive ana useless it will be. So
since our Government began war on the Western
Indians, nearly all the officials in that region are
irving 10 prove that We shall be beaten in it, and
that by far the bsstway Of dsalns with the savages
would be to buy them off again-as they have been
bought SG thousand times already. II this course