The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-06-24
CURRENITOPI
TUE Journal Of Commerce . stauunoh ola d

Wednesdays issue thus rofors to tue Attorney
| doncral's opinion: "Wo bayo no special liking for
| tho plan OF avoiding plnin issue and dolging il,
Under ordinary circumstances we should perhaps
commend tho legal nouricn and ability oyinccd by
tho Attornoy-0enoral, and tako his opinion ns
| fair commentary on doubtful law. Dut that II
| intcrprcta tho Military Reconstruction Bill In
manner totally opposite TO tho intent Of Congress,
\ no ONO can doubt who roads both, ani WHO hoard
or road tho discussions In Congress when tho bill
was passed. Wo Doubt whether good can como
from any attomrt TO avoid tho distinct Issue which
oxiss betwcen tho supporters Of TINT bill and tho
| hiends Of liberty and sclfgovornmont. II would
DO much preferable IL tho Military Bill wcro hold
up III oil its nakod dolvrniity, 10 o inspected by
tho pcoplo OF o country once loving freedom aid
hating dcspolism, and to be supported or ovor-
thrown by that people. as it is, tho administra-
| tion Of Mfr. JOHNSON stands In an undignlhed
nositon, ondcarorng to cxplnih AWAY tho objec-
tionablo features OF law which ho is unwilling 10
/ enforce, aud therefore giving occasion for an
accusation Of want OF boltlncss. In this, as in
many othor things, tho Administration ia woak.
From tho commencement, Mr.. JOHNSON has talked
boldly and actod fccby. 1t would havo boon In
nitcly better for him, md given tho Radical party
much moro BcvCrc blows,jf ho Ind nctod on tho
theories Of his ATTORNEY -deDaral without publish:
| ing thcm in this way to bo road and discussed
without action, IF heso arc correct intoi preia-
tions, why Inns ho delayed nn hour in removing tho
| dcspotism which Mr. S9ANBEnY aBsorts iB in OK
istonco uiidor SHEnipAN7 II there were moro
deeds and fewor words in tho Administration it
would bo bottor for oil Iartics:"
THERE was political riot in London on Monday
night, when Ilofurm mob broko up q Tory meet
ing. On tuesday there was q religious riot at
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nffair by tho telegraph. A Catholic Chapel had
boon attacked, md lilo city wns IN possession OF
tho rioters, atainst whom largo body Of troops
had boon sont. Wo SEQ no connection betwoon
thcso two riolH: : Tho London population hayo
boon for long tino deeply oxcitod ON. political
questions and it is probable that tho disturbance
on Monday was notmoro "breogy' than sinnr o.
casions aro with us. Tho Birmingham affair is,
ho,toyot, OF dcopcr import. It IL not unlike tho
riolings il London fow ycars ngo, nt tho Church
Of 81 Georgein tho Enst, or Tho riots 80 common
in ireland, wlicns religious zoaI and -aoftarnn an
tipatiy- are violently inilamcd. birmingham is
crowded with anpulation Of taborors and artisans.
Many Of them arc. Intelligent, and pll ARG aetvo
and earnest. OF these sqrlo aro Catholic end
somo aro Protestant, Tho latter hayo all tho in-
tonsity OF British Mothodiam. md Irdoponlency.
which is aggressive to degroe-, ,Wo uHo tho word
in no ofronBiyo sonso, Noar Birmingham is col
logo OF tlIe independents, and recently thero have
boon arrests ncar that city Of parties who were cir
culatiug tract in regard to tho confessional. At
Birmingham IL the headquarters OF tho FiieBts OF
tho oratory, which Order is largely composed OF
perYcrls from tho English Church,. n combinn-
ton or circumst this would tand to bring
religious zeal to whito heat, and to onnke tho linl-
ithtions bctwocn Iiituaiists' aud on-Ritunists
oFoar and VOL doilnel Out Or tlib fittnlist,o
agitation, which Ibis already attruoted tho notice
of tho bishops and iillod tho rhpbrs, SECULAR und
religious, With discussions, public disturbance
might eaaily rise. Tho PROTESTANT olcment III Eng
land ia intensely anii-papal :. There is no cry so
popular na mo popory," md right or. wrong, Rt-
ualism hns bo ONO connected in THO paLEo mind
with nomanising tendsnoos. 1t moods but spnrk
to kindio thcso combustiblo materials into Ganu.
Th at spark wad applied on Tucsday.' ProtisoIy
how tho application whs m lido or whd6 The cxoit-
ing cause was Wo do not now know. 1Wo shah
htar in duo timo.: This We do know TINT 'fGiigi-
oiIs passions arn moro. intonao tlnn any others,
moro easily aroused, and moro careless of results.
MR. PAnroN Inns mRdo a skotchy and agrooablc
article out Of Ills statistics OF the American piano
trndo Flo estimates That twonty-fice' thousand
pianos wero manufactured in tho United statos in
1890, and adds: Every disintcrcsted md COM
pctunt judge with whom wo havo conyersol on
this subject gives IL his deliberate opinion that
tho boat American piano is tho best Of oil pianos,
and the ono longest capable Of resisting lhn effects
preaont, In any considerable numbers In nny nior-
ket but our own. Protectionists are requested to
noto this fact which ia not nm isolated fact.
America possesses such an astonishing genius for
invonting and combining lubor-saving machinery,
that wo could now supply the world with many
of its choicest products, in thettoetli OF native
competition, but for tho tariff, tho taxes and
| tho imitation, which double tho! cost OF pro-
ducing. Tho, limo may como, howeyor, when
] wo shall soil piapos ut Paris and wstclios in
London. as wo already do sowing orary-
where" Mr. PAnTo also tells ns that "the trade
in now pianos is nothing to tho couutlCss tratano-
/ ions in old. IIoro figures aro impossible; but
1 probably ten secondhand pianos nro sold to ono
new ono. Tho buhiness Of istting pianos is also
ONO Of great oItent. II is computed by tho &cn-
informed that tho number. of ;tLesa instuments
now 'ouriin tho city OF Now York, is three thou
sand.a There is ono firm lin boston thut usually
Las thousand let!"hs tho rent Of a piaGo ranges
\ from siI dollars 10 twolYoloars month"; GcArtsgo
both ways paid by tho hirof4it rny bo. infetrod
that this busincss, whom conductod' on largo
scalo and tho rcauaito, vigilance, Is not nn-
piohtabio. IN fact, tho income Of piapelstt;ng
business has approached eighty Thousand dollars
per ahnhm, OF which one third &as Iprohtr-Gll
- ':''i.''E', "":-1% "--Lz'rs: .'i 'ss1HEr n6w
WE nivE already received rnccoonis 81 ajoD5it Court
martial convened at Quorotaro TO try MAInILIAt
MusaloN and ME1IA. II, H, Is nov. reported from
Brownsville. by. way OF Now Orleans, that they
woro convicted ON tho pight OF tho third; and shnt
upon tho following morning. ASan Louis telegram,
OF tho third, howoyors says that dispatch d. that
dnto roceiyod rom Quoroaro stated thpt tho trial