The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-14
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Il
uted. The book has not been translated into Eng
Ilish, as far as We know. Every now and then.
however, we find oopious extracts from it in sop ,e
OF our exchanges, French and English. From one
OF these VIC take the following paragraph on ssTbc
Little Industries" and the ''News Collector. NJ
TExEE writes delightful article or the espctitos
Industries" of Paris, he is pleased tr call the
avocations OF the old man in the Place yeudome.
with his telescope, who makes chalk drawing Of
the appearance OF the moon on the asphalt pave
ment, and shows you through his 81 ass all the as
Economical phenomena for half . franc; Of those
persons who pick up sosar-ends to make smoking
mixtures Of, or crusts Of bread to sell to
the innkeepers OF the ba,rieres; of the
"dsg-bankers" who advance capital for the
space of twelve hours to market-women and
hucksters, or Of those who sell q sous worth of
burning charcoal to put in feet-warmers OF the
guardian angels" as they are styled, who ore
charged with the taking home of drunkards from
the cabarets; Of the ragmen and old-clothes-men,
and the purveyor Of cats to the restaurants in
which it is the fashion to eat gioeloRes. ''That
the flesh OF the cat is as succuent as that Of tho
rabbit, the frequenters Of these restaurants know
well, and therefore it is that they require to see
the skin Of the animal that has been killed. These
epcures fear lest in the place of the rabbit which
is cat, dishonest cook should serve them rat
and they don't Like rat" Nor must We forget to
add to the list Of M. TEx1ERs speats meters, that
Of the man who walks about the streets al day
and collects incidents for the newspapers. Re
stricted to few lines Of space, at the rate of two
sous line, he can hardly hope to make more than
two francs day. Necessity, in his case rs in
others, becomes the mother Of wit He inyents
news and the fall Of mason from scaffold is
special act of providence to his class. III. TEx1ER
says such an one would say: "It's The masons who
give me o livelihood" moro witty version OF
the same confession, which we have heard, is as
follows: "Je tue les macons parceque je uts par
lee n1acons qua nae,rent" (sT kill masons, be-
| cause live by masons who die.") M. TExER
concludes with the following reflection ''Al these
people live, and enable their wives and families to
| live by occupations one would hardly suspect the
existence of. Think Of what GARyAN1s philoso-
pher said: "When one thinks that all these must
eat, one gets an awful idea Of the human race"
TEE New YORK TIMES has the following: A
Southern editor gets infuriated with us for max
ing the simple remark that reconstruction will
60 forward under the direction of the military
commanders, and on the basis laid down by Csn-
gress." He says that the editor Of the Times
Greatly believes this, and evidently doesn't think
it worth his while to inquire what the Atfniqhhfs
Intentions are in the premises which is piece
Of pure assumption on the part Of our hot-headed
Southern critic. We acknowledge, however,
that any authentic communications on this
point will be gladly received from our Ala
bama contemporary. He adds: "Reeonstruc-
ton and every other damnable outrage will go
on 30 long as God permits Radcalism to rule
and ruin" And this being 80, our original
remark, which was the cause of all this outpour-
ing Of wrath, is completely justified by our Mobile
assailant himself But, it is added: ssThere is
the black elephant of the South, with its snout
wrapped around the neck Of Radicalism. There
is danger lest the demon be pulled from off his
feet, or thrown into tho air, before he is half
through with ravishing the Southern corpse.
Now, if the Mobile Daily Tribune did not seem to
be 'ery much in earnest in the utterance Of this
rant, We should be inclined to- smile at the gro
tesque incoherency of its language. We will not |
do so, however, but will merely remark that for |
the last dozen or fifteen years the Southern news
papers have seemed utterly incapable of touching
upon any point in politics without being Instant
seized with q madhouse frenzy that sets at de-
iance reason, logic, common sense, and thS, de-
crees Of fate itself.
THERE WAS A LITTLE passage In the House Of
Lords recently, between Duke and an Earl,
which shows in striking manner tn difference
between the Parliamentary and the Congressional
way Of charging an opponent with untruth. OF
course the enraged style, so commo in Congress
and in some OF our newspapers, Of flenouncng the
''base villain" 'alsifer" or tsliar" would be
entirely out Of placein either of the Hous es of
Parliament, especially in the House Of Lords. His
Lordship, therefore, in his bsndest manner said:
Il beg to call the attention Of my noble friend, |
he noble Duke, to an observation which nv noble |
riend, the noble Duke, is reported to have made,
md which, my noble friend, the noble Duke, will |
Ind, upon. reflection, to be incopsistent with |
rict veracity." OF course his noble friel I'd, the
loble Duke, made the pror, explanation or apolo-
y. There ia no DOR that IL ia quite inn possible
=, '"e n'' 70 quarrel in such Phrai 'eology'
. say anything very rude with y nopie
and the noble Duke" occurring three tunes In
/. s;nola sentence. Some men in Amerlc a are con- |
.tantIv attempting to justify the crosses trudspess
ona vnlosrty of language by telling us what fine
ching il ia always to 'scal spade spade. IL ls,
donbtless, proper and convenient thing. But
tho ;,,nstraton is very inapt and silly when USED
40 m excuse to denounce as liars ell who fah TO |
see with our eyes, or to apprehend with our facus-
t;es or to state things 30 as to agree with our
preiudices or caprices, or interests, OF passiohs
Tzr TRIBUNAL OF police Of the canton OF Vaud,
Switzerland, has lately been engaged in trying
vonno man named P1oUuLouD charged with haV"
ing for some time past practlsed meolcine anu SUI
eery in female attire. 1t appeared that ne hao
succeeded in completely Disgusting himeen as
woman. and had obtained under the name o. Mlss
Apnorrs. and in the quality Of an American, ad-
mission into several families, Offering his services
chiefly To ladies. The fraud was discovered py
bairdresser into whose shop he went to purchase
A chienon. It was found that he could only oe
convicted of the illegal exercise OF his proless'on'
and on that count the court condemned MN W on"
| months imprisonment. 1t is pleasing 10 reao an
occurrence like this for the evidence it affords OF
the great regard those people have Tor tner law
AS o matter of course, they must have oeen great
" incensed ct this miscreant-who In many anotn.
er locality would have been "tarred and feathered'
or otherwise 'lynched," and not undeserVedly'
Still, great as was the provocaton these laW-soid-
ing switzers had, they did not take vengeance INTO
their own hands; and the public censor meted out
Justice according 10 tho otter Of the law, however
inadequate it appears to the enormity OF the
offence.
Ex-GovERNoR SWAIN wrote letter to Governor
JONATHAN WORTH Of North Carolina, dated July
g. rendering his resignation OF the PRESIDENCY o,