The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

TIE FOLLOWING from the New York Eceninq Go
zeNe has our hearty endorsement, and ls puOllshed
for the benefit Of all whom it may concern: How
many husbands treat thoir wives with constant
and tender care for their happiness! How many
who do not mako it unpleasant for their wives to
ask for money? How many who do not shruS
their shoulders whom trip to the sea-shoro and
mountain is mentioned? How many who do not
return from their business at night cross and dis
agreeable? How many husbands who spring to
their feet whenever there is opportunity to save
step for the wife2 How many who seek daily
and hourly to add to the happiness OF the one
whose happiness they have declared to be so es-
sential to their own? How many who do not DC
grudge tie expense of servants, who THINK 10 Jake
home the little appliances that can make nouse-
wfe's work light, who plan for rccreatlons anu
amusements, who praise the tasto and care
which make for them 30 attractive home!
How many husbands could pass tho test OF
;nterrooatories like these? The fact is, six
men out of ten treat their wives shameful
Instead of that tenderness for her which
marked the first burst of their interest, they
arc apt to be sour, petulent and imperious.
They make little else than slaves Of their wives.
They compel them to ask for money; they feel
that they must frown down every plan for pleas
pre- and, least of ALL ever think to speak in praise
of that which the wife has done for their happi-
ness. The lives Of most husbands arc one long
train OF grumbling and fault finding. They are
blind to the happiness of the one whose life is to
them never falling joy and inspiration. N many
cases they are more courteous and pleasant 10 tne
wives of their neighbors than to their own. There
never was o man who did too much for the happl-
ness of q woman, and never did man devote bis
thought and care to the tastes OF true woman
who did not reap rich harvest in return. IL Is
because wives are sighted and neglected tha1
homes are made 30 unpleasant Women lose all
heart and drag out sad and unpleasant lives. Men
who promised all sorts of good things, tn1n upon
their reiterated VOWS and crush the hope and heart
of a life that might be to them never falling
source ofjoy.
THE WASHINGTON Eoening Express, of Monday,
has the following: "In the Chronicle of this morn
ing, is an extract from the testimony of an alleged
member of President (then Governor) JoHNsoN's
staff, given before the Impeachment Committee.
Among other things, it alleges that certain
woman accompanied MIR. JoHNsoN's party, stopping
at the Metropolitan Hotel, and occupied room
adjoining his, which is stated to have been No. 49,
Here vas an opportunity to test the accuracy OF IN
alleged scandal which we could not resist. We
have made careful inspection OF the books OF the
Metropolitan Hotel. They show that President
JOHNSON arrived there on the 1st OF March; that
he occupied room 1s3 not 1872. on the second floor;
that on one side of him was his staff and on the
other q vacant public parlor; that no female ac-
companied his party; that the house was very
much crowded, with no room for single females;
that every room on that floor was occu-
pied then, and for ten weeks before, and
after his departure by well-known, uuexcoptiona-
BILE parties; that for the same period during which
our examination extended there were no single
women arriving at the hotel at all except those
who were Of party Of unassailable character. we
cannot, therefore, resist the conviction that the
story is fabricated and utterly without foundation;
and we want to know if, by SANDERS which have
nothing to do..Wth mans public acts, it Is pro-
posed to furnish ground Of assault upon him
for his performance Of his public duties? Wo
never understood, and We hope never to DO able TO
understand why what is slander when uttered
against private citizen should be tolerated when
uttered against public character; and as oltl-
zen Of the United States who respects the dignity
of the Office of tho Chief Magistrate, we protest
against this and all other efforts to soil untruth-
fully the fair fame of the Executive Of the people,
THE RALEIGH STANDARD says: "We learn that
the suffering in Union county, in this State, is
very great. The crops in that county last year
af,Y,l0 nFV
have been relieved to some extent by the Mary
land contribution, and the contribution made in
Washington City. But We learn that an officer Of the
Bureau, who has carefully inquired INTO their con-
dition by order of General MILES, reports some
seven hundred persons totally destitute, and OF
course in o starving condition. We learn that
Colonel CHURR, who has charge OF the Bureau |
during the temporary absence OF General MILES, |
has sent large quantity Of corn and pork to Union
to be distributed among the poor; and the COM
mittee having in charge the Boston fund have
appropriated the sum Of $500 to the county. This
sum has been sent to committee in Union, who
will apply it mainly to the sick, tho infirm, and
the aged as it is believed tho Government will
furnish enough meat and bread for the great body
of the suffering population. WILLIAM GRAY, Esq,
Dooeot4,
recently notified General MILES, Colonel PULLIAM
and w. w. HOLDEN, that he has been authorized
to add the sum of s2lOO to the Boston gift, max
ing in all 5000 donated by tho Boston people
through this channel for the relief of the poor in
this State. But $4,000 ofthis amount have thus far
been actually expended; but the committee, aftor
due consideration, having heard from various
parts Of the State, have appropriated tho bulk Of
the fund to such localities as seem to be most in
want.
"THE REIGN OF LAW is tho tito Of an able
md very interesting treatise, by tho Duke of Ar
,yl, which has excited considerable attention in
Europe. Its main object is to show that tho reign
IF law-i 6. that invariabe order, those persist
mt forces which science delights to contemplate
s by no raeans incompatible with the belief in IN
,verrulinl, aud creative Intelligence. The main
Of the author is that mind not matter,
IT the forces called material, should be considered
s the primeyal power in tho universe. And this
o most mon needs but properly be stated to find
eady acceptance. In tho order Of science, We
commence with the simple and lead onward to the
complex, but when, at any epoch, science presents
o us such sohole, such cosmos as it has been able
o conceive, the conviction Immediately follows
hat this whole existed as Thought or Idea before
t was developed as reality OF space and time.
The authors conception of creation is somewhat
IS follows: He magines, in tho first place, certain
forces, established, OF course, by the
Jreator, and then sees an incessant play OF that
mental operation we call contrivance, in adjusting
n combining those forces for given purposes Tho
palopy between human contryance and tho pro-
ess which seems to have been that of creation,
les at the basis of most of our works on natural
heology. What is peculior in the present work is
he boldness and distinctness with which the anal
,py ia bronpht ont