The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-07-20


been 80 dextrously arranged that the creditors Of
the Day now discover that they have no legal
claim against anybody but MIR. HURON, who ID
bankrupt; but as they unquestionably would not
have trusted that gentleman had it not been
notorious that he had the conservative liberal
Trinity at his back, these noble lords have very
properly determined that everybody shall be paid
in full and they will, in consequence have to dis
burse between f1SOO and f19OO each for the
qualification Of having led party and guided and
| controlled an organ for some six weeks"
J.W. FoasEY, writing from Paris, gives tho fol-
lowing interesting coup doeil of the French Low
err House: "The Emperor's government, being the.
great political European problem, trio to get O.
close view Of it, and this afternoon visited tho
Corps Legislatif the same as the House OF Com
mons in England and the House Of Representa-t
tives in tho United States. Procuring ticket
from the President, took my seat in the strangers
gallery shout az O'Clock, and looked down Upon q
strange sight to American eyes. The ball is very
much the shape, though larger than our old Senate
chamber, now occupied by the Supreme Court of'
the United States. Like all the public buildings
in Paris, it Is airy, we'll lighted, and very commo-
dious. The seats and desks, hye hundred in num-.
bar. are raised, one row above the other, and ex-
tend back with gradual elevation, the highest
being about three feet above the lowest. The
Presidents or Speakers chair, raised much more
than our Speakers is in the centre OF the axis OF
the samicircle, 80 that he nearly faces the mom-
bars who ait around the best half Of the hall. He
stands while stating or taking the question, and
when he demands order, which is nearly all the
time, rings sort Of dinnerbel at his right hand,
and calls silence, which is echoed by three or four
officers in uniform, above and below him. Over
the Speakers chair or throne is the motto, which
roads like one Of VoLTARE's bitterest satires,
aNoz Popui, uox Del" On his left was inscribed
the word aorder," and on his right the word
s'iba1e." Although thero is tribune from which
The members deliver their set orstons, observed
that they spoke from their seats. The arrange
ment of the latter is much like our own, and infn-
itely better than that OF the English House OF
Commons"
WHETHER TIE VISIT to Europe Of BnIo1AH
Yousa, Junior, and brother 'saint" or two, has
any effect in q propsgandist sense wecannot say,
but there certainly Is revival Of Mormon emgra-
tioh. A steamer sailed from Liverpool only q
fortnight since, with four hundred Mormon con-
verts on board, bound to Salt Lake City. "Fhere
was about an equal proportion Of men and women
among them,' says British paper, 'the princi-
pal part Of whom were young, perhaps ranging
nom eighteen to twenty-eight years Of age. A
small minority was made up Of ofpersons who must
have reached between thirty and fifty years. The
forward part OF the ship was devoted to their eI-
elusive use, and according to contract with the
company, no persons were permitted in that part
of the vessel or to associate with the Mormon
prosalytes. The emigrants belonged to Wales, the
western counties Of England, and some came from
Scotland, but there was not 9 single Irishmsn or
Irish woman among them" This last fact, by tho
way, is curious one, yet not surprising to those
Acquainted with the Irish character. Tue most
gallant of men, they are at the same time also the
most constant; and the women Of no country pro-
baby more chasts than those OF poor old Ireland
Ny wonder that Mormanism has no hold upon
them. Moreover, m matters OF doctrine, the
Iriahman is safely anchored upon the rock OF the
Church, unasssilable by the follies Of your john
SnrHs and BR1anAN YoUNas. E1citable in other
things, the Irishman is very calm and sober in
mstters Of religion.
Fos CONTINUED succession Of monotonous and
uninteresting scenery, we have always thought
the country along the lines Of railway IN South
Carolina and the greater part Of North Carolina
are "hssd to beat" But it would seem from the
following picture Of tho Platte River bottom, given
by correspondent Of the Cincinnati Commercial,
who has recently made trip on the Union Pacific
Railway, that there is even less romantic scenery
than we suffer under in our low country swamps.
he says: 'There is no other railroad IN the world
where the scenery is 30 monotonous A treeless
valley is the Platte shut in few miles on either
side by naked slopes and mounds. A broad, thin
river skiing the southern part OF the valley; river
Of swift current, but so fimsy In depth that its
progress Is tormented with ten thousand Islands,
whose nStursl moats have protected them from the
prairie fires and 90 permitted stunted growth OF
cottonwood trees the only forest plumage IN sight.
For two hundred and ninety miles the railroad
skirts the northern rim (it can hardly be said to
have banks) OF this feeblybig river. The same wow
apparently meets the eye when you awake In the
morning that you saw the evening before, though
In the meantime you have rolled westward hum
dred and fifty miles, You still in level valley,
environed with bare and misty hills, an endless
stretch Of track ahead and an endless stretch be-
hind. The difference in tho pictures is that be-
tween sunrise and sunset, and so for most delicate
companion pieces they make"
A PARTIAL IDEA Of the extent Of the lumber
business Of the Northwest can be obtained from
the following article, which we copy from the st.
Paul Press: "Over one hundred million feet OF
logs have foated upon the spring foods down the
upper tributaries OF the Mississippi, and are now
safely doomed at various points on the Mississippi
above the falls Of st. Anthony to be sawed into as
many feet Of lumber this year-a largo increase
over the supply Of any previous year. nearly
equal amount, or sbout ninety millions OF feet,
hsys come down the tributaries to tho st. Croix.
The Chippewa, and other streams OF Northern
Wisconsin, also yielded an unusual amount OF
logs, and the supply from the Upper Mississippi
is now abundant TO run all tho mills upon the Mis-
sissippi as far down as st. Louis. The high prices
which ruled in the lumber market last year, and
the favorable logging season last winter have con-
Cured to produce corresponding results in all the
lumber region on the shores Of the lakes. The
necessary consequence Of these antagonistic con-
ditions OF supply and demand must inevitably be
q great decline in the price Of lumber, which, in
the last year two, has gone up in this State, un
der the stimulus Of suddenly expanded market
and Of two or three years Of drought, to stand
ard extravagantly disproportionate to the cost Of
production.
PrrspuRaH HAS ENJOYED the spectacle of q "bal-
loon marriage" like that Of two years ago at Cen
ral Park. The Alderman who performed the cere-
mony took the precaution (in addition to his per-
sonsl ballsst) OF having the balloon strongly
secured by cord hundred feet high and after
he aligbted the happy couple went off on bridal
tour 2OOO feet above the oarth's level What IS the
object Of these @rial weddings2 asks the Times,
Do they make it more ethereal" by going up In