The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-06-10
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
SOME PEOPLE take pride in their skepticlsna'
and court notoriety, it would seem, by running
counter to the current belief of their fellow men.
This is particularly noticeable in the case OF vlo-
lent death of any celebrity. II there s the least
uncertainty connected with their fate, there will
always be found men wac ferment these rumors,
and stoutly maintain that the said persons are not
doad, &c. Tho case Of Sir JOHN FRANKLIN ls the
one most familiar to our readers: and we think II
not improbable that there are individuals sill IN
credulous on the matter. In the case OF BOOTH
we have proof of this trait Of human nature, every
few days some new rumor being started. DIR. L1V-
1NasroSE's fate will doubtlessly furnish food for
these doubters, although there appears no longer
any reasonable ground for unbehef. Aletter dated
Joanna, Feb %, lately received in England, gives
the account of the death Dr. L, as we have already
nnb]ished it. and then speaks Of his burial
Moosa the narrator of this sad event, fred his gun
and ran back to his countrymen, and they escaped
into the grass and bushes. At dusk they returned
10 the spot where DR.. LIVINGSTONE was attacked,
and found his body, the bodies Of the two MaVelas
whom he shot, also the bodies Of four OF the Afl-
cans. They buried the doctor, and then set OF as
fast as they could go their return to the coast
and after escaping two or three times rom bands
of Mavelas reached Kuloa, on the coast Unless
some OF the Africans survive and reach Zanzibar,
which is very improbable, this is all that will ever
be known Of the fate Of Dr.. LIVINGSTONE. The
Msvelas, who bave come nom the south In con-
siderable numbers, are killing the unfortunate ne
eroes, who have neither courage nor the means OF
defending themselves.
WE RECENTLY EXPRESSED our surprise at the
Herald for insidiously advocating repudiaton Our
astonishment is heightened by finding similar
leaning in that Simon Pure Radical sheet, Harpers
WeeAy: ssWe cannot help thinking, and saying,
too In strict confidence 10 the readers OF this jour-
nal that stupid, and dull and voiceless as the pub
Lie may be, he has some rights which politicians
win sooner or later, have to recognize. He is nov
paying tax at the rate OF per can't. more than is
paid by the most heavily taxed people OF Europe,
and at the same time he ls paying for commodities
of all kinds and labor fity-dve and one hundred
sad fifty per cent. more than any other people
in the world. In ENGLAND the taxes are heavy, no
doubt, but food, clothing and rent are cheap. In
Russia living is expensive, but the taxes are hght
but here in the United States the pu2lic groans
under the Simultaneous burden Of heavy taxes and
expensive living. We have q notion that, sooner
or later he viii rebel against this load, and that
the party that laid it on his shoulders will itself be
laid pretty low. Unless we informed our readers
that all this ebuliton is the result Of the release
of JEFF DAVIS, they would never suspect it. straws
show which way the wind blows. II 30 sight
cause can make the whole financial fabric OF the
country shake and totter to tsfoundation, there s
room for suspicion that there is something rotten
| in that structure. -.
THE RECONSTRUCTION Of the leyees along the
Lower Mississippi is matter OF such great I'M
portance: Lot only to- Louisiana, but to the cot
ton interest of the whole country, that 1t is
much to be regretted that the preeent disagree
bnent between the civil and military authorities
threatens to cripple the work. The last Legisla-
ture provided loan Of four millions for this
purpose, but before the bonds were put on the
market the great overflow destroyed the levees
Just, finished. The first appropriation, there
fore, will have to 60 for payment on the destroy
ed syees, whi.e the two sets Of Commissioners ap-
pointed make doubts as to the legality OF tho
bandsa a,unfsvorable to their SALE. However, the
yieorouysettfing Of differences by General sHsRI-
NAN will soon bring the Eevee Boards on Q COM
nbn 3rorind, ind neantme urther provision must
bef,6sds by the State or the Federal Government,
or both to preserve the fertile bottom lands from
abandonment The foregoing is, the story as
sHr1amiss s friends toll it. We shall soon however
have the other side also, and then have better
opportunity OF arriving at something like correct
understanding Of the matter. =" a4ilf' ,-.a.s
-,...t.- ;-s-.- ! sta,.e l1rCsa : 80 = .lai
JuDas BusrEED, now Of Alabama, formerly OF
this burg, says the New York Tines, may be ro-
menbered by our citizens as liable now and then
to be somewhat impulsiyein his tone and language.
It seems that he keeps up thie habit somewhat IN
his new,jurisdicEop, and that one OF the members
Of the Alabama hsr, T.HH b. WATTS Esq., taking
| offenoe,at something he had said, announced his
purpose not to- practice IN that court any more.
Ths Judge thereuipon wrote him note, saying
hs couldn't allow that, and that he issued his
amsSdaten requiring him 10 revoke such inten-
tion Il Rexsted.; o.The fact is" said the Judge.
81 cannot spare You. Your usually genial man an
ners, and your professional learning, make your
compspion ionship very desirable; and although you
and differ as to how lawyers and Judges shall
respectively conduct themselves in. Court, this
|need not provoke personal unkindness, snton my
1 part shall, mott Mr. WATTS couldn't resist this
and came back, writing the Judge anete OF &C.
|mowledement, but telling him at the close that
| his manners were anything but agreeable to mem
bers Of the Bar. So order reigns again In Alabama.
IT Is NOW gwENTz. TWO days, says an exchange,
since the capture and reported execution OF MAXI
mu11ax. Il will be remembered that the news Of
the capture was official, and has since been con-
firmed by numerous dispatches; but the informa-
ton of the execution was unofficial, and has yet
received confirmation from no quarter. It is
impossible to believe that We would not by
this time have positive and official intelligence
Of such an event, il it really had taken. place.
| We have dispatch from the United States Consul
at Matamorss, aud also dispatch rom General
BERmozAaAL at. the same place, both dated the
21st of May fsix days after the rumored eIecu-
tion), and though both Of them announce thecap-
ture Of MACMILLAN. neither Of them makes men
ton Of his death. II the news OF the capture was
conveyed from Queretaro to San Luis Potosi on
etsame day that it took place, we should think
the news Of the execution would have reached
AIatamoras in six days, had the circumstance oc-
CURED. 1t is now as at the beginning, the weight
of evidence is against our giving credit to the re-
port Of MAx1auuIAN's execution. a.
.sJ. N, IT APPEARS, is not dead. His obituary
was published by mistake. For aught We know,
81. N" himself may have written the said obitu-
ary. However, he has come to life again. In
recent number Of the New Orleans Ptcaylr'e we
find the following in relation to the Immortal ].
N" "Tl1is mysterious parsonage, who is 30 wlde-
ly known but not understood, in Mississippi, Ala
bana and Tennessee as peripatetic philosopher
and lecturer, has honored the Picayane with an