The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-04
NEW 8 SU MI M AR Y.

The New York cotton market closed yer.
firm, with fair demand. Sales $500 bales a
2S cents
"A movement is on foot to secure Bel
Wade's nomination on the ticket with Grant.
Some scoundrels at. Acton, Ind, stripped
an idiot boy and nailed him up in box, send
ing him off by freight as live stock. He was
discovered and released by the express agent
in time to save him from suffocation.
The New York Post {RadicaD says thert
ia a strong feeling, not among Democrats
alone. but with many Republicans, that in the
removal Of Mr.. Stanton the President was
after all, fundamentally right, though perhaps
technically wrong; that he has been defending
the constitution against dangerous innova-
tion.
The New York Tribune has correspond
emit in Chill, who reports that the ladies Of
that country are very much accomplished IN
music, but in nothing else. It is said that
performers who would pass for accomplished
pianists In this country, would there be regard
ed as hardly above mediocrity. The character
OF the music selected and enjoyed is Of the
highest classical order.
1t is remarked as little surprisingtha IN
the emulation. excited among elocutionists OF
both sexes BY Mr.. Dickens success as reader,
it has occurred to no one to read Douglas Jer-
rold's Curtain Lectures, by Mrs. Caudle. No
production in the English language offers such
field tor the display Of rhetorical genius as
these lectures. Their hits are homely, though
not inelegant, and even those whom the shoe
sometimes pinches could not refuse to the
reader the tribute Of hearty laugh.
The importance OF Nj. Burlingame's Chi
nese appointment is fully confirmed by recent
government dispatches. His annual salary is
$4,000, the largest SUN which he conld be in
duoed to accept, although he was proffered
twice that amount. His first year's salary was
deposited to his credit with European house
in China, with funds for Incidental expenses
amounting in all to s116, 900 in coin. His first
secretary has salary Of $4,000 per annum,
and his second secretary $4,000, which IS what
is paid here to Cabinet Minister. Ee isex-
pected to reach Washington in April.
"A ereal image" stereoscope has boon pro-
duced in PARIS. In the ordinary stereoscope
the observer plaees his two eyes OPPOSITE two
-.-ss, and sees the 7IrruAr hinges OF TWO PIC
tures. apparently at the same place. In. the
s.real image" stereoscope the observer stands
about two feet from the instrument and looks
ut frame containing single large lens. He
then sees-just in front of the lens-a real and
inverted image Of each Of the two pictures, the
union Of which forms the appearance of sohd
figure or ''ghost" in the air, between himself
and the apparatus
PITY is generally considered q feminine
attribute, but it seems that woman. cohtrives
to drop it as an inconvenient appendage when
abe enters politics. Thus Mrs. E. G. Stanton
observes over her own initials in the current
number Of ''The Revolution" in regard to i'm
peaehment: We are sorry to see paying
subscriber Of 1.-THE Revolution" come to grief,
but we will try to make our columns as consol-
ing as possible to him in his retirement. VIII
Mr.. johnson please inform us, if MOTTO the
White House, where we shall direct 1.-The
Revolution hereafter
"A promptness, unusual even for Louis Ma
poleon, has been shown in pushing forwardthe
measures for the increase Of the army. The
new srmy bill only became law on the LIST of
last Month. Three days later Marshal Neil
ordered the census to be taken Of those youths
who had been exempted from military service
In 1854, 1855 and 1866, but who will now be
called upon to enter the National Guard Mobile.
Four days later again the bill afixing the con-
tingent for 1858 at 10u, 600 conscrpts was laid
before the legislative body. The effect OF these
measures on the industry of the country will
be ruinous, it is declared by many, and GER
tainly 1t seems policy with little to recommend
it, even to an autocrat.
The American Artisan gives a condensed
history Of paper. It states that paper did not
come into use until the thirteenth century.
The first machine for the production Of paper
was constructed in 1885, at Ravensburg, and
paper was first manufactured in Italy in 1880,
in France in 1860, in Switzerland in 147O, in
England in 1888, IN Holland in 1856, in Russia
in 1Tl2, and in Pennsylvania in l725. The
number Of paper mills now existing in the
principal States Of Europe is as follows: Great |
Britain 408 France 276, Germany 24S, Austria
7s, Russia 40, Italy 80, Belgium 26, Spain II,
Switzerland Il, Sweden 8, Turkey l. En- the
United States Of America there are $50 paper |
mills. The annual production OF paper in Eu-
rope is ss 900 cwt., valued at s75 OPS, ,0O0 and
the paper mills working continuously for q
whole year would manufacture 6256OOO
sheets, which, If laid side by side, would ex-
tend to length equal to that of the diameter
Of the earth.
The spread Of cooperative societies in |
England has reused the alarm Of the British |
tradesmen, and the newspapers are loud with |
their complaints. Class after class of their
customers is being withdrawn, and their stores |
exposed to a most severe competition. There is,
too, this feature about the case that makes it
psri ,ularly unpleasant. The customers with
drawn are all ready money PAYERS, class dear |
to every shop-kesper, because he looks to their |
assistance in waiting for the money of the |
tardy payers, ard to the extra profits made on
prompt transactions to fll up the gap left by
bad debts. The cooperative stores keep in
stock only those articles that are in daily con-
sumption, and 80 avoid the dead weight that
holds a large sum of money locked up
and yields returns slowly. The plan of CO.
operation thus picks the spice out of the shop
keepers pudding by taking away his best Gus
TONERS and his most saleable goods, leaving
him only the luxury Of supplying on long