The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-21

the State Treasurer, sherlffs, ana slnuAr ol-
6cers. His action, of;course, excites no small
amount Of IN feeling among the persons for
whose benefit the bill was drawn, but he Is
sustained by sensible people Of both political
parties. Like Governor Smith, Of Alabama,
whose veto Of the bill to. place the eleotorai
vote Of the State for President in the HANDS OF
the Legislature we had occasion to approve
few days ago, Governor Scott is sn;nne ''I eA-
ample Of that small class OF men who, nova
DAYS. can rise above mere partisan trammeis
in the performance Of their duty.
The Southern correspondents OF the New
york Herald don't keep track of its varions
trimmings, and are now Writing considerable
trnth. One in Georgia says there is altogether
too much good feeling between the whites and
blacks to suit the Radicals, and hence the ter
rible stories that are trumped up OF rebel
atrocities" He continues: ''The fact 'is, that
if the people of the Southern. States now repre-
sented in Congress, white and black, we're al
lowed to vote, Seymour and Blair would receive
the electoral votes of every one OF them. by such
enormous msimities that even the most fanatic
Radical negro worshipper would begin to doubt
the policy Of negro suffrage Said Radical
carpst-bagger satom Alabama to your correspon-
dent, only yesterday, and his language is given
almost verbatim: You see, my dear alr, 1t amt
o question Of right or wrong, it is question Oh
necessity. Do you suppose that We are gong
to be such d-d fools as to let 8 vote be taken
when we, know that the rebels will carry the
State by twenty-five thousand majorityP No,
sir. We have control Of things now, and We
intend to Keep it as long as aspossible. :Wedont
intend to let tho State Of Alabama help to elect
the oopperhes I ,tickal.' The speaker is, be-
ieye, a member Of the Alabama Legislature, at
least so / understood him to say. He is from
somewhere North, and is a genuine carpet
-bagger."- - L =. . ?; -. s-- 81
Two years ago the thinkers in Paris, un-
easy about the general drift Of things in that
remarkable country, ssked Napoleon, for com-
mission to inquire into the state Of agriculture
and the condition Of rural Frsnce. The en-
;pire was belted OF into thirty strips and ques-
tons put to hundreds Of intelligent persons in
every part Of the country. The facts develop
ed are by no means cheerful. France is grow
ing poorer and weaker year by year. Paris
sucks in all the vigor, an the enterprise, al the
pith, and hope, and beauty Of the land. Men
viii hot stay in. The country to labor for q
fzla franao, day whe11 in Paris they can get Ave.
The rural Frenchman is determined not to
have children, and the deaths are more numer-
GUS than the births. Great numbers OF the
young men are less than five feet three. No
body will loan the fsrmer money with which to
drain lands or bny manure. A passion for gay
living and for Paris has penetrated the masses.
The futuie:is gloomy for Ia belle France The
python oenEralizatiop has begun TO stranglle
her. Her rural system;'iss fundamentally
vicious. The artificial is -overshadowing the
natural. The splendid city, SO great, sospark-
Ling, and debonoir, is killing all the land. =