The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-10-16
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1e, 1872.
VIEWS OF rHEDAF.

'Girardin- The duel was unattended BY any
tasious results. ca 50 .gEc 60 - 80
il -A dispatch from Paris announces that
sM,nispsr Washburne and Count de. Remusat
ahaye agreed onsthe draft of arpostal treaty
.IWhiShths pSGstofice authorities of both coun'
tries accept. 1t is believed that the minister
SoDiifnance viii approve the treaty, and 1t IL
highly probable that 1t will receive regular rati
ncat,on before the end of the year. 1tf1es the
letter postage at eight cents Tor one-third Oh an
ounce, and newspaper postage, which was
EIGHT cents, Is reduced to three CENTS. Regis
refad letters and the transmission of patterns
are also provided for. Complications arising
from the state of French finances have delay
ed the matter, a.
Ills Grace J. Roosevelt Bayley, late OF the:
diocese. Of Newark. M.cJ., was last sunday
duly Installed at the Metropolitan Cathedral OF
Baltimore as Archbishop of Baltimore, and at
the same time invested with the pallium, IN
,AscordancS with the. recentlyissued bull OF
the Pope. OF course the Cathedral was
thrrcngsd With people. There was besides q
very large attendance of priests and preiates,
'ihcInding nine of the eleven bishops Of the
province. of Baltimore, and over a hundred
priests. The. only Archbishop present w W.,
.AFchblsbop McCloskey, OF New York, wholsat
on the LETT side ofthe altar. but took no. part
inthe ceremony. i:"@lsc& F.a
.rnThes cable. announces another revolt IN
fefrol,;o one or thsprovinces of Spain. It's an
nouncementa HI the lCortes brought forth a
dnAvowal On the part OF the A!phonsists AID
Repnblicari deputies Of any completely or
sympathy with the insurgents. These reVolts,
axcspt.those excited BY. the Carlists, seem to
be an impatience on the part of some OF Inc
cat,zeus In the correction. Of abuses by King
.Xmsdaus, who has, withial his ability, set to
work to repair the rotten arches Of the mon
.archy to give strength to q government
whose only vitality is In the historic memo
Hes of a tchivalry that has hardly an echo IN
iHs affetel grandees, and whose sterling worth
can find no hope of assistance from Its de
generate surroundings. This ia the reason
is most substantial men seek peace In any
burden Of oppression. The revolts there are
more sporadic than epidemic.
Many. ,amustng' stories are told OF the
youthful eccentricities OF Oscar II, the pres
emit King of Sweden. He was early noted Tor
his maynard disposition, aud his father insist
ed that his son should be treated BY his
teacher with the sam severity as ordinary
sohoot4 boys. Dlssatided with his frequent
Nhippinge, Oscar, at the age of twelve, ran
away, and wasEfound In the streets of Copen
hagen playing marbles with a parcel Of lite
fsganduf1ns. At the age Of seventeen he was
sent to the University of Upsala, and partici-
tpated In all the practical jokes Of the students.
In six months, however, he was recalled to
3 Stockholm, where, among, other exploits, he
was in the habit of running to all the fires In
the capital, and of working with the utmost
Ylgor at the engines. When the Princess
Sophia, of Nassau, was selected as his wife,
Prince Oscar went secretly to Lubbock, and, in
disguise, travelled with the lady on the
testeainer that conveyed her 10 Stockholm,
having adopted THIS method ofascertaining for
himself the character and personal appear
ance OF bis Intended bride.
"A writer in b e>New Orleans Plcayune re-
commends the Introduction of a kind of ant
from Central America to destroy the cotton
.Eand1bol worm ia the Southern States. he
says: ..During a long residence in"Central
America I have noticed the habits OF q very
dlminu.ive ant called the terrier ant. No In
sect will approach Its habitation. 1t Is per-
tfectly harmless TO vegetation, and will not
permit any insect or even animal to encroach
upoh their premfes under penalty Of death.
They do not build nests like other ants, but
live anywhere Wuere there is not q dense
tropical shade. ,..Ihe writer Is perfectly con-
WINGED that II they can be imported Into the
cotton regions of the United States, and will
stand the climate, the cotton and even the
boil worm will become q thing OF the past.
From many experiments in the destruction
Of insect life, the writer forms his opinion,
which can be corrOborated by friends In Cen.
trail America, should any one Interested in the
cotton pant choose to write. The first occa.
oeion that the writer had to rest the destruc-
tive attacks OF the terrier ant on insect life
was when stung by a singing scorpion contain
cd In the sleeve of his coat-an insect very te-
nasucious OF life, yetln less than three minutes
after it was given to the ants 1t was dead. A
,;ceutipede, covered with a hard armor, suffer-
ed the same faue in four minutes and o few BE-
conds.i A tarantula died In less ttan two
minutes. A snake nine feet long in fifteen
minutes, There are numerous other expert
ments made by the writer, which he could
give but deems unnecessary. The natives In
Central America transport the ants from place
to plassbY putting a little SUGAR. In a bottle or
calSors Vgourd,) and when full, transport
them salely.n
The Prussian and French reports OF at
fairs. L. sAlsace and Lorraine, the territory
newly acquired by Germany from France, do
not seem to harmonic. The German officials
repert shas' the, material prospects of the
provinces, dating Emancipation from Janua.
~, 1873, must be considered good, as the re-
mo1sl Of the zollvereln restrictions permits :