The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, November 04, 1869, Image 1
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VOLUME 5.-4J0. 19.
Mr. Biokens on Education.
Mr. Charles Dickens, the great novelist,
some time daring the last of September,
made a speech on education in Birming?
ham, England, at the opening of the win?
ter session of the Midland Institute. It is
tin institution that provides the opportuni?
ty of education to labering men in the
evening. Each lessson costs but one pen
toy. The instruction is elementary and
advanced. The institution was established
-sixteen years age, and has proven a
marked success. It has some 2,600 mem?
bers or students. Half of them are arti
zans, on weekly wages. Over 400 are
clerks, apprentices, tradesmen er trades"
men's sons. Many women attend. It of?
fers all the advantages of a first-class lit?
erary institution. It has its reading rooms,
its library, ohemical laboratory, museum,
art department, lecture-hall and lectures.
.MR. DICKENS thus SPEAKS of what the
BMgBnnaE has accomplished.
Suppose that your institution should
have educated those who are now its
teachers. That would be a- very remark?
able' fact. Supposing, besides, it should,
so to speak, have educated all around it,
by sending forth numerous and efficient
teachers to many schools. Suppose the
{roung student, reared exclusively in its
aboratory, should be presently snapped
up for the laboratory of the great famous
hospitals. Suppose that in nine years its
industrial students should have carried off
a round dozen of muoh-competed-for prizes
awarded by the Society of Arts and
Government Departments, besides two
local prizes originating in the generosity
of a Birmingham man. Suppose that the
Town Council, having it in trust to find an
artizan well fit to receive the Whitworth
prizes, should find him here. Suppose
that one of the industrial students should
turn his chemical studies to the practical
account of extracting gold, from waste
color water, and of taking it into custody,
in the very act of running away with
hundreds of pounds down the town drains.
Suppose another should perceive in his
books, in his studious evening, what was
amiss with his master's until then inscruta?
ble defective furnace, and should go
straight?to the great annual saving of
that master?and put it right. Suppose
another sheuld puzzle out the means, until
then quite unknown, of making a certain
description of colored glass. Suppose
another should qualify himself to vanquish,
one by one, as they daily arise, all the
little difficulties incidental to his calling
as an electroplater, and should be applied
to by his companions in the shop in all
emergencies under the name of " Ency?
clopaedia." [Laughter and applause.]?
Suppose a long procession of such cas?s,
and then consider that these are not sup?
positions at all, but are plain, unvarnished
facts?[hear, hear]?culminating in the
-one special and significant fact that, with
a single solitary exception, every one of
the institution's industrial students who
have taken its prizes within ten years
have since climbed to higher situations in
their way of lite. [Hear, hear.]
Mr. Dickens discusses with characteris?
tic originality the reason why the laborer
should seek education. We give this par?
agraph :
To the student of your industrial classes
generally, I have had it in my mind first,
to commend the short motto in two words.
"Courage, Persevere." [Cheers.] This
is the motto of a friend and worker. Not
because the o;, es of Europe are upon them,
for I don't in the least believe it [laugh?
ter} ; nor because the eyes of England are
upon them, for I don't in the least believe
it; not because their doings will be pro?
claimed with blast of trumpet at street
corners, for no such musical performance
will take place [laughter]; not because
selfimproveraent is at all certain to lead
to'worldly success, but simply because it
is'good and right of itself, ["Hear, hear"],
and because, being so, it does assuredly
bring with it its own resources and its
?wn rewards.
He then says seme very admirable
things as to the extent of their studies.
I would further commend to them a
very wise and wittv piece of advice on the
conduct of the understanding, which was
given more than half a century ago by the
Kev. Sidney Smith?wisest an'd wittiest of
the friends I have lost He says?and he
is speaking, you will please understand, as
I speak, to a school of volunteer students
Be says: "There is a piece of foppery
"which is to be cautiously guarded against,
the foppery of knowing all sciences and
excelling in all arts?chemistry, mathe
matics> algebra, dancing, history, reason
lag, riding, fencing, Low Dutch, High
Dutch, and natural philosophy. [Laugh?
ter.] In short, the modern precept of
education Tery often is: 1 Take the Ad?
mirable Crichton for your model; I would
have yon ignorant of nothing." " Now,"
says he, " my advice on the contrary, is
t? Have the courage to be ignorant of a
great number of things, in order that you
may avoid the calamity of being ignorant
of everything." [Laughter and cheers.]
He concludes with an explanation of
what he conceives to be the secret of res?
toring knowledge, as well as of all suc?
cess. And this part of his speech is none
the less interesting from his olinching its
truth by claiming it as the rule of his own
remarkable genius:
To this I would superadd a little truth
wh oh holds equally good of my own life
and the life of every eminent man I have
evor known. The one serviceable, safe,
certain, remunerative, attainable quality
jn every study and in every pursuit, is the
quality of attention. My own invention
of imagination, such as it i?, I can most
truthfully assure you, would never have
served me as it has but for the habit of
common*place, humble, patient, daily, toil?
ing, drudging attention. Genuius, vivaci?
ty, quickness of penetration, brilliancy in
association of ideas, such mental qualities,
like the qualities of the apparition of the
externally armed head in Macbeth, will
not be commanded, but attention, after
due term ot submissive service, always
will Like certain plants which the poor
et?t peasant may grow in the poorest soil,
it can be cultivated by any one, and it is
certain, in its own good season, to bring
forth flowers and fruit. I can most truth?
fully assure.you by-the-by, that this eulo
gium on attention is so far quite disinter?
ested on my part, as that it has not the
least reference whatever to the attention
with which you have honored me.?
[Laughter.]
It was on this occasion that he made
the following remark, which has been tel?
egraphed, reproduced and commented
upon by the whole press of this country
and England.
" In reference to the appropriate and
excellent remarks of Mr. Dixon, I will
now discharge my conscience of my polit?
ical creed, which is contained in two arti?
cles, and has no reference to any party or
persons. My faith in the people governing
is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith
in the people governed is on the whole
illimitable."
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Death of the Earl of Derby.?Tho
Earl of Derby, one of the most promi?
nent parliamentary leaders in England i.s
well as one of tho most distinguished
statesmen of Great Britain, has ceased to
live. He was the fourteenth Earl of tho
house of Stanley of Derby, and proved
himself during an active, busy life, and in
very eventful moments of the history of
bis country, a worthy representative of
bis brilliant?almost royal?lineage and
ancestry, which runs back to the moment
of the landing ot the Conqueror?chival?
rous, impetuous, high-toned, consistent
according to his convictions, and gener?
ous. He was born in 1779, passed credi?
tably through Oxford, and nerer since,
proved recreant to the scholastic tastes
which received their fostering impulse in
that ancient seat of learning. He enter?
ed the House of Commons in 1821. After
long service as Cabinet Minister be became
premier in 1852, and again in 1866.
Lord Derby owned vast estates in Ire?
land, and it is a very noteworthy remem?
brance, and particularly illustrative of the
actualities of what is known as the land
question in that country, that, notwith?
standing his strict toryism, his "Arms
act," his "anti-Irish" legislation and the
fact that he had fallen under the political
ban of the greatest of Irish agitators who
ranked him as the "Scorpion Stanley," so
excellent and kindly was his course as a
landlord that he could and has walked over
his property in Tipperary?the worst of
counties in the calender of agrarian out?
rage?at any time or season unattended,
unarmed and saluted with respect at all
points.
Chief Justice Chase.?Reviewing the
resallt of the late elections in Ohio and
-Pennsylvania, and tho causes which led
to the defeat of Pendleton and Packer,
the New York Herald says:
Chief Justice Chase is the man and tho
only man for tho Democracy in the next
battle. His name as the Democratic can?
didate will at once extinguish all those
obnoxious copperhe?d ideas so repulsive
to the great Union party of the war. The
lines which have thus divided the two
Parties since the war will be wiped out.
'he Democracy will become a new party,
on new men, new ideas, and new issues.
In tho nomination of Chase it will ad?
vance from tjie graveyard of dead politi?
cians and parties in the rear to the front
line of the marching column of events.
The name and tho record of Chaso, "too,
on the nigger, on reconstruction, on our
foreign relations and on tho money ques?
tion, will be enough as the platform of
this Democratic party. His name will
attract thousands of Union men in the
North who would shrink from anything
tainted with copperhead antecedents or
repudiation, and it will rally to the Dem?
ocratic standard thousands of Republican
niggers in the South. No man will oe
afraid of any attempt to put the Govern?
ment on the back track, or the nigger or
the public credit under the rallying cry
of Chase. All such fears, which have
hung as dead weights upon tho Democra?
cy so long, will bo removed, and with
Chaso as their standard-bearer they will
be strong as a giant rofreshed with new
wine.
Ohio an?> Pennsylvania Elections.?
Wendell Phillips does not seem to think
much ot the recent Radical victories in
Ohio and Pennsylvania. In this week's
Anti-Slavery Standardhe says, very point?
edly:
Meanwhile the strength of the opposi?
tion vote shows that the administration
has net satisfied the oountry. Its friends
have rallied and secured another year of
grace. The elections of 1870 will turn
more directly on the issue whether the Re?
publican party has fulfilled the national
expectation. In our opinion, unless the
administration files a better record during
the coming year than that of the past,
there will be a very even struggle between
it and its foe, perhaps an ignominous de?
feat. By small majorities, after almost
incredible effort, we have jusfr'Baved the
two groat States?Pennsylvania and Ohio;
any slight untoward accident, even, would
have lost them. It is a poor dependence
for a great party. We have drifted thus
far on the strength of our soldier-Presi?
dent's reputation. He and his Cabinet
must earn the future.
Sketch of Senator Cooper of Tennessee.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald gives the following
sketch of the newly elected Senator from
Tennessee:
After ? very exciting contest the Ten?
nessee Legislature elected Mr. Henry
Cooper United States Senator, in place of
Mr. Fowler, whose term expires in 1871,
defeating ex-President Johnson by a vote
of 55 to 51. ' The result was not alto?
gether unexpected. Some time ago the
name of the Senator elect was mentioned
in connection with the position, tho an?
tagonism of Etheridge and Johnson being
too intense to admit of their supporters
coalescing upon the one or upon the other.
Indeed, Mr. Jon hson's friends stood by him
to the last, when they were defeated
by the joint vote of the extreme I?adi:
cals and ex-Secessionists, which strango
combination of antipodal elements was
brought.about by mutual hatred of John?
son.
It seems, however, after all that the ex
President is not so badly beaten. If he
failed of an election, be at least had the
consolation of witnessing the triumph of j
one of his warmest personal friends and
the ignominious route of his opponents.
The Senator elect, Mr. Cooper, is well
known in Tennessee. Ho was born in
Maury county, in that State, during the
early part of the present century, and is
now a man in the prime of life. He is a
brother of Edward Cooper, well known
to our readers as the Secretary of Presi?
dent Johnson during his administration.
He moved to Bedford county at an early
age, studied law and was admitted to the
bar. After a few years his practice be?
came large, and he was known as one of j
the ablest lawyers in the State.
About the year 1850 Mr. Cooper mar
riod, and during tho same year he first
entered into political Ijfe. At this time
he was elected to the State Legislature
by a majority of some 500 votes, after a
most exciting contest. At the next elec?
tion he was opposed by the most popular
and influential man in tho county, and
his defeat by several hundreds was re?
garded a9 a matter of absolute certainty.
Mr. Cooper, howover, entered upon the
canvass with great energy and determi?
nation. He imparted to his supporters
the same spirit he possessed, and the re?
sult was that, upon the largest vote ever
polled in Bedford up to that time, he was
returned to the Legislature by a majority
of twenty. In politics he was a Whig,
and, indeed, never has voted a Democratic
ticket that we are aware of. When the
rebellion broke out he did not hesitate a
moment to avow his devotion to the
Union, and his unalterable purpose never
to givo his support to the secession cause.
During tho entire war his course was con?
sistent with his staunch Unionism, so
that he will appear before tho Senate of j
the United States with a war record as
acceptable as that of Sonator Sumncr.
Upon ex-President Johnson being ap?
pointed Governor of Tennessee, soon af?
ter the fall of Nashville, he tendered a
State Judgeship to Mr. Cooper who ac?
cepted the offer and served in that posi?
tion until 1866, when he resigned for the
purpose- of accepting a Chair in the
Faculty of the Cumberland University of |
Lebanon. His career on tiie bench was
most honorable. Several times during his
term he endeavored to resign, but Gov?
ernor Brownlow, although aware of his
Consorvatism, declined to receive the
resignation, bot insisted upon his retain?
ing the position. In one of his messages
to the Legislature Brownlow referred to
Judge Cooper in the highest terms of
praise, expressing his earnest regret that
the State Judiciary should be deprived of J
so pure and upright a member. This
encomium was all tho more flattering
when it is remembered that the Judge
was an openly avowed political opponent
of the Governor and lookod with horror
at his administrative acts.
At the recent eloction in Tennesse Mr.
Cooper was the Conservative nominee for
v,he State Senate from tho Eighteenth
.'District of Tennessee and was elected by
a large majority. He is a gentleman of j
ability and is looked upon as a rising man
in his State. ? Of course we would have
preferred to see Mr. Johnson elected; but
wo have no doubt that Mr. Cooper will
mako a most acceptable Senator.
A New Danger.?Sonator Carpenter,
of Wisconsin, Is greatly exercised over
what ho apprehends to be a new danger
to the Republic. In a speech which ho
recently made at Madison, in that State,
before an Agricultural Society, ho greatly
alarmed his audience by giving utterance
to tho following declaration : *-lt was,"
he said, "for many years believed by our
wisest and purest statesmen that our in?
stitutions wore In danger from slavery.
But it is my honest belief that they are
to-day in far greater danger from the
combinations of capital, the consolida?
tions of monopolies?the great trinity of
power, railroad, express and telegraph
companies, which are struggling to con?
trol the destinies of this country?than
they over were from slavery."
The Wisconsin Sonator may be right,
but wo think he puts it down a little too
Btrong. If tho business and progress of j
the oountry did not require railroads, ox
press companies and telegraph lines, they
would cease to exist.
? The discovery of Junius, so often
announced, has at length, it is said,.been
placed beyond doubt bj tho researches of
the Hon. Edward Twisloton, of England,
who has, for tho first time, called in the
aid of a sciontitic expert in handwriting,
the well-known Mr. Charles Chabot. The
results will shortly bo made public, to?
gether with fac similes of the autographs
of Junius' Letters to Woodfall and
George Grenville. j
Generosity to the Defeated,
The following article appeared original?
ly in the New York Turf, Field and Farm?
er. Its catholic sentiments are worthy
of being reiterated all over the country,
and if acted upon more generally would
redound to the good of a common coun?
try :
"Because a man has fought with you
there is no reason why you should always
regard him as an enemy. Nor do you
strengthen your cause when a man is
down by trying to keep him down.
Grant understood this principle when ho
received tho sword of Lee at Appomat
tox court houao, and Sherman recognized
it when he proposed terms to the army
of Johnston. But neither of these dis?
tinguished Generals acted without a pre?
cedent. They but followed the example
set by many illustrious commanders be?
fore them. Among our own countrymen j
who extended generosity to the defeated,
we poiut to that great and good man
General Washington. On the 31et day
of December, 1776, there arrived in Phila?
delphia near one thousand Hessian prison?
ers,.taken by the commander of th>3 Pro?
visional forces in what a State paper was
pleased to call 'his late fortunate and suc?
cessful expedition to New Jersey.' The
General, in sending the prisoners to Phil?
adelphia, recommonded the Council of
Safety to provide suitable quarters for
them ; 'and'?wo quote from a public doc?
ument?'it is his earnest wish thatJhey
may bo well treated, and have such'prin?
ciples instilled into them, whilst they re?
main prisoners, that when they return on
being exchanged, they may fully open the
eyes of their countrymen in the service
of the King of Great Britain, who are at
present not a little jealous of their En?
glish fellow soldiers." Gen. Washington
clearly saw that the Hessians had nojust
quarrel with us, that they Had been in?
duced to invade our shores and fight un?
der the British flag because Great Britian
bad represented us as wholly in the
wrong, as a lawless set of plunderers and
pretenders. True, they were hired to
fight against us, but tho miserable pit?
tance they received would not keep them
loyal to the British flag could we win
their friendship by acts of kindness when
helplessly in our power. Tho Council,
fully understanding how bitterly the
American people wero excited against the
Hessians, for these hired soldiers had been
guilty of many gross outrages, listened to
the advice of Washington, and January,
1, 1777, they issued an order setting forth
t the nature of the capture, and concluding
as follows: "But, from the moment they
are rescued from tho authority of the
British officers, wo ought no longer to re?
gard them as our enemies, at least while
their conduct will justify our favorable
opinion. It is Britain alone that is our
enemy; the other powers of Europe are I
not otherwise so than as .influenced by
her, and many of them are from the
strongest motive interested in our favor.
It is the officers and troops of Britain on?
ly that are heartily engaged in the unjust
war against us, from avarice, ambition,
and thirst of dominion. And notwith?
standing the pains they have taken to pre?
judice the Germans against us, we hope
they will find it impossible to prevail on
them to continue to imbue their hands in
the blood of Americans, many of whom
are their countrymen. The most favor?
able opportunity now offers to weaken
the force of our enemies, by making their
auxiliaries our friends; and we earnestly
entreat our countrymen to embrace it, by
suppressing any resentment that might
naturally arise on recollecting their late
hostility, and treating the much injured
and deceived Hessians', now in our power,
in the most friendly manner; as a people
we wish to unite them with ourselves in
cultivating the fertile forests of America,
extending its manufactures and commer ce,
and defending its liberty .tnd indepen?
dency against all attacks of foreign and
arbitrary power." There is wisdom in
liberality of this kind. The logic of it is
plain, for to strengthen a cause we must
Win over to it those who have been hos?
tile to its interests. The statesman is not
a partisan. His policy is broad but firm
and just. Some of our leading mon have
been slow to recognize this fact/ Because
an enemy once, they havo labored to keep
the South always in enmity to the North.
But the people have been wiser than some
of those who have aspired to lead, for
partisan feeling has been rapidly dying
out. A reunion of tho States is once more
within the range of possibilities. In the
halls of Congress there will appear, tho
coming winter, representatives from near?
ly all of tho States geographical!}*, if not
politically, recognized. And through this
union of what was once Federal and Con?
federate, the cause of liberty and educa?
tion will be strengthened. Both sections
have learned to bo more tolerant of each
othor, and therefore wo may expect
greater harmony in legislation, and the
development of the country to be most
rapid. Tho history of wars seem to con?
firm tho idea that, instead of regarding
one with whom you have fought as an
eternal enemy, wo tight with those that
disagree with us in order that we may bo
come hotter, truor friends."
? Think of n child famishing?dying
for want of food?in Jersey City, in the
midst of thousands of peoplo, tho father,
unable, from 6icknoss, to work, and a
stranger in a strange land ! Such an event
occurred on Saturday night. Two other
children belonging to the same family, aro
said to havo suffered unappeased hungor
so long that they will likely follow the
little one already dead. Such occurrences
are enough to make us doubt the value
of tho social system undor whioh wo claim
to be the best, happiest and least oppress?
ed of all the earth's peoples.?Northern
Exchange. J
From the Columbia Phoenix.
Columbia, S. C:, October 27.
Mr. Editor: On my return to this city,
I find awaiting me bundles of letters, in
5uiring concerning the approaching Fair.
?o roply by letter would be the work of
an amanuensis. Hence, I beg the use of
your columns for a short communication,
and would respectfully ask all papers in
the State, interested in our success to give
it an insertion in their columns.
1. All articles intended for exhibition,
will be brought to Columbia and returned
after the Fair$ by all the railroads frei of
charge.
2. All articles should be securely bag?
ged, boxed, or barreled, and all* stock
should be attended by a groom or be suf?
ficiently well broken to stand to the hal?
ter.
3. Everything shouid be plainly mark?
ed, and directed to me at Columbia, and
must be in Columbia by the 9th of No?
vember. AH produce can be shipped by
ordinary freight trains, between this and
the 9th of November.
4. Owners of stock should immediately
notify the agents of the railroads upon
which they ship, from what depots and
the number of head of stock they intend
shipping, that the required car-room may
bo furnished them. The various stock
trains will run to Columbia on Monday,
the 8th November, and owners must su?
perintend the shipment of their own
stock.
5. For further particulars, all con tribu
tors are respectfully roferred to the "Pre?
mium List/' with the regulations attach?
ed, recently published in the Charleston
and Columbia papers.
6. The attention of contributors is es?
pecially called to the first clause of the
4th paragraph, of this communication.
Very respectful I}-,
D. WYATT AIKEN,
Secretary State Agricultural and Me?
chanical Society.
Pulling Together.?The Louisville
Commercial Convention have hit upon
one of the secrets of the failure of most
of the attempts to induce European im?
migration to the Southern States. Want
of concerted action between States has
been the difficulty.. Each State has had its
separate agent, and each has done his
best, with his limited means, to coax im?
migrants to come down there and settle.
In doing so ho has been, as in duty bound,
highly eulogistic of his own State, but
not quite so willing to praise other Slates.
In effect the Southern immigration agontS
have been pulling different ways and not
altogether, when nothing but a united
pujl, and a very strong one at that, can
divert the traditional tendency of all new?
comers to go westward. The Convention
recommended a union of all the State
agencies into one under a competent
head, and they had no hesitation in selec?
ting Commodore Maury for the place.
The cboico is a good one. No man in
this country better understands the cli?
mate, soil, and diverse advantages of the
different Southern States for various
classes of settlers, than Commodore Mau?
ry. Since the war ho has paid particular
attention to the subject of immigration,
and has done mere for that interest in Vir?
ginia?officially and otherwise?than any
man in the South. He is woll known and
highly appreciated in Europe, and any re?
ports or circulars which he maj' cause to
be distributed throughout the Continent
will command attention and confidence.
It is upon information so disseminated,
freely and 83-stematically, that the Conven?
tion rely to further the cause of immigra?
tion, and they invite all the Southern
States to contribute funds to that object.
This will work well, probably; but there
would be an advantage in having a num?
ber of active, reliable sub-agents station?
ed at the principal European ports who
would use their personal influence upon
foreigners about to embark.?A7". Y. Jour?
nal of Commerce.
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Tue PoAt Royal ?ail Road.?We had
the pleas uro yesterday of an interview
with a gentleman, representing the inter?
ests of the Port Royal Rrilaoad Company.
From him wo learn that the stock ($3,000,
000,) is taken by the National Railway
and Trust Company, who propose to build
and equip the road. Tho road is estima?
ted to cost about 82,250,000, and tho roll?
ing stock, etc., about 8750,00. No stock
has been subscribed in tho South since the
war. Before and during tho war?300,000
wore subscribed, which have been scaled
to 8150,000. The right of way has been
generally given, but in some cases has to
be purchased, and this, together with de?
pot sites, &c, it is estimated, will take an?
other $150,000 of stock. The road was
partially graded during the war, and tffe
work dono represents the 8150,000 first
named. Our informant says that tho
cross ties are being got out, and that work
is actively progressing, begining at Coo
sahatchie, the point of junction with the
Savannah and Charleston Railroad. He
says that iron and rolling stock are all
purchased, soino of the iron is on tho
way, and may ho expected to am'vo in
this city about tho 10th of November.?*
They purposo finishing and running fifty
miles of the road, from Coosahatchie
Northward, some timo in January, 1870,
and hopo to completo it to Augusta by
May next. For tho present, we aro told,
Coosahatchie is tho objective point.
We aro further informed that the Com?
pany propose to establish towns and vil?
lages along, tho line of tho road, to give
away alternative sections of land, and
thus" induce emigration.?Charleston Cou
rier.
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? Butler has been "interviewed." He
wants "gold to be made an article of mer?
chandize." He adores a motallic curren?
cy. Ho is in love with, gold and spoony
on silver. "*
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" Nothing in the Papes."?The Eich'
rhdhd Enquirer and Examiner has a spicy
chabtef on the Bubject ol newspapers,
elicited by the stereotyped remark of ih^
different readers, after scanning the * mi?
niature world' of a daily issue of news,
that " there's nothing in*the paper." I*
says:
" And me*? are always grumbling about
their papers, and insinuating how much
better iney could do it. They talk as
flippantly about "fine articles" on every
imagir.abfe subject, as if they could effect
such .a change. Let some of these over?
running philosophers try it for 150 days
in succession.
" And then they think it is nothing to
1 select' for a newspaper?yo? have mere?
ly to run the scissors through a half
dozen exchanges, and you have got mat?
ter enough. Now this is the" most impor
tantj and the most difficult department
to fill on a newspaper. ? Very few men
have the slightest idea how to do the
work. It requires a thorough newspaper
man?who knows the public appetite
well?who knows what is going on in the
world?and who knows how to re write
add pack a column into a dozen lines.
" Men who skim a newspaper and toss
it aside, little reflect how much brains
and toil have been expended in serving
up thao meal: Busy heads and busy
hands have been toiling all day to gather
and to prepare those viands, and some vast
building has been.lit from cellar to garret
all night to get that paper ready for the
newsboy by crack of da win
"'Nothing in the paper!' Nothing in
y?ui head! that's what's the matter."
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? The New York Tribune, commen?
ting on the recently published statistic*
of the Confederate army, says:
"Wo repeat the expression of our firm
conviction that the Confederacy never
put 100,000 men in line ot battle at any
moment, and had not 50,000 men in its
encampments around Man?ssas Junction,
when McClellan stood inactive and irreso?
lute for mo.itha before those encamp?
ments, at the head of 150,000 to 200,000
ot the best man that over shouldered
arms. We are further confident that he
had 10,000 more men in hand, and, but
for indiscriminate furloughs, would-have
had 25,000 more than Lee, when the lat?
ter commenced his movement on our right
flank,-which caused 'Little Mack'?after
standing tamely by and seeing one-third
of Jiis army smashed by two thirds of
Lee's?to destroy or abandon millions1
worth of provisions and munitions, and
commence a precipitate'flank movement9
to the James.'*
No doubt, observes the Macon TeU>
gragh, tho leading Northern papers will
soon find occasion, in their quarrels, to
push inquiries into all the conditions of
relative strength, and equipment between
the forces of Gen. Grant and Lee in tho
memorable campaign which terminated
at Appomatox. When these are known
to the people, there will be not one drop
of glory left in that campaigning, except
for those who stood on the defence: ? ?
Hon. John M. Mason.?The Alexandria
Gazette has the following:
" John M. Mason, for a long time one
of the United States Senators from Vir?
ginia, and the representative of the Con?
federate States to the Court of St. James,
is now a resident of Seminary Hill, ana
almost daily drives into town in an ordin?
ary no-top .spring wagon, with a blue
body, and behind a dark brown horse, by
no means remarkable for its looks or gait.
The ex-ambassador wears a black felt hat
with broad brim, a bobtailed beaver cloth
s?ck coat, grey breeches, the legs of which
are stuffed in a pair of heavy boots, and
long buckskin gauntlets. He holds the
reins and handles the whip, too, as though
he had not forgotten his boyish days; and
tne hale, hearty old rlan, as seen going
into the bank or the stores on King street,
present* little of the appearance of the
distinguished gentleman who, but a short
time ago, was acting a conspicuous part
in the drama of life, where the scenes
were laid among courts and palaces, and
when a nation's life was the object sought
for."
Revival of Southern Trade.?At no
period since the war has the Southern
trade with this port been 8? brisk as at
the present time, and all the regular
steamers employed in this business, be^
sides many sailing vessels, find full era:
ployment in carrying the products of
Northern and Southern growth. The
freight for the Baltimore line of steamers
has increased to such a degree as to re?
quire more tonnage for its transportation,
and an additional boat will be placed on
the route next week to relieve the press?
ing wants of shippers for greater accom?
modations. Of the extensive variety of
goods going forward to supply the wants of
the Southern people, a general assortment
of housekeeping articles and furniture"
form a large part, which fact is. a very
good index of the returning prosperity of
that section of our country. With good
crops, well requited labor and peaceful
times, the South is destined to fully equal
its former achievements in the production
of material wealth.?Boston Journal*
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? A young lawyer was examining a
bankrupt as to how he spent his money.
There were about two thousand dollar*
unaccounted for, when the attorney put
on a severe scrutinrarngfaco, and exclaim?
ed, with muoh self-complacency, "Now,
sir, 1 want you to tell this court and jury
how you used those two thousand dol?
lars?*' The bankrupt put on a serious
face, winked at the audience, and said :
"Tho lawyers got that." The judge and
audience were convulsed with laughter/
and the counsellor was glad to let the
bankrupt off.