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HOYT & 00., Proprietors. ANDERSON 0. H., S. 0., THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 6, 1873. VOLUME IX.?NO. 18. ? Far the Anderson Intelligence*. An Eiisay on Music, Bead before the Ander ' son County Singing: Convention. t BY JAMES G. DOUTHIT. The subject of vocal music should claim the careful and earnest attention of this Conven? tion; which having met annually in Anderson County since its organization for the purpose of cultivating and promoting1, as far as practi? cable, s more general interest in the love and practice of sacred music. Singing being a most'delightful part of devotional worship, too much attention cannot be given to its culture and importance, since it is by song and praise that, we assimilate ourselves nearer like the angels than in any other form of worship. This we think testimony sufficient to excite an ardent desire on the part of all who attend these conventional meetings to unite cheerfully in the accomplishment of this grand design, knowing that wherever there is union there is strength. A large per cent of the musical talent in the convention usually is lost for the want of con? cert and unanimity; We hope to see a more general interest manifested, especially on the part of the singers, than hitherto. The power of good music wields an influence over emotion and feeling that human language cannot de? scribe, nor pen portray. Nothing binds us nearer together, and makes us more peaceful, loving and happy. Of ail the instrumentalities of peace and love, none affect us more than the ByfgQk tpnesj:of a wtfl-trained and cultivated voice; notwithstanding this, numbers are to be found whose voices have never received the advantage of this musical training, among Which there is some of the best talent. We consider the science of music an appro? priate study for common schools, and it should be introduced wherever teachers are competent to teach it. The cultivation of music should be inferior to no other branch of school study. It materially aids the pupils in acquiring some very desirable particulars which no other branch of school study does. As a nation and people, much will have been accomplished when music is introduced into common schools and becomes a branch of common education. Our music for the young should be plaiu, and arranged in such style as will Interest and please the young. The round notes are too difficult for the' most of them; tbe time re? quired for children to learn them is toe ?oug, they become discouraged, and very many of them never learn them at all. But if you will give them the character notes, they will learn them quickly and correctly. The reason is, that pitch of tone is the most difficult depart? ment in the science to acquire, and at the same time the mostiinportant to be learned. Not? withstanding there are other parts in the science of vast importance to the student, but pitch I consider pre-eminent, and the only way the student can arrive at relative pitch in round note music is by calculating the numeri? cal distance, between tones, and the intervals in some places are very great, which makes this mode of learning them, both difficult and irk? some. Were there but one arrangement of the scale, the difficulty would be comparatively small. But each letter .chromatically considered may be. taken as a basis for the scale, which will give us quite a number in the constella? tion. By the use of character notes all may be mastered as quickly as one in the round notes* If this be so why not adopt the character notes entirely. Because this new system, like all other improvements of the age in which we live, must have time to work its way. There are thousands of human beings who have never seen or heard the seven character notes, and I think we may safely say there are many who would gladly use them iu preference to ail others could they only get their consent to by aside a little selfish pride; and many authors no doubt who have not adopted this system are only .waiting its popularity, and the troubling of the waters a little more, when they too will step in and bring forth tbeir'prodsctions, clad In the improved garment of seven characters. As teachers and leaders of music we have much to encourage us in advocating this system, which is daily gaining ground not only in our midst, but far and wide we hear the glad news of its triumph and success. Let us work mightily for this improvement in the transla? tion of round note heads to that of character and common sense. Hundreds of teachers now in the United 6tat2s are laboring faithfully for this'ithproved system, and the fruit of their labors will end in. a large reward,. Hundreds and thousand of children will learn to sing and jwaise God correctly' t;hat never could nor would in the round note system. Teachers and leaders, itfis as much our duty ho posh forward any improvements that may be made in music, as it 'is-' in; the improvements ' of any other branch of learning. Let us strive to be useful in our (sailing by availing ourselves of every opportunity that will accelerate the advance meat and improvement of music. Let us keep up. I see some behind simply for the want of perseverance. In preparing this essay, I have tried to place before your minds what 1 consider in part tbe hest plan to be pursued in elevating the standard of music; how far I may have suc? ceeded, time alone will tell. What 1 have written, has not been through any selfish motive whatever. My object has been to deal honestly in saying what I consider to be the truth. I now submit thh; circular to the con? vention for consideration, hoping that it will receive a careful examination, and be adopted or rejected as you think its merits deserve. JAMES Q. DOUTHIT. ?a ? iim ? To recklessly andignorantly accuse anoth? er of mean or mercenary motives, is apt to im? ply that you are conscious that, under the same circumstances, you might be governed by just such/low and selfish considerations. A Lament for the Departed Dignity of Amer? ican Statesmanship. Mr. Elihu Burritt, who is known all over the country as "the learned blacksmith," has re? cently contributed a remarkable paper to the Christian Union, which has attracted universal attention for its significant allusions to the conservative influences of the South upon the government of the country in the past, and showing what the nation has lost by the dis? placement of the Southern element iu political life. We copy the article entire, trusting that none of our readers will be deterred by its length from a perusal: The stealthy transformation of our republic into a republic may be ascribed, in no small degree, to the displacement of an element in the lk,dy politic which was never appreciated at its true value in the better days of our na? tional virtue. It was then decried-and almost hated by the New England and nearly the whole Northern mind. The same mind now seems to think that the suppression of that element has been a triumph for the cause of freedom, truth and purity. Indeed, its entire extinction is regarded as a consummation de? voutly to be wished. The sentiment has be? come so prevalent that it may subject one to the charge of disloyalty to regret that an influ? ence which wrought so powerfully in shaping the character of the republic in its first and best years has been displaced by another more popular. "Down with the aristocracy 1" is the watchword of the social Democracy, both in England and America; and the same cry is passing through other countries. This cry does not mean down with men who have made themselves richer than the hereditary aristoc- j racy by sweating out vast fortunes from the toil and industry of a single generation, but down with historical or old families of the country, who have retained in their possession estates purchased centuries ago at a shilling or two an acre, and to which each century has added an increase of value. Down with men who have come to large fortunes by this slow process of accretion, and have not jumped into great wealth by speculation in stocks, or by trading or manufacturing enterprise, like the great majority of rich people. Now, the worst sin of a lauded or hereditary aristocracy, in popular estimation, is their esprit de corps, or that pride of order which leads them to feel it derogatory to their dignity to engage personally in trade or in those busi? ness enterprises which other men of wealth pursue. Then this feeling becomes additionally obnoxious by stimulating what they call a "toigh sense q?0Tonar," a kind of horror or contempt for small-and mean acts and ways of life and thought, for a trafficking spirit and habit of mind, and for the everlasting talk about the irrepressible dollar. It is these pre? tensions, this carriage and pose of mind and life, more than their absolute wealth, that ren? der an aristocracy of this order so repugnant to the popular mind, especially in America. For there is no country iu the world where men compass sea, land and fire with more avidity for the aristocracy of abstract wealth than among us. Our railroad kings: aud mer? chant princes, stock jobbers, and ot her poten? tates in our moneyed world, constitute an aris? tocracy as rich in dollars as the nobility and gentry of England. And these enjoy a public estimation and exert and influence which fire thousands with the ambition to attain the same position by the same or more questionable means. Thus an aristocracy of sheer wealth, however acquired, short of absolute crime, is the most popular order in American society. And the more this aristocracy retains and exhibits the spirit of what the French call ! bourgeoise, the more popular and influential it' becomes, because it remains in afuinity, and on the same level of thought and purpose, with the great multitude of money-seekers. Now, to a thoughtful, observant mind, noth? ing can be more evident and more disquieting than the fact that this kind of aristocratic bourgeoise has come to the front as a ruling power in this country. It is a moneyed aris? tocracy that thinks, plans, and acts in Che fullest spirit of bourgeoise, without any pre? tension to that high sense of honor or punc? tilious esprit de corps which governs the de? portment of an hereditary or landed gentry. And it is a hard thing to say or believe, but an honest mind must believe it true, that this "bourgeoise" regime only came into power at the suppression of that Southern aristocracy which we so energetically denounced when it existed in the full strength of its influence. Scarcely anything was or could be more dis? tasteful or even hateful to us than the carriage, sentiment, and self-arrogated position of that proud and pretentious aristocracy which adop? ted the spirit and deportment of the English nobility and gentry. But one who looks back over the history of the country from its birth as a nation must now see and own that the influence of the Southern aristocracy was an element of immense value in shaping the character of our public men and political life. The existence of many things is only realized by their temporary absence. For nearly ten years the South, as a political power has been with'drawn from the Union. It has been ruled, repressed, and stifled in its old character and influence by the worst kind of carpet bagging bourgeoise. During this demoralizing regime, it has been shorn of all the locks of its power on the national government and public men of the country. It has not sent to Wash? ington a single representative of its old his? torical families?no Calhoun, nor Clay, nor Benton, nor Berrien. None of its old names have answered to the roll-call in either house at the capitol. None of its old chivalry, its high sense of honor, has been represented by the newly imported men who have presumed to answer for the South. The spirit which she boasted, and which we denounced, has ceased to act on the political morality of the nation. Perhaps the whole Northern mind rejoices at this emancipation. We are now showing the world, and proving to ourselves, what we are doing and can do without the influence of a Southern aristocracy, as we called it. Yes, we have shown to the world and to our? selves what we can do as a nation without the old influence of the Southern mind; without the pretentious "chivalry" and "high sense of honor," and contempt of small and crcoked ways which .the "first families of Virginia" and other Southern States boasted of. We have shown what the trade-spirit, unchecked by the influence of such chivalry, can do when it pervades the entire nation, dominating na? tional and State legislation, and touching with its golden wand the highest court of justice in the land. We have seen how this great re? public has been transmuted into a riugpublic, while the South h,as been reduced to political' nonenity: what a concentric series of rings, what "wheels within a wheel," as in the prophet's vision, have been produced from the centre to the circumference of the Union. Look at the succession of these rings : first, the "primary meeting" ring, or tbe village caucus of half a dozen politicians making up their "slate" around a grocer's cask of onionB qr dried apples. Follow the series of political rings from that primary meeting of free and independent citizens up through the State con? ventions to the Congressional caucus and lobby at Washington. Then take the corporation rings and follow them from the centre to the circumference of their power. Do the same with land rings, gold rings, wheat rings, traffic and transportation rings, and tariff rings. Look at the great railway rings, that touch with their perimeters either ocean, at the Credits Mobilier they organize, the legislation they control, and :he legislators they demoralize and smirch with the pitch of dishonest transactions. See what men in the highest places of trust have sold and soiled the characters the public had given them, by hasting to be rich by treachery and fraud, bee how the fine gold of political and commercial probity has been dimmed by these transactions, and the suspicions they engender. What the French mean by bourgeoise, we ex? press by shoddy ; and no word in our language has a more uuiformly accepted meaning than this of recent coinage. We all know what shoddy means in textile fabrics. But never did it fill such a place or play such a part in a soldier's coat as it does in our paper money, in our paper characters on 'Change, and in the paper moralities which the last few years have witnessed. It may seem disloyal to our republican insti? tutions to say it, but when it is said, let the candid reader see if he can disprove it: what this country most needs at the present juncture is the element that has been displaced by the political ostracism of the South. I do not say that we need a Southern aristocracy, but we need one which shall resemble and exercise some of its best characteristics, and such we need imperatively, North and South, East and West. We need a cites with as fine an esprit de corps, with as high sense of honor and per? sonal and family dignity as England ever pro? duced or the South claimed to possess. We want such men as the Jeffersons, Madisons, Lowndes', Pinckneys, Calhouus, Clays, and Bentous, and other statesmen whom the South has contributed to the structure and glory of the nation, whether they came from one side of Mason and Dixon's line or the other. We want men who shall walk through the lobbies of Congress and "wear the flower of a blame? less life," and of a blameless thought, though each hall and every step were beset with the gift-bearing Greeks of corrupting rings seek? ing to place their gold "where it shall do most good." You may call such a class an aristoc? racy, or by any opprobrious name, but it is a class we most need in every section of the Union, to stand as a bulwark against the overflow of shoddy which threatens to throw down the political probity and purity of our national life aud character. The Governor's "Thorough and Ex? haustive Examination."---On our suppli ment this week may be found the Governor's Message in full. It is principally in relation to the public debt of the State, of which the Governor says he has made "a thorough and exhaustive examination." In the midst of many very lengthy statements and much diffuse reasoning, the Governor says (with true Radi? cal audacity) that it is not at all important "to reflect upon the way the debt has been contrac? ted, or to estimate what consideration the State received in return. The debt exists, and sound public policy demands that some provision be made at once for its adjustment." And the Governor's plan for such adjustment is a seal ing of the nominal amount of the entire debt. We differ from the easy-going Governor's plan, for such adjustment is a scaling of the nominal amount of the entire debt. We differ from the easy-going Governor in his opinion that it is unimportant to reflect upon "the-way the debt has been contracted, &c." On the contrary, the only right mode of proce? dure is to reflect upon this "way" very deeply, and to sift it, and shake it, and air it, until it should be discovered which were the good bonds and which the fraudulent. And then to pay the good ones at their face value, and re? pudiate the false ones promptly and utterly. We have not a whit more right to scale an honest bond than to repudiate an honest bond. As to the Governor's specious endeavors to prove that the increase in the average of taxa? tion between 1850 and 1870 is less in South Carolina than in five Democratic States, and that the per capita taxation in South Carolina is less than in Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Marylaud, or Kentucky, does he think that our people are absolute fools? And does he forget how often such fallacious statements have been exposed 1?Edgcficld Advertiser. Caliioun's Last Speech.?The Boston Com? mercial Bulletin gives this account of the last speech of John C. Calhoun, in the United States Seuate. Calhoun came into the Senate Chamber, supported on one side by his vener? able and chivalric colleague, A. P. Butler, and on the other by Jas. M. Mason, then Senator from Virginia. He had been unable to attend to his place in the Senate for several weeks, but haA devoted his expiring energies to the preparation of a great speech in opposition to the admission of California into the Union as a free State, by which the equilibrium, or, as he termed it, the equality of the slaveholding and non-slaveholding States would be destroy? ed. He was unable to stand without support, and unable to utter even a few short sentences without great difficulty. His large, clear eyes shone with supernatural lustre, his long white bair brushed back over his head flowed lightly in the air. His face was pale and emaciated, so that the colorless skin seemed to adhere to the osseous frame-work. The day had been assigned for this speech, which, it was evident, would be his last. The seats and galleries were filled to the utmost capacity, and yet the silence was op? pressive, as if iu presence of the grim messen? ger. He calmly and deliberately surveyed the eager faces before and around him, and being assisted to arise, summoned strength to address the chair, and request that the speech he had intended to deliver might be read by his friend from Virginia, Mr. Mason. After the conclusion of the reading, many Senators gathered around the dying Senator to give expression to their respect and sympathy. He left the Senate Chamber for the last time as he had entered, supported by the arms of his two friends. He was taken to the "Old Capital," and in a few days passed to "that undiscovered country, from whose bourne no traveler returns." ? "Wife, what has become of the grapes?" "I suppose, my dear, the hens picked them off," was the bland reply. "Hens?hens !? some two-legged hens, I guess," said the hus? band, with some impetuosity; to which she calmly replied, "My dear, did you ever see any other kind ?" ? The Boston Journal says; "The Electoral College has long outlived its day. Its faults are too numerous to mention, and it has only been kept up to this time by the extreme diffi? culty of agreeing upon a substitute." The in? dications begin to point pretty dearly to the tact that the constitution will bo so amended as tbat the people will vote directly for Presi? dent, proposition is arrant sophistry. Impending Horrors. THE TERRIBLE PREDICTIONS OF THE AMERI? CAN SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION. Few know the terrible import of the recent meeting of the American Scientific Association at Portland. In its developments of new hor? rors in store for humanity it was awfully pro? lific. Its members vied with each other in predic? tions of coming convulsions of nature, and sustained their arguments with truths brought to light from the deepest and darkest wells of science. That humanity is to be obliterated was the gist of five new papers read by five of the most scientific, trusted, and celebrated members of the Association. A terrible and total extinction of auimal life was foretold by all, the only question being which of the five will develop itself and perform the work of universal destruction. THE SUN TO BE EXTINGUISHED. Prof. Young, the most eminent living stu? dent of solar physics, read a paper on the sun. That body, he argued, is a gigantic bubble, whose crust is gradually thickeniug and whose size is diminishing. There is a constant loss of heat, which will end in its extinction as a producer of warmth and light. He quoted Faye, Secchi, and others, to prove that the ma? terial of the sun is gaseous, and that these gasses are retained by some kind of a crust. Through this service the tumultuous inner composition is constantly spurting and out? breaking with great violence. He thinks that this crust "may consist of a sheet of descend? ing rain?not of water, of course, but of the materials whose vapors are known to exist in the solar atmosphere, and whose condensation and combination are supposed to furniah the solar heat." As this peculiar rain meets the I gaseous substance of the sun it coalesces into a continuous sheet, forming "a sort of bottom? less ocean, resting upon, the condensed vapors underneath, and pierced by innumerable as? cending jets and bubbles." This action of the sun's envelop will be a quenching of the great orb upon which we depend for light and heat. It will grow smaller and more compressed, and surrounded by this crust, until it will be so hidden and mufiled as to be practically ex? cluded from the economy of the universe. The result will be intense cold and darkness, a ces? sation of all animal life, and an immediate re? turn to origiual chaos. THE BUBBLE EARTH TO BURST. General J. G. Barnard described the interior of the earth as a molten fluid. Previous no? tions had given the earth, however, a rigid ex? terior surface from one to two thousand feet deep, He refuted this theory, and claimed for the globe upon which we live somewhat the construction of a rubber-ball filled with melted lead. The surface is, he thinks, a pliable coating that has been gradually formed over the fiery mass inside. A globular form is main? tained by rapid rotary motion, the inner fluid sustaining the soft shell in its position, so that the undulations are perceptible to us. Thus, we are being whirled through space ou a huge globule, the surface of which floats on an inte? rior of liquid fire. Only the rotary speed of this bubble keeps it together, and any disar? rangement or change in terrestrial phenomena would transform it all into a fluid that would resolve itself into vapor. General Barnard does not believe that the surface is of an essen? tially different composition from the liquid in? terior?it has only been condensed sulhciently to form a sort of capsule. The tenure of the world's existence, therefore, is exceedingly un? certain. Any greatly disturbing influence? the breaking out of a huge volcano, any change in the surface that would render it brittle, the impact of a heavy meteor or comet?may, in a moment, immolate it, leaving humanity to whirling death amid the horrors of inorganic space. DARKNESS, SILENCE AND DEATH. Mr. H. F. Walling began an essay on "The Dissipation of Energy," by saying: "Since the days of the ancients it is known that all mo? tion is gradually developed by friction, and must finally cease unless maintained by ex? ternal power." The heat power of the sun, which he regarded as the motive power of the earth, is being exhausted by the prodigious lavishness of the expenditure. It is supposed, he said, that the satellite will fall into planets, planets into suns, and suns into a common cen? tre, after which "darkness, silence and death will reign." He was not without a shadow of hope, however. He saw only two possible chances for a postponement, at least, of the dreadful catastrophe: First, a series of natural chemical evolutions attracting to the sun a vast amount of combustible material; and, second, the infinite magnitude of the universe being sufficient to permit a never-ending con? centration of masses. One dreaded effect of a sun-power, he said, is a displacement of atmos? pheric forces. Tidal influences or planetary collisions may hasten the final dreadful catas? trophe, which will be a slowing of the machin try of the universe, until growing stagnation culminates in a total extinction of life forces. UNIVERSAL DROUGHT AND STARVATION. Prof. Franklin B. Hough fortold a perpetual drought?the result of a clearing off of the for? ests. "The contrast," he said, "between an open and sun-burnt pasture and one inter? spersed with clumps of trees, must have been noticed by every careful observer. The fact that furniture in houses too much shaded will mould, is an instance of the humid influence of trees, and the results of woodland shade ex? plain the fullness of springs and streams in the forest, which dry up ar.d disappear when the trees are removed." The rapidity wich which forests are disap? pearing has already been a matter of alarm; but when we consider the effect upon streams ?practical illustrations of large ones being lessened and small ones extinguished?there is cause for fright. Land will become unwatered, and consequently sterile; crops will lessen in volume, until the arid and treeless plains re? fuse to respond to the incitement of the farmer; universal famine will ensue, and the world, en? tirely depopulated by starvation, will sink into uninhabitativeness, until some now change calls another form of life into existence. INSECTS TO END THE HUMAN RACE. Dr. Le Conte, the new President of the As? sociation, read a paper on the enormous in? crease and destructiveness of injurious insects. The present actual annual damage done by in? sects to crops in the United States is over $3,000,000, yet these figures give but an inkling of what the increase promises for the future, j "Just now," says Dr. Lo Conte, "a portion j only of the iusect tribes are sufficiently nu? merous by nature to inflict injury upon man and his possessions; but civilization destroys the balances of life which naturally keep down increase, and permits in the case of insects? those previously insignificant in numbers?to become prominent factors in a work of de? struction. The only methods suggested by this scientist to avert a calamitous plague, were "to abandon the crops and starve out the noxious insects," or to establish "a .system of checks on their increase equivalent to those existing before civilization interfered." Ei j Iber of these plans are, of courso, impractica 1 ble. The impending dilemma seems to be an increase of insects so vast that the plagues of Egypt will be more than reproduced, and that all vegetation, and finally starving and help? less man himself, will be eaten. All of which augurs an early dropping of the curtain upon the fleeting show of life. We quote: "I would Dot Uro al war ; I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way ; The few lurid mornings that dawn on u i here Are enough for life's woes?full enough for it* cheer." A Movement in the Bight Direction. As a preliminary to the attainment of the ultimate objects of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, its members must achieve their pecuniary independence. Those whose crops are mortgaged before they are made, and who eat the merchant's flour aud bacon instead of their own, finally paying two prices for it? oue for themselves and the other for those who never pay at all?can never act freely or stand up squarely for their rights as men should. The merchant is not to blame for this s ;ate of things. Doubtless he would prefer to buy for cash and sell for cash, at cash prices. If, however, he must give credit, he cannot at the same time sell for cash prices. He must get the interest on his money and enough more, in addition, to secure himself against loss from tad debts. He sells to A, B, C and D. Perhaps D will fail to pay. The profits to be made on the goods sold to A, B and C must be sufficient to throw the balance, in the aggregate of these; trausactions, on the right side of the ledger. The trader, very naturally, sells goods for the purpose of making money. The farmer maices his crops for the same purpose. The latter should man? age his affairs as wisely as the former, to secure himself against loss. To begin wich, he must get out of debt as fast as he can, and once out, Be must keep out. To do this, he must not only be industrious and manage his operations skillfully, but he must practice economy and retrenchment. The planters of the South, from time immemorial the slaves of the credit s)'s tem, are beginning to see this, Those who were blind before have had their eyes opened in the Grange, and now they propose to act in the matter, and in a sensible way. In this work, the Mississippi State Grange leads off in the following resolutions, passed at its late ses? sion : Resolved, By the State Grange of Mississippi, That the Lecturer of each subord inate Grauge in this jurisdiction is hereby required to submit to the Grange of which he is Lecturer, the fol? lowing pledge of economy, to wit: Each mem? ber of this Grange is hereby pledged to the strictest economy in the management of his fanning aud other business, uiitil he places them on a cash basis. Resolved, That the Lecturer of each subordi? nate Grange is hereby required to keep con? stantly before the members of hi3 Grange, by lectures aud otherwise, the great difference between cash and credit prices, and the im? possibility of carryiug out the objects of the Order without the practice of the strictest economy, until the farming interests are put on a cash basis. There are now about 350 Granges in Missis? sippi and the Order is still increasing rapidly. The resolutions of such a body as the State Grange, therefore, have weight.?Rvral Caro? linian. Two-Fackd Men.?There are two-face men to be found in all communities. They endeav? or to play a double game in the great drama of life that they may be sure of success. They try to divide themselves so as to be able to lap in on both sides of every question that is agi? tated. They are afraid of their own shadow, lest it should reflect and expose the corrupt and craven spirit that is wrapped up in the substance. Their whole life is one of base de? ception, and their actions are shams and counterfeits. They encourage what they know to be wrong, and timidly sustain that which they admit is right. They are apparently frank and outspokeu when the tide of public opinion all runs in one channel, but as soon as they discover that there is a division of senti ment on a subject they suddenly become mute, or show signs of extraordinary liberality of opinion towards both sides. Force them to an expression of opinion and you will extort from them a kind of compromise?a liittle in favor of one side, and an excuse in favor of the other. They act as though their very existence depend on making every body believe that they agree with everybody. They become reconciled to what they formerly professed to despise; or if not reconciled they are as quiet as sucking doves, and as tame toward both sides as house cats. They assign no reason for their lamb-like conduct. They have none, except want of principle. They are devoid of the proper elements that constitute true manhood. They are without mental force to sustain them? selves in the battle of life, and dodge about trying to please every body, until they become hateful in the estimation of all. Such charac? ters are as ephemeral as they are contemptible in the eyes of men of principle. Such char? acters, when expedient for their interests, have gab for all parties, and principles for every emergency; but the people are too sharp to be deceived in this manner, and those who think they are swimming along smoothly and unno? ticed in the political waters, will, before they are aware of it, be drowned in tiieir own cor? ruption with no friends to save tlicra. It is a game of political ledgerdemain t'aat cannot be successfully played. Give us open caudor. We can have some respect for a rascal when he has independence enough to show his true colors, und sufficieut courage to defend them; but the man who wears two faces, whoso soul is too small to feel that he has a right to enjoy his own will, aud who is too sycophantic to express his honest convictions, deserves the reprobation of all honorable men.?Kimjstrec Star. Remarkable Case of Abstinence from Food.?There is a young woman named Mary Fancher, residing at the corner of Gates avenue and Downing street, Brooklyn, who has? it is asserted by her physician, Dr. S. F. Speir, ta? ken no food for eight years. Sh3 is twenty five years of age, bright and intelligent. As1 a girl she was a close applicant to her studies, and was wont to abandon her metils to ponder over her books until the strain upon her intel? lectual and physical strength overcame her. She also sustained injuries' by being thrown from a. horse. Subsequently she fell off a Ful? ton aveuue car, and was dragged along the street for a distance of forty feet by her crino? line catching in the car. She was then afflic? ted by absolute nervous prostration and has since been corffined to her bed. Her legs are twisted and her hands are drawn up behind her head. She sleeps but little, and it is said to be endowed with clairvoyant faculties. She works embroidery in colors with great facility, and has made slippers and smokiug caps with initials worked in them. The doctor is posi? tive that there is no deception in the case, aud has used every effort possible to detect any i sign of imposition, to no purpose. The case has baffled tho skill: of huudreds of physicians who have examined it.?*V. Y. Herald. All Sorts of Paragraphs ? Young ladies' economy?Never throw away a good match. ? Laziness is a good deal like money?the more a man has of it the more he wants. ? Do not run in debt to the shoemaker. It is unpleasant to be unable to say your sole u your own. ? An old bachelor says: "It is all nonsense to pretend that love is blind. I never yet knew a man in love that did not see ten times as much in his sweetheart as I could." ? It is one of the curiosities of natural his? tory that a horse eats best when he has not a bit in his mouth. ? The most general disease that we have ever known is the panic?everybody is afflicted with it. ? Death is as near to the young as to the old. Here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, but before the old man's face. ? The trouble of the Tennessee doctors are greater than they can bear. If the patient re? covers he never pays his doctor's bill, and if he dies his relatives kill the doctor. ? A lady recently applied to a fire insurance company for a position as agent. When asked what her qualifications were she touched her unblushing cheek. ? "I declare, mother," said a pretty little girl in a pretty little way, " 'tis too bad ! You always send me to bed when I am not sleepy, and you always make me get up when I am sleepy." ? Traveling along the sea coast of Florida, a gentleman noting the barrenness of the coun? try, asked a native, "What do you live on here ?" "Live on !" replied the man, "why, we live on fish and strangers." ? The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no man can tell what becomes of his influence and example, that roll away from him and go beyond his ken on their mis? sion. ? At a hotel table one boarder remarked to bis neighbor: "This must be a healthy place for chickens." "Why?" asked the other.? "Because I never see any dead ones herta bouts." ? Prayer is not only request made to God, but converse had with Him. It is the expres? sion of desire to Him so as to purify it, of purpose so as to steady it, of hope so as to brighten it. It is the bringing of one's heart into the sunshine, so that, like a plant, its inward life may thrive for an outward develop? ment. ? The wife of a minister in Tennessee hav? ing been seriously ill for some time, a Southern paper, in announcing the fact, said: "Hopes I are entertained that she will recover." And I then it added, "Let the husband have the sym? pathy and prayers of his brethren in this hour of affliction and discouragement" ? They have a clergyman at Evanston, Illi? nois, who is bound to be popular. At the laying of a corner-stone for a new church re ; cently, he said: "If boys and girls do their sparking at church, I say amen to it. I have a daughter whom I cherish as the apple of my eye. Wheu she is of suitable age I had rather she should be courted in the house of God than in a theatre." ? There was a certain darkey who owned ft pig, and one day he gave him a bucket of mush. Suid the darkey: He eats the whole bucketful of mush, and den I put the darn little cuss in de bucket, and he didn't full it up half full. The question for philosophers to settle is: What became of the mush? ? Kepublican papers find consolation in their recent revefses by calling this the "off year" in politics. Perhaps a good many hon? est republicans have been a little "off-ish" on account of the back pay and other financial sins that have been placed upon the shoulders of the republican party. Hence the results. ? The financial panic, which began like a fever, with alternate hot and cold fits, has set? tled down into a steady ague, mild but inces? sant, which grows a little Detter from week to week, but has weakened the patient a good deal, and will keep him reduced in strength for months to come. ? A Southern exchange thinks it may not be fair to call the following a "fair" Item, but such as it is we reproduce it: "A Stare fair it a queen; an agricultural fair is a farmer's daughter; a church fair is a parson's wife; a soldier's fair is the best looking girl he can get hold of; a charity fair Is a poor but honest wo: man, and the most nnpopularfair is that which is'furnished at cheap boarding houses." ? The following is the latest Kentucky physiological novelty: A mother and two daughters, living about two miles from Franklin, were attacked recently in so singular a manner as to claim the attention of a physician, who attended them all day. They became almost simultaneously delirious, and behaved very strangely?imagining themselves other persons. The most singular thing about the affair is, they did not know each other. They remained in this condition all dav. ? It is related of a Scottish lady in a remote part of the highlands, noted for her profuse liberality, that being sometimes overburdened with habitual "sorners" when any one of them outstaid his welcome she would take occasion to say to him at the morning meal, with an arch look at the rest of the company: "Make a good breakfast, Mr.-, while you're about it; ye dinna ken whaur you'll get your din? ner." The hint was usually taken, and the "sorner" departed. ? At the Tennessee conference of the Meth? odist Church the other day, as the appoint? ments were about to be read, Rev. Fountain E. Pitts, who is known as "the old man eloquent," rose and said that he was now about to receive his fiftieth appointment from the hands of the bishop, "and though the frosts of many years had silvered his head, he was still ready to go to preach wherever the presiding bishop should see fit to send him." ? A short time ago, as one of the passen? ger trains on the South Carolina Railroad was nearing a statiou, known as Adam's Cut, the conductor, as usual, called out the name of the station?"Adam's Cut,"--whereupon rather an elderly passenger of the feminine persuasion, who, from her appearance, had basked in the sunlight of single blessedness for many long and weary years, meekly and innocently in? quired : "Is he cut bad !" The conductor dis? appeared suddenly. Don't Blow Down the Chlmney.?The great majority of the kerosene accidents are undoubtedly caused by carelessness. We are told bv a gentleman who is well informed on the subject that it is exceedingly dangerous to put out the flame of a kerosene lamp by blow? ing down the chimney. The space between the oil and the top of the lamp is filled with ?ras, to which there is great danger of the fire being communicated if a puff of air is forced suddenly down the chimney. While the light may be put out ninety-nine times in this man? ner with impunity, the hundredth may prove fatal. The proper way to extinguish the flame is to turn down the wick very low, and then blow out the small light from below the chim? ney. This advice, if followed, may save many accidents.