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VOL. XXXTI. CAMDEN, 8. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 55, 1873. ' NO. 40.
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Et ROPF.AN OPINIONS UP THE GREAT SOUTIJ- r
ERNER. - t
The following is taken from a recgpt arti- v
ele on Lee in the Edinburgh Br*vie, and is i
descriptive of an interview between General e
Lee and Stonewall Jackson during the bat-- '
tie of Chickahouiiny: "A few minutes more *
and the gallant soldier himself appeared on a
the sceue and rode up to greet Lee. v
o'ieercd by Longstreet's metr, aheady vetcr- c
a is enough in war tQ understand what his a
coming meant Nothing, it has been said, t
* *"" ?-"4 r\f thoGA rri-Anf. soldiers
\fl III ID Ul.71 UIWVUII^ V* ?nvwv
on the battle field could be in more striking
contrast than the appearance and manner ot
the two. Handsome in face and figure, finely
mounted, a graceful rider, calin-visuged, and a
carefully dressed, Lcc presented the beau ^
i leal of the commander whose outward beari
?g captivates the soldier's eye. His famous ^
1 eutenant rode, apparently by choice, an illgroomed,
raw-boned horse, aud set so short- ^
stirruped as to give his figure the most awk- .
ward appearance. Ailsold cadet's cap, evidmtly
a relic of the college professorship he P
had not long sruce left, was drawn down ever
1 II?- -?a ?? ? /\r.U? ttiwoorl.KQrn
DIS eyes. HIS Coal WU out uuiji Hu?in>-n?v
bit ill-brushed y and his words were jerked
out in short, abrupt sentences, between .
which he sucked the leuion whiob was, as
usual, his sole refreshment during his day's
work. Yet each already understood the
o'her, and valued hiua at his true worth.
4 That's a heavy fire down yonder," said ^
Lee, as the Federal gun opened in reply to ^
Jackson's. "Can your men stand it?"?
* They can stand almost anything. The? -0*
can stand that," was the emphatic reply; and "
after a few words of order and explanation,
he left his chief to lead on the attack. This
was decisive, aided as it was by a fresh advance
of the troops before engaged. The rc
Federals were turned, -overmatched and ,u
driven from their position, and before dark ^
the shattered remains of Porter's Division '
were crossing the Chickahominy in hasty ro- .m
treat. Lee's first battle, in foct, was as striking- IS
a success and as well-earned, as any of the more
famous victories in after days which have been ,
so widely studied and so often extolled. ,Nt>
word henceforward froiu his Government of C(.'
%iy want of confidence in his powers, or 1,1
f ar of his overcruvion. From that hour he
b *cajna the moat trusted, as well as the most
- noted General of the Confederacy. As to W{
k:s soldiery, his hardy bearing, free sejf-ex- 10
p isure, and constant presence near" their 7~
nnks, completed the influence gained by In<
that power of combining their force to ad: f',:
vantage, wlpch they instinctively felt with- J 1
out faifr understanding - From mau to man 18
flew 'tEw fiuFy"JT the hour The subtle influonce
of sympathy, which wins many hearts 1
for one, was never more rapidly exercised. ^
Like Napoleon, his troops soon learned to
believe, him eqnal to every emergency that
w<ir oould bring. Like Hannibal, he could
speak lightly and calmly at the.gravest mo- an
meats, being then himself least grave.
#Liko Raglan, he preserved a aweetuess of ?'
temper'that no person or circumstance conld ,c
ruffle. Like Caesar, he mixed with the crowd 1
of soldiery freely, and never feared that his ^
position would he forgotton. Like Blncher. ''
his oue recognized fault was that which the
s ddier readily forgives?a readiness to ex- 1'
pose his life beyond tho proper limits per- ^
mitted by modern war to the commander-in- 10
chief. What wonder, then, if he theuco- w
forward commanded an arnry in which each
man would have died for him; an army from
which his parting wrung tears more bitter
than any the fall of their cause could extort; a(
? . -1?? j t:_ ai
aa army wuicn ioiioweu mm, unci
years of glorious vicissitudes, into private ^
life, without one^ thought of further resist- dl
anco against the fate to which their adored a
chiefytelded without a murmur." at
The London Stgrulard, in the course of ^
an article upon this critique* pays the following
truthful and eloquent tribute to the 'j
great captain. It says :
"lie nad lost fortune a?d home in the .
war, by pillage and wanton destruction ; he
was proscribed; he declined to draw ven- (j
geance on his State by taking part in her w
p ifltics. The commander-in-chief of a national ,(]
arifly condescended to the control of a uiili- ^
t iry school, and to a life of silence and obg;urity.
But all Southern eyes were fixed a.
On him, and his influence was used to keep
them calm and patient, and to attach them j
" t> the Union which had conquered and was ^
crush iug them. Evfcn while their wrongs
aud miseries were wearing out his life he
checked every utterance of resentment, every
expression of hope for a future deliverance.
' We are all Americans now." lie would ^
allow no toasts to the Lost Cause, no honors |
to the fallen banner. He bore his burden '
with*fliuiplo, unaffected, patient heroism.
Other men may have approached him in r
war and achievement; none capable of deeds
like his* ever rivalled him in endurance and
submission under hopeless defeat. A Cato
would have fallen on his sword ; a Bftitus 0
might have conspired; Hannibal endured 1
oylv in the hope of revenge aud retrieval.
But General Lee not only endured, but sub-11
Uiitted. aud that without suffering his eoun- j t
try to entertain even the wish to renew the j
struggle. He had to endure for some weary '
years, and then the release. The overw rought j
nerves suddenly gave way; he sank at once
uplf.nomession and apparent
MiVUI pvi iwv v,.. 1
health into collapse and speechlessness, and
died as literally "of a broken heart" as ever
despairing patriot or defeated soldier?more
truly far than most "broken hearted"
victims of private grief. So he passed away
from the country he could neither save by
his sword nor restore to happiness by his
counsels, but which he had" crowned with
glory in war. and rescued in defeat from
useless struggles and deeper misery, lie
has left behind him no rival < f her love, no
object of equal pride and reverence. Nor
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s his fame confined to the South. Wherever
he English tongue is spoken his nauic is
evered and honored?a name to which hisory
furnishes few equal* in military renown,
lone' in moral grandeur; the name of one
rho realized in actual' life the dfeams of
deal chivalry?so great in victory that none
ivor surpassed, so much greater in defeat
hat none ever approached him; the patriot
eithout a thought of self, the hero without
i shade of affectation or display; the man who
rould neither despair of his country nor
onspi'ro against her conquerors; ideal soldier
nd perfect Citizen; a Christian without preensions
and a gentleman without flaw.
The Richmond Duel.
Our able cotempcrary, the Augusta Chron
cle and Sentinel thus comments upon this
ragcdy. ,
"We cannot see that the custom?no mat- j
;r whence in came or by whom practiced? ]
dmitsof any defense. It-is a violattiou alike of <
ae laws of God, tho laws of man and the i
iws of common sense. * It is powerless to re- i
air a wrong, or to redress an affront. It is ]
ot a test of manliness or courage, and it is
ie worst species of murder because of the i
>olness and the deliberation which^cnter I
ito the offence. Its adroeates usually say- i
i its behalf that it prevents th disgracefnle i
:encs which accompany street rencontres, <
id that it also docs away with brute force, (
ad places the strong and the weak upon the 1
tme level. Wherein consists the difference t
etwoen a street fight and a duel, save in j
ivor of the foruiar, we are unable to dis- \
)vcr. If it bo a worse spectaclo to witness \
10 man assault another upori the sidewalk t
ad pommel bis body on account* of a real or
incied Wroug until the police or the by- c
anders interfere'than for the same men to r
ipair to some notorious place of ' meeting," |
id?in the presence of a hundred gaping t
>ectntors. shoot at each other until one or a
)th fall wounded or dead, then this defense ?
ay amount to something. The other plea [
equally as absurd: It does not place all t
en upon the same level; but, on the con- t
ary, places the novice entirely at the mercy 0
the expert in murder. With regard to the r
arago which the duelist is supposed to re- c
lire, it has often been remarked that in a
me of the most.desperate meetings one or 0
>th of the combatants were cowards, and t
? venturo to assert that fear-amoral a
ward ice?dread of the worhfs opinion? a
-has caused more duels than desire to avenge s
juries or heal wounded honor. The his- a
ry of dueling, for instance, shows us t!
at nfne out often invitations to tho field* ii
ivo been sent for causes. the most trivial, u
d that bm Imre of teir.enilamd i?
es a hasty word, a contemptuous gesture, ^
, as has been frequently tho'case, received f
eir death wound from some one who had d
it upon them a rdhl or iti^gincd affront, c
le folly of this modern substitute for the ti
cient ordeal of battle is abundantly testified
by the fact that the injure?! party is as of- 0
n the sufferer as the injurcr. It is a prac- ti
:e which can settle no pointxif honor, for Sl
e parties remain in the sume position af- a
r as they did bolcrre the combat. Take tl
o Richmond affair?it is a typical duel of f
e age. McCarty publishes, anonymously. "
pDor and pointless epigram, which was sup- p
?ed to refer to a reigning belle. The mat- <'
r is discussed at a dub room, and Mordecai, '
ithout knowing the'author, impulsively as- v
rts that if the piece was intended to bring, s
ie lady into ridicule its writer was not a u
mtleman. The author discloses his indentity c
id u quarrel ensues, which is finally lamely v
ranged. A few days after the parties c
eet again, and a contemptuous accent?a s
rawling, sneering intonation brings about r
collision and then a duol, in which the ?
rgressor was only slightly wounded, while i
ie aggrcived party is slaitf. Because Mc- <
arty wrote bad verses and drawled his r
loecb insultingly, one man is killed and an- ?
Jier is to risk the gallows in a trial for mur- t
er! Was there any logic in this ? Did the ?
ijured party reoeive satisfaction along with (
ball in his stomach '( W e think not. Is
ie casus belli?tho wretched doggerel? ?*
orth two human lives and tho shame and '
Aguish of perhaps a dozeu hitherto happy
unities ? <
There can bo no dcfeusc of this foolish <
nd wicked custom, and tho sooner a 1
ealthy public sentiment combines with the '
iw to exterminate it root and branch, the 1
ettcr it will be for society and for the coun: 1
7- ... 1
A Pregnant Paragraph.?The picture
resented by the following paragraph from
he late Governor Moses of south Carolina,
< photographic in its fidelity, as depicting
he blessings of carpet-bag rule and Inderal
e-const ruction.
fLe thus addresses the assembled Leg is-1
aturc?three-fourths of whom are negroes:
"You have entered upon the sixth session
if the General Assembly since the estabjisliuentof
free government in South Carolina.'*
Govornor Moses proceeds to enumerate
lie fruits which a carpet-bag scalawag free
j6vcrnnient has brought to the people:
"Yet the face of the emigrant is turned
iway from our State, nnd capital, which
icts labor in -motion and creates the manufactures
which contribute to the comfort
md clevntion ol' man, ihrinki backfironi im
us if th> sxi/h of pestilence were broken and
I he riot? emptied out upon this In out ifvl
loud ofimrs. llcnoe nearly tjihkk folrtius
uf our ruff territorial area. rfnifainintjjiof
few thou thirty-sir thousand square miles. tic
follow to dot/."
Comment is superfluous. "Oh Lord how
lony ?"?Savannah Republican.
A yirl declared that it she could clwose
her mode of death, she tfould prefer In my
mothered?with kisses. i
The Meannesses of Respectability.
Everybody, it has been remarked, has a
pet virtuve or a pet vice, and it may almost
more truly be said that everybody has a pet
mean new*. The meannesses of4 respectability
arc of all kinds and degrees. They vary
of course with different people. Some can
never scltlc with a cabman without a desperate
Btuggle over the odd sixpence, and a
rankling sense of injury and ruin if the
obdurate Jehu happens to get the better of
them; Others are dismayed if they arc unexpectedly
caught at church when the offeitory
bags arc set round. With, others, again, j
the weak point is perhaps stationary, or some i
other cheap article for household use ; they
can never brine them selves to make a bold
investment of a lew shillings' worth at a
time, but go on from band to mouth with
pretty purchases which may have an econominppcaranco
in detail, although they are
pretty sure to prove more oxtravagant in the
1 ?J? mi
long run than a larger oruer. luan wc
sven rutnors thafca raid upou club paper is
not absolutely unknown. We wondet bow
many people ever thiuk of buying a few new
pens.
There seems to be a supertitious notion
tuiong a large class that pens never wear out;
bey must be handed down in families almost
as if they were articles of great cost
ind rarity. Blottiugpaper, too,, is apt to be
herished as an object of extravagant luxury,
>vcr wbieh persons of moderate means are
>ound to be very careful. People who
hink nothing of going to considerable cxlense
for a dinner or a trip to the country,
vill go on for months painfully economizing
vith a few wretched blackened leaves rather
han spend sixponce on a fresh supply.
The old system of franklinkg letters proluced
a characteristic development of meanices.
The shifts and contrivances to which
>coplc used to resort to procure a frank ;
he labor, and sometimes even, as it would
ippcar, the expense, to which they put themelves
to get at some oue who bad it iu his
tower to confer tho coveted favor; the inrigues,
entreaties, supplications to which
hey stooped, are almost incredible. It is
illy fair, of course, to rouiember that the
ates of postage were enoruiflusly high as
ompared with the rates of the present day,
ud also tfiat eightecn-pcnce or a couple
f shillings was then a relatively large sum
han now. Yet, after making every allownce
on this account, it is amazing that perons
who were not in pinohed circumstances
hould have thought it worth while to hunt
frank, valued at perhaps two shillings or
hereabouts, with such kccnucss and unblushug
mendicancy. It was a fashionable
leanness, and every body practised it. It
rmftsi generation how'the getting ot
rrtfck, or a fruitless pursuit of oue, was
ccined quite'important enough to be rcorded,
and Row frequently the incident
urns up. %'
The parallel to this morbid passion in our
* * * 1 - ?Af/Inru fnr
\vn day is pernaps wic mum* im viUu. ....
lie play. M. Tainc has remarked with
omo astonishment in his recent letters that
musements nf this kind fortn "a small itenr in
lie expenses of an English middle-class
:imily, and that it is thought a necessary
conoiny to go to the theatre only when free
asses can be procured, Managers, actors,
rania'tic critics, newspaper editors, whose
rhose pockets arc supposed to be s tufled
nth orders, are iuij?ortuued recklessly and
hamclessly, in order that well-to-do people
nay be provided gratuitously with what they
ould themselves purchase for a few shillings
rhenever they chose. During a discussion
>f.the subject a year or two since, it Whs
tatcd that managers and actors frequently
ceeive letters from persons who are entire
trangers to them, expressing a desire to witless
their performances, and beggipg for orlers.
Perhaps the lowest depth of ineanicss
to which respectability descends is in
(coking medical attendance at the hospitals,
hus abusing the charity of the institutions
ind defrauding tlie poor, whose places they
iccupy.
At a recent Poor Law Conference, it was
issertcd that cases were kuown in which
espcctable householders had disguised themselves
as servants iu order to procure gratui;ous
advice and medicine ;-aud.evoii without
Jisguise, people in comfortable circumstances
? -i* a.
lot unfrequcntly avail themselves 01 uiu
hospitals rather than cull in a doctur to attend
them. This, however, is not merely a
meanness, but an act of dishonesty, and it is 1
a pity there is no means of punishing it as it
deserves. Reasonable economy is always
respectable in small things as in jrrcat, but
the meannesses of which we have been speaking
are at the best but bastard economies,
and serve not uufrequeutly as an excuse for
extravagance in other wrys. Wasteful people
often have fits of pretty parsimony, and
will squander a pound with great equanimity
on the strcnth ot tho supposed virtue and
self-denial which has heen exercised in some
shabby trick for snvingsixpeBcc.? Th> Saturihii/
Jirvtnn.
I Snnl< wlm kill.
I I OltRIliliK IJKA1II. ku.
cd Noah Mutton, both white ineir, in'Marion
County, in February Inst, was hanged, yesterday.
The two liieu were employed as Hat
hands on the I'eeJJee Kivcr, and the testimony
was that all hands on board had been
freely drinking. Souls, drawing a pistol, under
drunken excitement, discharged it towards
a house on the river bank. Sutton
remonstrated with him against his action,
being less reckless or more sober than his
companion, who, provoked-at the interference,
tired upon Suttmi, killing hiir. instantly,
j The murderer was promptly arrested and
brought to trial at ouec beforefhe court thou
in hw-.-iou, convicted and sentenced to be
hung on the 1 lith of Uio present month, lie
wa-v however, re.-jiiled until the 2'ld. by the
(iovernor of the State, when the sentence of
the court was duly put into execution. In
appearing upon the fallows he presented a
thin and worn look, with indications that
life could not be long spared him even if the
gallows was cheat of its prey own statement
of the affair was that ho was drunk and
could not remember committing the act.
On ihe scaffold he expressed pcnitenco, repentance
and the.hope of eternal salvation.
At fifteen minutes past 1 o'clock, the drop
fell, and then ensued a harrowing and distressing
scene. Ilis neck was not broken
by the fail, and ho died from a slow and
painful strangulation or appoplexy. Ilis
breathing was loud and hoarse, like a person
suorihg, and his body, in excess of torture,
was swayed and SV/ung frightfully to and
for through a space of several feet. It
was dreadful to witness. His more violent
struggles conti^Hjeij for fully six minutes,
and there were evidences of life for eleven
minutes. There was a large. concourse
present, probably 1,500 people, all told.
[ WUilfSiirjton Journalt 24th nit.
m ^mTTD VvADA TKa rlnO.
I JL 11 K l1 UXUUA uir in*, iir-uttv. mo uv.r
[ tiny of the negro in tho United States is
written. His race grows in idleness and
Unproductiveness each year as the old plantation
negroes, industrious by habit, arc removed
by death. It is notorious that the
freeduaan's children do not equal their
parent's work. It- is notorious that they are
not prolific. The percentage of mulattoes
increases continually, and mulattoes, as a
sort of hybrid, are at once unfecund and of .
weak and unhealthy const itutions, particularly
subject to strumous affections and to diseases
of tho Jungs. Pneumonia is- a very
frequent and fatal disease among them.
Meantime, wbilo so large a percentage of
the negroes go to the cities and towns, there
is a secular movement of the t^hole race,
slow but sure, toward tho more tropical parts
of ourcountry. This movement is not
developed in the figures in the ninth census,
because there has not been time yet for the
disturbing influences of the war to subside.
Thus no one camdoubt for a moment that it
is due to abnormal circumstances that- the
negro population of Kansas should have increased
2,623.55 per cent., in the last ten .
years; that of Iowa 439.01 per oent. It is :
aJ& palpably abnormal for Florida to have
gaihed 46.29 per cent., Tennessee 13.89 per i
cent., and Texas 38 57 per cent Nevertheless,
the census reveals to us the beginning
of the drift showing also which way it has
set. The average gain of the country has <
been 9.21 per cent. Hut Delaware has only '
gained 5.40 percent., Maryland only 2.49 1
per cent.; Kentucky has lost 5.91 per cent., 1
Missouri has lost 0.3(1 per cent., w*^rhavc
passed aWiiy^beibro the habitat of our p
negroes?barring a few unhappy barbers <
and whit^-washers and washer-women still. '
about our cities, and possibly a Radical mem- j
her or two of Congress?will be bounded ?
by the same isothermal lines that bound the
habitat of the alligator. In the swamps and '
bayous of the regions bordering on the Gulf, <
wherever there is dry sand enough for a }
sweet potato patch and water enough to '
float a dug out, the lost remnants of the '
race, which cost tlis nation 850,000 lives, 1
$4,000,000,000 of treasure and flic best 1
hulf of our Constitution, will still flourish }
and run wild for centuries. I
yeio York World. *
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The Last Horn-Books. t
Nowadays, when everything small and J
great, from a pianoforte down to a dust-p".u, (
must havo won a medal, or must at the t
very least have ben approved at some c
Kxhibition or other,we wonder that no in- (
ventivc genius has j yet started a compe f
titk>n in school book; the prizes to bo awarded,
after the mannc of donkey-races, to the ^
competitors who stad lowest on the list? t
those who have manged to cram mo.^t blun- ,,
ders into the smaljles compass.
* * . * * * * * T
A great authoify on education onco J
wrote, what ever wise man has often o
thought, that "Leaiing to read is the most
difficult of all buian attainments." Ana
yet this difficulty must be overcome when
the mind is .you^ and tender, and more
inclined to shirk ay task that iH hard to s
learn than to graple with it. Indeed it ^
seems to be the yong shoots only that have v
life and elasticit enough to make so o
tremendous an off t. Not jnany men who t
try to learn to rea after they arc full grown t
ever make imch f it, the Ettrick Shephord a
and a few otfor notable examples only ex- n
ceptcd. But though a child's mind may (j
escape beingcrehed into utter imbecility t
by this first lariing to read, it runs great li
risk of beiajgrbvously warped and injured r
by an injud'iois teacher or a stupid system. I
Surely, the, thi great aim of all elementary v
education ji\ht to ho to make this terrible fi
first step as ami as attractive as may n
be. It stand cn record of that terribly (
superior wonn, Snsuirnah Wesley, tliat as n
soon as each children reached tho mature a
age of Sycarsiomado it taste the wormwood t
draught of jil in all its bitterness. She h
herself held e cup to its lips on the day a
that its sixthenr began. The education of h
%. ? . ?, t
the wretehcdttJc victim was ocgun by re- u
miring it toaster ilic first verses of the 1?
First Book o Moses. through which it was i:
nfterwards ivon day by day. Had tliosc n
children bee any other than tho Wesley's
such .an or?l must either have reduced
them to hoiiss imbecility, or made them
hate not onljhc Book of Genesis, but all oth li
or things beng the name of'a book, for tho I
i whole term choir natural life. But such n
strong-iiiinJ< parents' arc now few and far li
between, ancny littlo Primer that aspires o
i to popiilarityust present itself under some 1
such scduct-ivctitlo as the "Royal Road to
Reading," or "Reading without Tears," and
must moreover hang out many baits in the
way of pictures and gilt covers designed to
lure little scholars unawares into the hard i
path that leads to wisdom.
Every one, from Plato to Mrs. Malaprop,
has had .his or her say about' that much
worried subject, education. Nowadays it
almost seems as if every one hadlakeb into i
his head, or rather his fingers, to write
about it too, so constant is the showor of ,
little volumes under the guise of school
books which the press rain9 down upon us.
Tint nmnrior them *nll it is ftmAzine> how fnw
"n -"v? ?? ?o
can hit a rational plan of teaching reading.
They all seem to be in league together to |
make the first sight of the Tree of Know- <
ledge unpleasant to the eyes, and the first |
taste of its fruit as bitter to tire taste as may
be. Their writers clearly cannot grasp the
idea that the threefold aim of all primary 1
education ought to be, first, to snow the '
learner how to learn ; secondly, to make him 1
so relish what he has learnt that be may
long for more; thirdly, to mark every day
by teaching something that is new, but
nothing but what is true. No knowledge (
gained in later years ever sticks so fast in
the memory as the seed first sown there.
The writers of Primers then have it all their 1
own way. Tluj field lies fallow. There are 1
no-stumps of error as yet to be rooted out. '
They may sow in it what they will. But if
tlwy will sow tares, from whence can it' (
bear good seed ? Alas! that they should j
chiefly find delight in sowing tares. Our
iVeto Code Progressive Readers and Royal j
Readers. are no whit better than their t
fellows. They follow the lead of those who
have gone astray before them, and, if
we had our way, would with them be-forth- 1
with born away into obscurity among "our \
failures," their sins being on the very i
first page. In No. 1. of each series we find c
the same stumbling-block set in the way of
the young beginner. Both start off with .
that array of signs commonly called the 1
alphabet, bearing names that- have no con- *
nezion whatever with their sounds when ?
joined together into words. Now to learn 8
the alphabet may be all very right and a
proper for pupils who aspire only to reaching
the standard of learniug which Sir j
Anthony Absolute deemed desirable in v
woman?to wit, that she should know her ^
letters well enough to mark his liuen, but
on no account so as to be able to combine ^
thcui into words. For any one who looks t
to getting bayond this it is merely clogging
the memory with a quantity of useless stuff.
But we aro in advance of this, for do we c
not contrive to make a woe attendant on a
jTery single*.letter of the alphabet? Can p
jiiv i'<ii"?iiAn sense, it must feel that such a
statement is untrue, though it may not have
the courage to say so. CAT must remain jj
\re-a-tcc till the end of time, and it would bo
just as rational to affirm that it spells jwss, S
>r Jim, or dog, as to insist that it^pelis cat. ,
The phonetic system of teaching reading
s of course thq only rational ono. Instead >f
overstraining and overloading the memory f(
vith arbitrary decrees that such letters spell g
such and such words, it brings the reason- g
ng powers into play from the very first. 8(
Uy it the child learns the true sounds of the B;
,'owcls, and then the force of the consonant#
vhen in combination with the vowels. It
inds out that some of the oonsonants are C
lentals, some gutturals, and so on. At tl
ast it begins to put together these sounds, b
vhich it now knows by sight, and fiqds that k
hey make some word already familiar to h
tscar. Thus each renewed efforts is reward- d
td by the delight of a discovery. If the *
lay ever comes when the world shall awake b
o consciousness of the fact that nothing 84
lught to be taught but what is absolutely
rue, the first step towards carryiug out the ^
eform that must follow will be to sweep n
emorsclessly from our nurseries all the .
loies of letters and picture alphabets. A r
1> ?:?i i A- 11
iic aituvi uuu xj tuu uuiuuur win nave to \
'move oil" with their fellowa; the children S
rill soon find out that A and B, as they ?'
ironouuee them, have justas little natural r?
onnexion with either of these worthless as
ne and two have "buckle my shoe."
Saturday Review.
c<
A Curious Story.?The Fate of States C
cem to hang upon a very slender thread in tl
Washington?in confirmation wheroof a e:
ery curious story, related by a correspondent
f the New York World, in connection with bi
he mission of General Dick Taylor last Win- ti
er. is beiner frcclv circulated, and from the is
uthority on which it rests is received with cc
nuch credence. It will be remembered that it
icneral Taylor had several interviews with
he President on Louisana matters, and that tl
ic expressed himself as encouraged by the o(
esult* The statement now made is that d<
iencral Taylor's account of the situation w
ras, by the President's request, repeated be- ti
ore the Cabinet; that it produced such an fr
uipression that it was determined that the ti
iovernmcnt hud no alternative but to reeog- cc
ir.c McKncry; that the President prepared tt
message to Congress announcing this fact; sr
hat Senator Morton hearing of it, immediate- pi
j went to the White Houso and protested ti
gainst any such action, and as the result of
is persuasion the President changed his pi
iiessage and determined to adhere to Keh t>
>g. J lie evidence in lavor ol tins Btatoment lo
j such that it would seem as if some official tl
otice must be tal^on of it. Ci
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lissinnary in Africa. He is the father-in- tl
iw of Dr. David Livingstone, the African cs
xpiorcr, and has labored fifty years in tho fa
icart of Africa. . cn
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OUR OmP-BASZE^
Parental Acrea?The old man's corns. '
The Indiau Question?'-White man got
any ram 1"
"Now way to pay old <lebto"^Settle them
in full. ' *
A Western Setter?The snn in tire evening.
The Shortest Ship in the World?Courtship.
Why is your shadow like a false friend ?
Because it follows you only in sunshine.
We hear a great deal about labor reform,
but there seems to be a greater need of reforming
some of those fellows who don't labor.
An Iowa Justice of the Peace refused to
fine a man for kissing a girl against her will,
an the graund that Hannah could have bitten
him. but did not.
One of Josh Billings' maxima is, "Rise
sarly, work hard and late, and give nothing
iway, and if you don't getrieh-and go to the
trnn mew ana mu fnv ^amnona
iuTil) JrUiA m**j puv uiv *VI uuuioggo.
Many a troth is like a wolf which we hold
jy the ears, afraid to let it escape, and hardy
able to retaiu it; yet if promulgated, it'
night prove Injurious.
"Men are what women make Them," is
he singular tile of a new book. It may
>6 true, but we have seen some dreadfully #
)oor specimens of the manufactured -article,
vhich fact reflects badly either upon* the
naterial or the maker.
One watch set right will do to try many
>y; but, on the other hand, obe that goes
rroiig may be the means of misleading a whole
mighborhood. And the same may be said
>f an example.
A saloon-keeper having started business
n a building where trunks had been manuacturod,
asked a friend what he had better
lo with the old sign, "Trunk Factory." "O,"
aid the friend, "just change the T to D,
,nd it wiH suit you exactly."
It is said that an Indiana peacher declared
n a recent sermon that "no woman who
rears falso hair is a fit person to sit In the
louse of the Lord.". But as all the women
n his congregation wore jute instead of
alse hair, they thought he was going fer
he women of the otner church.
Not long ago, in the court of appeals, a
ertain lawyer, of Celtic extraction, while
rguing frith earnestness his case, stated a .
point and then preceded: " And if it plate the ,
in ii r i *We. I hsua annthir L- . .
PQint that is equally conclusive.
A section of plastering about the sice oft
ied-qailt, fell on the beads of a group of
Tennessee Senators who ooonpicA seats toother
in a Nashville theatre (he other night,
'he frightened legislators thonght an invesigation
was at hand. ' *
A bachelor says that ''all" he should ask
)r in a wife would be a good temper, health,
ood understanding, agreeable physiognomy,
gure, good connection, domestic habits, r$Durces
of amassment, good*Spirits, Conneritional
talents, elegant manners?money 1
The occupants of a drinking saloon in
!ape Girardeau, Mo, were startled lately by
ie entrance of the vrifo of one of them,
earing ar'covered dish. Placing it on the
ible, with the remark that she supposed he
ad not time to come borne to dinner, she
eparted.' He removed the lid, and fonnd
slip of paper, on which was written; "I
opo von will enjoy your dinner; it is the
ime kind yonr family has at home."
"Mr. Speaker," exclaimed a member of
ie Arkansas Legislature, "my colleage taunts
ie with a desire for fame. I scorn the
nputation, sir. Fame, sir 1 What is fame ?
t-is a shared pig with a greased tail, which
ips throuh the hands of thousands, and
ad then is accidentally caught by'some fel w
that happens to hold on to it. I let this
reascd-tail quadruped go by me without an .
fort to clntch it, sir. '
Why Keroswk Lamps Explode.?A
^respondent at Port Penn. DeL, in NeV
astle Hundred, on Monday night, sends lis
n tt A* f ? -
le iouowing suggestions in.regard to tne
tplosion of coal oil lamps. He says:
When lamps are filled they cannot explode;
at when partially filled, if not screwed
ght, the space inside the lamp over the oil
filled with what is called "fire damp" in
>al mines, vis: air and vapor ofooal oil or
s gas.
It is very remarkable that accidents with
lebcst coal oil do not, more frequently
>cur, especially when the flame is blown *
)wn the chimney in extinguishing a lamp
hich has been burning all night?and oar
cularly if during the evening it burned
eely and created a vacuum or space above
to oil, which was heated and suosequontly
>olcd during the night when the lamp was
irned down and loft to burn with a very
nail flame. It is manifest that the higher
riccd oil ia more apt to explode tinder
icmj uui uuiaiucca.
The barner should be screwed down
irfectly tight, and the wick should fill the
ibe; moreover, be trimmed nvry day, and
wered before the lamp is blown out. An*
iracite coal stovo will explode, or any oth
fuel, upon throwing saiui or dust on top 1 *1
' a fire when frtriy burning, so that the gas
' product of combustion bo fercod into
te ash-pit. Every one is familiar with the
lustration in whnt are called "air tight
uvea," nnd no anxiety is necessary in using
iosc or coal oil lamps, if we reoognixe the x
lusc of accident, and do not depend on a
lse socuity in the use of what are vulgarly
tiled non-explosive oils.