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SHERIDAN & SIMS, Proprietors. SUBSCRIPTION. Quo Year...r.i......Sl.?O Six Months..1.00 Ministers of tho Qospel.1.00 < AI)VKKTISKMKNTS. First Instertion.?1.00 ? Kach Subsequent Insertion...5Q Liberal contracts made lbr 3 mouth nnd over. j ob aF^io^ IS I'HpiyvpjEn, TO VOlAJ.\. lf.JNPSpF . ..." ..: " ' . . ' , Jql) _I?rin.tin^ Esculapius, and Sohool rVbrni. Editor Qrangeburg Democrat: ? Jn a previous communication I ro feVrcd to a class of teachers who stand in the way of progress, and mado allusion, parenthetically, to the incompeloncy of woman lor this vo cation. This seems, and vory natur ally, to have aroused the indignation of many of those charged iu that opinion. ??School JMarm" essayed a reply in which she affects to abhor the idea of being put in, the category of newspa per polemics; and as to the imperti nent coxcomb who, quite oblivious of hia obligation to woman, darpsto as sert an opinion, Especially when it approaches so near that truthfulness by whose beauty one woman was "struck" and by whoso plainnccs many have been offended?-"why, she doesn't wish to Know him, have noth ing to say to him, ?S;c." This I rele gate to her for her especial delecta tion as being irrelevant to the sub ject. Again sho seeks to divert at tention from the main issue by at tempting to ridicule Esculapius in her allusions to tho "perfectibility" of his knowledge, his thorough com petency to decide such momentous issues, and her fear of having her ??edge forever blunted, dulled hope lessly." This sort of quibble may do for some, but sensible peoplo prefer facts, or argument based on facts. It is only to correct an error in the construction of my article and lo an swer some direct enquiries that I agajn call attention to this subject. "Will Esculapius kindly furnish us wifh a list of the qualifications pre requisite in a first-class teacher?" Ol course he will, and commend them to your study. They are : first, intellectual capa bility ; second, moral character and moral influence' third, power of im parting information ; fourth, execu tive talent or power to maintain dis cipline. No three will make a com petent teacher. These four elements -are essential--m tho make up of a good teacher as four quarters arc to the completion of a whole. Let all be piesent and ability to teach will be unquestioned ; let one be lacking, and incompcteucy is npparont. Wo man is intellectually capable. When wo come to the moral element, I dot! my cap to woman, yielding to none in paying her due honor for her de votion to morals. In devotion to virtue and moral rectitude she is in "beings endless chain" the brightest emanation from Diety. But how about the other elements. The fac ulty of imparting information is a rare gift, and not an tcpiir ed talent; hence, slightly changing Horace's oft quoted line, we might say: Praeccplor nascitur non Jit. Woman arrives at conclusions more by perception than by rellcction, hence she evinces tact, but not pro fundity, and the piofound and philo sophic thinker can in every case make the closest demonstrations ol any problem. A man may Lave wis dom and knowledge, but if he is lacking in tho power to impart the same to others, he is no teacher. Not less important is the power to maintain discipline. Woman cer tainly lacks this element, hence I as sert her incompetency. None can question the fact. Experience is con clusive. Ab origine, it was not given to vornan to govern. Man was or dained the head of the woman and the family?.-the author and the ad ministrator. Uuquestionally God in Nature ordained it so. This is hu man instinct, hence the smallest child seems aware of- the fact. I know of many worthy ladies who would be honored by an extensive patronage if?as the pareuts say? they could manage. I have iq mind at this writing two largo and d?serv? edly popular schools where ladies teach as assistants and it is fair to presume that they arc not wanting the elements of a good teacher, save tho power to govern; for if the principals be removed, the schools immediately go down. Here they arc practically ajudged incompetent. Without the power to maintain dis cipline they arc most assuredly unfit for the primary schools ; for it is here that wc want the very best teachers. Tho majority of our youths step from these into actual life. On tho importance of securing the best teachers for the primary schools, I quote below from an editorial in the Times, presumably from the pen of Mr. S. H. Mcllichamp, whoso large cx porienco and acknowledged ability as a practical educator cntillo bis views to peculiar respect, "It is a great mistake to suppose that ordinary teachers will do for tho primary schools, and that wo pnly want our best teachers for the higher Softools and colleges. The fact is tho rpverse of this opinion would be nearer the truth. ? * * The education of tho boy improperly taught in tho pri mary schools Is apt Q,luays to be defi cient." (italics arc mine.) The editor of the Educational Col umn in your paper maintains this view. Our honored School Commis sioner is pressing it upon the atten tion ol all concerned. From every quarter comes up the cry of our great need of efficient toachers, This is what I want to see supplied. I^pt no one, who is not qualified, to teach in a high grade school, prcaume to teach the primary. This applies to male and female teachers. "School Marm" errs in undeistanding roe to restrict the maxim "poor pay, poor preach" to females, I trust I have made my position clear. I am sure it is right, and I believe I speak the opinions of the people. I noticed an article from "Trustee," it made no argument, and I deemed it unnecessary for mo to reply. 1 thought "some one of the female teachers" would, He says in sub stance that very ordinary teachers will "do for our piney woods' schools" and the females arc just such as we want. I reckon he meant to help them. Esculapius, A Story Teller Vanquished. "When I was a young man," said Col. B., we lived in Illinois. The farm bad been well, wooded, and tho stumps were pretty thick. But we put the co: n in among them, and managed to raise a fair crop. Tho season I did my share of the plowing. We had a 'sulky' plow, and I sat in scat and managed the horses, four as handsome bays cs a man evor drew rein over. Ono day I found a stump right in my way. I hated to back out so I just said a word to the team, and you'll believe it, they just walked that plow right through that stump as though it had been cheese." Not a soul expressed surprise. But MaJ. S,, j who had been a quiet listcner,rcmark cd quietly : "It's curioJs, but I had a similar exporienoo myself once. My mother always made our clothes in those days, as well as the cloth they were made of. The old lady was aw. fully proud of her homespun?-said it was tho strongest cloth in tho State. One day I hail just plowed through a white oak stump in tho way you spenk of, colonel. But it came togeth er before I was out of tho way, and nipped tho sent of iry trousers. I felt mean, I can tell you, but I put the string on the ponies, and, if you'll believe it, they just snaked that slump out roots and all. Something had ?.o givo, you know, Seasonable Advice, A metropolitan paper commenting on the fact that the greater number of people to be seen at the seaside and popular resorts are ladies and very young men, while tho husbands and fathers remain at their drudgory in the city in order to earn tho mon* cy necessary for their families' indul gence, reads tho parents a lecture on the subject, and remajks: Do not struggle to give your children a for tune, or to push them into a higher circle of society than your own. Give them the best education you cun, but givo yourself ono also. Take a part of each day, week| and year to remember that you, too, I are a man and not a more money-ma ker. Study some language or sci ence. Leave tho farm or shop occa sionally. Broaden your mind by friction with men. Go to tho cities, to California, to Europe. Of course it will cost money. Dress, eat, fur nish your house more simply ; your sons and daughters will be better men and women for such simplicity. W?f. Sawyer, aged seventeen, and Maggie llaggcrt, aged fifteen, eloped together from Gloversville, N. Y., some time ago, and wcro chased twenty-four hours by her father and an officer, whom they eluded and were married. Last Saturday tho bride was sentenced to tho Western houso of refuge by a Utica magistrate, on tho complaint of tier husband that sho was a vagrant, having no msans of support. For Boys to Remember. A, gentleman advertised for a boy to assist him in his ofH.cc, and nearly fifty applicants presented themselves. Out of the whole number he in a short Lime selected one and dismissed the rest. "I should like to know," said a friend, l*on what ground you selected that boy, who had not a single re commendation P" '?You are mini?ken, my friend," was tho reply ; "ho had a great many, and if you ca.ro to iistcu (J will crjqm erato iv few qf tliem. lie wiped Iiis feet when bo camo in and closed the door after him, thereby showing that ho is careful. He instantly gave up Iiis seat to un old man who is lame, showing that ho is kind and thought ful. He took ofT Iiis cap when he oamc in, ami answered my questions promptly and respcclfulty, showing tliat he is polite and gentlemanly. He picked up the book that I had purposely laid on tho Ho or and re placed it upon the table, while all tiic rest either stepped over it or shoved it aside; and ho wailed quietly for his turn, instead of pushing or crowd ing, which evincos an honest, an or derly disposition. When I talked with him I noticed that his clothes were cleanly brushed, his hair in nice order, and smoothly brushed, and his teeth as while as milk, and when lie Wrote his name I also noticed that his finger na'ls were clean, instead of being tipped with jet like that hand some little fellow's in the bluejacket. Don't you term those things letters of recommendation? I do, and I would give more for what I can tell about a boy by using my eyes for ten minutes than all the line letters you can bring mo." Josh Billingisms. If a young man hain't got a well balanced bead i like to sec him part his hair in the middle I don't take any foolish chances. If i wuz called upon to mourn over a dead mule i should stnud in front of him and do mi weeping. There is no man so poor but what he kan afford to keep one dog, and i have seen them 90 poor that they could afford to keep three. I say 2 thirds of the ritch people in this World make the most of your money, for it makes the most of you. Happy thought. I never argy agin a success; when i sec a raltlcsnaik's head slicking out of his hole, i bear off to the left and say to myself that hole belongs to that snaik. Tharc is one thing in Ibis world that money kant buy, and that is the wag of a dog's tail. b'lattery is like colone water ; to be swelled of, not swallowed. Didn't Believe in Advertising. The I'iedinont Ntws gives the fol lowing ; A merchant of Culpeppcr was protesting a day or two since, that advertising benefitted nobody but newspaper publishers; money paid for advertisements was thrown away ; nobody read them. We offer ed to insert, in the most remote cor ner of tbo paper ho might select, an advertisement offering $\.bO a bushel for wheat, provided ho would make the offer good to those who might read the advertisement aud call on him. And do you think he would do it? Rot a bit of it. And this is tho way with most men who denounce ad vertising. When asked to test the matter as to whether or not advertise ments are read, they always decline, thereby showing what little faitli they bavo iu their own works, and tacitly acknowledging the great power of the press as an advertising medium. Grown Up Babies. The young man * who, uudor the pressure ot tho least real or fancied ndversity takes to drinking, is n grown-up baby ; but he is nursing the wrong bottle. The young man who is ashamed of his mother because sho doesn't "put on stylo," and of his father becauso ho doesn't use elegant language, is a baby Ibat had no busi ness to bavo ever grown up. An ovcrdoso of soothing syrup would havo been a blessing to him. The eighteen year old girl who is senti mental, and sighs for his early com ing at tho gate, well she is a grown up baby. Tho young man who thinks every young lady in lovo with him because she is polito to him when in Iiis company, i3 tho worst type of a grown up baby. Thoughts iincmi the Examintion. PROVIDENCE, S. C, ?ug. 20, 187,9. Editor Orangeburg Democrat; All females who are interested in public school teaching will remember that last Friday, the 22nd inst,, was the day cf "fire," as I would style it, or perhaps running tho "gauntlet" would bo* more modern. Well, 'tis past for tliis year! Draw a long breath, of relief, and, don't begin to sigh for the next. Carefully considering tho delicate constitutions of females generally, for we can sympathize with one another better than the sterner sex, except the pastor and family physician, J would venture a few brief sentences in the way of preparation for anothpr time. First, go to tho place where the examination is to bo held tiie day before, not the building itself, but to a hotel or private house, and by n\\ means get a good night's repose, with out dreamy of how you are going to succeed. Second, carry your gold pen along, if you have one, or bor row of your neighbor, and a well chewed pen holder?for where is there a lady who does not nibble her wri? ting stall'? The desks arc not cover ed with velvet, nor arc the seats push? ioned ; and as you may not do mupb. writing but make a great many efforts to do so, scribbling will, in nine cases out of ten, * be the final re suit. Third, The questions arc asked in such a manner as to bring into ex istence all your hidden and forgotten light whether, under corn measures, or heaps of wordly cares, sorrows, responsibilities, perplexities, ami last but not not least, earthly affections. So, be cool, considerate, and like the man whose wife (be it an everlasting ?harne to her) told him to "curse God and die." Tho answers will come up before you, or I ought to have said, at the end of your tongue ?not all of them thougl|??some have [been hidden too deop/I fear, and some never learned, ffiuE>hy atoms of knowlcdgo droppedTby thrjfatcllitcs above you, you may come out a wiset if not a better scholar. There is a gen tle art about Mr. Samuel Dibble to draw out your ideas, and 1 know he was a9 good a teacher, as he is now an eminent lawyer. Mr. Sheridan must be a teacher to tho manor born, his great patience and ready illustra tions of subjects, classes him one, in my humble estimation. - He has grown so stout since his residence in the gteat city of Orangeburg, where he enjoys the purest air and water, and I hope money, the brightest ex isting earthly boon, for his valuable labors, as editor of the Democrat. Mr. David Connor, our School Com missioner, also added much dignity to the Hoard of Examiners, as the many applicants can certify, Have 1 opened tho school campaign for 1880? If so, lay your right hand above the seat of life, and closo your optics and allow me to slop down with all the diguity of a teacher and a mother. John Johi.. A Witty Professor. On tho door of the Greek class room, Professor Rlackie, of Edin burgh, had occasion a few weeks ago to put up this notice: "Prof. Placido regrets ho is unable to meet his class es." A waggish student, spying this, scraped out the initial letter of the last word of the sentence, and made it appear as if the professor was re gretful at his inability to meet those fair specimens of humanity familiarly known outside tho college qundrangle as the "lasses." Hut who can joke with Uiackic? Tho keen-eyed old man, noticing tho prank that had been played on him, quietly erased another letter, and left the following to be read by whom it might concern : "Prof. Blackio regrets ho is unable to meet his asses 1" _ A Big Lie, Tho New York Witness, a paper that circulates very extensively among colored preachers in the South, devotes itself to somo extent to poli tics, and politics of tho bitter kind. In n recent issue it publishes an ex tract, from a speech by Wendell Phil, lips, in which Ihc lie about. Wade Hampton feeding his negroes on cot ton seed is reyamped. That lie was exploded so long iigo that even Wen dell Phillips should havo bocn asham ed to put it together again, especially as his imagination could easily have manufactured a new and entertaining lie that would not bp ao easily detect ed. 0 "I am Dying, Egypt, Dying." Tim Richmond Enqnivir gives tue following interesting story of the death of Gen. Lytlc, author of the beautiful poem, "I am Djing, Egypt, Dying." "Ho was hilled far in ad vance of hie oomtnand, while gallant ly leading an assault upo^n our lines, and the Bleed and his dead rider were both captured. So soon as it was known that tho autjjor of that rare poem, as faimjjar and as grpfttly ad mired South as North, .'I'ara Dying, Egypt, Dying,' lay dead in tho camp, olllcors and men crowded around to take a last look at Hip poet-goldier who had achieved ?o great a literary triumph. There was no rejoicing over this fallen enemy ; but there was, in truth, something on each soldier's cheek thai, for a moment, washed away the stt.ins of powder. Tender ly l^ey Ippk him u,p ; and when Urn Uqltlo wqs oyer, an cecoi t of honor, appointed from among the leading Confederate officers, bore him back to his own camp, under a flag of truce, and on a rudely constructed funcrnl-hicr, with his martial cloak around him. In life ljp had touched that chord of human sympathy which makes all the world nkin ; and in death its harmonious vibrations si lenced all rcsontmpnt, and thrilled, the hearts alike of friends and foes with a nobler passion than hatred or revenge. Kindness. Kindness is as cheap as it is beau tiful. It tuny be given in a word or a look, without diminishing aught of our wealth. With courtesies alone wo may illumine our pa'hway, and pluck down blessings which no gold could purchase, To he brotherly, to befriend and cheer and console as far as in us lie, these arc the crowning graces of humanity?and all these aro born of kindness, It is anger, breed ing hate and cohtumply, that has fill ed the earth with misery and ruin. Anger ~ botween- Hundred \ and races, < l>utore which all that is beautiful in man vanishes, leaving only the wild, fierce animal of his being. Families divided, friends parted, communities at fend, and nation warring against nation?these are fruits of anger. It has begotten the foulest of crimes. But kindness, in proportion as this has boon the ruling spirit among men, brings peaco and happiness. The home-hearth has been the ocnlio of a paradise, and the community a fraternal Elysium. Verily, "Better is a dry crust and quietness there with, than a house full of sacrifice with strife." Let us study and strive to be kind, no mailer bow trivial the occasion nor how small the promised fruit. It is tho only language of our nature that is universal and irresisti ble. Food for Reflection. Act well your part. Dont't be sel fish. Remember that it is by impart ing happiness to others, and making ourselves useful, that we rccoive hap piness. Stand by this truth, live it out, and always keep doing some thing useful for the common good, doing it well and acting sincerely. Endeavor to keep your heart in tho attitude of cherishing good will to all, thinking and spoaking ill of no one, and always with a kind word for eve rybody. Selfishness is its own curse: it is a starving one. The man who does no good gets none. He is like the heath in the deacrt, neither yield ing fruit nor seeing when good coro? etil, a stunted, dwarfish, miserable sbrup. Let all your influence be ex erted ior the purposo of doing all you can for tho common good and indi vidual welfare of every otic. The Reason. A man was standing at a corner tho tho other day gazing at nothing in particular, when a friend stopped up to him aud said : "I see you havo a mourning band on your hat?" "Yes, I have; it's for my mother-in law." "Your rootber-iu-law?." "Yes my mother-in-law!" replied the man in mourning. "Why, I didu't know sho was dead?" "Well, she isn't? stye recovered." A^ woman at Greonburg, Ind., was not sure that she wished to die, but thought she did ; so sho put her neck into a noose, stepped off n chair, tak ing precaution to hold a sharp knife in her band. The choking left her no longer in doubt thai she still de sired to live, and she hastily cut the rope above her head. I . Little Women. IM like ft wife?ft little wife, I want ^10 stately dame, frfo regal Juno's .lightning glance Can vel my heart uthune. Let others bend, with eager gaze, At haughty beauty's throne, But ah! It Is a fairy queen Who claims me as her own 1 A dainty, woo, and winsome thing Like her the poet ehigs, - Who seems to tread this grqssor earth Upborne by,fairy whisfs, Who walks antftaiksand.?ln^ and smUea In such a witching Mr ay, Thnt lovb must iii her pathway sprang Ab flowers spring in May. The little bird, as all oau see, Has e'er the sweetest song; To little flower* in the shade Tho sweetest blooms belong; The IHtlo gen\ of purest ray Is found* without n flaw, And little women, rule the world. Jty univeral law. Her little head is always poised With such an airy grace; She's (juiie an artist in her hats, And eritlc in her lace, llet- dress, however rutlletl and puffed I s dainty, trim ami neat; And, oh! St. Crispeu's leathern soul Would rnelt before her feet. VU Jrust those fept, those Uttlp feet, To never trip or rail 1*11 trust those little hhnds.for help, If help can come alolf; I'll trust that little heart to solve The puzzling things of life;' I'll wail for thee, my dearest one, To be my little wife! " r ' How to Take Life. Take life like a man. Take it just as though it was?as it^ is?an earn est, vital, essential ajfpjr. Take it just as though you wcro personally born to the task of performing a mer ry part in it, as though the world waited for your coining. Take it as though it was a grand opportunity to do ami to achieve, to carry forward great and good schemes ; to help to cheer a suffering, weaty, it may be, broken hearted brother. The faot is, lifo is undervalued by a great majori ty of mankind, it is not made half as much of as should bo the case. Where is the manor wqm.an that ac complishes ono lithe of what might be done? Who cannot look upon op portunities lost, plans mmchicved, thoughts crushed, aspiration^ unful filled, and all caused from the lack ol the necessary and possible effort V H we knew better how to tako and make the most of life, it would be better than it is. Woman's Love. Let the woman you look upon be wise or vain, beautiful or holy, eho has but one thing she can givo or re* fuse, and that is her heart, Her beauty, her wit she may sell you, but her love Us.the treasure without money and without price. She oan only ask in return, that w.hon you look upon her, your eyes shall speak a mute de votion ; when you address^ her your voice shall be gentle and kind. That you shall not despise her because she cannot all at onco understand your vigorous thoughts and ambitous plans, for when misfortune and evil have defeated your greatest purpose, her love remains to console yoi*. You look upon the troo of strength and grandeur; do not despise the flowers because their fragrance is all thoy have to give. Kemcmber, love is tbc only thing which God pcrmita her to carry beyond the gravo. Labor Honest, hoarty, contented labor is tho oniy source of happiness, as well as the only guarantee of life. The gloom of misanthropy is not only the great destroyer of happiness, but it tends to destroy life itself. Idleness and luxury produce premature decay much faster than many trades regard ed as the most exhaustive and fatal to loogevity. Dabor, in general, in stead of shortening the term of life, actually increases it. It is the lack of occupation that annually destroys so many of tho wealthy, who, paying nothing to do, play the part of drones, and like them, make a speedy exit, whilo the busy bec Oils its day in usefulness and honor. A Horrible Fate Averted During a terriblo wind storm tho house of Mrs. Adelaide Burton, of Roxabcl, N. C., was blown down and the lady covered with debris. She was finally taken out, apparently dead, aud propagations raado for burial. At the funeral, as the casket was being removed to tho hearse, she raised up and asked what this all meant. Her suddon rovival created consternation as well as joy. It was found that shp had only been in a trance. Sho is perfectly well, and in a few hours was supcrintendiug tho workmen clearirg away her wrecked dwelling. Tfjbulo jtp, aJVIpther. 1 Children look into those eyes, listen, to that dear voice, noticplbq. feeing of even a single touch that isbestpw ed upon you by that gentle haadl .Make much of it while yet; yon h|XP that most precious of all gifts, a Wr*^ ing mother. Read the uufatbottMrnhju love of those eyes; the kind ? aflilel^*|; of that tpue..and iflPk, howeVer slighi your pain. In after life you may have friends, fond, dear friends ; but never will yon '. bayp ;.sj;ajn t&'ejinex prcssiblc love and geo^cupss Idy\shm. upon you which none Inn, a mother bestows. .Often d,o j .,oijjb .fo^ty^ struggles with, tjjo o^qrk, uncaring world, far the sweet, deep seiiui[ii^?f|'*: felt when, of an evening, ncslltiignin her bosom,/ jhVteijed to, some^qqle^s tale, suitable to my age, read in her lender and untiring voice/ Never can I forget the sweet glances cast j upon mo when I appeared asleep; i never her kiss of peace at night. Years have passed away since w.q laid iier beside our father in Ihju old chnrph-yard ; and still her voice I whispers from tup grave, and her eye watches aver mo, as I visit spqts,, long since hallowed to the memory of my mother. Editor's WbrK, JSome people, ignorant of ?fh^fc good,, editing is, amaginothojjettingty up of selected matter to bo tho ea9i-(\ ? est work in the world to do.!whereas , i ?.iiit;:,.'. it is the nicest work done on any.pa . nil.' irdl nA'M per. If they sec the editor with scisj.^ sors in Ids hand, they arct sure, to... say ; "Eh I that's the way you get, on otiginal matter, eh?" accpnjpAnyLvus . their new and witty .questions with an idiotic wiuk.or smije. Tho facts arc that the interest, Um^ variety arid. , usefulness pf a paper ,deppnd', in jip small ^egr,ce upon the selected mas ter, fand'few men aretc^aoablepf j^bo position who wouhl ,;;.pt themselves . be.able to write mn^y of,,tho ?rUc^s.^ they e?J?ct, A sensible editor dp- -... ?irqs CG- !cj .selected ?. matter^i* because ho knows .that one~ caimc^7 makejsp.gopd as five or six. Hands Off; A woman's safeguard is to keep a.' man's hands off of her. It you needj his assistance in .walking, take' h'm arm.instpad of Uis lading ^ypjirs^' ?fus't'4 tell him in plain E.nglisbWVanjils <wf>-K He may not Jike it at the time,* but he will reSpec^ you in.future tcn-loM. more. Men will be and do. just wKnft * the women allow them to. do. Jfen ., will not do lo trust, .Give a'maji ' your arm and you will pnd him very confidential, and he will.take a grpjot many privileges he would hot take if1 ho were not permitted to dp so. Ho. will give your arm many loving squeezes and sly twists that ho could have no opportunity of doing, and the opportunity is just what ho i:i after, ??..?* ? ? ... . tl : ??>:\.yj\ j v?!t JUJ?S? The Republican campaign in Maiho is not llouriohing. Even the New York Times correspondent aflirma lhat.the party cannot obtain a mafip#4''j ity on the popular vote, ami in thip caao a combination between the Dem- ? oprata a^ud^reenbacker? will malte'1 the Governor. The Radical leadettf* are ail at 'sixes and sevens. Skcx man acored a failure in hjLo. campaign. - The Maine JRadicolp.oro stalwart, and J are infected with aofcmoncy theorieW- ? Sherman advocate hard, money, and was not vindictive Enough about tho South. The cleotion iu Mainepohje^'. off on the 6th of September. ? : Tuu man who spends a liletime in investigating the idiosyncrasies ot tho. spinal column of . an insect only , known in Central Africa, and which pan only bo sepn under a powerful microscope^ generally gets a monu ment and is e Icq ted lo various socle?, i ties, w^ilp tho maji wjio gets op a ten cent squdnjeh ap^ sells. j$j for. half a dime lives his allotted, np.au and dies without causing a ripple p{ excitement. Mr. tG. XV. Curtis says, ??be bloody shirt has become again the banner of American liberty, and he Who does not wear it is a cqntempljblc coward.'* Bold language for a wariior "who served his country with a chronic diarrhoea during the war, and would crawl into a bomb proof if another unpleasantness should arise?with Great Britain, for example. Extcnsivo preparations are being mr.do in California to view thp eclipse J of the sun, which will be visible iu that Stale next January,