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SAVANNAH DAILY HEEALD.
VOL. 1-NO. 52.
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Hebei. Gold Speculation. —The Confed
erates seem to be as much troubled by
reckless f peculation?, as ever were we, and
to treat the gold “bulls and bears” with as
little respect as the said animals command
from patiiolic persons on out side of the lines.
In all our fluctuations of currency value
however, we have never touched so deep as
45 to 1. The worst that has ever befallen us
in a financial way has been to see our green
back currency so* low as nearly 3 for 1. That
is, when it took nearly three dollars of green
backs to buy one dollar in gold. Our pros
pects have however been improved to such
an extent that a gold dollar is ouly worth
one dollar and three quarters, and the cur
rency appreciates in value every day.
But for the Rebel Hags there was still a
“lower depth.” The article we quote speaks
of “sixty for one,” and we have known Con
federate paper representing a hundred dollars
to be sold for thirty six cents, and the man
thought he was cheated even then and so did
ail the by-standers. But read the artiele
which follows.
GOLD AND GOLD SPECULATORS.
“One of the greatest evil3 of this war, as it
is of all wars, is the terrible spirit of specula
tion, but above all evils incident to this re
volution is the speculation in gold.
The price of gold in currency is entirely
fictitious. Toe amount of Confederate notes
it requires to buy a dollar in gold, is no
standard of the discount on such paper when
compared to bullion. The gold speculators
at their stands, with their signs out, and the
hawker for a purchaser on the streets, put a
price upon gold and demand so much from
the fears of the unthinking and the panic
stricken merchant and trader. Gold is .a
scarce commodity which advances in price
according to the demand—it is governed en
tirely now by the law r s of trade.
Tim gold buyer and seller in this revolu
tion have done more to destroy confidence,
and overturn the currency, than all others
combined.
We say to day gold is forty-five for one,
and every oue without thought, erics out, th£
currency is gone. To-morrow it is reported
by a combination of* gold sharpers and tele
graphic wire-workers that gold lias advanced
and is sixty for one, and the whole routine
of business is startled. The necessaries of life
advance, domestic goods, and everything
that enters into the daily use of the poorest
cottage, are advanced to fictitious figures by
the machinations of these abominable ha: -
pies—these chiefs of Mammon on earth—
who, like their infernal master, have always
their eyes down counting their gold.
The price of gold at any time now, is not
the true rate of discount on the currency, as
it should be. The true rate of discount cn
Federal greenbacks is the price of gold, be
cause our Yankee enemies have dealt with
this thing better than we. They first made
their war currency a legal tender, and then
laii an embargo upon the gold speculators.
The three balls of the brokers have done us
more injury than millions of balls from the
enemy’s guus. The trade should be tabooed.
A license, amounting to prohibition, should
be laid upon all men who speculate in gold.
Our currency', though bad enough, is not
nearly so bad as these men wonld make it.—
Constitutionalist.
Poor Governor Brown.— This unfortu
nate gentleman seems to please no oue—we
subjoin articles from several secesh journals,
which, however antagonistic they may be
to each other in other regards,unite most cor
dially in abusing Poor Governor Brown.
The Governor must be of the pachyderma
tous order, else lie would have been stung
to death long, long ago, long ago.
‘ The Governor’s Message, as he terms it, is
one of the most remarkable papers that lias
ever emanated from an Executive since the
formation of the Colonies into States. No
Executive ever laid himself so liable to be
assailed as bas Gov. Brown, and, in fact, the
paper purporting to be a message is simply
a compilation of “Indignant epithets,” per
sonal assaults, and unrestrained abuse of our
President and Generals, and unbecoming the
position of so high an official. When the
Governor assails the ; President, he strikes a
man who was the first choice of this nation,
and who was elected with the universal con
sent of all parties, and indirectly hits the
people w r ho placed him at the head of the
Government. He who dares to strike Presi
dent Davis, assaults the sovereigns of this
Confederacy, and they will return the thrust.
He wh<7 is so dishouorable as to slander our
Governmen*. slanders our mother, and v e
will strike back again. Lincoln is opposing
ourjGoverdment, and so is Governor Brown —
we. are fighting the former, and will oppose
and if necessary, fight the latter. We can
not make “fish of oue and fowl of the others. ”
The “Oed Man Eloquent.’’— We do
not know who is the “old man of
more than 70 years,” but he speaks with an
enthusiasm which ought actually to “fire the
the Southern hearty ’ if that bit of anatomy has
not been already scorched to a cinder. It has
been “fired” a most prodigious number t>f
times, and if it is not pretty nearly burnt out,
it lias certainly had a “foretaste of immortal
SAVANNAH, GA„ FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1865.
bliss,” as the Hymn Book says, what may be
tne fate of the Southern heart hereafter, we
can’t tell—if Heaven, —all right,—if the other
place, the constant “firing,” it has been sub
jected to in this world, will have given it a
pretty thorough preliminary seasoning.
But hear the old man,
Young men, rise in the majesty of your
strength, and, like Samson, shake yourselves,
§ird on your armor, every man of you, and
vto the rescue of your bleeding country.
If you fall in battle let your faces be toward
the enemy. Your only hope for success is
to be found in wise counsels,' able comman
ders, stout hearts, strong arms, sharp flints
and dry powder. lam a few days over
seventy years ot age, but, thank God, I have
no aches nor pains, wounds, bruises nor
putrifying sores. 1 am neither deaf, dumb
nor blind, bottleham’d, knockkneed, hip shot
ten nor ill- begotten. I -am as sound as a
healthy baby. In 1861, in my sixty-seventh
year, I was a high private in the Confederate
army, on the soil oi the Old Dominion, for
twelve calendar months, and served every
day ot my enlistment, obeying every order
from a corporal to the President, and was
honorably discharged. lam yet able to per
form the duties of a soldier, and am willing
to do it in any capacity that may be assigned
me. Young men, come out from your hid
ing places and show your blood and bot
tom. * • G. G.’,
Bishop Elliott s Proclamation. —The dis
couragement of the Rebels at their late re
verses has taken a deep hold upon them, so
much so that we find the dignitaries" of the
church issuing, in accordance with the re
commendation of Jeff. Davis, a proclamation
of a day of “fasting, humiliation and prayer.”
From that strange document issued by
Bishop Elliott, we extract some paragraphs
which certainly are couched in tho most re
markable language we have ever seen In a
similar paper.
We can, then, judge what must be the
state of feeling, when the utter despair of the
Clergy causes them to give vent to such des
pondent language as is used by the Bishop.
Next we shall have the women giving way,
and, as they are now the only support of the
Confederacy, the collapse, when the women
withdraw their supporting strength, will be
utter and complete.
We commend the words of the Bishop to
the careful attention of every one of our
readers. Such sentences are, from such a
source, a sure sign of speedily approaching
dissolution.
Extract froji Bishop Elliott's Proclamation.
“As the times are especially critical, I would
impress upon my Clergy the importance of
calling the attentiomof the people of their
flocks, at some period: prior to the occurrence
of this Jay of Humiliation, to the solemn
duty which lies upon them of keeping it with
earnestness and sincerity of heart. We have
reached that point in the history of our strug
gle when our independence must be lost un
less we can gain the favor of God, in whose
hands are i he issues of all human events;
“Sin lieth at our door,” and, therefore, our
armies cannot stand * before their enemies,
but turn their backs upon them. The ac
cursed thing, which lias lost us the favor of
God, must be searched out; and whether it
be pride or self-will, or covetousness or un
godliness,or general iniquity, it must be sacri
fied in repentence and with tears, if so be
that t le fierceness of his anger may be turned
from us aud harmony and union may once
again be restored to us. He has beeu our
si roDg rock of defence through this unparal
led struggle, and to Him must we turn tor a
renewal of our strength and a revival of our
hope.”
[Ebenezer Brown catches it in the follow
ing manner from the Spirit of the South of
March 5. ]
Treason in High Places. —The most
atrocious and traitorous document of a pub
lic character that has* been issued in the
South since the war commenced, is the re
cent message of Gov. Brown, of Georgia.—
We blush for the vindictive atrocity that
characterizes it. We blush that a sister
Southern State should be so misrepresented
and wronged through her public mouth
piece. before the world. We blush that the
Governor of the first State of the Confedera
cy, should be so filled “with all uncharitable
ness,’’and so emptied of patriotic feelings and
impulses as to send forth to the world a docu
ment so replete with folly, with egotism, with
madness, with destruction and death to our
cause.
It is direct encouragement to our soldiers
to desert. It is positive encouragement to
our enemies to persevere in their fiendish
war upon us,—-it is open war upon the Con
federate Government, —and bold persuasion
to a counter revolution. It proves Governor
Brown as much a traitor as John Brown ; as
much a deserter to our cause as the soldier
who throws down liis arms and leaves his
command without permission. It proves
him anything else than a wise Govemoi. and
a true patriot, Enfanta Spirit of the South.
Endearing Passages from a Confederate
Christian. A Reverend correspondent
of the Macon Telegraph and Confederate,
speaking of war matters, says:
The North, alas! is little better than
Sodom. We are fighting in our own de
fence ; we are defending our political and re
ligious rights and honor. Asa maiden, who,
when she beholds the stealthy approach and
in the greedy aud adulterous eyes, the fiend
ish purpose of some brutal sensualist, flies
from his eml race, so escaped the South from
the North to save her honor; and that sen
sualist, failing in the assault on her honor,
now strives to take her life.
We pity that blushing maiden, the South.
Poof gal!
Coal.— The attention of all citizens who
desire this fuel is called to the advertisement
of the Fuel Supply Committee. Call at once
and be supplied.
Syrian Gothamites. —Helbon is noted more
for its for the stupidity of its in
habitants, whose reputation in this repect is
similar to that of the wise men of Goshman,
as the waggish merry-andrew styled his
countrymen, the Barons ofPevensey. Among
the ridiculous stories fathered on them, I will
here repeat a few. Once upon a time the
inhabitants of Helbon declared themselves
independent, and were going to establish a
government of their own, but found them
selves unable to carry out their intention
because there were not men enough in the
place to fill all the public offices. Another
time, it is said, the good folks of Helbon
wished to drag a little on one side a moun
tain which kept the mid-dav sun from their
village. With this object they tied a rope to
a large oak growing on the "mountain, and
pulled at it till the rope broke, and gave
many of them so severe a fall that they were
content to postpone the removal of the moun
tain till some more fitting opportunity. On
another occasion when there was a total
eclipse of the moon, the inhabitants of Hel
born took it into their heads that the people
of a neighboring village had stolen that
planet. Accordingly they all turned out
armed against their neighbors, to force them
to give them back their moon ; .but before
they had quite reached the village*the eclips
waß over, and the moon appeared in full
splendor. On this they returned home in
triumph, boasting that "their neighbors had
given them back their moon for fear of them.
A native of Ilelbon was once driving to Da
mascus a donkey Jaden with wood tor sale,
when, the load being too heavy for the ani
mal he considerately took It oft' and put it
on his own shoulders, and then mounting
the donkey, he rode on it intq Damascus. A
boy once thrust his hand into a narrow-neck
ed pitcher containing walnuts, and having
filled his hand with them was unable to draw
it out again. He cried bitterly; the whole
village assembled to deliberate on what, was
best to be done, and the wise mau of the
place gave it as his opinion that the boy’s
hand must be cut oft'; when fortunately, a
stranger, who happened to be passing by,
freed the boy from the danger he was m by
telling him to let go the walnuts, and so
draw his hand out of the pitcher empty, as
he had put it in.
Empire in South America.— The struggle
now being waged bet ween the empire of
Brazil and the republics of Uruguay and Par
aguay, promises to assume proportions nev
er before worn by any warfare in that quar
ter of the globe. It is the old question be
tween the spread of the republican and of
the empirical element. Uruguay was pro
gressing in a very decent way, and living an
honest little life of its own,"until, just two
years ago, a man named Venancio Flores
came to the conclusion that he could do the
world a service by exacting himself aud cut
ting Uruguay's throat by the'old artifice of a
revolution.
_ The Government he attempted to subvert,
had no means of opposing to him an ade
quate resistance. The continuance of a re
bellion which there seemed no hope of ulti
mately quelling, proved a serious inconven
ience to Brazil. Redress for certain griev
ances sustained was demanded of the Uiu
guayan Government by the Government of
Brazil. Diplomatic explanations were made,
but like many other diplomatic explanations,
failed to satisfy. The result was that the
war was actually commenced six months
ago by the first shot being fired by a Uru
guayan war steamer into a Brazilian gun
boat, and the immediate blockading by Bra
. zil of the Uraguayan ports.
It is not difficult to perceive that the de
sign of Brazil is the extension of her empire,
and the acquisition upon her southern bor
ders of the same advantages that enrich her
territories' at. the north. These advantages
are derived from the river Amazon—the Mis
sissippi of the south—of which Brazil holds
the eutrance, and over whose course she con
sequently holds entire control. The river
extends almost from ocean to ocean, is be
tween four and five thousand miles in length,
and drains an extent of territory covering in
the neighborhood of three millions ot square
miles. The immense tracts which this
noble river waters and fertilizes, presents
the most extensive region of productive soil
ever united in one connected whole, under
one government- Thirty-nine years ago war
was being waged between Brazil *ud the in
dependent provinces on the Rio de la Plata,
the war in that case having been declared by
the Brazilian Government for the recovery of
the Bantla Oriental.
The various revolutions that had hitherto
characterized the career of Brazil had just,
through the intervention of the Holy Alli
ance, culminated in the erection of an empire,
at the head of which wss placed Pedro, son
of the reigning King of Portugal. This
Banda Oriental war of 182 C was the first in
stance on record of American civilized na
tions becoming mutually belligerent. The
world, however, has had nearly forty years
to grow used to the phenomenon, and the
present straggle between Brazil and Uruguay,
into which Paraguay has been dragged, and
which Buenos Ayres has had the discretion
to escape, is due to the invasion, by the Bra
zilian troops, of the Banda Oriental. It is to
be sincerely hoped that diplomacy will not
utterly fail in a settlement of the question
that is being tested by arms, or at least that
those on both sides who are pacifically in
clined will not be without the consoling con
viction that everything was done that could
be done in the way of negotiation.
General Schimmelfennig. —A correspon
dent asks if it is possible to get the name of
General Schimmelfennig, the commander of
Charleston, into rhyme. Guess so :
“The gallant Dutchman, Sfchimmelfennig,
Holds Charleston as he would a hen egg ;
He grabs the traitors, by the ear,
Andbringsthemto their lager beer.
We wish we had a million such meu
As this bold rebel-hating Dutchman,’’
—*
The negro Captain Small returned to
Charleston, a few days since, in the same
vessel in which he escaped from the city in
the Spring of 1802 —the Planter. As it pa.-sed
Fort Sumter it had all its three flags flying,
and the Captain’s face beamed with satisfac
tion as he saw the Stars and Stripes on its
parapet once more. The Planter has been
refitted since its flight from Charleston, at an j
expense of $40,000,
Pneumatic Railways, or Tunnel Travel
ing —To be compelled each day of our lives
to experience the discomforts aud annoyances
of going from up town to down town in over
crowded stages and cars, is to be perpetually
reminded of one's unhappiness, and provok
ed to inventive thoughts, having for an ob
ject some method of relief. *
The Pneumatic Despatch Company of Lon
don, have done their best to solve for us a
difficult problem, and it caunot lie positively
asserted that they have not done so success
fully. This company is now constantly send
ing mail bags aud packages tlnough air-tight
tunnels, with perfect safety and at a high
rate of speed. It is stated that attendants
have passed through “without the slightest
discomfort.” A London journal says the
next step of the. company will be to lay
tubes connecting the markets with the Oamb
deu Goods Station,with a tube to the General
Post office and Piekford's depot in Gresham
strict, and these operations will eventually
tend to revolutionize the carrying system of
the metropolis, and relieve the crowded 9tate
of our principal thoroughfares.
Now, if merchandise can be thus carried,
why cannot passengers be transported with
equal facility ? The natural exception is that
human beings are expected to breathe anu
require fresh air for this purpose, while this
is obviously not a requirement of merchan
dise. The question then presents itself, can
not these objectionable features be lemoved ?
A writer in the Journal of the Franklin In
stitute answers many of these objections,
and gives reasons favoring the adoption oj
this novel method of passenger transporta
tion. He says :—“When duly considered,
objections will be found more imaginary than
real. Blackness and darkness will not ne
cessarily pervade the interior, since gas or
lamps may be carried along, as in the night
cars. But the air in crowded qprs is offen
sive in hot weather; must it not in such tun
nels resemble that in the Black Hole of Cal
cutta ? No, not in the longest line. No space
could be more thoroughly ventilated, since
fresh air would be constantly streaming in,
besices sweeping through at every stopping
place.
“But; as passengers are always moving
with the piston away from the mouth, how
is fresh air to reach them and displace that
which enveloped them at starting ? Easily;
the windage of the piston would, or a valve
could, be made to accomplish that perfectly.
No air unfit to breathe could accumulate.
Then where is the difficulty of having sun
light by day; as well as lamps and candles
by night ? As the tunnels require no coft
uection with exterior mechanism, instead of
being buried in the ground they may be laid
upon it, (and where required, supported
above it,) by the sides of common roads, or
over fields, or tlirongh forests, as circum
stances may suggest, and to have plates of
glass in the roof or sides. Thick slabs of
that material are now used on store floors,
to transmit light below. I see nothing im
possible in the idea that atmospheric tunnels
may ultimately be formed, chiefly, if not
wholly, of glass, instead of iron, romantic as
it may appear.
There are no more limits to the length of
atmospheric lines than to railways. Landing
and receiving passengers at intermediate sta
tions, present but little more’obstacles in one
case than in the other. A#eacU station a
hinged iron door, fitted air-tight to its frame
(cast on one side of the tube), gives entrance
and egress. But does not that involve the
loss of the existing vacuum in the uutraveled
portion ? Not at all. The piston must pass
the door before it can be opened, or the pas
sengers reach it. It has then only to be an
chored and freed as soon as the chauge of
passengers is made. The officer at the sta
tion may then either close the door or leave
it open till the return trip begins. It would
require no ftistenings inside or out. The rate
of travel will of course depend on the ex
tent or degree of the vacuum, and the vacu
um on the power of the exhausting appara
tus. In the Pneumatic Railway from Lou
don to Croydou, about nine the
pressure was eighty pounds to the square
inch, and the velocity thirty miles an hour
with a train of sixty tons.” •
In comparing the cost of this methnlßf
transportation with that of railways, he
says “In steam trains it is believed that
with every ton of passengers, not less than
two tons, some say three; of wood and iron,
fuel and attendants, etc., are borne along.—
That is to say, two-thirds of the power is
consumed, to make one-third productive, and
less than one-third when light loads are car
ried. Though steam cars are not dragged
hither and thither to collect loads, there is
always a waste of power before starting and
after stopping. The wear and tear of loco
motive engines is great, and the cost of
working them eaormous. Their liability to
be thrown off the track, and to collisions, is
constantly enforced on us by current accounts
of such costly accidents.
“The advantages sought for in the atmos
pheric system are, therefore, greater speed
and less outlay of working power—no roll
ing stock. The leading requisition is. rapid
transit, and for all practical purposes the ve
locity of a piston rushing into a vacuum is
unlimited. At all events something ap
proaching to one hundred miles an hour
may, we presume, be attained with equal
safety and a smoother motion than by open
rail cars.
“The timid would not willingly be now
among the first to travel at the rate of eighty
or one hundred miles an Hour, if they even
had little fear of its taking away their breath.
The feeling is a natural oue, and, therefore,
to Ite respected, although it has no rational
foundation. It is chiefly ascribable to igno
rance of the fact that the highest speed no
more effects our bodily organs than the low
est. Passengers in the cabin of a ship fly
ing before the wind have no more sensation
of going forward than when she is lying at
anchor. A balloon rushing upward, or m a
lateral direction, appears, to the aeronauts,
stationary and motionless. In night rail
trains we walk to and fro; sit and sleep, un
conscious ot progression as in a parlor or
bed-room.. In day time it is the same, if w T e
close our eyes to objects outside. Jolts from
obstructions and irregularities of roads, with
chauges of direction and diversities of speed,
tell us we are moving. In a perfect system
of travel there should be no sense of motion
at all, whether the rate was one mile an hour
or a hundred, or five hundred; and even that
PRICE. 5 CENTS
is a snail’s pace when we look, and we ought
often to look, beyond our petty doings to
those of the Great Engineer. Our earth is
one of a line of passengei cars that con
veys us through space at a mean velocity
of 68,000 miles an hour, without disturbing a
loose brick on a chimney, or displacing a
grain of dust.”
The Three Wishes. —The eastern origin
of this tale seems evident; had it been origi
nally composed in a northern land, it is pro
bable that the king would have been repre
sented as dethroned by means of bribes ob
tained from his own treasuiy.
There was once a wise emperor who made
a law, that to every stranger who came to
his court a fried fish should be served. The
servants were directed to take notice, if,
when the stranger had eaten the fish to the
bone on one side, he turned it over and be
gan on the other side. . If he did, he was to
be immediately seized, and on the third day
thereafter he was to be put to death. But,
by a great stfetcli of imperial clemency, the
culprit was permitted to utter one wish each
day, which the emperor pledged himself to
grant, provided it was not to spare his life.—
Many had already perished in consequence
oi this edict, when, one day, a count and his
young son presented themselves at court.—
Thu tisli was served as usual, and when the
count had removed all the fish from one side,
he turned it over, and was about to com
mence on the other, when he was suddenly
seized and thrown into prison, and was told
ot his approaching doom. Sorrow-stricken,
the count’s young son besought the emperor
to allow him to die in the room of his father,
a favor which the monarch was pleased
accord him. The count was accordingly re
leased from prison, and his son was thrown
into his cell in his stead. As soon as this had
been done, the young man said to his jail
ors: “You know I have the right to make three
demands before 1 die; go and tell the emperor
to send me his daughter, and a priest to marry
U 9.” This first demand was not much to the
emperor’s taste, nevertheless he felt, bAund to
keep his word, and he therefore complied
with the request, to which the princess bad
no kind of objection. This oceurredm the
times when kings kept their treasures’ in a
cave, or in a tower set apart fOT the purpose,
like the Emperor of Morocco Jin these days ;
and on the second day of hia imprisonment
the young man demanded tne king’s trea
sures. If liis first demand v&s a bold one,
the second was not less so ; still, an emper
or's word is sacred, and having made the
promise, he was forced to keep it; and the
treasures of gold and silver and* jewels wei*e
placed at the prisoner’s disposal On getting
possession of them, he distributed them pro
fusely among the courtiers, and soon he had
made a host of friends by his liberality.
The emperor began now to feel exceeding
ly uncomfortable. Unable to sleep, he rose
early on the third morning and went, with
fear in his heart, to the prison to hear what
the third wish was to be.
“Now,” said he to his prisoner, “tell me
what your third demand is, that it may he
granted at once, and you may be hung out
of hand, lor I am tired of jour demands.”
“Sire,” answered his prisoner, “I have but
one more favor to request of your majesty,
which, when you have granted, I shall die,
content. It is merely that you will cause the
eyes of those who saw my father turn the
fish over to be put out.”
“Very good," replied the emperor, “your
demand is but natural, and springs from a
good heart. Let the chamberlain be seized,”
he continued, turning to his guards.
“I, Sire !” cried the chamberlain; “I did
not see anything—it was the steward.”
“Let the steward be seized then,” said the
king. .
But the steward protested with tears in
his eyes, that he had not witnessed anything
of what had been reported, and said it was
the butler. The butler-declared that he had
seen nothing of the matter, and that it must
have been the valets. But they protested
that they were utterly ignorant of what had
been charged against the coant; in short,
it turned out that nobody could be found
who had seen the count commit the offense,
upon which the princess said :
“I appeal to you, my father, as to another
Solomon. If nobody saw the offense com
mitted, the count cannot be guilty, and my
husband is innocent.”
The emperor frowned, and forthwith the
courtiers began to murmur; then he smiled,
and immediately their visages became ra
diant.
“Let it be so,” said his majesty ; “let him
live, though I have put many a man to death
for a lighter offense than his. But if he is
not hung, he is married. Justice has been
done." y
Language—England Compliments Amer
ica.—George Augustus Sala’s volume, just
published in England; entitled “My Diary in
America in the Midst of War,” has the fol
lowing passage:—
“You, (Americans) from Chicago to Cape
Cod. from Nevada to Nantucket; speak very
nearly the same language and have pretty
nearly the same pronunciation. We speak
fifty different dialects —Northumbrian, Lan
castrian, Cambrian, Phoenician, Erse, Cock
ney—que sats je! Seme of us lisp, some of
us drawl, and some of us stutter, and many
of us hem and haw, and a great many of us
xlap on the H’s whore there should be none,
ana take away the H’s where they should be
left. We are always speaking, and yet we
speak badly. Our philosophical doctors dis
agree. We have no Academy (thank Heav
en) and no Dictionary; that is to say, we
have a hundred, but do not accept any as
final authority. In pronunciation, Oxford is
at war with Cambridge, Dublin with both,
and Edinburgh with all. The forum and the
bar, the pulpit and the stage, are in virulent
antagonism ; one paper calls a bishop’s do
maiu a “diocese,” and another a “diocce
and between Alford and Moon—the Queen’s
English and the Dean’s English—it is difficult
to choose. You have made up your minds
that national shall be pronounced mytional,
and advertisement shall be advertyzement;
that defence shall be defense, and theatre
theater, and you are happy.”
The botanists tell us there is no such
thing in nature as a black flower. We sup-
Sise they never heard of the “coal blaok
OSQ."
