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music or Solomon's temple.
The disentombing of Aasyrisu sculp
tare* and the deciphering of Assyrian
and Egyptian-inscriptions, have open
ed naw fields of investigation in al
most eyery department of knowledge.
Among pie branches of science which
have shared in these discoveries, that
of music has been benefited largely.
The accounts of ancient musical in
struments were vague, and our ideas,
especially of Hebrew music, wero
confused, tfll recently sculptures and
paiotings have been brought to light
which delineate the musical instru
ments of tb« early, Oriental nations,
and in a . number of cases veritable
specimens have been disentombed.
Such, for example, is an Egyptian
t.kf r Pi foot'd in Thebes, with its strings
yet perfect enough to vibrate again,
after a silence of three thousand
years.
The mpre recent investigations
.prove that the parent of ail known
msaicsl science was Assyria. From
the Assyrians, the Hubrews and the
- Egyptians, end, indeed, alt Eastern
-nations, derived their knowledge of
mosio. The unvailcd monuments
show that in the time of Sonna-cberib
music was s highly cultured art, and
.must have existed through genera
tioos. This polished nation used n
harp of twenty-one strings, tbo framo
of wbicb was four feet high, which
accompanied minstrels’ songs, or was
born# in the dance. The lyro of tor
toise-shell, the double pipe, the trum
pet, drum, and bell wero common.—
Even of the bagpipe, representations
have been discovered, though none of
Stringed instruments, like the violin,
played with the bow.
Xn all delineations of social or wor
shiping assemblies, musical instru
ments, very like our modern ones,
have s prominent place. The Hebrew
hiusio, at tbo time of tbo Exodus, was
purely Egyptian; hut it was much
modified subsequently by association
with Asialio nations. In the temple
of Jerusalem, according' to tho Tal
mud, stood a powerful organ, consist
ing of a windchest with ten holes,
containing ton pipes, each pipe eapa
bis of emitting ten different sounds by
moans of finger holes, so that a hun
dred sounds oould be produced by it.
,1$ "M provided with two pairs of
bellows sad ten keys, so that it could
be played with the fingers. Accor
ding to the rabbins, it could be heard
M great distance from tbo Temple.—
Jf. Y. M utical Gazette.
■ABBATH OBSERVANCE.
The nations of tho earth which now
most respect the Sabbath, and most
Aiseourage labor, and mere amuse
ment# during during its sacred hours,
are the freest, the happiest, tho most
prosperous and tho farthest advanced
in the progress of art, manufacture
and invention; and that city, or
town, or village, or community, of
any Sabbath-respecting nation, which
beat keeps the Sabbath as a day of
rest for body and mind, is the most
noted for alt that is orderly, law-abi
ding and substantial ; and that fami
ly, of any Sabbath-loving community,
which best observes it by quiet, by ro
ligious worship, and tbo performance
of Bible duties, is most substantial
and respected and reliable in that com
munity; while any individual member
of a Sabbath-keeping family who
spends the hours of that sacred day
in meditation, in worship and tho
prayerfiil reading of the Scriptures,
will uoiformally bo found to follow a
blameless life ; to possess the rospoct
and confidence of tho whole comuni
ty; and all men will know whoro to
look for him, however evil may bo the
times—to-wit, on the side of justice
and right, and liberty, and law, and
sterling principle.
No one can be so blind as not to
know that Che Sabbath is least respec
ted where there is most of all that is
vulgar, and profane, nod abandoned ;
and those who care tho least tor it are
literally thieves, and murderers, and
drunkards, prize-fighters, horse ra
cers, and the utterly depraved of all
classes; aud that these, the wicked,
“do not live half their days.” Asa
morns, then, of longevity, of worldly
prosperity, of individ ml elevation of
character, every citizen will not only
do what is possible in himself to so
cure s religious observance of the Sab
bath day, will not only countenance
and sncourage others to do the same,
will volunteer bis pecuniary aid
to further these things in the commu
nity around him.—HoW’« Journal.
Tmu Cion a Alabama —The Selina 2W«
fcaißMrraapoud'at who speaks •neouraginglj j
•f fix prospect for a crop iu Cautral Alabama
Tke plooUn. bars tb.ir land. .11 bedded up!
asd is ooodition, or very nearly ao, to reeeira
the cotton eeed, when the time cornea. They
•emmaneed very generally to plant eorn laat
Monday.
THE GENTLEMAN.
He is above a mean thing. He can
not stoop to a mean fraud. He in
vades no secret in tho keeping of an
other. He betrays ro secrets confi
ded to bis own keeping. He never
struts in borrowed plumage. He nev
er takes selfish advantage of our mis
takes. He uses no ignorable weapons
in controversy. Ho never stabs in
tbs dark. He is ashamed of inuen
does. ne is not ono thing to tho
lman’s face and another behind his
back. If by accidorit he come in pos
session of his neighbor’s counsels, he
passes upon thorn an act of instant ob
ivion. He be nrs sealed packages
without tampering with tho wax.—
Papers not meant for his eyes, wheth
er they Sutter ai> his window or lie
open before him iu unguarded expo
sure, are sacred to him. Ho invades
no privacy of others, howover the sen
try sleeps. Bolts and bars, locks and
keys, hedges and pickets, bonds and
securities, notice to trespassers, are
none of them for him. Jio may be
trusted himself out of sight —near the
thinnest partition—anywhere. lie
buys no offices, ho sells none, ho in
trigues for none. Ho would rather ‘‘ail
of his rights than win them through
dishonor. He will eat honest bread.
Ho tramples on no sensitive feeling.
He insults no mnn. If he hu ve rebuke
for another, be is straightforward,
open, manly. In short, whatever he
judges honorable, ho practices toward
every man.
THE NEGROES XN RICHMOND.
'Dilm elites of our popuUlion, ns a general
thins, manifest a disposition to prepare them
selves for ths altered londition in which the
events Os the last two years have pieced them.
The sudden abolition of slavery did not, as
most persona expected, tarn their heads.—
They have been, in tho main, orderly and well
behaved. They have not presumed, upon their
newly acquired freedom, to commit breaches of
the peace, or ba guilty of any acta calculated
to sour distention between the two raoes. The
utuiClt "oo i feeling in felt by the white people
of tide city toward the negroea, and whilst they
may ba amused st soma of theii' attempts at
display on all occasions, whether proper or im
proper, tlier* is not one particle of bitterness
felt for tham. Our best citizens deplore the
mischievous influences that, have been at work
on tham for some time past, but more paitieu
larly since the passage, by Congress, of the bill
giving them the right of suffrage. They tee
that designing men are endeavoring to All
their littda with wrong ideas, and to use them
for furthering their owu eeheisrs of advance
ment.
We euggrtlcd a day or two since that it would
be well if means were used to oounteraet these
influences, if some of our citizens, who tre
well known to the in gro population, in whom
Ibey have confidence, and whom they kuow
to be their friende, would take the trouble to
show them what their righte and duties were
in the preseut condition. It ie a matter that
should not be delayed. If ihe evil influences
to which they are subjected, are to he over
come, it It important that means ba taken im
mediately to do'to. Htveral gentlemen of this
city have tignifled their willingness to addreea
them, aud wo hops that meetings will be called,
and that they will do so wltUuut further pro
crastination, Tho most respectable negroes of
the oity are unanimous iu the wish that gentle
men whom they know will make speeches to
them and enlighten them as to their r ghts end
duties, —Richmond Examiner,
lUuistbation. —Tho Richmond Ditpatch ex
tracts the following paragraph from the Rich
moud correspondence of lha New York Times.
We presume there will be ns little delay as
possible in all the miliiary districts iu com
mencing the work of reconstruction :
“1 am informed that it ie the inteution of
Qeueral Schofield to toko imiuediale etepe in
the way of the registration of voters as pro
vided by the supplementary reconstruction
bill. It is thought the convention will assem
ble in June, and if so, all the action necessary
to the admission of representatives to Congress
will be had in time for the next winter eessiou.
That consummation is devoutly wished for, as
the only ureane of restoring publie confidence,
and reviving the trade of the country, now so
uttsrly prostrate.”
Tun Fitusb.— The Anti Slavery Standard,
the organ of Wcudell ITiillips’ fanatics, it in
teassiy disgusted with the new reconstruction
bill, and pitchea into the Republican parly
quite vigorously. It seems to bate General
Grant only cue degrsa leas than t bates Presi
dent Johnson, and it aees in the new bill a law
which makes Grnut military dictator over the
lives and fortunes of the people of ten States
It predicts that, within three yeans the same
kind of Government which this law prescribes
for the South will be wielded over the whole
country.
Injunction—lmi-ortant. —The Baltimore Sun '
understands that application will shortly be
made to the United States Supreme Court, in
the names of the States of Mississippi and Ala
bama. and such other States as may become
parties to the cause, to enjoin all proceedings
to subject the people of those Stales to militsry
rule under the recent Act of Congress, because
it will infliet irreparable injury on said people,
and for other reasons. The ease will be con
ducted, it it said, by Judge Sharkey, of Miss
issippi, aud Charles O'Connor, Esq., of New
\ ork. The Jackson Mittippian says that Gov
ernor Humphreys hat given the requisite au
thority an tbc part of the Slate of Mississippi.
Tha court met on Monday, Ist instant.
Kentucky, like Wisconsin, pay* its members
of the Legislature in gold. This is only to a
very limited extant a return to specie payments,
and, as we have before remarked, it the old
story—gold f«r the oifioe-holden and paper for
the people.
“THE FTJIR MAN’S BED.” ’’~
• Hide me in thy pavilion.’
Id days gone by, it was tbo custom
of all in the Scottish Highlands, who
were themselves above want, to kiep io
some loft er abed, always for
use, what they called “The poir man’s
bed." It would have been a public
disgrace for one whom the Lord bad
blessed with a home to turn any fel
low creaturo away; to. shelter and
feed tho needy was locked on
as simply acknowledging and rhani
festing gratitude for God's favor. —
Many most touching and beautiful
instances of tho reward of this hospi
tality are left for our encouragement.
“ Wad ye ba’ visits fra’ angels, spread
sheets on the puir man’s bed," was
vuritied a thousand times iu tbo dark
days of persecution, when the
blood of tiie boly was scented by the
royal soldiery from rook to glen,
and from castle to cot. » One of those
who had inado himself obnoxious by
his refusal to submit to tbo king’s
edict, and who bad signed the solemn
league and covenant, considered him
self lufe because be was neither a
preacher cor a prominent leader
among his brethren. So be went on
quietly plowing and sowing hia fields,
aud, in the meantime, feeding and
clothing tho outcasts, and going se
crolly to their meetinga in thoso caves
and glens made immortal by their
unflinching fidelity to Christ. One
day he was startled by bearing that a
band of the king’s men wero in searuh
of him, and in a few minutes would
be at the farm 1 Ujs wife, white with
tho fear that the very name of Cla
verbouso inspired, besought him to
floo for his life. She suggested the
barn, tho graveyard, and the adjacent
grovy, is places for hiding; but the
old man said, “No, I’ll go nn where
fra my ain hame; gin my hour nas
os' come, they canna kill rao; but gin
it hat, I'd rnyther go to heaven frae
this bonnie spot than any itlior! Our
God, Janet, is a covenant keeping God,
and I'll prove him now! Sin’ ever
we've kae a bums, we’ve spread a pil
low for tbo wanderer, as well as wel
coming evory ano at our ingle side.—
‘ Blessed is lie Ibal coiieidcrcth* tho
poor, the Lord w II remember him in
time of trouble.’ J ha’ considered the
poor; and this is the day o’ trouble,
sa there is no doubt o’ lieiiveiaiNM) 1
I'll na run a foot, but just lay my
bead on the puir mail’s pillow, whence
su monio prayers ha’ risen for me ar.d
mino; and see if the unyel o' Lord do no'
encamp around me !
Scarcely had he stretched himself
out in iiis humble hiding-place, when,
with jeer and curse, the blood thirsly
soMiers galloped up to the door and
doroandod of the terrified Janet, her
husband.
“ He's na by mo,” blio repliod, “ and
ye cunna expect me to do the
work yer master pays ye for doing ;
go your way and seek him if ye will;
but yo'll not Grid him. lie's hidden
by ano as has more power in the
Highlands than has yer master, the
king!”
They thought some noblemen in
tho region had given him shelter, and
were about going away, when ono of
tbeir number iusisted on searching
the promises, lest they might be ac
cused of going on a tool's errand.
Evory room Iras bsc,n invaded, and
barn and cow-house explored, when,
coming back through a shed to threat
en the poor wife, ono of them saw the
ladder leading to tho “ puir man’s
loft.” Mounting it, ho stood in the
room with low, dark rafters, whoso
only furniture was a chair and a bod,
in which last a man was lying. Never j
once thinking the fartnor himself j
could be there, he returned to his com
panions, saying, “ There’s none in
the house but a vagrant asleep; seek
him at tho castle where tho gude wife
said he’d gone for shelter.”
Ah ! tho strong pavilion in which
God had caused him to hido was be
yond their ken! They wen,, their
way—those men of bbiod—ar.d then
he came forth to praise God fur his
great deliveranoe. The shelter be
had prepared for others, had changed
from a poor room in a loft to a high
tower into which he had run and was
safe. He had considered th* poor,
and the Lord had remembered him in
trouble. He lived through all the
dark days of persecution, till be
saw peace upon Israel and heard re
ligious liberty proclaimed on alt those
fair Scottish hills.
If wo desire angels for guests, we
must prepare for them, and look for
them. If we have a high tover for a
refuge in the time of danger, ve must
build ono for those now in terror, and
then when our own dark dav comes
in will bo ready and we can fiLd shel
ter there.—Era.
THE CONFISCATION SC HI ME OF THAN
DECS STEVENB.
We have lately reed with some interest the
speech recently delivered in the TToodr of
Representative* by Tftaddeu* Stevens in sup
port of his Confiscation Bill, and which we find
published at length in the New York Tribune.
And though that paper, the great organ of the
Radical party, declares that “unless the Drui
ocraUebatl Again rally in solid column to bis
support, as they did when he advocated the
Reconstruct ion Bill, he it not likely to have
roach success in nrging confiscation,” yet the
statements of the speech are so plausible,'the
arguments so specious, and the appeals so art
fully addressed to the cupidity, and sectional
prejudices of the mass’**, that it most have
ita influence upon the class to whom it is ad
dressed, and auhserve iia purpose of educating
the popular mind to the reception of the doc
trines set forth and advuc&teJ. The tak would
seem not to be a difficult one. The right to
confiscate follows naturally and legitimately
fiom the premises assumed, and is of a piece
with the to establish military government,
and other assumptions of the present Congress
We are in rhe Union or we are not. If in the
Union, we would be entitled to the exercise of
all the rights which it guarantee*, the protec
tion of the civil law, and tha right of represen
cation, but if oat of the Union, we hold every
thing at the mercy of the oonqueror. We are
as much entitled to the habeas corpus, trial l»y
jury*, the rLht of suffrage, and (be right of rep*
resentatiou, as we could be to the lands we oc
copy. The right to establish military govern
ment, is the right to confiscate. Assume the
premises of the Radicals, and confiscation is a
question not of right but expediency.
The StKFKiuso »r the Boctbexx Stater.—
A Utter from Governor Orr, of South Caroli
na, thus refers to the gift of 12,<>00 bushels of
corn sent by the New York Relief Commission
to this State:
‘‘The donation is very timely, and will relieve
hundreds from the pinching* of actual want, if
not of abtolule starvation. Never was n char
ity more worthily conceived or bestowed than
you:*, in feeding a destitute people. Our great
necessities will coutiuue to press us, and can
only be relieved by the generous anil benevo
lent from abroad, until the middle of July,
when, if the wheat harvest is an average
yield, the Central. Northern and Western sec
tion will be partially relieved. Permit me to
reiterate my thanks, in behalf of the suffering
and destitute of this State, to yourself and
your generous compeer*, for their noble and
philanthropic charity.”
In walking to and fro on the earth, nud up
and down in it, round and about tht “Centre of
Gravity,” I discovered a newly-made grave, and
on the monument tbs following simple inscrip
tion :
" TO THE MEMORY or POOR CSC PIT.
“Died January ls», 1867!”
We desire you to publish this that the nume
rous friends aud admirers ol “ POOR CREDIT.*'
may know that he hae gone the way of ell the
earth. For they are nskiog for him in all the
store?, and in allpUvs of trade everywhere.
Your*, W.
PLANTER’S HOTEL,
ATJOtTSTA, OA.
AND
11 E-F ITT E D,
UNSURPASSED BY ANY HOTEL SOUTH
\V»» re-opened to the public
OCTOBER 8,1866
T. S. NICKERSON,
Proprietor.
I.ate of MILIS HOUSE, Charleston, and
Proprietor of NICKERSON'S HOTEL, Cos •
lumhta, S. C. Nov. 28, S2 (mi
MANTDA ’MADEft,
MISS SOPHIA PERKINS begs leave to in
form her friend* and the public that
»he is now prepared to do ail kinds of
MANTUA MAKING
ON THE MOST REASONABLE TERMS,
at til* residence of Mr. William Terkin,.
Feb. Ist, 1866, 40—If
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kgA FROM THE PLAINEST T 6 /A
THE MOST CUASORATC, fIM
1 DESICNCD X FURMISHEO [V
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To Rent*
A HOUSE and I.OT containing eight large
Rootna and all necessary nut huuaes and
the beat Garden spot in Washington.
Apply to R. L. FOREMAN.
Jan. 18, 89
sundries"
I HAVE on hand and intend to keep on
hand a good supply of S. W. Collin*, best
AXES.
A Lot of eery fine WATER BUCKETS.
Those fond of good CHEESE can get by cal
ling aoon at
S. H. Crenshaw’s.
Jan. 24, 1868, 40—ts
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238 BROAD STREET,
MERCHANT TAILORS,
AND
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS
READY MADE CLOTHING..
Have just received a large and handsome stock of READY
MADE CLOTHING, bought cheap for cash, during the
late hard times in New York, which they will sell at such
LOW PRICES as to defy competition.
They have also received a varied and *extensive assor
ment of FRENCH and ENGLISH CLOTHS and
CASSIMERES, which they will MAKE TO ORDER
in the LATEST and most FASHIONABLE STYLES,
ns CHEAP as they can be made in ANY CITY IN THE
UNITED STATES
Boys’ Clothing and Mens’ Furnishing Goods,
IN GREAT VARIETY, ALWAYS ON HAND.
The Public arc invited to call and examine our goods,
with assurance that they will be suited, at the LOWEST
PRICES.
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238 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, SA.
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212 llroad Street,
near the post office corner,
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