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1 JOHN H. HEALS, Editor »nfl Proprietor. Wn. B. SEALS. Proprietor »nd Cor. Editor. MBS. MARY E. BRYAN, (*) Associate Editor ATLANTA, GEORGIA, JULY 12,1879. Looking for Bain.—During our long summer we not unfrequently find our sunny south too sun ny. Sometimes the Day Star pours down his beams all day from a sky unflecked by a cloud, and plant and beast and man all succumb to the fervency of his heat. Then with all the earnestness, if not with all the faith of the Prophet on Carmel, we scan the heavens for the faintest speck of cloud. No becalm ed sailor more eagerly scans the horizon for a sail than does the farmer mark each prognostication of a coming shower. Day after day he looks over his almanac to note the period of the moon’s phases, night after night he looks out for that flash of light ning in the North which he has learned to regard as a sure precursor of rain, and when there falls up- pon his ear the low muttering of thunder, no music could awaken more pleasant emotions. When at length the rising cloud is discerned how anxiously is its course watched! Often the question of bread for himself and little ones hangs upon the—to him— inscrutible veerings of the wind. We often hear men compare their trials with those of Job, and not seldom do they claim for themselves a pre-emi nence of patience. But we have thought if there be any one who could vie with the Idumean Shep- heard in that sublime virtue, it is the farmer who represses every murmur while he beholds cloud af ter cloud discharge itself upon his neighbors’ fields while his own are consumed with drought. * * Bewitehingly Beautiful.—’Perdition seize thee, but I do love thee,’ exclaims the agonized Othello, as fondness for his pretty wife contends with and almost overcomes his sense of wrong. His feeling has in part been shared by many men before and since. Strong men, earnest men—men who were bold enough in struggles with their own sex have been the complete slaves of women whose power lay solely in their prettiness. Your gentle, grace ful Agnes Winkfield, with her lady-like plainness may command esteem for her worth; but she will never make a man yield himself a timid, pliant slave to her every caprice as does little silly Dora. This bewitching beauty is rarely seen, and perhaps it is well for the world that such is the fact Such power as it gives can be of benefit only when it is combined with a sound intellect and a good heart. Great personal beauty can exist and has ex isted witiiont either of these, and in all such in stances it failed to bring happiness to its possessor, and did not fail to bring trouble upon those who came within the scope of its influence. It was this gift of beauty that enabled Marie Stuart to enlist one knight after another in her perilous and almost certainly fatal service, and eventually led her to prison and death. * * Hon. A. H. Stephens and Ills Country Home.—Mr.lStepheus loves his Georgia home. In spite of all the newspaper announcements as to where he intended to spend the summer, no sooner does Congress at last give the nation a rest, than . be invincible little man, with a big heart as well as a big brain, makes a bee line for old Crawford vtlle. where, it is said he knows everybody and his dog, and takes a sympathetic interest in the affairs of everyone; the poorest worker with the single plow and hoe, no less than the “big man’’ of the commn nlty. He deplores the drouth that has visited the good people of his section, and a correspondent of the Chronicle tells us that one day lately, while ri ding with Mr. Stephens In theiAgricultural Grounds at Washington, the great Commoner pointed with his crutch to the green, lnxuriant grass, and (mind ful that humidity was a lost quantity at his home- section) said with a sigh: “If only ray old cow at Crawfordville could get a whack at that?” Which has a touch of nature about It, and shows that those everlasting Congressional proceedings, fora wonder, have not converted our statesman Into a phonograph machine, oraflleoftheCongreseional Globe bound in parchment. * :.r 'Jjc tirealesit MSstsn* Apostle James speaks of the tongue as ‘‘set on file be hell”; and while this imagery is bold, experienoe f proves it far from extravagant. This little member which “no man may tame” has been the cause ol most of the strifes and contentions, wars and woes v ith which our eartli has been cursed. One tongue, inflamed by malice or moved by a wanton love o f mischief, can accomplish more evil in a community than a hundred good people can counteract. One mouth uttering words of bitter sarcasm cau produce sufferings which human praise can scarcely allevi ate and which the sweet promises of religion alone can cure. Not the stretchings of the neck, nor the strokes of the skillfully applied lash can inflict such torture on the body as cunningly devised ridicule can bring upou the spirit. It is, in fact, the great est blister ou humanity. Yet is this instrumenr of torture used with a fre - quency and a readiness which implies but a slight apprehension of the misery that it can produce. Envy, jealousy, spite from rivalry, or from real or imagined affronts, prompt men and women to evil speaking. But very often they say severe and un. kind things in mere wantonness. Sometimes they do so just to appear witty. They present each as pect of the character as a jeweler would turn the several facets of a diamond; not, however, as he, in order to excite increased admiration, but rather that they may intensify what is ridiculous. Thus are reputations murdered as recklessly—perhaps as sportively—as boys kill butte:flies. One of the most common ways in which people injure each other is by ascribing their actions to unworthy motives. This kind of judging is con demned with much emphasis in the teachings ot our Savior. But it strikes us that had He delivered no utterance on the subject, the.charity dictated by reason would have forbidden the practice. Upon the overt act we may pronounce ; but when we pass beyond that and attempt to decide the motive, we are liable and likely to be ranch at fault. Bad ac tions, we know, are not always the results of bad intentious. Much of the mischief that has been done In the world has been done by men who were sincerely conscientious.- If we should put a charita ble construction upon the motives of those who act badly, how much more imperative is it that we should pass no harsh judgments upon those whose conduct is unexceptionable. Yet do we hear people flippantly say of a Divine that he preaches for pay or of a politician that his friendliness is but a bate for votes, or of amerchant that his liberality is only an enticement of trade. All such remarks areoften untrue and always UDjust. They serve to show, however, that he who makes them is conscious of she baseness which he imputes to others. One may well be distrusted who seems ever ready to lmpnte some grovelling motive to the actions of his fellows The tongue requires onr constant watchcare. We- may control our hands that they strike not. We may direct our feet so that we “shun the broad road.” But how hard, how very hard it ia so to re strain the tODgue that It speak no: word of hasty wrath, nor let fall any biting sarcasm, nor utter aDy expression of ridicnle. It can he done only by an ex ercise of that( charity which “beareth all things, be- leiyeth all things, hopeth all things, eadureth all things.” • * The House has passed the bill admitting salts of quinine and sulphate of quinine duty free. This is an excellent measure and will receive general com mendation. There is no more popular medicine or one more generally used than quinine, and no obstacle should be put in the way of its manufacture and sale. The late Prince Imperial is said to have told an American gentleman, who was visiting England last year, that the French people were like cham pagne,ana that their best effervescence was reserved for the proclamation of the Third Empire. This story is calculated to excite a doubt whether we shall admire the enthusiasm of the Prince or the imagination of the American gentleman. Lily Dner at Home.—A letter from Snow- Hill contradicts the published report that ‘Lily Du- er shows no remorse for the killing of her friend, Miss Hearn, and no shame because of her trial at Snow Hill and her conviction of manslaughter. As to her starting on a lecture tour to speculate on public curiosity, the correspondent alluded to, says, nothing is farther from Miss Duer’s thoughts. She seems to shrink from any more publicity, though her elastic nature sustains her wonderfully, and no doubt pride makes her put on as brave a face as she can. A friend, who accompanied her from Snow Hill after the trial, said the congratu lations of her friends on her release failed to win from her any more than a sad,flitting smile. ‘I never want to see Snow Hill again. I am done with court and pistols forever,’said this young creature whose foolish, feverish ambition to appear eccentric and mannish, has over shadowed her life forever. Very few people believe that she intended really to shoot her friend. They think that the threat and the pointing of the pistol were in part mere bravado— and in part nervous, hardly voluntary actions. The obscenely sensational view a portion of the Northern press has taken of the affair, has no foun dation in truth. Certain newspapers have repre sented Lily Duer as an abnormal monster with mas culine passions, and not only this, but a type of a class of females, existing and widely increasing, ‘who love women as men love them, but who ex cept among the demi-monde, manage to conceal their unnatural predilections, through shame. An assertion which is either deliberately false for sen sation’s sake, or the offspring of an impure and morbid imagination. Lily Duer is merely an ex treme type of that class of girls (unfortunately not a small one) who are tired of the monotonous, beaten track, and want to step out of it, and be or do something unusual. They are usually girls with large imaginations, fevered by unhealthy novels, and highly strung nervous systems. And they are in the possession of more energy, and more force of brain and muscle than they have scope to expend or judgment to direct. Consequently, they are restless, dissatisfied; they take up with wild ideas, and morbid fancies—anything to fill ths vacuum in their lives so abhorrent to their natures and ill-di rected lUpirations. Ldlie Duer wanted to get out ot the i-ul and do somaihlng"more romantic an5 less hum-drum than the daily house work. She cov eted the masculine opportunities for excitement and activity, the masculine life of freedom from con ventionalities. She took to imitating what she en vied. She found a pleasurable excitement in car rying a pistol, tipping her hat, man-fashion, to her acquaintances and professing an ardent attachment for one of her own sex. Flattered by the charac ter for eccentricity that this gave her, she went further and tried to magnify her reputation for man-like independence by making occasions to draw out her pistol, as a boy just out of jackets would do. The protest and alarm of the timid Ella were no doubt flattering to the pride she took in the male character she was trying to sustain, and she found her the best audience for the little play she thought so romantic, and which terminated in so dreadful a tragedy. One cannot believe that the lesson is lost upon the girl, or that she has not enough depth of nature to feel the keenest remorse for the misery she has wrought in her family and that of the lovely girl, whose young life was de stroyed by her hand. * After the Honeymoon—Man's Love ami Woman's.—Mary Wager Fisher has woven into her story of Ricarda that leads off Appleton's Journal for July, a great many shrewd observations about women, their relation to men, and their place iu the world ol work and purpose. Most of these she puts into the mouth of a kindly but rather cynical bachelor, who gradually, and at first, unwitting, ly is led by his friendship for an old chum into ta king an active interest in the education of his com rade’s daughter, Ricarda a bright and sweet girl left motherless when a baby. The two men tried to make her “a perfect woman nobly planned,” and. when she returns home from Vassar, are troubled about what shall be her destiny. Bachelor Richard (for wr hom Ricarda was named) has shrewd and not ignoble ideas on the subject, and does not give in to th« theory promulgated in languishing poems that love;is; woman’s whole existence. Ricarda’s fattier says: Perhaps Ricarda will have a scientific turn.” "I hope so,” replied Dick; “a turn for something that will save her from the Heman’s theory of‘love, ’tis woman’s whole existence.’ I’m not an experi enced fellow, as you know, Jim, but, in thinking a good deal about Rloarda’s future, I have speculated and observed not a little; and one conclusion that I’ve arrived at is this: in marriage a woman is placed at great disadvantage compared with he r husband, because her all is staked on love, while hi* is not. This makes the balance between them uneven. She goes up, gushes over, and for the first six months wonders, and has her little spells of weeping at her husband,s comparative indifference for the demonstrations attending love-making. Be cause he doesn’t kiss, caress, and shower upon her endearing epithets every other moment, he falls short of her ideal of things, and she thinks some thing is wrong, and it is only after a long and pain ful experience that she learns that, while he loves as deeply as does she, there are also for him other things in life to be thought of. He may be as deep in ieve as water in a well, yet he tires of a daily go ing through with the love alphabet. He likes things to be taken for granted. He wants his wife to ac cept his ‘unutterable devotions’ as the man did who pinned his prayers at the head of his bed, and upon retiring and rising would say, ‘Lord, behold my sentiments.’ So I hold that if a woman has an aim in life, distinct from leve, but consonant with It, she will be i he happier as a wife, and give her husband more happiness too, because she is made by it more companionable. Love feeding continually upon itself must consume itself. Like everything else, it must have space, air, and soil, in which to strike deep and broad its roots, and shake out its branches to the sun. The difference between the love of a woman of broad culture and that of one who knows nothing but to love, and want» to do nothing but to love, is like that between an oak in an open field and a Jerusalem cherry-tree in a geranium-pot.” People of the grande passion sort are the one who get divorces. They rise in love, instead of fall in it —their head is first immersed, and they’re made blind, deaf, and dumb, to everything else. I’d rather get it as the Baptist does his immersion, feet first. As regards the Hemans theory, that “love is ol man’s life, a thing apart, I know it to be fallacious.’’ A man’s life is spun of many threads, but lying un derneath—it may be from view—but interweaving and brightening all the others, it runs like a band of gold, the Btrong, enduring, unrusted, and unfad ing thread among them. * Good Sense.—A writer speaks In the following justly indignant terms of a practice which some* times obtains, of dressing little girls in exact accor dance with the prevailing fashion, with scrupu lous imitation of their elders: “When I look at a child, I do not wish to feel doubtful whether it Is not an unfortunate dwarf who is standing before me attired in a costume suitedlto her age. Extreme simplicity of attire, and a dreas sacred to themselves only, and most fitted to those fresh female buds; and it vexes me to see them disguised in the fashions ofLa Belle As sembles, or practicing the graces and courtesies of maturer life. Wis? there not be years enough be tween thirteen-' l £iid seventeen for ornamenting or disfiguring the person at the flat of French milli ners, for checking laughter and forcing smiles, for reducing all varieties of intellect, all gradations of feeling to one uniform tint? Is there not already a sufficient sameness in the aspect and tone of pol-, ished life! Oh, leave children as they are, to relieve by their wild freshness our elegant insipidity; leave their hair looselv flowing, robes as free, to refresh the eyes that love simplicity, and leave their eager ness, tbeir warmth, their unreflecting sincerity, and unschooled expiations of Joy or regret, to amuse and delight us. when we are a little tired by the politeness, the wisdom, and the coldness of the grown up world.” IIow to Take the World.—If you take this iife to be simply what old religious folks pretend, (we mean the effete, gone to seed in*a drought, mere human galls stung by the devil once), then all your joy and serenity is reduced to grinning and bear ing it. The fact is you have got to take the world on your shoulders like Atlas, and put along with it. You will do this for an idea’s sake, and your suc cess will be in proportion to your devotion to ideas. It may make your back ache occasionally, but you have the satisfaction ol hanging it or twirling it to suit yourself. Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy. Alter a long day’s walk with it, pitch it intoa hollow place, sit down and ejtfOur luncheon. Unexpectedly,by some immortal thoughts, you will be compensated. The bank whereon you sit, will be a fragrant and flowery one, and your world in the hollow a sleek and light gazelle. Singular Deaths.—Strange mischances with fatal results are daily happening here and there. A Boston Butcher 1 an against a knife that lay on a block, severed aD artery and bled to death. A Denver woman caught her foot in a railroad frog and could not get loose before a train ran over her. A Vermont fanner sneezed with a straw in his mouth, drew it into bis lungs and died choking. A horse kicked a Michigan boy into a deep well, where he was drowned. The shoe flew off the foot of a kicking mule in Nashville and fractured the skull of a baby. Au Oregon girl swallowed her engagement ring and lived only a week after wards. Whilejjtanding on his head on the top of a high fenctvwsjypowjbwa boy lost his balance, fell fnto’a tiilTSf VV^^r and was 'fj&aliv seuideTT A stone, thrown %y a playfellow, broke a glass from which a St. Louis boy was drinking, driving some of the pieces down his throat, and he died a few days atterwards in great agony. Looking up to watch the flight of an arrow, a Nashville woman did not see it descending directly over her head, and the sharp metal point penetrated her brain through one of her eyes, killing her instantly. Washington and Lee University. Commencement Exercises.—Jots and Generalities. The present week marks the 30th anniversary of the institution now so well known as Washington and Lee University. Its commencement exercises were appropriately inaugurated Sunday morning, June 22nd, with the baccalaureate sermon delivered by Rev. Dr. Rogers, of Baltimore, from Ecc. XII, 13, 14, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole mat ter; fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of man. For God shall bring every work into Judgment, whether it be good or whether it be evil:” I am sorry that limited space forbids an ex tended notice of this excellent sermon; for, waving all attempt at scientific and metaphorical discus sion, Dr. Rogers in a beautiful and touchingly pa thetic manner, worked the Christian’s path, and pointed to Christ as the Savior of men. Sunday night, theaddress before the Y. M. C. As sociation was delivered by Rev. J. R. Bowman, D. New York city is just now agitated over Spinola’s steam heating scheme. The authorities are very doubt ful about its practicability and want to know something ljiore alwiut it before granting to a company the right of laying pipes throughout the city. As is well known, the purpose isto supply houses with heat for both cooking and warming purposes by means of steam. The experi ment has been tried in ’Lockport, New York, ana has proven successful there. An English Husband. It is a common boast with English people and their admirers that English women are the only wives who are real companions to their husbands. We are told that they can ride, walk, sail, and climb Alps; that they wear stout shoes and seasonable clothes: that is delightful to behold them sharing their husbands’ healthy pastimes. It is true that English ladies do ail these things; it is touching to think of the trouble they must take from earliest years to fit themselves to be the companions of men. Anybody who has seen one of them in the full en joyment of her privileges—coming into Chamouni after crossing the Coul du Geant, for instance, hot draggled, —, j —.. — , with a cold in her head and no skin on her nose, trudg- D. of Harrisburg, from John VI, 9. There is a lad | ing half a furlong in the rear of a silent-eross-looking Which hath five barley loaves and two small fishes. But what are they among so many.” Monday evening came the boat-race, that event which is looked forward to, and talked about by everybody; the event of the week if we may judge from the number always present. The contestants were the Henry Lees—sporting red colors—and the Albert Sidneys, rejoicing in the color of the Univer sity-blue. Of course you must wear either red or blue, yet some seemingly undecided ones do wear both colors. Among the many deco.ations we notice some really handsome red and blue flags at the houses of Pro fessors. There was a poor start by both crews but the Henry Lees had the advantage and kept it—run ning in at the end of the mile and a half course full thirty boat lengths ahead. Monday night the chapel was filled with the “Youth and Beauty” Irom the town and visitors irom a distance (of which there was a goodly num ber) to witness the celebration of the Washington and Graham-Lee I At. Societies. The Washington conferred her debater’s medal on J. R. Tyson, of Ala.. TheUrabamLee presented W. F. Paxton, of Msss., with the debater’s medal, and A. W. Mar shall, of Kty., with declaimer’s medal. The “Gra ham” oration was delivered by H. Bruce, of Kty., that of the “Wash.” by J. D. Poxton. Va. After the orations, Hon J R. Tucker, with a happy speech, presented the champion gold cup to Geo. J. Preston, Captain of the Henry Lee boat crew, to be held by the crew till lost. In addition, Mr. Preston indi vidually received a beautiful and costly silver boat, for being the “best oar” on the winning crew. The Santini prize medal (for best essay on “Sou thern Collegian) was received by R. F. Campbell, Va., and the Bell prize (second best essay on S. C.) by W. S. Currell. The Alumni banquet was repaired to immediately after the society celebration. It was quite a handsome affair we hear. Rev. Dr. H. M. White D. D., of Winchester, Va„ delivered the address before the Alumni, Tuesday night. After this excellent oration and a beautiful piece ofmusic by Professor Sellers, Dr. Kirkpatrick offered a prayer, and with appropriate remarks un veiled the Ly ncli memorial Tablet. This is a slab of marble of purest wnite bearing in raised letters the simple words—“In memory of William C. Lynch, of Loudon Co. drowned in an heroic attempt to save the life of a fellow-student, on Christinas Day, 1878. Erected by his fellow-studeuts June 1879.” That is ail, but tiiat is enough to wake in each heart the sad emotion that memory brings of his unselfish devotion. While standing on one side of North river he saw his fellow-studentbreak through the ice. He immediately started running to his as sistance, but when within a few feet ol his friend, when he could have almost have touched him, young Lynch fell through and while struggling in the icy water, refused every offer of assistance, di recting all to leave him and “save Randall!”. Ail at once, it is not known why, he sank never to rise alive. Surely greater love than this hath no one, “that a man lay down his life f >r his friend.” Ou June 25th, Commencement day, J. H, Hamil ton, B. S., deli vered the University Prize Oration. Henton Gordon, B L., of Mo., the Law class Ora tion. F. K. Leovell, M. A., theJCincinnati Oration. A. W. Gaines, A. B„ the valedictory. Col. William Preston Johnston, of Va., addressed the societies. Wednesday night, the “Final Ball” closed the exer cises of Commencement. It is thought: the Lee mau soleum will be ready for the unveiling of the “Lee Statue” next year. We are needing rain here badly—the river has fallen so much that boats with difficulty make their way up t“ this point. For all the fuss about sorry wheat—the crop is turnb-g out very well, the heads being well tilled—clover, too is better than was an ticipated. There have been a great many visitors in town 14>is w£Pk attending the Cominencem .set hind wait lug for the closing exercises’of the Va. military In stitution next week. Lexington, Va., June 27, 1879. M. man—must have been impressed with their ideal of hu man felicity. HOw They Return from Leautville. ‘‘Why is it,” asks a correspondent, “that if Leaviile is as had a place as you desetibe it, we never see any of the people who go there come backOh, well, that is easily enough exp!»ined. When a young man sets out for Leadvule, he arrays himself conspicuously for a day or two prior to his departure; then he has the fact of his going and the train he will take, announced in the vil las 0 paper, and at the appointed time he goes rattling down to the depot in an open carriage two hours before I™ 1 ’ 1 time, and swaggers up and down the platform while he waits, and as the train goes off he leans out of the window and yells a personal goodby to everybody on the platform. But when he comes back he times his return so as to strike his native town by a back road, after dark; then he sneaks home through the alleys, climbs over the back fence, taps at the kitchen window and begs under his breath, to be let in ; and then he stays hi bed three or four days, while his new clothes are being made and the doctor is trying to count the blisters on his feet. Oh, it’s easy to explain why we never see them come back; but they do come back all the same. The Mnrpliy.Hill Matter. [Atlanta Constitution.) We clip the following paragraph from a Washington dispatch to the Savannuh News: It is stated on good authority that the reconciliation between Messrs. Stephens and Hill means more than ap pears on the surface. Hill is to press the Murphy mat ter before the state legislature and attempt the adoption of the minority and the rejection of the majority report on that investigation. Stephens and Hill will make common cause in this matter. It is said they will also unite on Dr. Felton as a gubernatorial candidate and try to secure his nomination by the democratic party. Should they fail in that, Felton is to run as an inde pendent candidate. We do not believe a word of this, and its publication was doubtless inspired by some one who hoped to reap some temporary benefit from it. That Mr. Stephens should be ready to fall into line with Mr. Hill on this matter, when it is known tliut lie hies uttered sentiments directly the reverse, is pressing too much on the reputa tion of a statesman who is proverbially cautious. We have never believed that Mr. Hill would ask the legisla ture to do anything in connection with this matter, lie became satisfied at the last session that the legislature would adopt the majority report, and he will not, there fore, renew the contest before the present session. We are, in fact, convinced that lie will abandon the case be cause he is not satisfied with it as it stands. We hope, however, that the legislature will not permit the inves tigation to be dropped without taking such action as justice dictates. If Mr. Hill has magnified an alleged private wrong into a public wrong, let that be establish ed, and let the blame and the condemnation which the facts justify fall in the right places. The public good demands that there be no suppression of the truth in this notorious ease. AN EXODUS OU MADMEN. B’iiat Hie Ross Planter of Mississippi, Col. Kicliartlson. says about it. The Negro Preachers keep the ball its motion. MUSIC ASA STUDY. Friendly Talk With Our Lady Graduates. Nashville Banner. During the last few days the Banner has pub lished full accounts of the closing exercises at a number of female schools and seminaries, and of the performances of the graduating classes. Essays and compositions were read and musical recitals which to judge by the selections, taken from com posers given in their programmes, it would appear, that they had attained great proficiency in that art. Now, the question naturally arises as to how far has that difficult science been cultivated? Music is one of the most intricate problems to solve, and requires deep, conscientious and long study, to do it. To know thoroughly the rudim uts, and to so far understand the construction of music s to be a source of pleasure can only be accomplished by hard study: add to this the almost insurmountable dif ficulties of die mechanical part of the study, and it wi II be safe to say that not one in twenty of the young ladies who figured on these programmes will in five years be able to play the pieces they did within the last few days, and to touch the piano will in the other cases, be abandoned altogether. Why should this be so? It is to anyone who re flects, easy enough to understand, when they know that the majority of girls who study music are not taught the science thoroughly. The value of the notes and time are two as dry subjects as any child could have placed before it, and, consequently, to force it to learn them, great care and attention from the teacher is necessary'; and this, in most instances, is not given. In a month after the first lesson, the child is given a piece to learn. The scales are almost entirely neglected, and the princi ples of music iguored. Suffice that they learn some few airs, and arrive at sufficient proficiency to play in public, and all is well Every piece learned is the result of hum-drumming, like a parrot learning to talk, until the pupil is tired and dirgu»ted with it. They never become able to take up a piece of ordinarily difficult music and read it off at sight. The consequence is, that when they become mis tress of themselves, they neglect at nrst and finally abandon all they ever did learn. Music has to be learned, as we learn to read. As infants. we are.taught our alphabet, and It takes years of training to accomplish the task of reading. Bo it is with evudfe- The great instrumentalists of the world all began to learn music in their extreme childhood, and only by constant perseverance did they succeed. Music to them Is like a newspaper to us—each note is known, its value, and sound, just as we know the letters. It is a pleasure, and such examples as this never forsake the art. but continue to improve through life. The statistical number of persons who arrive at excellence in music, out or the number who begin to study it, is absurdly small, and it is a great question as to whether the torture imposed upon the majority of children, in making them study music, is Justifia ble or not. Ask anyone who has passed through the ordeal, and unless it be from one who had per severed and sufficiently mastered the difficulties, she will say that the unhappiest hours of life were those passed in practising. Thousands of dollars are thus uselessly thrown away on children who Wade Hampton’s Ideas. The South and therPresidency-The Negro Poilitics. in There is another thing which ought not to be overlooked—that while the South is wholly Demo cratic and constitutes the strength of the Demo cratic party, we do not intend to ask a place upon the Presidential ticket for a Southern man. We want the party in the North to place two good men on the ticket and we will support it for the national success of the Democratic party. With reference to the personal choice of the South for particular Presidential candidates, I do not think the South has any. I believe there has been a feel ing that in justice to the old ticket it should be re nominated. There are many reasons, however, which may be urged against this, and the refusal of Mr. Hendricks to be put in nomination again seems to render it impossible. I don’t think the South cares a copper who the next presidential candidate may be, as long as he is a strong ration al man. They do not care where he comes from or what his financial views may be. There is a great deal of mis ipprehension in the North as to the political condition of the negroes in the South. They seein to think that a colored man is bound to be a Republican because he is a colored man. But 1 know personally many colored men iu South Carolina who have always been consistent Democrats, and have suffered in consequence. There are only 75,000 white voters in my States, and 90,000 colored voters. The latter, therefore, hold the balance of power. When I was elected Governor there were only 119,500 votes cast, and only 213 scattering votes were thrown against me and I was undoubtedly elected by the colored vo ters, who at that time had all the machinery of elections in their hands. There was not a quarrel or a fisticuff fight at that election. The Republi cans could not put a ticket in the field because the colored people were satisfied. A New Anecdote of Gen. Lee. To-day an accident occurred which gratified me more than anything that has happened for a long time. As I was riding over the most desolate re gion, where not even a cabin could be seen, I was surprised to find, on a sudden turn in the road, two little girls playing on a large rock. They were poorly clad, and after looking a moment at me be gan to run away. “Children, said I, ‘don’t run away! if you eould know who I am, you would know that I am the last man in the world for anybody to run from now. ’ ‘But we do know you,’ they replied. ‘You never saw me before, for I never passed along here.’ ‘But we do know you and we’ve got your picture up yonder in the house, and you are Gen. Lee, and can never even rise to mdicocricy. Thai berg, Liszt we aint dressed clean enough to see you.’ and such great pianists, in order to keep up to the FFitta this they scampered off to a poor hut on degree of superiority at which they had arrived, by J - a lifetime of study, pass six or eight hours daily in „ - . .— — 1 daily i„ practicing. Singers like Patti, Nillson, Albani, and others, can not afford to let pass a day without ex ercising their voiees, and yet these persons have mounted to the very summit in their musical edu cation. Every school, seminary or institute, where music is taught, should have the children instructed thoroughly from the beginning; no pieces, nothing but the stern, cold subject, then after six months it would be easy to csll from the number those who were intent upon conscientious study, and who were not. If any showed signs of distaste to the study, it would b© an act of justice to discontinue it, just to both child and parent. Without this rudi. mental knowledge, successful performance is impos sible : so why try to force upon a mind what it can not accept. Such superficial learning is of no use to auy one, but rather detrimental. We hope our yonng lady readers wi 1 not take offence at the above, as it is prompted by the purest motives, and we only desire to ofler it as advice, which, if taken in good part and followed with an honest determination to accomplish the ends for which it was intended, will be a sufficient reward for the severe criticisms whiah some of them may pass upon it. the mountain side. Romulons founded Rome, but Shakspeare reared a Hamlet. Embrace every opportunity that offers, but only one woman. An old farmer once said with more truth than elegance, “There are two talks in this world to one do.” Of the 18,109 immigrants arrived in New York during last month, 2533 were from England, 3142 from Ireland, 4420 from Germany, 2501 from Swe den, 1058 from Norway, s86 from France, 503 from 'Switzerland. Prof. Duges, of Mexico, writes to the Smithsonian Institution ofa great flight of cow- birds (the com mon cow-bird or molotbrus pecoria). The flight was twelve thousand yards in length, six yards wide and one yard deep. He estimates the number oontained in the flight at 10/100,000 birds. A few of the red-winged blackbirds were in the column. [N. Y. World.) Colonel E. Richardson, of Mississippi, who came North to attend the commencement exercises at Princeton, where his son was graduated on Wednesday, talked freely of the negro exodus with a World Reporter at the St. Nicholas recently. He lives at Jackson, but his real estate and other interests are in all parts of tlio State. He has nineteen plantations in the rich lands above Vicksburg, and his property also includes a large section ■of Washingtomuid 'ios ou the Xazzno bottom. Tlie eombineuTT??v!^V nis plantations under cultivation is 18,000, of which lfgOnO are in cotton, with a total yield of 10,000 bales, or 45,000,000 pounds. Concerning the exodus Col. Richardson says: “It is a far more serious case than many people, especially here in the North, have any idea of, and the real motives of this infatuation which has come upon the colored peo ple of the Southwest have not yet been made public, it is partly political, for with the dying of the bloody shirt cry the report is again set afloat that the negroes of the South are ill-treated. X venture to say, from what I have seen on my travels here and there all over the world, that no working population is so well treated as the negroes of Mississippi. They do not average more than six hours a day ot work all the year round. You in this city of New York have people dying of starva tion. Such a tiling is not known with us. But just now there seems to have come over the whole people a sort of delirium. It is a semi-religious fantasy and they are rushing like sheep into this exodus. It’s in some measure a ‘revival’ and is strongest among the women. I remember one woman whom 1 asked why she was go ing to Kansas. Placing her hand on her breast she said she had a revelation from God to go. What can you do in such a ease ? It is not possible to talk, tor the field- hand population live in the direst ignorance. They seem to move in blocks or groups as yet. Here and there, there will be a sudden uprising, and away all the hands of a plantation will go for the river, leaving the place without u moment’s warning, bound for the Tree’ or ‘gospel boat’ as they call it. Some of them have mon ey, but most are paupers. They make the greatest sac rifice. Often at sundown a hand will make up his mind to go and an hour afterwards he will have settled his af fairs. If he have horses, or cows, or mules, they go at anv price. A horse worth SUtl is sold for §25, and house hold utensils go in the same way. and at sunrise the whole family is on route, whither they have not the least idea. They get on the boat and think they are go ing right through to kingdom come. It is a species of mania, but it does not grow without some fostering, and there are agents engaged in fomenting it. They travel as sewing machine agents and see the women and a few men. The agents have pictures of Kansas life and man ners. One little lithograph lias the cut ofa neat cot tage. Iu the gallery outside sits an old negro, with his feet cocked up. plenty of his teeth showing as he smokes a cigar, while looking in at the open door a negro girl is seen playing at the piano, and a gay looking white beau turns the leaves for her. This is actually given as a pic ture of Kansas life, anil the colored people believe that the government or God or somebody is ; (J provide just such homes tor them. V later notion are little flags, barely bigger than the palm of your hand. These are supposed to be in the nature of passports, and the ne groes think that with these they can pass any where without money and without price. Somebody has told them so anil they gulp down the most absurd rumors and the wildest assertions, provided they come indi rectly enough. It is very dithcult to find but just who are acting as emissaries. On one plantation a man hired himself as a wood-chopper and did chop fora time act ing all the while as an agent among the negroes. When he had done this lie crossed the river and sent back his compliments with a letter saying that wood-chopping was not his business. Conway is the leader in the whole matter. He is the carpet-bagger and ex-school fund commissioner of Louisiana, and he is making a good thing out of his agitation. Money is pouring into his hands from various quarters to be used in sending out emissaries to rouse up the colored people. r ' “I think the best way to deal with them is to let them go and get thoroughly satisfied. Just before I came here 1 heard that over 100 hands, from a little place of mine near the river, had stopped short and were getting ready to start for Kansas. They wisiied to see me and I went. They hud the flags and were firing oil' guns and raising a great rumpus like so many lunatics. I asked them where they were going, but they did not know I told them such a move was foolish and to avoid get ting them into trouble offered to allow them to pick out two men from among themselves whose expenses to Kansas I would pay and who could make arrangements for meeting the rest of the company when it arrived They agreed to this and went back to their quarters but though I several times sent to find out who the two men were they had not yet been picked out “What loss will bo incurred if the exodus becomes more general before the nicking season is over it is im possible to say. It would be very serious and would produce very much distress in Mississippi. The sending down of emissaries to lure away the colored peonle is precisely such work as ti we should come North to Full River and tell the operatives there a set of lies to trot them to rush off somewhere. 1 have not heard of anv attempt to cheek the exodus. I would rather do the re verse. I remember one case of an old woman who had been in the families of one of the little places I bought She wanted to stay, and I said yes, of course, and she had a cabin and got her rations regularly. One dav the agent said she wanted $2 to go to Kansas. I said - '“Yes give her §10 and harness up a team to the wagon to start her off.” Now, what use was it for her to go'* Onlv she had an idea that it was so much nearer Jordan if not all the way there. The people are crazy, that is all, and when they get over it they will—if they can—come back. I have sent an agent out to Kansas with instructions to use his judgment about sending them back when the fever dies out. The negro preachers and deacons are full of it, and preach it m their pulpits, making nlentv of converts among the women, and they spread it in a neighborhood. When the sending-back time eom^ those whom we don t want will be left, you may be sure.