The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-03-13

"And the Prophet that teache,h lies he is the
"For the leaders of this people cause them to err;
| "And they that nre led Of them, are destroyed
IsAIAms PRorIIEcY.
What would become of certain lady
who never gives the least chance to any one
to say word in conversation, if she was
to be ruled by the maxim of that sage that
has promulgated the bold proposition, that
one ought only to speak on things VIC arc
acquainted with, and never to speak of them
but according to our conviction, and with
candor and simplicity, In few minutes,
she would be nodding and bowing to all
her company, and she would receive the
same in return. The learned Sanclo Panza.
under such rule, might last a dag, and
our Congress an hour, and most of our
writers of the day, the time to express
some severe remarks, about their ignorance
or stupidity. A certain philosopher has
said that everything is in everything"
while another has said, in fit of il-humor,
that everything is like everything" and
another has said that, men were all alike.
women alone were different"
1t is true, that the wise may find conso-
lation in solitude and sermons in stones ::
friends in forest, and objects of affection
IN the spider that is the prisoners compan-
ION, or world Of happiness in n poor,
puny plant; and that, after all, things re-
scmbIe each other, more than we are aware,
lho line or partition that separates good
from bad, virtue from vice, honesty from
roguery, love from hate, truth from false
hood, tho virtuous from the vicious, the
great from the little, is exceedingly thin.
One soon steps over this almost inperccpti-
bic chalk line. Aud besides, things are
never as ugly, or as beautiful, as foolish or
rs wise, as we fancy them to be. The cx-
! ceptions are very rare.
Therefore, conversation, in most cases in
our days, in the fashionable world in cities
has to make its escape into the most outre
cxaggggeratons. Things are no longer called
by their names, and superlatives complete
every phrase that falls upon You like a
pound Of lead. They try h raise their
importance and render themselves more
interesting by this excessive exaggeration.
Nothing is simple, nothing is natural, there
are no children, or simple innocence, or
artless simplicity, thanks to our improved
artificial civility, and mushroom cduca-
| lion.
What we see in society, makes the
thinker and observer skcptical rs to the
great advantages of this varnish of c,luca-
ton that many receive. We will take III,
extreme case | have just read of in :,
French Journal, to illustrate naturally dc.
! veloprd faculties under the most unf;,vor.-
ble circumstances. plcco, an Italian shcp.
herd boy, but now % years old, born blind,
Is now the wonder and the lion of Paris,
though they say, nc is half wild in his
habits. He learnt, no one knows how, to
play OIL chil,l's whistle, s,iri u wooden
one as can i,e purchased for cent, with
NIL its sharp and shriII and in:oIcrably harsh
sounds, as We all well know; with such n
miserable instrument, with three only stops
or holes, and without ever having been
taught, makes with this ungrateful instru.
ment the most mclo'lious music, so as to
astonish even the connosscurs Of Italian
operas. Nothing is more astonishing and
strange. How does it happen that semi
savage shepherd Of the Appcnninc, should
have been able to transform this rustic
whistle into most admirable instrument,
which seems as an echo of the feelings of
this musical soul, clad in this rude envelop.
with one of its avenues quite shut out
| By what marvellous instinct has this AIpin
creature felt, through one single organ, the
harmony of created things, and the beau
ties of existences which people the uni
verse, and which he has never been able
to contemplate! Yes, sublime instinct
alone enabled him to feel with his mind
and heart all tho wonders of sensation; il,
the midst of an eternal night, he has felt
these sounds, these harmoncs spring from
his heart, and used the first and rulcst in
strument that fall under his hands, to pour
out his soul in harmonious modulations
Thus he has created world of his own,
and every pure emotions spring from this
unknown soul, through this rustic tube
and this virtuoso, becomes the Paganini Of
the whistle. He has had the most COM
plcte success. lie has charmed and dc.
lighted everybody. lie played all the
grand morccaux of music, of the great
masters, and this was considered a miracle
His only teacher has been: Quel cantc
che relPanima s.; sente"
Extracted from the Journal Of Traveller.
Asmodius, the Devil on two sticks, ot
LIE Sage, was very impertinent and inquis
tive fellow. He spared no one, like certain