The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-02-09

Hero as Sreen as any VI tnelr naIVe lslanu, OF
which h0mesteads may be purchased with
the labor of single year. There would
be no costs or perils in the enterprise the
process would sustain ITSELF the emigrant
could soon refund the cost of transportation,
and ON Irish State could be established here
that would soon transcend the possible glo.
ries of the parent isle.
ONE OF THE heaviest institutions in the
line of newspaperdom in the United States,
is the New York Nation. It's writer's are
heavy, its articles are heavy, and its capital
must necessarily be heaviest of all, inasmuch
as it requires the largest kind of sinking
fund to stand the pressure of the great pecu-
MARY losses this heavy establishment must
sustain, if it pays its writers heavy prices for
their heavy articles.
But these heavy articles have nothing but
their weight and length to recommend them,
inasmuch as they are the dullest, most un-
meaning, most senseless trash that can be con-
ceived. But there are exceptions to all rules;
and this paper noted for heavy articles, some
times publishes very light ones-heavy-head-
ed, 'tis true, but written by exceedingly light
headed penny-a-line writer's The Nation is
now publishing a series of nonsensical letters
from an imaginative correspondent, of which
the letters and the light-headed writer) they
are SO exceedingly vain, that they boast
about the former and refuse to give tue name
of the latter.
These letters, which are entitled "Tho
South as 1t Is," and which ought to he enti-
tied "The South MS 1t Isn't" have been as
cribed to Mr.. CARL ScHURz, who light very
we'll have written them; but the editor of
the Nation denies that Mr.. ScHUaz is the
author, and adds, that there is not the sli ght-
est use for anybody to endeavor to find out
who is. Now we would inform the Nation
that no one has any desire to know the name
of the imaginative correspondent, who, SO
long as he CON draw on the Nation for his
FIVE dollars column, or whatever lis, thinks
it his duty to draw rs largely on his powers
of invention in writing letters from the South
which he is anxious to make as interesting
as possible. The imaginative author of the
articles entitled "The South as 1t Is," in
forms the New York Nation and the nation
at large, that since August last traffic in
negroes has been carried on between several
points on the Southern coast and the Islaad
of Cuba. The correspondent says the busi-
ness is remunerative; We have no doubt that
it is-if it is true that it is carried on. The
1Eghtheaded correspondent of the heavy
headed letters proceeds to state that we all
despise the Yankees, and quotes remarks
which he heard-or imagined he heard
from three or four men, one or two old women,
and two or three young children. These re-
marks are considered by him as exponsnts of
the public sentiment, and are retailed out to
the Nation as such. There is no use for us
to endeavor to set things to rights, so long as
these highly imaginative and salary-drawing
correspondents remain among US, to write
such letters, calculated to belle us and our SEN
timents in the eyes of our Northern brethren.
IF this identical correspondent were engaged
tomorrow at larger salary by the Ncw York
Daily NcmS, or the Metropolitan Record, we
feel assured that the tenor of his letters would
bo entirely different. We know enough
about the newspaper business TO be aware of
the fact, that a correspondent always writes
in strain that he knows will be most agreea-
BILE to the editors of the paper with which
he corresponds and from which he draws his
pay. This is the great secret of the tissue Of
gross misrepresentation which creep into
the Northern papers of ultra political views.
This is the secret of the heavy-headed articles
by the light-headed correspondent from Ma
con, Columbus, Ga, and elsewhere in the
South.
THE NAssACAUsETTs Anti-slavery Society
held its thirty-fifth annual meeting in Boston
last week. Slavery being abolished, the
Board of Managers, seconded by WM. LLOYD
GARRISON in speech, recommended the dis
solution Of the Society as an organ without
function. Wendell PHILLIPS opposed the
dissolution, and was sustained by strong
vote, including THEODORE TILroN of the In
dependent.
WENDELL PHILLIrs is so invariahlc and
authentic Il forerunnpr ot rho Ro,uhl;.,n,