The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-01

n resent them as impertinent. They never
thin> cf launching out against personal
nomp as ISAIAH did against the wimples
the tires and the tinkling ornaments of the maid-
ems and dowagers of.Jerusalem, or as Chaplain
I WINSTON denounced the dashing toilette Of Queen
ANNE, or as JOHN KNOX thundered against the
''latest French styles" of MARY STUART. There Ii
a story told Of WINSTON, by the way, which is
apropos of the subject in hand. One day that Doll
divine was reading prayers In Queen ANNEs anle'
| room, while his sovereign but not partic~ar!'
sober lady was 1obng herself in the apartment ae'
| ioinine-the door between the rooms belng lep
open, that her spirit might be comforted wnhe 'ns
process of personal decoration was gong Oh
Something in the Chaplain's prayer happening ~
displease her, she ordered one OF her women I"
close the door, upon which he stopped praying
1be oueen angriiy demanded why he did not pro-
ceed. Because said WINSTON, u DO not cnooS.
to whistle the Word Of God through the key-noie.
The fashionable world of to-day is just as ready Us
Queen ANNE was to close the door against any doc-
trine that conflicts with its passion for SHOW. II
niety and parade can be dove-tailed together, well
and good; if not, parade before piety, ana let
| Scripture be whistled through the key-hole.
WY GOLD Boy?" Can any casuist give plaus-
ible reason for the be stowal Of this nickname on
the arch-Aend? MOSES introduces him as q snake;
MILTON, as debauched-looking spirit-"an aroil-
angel ruined:n and most Of the early Fathers do
,,ict him az a Protean monster, without single
Leneaging shape in his repertoire OF ransiormi'-
tions. In German legends, we meet with nln, o.
casionally, disguised as gentleman, put always
With sardonic glare in his eyes and lvidness oi
complexion incompatible with the idea of boyhood.
Wbarasore. then, ssOld Bey?' The title applies
much more legitimately to an ethereal mtela-
pence, of very different nature. The poetic
| Greeks embodied Lovein the form OF fascinating
little urchin, with flet over his eyes, and the
pretty brat of paganism is such an apt emoodl-
ment of the sentiment that the imagination OF
Christendom has adopted him just as he has
come down to us in shirtiess innocence. Cupid
is the Oldest boy extant, and just as fresh
TODAY as he was thousands of years ago.
paphos. however, was not his birthplace,
nor was he Graded in a r:se. THAT'S n
story" He was born in Eden, at the very
moment when Eve and ADAM first looked into
each others eyes; and the tears OF rapture which
they shed on that happy occasion were the eH1r
u,tg in which he was baptized. From that day to
this, his purple wings have never lost feather,
nor his cheeks dimple. Six thousand years-be
the same more OF less-have left him still the
Brightest Baby IN the world. Glorious old boy
he laughs at "Time's efacing fingers" and shakes
his curls defantly in the face Of Fate. The same
old story that he told to JACOB and BoAz, and
6a all to- And
of wonders, it s never stale! Cynics insist that,
babyish as he seems, the little fellow iS not exempt
from that vice of old age called covetousness; that,
notwithstanding his apparent blindness, he has
keen eye for the main chance; and that, when Pow
erty comes in at the door, he makes way through
the window. But that's SANDER. There is, IN
deed, vile little mercenary imposter, no more
like him in principle tnan pickpocket ID Ike q
priest who assumes his name and trades on 1t,
but Cupid hin self has not mean streak in his
composition. He is the quintessence OF all that is
disinterested and unselAsh-an "old boy, pure
and without reproach; and We protest against the
title that Of right belongs to him being bestowed
upon his Internal antthesis.
TEE NpEPENDBNT, looking at the rogues md
pigmies who now follow politics as trade, gives
the following indignant explanation OF the phe-
nomenon: SIT certainly seems anomalous that, as
the country grows great, the mon who manage the
affairs grow smaller. But it is not so strange as
it seems. for it grows out OF the conventions of
later tin 20, which have put the nomination OF can
ddates into the h ands of small men (or worse than
small, who naturally 80 manage matters as to
answer the purposes Of themselves and their class.
The smalness Of the electoral districts has had
married effect in forcing the growth OF small men.
When the districts we're larger, it was essential
that the candidates should be men OF some mark,
OF whom everybody in an extensive district should
have heard at least snd the great mass OF voters
never dreamed OF reaching those heights them
selves By the subdivision Of the constituency lit
tie men look larger; aud by well-understood ar
as many ofthem are to enjoy the legisa-
tive Offices in due rotation, as the limitations OF
man life will allow. This constant succession of in
significant men, invested with fearful powers for
good and evil creates the material for the bribery
and corruption which threatens to eat out the vitas
Of the State They were never heard of before they
pocket what they can get, they disappear to make
way for fresh supply of hungry mediocrity, and
are heard Of no more. Their temptation is great
just in proportion to their obscurity The remedy
is 30 to arrange matters that mono but men with
to lose shall be sent to make laws for
the State. The corruption which we all lament and
deprecate is limited mainly to the larger branch of
the legislature, and is never even suspected as to
the executive. Why is this Because the Senators
have larger constituencies, and the Governor the
whole State, for his; 30 that they are necessarily
men of established characters, and to whom the
temptations Of vulgar bribery Of little account
when weighed.with what they must lose by yield
ing to them.
THE AMERICAN Freedmen's Union Commission
and its auxiliares are laboring with enhg ghtened
zeal to open the way for the introduction at the
South of the free school system of the North. At
the present time they are especially anxious to Sc
cure the cooperation of the freed people in tho
support Of the schools A conference Of delegates
from the various societies was lately held in this
BOND, of Baltimore, in the chair-to
devise plan for carrying this object into effect.
The result arrived at is embodied in the following
resolutions: /. ''Resored That the best interests
OF tho freed people require the permanent estab-
hshment OF free schools in the South that,
as in the Northern free school system, the
people should cooperate in their support
and, therefore, that no new schools should be es-
tabhshed, except where cooperation can be Sc
cured. 2 Rescued, That our teachers and agents
In the South should organize the people into asso
cations to raise means to aid in the establishment
and support of their schools OF all the associa-
fions in the country, having in view the moral So
tdal, and educational advancement of the people.