The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-28
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Massachusetts,. on Wednesday last, Professor Low
Es1Na exhibited beautiful apparatus for making
sound visible. A gas fame is fed by gas passing
through a box of which one side is OF rubber,
which rubber is connected with an organ plpe
When the PIPE is made to sound . musical note,
the vibrations of the sound are communicated to
tho rubber partition and thence to tho gas, the
fame of which now becomes intermittent. Thus
the fame vibrates in unison with the sound. bue
these vibrations, amounting as they may 10 nun
dreds IL o second, the number depending Oh the
pitch of the sound are invisible to the ego, anu
when we look directly at the flame 1t seems per-
fectly steady. But let us look at the tamo IN
rapidly revolving mirror. AS the mirror reVor'es
the fame seems to move, and if the motion is rapid
the fame, owing to the persistence OF the I'M
preston upc' the eye, seems drawn out hke ND
hon IF the flame is not vibrating the edges OF
this ribbon are smooth. But now sound the Or
ean pipe. Instantly the upper edge is cut up with
notches, giving it the appearance OF saw, with
very deep teeth. The number Of these teeth de-
pend upon the pitch Of the sound, being greater
as the pitch is higher. The professor then ex-
planned the number Of applications Of his appara-
tus The relative velocities Of different classes OF
vibrations given by the theory were verified. He
showed that two pipes of exactly the same pitch,
when placed side by side, tended to silence each
other, the vibration of the one rising while falling
in the other, Why the two pipes should thus act
In antaponism rather than unison neither Probes
sor LOWERING nor his oompeers were able to tell.
Hon. A. G. Brown, formerly U. 8. Senator from
Mississippi, on the Sd instant, made speech
before large mass meeting Of blacks and whites.
The main features Of his address were much like
what Governor ORR has given utterance to within
the past six or eight months. Speaking of social
equality of the two races Governor Brown said:
" Men make men equal before the law 50 that is,
they confer on them equal civil and political
rights, but they cannot make them OF equal stat
ure, Of equal wisdom, or Of the same color. No
more can they make them socially equal. So
cial equality depends on agreement. The
laws cannot force 1t. I am no mans equal
socially unless he agrees to the equality. No man
has right to demand against my consent; and this
rule is universal and all pervading among men.
Your race is no exception to the rule. The hon
est, industrious and frugal among you do not ad-
| init to social equality the dishonest, idle and
wssteful Of your own color, nor do white people.
Social equality is simply matter Of private agree
ment, and is not to be controlled by any public
law. Whenever the black people desire social
equality, and the white people agree to yield 1t,
we shall have it, and not before. 1t takes two to
make bargain, and risk nothing in saying that
neither whites nor blacks in the South want to
make this bargain now. I have but one idea to
add It is this /: there will be social equality in
the South between the races quite as soon as the
same thing occurs at the NORTH; for happen to
know that the Southern people have much
higher appreciation Of the black mans honor and
character than the Northern people have"
We aAD RECENTLY that violent times throw vio-
lent men into power. They are ''by merit raised
to that bad eminence." But such men, when affairs
become quieted, Il indeed they escape punishment,
sink out Of fpublic sight into profound obscurity.
Bold, bad men know this, and hence they contin-
ually fight against peace. They want tumult. tor
moi agitation, violence, 80 that they may be ena-
blsd to retain place and power. This accounts
for the desperate efforts Of the handful Of bad
white men among as who are opposing all who de-
sire to see reconstruction effected by the union
and il the interest Of good men OF all classes and
colors, and who are endeavoring to array the
blacks against the whites. They pretend to be
the peculiar friends Of the blacks while they are
making war upon nearly all Of the intelligent and
influential colored men, as they are upon all the
intelligent original Union whites, because these
latter understand their mean natures and selfish
motives, and will not be led by them. They are
not, like good Union men, trying to build up Uni
onism. They care nothing Tor Unionism, but are
for building up themselves and getting all the Off
ces They know that their only hope to do 80 is
in continued strife and violence, and hence thor
unremitting efforts in that direction.
THERE HAS JUST been published at Stuttgart,
which is great paper-selEng and book-making
city, what purports to be an accurate account Of
the periodical literature OF Germany. Its state
ments may be thus summed up Periodical publ
cations are published, in-Anhalt, 12; Baden, s.;
Bavaria, S4s; Brunswick, 10; Bremen, 21: Hamburg,
50; Hesse Darmstadt), 81; Lchtenstein, 8; Lippe-
Detmold, 8; Lubbock, z; Luxembourg, 5; Mecklen-
burg -schwern, 48; Mecklenburg Strehtz, 6; Olden-
burg az Austria (Oesterreich), 351; Prussia, 141-
divided as follows: Old Provinces, 1885, Frankfort
on-the- Maine, 50; Hanover, III; Electoral Hesse,
50; Hesse Homburg, z; Hohenzollern, 4; schles-
wig -Holstein, 49, Lauenburg, 2; Nassau, 46; Reuss-
Schleiz, II; Kingdom Of SaxoDy, 266; Saxe-Alten-
burg, 8; saxe-Cobug- -Goths, II; Saxe-Meningon,
16; -weimar-E -Eitenbach, IS; schnupburgh-
Lppe, 1; Schwarzburg 8; Waldeck, 6; Wurtem-
burg, 1s9; the German Cantons of Switzerland,
2S6; Esthonia, Liyonia, and Curland belonging to
Russia), together, 16; altogether, S21 periodical
publications, TAT Of which are political, 221O nom
political, and the remainder Of mixed or general
character. Besides, there are good many pc
riodicals pubishedin III the German language beyond
the limits Of Germany proper and German prov
inces close to it, as in France, England, and the
United States
spEAKNa OF "negro supremacy" the Tribune,
HORACE GREEIEY's paper, says: There are l2,O ,OOO,-
900 Of people in the South whereof at least sOOO,
600 are whites. There is ample room there for
50, 600 900 more, and crowds are aocking in-an OF
them whites. Europe is sending us full thou
sand per day, and the South proffers them cheap
land, genial cline, and employment for every
sort Of industrial capacity. Now, that good har-
vest has delivered the South from famine, and her
reconstruction is in rapid progress, there is no
region on earth that should attract 30 many immi-
grants. Twenty years hence she will have 25,OOO,.
900 to So 600 Of people, whereof the blacks will
probably number 5,OOO,OO or 100000. Unless all
the laws which have hitherto governed the In
crease Of population are subverted, the Whites OF
the South must increase faster than the blacks by
at least four to one Not that The blacks will fail
to increase also, but they nowise RECRUITED by
immigration, and cannot be. Africa sends forth
no voluntary emigrants; the slave trade is on it's
last legs, and no negroes coming to this coun-
try from any quarter. How, then, is it possible
that the 1000 600 Of blacks in this country should
overbear the 5000 900 of whites in the South, with
the millions on the point Of lockine thither 2"
A CRITICAL CORRESPONDENT writes to the New