The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-07-30
CRUMBS FROM THE ROUND TABLE.

Tho Round Table for July 27 is an unusually
woll fillod number; and many of our readers of
taste may not sec it, we propose to givo thom tho
gist of its principal articles. ''Mcxico and tho
Fiibnstcrs" is tho tito of tho leading editorial.
This IL tho second article on this subject The
opinion OF tho writer will bc gathered from the
following extract
Tho absorption Of Mexico during the present
generation Is us oortain rs anything yot unaccom-
plisheu can be pronounced to be, and oil things
considered, nothing bettor for hIoxicoor McIicans
can bo wished or hoped for. Somo thoro arc who.
either from honest conviction or certain sckly
sentimentality, assume TO reverence tho Agment
OF Mexican freedom and independence, forgetting
that these things can only truly exist, and eau
only DO genuinely respectable. when people are
bravo and rirluous enough both 10 win and pre-
servo thom. AS matter or fact, no people on
earth. reputed civilized, are so utterly and ire
arc moi bloodthrsiy, cowardly, and indo-
lent alone, but liars and thieves as vol.
Nor nro these qualities confined, somo
milan had beautiful revolver, OF great value,
mounted i'll gold and ivory; it stolen Mt mill
1arT &C epS where % nGno was present below the
lo!ta wherever She moved. Santa tam Anna % Ind Ills lis
room wns darkencd 10 onablo tho thief to return il
undetcctcd. Tho scoundrol Lopez who BETRAYED
his master is vol known as an adroit thief. Tho
truth i3 TINT stealing is universal in Mexico that
it has almost como to bo regarded ns n matter of
course, und other vcos OH which wo ncod not
dwell arc equally 30. and arc rather moro rife
among tho upper classes, ii anything, than among
tho lowcr.
Tho July number Of the London Ne,o afonNfu
Magazine says: "Tho chapels and altars arc ali
protected by iron railings. French marshal was
robbed of the decorations OH his breast at a mill
tary mess. At court balls thero wac general
scrimmagc for glovos, nhocs. fans. l,raraiats.
brooches, and otner Tifles, aud anything that is
lni1 h,.n hat folI,
ball given by tho French officers, tho gucsts cut
the gold embroidery from off the curtains Of tho
room. II q Mexican has no pockets, ho finds 1t
natural to put his hands in his neighbors; !; if ho
has pockets, ho likes to I'LL them with other pco-
plcs property, simply from tho horror of q
vacuum. priest, mounting tho scaffold with
malefactor lott his hat in tho hands Of specta-
tor, who Mt once went of with il to pawnbrokcrs,
leaving his reverence to 60 homo barchcadcd."
Tho Mexicans have no moral FIBRE Physically
and intellectually they aro equally deficient. To
talk about patriotism md liberty and the sense OF
honor among such keings is simply nonsense. Ex-
ceptons unqucstionably thcro may be; but We
speak Of tho peoplo in their aggregate, since il is
thus they must bo judged and thus they must
work out their destiny.
Tho next threo or four articles in til Round
Table of local character con corning New
York City and State politics. Now 70 know tho
temptation to any journul published in Now York
must bo very great to have finger in tho po-
litcnl pic, and exercise influence in affairs; but
if tho conductors of tho Round Table would bear
in mind that its readers outside OF Now York aro
greatly superior in number to those in Gotham,
and that to tho former those local sqnnbbos, or
comments or structures upon tho samc, aro utterly
devoid Of interest, wo think they would spare us
this hebdomadal iuniction.
Tako ono, for instance: Owing to somo dispute
about tho Press Cable dispatches, one JONES got
into quarrel with ono FIELp-the veritubie CYRUS
tho Great CYlUs who laid tho Gable. CYRUs Is
ncar-sightcd, and Notwithstanding "groen silk
umbrella" which, upon the authority OF the Posi-,
he ''always carlos, tho said Cynus allowed tho
nforenamcd JONES to como too noar him, and to
pull his (CrRUS') nose. CYnUs loft tho field and
saiicd Tor Europe. Now this wo can readily I'M
deratand, was quito lively topic for tho young
gcntlomen and old ladies' who frequent tho clubs
| in Gotham, but of what interest il it to tho So
0O0, 900 Of American aouls who 1.-Two beyond the
sonnd of tho Trinity Church bells, but nre never
thelcss condemned TO got their news through the
columns Of tho metropolitan press2"
"Figurcs OF spcech"-I Guriosities Of Mota
| u
instructive series Of pnpors We havo examples
| here Of "miIed metaphors' from ADDISON, from
MILTON and from Western newspapers, as tho fol
lowing from the Leavcnworth Conservative: Com
menting upon IN election in Kansas it remarked
"Tho fall of corruption has been dispollcd and tin
| whoos Of tho State government will no longer bl
tJammellod by sharks TINT have boset tho pub
prosperity like locusts." SO another paper com
menting on tho report, some years ngo, Of tho Ne
braska Bill from tho Committee on Territories il
tho Senate '1ho applo Of discord is now fairly IL
our midst, and if not nipped in tho bud it will burs
forth in confagration which will deugo society Il
an earthquake OF bloody apprehension.
LoNoELLow, in his psalm Of Lifo," is guilty o
o Himilar Jaur pas. Ho represents il as quito pro
bablo that somo person, "saiing DOR lifos solemn
main, " may bo ablo to 800 footprints on tho oand
Of timo," and tako heart thereby. Ithas bcen Bug
gestcd that 10 do 30 tho person would require
very good glass ITO sec double both on seq AM
shoro u footprints on tho sands boing much casio
observed by those who walk along tho shore. Al
orator, oulogizng temperance reformer, ani
that 'his pathway had beon shrcwn with broke
bottles."
Noxt in ordor comos the ''London Correspond
enco," one Of tho weakest features Of the Roun
1otlc Tho writer hints that tho seoluson Of th
Quoon is duo to hcr iapidIy failing ssnty and tina
, Gro long wo may look for o Regency BIZ. He ais
tells us that DR.. RUSSELL, tho celebrated Tine
war correspondent, is about writing a noyel--''D,
, BnADY," story Of Irish LILO.
Among tho communications this ,laek ID On
, from EDwAnD 8. GOULD, whose recont work, "Goo
English" has boon dssocted in sovoral papors |
: tho Round Table, by Mr. GkonaE WAsHMoro
NOOK, author Of tho "Doans English" II
GOULD horo answers Mr. Moon, and attacks hi,
in turn. Thore Is no ond to this kind Of carpn
Z criticism. As Boon as any ono now. .sots up as
a critic, somebody olso immediately gots up, An
o makce, Il his huainoss, to pick holos in tho FIR
8 ones arguments and criticisms; thcn somo OF
: cso comes along, and docs this samo pious Off,
for No.2-just Like tho aoas the largo aeas hs,
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