The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-07-30

SAVANNAH, July 29.-Cotton firm and in moder-
ate demand; sales 67 bales; holders asking 25a26c
for Middings; receipts 15 bales
CRUMBS FROM THE ROUND TABLE.
The Round Table for July N is ON unusually
wen filed number; and, as many OF our readers OF
taste may not see it, we propose to give them the
gist of it's principal articles. Mexico and the
Filibustcrs" is the title of the leading editorial
This is the second article on this subject. The
opinion of the writer will be gathered from the
following extract:
The absorption Of Mexico during the present
generation is as certain as anything yet unaccom-
plshed can be pronounced to be, and, all things
considered, nothing better for MencoSor MeIicans
either from honest conviction or certain sickly
sentimentalty, assume to reverence the hgment
of Mexican freedom and independence, forgetting
that these things can only truly exist, and can
only be genuinely respectable, when people are
brave and virtuous enough both to win and pre-
serve them. AS matter OF fact, no people on
earth, reputed civilized, are 30 utterly and ire
deemably despcable as the, Mexicans; !hey
are not bloodthirsty, cowardy, and ind0-
Nor are these qualities confined, as some
would have it, to tho lower classes. Maxi
milan had beautiful revolver. Of great value,
mounted in gold and ivory; it was stolen ut mill
tary council where none was present below the
rank OF General. Jewels and other costly. articles
were notoriously and regularly flched from Car
lotta wherever she moved. Santa Anna had his
inkstand stolen at the council Of ministers, and the
room was darkened to enable the thief to return it
undetected. The scoundrel Lopez who betrayed
his master is well known as an adrolt thief. The
truth is that stealing is universal in Mexico that
| it has almost come to be regarded as matter OF
course, und other vices on which we need not
| J,ram md ora rQf M
among the upper classes, if anything, than among
| the lower.
The July number of the London Ne,c Monthly
| Magazine says: ssThe chapels and affairs are all
protected by iron ratings. A French marshal was
robbed of the decorations on his breast at mill
tary mess. At court balls there was general
scrimmage for gloves, shoes, fans, bracelets,
brooches, and other trifes, and anything that is
laid by or that falls is nj once pounced upon. At q
ball given by the French officers, the guests cut
the gold embroidery from off the curtains of the
room. II Mexican has no pockets, he finds it
natural to put his hands in his neighbor's if he
has pockets, he likes to fill them with other peo-
ple's property, simply from the horror Of q
vacuum. priest, mounting the scaffold with
malefactor, left his hat in the hands Of specta-
tor, who at once went off with il to pawnbrokers,
leaving his reverence to 60 home hafeheaded."
The Mexcaps have no moral fibre. Physically
and intellectually they are equally deficient. To
talk about patriotism apd liberty and the sense Of
honor among such beings is simply nonsense, Ex-
ceptons unquestionably there may be; but we
speak of the people in their aggregate, since it is
thus they must be judged and thus they must
work out their destiny.
The next three or four articles in tn o Round
Table are of local character, concerning New
York City and State politics. Now we know the
temptation to any journal published in New York
must be very great to have finger in the po.
itical pie and exercise ON influence in affairs; but
if the conductors Of the Round Table would bear
in mind that it's readers outside Of New York are
greatly superior IN number to those in Gotham,
and that to the former those local squabbes, OF
comments or structures upon the same, are utterly
devoid Of interest, we think they would spare us
this hebdomadal infiction.
Take one, for instance: Owing to some dispute
about tho Press Cable dispatches, one JONES got
into quarrel with one FIELn-the yeritable CYRUS
the Great, CYRUS who laid the Cable. CYRUS is
near-sighted, and notwithstanding "green silk
umbrella" which, upon the authority OF tho Post,
he ''always carries the said CYRUS allowed the
aforenamed JONES to come too near him, and to
pull his (CYRUs) nose. CYRUS left the field and
sailed for Europe. Now this We can readily IN:
derstand, was quite lively topia for The young
gentlemen and old ladies who frequent the clubs
| in Gotham, but Of what interest is it to the 80,
| OO0, 900 Of American souls who live beyond the
sound Of the Trinity Church bells, but are never
theless condemned to get their news through the
columns Of the metropolitan pressf"
| :Figures of Speech"-L Curiosties of Meta
phor-bids fair to be very entertaining as well as
instructive series of papers. We have examples
here Of "mixed metaphors" from ADDISON, from
MILTON, and from Western newspapers, as the fol:
lowing from the Leavenworth Conservative: Conn.,
n1enting upon an election in Kansas it remarked
"The fall Of corruption has been dispeled, and tho
wheels of tho State government will no longer be
trammeed by sharks that have beset the public
prosperity like locusts." So another paper COM
menting on the report, some years ago, OF the Nc
braska Bill from the Committee on Territories IN
the Senate "The appl, of discord is now fairly i'll
our midst and if not nipped in the bud it will burst
forth in confagration which will deuge society IN
an earthquake Of bloody apprehension.
LoNaELLow, in his psalm Of Life" is guilty OF
a similar Jau1 pas. He represents it as quite pro,
bable that some person, "sailing oer ife's solemn
MAN, may be able to see footprints OH the sands
of time" and take heart thereby. has been sug,
gested that to do so the person would require a
very good glass Ito see double both on sea and
shore ?? footprints on the sands being much easier
observed by those who walk along the shore. An
orator, eulogizing temperance reformer, said
that "his pathway had been shrewn with broken
bottles."
Next in order comes the 'London Correspond
ence," one of the weakest features of the Rouno
Table. The writer hints that the seclusion of the
Queen is due to her rapidly failing sanity and that
ere long we may look for Regency Bill. He also
tells us that Dr. RUSSELL, the celebrated Times
war correspondent, is about writing novel--"Dr
BRADY" story of Irish Life.
Among the communications this week Is ono
from EDWARD s. GOULD, whose recent work, "Good
English" has been dissccted in several papers Ii
the Round Table, by Mr.. GEORGE WASHINGTON
Moon, author of tho Oceans English" MIR
GOULD here answers Mr.. Moon, and attacks him
in turn. There is no end to this kind of carpng
criticism. AS soon as any ono now sets up as
critic, somebody else Immediately gets up, and
makes it his business to pick holes in the first
tones arguments and criticisms; then some one
else comes along, and does this same pious Office
for No, 2-iust like the feas the large fleas have