The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-28
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EnINa eSliiliitcu beautiful apparatus for making
sound visible. i;as flame is fol by gar ,assin,,
through II box, oi which ono hide is Of rubber
which rubber il connected with M o,rnn pipc.
When the p'po is made to s0,,Il n musical note
tho vibrations of the sound nro communicated Ia
tho rubber Partition md thence to tho gas, tho
ilatno oi which now becomes intermittent. Thus
tho ialnc VtDrutes IN unison with the sound Ipt
theso vibrations, amounting ns they mny 10 hun.
aredB II. second, Tho number depending on Tho
pitch OF the sound, arc invisible to tho eye, unl
when VIC look directly at tho flame il seems per-
fectly steady. But lot us look ut tho flame in =
rapial! roSolfihg mirror. Az tho mirror rcvolvcs
Tho flnmo seems 10 noyo nnd il tho motion is rapid
tho iinme, owing to tho persistence Of tho I'M
precision upon tho eyc seems drawn out liko rib
bon. II tho 1amo il not vibrating tho edges OF
this ribbon are smooth. But now sound the or
gan pipe. Instantly tho uppcr edge is cut up with
noiches, giving il tho appearance of saw, with
very dcpp teeth. Tho number Of these toeth de-
pond upon the pitch of the sound, being grcntcr
as tho pitch ID higher. Tho professor then OK
pninod tho number Of applications OF hi, appara-
tY Tho relative yclocites Of different classes OF
vibrations givon by tho theory wcro verified. IIo
showed TINT Two pipes of exactly tho sa,c pitch,
whom placed sido by sidc, tended to silence cacI,
other the vibration of tho ono rising wlo falling
in tho other. Why tho two p,pes should thus act
IN nntagonism rather than unison neither Profes-
sor LOWERING nor his compccrs wcro nblo to toll.
Hon. a. q. BRowN, formerly u s. Senator from,
mississippi, on tho 3d Instant, rlado n sueccb
before lnrge mass mcetius of blacks and whites.
Tho main features Of his address wcre much like
what Governor ORR has given utlcranco to within
tho past six or eight months. Speaking Of social
equality of tho two races Governor BnowH said ::
Alcn mako mon equal before the law; that il,
they confer on them equal civil nnl political
rights, but thcy cannot mako them of equal stat
urc, of equal wisdom, or of the Bamo color. No
moro can they make them socinlly equal So
cial equality depends ON agreement. Tho
laws cannot force il. l mn no mans equal,
socially, unless hc agrees to the equality. No man
hns right to demand against my consent; and this
rule il universal nnl NIL pcrvading among mon
Your raco is 10 exception to tho rule. Tho hon
est, industrious and frugal among you do not ad-
nit to socal equality tho dishonest idlo and
wasteful Of your own color, nor do whito people,
Social equality is simply matter of private agree
mont, and ia not to DO controlled by nny public
law Whenever tho black people desire socin
equality, and tho whto people agrco to yield It,
wo shall hnve it, and not before. II takes two to
mako bargain, md risk nothing in saving that
neither whites nor blacks in tho South want 10
mako this bargain now. I have but ono itlea TO
add 1t is this there will DO Hucial equality in
the Sonth between tho races quito rs soon as tho
same thing occurs Mt the Nortl; for happen to
know that the Southern people have n much
higher appreciation Of tho black man a honor and
character than tho Northern people have"
We SAID RECENTLY that violent times throw yio
ont mon into power. They are 'by mort raisod
70 that bad cmiuonco." But such men, when affairs
become quoted, il indeed they escape punishment.
sink out ofpublic sight into profound obscurity.
Bold, bad mon know this, and hence they contin-
ially fight against peace. They want tumult, tor
noll agitation, violence, so that they may be cnn-
,led tn rotain plaoo and pnwor. This accounts
or tho desperate efforts of tho handful of bad
White mon among uB who opposing all who de-
ire to SEQ reconstruction effected by tho union
md in tho interest Of good mon OF alI classes aud
olorH, and who aro ontcavoring To- array tho
,lncls against the whites. They prctond TO he
ho peculiar friends Of tho blncks, while thoy sre
making war upon nearly all of tho intelligent and
influential colorod mon, ns they arc upon all the
original Union whites, because these
after understand tlieir mean natures and scltish
motives, and will not bo led hy them. Thoy arc
iot, like good Union men, trying to build up Uni
'nisna. They oaro nothing for IJninniain brt a-o
or building up themselves and getting all tho OIL
es. They know that their only hope to do 30 is
n continued atrifo and violence, and hence their
efforts in that direction.
THERE HAS JUST been published at Stuttgart
fhich is great paper-selling and book-makns
ity, what purports TO DO nn accurate account of
he periodical literature OF Germany. Its state
henia mny bo thus summed up Periodical publ-
ations arc published, in-Anhalt, 12; Baden, 85;
3avaria 3i8 Brunswick, IS; Drenen, 81: Hamburg,
o; Hesse tDarmsadt), 81; Lichtenstcin 3; Lippe-
>etmold. 3; Lubbock, z; Luxembourg, 6; Mccklcn-
48; Mecklenburg- -Strclitz, G; Oldcn
ui g, q; Austria t0escrrcieh), ISL Prussia 147l-
yided as follows: Old Provinces, 1883, Frankfort
32; Hanover, lit; Electoral Hcsso,
q; Hesso Homburg, z; Hohcnzollnrn 4; Schlcs-
rig -Holsten, 4S; Lauenbulg, q Nnssau, i6; Reuss-
chleiz, II; Kingdom Of Saxony, 2iiG; Saxc-Aiten-
'urg, 8; Saxc-Coburg- Gotha, IT; xe-AIeiningcu,
G; Saxe-Weimar-Eit 25; Schnumburgll-
ippc, l; Schwarzburg, 8; Waldeck, O.; wurtem-
'urg, 189; tho German Cantons of Switzerland,
8G; Esthonin, Livonia, and Curland (be!onging to
sissa), together, Ii; altogether, 32il periodical
TAT Of which political, 22lO non
'Olitical, and tho remainder Of mixed or general
character. Besides, there are o good many pc
iodicals published i'll the German language beyond
he limits of Germany proper aud German PROV
noes close TO it, az in France, England, and tho
United States.
SPEAKING OF NEGRO supremacy" the Tribune,
HORACE GREELEY's paper. says: "Thero nre 12 OOO.-
200 OF people in the South whereof at least sOOO-
200 aro whites. There is ample room tlero for
80, 600 600 more, and crowds arc 1ocking in-an uf
them Whites Europe is sending liz full thou
sand per day, and the South proffcrs thom cheap
and, genial c!imc, md employment for evcry
sort OF industrial capacity. Now, that good har-
scst has delivered tho South from famine and her
reconstruction ia in rapid progrcss thero il 10
region OIL earth that Bhoud attract 40 MANY imm-
1rants Twenty years hcnco shc will havo q, 600.
200 to 900 Of people, whereof the blacks will
probably number 600 or 900, 600. Unless all
Tho laws which have hitherto governed tho in
,rcaso Of population arc subyertod, the whites of
.ho South must increase faster than tho blacks by
1t least four 10 ono. Not that Tho blacks will fail
% increase also, but thoy arc nowso recruited by
and cannot be. Africa sonts forth
10 voluntary cmgrants; tho slayo trado IL on it's
ast legs, md 10 negroes arc coming 10 this coun-
ry from any quarter. How, then, is IL possible
hat tho 1000 900 Of blacks in this country .hould
overbear tho 900 900 OF whites in tho South with
he millions OH tho point of fockin6 thither ?"
CRITICAL COMMENCEMENT writes to tho Now
York Times: To-day my nerves nro again
,haken with 4hors dH combat Now this means