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Church ChOirs.

Both pastors and organists have hitherto ex-
perienced much trouble and annoyance with
the freaks Of operatic or concert artists whom
they engaged for their choirs. Besides the
enormous salaries which these people de-
manded they have been constantly in the habit
of disappointing their employers and sending
incompetent substitutes in their stead when
ever some lucrative concert engagement might
tempt them away from the church. There is
movement on foot at present in largo number
of the metropolitan churches Of all denomina-
tions which will not only remove this evil, but
will considerably accelerate the progress Of
music in our midst. 1t is suggested by some
pastors of churches that the organist shall for
the future endeavor to. organize choir COM
posed of members of the congregation alone
who may have musical talents. The expert
ment is one attendant in the beginning with
much difficulty, but Is nevertheless worth trial
The result of it, promising, of course, necessary
ability, energy and good will on the part Of the
musical director of each choir, will be that, In
stead of single quartet Of voices, church
choir will have double one, with large
chorus to assist. A desire to improve them
selves in music and render themselves worthy
of singing the great works which composers in
every age have written for the service of God,
will be engendered among the young people in
every congregation by the opportunity thus
afforded them. Now, it often happens that
persons who are gifted with excellent voices
and great musical talents are kept entirely in
the background, not wishing to compete with
artists whose names are more prominently be-
fore the public, When they receive the en-
coarageement Ge eent that Is due to them and are pro
perly trained, both pastor and organist will be
astonished at the success Of their experiment.
There is a mine of musical talent lying perau
in this city, and this is the only available
means to bring it before tho public. The ex-
penses of choir will be also considerably les
sened by such course; for volunteers may be
obtained by the dozen who will work more
faithfully in the service Of the Choir than any OF
those cxtravagantly paid artists who regard
the church, opera and concert as one.
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ers not being counted; no additional charge W
be made for the cost Of delivery by special foo'
messenger within certain reasonable limits.
The payments for kilograms are to be made In
postage stamps. Messages may be deposited
in pillar letter boxes, with the payments en-
closed with them. The bill provides for an equit-
able and satisfactory arrangement for the trans
fer Of telegraph lines to the Postmaster Gene
raj from the existing companies. The tele-
graph has become now as necessary means of
communication as the Post Office, and some
such legislation is necessary for the con-
venience of the public. In this country the
evils of private corporations holding entire con-
troll of it are 30 glarng as to call for the inter-
ference of Congress. The telegraph should be
under the sole management of the government,
in the same manner as the Post Office Depart
ment is, and no stockjobbing monopoly should
be permitted to interfere in it. Telegraphic
communication has become such vital neces-
sity for business and news, in this country
particularly, that its importance should be at
once recognized in the proper manner by the
proper authorities.
The New York herald., 1868-04-28
THE OCEAN STEAMSHIP RACE.

The news that reached this city yesterday via
cable from Liverpool that the steamship City OF
Paris, which sailed with the steamship Cuba from
this port on the 18th inst, had passed Cape Clear,
the southcry point Of the coast OF Ireland at seven
O'Clock A. NJ Greenwich time) and that up to half
past nine O'Clock A. M. the Cuba was not in sight,
settled. in measure, the conflicting opinions
regarding the relative speed Of these
sells. and virtually the great race. The
beH freely made, prior to their departure
ana since, by the scores among commercial
men, In some instances to large amounts. will thus
be settled and the public mind ready for the next
sensation be 1t OF whatever nature. Assuming that
the CITY Of Paris reached Queenstown four hours
the very quick time Of eight days, fourteen hours ana
thirty minutes. Those who recollect the unpye-
cedented western passage this vessel msAe in No.
vember last--in eight days four hours And thirty
minutes from Rache's Point to Sandy Hook-wili
not be surprised at this her latest ga,ant achieves
ment.
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The Physiology Of the Earth-The Laws Of
storms, Earthquakes, &c.

The Physiology of the Earth-The Laws Of
storms, EARTHQUAKES, &c.
In another place in this days HERALD
we print long, and, from its own point OF
view, an able paper on the Physiology of the
Earth-a paper in which the science of storms,
of earthquakes, of volcanoes is discussed with
considerable ability and with not little origi-
nality. To the public generally the paper is
valuable, as it holds out the prospects of full
explanation of the recent disturbances in earth
and sea and air, and encourages the hope that
the time will come when these strange phenom-
ena, which periodically disturb the nations and
shake scientific men out Of their easy propriety,
will be brought entirely under the control Of
man. We give place in our pages to the COM
munication all the more readily that 1t is at
least an attempt to do what our professors of
natural science have notoriously neglected. It
was only natural TO expect that after the
recent terrific storms and earthquakes which
followed each other in such rapid succession,
and which were almost worldwide in the range
Of their influence, and the startling, magnificent
and unprecedentedly brilliant display of me-
toOrb Will WulCu JH0 btOTInb anu eaTCHQudheB
were accompanied, that our men of science
would offer us some explanation. This, how
ever, they have failed to do. Our correspondent
is, therefore, entitled to all praise for having
undertaken the task and If he has not been
completely successful in every part, If his de-
scription of the physiology of the earth should
be found little defective, and his account Of
the laws which regulate meteoric phenomena
not altogether satisfactory, 1t is at least to be
admitted that he has done good work by for
mally directing attention to the subject. Our
correspondent is, perhaps, little too confident
in the belief that all such natural disturbances
are of easy explanation, and little too san
guine in the hope that the disturbing forces will
yet all be fully brought under the control Of
man. 1t Is certainly consummation devoutly
to be wished that 1t were In human power to
guide the whirlwind and direct the storm, to
make the earthquake innocuous II not impossi-
BILE, to take death and destruction from the
lightning's wing, and to reduce the entire at
mosphere Of the globe to one unchangng, uni
form and genial temperature. On all these
points our correspondent is confident and full
of hope. We commend his paper to the public
generally, to scientific men in particular Hin,
and all who, like him, are striving to give mind
the absolute and entire control Of matter. We
wish God speed.
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tnree times greater than in 1857 The greatly
increased shipments to New Granada have
L'een caused by the development of traffic over
the Panama route. With China the increase
of trade in ten years has been hundred and
ninety per cent. Next to these countries the de-
velopment has been greatest in the States of the
Rio de la Plata, such as the Argentine Republic,
Montevideo and Uruguay. 1t is believed that
when the Paraguayan war is over there will be
a much larger increase throughout the rich
valley of the Rio de la Plata. To Turkey the
increase was a hundred and thirty per cent.
To France, Belgium, Germany, and to nearly
all the countries of Europe, there had been a
considerable advance. The United States
shows only an increase of fourteen per cent for
the ten years; but for the last year the Times
says the worst feature of the foreign shipments
was with the United States, where there had
been heavy falling of, Notwithstanding the
very large increase in the quantity of bread
stuffs and cotton drawn from this country.
The countries to which British exports have
most increased are those to which, from our
geographical position and other advantages,
we should have the largest trade, such as the
States of South America, New Granada and
China. But we are shortsighted and behind in
this matter, and our government spends its
time in miserable party politics instead of pay
ing attention to our commercial interests. The
falling of Of exports to this country, notwth-
standing the. large imports of breadstufs and
cotton last year into England, may be accounted
for in part from the large sum that had to
be paid there as interest on the debt held
abroad 1t will be well if this balance Of ex-
ports from here over imports should continue.
Our great object should be, like that of Eng
land, to have always balance of trade in our
favor. A debtor nation is always poor and
the exchanges against her. England derives
immense wealth not only on the direct profits Of
her exports and in the employment of her
shipping and manufactures, but also from
the exchanges being kept in her favor. 1t is
this long pursued policy of making other
nations her debtors, and, therefore, of having
the exchanges in her favor, which is mainly
the cause of her immense wealth and her posi-
tiOn as the financial centre Of the world We
have claimed to be the second commercial
nation on the globe, and few years ago our
shipping rivalled that of England, but we are
far behind now. We have larger population
than Great Britain, far more natural resources,
and our coasts, harbors, inland seas and geo.
graphical position would every way give the
United States the first place as a commercial
nation if we understood our own interests and
the government knew it's duty. Let us take
a lesson, then, from this extraordinary exhibit
of progress in British commerce, and let US
follow the example of that government in keep
ing, under all circumstances, steady eye to
commercial development irs every part of the
world.
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GU ADRUPLE SHEET.
New York. Tuesday, April 2S, 1S6S.
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

Advertisers should bear in mind that, in order
to insure the proper classification of their business
announcements, all advertisements for insertion in
the HERALD should be left at the counting room by
half-past eight O'Clock p. NJ.
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RICHMOND wAGoEny.--stene .Richmond, Va
"Have you heard the newsr< 0No; what IL itnn
'Grant has removed Schofeld', ais possible"
eyes; has removed hip from the hotel TO his rest.
dence' Exeunt intey6cu.er, feeling very cheap
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adopted his policy, voted for that same reso-
luton (that he had no power to remove and ap-
point Secretary of War Gd interina) declaring
his doom. Will any of them vote for his
acquittal on the ground of its unconstitution-
ality? know that Senators would venture to
do any necessary act if endorsed by an honest
conscience and an enlightened public opinion;
but neither for the sake of the President nor of
any one else would one of them suffer himself
to be tortured on the gibbet of everlasting
obloquy. Nothing is, therefore, more certain
than that it requires no gift Of prophecy to pre-
dict the fate Of this unhappy victim"
This, then, in other words, is the way in
which Mr.. Stevens clinches his argument:-
''Here are your votes, Senators, on the Tenure
of Office law and on its violation Here are
your names on the record. Look at them;
they all commit you and bind you to give judg
ment against Andrew johnson. Mark and
remember. Bolt, if you dare; but be warned
that If you do bolt you will be tortured on the
gibbet of everlasting obloquy; that we will hunt
you down and hang you up to dry" Under
this presentation this trial is mere formality,
an empty mockery, only resorted to in order
to meet the forms of the constitution, the Senate
having pronounced judgment against Andrew
Johnson before he was indicted by the House.
| 1t is morally certain, too, that the conviction
and removal of this officer upon the fimsy
charges preferred will be judged at the bar of
public opinion as mere idle formalities, and
that the law and the evidence in this trial have
nothing to do with the verdict of the court;
that Johnsons removal was contrived and re-
solved upon beforehand as party necessity;
that the Tenure of Office bill was the trap, and
that Stanton was employed as the dscoy to an
trap him. 1t is not the act, therefore, of voting
for Johnson's acquittal that will fix the Senator'S
concerned ''on the gibbet Of everlasting oblo-
quy," but the act of voting his removal under
the party lash of Stevens Are there any
Senators otherwise inclined to an acquttal
who will thus be frightened off? Let us watt
and see.
The New York herald., 1868-04-28

The trial OF General Cole was continued at Albany
yesterday, further testimony for the defence being
taken large portion OF it in reference to his
insanity, or melanchOlia and was mainly corrobo-
ratlve of the evidence adduced on Saturday.
terrible boiler explosion occurred in Philadel-
phia yesterday at the Penn Treaty rolling mill on
Marlborough street. by which three persons were
killed and many wounded. Thirteen of the latter
have already been taken from the ruins.
In the United States Circuit Court yesterday Judge
Benedict presiding, the criminal calendar for the
term was called and cases set down for trial. The
case Of the United States Patrick Reason, In
which the defendant is indicted for engraving plates
to be used in manufacturing counterfeit United States
currency, is one of over two years date. MOTION
was made for further postponement but the court
fixed the trial for Friday next
In the case OF the United States against William
Gordon charged under indictment with breach
Of the Internal Revenue laws In removing whiskey
from a distillery to place other than bonded
warehouse, trial. on application OF counsel, was
postponed and the bail Of the accused increased from
5000 to $4,000.
Among the cases postponed from the present to
the June term when Judge Blatchford will sit on
criminal cases, is that Of the Messmore Kentucky
Bourbon Company, which is looked forward to with
great interest by the whiskey manufacturing fra
ternity
In the Supreme Court Chambers yesterday, before
Judge Sutherland, the first gleam Of cessation of
hostilities in the great Erie Railway was pre-
sented In the early part of the litigation Daniel
Drew was suspended from exercising his functions
as an oslcer Of the company, and an order was
granted requiring him to show cause why he should
not be permanently removed. Yesterday Judge Suth-
erland vacated and discharged the order Of suspen
slon
The Hamburg American Packet Company's steam
ship Teutonia, Captain Barends, will leave her pier
| at Hoboken at two p. NJ to-day (Tuesday) for Ham
| burg, via Southampton. The European mails VIII
| close at the Post Onlce at twelve NJ
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THE CHINESE REBELLIoN-WHoL
SALE SLAUGHTER.-Acco to our
latest advices from China, Hong
Kong, December 10,) "the war in
the North between the imperial and
rebel forces is being vigorously wag-
ed" To show how vigorously, we
are told that great battle at Shan
tung promontory resulted in the de-
feat of the rebel army. which lost
$4,000 men. But subsequently the
imperialists were defeated in their
turn ''in several severe engagements,
with heavy loss." A loss that may
be described as "heavy" in compari-
son to that of $4,000 men, which
seems not to amount to much in
China, must have been heavy in
deed. Perhaps it is safe to put it ut
fives times $4,000, more or less, or
400, 900. This Chinese rebellion has
been going on for somewhat more
than eighteen years, during which it
has been estimated that from thirty
to forty million lives have been sac
rificed. If it continues for twenty
years longer there seems to be
no special reason why it should not,
unless foreign intervention puts n
stop to it-even the 100000, 900 of
Chinese population will begin to be
perceptibly thinned out. Should the
Chinese persist in destroying each
other on such scale of wholesale
slaughter, Rs in the recent battle ut
Shantung promontory, the Russian
Gar may be constrained. if only by
motives of humanity, to step over
the "Great Wall" erected as n pro-
lection against Tartar incursions, to
overrun the empire and sack Pekin,
like Gen ghis Khan, in 1915.
Ne,p York Herald.
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MARRIAGE GUIDE.

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The ORNAMENTAL VS.. THE USEFUL.
A Kentucky stock-raiser, it is stated,
passed through Nashville few days
ago, literally loaded down with gold
watches and every description of
jewelry, which he had obtained in
Georgia and Alabama in exchange
for 160 head of mules which he took
South. In the absence of currency,
many people of that section found it
necessary. in order to procure farm
animals. to part with wllatl few valu-
ables the war had left them.
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COLUMBIA. S. c.. FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY IA 1868

some wider generalization. There is
no disorder or eccentricity anywhere
in the series. The five SATURDAYS"
for February can be computed back
to the very beginning of the Julian
period, and forward to any named
period in the future, rs exactly as any
other fact in chronology, and recur
as regularly.
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leap year, there are twenty nine days
in the month of February, and con-
sequently as the 1st was Saturday,
there will be five Saturdays in the
shortest month of the year. This
has been noted as something curious,
and the inquiry made in what num-
ber of years will this happen again.
The New Orleans Picdyune declares
the answer easy. 1t will happen
again in 1896, after the lapse of TWEEN
ty-eight years. At the next leap year,
in 1872, there will be five Thursdays
in February; in 1876, five Tuesdays; !;
in 1880, five Sundays; and so on, n
retrogression of two days in the week
for every leap year for seven returns,
until Saturday recurs again in 1896,
when there will be five Saturdays.
The year 1900 is not leap year. The
years ending with even hundreds are
not leap years, unless they are divisi-
ble by 400, as well as by four. 100
and 1900 were not leap years, and
1900 will not be. There will be one
day, therefore. lost in the order, in
1900, but the other recurrence will
continue through the whole of the
next century. the came 90 in this,
but every recurring day of the week
will be shifted back one day of the
week, in consequence of the inter-
yentlon of tue year 1900 The twen-
ty-eighth year from 1896 will have
i've Fridays instead of five Satur-
days. There are no anomalies in the
order of succession of the days of
the week to the days of the month.
This is true of every day in the year
as well as of February, and of the
18th OF February as of every other
day: In the same cycles every day
Of the year returns to the same day
of the week in every twepty-eight
years. The intercalated day Of the
18th February returns only seven
times, once on each second day of the
week; every other day returns four
times to the same day of the week,
but at unequal intervals, but the
whole order occurs again at the twen-
ty-elghth succession. The intervals
are unequal, but the order is invari-
able. within the cycle and in the re-
curing cycles. The general rule is
this: Every day of the month re-
turns to the same day of the week at
intervals of five, six, six and eleven
years, when they all return to the
same days together. For example:
Sunday, the I'd day of February, will
recur on Sundays in 1874, 1880, 1891
and 1896, the order being six, six.
eleven, five. The Sd February. Mon.
day, will recnr to Monday in 1874.
1885, 1890, 1896, the order being six
eleven, five, six, and the 4th of Fe.
bruary will not return to Tuesday
until 1879. bnt the order will be 1870
1851. 1850, 1886, in the same sense
of eleven, five, six, six, continually
repeated. It will be seen that the
days do not correspond to the same
days Of the month as at the begin.
ming. until 1896. There is no varia.
ton in the order of astronomic phe
nomena ON which these rules ot
calculation are based. Every appa
rent perturbation is compensated liz
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a COUGH, A COLD. OR A SORE
THROAT, requires immediate attention,
and should be checked. II allowed to con-
tinue, Irritation of the Lungs, Perma.
nent Throat Disease, or Consumption, is
often the result.
BROWNS BRONCHIAL TROCIEs
Having direct influence to the parts, give
immediate relief. For BRONCHITIS, AsTH-
MA, CATARRE, CoNsuMPTIvE AND THROAT
DISEASES, Troches are used with always
good success.
Singers and Public Speakers use them to
clear and strengthen the voice.
Obtain only Browns Bronchial Tro-
ches," and do not take any Of tho worth
less limitations that may be offered. Sold
everywhere. Oct q limo
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Charleston Advertisements.
CHARLESTON HOTEL.
CHARLESTON. g. O.

A AMSCO THE undersigned having
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been REFURNISHED, in all of it's depart
ments. The table will, at all times. be
nupplied with the beat the Market affords,
including every delicacy in season, while
the cuisipe will be unexceptionable. The
Bath Rooms attached to the Hotel are sup
pied with the celebrated Artesian Water,
and Hot, Cold or Shower Baths can be OBJ.
tanned at any time. The same attention
Will be paid to the comfort of the guests
as heretofore, and travellers can rely upon
hnding the Charleston Hotel equal to any
IN the United States. The patronage Of
the travelling public is respectfully solicit
ed. j. p. HORBACH, Agent,
Jan IL 3mo Proprietor.
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MARRIAGE AND CELIBACY.-AN
ESSAY FOR YOUNG MEN on the Crime of
Solitude, and the Diseases and Abuses
which create Impediments to Marriage,
with sure means OF relief Sent in sealed
letter envelopes, free of charge. Address
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Association, Philadelphia, Pa.
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The Confessions and Experience of
nn Invalid.-Published for the benefit
and as caution to young men and others,
who suffer from Nervous Debility. Prema-
ture Decay of Manhood, &c, supplying the
means OF self-cure. Written by ono who
cured himself, and sent free on receiving
postpaid directed envelope. Address
NATHANIEL MAYFAIR, Brooklyn, New
York. Also free, by the same publisher, a
circular oi DAISY SWAIN, the great Poem
OF the War. Dec 18 3mo