Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-03-21
Communication.
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Our New York Letter.

Charms of Music.
70 the Editor of the O6serrer
new YORK, March s, 1878.
The demand for United State
bonds has been unusually grea
for tho last few days, the tota
sales by q single bank in thi
city for one week aggregatins
: 80, 100000, mostly for invest
ment. Three clerks have beer
kept busy at the First Nation.
al Bank filing the orders from
outside this city, principally
from the West. 1t is stated
that fully one-fourth of this hus
been for 4 per cent. bonds, Of
denominations of $50 and 500,
to be distributed among farm
ers and others having small
earnings to invest.
Large orders were received
on Tuesday for several of the
issues, including $450,000 new
IS, 100000 '67's, and nearly
$5O0,000 As. The daily sales
of bonds by one bank now av-
erage 100000. 1t is said
that two New York capitalists,
who have been loaning money
on stocks at 4 per cent. have
withdrawn their capital, and
yesterday invested jointly near
ly 100000 in Government
bonds.
Interesting experiments are
now in progress at the Insane
Asylum on Blackwelrs Island,
the object of which is to try
the effect upon unsound mines
Of music in its various forms.
The fifth of series of enter
tainments arranged for the pur-
pose was given this week, j. n.
Pattison being the pianist of
the occasion. On some Of IL e
patients brought under the mu-
sical treatment on this occasiC n
the effect was remarkable, vio-
lent conditions being uniformly
modified in q favorable manner.
In one case, an insane woman
gave rational answers to ques-
lions asked while she was un-
der the influence of the piano
playing, although for months
previous she had not rendered
an intelligent response to any
inquiry. Many favorable CON-
nents on the entertainment
were made by the visiting ply
sicians, who expressed the be-
ief that the music, if contin-
ned regularly, would produce
good and lasting results. DIR.
otrew and Commissioner Bren-
IAN intend to make some ar
by which similar ell
will be given IS
frequently rs possible during
lie year.
1t seems, therefore, that after
III, "SiInila similibus curantur,"
md the popular musical instru-
nent which proves so beneficial
n the instance related, is a pow
rful agent for either good or e.
Ill, according to the method OF
is handling. In the hands of
master the piano "hath charms
o soothe the savage breast" Of
ven the most hardened lunatic;
FhiIe on the other hand, close
onfinemcnt for a comparative
y short time within earshot OF
he same noble mechanism whtn
ortrred by the average school,
.Il limping through scales or
ammering the "Maidcn's Pray
r." will infallibly unseat the
oftiest intellect, and, did not
ne liberty which is the BIRTH
ight Of every American citi-
en- enable him under ordinary
circumstances to flee from the
ightfnl infiction, would speed
y cause all the mad-houSes of
he country to overflow.
One of the odd characters
Tho haunt large cities has just
led here in the person OF Da-
id Leach, an old rag-picker,
early eighty years of age, who
ad lived a miserable, lonely
Gc, and dying unattended in
lthy hoyel, was carted off TO
he morguc like any other pau
er. He proves to have been
'orih some $4,000, and as lstle
ashton in all cases where prop .
rty is left either with or with
ut a will, half a dozen claim