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Show LEFT HAND FIDDLING. There is a story t.lii aioul two rival t emv.i'.iite:, for Coogrt-i in a wintcru Slate, wlio had anihraWy h'-ti! (j travel U-)iT ml it unit liie liiir.ct, ' cm-h fi.ipldiiiK lil-i powers tu '.Lr tie.it BivauU)i', and winning I'd opiuinni ami voI. h us li-- tin-iUt. One of t In.-' intcii'liii:,' CyujtT'- '" a gonJ ialkr-r, ibe other was tall .nin-ltd i null a liJdk-r, who could nut nmU a npi:ci:h W'jrlh u cent, 1ml o-iiitd iliaw' hur.e hair over twi-ttd catput, with; that left Laud, in a oiattifily way. His; A ill at tlio violin mult hiiu-niorc oles than ln.i oppNCcnt Wiu uhii; to -i;uie liy ill of cioiilelice. I Ji(l'ii:t wad gLtliiK to ho unanimous l'r the fiddler when the Hj.uu.er Imii biUf lit him of a mean oftunuiijf tlio uMtMi in bia own favor. He gave nut thai lu Luted rival could tiddly much hotter with his rilu hand, hut tbatiri his .jmiU'Lupt for tin; volurn of tlio dUrkl .lie wmild deign to ofl'orilu-iii only llic left hundod kind. Tliia stirred (he ptiopl.: to their profi.undcst depths, and they dnnaiidcd riclit-bandcd fiddling or nunc. Their demand was oot complied with, and they drove the tiddler IVoiu the licld nd would no more iUm to Ijia dulcet notes. Thus be lost the buttle. Wo would not he unjust lo uuyhody, and we would be especially careful to treat with laiiues., all jOud men who ftek to do ut a teal service; h-it we are lud to a.t if our friends who recently vinited ua with a big icnlwo do not mcao nitlier of the Qirouneb, wo allude to Kev. Mr. lnskip and bis associated of the Methodist Camp .Meeting really KaTO ud the beat they had ? We aadly tear that those worthy din-iple treated iw to an artielo of thu left-handed variety, because we read in ihv Capital, of the 16th insi., the following de-Bcription de-Bcription of the aervicca an they uow appear: The services commeneeut sis o'clock in the morning, and continue, almost without intermission, until eleven p.m. i The meetings consist mainly of cliant.t, , interspersed with groans, yells andi nil ricks iu every imugiuabltt k-jy. There; in one constant attendant (a female), i whose voice we will back to split the tympanum of the whole deaf and dumb institute. Kemalea are constantly tarried out in fits of hysteria. One half-grown j(irl on coming out of thia scene of nervous excitement loll down enncless; another threw handsprings on the cross-walk. Surely this ia not "zeal according to knowledge." Another exchange informs ua that "atthechildrens' meetings it is not an uncommon thing for little girls of five or six years of age to become .hopefully converted." Now we aro certain that when our friends were with ua on their recent visit they did not give ua anything any-thing ol'thid description, Wc saw and heard nothing which could offend the most critical taste, and wc must also I assert that we heard of no " hopeful conversions" among children of any age or station. Yet the meetings were largely attended, and an intelligent hearing was given to all which was said or done. We suspect that the material upon which to operate was wanting. The audiences here were made up of two jla?scs of people, Mormons and miners. The former have made religion re-ligion the work of thoir lives; have adopted a faith which is to them all that the earnest soul can desire; the latter have their own peculiar notions, and are not to be easily disturbed therein. Lacking the auj-ceptible material, ma-terial, tbeu, our eamp-meetiug friends failed to secure tho results wluub are reported at other points. Tho New York Herald, writing of this national camp meeting, questions whether the system has not outlived it usefulness in the following language: Various opinions are freely expressed ex-pressed as to the usefulness or advisability advis-ability of these gatherings, thoir opponents oppo-nents arguing that they too often present no opportunity for riot ami debauchery, de-bauchery, while their superiors uiain-laiu uiain-laiu that the good effected infinitely outweighs the necessary alloy that is euro to be present wherever a promiscuous promis-cuous aiwmbly of human beings is to he found. However this may be there can bo no doubt that the camp meeting was designed originally to meet exigencies exi-gencies and a Mate of thinga which now no longer esi-t. They took their rise at a time when they were to many almost tho onl meant, of spiritual teaching before the date of railways, newspapers and cheap books. Whether, they ought now to disappear as things' of the past which have served their day and generation, ia a question which each sect should settle forthem- |