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The Christian Index. ESTABLISHED 1521.) CEOBCII BAPTIST NEWS. —The C rawfordville Democrat publishes a card signed by the Rev. Gad. 8. Johnson, paster of the colored Baptist church, at Craw fordville, ’warning the brethren of a colored man who calls himself “Rev. Holt, Profes sor,’ and claims to boa missionary. He claims to be from Greenville, 8. C. He gives exhibitions of a panorama. He is now on the way to Washington or Athens. —Rev. J. T. Smith, a graduate of Mercer university, has been elected principal of the Excelsior High School, to till the vacancy caused by the resignation of Sir T H Potter. —Alluding to the lecture delivered last week in Savannah, by the pastor of the Bap tist church, Rev. Timothy Harley, for Hie benefit of a fund to purchase a library for the Sunday-school teachers of the church, the Savannah News says: Rev. Air. Harley, as our readers are well aware, is an orator of considerable ability and eloquence, and his subject last evening was one , , m , which h ! s deep interest and esteem enabled him to present in the most enter taining manner, “ The Life of George White fild,” the famous preacher, the friend of Georgia and the founder of that grand charity, jj Savannah is so justly proud, the Bethesda Orphan Asylum, gave excellent scope for the eloquence for which the lecturer is noted. The career of the great evangelist was depicted in beautiful language, and the lecture, a most entertaining one, was listened to throughout with marked attention. A synopsis, such as our limited space would permit in this issue, would mar it of its beauty and its interest, but we hope that the opportunity will be granted us to present it in full at some future time, confident that it will be perused with profit and pleasure. —The Ellijiy Courier sayß: At an election held at the Baptist church in this place, Rev. N. L. Osborn was re elected as pastor of the church for next year. Mr. Oiborn is greatly beloved by the member* of this church, and they are to be congratulat ed on selecting him for another year. —Rev. J. H Campbell of Columbus, pub lishes a card calling upon the citizens to aid the destitute in that city. He says ihat hun dreds are suffering great misery for lack of food and neuessay c!< thing. —Mr. Reuben Biatrigh), one of the oldist citiiens of E nannel county, died on the 11th inst. Mr Biatright was birn in Emanuel county on the 17th of Feb., 1794. He resided in the county of his nativity the greater part of his li f e. He was married twice, and waa the father of 21 children, 13 by his first wife, . and eight by the second. In 1846 while butchering a beef he cut himself in the thigh, severing the main artery, and amputation of The limb was found necessary in order to save his life. He united with the Baptist church in 1836,and remained a consistent member up to the time of his death. His last wife sur vivea him. The post-office of Gainesville has been ten dered by the President to Gen. Longetreet. He ha mt is yet sign. fled his acceptance. —The Griffin News says: The members of the Colored Missionary Baptist Church, of Brooks’ Btation, have ne gotiate! for a church building, which is to cost $175. Rev. Augustus Dickmn, a'worthy colored pator of this city, is taking an active interest in getting up the nece-wary funds. The citizens’ of Brooks ft .lion have contrib uted fifty dollar*. The bilance is to be raig ed by private subscription. Alany of our citi iens, who are usually liberal in such matters, have already contributed lt is a worthy pur pose, and we commend Mr. D'ckson, and the cause in which he labors to our citizens, and trust their subicription will be liberal. —Brother James Barrow writing from Bowdon, 17th inst., says that the brethren of the church there have had a good meeting this month. The pastor, brother Scott preaches able sermons. The Bunday School is flourishing. Brother J. W. Beck, of Ox ford, Alabama, has bren elected President of Bowdon College. By request, he deliver ed a very fine lecture to the Sunday school oa the subject “Watch.’’ The college will open on the third Wednesday in January. The prospect* of the college under its new president are most excellent. —The Forest (Jefferson) News, of Decem ber 21st., says: Rev. Mr. Ilaygood held services in the Baptist church on last Sun day night for the last time. —Rev. J. O. Harris, a Baptist minister living in Madison county. Florida, recently paid a visit to Quitman, his former place of residence. —llev. C. M. Irwin preached last Sab bath and Saturday before, at Hickoiy Head Baptist church, as we learn from the Quit man Reporter. —The subscriptions to aid in building a Baptist house of worship at Waynesboro, ar* coming in encouragingly. It is hojed that the work will soon begin. The Expositor of last week says: “The people of Hephzibih are noted for their generous liberality. We are informed that they have subscribed over six hundred dollars towards building the Baptist church at this place. Such kindness is heartily ap preciated by the citizens of our community.” —The Albany Newsmjs: “Talking about the institutions of Albany, the Ladies’ Association of the Baptist church is one of the noblest and most unselfish, not only in the city, but in the State-” —The Augi s:a A’eim, of the 19 h says: “Rev. W. W. Landrum, pator of the First Baptist Cbur;h of lh : a city, will deliver a lecture in Macon 10-dfcrrow evening on “Southern Pro vincialism.” Our Macon friends may expect somt thing unusually good on the occasion* In this city, where the reverend gcntlcm n is so well known, bis popularity as a minister and sneaker is almost unbounded.” Rev. A. J. Beck has accepted cilia to serve the Tennille Baptist chu’ch and Jack son’s church during the next year. —The Convention of fertilizer manufacturers and dealers called to meet in Augusta on the 18th inst., was called to put the business on a sounder basis. The Savannah Aetna says: Fertilizers in the cotton States are mostly sold on what is known as the cotton option ; that is, a ton of fertilizers is sold for so many dollars, but the planter can discharge the debt by paying so many pounds of middling cotton, and as manufacturers based their prices ex pecting to realize ten cents per pound for the cotton and received about seven and a half cents, tlie hoped for profit lias been converted into a serious loss. We learn the stock of some of the companies lias declined from forty to fifty cents on the dollir. THECHRISTiM INDEX Publication Room*—27*nd29 South-Broad Street Editorials. AT lIIK CLOSE. The sense of duty—the conviction that we are responsible creatures, of whom an account of our stewardship of earthly affairs, with refereucc both to time and eternity, will some' time be demanded, is ever present in the heart. We cannot get away from the feeling, any more than we can get away from the sight of the sky above our heads, or from the shadow cast by our own body. Its demands are inexorable. As Longfellow says: “ Labor with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.” At the close of the year this feeling is ex ceptionally strong, and the time presses the sentiment of the quoted lines with peculiar force upon our attention. There is so much to do, and we have done so little. How many opportunities we now remember to have had! but we neglected them ; they lingered a mo ment, but we refused or neglected to grasp them, and they flew on swift wings away— away into the unrecoverable past. To do good, to live for God and for man kind, to be a true soldier, steadfast at of duty; to pray, to watch ; to be pure, Christ-* like, helpful, to love and practice virtue, to hate aud avoid vice—have toe done so? have ire boon so ? The conviction ofdireliction in all of these particulars presses upon the soul with an almost insupportable weight, and we loth ourselves for our weakness in matters essential to our happiness, here and hereafter. Were it not for the all sustaining grace of God, for the merciful influence of the spirit of Christ, for tlie blessed hope that, star-like, shines through tlie gloom which our self-accusing soul gath ers around our life, de-perate indeed would be our condition. Thank God, for the new year ! In its train, led by the sober spirit of R-flsction, we find stern-eyed Resolution, determined to make amends for our shortcomings during the past year; Charity, with her celestial features illu mined with loving smiles for the whole world ; crooned with the royi'l grace of her ministry; Love, with its garlands of imperial)’ able 11 iwers, and her heavenly aongß ; Truth, with her brow radiant as the sun, and her form of peerless majesty ; Hope, with her tongue of golden eloquence and her cheerful laughter, and fairer than all, Faith, in her robeofglorv, her eyes fixed with unuttersb’e longing upon the Cross and the Crown, the emblem oLDeath and the Resurrection ! In ruch blessed company it is well to j in with earnes l , grateful and reverent heart. They come with the new year, and offer to ac compiny us in oir pilgrimage to the grave. It is wisdom to accept the gentle invitation It is Eternal Life never to part from this c iml - BEACONSFIFLU. The genius ol' Lord Beaconsfield has sur rounded the present government of Great Britain with a halo of glory, which dazzles the eye of the populace, and which serves to hide, in the convenient glare, many of tlie dark defects of his foreign policy. Presum ing upon the high position he has achieved in the estimation of a majority of the Eng lish people for the astute and brilliant man ner with which he managed British interests at the Berlin Conference, he looks upon himself as the infallible representative of tbe British Empire, as the soul < f its policy, and the arbitf rof its fa’e. His inordinate ambi tion, big disregard of the opinion of even the most exalted of his contemporaries, his im perious demands, and despotic denuncia tion of any who may dare to cross his path, or question either his power or his presumed infallibility in S'ate-craft, are the qualit'es that have called a stern, relentless and pow erful opposition, which is making itself felt everywhere- Aware that something decisive had to be done to keep the splendor of bis administra tion up to tbe standard set by bis ambition, Beacon-field, by an admirable stroke of piolicy, diverted the attention of the people from himself to distant Afghanistan. Un duly impugning the motives of Russia, and exaggerating the situation of affairs in India, and invoking the spirit ot conquests inher ent in the Anglo Saxon race, he managed to precipitate the country into a war on the Indian frontier, whose results can, at beat, be of small value to England as a matter of territorial aggrandizement, and which may result disastrously to British interests here after, should England, .in consequence of Beaconslield’s vindictive and selfish policy, became involved in dangerous difficulties with European powers. A phase of the Beaconsfteld policy in refer ence to Oriental affairs is quite disreputable, and that is the suppression or unwarranta ble garbling of the trutli in tlie government dispatches and communications as given to the public. This has called forth severe censure in Parliament, the press, excepting the organs under the control of Beaconsfteld an 1 bis adherents, have not been slow in denouncing the trickery. An effective an tidote to this bad method of manufacturing public opinion, is fouud, also, in the enter prise and integrity of such metropolitan journals 89 the News, and Standard, who Literature -—Secular Editorials - Cuireni Notes and News. ATLANTA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1878. have reliable correspondents in those regions, and who are not afraid to publish what they write. Thanks to the freedom of the Press! The prestige which Beaconsfteld has ac quired, and which he is now holding With desperate tenacity, and by all means, good or bad, depends solely upon a brilliant and rapid campaign, without the slightest check or reverse to the arms of Great Britain. In the blaze of illuminated towns the becloud ed sun of the Premier may regain its wonted lustre for a_ time; the triumphal roar of cannon may drown the murmurs cf discon tent, and tlie warning voice of the opposi tion. But it is a dangerous expedient, nev ertheless. “The English nation,” says a well-informed English writer, “is just now in a cynically defiant mood, in which it laughß at justice or honor, and admires bluster and blood. But it is doubtful how far and how long it would be safe to pnsu ne on the continuance of this humor. Such a democracy as that to which Lord Beacons field’s cabinet has appealed may be easily converted from a sneering scepticism in truth and humanity, to an embittered and revolu tionary distrust in Lord Beaconsfleld’s cabi net itself. Nor will matters be mended for the government when the fact is fairly real ized that this cabinet, which now protests against the idea of falling a dupe to Russian machinations in anything, really acquiesced in, aud connived, at Russian intrigue iu , Afghanistan six months ago. “Honesty is tlie best policy” in the high est as well as in the most mercenary sense of these words. A home spun truth is more than a match for tlie most brilliant lie. A government can inspire confidence and com mand the world’s respect only when it makes the laws of God, and the divine principles ol humanity, the rule of action iu small as well as in great affairs. Under its present adminis tration E 'gland, wo fear, has not successful ly followed a policy such as honesty aud true wisdom can approve. GEORGIA NEWS. —Snow fell to the depth of two inches at Lafayette, Walker county, Monday night, the 9th inst. —An attempt was recently made by two negroes to plunder the bank at Fort Valley. They were discovered, but managed to escape —CThe puWi< library irvKortw alley is in a very flourishing condition. '♦ —Mayor E. G. Wilkins, of Columbus, has refused to accept ot the increase cf salary tendered by the City Council. —Governor Colquitt has approved the Brunswick and Albany railioadact. —William Allen, of Jackson county, is the oldest of thirteen brothers, all of whom were in tbe war, and met from different sections of the South on dress parade at Richmond, Vir ginia, at one time. Four only survived tlie conflict. Mr. Allen is now tbe father of fourteen children, all F ring—eleven sons and three daughters. —Mr. J. R. Wiklehas been appointed po-t --inaster at Cartersville, Ga., and Mr. A. A. Fletcher at Marietta. —The Governor has re-appointed the old Board of Trustee* of the Lunatic Asylum for the ensuing two years. —Mr. John K. Seliecut is going to publish a new paper in Madison. Work lias been commenced on the new union passenger depot, in Augusta. It is to occupy the site of the old one, and will be one of the finest in the South. —The Montezuma Weekly says that appli cation will be made, very soon, for a charter for the “ Flint River Steam Navigation Com pany.” —The-e are many wil l cats in Gilmer county. Proceedings have already commenced to contest the municipal ehetion in Macon. Able practitioners have drawn the bill of injunction re-training the new Mayor, Aldermen and City Treasurer from going into i ffice. It em braces twenty specifications, such as fraud, ir regularities in registration, appointment of managers, non-payment of taxes, illegal reg istration, nnn-naturalisa ion, and others. Judge Grice gran'eJ the temporary injunction and the case will be argued on it* merits, and it will doubtless be carried to the Supreme Court. —Dr. McFerrin raised four thousand and fi'ty dollars for the publishing bouse at the South Georgia Conference. —Dr. Grten has been elected Mayor of Gsloesville. —The most important bill of the recent eeesiort of the Legislature and which has been signed by the Governor, was in relation to the iarue of a half m 1 lion ot four |>er cent, bonds. The-e bond-", to be known as the Garrard bonds, from the name of the author, will be in denominations of $5 to SIOO. They are in tended to give the maa?es of the people a chance for a rate, local, lucrative investment, that can be nude with tbe weekly ssvings ot laborers, clerks, etc. Their idzs will be a n ivel feature. They will be precisely the size of a five dollar greenback bill, with the cou pons tiny aod snug on the lower edge of the bond. The smallnesg of theu size anddenom ina'ion will cause them lo be largely used in commercial transactions, and will thus enlarge the State currency without inflating it. The bonds will run aix year* and cannot be sold at leas than par. This is the first attempt of a Southern Slate to float bonds at as low a rate as four per cent.; but it is already a-certained that these bonda will go rapidly. Nearly the whole loan has already been bespoken. They will be issued in the month of January, lo meet the Nutting bonds, wlocli will fall due on February 1. It is notable that these bonda will uupplant a s-Tiea of eight per cents , thus saving just one-half of the interest arcount. If this issue ol half a million is promptly taken at par, the L‘gialaiure will issue another half million iu July to retire seven per cenls with. It iB the opinion of the Treasurer, bankersand finance committees, that the iu terest of the Stale debt of over $9,000,000, now averaging a triflle over seven jier cent., can be reduced to four per ctnt. Of course not a dollar of increase will lie made to the bonded debt. The bonds issued will be ee.-d exclusively in retiring falling due binlq or purchasing outstanding bond-. Htti !>i|ljti*tloß of the South. Among the many excellent ariicles in re cent issues of The Index, not one has elicited more general 'atrifaetion than that growing out of the pc-", lion of the New York Examiner and Chronicle in regard to political matters in the South. 4 rong and temperato in tone, and exhaustive in both induction and deduc tion, it is ptg'n and pointed. The reply of the Examiner and Chronicle, covering seven lines, which, from charity, I forbear to quote, i* suggestive- The most casual leader must now he peraueded that our Northern brethren will die in ignorance. The.-e several arlie'es suggest the above caption. Two things con tradict the declaration so common on South ern lips iiSSsfSJiately after the surrender of our arm'es- that we were not conquered but over-run. The fir.-t of these facta is the eager ness witli wh ch our people have sought after Northern approval, and the easy spiiit with which they -have accepted the mouldings of our customs and institutions according to Nor.hern models. The second, the extreme anxiety with which we have sought to dis abuse the Ki nds of that people of errone ous impressions about the condition of things among us. These two things have resulted in a tone of patronage on their pait toward us, and ot judicial amhori y, utterly incunpatib'e i h the relations of equals. The desire to improve always prompts a thoughtful consid eration of ihe condition of o'hem as an incen tive and guide to the attainment of that desire, and to accpt, with such readiness as is consis tent with dignity, their oflered help. A rea sonable re pact for the good opinion of others, always prompt* to the c ireA Uon of misrepre sentHttsiw, and misapprehensions. But more than tbV®wiiicopffstent with se’f-respect and indicative of subjugation. We are not abso luh ly dependent upon the North, though our oonduot would indicate that we feel so. It will be a foitunate day fir our entire country when the people and press shall de'ermine to maintain unbroken silence toward iliem on hose joints in which we have been so per it emly tn art-presented. Let us imitate the ex arnp'e otour Savior and Lord, Jesu* Christ “And he auswered him to never a word inso much that tl.e Governor marvelled.” Matt. 27:14. C. D. Campbell. We iiave Rome little fear that the above letter !be misconstrued by rome who may pomibly read it, but our lespeet an 1 great af ire ion f r the writer forbid that we s' ou'd withhold anything from the pubFc that he may desire to say. lie is cerla nly right in saying that the Southern jicople generally have anxiously sought for Nothern approval. Why should they not ? We should be glad to make rnrse've* so good a peop'e ai to secure llic-.j- vatjnfit only ot those who live North of u, i®. of we wb-ler world. He is right too, in saying that we have been, an 1 are ex tremely anxious to disabuse the minds of our neighbors of false impressions, which they entertain concerning in. We see no harm in this. No man likes to he misrepresented,and if a whole community is slandered, we do not see why the community ahould not repel tl e slander. We are believed by many to be a c Humanity of cut-throats; the wildest of those who are thus misled, will admit that we are uot af! villains aud murderers, but still insist that the spirit of the Southern people, as a whole, is what they call the “ spirit of the bludgeon and the shotgun.” Of course we know, that human life is as safe here as it is anywhere on this continent; but some people who live a long way off know (as they say) that this is not the case. We are sorry that they should hold us in such low esteem. They will probably live and die entertaining their present opinions. We are sorry for that also. We contradict their damaging statements, not with any view of changing their minds, for we know that to be impossible, but simply to place ourselves right on tlie record. We think our correspondent is wrong, in saying that “we have accepted the moulding of our customs and institutions according to North ern Models.” We have seen nothing of this. On the contrary our observation is, that when Northern people come here to live they almost invariably, adopt our customs. Some few very extreme men hold out for awhile, but they will be obliged to succumb eventually ; or, at least, if they do not their children will. It is our opinion that if the whole population of the North and South could exchange places, and forget their traditions, it would be fund in course of a generation or two, that they had mutually exchanged customs and character. Our circumstances have made us what we are, and would make any other people of the same blood just wliat we are. If our Northern neighbors wish to make us exactly like themselves, they must change the sky above us, and the ground beneath us, and the air around us ; they must change the climate, and nuke it exactly like theirs ; they must change the soil, and its productions, and all our surroundings. This will require great study of climatology, gfoiogy, mineralogy, meteorology and other sciences. While they arc mastering these various branches of knowl edge, we shall go on just as we are, and we have not the least fear of being subjugated. On the contrary, we should be glad to have some thousands of our Northern friends take up their residence in our glorious Southern land, for we well know they would soon be come good Southerners live ourselves. The circumstances above referred to, would soon subjugate them. Tlie causes which produce difference of customs and character, grow out of the nature of things. These causes will continue to operate, and these differences to exist, probably until the end of time. Shall we quarrel about it ? —The Georgia House of Representatives, at tlie se sion just t<rminated, spent thrie thous and two hun Ired dollars for clerical service, against between eleven and twelve thousand dollars spent for the sane service of the last session before. SPIRIT OFOCR MAGAZINE LITERATURE. —The extreme depression in the commer cial and financial circles of Great Britain, acts injuriously upon current literature, and English publishers and booksellers are loud iu their complaints. —lt is stated that Bret Ilarte’s “Heathen Chinee,” which first brought his peculiar genius into notice, wag -.furnished by the author while acting as editor of the Overland Monthly, to supply the foreman’s unexpected demands fbr “more copy,” to fill one or two pages magazine. To meet editorial emergencies of this kind some of the'most brilliant effusions of the day have been in voked, by the pen of the journalistic “ready writer,” —Euglish critics, with an unpleasant amount of trull), charge Americans with an undue and toadyish admiration for foreign literature, to the evident injury of our own. Wo buy the works of English, French and German writers, praise and imitate their style, aud make up our libraries from them, while some of the best of American authors are entirely overlooked, and oftentimes per mitted to die unnoticed. Has America no literary pride ? —Chatlerton recorded in a book which he took with him from Bristol to London, that for nine months’ labor in London he re ceived from the booksellers, for whom he wrote, $24.00 For the “Consuliad,” a poem of over 270 lines, he got $2.60, and Mr. Hamilton, owner of a magazine, gave him for two contributions, 50 cents, and for six teen songs which he published, $2.00 —ln a recent number of the Stationary Trade Journal we find a brief yet graphic dissertation on the Spanish language, the purest, best preserved of all the Latin ton gues. It is unrivalled in the pliancy with which it.adapts itself to the expression of the finest shades of feeling, and in its musi calness. It is au almost perfect instrument for the purposes of prose and poetry. Sentiment and passion can call upon its resources, and will find them inexhaustible. Like the Troubadours of southern France and north ern Italy, and the “Minnesingers” of Ger many, the romancercs, or ballad-singers, of Spain in the middle ages enriched the liter ature ot their sunny land with the rarest ore of the native muse. They were the bards of the people, the interpreters of the spirit dom inant in castle and cot. They sang ot every thing, a romance of religion or love, a rustic madrigal, a heroic deed, a version of politi cal or civil history, of noble ladies, of right and wrong, of liberty. They drew their themes from the heart, the head and the hand. Since then, Spanish literature has declined wofully, as the whole land has declined in art, in science, and political influence. But still its language remains, grand, beautiful, and full of power of the highest kind. The article alluded to has a practical sug gestion in regard to the Spanish language, worthy ol the serious reflection of American students, in the fact, namely, that it c im petus with the English for the mastery of the New World. With tlie single exception of Brazil, the language ol the South Ameri can States is also the dominant language of the Webt ladies, Central America and Mex ico. These are our neighbors, and they fur nish the nearest markets for our mi-plus goods, as well as the sources of many of our importations. Every year draws the com mercial ties between us more closely, and every year makes a knowledge of Spanish speech more and more valuable to our man ufacturers and merchants. —JamesParton, in The North American Re view for November—December, has a reada ble paper on “Antipathy to the Negro.” It is, on account of its brevity, necessarily sketchy in treatment, and, though neither profound nor philosophical, it is suggestive reading, non-partisan and timely. The writer touches upon the opinion held by some of the fathers of the Republic, and emi nent American statesmen of the past, rela tive to the mental, social and political con dition of the negro in this country. Wash ington’s thought of freeing the slaves without removing them ; Jefferson’s amiable and im possible project of educating the slaves in science, ai t and industry, and sending them gradually away to some “convenient” part of the earth, to shift for themselves, the re turning vcbsels to be filled with first-class white immigrants to supply their places ; Madison’s Utopian project to settle the Western wilderness with them, purchasing them from their masters for six hundred millions of dollars, to be paid out of the United States Treasury, etc. The writer sketches the intense and uni versal antipathy to Ihe negro prevailing North and South, forty years ago, giving several amusing anecdotes in illustration of this feeling, and an account of the very ser ious and outrageous proceedings of the in habitants of a Connecticutt town who, en masse rose against a colored Female Board ing School, which had been established there by Miss Crandall, destroying it, root and branch, with bludgeon and fire. This was A. D. 1832. The writer then enters into a discussion of the subject of race antipathy and color repugnance, declaring them superffcial and ungenuine, and yielding to the influence of better knowledge and juster human rela tion:’. I $2.60 A YEAR IN ADVANCE He readily admits the mental inferiority of the black race. Glancing over their mod ern history in this particular, Parton shy ;• "To the’present hour the negro Jias contrib uted nothing to the intellectual resourced ot man.” But the negro is, what the Indian is not —namely, capable of improvement. “The negro,” he says, “takes readily to the hoe and the spelling book. He clings to the soil that boro. him. He improved under slavery from generation to generation, and nowhere so rapidly as in the Southern States, for nowhere else was he treated so well as there The South is most happy in possessing hinf, for it is through his as sistance that there will be the grand agricul ture in the which cannot flourish unless there is a class to labor and individuals to contrive. The Northern far mer is sourrounded by conditions not favor able to his improvement, for his task is ex cessively hard. Nature Is not gracious to him, and efficient aid is beyond his means. The Southern farmer, by the black man’s help, can be a “scholar and a gentleman,’' and at the same time secure aud elevate the black man’s life." We quote the closing paragraph of the article entire: The cruelest stroke ever dealt the negro, since the time when he was torn from his native land, was hurling him unprepared into politics. If this was designed as revenge upon the master, it was a master-piece of malign policy. This it is that keeps antipa thy alive, and postpones the day when white man and black man, equals before the law, shall loyally co-operate in extracting wealth and welfare from the Southern soil. Happi ly, we have not the choice whether gross ignorance shall be put out of politics, but ODly whether it shall be done by artifice, by violence, or by law; our fellow-citizens of the South, being unanimously resolved not to submit to Tweedian government which is knavery upheld by ignorance. Perhaps, through their resolute and tempernte opposi tion, we too, may rise to the he'ght of suppress ing the scallawag, and placing at the head of our cities and States their natural chiefs. When, in some fair and’rational manner, undeveloped races and immature individuals have been withdrawn from the reach of the politician, with tlie glad consent of the in dus'riotts poor man, whose life has been made well-nigh insupportable by their con junction, we shall soon cease to hear of a color-line; and, it any kind of antipathy re mains, it wi'l only be that which tends to the purity and dignity of both the races. Attention All! —We most earnestly re quest our brethren to read the article in - other column, with the title “State Mission Board,” and signed by our brother J. H. DeVotie. It contains in small space a large amount of information of the greatest interest, and which will be news to most of our readers. It a most cheering exhibit, and no Baptist can read it without thanking God that our denom ination has been able to accomplish so much valuable work during the year. Oun Cuami’ion. —During the last few months we know, and how much longer we do not know, our brother J. H. DeVotie has brought more new subscribers to the Index than any other man in the State; and what is more, he utterly refuses to take commissions or to receive compensation for his services, in any way wli itever. Every dollar and every cent paid into li is hands for the Index, goes straight to the Index. His labor is alwolutely a labor of love. We and our brother may forget this, but tlie Lord will not Representative Glover, Chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the United States Treasury, reports that the public and Congress have been grossly deceived in the expenditures. The bureau figures are totally unreliable, and there lias been needless ex penditures and extravagance in the Bank Note Printing department wiiliin the past fiscal year to the extent of over $130,000. The ex penditures of the Bureau have never been known since 1874, and it would tike a corps of clerks six months to ascertain the state of the accounts. • - -• Tlie select committee of the Senate and House of Representatives will act conjointly in their investigation of the causes and effects of the late yellow fever epidemic. Proper ex perts will be appointed to attend the commit tees throughout the Southern tour. It is gen erally agreed that Dr. Woodworth, Superin tendent of the Marine Hospital Service, and Drs. Barnes and Cochrane will be placed on the list. Experts in addition will be selected —one prominent physician from Philadelphia and one from New York. The Christmas holiday number of St. Nicholas is superb iu its contributions and illustrations. It contains strongly charac teristic contributions from John G. Whittier, Charles Dudley Warner, Julian Hawthorne, Theodore Winthrop. Frances Hodgson Bur nett (author of “That Lass o’ Lowrie’s), Mary Mapes Dodge, Celia Thaxter, Susan Coolidge, Ilezekiah Buiterwortb, (editor of “Youth’s Companion’’), Frank R. Stockton and Olive Thorne. Among the aitists who contribute the three score and more pictures of the nulnber are Frederick Dielman, Alfred Fredericks, James E. Kelly Alfred ICappes, Addie Led yard, Fidelia Bridges, Granville Perkins, Jessie Curtis, Sol Eytinge, .Tr., Kate Green away, of London, F. 8. Ciurcb, and R. Sayre. Michael Connors, a wholesale dealer in counterfeit national bank notes and trade dol lars, and the head of a notorious gang of coun terfeiters, has been convicted in the United States Circuit Court in New York, and re manded for sentence.