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Vol. 57— No 45.
Table of Contents.
First Page—Alabama n epartment; The True
Defence of Innocence ; Pauline Parenthe
sis. Religious Press, etc.
Second Page—Correspondence : Bethel As
sociation ; Rochester Notes—C. H. K,;
From the Indians—J. L. M ; Rev. W. I).
Atkinson—D. O. Daniel; Programme—W.
H. Cooper; Receipts of Mission Board—J.
H. DeVotie. The Sunday-School: Lesson
for December 7 —" The Heavenly Song.”
Third Page—Childrens’ Corner: A Boy’s
Remonsirance poetry; Witnessing the
Truth ; May Blossom's Canes—Catherine
Cameron. New Advertisements
Fourth Page—Editorials: Decrees and Means!
Rev. E Dumas ; The Revival Season ; Dr.
Warren's Work in Richmond ; Bernard
Mallon ; Dr. Lovick Pierce; Georgia Bap
tist News-
Fifth Page—Secular Editorials ; News Para
graphs ; Sherman's Famous Peace Move
ment in Georgia ; A Mormon iu Atlanta;
Appointments; Georgia News, etc.
Sixth Page—Obituaries, etc.
Seventh Page—The Farmers’ Index : Down
the Country ; The Fall Season : Plymouth
Rocks ; Bushels vs. Acres.
Eighth Page—Florida Department: Lacon
ics ; Among the Associations Still. Mar
riages; Special Notices; New Advertise
ments.
Alabama Department.
BY SAMUEL HENDERSON.
THE TRUE DEFENCE OF INNO
CENCE.
When innocence is assailed by the
malignant aspersions of enemies, the
most triumphant vindication of which
it can avail itself is silence and kindness.
When an injury is done by one person
to another, and that injury is returned
in kind, the parties are placed on
terms of equality, except only that one
is the aggressor, which, in any proper
moral estimate of the guilt of wrong
doing, is a small matter. Where wrong
is answered by wrong, casuistry will
be puzzled to strike the balance be
tween them. If A. steals B's. horse
one night, and B. retaliates by stealing
A’s. horse the next night, the differ
ence is too insignificant to attempt to
decide. And where is the difference
between this and any other wrong?
Did two wrongs ever make a right? If
une inau .ieuouuccs angjtar as having
lied, does it mend the mailer for the
aggrieved to return the foul epithet?
Is there not a more excellent way?
Now, it is worth while to bestow a little
thought upon a subject, be it never so
trite, in which perhaps nine-tenths of
the difficulties between men originate.
It covers a question environed with
all the embarrassments which passion
and lust can interpose in their conflict
with conscience and reason. It em
braces just that part of our deportment
in which, as Christians, we are requir
ed to exemplify the practical ascen
dency ol that law that emancipates us
from "the law of sin and death,” and
where reason, animated by faith, dis
putes the authority of “the lusts of the
flesh and the lusts of the eye, and the
pride of life.” In one word, it is ex
actly here that reason and passion de
cides which shall rule the empire of
the soul.
.In the first step of wrong doing,
there is but one aggressor; nor is it
difficult to show that this aggressor
has done himself a far greater injury
than he has inflicted on his victim. It
makes no difference whether the injury
relates to person, property or reputa
tion, there is an instant recoil upon
the party inflicting it far more terrible
to himselt than anything he has done
to the person he has wronged. If he
has violated the laws of the laqd, he
has also violated the law of God, and
thus subjects himself to the penalty of
both. In both cases, therefore, he has
injured himself infinitely more than
he has his neighbor, and stands pillor
ied, so to express it, before God and
man, to endure this doleful penalty.
The next step in wrong doing—we
mean where the person wronged retal
iates in kind —places both parties on
the same ground. The aggrieved par
ty forfeits the vantage ground he
held when he only received an injury,
and becomes particept criminis. He
incurs the like penalty with the first
transgressor. The sympathies first
aroused in his behalf subside, and he
takes the same status with the party
that injured him. The next step—but
why trace the steps of wrong doing
when it is let lose on society, spread
ing over a surface as broad as the
kinship and friends of the parties ex
tend? Who has not seen and deplor
ed it time and again? Our duty is
plain enough. Reason and Scripture
combine to assure us that silence unit
ed with kindness will do more to ex
tinguish animosity, and all the fierce
passions of the soul,than all the carnal
weapons depravity ever forged.
“Wherefore, if thine enemy hunger,
feed him, if he thirst give him drink,
for in so doing thou shalt heap coals
of fire on his bend. Be not overcome
of evil, but overcome evil with good.”
When an angry man finds that all his
passionate utterances and doings pro-
SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST.
of Alabama.
duce no response but silence or kind
ness, he is apt to turn with indigna
tion on himself, and repent of his ini
quity ; for of all things in the world,
a man dislikes most to expend his base
passions in vain.
We do not mean to say that a man
should not protect his person, family
and property from notoriously bad
people. This may become a solemn
duty. And even then he should go
no further than is essential to this end.
The balance he can leave to the laws
of the country. But when the charac
ter of a good man is assailed, as a gen
eral rule the less he says the better.
If you bespatter a garment with mud,
and undertake to rub it off at once,
you only increase the surface that is
soiled. Let it dry and it will fall off
itself. Who was traduced more than
our Saviour? Yet “He answered
nothing;” and was finally vindicated
by receiving a name above every other
name. We have not known one ease
in ten of suits brought to recover dam
ages for slander, in which the party
bringing the suit was not damaged
more than could be compensated by the
indemnity awarded to him. Reason as
we may the great body of the people will
continue to think that a reputation
that dollars and cents can represent is
not worth contending about. Religion,
pure and undefiled, is a “coat of mail”
impervious to all the missiles of slander
that enmity can shoot at us ; and when
we pause to return them in kind, it is
a sad evidence that some of these mis
siles have “found the joints in the har
ness.”
Before laying down the pen, we
wish to say a few words in regard to a
character we have all met occasionally
We mean the man who seems to spend
his whole life in hunting up occasions
of offense. You never meet him with
out having to listen to a list of griev
ances that would fill a respectable tract.
He would consider any trip a lost op
portunity, if he failed to find some
thing to growl over. He never sees
the sunny side of human nature. Your
caresses and kindly expressions are
thrown away on him. But start him
off on his favorite theme, and he really
grows eloquent. If we are to believe
him,the whole outside world has form
ed one grand conspiracy against him.
What a pity that all these “Tribula
tion Trepids” could not be drawn to
gether by a kind of moral affinity, just
to let the world see how “good and
pleasant” the communion of such
spirits would be!
PA ULINE PARER THESES.
An intelligent minister once said to
us that he should like to see a took
written on the parentheses of Paul’s
epistles, for that he thought some of the
sublimest conceptions that ever came
from the Apostolic pen were found in
these little interjacent sentences.
Thinking over the subject, we have
concluded that if somebody else will
write the book, we will essay a para
graph or so on the subject.
The late Dr. Carson expresses the
opinion that parenthetical expressions
blunt the force and obscure the
meaning of writers, and are really
evidences of weakness instead of
strength. Hence, he never resorted to
them, except where they supplied the
place of “foot-notes” in other authprs.
But the learned doctor did not seem to
think of the Apostle Paul in this sweep
ing declaration ; for of all the writers
of the New Testament, nay, we may
say of all the early writers on Theolog
ical subjects which we have examined,
Paul resorts most frequently to paren
theses. One can scarcely read a page
of his writings without encountering
one or more of these brilliant«scintilla
tions ; and what is more, they always
occur just where we need the light
they shed upon the topic under discus
sion. They come in to supply a kind
of ellipsis, pouring a flood of light on
the subject as if one were traveling
over a rough and thorny road some
dark and stormy night, guided by the
light of a lamp, there would occasion
ally come a broad, vivid flash of light
ning, revealing a broader range of
objects than the light of the lamp
could compass.
Let us take two or three of these
parenthetical phrases as indicating
how. as a kind of side-lights, they serve
to expand our knowledge of divine
things. Take that one recorded in
Rom. 2: 13-15, in which human ac
countability is predicated fimtlly’upon
man's moral consciousness, and not
upon the written law. The written
law may serve to increase this account
ability, from the fact that it increases
the light, the opportunities, and the
means of conformity to the divine will.
But the foundation of this moral re
sponsibility is laid in this, that God
has endowed man, as man, with a moral
sense to discern right from wrong.
Hence, in all languages, whither writ
ten or spoken, of which we have any
knowledge, there are words which an
swer to our English words right und
wrong, good and bad, righteousness
Atlanta, Georgia, Thursday, November 20, 1879.
and sin, etc. This accountability, we
repeat, may be modified by our possess
ing God’s written word, but it exists
independently of the sacred writings.
Thus our Lord says, it “shall be more
tolefable for Tyre and Sidon in the
judgment,” than for those who shared
His ministry ; not that Tyre and Sidon
would be saved in that day on account
of their ignorance of God’s word, but
that their condemnation would be less
fearful than that which would consign
Capernaum to the “perdition of ungod
ly men.” We repeat, what a flood of
light this single parenthesis throws
upon that aspect of divine jurispru
dence that would likely agitate the
minds of the people for all coming
time!
In Rom. 9:11, another one of these
suggestive parentheses occur. We will
quote it: (“For the children (Esau
and Jacob) being not yet born, neither
having done any good or evil, that the
purpose of God according to election
might stand, not of works, but of him
that calleth ;”) then follows the decree:
“The elder shall serve the younger.”
Now, we submit, if this passage does
not teach the absolute unqualified sov
ereignty of God, it is not in the power
of human language to do it. Kick
against it we may ; fret and chafe un
der it, men have done ever since; but
there it stands, calmly confronting us
with the sublime God-like truth, that
all His purposes are self-evolved, and
that they are in no tense contingent
upon what man is. or on what man may
or can do. “The gifts and calling of God
are without repentance;” not repent
ance on our part, but repentance on His
part. Seeing the end from the begin
ning, no contingency can arise that
can change His purposes and determi
nations.
Still another one of these sublime
truths appears in a parenthesis in 2
Cor. 5:7: (“For we walk by faith, not
by sight.”) What a theme for our
pulpit ministrations, and our closet
devotions! The sublimestsermon that
the gifted Andrew Fuller ever preached
was based upon this text. It ministers
strength to the believer from the time
he accepts the cross until he reaches
the crown. He never sinks so low in
the “valley of humiliation;” he never
risep so t high upon ( the “((electable,
mountains,” but that it reaches'him
in its all-embracing vigorous arms.
These instances we have selected
at random, but they are enough for our
present purpose. The reader can ex
tend them almost indefinitely. So
that, so far from agreeing with Dr.
Carson in his criticism upon the paren
thesis in composition, that it weakens,
obscures end blunts the force of truth,
we should rather say, that when dis
creetly resorted to, it strengthens, illu
mines, and gives a keener edge to any
writings, human or divine.
A Box of Gold in a Shipwreck—An
Anecdote by Bev. W. Hay Aitken.— |
Some time ago a friend of mine was I
coming home from Australia—orrather 1
a brother of a friend of mine was —and
' when they were about half way home
j the ship took fire in mid-ocean. Two '
! boats were lowered, and into these J
! boats all who were on board ship were
put.’ One was a large boat, and into I
that they managed to Hing a consider
i able quantity of stores —casks of bread,
bacon, barrels of water, and so on ; and ,
into the smaller boat, in the confusion
lof the moment, they east a considera
ble number of eases containing solid
gold, which they were bringing home
! from Australia. When every one had .
got into the boats they found they had
got a very slender stock of provisions
I in the small boat, and a large amount!
' of gold, whilst the larger boat had got
nearly all the provisions and no gold.
As night came on a stiff breeze sprang |
. up, and it was probable the boats would
separate before morning, and n>y friend ,
I said he never should forget the mo
ment when four or five stalwart sailors
stood up in the small boat and lifted ,
up a huge box containing about £14,-,
000 or £15,000, and they shouted across ,
the water to the occupants of the other j
boat, “Here’s £15,000 to be divided
amongst you if you will only give uh a
cask of bread,” and they could not do
so. A good price, was it not? But
the gold could not purchase the bread
that perishes.
I How much less will the rich man’s ■
■ gold avail him in She shipwreck of this '
world, in the day of judgment, to pur-'
i chase the bread from heaven which |
endures unto everlasting life! Blessed j
, indeed are those who, leaving the un-1
satisfying husks of this world’s pleas-
1 tires, arise and go, like the prodigal j
son, to their Father, and are admitted
by Him to sit down in the kingdom
of God.
The greatest man is he who j
troubles himself the least about the '
j verdict that may be passed upon him !
by his contemporaries or posterity, but
' who finds in doing good, honest work (
, to the best of his ability, tinder existing J
; conditions, its own “exceeding great
i reward.” i
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The Religious Press.
Amusing, suggestive and instructive
is the flowing extract of a letter from
brother A. B. Cabaniss to the IFetKem
Recorder: *
WhxTie Stopped the Recobeeb.—l
met a irominent Baptist in the road and
asked Jiim to take the Recorder. “I did
take it once but stopped it.” "Why?” “Be
cause Onperton wouldn’t publish au obituary
I sent He would have published a
few lines ■ but it was no doubt too long.” “I
was willing to pay him for it, but he wanted
to charge me too much." “The charge is
made, Kot for the money, but to keep these
long obituaries out.” “Well, I don’t think
he treated me right; he might have publish
ed it; >ne wal an old subscriber.” "My
dear sir, we have six thousand subscribers,
generally heads of families, and there is an
average of live iu a family, which makes
thirty thousand persons. Qut of that num
ber, sot te one is dying everyday. Don’t
you sec\j,hat if we did not put a stop to
obituaries, obituaries would put a st' p to the
paper? In this busy, go-ahead age, who
wants to take a paper filled with accounts of
the dead past? We are striving to make
the Recorder a live, wide-awake paper—a
transcript of the-missionary age in which we
live, and not a cemetery for the burial of the
dead. Think oh these things, my brother,
and take the paper again.” “I know it’s a
good paper for Baptists to have in their
familie<; but I have said I will never take
it again, and I’ll stick to it.” “I suppose,
then, you belong to that family that, when
you gay a bora? is sixteen feet high, will
stick toi it.” “Yea,rir,” was the prompt re
ply, ..-*1 I bade him adieu; thinking he
must te tome kin to the old brother in
Washington county who, when the church
passed some resolution that displeased him
exceedingly, picked up his hat and started,
saying, “I’ll never put my foot in this door
again. ” Believing him to be at heart a good
man ■ the church bore with him. In about
twelve months, the old brother longed for
the ‘privileges of the santuary, and greatly
desijred to visit the courts of the Lord. He
Anally sent a message to the church, asking
the privilege of cutting a door in the back
side of the bouse, at his own expense. They
sac design, and granted his request. He
* w j ;nr,d|*ndaet in thMfctuayr after |
this, but always came in at the back-door.
I trust our good brother, firstgpientioned,
will take the Recorder again, even if he has
to come in at the back-door to get it.
We learn from the National Baptist
that
Brother 11. L. Wayland presented to Dr.
William Cathcart, as President of the His
torical Society, an original signature of John
Hart, one of the signers of the Declaration
of Independence, the only Baptist in the
Continental Congress. The signature was
attached to a Three Shilling Bill of the
Colony of New Jeisey, dated March 13,
| 177 C. John Hart was one of the three
Commissioners authorized to Lsue these
bills.
Dr. Cathcart accepted this relic on behalf
of the Society. John Hart was Vice-
President of the Colony of New Jersey, and
Speaker of the Lower House. He was three
times elected to the Congress, and was dis
tinguished for sound judgment and inflexi
ble resolution. When the British were in
liossessioo of New Jersey, Mr. Hart’s house
and mill were burned, and his property was
ravaged ; he was hunted from cottage to
cottrge, and from cave to cave; so that he
did not venture to sleep twice in the same
place. In 1865, a monument, erected to his
memory by the State, was dedicated with an
address by Gov. Parker. Mr. Hart was a
Baptist; he gave four acres of ground on
which to build the old Baptist church at
Hopewell, and gave largely toward its erec
tion.
The Christian Intelligencer (Dutch Re
formed) says, speaking of the great numbers
of Baptists : “This large body of Christians,
which puts great stress upon an exact obedi
euce to the commands and an exact imita
tion of our Lord Jesus Christ, and which
accuses other Christians of glaring defects
in obedience, this large body does not aver
age twenty five cents to a member In its gifts
in obedience to the Master’s last command.
If this is true because it is Baptist, the sooner
it becomes something else, the better.” This
is a very severe thrust at our people, and
the most humi iating part cf it Is, it is true.
The Baptists have the best creed in the
world, and theretore they are bound to be
I the best people in the world, but, alas! they
1 let almost all other Christians give more to
the cause of Christ than they.— Biblical Re
carder.
This is from the Central Baptist
That God could reveal Himself hi human
, form is no more difficult to believe thin that
I He could reveal His will in human words.
, The obstacle in both cases is reduced to that
of expressing t>.e infinite under the limita
tions of the finite, which can by no construe
i tion be regarded impossible. And as there
is no form in which the divine will can be
1 expressed to man, objectively and intelligi-
THE CHRISTIAN HERALD,
of Tennessee.
bly, except in the form of human language,
so is there no manner, known to us, of re
vealing the divine character except by its
embodiment in human r orm.
A new Baptist church at Bowdon, En
glatd, has made provision in the trust deed
of the church for the reception as ‘ non
denominational members” any Presbyterians,
Methodists, Episcopalians, etc., who may
desire to unite with the church. Such mem 1
bers are to be allowed to retain their peculiar j
views, the condition of their acceptance be- :
ing profession of faith, a godly walk, and |
subscription to the leading doctrines ol i
Evangelical Christianity. They are not,
however, to he permitted to vote on any
question affecting baptism or Baptist princi
ples.
So it seems that with all the so-called I
“liberality” of our trans-Atlantic .breth
ren, (hey admit Pedobaptists only as*a
kind of second-class members—steerage
passengers, as it were, who sit at the
far back seats, even if not at the second
table. We think that our plan is more
courteous, as well as more Scriptural.
Archbishop Leighton was once, says Dean
Stanley, reprimanded in a Synod for “not
preaching up to the times.” “Who,” he asked,
“does preach up to the times?” It was an
swered that all jhe brethren did. “Then,"
he replied, “if all of you preach up to the
times, you may surely allow one poor brother
to preach up Jesus Christ and eternity I”
We are sorry to say that many of
our religious exchanges deal largely in
politics, and some of them severely re
primand those of us who refuse to do
the same thing. As so many of them
are engaged in this business, we hope
they will allow their brother of The
Index to eschew the subject, and con
fine himself to preaching up the doc
trine of Jesus: “Peace on earth and
good will to men.”
The following strange lines are from
our esteemed brother of the National
Baptist: j,
We regret to see that in Virginia the
matter of honest debt-paying is still in doubt.
But we rejoice that our valued contemporary,
the Religious Herald, disregarding the
puerile exhortation to "let politics alone,”
has manfully contended for honesty in the
State.
" If the exhortation to ■“tet
alone” is “puerile,” it appears to us
that the New Testament is a very
puerile book. If any of the writers of
that book took any sides in the current
politics of that day, we are not aware
of it. They satisfied themselves with
laying down broad principles, applica
ble to all nations and races, and for all
time, and we should do well to follow
their example. As to honesty, we well
remember what the Apostle says in
Rom. 13:8: “Owe no man anything,
but to love one another,” and if our
zeal in this is behind that of any, we
lament it. But what this has to do
with “politics,” we do not perceive.
We presume, however, that the differ
ence between ourselves and the Nation
al Baptist are more verbal than real
after all. We surely agree in this, that
the moral code of the New Testament
ought to be urged at all times, and un
der all circumstances. We hope, too,
that our brother will agree with us in
this : That mere questions’of national
expediency, when they involve no prin
ciple of morals, are questions on which
religious journals ought not to take
sides. Those of our contemporaries
vyho entertain this view will have no
"politics” in their papers, as we have
none in ours.
The Christian Advocate, (Nashville)
speaking of the burning of the McKen
dree church in that city, says :
The most notable feature of this case re
mains to be mentioned. Among the offers
of tenqiorary worshipping accommodations
to the McKendree congregation, was one
from the Jewish Synagogue on Vine street.
The offer was made in a manner so graceful
and generous as to enhance its value and the
gratitude of the recipients. Such a transac
tion would have been impossible twenty five
years ago, and shows the drift of the age in
the direction o' religious tolerance ar.d
liberality. Mankind is coming to see that a
difference of opinion is no ground for hatred,
and that a difference in ideas is compatible
with kindness of feeling and reciprocal good
offices.
The offer of our Hebrew friends was
accepted, and for three Sundays Dr. West
has preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ in
the Synagogue, and that temple built by the
children of Abraham bas resounded with the
melody of Methodist hymns. To us the
whole transaction is curious, pleasing and
prophetic.
Certainly the offer of hospitality on
the part of the Jews was a graceful act,
and we sec no reason why it should
not have been, as in fact it was, as
gracefully accepted. Our Methodist
brethren are by no means rigid In their
views of communion, but docs anyone
suppose that they would commune
with these Jews, or with any others
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who like them deny the Savior ? If
one of the Methodist churches were to
do such a thing, would it not be
brought to speedy discipline? A Bap
tist church is independent and undis
ciplinable; but if one of them falls
into disorder, any or all the others have
a right to say that they have no fellow
ship with it.
The Watchman says:
The colored people are under the profound
conviction that it is not safe for them to vote
for candidates whom the whites do not
approve. We need not hesitate to set the
South down as solid in the next Presidential
election.
If it should be so that this statement
is not true, then the following words
from the 15th Psalm might well engage
the attention of the Watchman :, “Lord,
who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who
shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that
walketh uprightly, and worketh right
eousness, and speaketh the truth in
his heart. He that backbiteth not
with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his
neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach
against his neighbor.” Does our broth
er know that what he has said is true?
Do he believe it to be true? On
what evidence does he base his belief?
Does not the election returns from
these Southern States show that thou
sands upon thousands of negro votes
are cast for candidates whom the whites
do not approve? Is not this a matter
of public record? We assure the
Watchman that we have seen negroes
at the polls by hundreds at a time voting
for men whom the whites did not ap
prove. We have never seen the least
disturbance at an election ; and being
here on the ground, where we h’ave al
ways had and still havejsvery opportu
nity to witness the facts as they are,
we put on record this our profound
conviction that the “terrorism” spoken
of does not exist. Our opinion the
Watchman will take for what he thinks
it is worth, but what yill he do with
our statement of facts ? Will he say
that we are mistaken? This he must
know is impossible. Does he think
that we would knowingly misstate a
fact? We do not believe that, lie - ’
thinks so.
MY COMPANY.
I have read (says Mi. Bpur-,<xm) vi
one who dreamed a dream, when in
great distress of mind, about religion.
He thought he stood in the outer court
of heaven, and he saw a glorious host
marching up, singing sweet hymns,
and bearing the banner of victory; and
they passed by him through the gate,
and when they vanished he heard in
the distance sweet strains of music.
“Who are they?” he asked.
“They are the godly fellowship of
the prophets, who have gone to be with
God.”
And he heaved a deep sigh as he
said, “Alas, I am not one of them, and
never shall be, and I cannot enter
there.”
By-and-by there came another band,
equally lovely in appearance and
equally triumphant, and robed in white.
They passed within the portals, and
again were shouts of welcome heard.
“Who are they?”
“They are the godly fellowship of
the apostles.”
“Alas,” he said, “I belong not to that
fellowship, and I cannot enter there.”
He still waited and lingered, in the
hope that he might yet go in; but the
next multitude did not encourage him,
for they were the noble army of mar
tyrs. He could not go in with them,
nor wave their palm-branches. He
waited still, and saw that the next was
a company of feodly ministers and offi
i cers of Christian churches; but he
■ could not go with them. At last, as
: he walked, he saw a larger host than
' all the rest put together, marching and
I singing most melodiously, and in front
I walked the woman that was a sinner;
and the thief that died upon the cross
hard by the Savior; and he looked
long, and saw there such as Manasseh
and the like ; and when they entered
he could see who they were, and he
i thought:
“There will be no shouting about
! them.”
But to his astonishment, it seemed
as if all heaven was rent with seven
fold shouts as they passed in. And
the angels said to him :
“These are they that are mighty
sinners, saved by mighty grace.”
And then he said :
“Blessed be God! I can go in with
them."
And so he awoke.— Ex.
Mrr. Potts, the woman from Phila
i delphia, who created a sensation
| a short time ago by walking
I from Philadelphia to New Oilcans and
j return, within a specified time, has
[ been very unfortunate since the suc
cessful completion of her tour, and lust
week attempted to commit suicide.
She is now in the hands of charitable
I people, who will provide for her wants.