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The Christian Index.
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The “Readjusters” were victorious
in Virginia by a small majority.
Several tornadoes occurred recently
in Missouri and Arkansas. A number
of people were killed.
* The liquor register, otherwise known
as the Moffet bell punch, has gone
into operation in Texas. ‘
President Hayes says his message
to Congress will be a brief document.
He does not intend to recommend any
legislation of importance.
The Chilians made a combined land
and water attack oh Piagua, Peru, and
finally captured the place. The Chil
ian loss was three hundred killed and
wounded.
Rev. D. E. L. Magoon, a Baptist
Minister of Philadelphie, has present
ed, out of his private library, a collec
tion of six hundred volumes, valued at
$4,000, to the University of Rochester,
N. Y.
Thete are two new candidates for
admission to the Union—Washington
and Dakota. Both of these territories
have a population entitling them to
admission into the Union ; indeed Da
kota claims a population of 180,000.
The deposed Ameer of Afghanistan
is held a close prisoner by the English,
as proof has accumulated showing that
he acted the traitor, and connived at
the massacre of the English embassa
dors and their escort in Cabul.
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The disproportion of women to men
in criminal records is strikingly exem
plified in some statistics published by
the Italian Government. Dur.ng the
past year the court sentenced 41,555
persons of whom 37,099 were men,and
only 3.556 women, and the police as
sizes condemned 7,544 men and only
383 wonfen.
The intelligence from Ireland indi
cates that "the condition of affairs there
is improving. The Farmer’s Gazette,
the special organ in Ireland of the ag
ricultural classess, protests vigorously
against the exaggerated statements
that have been put forward, in regard
to the failure of crops and the increase
of pauperism.
The Philadelphia Record says: The
public schools abound in pupils who
can fairly recite verbatim this or that
grammar from cover to cover, without
being able to indite correctly a simple
letter. The mummery of parsing is
gone over with little other result than
to deaden whatever lingual talent the
child may have had in the outset. The
one who will break down the ridiculous
methods of teaching so-called English
grammar in the public schools and
substitute therefor the ways of reason
and common sense, should deserve
well of his country.
They have a kindergarten school in
Peoria, HL, conducted on the most
practical system and matter-of-fact
manner. No books are used, no les
sons are taught, but the teachers and
children converse together on every
day subjects, ask each other questions,
and tell stories. It is supposed that
children drink in knowledge from
these conversations and carry it away
with them. In this school nothing
is hard or difficult; every study, even
the most tiresome, is made pleasant
and atttractive. The most unique
course of all is geography, the instruc
tion in it being by means of mud pies.
The children are taught the forms of
countries and the relative position of
cities by these very mud pies, and
thus, while enjoying one of the most
delightful amusements of childhood,
they are learning a difficult and usual
ly unpleasant lesson.
Gen. Thomas J. Bradley, Second
Assistant Postmaster General, has com
pleted his annual report. It shows
that during the fiscal year ending last
June the mail services was in opera
tion in the United States upon 1,959
railroad routes, aggregating 79,991
miles, at a cost of $9,567,590; and
upon 112 steamboat routes, a total
length of 27,240 miles, at a cost of
$754,388, and 9,215 “Star” routes ag
gregating 215,480 miles at a cost of
$6,401,830. The total increase as
compared" with the proceeding year
was 379 routes, 14,745 miles and
$689,787. General Bradley recom
mends for the next fiscal year appro
priations of $10,000,000 for railroad
transportation and $7,475,000 for «tar
' service. These estimates arc respect
ively 11 per cent, and 25 per cent,
greater than the appropriations by
Congress for the current year. The
star service has been largely increased
during the past year.
SHERMAN’S IAMOUS PEACE
MOVEMENT IN GEORGIA.
Col. I. W. Avery, of Atlanta, has
furnished an article for the Philadel
phia Weekly Times that will be im
mediately published, and which we ad
vise our readers to obtain and read.
The subject of the article is, “General
W. T. Sherman’s Famou- Peace move
ment in Georgia,” and it is a most im
portant contribution to the chronicles
of the war, containing valuable historic
matter never before published, and fur
nishing original letters bj’ Gen. Sher
man, Hon. A H. Stephens, ex-Gov.
J. E. Brown, Hon. Joshua Hill, and
Judge A. R. Wright, of Rome.
The attempt at peace by Gen. Sher
man was regarded with deep interest by
Mr. Lincoln,a nd J was the first principal
effort made to secure peace. The
whole important matter is fully narrat
ed by’ Col. Avery, he having sought in
formation from every possible source,
and from all the parties connected
with it. Embodying historic facts
new and important, recounting the
acts of some of the leading men of the
great struggle, careful and accurate
and impartial, written in a style vivid
and classical,this article of Col. Avery is
as valuable and attractive a paper as the
Times has published among all its
most valuable series of original war
contributions. The Philadelphia Times
is doing an important service to the
country both North and South in thus
evoking these war records, and de
serves the thanks and patronage of all
good citizens of the whole country.
Col. Avery has prepared a large
number of war papers, which have
attracted general attention over the
whole country, and have been widely
copied. But this paper of his is perhaps
the most interesting and valuable that
he has written.
A movement has been started for
the celebration in England, in June
next year, of the Centenary of the es
tablishment of Sunday-schools, and
with that object in view the commit
tee of the Sunday-school Union are al
ready taking active steps. The pro
gramme, so far as it can at present be
decided upon, will include a great in
ternational convention of Sunday
school workers and friends, to which
meeting representatives from all parts
of the world will be invited. The un
veiling of a bronze statue of Robert
Raikes, of Gloucester, the founder of
the Sunday-school system ; a mass con
vention of teachers, and a grand musi
cal festival in London, are some of the
features of the proposed celebration.
Personal.—We had the pleasure of
a call last week from Georgia’s well
known humorist, “Bill Arp," a gentle
man who, under the quaint disguise of
his phraseology, gives us pleasant
glimpses of a philosophic brain, a kind
heart and most genial temper. Mr.
Smith is a gentleman widely known
through his humorous writings, and
works effectively with pen and band
for the prosperity of his beloved South.
May this merry-noted ’arp continue to
interblend pleasantly’ the music of
humor and common sense.
Col. E. W. Cole, President of the
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad,
and others in his interest, purchased
the shars in the Western and Atlantic
Railroad held by Northern stockhold
ers, thereby securing a controlling in
terest in this road. The stock is now
held entirely by Southern men. No
changes, it is said will be made in the
present management of this important
road.
Messrs. F. A. Ferris & Co. —The
above is a No. 1 firm, doing business
on Mott street, New York City, Nos.
264, 266 and 268, and as they deal in
none but first-class goods, we take
special pleasure in calling the attention
of our readers, and especially dealers,
to their advertisement in this paper.
Eiseman Bros.—We call especial at
tention to the advertisement of this
well established house. This is one of
the oldest clothing houses in our city.
We have been for many years dealing
with them, and can safely recommend
them as perfectly reliable. We would
advise our friends to give them a call.
General Sherman, in his official re
port, recommends the construction of
fortifications on the Northern frontier,
in view of possible troubles with Sit
ting Bull's Indians. He also wants the
standing army raised to 25,000 men.
The grand jury in San Francisco,
have found a true bill of assault with
intent to murder, against Charles De-
Young, of the Chronicle, based on his
assault on Rev. I. S. Kalloch.
The Atlantic and Gulf Rairoad was
sold in Savannah a few days ago under
a decree of the U. S. Court, for three
hundred thousand dollars over all
claims.
Judge “Lynch” is holding court in
some parts of Kentucky with terrible
energy.
Literature Secular Editorials Current Notes and News.
Atlanta, Thursday, November 20, 1879.
■ The colored people are subjected to
treatment at the hands of their white
fellow-citizens in Southwestern Georgia
which calls for instant investigation,
on the part of those of our Northern
friends whose self-appointed duty it is
to superintend the relationship be
tween the white and black races of this
country. This flagrant exhibition of
the feeling existing between whites and
blacks is illustrated by the following
incident, which occurred in Albany,
Dougherty county, and an account of
which we clip, verbatim, from the Al
bany News oi November 13th :
“What would the ‘stalwarts’ have
said, had they witnessed the Albany
brass band, composed of some of the
first young men of the city, non-pro
fessionals, blowing for the colored pro
cession last Friday afternoon, and the
‘City Blues,’ colored, equipped with
the guns and accoutrements of the ‘Al
bany Guards,’white?”
It is in order for the parties alluded
to by the News, under the epithet
“stalwarts,” to say something; such con
duct demands an expression of opinion
on their pirt. What will it be? cen
sure or praise?
By the way, looking a little closer
at the News we find,in another column,
a card of thanks in reference to this oc
currence, and which certainly caps the
climax; the card is signed by C. W.
Morgan, Captain Commanding:
“The officers and members of the
‘City Blues,’ (colored) respectfully
ask space in your valuable journal to
express their thanks to Capt. Wight
and the Albany Guards, (white), for
their kindness in allowing us the use
of their guns and accoutrements, on
the occasion of the laying of the corner
stone of the A- M. E. Church, on Sat
urday, when another organization, of
our own color,refused such a favor. The
‘Blues’ feel under lasting obligations
to thefr white friends and and shall not
soon forget them.”
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paper and the Portrait Gallery.
The Cherokee Advocate, edited and
published by Indians, very truly sug
gests, in some comments upon the let
i ter written by Miss Rose Meeker, in
which she speaks of the Utes as “red
I devils,” that “if you feel toward an In
dian that he is a red devil, that you
will treat him as such, he will come at
you in the same way.” The Advocate is
“driven to the conclusion reluctantly,
that agent Meeker was in collusion
with the Governor of Colorado in a
. deep-laid scheme finally to drive the
Utes‘from the fine country occupied
by them, and granted by the govern
ment,” and that the plowing of the
fine pasture, upon which the Utes had
set their hearts for grazing purposes,
| was deliberately attempted with a view
’ of provoking an outbreak.
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Machinery which spins seed cotton
into thread has been invented, and is
in operation at Westminister, South
Carolina. It is attracting general at
tention in this section, and promises
to add very largely to the industry and
material wealth of the cotton-growing
States. The machinery is cheap and
simple, and can be operated at very
little cost. It is so arranged that it
separates the seed from the cotton and
spins the latter into thread that readily
sells in New York at 16 jc. per pound.
This, it is claimed, adds one hundred
per cent, to the profit of the planter,as
it saves him the expense of ginning,
bailing,and bagging and ties.
Sir Austin Layard, the British am
bassador at Constantinople having been
requested by the Porte to explain the
object of the despatch of Admiral
Hornby’s squadron to Turkish waters,
semi-officially replied that the squad
ron would remain for the present at
Varna, but eventually might proceed
to some other Turkish port, as Eng
land would not tolerate oppression of
Christians in Asiatic Turkey. It is
also rumored that unless the Turkish
government carries out the promised
reforms, in that portion of the empire,
the Sultan will be deposed, and the
vacancy filled by his brother, who will
be under the tutelary supervision of
England, France and Austria.
Hon. Zachariah Chandler,the Mich
igan Senator, died suddenly at Chicago
last week. He died of congestion of
the lungs, brought on by a severe cold.
His remains were laid away with great
public honors. He was eminent as a
politician, and a bold, popular speaker.
A MORMON INATLANTA.
Elder John Morgan, of. Salt Lake
City lectured in James’ Hall last night
to an audience of sixty or seventy per
sons, eight or ten of whom were ladies.
We learn from one who was' present
that there was nothing said that was
in any way objectionable. The speak
er confined himself almost wholly to
an account of the condition of the
country and of the people. He expa
tiated on the material prosperity of
Utah, and declared that in all the ele
ments of true civilization, it compares
favorablf with any State in the Union,
or with any country in the world,
and fortified his statement by a
show of statistics. He also
dwelt on the morals of the people
affirming that there were no grog-shops
nor other dens of vice such as abound
elsewhere, and also that in point of
popular education, Utah is in advance
even of Massachusetts. He also spoke
of the persecutions which the Mormons
have endured,and declared that they on
the other hand have persecuted none
and that they arc liberal and kind in
their feelings towards all,and tljat they
favor perfect freedom of thought and
speech. He also said that the Holy
Scriptures are received by the Mor
mons as the Word of God, and further
more that they regard the Constitution
of the United States as an inspired in
strument !
Whether or not Elder Morgan was
the author of his own speech, we do
not know; but certainly it bore the
marks of exquisite tact. Nothing
could have been better calculated to
promote his object than the speech he
made. He ran against no prejudice,
he adroitly enlisted sympathy, and as
adroitly fell in with all the taking
things that are likely to have influence
with the common people. It is not
surprising that many fall victims to
the delusion. It is a cunningly devised
fable, and cunningly sustained. Satan
has seldom if ever invented a more in
geniously contrived system for the
subversion of souls.
Indian Creek Church and Rev. F.
M. Daniel.—This church has enjoyed
tlie pastoral services of brother Daniel
for two years past, and renewed the
call for next year, offering him the
same salary as before—two hundred
dollars, to be paid monthly. He, on
account of circumstances beyond his
control, felt constrained to decline our
call, and will not serve us after our
meeting in December.
church has never had a better
pastor, a more comprehensive and in
structive preacher, a wiser or more
orderly and dignified Moderator. Neirti
er have we ever jiad a pastor that more
completely enshrined himself in the
affections of his people, and whose leav
ing caused more profound regret.
Brother Daniel’s plan for utilizing
the strength of a church is most effec
tual and unique; being so judiciously
and symmetrically adjusted, as to give
each department of church work regu
lar and due attention, provided the
various members will co-operate in the
execution of the plan.
D. Elmer Fowler,
•Church Secretary.
Decatur, Nov. 6,1879.
■*»«•*—
Prof. Charles V. Riley, Entomologist
to the Agi icultural Department of the
United States, who has been spending
the summer and fall in the Cotton
States, investigating the coton worm,
recently passed through Montgomery
.on his way to Washington. In an in
terview with the editor of the Mont
gomery Advertiser, he expressed him
self highly pleased with the .people of
the South with whom he has been
brought into contact, and regrets that
Northern people so misunderstand us,
which he attributes to their want of a
proper knowledge of our people.
This is the declaration of all honest
and intelligent men from the North
who have visited our people, and have
learned the truth by experience. How
ever, there are among our Northern
brethren certain despicable classes who
make a living by dealing in slander,
and who are falsifiers by profession—
to the influence of these fellows is due
the greater part of this unwise feeling
in Northern communities relative to
the people of the South.
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A nice point in canon and civil
law is to be adjudicated at Cincinnati.
In order to test the question whether
the church property formerly held by
the bankrupt Archbishop Purcell, of
that city, but since turned over to his
assignee, is liable for the Archbishop’s
debts, a suit has been instituted by J. B.
Mannix, the Romish bishop’s assignee.
All this property was held in the name
of the Archbishop under the canon
laws of the Church, for the diocese.
The point at issue is whether this con
stitutes him owner of the property.
It is claimed that, although the hitter
may make him the owner, the spirit of
the law is against it. Among the
property transferred is St. Patrick’s
Cathedral, and a number of other
places of worship, built by donations of
the church members.
The sooner Congress abrogates the
reciprocity treaty with the Sandwich
Islands, the better will be' the results
to the people. The sugar crop in these
islands for the present year is estimated
to be about 35,000 tons. The whole of
it is in the hands of a California clique,
which is alleged to be the same that '
was very anxious to have the treaty I
negotiated. This clique, having a
monopoly of the product, has advanced
the price of sugar 12 per cent., and the
members of it are making a practically
good thing under an arrangement
which deprives the Government of the
duties.
The influence exercised by vast
monopolies, and political cliques, over
the representatives of the people in
Congress, is enormous and revolting,
and ruinous. It is high time for our
representatives to turn over a new leaf
in their proceedings, and to deserve their
places and their pay by serving the
people, instead of serving cliques.
The Workingmen’s Congress at
Marseilles, now in session, have de
manded the emancipation of women.
The Paris delegates advocate giving
women a deliberative voice in the Com
mune and in the State.
This experiment has been tried in
some of our advanced Western States,
notably in Kansas, and Wyoming, with
very unsatisfactory results. Very few
of the “emancipated” women mustered
courage enough, and overcame the in
stincts of female modesty sufficiently,
to mix with the rabble around the
ballot-boxes —an element of our repub
lican fabric which seems to be a neces
sary evil. The experiment was left in
the hands of a few bold-faced, ridicule
proof females, and finally dropped be
low the reach of resurrection.
The Workingmen’s Congress should
let the women alone.
The English authorities have ap
pointed an Englishman named Dunn
as Chief or Governor of the Zulu coun
try, and the first act of John Dunn,
after his installation, has been to issue
a decree forbidding missionaries to
come among the Zulus. Traders and
merchants are permitted to come and
sell calico, beads, fire-arms and fire
water to the savages, but preachers,
under the new regimen, are strictly
contraband.
It is to bo hoped that the good sense
of the English government will cancel
this individual’s silly action. He is
certainly not the representative of a
Christian government when he disports
himself in such heathenish freaks. Let
Lord Beaconsfield see to it, that what
his servant Dunn has done shall be
undone, forthwith.
Our brother, Dr. George F. Cooper,
of Americus, has for the third time
within a short period, been be
reaved. His married daughter, Mrs.
Dibble, passed away on Saturday
morning, Ist inst., at 5 o’clock.
We deeply sympathize with our
brother in his affliction, but are
comforted by the belief that grace has
been vouchsafed to him in proportion
to his need. His heart is very sore,
but the same hand that bruised can
soothe. No affliction is joyous but
grievous; nevertheless, the time will
certainly come when all the saints will
rejoice that they have passed through
them. All things work together for
our good, but perhaps our afflictions
do more of the work than anything
else. The Lord knows how to appor- I
tion it to us. Blessed be the name of
the Lord.
APPOINTMENTS.
The following are the appointments
for Rev. T. C. Boykin, State Sunday
school Evangelist, in the Bethel Asso
ciation :
Thursday before the 4th Sabbath in
November, New Bethel, Randolph.
Friday, Bluffton.
Sunday, Blakely.
Monday, Mt. Zion, Clay county.
Monday night, Fort Gaines.
New Hope, Randolph.
Tuesday night, Spring Vale.
Wednesday, County Line.
Thursday, Lumpkin.
Thursday night, Shady Grove.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sum
mer Hill, Stewart county.
The brethren connected with these
churches will please make these ap
pointments generally known. .
Mr. Abel, of the Baltimore Sun, and
Mr. G. W. Childs, of the Philadelphia
Ledger, have each given five hundred
dollars to the Hood orphan fund.
The Pope will issue his new daily
paper January Ist next, from the Vati
can. It is to be the official organ of
the Romish Church.
A World of Good.
One of the most popular medicines now
before the American public, is Hop Bitters.
You see it everywhere. People take it with
good effect. It builds them up. It is not as
pleasant to the taste as some other bitters as
It is not a whiskey drink. It Is more like the
old fashioned bone set tea that haa done a
world of good. If you don't feel Just right
try Hop Bitten.—Nunda News.
$2.60 a Year in Advance
GEORGIA NEWS.
—Business in Rome is very prosperous.
—A bank is to be established in Milledge
ville.
—The Atlanta Library has 700 members
and 8,300 .volumes.
—The State Lunatic Asylum during the
I past year had 745 patients.
—Tiie part of Savannah is crowded by
foreign vessels. •
—Trains are now running to Cedartown
on the Cherokee railroad.
—The cotton crop of Bartow county is a
third larger than ever before.
—The recent rapid rise in the price of
cotton made farmers jubilant.
The fund for the Hood orphans in
Atlanta amounts to nearly $2,800.
—Newnan is anxious to have the State
Normal School located within its borders.
—Tne mining stocks of Dahlonega are
selling at better prices than in Colorado or
California.
—The Americus Library Association his
just completed a fine building to be used as
a hail.
—More than fifty new firms have com
menced business in Atlanta the present
season.
—The police authorities of Atlanta are
busily enforcing the vagrant law, and many
arrests are being made.
—The pumps and cisterns in Augusta are
to be removed, because injurious to the
health of the citizens.
—The Hebrew Young Men's Literary
Association is one of the most prom ising
institutions of Macon.
—State Senator Speer died at Clifton
Springs, New York, and was buried in
Atlanta last Thursday.
—The predicted meteoric shower did not
appear on the 13th inst. Prof. Tice must
have mide a mistake in his additions.
—Atlanta’s excursion to Cincinnati over
the Cincinnati Southern railroad will come
off about the 10th of next month.
—lmportant changes will be made next
year in postal matters. Every county site
in the State will have a daily mail.
—A great temperance revival is in pro
gress in Atlanta. A determined movement
is being made to suppress the liquor traffic.
—A meeting is to be held in Stellaville to
consider the construction of a railroad from
that .place to some point on the Georgia
road.
—Mr. Davis Ross, who lives near Keatau
la Mills, in Harris county, is now about 96
years of age, and is one of the first settiera of
his county.
—A great many tramps are on their way
South from the Northern and Western States.
It will be well for our people to keep a good
look-out for these thieves and outlaws.
—ln a few days the Governor will re
advertise the lease of the Macon and Bruns
wick railroad, according to the law author
izing the lease.
—The police authorities have suppressed
the sale of the filthy Northern newspapers,
in Atlanta, such as the Police News, Police
Qatelle, etc.
—Mr. John S. Davidson, of Augusta,
offers to contribute one thousand dollars
towards getting the State Normal School
located in Augusta.
—Major Elias Wilson died at the resi
dence of his son-in-law, Dr. E. C. Hawes,
in Greene county, in the 89th year of his
age. He was the oldest citizen in the
county.
—The Seaport Appeal, at Brunswick, re
vived under the editorship of Col. Carey W.
Styles, will be made an interesting and
exceedingly lively newspaper. We wish
Col Styles abundant success.
—Under the laws of Georgia, the selling,
giving, lending or furnishing in any way, by
any person, of pistols, dirks, bowie-knives
and sword-canes to boys under age, is strictly
prohibited, and the law should be effectively
enforced.
—The new branch road from Wadley, on
the Central railroad, to Louisville, Jefferson
county, a distance of ten and a half miles,
was completed on the 4th inst.,and formally
opened by an excursion to Savannah.
—lt is estimated that there are at least
i fifteen hundred maimed Confederate soldiers
j now in Georgia, who are entiled to relief
I under the act passed by the Legislature to
provide for the cost of artificial limbs.
—The funeral of Prof. B. Mallon, former
Superintendent of the Atlanta Public
Schools, was very solemn, and an immense
concourse of citizens, and all the children of
the schools, attended. He was laid to rest
in Oakland Cemetery.
—The funeral of the venerable Dr. Lovick
Pierce, at Columbus, was imposing and
profoundly impressive. He was the father
of Methodism in the South, dying peacefully
at the great age of ninety-five years, having
been in the ministry for three quarters of a
century.
—Benches are placed in the Lula bridge—
a covered toll bridge four miles from Lula
Junction —and on Sundays a congregation of
people from the neighboring country meet
in the bridge and hold religious services.
—The forty'flfth annual session of the
Board of Physicians of the Bute of Georgia,
of the Allopathic School of Medicine, will
' convene in the city of Milledgeville on
( Monday, first day of December, 1879, for the
j examination of all persons who wish to
t practice medicine or surgery, or compound
and vend medicines as apothecaries.