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Rev. Aaron Perkins is one of the old
est Baptist clergymen in this country,
being over ninety years of age. On a
recent Sunday he preached at the Ber
gen Heights Baptist church, in Jersey
City,his seventieth anniversary sermon.
He is still an effective and earnest
preacher, although not able to perform
regular ministerial work.
James Vick. —This name is familiar
to every horticulturist and florist in the
United States. His publications on
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An interesting article in
York Herald speaks of the marked an"
beneficial influence Carlyle’s workshave
had upon the literature of bis times.
The Herald speaks of all that Emerson
owes to Carlyle, that Dickens said his
“Tale of Two Cities” was in great part
due to his reading of Carlyle, that Car
lyle painted the French Revolution,
took Cromwell out of the dust and
made him a man, introduced Goethe
to English readers, and rescued Fred
erick the Great from the misrepresenta
tion to which he had been dismissed
by French criticism.
“Chatham,” the popular and übiqui
tous Atlanta correspondent of the Sa
vannah News, says: “Mr. W. G. Whid
by*s address before the State Agricul
tural Society at Thomasville has been
published, and Is highly commended,
especially his views on immigration
and "moonshiners.” Good roads to
the mountains would do much to break
up illicit distilling.”
Mr. Whidby’s address is certainly an
excellent and timely one, on a subject
of importance to the material interests
of Georgia, and commends itself to all
who desire the prosperity of our great
State.
Rev. Phillip Schaff, D. D., President
of the American division of the Bible
Revision Committee, publishes the fol
lowing : In answer to many questions,
and to correct a misunderstanding on
the part of the public, I beg leave in
behalf of the Bible Revision Committee
to make the following statement:
First the revised new statement will be
published by the English University
presses in May next, in different styles
of binding at corresponding prices;
second, the American committee give
their sanction to the University edi
tions as containing the text pure and
simple; third, the committee have no
connection with any proposed reprints;
fourth, the publication of the revision
will be on precisely the same footing as
the present authorized version, that is,
protecting by copyrighting in England
and free in this country; fifth, the
American committee will present to
every old and new contributor of not
less than ten dollars towards the ex
penses of their work, a memorial copy
of the best University edition in royal
octavo, handsomely bound and in
scribed. This offer holds good till next
May, and the copies will be forwarded
free of expense as received.
LITERARY NOTES AND COM
MENTS.
—The birthday of the poet Lessing
was celebrated in Charleston recently
by the delivery of an essay, by Prof.
Muench, of Leipzig, upon the life and
works of the great author. A large
number of Germans citizens were pres
ent.
—“Surely,” says a writer in Macmil
lan’s Magazine, “the family of Mil
ton or of Locke deserves as much from
us as the family of Marlborough. Yet
the former could derive no benefit at
all from the actual labors of their an
cestor, while the latter received a free
pension from the nation of £4,000 a
year forever. A successful brewer may
found a family of peers; but the prop
erty of a Newton or a Shelley is con
fiscated seven years after his death.”
—The salary of the editor of the
Atlantic Monthly is five thousand dol
lars a year. The fortunate man who
wilt draw this salary, henceforth, is Mr.
T. B. Aldrich. Mr. Howells, the former
editor, having resigned to accept an
interest in the publishing house of
James R. Osgood & Co., Boston.
—A statue of Edgar Allen Poe is to
be erected in Central Park, New York,
near the Museum of Art.
—We received the following by mail:
“Mr. Editor: Enclosed herewith,
please find some specimens of my
which you may print if you
remit me a one dollar greenback bank
note, and one of your papers in which
the Poetry is printed, otherwise, find a
one cent stamp enclosed to return
these papers to me. Address me at
Woodsville, N. H.
• Lorenzo Palmer.”
Upon conscientious comparison of
the relative value of the “specimens”
with the value of a "one dollar green
back bank note,” we find the latter so
incalculably superior to the former,
that Mr. Palmer must really pardon us
for declining his very modest and con
siderate offer. The inclosed “one cent
stamp” has been misplaced—will Mr.
Palmer oblige us by remittujg another
Jur mail? We have
the
of the forehead of their
innocent victim, Ireson.
It is said Mr. Whittier acknowledges
that Mr. Roads has succeded in estab
lishing the innocence of Skipper Ireson;
but, as a contemporary well says:
“Most people prefer picturesqueness to
accuracy, and doubtless ‘the wicked
skippers’ reputation will never recover
from the injury inflicted upon it by
Mr. Whittier’s ballad.” Very likely;
but we hold that it would be an honest
thing for Mr. Whittier’s publishers to
insert the truth in a foot-note to the
poem in future editions; and poetical
justice suggests the production of an
equally powerful poem by the venerable
bard denouncing the blind fury and
inhumanity of mobs in general, and
the Marblehead-Ireson mob in par
ticular.
—The third volume of Von Hoist’s
“Constitutional History of the United
States” is in press.
—A third edition of Mrs. Margaret
J. Preston’s book of admirable poems,
“Cartoons,” will be published this
spring.
—ln Lippincott’s, for February, we
find the following pleasing and sugges
tive sketch of American literary high
life. It has all the quietly humorous
and photographic realism of the “in
teriors” of the old Dutch and Flemish
schools, and, as a picture, might be
labeled; “Interior of a Literary Kitchen
—Boston—1881.” The writer says:
“There is a lady living in a little
four-roomed cottage in the environs of
Boston whose name is well known to
literary people. She depends wholly
upon her own exertions for the support
of herself and children, and does all
her own housework, yet her cottage is
the focus of the best society of the
locality. A gentleman calling there
recently was received at the door by a
daughter of the lady, who told him her
mother was too busy to be called, but
that he could see her in the kitchen if
he pleased, and he followed her to that
room. The lady greeted him without
the least embarrassment, though she
had on a big apron, and her sleeves
were pinned back to her shoulders.
She was cutting a pumpkin into strips
for pies; and there sat a venerable
gentleman gravely paring the strips to
the accompaniment of a brilliant con
versation. I was asked to guess_who
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this gentleman was, and, after several
fruitless attempts, was told that it was
the poet Longfellow. While the pump
kin-paring was in process, another dis
tinguished poet called, and he also in
sisted upon being impressed into ser
vice. It was a dreary day outside, and
no one cared to leave the pleasant
cottage, so they all stayed to lunch, one
of the pies forming the piece de resis
tance of the occasion.
“Speaking of this incident afterwards,
the lady said, ‘My friends are kind
enough to come to see me, though
they know I cannot leave my work to
entertain them. Visiting and work
must proceed together, and when I set
my callers at work with me we are sure
to have an agreeable time.’ ”
The Phrenological Journal for March
contains an excellent likeness of Gov
ernor Alfred H. Colquitt, and a well
written sketch of his life. This is fol
lowed by an article entitled “Georgia
Statistically,” being a resume of an ar
ticle written for a New York paper by
President Haygood, of Emory College.
Speaking of our State, to whose pres
ent high grade of political and material
prosperity Governor Colquitt has con
tributed in no slight degree, the Jour
nal says:
“Among the Southern States, Geor
gia was the first to indicate an awak
ening from the terrible depression in
every department of industry which
was produced by the war, and during
the past ten years she has been far in
advance of the others in commercial
activity, and those social and political
enterprises which stimulate the growth
of a people. She has had her share of
political excitement, contest, and em
barrassment, but it has served to stim
ulate inquiry among the masses with
regard to the causes of the irregularity
and confusion in public affairs, and so
promoted measures of reform in official
circles. J
“Much remains to be done,
for Georgia is so ’jy.
must, to some extent,
tlie movements in the
her, yet V*
1
■ ( ■ n imi part
is now permanenW ,
York in the
continue as editor-in-VhienM®'
nal, and will favor the readers
teresting articles concerning
musical circles in the North and East/
Rev. Henry W. Cleveland has been se
cured as managing editor, and will
hereafter devote his attention to its
columns. Mr. Cleveland is well known
as an able and forcible writer and
highly cultivated scholar. The price
of the Journal is only $1.25 per an
num, and each number contains two
excellent and popular pieces of vocal
or instrumental music. We can com
mend this publication to all interested
in musical matters.
We had the pleasure of attending
the tenth soiree musicale, given by the
Southern Conservatory last Thursday
evening at the hall of the Estey organ
company, corner Broad and Alabama
streets. The concert was compliment
ary to the members es Trinity church,
and was attended by a select audience
of our music-loving people. The pro
gramme embraced high-class instru
mental and vocal music, and was well
rendered. These concerts are becom
ing very popular, and cannot fail to
influence very favorably the musical
taste of our people. The refining ten
dencies of these performances are mani
fest, and should be sedulously encour
aged in every community.
President Garfield has expressed an
intention of keeping himself clear of
quarrels of the last administration, and
will probably renew few of the nomi
nations left unconfirmed by the Senate
at its adjournment on the 4th of March.
It is believed, however, that any of
them sent in by him would be confirm
ed, unless upon inquiry the nominee
should be found personally unfit for the
place.
No extra session of Congress is an
ticipated. The only subject which any
one has thought rendered such a session
necessary is Funding, and the President
thinks the new session would com
mence to wrangle where the old one
left off wrangling, and he hopes that
something will turn up before the
regular session in December next,
which will instruct Senators* and Rep
resentatives’on the subject.
"THE ORIGIN OF MAN.”
An Admirable Lecture by Rev. A.
J. Battle, D.D.
I Macon Telegraph and Messenger Sth Inst.]
The fifth of the series of lectures in
the First Baptist church in this city
was delivered last Sabbath night by
Dr. Battle, before a very large and in
telligent audience, composed of all de
nominations and classes of our people.
All were charmed with the admirable
production, which was pronounced by
many as the best effort ever made by
the learned President of Mercer
University. We regret that limited
space forbids giving only a synopsis of
his discourse on the “Origin of Man,”
for the lecture was a bouquet of rhetor
ical beauty, a mine of golden thoughts,
silvern sentences, and religious instruc
tion.
The lecturer began by briefly reca
pitulating the points of his former lec
ture on “The Constitution of Man.” “It
was shown,” he remarked, “that man’s
body is the highest and most perfect
type of material organization known
upon the earth; that although in its
mechanical structure and physiological
constitution it is closely allied to the
highest division of the brute kingdom,
thus revealing an archetypal unity in
the plan of creation, yet the perfection
of the organism and its adaptation to
the noble ends of intelligence and mor
al agency, prove that this is the well
devised organ of the conscious, rational
soul, and therefore not only places
man at the head of the animal king
dom, but gives him a special sphere in
creation.”
“But,” continued the speaker, “that
which constitutes man’s essential na
ture, his pre-eminent distinction, and
establishes beyond question his title
to this specific and elevated rank in
tha scale of being, is the soul—the
part of his constitution. It is
makes him capable of re
reasoning, of the articulate
of thought,
g° vern ’
Es your bamUat ran
the alphabet, and
ever develop, out of these
SMrontary forms of language, the Dr
omon of Bacon, or the Principia of
Newton, or the Paradise Lost of Mil
ton, or the Analogy of Butler? Yet
the expectation of such results would
be angelic wisdom in comparison with
the idea that man, the greatest, nob
lest and most skillfully contrived of
all productions, should be the creature
of accident.”
The speaker then proceeded to re
view briefly several theories of evolu
tion. First, he examined the scheme
of mechanical evolution, as expounded
by Haeckel and Huxley, and showed
that it resolved itself into a doctrine of
chance which could not account for
the existence of man or the universe.
This theory denies the Creator, and
pronounces the divine agency in crea
tion “an impertinent intrusion.” It
denies the responsibility and immort
ality of man, and even denies that he
has a soul —or spirit, distinct from
material substance.
The theories of theistic evolution were
then glanced at, among them Professor
LeConte’s hypothesis, which was char
acterized as an ingenious, grand and
startling conception.
The speaker suggested that possibly
some consistent scheme of evolution
may be devised which shall harmonize
with the Mosaic history of Creation.
There is no doubt that the world has
been built up through a long period of
progressive development, under the di
vine power of a wise Creator.
The lecturer believed that there were
at least four primeval creations—mat
ter, force, life and soul. He had not
been able to admit the development of
man and the animals from one ances
tor. The absence of the necessary con
necting links or transitional forms,
both in the existing animal kingdom
and in the chain of life in geological
time, militated strongly against it.
Here he criticised humorously Haeck
el’s plan of succession of animal life,
beginning with the monera and ending
in man. The fatality of the scheme
was that a number of the links are
mythical—supplied by the imagination.
Dr. B. then said: "Hence I hold that
manfwasforiginally a direct creation of
God, and not the development of an
ape or any lower animal.”
The Bible account of the creation of
man was then read, and the speaker
proceeded to demontrate that man, in
his spiritual constitution, bears the
image of his Maker.
We can give only a mere outline of
this part of the argument. Man, by
his powers of original conception, in
vention and artistic genius is, in a
sense, a creator, and thus reflects the
image of Him who created and built
this majestic universe.
By his intellectual attainments, his
vast accumulation of learning, man re
veals a dim adumbration of the omni
science of God. This knowledge em
braces not only the past and present,
but even glances into the future, and
thus he reveals a faint reflection of that
everlasting Being to whom all duration
is eternal. Now, lastly, the perfect
goodness of God—His moral nature
finds its feeble reflex in the conscience
or moral nature of man.
Thus the creatorship of God, bis
omniscience and his holiness, have
their corresponding images in the ar
tistic and inventive powers, the acquis
itions and the moral sense of His ra
tional creature—man.
This part of the subject was expand
ed and illustrated at very considerable
length, but limited space forbids us
to follow the train of thought in detail.
The lecture occupied forty-five or fifty
minutes in the delivery.
How publicly and as a matter of
course the traffic in “black ivory” is
carried on by the Dutch Boers in South
Africa Lord Kimberley recently showed
in Parliament by a quotation from a
letter written by the wife of a Boer, in
which she states that a “Boer had come
home with six head of cattle and one
Kaffir girl, and that another came home
with thirty-two large Kaffir girls, whom
he was selling for half a sovereign
apiece.”— N. Y. Sun.
Still these virtuous Boers are the
lauded “chainpions of freedom, fight-
Km: against dßAftfeanslavement and
-
■rat Sunday,SHMwning act in the
infamous hiscßryrrmodem Commun
ism, of which heresy the Russian Ni
hilists are the practical exponents.
The terrible deed has shocked the
civilized worid. For devilish ingenui
ty, implacable hatred, reckless disre
gard for consequences, and savage,
wolfish pertinacity of purpose, this plot
for the assassination of the Czar, ex
tending over a number of years, and
finally consummated under circum
stances of peculiarly aggravating char
acter, is almost unparalleled in the
annals of regicide.
The effect of this tragedy will be dis
astrous upon the political welfare of
Russia, and, to a large extent, injuri
ous to other countries of the Old World,
whose people are struggling in a legit
imate way for political reform and con
stitutional liberty. The malcontents
will take courage, the rulers will tight
en the reins of government in retalia
tion, and the innocent and order-loving
will suffer between the upper and the
nether mill-stones.
The Westminster Review (American
edition: The Leonard Scott Publishing
Company, 41 Barclay Street, New
York) for the the first quarter of 1881,
is of a very high grade of merit in its
leading papers. It stands in the front
rank of the expositors of the best
thought of the age. Some of the most
scholarly men of Great Britain contri
bute to its pages, and its discussion of
scientific questions, and its political
and literary essays, are of the very first
order. The contents of the present
number are, 1. The Progress of Ship
building in England. 2. Plato as a
Reformer. 3. The Early History of
Charles James Fox. 4. The Irish Land
Question. 5. The Science of History.
6. Afghanistan. 7. Bi-metalism and
the Finances of India. India and our
Colonial Empire. Also, a remarkably
full and high-toned critical review of
contemporary literature in all its de
partments.
Secretary Blaine is fifty-one years
old; Secretary Windom, fifty-four;
Postmaster James, fifty; Attorney Gen
eral McVeigh, forty-eight; Secretary
Kirkwood, sixty-eight; Secretary R. T.
Lincoln, thirty-seven; Secretary Hunt,
fifty-two.
ESTABLISHED 18 21.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—A wagon factory is to be erected in Cov
ington.
—The port of Savannah is crowded with
vessels.
—Potatoes are forty cents per bushel in
Blackshear.
—A telegraph office has been opened in
Warrenton.
—Marietta will soon have the benefit of •
steam fire engine.
—Work oa the Augusta and Knoxville
road is progressing rapidly.
—The new Catholic church in Columbus
will be dedicated May 8.
—The Columbus Library already contains
twelve hundred volumes.
—Hawkinsville has fixed an annual tax
of $lO on commercial drummers.
—Gainesville and Dablonega have been
connected with telephone wire.
—About half of an average crop of wheat
has been sown in Oglethorpe county.
—ln ten years the cotton receipts of Rome
have increased from 12,000 to 100,000 bales.
—A company is being organized in La
Grange for the purpose of building a cotton
factory.
—Rev. Geo. 0. Clarke has been presented
with a fine gold cane by the citizens of San
dersville. .
—The people around Quitman have plant
ed one hundred and fifty acres in water
melons.
—A narrow guage railroad can be graded
from Bowersville to Carnesville, at a cost of
about $6,000.
—Plans are on foot to build in Macon a
first-class hotel, four stories high, and all
modem improvements.
—Mr. A. St. Clair-Abrams, well known in
Georeia, is State's Attorney for the 7th Flor
ida Judicial Circuit.
—Nearly $1,200 was subscribed last week
by the Presbyterians of Macon to the Theo
logical Seminary at Columbia.
—The Odd Fellows Hall in Hawkinsville
is nearly finished. It will be one of the
finest buildings in ths town.
—Mr. Ferdinand Phinizy, of Athens,
wants a narrow gauge railroad from that
city to Hartwell.. He thinks it would pay.
—An attempt was made to burn the San
dersville jail by the prisoners, but was frust
rated by the vigilance of the deputy sheriff.
—A plan is on foot in Athens to unite the
Georgia and Northeastern depots and locate
them nearer the business portion of the city.
—Rev. Dr. A. Hamilton, President of An
drew Female College, at Cuthbert, was re
cently stricken with paralysis, and has since
died.
—Mr. James Wade, of Banks county, is
73 years old, and says he plows now as stead
ily as he did thirty years ago, and expects to
J keep at it as long as his strength will last.
ShtaAt Milledgeville a negro boy who had
KMkM in the public schools to write,
different orders. for which he was
to the penitentiary for ten years.
hopes soon to have a female cols
Khonsand dollars have
it only requires three
e to insure the building
fwsre asaaureg
of the Presbyterian
s been induced to re
tbsence has been grant-
is prevailing to an alarming
some of the cities and much alarm
MRb. People where it has not yet made
■WTppearance should guard against it by
vaccination.
—Treasurer Speer is receiving the returns
from SIOO,OOO ot the State debt incurred in
aid of the Gulf railroad, and paid on the first
of February. Three more annual payments
of SIOO 000 each remain to be made before
the debt will be wiped out.
—The recent Agricultural Convention at
Thomasville accepted the offer of the city
of Macon, and decided to hold the State fair
in that city, commencing October 17, 1881.
It is intended to make it the grandest exhib
ition of the kind ever held in Georgia.
—The Valdosta Times: We are informed
that wild cats in the South Ocean Pond dis
trict have destroyed all the lambs in the
vicinity, and have commenced to kill full
grown sheep—something never heard of be
fore. The cats are plentiful and very large.
—The Cuthbert Enterprise says: We are
glad to record the fact that there is not a
single unoccupied dwelling-house in Cuth
bert. No doubt this fact is to be attributed
in -ome part to the general revival in bus
iness, but most of all to the educational ad
vantages of the place.
—Rev. C. M. Howard, of Virginia, has
been carrying on a union meeting in the
churches in Elberton, for several weeks, and
the result was the addition of twenty-five
members to the Methodist church and six
to the Baptist. Mr. Howard is engaged in a
meeting at Paoli, Madison county.
—The Macon Telegraph and Messenger
has donned a new dress. Its make up and
personal appearance are greatly improved,
and it is now one of the most attractive looks
ing papers in the State, says the Savannah
News.all ofwhich we cordially indorse,with
the addition that it is also one of the very
best newspapers in this country.
—Mr. M. B. McGinty has taken a $58,000
contract to put up a new factory buildine at
High Shoals. It is to be a new building,
but is for the purpose of enlarging the caps
acity of the present factory. Work has been
going on at Barnett’s Shoals for several
weeks. It is proposed to build a large fiu>
tory there as soon as possible. .
—The North Georgia Times says: “From
all we can learn a larger acreage of cotton
will be planted in Murray county the present
year than ever before. Farmers are already
purchasing and preparing the fertilizers in
large quantities, and if the yield of the fleecy
staple should be as good this year as last, the
county will number her bales by the thous
ands.
—The Walton county News reports that
Dr. Lucas, of Boston, a most skillful miner
and experienced geologist, visited the As
bestos and Oorrundum mines, one mile east
of Monroe, and expressed himself highly
pleased with the outlook. Men who have
every means of knowing, say there is an
abundance of the above minerals in this
mine, and that they are quite valuable.
—The surveying party engaged upon the
Macon and Brunswick Railroad extension
arrived in Macon, having finished the sur
vey to Atlanta. They proceeded out to the
Cross Keys neighborhood, and will resurvey
a portion of the route leading into Macon.
In a few days the railroad officials will de
termine upon the route to be adopted, and
work upon the extension will be begun. ”