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RELIGION AND SCIENCE. It is alleged that there is an irre concilable antagonism between Science and Religion ; that only a forced and superficial, not a natural and legiti mate, union of the two is possible; that each stands upon opposite ground; that in our day they are rivals and foes, instead of being friends and co laborers in a common cause. Upon these points much has been said and written, and the unprofitable war of words and clash of pens knows no abatement. We feel constrained to place briefly our own opinion upon record:. There is no antagonism between true Religion and true Science. There is no conflict between them, and there can not be. God’s revelation of him self in man and in nature is in abso lute haimony with his equally divine spiritual revelation of himself in the Bible. True Science is the dutiful, humble handmaid of Religion, ever ready and willing to acknowledge her allegiance and to serve her divine mis tress ; anxious to proclaim the heaven ly origin of her employer, and to re veal her charms, so far as a servant may be permitted to unveil them to the eyes, and to explain them to the understanding, of humanity. i Science serves herself best by serving God, and is entitled to praise and res pect only when she proves her right to intimate relationship with Divinity by guarding, with sensitive affection, the claims of the Supreme Being upon the love and reverence of men; and when she sternly rejects false teachings, and anathematizes those who usurp her place and counterfeit her noble speech. Genuine Science has never found anything, nor demonstrated anything, nor ventured an opinion upon any thing, that did not demonstrate to the unbiassed conscience of mankind the truthfulness of the divinely inspired Scriptures. Every atom of the mate rial universe is vitalized by the omni present spirit of the Creator. Go where we will His footsteps appear, and the unspeakable effulgence of His glory beams upon ohr wondering eyes. The voice of the sea tells of His al mightiness, and it holds enshrined for ever in its bosom the indubitable proofs of His existence; the storms beat their iron wings againsj the rocks, and the attrition reveals the hiero glyphics of His omniscience; the dew drop, as it globes itself upon the point of a blade of grass, proclaims His infi nite power, and the majesty thereof, with an eloquence as emphatic as that of the brilliant sphere which His hand holds suspended amid the rival splen dors of the heavens; the great, pro found heart of Earth throbs for Him on ly, and her face blushes with reveren tial love at His presence; the blossom ing valleys, the harvest-bearing fields, that smile in the exuberance of their . gladness, teach His truths; the hoary mountains rise to do Him honor; the skies are uncurtained by invisible hands, and through the silvery shad ows that envelop them,we may gain dim glimpses of the unportrayable face of Almighty Love, and a faint idea of the ineffable beauty of his celestial handi work. “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork. Day unto day utter eth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard.” But more sublimely even than na ture manifests Him to our senses, He has condescended to reveal Himself to our souls through the Bible. Stone blind, indeed, must be the heart that cannot see His presence in every line of it, and His holy, all quickening spirit on every page. In nature, He speaks to us through the necessarily inadequate medium of soulless matter; in His book we meet Him face to face; He talks as a father to his child ; we hear every tone and modulation of His voice; when He stretches forth His hand we feel it resting upon our hearts; there is no missing or broken link, no impassable gulf, between us. What right, therefore, have we to en tertain any doubt of Him in any way,or not to give absolute and unquestioning allegiance to His sovereignty, when He has condescended to reveal Himself to His creatures through the medium of the Sacred Scriptures ; when genuine Science, devoutly investigating the mysteries of nature, reverently ac knowledges the supremacy and incon testable truth of His revelations in those manifestations of His being also; and when wonder, admiration, and an awe that is utterly unable to express itself, are the emotions that exclusive ly occupy the soul when we contem plate the eternal evidences of His truth, wisdom, and power? Should we not rely as implicitly on God’s exposition of Himself in the one case as in the other? Is not spirit greater than mat ter? Is it not egregious folly, then, is it not arrant blasphemy, to pervert or to deny the truths of the statements made in the Scriptures by holy men under the direct inspiration of Heav en? Whosoever does this, places mere human opinion above divinely indors ed Truth, and the creature above the Creator. It is not worth while to pay atten tion to the vagaries of pseudo-scient ists. Let them float their bubbles as they please; they Will do no harm. To give charletans of this sort audience, is to give them the coveted opportunity for a display of their gaudy word mongery, and to show off their clap-trap meth- Secular Editorials—Literature— Domestic and Foreign Intelligence. ods of sophistry, the end of which is a manifestation of their own mental bar renness, and an exposition, altogether superfluous,of the hollow cant of skep ticism and materialism. Faith is all sufficient to the Chris tian. It is to him an anchor that never drags, because it holds to the Rock of Ages. Itisa ship made fast by an indestructible chain to the shore of Eternity. It is a sun that never sets. It is a star that shines steadfast ly, and with a glory that increases as the gloom of the night grows apace. Christian faith may be reviled, de nounced, hissed at, spurned, cursed, crucified—nevertheless, it continues to be what it is, unchangeably. It is divine, consequently it is immortal. Its beauty is brightened by contrast. The weakness of folly only demon strates its omnipotence more fully. Opposition emboldens it; error vindi cates it; time deepens, widens, exalts it; eternity crowns it. Commenting upon the deplorable fact that the temperancecause in North Carolina was defeated in an election a few days ago by a majority of over one hundred thousand, the Christian At IForfcsays: It is openly charged, and not denied so far as we have seen, that the leaders in the Republican party, for political purposes, marshalled the blacks against the measure, while the Democrats supported it as they did in the Legislature last winter. But wherever the responsibility belongs, it is clear that Prohibition has been de seated by an overwhelming majority, and that free whiskey is to be the rule in that State for some. time to come. One thing is clearly and forcibly taught in the reverses which the Tem perance cause is suffering,from time to time, and that is that the people must be educated up to the point of regard ing the sale of spirituous liquors in its true light, as the great curse of society, the source of nine-tenths of the crime and misery that abound, and that until, as in the State of Maine, the mass of the community eo regard it, and have moral sense enough to wish the fountain dried up, all pro hibitory and restrictive laws are passed in peril. They may be swept away by the next tide of popular feeling, or what is just as bad, they will remain a dead letter, while the evil itself runs riot in the community. Leo Hartman, a Nihilist, lately ar rived in New York. It is said that his stay here is indefinite. He has come to this country to excite, in every way possible, a sympathy for the Russian people, by giving the American people some idea of the state of affairs in Rus sia. Hr may lecture, though he speaks English very poorly as yet, but it is possible for him to learn a lecture, and after the hot season is over it is thought he will lecture. He intends to write for the press whenever and wherever possible. It is quite unnecessary for Mons. Leo Hartman to trouble himself by lecturing in behalf of Nihilism, since in our own Wendell Phillips this dead liest of dogmas has found so devoted and eloquent a champion. There is nothing, good or bad, that America cannot excel in. Mons. Hartman had better become a pupil of the Hon. Wendell Phillips, and learn the theory of what lie and his consorts are wont to put into practice. We are indebted to A. Pope, Esq., General Passenger Agent of the Asso ciated Railways of Virginia and the Carolinas, for an interesting pamphlet entitled, “Guide to Richmond and the Battle Fields.” It is written up with much skill and is artistically illustrated. We have also received, from the same gentleman, a copy of a very finely printed and profusely illustrated man ual, descriptive of the Health Resorts of the picturesque section of the South traversed by the Piedmont Air-Line. For the pleasure-seeker and invalid, no more attractive section can be found in America. We commend the route represented by Mr. Pope; as regards excellency of management, enterprise and popularity, no railroad system in the United States excels the “Asso ciated Railways of Virginia and the Carolinas.” Parties connbcttd with the Irish Land League and the Fenian organi zation are manufacturing torpedoes and other explosives in the United States, and are sending them to Eng land to be used by conspirators in blowing up public! buildings. The wanton destruction of life and proper ty, not the liberation of Ireland, as al leged, seems to be the purpose of these demons in human shape. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1881. LITERARY NOTES AND COM MENTS. Victor Hugo has no reason to com plain of a loss of popularity. The first edition of his last poem, “Les Quatre Vents de L’Esprit,” consisting of 17,- 600 volumes, is exhausted. Signor Gallengo, who has been sent by the London limes to examine the prison pens of Siberia, is an Italian scholar, who wrote a remarkable histo ry of Piedmont in the English lan guage. Bismark objects to the new fashion of printing German books in Latin characters, as appears from the follow ing letter to a well known publishing house in Leipsic: “With reference to the letter directed to Prince Bistnark, I beg to return you herewith the pam phlet sent, informing you at the same time that it is contrary to the rule to lay before the Chancellor any work or works written in the German language with Latin characters, because the perusal of such would take too much of his Highness’s time.” In the course of a rearrangement of the Municipal Library at Mayence two printed boo.es from the press of Guten burg have been discovered, of which the existance in the library had never before been suspected. These are a copy of the “Tractatus Rationiset Con scientite” (1459), of which another copy exists in Paris, and a print of the Bull of Pius 11, addressed to the Chap ter of Mayence, and dated 1461. This latter, so far as can be ascertained, is absolutely unique. An important and hitherto unknown treatise by Copernicus, on the move ments of the celestial bodies, has been discovered in the archives of the astro nomical Observatory at Stockholm. This treatise is said to fill a valuable place among the writings of the great astronomer. There is no doubt as to its genunineness, and it is soon to be printed and given to the world. The Fijian name for doctor, on being translated, turns out to be “carpenter of death,” and Miss C. F. Gordon Gum ming, in her work, “At Home in Fiji,” says that Dr. Macgregor, who is prac tising the healing art in that part of the world, has substituted a new term, signifying “man of life,” though how far it has superseded the original is not known. The Royal Spanish Academy named recently Archbishop Trench, James Russell Lowell, and Lord Houghton as judges for the Calderon prize. The judges reported that they did not feel justified in awarding the prize to any of the competitors, whereupon one of competitors forwarded his rejected address to the Spanish Academy in Madrid. The Academy forthwith tes tified its approbation of the poem and awarded its great medal to the author, Mr. R. H. Horne. There was no Roman Catholic on the Bible revision committee. Cardinal Newman declined. It is proposed in London to start a Browning Society for the study and discussion of the works of the poet Browning, and the publication of es says on them, and extracts from works illustrating them. This is modern culture run mad. Dr. Vigfusson, the well-known Scan dinavian scholar, has in type an an thology of Icelandic poetry. Prof. Edwards A. Park, who lately resigned the active duties of his pro fessorhip at Andover, is to prepare some more of his lectures for publication. It is remembered that in his novel of “Figs and Thistles,” Judge Tourgee put into the form of fiction something of the lives of President Garfield and his wife. Rev. W. M. Baker, the novelist, who is a Presbyterian minister, has remov ed from Boston to Philadelphia, and taken charge of a church in that city. “The Americans,” says the London Literary World, “are stealing a march on us. They not only reprint our ex pensive works in a cheap form on the other side of the Atlantic, but they are actually sending their cheap re prints over to the Continent. At Rot terdam, for instance, may now be purchased for a few pence all the cheap reprint of English authors of the Franklin Square Library of the Messrs. Harper of New York. Amongst the latsst reprints thus to be had cheap on the Continent are Froude’s “Car lyle’s Reminiscences.’ This competition will quite destroy the trade of Tauchnitz, and other reprinters on the Continent, of English books.” The superiority of Scribner’s Month ly over other magazines is easily main tained in the August issue. A more attractive summer numberofaperiodi cal could not be asked for, —as regards both text and illustration. In this issue Mr. Edmund Clarence Stedman presents a noteworthy critical paper on Poetry in America. Our literary criti cism has nothing better to show than these admirable chapters by Mr. Sted man, which will ultimately be collec ted in a volume, —an American com panion to his well-known “Victorian Peet",” 1 which has now come to be considered as worthy of a place in that choice list of books deserving to be called standard literature. A correspondent of the Rome (Ga.) Baptist: Sun, gives some interesting reminiscences of prominent Cherokee Indians assembled, on a momentous occasion, at Cassville, Georgia, in the fall of 1835. A bill of injunction had been filed by these Indians against the whites for taking possession of their lands before they left, and as the Cassville Superior Court was in session, many of the chiefs with their wives were present. John Howard Payne, the author of the immortal “Home Sweet Home,” had been sent out to ob tain the history of the “Cherokee Coun try” from the aborigines. He had letters of introduction to the writer’s father at Cassville. The latter invited the bar, the chiefs and Mr. Payne, to tea, inorder to give opportunity for social intercourse, and to afford Mr. Payne a chance to acquire desirable information. The social was a success, and the writer remarks : “Mr. Payne was highly interested and pleased, hav ing met with facilities for getting in formation unexpectedly. I am sure I was quite flattered when all the guests had retired he asked me to play “Bonnie Doon,” again. His man ners were extremely courteous. In bidding good night he took his cap in hand, walked up in front of each lady, bowing gracefully and leaving the room without turning until he reached the door. My father regretted not hav ing an opportunity of rendering him further assistance as he (my father) left in a few days with his family for Southern Georgia, in time to re:urn to MilledgevilLe.to take his seat in the Se.'.ate. “Soon after our arrival, father was surprised and mortified to hear of Mr. Payne’s arrest by Gen. Bishop as a spy and abolitionist. It caused Mr. Payne some trouble before he was released. I heard that when he returned North he wrote a drama, the scene in Spring Place—the place of his arrest. In this play Gen. Bishop and others were made very conspicuous characters. It was acted on the stage in Washington at one time when Gen. B. was present, who recognized himself in the drama in a very unenviable light. Mr. Payne also wrote a noble defence of the Cherokees, and presented the memori al to Congress during the succeeding winter.” LitteL’s Living Age is the best re pository for select current literature, published in this country. From week to weekit gives the cream of European literature. Excellent taste is shown in the selections. For fifty-two numbers of sixty-four large pages each (or more than 3,300 pages a year), the subscription price ($8) is low; while for $10.50 the pub lishers offer to send any one of the American $4 monthlies or weeklies with The Living Age for a year, both postpaid. Liitell & Co., Boston, are the publishers. Among the new books announced for publication early in the fall is “Poems and Essays,” by Charles Hub ner, of Atlanta. The London Times, in a leading ar ticle, says, “The National Convention of the Land League, announced to be held in Dublin on the 15lh of Septem ber is obviously intended to prevent the Land Bill from having any tran quilizing effect. This is, no doubt,the last desperate effort of the League. To prolong its active existence, to the ruin of the country, the agitators will be bound to defeat the settlement of the relations between landlord and tenant by the new tribunal, and it will be necessary for the government to make it perfectly clear that they in tend to support the decisions of the land court. A delegation of Indians, embracing representatives of the Poncas, Chey ennes, Arapahoes and other tribes in the Northwest, are to arrive in Wash ington on the 15th of this month, and will hold a conference with the Com missioner of Indian Affairs concerning the allotment of lands in severalty,and other questions of importance to the Indians. ♦ ♦ The corn crop of Illinois and lowa is reported light. Many localities an ticipate but half a crop. NOTES. —The Land Bill,in a modified form, has passed both houses of Parliament. Its enforcement will meet with stolid resistance in Ireland. I’he idea that England is governing Ireland as if it were but a conquered province, will never leave the Irish mind. —A mob in Paris recently prevent ed Gambetta from speaking at a pub lic meeting. —The Pope feels uneasy in Rome. It is rumored that he will move his throne and other effects to some safer place in the near future. —Outrages upon Jews are still com mitted in some parts of Germany. —The Conference of the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations, is in session at Col ogne, Germany. Distinguished dele gates from all parts of the world are present. It is the ninth conference of this Association, and it is expected to surpass all previous ones in practical benefits to international law reform and arbitration. —Dr. Robert Moffat, the venerable African missionary, has no confidence in the professions of the Boers that they do not hold slaves, and says that no reliance can be placed on their most solemn declarations. —ln Russia the Jews of Kieff, for the purpose of avoiding the orders is sued for their eviction, were at last accounts taking refuge in barges on the river Dneiper. The local authori ties had not decided whether their in structions allowed them to pursue the Jews on the water as on land. —An extensive war is again brew ing in Afghanistan. —Egypt has a fine cotton crop. —Socialists are so rimpant in Bres lau that its feared the city will be placed under martial law. —We are indebted to Hon. N. J. Hammond, M. C., for a copy of a val- I liable official document: Reports from the Consuls of the United States on the Commerce, Manufactures, etc., of their Consular Districts, May, 1881. —We have received a copy of the “Kind Word” series, No. I—Bible Catechism. Prepared by request of Rev. S. Boykin, editor of Kind Words, and first published in that paper. This neat and valuable series is from the pen of Rev. William Cary Crane, D.D., President of Baylor University, Independence, Texas. Published by J. W. Burke & Co., Macon, Ga. —There have been very heavy rains in the far West. —The party of Chinese students who have started from this country for home are to be employed in the es tablishment of a telegraph line from Shanghai tef Pekin. They were sent to this country to acquire English so as to fit them for the telegraph busi ness. —Says the Louis’ville Commercial : The Indianapolis Journal, referring to the averment that Mormon polygamy is part of their religion, says : “Polygamy is not a religion. It is noteven the religion of Mormonism. It came into Mormonism by what was claimed to be a ‘subsequent revela tion,’but is denied and scouted by a large body of Mormons themselves. Polygamy is simply a bestial crime. To claim that it is protected by the Constitution is a horrible perversion of truth and justice.” The crime, which is a penitentiary offense in every State of the Union, is not protected by any legal sanctions in Utah. —A permanent organization of the Anti-Monopoly Associatio'n has been effected. The Conference met in U tica, N. Y., last week. —lt is believed that the assassin Guiteau’s attack upon one of his guards, a few days ago, was done to convey the impression that he is insane. The “insanity” trick, however, will be of little service to him. There has been a decided advance in the price of provisions within the last month. A partial failure of the crops and the speculation of monopo lists are the causes of this advance. Hon. J. P. Wickersham, who has long been connected with the school system of Pennsylvania,has closely ex amined the relations of education to crime. His investigations show that one sixth of all the crime in the coun try is committed by persons wholly illiterate, and that the proportion of criminals among the illiterate is about ten times greater than among those who have been instructed in the ele ments of a common school education or beyond. GEORGIA NEWS. —A High School is to be built at Jesup. Ex-minister H. W. Hilliard has returned to his old home in Georgia. —The colored people own property In Muscogee county to the value of $151,304. —Hon. W. L Scruggs, U S. Consul in < 'hina, is on a visit to his family in Atlanta. Die peach crop is reported unusually abundant and tine nearly all over Georgia and Florida. Augusta mills are turning out from one hundred and fifty to two hundred barrels of Hour each per day. —Some of the Hancock farmers will not raise cotton enough this year to pay fortheir guano and provision supplies. —The fail term of the Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College will open on the 15:h ofSepteaiber next. —The eighth annual session of the Georgia Sunday-school Association convenes in Griffin on August 24th, continuing two days. —The army worm has appeared in por tions of Marion county in large numbers, and is greatly damaging the prospects for a good hay crop. —The tax digest for 1881 brings Bibb comity up to the grand aggregate of $9 043,- 313. Macon now contemplates having an artesiau well. —Madison county is going to issue $50,000 worth of bonds with which to build a rail road from Harmony Grove, via Danielsville, to Broad river.; —The Dublin Post says : 1 Fifty per cent, more guano was used in Lamenscounty this year than last, and there is fifty percent, lets cotton to pay for it with.” —Contracts for the extension of the En terprise factory, at Augusta, have been let out for the brick work, rareway, etc-, and work will be be-un immediately. —All the rice crops on the Altamaha river are looking splendidly. If the storms don’t interfere our planters will come out all right ibis season. Toe prospects certainly look promising just now- —The Southwestern railroad will soon complete the line of their extension from its present terminus, Arlington, in the County of Calhoun, to Blakely, the county site of Early, a distance of some sixteeu miles. —Muscogee’s wealth, according to the late tax digest, is $8 108 719. Toe decrease in lands value is $22,702. and of noils 124. The increase of city property is $297,272, ot which $49 r 231 was in cotton factories. —The election in Butler -esultedin a large majoiityfor the public schools, which are now controlled by the mayor and co mail, who have elected Prof. John W. Dozier, President, and Prof. Chas. A. Carson first assistant. —lt is the intention of the managers of the Columbus and Rome road to extend it to Chipley, a distance of about one mile beyond the present terminus at Hood. Iron for this purpose has already been received and shipped up the road. —The West Point Mills, W. T. Lang, Su perintendent, now runs 5 (00 spindles and 100 looms. They expect to make 200,000 yards of duck goods per month, weighing nine and ten ounces per yard. The factory consumes from eight to ten bales of cotton per diem. They have orders ahead to De cember first. —Albany News and Advertiser : ‘‘A paper has been prepared and will be circulated throughout the city for signatures petition ing the City Council to invest in an artesian well Since Col. Forts experiment has proved a success beyond all question, there seems to be a unanimous desire upon tbe part of our citizens to have an artesian well in the city.” —The editor of tbe Monroe Advertiser writes his paper from Atlanta that "the State road earned last year, after paying all ex penses. $687,000. When the rental of $300,- 000 was paid to tbe State, there was left the handsome sum of $387,000 to be divided among the lessees, and that each share is worth at least $109,000.” —Georgia is the only one of the original thirteen States that refuses to contribute anything towards the Yorktown centennial. Tbe legislative committee reported unfavora bly upon the bill. Tbe other t welve States have made arrangements to send troops, and have also made appropriations; and France even will send a ship load of representatives. —The new mam ge uent of tbe Hartwell railroad are a ranging to sell tickets from Hartwell to all points on tbe Elberton Air- Line railroad, and the Richmond and Dan ville railroad, Athens and Atlanta, and to New York and all Eastern cities. Tickets from Athens and Atlanta, and points on the E. A L and R & D. railroads will be sold through to Hartwell. Gainesville Southron: “Tbe new rail roads are all on a boom. Colonel Foreaere says the one from Lula to Clarksville will be completed by Christmas. The one to Jefferson, and the branch to Jug Tavern, will certainly be done before that time, and Colonel Price thinks work will be resumed on the Gainesville and Dahlonega at an early day. All this should make a great many people happy.” —Dr. M. B. Wharton, accompanied by his family and his Secretary, Mr. J W. Nisbet, of Macon, was recently in London on the way to tbe German Consulate, to which tbe Doctor has been appointed. He is going to one of the fimst portions of tbe Fatherland, and to a great literary and social centre. He will be located within a few milts of the celebrated Kissingen Springs, and many friends in Georgia will congratulate Dr. Wharton on his pleasant location. Constitution : “Mr. G. E. Cranford has brought to Palmetto the first bale of cotton for each of tbe past ten years. He is again in ahead, and tbe first baleof Coweta county cotton, so far as heard from this year, has been delivered at Palmetto by him and shipped by J T. Beekman, Esq to Lmgs ton, Craue & Co. This is also ihe first bale of cotton received at this place from this section this year so far as rep >rted, and will be sold by Messrs. Langston, Crane & Co. —The Early Obunty News says: “We would suggest, if we thought our suggestion would be adopted, that the State of Georgia appropriate about SIOO,O- 0 to be expended in sinking artesian wells all over Souths western Georgia. The money would come back into the Treasury in a few years from the increased value of lands in this section and the consequent increase of taxes. Be sides this, it would be a handsome return to the people of this section for the money they have paid tor building railroads in other portions of the State.” —Augusta News: “Col. G. J. Foreacre, of Georgia, President of the Northeastern rail road. a line from Athens, Georgia, to Lula Junction, on the Atlanta and Charlotte Air- Line, and across the Air Line nearly to Clarksville in tbe direction of Rabun Gap, while in Knoxville stated to a reporter that tbe prospect for the early completion of the road to Knoxville was very flattering. He thinks it will be done within two years, and expects that work will be commenced within I sixty or ninety days This road, when com pleted to Angusta, will be Knoxville's most important Southern connection."