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National Democratic Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT:
HORACE GREELEY,
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT:
B. GRATZ BROWN,
OF MISSOURI.
FOR CONGRESS:
LUTHER J. GLEXN,
OF FDLT03I COUCH.
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Fulton Democratic Ticket.
FOR ORDINARY:
DANIEL PITTMAN.
A. K. PERKERSON.
yea clerk cupkrior court:
W. R. YEN ABLE.:
FOR OOURTT TREASURER:
C. M. PAYNE.
FOR TAX RKCEXYXB:
A. G. GRIER.
FOR TAX COLLECTOR:
a R nOYLR
FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR:
B. F. WALKER
FOR CORONER:
WILLIAM KILE.
I elect io* Mirrm 1]
ATLANTA, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 5.
F.x-Governor RuIIock.
The Cincinnati Commercial says that Bul
lock, of Georgia, is in Paris, and'Xcontem*
plates a Kile trip this winter with some
friends. _ _
A Dreary Failure Long Drawn Ont.
RxcmioND, Va., October 30.—The Straight-
out Democrats met again this rooming, bet
_ a* only six persons were present, they had a
private conference and adjourned without
making known the result of their delibera
tion*. ^ ^
Tickers.
Vote a wlii'e ticket that simply contains
the i smcR of the Presidential and Vice
Presidential candidates, the electors and the
candidate for Congress.
Iho Koine Commercial.
This lirr 1y young paper lias changed bands.
Grady A Shanklin have sold nut to Kevin &
Co. Mr. Charles H. Smith (-Bill Arp”) is
connected with It c*ditorially. It flashes with
Arp's humor. It is a welcome visitor to onr
snnet urn. Success to it.
Per»«nai*
We had a call yesterday from our old Sa
vannah friend. Dr. J. C. McXulty. The Doc
tor is now the enterprising special agent of
that flue company, the Fire Insurance of
North America, of which Mr. Hancock is tlic
Atlanta local agent.
This company is one of the strongest in the
country, and is represented by excellent
agents. m m m
__ liueaalew on Greeley.
Buekalcw, the Democratic candidate in
Pennsylvania who was defrauded of liia elec
tion hy the most stupendous political fraud
ever perpetrated in this country, made a
speech in New Jersey on the night of the 31st.
It It ns l icon said he was not for Greeley. The
following emphatic sentences show that be is:
I hope that you will leave nothing undone
in la-half of onr cause between this and the
hour of closing the polls on Tuesday next to
support the candidates I have named—Hor
ae #• t#n* ley andGratz Brown—liecauae they
are in favor of peace and fellowship ami
good will and brotherhood throughout these
Mates; because they are in favor of reform
ing official life in all its branches, and chiefly
because they are men of integrity and honor,
and will stand as Arm as a rock, immovable
and determined against all forms of corrup
tion in the government of this country.
The Climax of Grant's Tyrai
Hrarh 4 In the Prostitution of the
Federal t on la hy III* Henchmen
to RuEZla a Free Proa.
h
Rich day Grant's administration shows
more boldly the desperate purpose of its
policy to limit public liberty, and throttle
free institutions. In Pennsylvania it clutch
ed suffrage in its iron and corrupt grasp. In
Georgia it has striven to force the ballot box
and failing in that it has turned loose the en
ginery of the Federal Courts to avenge its
own prevented crime on an unoffending and
defenceless people.
But the climax has been reached, when in
North Carolina Federal Judges seek to force
grand juries to indict newspaper men for dis
cussing Grant's administration. The time
for alarm ha* come when such a step ss this
is taken. The very cap-stone of despotism is
set wlu n the right of a free press is taken
away, and the people are not even allowed
to give utterance to an opinion adverse to the
administration. The extent of this ocitrsge
is immeasurable. If permitted, it makes us
slaves indeed. It violates every rule of re
publican government.
Nothing could more effectually show the
terrible tendency of the Radical creed. It
will, if successful, convert this free govern
ment into sn absolute despotism. Once de
prive the people of the right to criticize their
rulers, and all is gone. The very genius of
onr Republican system is the responsibility
of the officers of the government to the peo
ple and the unrestricted right of free discus
sion of public matters. Free speech and a
free pr. ss are the very essence of our free
institutions.
This attempt to commit this most appalling
of crimes against liberty, should arouse Ibe
people to overthrow the administration that
seeks its perpetration.
How can our Democrat’c friends hesitate
between Grant, the friend, and.Greeley, the
enemy of such a policy. Grant is for and
Greeley against it. Grant's re-election is an
indorsement of the policy and the prompting
to its continuance. Greeley’s election is its
disapproval and its death-knell. All opposi
tion to Greeley helps Grant. In the maddest
moment of a support of a central policy
which he now abjures, Greeley never went
to the extent of seeking t> violate or impair
the transcendant right of free speech and a
free press.
Greeley was an original Stars rights man. He
was an old Whig of the straight*.st sect. His
very support of the enforcement and Ku-
Klux measures, so elaborately harped upon
to evoke prejudice against him, was given
from a sense of justice to rectify wrongs
that be conceived were being perpetrated.
But he and hi- Liberal Republican allies dis
covered the dangerous tendency of such cen
tralized tyranny and bayonet despotism, and
are now in antagonism to the administration
that proposes to continue them.
The issue lies in our own hands. A united
Democratic and Liberal Republican vote can
defeat Grant. And he who professes to be a
Democrat, and who in the light of this great
North Carolina crime of the administration
can so far forget his duty as to attempt for
any cause to divide the Democracy, will be
diiectly auxiliary to the election of the des
pot an i the continuance of the crimes which
he professes to seek to stop.
li this bold assault on a free pre>*, the very
tife goard of public liberty, and the great in-
ftxwnttot for the preservation of Republican
institutions, does not drive our “Straight’’
friends to cease their attempt to weaken the
constitutional army in its only possible pro
gramme to defeat Grant, and the daring usurp-
:::g faction that thu* dea« s right and tries to
throu'-c the country's liberties, then they
stand in ill.’ attitude of wilfully helping the
usurpations tiny claim to condemn.
We wilt not aid Grant even by indication.
Dem xra’A, to the polls to oust the usurpers
from power, and preserve our liberties.
Ar. Stephens the Champion of a New
Departure Candidate.
O u, Mr. Stephens, has beep
pleated on several occasions to taunt Tins
Constitution as a New Departurist, because
It supports Mr. Greeley. He has in that vig-
orons a langusge that characterizes his political
tvs, spoken of the “New Departure
heresy" in connection with this journal. His
assaults on us on this line have been unre
mitting, and as lively as an intoxicated
cricket
We propose to show the glaring political
inconsistency of onr very able neigbl^r.
In th** f r ? place The Constitution La»
never advocated the new departure. We
defy Mr. Stephens to quote one word from its
columns in advocacy of the new departure.
Our support of Mr. Greeley is based upon his
representative poeni-m as th** selected leader
of a Liberal Republican movement in favor
of local self-government, the sanctity of the
habeas cor j^us, national fraternization, a return
to the constitutional methods of peace and
civil service reform, against the despotic,
centralized, sectional and dishon^t policy of
Radical role as symbolized by Grant's admin
istration. The deliberate and authoritative
adoption of -Mr. Greeley as such leader of
such gratifying movement by the great
Democratic party, of which we have been
an humble, though zealous member, carried
with it ouf championship, at the cheerful
sacrifice of all personal prejudice and indi
vidual sentiment.
Political party never did a sublirac-r act in
g nobler spirit than this heroic self-abnega
tion of the great constitutional organization
of the Union. It was a grand etep for popu
lar good will, the burial of war hates, the re
union of a severed nationality, the re instate-
ment in power of a deposed and degraded
Constitution, the retrograde ion of the gov
ernment from startling advance and onward
progress to a destructive and demoralizing
despotism, and for the purification of the na
tion's entire range of corrupted public depart
ments.
Greeley's personality was nothing. IIi»
cause y everything. It i-* the cause we sup
port, not the man. An inanimate figurehead,
a bannered rrg, nny selected symbol of the
great id«ra would get our support. Distort it,
falsify it, deride it, antagonize it as one may;
admit it an incongruity, a paradox, even an
inconsistency; so long as Greeley stands for
the great goods that we have enumerated
above, and Grant stands for the opposite, it is
the patriot's duty to support Grctl.y, and his
triumph is the popular indorsement of what
the Democracy has striven for and the country
needs for its prospe ity and glory.
It is a narrow pitiful contracted uostate*-
man like treatment of a slnpendu' S, tr.xn
sccndant is-ne to dwarf it down to any man*:
personality. Principles and results influitcly
eyond all individuality however surpassing,
arc at stake, involving fundamental freedom
and the broadest national interests.
In such a juncture to be squabbling over a
personal record, a puny trivial, accomplished
thing of the past, is child's play, ho irrelevant
and foolish as to create amazement that
thinking men should indulge in it.
But we have made rather a digr..ssio
from the purpose of this editorial. Coming
back to that, we urge that even if we ha-:
been a New Dcpartorfst, which is not the
■, Mr. Stephens is utterly inconsistent in
objecting to it.
He to-day flies at the head of Ida c Iuiiwk
his candidate for Vice President Juhu
Quincy Adams, the earliest, most zealous,
most persistent and unchanving New Depar-
turist in the Union. Not one Hyllable of hi*
New Departure views ha* Mr. Adams re
canted. He stands upon them unalterably.
Yet this political heretic (in-Mr. fcUpueu’s
view) is Mr. Stephens* political leader, the
repre tntalive of his policy, the type of his
principles, and the head of his political move-
incut for restoring constitutionalism.
Mr. Stephens thunders at u* for being a
New Departurist when we are not, and sub
missively follows the champion New Depart*
urist of tlic nation as his political captain,
lie swears at us and by Adams on the same
ground. He blazes at us and swallows
Ad .ms on identical principal. Was there
ever grower political inconsistency ? We say
it in all deference, in all p rsonal respect to
the venerable Georgian, of whom we write.
But we claim this to be a proper characteriza
tion of Mr. Stephens* assault on us and his
following of Adams.
No, the adoption of Adams a* a candidate
by the “Straights” is a m<*t Inimitable stulti
fication of their course, and an equally in
imilnhle vindication of the Democratic
party in supporting Gre*ley. They effectually
spike their own guns. The very essence of
their creed is hostility to th« amendment*,
which tlieir candidate, Adams, swallows
whole, bones and feathers.
The Hubstifution of Ad tins for Brow
the political li. ure head of the straight
ecru is swapping the witch for a devil. And
In the light of Mr. Stephen* urging indorse
ment of Grata Brown and his views before
Greeley was nominated, his rejection of
Brown now ami his submissive acceptance,
'and tirey advocacy of Adams, that most
double dyed of Njw Departure a mend men t-
gulping heretics, has something in it border
ing on the farcical.
No! Adams’cundidacy means Grant and
Wilson's election. Grant tread* on our pros
irate forms. Wilson says a hundred jean
won’t make “rel»el” blood loyal and fit to
take part in the freeman’s right of helping to
run their own government.
Greeley and Brown's election means over
throw to centralism and Southern oppr * ~
and peace and equality for the South.
Choose ye wisely. Democrats!
SPEECH OF COL. E. Y. CL ARKE,
AT THE
3Iass Meeting and Barbecue
In LawrencczUIe, October 24th, 1372.
JSSTAJfTIAIAT Erroarzo.]
Icl'ow-GUttens:—Four years ago we were
engaged in a Presidential struggle. All
onr energies were enlisted in a grand
effort to overthrow the despotism which
the Radical party had established, not
alone over the South, but over the en
tire country. Bat Seymour and Blair were
defeated, and four years more of despotic
government ensued. It would be difficult to
)!ct the wrongs, which the American peo-
. but more especially the Sour bora people,
nave tnffertd during tfci3 i*riod. Entire
Sia’cs have been put nnder military rule,
legislatures have bjen overthrown, and ille
gal governments fUitained by Federal power
to imult and plunder a peoDle already im
poverisued, The rights of property and
pert-on have been alike violated, our treasu
ries have been robbed and multitudes of our
citizens have been incarcerated in prison.
We therefore hail with joy the impending of
another Presidential struggle to throw off the
yoke ol despotism and secure the lost rights
of freemen. The contending boats are mar
shaling for the final encounter, and it be-
hoov* s ns-to rally to a man under that ban
ner w hich has inscribed upon it the redemp
tion of the South and the restoration of con
stitutional government. That banner is
borne by the nominees of the Dcmpcratic-
I .-publican party, Horace Greeley and Gralz
Brown.
STAND BY OUR'COLORS.
It is true that in onr first skirrabhrs with
the enrn y, our success has not been complete.
In assaulting a few outposts, while in the
iin have steadily advanced, we have
t suffered some lo.a. This should not dis
courage. What if ultimate defeat awaits us?
Brave men never yield the battle until they
go down beneath its storm, and never lower
tlteir f olora until they fall with them. Rath
er let Georgians emulate the heroic spirit of
their noble Governor, who said to the military
at Warrenton “hands off the civil authorities
of the Stateand to the Federal judicials
in the case of the Chattanooga and Alabama
Railroad, “we will stand to the last by the
rights of Georgia.” And such a spirit will
eventoully carve victory out of defeat.
Our Atlanta Public School*.
We give this morning to our readers the in
teresting first mutual report of Mr. Bernard
Mallon, the Superintendent of the Atlanta
Public School*. Its perusal wi'l prove in
structive. It is a document of deep interest.
It presents a record full of honor to Allan*;
and to Mr. Mallon, and his corps of :
ants.
Atlanta has done nothing of which she has
cause to lx: more proud than her aehievemnt
in establishing her magnificent Public School
system, as Mr. Mallon well remarks, in an
unprecedentedly short ami ■mccts.-ful manner.
It stands a monument to h r intelligence and
public spirit.
We cannot omit to express the deep obi:
gallons wc arc under to the worthy superin
tendent whose genius, zeal aud energy have
wrought out such a grand resuit Toe skill
and experience of a long life spent ia teach
ing have used the material generally afforded
by our people to work out an achievement of
surpassng merit and utili'y.
It is really wonderful to think of, and it
•hows alike the superiority of the free ovi
the paid school svstera, as well as demon
strates the genius of the Superintendent that
the new system should be substituted for the
old one and in the fiist year more than
double the old one in the number of its ben-
•ficiaries.
It has been a labor of love with
Mr. Mallon. He has resisted the seduction
of a higher salary proffered elsewhere,and pro
ferred the inferior compensation given here
in order to complete and perfect the work
he has b guu. All honor to bi*a say we.
And w* hope to see him paid what his ser
vices will elsewhere bring. We cannot af
ford to give him up.
We trust it m iy rot be inappropriate to
refer to The Constitution’s labors for edu
cation. It has ever been a favorite idea of
the preheat management. Three years ag-
we began a system of educational reports ex
tending over the whole State. We sent a spe
cial reporter to all the colleges and leading
schools.
Later we induced Dr. Stout to give ns
rlcs of editori.il articles advocating a public
school system for Atlanta. And to his ex
perience and zeal the city is largely indebted
for the great work.
We are gratified beyond expression to wit
ness the splendi l consummation. And we
hope soon to see the day when our whole
State will rej >ice ia the enjoyment of noble
system of working public schools. It is monty
splendidly and cheaply sr ent. And whatev
er the amount required we would spend it.
None will repay us m 're richly.
Atlanta has done her duty. IIer]*ehoo!s
are her pride and her glory.
Dirp'tch to the Cenrier-Joarnal ]
New York, November 1.—New York has
been thoroughly organized and canvassed,
and the Liberal vote will be large. The Dem
ocratic vote being united, oar friends are con
fident of carrying the State for Greeley and
Brown by a large majority.
Augustus Schell.
we should not abate our energies. The first
that we shall thereby silence the most
dest uctive battery of our enemies. The
Radical party have continually charged the
South with (ii*loyalty and treachery. They
have persuaded the people of the North that
we hare the government, will not obey the
, and are at. heart hostile to the Northern
man and negro. Now, when the South shall
unit support a Northern man upon a
platform requiring obedience to the laws aud
support of the government, the charge of
nmity to the government and di-obe
;e to the laws will be completely hushed.
Tut sincerity of our professions will be con
clusively proven.
Again, the moral attitude which the South
will m-sum:* by u united support of the great
.literal .movement, is a inn* ter of great con
sideration. I' is not so difti ult for the victor
tube magnituiiU'>aa as for the vanquished;
and, should the South declare for reconcilia
tion and fraternity by the support of a
Northern caodidut<» taken from the Republi
can party itself, and a life long opponent of
many Southern ideas, and the North rejects
that candidate,
A M-iRAL TRIUMPH
all !*e achieved that will challenge the ad
miration not only of the present bur, also, of
the ages to come. The voice of enlightened
nations will Ikj he ird proclaiming behold a
iorious pt-ople! In the conflict of arms that
Southern people won a military fame inferior
to none blaz »nci upon the pages of history,
aud now, iu the contests of peace, they rise
moral grandeur that puts to very shame
their J^orthern victors! And believe it,
the best citizens of the North will, them
selves, acknowledge it, and such inen as
Horace Greeley ami the li’ocral Republicans
will \te nui’ed to u* henceforth as with bands
of steel
• A ^OPULAR MAJORITY.
Again, though the Radical party may se
cure a majority of the electoral voles, a pop
ular in j»ritv may lie obtained against the
Administration. Such a condemnation of
Radicalism by tffe American people will es
tablish a prestige, that will insure its disas
trous overthrow in future cle tions.
Still another reason, fellow-citizens, that
we should press forward, is that we still have
the most cheering
PR .8P£Crs OF SUCCESS.
We should not despond, for we have no
it c .use for despondency. If wc fail, the
result will be due to the false basis of the
calculation uia*« by the Northern managers
of tlic party. It was assumed that it was
necessary to carry two of *he three States,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, to insure the
lection t>f Greeley. Failing recently lo carry
mt one, despondency was the result, and, if
defeated, we may attribute it to this cause.
But with Indiana alone our prospects were
excellent. N-. w York, New Jersey, Connec
ticut, New ILimp-hire, Delaware, Indiana,
Oregon nr.d California, *»f the Northern and
Western States promise eighty-two vote* for
Mr. Greeley, and a United Soutb, excepting
South Carolina, 127 votes more, making a
total of 209 electoral voles, or 25 more than
necessary to elect. Wc may drop three or
four States fioin this estimate and still have
enough. Let ua struggle then, for a united
South, and victory may vet perch upon our
standard.
I*, becomes every man to do his whole duty
in this crisis. But nnf-»r unately there area
few Democrats who niff r-vith the great mass
of the party as to the p-.'h »f duty. The great
body of S an hern Democrats believe that the
redemption of the South and the restoration
of pure Republican government demands the
ehciion of the Democratic candidate, Horace
Greeley. But some demur to this. Let us
therefore, it.quite what parties and-
WHAT CANDIDATES AUK IN THE FIELD.
It is claimed by the discontented of the
Democratic household, that O’Conor is a
candidate for the suffrages of the American
people. But is this so? Certainly not. He
twice p<»-ittvc!y and unequivocally refused^
and yet the str ight committee notified him
that they should support him anyhow. Upon
his answer they have put ont an elcctora!
ticket. Here is*the letter. Ir any man can
make anything out of it. he has keen per
ceptive power:
“Nkw York, Sept 25,1873.
“Mv Dear Si*: I am only one among
our great forty millions. My consent or ap
proval is not necessary to any public act, of
many, a few or one.
"Wf course your courtesy in asking wheth
er your proposed use of my name would in
volve anything personally disagreeable to
me demands my thanks, yet it would seem
to have been needless. You must yourself
have seen that whether or not I concurred in
your views, there was in them nothing that,
as a man of ordinary common sense, I could
regard as personally offensive.
“It may not be amiss to say that I differed
with you as to the position of Gen. Grant in
popular esteem prior to the Baltimore Con
vention, and be ieved that a sagacious nomi
nation at Baltimore might have led to hi’
defeat. In justice to the wire-pullers, ]
onghtto say that I thought little and did noth
ing in reference to the Presidential nomina-'
lion prior to the Baltimore affair.
Yours, &a,
Chas. O’Conor.'
This is nr questionably as “cleax as mud.”
It somewhat resembles a celebrated Irish let
ter. You know our Irish friends make
about half the genuine wit of the world, but
are also credited with much not belonging to
them, and* this letter is a specimen. The
writer iu the “old count hry” sends greeting
to a consin in this: “Your only living uncle
is dead. He died suddenly, after a lingering
disease of twelve months. The poor fellow
during this period lay perfec ly quiet and
spacbless. all the titne in vio’ent* convulsions
and calling for wa»bcr. His egc I don 1
know. But next March he would have been
25 years old, lacking ten month-*, and if he
had lived to that time, he wouid have been
six montb9 dead.”
»Vid an em grant to a clerk, demanding his
nativity, “that’s what I wont to know. My
father was an Irishman, my mother ah
Englishwoman, I whs born on a Dutch brig,
under the French il.g in Flemish waters.
Now,wh»t is it?” But Mr. O’Connor has
since virtually declarel that he is not a can
didate; this making the third refusal. In
deed, he will not be admitted as a candidate
into the Electoral College. \ vote cost for
him is utterly thrown away—is equivalent
to not voting at all. But ssys one, “that
just what l mean lo do,
“i will not vote at all.”
Now, some of our friends utter this senti
ment wi:u a manner that indicates confidence
in i!3 nobility. Strange that any man should
imagine that he was doing something of
which to be proud, in refusing to cast his vote
—in refusing to aid in the selection of the
b^t m in tor office—in refusing to perform
his duty for the welfare of his wife a:. 1 chil
dren iui-1 eoimrv. Surely, there is nothing
mvulv in this. It is strongly suggestive of
the independence of Jerry, one of those happy
husbands, w’uoii* w ves relieve them of all
trouWc and responsibility, save ih ii of meek
submissivenc^s and cheerful obedience. Jerry
was always sent out the bock dour, when
company came in at the front. But occa
sionally there was not time for this, sad he
was then unceremonious’y slide.! under the
bed. From this retreat he wouM cr.udously
protrude his eyes and ears in the effort to see
and hear what was going on, when Ills'wife’s
head would vigoron-ly shake him back. But
Jerry, af last growiug drsperaxe, cri d oa f .
“yrva may shake v^ur head, wife, hs nririi as
you please, but as long as I have to- tpiril
of a man. I will {yep? I am not ia favor of
female suffrage, ba: I do think that a general
law would be just, providing in the^cose of
any man lacking the intelligence or tlm
courage to vote, that his patriotic wife shall
cast his ballot; and any man refusing to rote
on the 5th day of November next, when
such vital Issues are depending, would be
righteously met on the night of the election
bv the indignant protest of his wife and not
allowed to sleep in her boose. .Too many
have loose and incorrect nations upon this
subset of voting. No man has a right to
stay away from the polls.
THE DUTY TO TOTE
a solemn obligation of every citizen under
Republican government, that cannot be
set aside at wilt Upon the votes of the peo
ple the very existence of the Republic de
pends. It is due to one's fttnily, to one’s
neighbor, to society, and to the country, their
welfare and prosperity, that he should cant
hit ballot to pat the best men in office. He
knows little of the obligations of the citizen
of a free country, who does not appreciate
bis obligation to vote at all elections. We
all know that a large proportion of the mis
eries of the past is the result of good men
staying away from the polls and thus yield
ing control to the bad. In this day of doc
toring Constitutions, it would not be amiss
to adopt an amendment to the Constitution
to the United States disfranchising every cit
izen who persistently refuses to falfill this
sacred obligation to society and country; for
such a man is totally unworthy of exercising
the freeman's privilege of suffrage, and ought
to be disfranchised.
As, therefore, every good citizen who per
form* bis duty, must vote, and it is equally
his duty to vote wisely, it is necessary to
scrutinize closely the parties and candidates
really in the field claiming onr support.
O’Conor being no candidate, and if he was,
haring not the ghost of a chance, the contest
lies between the Radical party on the one
side and the Democratic-Republican party
on the other. The issue is Centralism, witn
the soldier Grant, or Constitutionalism with
Democratic administration under the civilian,
Greeley. There is no alternative; we must
support the one or the other. Can Southern
men hesitate for a moment? Let us reason
together; let os inquire
WHY ALL GOOD MEN SHOULD SUPPORT THE
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE;
and especially every good Democrat I shall
lay down two propositions for discussion:
1. Horace Greeley u entitled to our support
by reason of his superior personal and political
character.
This proposition by no means presents the
issue in its most important phase. Tran-
acendently mon$mportant are the principles,
interests, and cause, which are in issue. But
it is well to discuss the personal and political
character of Mr. Greeley, because there are
Democrats, who, leaving out of sight, the
more momentous questions of political re
form and governmental administration, base
their opposition to the party upon
mere personal objection to the can
didate. In discussing the character of
that candidate, I shall indulge in no
muu Bin adulation, but shall seek to present
it honestly and justly. At the same time,
fellow citizens, I am not, and never have
been one of the class of “bitter pill” Demo
crats. I not only support, but support cheer
fully, warmly, heartily, the nominee of the
Natiotil Democratic party, Horace Greeley.
I do so. because 1 beiieve that his election
will remove oppression from the Sonth, re
store constitutional government, and per-
petnnte American liberty—because I believe
that justice and equality for the South, the
rights of the States and fraternal reconcili
ation will triumph—aud triumph gloriously,
in bis election.
It is hardly necessary to investigate
THE PERSONAL CHARACTER OF GRANT.
his opponent. It is too familiar. A cold, sel
fish, unfeeling man, he has cruelly and need
lessly caused many a tear to flow and brought
desolation to many a household. There are
thousands of families both at the North and
at the South, who mourn the loss of heroic
sons through the heartlessness of Ulysses
Grant, who persistently opposed the ex
change of prisoners daring the late
war on the pitiless ground,dbat'the North
could bctteraflbrd the loss of men by death
in prison tiffin the South. This same heart-
lessnoes he now practices toward Southern
men imprisoned under the ruling of his ad
ministration. Immoral and dishonest in hi9
earlier life, he seems now to care chiefly for
the gratification of selfish desires, gratified
by means of gift-taking, nepotism and
sensual indulgence. He is wanting not only
in mor dity and feeling; he is likewise want
ing in firmness of character and in ability
requisite for the Presidential offl e. He is
indeed but “clay in the potter’s hand”—for
the manipulation of such men as Morton.
As foi*hi9 ability, no President since the for
mation of the Republic possessed near so lit
tle capacity. Bchurz was right, when he
said, that Grant had never compre
hended the difference between mili
tary command and the duties and re
sponsibilities of the Presidential office.
He may be a good •soldier, or a good judge
of horse flesh, bat he is no statesman.
grant’s want of capacity
is palpable. He has been making speeches
lately. Here is one of the longest of his life!
and a fair specimen of his powers. It wa9
made in New Jersey at a fair:
Ladies and Gentlemen—I could not bat f *rl grate
ful lor the reception I hare received at the bands of
the citizens of Newark and of New Jcnej to-day. I
had the pleasure of riallinj? the -Ute Pair near E’izv
retb, where l saw little etae hat people. I was at
your* Exposition to-ni^ht, and again people,
but little of what they had there to see. I hop j to
see to-morrow whit I went to-night to see.
And here is another:
Gsntlenen—I am most h»T»py to he here to night
> witness this display of Newark’s manufactures.
Your far-famed ciiy nasdoncweU: her manufacturers
have an influeuce opposed to the importation or for
eign manufactures.
Since reading these eloquent efforts, an anec
dote of Akennan and Grant does not look
so much like simple fun. The President was
disturbed by a question under the 14lh
Amendment, and referred it to his Attorney-
General. SaidAkerman:
‘I am asked, if a negro, und'r the fourteenth
amendment, marri*** a negress nnder the fourteenth
amendment, whether, nnder that amendment, the
property which neither has b< comes the property < “
either, an<t which? After a rarelnl review or all tl
facts, I would say. Yes.” [Enthusiastic applause.]
Grant, sending up a whiff of smoke, r<
plied, “ \mos, old horse, I believe you are
correct” Such a man is but a tool in
the haml3 of corrupt and wicked Mortons
tons, and a most wilting tool be has been for
the degradation and persecution of the South
ern people.
WHAT A CONTRAST IN'MR.'GREELEY
we have. His is a personal character that
few can boast. Steadily be worked his own
way from boyhood to manhood, honest and
courageous. Of irreproachable morals, he
was kindbeaited almost to a fault. His
kindness to a Baptist clergyman of North
Carolina, a Rev. Mr. Gwyn, will be
remembered, to whom at the close of the
war, he sent two hundred dollars for the ac
count of a Federal raid, which had well
nigh impoverished the minister. His kind
ness and magnanimity to Mrs. Davis, and
through her to the Southern people, make a
bright page in history; “Madame, yon may
hope, fori will sign his bond.” In him we
would have a President, who could not be
made the tool of any man, or clique, or ring
and in
horace*greeley’s firmness of character
we have a guarantee against corruption. You
remember liis defiance of the New York club,
that arraigned him for signing Mr. Davi*'
bond, and his reaffirmation of the doctrine
of universal amnesty, though it lost him Sen
ate! ial robes. His devotion to whst he deems
right has ever been undaunted and unswerv
ing. Mis ability is great. No one can deny
this The eloquent Voorhees, the most dis
tinguished of the Straights, and one of the
last to ground arms of opposition, thus in
troduced Mr. Greeley at Indianapolis:
“I do not hesitate to nj in your presence and be
fore the whole c .antry that for parity of sentiment,
elevation of thought, integrity of parpore, broad
phlianthrophy, lofty benevolence and elevated ►tates-
man»h‘p, the speeches that Horace Greeley has de
livered on his present tour through the vt est have
no equal, no parallel in American history in the poli
tic* of oar country. [Great apolaase.] If I hvl
never been for him before, I would be for him to
night. [cheers]. ^
I introduce to you one who by Ills own brain and
bands has carved for hiu.s'lf a foremost place, not
merely in the lust-.ry of tb* country, but in the
history of the world, one who fro-a the position of
labor and toil has p need himself in the front rinks of
mankind—Horace Greeley. [Loud .and prolonged
cheers.”
Now let ns review the
POLITICAL CHARACTER OF*MR. GREELEY.
As to Grant, it is doubtful ;if be has any
settled political principles. At the beginning
of the war he was a Democrat, declaring “he
would lay down his sword if tue war was to
free the negro.” He is anything, everything
ior office. His politics, such as they are,
seem to be embraced in two ideas—official
and moneUiry aggrandisement of himself and
family, and relentless persecution of the South
ern people.
Avery different political character is that of
Horace Greeley. First a IV hig, he became a
Republican chiefly on account of his opposi
tion to the further extension of negro slavery.
He has ever been democratic by nature, con
tending for the freedom and equality of all
men. Wherever a people struggled for liber
ty, his imenscst sympathies were enlisted.
Ireland never had a stronger advocate; and,
even before the cessation of hostilities be
tween the North and South, Horace Greeley
lifted high his voice for the full restoration
of the Southern people to equal rights in the
Union. Bat they object to him, that
HE ADVISED SECESSION
and then bitterly fought’us. He did not ad
vise secession, bat urged that we should be
allowed to go in peace. But, when war
came, he sided with- his section, as did the
Union men of the South. Surely, he should
be honored, not denounced for this. He
only is worthy of denunciation, who proved
traitor to his native section.
Itistrnethst he h«s soundly berated ns
But political opponents always do that.
These things are not and ought not to be re
vengefully harbored. Bat be has
SLANDERED SOUTHERN WOMEN,
say his enemies. We are told that he uttered
an indecent slander against them, and Radi-
c»I papers ketjaii^ilie mast-head nnder the
title of “Greeley's Infamy.” No surer mode
of arousing the iadisnant hostility of South
ern men could 1 be adopted, for their
chindrons devotion (o woman is one of the
glories of their character; and then, too,
what people ever-posseaeed nobler, chaster
purer, more patriotic mothers, wires and
sweethearts. Therefore some hate Mr. Gree
ley for this supposed slander. But it hap
pens that the --infamy” in this case belongs
to the Radicals, as Mr. Greeley never uttered
the atrocious seaflment. The New Tort
Tribune venr recently denied it and defied
the proof. The Radicals, who persist in the
falsehood, artf the only slanderers. This is
the truth of sli similar charges against him.
They are simply Radical lies—what thev
knowjo be ijea.
Still it is o’-jecte^l that he
VATOUED TUB KU kLl'X LAW.
Well, be did. Why? Because Grant
through his minions In the South had forced,
not only the Republic'ns of the North but
also the Democrats to believe that in many
parts of the Sonth there was constant perse
cution and murder of Northern men and
negroes. Having been frequently at the
North, J know this to be true. Bul'mark the
change when Grechy came Sonth to see for
himself. On his rehTrn he declared to the
people that the “car]*t-bigger was a mourn
ful fact,” and that irwas hard to condemn
the Sonth for occasional violence, when the
bayonet was at their throats and the carpet-
haggeria hand In fer tickets. Since that
time he ha3 contenflff-most earnestly against
Federal interferencnmthedomtsticconcerns
of the Southern States.
OREELET'S EEI-Si BEST ATI VE CAPACITY.
Bat the greater reason for the mpport of
Mr. Greeley lies in Wffact that ?ic it the rep-
retfnlalice of agtoit party, a great movement, a
great caute. To thmrhe is folly committed
by platform and by declaration. The issue
between the Radical party and the Demo
cratic-Republican party, ia marked and mo
mentous. Mr. Greeley represents the great
reaction in AmerlciqjKntimeni against the
leading principles of Radicalism. The Lib
eral cause may be osi forth as embracing
chitfiy three great ifleas: l«f. The right!if
States ae agairut Centralism; 2d, The suprem
acy of the c-sil orer tl>e military authority ; and,
3d, lleeoneiliation and fraternisation on the
basis ef perfect equality. Let ns briefly con
sider these propositi&s. In the first place,
then, the success of the Liberal movement
will be
THE TRIUMPH OP STATE RIGHTS
I n ed not review the existing state of
affairs under Radical rule. Yon know that
all the departments of -the Federal Govern
ment have been virtnaBy consolidated into
one. or rather made entirely subservient to
one. States and StamOsgislatures have been
overturned nt Fcdera^rill, and villainous
State governments ‘ upheld by Federal
authority, until the stealings of several hun
dred millions oL dollars have well nigh put
the South into bankruptcy. The Cincinnati
and Baltimore platform declares against
“centralised power,” and demands for the
State self-government;‘.and the election of
Grejley will secure iUaTl this alone were
the result, how glorious the change when-we
shall be permitted to govern ourselves; when
we shall no longer be cursed by Radical State
officials, by them robbed.-and plundered and
outraged; when we shall be relieved even of
the presence of many of them, who, in the
language of Horace Greeley, “will imitate
then- illustrious fugitive, Bullock, and retire
to tbo shades of private life—the denser the
better for themselves and their country.”
Another result of our .success will be the
restoration of constitutional government in
the
8UFRSVIACY OP TUB CIVIL OVER MILITARY
AUTHORITY.
Since the close of the late war military law
has usurped the place of the civil. Entire
Status have bcen'governed nnder military die-
tatiu u, the ballot box has been supervised by
soldiers, and under the suspension of the
habctis corpus thousands have been arrested
and marched away under the bayonet to
prison. Many now languish in confinement
But iMcently fifty odd in N onh Carolina were
drafted from their homes to a distant
county. At Washington we see a personal
government, the one-man power—a semi-
military dictatorship. Grant’s Secretaries
even are military officers, in violation of ex
plicit law. A moat fitting representation of
the na litary idea now pervading the entire
government was had at the Philadelphia
R dical Convention when Grant, in full uni
form was unveiled amid the wild shouts of
parlizans. If, at the South, we
squirmed under our sufferings or made a
manly protest, instantly the cry of Ku-Klnx
was raised, and the minions, the hirelings,
the army of Federal office-holders—re-echoed
“Ku Klux,” and the Southern people were
still further oppressed, and the iron forced
deeper into the soul. There is but one reme-
cy for all this—but one way to re-establish
the supremacy of the civil !aw,andthat is by
the triumph of the Cincinnati platform,
which dec-lares for the sacredness of the ha
beas corpus arul for civil over military au
thority. The cry of Ku-E nt will bo hushed
when norace Greeley has politically Ku
Kluxed Grant; and constitutional govern
ment will then be restored. Blessed day,
when the horde of Radical Federal officials,
Revenue Collectors, Postmasters, United
Status Commis-ioners, and the balance who
have per.-ecuted ns with petty tyrannies, shall
drop their countenances and make tracks
from Dixie’s lund.
In the election of Mr. Greeley, there will be
another great triumph—namely, the re-estab
lisUutent of quiet, peace and fraternal rela
tions between the late warring sections.
RECONCILIATION CPO.V TUB BASIS OP PER
FECT EQUALITY.
This is the only reconciliation to be de-
sired—that would he geninue and lasting.
But the Radical party chose the continuance
of bale—it is the feast upon which the inhu
man monster fattens. Wendell Pnillips, in
Massachusetts, utters the atrociouB, blood
thirty wish that ’Grant may he President till
every Southern white man over 40yearsof age
m»u In* in Ilia trrnvp ” R.-irif <rpll fJronf'a
S nr electoral ticket, and even that isdwind-
g. It is amusing to hear the O’Conor ad
vocates claiming headway. Every time a
leading man leaves them they cry out, “gain
ing ground.” Like the man, always generous
under the influence of liquor. On one occa
sion he bought s turkey. On bis way home
after night he fell a number of times. He
said to hia wife, “here are eleven turkeys.”
“Why, no,” said his wife, “there.is only one.”
But he insisted that there were eleven, “be
cause I fed down eleven times and every time
I fell on a turkey.”
Ail the good men among the Straights are
quitting their suicidal course. Even the
colored men of Georgia are rallying to the
Democracy. Instance their vole for Gover
nor Smith; and here in Gwinnett, judging
from your barbecue, not only the white men
aud colored men, bnt even the OJtossuma of
your woods are for the Democracy.
Bat some of oar friends complain of onr
harshness and charges against them. Is it
strange that we should feel our confidence
shaken in them, when we see the Grant politi
cians aiding them—when we seethe Radicals
supporting Straights for office—when we
know that the inevitable tendency of the
Straight movement is the success of Grant?
The first step in the awakeningof Voorhees
was the congratulation of a Radical. He
exclaimed, in alarm, “if yon can approve
my speech, theie is something wrong in iL"
You may be sure your position is wrong,
when the Radicals are trying to snst tin yon
in it. Doubtless, a few will persist in this
madness. Bat let them
TAXE WARNING.
A sad day will it be for them who in Geor
gia aid directly or indirectly in the election
of Grant. In the great Coltiscum at Boston
daring the World’s Peace Jubilee, after the
playing of the Star Spangled Banner before
an audience of 75,000 people, a Radical
untped up and called three cheers for Grant
In that mighty concourse there was not a
ting!* response. Not with utter silence, but
with utter condemnation, will be greeted that
Georgian who turns his back upon his peo
ple in the time of their need.
may be in his grave.” Boutweil, Grant’
Secretary, protests in North Carolina, against
the fraternal clasping of bands, and his' chief
counselor. Senator Morton, proclaims in In
diana that “rebel soldiers shall never occupy
the same position before the law and the
country as the Northern soldiers ” This is
the spirit of Radicalism. The very counter--
part to this is Liberalism. It declares for
peace, fraternity, reconciliation, perfect
equality. The Liberal movement is the very
Gospel of humanity—nay. it is based upon
Christianity itself. Said the great Voorhees:
“Mr. OreJer’s election signifies penes and recon
ciliation, signifies lore in v ~ me sceoons w -ere
ba.*e bis prevailed, signifies purity iu every depart
ment of the government.”
Would to God that every - Southern man
could rise to the wi^om, tlic* soul-elevation
of the noble In Jianian as he exclaimed:
“I Hood forth once to oppose this movement, but
bowed to it wbt’U my party drci'ted to embrace it.
“To-ntfcht I co farther; to-night I embrace it with
all my heart, with all my mind with *11 my etrengtb,
as tending to the purification, the redemption of our
whole country. North and South, everywacre.”
The spirit, th“ purpose, the effect, of the
Liberal triumph was well set forth in that
opposite picture at the Baltimore Con ve it ion,
when the drawn c.irtzin exhibited a glorious
farm and woodland scene of peace and pros
perity—so vas ly contrasting with that at
Philadelphia. Never were the Christian doc
trines of forgiveness and reconciliation, put
on trial before a mighty people, as now they
are. Surely Heaven must bless such a cause
and give us victory.
In the triumph of this great movement
WHAT TRANSCENDENT RESULTS
will flow. The Republic will be swung far
back on its old constitutional track. Riots
will cease, bayonets will disappear, b-istile*
-will be lost sight of. ^In the language of
Horace Greeley, “the country will enter upon
a grand New D.parture, from strife to har
mony, from famine and desolation to peace
and plenty.” True, there will be sad results
but not for the people. There will be a
mournful family procession from the White
House. There will probably be a cottage for
sale at Long Branch. And from Radical
officials, bond thieves and public robbers,
there will go up a wail, that will put to
shame the 'cry Jeven of the “Whangaoodle
of the mountains of Hepsidam.” O,’ what a
blessed privilege tojprc&cli to the assemb ed
gang before dispersion—from the text, “And
he gnawed upon a file ”
Can it be possible that any respectable num
ber of white donthern men will retard this
great movement—aid in the forging of further
chains for the South? Will they^not rather
go with the people; for thu is
thk people’s movement.
Soma say that politicians engineered it The
assertion is absurd, in view of the facts.
At Baltimore, during a night of the Conven
tion, a vast concourse assembled before the
Barnum House, and Cilled for distinguished
Georgians. At last an old countryman from
Coweta county appeared and stated, that he
had tried to find one but failed. “Speak
yourself,” shouted the jolly crowd. “Well,”
he answered, “the truth is we, the people,
concluding to take matters in onr o wn hands,
came on here and left the politic ans at home.”
Indeed, the people whirled the politicians
along with such amazing rapidity that these
latter became dizzy, and like a drunken man
who imagines every body drank but.himself,
the e politicians thought the great mass
of men “crooked” and themselves alone
“straight.” Let us have
A WORD WITH THE STRAIGHTS.
Will yon come with us, or will ycu hold
aloof, and thus aid in the election of
Grant? We have seen that it is every man’s
dnty nnder Republican government to vote
Will you be false to your obligations ? Will
you still refuse to he p a movement to over
throw a party, which is the cause of Southern
humiliation aud impoverishment? You see
that all your leader* have left you. Where
is tho distinguished man now in your ranks ?
Voorhes is gone. Even old Jubal Early
has hastened to make amend for his first re
fusal to support the Liberal movement In
Georgia you will not poll much more than
SOUTH CAt&OLinA.
The Orangeburg County Fair*
Orangeburg Co., S. 0., Oct 30,1873.
Editors Constitution: To-day was “the big
day” at the county fair. Everybody, big
and little, young and old, for miles around
were there. Great, broad-chested, ruddy
cheeked farmers and their portly dames, the
merchant, the mechanic, the lawyer, the
doctor, the judge, etc., and all bent upon the
same thing, viz.: To enjoy themselves os
much as possible, and “ see all to be seem”
At 9 o’clock the bell tolling gave the sum
mons that the fair was opened for the day,
and from cverv quarter of the village north,
east, south and west the crowd came flocking
towards the gates opening into the exhibition
ground.
The scene of the Fair this year is in an old
building formerly used as a soap factory.
But despite this it presents a very good ap
pearance, is spacious and convenient, and, al
together, just the very place for a “county
fair.”
The Agriculture) Society, we think, de
serves a great deal of praise for the manner
in which eveiything is conducted. One hall
is devoted to garden, field and orchard
products, household department, etc., and the
other to fancy work. Among the former ar
ticles we noticed some giant okra, grown by
Mr. George Jenkins, the laigcst stalk of
which measures over 16 inches in length;
also, a basket of very fine pomegranites,
raised by Mrs. J. A. Gates. St me lady—we
have forgotten her name—exhibits some
monster turnips and] a choice collection of
other vegetables.
Thefloricultural display was truly a beau
tiful one. Here wc found flowers of almost
every hue and variety. The Justicia and
Night Blooming Cereus, exhibited by Miss
A. B. Me Keen, and the Egyptian Geranium
by Mrs. E. J. Oliveris, and the display of
Geraniums and other flowers by Mrs. J. D. A.
Broun and Mis3 Sophia Clarke, are worthy of
e-pedal notice.
Visiting the Art Gallery, we foufid here
some very handsome paintings, prominent
among which arc those executed by Miss
Amelia Langley, of Charleston, South Caro
lina. The pencil sketches of General and
Lady Washington, drawn by Miss Alice W.
Olderson, are very creditably done. The
painting of a basket of flowers, by Miss Mary
Simmons, reflect much credit upon the young
artist
In the Household Department we found
fine collection of jellies, pickles, preserves,
etc., put up by different ladies of Oran
all so well done that it wa9 hard to
which was best. The butter exhibited by
Miss Kate Felder and Mrs. D. Houser de
serves praise. Miss S. fybinson and Miss
Ann C. Anderson have on exhibition some
veiy fine cakes; Miss Kingstnan a plate of
home-made candy, and Mr. Albergratli differ
ent kinds of candy made at his bakery; Mrs
D. Louis some excellent looking rolls, and
Miss Julia Zimmerman several samples of
light-bread. Other ladies had on exhibition
different articles, but these we mention as
being especially worthy of notice.
Among the miscellaneous articles we found
a bird cage made principally of cane, the
work of Master A. B. Easturlin, of Orange
burg county. While gazing at this, we could
scarcely believe that it was tho work of
boy.
Fussing into tlic room devoted to fancy
work and embroidery, we fouud so many
specimens of female art and industry we were
quite bewildered which to take note of, fear
ing we cannot do ail justice. But some we
must mention; among them a basket of fruit
of different colors made of rosin, the work
of Miss Lizzie Elliott, a little girl just twelve
years old; a basket of wax-work, by Miss
P. Rich; specimens of embroidery by other
ladies, prominent among them Mrs. Juliu
Quattiebaum and Miss H. A'lella Coleman
of Edgefield, S. C.; and a lamb’s wool sacqut
and cape by the Misses Sanders. Mrs. 8. it.
Glover, an old lady eighty-six years of age,
exhibits a foot-stool. Everything about it is
perfect, and for a lady of her agc.is a wonder
ful specimen of work. We must not forget
to mention some samples of home-made silk
thread shown by Mrs. D. Louis. It is us good
as any we have ever seen imported.
Next we paid a visit to the space attached
to the poultry-yard, and here we found
‘ fowls” of almost every breed.,from the
magnificent Brahma down. Mr. J. R. Beck
with and Mr. Joe Fcraer have, we think, the
finest collection. The coop of pigeons shown
by £. K. & J. C. McKeon arc worthy of
more than a passing glance. As we were
standing there admiring them the band
without warned us that the racing had com
menced. We hurried forward to catch
sight of the ring. The excitement grew in
tense a3 came favorite horse won or defeated.
Then came the display of stock in single and
double harness and horseback riding.
Then, for an hour or so, we were enter
tained with various kinds of amusements by
the little boys of Orangeburg. It was a great
disappointment to all that the tournament
was dispensed with this year. Again for a
couple of hours we had raciug and exhibi
tion of stock, and at 5 o'clock the Fair closed
to open again at 7 o’clock, P. M., but we left
this afternoon not caring lo stay longer. To
morrow is the last day; and also the one for
the award of premiums, but this we do not
think will interest your readers.
Yours,
Annie Maria.
OUR FASHION LETTER.
FASHIONS FOB NOVESIBEB.
Society Reception* — Lecture* and
Opera*—Evening Toilette*—Tlse
Useful and the Beautiful--
W Inter Cloaks—Prac
tical Fashion*.
New York, November 1,1873.
The fashionable season may now be said
to have began in real earnest, hotels are
crowded, houses—even those unlucky “fur
nished” ones which are forever “to let,” -
seem to be most of them taken, florists and
confectioners are hard at work, and all the
signs are indicative of a lively if not a bril
liant campaign.
THE OPERA SEASON
differs in many respects from that of last
year. Lucca has established herself as favor
ite, bat she is not Nilsson. Her voice lacks
the wonderful sweetness of the Swedish
songstress, and in a commercial point of
view, is not up to the four dollar mark. She
is very charming; her voice is rich. She has
a thoroughly artistic method, bqt she does
not possess that exceptional charm which
Nilsson had, which drew people from a dis
tance night after night, at any cost of time
or money; which grew stronger every time
one saw her face and heard her voice, and
which crowded the Academy of Music on the
1 ist night of her appearance with an assem
blage larger and stronger in their enthusiasm
than that which greeted her first appearance
at Stein way Hall
A POSSIBLE STORM.
Symptoms there are already of an
approaching storm. People may pay four
dollars somewhat reluctantly to hear
Lucca, but they will not pay
it to hear Kellogg, and Kellogg having
made up her own mind that she is just as
good as either Lucca or Nilsson, cannot see
why they will not and vents her discontent
on the management.
Then the tenor is weak. Tenors, in fact,
are scarce and when we get hold of one like
Capoul or Wachtel we should not let him go.
Janet, it is true, is a host in hiuuelf, probably
the best and most thorough dramatic artist
wc have ever had for a baritone, but we can
not make up for an indifferent tenor. More
money has oeen spent upon this season than
any which have preceded it for years. New
scenery has been added, costumes have been
purchased and made quite presentable, and
the orchestra and chorus under Marctzek’s
able baton are well trained and efficient On
the Lucca nights the houses are stiff flue, and
the spectacular effect from the boxes mag
nificent, the toilettes of gentlemen as well as
ladies being, as a general rule, in strict ac
cordance with the etiquette that demands
evening dress.
A NEW SENSATION.
If Lucca is not quite equal to Nilsson she
had the honor of creating quite a little flutter
of discussion in critical and society circles by
being different from Nilsson. Her Mar-
guentel is as far removed from
usual conception as a soubrette from
Bister of Charity. Lucca is pretty,
slightly pettish, very piquant, wears her own
dusk hair braided down her back, and her
dress cut low. Bhe makes more business
points” than Niilson, but she does not suc
ceed in impressing us with the same ideal
irity and innocence; the story in her
more common-place, the portraiture more
picturesque possibly, but less inspirational.
DISTINGUISHED VICTORS.
It is not often that we have such a galaxy
to chronicle as have arrived upon our shores
during the past month, and is still incom
plete. Scientists, historians, lecturers, novel
ists and journalists have come down upon
us like an avalanche, anxious to see for them
selves if all the wonderful things that had
been told them of this new land was true.
The lectures of Froude and Prof. Tyndall
offer a genuine treat, which are anxious to
secure an opportunity of sharing and have
already in the cate of the former brought
together audiences composed of the most
distinguished men and women in the city
from every walk of life.
Society is becoming a very cortly luxury
in New York city, and only those can par
t.cipate in it to any extent upon whom for
tune has rained down a golden shower.
“Parties” are absolute, but a grand “recep
tion” involves a cost of about a thousand
dollars, exclusive of dress, and all th« appur
tenances of wealth at commmd.
You may have a staff of six or eight
v&nlsof your own, butthey have nothing to do
Laying the Corner stone*
The ceremony of laying the corner stone
of the new Jewish Synagouge was witnessed
yesterday by a large number of spectators.
At 3 o’clock Maiachi Lodge, No. 146, met
at their rooms in Huff’s new building, from
which they marched, under Marshal Lowen-
thal to Ayre’s Hall, where thev received the
Grand Lodge of Masons. The procession
was then formed and marched under Grand
Marshal of the Lodge. Halting at thecornerof
Second and Poplar streets, Rev. Mr. Rosen-
field then delivered an appropriate and elo
quent address. After which the laying of
the corner stone was performed by Grand
Master Samuel Lawrence. The procession
then re-formed and marched to Ayre’s Hall
Maiachi Lodge going to their ball.
The stone is of granite, and bears the fol
lowing in black letters:
1873. A. D. 5633.
Congregation of the Holy House of the Lord,
[in Hebrew.]
BUILDING COMMITTEE.
J. H. Hertz, Chairman.
D. Abraham, E. Isaacs,
V. Kahn, Jos. Danenbui^,
J. Harris, D. Goldsmith.
M.\ W.\ Grand Master Samuel Lawrence
D. B. Woodruff, Architect; J. J. Cornell,
Builder.
The box contained the following articles:
A copy of the Macon Daily Enterprise of
Saturday, the 26th; copy of the Telegraph
and Messenger of Tuesday, the 29th; list of
officers and members of the congregation;
list of the city and county officers; record
and date of laying the stone; history of the
congregation; by-laws of the congregation;
by-laws of B nai Britb; copy of the minutes
of the first meeting of the congregation; sil
ver coins of various sizes and dates.—Macon
En'erprise.
WEST PSlTrLETTER.
Reaaarkable Case of Jlcdical Skill.
West Point, October 31,1872.
An instance which rarely, if ever before,
occurred in the annals of medical history,
took place in our town on last Saturday night
Mr. II ■, either'momentarily deranged or
under the influence of liquor, swallowed an
ounce and a half of laudanum.
Borne parties witnessing the act, immedi
ately notified our esteemed townsman, Dr. J.
B. Tcdd, who at once took him under treat
ment. His case was considered hopeless, but
yet Dr. T. succeeded, by constant use of the
battery and injection of atropia. in rescuing
the patient from a certain death by Sunday
morning. W.
upon an occasion of this kind, except put the
house in order. At about 3, P. M., thwfash-
ionable restauranteur takes possession of it—
carpets the steps and sidewalks, over which
be spreads an awning, and sets half a dozen
to a dozen colored waiters, who through the
summer figured at Saratoga or Long Branch,
to work at the table and door belL China,
silver and napkins, if need be, are furnished
with the c.uail, the oysters, the boned turkey,
the sandwiches, the chicken salad, the
epergnns of fruit and flowers, the Charlotte
Russe, the jelly, the maccaroous, and the ice
cream. The wine may not be supplied from
the above source, but, in addition, there are
always side tables with tea aud coffee, lem
onade, cake, and claret punch.
In this respect the reception docs not dif
fer from the party’proper, but it is widely
different in the manner in which it is con
ducted. There is node of the old-fashioned
stiffness and formality of the party, people
come and go, walk about aud chat, occasion
ally listen to music, and sometimes to a song
from some society prima donna, but the
staple of the entertainment is conversation,
varied by a glimpse of a stray literary Hon
or art 1 slic star.
Few soceity people, however, could have
brought together the assemblage which
greeted Miss Faithful the other evening, at
the house of Mrs. Laura Curtis Bullard.
There were present Parke Goodwin, John M.
Bigelow and wife, Bret llarte, John Hay, Dr.
Bellows, R. M. Stoddard, the poet, and his
wife, who is a clever novelist; Anna Dickin
son, Mrs. Lucia Gilbert Calhoun Runkle,
Wbitelaw Reid, M. Clarke, of the Golden Era,
and hosts of others more or less known
to the public. Alias Faithful, founder of the
Victoria dress, editor and proprietor of the
Victoria (London) Magazine, stood in the
midst of them a massive Englishwoman,
dressed in black silk trimmed with rich white
lace, the Victoria medal upon her breast, her
hair cut short from her beaming kindly face
and somewhat bewildered.
. Bhe is one of those women who have
answered all questions as to what woman
can do, by doing it—and her manner inspires
the*fullest confidence in the purity and sin
cerity of her intentions and motives.
evening toilettes.
The Grst entertainments of the season ob
tain additional splendor from the freshness
and beauty of tLe toilettes, and this is par
ticularly the case, when as now the colors are
in themselves exquisitely lovely, and made to
show by gas light.
Pale pink, pale blue, light peacock green
and the faintest shades of buff, are the colors
most in vogue, profusely trimmed with white
point applique Valencenncs or Irish lace.
White point is not much worn except in
collars, baskes, and coiffures, by elderly ladies.
The long overskirt is quite out of date for
evening wear; the trained skirt has an apron
and a panier, side sashes or a broad sash
cooped low on the side but no overskirt—
these are resumed for walking dresses. The
favorite sleeves are the antique, with Jacc
ruffles, and the close, coat sieeve, with an
open cuff or lace ruffles at the waist.
Bodies are cut square, surplice or low, with
basques.
A new silk for evening wear, imported in
all the new evening shades, is called by the
rather blind title, Satin dc Leon. It is very
much like what used to be called ratiu
leoantine. It has a fine, thick, satin upper
surface and silk under surface. It is softer
and not so glossy as ordinary satin, but has a
very rich appearance. Nothing can exceed
the beauty of this fabric in the new creamy
buff, pearl.lavender, light peacock blue, ami
green tints. Add the appropriate trimming
of choice white lace, and the toilette is per
fect.
White muslin pleatings ere still
used to some extent, and also white
muslin over-skirts and over-dresses,
but they are only employed upon secondary
toilettes, and always suggest a dress made
over, or perhaps freshened up, to answer a
purpose—a laudable idea enough, but not
desirable to those who have plenty of money
and want every costume to seem, at least, to
have come straight from the hands of the
modiste. Sleeves and inside pleatings of
muslin are still highly approved, but folds
and fabric are of an exquisite fineness, and
therefore almost as costly as lace, without its
durability. There is a class of women, how
ever, and their number is daily increasing,
who never inquire the cost of anything. They
purchase exactly what they want; if it (a
five dollars per yard it is all right, if it is ten
it is all righL First class houses have only
one price, and the wealthy woman of fashion
does not ever ask what that is; she selects
what she wants for her purpose, without re
gard to cost.
A really handsome evening dress cannot be
got up now for less than from one hundred and
fifty to three hundred dollars, and may cost
double that amount. Below the silken panier
overskirts of white damask gauze with
fringed border and netted heading, are often
gracefully draped, the fringe twilled in so as
to apparently form a part of the fabric, and
the flowered gauze so arranged by the art of
the modiste as to form a draperied trimming
for body and sleeves. Trails of flowers gar
land these dresses and are massed in huge
bouquets on the sides. The flowers alone
costing as much as many a farmer’s wife,
whose husband has bonds and money in the
bank, pays for her wardrobe during the
entire year.
We cannot go back to the simple cities, the
arts, the industries, the money making
faculty of man forbid it It is at least as
well to spend money op silks and laces as as
on champagne and fast hou c es.
SECONDARY TOILETTES..
But even rich women do not disdaiu hav
ing recourse to what are called “secondary
toilettes.” They are very useful for small
“coverings,” for “at homes,” and for the opera.
For, though the aggregate effort of ladies
dress at the opera is very gay, even magnifi
cent on a “first night,” yet regular habitues
are very careful not to display or conceal
their freshest and most elegant toilettes in
an opera box.
It is the pretty silks of last season veiled
with a Jis'hu of crepe or laec, a r*.ffied skin
under a polonaise of striped gauze or grena
dine, or the simple striped, or somewhat faded
silk, under an overdress of white embroider
ed muslin. An elaborate coiffure, delicate
kid gloves, laces, perfumes, fiowers, a rich
wrap, half draped, and the partial conceal
ment of the seal or box, makes a “seconday
or house dinner toilette pass muster very
creditably, in fact, it is more in place than
“full dress with low necks and short sleeves
could possibly be under such circumstances
Sleeveless jackets of bl .ck, blue or choco
late colored velvet are also very much seen
over fine striped and plain silks for opera atul
house cinner wear. The basque cut small,
and made perfectly plain, only edged with a
double piping—the inner piping, the color of
the dress.
CLOAKS.
In our climate there is a necessity for a
cloak, in addition to the suit, in cold weather,
and this season we have two or three different
styles to choose from.
The latest and most fashionable is the
Dolman”—a close cut sack, with long, wide,
open sleeves. The second is the sack “mantle,
with cape; the third, the “Polish Coat”—a
long garment, body and skirt cut in one in
front, square basque back over the skirt, the
back breadth of which is laid in a large box
pleat
This coat is alwars made in brown, black,
iron gray or invisible green cloth, bordered
with fur, silver coney, black martin or gray
astrachan. The fur set, consisting of muff
and boa, should match the fur trimming of the
coat This outfit is excellent for a cold
climate.
In cities the “Dolman” is more generally
worn and is made iu four different mate
rials—cloth, velvet, arnttre silk and bluck
drap d’ete or cashmere. The finest of these
are covered with embroidery and often bor
dered with wide yak la<^ or fringe yak, or
woolen lace, is of course only used for woolen
material. Silk and velvet Dolman’s are
trimmed with rich guipcrc, chinililly or
thread lace, and the embroidery is executed
with the most remarkable precision, beauty
and neatness.
The sudden and universal adaptation cf
embroidery to all kinds of ladies and
children's clothing is caused by the ease with
which it has been discovered that very effec
tive embroidery can be executed hy the
sewing machine. In all the large establish
ments a steam engine is now employed
which runs the elevator and keeps two hun
dred or mor^sewing machines going at the
most rapid rate. Embroidery is thus done
more or less well, at a cost which enables the
manufacturer to put it on the five dollar
jacket a9 well as cn tho two hundred dollar
cloak, and the most decided mark of distinc
tion therefore about the embroidered gar
ments of the present day is that it is done by
hand.
TnK PRACTICAL
One of the largest and best known houses
announced as the key note of their styles for
the season, that a 1 their designs were “prac
tical,” and most of them “home made.”
The importation of dresses from leading
French houses at from five hundred to one
thousand dollars each is not found to pay.
Really fashionable women will not buy them
after they arc exhibited and used as models
for others, and so they have to be sold at half
price to act es oi or women who have grown
suddenly rich, and have not learned to dis
tinguish between the eleg int and the merely
costly and elaborate.
The finest dresses made are now worn by
actresses, no woman of only private means
can possibly compete with them, as managers
now put part of their capital into the ward
robes of the “leading ladies” of their thea
tres, and instead of cotton laces and brass jew
elry, the richest silks and laces are employed,
in a profusion that would frighten an ordi
nary purse add reduces the ordinary hand
some costume to insignificance.
This tendency to dress upon the stage will
undoubtedly have a good effect upon dress oil
the stage, and in time divide and classify
styles under three distinct heads—the practi
cal or useful, the cultivated aud the costly,
nococo.
Here is a revival in many things of quite
old styles for every day wear. Large old-
fashioned, square veils for example, square
handkerchiefs of twilled silk, for the neck,
with fringca borders, side pockets of leather
with belt and strap attached gilt or steel
mounted, and coffures combed up straight
from the neck and mounted in puffs on the
top or at the back of the head, very antique
there but very ugly. Jennie June.
gcligious.
ALR!»ST A QUEL.
Am Honorable Settlement Effected
Yesterday morning, at an early hour, it
became known nearly all over Augusta that
Messrs. T. W. Rucker and R. H. Ltunpkin,
two gentlemen from Athens, were in the
city for the purpose of crossing over the
river into South Carolina to fight a duel.
About ten o’clock one of the parlies. Mr. R.
H. Lampkin, was arrested and taken before a
Justice of the Peace, who required him to
give a bond to keep the peace. This bond,
as a matter of course, applied only so far as
the State of Georgia was concerned, and was
not binding outside of her jurisdicti n.
During the morning qvery effort was made
by a number of gentlemen to settle the diffi
culty between Messrs. Rucker and Lsuipkin,
but without avail. A meeting to Jake place
on the Carolina ride of the river, near Band
Bar Ferry, at 2 o’clock P. M., was deter
mined upon, and about 12| o’clock the prin
cipals, accompanied by their seconds—Mr. L.
L. McClueky acting in that capacity for Mr.
Rucker, and Mr. M. P. Davis for Mr. Lamp-
kin—two surgeons, and a number of gentle
men of Augusta, left the city in carriages and
buggies, pre*ceeded to Sand Bar Ferry, where
they crossed over into Carolina. The spot
selected as the dueling ground was iu a field
about half a mile beyond the ferry. Arrived
here another effort was made by friends of
both, who wished, if possible, to prevent
bloodshed, to settle the d iflic ilty. Prominent
among the gentlemen engaged in this laud
able purpose were Dr. William E. De&ring.
General K. Y. Harris and Chief of Police .1.
A. Christian. All praise is due to them for
their generous efforts in the cause of pence.
By their intercession the principals were
finally induced to refer tlic affair to a board
of Honor, composed of Dr. Dcarimr, Gen.
Harris and Mr. Jas. G. Gregg. The de
cision of this Board, however, was not to lie
considered final, but was to lie submitted to
the principals through their seconds for
their approval or disapproval. The Board
retired to a house near the duelling ground,
and after some time spent in consultation
arranged the basis of a settlement honorable
to both parties. This was submitted
to the seconds, who after consultation with
their principals, accepted it in their behalf.
We failed to obtain the precise terms upon
which the affair was settled, but were in
formed bjr the Board of Honor lhat they
were—as we before stated—honorable to both
of the parties. Much satisfaction was ex
pressed by all present at this honorable ad
justment of the difficulty.
We learn that the difficulty grew out of
some remarks made by Mr. Rucker—-who is
a lawyer—in reference to Mr. Lampkin dur
ing the progress of a trial or preliminary in
vestigation, in Clarke county.—^Constitution
alist.
NEW YORK.
THE WOOD HULL AND CLA7LIN CASK.
New York, October 2.—A great deal of
talk is occasioned about town this evening
over the arrest of Woodhull & Claflin. The
proceedings against them were first taken hy
Mr. A. M. Challis, a well known broker, who
last night applied for warrants for their
arrest fora gross, scandalous and mali
cious article on him. Tiie^e warrants
were accordingly issued, but before they
could be executed some one acitg
in teh.:f of another libelled party,
as it is said, and imparting the aid of Com
modore Comstock, the famous enemy to
obscene literature, had warrants issued a, sinst
the women by U. S Csmmissioner Osborne.
The affidavits in the case were made by Al
bert Anderson, P. O. Clerk, a Mr. Woodley,
of Brooklyn, and T. W. Reese, Clerk in the
Independent newspaper office, who swears to
the sending of offensive publications through
the mails by the accused. The witnesses in
the case, Wm. Moody, negro, andC. D. Mills,
who mailed the papers, were sent to the
commisstonrr’s office in a carriage, and
thence to jail until Monday morning, when
the hearing comes off. 'They manifested
their usual boldness, and discantcd, on the
way to the prison, on the outrage of their
arrest and confinement over Sunday. They
insisted upon suitable apartments at the
Ludlow street prison.
The general trade of the city has been
paralyzed all the week by the horse disease,
and the conditions of merchandise are nomi
nally unchanged. The absence of trarofer
facilities has necessarily checked transac
tions, and so in want of business values are
nominal.
Alabama New*.
Wild Turkeys are quite plentiful around
Center.
General Toombs is to deliver the annnai
Address at the Selma Fair.
HEAVIER THE CROSS.
Heavier the cro^», the *r*rer heaven:
Whom God has eel beneath the aoev
He (Tier the crow, the better GhfMiaa;
Tht* ia the touchstone God epplie*.
How tnuny a garden would be waetirg,
Ui.w.-t bv *&ower*from weepiiig ejee!
The-cold br Arete purtn.-d;
The Christian is by troaote iried.
Heavier the erwe. the more •eplring;
From value w<* climb t»» in«*nnttlacr*“t;
The ptlg-im of the deeert t»ring
Lon** for tbe Canun of his rret
Heavier the crort, the ea'ler dyl-S;
Dm h is a friendlier feoe to w ;
To life'* decay one b:d*d.tying.
From life** dis ri e* one then l* fte*.
Toe cro*«* sublimely lift* oar faith
To llim who triumphed over death.
Thou Crucified! the cm** I carry.
The larger, msv t* dearer be;
And test If tnt wh le here I tarry,
imprint thon such * heart in me.
Thit faith, h>pe, love may flourish there.
Till for the cro**» my crowu I wi*r.
Religious Information.
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CTICRCH ITEMS.
Rev. W. II Cooper, who recently withdrew
from the Protestant Episcopal Church in
Chicago, has applied for admission into tlic
ministry of the Methodist Episcojtal Church.
The Protestant Episcopal Society for the
increase of the minis!ry, has announced that
students who received aid from its funds
must abstain from tobacco and spirits.
The Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States reports an actual accession to
its communion, last 3*car, of 24,114, being a
larger percentage upon its whole number of
members jhan an}' other Church.
CATHOLIC CHURCH ITEMS.
Twenty Roman Catholic Bishops have
gone forth from the diocc*e of Cincinnati, a
number greater than from any other diocese
in the United States.
The first Roman Catholic See in the United
States was created in Bdtimorein the year
1763, with jurisdiction over the entire coun-
thy.
Splendid Cathedra re—The corner-stone
of the new Roman Catholic Cathedral, on
Fifth Avenue, was laid in August, 1853, by
Archbishop Hughes, of New York. The
work was suspended when the walls were
about ten feet hi«h, and not resumed until a
few years ago The foundation rests on solid
rock. The style of the architecture is Gothic.
There will be’a tower and spire on each cor
ner, measuring three handled and twenty-
eight feet from the ground to the top of the
cross. The side walls are nearly completed.
The new Church at SL Patrick's, near St.
Louis, was to be dedicated November 2d.
INTELLIGENCR OF THE JEW*.
The Jews arc a nation of exile's. Scattered
among civilized nations, they still retain their
own customs and the peculiarities of their
race. They are more numerous than in the
most flourishing period of their history iu
Palestine.
It is greatly to their credit that they every
where lake a high position in enterprise, in
telligence and morality, and stand among
the foremost citizens. Tne most wealthy
bankers of Europe, and many of the most
distinguished statesmen aud scholars are
Jews.
Recent investigations iu Prussia prove that
Ihc Jews are more wtger for education than
either Protestants or the Catholics. The
Protestants have fifty-five per cent of the
population, and seventy-four percent, of
scholars in the higher fchools, and the Cath
olics have forty-three per cent, of population
and have less than eighteen |»er c*-nt. of the
scholars. The Jews have ouly one per cent,
of the population, aud have nearly nine per
cent, of the scholars.
FOREIGN CllURClI ITEMS.
According to reports^nnde at a late meet
ing of the British B.iptbl Union, “there are
forty-four Baptist congregations sustained by
lay agency alone.”
In Great Britain, laymen in every station
of life are appointtal to preach the Gospel.
Mechanics, laborers, merchants, professional
men, noblemen and peers of tlic realm arc
•found on the Sabbath day actively engaged
in missionary work.
Rev. Mr. Spurgeon says lie has icceived
about forty children into his Church, and
while he excommunicates about two adults
every year he has never had occasion to ex
communicate & silicic child.
Iu pursuance of a request issued to tho
clergy of his diocese some months ago bv
Archbishop Manning, the employment of
lady vocalists in the choirs of" Catholic
places of worship in London is now discon
tinued.
METHODIST CHURCH ITEMS.
The new Methodist Episcopal Church at
Davenport, Iowa, is to have-a spire one hun
dred aud foity feet high.
The next annual meeting of the North
Alabama Conference of the Methodist Epis
copal Church South, will take place on
Wednesday, November 20, at Tuscaloosa.
Bishop Dnggett, of Richmond, Virginia, one
of the ablest divines of that church ia to pre
side.
Boston University, the instilution founded
by the Methodists of tho vicinity of Boston,
will probably lie the most richly endowed
university in the country. It is estimated
that the estate left to it by the late Isaac
Rich will, at the time appointed for its divis
ion, amouut to $5,600,- 00.
The new Methodist Church at Great Neck,
L. L, was the gift of Mr. Spinney. He
erected it on a fine site, furnished it with a
bell aud an organ, and built and furnished
adjoining the church a commodious parson
age at a cost of $20,000. Mr. Spinney also
donated the sum of $10,000 to the church,
the interest of which is to be devoted to ihb
payment of the minister's salary.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ITEMS.
The First Congregational parish of Dan
vers, Massachusetts, celebrated its two hun
dredth anniversary on the 8th insL
There are but three ministers in the city of
Brooklyn who have been pastors there for
twenty five years—they are Dr. Storr’s, Mr.
Beecher and J. W. Sarlcs, and all are cou-
gregationaily governed.
The Union Park Congregational Church,
Chicago, which cost about one huudred and
eighty thousand dollars, Las just passed
through a great financial straight, from which
it was relieved on fast Sunday, by a contribu
tion of thirty thousand dollars from the con
gregation.
rUESBYTERlAN CHURCH ITEMS.
Rev. T. L. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, has tho
largest membership in his church of any in
the; Presbyterian denomination.
Tho Presbyterians arc now building
churches at Marion Center, Peabody, and
Florence, K&usas.
ltev. Ransom Ruwlcy is among the oldest
Prc.-bytcrian ministers in Indiana. He
prc;ichcd in the oh! Court house in New Al
bany in October, 1828—forty four years ago.
The Presbyterian Church at the corner of
Forty-first and Prairie Avenue, Chicago, has
been burglariously entered, and tho furniture
and books destroyed, the pastor’s books ran
sacked, his manuscript and library scatt* red
over the floor, and every article of valilc, in
cluding some sliver plate carried’off.
The First Presbyterian Church at Newark
was founded about two huudred years ago.
It was then the only church in town. Large
donations of land were made, and the church
is now one of the wealthiest in the countiy.
The edifice is a grand old structure of brown
stone, When the foundations were laid,
eighty-five years ago, they were broad enough
to hold every inhabitant of the town. The
whole town had a hand in building
the church, and contributed some
thing toward its erection. The parish
weut in a body, led by the minister, into the
forest, cut the trees aud hewed the frame.
Workmen went into the quarries, dug out tbe
stock and hammered it into form. Out of
fourtecu pastors iu the life lime of the church,
twelve have been New England men.
_ The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis
sions have sent this month seven missiona
ries to Mexico. Sixteen are about Miling for
India. From the first of May to the first of
November, no lei*s than forty-seven go out to
their minion fields, thirty of whom are new
appointments.
BAPTIST CHURCH ITEMS
The white Baptists of Maryland are build
ing a church for their colored brethren, to
Costtweulv thousand dollars, bays a letter:
“A delightful harmony prevails between the
races.”
The Texas Baptist General Association
have just taken action in favor of total absti
nence, and pronounce that the taking of one
drain, simply for the gratification of the ap
petite, is positively sinful, and that the man
ufacture or sale of intoxicating drinks aril
much more sinfnl.
The Southern New York Baptist Associa
tion reports fifty-four churches and fifty pas
tors over churches, and twenty-four without
charges. This shows at* increase of one
pastor and one church during the year. The
raemberahip numbers 13,520, or an average
of 233 to each charge. The largest com
munion in the Association is that of Iter. W.
S. Mickcls, numbering 633.
In 1776 the firat religious service held in
Kentucky was held at Uarrodsburg. The
Baptist Church of Kentucky proposes a cen
tennial celebration of the same at the roots
(still remaining) of the same tree, and at the
same spring.—Interior Journal.
A Woman's Baptist Missionary Society at
Richmond, Va., composed of ladies from all
the Baptist churches of the city, has under
taken the support of Miss Moore as a mi*,
sionary to China.
There is to be a grand Baptist Bible School
Mass Meeting, under the auspices of the State
Bible School Board, held at Eufaula, Alaba
ma, on the 5th and 6th days of November,
1872. All friends of Sunday Schools through
out the State are cordially invited to be pres
ent.