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i Commencement Sermon West |
Point Female College.
1 death. When we come to suffer and die
| it would bo only mocking our agonies to
tell ns of the Koran and the Shasters.
j Then the philosophers of the Porch, the
Academy and the Lyceum, could afford
! ns no consolation. Then we must have a
diviner Saviour than Socrates; under
DY BUY. david wills, d. D., pbesident op, such mighty trials we must have Jesus as
a strengthened comforter and Saviour,
OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY.
West Point, Ga., July 9,1871.
Jesus to light up the portals of the tomb
j with Hih cheering presence, to perfume
The commencement exercises of West I his cold grave with the fragrance of His
[{Point Female Collego—A. P. Mooty, j merits, and to admit our departing spir
its into the glories of the Paradise of
God.
President—are in progress. The com- j
mcnrcmuit 'v,n preached toJ-.iv
in the Methodist Church, the most com
modious edifice in in the place.
An immonse multitude was present—
Alabama was largely represented. The
people were there from all the surround
ing conntry and every denomination,
participated in the services.
The crowd exceeds that attending all
oilier commencements at this place.
I give yon the following hasty synop
sis of Dr. Wills’ sermon, which was truly
one of the greatest efforts of this re
nowned and pions divine.
The subject was the adaptation of- Chris-
\tianiiy to the present condition of human
ynattcre.
This profound and important topic was
l discussed under two leading divisions.
1. Man is a religions being by creation.
The argument on which this central
proposition rests is threefold in its char
acter.
First, The repeated and luminous les
sons of scripture. Man was made in the
image of God, and the reference here is
obviously to a moral and intellectual re
semblance and not to a physical simili
tude.
Second, A rigid analysis of human
nature conducts ns to the same conclu-
• sion. The moral faculties of man lie at
I the foundation of the most sober and
brilliant phenomenon of his history. He
has a conscience which when left to its le
gitimate operations supports the authori-
I ty of the divine law, thunders forth its
condemnation against all sin and antici
pates the fearful retributions of eternity.
The deep and overflowing fountain of
the affections sends forth its crystal cur
rents over a wider sphere than the har
row circle of earthly relationships, uud
pours them into the bosom of the infi
nite and ever blessed God. It is os nat
ural for man to love as to breathe, and it
is only when he loves his Makor with all
his powere that his capacity for loving is
fully developed.
Thirdly, All the systems of religion, of
man’s devising, which are labelled in the
vast museum of history, testify that he
is a .religious animal by nature. The au
thor of the Consulate Empire has well
said: “ Man must worship at some altar,
whether it be venerable, blood-stained,
or degraded.” This fact appeal's in the
symbol-worship of ancient Egypt, the
tire-worship of ancient Persia, and the
SABBATH PULPIT REVIEW.
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star-worship of ancient Chaldea. It
looms up in the poetical mythology of
classic Greece, and in the magnificent
heraldry of old Rome; yea, tiaoes of this
trnth are discernable in those disgnsting
orgies which have cast a dark cloud over
the entire history of heathenism.
But why need we dwell upon this point
when tho whole paraphernalia of Paguu-
ism, its social features, its systems of
philosophy, its armorial bearings and na
tional monuments; yea, when its altar
fires blazing from a thousand hills, pro
claim that man is a roligious being in the
broadest import of the term.
Plutarch is the father of the noble
truth enshrined in these plain words:
“In travelling through the world you
may find cities without walls, without a
mint, without a theatre and a gymnasium,
but you shall never find one without an
altar, withoilt a sacrifice, and without, a
God.”
2. The r » l'wJmt Chris
tianity is the only religion which can meet
the minute and manifold exigencies of
human nature. This opens up n broader
. field of thought thau we are able to tra-
verse to-day; wo propose only to skirt the
bolder headlands of the subject Our
thonghts on this branch will be general
ized under four heads:
A. Christianity is the only system of
truth which reveals a personal God,
clothed with all the attributes of a perfect
being.
B. The pardon of sin is another great
and urgent want of man to which the
gospel of Jeeus Christ alone is adapted
A half-witted man used to go about the
streets of London singing the couplet,
“I am just nothing at all.
But Jess us Christ is all in aU.” .
These simple lines contain two of the
grandest truths of religion, and God
mode them instrumental in the conver
sion of this half-cracked character, who is
First Presbyterian Church, Rev. Jno. S.
Wilson, Pastor.
Text—“A companion cf fools shall be
destroyed.”—Prov. 13: 20.
There is an animal of the lizard kind
known by its power of changing its color
to that of any object on which it may be.
There is also an animal not of the saurian
or lizard kind, which also takes its color
from its associations, and that animal is
man. "
Fool” in Scripture means sinner, for
sin is folly. Our Saviour used the word
in the parable of the rich man, who had
not where to bestow his goods. Sinners
are fools in a higher degree than other
men. ' ,.
The doctrine of tho text is that he who
frequents the company of sinners will be
destroyed. The words of the text are
absolute, but they are to be taken ia
a qualified sense; for many associate with
sinners by necessity or for the purpose
of doing them good.
The companions of sinners, who have
come to an untimely end, can trace their
ruin to their associates. They are de
stroyed—not in time, but in eternity.
1st. When sinners become companion.-
they mutually assist each other in sin
ning. Men may have different views
when they are apart, but when they come
together they become of one mind, mere
ly by association and interchange of
views. Especially is this true of siuners.
Hence, State Prisons, as generally man
aged, are a curse instead of a blessing to
society. The young and inexperienced
criminals are thrown with the burd
ened, confirmed, and thus become more
depraved and hardened. The same
is true with regard to gaming tables,
iutemperence and lewdness. As there
are inventions in arts and scieuces, so
there are inventions in the practice of
sin, for hiding it from parents or magis
trates.
2d. Sinners encourage each other by
argument and. invitation.
"'We are especially apt to imitate sin.
Sinful companions encourage each other
by argument, flattery and ridicule. How
many youths of pious parentage are
laughed out of their good principles by
mocking companions. Sinners tell their
victims that the warnings of teachers and
parents are a bugbear.
3d. Sinners communicate their sin by
contagion. The body is more suscepti
ble to disease at some times than at
others; but the soul is, <rom its natural
pvoneness to sin, always ready to imbibe
the infection. You see a mob shouting
and raving, but you know not what has
assembled them. They themselves know
not why they are full of passion; but it is
from the principle of sympathy.
4th. Sinners exclude each other from
good company. He that walketli with
the good js wise, according to the first
part of the verse of the text. The wise
are the religious, and so the companions
of sinners cannot be wise.
The change from virtue to vice is grad
ual;' For instance, the drunkard learns
of his companions and then retires into
his closet or the social board to indulge.
He may drink much in private, but ho
learns in society with others.
With sinners the young victim learns
his first lessons of fraud. The cheat be
comes a thief.
Profaneness has its school and holds
its malignant dominion in the company
of sinners. With trembling lip and
aching heart, the young swearer utters
liis first oath—only when he has learned
to hold lightly the name of Jehovah
from the association with sinners.
The same is true of licentiousness.—
The society of the libertine causes the
feot of youth to leave the path of virtue
and taking hold of tho way3 of death
go down to hell. Like the Trojan youth
who gathered around the Grecian horse
with laughter and dancing, and hailed
with joy the very cause of their ruin, so
siuners treat as an object of contempt
tho very cause of their ruin. “ Fools
make a mock of sin.”
Better put a chain around your child
and keep him at home than to allow him
for these’ are ever variable, oscillating
like the branches before the wind.
These impulses, however, can be con-
troled by the exercise of determined, will
and sober reason. If impulse be superior
to will, n »t only no progress is made but
no work can be accomplished. . v . \
We dishonor ourselves by allowing in
clination to supersede duty. When the
bold discoverer of America was tossed
on a stormy ocean, his mind was racked
with doubts, but as the undercurrent of
that ocean moved onward -despite the
winds, so his own indomitable will car
ried him on, upheld by the religion of
his ancestors and the strength of his own
convictions.
The reformers of the sixteenth centu
ry exercised similar determination in
their battle against priestly wickedness
and their efforts to restore Christianity to
its primitive purity.
Luther was irre
sistible even against the power of Kings;
the consciousness of duty was even pres
ent with him, and through it smote his
enemies. He was strongly in earnest;
the Holy Ghost shed God’s love in his
heart, and opposition could not make him
turn aside. He had pnt his hand to the
plough and would not look back; had he
done so he would have failed to leave us
the legacy which we have from him, the
reformation—from which our present en
liglitenment is an outgrowth.
We, too, have pledged ourselves to the
covenant, and must; not be drawn back
by the dignity of our title and power of
Christian integrity; we ought to rise above
trifles. Too often do men unite with the
Church, not considering the importance
of their vows; then fall away—thereby
making others as well as themselves mis
erable.
May God help us to have courage and
resolution to continue faithful unto death,
and to lie down with the noble soldiers
of the cross, and with them ascribe all
honor and glory to the God of our salva
tion.
What in each, of you? “Nothing but
leaves. ”
3. Is his curse resting upon any here?
Are there blighted hearts, dead spirits,
emotionless souls, fruitless lives, severed
branches, withering, dying? ^
Are yon bearing the golden sheaves of
a bountiful harvest, or only chaff? Have
you precious fruits, or nothing but
leaves ?
■‘Ah I who shall thus the Master meet,
Bearing hut withered leaves?
Ahl who shall at the Savior’s feet.
Before the awful judgment seat,
Lay down for golden sheaves,
Nothing but leaves?
new a shining light in the chnrch of Mr. j to rnn abroad at nigbt or otherwise asso-
Spurgeon.
C. Christianity is preeminently a reli
gion of facts, and on this account it is
peculiarly adapted to all classes and con
ditions of mankind. “The Dairy
man’s Daughter," “The Young Cottager,”
•‘the African” whose characters have
been vividly portrayed by Legh Rich
mond, and who spent all their days amid
snes of poverty, obscurity and toil,
re as noble examples of piety as the
r sun ever beheld, and died as no mere
ilosopher ever died.
D. But tho eminent adaptation and ad-
ciute with the vile.
criug. In ordinary affairs we feel the
autoge of the Christian religion con- j great advantage of unwavering fidelity to
St. Phillip’s Church.-Pulpit filled by
Rev. S. J. Pinkerton.
Text—“Aw cf Jesus said unto him : Noma,
hiring put his hand to die plough and
tooling bad is ft for the kiujdoin of
God."’-—Luke ix: 62.
This language inculcates the absolute
necessity of looking forward, if we wish
to attain spiritual prosperity aud future
salvation. This is taught by the Apostle
whenever he saw the appearance of wav-
FlRST BAPTIST CHURCH—REV. E. W. WARREN,
PASTOR.
Text—And when he saw a Jig tree in the
way, he came to it, and found nothing
thereon but leaves only, and said unto it,
‘ Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward
forever. And presently theji6 tree withered
11 may.—Matt. 21:19.
On the day before this miracle, Christ
had enjoyed a grand triumphal march
into the “City of the Great King.” The
multitude spread their garments, and
cast palm branches on the way, and cried
hosannah to the Son of David ; blessed
is He that cometh in the name of the
Lord; hosannah in the highest.” He
cast out from the temple all those who
had made His Father’s house “ a den of
thieves.” As he healed the blind and
lame—the children who beheld these
good works echoed the shout of the
multitude, “Hosannah to the Son
of David.” On the next morning
before breakfast, as He returned to the
city, from tbe hospitable home of Laza
rus, where He had spent a night of quiet
repose ; He saw one fig tree by the way-
side, clothed with foliage. Although “the
time of figs was not yet.” Still as a man,
He had the right to expect fruit, because
there were leaves—for the two always
grew together. Finding the tree had pnt
forth the pretensions of fruit, without
meeting the expectations awakened there
by, He pronounced a curse upon it,
Among all the miracles of Christ, this,
upon an inanimate object, is the only one
characterized by any degree of severity
and yet, this is the most brilliant display
of mercy found among His wonderful
works. It is the bell of warning, hung
upon the rock of death, and constantly
rung by the waves of time, sounding out
in the ears of every mariner, “Be what
you profess.”
This tree is symbolical of
1 The Jewish nation. It professed to
hold in reverence, all the sacred treasures
of Godliness, but when search was made
by the “King of the Jews,” He found
chaff for wheat, and dross for gold. His
curse rests upon it yet.
2. The Pharisees.
They were the religious teachers; invi
ted the people to learn of them and fol
low their examples. Their professions
were so far ahead of Christ that they ut
terly rejected his pretensions and princi
ples. But they had only the form, not
the power of godliness; the shadow, with
out the substance.
3. Church members of the present day.
We say, by our profession, “We are
the light of the world;” does it “see our
good works ?” “We are the salt of the
earth;” does it feel our savory influence?
“We are witnesses for Christ;” do we
commend Him by the evidence we bear?
“We are his by the purchase of his
blood;” are we really and in practice his,
or do we serve ourselves ?
4. The unregenerate.
Yen profess to fear God, does your life
prove it? to reverence religion, but do
you embrace it ? Why reject that which j
you reverence ? To believe
then why withhold your heart and life
service ?
CHRISTIAN CHURCH—HUNTER STREET—REV.
T. M. HARRIS, PASTOR.
Text—“Arad ye are complete in Him.”
—ColL 11, 10.
«*/ can do dll things through Christ, which
strengtheneth me.”—Phillipians 4, 13.
The lesson taught is-the weakness of
humanity and the strength of Christi
anity. The weakness of the natural man
—the power of the spiritual man.—
Strength in weakness. From this we
evolve two points.
1st Human weakness—or the Natural
man.
2d. Spiritual power—or the New man.
The view taken of human weakness in
matters of spiritual or religious life, is
that we are completely powerless, that it
would require as great a miracle as the
resurrection of Jesus from the dead
to enable man to do anything
acceptable to God. It is urged that he
is “dead in trespass and in sin;” that he
has no more power to do one spiritual act
than a body dead has to perform a phys
ical act; that he might live in the very
blaze of gospel light, at the feet of the
living ministry, in the congregation of
the saints; but except he be quickened by
the Spirit of the Living God, he would
live and die; and never experience one
single spiritual emotion—no more than a
corpse could feel the motion of life in it.
Every conversion is considered a miracle
as great as raising the dead; greater even,
as the soul is greater than the body.
SCRIPTURE VIEW OF THE NATURAL MAN.
“ When we were* without strength in
due time Christ died for the ungodly.”
You hath he quickened who were dead
in trespasses and in sin.
At that time ye were without Christ,
being aliens from the commonwealth of
Israel and strangers from the covenant of
promise, having no hope and without God
in the world.
By the offence of.one man judgment
came upon all men to condemnation.
This is the dark .picture.
He is weak, ungodly, a sinner, an alien,
an enemy under condemnation, dead in
trespass and in sin, without hope and
without God in the world. Yet to such
the apostle preached the Gospel; they
were able to believe and obey, and of
such he said, “And ye are complete in
Him.” -
Of these very men he said, “Christ is
made unto you wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification and redemption.” I can
»t in the fact that it is the trnel
y and solace of man in the dark j
of adversity and ia the awful hum' of
any plan whatsoever; still more is this
ii. cessaiy in Christian da ties. There can
U
do all things through Christ which
strengtheneth me.
How is it that these men, once dead,
now stand complete in Christ, lacking
nothing.
First. “He is in Christ.”
Second. “Christ strengtheneth him. 1
He heard the word—trusted—obeyed-
was baptised into Christ—put on Christ
—is complete in him—can do all things
through Christ.
’Tis first necessary to be in Christ—
adopted into the divine family—to have
in him the power of endless life.
His former state, as compared with
this, is as the idiot compared to the man.
The idiot is a blank—no progression, no
advance forever ;.the man has in him
eternal capabilities and an endless pro
gression.
Th^jfiatural man is to spiritual life a
blank/no advance, no progression. But
the new man in Christ Jesus, is a true,
living force, a fearful power carreering on
its way to eternity ; growing, radiating,
expanding, forever approximating the
glorious excellency of God.
The coarse of the natural man is down
ward, increased by accumulating gravita
tion ; the new man in Christ Jesus, in
the world, yet living above it, say without
blasphemous presumption, “I can do all
things through Christ which strength
eneth me.”
Satan has a kingdom and its ordinan
ces; and men, by waiting upon these, be
come the “rulers of the darkness or
wickedness of this world.” It is by vis
iting the ball room, the theatre, the card
table, the bar room and- other nameless
places of infamy, that men become adap
ted to crime. The devil does not impart
to them in any other way his devilish na
ture; but by practicing these they can at
last say, with blasphemous boldness, “I
can do anything that is wicked.” You
have seen such men, and you will become
such if yon continue to walk in the devil’s
commandments and ordinances.
Christ has his ordinances, by observing
which we grow in grace daily until we ar
rive at the stature of perfect men
Christ Jesus. Among these are secret
prayer, family worship, religious associa
tions aud conversation; reading the word
of God; exhorting one another, and the
Lord’s supper. If we will walk in these
commandments and ordinances blameless
we shall stand complete in him, lacking
nothing, and say with Paul, “I can do
all things.”
What are'all things? Not to make a
new world, or a new star in the Heavens,
or remove the course of nature, but to
do all things that God requires ; believe
all things; endure all things; perform
aU things that God requires, looking,
duty full in the face. Then we can say
with holy boldness, as if girt about with
omnipotent power, “ I can do all things
through Christ which strengthenth me.’’
' REFLECTIONS.
1. We will be judged by our works, not
by our professions. The five.foolish vir-
From the Americas Republican, 7th.
. , A Preston correspondent says.—
incimst; There is growing on the plantation
and hfc 0 f p ro fes S or Windsor, in this county,
a single stalk of com bearing one
hundred silks and shoots! There
are twelve of the former, all of which
look as though they will produce
gins professed quite as much as the wise eori b and many of the latter 4t is
ones, but were shut out from heaven. thought will do the same thing. The
Those who say, “Lord, Lord, open unto I latest ^counts from the crops of this
ns,’’profess more than the loving disciples ' P 11 ^ o raSa thr. ahead, and many
r -’ ot the tanners ready to give up the
contest. Some of them have quit
their cotton and turned their atten
bat will fail of an entrance into the house
of the blessed.
9 Christ has a right to expect fruit
From tbe Cincinnati Commoner, July 1.
The Manager’s Carnival.
In many of the so-called Demo
cratic States of the North, the mana
gers of the party-caucus insist on
bothering people with their protesta
tions, not against, but in favor of the
so-called New Departure. Having the
party-bugle—the noise-making, as dis
tinguished from the thinking instru
ment—in their hands, they echo and
re-echo one another all around the
horizon. It reminds one who has
travelled in Europe of the twilight
concert of the country jackasses.—
These inexpensive little beasts of bur
den, so much given to inharmonious
vocalization, hold forth, principally at
the sun-setting, or rather between
that and night-fall—the labors of the
day being over, and the evening meal
duly dispatched. Then come leisure
for all the harmonies of the asinine
orchestra; the spasm of sound soon
commences, and challenges attention
from all created things for its hour, to
the silencing of every other noise,
even the shrul scream of the locomo
tive. First, some speedy feeder, who
has bolted his beans and hay, begins.
He is slow and faint at first; but
soon ascends to loftier and mightier
notes. Tbe air shakes with tbe vibra
tions ; but before the highest point is
reached, list! another ass emuluous
or wanton from the fullness of his
stomach, chimes in with his sweet
and variant voice. Then, lo! anoth
er, and down the horizon another, on
its verge another, and still another,
till the discourse becomes so perfect
ly frightful that human ears are all
too weak for the trial, and can not
bear it at the moment nor bear to re
call the infliction, till both time and
distance have made amends for such
a strain upon patience-and endur
ance. Any one, especially a stranger,
can never forget this furious smiting
of the air; it has no parallel in the
round of nature. The authors of it
do not suffer from it; nay, they are
not only equal to it, but they take a
daily pleasure in it; deserve to be as
they are, not only asses themselves,
but the progenitors of asses for gene
rations.
We are reminded of this rustic dis
play every few days by the idle reso
nance of the caucus declarations in
our own and mightier States, as one
after another they plunge into the
cheat pasture, now known and exe
crated of all good men, called the
New Departure, which was started a
month ago at the St. Nicholas, in this
city, by Mr. Vailandigham.
It has a most uncertain, most dis
cordant, in brief, a perfectly asinine
sound, which intelligent men loathe
and detest from the bottom of their
hearts. The echo has gone at last to
the jumping-off place—that is, to
Augusta, in the State of Maine, where
five hundred of the Democratic man
agers were assembled on Tuesday to
go through the sinister- perform
ance. These harlequins resolve first
and last, on burying old issues out of
sight, on addressing themselves to the
living issues of the hour, on deter
mining these latter by the living prin
ciples of Democracy—and as a sequel
according to the fathers. Now, the
old issue was and it is between the
limited powers of the Federal Gov
ernment and its utter despotism—in
one word, its right to fix the line of
division between the delegated and
the reserved powers according to its
own will and pleasure, or what is still
more descriptive, according to its own
interest—that is to say, the pecuniary
and other profit of the people’s ser
vants who conduct Federal affairs, but
who are bent upon making it high
life below stairs, not for themselves,
but for the masters of the house,
while they hold high carnival above.
It is the most repulsive thing in
the world to behold this official Demo
cratic (?) sound and fury signifying
nothing, repeated by five to six hun
ched fellows in each State, for their
own miserable purposes. It does not
signify anything to them whether the
mass of the poor are roasted alive at
the stake by the slow process of tax
depletion and caloric, which con
sumes them and their families, or not.
They themselves hold that the masses
have no intelligence and no character;
but that from, a mere fitfulness of
change, they will run after something
new, and the more superficial the
better. Consequently they propose
to overlook the difference of races,
and violate the letter and spirit of the
constitutional protection which the
States gave themselves in their solemn
mutual compact, and more than that,
to forgive—to condone the outrages
called amendments, so that they, the
managers, shall in their turn wield
despotic powers. They want to in
terpret the constitution liberally, to
give Congress absolute power; such
as has been exercised by Stevens and
Butler, with their own noble selves
for administrators. And then, they
are going to be so very abstemious,
not to say virtuous, in the role of
tyrants. They will rival the Dutch
ladies who came over with George I.
from Hanover to rule England with
out any constitution, written or
otherwise. Dutchess Killmansegge
vowed publicly to the unbelieving
sailors and laborers about the dock
where she landed that she and her
friends came over from Europe for
the good of the British people. She
said in her nearest approach to the
vernacular, “We come for your goods,”
which the crowd taking advantage of,
improved so as to fully express the
idea, “Yes, by G—, for our goods
and—and chattels, too,” which the
five hundred Maine Democrats say
that they recognize their binding ob
ligation to the existing Constitution
of the United States; and they de
nounce the means by which the same
became the-supreme law of the land,
but it is not likely to be literally true.
The Vicars of Bray, in California, as
we write, send their pacific but stupid
echo from other five hundred throats
across the continent, so that shallow
answers shallow; as formerly, “deep
unto deep.”
Now, we hold it for certain, or we
should despair of the republic and of
free institutions, that the Maine con
vention nor the Ohio convention, nor
any of the other false-departure con
ventions, express the opinion of their
respective peoples. They have each
trimmed the party sail to the popular
wind; they essay-popularity, and try
to catch the breeze; but the constit
uents will not lend themselves to the
cheat.
In Ohio, there will be a light vote,
for the tme Democrrcy contains hun
dreds and thousands who adhere to
the old issue, and who will not be
used for the personal advancement of
candidates, if there were anything to
choose between them, as there is not.
They .go to the polls as they take an
oath in the court-house; at least they
will not call on the most solemn
sanctions to enable them to profit by
a more deliberate lie. They Enow the
amendments are the result of fraud,
of duress, of force, of precipitation
and the absence of good faith. They
know that they are fatal to the whole
constitutional system, by inviting the
mailed hand of Congress and its gen
erals, and the sword of the President,
now made the armed interpreter of
their acts, into the very heart of the
States. They do not want to be as
sured fidelity and good works by such
models of patriotism as will be ad
vanced by military means to the sa
cred places of trust for good, and
wise civil rulers. It is a most fantas
tic, and we repeat it, almost asinine
exhibition for us to make, all over the
•North in the rotten aud debauched
assemblies, called State Conventions,
which, in the interest, and at the
beck and nod of County Court At
torneys, proclaim cemetery honors
for the vitals of the Federal com
pact.
Of another thing, we may feel as
sured, viz: That no Democrat can
possibly be elected President unless
he have every vote of every State
South of the Ohio river; and the
New Departure candidate, whoever
he is, will not be,able to count on the
first one of them all. Let the asses
to the otjjer asses bray.
*
From the Chattooga Advertiser.
The corn crop is how the foriom
hope of our people. The wheat crop
which was early and very promising
as we thought in the spring, was al
most An entire failure. The rains
always unfavorable to wheat, came
just at the season of the spring to
make certain the rust and a failure of
the crop. Our farmers are about now
to begin threshing, and it is supposed
that the majority of them will not
get more than their seed back. But
for the beautitnl crop of last year,
much of the present crop yet in the
field would have been threshed and
consumed, but thanks to the good
one, we have some old wheat and corn
with which to lighten this calamity.
Our oats are poor indeed. They are
tall and the acres yield an abundance
of straw, but no grain. The rust
destroyed many whole fields. Many
farmers, usually thrifty and well up
with their work, are, to use their
words, “badly in the grass.” Some
have abandoned whole fields rather
than undertake to clear them of
grass. Cotton is mostly the crop left
to go, be it said to the good sense of
our people.
From the Columbus Sun 7th.
Work as planters will, they cannot
get grass out of cotton. Good show
ers have fallen every day of this week.
On the river, plantation laborers are
being hired at the rate of 75c. and
$1 per day, and still the grass holds
the ascendancy. The prospect of a
quarter of a dollar per pound does
uot kill it very .fast. On the uplands
crops are passably clean but the pres
ent weather helps the grass more
than cotton. The crop is several
weeks backward. Here it is July and
we hear farmers showing cotton
blooms as curiosities. This report is
general throughout this section. Com
has suffered much, but there will be
a large yield. It can be hurt but lit
tle now.
From the Constitutionalist, 7th.
Twi of our citizens who have had
much experience in watching the
growth qf cotton for many years,
have just returned from Charlotte,
N. C., and they report that the pros
pect in regard to the growing crop is
very gloomy. The stand is only fair,
the crop generally overrun with grass,
and the plant much smaller than is
usual at this time of the year. The
wheat and oat crop is almost a fail
ure, but the com looks remarkably
well, and much more has been plant
ed this than any other year since the
war.
From the Valdosta Times.
Crops in this section are unusually ; .,,
poor. We stated some time ago that
they were then more prosperous than
had been. Since that time it has
been raining almost continually.—
Ihere will be probably as.much com
made as last year, there having been
so much more planted; but the cot
ton crop will not be more than one-
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