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About Rockdale register. (Conyers, Ga.) 1874-1877 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1876)
Vol. 3. ETHAT. THE FRESCH CAMP AT RATISOS. -You know we French stonuol Rati ion, A mile or so nw.ty ,On a little mound Napoleon '’toed on our storming (lay, With nick outthrust, you fancy how, V.. S( js wile, nrtui locked behind, As if to balance the prone brow, Oppressive with his mind. Just .as he mused, “n y plans That soar, to earth may fall; Let once my army lea ler Lannos Waver at yonder wall”— Out twixt the battery smoke there fiew A rider bound on bound. Full galloping, nor bridle drew Until lie reached tho mound. Th*n off there flung in smiling joy, And held himself erect Ily just his horse’s name, a boy You hardly could suspect— , (So tight ne held his lips compressed Scarce any hlood can e through) You looked twice ere you saw his breast Was all hut shot in two. "Well,” cried he, "Emperor, by God’s grace, We’ vq got you Uatisbon 1 The marshal’s in the market plaoe, And you’ll be,there, anon, To see your flilg-bird flap his vans, Where I to heart’s desire, Perched him !” Tho chief’s eyes flashed, his plans. Soared up again like fire. The chief's eyes flashed, but pre sent’.y Softened itself, as sheathes A film the mother eagle’s eye When her bruised eaglet breathes j "You’re are wounded 1” “Nay,” his soldier’s pride Touched to the quick, he said: “I’m killed, sire !” and his chief besile, Smiling, tho boy fell dead. — R. Browninig. ~~ tan 3®'if!!. AH 7. ' nILL ami YANCEY. Geo. Alfred Townsend, in his Wash ington letter to the New York Graphic describing the exciting debate in the llouso on the amnesty bill, between Blaine, ot Maine, and Hill, of Georgia, s ates that the latter was “a rebel Senator at the Richmond capital, and struck Yan cey on the back ot tho head with an ink stand.” Asa historian—and Mr. Town send, we believe, aspires to that distinc" tion, with the late Mr. Macaulay as his model—it is well to be activate. A mem orable rencontre betwe n Ilill and Yan cey did occur at the Richmond capital, but the wound received by Yancey was not froiii an inkstand. We remember that shortly after the war it was mention ~,| as a .Tiistorial fact that Win. L. Yan Cey came Vo bis end by violence. The cite instance of his last ilinefs and death, with tho occasion which su'd lenly convulsed a frame from perfect health into a wreck and mere shadow, were written and fiiT.t published in tics city by Mr. Henry VVatsdiV, then a member ot the Nashville press. According to this first published account of it, it was toward the close of the second session ot the first Confederate Congress that Yam cey broke from the counsels and influence of Mr. Davis, and become, with Henry S. Foote, a leader of the opposi ion. Mr Ben. liill, then Senator from Georgia, Fad likewise changed his front, and was letr.arkable for the earnest ness, personal interest and persistency with which he sustained the measures of an administration to which his allegi ance had been given but late in the day. Mr. Yancey, it will be remeti bered, had returned from an unsuccessful m'ssioti to Europe, and was representing Alabama in the Confederate Senate. The ques tion of a navy \Vas under discussion in secret session. The debate ranged be yond parliamentary limits, and Messrs. Yancey and Hill became animated over the abstract doctrines of State Rights and the divinity ot slavery. High words passed and finally the lie was given by Mr. Hill. Mr. Yancey leaped forward, and as he aimed a blow at his adversary, was caught in the arms of the latter and violently thrown back over a desk. Mr. Hill is a man ot wonderful muscular development. Mr. Yancey was never very heavy, though lithe and active. In the fall his spine was deiidilsly - injured and when the bystaii'defi lushed upon the two, and drdgged the one from the other, the great fire eater lay uncon scious upon the floor, with a little trickle of blood oozing from his lips. He was carried to his hotel, a vote of secresy was passed,,and the reconlre hushed up. No one in RicHfiiond, except that body of men, knew of tile Circumstances for six months after. Meanwhile the Victim did not recover. He droop" ed from day to day. 113 became listless, hopeless and vacant. He was transferred to his own home where Ills convulsions ceased a few weeks be fore his death, which was tranquil and baltlf. He died with a hope of the suc cess of the Sbuthern Republic be had aspired to found ar.d govern, and fo.i which lie had labored day andjiight for twenty-five years.—[Nashville Ameican. Wlio is the Murderer ? Mr. Janies T. Fields visited Pomeioy, the boy murderer, in his jail and learned from him that he had been a great reader oi bl< 01-and-thunder stories. lie had read sixty dime novels, and about sea ! p-> !ng and other bloody performances, and he had no doubt these books had put the horrible thoughts into his mind which led to his murderous acts. hor a long time past we have not read a paragraph more calculated to awaken sad and serious retleetions than the above quoted. The boy was found guilty ot atrocious murde-s, and the law oi the land dnly condemned and will ex ecute him. The effect has been removed not the couse rdso t I s tfa e m ., n ■rto voluntarily CONYERS, GEORGIA: THimSBAY. .JANUARY 37, 1876. whose exhaltations will poigoii (lie surrounding atmosphere and cause stupor and death, responsible for these dep’orablc effects or not t Is the wretch who po'sons as well responsible for the sickness and death of those unfortunate individuals who, using the tainted water, are destroyed by it f By parity of rea soning—to continue our metaphor—it seems to us that the parties who planted the upas tree of licentious “blood-and thunder” literature in tie fertile heart soil of this poor boy, are equally re sponsible'; ana the wretches who pois oned the we}| of his thoughts, with the demoniacal defections, brewed in their own vile brains, tainting the clear waters which may originally have welled there, with the deadly virus of “dime novels,” should, he considered the prime influenc ing causes which led to the deplorable effects for winch the boy is to be hung. Are these not in essence participators of his crime ? Will not tile great Judge at the bar of heaven, when the record book of divine justice shall be promulgated, so rule ? Wo to those who shall tremble and sink under the annihilating verdict, Mt who now flourish as a green bay tree, by reason 6f the, poison fruits they are now cultivating at the expense , of the souls of the youth of our land. Ex Governor and ex-U. S. Senator, Henry S. Fqotc, Dr Sam. Bard, of At lanta, Ga., and Col. Mosby, of Virginia, are all out iri favor fif Ulysses S. Grant for a third term. ■ —•-- .. ♦ ■ ■ ■ Widow Van Cott is a strong minded revivalist. She opened one of her revi val meetings in Newark, N. J., last week by saying: “I don’t care at all what people siy or think about me; I’d just as soon you’d think lam a devil as an angel. lam pining tor souls.’’ Mas. Tii.ton’s Cn i-*tmas. —Correspon- dence Chicago Tribune: Mrs. Tilton spent a sad New Year. Her husband returned a few days before from his suc cessful Western tour, and Alice, had not called upon their mother. Florence, the elder, now a dignified and self reliant yotlng women was quite disinclined to do so', hut Mr. Tilton, it is said urged that her mother would miss the cal sand attentions she had been accustomed to receive, and the daughters at last started off in a carnage, with two honquo’s for tui- mo her. Arrived : t the door, they sent up their names and bouquets,and an affectionate note, with the sa’utations of the new year, and asked to be admit ted. The servant quickly brought, back the boquets and the note unopened with the message that Mrs. Tilton did not wish to see them or recuve anything at their hand ! It seems almost incredible that a sane mothei could repulse her children finder such circumstances’, and the question now arises', What influences suround Mrs. Tilton lo prodfico such a resu 11? A “Pfitne’- IlMistro tioii of the Hard Times. Fayetteville (N. 0.) Express.] The other day, while we were sitting in our office, g ; ving way to gloomy re flections, and trying to fix the time when Congress would adopt a generous system of inflation and line the pockets of the indigent multitude with greenbacks, the door opened and in stalked an old dar key whose general appearances was well calculated to excite other dismal fore bodino's. He wore on his head a miser able scrap of a hat, with a yawning gap in ihe crown, through which his dingy kinks peeped timidly'. His coat was threadbare aud badly out at the elbows ; a ragged pair of pantaloons, worn through at the knees and shredded at the ankles, afforded a poor covering tor his slim and weather-beaten limbs, and a pair of badly wrecked brogaus, burst out at the toes and revealing two for midable rows of corns, some of w i;h were quiet as large as door knobs, en cased his mammoth feet, lie walked slowly and painfully to the stove, aud.as he drew the back ot his right hand across his nose and gave a wet snnftie, we noticed that a large carpenter’s plane wa* fondly encircled by his left arm. We nodded but said n< t a word, for pity, excited by his woe-be.;one aspect chained our tongue. Silence reigned supreme for a few moments, but it was iiaetured at last by our venerable color ed visitor : “Dese here is powerful hard times we’se having, boss.” We smiled approvingly and observed that the age was indeed indurated. “Dat’s a fak, buss —’tissho. I nebber seed de like. Dare’s no money in de country, boss. Cotton’s done failed, ’ chickens has gie out, walnut ain’t wutt ( nuffin, de banks has shet down on us b znessmon, and ef de Continental Con gress at Washington don’t do stiftiu, damfi don’t believe dare’ll be a general bustificalion." Here he drew the back of his hand across his weeping nose, and wiped the moisture on the seat of his b e ches. We sighed, and he oontinued : “Dur ain’t no money out ob de banks, and I tell you what it, is, boss, de batiks went lend a feller a cent, it he has to gib de augel Gabriel as kyiatteral. I'se tried it, boss, I has. Do you see dis here We told him that the useful tool to which he alluded was attracting our gaze. ! “Well, boss, I took dis’ here plane— dis fust class plane—dis plane dat I hab nebber trusted in nobody’s hands—l took dis here plane and tramped into the Fust Nashlttin Bank and ofleiedto let them keep it as a kylatierul et day would lend me a dollar and a half. I did boss, sho, and what and > you reckon be bloated bondho'der dat stands behind de desk said wlnm he seen dat plane? ’ We gave it up. ‘•\N ell, boss, he just lusted his nose, pinted to the door, and said : ‘(fit out oh here wM your dam ky latteral."’ “Well, what did you then, uncle?” we inquired. “Well, boss, I jest biled oceans high wid iniquity, without mating any fuss wtiff talking about, and I got. What am de country coinin’ to, boss, when do banks turn up dare noses at ky latteral like dat plane. Dat’s what I want to know. Gimme me a chew of plug, boss.” , . We gave him a chew of tobacco - , and lie went on. “Now, boss, I'm a gin, dose .here luuißank.s fust, last and all de time, and 1 want you to put in de paper dat I lias jined do noble army dat’s gwine to weed 'em up. Jest set down, boss, and ef you don’t think dese here bondholders is running de country jest look at dis here plane.” Wo “set down” his remarks and lie departed, leaving us to ponder over the wickedness of national banks, and their obstinacy in rejecting first class “kylut teral.” A Warning To Editors. Carruth, the editor of a weekly jour nal in the village of Vineland, N. J., wrote and pub'isbed an article ridiculing one Landis&nd hi wjfe, reside nts of the same place. This offence, coining upon the heels of several others of a similar nature, induced Landis, who appears not to have had a lalnblike disposition ai any time, to call with his pistol at Car ruth's office and shiot him through the brains. Now the warning we educe fioni this affair, and counsel the editorial traterni tv to profit by, wc do not find in the foregoing facts, but in what fol owed. We believe that no respeca i'e jour nalist needs to be reminded by any such example that it ii always a sorry use of his pen to lampoon and deride a man who is not a public culprit. Even then it is a questionable libeity. But wine a journalist attacks a man’s wife as well as himself, and wantonly makes her the sport of his vulgarity for the pull c’s amusement, the offence ii so rank that tew men of education and none ot good breeding, would lower theiiisel/es to commit it, or think any punishment too severe lor those who do. The warning we find comes as follows The ball froni the pistol of Landis penetrated Oarrnth’s skull and lodged in his brain. Carruth fell as if dead, an I then the doctors came in. Three of them. They thrust their fingers in the orifice through which the brain was doting, and felt the ball imbedded hat' ati inch within. They tlien applied their probes and made divers punctures in the brain lar below and away from the bu 1 - let, apparcn'ly under the idea that tin ir subject was a dead man, and that Ids brain was as vulnerable as Ids leg. But Carruth was not dead. He re vived and lived tor months in middling health and streng.h. When he did die which happened a short time ago— his death was actual. A post mortem examination proved tbaf the bullet was enclosed in a membrane formed around it, protecting the brain from injury, and that the wounds from the doctor's probe had mortified and caused the man’s death. So it was not Landis, the man who shot Carruth, but the doctors, the men who attended Carruth who killed him. Landis may hang for it, but it was the doctors who did it. A l>efensc of Davis. In reply to Mr. Maine lion. T. L, Jones, of Kentucky', said : Jefferson Davis, sir, was born in Ken tucky. She cherished her son in the days of his early manhood, and she will not now, in the gioomy evening of his checkered life, disown or dishonor him He bore an honored name in this Re public before the days of secession. He portrayed its eloquence and its courage in the cbthicll and in the field. He spoke and fought and bled for his country s glory, ot whoh you are so justly proud. He was one ot the greatest ministers ol war the Republic ever had, and it was his clarion voice and noble bearing that inspired his Mississippi riflemen with the daring courage to drive the furious charge at Buena Vista, which, as it were snatched victory from defeat,’ arid crown ed the American arms wi h one of the greatest battles ot the world. He stood at his place in the other Chamber of tills Capitol, a great and honored Sena tor, and mourned almost in tears his de parture from those walls. But his Slate commanded and he felt bound to obey. The world knows his after-life, and the world at large respects him. He has expiated in your dungeons, in chains, and by all manner ot degradation at tempted upon him, his own offenses and those ot his people ; and now. although bereft of fortune, bis eye dimmed, and his head bov\ dd by age, still bearing bravely, up, loyal to the old flag for which he once fought so nobly—-doing all he can to instruct aud enlighten our people, to develope the resources and to promote the wealth aud the fame of our common oountry. la there no mercy left for him ? Has the gentleman from' Maine read history in vain, and has he no forecast of the fu ture f Let him remember the noble acts of noble conquerors to the conquer ed through ail time j let him remoitfber the civil wars, tho rebellions, if you please, oil the continent of civilized Eu rope, and ho will find that the great names on both sides are treasured up in the minds and hearts of future genera tions, a common heritage to a common people. Arc not the trainee of Ciesar and Poinpev honored nl'kc bv the de scending ages (f Home? Are not the Legitimists and the i’retendeis, the Bourbons and the Bonapartes held in common renown by all Frenchmen? Aid the Round Heads and the Caval iers, Cromwell and Charles, honored alike bv all Englishmen ? Tret me tell tho gout email that the timo wi'l come, perhaps near at hand, when the names of Grartj and Sherman, and Sheridan, and Lee, ami Jackson, and Breokenridge , —yea, sir, ol the rpaitvred Lincoln, and tho now insulted Jjff-rson Davis—will be read with commqt), pride ad com mon respect by the Aineiicah youth, and the last may be honored as much as the first? Such is history and such the na ture and character ot man. I sp< ak thus inpn invidious sense or with sees tional feel'nlgt ,1 hive my whole coun try. Thank God, sir, there are no Alle ghanies, no I’otomacs, or dividing lines in my politics. 1 yield to ,none in ap preciation of thy coin moo gl.ury ot pny country, and in meting out ample prai.se and justice to all its heroes and all its people. I pray you, sir, let us take our lessons from the soirit and preaching of the Div ine Master. II is mercy and love ex tended to all, from the good Mqry to the wretched Magdalene, from the be* loved disc pie to the Jew ot Tarns. Why, the gentleman from Maine wuiild have had the Christ to have rejected Paul because lie hud been the chief of siime”S, and yet lie did most and best to promote the gre ituess and glory of his once persecuted Lord. 1 implore the gentleman, in the, name of charity, in the name of peace, ana harmony m this blessed year ot dtlr history', in the name of patriotism and union, to strike irotn his substitute the invidious exception, that it may be no more read by hutnrn eyes. Let our amnesty be as broad and Iree as the air we breathe ; like the mercy ol God, let it be lor all. Sleeping In Church. Some pious and practical person has suggested the following remedy for sleeping in church : I Lift the foot seven inches from the floor, and hold it in suspense without support for the linib and repeal the rem edy if the attack returns. The Courier Journal offers a substitute much more efficacious t Attach a pin perpendicular ly to life end of a whalebone six inches long. Bure a small hole through the seat of the pew, and’fasten the other end of the whalebone to t4ie under side of the seat, exactly six inches from the hole and so that the fixed end will lie near the back edge of the seat, and the whale bbrie perpendicular thereto. Fasten a string to the whalebone ( near the pin, anil pass jl through a hole in the back pf the petv Under the seat, then carry it up over the bflek of the pew and tie it se curely round the head just over the eye brows. The advantage of this arrange ment over the cne suggested above is that it is self-acting. A front nod nil i till the string ami pull back the elastic whrlebone, aud then the sudden back nod which is sure to follow, will release the whalebone, it will spring hack, thrust the pin through the hole in the seat, and the purpose designed will he accomplished. It the nap is introduced hya'back nod it will not start the ma chinery, but it will give greater impulse to the succeeding front nod and thus give more lively action to the spring. A thorough waking up is guaranteed by the third nod al farthest! Washington ladies evidently do not al low the hard times to interfere with their desire for dress fer the >Siar says of them : “It is uriiversa ly the subject ot remark that the dressing this season is more magnificent than has ever been the case before !n Washington. The harder times the greater the picking and stealing in Washington. * * Paying Small Debts. As an appropriate sequel to some pre vious suggestions to creditors to exer cise leniency to the debtor e’ass in times of monetary stringen -.y, (says the Nash ville American,) the occasion is oppor tune to suggest to those who ove small amounts hero and there to settle them as far as in their pow er lies. To reduce the number of small debts one owes by the payment of no rifore tlfaii pncq.is in some sense a public benefit. Ouw dohar will in a day pay a hundred dollars of indebtedness, unloss it should stick some where in the circuit. A gmeral pay ment of petty accounts would be a healthy revival to ins ltute tor the turn ing ot the year. The more limited the circulation the more urgent the necessity that it shouid circulate. The payment ot mwy small debts renders possible the payment of large debts. “Many a mickle make a in tickle, ’ says the Scotch proverb. People shou'd not find salve lor their consciences in the reflietion that their small and .-bts are so insigi/iffsant tiey wi 1 not be missed. All who can 'pay ought to pay, and pay their small debts first. The luxury of getting out debt at the r. to of a dollar at a tme ought to compensate tor dispensing with a luxury or an extravagance here and there, in order to be enabled to pay out that niifch. The small debt >rs could actually exert an influence that would be goni rally beneficial, if so inclined. It Ta a good season for everybody to begin 1 getting eUt of debt. Mr. Charles Nonlhoffs letters from the South last summer to the Herald, have been revised and reproduced in hook form by the Appletons. Mr. Nord huff addresses them tithe President in a pungent little dedication, assuming that if he had been ill le to give as much at tention to affairs at the South in 1871-3 as he did in- 48(55, there can he no doubt that his so- them policy would have been very different. Mr. Nordliotf is one o! our most ypnscien'ious and capable ob servers. v 110 wrote only what he honest, !y believed,, and the conclusions with which he enriclicij the present volume, drawn from ..the whole scope ot hia-ob ser.Valions in the Cotton states, have a po'itieal significance which both parties, lint, especially the Republicans, vvou'd find it profitable to study. Some ot I these conclusions are. that there is not in any of the tfia'.es any desire foi* anew war, or any hostility to the Union ; If.u-it J Sou'hern Kepub'ie ms are uiireas 'inanle | ii complaining that the whites do not rejoice nv r their and leaf, and that they still admire their own leaders: that the ostracism l of l Northern men means the ostracism ot corrupt man. and those who make common political cause with them; that there is intimidation on both sides; that tluro are no wrongs now in the South, which ihe interference o*t the Fc 1 end (Aoyermnent can correct ; that those States which have been under Repu,(di em control have been shamelessly mis managed, while Georgia, which has been ruled by Democrats, has beau well managed ; t hat in Georg a the negroes own more real estate, and pay more tax is, on uiore prop* rty, than in any other Southern state - that, getiaral, nint\ly)od suffrage is a danger to any community, wnere the entire body ot ignorance and (loverly bus been massed by adroit poi liria'ts on one side, and that, when Fed eral interference at the South ceases, thr negro vote will fall off lrotii natural causes. The disposition oti the part of a few members ot some ot the Sou.hern State Legislatures to decline the invitations to participate in the Centennial Exposition is generally deprecated by the Southern press, Referring to the same feeling i.i Congress, Ti ie Baltimore Gazelle says : T ie Southern U p'eseiilativ.' i t Congress will make a great and grave blundet if they vote against the Centennial ap propriation because of the outrageous speeches of Mr. James G. lilai.i -. to | j ursiie that policy wot Id be the thing of all things that Mr. Blaine would desire Mr. Biaitic, in his late iinchrist.ain un patriot c and un-American outburst of ferocity toward the South does not repre sent the great, magnamiinousj chivalrous North, lie does not represent even a majority of his own party, as the oriti cisms ot the more thoughtful and inde pendent Republcan Journals show. His speech will be lorgotteu in thirty days by everybody except himself, and he will remember it only lo regret it. To the Southern men who are Ihiiihing or have thought of opposing the Dill ou this grounds', we would say, ‘Don’t. Vote lor it luiiifiifiiously'. John RAxnoi.ru axd the Abbe.— The Herald’s recent statement that the bet ter class of Englishmen like Virginia reminds the Cincinnati Times ot a sto ry. It says : When that distinguished Freuch Abbe (can’t, fir t|\e life ot its re call his name) was making us .a visit in the ear'y and ijs of our national history, he happened to he dining with some Washington celebrities, of whom John Randolph, of Roanoke, was one, ami the place of whose residence was not known to the foreigner. The question was put, to die Abbe : “An 1 how were you pleased with the South?' ‘Exceedingly; but I confess to hav ing been a little disappointed—l had heard so much —in the Virginia gentle men.” * Perhaps you were unfortunate in your circle.” broke in Randolph, witli a sneer. “You did not come to Roanoke, for instance.” “True,’, said the Alihe, recovering his evident annoyance at the rude tone with his usual calm smile, “l’ruej tfte next tune 1 visit Virginia i shall certainly go to Roanoke.” “Gentlemen,’’ answered Randolph,em phasizing the word, “do not cotne to Ro anoke unless they are invhed!" It was a cruel thrust, hut the Abbe took it in the same placid manner; and lifting his gray head, paused for a mo ment to give due emphasis to his words, and then replied, looking inquiringly at t,i e other guests : “Said I no', messieurs,’ that I was dis appointed in Virginia gentlemen?” In Talbot county, Maryland, recently a man named Jefferson was sentenced to the penitentiary for four years, mi con viction ot a robbery committed ten years a;o upon a mand name Day. The St. Michel’S Comet says ot Bay that he claimed by his prophetic g- nius, wtili the use ot his astronomical instruments, to be able to foretell coining events and an old acquaintance, whose veracity is u - questioned, states that Day siid whnu Lincoln was first elected President, that tie would be elected the second time and then he assassinated. lie foretold the contest between the Monitor and the Merrimac, and drew plans of them long before they were thougt of or the Con flict occurred. One notable point about Gov. Smith s mefsago deserves mention—there _is nolhitTg about the Ceuteunial is it.—New Yotk World. L. ? V] !*. 0 ©l3 8 o jt v * What Dm Baptist, nre Doing. In tin - Christian Index appears a re port signed bv Rev. C. M. Irwin, Secre tary, from which we glean the follows ing (net ; Of 1,000 churches onneettyil it,h the a social i, ms lvpi es n'cd in, he State convention, at) 1 ) have ud<ipj,ei) ppmi systeiqatic method ot collecting ftißiJlk while 44) have contributed something to the mission and Sunday school wotk. Only live associations ignore missions a”d Sunday school. SBB,OOO were cpu*. trihutud for missions, which included the State Sunday school work. The result, .t missionary labor for the vear was : baptisms, 8,7000 ; churches ot’eani/ed, 40 ; Sunday schools 30 j evirrreen Sunday schools, 3ftot|. schools that close part, of the year, 4H ) ; new schools organized bv Scpeiint.endcnt Ibivkit', '2'iJ ; conversions in Sunday schools, (540 ; scholars and officers, 8 |,Bqo fhe international lessons are tin general use, and the conventions and institutes popular. Otic of tho Methodist Episcopal Churches in Trov will hereafter use grape jelly dissolved in water for communion .purposes. A committee ot three ladies to (h(i church lias been appointed to make the jelly. Hoards in a Church. In these hi)yd fifties, when men have to scrape ty pay their ,wny and econ i in ■/, * bay rum af tjie barber's expense to tyive. five >'c(it,s, ,!,h following article, which we find if.,Hie ‘ F'lrenological," is peculiarly appropriate. In reference to the Greek Church not admitting shoyif saints into its calomla”, is stated in tlgj extract below, yvq re,call Saint, Stephen, the first martyr, vdn>, we belle ye, is, .al ways depicted imbarous. Bat, perhaps, tins may be an execution : “Most of the Fathers of the Church wore and approved of the heard. Clem ent of Alexandria says: ‘Nature adorned mac like a lion, witli a heard, as tltfl mark of strength and power.’ Lactapf tins, Tlieodoret, St. Augustine, and St, Cyprian are all eloquent in praise in this characteristic feature; about which many discussions were raised in the early ages of the Church, when matters of disci pline engaged much of the attention ot its leaders. To settle these disputes, at the Fourth Council of Carthage—n, 252, Can. 41— it was euanled ‘Unjt a cleric shall nqt ohefjsb his hqiy tjet; his beard. ( deficits nec cOnUjtnt nutrint v.cc ha I vain radatiX j’liiglia.in quotes an early letter, in which it is;.,quid of one who fr/mt a layman lisa a man: ‘lfis habit, gait, and modest Conn, enance and discourse, were all religious and agreeably to these his ham was short and his beard long.’ A source of dis pute between the Roman and Greek churches has been the subject of wear ing, or not wearing, the beard. Tltfl Greek Church litis adhered to the decis ions of that early Church, and refused to ad nit my shaven saint into its calen dar, and thereby condemning the Romish Church for the opposite conduct. And, on the ether hand, the popes, to make ly distinction between the Eastern and: Western decisions, made statutes JJe radendis liarbis, or shaving the beard. Some, howc ver, believe Ilia . taytli fUiiLnar ture, might be recdqtfilecj. . Tljo Jeaqtng Kngiish and German reformers wore their beards, with art exception or two., Most of the Protestant martyrs were burned in their beards.’ The Chyi-fian Standard closes a touch 1 ing sketch of a t yotijig upbi who was sacrificed to the demon llifni, With the following trmnoet tones of warning : This is the picture of thousands in our rume.ursed land to day ; and Oh ! won ’ dors!—thousands more with opett yyes, are starting in the same path ; and thousands of parents and other citiz -ns are ind fferont to the advances and rav ages of this demon ! Christians are standing idly by, will; Healed lips, and pulpitp say,nothing, while the. work of destruction 'goes on. Arouse! or we shall perish ! . AM ■ t The Church Must Preach Against Stealing, “Titoil shall not steal” seems bo the troublesome part ot the deoalogipl for a large? portion of our people ; amt the effenoes against this commandment seem to be acquiring that semi-tolerant reception whi h, in a more marked'wav, attend imehastity in the Latin This is a tendency,’ only, a..tunfcnAy Uy be resisted, resistance, to. which is one of the important duties of the American pulpit. The Indian is robbed ; Uio cities are robbed ; the national government ia robbed. The’e is a startling statement ascribed to official authority that it would cost $75,000 to prepare a list of offiaif*]. defalcations and shortages within tlm list seven years. There is something) staggering in the statement - Wo hate altogether too many well behaved, thieve , thieves in honest clothes, and under Christian professions. Opr thought is that the public education, needs to bo attended to. Murals should be given prominence in the education ol the young,prominence in the instruct! m giv en by the pulpit, and, thy press. Wo must also learn howto condemn .effect ively the dishonest man, how to taboo 'him with the, relentless seventy wine,i. wo visit upon offenders against chastity] Boon the churches must tall the greater share ot the task of resting this ten dency and preventing its Posing™ mio confirmed habits.—[lhe Mifhod.*- No 37.
