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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 !
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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.