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Time and Harvest.
* .if 80 eorely, heart of mine,
veiled sun hath ceased to
rest—
'east,
shine.
IjJ^doud-Trfled
^ ^ thou art seamed, and scairod, and
loro; i]e a whero tinted vetches were;
flatlS*om* crawl to light, and brown rifts
J* 1 * 1 tender grasses, widely yawn.
Ifptl®
• mi the rlow. So be thon still.
> 13 afle Him, fortbine eyes are dim.
jboa <*“» lienee put thv trust in Him-
fr^foriove, and leave these to His will.
• time the lowering clouds shall rain
&*£.« «t *22?.!i
Ip: nouo _ parched furrows; jl Bnaii sow
‘ ^t^^pJjerS’ and green corn-blades will
I «"«" back 8Saln -
I clad that I did work and weep—
l*» *! B oC.od mv slumbering soul did wake-
B&saSfBsF!
■ f»;th I prav, I cannot seo,
m miMnieddle with Thy work,
lS d ShI"i“ ce and tr f: 1 ww } ld nfl
that is so good for mo 1
not shirk
l,w«*thit Thou wilt make my grief to cease-
|IKHS the cool, soft drops of healing ram,
I mveearred heart groen with epringmg
J ^n»k«By eearred
Lftiffll waiting cometh peace;
l^.fiffiithful labor I shall rest,
Kjjjr weeping have my fill of joy.
I £Lireik«t down, to bmid np—not destroy;
Ibflixstri’ht, 0 Lord!—Thou knoweat best.
liltit Shall the Baby’* Dimple Be ‘
iMihodle a mother hung,
I USIr(loaning a slumber song;
[hltbiie were the simple words sho sung
IjS lie evening long:
Istakortliui, or knuckle or knee,
I notin'' 1 th# baby's dimple be ?
IJLthiU the angel’s finger rest
Ins be cones down to the baby's nest ?
Inhibit the angel's touch remain
lUmbciirikens my babe again ?
Jb eie bent and sang so low,
I larmr into ber music broke;
Mtbeptused to hear, for she could but know
jbebiij’sangel spoke:
cr chin, knuckle or knee,
eeiillthe baby's dimple be?
.etbll my fingers fa!) and rest
, jtleomedown to the baby’s nest ?
Iliw still my finger’s touch remain
' iltmken your babe again ?”
■Satthe mother eat. and dwelt .
I tog in the sweet delay of choice;
■bitten by her baby's side she knelt,
1 Itl wag' with pleasant voice:
liil oo the limb, O angel dear! *
|hrtha dorm with its youth will disappear;
'donthe cheek shall the dimpte be,
alts tutoring smile will fade and flee;
lit teh ikon the chin with an impress deep,
I bio? baby the angel's seal shall keep.”
Hours at Home.
[A Horrible Crime—Retributive Jns.
tlce.
Fm fir SuMtlleille (Ay.) Herald. \
Wt ire informed that a horrible crime was
(milted by a negro man upon the person of
HriiteMy named Mrs. Newman, in theneigh-
etiood of Greenville, Kentucky, onlastFri-
h In the morning the lady told her hus-
that she and her son were going to spend
lay it a neighbor’s house, and u they did
Kara that night he need not feel uneasy,
wa her own and her neighbor’s farm she
tnet by the negro, who violated her per-
utea murdered her and her son. The
n Homing the husband started to his neigh-
i&na to escort his wife and son home,
wnd them on the roadside brutally mur-
The news soon spread—men collected
igated the matter, and soon were satis-
u to who was the guilty wretch. He was
that day and made a full confession
inilt. Whilst in the hands of an officer
ns taken possession of by the excited pop-
R who at once decided to smear him with
ndborn him at the stake; but whilst the
U appointed to procure the tar was gone,
fnpulaee became impatient and hung the
9) to a tree until he was dead. His head
'ta,severed from the body and posted in
/owe Square of Greenville, on a stake
jtntho ground in front of the court-house,
one was allowed to remove it The
^ of the populace arc said to be Radicals;
®e Judical papers cannot raise a howl this
Q relation to one of their party being
■Wed by Southern Ku Klux 1 As for us,
not who were the leaders, they did a
*tuat daserves commendation. Let sum-
N/Wioe ho inflicted in all such cases, bo
% get into the hands of the lawyers.
_**» of us looks forward to being eaten by
ho may wish to be informed how he
to be cooked. It is a comfort to koow
^ lavages who may devour him are by no
devoid of refinement in culinary dispo-
"Wen are CooUed—PJeasaut Kead-
tog for Warm Weather.
giving an account of the eating of a
4 loldier by cannibals, the London Daily
■Jl:
Some French soldiers were recently
■prisoners by the Kanaks, and one of them
killed and eaten. His comrades described
Ptoaa. The Kanak3 first decapitate their
■: a matter of no small difficulty, consid-
tho bluntness of their hatchets. Ten to
a Mows are necessary. The body is then
l£»p to a tree by the feet, and tbo blood
to run for an hour. Meanwhile, a hole
in tod a deep, and a yard wide, is dug
J® poind. The hole is lined with stones,
in the midst of them a great fire is lit.
«a 11:5 wood is burned down a little and
* heat it is covered with more stones,
then cleaned out and divided into
about a foot long, the hands and feet
, *2 thrown away ns worthless. The pieces
are placed on the leaves of a large
j"** peculiar to the tropics. The meat is
fowled with cocoa-nut, banana, and some
Phots noted for their delicious flavor,
i.-d together firmly; the fire is
Removed from the pit; the meat is placed
.stones, and thus, carefully cov-
left to cook for an hour. Women don’t
of a warrior’s feast. Men alone are
to enjoy so great an honor and so
■^•oelicaey.
L op a Soldier.—The Colonel, of
regiment was famous for having
j done up in military style.. Once,
5?"! officer of the day, and going his
t g^pection, he came to a sentinel from
■‘wajth Mississippi regiment, lying flat
Ms post, with his gun entirely to
i&kri’-l—Don’t you know that a sentinel,
-Vi';
si?
on duty, should always keep on his
(without looking up)—That wa9
tin l '"linout looking upj—mat was
® ae ^ 10 when tne war broke out,
played long ago.
if" beginning to°doubt if the man was
v..Arc you a sentinel hero?
asM^srf
m a sort of a sentinel,
m a sort of officer of the
' lit n" 0 '—^AVdl, if you'll hold on till I sort
(nte. t ’ un Aether, I’ll give you a sort of
CHRISTIAN CHIVALRY;
Oration Delivered bjr Rev. D. 'Wills, D.
Tore the Grand Com-
Grand Prelate, Before the Grand Com.
manucry or Georgia, 23th May, 1870.
IiigJit E. G. Commander— Officers and Knights,
Ladies and Gentlemen : ■ ■ ji ‘
Tho love of tho romantic and chivalrous is
one of the most powerful passions pertaining to
man. “Human beings are composed not of rea
son only, but of sentiment and imagination
also.” Hence the thrilling power of the drama
in the. progress of tho ages. Genins by one
splendid stroke of its magic wand, can convert
romance into reality and people the boundless
solitudes of space with. millions of shining
worlds. Homer sung the fall of Troy in a vol
ume of golden verses which are inspired with
theintensest glow of the old Greek fire, and
which have animated the martial spirit of all
nations; and yet his brilliant battles were
fought on the bloodless field of the imagination^
and his bands of immortal warriors were myths
and not men. • • ^4‘sM * 01 •
Dante’s visions of a future world constitute
the master-poem of the middle ages—now they
fill the soul with ecstatic joy, and now they
freeze it with terror—but still it is a fact that
Pargatory and Paradise are here dressed in all
the extravagant colors of the countless supersti
tions and absurd legends of medieval times.
Tasso’s enchanted forest is such a lofty and ter
rible creation of genius as makes “the blood
run chill” and “the cheeks of all grow pale as
death." For the time we feel all the thrilling
sensations which seized the souls of the gallant
Godfrey and the intrepid Tancred; but in the
midst of the appalling apparitions which rush
upon the sight and the horrid groans which is
sue from this gloomy region of spirits, we are
relieved from our agonizing fears by the reflec
tion that all is nothing but a piece of magnifi
cent fiction. Apart from the crucifixion of
Christ, no moral painting, in all the annals of
time, has made so powerful an appeal to popu
lar sympathy as the play of Hamlet, and when
the ghost of the king hearsed in death appears,
the dramatic effect is indescribable; and is it
not true that we who havo no faith in the ap
pearance of ghosts and spectres, involuntarily
share the agitation and grief of the personified
son when the shade of his murdered father con
fronts him. Banyan's Pilgrim’s Progress has
been, for more than two centuries, accounted
one of the choicest classics of the chorch—mil
lions of believers have drawn the warmest in
spirations of piety from its picturesque pages—
and who does not know that this is simply an
allegorical composition hatched in the brain of
the “prince of dreamers.” . .
The institution of chivalry lies in the region
of imagination and romance rather than in that
of strict philosophy and fact There is confess
edly much oonnected with it that is purely ideal
and visionary, and yet it is founded on some of
the most sublime and benevolent truths which
have engaged the attention and moulded tbe
oharaoter of mankind. The two great ideas
which its brilliant defenders songht to vindicate
by the power of the sword, are a superstitious
devotion to religion and a romantic reverence
for the female sex. The Greeks and Bomans
fought for liberty, dominion and glory, but the
grand battle cry of the Knights of tbe Middle
Ages was, “God and our ladies.” Under the
influence of this inspiring motto, these mail-
clad warriors made their martial steel ring on
the heads of their foes and performed feats of
valor that astounded the world. They were
taught to look with contempt on danger and
death when fighting for tho objects of their en
thusiastic admiration.
From the fall of the Boman Empire in the
fifth century, the public mind of Europe was
preparing for important changes in the structure
of society; for the overthrow of tho feudal sys
tem and for the establishment of a more en
lightened and liberal order of things. The deep
slamber of barbarism began to be broken by
occasional birth-throes of thought and action.
The spirit of chivalry which was born in the
dark foresta of Germany, and which had pre
vailed for several preceding centuries, about
the beginning of the twelfth century culminated
in the Crusades; a system of warfare which un
questionably had its origin in religious ignorance
and fanaticism, but which wrought important
results in the history of Christian civilization.
It was in (he last quarter of the eleventh cen
tury when Peter, an enthusiastic monk of
Amiens in France, viaited Jerusalem to pay his
devotions at the tomb of the Saviour. At this
period the Holy Land was completely under the
sway of the Saracen and Turk, who wantonly
desecrated the most sacred places and inflicted
the greatest barbarities on tho Christian pil
grims who flocked thither from occidental coun
tries for pions purposes. The famous French
anchorite was filled with holy indignation by
these flagrant acts of cruelty and sacrilege, and
resolved to return to aroose the Christian nations
of Europe to combine for the overthrow of the
Moslem power in Palestine, and to rekindle the
light of Christianity beneath the refulgent beams
of tho Orient. He soon found a powerful
champion of his cause in tbo person of Urban
II., who then held the pontificate of Borne. The
preliminary Council of Placentia was called,
consisting of 4,000 ecclesiastics and 80,000 lay
men, and where the mighty multitude decreed
a war of extermination against the infideL Then
followed the Council of Clermont; where a
whirlwind of excitement was created by the im
passioned oratory of the Pope and the wild ha-
md with this sublime
battle cry all Christendom was summoned to
arms. The tide of enthusiasm had now set in
in all its strength and was rolling wildly over the
Western world. The rabble of Europe not only
enlisted under the banner of the cross, but im- j
aro to be carried victorious round the globe.
And yet it is a redeeming trait in the character
of the crusaders that they acted in nocordanoe
with the spirit of the times : they lived in the
midst of the institutions of superstition and
barbarism, and had not the light of a superior
civilization and a purer Christian sentiment to
guide them. It must be remembered, too, that
these lofty warriors were defeated in their ef
forts to obtain a permanent possession of the
Holy Land, and that on this account they are
judged more harshly than if they had been suc
cessful. With the popular mind success is the
test of merit, whilst the penalty of defeat is
crimination and curses.
Chivalry is the sublimest pf professions, and
has always challenged the admiration of the
world ; but when it is brought into the service of
religion the danger is that “the devotion of the
knights may degenerate into superstition, their
love into licentiousness, their loyalty into tyr
anny, and their generosity and gallantry' into
hair-brained madness and absurdity.” And yet
with the acknowledged tendencies to excess in
this science nothing is clearer than that it has
conferred innumerable and inestimable bless
ings on mankind. The long wars of the cru
sades aroused the mind of Europe from the
slumber of ages and launched it forth on a new
career of development. Old systems of caste
were shaken to their deepest foundations and a
more general diffusion of wealth and social
oomforts was the consequence. New channels
of commerce were opened up among the great
maritime powers of the earth, and the free im
portation of the arts and sciences from the East
to the West gave to the European governments
a higher type of civilization. It is a beautiful
and striking fact that the crusaders prepared
the way for the celebration of the golden nup
tials of the Greek and Latin muses, that the-
immortal lines of the Iliad were sung amid the
soft and smiling skies which had inspired the
sweet strains of the Eneid, that the orations of
Demosthenes were recited in the same stately
forum which had once rung with the robust and
polished eloquence of Gicero, and that the Ital
ians were enabled to present the extraordinary
spectacle to tho world of bearing off the palm
of literature in two noble languages. *
The famous revival of letters in the four
teenth century immediately followed the holy
wars of ohristendom. The art of printing, and
the mariner’s compass were invented; a new
continent was discovered by the distinguished
navigator of Genoa; Galileo and Kepler ex
pounded the constitution and laws of the plane
tary worlds, and then the sublime systems of
Baoon and Newton sprung into being and laid
the foundations of universal learning and civili
zation. Moreover, Wickliffe, the morning star
of the Reformation, rose just as the stormy
night of the crusades was receding before the
dawn of a brighter day.
Bnt one of tho most sublime and charitable
institutions which was brought into existence
by the bloody wars of Christendom, is the Order
of Knights Templar, or Knights of the Temple
as they were first called in oonsequence of their
occupation of a palace adjoining tho Temple, in
Jerusalem, which, by the favor of Baldwin II,
was appropriated to their use for a season. This
sacred Order was founded in 1118 by nine noble
Knights of France, and was regularly incorpo
rated in 1128 by Pope Honorions II, who wo3
one of the most zealous advocates of its princi
ples and purposes, so that it is how 752 years
old. These Christian Knights, in addition to
their vows of chastity, poverty and obedience,
bound themselves by a solemn oath to defend
the sepulchre of the Saviour and to protect all
Christian Pilgrims in their jonmeyings through
the Holy Land. By their lofty deeds of benev
olence and valor, they soon beoame, says the
historian, “tho most celebrated and powerful of
the religious military orders of Christendom.”
Wherever the widow's wail and the orphan’s cry
broke upon the air; wherever the sanctities of
innocent maidenhood were imperiled or viola
ted ; wherever tbe roads leading through Pales
tine were infested by barbarous banditti, and
wherever the rites of the Christian Religion
were trampled upon by a Moslem foot; there
the glittering blades of the Sir Knights leaped
forth from their scabbards and inflicted sum
mary vengeance on these wanton violators of
the most sacred obligations of life. It is not
surprising, therefore, that a body of men who
rendered such eminent services to the cause of
humanity and Christian trnth should have won
the admiration of mankind. Accordingly the
Templars rose rapidly from poverty and absti
nence to great sllluence and luxury. They
were enriched by large donations of lands and
money, so that by the middle of the thirteenth
century they numbered nine thousand lordships
in Europe, and commanded the free homage of
every dynasty and throne. But their immense
wealth and prosperity proved their weakness
and extinction as a corporate body.—
Tne adulations of monarchs and tbe excesses
of self-indulgence corrupted them and caused
them to lose that native virtue and martial spirit
which had been their strength and glory in
former days. The institution oontinued to de
cline nntil the spring of 1312, when Pope Clem
ent V, at the instigation of Philip the Fair, of
France, issued a decree dissolving .the Order of
Templars and transferring all their possessions
to the Knights of St. John. Thus history pre
sents the novel spectacle of a Pope claiming to
be the infallible head of the Church, becoming
the miserable tool of a profligate , prince, and
by an act of tyranny, a Christian
liant achievement in arms is fostered by the
education of a' Templar. If onr-predecessors
admitted to membership none but men of noble
rank, we should oeminly require nobility of
soul on the partof every candidate for knightly
honors. ’ .LnaLioalUi?'
Moreover, Templars, you am fijf profession
the soldiers of the cross. : There on that bright
banner is the sacred emblem of the Order, and
over it is the glorious motto, In Hoe Signo
Vinces—Under this Sign thou shalt Conquer.
Under the influence of these sublime and holy
inspirations you are to go boldly forth, in the
faoe of infidels and heretics, and advance the
kingdom of the blessed Immanuel, until the
whole earth shall be filled with the glory of the
the Lord. It is by the precious blood of the
atonement that you are to conquer the com
bined foroes of your advenaries and achieve a T
triumphant entrance into Jerusalem the golden.
The enemies which assr.U you at every point
are not troops of barbarian^ ooming with /wav
ing crescent oud gleaming cimetar to sweep
you to destruction, but they are moral and spir
itual powers; the evil habits and passions of
depraved human nature. One of your enemies
lives in a glass house covered with a corked
roof, and with smiling face and sparkling eyes
looks out through blue windows to captivate the
young, the impulsive, the gennrous and the
brave. His name is Alcohol.
Another resides in a royal palace, is clothed
in purple and' fine linen and fans sumptuously
every day, and in the pomp of lis pride looks
down with sovereign contempt or the poor, de
spised and miserable of mankind; His name is
Luxury.
Another dwells in the secret place of the
gilded saloon and under the brilliant blaze of the
gaslightj sporta with a father’s coansels/a moth
er’s prayers, a wife’s entreaties and a sister’s
tears, and on a mere freak of chance madly stakes
the fortunes of families for all succeeding time.
His name is Gambling.
Another sitteth at the door of her house on
a scat in the high places of the city, to call to
passengers who go right on their ways : Cover
ings of tapestry and the fine linens of Egypt are
hers; the perfumes of myrrh,aloes and cinnae
mon. She saith stolen watery are sioet .and-
hread eaten in secret is pleasant, . Her lips drop
as a honey-comb, her mouth is smoother than
oil. But her end is bitter as womwood, and her
house is the way to hell. This character is
called Licentiousness.
A fifth foe is cruel as the giave in hia na
ture, and fretful as the porcupine in his prac
tice, who under provocation glows red with
rage, spuming with indignation all the over
tures of an honorable reconciliation, and scat
tering this solemn oath to the winds : “I now
declare, in trnth and soberness, that I hold no
enmity or ill will towards any soul on earth,
that I would not freely reconcile, Could I find
in him a corresponding disposition.” This may
be denominated the demon of Malignity.
The last enemy is an exceedingly lofty one,
that is ever exulting in his own superior wis
dom and virtue, saying with a supercilious air
to his neighbor, stand thou therefor I am holier
thian thou, and insanely refusing to bow humbly
before that august and blessed Name which
causes all the principalities and powers of
Heaven to prostrate themselves at the foot of
the Throne. This is that evil spirit of Self-
Kighteousness, which ought forever to hide its
diminished head in the presence of that grand
and exalted Latinized maxim before your eyes,
non tobis, domine, non vobis, sed tua nomini da
gloriam.
If these insidious enemies conldbe slain by the
sword, I know your gallant blades would in a
moment be dripping with their blood, but it is
by the grace of God alone that they can be ef
fectually subdued. The weapons of onr war
fare are not carnal but spirituaL Wo conjure
you, therefore, Brothers, by the blood of tn&t
cross whose image lies this day upon your beat
ing hearts, and by the splendors of that crown
which shall eternally adorn the brow of every
true moral victor, to be faithful to all your obli
gations to God and humanity. Thus may wo
hope to meet again when the bright morning of
eternity cometh.
rangues of the hermit—if j the «id of God, it abolishing, by an aot oL tyranny, * Chmtian
is tbe mil of Gcd, was tb^ fanatical shont of the inBtitution wlijchMother Po^hfldnicorporated
tumultuous assembly,
and consecrated with all the solemnities of pon
tifical authority.
It is important to observe, here, that Chris
tian Knighthood had originally no connection
with Free Masonry. The cause of the union of
the two orders was the fierce and unrelenting
The crowned heads
perial princes, mitred prelates, wealthy barons,, persecution of the former. I R .
honored dukes, and titled counts and earls, in !^f Italy, Germany, England an. Spam corn-
short the highest dignitaries in church and state j bmed to exterminate the Templars from foe
embarked in the holy war and urged the com- earth. Their estates were oonfisoated and their
mon crusaders forward to fight for the rescue of ; conclaves broken up and in then: feeblejmd
the holy city and sepulchre from the profana- dispersed oondttionThey proposed to form aide-
tions of Paganism. Frederick, the Emperor, j fensive alliance with the ancient Masonic Fra-
Bichard, King of England, Philip, King of; temity. “Masonry at^epted the proposals of
France, Leopold, Duke of Austria, Robert of this would-be ward, and placed it m a seat supe-
Normandy, Godfrey, of Bouillon, and his chiv- ! rior, upon condition that the Knights should ro-
alriobrotherBaldwin, together with a multitude quire, as a qualification ®®“kfrslup
them, thatthe candidate previously pass throngh
the several degrees of Ancient York Masonry.
Hence the relation and superposition of Bine
of bishops: these are some of the illustrious
names associated with this wonderful movement
of the middle ages. Eight distinct crusades ~ ■_ - « ...
were undertaken within the space of two him- Lodge Chapter and Cou.mandery which con-
dred vears and in those several expeditions, it i tinne to this day.
fs csdmatad,Xt eight millions of the European I ■ Templarism is, therefore, no longer a military
nooulation were ponred upon the ensanguined . body, marching forth in serried fines and with
nlamsof Asia, and that twomillions of the ora-, burnished armor to battler bravely with barbano
sadera perished in their bold adventures against hosts m the great valley of slaughter and
their Pagan enemies. Men have never made ; blood, but it is now pre-eminently a benevolent
greater Orifices or fought with more deter- {and moral institution, whose exalted ends are
mined courage than the Christian armies of the 1 effected by Christian agencies and appliances.
West They felt that they were fighting the The present purposes of Templar Masonry.are
battles of the King of kings, and hence they , compendiously expressed in one sentence :
willing to pour out their last drop of blood ; “The protection of innocent maidens he pless
>£k rr„i„ p.iti. Ana hy their ! orphans and destitute widows and the Christian
Wanting I religion.” Every true Templar is sworn to sup-
- - - - "port these objects at every cost, and if he fail
were a
in defence of their Holy Faith. And b;
heroic achievements they snoceeded in pi
the standard of the cross on those sacred heights
where the crescent had long waved in triumph.
But by a series of misfortunes which it were
needless to enumerate in this presence, they
lost the empire of the East and fell under the
iron rale of their savage conquerors, who in
flicted upon them every species of persecution
and outrage. The sentence of confiscation and
banishment fell like lightning upon the masses
of the soldiery, whilst the leaders were impri
soned and exeented in the most horrible man-
A few of them recanted under the severity
pf their tortures, but a majority maintained
their principles firmly to the end and met death
with the magnanimity of true Christian heroes.
Tbe praotioai effects of the crusades upon the
world, and especially on European oountries,
have long famished a fruitful topic for discus
sion among historians, statesmen and divines,
and much diversity of sentiment prevails in
literary circles on this snbj not. /It is, however,
admitted by all that snoh a mighty revolution
could not take place in any age without many
attendant social disorders. and moral evils.
These are unavoidable in every case where the
great sea of popular passion is stirred to its
depths. None will deny, too, that it is a plain
perversion of Christianity to attempt to propa
gate its principles at the point of the sword. It
is by the power of trnth and love, and not by
the force of arms, that the banners of the cross
to do it he is guilty of the grossest per jury. He
is instructed to copy the precepts and examples
of Him who “spake as never man spake.” The
Lord's prayer is the model for his devotions.
Tbo Apostle’s creed is the excellent epitome of
his faith. The h°!y Beatitudes are embraced
jcawuu in hi* beautiful Liturgy. He is taught to ba
the masses lieve in the doctrines of the unity of God, a Trin
ity of persons ia the Godhead, the incarnation
of Christ, His spotless parity and bloody pas
sion, His resurrection and ascension to the
Throne of universal power and glory, and His
final advent to judge the world. The emblems
of the Order are the Cross and Crown, the
Square and Lamb, the Level and Triple Trian
gle the Eagle and the Sword, and it were need
less to tell you, fraters, that.the moral signifi
cance of these symbols involves the practice of
the cardinal principles of Christianity.
Sir Knights, yon have a splendid system of
morals and religion to uphold and adorn. - You
are the honored representatives of the highest
type of Christian cbivafiry, the chosen guardi
ans of the consecrated glories of Knighthood.
Honor bright is the living gem of the institution
to which you belong. Truth, Charity, Courtesy,
Magnanimity, Courage and Faith constitute the
moral armor of a true Knight. Every noble
impulse, ©very honorable sentiment, every lead-
able enterprise in beneyoleno* rad every bril-
Correspondenee of the Telegraph 6 Messenger.
The Hempbis Conference.
Memphis, May 20, 1870.
On the call for reports from standing com
mittees, this morning, only one brought in a
paper for action, indicating that their work is
nearly done.
A Committee on the Bible Question made a
lengthy report, as usual endorsing the American
Bible Society, and asking for more agents in the
land.
The Committee of nine to whom was submit
ted the interests of the Publishing House, made
a report. They recommended the continuance
of tbe publishing interests at Nashville. This
called forth a long and excited debate. The
first point was unanimously adopted. The sec
ond point was amended by inserting Baltimore
for Nashville. After a long discussion it was
substituted by Louisville, Kentucky, iastead of
Baltimore. This was voted down C3 for, and
liu against. The report of the Committee was
adopted,, leaving It at Nashville. This is the.
fourth time Nashville has won in this contest.
Uncertainly is time for the Church to cease this
continual agitation of removaL It is damaging
to the publishing interests of the denomination,
and can only ultimate in disaster.
Dr. Bedford, the agent, made an extensive
statement, defending his administration, show
ing that the books of Nashville are to be found
in every part of tho extensive field of Southern
Methodism.
Tbis has been the most exciting day of the
session.: Several speeches of great ability have
been delivered. Such men as Dxs. Bond and
Wilson, of Baltimore, Drs. Green and MoFer-
rin, of Nashville, Drs. Lee and_ Bedford, of
Louisville, are capable of conducting a debate
of this character.
Dr. Green, of Nashville, and Col. Johnson,
of Washington City, were appointed a commis
sion to prosecute the claim of tho Church
against the United States, for rent and damage
of the Publishing House during the war. Suits
have been instituted.
The Committeo on Boundaries made a report
which produced an animated discussion, in ref
erence to Holston and North and South Caroli
na Conferences.
The State of Alabama was divided, North and
South, into two Conferences. The Alabama
and North Alabama arc to be tho names. Also
the State of Mississippi was similarly divided,
and permitted any time .during the next four
years to make their Conferences out of their
combined territory.
A . new Conference was formed, including.
Kansas and all other territory to the Rocky
Mountains. This is designed to meet the urgent
demand of the country developed by the great
Pacifio Railroad. It i3 said that two hundred
men are now called for if the Church only had
the means to support them for a short time.
The tide of emigration is throwing into that
country thousands of inhabitants, and to a great
extent without religious privileges.
Tbe report on tho Annual Conference’ rec
ords was made. The records of tho North Geor
gia and South Georgia Conferences were highly
spoken of, with the exception of a neglect in
both journals, of stating who occupied tho
chair daring the sessions each day. The secre
taries are Rev. J. B. Smith, of Macon, and Rev.
A. G. Haygood, of Atlanta. The journal of
the Florida Conference was very defective.
Ex-President Davis, has been an auditor in
the Cimference room for a day or two past.
Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, formerly of Georgia, is
also a visitor upon the floor of the General Con
ference. . . , .
& report from the committee on publishing
interests endorse and highly commend the con-
duct of Drs. A. H. Bedford and T. O. Sum
mers, the agent and auditor of the Southern
Publishing House. _
There have been some four or uve no w Con
ferences made, showing an increase in the de
nomination. in influence and members.
LaRztz.
THE ARMORY FACTORY.
Visit of Inspection—Progress of the Com-
' pony. ■ 'J ; 'A-J-T ^earAtrs
New Armory yesterday morning, for the pur
pose of giving CoL J. T. Snead, Secretary, and
agent of the New York association, his first view
of the buildings and grounds.
Entering the east gate our carriage drove to
the rear, when the party proceeded to make a
minute inspection. We first went into a beau
tiful grove skirting the right rear of the. forty
acres of ground in the inclosure. It is densely
grown up with native forest trees, and, besides
its lofty boughs, perfect canopy, cobl shadeMd
generally romsmfio look, has two limpid streams
meandering through it. Col. Snead was at once
struck with the shaded spot, and remarked that
it would be of great advantage in.' tnaVTng tho
operatives of tho contemplated factory content
ed and happy. He at once determiucd u,
their houses so arranged and located as to give
them the full advantage of it.
Passing from the grove west we ascended a
gentle hill, from which we obtained a full view
of the whole premises. Through this hill a
railroad cut had been nearly completed before
the Confederate government abandoned it. It'
was designed for the purpose of lapping the
Macon and. Western Railroad a few hundred
yards above, and over its track the material,
wood, coal and freight of the Company will
pass. The grading has been nearly.completed;!
It appears to have been the original design of
the engineer to run two tracks along the build
ings. Freight can be discharged from the ears
immediately, into the warehouses, or into any
or all the grand divisions of the building.
Passing around the left wing, and walking a
hundred yards or so, we came to the front cen
ter, and there obtained a full view of .the main'
structure. It is in shape like the letter T, and
two stories high. We have no figures, but
judge that the front length is equal to that of
the largest square in the city, and perhaps
longer. It is doubtless constructed of the finest
brick ever moulded in Georgia, whilst the con
struction shows, even to the unpracticed eye,
that a master mind direoted, and master hands
performed, the work. Around the main front
door are specimens of brick masonry of sur
passing beauty and displayed taste which rises
above criticism. It must have cost the archi
tect, Major J. H. Barton, and his master me
chanics, a deep pang of regret when the death-
knell of the fallen government£vaa followed by
a summons to leave their work in all its unfin
ished state. A few short months more would
have witnessed the crowning of their toil—the
transmission of all the dreaminga on paper into
solid reality. They will rejoioo with all of us
to learn that the very men we were then con
tending with in an unnatural strifo have come
to take up where they left off, and go forward
with their ideas. ; Such is one of the chapters
the finger of time points out for us to muse
upon. Cannon, Congreve shells, rifles, sabres,
the bayonet, the breach-loader, the carbine,
and all other implements for defending a coun
try, were to have been fabricated there. But
the child was strangled in its mother’s womb,
and never saw the light.
Entering this main door, four or five small
rooms are arranged on either side, no doubt in
tended for clerk's offices and for reception. One
step forward, and we stand in the rotnnda of
the tower. It is round, scored for winding
stairs, and designed for .what purpose we do
not know.
Walking forward npon sleepers, underneath
which wo noticed several .vaults, wa came im
mediately into the centre of the main room.
The right and left wing stretch to dizzy heights.
When abandonfid, the sleepers, the joists, the
rafters and the sheathing had been finished, and
were ready to receivo the floors and the roof.
The rains of five years have fallen upon them.
Much of this mould work will have* to be. re
constructed. There is ample room, both upon
the first and second floors, for all necessary
machinery of the largest cotton factory in the
South—enough in this and the other grand di
vision to successfully introduce thirty-five thou
sand spindles. ■>
Going farther back we entered that portion
represented by the stem of the letter T. This
has been nearly or quite completed. It was cover
ed, and hence all the timbers are in a perfect
state of preservation at the present time.
Immediately in the rear of the : extreme left
of the left wing is a small house ereoted for of
fices. Covered with slate, cut into*five rooms,
it is admirably adapted for such.
In addition to these main buildings there are
two large houses on the rear of the right centre,
originally intended for casting shot and shell,
but which will easily store two thousand bales
of cotton. They only lack floors and roofs.
On the outside of all these, scattered right and
left, are massive foundations of solid masonry,
some of them just up to the level of the ground,
others three, four and five feet high, bnt all of
tbe most substantial workmanship. Upon all
these, in due course of time, buildings will be
erected, until this shall pass among the largest
and tho grandest factories in the World.—
They are all upon made ground.
. This work could not be done to-day short of
an expenditure of $350,000. The city of Maoon
subscribes it all, and twenty acres of ground at
the nominal valuation of $75,000, not because
this is far less than its worth, but for the pur
pose of takiDg a step in making this one of the
largest manufacturing cities in the world. It
will quickly add one thousand people to our
population, add a million dollars to onr material
wealth, and caflse many hundred thousand dol
lars to be annually paid oat here.
We know nothing of the immediate designs
of ibe company, but preshme^^ work of com
pleting buildings.will be commenced right away.
And as it is to their interest to make it com
mence paying as quickly as possible, we pre
sume a vast number of workmen, mechanics
and laborers will be employed.
Every dollar of the stook has been subscribed,
the officers elected, and Col. Snead is here for
the purpose of actively inaugurating the mag
nificent enterprise. We are glad to know he is
well pleased with the buildings and the grounds.
An objection could scarcely be raised, to. these
by any one. Indeed, there is more there than
the company oan utilize in years.
Every citizen . of Maoon; rejoices at the com
mencement of this Factory. It has our best
wishes for a longlifo of 1 prosperity. Wo hbpe
it Will realize the most sanguine expectations of
our New York friends. ; Every, aid incur power
should and will be extended to them.
From Macon Conniy.
Montezuma, Ga., May 23, 1870.
j Editors . Telegraph and Messenger .-—I' am
satisfied that we have plenty of min in tbis
section, from the fact that it has not rained here
in ebpot six weeks. So soon as the' order passes
through the circumlocution office, rad is handed i
to the clerk of the weather, wo will have an
abundant shower, 'at \br*qp *Wd{oq > *
Our town languishes occasionally in the way
of commerce. This generally occurs on the days
which the warehousemen devote to fishing in
stead of accepting liens and other hypotheca
ting papers for planters,'as the merchants here
Methodist General Conference.
Memphis, May 21,1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Last
night, instead of attending regular service, a
number of members met, and among theta
Dr. W. E. G. Cunningham, for many years a
missionary in China. The conversation natu
rally turned upon China and the missionary
labors there. : 'v
Chinamen are peculiar people. They re
verse the order of things. In whatever way
that you would do a thing, they would per*
pomoio, uo tua iut»unamB Here n •. . -n • .
are notdisposed to traffic without Surety of some j torm lfc J U3 * ln an opposite way. Forinstanoe,
kind. It is a difficult matter sometimes to tell | the left hand ia the place of honor, not the
upon which articles, liens or ootton, planters : right They mount a horse on the wrong
pay the most storage. Liens in the banker’s
vault during'summer at a small discount—2} or
3 per cent, a month—and fifty or seventy-five
cents a bale in the warehouse during winter, be-
sides an addiHr.Y)a| por hjr t.Vta pro
duce merchant, “the same being an advance on
side. Eaoh man shakes his own hand, in
stead of extending it to his neighbor. Every
thing is reversed—because, as my friend sug
gest*, they li-T'G <ra the other side Of lllC WuxkL -
my present growing crop in provisions and sup-! ^'\ s as ma L’ ^ ic -f things very
plies, etc.” We will, in a short longth of time, strangely,
be rid .of this vampirical busmess, as I have 1 hfi
been informed by the reliable reporter “They
Say” that some inventive genins has completed
a machine .folc husking cotton: seed,’and by im
mersing them f° r a short time in a chemical so
lution and then exposing them to the sun, they
become, in a few minutes, thoroughly dessica-
ted and free from any oleaginous substance
whatever, and far superior for all purposes to
Indian corn. A patent has been applied for
and will be obtained sometime in the year 181)0,
provided that reconstruction is thoroughly, com
pleted by that.time. The whole machine and
knowledge of manipulating will be sold cheaper
than “the same being an advance on my pres
ent growing crop in provisions,” etc.
Thursday next is the day appointed for onr
Sunday School Celebration, after all of which
we will report. Until then we are,
Meltingly yours, Flint.
It is now confidently stated that Mile. Nils
son’s tour in this country is to be managed by
Mr. P. T. Barnum. 3 ill .*!
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The Georgia Bill.
The Heiald specials from Washington last
of if to StaSoi raw e-->oT - J
It is understood that the Georgia bill will not
be reported now until next Thursday, General
Butler having gone to Massachusetts to look af
ter some private affairs. There are many mem
bers who announce their intention to vote for
the Bingham amendment or any other measure
that will result in ousting Governor Bollock.—
This, it is stated, is partly the result of the re
cent investigation of the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee and partly owing to the belief that the
condition of affAirs’in that State cannot be set
tled while Bullock remains Governor. Judge
Bingham proposes to Offer his amendment when
the bill comes up iu the House, though in a
somewhat modified form. The chances are that
Butler will be again defeated, by haring the
Bingham amendment added to the bill.
Jute for Gunny Cloth.
The South has annually to Import from the
antipodes the material with whieh to cover her
cotton crop and render it marketable, and dur
ing this Summer she will spend upwards of $7,-
000,000 for gUDny cloth alone. Now all this
large amount of money could be saved by the
cultivation of jute,, and the manufacture of the’
cloth at home. Having this end in view, Hon.
Horace Capion, Commissioner of Agriculture,
has imported a quantity of the seed of the jute
plant, and some of it may be had. from him up
on application. .
Tho jute wiil flourish anywhere south of the
33d parallel of latitude, but is sensible to oold.
The seed should be planted about the same'
time as corn, and the plant will flower about the
beginning of August, when the tops should be
cut off: A month later the entire' plant should
be steeped in water for a week, when the bark
will slip off. The fibrous interior is then tied
up in bundles of abont 75 stalks each, rad is
ready for market. It finds a quick sale at the
ports, and is now quoted in Ne w York at 7 cts.
per pound, o. • ' , i 1
The introduction of this new fibrous staple
is of great importance to the South, as it will
render her independent of the world, as to her
annual supply of bigging. If all the jute re
quired for her consumption was grown and
manufactured in her own limits, her planters
would obtain their bagging at about ten or
twelve cents per yard, and would not be sub
jected to the high prices consequent npon a
small supply on hand. In : 1863 bagging advan
ced to forty-threa (43) cents per yard'; and this
Summer the supply on hand, and expected, is
smaller than it was then, and we have reason to
anticipate an advance in price, perhaps even
beyond that of 1866. There * are now thirty
(30) jute mills at work in this country, which
will turnout for 1870 about 24,000 bales of
•gunny cloth ; and if the staple mentioned was
grown in the South, as it can be, the number of
mills and amount of their product would soon
be increased sufficiently to supply all the bag-
The Doctor gave us the modus operandi of
“opium smoking.” The opium is imported
just as we have it in our drug stores—in balls,
ift cost about five dollars per ounce. It is ta
ken by the smoker and boiled, and during this
process it rises to the sutfaoe and is similar to
molasses when cooked, thick and stringy.
Their pipe is a large bowl, but coming to a
paint, with a small hole about the size that
would admit a knitting needle. The opium
in its prepared state is taken up by a small \
iron hook, and by twisting it around it forms
a small ball on the end or tho hook, which is )
placed on the little hole in the top of the pipe
and; set on fire, which burns slowly. And
then, in accordance with their perverseness,
they stiek the pipe into the stem, instead of
the stem into the pipe, and inhale the fumes
—often closing their noses. : ui7 j
They never smoke sitting up, but in accord-*
ance with the Oriental custom, they recline
upon a lounge or divan, or lie down. They
say that the first.sensation pioduced is that of
drowsiness. This will result from the con
suming of the first ball of opium. It requires
about three “balls” to satisfy, a confirmed
smoker. The second sensation, which imme
diately suoceeds that of drowsiness, is that of
a nervous exoitement, which produces hilarity, 7
and that is followed by a dreamy sensation,
when they become insensible to outward cir
cumstances, and enter into dream-land, wheye
they see green islands, flowing streams, gilded
palaces and happy dreamers. And it is thus
they get a great deal of their theology from
cloud-land. I cannotdescribe the scene as the
Doctor gave the description.
The doctor is hopeful as to missionary
efforts in China. Thinks the enterprize of
Rev. Y. J. Allen, one of the grandest agents
for christianizing the people of that empire,
that of publishing a newspaper, weekly and
tri-weekly. The' only enternrize of the kind
in the realm save the official bulletin at
Pekin.
He was asked as to the success of the pro
posed mission among the Chinese in this
country. He had no ground of hope. The
men, who are here, are the veriest rascals, t
ging needed by tho South. Our planters will
do well to obtain some of the seed and give this
bew staple a fair trial. It may prove of great
Benefit to the whole South.—Charleston Hews.
' From South Carolina.
Columbia, S. C., May 21, 1870.
_Editors Telegraph and Messenger:—A week’s
sojourn in this nest of Radicalism will convince
any Georgian that his own State is in a far bet
ter condition than South Carolina, and he may
well wish that reconstruction may never come
if it brings with it the indignities suffered by
the citizens here. A visitor walks through
street after street and looks in wonder upon the
rains met with at every turn. The business
houses he sees standing are built of motley
brick which tell but plainly of the crucible
through whioh they have' passed. Some hew
houses are going up, but I imagine it will-be
some years before Colombia rajoys her former
prosperity. . _
The Secretary of State is a negro.who two
years ago was worth nothing, bnt now owns the
finest residence in the place. MyibusinesB call
ed me into the office of the Superintendent of
Public Schools. I found him to be a “down-
easter,” known bettor perhaps as a carpet
bagger. He was quite pleasant, and is said
to be one of the best of his class. I had not
been seated five minutes, however, before
several negro officials entered, rad for the first
time in my life I saw the “brothers” together
in an official capacity. I would like to report
the conversation, that went one around me, bnt
I cannot give it in full as other matters called
me away about that time.
I had presented to me by a friend, a photo
graph of the county Superintendent of Educa
tion here. He is a very ordinary negro, of
meager education, and totally unfit for his posi
tion. vaiU cxian .. ' bt’I Vo *d
The new railroad from here to Augusta is in
splendid condition, and runs through a beauti
ful country. You g6t a good meal served on
the train in nice style for seventy-five cents.—
The crops have suffered much for rain, but last
night a terrific storm in which the rain came
down most abundantly, extended from Edgefield
South Carolina, away into Georgia, beyond Au
gusta. It will do much good.
Tho LiddeU-Jooes Tragedy.
We find in the New Orleans Pioayune, of Fri
day, the following paragraph with reference to
the sequel of the above named bloody tragedy;
Messrs. Voloey Liddell and Wads Young were
yesterday arrested and taken before U. S. Com
missioner Urban, on an affidavit made by Cath-
bertP. Jones, charging them with hilling and
murdering his father Charles Jones ana his
brother William Jones, when they were in
charge of the sheriff as prisoner*, on the. 28th
of February Iasi, at Harrisonburg, in the parish
of Catahoula. The aoouaed were remanded to
jail to await an eraminatiog^jol flss^'^wi w* 1
From Hall County.
O* > Gainesville, Hall Co., Ga;-T=
May 19, 1870. j
Editors 1 elegraph and Messenger:
We are all much pleased with the course of
the 1'ei.eoraph and Messenger. Have a
fine prospect for a fruit crop, and small grain
never looked better. The Air Line Railroad
is making fast progress to this place, and we
hope to see the Macon road extended to this
place on its way North. " .
We are in hopes Congress will let us man
age our own affairs soon. Mr. Bullock’s
course don’t suit us exactly.
If we get a chance we will elect men to the
Legislature who will not, for the sake of nine
dollars a day to themselves, be willing to sad
dle a nine dollars a day thx, on every body
else. -We want allvthe counties in the State
to elect men to the Legislature who will be
willing to give their time for three dollars a
day, and out down all the salaries to this mot
to one third, commencing at the Supreme
Court and Governor, and thus relieve us of
our onerous fixes. . And also investigate the
past actions of our former pubhc servants and
give them justice- Respectfully, eta
’a. t?. w.
Fob Futubb Dslivkbt.—For the week ending
May 2 tat, tbe sales of sotton iu New York fox aources
future delivery reached 22,350 bales, at 22 cents
for May, 22 for June, 22} fox July, 21} for An.
glut, 20} for September, rad 19} for October—
all on the basis of low middlings.
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wharf-rats and debased of all tbo inhabitants
of that great empire. Among all the lOOjOOff
in this country, there .is not a single family,
there is not a single stable man m all their
number. If they were all converted, they
could not, from, the nature of circumstances, ts
convert the kingdom. They have no influence,
never can have any in that country. Invidual
souls may be converted, but he has no hope
of a general work among them, r ,
He deprecated the anxiety of many for the .
introduction of Chinese among them. He an
ticipates much trouble on account of the 15th
amendment. The people of California already
hate them, and a greater antagonism will be
the result if this wild and destructive measure
is ever extended to them. They are good
workmen he admits, but more unreliable than
the negro. They are greater knaves. Thus
far, every effort forciviliziDg them,or christen-
izing them in this country has signally failed.
They have their temple in California in whioh
their Gods are enthroned and all attempts to
induce them to abandon this heathenist mode
of worship has proved fruitless. '
This morning in Conference, a report from
the committee on missions recommending the
establishment of missions in Mexico or Texas,
for the benefit of Mexicans. Also protesting
against the profligate use of missionary money
for a country not strictly missionary work, in
older Conferences. Abuses of this kind had
been made known to the committee. Also
recommends tbe employment of a missionary
agent among the Chinese in California—all of
which was adopted*)'* ert-ju &i<r
A resolution was introduced calling for the
election of two more Bishops. This was
amended by striking out two and inserting one
and was adopted. ai:a
The Conference then proceeded to the elec
tion of a Bishop. Ou the first ballot, Hon.
J. C. Keener, of New Orleans received 25.—
Hon. J. A. Duncan 51, and a large scattering
vote. The second ballot, Keener 87, Dun
can S4, scattering 16. Third ballot, Keener
96, Duncan 84, scattering 4, Dr. J. C. Keen
er was declared elected. LaReve.
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To be given away !
A coliege site with 125,000 dollars to boot.
WhoiwiU.have it; if Mercer dont? Wonder
ful liberality to educate the sons of the rich t
Contrasts terribly with 5 cents a day in Bibb
for the education'of the poor. How proud
and prosperous the Maoonians be! Lost
nothing by the war, far richer than ever!
Common things will not do for them any
more, they are so wealthy! Their new court
house must ba palatial, their new college
grand. Plenty taxes, ample salaries, much
money, easy spent and so profitable, never
eatned -and may never be paid, but what of
that, let our children look to it. Is not their
prosperity secured in the new project of a
railroad to the moon, the earthly terminus at
Macon ? Have we not a.million well invested
already? True, we havo had not a dollar in
come from it yet, but then our children will
perhaps, or at least they ought to, for they
will have it to pay, as they deserve, for choos
ing to have such liberal FATHERS.
The one hundredth anniversary ofthe birth
of Beethoven is to be celebrated next month
by a musical festival on a scale never hereto
fore reached by tho Gothamites, The pro
jectors claim, of course, that it will surpass
even tho memorable Boston jubilee of last
year. An immense building is to be erected
oniThird avenue, sufficient to accommodate at
least 25,000 people; * chorus of 3000 voioes,
and an orchestra oflOOO pieces, among them
the Handel and Hayden Society, and Gilmore a-
renowed band, are announced; Mr. G. will
also be one ofthe conductors. The principal
feature of the festival will be the combination
of star artists from all the operatic organisa
tions at present in America, with many for
eign artists of repute.
Wi seo that the City. Council of Atlanta has
remitted $4 and some odd cents taxtoE B,
Bollock, showing that the council aforesaid are
sorry for £. B, for having spent Ml his hard
earnings in endeavoring to have Georgia a re
developed,” rad are disposed to give
him a lift
B. H. Shacklxvobd, one of the moet promin
ent lawyers of Virginia, diedl^j ^k in Salem, .
Fauquier, ooaaty, .
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