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Telegraph" >aad Messenger.
Wo copy onj ouj- abroad* the Pastorfd letfey
Of tho, late' Prosbyicriim Assembly, of W-
ville,^. vindicationof fhoatnon of tfiat^body,
Jo relation "to tho advances "recently made by
the Northern Presby terian Ge^ent Assembly in
Philadelphia. We need not say it is a very able
paper. The Louisville Assembly numbered
some men of rare ability, and did not fail, on
fhia oooasion,-to make as convincing anrerposi-'
tion as the caso admits of. It isa large subject,
involving many vast considerations, affecting the
whole question of the proper policy of the South
ern citizen and Christian) and the future of the
country under a - common government. We
look upon this movement in the Methodist,
Tire Confederate Graves.
The eighteen graves of Confederate oflSaera,
_ and three hundred and sixteej-graves of Con-
federate soldiers, were conspicuously decorated
with pasteboard, atf a'seeming warning that no
floral tribute should be plaoed on them. Sev
eral ladies iand gentlemen ventured, however,
to place some flowers there, but a Committee
pf the Grand Army of the Republic snatched
them off,"and threatened with, afrest any one
who repeated the act:'-—Washington Special to
Oourier-JoumaB^^^^^
We have no desire to comment upon the
above, further tbCn.ft obntrastjho HfJirit exhib
ited at Washingtonj&th that shown at Chatta
nooga and other points South, on the- oooasion
of the decoration of the grave3 of the Federal
dead by ex-Confederate soldiora, and ‘SoWhern"
men and women generally. The Radical papers
published at the South have noticed and called
public attention to this spirit, congratulating
aU parties upon the happy results, it seemed to
them, to promise. We have not seen, in any
^he Gewgif Press.
The only incident of local importance'in Co
lumbus, Wednesday, was.aVfree dog fight at
Hogan’s ice house.
Dillon & Anderson’s warehouse, in Savannah,
was robbed, Tuesday morning, of $S0 worth of
bacon 1 , and a quantity of flour.
On Tuesdaya rasurname unknown, fell over
the bluff on Bay street; Savannah, a distance of
thirty feet, and was fatally injured.
_ Daniel Moses,.belying- his name as a man of
meekness, shot and seriously wounde^,’William
Smith;' at 'SaVahnaK, Tuesday" afternoon, and
ntgovtUgbUyvrnuT'dpdft.TT'ftrt'WflTnpATn'nAg^
b Mr. James Roberta,-ofSarannab-, was, thrown
from a buggy Tuesday, and had his head pain
fully cut by coming in contact with the curb
stone. The negro driver wa§ thrown out against
the wooden grating, of a window, which was
Baptist and Presbyterian‘denominations as a ^ .. t . ... _ ..
subject^ opened and likely to involve an iin- Eadlcal paper pnbhshed .anywhere at the South,
smashed. No damage to the head is reported.
A man named B. H. Arnett, alias Cullars,
alias Dallas, hailing from Lincoln county, was
I' a Of ..complaint against the arrested Monday, at 'Augusta, on a charge of
pe0pI °’ as re 8 ords their attituda to " mm
.the most serious and. pregnant events of the day,-
ahd leave them to the public and private reflec
tion and debate; , ‘ <f ':
• • t '• Town or City.
■ Wo see a local paragraph in yesterday's edition
takes exception to the use of the word “town”
applied bjf certain Savannah counsel to Macon.
It is spoken of as an “epithet.” , Town is a
good old Saxon' word and is applied to very
large places. Cowper begins his popular story
Of John Gilpin as follows:
“John Gilpin was a citizen
( 1 • 1 Of credit and renown;
A train-band captain eke was ho,
Of famous London town.”
The word “town” wa3 originally strictly ap
plied to all that part of London outside of the I tribute of' respect and affection to tho dead.—
old city walls, and tho word “town,” in contra- We are sure there are not ten men in this
distinction to “city,” is still used to designate the | city, for instance, who would have'lifted
Cpurt end of London. The nobility in taking j finger to obstruct or binder the Andersonville
np their city quarters are said to return to town, ceremonies, and we believe the some is trno of
And hence, following this fashion, my lady in I every other locality in Georgia. Tho Southern
New York or Philadelphia,when she goes to tho I people will be the very last on this globe to in-
springs, is said to be “out of town,” and when terfero with, or even sneer at those who thus
the season is over .says she will return “to honor men whom their surviving, comrades and
town." So tho planters in Georgia when they friends believe gave their lives for a principle,
speak of going to their centre of trade, say they It has been and will be for all time to come,
are “going to town.” On tho whole “town” is a the especial province of the South thus to show
respectable designation, and Macon can toler- her appreciation, and sho will never cavil at
ate it with no loss of dignity. Wo hope she will others who follow her example
wards tho Federal memorial day,.and those who
participated in its ceremonies. They one and
all are agreed, so far as wo have seen, upon this
point V _ .
It is true that very few of the Southern peo
ple took any part in these Federal memorial
services, and for reasons very obvious .to all.
But it is equally true that there was no op
position offered by them either in word or
deed, to these services, or any obstruction placed
in tho way of those who conducted and partici
pated in them. The Sonth having taught the
North tho custom of decorating the graves of
her dead heroes, conld not consistently raise
any objection to Its being followed, provided,
of course, as with her people, it was non-par
tisan in its character, and only meant as a
never be called by any worse name.
Felicitous.
Mr. Stephens sends ont the second volume
of his history of the lata oivil war, with tho fol
lowing felicitous and most beautiful dedication:
“To the memory of those whose lives, in the
laie war between the States, were sacrificed,
either in battle, in hospital, in prison or else
where, in defense of the Sovereign Right of Lo
cal Self-Government, on the part of tho people
of the several States of the Federal Union; and
in defence of those principles upon which that
Union was established, and on which alone it or
any other union of the States can be maintained
consistently with the preservation of Constitu
tional Liberty throughout the country, this vol-
nme is most solemnly and sacredly dedicated:
while others are to-day strewing flowers upon
their graves, this oblation, with like purpose and
kindred emotions, is that contribnted by the
author, to the same hallowed shrine.”
The Rural Carolinian
The June number was received yesterday and
contains many valuable articles—such as the I Washington is very gratifying and honorable to
“Cause and Prevention of Rust in Cotton,” the Southern “rebels.” We are willing to go
Shading the Ground—showing the benefits of I before the jury of enlightened public opinion,
mulching; ‘,Tho Cultivation of Celery;” Propa- the world over, for a verdict as between the™
gation by Budding (illustrated;) The Squash I and their revilers and oppressors, on this one
Vifle Borer (illustrated;) “Iron and its uses— fact alone. Let the honor, justice, chivalry, and
tho Atlanta Rolling Mills;” “Industrial Schools;” I impartiality of Europe decide between those who
“Irrigation in Eastern Spain;” “Education for disgraced themselves in attempting to dishonor
tho Agriculturists;” “Immigration and Direct | the noble dead at Arlington, and tho thousands
When the Southern people are persuaded,
however—and we know many of them are—that
this decoration business on the part of the
North, and Radical officials and politicians at the
South, especially, is intended as a huge elec
tioneering machine to keep the negroes true
that party, they cannot feel any respect for it,
or those who run it. We do not say that this
the case, but we know a great many who do
believe. But even with such a widespread be
lief there has been no demonstration of dissatis
faction, much less of active opposition on the
part of anybody at the Sonth. The friends of
the Federal dead, in Georgia, have decorated
their graves amid all the pomp and circumstance
of flags, and banners, and martial music, and
no Southern man has wagged finger or tongue,
They have looked on and listened, seeing and
hearing many things that they conld not help
believing were especially intended to annoy
them, and yet not even a little boy made
month or raised a shout. All was peace and
order.
The contrast between this picture and that at
Trade;” and “The Sisal Hemp Question.” A
fine portrait and an interesting biographical 1
Bkelch of Hon. Horace Capron, Commissioner
of Agriculture, occupies the leading place in the
of Southern men and women who paid the tri
bute of respectful silence, at least, to ceremo
nies that in the natural order of thjngg and with
number, and will attract attention.-as will “My human nature 03 their prompter, were equally
Fear Experience;” “Domestication of the Os-1 distasteful to them. Their behavior showed
trich;” Chinese Immigration, an Adverse View;” not only the difference in blood but in breeding
n a**
hints. Tho illustrations are as usual, numerous, I noble and manly is now more thoroughly
appropriate and well executed. Published at I established than ever with all whose opinion is
Charleston, S. O., by Walker, Evans & Cogswell worth having. And right there, we are willing
and D. Wyatt Aiken. Two dollars a year. to rest th h(
> whole question.
A Bombshell in the Camp.—Don Piatt writes
to the Cincinnati Commercial (Rad.) that tho
news that tho Democrats had carried the New
York State election outside the city, made the
Radicals at Washington “drap" their nnder-
jaws. Ho says:
I take my meals at Welcker’s, where quite a
number of Congressmen feed, and the morning
the news reached ns, and each man opened his
morning journal to read the news, a dead si
lence, a deep gloom fell upon the room, so
m&Tked that a stranger would have taken mrfor
a collection of undertakers, refreshing ourselves
upon the cold baked meats of a funeral.
The mats of the thieves and swindlers who hate
crowded vpon the Republican craft, until it is
fairly swamped, for the first time begin to real
ize that their days are numbered—their doom
• sealed.
Windmill Drainage.
As a general thing mere wind-work is not
solid performance, but it has often occurred to
us that if, as alleged, the City Reserve is not
sufficiently elevated to be drained by ditching,
it might be economically dried as pretty much
all Holland is, on very reasonable terms, by
windmill pumps. . The Wilmington Journal has
tho following upon tho application of this
method of drainage to a rice swamp:
Dr. J. E. Winants, the purchaser, two or
three years ago, of the rice plantation former
ly owned by Mr. S. P. Ivey, has been and is
still engaged in a series of experiments with
various cereals, and has, we believe, attained
an encouraging degree of success. He has al
ready made a profitable crop of hay, and is now
trying what can bo done with corn, cotton, etc.
To obviate the difficulty arising from want of
Emancipation in Spain.—Tho Spaniards arc . P „ P. ,
*•£« * r:'““ sssu&i&isskss&s
in tho enforced emancipation of tho slaves. cven ^jth imperfect dams, insufficient ditches,
The draft of as emancipation law was read in etc., it keeps fifty acres of land dry enough to
tho Cortes last Saturday, tho provisions of admit of ploughing. Regulating the extent of
which are: That children bom slaves since ei P° scd 4he ^ “ ccordin e as the
, wind may be, high or otherwise, and always
13o$ shall bo free, and all those bom after the | keeping faced to the wind, it requires no care,
promulgation of the decree Bhall bo uncondi- except oiling, and performs its work steadily at
tionally free. In tho former caso tho govern- night as well as in the day. When at full speed
ment is to indemnify owners by paying §50 per » pnmp from six to seven thousand gallons
tuu low iimcmuu, zvj o x* per hour. If Dr. Winants succeeds in raising
head. Slaves who have fought in the Spanish j on these (since the war) useless Tnnrfaj
service, and all over sixty-five years of sge, are I they will no donbt soon bo put into a state cul-
to be immediately set free. Tho proposed law tivation. The entire cost of one of these wind
is favorably received in the Cortes. “dls P um P s » ab °ut _$500. We should
think truck gardening would pay on rice lands.
The soil requires no fertilizers, and the money
saved in that direction would easily purchase the
windmill.
Now the Dutch “Polders,” or meadows, over
Oglethobpe College.—At a meeting of the
Board of Trustees of this institution, held hero
yesterday, it was decided that the erection of
the College boildings at Atlanta should com- j wb i cb tJm g ea once flowed, and which are pro-
mence at once, and be finished in time for the I tected by dykes and kept drained by pumps
commencement of exercises in January next. .1 d riven by windmills, produce almost every va*
Rev. Dr. Wills accepts the Presidency of the | riety of cropB belonging to the latitude in ex-
Oollege, unconditionally.
The old College buildings at Midway have
been tamed over to the people there, and will
be converted into a High School.
AFniOnTFDLscene occurredattheBowery The
atre, New York, on Saturday night. The yonng
woman who performs in the cage with the Pama
lions was seized by the throat by one of the
beasts and terribly lacerated before she conld
bo rescued. Her piercing shrieks threw the au
dience into a panic, and many people fainted.
She was taken home and received prompt sur
gical attention.
A Question or Pbecedjxce.—In the way of
rebuking “theheathenismof caste distinctions,
the New York Tribune bolds up to execration
the conduct of a young lady who refnsed to be
baptised in the same tank with an African
traordinary abundance, and prima facie it ap
pears to ns very probable that the swamps of
the city reserve conld be kept dry by the same
method, and could be made to prodnoe extraor
dinary crops and bring an income which should
cover the cost of such drainage, if no other or
better be practicable. We throw ont this hint
for phblio consideration.
Territorial Government for tbe
District of Columbia.
The Senate has passed a bill for territorial
izing the District. Synopsized, its provisions
are as follows :
It provides for a Governor and Legislative
Assembly, consisting of a Council and House of
Representatives, and for the consolidation of
the District under one Government. Among
the amendments adopted is one limiting the
debt of the Government to $1,000,000. Anoth
er amendment provides: “That the charters
brother. We suppose it was a question of -
precedents, and refuse to be shocked at the of the corporations of Washington and George-
v ... i Q1 a_ , - _ , town, shall not be repealed without a vote of a
conduct of the yonng lady it she was denied ma j7 rity of the legal voters of Washington and
the first dip. Georgetown, respectively given atalegal meeting
n „ -P„T rn ,VT The New York JTerois caUe d f° r purpose. And in case of the re-
On Polygamy.-The Now xork Herald, of peal o£ the cha £ er £aforesaid, or either of them,
Monday, publishes in four columns the reply of 1 the said Legislative Assembly shall have power
Orson Pratt, Sr., Mormon elder, to the sermon
of Dr. Newman, of Washington, against Poly-
garnv, delivered before the President. Pratt
hows himself an adroit controversialist, and
makes a strong case; but it will not satisfy the
public. ■
The Wilmington (N. O.) Star, of the 31st
ult, speaks of having receiyed tbe first ripe ap
ple of the season.
to levy a special tax upon property within such
corporation for the payment of the debts there
of, and for no other purpose.” The salary of
the Governor is fixed at §4000 and of the Sec
retary at S-'r.oo. Section nineteen of the aot to
enforce the Fifteenth Amendment is added aa
an additional section, and is numbered section
twenty-eight. That -section imposes for this
District the seme penalties that are imposed in
the States and Territories for interfering with
voters.
forgery.
By the running away of a pair of horses at
tached to a carriage, in Augusta, : on Tuesday,
and the upsetting of tiih carriage, a negro wo
man hail her back broken.
. A Scriven county correspondent writes to the
Chronicle and Sentinel of crop and other mat-
^ers in that county. We make the following ex-
Guano cotton seems to be the rage. Every
planter has qppUeid as much commercial fertili
zers as his purso or his credit would admit of,
and it is .but the expression of truth to say that
not more than one-third of the cotton crop is np
in the'space of country before mentioned. The
planters who prepared early and planted care
fully have fine stands, and some have thinned
clown to a stand and plowed over. Such cotton
looks well and bids.fair to make a fine yield.
There has been a great scarcity of field hands
this season. To rent land seems to be their one
and only idea. Many struck for half the crop
this year,- with the ■ intention cf stealing tho
balance. Some'sncceeded' in tho first, and in
all probability Will the 1 latter. '
i After, this year the question of how many
hands have you on your plantation will be for
ever obsolete. ,
i T think the darkey will send, for tho plante:
to cornu to him, and dictate Is is own terms,
which will be about as follows: “Now, boss, 'I
kin git de bans, yon is got de Ian and moles.
£ ib ns de lan and six mules an feed do mules
id gib us all de farmin inteutiils, and wo will
gib you two suites of close, one pair shoe?; hat
an blanket, provided, always, yon find our
moat.” But how is tho poor fellow to furnish
meat. Ho once counted his meat hogs by hun
dreds. They have all been confiscated by the
darkey, and now the farmer would ride a3 far
to find a hog trail as he once would have done
to run a deer. .' , J '
■ We had a fine rain last night, and to-day
things looks bettor and.we all feel bettor. Cot
ton will be np in a few days, but the grass
about one month in advance, and, taking all
things into consideration, as far as heard from,
many planters cannot rely upon mere than half
ai crop from cotton that mast appear above the
ground a week hence.
The Constitutionalist. defines its position on
the question of negro suffrage, and the policy it
thinks, tho Democratic party of this State should
adopt with reference to that class of votes. We
make some extracts from the article:
! “Now, in case Georgia should have a canvass
in November, which is extremely problematical,
it behooves the'Democracy to make war on no
class. It is not necessary even to moot the
question -of -the policy of negro suffrage. We
can simply claim the constitutiond right of the
State to regulate the question for herself. We
favor-any system of suffrage that works the be i t
after fair trial and experiment; but, at the
same time, with all the vigor at command, we
would hold, even before a negro audience, that
the surest means of preserving public liberty,
to them as well as to the whites, is for the right
of regulating this question to be lodged with the
States—just as Mr. Jefferson, who had always
been in favor of emancipation, insisted that it
should be so lodged. Our people, by all proper
and practical instrumentalities, can be left to
control the next black vote, as far as possible,
without the compromission of either principle
or dignity. Not from any fears arising on this
scoro do we oppose negro suffrage. Wo oppose
tho principle upon which it is sought to bo con
sidered as an established fact. This principle
involves all that is essential for tho preservation
of our fresdom. •
There is a good deal of mere passion in the
cry that this is a “White Man’s Government.”
Tho troth is that it was not thought, at the time
of its formation, that negroes, Indians and sav
ages generally would ever be clothed with poli
tical rights nnder it There is little donbt of
that Still the principles on which it was found
ed looked really to no race or color; they were
broad and catholic; they embraced all peoples
fit for self-government. The Southern people
have no prejudice against mere race or color.
Wo do not tight the black man, bat we do fight
the conspirators who work onr ruin behind
hint"
The Bamesville Gazette chronicles four deaths
in that vicinity,- from Saturday to Tuesday last
Mrs. M. A Carter, Mrs. Verdin, one of the first
settlers of the county, Wm. Hardin, and Dr. J.
W. Strother.
Rev. J. W. Lindsey, of Upson county, died
last week, c
The Hawkinsville Dispatch seconds the Alba
ny News’ motion for the resignation of the pres
ent President of the Georgia State Agricultural
Society, and nominates Rev. G. W. Howard for
that position.
Weather showery all day in Atlanta Wednes-
day.
The work of taking the census has commenced
in Atlanta.
Atlanta has received 15,000 bales of cotton
since September. Almost as much as Hawkins
ville.
A man named Joe Reeves was killed, Wed
nesday, near Cartersville, by a rock falling on
him, while being raised by a derrick.
The Athens Watchman gives the particulars
of the killing near that place, on Thursday, of
W. EL Puryear, by his son-in-law, Wm. H.
Jones. It appears that the two had a quarrel,
and afterwards Puryear found Jones in a small
room and advanced upon Mm with a chair in a
threatening maimer. As there was no means
of retreat, Jones seized a loaded rifia and
warned Puryear not to advance. The warning
being neglected, Jones discharged the gun,
shooting him through the head, of which wound
be died instantly. Ptuyear was drinking, and
had been abusing Ms family and Mrs. Jones.
Jones surrendered himself immediately, but
was not committed on account of insufficient
evidence.
The Cartersville Express says
We record with grateful hearts, that we have
had good seasons all over the country. Oats
have reenperated wonderfully, and will make a
good yield. Com andootton are vieing with
each other to see wMch can outgrow. Wheat
good and will soon be ready for tho “harvest
home.”
The Americas Republican pronounces as
“disgraceful,” the action of the Street contrac
tor of that plaoe,in making two young wMte wo
men work on the streets. Rather we should
say.
At a meeting held in Americas, Wednesday,
the interest of the proposed Americas and
Newnan Railroad, a delegation of fifteen gentle-
ment were appointed to attend the convention
on the 16th inst.
Of Bullock’s speech at Andersonville, Mon
day, the Americas Republican says:
Bullock mounted a wagon, and began a phi
lippic against the Confederacy, the people, and
against everything he oonld think of. Referring
to the treatment of prisoners at Andersonville,
he said that six prisoners were one day tfiken
out of the stockade, tied hand and foot, ate
alive by savage dogs, and that there wero two
soldiers present with Krysanowski, who were
eye witnesses to the dead, and oonld testify to
upSn this very issue she was separated from her
old associations. Brought now, throftgh their
overtures, for the first time face to faoe with the
Northern Churchy _ _
at once into view. We^were cast , forth, nine
years ago, for this testimony to one of the grand
ideas of the gospel. We must go beck with it
still upon onr lips, and ask those who desire of
ficial relations-yrith rfcjdo we forth. tMso rela- L.JL.
tions with a spiritual or with a political church ? on acoount of errors neld, or suppose to be held
We cannot do otherwise without recanting our on the one side, and the purposed to testify
... own-words and indorsing the very error which against the same on the other, a formal recog-
Bsethben It 18 alike theprivilege- ^ eoo i es iastioal exile. We declare, nitionof each other may be incompatible with
Southern Presbyterians on Re-union
Response to tbe .Northern Oyertnres,
PASTORAI. LETTER.
The General Assembly of tie Presbyterian
Churches in the United States to all the
Churches under its care sendeth greeting
with any chnrch is ont of accord with the spirit
of the times, which finds expression in formal
protestations of amity and unity between al
ty principle emerges evangelical Christians. Bat a little reflection
■*——^Viil make it manifest that this want of accord is
ionly apparent, not real, so far as relates to any
unity which is founded on a common reverence
for the truth of Chrisfc For in ehrery case of
separation between brethren of the’ same chnrch
and duty o{ alLthe,courts of the chuncb-and-
especially of the; General Assembly, as looking
forth upon the’ whole field from -the point of
highest elevation, occasionally.:to-nddress- the
churches under its care upon topics which vital
ly affect the interests of i tho entire body. In
the discharge of this Episcopal function this
General Assembly now addresses you upon a
matter of -fundamental - importance, which hjia-
supremely engaged its own attention daring its
present sessions in the city of Lonisville.
Yon have been aware, for a twelvemonth past.,
of an overtnre;from the Old Sohool Assembly,
North, adopted at its session in 18G9, tendering
salutations to ns and expressing the desire of
par anion with them at no distant .day. This
overture was virtually.superseded by the fusion
vvMofi subsequently took place between, the two
great Rreebyterian branches North into one or
ganization. This united body, sitting contempo
raneously with ourselves, in Philadelphia, has
passed a resolution appointing a committee of
conference to act with a similar committee
which they invite ns to appoint, who shall joint-'
ly discuss the difficulties existing between the
two bodies and prepare the way for .a permanent
and fraternal correspondence. This proposition
was conveyed to ns by a special delegation; con
sisting of Rev. Drs. J. 0. Backus and EL J. Van
Dyke and tho Hon. W. E. Dodge—gentlemen of
the highest character trail personally most ac
ceptable to US—who discharged their delicate
mission in a spirit and manner which made the
most pleasant impression of their courtesy as
well as ability.
In response to tois proposition, this General
Assemblyhas agreed, in tho spirit of concilia
tion and Christian kindness, to appoint the
committee of conference which was desired,and
then, in the form of instructions to the same,
has laid down the principles which should con
trol tho whole matter,, and npon which alone
any correspondence on onr part would be possi
ble. It may perhaps appear to you, and it will
doubtless be so represented by others, that a
proposition so simple as that of conferenco for
the . adjustment of difficulties might have been
left unembraced by any antecedent enunciation
of what tho Assembly regards as the obstruc
tions to fraternal and official correspondence.—
It is precisely this wMcb we desire yon to under
stand, as well as the reasons which impelled ns
to the course we have pursued. The reflective
and thoughtfnl amongst you will at once receg-
nizo that, in diplomatic intercourse, the first
Step is always the most important. .’Ibis this
that determines all the future and dependent
negotiations; and, however nnobstrusive the in
itiatory measure may appear to be, it is often
pregnant with concealed results of vast magni
tude. This is pre-eminently true in the case
before ns. It was incumbent npon us to watch
narrowly, lest, in the very opening of negotia
tions, wo might incautiously surrender the prin
ciples wo hold, with slipping from onr grasp, we
might never be able to recover.
The overtnre from the Northern Assembly was
based npon the fatal assumption that mntnal
grievances existed, in reference to wMch it be
came necessary to arbitrate. This assumption
is precisely what we cannot truthfully concede.
Our records may bo searched in vain for a
single act of aggression, or a single unfriendly
declaration, against the Northern chnrch. "We
have assnmed no attitude of hostility to ward it.
In not a single case has there been an attempt to
wrest from them their chnrch property. In not
a single case has there been hesitation in receiv
ing their members into our commnnion upon the
face of their credentials, amonst the hundreds
who have come to make their homo with us
since the war. In not one instance has there
been exhibited a spirit of retaliation in regard to
any of those very measures instituted against
ourselves by the Assembly of 18G5, and by sub
sequent Assemblies.
"Whatever obstructions may be in tho way of
ecclesiastical fellowship were not created by ns,
and we conld not allow ourselves to be placed in
the false position before the world of parties
who had been guilty of wrong to the Northern
Church. Having placed nothing in tho way of
Christian fraternity, there was nothing for ns to
remove. Whilst, therefore, in Christian cour
tesy wo were willing to appoint a Committee of
Conference, it was necessary to guard against
all misconstruction and misrepresentation by
instructing our commissioners to remember this
fact, and restricting them to the duty of simply
reporting and expounding what we considered
indispensable to an honest correspondence,
•which should not, by its insincerity and hollow
ness, be an offense to our Divine Master.
Inasmuch as we bad never been aggressors
against the peace, security and prosperity of the
Northern Church, and had not undertaken to
approach them with proposals of any sort, Chris
tian candor required us, as tho party approached,
to state exactly the difficulties wMch did embar
rass this question of correspondence. Without
going into much detail or multiplying the speci
fications, these wero summed up under four
heads; the significance and importance of
wMch we -would have yon to appreciate.
It most be remembered then that in 18G1 the
organization of the Sonthem chnrch was com
pelled by what are known as the “Spring Reso
lutions,” which committed the Old School As
sembly, with which we were at that time con
nected, to a particular political theory, and
complicated the chnrch at once with the State.
The necessary effect of this political legislation
by the Assembly of 1861 was to force the entire
Southern constituency ont of that connection,
who were compelled in their disorganized con
dition at once to integrate in the Sonthem As
sembly, which was soon afterward formed. The
earliest Deliverance of this onr own body was
the assertion of the non-secnlar and non-politi
cal character of the Chnrch, as the Kingdom of
Jeans Christ, spiritual in its nature and mission,
and entirely separate from and independent of
the State. And in subsequent deliverances—as
those of tbe Assembly of 18G5, at Macon, and
the two utterances of the Assembly of 18GG, at
Memphis, and the formal acceptance of the
statement of dootrines and principles of the
Synod of Kentucky on the subjeot, by the As
sembly of 18G7, at Nashville—the supreme
court of the Southern Chnrch has, with singular
steadfastness, testified for the same great troth.
Upon this very issue we became an organized
Church, as distinct from that ont of whose
bosom we had been throat by the assertion and
operation of the contrary and Erastian doctrine
that the Chnrch might rightfully intermingle
her jurisdiction with that of the Commonwealth.
Through several consecutive years, both branch
es of the’now United Assemblies persisted in
tbe utterances of political dogmas, whiob,
whether true or false, they were inMbited by
the word of God and by their own statute laws
therefore, that we can hold “DO official oorres- the very endhelfiln vtewln th# separation. It
pondenoe with fte Northern Churab unless tbe j may involve San #tter obscuration of the testi-
Savior is reinstated in the full acknowledgment ] mony of the witnesses. ' Thus it will be remem-
of His kingship in His own Church. Called to rbered there waa no official correspondence be-
tMs testimony, for wMch we Rave already suf- | tween the two bodies into whioh our churchdi-
fered the spoiliigofotfrgood^ weeanndt lay It I videil in 1837-8 for tho space of twenty-five
down at the very moment when that testimony years; though each held offioial correspondence
becomes the most significaht. with other bodies even less near to them in doc- devolves the duty of taking^he ’^1
Again: The overture before ns professedly trine and order. N or » indeed, was such corres- the name of every person whose
founds npon the happy union just accomplished pondence even proposed until it was suggested
-between the Oid and NewBobools North. This by & preliminary to organio re-union. The
is singularly unfortunate, for, in our judgment, Christian interests of both bodies suggested that
the fiegofiations through which this union was such correspondence must involve the incon-
consuinmated betrayed those sacred testimonies sistency,.on the part of"each, of standing apart
off a former generation, for the most precious j from the other, under not only the same articles
and vital of the doctrines of grace. ’ Oordiffl- of faith, but the same constitution—each bear-
culty is not the mere fusion of these two assem- ing witness against the other while affecting re-
blies into one. A similar fusion took place six latioDS of unity.
years ago ■ between ourselves and the United ' In the. spirit, therefore, of these counsels, we
Bynod of the Sonth. But the difference between I commend you, brethren in the Lord; to Him
the two cases is wide as the poles. The Synod that is able to keep you from falling and to
of the South united with us upon the first inter- comfort you with all the joys of His salvation,
change of doctrinal vietW, upon a square ac- The pastoral letter was then adopted, and the
ceptance of the standards, without any meta- ] following dissents-ordered to bo placed upon
physical hair-splitting to find a sense in which ] the niinutes:
to receive them,, and without , any expunging of dissents. rt - 1 :
whole chapters from the history of the past The undersigned, who voted in the • negative
with ti 10 , sacred, testimonies 'With much these on adoption of tho report of the Committee
are filled. It is not,.therefore, the .amalgams- on Foreign Correspondence in reply to the dele
tion of these bodtet at the North, simply con- j g a y oa from the Northern General Assembly,
sidered.wMch embarrasses ns, but ft Is the doBiro, in explanation of their vote, tossy, that
method by whieh rt-was achieved-the accept- if 0 f the report denominated “instruo-
ance of ^© standards, m comprehensible ti6ng „ r to onr commissioners had been put in
sense, by which the united Assembly becomes a thef( - rm of « a statement” or “declaration of
sort of broad church, giving shelter to every j principles >> aa tie „ rotmda of difference be
^ ree fn I rt 1 pflnoiI^tm t on tweeu 113 and that Assembly, rather than in the
AntMomtanism and Fatalism upon the other! fPP are h nt tho Northern
If correspondence' with such a Ur conld be
allowed at all, it cannot be based npon « pre- j v6ted g afflrmati ° e . ' l “ 6y Woma nave
Taking tise
This interesting pro'eess was bv U
been commenced Wednesday A.G v ,0
New York Herald, the following
in which the population of the wiu.i
be numbered. The census takers
?!<)«
their rounds- in their respective^*®
visiting each: dwelling house, whett^l
or country, iand each inarm
meat, as also such other places "s'
necessary to obtain information" f P ' !
ginning with the population ho ntu!®' "i|
questions wMch are printed on
marked “Schedule 1.” His fin;t ° !
number the dwelling houses in Q. Q . m - v i» i
visitation and to number the faniilir-J
therein in like manner. Let us ffl ',
house 7 Norrl,contains one family
taker,-who is 1 an employed asshhtf Nl
United States Marshal, , upon wlS ^ «
May 30, 1870.
N. E. Goodwin,
: Ruling Elder.
Rev. J. Hexby Smith,
Rev. Walteb W. Phabb.
amble which constructively indorses a recession,
from the safe land-marks wMoh is to all the
lovers of sound Christianity the^" occasion.of
grief. We have been constrained, therefore,
to fence onr commissioners with a caution not
to commit ns in any degree to that diplomacy
by which the union was-accomplished, and so ■ - . , ...
to rob us of our birthright in those testimonies, - the
whioh is all that we brought out with ns : from r “ Ct T
that grand old Mstorio.Church of the past.
Again; we require as an indispensable con- T7 ,. \ ^
dition to all correspondence a renunciation , ytenan Chinch, now sitting m
of. that theory of church government which R“ adel f^ a > p f pos fS a conference, with a
practically obliterates the lower courts and de- ^i^ e ^ 3 te ^ al o C0 f ^ esp0ndeilce » for ‘ho follow-
stroysthe appellate character of the General -? ,
Assembly, tinder wMch that unrighteous decis- 1 ’ B f ause 14 advocated and appears to
ion was reached against the Syncxfi of Kentucky r 1110 a , Ct A
and Missouri. The former of these two bodies “*£ by ^ Eorth f e ™ G ? ne « d As "
being now a constituent portion of this Assem- Z&xS&ZS* 40 b f .directed against a sup-
bly las a just claim upon us for the protection ^Jy^avowed ’ ’ WaS ^
of their good name from the defamation they I ^ o iir ' ii . _ ,
have experienced as witnesses to the principles n Qmstnictlons arraign
which are common to ns and them. Not only ** now constituted <m its
doe3 good faith require ii3 to keep covenant with the most senous charges,
those who have entered into union with ns, but H J? 6 4 ° tal gender of fundamental doctnnes
they are we and we are they, bound together as ?L S f a r Ce ’, 88 with the discrowning of: the
witnesses in a common testimony. Fidelity to f^ ord Christ, which, even if we believe
this testimony demands that those who have 4 ° 1 ^ 14 ^ 18 - at leas4: “decorous to pre-
been martyrs to our common faith shall be re
instated in their good name before we can fra
ternally embrace those by whom they are ma
ligned. Upon the principle that the interpreta
tion of the law is the law, it is a simple requisi
tion that this interpretation be disallowed, nn
der which true and faithful men were unconsti
tutionally condemned. •
fer while in the act of accepting its proposition
for fraternal confidence.
3. Because it wears an aspect of inconsistency
on onr part, in that while we accept their pro
posal for conference we require conditions man
ifestly offensive and ont of place in a simple con
ference asked by them.
4. Because it places tMs Assembly and the
, Southern Presbyterian Church—we do not sav
The fourth and last condition of this corres- intentionally or consciously, yet, in spite of aU
pondence was the unequivocal retraction of the explanation^, places ns, notonly in face of onr
imputations against ourselves, industriously cir- Northern brethren, but before the world, in an
ciliated throughout Christendom. This we attitude palpably, and to many of ns painfully,
wouldhave clearly discriminated from personal variant from th £ placable anc f charitable spirit
resentment or an unforgiving spint. It is com- of tie gospel of £ ace and good will>
_ It is com
pelled by a proper sense of self-respect and a
due regard to the honor of onr Own church. It
is the homage wMch we are constrained to pay
to troth and Mstory. 'We cannot accept,' even
by implication, the charges with wMch the re
cords of both wings of the United Assembly are
filled. Extending, as they do, to heresy and
blasphemy, they are of the nature of judicial
accusations, winch most either be sustained or
withdrawn. The “respect and honor and Chris
tian love” with wMch we are approached in this
overture are certainly inconsistent with the be
lief of these grave imputations. If not believed
H. L. Singleton,
Jas. L. Wixhebspoon,
i W. C. Kebe,
T. H. Rice.
I coincide in the above protest, excepting the
fourth article. P. Joxes.
An Ingenious way op Making Freehold
Voters is narrated by the New York Herald of
Monday, nnder the head of “a mean Radical
dodge to catch the negro vote." The Herald
„ . (■■PPMI is beginning to understand “their tricks and
to be true, they should bo canceled, much more I j be j t ^armors *”
for the sake of those who have pronounced them At a recent election for Town Commissioners
thanof ourselves, who have so long borne the in Chestertown, Md., the negroes carried the
reproach. However tins may be, any form of day by one of tho me ’ Kest spe K des of fraT , dlha 0
intercourse, while they remain upon record, | th | Flfteenth Amendment has yet produce£-
would bo a tacit acquiescence in the same, and
submission to the dishonor wMch has been
cast npon the name of bur people and of our
church.
The differences betwixt ns and tbe Northern
Chnrch are too vast and solemn to allow this
i name of eveiy person whose place
the first of June, 1870, was|ia thkU
description of each person is recorded? *1
eludes his or her age at last birthdav ^ *1
under one year, the months are simn' • *1
Furthermore, the sex must be sGteV-.^’M
with the letter ‘M;,if female with the lLi ^1
TUo color of tbe persons is thus
white with a ‘W,’ if black with a ‘R v ed; l |
with an ‘M,’ if Chinese with a ‘C,’ andin^ I
with an ‘L’ The .importance of these 0 r ^1
are self-apparent They enable 'the r : ° tl l
ment to ascertain the name, ago a^d i ^ I
every person from infancy to old age Va • t<i l
therefore imperative upon tho peor^Lu 11 »I
each question truthfully. Maiden U' SCs * # l
widows of doubtful ages should not JS? ^
Goverement.and render its MnumabW 5 ^ I
b!e by insisting upon their being not I
twenty-five years old, while old beanr !'/ I
must not stick at forty. Reliability l, 38
aim and desire of the authorities "all
will perceive the necessity of
From the same source we gather th- r ■ I
ing information concerning tho professt*
pupations, and trades in which the |
male population are engaged. In the for? •
six questions, that paper says, the numif 5 *
persons in each family is obtained, end os ?
speaking, the census of the population i’c■
But it is desirable that tho profession LtT''
tion or trada-of each person, male or ''
shall be obtained, and to this end a a
concerning this desideratum will b e pnt p ? 1
person is a lawyer, a shopkeeper or a can**
he simply states the fact for record. IV?’
there is no business tho answer is ‘c 0 r» >
cept in cases-where some aristocratic indinV-''
desires to inform the government that he i
•gentleman,’ wMch means everything f-*‘L
person who lives on the income arisingfrmv 1 1
property to one who spends his time in (SI
the tiger. Seriously, however, it bsingdt^
to leamwhatthe variousoccupationaofthei?
ulation are, this inquiry should be fully I
Bwered. 1 K ' |
In taking the census, more difficulty we an. 1
hend will be experienced in the South thaiiI
any other section of the Union. This wa l I
owing to the prevalence in it of its negro nor' 1
lation—nearly half of tho whole—and who inX I
many places willhaveiobealmostliterallyhciS I
up, and who also to a considerable extent hr-
no abiding dwelling place. This is the case a I
city and in country, and no Southern awl
taker without exercising great patience mj
lance, and perseverance, will be able to con-
plete returns of the Sonthem population. '
Tlie Act to Enforce the Fifteenth
Amendment.
The World concludes a loDg review of tIL= I
bill as follows:
But when we examine the objects of tli |
bill, as plainly disclosed by its further prow |
ions, we shall see that neither constitution! |
limitations of power nor considerations of ne
cessity entered into the plans of its frameg
Having created offences which are clearly It
yond the scope of the amendment, as an ei-
case for what follows, it goes on to createi
vast army of. Federal officials, the extent «f
which may he imagined when one consider!
that the law is to extend to every election ia
any State, Territory, district, county, city,
parish, township, school district, municipal^,
or other territorial subdivision. Not only are
the Federal courts called upon to appoint
these officials, hut the President is specially
empowered to appoint others to arrest and im
prison or to bail offenders against the law, in
order to afford “reasonable protection” to the
colored citizens whose elective franchise is as
sumed to be in peril, not only from all the
States, hut from all the white people in the
laud. No limit to the appointment of these
officials is fixed. Wherever there is an elec
tion, and wherever there are colored men,
there must he these federal spie3, on the watch
According to the charter of the towfi all voters j
at a town election are required to be freehold- I for costs, penalties, lees, and “allowance "for
ere. - Ont of the one hundred and fifty darkies counsel fees.” The frogs ofEeypt, that came
who desired to march to the polls not more than U p upon all the land and into the houses, and
two or three conld point to a foot of land they - - ^ .
possessed. But tMs being the first election at
-ife-
The gallant General PhiL Cook, of Ogle
thorpe, who stood the tirade as long as he could,
at this juncture mounted a wagon of Ms own,
and declared the statement false, and challeng
ed the proof.
Which was forthcoming, of course.'
from pronouncing in their ecclesiastical cham
bers. Theso unlawful utterances remain un-
canceled npon the records of both the courts
now amalgamated into one. No disavowal of
them has been made, as of words incon
siderately uttered in times of Mgh excitement
No counter declaration has been filed, gather
ing up the sacred Troth of God in a new
proclamation of the spirituality and indepen
dence of that Kingdom wMoh is not of this
world. The attempt, we are aware, has been
made to relieve the pressure of these melancho:
ly facts by faintly retorting the accusation
against our own body. But we challenge the
world to place the two records side by side in
the severity of contrast. No ingenuity of so-
phistry oan transmute into political dogmas the
scant allusions to the historical reality of a great
struggle then pending, or the thankful recogni
tion, in the middle of a paragraph, of the unan
imity with whioh an invaded people rose to the
defense of their hearthstones and the graves of
their dead; or the pastoral counsels addressed to
the members and youth of our own chorohes,
passing through the temptations and perils of
the<camp and the field; or the half hour spent
in prayer for a land bleeding under the iron
heel of war; or even the incidential declaration
in a narrative to stand by an institution of the
country, a traditional inheritance from our fa
thers. Even though, from the ambiguity of hu
man language, these chance references may not
have been always discreetly expressed, the most
that a just criticism could pronounce‘is that
they are inconsistent with the judicially pro
nounced principle upon which the Southern As*
sembly entered upon with its troubled career.
And when' exaggerated to their largest propor
tions by all the prejudices of bitter partisanship,
they dwindle into motes and specks by the side
of those elaborate and colossal deliverances, re
peated each year through formal committees,
and exalted into solemn testimonies oo-ordinate
with the doctrines or religion and of faith,wMch
disfigure the legislation of both the Northern
Assemblies through successive years.
It will thus be seen that in the providence of God
the Southern Church has been made the special
witness for the crown and kingdom of our Lord
when both were practically disowned; and tha c
question to be determined by any of the baser | which the negroes were to”vote in Kent county
and meaner passions of human nature. If we Urn emergency required that they should do-
know our own hearts, this course is not prompt- pos5t t^ir baUots, right or wrong,
ed by feekngs of malice or revenge, or that Hence fraud we refer to f r happened
peevish resentment engendered by the irrrita- [ that there was one negro in Chestertown who
tion of controversy. We trust that Christian owned a 8ma u and worthless patch of land ad-
magnanimity would enable ns to nse above all j acen t to the river. This he divided into lota
private wrongs and pettyissues, transient as the I 0 f one f 00 j E q aare Bud-made deeds of it to Ms
which gives thembirtb. Our hearts arepen- fellow-colorea would-be voters. As a conse-
etrated with the majesty of the principles wMoh qU ence, one hundred ana fifty negroes, repre-
we are called to maintain; and we desire that se nting just one hundred and fifty feet of land,
you should feel yourselves consecrated by the W ent to the polls and claimed and secured votM
high purpose to assert them with ua before the as freeholders, and elected their ticket The
wo “d- whole thing—which throws the repeating frauds
AU the great truths of Christianity have had in New York entirely in the shade—was engin-
an historical outworking in the midst of human I eered by radical politicians. Naturally enough,
conflict and debate, and by this means they be- tiie bona fide freeholders of Kent county are
come potential and operative principles wrought highly indignant at the outrage; but there ap-
into the very frame and texture of the human I years to be no help for them, and they are ob-
sonL In the first centuries of the Christian r liged to look forward to the day when a “white
church all the great controversies revolved j man wiU be as good as a nigger” in reality,
around tho relations of the persons of the God- 1
head, through which the chnrch wrought ont
what may be technically called her theology.
In the age of Augustine and his opposere,
the field of conflict was transferred to the nature
of man and the condition to wMch sin had
Tbe Andersonville Ceremonies.
Montezuma, June 1, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger :
First, I would ask, has your cotemporary,
reduced it, through wMch the Church wrought the Journal, sold out to the powers that be ?
ont what is scientifically termed her an thro- j and explain my question after thin manner,
pology. In the great Reformation, when the I know there was a report forwarded to that
Church broke away from the bondage of Romish I paper of the proceedings of the G. A. R.’s at
superstition, discussion turned npon the method I Andersonville, and a true statement of the affair;
of grace, and the Gospel as a salvation was | and we further know that the article wMch ap-
wrought into the life and consciousness of the I peared as an Editorial in the Wednesday’s issue
Church. But confusion and error still reigned j of that paper was a misstatement of the pro-
over tho minds of men in relation to the true I ceedings in many particulars 1 I would only
mission and relations of the Chnrch in her cor-1 advance such men as are known to the il people"
porate*character as the spiritual kingdom of the I of Georgia in affirmance of my assertion.
Redeemer upon earth. The historical develop-1 The whole proceedings, viewed from a liberal
ment of this is probably the work and the conflict stand-point, were a failure. There were not
of the present age; and the Protestants of our day over seven hundred persons present, of whom
are to hold up in the face of derision and of scorn forty or fifty were wMte—and no train came
thetroeideaof theChurchasthekingdomofthe \ from down the road, but the regular passenger
redeemed among men. In the adorable provi- I train from Atlanta to Maoon, and it did not
dence of God our peeled and desolated Church bring seventy-five persons, wMte and blaok!
is pushed to tbe front in this conflict. In the face I Only a desire to place the matter in all its
of those ancient churches wMoh, in Europe, are I truth before the pubio prompts this oommuni-
s till entangled with State alliances, the very I cation 1 I am fully prepared to prove all I say!
foremost of wMch seem to be slow in grasping Had it not been for Mr. Collier, of OMo, the
the grand conception wMoh the Redeemer’s dis- I whole affair would have been a grand fiasco -
oipline has been so clearly teaching them, and and aa it was, as a national proceeding, it was
in the faoe of the Christianity of the Northern wanting both in effect'&nd exaoutfop
section of our own land, wMoh, in a temporary I “Sample.’
frenzy, as we hope and pray, has subsided from »«»
the troth we thought it understood, this suffer- [ “$300, Yon Come In; No 8300 Yon
ing Church of ours is called to testify. The Stay Ont;” *
pure, wMte banner borne by the Melvffies, Gil- jp rom aejicbraska City Chronicle. 1
lespies, and the Hendersons, those noble wit- . .-i . . .» ■ " « 1 . - .
nesses jof another age, for a pure spiritual man “V® name “ was married at
church has fallen into our hands to uphold.— 1 4 {*°, ., church on yesterday, to Miss ,
Floating from our. walls the superb inscription 4be bn de and bridegroom having had a pre-
“Christta Crown and Covenant” rings out the w>us acquaintance of half an hour. After
battle-cry of that saoramental host which by they were married, they repaired to their ho-
protest and reproach, by testimony and suffer- tel lodgings for the night. The lovely pair
ing, will yet conquer the earth and bring it in had scarcely taken their room, when the bnde,
submission to tiie Saviour’s feet. It is npon the with a Herculean muscle, shoved thebride-
assertion of this great and germinal principle groom out or the room and shut the door,
out of whiiffi a tine ecclesiology is yet to spring, j an d daimed of him, before he could enter
There^aUvof the 4 h°sc hallowed precincts, the pitiful sum of
kingly in all your parities and desires ever* to pl0ad > ^treated and raved, and
debase this testimony by yielding to the lower j WOr ?» bu4 P®J5?y 4o Fim; My
resentments of an unsanctified heart in the I , what 1 demand, and thoushalt enter
proclamation of your testimony. I this hallowed domain—otherwise, stay out.”
These are the oonviotions wMch rule our de- I J ohn, at last becoming highly indignant at her
ciBion in relation to correspondence with the incessant demand for §300, left the lovely
Northern Chnrch. Their offense with ns is that maiden to pass the night alone, while he took
we would not yield to the mistaken consciences rooms at another hotefin the city. He passed
which permitted them to bind the Church of onr a sleepless night, and just at the dawn of day,
°®“ r ’ s ® h * ri ? 4 - as the cock crowed, he repaired again to the
f< £ ““ P ^ T_ House, and asked her onoe more to ad-
ilege of sitting within their halls. Regarding mit him Sho said • “ainn ■ .
them as still parts of the visible Catholic Church, no $300 vou stav oirt ’> Thi/wM C °rtf Ual
notwithstanding their defection on this point] » • 7 ° - y - ou - Thia was tte la8fc
we place them where we place all other denomi
nations whom we reoognize, though differing
from us. Wishing them prosperity and peaoe,
so far as they labor to win souls to Christ, we
feel it s higher duty and a grander privilege to
testify for our Master’s kingship in Ms church,
than to enjoy all the ecdeeiastical fellowsMp
which is to be purchased at the expense of con
science and of truth.
It may seem to some of you that any hesi
tancy on onr part to enter into correspondence
pound that broke the camel’s back. He, with
frantic haste, planked down the $300, stepped
across the forbidden threshold, and here the
ourtain dropped.
Whitthmobb Re-Elected.—The Sonth Caro
lina negrpes have shown their reSpect and affec
tion for their white partisans in Congress, by
reseating WMttemore who escaped expulsion
from the House, for selling cadet appointments,
o«ily by a hasty flight.
upon the people when Aaron stretched forth
his rod over the rivers and over the ponds,
were not a more numerous or a more filthy
nuisance than will be this innumerable hosts,
of Federal officers, charged with the duty of
protecting a right which no one is disposed to
deny, under a law which will afford them am
ple means for keeping the whole country in a
state of. chronic irritation over imaginary
grievances.
Here, then, we reach the great purpose of I
this stupendous bill. It is to keep up an agi
tation which will die of inanition if left to
itself It is to operate as an indictment ag
the political opponents of the Republics
party, charging them, by all the implications
that can be forced into a statute, with an in
tent to obstruct and hinder the black man's
right of suffrage. We denounce it as a libel.
We affirm, what every man of common intel
ligence knows, that there is not a State in tbe
Union where the right of colored men to vote
is not admitted, and where both parties do
not seek to avail themselves of the votes of
negroes, just as- they do of white votes. We
expose this bill to the contempt of all fine
lovers of their country and its peace, as on
attempt to create the impression and belief
that the black man is to be defrauded of bis
elective franchise by every device that can be
resorted to—an imputation that is as perfectly
gratuitous as it is mischievous.
The Quebec Fibe.—Quebec was visited esfi|
on Tuesday morning, as was briefly annonseel
by telegraph, with one of the most disastrous
conflagrations ever known in the histoiy of that
city. The area over wMch the fire swept i*
covered with wooden dwellings and the flames
spread with such fierceness as to drive hundreds
of people from their houses to places of safety.
Tbe sight in some cases was most appall^S-
Women, with barely a stitch of clothing, were
met at every torn, most of them carrying
children, and roshing about in a wild ana in
sane-like manner. As the wind rose tho flan 10,
gathered strength and intensity, lea]®?
with fearful violence from one bunding
to_ another, sweeping before them ereiy-
tiring of a combustible nature. ®*jf*®*
blowing strong from the East, directed the ten
dency of the flames towards King ana1
streets, through wMch they swept with tern
force, -enveloping at one time over fifty
ings. These streets, in some places,
a most awful appearance, a perfect wturiwn"
of fire being observable in every dtfW;
Fortunately, at 4 o’clock A. K., rain
fall, wMch soon checked the flames; and
with the almost superhuman efforts of tW
men, stayed the farther progress oi the _ _
fiend.' It is estimated, however, that “. Tfl la-
died buildings were destroyed. Two stupsw^
also burned to the water’s edge, and spu?
persons were injured by falling walls.—t ,,a
ton Hews.
The Big Phosphate CompMJ - ®*’
aratloas for Extensive Work.
The Marine and River Phosphate I
and Manufacturing Company ot. South .. |
lina, of which George W. Williams, ifD
the President, is making preparations ior
tensive work. The Middle Atlantic uhart, I
been hired, and a tug boat and steam a^j
ing machine purchased. A large whar
be erected on Bull River and ano ther at p
fort. A large number of flats for the tr»
portation of the crude phosphate h*> e J e
built, and, in fact, every arrangement ,
which will facilitate the company m then
which they intend to prosecute witn ^
They will mine for phosphatic material 1 ^ j
waters of the Cooper, Wando, Ashley, ^ j
Beaufort and Bull rivers. The e*Pl ,' jjto 1
ot the company ia $500,000, d ‘ vl ‘L ter diy I
shares of $100 each. The stock y
was quoted at $55 premium. ^ e ?..
nltitu the home ana foreign demand to ^ ^ , \
plying the home and foreign — u
phosphates, the company propose
the manufacture of it extensively. 0
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