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MACON DECEMBER 5, leTl.
News Items.
To Receive his Passports.—The World says
Mr. Catacazy mil receive bis passports so soon
U lie baa presented the Grand Dube to tbe
President If so, be got them on Saturday.
Ku-kluhsu and Lncendiarisji are complained
of in Indiana. Since tho bunging of the mur
derers of the Park family, tho negroes are leav
ing; but by way of legacy they set fire to and
burned np a school house in Lawrence county
which cost $27,000. Martial law is called for.
Abemabkable sensation now agitates Phila
delphia. John Prudham, a young man in that
city, ate a hearty breakfast in the presence of
his adopted mother, who at tho close of it was
called by her dnties to the cellar. While down
there she heard a heavy fall, c lining np stairs,
discovered John lying dead on the floor, with a
butcher’s knife throngh his heart. Whether it
was a suicide, a murder or an accident is tho
question now agitating Philadelphia.
The First Shad cf the Fall of 1871.—Felix
Corput received the first shad in Georgia in the
Fall of 1871. Let every body mark well and
take notice, and we warn onr Savannah contem
poraries against the presumption of boasting
about any “first shads,” in that city. Felix
Gorpnl’s shad came to town from the St. John’s
River on Friday night, November 24th, and
has had-a very serious time of it ever since. It
has been “ lying on the ic9 ’’ ever since for tho
Senior of tho Telegraph, and thongh often
warned, the Senior has steadily forgot that shad
every time he had a chance to send it home, and
there that shad still lies, as coolly as any carpet
bag politician in South Carolina.
Luos Pubsues Sons People.—It is said that
while Henry Ward Beecher was rusticating on
bis farm last summer, he left his bat by acci
dent in the barn, and when found, a short time
aft irwards, an ancient matron of the fowlyard
had made a nest therein and lain three eggs in
it So did that Hen-re- Ward Beecher for the
accidental loan of the hat. Such is luck. Grant
and Beecher are perfect Midassesses. Every
thing they tonch turns to gold, and oven if they
drop their hats bnt casually, the eggs of abun
dant fortuno oro showered down into them.
The Suffering Gibls.—The Grand Dake
made terrible work with the hearts of the Wash
ington belles in less than a second of time last
Friday. He did it by a single bow as ho enter*
ed the august presence of the illustrious Grant.
But more dreadful still was the following:
Ho who made the deepest impression was the
aide-de-camp who appeared in a gorgeous
scarlet uniform trimmed with gold bullion, and
hanging from his shonlders at the back, worn
after the manner of stage gallants, a white
cloak with sleeves trimmed all around with
Bnssian sable. Ho was a very handsome yonng
man with a splendid black moustache, and made
inroads into tho affections of feminine behold
ers on tho instant.
Let ns weep for the slain.
Grand Duke Coming South.—The Washing
ton correspondent of the Charleston Courier
says the Bnssian Grand Doko will take a tour
through the South this winter, and adds:
It must be a matter of interest to him to ob
serve the effects of emancipation in the Sonth,
whatever they may be. The two greatest events
of onr day ore said to be the emancipation of
serfs by Bussia, and the abolition of slavery in
the United States. If we can accommodate our
selves to the change, certainly Russia can; for
she has not the barrier of color. But perhaps
that very distinction, which nature has placed,
may be the means, as it ought to be, to facili
tate the change of system. Emancipation might
be made to work well in the South, provided tbe
Federal Government would keep its hands off.
The Russian Prince can see how it is here, and
-congratulate his Government npon the superior
success of its great experiment of serf emanci
pation.
A National Conference. —Tho Cincinnati
Commercial, a Republican paper, proposes that
Mr. Belmont, Chairman of the National Demo
cratic Executive Committee, shall at the earliest
moment, issue a call for a National Political
Conference addressed to all parties who are
willing to take part in snch a Conference, and
have a free discussion of all the issues of the
times, and it should be empowered to establish
a basis for party re-organization, to announce
principles for popular acceptance, and to adopt
measures for fntnre action. Ample time should
be provided for its deliberations and proceed-
ngs; and wo think that its sessions should, in
any event, cover np at least the period of a week.
It should be held in some central city (say, for
instance, Cincinnati,) easy of access from all
parts of the country, and possessing a magnifi
cent building or hall capable of accommodating
a thousand delegates, besides an audience of
fivo or ten thousand (say, for instance, the Fair
Building.)
The Wan in South Carolina.—Under the
head of “The Bnle of the Bayonet—the Be-
nomination war in Sonth Carolina,” tho New
York Son continues to report progress. On
Friday last a bloody Ku klnx was brought into
Yorkvilie in the person of a feeble old man
named Thomas P. Black, aged 71 years—totally
exhausted with a ride of eighteen miles on
horseback. When the ofhoers of the military
law saw this yonthfol desperado and recognized
the fact that he could not livo to vote for Grant
any how, they nntied his hands and let him go,
after resting twenty-fonr hoars in tho jail. The
Eon says the soldiers enrso this business from
top lock to boot heel, and insist if Grant and
Akerman want to carry it on as a permanent
thing, it ought to be tnraed over to Wendell
Philips and Cady Stanton. There are about
sixty prisoners in Yorkvilie of all sorts, con
fined in five rooms 12 by 14. In Union district
the war is going on with mnch greater vigor.
Tho San correspondent takes a very serious
view of this En-klnx war, and says before it is
over, no Southern man will be safe who does not
come np and pledge himself not to vote against
Grant in 1872.
A MAGNIFICENT SCHEME.
The Atlantic & Great Western Canal.
If one were to assert that at no distant dato
Macon would be on tho grand avenue of West
ern transportation to the Atlantic Ocean—that
in the course of a very few years hundreds of
millions of Western grain would bo moving
down onr Ocmnlgee Biver, to find its ocean de
pots for transhipment at Brunswick and Savan
nah, he wonld certainly raise a smile of incred
ulity and gain tho character of a hair-brained
enthusiast and dreamer. Bat, nevertheless, we
say no man can read the report of Colonel Fro-
bel, the Superintendent of Public Works, with
out coming to tho conclusion that this event is
not only possible, bat even morally sure of real
ization at no distant day.
Were wo not pressed for space, we should like
to reprint this report in fall. Bnt if reprinted,
probably the length of the document would dis
courage the mass of readers, while all particu
larly interested in so grand a scheme will get
the original report and conn it overwith atten
tion and thought.
What, then, is this project which we do not
hesitate to predict will in a very short time be
come a grand and leading scheme of internal
improvement,uniting tbe great States of the Mis
sissippi Volley and the Northwest and nearly al*
the cotton States in harmonious co-operation to
a single end, os it bos already done the views
and opinions of the most distinguished civil and
military engineers of the country? Take the
map and observe that the Mississippi, Ohio and
Tennessee Bivers, (now that the latter has been
deepened at Muscle Shoals) present an almost
direct line of inland steamboat and barge navi
gation from St. Lonis to Gnntersville in Ten
nessee, very little divergent from a right line
towards the Atlantic coast of Georgia. From
Gnntersville to the nearest pointof the Coosa in
a direct line, the distance is twenty-five miles.
A canal here wonld bring the Coosa Biver into
line, as far as Borne, and with only twenty-five
miles of canal, inland water communication is
established for the great western centre, with
tho whole system of Alabama and Tennessee
water censes and railways down to Mobile and
the Golf of Mexico and with the whole Georgia
railway system.
Bat at Borne the line takes tho Etowah Biver
and Valley, and follows tbe Little Biver Branch
of the Etowah until it approaches within a few
hundred feet of-Rocky Greek, a small tribntary
of the Chattahoochee. From the nearest point
of this river to tho head waters of the Ocmnlgee
is scarcely a mile, and following the valley of
the Ocmnlgee navigable waters are reached at
Macon, which, with very little improvement,
will afford barge and tag transportation all the
year round to Savannah and Brunswick.
The total length of canal by this route from
St. Lonis to Macon is only 148 miles, and it is
estimated that the cost of as capacious a canal
as tho Erie, will not exceed eight millions, and
the additional cost of the necessary river im
provements will not exceed two millions. The
distance from St. Louis to the Atlantic by way
of the lakes and the Erie Canal is 1932 miles.
Requested to Retire.—In the North Caro
lina Legislature, which mot on Monday last, a
resolution calling upon ZebnlonB. Vance to re
turn his credentials as United States Senator
elect was agreed to. This is preparatory to
electing some one who is not disqualified under
tho Fourteenth Amendment.—Balt. Sun.
And this is tho end of the faroe—a sorry end,
too, if not worse. If the North Carolina Legis
lature had consulted common sense instead of
blind passion and prejudice, when they elected
a Senator, their man would have been in his
seat long ago. As it is, they have had no repre
sentative since March 4, 1870, and the chances
are, now, that Abbott, the noisome carpet-bag
ger, will get the seat, thongh Vance beat him
badly before tho Legislature. The Lord deliver
the South from any more such double-di3tilled
stupidity!
An Ohio country editor writes of tho Cincin
nati Davidson fountain: “Tho most attractive
part of the fountain is situated on tho east side,
where an almost nude female figure is supporting
an entirely nude little boy, who is j ost in the act
of taking a hath in the basin below. If the said
boy has any modesty abont him he will soon dive
into the water below, or he stared out of coun
tenance by tho fair ones, who there most do con
gregate. The authorities of Cincinnati shonld
put some clothes on the little fellow, before all
the fair daughters of Eve become cross-eyed
from trying to see him unobserved.”
Mr. Ndttino, one of onr representatives in
the Legislature, will accept our thanks for a
copy of a bill “to alter, change and amend the
act to organize the District Court, etc.." Onr
District Coart bill would have a much shorter
title. It would read: An act to abolish the Dis-
Tho distance from St. Lonis to Savannah by the
proposed route is 1083, or 844 miles less. Tbe
distance from St. Louis to Now York by this
route, and by way of Savannah does not exceed
1800 miles with one transhipment of freight,
while it is 132 miles more by tho Erie Canal
with three transhipments.
The cost of transportation from St. Lanra to
New York, by way of the lakes and canal is
§11 7G per ton, while from St Lonis to Savan
nah or Brunswick by this route, it wonld be but
$4 5G per ton. The canal and lakes are closed
fivo months in the year by ice, while hy this
rente freight wonld move all the year round.
The cost of the Erie Canal, three hundred and
sixty-three miles long, was originally abont
thirty-nine millions, and by interest account np
to 18G3, had reached $52,491,915, bnt it had
shown net profits amounting to very nearly $G0,-
000,000. $279,000,000 value of Western pro-
dneo passed through the Erie Canal in 18G8,
while $405,000,000 fonnd its way over the
neatly parallel railroads. Tho capacity of that
work, great a3 it is, is equal to only a small
part of the demand upon it, while it is esti
mated that a reduction of the cost of grain ten
cents a bushel would command all tho grain
markets of Western Earope.
The calculation is that com by this new
Southern rente coaid be placed on shipboard at
Savannah at a freight charge of 12 cents a
bushel, while it costs thirty-five cents by way of
the lakes and the Erie CanaL Illinois alone
produces surplus grain enough to feed ten mil
lions of people, bnt at the present rates of
transportation only abont nine cents per bushel
for com is left in the hands of the producer.
Cheapen the transportation twenty-three cents
and yon add overwhelmingly to the amount to
bo transported. At present in the prairie re
gions mnch of the com is bnmt for fnel as it is
as cheap as or cheaper than coal, without the
cost of transportation.
These are some of the facts and fignres which
are crowded into CoL Frobel’s report. It is
believed that there will be no difficulty in
pushing this great work forward in Congress
npon the testimony of tho eminent engineers
who endorse it. It will enlist the friendly and
interested co-operation of more than half the
States of the Union. We understand the prop
osition is to soenre the endorsement of the Fed
eral Government on tho bonds of a private
company for the amount necoasary to construct
the work. We have glanced nt it merely in a
commercial point of view, bnt as a work bear*
ing npon the publio defense in time of war, it
possesses equal importance. It is an enterprise
needing only a proper presentation to attract
universal approval. What is wanted is that all
the States and localities interested should
unite in pressing it upon Congress. Colonel
Frobel is anxious that Macon, os an important
point on the line, should send an agent to
Washington to assist in presenting its claims.
In order to interest the people in it, he will em
brace an early opportunity to address our peo*
pie upon it, and we have no donbt the city au
thorities and citizens generally, will give him a
kind reception and a general hoaring. This
vast enterprise will mark ont a new era
Macon. When we can get com at ten,cents a
a bushel from St. Louis, we may agre, that
buying Western com will be more defensible
than it is now.
New Orleans Newbpafeb Circulation.—The
New Orleans Bee in an interesting article on
journalism in the Crescent City shows that there
are only five dailies there in 1871,.the Bee, the
Times, the Picayune, the Bulletin, and the Be-
pnblican, against nine, the Tropic, the Jeffer
sonian, the Courier, the Bee, the Bulletin, the
Picayune, tbe Delta, the Crescent, and the
Evening Mercnry, in 1847, and that the circula
tion of the present journals is certainly not
greator than that of those published twenty-fonr
years ago, and it is doubtful if it is so large.
According to the growth of popnlation the Bee
says the circulation of the dailies shonld have
increased in the proportion of from 135 to 191,
instead of remaining stationary. “In 1847 and
for many years after it waa in the power of
every sober and industrious head of a family—
mechanic, clerk, drayman, and laborer, as well
as the merchant, the capitalist, and the profes
sional man—to pay for a daily paper. ' Now A
whole neighborhood borrow a paper from a cor
ner grocery. Publishers are compelled to charge
twioe what they didin 1847, and the people have
soarcely half tho ability to pay that they had
then. ” The occasion of all this the Bee finds in
tho rninons taxes by whioh “the newspaper,
once deemed a necessity to an American citizen,
THE GEOBiGIi I'HESS.
The Democrats of Oglethorpe county have
designated'their Representatives in the Legis
lature to act as delegates in the State Conven^
tion, and have instructed them to vote for the
nomination of- the Hon. James M. Smith,
Speaker of the Home, as a candidate for Gov
ernor.
The Constitutionalist thinks there is a peace-
fa!, convenient mode of settling the qnestioi^ of
who shall be Governor as between Conley and
the Democrat who will be elected on the 19tbj of
December. It sayg:
It is by quowarranto*to be tried by the Judge
of the Superior Court of Falton county, to be
issued at the inBtanoe of the Governor to be
elected at the special election ordered, and to
be served, on Governor Conley. This will be a
writ calling on him to show by what authority
he continues to exercise Executive functions
after his successor has been elected, and .de
mands to be inaugurated.
Senator Beese has introduced an amendment
to a bill, which empowers Judges of the Superior
Courts to issue and dispose of writs, in vacation,
when they involve only legal questions. This
will doubtless become law. An appeal from the
decision oan be taken to tbe Supreme Court,
and that tribunal will finally dispose of the
question. By consent of parties, the case could
come np an early day at the January term next
ensuing. It is to be hoped, in the interest of
peace and for the contentment of the public
mind, that the case will take this course. It is
certain that Conley will make a contest of some
sort. It is desirable the appeal shonld be made
to our own judiciary rather than to Federal
bayonets.
The alleged Dado county Ku-Klux were dis
charged by the United States Commissioner, at
Atlanta, on Saturday, no evidence to'hold (hem
being adduced.
A Mactm correspondent of the Atlanta Con
stitution, of Sunday, make this correction :•
I am sorry to oontradiot one important event
in tbe biography of Hon. Thomas Norwood,
Senator elect, as published in the San last week,
bnt the truth of history most be vindicated.
met thi3 morning one Mr. Fool, who lives in the
village of Culloden, and who represents himself
as being a Methodist minister and a shoe and
boot maker. Mr. Fool says that when Tom, as
he calls him, was a boy, he, Mr. P., Was in the
employment of Mr. Norwood, Sr., who was the
owner of a tan yard and shoe shop. 'Tom com
pleted his coarse in the village academy, and
the old gentleman pnt Tom under Mr. Fool to
learn the art of making and repairing shoes;
bnt that Tom did not learn very fast and that
the pair of boots whioh Tom wore to oollege,
and, whioh must now go down to fntnre genera
tions as part of the history of the oounlry, were
not made by Tom, bnt by himself.
John and James McClellan were arrested
near Athens, last week, on the charge of break
ing into and stealing from the Prinoeton Fac
tory storo a sum of money and several bolts of
goods.
A child of Mr. Cnllen, of Savannah, was run
over and killed Saturday morning, by a city
scavenger cart.
Mrs. Abigail Hart, of Savannah, aged 75
years, dropped dead in a street of that city on
Thursday. Apoplexy. ,
A yonng gent, one of whose names is B. D.
Ferry, is wanted at Savannah on the charge of
forging the signature of his employers, Messrs.
Curtis, Bose & Co,
In the boat race at Savannah, on Saturday,
between the shell “Alice” and “Four Sweet
hearts,” the former won in G minutes and 34
seconds. The latter demands another trial fur
$100 to $500.
The foreign exports of cotton from Savannah
on Satarday, aggregated 9,328 bales of upland
cotton, weighing 4,563,331 pounds, and valued
al $804,941 81.
The “Pond dairy farm” of ten acres, near At
lanta, was sold, on Saturday, for $1,050. One
by one the tie3 are boing broken that bonnd ns
to the sweet developers.
Tbe gin honse of Mr. Titos Bichards, of Talia-
forro county, was burned last week by an incen
diary. Sevon bales of ginned and nnginned
cotton wore destroyed.
The Atlanta Snn, of Sunday, has this timely
warning:
Bewabe.—Tho bill to recover property stolen
from the State, is cansing some of tho robbers
to quake. At least one of them has been trying
to sell his property for a low price and on long
time. Let all persons take notice that the State
has a prior lien npon the property now held by
any one who has been connected with the rob
ber band of the late Bnllock-BIodgett adminis
tration. The houses and lots thqy now have are
State assets. If any one bays them, it will be
with fall notice given that the title is not good.
The latest amusement of the Atlanta roughs
is to waylay and knock down young girls, on the
streets, at night. One was severely injured, in
this manner, on Friday night:
Wo quote tho following from the Savannah
News, of Satarday:
Mr. D. F. Felote owns a stock farm on War
saw Island, abont sixteen miles from that city,
on the coast. He is well known in the city and
vicinity, especially among boatmen and gentle
men who have a relish for sports on the seaside
daring the summer. It appears that last Thurs
day week Mr. Felote engaged a white man
named Simmons and a negro to watoh the honse
and the live stock on the island. Mr. Simmons,
who is said to be from Atlanta, went to War
saw Island last week, Thursday, accompained
by the negro. Neither of them were known to
CoL Felote. On last Thursday a Mr. Howard,
who was proposing to rent the place, accom
pained by negro boys, rowed a boat down to
the island and landed. They saw no one mov
ing abont the island and decided to call on Col.
Felote for some necessary information. They
approached tho honse and called for the persons
whom thoy thought wonld be able to give them
all tho information they desired. No one an
swered their call, and thereupon they wont to
the door and passed into the dwelling. There
a most horrible sight awaited them. On the
floor, in a pool of blood, lay tho dead body of
the old man, Mr. Simmons. The t-knll of the
man had been broken in, and from it protruded
the brains, thus presenting a most horrible
sight to the astonished visitor. One leg of the
old man, which had evidently been thrust into
the fire-place, was entirely bnmt off, together
with the shoes from both feet. From one side
of the mnrdered man the entrals were protrud
ing. The body of the victim was also badly
decomposed.
The Chronicle & Sentinel, of Sunday, says:
Bailway Accident.—A very singular accident
occurred on the Georgia Railroad la-t Friday
night. Soon after tbe down night train had
passed a point about fifty miles from this city—
and while proeeedingat its usual rate of speed—
a defective rail threw the engine from the
track. No portion of tho machinery broke nor
did the engine fall over. It ran along on the
crossties for abont a hundred yards or more,
when, in some unexplained way, the wheels
jumped on the track again, and the train went
along as if nothing had happened. Neither
engineer nor firemen quit their posts, and the
engine does not seem to have been injured at
alfby its singular feat A passenger in the con
ductor’s cab—Mr. F. Yowers, of this city—did
not fare so welL The shook was so violent
when the engine leaped from the track that
something struck his leg and broke it just be
low the knee. Mr. Powers has been peculiarly
unfortunate. He is a member of the police
force, and acoidently shot himself in the leg
with a pistol one night when going on duty.
This wound had not jet healed when the same
leg was broken above the wound.
We see a “personal” correspondence in the
Columbus papers, of Saturday, between Messrs.
W. D. Chipley and W. L. Salisbury, whioh, we
are happy to note, resulted in clearing up mutual
misunderstandings without a resort to pistol
praotioe.
We find the following in the Chronicle and
Sentinel, of Saturday:
Tbe following is an extract from a letter re
ceived in this city yesterday, from Messrs. Olag-
horn, Herring & Co., agents of the Augusta Fac
tory, dated Philadelphia, November 21,187L
“We yestorday—during a little discussion
on the relative merits of Southern goods as
compared with Northern goods—heard one of our
largest jobbers say that while only a few years
ago not one-fifth of the brown oottons they sold
were Southern goods, that this year four-fifths
of all the heavy goods they sold were of South
ern manufacture. This sounds like a new fea-
I. — —- —
future, and goes far to vindicate the opinion
expressed by tho writer three years ago, that in
ten years the South would monopolize the trade
in heavy sheetings and cotton yarns of the
coarsernnmbers np to number,20?- AVe shall be
glad to receive an early shipment of more goods,
particularly of £, f and drills, of which we have
orders on onr books for oyer on<5 hundre d bait S'
that are pressing.”
Mrs. Sophie Schley, widow of Ez-Governor
Wm. Schley, died at Augusta, last Friday.
Jas. Hopkins has been presented with the
freedom of the Decatur county jail; for stealing
a very fiae horse from H. O. Sheffield, of Miller
county.
Mr. H. Thigpen, an old and mnch esteemed
citizen of Miller county, died last week.
The Early Connty News says that a d fficulty
occurred, ou Saturday last, in Miilaroounty, be
tween Mr. Thos. J". Bush and Mr. 3. D. Spooner,
in which the former was severely beaten and
bruised.
We copy the following items from the last
Honston Home Journal:
Fatal Affray neab Byeon.—Saturday last a
difficulty occurred near Byron, between Joseph
W. Harris and George Lissenbea, in which the
latter was stabbed in the loins, in the thigh and
in the shoulder, from whioh wounds he died
Monday morning. Harris has not yet been ap
prehended, bnt it is believed that ho will re
turn home and deliver himself np to the au
thorities. Yarious rumors are afloat concerning
the canses of the unfortunate affair, none of
which we consider entirely reliable. It is gener
ally believed however, that whisky was at the
bottom of the matter.
Hogs.—Mr. Geo. W. Singleton killed four
year-old hogs yesterday, which weighed i,077
pounds net Pretty good, that.
Virgil Powebs, E~q , Superintendent of the
Southwestern Railroad, is this county, securing
the right-of-way for “onr railroad.” We will
give the teanlt of his negotiations next week.
PRESIDENT HAK(»U AGITATION.
The Anti-Grant Movement—Views of Sen*
ator9 Tipton and Fenton.
Special to the Cincinnati Gazette—Radical.]
’ Washington, November 22.—It is now be
yond question that a movement i3 being inaug
urated at this point to oppose the nomination of
Grant for President next summer. Several lead
ing Republicans and Democrats have been ap
proached within the lAst few weeks, and a pro
gramme is now being developed which will look
to the nomination of some independent Repub
lican whose views are liberal so far ao tariff,
amnesty and civil service reform questions are
concerned. The Democrats are expected to sup
port any such man as may be subsequently
agreed upon, and who will appear to be able to
drawnpon the Repnblioan strength the heaviest.
According to this programme, Ike Democracy
will make no nomination, bnt will postpone
holding their convention nutil late in the year.
It is expected by them that the Republican dis
affection to Grant will be so strong that it will
be felt in the next Republican Convention, and
the Democrats will ratify whatever nomination
the bolters may see fit to recommend. It is stated
that oven such bitter Democrats as Senator Bay
ard and Casserly have given in their adhesion to
this plan, and that the plan will be more per.
feetey in detail when Congress comes togeuer-
Sptcial to the Louisvi le Ledger.]
Washington, November 23.—The bueinessof
President-making is now going on here to the
exclusion of all other matters. Bat few politi
cians now come here from any part of tbe conn-
try who are not all absorbed by this topic. The
opposition to Grant in his own party is daily
gathering strength. Several prominent Repub
lican Congressmen are actively looking aronad
for some method of escape from supporting the
great present-taker, in case he shonld receive a
nomination. Among these is Senator Tipton,
from Nebraska. This gentleman states that the
Republican party in the Northwest is ripe for
defection, that a bolt on tbe part of numerous
delegates from thatseotion cannot be prevented
if the convention sells ont to Grant. He is ready
and willing to lead off in any movement which
will defeat Grant, provided a better man is ran
iigainstbim. Senator Fenton, of N. Y., who was
here last week, is also among those determined
to defeat Grant if possible. This Senator says
that the original leaders and fonnders of tbe
Bepnblican party are completely ostracised by
the present administration, and have no more
influence in governmental affairs than if they
were aliens. The open expressions of these
Senators are bnt samples of a growing discon
tent in tbe Bepnblican ranks and a spirit of re
bellion to Grant. In the present connection,
it may be stated that there has been consider
able interchange of opinions between independ
ent Republicans and Democrats representative
men, not only in this city, bntall over this conn-
try, and that there has been a general agree
ment that a programme for the nomination of a
strong man in opposition to Grant is feasible.
The whole matter, however, is as yet in embryo,
and nothing practicable will be developed before
Congress comes together.
Washington, November 23.—Letters have
been received in this city from prominent Dem
ocrats who have been invited to enter into a
movement for the formal ion of a third party,
asserting their positive objection to such pro
ceedings at present, and suggesting that “blow
haste” bo made in coming to oonclnsions npon
the subject of wandering from the Demooratio
organization, or of merging it into a now party,
without fall and complete consultation and
counsel among the leading men of the party.
We find theabove specialin the Baltimore Snn
of Friday, and print it with much satisfaction.
There is always great danger in going off “half-
cocked,” and there ha3 been a strong inclina
tion in some Democratic quarters to do jast
that very thing on this question. 'It is not a
small matter, by any means, to decree the death
and bnrial, or the dissolution, if that sounds
better, of sn organization snch as the Demo
crats party is oven now, notwithstanding its
recent great disasters. Giants die hard, and in
their throes sometimos rend those who pnt them
to death. Lot the nnscrupnlons auctioneers
who are offering the old party for sale in the
dirty shambles of a presidential race be not too
promineat. If the wise men—the consoript
fathers—decide that only in this way can the
defeat of the vulgar tyrant at Washington be
compassed, and that the party must die that the
nation may stand a chance of living, then, bnt
not till then, let the deed be done. But if ever
there was a crisis when it was demanded that
haste shonld be made very slowly, indeed, that
crisis now confronts us.
. ■—> ■■ p.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger ; The West,
ern Union Telegraph Company onnonnees
through tho columns of the Teleosaph and
Messenger of the 25th, that that Company has
mado a largo redaction in their rates to all points.
They omitted to state that the line3 of the
Southern and Atlantic Company were com
pleted to this city, and had initiated the redac
tion which they were thns compelled to make.
To show how mnch the Southern people are
indebted to tbb Western Union Company for
cheap rates, it is only necessary to slate one
fact os an example. The rate from New York
to Macon by the Southern and Atlantio Tele
graph Company’s lines is one dollar and fifty
cents for ten words. From Maoon to Mobile by
the Western Union, one dollar. Thns a mes
sage could be sent from New York to Mobile by
the Southern and Atlantic line to Maoon and
transfered to Western Union line at Maoon, and
save to tho customers fifty cents, and give the
citizens of Mobile the benefit of the redaction
from Macon to New York. Bnt to prevent this,
the Western Union Company compels the new
line to pay for from three to five extra words,
for date and address, to absorb the amount of
the difference in rate, in order that the peoplo
of the South shall be obliged to pay their fail
rates, until the opposition lines reach their re
spective cities and towns. *
Chabaotebistio Endino.—Captain Oalhonn,
the Philadelphia pension agent, who has been
detected in some “irregularities” with reference
to the public moneys—is a saint of the first-class
in the Radical calendar, and in 1864 was the great
card the Loyal Leagners of Philadelphia played
in the game to seonre the re-eleotion of Lin
coln. He had been a prisoner at Andersonville,
and when he fell into the hands of the Loyal
League weighed according to loil authority, but
seventy-five pounds, and had a bullet in his
lungs whioh the doctors declared wonld shortly
terminate his existenee. The League fattened
him np and bronght -him forward to tell the
story of his wrongs in season and out of season,
and now ho has been caught developing. How
DR. HICKS’ SERMON.
The dedication services of the First Street
Methodist Church were conducted according to
tbe programme published ..w our Snnday
morning’s issue. At an earlyhour we weijoftt
the building, but so immense., was fits congre
gation that had assembled to witness tho dedi
cation and hear the discourse of the eloquent
Divine, the Pastor of the Chnrcb, it was impos
sible to prooure a seat. The sermon was one
of his most masterly efforts, and having pro
cured from Dr. Hicks the original draft, we
publish it in full, to the exclusion of all other
matter; believing it will prove more interest
ing to the majority of our readers than ordi
nary city news. After tbe sermon had been
oonoluded, the Pastor announced that $30G0
were still wanting to place the Church out of
debt, and a, collection having been taken, the
amount was easily raised. To speak of Dr.
Hicks’ eloquence were a superfluity, a3 the Ser
mon speaks for itself.
DISCOURSE DELIVERED BY BEY. VAC. WATKIN
HICKS, D. D., ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEDI-
CATION OF THE FIRST STREET METHODIST
CHUBCH, SUNDAY, NOVEMDEB 2G, 1871.
Psalm 137, 5-6. Jj J
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand
forget her canning. If do not remeuner thee, ltt
my tongue cleave to the roof of my month; if I
prefer not Jerusilim above my chief joy.
My Brethren : You will not expect an elabo
rate diseourse to-day. Oar energies have been
severely taxed for weeks, in preparing for this
glorious oocasion, and onr hearts are full of re
ligions-gratitude, and our mouths of praiso to
God. The desire of our eyes is before us to
day, and we have reached a point in onr efforts
where wo can rejoice together in the contem
plation of a finished work. Truly, “What
hath God wrought?” Truly, “What shall we
render unto the Lord for all His benefits!”
This is a sort of “house warming,” and onr
numerous friends and neighbors have dropped
in to bid us good cheer and lend their friendly
voices to onr chorus and song, and pledge ns
in a new covenant of fidelity and service. For
a long time, we have been small and feeble.
Our infancy has been somewhat protracted.
But to-day we shall begin to walk alone. To-
day, we greet the world in certain language of
fraternity and good will, and take our place be
side kindred powers and institutions devoted
to the better interests of mankind.
Thank God! Leteaoh one pray that this young
church may prove a noble standard-bearer, a
social and moral bnlwark, a bright and in
creasing light!
As we are abont to lannoh forth (as I trust)
upon a career of enlarged usefulness for our
hope and gnidanoe through the future, let us
press upon onr warm hearts a few of the les
sons of the past, and seek to strengthen our
selves in all holy purposes by studying the ex
amples of onr anoient brethren.
There was something peculiarly affecting and
mysteriously grand in Hebrew patriotism. _ It
was a part of their religion, or rather the off
spring .of their religion. The dealings of the
Almighty were not apart from, bnt interwoven
with, national progress and events, and so in
spired and impressed every son and daughter
of IsraeL Religion was pnblio, and publio
polity was religious. . Nothing was personal;
everythingtonebed and addressed all. Politi
cal institutions were intensely religious—relig
ion was nationaL All their joys and festivities
partook of this national character. The na
tion was a family or community of blood ties.
When one had cause of triumph, all rejoiced.
'When calamity befell one house all mourned.
And everything was 6acred. They were the
chosen of God. He established them, gave
them laws in minntest detail, familiarized them
with His name and authority by means of the
common things of life. Everything boro the
stamp of God, and nothing was done, suffered
or enjoyed, that did not more and more reveal
His presence with, and love for them. So when
exiled from home, nothing eonld tempt them to
forget the sonree and instrument of their peace
and happiness. They were too brave and proud
to insult the judgments of Jehovah by unhal
lowed commerce with the profane. Their very
afflictions all the more deeply engraved tbe
memory of mercy and grace on their hearts.
Listen to their repinings when in bitter cap
tivity ! They take on the form and breathe the
spirit of devotional chants—with interludes of
flowing tears and throbbing hearts. No beanty
of nature, ho combination of art, no lavish at
tentions, whether from sympathy or condescen
sion—eonld change the nature or interrupt the
measure of their sublime devotion. Always it
was Jerusalem that filled the aching eye, and
reflected from the loyal soul out upon the mourn
ing exiles’ tears! Jerusalem with its battered
walls and razed Temple; its .confused rains
and deserted streets; Jerusalem was to them
still dearer for all that; the presence of Jeho
vah, tho place of His chief glory beneath the
heavens; the home and crownof all their hopes;
the sonree and strength of all their joys!
For my part, my brethren, I shill always love
God’s anciant people for this. I shall always
conneot the Israelite with the first and mighty
manifestations of God’s glory and power. In
every one, I still read and see the first prefer
ence of the Divine heart—the first peculiar ob
jeet of Divine goodness. I oan only think of
them as in a long captivity, patiently and‘weep-
fally chanting their undying hopes on the river
banks of time beneath the drooping willows,
through whose branches, as in the olden time
through tho tracery of the sacred place, streams
the glory of the Lord. And, with my deep
prayer and quickened sympathy for them, I
shall always join my hope that yet again they
may take down from tho bending willowB, their
long silent harps, and with holy rapture, sing
ing and harping, return to the Holy City, and
dwell forever in the exceeding glory of the
Lord! I hope for this in Jesus of Nazareth—
the God man, the Christ of humanity, “to the
Jew first, and also to the Gentile.”
My brethren, 1 prosent yon in my text to-day
a national piotura of faith, alive and strong
amid rains! Thongh captive, still a conqueror;
though weeping, still triumphant; though under
the willows, not dead nor craven.
We do not see here the exhibition of sullen
ness, bnt the triumph of devotion. Not a
morose, stubborn bate, but a deep, fixed royal
tenderness of thought, and sacredness of feel -
ing. It is indeed a sublime picture. Sublime
in its depths of humiliation; in its heroio faith;
in its sturdy patriotism; in its tender, weepfnl
devotion. To take it all in, ono must view
and estimate it from its own standing points
of observation; and thns viewed, no profane
thought would sully one’s contemplation. It
is the Chnroh of the living God in exile. That
Church whioh He had established iu tho earth
as a branch of Heaven, to reflect His excellence
and show forth His praise, in which His power
was wondronsly displayed, and through His
will was made known to alt mankind. Now in
darkness and captivity; her altars desecrated
and demolished by vile hands; her magnificent
Temple razed to the earth and in confnsed
ruins; her Priests driven from the sacred por
tals; her glory eclipsed in tho most terrible'
gloom; and her agonized Prophets dumb with
wept their silent ways! Behold, my
brethren, the saddest and most: mysterious
Providence! Where is the Lord, that,* His
ohosenpeople are thus torn and scattered?
Where reposes the right arm of Jeh ovah, that
the prostrate, exiled Chnroh is no longer found
leaning on the arm of her beloved ? Why this
humiliation? Why this banishment? 'Why
this horrible tor tare of soal in a strange conn-
try? Oh! God, how long?
These reflections and a thousand like crowd
upon us as we gaze with admiring sympa
thy on that sad group under the willows along
the banks of Euphrates. Bnt onr questions
are presently answered. The mneic of faith in
monrning is as touching in its pathos as it is
grand in its measure! There is a music whose
very pauses sob with an eloquence divine.
Here it is heard. They do not sing! How can
they sing? The ernel captors require a'song
from the broken in heart. Who ever heard a
song in snch a night! They lift their sad eyes
up among the gentle waving boughs and greet,
their silent, stringless harps with floods of
team! Listen! They can not sing to gratify
their enemies; bnt they talk with the dumb in
struments, the sweet voioed companions of hap
pier days at home, far away; and they say
“How shall we sing the Lord’s aoDg in a strange
land?” “But our devotion is not less constant
and true. Our hearts do thrend; our copious
tears, when we remember Zion, do make' holy
notes of love and faithfulness upon the s'eeret
strings of tho spiritual harp !” And then, oh,
incomparable utterance1 “If I forget thee, oh,
Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her
cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my
tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I
prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy!”
'Time and distance have not disenchanted this
wonderful threnody ! More hoary than the
reeds and gray osier willows ou whioh their
harps hung silent; mellowed only by the influ
ence of time, this heroio Hebrew strain has
Hik&ittHhdblfiMikdiMktMBtaCMBMtfByBtti
melting and seasoning humanity—time’s grand
M8(MBMaOv«« |A't< ,'JIWIO{ «
And now, my brethren, 1 lot ns, on this our
liberty day, sweetly learn a lesson. Tn time of
peace, prepare for wrt, isa human forethought.
In tima of prosperity learn the curicuHim of
adversity. Mauy lessons are taught by this
sublime scene, butt Uavechosen it for only one.
It is thi3—fidelity, religious fidelity. After this
comes reward, d<.-livernuc.-, higher and more
glorious triumph, which we shall nee.
My brethren, the hi.-tory of Infinite goodness
toward man has a negative side—at least to it
appears to ns. Tho Divine Father aobieves His
gracious purposes by opposite, not to say oppos
ing processes. Our highest happiness consists
in devotion to Him, and that devotion consists
in the devout employment of all our powers,
and tbe proper exercise of the religions facul
ties. Now, these faculties and powers are best
employed, or appear to best advantage when
opposed. Antagonism is the law-of progress.
Truthfulness is always beautifal, but it is heroic
and attains unto grandeur when it is maintained
against odds. Yirlus is always great, but it at
tains sublimity and is awful in majesty, when
it remains invincible under sore triaL Then it
transcends the poet’s or the painter’s art, and we
lose tho conception in a glory far transcending
innocence ia ail its just and perfect beauty.
Ho I affirm also of this King of principles—
Fidelity! The word itself projects npon us,
and we recognize a massiveness both rugged
and grand. Charity is called Queen. Fidelity
is King. These, too, occupy the throne of vir
tuous achievement in an eternal unity. Fideli
ty !* Ah, If creates the id: a rfn world of forces
ready for any trial— invulnerable defense of
honest souls; or, a sleepless chieftain, on the
watch for f.ny arduous task of duty—quick,
nnerring, omnipotent! But who cau follow or
describe it, when roused aud firtd by sore trial,
or determined opposition! Then the sleeping
lion shakes himself and trembles the world!
Then the almightiness of faith’s grip is seen.
When Jerusalem is in rains; when the citi
zen of this spiritual capitol is in captivity to
adversity and temptation and trial; where ene
mies deride ard taunt—“aha, aha;” when they
who have sought to destroy the last vestige of
hope “demand a song” for their profane de
light; when the bruised heart has confided to
the pitying willows its stringl8ss harp, and only
the memory of yore remains. If amid these
evidences of abandonment and woe, the faith-
fal soul exclaims in fixed, fervent constancy of
of purpose and of love, “If I forget thee, O,
Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her can
ning!” it presents a picture and a reality of
fidelity unalterably sublime, and is, in itself, a
compensation, full' and adequate for all the
painful process of its development! It vindi
cates itself. It returns commensurate blessing
to its author, and to its owner.
This, my brethren, is God’s voice in the
dust! This is the grand utteranoe of a faith
which is always great; but whose mighty gra’sp
is felt in all its self-contained divinity, in the
boundless world of woe and darkness! It is the
one fire on the altar of the soul which cannot
be smothered; the one flame whose ardor can
not be qnenched; the one condition of snccess
and triumph which cannot be removed. Oh!
it strengthens in the storm like someforestgiant
which bends from above, bnt strikes its anchor
ing roots deep and deeper into the foundations
of stability.
Now, this principle of fidelity is universally
at home. I mean that no change of place or
circumstance can alter its nature or its exhibi
tion. It finds anohorage in all the world, and
holds the Christian—the true character—in the
light, that all may see, lovo and fear. Not that
all conditions and situations are received alike,
and alike make impressions. But that in all and
through all this principle holds its undeviating
coarse. Fidelity to truth and honor conquers
the world.
He who, deep in his soul founds his purpose
and adheres to it, (and if that purpose be in its
nature and tendency above the mean pursuits of
a grave-bounded life) can afford to hang his
harp npon thfl willows, and deny to a taunting
heathen the tribute of a song; and hy his fidelity
to the troth will walk a path in which his enemies
cannot followhim. High above thehopesof men,
he lives in the realization of honor. Far beyond
the reach of realiDjary, hereposeson theconoh
ol peace. And though, humanly speaking, he
may sit beneath tbe willows and have no heart
to smite with fingers taught to invoke from
harpstrings the sott and holy znnsio of ostensi
ble devotion; yet in the secure temple of his
soul, over which, in “strange” captivity, no
willow (emblem of his humiliation) shall ever
cast itssbadow; I say, in the seenre and glorions
temple of the son], mstrains of living, immortal
rapture, music is made ; music that will chain
to silence an angel’s harp, and hold tho ear of
Deity!
This w.i<! tho characteristic feature and power
of the ancient Hebrew. He never forgot Jeru
salem. He never failed to face the temple in
his heart and worship. He never compounded
with country, race, custom or circumstance, re
lieve him of the obligation of his faith. The altar
to the God of his fathers was erected in his heart.
All else might bo destroyed; temple, government,
service and ritual; still he was true; and on the
banks of foreign streams he ponred bis salt tears
and sent them forth ont of the land of captivity
that they might mingle with the friendly waters
of the sea that washed and kissed his own be
loved Bhores; and he' is heard to repeat his faith
and challenge maledictions of eternal power if,
in a single fugitive thought anything different
should find a home in his soul!
Christians, is here a lesson for ns ? Do we,
in admiration of snch devotion, sufficiently real
ize its sacred mission to our souls ? Does it
teach U3 a great principle ? Most tine! and
muoh more 1 It shows us how it works. -It re
veals tho secret of its operation as well as the
incomparable tenacity of its n ature. What then ?
Just this! The Chnrchof Jesus Christ is the
world’s Jerusalem. Yours and mine; ours and
all mankind’s.
We, my brethren, have.a glory to defend, a
devotion to show, a principle to vindicate, a
fidelity to exhibit! We, too, should be able to
say of our Jerusalem, “If I forgat thee let my
tonguo cleave to the roof of my month.” Our
Zton must bo the crown of our rejoicing, and
answer our longings by her attractions and wor
ship; Shall the Hebrew show greater fidelity
to tbe dear mother of his hopes which are but
dimly held out to him in types and shadows
and fignres, “in which were offered both gift
and sacrifices, that coaid not make him perfect
that did the services according to conscience
shall he who Btands in the shadowy light of a
morning yet to dawn, tesch and excel in
fidelity him who embracing Christ “who offered
himself without spot to God, and who cleanses
the conscience from dead works to serve the
living God”—“comes with boldness to the
throne of grace, obtains roeroy and finds grace
to ho!p in time of need?” No, a thousand
times no! We shonld be masters in fidelity,
since we live under the meridian glory of gos
pel power! Instances of deviation and defeo-
tion should be as rare in onr lines as discord in
the continuous round of the material universe!
Possessed of an experimental knowledge of
Christ, we should .and must lead the wot Id in
His praises, and exhibit His majesty in onr
simplest lives. His church. should be ever on
onr hearts, and onr fidelity to her claims, her
purity, her dootrines, and her defense shonld
dtfy the powers of evil arrayed against her.
It remains, my brethren, to oonsider,- more
particularly, the objeot and scope of this fidel
ity. It should have respect to all the holy ways
of the Church, but I may mention a few par
ticulars which stand out prominently and com
prehensively : Authority, Dootrine, Worship.
These are the mighty words of the Kingdom
of Jesus Christ We are not advocating, in the
name of the chnroh institation, infallibility,
but authority, to which every Christian has
covenanted allegiance. Authority as a captain
who gives the word of ooinmand to his ready
hosts. Authority as a father who disoloses his
will to his children. Authority as a teacher
who asserts and unfolds the imperative truth
of God. Authority as a guide, whose directions
are “This is the way, walk ye in it” Authority
as the Bole keeper of a refuge to whose shelter
ing arms the poor, the outcast, and the storm-
beaten are commanded to hasten. In whose
divine saoraments the weak find strength, the
poor find abundance, and the guilty find peaoe
and purity. In whose holy promises and coun
sels, the despairing find hope, and whose
heavenly influence reaches to all extremes and
makes tbe land of captivity a garden of delight.
For within the Church of God are tbe mountain
of safety, the stronghold of protection, the
cities of refuge; here break forth the streams
in the desert of which the prophet speaks, and
here the sonroes of all comfort and grace are
fonnd, as established of God in tho everlasting
ago.
Bnt this fidelity most respect doctrine. The
revealed doctrines of salvation, which are the
holy lessons of the kingdom of Christ, are to be
faithfully believed, holily realized, constantly
defended. Behoved in the heart, exemplified
in the life, and defended in the active charities
and zealous advooacy of troth. Bnt truth in
dootrinals will be variously assailed. Its em
blems may be bronght into disgrace. Its tem
ples may be desecrated. Its high behests may
and eternal death, mny*be set forth
leaders of the blind may pretend el L
ditch. Bat these are wreckers of H|Bk 5
They nllnro by false lights to dsnfljfcl
to plunder and destroy. The C’ * 8 *
hold fust the oracles uf"GuJ. U
defend of the gospel. He h J
the pillars of: truth. He will all
hibit its excellence and yindicale a ' J, i i
his holy life. Tnese are the brave
Christ and Him crucified.
faith. Smcdfication through th3 ^
The genuineness, authenticity. mrS 3
preoiomness of the Word of
Scripture. The resurrect ion from thT, ^
the power of Jes>us Christ, “fere™.
Lord.”- These will become all the t
as the bitterness with‘which th-v
increase. What a fitness for
an armory, and oh, what exhauatlta n H
of war ! ““alJ
tm to tne doctrines of the oro-s r,? 1 *
it higher still, on—beyond, and
fore iho gaze of m?n, all dripping J.hJ*'
blood, or radiant with the glory 0 f
The sacred proofs of the doctrines of
by Christ Jesus are unapproachah f
pretend to assail them, and I san D3 , 0 ,, '
after their best wisdom. Poor w-v ■
tain feelers in the daik essay to
existence or *»—-
brethren,
” ~ ‘‘ J ~ — “C *
my
chide the blind, because he denies t-
enoe of light Vain reason’s powers ar»
I have no disposition to undetvJuel-t J
they must continue ...development- wj
the human mind has reached the ’«**■
its greatness; when reason, old atd '
and rich and wise, slowly crawls np the?
of its mo3t perfect vision, it will b« on!, a
struck dead, beneath the mightier
of Divine power and grace ia Christ j^ 1
Lord. Aye, revelations which the loftier
swiftest peiceptious neverno mnch
of discovering, bnt which to the fsithp
humblest of God, in the doctrine of the
are known and enjoyed. Mensav“iheC
must fall.” Down with the Church!
doctrines must be superceded. Her anil
must be denied. Her worship mn 5 j ^
ished. “Christianity is a failure."
may we all be snch failures, evermore, a-
Aye! Satan hath oertainfy said so’;
wicked heart of sin hath steadily ao dt^
The vain philosophies of men have alnw
tered like imbecile ravings! Bat,ayW
ren, let the truth be trusted; let the *»3
salvation by faith in Christ be preach!
and truly; and
Do you see this cringing flowei?
I will tear it to pieoes.
v I will, hjrrl its flakes of deliaate W
your heads. See how they fly from pt!t:
person, and the space is filled with the cm
flutter of their fimbriate wings. When 1
expect to batter ont yonr brains, wii
leaves, the enemies' of the Church o!
may hope to raze her fair and vital pn
to the dust, by their equally airy and __
attempts! Are the doctrines of Christ
proachable? Truly so! They are spirit and
are life! They become incorporate ia
and penetrate his soul and life! Throng!
the blind see; and can any man take aw
light? Throngh them the lame walk; aii
man prove walkiDg a delusion ? Through
bad men are made good men; weak dsi
made strong; who can overthrow the
Jesus is an imposter, said the unb
Pharisees to the man who was born bhal
whose eyes onr Lord opened. “ An im;
“Impossible.” “No.” “Yes—perha^
surely you most know, for you are vise
But men and brethren tell me this: Hot
an impostor open my eyes? “Blessed
tor, more blessed imposition!” “Ah! I
it: call truth falsehood ; call the power o!
the genins of Beelzebub; call blindnesssee
call saviDg grace the exercise of human ri
the powers and infinities of human
and then I have it! No matter. One
snre, one thing is positive, one thicgl
I went blind, I came seeing. I, who was
now see.”
Brethren combat the proofs as yon
Season against it; say that snch a thing is
natural, unreasonable, impossible; what ill
“He from thick fi’ms will plunge the uaulir
And on the sightless eye-balls pour the iit’
So it is to-day! Men deDy the doc'zs
Christ; they deny His divinity; th]
suit His holy Name; they despis
sacraficial blood; and yet, before their e«
their closest circles, He is opening the e;s
the blind, and raising the dead! TL:
faith in His name the sorrowful are nji
the weak are strengthened; the drunta
sobered; the unclean are purified.
Fidelity then to the doctrines of Christ'
His chnrch is the high lesson of this »
honr. This my brethren, I repeat, ii
lesson of my text. Press it to yonr b
Write fidelity on yonr foreheads. Stand
folly np for Jesna! Learn in yonr high e
tion, the lesion of dnty from those,
-anoient brethren, who were captives! 1
not to forget Zion. Make her yenr
joy; build np her walls by yonr
to her doctrines and worship, pa«
hallowed streets with the beaten gold of
consistent lives. JUift her temple doe.
high heaven by yonr united labors in he*
Over all her vast area ponr the incense of I
deathless devotion, that the fragrance o!^
worship may captivate angelic sense, ad;
the honor of Jehovah! Take down you
silent harps from the drooping willows,!
over their stiffened strings your traatW
gers; strike boldly for asong. andsoiRL-J
and on, until, throngh elonds ascenirj
transfer yonr grand harmonies to that jP
Temple not made with hands-eternal'J
heavens. And then in tho thunder t'-'u
corrouation glory, in the grand finals ct.1
songs of strife, captivity and hope, youa>|
“Crown Him forever, crown Him Ki' g
Crown Him forever, crown Him hold it LW
Crown Him the glorious Conqnererof Hell;
Crown Him tho everlasting Prince of
Crown Him Jehovah, Jetu, Lamb of God.
Hallelujah! Hailrinjah^
And the tidal wave of rapture shall
world.
• Love and Romance,
A wedding took place in Thirtieth
ing the week that had a larger shareef re
connected with it than the Mi of « a
gentleman ten years ago was engaged
then a maiden of eighteen. He
the parents opposed the match on w* .
the disparity in age. He left for
daring his absence the young lady
and won by a young man. The jo®M 1
died last fall leaving his widow Btil!
handsome, the mother of four daW*
now the first suitor, fifty years old, 1 3
ed an exoellent match for the widow el f
eight. The lady wore a high n£ cl ■„
sleeved dress of mauve satin, withau
train trimmed with folds of alternate a**'
velvet the same shade, folly half way
skirt. The over skirt was full and ’■
tirely of velvet edged with deep, ricti
fringe. A splendid set of coral ana
ornaments adorned her throat m ,
and her hair, dressed very
decorated with leaves of carved coral*
era thickly set with diamonds that for ^
onet. As the lady is a beautifal ““jJ
dress was charmingly beooming, 0
of that bridal train as it entered u
saloon of the bride’s mother, cam*
afiej
handsome woman and noble grey-hah^j.
groom, for their sole attendants ;tt j
children of the bride, dressed^ > a
muslin only serving to sew the * aW ' Um
composed their dresses, with immense .J
white satin, their crimped golden n» a
loose. Nothing oordd be more love-. ^
three of ’em nine, seven and six I* ^
bnt behind tho three came a tottuag^j
of three, whose jet black eyes “ ftD
light as she passed down the room. •“
hands in white kid gloves and ter
worn over a pink slip. _ lhI!Cra
As I looked at those children 1 1 .^1
bridegroom hadn’t lost anything by
ten years and getting four s ? cr L*
daughters.—N, j. cor., 8t. Lot“ s
Significant Facts.—The New
attention to the strange fact th» J * ^,
dealers imve.to ooxue to Now Yot
vegetables in season. The farming ■»
New England is rapidly deolining, * a
be bought at a cheaper rate ia ^
than in the settled portions of Iowa an ^
ilia. Country towns in New HamP*®*^
inhabited twenty years sgo aro now d
populated. Rhode Island is the only ^ ^
land State where farms are increases j
and this is owing to the growing P ^,
its manufacturing villages. gftj f
ever, hundreds of aores outtiva 1#
ago are now abandoned to the rabbity