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The lelegraoh and Masseager
MA.CON, GA. FEBRUAB1 19 1878.
Tan Louisiana House of Representa
tives refuses to reoogxize Wm. P. Kel
logg as a Senator from that State. Arose-
lotion instructing the Louisiana Senators
in Congress to vote for the Bland silver
bill was amended so as to read “Senator/’
thus recognising the faot that Kellogg
owed his seat to a Legislature fraudulent
ly counted in by the Reluming Board.
The aotion of the Louisiana House of
Representatives is proper, and .it would
bo equally proper for the National House
of Bepresentstives to refuse to reoognize
as President the man who owes his seat
to the frauds and forgeries of the same
Belumlng Board.
Tax House Banking and Currenoy
Committee is said to have practically
agreed tom bill to substitute greenbacks
for national bank circulation. The bill
providea that the greenback shall be re
ceivable for all pnblioand private dues,
exoept where ooin is expressly stipulated.
The committee its invited Beprceocts-
tiTM'of the New York national banks to
appear before them (Friday) to give their
opinion as to the beat machinery to exe
cute the provisions of the bill. The bill
also provides that these notes shall be
receivable at the Treasury at par for
percent, bonds.
Mobs than a thousand persons were in
Nashville, Tenn., last month looking for
homes in the famous farming oountry
near by. They were from half the States
in the Union. A tide of emigration to
that region has set in that makes Kentucky
green with envy.
Con’s Tobacco Plant estimates that
the tobacoo annually consumed in the
world amounts to about 2,000,000,COO—
two thousands millions—of pounds, and
that if the leavea were made into a roll
two inohea in diameter, we should have
“a tobacco serpent 1 ’ whiob, following the
direction of the equator, would wind
around tbe earth thirty times.
A Noble School of the Proph
ets.
The Theological Seminary at Columbia
South Carolina, is one of the oldest relig
ious institutions in the South. It iB nnder
the control of the Presbyterian church,
and from its halls have passed more than
five hundred ministers, who have labored,
or are now laboring, in this country, or
have gone as missionaries to foreign lands.
By the generosity of the members of the
Presbyterian denomination, this semi
nary was once amply endowed, having a
vested fond of nearly two hundred thou
sand dollars, which yielded a sum eu(B«
cient for all necessary expenses. The
war swept away nearly one half of the
endowment, and the depreciation in all
manner of securities for the p&Bt few years
has rendered other funds unproductive.
For these reasons, the iuoome has not
been sufficient to meet the expenses, and
on January 1st there was a deficit of thir- to quit, and nc&3 of them will be in a
Tbe War on Thursday.
A telegram from Constantinople the
14th, reports that the British fleet had
passed the Dardanelles the day before,
without other hindranoe from the Turk
ish authorities than a formal protest
against the indignity and the squarevio
lation of the Treaty of Paris by the Pow
er most active in making it and most
strenuous that it should bs respected. It
is said that the fleet will anchor at Prin
cess Island, in the Sea of Marmora, thir
teen miles South of Constantinople, and
will occupy that island.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg of the
same date (14th) states thatBuBsia had
taken measures to advance a part of he
troops before Constantinople bo soon as
any foreign men-of-war enter the Btraits
—not as an act of hostility, but (to put
it in the shortest way) as a piece of conn-
ter-bulldozing. There is no evidence in
hand at this writing that Bussia actually
has any troops in the city.
Ihe St. Petersburg telegram before al
luded to, states that it iB probable that,
on the entry of the Busslan troops, tho
Saltan will retire to Brouesa, a city .of
Anatolia in Asia Minor, fifty-seven miles
3» _S. E. of Constantinople—an event
hich the Bussian government is said to
apprehend will render the re-establish
ment of the Turkish empire in Europe
very difficult matter.
Now, that the two belligerents are
there, what is to follow ? Thirteen miles
of intervening water seems to bs a whole
some barrier. The Bussian troops in and
near the city have certainly no means for
molesting the fleet if they desire to do.
On tbe other hand the fleet have no
occasion to atttack the Bussians unless
they seek one, and then they can do little
injury to the Muscovites, whatever they
may do to the city. Thoy cannot dislodge
the latter without a military force, of
which they have little or none.
Thus these two quasi belligerents seem
to have carefully arranged themselves so
as not to hurt each other, but only the
Turk. If they fight, the Turk alone will suf
fer, while they o jly illustrate upon bis nn-
happy person . 1 possessions how totally
they would i-fBiroy the men they have
quarrel sgainof, if they were only fixed to
do it and could get at them. And Great
Britain calls that bsoking her friends—
the Turks! While Turkey was in the
agonies of battle and called for help, she
could get no response. But now, after
Turkey is whipped, comes Mr. Bull,
whether or |no, and will take no denial.
She fairly breaks into Turkey’s house,
and runs him out of it, tn her inexorable
determination to interfere.
It cannot be denied that the talk and
inflammation among all the powers are
about as menacing as they well can be.
Every day they appear to be working
themselves nearer a general row; but we
still hold to tho conclusion that they will
probably think batter of it before pass
ing tbe Rubicon. A war will result in
so great an entanglement of interests,
that none of them will know how or when
ty-flve hundred dollars, amounts due to th-
professors for salary. To meet this
want, the Board of Directois have
thought best to send an agent to repre
sent these facts to the membership of the
chnrch, and, by persons! application to
eaob, reoelve from them such amounts as
they may be willing to oontribute at pres
ent, to make np the defioienoy new ex
isting, and also to seoure promises to pay
inthefnture snoh sums as* the liberal-
minded may be willing to give towards re
endowing the seminary.
The gentleman appointed by tbe Board
of Directors of the Theologioal Semina
ry for the above purpose is Bev. C. E
Chichester, late pastor of the Wlnnsboro
South Carolina Presbyterian Churob, and
before the war one of the editors of the
Charleston News. He will give an inter
esting statement to-day from thepnlpit
of tbe Presbyterian Ohnxob, of the condi
tion and wants of the Seminary at Colum
bia. No oollectfon, however, wifi be ta
ken np, but our citizens are requested to
give as God hssjblessedthem to this faith
ful representative of a noble and honored
foundation whieh has done so mnoh for
the salvation of mankind and the healing
of the nations.
What more can be necessary than the
hare announcement that such a man as
the venerable, learned and modest Dr.
Howe, whose lifetime has been devoted
to the Seminary, is now in actual need,
and that it is next to impossible to raise
the necessary means for the support of
the girted Dr. Girardeau and his worthy
associates, who are doing so much for
the church and country.
We bespeak, then, for Bar. Mr. Chich
ester, who comes among ns with the
highest recommendations, a warm wel
come and liberal responses on the part
of ihereligious people of Macon.
There are now 40 theological students
at Columbia, which is double as many as
have been in attendance for several
years.
Random shots from Lsnreas
Dub us, Ga., February 15th.
Editor* Telegraph and Mutenger: I
send yon a few items from Laurens
oountj:
The new mayor and oonnoil for Dublin
held their first meeting on Monday night.
It is oomposedof the following gentlemen:
Meyor, J. J. Conner, Oouncllmen T. D,
Sarehett, J. J. Wolfe, J. E. Perry, B. M.
Arnan, E. J. Tarpley,, Clerk and Treas
urer, I. KeeD, Marshal J. Wright. No
business of Importanoewas done.
On Thursday, the 7th instant, a fearful
cyclone passed though oar ooanty, doing
nauoh damage, sweeping everything be
fore it. Almost every house in its coarse
was blown down. It is frightful to be
hold.
The small steamer on our river haB
been running whenever the river is high
enough for her.
Oar farmers are buying & great deal
of guano of different brands, and farm-
work has fairly commenced.
We have an old gentleman in this
county who is some on marriage. He is
ninety-three years of age, and hasjost
married for the third Ume. His wife is
abont forty. The old gentleman made a
good orop last year. How is that for
high?
Basiness is very dull for this time of
year, but most of our farmers have made
provisions enough to do them ter the ooin*
ingyoar, and we hope for batter times.
We are all Bland bill people down here,
and would be well pleased if Ben Hill
wonld be good enough to vacate.
More anon.
BespeoUnlly, A Bubscbibik.
St. Petxxsbuxg, February 15.—Tne
Agencit Brute Bays, all the newspapera
point ouc that the British fleet has
entered the Dardanelles in spice of the
Sultan’a protest and consequently
violating the treaty of Paris of 1856.
It cost the Government 95,187 to ran
the revenue office at Frenchman’s Bay,
Me., last year, end tbe reoeiptr were
$6.65.
situation to quit, until compelled to by
sheer exhaustion, it the game once
commences, therefore, it is likely to bo a
very serious matter to alL
Lack of Employment.
The New York Tribune illustrates the
lack of employment in the Northern cities
by stating that within an hour after news
had arrived of the wreck of tbe steamship
Metropolis, and the resulting loss of be
tween 150 and 200 lives, the office of the
Messrs. Collins, in Philadelphia, was fce-
seiged by several hundred applicants for
tne places of the laborers on the South
American railroad made vacant by the
death of the original employes. The
Tribune also states that the agency for
New South Wales in that city is thronged
with a thousand applicants for thepo-
sitiens of laborers and mechanics in Syd
ney. That paper saye:
These people represent but a fraction
of the great mass of unemployed poor in
the cities; men who are not paupers
from inclination any more than the most
respectable reader of tho Tribune; hon
est, industrious, frugal, in the majority
of cases heads of families, who are out of
work, and are ready to go to the other
side of the globe, or to the forests of
Brazil, to get work to keep their wives
and children from starving. It is use
less to ignore this miserable, gaunt fact,
hich stares us in the face at every cor
ner. It is not to be dispelled any longer
by soup-houses on the one hand, or or«
ganized precautions against tramps on
the other. We have had enough discus
sion on the relative advantages of occa
sional and organized charity. It is not
charity that is wanted; it is work, and
the only work which offers now as a re
lief to the suffering in the citieB is farm
ing. How the unemployed mechanics
and laborers have got through this win
ter, Gcd only knows—they have been
jreatly helped by the mild weather. But
n three weeks spring will open, and
what is then to be done ? The revival of
business will be too slight to afford them
any tangible help. Are they all to sink
down permanently into tramps and pau
pers ? Or, in case of a revival of the
abor troubles of last July, are we to koep
them as a reserve corps, ready, as then,
to join, with tirrible effect, the side of
disorder, riot and rapine ?
Feace in Ca&a*
Havana telegrams of the 14th instant
announce theceitiin prospect of a speedy
peace in that distracted island by the
submission of the insurgents. This will be
gratifying news, although it will bring
out an overburdened trade to this coun
try. The people o! the United States
must practically indemnify Spain for the
waste and expense of ten years, of war.
They will do this in the shape of heavy
export and import duties paid in to that
island.
Bat the Cuban revolution, so-called;
never rose above the dimensions of a
guerilla fight, and for the last five years
has been nothing but a war of banditti
and plunder. As such it might go on to
the end of time, unless the parties qnit
itin mere weariness, which it seems they
are about to do. If it were possible to
obtain for tho Cubans a free, liberal and
cheap government, which should realize
to them, and not to their Spanish mas
ters, the material wealth, of their island,
no spot on the globe could compare with
it in value. Bat there is no hope that it
will be other than it has been—an inex
haustible tributary to Spanish unthrift,
extravagance and plunder.
Tax Washington papers report Sena
tor Harris ill of Bright’s disease of the
kidneys, but we hope the case is not co
bad as stated.
Gxn. Ben. Butler is said to have ready
a resolution to declare that the House has
lost confidence In tbe administration of
the Treasury Department. This resolu
tion is to be presented upon the passage
in the House of the amended Bland bill
after its return from tbe Senate.
THe Fleet and Constantinople.
There is nothing in the earlier tele
grams in this edition making it certain
that the British fleet is yet above Prin
ces’ Island, although a Beutei’s dispatch
of the 14th from Constantinople, says
“the British fleet expected to enter the
Bosphorus to-morrow.” The London
Timet’ Pera (Constantinople) correspond
ent of the same date, however, expresses
the hope that the fleet will remain
Princes' Island and not insist on occupy,
ing the BoBphorus.
It is worthy of note, too, that the Vien
na correspondent of the same paper fond
ly hints that (he Bussians will content
themselves with something short of an
oooupation of the city—a line near the
Bosphorus and Dardanelles, evenlthoogh
they might occupy the forts situate there
on—any thing in this policy of mutual
bravado and irritation whioh may be ac
counted a little letting down from ex
treme courses.
And this seems to be possible, for Mr.
Lsyard, the British ambassador at the
court of the Sultafi, telegraphs that the
latter had received, on the 14th, a dis
patch from the Czar, stating that his
troops would occupy the *'neighborhood of
Constantinople in a friendly spirit, etc.
All of thiB looks a little better temper
el. And it is edifying in this connection
to read the indirect appeals to Bussia by
the London Times of yesterday morning,
to moderate her choler, and cot to per
mit her troops to take up a menicing
position at Constantinople so as to make
Mr. Bull more angry than he is now. The
London Times, we judge, has a strong,
though secret, impression on its mind
that in this business the govern
ment of Great Britain is displaying more
temper than sense or reason; c-nd it is
anxious that the Czar should not follow
so dangerous an example. Hence, it
trusts that the Bussiacs will not “from
perfectly sentimental motives” aggravate
the affront which from “perfectly senti
mental motives” Great Britain has chos
en to take to such a frightful extent.
For, if neither of these parties desire or
intend to take territorial possession of
Constantinople, it is pretty clear that
there are no more '‘British interests” to
be picked up loose lying around the city
than there are Baesian interests in the
same condition.
In short, the Times and- the telegrams
seem to hint at a slight subsidence in
England, and siy that the German Em
peror is interposing some moderating
counsels. The personal relations of the
emperors of Germany and Bussiaare
known to be friendly, and it will net be
donbted that Germany can exercise a
large control of the situation if she d-
sireB to do so.
The Western provision markets were
good deal excited yesterday with the
prospects of war. Tnis was duo to the
negotiations reported in London on the
14th, with large contractors for the im
mediate delivery, if required, of heavy
stores of military supplies.
Tlie
Pins
Requiem Mass lor
IX.
The partioulan of this solemn cererao
nial will be fonnd elsewhere in this issne.
Whether professing the Gatholio faith or
not, one cannot fail to admire the devo
tion and fealty manifested to mother
church by the followers of the Romish
persuasion. Even tbe poorest are will
ing to part with their “pence” for the
support of the clergy and.the up-build-
ing of their creed.
And in this respect Protestants may
well learn a lesson from their OatooIlo
friends.
In the present Imtince, it is not in the
least surprising that almost to the nttor.
most bounds of Christendom, a prolonged
wail is heard at the demise of the Papal
father, whose life has been one continual
saorifioe and self abnegation, for the ben
efit of his eeolesiasticsl followers.
Pius IX was a sovereign and spiritual
ruler of enlarged perceptions and great
personal charily. His whole life was the
constant exemplification of the fact, and
that liberality was especially manifested
by the aid and sympathy extended to the
straggling people of the South in their
direst need, when proud Albion, cur an
cient ally, France, and all the powers of
earth gave the “lost cause” the “cold
shoulder.”
The writer is a Prostestant from in
stinct, education and conviction. But
that shonld not make of him a bigot, or
dry up those sensibilities, and that ad-
mirati n which generous deeds and
Chriauan philantropy inspire.
That Pius IX waB not a Christian is be
yond the ken of living mortals to assert.
On the contrary there was much in his
life which savors of the spirit of the meek
and lowly Jesus, and charity is a gar
ment with which all should be clothed
upon.
Peace to his ashes,and God have mercy
his soul, we can reverently say in
conjunction with our Catholic Mends.
The exercises on yesterday were to the
lost degree solemn and impressive.
St. Joseph’s church was hung in black
from foundation stone to the loftiest tur-
', and within, the same sable insignia
woe draped the pictures and statues,
hang in sosabre festoons around tbe
walls, and cast the shadow of the tomb
upon every object.
'The catafalque lay before the altar
with its waxen lights and coronals of
flowers, among which a huge bunch of
freshly gathered violets exhaled their de
licious fragrance, adding to the sweetness
and solemnity of the scene.
The mass was celebrated with great
pomp, and ohannt after chaunt and many
dirge like requiem to the memory of
the departed Pontiff rang one grandly
upon the still air, while the sounding or
gan sent forth its solemn peals in honor
the octogenarian priest and potentate
who, full of honors v and years, had at
length been gathered to his fathers.
Sach an event seldom occurs more than
onoe in a life time, and hence our desire
do justice to the occasion, and inform
the reader what are the rites and cere
monies observed by onr Catholic friends
in memory of a deceased Pontiff.
Centura Nyrnp.
No other medicine in the world has ever
given such a test of its curative qualities
Bosohee’a German Syrup. Iu three
years, two million four hundred thou
sands small bottlos of this medicine were
distributed free of charge by Druggists
in this conn try to those afflicted with Con
sumption, Asthma, Croup, severe Coughs,
Pneumonia giving, tiie American people
undeniable proof that German Syrup
will cure them. The result has been
that Druggists in every, town and village
the United States are recommending
jo their customers. Go to your Drug
gist, and ask what they know about it.
Sample bottles 10 cents. Regular size
75 cents. Three doiea will relteve any
case, Dccl8 ly
ret,
Good Bsads.
We invite careful attention to the ex
cellent and exhaustive esiay on this sab
ject delivered by Professor Sanford, of
Mercer Univerity, at the late convention
of the State Agricultural Society in
Americas.
Its suggestions and recommendations
are replete with wisdom and practical
instruction, tnd should be adopted by
every county in the state.
We were especially gratified at the
desezved compliment by the Professor
to the system in vogue in Bibb county,
which has been productive of such saltu
tary results.
Truly, toe civilization, and morel and
material progress and statue of any com
munity may be measured by the condi
tion of its highways. When these are
neglected, and, as a necessary conse
quence, due intercourse cannot be had
between toe inhabitants, and the proper
market facilities are denied to them, re
trogression muet follow, and every inter
est, moral and material, suffer. Hence,
the value and importance of the Profes
sor’s paper, which was unanimously in
dorsed and adopted * by the Convention,
and ordered to be printed in pamphlet
form. By his kindness, we are enabled
to give it to the public in advance of toe
action of the Society, and trust its admo
nitions will be duly heeded.
JPaosage ot tbe silver Bill.
At five o’clock Saturday morning, af<
ter an sll night session, the Senate came
to a vote on toe passage of toe silver bill,
as amended in the Finance Committee of
that body, striking out the free coinage
feature. The yeas and nays are given
in toe telegrams. The vote stood 48 to
21—showing two-thirds and two to spare!
The bill must now go back to the House
for concurrence in the Senate amend
ments; but virtually it is already an ac
complished Suit in legielation.
We may now be permitted to hope
that exoitement and ill-temper will sub
side. Sach an array as these forty-eight
names present does not permit a deco
rous challenge either of the intelligence,
honor or patriotism whioh have brought
about this result. The questions involv
ed have been discussed in all their bear
ings with an exhaustive comprehensive
ness and intelligence rarely expended on
any public topic. It may be safely said
that in strength of argument—in earn
estness of persuasion and in thorough
ness of conviction the friends of toe re
monetization of silver have certainly been
notone whit behind their opponents,
while in toe represantitiou, both of States
and people, they hava outweighed them
more than two to one.
It is time, therefore, to cease tbe de
famatory and abusive style of speeoh ap
plied to the “silver men” from first to
last sinoe the opening of the controversy.
We are entitled to deoent language and
fair construction; and it is the business
of toe minority now to be quiet, and at
least wait with composure from the com
ing ruin they predict.
That, after the scare is over, wiil re
solve itself Into a myth. The country
is strong enough to carry its product of
silver not only with convenience but with
Ineressed security to every substantial in
tercet of trade; and, for our part, we trust
that the publio mind, in forecasting the
financial future, will settle down on a sys
tem of paper circulation which will not
only neoessily keep a heavy metalio cir
culation afloat, Jjnt will demand that not
a single paper* representative of money
shall be allowed to oiroulate, whioh either
does not bear the guarantee of the Na
tional Government or whioh is not se-
oured, as to every dollar, by a corres
ponding metalio deposit, or that of nation
al or State bonds of undoubt3d validity.
The House is already moving in the
elaboration of an amended system of
paper circulation; and let it be such as
never again to perish into otter valueless-
ness in the hands of the people.
We are glad that the silver bill will soon
pass away as an engrossing topio of pub-
lie attention. The tariff now comes op
in order, but ihe rednotion in that taxa
tion will be small and unsatisfactory.
Still Improving'.
The telegrams of Saturday, eo far as
visible up to sunset, are more quieting.
The most salient item is, perhaps, the re
port that the Austrian Minister ol Fi
nance is to proceed to London—in quest
ot the sinews of war P But another tele
gram represents Austria as not inclined
to be captions towards Bussia; and the
statement of tne North German Gazette
(semi-official) that a request from St.
Petersburg was received at Berlin yes
terday, that toe German (including Aus
trian) influence would make itself felt in
toe interest of peace, shows that the
Czar does not feel belligerent, and is not
at all inclined to aasnme the existence of a
hostile animus towards Bussia at Vienna.
On the contrary, he assumes, as an indu
bitable fact, “in spite of all assertions to
toe contrary,” that the idea of any cool
ness existing between the three imperial
governments of Germany, Austria and
Bussia is entirely inadmissible.
There Is no evidence yet of an oooupa
tion of Constantinople by the Bussian
army, ttiough it is stated that they hold a
redoubt whioh was included in the origi
nal line of defense of that city. But as,
Bussia had determined on an sggrea.
sive attitude, some important forward
movement would have been ohronioled
before this time, we assume that her
polioy Is to keep as quiet as possible.
The London Times ot yesterday is
credited with a very conciliatory tone and
toe confident opinion that if the Bussians
at Constantinople are reasonably prudent
toe crisis may be averted, and the powers
yet enter into toe Peace Conference.
There i3 no doubt about that—if Great
Britain will content herself with a mod
erate amount of bulldozing. There is no
serion3 danger of the frustration of peace
which does not begin and end with Mr..
JohnBnll. It seems that a peace party
is waking up in London, and Borne mon
ster mass meetings are projected; but
the movement is top late and probably
too feeble to effeot anything. The only
peace influences weighty with Great Bri
tain lie in toe private archives of Prince
Bismarck.
fiV r . ■ —
For tbn Telegraph and Messenger.
Why im Uso?-A Bepjy,
In times past toe writer was an ardent
member of a Young Men’s Christian As
sociation. In foot, he was a Btrong ad
vocate of theee associations. He assisted
in organizing two elsewhere, and, prior
to, and during, toe war, was an active
member in that which existed in this
eity, co-operating with the Smiths, Ana
dsrson, Saulabory, Wieo, Nisbet, Mclfllroy,
and a great many other young men,
whose names wonld he familiar to yonr
readers. It must not be supposed, there
fore, that I am either ignorant of the
aims ot such ax organization, or person
ally hostile to. those aims.* But I have
changed my opinions in regard to Young
Men’s Christian Associations, per te, and,
with your -permission, therefore, will
venture a partial answer to toe. “perti
nent inquiry,” in your Sunday issue. “X
wish to ask the Christian people and
pastors of the city why it is that they
so carefully ignore the Young Men’s
Christian Association, or are even hostile
to.it?”
The great reason why many good
Christians and church members ignore
such an association, or are hostile to it,
is, simply, because they do not approve
of pious, active, zealous young men’s
abandoning toe duties incumbent upon
them, as members of aparticular church,
and giving their time and exertions to an
organization outside of the church.
Their "objects” may be "praiseworthy,”
and their “exercises” may be “religious/’
and, therefore,perse, highly commenda
ble.
Bat why should Christian young men
form an association outside of their
ehnrohea to engage statedly in religious
duties and exercises? Inside of each
church in this city, every young, active
and zsslons member, whether Methodist,
Presbyterian, Eplsoopalor Baptist,oan find
just as mnoh to do in the way of Chris
tian labor or dnty as it is possible for him
to perform. There is not a pastor m this
eity but what wonld be glad to avail him
self within the bounds of bis ohnroh or
ganisation, and far the promotion of the
objeota for wbioh his ohnroh is organized;
of the most active efforts of every young
male member of his ohurch. There is an
abnndanoe of Christian labor for our
young men inside of their churobei.
Why, then, go ontiide of their churches to
engage in Christian labor ? All tbe rellg-
ons work done by the young men of this
Christian Association, as such, could and
shonld be done by them as working mem
bers of their own individual ohurohes,
and for the benefit of those ohurohes.
We shonld remember that ohurohes are a
divine institution, established by the Sa<
vioor for the evangelization of toe world,
and for ns to attempt to do that work—
the legitimate wotk of ohurohes, is, in a
manner, to impugn the divine wisdom.
Therefore, I think our young men,
pious and excellent and zealous ub they
are, for personally I am acquainted with
them, make a mistake in forming an or
gamzation outside of their churches,
through which te perform the very du
ties incumbent upon them, as ohurch
members. While 1 am in favor of "every
good word and work,” I say seriously
and solemniy to the young Christian
church members of Macon, who form
this Young Men’s Christian Association,
abandon your Young Men’s Christian
Association; go to y cur pastors or church
es and say, “1 am ready to labor for Je
sus, as a church member; put me to
work!” Then let each church put its
young men and -women te work in main
taining Mission Sunday Schools, social
and church prayer meetings, hunting up
the unconverted and strangers, and bring
ing them to the church,and in performing
all ether kinds of Christian labor for toe
amelioration and evangelization of soci
ety. There is no need of an association
outside of tho church for this kind of re
ligious work.
I hope toe young men of tho Associa
tion will take this article kindly, for it is
kindly meant; and it is what I have Ion;;
boon wanting to say to them. I wili
conclude by saying that, in large cities,
there are in these associations, certain
advantages which make them beneficial
but.I doubt if,in our city.toere is sufficient
necessity for an organization in order to
reap even those advantages. I am cer
tain there is not, if each young chnich
member feels it his duty to do for the
benefit o! other young men, as a church
memb ;r and as a chriitsan, what he
might feel called upon to do as a member
of a Young Men’s Christian Association.
B.
BSMABK-.
The t bove reply to the inquiry, "Why
is it se ?’ of a correspondent, i3 d eeerv
ing of a brief notice, because the author
is a wo.t ly clergyman and Christian gen-
tleman.
But this very fact renders his position
toe more extraordinary and untenable.
Ho says, “The great reason why many
good Christians and church members ig
nore suoh an Association,or are hostile to
it,is simply because they do not appiove of
pious, active,zealous young men’s aband
oning the duties incumbent upon thorn
as members of a particular church and
giving their time and exertions to an or
ganization outside of the church.”
Now, toe beat answer to this argument
is, that in every instance, toe most zeal
ous and efficient members of tbe Young
Men’s Christian Association are the
most zealous and efficient members of
their respective churches. Moreover,
by a law of this Association whioh has
never been violated or departed from, no
meeting or religious exercise connected
therewith is permitted to conflict with
any Sabbath School or church appointr
ment of toe several denominations. This
principle distinctly underlies the Macon
Young Men’s Christian Association.
Its members have never failed to re
spond to the call of their pastors, Bnd in
deed no fset oan be more patent than
this, that the training and practice of the
association have wonderfally developed
the powers and confidence of many of the
yroong men, transforming them from dif
fident and inactive disolples Into eloquent
exhortsrs, and efficient Christians who
are gifted in prayer.
The object of the association is to sup.
plement the work of tho pastors, and
achieve that, by co-operation, whieh no
eingle'minUtor and his handful of young
male members have ever, or oan ever be
able to aeoomplisb. That this has been
done at least in part by the efforts of the
association no one oan deny. Another
greet >nd transcendent benefit derived
from this banding together of the young
Christians of every denomination for tbe
advancement of God’s Kingdom, is the
uprooting of sectarian bigotry, the culti
vation of brotherly love, and the forma
tion of tender friendships whioh will sur
vive to life’s latest hour, and are a fore
taste of the blessed millennium era.
A TOOTH the eiae of a small ham, and
similar in shape, weighing twelve pounds,
was extracted from the jaw of a white
elephant in Ceylon while the animal was
nnder the inflaence of chloroform. The
dental operation was performed to relieve
the beast cf the great pain causedby ex
posure of the nerve owing to the deoay of
portion of the bone,
Again, suoh an organisation is very ef
fioient in times of calamity and distress,
when almsgiving, watching over the tlok
and afflioted, and suoooring the needy and
bereaved moat be aystamatizsd, and oon-
oert of aotion Is Indispensable.
Bat why multiply arguments in favor
of onr organization? There are very few
hamlets in this, and heaven bs praised
any other State In the Uoion where the
blessings of the Yonng Men’s Christian
Awociation.&re not feltand gratefully.ack
nowledged. Oar friend Is mistaken when
he says that its benefits are confined to
large oities. We oonld point to at least one
town in Georgia,onee noted far the intem
perance and vice cf its inhabitants,
where the faithful work of a Yonng
Men’s Christian Association has banished
drunkenness and gambling, and wrought
a thorough and xadfoal change for toe
better in the morals and] habits of toe
oommnnity.
Here, in Maeon, strange to say, toe
Association has been forced to encounter
rts strongest opposition in toe house
of those who should be its friends
—from ministers end laymen, those
to whom they had a right to look
for sympathy and assistance. No wonder
then, that it has languished, though not
more so than God’s visible ohnroh in this
season of spiritual dearth and deolension.
It does not claim, or arrogate to itsel
any greater sanctity than a Bible society,
prayer meeting or tract association. And
toe frnits of its efforts all go to swell the
rolls of the various churches.
Ib it too much to say that this quasi
opposition may have its origin in toe
jealousy which obtains between toe de
nominations?
We hope not. Certainly no such feel
ing has a lodgment in-the hearts of the
members ot the Association, and propa-
gandism u a word unknown to them.
Their motto is, by God’s help to save
the sinner. It is of very small moment to
what evangelioal branch of God’s chnrch
he unites himself when once cleansed by
the blood of Christ.
Thank God, in Augusta, at this very
moment, a powerful revival ia in progress
under the auspices of the Young Men’s
Christian Association and the Baptist
Church and few indeed are the
towns and cities of the Union where
their prayers and persistent efforts have
not been owned by toe Most High, to toe
salvation of immortal souls.
We hope, therefore, that cur young
men will take courage and stand ly their
colors, resolved to redouble their prayers
and efforts in behalf of each other and a
world lying in sin and wickedness. We
counsel no antagonisms with any, but
urge peace and goodwill to all men.
Notes on tbe late Agricultural
Convention.
It was impossible in tbe brief space of
two days, with all the data and proceed
ings of a convention of three hundred
loquacious members, to report, and keep
abreaBt of the journal, and at the same
time, to give allot the side issues and
interesting event! which transpired dur
ing that period. Hence we were able to
say nothing of the masterly address of
GXN. ALPHEUS BAKER, OF ALABAMA,
delivered on Wednesday night in the
chapel of toe Masonic College, and his
magnificent recitations, and pathetic
songs which were encored to the echo.
This versatili genius seems capable of
oompasaing anything from thfe gravest
topic on the tapis to the last bon mot,
popular air, or tailing hit In the arena of
social life.
He took Amerions literally by ctorm
and his visit and performances before
the Library Association are not likely
soon to be forgotten.
It wa3 the good fortune of the writer,
to be associated intimately at the hospit
able mansion of Dr. Bailow, with several
of (he celebrities of the Convention.
Oae of these was
MB. J. H. CAMP,
who resides two and a half miles from the
city of Borne, on the Etowah river.
This gentleman purchased his farm of
180 sores of land in 1873, at a cost of
112.400.
Daring the past three years, hi3 crops
have averaged as follows, with one hun
dred and seven seres under cultivation *
Corn, 35 aores—1,600 bushels.
Wheat, 25 acres—768 bushels.
Cotton, 40 acres—43 balea of 490 lbs.
each.
Oats, 7 aores—300 bushels.
In addition to the above, the proprie
tor honsed 40,000 pounds of hBy, a por
tion of whioh Bold at Beventy-five cents
per hundred pounds the present year.
One hundred and fifty dollars also
were realized from toe proceeds in market
•f the peaoh orop.
Now, what sane man will even talk of
emigrating to Texas, or the Mieaisolppi
bottoms when such results can be accom
plished at home.
FXBSONZL or THE CONVENTION.
We counted on* hundred and two grixsly
boards and gray heads on the floor of toe
convention, the conntenanoes of many of
these stalwart farmers affording a study
even for the world-renowned Hogarth.
There were to be seen, enthroned in'the
human face divine, stern resolution, the
trinmpha of success, disappointed hopes,
the Micawber like expression of a patient
waiting for something “to turn up,” and
toe grim determination to work and toil
if needs be, even to the bitter end, for
wife and family.
It was emphatically
A BXPHESKNTATIVK GATHERING
of the estates of the realm—those
who create the products which give vital
ity and force to all classeg and interests.
Ani some of these noble sons of toil
were rare specimens physically,and by no
means deficient in mental acquirements.
Thus, our vie a vie at table was a
EOV OF ANAS,
from Oconee county, who, like Sanl,
stood head and shoulders above his breth
ren, but unlike the Hebrew monarch in
other respects, was gentle, unambitious,
and a true exponent ot those who la
bor for the good of their country without
hope of reward, and because they are
true patriots and good citixens.
This man oonld have tquelohed a dozen
of his fellow morteli without the least
effort, bat he was sa good natnred as he
was powerful and formidable.
We conclude these outride notes by
commending to thej oommnnity the
VXBKONT POTATO SSXD
of onr fellow eitizsn, W.S. Brantlj, Esq.,
who has raised three crops of them within
less than a twelve montb.and Bent magnifi •
cent specimens of toe third crop planted
In Ootober, for the inspection of doubting
Thomases at the Convention to whom
seing alone was believing.
Thx London World says that whan
Lord Beajonafleld, in toe Honae of Lords,
was enunciating his views as the privilege
of his oellsagnes to annonnoe their own
secession from his|away, an amusing tri
bute was paid involuntarily to his charac
ter by a venerable white haired peer who
ia *'supporter of the ministry. - The old
gentleman was thinking aloud; he tied
been aooompanying the Premiex’a speeoh
with corollaries et his own in perfectly
audible terms. When at length came the
pompons phrase as te the “high, ancient,
and valuable privilege," the comment,
uttered so londiy that the Usher ot the
Blaok Bod priaked np his ears, was,
“What a droll blsokgnard it is, te be
Enrol”
AGsWea L Wedding.
Tbe engagement between tbe Earl of
Bosebnry and .Misa Hannah de Rothschild
Is furnishing the London gossips with
some choice tidbits. For generations the
Bothohilda have married only among
themselves but now the girls are select
ing their husbands from members outside
the hiBtorio religions faith, though this is
something the Rothsehild men have not
yet consented to do. There was a terri
ble hubbub among the great family some
years ago, when the first step of thtskind
was takes; when a lovely Miss Rothsohild
determined to many the Hon. Geoil
Yorke, a younger son, poor, and of coarse
a Gentile. It was a regular Borneo and
Juliet affair, and of oourae the old
folks had to give in for fear of the
threatened cup of oold p’isen, This
marriage has been a dignified and happy
one. Spite of the difference of religious
views, the young couple are the two
souls with bnt a single thought sort of a
thing with a vengeance; and strange to
say, all the Rothschilds approve of the
match. The truth is, Rosebury ia a
charming young fellow, and toe old
Baron, head of toe family, liked him ex
ceedingly. And what a magnificent
match he is about to make! He has a
noble income from his own estates, but
his wife’s fortune will make him one of
the richest men in the world. Any one
who has been in London knows the grand,
gloomy abode of the Boehechilds, which
faces toe Green Park. Outside, it
looks something like the Mausoleum of a
giant; bat inside, not a palace in Lon 1
don can excel it for luxury and comfort
Miss Hannah scarcely looks like the tra
ditional Jewess. She is fair as to hair,
and straw berry-and-creamy as to com
plexion; in figure, inclined to stoutness,
and always a bright smile wreathing her
kind mouth. She is “smart,” too, in the
American sense; knows things, has opin
ions and expresses them bluntly. She
.is absolutely her own mistress, and, be
sides the town house, owns the magnifi
cent country estate called Mentmore,
Her father and mother being both dead,
and she having neither brother nor sis
ter, she is the sole and only possessor of
landr, houses, pictures, statuary, old
porcelain, yachts, horses, carriages,
eheep, cows and donkeys without num
ber. Her income is about 92,000,000 a
year.
FROM; WASHINGTON.
Passage of the Silver Bill la tbe Sen
ate—Tbe Question Settled.
Washington, February 16.—The silver
bill passed at five o’clock this morning,
as amended by the Senate finance com
mittee. The vote was 48 to 21. The
bill most go to the House for co our-
renee. Silver is remonetized and made
equal with gold aB a legal tender.
Free coinage is stricken ont. The
yeas on the bill were Messrs. Allison,
Armstrong, Bally. Beck, Booth, Bruce,
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, Cameron,
of Wisconsin, Coke, Conover, Davis, of
Illinois, Davis, of West Virginia, Dennis,
Dorsey, Eastis, Ferry, Garland, Gordon,
Grover, Hereford, Howe, Ingalls, John
ston, Jones, of Florida, Jones, of Nevada,
Kellogg, Kirkwood, MoCreery, McDon
ald, McMillan, Matthews, Maxey, Merri-
mon, Morgan, Oglesby, Paddock, Plumb,
Saulsbnry, Saunders, Spencer, Teller,
Thurman, Voorheee, Wsliaoe, Windom,
Withers.—48.
Nays— Anthony, Barnum, Bayard,
Blaine, Bnrnside, Ctmstianoy, Conkling,
Dawes, Edmunds, Hamlin, Hoar, Kon-
nan, Lamar, McPherson, Mitchell, Mer
rill, Randolph, Rollins, Sargent, Wad-
leigh and Whyte.—21.
Harria and Patterson, who wonld have
voted for the bill, paired with Hilt and
Butler, who would have voted against it.
Ransom was detatned on aoaonat of ill
ness.
Washington, February 16.—The text
of the silver bill aa passed by the Senate
is. An act to authorize the ooinage of
the standard silver dolla r and to restore
its legal tender charaoter. Be it enacted,
eto., that there shell be coined at the sev-
oral mints of the United States silver dol
lars of the weight of 4121 grains trey, of
standard silver, ss provided in the act of
Janaary 18th, 1837, on which shall be the
devloesand superscriptions provided by
said aot, whioh ooins together with all sti
ver dollars heretofore ooined by the Uni
ted States of like weight and fineness,
shall be a legal tender at their nominal
valne for all debts and dues, .publio
and private, exoept where otherwise
expressly stipulated in the oontraet,
and the Secretary of the Treasury
is authorized and directed to purchase
from time to time silver bullion st the
market criee thereof, not less than. $2,-
000,000 - J&rpor month, nor more than
94,000,00<nrorth per month and canse
the same to be opined monthly jaa rest as
ss purchased, into acoh dollars, and a
sum sufficient to carry out fro forego
ing provisions is hereby appropriated out
of any money In the treasury not other
wise appropriated and any gain or seignio
rage arising from this coinage shall be ac
counted for and paid into' tbe treasury as
provided nnder existing laws relative
to the subsidiary ooinage, provided
that the amount ot money at any one
time inveated in snoh silver bullion, ex
clusive of tuoh resulting ooin Bhall not
exoeed 96,000,000 and provided, farther,
that nothing ia this aot ahall be construed
to authorize the payment in silver of cer
tificates of deposit issued under the pro
visions of seotion 254 of the revised
statutes.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Affairs More Quiet.
Vienna, February 16.—It is reported
that the Austrian Minister of Fmanoe
will proceed to London on a special mis
sion.
Bzblin February 1C.—The North Ger
man Gazette says a request was received
from St. Petersburg yesterday that Ger
man influence wonld make itself felt. That
influence can rot bnt be peaoefnl in spite
of ail assertions to the oontrary. The
relations existing between the three im
perial courts not only plaoe all idea of
any coolness arising between them entirely
ont of toe question, bnt also offer a sure
guarantee for the maintenance of a gen
eral peaoe.
London, February 16.—The dimes’
leading editorial to-day is very paoiflo in
tone. It Bays it will be dne to some
gratuitous mismanagement if the relative
positions of England and Russia, near
Constantinople, leads to any aeriona mis
understanding. Our own Government
may ba tr&sled to . aot with oombined
moderation and firmness, jf the
Russians are reasonably prudent
there is no reason why the powers shonld
not enter peacefully into the oonferenoe.
Mr. Gladstone yesterday received a de
putation from the workmen’s neutra
lity committee, and oonseated to address
a public meeting ol the workmen of Lon
don on the Eastern question. The ob
ject of the meeting is sUtod to be to hold
Government to a polioy of neutrality and
secure the thorough independence of tbe
provisoes whioh have been freed from
Turkish oppression.
The meeting will probably be held on
the 25tb of February, in Agricultural
Hall, Islington. Sir Wilfred Lawson
and Messrs. John Bright, James Stans-
field, Anthony J. Murdelk and other
members of Parliament are expeoted to
participate in the meeting. A workmen’ a
mass meeting with the same object is
also called for the 24th instant in Hyde
Park.
London, Febrnary 16.—The Times?
second edition prints the following dis
patch : Para, Febrnary 15th—It is (gen
erally expected that the Grand Duke
Niobolas will enter Constantinople with a
portion of his army, but will eoaeas the
guest and friend of the nation, with the
oonsent of the Bolten, the Russians,'
considering that this will give England no
eon** belli, espeoially as her ships are near
the capital against the express wish of toe
Saltan and the Porte.
Washington, Febrnary 16.—The com
mittee of ways and means struggled with
iron to-day. Several amendments are
pending. The Senate this morning at 5
o’clock was very funny, it may be said
h at it was hilarious.
FBOU NEW ORLEANS.
Brilliant, Prospects lor the city.
New Oblxans, Louisiana,
February 10th, 1878.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger New
Orleans, like all the other cities of the
conn try, is very mnch depressed; still
there are scarcely any failures—very
strange, when we consider that they are
largely in advance of the planters and
that the sugar crop has been ftlmostan
entire failure. This is attributable to
the fact that business here is conducted
strictly upon business principles acd scru
pulously honest business men. I doubt
if on this oentinent any city amongst her
merchants can show such as array of
honest, open dealing men, as New Or
leans presents in her merchants.
A new era is h8re since the maugura.
tion of Governor Nichols. He is not a
brilliant man, bnt he is liked—he is as
honest man—a man whose purposes are
pure, and who has too will to execute
them. The kinks are all being unravel,
led and the crooked place! straightened.
The law is omnipotent, and the guilty
tremble.
Commerce, too, is reviving. Scon we
shall hare railroad communication with
Texas. This will swell immeasurably
toe volume of commerce flowing to ting
city. The jetties unite the grain trade
of the West. The monarchs of theses
now come and go without let or hmder-
ance. Eads is cur star of the West, and
wise men worship his brilliancy. A bet
ter and brighter day is dawning upon
New Orleans! Let Congress subsidize a
steamship line to Brazil and build up the
levees, or give the means to Eads to car
ry out his jetty plan from this to Cairo -
pass the Texas Pacific railroad bil>. Let
these schemes be consummated ani the
growth of New Orleans will out vie the
fable of Jonah’s gourd u and very soon
the South will become the Sampson o!
this nation.
The annual immigration to Texas, Gov.
Hubbard estimates at 250,000. Her ter
ritory is one-fourth larger than that of
France, and it she had the population to
the square mile which Massachusetts
now has, she would number 32,000,000 of
people. With suoh an annual aeceeaion
to her population as 250,000, how long
will it be before she has that population?
The same ratio wonld give Georgia and
and Arkansas 12.000,000, and the other
Southern States in proportion. What
then? The-Anglo-Norman is the fighting
race—is toe ruling race.* It may be re
pressed for a tune, bnt, like the Bturgeon’a
nose, the harder you press it the higher
it bounds. This rebound is commencing.
The next Congress will show it, and then
toe sceptre will have departed from the
East—and then. the Lord have mercy
upon them 1 The symptoms are in ad
vance even now, from Arkansas to Vir
ginia. Garland, Lamar, Hill, Butler
(not Spcoay, but he of South Caroline, a
name familiar to fame, and never degrad
ed when borne by a Southern man), and
•Tucker of the Old Dominion, Gordon,
Stephens and others, the brains of the
South, are now in Congress. Yearly ac
quisitions to this nuoleus are sure to fol
low, and the South will rule—and right-,
ecusly, Intrust, for her rule will be with
out limit. The epace over which to
spread her people extends to Panama.
A venerable and most sagacious French
ereole onoe said in my presence, abont
the time of the commencement of the
Rns8lanwar: “That no earthly power
could stay or repress the expansions of
the Southern Amerioan. What he cannot
take he wifi buy. He buy Lonislana, he
bay Florida, he take from the Indian
He comes of the best races for rcccese—
de. old English, de Dane and de Nor
man. The first make him stubborn, same
like the English bnll-dog. He oatehe
bold, shat his eye, and never let go.
The next—the Dane—gives him de dis
position to fight, and tbe Norman to
steal. I never know one to be satisfy.
He come here, have some nigger, he buy
one little pieoo land, be wort, ho save, an
soon he have not land enough, he go to
his creole neighbor, tell him I will buy
yonr 1-aid, No, sir, say de oreole, I not
want to sell. All my family live here. 1
not want to go way. He say notin, but
go home, tellde nig, kill yonr cows, break
• onr‘.fence, steal all jour chicken. At
- the get de laud, bat he never satisfy.
He want all de linddat join him; just so
all his people. Day have eat up all de
Indian, and now he commenoe on de Mex-
Hoes.” It is graphic, and too true. Al
ready we have half of Mexico. How long
is it to be, from present indications, be
fore we take the remainder?
But Z am running will with specula
tion. I did not contemplate this when I
sat down. 1 only meant to &ay, farewell
to the home so long, so dear to me; and
to tell you, that in all likelihood, this
must be the last letter I shall ever write
to you from New Orleans. 1 shall never
wander through her old market places
again; never again look upon the famil
iar face of the old dark river, or mingle
with the ancient people, once so wealthy,
eo kind and generous and hospitable, but
now ground to poverty and despair. My
old friends, those who with me enjoyed
life, when life was young, are now but
few, and these are passing away duly.
Only last week Charles Conrad, formerly
Secretary of war, whilst testifying in
court, fell from his seat paralyzed, and
two days before two other friends of fort]
years, General John L. Lewis and Mr.
Masson, were similarly afflioted, all most
prominent and respectable men, and all
younger than I. These men have through
life been extremely temperate, and no
canse bnt age can be ascribed for their
affliction.
Only three mere days remains to me in
this home of my heart. I am coming to
my childhood’s home with almost tour
score years upon my head to die, and be
buried with toy kindred and those whose
life’s morning march was with mine.
Farewell New Orleans! farewell my chil
dren, toe living and toe dead, and thou
the mightiest river upon the earth; fare*
well Louisiana, the loveliest land on tbe
faca of the earth, farewell and forever.
Y.M.C.
The World learns from Indiana thRt
George W. Jnlian,ofthat State, has writ
ten a remarkable article for the forth
coming number of the North, Amsrican
Review, to whioh he has given tbe
title of “The Death-Struggle of the Re
publican Party." As Mr. Julian assis
ted at the birth of toe Republican party,
nursed and protected its infancy, and bet
ter than moet men living knows what its
mission was and what were toe elements
of ita strength, he may bs assumed to
have studied with no hostile eye the
sources of its deoay, and his verdict that
it has outlived its usefulness will possess
• singular interest. The “cld orgamza*
tion abolitionists” were none of them ad
dicted to literary milk and water, but
Mr. Julian was a kind of Junius even
among the old organisation abolitionists
as remarkable for the biting energy ol his
style as for the fearless independence and
unbending integrity of his character. The
Blaines and Conklings may as well pre
dare themselves for the actual cautery.
“X suffered for a long time with goitre,
•rake or swelled Liver, indigestioa and
general tad health, and after trying
many other remedies, nothing dene me so
aruch goed as Simmons’ Liver Regulator.
It cured me, and now I have not to take
any medicine, for I am well; but I shall
always keep it in the house to cure any
one (he of the family that have anything
toe mattsr. It ie goad for nearly every
thing. „
M. I. Wilt*, Clinton, Ga.
Genuine prepared enly by J. H. Zeilis
& Co., Philadelphia. febl2
The Roman correspondent of the L»“’
don Times apostrophizes the Queen o
Italy as "that star who ha.-, by her charms
and wisdom, reclaimed, and, as it W***’
oonquered her husband, and fitted h>®
for the exalted station which aba h 0
share uilh him.”