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SATURDAY, MAY 30, ISGB.^
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We propose, tins morning, to show, as
briefly as possible, the actual condition of
South Carolina as ordained by the bayonet
installed law-making power of that State.
We do so with no hope, of course, of ar
resting, in its devilish career, the foul fac
tion which curses the country with its
domination, and which has shown, in the
case of this unhappy sovereignty, to what
length hate and greed can go. Os that we
despair. But we do it forthesakeof truth
and rigid, for the sake of justice, and in
the hope that the picture, when presented
to the freemen of the North, may rouse
them to a last and crowning effort at re
demption. If it he decreed that this foul
tiling must live, that this infamous plot
against liberty, against religion, against
peace and prosperity, against Nature and
Nature’s God, has won an enduring tri
umph, then there remains nothing to work
for but vengeance upon its authors. If
South Carolina and her sister States of the
South are doomed, so he it; we must ac
cept the fate. But there remains retribu
tion u|)on their destroyers to be stiiven
for. If the bastard governments they have
set' up at the South are beyond the reach
of change or attack, the men who devised
them, at their .homes and through their
own people, may be reached and crushed.
We have uti abiding iaitii that though liie
work may stand, the doers thereof will be
swept into ruin. Bet the people of the
North, then, see their crime in all its enor
mity,'and decree the punishment. We
quote from a paper lately presented to the
Senate of the United States, which was
drawn up and signed by a committee of
the leading citizens of that State. They
conclude their appeal with these startling
exhibits:
We refer you now to exhibit “A ” Al
though South Carolina is struggling for
bread, yet observe how, under the new
Constitution, the burdens of taxation
have been increased.
Proposed now to be raised $2,230,900
Before the war, amount about 350,000
Proposed now* to fie levied on the
real estate of the Mate 3 per cent.
Before the war J P© r cent.
But when there is taken into consider
ation the depreciation of the value pf
property since the war, the difference is
far greater. For illustration, take the
case of a piece of property, in a town,
before the war, worth say SIO,OOO
Levied before the war on this J
per cent., making 50
Now, at the same valuation, it
i\V cent 300
Thus the proportion stands as 1 to 0. —
But this is not ail:
The property valued before the
war at SIO,OOO, has now a
value of $3,000
Before the war, a tax of 1 per
cent. levied on this would
give 15
But to raise the S3OO required
now, demands a tax of 10
per cent 300
Thus, taking into consideration the de
preciation of the value of real estate, the
proportion stands as 1 to 20, or the taxa
tion provided for in tire new Constitution
is absolutely twenty times as great as be
fore the war. Nor is this all. But in the
ease of land, which has depreciated more
in value than city property, the propor
tion is even greater than the one estab
lished above. In iact.it is now a common
thing to find large tracts of land sold by
tire Sheriff for iess than the amount of
taxes resting thereupon.
2. Exhibit “B” shows that the Con
stitutional Convention was composed of:
Whites If
Colored "I
Total ■■••"121
74 colored pay of taxes sll7 93
1 only paying 85 35
Hence 73 colored pay $32 58
Or less than 50 cents each.
47 whites pay $761 <>-
1 wliite (Conservative) paying 508 85
Hence 40 whites pay $252 70
Or less than $0 each.
Os the 47 white members, 23 pay no tax
at all, and of the 74 colored members, 59
pav no tax at all. Os the whites, at least
one-fourth were Government employes
and Northern adventurers, and of the
colored men, a goodly number were from
abroad.
3. Exhibit “ C ” shows that the Legis
lature, elected under the new Constitution,
stands thus, exclusive of the District of
Marion and Lancaster, as the Democratic
success in these Districts is contested :
SENATE.
Whites 20
Colored 12
32
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Whites 37
Colored Bt>
123
TOTAL.
Whites 57
Colored 38
Whole number 155
Or uearly two colored to one white.
98 colored pay ot taxes $143.74
I colored paying 83.35
Hence97colored pay..... $00.39
Or less than 70 cents each.
57 whites pay $491.49
II Conservative whites pay 194.43
Hence 46 whites pay $297.06
Or less than $7 each.
Os these 57 white members, 24 pay no
taxes at all. Os these 98 colored members,
67 pay no taxes at all.
With regard to the Stale Government:
The ottioers consist of 7 whites and 1 c<d
ored —tlie colored man having the paid
office of least profit.
As to taxes, the Governor pays—...soo.oo
Secretary of State 00.00
l omptialler General 00.00
Treasurer 00.00
Attorney General 00.00
Superintendent of Education 00.00
Lieutenant Governor 15.99
Adjutant and Inspector General 1.00
Making $16.99
Thus the 8 members of the State
corps of officers pay an average
each $2.11
EXHIBIT A.
AN ESTIMATE OE THE TAXES OE THE STATE
OE SOUTH CAROLINA, UNDER THE PRO
VISIONS OE THE CONSTITUTION LATELY
ADOPTED.
1 School-house to each 16 square miles
of territory, making 1,800 school-houses
in the State, ats2ooeach $360,000
1,800 Teachers, each at S3OO per an
num 540,000
1 State Superintendent of Educa
tion 3,000
31 School Commissioners, each
SI,OOO 31,000
1 State Normal School Building
and Teachers 10,000
Deaf and Dumb and Blind Insti
tutions 10,000
State Keform School 10,000
Conversion of Citadel in Charles
ton into an Institution of learn
ing 80,000
Educational estimate $994,000
Current expenses of State, accord
ing to General Canby’s Tax Bill,
$470,000, less Free Schools includ
ed above $25,000, making 445,000
$1,439,000
Add 5 per ceut. expenses of col
lection 71,950
$1,310,950
Interest on $6,000,000 State Debt
from Juiy, 1866, to July, 1868.. 720,000
Total amount of Taxes $2,230,950
N. B. —The late assessment of real es
tate throughout the State, city, town and
country, is $70,607,075, on which a tax
levied of 3 per ceut. will raise $2,115,212. If
real estate owners are to defray the ex
penses of the Stale, it will require more
than 3 per cent, to meet them. Formerly
it was about j per cent., and that too when
lands and real estate in general had not
depreciated in value.^
SUICIDE. —The body of Mr. Edw.
-Crocker, u young man well-known in this
city was found near the farm of the late
Cha’s. Carter, Esq. The verdict of the
Coroner’s Inquest was that his death w-as i
caused by laudanum administered by his !
own hands. We have heard of no cause i
assigned for this rash act. — Chron. it Sent., *
POOH CHATHAM!
Gen. Meade is working the guillotine
just at these present writings, with an en
ergy hardly compatible with the state of
the thermometer. He lias cut oft the
heads of all the municipal people in Co
lumbus, and now he deals the people of
Chatham county a mortal blow. Captain
McGowan, Tax Collector of that county,
and whom the Savannah Republican de
scribes as an “honest high-toned gentle
man, and faithful officer,” is the victim.
His successor in office is. one Chae. H.
Hopkins, jr., whom the same paper pho
tographs as “a vile creature —the murder
erof a colored prostitute, and a cowardly
assassin.” Truly, Gen. Meade seems to
assume by his retention of Hulbert in
office, and the appoiutmentof such men as
Hopkins, is described to be, that the more
infamous the tool the more complete and
satisfactory, to the people of Georgia, will
be the great work of “reconstruction.”
We regret that lie should have so poor an
opinion of them.
STILL AT IT “SHARP AAB QUICK.”
The thermometer’s being up among the
nineties does not seem to have any in
fluence upon the indefatigable Hulbert.
He is at work sharper and quicker than
ever, to fasten upon the people of Georgia
the swindle that owes so much of Us
success to his aptitude in fraud and trick
ery. He is writing letters of instruction,
now, to his minions throughout the State,
and especially in those counties where
there is a likelihood of a contest against the
seats of Radical members of the Legisla
ture to have the oaths of his niauagers of
elections sent to him in Atlanta ; and to
provide against all contingencies, in cases
where no oath was taken, and where this
point might be made upon him, for the man
agers to take the oath now and have it dated
back, prior to the election !
Can Gen. Meade find time in the midst
of his arduous labors of chopping off offi
cial heads to look into this little game?
We shall see.
Another Howl!— A fresh chorus of
groans, and imprecations, and gnashing of
teeth rises all over the South. Impeach
ment is deader thou the deadest. It
stinks, even now. The unclean birds who
hoped so much from it are raging and
snarling over its grave. What a goodly
sight! How all honest men take heart
of grace ! How knaves tremble, and fools
blubber and whine ! We would like to see
A. Brown, just now. He must think tlie
government is going to the dogs sure
enough. Hasten, oh hasten Radical Con
gress to give “ us ” the spoils “ we ” fought
for, or all is lost, and some of our most
trusted leaders may have to go to work.
Strange!—The Savannah Republican,
of Thursday, informs us that a serenading
party was prohibited from playing in
front of that office on Wednesday night,
by tlie City Marshal, acting under orders
from the Mayor. The Republican office
was illuminated in honor of the defeat of
impeachment. We entirely agree with
the Republican, that tlie authority for
such petty despotism should be demanded,
and we denounce, right here, any and
every such attempt to conciliate radical
ism by these unworthy attacks upon pri
vate rights. It looks strange, not only to
tlie Republican, but to every honest man
in the State, that the party of Bradley,
the Boston negro jail bird, and Hopkins,
tlie perjurer, are permitted liberties denied
to respectable people. Such conduct pro
pitiates neither bayonets, bummers, nor
scalawags.
THE iMARSHALLVILLE SHOOTING
ti l l lit.
Marshalx.vii.iXs, May 29th, 1868.
Messrs. Editors -«wlsh to correct a
statement made yesterday, relative to tlie
re-arrest of W. C. Staley. lam informed
this morning by good authority, that after
Wheeler died, a crowd composed of fifteen
or twenty negroes, armed witli guns, pis
tols and an axe, went to arrest Mr. B. On
their arrival at M. Staley’s, Mr. Geo. Sta
ley and Mr. McDonald came out and told
the negroes that Willey was not there,
that he was probably ten or tweuty miles
away. The negroes said all they wanted
was Willey, and as he was not to be had,
they quietly left, hut went to his quarter,
about a mile off, and behaved in a very
disorderly manner, firing a pistol in the
yard. There was an inquest liekFover the
body yesterday, aiid from all the evidence
submitted, tlie jury rendered a verdict of
manslaughter. Mr. J. A. Staley, tlie
father of the unfortunate young man, says
be shall he on hand at Court, and submit
to the laws of tlie laud.
Yours Truly, J. A. S.
if 011 ix lit l i<: in i in: vr.
Vienna, Ga., May 27th, 1868.
Messrs. Editors:— A very painful acci
dent happened on the night of Sunday
the 23d ult., in tlie burning of a negro
cabin, the property of Jack Ballard, a
freedman, living in the vicinity of our
town, which destroyed two of his chil
dren who were sleeping till the flames had
enveloped the building, and prevented
their escape from the most horrid fate.
The father was absent, and tlie mother
had gone to attend a negro prayer-meeting
at tlie cabin of another negro, and had
left them all alone, with a fire in the
chimney, from which tlie flames orgina
ted.
They were burned to death before any
one could render them any assistance,
and, indeed, before tiie fire was known,
and when found their crisped ami mutila
ted remains presented the most revolting
spectacle.
Jack had rendered himself obnoxious
to our citizens by his forcible attempts
among the negroes, democratically inclin
ed, to cause them to vote tlie Radical
ticket during the late election. But we
are more inclined to look with palliation
on his conduct in reflecting upon his sad
misfortune in the loss of a child to whom
lie seemed strangely devoted.
B. R. G.
Confiscated Property.—The Presi
dent transmitted to the Senate on Thurs
day, in conformity with a resolution
passed December 17, 1867, a “ statemeutof
all moneys received into the Treasury on
account of property seized, condemned,
and confiscated under tlie act of July 17,
1862, for tlie suppression of the rebellion,
including the title of eacli case, the name
of the original owner, of the purchaser
under decree of sale, aud of the marshal,
clerk, or other person by whom respec
tively the proceeds of the sale in each
case may have been paid into the Treas
ury, and tlie amount of money actually
paid in each aud every case into the Treas
ury of the United States,” so far as shown
by tlie records of tlie Solicitor’s office.
Total amount paid into the United States
Treasury, $129,680 67; amount paid to the
Assistant United States Treasury, subject
to the order of court, for property seized
and confiscated in the District of Colum
bia, $33,265 48.
♦ -*♦- ♦
65®*. A bill in equity has been filed in the
United States Circuit court at Philadel
phia, by John O’Bryne, desiged to test
the constitutionality of the act of Congress,
levying tlie income tax. The bill livers
tiiat the act is in violation of article 4, sec
tion 9, of the constitution of the United
States, which says: "No capitation or
other direct tax shall be .laid, unless in
proportion to the census or enumeration
hereinbefore directed to be taken.” The
argument will be beard the first Monday
in June.
New Wheat.—We were shown a
sample of wheat grown at the farm of
Mrs. Iviuuou (Woodlawn,) near the citv,
yesterday, which was the first we have
seen in this city. The quality is A No.
1, white, and the yield about thirty bushels
per acre.— Constitutionalist, ii&th.
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER.
MONDAY, JUNE i, 1868.
WHAT TO WHITE ABOUT.
“Why don’t you give us a literary ar
tiC'6 occasionally,” said one of our best
frit nds a day or two since. “Why don’t
you devote more space to agricultural mat
ters, and stir up our people on the ques
tio 1 of immigration,” said auotber a few
days before. Well, we replied to both
sot lewliat after this fashion :
The writing of literary articles is be
coming a specialty as it
lias long since been in England and other
old countries. Men are being trained
thereto, not only for tlie express purpose
of gaining fame and fortune, but of add
ins; to tlie National honor, and win
ning for American literature an honorable
piece in the guild of letters. This class of
writers find their exponents and employ
mint in journals established for this ob
ject, and which, in turn, find patrons and
audiences in circles whose wealth and per
sonal habits make politics distasteful, and
whose leisure hours demand a mental
stimulus from tlie exhaustion of fashion
able dissipation. .People in this circle
rarely read a purely political newspaper,
and many of them very criminally, it ap
pears to us, abstain from tlie exercise o
an American citizen’s first duty—to vote
They are as necessary to tlie essayist or
writer on miscellaneous literary subjects as
lie is to them, and as the class to which
they belong yearly increases with tiie
w'ealtli of the country, so do purveyors
for their literary palates. Every year,
now, sees a better class of writers on purely
literary topics,—men of more intellectual
cleverness—enlisting under this banner,
and, as a consequence, driving amateurs
from tlie field. It is never the case in
England, we believe, that a literary man
deigus to discuss political questions, and if
we take this country we see tiie same rule
at work, though not probably to such an
absolute extent. Literary editors and po
litical editors are a distinct class at the
North, as any oue may know by in
quiry into the composition of the edi
torial stalls of any of'the large Northern
dailies. Mr. Grteley, perhaps, is equally
ready with his pen at tlie dissection of a
new literary endeavor, a party platform,
or the obliquities of a political opponent,
but we can scarcely call another case to
mind in the editorial ranks. Papers like
the Tribune, the Times, the Herald, and
the World, have men to “do” literature,
and men to ‘ do” politics, and they never
invade each other’s domain.
At the South the case is somewhat dif
ferent. Fewer men do the work of get
ting up a newspaper, and every man has
to try bis hand, as the occasion demands,
upon its various departments. The pecu
niary rewards of Southern journalism are
not suck as to warrant a perfect system of
sub-division of labor. But more than all,
tlie Southern editor’s business is, perforce,
politics—tlie discussion of such topics as
the ever-changing phases of oursoclaland
political condition daily present. The
hour and its issues demand constant
consideration, and however much he
may, at times, feel disposed to leave,
for a while, the heated and dusty arena of
political gladiation, tlie inexorable logic
of a revolutionary era forbids. Some very
well disposed, but we fear, for all tiiat,
very thoughtless people, say the South has
had too much of politics already ; that
“what we want, sir, is rest —a discussion,
sir, of other questions —literature, finance,
the agricultural and.educational needs of
the country, immigration, <kc.” Very
good, Messieurs, but do you not perceive
that all these are involved in,and inextrica
bly connected witii tiie great question of
our political status —tiiat this must be set
lied, some basis more or less
satis factory fpefore it would be either wise,
expedient, ot probably possible, to take
these others up with any hope of suceess
ful treatment? Is it not absolutely neces
sary to have some sort of government be
fore you can make literature respectable,
agriculture profitable, education at all gen
eral or thorough, and immigration feasi
ble, or even desirable?
The better tlie government, of course
thtPmore practicable and sure all these re
sults will be. The government that Rad
icalism proposes b> inaugurate is surely
not tlie best—nay, is it not tlie very worst
that could be set up? If we would defeat
its inauguration we must write against it,
we must speak against it, we must be in
stant in season and out of season in oppo.
sing it. We must array against it every
element tiiat tlie pen and tongue cau in
voke, aDd every agency their etibrts can
make potential. We must rally in its
patli every man who has an liouest belief
that it means mischief, and an honest de
sire to arrest its progress. The South has
not chosen her position. It lias been
forced upon her by the malice and
ity of wrong doers. She knows how
vastly important it is that the time, and
attention, and labor of her people should
be turned in other directions, but she has
been forced to see, too, that unless she
saves herself, politically, she will have
neither tlie liberty nor tlie capacity to
walk in these other paths. Our country
needs developement in all these elements,
but she needs, most of all, freedom of po
litical action, good government, impartial
laws and wise rulers. The campaign
about to open offers another and a bright
prospect for securing them. Ifwefail.it
will tbeii be time enough to begin the ex
periment f “making bricks without
straw”—of becoming a literary people, a
successful people in agriculture,commerce,
and manufactures, without first having
tried, at least, to be a free people, with a
decent government and respectable rulers.
THE STATE CAPITA L.
We see that certain citizens of Georgia
are reported as praying tlie Congress of
the United States to have the capital of
their State retained where it is. We hope
they may succeed, but confess to great
doubt upon tlie subject. It is a part of the
Radical programme to move it to Atlanta,
and we much fear it will be carriedout along
with all tlie rest of its multifarious plots
against tlie welfare of tiie people. We
hear tiiat Bullock opposed its removal, but
take the statement eurngrano. Probably
at the time be was so disposed, lie did not
fully understand tlie nature and purpose
of tlie move—to debauch and corrupt the
white masses of North Georgia.
It would be expecting too much at the
hands of tlie Radical Congress to look for
anything even approaching justice, but
we cannot refrain from asking that when
they come to pass upon the new “ Consti
tution,” they will give us another chance
upon this part of it. Let Congress author
ize the submission to the people of the
question whether or not the capital shall
be removed from where it lawfully be
longs, and Atlanta may clothe herself in
sackcloth in advance.
Crops in Fayette, Henry and Camp
bell Counties. —The editorof the Griffin
Star reports as tiie result of a two weeks,
tour through these counties, that tlie
wheat crop is fine, though somewhat dam
aged by rust, that the corn is looking
finely, and that a great deal has been
planted, and that farmers generally are
giving a good deal of attention to the rais
ing of fine grasses and clover, witii the
promise of the best results.
To Adjourn.—"X,” the Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette,
writes that it is understood to be the in
tention of the Radicals to adjourn both
Houses of Congress on the 30th iust.
The FikhtGun.— W endell Philips fired
his first gun at Grant and tlie Chicago
platform on the 27th, at Boston. He was
more vindictive and bitter than ever. He
denounced Grant, Colfax, the Republican
and Democratic parties, the Chief Justice,
and Republican Senators who voted for
the acquittal of the President, aud said
the Radicals were killed by the failure of
the impeachment.
Ex President Davis’s Tria,—The
Richmond Dispatch, of
that tlie District Attorney lias directed
tiie Clerk of tlie Circuit Court of tiie Uni
ted States to issue subpoenas for tlie Gov
ernment witnesses against Jefferson Da
vis, returnable on the3dofJune. Itseems
to bo undoubted tiiat tlie trial will com
mence on tiiat day, as tlie Chief Justice is
through with tlie impeachment business.
Washington News.—Under date of
the 27tli ult., “Lata,” the Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, writes
as follows :
Mr. Seward is reported to have said to
day tiiat tie desires to retire from the Cab
inet. There is a probability of other
changes in tlie Cabinet directly; but to
what extent the reorganization of tlie ad
ministration may go is not determined,
nor is it settled definitely who tlie new
members are to be, though tlie names of
gentlemen of high standing and national
reputation are mentioned as sucessors to
the several positions to be vacated.
Persons w hose telegrams were indiscri
minately delivered to the impeach men t
managers, announce to-day tiiat they will
firing suits against tlie Western Union
Telegraph Company, to test tlie legality
of the action of tlie company’s agents.
Among tlie numerous visitors to the
President to day were several Radical
members of (lie House who voted for im
peachment. One of these urgedjthe Pres
ident to make certain removals 4ff Federal
officers.
soi iiimkmt.un geokgia.
Notwithstanding tlie stringency of
money matters mostly superinduced by
many planters having to sell their cotton
at a price below tlie cost of production, we
are glad to perceive tiiat they are most
manfully making their greatest exertions
to make remunerative crops the present
year. The unpropitious weather of tiie
present Spring lias seriously added to the
labor of tillage, fiut we are sure it has not
dampened their energies. This is tiie kind
of farming spirit we love to see manifested,
and want cannot enter a region where
such industry is evinced.
Tiie crops, doubtless, are greatly infested
with grass, but with that perseverauee
wiiicii characterizes our planters, the un
welcome intruder will be met with an
army of hoes and plows and gallantly
exterminated. We would, therefore,
encourage our farmers to guard themselves
against nursing any spirit of despoudeucy
on tlie principle inculcated in tlie old
maxim, that “ a bad beginning lias a good
ending.”
We observe our leading agriculturists
have planted large crops! of corn, tiie pres
ent year, which is indicative of a step in
tiie right direction, and by tiiat move an
enormous amount of tiie money hereto
fore sent abroad for breadstufls and pro
visions will remain in our midst.
Much attention lias been given towards
securing a large crop of potatoes, and ex
tensivo vegetable gardens are amply re
paying the persons who took the care to
plant commensurate with their wants.
On tlie whole, we do not see any reason
why our people should complain of their
lot in life, and we would commend our
section to those half-starving oifihe worn
out lands of Middle and upper Georgia,
as a country where any working man can
make a good support.— Bainbrltbje Gear
yian.
The Lecture Last Night.—The lec
ture last night at the Masonic Hall by tlie
Him. Henry s. Fitch, was largely attend
ed by ladies and gentlemen, who listened
with rapt attention to the eloquence, wit
and sarcasm of the speakei.
THE FOURTH ESTATE
was the subject selected by tiie speaker,
who commenced by saying, tiiat in the be
ginning of the 14th coatux when Venice
ami Florence we*e the ill'' j manu
script of Monastic Europe, wt-gen
ius,; John Guttcnherg, carved Ills -wooden
type, the foundation of the “Fourth Es
tate.” lie died neglected by his cotempo
raries, hut hasheen immortalized by their
posterity, ihe I nquisitiou established an
index of prohibition, and Sixtus tlie
Fourth issued bis edict prohibiting unau
thorized publications. An analogy was
here drawn by the speaker between tiiis
pontifical lull ami military Order No. 49.
lie said that it required considerable
subtlety to perceive the distinction be
tween the two. though live centuries had
intervened. The one was written in ele
gant Latin for Hie protection of religion,
and the other in inelegant Eglish for the
promotion of Radicalism. One was osten
sibly for the defense of the Apostolic
Creed, the ot her in shameless subserviency
to Southern Apostates. The Pontiff bad
his advocates in the Church; the Com
mander finds no admirer except under his
own epaulette. There was a marble lion
in Venice into whose open mouth spies
tossed their information ; there is a brazen
ass in Atlanta into whose long ears para
sites drop their poisonous slanders. Verily
tlie history of the human race moves in a
cycloid.
The speaker then alluded to the restric
tions placed upon the press in England,
and said that the Star Chamber, in 1586
restricted and revised publishers’ lists up
on the same principle probably that repor
ters are now excluded from military com
missions. The Long Parliament prohib
ited its proceedings from being published ;
the present Congress would have done
well to have adopted the same rule. Tlie
Congressional Globe, then, would have
ranked at least equal witii tiie Police Ga
zette, aud spared the country much morti
fication.
The lecture was concluded as follows:
“The press of America, born of many
struggles, is tlie Warwick of tlie age, and
makes and unmake all the rulers of this
Republic, or the empire founded upon its
ruins.”— Sav. Ecws a- Herald, 29 ih ult,
Millard Fillmore.— The Macon Jour
nal and Messenger , in a long and very well
argued article, canvassing tlie qualifica
tions that should be possessed by the
Democratic nominee for tlie Presidency,
comes to tlie conclusion that no man in
the country combines them in so eminent
a degree as Millard Fillmore. Having in
former times, and always when lie was
before the country, supported Mr. Fill
more with a zeal and constancy which
soraeof ourparty friends termed obstinacy,
we need hardly say that it would delight
us to support him again, if allowed a
chance.— Col. Enq , 29t/i.
Shocking Accident.—On last Satur
day, the eldest son ol’Ed. Bustain.Esq., of
Fayette county, was thrown from a skit
tish young mule against a tree, and
instantly killed. We deeply sympathize
with his afflicted parents.— Griffin Star,
29th.
Looking Up.—Though for a good while
our “city” lias beeu rather on a “stand
still,” it is hoped no one will charge us
with “ blowing ” when we announce tlie
decided opinion that Athens isatthe pres
ent time on the "Look Up.” In verifica
tion of this fact it gives us pleasure to in
form the reading public that Mr. Ij.J. Du
pree, of Lexington, lias purchased tlie lot
and buildings thereon, known as the
Thomas lot, (north side of Broad street,
opposite the Grady corner,) and intends
putting up some handsome aud roomy
store-houses, together with two large Halls
in the upper stories of the buildings to be
erected. This will be an improvement—
tlie want of which lias long beeu felt, and
will add not only to the business facilities,
but will prove an ornament to this portion
of the place.
It may not be out of place to remark,
(so we have been informed,) that Mr. Du
pree lias become the owner of tlie elegaut
residence of tlie late Albon Chase, and
intends to make Athens his future home
Men of means and enterprise are public
benefactors at this time, and iu this in
stance, no doubt, will receive a hearty wel
come from the citizens of Athens.— Ath
ens Banner, 29 th ult.
The Wheat Prospect.—The farmers
in this section anticipate not quite an av
erage yield. The unprecedented heavy
rains in this month, with mould and rust
have injured tlie growing crop very mate
rially. The rust, so far as we have learned
is confined to the blade, and as tlie weath
er is now favorable, we trust its ravages
will not extend to the weed before the
grain matures and ripens.— Covington En
terprise.
TUESDAY, SUNK 2, 1868.
DEATH OF EX-PRESIDENT BUCHANAN,
We were fully prepared for the tele
graphic news of the death of Mr. Buchan
an. His age and declining health fore
shadowed tiie event with a certainty that
left no room for doubt, save as to the time
when it should occur. This distinguished
man has tilled so large a space in the
political history of tiie country, tiiat a
short notice of his character and career
will be expected, aud cannot unaccep
table.
James Buchanan was the last survivor
of the great band of Statesmen who t-im
ultaneousiy figured in the public arena in
the second quarter of tiie Ninteenth Cen
tury. Clay, Calhoun ami Webster
stand in the front rank, and at a little
space behind them we see Cass, Benton,
Wright, McDuffie, Forsyth, Van
Burkn, aud a host of others, among
whom, stood conspicuous, tlie subject of
our sketch.
What a forum was then tlie Senate of
the United States ! ilow the least among
these giants would lower aloft, if placed
now among the herd of mannikins, who
are grinning and chattering in the halls
where once they sal in council!
Mr. Buchanan was one of tlie wisest
and soundest judgments among all our
public men. Calm and unenUiusiastic,
he did not stir men’s passions and carry
them witii him by the torrent of burning
eloquence; lie rather led by cool argu
ments, quiet decision and the force of
a will standing firm on the foundation of
reason.
His views of tlie Constitution were those
of the school of Madison—not extreme,-but
moderate, and always consistent. He was
thefrieiid oftlie South m the sect ioual con
test tiiat preceded war ; not because Le
had any prejudices or interests leading him
in that direction, but because, in his calm
aud well considered opinion, the South
stood on the impregnable grouuds of con
stitutional right.
No man at the North was ever more in
flexibly ami constantly our friend How
he stood in the late war we know not;
most probably, knowing the reign of rea
son was over, he, like a wise man, held
his peace.
His course as President was stormy and
gloomy It fell to his lot to be at the helm
when the ship was driving violently upon
the breakers. He stood to his jiost, and to
tlie last tried to make the voice of law and
reason heard, but in vain. Whether an
other man in his jmsition could have avert
ed the catastrophe we know not. Perhaps
one likeGK.v. Jackson, might, hut as we
have said,the force of Mr. Buchanan wa
in reason, and when the nation became
deaf to tiiat, he. could do little The result
of his administration no doubt, ea-t a
deep shadow on the jailer years of his life
He lias not, s > far as we know, appeared
before the public since-
He is now gone The last President of
tlie old United States--tlie last of tiie old
school of statesmen—hut, we fain hope,
not the las of American patriots.
Fine Reading.—Toe following order
will be fine reading for our citizens of tlie
Hebrew faith, who doubtless wiii be asked
to vote next November for tiie man who
issued it. We hardly think they will for
get such a wanton insult, and so contempt
ible a specimen of sboulderstrap tyranny:
liSUXVM ABMT CoftPU, I'J'PA.fcTMfcNT t T TEX*.. i
-'i l **-. bee. R. lSt '- (
< General Orders, No. 11.]
Hie Jews, as a class, violating every
regulation of trade established by tlie
Treasury, also department orders, are
hereby expelled from the department
within twenty-four hours from the receipt
ot this order tiy post commanders.
The*v will »<-<* ilmt all this<*♦»*« rite furn
ished with pa- is and required to leave;
and any one returning after such notifica
tion will be arrested and held in confine
ment until ail opportunity offers of send
ing them out as prisoners, unless furnished
with pennies from these headquarter*.
No passes will be given this people to
visit headquarters for the purpose of
making personal application for trade per
mits.
By order of Major Genera! Grant.
Official: J. Lovell,
Captain and A. A. G.
Sale of the Smuts Library in New
York-—The books, manuscripts, missals,
etc., comprising this valuable library are
now being sold in New York city. At the
first day’s sale, Don Quixote, in four vol
uniues, brought s2l ; Byron’s Poems, sl9-
30; and six volumes of Audubon’s Quad
rupeds, SIBO. Tiie sale will be continued
until Friday next, beginning each after
noon at four o’clock.
This library was, perhaps,tlie largest and
most valuable one belonging to a private
individual in the South. It was collected
through a long series of years by the A.
A. Smets, of Savannah, now deceased,
and should never have been allowed to
leave tlie State.
A Prediction.—Hon. A. H. Stephens
predicts the defeat of Grant in November,
even though the Southern States are not
allowed to take part in the Presidential
contest. He says Grant’s nomination lias
fallen fiat, creating no sort of enthusiasm
whatever. Nothing is wanting upon the
part of tlie Democrats but common pru
dence at New York, to secure the election
of their candidate. Mr. Stephens is very
confident that tilts three great States of
Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania will
vote against Grant by decided majorities.
A Short Session.—From the decision
tiiat we learn has been come to by the
Judges of the Supreme Court, with refer
ence to cases growing out of suits based
upon contracts made prior to Jane, 1865,
we Jfidge tiiat the present session will be a
short one. No case of tiiat class will be
taken up. As probably half of them are
of tiiat description, and will accordingly
be passed over, of course tiie labors of the
court will be much abbreviated. Their
Honors are indebted to General Meade for
this lessening of their work.
Murder in Burke County.—Wo learn
from a correspondent of tlie murder, in
Burke county, of a negro woman under
mysterious circumstances, which took
place on the 21st inst. She was found
dead near her house, in a piece of wooded
land, on the farm of Mr. John Rollins,
with her head, seemingly, crushed by
blows from a hatchet or weapon of that
kind. In casting about for the perpetrator
ot this cold-blooded deed, suspicion rested
on a negro man who calls himself Jacob
Wade, living within three miles of the
murdered woman, Charlotte Brown, lie
was arrested and taken before the Judge
of the County Court, and is now awaiting
a preliminary examination.— Chron. a
nd 29 th.
Death of a Young Gentleman form
erly of Columbus.—A Mexican journal
contains tlie following announcement :
“Died, in San Luis Fotosi, on the 6th
of January last, after a protracted illness
of consumption,Captain William Mitchell,
a native of Georgia, (’apt. ‘Snap’ Mitchell
was an ex-Coufederate soldier, whose
warm heart and fidelity of soul gained
for him many friends wherever he was
known.”
A Bold Robbery.—On last Tuesday
evening, about 1 o’clock, the Secretary of
the Cuthbert Manufacturing Company, J.
B. Buchanan, deposited in his office desk
his pocket book containing about $1,700 of
funds belouging to the Company. After
lockiug his office lie proceeded to tiie fac
tory to superintend tlie shipping of some
goods, and on his return, about three
o’clock, found that lie was minus a SIOOO
bill, a SSOO check, and about SIOO iu small
bills—in all $1,600.
Up to the present no clue is had lo the
perpetrator of this bold aud apparently
preconcerted robbery.
( AI.L I OK A STATE COJIVK VTIOX.
Macon, May 28, 18G8.
The Central ExecutiveCommitteeof tlie j
Democratic party of Georgia met to-day,
pursuant to a call of the Chairman. The :
Secretary being absent, A. \V. Reese was
appointed Secretary pro tan.
The following resolutions were proposed j
and adopted :
Hesolved, That a State Convention be
called to be held in the city of Atlantaon i
the 22d day of next July, to he composed j
of delegates to be appointed without re
gard to number by the Democrats and Con
servatives of the several counties of this
State for the purpose of consulting upon
such qucsti >ns as may ho presented for
consideration, and in the event that the
State shall lie admitted into the Union,
and permitted to vole in the Presidential
election, also to nominate an electoral
ticket to he run by the Democrats and i
Conservatives in the ensuing election for
President and Vice President of the United
States.
JicHolvcd, Tiiut we recommend that each
county shall be entitled to double the nuin- j
her of votes that it has Representatives in |
the Legislature under tlie new Constitu
tion. E. G. Cahaniss, Ch’u.
A. \V. Reese, Sec’y pro lent.
!!»*>,„ Democratic papers in the State
please copy.
< ONUKKsSIONAL Democratic Exbcb-
Ti vk CoMMfTTKK, Washington (Jilt/, May
20.—The undersigned requests the chair
men of all State, county, city, township,
or ward Democratic and Conservative
committees, associations, or clubs, to furn
isli the Congressional Democratic Execu
tive Committee witli the names of mem
bers of their associations, for reference
during the pending Presidential campaign.
Documents will be furnished by this com
mittee, on orders accompanied by money,
at the following rates :
~ For six teen-page decumenU, in wrap
pers, and franked, sl2 per thousand.
For eight-page documents, in wrappers,
and franked, $7 per thousand, or at the
same rate for a smaller number, in par
ticular casts they will be furnished gratui
tously.
Communications may be addressed to
Hon. Samuel J . Randall, M. C., Washing
ton City. By order.
J. R. Doolittle,
Chairman Congressional Democratic
Executive Committee.
Badly Bitten jjy a Dug.—On Wednes
day last two children of Mr. H. C. Rogers,
»f*Bel Air were very severely bitten by a
ferocious dog, under (tie following circum
stances :
The younger child, quite a baby, was
standing at the door of the yard, holding
’a piece of bread in his hand, while his
sister, a girl of some nine or ten years of
age, was in the gulden, not very distant.
It is thought that tiie dog attempted to
take tin- bread out of the child’s band,
opoii which the latter struck it on tin
head with a small stick he was playing
with. This enraged the animal, which
then attacked the child. The little girl,
hearing her brother's cries, ran in imme
diately to tiis assistance, and struck tiie
dog with its chain block. Tiie dog then
turned upon the girl, tearing off one of
her ears, and biting her severely ou the
cheek. The parents were away frcn. home
■ at the time of this sad occurrence, but
called in medical aid as soon as possible.
The little girl’s ear was sewed bn again,
and the other wounds properly dressed.
There were several men standing near
i at the time of the occurrence, but only one
i of them, Mr. Blackmail, went to the res
j cue, and killed the dog. — Chronicle and
jS' ntini ‘AW hr uli.
j Duery. —What sort of “men''do they raise
in that section ? We would be sorry to
believe that the breed was very numerous.
[En. Jour & Mess.]
REDEMPTION oe Sevkn-ThiUtie.s.—Oil
and after .June Ist, tiie Treasury Depart
ment will he prepared to receive seven
thirty Treasury notes falling due June 15
and July 15, 1808, for conversion into
bonds dated either July 1, 1807, or Juiy 1,
1 Vis, as parties may desire.
The terms of conversion will be as fol
! lows, namely : The interest on !>oth series
of notes will he allowed up to July 1, and
: the bonds issued in exchange will bear in
terest from that date.
K«ported for the Baltimore gun, 2-id.
Tl»© AoHcmbl) ol Ihe I*r<»bjtt"
rlan 4'burcli in Hit; I niletl Males,
FIRST DAY.
This body, consisting of clerical and lay
delegates from the Southern States, met
May 21st at 11 A. M., in annual session,
for the transaction of ecclesiastical busi
ness pertaining to ttie denomination, at
tiie Franklin Street Presbyterian Church,
(Rev. Dr. J. .1. Bullock’s,) corner of Ca
thedral and Franklin streets. Most of
tlie Southern States were represented,
there being about one hundred delegates
present, representing Synods from the
States of Maryland, Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, Arkansas, Mississippi and other
States. After devotional exercises the
convention sermon was preached by Rev.
Dr. T. V. Moore, of Richmond, Va., the
moderator of last year. The reverend
speaker took his text from 4th Ephesians,
loth and ltith verses, and delivered a mod
eloquent and instructive sermon on the
corporate life of the church, dwelling on
its nature, illustrating how the primitive
church embodied and used the principle,
and answering the query how the church
may more efficiently use the great princi
ple of corporate life. The very large con
gregation listened with the closest atten
tion and interest to the sermon, which
continued for an hour and a half. The
list of commissioners was called by the
permanent clerk, Rev. Dr. Win. Brown,
of Richmond, Va. The Assembly then
proceeded to the election of moderator,
Rev. Drs. Joseph B. Stratton and J. N.
Waddel, both of Mississippi, being put in
nomination. Rev. Dr. J. N. Waddel hav
reeeived a majority of the votes, was de
clared elected moderator. Rev. H. B.
Baude, of Nashville, Tenu., was chosen
temporary clerk.
On motion of Rev. J. A. Lefevre, the
hours of daily session were fixed at 94 A.
M. to 24 P. M. The Assembly then ad
journed until 94 o’clock this morning.
SECOND i/AY,
The Assembly met at 94 A. M., Rev.
Dr. J. N. Waddel, moderator, in the chair.
The following standing com mittees
were announced by the chair:
Bills and Overtures. —T. V. Moore, D
D. , iSanmel McKinney, 1). D., Joseph M.
Atkinson, D. D., David Wills, D. D., A.
B. Mct’orkle, (J. W. Lane, Jonathan Bliss,
W. 11. Waddel and David Hadden.
Judicial Committee— D. McNeill Turn
er, D. D., J. E. C. Doremas, D. D.,E. Mc-
Nair, (of Synod of Arkansas,) Joseph H.
Martin, D. N. Kennedy, John Handy and
E. H. Fitzliugh.
Theological Seminaries.—J. O. Stedman,
D. i>., James Little, W. J. Lowry, E. M.
Richardson, E. Jones Erwin, Win. W.
Dinwiddle and 11. H. Jones.
Sustentatiou. —Henry M. Smith, D. D.,
D. Humphreys, W. E. Caldwell, Hillery
Moseley, A. Fliun Dickson, John W.
Pugh, Daniel A. Penick, Wm, Simpson,
D. Fuller, A. Leyburn, J. J. Norton and
A. T. Summy.
Foreign Missions.—Charles H. Read, D.
Publication.—Joseph 45. Stratton, I).
D., Donald McQueen, James P. Smith, J.
A. Lefevre, H. B. Boud, James McDowell,
T. J. Kirkpatrick, Jesse H. Lindsay, R.
W. Martin and W. J. Manly.
Education.—G. Wilson McPhail, I>. D.,
L. F. Wilson, Wm. Dinwiddie, R- F.
Taylor, S. C. Alexander, D. McKnight,
John J. Dixon and T. L. Burgess.
Systematic Benevolence.—T. E. Peck,
D. D., E. McNair, (president of western
district,) J. H. Colston, A. J. Burke, D.
C. Dunn and J. D. Sterett.
Foreign Correspondence —John Hunter,
J R. King, W. W Houston, II C.Brown,
David H. Humphries, J. F. Hart, W. 11.
Barry and 15. II Sterrett.
Narrative.—Robert B. White, I) D , If.
Comfort, M D. Dunlap, C. T. Murphy,
W W. Coebran and Thomas Grasty.
Leave of Absence.—James Stacy, L IT.
Robinson, S. D Irvin and Win. W. Wil
liamson.
Devotional Exercises—J A Lefevre J
Harman Brown and T C Grover
Committee on Synodical Records —Ala- i
bama—Joseph H Martin and A W Lyon i
Arkansas-Henty R Dickson and John’ !
-fvVfV^ lgii ir E M Richardson and
Davul Hadden,Memphis— A P Smith and
E Jones Irwin, Mississippi—James Little
and Jonathan, Bliss—Nashville—Hillery i
Mosely and E H Fitzhugh, North Carol!- I
D T L Preston, W. W. Morrison B. N.
Saw telle, Henry K. ff
A. W. Lyon, Hmnuel M. Neel and A. at.
na-T L Preston and J J Norton, South
< Vtroliua — Daniel A l’enlck au«l l> B tuler,
Texas -W J Lowry and H A < ran*,, > “
ginia—A B McCorkle and Jesse H Ltnd-
J An overture from the Presbytery of East
Hanover was presented, asking a modifi
cation of the schedule of collections, which
was referred to the Committee on syste
matic Benevolence.
The seventh annual teport of the (, om
mittee on Education was read. It states
that the work of the Committee during
the* past year lias been more gratify mg
tin,ii heretofore, the number of candidates
aided being 18, whilst an appropriation
has been made for 25 more, making in ail
18. 'fhe Treasurer’s report, accompany
ing, shows that $22,337 57 lias been ex
pended for Candida, es alone no money
having ibeeii paid f° r salaries.
$1 000 more is needed to meet deman h
until the close of the collegiate year. Ihe
report wa- appropriately referred.
The report of the executive committee
on Foreign Missions was submitted, which
goes over a period of six monthsc lhe re
ceipts during that lime were #>,Boo
increase over the preceding corresponding
period. The Magazine has reached its fifth
number, and it is thought this important
handmaid of the missions will soon be
more than self-supporting. Great Interest
in the important matter oi the foreign mis
sions is evinced by the Sabbath-schools,
and hearty aid given. The report dwells
at. length on t lie labors ot tiie Indian,
Chiua”and otlier missions, and calls tor
prompt and generous aid in saving tiie
souls of the heathen. The sum of s2o,<mk>
will meet the demands of Hie mission, and
by concert and unanimity of action this
amount can he secured. The report was
referred to the committee ou foreign mis
sions
The report of the committee on publica
tion was read, covering a perid of six
months. A reasonable degree of success
has attended the labors of the committee.
The donations received amount t 057,552.71;
sale of books, $7,923 57 ; subscriptions to
The Children 1 h Fricnd, $1,095 —making an
aggregate of receipts of $17,123 99. the
expenditures were SIO,OBO 43, leaving a
balance of 1,047 50. A reduction of the
outstanding claims ha- also been made,
they now amounting to $5,191 11- The
property of the committee is estimated in
value at $37,000. The Children 1 a Friend
circulates 20,500 copies. The committee
deem it Inexpedient at the present time to
remove Hie publication house from Rich
mond to Baltimore. Tiie report closes with
a desire that the working capital of the
committee on publication be increased to
a minimum sum of $50,900. Referred,
Tiie report of the committee on su den
tation was presented, by which it appears
that t lie receipts from all sources have been
$29,790 57, of which $9,190 have been given
by those outside of the church connection
in Baltimore and Kentucky. One of the
churches in Baltimore has given nearly
s4,i>oo, au<l onx- gentleman residing near
the city lias donated $2,9-0 for sustention
and SI,OOO for foreign missions. The
amount contributed by the churches is
$1,451. Thirty-five presbyteries have
sought and obtained aid. The appropria
tions of the committee have been as fol
lows : Synod of Virginia, $4,375; Synod
of North Carolina, $2 375; Synod of South
Carolina, ss,i lu ; Synod of Georgia, $4,195;
.-ynod of Alabama, $2,050; Synod of Mis
sissippi, $2,825; Synod of Texas, $1,775;
Synod of Arkansas, $950 : Synod of Mem
phis, $750 ; .Synod of Nashville, SSOO. Min
isters who have received aid lot represent
ing between three and four hundred
churches. Sugg- -lions were made for the
more systematic su.stentatioii of the min
isters, otherwise many of them will be
forced into peculiar pursuits for supjiort.
Referred.
The refiort of tiie Union Theological
Seminary was read. The affairs of the
i seminary are represented as being in a
| prosperous condition, there being g od
| ground for hope in the future. Referred.
Rev. J. A. Lefevre. from tiie committee
i on devotional exercises, reported a plan of
! appoint incuts for to-ruorrow, which was
| adopted.
Rev. Dr. lireek, of the Fynod of Ken
! tueky, presented an invitation from that
i body to the Assembly to hold its next ses
sion at Louisville, Ky., promising them
warm and cordial welcome.
'l!i- Moderat< r responded on A ebalf of
?
'as visitor, arid pledging, on behalf of
1 the body, the sympathy of the Assembly
for the Synod of Kentucky in its efforts to
uphold the right and truth, and its fight
I against usurpation.
Rev. Dr. Smith moved, whilst the Assem
! bly reciprocates tiie kind feelings express
| ed on behalf the Synod of Kentucky, that
: the invitation to hold the next session at
| Loui-ville he declined with thanks, inus-
I much as it is inexpedient to hold sessions
j of tiie General Assembly outside tiie lim
its of its jurisdiction, file motion gave
[ rise to some discussion, and finally was
| adopted.
i Mobile, Alabama, was selected as the
| place of holding the next session of the
Assembly.
The body then adjourned uutil this
| morning at 9j o’clock.
THIRD DAY.
i bis body again met on Saturday morn
: ing in the Franklin street Presbyterian
I Church, ißev. Dr. Bulioek’s. J. A. Hi
gh*-, ruling elder from Harmony Presby
tery, was reported as having just arrived,
rhe Report of the Columbia Theological
Seminary was presented and read. Twen
ty-three students are in attendance, and
the institution was clear of debt up to
January 1, ISG7. Rev. <'. W. Lane offered
a series of lesolutions which were appro
priately referred, looking to the establish
ment of an agency for collecting informa
tion respecting churches desiring minis
ters, and ministers desiring fields of labor,
and authorizing the Committeeof fsusteu
tation to open a register of commication
between churches and ministers. The as
sessments upon the several Presbyteries
were reported by the Committee on Fi
nance and adopted by the Assembly. The
report of the Treasurer of the Board of
t üblicalion was referred to the committee
oil that subject. Ruling Elder lugliss
was added to the Committee on Bills and
Overtures. The report of the trustees of
the Assembly was presented and read
They organized and held their first meet
ing on the loth May, 1 sfjs, in Charlotte
North Carolina, and adjourned to meet
on the 2d Thursday of May, 1889, in Co
lumbia, South Carolina, it suggests that
the number of trustees be reduced to nine,
in consequence of the difficulty of obtain
ing a quorum. The report was accepted
and referred to a specia committee. The
committee appointed to exaihine the sta
tistics of reports of Presbyteries in rela
tion to evangelistic labor, reported that
evangelistic labor had been chiefly per
formed by ministers in charge. 'TheCom
mittee on Bills and Overtures, to whom
was referred an overture upon the subject of
establishing a great central Presbyterian
institution of learning, reported that it
had not been favorably received by the
Presbyteries,aud recommend itsindefinite
postponement. They also suggest that
the people patronize local schools which
are under Presbyterian influence. The
report was adopted Upon motion of El
der Kirkpatrick, a committee of five was
appointed to report a plan for the reorgan
ization of, and increase of interest in,
.Sunday schools. The committee upon the
subject of the establishment of a monthly
journal as an organ of the Assembly made
a favorable report, which was accepted
and read. An adjournment until to-mor
row then took place, in order to allow the
committee to prepare business.
FOUKTH DAY.
The Assembly met at 9 A. M.
The vote by which the report of the
Committee on Bills and Overtures was
adopted was reconsidered, and Rev. Dr.
McKenney moved to insert a resolution
that the Assembly recommends the mem
bers of the Church to patronize Presbyte
rian schools aud colleges. This motion
was intended to take the place of the orig
inal resolution in the report,which recom
mends that the question of secular educa
tion be indefinitely postponed.
Considerable discussion ensued upon Dr.
McKenney’s resolution.
Rev. Dr. Moore advocated the resolution
in strong terms, speaking of the thousands
of children who were yearly being es
tranged from the Presbyterian churches
by being sent to schools and colleges un
der the control of denominations whose
rules and taitli the Presbyterians did not
believe to be as Scriptural as their own.
rle did not think that anyone would sup
pose that the resolution tended to establish
ecclesiastical control over such institu
tions.
After a discussion of the principles of
the enterprise, Dr. McKenney’s resolution
was adopted.
Dr. Moore presented a report from the
Committee on Overtures, recommending
he reference to the Alaba mu Synod of the
overtures of the Eupola church. The re
port was adopted.
Mr. Jones submitted a resolution, asking
the sense of the Assembly in reference to
ministers abandoning their fields of labor
and accepting others without submitting
their claims of removal to the proper au
thorities in such matters. The matter was
referreii to the Committee on Bills and
Overtures.
Dr. Smith, from the Committee on Fab
bath Schools, reported that from partial
reports of the Presbyteries there are 1,309
churches, 853 ministers, 80,513 members,
and 319 Sabbath schools in the territory
embraced in the jurisdiction of the Assem
bly. The report dwells upon the import
ance of Sabbath and mission schools, and
recommends that they he established at
every practicable location, and that a com
mittee lie added to Hie Committee of the
General Assembly on Sabbath Schools.
The question of appointing a committee
load with the Standing Committee of the
Assembly on Sunday Schools gave rise to
a spirited discussion, some of the delegates
contending that the pastors and ollieers
of the different churches were capable ot
attending to their <»wu affairs, while oth
ers contended that its adoption would be
fraught with beneficial results. The re
port was accepted and the resolutions
adopted, after which the .Assembly ad
journed.
FIFTH DA V .
The Assembly met at ibe usual hour
this morning, Rev. Dr. J. N. Waddei,
Moderator, in Hie chair. Tire Judicial
Committee rejiorted that no bu-in*-.-- liad
been brought before them, and at their
request they were discharged. Rev. Dr.
W. J. R. Taylor, Secretary of the Ameri
can Bible Society, was culled upon and
addressed the Assembly upon matters
eonuecied with that Association. Mtiee
tiie organization of this Society it ha- <l. -
tributed upwards of 24.000,000 volumes of
the Bible. During Hie last live yea*-
6,000,000 volumes, and during the ia-t yeai
1,300,000. The receipts during the past
live years have been $3,335,000, and since
the organization of the Society it lias re
ceived as sacred tru-ts tiie enormous sum
of a fraction over $11,000,001). Rev. J. H.
Martin, chairman of the committee to
whom w-as referred the fir-t annual report
of the trustees of the General Assembly o;
the PresOyterian Church in the United
States, submitted the report of that eom
| mit tee. It states that tiie following < 141-
| cers have been elected: Thomas 11. Per
! rin, President; Joseph H. Wilson, \ ice
j President; Jesse 11. Lindsay, secretary
j and Treasurer. The committee recom
! mend that no reduction he made in the
uumber of trustees at this particular time,
and tiiat the present number, fifteen, be
| divided into three classes, of live each.
: In accordance with this ela-sificatioti the
I following appointments were made : J r
| one year—Hon. Thomas H. Perrin, AO
- beviile, Kouth Carolina ; Joseph H. Wii
‘ son, Charlotte, North Carolina; Jesse H.
i Lindsay, Greensboro’, N<irtli Carolina;
- James Hemphill,Chester, South Carolina;
| Rev. Geoige Howe, D.D., Columbia,
j3» -utli Carolina. For two years —Roliert
Adger. ( iiarlestou, South Carolina; Hon.
i J. A. logits, Cheraw, South Carolina; J.
A. Ansley, Augusta, Georgia; John W in
; ting, Montgomery, Alabama; Rev. It. M.
Palmer, D.D , New Orleans, Louisiana.
For three years—J. Harrnan Brown, Bui
j tiiuore; T. J. Kirkpatrick, .Lynchburg,
I Virginia; D. W. Kennedy, Clarksville,
i Tennessee; John Handy. Canton, Mi-.-i
sippi; Rev. Samuel McKenney, I> I.
Austin, Texas. The committee further
recommend tiiat the by-laws approved
and adopted by the General A-.-emtdy of
tiie Presbyterian Church in tiie United
! States be adopted as the rules which shall
govern the corporation. Dr. Moore, from
Hie Committee ou Bills and Overtures,
submitted a resolution that tiie Synods
and Presbyteries be required to observe a
j more strict observance of the rule-* relating
to ministers abandoning their fields of
labor aud accepting others, without sub
mitting their claims of removal to the
proper authorities. The resolution was
adopted. Rev. Dr. Peek submitted the
report of the Committee on Systematic
; Benevolence,- which was read and laid
j over until ten o’clock to-morrow morning.
Resolutions were contained in tiie report
i to tiie effect that ail appropriations here
i after made by the Committee of r-ustenta
tion.inaid of pastors’ supplies, rui-sion
j aries and evangelists shall he subject to
certain conditions, in addition to those
j already embodied in the by-laws of the
ffemmittee approved by the Assembly.
Rev. Dr. rttraltou, from tiie Committee
; on Publication, teported that the standing
j Committee had carefully examined the
; annual report of Hie Executive Committee
; or Publication, and find it su a healthy
I and prosperous condition. Rev. Dr. Smith
| read the report of the Standing Committee
lon Sustentation. The report states that
| the committee have been able to meet the
j demands made upon them for aid. vet
there are too many missionaries compelled
to.engage in -e.-ular employment to obtain
a support This, says the committee, re
quires greater energy ou the part of a self
supporting church to aid feebler churches,
aud that the salaries of mi-siou irit- I e in
creased to S6OO. The report was adopted,
alter which the Assembly adjourned.
SIXTH I»AY.
The Asssembly met at the usual hour,
Rev. Dr. J, N. Waddei, Moderator, in the
chair.
Dr. Moore, from the Committee on Bills
ami Overtures, submitted a report that the
management of the temporal affairs of
congregations be committed to the deacons,
when this can, be done judiciously and
harmoniously, they being ordained ofii
cers. It in any case a congregation may
•teem it best not so to do, it is their right,
under tiie constitution as it now stands’,
to commit the collection of the pastor’s
salary to trustees, or a committee from
their own number, as they may prefer.
In regal d to tiie collections tor charita
ble and religious purposes other than those
for the poor of tiie church, these collec
lec-tions being substantially acts of wor
ship, and so assuming a spiritual character
they are under tiie exclusive control of
the Session ; and a former Assembly has
decided tiiat over them tiie deacons have
no control, even in those cases where they
ate live ordinary collections of thecongre
gation.
Ihe report caused a very extended de
bate, and was finally referred to a special
committee, with instructions for the com
mittee to report at the next meeting of the
Assembly.
Dr. Peck read the report of the com mi t
r *? U ? y steniat * c benevolence—the order
, .the day. The different suggestions eon
tamed in the report aud the resolutions
«ere acted upon separately. Pending the
discission the Assembly adjourned,
for m et,ng wa r ,leUI 0,1 Tuesday night
'"hi" 1 ® P rT° B ? heMin S addresses on the
B f(,re, s u missions.
i)r ' Vlls °u, Secretary of theCoru
meethm" Mi^ions, addressed the
meeting, explaining the renorl of tl>«
T'' Sta ,! illg the Passing wants
seve l mi I ''; 11 at ,hi \ time . aa there are
na am “ s *muanes about to start for Chi
na anu other countries.
Addresses were also made bv r™
Messrs. Boyington, Dabney and Reed and
Messrs. Helm and Houston, thetwo latter
- missionaries
.... ~ Nl(j Hf SESSION.
. I he General Assembly of the Presbvf*
nan Church in the United Stafes re-S
--semb ed on Wendesdav night Rev Dr
» IN - r \ Va, A'l?'• Moderator, it, the eh-dr
Rev. Dr. White, of the Committe on the
Narrative, presented a report, giving a de
Sr,l late , te T n ‘ L ° f tPe condition ofthe
Rev J \“r V WaS a ' l,, Ph l d. On motion,
Rev j \. Lefevre, of this city, was an
poiuted a commissioner to the Synod of
Kentucky. ()„ motion of Rev. Dr Me
tiueen of South Carolina, a dav of hu
miliation, fasting, and prayer for the
prosperity of the Church and the country
vvas appointed. A resolution was adopted
cLd n ° y . a r ° I I)orter 1 )orter - at a cost not to ex
<eed one hundred dollars, to report the
blv Ure ßev C TYr‘w ? i. 0f f, i® General Aseem
(j' - }} his, of Macon, Georgia,
ottered a resolution of thanks to the citi
zens of Baltimore for the maguificent hos
pitalities extended to the body, and to the
several pastors and congregations of the
city for the use of their pulpits on Suu
tbe\i°’i eCtIOU '-’ as niade to the use of
th r word magnificent, when Dr. Wills
aau he used the word because the hospi
talßms extended to the body had indeed
been magnificent, aud their intercourse
with several of the pastors and congrega
tions had been of the most pleasant and
fraternal character. With many of them
With 1 n < ' tf Ct Jft las1 as 11 °. a 1 oom, uui»ion but
with all of them they desiffed to cultivate
the communion of saints. Tl.ev all re
membered the generous benefactions of
the people of Baltimore to the suffering
poor of the Mouth, and they will never
forget them so long as the Southern heart
beats in sympathy with Hie true and the
good. They were glad in their hearts
that God, in his providence, had brought
them to the Monumental City,
leaving it they could not but invoke the
Divine benediction upon its whole popu
lation. After the remarks of I)r. W. the
objection was withdrawn and the resolu
tion adopted. The body then adjourned
to meet in Mobile on the third Thursday
in May, 1869. J