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THE HOI'TII NEEDS.—A SLANDER
WHA ANSWERED.
There id so mlicit nonsense written on this
luhject, snd especially for the Northern
japers. That we need “an infusion of
Northern pluck, energy and ingenuity,’
ha 9 grown almost into a dogma, and it is
D ot uuoften that we see tiie ridiculous stuff
copied into Southern papers, with at least
a tacit acquiescence.
The .Savannah Republican declares that
nothing is more false. There is no lack of
industry, enterprise, or good judgment on
the part of the Southern people, and so far
from theodiouscomparison with the North
being just,we hold that in all these respects
we are the equals if not ttie superiors of
the North. And the facts will bear us out
in the assertion. It is notorious that
wherever the hands of Southern men have
been untied, and capital was placed at
their ommand since the close of a dis as
trous andalmostdisheartening war, where
they lost their all, they have made two
dollars in the same field where Northern
ers have made one. Take agriculture—
the very interest proposed to he revived by
“Northern pluck, energy and skill”—
Southern and Northern men have culti
vated fields of cotton, rice, sugar and grain
oide side ; wtiile the former have uni
formly prospered, the latter, with more
means and superior advantages in all
respects, us a general rule, have made hut
little money or utterly failed. This is true,
and what becomes of the boasted superior
ity of the people of the North over the
people of the (South ? It exists in the
imagination alone.
1 he South is judged without reference to
the peculiarity of iter condition. She lias
just come out of a long and desolating war,
in which she lostevery tiling and was com
pelled to commence the world afresh. The
North, .on the other hand, was the vic
torious party, and instead of suffering laid
up magnificent riches during the struggle,
title has had nothing to uuuerve tier ener
gies and dampen her hopes, and we sub
mit that it is gross injustice to judge the
two by the same standard. Thehouth lias
had the energy and skill to create almost
all our exports, and thus build up this
magnificent country to what it is. She
has had the mental and moral power to
govern the country for more than three
quarters of a century, and ttie moment the
sceptre departed from her hands the whole
nation went into levolutiou, ruin und
decay. Is this not also true ? And still
we find empty braggarts vaunting them
selves on the superior intelligence and
eueigyof the North !
It is untrue that auy moral deficiency
exists at the South. We need hut capital,
give us that, hut a reasonable supply, and
we will soon develop those qualities and
products before which the Northern peo
ple are ever ready to fall down and wor
ship.
THE LAST INSULT.
We take it for granted Unit the President
per scalawag, Creswell, has determined to
appoint the negro incendiary, Simms,
Postmaster at Savannah, though the
commission has not yet been issued.
Another illustration, this, how Grant's
words " let us have peace” are daily laps
ing into .* mockery as bitter as it is shame
ful. llis every act, by himself, or his
agents, has been an aggressiou upon the
rights and feelings of that class of his
countrymen who alone preserve the laud
Torn contempt. “ Let us have peace ” was
ikeu by the people to mean a cessation of
olitical war, not only upon the repose
jd peace of the country, and the South,
esiiecially, but also upon the memories
traditions, and feelings of this section.
We thought it real, coming from the
lips of a soldier. We believed that he was
telling ttie truth. Pine has taught us our
error. We will not toon be fooled the
eame way, again.
Prom tiie day wheu these words were
spoken down to this, the policy of the
aiiuiiuistratiou towards the Souih issum
tnoued up in one word—insult. The ap*
poiutments credited to ttie South, have
been from a class tiiat the South most
loathes, aud her scorn lias been a recom
mendation more potent tliau all others
combined. Grant has outraged, in his
Southern appointments, not only bis
P'edge, nut every instinct of a soldier ami
an honorable foe. He lias slapped tbe
South iu tiie face with every mark of eou
tempt. From the lowest strata of partisan
villaiuy he has dug out, and thrust upon
our people, tiie imaueet specimens of
negroes and white vermin lie could reach.
To Georgia, especially, lias he been
lavish with these insults. Iu oue of the
most important districts of the State he
appoiuts to collect the taxes from white
property owners, a mulatto. In the Post
office of the most important city of the
State he installs another negro, eminent
only for his evil who, if lie
had his deserts as an incendiary, would
swing from a gallows instead. Such is
Grant’s iuterpretration of his invocation
for “ peace.” Such the punishment he in
Diets upon a people who repudiated him
at the ballot box. If he thinks thus to
break the spirit of freemen he shoots wide
of the mark. These appointments, infa
mous as they are, ean have but oue ell'ect
upon the people of Georgia. They will
feed the tire of their scorn, aud add others
to tiie host of reasons Georgia has to
put the seal of her inexorable reprobation
upon a party whose chosen head is guilty
of such outrages.
“ Goobers,” Forever !—A correspon
dent of tiie Farmers’ Gazette, published at
Richmond, states tiiat iu the neighbor
hood of Suffolk, Virginia, the peanut crop
has proved more profitable than either
corn, cotton or sweet potatoes.
Iu several counties of lower Virginia, a*
up as Nottoway and Amelia, the cul
tivation of tiie “ peanut ” lias been com
menced on quite a large scaie, and in some
places is actually taking the place of to
bacco as a more valuable crop.
ti
Land and Provisions in Texas —A
correspondent in Johnson county, Texas,
Writes us that corn is worth thirty-five
cents per bushel; baeon ten cents; beefone
aud-a-balf to two cts ; flour eight cts.; bides
seven cents; wool twelve-aud-a-half ceuis,
Per pound ; oats forty cents, in ttiat coun
ty. Unimproved lands sell for $2 to $2 50
per acre; improved, do., $lO to $25. Prep
arations for very heavy crops of both cot
ton aud corn are being made.
Handsome Subscription.—The Grand
Jury Os Hall county, at its last session,
a cou uty subscription oi
♦ 190,000, to the Air-Line Railroad, not to
e paid, though, till the road is pertna
uently located iu Gainesville, or near by.
THE MUNICIPAL MI DDLE AT CHARLESTON.
As every honest man iu Charleston
knew would be done, a carpet bag judge
there has decided the contest over the mu
nicipal spoils in favor of one Pilisbury.the
candidate of the negroes, tag-r*g and bob
tail vermin and scalawags tor Mayor, and
a set of Aldermen who are entirely worthy
of such a head. Most of them are negroes,
and the remaind r, if possible, even of
worse material. At the election some
months ago this crowd was defeated, but
Radical rascality aud hunger was not to
be balked, and the thing they call law was
ordered to make good the shortcomings of
the ballot box. The property-holders of
that city will squeal now, sure Such a
carnival of robbery and jobbery will never
come again anywhere, as that doomed
place will be forced to endure. If any
man within the range of our circulation
has rnouey invested at Charleston, our ad
vice is to realize at once.
From the Courier, of Monday, we quote
as follows:
The Commotion Saturday.— Seldom
since the advent of the United States
troops into Charleston, in 1865, was such a
commotion witnessed as that which
evinced itself ou Saturday among the rag
tag that usually darken the vicinity of the
Court House, at the reception of the news
of Judge Carpenter’s decision of the quo
warranto. Hungry politicians, who had
been reduced almost to a stale of starva
tion, girded themselves up at ttie reception
of tiie news and eagerly put forth a hand
to grasp the luscious pap spoon that now
appears looming up before their astonished
vision.
Would-be Captains of Police, City Treas
urers, Inspectors and Assessors, who iiad
almost run to seed waiting for the good
time, danced for very joy, aud at once as
sumed an important bearing. The lazy
vagabond, who had been loitering about
the Court House daily for the past six
months, living on nothing but what could
be stolen, and who perhaps indulged a
faint hope of wearing a star at a distant
day as a guardiau of the public peace,
r.nw threw off his look of apathy and in
difference, and capered about in the rays
of the sun as though the miiienium had
come. The news soon spread through the
city, and every little ragged politician in
the city exulted in the fact that “de ole
man is all right.” Never was so much
exultance exhibited by a Republican party.
They yelled aud whooped, and the party
cry, “Lei us have peace!” was swallowed
up in the more vociferous shout of “Pills
bury’s me man !”
Correspondence Journal & Messenger.
CONFEDERATE DEAD AT THOM ASTON.
Tuomaston, Upson County G a., May 3.
Mr. Editor: As the names of the Con
federate soldiers who died iu hospital arid
were buried uere have uever appeared in
print, I send you a list at this late day for
publication. Hie names of a few have
not been ascertained.
An effort is being made to erect a mon
ument to their memory, and to enclose
their graves in a permanent manner Con
tributions from the friends of the deceased,
transmitted to Wm. A. Cobb, Ordinary,
will be thaukfully received and properly
appropriated: Respectfully,
E. A. Flewkllen.
B F Johnson, Company B, Ist Missis
sippi Regiment.
R J White,Company G, 20th Mississip
pi Regiment.
J M Carter, Company B, 35th Missis
sippi Regiment.
J W Brady, Company I, 20th Mississip
pi Regiment.
W Shepard, Company G, 46th Missis
sippi Regiment.
J C Sprawls, Company B, 15th Missis
sippi Regiment.
A Baker, Company G, Ist Mississippi
Regiment.
EM W right, Company E, 44th Missis
sippi Regiment.
Abel Warr, Company D, 3d Mississippi
Regiment.
8 T Brown, Company H, 9th Missis
sippi Regiment.
J R Ford, Company E, 15th Mississippi
Regiment.
EJ Dunham, Company H, 23d Missis
sippi Regiment.
8 J Chambers, Company —, 4th Missis
sippi Regiment.
W A Hartsfield, Company F, 3d Missis
sippi Regiment.
J 13 L Dear, Company A, 6th Mississip
pi Regiment.
Bamuel Brown, Company C, Ist Missis
sippi Sharpshooters.
W H Harrison, Company B, 4th Mis
sissippi Regiment.
Elrich Henderson, Compauy B, 4th Mis
sippi Regiment.
J W Cloptou, Compauy C, Ist Mississip
pi Regiment
W A * orley, Company B, Perrin’s Reg
iment,.
W T Blair, Compauy B, Ferriu’s Regi
ment.
13 L Loyd, Compauy A, Perrin’s Regi
ment.
James Quigley, Company F, sth Con
federate
W L ltumley, Company G, sth Tennes
see Regiment.
J H Shoemaker, Cotnpauy C, 29th Teu
utssee Regiment.
\V H Michael, Company F, 29tli Ten
nessee Regiment.
Win Koitan, Company C, 50th Tennes
see Regiment.
J A Jones, Yates’ Battery.
J T Ussery, Yates’ Battery.
A G Marble, Bwett’s Battery.
W A Smith, Company E, 60th North
Carolina Regiment.
L D Dunlap, Company E, 19th South
Carolina Regiment.
J T Gentry, Company D, 19th Arkansas
Regiment.
8 A Wells, Captain loth Arkansas Reg
iment.
W H Delahaunty, Company G, Ist Ar
kansas Regiment.
Win Henley, Company B, 18th Alabama
Regiment.
O R Ingram,Company A,2oth Alabama
Regiment.
L A Roustan, Company E, 4th Louis
iana Regiment.
HP Wagoner, Company—,sth Geor
gia Regiment.
W A Gillispie, Company C, 56th Geor
gia Regiment.
A B Bryan, Company A, 57th Georgia
Regiment.
James Raley, Company A, 54th Georgia
Regiment.
H Roston, Compauy H, 40th Georgia
Regiment.
J B Mulkey, Company F, Bth Georgia
I Regiment.
C C Raley, Company A, 2d Georgia
Battalion of Sharpshooters.
Drinkard.
J. K. H.
! Four unknown.
A Solid Chunk of ;\Visdom.— The
New York Herald says: “Large portions
of the best cotton lauds in Mississippi
have been tlooded by the recent heavy
raius in that quarter destroying the cot
ton planted and making a replanting ne
cessary. But if the planters are quick
about it they may still, by replanting, se
cure afa r crop. But if the subsidence of
the overflow will make it too late for the
cotton, it will not be too late for the corn,
and the South cannot- raise too much corn.
With a rousing crop of Indian corn,
though everything else may fail, the
Southern people will be rich. They have
heretofore too much neglected this life
sustaiuing staple. The lessons which they
learned in the late Confederacy, however,
of the vital importance of a good crop of
ludian corn, they have since turned to a
goidaceouut; for their corn crop of last
year, if we are not mistaken, made their
cotton crop clear cash, or very near it, on
the costs of the two crops. Let the plant
ersof the cotton States, then, remember
that where it may be too late to replant a
swamped cotton field, they may still be in
season for a good field of corn.”
Novelty.— Through the efficiency and
industry of Col Hulbert, Superintendent
of the State Hoad anew article of trade
will pass through our city to day. A train
load of pig iron will arrive here at eleven
o’clock, from Columbia, (on the Selma
road,) on its way to New York via Charles
-1 ton. —Atlanta Intelligencer, sth.
'Vi t a sine L. iteris JVC o r s © s t .
Correspondence Journal A Messenger.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP-SI MVEH H SPEECH—
THE ALABAMA CLAIMS
Washington April 29. 1869.
The Alabama claims as they are now
discussed, appear to be a case parallel with
tiie South sea-bubble of former years
Many profess to, but nobody can under
stand them. People say : ** We wonder
are ttie American Statesmen so green as to
imagiue that England will ever yield a
dollar iu compensation for injuries inflict
ed, or restitution of one ceut tor any plun
der she ever commit cd Engia id will
appropriate and confiscate wherever she
can clutch anything to gain, but never
admit a wrong nor make atonement iu
money or v due.” Talk ischeap, and Eu
gli-h Statesmen will give plenty of it.—
file latest pliasis in tbe Alabama case is,
that since the Jobnson-Clarendon treaty
was rejected by Congress, the British Min
ister iu Washington is silent. Not a word
has escaped his ifw in his official capacity
on the Alabama orany other inter national
queßiion, since the measure was kicked
out by Congress, and this gives rise to grave
reflection in every quarter wtiere Stale af
fairs are spoken of. The effect of Sum
ner’s speech on the Cabinet in London is
not yet thoroughly known, but it is jun
derstood that the text of that oration shall
form the ground work of Mr. Motley’s in
structions on his arrival at ttie court of St.
James. It is said that outside or beyond
tiiis manifesto, the American Minister will
not be permitted to travel iu any negotia
tions that, may arise between him and the
British Minister in London. By tiie way,
this same speech of Sumner’s is variously
regarded here. Some say it was an able
display, others admit it, but add that it
was a long timein coming forth and when
hatched into life, it bore the impress of
great labor, the greatest burden of which
was, not so much the honor of the United
States, as to damage the two Johnsons,
Andy on this, and Reverdy on the other
side of ttie Atlantic.
For it is believed by all who know any
thing of the character of the past history
of that “statesman,” who was whipped
into notoriety, aud who afterwards made
political capital out of the marks on iiis
back, that auy plan or policy, good or bad,
in regard to the Alabama claims, or any
other national question devised bv a po
litical adversary, would ire sure to en
counter his opposition. There lias been
so much said aud written on this intermi
nable Alabama case that people, although
tired of the subject, will talk about it still.
THE BLUE NOSES GETTING STEAM UP.
The Canadians over t >e way seem to
have caught the contagion of bluster, and
growl fiercely ou the subject of ttie Ala
bama. Sumner’s speech was seized by ail
the Canadian papers, and in ttie Parlia
ment House of the New Dominion the
blue noses indulged in tall talk about war,
and all the playthings that are used in that
game. In order to square accounts, and
as a set-ofl'against the Alabama claims,
tbe Canadians propose to throw in, as a
counterpoise, tbe losses aud expense* they
sustained by ttie Fenian descent of 1566,
from tbe American border. The subjects
of tbe New Dominion seem to be jumping
with joy at the prospect of having a trial
of strength witli ttie United Slates. They
seem to invite the Union army to a game
of rifles aud artillery, aud amid loud
cheers say that England aud Canada can
whip Uncle Sam aud put au end to his
Alabama claims.
SPRAGUE AGAIN.
The Senator from Rhode Island is still
getting into hot water. No sooner had
ttie scalawag from North Carolina clapped
his hands aud cried content, than Captain
Goddard, late of ttie Ist Rhode Island reg
iment of Carbineers, writes down Senator
Sprague as “a liar, a calumniator and a
pohroou.” Those words roll like red hot
shot, aud smell of powder. The cause of
their appearance so soon, and befoie the
hilarity succeeding the Abbott-Sprague
entertainment had subsided, is stated to
haveari-en from observations in ttie Sen- j
ate Chamber applied by little Rhody to ;
tbe gallant Captain of Carbineers. It ap- i
pears that Mr. Sprague, who was himself
a soldier, chaiged tHe Captain with having j
made a precipitate flight, with all his men
then living, helter-skelter from Butt Run. j
The brave Capt-in produced Geueral j
Burnside as his principal witness to testify
tiiat he did not run at Boil Run,ami then .
called Rhody all the bad names above |
written. The police force were rather uu* i
merous in the vicinity of Mr. Sprague’s |
residence, aud ttie sojourners in and about i
the hotels say they will bet on ttie iittie j
Senator; others who are concerned for j
his safety say tiiat they have reason to
know that certain parties vow that he
must he shot aud put out of tlie way.
He has become very troublesome.
THE WORKING MEN ii iCK SPRAGUE.
The National Republican, a little paper
published here in the interest of the Re
publican party, made a furious editorial
attack lately ou Sprague, for his manly j
defence of the laboring man. This at- I
tack ou the champion of the dignity of
labor, called forth a reply from theExecu- ;
tive Committee of the National Labor !
Union of Kansas; but tlie Republican
newspaper refused to publish tiiis reply. |
In genuine Republican style, the Nation
al Republican slandered and stabbed in
the dark, and then closed tbe case against
the injured party. Mr. H. Cameron, the
Secretary of the Labor Uuiou, presented
the document to the editor of tiie Na
tional Intelligencer, who gave it a place
iu tbe columns of that paper. In ibis re
ply, which is written with considerable
ability, the Committee deals with the sub
ject in hand, in a trenchant style ; The
Labor Uniou tells t tie editor of ttie Nation
al Republican, and the party he assumes
to represent, some subtie truths, about
certain journalists and Senators receiving
payment for their advocacy of “thieves
and robbers, speculators iu gold,ami hold
ers of bonds, laud swindlers, railroad
rings, aud various infamous lings which
control legislation aud government pat
ronage.” Verily, Senator Sprague’s con
stituents are not limited to the boundaries
of Rhode Island.
GEN. LEE’S VISIT TO GRANT.
Gen. Robert E. Lte, chief of the late
Confederate army, is iu Baltimore. It is
understood tiiat lie projects a visit to
Washington, aud that the President has
extended the hospitalities of the United
States by inviting Geueral Lee to the
White House. If this be all correct, aud
nobody doubts it, it is a becoming act on
the piart of the President, and alike hono
rable to both, considering that the last
time they met face to face was at the sur
render of Richmoud. What a flood of un
utterable thoughts must rush upon theoc
casiou of Grant and Lee being again fn
presence. Such an iuchleut, and such au
occasion of the meeting of two formerly
adverse chiefs, is seldom presented during
the lapse of ages. There is oue case of a
similar character ou record. Marsiial
Soult, who was a very troublesome enemy
of the Duke of Wellington duiiug the Pe
ninsula war, was a casual visitor iu Lon
don. The French Marshal was feted.
Loudon poured forth the Peerage and the
people to do him honor. A grand enter
tainment was improvised. A royal Duke
aeoipted the position of chairman, and in
the vicinity of the chair, right aud left
and opposite to each other ttie Duke of
Wellington and Marshal Soult sat. The
French Marshal, on that occasion, said
that the festive board was tbe proper place
for Frenchmen aud Englishmen to meet
face to lace. Aud so in the case just under
view. The proper place for Graut aud
Lee, and all Americau cilizeus from every
poiut of the compass, would be to meet
face to face in harmony aud brotherly
love.
The National Debt.—The national
debt (le.-s tbe amount of cash iu the Treas
ury ) was:
Oil the Ist of May. ISC'.) $3,539,158,205.
Un the Ist of May, 186 V 2, 5-10,760,190.
Increase in two years $8,372,009
Question for Secretary Boutweil-At this
rate when will the debt be paid ? Ques
tion No. 2 w iihout some glimpse of day
light how long will tbe pt* pie stand it?
N. Y. Herald 3rd.
Crops —We are informed that the pros
pects for a good yield of corn iu tbit sec
tion, are flattering, s> far. Also that the
recent rains ba v e injured the cotton very
little. It is 100 eariy. however, to begin
to calculate on tiie probable crop. Jhe
cup is a long way from the lip yet, and
many slips may yet occur. We hope for
the better, but will not be surprised at the
worst. —Eujaula Newt, sth.
MACON, GA.. TUESDAY, MAY 11. 1869.
Correspondence .Journal A Messenger.
LETTER FROM BDKKE COUNTY.
Alexander. May 6. 1569.
THE CROPS —GOOD PROSPEUrS.
Mr. Editor .* s > far as tins county is
concer ied, I think many of you newspa
per me t are unnecessarily exercised arid
alarmed about the excess of the cotton
crop this year. I nave recently been over
the greater portion of the county, and
from actual calculation, of some of the
largest planters, it is certain that the area
of cotton this year will not come up to that
of last year. It is trus that ou some plan
tations the crop has been iuorea-ed, be
cause of tbe increase of hands; but perhaps
his neighbor, who last year planted one
hundred acres, for want of htigarers ha
only twenty-five this year. It I=t evident
from ttie best estimate that can be made
that there are at least one-sixth less labor
ers iu number in tbe field this year than
there were last. Therefore, making all
due allowance for the amount of fertilizers
used, it is clearly evident that,the crop of
this year will not exceed that of last. The
crop at present is lo king fine. *
The corn throughout ttie otkinty has
come up admirably. It is a geueral ex
pres-iou that a better stand : ever bad
Tiie rains have been just such -easons as
would have been ordered, had tie* pTauter
himself iiad coutroi of the weathers
A HOT BATH.
A ca-e of wanton cruelty has recently
been developed near this village. A negro
girt about twelve or fifteen years of age
was nurse for a negro woman whose child
was but a year or so old. To ge*.—A cA-her
charge, she prepared a tub of .vs? <r ’ “cs au
sibly to bathe it, but fitted it with boiling
water, into which site plunged the child,
causing death in a short period of time. I
have n t learned what disposition was
made of ti e murderess.
LAND SALES.
There were sold, yesterday, at Waynes
boro, two tracts of land, with improve
ments —one containing 400 acris'and tbe
other 900. The former was purchased by
Dr. T. S. Mims, for $lB5. The latter by
Judge J. A. Shewmake, for $750. Also,
one town lot in Waynesboro, with build
ing upon it, for SIBO, to Dr. Miller.
FOILING A CARPET-BAGGER.
A church, known as Full wood’s Chapel
was advertised for sale at the same time,
to satisfy mechanics’ lien. Tbe carpet
bagger, Spillman, of the Northern Mettio
dist Church, was ou hand to take advan
tage of ttie misfortunes of an honest and
hard-working people, but the sheriff dis
pointed liis calculations, by withdrawing
tbe property from sale.
PRECOCIOUS.
I was shown, on Saturday last, a heifer
sixteen months old, who had that day
given b.rth to a calf. The little one was
a small specimen indeed, but yet perfect
iu ait its parts, measuring about two feet
in leugth and eighteen inches in height.
They are the property of S. H. Buckiston,
RAILROAD MATTERS.
We have missed the countenance of our
friend William Wimberly, so long and so
well known as tbe conductor on the Au
gusta branch road. He retires ou account
of ill-health. We regret lii* absence, but
are pleased tosee tiie exhibition of wisdom
upon the part of President Wadley iu as
signing Lewis Remit au to fill the vacancy.
The Reuneaus are a railroad family of high
standing, aud I am sure that Lewis will
Dot let tiie reputation of the name sutler iu
bis hands. S.
Correspondence Journal & Messenger.
PLANT PEAS.
Editor Journal and Messenger:—l
notice tiiat since ttie war very few farmers
grow peas. Why is this? Have they
lost seed? Have they forgotten that a
good pea lield furnishes fine grazing in the
fail tor stock ? We are neglecting an im
portant interest. The pea crop is valu
able in many respects, and is one of ttie
cheapest crops raised. The farmer needs
pea fields to fatteu his horses and mules in
ttie fall, and it pays well to raise them for
that purpose, even if we have no bogs or
cow s. But the great value of the pea crop
consists not so much in its wool li feed
and grazing for stock, as in its’fertilizing
effects upon our worn aud exhausted soil.
A heavy crop of C"W T pea vines greatly
benefits the land, by furnistiing it vege
table mould, which our exhausted soi!
mostly needs. The whole catalogue of
guanos, phosphates, etc., about which otir
farmers are now so much excited, will fail
to keep up our lands without a due supply
of vegetable mould. This is abundantly
furnished by the pea crop.
P ant peas on every acre of your corn
land, whether you gather a bushel or
graze a hog, cow or mule. Let them lie
ami rot, and turn them under in the
spring. Ttie succeeding crop of whatever
kind will report good interest. Plant peas
to restore exhausted soil. Plant peas to
enrich your land and assist iu keeping it
rich.
Method of Planting—Mr. Dickson
says: “After ttie second plowing of corn,
run a shovel furrow in ttie middle of a
corn row ; drop one bushel of peas to every
eight acres—say six to eight peas to a hill
—and cover with a harrow.”
I suggest the following amendment to
Mr. Dickson’s plan: After siding ttie corn
run a shovel furrow in the middle, aid
drop tiie peas. The two remaining fur
rows necessary to split out the middles,
when plowing the corn with sweeps, will
cover tiie peas nicely, without the addi
tionnl harrow furrow. This saves labor,
which is the great desideratum in this age
of farming. The crop of peas w ill only
cost you one furrow to the row; and the
ultimate percentage in ttie way of benefit
to tiie land will be incalculable. Try this
plan. J D. S.
Sunny Home, Houston co., April 28th,
1869.
Immigration to the United States
from Ireland and Germany. — Our
Cork correspondent refers in his recent
letters to unmistakable indications that
the emigration from Queenstown will this
year be unprecedentedly large. The va
rious steamship companies having boats
calling there are unable to accommo
date tiie passengers who throng their of
fices, notwithstanding tne rise iu the price
of passages to seven aud eight guineas,
and tiie placing on ibeir lines of all their
available steameis aud the chartering of
others. The Cunard aud Inman lines
despatch one or two extra steamers a
week to take out passengers left by their
regular boats, and nevertheless eleven
hundred passengers had to be left behind
on a single day, tbe 15th ult. A similar
activity reigus iu tiie German ports. Oue
feature is common to both the Irish aud
tbe German emigration of the present
year. The emigrants are for the most j
part either skilled artisans or smali farm
ers, and are unusually well provided for
tiie new career which they are to enter
upon in this country. If they will only
resist the temptations to linger in the
crowded cities or ttie Atlantic coast, and
will hasten, ou their arrival here, to the
homes that await them iu the great West,
they will never regret having immigrated
to America.— N. Y. Herald.
Mistaken. —Our cotemporary of tiie
Telegraph is in error with reference to the
antecedents of Simms, the negro an
nounced as appointed Postmaster at Sa-
Tauuah.
He is not from the North, but is South
ern boru, raised in Savannah, and is a
brother of the fugitive slave Simms, whose
Capture and trial at Boston, under the Fu
gitive Slave Law, created such excitement
in that -loll” city a few year* before the
war. Neither is lie a Methodist preacher.
He claim* to belong to the Baptist Church
and preaches lo a negro congregation of
that denomination iu Savannah. Like
the majority of negro preachers, he is
doubly a rascal, and poteut for mischief,
becau-e of his clerical profession and tiie
abundant ouportuuities for perpetrating
every manner of deviltry.
•
Ingenious Invention.— We examimed,
yesterday, tbe model of a plow invented
by a freedmau named Major Ponder,
which is designed to “chop out” cotton,
“ bear off,” and plow out the rows at the
same time. It is constructed ontwowtels,
the plowshares are arranged like the teeth
of a harrow, and the turning of the axle,
by means of two small cog-w heels, is iu
tended to turn the hoes tiiat do the chop
ping. Altogether it is an ingenious con
trivance, and we think would, iu the
bauds of a skillful mechanic, with a little
money, be made a success. —Montgomery
' Mail, sth.
$8,372,009
STATE NEWS.
Two Noticeable Decisions— Dalton,
Oa., May 3, lß69.—Judge Parrott adjourned
the Superior Court to-day, on accouul of
his feeble health, for tbe term.
He reudered oue decision that is re
markable enough to be uoticed. Land in
tbehaudßof a pureba-er had been levied
on under execution against a previous
vender The purchaser claimed a home
stead aud the Judge allowed it. So, that
under this decision, it is Immaterial
against whom the debts may tie, a man
who has property cau claim a homestead
in it, against his owu debts and the debts
of everybody else, whether subject to those
debts or not.
Tbe case will probably be taken up.
He decided one otber noticeable point.
A purchaser of real esiate claimed that it
was not subject to tbe judgments against
a vender, liecause such a veuder had sold
the laud more than four years ago; that
the statute of limitations was not suapen*
ded as to judgmeuts.
The Judge ruled that the statute run as
to judgmeuts, aud therefore the laud was
subject, notwithstanding tbe four years
bad elapsed that barred the lien. Corres
pondence Atlanta (institution, 4 th.
The Thaxton Mfriier—The Perpe
trators Discovered. — We previously sta
ted our belief that the circumstances
of this murder would iuevitably lead to
ttie xletection of the perpetrators. Mr.
Thaxton was killed in the public road
just after dark in the eveuiug, while on
iiis w r ay home, aud within a few hundred
yards of Mr. McAVoy’s house. As was
supposed anil intimated, ttie crime was
uoue by negroes, and under tHe belief that
it was auotber man whose life they were
taking. Theie were tw< who participated
iu the act, oue of whom was arrested on
suspicion aud confessed the whole fact,
implicating ttie other. They were brought
to tins place on Monday last aud lodged
in jail.— Washington Gazette, Ist.
'1 elegrafh to Brunswick. —The party
who are about completing me leiegrapti
to Darieu, last week proposed to several
gentlemen of our city that they would
luruish at once a line to tins point from
Darien, provided a subscription of $1,500
was raised by stock subscription. Only a
few days sufficed to secure the amount,
and we are proud lo inform our readers
that within a few short weeks Brunswick
will be placed iu lightning communication
wi.h the world. Surely we tiave cause to
congratulate ourselves iu our rapid strides
of development. —Brunswick Appeal, Ist.
IfcON FOR THE MaCON AND BRUNSWICK
R. R.—Another carao of iron, aud the lar
gest yet received by several tons, arrived iu
ourpoitlast week,for the Macouand Bruns
wick Railroad. We learu severs! otber
cargoes are daily expected iu our port for
the same road. — Ibid.
State vs. Elbert Bayne —ln Jasper
Superior Court. — We have just Harned
that the defendant, a member of tlie Leg
islature iu 1865-6, charged with tiie homi
cide of Lynch, was tried last week ami
honorably acquitted, oil tiie gouud that
tne killing was Justifiable. — Ibid.
Internal Revenue Assessor for the
4ih District. —A private telegram re
ceived in ttiiscity tiiis morning announces
that J. H. Caldwell, ofLaGrange, lias been
appointed Revenue Assessor for this (4th)
District, in place of W. H. Watson. At
lanta Constitution, ith.
Georgia Gold —We were shown, yes
terdays quautity of American gold pieces
—of tiie denomination of twenty dollars
each —which liad just been received iu this
city from the United States Mint in Phil
adelphia. They were manufactured from
gold dust taken from a mine in Cherokee
county, Georgia, owned by a gentleman
in this place, ami were taken by tiie latter
as a part of the annual rent money.—
Good Sale. —Twenty thousand dollars
wortti of Fulton county bonds were sold
on yesterday at 90 to 91 cents. These
bonds were four years interest bearing
bonds.— lbid.
Fine Fishing. —A small party of gen
tlemen, viz: Messrs. Hammond, Samuel
MeCotnb, and T. D. Wright, spent a day
and a half fishing last week at Jessup’s
mill, several miles below Mitledgeville,
aud caught, witli book ami line, within
one or two pounds of one hundred weight
of trout and brim. Two of the trout
weighed ten pounds each. Their stay
was too short, witli tiie quantity of “beet”
carried down to necessitate sending back
—as did our piscatorial friends of Macon—
for more. — Southern Recorder, 4 th.
A Large Sale — Yes eiday the Mes-rs.
Ellis sold for D. F. Wilcox, assignee, all
ttie assets of ttie Bank of Columbus, the
principal items of which were a splendid
banking house, railroad bonds, Confed
erate bouds and bills, aud State bonds, aid
trea ury notes, convertible iuto Con fed—
towering up, ail told, when put in original
figures, to an amount of property far
greater than was ever sold before in this
city in one day. We append tiie prices of
a few of ttie main items : Banking home,
S2B 000; $33,500 bonds of M. & G R it ,
934 to 95J ; $3 740 promiscuous bank bills,
lot $1 55 ; S4O 000 Alabama bonds (Coufeii )
lot s4l; SB4 000 Georgia bond*, lot $63 ;
S3OO 000Confederale bills, lot $42,50. Other
sniallei lots of Confederate bonds ami bills
were sold and brought about ttie same
rates. Bidding Was lively, and tbe priees
paid for valuable stocks or property did
not indicate a very great scarcity of money
among ttie bidders. Col Enquirer, sth.
Fatal Accident.— Yesterday morning,
botweeu ten and eleven o’clock, while
standing between the track ot the Gult
depot and a cattle peu, a young man named
Florence McCarthy was so severely in
jured by tlie pen (which was being
switched off) dashing hint against a car,
that lie died about two o’clock yesterday
afternoon of iiis injuries.
Mr. McCarthy was an employe of the
company, and vas highly esteemed. Hi*
uufortunate death is deeply regretted.—
[6'«v. Rep. sth.
The Rolling Mill. —This nuilding
will lie raised in a few days, and will be
the most extensive concern of the kind in
the State. Its length will be two hundred
feet, and width one hundred and fifty feet,
with a wing covering about half as much
ground a* the main building. This con
cern will be mu by six large engines, with
twelve boilers. The capacity of tiiis mill
will far exceed any mill in tne South, and
almost equal any of the Northern mills.
The foundry and rolling mill are contigu
ous, and when completed, will cover near
two acies of ground. Mr. Samuel Noble
informs us that the company will soon
erect fifty houses for tbe accommodation
of their workmen.
We are pleased to learn from Mr. Noble
that tiie foundry is wo, ked to its utmost
capacity. — Ro. a, Commercial, sth.
Another Outrage. —We Jearn that on
Tuesday of last week a very respectable
young lady, named Gray, sixteen years
old, while at the spring near her mother’s
residence, iu Oglethorpe county, was bru
tally outraged by a uegro man named
George Hopkins. After he iiad accom
plished his hellish purpose, he shot her
through the head with a six-shooter, and
it is supposed she died instantly. Her
tody was fouud some two hours afterward
by her mother.
We understand that the negro was ar
rested on Thur-day and confined in Lex
ington jail. —Athens Watchman, sth.
Nsgro Murdered.— On Captain Allen
Holt’s plantation, in Calhoun county, an
old negro man by the name of Isaac Mor
ris left bis bouse on the Ist instant, tell
ing his wife that he was going to his rice
patch. Failing to come back, it was
thought that during the heavy rain aDd
wind a tree bad fallen on him and killed
or wounded him. The hands on tiie
place were ordered to search for him, and
on Tuesday, tbe ’4th instant, at sunrise,
the news spread through those tiiat were
searching for him, that he was fouud.
One Lewis Williams, a black, spare
built uegro, about twenty-eight years old,
instead ot going to the spot where be was
fouud, left the parly and went to the
house, gathered up bis clothes and left for
this place. Captain Holt ordered four of
his men to follow and bring him back,
but ou coming in sight of him near this
piace, he dropped his bundle of clothes
aud took to the woods, aud made good his
escape. It is supposed he intends to go
to Houston county, near Fort Valley,
where he was raised by Judge Holt. 'J he
murdered man was a foreman o:t Captaiu
Holt’s plantation, of good character, arid
on good terms with all on tbe place.
He bad a few dollars on his person, and
for this it is supposed he was killed.
He bad not been disinterred when our
informants left the plantation.— Dawson
' Journal, 6 th.
Reported Specially for tiie JourDal and Messenger.
The Baptist Sabbatli (school Convention
Wednesday, Mav 5, 1869.
The Sabbath School Convention met at Uie hour
of 9 o’clock a. m . pursuant to previous appoiut
rnent. Au hour was spent iu devotioual exercises.
Ttie Conventi u thru listened to an üble and iu
tercet trig essay from Rev. J. O. B. Pargan, of Dar
limrton, 8. C. The theme of the reverend divine
was Parental Precepts and Influence on the Reli
gious Training of the Young. The speaker selected
as the principal topic for his essay the training of
the mother. Ui> effort was marked with able logic,
pertineut illustrations, and poetic imagery, closing
with an impressive enforcement of the duties of
tbe present generation to the children of the coun
try. who had been ao generally bereft by the late
struggle, both of the means of’obtaining a eommoit
education and of their natural guardians aud edu
cators.
The next speaker was the Rev. C H. Ryland,
General Superintendent of Bant st Sunday Schools
in the State of Virginia. Before commencing to
speak. Rev. G. C. Connor, of Atlanta. President of
the Convention, made a general apology in behalf
of the speakers, tiiat they bad been selected to ad
dress the Couveution unexpectedly to them, and
consequent? without an opportunity for prepara
tion —the regular speakers that had been appointed
having either come unprepared, or having as yet
failed to arrive. The youthful sjieaker thanked the
President for the apology, which he said in his ease
was necessary, and proceeded to make a very prac
ticable, extemporaneous address ou the state of
Sabbath Schools in Virginia. He represented that
a great impulse had been given to Sabbath School
instruction in that State during the last year. He
spoke particularly of the difficulties and hindrances
in the way of making Sabbatli School instruction
universal, and of the necessity of having the obsta
cles removed. Particularly were the obstructions
prominent iu the country, where Sabbatli Schools
least flourished and where the necessity for their
existence was most urgent.
The next speaker was the Rev. F. M. Haygood, of
tiiis city. Tiie theme assigned to him by the Presi
dent was, “The best way of removing hindrances
to the establishing of Sabbatli Schools in the coun
try.” Mr. Haygood (who has been for years prom
inent as a Colporteur aud former of Sabbath
Schools in Georgia) gave the Convention the ben
efit of iiis extensive experience in originating
country Sunday Schools, about seventy-nine of
which lie stated lie iiad been instrumental in form
ing. All who have listened to Mr. Haygood know
how entertaining lie is when lie makes a Sabbath
School address, lie did not lose reputation by this
effort.
Mr. llaygood was followed by the Reverend Mr.
Justice of Raleigh, N. C., the representative of the
North Carolina Baptist Sunday School Association.
From the tenor of the remarks of Mr. Justice we
gather the information that Nortii Carolina is not
behind any State in the interest excited ou the
subject of Sabbath School instruction. Tiie motto
of that Suite we were iuformed is a Sabbatli School
iu every church, and every child to be in the Sab
bath School, and the prospects, according to the
speaker, was that comprehensive as was the motto,
tliere was great reason to hope that it would soon
be fulfilled.
At the conclusion of the speech of Mr. Justice,
prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Curry, of Richmond
Virginia, formerly of Alabama, a ter which, and
the singing of the doxology, the Couveution ad
journed till 3 o’clock, P. M.
AFTERNOON SESSION —3 O’CLOCK.
The Convention met pursuant to adjournment,
President Connor iu the Chair.
After devotional exercises, the Convention took
up the regular order—the same being ttie answer
ing of questions relating to Sabbath Schools, which
had been previonsly sent to ttie table. This exer
cise proved to be very interesiing, und answers to
tiie various questions were given by the President,
by Rev. Dr. Boyce, of the Southern Theological
Seminary at Greenville, 8. C , ami Rev. George VV.
Samson, President of the Columbian College, near
Washington, D. C. About an hour was occupied
with tiiis order.
The Convention then listened to the Rev. W. L.
Mansfield, iiis theme being “Uniform Lessons in
Sabbath Schools.” The meaning of the above
proposition was explained to be, the propriety of
each scholar and class in the school reciting the
same day. Mr. Mansfield being noted for his zeal
iu educating the poor in his vicinity, was looked for
with interest.
lie requested members of the Convention to
stretch their imagination so as to regard themselves
as a Sabbatli School, and himself as the Superin
tendent. lie then illustrated liis method of teach
ing in conformity with tiie topic lie was discussing.
His practice was to discard altogether the use of
question books in his teaching. In order to illus
trate more clearly his method of teaching, ttie
speaker distributed testaments among the members
of the body, und turning to the 13th chapter of Ist
Corinthians —the chapter that treats of charity—
read the Ist verse, and requested the Convention to
read Uie 2d verse. He then read ttie third, and tiie
Convention the 4th, and so on alternately through
the chapter, ttie reading of the Convention sound
ing like the responses of the congregation in an
Episcopal Church. After the reading of the lesson
in the Bible by the Sabbath School, Mr. Mansfield’s
c istom is to distribute the classes of the school to
uieir proper place in the loom, aud to request such
class to out. what appears to them, the most
s riking verse in the portion read, he then pro
pounds to tiie classes, questions drawn from the
lesson. Objection was raised to Uie plan on the
ground that it savored of ritualism. The plan is
doubtless a good one, whether practiced exclusively
or varied by the temporary adoption of other plans.
The President then illustrated his plan of teach
ing in tne Sabbatli Schools in which but few if any
of the pupils can read. His plan is to teach by the
use of a blackboard, on which the subject is writ
ten, and the unfolding of it is done by propositions,
which are then more fully explained. As for in
stance the subject is, God is Love. Why, then, is
God love? Becau-e he give us life, because he
gives us food and clothes, because lie gave us His
Son. The speaker showed how lie would explain
each of the three propositions written on the black
i board under the head, God is Love. The above
may serve lo make understood President Connor’s
plan of instruction, and we know he U a successful
teacher
Considerable discussion arose as to tiie giving of
tiie Sabbath school a prominence over ttie regular
ministry of the word. Rev. Dr. Sumner, of Als
btima, contended tiiat the Sabbatli School should
never, in the minds of the young, be allowed to
eclipse ttie regular preaching of ttie sanctuary as the
most proper method of gaining instruction in reli
gious truth. The President thought that tliere
could be no danger of that, as tiie Sunday School
was Usually conducted in the church w tiere public
services would follow.
The time of the Convention was extended, and
Rev. Dr. Williams, of Baltimore, interested the au
dience in a brief address, in which he showed his
method of teaching, as Superintendent of the Sab
bath School connected with his Church in Balti
more. He also, in alluding to the description
which had just been liad on the various methods
of teaching, put in iiis protest against complicating
ttie Sunday School teaciiing by ttie employment of
cumbrous machinery. He said the longer lie liad
lived the more he liad bee m ■ convince I of ttie
importance of childhood as tin season for impart
ing wholesome truth His plan was to arrest the
child in religious teaching by simple ins'ruetion,
and by animating hymns, which alwajs have a
strong impression on childhood ; and he had had
the satisfaction, as the frui's of sueii teaching, of
baptizing (immersing) children when very young
—so young that he had to take them up in his arms
in order to administer the ordinance,
cations now are for a large attendance on to-day.
After the singing of the doxology, tiie Conven
tion adjourned till this evening at half past seven.
EVENING SESSION.
The Convention Assembled at 8 o’clock, P. M.
agreeably to adjournment
After devotional exercises, tiie President, Rev.
Mr. Connor, introduced to the Convention und tiie
audience, the Rev Dr. Armitage, Pastor of the
slh Avenue Baptist Church, New York City. Dr.
Armitage comes to the Convention to assemble
this day, as a representative of the Northern Baptist,
between whom and the Southern Baptists the-e
have been practiciliy non-intercourse and non-f 1
lowship for about twenty-four yeais from this tim -
last year, when jat Baltimore the middle wall of
partition between the Baptist of the two sections
was broken down and the happy intercourse which
had existed for about the same length of time, was
fully restored.
The learned speaker took his theme from the
question up for discusiou at the time of adjourn
ment in the afternoon.
The question then up was the relation of the
church to the Sabbath School; or, in other words,
the particular position to assign each in the work
of regenerating the world. The Doctor announced
that he would touch somewhat at length, and yet
briefly, on the question, What, is the place for our
distinctive views on Sabbath Schools?
The address, which was altogether written, was
listened to with marked attention. We shall not
attempt a synopsis of it, and the less inclined are
we to do this, since it is to be published.
After the conclusion, ou motion of Rev. D. E
Bums, of Memphis, Tennessee, a committee of
three was appointed to solicit of Dr. Armitage a
copy of the address which he had just delivered, in
order to have it published in tract form.
The President appointed as said committee Rev.
D. E. Burns of Tennessee, Rev. J. C Poindexter of
Virginia, and Rev. J. R. Graves, of Tennessee.
the announcement was made that the Southern
Baptist Convtntion would convene May 6.
On motion, Uie Sabbath School Couveution then
adjourned sine die.
Sad Accident.
i On Monday last, 3d inst., in Tboraaston, a negro
j girl went to the well, in her mother’s yard, to warh
some greens for dinner. She was found to stay
| longer ttian necessary, and her mother going out to
| inquire iuto the cau=e of her delay, not seeing any
thing of her, weut to tbe well aud discovered she
had fallen into it. It is supposed, from appearances,
that the rooe had got out of the wheel, and in at
tempting to replace it, she had gotten on a plank
laid across the top of the well, which broke and
precipitated her iuto the well, from which ahe waa
taken out dead.
BUbop Beckwith.
We clip the following from the N. O. Picayune:
W’e hear that the Bishop of Georgia has been in
vited by the Bishop of Louisiana to act in his stead
iu the ordination to the priesthood of the Rev. J.
N. Gallaher, Deacon, now iu eiiarge of Triuity, Dr.
Beckw ith's former parish in this city, and that the
latter has consented.
The ordination is to take place about the 23d.
The presence of their former eloquent and be
loved pastor, clothed in the vestments of his pres
ent high office, and for the purpose of conferring
the priestly diguity upon his eloquent and be
loved successor, will give a “happy day” to
Trinitjr.
Re.iortcd Specially for the Journal and Messenger.
WITHER* baptist convention.
Macon, Ga„ Thursday, May 6.
The anniversary of this time-honored
Baptist Institution is now being held in
this effy. A brief review of the origin
j and aims of the organization may not be
amiss, before we proceed to tiie work of
reporting i’s proceedings.
The Southern Baptist Convention, or as
it was originally called, the Southern
Baptist Biennial Couventiou.baditsorigin
in the city of Augusta, in tills Biate, iu
May 1845. It was an offshoot of tiie
Baptist Biennial Convention, which was
composed of representatives fiout Baptist
( burettes iu ali sections of tiie oountry,
North and Bouth, East and West. The
cause of the secession, was a question
growing out of slavery, and the secession
itself, was as Mr. Calhoun, in his las'
siieech in tbe U. 8. Senate, characterized
it. the snapping of one of the cords tiiat
bound the union together.
The parent institution which, as we
have already stated, was known as tfce
Baptist Biennial Convent on, originated
about the year 1830, or perhaps earlier; aud
Southern Baptists, up to (lie time of tire
dissolution referred to, always bore au
efficient and houorabie part iu it, it having
been for tiie most of the time of its unity,
presided over by Southern Presidents.
But when tiie dissolution took place uou
intercourse and nou-fellowsbip between
Baptists North aud South practically fol
lowed.
The object of the Southern Baptist Con
vention (now holding its sessions annual
ly) is exclusively tbe promotion of the
cause of missions,foreign aud domestic, tbe
distributing of tractsand religious books,
and tiie advancement of religious educa
tion. The Couveution is in no sense a
court of appeals—the theory of the Bap
tist Church government being that each
church is the highestecclesia-tieal tribunal
known. So tar from the Convention be
ing a court with appellate juriedictiou, the
basis of representation in tiie body is pure
ly a money basis. Any person of any or
of no religious tuitli may become a mem
her ou tbe paytueut of SIOO annually into
tbe treasury of tbe Convention, aud so
long as this payment is continued unuual
ly, ttie party so paying is a member in full
fellowship. The constitution of the body
dtclares of what faith its officers and em
ployes shall he, and what kind of literuiuie
shall lie circulated. These of couise, must
ali be Baptist.
Every oue knows to what extent Chris
tian fellowship between ttie North und tiie
Soutli iiad been destroyed before the war.
The Baptist churches of both sections
shared in this mutual withdrawal of church
fellowship, aud for twenty four long
years those who had once beeu Baptist
brethren und friends, were strangers and
enemies to eacli other. Last year, how
ever, about Ibis time, in the city of Balt -
more, where the soutberu Baptist Con
venlion celebrated its anniversary, over
tures of peace, fellowship aud fraterniza
tion, were made from the Northern organi
zation, and they weie accepted on the
condition that each Convention should con
tinue distinct ami separate, ami thediscus
sion of what had hitherto been the cause
of the mischief ami non-intercourse,
should he excluded from either Con ven
tion. Ou these terms tiie right hand of
fellowship was given and received, ami
correspondence between the two bodies
began. As the result of this settlement,
we tiave Northern Baptists in attendance
ou the Convention.
ORGANIZATION.
At the hour of 10 o’clock a. m., the
Southern Baptist Convention met aud
was called lo order by the President, the
Rev. Dr. Mell, Vice-Chancellor of tiie
University of Georgia. The usual prelim
inary devotional exercises were iiad, Rev
J. J. D. Renfroe, of Alabama, ottering the
opening prayer. Tbe Couveution then
proceeded to organize.
The President requested the delegates
from the diil'erent States lo hand iu their
names to the Secretary, which was done,
aud it was ascertained that Uie following
States were represented in the Con veil
lion: Maryland and Uie District of Co
lumhia, Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Mis
souri. The North Street Church of Sang
Chau, China, was also represented, the
same having contributed tiie past y earoue
hundred Spanish dollars to tiie funds of
the Convention.
The Sec re i ary, A. F. Crane, of Balti
more, then read out Uie names of tiie del
egates, whom the President declared to
constitute tiie Convention, and entitled to
vote for officers of the body.
Rev. Dr. Curry, of Virginia, nominated
for President of Uie Con venlion, Uie pre
seut presiding officer, Rev. Dr. Mell, and
moved ihaL tiie election be made by ac
clamation. Dr Curry then put Uie ques
tion to tiie Convention, and Dr. Mell Wbs
unanimously declined elected President
of the Convention.
This was a high and deserved compli
ment to oue of the ablest and most cour
teous officers tiiat ever presided over a de
liberative body. Dr Mell has been fora
number of years President of tiie body, as
he is also President of the Georgia Bap
tist Convention.
Dr. Mell rose, thanked the body for the
honor conferred upon him, and the con
fidence expressed iu him. and promised
that to tiie best of liis ability, with tiie as
sistance of the body, ire would perform
tbe duties of the office.
The President then called upon the
Convention to prepare their billots for
four Vice-Presidents. A great many
names were put in nomination for the of
fice.
Bev. Dr. Tucker, President of Mer
cer University, 6a , moved that tire Pres
ident appoint a committee of three to
tiring before tiie Convention ttie names of
four delegates to be voted for us Vice-Pres
idents.
The motion was lost, and the Convention
proceeded to ballot.
The Secretaries of last year, A. P. Abill,
of Virginia, and A. F. Crane, of Mary
land, were re elected Secretaries by ac
clamation.
Whilst the votes were being counted
for Vice-Presidents, on motion, liev. Dr.
Jeter, of Richmond, was called upou to
lead the devotions of ttie Convention in
prayer. Before proceeding to address tiie
Throne of Grace, tiie venerable minister,
in a few remarks, adverted to the pleasing
fact tiiat most of ttie ministers associ
ated with him in early life were still
alive on the earth, but he observed we
were passing away, and that lie should
take pleasure in uniting with the Conven
tion in prayer, tiiat God would rai-e up
young ministers, more devoted Uiau they,
to take tiie places of those who were al
ready in the vineyard.
After the prayer the President an
nounced tiiat he should regard the last
moti n as authorizing the coutinuation of
devotional exercises, and requested Dr.
Br< addus, of Virginia, to conduct tiie ex
ercises. Tiie devotions of the Convention
were then ied in sinking, by A. F.
Crane, of Maryland, a sweet singer iu
Isiael.
Prayer was then offered by Rev. George
VV. Samson, Pieoident of Columbian Col
lege, D. C.
Rev. Dr. Fuller, of Baltimore, made a
feeling allusion to Uie danger be had in
curred on tiie sea. off Cape liatteras, whill
coming to Uie Convention. Tiie recita
of the danger and the deliverance brought
tears to many an eye.
On motion of Dr VV. T. Brantley, of At
lanta, 6a,, Dr. Broaddus, of Virginia, was
requested to lead the devotions of the
Convention in thank.-giviug for Uie de
liverance of the Brother who had just
spoken.
Besides the ministers above mentioned,
the devotional exercises were participated
in by Rev. R. M. Dudley and Rev. Mr.
Pentieost, of Kentucky, Rev. Dr. J. L.
U agg, of Georgia, Rev. S. C. Furma ,of
South Caroliua. aud A. F. Crane, of Balti
more.
The tellers appointed to count the bal
lots for Vice Presidents reported that 590
votes bad been cast for forty-one different
persons, and that Rev. Dr. Fuller, of Mary
land, Rev. Dr. Curry, of Virginia. Rev.
Dr. B*>yce, of South Carolina, and Rev. R
M. Liuk, of 1 exas, bad rec-ived tue
large t number of votes cast. On motion
the same were declared ejected Vice Pres
idents of the Convention.
Rev. W. C. Crane, of Texas, offered the
following, which was adopted :
Resolved, That a Committee of, one
VOL. LXI.. NO &
! from each (State be appointed to take into
consideration, and report to the Conven
'ion, the propriety of making; such alttr
atious in the Constitution of the Conven
tion as -hall make its tensions tdennial in
stead of annual, and also the propriety of
any other amendment.
On motion a Committee on credentials
was appointed.
On motion of Rev. c. M. Irwin of this
city, tiie hours of meeting; of the Conven
tion were fixed at ft a. m and B*<►’« h*ck, p.
M., and the hours of adjournment of the
same were fixed at 12$ a. >t.,and 5$ p. m.
The Convention then adjourned till 3$
o’clock. P. M.. after prayer by Rev. \V. T.
Brautly, of Georgria.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention met at 3* o’clock, pur
suant to adjournment, and after devotional
exercises, proceeded to business.
Tiie Ciiair announced the following;
committees: On the Constitution —VV. C.
Crane. Texas; G. W. N. Williams, Mary
land ; G. W. tsamson, District Columbia;
W. F. Broaddus, Virginia; J. C. Hideu,
North (. arolina; J. P. Boyce, South Caro
lina; F. M Daniel. Georgia; W. King
dou, Missouri; J R. Graves, Tenne?see ;
J. A- Ktrtley, Kentucky; E. Dupree,
Mississippi; J. Shackelford, Alabama.
Ou Credentials: Culpepper, South
Carolina; J. F. Wei-haiuple, Maryland;
W. D. Guernsy. Missouri; A. Van Hoose,
Tennessee; A. M Poindexter. Virginia;
J. H Kilpatrick, Georgia ; T. J. Steven
son, Kentucky.
Rev. Dr. Sumner,of Alabama, from the
Domestic Missionary Hoard, submitted
iiis annual re|>ort, which w-as read. It
appears that the Boaid had been eml ar
rassed during the past year, from the
want of funds with which to meet its ob
ligations to ministers in the field; and
that the Missionaries iiad relinquished to
the Board a part of their salaries.
Discussion oiinitiated upon tiie proprie
ty and justice of allowing tli- Missionaries
to go without their full salares. which
discussion was participated in by Rev. H.
A. Tupper, of Georgia, and Rev. Dr. N.
M. Crawford, of Kentucky.
Tiie report wa- then, on motion of Rev.
H. A. Tupper, of Georgia, refeired to four
special committees—Committee on Ageu
cies. Rev. N. M. Crawford, of Kentucky,
Chairman; Com iit tee ou ('olios sen m
Place Church, of New Orleans, Hon. D.
A. Vasoti, of Georgia, Chairman ; Com
mittee oil Missions, Rev. Dr. Fuller, of
Maryland, Chairman ; Committee on In
debtedness, Rev. H. A. Tupper, of Geor
gia. Chairman.
Rev. I)r Graves, of Tennessee, offered
tiie following, which, ou motion, was re
ferred to the Committee to take into con
sideration amendments to the Constitu
tion :
Resolved, That the Committee on
alterations of tiie Constitution tie ie
quested to take inti consideration tlie
propriety of so altering the third arti
cle of the Constitution as to limit
representation in this body to members in
our churches, and also of so altering the
Constitution as to allow any Biptist
church contributing to tiie funds of the
Convention onedelogate, and an addition
al delegate for every additional SIOO con
tributed.
Rev. Dr. Bamson, of D. C., moved the
reconsideration of the disposition of the
report on Domestic missions, so as to allow
the raising of a special committee on
colored missions. The motion was loit
by a vote of 22 to 40.
*R*v. Dr. Taylor, from the Board of
Foreign Missions, submitted liis annual
repoi t which was read.
I lie report allows an indebtednf as on
the part of the Board of SBOO. The report
was lakeu up.
On motion of Rev. W. T. Brantley, the
following committees were appointed to
take into consideiation the different sub
jects alluded to in the report: On Chinese
Missions; on African Missions; ou H"ine
and Foreign Journal; on Extended Op
erations. Tiie following chairmen were
aupoiuted to the atiove commitiies: J. L.
M. Curry, J. C. Furman, W. T. Brantley,
Burns.
On motion of Rev. Mr. Cbandoln, of
Ga., it was resolved that tiie Convention
devote a half hour each day, in the morn
ing session, to religious exercises
Tiie ('(invention then adjoun ed till to
morrow morning at 9 o’clock, after prayer
by Rev. Mr. Lundy, of Alabama.
EVENING SERVICE.
Tiie Introductory Bermon of theConven
lion was preached from the pulpit of tiie
First Baptist Church, by Rev. K. T.
Winkler, D. D., of (Charleston, B. C., from
the text in Philippians 2:9. “A name
that is above every name.”
INTERESTING SCENEAT THE WHITE HOI ME
Interview of lieneral Lee with the Preuldrnt Cor
dial \feetintr of the I*real Coiumaudrra-ludfilia
tion of OHi re hkeekera.
Washington, May 1, 1889 —General
Robert E. Lee, late commander of the
Confed-rate army, arrived here at an early
hour this morrm g from Baltimore, a
- panied by Mr. and Mrs. Diggart, old
Ba luiiore Iriendaof the General. They
proceeded at once to the resid -nee of a
friend in Georgetown. About eleven
o’clock General L-e dioveto tiie Executive
Mansion and, sending in his card, was
admitted to tiie President without delay.
When he entered tiie ante-room at tiie
While House there were many persons
present waning to see the President,
among them several members of Congress.
Lee was recognized by some of them and
a general buzz ran around Hie room.
‘‘There’s General L e —wonder what he
wants here?” General Dent was assidu
ous in his attentions and lost no time in
getting Lee’s card before the President.
There were some half dozen |iersons,
mostly Congressmen, in the President’s
room at the time, on various sorts of busi
ness. Nearly all of them were after otllce
and wanted to pre-s their claims upon me
President. As soon as iie got Lee f s card,
however, be said to the Congressional
- lllce hunters, ‘‘Gentlemen, you will have
to excuse me, I have an engagement with
ueneral Lee, who is now wailing outside
to keep it, and I wish our interview to he
private.” This was a broad bint for the
Congressmen to retire. They picked up
their hats and beat a hasty and somewhat
demoralized retreat towards the door, ut
tering curses, not loud, but deep, at the
intrusion of tiie big rebel guest when they
were fixing up their little business.
“The President,"said one Benator, “sees
us in a crowd, and thereby exposes our
private business; but when a rebel comes
along be is given a private audience.”
“Yes,” said another, “and we are driven
out as if we bad no business here, when
we are looking after the interests of the
country.”
“That’s the way,” said a member of the
House, resignedly.
“Being a rebel is a good card of admis
sion here, it appears,” observed an indig
uant citizen who had been waiting patieut
)y for sometime to see the President.
The feeling in the crowd was one of un
disguised indignation that Lee should to
in ahead of all the rest, but this unques
tionably arose from the fact that tn. ny of
them had been disappointed in getting an
interview. General Lee lemaimd closet
ed with the ilxecutive nearly half an hour.
What the object of the meeting really was
nooneseems to know, home declare it
was merely a mark of respect whit b the
late rebel chieftain desired to pay to the
President. Others profess to have infor
mation that leads them to the conclusion
that Graut consulted Lee concerning the
bothersome recoustrueticn enigma in Vir
ginia, and that Lee very fully unfolded
his views a-> to wtial should he the course
of the governmeut on that question, an
what the people of the Old Dominion
-SS'SSSU. pretended «, £ Wu.
posted hint that Lee made some rlcbdu
closures as io the chief diflicu J .
structi »n in that htate s k ke
of some of the politicians there as being
utterly corrupt-n«i woo of ||mj
'interview one which l-oks entirely im
niterview, j h j s nevertheless cred
that has requested Lee to aet as a
i social commissioner of our government to
I f’uba to a-certain the real condition of
«• r- n that island. This seem- so en
tirely improbable as to be hardly worth
repeating! but as it may possibly be true I
,t on record.— Washington Correspon
dence Herald, 2d inti.