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Newspaper Page TextTERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO oo “ six months 500 " three months 2 so Tri-Weekly— one year 5 oo “ six months 2 50 Weekly—one year 2 00 six months " 100 Single copies, 5 ets. To news dealers, i I A cts. Subscriptions must in all eases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAB. G. BAILIE, ) FRANCIS COGltf, Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON,) Address all Letters to H. C. STEVENSON, Manager. The Department of Agriculture has issued a supplemental cotton crop report. The Pope has appointed six new Cardi nals. The Savannah News and Advertiser have consolidated, leaving only one daily paper in the town. The news from the rebellion in Turkey is more warlike. It says the trouble is not over by a good deal. The hist snow of the season is reported from Mount Washington. It looks like the elements are out of joint in every direction. Martha’s interview with Gov. Smith, as published in our Atlanta correspondence, sounds very dream-like to us; but it may be true for aught we know to the contrary. We have very reluctantly been obliged to postpone several important communi cations. They will appear in our issue of Tuesday morning. A New Yorker informed us yesterday that when he aft home the breaking of Jay Gould was talke l of. He had a mountain of Pacifies on his shoulders. A Louisville detective is certain he has Jesse James, one of the notorious Missouri outlaws. The James Brothers have defied the officers of the law for ten years, in the meantime whipping Pinkerton’s detec tives. gf The assets and liabilities of Lee, Sheperd & Dillingham are published. The assets foot up ninety-three hundred and o id thousand, and the liabilities eighty five hundred and odd. Heavy concern, that! The New Orleans Cotton Exchange hav ing decided that the crop just marketed was 3,827,345 bales, the estimate of the Financial Chronicle is now looked for with some eagerness, as all bets are decided by that authority. The receipts of cotton up to last night amounted to 4,742 bales. This is doing first rale for the season. The rains which have fallen within the last day or so may dam age it somewhat. We are glad to see the prices rallying. Middling has gone back to 13 cents. We had a touch of the equinoctial gale yesterday. The whirlwinds born in the West Gulf of Mexico, which swept with terrific violence over Galveston, and then .lanced merrily along the whole northern surface of that gr at inland sea, sent us a slight indication ol their presence in our i tn modi ate neighboring atmosphere. <#► The second number of the Southern Cross, tiie new Catholic organ published at Sa vannah, is a vast improvement on the first issue. There is a defect in the proof read ing, but the matter is excellent, and must be highly entertaining and instructive to members of the faith whose advocate it is. Copies are for sale at Mr. Pendleton’s. The Signal Office predicts rough weather to-day. Cautionary signals are ilying from New Orleans to New York. There lias evidently been one of the greatest storms ever known on the Gulf. Several vessels went ashore and one or two are re ported lost. We presume many more have been destroyed which are yet to hear from. Some of our contemporaries seem to have made a mistake about Mr. Nordhoff’s letters concerning Georgia. Unjust ss those letters were, in several particulars, he did not in his first missive, allude to the public debt of the State, but to private commercial failures. In his second letter lie treated of the Slate debt and did us such justice as he knew how. A confusion of ideas appears to have arisen on this sub ject. . We have the gravest apprehensions that a most fearful disaster has befallen Galves ton. The accounts yesterday morning left the city submerged with water. When tele graphic communication was severed, the wind was blowing at the hurricane rate of fifty miles an hour, the shipping in tho harbor wrecked, and the bridges with the mainland gone. The dispatches from Cor sicana to-day speak of the storm growing worse. We shall await with the greatest anxiety further i.ews fn>m there. The death of Robert Philip is announc ed in our local columns this morning. Per haps no citiz n of our community was more widely known. Nearly fifty-live years ago he landed here from Scotland, then a child five years old. Here he has been ever since, until half-past three yes terday morning, when the Black Camel knelt at his door and he started on his eternal journey. We extend to his family, in this midnight hour, heart felt sympathies. The Charleston News and Courier says there is no “ reign of terror ” iff that city, and the “simple truth is that there is not in the whole land, a community of fifty thousand people in which public order is better maintained than right here in Charleston.” it adds: “The Constitu tionalist is only making itself ridiculous by its ‘reign of terror’ talk.” We have simply to say that the information upon which we based our “solicitude” came from a gentleman connected with the News and Courier. The wise and beautiful sermon of Dr Kramer, which was delivered at the Church of the Atonement, last Sunday, will be found in our columns this morning, it is a model of research, logic, apt illustra tion and masculine language. It is brief, too. Rare indeed is the faculty of com pressing clear and vigorous thought into a moderate compass. Dr. Kramer has this gift in the highest degree, and his argu ment is as lucid as a mountain brook, just as his ideas stand forth with the neatness and precision of perfect cameos. Jn South Carolina tnere are many, com paratively speaking, negro or colored law yers. These lawyers are employed in near ly every ease for reasons arising from the peculiar condition of the State politically. Under such circumstances, it seems to be a matter of imperative necessity that white lawyers should find themselves connected professionally with treed men who practice at the bar. We find that the most reputa ble white advocates are thus associated, in many counties. The rule appears to be general, and exceptions only occur where There are no colored lawyers. We note the action of the Aiken Bar as follows: At a meeting of the Bar of Aiken held a few days ago, resolutions exceedingly com plimentary to Judge Maher, requesting the Legislature to re-elect him, and asking Hon. R. B. Elliott to present the matter to that body, were unanimously passed. We shall publish them in lull at some fu ture day. However distasteful this may appear to others, it is evidently a “result of the war,” and though “ true tis a pity, pity 'tis tis true.” Snow Storm on Mount Washington. Mount Washington, N. H., Septem ber 18.—A show storm prevailed on the mountain last night, continuing ■ all day. No trains or stages up or down. Silk Auguste Constitutionalist Established 1799. THE STORM ON THE GULF. Reports from Coast Cities. New York, September 18.—Telegrams from Pascugoula,Ocean Springs, Diloxi, Mississippi City, Pass Christian ami Bay St. Louis, report heavy winds pre vailing since Wednesday, but doing no serious damage. There has been uo communication for 64 hours with Galveston. Memphis, September 18.—The rain which set in Friday night continued until noon to-day. The sun set clear. The Storm on the Coast of Texas— Communication Cut Off w ith Hous ton ami Galveston —Grave Appre hensions for Galveston. Corsicana, Tex., September 18. — A wind and rain storm from the north set in here at ten o’clock Thursday night, lasting until dark yesterday. The rain extended from south of Dal las to the coast. Some little cotton blown out, but no great damage done the crop in this section. Tele graphic communication with Houston, both by the Central and Great North ern Roads, is broken, but Houston Friday evening papers, received heie this p. m., report the storm still raging there, and at Galveston, at 10 o’clock Wednesday night, wnen the last wire broke on the bridge. The velocity lof the wind was reported there at 50 miles an nour and increasing. The Galveston and Santa Fe bridge is washed away, and the Galvestou and Houston bridge broken, but part of it is still seen extending from the main land. The water extends three miles inland, being higher than in 1867, and the latest from the highland station, at 4 p. m. Thursday, reports the wind a hurricane and doing a great deal of damage. At Houston and Harrisburg the water is within twenty inches of the top of the Navigation Company’s wharf Thursday morning and rising inch an hour. Grave apprehension exists in Houston of serious disasters iu Galves ton. A night train broke through a bridge thirty miles above Corsicana last night, destroying thirteen loaded cars and stopping traffic. The bridge and truck will be repaired and com munication opened to-morrow (Sun day) eveniug. OCEAN DISASTERS. Sliipss Lost aiicl Ashore in tlie Hurri cane. Key West, September 18. —Tho steamship City or Waco, from New York for Galveston, is ashore on French reef. She will be towed down. The British brig Error is ashore on Mar quesas Keys ladeu with mahogany.— The Norwegian bark Nordkyn, with mahogany, from a Mexican port for Queenstown, was lost on a reef in a hurrieau on the 14th. Crew saved. Tennessee Steamboat Burned. Knoxville, Tenn., September 18.—The steamer Emery City was burned to tho water’s edge at 4 o’clock this morning, near Kingston. The mail and passen gers were uninjured. The freight and boat are u total loss. Tho cabin caught fire from a stove in the engine room. FROM WASHINGTON. Tlio Saranac ami Canandaigua. Washington, September 18.—The Board of Naval Officers appointed to enquire into the circumstances of the lost steamer Saranac, in Seymour Nar rows, Pacific coast, report the loss en tirely accidental. No blame attaches to-Capt. Queen, who commanded her. The steamer Canandaigua, from the mouth of the llio Grande, has been re leased from quarantine. Customs Receipts. Washington, September 18. —Customs receipts to-day, §56,593,174; for the month, 7,904,596.68; for the fiscal year to date, §3,798,471,699. Internal reve nue receipts to-day, §39,641,168; for the month, §589,855,904; for the fiscal year, §24,799,540.63. National bank notes re ceived for redemption during the week ending to-day, §2,633,915; national bank notes outstanding, §347,578,483, of which §2,640,000 are in national gold bank notes; bonds held by the United States Treasurer as security for na tional bank circulation, §373,077,762; and for deposits of public monies. §lB,- 792,200; legal tenders shipped during the week, §2,821,180. THE COTTON CROP. Supplemental Report of the Depart ment of Agriculture. Washington, September 18. — The sta tistician of the Department of Agricul ture furnishes the following statement in reply to a private communication, that doubts had been expressed as to the correctness of several statements in the cotton report from that Depart ment, published on the 6th inst.: Alabama, 87; Mississippi, 98; Louisi ana, 88; Texas, 94; Arkansas, 99; Ten nessee, 96; 1874 — North Carolina, 87; South Carolina, 86; Georgia, 78; Florida, 77; Alabama, 81; Mississippi, 74; Louisiana, 62; Texas, 65; Arkansas, 47; Tennessee, 52. The cotton figures are right, but the favorable compari son of conditions in Mississippi, Loui siana and Arkansas is with September of last year, and not with August. The figures for South Carolina, Georgia and Florida are slightly less than last year, and those for all States west of the Atlantic coast are greater. The Sep tember averages of the two seasons are as follows: 1875—North Carolina, 90; South Caroliua, 80; Georgia, 75; Flori da, 25. THE ODD FELLOWS. Meeting of the Grand Lodge of the United States. Indianapolis, September 18. —The Grand Lodge of I. O. O. F. of the United Ststes will convene here Mon day. Sixty representatives have ar rived, among whom are the venerable Grand Secretary Jas. L. Ridgely, Past Grand Sires Stewart Washington and Stokes, of Pennsylvania; representa tives Fitzhugh and Robinson, of Vir ginia, and Glen, of Georgia; Grand Treasurer Van Sant, of Baltimore, and Assistant Grand Secretary Ross, of Baltimore. The Grand Lodge and Grand Encampment will give the rep resentatives a public reception Mon day, at which addresses of welcome will be made by Gov. Hendricks, Mayor Craven, Senator Morton and Hon. Schuyler Colfax. Fall River Factories. Fall River, Mass., September 18. — The mauufacturers have been in ses sion a good part of the day discussing the question of resuming work. It is reported on the best authority that they have decided to open the mills on the 27th inst., at the reduced prices offered when vacation was inaugurated. There are other conditions to be im posed on the operatives, AUGUSTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1875. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. Six New Cardinals —Murder of Car list Prisoners—Death of Justice Honyman—The Russian Insurrec tionists. Rome, September 18.—The Pope has named six new Cardinals. London, September 18. —The Carlist Committee have information that the Alfonsistn shot ten prisoners in cold blood, two of whom were Frenchmen. Sir George Essex Honyman, late Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, is dead. Berlin, September 18.—A special to the Daily Telegraph states that the trial of persons accused of participa ting in the revolutionary propaganda in Russia has been postponed until 1876. London, September 18.—The Times has a special telegram from Cattaro, stating that the insurrection is not de clining. In Eastern Herzegovina there has been some sharp encounters near Matscho and Flevie, in which the Turks were defeated. The English Harvest. The Times, in its financial article this morning, has the following : The har vest is nearly at an end. Reports as to the quality of new wheat generally good. The markets in Mmciug Lane continue quiet. Sugar depressed; prices favor buyer. James Caird, whom the Times con siders high authority, writes that jour nal: A publication of the returns of acreage exhibits the smallest breadth of wheat we have had since the returns have been taken, and one-half million acres less than the average extent pre vious to 1860. when we had four mil lions fewer people. The decrease iu Ireland has been 14 per cent, from 1w74,l w 74, and in Great Britain the decrease has been nearly 8 per cent. He es timates the amount of wheat required from abroad at eleven milliou quar ters. Visit of King William to Italy. Berlin, September 18.—The Empe ror visits the King of Italy on the first of October. Bismarck will probably attend. The Emperor’s movements will be guided, to a great extent, by his medical advisers. Honors to Cardinal McCloskey. Rome,September 18—The Ministers of Austria, France and Spain to the Vatican paid their respects to Cardinal McCloskey to-day. Troopa for Cuba. Santander, September 18. — Five hun dred and sixty-eight cavalry embarked for Cuba to-day. The Rebellion in Turkey. Kkagugewatz, September 18.—The discussion of the address to Prince Milan continues. The Government has still failed to secure a majority for peace. Rumors of a ministerial crisis —situation grave aud uncertain. Constantinople, September 18. — The latest advices state the Consuls ol Austria, Germany aud Italy despair of bringing about negotiations between the Bosnian insurgents aud Servia Pasha. The Turkish Commissioner, the English. French and Russian Con suls, wiiose task Jies in Herzegovina, are still hopeful, because the insurgents there show a conciliatory disposition. They are, however, unable to give a definite report of the result of their mission until they have interviewed in surgents in the mountains near. Minor Telegrams. Saratoga, September 18. — The Ticket Agents’ Convention for considering a reduction of rates for the Centennial for a period of six months, meets next at Jacksonville, Fla. Norwich, Ct., September 18. —School- ship St. Marys is ashore in New Lon don harbor. Tugs have failed to move her. Brooklyn, September 18. Beecher declines a public reception. Louisville, September 18.—Detective Bligh returned from Pine Hill satisfied that the person captured is Jesse James, the Missouri outlaw. New York, September 18. — The assets of Lee, Shepard & Dillingham are §9,- 301,182; liabilities, §8,525,955. Rev. Charles J. Gallagher, of Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmettsburg, Md., and Rev. James Woods, of Niagara Falls Seminary, were ordained priests to-day in the Cathedral of Brooklyn. Cincinnati, September 18. —The Zoo logical garden, sixty-six acres, with walks, drives and fountains, formally opened, Mauch Chunk, September 18.—The boiler of a coal train exploded. Four persons were instantly killed and one hurt. Philadelphia, September 18.—Anoth er Welsh-Marsh letter. It invokes the aid of the law to convict Delano, Cowan and Smith for criminal misde meanor and violation of law. 31. Louis, September, 18. — W. It. Al lison, for twenty-five years editor of the Steubenville, (Ohio) Herald . has purchased the Evening Dispatch for §40,000. New York, September 18.—Win. Mc- Mahon, proprietor of Deerfoot Trot ting Park, was fatally shot by John son, with whom he had a quarrel over some racing matters. White & Douglass, commission mer chants, principally in hops, failed. Montreal, September 18.—Steamers Montreal and Quebec collided. Que bec’s side crushed, bar, and saloon smashed. None hurt. The boats pro ceeded. THE TURF. Pittsburg and Fleetwood. Pittsburg, {September 18.—The 2:50 trot at Friendship Park to-day, mile heats, best three in five, for §SOO, was won by Boy Dick—six heats—Ella win ning the first and second and Nelse the third. Time, 2:47, 2:45, 2:48, 2:47, 2:52, 2:51. New York, September 18.—Fleetwood Park : In the first race, all ages, Ida Wells won by two lengths. Time, 1:47*4. In the second race, handi cap hurdle, mile heats, over four hurdles, Cariboo won the first heat. Time, 1:58. The second and third heats were won by Busy Bee. Time, 1:56 aud 1:58%. The next match race, growing out of first race, Ida Wells and Mollie Darling to run, one mile, for §250 a side. Ida Wells won very easily. Time, 1:47%. The last race was a handicap dash of one mile and an eighth. The Australian colt won. Time 20:1%. SUICIDE IN ATLANTA. Fatal Railway Accident. Atlanta, September 19. —Captain H. L. French, from Americus, suicided here last night. Domestic difficulties. Morphine. An engine on the Cherokee railroad ran off the track and killed the fire man and wounded several. Immortality and Accountability VS. MATERIALISM. A Review of Huxley TOn the Physical Basis of f|ife.” 1 BY REV. W. P. KRAMER, iI&CTOR CHURCH OF THE ATONEMENT. ; \ Genesis ii, 7: “Anijl the Lord Goil formed man of the duxit of the ground, and breathed into Jiis nostrils the breath of life (lives);* man became a living soul.” 5 Rom. xiv.. 12: “So tl|en every one of us shall give accoun| of himself to God.” 1 It would be useless to attempt to conceal or deny the fact that there is a fierce conflict being waged between the theologians and scient <sts of the day. Sometimes this conflic t is described as between the Scriptureiland Science, but I prefer the statement,|l have used, viz: between theologians {and scientists. Any conflict between * the Scriptures and science is only apparent, not real; is indeed impossible, 14r both emanate from the same God. il-ioth are revela tions—one in nature, ithe other by in spiiation; and, as Gocf is not “a house divided against itself,” they must be harmonious, not conflicting. But while any real conflict between Scripture and science is impossible ij; the very nature of the case, it is easy jo see that there may be, as there is, a l conflict between theologians aud scientists, or between theologians and science, or between scientists and Scripture. The infer ences which theologians draw from the Scriptures may be in conflict with the inferences which scientists draw from the facts of science. Iritis, you at once perceive, is a very different thing from a conflict between the: Scriptures and science themselves. Before proceeding further, I desire to gufjrd against mis understanding by explaining that, by the phrase “the inferences of theolo gians,” I do not mean (the utterances of the Holy Catholic Church in matters of faith, but the Opinions or in ferences of individual theologians. Whenever the chuich ilecides a matter of faith, the debate is Bosed so far as good churchmen are concerned. They have nothing to do big; to accept and defend it. But scientists, who acknowl edge no allegiance to; the church, do not Hesitate to bring ;heir inferences into direct conflict wii;h the church’s most solemn utterances. This is the state of the case with phe subject pre sented in the texts I have chosen-im mortality and accountability. These the church sets forth ju the creed, “I believe * * * Ha stall come again to judge both the quid} and the dead * * * * and the lfie everlasting,’’ and these are plainly} taught iu the Holy Scripture. This .is not denied. The teaching of the scilutists is mate rialism, utter extinctioi} at death, and lienee non-accountability. Here, then, is an issue plainly I thiuk, fairly presented. This is noj; au issue be tween theologians, simply as such, and scientists, but, it beiug - admitted that immortality aud accountability are taught in Holy Seriptuib, it is au issue between Holy Seriptun:|and the scien tists of the day. 5 That I have not statfid the teaching of those men unlairly vhll appear from an examination of their writings. In the limits of a discourse like this it will be impossible to notice more than one work, or even to df:ve that the at tention it ought to lskve. I have se lected “Huxley on the iahysical Basis of Life,” and I think he will be admitted to be a fair representative of the class to whom I have referreji He says that by the physical basis u;f life ho meaus “Protoplasm,” which, he says, is the basis of all life, whither it be in plant or animal, laau included, and that it is matter. Jle says: “Thus the matter of life, so faf as we know it (and we have no right ito speculate on auy other), breaks up ;in consequence of that continual death Wiiich is the condition of its manifesting vitality into carbonic acid, wafer and ammo nia, which certaiuly possess no proper ties but those of ordinary matter ; and out of these same foiifis of ordinary matter, aud from nonetwhich are sim pler, the vegetable woi ji builds up all the protoplasm whisk; keeps the ani mal world a-going.” (iTage 23.) Again (page 19) he saps : “ Aud now, what is the ultimate faije, and what the origin of the matter of /life ? Is it, as some of the older uatuijilists supposed, diffused throughout me universe in molecules, which are injlestructible and unchangeable in them* elves ; but, in endless transmigration}; unite in innu merable permutations, into the diversi fied forms of life we kiaw ? Or, is the matter of life of ordinary matter, differing from lit only in the manner in which its atoms are aggre gated ? Is it built up of ordinary mat ter, and again resolve? into ordinary matter when its work ?s done ? Mod ern science does not hesitate a moment between these alternatives. Physiology writes over the portals c-if life, ‘ Debimur morti nos nostraque ’ witjh a profounder meaning than the Rom;|Q poet attached to that melancholy liner I could quote more t<| the same pur gort, but this is sufficient to show that the teaching is that lifejis purely mate rial, and that death is the extinction of the individual, by the fi-atter of life be ing again resolved jinto ordinary matter. Now, thi Scriptures, on *he contrary, teaofi the immor tality and accountability of man. I propose to show thalijthis conflict is between him and thejScriptures, not between science and Sculpture, and that the teaching of the Scripture is true and philosophical. < 1. The conflict is between Prof. Hux ley and the Scriptures. J Iu attempting to show this I must di;i|w a distinction between his facts and f his inferences from his facts. His fa js I must grant to be true. I have no} disposition to question them, and if I'had I have not the ability or knowledge requisite to examine or disprove tbqm. In the field of scientific investigation, the discovery of the facts of the natural world, the scientist is at home, an}i so long as he confines himself to this: Province I have no disposition to interfere with him, but am ready and will jag to accept as true the results of investigation. But when he commences to draw infer ences from his facts to build up theories upon them leaves his stronghold, where he % entrenched by superior skill and knowledge, and enters the domain oft logic. Science deals with facts, logic ’ with inferences or conclusions. He ce ifees then to be simply a scientist and;|)ecomes a logi cian. Iu the field of 1 :|;ic he is not so invulnerable, for other:? may be logi cians as well as he, ana* here we may meet the scientist and; say grant all your facts your concision does not follow, your argument is a “non ♦The correct translation is lives, not life, as in the authorized veraljm* sequiter.” If I shall show this, that the conclusion he draws does not follow necessarily from his facts, then I shall have proved that the conflict is not between his facts and Scripture, but between him and Scripture, and shall have paved the way to discover the harmo ny between his facts sud Scripture. Now, to show this I quote briefly again : (Pages 8 and 9.) “ You may well ask what community of form or structure is there between the animal cule and the whale, or between the fun gus and the fig tree ? And, a fortiori, between all four? Finally, if we re gard substance, or material composi tion, what hidden bond can connect the flower which a girl wears in her hair and the blood which courses through her youthful veins ; or, what is there in common between the dense and resisting mass of the oak, or the strong fabric of the tortoise, and those broad disks of glassy jelly which may be seen pulsating through the waters of a calm sea, but which drain away to mere films in the haud which raises them out of their element? * * * But I purpose to demonstrate to you that, notwithstanding these apparent difficulties, a three-fold unity—viz: a unity of power or faculty, a unity of form and a uuity of substantial com position-does pervade the whole liv ing world.” This three-fold uuity he proceeds to prove by an array of facts. I grant, for the sake of the argument, that he proves it. I don’t question it, but I ask what follows ? Does it fol low, as he asserts, that because there is a unity of substantial composition that therefore there is no more founda tion for what we cail vitality than to assume that something called ‘aquos ity ’ exists when water is formed by the combination of its elements ? To apply the argument to man, does it follow that because in the physical man we find the same material compo nents forming the same substance, called protoplasm, which we find in every other form of life, vegetable or animal, that therefore there is nothing else in man? Does it follow that be cause this is all that falls under the eye of the Physicist, all his scalpel and micro scope can reveal to him, that therefore there is not somehing else, too subtle to be revealed by microscope or reached by scalpel, a spirit which, when “the dust shall return to the earth as it was, shall (itself) return unto God who gave it ?” To state the argument is to show its incouclusiveness. It is in sub stance: This is a!l I see, therefore there is nothing else. It assumes as true a premise which he cannot prove, that there is nothing which wo cannot see and handle. Therefore, admitting the facts which he presents, I say his con clusion does not follow, and that the issue between immortality and mate rialism must be settled by an appeal toother evidence than that furnished l)y physical science. There may be somehing physical science cannot grasp. Holy Scripture asserts Its existence aid it is illogical for the Scientist to deny it simply because his science can not grasp it. 2. Having shown the inconelusivo ness of the argument of the Scientist, and that the conflict is between his in ferences and Holy Scripture, I conceive you are prepared to admit that there may be a complete harmony be tween his facts and Holy Scripture.— The discovery of that harmony will ex iiibit science and Scripture as the com plement of each other. Science cor roborating and explaining the scriptu ral statement of the creation of man’s physical body, and Scripture revealing to us what Science is unable to—his immortal spirit. Take all the facts which Prof. Huxley asserts as true, and adopt his scientific conclusion in tlie terms iu which he states it in the quotation heretofore made, “ that not withstanding the differences in appear ance, &c., a threefold unity pervades the living world, binding even the flower in a girl’s hair to the blood iu ber veins and that this protoplasm is ordinary matter, such as we find iu the earth, and it appears to me wo have a wonderful corroboration of the Scriptural statement in the text that “the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground.” This evidence of Science to the truth of Holy Scripture h not weakened even if you accept as true the theory of Darwin, iu his “ De scent of Man ” and “ Origin of Species.” It matters not whether man’s physical body is developed from the lowest form of life by the law of “ natural selection and the survival of the fittest ” or not. r jrue, the adoption of this theory will necessitate the surrender of opinions bng held with reference to the manner tf man’s creation, but, so long as God ii the Author and Executor of natural liw, the statement of the Scripture, as i; is iu general terms, remains true, in harmony with and corroborated by Science that “the Lord God form al man of the dust of -the ground.” The Scripture does not say liow, it simply states the fact. If ve have opinions as to how God cre ated man remember they are only in ferences, they may be wrong and false while the fact remains true. Let snence demonstrate how it was done, i1 seems to. me to be within her legiti nate province. In the silence of Holy Scripture on this subject we see only a Ret consistent with all God’s dealings with man, viz : wljat man can learn and dD for fiimself God requires him to Irarn and do; what he cannot learn by hmself God teaches him; what he can rot do for himself God does for him. lam far from saying that the Darwin ian theory is proved or that I adopt it. What I say is if proved it will harmon ize with Scripture and corroberate the statement that man’s physical body is termed from the earth. Another reve lition of Scripture is corroberated by tie facts of Professor Huxley. The uiity of creation proves the oneness of tie Creator, and from the earth and all living things a thunder tone arises to corroberate the voice that speaks amid the thunders of Sinai, “The Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all tint in them is.” So the devout heart whether it hears God’s voice in Scripture or nature is prepared to shout back the glad antiphon. “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein. For He hath founded it upon the seas and established it upon the floods.” 3. Taking for granted then Prof. Hixley’s facts, and even Darwin’s also, we see that science may explain to us how God formed man’s body out of the ground. And we have seen that it does net follow that, because man’s body was so formed that therefore he has nothing but a physical body. It may still be true, as the Scripture states, that after man’s body was so formed, “God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, (lives), and man became a living soul.” This statement may be in perfect harmony with the facts of science though beyond the province of science. Now, in nature we see two forms of life; animal and vegetable. It may be impossible, as Huxley assorts, to say where one leaves off and the other begins, and that may prove the evolution of the animal from the vege table form, still the fact remains that there are the two. The animal, in ad dition to what constitutes the vegeta ble life, growth and. propagation of species, is pos#ssed of a superior fac ulty, call it instinct or reason. They exercise choice, have memory and oth er faculties which demonstrate a higher life than the life of the vegetable. Now-, as man has dominion over the lower animal and the vegetable world, not only by Scriptural warrant, but as mat ter of fact, may we not philosophical ly expect to find in him, in addition to all the life, the vegetable and animal exhibit, a still higher form of life ? And if natural science corroberates God’s statement that He made man of the earth, and if God further states that into the man so formed He breathed the breath of lives, the vegetable, ani mal and spiritual lives, and if within ourselves we find a corrobera tion of the last statement are we not philosophically forced to the conclu sion that the whole statement of Scrip ture is true? And that by the highest of these lives, the spirit, man is con nected with God, Who is a Spirit, and is a living soul,an immortal, and in con sequence of being so connected with God in his life, must give account of himself unto God? I have summar ized the argument in as brief a form as possible. To me it in conclusive, and I think is a fair and full answer to the materialistic conclusions and theories of the scientists of the day. But one thing remains to be done, and that is, iu conclusion, to point out the corrob orating testimony furnished by self observation to the existence of a spirit. It would be easy to show that man has this three-fold life by Scripture. To quote but one place, as this is an argu ment not from Scripture, but to prove the truth of Scripture. Ist Thess. v. 23, St. Paul distinctly mentions, (Pneuma) spirit, (Psuche) soul, (Soma) body. The evidence I speak of is furnished by our consciousness. We are just as conscious of having a moral sense, or conscience, by which we de termine the moral quality of our ac tions as that we have the animal power to perform the actions, and that this animal power is developed by the law of growth common to man, animal and vegetable. And just so long as our consciousness attests the existence of a conscience, whether it be the edu cated conscience found in Christian lands or the rude germ among the heathen, who “are a law unto them selves * * their conscience also bearing witness,” a voice within us corroborates the voico of Scripture God breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives, and man became a living soul.” But con science does more than simply evidence the existence of man’s spirit. It indi cates responsibility. We find it taking cognizance of all our acts, words and thoughts, judging them, rewarding, and punishing them. When we read in Holy Scripture that (2 Cor., v, 10) “we must all appeal be fore the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receivo the things done in bis body, according to that he hath done, whether it bo good or bad;” and (Matt., xii, 36, 37), “but I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment; for by thy words thou slialt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” And, again, (Rom., xi, 1G) of the day “when God shall judge the secrets of men.” I say when we read these things we find a strong corroboration in the judgment which conscience carries on within us. It points to that future judgment which we must undergo, and we feel that St. John gave expression to the universal experience of mankind when he said, “If our hearts condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.” Having, as I hope, shown the truth of the Scripture statement of man’s immortality and accountability, Jet me, iu conclusion, remind you of the ex hortation of St. Paul to “glorify God in your body and spirit, which are God’s,” and “pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” “For He cometh, for Ho cometh to judge the earth, and with righteousness to judge the world and the people with His truth.” SOUTH CAROLINA AFFAIRS. Col. John G. Pressley, a native of this State, but now residing in Cali fornia, lias received the Democratic nomination for the judgeship in his section. Professor C. Woodward Hutson has been elected'Principal of the Female Academy at Spartanburg. Professor Hutson comes with first-class recom mendations, is a native of South Caro lina, and was formerly connected with the Louisiana University. A contract has been closed with the Air Line Railroad for the transporta tion of the one hundred car loads of machinery for the Camperdown Fac tory, at Greenville, from Lynn, Massa chusetts. From September 1, 1874, to Septem ber 1, 1875, 3,577 bales of cotton were shipped from Hodge’s over the Green ville and Columbia Railroad—a falling off 553 bales frfim the corresponding period of the preceding year. The Abbeville Medium speaks of the likelihood of a personal difficulty be tween S. C. Carson, Esq., and Mr. J. Allen Smith of that place, and advises the young lady who is the innocent cause of the trouble to discard them both, and see which will drown him self first. The Northern-bound train on the Air Lino Railroad ran over a cow and was thrown from the track on Sunday night between Gaffney’s and King’s Mountain. Mr. DeWitt Jones, a very worthy man and baggage master of the train, was so seriously injured as to render the amputation of one of his legs necessary. A colored boy, named Seipio Vaughn, was drowned in Boykin’s mill canal, near Camden, last week. Several colored persons had been bathing, but Seipio kept out of the water, being unable to swim. A colored man, called Shadrack Patterson, seized the boy in a playful mood and threw him into the canal, in which he sunk to rise no more. The jury rendered a verdict of accidental drowning. A meeting of the Executive Commit tee of the Bishopville, Sumter and Wa teree Railroad was held in Sumter last Monday, to which tho public were in vited. On motion of T. B. Fraser, Esq., Mr. Chas. H. Moise was elected Secreta ry of the Executive Committee. E. W. Moise, Esq., Chairman of the Charles ton Committee, made a verbal report, and asked for further time which was granted. A general discussion of the prospects of tho enterprise followed, and the committee adjourned full of hope aud confidence, to meet again on saleday in October, New Series—Vol. 28, No. 40 LETTER FROM ATLANTA. Arm-Chair Reveries —An Interview with Gov. Smith—What He Thinks of Hardeman, James, Colquitt and Stephens—The Gubernatorial Race— An Executive Opinion of Beecher and Keely—Pete Alexander Snubs Martha and She Tumbles Down Stairs—The Value of a Point— Moody and Saukey—Municipal Cross-Purposes. [Regular Corresp. Constitutionalist.! Atlanta, September 17. Dark and damp, cold and chilly, dreary and drizzling is the weather to day. Everything is gloomy and has a graveyard feeling—a mouldy, damp ooze that spreads like a plaster over all the city, stifling and smothering every cheerful smile that is wont to force through the gloom and take the place of the hidden sunbeams. Just such a day as one would like to rum mage through old closets and garrets among old books and chests of musty relics of grandfather. Just such a day as the “gude” wife would like to fish out from the depths of stored away bundles of dress-patterns and other articles of a like uature, the ribbon bound package of notes and letters that came to her in her sweeter days from the one she loved best. And, mayhap, whilst she scans their love laden pages, blushes as some tender recollection is brought to the surface by a well remembered sentence or endearing term. It is also a good op portune day for the old lady, she of the frilled cap and gold spectacles, to sit and brood over the sins of an erring darling, watching the falling rain through the window. Drowsy and tired, the dull surround ings wooing me to sleep, I flung myself in the spacious depths and comfortable embrace of my best friend, a graud old rocking chair, and there lose sight and sense of this wicked, wicked earth in the sweet, gracious blissfulness of hap py Nodland. It was such a glorious day for inter viewing—but who should I bore into with my journalistic augur? Shall it be Kimball, Beu Hill, Stephens or Jack Brown ? Gov. Smith ! By George, I never thought of him. Begad, I’ll pay my respects to the Governor, and ease out of him all about the Gubernatorial canvass. And, acting upon the im pulse, I gave my tied-back an extra jerk, raised my dress just bigb enough to exhibit two stripes of my best stock ings, and then floundered through oceanlets of water and marshlets of mud in the direction of the Capitol. The Governor was in. He was lean ing back complacently in one of those chairs that look more like the poop deck of a ferry-boat rather than a Chair, and was enjoying the nicotined sweet ness of a Powhatan clay pipe and cane root stem. Pete Alexander, his right bower, was masked behind a ponderous pile of red-taped documents. I was re ceived in that blunt, sociable manner which is the Governor’s style, and took seat in close proximity to his Excellen cy, for tho reason that I wished to ob serve closely the merry twinkle of liis eyes. “ Governor, I know it’s a tender mat ter —perhaps a very distasteful one — but I want to know what your opinions are concerning the coming race for the Governorcy. In the first place are you in the race ?” “ Well, Marthy, I’ll have to illustrate my answer oy telling you—did you ever hear that yarn of the man who was sent to buy a coffin ? No ! Well, I’ll tell it to you. You know how fond some women are of,-dogs—poodles, I mean. Well, the daughter of the land lady of a house whereat Tom Billups was boarding, petted one of these poodles to such an extent that it be came absolutely disgusting to the boarders ; and one day it went up that awful creek—it was poisoned. The lady went into hysterics and resolved to bury her pet iu a costly manner.— She gave Tom a five dollar bill and sent him down town to buy a small coffin. Tom dropped in at a grog shop on the way, forgot his commission, and spent the money treating his friends. He went back, swore he’d lost it and got another five. He dropped iu at the same old place and spent all the money except a quarter before he thought of the coffin. Tom rushed out, purchased an empty cigar box with the quarter and went home. A storm ensued, but she didn’t have auy more five dollar bills. The defunct canine was wrapped up aud placed solemnly in the box and Tom started down town with it un der his arm. When he reached the groggery he paused and longed for one more drink. As he stood there wish ing, a man in a hurry attempted to pass him, but in doing so hustled against him and knocked the box from under his arm into the street. Tom pitched in and was, in five minutes, the worst whipped man you ever saw. He silently picked up the corpse which had rolled out of (lie box, gave it a shake to get the dirt off, and put it back into its little coffin, and remarked in sorrowful voice, “The next time that man runs against a funeral procession the sexton will get out of the way.” Well, Marthy. I’m like Tom. I’ve been to the grog shop once or twice, and I pause a little and wish for one more drink, but it can’t be had. And you see if I remain long wishing, somebody wifi come along and beat me. Seeing it’s no use, I’m out of it, and will look at somebody else’s funeral procession.” Having drawn him out on himself, I inquired after the other aspirants, be ginning with Tom Hardeman. At the mention of Tom’s name, the Governor lowered his fat body an inch or so in the chair which raised his heels to the mantel piece and, giving a long draw at his pipe, said : “I don’t see that Tom stands much chance. He’s a pretty speaker, toler able on argument and might win over a few votes if he were to stump it, but he’d stand mighty little show in a con vention. “I’ll tell you why. Tom be longs to just a few counties, and they are ’way down there out of reach. North Georgia is so tarnation strong in delegates that Southwest Georgia won’t be a drop in the bucket in the conven tion. He wouldn’t make a good offi cer. He could do the honors to visitors and preside in grand style at levees, but when it comes to work, Tom ain’t there. Think you Tom would read over that pile of papers you see there and give ’em all the necessary atten tion ! No—that he would’nt. I don’t say that I’ve done any too much work, but I know I do moro than Tom would.” How about John H. James. , “ My dear girl, why do you ask me about James! Don’t you know that James is out of this race! He is too fresh yet. The day is coming when James and Huff and those boys will have the place in turn ; but Lord bless you, the people wa,nt the old men now. To Advertisers and Subscribers. On AND AFTER this date (April 21. 1875.) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Advertisements must be paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candfdates for office, 20 cents perlfne each insertion. Money may be remitted at our risk by Express or Postal Order. Correspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejected Communications will not be re turned, and no notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. They want men who are old lawyers. They imagine tho State can only be safe in such hands. Hence James can not be looked upon as a bona fide can didate. He is strong because he is a power with the Baptists and Sunday Schools. Yes, he would make a good officer when his time comes, for he is an honest, conscientious, duty-loving man.” Gen. Colquitt. “ Ah, Colquitt stands a better chance than Tom Hardeman, for he is a Gran ger, and with the Grangers stands. He is a rough, farm ioving, agricultural man—one of the poople—and besides, he is just as good as he can be. His chances are good, but I think he is too fresh yet. He is young—not in want of office, and has his hands full of work. He doesn’t want the offlee, but I don’t know about vice versa. If the people elect Colquitt, they can go home from the polls and rest satisfied for two years.” Alex. Stephens. “ Personally Alex, and I have not agreed as well as we might have done, but leaving that out I must say that of all the candidates now or will be here after there is none of them that stands the chance of Stephens. There is no use hiding it, if Stephens wants it, all he has to do is to say so, and lie’ll get it just so sure as the morrow will come. Doubt him, disagree with him, say that he is too old and played out aud all that sort of thing, but when it comes down to the ballot, the Stephens glory rises like the mighty sun in the Geor gian’s breast and he goes for Stephens, not in a doubtful, distrustful, reluctant way, but with' au enthusiasm beaming on his face that tells his love for and faith in Stephens! And it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if Alex, was our next Governor. You can’t say he is too old, for that little shriveled up man does more hard mental work per day than I do, and I weigh two hundred pounds, by gravy ! ” Beecher. “ Well, I’m glad you’ve got enough of the Governorship, for I’ll be hanged if it isn’t worse than mauling rails for me to talk about it. Beecher! what do you think of Beecher ? If ever there was a fraud, if ever there was a har dened old reprobate, then Beecher is the individual. That man has kissed more of other men’s wives, preached more lyiug sermons ,nd been guilty of more diabolical * true inwardness ’ than any man under the sun. He’s a regular snorter on women, and no preacher can fool around women and expect to go to heaven.” Keely Motor. “ What do I think of the Keely mo tor ? Well, it’s like the most of these Yankee tricks, it won’t do to bet on till its a sure thing. I don’t know what they will get at next. They’ll be sending people to heaven and hell with out dying after awhile. But, Martha, I must go, and if you want to know any thing further, Pete, here, will give you all the information you want.” Pete was too busy, aud I left tho room aud was gayly tripping down the stairs, when my tied-back gave way and I fell down ever so many stairs, bruising my knees, showing my strip ed stockings and—waking up in my good old rocker, after one of the fun niest of dreams ! An Important Point. I admire the symmetry of the stately exclamation point, and often go into ecstasies over the rounded beauty of the period, but the ugly, jug-handlish interrogation excites my contempt. I like the comet-like comma once in a while, can love the combined elegance of the semi-colon, and dote with fond ness on the twin-period colon; but of the entire row give me the dashy hy phen. It is the connecting link between super-elegance aq.d preter-loveliness, the coupling that fastens trains of semi-words and semi-sentences. But with all its utility and usefulness, I never knew until to-day that it was an economical point. Listen; The Eve ning Commonwealth merged into the Evening Herald, and is now called the Commonwealth Herald, and receives the Associated Precs Dispatches. The Con stitution claimed that it should pay for the telegrams, but the metropolitan press proprietors claim that it should not, for the reason that it is the Com monwealth Herald, the same as the Morning Herald or the Evening Herald —not two papers in one, as a hyphen would make it, but simply an evening edition of their paper. So you see that little hyphen, by remaining out of the head of the Commowealth, saves fifteen or twenty dollars per week to its pro prietors. A point well taken—out. Moody and Sankey. A desperate effort is being made to bring these preachers to this seques tered hamlet, and have them convert the entire multitude of progressiva transgressors. It is proposed to build a huge building for the express pur pose, which will necessitate su expen diture of several thousand inflations, put on the waterworks, raise the National rag on the custom • house, get out a mammoth trade issue of the metropolitan press, and have a high old jamboree while we are at it. We want to be converted, then why not have it done in tip-top style regard less—begad ! Suing the City. For a long time it has been the cus tom of the Atlanta man to fail heels over head into some yawning abyss that lay in wait along our busy streets, break an arm or so, and then sue the city for damages. The city growing weary of that sort of fun, now in turn sues the owner of the yawning abysses and makes back the sue-ful money. Verily we are smart. The rain pours down as I twist the diamond point of my golden pen along the skyblue lines of this rose-tinted sheet, and the weather without is re freshing—to ducks. The mud—oh, haug the mud ! Maetha. Personal Movements of Virtue and Greatness. New Yoiik, September 18.—Henry Ward Beecher arrived here, accom panied by his wife. They left immedi ately for Peekskill. President and Mrs. Grant arrived hore last evening from Utica and left this morning for Long Branch. McMahon, proprietor of Deerfoot Park, who was fatally shot last night, in his anti-mortem statement to-day, charged Wm. Johnson with the act. Consolidation of Savannah Nows and Advertiser. Savannah, September 18.—J. H. Ea till, of the Morning News, purchased the Daily Advertiser to-day, and will consolidate it with the News. This leaves only one daily paper in this city. Lee, Shepherd <& Dillingham. New Yoke, September 18.— The cred itors of Lee, Shepherd & Dillinghanjp agree to take 70 per cent, on 12, 16 anq 18 months, without interest,