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VOLUME V. ENGLISH SALARIES. WHAT AN AMERICAN WOULD STYLE J: XTRAO RUIN AUV SA LA RIES. Seventy-five Thousttml Dollars a Year for the Archbishop of Canterbury— Fiftj’ Thousand a Year for tho Arehbishop of York. London, May 12.—T0 a disinterested obseri r, t!ie English Church Establish ment hardly looks like a religious system at all. An intelligent pagan, it seems to me, if sh, >'• the working machinery of tho Established ■’ huu-It, would guess it to he ,i part of t e vault cri.isl system of the country —a kin ! of first cousin to a hank— and which people connected them selves wi*h, for Utsine-s advantages only. As he walked along the street, over the magnificent public houses of the metrop olis, lie w >il;l read in great letters the names of the most eeiebr.,;od brewers of English h-s-r ami ale, “Tiuman Han - hury, A Buxton," ‘Tnd, Coupe .V Cos.;" and then, upon investigation, he would find that most of these great brewers stand high in tho church, and that, in fact, a number of them actually have the appointment of of rectors and curates in the church. Bass's pale ale, Allsopp’s ale, and Guinness’s stout are well known in the United States. Each of those three brewers has tlx: appointment of a minister in the English Church. Mr. Coope, whose name also appears above, has like wise control of an appointment in the church, and 1 aiu able to point out some half a di ztn other similar eases. The Church, as -i State establishment, cx’sts only iu England and Wales, and lather more than hall the population of these claim membership. At the head are the Archbishops and Bishops, who ai appointed by the Crown, and who have seats in the House of L rds. Nomi nally, the Bishop of a vacant see is elected by the J* an and Charier of that see, but the name of the person whom they arc to elect is sent by the Crown, and the election is only a fotm, In the bislio; lies of recent creation, the appoint ment by the (. rowu is direct, and does not even need the form of an election. Rectors, vicars, and curates are never selected by the congregation, but are ap pointed by some person who i- seldom a member of the congregation. The mem lof the House of Lords rank iu this o:der: Princes of the blood, Archbishops, Lubes, Marquises, Kiris, Viscounts, and B-t: .ns. The pn perty and revenue of the Church of England are immense. Mr. Frederick Martin, author of the State-nan's Year Bo k, puts the revenue if the Churi.h dignitaries, that is, of l’lelan's. Archdeacons, Canons, and Prebend ties, at V 1,7 15,000 annually, and add- 4-7V.il to more lor ‘ extra cathedral revenues. " He states the entire annual revenue of the Church of England to be $35, lOO.Od'i, exclusive of the annual in come of 10,20 b clergymen engaged as ! curat,. -, teachers, chaplains, etc., and j “unattached." V .'in in England is a town which pos seaKs a cathedral. lit nee the number ofeiii - e n re-pond- very nearly with Lite number of Arclili-hop- and Bishops. Of the former there ore two, of the latter twenty eight, Each eatbi i;';t 0.-ually ha a 'lea t, from four to rix o irmns, and seT'-rui apclnlc icon anti prebendaries. Salaries are what , Erg ih call geu erotia; A 11 :• ri !• - w tit* 1 rail them xtor tiuDati to o. The Archbishop of Cunti" t oa' ; ,te .i tof eTi.OOO a year, with the i.-e of several palatial redden s or palates rent flee. The Archbi- ip of. York has a salary of $50,000 a yea: With residences also rent free. All 11 > ■ I..shops likewise have residence.- free of rent, it addition to their salaries, ihe 80-hop of London’s salary is s3o,ooii; ' Bishop of Durham $40,000, t Bi.-hon of Winches ter $35,00:; attd that of the Bishop of Ely $27,000. ix other If hops Lave $26.000 , it have *. 22,300 each; eight nine: h h ire s2l,oooeach; one-the JL i , - ■ ' ■ arid one —tht Bishr ( Sot Man—has it; 'ile average s..iaryof the thirty Archbishop.- and Bishops is $23,750 [ier annum. There are twenty nine deans connected v:*. i- or -ea n 1 orals. The highest sal is gl 5,000, which is paid to the Dean of Durham. The Deans of St. icb SIO,OOO. The ! .vch is ;1, -j, which is | atd to the Dean of St. David’s. The average salary of the twenty-nine is $7,007. Each Bean is also furnished with a residence free of rent; at all events, I can ascertain no ex ception to this rule. Neatly all the cathedrals have also from four to six canons. The whole number is 128, and the aveiage salary is $3,813. A number recoivo as much as $5,000; and a few receive as httle as $1,750. The see of Oxford has a rather expensive cathedral equipment. The Bishop has $25,000 a year; the Dean has $10,000; six canons haves6,2so each; and two Archbishops receive the one $1,500, and the other SI,OOO. These items alone amount to S7S,(XX) yearly. Durham even beats that. Bishop, Dean, Archdeao ns, and Canons there receive in the aggregate over SIOO,OOO. The holder of the living of a parish is the rector, lie has the freehold of the parsonage, the glebe lands, tlte tithes, and oilier dues, and disposes of them very much as he chooses, "lie revenue of these go to make up the value of tho living. In England and Wales there are some 12,000 parishes, each having a rector, and about 200 extra parochial place., besides. The incomes of parishes are various, lit many cases they amount to fully $.5,0'. 0, in addition to the univer sal use of the parsonage free of rent, which, considering that a considerable plot of ground usually accompanies it, might be reckoned fully equal—rich and poor parishes all together— to an average of at least S4OO mo.e. Insouie cases the revenuo of a palish is miserably small. In many a town of loss than a thousand people tlte living is worth $2,500 a year, and in many towns of ten times the popu lation it is net worth more. lowever, livings worth $5,000 to s4.Otto are ex ceedingly common. The right of appointment to a church living is termed advowsou- These are widely distributed. Only 4500 are held by members of the House of Lords; 317 are held by members of the House of Commons; many are held by universities; a few by private corporations, and a very large balance is distributed among the private gentry throughout the kingdom. The Bishops hold a very large number of appointments, often over JOO. The Lord Chancellor controls no les- than b:.X> ap pointments; the Duke of Devonshire, 42; the Duke of Bedford, 27; the Prince of Wales, 20; the Duke of Noithumbei iand, 23, and many other noblemen control a dozen or more. One member of the House of Commons appoints to 14 livings, and another to 12. As 1 have already mentioned, a few are in the gift of brewers. Advowsons a'-e ranked as real property, and her,. crops out one of the most in iquitous systems tit .t ever d : sgracod a professedly religious organize! n . Every advowson has a market value. In some eases they are attached to some manor, | and cannot be disconnected from it; but I if the estate he sold, the value of t lie I appendant advowson is not forgotten, i Another class of advowson is termed “in gross,” and these are salable apart from the estate of the possessor; about as easily transferred as a horse, in fact. Asa ! matter of fact, they are every day offered for sale, and actually sold. An advowson | is only valuable in a financial way by I reason of the fact that the appointment | itself is Hold, that is to say, a clergyman I (or some liiend for hint) actually buys a life appointment for the cure of souls. Tnis is not a thing of rare occurrence, or which there is any attempt whatever to conceal. It has been a common, every day matter for some hundreds of years past, and the people are used to it. Whether the Bishops, who hold so • many appointment', and whether the Lord Chancellor, who hold.- ; 0, tike money for appointments in their gift, I do not know, but presume that they usuady and i not. They tJicn, ) owever, appoint relatives or near friends. Most of the livings in the gift of the piivate gentry, a id others—ar.d those eons!ante mote than Tiaif of the whole number—are either sold outright or given to some needy relative who is out of employment. Appointments are always for life, and it is not usually neces ary that the one who t iceives the appoint moot hiu dbe either j specially religious or attentive to the needs of his flock. Inaeed. cases have been kn /.vn where the re t <r of a parish | hai lived in some other locality, having a cheap curate to att.nd to his duties, and tiie rector himself being next to an utter stranger to his parishioners. II re is an incident, which is amply | vouched for: A nobleman was hunting its. Yorkshire. “My Lord,’’ said age; e-! man riding up to the nobleman. “1 bet j you five thousand pounds you don’t give ’the living of (then vacant) to my ; SUMMERY ILLE, GEORGIA, AUGUST I, 1878. son.” “Done,” exclaimed his lordship. The young man was presented and insti tuted to the living, and the bet was paid. He no doubt holds the living to this day, I for the affair is comparatively roccnt. j Another ease, equally genuine, has a bit of romance in it. A young lady of moderate fortune had bestowed her af fections on a country curate. Site in vested her means in the purchase of an excellent church living, and then gavo iter hand and tho benefice to her lovor. The living was not at fho time vacant, but shortly became so, and they then entered upon the enjoyment of it, and retain it to this day. Among country patrons it is next to a uniform rule to sell a living, if no relative happens to want it. The rector of fst. John-at-Hackney died a short time ago, and a short obituary notice gave this hit of infos motion, that “the rectory of St. Johu-at-Hacknoy was purchased for him by his father for tho sum of 13,000 pounds,” that is. about $i15,000. It may he asked whether the law of the eountiy adotvs these things. Technically, it does not. Tho law is easily evaded, howover. Tho actual recipient of iho appointment must declare that, no money or its equivalent, passed between hint and tho patron. Instead ot selling the actual presentation to the living, the right of such presentation is sold to some third p;' tv. That seems to sat'sfy the law. There is also a law which forbids the sale even of the right of presentation, when the living is actually vacant, Even this is cleverly avoided, and the right of pro sentation is openly advertised and imme diate possession promised. Tho Eedeittitk' cal Gazette gives sevora 1 pages in every issue to tho advertising of advir.v- ms for sale or exchange, and the salt of the “right of next presentation.” That is, the incumbent is living and the sale is effected, subject to the life of the p'-esent. occupant. The advertisements prettily and modestly state that the sale is subject to a life of, say seventy or eighty years as the case may be, and sometimes add that the health of tho iu cumheat is failing. Many of them say that in.crest will he allowed on money paid un.il the death of the present ocou- pa >t. 1 now have (he Eccl“;in:,tical On.cl e before me, and it contains the I ■ tier part of a hundred advertisements for the purchase or sale of advowsonsand nest presentations to church living . tao-t of i hem the latter. TJ.nl as this s .<•: n is, it. lias its defend ers, though it n.! 1 flit he io'orrcd to have supporters, otherwise it could riot coo linue to c .ist• It may not bn unreasona ble to say that the House of Lords, holding, as it does, the large number of f hOO advow mis, could not be expected to work v<vy earnestly to overthrow a system which must be so profitable to them, or which, at all events, adds so !ir ;ely lo their influence. '1 bo preaching is just about what ono would expect under such methods of ap pointment. In most small parishes, and in many large ones, too, the preaching is oft he dullest possible kind. Sermons are almost universally read from manuscript, and such a good business is done by cer tain publishers in the sale of lithographed sermons, “which cannot be distinguished from handwriting,” as they say, that it is onlv reasonable to conclude that ave t considerable number read other men’s sermons. A church system so honey combed with cot ruption surely should no; be iong-live 1, but there are few signs of improvement just now. Perhaps, how ever, the nation will, by and by, awake to the real condition of their b’tato Chinch and will conclude to annihilate it instead ol foolishly attempting to reform it.—./, W. in the New York Sun. The New Haven Journal says that a practical joke was played upon an agent at a small station on the Shore Line road. A number of fellow agents united in tell ing him that at a certain time all unmar riud ageri's would be discharged and their places filled with married men. At fir.- ;, the vie; i:u did not behove it, but so many repeated it to him, and with such earnest ness, that finally lie took it for solid truth. First he wanted his father nominally to fn id the office. This, however, the jokers insisted would not do, and Mr. Agent at last, in sheer desperation, said: “Well, I suppose I’ll have to get married, but who j to, 1 don’t know. I’ll go over lo Blank- i ford, and if I can pick up a wife there, I i will; if not, I’ll love to lose the jo 1 .” He 1 was getting rcu ly to go when the juke; was explained to him. Elopement, marriage, twins, an di vorce have happened to an Indiana girl within a KUHCOL'NG IvESTMIi’S WOUNDS. In the heated discussion at Oariersville, last Thursday, the writer and other per sons of Marietta, were present, and hen I Dr. Eel ton ridicule JutUe Look r’ts empty sleeve, vehemently accusing him of “speculating on his wounds, trading upon J his gears, and holding the stump of his arm up and asking to bo rewarded with |;m office.” We are glad to see lit such j unfeeling and unsympathetic sent euv .: | and unjustifiable denunciation, wore not j endorsed by those of his friends present, j The burst of passion fell still-born, and ! invoked nothing but murmurs of indig nation. Dr. Felton certainly made a [ serious mistake when he thought he could 1 bring Lester’s one arm into contempt. I The people cannot sympathise with such !an ungrateful remark. Judge Lester lost j his arm fighting in defence <d’ his invaded country, while Felton saved his arm by remaining at home in tho rear. That ■ empty Hoove cart ins no dishonor with it. it is flagrant with deeds of heroism and | da -ing. The people of the Sunny South, when they see a one-armed hero of tho “tost cause,’’ feel like lifting their hats in reverence as he passes, but Dr. Felton hurls epithets of ridicule and derision. The crippled Confederate soldier is in tho way of his political promotion, and ho feels no love for his wounds and self sacrifices. What old soldier of “Dixie’s land” will join in scorn and ridicule of (ho “empty sleevo” by voting for Felton if. linst Lester? Will you say at tho ballot box the sth of November (hat his empty sleevo is a badge of honor, or onn for Felton to hold up to public contempt and fun-making? To condemn Lester because lie cannot appear before an au dienco with two arms, is to condemn tlie cause he lost his arm in, and to throw reproach upon the dead heroes whose mounds we meet annually to decorate with fragrant flowers. 11 will not ho consistent to strew flowers upon the graves of our dead soldiers, amt ignore and insult the living cripples. The dead cannot he bene liiled, the living can. Baliy, then, and lot Dr. Felton see, that if he does not appreciate t ho “empty sleeve,” you do.— Mii. ii ; i ,/wni'il. I.Hi,:VIA A CM KAT. Negroes who leavo America to live in Lbe'i.i a re either cut holy i a u. rant of that sickly Utile tropier. 1 col or, if not ignorant, they are exceodin; Iv foolish to go there to mend tlie'r furtents. The toosi northc.ii part of it is neater to tho equator bv twenty-three degtoes of 1 a.i tude then Southern Alabama, and cor respondingly hotter. It is a- trip of land about fif’.y tndcs wide, s.relolti g live hundred miles along the M-atlnno, sandy and flat along tho shore, hilly and woodi ; further inland. To white men the climate is generally fatal, and it i. : nv r less so to negroes tamed in the 'em pi r " zones. Both black and vvhxe s, i: • < )•; *ra attacked with tho Atman fiv . soon as they land at at.y sea to t. Wi. to men never become rcchma ed, and Id - k lutmigianls ate never exempt from other fevers of a severe lypo arid long derail.,e. The country is prolific in all fruit.- and t'ccs of tropical countries, but it has never been cul ivated. its sole elements of civilization are eight or ten thousand Arno, ican negitits, who have riotincr. ~.,cd in knowledge or morals since they left this ccuutiy unde,’ the auspices of the Coi.j niz .i ioii e ely, of v/1 h Henry (Jay and other Southern statesmen were con spicuous members. Agriculture lias made no progress. The i ibaouants live chiefly on indigenous fi u 1 n vegetables and game, all of which abound. Panning implements are few and rude. There is vety li.tie manufacturing machinery in the colony, of which the supply is only replenished by donations. All the emi grants to Libet a wont there poor, and they have done but little thero to met'd their fortunes. The civilization imported from Ametica, in spite of missionaries and teachers, lias made no advances in the interior. A hundred miles from the shore is nothing but dense barbarism. Even the children of the earlier colonists have in hundreds of instances telapsed into ancestral heathenism. This is so much the natuial effect ol the ell mate that nothing keeps the colony from speedy dcgenoiatiou to savagm;. except the sui.tily of intelligence kept op by the • whits societies - liiirjpi; and Atomic.. Jbe go vet. ment is an o igavciiy m the I di.rgui.-c of a ; e State, i t controls j 250,000 native, idolatrous, superstitious | savages, among whom civilization makes little progress. Whites are not admitted to citizenship, but a bad ota ■ of white traders wield much influence. Their com moron E Exited to trading with the natives of tho interior, buying palm oil, rieo and skins, for which they give tobacco, calico, heads, cheap cutlery and other articles, brought from Europe or America. Their only manufacture is sugar, anil that is very limited, for lack of machinery. Horses and mules cannot live in Liberia, and their horned cattle -.tv vx-mti v and inefficient. There is very little plowing dene. Women sow rieo in the wot scat'.on, and crops are pro duced without further attention. It has cost not less than five million dollars to plant this i mull colony, which is not as well ns it was twenty years ago. Tt is the last place in the world for a civilized colored man from the United states to go to for the purpose of im proving Iris condition. It is going out of light into darkness. If sent I here ns a punishment for crime, ho would run away as soon as lie got a ohanoo. On gonoral ; Hueiples die country that has the most enlightenment and the most wealth is the best for poor men. Our advice to tlte colored man is to stag here where he is wanted, and keep as far front Africa and Afiieuri harhad an as ho possibly can. This country is superior to Liberia in every conceivable particular, its institu tions being the result of a civilization fot ly centu iesold. —Covinjlon Star. A FT MU AN ICI.OI-IvIUSSNT. About eight o’clock on Wednesday morning, N. T. Johnson, keeper ol' the St. Julien Hotel, at. Forty-fifth street and Vincennes avenue, Chicago, was shot by his son-in-law, Bryson Reynolds- In August last, Reynolds, who was 19 years old, runaway with Johnson’s daughter, Nelli-', .ti 15. The pair were captured m Philadelphia, about tut hour after they j had boon married. They have since lived I with Noll Vs father, and are very much I :K; Ito each other. One Monday mcning Johnson and his son in law quarreled. Johnson says that the trouble ot initiated in a demand by him that Rey nolds, who had procured employment, should take his wile elsewhere. Reynolds says that Mrs. Johnson wanted Nellie to go to the circus with another man, which Nellie would not do. He adds: “Afi.or I had left the table, in a little while Capt. Johnson came and called me into the barroom. Here he called mo some very hard names. 1 begged him to desist, but he wouldn't. Then Isaid ‘Mr. Johnson, 1 ant sorry to say it, but you’re another.’ Then ho drew a pocket knife, and opening it said, ‘Vou pusiil: uimotiß young i’ll cut you heart out.’ He did not advance on me then, put some few minutes later; l am not sure whether lie bad anything in his hands at the time; 1 drew my revolver and shot at him; the weapon is a .tingle barreled Derringer. At the time 1 fired Mrs. Johnson and two visitors were present. I. then walked out j with tit" intention of giving myself up; 1 .Mur. ./I Unwed n.e out. HonlfFd at the e: ti relicts, my wile bad thrown hor se i'l) the grass plat. Aa I walked a.vay she raised herself and called me to l id her good-bye. x turned back to greet her, when Johnson rushed at her a.id struck !:?r back to the earth. I rained her up, ii?j;,l giving her in charge of a servant, went o(T.’ ’ Johnson’s wound is near the heart. A man wa sentenced to State prison for ! i; at Zanesville, Ohio, last week f.r a murder which was proved arainst him in peculiar cir -' i!-;t:i:ir -.;. In I une, J. 7*, a fartuet named Brock was found lying dead with a gun-shot wound in one eve and a gun lyiii by him. A verdict of suicide was rendered, and the body was buried. Suspicions were It" vever aroused against his farm hand, named Mooroitead. of whom lie bad been jealous, and last Feb uary the body was taken up, and it was lound that then, had been two wounds in the head: one mado by a bullet from a rifle entering from behind, and tho other made by a shot-gun discharged into the left eye. A flattened buflet and several shot were found in the brain; the bullet L : i boon plow ed with one or more.shot, entering on the con vex side, which pointed to the fact, that it had been first in the hi ; lo 1, cd in such a position that li !.ot ,n in; .ting bad perforated if. - 1 and •vi,., arrested and tried with I the r. 'ii as ven above. T : > V tie before b- I - —“ ! '!■ t.iovtr wbat l -. t . i to the world, bu’, as to uir:,e!>' f secm to have been only like a boy playing ■ o.u the sea shore, and diverting myself in now arid then finding a smoother pcbblo r a prettier shell tier -dinary, whilst, tho great ocean of truth lay all utini. oov u ;<1 before ute.’ NUMBER 3E ci.nkka;. n ax>. The “monogram fan” is tho latest thing out. Dr. J. (J. Aver, the patent mcdicin - millionaire, is dead. Baltiunro dug killer h vo slaughtered 3000 canines in the past two weeks. The only medical college for colored people is in Nashville. It has an ample endowment. Mrs. Julia Tracy, of Agawam, Mass., was outraged on the 21st of July. She ir seventy ...at i old. Thoro ..re eij.iit cases of yellow fever ttt lx) quarantine hospital at Now York, brought from 1 lavana. Horse flesh is sold in Paris for human food, and some Londoners are ai. v. engage in tiie same business. An explosion in a coal mine in Engt-u . nn the 7th of Juno shook the earth for mhos, and killed 233 persons. Reports of tiie wheat crop in Ohio show not only an increased acreage, but a greater average product than over before. Tho number of visitors to the Paris Exposition is diminishing rapidly. Some of tho hotels have returned to last year's charges. A gentleman of Quincy, Florida, re cently put a large rattlesnake in his collar to keep off thieves. Nothing has been stolen .since. lloedel, the atlempted murderer of tho Emperor William, has been .sentenced to be beheaded. His demeanor is insolent and defiant. It is stated that in the distribution of awards at Pat is, the Americans will old aiu more prizes than will tho citizens of any other country. * Gov. Hampton has given notice that all South (JaroliniauH who are hiding from ku-klux prosecutions may return to their homes without fear. Dr. Carver, the California marksman, recently undertook to break 5500 glass balls with rifle bullets in 500 minutes. Ho accomp!ished|the task it: 490 minutes. Wheat was recently cut down, thrashed, ground, baked, and eaten, in five minutes. If you don’t believe it, ask the editor of tlte Carrollton (Mo.) Dcmowat. On Mix ' "th of July Piper Herndon was convicted of’ htiviti.r robbed a train on tho Texas Pacific railroad several months ago; and was sentenced to imprisonment for life. The firm ■■ . .e man whipped under t.ho new la v hi Virginia was a sailor at Hampton Roads, who sfoio an anchor. The punishment was inflicted by a negro constable. Mose Kirkeudal, colored, charged with having attempted to ravidt Miss Walters, was taken from the jail n Kar ri. tin, Ark., on the night of July 18th, ami hanged. A c i an you,!;; ladies are said to be attracting the attention of English young inert to an cst.-nt which excites the alarm of yo” .g igUshwomcn and of their uiminus A 1 rie girl in Yonkers, N. Y., paifly ■ w'.i. owed her toy balloon, the tubo point isg down. It lodged in her windpipe, a.i 1 every time she breathed it partly filled, and sho root; died of suffocation. The New Y .i. Greed Lodge of Fiee masons resolved “That we refuse to recognize a.', a Freemason any person initial'd, passed, or raised, in a body where me existence of a Supreme Being i denied or ignored. ’’ I'lic Cincinnati doily Siar is responsible for the statement that a gentleman of that city bought some eggs during tho third week in July, and that on Monday, the 22d inst. he found a vigorous and healthy chicken in the plato in which some of them had been left. The plato had stood in the kitchen where the sua rthone ou it. A rowboat from one of tho British Wm vessels was cruising near the Gulf’ of Sarosun the 10th of July; the crow laud ed, and were made prisoners by the itu .ans. The English captain sent another beat s crew to look after the first, vrhu worn fired upon by the (Russians, two, fad. pas, i, g through the sides of the b ,at. Mo one of the crew was hurt, An cri. ay the sth iual., :. serious fight O ' utrod near Sterling, Cherokee oounty. Art, " on !. It fg Cook and his • o i Mr. Mick Atkissoo arid his family. Br., ant Cook was knocknt! 'i:nse- Icss, his father baoly wounded on the nose by a large rock, his mother knocked down and beaten, ana Thaddeus Cook serious! at Bryant, reoovoring liis <v ■ ion no. h, ran '- the house to get his gun, the A krisen- retreated, one of them with three ribs broken.