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MACON, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1869.
The Weekly Georgia Telegraph.
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cation.
Commissioner Weil,
Colonel Samuel Weil, Commissioner of For
eign Immigration for the State of Georgia, called
upon us yesterday. The Colonel is a German by
birth, but has been a citizen of Georgia for the
past nineteen years. When elected to his pres
ent position by the Georgia Legislature, he was
ft practising lawyer in Atlanta, but for years pre
vious he was in the active pursuit of his profes
sion, principally in the Blue Ridge Circuit. He
is a gentleman of good address and strong prac
tical sense, and we should judge him to be very
•well qualified for the position in which he has
been placed.
He will remain in Macon another day, for the
purpose of enlarging his acquaintance with our
people and interchanging views upon the subject
of his mission, and will then proceed to Savan
nah for the same purpose, and to make all ar
rangements, at this time practicable, for the
transportation of such immigrants as he may be
able to secure. We understand that all the
Georgia railroads he has approached on the sub
ject have offered to transport immigrants to the
interior for one cent per mile.
The Colonel is anxious to be off upon his
mission and full of determination to do his best;
but much preliminary work is to be accomplish
ed before he can hope for signal results. He is
yet awaiting the return of the Governor to re
ceive his commission. We hope he will be in
strumental in introducing to Georgia many
hardy and industrious farmers and mechanics,
who will each add in his individual success and
prosperity, to the solid aggregate of the com
mon wealth. i
Georgia Members ol the 41st Congress.
The Georgia members of the Honse of Rep
resentatives, who were allowed seats in the 40th
Congress, have also received full allowance of
per diem and mileage to the extra session of the
41st Congress over the signature of the Clerk of
the House of Representatives. It is true the
warrants speak of them as “claiming” seats in
the 41st Congress, but these payments would
not have been made without special authority
from the House, had there been the smallest
doubt about the ultimate action of that body.
Indeed, we hear from Washington that it is con
ceded on all hands that the re*reconstruction of
Georgia is finally played out, andit is understood
that the entire delegation in the House and
Senate will be seated early in the December
session. Turner and the other negroes who are
now running the outrage factory in Georgia
may as well stop, so soon as they have laid in
enough money and clothing to serve their term.
There is no chance for any strictly political or
official spoils to be won on this card.
Agricultural Report for 1S67.
A number of copies of the Agricultural Re
port for 18G7 have been sent to the Telegraph
office by Hon. S. F. Gove, for distribution
among the people. First come—first served.
They are free to all applicants.
The Literary Addbess before the Cuthbert
Female College will be delivered by Gen. John
B. Gordon, and the Commencement Sermon by
A A Lipsoomb, D. D., Chancellor of the Uni
versity of the State of Georgia.
Chops m Monroe.—The Monroe Advertiser,
of Tuesday says: The crop prospects of this
se ction were never more promising. More com
has been planted than was at first predicted and
the stand is unusually good. The plant is grow
ing off rapidly, and, on an average, is from six
. to eight inches high. A good stand of cotton
has been obtained, and planters are “chopping
it out. ” The signs encourage us to believe that
bountiful harvests will repay the farmers of
Monroe for their anxiety and labor.
The Liquor Question in Massachusetts.—
By a mixture of contrivance and blunder, an
act has been adopted in Massachusetts prohibit
ing the sale of liqnor in that State in any quan
tity or for any purpose. This is the explanation
of the "dispatch about the liquor dealers. The
law will of course be evaded, but it puts them
in a dangerous position.
Patino the National Debt.—The Herald
says the national debt less the amount of cash
in the Treasury, was:
On the 1st of May, 1869 §2,529,158,205
On the 1st of May, 1897 2,520,158,196
Increase in two years $8,872,009
and wants to know when, at this rate, the debt
will be paid? Nearly the snm total of the debt
has been collected from the people since the
war.
StT.it in Forsyth.—The Advertiser says last
Tuesday being sale day, several valuable pieces ,, _ ,„ ,
, , ... c-. .~ rp. unsafe as it could well be. Let Mr. Forney ask
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Mr. Forney's Epistles-
The travelling apostles of negro equality,
white and black, differ widely about the condi
tion of affairs in Georgia. Forney finds life and
property as safe in Georgia as in Pennsylvania,
while H. M. Tomer assures the New York Tri
bune that “ assassinations of loyal men are
quite common in Georgia, though not so frequent
as formerly on the main lines of travel!" He
himself, Tomer says, had to travel in South
western Georgia with an armed guard and
change his sleeping place during the night in
order to pnt assassins on a false scent and con
ceal his whereabouts. Tomer appears to be
about the most malignant and cold-blooded liar
now traveling around the country, and that in so
great a crowd as has been earning a subsistence
by sheer falsehood during the past five years,
is a remarkable distinction.
Lying to pander to and inflame sectional ani
mosity and prejudice and bigotry in order to
tax it for traveling and hotel expenses and
clothing, has become as regular a profession as
that of the East Indian Fakirs, and thousands
of lazy and unscrupulous rascals resort to it
rather tb»n labor for their subsistence. We
must look for it as a permanent institution of
the country until the Northern Radicals discov
er that a negro party in the South is a bad in
vestment That they will find out in time.
We shall not accuse Mr. Forney of lying, but
his letters are often exceedingly disingenuous.
He makes many mistakes, and the facts which
he discovers he perverts and misuses to the ser
vice of his political theories. Thus all along
his route Mr. Fomey sees ip every Southern
railroad, factory, and every other enterprise,
the frnits of emancipation—the contributions of
Northern energy—while the truth is, that what
ever may hereafter be, the Southern railways
and factories are still in far worse condition than
before the war. And in the letter which we
copy to-day, Mr. Fomey points to the growth of
the trade of Savannah, as resulting from the
same causes, while in truth it has been effected
in defiance of the operation of these causes by
the extension of a low freighting system to the
Mississippi river.
Cotton constitutes the great item of Savan-
nnV> exports, and the product of cotton, Mr.
Fomey well knows, is little more than half what
it was before the triumph of the abolition pol
icy by force of arms. The average decline of
every interest in the Sonth since that event has
been not much less than one-half, and Mr. For
ney cannot be ignorant of a fact patent in ev
ery statistical table. How, then, can a candid
man brag of what emancipation has done in a
material point of view?
He may, if he pleases, amuse himself of brag
ging about what it is going to do in the future;
and since we were not allowed to progress in
our own way, it is to be hoped we shall do so in
some other; bnt all this is in the future. So
far, we only know that the abolitionizing of the
South has been effected at the cost of a million
lives—of an immense debt—of an immense
property—and of just about one-half the pro
ductive power of the Sonth. That is nothing
to boast of.
And suppose this vacuum of demoralized and
ruined productive power is to be filled, as Mr.
Fomey predicts, by immigration of labor and
capital from the North—what then? Is that
an addition to the snm total of productive power?
Do yon lengthen a blanket by catting off from
one end and sewing on to the other ?
And, then, what shall we say as to the cant
about the negroes being the only producing class
in the South ? If the crops of the Sonth rested
upon mere negro labor they would not be worth
gathering. If the vast mercantile, manufac
turing, internal improvement, and most of the
agricultural enterprises of the North and "West
rested solely with the men who do the drudgery
—who make the entries, drive the engines, man
ipulate the tools and tom the soil, the results
would be more disastrous than valuable. What is
the use of such stuff, except to play upon preju
dice ? Intelligence, capital, and labor must co
operate to produce any beneficial results, and
where is the evidence that a less active co-opera
tion exists in the Sonth than anywhere else ?
Now we do not propose to be hide-bound or
sensitive about these matters. We are glad to
see Mr. Fomey or anybody else taking an inter
est in the material progress of the Sonth, and
investing their money in this section. We
hope it will bring them good returns, and that
the time may come when Southern lands will
be in as active request as Western lands ever
were. We hope that all who come South to ac
quire familiarity with our material and social
condition and prospects may be kindly received,
and we are not of the unreasonable class who
expect them to be free from error and preju
dice, and who take affront at criticism. There
is no land or people on earth who are not fair
subjects of criticism. If it is fair and good-natur
ed, it will be improving; if false and malicious,
we can outlive it. It is right, however, as we
pass along, to point out plain misconceptions,
errors and misrepresentations, and Mr. Fomey
has made a great many besides the few we have
pointed out. We don’t think property, for il
lustration, is as safe in Georgia as in Pennsyl
vania. “Meat on the hoof,” poultry, com in
the fields, and all exposed property, is about as
house and lot occupied by Mrs. Jordan was sold
to Mr. Thos. E. Chambless, and brought $1700.
A lot of land containing about two hundred
acres—owned by D. F. Walker—was purchased
by Geo. W. Adams for $625.
Alabama Ibon for New Robe.—The Atlanta
Intelligencer mentions the fact that a train load
of “ pig iron” from Columbiana (on the Selma
Road) would arrive in Atlanta on the 5th, on its
way to New York.
It seems that Mr. Lincoln appointed a Quaker
Indian agent for the country west of the Arkan
sas. He got a salary of $2000, and it is stated
by a New York correspondent that he accumu
lated in a short time $150,000.
Gov. Bullock.—The Now Era of Saturday
states that Gov. Bollock was still “ at his home
in Albion, New York,” hut we understood the
Constitution of Saturday distinctly to announce
the Governor’s arrival in that city.
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The Alabama river is now receding into its
banks again. The Montgomery Advertiser says
hat the overflow destroyed thousands of acres
of com and cotton.
The Quincy(Fla.) Monitor, of Gadsden coun
ty, says the cotton and com crops in that coun
ty arc very fine—not having been injured by
the late cold weather.
From Jefferson County.—A note dated at
Toombsboro’ the 11th, says the farmers are
• planting heavily and crops are looking fine. The
wheat is excellent
There will be a big railroad barbecue at Ope
lika on Saturday, 22d of May. An election will
be held on that day on the question of subscrib
ing to the Oxford and Opelika Railroad.
Facts for the Ltnrm.—I have had a Wheel
er & Wilson Sewing Machine in my family for
fifteen years, and have not paid a cent for re
pairs. All my family sewing Lim been done
with it, and all the for lining generally of my
stare. A. Moor.
St Paul, Min.
An Omaha dispatch says two hundred Sioux
pounced upon a party of Snake and Bannock
Indians, eight miles from South Psss City, ten
days ago, and killed twenty-nine of them.
his friends, the freedmen. He finds, for ex
ample, no beef raised in Florida, which a few
years ago teemed with millions of cattle. Let
him ask the freedmen how that is. A very few
inquiries would have possessed him of the fact
that his only productive labor in the Sonth is
also a peculiarly destructive labor, and that al
though freedmen are far safer in the Sonth than
they ever could be anywhere else, yet property
is not at all safe from their constant depreda
tions, and had we the same active police he has
in Pennsylvania, the amount of his “prodnetive
labor,” foot-loose, and out of jail in Georgia,
would be materially reduced.
The Imperialist.
In the last issue of this journal we find a de
fense of the loyal leagues, involving a pretty
broad intimation that these Radical machines,
while pretending to work for a “ true Republi
can form of government,” are secretly plotting
for an Empire. The Imperialist justifies this
on the ground (1) that a people who willfully
abandon control of their own affairs are incapa
ble of self-government; that (2) truth impels
the confession that the Republic is a mere idol
of rags and straw; and that (3) a declared and
responsible government is better than a sham.
The Imperialist says: “The fact is, that very
little is left of our Constitution. We have so
battered it in the hurly-burly of our national
politics that its own fathers would not recognize
It Its defenders have defended it almost to
pieces, bnt, there is, nevertheless, a great deal
in it which may well bear making over into the
something new which is to take its place.”
Yes, making an empire out of the “battered
relics” of the Constitution will end like the
amateur blacksmith’s vaunt that he could make
an axe. Well, says Vulcan—here is the iron-
try it! And to work went Mr. Amateur. He
blowed, and boat and mauled, until ho had
burnt up half his iron. At last, looking around
at the crowd, who were laughing at his failure,
he said he gave it up on the axe, but would
make a hammer. But after a world of beating
and sweating, he gave it up on the hammer and
said he would try a horee-ahoe; but with no
better luck on the horse-shoe, he plunged the
battered relic into the cooling trough, saying—
Corse the luck! I know I can make a fizzle.
The Imperialists can make a fizzle out of the
battered relics of the Constitution, bnt they
cannot make anything else.
When is a sermon like a kiss ? Ans. When
it is composed of two heads and an application.
General View of the Convention.
The Southern Baptist Convention, which has
just closed its session in Macon, was dis
tinguished for its harmony and unanimity of
sentiment - t for the ability of its discussions and
its manifestations of brotherly regard; for the
prayerful spirit that prevailed and for the
strong desire exhibited to glorify God and
spread the Redeemer’s Kingdom. Men from
all parts of the Sonth met and prayed together
most fervently; discussed measures for spread
ing the Gospel, with some little differences of
opinion, bnt with singular unanimity of spirit;
and, for four days, exchanged views and senti
ments without the utterance of a word to mar
the universal good feeling or destroy the
pleasantness that prevailed.
The proceedings were characterizedby order,
dignity, courtesy, brotherly kindness and in
tellectual ability, and made a good and lasting
impression upon the minds of the community.
It is bnt justice to say that this, in a large
measure, is due to the excellence and ability of
the presiding officer, Dr. F. H. Mell, to whom
the Baptists of the South owe no little for the
feelings of respect for their general Convention
entertained by the world at large, and engen
dered by the dignity and decorum which at
taches to a well-conducted body.
The intellectual strength and ministerial tal
ent of this Baptist Convention was, perhaps,
never supaased by any previous one; and all
the prominent members took part in the discus
sions. There was the venerated John L. Dagg,
D. D., old in years, venerable and apostolic in
appearance and saintly in spirit, whose presence
was almost like a re-appearance from a saintly
grave; there was the celebrated Dr. Fuller, from
Baltimore, whose golden oratory delighted all;
there was the distinguished Dr. Armitage, of
New York; the eminent and dignified Dr. Jeter,
of Richmond; the learned Crawford and Broad-
us; the commanding Boyce; the eloquent and
brilliant Curry; the accomplished Brantly;
and among many other able men were Manly,
Williams, Tucker, Winkler, Poindexter, Taylor,
Sumner, DeVotie, Graves, McIntosh, Reynolds,
Henderson, BnrrowsandDr. Wm. F. Broaddus.
All these and many others discussed impor
tant questions, and did so with a dignity and
ability that excited admiration in the minds of
most intelligent visitors.
The preaching on Sabbath was universally
applauded for its excellence, and for the gospel
spirit which pervaded the sermons—Doctors
Fuller, Broaddus, Burrows, Armitage, Bums,
Henderson, Williams and Pentecost, all exciting
the highest commendation.
The Convention was composed of about three
hundred delegates, who spoke in high terms of
the kindness and hospitality with which they
were entertained by the citizens of Macon, and
not a word of complaint has been heard. Mach
gratification was manifested at the liberality
and enterprise of the daily papers of the city,
the Telegraph and Journal and Messenger, for
their full reports and gratuitous distribution of
papers.
The goodlmpression made upon the commu
nity by the Convention is a source of congratula
tion to every member of the Baptist family in
the Sonth. Many of the delegates expressed
the opinion that they had never attendeda more
pleasant meeting, nor one where there existed
so much harmony and unanimity. Some little
trouble had been anticipated in regard to the
election of President, but when Dr. Curry rose
and proposed the re-election by acclamation of
Dr. Mell, and when the response, in the form of
one general aye, rose from all parts of the
honse, a feeling of universal relief and satisfac
tion was experienced. The two able secreta
ries, Crane and Abell, were also re-elected
unanimously. An interesting incident was the
relation by Dr. Fuller of his narrow escape
from shipwreck, in a violent storm off Cape
Hatteras, on his way from Baltimore to Savan
nah. He told how he thought of the Conven
tion in that solemn time, when, according to the
word of the Captain, he had bnt five minutes
to live—how ho wondered what they would think
and how they would feel when the Convention
heard of his death—how, amid the excitement
and solemnities and terrors of the moment, he
felt the calm that accompanies peace with God,
and preparedness for departure. "While he was
speaking, tears suffused the eyes of all, and
when he had finished, a special prayer of thanks
was offered for his deliverance from a watery
grave.
The missionary mass meetings at night were
largely attended, the addresses very fine, and
the collections veiy respectable. Especially
gratifying was the consideration given to the
Greenville Theological Seminary, and the suc
cess which attended the efforts made to raise
funds for its support Dr. Fuller made a mas
terly effort in behalf of the Seminary, and va
rious brethren spoke with great eff ect—the re
sult being to raise about $5000 in cash and pro
spective funds enough to support the Institu
tion for the next five years. A new Professor,
Toy, has already been elected, and the Semi
nary may now be regarded as a great and glori
ous success—a result due, in a great measure, to
thG ability, wise management and self-sacrificing
zeal of Dr. Jas. P. Boyce. That Seminary has
now a faculty that may he denominated perfect
and complete, and is an Institution of a charac
ter to excite the pride of Baptists, and admira
tion and imitation all over the world.
A question which took up much time was the
duty of Baptists towards the colored people of
the South, and a set of resolutions was passed
expressive of the sense of the Convention on
that point, and declaring that it was the solemn
dnty and desire of the Baptists to see that the
freedmen had the Gospel preached to them, and
that their ministers be properly educated.
The subjects of Missions and Sunday Schools
received a great deal of attention, and much
money was contributed to farther those great
schemes. The presence and addresses of Rev.
Mr. Phillips, a returned Missionary to Africa,
who had labored among the inhabitants of Cen
tral Africa for fourteen years, awakened much
interest an disseminated much information.
The closing scene of the Convention was im
pressive and affecting; the President delivered
a feeling and appropriate address: daring the
singing of a pathetic song, the delegates ex
tended to the President and to each other the
parting hand—many shedding tears: Rev. M.
J. Wellborn offered a solemn prayer to the
Throne of Grace; and then Dr. Mell pronounced
the Southern Baptist Convention adjourned,
sine die.
Clothing fob Everybody.—Messrs. Winship
& Callaway, clothiers, Second street, Macon,
Ga., have one of the largest and most complete
stotks of ready-made clothing to be found in the
State. Men’s and boys’ clothing of every quality,
style and price can be had at this establishment,
and satisfaction is always given to the purchaser.
They have but one price for their goods, and
the purchaser may rely upon it that he cannot
obtain the same quality and style at a lower fig
ure than that at which this honse offers them,
sonth of the Potomac. No matter how large or
small you are, they can fit you opt with a full
suit, in tiptop style and on the most reasonable
terms. When you need clothing, never pass the
store of Winship & Callaway, 50 Second street.
A Suit against two physicians for a piece of
stupid malpractice is on trial in Worcester.—
David H. Maynard, of Clinton, put himself into
the hands of Drs. Benditt and Symonds, of that
town, to have a stiff finger cut off. They gave
him chloroform and took off a good finger, and
be wants $15,000 damages for it. All the doc
tors urge is that chloroform stiffened all of
Maynard’s fingers. - v
Distinguished Ministers in the South
ern Baptist Convention.
Dr. WM. McINTOSH is over sixty, and
though a Georgian by birth resides in Marion,
Ala., and is Pastor of the Marion Church. Per
haps he has no superior as a sermoniser, and
the concoction of his sermons manifests a beau
ty and symmetry that invariably give delight.
His composition, style of though^ expression
and general arrangement are almost perfect, and
were he a popular orator he would be unsur.
passed as a preacher. As it if, those who sit
beneath his ministry prefer him to any one else,
and always regret his absence. He is the able
and zealous President of the Board of Domes
tic and luJinri Missions, and President of the
Board of Crus tees of Howard College.
He always reads his sermons. He is a fine
scholar,of the most gentlemanly demeanor, par
ticularly neat in his personal appearance and
one who in any company would be regarded
with respect. He is universally esteemed for
his piety, ability, and warm, liberal nature and
perfect Christian character.
Rev. J. C. HIDEN was bom at Orange Court
House, Virginia, graduated at the Virginia Mil.
itary Institute in 1857, and for a time was Pro
fessor of Latin in Chesapeake Female College.
He spent two years at the University of Virginia
and graduated in various studies there, after,
wards becoming a Pastor in Albemarle county,
Virginia. He served as a Chaplain in the Con
federate army from 18G1 to the surrender. Af
ter the war he became Pastor of the Portsmouth,
Virginia, church, and remained such two years,
when he was called to the charge of the First
Baptist church in Wilmington, North Carolina,
entering upon his duties last fall.
He found the church unfinished, and deeply
in prospective debt, and took such active meas
ures that the money to complete the build
ing is now all rtised, and the edifice nearly
finished—and that without going out of the city
of Wilmington. Be is a fine scholar, a logician,
an acute critic, aniis one whose native strength
of intellect and originality of mind, whose ver
satility of capacity! and excellence of perform
ance, rank him anpug those whom the world
calls geniuses. Hs mind is of that order that
it scorns the rule! of others, and acts for it
self, and always in a striking and forcible man
ner. If he intench to be humorous, he is very
humorous; if he disires to be sarcastic, he tears
his victim to pieces; if he would ridicule, or be
pathetic, he excitts the risible faculties, or
melts the soul to tetrs. As he wills, so his mind
acts; and his mood depends upon his inclina
tions. His mind if so well cultivated, and un
der snch control, that every phrase is a thought,
and every sentence a point. In style of intel
lect, delivery and expression, he resembles Dr.
John A Broadus, and, like him, is great by the
power of native geiius. He is a fine preacher,
a good pastor, a string advocate of the Sunday
School cause, and unmistakably pious. In per
son he is rather stout, but below the medium
height, with dark hiir and eyes—the brows run
ning together. He does not strike the beholder
as an extraordinary man, bnt converse with
him, and his difference from the ordinary will
be perceived ; but-ho will not feel bound to say
he thinks there is anything remarkable in yon.
Rev. G. F. PENTECOST, Pastor of the Cov
ington Church, Keutucky, is a stranger to the
Baptists of the South, but is, nevertheless, so
thoroughly indentified with us in feeling, that he
will yet rise to distinction in the Southern Zion,
and be honored by the Southern Baptists. He
is a man of remarkable natural powers, though
only twenty-six years of age. He was bom in
Illinois, and educated partly at Georgetown
College, Kentucky. He was converted in 1860
under the preaching of Rev. Geo. C. Lorimer,
and baptized by him. In 18G2 he was ordained,
and has been preaching since 18G4. He has
been Pastor of the Covington Church for the
last nine months, and during that time one hun
dred and thirty-eight persons have joined his
church—ninety-four of them by baptism. His
people contemplate the erection, for his ad
vantage, of a much huger honse of worship.—
He is a splendid preacher, a capital children's
preacher, and an able Sunday-school man in
every sense. He is a true child of God, a warm
hearted, sincere Christian, devout, humble and
with natural powers surpassing those of most
men. When better known he will be greatly ad
mired, and is yet destined to occupy a promi
nent position among Southern Baptists.
Rev. T. E. SKINNER, D. D., was bom and
raised in the Eastern portion of North Carolina,
and was educated Rt Columbia College, New
York, and at Princeton Theological Seminary,
New Jersey. His first pastorate was in Peters
burg, Virginia. He served the Baptist Church
in Raleigh, North Carolina, for twelve years
with great acceptance, and was instrumental,
while there, in the erection of the splendid
house of worship, for the completion of which
Dr. Skinner and his father paid out not less
than $20,000. Both the father and son were
immensely rich until the war swept away their
possessions. He went to Europe in 1SG2, and
remained till the close of the war. On his re
turn he resumed his pastorate of the Raleigh
Church, but, after the death of tho lamented B.
B. C. Howell, was called to the charge of the
Church over which that distinguished author
and divine had exercised the pastor’s care so
long, in Nashville, Tennessee. And there he
now resides. Dr. Skinner is an excellent preach
er, an amiable, genial, friendly man, and in so
cial life is cheerful, entertaining and attractive.
He is extremely liberal in disposition, a good
pastor, and makes his people love him devoted
ly. His face indicates intelligence and vivacity,
and his conversation is lively and interesting.
He is a good scholar, but not as hard a student
as some men in our denomination. He sus
tains himself wherever placed, and exerts* good
influence in his sphere. He is a Sunday School
man, is possessed of sufficient enthusiasm, and
sustains all denominational enterprises with all
his heart and purse. He has proved himself folly
equal to the important position which he now
occupies, is always readjuto assist every good
cause ; and, being full of /nit and humor, is the
life of a convention, when he chooses to be. He
is yet young, and has a right to expect many
years of honor and usefulness.
Rev. J. WM. JONES.—The Baptists cannot
point to a more zealous and effective worker
than this brother, whose name is a household
word in almost every family a member of which
was connected with the the Army of Northern
Virginia. Rev. Mr. Jones, after spending two
years at the University of Virginia, and as long
at Greenville Seminaiy, offered himself to the
Foreign Mission Board and was appointed to
China, bnt the war breaking out just then, he
enlisted as a private in A. P. Hill’s regiment,
and" being a relative of General Hill, he was
soon brought into the acquaintance of officers
of rank, by whom he was urged to accept a
chaplaincy. For some time he was chaplain
and missionary at large to the army of Northern
Virginia* in which position his influence for
good was felt throughout the entire army, from
General Lee to the humblest private. He bap
tized not less than five hundred soldiers. At the
close of the war he removed to the Valley of
Virginia, where he has been very useful. He is
now pastor of the Baptist Church at Lexington,
Va. He writes a great deal for the secular and
religions press, and would make a capital editor.
He is quite young, being only some thirty years
old. In person he is short and stout, in dispo
sition agreeable and entertaining, and fall of
good humor and boa Ttommie. ■ His zeal, energy
and perseverance are great, and his piety is of
that working order which makes itself seen and
felt. No one can know him without loving and
respecting him. He is now engaged in collect
ing funds for building a new Baptist house of
worship at the “Home of Lee and the Grave of
Jackson”—Lexington, Va., where many South
ern students of the Baptist denomination sit be
neath his ministrations, and he brings with him
special recommendations from the great and be
loved Lee, and others residing in Lexington.
Rev. J. H. DeVOTIE, D. D., is by birth a
New Yorker, bnt has been living in Georgia ever
since early youth. He has been pastor in seve
ral of our Southern cities, was a long time the ef
ficient Secretary of the Domestic Mission Board,
and is now the very able and beloved pastor of
the Columbus Baptist Church. He is a man of
commanding powers, towering in the pulpit and
unsurpassed as a platform speaker and for abil
ity on the floor of the House. "When he under
takes to carry a point, that point will be carried.
He is a man of inimitable tact, of delicate and
exquisite humor, of a bounding warmth of
heart, and of boundless generosity of spirit and
charity of feeling. His presence in a city is a
public blessing to the poor and needy—in him
they have an advocate and friend whose efforts,
devoted, unselfish and untiring, always result in
greatly benficial results. The widow and tho
orphan of Columbus consider him their bene
factor, and the public have refused to let him
leave the city lest tho poor should suffer by his
absence. He possesses one of those genuinely
pious hearts that melts beneath gospel influences
and affects to tears those who may be heeding
his pathetic appeals. He is the very prince of
beggars, and can, in convention, with quiet tact,
make a thought or word or simple incident the
means of averting unpleasant results, or the
means for restoring universal good humor and
creating general merriment. He is a man of
singular independence of spirit, decided in his
opinions, strongly Baptistic and yet is beloved
and respected by other denominations. His
good humor and geniality of spirit are unbound
ed; his big, warm heart palpitates with love to
God and man; and his kindliness of disposition
bespeaks a regenerated soul. He has been a
hard and faithful worker for the Master and is
getting old now; but age, nor trouble, nor cares
con repress the zeal and fervor of his spirit, or
the quiet and unostentatious energy of his na
ture. Doubtless his greatest grief is that he
cannot do more for religion and humanity. He
is too modest for his merits, and too unassum
ing for his abilities. During the war he was,
fora short time, Chaplain for the “Colnmbns
Guards," and served on the coast Mr. DeVotie
has seen trouble. He buried an amiable and
noble son who had jnst graduated at Princeton
Theological Seminary and was pastor of the
Selma Church, though at the time of his sud
den death by drowning was acting as Chaplain.
His countenance indicates a man who has borne
the heat and burden of the day, and who is
ready to receive the crown that is laid up for
him in Heaven. No man has warmer friends
or stronger admirers, and none deserves them
more. An attack of Bronchitis has given a pe
culiar, bnt not unpleasant tone to his voice;
still, when aroused, he is ovepowering in his
eloquence. His church has flourished greatly un
der his pastorate, and he has been instrumental
in erecting one of the handsomest houses of
worship in the State.
Dn. D. E. BURNS is pastor of the First Bap
tist Church of Memphis, and older than he looks.
He commands the largest audiences in the city,
crowds often unable to obtain even standing
room, being compelled to leave. It is his oratory,
beautiful, ornate, elegant, founded upon the
Gospel and Gospel truth, and pointing ever to
wards the skies, that attracts. He is an able,
sound and thorough scholar and preacher—one
who has occupied many important fields as pas
tor in Kentucky, Mississsppi, Louisiana, and
and Tennessee always with a power and elo
quence that have fully sustained him. He is a
thorough-going Baptist and a man of warm, ar
dent piety, earnest zeal and active devotion to
the cause of religion. In person he is fine look
ing, and he wields a strong influence. His age
is forty-six.
Rev. T. H. PRITCHARD, D. D., was bom in
Charlotte, North Carolina, graduated at Wake
Forrest College, studied theology under Rev.
Jno. A. Broadus at Charlottesville, Virginia,
and attended lectures in the University of Vir
ginia. He became Pastor of the Franklin
Square church, Baltimore, early in the war, and
was arrested for his Southern proclivities during
the war. He left Baltimore, came Sonth and
labored in Petersburg, Virginia, from whence he
was called to Raleigh, North Carolina, about one
year since. He is a man of strong, good sense
and very fair attainments, genial in his manner
and becomes popular wherever he goes. He has
not an enemy. His heart is warm and his so
cial qualities are very great, rendering him a de
lightful companion. He is a good and sound
preacher, and has a fine reputation as a pastor,
and occupies a very important and useful field.
Rev. Q. H. RYLAND, of Virginia, is the Gen
eral Agent of the Virginia Sunday-school Board,
and a man of indefatigable labors in this
position. He is thoroughly acquainted with the
Sunday-school work—a labor which is with him
a labor of love. To a mind of great intelligence
and cultivation, he unites a fine person, a pleas
ing address, an exalted character, and great zeal.
Ho is well educated and would adorn any po
sition in life. He has established many Sun
day-schools, and is making his mark upon his
day and generation as a pious, able and devoted
servant of Christ. He occupies a field of vast
usefulness and is filling it with great success—
both by his pen and personal labors. All who
know him love him. As yet he is young, bnt
occupies a position of distinction denied to
many older men; and if he lives will make a
great and useful man.
Rev. M. B. WHARTON was bom at Culpeper
Court-House, Virginia, and is now thirty years
of age. He graduated at Richmond College;
took charge of the church at Bristol, Va., in
1862, receiving into its membership daring his
pastorate of two years seventy-five persons. In
18G4, he came to Georgia, as agent for the Sun
day-school and Publication Board of Virginia,
and shortly afterwards married and settled in
the State. For a year or two after the war, he
acted as traveling agent for the Board of Domes
tic Missions, and with great success. In 1867,
he accepted a call to the Enfaula Church, at
Eufanla, Ala., where he has remained for the
last two years, laboring with great success and
acceptance; during that time baptizing one hun
dred persons. His church is now endeavoring
to erect a new honse of worship, and he himself
has raised $20,000, by subscription and other-
iwise to effect that end. Mr. Wharton is superior
in many respects. He possesses a strong, active
mind, a retentive memory, a vivid imagination,
great zeal and energy, a fine flow of language,
and eloquence of a high order. He Bees a sub
ject clearly, grasps it strongly, and states it
plainly. His pathetic powers are great, his im
itative talent large, and his analytical ability un
usual. He is well read, a good theologian, and
arranges his discourses with order and propriety.
As a writer, he is graceful and forcible; as an
extemporaneous speaker, he is exoelled by few;
and, as a preacher, he surpasses most others.
His natural powers and gifts are great; and, as
he is possessed of ambition, may become emi
nent, if he remains in the ministry. He has no
superior as an agent for the odleotion of money;
is an ardent Sunday-school man; and, as a pas
tor, wins and retains the affection and confi
dence of his people. He is young and healthy
—in person below the medium height, and
beardless—and may rightfully look forward to
many years of usefulness.
Rev. E. W. WARREN, Pastor of the Macon
Baptist Church, is a Georgian by birth and edu
cation. His is one of those amiable, sincere
and honest dispositions; one of those pure and
pions hearts; one of those warm and zealous
natures; one of those strong, truthful and prac
tical minds that gains universal esteem and con
fidence. There are men in the denomination of
more culture, but none who can reach the heart,
touch the feelings and retain the attention more
uniformly and nndividedly. Himself easily
melted to tears and possessing an excellent flow
of language, warm in his own feelings and
pathetic in his demonstrations, he can easily
bring tears to the eyes of others. He is a very
faithful pastor, earnest and untiring in his
work, indefatigable in his efforts to save souls
and extend his Redeemer’s kingdom. He is a
ready speaker and a facile writer. His sermons
are always good, of a practical turn, and over
running with the love of the Gospel. He
preaches that we should do right because it is
right, and from love to a crucified Saviour. He
possesses native genius, and is not a book
worm—depending on his own mind and feel
ings, and on the aid of the Holy Spirit, in the
pulpit. His delivery is natural and unstrained,
and, at times, rises to the height of eloqnence,
with a vein of poetry and poetical rythm run
ning through it. We have better scholars, bnt
few better preachers; men of more command
ing eloqnence, but no superior pastor; men with
keener and more cultivated intellects, but none
of a warmer heart, more fe&ent piety and zeal,
or more imbued with the Holy Spirit in life and
pulpit ministrations. He was once a lawyer,
but on becoming converted entered the minis
try. He is the superintendent of Ms own Sun
day-school, and as a man, humble, charitable and
generous to a fault. He is firm in his opinions,
decided in his views, strongly Baptistic in his
sentiments, and possesses the Christian love and
confidence of all who know him. His age is
about forty-five.
LANDS nr GEORGIA.
From Moore’s Rural Neuj Yorker.]
I did not apprehend when I wrote my short
letter to the Rural of February 8th, that the en
tire North was in a blaze of excitement, from
Maine to Missouri, and from the lakes in the
North to Mason and Dixon’s line in the Sonth,
in relation to emigrating to this sunny clime.
Bnt such is the fact, and from all parts of the
North and West comes the same entreaty for
truthful information of the climate, soil, and so
cial condition of the people. While I fully ap
preciate the earnestness of those who have so
licited a personal reply, still tho magnitude of
such a task—when the number of writers is
taken into consideration—would be too laborious
for a farmer, whose business at this season of
the year, (we are jnst in the height of com
planting,) is so pressing. I will try in this
sketch to answer honestly and truthfully, as far
as possible, all the questions asked by the differ
ent writers. This shall be no varnished tale, to
deceive the people, and fill the columns of a pa
per to delight the fancy of the fiction reader.
For the first time in onr country’s history, the
doors of Southern emigration are thrown wide
open, and a people once proud and happy, with
all the comforts of life around them, are now
comparatively poor; their fortunes gone; their
homes made desolate, and their fondest hopes
crushed. In this prostrate and helpless condi
tion, they invite yon, with your money, your
muscle and your energy, to come and help re
build, on the ruins and ashes of war, the coveted
temple of prosperity.
The large plantation most be divided into
glebes of one or two hundred acres, and the
small farmer, with a system of mixed husband
ry and a new mode of culture, will soon restore
the lost elements of fertility to the soil. Part
of the lands are worn by excessive cropping,
without fertilizing, and the virgin soil, by the
slovenly scratching system of cmtnre, has been
nearly exhausted. But deeper down lie the
mines of wealth, new farms untouched, which,
by skillful hands and new appliances for tilling
the soil, will fill the gamers with plenty and add
wealth to the coffers of the State. The people
are fifty years behind the times in agriculture,
when compared with the thorough and complete
system adopted at tho North. Where you find
one man who plows deep, you will find ten that
scarcely plow at all, scratching along the surface
with a one-horse scooter-plow, at an average
depth of about three inches. The first heavy
rain washes the surface soil into the creeks and
branches below, but when plowed deep, not a
particle will be lost If clover be the sheet an
chor of American farming, underdraining is the
rodder wMch guides the sMp to a safe harbor.
But, alas 1 how little has been accomplished in
laying the foundation for permanent success in
Georgia! How few are fields of clover, and
fewer still the rods of underdrains. Yet clover
flourishes in the middle and northern parts, and
underdraining would be equally as advantageous
here as, if not more so than, throughout the
North.
Mr. David Dickson, of Hancock county, be
fore the war, was demonstrating the practica
bility of deep and thorough culture and on nat
urally poor and sandy land, made a princely for
tune. Dr. Parker, of Columbia, S. C., (about
the same latitude as this place,) in 1S57, pro
duced on poor, worthless land—as'it is callod—
two hundred bushels and twelve quarts of shell
ed com upon a single acre, the largest yield on
record. My experience fully corroborates these
statements, and I firmly believe that, with prop
er treatment and tillage the land will surpass in
productiveness the richest lands of the North.
The cold, short climate will defeat any effort to
compete with us.
Let the same character of emigrants concen
trate here that built Chicago, on the swampy
shores of Lake Michigan; that has pushed the
car of civilization hundreds of miles beyond
onr western frontier, and there in the wilderness
built cities, reared factories and developed the
mines 2 Let this same energy, skill and capital
come here, where railroads are built, schools
and churches established, the forests partially
cleared away, and the fields ready for the plow,
and where the climate favors every undertaking,
and in a few short years the South will “bloom
and blossom as the rose.”
This mighty revolution has already began.—
The many advantages of this mild, healthful
dimate are becoming known, and instead of the
tide of emigration flowing to the West, it is
gradually turning Southward. The proper plan
for emigrants coming Sonth is to settle in com
munities, so that by combination the good re
sulting from the use of the larger and more ex
pensive machines, tools and implements, may
be immediately shared by all.' The great length
of the season, and wide scope for planting, sow
ing and harvesting, make this plan practicable.
The Georgia Legislature has recently passed
an act establishing a “Bureau of Immigration,”
with an appropriation of $10,000 to direct this
current to her soil. The railroads have reduced
the fare to two cents per mile for excursionists
and others who are looking for homes-in the
State. The hotels have also, in the principal
cities, agreed on reduced rates for this class of
persons who can show the proper certificates
showing their good intentions, etc. "Why are
such steps taken, if the people are so bitter
toward Northerners? Everything has been
done to assure the people that they will be wel
come, and that the Southern masses are ready
and anxious to meet upon a common platform
all those who will oomo and identify themselves
with the interests of the State.
The climate is all that could be asked. No
snow or slosh in winter, but sufficiently cold to
kill all injurious insects and make everything
healthy and salubrious. No day is so hot in
summer but that Northern men can worktho
nights are cool and refreshing; the labor of feed
ing stock through a six mouths winter saved;
roots of all kinds for feeding purposes can re
main in the ground, and there is not a month in
the year we cannot plough and sow.
You need not expect to see a country so very
prepossessing in appearance at first sight but if
you are able to overlook the dilapidation of the
old system of culture and its consequences, you
may behold as lovely a region as that of the far-
famed Italy.
The habits and customs of the people do npt
materially differ from those of the North, ex
cept perchance, the dusky servants and the odd
appearance of the houses, by having the chim
neys built on the ontside.
In this part of Middle -Georgia we have all
the advantages of the great cotton growing belt
without its sickly atmosphere. Then, too, the
grasses and grains (I make no exception) of the
more northern latitudes grow luxuriantly; fruits
are raised in perfection, and vegetables in rare
profusion.
As a noticeable incident, I must mention the
fact that last fall, two young men froir Baltimore
came to Atlanta and commenced the canning of
of fruits. They cleared by this operation $40,-
There can scarcely be fotmd any of these
000.
smaller enterprises throughout the South. Ck^.
ton is mainly depended upon for money, and .n
these little odds and ends are allowed to
_ . , go U T
default. "We need men to develop these 1 0I J
hidden stores of wealth. We need mechanics to
build along our water courses new Manchegan
and Lowells, whose spindles shall hum to th#
song of joyous labor. We need men of moac].
for the farm, the workshop, and the mines.
need every class, from'the aristocratio capital^
to the humblest day laborer. There is room f ot
alL The country is sparsely populated; the
cities and towns small, and the negroes male
very fair laborers when properly directed. It jg
astonishing that lands are so cheap, bnt after a
careful study of the habits and customs of the
people this state of things is not surprising.
In slavery times the negroes were in fact the
only real estate the planters owned. land
bought and worn out (as it was called) as a wag.
on or other perishable property, to make cotton
to bny more negroes. While we find some of
the land good, a greater portion has been aban
doned to the mercy of broom-sedge, grass and
small pines, for the want of a sufficient number
of laborers to till and keep it up. The land wag
cleared faster than the population increased.
The lands were never considered valuable, even
when they were fresh and new, in the palmiest
days of slavery; bnt a man’s wealth was count
ed, not by the number of acres, but the number
of negroes he possessed.
Originally this section was the richest in the
whole Elite. The timber now left, indicates
rtiig, and was the only criterion went by in ^
eating in this region. White oak, red oak,
white hickory, poplar, chesnnt, and pine mostly
abound, and are found in abundance for all and
every purpose. The poorest lands will make
ten bushels shell com per acre. Plowed deep
and thoroughly cultivatedtiiG product is oftenin-
creased one-half. Even at that rate we can
raise more com to the hand than on the richest
lands in Western New Yoric. For while the
New York farmer has only time to break np and
plant an acre, in this latitude we canten. "While
the teams of the former are standing still in the
stable; and being fed through a six months’win
ter, ours are in the field at work. The only dif
ference 4s, we must pay and feed a hired man.
But when yon learn that we get our laborers st
less for twelve months than you do for six, the
difference is more than balanced.
The people are awake to all the improvements
in husbandry, but are unable, in a majority of
cases, to adopt them. Only one way remains
for them to regain their former wealth, and that
is to sell a portion of their land and improve
the balance. This they propose to do.
I cannot imagine a plaoe better suited for
stock raising, if a man has enough capital to
start right. One thousand sheep fed upon an
acre of land in turnips a single day, will make
it rich enough to produce a bale of ootton.
About four hundred pounds of good superphos
phate will bring the turnips. At that outlay, to-
gether with the sheep, the land is immediately
improved.
Frnit raising will no doubt become a great
busines in the South. The peach is grown with-
out the least trouble, on any kind of land, and
being so muoh earlier, commands the highest
price in market. The water is soft, bnt pure
and good, and furnished in every field by never,
failing springs. The water power of this sec
tion is ample for mills and manufactories of
every description. The General Assembly has
passed an act, exempting from taxation, for the
next five years, all capital brought to the State
and invested in machinery and manufactories.
The soil is divided into two general classes,
commonly known as “stiff red” and “gray
land.” The former is a kind of day, with a
slight admixture of sand, and best adapted for
grain and grass. The latter is a sandy loam,
better suited for cotton. On nearly every plan
tation these different soils may be found. The
soil has a good foundation, and will hold the
fertilizing properties. When properly manured
and made rich, the vegetation is perfectly as
tonishing.
Please bear in mind that in the list of draw
backs you will not find a single impossibility to
contend with, and no task half as herculean as
to warm np one of your winter days, when the
thermometer is in the teens below zero. Now
if you wish to enjoy a climate so mild and
healthful, where lands are cheap and water good
and pure, come to this part of Georgia. Come
with your wives and children, your neighbors
and your friends, your household goods and your
household gods, and build cities, churches aiji
schools suited to your tastes and wants. Bring
your mechanics and artisans, your workers of
wood and moulders of iron, your improved
stock and labor-saving machines, and on these
ruins will soon appear a dazzling picture of
prosperity.
Good improved farms can be bought at irom.
$8 to $10 per acre, according to location, num
ber of acres in timber, and productiveness of
soil. It was only last Tuesday that a farm o£
eight hundred and fifty acres sold at sheriff s
sale at $1.10 par acre. The buildings and fences
alone are worth that amount. The farm of four
hundred acres I only notice to distinguish many
others that can be bought in this neighborhood.
A good horse is worth $200, males $150 to 5200
cows $30 to $40, sheep $2 to $3. All kinds of
new and improved agricultural implements can
be bought in Atlanta. A nucleus of Northern
society is already found here. Five men from
New York, one from Missouri, one from Cali
fornia, one from Illinois, and one fromWiscon-
sin have settled in this county.
Yellow fever is not known in this section, end
according to the census of 1860, there are only
two other States in the Union where a less man-
ber die annually of consumption than in tie
State of Georgia. The thermometer seldom
gets lower than ten degrees above zero in winter.
Two days last summer the mercury reached nine
ty nine degrees, while at the same date, in Ro
chester, N. Y., it went up to one hundred and
five degrees. It is a great mistake about the
summers being so oppressively warm.
As the season is so far advanced there is hard
ly time for a person to come from the North
and make a start thief spring, without it be me
chanics, day laborers, and those who contem
plate fruit-growing, stock-growing, or some oth
er kindred enterprise. Now is a good time
look around; ana even if a man should not con
clude to locate, he will never regrot having
made the trip. Expenses from New York Coj
for the round trip will not exceed one hundred
dollars. There are various ways to come: he*
York, Washington, Richmond, Ya., Weldon, >. I
C., Augusta, Ga.,-and Madison, Buffalo, N. hi i 1
Cincinnati, O., Louisville, Ky., Nashville, Tenii
Atlanta., Ga., and Madison. By steamer in®
New York to Savannah or Charleston may he >
trifle cheaper.
Madison is the county seat of Morgan. It “
situated on the Georgia Railroad, sixty-f°“-’
miles from Atlanta, and one hundred and ft"
miles from Augusta; contains 2000 inhabit*®^
four churches—Methodist, Baptist, Presbytenm
and Episcopal—a female college, several
paratory schools, two papers, and about tluw
stores, and other places of business. A
teimplated railroad to Eatonton, twenty*”
miles distant, will make this place easy of
oess from all parts of the State. , ,,
The people are intelligent,kind and bospifc*
and I can assure all persons of the right staB|
that they will be kindly received, ana
treated. B. H. TstL
Madison, Ga., March, 1869.
New York Dry Goods Market.
New York, May 8.—Cotton Goods—The®^
ket is decidedly more steady, with a prospect
a good business next week. Brown Sheering
The production has been considerably re “? c flj
standard goods 15Jo; Augusta, Medfem,
other three-yard goods 14ic; Pepperell B 1 ’
Pocasset K and ether fouit yards
Bleached Goods—New York mills reduce^
23c; Wamasntta steady 22jo; Bates -^5"
Lonsdale, 18; Lawrence B 10c ; Red Bank,! -
Prints fewer; fresh styles are offering ana
market is firm; Cocheco 14o; other prune m-*j
ders 12@12jc; C Arnolds 10c. Ginghams rjw>
Tickings drooping. Denims moving more
ly. Corset jeans very firm. Cambrics q®
Woolens rather more steady for heavy
Foreign dress goods very irregular.—l*> m
Courier-Journal.
Twv. Point of the Bayonet—A New
*iox.-A neighbor tells us he heard a effl!
preacher, on his farm, get off the followin 0
tho benefit of his hearers: ..
“You thinks de Lord ain’t ’bout heah »
time! If you duz, you is mistaken. One.' «
be met the debble walkin' roun, like a &
on, an’ de Lord say, I gwyne to put yon
pit for a thousand years, an’ I got a gr ea ‘ . 2J .
" pnt you in dar for two thousand years; an .
__x dirt, if I eotch you roun’ agin, I’ll put
dar forebber, if I’s got to do it at de P inl jj
bay’net.” The preacher said “deLora ***
full blaze of alabaster glory all de tim«
talkin’. ”— W. Baton Rouge Sugar Pian.sr.
Preparino fob Mischief. —A South
negro named Isaac Sanders has issued * c _. }
the negro militia to assemble and proasaxe.. .