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The Greorgia "Weekly Telegraphy
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 18G9.
Dooly County Sugar and Syrup.
Wo ore obliged to onr friend, Colonel John H.
Woodward, of Dooly, for a sample of Ms syrnp
and sugar made last fall fron sugar-cane raised
upon his plantation. Both aro very- good arti
cles ; but by reason of his cane being exposed
a little too late in the season they ore not so
handsome as he can produce. We have seen
Southern Georgia and Florida sugar, made in
homo fasMon with the wooden horse mill and
oommon iron kettles, as bright as flax or Sisal
hemp, and the syrnp as light as clean-pressed
honey.
Tho Southern Georgia and Florida farmers
have a great advantage over the bulk of man
kind when they put their shoulders to tho wheel
and do their best for themselves. They can
produce almost everything one needs for com
fort and luxurious living. It used to be said of
the Thomas county farmers, in old times, for
illustration, that they bought notMng but salt,
iron and coffee, and really that was nearly the
limit of their purchases—for they wore home
spun week days, although many a man among
them could boast of heavy balances to credit
with New York factors at seven per cent, inter
est on calk
But when a fanner can produce inside his own
fences his sugar, syrup, tobacco, wheat, rye,
com, oats, rice, barley, Irish and sweet pota
toes, field peas, an endless variety of fruits and
vegetables, cotton, flax, leather, beef, mutton,
pork, kid, fowls cf every variety, eggs, milk
and butter—when he spins and weaves, and
cuts and makes as tho housekeepers used to do
in those days, and tans leather and makes shoes
and boots as tho planter did by his tanner and
shoemaker, and adapts iron and steel to all plan
tation purposes as ho did by Ms blacksmith, it
is not difficult to see that his real wants outside
his own plantation must be few and small.
Since the death of slavery, it is true, such a
moasure of family independence is now impos
sible ; but it may be approximated much nearer
in Southern Georgia and Florida-than in any
other region wo know of. It is still true, that
the diligent husbandman may livo like a lord
and not go beyond his own boundaries for table
supplies; and when a man can do that, ho has
the tax-gatherer at great disadvantage. The
“Infernal Revenue” can’t make much out of
him. Tho lawyers and sheriffs will be puzzled
to get a hold od Mm. His bill at the merchant’s
covers but few items. It is to our mind one of
tho happiest conditions in wMch man can be
placed.
Mr. Woodward, it will be remembered, com
municated his method of rearing cane to the
Tklbobaph some time ago.
A Scientific Success.
The use of anaesthetics for the relief of pain
is coming into more general use every day.
Among tho more active and popular agents the
nitrous oxidei, or laughing gas, is now brought
to a point of great perfection, and is used ex
tensively in the minor surgical operations. The
painless extraction of teeth is a sure thing, and
no mistake. We have tried it and speak from
experience. Dr. Crowe, of this city, manufac
tures this gas in large quantities of nearly a
hundred gallons at a time, and, in our visit to
Ms elegant suite of rooms, we have had Mm ad
minister it on several occasions, and can aver
truthfully that the sensations on administration
are not only pleasant, but that teeth are extract
ed without pain. He uses the latest improved
apparatus, and the most delicate patient inhales
it without the slightest exertion. We must say
that it is most delightful anresthetic we have
ever used, robbing tooth-extraction of all its
horrors. Its effects pass away quickly, andin-
and instead of a feeling of depression which
chloroform-often gives, it loaves one exMlera-
ted and refreshed. Dr. Crowe himself is an ex
pert and accomplished surgeon dentist, and
MgMy skilled in his profession. His apartments
over Johnston’s jewelry store are easily accessi
ble, and those desiring dental service will find
in him one fully capable of giving entire satis
faction.
Sims Hot Tct Appointed.
A press dispatch wMch came lato Wednesday
night, contradicted the previous telegram posi
tively announcing the appointment of the negro
preacher Sims to the postoffice of Savannah, and
stated that Sims’ commission had not, at that
time, been ordered to be made out at tho ap
pointment office. Wo solve the contradiction
thus: the appointment had been determined on
and the announcement by tho Agent of tho Press
Association, authorized; but a timely and se
vere outside pressure was brought to bear
against it, and a sober second thought abont the
difficulties and dissatisfaction it would create
among all parties, not alone in Georgia, but eve
rywhere else, suggested a revocation, wMch was
had accordingly. We do not, of course, give
this ob fact, but as conjecture, amply. We may,
perhaps, see, hereafter, how far we miss the
mark.
More Stamps Wanted.
Mr. Commissioner-of-Intemal-Revenuo-Dela-
no has decided that the little printed slips of
paper used by tho telegraph offices to receive
and transmit messages upon must be stamped.
They are contracts. That is true, Mr. Delano,
and so is a railroad ticket a contract, and should
bo stamped before using. And if yon stop to
get a dinner on the road—that’s a contract, and
must bo stamped. Or, if you prefer to buy a
hard boiled egg and a little salt, and eat them
on the car, that’s a contract, and must be
stamped. Do you ask where the stamps shall
be placed? On the throat or abdomen, of
the purchaser, of course. Every man ought to
be stamped regularly, as often as he buys a din-
The Last Tie.—A San Francisco dispatch of
the 4th says the railway ties of polished Cali
fornia laurel, mounted upon either end with
solid silver, acoompanied by a spike of solid
gold, costing $200, was forwarded from here
to-day to the end of the Central Pacific Rail
road. It is the last tie, and will be laid by Le-
land Stanford, Saturday next, thus completing
the Pacific Railroad.
The beauties of negro legislation were recent
ly shown in Raleigh, North Carolina. The pro
position was to increase tho debt of the city by
borrowing $50,000. The property holders who
were wMtes, voted against it. The negroes,
who pay no taxes, voted in favor and carried it.
Oh the Ftrst Page.—Editorial matter will be
found on/tho first page of this edition. Our in
side space will be occupied by reports of the
Southern Baptist Convention, and probably for
a few days we aball occupy an outside seat.
Dawson Hoeel.—This well known hotel is
still kept by Wiley Jones, one of the nicest and
deverestof accommodating landlords in Georgia.
It is the weary traveler’s home, where he can
find peace, ease, comfort, and rest, after a day’s
travel, etc.
A oonosED man has sued the city of Louisville
Kentucky, for $GO,000 damages for alleged false
imprisonment The suit is to test the constitu
tionality of the ordinance whereby parties ar
rested as suspected felons are committed to the
workhouse in default of bail.
At a printers’ festival recently the following
toeat was offered : “Woman, Second only to the
press in the dissemination of news.”.
Distinguished Ministers In the South
ern Baptist Convention.
Db. G. L. BURROWS is Pastor of the First
Baptist’ Church, Richmond, wMchhas over one
thonsand members—ell wMte. He is about
fifty-fivS years of age, low of stature, and quite
bulky. As an orator he has few equals, and
though he roads quite closely, Ms sermons are
very attractive. He is a man of wonderful
practical ability, as is evidenced by the fact that
ho has, since tho war, been educating thirty
young ministers at Richmond College—raising
every dollar of their expense by his own efforts.
Dr. Burrows, though raised and educated at th9
North, has spent most of Ms life in the Sonth,
and thorongMy sympatMzed with ns during the
lato war. Ho was a member of the “Richmond
Ambulance Committee," and many a gallant
Georgia soldier will remember “ the short, fat
preacher who took off his coat and went to work
among tho wounded.” He preached a great
deal in the camps, and Ms labors wero very
much blessed.
Dr. Burrows has a wide reputation, wMch he
never fails to sustain.
Db. JAMES P. BOYCE, of Greenville, S.
C., is Professor of Systematic Theology in the
Baptist Theological Seminary, and of a South
Carolina family distinguished for wealth, social
position, business capacity and sound practical
tse. These characteristics ho unites in Ms
own person. He is eminent for Ms financial
ability and strong, good sense. In person he is
commanding and dignified, courteous and affa
ble. As a preacher ho does honor to the sacred
desk, and as a theological professor, by Ms
piety, zeal and learning, in exercising an influ
ence potent for good. Ho is Treasurer of tho
Seminary, and by his financial skill has sustain
ed that institution in times of great depression.
He is an admirable speaker when sustaining any
cause he advocates, and can easily carry an as
sembly with him. No one in the denomination
is respected more for all the sterling qualities
of head and heart which go to make up a Chris
tian. To .maintain Ms present position and ex
ercise the influence for good he is exerting, ho
refused a salary of $10,000 offered Mm from
a New York business house.
Db. M. T. SUMNER, of Marion, Alabama, is
the Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Do
mestic and Indian Missions, under the Southern
Baptist Convention. Ho is about fifty years old,
handsome in appearance, courteous in manner,
affable in conversation and of sincere piety. He
is a man of unbounded zeal and energy, of a
warm and sympathizing spirit, of great practical
good sense, and possesses natural eloquence of
the Mghest order. Some of his appeals in behalf
of the Indians of the West seem absolutely in
spired. He is the very heart and soul of the
Southern Baptist Domestic Missionary opera
tions. and possesses an aptitude for Ms position
which it would be vain to seek in any other. By
birth a Northerner, he has been living so long in
the Sonth that he has become thorongMy identi
fied with her in every respect. HeismostMgh-
ly and deservedly esteemed by the entire denom
ination, and occupies a position of the greatest
usefulness to the entire satisfaction of every
one.
Db. GEO. W. SAMPSON, of Washington
City, is President of Columbia (Baptist) College,
and Pastor of one of the Baptist churches of
the Capital A Northern man by birth, he has be
come, in feeling, identified with the South, and
is a man of rare scholastic attainments. His
learning is extensive and thorough. As a
preacher he is earnest and pathetic, without be
ing naturally eloquent. In person he is rather
below than above the medium size, and is plain
and unassuming in Ms deportment. Of un
questionable piety, full of zeal, and of marked
natural ability he wields considerable influence
at home, and is known and respected through
out the Baptish denomination.
Dr. P. H. MELL, President of the Conven
tion, is of Athens, Go.; is Vice Chancellor of
our State University, and a native Georgian.
He is a man of mark among the Baptists; of
decided views and opinions, and the author of
several denominational works and, also, of a
work on Parliamentary usage. He has occupied
the position of President of the Southern Baptist
Convention for several years, and with distin
guished credit to himself, owing to Ms marked
excellence as a presiding officer. On nomina
tion by Rev. J. L. M. Carry, of Virginia, he was
unanimously chosen President of the present
Convention. For many years he was a Professor
in Mercer University, at Penfield, Ga., and after
that connection was severed, was elected to Ms
present position in the University of Georgia.
During the war, he was elected colonel of a
Georgia regiment, and was in active service for
six months. He is distinguished for mental
strengthand acuteness—for quickness of percep
tion, end for logical acumen. Cool and self-pos
sessed, he is not easily thrown from Ms balance;
urbane and polite, he is courteous to all. As a
Christian, he is humble and pious; as a preacher,
he is powerful and instructive ; and, as a minis
ter, he binds Ms churches to him permanently.
No man has stronger friends than he; none love
the cause of truth, as he believes it, more, or are
better able to defend it. As a presiding officer,
he is strictly impartial, discriminating and self-
possessed. His mind is eminently practical; Ms
preaching strongly doctrinal and sound to the
e. He has a warm heart, fine social powers,
much wit and keenness of repartee, and yet is
is easily melted under the influence of the Holy
Spirit. His age is something over fifty years,
and he bids fair to exert Ms powerful influence
for the cause of God and Bible truth for years
to come.
Rev. WM. F. BROADDUS, D. D.,of Virginia,
has for fifty years been one of the most popu
lar and useful of ministers of the Convention.
He has been to the Baptists what Dr. Lovick
Pierce has been to the Methodists. He is a
capital platform speaker, full of humor and
anecdote, and is the Prince of Sunday School
speakers. Daring the war Dr. Broaddns, then
pastor in Fredericksburg, was taken to "Wash
ington as a prisoner of war, and confined for
some months in the old capitol; but he soon
became a favorite with officials, and was instru
mental in securing largo and valuable supplies
for onr suffering prisoners. He now has charge
of the education of the indigent children of de
ceased and maimed Confederate soldiers, seven
hundred of whom he has at school. He is in
the “habit” of receiving money for tMs im
portant object. Dr. Broaddns is very popular
with other denominations, and has been styled,
on account of Ms labors for Christian onion,
the “Grand Worthy Harmonizer.” The Doc
tor i3 seventy years of age; very corpulent; of
gentle and persuasive bearing, and of very com
manding personal appearance.
Db. Wit T. BRANTLY, of Atlanta, Georgia,
was bom in Augusta, educated in Philadelphia
and at Brown’s University, Providence, Rhode
Island, and settled first as a Pastor over the
Baptist church in Augusta. He was elected
Professor of history, oratory and belles lettres
of the Georgia University, wMch position he
held eight years. He then was called to the
charge of the Tabernacle Baptist church at Phil-
adelpMa, wMch charge he resigned, returning
Sonth jnst previous to the war. He was then
called to the care of the Second Baptist church
of Atlanta, wMch position he still occupies. He
is a gentleman of strong and quick intellectual
powers, of extreme good judgment and exqui
site taste. Polished in manners and pleasant
and entertaining in discourse, he is always an
agreeable companion. He is a man of varied
and elegant attainments, of ripe scholarsMp
and a preacherof great excellence. His friends
are many and they admire him for fill those
traits that go to make up the pious Christian
and tho perfect gentleman.
Db. J. L. M. CURRY—The leader in the
Southern delegation of the United States Con
gress, just before the war, was unquestionably
J. L. M. Curry, of Alabama. Though one of
the youngest members of the body, Ms brilliant
talents, Mgh personal character and attractive
oratory won him the post of leader. Cordially
espousing the cause of Ms native Sonth, he be
came a leader in the Confederate Congress, and
exerted there an influence scarcely second to any
member of the body. But in the fall of 1863, he
enlisted as private in a cavalry company, and
at the close of the war was Lieutenant-Col
onel in General Forrest’s cavalry. Always
of active piety, and accustomed to speak in re
ligious meetings, he was led in the army to
speak very frequently to the soldiers, and in
effect to preach to them. At the close of the
war he was led into the ministry, and is now
one of the most popular pulpit orators in the
South. In 18G5, he was elected President of
Howard College, Alabama, and resigned tMs
position last year to take a professorship of
“History and Literature” in Richmond College,
Va. He is universally beloved, and being com
paratively yonng, (only forty years old,) a bril
liant career is still before Mm. He possesses
remarkable control over Ms mind and analyzes
a subject in all its bearings, with wonderful
quickness. As an orator he stands pre-eminent,
and can carry an audience with Mm with irre
sistible power. He has consecrated Mmself,
body and soul, to Jesus, and would refuse to
address an audience if introduced otherwise than
as a minister of the Gospel. He possesses a
nature truly noble and magnanimous, and is
destined to wield in his denomination, an influ
ence second to that of no other, if he will only
make the effort. But with all of Ms brilliancy
and natural powers, he is a truly humble man,
preferring to be loved rather than admired, and
desiring rather to be good and useful than great.
J. B. JETER, D. D., of Richmond. Dr. Jeter,
in point of ministerial influence and power as a
theologian stands first in the roll of Baptist
preachers of Virginia. His person is tall and
striking. Ho would attract attention in any
company as an extraordinary man. His voice
reminds one of that of Alexander H. Stephens.
Though to all appearance bordering on the limit
of human life which has been prescribed by the
Psalmist, he is the same earnest and powerful
preacher, the same clear-headed discriminating
writer that he has been for nearly half a centu
ry. His examination of the writings of Alexan
der Campbell established Ms reputation as a lo
gician who could follow and expose error in the
most subtle labyrinths wMch it could construct,
and in whose mazes it songht to escape detec
tion. For many years he was the Pastor of the
First Baptist Charch of Richmond, during wMch
period he ministered to the largest congregation
in that city. Subsequently he moved to St.
Louis, but after a successful ministry of five
years in that western metropolis, he yielded to
tiie solicitations of his friends to return to Vir
ginia. His sermons are marked by lucid argu
ment, strong thought, forcible diction, and
evangelical sentiment The people heard Mm
with pleasure forty-five years ago, and he still
commands crowded congregations.
RICHARD FULLER, D. D., of Baltimore—
For a full quarter of a century Dr. Fuller has
stood in the very front rank of pulpit orators of
the country. The etymological import of the
term orator—one who begs—may be mosttruth-
fnjjy predicated of tMs distinguished divine.
Far gone in sin must be that man who can resist
Ms pathetic entreaties to accept the yoke of
Christ. We have seen whole congregations lit
erally overpowered by his fervid appeals. Ho
combines in a rare degree the requisites of effec
tive oratory; a person majestic and commanding;
a voice capable of all the gradations of sonnd,
from the soft tones of tho iEolian harp to the ear
piercing notes of the trumpet—a self-possession
jostled from its propriety by no ordinary dis
turbance—each a power in itself, unite in tMs
gifted speaker. Intellectual endowments of the
first class, improved by a generous culture; a
heart beating in quiet response to every call of
humanity; and both intellect and heart, perva
ded by an earnest piety, concur with the Mgh
physical qualifications of wMch we have spoken
to make Mm tho powerful advocate for the truth,
wMch we have described. No one, whatever be
Ms creed, can hear Mm without feeling that he
is in contact with a vigorous thinker and an earn
est man. His fame is co-extensive with the
country; Ms influence, where exerted, un
bounded; and he is enshrined in the hearts of
those who know Mm with loving admiration.
He looks, as he is, the prince of preachers, and
the devoted^nd faithful ambassador of Jesus.
By birth he is a South Carolinian, but for many
years has been in charge of the Seventh Baptist
Church, of Baltimore.
Db. A. M. POINDEXTER, of Virginia, is one
of the ablest men of the Baptist denomination,
distinguished for metaphysical power, natural
eloquence, firmness and mental strength and
independence. For Jesus he would suffer, and
has suffered personal violence with meekness,
but he would resent a personal insult in vindi
cation of Ms own character. He is affected
with partial deafness, yet attends the most
prominent Baptist gatherings and manages to
hear what is going on. He is a Baptist from
principle, having analyzed and classified the
truths of the Bible thorougMy for Mmself, and
the Baptist faith of practice has no abler defend
er or better expounder. He formerly resided
in Richmond, Virginia, and was a member of
tho Board of Foreign Missions, but during the
war moved to Ms form where he still lives. He
is universally respected and admired, and his
influence when exerted is very great. As a
speaker upon an assembly floor, and as a
preacher he has no superior; and if reasoning
will not move an audience wMch he is determ
ined shall be moved, he will throw Ms whole
soul into Ms oratory to such an extent that, by
the power of eloquenoe heightened by the
charms of beautiful imagery, elegant language
towering fancy and vehement delivery, he will
carry his audience forward os a sMp is borne on
ward by tho waves of the sea and left Mgh and
dry on the shore. Such is Ms power over an
audience when he wills it
B. MANLY, Jb., D. D., is one of the Profes
sors of Greenville Theological Seminary, and
formerly President of a female college in Rich
mond, Virginia, and chairman of the Commit
tee on China Missions, in connection with the
Foreign Board. He is a most amiable man, and
a fine scholar. His business talent is groat, and
he loves work, going to detail with wonderful
and minute correctness. His services to the
Foreign Mission Board were invaluable, for he
always guided its business operations with the
hand of a pilot—bringing into anntshell the
true state of affairs and stating pointedly what
was necessary to be done. He is a diligent
scholar—a regular book-worm—and great lover
of children and of the Sunday-school work; a fine
theologian and a capital theological professor.
TUs want of physical momentum and of a power
ful voice is a drawback io his pulpit power, and
perhaps his habit of going into detail detracts
slightly from the good effects of Ms sermons.
But he is a man of such genuine piety, mental
ability and.acquired accomplishments, that he
is, and always will be, eminently useful and oc
cupy a prominent position in Ms denomination.
H. H. TUCKER, D. D., President of Mercer
University, is by birth a Georgian, and descend
ed from good old Virginia stock. He is one of
those men who throw their whole soul into
whatever they do, and, therefore, do it well.—
To hear him speak you would think Min eccen-
trio to the extent of estimating the subject {
under consideration as more important than
any other; but thatis only the enthusiasm of his
nature. He is bound to succeed in whatever
he undertakes, whether it be to write a prize
tract or book, edit a paper, preach or preside
over a college. He has occupied many prom
inent positions in various States of the South,
and sustained Mmself in alL Baptized by
Elder Brantly, inPhiladelpMa, ho graduated at
Columbian College, D. C. He then went into
business at Charleston; became a lawyer and
settled in Georgia, where he married. His wife
dying, in bis hours of grief, seeking consolation
in the word of God, he learoedthenhis condition
as a sinner, and the necessity of regeneration,
and was converted. Tn a short time he felt
upon Mm the call to preach, was licensed,
studied theology at the college over wMch he
now presides, and was ordained by some of the
most prominent Baptists in Georgia.
Ho ranks very Mgh ns an original and power
ful preacher, and discusses doctrines with the
power of a master mind. There is notMng
tamo or common about Mm; in conversation
he is piquant, racy, and sometimes witty and
brilliant; in the pulpit he is original, bold
and striking, with occasionally the bearing of a
platform speaker; in the professor’s chair he
is attractive, convincing, and sticks to the sub
ject under consideration. Apparently, rough in
manner, he has a warm, pathetic and devoted
heart He loves those whom he does love, and
could hate those whom he 'tried to hate. He
does nothing by halves. He has no conceal
ments—fears no man, and having once decided
upon Ms course he pursues it with open and bold
frankness. There is notMng little or mean
about him; and he despises anything under
handed or hypocritical. Ho is bold in defense
of the truth, zealous in pursuit of an object,
jealous of Ms reputation, and ambitious to excel
when he undertakes. He can rely on Ms own
mind, and cares little for helps and aids, whether
from men or books. He is a logician of the first
water—the science of logic having been a
special object of study with Mm. During
the war he originated the Georgia Relief
and Hospital Association ; then he got
up plans for supplying the State with salt,
then ho sought to indoctrinate everybody with
the necessity of vaccination; and then he took
hold of the subject of educating the orphans of
soldiers; and then he edited a religious paper;
and now he is guiding a college, writing and
publishing books, presiding over an educational
association, lecturing throughout tho State, and
preaching every Sunday. He has Ms hands full
—and because Ms mind and heart are full. Ho
is much admired and respected for Ms learning,
religion, zeal, earnestness, ability and native
genius. He came off successful in a pamphlet
contest with Hon. A. H. Stephens; and in a
memorial taught the Georgia Legislature how
the Baptists regard soul-liberty. In all tMngs
he is II. II. Tucker—speaking, acting, thinking,
talking, writing and preaching a la Tucker, and
generally better than can be done by anybody
eke.
N. M. CRAWFORD, D. D., is President of
Georgetown College, Georgetown, Ky., and a
native Georgian. Formerly he was Professor
and President of Mercer University, but went
to Georgetown, jnst after the war, because of
larger inducements. He is a walking encyclo
pedia—one who is acquainted with the whole
circle of sciences. Tap Mm where you will,
and some knowledge or information will be
drawn. He is a great student, a companionable
man, a strong Baptist, and a man of fixed and
decided opinions. He possesses genius—and,
by one leap, will attain in an instant a summit
that others have for hours struggled in vain to
reach. He possesses the charm of attracting
others to himself and of retaining their affec
tion, and no man of Ms denomination is more
popular in Ms native State. His piety is un
questionable, Ms learning surpasses that of most
men, he is a good preacher, and a man bold and
fearless in the expression of Ms opinions.' Once
before he left Ms native State to preside over a
collegiate institution in another State, but was
recalled because Mercer needed Ms services. It
is to be hoped that Georgia will again claim her
distinguished son and herself obtain the benefit
of his vast powers, influence for good, and wide-
extended learning.
A. POPE ABELL, Secretary of the Conven
tion, is from Charlottesville, Va., and a most
usiful man in Church and State. £To ardent pie
ty and great zeal in the causa Of religion, he
unites a fine business capacity. A bnsiness man,
he is nevertheless, what'might be called a lay
preacher. In the State denominational opera
tions, Ms services ore indispensable, and ho is
most MgMy respected for his exalted Christian
character, loving zeal, sterling integrity, for
Ms prominence in the Sunday School work,
and for the willing aid he gives to every good
word and work.
A- FULLER CRANE, Assistant Secretary of
the Convention, resides in Baltimore, and is a
man of wonderful business talent, and’ his suc
cess has been correspondingly great. He is tho
Superintendent of Sunday School in Dr. R. Ful
ler’s church, and a model Superintendent. Ho
is a fine singer, extremely liberal in the cause
of Christ and of unblemished reputation. For
years he has been a Secretary of the Convention,
and as snch has no superior. In Mm the Mas
ter has a servant who, in every walk in life, is
an honor to, and adorns, Ms profession as a
Christian.
E. T. "WINKLER, D. D. The Charleston pas
tor whose name stands above is a native of Sa
vannah, Ga. Of medium size, dark hair and
complexion, and between forty and fifty years
of age. He graduated at Newton Theological
Seminary, and, on coming Sonth, was for a
time associate editor of tl^e Index. . He has
been pastor at Colnmbns, Ga., and Charleston,
S. O. He i3 greatly devoted to books, and is
one of the most scholarly men of the day. Dur
ing the War he was post chaplain at Charleston.
In public meetings he speaks frequently and
readily. From appearances, we should say that
he has many years of increasing usefotoess be
fore him. Perhaps no man in tho Baptist de
nomination is a more thorough Belles Lettres
scholar, or surpasses him in polite literature
culture. In person he is erect, and in manners
Chesterfieldian. His is a first-class mind, and
he ranks among the first of Baptist preachers.
Those who know Mm well love and admire Mm
devotedly, for they know Mm to be a genuine
Christian, a fearless and devoted patriot, an
ardent friend, a faithful pastor, and a man
with a large nnjl warm heart.
JOHN A. BROADUS, D. D., of Greenville,
South Carolina, is a young looking man of some
forty years, with dark hair, keen eyes, and
shoulders bent by study. "When the counte
nance is lighted up by the animation of speak
ing, there is a wonderful play of emotions in Ms
face; but, ordinarily, he looks calm and imper
turbable. Dr. John A. Broadus has no supe
rior in intellect and scholarly cultivation in the
Baptist Denomination South. He is and has
always been a hard student, and the result is
that he already stands is the very front rank of
Msbrethren as a classical scholar, preacher,
theological professor and a man of general in
formation. He possesses real genius—thinking,
speaking, preaching and writing in a manner
different from, all others, and always in a man
ner that has a peculiar charm. As a preacher,
he possesses the unusual power of getting hold
of the hearts of Ms hearers, and holding them
fast ^rom first to last; and Ms sermons, though
different, are inferior to none others. He has
a peculiarly winning smile, attracts by the gen
tleness and suavity of Ms manner, and talks like
one who has the subject of discussion under per
fect acquaintance and control. His conversa
tion is alike attractive to the savan and to the
student—to the wise and well-informed, and to
those hot"enjoying those advantages.
His published writings have the calmness of
conscious strength, and Ms preaching is charac
terized by the simplicity of real power and
thorough comprehension of Ms subject. Few,
if any, of our preachers are more eminent for
pathos and power of thought united to a manner
inimitably attractive and peculiarly his own.—
He is a man of deep ■ feeling, though placid in
outward appearance; and if he lives will make
Ms mark Mgh upon the roll of Baptist wortMes,
as he is yet about forty-two only. For several
years he was Pastor at Charlcttsville, Va., but
went to Greenville, S. 0., in 1859, to become
Professor of the New Testament Greek, and
other branches, in the Southern Baptist Theo
logical Seminary. His abilities are well known
and appreciated, for they are apparent to all.
He is a cousin of Dr. "Wm. F. Broaddns, who
spells bis name differently. An amusing anec
dote growing ont of tMs difference of spelling
is told of some good honest brother, who was
greatly disturbed at what he thought was vanity
in Ms Pastor Dr. "Wm. F. Broaddns. The Doc
tor was having a door-plate, or something of
the sort made, and laid particular injunction
upon the insertion of the two d’s in his name,
Broaddus. The good honest brother was really
distressed thinking the Doctor desiredD. D. ap
pended to Ms name, and was troubled at the
thought of his caring so much abont such a
vanity, until he discovered that nothing was
meant except a jocose particularity in having
liia name spelt Broaddus, instead of Broadus.
So far from being troubled with vanity “Dr.
Wm. F.” as he is familiarly called in Virginia,
is one of the most estimable of the preachers of
the older time, ricHy endowed with a warm
heart, flowing and pursunsive eloquence, urn
studied and irrepressible humor, and melting
pathos. He is now engaged in an effort for the
education of soldiers’ orphans, wMch has been
widely useful, and deserves universal aid. His
abundant labors in Virginia and Kentucky have
endeared Mm to thousands; and it would be a
fitting close to a life of singular usefutoess and
excellence if he should be enabled to establish
upon a sure foundation this plan for the educa
tion of those whose natural protectors have
been removed from them by the terrible ravages
of war.
Rev. A." E. DICKINSON is Pastor of the
Leigh street Baptist Church, Richmond, Va.,
and Junior Editor of the Religious Herald—the
organ of the Baptists of Virginia, Maryland,
West Virginia and South Carolina. Educated
at Richmond College, and the University of Vir
ginia, he has added to native talents such cul
ture as was needed to fit Mm for the important
positions he has filled. He was, before the war,
General Superintendent of the Virginia Baptist
Sunday-school and Publication Board, and when
it was seen, in the spring of 18G1, that Virginia
was to be the great camping ground of the Con
federacy ho at once sent to the camps and hos
pitals his band of trained colporters, begun the
work of publishing tracts for the soldiers, and
appealed to the people of the South for help.
He traveled in all of the States, raised thou
sands of dollars, and sent to onr brave boys
tracts, Bibles, colporters and missionaries to
comfort, cheer, and lead them to Jesus. It is
no disparagement to other societies to say that
tMs Board, the first to enter the field, always
led the van in the labors of those great revivals
wMch converted our camps into a School of
Christ, and resulted in the conversion of fifteen
thousand soldiers in the “Army of Northern
Virginia” alone. Hr. Dickinson originated and
for a time superintended the efforts of Virginia
Baptists, to educate the children of deceased
and maimed Confederate soldiers, and wMch is
now being so successfully prosecuted by Dr.
Broaddus. Mr. DicMnson had a very success
ful pastorate in Charlottesville, Va.—the loca
tion of the State University—and in Ms four
years pastorate at Leigh street, Richmond, he
has added five hundred members to the church,
and established two mission stations at destitute
points in the city. He is a great Sunday-school
man, and has a Sunday-school of four hundred
membors, which is one of the best conducted
schools in tho whole country. Mr. Dickinson is
considered one of the most earnest, efficient
workers in the denomination, and is greatly be
loved by those who know Mm. He is abont
tMrty-eight years old, in full vigor and may hope
for many more years of usefulness.
Rev. S. LANDRUM, Pastor of the Baptist
Church of Savannah, is one of the best preach
ers in the State of Georgia, and a man of ex
cellent judgment and strong common sense.
His mind is very practical in its tendencies,
and free from all that partakes of the visionary.
He is firm and decided in Ms opinions, inde
pendent in Ms conduct, strong in Ms advocacy
of truth, and devoted in his labors for religion,
morality and humanity. He graduated in both
the literary and theological departments of
Mercer University; was for several years pas
tor of the Baptist Church in Athens; then as
sumed the pastoral care of the Macon Baptist
Church, and was instrumental in erecting its
present elegant house of worsMp. From Ma
con, he was called to the charge of the church
in Savannah, where he still labors. Few mim
isters have been more blessed in their labors;
few preach with such uniform excellence, and
few receive and retain so much, and so strongly,
the love of their people. He is a diligent stu
dent, a hard worker, an excellent pastor, a fine
writer, a close thinker, and a man fall of good
works among the poor and destitute. Foryears
he has been the Secretary .of. the Board of
Trustees of Mercer University, and by his zeal,
good sense, and filial affection, has contributed
no little to effect the prosperity of Ms Alma-
mater. He possesses a mind of no common or
der; aconscience’thatasks the Master’s will;
and a heart that never willingly gives, offence.
It is donbtfnl if he has an enemy; it is certain
he has many friends. His influence is great
and growing, because of the confidence his
brethren have in Ms piety, good sense and dis
interested zeal. He is a man withont quips and
cranks—sober, steady, staunch, conservative
and reliable. One knows where to find, and
how to rely on 'him. Nor is confidence in him
ever disappointed. "While his mind is discreet,
strong and healthy, it possesses a playful hu-
mo- that makes Mm a pleasant companion; he
enjoys a joke as much as any one. He is yet
young,, and has in Mm many years of active
and useful labor for God, religion and human
ity.
T. ARMITAGE, D. D.—Few, in the present
Convention, when they saw the speaker rise, on
Thursday night, were prepared to recognize in
the man with a jaded student look, who began
to read in a low tone, one whose mind was so
speedily to sparkle with brilliancy and enchain
the attention of all by the power and originality
of its intellectual flights. As the address pro
ceeded, attention waa aroused and admira
tion excited. His vivid coloring of thought,
bold expression and powerful grasp of in
intellect dispelled all weariness and inattention
and caused excited applause. Even the word
“amen,” and the expression, “ that's right,”
might have been heard in snbdned tones. And
when he ceased, instantly a motion was made
to secure the address for publication in tract
form. The speaker was Dr. Annitage, pastor
of the Fifth Avenne Baptist Church of New York,
and a visitor to the present Convention. By
birth he is an Englishman, having emigrated to
the United States when a yonng minister of the
Methodist Church. It was a day of Startling
surprise to his Methodist brethren when, one
day, in open Conference, and boldly arose and
straightening himself up, announced a change
in his theological views—that the study of the
Bible had altered Ms views of baptism and made
Mm a Baptist in principle. He at once allied
himself with the Baptists, and has ever since
labored among them with great success and ap
probation : and, by his commanding talents and
impressive oratory, by his practical common
sense and warm tender piety, by Ms strong con
victions and ardent zeal, has reached the very
top-most round of Baptist influence and distinc
tion in the United States. He stands at the
very head and front of the Baptist denomina
tion in New York. Ho is a leading member of
the several boards of the Baptist denomination
in the city of New York, and President of the
American Bible Union. For twenty-one years
he has been the efficient and beloved pastor of
one of the richest, strongest and most intel
ligent Baptist Churches of New York city, and
now visits the South for the first time. He is
an uncompromising Baptist, and hesitates not
to divulge his sentiments in unmistakable terms.
The evidence of his (even) trans-Atlanticfameis
that he was invited by Spurgeon to fill his pul
pit when in the city of London. "We hope that
he will have no reason to regret his visit to us,
but that a cordial and hearty welcome andakind
hospitality will assure him of the appreciation
Southerners have of talent,integrity, piety, zeal,
genius and faithfutoess.
Rev. J. R. GRAVES, LL. D. TMsclergymanis
widely known as a controversalist and especially
as editor of Ms paper, Tho Baptist. He looks
youngyefc, is of medium size’and sanguine, nerv
ous temperament. He is a native of New England
but has been for nearly a quarter of a century
in the South. He advocated strongly the cause
of the Sonth, and labored for the soldiers during
the war. He has studied the points of denomi
national differences and is an opponent to be
dreaded before the masses. He is able to hold
in fixed attention thousands for hours at a time,
He is the author of a number of books, all con
troversial. Since the war he has located in
Memphis and is now deeply interested in pre
paring Sunday-school hooks. . Dr. Graves does
not agree fully with Ms own denomination but
represents that class who embrace extreme sen
timents. He has found occasion to wield Ms
Damascus blade against those of Ms own house
hold as well as others. He has many who do
not love Mm overmuch and also thousands who
are admiring and devoted friends. He has suf
fered much by bereavements within a few years
and is evidently more devout and gentle than
formerly. Should Ms life be spared it is to be
hoped that he will make Ms great powers wide
ly useful. He is a man of unbounded zeal, great
enthusiasm and wonderful perseverance. He
possesses that art of attaching friends strong
ly to him and retaining their affections. He
exerts a wide influence and makes his presence
felt wherever he may be. As an orator he is
very powerful and as a writer ho unites strength,
pointedness, and clearness. He is fearless where
he thinks Mmself right, as he generally does,
and boldly avows his sentiments and opinions,
though they may differ much from those of
others.
De. SAMUEL HENDERSON, of Taladega
Alabama, is one of the ablest writers and preach
ers among the Southern Baptists. For years he
has been one of the guiding spirits of the Ala
bama Baptists, a position he earned by his
piety, great ability, sound sense, conservative
spirit, humility and unwavering urbanity. He
is altogether unassuming, but beneath an exte
rior not very striking, he has all the sterling
qualities of a true Southerner, a genuine Chris
tian, and a man of sonnd and undeviating prin
ciple. He is an excellent scholar, a strong the
ologian, a forcible writer and a capital preacher.
In fact, Ms preaching requires an intelligent
audience to be properly appreciated. For twen-'
ty years he was pastor of the Baptist Church at
Tnskegee, Ala., and for fourteen years he was
editor of the S. TV. Baptist. He has lately re
moved to Taladega, Ala., and ministers to four
different churches in that neighborhood. He is.
a man who must be known to he appreciated,
and when known is always loved, admired and
respected.
J. L. REYNOLDS, D. D., of Sonth Carolina
is a man of distinction in the literary and theo
logical circles of the Sonth. The Doctor is
abont sixty years old, and though still fine look
ing, is not the handsome man he was twenty
years ago. He is a native of Charleston, S. G.,
and is thorougMy pervaded with the spirit of
Ms State. He ranks Mgh as a classical and
BellesLettres scholar. His writings and speeches
are nearly faultless. He was, at one time, Pro
fessor of Theology in Mercer University, Ga.,
and for manyyears, Professorin Sonth Carolina
College at Colombia, where he now resides. In
sooial life Dr. Reynolds is remarkably genial,
full of wit and humor. He deserves the Mgh
position he has attained and commands the re
spect of all of his brethren.
Db. J. "W. M. "WILLIAMS is a native of
Virginia, and has been the successful Pastor of
the First Baptist Church of Baltimore "for nine
teen years. He is a strong man, a fine speaker,
an admirable preacher, and a good scholar. In
every good word and work he takes a deep in
terest, and feeling a warm affection for children
is the recognized superintendent of the Sunday-
school of Ms own Church.. During the war he
was an efficient member of the Provisional Com
mittee in that city, wMch looked after the mis
sionary interests of the Southern Baptist Con
vention; and for Ms services to the South in
that respect deserves the thanks and approba
tion of the entire South. He possesses fine so
cial qualities, and readily makes friends wher
ever he goes. He is an efficient worker in any
department of labor to wMch he may be called.
His long continuance in his present position is
proof of Ms eloquent power; and his populari
ty is evidence of the attractions of Ms mind and
manners. , j U. • fu>
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, D. D. This distin
guished preacher cannot boast of an imposing
physique. He is small, swarthy and shaven;
but his. eye is full of animation. A native Geor
gian, he was graduated at the State University
with the first ho^orof his class. Heisprobably
about forty-eight. He studied law at Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and subsequently pursued the
practice at Montgomery, Alabama. Twenty
years ago he left the law for the ministry, and
at once attained a Mgh rank as a logical and
eloqnentpreacher. Some of Ms Alabama friends
called him the Daniel Webster of the pnlpit.
He was a Professor at Mercer University when
the SonthemTh9ological Seminary at Greenville
was formed. He was elected to a ProfessorsMp
in the Seminary, and with his colleagues, has
endured nobly all the trials through wMch that
rising school of the prophets has. passed. Dr.
Williams is naturally as timid and modest as a
woman, but when duty demands he speaks bold
ly, convincingly and with great pathos. Those
who have heard him once deBire to hear him
again.
Rev. JAS. B. TAYLOR. D. D., of Virginia,
is the Corresponding Secretary of the Foreign
Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Conven
tion. He is a man of lovely spirit; indeed,
we doubt whether he has ever had an enemy.
With all denominations of Christians he is held
in the Mghest esteem. For twenty years he was
pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Rich*
mond, Va.; afterwards he served in the same
capacity the Grace Street Baptist Church of the
same city. As pastor, he had no superior in the
land, and this present great prosperity of his,de
nomination in Richmond is due to no smaB ex
tent to Dr. Taylor’s success while Pastor. p or
twenty-eight years Dr. Taylor has had direction
of the Foreign Mission work of Southern Bap.
tists, in wMch important position he has with
great wisdom and zeal served Ms brethren. He
has three sons who areBaptiat ministers. Rev
A, E. Dickinson, editor of the Religions Herald,
is a son-in-law of. Dr. Taylor.
[SicteAe* to be continued.]
From Washington,
Washington, May 6.—Delano decides that the
heads under which telegraphic dispatches are writ-
ten, involving a contract, require a revenue Btamp
The Telegraphers will contest the decision.
The President has appointed E. H. Scars. Post
master at Stanton, Va.
The Postoffice appointment Clerk has heard noth
ing this morning about tho Savannah Postofficc.
Passengers have arrived from California ineHt
days.
A delegation of Baptist clergymen, enroate
from Illinois for the Lynchburg Conference, visited
Grant to-day.
Tho steamer Sangua, ordered to join the GnU
Squadron, will be detained a month at the Gosnort
dry docks for repairs.
This evening’s Star Bays'Grantbas instructed Canty
to submit the Virginia Constitution the lastTnes-
day in June or the first Tuesday in July. The arti
cles of the Constitution to he submitted to a separata
vote will be determined in to-morrow’s cabinet. Can^
by’s reorganization of Virginia divides tho State in-
to 27 military commissions. Military Commiaioneis
are Superintendents of registration and election,
in their respective districts, in addition to their du
ties as commanding officers. During the absence
of tho designated officers, the duties will devolve
upon the senior officer at headquarters of divis
ion. Another order gives executions in behalf of
Virginia from the Circuit Court of Richmond, di
rected to the Sheriff by authority of the Auditor of
public accounts, to have free and full effect as pto-
vided in chapter 13 of the Virginia Code.
The President has appointed James Washington,
Purveyance Attorney for West Tennessee; Bobt
C.Kirk, Minister to Uruguay; Ephraim Lotham.
Collector Third Alabama District; Edward Pullings,
Collector Sixth North Carolina District
Customs from the 26th to the 30th, inclusive, £2,-
500,000.
Rear Admiral Bradford, of the flag-ship Franklin,
arrived at Cadiz, April 17th. At Lisbon, Admiral
Bradford found the British channel squadron, con
sisting of eight powerful iron-dads, some of them
having a speed of fourteen knots, under stem
alone.
The Spanish iron-clad frigate Victoria sailed from
Cadiz for Havana April 14th.
The American steamer Swatara sailed from Cadiz
for Philadelphia April 17th.
Tho Union League delegation, which visited Grant
yesterday, included GovemorsNewell, of NewJersey,
and Holden, of North Carolina. Their object wm
to strengthen and hold together the Republican par
ty and its principles, and secure an early reetoratioc
of all the States. They assured Grant of their con
dial support, expressing their intention to do all in
their power to make tho administration a success.
The President expressed his gratification and prom
ised to do all in his power to- deserve their good
opinion.
A delegation visited Cabinet officers to-day, urging
their solicitations that tho Government sell gold,
thereby keeping its price down. Boutwell replied
he will under no circumstances allow the Govern
ment to be drawn into competition with Wall street.
Mrs. Dr. Mary "Walker visited Grant—clad, u
usual, in coat and pants.
From Virginia- ’ '
Richmond, May 6.—Both parties are preparing for
an active campaign.
Jaimes H. Platt, Jr., of the Wells party, was
unanimously nominated to-day, by the Conveution
in Petersburg, for Congress from the Second Dis
trict, and Chas. W. Butts has been agreed upon for
Congressman at large, on tho Walker ticket.
Both "Walker and "Wells will stump the State in s
few days.
Tho State Convention of .the colored men will as
semble here May 27th, to consider “the total ex
clusion of colored citizens from any portion of trust
or profit, and from the jury box.” .
Ono of the men charged with the killing of Holmes
at Charlotte C. H. has been arrested and the au
thorities are in search of others.
A party of sixty emigrants from Holland, arrived
here to-day for the interior.
Alexandbia. Va., May G.—General Lee, accompa
nied by his brother, Commodore Smith Lee, at
tended service at Christ’s Chnrch this morning.
He afterwards dined with J." B. Dougeifield and
prominent citizens. Many visitors wero received
yesterday. General Lee visited John Janney.
President of the Virginia Convention which passed
the secession ordinance, and who presented a sword
to Lee in behalf of the people. The interview was
affecting. Janney is now getting old and infirm.
The Mount Vernon estate of General Washing
ton is advertised in the Gazette for sale at auction
on the 10th of June.
General Lee leaves in the morning for Lexington.
Va.
Foreign News.
Madbid, May 6.—The Spanish Journals maintain
the legality of the capture of the Mary Lowell.
Prim favors Olyaga’s plan for a directory.
Cortes adopted, by a vote of 186 to 40, the arti
cle guaranteeing freedom of religious worship.
The contemplated change of the military, hu
been postponed until the form of governments
definitely settled.
London. May 6.—After an interesting and some
what heated debate, a bill was introduced disabling
the Mayor of Cork from acting as a Magistrate.
General News.
New Orleans, May 6.—A Committee of tie
Chamber of Commerce invito proposals for deepen
ing the water at the mouth of the Mississippi- Re
Committee, also, are instructed to endeavor to o&•
tain from the Government the dredge boat now is
use, with the balance of the appropriation yet —
used, for deepening the passes.
Key West, April 6.—The British steamer Salvti*
cleared for St. Thomas via Nassau, crowded*®
Cuban sympathizers. It is rumored that the Sal”"
dor goes in connection with some Caban exped# 00
fitting out in some Gulf port.
Buffalo,N. Y., May 6.—Richard P. Jones.
of Prenche’a circus, committed suicide
taking laudanum.
A BuflUlonlan Rides a Hale in Florid*
Bring forth the mule. The male was broo#
He was a meek looking ones—a perfect
Heep” of a mule, so far as “umbleness"’was «o
eerned. At least that was the view I toot «
him. . He was saddled, and I mounted.
mile or two he paced beautifully. I tJKj«|F
those old monks I had read about knew
they were doing when they traveled on
I had a Mgh respect for their judgment
then my mule showed symptons—symptom 8
what I did not know. I found out DwPPt®
Ms head between his legs, his heels describee
parabolic curve, or a diabolio curve, or
other infernal curve, in the air, and 1.8” ^
and sat on the ground I got off over his M**
and I did it quick. I’m not so old hut I
get off an animal of that kind as quick as a W
Then I looked at the mule to see if he was
He didn't appear to be. Then I inquired a rott ‘’j
to Bee how I was. I reported an abrasion
the left Mp and a contusion on the lower end
my back. Then I thought I would pronoun**
left-handed blessing on that mule, and on ^
forefathers and foremothers before Mm,
his children after Mm. But I didn’t I'*?
dered if he would stand fire. If I had /
pistol, I would have put the muzzle to h* -i
and tried him. Not that I was hostile to
him, but I was afraid somebody might
ride on him some day atad get hurt ,
no pistol, so that benevolent and saw
idea was frustrated. Then I got up and °7 rS
the dust off my feet, and brushed the w 1 ". .
my trowsers, as a testimony against that
Then I led the mule carefully home, i“ ' |
my case to the lively man. But when I ‘“'r*
that he should offer to send, fora ^°°, ji*
Samaritan, to do me up in a rag, and pov<*^
oil and champagne on my braise, be “Tj
laughed. And his man that he had got » j
him laid down on a bench and laughe
rolled off the tench tad l»ngted--*ri/
)Stta« I rid, J hoSKS ft wO be‘5
ferent Mad of beast from a
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