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». (• • 7JW The Greorgia; Weekly Telegraph. ^itorui«» thincseaml Asiatic Xmmi- _ _ Charleston Courier.] The read^ access to California, from Chinac induced a large emigration, to our Pacifi s 55 a new element has been indroduced in- . r s .v lit'ucuiviiv uao —v-vuu^um- tLo "population of the country, and ah ele- ffent'’which has occasioned much distrust and ^SS^onle of California have refused to con- pan them the right of suffrage, or to incor- ” r 1 tiiem into their body politic, and in this ^ think thoy arc right. . This country, it is true, is the asylum for the ircr owded populations of other climes, but v* preservation of a national liberty , demands T® • jclosion from its control of all who have itherthe capacity or the virtue to compre- v £ nd or administer its affairs. There are now over one hundred thousand settled in California and the adjacent ^j^prcservo their heathen riles ana cere- and shew no aptitude for affiliation with ^ moral and political delevopment of the age. “*jire patient in labor, but in all other ro- tK still as thoroughly Chinese as though 7*I>ere in Canton or Ching-Hai. '"lbe singular spectacle is exhibited of a peo- , who for centuries have beonlocked up with- their own territory, and who dreaded all con duct with the outer world as with barbarism, n p from the sleep of ages and advancing rnoaonr Western borders. It is like the in- oision of the Goths, save they come not with Tars and arms. The immigration is increasing. 2” greai* problem is what are we to do with ‘a, people ? And this has led the people of Ciliforma to look with anxiety upontheiranival tf d to throw every obstacle in the way of their increase among them. Slavery is forever abolished. It is not, there- fire for the interest of any civilized commnni- ,»to havo in their midst a body of men bound • the traditions and customs o£ the country of ? , r nativity, and who are unable to compre- rLj their new institutions, and whom it would T unsafe to trust as the depositaries of polit- ’^[t^omiot be denied that they are imitative .ad industrious. . ‘ A They make first class operatives, and many of them are so employed. They also soon learn household work, gardening, the culinary art, gad any light work which dees not require thought. V writer in the New York Tribune thus sketch- fstbeir presence in California: “Stand, say at Qgrgnd Samson streets, San Francisco, at six is the afternoon, and you will see long lines of (hinamen coining from American workshops. Pass up Jackson, Pacific or Dupont streets into •heir ijWters, and you may see them at work on heir own account. Beside the stall where the Chinese bntcher*carves his varnished hog, or males mince-meat of stewed fowl with a cleaver jach as was used by his fathers loDg before onr Sarior sent the devil into the swine, you may ace Chinamen running sewing machines, rolling cigars or working np tin with the latest Yankee appliances. In front of the store window, in which great clumsy paper clogs and glistening gullets are displayed, and through which you mav watch the book-keeper casting np his ac counts on on abase as, and entering them with a brush from right to left on his ledger, the Chi nese cobbler sits half-soling and heel-tapping fflelican’ boots.” Underneath the Budhist temple, a dis ciple of Confucius mends the time pieces of ie American Clock Company, and repairs Waltham watches. In the Mail Steamships Company's Office a Chinese clerk will answer your inquiries in the best of English. And in one of the principal drug stores of Sacramento, a Chinaman will put up a prescription for yon, while, wherever yon go, in hotel or boarding house, it is more than probable that hands bet ter used to the chop-stick than the fork, pre- pans the food you eat, let it be called by what high sounding French phrase it may. They live on little. They thrive on that upon which an American would starve. A small room will accommodate them by the dozen. A little rice, with an occasional piece of pork, is the acme of their desires. Patient and economical, they are fast absorbing the employments within theirsphere. ‘ They have, however, notoriously aoregard for the sanctity of an oath. They have so ilea of tho nature of truth. They have but little coueeption of the immorality of theft or of falsehood, either in conversation or in a court of justice. A keen observer of their habits says, “the ad ministration of justice among them is attended with great difficulty. No plan for making them tell the truth seems to be effective. That of compelling them to behead a cock, and bnro yellow paper is generally resorted to. ” Although, therefore, repeated efforts have been made to induce the Legislature of Califor nia to grant to the Chinese the privilege of tes tifying in cases where the whites are concerned, this has been invariably refused, and this sim ply upon the ground that they have no moral conception of the obligation of an oath. In natters where they alone are interested, they produce at the shortest notice hosts of witnesses in either side, many of whom were never near the scene whose occurrences they undertake as eye-witnesses to relate. And this want of moral appreciation, which has descended to them from generations, seems hopeless and deeply rooted. It has beon thought, that once brought with in the influence of America institutions, they would soon shake off the incubus of their past nature, and become civilized and useful as citi zens. But experience has dispelled this idea. Their moral status is thus stated* To a certain extent the Chinese become quick ly Americanized; but this Americanization is only superficial. They learn <to buy and sefl, to labor, according to American, modes, just as they discard the umbrella-shaped hat, wide drawers, and thick paper shoes, for the felt hat, pantaloons and boots: but they retain all their easential habits and modes of thought just as they retain their cues. The Chinaman running a sewing machine, driving a sand cart, or firing an engine in California, is just as essentially a Chinaman as his brother who, on the other side •ui Pacific, is working in toe same way, and wiui the same implements as his fathers worked a thousand years ago. Their moral standard is a6 low as their stan dard of comfort, and though honest in toe pay ment of debts to each other, lying, stealing, and falsa swearing are with toe Chinamen venial ans—if sins at all. They practice all the nn- utueable vices of the East, and are as cruel as they are cowardly. Infanticide is common toong them; so is abduction and assassination. Their bravos may bo hired to take a life for: a son proportionate to the risk, to be paid to their relatives in case of death. In person toe Chi- are generally apparently cleanly, but filthy ■s their habits. Their quarters reek with noi- *ttie odors, and are fit breeding places for pes- httnee. They have a great capacity for secrot erganizationa, forming a State within a State, pawned by their own laws; and there is little o«ibt that our courts ore frequently used by «eo to punish their own countrymen, though a ®* summary methods are oftentimes resorted A great many good people donbtless fancy that £?see in this emigration to onr shores a provi- opportunity for too conversion of Asia “Christianity; but a more intimate acquain- “-te with the Chinese in California would prob- | l 'v iuduce a modification of this sanguine ex- r***hon. Though here and there may be an I jWfcal exception, the Chinese among us will, remain toe heathens they are. If any • ^ t0 ,h r ? 5s * s made in their conversion, it will be , ®bmaa, not in America. I tha Chinese seem to be incapable of under- . V 1 -: our religion: but still le-s are they ca- !'*-iif understanding onr political institutions. ° ^fer the franchise upon them would be to r*“> 6 balance of power on toe Pacific into toe juT®f a people who havo no conception of ^ involved, and who would have no wish ( rightly if they had—would be to give so \ "Tv/ a fiditioual votes to toe employers of le, or put them up for sale by toe Chinese centres in San Francisco. At least one auu has already been naturalized, and ^“gnnone of-them have any intention of re- i to 3, ? ^ ero Permanently, if it would pay them I to*/® 1 ® Totes and they could be objected in i*ctt i^. flre aro none of them who would ob- I f/.e **“6 naturalized every Lour in the day. I -faring required is nothing to them, and I tt,* J 'uentilication, all Chinamen look alike’ to ! “^practiced eye. U er i.' 3R Jdod: “Atpresent, law or no.law, I ,? 0 on the Pacific could not vote unless qT c ' a >‘nes of bayonets.” 'oncln T' 1 i t<:nce ‘ H P re gnant with meaning. It °f t[ le . siv , T proves the conception entertained i « acA ,, r clla racter, and the convictions their pres- ; produced. home it 'Mormons and the Chinese at Prabltt, “ se eru that wo have perplexing oct n,ou W1 . n our midst, enough to solve,with- ut “ ilu g into foreign complications. i ^ T^CliieRg 0 University for WO men will be , IXlls Summer. T^a intKioO Avi/meu ww oe tuisdred , T * 1 ® will be one «ir. hm ? a ei Ett.v feet front, with a depth of feet, and wiUhave file sumn hundred and twenty feet to of the main tower. of AUaister Motley Sailcd-I’acifle in. Htructioua. We are gratified to read the following in toe Washington specials of the 3d instant, to toe Louisville Courier-Journal: Minister Motley left to-day for New York, from which port he sails on the 19th, for) Engl land. Despite all the talk about a war with Eng land and the aggressive character of toe instruc tions which would be given him on.tho Alabama question, ho goes out with less details and with more mild- mannered documents toon were handed to Reverdy Johnson when he left the State Department. This may seem singular, but it is nevertheless true. The instructions to be given aro yet subjects for future discussion and consideration by toe President and bi« Cabinet. That is good. Wo like this mild-mannered roaring. We say with honest Nick Bottom: “Masters, you ought to consider with your selves ; to bring in—God shield us!—a lion among ladies, is a fearful thing.” Hence it is well to instruct Motley to say: “If you think I came hither as a lion, it were pity of my life. No, I am no such thing. 1 am a man as other men are”—Senators Sumner and Chandler to too contrary, notwithstand ing; and, therefore, “Ladies, or fair la dies, I would entreat you—I would request of you not to tremble.” I will roar you as gently as a sucking dove—I will roar yon, were it any nightingale. • ' i .1 'The Western press dispatches of the same date say: A correspondent has interviewed Senator Sum ner on too Alabama claims, and toe opinions of the British press. Sumner tbinVa toe assertions of toe British press should be received with much caution, for the reason, that England never likes to be told toe truth, particularly when in too wrong. He did not oxprocQ snrpnu at Hirt irri tation, even alarm, which now exists in that conntiy, as toe British people have seen the unanimity with which too Senate supported his views, and rejected the Johnson-Stanley treaty, to which State of facts they will soon have added, despite the shifts of the London Times, the disagreeable discovery that President Grant coincides completely with his views. Mr. Sum ner thinks that toe difficulty will not lead to war, as he appears fully convinced that England will pay the amount of onr bill, in preference to fighting. Hoping for an amicable arrangement, the Senator declares that there shall be no yield ing on the part of toe American people, after Motley has made known their wishes to toe English Cabinet This would appear to indicate that Mr. Sum ner himself is somewhat startled at the perfect unanimity among toe Britons in respect to every position assumed in his speech; and this unac companied with the slightest irritation or ex citement about the matter. The most marked feature in the English discussion of American proceedings upon this treaty is toe total absence of excitement or irritation—a great anxiety to maintain peaceful relations, but a universal concession that the terms foreshadowed are positively inadmissible. Like a sensible people, toe British might be very willing to part with a large sum of money in preference to encountering too greater sacri fice of war, but no British administration would dare, even if it preferred to do so, to compro mise toe dignity of the Crown by any humilating or unjust concessions, in contravention of sound principles of international law and policy. Mr. Sumner’s views (if these are his views) do great injustice to toe manhood of the British Govern ment and people. They will pay no bill enforced by mere threat and duress. We hope toe Courier-Journal has the truth about the matter, and Minister Motley has in structions to prefer his new demand in toe most mild and courteous manner. We repeat, it will be a scandal to Christendom and a burning re proach to the American government, if these Alabama claims are pushed to too extremity of Illinois on Her Travels. Some fifty or seventy-five couples, “repre senting” the Northwestern press, are junketing ahoni ihe Sonthem States. It is not a perfectly infallible opinion that these half-hundred couples do represent the press of this or any other sec tion. Mon connected with and controlling re sponsible and influential newspapers rarely have leisure or inclination for free lunches, ex tended dead-head excursions, and other similar performances. Nevertheless, we hope our Southern friends will have ho reason to repent their hospitality. They are certainly doing, in toe present in stance, as they have often done in the past, ev erything in their power to show their friendli ness for toe North. They might, perhaps, have made toe same outlay that they are making in the case of the press visit, in some other direc tion, with toe certainty of more profitable re turns. —Chicago Times. Emigration to Georgia. We are happy to lay before our readers one of the numerous plans to build np our waste places. The New York Times says: “On the 22d of last February, Thomas Nay lor, of Washington, D. C., formed an associa tion for toe purpose of raising colonies to go South to the States of Georgia, Virginia and East Tennessee, to purchase lands therein, and to settle on them. In this movement ho was aided by Messrs. H. Cochran, of Missouri; Cornelius Comstock, of New York; B. Paine and J. D. Williamson, of the Whitlock Exposi tion Company, No. 37 Park Place, in whose lectnro room the meetings of this Society were first held. At one of these meetings Mr. Nay lor was appointed President of tho Company, and a code of by-laws was drawn up|to regulate toe fees, and assign toe qualifications required of members. _ . Tho entrance "fee is $5, and each, member is obliged to furnish ample proof of his respecta bility, and most possessat least $1,000, although a good, honest man worth §1,000 would not be rejected. The company has gradually increased until it numbers to-day 1,11C members. It has §5,000 in its treasury, together with §10,000 in the City Bank, deposited to its we’fare. In choosing locations for their colonies toe compa ny will be assisted by Hon. D. Lewis, of Geor gia, and many other prominent Southern gen tlemen. Lands are to bo purchased in toe most fertile parts of (ueso States, and_ colonies of three hundred families each will settle on them. The first emigration is expected to take place early in May. Meetings will be held, as heretofore, at No. 37 Park-place.—Athens Ban- A Genius ix the United States Senate.— That distinguished statesman, General Cass, was, as we all know, succeeded in tho United States Senate by a Black Republican veiy ill qualified for his position. The Detroit Free Pres3 relates the following anecdote of him: “During tho late campaign Mr. Zachanah nbnuiUcr, United States Senator elect, improved himself in stump speaking by taking lessons of a recently graduated youth of toe University, named Dexter. On one occasion Dexter,had taught bim to recite an extract ficm Burke, which was intended to be brought in with great force and tremendous applause. Having heard him recite, just before timo for public speaking, Dexter went down to hear and see ‘Zachariah /•limb the tree.’ He did it well : tho passage from Burke was finished, and drew down the plaudits of the multitude. But, in order to give it still more force, Chandler remarked, in his most impressive manner: ‘Such, such, fellow citizens, was toe language of lheimm the Senate of toe United States.’ ” Tobacco Manufactoe^ in Atlanta.—The New Era of tho Gto chronideB toe sale at auction: of first box of tobacco ever manufactured in Atlanta. The New Era says : We visited tho tobacco manufactory of Messrs. Hankins,. Motley & Co., "yesterday, and found forty hands, men and women, employed therein. The factory is located in the granite warehouse on Forsyth street, two stories of toe building being occupied and used in too business. Yes terday it presented a busy, business scene that very cheerful. A large number of th hands l\aon tin OITIOA fHfl uTDl were raw, having been picked np since the firm has located in this city, but there are enough brought from Virginia who understand the busi ness thoroughly to regulate the whole. The raw recruits begin to handle the weed with a good deal of alacrity, and now tobacco, ready for toe market, is being turned out rapidly. We are glad to record this additional evidence ofr pro gress in the city. We find a large number of women thus supplied with easy and remunerative THE XAXE OF JEM S. TEE INTRODUCTORY SERMON DEUVEBED BEFOBE THE 80UTHEBN BAP TIST CONVENTION AT MACON, MAY 6, 1S69, BY REV. E. T. WINKLER, D. D ,’ PASTOR OP THE CITADEL SQUARE BAPTIST CHURCH CHARLESTON, S. C. A name above every name,—Phil, ii, 10. j ' How various toe names assiened to Christ in the Scriptures. Whatever is excellent and beautiful in Nature—whatever charms toe eye, warms the heart, kindles the imagination, toe inspired writers adopted as his emblem. At night, when some bright star flamed in the heavens, they saw Christ in that star: he was the star that should arise out of Jacob, and give to toe world’s darkest ago toe light of cheer and guidance and blessing. By day, when the came , , , . , , forth from the chambers of morning, like a bride- i demands of priests or churohes, much less a do- f — I* t J) — - - . — — j •«. ■ > f ItPATt am att t fit A tiPilf Q t) rl tYWftl fit* {1 lTHTtAO f q itual law, the - Christian inspiration. I Thes. 4, 2: We exhort you by toe Lord Jesus, say toe Apostles: she love of Christ conatraineth us. Jesus is the law ecclesiastic. Jesus is toe code of Zion. Paul de- ctribes all the Apostolic institutions as: “The commandments we gave you by toe Lord Jesus.” “Do we make void the law through faith?” askB the ApoBtle; “Nay; bat we establish toe law.”—Bom. 3, 31. If, then, any difficult ques tion of casuistry requires solution; if we would know what, in any given instance, would satisfy toe claims of justice or humanity, we have only to ask, What would Jesus approve ? Consult his spirit and his life, and you have the answer. If you are beset by the dangers of pleasure; if you are m doubt as to what kinds of recreation and festivity you may consistently enjoy, you have bnt to ask What would Jesus do in such a case ? ,1 will go no where without his presence; 1 will have no pleasure on which Lcannot ask his blessing. If yon would be guiltless amid the grievous schisms of Cliristian- ity, your resort is no compromiso of principle, no surrender of individual conviction to the imperious groom in his glory,and pursued Ms career aswift&nd i thronenient of tho iirstand royal ordinance of Chris tianity, too only ordinance to which he himself sub mitted and which he connected with salvation, but a submission to the requirements of Jesus. Cleave to his word and say, Let God bo true and every man a liar. We bear much shallow pratingnbout Christian char ity in these days, and free communion. But no ec clesiastical union is practicable or desirable until too churches rally round the Cross. We hear much of free thought, and liberality, and progress. But as mighty athlete whom a world beheld, and all woods and waters and animate creatnres waved and spar kled and lived in his light—they saw Christ in the sun; Christ—the Sun of Bighteonsness. If in some moist and lowly placo of earth a lily lifted its pure white crown, that flower of light was created to tell of Christ—toe Lily of the Valleys. If in toe heart of ocean gleamed a,pearl so precious that for tune might be wisely expended, and life bo risked, for its possession, that flower of toe sea, that should • -. bloom upon too breast of beauty and bo planted in 1 ? e ? of oId wero wont to journey to toe sybil s cave to th© diadem of empire, had a nobler mission: it was < leaves on which she traced the words of made to set forth Christ—the Pearl of Great Price.! de8 . tm y which, she scattered on the desolate The palm reared its green crown highest above the 1 80 must this busy ago go back to Golgotha, stateliest trees of the forest to show the majesty of IP? , a part that seems to ho dead gather tho Christ. The lion swayed' his animate kingdom to ;i*wa of life, the oracles of God, the leaves that are show the dominion of Christ—thn T.inn nf ti.r. TVilin idi* the healing of toe nations. * pf Judah. The fortress onlhe dangerous frontier!. And toe power of grace is in.the name Jesus. It set forth Christ, our rock and fortress and strong! ^ , e heart; Whatsoever yc ask the tower. The temple in too restless city rose for! f at /‘ er »'{/ name, he wilUlo it. This name, urged Christ, in whom we have spiritual peace and joyful the worshiper, appeals to a natural affection env communion with Go3. The leader of armies set ('bosomed m toe Godhead. It calls upon a Father forth Christ, toe Captain of Salvation: toe promised : , who P* Son with a tenderness which all the Shiloh, to whom toe gathering of toe people should: :° ve all human hearts cannot express, to befriend be. The world conqueror, toe ruler of tributary na- i the cherished kindred of that Son. It calls upon a tions, set forth Christ, the King of V s ' *- • nather wlm m r/lnnfl.il mQv-r* a D?Mo t«* wnrt nf of Lords. In fine, toe whole world ings? f Th^n 8 pi;eV^^ 8 LPSL te !!lV^t^be : spoiled Nature of her choicest gifts—her gold and um v death—toTiwiortiiat obedient suffering Son in the person or ms disciples. Such a call cannot be in vain. As among men. thero is no danger that a petition shall bo refused if only it enlists in its favor, the prevailing passion of him to whom it is pre sented, so with the petitions addressed by the be lieving soul to God. The name of Jesus’is a plea that God cannot resist. Use it, and He will refuse you nothing. You havo only to tell Him, says tho Savior, that you aro my friends, that I authorized you to uso my name, that I assured you of a favor able reception—and thero is nothing in God’s heart, or in God’s Heaven, that shall not be at your dis posal; for thus your own identity is lost: your toe virgin-bom, toe tempted, suffering Savior, toe ?L 0r8 ' l!p *? an offic!al . interview with the King of object of human trust and love. But more glonous Heaven, for you go m another’s name,, not your still is the name to which our text refers: the name own; and your ment is the robe of a Savior snght- of Jesus—a name above every name, not only as I e ousness, and your prayer is toe perfume of his cen- wom by toe greatest of beings, bnt as expressive of ?® r ‘ , e J?' brethren, the very energy and mys- • ■ — - ■ _ tew of God s grace is in this name of Jesus. 0 glorious name of Jesus! Let us not say, wliilo we possess it, that tho days of miracles are pait; frankincense and myrrh, and laid them at too Sa vior’s feet. But among the various names of Christ there are two which transcend all others; those great names mentioned in toe angel interview with Mary: the names Immanuel and Jeans—tho ono indicating toe nature, tho other toe office, of our Lord. Glori ous is toe name Immanuel. God with us; Imman uel, which indicates at onco his divinity and his hu manity; Immanuel—which represents tho wonder worker, toe Lord of angels, toe object of human trust and adoration; Immanuel—which represents toe greatest office and work ever accomplished from ono eternity to another. Thou shall call his name Jesus, said the angel, for he shall save his people from their sins. There is no namo like this! Beau tiful, blessed name! how it flows from toe Ups like music, and falls upon the heart like halm! Jesus is the Savior. He alone saves. We cannot recover Eden; vain to tins end our best gifts, our streaming prayers and tears; and yet we can be saved. For here is Jesus; Jesus who wrought a perfect right eousness; Jesus who offered acceptable sacrifice; Jesus who went to heaven as onr forerunner. Ho has lifted its bars with bleeding hand; lie has quenched toe fiery swords that kept us aloof in liis tender heart; through him we havo access and a right to toe Tree of Life in toe midst of too Paradise Of God. Jesus saves his people. None so poor, so vile, so wretched, so despised, as to bo contemned by him; for he represents the humblest in tho mighty act of lledc-mption—as the High Priest wore the name of every tribe upon his breastplate when ho entered too presence of God. Baptized believers aro all safe—yea, saved; for here is Jesus. Jesus saves his people from their sins, go gives a real salvation, which ablutions of the ancient law only typified; and its rites foretold; a salvation, not by. water only, bnt by water and blood; a salvation which not only ab solves too body but heals toe very fountain of life; which delivers from sorrow, and destroys its cause; which redeems from death and destroys its sting—a full salvation. Yes, ye baptized believers, ye receive everything in this name: wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. Your own expe rience with toe testimony of toe whole Word of God assures you that it is a name above ovoiy name—a name of transcendentpower, dignity and sweetness. 1st. Let us consider toe for, what is eveiy convert but a wonder, a resurrec tion from too dead, and a new creation of God ? Every sinner, now a saint proclaiming his salvation; every bold blasphemer, now pierced and penitent; every, worldling once idolatrous of riches, now rich with invisible treasures and ready to cast everything else away; every sensualist, persuaded to cut off too right hand and to pluck out too right eye of carnal desire; every cruel, revongeful tyrant, won to tho meekness of Christ, and to love and prayer; every child of Satan., transformed into a radiant, exulting son o# God, is a monument of Christ’s glorious power. And when, at last, all these are gathered together, and they seo too mystery of redemption unveiled, and the finished work of Jesus displayed to tho universe, they will cry as with one voice: “ Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, hut to thy namo give glory.” 2d. Consider too' DIGNITY OF THE NAME OF JESUS. POWER OF JESUS’ NAME- Tho Jews admitted the reality of the miracles wrought by tho Lord, but denied their authority, ascribing them to magic. Tho author of that old book of blasphemy, the Toldoth Yesu, declares that Christ had learned too truo pronunciation of that terrible word, Jehovah, which tho Universe obeys; that ho boro the mighty spell traced upon his own body, and that by its power ho performed all tho mighty works or evangelical history. Tho Jews at onco feared and adored it; they pronounced it with the vowels of auother namo; they cleansed their pens before writing it; to them toe "namo was ineffable, a divinity veiled in his secret shrine. And as to Christ, they said that ho had in some strange wav discovered this namo—sb a sorcerer might find the seal of Solomon. Thus he became a wonder-worker. Foolish imagination! What need bad onr Lord of any other namo than liis own- toe name of Jesus; that namo which is abovo every namo: that namo which concentrates in itself tiie power of every divino attribute and ev ery religious dispensation? For consider what it was, in effect which lent its distinguishing glory to each great historic display of God to his creatures. First in that primordial epoch—that long twilight of history, which wo call antediluvian and patriarchal, ho appeared as God, the Creator; then, in its morning, as God, too Lawgiver; then, at its sunrise and on to its consummate noon, as God, tho Bedeemer. And O, how the namo of Jesus takes to itself all that va rious glory: glory of creation, glory of law, glory of grace, ana claims them as its own! The power of creation is in it. I do not here refer to tho creative work which was. of old, wrought by too Son of God; to toe fact that all things that appear were made for him and by him; too fact that media tion was stamped by him upon too world from its bo ginning; a world no t all light, for it was not a heaven, nor all darkness, for it was not a hell; hut of inter woven splendors and glooms, as a scene of trial, of probation, and redemption. Thus, the name of Jesus is dimly traced upon toe records of too old creation —toe chambers of imagery where ethnologist and geologist aro bowing down to their idols. But toe fact which concerns us now is this: that in Jesus dwells toe power of a new creation—tho power which can rebuild a ruined world—a power which has wrought on human bodies, which works still on human souls, and which will work on until it has reared a universo, now fallen and miserable and accursed, into a temple of thanksgiving and praise. Here is power to create the body. anew. See, for example, toe cripple at too Beautiful Gate of too temple. He arrests Peter and John: ho asks for alms, rightly thinking that spirits touched by toe love of God are accessible to the calls of human sorrow. Mliat havo they to give? money? Alas, few of God’s princes are endowed with earthly goods; few wear crowns, singlo or triple, on their browB; few cany fortune in their girdles—toe Gos pel is preached to too poor by too poor. Alas, say the Apostles, as they look on the pleading eyo and trembling band, silver and gold wo. have none. Wo have nothing. Ah, yes! they havo ono thing they can give—too namo of Jesus—and that they cast for alms to too beggar. “Inthenameof Jesus of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” And that name is enough; it transforms him; it creates his poor, wasted, shrunken body anew, and he rises and goes with them into too temple, leaping and shouting, and praising God. Here is power to create the soul anew. What pic tures of a fallen world Ao toe Gospels, too Acts, toe EnistleB, present! What a triumphant, terrible reign of sin and death!—human nature possessed of devils—in Judea, demoniacs uttering too very language of hell beneath too shadows of toe tem ple—in Corinth, Borne, and all toe Pagan cities, fust offered as a dainty tribute to toe immortal gods! How was that dark dominion broken? How were those crushed hearts healed ? How were those frightful orgies arrested? By the name of Jesus! O, that name was breathed into toe darkest abodes of human misery; into haunted tombs, and grizzly madness came forth restored. O, it was spoken amid tho throngs of ungodly men, and straightway toe publican became an evangelist, and too sinner a saint, and tho harlot an elect lady, and too persecu tor an Apostle, and too dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers of tho Gcntilo world were washed, justified, and sanctified, in toe namo of toe Lord Jesus, by the spirit of onr God. O, it was uttered just when too Prince of too Power of tho Air was at his loftiest, proudest flight—it was shot liko an arrow into toe sky—and Lucifer, as lightning, fell from heaven. It was tho cause of every conversion then—it has produced every conversion since. As the first cre ative word changed chaos into a beaming universe, so this name redeems the desolations of toe moral world. Cod, who commanded the light out of dark ness, hath shined into our Marts to give vs the light of. the glory of Cod in the face of Jesus Christ. What, then, may we not do, dear brethren,with this mighty creativo name ? Tako it with you and use it as the choicest blessing you can confer upon man kind. Give it to too blind for light—to tho wounded for balm—to toe guilty for righteousness—to the dying, that death may be disarmed—to toe doomed, that hell may be extinguished. Everywhere publish toe name of Jesus. Scatter it upon too wastes of our humanity, and they will break forth into waters. Plant it in the deserts, and they will bud and blos som as toe rose. Prophesy on every scene of human despair; on every valley of vision; over every grave where love planted its fragile flowers; over every billow where proud strength went down, and earth and ocean shall give up their dead. For there is power—the power of creation—in the name of Jesus. And the power of law is in it. Calvary is a nobler Sinai—toe scene of a pew, supreme and compre hensive legislation; anu, whatever kind of law is admitted among men—toe preceptive law which en joins actions and regulates life; toe spiritual law, which admits toe power of motives and is written on the heart; toe ecclesiastical law, which prescribes beliefs, ordinances and culture, and shapes the soul all is included in this one word, Jesus. Yes; labor. conduct. Cot. 8,17: Whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do aU in the name of Jesus. Jesus is the spir- By how many various symbols has this dignity been expressed; amid what grand surroundings does this name appear in the Scriptures! To Ste phen's open vision it appeared written on toe throne of God. “ I see Jesus,” he cried, as he expired. Upon Paul it blazed in glory and terror, transcend ing toe flash of the lightning and too brightness of the sun. That cry—“I am Jesus, whom thou per- secutest”—broke his heart. John saw it claiming to itself all the fresh beauty of tho pristine para dise, where God communed with man: and sur rounded by all toe splendors of temple worship, toe sublimity of toe gathered tribes, the sweet harmo nies of tho minstrols, tho majesty of toepriests and kings of toe heavenly Canaan, and as their multi tudinous worship roso louder and louder, until it became storm-liko and soa-like, it was too praise of “ tho Lamb that was slain,” tho praise of Jesus that rolled upon too throne in thunders and billows of music. By how many suggestive comparisons has this dignity been expressed! If toe imagination is sub dued bv too fame of heroes anti statesmen who have ruled the nations, hero is a mightier leader—the predicted Shiloh, to whom tho gathering of too peo ple should bo and toe dominion of toe ages. If toe saints subdue our souls with beautiful virtue and supernatural devotion, and a magical influence clings to every spot where they wrestled and prayed and died—Wartbnrg castles, and Lollard towers, and Smithfiolds and Bedford jails—and the energy of life yet breathes upon us from their unforgotton words: tho Cross is a holier, gentler, mightier power. If. the angels touch the heart with grati tude, as, descending from the peaceful heavens, they encamp around toe just; as they resign harp and censer, to become ministering spirits to them that shall bo heirs of salvation: Christ’s is a sub- limor and a more benignant ministry. Of all the great whom eye hath seen or faith reveals, Jesus is the greatest; the teacher of all teachers, the king of all kings, toe rnler of a kingdom universal and eternal, having toe heathen for an inheritance and too uttermost parts of toe earth for a possession : and a kingdom that shall consume all others and never end. However feeble in its beginnings, it will, at last, eclipse and overwhelm all human glories 5 a heavenly flood, beginning in dews and summer rains of Pentecost, then pouring from tho sky in thunder storms of war and judgment, rushing down tho hill sides in rills, torrents, cascades and rivers of resist less influence, filling the valleys, ascending the mountains; deepening, widening, until an expanso, unbroken, calm and bright, appears at last, reflect ing too glory of tho heavens, and toe knowledge of toe Lord covers too earth as the waters cover the soa. How pitiful is Jh° recognition, by many 0Y his dis ciples, of toe transcendent dignity of Jesus? How poor the tribute, when a bowed head acknowledging a word in a creed is supposed to answer tho divino requirement that, at toe namo of Jesus, every knee should bow? Ah. my brethren, if even tho present could content itself with this slight testimonial, this titho of mint and anise and cummin, which costs nothing and means nothing—the past could not, nor can tho future. Both assign a grander moaning to too text The past, wherein I see too extending sceptre of the Crucified, wherein I seo too heralds of tho Gospel speeding to toe east and west, to tho north and south—everywhere pro claiming toe name of JeBus to toe nations; and around them temples aro crumbling, altars are fall ing, kings are departing, and devils are cast out wherever that mighty name is heard. They feel from Judah'B land Tho dreaded Infant’s hand; Tho rays of Bethlehem bind their dusky eyne; Not all toe gods beside, Longer dare abide, Nor Typhon huge, ending in snaky twine 5 Our Babe, to show his Godhead true, Can, in his swaddling bands, control toe damned crow. Nor will tho future content itsolf with any trifling honor to our glorious Bedeemer. Then Jesus will appear in toe flesh, in that precise form in which ho was despised and rejected of men and wearing the marks of sacrifice upon his Bacred person, and so will be crowned King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Then every element and every creature shall con spire to render him homajge. The clouds of heaven shall be his chariot and his throne, and all the glori ous lights abovo shall be extinguished in his supe rior brightness. The earth shall heed his call and bring ber captives before him. and too sea shall hear and yield her dead. The mighty trumpeting angels —the chariots of God that are twenty thousand and thousand of thousands—shall be his body guard, and all men that ever drew toe breath of being shall stand before him to receive the sentence of life and death. Then, O then, upon what various nations and classes shall too lightof tho great white throne he shed! Then, what namo will be heard upon every tongue but this word Jesus? Tho scomer, seeing Him whom he rejected so long, whoso ministers, and word and Spirit, whoso entrea ties, and tears and blood he despised—will roalizo that he has lost his bouI, and, too late, will fall upon his knees, crying “Jesus! Jesus!” The per secutor, who imbrued bis hands in Christian blood, who ravened like a wolf in that helpless flock, will tlrop liis fetters and his gory sword, and cry, with horror and despair, “ Jesus! Jesus!” The disciple will behold Him. whom not having seen ha lias lov ed, and will lift his triumphant palms to heaven, and already will begin the anthem of eternity, sing ing, “Jesus! Jesus! Unto him every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess that he is Lord, to the glory of too Father.” 3d. Consider too SWEETNESS OF JESUS NAME. What grateful, beautiful, divine associations ding to that name! What love does it not recall—love, such as only God can show—toe love of toe manger, toe garden, and toe cross. We know tho beauty or human love, for we have had fathers and mothers. Our eyes have filled with tears as we havo witnessed their sublime extravagance, wasting life away in weary cares and ministries and restless vigils; and we refuse to acknowledge any parallel among men that equals the tender sacrifice of life’s best years— this devotion unto death: Greater love hath no man than this, that a man laydown his life for his friends. But O, in this was manifested the love of God, that when we were yet sinners, strangers, ene mies, Christ died for vs. What love does it not establish ? It is the philosophy of history—linking the ages in one great purpose, and leading toe suc cessive generations of toe human race to one con- anmmate end. It is the spirit of that great Sabbath of patient and benignant rest,' Which extends from the gracious morning of Eden to the cloudy sunset Jesus is the preceptive law—toe law of Christian of toe judgment throne. For him alUhings were V _ . 1 — .1 — - —7 An fits II I Hi /til / fl «lYlllJUt/. I I 10 TTlft created' and by him all things consist. It is the deep ground of human brotherhood: Jew and Greek, Scythian and barbarian, bond and free, patrir arch and prophet, apostle and martyr. Abraham and the last of liis spiritual descendants, the believer of yesterday—nay, the vhola general assembly arid church of the first-bo»i, ;are they not all one in Je sus Christ? . ’: ~' One army of th<* iving God, At his commai we bow; Part of the host nave crossed the flood, And part are crossing now. We have come, many of ns, from desolated fami lies, from bereaved churches. Wo look around us with dim eyes to-day—there are vacancies .in this great convocation; many a familiar face absent, many an eloquent tongue silenced, many a reverend head laid low, since in this State we laid the founda tions of the Southern Baptist Convention. And yet we will not sadly cry, “ Our fathers, where are they, and toe prophets, do they live forever? ” No! for at the name of Jesus our dead return; we clasp their hands again, we hear their happy songs, we gaze upon their faces, livid with death no more, but beaming with immortal light and love; we join their worship as we used to do, and cast our crowns where theirs lie, before tho Throne. They live, thev are ours, because Jesus lives and because Jesus is theirs and ours. What benefits have not been conveyed to each one of us in this name of Jesus ? What personal ex periences of pardon and peace and love has it not imparted ? What heavenly hopes and foretastes of blessedness has it not inspired? What sacrifices has it not justified, what rewards has it not assured ? No wonder that the noblest records of human histo ry havo borne its impress, that tho saintliest spirits that ever lived have acknowledged its power. No such content in the lowly cottage, no such refresh ment on tho bed of languishing, no such musical rapture in toe midnight, dungeon as that which Jesus..gives. . And too trophies of toe martyrs, all are his. The Trajan column—thick with swords and shields and battle-spoils and mighty con flicts, bears toe name of Jesus. It was he who made timid 'virgins' bold and tender, fair-haired children heroes, as they encountered the rage of priests and kings, and the fiery torture of death—toe palm- crowned army of the heavens, overcome by toe blood of the Lamb. Bishop Percy tells the story of an English Peeress, who after the death of her husband had fallen into Biona~wero entertained in regarfi 1 ^!.^. and a consultation of physicians was summoned to consider her case. One of them, feeling her pulse, observed that she had some object clenched in her hand. Having gently forced toe fingers asunder, he found that she held 'the miniature of tho deceased Marquis. “O, madam,” he said, “this only con firms toe violence of your illness; however dear this object may be. unless yon part with it, my pre scriptions must be useless.” To whom the dying lady replied: “ I havo kept the picture either in my bosom or my hand ever since the death of my lamented lord, and thus I am determined to pre serve it, until I, fortunately, drop after him into toe grave.” Thus did toe martyrs and saints of old cleave unto too name of Jesus even unto death— even when it brought death, and so, by toe grace of God, will we. As toe Polish legion at the tremen dous passage of the Beresina were borne down by the mighty river, they raised their hands as they were sinking and cried, “ Long live toe Emperor’ —thus did toe martyrs and too saints of old publish toe name of Jesus as they died, and so, by the grace of God, will we. “Til speak toe honors of thy name With my last lingering breath, And dying claspthee in my arms, The antidote of death. Dearest of all too names above, My Saviour and my God; Who can resist thy heavenly love, Or trifle with thy blood ? ” * Now, see what encouragement this sweet name gives to weary sinners. Monarchs on earth seek to aggrandize themselves with illustrious names. They wear too titles of great, magnificent, divine—and so might he. He might have terrified you with every attribute of a transcendent majesty; "ho might have drawn near to yon as to toe Seer of Patmos, in tho glory of a world-conqueror and followed by toe le gions of immortals, liis face shining as the sun, and upon his blood-stained vesture and bis thigh toe namewriilen, “Kingof KingsandLord of Lords." But he does not. Poor sinner, for your sake he veils his glory and approaches you as Jesus, your Saviour. Do you wish salvation ? Then come bold ly, trustfully to him. It is bis office, his delight to save. That sweet word Jesus, is it not enough to assure you that God sent not his Son to condemn too world, but that the world through him might be saved. And see what encouragement this namo Jesus gives to believers. A better blessing than tho kings of the earth possess amid their tribute and their spoils, it is his to confer—a peace more costly than gold, a wisdom more precious than rubies. It is his alone to impart ease to toe wounded conscience, sup port to the fainting heart. And tops it is, that those who have had toe faintest apprehension of its meaning, esteem that “ name as ointment poured forth." When toe alabaster vase of the Gospel his tory was broken, a sweet perfume was dismissed, winch filled all toe festive chamber: even so, when the heart of Jesus was broken, a savor of life unto life, a sweet spirit of grace, went forth to bless the world. And rich beyond all earthly riches, and blessed beyond all earthly joy are ye who have re ceived that spirit—the spirit of forgiveness to toe penitent, tho spirit of strength to the tried, the spirit of comfort to toe afflicted, toe spirit of hope to the dying, the spirit of resurrection and reunion and immortality to the dead. Happy are ya who havo trusted in Jesus and who find him all your sal vation and all your desire—happy, happy, for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you! ; Henceforth, ye ransomed of the Lord, let it be your one object in life to exalt that name. Acknowl edge Jesus to bo your Lord and Master—with the homage of tho heart, with the adoration of toe lips, with the obsdience of the whole life. Let others worship pleasures that, at toe best, are folly, and riches that, if they do not canker and eat into the soul, will themselves decay: Jesus is our portion, our interest, our law. Let others triumph in a world’s applause: Christian brethren, lot us glory in thin greatest namo, this name at which Hell trem bles. this namo which masters kings, this name by which an impenitent world is doomed—and yet, this namo which reveals to Zion an almighty, glorious, precious Saviour. Lot others . esteem him to be smitten of God and afflicted, andhis people to he the filth of toe world and toe offscouring or all things: let us magnify our kinsman and our King, and fear nothing bnt bis displeasure. “ Glory to Jesus ” let us say, who has composed and will compos3 tho dis cords’ that raged around toe cradle of our faith— who alone makes toe Gentiles renounce tlieir demons and call upon God, cast down idol and altar and fiee to toe cross, and exchange philosophy forth© gospel, and lay their proud diadems ana cruel swords as tribute at tho mercy seat. Glory to Jesus let us say," who will bring toe Jews to acknowledge toe Naza- renocarpenter as their King; to entertain toe Gali lean fishers as the ambassadors of Heaven; to honor tho condemned of tho Sanhedrim as too example and fountain of righteousness; and to embrace tho cross as toe wisdom and power of God. Glory to Jesuslet us say, to Jesus the reconciler of toe ages; to Jesus tho comer stone of toe Temple of God: to Jesus tho keystone of tho Arch of Timo; to Jesus tiie Emperor of the nations and the millenniums; to Jesus who gathers toe pupils of every school; toe citizens of every land; the worshippers under every sky; the sentinels on all toe watchtowers of proph ecy ; and all toe panoplied soldiers of the cross in to one sacramental host of God’s elect, under one far-streaming, blood-stained banner of salvation. Glory to Jesus upon whose life and character scepti cism now turns all its rage, but whom we will toe more adore as toe author of all toe wonders of Christian ex perience, as toe strength of its weakness, as toe light of its darkness, as toe rebuilder of itB ruins, as toe quickener of its dead. To Jesus testifies that palm in too blood-stained hands of Paul, that tear wet face of Peter beaming like a star, that crown set like pearl upon pearl and gold upon gold on the pure brow and floating tresses of the Magdalene; nay, everywhere and all about us are his witnesses, tne broad green earth that shall be his dominion, the skies that shall be his throne, toe very church yard dust whence he shall summon toe stars to fill and glorify eternity. And is there not. that within us which’ corresponds to all these outward signs and prophecies. Jesus, Jesus! we havo nothing else to live for. Bought with a price, we have alone to glorify thee with our bodies and spirits which aro thine. • The Great Rolling Mill at Rome. The Rome Commercial of toe 5th says: This building will be raised in a few days, and will be toe most extensive concern of toe kind in the State. Its length will be 200 feet, and width 150 feet, with a wing covering about half as much ground as toe main bnildmg. This concern will be ran by six large engines with twelve boilers. The capacity of this mill will far ex ceed any mill in the South, and almost equal any of the Northern mills. The foundry and rolling mill are contiguous, and when completed will cover nearly two acres of ground. Mr. Samuel Noble informed us that the company will soon erect fifty houses for the accommodation of their workman. .! ■ ’■ "We were pleased to learn from Mr. Noble that the foundry was worked to its utmost ca pacity. ' Another Case of Rape.—the Athens watch man learns that on Tuesday of last week a very respectable young lady, named’Gray, sixteen years old, while at the spring near her mother’s residence,, in Oglethorpe connty, was brutally outraged by a negro man named George Hop kins. After-he had accomplished his hellish purpose, he shot her through the head with a six-' shooter, and it is supposed she died instantly. Her body was found some two hours afterwards by her mother. " •.«» J 1 We understand that the negro was arrested 1 Thursday and confined in Lexington jail. Emigration to the Sontli—Xo. 7. Messrs. Editors ; In my former numbers my purpose has been to show that an agricul tural State (such as ours is) will best subserve good government, peace, good order and obe dience to law, (from whence flows national pros perity) by locating and firing her population as proprietors of her SoiL That toe greater the number of her population, that are wanderers, the greater the tendency to lawlessness and anarohy and their attendant evils. Second, That homongeneousness of popula tion, in language, habits and feeling, are more likely to produce peace, good order and pros perity when under the influence of a refined Christian civilization. Third, That itis too duty of a Government, and of a people when blessed with abundant lands al low prices, to preserve them for her own citi zens and their posterity, that the • foregoing blessings may be secured to them. Fourth, That a dense population of one nationality (much more so whin composed of many) tends to produce great wealth to the few and great want to the many, and hence poverty, with all its attendant train of vices, is ever the result to toe masses. Another view as to toe results of a dense emi gration on toe planter of the State. We now oc cupy the most favored region of the World for toe growth of .cotton: - . f ’, Before the war as high as 4,000,000 bales were raised, for which we did not receive over eight cents per pound on an average. The results of the war and emancipation of slavery, have re duced this production to 2,000,000, and an ad- ———-nnihii nriw( from .ttronfar Ao flrirtp-pjmfa Suppose you introduce, in the South, double toe number of the present laborers in toe pro duction, with the improvements in agriculture and fertilizers, the probabilities are you would soon raise 10,000,000 bales, and the prices would tumble to a ruinous point You can’t compete with toe North or West in grains or grasses; your climate forbids it, bnt yon have, in a meas» hre, the monopoly of the cotton culture of the world. Fill your fields with laborers in pro ducing cotton, and you (to toe great delight of the outside world) reduce the price of cotton to a starving point, but bring ruin and desolation upon your people. The demand for cotton and prices will keep pace witlj a gradual increase of its production, such as we might expect to see in the gradual, native increase of our own peo ple and toe improvement in agriculture. But if you flood our cotton fields with native and for eign emigrants the sudden and uncalled for in crease will make it a drag; prices will decline and toe bright visions, now so radiant in the future ; as to coming fortunes, will fade into air. Nothing would delight the Northern or Euro pean manufacturer so much as to see laborers swarming over every acre of cotton lands in the South. At low prices for the raw material their profits in manufacturing are only toe more greatly increased. But what the result would be to toe farmer at the South whose chief capi tal is in his cotton lands, it requires no prophet to foresee or foretell. The commerce of the world is every year extending and widening— so the consumption of cotton goods enough to keepprices at remunerative rates if the increased production of toe State is natural and gradual. But under the stimulus it would receive from a large immigration the supply would oxceed the demand and prices would decline accordingly, No class are more deeply interested in immi gration than the cotton growers of toe South.— Let them be wise in their day. Their lands are gradually appreciating under the prices cotton is now bearing. Let them be ware lest in their haste to get rich (by inviting emigration) they do not kill toe goose that is now yielding its annual crop of gold. I might add reasons and objections to immigration, founded upon political reasons, but I forbear, as my motives might be mis interpreted. They will occur, however, to every intelligent mind; and before I close these articles, permit me to say that it is against immigration as a policy, I am writing. I would not closo the door to an intelligent, self- sustaining emigrant who comes with means, to occupy and improve his fortunes, and who would add to toe wealth and intelligence of the country. But from those hordes of people who come in tidal waves, whether from the shores of the old world, or toe stony and bleak lands of the North and East, I trust and pray to God, our State may be delivered. Raleigh. 2SJC BY From Washington. Washington, May 8.—Betlar’s lawyers in the Kimberly esse at Baltimore Hahn fees from the Government. ti* DCV A Additional dispatches from Admiral Hoff to May- the 1st contain nothing very important. < E. T. S. Sohenck, brother of the Congressman Schenck, has been appointed Special Custom A^ent for the Eighth District, with headquarters at-Hew Orleans. J. C. Dutch, Special Agent for the Fifth District, with headquarters at Savannah. Boutwell has divided the country into fifteen (Bstricto, only two others are yet appointed for the South.— Libe and Cray have been appointed for the Wert., Fifty army officers, consolidated out of office, have been appointed Indian agents at former sala- rics. yMMwt Delano has gone to Ohio for a few days. Whisky is being rapidly withdrawn from bond. The President has appointed Daniel H- Snyder Assessor for the 4to district of Georgia. The President orders General Reynold* to retain officers consolidated out, for civil offioes in Texas, Beynolds having avowed his inability to fill positions yb those who conld take toe test-oath. The Cabinet will resume toe consideration of the elections in Yirginia, Mississippi and Texas, on j Tuesday, notwithstanding the action heretofore taken has borne no fruit. The Spanish Legation are urging the Executive to issue a proclamaton of neutrality in Cuban affaire. The weekly financial statement shows no mate rial changes. L ' i - - ; ■' ■ ;5 A colored delegation from Alexandria, Ya., visited the President to-day. The negroes express them selves satisfied. No details have transpired.; ’ The President has appointed B. W. Lasiter, Rev enue agent at Balefcda, The Con immissioner of Revenue decides that liquor dealers who sell over and under five gallons must pay tax both as wholesale and retail dealers. The Spanish Minister informs the Secretary of State that the Quaker City is about sailing with supplies for the Cubans. Whereupon the Secretory of State requests the Secretary of toe Navy to pre vent violations of toe neutrality laws of 1818. It is stated that W. K. Ityzanowski will be ap pointed Bevenue Supervisor of Alabama, Georgia and Florida. -. - The President and Director* of the Ohio and Chesapeake Railroad met at toe Seaton House to day. Commodore Douglass acts during Delano’s ten days’ absence. , Jos. C. Cantwell has been appointed route mail agent between Washington and Lynchburg. George A. Houghton is Inspector of Steamboats in toe 6th District. The President declined to see Sims, whose ap pointment to the Savannah Fostoffice he refused to sign. " 'fie- . V From Clay County—Fort Gaines. Fort Gaines, May 0,1 SCO. Editors Tdcgraph: Crops in this county look well. The recent wet weather and severe cold spell, for the season, the farmers say have hurt the cotton some, but a little warm weather will bring it out. I hear few complaints about labor scarcity and the freedmen are . said to be doing very welL The planters all seem hopeful and cheerful. Fort Gaines is a nico place. It has an ex- cellent school, two or three churches and several highly intelligent, liberal and enterprising mer chants. This town is said to be one of the healthiest places in Georgia, and toe medical profession, I fear, don’t make their salt. Fort Gaines is without a hotel—strange to say—and presents ono of toe best openings for a good, enterprising landlord, I have yet seen in Geor gia. Traveler. Fort Valley, Butler and Hilborne Slay Ray Celebration. Messrs. Editors Tdegraph: That ever-obliging institution, the Southwestern Railroad Company, sent out a train of three passenger and five freight cars to carry the Fort Valley and Hilborne Sun day-schools to Butler. Isawthemro turn this eve ning, and never saw a more lively, jovial crowd in my life. The cars were crowded to the last sticking point. The dinner at Butler was mag nificent and in toe greatest abundance. Every lady hostess was bent on excelling every other one, and I think they all did it. On the return to Fort Valley, that fat. jovial Boniface, McAfee of that ilk, promptly tendered his dining hall to all hands for a dance, and they had it. The Mc Afee house rang with music pf the fiddle, the patter of lovely feet and the chatter of merry tongues, till morning. We had a gay time, you may depend. From Wilkinson Connty. Editors Telegraph: Though General James Wilkinson, in honor of whom the county of Wilkinson took its namo, lost reputation in the closing scenes of his life, yet there lives^^ namesake in an artificial form or corporation, which becomes the more exalted as time rolls With tho present Ordinary, O. M. Lindsey, Nashville is going into manufacturing. The Banner says that unless Nashville becomes a manufacturing city, she will degenerate into a a mere wayside village, and not be known on toe maps of toe schools, except as toe capital of Tennessee and county seat of Davidson county. W. D. Barden, Postmaster at Madison, Ar kansas, has been arrested on a charge of robbing the mail. G. Q. Atatsson, Treasurer of toe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, died suddenly on Friday evening. - ii'' at the head of affairs, armed with the great au thority which the late laws have given to him, we may expect to see this county assume a fi nancial status which but few counties will reach. Judge Lindsey has thus far won the admiration of the citizens of the county by his uniform de termination to do his duty—his entire duty— without fear, favor or affection. It seems that his whole object is to bring to bear every assist ance to toe people as a body, and he is determ ined that Wilkinson county shall remain solvent —a position which she has reached but a short time since. For his honorable course in the of fice he fills so well, he will draw around him many warm friends. Col. E. Hulreet has gone to Washington. Mg Smith, of toe Cartersville Express, paid ns a brief call yesterday. -SuE. 1 The Good Templars go picknicking to Stone Mountain to-day. Col H. P. Farrow, State Attorney, has, we understand, gone to Washington again. George B. Weight has been confirmed as State Commissioner of Roads and Telegrap hs. From Louisiana. ■, New Orleans, May 8.—The trial of Auditor Wick- V ’ * (A t . • liffe, upon the recent indictment for the charge of £ J . - misdemeanor in office, in issuing a fraudulent war- . f rant, closed at 10 o’clock lost night, with * verdict . of not guilty. This was regarded as the strongest Mq, case against Wickliffe, and Judge Abel this morning : stated, in view of the result of previous trials, and : & ' . the disorganized condition of the State finances, ho ' VS?'* f ]'" was prepared to entertain a motion for nolle prose* , j/ if qui on toe remaining indictments against the audir ‘ “ ’ *' r • tor. The District Attorney, however, not being. , *, prepared, the matter was postponed until Monday. . '* The Congressional Investigation Committee com- 7 \ . / menced investigations this morning with the First Congressional District. The river is nearly np to too high watermark, and threatened crevasses were reported below the city • . in the St. Bernard Parish at midnight last night—•• '‘vjj-, All efforts to close them are apparently unavailing, p’.»>..•■ *»' * 4 The American Medical Association adjourned yes- terday to meet on the second Monday in May next, .y j) I and afterwards took an excursion down the, river, » A number also took a short excursion up the river if -a J” on the steamer Richmond. The entire session w^B *■'; : «»*. 1 markedbytoo greatest harmony and good feeling, . ’ and dosed with a free expression of their apprecia- • f tion of toe hospitality and courtesy extended them ;* ’ < f :. by too community of New Orleans, various lines of * A 1 *, 1 travel, and the press generally. .'‘,,*7.-' * The St. Louis Grain Delegation are enjoying an ■ excursion out to the mouth of toe river. That body > , J ■ will meet for business on Monday. /*; . 1 V-V Union Pacific Managers in Limbo. . 0- *' * Nouth Platt, Nebraska, May 7.—The officers’ . . ' A , car with Durant, Vice President of toe Union Pad- i” •• y- lie Railroad, John Cuff, and. other gentlemen, was . v,. A i stopped yesterday at Peidmont Station by toe road j;* “ , /< hands, who will not permit them to leave until tbe .^’/ , V.'jr;-'J* Railroad hands aro paid their wages. The road was ‘ ' barricaded,- and toe car uncoupled, and the men • *•' stated that nothing hut passengers and mails would he allowed to proceed, either'way, until toeir do- 1 mauds are eomp’icd with. Tne gang numbers about . • : ilireo hundred men. Information received lato last evening says everything was quiet, but toe men - , . were firm iu their determination. No violence anticipated, unless an attempt to leave was made, .-^Wi From Cuba. : Havana, May S.—Tho Havana Journals reportfLsj mt several small engagements. Claiming victory for the Spaniards. Dulce with a battalion of volunteers visits Mantanza3 on Monday. “ V Dulce, in replying to to a meeting of wealthy Spaniards, who demanded more troops from Spain, pleads too poverty of toe Government. Insurrectionary demonstrations are reported ijpf/'.jSJP the Yuetia Abijo District. , , , '-L . The mobilized negro volunteers atNnevitas are be coming quite insubordinate and threatening. The British Commodore, Phillimere, threatens re- - f »'ji prisals unless his demands wero granted, which in-»., dude the release of all vessels and crews captured'. f' in toe British waters, with explanations and indem- * faf, nity, and also an explanation of why Spaniards pur sue Cubans on British soil. General Hews. ' * 1^. Richmond, May 8.—It is stated on good authority that Gen. Canby has fixed the first Tuesday in July ^ for toe day of election. " ‘1 ■M ' ■ From Raudolph Contny—Culhbert. Cuthbebt, May 5, 1869. Editors Tdegraph: I find toe cotton crop ogV thfe county temporarily under toe weather. It ; rtF® has suffered from wet weather, and toe contin- Av nous cold has given it what the planters: some-; ■' what inelegantly term ‘We shin.” Bright, warm weather, however, will, I think,: SoOt.V. vSjf bring it out. Labor is. in moderate supply, and farm hands reported to be doing better than ' - usual , ..vUjUl Cuthbert, as you well know, is a beantiful’^Njjf^Jjj town—there is, indeed, not one in Southwest- rm ern Georgia which excels, if equals it, in beauty ■ Yj*r* of location, and neatness of construction and ar*’ ‘XfiJSlVJ rangement. Its people are intelligent, polite' ■ tajj and refined. It boasts of spacious churches, a noble college building, and lately a fine thoatn-p* cal hall has been added to its attractions by Dr. t Vi, - T. S. Powell. The hall will seat five hundred '/< \ persons, and is handsomely arranged, well tilated, and comfortable. It has been occupie^V.^ by several opera, and other companies, success. , W fully,-and Harry McCarthy will play there next Saturday night. ' •" - Cuthbert has a fire company and is bnilding iCprvrjre two large cisterns capable of holding each twen* ty thousand gallons of water. It has two excel- . ' ' ■ lent hotels in very active competition. Col EL ■ ’ v H. Jones is doing a lively business in literature A.'.Ij- and merchandize—selling goods and writing Y „s first rate editorials. He is a busy and intelh- ' * gent man. The Southern Factory is also busy , - . with its looms /md spindles and making money. In short, Cuthbert is a thriving, prosperous and growing place ; and if you waiit to see pret ty women (1 know you have a weakness toot way,) just come down to Cuthbert. The town : “ full of them as an egg is of meat There are - , more crowded in this brief spaoe than yon can < • .* ‘ r. ever hope to find in such an area anywhere else; * ■ . jW 4 and what is to the purpose, they (oD read the Telegraph every dAy and believe in ii That , they da Yon may take your ’dowy oh M. The regular spring term ctf toe Superite Gotir is in progress, Judge D. B. Harrell , I am told he mftksa an excellent Judge and it generally popular. - - ’> VO* •\-Y m&L. A i ii ^ 1 ’ i w fl!Af 1. i.lt i AitiiiUiaaifri .k.lkitlfcL *„ tL—-IcL -i.-
