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_ _ 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.
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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
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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. "
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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. /*; .
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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
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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
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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.
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