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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1875.
Another distressing suicide is re
corded to-day of a broken New York
merchant, whose family are now at
Aiken.
It may be important for Club men to
know that the French Surgical Society
have decided that spoutaneous com
bustion is all humbug.
■ -i • i tm —
The Air Line Railway has been so
much benefited by change of gauge on
the North Carolina lines that a con
siderable addition to the rolling stock
is imperatively demanded.
We publish our first regular Atlanta
letter this morning. One will be given
on each Thursday and Sunday. Know
ing the author to be one of the finest
writers in the State, his letters will
always be interesting.
John Harper, the senior partner of
the great firm of Harper Brothers,
New York publishers, died yesterday.
He began life very poor and died very
rich. Some of his publications were
hardly calculated to preserve the peace
between certain religious sects and po
litical factions; but he’may have been
honest in his prejudices, and so, heaven
rest his soul!
The letter of Mrs. Ida Virginia John
will attract great attention in Georgia.
It is perfectly natural in her to have
an inordinate yearning to discover her
parents, and we hope she may do so.
The letter bears evidence of having
been written by a refined and an edu
cated lady.
Wile we never reach the end of of
ficial rascality in South Carolina? That
State has been stolen poor by rascal
lions who were elevated to positions
of trust. Fresh developments are com
ing to light in regard to Parker, the
ex-Treasurer. The latest discovery is
a theft of §250,000. His bond has been
increased §250,000,
Dr. DeSaussure Ford’s address be
fore the Medical Association of Geor
gia is presented to our readers, in full,
this morning. It is worthy of a careful
perusal. There should be no real con
flict, between religion and science, be
cause religion is the highest science—
the science of salvation; the science of
sciences.
We remodel and elaborate our com
mercial column this morning. Here
after special attention will be paid to
that all-important department, and the
greatest care exercised in giving cor
rect quotations. A daily paper is sus
tained and supported in the main by
merchants, and to them the reports of
markets are more valuable than all
else besides. No journal published in
h city of the commercial importance of
Augusta ought to ever issue a number
without a trade review. Every figure
in our report this morning has been
carefully revised and made as nearly
correct as possible.
The following officers were unani
mously elected by the Medical Associa
tion of Georgia :
Dr. J. G. Thomas, of Savannah, Presi
dent.
Dr. T. J. Wood, of Columbus, First
Vice-President.
Dr. William A. Greene, of Americus,
Second Vice-President.
Dr. T. J. Charlton, of Savannah,
Member of the Board of Censors.
The most important business yester
day, was a memorial to the Legislature
on the subject of child-murder. Au
gusta has been selected as the next
place of meeting oft Tie Association.
Br telegraph, to-day, we have intelli
gence of the death of Col. E. M. Yeb
c.er, who had a painful noteriety, some
years ago, in consequence of the kill
ing of a Federal officer, who had, as
lie supposed, insulted his family. Col.
Yebger was one of the handsomest and
most Impulsive of men. He loved the
wine cup unduly. Duriug the Greeley
campaign, he conducted an evening
paper in Baltimore, and based great
hopes on the success of the Demo
cratic nominee. With the defeat of
Mr. Greeley, Col. Yergeb’s expecta
tions faded away, and he met with
many misfortunes, including the loss of
his paper and the money invested
therein. He had few elements of char
acter conducive of a peaceful career.
Let us hope that, “ life’s fitful fever ”
passed, he now “ sleeps well.”
Tk.e final day of the Gainesville Con
vention was stormy. Never was such
a meeting witnessed in Georgia. After
a prolonged session of more than one
week’s duration, ana over six hundred
ballots, it “broke up in a row,” as the
saying goes. The excitement in the
convention has spread over the dis
trict, as will be seen by our dispatches.
Mr. Hill opened the campaign in a
speech at Athens night before last, and
yesterday speeches were made by him
and one of his opponents, Col. Estes,
at Gainesville. We also give a list of
his appointments to address the people
of the district. The coming campaign
opens with the promise of being the
hottest known in the State for years.
mt Jails lonftMifinalist
THE NINTH DISTRICT.
The Last Day of the Convention.
(Atlanta Herald Report.)
Gainesville, Ga., April 22.—After de
tailing the exciting speeches upon Mr.
Hill’s reported interview in that paper,
the Herald report says :
At this juncture it was certain that
the supreme crisis had come. The
house was crowded to suffocation, and
the excitement was high. The dele
gates were quiet and tense, and their
faces were set in the absolute resolve.
Amid a painful stillness the Bell men
had a low but earnest discussion, when
Mr. Hockenhull arose and offered the
following resolutions:
Whereas, The Congressional Con
vention to nominate a candidate to re
present the Democratic party in the
Forty-fourth Congress met in the city
of Gainesville on the 14th inst., in obe
dieuce to the call of the Executive
Committee of the said Democratic
party, and have remained in conven
tion until the present day, and have
reached the four hundredth and four
teenth ballot without a result, under
the old two-third rule adopted by the
party ; and, whereas, Hon. H. P. Bell
and Hon. B. H. Hill have been continu
ously before said convention, and in
every ballot taken between them Mr.
Bell has led Mr. Hill from five to eleven
votes; and, whereas, the friends of
Mr. Bell proposed time and again to
withdraw both of the gentlemen from
the convention, with the avowed desire
of maintaining the harmony of the
party, as w T eil as its organization in the
district, and centre the friends of both
upon some man, and in pursuance of
this idea proposed the name of
Hon. C. J. Wellborn, of the county of
Union ; then Col. Jasper N. Dorsey, of
the county of Hall; then the Hon. J. A.
Billups, of the county of Morgan; then
tho Hon. Allen S. Candler; then Colonel
J. F. Langston, and then Colonel John
B. Estes, of the county of Hall, each of
whom led Mr. Hill in the ballotings
between them—Colonels Candler, Dor
sey and Estes having received
votes.against Mr. HlU’s 24)£, coming
within 2}£ votes of a nomination; and
whereas, the friends of Mr. Hill have
persistently said they would have none
other to represent them in said Forty
fourth Congress, and that a placard
announcing appointments for Mr. Hill
has been published in advance of the
final action of this * Convention, and
that, too, after announcing in public
speeches that Mr. Hill would abide the
action of the party, regularly assem
bled, and holding his name before this
Convention to this late day, all of which
is in utter violation of the established
usages of our party organization—be
it, therefore,
Resolved, That this Convention hereby
presents the name of the Hon. John B.
Estes, of the county of Hall, to the
voters of the Ninth Congressional Dis
trict as the choice of a majority of the
Democratic party of said district, and
request them to unite in his support.
overriding the decision of the chair.
The Chairman, Col. Simmons, ruled
the resolutions out of order, on the
ground that they were a mere evasion
of the two-thirds rule, and a trick upon
the minority.
Mr. Allred appealed from the decis
ion of the Chair, and was sustained
by a vote of 28 to 33—Madison county
not voting, and Gilmer voting with the
majority.
THE PROTEST OF THE TWENTY-EIGHT.
Amid the most unparalleled excite
ment, the Hill men entered the follow
ing protest:
The undersigned, representing the
counties of Clarke, Franklin, Gwinnett,
Hall, Habersham, Jackson, Morgan,
Oconee and Pickens, protest against
the action of Mr. Bell’s friends in this
convention, in passing by a majority
vote—said majority being composed ex
clusively of the partisans of that gen
tleman—the resolutions requesting Col.
J. B. Estes to announce himself a can
didate for the Forty-fourth Congress
from the Ninth District, contrary to all
parliamentary usage, to the rules
adopted by this convention, and in de
fiance of the earnest and respectful
protest of the minority, and thereby
attempting to foist upon the country,
as the action of this body, a mere cau
cus resolution of the majority.
M. Stanley, A. L. Mitchell, T. W.
Rucker, of Clarke ; J. C. Wilson, Henry
Jennings, B. H. Overby, of Oconee ; A.
J. Lovelady, of Pickens ; T. H. S. Brob
aon, J. E. Godfrey, T. F. Ponder, of
Morgan ; W r . C. Melntire, Daniel Mose
ley, J. H. Shaunon, of Franklin ; H. S.
Bradley, S. C. Fraser, of Hall; J. B.
Sillman, G. R. Duke, M. Potts, L. J.
Johnson, P. F. Lamar, A. T. Bennett,
of Jackson ; Wm. E. Simmons, N. L.
Hutchins, George JH. Jones, Thos. H.
Mitchell, W. L. Vaughan, Jas. T. Mc-
Levaney, Emory Speer, (proxy), of
Gwinnett; W. S. Erwin, of Haber
sham. .
The Final Adjournment.
After the protest was filed Mr. All
red moved an adjournment sine die.
The motion was carried by a vote of
33, the Hill men not votiag. Thus, the
agony of the eight days was over.
Speech of Mr. Hill at Athens.
Athens, Ga., April 22.— Mr. Hill ar
rived here yesterday, and drove at
once to his residence. He was seen as
he passed through the streets, and be
fore he had eaten supper the spacious
grouuds in front of his residence were
filled with a tremendous and enthusi
astic crowd, who demanded a speech.
Mr. Hill responded from his balcony,
and held the audience spell-bound for
an hour. He left on the night train
for Atlanta. Put old Clarke down for
1,500 majority. P. D.
[Atlanta Constitution Report.]
Hon. H. P. Bell’s Position.
Gainesville, April 22—Mr. Bell
stated to friends this morning, in
Gainesville, that while he would take
no active part in the campaign in the
Ninth District, he would most cordially
support Mr. Estes in the race, believing
him to be the true exponent of the
organized Democracy of the district.
Mr. Bell is very hopeful, and thinks
Mr. Estes will be elected. It is due
Mr. Hill to say, he has uniformly ad
vised his friends to drop his name in
the convention whenever in their opin
ion it became to be to the interest of
the Democratic party to do so. C.
COL. J. B. ESTES’ LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.
Gainesville, Ga., April 21,1875.
Col J. B. Estes :
Sir : We, the undersigned, having
been appointed 4 committee from the
convention recently assembled In this
city, to inform you of its action, would
respectfully announce that, by a vote
of 39)£ to 54) |; you were selected as
the standard bearer of tho Democratic
party in the Ninth Congressional Dis
trict, to represent them in the ap
proaching election, to ftil the vacancy
-ATTG-TJST.A., G_A_.. SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 24, 1875.
in the 44th Congress, and ask your ac
ceptance of the same.
Respectfully,
R. A. Eases,
T. J. Haralson,
John Hockenhull.
Gainesville, Ga., April 22,1875.
Messrs. R. A. Eakes, T. J. Haralson,
John Hockenhull:
Gentlemen: Yours of the 21st in
stant has just been handed me, in
which you state that, by a vote of
thirty-nine and a half to twenty-four
and a half, I was elected by the Con
gressional Convention, assembled in
the city of Gainesville, standard bearer
of the Democratic party in the Ninth
Congressional District. Iu reply I have
to say, that a generous public will,
under the circumstances, pardon me
for giving some of the reasons which
actuate me in complying with your re
quest to become the standard bearer of
the organized Democracy of the Ninth
Congressional District. At the time the
vacancy occurred I became theearnest,
zealous friend and advocate of the
•Hon. B. H. Hill.
When the Convention met in Gaines
villo on the 14th inst,, I was, though
absont at Franklin Court, hopeful of
his nomination. I used every argu
ment and all tho means in my power,,
after I returned to Gainesville, iu order
for his success, so long as the friends
of Mr. Bell stood firm in his support.
But when tho Convention had balloted
almost if not fully four hundred times
without material change—Bell receiv
ing shout 35 votes and Hill about 26
and when Bell’s friends and supporters
put in nomination Col. J. A. Billups, of
Morgan, Col. C. J. Wellborn, of Union,
Cols, Dorsey, A. D. Candler and J. F.
Langston, of Hall, and failing in every
case to induce any of Mr. Hill’s ad
herents to come to the support of
any oue of them ; then in a spirit of
uuion, harmony and conciliation
unprecedented, proposed to give
the united support of Mr. Bell’s
friends to any man whom Mr. Hill s
friends would name, and still Mr. Hill’s
friends, with a pertinacity unwarrant
able, refused to offer any one, or to ac
cept any one whom Bell’s friends offer
ed—l considered the arguments ex
hausted and the last expedient tried.
I could but believe that Mr. Hill’s
friends were alone responsible for a
state of affairs which every true Dem
ocrat must deprecate. Believing that
Mr. Hill’s friends were intent upon his
candidacy, irrespective of the good of
the party and of the wishes of the peo
ple, as expressed iu a legitimate way, I
could no longer sanction their course.
I, therefore, in obedience to your ex
pressed desire, enter the contest with
the hope that even if I should be de
feated, yet, representing as I do, the
organized Democracy of the District, I
shall afford a nucleus around which
may rally all the lovers of the time
honored usages and principles of the
Democratic party, iu the fond hope
that when the passions of the hour
shall have subsided, and measures, not
men, shall control; then arousing from
her lethargic stupor the grand old party
may arm herself anew for the combat,
and go on to victory, as in the better
days of the country. The time is so
short between now and the election
that it will be impossible for me to can
vass the whole District. Most of the
issues involved in the campaign have
already been discussed, and no doubt
the minds of most of the voters aie
made up.
If the people at the ballot box see fit,
by their votes, to ratify your action
and elect me to represent them in the
Forty-fourth Congress, I shall bring to
the discharge of the duties of the po
sition whatever of talent aud energy I
possess, assuring them that the inte
rests of my people, their welfare and
happiness shall be tho prime objects of
my official career.
Thanking you, gentlemen, and those
whom you represent, for the honor
you have so unexpectedly conferred
upon me, I have the honor to sub
scribe myself your very humble fellow
citizen, J. B. Estes.
Mr. Hill’s Appointments.
I will address the people of the
Ninth Congressional District:
At Gainesville, Friday, April 23.
At Gumming, Saturday, April 24.
At Dawsonville, Monday, April 26.
At Dahlonega, Tuesday,, April 27.
At Cleveland, Wednesday, April 28.
At Homer, Thursday, April 29.
At Carnesville, Friday, April 30.
At Dainesville, Saturday, May 1.
Benjamin 11. Hill.
THE PARKER FRAUDS.
Further Developments--$450,000 of
Coupons Stolen—judditional Bail to
the Amount of $250,000 Required.
(Special Dispatch to the Nows and Courier.)
Columbia, S. C., April 22.—Parker is
charged with a gigantic fraud against
the State, and required to give §250,000
additional bail. The complaint is
brought directly in the name of the
State by Attorney General Melton, aid
ed by James H. Rion, Esq. It is
charged that Parker, in the years
1869, 1870 aud 1871, paying as Treas
urer coupons on valid bonds, put aside
§450,000 of such coupons uncancelled,
and io their place as vouchers per cou
pons which he cut off from the conver
sion bonds in this office, which, accor
ding to their dates, must have matured
at that time. They had his engraved
signature on them, and required no
other authentication. Nearly all the
valid coupons thus paid and cut uu
cancelled, and thus replaced by bogus
substitutes, have been funded at the
treasury during the present year. The
State has lost by tho operation §225,
000. This huge swindle must now come
to light, and the fraudulent Coupon
Ring, of which Parker is the shield and
the inside accomplice, be uncovered to
the public view. Everybody is j übilant
over the prospect of bringing the plun
derers to punishment. Congaree.
ALABAMA.
Convention of the Young Men’s Chris
tian Association.
Montgomery, April 22, —The State
Convention of the Young Men’s Chris
tian Association of Alabama met here
last night—H. L. McKee, of Selma, pre
siding. 4 larger delegation was in at
tendance than at any previous meet
ing, and much interest manifested. G.
A. Hall aud T. K. Cree, of Washington,
D. C., are present, representing the Ex
ecutive Committee of the United States
and British America.
FLASHES.
The Welland canal will be opened on
May 3d.
The Wheeling, W. Va., nail feeders
are on a strike.
Geo. Benton’s paper mill, at Benaiqg
ton, Yt., was burned yesterday. Loss,
§75,000.
FROST WASHINGTON.
Trouble on the Rio Grande—A Print
ers’ Strike.
Washington, April 23. —Specials to
the Texas papers report continued dis
orders along the Rio Grande.
The printers of tho Chronicle struck
yesterday. Amateurs aud old, hands
got the paper out. The strike includes
the compositors, proof readers, press
men and apprentices.
Dodging the Enforcement Act—Grant
Sticks to Delano.
The question of the constitutionality
of the Enforcement act, to be deter
mined by the decision pending, has
been fully argued on the merits four
times. In the first instance, it was ar
gued at the South Carolina Circuit, on
a motion to quash an indictment under
it by Reverdy Johnson and Henry
Stanbery. There was then a division
of opinion between the Judges,
but the hearing being on a mo
tion to quash, it was held that the
division could not be certified on such
a motion. It was again argued ou a
motion iu arrest of judgment, and the
question w#s certified here where the
case was dismissed—the accused hav
ing been pardoned by the President.
The question was again argued this
term in a ease from Kentucky by
Messrs. Stanberry and Buckner, and
still again in the present case by
Messrs. Johnson, Field, Philips and
Marr.
Nothing important before the Cabi
net, and no illusion to Cabinet changes.
The Attorney General left early this
morning for Supreme Court duties.
There is a dangerous counterfeit §5
bill of the First National Bank of Tax
ton, 111. The counterfeit is printed
from an altered plate from which base
§5 on the Traders National Bank of
Chicago are printed.
Heads of the Bureau of the Interior
Department visited the President iu a
body, assuring him that Delano had
unduly controlled their decissions.
The President said he was glad to see
them, but their visit was unnecessary,
as his confidence in Delano’s integrity
and official deportment remained un
impaired.
The President has appointed E. H.
Brooks Postmaster of Camden, S. C.
Tbe Supreme Court.
Arguments before the Supreme
Court closed to-day. The court takes
recess to Monday week, duriug which
time they will write opinions upon
cases figured and submitted. The
court will be opened Monday week,
when opinions will be read. It will
then adjourn to the second Monday in
October. Among the more important
cases to be decided are the Elgee cot
ton case and the case deciding whether
material men have a lien upon vessels
for supplies furnished in-a domestic
point. There are no other cases ma
terially affecting the South, except the
Grant parish case, which will be staved
off.
The correspondent of the New Yk>rk
Herald asserts that the Supreme Court
stands 8 to 1 against the constitution
ality of the Enforcement act. The dis
senting Judge is said to be Judge
Swayne, of Ohio.
FOREIGN* NEWS.
India.
Calcutta, April 23.— Lord North
brook, Viceroy of India, has issued a
proclamation deposing the Guikwar of
Baroda, declaring him and his issue
precluded from all rights appertaining
to sovereignty of the country, and com
pelling the Guikwar and his family to
select a placo for their interment iu
British India. The Viceroy says this
measure is based, independently of the
recent trial of the Guikwar, upon his
notorious misconduct, gross nfisgov
ernment and incapacity. Furthermore,
the restoration of the Guikwar would
be detrimental to the interest of Baro
da. The Viceroy will select a member
of the Guikwar’s family to reign.
England.
London, April 23. —A notice given by
Mr. Sullivan of his intention to have
all persons not members excluded from
the House will be debated to-night.
Mr. Pright will probably make a mo
tion that reporters be allowed to re
main. It is thought the Government
will consent to refer the subject to a
special committee.
The Tichborne Case.
London, April 23. —A motion impugn
ing the verdict of the Tichborne case,
in the Commons, attracts immense
crowds. Extra policemen are stationed
around the building.
A Fight In Cuba.
Havana, April 23. —An unofficial re
port is in circulation that a severe
fight lias taken place at Las Cruces, on
the Cienfuegos Railway, the head
quarters of Captain-General Valma
seda, and that seventy rebels were
killed and their entire force routed.
Notified to Leave.
Berlin, April 23. —The police of Po
sen have notified the Ursulrine Sisters
who are not natives of Germany to
leave the country within two months.
Results of Religious Excitement.
London, April 23. —There is an un
usual increase iu dementia among the
inmates of the work houses, which is
attributed to religious excitement.
sou th"ca RO LI N A.
The News and Courier Libel Case-
Murderers Respited—The War
Against Corrupt Officials.
Charleston, April 23. —The libel case
against the News and Courier has oc
cupied the Criminal Court for the past
two days from 9 a. m. until after dark.
The evidence was closed to-night, the
cross examination of the main wit
nesses having been the most searching
and prolonged that has occurred in
any one trial here for many years.
Two colored murderers, named
Bunch and Hardee, who were to have
been hung to-day, were respited at
noon by the colored Lieutenant Gov
ernor Gleaves, in the absence of Gov.
Chamberlain from the State.
The war against corrupt officials, be
guu by Gov. Chamberlain, has already
resulted in the arrest of Niles G. Par
ker, the State Treasurer under the
Scott and Moses’ administration, upon
emerges of fraud and embezzlement,
preftMred by Gov, Chamberlain and
others. Parker has been committed to
the Columbia jail In default of §250,000
bail. It Is rumored that this is but the
first of a series of efforts to bring the
public plunderers to justice.
The 6ars of a little boy in this city
are already wonderfully developed, and
still growing at the rate of an inch and
a half a year. If this continues he will
eventually bo fitted to edit the “Gen
eral and Particular ” column of the
Pittsburg Commercial.
THE GEORGIA DOCTORS.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
Address of Dr. DeSaussure Ford.
The Georgia Medical Association
met at Savannah on Tuesday. The
Advertiser says the members represent
ing the medical profession throughout
the entire State of Georgia were pres
ent in considerable numbers, which will
be largely increased by additional
arrivals in the city during the session
of the Association.
ADDRESS OF WELCOME.
Dr. R. D. Arnold in his felicitous off
hand style welcomed the parent asso
ciation on behalf of the Savannah
Medical Society and the citizens of
Savannah, briefly alluding to the exalt
ed work of the association during its
past existence in the elevation of the
medical profession to the dignity which
it has ever occupied. He alluded to the
power of united action in accomplish
ing great results, and paid a merited
tribute to the association and to Dr. J.
G. Thomas in securing the passage of
the Board of Health act at the last
Legislature. In conclusion, he frater
nally welcomed them to the hospitali
ties of the city, and to that of their
professional brethren of Savannah.
Dr. Campbell, of Augusta, replied on
behalf of the association to the hearty
welcome extended by Dr. Arnold, and
spoke out of the abundance of the
heart the thanks of the association.
DR. FORD’S ADDRESS.
Dr. DeSaussure Ford, of Augusta,
the President elect of the Association,
then delivered or read his address to
the Association, which was as follows:
Gentlemen of the Medical Association of
Georgia:
More than a quarter of a century ago,
in response to a call emanating from
the Medical College of Georgia, at Au
gusta, aud endorsed by the Georgia
Medical Society, at Savamiah, aud the
Medical Society in Macon, the repre
sentative medical intelligence of the
State met in the latter place to organ
ize our association, and there it was
born, About eighty delegates to the
convention were present, and among
them men whose scientiflc ability has
been influential in giving character, not
only to the advancement of medical
knowledge in our own State, but has
forwarded the interests of science in
America.
The*association elected as its first
President my father to preside over
the earliest efforts and hopes of this
new-Uom child of the State. He was
assisted with becoming enthusiasm by
such men as the briiliant Arnold, and
West, Green, Nottingham and LeConte,
and llobert Campbell, and others,
whosetearliest minds and hearts insti
tuted ft zeal and devotion in the desire
to elevate the standard of medical men
throughout the South.
It is worthy of note that one of the
earliest actions of the meeting was the
appointment of a committee to “me
morialize the Legislature on the neces
sity of instituting a regular registra
tion of marriages, births and deaths,’’
and as a point of interest I mention the
committee: Drs. Arnold, Stroliecker,
Ogilby.Gen. A. Winn, G. F. Cooper.—
From that time to the present many
efforts have been made by our associa
tion tJ convince the General Assembly
of the importance of this law, aud it
has failed, until the combined and in
telligent efforts of most ef the medical
men in the last Legislature succeeded
in having the law enacted.
After a lapse of years, your first
President comes before you to-day, in
the person of his son, to thank you for
the second honor at your hands, so
confident of his interest in all that per
tains to the continuing welfare and use
fulness of tins association, his aim
shall be to direct it into paths which
shall lead to power, fruition and peace.
It would not be inappropriate, prob
ably, at this time, to speak more iu de
tail of the history of the association,
all of which we saw and part of which
we were ; but I have concluded to en
deavor to interest you for a shoit time
by discussing a question of import
ance—one which may be considered by
some as not appropriate to the occa
sion, but which I esteem of grave im
port, not only to us as physicians, but
to mankind—a subject which has forced
itself upon, the intelligences of the
earth with such a renewed and almost
overwhelming impetus that it behooves
all men loving scientific pursuits—all
the earnest-minded—to investigate Its
claims, its aims, and the tendency of
these aims, aud to fix their opinions
concerning its effects upon the present
and future development of humanity.
THE ANTAGONISM BETWEEN SCIENCE AND
THEOLOGY.
This is no new story, but existed
even prior to the time when die “cre
ator of experimental science,” the
simple minded, and genial Galileo,
though renouncing his COpernican doc
tniue, under the tortures of the inqui
sition of the church, still is said to
have whispered “ E pur si maove,”
aud the same animus aud presumption
obtains between the contending parties
of to-day, and doubtless will continue
even with renewed violence and acri
mony.
This contention is not so difficult to
explain, as at first thought it would
appear.
The scientist, impelled by an innate
love for the wonderful aud the beauti
ful, discovers iu nature a luxuriant
arcanum, and practicing himself with
great thoughts and things he attempts
to reach, and understand, and appro
priate all those hidden forces, which
shall bestow profit and fruition.
Nature, then, is his home ; here he
dwells, and with loving tenderness and
manly energizing effort solicits her
life secrets. Is not his realm teeming
with satisfying and elevating objects
—the scrutiny and diligent study of
which must, finally, lead his mind and
heart to a goal beyond mere material
istios, where his science shall be put
aside as having only been preparatory,
but as fitting him for the study of a
lofty philosophy, which must needs
lead him to perceive that—
“ Every storm is a living thought,
Dropped from the meditations of God;
Its every essence an immortal love
Of the incarnate Deity; and all
The inmost pulses of material things
Are mediums for the pulses of His will.”
He revels with delight and ecstasy
amid the stars, travels upon the bo
som of the mighty deep, and fathoms
ocean’s waters; frolics with familiar
and friendly monads, which emit lus
trous lightnings as the brazen keel
ploughs through the moonlit deep;
watches the movements of atoms;
leads upon the rocky leaves of the
habits of fauna, and the existence of
prehistoric animals; these, and such
like, constitute the burden of his life
thoughts, refine his character, aud, in
his dreams, they envelop him iu an
environment of harmonies, and uncon
sciously he takes God into his very in
most dreams. What if he fluds no
name for his Deity, is he less uncon
scious of His presence than the shin
ing pebbles in the bottom of a stream?
Who shall dare to banish God from
anything?
The true physicist, impelled by an
irresistible desire and determination
to read all of nature’s great volume of
truth which have been so wisely and
mysteriously closed, adopts as his only
key to unlock her wonderful portals,
and to decipher her hieroglyphics, the
organ of the inductive philosophy,
which is the organ of analysis.
The age, which, Jike science, is pro
gress, discards Aristotlean, but inter
penetrating every form of research,
reigns triumphant the Baconian Phil
osophy, which subdues nature by ex
periment and enquiry who yields up to
the magic touch of the scientist her oc
cult secrets “to the multiplying of
human enjoyment and the mitigating
of human suffering.”
With this analytic system the scien
tist reaches the ultimates in the whole
range of the physical domain, and as a
legitimate outcome his evolution theory
is applied to the different and multi
farious branches of science, art, society,
literature—indeed, their “whole gene
sis is traced out historically under tho
aspect of a body of truths.” All that
he has accomplished with this mighty
lever as aiding tho human mind in its
instinctive yearning after knowledges,
it would lie impossible now to detail, so
let us speak of his character and genius,
both of which are chiefly dependent
upon and determined by the object of
his analytic scrutiny and the result of
it. Nature, in all her beauty of unity
and variety, as in obedience to the
mandate of some sovereign will, dis
closes to him everything; tells of her
secret laws, and, mayhap, to the truest
among them, the mystery of her birth.
Amazed, charmed " and tempted, his
power over her invites him to bo arro
gant, domineering, presumptuous—his
pride is inflamed. These passions load
him into error, and hence there may be
quite as many false as true physicists.
The student of physical science,
busying himself with tho rich abund
ance iu nature’s territory, and pro
gressing by a theory of evolution, ap
preciates beauties and forces whicli
shall, through untiring, laborious ef
forts, bring him nearer to the goal—
the origination of things—which, how
ever, science has never attained, and
he is presumptuous in the effort, for
one of the most brilliant scientists of
the times says: “The whole process of
evolution is the manifestation of a
power absolutely inscrutable to the
mind of man. As little in our days as
in the days of Job can man, by search
ing, find this power out. Considered
fundamentally, it is by the operation of
an insoluble mystery that life is evolv
ed, species differentiated and mind un
folded from their prepotent elements
in the immeasurable past.”
It needs a higher study to grasp it—
a philosophy rather than a science—
the one “being directly concerned only
with truths of being which lie within
or above consciousness;” the other, on
the contrary, being “directly concerned
only with facts of existence which lie
without or below consciousness.”
“Philosophy deals only witli man’s
inorganic interests ; science witli his
organic ones.” If these differences are
well founded, then Mr. Spencer is in
error, who says : “The evolution theo
ry is a philosophy of tho origination of
things.” The theory doubtless carries
us to the nebula) from which the earth
was evolved—to the cell, the com
mencement of animal and vegetable
life ; but it should go further. Whence
the nebulae ? whence the cell ?—a ques
tion to be answered, not by the physi
cist or his theory, but by a lofty phil
osophy, and not a science, “for it knows
and can know nothing of what life is
iu itseif, but only in its effect. It
knows and can know nothing—abso
lutely nothing—of what life is, inward
ly or consciously, but only of the out
ward masks or appearances under
which it is unconsciously revealed, just
as your mirror knows nothing and can
tell nothing of your morale, or living
personality, but only of your physique,
or dead one. Life is* shut up to the
realm of cousciousness —the moral or
metaphysical realm—in which infinite
and finite, God and man, are still inor
ganically blent, or ehartieally con
founded.”
It is natural that these men, with
such a storehouse replete with positive
knowledge of the ultimates of the sim
plest and most complex forms of mat
ter, should wield such a powerful in
fluence over mankind, should tend to
shape all Christendom according to
their dicta.
The true scientist’s life is a life of
uses, and humanity to-day is indebted
to him for the most wonderful and
startling progress which characterizes
it. Thought flashes into action ; ac
tion into all the arts ; action in every
science; action pertaining to the sim
plest occupation of man. Every mo
ment continent talks to continent. The
stars are photographed. Nature’s re
dundant arcana are all compelled to
contribute to the comfort aud enjoy
ment of mankiud. We know some of
the results of his dissections of all na
ture-animal, vegetable aud mineral—
aud our profession to-day enjoy and
appreciate that wonderful eelular phy
siology and pathology which is rast ex
plaining to us, with astonishing accu
racy, what was but recently enigmati
cal, and so is warrantable the thought:
“ When it has been demonstrated that
disease is the result of disordered cell
secretion, then medicine will rest upon
a scientific basis.” The chemist’s lan
guage of to-day, and his methods for
estimating the molecules of gases, the
atoms of minerals, aud the bioplasm of
animals and vegetables, and his
study of the points of force would
startle into delight even the most
learned of the ancients. In all depart
ments of learning has the the scientist
penetrated, until his theory of evolu
tion has been justly styled an organism
of the sciences. Even has his investi
gation beeD so minute that in the lan
guage of another, “I might point to
the train of deadly disorders 'over
which science has given modern society
such control disclosing the lair of the
material enemy, insuring his destruc
tion, ancVthus preventing that moral
squalor aud hopelessness which habi
tually tread on the heels of epidemics
in the ease of the poor.” Such like
grand uses aud results have followed
and will ever continue to follow these
epochal men of science, who are as
tounding the world by such cumulative
facts relating to all material things, and
we may be assured that true “science
desires not isolation, but freely com
bines with every effort toward the bet
tering of man’s estate. The lifting of
the life is the essential point.”
The realm of the theologian is entire
ly different from that of the scientist;
his, the higher realm of nature, may
be called the realm of ontology —the
science of being, and iu it, animated by
an enthusiasm whioh would immolate
him upon the scaffold, or burn him at
the stake, he luxuriates with a zeal and
cheerfulness which must commend him
to the admiration of the world. The
development of humanity is his
thought; his chastity of the present
with all of its loveliness but a prepara
tion for an hereafter possibly of beati
tude, and even of influence.
Here we approach a doubtful ground,
but still shall endeavor, only philo
sophically, to occupy it for a few mo
ments. From all historic times this
realm has invited the thoughts of the
loftiest minds and the emotions of the
purest hearts of men, who, as devotees,
have worshipped at her holy shrine,
and, by that presentment of themselves
as willing sacrifices, have been influen
tial in elevating mankind into states of
morality and charity.
The man of the church is surround
ed by a brighter light than illumines
the man of science—the light of rev
elation— ’tis needless here to discuss
tho necessity for that revelation—
which he finds in the canons of Scrip
ture, settled by his mother, the Church,
and upon these he founds his science,’
and claims that by this light he is en
abled to determine tho beginnings of
humanity and to make out a pro
gramme from them to the final con
summation. He works in the church
as a divinely appointed and organized
society upon tho earth, aud traces
•backwards in the past the various
changes in it during the different ages
of the world and through different dis
pensations, and while he may suppose
that his science is complete, that his
interpretation of tho Scriptures is cor
rect, that it is a finality, yet the spirit
of the theory of evolution has entered
his domain, and no matter whether
the moro recent promulgation of new
light and new dogma be beyond the
ken of tho purest theologian, or the
general Christian mind, or aro consid
ered unnatural and foolishness, still it
shows that theologic sciences must
progress in a parallel line— pari passu—
with physical science, in order that the
church, with the holy word embalmed
within her heart, shall continue ever to
be the great light bearer to humanity—
the great find mighty engine of power
to civilization, in all historic time* how
ever the fact may be questioned.
The theologian may be in error, or
lather he may assume that his inter
pretration of the Scriptures is correct,
no matter how far he may differ from
his fellows, which are many, and which
still will multiply, yet the same word is
satisfying to all, and this of itself, as a
logical sequence, mu3t prove the di
vine oiigin of that word, which will
ever ride triumphant over any dogma
or ecclesiastic-ism, the work of man’s
ingenuity. “Thus, through the wear
and changes of ages,the Word endures
aud shall endure, because it is a tem
ple of God, eternal in the heavens; aud
whoso would describe that temple is
not dependent solely upon that repre
sentation of it which has been wrought
out in verbal stone.”
The prince of theologians, as I have
heard St. Paul not irreverently called
announces the fact (I will not say the
doctrine) that there is a natural body
and there is a spiritual body. The
habits of the merest popular philoso
phy teach men that to the natural eye
spiritual things are invisible, aud that
natural things, when the spirit has
fled, are dead. It seems to me that
these differences might be readily ac
commodated by constructing in tho
mind a mighty Trinity. The scientist
shall represent the natural body, the
theologian tho spiritual body (vulgarly
called the soul) and the third person
shall be God, that breath of life, who
has led tho scientist in the humble but
lovely paths of nature, where he has
so revelled in natural delights and
knowledges as to be satisfied to call
the first cause the inscrutable, the un
knowable, and yet has received un
consciously sufficient inspiration as
to seek to make himself—the man—the
grandest of natural things.
The theologian has walked in'higher
paths; more difficult; up loftier moun
tains, but their pinnacles rested only iu
Heaven; the clay of earth clinging to
his limbs, his feet have oftener slipped,
his perils have been greater, but what
are perils with the certain light ahead;
what if the whole man is wrapt iu
clouds upon the mountain side, ff final
deliverance is sure, he rests content to
receive from God and yield back na
ture, revelation and life; for what is
his lofty science worth if by it he can
not predict the final possible perfect
recovery of man-the individual and
the whole body of his humanity—back
to the bosom of its God ? and offer to
every member of the family of man,
the hope of perfect res* in God—ay’,
the hope of reaching that Sabbatic day,
even in this life, iu which he shall
know no will but God’s will, and thus
become the recipient of all the com
municable fullness of lovo and wisdom.
For “He who lives in the bosom of his
Maker learns the open secrets of his
works.”
The discussion of the antagonism be
tween tho scientist and the theologian
would be almost endless, because, in
the words of another, “to reconcile
science and religion is like an endeavor
to measure two constantly expanding
scales by comparison with each other.
It does-not seem to be recognized that
a scientific man can have a religion
apart from his science; that it is not
necessary for him to apply the exact
laws of his particular science to his
religious convictions, or to test the
logic of his belief by the methods which
he has found secessary and invaluable
in scientific investigations. Mauy scien
tific men who are considered Atheists,
are far from being so. It is compati
ble for a man to be a logical reasoner
in an exact science, aud yet to refuse
to apply the touchstones, which serve
him in his science, to his religion. He
recognizes that his religious belief is
an inherent want of his nature.” We
would remind the theologian and de
precate any of his attempts to invade
the domain of the scientist, for in
doing so from his standing point he is
invariably outwitted ; that he is fre
quently “using the harmonics and
adoptions of nature as proofs of wis
dom and design on the part of the
Creator. But to whom is he indebted
for a knowledge of this evidence ? To
the scientists who have disclosed this
order, harmony and adaptation, by the
study of matter. The domain which
theology of old allotted to the devil,
science has rescued to the service of
religion by the revelation of its mar
vellous powers aud capacities ; why,
then, condemn the scientist, if, pushing
on his investigation yet further, he
claims to discern yet higher potencies
aud possibilities in this divine material
of which the universe is constituted ?”
Though I know not the times, nor
the seasons these two mighty powers
of the world will be entirely reconciled,
I would say to the scientist to seek out
the lovely arcana of nature and spread
them out upon the tablets of the hu
man mind; ’us the work aud worship
of the natural man, aud a worthy of
fering. To the theologian, I would
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say why, with your feet staediug
upon the eternal hills, should you
fear the sun of natural science
to dispel the clouds which envelop
you ? If every system of man’s
doctrine were wrecked, would God be
less a God—less able to supply the ma
chinery for the most delicate of na
ture’s operations or to answer the
sighings of the humblest hearts, to
pile mountains on mountains, or to in
spire and reach above the highest hu
man intellect?
As love, truth anil beauty, three in one,
agree,
Kengipn, science and creative art
should work together, and the public
heart, >
And brain and body, three in one, express
Heaven s three-fold archetypal loveliness.”
The Weather.
War Department, )
Office of Chief Signal Officer -
Washington, April 24—1 a. m. |
Probabilities :
For the South Atlantic States, light
rains, followed by clearing weather,
rising temperature, Northerly to Wes
terly winds and rising barometer.
Report of the United States Signal
Service Bureau.
Augusta, April 23—4:16 P. M.
Augusta, 47 deg.—Light rain.
Buffalo, 38 deg.—Clear.
Charleston, 51 deg.—Light rain.
New Orleans, 66 deg.—Clear.
New York, 52 deg.—Clear.
FROM NEW YORK.
Suicid6 of a Merchant—Death of John
Harter—lnsurance News.
New York, AprU 23.—Chas. C. Lewis,
member of the suspended firm of Web
ster, Lewis & Cos., and whose family
are at aiken, S. G, shot himself dead at
the Windsor House yesterday iu con
sequence of his difficulties.
John Harper, senior partner of Har
per Brothers, is dead, aged 79.
The National Board of Fire Under
writers will continue to charge taxes to
policy owners where found necessary.
The Executive Committee are empow
ered to offer rewards for the arrest of
incendiaries, whether local authorities
did so or not.
The Cashier of the Hoboken Savings
Bank has been convicted of stealing
the bank’s money and sentenced, on
various counts, aggregating ten (10)
years.
The resignation of Geo. N. Cass,
President of the Northern Pacific Rail
road, has been accepted.
The National Fire Underwriters
elected the following Executive Com
mit tee : Stephen Crowell, D. A. Heald,
J. W. Murray, Chas. Piatt, A. G. Baker,
D. K. Smith, B. Lockwood, J. R. Hall,
Geo. P. Crain, Geo. L. Chase and Henrv
Kellogg.
FROM LOUISIANA.
Burning of Steamboats in New Or
leans. Fearful Loss of Life.
Nf.w Orleans, April 23.—The steam
boats John Kylo, Exporter and Ch&s.
Rodman; at the foot of Poydras street,
were burned to the water’s edge. Many
lives are said to have been lost. A lire
originated in the blacksmith shop of
the John Kyle. Capt. Hutchinson, of
the John Kyle, thiuks every one on
aboard was saved, as he gave timely
warning.
The cabin of the Kyle was enveloped
in flames, and two minutes after the
alarm the Kyle drifted against the Ex
porter and Bodman. Three boats
drifted into the stream. The people
aboard the Exporter jumpted aboard
the Bodman which also caught fire.—
Three vessels were soon burned. The
levies lost are estimated at from $20,000
to §IOO,OOO. The commander of the
United States steamer Kansas sent
boats to the rescue and rescued 10.—
The jobbing tug boats made no effort
to save life. There was an excursion
party from Cincinnati or Pittsburgh,
aboard, many of whom it is feared are
lost. A daughter of Capt. Reese, of the
Exporter, is lost. Capt. Shenkle, of the
Bodman, is badly burned. His son is
lost.
BALTIMORE.
Death, of Col. E. M. Yerger.
Baltimore, April 23.—C01. E. M. Yer
ger, formerly of Mississippi, but for
several years past a resident of this
city, died very suddenly last night. At
one time his name was prominent be
fore the public in connection with the
killing of Col. Crane, at Jackson, Miss.,
for which he was tried by a military
commission. The deceased was in, ap
parently, good health up to 1 o’clock
p. m. yesterday. For several years
since residing in Baltimore, he was
proprietor and editor of an evening
journal.
PHILADELPHIA.
Stealing Telegraph Funds.
Philadelphia, April 23.—There is a
defalcation of §6,000 iu the Western
Union Telegraph office. It is attributed
to John A. Heiner/ Chief Clerk, to
Superintendent Bates. Heiner is non
est. [But not honest]
CALIFORNIA. *
Big Scare—Nobody Hurt.
San Francisco, April 23.—A dispatch
from Santa Barbara says the schooner
sent to the assistance of a supposed
burning steamer returned and reports
a man-of-war passed yesterday firing
guns for practice. There is no other
information tending to confirm the
rumor of disaster.
Says the New York Herald: “Sena
tor Morton is an eminent statesman of
the Republican party. He has been
the apostle of repression and revenge.
He has championed every infamy or
usurpation in the South that called it
self ft government. Therefore when he
pronounces New Orleans a dead city he
speaks his own condemnation and that
of his party. Dying New Orleans rep
resents the ignorance, the cupidity, the
folly and the crimes of Mr. Morton’s
party.”
“Five cents fare for that child,
madam,” said a street car conductor
yesterday as he opened the door and
put his head into the door. “Very
well,” she replied, feeling in her pocket;
“this is an orphan child, and I’m its
guardian. I must have a receipt for
all moneys paid out, and as soon as
you write one I’ll drop a nickle in the
box.” He shut the door and leaned
over the brake like a man in deep
thought.
* “Thrice welcome, Spring, thou bright
eyed, fair-haired maid.” Oh ! give her
a pair of rubber-boots and say nothing
about it.