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JOHN H. SEALS, - Editor and Proprietor. MRS. MARY E. BRYAN (*) Associate Editor. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY. NOV. 13, 1875. The money must accompany all orders for this paper, and it will be discontinued at the expiration of the time, unless renewed. GEORGE H. HANCOCK—A CARD. From and after this date, onr former agent, Mr. George H. Hancock, will be no longer con nected with this paper. To our esteemed friends in the Carolinas we will say that we had written Mr. Hancock to discontinue his work there, hut he failed to receive our letter; hence, he was pursuing his work as our authorized agent, and we shall cheerfully fulfill all contracts for sub scriptions then made by him. WHAT IS THE MATTER ? Why don't you send in your clubs of sub scribers, or even one subscriber ? Can’t you “raise ” three dollars, nor two dollars and fifty cents ? A great many speak of sending in clubs, but the clubs don’t come, and we ex pected them at this season. Now is the time. We are beginning new stories every week or so. If you are a friend to The Sunny South, as you profess to be, and as we believe you to be, then do something for it. Go right to work and send in one, two, three, half a dozen or a dozen new subscribers with the money. Now is the time we need money. We have gone to great expense in fitting up a new building and purchasing new machinery, and just now requite more help than we shall ever need again. At all events, we hope so. You are pleased with the paper. Everybody is pleased with it. Then let everybody work for it just a little, and let us show to the world that there is culture and intelligence enough in the South to sustain at least one literary paper. Send in one subscriber, if no more. Every one, we think, has personal inlluence enough to do that. We shall see. We make every honest friend of the paper an agent. [For The Sunny South.) THE UNITY OF THE RACES. Movements in Southern Society. but an education that will increase the resources A Good Story of a Well-Known Democrat.— of the mind, that will draw out and strengthen The propensity of Southern gentlemen of the old xjma umii \jx inn aavno, . ,. all its faculties and fit them to grasp such knowl- regime for engaging in political debates is uni- poilte^n^he^lnth 5 any importSt o^inter- edge as will bear practically upon the duties of versally known. They had all the details of pol- ; THE AFFIRMATIVE <:f the QUESTION. J.stin<' events in social circles, that The Sunny every-day life. We want no fossilized fanatic, itics at their tongue’s ends, knew the circurn- ( ; South may set forth not only the thoughts, but prating forever of the past, but the keen, prac- stances and result of every election of import- BY A ' E ’ E ’ Ml the movements of our people. tical educator who will study the natural apti- ance that had ever been held, and could argue In No. 25 of The Sunny South appears an ar- j Mrs. Mildred Walton, President of the La- tudesof a pupil, and set himself to the task of by the hour without an v personal ill-feeling gen- ‘j 01 ® u “ der the above caption, in which the au- j dies’ Memorial Association ° f ... .. . .. .. ... . - .. . ... “ 1 * 88 thor, after a preliminary statement of the diffi- !ind a bright jewel m the crown of woman- cultivating and directing these, with an eye to erally, though they often waxed warm, espe- culties which involve the subject, and admitting ' " their useful exercise in after life. We want an cially in their after-dinner discussions, when that no practical good could possibly result, educator who has kept pace with the changes the wine “had had its way,” and would bring attendant upon the progress and growth of down their brawny fists upon the table with an thought, and who will instill into the pupil the emphasis that made the glasses shiver—provided same spirit of activity and liveliness, who will the ladies had retired. cultivate the perceptive faculties, train the eye and ear and all the instruments of the senses to observe the operations of nature and science. In such a system of instruction, it is apparent A good story is told of a noted political de bater, Mr. E , of Virginia, who at one of these genial “dinings,” found himself obliged to fight single-handed—the only Democrat in a goodly that the study of science would be made para- array of Whigs. The discussion began, of course, , , , .... , mount-science which gives insight into the the moment the ladies left the room, and speed-1 Adaill than the Uorse or dog> aml having no bet _ useful arts; which teaches the principles that are ily waxed warm. Mr. E——, getting the ear of I ter claim to the promises held out in the gospel, applied to the steam engine and the telegraph as the company in the outset, laid on right and j if behooves us, as a matter of economy, to apply well as to agriculture, which is the basis of all other industries. Science brings us face to face with nature— with that same nature from which the Greeks drew the very culture that our classicists so blindly adore. Nature is the great school for wait, please, till I get through. I’m one against facts may lead ns to a final decision* thought, and science is the key that unlocks her seven, and you must let me make my points; ! of the human species is true mysteries and enables us to see the beauty, sym- then you can reply.” . b Because the: Bible most emphatically teaches ,. , . , , ,. . it, —Acts xvn-2<3: “ And have made of one blood metry and harmony which underlie the seeming He finished at last, leaving every W hig nerve j nU natiom of men for to dwell on all the face of the quivering, every Whig face burning with sup- pressed indignation, and every Whig breast full, and to place the means of salvation within the reach of all. 2. But if the negative be true, then the non- the company in the outset, laid on right and left with his customary vigor, rasping the Whigs ] ollr mwms most needed, and Jo withdraw , . J ” ’u s b our missionaries from the heathen the expen- on their sorest points, arguing, asserting, 1 .... ... hood,” was married to Mr. F. A. Timberlake, a prominent merchant of that city, oji the 3d in- nevertheless endeavors to lift the vail, and by j stant. the dim light of opinion, sets out in search of , The Irish Literary Society, of this city, gave the unprofitable truth. j a calico hop at the Fulton Blues’ armory on the Now, we maintain that the subject is one of 'l d instant, the proceeds of which will be devo- vital importance to the human family because — j ted to some benevolent object. There was a 1. If the affirmative be true, all nations being ; large number of ladies and gentlemen present, under condemnation, through the sin of Adam, j Each lady brought a calico cravat to match the ; it becomes our duty to disseminate the gospel dress she wore. These cravats were handed to de nouncing. demonstrating—to his own entire sat isfaction —for perhaps half an hour, silencing every attempt at interruption by saying: “Now diture saved thereby to be applied to the con struction of genealogical tables which shall be duly deposited in the archives of the nation. So much, therefore, being at stake, let ns en deavor to ascertain the truth; perhaps stubborn The unity chaos. Shall we not, then, agree with Prof. Clarke, parties at the door who mixed the whole num ber and then distributed them among the young men. The gentleman who had a cravat of the same pattern as the lady’s dress, had the first set with her. Last week Mr. Green B. Adair, of this city, was married to Miss Annie L. Marsh, the ac complished daughter of Mr. E. W. Marsh, of the w'ealthy wholesale firm of Moore «Sr Marsh, on Decatur street. The parlors were filled with prominent gentlemen and handsome ladies of this city and other places. An elegant marri age feast was partaken of by the guests, after which the happy pair left for a Northern tour. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. A. T. Spalding, of the Second Baptist Church. Mr. N. M. Daniels, of Georgia, passed through this city en route to his home in Forsyth, with his beautiful bride, Miss Katie January, captured the learned and large-minded professorof chem- almost to bursting, with a speech in reply. The istry in the University of Cincinnati, that the strongest debater of them all managed to begin study of science, with modern languages, liter- first, but just as he pronounced the opening earth.” Now, it is impossible to believe the Bible in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and the theory of the plurality of the human spe- Id Clarksville, Tennessee, Miss Mary Holmes, cies at the same time, since the one is diametric- the eldest daughter of Dr. W. 1. Holmes, was ally opposed to the other. But the truth of the married to Mr. S. B. Fuqua on the 2d instant. Bible is firmly established, hence tiie unity of An elegant supper was prepared for the occa- the species is true. Two Schools.—Dr. Exoletus, a learned and venerable adherent of the old school, has lately resigned his post as president of Y Univer sity. His resignation was borne with fortitude by the faculty and students of the college; to tell the truth, it was a great relief, for the Doc tor, though an excellent man, was undoubtedly a fossil. He had not grown with the growing age—the moss of old ideas clung to him. Not withstanding his great reputation for learning and his long occupancy of the presidential chair, he was felt to be an incubus upon progress and a clog to all measures of reform. His nature lacked the life, the energy and the largeness of view needed to lift it out of old grooves and urge it to follow the advancing lights of the age. He clung obstinately to the old system of educa tional cramming-, he stood firm on his hoary stronghold of mathematics and dead languages, and esteemed all culture the flimsiest of fabrics that was not built upon the Greek and Latin lex icons, with Xenophon and Tacitus as corner stones. He looked with an unfriendly eye upon the prominence which science was gaining in the curriculum of his beloved institute. He re garded even the laboratory as “ irregular,” and sniffed with open contempt at the introduction of the scalpel and the microscope by the students of zoology and botany. When it was proposed to erect an observatory upon the college and fix therein a telescope for the better study of astron omy, the venerable president became much ex cited, and begged leave to say that he deemed such an addition an unnecessary expense, and that the money proposed to be expended upon it could be better used in purchasing a “classic library,” containing the works of Plato, Pliny, Sallust, Plutarch, Herodotus, and “all those mighty minds of the past, whom envious mod- ern pigmies would fain cast in the background in order to fill their places with new-fangled isms and irregular innovations.” Thus the Doctor wound up his protest. The indignant students looked eagerly at their favor ite teacher, the eagle-eyed professor of modem science; but he refrained from any retort, only throwing up his fine brow with the gleam of a half-amused, half-pitying smile playing about the corners of his mouth. It will be seen that the learned Doctor is a staunch representative of the old school of edu cation, whose basis of belief is that all other studies should be subordinate to grammar, math ematics, and especially the dead languages. The adherents of the old school practice the cram- m i n g system according to the established rule of their forefathers, filling the student’s mind with a mass of dry information and arbitrary rules that have little direct bearing upon modem work and afford slight aid in solving the great social and economic problems of to-day. In this sys tem of education, all original thought and inves tigation are discouraged, minds are tied down to the mouldy authorities of the past, and routine reigns with a monotony that represses all vigor of thought. No attention is paid to the dissimi larity existing in different minds, but all are carried through the same course of training, and an effort made to turn them out of the gradua ting moulds as like each other as so many cop per cents. And this, when their pursuits in the world they enter will be as diverse as are their tastes and inclinations. This is not the intellectual training that is needed by the minds of to-day. Life has grown too earnest, too complex and varied, for any mere cultivation of the memory, acquisition of arbitrary facts and mathematical gymnastics to satisfy its needs. We want no “Bookful blockheads, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in their heads,” ature, philosophy and mathematics as aids, does all for the mind that the old classical education did, and more'' “Its natural results,” says Dr. Clarke, “are a higher utility, a higher culture. It trains mem ory, intellect, the perceptive faculties and the sense of the beautiful simultaneously, insuring a symmetrical development. It brings men into closer relations with the spirit of modern civil ization, bears directly upon all modern work, aids in practical after life, as no other education can, and helps the student to grow in every di rection.” * We Cannot Resist.—Among the great num ber of most excellent notices of The Sunny South constantly appearing in the papers North, South, East and West, we see many which we are 2 The science of language, of comparative philology, of ethnology and archaeology, lead us to the same conclusion. Indeed, we may rest contented, since it is established by those very men who have adopted the monistic theory of sion. Colonel Daniel R. Mitchell, eighty years of age, was married to Mrs. Carrie Williamson, a young widow of Rome, Georgia, on the evening of the 4th instant. The silver wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Perino words, Mr. E inteirupted him. “Pardon me,” he said; “I know all your little arguments, so I’ll go and talk with the ladies for half an hour, while you run them over. When , „ _ you get through, send for me, and I’ll come and | tbe origin of man, as Darwin, Huxley and Spen- ! Brown, of Atlanta, came off at their elegant new „ ; cer, that there exists a communitv of nature in residence on Peachtree street last week, and was sweep you clear out of the arena. | a p the different races of the habitable globe, and an intensely interesting affair. A large and : that the same common fundamental nature is brilliant assemblage gathered to do them honor, Mrs. Jackson at the Unfailing: in Richmond, found existing even under the most diverse while they, in turn, did the honors of the oc- physical conditions. Again, it is established be- casion with becoming grace and dignity. Though yond controversy that the very races—the Se- the cards bore the inscription “no presents,” mitic (Hebrew, Chaldee, Arabic, etc.), which, the arrry of presentations was large and beanti- according to our author, are non-Adamic, can show a clearer title and a better right to appro priate the name Adamic than the Anglo-Saxon, which belongs to the Aryan family. Now, we know that the Germanic, Slavo, Lith uanian, Celtic, Italian (Latin, French, etc.), Greek, Persian and Sanskrit languages, which comprise the Aryan family, have all been devel- oped from a single germ. For example, from the temnted to transfer to our own coin inns but , e l JiU " 10I J " bele the carriage ot the widow of Sanskrit roo t ar comes the Latin arare, the Greek tempted to transfer to our own columns, but | Stonewall Jackson was stationed. Many of the | „ ro «„, the Irish ar, Lithuanian arti, Russian orati, Gothic arjan, Anglo-Saxon erjan, and English ear (verb), showing all to have been developed | from a single primitive form. Now-, there exists a resemblance so striking betw-een the languages of Central Africa, Ethio- , pia, Egypt, Arabia, etc., and those of the Aryan 10 was dressed j family, that it is easier to accept the general con- Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Angier, a sugar sifter. Mrs. catenation of these languages than to account for i Knight and Mrs. Taylor, a silver card receiver, the similarity of roots by any other hypothesis, j Walter R. Brown, a preserve set. Mr. and Mrs. 3. The moral and religious propensities are H. C. Leonard, a silver cheese-knife. The Richmond Whig says : Some time before the procession entered the grounds, two carriages drove ujj and took position near the stand—one containing General Heth, the widow of Stone wall Jackson, and her daughter Julia, a pretty child of about thirteen years, and the other the v _dow of General J. E. B. Stuart. During the progress of the latter portion of the ceremonies, an affecting scene was transpiring in the rear of dislike to do so, for many reasons. The follow ing, however, is so forcibly and so handsomely said, that we cannot resist the inclination to lay it before our readers. It is from the editorial columns of the Albany News, an independent and outspoken paper on all subjects, and one of our most influential Georgia weeklies. It says: old veterans of the Stone 11 Brigade visited her there, while the lad}-, taking them each by the hand, said some kind words to them when her emotion permitted her to speak. It was an im pressive spectacle to see these hardy men with ! tears bedewing their cheeks, “ -tliered about the widow of their former leadc in deep mourning. The Richmond Enquirer says: Before the speaking w-as begun, five of the crippled soldiers tul. The following is a list of presents, and in the aggregate cost near S2.0U0: Messrs. W. H. Tuller, R. H. Richards, Paul Roniare and T. B. Binyon, a solid silver pitcher. Mr. and Mrs. George, Sharpe, Jr., a solid silver berry-stand, inlaid with gold. Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Kimball, a “ vinnegrette,” or silver tea pot, after the Chinese pattern, and about the size and shape of an egg. This is quite a nov elty. Citizens’ Bank a beautiful bronze clock with glass shade. Mr. and Mrs. Shelton Ed wards, a pair of elegant flower-vases. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Chamberlin, a silver cake-basket. Herbert Brown, a sugar and butter set. Charlie Crankshaw, a cream set. Mr. W. C. Maffett, a flower vase. H. C. Glenn, a butter-dish. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Johnston, a silver card receiver.. Cora A. Position is everything, otherwise ;the Sunny of the old Stonewall Brigade went to the rear of | inherent in all the races” of men, and in man and Willie S. Brown, a sugar and cream set. South man would not dare to assert that writing the speakers’ stand, where Mrs. Jackson was i alone. Indeed, it is this element mainly which | Col. and Mrs. G. W. Adair, a sugar and butter notes in church during service “is exceedingly seated in the carriage. “I served under her improper, and an evidence of bad raising.” j husband,” said one—an old fellow, whose leg This is just w-hat ell right-tlunking people had been tyken of^ hr T a sl-ell. _ Mrs. Jackson, must admit, but it "takes “Answers to Corres f pondents” to make the rebuke a proper and pru upon seeing these olU' veterans, exhibited much emotion. One had his leg taken oft’ above the knee, another had been wounded in the thigh, the third had only one arm, the fourth had been shot in the ankle, and the left arm of the fifth dangled uselessly by his side. They were satis- distinguishes him from the brute. Now, that ! set. Mrs. .Judge R. P. Trippe, a nut-bowl. C. God should endow all men with the same moral | I- Brown, an olive spoon and fork. Hon. John and religious nature, and yet leave* majority of : H. and Mrs. James, a silver water service. Col. dent one. Ask some more questions, ladies fair, and see if the replies are always as true and pointed. And speaking of The Sunny South, it is time we added ours to the general expression of pub lic opinion in regard to this great publication. Great because of the need felt for a medium of ' slowly away. Large numbers of ex-Confederate communication between the South and the out- j Generals and soldiers went up to the carriage in side world, and greater because of the noblemen : which Mrs. Jackson was seated, and were pre- and true-hearted women who have come forward j sented to her. Among the first to call and pay to build up and sustain and publish a Southern I their respects were General Joseph E. Johnston literature. There is not to-day in all the length j and staff'. and breadth of the country such an array of The Richmond Dispatch says: At the conclu- contributors to anj- other American newspaper i sion of the ceremonies, Governor Kemper, taking as that of The Sunny South. There is much in ; Mrs. Jackson’s daughter by the hand, led her to the human race without hope and without God in the world, is a theory incompatible with the wisdom and justice of Omnipotence. 4. But if the other races are not descended from Adam, then can they lay no claim to im mortality. What, therefore, shall we say of the and Mrs. John B. Peck, a silver molasses stand. Mr. and Mrs. Er Lawslie, a cake basket. B. W. Briscoe, a full ice-cream set. Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Douglass, a sugar and butter set. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Eddleman, a butter dish. W. A. Haynes, a silver dipper. “Anonymous,” a sil lied when they caught a glimpse of the face of ' amalgamation of the Adamic and non-Adamic j ver tea service of six pieces. Mr. and Mrs. JV il the wife of their old commander, and walked ; “— * —> ' ' u> —* -— A - a name, and this Georgia enterprise bears one which appeals to all that is best and brightest in our own beloved South. When Dr. John Hall, of New York, said to Dr. Stuart Robinson: “You have no literature in your church in the South,” Dr. R. answered: “We are a talking people, rather than a writing people.” The reply was: “Why then do you complain that you are not known, and that the world believes the stories of these Northern men ? If you are foolish enough to give them all the writing, and isolate yourselves, how can you ex pect the world to do otherwise?” If this be true of church literature, how much more true it is of other literary departments. The church has reaped a glorious harvest from the labors of a Thornwell, a Plumer, a Palmer, and many others, but a light literature has languished. Would that some energetic worker for The Sunny South would collect a list of writers and their works. No compiler of Amer ican poets and poetry has ever been known to present even the fairest specimens of the work of the very few poets they have named. We have had some historians, some statesmen, whose works will be handed down to an appre ciative posterity; but we want something done now to encourage home literature, to engender right principles, thoughts and feelings in the young people of the South—the boys and girls of to-day—who will soon rule, by reason of the superiority of a pure and exalted manhood and womanhood, not the South alone, but wherever the conservative power of our people has a right to assert itself and claim the power of directing the opinions and destiny of the American people. We must add also another short paragraph from a long editorial on the same subject in the Tennessee Commercial, published at Shelbyville. The editor says: Thousands of people in this section of the country are yearly sending their millions North for the Harpers’ publications, Frank Leslie’s, and kindred publications of light literature and scientific knowledge. While we have not a word to say in opposition to these publications, for they are all good ones, yet we feel it is the duty of the people of the South to yield a ready and liberal support to all local enterprises, especially such an one as The Sunny South. It is equal to any publication that comes from the Northern States in its high-toned literature, having for its contributors some of the most gifted intellects of the country. Its typographical execution and make-up is second to none in any country. It is a paper that will give a gleaffi of brightness to the inmates of any household group, and make the family-circle the centre of attraction. And still another word we must add from the Illinois Advocate, published at Enfield: The Sunny South.—This new Southern weekly appears upon our table replete, as usual, with its harvest of fancy, wit, wisdom. It is des tined to be the leading literary paper of the con tinent. It should be in every household. the front of the platform, where she was intro duced to the survivors of the old brigade. They raised their hats in respect and greeted her with cheers. The sentinels had cleared away the crowd in the rear of the platform and opened a pathway to the statue, and they were among the first to deposit floral offerings upon the pedestal. After Mrs. Jackson returned to her carriage, nearly every member of the Stonewall Brigade went up and spoke to her. Habtranft’s official majority for Governor of Pennsylvania is 14,150. The Way to Raise Corn.—While the wail of “poor seasons ” and no corn made goes up from so many portions of the South, a little item shows what can be done in spite of bad seasons and lazy freedmen. Mr. Grant Wilkins, of this city, brings back from the Selma Fair specimens of com grown in Lauderdale county, Alabama, of which the exhibitor stated that he raised 2211 bushels upon one acre. His statement was fully corroborated by the affidavits of prominent citizens of the county. What kind of manure do you suppose he used? We suspect it to have been elbow grease in the main, which, according to our observation, is ahead of phos phates and compounds. Mrs. M. B. Sheridan will please let us have her Memphis report. We are receiving letters frpm parties there whose games have not been reported. No names have been reported from that city. Grand Duke Alexis, of Russia, has just been divorced from the graceful and fascinating young wife with whom he ran away two years ago and married on German territory. Afterwards, he brought her to America, where they passed the honeymoon, forgetful of courts and crowns. The incessant entreaties of his mother, the Empress, prevailed upon him to return to Russia, where, after much persuasion, he has been induced to consent to a divorce. He resumes his situation in the Russian Navy, while the poor young bride is consoled by a handsome annuity. The Right Wife.—Young men, consider what I say: Were I to advise a friend as to his choice of a wife, my counsel would be, “Look out for one distinguished for her attention and sweet ness to her parents.” The fund of worth and affection indicated by such behavior, joined to the habits of duty and consideration thereby contracted, being transferred to the married state, will not fail to render her a mild and obliging companion. The footprint of the deer or fox causes the hound not only to know that the deer or fox ex ists, but that he has been there where his foot print is, and, whether far or near in point of time, which way he has gone. Shall man, with nobler instincts and intellect, fail to discern the “footprints of the Creator”—unlike all other marks—and His handwriting on the walls of space and on his soul ? J. races ? If their offspring cannot claim the whole of immortality, will our author deprive them of their just half, eighth or fourth part, as the case may be ? 5. But what is known as the law of species must forever settle the question. The amalga mation of any two distinct species will inevitably pro duce a hybrid. It is needless to cite examples — we have only to look around us to see the truth of this law, and fortunate for us that it is so. Hence, if we find that the offspring of any two supposed species are not hybrids, we prove to a moral certainty that the progenitors of such off spring are not distinct species, but only varieties of the same species. Now, applying this law to the amalgamation of the white and colored races, we know that their offspring are not hybrids; ergo, these races are not separate creations and distinct species, but only varieties of the same. We conclude, therefore, that the unity of the human species is a truth which science, the Bible and the laws of nature have established beyond question. ’Tis a rock whose firm foun dation was laid by the great Architect of the uni verse himself—religion, firmly planted on its summit, is all serene, while the angry waves of infidelity and skepticism, dashing in blind fury on its base, lie shattered at her feet. BOOKS AND PERIODICALS. Lost Forever. By L. T. Townsend, D. D„ Author of “ Crede,” etc. Lee & Shepard, Publishers, Boston. We have in this neat volume of 448 pages an able and discriminating description of the doc trines of eternal punishment, by one of the most vigorous and popular writers of the times. This awful subject which lies at the foundation of the Christian religion, and which is necessary to conserve the interests of public morality, needs to be steadfastly maintained in these days of abounding scepticism and licentiousness. Those who entertain any doubts in regard to the dura tion of future punishment, would do well to di gest the contents of this clear and trenchant treatise. A book of this kind is the demand of the age, and the popular publishers of it have done a good service to the cause of truth and righteousness by placing it among their valuable Stiuvings for the Faith. A Series of Lectures Deliv ered Under the Auspices of the Christian Evidence Society. New York: A. D. F. Randolph, Publisher. This volume meets precisely the leading phases of modern infidelity, and dismisses the popular objections to Christianity with marked ability and discrimination. Those who are harassed by sceptical doubts and difficulties will find in these learned lectures a sure antidote for their scepticism. Most of the distinguished lecturers enjoy a wide reputation as writers on various topics, and all of them have here made a splen did contribution to the apologetics of religion. Among the large number of Valuable publica tions which are found in the catalogue of this popular house, none are better suited than this to advance the interests of truth and righteous ness. We have recently received from the large and liberal publishing house of D. Appleton & Co., New York, two volumes belonging to its classical series. We have often commended the text books of the Appleton’s to the public, and we here take occasion again to say that they are worthy of universal adoption in our schools and colleges. Let teachers procure them and exam ine them for themselves. lie D. Grant, preserve and jelly spoons. It is rumored that four of the prettiest girls in Athens, Ga., are to be married this winter. Fort Valley is sayt^to abound in love-sick couples. Oliver Peacock, of Marion county, Ga., cap tured Miss Leila McKee, of Harris county, and took her to his home in Buena Vista, and his friends united in great merry-making over the occasion, at the residence of Mr. Henry McKee. The following are recent Southern marriages: Mr. J. T. Moreland to Miss Mary E. Powell, in Dade county, Ga., by Rev. S. M. Hosmer. Mr. N. B. Cheairs to Miss Annie Alexander, in Spring Hill, Tenn., by Rev. R. G. Irvine. Mr. James Bunch to Miss Mattie Ledbetter, in Murray county, Tenn., by same. Mr. Louis Parker, of Brazoria county Texas, to Miss A. B. Bnrriss, of Goliad, Texas, by Rev. N. E. Carrington. Mr. George T. Bradley to Miss M. J. Scott, of Floyd county, Ga. Mr. Wiley F. Louallen to Miss Margaret Wal lace, of Floyd county, Ga. Mr. Horace H. Watts to Miss Emma Gatewood, both of Scott county, Miss., by Rev. Dr. Mc Donald. In Calhoun county, Ala., by the Rev. R. G. Ragan, Mr. R. P. Brindley, of Cherokee county, Ala., to Miss Eliza Tatum. By the Rev. Abel Taton, Mr. AVm. H. Ware to Miss Adelia Zuleima Reynolds, all of Tallapoosa county, Alabama. ljy the Rev. Frank Brandon, Mr. Charles F. Carter, of Selma, Ala., to Miss Sue O. Tanner, of Athens, Ala. By the Rev. Joseph C. Wallace, Mr. J. K. P. Wallace to Miss Mary E. Butler—all of Lincoln county, Tennessee. By the Rev. Joseph G. Myers, Mr. Joseph F. Corbett to Miss Catherine Hannah—all of Nash ville. By the Rev. B. F. Ferrell, Mr. R. T. Davis to Miss R. J. Winter—all of Wilson co., Tenn. In Wilson county, Tenn., by the Rev. B. F. Ferrell, Mr. R. A. Cartwright, of Goodlettsville, Tenn., to Miss Laura G. Oldham, of Wilson county. By the Rev. Jasper Reid, Mr. R. S. Davidson, of Cape Girardeau county, Mo., to Miss Sue E. Murphy, of Davidson county, Tenn. UNITY OF THE HUMAN RACE. Sib,—In your last issue, a contributor says: “ While the Semitic races have made some ad vancement, they are far behind Europeans, and never can compete with Caucasians.” We beg to correct him, as the Caucasian species of man comprises the descendants of Shem, Ham and Japheth (the white race), who are as essentially different from the negro, Indian, Mongol, Malay, Esquimaux or mound-builder, as the ass is from the horse or the cat is from the lion; and I agree with him that God, in the creation, gave the white race the power to govern and rule all other creations. In the twenty-fourth verse of the first chapter of Genesis God says, “Let the earth bring forth in multitudes the living creatures with intellectual and immortal souls,” etc.; and in the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh verses he says, “Now let us make man in our own image (the white race) and in our likeness;” and he made but two. We not only prove by the Bible (in the original), but by science, that millions of negroes, Indians and Mongols lived on earth for countless thousands of years before the advent ot the white race. [Genesis, fourth chapter, sixteenth verse.] In my forthcoming work on the “Origin of Life and the Soul,” the proofs are given to satisfy any one except a fanatic. M. F. Stephenson.