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Emancipation in Brazil.
Emancipation is proceeding raprdly in Brazil
under the law of 1872. The number of slaves
in 1873 was 1,630,000, and it is reduced, ac
cording to a recent registration, to 700,000.
-Xw^ing partofthe e^ri^Tofthe Me
morial Bay at Crawfordville was the decora
tion by a band of little girls of the grave of
Mr. Stephens. _
A Philadelphia economist figures out the re
duction of car fare in that city from s.x to five
cents as a positive loss to poor people.
■ays that when they walked before, they saved
six cents, and now they only save bve cents.
A few men of exceptional talents—it may be
of exceptional grace-have found the calling of
the evangelist more profitable in the money
way than even thatof the creator of booms. It
may be that a few others who have neither tal
ents nor grace, but who of those who have
simply to make money, will bring this calling
into utter disrepute.
The author of “Me” has fallen into a fcry
common sense strain, and written a plain sto-
ry with the very trite moral that getting rich
in a hurry is both dishonest and dangerous.
When he presents his villains as going on in
full tide of wealth for more than a score of
years, we fear there is more in this picture to
illure than there is in the catastrophe to deter.
Of all the paradoxes that that have been
aired since the b rth of Abraham, not one is
more startling than that of Henry George who
proposes to wipe out poverty by wiping out
• wealth. We suspect an illicit process in one
of his promises. Were the world’s assets
equally divided among all its inhabitants, all
would not be rich, nor even decently poor.
But would this state of equality continue for
two days?
Tis said that “She" is a piece of bare-faced
plagiarism. We do not ktow. But we do
know, and in the face of the great popular fa
vor that it is receiving, venture to assert that
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A Heavy Copper Contract.
The largest single transaction in copper
ever made in this country took place last
week. The deal was made by the Calumet &
Hecla Mining company of Michigan. It
amounted to almost 30,000,000 pounds at ten
cents per pound.
How a Groat Industry Begun.
A hundred years ago Abiel Pease started
the great clock-making industry of Connecti
cut He was a native of Enfield, and there
made with a jack-knife hto first clock. Prom
this rude beginning has grown up an industry
which supplies a great portion of the world
with time-pieces.
Wild West Versus Indolent East.
The Queen of England, a few days ago, com
manded that a private performance of the
Wild West show be given, at which her maj
esty and attendants would be present Pre
viously to that It was announced that Mr.
Gladstone had attended the show—perhaps
more than once—and bad evinced much in
terest in it
One-half of London Sick.
Sir Andrew Clarke, the celebrated English
physician, declares that one-ha’f of the popu
lation of London is permanently ill. He de
fines health as “that stole in which the
body is not consciously present to us; the
state in which work is easy and duty not over
great a trial; the state in which it is joy to see,
to think, to feel and to be.”
How Havy for England.
The English Government has fairly entered
on its scheme to build a new fleet from the
stump, as it were, to add to its already power
ful navy. This fleet is to consist of twenty-
five vessels and in to cost in a round sum §05,-
000,000. Four of these vessels are now ready
for service; four more are to be completed be
fore the first of January next; twelve are to be
built next year, and the other five the year
following.
Our Navy in Grecian Waters,
During their recent visit to Athens, the des
patches say, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Franklin,
Capt. Dewey and other officers of the United
States flagship Pensacola were handsomely en
tertained by the King and Queen of Greece.
At a dinner at the royal palace Rear Admiral
Franklin sat at the left of the Queen and Mrs.
Franklin at the left of the King. Afterward
the entire royal family visited the Pensacola
in a most informal and friendly manner.
The Queen of Hawaii in Washing
ton.
During her late brief visit to Washington
City, Queon Kapiolani and suite visited the
arsenal, where they were received by General
Gibson, commandant, and the officers on duty
there. A royal salute was fired and an artil
lery and battalion drill given in honor of the
visitors. After the artillery drill, which was
the first the queen had ever seen, Gen. Gib
son tendered the party a reception and lunch
at his residence.
slightest particle of human interest. But it
has made Mr. Haggard famous, and probably
rich, and the world will be flooded with novels
named after all the cases of all the pronouns.
What Nova Scotia Wants.
A member of the Nova Scotia Legislature,
Mr. McColl, made a tensation last week by
moving a resolution in favor of annexin:
the province to the United States. Nobody
but himself vetid in the. affirmative when the
question was put, and some of the ultra loyal
iets are highly indignant with Mr. McColl for
saying ojxlily what a majority ot the people
of the country say privately. Meanwhile the
more enterprising Nova Scotians solve the
question, without any parliamentary help, by
annexing themselves individually to their
prosperous neighbor.
Kentucky's Next Governor.
Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, who is to be
the next Governor of Kentucky, is a man of
middle stature, with small, piercing blue eyes,
snow-white mustache and imperial, and a
rather ruddy face. He is between 05 and 70
years of age. He is wealthy. His real estate
in Chicago is said to be worth §500,000.
About two years ago he married, as his second
wife, a reigning belle of Richmond, Va. They
have a bouncing toy a year oid. The Geu-
eral’s name is Bolivar and his wife’s Betty.
Hence the alliterative war-ciy of the Buckner-
ites now ringing through Kentucky of “Bol
var, Betty and the Baby."
Heavy Tunnelling.
While DeLesseps is straining every physical
power and every financial device to cut a canal
at Panama, and progressive American citizens
are trying to get our Government to aid in the
construction of a ship railway and canal at
Tehauntepec, so as to have water communica
tion between the two oceans, other interests
are seeking to connect states and countries by
tunnelling under water-ways—rivers and
straits.
One of these—and one of the most important
—is the tunnel under the English Channel, to
connect England and France. As to its pres
ent sta .us we are uninformed, but presume it
will ultimately be constructed.
Some years ago a tunnel under the Hudson
river was begun. After a few years suspen
sion, work has been resumed, and a few weeks
ago one hundred men were put to work. The
company having control of the enterprise has
been reorganized, and it is said that the tunnel
will be rapidly pushed to com pletion. It will
be used by ail railroads which now terminate
at Jersey City. Their trains will run through
it to the union depot, in the vicinity of Wash
ington square, New York City.
And now comes the information that propos
als have been made to the governments of Den
mark and Sweden for constructing a sub
marine tunnel for a railway under the Sound
between Copenhagen and Maimo. The tunnel,
as planned, would have a total length of be
tween seven and eight miles. The ground to
be worked is represented as clo&ly resembling
that in the channel between England and
France, and is said to offer no difficulty to the
execution of the work. The total cost of con
struction it is estimated, will not exceed
$5,000,ooa
Colonel Freeman Thorpe’s old portrait of
President Garfield has been purchased by the
State of Ohio for §500. It is considered the
beat picture of Garfield extant.
Attorney-General Garland is booked for
Hominy Hill, Ark., for the summer.
St- Joseph, Mo.,—A Voice from a Dis
tance.
We find the following letter and comments
in the Daily Gazette, published at St. Joseph,
Mo:
As an evidence that in far-off places many
eyes are turned Westward, and that it is a first,
rate idea to do a little something now and then
to draw attention to St. Joseph, read the fol
lowing letter received yesterday by Col. Mot-
ter, late secretary of the board of trade:
Office of Meridek Silver Plate Co., I
Toronto, Ont., April 18,1887. )
To John L. Hotter, Secretary Board of Trade.
Deah Sir: The reputation of your city is
being very widely extended. We tMn*
Toronto, the “Queen City’ of
rivalled, but, after studying your
report, have come to the conclusion that you
have many advantages which no
As I am contemplating making a
movelnyour direction, any tafomaritm™**
you may have in printed form relative to the
commercial advantages would he gladly re
ceived by one who i.
H. K. Waheex.
It would be a good thing for St. Joseph if we
had a few more Blotters. There are many men
who have faithfully served the city and stead
ily labored for her advancement, bnt not one
has been as persistent and few as Intel-igent in
their efforts as the former secretary of the
Board of Trade.
Our Great Hen.
We find the following brief comments upon
a fruitful theme in one of our exchanges:
It is the fashion to assert that greatness is
not a characteristic of our times. Great poets
we have none, they tell us; great warriors,
great statesmen—where are they?
Carlyle says that “Each age seems to itself
most unheroic.’’ Ko-Ko, in Mikado, says,
however, that the man who considers any age
better than his own, or any country better
than that of his nativity, would “gladly be
missed."
It does, indeed, seem rather mean to declare
that only the distant is fine. It seems as though
we had forgotten the trite oid line about “dis
tance’’ and “enchantment.’’
Let us see. When has there ever lived
more subtle thinker than Emerson? What
soldier ever surpassed in originality of tac
tics, personal bravery and fertility of resource.
Ulysses S. Grant? As for financiers, we defy
any age to produce abler ones than those who
are now managing our great corporations. As
for inventors, who has ever equaled Edison
and his compeers? William E. Gladstone is
something of a statesman, to say nothing of
one or two nearer home. The Commemora
tion Ode, by Mr. Lowell, is something of
poem, and Mr. Tennyson and Mr. Browning
have now and then had an inspiration equal to
at least any of the last century’s.
We have a thousand evidences that men
great in wickedness abound and excel now-a-
days; but, on the whole, for genuine pre emi
nence of nobility in mind and morals, the
nineteenth centuiy stands head and shoulders
above any that has preceded it.
Harper’s Magazine for May
opens with a well-written and highly appre
ciative paper on the literay movement in the
South, from the pen of Charles W. Coleman.
This is illustrated by portraits of George W.
ivhh ti m ■t^i.r'^.n i~.i »■—-je jtda
day, he is disposed to land those of the “new
South” who have taken up the pea, at the ex
pense of those of the days before the war who
aspired to have their thoughts set in type. We
claim that there were men and women of that
day who were as ready and as eloquent in ex-
expressing themselves in strong, vigorous Eng
lish as we have now. Indeed most of those who
are writing now either attained their culture
under the old regime, or gained it from those
who did. We have no wish to under-rate
the men and women of the South who
are seeking by their pens to earn food and
fame. But it is quite too early to say that
they are going to attain a Lighcr point of ex
cellence or w in a larger share of fame than did
Simms, l’oe, Kennedy, Longstreet, Mrs. I.e-
Vert, Mrs. Lee Ilentz and Mrs. IVarfield. We
thank Mr. Coleman for his kind and graceful
tribute to the writers of our day; but we must
object to his insinuation that they are prodi
gies because springing up in a section where
l.terature hai heretofore been little cultivated.
An Old Book.
Sixty five years of life do not authorize ns
to class an individual as very old. Some pass
a decade beyond this and are still so full of
vitality—so keenly alive to all that is going on
about them, that we never think of their age.
So it is with books. Some never grow old.
They address themselves so directly to those
sentiments that know no change that we may
reckon them among things imperishable. Par
adise Lost and Pilgrim’s Progress will never
grow old. But there are books, and perhaps
by far the greater number, which are not writ
ten with any hope on the part of the authors
that they will ever live to he old. Some are
brought forth by the issues of the passing day,
and when they have subserved this purpose,
there is no demand that they should live
longer. There are others that are superceded,
pushed out by other and better works on the
same line, and some fade away from the mem
ories of men. Of this last class, is a book that
lies before us now—an old “Mercer’s Cluster’’
—a volume of spiritual songs once found in
many homes in Georgia, and dear to the hearts
of many of onr people. Now, only sixty-four
years from the time it was issued from the
press, it is a relic of antiquity, and many
grown up men and women are ignorant that
such a work ever existed. Other and better
selections of hymns have taken its place. But
as we look upon this, showing by its well-
worn leaves that it was oLce much in the
hands of its pious owners, our mind ruus back
to the days when the good men and women of
half a century ago took in large draughts of
spiritual joy from these pages. These hymus,
some of them extending to a dozen or even a
score of stanzas were sung, not very artistic
ally, but with a fervent appreciation of the
pious thoughts they expressed. How a sight
of this old volume brings up the memory of a
gathering of plain men and women in a plain
house to engage in a plain, unostentatious ser
vice. There was in all the scene a striking
absence of anything of the splendid or mag
nificent. Bat to one who could understand
the depth and sincerity of the devotion with
which the quaintly solemn airs were sung,
there was a sublimity at once grand and touch-
it g. Such bands of worshippers Paul and his
brother Apostles were wont to gather in re
mote spots in Greece and Asia, and in servi
ces such as this was awakened that enthusi
asm which enabled them in no great time to
revolutionize the world. A provoker of much
thought and of many memories has this tot
tered old volume proved. • *
Shall We Ever Know ?
The unknown surrounds us closely on every
side. Look in what direction we may, we
find what we do not know, yet about which
we cannot help feeling a keen curiosity. In
regard to not a few of these we may set it
down as absolutely certain that we shall never
be better informed titan we are now. There
are mysteries connected with our existence
which must remain forever mysteries, despite
the efforts of the most searching intellicts.
Study and examine as we may, there will al
ways remain close about us much upon which
“unknown" must he written. Tbs instrument
that detects a microqosm in a drop of water
will leave a thousand questions unanswered.
The great Reflector that searches the surfaces
of far-off planets will probably never reply to
some queries which a child may propound.
Yet it may be safely promised that in the com-
inr EimwiM iMBAtfay* w#Uft«jrifort£at
Governor Gordon’s Address to the
Children of the Blind Asylum
at Macon, Ga.
Upon the completion of some impromptu
exercises which l’rof. Williams conducted,
and which had touched the hearts of all pres
ent, Governor Gordon stepped forward, and in
tones that evidenced his feelings said in sub
stance:
“I am glad that I came here for I have been
made a better man. Von appear happy here
and you have good reason for it. While you
have not the power of seeing, you have other
facultks that make up for it. Your proficiency
in music, and your power to hold matbemati-
cal calculai ions—all go to prove that. There
is another thought I wish to express. Lire is
abort anl it is full of trouble to the best, to the
most gifted. But when the great day comes
and jour eyes an opened for the first time,
you shall see grander and sublimer scenes
than we can see on earth. Prepare for that
end and all wUl be brightness in that great
Beyond. Good-bye.”
Col. Bob Lowry on Atlanta.
No one in Atlanta is more favorably known
than our genial Bob Lowry. He is the Presi
dent of the Chamber of Commerce and Treas
urer of countless companies and corporations.
In responding to a toast to Atlanta at the re
cent celebration of the Board of Trade of
Rome, Ga., he said:
“Any one familiar with the history of At
lanta mast admit the appropriateness of the
words of the “toast” proposed. It is certainly
true, gentlemen, that Atlanta ha? attained her
present greatness *‘by the energetic and united
action of her people.” This is truly a day of
“booms” and boomlets for our fair Southland.
A day in which, all over this continent, the
attention of capital, and brains, and enter-
prise is being directed Southward, insuring in
this section of the country such material de
velopment of our unlimited resources as has
not been known elsewhere within the history
of our country. In this movement Atlanta
may justly be termed the pioneer. Our boom
followed the cotton-exposition of 1881. It was
a brilliant success, ard the experiment in thus
venturing to invite the attention of the whole
country to the advantages of Atlanta and the
South has been followed by a constant healthy
progress. Since the date of our cotton expo
sition, and especially more recently, our
neighbors have sought to let the world know
something of their resources and advantages,
and with a success that challenges the wann
est congratulations of their pioneer sister.
And in extending this congratulation on be
half of the Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta,
allow me to express the hope that in every in
stance the present flattering successes may be
followed up by such a united action as may
result in perpetual prosperity.
Mad Stones.
The ACbens Banner- Watchman says: “Since
the people have been convinced that there is
virtue in mad-stones. they are springing up all
over the country. While at Union Point, a few
days ago, we saw a magnificent mad-stone as
large as a Banks county biscuit. The gentle
man who owns this stone says it came from
Alabama, where there was a large deer lick.
They are said tc be found in deer that visit
these licks, and the mineral taken into the ani
mal's stomach there forms the mad stone.
The gentleman also informed us that be had
seen two inadstones broken open, and in one
of them was found a bullet and in the other an
acorn. Mad stones are getting in demand,
and a fine market will be open if the dogs con
tinue to have the distemper.”
And the editor of the Sunny South thought
he had the only genuine mad-stone in the
whole country, and he thinks so now. It was
sent to him by the Hon. Wm. A. Harris, Sec
retary of tha Georgia Senate; and, if we mis
take not, he took it from the deer’s stomach
with his own bands.
MUSINGSOFMY EVENTIDE.
Unveiling of Mr. Calhoun’s Statue;
Address by Secretary Lamar and
its Scope fls Historical and
Philosophical; its Contri
bution to our Perma
nent Literature.
BY REV. A. A. LIPSCOMB, D. D.
thirty-first fates.
govern matter. The influences that control
earth, air and water are all the time becoming
more subject to the human will. Within a
centnry very great advances have been made
in an acquaintance with the elements of our
own globe, and some unexpected information
has been obtained in regard to the spheres
which men have watched and studied from the
earliest times. In many things a point of
knowledge has been reached which, fifty years
ago, was thought wholly unattainable. When
we think of the rapid advances that have been
mace, we cannot but speculate as to what men
shall do in tbo hundred years to come. We
may reasonably suppose that vast strides will
be made in every department of inquiry. He
who shall behold the dawn of the twenty-first
centuiy will be familiar with many things to
us mysterious, lie witl look forth on a world
greatly differing in its aspects and conditions
from this which we now know. There will be
virtually a new earth; and so entirely will in
creased knowledge have changed the thoughts
with which the starry spheres will be contem
plated that it may be arid that there will be
new heavens. Yet then, an i at a iar later pe
riod of advancement, men will be as absolutely
dependent on Revelation as now for answers
to the great inquiries whence we came and
whither are we going.
It Wasn’t the Lord.
We are commanded to “try the spirits"—
and it does not require exceptional shrewdness
to detect the kind of spirit that prompts a per
son to tell “pious lies," and sponge bis living
out of his betters. The Hartford Times tells
this story of Capt. Reynold Maivin, of Lyme,
Ct, a prominent man in the early history of
that town:
Captain Reynold was not only a militia
offi -er, but also a ricti land owner and a deacon
of the church, and professed to be governed by
divine commuiiicatio is. On one occasion, a
shiftless fellow-townsman, whowas acqu: intrd
with the captain's hobby, went to him and
said the L* rd had sent him there for a cow.
“Of course, if the Lord raid so, you must
bave a cow," said the dec on, “but what kind
of a cow did He designate, a iniich cow or a
farrow?”
“A ncw-milcii cow,” replied the fellow.
“Indeed! your communication must have
come fron the devil, for I haven’t any milch
cows;" and thereupon the ind'gnant caotain
chastil tire baffled beggar from bis premises.
Death of Rev. Jno B. McFerrin.
The death of Dr. McFerrin removes from
the Methodist church one of its best, ablest
and most useful members. It removes from
Nashville one of her best and most influential
citizens, and from the South one of its most
widely and favorably known divines.
During the past half .century no man has
occupied so large a place in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, as Rev. John Berry
McFerrin. Entering the itinerant ministry of
the Methodist Church at the age of eighteen,
he filled, with earnestness, zeal and fidelity)
every position in the church save that of a
bishop. Born of Irish I’resbyterian pioneer
parentage, at a stage of the country’s history
when circumstances helped to develop
sturdy integrity of character, he matured into
one of the best rounded men of the age. He
may not have been in any one particular a
great man, bnt taking his entire active, aggres
sive life, his character shows bnt few defects.
It has been said of him, by a close observer,
“No man ever accused Dr. McFerrin of iven
an indiscretion," so delicate was his sense of
right and of propriety. When but thirty-seven
years old he was a conspicuous figure in the
hotly contested, wordy wars of 1814; but the
men whose opinions he most zealously fought
were then, and have ever been among his
warmest, personal friends. His integrity of
character and devotion to principle were ex
ceptionally sensitive; and his love for the
church anew no bounds.
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How Do tb 3 18 ixicans Dress Anyhow?
We are curi,^ to know. Not having trav
elled in Mexico »e do not understand the
meaning of the fo owing order which has just
been promulgate! in the town of Iturbide.
Wont some of on] numerous Mexican patrons
be good enongh t give us a letter on this sub
ject?
“V Every tush f-asident of this citv is re-
“2. Any perso within the boundaries of
this city, be he r ffdent or not, who is f»und
disobeying this I quirement will be liable to
imprisonment fr< n one to three days and a
fine of 60 cents t §3. Measures will be token
for tha proper eg orcement of the ordinance.
F. Dominquez.
“President of tha Municipality of Iturbide.”
A Lasson in Pride.
. [Ne(v York Times.]
. The following odd bit of versification was
picki (1 up from the floor after the auc ion sale
of a lot of rare, old and Viluable books. The
torn leaf upon which it was printed bears evi
dence of age, and it is now in order to name
its author and the date of its composition. It
conveys a simple lesson on pride and justifies
its production now, perhaps a hundred years
after being penned:
I dreamt that I wis dead and slumbering in
my native clay;
Close by my side a common beggar lay,
And as so mean an object she eked my prhle,
Thus, like a corpse of consequence I cried:
“Scoundrel, begone, and henceforth thy touch
withhold,
More manners learn, and at a distance mould!”
“Scoundrel!” with a haughty tone cried he:
“Fraud lump of flesh, 1 scorn thy words and
thee!
Here all arc equal—now ttiy case is mine,
This is my mouldering place and that is thine.”
Young Men and Single Life.
We take the following sensible article from
the Brooklyn Magazine: It is undoubtedly
true that a single life is not without its advan
tages for some. There are hundreds of young
men, as there are a like number of young wo
men, to whom a married life would be unsuit-
ab e and unwise. It is an inexcusable sin for
any young man of hereditary ill-health or de
formity to assume marriage, and to such a one
single life has advantages, even though it holds
out few pleasures. But that young man who
is possessed with every bodily and mental
equipment, and marries not, fails in one of
the most palpable duties of life. He deprives
himself of life’s uicst refined and exalted
pleasures, of some of its strongest incentives
to virtue and activity, and sets an example
uuworthy of imitation. Nothing has, or should
have, a greater refining and moralizing influ
ence to a young man than marriage. If he
remains unmarried, he lays himself open to
alluring vice-* that bave no place in his eye or
mind when his attentions and affections are
centered upon » devoted wife. Marriage
changes the current of a man’s feelings, and
gives him a ceuire for his thoughts, his alfec
tions, and his acts. It renders him more vir
tuous, more wise, ami is an incentive to put
forth his best exertions to attain position in
commercial and social circles. It is conceded
that marriage will increase the cares of
young man which he would not encounter if
he remained single, but it must be granted, on
the other band, th it it heightens the pleasures
of life. If marriage, in some instances wi h'n
our knowledge, has seemed to be but a hin
drance to certain success, the countless in
stances must not be forgotten where it has
proved to be the incentive which has called
forth the best part ot man’s nature, roused
him from selfish apathy, and inspired in him
those generous principles and high resolves
which have helped to develop him into a char
acter known, loved, and honored by ail within
the sphere of its influence. Matrimony, it is
true, is chargeable with numberless solici
tudes and responsibilities, and this all young
men should fully understand before entering
upon it, but it is also full of joy and happiness
that is unknown to the bachelor.
A man of genius may express his finest art
of delineation in a delicate touch or stroke,
which, at first sight, may not gain the atten
tion it deserves. When the orator of this oc
casion, Mr. Lamar, gives the prefatory place
of honor to the fact, that the public character
of a Statesman rests upon his home-character,
grows out of its moral virtues and feeds on its
secret nourishment, he has presented an epito
me of Mr. Calhoun’s distinctive greatness.
True, such a characterization, though, so ad
mirably done, does not explain Mr. Calhoun’s
wonderful endowments; but it goes f*rto show
what an element of sturdy genuineness and
firm fibre interblended with the original con
stituents that went into the making of the or
ganic being. The man was pure, simple-heart
ed in his large open-mindedness, transparently
honest and disinterested, and he was all this
by virtue of innate manliness. Because of
this intrinsic nature which was an antedate of
experience for more than its subsequent, the
public man as the Statesman waa the re
flex and dual counterpart of the planter of
Fort Hill. No doubt, nature had been busy
in forming the man in his ancestry. If he
were an intense State-rights man, going as
many think to an extreme, it cannot be denied,
that he was an ingrained American whose
‘•notice heather'’ belongs to the luxuriant flora
of his whole country. By an easy and graceful
transition, Mr. Lamar portrays the Southern
planter as the typical Southerner. What he
was; what he did; and how his character and
acts co-operated with singular unanimity for
generations in behalf of the country and the
negro race; are most graphically described.
Our recent critics of the old South are most
effectively answered in these paragraphs,
which are not more pictorically eloquent and
calmly rebuked, than thoroughly truthful
and vindicatory. There was a reason and a
profound one for the ascendency of the “so-call
ed slave power,” and Mr. L’s. philosophic in
sigh’, the master quality in this grand effc rt de
tects it in the intellect, character, and habits
of the Southern planter. Could the traits of
Southern character and their instinctive emer
gence in Southern habits be more genuinely
summarized than when the orator speaks of
the “habitual industry, the firm purpose, the
fidelity to dependents, the self-reliance, the
sentiment of justice in all the various relations
of life necessary to the management of a well
ordered plantation, as they fitted men to guide
Legislatures and command armies?’’ These
were characteristic virtues because maternal
Nature bad shaped them in ancestral wombs.
Ourbtst and most illustrious men are never
the product of one generation.
II.
Providence was in all this—a wise and be
nignant Providence. It survived as a specialty
until its work was done. It became sectional
because laws of latitude and longitude were
inseparable from its economic relations; but it
was continental in the benefits accruing to the
whole country. Most of ail, the character of
our Noutheru men was the only form of Teu
tonic nature on this hemisphere capable of
such adaptations to the negro as to perpetuate
tlie Providential lease on the life of the insti
tution till its parenthesis in the world’s order
was closed. Just here the other great factor,
in its long continuance, is worthy of mention.
Our Southern womanhood was the comple
mentary force to the stronger sex; and, by its
tenderness and tact in humane offices, did
much to perpetuate slavery till its purposes
were fulfilled. The attributes of the master
shaded off into the domestic qualities of the
mistress; the incidental evils of the system
were softened down into the watchful offices
of sympathy. Atid no better illustration of
this result can be cited than the general devo
tion of the slaves—something like a miracle
of grace to our homes and to our women—du
ring the four years of the war between the
States. Why should we believe that OLce a
Providence, always a Providence? Its essence
is limitation. Sj it was when God governed
the theocracy of bis-chosen people, the Jews.
So it was when—in the case of the colonies—
Providence chose an Auspicious hour to sunder J
ettHte^o^/tiiWeefrS^les'.' wh^n tl£
physical and political geography of the Atlantic
slope determined the nexus that (as Mr. Lamar
argues) made us practically one people. The
nascent “£ I’luribus Unum** was then shaping
its ties, and the Union of 178!i was weaving its
thread in the unity of the colonies,mow free
and independent States. The cluster of para
graphs, in which this truth is elaborated, is
one of the most analytic and logical in the ora
tion, and shows conclusively how this type of
our initial and subsequent civilization up to a
later period expressed itself in a type of ability
and character which fitted such men as Wash
ington, Andrew Jackson, Jefferson, Madison,
Clay, Calhoun, Marshall, and others, to take
their places in the national government. Ah,
indeed, a splendid heretity of ideas and senti
ments!
Nor does the orator omit to give due signifi
cance to the accpiisition by the Federal'Gov
ernment of the vast domain embraced in the
Louisiana purchase, and that ceded by Spain j shiners and
and Mexico to the United States. “In 1780, successful “i
the States were the creators of the Federal
Government; in lStil, the Federal Government
was the creator of a large majority of the
States. * * * It was a natural
consequence that the unity and integrity of
the United States as a sovereign nation should
be established on the butle-field; that its gov
ernment should come out of the conflict with
a prestige and power greater perhaps than any
on earth, and that the eleven minority States,
after a resistance as heroic as any* recorded in
(he annals of Greece and Rome, should suc
cumb to overwhelming forces.” I shall alway s
think that the war was in part a lexicon to
settle the meaning of words. And they are
settltd now.
III.
The death of J. T. Willis of the Chattahoo
chee circuit, removes from the State an able
jurist and a genial and most lovable man. His
place has been filled by the appointment of
ex-Gov. James M. Smith.
Some shrewd chap, somewhere this side of
the Rio Grande, is said to have established a
paper with the title of “The Confederate Colo
nel.” If all of ’em subscribe, won’t that be
a splendid advertising medium?
An Alderney cow is now an essential appur
tenance aboard a well apportioned pleasure
yacht. James Gordon Bennett has one packed
into a zinc stall on the Namouna, so the
choicest cream can be had at every meal. The
cow says she likes yachting.
Theatrical Manager: The only thing in
Rome that reminded me of home was the Cat
acombs.
Friend : In what respect?
Manager: They were just full of dead-heads.
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It is said that Queen Kapiolani has been
presented with a lock of George Washington’s
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King Kalakaua’s in place of it. It is said that
the Queen always saves the hair she gets from
the King to bestow upon people who please
h8r.
This is the latest and sweetest thing in
Washington society: Mrs. Cleveland gave
Miss Emma Abbott a most gratifying recep
tion yesterday at the White House, and after
ward sent her autograph book to Miss Abbott,
at the Arlington Hotel, with a most beautiful
note.
Some of the Northern papers are telling their
readers how the ladies of Africa catch monk
eys. That’s a waste of space and unnecessary
information, for the ladies of America have
been catching the monkey’s “apes,” (dudes)
for years, and are not proud of the accomplish
ment, either.
Mr. Julian Hawthorne announces that
George Eliot was not an artist at all, but only
an interesting story-teller. Perhaps she was
not so great an artist as Howells or James, or
even Mr. Hawthorne, but we would be very
glad to have some more novels like those she
wrote.
The Southern Baptist Convention, at Louis
ville, on Tuesday, adopted the teport of the
committee on temperance, closing with the
following resolution: Resolved, That wo do
solemnly protest against the manufacture,
sale and use of ardent spirits, and express our
sympathy with prohibitionists everywhere,
The New York Supreme Court has decided
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fact that one of t he part cipants was intoxi
cated. George the Fourth tried to get out of
his marriage with Queen Caroline by proving
that he was so drunk when he married that he
did not know what he was doing. But the
courts wouldn’t let George off.
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international railroad charter forfeited, was
introduced, reported favorably and an effort
made to pass it at once summarily under
suspension of the rules, but Anally it was
made the special order for another day.
Ho Boom for Him.
[New York Sun.]
St Peter (to applicant for admission)—
What disposi ion «kd you make of your prop
erty? ..
Applicant—I left it all to my wife on condi
tion that she is never w marry again.
St Peter (closing the gate) No loom for
you in here
Observe the stress, which, in the above cita
tions, Mr. Lamar lays on community life. It
had its advantages, but it had its disadvanta
ges. Constituted as the South was, it became
a homogeneous people, and I am accustomed
to think that honiogeneousness was a defect
in our civilization. It did us good service in
the colonial aud confederation periods; nor
can I see how the Federal Constitution of lTSil
could have been logically possible save for the
very marked individualism, which was the
legitimate sequence of our physical and social
organization that culminated in polities as a
science, and even more as an art. At
a certain stage (f development, homo
geneity has to yield to Leterogf neous-
ness; and it can hardly be doubled that
we were in our Section on the threshold of the
new era of heterogeneousness in 1S50-’(H>. Con
formably to this view, the decadence of slavery
had set in be foie the war between the States,
and in so far as that elastic phrase “The New
South" carries in it the brain of an idea and
the he; rt of an impulse (both divinely orderi d,
I must believe,) just so far I accept what
strikes me as inevitable law, viz; tiiat homoge
neity exists as a provision tor the higher
sequential form of heterogeneousness. But—
festina Lente.
The wise and temperate philosophy of Sec
retary Lamar is never more conspicuous than
when treating of reconstruction as the offspring
of misconception and distrust. For one, I
think that the Old South never did a truer ana
grander work for the North and We.-t as well
as for her own section, than when she brought
about a general reaction in the dominant party
against the most odious features of the recon
structive measures. “Slavery is dead—buried
in a grave that never gi res up its dead. Why
reopen it to-day? Let it rest.” But he has
this to say, “With reference to the constitu
tional status of slavery in the States, Mr. Cal
houn never «ntertained or expressed a senti
ment that was not entertained and expressed
by Henry Clay, John Qu ncy Adams, Daniel
Webster, and all the eminent statesmen of his
time.” Taking this grand oration in its whole
ness, every sentence and every paragraph sub
ordinated to that supreme sense of unity which
is the highest excellence of logic no less than
o’ art; the golden cords of moderation holding
in due symmetry the prophetic foresight, the
intellectual and moral harmony, the profound
patriotism, of John Caldwell Calhoun, I know
of nothing in our day and country that can
compare with it in breadth of outreaching
grasp, in depth of profundity, in felicity of ex
pression, and in fiuished scholarship. The ad
dress is so catholic, broad minded, and patri
otic, that I shall expect all our Nor. hern breth
ren who are true to their nobler instincts, to
give it not only acceptance but admiration.
For their own Kikes, we desire and hope for
both.
Wee Willie Cottage,'Athens, Ga.
Mr. Daniel Hand, of Guilford, Conn., the
gentleman to whom Mr. George W. Williams,
of Charleston, has just paid a debt of honor
amounting to §700,000, has given $25,000 to
Yale Divinity School. It would have been
more graceful, under all the circumstonccs,
says the Savannah Xtics, if Mr. Hand had
given the money to a Southern school.
AVe hear a good deal now-a-days about tnoon-
their operations. But tbe most
moonshiner" Tttiown to history is
Mr. Abell, of the Baltimore Sun, who, as toe
result of what is known as the “Moon Hoax,’
published in the Sun about fifty years atio,
gave his paper such an impetus as to have ac
cumulated a fortune of §15,000,000 from its
profits. No “hoax” or “moonshine” about
that.
The magnificent donation of §2,000,000 by
Jonas Clark to found a univeisity at Worces
ter, refreshes the popular memory the good
men who have done likewise. Three men,
Stephen Girard, .John Hopkins and Asa Pack
er, gave a total of §14,000,000 to American
colleges. The combined bequests and dona
tions of all other Americans to educational ob
jects amount to ab>ut §0,000,000.
A contemporary consoles himself as follows:
Newspaper bustles are now made of back
numbers. It is pretty rough to think tbat a
man’s best journalistic efforts shall thus be
sat upon. It crushes all the glory out of the
profession and were it not for the fact that an
editor can feel that he has no’, only brightened
a woman’s mind, but improved her shape, he
might throw up the sponge and retire from the
world of bustle and deception.
Tbe Mobile Iteyister prints this: “Congress
man Herbert, of Alabama, at the dinner of the
Merchants’ Association in Boston, recently,
observed that ‘there is really no new South- it
is the old South coming out pure, resplendent
gold from the furnace of affliction, developing
ns same old brain aud brawn, muscle and
pluck.’ Mr. Herbert is right. Southern char
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South had much to learn, and it learned in the
school of affliction.”
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of the men accused of lynching Moore is an
impossibility; that they have plenty-of friends,
can command, plenty of money, and have se
cured the services of Gen. L. J. Gartrell to de
fend them.”
They have acted wisely in securing the ser
vices of General GarUell. He is doubtless the
ablest criminal lawyer in Georgia, or the
South, and has for many years been eminently
successful in clearing the accused.
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that boiled maa for dinner and roast baby for
dessert was the very acme of the culinary art
and that royalty was “gotten ap regardless”
if attired in a pair of sailer pants tied by the
legs about the waist and worn pendant; hut
times have changed, and now the queen of th&t
erstwhile barbarous land wears Worth cos
tumes and diamonds and is led out to dinn< r*
served by a French cook by the President of
the United States. Yes, times do change!
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