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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, ^ARCII 6, 1888.—TWELVE PAGES,
BRASS BUTTONS.
Grand Army Statesmen in the
Home of Representatives.
' Military titles.
T Johnston of Inillnnn nnd Ul»
J *°'‘oue. Chore, m D0bnt.-Ct.rg7.
‘ null th« Son. of Clorgy-
men in the House, Etc.
,. correspondence Macon Telegraph.
March 1.—Great are the
"rations worn by the diplomatic corps
. ..... (ho Grand
Curious Letters Received by
the Great Preacher.
ONE MAN CALLS HIM A SCOUNDREL
’And a Cheat, ami Another ’Wants Money
to Pay f or rt Wedding Tour—A Num
ber |of Welcome Letters of
Kn«ourag«Hueu4i, Etc.
next. He was Captain in a regi- lay wounded all night on the field after tlu> HP T A T AT A P E”Q AT A TT
nient of blacks for two years and battle of Gaines’s Mills,. , Ax1.J_i,1jA AVJTlj O JliilXJJi
a half. Perkins is a fluent speaker and an Three of the five members from Minno-! —
able man. Cant. Thomas Ryan, his col- ®°ta were soldiers. (>ne of the three is a
league, was forced from the army by Republican. He is KmUe Nelson, late of
wounds received in the Wilderness, lie is t,ie Fourth Wisconsin Regiment. He is
a Pennsylvanian by birth, lias served ten ot * , studious and retiring disposition,
years in Congress, and arnks high in dc-1 This is his third term,
bate. The other Kansas veterans are I Two of the nine Wisconsin Congressmen
Capt. Samuel R. Peters, Lieut. Edward H. are Grand Army men. Both ire Ueuubli-
Funston, and Private Erastus J. Turner, j caas * One is Cant. 0„B. Thomas, of Prai-
Peters and Funston served in Ohio regi- j r j e du Chien, and the other Private C. B.
meats, and Turner in the Thirteenth Iowa. • Clark, of Neenan, who served througjiout
Iowa is next to Kansas on the Grand ! the war * Both ai» comparatively new
Army list. Eight of her eleven represen-1 men *
tatives were Union soldiers. One is a Dem- J Two of twelve members frorii the Old
ocrat. fO the others, Albert R. Anderson 1 R ft y ^tate wear the button. Both are Re-
was a colonel. He fought at Pea Ridge- *»t -Publicans. The Brigadier is Gen.Win. Cogs-
Vicksburg, and marched with Sherman to we ^ f > of Salem, lie commanded a brigade in
the sea. lie is an independent Republican,' Twentieth Corps, and he lias a very
^:-7. , t on but greater is the Grand and consequently not in great favor with njeritorioua record. His comrade U E. l5.
in " agU ® ™ „♦ d, a wi.ho the leaders of that party. The jnajors of. Huyden, of W<Amrn. The fact that thev
the delegation are Edwin H. Cbugcr, pro- • represent Massachusetts districts ia a guar-
mpted on the field, and Joseph* Lyman, j *hat bulb are men of intelligence and
The other veterans are Isaac S. Struble,! a ^*J*ty.
born in Virginia; A. J. - Holmes, Lieut. Two of the three members from Nebras-
Daniel Kerr and Col. David B. Henderson,; carr y the button, and both are Jlepub-
of Dubuque. Kerr is. a Prohibitionist, j “cans. They are James Laird and George
Henderson lost his leg in the sei vice. He J E. Dorsey. Both served throughout
is the leading orator of the Ilawk-Eyes, I the war * Laird is probably the most mus-
and blazes away on the slightest provoca- ( cu l ar nian on the floor. Ilis brain keeps
tion. ' pace with- his muscle. Dorsey rarely
draws his blade in debate, but it is said to
ij.iv button. It is seen at th, White
Hon* and at every turn in the public
Scores of mutilated veterans
“‘j ; t in the Pennon Office. You find it
T\| ie Government Printing Office and in
1 Smithsonian Institute. It is displayed
' nearly every room and corridor of the
*" itol. It appears in the Senate diam
ond on the tloor of the House. It is
vorn in the galleries and by visitors to the
dome, it is shown in the lapeb of
lb. Senator at dinner and of the dusky
'.liter who serves him. The fountain of
i, s influence is Congress itself. The Fed-
,,,1 ind the Confederate Brigadiers have
jlictd the button in the departments, and
. i j),.,. it i« well guarded. The Grand
imv'veterans in both lionses are ever on
the alert to preserve its rights and immu
nities
Ulllie , . . ,
House of Kepresentatives it is safe to say
that all are members of the Grand Army of
the Republic. Not one-third, however,
display * the button. This may he due to
, spirit of broth.rlv love toward the Con-
i federates, and it may be owing to a desire
| to escape the importunities of offiee-seek-
1 jog comrades. Tliere are only two Kepre-
seotatives wearing the whole Grand Armv
tatilia on the floor of the House. Both
ate Republicans. Probably twenty others
never seen without the simple button,
gat some of the bravest veterans in the
Rouse wear neither button nor medallion
Othenriflw the spirit of military aristoc-
| ncy (displaying the tri-colored button
worn only bv members of the Loyal Le
gion. ibis button is a privilege granted
exclusively to those who were commis
sioned officers in the Union army and to
their sons. The wearer seems to lie a grade
higher than the common veteran. He
may Is- a Grind Army man himself, but he
always wears the tri-color badge in plnce
oi the old bronze button. A prominent
Republican wears the button of the Man
darin, but the Hon. James T. Johnston, of
Indians, di-plavs tile plain button. The
first, as becomes a Mandarin, is a leaderon
the Republican side of the Honse, while
Johnston is a high private. The Manda
rin moves, as it were, en echelon at forty
paces, throwing out right and left general
glides, and advancing with machine-like
prreision. When Johnston gets tho floor,
louver, he sounds a bayonet charge, and
dalles for the enemy’* camp at a double
click, like a blurt' old soldier.
.Noneof the fourteen Democratic mem
henof the order wear the Grand Army hut
tan. The most prominent of these Demo-
crataiatien.J. li. Weaver, of fowl* Woo*
rereulUted as a private, and was brevetted
a brigadier-general of volunteers for gal
lantly on the field. The general is an edb
Jet, a soldier and a lawyer. He once ran
lyt President of the United States on a na
tional ticket,'and received about Hot),000
He is a stubborn fighter on the field
of legislation. Like all other Grand Army
wmocrats, he comes to the front whenever
wConfederate comrades nrc unjustlv as-
jadfd. anil battles nobly in their behalf.
. vuitci* B. Spinola is another Demo
mt"-federal brigadier. He commanded t
1 ork brigade in the Army of the Poto
and did efficient service.’ He is a new
oernher, witi, moc h legislative experience,
and he will undoubtedly make Ilia mark
.three months he has been at Hot
?E"ptrying to regain hia health.
the Hurd prominent Grand Armv Dem
*Jt>t a t-'ol, Court land C. Matson,'of In
«j«i». Hj, commanded a regiment of cav-
*ay with Signal gallantry. He entered the
‘Private, and won his rankhy merit
"tc. Matson has sokved six rearson the
sir.and is a leading man in the Indiana
wgation. He is chairman of the com
*" n invalid pensions.
I;.,,. u 'V Democratic veterans were
m the Union armv. Tliey are
i lk! r ** I" Seney and Samuel S. Yoder, of
’{“? Kshimnd Rice, of St. Paul
f " lce mid Yisler are new members,
jit'' I" 1 yet appeared in the garden
ftgl*™ , ne .. T *i“ served four vearw in
ttw^**! 1 "” W 'D l»*>btibly carry his dis-
T.'ro" B * ' ,c veceiveathe nomination
*•0 Democratic colonels in the Grand
ltd tU* . .'I‘rsh, of Pennsylvania.
unmai 1 A. Merriam, of New York
WlL "turdy in both body and in-
siuil li won fatk in the House
•"W-kdsil r .* nk in the army. He was
’ills It V ''"hetam and at (Chancellor*-
■ te has served four vears in Con-
SL.? Ioa *l MerrUin i. iK, well-known
Kr.. 81 the New York Press Club,
ulur-i. "V*! 1 r T''" r ' 1 I" tlie armv, in jour-
“l^mthe House. ’ 1
I*Hiol r V lon .°® c *e waa Judge John
®hakopee, Minn. Tlie
tilt * 16 three Democrats from
«wvi n , m'"’™ Republican State. He is
ta?j "i Wa i v hito tlie afTections of the
*n,tr h hnt anreljr. Like General
Tile rill 1 C“ n editor*awall as a lawyer,
id ,s > r-., ,l . nln 5 Grand Army Democrats
■hw Iln„." u- 'Uther F. McKinnev, of
C„», Sergeant-Major k. J.
( Ain t j,?, ' *J;, lv ‘te Martin A. Fnran, of
B. p., r | .h.pampbell and Milbourne
MMicliigan. Campbell and
TV^'he blue jacket tn the navy.
prominent of the lot is Martin
Katativp ir* W °D hnown lalior repre-
Hntitv. eurne from Susquehanna
tftn.; F 0 “Tlvauia, and liaa served
K»ti„ ni hi^YL '* Ball, has a dark c—
N|y black iT . c T®‘ I . an ‘l moustache, and
^ 4 r„l h ' 1 ,ir l ; 1 e i» a classic shaker,
ba. Mr. Gmdd-
****** the Srcnth Ohio dV
hi C,n .L^ and u an aftive and usc-
McKinney, Fonl and
Vrlsrcvn'T? ne T members. The former
'"Dsiji, ‘ ?. *"'*. the latter the son of a
rP^We of Ik? I? •“ ‘tenograplier, anil
'll, , ®{ '“e United States Academy.
t!*Jh of the veterans in the
hfOvaml iT®°‘T , ta, Kansai is the lead
's- Ar.uy Slate. All fYer Congreas-
l - • *u nu " )n ^jentions legislator-, the
|^**lol_ "“poliea, anil a man who
t**- BUSS in tli.. intrraakiof
p IV. Pci
Xext to Iowa on the k record is Ohio.
Fourteen of her twenty-ono members were
Federal soldiers. Ten of the fourteen nre
Republicans. Cuarles E. Brown, Robert
P. Kennedy and Charles IT. Grosvenor
were brigadier-generals. (Irosvenor’a
grandfather was a soldierof the revolution.
His father was an officer in tlie war of
1812. Both were Connecticut Yankees.
Grosvenor himself commanded a brigade
under Pap Thomas at Nashville. Brown
lost his leg in front of Atlanta and was
brevetted brigadier-general for gallant and
!S$”".TSndXSj-srjc
i inia, rising step by step from the ranks.
He was once Lieut’enant-Govemor of Ohio.
He made himself famous by stealing the
State Senate from the Democracy. The
Ohio colonels are Charles P. Wickham, a
irinter, and Joseph D. Taylor, once an ed-
tor. Wickham won his rank on the field
of battle, and Taylor won his on the field
of military law. The other Ohio officers
are Capt. A. C. Thompson, Major William
McKinley, Jr., Lieut. E. 8. Williams, and
Sergeant Oeorge W. Crouse, McKinley
has been in Congress ten years. Thomp
son was discharged from the army from
wounds received in battle. The only Re
publican private in the Ohio contingent is
M. M, Boothman. He lost his leg in a
charge tijmn the Confederate works at
Joncshorough, ( la., and of course failed to
receive promotion. He is a new member
of much promise.
■Next in line is Indiana. Seven of her
thirteen Representatives are veterans. Six
of the seven are Republicans. First in
rank is Major-General Alvin P. Ilovey.
lie secured his stars'on the field, and
served under Fremont, Hunter, Sherman,
and Grant. He fought in the Vicksburg
cumpaign, and commanded brigades and
divisions in eleven battles. Ilovey was a
Dotfyias Democrat, knocked out of office
under Buchanan's administration by the
“tall Sycamore of the Wabash.” lie has
been Lnited States minister to Pern. He
was in the Mexican war. This is his first
term in Congress. Next to Hovcy is Brig
adier Thomas M. Browne. Browne once
ran for Governor of Indiana, and was de
feated by Thomas A. Hendricks. lie hai
rved ten years, and is one of the lev
sound-headed men in the House. Next in
rank is Col. Georgs \V. Steele, who fought
throughout the war, and was afterward
commissioned in the regular armv. Tills
is his fourth term in tlie House. Cant.
Janies B. White, who kept the scat in de
fiance of the report of the committee on
elections, follows Steele. After him comes
Lieut. James T. Johnson, an old brass-
mounted veteran, who speaks in tones of'
thunder when his patriotism is aroused.
The ouly private in tlie Indiana delega
tion is Joseph B. Cheadle, a new member.
Nine of tlie twenty-seven members from
Pennsylvania wear the Grand Army but
ton. ‘ Eight of the nine arc Republicans.
The highest in rank is Major-Gen. Edwin
8. Osborne of Wilkesbarre. He lias been
commander of the Department of Penn
sylvania, (i. A. R. A man more noted for
his military record, however, is Iirig-Gen.
Harry Bingham of Philadelphia, lie was
wounded at Gettysburg, S|iottsylvania, and
Farravilie. He is handsome in face and
figure, adroit in debate, genial in compan
ionship. nnd gallant in more titan one
field. Colonels Thomas M. Ravne of Pitts
burg and Oscar L. Jackson are'fitting com
rades for Gun. Bingham. Bayne lias
served ten years in tlie House, and Jack-
son marched with Sherman through Geor
gia. The other veterans are Lieut. Charles
N. Hruniiu, Private Franklin Bound,
Quartermaster-Sergeant Frank C. Bunnell,
nnd Surgeon I amis E. Atkinson. Of these
four Iirumm is the licst known. He lias
been in Congress six years, and is able and
active in debate. Bunnell properly comes
from Funkliannock, the land of snapping
turtles and huckleberries, for he ia quick
nnd sweet in rejoinden
Only five of the twenty members from
Illinois display tlie button. All nre Re
publicans. The brigadiers are Philip S.
Post and Thomas J. Henderson. Post was
desperately wounded at Pea Ridge and
Nashville. He has been Commander of
tlie Department of Illinois, G. A. It., and
lie has as fine a military record as any man
in tlie House. Henderson served through
the war, and has been twelve years a Con
gressman. Next to him comes Colonel
Ralph Plumb, and after him Captain John
R. Thomas and J. II. Rowell, designated
in the Congressional Directory as a “com
pany officer.” Of theae Thomas is the best
known. This is his fifth term. He has
charge of tlie yawls in the naval com
mittee.
Five of the eleven members from Michi
gan are veterans, and four of the five are
Republicans. The brigadier is Byron M.
Cutchcon. He won the star by conspicu
ous gallantry in the Wilderness, where he
was twice wounded. Aside from Julius
Osar Burrows, he is probably the ablest
member of the Wolverine Gram! Army
• runs delegation. Captain K. P. Allen and
t xi.,0 |,i. I L “ **“, has a dark com- JamoSO'Donnell are the other Republican
bjb'l»„i, l . e T e *_and moustache, and soldiers. O’Donnell is an editor. Allen
was once mayor of Y|»ilinti. »nd is con
sequently on tlie road to the White House.
Eight of tlie tiiirtr-four member* from
New Y'ork are entitled to the button. Five
of the eight are Republicans. Major-Gen.
John If. Ketcham heads tlie four. Ketch
am hoa about tli» same war record as hail
General Garfield, lie has served eighteen
rears in Congrem, and he has a bead as
long as the moral law. The head is a lit
tle deaf, but its deafness seems to inert;
its power of thought. The General is a
guide in the lahrrtnth of House legisla
tion, nnd one wfio never loses his
His Grand Army colleagues are #
John M. Farqiifiar, of llurtalo. Lieut.
Charles M. IlnUr, of Rochester, John II.
Moffitt and Col. John B. Weber. All v re
magnificent soldiers, and all arc neefnl
come* ami valued member* of Ojncr,-*i. Moffitt
be sharp and trenchant.
Tlie other Grand Army Republicans are
Gen. Vnndever, of California; Col. Geo. E.
Symes, of Colorado, a gallant soldier, bet
ter known as “tlie ripping and roaring red
rooster of the Rockies;” Commodore Chas.
A. Bouteile, of Maine; promoted for gal
lant conduct in sinking the ram Albe
marle; Lieut. Henry J. Spooner, of Rhode
Island; ar.d Col. W. IV. Grout, uf Ver
mont.
Tlie Republican Grand Army veterans
from the South are Surgeon W. (i. Iiunler,
of Kentucky; Adjutant Nathan Goff, Jr.,
of West Virginia; William Warner anu
William H. Wade, of Missouri; and - Col.
R. R. Butler ond Leonidas C. Houk, of
Tennessee.
■ Nevada, Oregon, Delaware, New Jersey
and Connecticut have no Grand Array rep
resentatives in the House.
All these figures are gleaned from the
directory. Possibly some of the members,
like Cols. W. P. C. Breckinringe of Ken
tucky and James H. Blount, of Georgia,
who fought bravely for the Confederacy,
may have failed to record their military
services. Grand Army men, however, are
not usually so modest.’
Amos J. Cummings,
1'olitlcH In Switzerland.
W. D. Howells tn Harper's Magazine.
The people in our pension who were so
intelligent and well informed about other
things, bore witness to the real security of
the state, and the tranquility of tlie Swiss
mind generally concerning polities, by
their ignorance of the name of their exist
ing President. They believed he was a
man of the name of Schultz, but it appear
ed that his name was not at all Schultz,
wbenjwe referred the matterto our pasteur.
It was from him, indeed, that I learned
nearly all I knew of Swiss politics, nnd it
was from his teaching that 1 became aeon
servative partisan in the question then be
fore the votersof a freesehool law. Tlie rad
icals, who, the pasteur said, wish
Switzerland to attempt the role “gran
nation” had brought forward this measure
in the Federal Legislature, and it was
now, according to the sensible Swiss cus
tom, to he submitted to a popular vote. It
provided for the Mtabllshmeut of a na
tional bureau of education, and tlie conser
vatives protested against it as the entering
wedge ot centralization in government af
fairs. They contended that in a country
shared by’ three race* and two
religions ’ education should be
left ns much ns possible to
tlie several cantons, whicli in tlie Swiss
constitution are equivalent to our States.
I am liappv to say that tlie proposed law
was overwhelmingly defeated; ] am happy
because I liked the pasteur so much,
though when I remember the sympa
thetic bric-n-brac dealer at Vavey, who
war a radical, hnt who sold me so'rao old
pewters at a very low price, I cant help
feeling a little sorry, too. . However, the
Swiss still keep their old school law, under
which each canton taxes itself for eduea-
tion as our States do, though all share in
the advantages of tlie universities, which
are part of tlie public school system.
The particsin Switzerland are fortu
nately not divided by questions of race or
religion, but the pasteur owned that tlie
Catholics were n difficult element and had
to be carefully managed. Thev include
the whole population of the Italion can
tons and part of the French and German.
In Geneva and other large towns the labor
question trouhlesomely enter*, and tlie
radicals, like our Democrats, are sometime
the retrogtde party.
Till; I*!KK SUHKMK.
Brooklyn, March 2.—The Rev. T. De
Witt Tahunge, D. j), pastor of the Taber
nacle, said in his Friday night talk of this
date:
Yesterday I received a letter from a
stranger in Nebraska, saying that he had
bought * large tract of land and had got in
trouble about it, and lie wanted me to loan
or give him $15,000. I told my wife to
send him the $15,000 right away, but as
she did not happen to have that money
about her, the probability is it was not
sent. Recently I received a letter from a
young man saying he would get married if
I would send him money enough to pay
for liis wedding trip. A man in New Eng
land wants to become a lecturer, and won’t
1 write him two or throe, lectures. Two
letters from people who arc desperate, and
if I don’t send them relief they will jump
off the Brooklyn bridge. A man writes
me for my autograph, inclosing a postage
stamp. Not getting an answer, lie writes
It WmiM Not Work ISrrnme tlie Yankees
Were t'nrensonnbly obstinate.
From the Tbomaston Times.
The Tui.b.r.U'H, has resurrected Joe
Brown’s address to the mechanic* of Geor
gia, dated February 20,1802, in which lie
urges them all to make pikes and side
knives for the trootis. He deemed it of mi
touch imjKirtanee that lie advises them to
lay aside all other work for a montji or
two and make pikes and knives lor the
Stste of Georgia; hnt he mv* nothing
about paying for them. He tells, in iatt-
gnngo worthy of Falhtaff, what terrible
liavoc can lie made by these weaisms in tlie
ranks of the enemy, after they throw down
their arms and start to run. Tlie pikes
might have realised the .expectations* of
the eminent statesman who originated
them but for one thing. In many cases
the enemy wouldn’t throw away their guns
and run. Your Uncle Joseph’ has never
been accused of being a fool, but if he
reads this ancient document, be will feel
like one.
About 31n<Uton<*ft.
Dr. I. L. lUrrln Id Atlanta Constitution.
In a recent issue of your paper is a letter
from Mr. J. II. Seals, ottering the use of a
loadstone to any reputable physician who
has need of one, etc. The said stone, lie
saya, was given to him several years ago
by lion. Wm. A. Harris, of Worth countv,
w'ho took it from the stomach of a dee'r.
That being the case, the stone Mr. Seals
has is not a (so-called) loadstone, but b a
hexoar stone, a concretion that is often
f nnd in the stomach of ruminating ani
mals, as deer, goals, cows. The applica
tion of this stone to a poisoned wound
would be a* efficacious asthatof a so-called
msdstone, for both are worthbAtone
time the infusion of the powdered bezpar
was highly esteemed as an antidote to
poisons, thirty years tgo thess stones of
various sbaiies and sins could !« obtained 11
from any old hnnter in tbe Wlffigj
giou.
stamp, cot getting an answer, lie writes
me to be honest enough to send back the
xistagc stamp. Getting no answer to that
le writes me: “You scoundrel, you
stand there and preach tlie
Gospel, and yet dare client a man out of a
postage stamp.” Letters through Brooklyn
post-office and New Y'ork post-office, nnd
banded in at my door, and left for me at
the church, until my pockets nre full, and
my tables are full, and the shelves are full,
and tlie closets full, and one of my ideas ol
tlie loveliness of heavendb that there will
be no morning or evening mail. I have
piles of letters of good advice telling me
how to preacli and how not to preach, and
tlie poorer tlie syntax and etymology the
more urgent the’eounsei. iA-ttcrs discuss
ing theological points, spelling tlie word
God with a small “g.” Multitudes of wel
come letters of encouragement, which are
to me perpetual and everlasting help, anil
which go into tlie very fiber of my immor
tal nature, and will be something to he
glad about for all eternity. Letters through
which breath a tenderness nnd a pathos
and n beauty and a power which, put in
trpe and disseminated, might bless all the
world.
I say these things for two reasons—one
to excuse my unfaithfulness in portal cor
respondence, and the other as introduction
to the following suggestive communication:
“Dear Sir—I do not believe much that
you preach, but I am certain that yon be
lieve it all. To he a Christian I must
believe the Bible to be true. I do pot be
lieve it. 1 go to hear you preach because
you preach the Bible as I was taught it in
my youth by a father, who like yourself,
believed what, in tlie capacity of apreacher
lit- proclaimed. 1 have been for thirty-fiv
vear- anxious.to walk in the path mraooth
I have lived to sec my children's children
and the distance between mo and my rea
estate in the graveyard cannot be
great. At my age it would be worse thl
folly to argue simply to confound or dis
pute merely for the love of wrangling. ]
feel my breath growing shorter, my steps
more tottering, and I am lost in the wilder
ness." "
After stating many difficulties in th
ninth chapter of Romans, lie say*.
“I pray morning, noon and’ night be
cause I am afraid not to pray. What
shall I do that 1 have not done so that I
may see clearly?
“One of the ConortxiATtoN."
This letter excites all niv sympathies,
for I have been in that quagmire, and I
know how deep it is. A man may get into
a morbid state of mind and may believe
anything or disbelieve anything. A stu
dent of Dr. Witherspoon -came and said:
"I believe everything is imaginary. I my
self am only an imaginary being.” Dr.
Witherspoon said to him: “Go down and
hit L our head against the college door,and
if you are imaginary and the door is imag
inary it won’t hurt yon." When a car gets
off track you may find it next minute up
side down or in splinters.
I notice there are no slurs at religion in
this letter—tho first letter ot the kind 1
ever saw. Tlie first thing a man generally
does after turning his back upon Christ
ianity is to spit in the face of
Christ by caricaturing religion. But
this letter is respectful nnd reverential.
I congratulate the author of it
on the fact that he had a pious parentage.
While we want something stonger than our
mothers’ apron strings to save us, it .is a
grand thing to have had a good fattier and
mother. A prolligatc broke forth, weep
ing, and said: “Oh, that tear of my moth
er that fell on mv hand one night when I
lay in the trundle bed!” A man never
gets over having been prayed for. He is
apt to come around all riglit. A celebrated
theological professor of Princeton - was
aaked by a skeptic: “Doctor, how do you
explain this? You say that ‘train up a
child in the wav he should go, and when
he is old lie will not depart from it.’ ‘Now,
how do you account for the fact that your
Bill is such a dissipated fellow*” The
doctor replied; “The promise is when he
is old he will'not depart from it. Bill is
got old vet.” Subsequent years showed
the wisdom of the doctor’s faith. Bill got
old and became a Christian.
1 aongratBlate the author of my letter
on being Hie son of a minister. It is a
wrongful impression that ministers’ chil
dren are worse than others. Dr. Hall, in
hi* Journal of Health, says that in the bi
ographies of one hundred clergymen lie
finds they had one hundred and ten sons
who were clergymen, and wou know that
to be a clergyman means, at least, piously
inclined. The man of this letter mus’t
have hi- mind full of sacred reminiscences.
The picture* on the wall of his father's
parsonage wen of “Christ's Last Supper,”
“KcIh-i a at the Well,” tbe Egyptians
making a i. rrihle failure of cro--iiig the
It'd N a. There wii-scarcely a figure on
tbe carpet or a board in the floor that had
n ; wen wt,„. rated bv id. kn,j.rav, r.
, 'I " I I'b' »!i" ii-'ii I 11 g" and -l iv in
| that hou-.- were tlv Christian-. The
full of good things, and ebe< r-
and blessed memories will charge open his
soul and rapt lire it in five minutes for
Christ*. That old Christian father,. gon<
into glory, will yet greet this unbelieving
son!
In this letter you ask me for counsel,
and I give it. In one part of your letter
you show that your chief studv of the
rtible has been in the ninth chapter of
Romans. My advice is that for six mouth*
you stop reading other portion* of tin
Bible, and read only the evangelists—Mat
thew, Mark, Luke and John. “But is not
all Scripture given by inspiration.of God,
and profitable?" Ye»;so arenll the medi
cines in the apothecaries’ simp* good and
useful; but they all have ditl'erent uses,
and nre to be administered in dificrent
circumstances. There are aloes nnd
arsenic and opium and Peruvian bark—
all in their places; Uit in
one condition of the system this
medicine may retire you, and in an
other it will kill you. Now, I say that the
niuth chapter of Romans, which is a glo
rious tonic to a strong Christian, is to you,
in your present condition, arsenic. Ami,
if you don’t stop taking it—at any rate
in such quantities—it will kill you. Y’ou
have asked me to prescribe; and now, in
the name of the Great 1‘hvak-ian, I ask if
yon’will take tlie prescription? You will
never reason your way out of these per-
plextles.
If you had been sailing in one direc
tion for five years for Liverpool and not
found it, you would think it time to try
another direction; and now that you have
for thirty or forty years tried to find the
harbor of peace and have not come in
sight of port, any Christian sailor would
tell you to let the jib sheet and brace
round the head yards, taking ummirr
track. In on present spiritual invalidism
yoh cannot digest strong meat. You can
take nothing but the “sincere milk." How
dare you risk yourself now in the
ninth chant r of Roman. Y’ou go
out to contend in that field where strong
Christians of forty years’ standing have
been confounded. In otherwords, the first
time you take a musket in your hand you
try a Waterloo. The devil has had Ills
way with yon long enough. He lias
rohtied yon of tlie peaceof a whole lifetime
and is now trying to strangle your im
morality.
Y'ou sav yon have been advised by Chris
tian Jieuple to sacrifice on this subject your
reasoning faculty. I give you no such
wretched counsel. Hold your argumenta
tion in reserve. Tlie infantry march into
the fight on tlie plain. The batteries are
on the hill, nnd will in due time lie tin-
limbered. So go into tltis discussion with
your heart. Hold your logic and argu
ment in reserve for a latter period of the
conflict. Before you get through your
earthly battles you will need uot’ortly
minic rifles, but columbiads.
Does not this letter tear off all the gloss
and fascination of skepticism? There is a
time in a young man’s life when he thrusts
his finger iikthc armhole of his vest, tosses
his head and gives a Byronic laugh at
G'hristinny, or asks Tom Paine’s questions
about the‘serpent in Eden, or the miracu
lous conception of {nut Christ. But it is
* good deal easier to get lost in the jungles
than to get out uf tlie woods. Skepticism
ntauis a mutt tu death. It is a Hind
hook thrust luto the flesh to swing it* vi
tint into the air. The wretch dying of
smaltpox, half tended in the lio-pitai, is
not suYunoh to lie pitied as the man who
Kr.- caught this vile, polluting, agonizing
diateqeper of the soul. Take my tight eve,
yea. take both eyes, and leave me in mid
night ail my earthly days, rather than
blast my vision of that gospel truth whiclt
is my comfort for time and my hope for
eternity.
Will not some of these parents be mnt»
farted in the lo-a of their little children
when they read of those who have grown
up to reject Christ notwithstanding early
rc!'”ioiiij training? Better for us to pat
the forms of our little one* down where the
infernal archer cannot strike them. How
nO'ftly lies the sod on the breast, compared
with the pleasure of a destroyed spirit I
Better have the little handsclosed in death
around tlie flowers that a playmate sends
in, than to hare them opened for pulling
down tlie last ho|ie of a ruined world.
Tin: ROW AT EL FASO.
wo Bleat cans Killed a ,TTl a Texas Mierttr 1
Wounded lit ttio Fight.
Galveston, Tf.x., March A—An Eagle
Pass special says-Captain Nonas, commander
of the soldiers at Piedras Negros, received
permission for four of his men to come into
the United States and look at horses they
wanted to buy. A lieutenant nnd three sol-
•hers came over accordingly. They
di*»ovored a Mexican at work, who
liu.1 deserted a. few days ago and brutally
maltreated him*. Deputy Sherlfl White
ordered them, to desitt, when thev drew
pistols on him. He left for assistance and
the Mexicans hurriedly started for Mexico.
They were encountered by White, however,
ipid in a fight that ensued two of the Mexican
soldiers* were killed. The lieutenant
received a flesb wound and White was shot
through the luLud.
^ The people of both Piedras Negras and
Eagle Pass are indignant at this out
rage upon- international friendship, and
demanu of the government protection
and retaliation. The civil authori
ties claim to be entirely innocent
in the matter and most probably knew noth
ing of it. Lt was a scheme gotten, up entirely
bv Capt. Nunos ami his lieutenant. The
Mexican whom soldiers tried to kidnap is
seriously injured, hut will recover.
THK CltOWN PIMNCB*
His tieiieral Condition Unchanged—Prince
’William I'oMtpuneft Ills Departure.
San. Eemo, March 4.—At 10 o’clock to
night the general condition of the German
Crown Prince was unchanged. The patient
passed u good night and a good day. lie ex
pectorated much less frequently and hia
throat felt more comfortable. A ctdd wind
\ra» blowing tn*dav, hut the patient pn e 5C f l
a short time on the balcony, protected by
screens.
Prince William lias postponed bis depart*
ore. He spends much time with his father.
Prof. Walmyer has not yet visited the Crown
Prince. He U busy making microscopic ex
aminations of tbe matter discharged from
tlif I’liiict ’s tin-..at. It i-t notirnl that the
doctors are now attending the patient more
closely than ever. Dr. Bergmann signed the
Sunday morning bulletin.
The Crowu Prince’s strength has increased
since his sleeping draught was discontinued
and the mucus from his throat is now but
slightly thiged with blood. A more hopeful
Prince /ins sent a telegram to Queen Victoria
saying, “God be thankedl There is still
room for hope/^
FUKD DOUGLASS.
UIr Reception by His Unco nt Charleston—
Ills Lectures.
CHARLESTON, March 4.—Fifteen hundred
colored people assembled at Mt. Zion Church
to*nfght to welcome Fred Douglass to
Charleston. In an extremely appropriate
and gracefully delivered adore*", Cnptoin
W. S. McKinley, of the Douglass light In
fantry, hade Mr. Douglass welcome in the
name, not only of the Douglass Light Infan
try. but of the colored citizens of Charleston
'I Hi, "..I.- . I lull.r«h.itrl\ .tin r ihi-, ad
dress Mrs. W. H. Heard read an
original poem, addressed to Doug
lass. He responded briefly nnd to
the point, although the pastor of the church
with much difficulty subdued tbe demonstra
tion of applause. His few remarks were
largely in response to the ••Himenta of the
address and of tlie poem, for both of which
he thanked the nutnore earnestly and cor
dially.
To-morrow lie will dine v ith Capt* Gradv
nnd w ill be driven around the city hy Dr. W.
I). Crum. To-morrow night he will lecture
.it Mt. Zion church ”w "S U*iuftdc men,” and
on Tuesday night on hU travels abroad.
MX LIVES AT STAKE.
A Orvsuor I
Prescott, A r.iz.,Marc 1;
a Mexican, was banged ii
yesterday for tho niu.uf
I • \ r 11 .i II*
*d
ited.
fill g >od tllillV', In
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hall
fun
that
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AUGUSTA.
Central Cutting Agnlnst the River—Sir
Thn». Enmonde Lionized—Tlie Expu»!tion.
Special Telegram to Macon Te!egntph.
Augusta, March S.—The Central railroad
to-day reduced its prices from 27 to 20 cents
on the huudred pound* of cotton, which U
about two cents less than the steamboats ex
port it. Tbe Central formerly charged $1.26
per hale, and now it amount* to .about nine
ty-three cents, and the steamlMiat* get about
ninety cent* a bale. President Smith, of the
steamboat company, to-night said he did not
think lie would reduce bis rates and would
retain did trade, a* the railroad reduction i*
solely caused by the introduction of new uud
speedy ftteamhoat*.
Col. C. V. Walker was elected councilman
from the first ward to-day to succeed Mr. K.
W. Hunt. He was not opposed, and re
ceived 10$ vote*.
Sir Thomas K*monde*has been lionized all
day and shown Augunta in style. He will
remain to-morrow and leave lor Charleston
Sunday evening. He says he eujoys America
immensely.
Five hundred dollars has just been added
to the Augusta exposition tubscrintion,
Hon. Charles Estes subseribing half that
amount. To-dav has been the best day for
collecting insfUMtlla miff flu company
organized; Manager Ityckman returns from
Kansas City to-morrow and then active work
on buildings will begin. The Richmond
County Agricultural Society has decided to
make k grand and extensive exhibit of the
resources of this county.
The churches in Augusta begin a general
religion? revival tomorrow, to continue
through Man h. .
COLUMBUS.
Report of a Case «*t Vellow Fever nt llox
Spiing* Confirmed—Politic it Matters.
Special Telegram to tbe Macon Telegraph.
COLUMBIA, March Parties in the city
to-day train the neighborhood of Box Springs
confirm the rumor that there is a case of yel
low fever near that place. Yonng Mr. Cal
houn, who recently returned^ from Florida,
D the victim. A uentleman in tbe city tu-
day said that Dr. Smith, the physician who
Its* charge of the ease, informs him that
there wa* no doubt, but that it was a genu
ine case of yellow fever. It is said that he
will recover and no fears are entertained
about the disease.
Hon- Thomas J. Chappell announced to
his fiiend» to-day that he would he a candi
date for the position of fcolicitor-general of
the Chattahoochee circuit, in opposition to
ii j ' - • : I:.'** '.t II..11. .1 n. W.tr- 11.
•ral As
r the la«t G
quit.- popi
in thfe
•.hip
mnlng Trial f«
t Atrocious Murder
in S iiitli Carolina.
Special Telegram to Macon Telegraph.
Columbia, C„ March 3.—'The of
General Rendon* will HKt?t in Edgefield on
Monday. There are always murder cases in
this county, but at the coming session a pe
culiarly diabolical murder case will be
brought to trisl. Six persons, four men and
two women, nre charged with the cold
blooded murder of a deal mate. The mur
dered man was the husband of one of the
women, who, wishing to get rid of him and
marry another man, conspired with another
woman and her sweetheart to remove her
husband. One night early in the winter the.
mute was Murdered and buried in the gar
den, and his wife disappeared with another
man. Persons passing the house saw the
ringers nnd toes of the murdered man above
the ground and gave the alarm. It is prob
able that at least one of the women anu one
man will he sentem-ed to he hanged.
Georglu Volunteer Soldiery.
From tbe Savannah News.
Governor Gordon generally hitu the nail
on the head, lie ct rtainly hit it squarely
on the head when he said in Savannah the
oilier night that the volunteer soldiery of
Georgia deserved the* fostering care of her
|ieople. When he pledged himself to do
what he could f.r the militia he gave a
promise that many people in the State
hope and believe he will keep. He ia a
born soldier, ami it is natural that he
should take an ioterrst in military mat-
ten. When his elcvti. n ns Governor was
followed by the ap;>ointniciit of a large
and imposing military stafl. it was hoped
that the Legislature would be induced
byJJJthe awakened military spirit to
do something more for the volunteer sol
diery than had been done previously. Up
to that time a company depending wholly
upon the State would have had a very
brief existence. A former Legislature had
been considerate enough to admit that the
State had a militia, but that was all. Arms
and accoutrements were furnished by the
general government, and all otherexpenses
were borne by the companies themselveu.
Nothing, however, lias been done for them
within the past two yews. Legislators
seem to be very slow about helping them.
The diflqfent battalions are required by
law to come together once a year, in order
to protect themselves from disbandment;
anu in case of emergency, the volunteers
are liable to be called oat on datv, but no
provision for their expense L? made.
The State requires burdeasome, and even
dangerous, service from certain of her citi
zens in which they mmst incur heavy ex
pense*, and yet slie refuses to assLt in pay
ing these expenses. Is there any justice
in thin? Does this niggardly. ik>1 icy tend
to encourage a proper military spirit
which is so essential to the welfare of the
State?
The State is able to do something for her
military and there is no good reason why
*lie should not. Gov. Gordon probably has
more influence with the Legiidaiure in this
matter than any man in tlie State, and it
i» to be hoped that he will exert it. It hi
a matter that demands his attention.
Very Happy.
From tbe Quitman Herald.
< Mi Mon-lav night 1 :i-1 tln-n* • aim* t-» tlie
!. ir l Iri.-ml. 1 . A. .J..!.■-. who
live- a,To- the .nek. a Uv a „d a girl.
The 1k)V weighed nine p-iun i- and the gir!
-•i/it |” n."K Thev :* r. :i hi!.-!- me pair
and Wtcongratulate our frit-ad on In- g'-nl
fortuik . Tlie mother and all hand* are
doing w II. L I- tin ii.ar* to stale
that T. J. ha* subscribed for the Herald.