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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, MARCH 14. 1884. THE NEGRO PROBLEM. The Reviewer Roviewed«Fnl«e State ments Exposed and False Reason ing Refuted—An Experiment Station Suggested. BY **V. w. J. SCOTT. One of the latest contributions to the lit erature of this subject may be found in the January number of the (Northern) Jfetfuh dut Quarterly Review. It is from the pro lific pen of Dr. Abel Stevens, of New York who for the time being is a resident of Paris. Dr. 8. is one of the advanced thinkers of his denomination and is of no mean reputation amongst them church historian. He may therefore be regarded as a representative man. It is this fact that gives to his article its chief value and that alone entitles it to a reply. It proffers, also, a solution of the negro problem which indicates the drift of pop ular sentiment in the Northern Methodist chu^k. That church in numerical strength and possibly in political influence occupies the front rank amongst our ec clesiastical organizations. This, solution which Dr. Stevens claims to be the final and historical adjustment of the whole con troversy respecting the negro reveals alike the weakness and desperation of RADICAL STATESMANSHIP. Rightly interpreted it is a reluctant con fession that their former methods have been the merest political abortions. It clearly imports that emancipation has been a failure—that the conferring of the ballot has been a cheat, and that educa tion, elementary or higher, is itself a delu- sion. The entire Radical programme in cluding the constitutional amendments and the exploded civil rights bill, which were foisted on the country by bayonet rule, are tacitly acknowledged to be utterly inadequate to the elevation of the negro to a plane ot equality with the white race. As the last resort of baffied trickery, as the forlorn hope of a sinking party, we have now thrust upon us the naked issue of unrestricted intermarriage on this con tinent. Here and there throughout Ids elaborate article Dr. Stevens affects an ojKj’.ogetic tone, which shows that he is either lacking in the thoroughness of conviction, or else that he has a set purpose to mislead the incautious reader. At other times he is outspoken in his utterances-as when he says that “the prejudice which ordained 4Tia Vnlnr linn’ nmnneret til was an PPrt>- and rose-colored wophecies. he is evi dently fearful of tfly negro’s destiny when brought in conflict with the white race. Between the lines we read—“Help me, Cassius, or I sink.” After taxing his brain to its utmost tension,. he can see no con ceivable solution of the African (?) prob lem except COLONIZATION OR AMALGAMATION, thereby virtually saying education is good —the 'elective franchise is helpful—Fed eral legislation may put off the evil day. But nothing short of wholesale expatria tion or gradual extinction by intermar riage with the higher race can save the ne gro from the bondage of a caste more rigid than that of Kindoolsm. Were we not justified in saying that Dr. Stevens’s article revealed the weakness or desperation of Radical statesmanship? We have somewhere read of a learned Buddhist who spent u score of years In the speechless contemplation of his own navel. It is fair to conclude that in the process of years this self-absorbed devotee came to regard his umbilicus as the hub of the universe. So probably with our venerable opponent. He has so long considered the negro as the principal factor in American civilization, that his brain is confused and his statesmanship decidedly muddled. He may, however, put away his apprehen sions. A kind providence and sound statesmanship will care for ‘‘our brother in black.” The negro will find, and if wisely let alone by silly marplots, will keep liis proper social level. Barring ex ceptional cases, he will continue to eat and sleep and labor at intervals, as he has done oini'o (lio /lntxrn rtf-'UlouffAtl fr*»Pflf»ni." In iy. t is no exaggeration to say that many of the better tribes even knot and gender like frogs in the marshes or fiies in the shambles. And this with out regard to color, race or condition. In Hayti we have the first fruit of miscege nation as seen in the bloody combats of blacks and mulattos, but throughout Af rica we see its rine fruits in a physical and moral degradation that has scarcely a parallel on the globe. We have little hope of a brighter destiny for Africa, short of the providential extinction of the existing races. Commerce and Christianity are potent factors, but hitherto ihey have ac complished but little. It is idle, < herefore, to dream with the great Livingstone oft a Christian empire in the heart of the conti nent. or to prophesy with Dr. Stevens of a good time coming when the Congo shall be a ct inmerciui thoroughfare for the nations. Dr. Stevens next turns his attention to TROPICAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, as a promising field for ne gro colonization and amalgamation. We are free to assert that nowhere outside of Africa have the evils of amalgamation been more clearly defined than in Spanish America. Mexico, the ancient empire of the Aztecs, chiefly from this cause has be come the jest and riddle of the political world. The higher 8panish classes have preserved their blood from this shameful pollution. But the remainder of the pop ulation arc a mongrel blood, the product of cohabitation between negroes. Indians and thriftless adventurers from all quarters < f the earth. The outcome of this mixture is seen in the catalogue of assassination; clap, loud as tLe “crack of doom,” which has fallen on our shivering ears. God In mercy spared them the spectacle of “States discordant and belligerent.” We of this generation have seen this and more. The legend of Mokanna is tame compared with the authentic history of this political mania. The very least of its enormities is that It is an imposture— for to borrow the language of inspiration— “its word* are smoother than butter, but under its tongue is the venom of asps.” THE CIRDLE OF FRIENDSHIP. A MONTANA JUDCE. She gathered at her slender waist The beauteous robe she wore; Its folds a golden belt embraced, One ro*<shtie«1 trem 4 bore. The girdle shrank '. Us lessening round Still kept the shining gem, But now her flowing locks it bound, A lustrous diadem. And narrow still the circlet grew; Behold! a glittering band, Its roseate diamond set anew, Her neck's white column spanned. tu^ he wHl ^the same iovial darkv that robberies and revolution*, the recital of SiTwis'lntii^/dptotlition^Uy^''^is sickening inthe extremei0.te We agree for once with lir. Stevens that Trot. Gilliam's scheme of colonization is largely impracticable. The negro is not nomadic in hia tendencies. Without some measure of physical coercion, or some sort of moral stress, he will linger still abont his old haunts, with the tenacity of onr domestic cat. There remains then bat one alternative, MISCEGENATION, and we shall proceed at once to remove this surviving prop of his tottering the- tlic -color line' amongst us was an egre gious social fallacy.” Still more when he stigmatises the race Instinct which God designed for the conservation of the integ rity of species as “a whimsical prejudice that should be thrown to the winds. That bold assertions are unmistakable. They present an issue squarely, which we propose to meet with perfect fairness and yet with uncompromising fidelity to the right, as we : enabled to see the other hand, take the little republic of Chill, shut up between the Andes and the Pacific, with only a small extent of arable land. Here we have a peaceful, orosperous commonwealth, with schools, churches, railroads He Oscillated Between the Bar, the Poker Table and the Sunday-School. Washington Special. W. A. Burleigh, formerly delegate in Cong&s from Dakota, but now a resident of Montana, was before Springer’s commit tee Monday and was examined in relation to the official conduct of Judge Conger, one of the district judges of Montana, recently .succeeded by Judge Cobourn, of Indiana. The witness testified that Judge Conger was under the influence of liquor so of cn that business suffered. Burleigh had seen him go to sleep on the bench while important cases were being heard. The delay in appointing a successor to Judge Conger, Mr. Burleigh asserted, cost the district from $75,000 to $100,000. and had also cost the government a large sum. Kx-Chief-Just ice Shannon was also be fore the committee. He said he had in vestigated the charges against Judge Con ger. The testimony from two counties in Conger’s district hud been in favor of him. while that from two other counties had been against 1dm. Judge Shannon testi fied, in regard to the charge of i set; the straining clasp Sun rise and l The shortened links resist, Yet flsHbcs in a bracelet's grasp The diamond on her wrist. At length, the round of changes past, The thieving years could bring, The Jewel glittering to the last, Still sparkles lu a ring. So, link by link, our friendships part, So loosen, break and fall. A narrowing zone; the loving heart . Lives changeless through them all. —Oliver Wendell Holmes. THE MINISTRY OF THIS CENTURY. 'WWffiSW/GUfiES Blood Purifiers and Skin Bcautificrs. CO A Positive Cure for every Form of Skin and Blood Diseases, from Pimples to Scrofula. ||I8FIGURING HUMORS „a..J *' hurnlnE^turc^paintulcniptlon^jjU Itching and - motions, salt I fzema, Psoriasis, scald head, in- H birth humors, and every rheum or fantlle c. , ■*PMI*P*8PaflPPWflPP form of itching, scaly, pimply, scrofulous, in herited. contagious and copper-colored dls- cases of the blood, Rkln and scalp, with loss of hair, are positively cured by Cuticura Rcml edics. gambling, that he ound that Conger, while holding's telegraphs and other marks of progressive civilization. In Chili there is a larger per. * as It behooves us. however, before reaching the main question, to dispose of some PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS which he makes the premise of his entire argument. These statements he repro duces from an article published in this same review in July, 188.1. They relate al most exclusively to certain tabulated sta tistics oi the present and prospective pop ulation of the United States. They were prepared by Professor Gilliam and M. Slmonin, a French geographer of consid erable celebrity. According to the esti mate of one of these authorities (Professor Gilliam,) we shall have in ninety years within our present national limits a negro population of one hundred and ninety mil lions. We have elsewhere shown the fal lacy of this statement, contradictory as it is of all former experience in this country and in the West Indies. We insist that our multiplication table must be revised and corrected, or else the present ratio of blacks and whites will be at least maintained, and most probably greatly augmented, in favor of the former. 8o that whether the estimates in question be right or wrong, the whole statement is an arithmetical bugaboo that cart only frighten the in mates of the nur*f ry. M. Simonin likewise predicts that three hundred and twenty years from date we shall hare an American population ot 14300,000.000, exceeding by two hundred millions the total population of the earth _'r. Stevens has the hardihood to char acterize this abomination as both the sci entific and historical solution of the prob lem. As for the scientific phase of the subject, he has recourse for illustration to the intcr-breedlng of horses and cattle. In utter defiance cf ethnology, and with a pro found contempt for the lessons of history, sacred and profound, be applies this reas oning to the inter-breeding of human races. He docs this too with no seeming com punctions of conscience, and with no perceptible scruples of decency. With an air of perfect nonchalance, he speaks of Bishop Haven fraternizing with the humblest black man, and extending knight ly gallantries to handsome colored women. As ne learnedly remarks, de guttibun non est dispntandum. We have no quarrel with his Latin, commonplace a* it is, but we must dissent from his logic. His sugges tions on this point, we venture to sav with out fear of his precept or Bishop Haven’s example, are coarse to vulgarity, and al together unbefitting a prominent minis ter of the Gospel. They are better suited to the columns of a Police Gazette than to the pages of a Quarterly Review. With this emphatic protest, we waive the ques tion of taste, and proceed to examine his scientific proofs. Dr. Morton, the greatest of American ethnologists, alleges in the “Types of Man kind,” that there is no instance on record where an inferior race has been improved in a degree by this process of amalgama tion that it has not been damaging in a larger measure to the higher race. So that on striking the bal- lance there was a net loss to our common humanity. Besides, the same great scien tist mentions cases, notably that of the Berbers—the Nuraidiana of Sallust—whose civilization was destroyed by this identical process. To little purpose, therefore, does Dr. Stevens allude to the superior intelli gence of the mulatto and the physical beauty of the quadroon. It is more than questionable, in the light of ethnological research, to say nothing of the moral bear ing of these non-ecclesiostical unions, whether there is not in the end both physi cal and intellectual degradation. I)r. Stevens, however, endeavors to strengthen his position by HISTORICAL REFERENCES. The examples he adduces are singularly unfortunate for his hypothesis. In regard to England, France and Spain, ha speaks of “homogenco”* populations compounded of various races.” Suppom* we allow what has been gravely disputed by eml- >nties; that the * * ‘ centage of unmixed European blood than can be found elsewhere in Spanish Ameri ca. Her next door neighbor, Peru, the former empire of the Incas, has been dreadfully cursed with hybrids and In dians, and hence it is a laggard in the race for national distinction. Yet again—Bra* zil. the most stable and powerful govern ment of South America, has been a slave- holding community. We state on high holding community. We state on high official authority, that notwithstanding the prospective abolition of slavery, the theory ot miscegenation meets as little favor in Brazil as in Georgia or South Carolina. The conclusion of the whole matter is this, that from China to Peru the facts are overwhelmingly against mixed races. That from the ancient Jews to the modern Ger mans, the pure-blooded races are the great forces and factors of the grandest civiliza tions. Upon this proposed solution of Dr. Ste vens we feel constrained to offer a few ad ditional observations. He is quite san guine in regard to the successful working of his scheme, but wo have very serious misgivings. With the Northern States, especially New England, where the negro element is an almost intinitesslmal frac tion, it is a question of purely speculative interest, or at most petty political advan tage. Not so with the late slaveholding States of the Union. It is with them question of momentous import. term of court at Miles City, played poker for money Sunday afternoon, while during the morning of the same day he had deliv ered an address before the Sunday school. On other occasions the witness said he found Judge Conger hail played stud joker and faro for money, cigars and the In relation to the charge of having dis reputable associates, Judge Shannon said Judge Conger had been seen in Miles City in Line. 1882, at a dance given by colored women of bad repute. As to drunken ness, the witness testified that Judge Con ger bad been seen on the bench on several occasions when under the influence of liq uor and unfit to be there. After the arri val of Judge Conger’s family in the Terri tory, nearly three years after his appoint ment as judge, there was a change in his conduct. nent author! at the present day. Whereupon Dr. Ste vens in one breath scoffs at the idea of the social proscription of the blacks in Dm face of such numerical aggregates, and in the next snaps his fingers defiantly in the teeth of the Malthusian*. _ We shall nqt stay to consider these fabu lous estimates. Conclusions based on sucli a flimsy foundation are as unworthy of be lief a* the mlllenarian prophecies of Joe Miller or the crazy vaticinations of Moth er 8hipton. A man need not master the learning of Malthas to understand that wars r pesti< lences. famines and similar mishaps ma terially modify and sometimes greatly b en the growth of population. As for Pro fessor Gilliam's exorbitant figures they cannot be reached in two hundred years, atUl leas in ninety years, unlaas some ma lignant deity should quadruple the procre ative capacity of the negro. As respects descendants of the dark-skinned Euskasians are an important element in the present popula tion of Knsland. What conorirablebearing does this have on the question of amalga mation between the Aryan and negro races ? Were these Euskasians negroes in physical or mental traits or habitudes? ATere they not instead as much as the Greeks a collateral branch of that grand Aryan race that set forth from, the plat- ea»is of Central Asia on its missions of world conquest and world redemption be fore the pyramids were built or possibly before Babylon was founded? ThlaEus- kas'nn element, if it still exists, is found in the mines of Cornwall and the mountain re cesses of Wales. It Is the Teutonic element, not less than 80 per cent, of the total pop ulation which has made England the mis tress of the sea* and the arbiter of the conti nents. This Teutonic blood,traceable to the Denmark, Wc suggest, and the suggestion ought not to give offense to Dr. Stevens or any of his aiders and abettors, that he project AN EXPERIMENTAL COLONY in close proximity to Bunker Hill or Ply mouth Rock, where his theory of hy bridization may be thoroughly tested. We observe in the census tables that there is a large surplus of raarriagable females in Massachusetts. Let him, therefore, organ ize a joint stock company which rhali purchase the necessary buildings and lands and import a few hundred educated young negro men from Alabama or Georgia. They may be disposed of by some sort of matrimonial lottery. Let the general government, if needful, help the enten rise by a liberal appropriation front the Federal treasury. It at the end of fifty years Dr. Stevens or his successors have improved the breed of the Adamses and Franklins, the Winthrops and Webster*, who have so grandly illustrated New Eng land in the forum and cabinet, then we of the South will look with greater favor on his theory and place a higher estimate on hi* own honesty. As it now appear* to us his solution, both on its scientific and historical side, is a gratuitous insult to th* nation at large. To the South it Is not | simply a shameful indignity but a cold-1 blooded invitation to commit sectional suicide. We bar fly know whether to be most shocked by the meanness that con cocted or the malice that prompted it. T1IE NEGRO AS A NIHILIST. In the concluding pages of his article. Dr. Stevens reads us a lecture on our polit ical, social and religious duties to the ne gro. He warns us that his political griev ances must be extinguished—bis social dis paragements removed and the obnoxious ‘ color line” blotted out in the American churches. We have neither leisure nor Inclination to parley with our opponent on these hackneyed topics. It is in order, however. to inquire if these grievances and disabilities do not inhere in the mental and physical con stitution of the negro. If *>, they are manifestly beyond the reach bf legislative tinkering, anu are not to be remedied by statutory enactments, whether State or Pigs on an Alcoholic Diet. From the Popular Science Monthly. W. Mattieu William* says that he once witnessed a display of drunkenness among 301) pigs, which had been given a barrel of spoiled elderberry wine all at once with their swill. “Their behavior was intense ly human, exhibiting all the usual mani festations of jolly good-fellowship, includ ing that advanced stage where a group were rolling over each other and grunting affectionately in tones that were distinctly expressive of swearing good fellowship, all around Their reeling and staggering and the expression of their features all in dicated that alcohol bail the same effect on pigs ns on men: that under its influ ence both stood precisely on the Lame zo- lziirnl ** ologlcal level.' He quotes also MM. Bujardln Bcaumttz and Audege’s account to the French Acad emy of Sciences of their experiments du ring three years on the effects of alco holic diet on pigs. Eighteen of these animals were treated sumptuously, ac cording to old-fashioned notions of hospi tality. by mixing various alcohols with their food, in proportion* about corres ponding to a modest unlf-plnt of wine at dinner. The alcohols that wc drink in wine, malt liquors, whisky. Hollands brandy, etc., invariably produced sleep, prostration and general lassitude, while absinthe (included in another variety of alcohol) produced an excitation resem bling epilepsy. Some ot the animals died from the effects of alcoholic poison. The survivors were killed and subjected to a post-mortem examination. Ail were round to be injured, but the mischief was greater when crude spirita were used, less when It was carefully redistilled and puri fied.” Bishop Littlejohn on the Decline In Its Power. New York Times. St. reter’a Protestant Episcopal Church, in West Twentieth street, was comfortably filled last evening on the occasion of a lec ture delivered by Bishop Littlejohn to the students of the General Theological Semi nary on “The Christian Ministry at the Close of the Nineteenth Century.” The Bishop said there were various estimates of the Christian ministry, which were re ducible to three views—that of the agnos tic, who held that it would be supplanted by another instrumentality; the view of persons to whom the ministry was a mat ter of doubt; and thirdly, that the Chris tian priesthood was an institution by which God was re onciling the world to Himself. The free thought of the time handled the ministry with scant courtesy, but that was not the most abiding thought. The clergy once wielded a wide influence as n learned class, and founded schools and seininanics, and in this country there was scarcely a college, up to forty years ago, that did not owe its cxistance to their sympathetic interest. To-day, at homo am! abroad, in the movement for secular education, the clergy had been retired and any attempt on their part to manage the public school* would be met with de termined opposition. The battle had been won by the secular power. There were still schools where clergymen governe*, but it was as the representatives of the relijdous bodies to which they belonged. In England, clerical influence was waning in this respect, and the drift of legislation was adverse to the clergy as educators. In view of these facts it was apparent tliat the clergy was losing control in this direction. The solemn trust had changed hands. There was no limit, continued the Bishop, to the power of the press in throw ing off marvelous photographs of the thought and movement of the world, but it was not easy to see how this agency should be forced into comparison with the pulpit. The press could set up a pulpit in count less spots all over the world, but spoken truth and written truth were widely differ ent things. The pastoral office also, was no longer the chief dispenser of charity. There were altered methods of relief, which were now largely accomplished Cntlcura Resolvent, the new blood purifier, causes the blood and perspiration of impu * tie* and poisonous elements, and thus i moves the cause, while Cuticura, the gri skin cure, instantly allays itching and tnfln ■Kin cure, instantly niiays itching and tntlam- limtiou, clears the skin and scalp, heals ul- and sores and restores the hair. Cuticura Soap, an exquisite skin boautl- tiller and toilet requisite, prepared from Cuti- ., is Indispensable in treating skin diseases. baby humors, skin blemishes, rough, chapped or oily skin. Cuticura Remedies are abso lutely pure, and the only real blood purifiers and skiu bcautificrs. Charles Houghton, Esq., lawyer, 28 State •street, Boston, reports a esso of salt rheum under his observation for ten years, which covered the patient’s body and limbs, and to which all known methods of treatment had been applied without benefit, which was com pletely cured solely by the Cuticura Remedies, leaving u clean and h< *' L NMhh F. II. Drake. Esq., Detroit. Mich., suffered untold tortures from a skin disease, which ap peared on his huuds, head and face, and near ly destroyed his eyes. After the most careful doctoring and a consultation of physicians date. HjPl But we come now to consider what Dr. Steven j has styled “OUR AFRICAN FROBLSM.” Why does this learned divine misstate tBe question? Wherefore does he substi tute Africa.! problem for negro problem? Certainly not lor the sake of euphony, for \ycnoiui; liu. ivi wi sujjuuii; . in this rtg.nl negro U a better word than African. Is be handicapped by the term negro because of the odiim associated with U? Or altall we say that it is the tin- canny trick ot a controversialist more in tent on triumph than trathT Charity ‘•which hopeth all tilings" might suggest that ignorance was the cause of this singu lar misstatement. If, so we beg to re mind tin. Doctor that whilst all negroes arc Africans by natieity or descent, the converse of the proposition la not true that all Africans are negroes. This fact is vastly important to a correct solution of our problem, and yet It is practically and logically overlooked by some who under take its discussion, hot la a dark com plexion and woolly hair the distinctive mark of the negro. Rather is It his defi cient frontal brain, hia prognathous Jaws, his general anatomical structure, extruding from the occiput to the os colei’s. We may truthfully subjoin a physical and mental organism that approximate! the Pithecoid man of Darwin and Haeckel. But na. tramas' ilcndeb is not limply ethnological; it is moreover geographical. The negro race proper is re stricted to a district on the west coast of Africa, lying between the equator and the twelfth degree of northern latitude and extending a few hundred miles into the interior. As Pritchard, tha great mon ogamist, and therefore an unexceptionable witness to Dr. Stevens, testifies he is only a little less circum-erilied than tha stunted hyperboreans of Northern Asia, or tha equally diminutive Lappa and Kakimos of Arctic Europe and America. There are negroid races elsewhere both in Africa, New Guinea and the Phillipine Islands, bat this does not, in anywise, af fect our argument. From then degraded tribes of Western Africa, who for tbou- aanda of yean have not risen above the level of fetiscb worship b> religion—wbo-e vocabulary ia composed of a lew hundred wor : la—who have contributed nothing to the enlightenment or enrichment of man kind—from these tribes hare sprung nlne- tentbs of the four millions of onr lately ipatod Southern slaves. tierce Vikings of Norway and pulsated tn the heart-throbs of thoao great adminls, Blake and Nelson. This same blood headed the charge at Bala- klava, the Therroopyln of modern history —it courses in the veins of Graham, who but yesteaday planted the crosa of St. George upon the forts and battlements of Tokar. So likewise of France. With occasional admixtures of Italian and Spanish blood along the Mediterranean coast and Pyre nean border, there has been no amalga mation. Her blood is as pure from taint as the liliea which ooce emblazoned her 11a- tionnl standards. Neither has any race been more jealoue of foreign admixture than the high-bom Castilian and the brave Arragonete. The five centuries of Moorish domination in troduced some impurities in the southern departments, but the conquest of Grenada by Ferdinand the Catholic, and the subse quent expulsion of the More-cos. rid the peninsula of that pestilence. Yet these Moors, be It remembered, were no more negroes than tha Indians of the far West. The traditions of the English stage which make Othello, who won the fair Desde- mona. a negro, ia srithont historical basis. If it were otherwise the denouement of that trill not help Dr. Stephens’* argument. Leaving the highly cultured nations of Europe he takes us to Africa as furnishing the beet examples of race advancement by virtue of amalgamation. Especially does he speak with much confidence ot a mys terious race, known as Pools or Reds, which by inter-breeding with the natives have reared up a noble Kemlto-African race, spreading from Nubia to Senegambia. All of this he write* of the semi-barbarous ject are reckless in spirit and revolutionary in tendency. Let him take heed how he prosecutes his fanatical crusade against our distinctive civilisation. There is oftentimes a terrible rebound In these Nihilistic ‘'prophesying* and preach ments.” Our census statistics admonish us of other perils than negro expansion and negro ascendency in our national politics. The Eastern and Middle States are already feeling the pressure and bur den of a surplus population. The question of snbeistence in that quarter Is fast be coming a moatperplexlng social problem. The labor strikes that now and then frighten bloated capitalists from their propriety are essentially bread riots. These privileged classes, that hare been enriched by government contracts and unjust Congressional discrimination are not above the danger line. The bonded debt of the general government is not more sacred than were the vetted rights of the South in her immense slave property. And yet this bonded debt it the basis of Wall street prosperity and State street shoddyiim. The higher law, which Dr. Stevens more than once in vokes in this discussion, may be applied to other purposes than the spoliation of the South. The enterprising Yankee has learned the art of manufacturing dyna mite for foreign consumption. It may yet become available for domestic uses. We disclaim the role of the alarmist. But we understand thoroughly that when the public conscience is persistently debauched through the lifetime of a generation by such teachings aa have emanated from the pul pit, press and platform of radicalism, that such a seed time must have a rorret- Krupp'a Filty-Ton Hammer. American Register, Paris. The fifty-ton hammer with which Krupp belabors his large steel blocks bears the name "Our Fritx.” Its strota, on the 100- ton avail, although the latter rests on a chnboote of upwards ot 100 square feet in size, and it surrounded by water, causes a deafening noise, and a concussion resem bling an earthquake. The hammer bears the inscription: ’‘Fritz, let fly.” This in scription has the following history: When, in 1877, the Emperor William visited the works at E-ten, this steam-hammer at tracted hia attention. Alfred Krupp, the fattier of the present head of the firm, pre sented to the Emperor the machinist, Fritz, who he said, handled the hammer with such nicety and precision os not to Injure or even touch an object placed in the centre of the block. Tlie Emperor at once put liis diamond studded watch on the spot indicated, and beckoned to the machinist to set the hammer in motion. Master Fntz hesitated out of considera tion for the precious article, but the Ki which were now largely accomplished by taxes levied by civil authorities. It fol lowed from these considerations that the inllucnce of the priest lmd fallen oil in bulk and force, but might it not be that in being less mixed with secular influenre it would revert to the original apostoli' spirit? As to the dearth of great preach ers, no age had a more giiied and versatile ministry than the present. There was a great deal of preaching that was mere wind and had no doctrinal backbone. There was not a little that was heavy and dull b- those whom a mysterious Providence lini transferred to the pulpit from the byways of mediocrity. But the ministry was on a level with any other calling, and the world was passing to a period when men would crave the inner heat rather than the out ward sparkle ot language. The ministry was blamed for its want of self-sacrifice, but it was not all given over to cosy living. It was true, however, that there was too much ground for complaint. When a call came to a distant field questions wero asked a* to tht salary, whether the church edifice was warmed in the winter, whether it was near a railroad, and how about do nations. The Bishop declared that no citadel of sin could becarried by those who asked such questions. "Ill our day,” he continued, “boldness in the pulpit lias become recklessness. With us the system is greater than the in dividual, The ancient ctccds arc greater than any man's speculations. This tuav In onr misfortune, but it is our character istic. Some mini!- arc at peace only when they are at war. und they are happy only when they are thowing what fools their fathers were.” FedmL Not a few ot his utterances on this sub- gentleman Krupp” urgedhim on by lay ing: ''Frits, let fly." Down came the hammer, and the watch remained un touched. The Emperor gave it to the ma chinist as a souvenir, "old” Krupp added 1000 marks to the handionie present, and caused the above words to be inscribed the hammer. The Immigration Meeting, Savannah Newt. The immigration meeting lost night at the exchange was not very large, but those who were present teemed fully alive to the * ” hich' importance of the subject which brought I them together. The necessity of doing something to make known to those seeking new homes the advantages of the South, whether they are our fellow-citizens of the I North and West, or the people of the crowded kingdoms of the old world, wasi fully appreciated, but what should he done to make these advantage! known, or what kind of an organization was suitable to accomplish that object, wot not readily determined. There are plenty of good, cheap lands in the Southl tribes of Soudan and Dortour. The whole ponding harvest. This law of reproduction thing is a veritable cock and bull story os It the very Nemesis of clastic mythology. lavery, which Dr. Staveni .!<• tribe of Mgropbilith hive If ■sand spin denouDcodea tha "sum of all villainif was a m ol healthful disci pline for th'-e wretched barbarian-, as their preswat faoprovad condition attests. td. indeed, that our op,w- nent write, fig.,. I- nve I re-:.'. antly ot him at th« proa- t or Vice-President (.1 ren now ha dubs hint purely fanciful aathe monkish legend of Wetter John. With equal credulity he refers to the Kaffirs of Southern Africa as the ethnical resultant of the mingling of higher and lower races. If Dr. Stevens will taka tha pains to read Fronde's Notes on South Africa, he will learn that lids distinguished historian had no appreciation of this lazy and thieving horde of savages. The British government has expended millions of pounds sterling for their edneation and material better ment. but they are still wholly iacapabte of self-goTermnent. Africa is justly called the DARK CONTINENT. Once the seat of civUxatioa.lt has for formed types of humanity. Hr tropical climate and her defective water system may in part account for this strange phe nomenon; but are are firmly pereuaded that the wide-spread amalgamation of races has not been without its influences. From Morocco to Capa Town, they arc a generation of hybrids. The song of the witches in Macbeth— Block spirit* tad while, Blee spirits ead gray. especially in Georgia, capable of support ing hundreds of thousands of people. Thi: If it should occur that in the coarse of human events, the engineer is hoist hy hit own petard, it wUl be in this instance at least not merely an example of practi cal justice, but of item and righteous retri bution. We intend in ell this no disperagement of liberty aa differentiated from license. Tits nans mokaisa. We recognise the deep philosophy em bodied in the story from Ariosto, how that liberty sometimes appear* in the form of a deadly hissing serpent. We would not despise pr defame her eren in thi* lowly and disgusting guise. But there is one in structive set off to this in the oriental of the Veiled Prophet of in. In that fair Province of the Sun the pseudo prophet eat upon a throne high andlifted up. Heordered his glitter ing banner unfurled at his palaco-gates, with the inscription, widow to tws woau>. Bat when tha tUver 'veil was lifted, the impostor was sntszxkcd. and instead of the tion it, how to manage so aa tomakeNH lands available in an Immigration move ment. It was decided that the best plan was to appoint delegates to the Southern llnimigation Convention at Nashville, who should gather what information they could at that meeting, and on their return Ito Savannah report, if possible, tome feas ible plan for a State immigration society^ An excellent delegation, composed of gen tlemen who are able and willin to go to Nashville, was selected. If they learn any thing practical from the convention we may reasonably expect on their return that an organization in the Interest of immi gration will be effected. ;.hv rkln. BO fines 9 s ■ ttlng-lnes - E R SawMiMfi C; 1st Mills and Sugar Mills. KETTLES HORSE POWERS, Cotton PrcssoK, PULLEYS SHAFTING. GEARING, fiulldcr’H CiiKiinj^M b tats, too CO V* I™" UU CD WINDOW WEIGHTS PUMPS, PIPING, INSPIRATORS, water Jack Sorcwtf, B^ass Castings Chas. Eayre Hinkle, Jersoy City Heigh: _ N. J., a lml of 12 years, who for eight year* was one mass of scabs and humor?, and upon Sold by all druggists. Price; Cuticura, 50 cents; Resolvent, $1; Soap 25 cents. Potter Drug and Chemical Co., Boston, Mass. Send for our “How to Cure Bkin Diseases.’ ■ Tha Emperor Louis Napoleon smoked only the finest dgara tha world could pro- |due*. Prof. Hortford uji the Emperor * d»r*r* were tfiade specially for him In Ha vana from leaf tobacco grown tn the Golden Bd t of North Carolina, thla being the finest leaf grown. Blackwell's Bull Durham iBmoklw Tobaceola made from the same leaf used In the Emperor’* cigar*, is abeo- lately pure and Is unquestionably the beat tobacco ever offered. Thackeray's gifted daughter, Anne, In her sketch of Alfred Tennyson, In nmrptr’t Monthly, tell* of her visit to the great poet Hhe found him smoking Blackwell's Bull Durham Tobacco, sent him by Hoo. James ItCMcll Lowell. American Minister to the fort to smokers to knot* that the Bull Dur ham brand la absolutely pure, and made from the beet tobacco the world product*. Blackwell's Bull Durham Smoking To bacco is the Utt and purest made. All dealers have It. None genuine without the trade-mark cf the BulL The Savanrah, Florida anti Woaturn Railway. Savannah News. The annual meeting of the Savannah. Flor.da ami Western railway was held yesterday, at which arrangements were perfected for consolidating the various fine* now known oa Waycroas and Florida, the Fast Florida, the Live Oak, Tampa and L'harlMte llarbor. and the Chattahoo chee and East Pass railroad* with the Sa vannah, Florida and Western. This con solidation, when perfected, will make the Savannah, Florida and Western railway one of the longest lines in the South. The management has been very active in keep ing pace with all the improvements of modern railroads, and has done aa much to develop the country through which ita main lines and its branches have been extended I a* any corporation in the Union. It has built up South Georgia and Florida as if by magic, and made what waa a few years ago an almost unknown region, one of the KTOnr CANE MILLS havo Wronght Journals. Ga. sppO-wcdatsatAwkly $30,000 For $2. . REGULAR MONTHLY DRAWING WILL take place in Covington, Ky., THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1804. A lawful Lottery and Fair Drawings, char tered by the Legislature of Kentucky, and ■* ’ " ’ legal by the highest court In the reu to Henry county in the sum of $100,000 for the prompt payment all prizes •old. MARCH SCHEME. 2 prizes $2,M0 each ... 6 prizes 1,000 each 20 prize* fiOO each 100 prizes 100 each 200 prizes fiO each 603 prize* 20 each.... 1000 prizes 10 each ....... AFFROXIMATION FRIZES. 9 prize* $000 each 9 prizes 200 each 9 prizes 100 each .4 29,000 ... 10,000 - 2-25 ... 6,000 ... 6,000 ... 10,000 ... 10,000 ... 10,000 10,000 ... 10,000 900 1857 prize* 4110,400 Whole Tickets, $2. Half Ticket!, $1. 27 Ticket*, $o0. 66 Ticket*. $100. Remit money or postal note bank draft in letter, or send t>y express. Orders of $6 and upwards by express, “ -^-Tsaallorpct be sent at our expense. Address all orpers to ^ J. J. DOUGLAS, Covington, Ky. feW w STOMACH _ ^ BITTERS beet known sections in (lie South. The work of ininrovement will not atop with the consolidation. Immense as is ^^Hamoant of work which has been fione in tin- past few yean by ilhis corporation, it is but the begin ning, it may be said, of its undertakings. iThe road is now completed 000 miles. Steel rails, improved engines and magnifi cent can are ready to assist in develop ing the enormous area of country which the lines of the company traverse. Tlicl country is capable of great development and the company ia prepared for this T.. \l. II T» I Ml— a Tha Want of a Reliable Diuretic Which, while acting aa a stimulant of the kidneys, neither excites nor irritates them, was long since supplied by Hostet ler's Stomach Bitten. This fine medi cine exorts the requisite degree of stimu lation upon these organs, without pro ducing irritation, and it, therefore, far better adapted for the purpose than un- medicated excitants often resort to. Dyspepsia, fever and ague, andjlkindred diseases are ail cured by It. For sole by oil druggists and deafen generally. work. To Mr. H. B. Plant, the president, and Col. it. 8. Haines, ita general mana ger, and also Hon. W. S. Chisholm,' its vice-president, the company owes its great A First-class WMlii Business School. COLLEGE, Equal to any North or litfi v\ for Circulars, fro*. W. MoKAY, GOLD MEDAL, 1AKI3, 13/8, BAKER'S Warranted ahnolutclff pt Cocoa, from which tin ezeosi Oil ho* been removed. ItbaatArr* tlnu* the tlrtnglk ot Cocoa mixed with Burch, Arrowroot or f?ug*r, and D therefore Ur moro economi cal. It D delicious, nourlahicf, otrcngthmlog, rosily di*c «t< J, sad admirably adapted fur Invalid* I well a* fU perton* la health. Sold by Grocers everywhere* 1 BAKER & CO,. Dorcliesicr, M, DKBnJTY;!^ oi r kxscIT VnunttHum ft vidoR. 'll.'!.:. Kwhld’aavuzV'lSiViudail *>■ - V«rt. TOtTHBCCMOFAM. SHUMOV HOItBES.CATTI.JIjSIJ^EP DUOS.IIC08, FriH TWgSrrT TEARS llnmnlitfV.’ non, rtilkle \etenoerv cc.i’in,. n--*’ i- • n u-„ j'.riacrs, Mock PrcrSec., I.lcpry Mablceiul Turimcn, Homo Rfilr.Mii M.iMif.ruirrr.. t'o.l Mine Companies, Tr.i'e Hippodrome* nod Mcnaacrlc*. anu oibcrs aaaiiuag stock. The Wrlchtirtlla and Tennllle Railroad, fiarannah New*. 8.W. Perkins, president. W. B. Thomas, beaming countenance of God's anointed, lo! there was revealed the ghastly features of tht d-rk Mokanna. So of this negro craze. In ita begin ting, tu muffled tones were feint aa the matter ing* of distant thunder. LUtl* did our patriot tire* of tbneeearlier and better days of tha KepaMic dream of the after- superintendent, of tha Wriehteville end Tennille railroad, are in the city, end will call on onr business men today for sub scriptions to that road. The survey baa been completed, and it Is found that to bnild and equip the road will only cost MO.OOO outside of the iron, which the Cen tral railroad has agreed to furnish. Thirty- two thousand dollars of this amount has been subscribed by the people of Wrights- till* and Tennille. A lama force ft now at work on the graffing. Light thousand more la wanted WUl not the merchant* of Savannah take this amount of stock in s road so much needed by their business friends, to say nothing of the benefits arising to them from the development of e section that does all its bnrinees with them? ■(■i porta Humphrey*’ 1 Veterinary Manual. SW PP>) _c ni *rfz L; itiAll on receipt of price, fuj cento. S/Tl'aniplilrta aenl free on application. HIMI’IIUKYB HOM HO PATH ID .MED.CO, 100 Fulton birert, New York. NERVOUS DEBILITY • »F* vital Wraknefi* sad Proa- tration from over work or Of Kentucky University, LEXINGTON. KI. «rn«Un April »<l. 1 **w |. Tt-.» otruicM " - i. a It ....... i . , i - , - i ■ — a - A.-r.g- t.ul —I*tbamo«t*wccess- o, kwu iv iiu. ty, 1.1 remedy known. l*rl*-*- m p«*r »laT.or5»Uld and l.irv« rial of powder for SVaz-nt po«t frr-v on re- I uuSfjaUtoguaDvo!) t33 FulionbU 'll, Sold by lulruffslflta. mar31w*4. WeakNervousMen POWDER Absolutely Pure. S&lEMi rfebtlll v. oahun.lod ao4 tdUu’re^to'prfrforTa dail«a prefer!* ora esoreU ly •snma amr* mi ncu, rlc- will fto4 a i«rf«rt ar.d lo r*ks‘t tu!:k ar.d vtcAi-mi* manhom! la JI IE MA n £TCN C OLUS- irwtramreu. Thwtreatnntc; Servooi Debllllv ar. i 1 hy wlcial bri-nyUcr. fort!/ cSW CDteiAL /WERUXS CHIEF STOMACHIC» DYSPEPSIA. B(W und Clrffl Method* sad a! • nn^h>r«(. )V1 Informalu n ansi Tmlug (n«. MAR5TOW BSBCOTCa.4tVI.MlkP. EewYork. Thu powder'never varus. A marvel of purity, strength, end —hop-omenesa. Mors economical tlizn tha ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with tiie multitude of low test, short veight. alum or phosphate powders. SoUcnlyin Dzutvss. Wa. September it, tan.— Oente: I have taken not quit* one bottle of Hop Bitten. I was a feeble old man of 78 when I got K- To-dav I am at active and feel ee well ea I did at 10. I see a great many that ne-d each a medicine. jean,. BoTALlDxisoItewgfiaiSTfSd D. Boxer I sale by jaques fib Johnson. geU QuxeT^cee NEUTnAUZINC CORDIAL to — Nmai and fcann • n- nurki.rrry l>vu;ity Lott k WraksfAt M. a hood • ..4 ItnM THi: EXCELSIOR CHEMICAL CO., P:..frita* L