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BY SIDNEY LANIER.
Look off, dear Leva. #orow the exllow Beetle,
And muk joajbeekijig of the son ml so*.
How long they kiss, in sight of oil the lends!
Ah longer, longer, we.
Sow in the sea's red vintage motto the son,
As Egypt's pearl dissolved io row wine,
And Cleopatra Might drinks alt Tbs done!
Love, lay thy hand in mine.
Come forth, sweet stars, and comfort heaven's
Glimmer! j?e wares, round else tmhglitoa
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O Right: divoro# Otar son and sky apart -
Merer our Ups, our hands.
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PANS PICHJIES.
by BOBS TERRY COOKE.
A wonder-worker all night long
Has wrought his task for me:
Now. by the cold and distant dawn,
Hie miracle* I see:
graying-: on the window-pane,
Of magic tracery.
Here UfU an Alpine summit, stoop
As is the hoar only stsir,
A wsy-side cross below the psth,
Bat not s pilgrim there;
No sad face of humanity,
No agony of prayer.
And here, before a lonely lake,
A fringe of reeds and fem;
Across the water’s crystal chill
No dying sunsets born.
You hear not on that rushy shore
The call of drake or tom.
Here lies a crowd of broken boughs,
A windfall in the woods:
gome wild and wandering hnrrioane
Hath wrecked these solitude#;
But on that tangled dreariness
No living step intrudes.
And here is Arctic waste and woe;
A glacier's mighty face,
Majestic in its awful mirch,
Slow seaward from it# place,
Beneath that frown of solemn death
There Uves nd human trace.
But elowly from the joyful east
Ascends the dawning sun;
Before bis look of Ught and life
The magic is undone;
Tbs graceful pictures on the pane
AU vanish, one by one.
Alas ! must aU the songs X sing,
The traceries of my btain—
The Uttle stories sad and glad—
Be uttered aU in vain ?
And vanish whssi the maater comes,
Ink* pictures on the pane ?
Or will they, to some kindly heart
Bemembered, sing and shine.
For wrought from man'- humanity
Not fleeting froet, are win*;
I love not to be quite forgot:
To die and leave no sign,
MANTA CLAUH.IN THE HOUTH.
A member of the Georgia delegation re
ceived from home the following
poem. And having been
we Eked permission to pubh.Jr U- It wUI be
seen that the little One in
poem is written does not draw the color
line.”— Washington Union.
I,KITES TO SANT* CLACK. .
You, dear old Santa, come to-night-
And stuff our bags quite full and tight;
You’ll find them very wide and deep.
We made them so to bold a heap.
For fear you may not find the ifay,
I write to you this very day, •
Ho you can come to us direct,
And bring us all that we expect.
We live not far from Palmer's mill:
My grandpa calls our place Hope Hill.
You'll see wallets, four in number.
Please, sir. fill them while we slumber.
The largest one that you will see
Will be the one that's hung for me ;
For I’m the largest of the four,
And that is why I look for more.
They say I am a right good boy.
Who dearly loves a pretty toy ;
So if you will your ear incline,
I'll tell yon what to pat in mine.
Jos; put in all the goodies first.
But please don’t let my wallet burst;
'Tie made of cloth quite strong and stout,
Ho stuff it till it bulges out;
Bat if you find it m not do
To hold the toys afidgbodies too,
You can put the toys anywhere—
On the table or on a chair;
And so I'll know which are for me,
Please put on mine a great big E.
Dear Banta, when you've filled our four,
Look aU around, yon’ll find one more ;
For olose benide the box of pine.
There one will hang for poor "Calline
She is a little nig, 'tie true,
But ahe is fond of goodies too;
And she is Herschel’s nurse, you know,
So fill her bag before you go.
I have a goat, his name is Billy,
Please, Banta, do not think me silly;
A collar I want his neck to bind,
The very prettieslfyou can find.
A trumpet, too, I hope you’ll bring,
That will be just the very thing ;
For I am like all other boys,
I dearly love to make a noise.
A watch and chain of you I ask,
And, if you please, a painted mask.
I will not ask you for more;
Keep back something for the poor,
For they are God's children, too ;
Why should they not look for you ?
Help to make their Bad hearts Ught,
Ho visit every one to-night;
And while you travel here and there,
Angels will sing up in the air,
Sweetly yen'll hear them now and then
Sing ‘-Peace on earth, good wUI to men.”
Good bye. Santa, do what I say,
And you’ll oblige yours, Emmet J.
THE INAUGURAL SUIT.
Presented la Governor Williams, of Indiana,
by (he Ladies of the Galt House.
[ Courier-Journal.]
The ladies of the Qalt House have
complimented Qov. J. D. Williams, of
Indiana, with the present of a suit of
blue jeans. He will wear it at his in
auguration in Indianapolis to-day. The
cloth from which the snit was made was
tendered the ladies by Mr. S. S. Potter,
of the Bowling Green Manufacturing
Company. Mr. Potter, in ordef to ac
complish hia purpose, fitted np a special
loom, and from the finest merino wove
the fabrio. It is of indigo color and
will not fade. In point of texture, the
doth could not be surpassed for excel
lence. Messrs. Evans A Fritach, the
Jefferson street merchant tailors, made
np the suit in a styie that reflects oredit
npon the firm. On the day of the ship
ment of the suit, the ladies mailed to
the Governor the following letter :
Galt House, Louisville, Kr., De
cember 29, 1876.—7 b His Excellency,
Hon. James D. Williams, Governor
elect of Indiana— Dear Sib : Desiring
to give expression to our earnest and
heartfelt gratitude toward yon and oar
brethren of Indiana, who, by their man
ly and nntiring labors in behalf of the
principles of Demoeraoy, were the first
to turn aside the tide of oppression
end give the promise of hope to our
long-suffering brethren of the South, we,
the undersigned, Democratic ladies of
the Galt Honae, beg leave to manifest to
you, and through you to them, onr deep
appreciation by tendering to yon aa their
representative an inaugural snit of bine
jeans, which we think will be appreci
ated by the yeoman statesmen of Amer
ica. We sincerely hope and earnestly
pray that your political course may be
as useful to your oountry and as honor-
able to you as your past has been, and
that when your executive term shall
have expired and you return to your
constituency the high and holy trust re
posed in you, may they reward unto yon
the welcome plaudit, “ Well done,
thou true, honest and faithful servant
Hoping to be present on the occasion
of your inauguration, we subscribe our
selves, with marks of the highest esteem,
yours respectfully,
Mrs. J. Cunningham, Mrs. Phil. Cox,
Mrs. L. P. Blackburn, Mrs. V. P. Arm
strong, Mrs. Rebecca Rowan, Mrs. H.
Woolfolk, Mrs. W. 8. Abert, Mrs. J. P.
johoeon, Mrs. Emory Low, Mrs. A. W.
Johnson, Mrs. Wm. Jarvis, Mrs. John
Green, Mrs. John Simrall, Mrs. A. S.
Jerome.
The suit was forwarded to Governor
Hendricks, with the following note,
signed by the same ladies :
Gai.t Horan, Louisville, Kx., De
cember 29, 1876. —T0 His Exeel'ency
Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks, Governor of
Indiani: Drab Sib—We have taken the
privilege of shipping by express to yoor
care, for Governor Williams, elect, a
suit of clothes of Kentucky manufacture,
and a letter expressiveof our sentiments
towards him, which you will oblige ns
by forwarding to his address. Many of
the ladiM contemplate being present on
the inauguration. Sincerely hoping the
intrigues of your political enemies may
fall fruitless, and with earnest wishes
of the personal health of yourself and
family, we remain, yours respectfully,
Yesterday the ladies received the fol
lowing reply from Governor Williams:
Ikwanapolis, Ikd., Jan nary 8, 1877.
—Mrs. J. P. Johnson, and other ladies
of the Galt House, Louisville, Jgy.:
Ladies —Your kind letter of December
29, as well as the package containing a
beautiful suit of blue jeans of superior
quality, an article of apparel I have
been accustomed to wearing for many
yean, was delivered to me by oar mu
tual friend, Mrs. Governor Hendricks.
Ladies, in behalf of myself and the no
ble patriots of our beloved Btate, who
have sustained our uause so nobly, I re
tarn my sinoere thanks not only for the
valuable present, bat for the kind words
of encouragement and your presence
with us daring the late political strag
gle.
In aooepting this beautiful suit I shall
wear it in the same spirit in which it
was given, and I trait that no act of
■sine shell ever cause a blush of shame
npon the cheeks of the fair donors.
Respectfully yours,
J. D, Williams.
p, S.—l trust you will honor ns with
your presence on the evening of the Bth
instant.
DOES DEATH_END ALL!
THE LECTURE OP BEJ. JOSEPH
A Remarkable Lecture la Boston—An Elo
quent Aaswer te.Materialism—Daaiel Web
ster's Last Moments—Death Bed Repent
anct-Is last!art Immortal.
[Boston AdoerUser]
was unveiled last Satordayin Central
‘’Park, said to Iffs physi&hn: *T shall die
tojiighk” Dr. Jeffries, much moved, re
plied, after panse, “Ton are right,
air.” rhegorgtrons and jeweled Octo
tober Sir* Tolled on artne'OTge of the
sea; and' when evening came, the last
will and testament of ytmr greatest
statesman and orator was brought to
hiih for His signature, which fie affixed,
and tb en said: “Thank God for strength
to db a sensible act f* O God, Ifl lank
tbee for all thy mercies.” His family
was brought to his bedside, ana his
biographer, Curtis, noticing that Mr.
Webster war abottt to soy oomtothing
which should be recorded, took a seat at
s table and caught these last words.
Curtis says these were uttered slowly, in
a tone which might have been heard
through half the house: “My general
•ish od earth bar been to do my Mas
ter’s wilL That there is a God, all mast
acknowledge. I see Him in all these
wooderoas works. Himself how wonder
ons ! Wbat would be the condition of
any of us if we had not the hope of im
mortality ? What ground is there to
rest upon but the Gospel ? There were
scattered hopes of immortality of the
soul, especially among the Jews. The
Jews believed in a spiritual origin of
creation. The Romans never reached it;
the Greeks never reached it. It is a tra
dition that communication was made to
the Jews by God himself through Moses.
There were intimations crepuscular
twilight. But, but, but, thank God, the
Gospel of Jesns Christ brought life and
immortality to light—rescued it—
brought it to light.” Then the greatest
reaeoner ttiis country has produced
caused a sacred hash to fall npon his
dying chamber, and in a load, firm
voice, he repeated the whole of the
Lord’s prayer, closing with these words:
“Peace on earth, good will to men—
that is the happiness, the essence—good
will to men.” Another authority, that
of his own secrecy, says that in the last
week of hia Hie, this man, wliose career
you know, often repeated the whole
hymn, of which the first stanza ia :
“Show pty, Lord; O Lord, forgive,
Let a repenting rebel live,
Are nof fhy meniies large and free ?
May not a sinner trust in Thee ?
Webster knew his own need of these
petitions. lam not here to say that he
lived a Christian life. I raise this morn
ing, when Webster is before file nation,
the question whether there is any evi
dence that he died fepentant, I -hope
tnere is. Not many .years ago I sat, on
a howling Winter night, at the fireside
of John Taylor, in gnarled New Hamp
shire, and he said to me:“Webster al
ways attended the communion service
when he was at Elms Farm. Till his
deathJna.was a member of good stand
ing with the Salisbury Church, with
which he united *hen a yofihg man.
“Bat," said I, “was that church strong
enough to discipline a statesman ?” “If
Webster had shown," John Taylor-re
plied, “ anything of intemperance or
otber evil ways, in New Hampshire he
would have been disciplined by that
church. What ha did in Washington I
know not. Here among those wh.>
knew him beet, he was always ready to
kneel at the family altar. There was
one hymn that we alwayfl used to like to
Hiug together,” said Job 4 Taylor, with
bis immense bass voice, apd wholly un
conscious of the expression he was mak
ing of Mia own massiveness. “We liked
to slog together ‘Old Hundred;’ it
seemed to fit ns J" The venerable Judge
Nesmith, whose gueat I bgye sometimes
been at Franklin, has told me things al
most tpo sacred to be repeated here,
concerning Webster’s religious thought
fulness in hia last years. “Were they
the last words I have t< utter, said
John Taylor, to me, “I should say Web
ster died a Christian;” and just this
testimony has been given me by the pro
found, Judge Nesmith, who stands high
est among all authorities epuperuing
Webster’s” life' in his native haunts.
Your Robert C. Winthrop, at New York,
on Saturday, said he had knelt with
Webster at the table of our Lord, and
witnessed the fervor and tenderness of
his devotion.
But, gentlemen, a death-bed repen
tance is never to be encouraged before
the time, nor discouraged at the time.
Wbat I wish to insist upon, face to face
with all the small philosophies of onr
time on both aides of the Atlantic, is
the record of Webster’s last speech, re
vised by himself. These sentences
which Curtis caught are tfee last unre
vised speech. But on Sabbath eyeping,
October 10, the lawi formal speech was
written, and on October 15th, was re
vised and signed by Webster’s own
hand. These, bis last revised words,
stand upon the marble of the tomb at
Marshfield. Plymouth Rock looks on
them, and they look on Plymouth Rock,
Thia is the record Webster left as his
last word to men in all ages; and ongbt
it not to be copied in marble in some
spot more conspicuous than that brown
Marshfield shore?
“Philosophical arguments, especially
that drawn from the vastus** of the
universe as compared with the apparent
insignificance of this globe, has often
shaken my reason for the faith that is in
me; but my heart bos assured and reas
snred me that the Gospel of Jeans
Christ moat be a divine reality/ The
Sermon ou the Mount can not bn a
merely human production. This be
lief enters into the vary depth of my con-’
soienoe. The whole history of man
proves it.”—[Cum#’ Life of Webster,
Vol. 11., p. 684.
At twenty-three minutes of 8 o’clock
on the Sunday morning following that
Satnrday whioh was illumined by the
serioas words on immortality, Webster
passed into the Unseen Holy into which
all men haste. Boston, sinoe 1852, has
been wriDgiag her bands in secret and
saying not infrequently, as the plain
man said at the tomb in Marshfield;
“Daniel Webster, without yon the world
seems lonesome.” Are we sure that we
are without him ? When Rufus Ghoate
took ship for that port where he died,
some friend said, “You will be here a
year hence." “Sir," said your great
lawyer, “£ shall be here a hundred
years hence, and a thousand years
hence!” [Applause.]
If death does not end all, wbat doeß,
or can ? If we can demonstrate by a
purely physiological argument, as Dra
per, Sir Lionel Beale, and Hermann
Loize say we pan, that the soul is ah
agent as external to tb? cerebral meohan-
Redan of materialism, and then the
question is whether we can get on in
Russia! [Laughter. ] A small critic
may oak how the immortality of the soul
is proved by showing its externality and
its independence iu its relations to the
physical organism. The immortality is
not directly proved by the proof of the
externality and the independence, but it
is indirectly made probable. If yon
take I-land No. 10 and New Orleans,
yon can sail from St. Louis to the Gulf,
and thence to any coast you please. If.
aa tbe highest philosophy of Germany,
Seotlaud, Englaud aud America assert#,
our nervous mechanism is wholly inert
in itself, and as plainly requires an ex
ternal agent to set it in mbfidh as any
musical instrument does, then the disso
lution of the brain is no more proof of
the dissolution of the soul than the dis
solution of your organ is proof of tbe
dissolution of the musician who plays it.
Bat who ho# Gyges’ ring on his finger,
and ia invisible# It has, in all ages,
been the pretense of materialists that
the relation of the soul to the body is
that of harmony to the harp, and not of
the harper to the harp, or of the rower
to a boat, But show me by physiolo
gies! axgumoat t]iat ‘.he soul is an
agent external to the serious mechan-
ism, and you have proved that the rela
tion of the soul to the body is that of a
harper to a harp, or of a rower to a boat;
and in showing that, you have removed,
I affirm, net only a great ; but the great
est obstacle to the belief in immortality.
Unless them is evidence-to the contrary,
as there is not, we must believe in the
persistency of that spiritual foroe which
we call the soul, and this we must do in
the some of the scientific principle of
the persistence of foroe, itself the most
vaunted of all modern points in science.
[Applause.]
Allow tie, gentlemen, to untwist a
little the famons Ariadne .cine, which we
follow here in all our investigation—
namely, that every change must have on
adequate cause. In that one principle
tie capenlate a great number of axioms
which are at the base of all kinds of re
search—theological, physiological, po
litical, or historical. Lest von should
suspect me of theological bios in un
twisting the strands of this thread, take
that interpretation of it which the great
physiologist, Wundt, whom I have of
ten quoted, adopts in his work on "The
Physical Axioms in Relation to the
Principle of Casuality," abookpubliahed
at Erlangen, in 1866. Prof. Wundt says
that the principle that every change
meat have an adequate cause,* contains
in it these si? axioms:
1. All causes in nature are causes of
motion. 2. Every cease of motion is
external to the object moved. 2}. All
causes pi motion work in the direction
of the straight line uniting the point
from which the force departs with the
points npon which its operation is di
rected. 4. The effect of every cense
persists, 6. Every effect is £pcom
panied by an eqnal counter effect. 6.
Every effect is equivalent to its cause.
Will you .emember, my friends, that
the definition of force is this : That
which is expended in producing or re r
slating motion. That is Meyer's defini
tion, and Meyer, if he had never gjven
any other proof of genius than this one
phrase, wonld deserve to te called a
man of great powers. But go behind
even this definition, and, for the sake of
clear ideas, ask what is expended in pro
ducing or resisting motion. Sorely, the
only thing we can think of as being ex
pended thus is pressure. What produc
es pressure ? Your Carpenters, your
Agassizes, and your Herschels, your
Newtons, your Bir William Hamiltons,
your Danas, as well as your Goethes,
Richters and Carlyles, all hold that be
hind the pressures which produce the
motions of the universe is—Will! Mo
tion, Pressures. Will—is the universe
transfigured ! [Much applause.] This
is not declamation, however, but estab
lished philosophy of the latest date.
Whoever will look into the last chapters
of Dr. Carpenter’s Mental Physiology,
or at the last sentence of Mr. Grove’s
famous essay on “Correlation of Forces,”
or into Prof. Agaseiz’s Essay on Classifi
cation, or into Sir John Herschel’s As
tronomy, or Dana’s Geoljgy, or Profes
sor Pierce’6 great work on the mathe
matics of astronomy, will find the doc
trine unhesitatingly maintained that
force is always and everywhere of spirit
ual origin. [Applause.] When I was
in Harvard University, I went one day
into a bookstore and turned over a
great quarto on the mathematics of
astronomy, by Professor Pierce, and I
came upon a chapter entitled “The Spir
itual Origin of Force.” I looked into
it; and welling up out of that granite of
mathematics, I found the Castalian
spring of crystalline water, where the
Goethes and Herschels and Carpenters
and Agassizes and Lotzes and Danas
and Richters and Carlyles have drunk
ao long. In the transfiguring scientific
certainty that all force originates in will,
I found that better than Delphic spring,
one deep draught of which gives anew
vision to the eyes and makos the whole
universe a burning bush, of which
Orion and the Seven Stars are only a
lowermost leaf, bat every fibre of
which, near and far, burns with a fire
that cannot be touched, and every dusti
est path before which is ground so holy
that on it we must take off our shoes,
however proud of intellect we may be.
[Applause.] Take, now, the dootrine
that wherever we find heat, light, elec
tricity, we infer motions of the ultimate
particles of matter as the canse; and
that wherever we find motions we infer
pressures as the cause; and, that where
ever we find pressures we infer will as
the cause, and you have the point of
view of these six axioms, which, by the
way, are not the words of any small
philosopher, nor of a theologian, nor
even of an ethical teacher, but of a man
simply of the microscope and scalpel,
adhering in all the labyrinth of modern
physiological investigation only to the
idea of sanity that every change must
have an adequate cause. [Applause ]
You say that this is poetry, and so it is;
but it is also oold, exact science. You
say this is not Harvard University. Are
you sure ? Yonder, on the banks of the
Charles, sits the most philosophical
poet of our generation; yes, the most
philosophical on either side of the At
lantic; and in the name of Harvard Uni
versity, James Russell Lowell might
rise and sing what he sang in his own
name only yesterday:
“God of our fathers, Thou who wast,
Art and ehalt be, when the eye-wise who
flout
Thy secret presence shall be lost
In the great light that dazzles them to doubt;
We, wfio believe life’s bases rest
Beyond the probe of chemic test,
Still, like our fathers, feel Thee near.”
—[Lowell, AtUmHo Monthly, Deo., 1876.
[Great applause,]
I hold in my hand an important and
enticing book eagerly waited for by me
for one, and off which the spray of the
gray sea has hardly yet been shaken. It
is a volume on “The Functions of the
Brain,” jssued last month by Dr. David
Ferrier, Fellow of the Royal Society,
and Professor of Forensjo Sfedicine iu
King’s College, London: and it will
need no more recommendation to gen
tlemen of the profpssiop, who are per
mitted fio know something of living tis
sues, and to form and ejpresp opinions
after fltiidy as to the great controverted
theories ip biology, as po laymen iu
science is—except the editor of the Na
tion ! [Laughter and applause.] Pro
fessor Ferrier is a follower of two great
German investigators, Fritscb and Bit
zig, and his work and theirs undoubted
ly constitute not only the freshest, but
the most important of all recent contri
butions to the knowledge of all the ner
vous system.
Let mP ppw, iu the name of the latest
research, put befopp you, step by step,
an argument exclusively physiological
and leading up, as that of last Monday
.did, along the line of Wundt’s wholly
trem orlesß axioms, to the conclusion
that toe soul is external to the nervous
mechanism, which it sets in motion :
1. Fritsh and Hitjrig and Pr. ferrier
have proved that certain of the convo
lutions of tffß brain qf a living animal
may be electrically stimulated so as to<
produce ip the animal YSpiops physical
actions, The stimulation of different
parts of the brsip prpdqcffs different re
sults, which can be foretold |>y the ex
perimentor. 8. The dootrihe of the
localization of functions in the brain is
now, therefore, placed beyond dispute.
When you give a rabbit chloroform ami
then remove a portion of its skull, the
animalsuffers no pain, and consequent
ly does nok jaJl into such contortions as
to cause the act of taking away parts of
the Bkull to injure the delicate texture
of the braiu. We have succeeded at
last in uncovering the living, palpitat
ing cerebral tjs.sues without disturbing
their delicate and rn Lave
done this by the use of 'chloroform, not
known in the world as an anssthestic until
a few years ago. Using electrical cur
rents that are just distinguishable by
the tip of the human tongue, and em
ploying blanted electrodes that will not
scarify the nervous webs we touch, we
may stimulate the exposed brain of a
living animal, and ascetrain that the
stimulus on different parts prodnoes dif
ferent motions. We may accurately fore
tell these motions, after having had a
sufl}oient experience in such kinds of
experiment#- One particular part of
the brain, for in#sppe, will, if stimu
lated, produae the attitude of resistance
in the apitnal; and another point, if
stimulated, will cause the attitude of fear.
In short, a large portion of the braiu
has now heen investigated in this way
so thoroughly that we may affirm that it
is a key board op which electricity may
play. This effect of galvanic ppyrente
on the automatic nervous mechanism is
peculiarly evident on the lower auto
matic nerve [referring to the blackboard]
and you will produce motion in the
muscle attached to the correlated centri
fugal fiber.
fs tpere any proof at all that the whole
brain is’a key-board that oan thus be
played upon by electrics! stimulation ?
A portion of it more closely connected
with the spinal cord than the rest is a
key-board, but does the law of the auto
matic portion extend to the whole mass
of brain ? This question is crucial.
The nervops meobagiggj js divided into
the influential and automatic area, fio s
this fundamental distinction hold good
under the searching test of electrical
stimulation ? 4. It is agreed that the
frontal lobes are the seat of intellect.
5. But electrical stimulation of these
highest parts of the influential nervous
mechanism produces no motion. When
there are produced in them by electrici
ty suoh tremor® as cause muscular mo
tion if they "are produced Jj'y electricity
in the automatic arcs', no motion follows
in the muscles. This is a fact of vast
significance, but there is another of even
higher import. 6. If one hemisphere of
the brain Jap repfOFP.d paralysis of the
powers of motion anff sfepsauuii follows
iu 080-h.aU the body. 7. But', eyeffyben
one hemisphere of the brain is removed,
all the mental operations may yet be
fully performed. 8. These results of
electrical stimulation and of cerebral
in j ary, being opposite in the two cases,
prove that physiological causes, such as
are concerned in the automatic nervous
mechanism, are not to be found in op
eration in the influential' nervous me
chanism as it is represented by the in
terior lopes of the brain. 9. The dis
tinction between automatic and influen
tial is made broader, therefore, by the
lateet scientific research. [Applause.]
Let us examine a Uttle leisurely the
bearing of these propositions upon the
great biological distinction between the
automatic and the influential portions in
the nervona system. The important
point to be notioed [illustrating by dia
grams] is that yen may stimnlate with
eieetriphj an influential arc here, and
yon ao not produce any motion yonder.
On tbe contrary, touch the correspond
ing portion of an automatic arc, and
you move this muscular fibre. Although
this mechanism is called automatic, re
member that it was ipade so by the bio
plasts that wove it, and that a contrac
tile quality was given to this musoqlar
fibre by tbe bioplasts that wove both it
and this nerve, and tied the two togeth
er, Apply your electrode to the auto
matic arc yog produce contraction,
but apply your aleatrede to the influen
tial arc ana you produce no contraction.
Thera ia, therefore, a difference between
the structure of an influential arc and
that of an automatic one. We prove
this tangibly when we try point after
point of tbe brain and of the great nerv
oas centres connecting it with the spinal
cord, and find that the lower powers of
the nervous mechanism ora reflex and
automatic, but that these higher frontal
lobes are ocularly demonstrable not to
be of that sort. When we apply to them
I the electrical test which produces mo
tion elsewhere, no motion whatever is
produced.
If you take away one hemisphere of
the brain, wbat is the effect ? One-half
the body is paralyzed. Th& sensation
and tbe motion which belong to the side
of tbe body opposite to tbe removed
hemisphere are gone. But your mental
powers continue, and exhibit in com
pleteness all their activities. Dr. Fer
rier himself is anthority for the astound
ing fact that the action of the mind ia
not so bound np even with these influ
ential arcs that it can not show the
whole army of its powers when yoB take
away one whole hemisphere of the brain.
If that can be proved, gentlemen, it has
been proved tolerably well, I should
say,that there is a difference between the
influential and the antomatie arcs, or
that between tbe two things there is as
broad a contrast as between the two
scientific names. Just that has been
proved beyond dispute. It is admitted
by tbe latest science that yon can take
away one hemisphere of the brain, and
have complete mental action yet remain
ing, althongh yon can not take away one
hemisphere without paralyzing the’one
half of the body. If I show this, I prove
tfint there is a difference between the
influential and tbe antomatie so wide
and significant that all men onght to be
able to see it wbo can see anything as
broad as a town hall! [Laughter and
much applause.]
“The physiological activity of the
brain,” says Prof. Ferrier, in a most sig
nificant passage, “is not altogether co
extensive with its psychological func
tions. The brain, as an organ of motion
and sensation, or presentative conscious
ness, is a single organ composed of two
halves; tbe brain, as an organ of idea
tion, or representative consciousness, is
a dual organ, each hemisphere complete
in itself. When one hemisphere is re
moved or destroyed by disease, motion
and sensation are abolished unilateral
ly,” that is, upon the opposite Bide,
“but mental operations are still capable
of being carried on in their complete
ness through the agency of the one hem
isphere. The individual who is para
lyzed as to sensation and motion by
disease of the opposite side of the brain
(say the right), is not paralyzed mental
ly, for he oan still fee), and will, and
think, and intelligently comprehend
with the one hemisphere. If these func
tions are not carried on with the same
vigor as before, they at lea-t do not ap
pear to suffer in respect of complete
ness.” [Ferrier’s Functions of the
Brain, p. 257, § 89 ]
A great fact this, even when standing
alone; but add to it the test of your
subtle electrical stimulus, and you find
that all that is implied in this distinc
tion between influential and automatic
is borne out by these two colossal cir
cumstances that stimulus on the influen
tial arcs will produoe no motion, bnt
that it does produce complex motion if
applied to the automatic; and the half
of the brain may be taken away, para
lyzing the half of your body, while the
mind continues all its operations. [Ap
plause.] 10. Physiological causes do
not act where they do not exist. 11.
The action of the influential nervous
mechanism is not, therefore, originated
by the physiciai causes operating in tbe
automatic nervous mechanism. 12. But
the increase of the meohanism in itself
demonstrates that it must be set in mo*
tion by an external agent. 13. That
agent must be either matter or mind.
14. It is demonstrated that the action
of the bioplasts in weaving the brain,
and that of the frontal lobes after they
are woven, cannot originate in matter.
15. It originates, therefore, in an exter
nal immaterial agent. 16. This, which
is in part immediately known to con
sciousness, is life and the soul. 17.
Modern microscopical research, there
fore, proves that the sonl is an agent
external to the nervous meohanism
whioh it sets in motion. 18. This be
ing proved, it is demonstrated that the
relation of the soul to the body is that
of the rower to a boat, or of an invisible
musician to a musical instrument. 19.
But it has been admitted for ages by
materialists themselves that if this is
proved, then death does not end all.
Therefore, in the present state of knowl
edge, the case stands thus: 20. If
death does not end all, what does or
can ? [Much applause ]
“Electrical irritation of the antero
frontal lobe%” says Dr. Ferrier, “causes
no motor manifestations, a fact which,
though a negative ope, is consistent
with the view that though pot actually
motor, they are iohabitory motor, and
expend their energy in inducing inter
nal changes in the oenters of actual mo
tor execution. The development of the
frontal lobes is greatest in men with the
highest intellectual powers; and, t iking
one man with another, the greatest in
tellectual power is characteristic of the
one with the greatest frontal develop
ment. The phrenologists have, I think,
good grounds for localizing the reflec
tive faculties in the frontal regions of
the brain, and there is nothing inherent
ly improbable in tbe view that frontal
development in spepiftl regions may be
indictive of power of con'centrqtion of
thought and individual capacity in spec
ial directions.” [Ferrier, Functions of
the Ijrain, pp. 287. 288.]
( In this assertion that a four-banked
organ has more musical power £han one
with a single bank, Ferrier is not falling
into jpßteriillisiP- Nor is he adopting
the whole phrenological map, of mo.-;t
portions of which he speaks with no rp
spect, His belief is that anew and bet
ter map will be made some day by in
finite painstaking. He asserts simply
that the keys on which the anthems of
intellect are played are in the frontal
portion of the brain, and that this an
them is at its best when the rows Of
keys are the most numerous, on which
our invisible musician with Gyges’ ring
plays. [Applause ] What of the im
mortality of instinct ? A great distinc
tion exists between those organisms
that are mere automata, or fiaye life but
no free wills or conscience, and the
higher anfipals which have both the
automatic and tfie influential neivous
mechanism. The plant apd the auto
maton have life, bpt not souls, in the
full sense of tfle word. Rut do not facts
require us to bold that the immaterial
part in animals having higher than auto
matic endowments is external to the
nervous mechanism in them as well as
in man ? What are we to say if we find
that straightforwardness may lead us to
the conclusion that Agassiz was not un
justifiable when he affirmed, in the name
of science, that instinct may be immor
tal; and when he expressed, in hia own
name, the ardent hope that it might be?
Go to Agassiz’s graye, in SJonpt Aq
burn yonder, and at the side pf the
Swiss bowlder which marks the spat
etand alone and lead these words of his,
and nmauwhile send yopr thought# on
ward into the eternities and immensities
whither, no doubt, be sent his when he
wrote in the face of tbe world this ma
jestic inquiry. These are the closing
sentences of one of the most remarkable
passages in perhaps the most remarkable
of his works, his Essay on Classification:
“Most of the arguments of philosophy
in favor of the immortality of man apply
equally to the permanency of the imma
ttfrial prinoiple in other living beings.
May I not add that a future life i n Which
man should be deprived of that great
source of enjoyment and intellectual
and moral imorovement wli|oj} Result
from the popte4jplaion of” Che ftomo
nies oi ap organic world, would involve
a laipentabip loss; anq fW ¥9 ppt ]°ok
to a spiritual concert of the combined
worlds and all. inhabitants iu presence
of their Creator as the highest concep
tion of Paradise?”
“It was seventy years ago,
In the pleasant month of May,
In the beautiful Fays de Vaud,
A child in his cradle lay,
And Nature, the old nurse, took
The child upon her knee. '
‘Coins, wander with me,’ she said,
‘lnto regions yet nutrod;
And read what is still nnread
In the manuscripts of God.’
And whenever the way seemed long.
Or hie heart began to fail.
6be would sing a more wonderful song,
pr tell a more marvelous tale.”
—[Longfellow, “On the Fiftieth Birth
day of Agassiz.”]
What sings she now to this great soul,
which has passed into that paradise of
which his worthiest conception was that
it shoald be a concert of the combined
worlds ? One can not but recollect in
the sublimity of this passage that this
man was born in sight of the Alps. Of
French descent, qf Swiss birth, of Ger
man education, of American activity,
Agassi# is now Qf the bouse not made
with hands; and so large was he, that
even when in the flesh he appeared by
forecast to be a citizen, not of America
or of Europe, but of the supreme Theoc
racy, in whose presence he hoped to see
a concert of the combined worlds and
all their inhabitants. [Great applause.]
Richter used to say the interstellar
spaces ore the homes of souls.
Tennyson sings most subtly his trust:
“That nothing walks with aimless feet,
That not one life shall be destroyed.
Or oast as rubbish to the void.
When God hath made the pile complete,
That not a worm is cloven in vain;
That not a moth with vain desire
fa ehrivel'd in a fruitless fire.”
Is it not worth while for us, standing
here at Agassiz's tomb, with Richter on
our right and Tennyson on onr left, to
pause a moment; and on their wings,
so much stronger than ours, to look
abroad a little, into this highest oonoep
tion of paradise ? A coneert of combined
worlds! The Seven Stars have their
planets : Orion in this infinite azure is
attended by hia retinue of worlds, the
lightest feather of the swan, which fliea
through the Milky Way, represents un
counted galaxies; in the north Ursa Ma
jor guards realms of life so broad that
thought faints in passing across but one
of the eye-lashes of the eternal constel
lation as it paces about the pole un
wearied ; Aquarius, Bootes, Sagitarius,
Hercules, each holds in his far-spread
palm of sideral fire innumerab e in
habitants. Wbat if Agassiz and
Richter, and Cuvier and Milton,
and Shakespeare, and that host
which no man can number, are study
ing at this moment a concert of all the
life of Orion and the Seven Stars, Ursa
Major and the rest, and of that forgot
ten speck whioh we, on this lonely shore
of existence, call Earth ? The loftiest
exhibition of organic life of all kinds
from all worlds and in the presence of
their Creator ! Wonld it not be an im
measurable loss to be without this con
cert of combined worlds ? Would it
uot beat diminution of supreme blits not
to have union with Ood through these,
the most majestic of his works below
ourselves ? Shall we, too, not hope that
this highest conception of paradise may
be the true one ? Richter would say, if
he stood here, that he hopes it may be.
Tennyson says, as he stands here, that
wishes it may be. Must not we, remem
bering tbe long line of acute souls who
have believed in the possibility that in
stinct is immortal, say, that if it be so,
it is best that it should be so ? Whether
it is so or not, I care not to assert; what
; I do affirm is that the argument for im
mortality, by striking against the possi
bility that instinct may be immortal, is
not wrecked, bnt glorified ! [Much ap
plause.]
When we close our short careers, some
questions that we debate as matters of
high philosophy will be personal to you
and to me. As we lie where Webster
lay, face to face with eternity, and its
breath on onr cheeks, there will come to
ds as it cannot come now, the query
whether the relation of our souls to our
bodies is that of harmony to a harp, or
of the harper to the harp. The time is
not distant when it will be worth some
thing to us to remember that they who
walk late ou the deck of tbe Santa Maria
have seen a light rise and fall ahead of
us. The externality and independence
of the soul in relation to the body are
known now under the microscope and
scalpel better than ever before in the
history of onr race.' Exact science, in
the name of the law of causation,
breathes already through her iron li is a
whisper, to which, as it grows loader, the
blood of the ages will leap with new in
spiration. Before that iron whisper all
objections to immortality are shattered.
[Applause.] If, in the name of physi
ology, we remove all objections, you will
hear your Webster, when he comes to
you and says that a Teacher, attested by
tbe age as sent with a supreme Divine
Mission, brought life and immortality to
light! There is no darkness that can
quench the illumination which now riseß
on the world. No ascending fog from
the shallows of materialism can put out
the sun of axiomatic truth. Aye, my
friends, in the oozy depths of the pools
where the reptiles lie among the reeds in
the marshes of materialism, there arises
a vapor which as it ascends higher, the
snn will irradiate, will stream through
with his slant javelins of scientific clear
ness, till this very matter which we have
dreaded to investigate, shall take on all
the glories of the morning and become
the bridal couch of God, entering upon a
future civilization as the King of Day
moves toward the noon ! [Great ap
plause.]
THE GENERAL WEALTH OF GEORGIA.
Cherokee and Cobb Counties—The Oold
Fields of the Section#
\ Correspondence Carter smile Express.\
According to give you, for
publication, a brief acoount of my min
eral explorations through a portion of
Cherokee and Cobb counties, Ga. The
first property of interest I visited after
leaving Aoworth is well known in the
mining circles of that section as the
Sixes. From accounts there have been
an almost increditable amount of gold
washed from the gravel beds and aurif
erous sands of this rich and valuable
property, and notwithstanding it was
discovered by the Indians long before
the Cherokee purchase, ever since that
period down to the present time there
has been more surface work done on
this and adjoining lots, than any other
property in the vicinity of the Sixes.
Many large nuggets of gold are reported
to have been picked up from time to
time, weighing as much as several hun
dred pennyweights. Col. ghuford, of
Aoworth, now has in bis possession a
small nugget weighing some thirty-two
pennyweights, whioh was found in a
heap of gravel during the early part of
last Summer. No vein of any conse
quence has yet been discovered on this
property, though quite a number of
shafts have been sunk and considerable
moiiey spent to develop a permanent
mine. So far, the efforts of those en
gaged in this undertaking have failed to
accomplish the desired object, and in
my humble opinion, the failure to cut a
rich and paying vein on this property, is
more the want of practical mining knowl
edge than capital and enterprise. lun
derstand that it is n >w the intention of
the company owning the Sixes, at an
early day, to put down a shaft some
eighty or one hundred feet, at which
depth they will be pretty apt to develop
the rich and long sought treasure.
The ne#t property of importance I ex
amined, in this great mineral section, is
the Hillhouse 4 Bayne mme, located
some three-quarters of a mile, in a
southeast direction, from the Si?i 8. A
shaft to the depth of twenty feet has
been sunk, showing a regular quartz
vein some four and a half feet in width
and highly impregnated with the' pre
eipus stuff. Specimens of ore from this
mine have been tested in the city of At
lanta, by oompetent parties, showing a
yield of twenty-five per cent, of pure
gold; but, of course, those were choice
specimens,selected from the richest por
tions of the vein, and cousequently can
not be considered a fair average of the
ore. I spent several days on this prop
erty, and during that time assisted in
making quite a number of tests, and am
satisfled that [he ore from this point of
the yein will qyeragp, #t thp lowest cal
culation, fifteen dollars per tqn. In
this connection J would state that anoth
er vein has been opened on this proper
ty some two and a half feet in width
and promises from present indications
to be equally as rioh, if not richer than
the one first alluded to in this article.
This mnie is located on the same metal
ic belt running through by way of the
Glade and Burnt Hickory mines, and is
no doubt the champion vein of the min
eral section. I visited several other
properties in the vicinity of the Sixes,
but will not attempt a description of
them at present. *'
ffrom tile Sixes I visited the premises
of Colonel R. C. Kerr, situated on the
Marietta and Canton Road, some three
railps from the forme* place. We found
Colonel Kejr one qf the most pleasant
and affable gentlemen we have had the
good fortune to meet during our travels
in North Georgia, and we enjoyed his
kind hospitality with a relish and gusto
characteristic of our former self. The
Colonel is one of the most practical
farmers in the good old “banner ooun
ty” of the State, and his stock of agrir
cultural implements [a andof the
heat and most approved stifle, and conse
quently Bis farm is ih a high state of
The object of oqr to, Col. Rerr’s
was to hM fWh an 4 extensive
beds of magnetic,
invited to do through opr worthy and
highly qafpemed friend, Major Roddy,
who ih one of the pioneer miners cf Ten
nessee and North’Georgia; a gentleman
of large experience and sound practical
knowledge.
I must confess that I was surprised
”'poß examination to find such and
extensive beds, pp lyads of magnetic
iron ovc 9* ®ftch #upefidy and excellent
quality, located only a feyy tpe t from the
surface, which has been analyzed by
the Georgia Geologist and others of
Atlanta, and pronounced superior to
anything of the kind yet discovered in
the Southern States.
This valuable property is situated
three miles from the Western and At
lantic Railroad, and abont one hundred
and flfty yard* from the Marietta and
North Georgia Railroad, which is now
in course of construction, and bound to
be in operation at no distant day. There
is not a more eligible and sightly loca
tion on the American Cent inept for
the extensive and profitable manufac
ture of steel and e &hl implements, in
all their varied and nseful forms and
modifications, than is presented on thia
desirable and interesting property, and
all that ia needed to make it tbe Shef
field of the United States is capital, en
terprise and mechanical skill. There is
much more that I wonld like to say in
regard to North Georgia and her great
mineral wealth, but for fear I may
weary your patience I will desist for
the present.
Jim O’Farrell, of the Athena Geor
gian, was defeated for Tax Collector of
Clarke county. We are rather glad of
this, for Jeema ia a born journalist, and
we would have hated to have seen his
light hid under a publican’s bushel.
Nothing is plainer, says the La-
Grange Reporter, than that the Radical
press is trying to antagonize the people
of the South against Ben Hill; ana some
of the Georgia papers are weak enough
to be bambeozled by their enemies.
The independent candidate for Ordi
nary in Fulton oonnty threatens to con
test the election with his successful op
ponent on the ground that liqnor was
used. There’s nothing like reform,
even though it antagonizes the party.
In a threatened interview with an At
lanta reporter Governor Smith neatly
summed up the situation in remarking
that “such oold weather had not been
felt in thrice ten years.” It may not be
inappropriate to say that the reporter,
never forgetting his Chesterfield train
ing, “bowed and retired.”
THE SENATORSHIP.
THE HON. BENJAMIN H. HILL
Entitled to Respectful Treatment—Fair
Play and the Proofs Demanded.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel :
Athens, January 4.—The fair and
just oourse of yonr journal in regard to
the systematic assaults of late made on
the Hon. Benjamin H. Hill, and the dis
position you have evinced to give him
fair play, is strongly approved by your
numerous friends in this section of the
State. A man of Mr. Hill’s character,
of his acknowleijged abilities, of his
commanding position in the eye of the
nation, honored as he is by receiving
the unanimous suffrages of a large and
intensely Southern Congressional Dis
trict, is 'certainly entitled to respectful
treatment. Contumely and abuse in
any disoussion is an evidence of a weak
ness in the disputant as lack of sound
argument in the cause, and when, there
fore, such papers as the Eatonton
Messenger venture to compare Mr. Hill
to a “flat-headed mud cat,” and to
charge that with the avidity of this low
bred fish ha is hungry for a Cabinet ap
pointment, the editor demonstrates that
he suffers from a great paucity of happy
illustration, and further that his reason
ing powers are scarcely richer than his
stock of similitudes; and when the Da
rien Gazette, with more elegance and
equal truth terms Mr. Hill a “vile polit
ical demagogue,” a thinking man will
conclude that the writer has nothing
more at his command than a strong dis
like and a roundly sounding phrase, as
unmeaning as it is common. The truth
is this sort of editorial comment is much
more injurious to the respectability and
influence of the press than it is to the
person who is its subject. The charac
ter of these assaults, the spontaniety
with which they were awakened
to the regularity of their publication;
their utter groundlessness,*in fact, have
induced a great many people to oonclude
that the attacks on Mr. Hill are person
al, and some say that they are the
workings of a conspiracy to defeat his
election to the Senatorship. What has
Mr. Hill done that there should be this
lugubrious howl from ’ the agonized
throats of these watch dogs of liberty ?
Is it anything in his previous public
record or in his personal character?
Certainly not; for these very papers,
many of them, were so urgent that he
should be sent to Congress from the
Ninth District because of his eminent
fitness that some men in that District
became indignant at what they called
outside pressure. Now a bad record is
certainly as great a disqualification for
the House as for the Senate; so it can
not be this. Was it his conduct the
last session? No. His conduct was
generally approved. True, there was
some talk about “ impolicy ” and “ fir
ing the Northern heart ” when he de
livered that magnificent defense of
Southern history from the charge of bar
barity and cruelty to prisoners; but this
was soon silenced. This brings us to
the graveness of the charges of late
made against him, and it may be said,
without fear of contradiction, that never
in the annals of political machination
has there been conjured up a charge so
baseless, so imaginary, so contrary to
the evidence of the facts, so utterly
without evidence, as the charge vaguely
made against Mr. Hill that he is treach
erous to Southern rights and the Demo
cratic party. As the lawyers say, there is
such an absence of probable cause for
this charge that it must be presumed
malicious. The charges seem to be
based, where they are tangible enough
to be understood, upon the faet that
some of the Radical press speak in terms
of encomium of Mr. Hill, and again that
he gave utterance to some objectionable
statements in an interview with a New
York Herald reporter. The first ground
may be disposed of in a word. It is a
new thing for Southern men to accept
as true anything because it is stated in
the Radical press, and yet Mr. Hill is.
condemned because the Radical papers
have stated that he inclined to Hayes.
If Democrats were as gullible as the
people who make this charge would have
them, how easy would it be for the
Radical press, by a false claim or a few
well turned paragraphs, to politically
damn any man in the Democratic party
from Samuel J, Tiiden down. It is
quite natural that in the present straits
of the Radioal party they should claim
all sorts of advantages over the Demo
crats, but to make the claim is not
to prove it. They have claimed Lamar,
of Mississippi; this gentleman! for the
reason perhaps that he has just secured
a seat iu the Senate for six years, did
not deign even to notice the falsehood.
They have claimed Hampton—they are
laughed at. They claim Mr. Hill and sim
ultaneously the Hod. Alexander H.
Stephens, about whom false reports
seem likewise to have been circulated,
tiuds it necessary to publish a card, de-’
nying the existence of any spirit of con
cession'on his part, and protesting his
continuous adherence to constitutional
methods. Hampton, Lamar and Steph
ens, as they should do, go unscathed,
and Mr. Hill is pommelled to suffer the
chidings of the aforesaid watch dogs, and
in every note, from the hoarse diapason
of the Savannah Hews to the piping
treble of the Darien Gazette and Eaton
ton Messenger.
But it is said that in the interview of
Mr. Hill with the New York Herald re
porter, he assumed that Hayes might be
President; that he expressed his opinion
that it would be the true policy of
Hayes to fill the Southern offices with
the best Southern men; that he thought
that Hayes would be better than Grant,
and while he believed that Tilden was
elected, that he desired the Northern
people to understand that the Southern
people wished the Presidential question
settled in a constitutional way, and with
out an appeal to force. This is certain
ly all that Mr. Rill said |n this famous
interview, and is perhaps seated more
strongly donseryatiye in style than in the
interview itself. Now, does this make
out a prima facie case for the suspicion
which is sought to be aroused. That
Hayes may beoome President is not a
very violent assumption, though we de
voutly trust it may never become more.
Certainly it is a contingency which may
be spoken of in conversation, when it is
at this moment agitating the minds of
the civilized world. That Hayes is bet
ter than Grant seems to be general
impression, notwithstanding tpe confi
dence in Grant’s nsityio.tisna which seems
to be. oherished in a certain jolty pnblic
character
If he is inaugurated it i* assuredly his
true policy to give the Southern offices
to the best Southern men. In the
statement made by Mr. Hill that the
J.onthern people do not desire another
war, even to i eat Mr. Tilden, he will be
justified by the sober good sense of the
entire South. It requires the highest
order of statesmanship to avoid war
when popular passion is at a white
heat. Any fool at the helm of *iate pan l ,
in a moment. pjenj]pit*lje the fortunes
of this ipto an abyss where
ruin is inevitable. It is to avoid this
catastrophe that we requira *ise and
cool heads in charge pf the affairs of
goysru W yti, 'th.e Southern people
have beep taught wisdom by experience
and they know fplf well how
to
to nt-oid a civil war—a war which, in
view of the power of the American peo
ple, their warlike character, the strength
of their aroused animosities, the abund
ance of their resources, and aboyp *ll,
the presence in the South pf ap hieSient
which would Up? horrors of servile
inspyrpptiop to the struggle,’would be
come the most fearfpl and terrihle civil
convulsion of which history has given an
account. i‘We believe,” writes the Mill
edgeville Recorder, “ Mr. Hill slanders
the people of the South when he insinu
ates they would surrender their rights
for fear of fifteen-inch shells.” That
journal, in seeking to arouse a preju
dice, does Mr. Hill very great injustice.
Mr. Hill said that Fernando Wood
did not fcnow how to appreciate the
eorservative influence of fifteen-inch
shells, and it is the trnth. Every shell,
every rifle ball, every sabre thrust di
rected against a Southern heart was
a direct pecuniary gain to the North,
and while the Southern people are not
and never will be pat on the defense of
their courage, they have no disposition
to become the shuttle-cock between the
battle axes of any political parties what
soever. We fought our good fight for
constitutional liberty in this country,
and before we agree to fight another it
might be well and graceful to throw the
bau and stigma of disfranchisement
from our great leader in the first. This
then is the head and front of Mr. Hill’s
offending. Then on the unsubstantial
charges against him. When Wade
Hampton addressed his late letter to
Hayes, enclosing a copy of his inaugural
address, calling his attention to the con
dition of affairs in South Carolina, stat
ing that there wonld be no appeal to
force, expressing the hope that the
questions at issue may be set
tled by constitutional methods, and
stating in the postscript that the
settlement of the vexed political ques
tions wonld ultimately depend on Hayes
or Tilden, he went to greater extent than
has ever been charged against Mr. Hill.
This letter assumed that Hayes might
become the President. It stated to him
with this contingency in view the
case of Bonth Carolina;it impliedly,in the
contingency of Hayes’ inauguration, in
voked his aid in the settlement of the
“vexed political questions.” Yet Hamp
ton receives, and deservedly so, the
praise of all, and Mr. Hill,for far less, is
assailed with energy and system. It
wonld seem to the impartial observer
that the attack upon Mr. Hill is person
al, and is not influenced by his public
conduct. If this be true and the people
are satisfied of the fact, it will recoil
with force on those who are the actual
assailants. -
Mr. Hill does not receive anything of
fair play at the hands of his assailants.
He has positively and plainly denied
any inclination whatever towards Hayes.
To qnote his own forcible language, he
says: .“All intimations of this kind are
simply manufactured by sensational
hirelings for Republican use and bene
fit.” The burden of proving the charge
is on his assailants, and they do not
furnish the evidence, and yet he must
be abandoned by his friends because the
Radical press wish it. It is certainly a
great hardship and anew evidence of
that unoertain tenure whioh even the
most commanding characters hold upon
the gratitude of the people, if the de
voted loyalty of Benjamin H. Hill to
Southern principles, his distinguished
efforts in their maintenance, his match
less intellectual gifts, his late trium
phant vindication of our history, are to
be forgotten and disregarded upon the
evidence of paragraphs written by the
same hands and adorning the same col
umns with doleful accounts of the Ham
burg massacre and the pitiful tragedy
of Eliza Piukston. We cannot tell wbat
others may think, but in this section of
Georgia we demand the proof.
Ninth District.
“VEGETINE,”
Says a Boston physician. “ has no equal as a
blood purifie ■. Hearing of its many wondor
ful cures, after all.other remedies had failed.
I visited the Laboratory and convinced myself
of its genuine merit. It is prepared from
barks, roots, and herbs,' each of which is
highly effective, and they are compounded in
such a manner as to produce astonishing re
sults.”
Vegetine
Is the great Blood Purifier.
Vegetine
Will oure the*worse case of Sorofula.
Vegetine
Is recommended by physicians /and apotheca
ries.
Vegetine
Has effected some marvellous cures in cases
of Cancer.
Vegetine
Cures the worst cases of Canker.
Vegetine
Meets with wonderful success in Mercurial dis
eases.
VEGETINE
Will eradicate Salt Ilheum from the system.
VEGETINE
Cures the most inveterate case of Erysipelas.
VEGETINE
Removes Pimples and Humors from the face.
VEGETINE
Cares Constipation and regulates the bowels.
VEGETINE
Is a valuable remedy for Headache.
VEGETINE
Will oure Dyspepsia.
VEGETINE
Restores the entire system to a healthy con
dition.
VEGETINE
Cures Pains in the Side.
VEGETINE
Removes the cause of Dizziness.
VEGETINE
Relieve* Faintness at the Stomach.
VEGETINE
Cares Pains in the Back.
VEGETINE
Effectually cures Kidney Complaint.
VEGETINE
Is effective in its cut e of Female Weakness.
VEGETINE
Is the great remedy for General Debility.
VEGETINE
Is acknowledged by all classes of people to
be the best and most reliable blood purifier
in the world.
Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists.
janll-lm
My annual Catalog e of Vegetables and
Flower Seed for 1877 will be ready by January,
and se-it/ree to all who apply. Customers of
last season need not write for it, I offer one
of the largest collections of vegetable seed
ever pent out by any seed house in America, a
large portion of whioh were grown on my six
Beed farms. Printed directions for oullivation
on every package. All seed sold from my estab
lishment warranted to be both fresh and true
to name : so far. that should it prove other
wise I will refill the order gratis. As the origi
nal introduoer of the Hubbard and Marblehead
Squashes, the Marble bead Cabbages, and a
score of other new vegetables, I invite the pa
tronage of all who are anxious to have their seed
fresh , true, and of the very best strain. New
Vegetables a specialty.
JAMES J. H. GREGORY,
janll-weow2 Marblehead, Mass.
W. H. Greco, Prest. F, Vf. Rockwell, Sec
Mori WMte Lead Go.
STiUCTLV 'VtX
BLEACHED
Every package of this Company’s brand of
Strictly Pure White Lead bears the following
guarantee:
“ The Whits Lead contained in this
package Is guaranteed by ike Manu
facturers, the SOUTHERN WHITE
LEAD CO , Kt. Louis, Mo., to contain
no adulteration whatever. It is com
posed. entirely of perfectly Pure Car
bonate of Lead and Linseed Oil, and
is sold subject to Chemical Analysis
and the Blow Pipe Test.” ■
The name of thw Company is placed only
upon Stuktex Pork Lear. It is not placed
upon a second or inferior quality. So parties
purchasing White Lead branded -‘SOUTHERN
COMPANY ” are absolutely sure of obtaining a
Pxbveotly Pure Article.
For sale by Dealers in Paints and Oils
throughout the West and South,
And exclusively in AtSgwsMt by
K. BiRBI & CO.,
bolS-tha Druggists, 261 Broad B*-.
Platt Brothers,
OHDESTAKIKMEPARTMENf!!
A FULL assortment of METALIC CASK
ETS and CASES at all prices.
Ros-wood Caskets and Cases.
Children and Infants Enameled Caskets.
Broadcloth and Velvet Covered Caskets.
COFFINS of every description always on
hand.
We have a Competent Undertaker to take
charge of Fnnerals and attend calls at all
hours, day and night.
Orders during the week and Sunday mom
ings until eleven o’olock will be left at the
Store.
Sunday evenings and night the orders left
with the Undertaker at his house on Ellin
street directly in rear of the store, opposite
the factory, or at either of onr dwelling
hooses on Greene street, will meet with prompt
attention.
All orders by telegraph will be attended to
with dispatch. [jyl6t<tw
STEAM ENGINES !
HMore effective and more
complete, and more readi
ly adapted to the various
mechanical and agricultu
ral uses than any other in
the market. Practical im
provements accumulated
from twenty years’ manu
facturing experience, with
reputation,- maintained, and success estab
lished.
Send for Circulars, descriptive, and contain
ing testimonials concerning onr POBT
ABLE, STATIONARY AND AGRI
CULTURAL STEAM ENGINES.
WOOD, TIBER A MORSE,
EATON, MADISON €O., N. T.
novl6-fcod&w2m
.ALLCOCK’S
POROUS PLASTERS!
Ask for ALLCOCK’S, and obtain
, them, and so avoid miserable IMITA
TIONS.
B. BRANDRETH, Pres’t,
Office, 294 Canal St,, New York.
nov29-d<tw3m
MERCHANTS and others who desire Legal
Forms for Mortgage of Personalty can
be supplied at this Offic^W
Proprietors.
New ArtTertiHomen >
MIILLAERY BROS.
ire Now Offering the Greatest Bargains Ever Seen in this City in
Black Silk, Black Cashmere,
AND ALSO,
BLACK ALPACAS,
OPC PIECES of which we wi 1 sell at 250. per yard. These goods must be seen to*be
able to find out their full value. No reduction will be allowed to parties purchasing
large quantities, as they have already been marked at the lowest prices.
100 pieces each, at 40c. and 50c per yard, which for quantity and finish cannot be equalled
iu the city, lhese goods are what we adveitise them to be—a bargain—and we would ask all
who wish to purcha-e such goods to call and EXAMINE THEM.
We have just reoeived
25 cases Ladies’ HOSE—and also, f
25 cases Gents’ HALF HOSE, from an auction sale in New York, which we will sell at 25
per cent, less than the same gouds were offered a week ago.
MULLARKY BROTHERS’,
262 BROAD .TKKKT,
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NEW DRY_GOODS.
We have received from our Mr. Christopher Gray siuce his return
to New York the following goods, which are much below in prices any
thing offered in this ciiy this season :
BLACK ALPACAS, BRILLIANTINES and MOHAIRS.
The best FELT SKIRTS yet at 50c.
Splendid CORSETS at 50c.
Misses’ HOSIERY at half price.
Beauiifnl EDGINGS and INSERTINGI.
Table LINEN and TOWELS.
Kentucky JEANS and Plaid OSNABURGS.
CHRISTOPHER GRAY & CO.
jan7-tf
Turning Over a New Leaf
AT
L. RICHARDS’
AUGUSTA DRY GOOD STORE,
COMMENCING
Monday Homing, New Year’s Day,
A GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES OF
Dressed Goods,
Black and Colored Cashmeres,
Cloaks and Shawls,
Blankets,
Table Linen,
Piano Covers,
Bod Spreads.
Ronobings and Collarettes, Check Ties, Fancy artioles in great variety; Ladies’ and Chil
dren’s Undervests and I’antaletts; Gents’ Undershirts and Drawers; also a few sets of Furs to
close out at a greit sacrifice.
Just received by Express, Black Fur Trimmings.
L.. RICHARD^
dec3l-tf 20!) 1 road Street, N*-xt door to Jas, G. Bailie A BroV. Carpet, Store.
EEEPWARM.
500 Pairs of White and Colored
Blankets-25 Per Cent Under
Value.
150 Dozen Ladies’, Gents’, Misses’
and Children’s Undervests.
Also, Children’s Union Dresses,
Cheap.
Special-We will open on to-mor
row another large invoice of
Cloaks, comprising every grade,
from the lowest prices to the
finest, at 25 per cent, less than
anything offered this season.
Jouvin’s 2-Button Kid Gloves, all
sizes and colors.
JAMES A. GRAY & CO.
SSEAT BEDUCTIOK IB THE PRICE
or
DRY GOODS
, AT THE
Old Fredericksburg Store!
CORNER BY THE PLANTERS’ HOTEL.
o
To CLOSE OUT WINTER STOCK, we will sell THIS WEEK, at GREATLY REDUCED
PRICES,
FINE CLOAKS,
SHAWLS, SCARFS,
NDBIES, RIGS,
CRUMB CLOT HS,
DRESS GOODS, DOLLS,
FANCY ARTICLES, &C.
FOB BEAL BARGAINS in FINE GOODS call THIS WEEK at lhe OLD FREDERICKS
BURG STORE, Corner by the Planters’Hotel.
V. RICHARDS & BRO.
dec24-tf
BUY THE BEST "
-rEWETT’B PURE WHITE LEAD AND
J Jewett’s Pure Linseed Oil, at Whole-
I” JS% V\ sale and Retail. By
// jf. \ J. H. ALEXANDER,
// aV .all 45*1 \\ 212 Broad Street,
[St
// fiNjuJ Vjm \\ TEWETT’S WHITE LEAD is sold UNT-
I in K fj DEB GUARANTEE, subject to any
I*s 1-1 4S analysis or test for PERFECT PURITY.
U HTTI3 V // Messrs, John Jewett & Sons have made no
\\ AMr U A // other grade or quality of Lead than this
\\ JO // STRICTLY PURE for nearly twenty years.
Y W V'/ Their brandis a guarantee on every package
LV y/ Buy the Best,
YxY f C, Vl# FOR WHITENESS AND DURABILITY
and COVERING CAPACITY, it is excelled
SwKSZ"S JEWETT3 WHITE LEiD .!S FOEE LINSEED
0IL ’ a 1 PaiDtiDg Matenalß ’ at ALEXANDER’S Drug Store.
of*r29 ———
REAL ESTATE AGENCY.
o
Special attention paid to the sale or purchase of Town and
Country Property. Money borrowed 'and loans made on Real
Estate. Special attention paid to the management and renting
of property, The nndersigned haring been requested by many
of their patrons to resume the Real Estate business, will, from
this date, derote the energies ol the co icern to all business en
trusted to them, and charges will be moderate.
JOHN J. COHEN & SONS.
Our Bond, Stock Brokerage and Life and Fire Insurance will
be carried on as usual.
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