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The Methodist Advocate.
ATLANTA, GA., JUNE 16, 1869.
Rev. E. Q. FULLER, Editor.
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Walk in the Light.
This world is darkened by ignorance and
sin. The moral perceptions of men are
weakened and conscience is often dormant,
and sometimes dead. Divine light is needed
and mercifully given—the Bible to illumi
nate our minds and the Spirit to quicken
our souls:
“Light is come into the world, and men loved
darkness rather than light, because their deeds
were evil. For every one that doetli evil hateth
the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his
deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth
truth, cometh to the light that his deeds may
be made manifest that they are wrought i:i God.
God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
If we say that we have fellowship with him,
and walk in darkness, vve lie, and do not the
truth: but if we walk in the light, as he is in
the light, we have fellowship one with another,
and the blood of Jesus Christ his Soncleanseth
us from all sin. He that saith he is in the light,
and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until
now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the
light, and there is none occasion of stumbling
in him. But he that hateth his brother 13 in
darkness, and walketh in darkness, and know
eth not whither he goeth, because that dark
ness hath blinded his eyes.
Nothing is more blinding to the moral
sense than hate. In this darkness preja
dice grows rank and strong while sympathy
perishes. How dense the darkness that
has been upon this whole people! Year
after year hatred has grown stronger and
stronger, and the enemy of souls has led
the people astray. Groping in darkness,
friends have become strangers, and brothers
enemies. In night movements an army
sometimes mistakes a part of its own force
for the enemy, and attacks and cripples its
support. So churches, but different divis
ions of the great army of God, sometimes
waste powder and ball, wounding and kill
ing the soldiers of Christ, instead of sweep
ing on unitedly against the common foe.
How impressive the words of Jesus,
“walk while ye have the light, lest darkness
come upon you ; for he that walketh in
darkness knowelh not whither he goeth.”
It would seem that new light is shining
upon us. What means this universal wea
riness of strife, and even of controversy.
What strange spirit came upon the Pres
byterian Assemblies, and led them to unite
contrary to the expectation, but greatly
to the joy of the Christian world ? What
"lias moved the hearts of Baptist brethren
lately to write, speak, and act as they have
between North and South? Why was the
whole Methodist Church stirred in a day
on the question of union? The light is
shining, that is the explanation, and all
who are of the day should rejoice and walk
in that light.
Is not the time favorable for advance
ment in the work of the Gospel ? Some
times it seems easy for sinners to be con
verted ; a revival influence is found every
where. Is it not coming to be so now?
All Christians, and especially ministers,
should prayerfully inquire of God and go
forward at his bidding. How many are
now getting ready for camp-meetings? How
many are struggling in spirit that this har
vest season of the church may prove abun
dant in souls gathered to the standard of
Christ? During the coming weeks of com
parative leisure, we trust that every circuit
and society will be prompt and persevering
in the use of the means, trusting in God
for gracious results. “Walk in the light,
lest darkness come upon you.” Here is
both commandment and threatening. A
refusal of the churches to go forward is
disobedience to Christ. When the cloudy,
fiery pillar lifted from the camp of Israel
and moved toward Canaan the people were
to follow. Can anything be more clear
than the utterances of Providence in these
late manifestations of grace, and, is there
not reason to fear that disobedience thereto
will bring additional blindness, hardness
of heart, and the “blackness of darkness?”
We exhort all our people to walk in the
light, and have fellowship one with another,
to follow peace with all men, and holiness.
Let us examine our hearts with diligence,
not trusting in the flesh, nor being led
thereby. Again, we entreat, “walk in the
light.”
“Slavery is of God —It is Right.”
Slavery is dead. Still there are thous
ands in this country who hold and teach
that it was of God and is right. One great
barrier, if not the greatest of all, to recon
struction, and to the work of grace in the
churches is, a tenacious clinging to and ad
vocating exploded ideas in regard to this
institution. So that while slavery is dead,
many questions in regard to it are living
and vigorous. In a recent number we gave
a pertinent and timely article from brother
Yarbrough, on the “Dead Issue,” showing
that church members and ministers still
hold the monstrous idea that slavery is
right, a divinely ordained institution. This
point in that article called out the one on
our first page headed as above, from one
whom we know as a preacher and former
large slave owner. Such an one, we think,
has a right to speak upon this subject as
we would not allow others to do in these
columns. Even from this pen we suppress
a paragraph against the institution said by
Wesley to be the “vilest under the sun,”
and the “sum of all villainies.” If it is
said this is an extreme view of the case,
we admit that we suppose it is, and would
not involve all in the common representa
tion. Indeed, we have found not a few
who were slave holders against whom these
charges could not be made good. But if
it is claimed that these are the abuses of
the system, our answer is that any system
which is liable to such abuses is wrong—
had better be abolished. While we blush
for our common humanity, at the revelation
of such vileness, we give the article under
a deep and solemn conviction of obligation
to God and man.
More of It.
“The Methodist Advocate contains fur
ther information concerning the murders
and mobbing of preachers of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. If these cases are as
represented—and we have seen nothing to
the contrary —they are a burning scandal,
and are just such an outrage as might be
looked for in the sequel ( ?) of so religious
a war as that which has prevailed between
the North and the South. Why should
Christian men condemn the retail in mur
der and approve the wholesale? Where is
the Divine authority for the current distinc
tion? Are not the burnings, rapes and
murders among the people the fruit of the
seed sown 1 by North and South? Bad as
things are, it is much better than war ; for,'
besides the decrease in outward crime, the
robbery, incendiarism and murders now
committed are under ban of law and Gos
pel, whereas during the w T ar there was no
law nor hardly any Gospel that dared to
condemn the black scandals of the times.
We would rejoice to see all our presses,
North and South, at peace with each other,
and unite in opposing that system which
will ever produce such fruits. Think on
these things, brother Advocate, and be
lieve us ever ready to help you, as we are
able, in any and every effort to diminish
evil or to 'enlarge good. We see your
course is too peaceful for some of your
Northern Methodist editors. Let us try to
find as little fault as possible with those
who are trying to do good, though they
follow not us, and let us unite in aiding
each other in whatever may advance the
cause of Christ—and Northern and South
ern Methodism adjust themselves accord
ingly. We shall rejoice in your success in
overcoming evil and establishing righteous
ness any where and among any people.”
The above is from the Christian Neigh
bor, and though we give elsewhere two ar
ticles from a former number of the same
paper, our response to this Christian greet
ing is so prompt and cordial that we add
this, this week. Our reply, sincere and
heartfelt, shall be in the words above:
Let. us try to find as little fault as possible
with those who are trying to do good, though
they follow not us, and let us unite in aiding
each other In whatever may advance the cause
of Christ —and let Northern and Southern
Methodism adjust themselves accordingly. We
shall rejoice in your success iu overcoming evil
and establishing righteousness anywhere and
among any people.
More Lawlessness.
Lawlessness and violence are a disgrace
to any community, a shame and a stigma
upon our civilization. We do not stop to
ask in such case, on whose side the victim
is, nor how badly he was hurt, nor do we
hesitate an instant to enter protest against
any seeking to do good, or mete out sup
posed justice, in such villainous methods.
Mr. Smith, and every other one, in preach
ing the Gospel of peace, has our warmest
sympathies, without a thought, of the fact
that he belongs to the Church South. We
call upon the loyal people of Tennessee to
discourage and suppress all tendencies to
such a mode of warfare. We publish the
following from the Knoxville Press and
Herald only to expose and condemn it,
whether it proves a narration of facts —if
so, the condemnation falls upon the perpe
trators—or a fiction to balance stubborn
facts that have been given in these columns,
which we are led to suspect; in that case
the same condemnation falls upon the jour
nal from which it is taken.
“It will be remembered by our readers,
and indeed the people of the entire country
remember the affair with feelings of horror
and detestation, that about one month ago
Rev. Jacob Smith, while on his way to fill
an appointment in Blount county, was seized
by armed ruffians, composing the leaders of
the League of the Radical party of that
county, taken to the woods stripped to his
shirt, tied to tree and whipped unmercifully
with withes, until his back and shoulders
were a mass of blood and quivering flesh.
No reason existed for this barbarous action.
Mr. Smith was unknown in that locality
until after the close of the war. During the
civil strife he preached to both armies
“Christ and him crucified.” He believed
not in carnal weapons, even while in the
midst of bloody strife. He never carried a
pistol nor any other weapon. His preach
ing was pre-eminently the Gospel of Peace.
He bears the imprint of the Almighty on his
calm, serious, guiltless face, as a man “un
spotted from the world.” The vindictive
and Satanic teachings of Tennessee Radical
ism bore their bitter fruit in the martyrdom
of this man of God.
As the time approached when Mr. Smith
had another appointment to fill in that
county, he received evidence and informa
tion, the most trustworthy and reliable, that
the loyalists of the county were laying then
plans to prevent his preaching, and many
were loudly asserting that time we will
make an end of it. Not only this, but he
also learned that his friends in the county,
the members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, were being ill-treated and
threatened, and that an attempt by him to
preach there would result not only in his
hurt, but also to their injury. Influenced
more by the desire not to involve any of the
friends of his church in trouble, and after
consultation with his co-laborers in the
ministry in this city, Mr. Smith resolved
not to attempt to preach the Gospel of
Christ to these Pharisaical loyalists. How
prudent was this resolve may be learned by
the action of these loyal men—these simon
pure members of the party of great moral
ideas on the holy Sabbath.
Last Sunday morning, the day of Mr.
Smith’s appointment at Logan’s Chapel, in
Blount county, fully two hundred and fifty
of these loyalists, all well armed and un
der the leadership of the men who had pre
THE METHODIST ADVOCATE, JUNE 16, 1869.
viously whipped Mr. Smith, assembled in
the vicinity of the chapel and boisterously
disclosed their intention of preventing the
religious exercises from taking place. The
members of Mr. Smith’s church, aware
of the impending troubles, did not go to
the chapel, and the ruffians after waiting
some time, determined not to allow their
intentions to be baffled by the escape of
their prey. Accordingly they sent squads
out in search of the preacher, which visited
every suspected house for miles around.
Mr. Smith, however, was quietly attending
worship in Knoxville, and toward noon his
persecutors dispersed, elated with the
knowledge that they had prevented the
preaching of the word of God. These
same men are now plotting to prevent by
armed force the fulfillment of Mr. Smith’s
appointment, next Sabbath, at Louisville,
in the same county. Os course they will
be successful, as there are no officers in
the county who dare to do right and arrest
these violators of the law. Rather do
the} 7 mix themselves with the wicked per
petrators of cowardly attacks on an "n
--armed man.”
Misplaced Sympathy.
An old sentiment, founded alike on refined
sensibili'y and justice, forbids that evil be
spoken of the dead. We shall not offend
against this maxim in what follows. Much
rather had we remained silent. Yet, as
conducting a pub’ic journal which has never
faltered in its devotion to the national cause,
fidelity to our trust compels us to object to
the following proposition found in Satur
day’s issue of the Press and Herald :
If it were possible, we would that the
same hands which strew flowers to-day upon
the graves of the Union dead should pay a
floral tribute of respect to the graves of the
Confederate soldiers.
The same paper introduces with the com
ments subjoined, the order we quote :
A Post of the Grand Army of the Re
public in Pennsylvania has honored itself by
issuing the following order:
Headquarters Post 19. }
Grand Army of the Republic, >
Dep't of Pennsylvania, May 14,1869. >
Comrades of Post 19: The day set apart (May
29th) for decorating the graves of our fallen
comrades will soon be here. * * * * * *
Wishing to bur}" the harsh feelings engendered
by the war, Post 19 has decided not to pass by
the graves of the Confederates sleeping in our
lines, but to divide each year between the blue
and the gray, the first floral offerings of a com
mon country. We have no powerless foes.
Post 19 thinks of the Southern dead only as
brave men.
A. R. Calhoun, Post Commander.
Aug. H. Saukman, Adjutant.
The order probably was made in a section
where the Confederate and Union soldiers
sleep side by side in the same cemetery.—
Such is not the case in the National Ceme
tery in Knoxville.
We have no word to utter detracting
from the valor of the Confederate soldier,
nor from his sincerity, however misapplied.
But there is a difference between right and
wrong: between loyalty and rebellion.—
Honesty, sincerity, valor cannot destroy
that distinction, nor can they sanctify a
cause as inherently vicious as is that of
treason and rebellion.
Very proper is it for friends and kindred
to bestrew with flowers the graves of their
loved ones, in whatsoever cause or manner
they died. For those who still cling in hope
and affection to “the lost cause,” to parade
their regards upon and around the graves
of its fallen heroes, will not, probably, be
offensive to the most ardent loyalists. In
deed, if such parties should come to our
garden for flowers for such a purpose, and
we had any, we would cheerfully divide our
stock with them. But to suggest that the
same pageant shall be displayed, on the
same day, and by the same parties, over the
moldering dust of patriot and rebel, alike,
is carrying magnanimity to an extreme not
demanded nor warranted by good sense,
taste nor the public welfare. It would
convert the decoration ceremonies into an
unmeaning and idle form, if indeed, it did
not actually result in sanctifying the cause
for which the Confederates died, and to an
equal degree, disparaging that of the patriot
soldiers. Rev. Mr. Sherman, Unitarian at
Washington, D. C., holds this beautiful
language on this subject:
In strewing flowers upon their graves, we
perform an act of merited, loving admira
tion and revereut thankfulness. We remem
ber not only that they died bravely, but
also that they died for a cause worthy of
their sacrifice. Here is the answer to the
complaints of those who would have us
cover with our flowers the graves of rebels.
A single flower on one such grave takes
away the best meaning of our act. There
is no room to prate of a want of magna
nimity. Never was a people so magnani
mous in history before as the people of the
Union have been. France sends exiles to
Cayenne, England blows rebels from guns,
or raises, even in Cobden’s Manchester, a
scaffold for Irishmen. America alone for
gives men like Davis and Lee. No war is
made on graves where rebels sleep—for
given we trust of God, as they are pitied and
sorrowed for of us. There is no soldier in
the Grand Army of the Republic who would
not share his meal with his late foeman’s
widow and orphan. Hate has no place in
the American heart. But we give our honor
only to the honorable; our love to those
who loved us unto death. WheD, on the
Fourth of July, it shall seem right to order
orations in memory of Arnold, and when
the Christian Church, in its divine charity,
shall, on Easter Sunday, weave a special
wreath for Judas, then, and not until then,
ought our flowers, the flowers that tell of
our honor and our love, be strewn on trai
tors’ tombs.
We take the above from the Knoxville
Whig. The order from Post No. 19 we
have before given as an item of news, and
to show the unparalleled charity of many
in the North. We ask just here, When
has the favor sought by the Press and Her
ald been given by the late Confederates?
We are informed of more than one in
stance where the flag of rebell : on was
placed upon the graves of the Confederate
dead at the last “memorial,” but not of an
instance of aid, sympathy, or public respect
to the “decorations” of Federal graves, and
not unfrequently of scoffs instead. Our
own sentiments, wholly in sympathy with
the kind words of the Whig, have hereto
fore been expressed. We are led to in
quire further, How long is it expected that
charity, forgiveness and magnanimity will
be all on one side ?
Coming South.
We are constantly receiving letters of inquiry
in regard to the South from those who contem
plate an early removal to this country. Not
being able to answer all of these personally,
we will give a few general statements:
Climate. —It is generally believed in this
country that a better climate is nowhere to be
found than in the mountain and hill country of
the South. In the valleys along the rivers, in
the low country, especially in the vicinity of
swamps, fevers and chills must be frequent.
We do not claim such localities as healthy; but
we doubt whether the prairies of the West or
the hills of the East are as salubrious as the
mountain sections of the South. The mild and
even temperature of both Summer and Winter
can only be conducive to health.
Water. —This country is well watered. In
the limestone region the water is hard, and in
the freestone ranges soft. Springs, brooks and
creeks—clear, cool and beautiful —abound in
the country generally. In many sections
scarcely a lot of land can be found without
plenty of excellent water for stock.
Soil. —From observations among farmers,
and watching the growing crops, we are more
and more convinced that the soil of the South
is better than usually supposed. 111 central
Georgia we have seen wheat ready for the sickle
that would yield thirty bushels per acre. But
the land had been manured. So all land ought
to be. While much of the corn is small, yellow
and sickly, we have seen it in well-tilled fields
by the middle of June from five to six feet high,
dark-colored and rank as that growing on the
best Illinois prairies. In some places there are
rocky hillsides of waste lauds and old fields
that will require years to bring to go - d tilth;
still there are millions of acres in the South of
the best of lands untouched by cultivation.
Price of Lands. —This varies greatly, ac
cording to location. We have found plantations
held at from two to fifty dollars an acre —some,
perhaps, not worth the two, and others cheap
at fifty. When a Northerner comes into this
country to buy he is often disappointed to find
so little offered for sale and prices so exorbitant;
but instead of making a flying trip, and hurry
ing back disappointed, he should take time,
look around, and learn the ways of the country.
By this course he will in nine cases out of ten
suit himself in localiiy, soil, water, market, and
price.
Products.—Cotton is the staple of the South,
and in some localities should be. Our advice to
a Northerner would be, however, not to invest
heavity in cotton lands. He will be likely to do
better with stock, hay, grain, and fruit. The
mountain country can be made rich by either
grazing, grain, Iruit, mining or manufacturing.
All these combined, with good water aud the
best climate in the world, ought certainly to
make a rich country—and they will.
Colonies. —Northern people arc often advised
to come in colonies. This we judge to be de
sirable for both the new and the old settler,
At least this is good advice. If half a dozen or
more families can settle together or near each
other, school and church privileges are easily
commanded, and the matter of “society’' ad
justs itself.
Is it Safe?—Notwithstanding the recent acts
of violence which we have not refused to notice
in The Methodist Advocate, we believe it
perfectly safe for a Northern man to travel any
where in the South, and for his family to reside
anywhere he pleases, unless he becomes in
volved in politics, or teaches the people of color,
or is a preacher of the Methodist Episcopal
Church , and that very soon these exceptions
will not have to be made. Still it is to be re
membered that in many places a Northern fam
ily would be quite isolated from society, and
scarcely welcomed in the churches. Slowly
but surely this sectional feeling is passing away.
When to Come. —If convenient, in the early
Fall. We met, however, recently a gentleman
from Central New York who settled here in
June, twenty-three years ago, and though com
ing at that (supposed to be the most unfavor
able) season of the year, he suffered no incon
venience from that cause, and has enjoyed un
interrupted health during that time.
West and South.—From our knowledge of
the West and South we believe that the South
offers decidedly more advantages to one of
small means who desires to make a pleasant
home, or for the investment and employment of
capital, than the West.
We are not in the South as an “adventurer,”
but to find here a home, and have an interest in
the improvement of the country; but while we
take great pleasure in encouraging immigration
we shall not hesitate to expose Wrong treat
ment of strangers, should there be occasion,
not because they come from North. East, or
West, but because civility and kindness are due
to all. We have no sympathy with sectional
ism. To decry the one. and exalt the other is
not our mission. But because we believe it best
for our common country and for thousands of
our fellow-citizens. North and South, we invite
the industrious, enterprising and intelligent
Northerner to these beautiful lauds.
To the Point. —ln the following item
the Christian Neighbor, (Church South,)
speaks out manfully. There is power
enough in the religious press of the South
to quiet the whole country in a month, in
spite of politicians, if all would take a sim
ilar course. In this we heartily commend
the Neighbor:
“ The Huntsville (Ala.) Advocate says Rev.
Moses Sullivan, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, (North,) was mobbed from the house
of Mr. Henry Stephens, four miles from Vienna,
on the 11th ult., by thirty-five or forty disguiged
men. He was brutally beaten, and threatened
with hanging, if he should return to that section,
He was shot at from ambush, next morning,
three or four times, as he made his way home
ward via Huntersville Landing.
AU good citizens are obliged to condemn all
such, and none but evil-hearted men can with
hold sincere and indiscriminate condemnation
of all such disgraceful outrages. Under the
instigations of the devil, this lawless lire and
blood game is played on both sides, and to his
honor wicked men may rejoice when the sufferer
is of another church or of different politics. No
error in politics or religious views can justify
even sympathy with such iniquitous mode of
opposition. Irrespective of class, color or con
dition, the public indignation should, through
the press especially, focalize alarming light and
blistering heat, on every such mode of redress
or opposition; be it adopted by whomsoever it
may. Let men who are strangers to a better
motive ask themselves, whose turn comes next?'’
Northern Immigration. —The Augusta
Chronicle says: “Not many days since we re
ceived a visit from two well informed gentlemen,
natives of the State of Connecticut and men of
means, who had come to Georgia recently on a
prospecting expedition. They informed us that
seeing an advertisement in the Chronicle and
Sentinel of a large plantation for sale in Burke
county, they had visited the place and being
pleased with it, had purchased the whole prop
erty.—The plantation was the property of G. W.
Lamar, of Savannah, and the price paid for it
was $5,000. It is situated on Buckhead Creek,
in Burke county, and contains fourteen hundred
acres of land, of which nine hundred are under
cultivation. The purchasers have determined to
divide the w hole property into small tracts of
forty or fifty acres each, which they will farm
out to Connecticut immigrants whom they will
bring to this State as soon as possible. The gen
tlemen have already returned to their New En
gland home, and we may expect them to arrive
here in a few days with fifteen or twenty farmers
from the “Nutmeg State.”
Unintended Compliment.
The Marietta (Ga.) Journal indulges in
the following:
The Methodist Advocate, (loyal) published
in Atlanta, has Fuller reports of outrages in
Georgia than can be found elsewhere. Hope
the people will all behave themselves,and starve
out the concern.
The Methodist Advocate usually has
fuller reports not only of outrages but of
every thing else that ought to be published,
or is calculated to benefit the country, than
is found elsewhere. We hope to indicate
both enterprise and manliness enough to
continue in the same way. The advice to
“starve out” is rather rich. The “Concern”
the Journal speaks of—that is, the Publish
ing-House of the Methodist Episcopal
Church —made a clear profit, last year, of
only $114,000, and its profits are in
creasing every year. Besides, the people
are taking the Journal’s advice in this wise :
Yesterday we received fifty-five new sub
scribers ; they are coming in every day.
Thirty-five hundred in less than six months
does not look much like starving out. The
people of the South indicate a lively appre
ciation of a reliable and good-sense news
paper. We shall continue to make such a
paper, and trust their judgment for results.
Editor’s Table.
Religion and the Reign of Terror ; or, The
Church during the French Revolution. By
Rev. John P. Lacroix. A. M. Carlton &
Lanahan, New York. Hitchcock & Walden,
Cincinnati.
In a letter to the author, the manuscript
of which is now before us, Bishop Thomson
says:
Your translation of Pressense's “Reign of
Terror” is an admirable book. It lays under
obligation to you both the author and the coun
try. Both the principles and the actors of the
eventful period which passes under review are
drawn with a master’s hand, and the scenes im
press great moral and political lessons for our
country, and indeed for all lands. The patient
sufferings of those who remained faithful under
the persecutions of infidelity; the delicate wo
men who, when ths walls were scaled and the
axes uplifted, lay at the foot of the cross offer
ing their lives to God; the venerable Archbishop
thanking God for the duty of offering his blood
to his cause; priests giving each other the kiss
of charisy and then laying their heads on the
block—show how even*under unfavorable cir
cumstances the Christian character may be
nobly developed, and how vain it is for man to
hope, even with the advantage of the civil arm,
to eradicate the religion of Christ.' “Persecute
the priests as a class, and you will have both
priests and war for a thousand years to come,”,
was the remark of a wise general engaged in a
fruitless experiment.
It is well for us to read the history of those
times, and to ponder well the words in which
Napoleon sums up the results of the great
French infidel experiment: “No society can
exist without religion; there is no sound moral
ity but in religion; therefore, religion alone can
give to a state a firm and durable support. A
society without religion is like a ship without a
compass.” I hope your work may have an ex
tensive sale.
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Orange Judd & Cos., 245 Broadway, N. York.
One who lor thirty-live consecutive years has
succeeded in keeping bees, and has been able,
most of that time to count his stock by hundreds,
can hardly fail to furnish something from his
experience that will be beneficial and interest
ing to others; and he will doubtless be par
doned for attempting to teach those who may
desire to avail themselves of his knowledge, and
thus avoid the tedious process of acquiring it
for themselves.
A person who wishes to make the most possi
ble from his bees can hardly afford to dispense
with the benefit of a .y experience that will aid
him. The instruction found in the periodicals
of the day are often not to be depended upon.
A score of bee-keepers, each of limited expe
rience, will give as many different methods, and
an editor equally inexperienced is usually un
able to discriminate between them. The sim
ple directions of a reliable, practical bee-keeper,
who studies the science with an honest enthu
siasm, are invaluable to the tyro in apiarian
knowledge.
To benefit the largest possible class, the au
thor has endeavored to be practical
scientific, and has aimed at no elegance of style
or diction, preferring that the merit of the book
should lie in its simplicity and reliability.
We need not add to the above, only to
indorse it, by saying that we have found
Quinby’s Bee-Keeping all that is promised.
Bee-keeping in the South can be made
profitable. There might be a hundred
swarms where but one is found, greatly to
the advantage of the pockets of some and
the tables of others.
Rural Architecture. Being a complete de
scription of farm-houses, cottages and out
buildings, comprising wood-houses, work
shops, tool-houses, carriage and wagon
houses, stables, smoke and ash-houses, ice
houses. apiary or bee-h<. use, poultry-houses,
rabbitry, dovecote, piggery, barns and sheds
for cattle, etc., together with lawns, pleasure
grounds and parks; the flower, fruit and
vegetable garden; also, useful and orna
mental domestic animals for the country resi
dent, etc. Also, the best method of conduct
ing water into cattle-yards and houses. By
Lewis F. Allen. Beautifully illustrated. New
York: Orange Judd & Cos., Agricultural
Publishers, 245 Broadway.
A house should be not merely a place to
stay in or only to protect from the storm.
Taste and a knowledge of the best models
are indispensable in creating a home. The
outside appearance, the internal arrange
ment, and the surrounding of every dwell
ing, be it never so humble, should be mat
ters of careful study by the owners and oc
cupants. The cottage with its fruit and
flower gardens tastefully arranged and kept
with little labor, is frequently more home
like, more beautiful, than the ill-propor
tioned and unadorned mansion costing
thousands. Few matters need more atten
tion in this country than those treated of in
this volume. Any one intending to build
in town or country, though it he at a cost
of only a few hundred dollars, would find
it of advantage to study the best models.
A plan might not be found to adopt, but
one could not fail to receive many valuable
suggestions. The work before us is excel
lent, and its general circulation is desirable.
Atlanta Post-Office.— We are pleased
to note the special care taken by
Dunning, our new postmaster, and his as
sistants, to accommodate the entire public.
Our post-office is often crowded with busi
ness ; but evidently there is no occasion of
complaint for want of attention to any par
ties. We congratulate the President on
this excellent appointment.
Editorial Correspondence.
Our Soldiers’ Graves.
We had the painful pleasure of attending
the decoration of our soldiers’ graves, at
the Cemetery of Stone River, Saturday,
29th inst. Here our noble men lie sleep
ing in regiments as they fought and marched.
Here they lie bivouacked on the field of
their glory and victory. Here they lie, the
husbands, the fathers, the brothers, the be
trothed. Some of their graves are marked
“unknown,” and yet some heart refuses (o
be comforted because they are not. You
might easily test the sincerity of professed
loyalty and attachment to the Government
of the United States by the presence of
those who make this annual pilgrimage to
the resting place of the national dead, to
pay tributes of cherished regard to the
memory of the fallen braves. There are
persons who profess sincere attachment to
the Government now, hut they are never
seen spreading their floral offerings upon
the nation’s best but fallen friends. Nei
ther will they visit the cemeteries of the
rebel dead. They have no soldiers. They
cannot sing as we heard sung on the day
above spoken of,
“Just before the battle, mother.”
with tears of thankfulness mingled with
tears of sorrow. Few of the clergymen of
the South, or of Southern churches, horior
these annual gatherings with their presence.
If seen, at all, they may be found at the
cemeteries of the nation’s foes. Actions
are better interpreters of the heart than
words.
About four hundred persons gathered at
this cemeiery with their magnificent floral
gifts, and many eyes grew moist and many
a sigh escaped the swelling heart as these
patriotic men and women paid their dutiful
regard to the dead. The ceremonies of
the day were begun by calling Hon. Tlios.
H. Caldwell, of Shelbyville, to the chair,
who, in a few brief, well chosen, and touch
ing words, expressed the object of the com
ing together. Hon. Wm. Bosson, of Mur
freesboro, was then called upon, and re
sponded in an appropriate speech of twenty
minutes. His description of the battle of
Stone River was thrillingly interesting, he
having been an eye witness of the terrific
engagement. Hon. W. Spence, of Mur
freesboro, also made a few remarks, and
the assembly proceeded to place their floral
chaplets on the graves of the fallen heroes.
It is to be hoped that so long as the
nation endures, each succeeding generation
will conticue to pay its annual devoir to
the memory of these noble men. Every
parent should teach his child to revere the
memory and emulate the patriotic virtues
of these sleeping soldiers. Their deeds
will be woven into song and their valorous
achievements grow brighter as the ages in
the distance look upon them.
H. O. H.
Shelbyville, Tenn., May 31,1869.
The Industrial Resources of Georgia.
In our next number we will present our
readers with an article on “Railways in
Georgia,” giving full particulars of these
lines of intercommunication. This article
is from an able pen; one who writes with
all the advantages, of interest and position,
to know whereof he speaks. It is the first
of a series of articles on the agricultural
and mineral resources, and manufacturing
interests of this State.
Coming. —Subscribers for July are com
ing in daily. Fifty-five received in one
day ! This week we print one hundred and
forty quires —nearly thirty-four hundred—
and altogether the largest circulation in
Atlanta, as is well known to everbyody.
Let us have six hundred more names!
President Grant. —We give this week
the concluding article of the series on our
President from the Atlantic Monthly. Let
none fail to read this. The Atlantic has
done the country a lasting service in giving
this paper to the public.
“M. E. Church—North and South.”—
We call especial attention to the article
headed as above, on our first page. We
count it of the more importance because it
expresses the opinions of a disinterested
witness, as well as of one whose words are
always worthy of the first consideration.
The article is from the Christian Guardian,
Canada.
Courts. — Three courts are now in session
in this city. The Supreme Court, at the
State House ; the United States Court, in
Brown’s Building; and the Superior Court
of Fulton county, at the City Hall.
An accommodation train on the Western
and Atlantic Railroad now runs as follows:
Leaves Atlanta at . . . 2.30, P. M.
Arrives at Dalton at . . 11.35, P. M.
Leaves Dalton at .... 1.25, A. M.
Arrives at Atlanta at. . . . 9.50, A. M.
The following young men from Georgia
are reported among the new cadets at the
West Point Military Institute: D. J. Pra
ther, G. T. Hoyle, W. L. Caldwell, J. H.
M’Whorter, and H. S. Glover.
•
Samuel Weil, Esq., Foreign Commis
sioner of Immigration for the State of
Georgia, is at Baltimore, and will soon
leave for Europe.
M’Donough Freedmen’s School.
The closing exercises of this school took
place on h riday last. A dinner was given
by the parents of the pupils, after which
addresses were delivered on education by
several reverend gentlemen. In the eve
ning the pupils gave us one of the best ex
hibitions that we ever attended.
This school has been very successful. It
was organized in December, 1868, by a
Miss L. M. Dowling, of Ohio—a lady of
missionary zeal—under the auspices of the
Methodist Episcopal Freedraen’s Aid So
ciety. Over sixty pupils have been taught
to read and write during the term.
Our attention was especially directed to
a boy of ten years, who three months ago
had no knowledge of books, now well qual
ified to read in the Fourth Book of Lessons,
and writes a legible hand. A Visitor.
six monthTfor $1!