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94 The Methodist Advocate. ATLANTA, GA., JUNE 16, 1869. Rev. E. Q. FULLER, Editor. CORRESPONDING EDITORS! A. WEBSTER, D.D., C. J. S, MITCHELL, D.D., Lincolnton, N. C. Rev. JAMES MITCHELL, Richmond, Va. N. E. OOBLEIGH, D.D., Athens, Tenn. Rev. H. 0. HOFFMAN, Shelbyville, Tenn. Rev. A. 8. LAKIN, Huntsville, Ala. Rev. JAMES LYNCH, Jackson, Miss. THE METHODIST ADVOCATE WILL BE SENT TO ANY ADDRESS 0 MONTHS FOR ONEDOLLAB. SEND FOR A SPECIMEN. 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. The Mysteries of Bee-Keeping Explained. Containing the result of thirty-live years’ ex perience, aud directions for using the movable comb and box-hive, together with the most approved methods of propagating the Italian bee. By M. Quinby, Practical Bee-Keeper. Fully illustrated. jSent post-paid. Price, $1.50. 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!