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“ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS, WHEN REASON IS LEFT TO COMBAT IT”—JEFFERSON.
PROPRIETOR
jjW SERIES, VOL. 2.
ATLANTA, GEO., THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 18515
NO. 11.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1868.
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Hon, John Milledge.
We had the pleasure on Thursday last of
taking by the hand our much esteemed
'riend, the Hon. John Milledge Representative
in the Georgia Legislature, from the county of
Richmond. He made explanations to us in
reference to his course upon the bill to grant
relief to Atlanta Fire Company, No 1, which
atislied us that we had done him injustice, in
article which we published some weeks ago,
ind in which we spoke in terms of some 6e-
crity against him and others. He informed
is that he was in the chair, at the time the
Rill came up for final action, and took no part
whatever in opposition to it. So far from this
•ing the case he informed us that his sympa-
hies were for the Bill, that he has always been
he friend and patron of the Fire Companies of
mgusta, one of which, he was for some time
member of; and that he has ever been the
dvocate of The Fire Companies, wheresoever
xated, lx-lieving them to be institutions of
ncalculable value to all cities. We are hap-
>y to have this opportunity of placing our
fiend Milledge right before the people of Atl
anta, in reference to this matter, as we are
mnvinced from a long acquaintance, that a
norc liberal, generous and noble heart, thobs
lot iii the bosom of any man in Georgia, than
n that of John Milledge.
The Next Governorship.
Ought the Democracy of Georgia to meet in
'onvention next summer, about the usual
to nominate a candidate to be run for
lovemor, next Fall ? Mr. Diamond of De
falk thought so, when he offered a resolution
that effect, in the caucus which met to nom-
i ate candidates to he voted for to codify the
laws of Georgia. For some reason, the resolu-
i«m was not acted upon, and no time was set
>r recommended for a Democratic assemblage,
i>r the purpose named above. Several of our
xchanges have said considerable upon this
iubject. Some have said that the movement
as premature. It has also been character
ed as dictatorial, inasmuch as the Democrat-
party has an Executive Committee, whose
iuty it is to arrange this matter. Several
Democratic journals have suggested that as
How Brown is doing so well, and the people
ire well satisfied with him, much time and
noney may be saved by not having a Gubcr-
atorial convention next year. From anoth-
r quarter we hear the shout, “Trot him out!”
though the friends of the “little Autocrat”
were keen to put him on the track anyhow.
To some, no doubt, it seems useless to have a
(onvention. Gov. Brown is immensely popu-
The people have great confidence in his
ntegrity. He will, in all probability, he re
nominated and elected by a greatly increased
majority. Why then go through with the mo
tions, if the result may be so easily foreseen ?
He is even winning golden opinions from the
opposition. The Milledgeville Recorder says:
“It is known that Gov. Brown has won an
enviable reputation as an honest man, especi
ally in a financial point of view, and the know
ledge and belief of it was quite visible upon
the legislature. For it was a noticeable fact,
that whenever a bill or resolution, that had
for its intention the appropriation or paying
out of money, it was immediately suggested,
that it be referred to the Governor to do as he
thought best. In other words, the Legislature
seemed willing to shift all responsibility, and
dodge behind the accredited honesty of the
Governor.”
The Savannah Republican has at last learned
that some good has come out of Nazareth. In
its issue of yesterday, it says, “Gov. Brown af
fixed the mark of his veto to just twenty bills
passed by the Legislature, at its late session.
We take pleasure in saying that we approve
his action in at least sixteen out of twenty.”
We wonder if either of the vetoes disapproved
by the Republican, has anything to say about
banks ? Right glad are we that the Republi
can has seen in Gov. Brown, that which it
deems worthy a friendly notice. Who knows
but that the Republican may yet be one of Gov.
Brown’s warm and unflinching supporters?—
As warm in its praises, as it ever has been fierce
in its denunciations ?
Who would think of having a convention to
re-nominate a man, who has, in sixteen cases
out of twenty, suited one who has censured
him much, and used many hard words, and
called ugly names ? But there is another view
of this case. We are, in our feelings at pres
ent, for Gov. Brown’s re-election, “first, last,
and in the middle.” We don't believe that
Gov. Brown can he beaten in a nominating
convention. The people all over Georgia, have
heard of threats about making him a one-term
Governor. They will see that proper men are
sent, and not allow a few disinfected men to
fix up the tricks, so as to have even one-third
of a convention of disorganize™. Party usage
will give Gov. Brown a re-nomination if he
will have it.
Even if we feared that Gov. Brown might be
cheated out of a re-nomination, and we have no
twhfear, yet we would be in for a convention,
and with an open field and a fair fight, we will
abide the issue. Democrats, all over Georgia,
will you do so too ?
We are in for a convention! 1st, Because
of Democratic usage. 2d, Because the usage
is a good one. Parties cannot be kept organ
ized without conventions. Where there are
no nominations, there are generally a multi
tude of candidates. A multitude of nuiHiHutjn
generally produces a conflict among friends,
personal bickerings, organized dans, and in
the end, well defined schisms.
Conventions, as a general thing, produce bet
ter men, than to wait for spontaneous combus
tion. If men did not have to be nominated,
too many would nominate themselves. In fact,
even now, there is too much interference by
constituents, with nominating conventions. A
party to be permanent, pure, and powerful,
should nominate for the public weal, unbiased
by personal considerations, and vote for the
nominee as a party duty.
3d, Because by nominations alone, can you
control disaffected partisans. Without a nom
ination, they feel free from all party obliga
tions. To bolt a fair nomination, is to receive
political taint, which some hate, and all aspi
rants dread.
4th, Because, by nominations, properly got
ten up, the public will is more easily defined,
and the people are afforded a chance by plat
forms, (which come affect foolishly to despise)
to inform their servants what they want them
to do.
6th, We are in for a convention next sum
mer, because some successor of Gov. Brown, in
years to come, not half so popular or worthy,
might insist by his friends, upon a re-election
without a convention, simply because they
might be afraid of one, and justly so, from
want of merit.
6i»h, Because, we do not believe that Gov.
Brown desires to be Governor against the pop
ular will, and as he was placed in nomination
fairly, by a convention, we also believe that a
convention fairly gotten up, can easily control
him, being a Democrat of the right stripe, and
of true grit.
7th, Because, those who aid in producing a
nomination, feel a personal as well as a polit
ical responsibility, and work with increased
zeal to elect the man, whom they have placed
upon the hustings.
8th, Because a nomination by a dominan
party, generally settles who will be elected
and gives one time to fix up a little, for the
better enjoying of the coming victory. *
Finally we are for a convention, because no
convention will afford the enemies of Gov. Brown
the only opportunity, they can possibly have
to do him harm. They might, in that event,
meet and nominate, and go before the people,
with some show of Democratic consistency, and
thus do enough to give the election to the op
ponents of the Democratic party, or throw it
into the Legislature. Our enemies would not
let such a chance slip. They may speak kind
ly of Gov. Brown now, but just give them the
glimmering of a hope, and they would rally to
a man, for “Big Bud,” or some other clever
man. In the Legislature, the enemies of Gov.
Brown, would vote for any decent American,
to defeat him.
Let us have a convention for the rjbove rea
sons, some of which we are sure are g<5od ones.
Let us have a convention, and re-nominate
Gov. Brown, and re-elect him gloriously.
Let us quit discussing the propriety of a con
vention, and settle upon the time of holding
it, and hold it, and have a happy Democratic
jubilee.
From the Correspondent of the Newark Advertiser.
Ex-President Pierce and tlxc Ex-King of
Prussia.
Florence 1 Nov. 27.
The ex-King and Queen of Prussia made their
grand entrance here a day or two since, and
took possession of the fine Hotel de la Ville,
turned into a palace for the royal pair and
suite. The cortege comprised twenty carriages
and wagons, from the last of which sauce pans
and tin kittles hang dangling, as if mocking
with their discordant rattle the pomp and
circumstance of that royalty of which they
brought up the rear 1 But kings must take
their cuisine, as well as their diamonds about
with them.
Ex-President Pierce happened to be lodged
at the hotel demanded for old Federick Wil
liam, when the order came to vacate it. The
cxstatic landlord made haste to acquaint his
guests of the honor intended him, hinting
alike to one and all the necessity of seeking
other quarters, which hint was differently re
ceived by different temperaments, but by no
one so amiably as the ex-President. Not so,
a stiff upper-lipped Southerner, of family and
money, who had been lodged there himself
like any king for some weeks, and who, on
receiving the notice, sent the poor old king
and innocent landlord together to a very
bad place, in free Republican style, and order
ed his carriage and bill on the instant, shak
ing the dust off his feet as he left the unwor
thy hotel.
Great Railroad Convention at Memphis, on
Monday, Jan., 26, 1869.—The Presidents, of
ficers and stockholders in all companies inter
ested in the completion of a railroad to the
Pacific, will meet, as above stated, in this city
for the purpose of determining upon the best
plan and route for the construction of the
Pacific road. It is desirable that all companies
West of the Mississippi should combine upon
a single route. All the roads from St. Louis
to New Orleans running West should converge
at a given point in the State of Texas, and
from this point, to El Paso, or to San Francis
co, the united credit and capital of the sever
al companies may he combined for the prose
cution of this most magnificent railway
scheme ever conceived in this or any other
country.
By no other means than this consolidation
of strength and influence, can federal aid be
obtained, and by no other means aside from
governmental ownership, can this national
work be accomplished without union among
competing routes and a harmonization of con
flicting views and interests. Congress cannot
enact any measure, each route and road hav
ing its peculiar friends in the Senate and House
of Representatives.
The convention at Memphis can remove all
these difficulties ; a compromise of reposing
views can be effected, and speedy legislation,
such as may be required, can be brought
about. This convention, with its proposed
results, will be the first great effective move
ment made towards the consummation of an
end devoutly wished for by every one who
would advance the prosperity and wealth of
his country.
All railroad men East and West of the Mis
sissippi, interested in the Pacific Road, are de
sired to be present by the resolutions adopted
by a recent meeting of the directors of the
Memphis, El Paso and Pacific company.
We sincerely hope that our exchanges eve
rywhere will notice the call for the convention
now agreed upon by all the friends of the
measure to which we have referred.—Memphis
Appeal, 27<ft all.
Edwin Forrest.—We understand that a few
days since Edwin Forrest received an offer
from a reliable source to act at the Academy
of Music in New York, for a limited number of
nights, the parties proposing to give him a
larger sum of money, tiute. any other country.
'Ibis offer was refused. This certainly does
not indicate a great love of money on the part
of Mr. Forrest. Two years since he received
an offer of fifty thousand dollars to act fifty
nights in California, which he also declined.
Mr. Forest has entirely recovered his health ;
yet after so many years devoted to the pro
fession he adorns, he is said to dread again
entering into the drudgery of the stage.—
BostonPost.
Mr.W.H. Ckafpel
Bequests us to announce that he will lecture
on Thursday night in the 1st Baptist church
in this dty, upon the principles of Sacred mu
sic. He is desirous of forming singing classes
in the various churches of this dty. Mr.
Chappel also expects to address those who will
favor him with their presence, on Friday
night at Wesley Chapel. Those who are anx
ious to learn to ring well, will do well to give
Mr. C. a candid hearing.
The Columbus Times seems to felicitate it
self very much on the fact, that State Aid was
defeated in the Legislature. “The cry,” it
says, “of enhancing the value of land, and di
minishing the price of transportation on goods,
was a syren song, which lulled legislators to
sleep. ’ ’ We imagine that the Times will find
out that it is the people who have been “lnlled
to sleep” on this question, and that they are
destined to wake up and express their will up
on it, in such a manner as the “Times” and all
other parties will understand. We have yet
to be convinced that the “Times” represents
the feelingB of the people of Muscogee Co., on
this subject of great importance to them.
Tbe Weekly News.
The above is the name of a paper published
iu the town of ‘Enterprise,’ Mississippi, edited
and published by O. 8. Holland and J. W. j jy ^ giaveholding countries, and the comp
Any periodical that will publish such an ar
ticle as may he found in the October number
of the Edinburgh Review, without one word
of condemnation, is unworthy of Southern pat
ronage. 'Article ix. isthe one referred to. We
have just finished reading it. We are full of
indignation at its slanderous and unholy state
ments. If we had the author by the nape of
the neck, we would nearly twist it off. With
such a man, argument has lost all power, and
consasnce warns in vain.
If the South would cease taking such peri
odicals, they would behave themselves. Noth
ing arrests the attention and brings to their
knees, such unjust judges, quicker than to feel
their pockets lightening. Let us address our
selves to this article a few moments. Arguing
against our slave representation in Congress,
we read, “If the negro is not a man, capable
of political ideas and an organized social exis
tence, it ought to be explained how he can, in
any way, help to send Representatives to Con
gress.
Has is not been explained a thousand times,
why Negroes ought to be represented in Con
gress, and why they ought not to choose those
Representatives ? None hut a determined ig
noramus, or a determined rogue, has reason to
ask that explanation now. Again, “we know
all about the cruelties of the plantation; and
the deterioration of land, and waste of proper.
Gaulding. It professes to be independent in
politics, one of the Editors being a Whig, and
the other a Democrat. As for our only broth
er, “Jim,” we wUl venture to say that he is a
good writer, and a good printer, but a very
poor politician. He had better have stuck to
his Democracy, and not run after such strange
Gods as those set up for his adoration, by the
Editors of the Columbus Sun and the Corner
Stone. The ‘ ‘News’ ’ is a handsome sheet, and
has our best wishes for its success.
Amendments to the Charter of the Georgia
Air Line Rati Road Company.
The following iB a copy of the Act passed
and approved. It will, unquestionably, he of
great benefit to many of the Stockholders, by
enabling them to pay their stock in land or
town property, and the same can be used by
the Company, as a basis upon which to raise
money during the prosecution of the enter
prise :
An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act, to
incorporate the Georgia Air lane Railroad
Company, and to confer on them, certain
powers and privileges therein named, appro
ved March 6th, 1858.
Sec. 1st. Be it enacted, by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of Geor
gia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby
enacted by the authority of the same, That
from and after the passage of this Act, the
Georgia Air Line Railroad Company shall be
entitled to have ten, in the place of six Direct-
ors, to be chosen and hold their offices in the
same manner as the six Directors, under the
Act of which there is an amendment, and that
John W. Pruett of Franklin County, Ephraim
M. Johnson of Hall County, George Kellog of
Forsyth County, and Raymond Sandford of
Dawson County, be, and they are hereby con
firmed as Directors of the said Company, un
til the next annual convention of the Stock
holders of this Company.
Sec. 2d. And be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, that the said Georgia Air
Line Railroad Company be, and is hereby au
thorized and empowered to receive subscrip
tions of Stock, in real estate. And shall have
power to hold and dispose of such property in
any maimer that may seem begt for the inter
ests of the said Company.
Letter from Atlanta.
A gift worthy of Imitation—Providing for Widows and
Orphans.
Mr. Editor :—The pastoral services of
Bros. Key and Lester are now drawing to a
close. They are loved and honored by their
congregations, and command the profound
respect of our entire community. We shall
part with them with many regrets. God has
blessed their labors, and we do trust that
they will be returned to us, assured as we
are, that their re-appointment to this field of
labor will be richly blessed.
It affords us much gratification to state that
Bro. Key’s congregation has given a slight ev
idence of their appreciation of himself and en
tire family, by fitting out a wardrobe for them.
This was right; for surely we should not for
get the self-sacrificing ambassador of Christ,
whose mission looks to our salvation. God
bless the brave minister who looks beyond
the narrow theatre of time. Among men, he
is our best friend, and deserves the devotion
of our hearts. This example is worthy of all
imitation. It is hoped that every circuit and
station in Georgia, yea in the South, will, in
future, follow the example thus set by the
congregation of Wesley Chapel, that every
minister may go up to Conference bearing an
outward sign of your kind and considerate at
tention to his wants and necessities.
Thinking of how much we really owe the
poorly paid minister, we have been led to be
lieve that it is our bouuden duty to provide
for the widows and orphans of ministers, who
spent their lives in the ministry. Every
year, upon the following basis, or some other,
a large sum might be laid aside, for the use
and benefit of the minister’s family after his
death. Let there he a fund of one hundred
dollars contributed by each station or circuit,
over and above the amount now allowed for
this purpose, and paid to an agent, to he ap
pointed by the minister himself, or in some
other way, to be held in trust until the min
ister dies—then paid over to his family, as the
Conference may think best. This would be
but a small act of justice to the widows and
orphans of ministers who have spent their lives
for our eternal good.
What a fearful account is before us for neg
lecting widows and oipbans, while we enjoy
this worlds goods, and abuse heaven’s boun
ty. We appeal to Christian hearts and ask,
can we not give something now to help poor
widows and orphans ? What blessing will
follow us—what consolation will go with us
to our pillows ? Could we better bestow some
of our means ? We do hope such arranger
ment will be made.
A Friend to tbe Widow and Orphan.
The above communication was extracted
from the Southern Christian Advocate. We
cordially endorse its letter and spirit. Espe
cially do we give our sanction to that part of
the article which recommends the laisingof
a fund for the'reliefand maintainance of the
widows and orphans of deceased itinerant
Methodist preachers. Many a one spends the
flower of his age and the prime of his life in
the service of the Church, and lies down and
dies, leaving a wife and children to be thrown
upon the cold charities of a pitiless world.—
This ought not so to he. Some provision
could he made to meet exigencies of this
kind, and the plan preferred by the writer of
the above article commendB itself to the seri
ous cousideratfou of every friend of the desti
tute widow and orphan.
[From the Augusts Dispatch.)
Caatlon to Tjaveleia—Beware at the
We are credibly informed that some person
or persons are in the habit of imposing upon
unsuspecting travelers, by posting themselves
in the Georgia depot, in this city, and iotiE-
cing them to submit to extortionate discount
upon Mils of banks whose circulation bean
only a slight discount. The ticket agents an
the only safe persons to be trusted by travel
ers in. money matters. Strangers are almost
certain to be swindled by. deduag with, those
who occupy no jpfftobl position on the road.'
Fair Fiat.
tion of morals among the superior race, and the
exclusion of the inferior, from genuine domes
tic life ; and the invariable tendency of slave,
holding States, to a military despotism, and
their necessary retrogression, when countries
which resort to the other system of labor, are
advancing. We know all this, and plenty
more on the same side. Must we listen to it
all over again ? Are you going to bring up
the obsolete feelings and indurated arguments
of the last generation ?”
Does not a voice from Great Britain’s work
shops, and coal mines, and down-trodden mil
lions, sound elegantly, groaning over “the cru
elties of tbe plantation?” Is not the author
of the above, a very knowing man ? We will
not stop, now, to refute these falsehoods, one
by one. Our object in this article, is to give
our readers a few specimens of what is circula
ting among us, and as yet, we have seen no
word against the circulation of his Review.
More, we see on the first page that book-sellers
are ready to vend this work in Baltimore,
Charleston, Savannah, Richmond, New Or
leans and various other cities.
Again, arguing against the Colonization So
ciety, we read, “The founders and office hold
ers of the Society were slave-holders, who open
ly declared the Negro race to be not human, but some
thing inferior.” The italics are ours. Think
of that charge, as it bears upon some of the
best and most generous-hearted men, the South
or any other country, ever produced? We
read of “the Dred Scott decision, by which it
is declared, of four millions of tbe inhabitants
of the Republic, that the black man has no
rights which the white man is bound to re
spect.” Is not that a fine notice of our Su
preme Court ? Ought not all of us then, sub
scribe for the Edinburgh Review ? We have
pencilled several passages more but will trouble
our readers with but one more. Read the fol
lowing, and say if it is not an incendiary doc
ument :
“As it is impossible to suppose that the pol
iticians who have ruled the Republic for the
last dozen years, can be the best statesmen the
country can produce, the conclusion is inevita
ble, that the sectional conflict has delivered
over the State to the management of an inferi
or and perpetually declining order of men;
while it is, at the same time, too clear, that
the average character of the American people,
has sunk far below its traditional reputation.
Instead of the cultivated aristocracy of the old
slave States, who exemplified for the moment
the ordinary plea for an oligarchical system—
the benefit of a lettered class blessed with leis
ure—we now 6ee a race of bullies, ignorant of
books and of life, and unskilled in all gentle
arts and highbred manners. This is immedi
ately owing to the presence of slavery, not on
ly from the immorality and coarseness which
grow out of the institution, but from the ne
cessary restriction of the press, and discourage
ment of liberal thought and speech. There is
scarcely a good book in any language which
can now be admitted freely and without emas
culation in the slave States (hence our difficul
ty in obtaining an international copy-right
law); and when we add that a Commission is
now sitting to prepare a literature suitable to
the institutions of the . Southern States, the
case will be found sufficiently plain. A com
plete series of school and university books is to
be prepared, because the planters will no long
er send their sons North tor education, nor ad
mit the received morality and political histo
ry of the world into their own circle. Yet their
schools and colleges languish, and the aristoc
racy of the South presents a spectacle of intel
lectual barbarism, as wonderful as it is pain
ful. The much larger class of non-slavehold
ing whites is, generally speaking, totally igno
rant. We need not describe the class, now
sufficiently well known through Mrs. Stowe’s
novels, the descriptions of recent travelers,
Mr. Helper’s book on ‘the Impending Crisis iff
the South,’ and tbe war in Kansas, where the
‘ruffian’ class consisted of these people, sent
thither by the planters, to fight for the exten
sion of slavery. Some of them, who learned
to resent such treatment as plying them with
drink and bombast, putting arms and bibles
in their bands, and sending them to propagate
the institution which had ruined them, soon
settled down on the new soil, and are experi
encing the blessings of industry in a free at
mosphere ; and these may yet stimulate their
class in the South, to that ‘rebellion’ through
the ballot-boxes, which their slave-holding
neighbors supremely dread, and which explains
much iff their recent action. We need say
nothing of the exhausted estates, of tbe pov
erty, so ostentatiously deplored in Southern
Conventions every year, tne hopeless mortga
ges, the crumbling mansions, the fruitless at
tempts to raise capital for shipping, roads, and
public institutions; and the jealousy of the
North, by whose capital and industry, the ma
chinery of society goes on. We need only to
refer to all local newspapers for testimony of
the depravation of manners, which shows it
self by the evidence of personal violence.”
The last sentence refers to “all local news
papers, for testimony of the depravation of
manners.” What say yon, gentlemen Editors?
Are you guilty of the “soft impeachment” ?
There is about as much appropriateness in this
article of the Edinburgh Review, as there
would he in Satan attempting to sing psalm-
tones to a saint, and make melody in his heart
to the Lord. If the Edinbuigh Review, after
such an article, is worthy the countenance iff
Southern men, so is Greeley and Garrison, and
the balance of the vile abolition crew.
Tor the Atlanta Intelligencer.
It is with deep emotion that we announce
the death iff that useful and honored citizen
of South Carolina, Gen James Gadsden.—
Throughout an active life, which has been
prolonged to the psalmist’s limit, Gen Gads
den has been prominent in the history .of the
State and the confederacy, and has distin
guished himself as a civilian, a warrior and a
diplomatist In politics Gen. Gadsden was
a true Democratic Republican of the Calhoun
school, a Nullifier in ’82 and a Secessionist in
160. Hehaseverbeenamanoflaigeinflu
ence and character—bold, independent, active
and of great public spirit. South Carolina
: mourns to-day for one of her most brilliant
and worthy sons.—Et.
Messrs. Editors : I see an article over the
signature of Jefferson in the Intelligencer of
the 23rd of Dec., on the subject of Free Schools,
with which I am well pleased in the main,
and most heartily endorse what he says in re
lation to the necessity of the friends of the
measure takingTprompt action in devising and
systematyzing a proper plan and organization
to be laid before the Grand Juries of the seve
ral counties for their adoption as it cannot be
expected that this temporary body, thrown
together but for a few days, with all the busi
ness of the Court for their attention, can find
time to concoct and perfect a system that
will meet the wante of the cause of Education,
or secure the benefits of the act passed by the
last Georgia Legislature. The law as passed
is a good one as an incipient inauguration of
the principal of a Common School system that
will obliterate the discriminating stigma of
“poor school,” and afford every child rich
and poor the means of procuring an education
in the elementary branches of English litera
ture. Provision is made sufficient for estab
lishing and perfecting a system that will so
awaken the public mind by its practical ope
ration, that the friends of common education
need not entertain any fears, that by the time
Governor Brown’B most opportune measure
shall have converted the public debt into an
Educational fund, ample means will be pro
vided and willingly appropriated to ensure
complete success. I believe in following out
the instinct of nature, and I may say pursuing
the landmarks of most, if not all public and
private enterprises, that have succeeded best,
that is by beginning as a child, and adding
strength to the growth, or as the prudent
merchant that increases his capital as his in
creasing means Jandjj custom [will justify. I
thereforejrepeat [that the^friends of Common
Schools have now the means for putting in
operation the machinery to^ which may be
added as time and opportunity will afford un
til its capacity Twill bejadequate to the de
mands it^will subserve. We want prompt,
energetic and decisive action onj the port of
our public functionaries charged with so much
discretion in securing the benefits contempla
ted and authorized by this act, I therefore, at
the hazard of protracting this article beyond
its intended limits will submit tbe main fea
tures of a system to be presented by the or
dinary for the adoption of the Grand Jury of
my own county of Cherokee, or such other
counties as may approve of the plan.
1. The Inferior Court shall cause the coun
ty of Cherokee to be laid off into appropriate
school districts, having due regard to the
size’anfl shape thereof, adaptation and conve
nience of neighborhoods to he subserved, also
the density or sparceness of settlement to be
established by the Court, in which 6hall be
located a fixed and permanent place for teach
ing the only common school in the district for
the education of all free white children in the
elementary branches of an English Education,
between the ages of eight and eigkteen, from
the common treasury, to the extent of the
fund provided.
2. On the day of 1859, and
every four years thereafter, an election shall
be held, as provided under existing laws of
this State for holding other elections, in each
district, for three trustees for Educational
purposes, who shall he male residents of the
district for which they may be elected. And
in the event of a vacancy in the board the
same may be filled by appointment by the
Ordinary until supplied by an election, which
may be ordered at any time at the option of
the Ordinary.
3. The first election to be held for trustees
at any place desired in the district; subse
quent elections at the place of the location of
the School house. Every free white inhabi
tant being the parent, guardian or trustee of
any child or children entitled to participate
in the public fund for the district, shall be
entitled to vote for the election of the trustees
therein. The district trustees shall have au
thority to locate the School-house therein,
and perform the duties incident to their po
sition. *•
4. It shall he the duty of the Receiver of
Tax returns, to designate in his Tax digest for
the county, the district in which the children
returned by him respectively reside. And the
Treasurer of the School Fund of the county,
shall apportion to each School district a pro
rata distribution, on the basis of the number
of children therein, compared to the fund for
distribution each year. The fund thus appro
priated to each district shall remain exclusive
ly its own, to be expended only for the tui
tion of the children Presiding in the district
when taught. Should the fund not be applied
for, or any excess remain after paying the
claims of the district at the end of the Schol
astic year, it shall remain over for the use of
that district. In the event the authenticated
claim against tbe district shall exceed its fund
for the same year, the amount Sn^hapd shall
be applied to the payment of the entire tui
tion of all entitled to participate up to the
time the money will be consumed ; after that
the teacher shall be bound to look only to the
patrons or his school for.the remainder of his
tuition, which in no case shall become a
claim on any future [fund of theldistrictjor
country.
6. The tuition of any child attending school
without the district shall have its tuition paid
from the fund of tbe district to which it be
longs, Up to the time the fund may be ex
hausted if consumed, if not consumed, then
paid in full. Such teachers only shall be al
lowed to draw from the public treasury, as
shall comply with the law requiring a certifi
cate of qualification and good moral character,
from tbe Board of Examiners, and at no high
er rates of tuition than may be ^reed upon
by the district trustees. DESOTO.
Cantor, Dec. 1868.'
Atlanta, Dec. 23d, 1858.
Luther J. Glenn, Esq.,
Dear Sir.—At a meeting of the Democratic
Party of Atlanta, held at the City Hall, on last
evening, you were unanimously nominated as
a candidate for re-election to the office of May
or. The undersigned were appointed a Com'
mittee, to notify you of the same, and request
your acceptance.
Yours very Respectfully,
Isaac E. Bartlett,
David Mater,
H. Muhlenbrink,
Maroenius A. Bell,
H. Coe.
Atlanta, Dec. 29th, 1868.
Gentlemen. —The nomination tendered me,
through you, by the Democratic Party of At
lanta, for the office of Mayor, is accepted. If
it shall be ratified, through the ballot-box, by
the voters of the city, I can only say, that I
will faithfully, and to the best of my ability,
discharge and perform the duties imposed by
the office. For this continued manifestation
of their confidence and esteem, allow me,
through you, to express to the Democracy of
Atlanta, my acknowledgments. Accept Gen
tlemen, for yourselves individually, the kind
eat wishes of
Your Friend and Fellow-citizen,
LUTHER J. GLENN.
Col. Albert Plk*.
We think many of our cotemporaries are
mistaken in announcing the death of this gen
tleman. At the last accounts Col. Pike was
bn a hunting expedition with Major Rector,
Indian Superintendent of the United States
among the Indian tribes of Western Arkan
sas.
His fowling piece was a piece of artillery,
S six pounder. This, says an jour
nal, he hauls oat on the prairie, and when he
discovers a flock, he unhmbers, sights the gun,
and tenches her off. He rarely misses. It is
very exciteing to see adosen grouse fluttering
with broken wings among twice as many dead
Ones, and the captain chasing them around
qnd catching them. His usual charge is a
pound of powder and a quarter of a bag of tur-
kyorkwaa shot. He generally abootsat about
200yards.
A prominent citizen recently died in
whose name, we believe, was Col. Albert
Pickett, and we are under the impression that
fie has, in some way, been for the
“fine Arkansas gentleman*' by some of the
friends of tbe latter.—The States.
“He who pursues an idle wish
But climbe a tree to catch a fish.” '
From Washington.
Washington, Dec. 26.
There is reason to believe that the liberal
party in Mexico, who are seeking a recogni
tion of the Juarez Government by our own,
would consent to enter into a treaty by which
the United States could establish military
posts in Chihuahua and Sonora, thus avoiding
objections to a forcibly possession as recently
officially recommended.
A lately received and reliable letter states
as a reason why his passports were given to
Chevalier Rayband, the French Charge of
d’Affairs, that he had officially informed the
Dominicans of the wishes of Napoleon that
they surrender their own form of Govern
ment, and submit to that of Hayti.
The most intimate friends of Mr. Forsyth
say that he has no thought at present of re
signing as Minister to Mexico.
An answer is expected by the latter pait of
January to certain propositions looking to a
settlement of the Central American question,
which were transmitted to England several
weeks ago.
Letters have been received by the Overland
Mail. An officer at Fort Buchanan writes,
Dec. 6, that rich deposits of gold have been
found on the Gila River for 160 miles on both
sides. Six hundred and fifty men are at work
and five hundred are on their way from Cali
fornia. Should the emigration increase at the
same rate as it commenced it is supposed there
wilKbe 50,000 persons in Arizona within the
next 12 months. Specimens of Silver richer
than that from Heintzelmard’s have been dis
covered.
Judge Hart, writing from tbe Rio Grande,
says that he has received letters from the
leading men at Sante Fe, yielding their oppo
sition to a Territorial Government in Arizo-
L.
Prices of Mexican titles to land in Sonora
have increased, the holders believing that the
Americans will soon obtain possession of the
country.
It is said that certain parties have anticipa
ted the action of our Government, and obtai
ned the right to construct a Rail Road from
Guaymas to some point on the American
line.
Lieut. Mowry has addressed a letter to the
Secretary of War, showing the necessity, and
asking for the establishment of a military
post at the Pimos villages to protect emigrants
and prevent collisions between the whites
and Indians.
From the Charleston News.
March of Civilization.
The city of New York surpasses that of any
other in the old or new world, in the love of
excitement. It has recently added to its other
entertainments that of rat-fighting. Human
combats—the enjoyment of the ring—cannot
fill their capacity for excitement. The rat
fights among them are regularly attended by
reporters for the daily papers, as the
following account will show. The Bostonians
are emulating their neighbors. They have
not reached the same pitch of refinement as
the New Yorkers, having only as yet regu
lar dog-fighting.
[From the New York Express]
Rat fighting is one of the most popular
amusements of the day with tbe swell mob
here in New York, and it is become to be so
extensively patronized, that the newspaper re
porters attend as regularly as the musical or
dramatic critic attends the theatre or opera.—
In Boston the same class of citizens exhibit a
more delicate taste—affecting dogs instead of
rats—and herein, we are constrained to ad
mit that civilization there, is a peg or two
ahead of us here. Nevertheless New England
and New York are progressing fast.
[From tbe Bo*ton Courier.)
“Dog Fight.—A brutal concourse gathered
in Saugus on Wednesday afternoon, to witness
a dog-fight, which has been agitating the
bosoms of the fancy for some time. The
match was between a Charlestown dog and an
Albany dog; betting ran high, for each backer
was quite sure of the victory of his pet. The
fight lasted nearly and three-fourths, when
the Albany dog refused to come up to the
scratch, and he from Charleston was declared
the winner, although himself seriously pun
ished.”
Surely a novel way to celebrate the landing
of our Pilgrim forefathers !
Novel, indeed! It is enough to make Miles
Standish, and Priscilla, the Puritan maiden,
turn over in their respective coffins—to think
of it!
A Luccy Farher.—About one year ago,
Mr. Isaac Lancaster bought of Judge Cuirey
300 acres of lan 1, in Napa county, on wbat is
known as thq Suscol Ranch, for which he paid
$5 per acre. He at once plowed and put in a
crop of Guaymas wheat, and about January,
1858, went to the Atlantic States to see his
family, leaving the wheat to grow as it pleas
ed and care for itself. After remaining at his
old home a few weeks, he returned across the
plains, and arrived in time to find his crop all
ripe, and yielding far beyond hiB most san
guine expectations; About June he harves
ted and obtained over 10,000 bushsls of the
handsomest wheat, probably, ever grown in
California, most of which be sold for 48 cts.
per bushel. On Monday last he arrived in
this dty with 1,000 sacks of the choicest of
the crop, which wak sold for him by E. P. Figg
at 4 1-2 cents, and 'yesterday he left for his
ranch, intending to depart in a few days for
his old home in St. Louis for the purpose of
bringing out his wife next spring. A few
.weeks ago he sold one-half of his ranch at $35
per acre, receiving therefore $3,700 more
than he paid for the whole of it one year ago,
in addition to which his wheat crop netted
him, over expenses, tha enormous sum of
$25,000, so that his net profits in twelve
months, not including his ranch, worth $6,-
000, were over $28,000.
Trip Lightly.
Trip lightly over trodble,
Trip lightly over wrong;
We only make grief double
Ry dwelling on it long.
Why clasp woe's hand so i
Why sig
fry sigh o’er blossoms
. cling to forms
Why not seek joy
tightly?
s dead?
Why ding to forms unsightly f
~ r instead ?
Trip lightly over sorrow,
Though this day may be dark,
The sun may shine to-morrow,
And gaily sing the lark ;
Fair hope has not departed.
Though roses may have fled ;
Then never be down-hearted,
But look for joy instead.
Trip lightly over sadness,
Stand not to rail at doom;
We’ve pearls to string of gladness,
On this side of the tomb;
Whilst stars are nightly shining,
And Heaven is overhead,
Encourage not repining,
But look for joy instead.
. Seizing wponCvba by attachment.
The Washington Union endorses the posi
tion of Senator Davis to proceed by attachment
against Spain as an absent, absconding, or
fraudulent debtor, and levy upon Cuba. It
devotes over a column to the subject and clo
ses as follows :
Mr. Davis proposes, under all the circum
stances, that the Federal Government shall
notify Spain, and demand payment of certain
indebtedness, and in default thereof, that at
tachment issue with directions to our naval
constables to sieze the Island of Cuba. In
equity, Mr. Davis is right. Spain has justly
forfeited all claim to the forbearance of the
United States. The Island has been govern
ed for twenty years on the idea England and
France would not consent to its falling into
our hands. It has been regarded as perfectly
safe to treat our people as barbarians and pi
rates; to arrest them, confiscate their property
and even, when pronounced innocent in crim
inal prosecutions, to refuse not only to return
their estates, but make them pay enormous
costs. The whole judicious system of Cuba,
is in or under the controll of the Governor-
General. This is not the theory of the Gov
ernment, but it is its practice, so that all au
thority, wherever and by whomsoever exer
cised, is a unit.
A Complaisant Lover.—The Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin translates from a German
paper tbe following curious story:
A very pretty danseuse has lately created
great excitement at Berlin. M’lle Lilienthal
made so many pjroutties one fine evening on
the stage of the Theatre Royal that she turned
the head of Herr Comptoir, a rich millionaire
of Vienna, who was on a visit to the Prussian
Capital. The beautiful limbs of the fair Terp
sichore touched his heart so deeply that he
demanded her hand in marriage. Of course
yon Trill say that she at once accepted the
offer. - Not at alL She made her conditions
as follows : 1st. An apartment seperate from
that of her husband. 2d. A carriage and ser
vants for herself. 8d. fifteen thousand francs
a year for her toilette; and finally, (for she cal
culated everything,) three hundred thousand
francs in case of seperation. Mr. Comptoir
subscribed to these slightly unreasonable con
ditions and last week all the gay world of Berlin
witnessed in the cathredal the marriage of the
Millionaire, with the danseuse.
Hon. John Forsyth.
A Washington Correspondent of the Mont-
ery Advertiser, writes as follows :
Some of the mysteries attending the Minis
try of John Forsyth, in Mexico, will soon be
cleared up. On Tuesday Mr. Clay, of your
State, introduced a resolution calling upon the
President “to lay before the Senate the corres
pondence between the Mexican Government,
and Mr. Forsyth, Minister of the United States
to Mexico ; and the correspondence of the
State Department on the subject of Mexican
affairs, referred to in his late annual message,
and such other correspondence as may be nec
essary to elucidate the complications which re
sulted in the suspension of diplomatic rela-
ti ms which Mexico by the United States le
gation in that country.”
We are glad that Mr. Clay has taken this
jreliminary step. We have every reason to
relieve that Mr. Forsyth’s official actsin Mex-
ico will bear inscription, and it is time the
country were better posted upon our mixed
relation with that government. It is true the
message gave us an insight, but every day is
adding to the interest pertaining to the ques
tion.
Trade.
Cotton continues to occupy a large shore of
public attention, and the crop estimates seem
to be enlarging, three million six hundred
thousand hales now being about the lowest fig
ure named. The high estimates wili proba
bly exercise some influence abroad, but wheth
er to an extent sufficient to reduce prices ma
terially, is a mere matter of conjecture. The
transactions in Gulf markets with in the last
few days have been large, and prices are sus
tained, though the latest telegraph despatches
quote prices in favor of purchasers. The New
Orleans Picayune says English purchasers are
holding back, contending, as a general rule,
that their limits are two low. For some years
past, English buyers have consistently main
tained that cotton was too high, but, some
how or other, consumers have reconciled
themselves to the currency. Hence, these
complaints, however forcibly advanced and
logically argued, fall on dull and heedless
ears. “Cotton is King” has become a prov
erb, and, in this case at least, the pithy max
im is true; it exercises authority which none
dispute; it wields a sceptre to which aU civiliz
ed nations bow in allegiance. The music
spindles and loom" in thousands of factories,
is a perpetual anthem of praise to its benefi
cent rule, and the smoke of the steam stacks
on land and 6ea. and the bustle of busy ope
ratives in the homes of thrift, are the health
ful result of its sway.—N. Y. Sloping List.
Robert Burns’ Birthday.—We understood
that the Hon. James A. Pearce, United States
Senator, and the Hon. James L. Orr, Spc
er of the House of Representatives, have been
solicited, and have accepted the invitation of
Bums’ Club, in this city, to preside at '
centenial celebration of the birthday of Rob
ert Bums, on the 25th of January next. We
believe Mr. Pearce is a lineal descendant of
the house of Ramsay, represented by Lords
Dalhousie and Panmu—two eminent British
statesmen. Mr, Orr is Scotch and Irish in de
scent, and fully appreciates the poetical genius
of Scotland’s great bard.
Sir Archibald Alison, the historian of En-
rope, is to preside at a similar celebration in
Glasgow, and Lord Macaulay, the historian of
England, will preside in London. The ver
satile Lord Brougham does honor to Scotia’s
peasant bard, and will preside at the Edin
burgh festival.
No one who participates in this festivity can
expect ever again to witness another. Prepa
rations are making wherever the English lan
guage is spoken to do honor to the author of
“Tam O’Shanter,” “Man was made to Mourn,’
and “A man’s aman for a’ that.”
Cols. William and James Burns, sons of the
poet, are to be present at the Dumfries cele
bration.
Bums’ genius belongs not only to Scotch
men, but to humanity ; then let all unite to
do him reverence.—National Intelligencer.
A Snuuliap nfFovCirx
We leam that the down way freight train
on the Georgia railroad, due here at 4 o’clock
P. M. on yesterday, met with an accident
about sixteen miles from this dty. Four of
the hinder most cars of the train were smash
ed up, but the engine, the James Buchanan,
brought down eight-of its freight cars. No
person was injured. It is believed that the ac
cident was caused by the spreading oT the
track.
The passengers for the up afternoon train
did not leave this dty yesterday by the quar
ter before 3 o’clock train, as usual, in conse
quence of the breakdown alluded to.
‘ Arrmbt or an Indiana Wot Poisoner.—On
the 20th, at Wlnsdor, Michigan, a man nam
ed Jonathan S. Oweni«ua(tfresiedoiia charge
of poisoning his wife in'-Montgomery county,
Indiana. Owen had long been considered a
very exemplary member of the Methodist
church, and bis crime exrfted the vender and
Rorprise iff the community to which he redded.
Hjseaid tobehfe third attempt to kill hie
wife by poison. After tbe perpetration of the
crime he fledto the North, leaving orders with
hi* son i .rell his form, Talked at $6,000, and
forward bun the proceeds. He was jmrsued
mid arrested at Windsor. The Detroit Adrer-
User says : . _
“At soon as hit eyes fell upon the Sheriff,
who was a neighbor and acquaintance, his
knees shook, and the permutation started oat
in large dro^TaU ovm ffim^His agitation
was painful to behold.
“He is a large man, young looking for his
years, and has. few of the appearances usually
ascribed to “Bluebeards.” As our Indiana
neighbors have few scruples on the question of
capital punishment,' he will doubtless expiate
his crime upon the gallows.
“Like most affairs of the kind, there .Is a
woman at the bottom of it. Developments
have been made since the flight of Owen which
show improper intimacies with a young wo
man of the neighborhood, and which may
furnish a clue to his conduct.”
Atlanta, 6a., on the 22d Dec.
1858, an infant sen of Rxv. B. Lester,
and Mbs. A. Lester, aged two months. This
bereavement was made the more afflictive by
the father's absence at the time in attendance
on the Georgia Conference, though he fortu
nately a rrived before tbe interment. Be erf
good cheer my brother, for “Of such is the
Kingdom of Heaven. ’ G. B. 8. C.
From the Tribune.
From'Washington.
• Washington, Dec. 22-
A sharp colloquy, in which high words were
used on both sides, occurred to-day, during
the secret session, between Senator Toombs of
Georgia and Mallory of Florida. The dis
pute was on the subject of naval nomina-
The first appropriation bill of the session
passed to-day. It was for the Military Acad
emy. Mr. Stanton of Ohio, showed that, al
though so much had been said about the fru
gality of the Ways and Means Committee in
retrenching the expenditures, this bill appro
priated $50,000 more than the estimates of
the Administration, and $15,000 more than
was done last year.
Mr. Morris of Illinois, a Douglas man, at
tacked the Administration with considerable
vigor to-day.
The Result at the Slaver Trial £n Kejr Went.
At a special term of the U. S. District Court,
convened at Key West on Monday, the 13th
instant, a grand jury was empanneled to in
quire into all violations of the laws of the
United States, and during their enquiry a true
hill was found against Peter W. From, first
mate of the hark Lyra, which vessel was con
demned as forfeited on the 22d November
last, for being engaged in the slave trade.—
The indictment against From was for violation
of the said slave laws. The Key of the Gulf,
of Saturday last, says the case was tried on the
20th inst., when it was “soon disposed of, the
prisoner acquitted and discharged.”—Savon,
nah News.
Statistics of the Catholic Church.—The
Metropolitan Catholic Almanac for 1858, just
issued, contains the following statistics in ref
erence to the present condition of the Catho
lic church in the United States, contrasted
with its conditions in the years 1839 and
1849:
1839. 1849. 1859.
Provinces.. 1 Provinces.. 3 Provinces..
Dioceses. ..16 Dioceses.. .30 Dioceses—43
Bishops...18 Bishops—26 Vicarales—2
Priests... 478 Priests.. MOO Bishops 2
Churches.418 Churches.966 Priests.. .2108
- . Churches.2134
Death of Cal. Thomas Lcki*.
The ink is scarcely dry by which we recor
ded the death of an old and distinguished citi
zen before we are called on to announce the de
mise of another. Col. Thomas Lehre died in
Somerville early this morning in the 64th
year of his age, of consumption. Col. Thom
as Lehre had filled various posts connected
with the State and City governments with
credit and fidelity. His integrity and purity
of character in public station were no less ack-
vledged than his many private .virtues and
amiability of character.—Charleston New*.
A National Convention of Gambler*.
The latest novelty in the way of conventions,
is the convention iff the sporting fraternity, or
gamblers, from all parts of the country, at
Chicago. The Democrat of that city says
that the city has been “fast filling up” with
the delegations from different States, sent to
attend this convention. Alabama, Rhode
Island, Minnesota were the only States remain
ing unrepresented on Wednesday last, and
delegates from these were on their way to the
great meeting. Although this is a gathering
of “hard cases” morally, the Democrat de
scribes the appearance of the delegates os
highly respectable. “A finer looking set of
men we have never seen than they are taken
upon the average. They are all fat and are
well, very well dressed, with Jewelry in abun
dance ; and some of them arc said to be, what
their looks indicate, men of talents.”
Thes men are seen in every town, and are
generally known by their sleek appearance,
sharp looks, and display of Jewelry. Profes
sional gamblers are often regarded as respect
able members of society, and their success is
looked upon with the same veneration that
Americans are apt to feel for those who gain
largely and rapidly in what are considered le
gitimate transaction; and it is too often the
case that even the successful libertine is regar
ded with a sort of admiration. The Demo
crat says:
Gambling is carried on much more secretly
than formerly, and therefore it is not so dan
gerous as when the “tads” would go out in
broad daylight and solicit mem to go to gam
bling houses. The gambling rooms are some
times in hotels, and changed from room to
room by previous agreement. But more gen
erally they are in eating saloons. Pretended
business men go into an eating saloon, and go
iip stairs under pretence of eating. If the po
lice will watch, they will find these men tar
ry a long while, and often all night, at their
meals.
There will he two important matters to
come up before the covention.
One will be the revision of the old rules and
the adoption of new ones for the various
games. The rules are constructed differently
in different States. Several lives have been
lost in broilsariring from'this difference in
their interpretation. Uniformity of construc-
tionis demanded by all the delegates.
T he other will he the non-residence of pro
fessional gamblers in politeness. There will
be a very warm debate upon the subject.
Well Done Georgia.—We have authority
to announce the gratifying feet, that all the
Tax Collectors of this State have made their
settlements at the Treasury on the day pre-
scribed by
The small amount of $1,000 to 1500, is still
due of the taxes, mill be paid in a few days as
it resulted from wrong calculations of the Col
lectors. This is surely an evidence of the pros
perity of the State and the promptness of her
citizens to pay the burdens of government.
In examining the Comptroller General’s re
port, we find that in the year 1854 and ’55 be
fore the election of Peterson Thweatt Esq.,
that a little over one third and not one half of
the taxes of those years were paid in on the
day of settlement. We trust that the exam
ple set by the Tax Collectors in the future and
that oar prompt, efficient and energetic Comp
troller, Peterson Thweatt Efcq., will continue
to receive that tribute of praise from the peo
ple, which he so justly deserves to-day and
which he has won by his faithful services.
r The English Methodists are said t<
pleased that Lay Representation is being
feted in America. A letter in the Loi
Watchman says of the American Church :
“Hitherto they have had nothing equ
lent in the British system of mixed comm
tees, and to our attendance of laymen at di
trict meetings. It is now proposed that la^
representatives should attend their annual
State conferences. It must be remembered,
however, that these conferences are no legis
lative bodies, that they take no part in the
work ofjstationing the ministers, which is done
by the bishops, with the assistance, I g believe,
of the presiding elders (chairman of the dis
tricts,) and that is not proposed that the laity
should be present during the examination of
the characters of the ministers. In fact, it is
xpressly stated that spiritual affairs are to be
reserved under the authority of the ministers.
What is proposed, therefore, is simply to pro
vide an equivalent for such a partnership .of
the laity in the general direction and adminis
tration of Church affairs as has long been a
part of our English Methodism. A later ac
count, however, states that the question has
now extended to the administration of lay
representatives to the General Conference, held ‘
every four years, which is the supreme ecclesi
astical assembly of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
gg“A scamp entered the vestibule of a
church in Cincinnati, while the lads and lass
ies of the congregation Were engaged in choir
ractice inside, and carried off forty umbrellas
to the party. The rain was pour-
‘iight down” when the deed was done,
the wretch escaped.
