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been in Philadelphia a little more than that
length oftime: and while it would evince the
r4i/Sto [4t4i4 |e4fSpt>on of
an exposition the simple catalogue of whose,
details covers nearly 500 pages |of closely
'fdinfdfrlWtftr, joint from
which Ttnti give'sbm* ’iretierkl irJpressibiiS'
of the “CerttehhiaT.” WHatt-vei AaftM'tfle
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• as rift* TtlthrtiatirfhaT Aligners
and Vientift/ tihhdsffhfih^I'pronounce 1 'pronounce this
eupertor ttfVfcker bf them. A critical and
perfectly sathlftcWry inspection of all era
hriaCed'rh'lfhe'iShcloHure would require even
rfthre than' the six months fixed as the dura
tion-Of the show. My plans allowing me lit
tle more than that many days, my survey has
been necessarily rapid and superficial; and
yet in this short time I have seen more than
in all my previous lifetime to impress me
with the majesty of intellect and its marvel
ous achievements, and have acquired a fund
upon which memory will draw for the remain
der of life. There are five principal build
ings, and about one hundred and fifty small
er ones, nearly every one of which is filled
with objects to interest and instruct the visi
tor. The Main Building—which is 626 yards
long, by 166 yards wide—is packed with the
wares of all nations, artistically arranged in
bewildering profusion and variety. Memo
rial Hall—a magnificent granite structure
costing a million and a half, with an “an
nex” more spacious than the main building
—is brilliant throughout with the best work
in statuary and painting of the most noted
artists of the leading nationalities of the
globe. Machinery Hall, an immense build
ing, presents specimens of the machinery of
all nations in active operation, and with
courteous attendants who are always ready
to answer every question and make any ex
planation the visitor may desire. Of the entire
exhibition, this was to me by far the most
attractive and entertaining feature. The de
partment of Agriculture and Horticulture,
each have elegant and spacious buildings for
the display of the earth’s products, and the
vast variety of labor-saving machinery em
ployed in producing, harvesting, and prepa
ring them for market. These five, superb
buildings, with their contents, constitute the
most conspicuous features of the Exposition,
but they present but a fraction of what is to
be seen, and those who confine their visit to
the main buildings, will miss much of equal if
not superior interest, contained in the nume
rous less imposing, but tasteful and elegant
structures which grace the spacious grounds
of the Exposition. The trouble is, there is
too much to see. Day after day, my eyes
have grown weary with looking, and my feet
have been well nigh worn out, and yet there
was all the time the annoying conviction that,
look and walk as much as I might, there
would still remain a vast deal that it would
be impossible to see. I have devoted about
seven days very diligently to the work, but
despairing of accomplishing anything like a
thorough canvass of the entire exhibition,
and in fact finding that interest even in the
most striking novelties is beginning to flag,
I leave for New York this afternoon, satis
fied for the present, but sorely regretting
that it will not be practicable for me to re
sume my tours of inspection after a recess of
trwo or three weeks.
There are two or three facts in connection
with the management of the Exposition
which have impressed me most favorably.
The first is, the perfect order that prevails,
and the entire unobtrusiveness of the machin
ery by which this admirable state of things
is maintained. Multiplied thousands of all
sorts of people congregate within the enclo
sure from day to day, and yet the supervision
of the authorities is so thorough, and their
corrective measures so promptly and quietly
applied, that if there is any disorder, it is
confined to a small space and a few moments.
During my entire stay on the grounds 1 have
heard no boisterous tones, and have seen but
one drunken man, who was being quietly
taken by the police to a station house. An
other noticeable feature is the perfect cour
tesy, which, sofaras my observation extend
ed, characterizes all the officials and attend
ants. Annoyed as they must be with the al
most incessant questioning to which they are
subjected, with marvellous patience and eiv
ilty they reply politely to all, and seem ever
ready to impart such information, or render
such service sis is desired of them. And then
again the entire absence of tfie extortionate
prices which I vu prepared to expect, was
an agreeable surprise. You can pay very
high prices and spend a great deal of money,
if this is your fancy and you have the means
of gratifying it, but you can live very com
fortably and provide yourself with a large
measure of enjoyment upon a very moderate
sum. Comfortable board can be obtained
for from $lO to sl4 a week ; a very fair din
ner need not cost more than fifty cents ; the
street cars carry you over any single route
tor seven cents, and over any two for nine
cents; the steam railway transports you all
around the Exposition grounds—a distance
of three and a half miles —for five cents.
The Centennial is “a grand thing”—by
unanimous consent of all who have witnessed
it, worthy of the United States and creditable
to the American people. I shall always be
glad that it was my privilege to attend it, and
I heartily wish that every one of my readers
could witness and enjoy the wonders it dis
plays.
I attended Dr. Hatfield’s church on yes
terday week, hoping to hear him preach ; but
he was absent from the city, and I listened
to a very ordinary sermon from an Illinois
preacher, whose main attraction was a very
superb voice. In the afternoon, I attended
the “Bethany,” better known as “Wanna
maker’s” Sunday-school. I may in a sub
sequent letter give some description of it.
Yesterday morning I attended Dr. Hatfield’s
church again, and beard a sermon from Dr.
R. K. Hargrove, one of our Commissioners
to the Northern Church. After service I met
three of the Commissioners—Drs. Myers,
Hargrove, and Finney. In the afternoon I
made another visit to the Bethany Sunday
school. I have an appointment with Dr.
Myers at this hour, and therefore must close.
AVill write again. F. M. K.
Philadelphia, August 14, 1876.
LTshop Marvin's Sermons. —The Chris
tian Adcocate, Nashville, notices the appear
ance of a volume of Sermons frem the South
ern Methodist Publishing House. We have
not seen the book, and defer, of course, ex
tended remarks until it reaches our hands.
We have an exalted opinion of Bishop Mar
vin’s rank as a preacher—it is the front. He
combines with the philosophic caste of mind
a poetic and pathetic vein, rich and rare. We
doubt not the Sermons will meet with ready
sale.
Personal. —The Editor pro tan., hereby
notes the birth of his first grand child —a
daughter, born August 15th, 1876. We will
try to stand more erect, and walk more elas
tic than ever, lest some weak-eyed person
should affect to see symptoms of age in our
carriage and step. The mother, Mrs. Isaac
H. Johnson, is doing well.
i of the I'niversity of Georgia, at
Athens. The speech furnishes us with a
theme and gome inspiration for writing.
Judge J. is now an honored member of the
Georgia Supreme Court, a position which he
fills with credit to himself jind the State.
It is seldom we find united with devotion to
the legal profession such fondness for litera
ture and elegant culture as this address evin
ces on tbe part bLits author. Not that there
<]** attAitfbatibility between the highest
ilegal learning and position and the circles of
tfrhilasopherg and poets, but such is the usual
.course of things, that contrariety ripens
into antagonism. We are glad to see ex
ceptions to this rule, and Judge Jackson is
an example.
The late Chief Justice Lumpkin of the
the same Court was a notable illustration of
a combination of qualities so rare, but so
charming in a public man.
We believe it was Judge Jackson who said
in his eulogy on the late Dr. Longstreet, that
take him all in all, he was the greatest man
Georgia had produced. Admiring as we did
the versatile Longstreet, whether as a hu
morist in the Georgia Scenes, or in his
graver and more dignified aspects of charac
ter, we should with some hesitation assign
to Judge Lumpkin, the pre-eminence among
all our public men, past or present. His de
cisions contained in the “Reports” beam
with beauty as well as wisdom, charming to
us, a non professional reader of such books.
But we must not wander from our theme
too far nor too long—the theme is the * Per
petual Homestead.” Judge J. impressed
with the migratory character of our people,
and the damage to our civilization resulting
therefrom, seeks to overcome this habit by
showing the bearing which permanent homes
have upon material, mental, and moral im
provement. It may be a strange admission
for an itinerant preacher to make, but we
substantially agree with him in all this argu
ment.
There must be indeed some who toil for
others who enjoy—the basis of wealth is
poverty, if our readers can receive the para
dox, for we cannot stop to write an essay on
political economy. Our homeless Metho
dist preachers, have in the condition of our
country, by their self denial, made homes
possible and happy to others ; and for this
let them have due credit —it is an imitation
of our Master.
Homes, permanent homes, are essential to
comfort and culture, to patriotism in our
polities, and to wise legis’ation in our gov
ernment. These positions are not self
evident, hut are readily tested by rational
proof, inductive and philosophic. Our au
thor refers especially to England our
mother land—with her grand old govern
ment, her immense wealth and learning, her
splendor among the nations, and all these
fac s have their explanation and support in
her homestead and patrimonial laws.
In America, gradually receding more and
more from the true wisdom of our ancestors
in regard to land and homes, an agragrian
s'pirit has been developed that gives as a
necessary result instability, and foretells an
uncertain, if not a dismal future to our
country. Here indeed is a vast continent of
unoccupied lands, and the homeless may ea
sily be furnished with that prerequisite—a
permanent home —to happiness and prosper
ity. But this favorable condition, in itself
considered, has so far been unused or abused,
for scarcely any one has an absolutely fixed
habitation. As there are no hindrances to
selling, no legal entailment of landed estates,
our whole population, with few exceptions,
are a roving, restless, unproductive, unitn
proving people. Our eonutry .is new, com
pared to the Eastern continent, yet it is old
enough to display in its various parts both
the good and the evil involved in this ques
tion.
People of wealth often content themselves
in houses repulsive to behold, because these
places are but temporary abodes, ever ready
to be sold to the highest bidder. Persons,
whose poverty is a justification of their early
environments, continue in their unbeautified
tents, long alter this plea is untenable ; and
generation succeeds generation with no in
crease of material comfort, exhibiting the
dwarfed, stinted mental proportions and
tastes corresponding to these unfavorable
situations.
Judge Jackson is not a writer of verse, but
he is a poet in his conceptions, and his vis
ions are not phrensies of a wild imagination
—they have a substantial basis in Baconian
philosophy, and a firm support in the deduc
tions of the statesman. He is emphatically
a Georgian, and goes into raptures over our
grand State when her varied and vast natu
ral resources are brought into view. If our
people were content to remain here, had
fixed homes, our estimated greatness would
become more than a reality: we should
have a land, in the same parall el, of much
the same caste, richer than Palestine, want
ing only its sacred associations to make it
the joy ot the earth. We are not unmindful
of the sad complexion of our political affairs
—we turn to the contemplation with a sad
ness that borders on despair. Madness has
ruled the times, and a rampant fanaticism
threatens to reduce to anarchy that splendid
ideal of government, which has been the
wonder of our countrymen, and the envy of
jealous nations. There may be in Anglo
Saxon blood, in modern philosophy, a rem
edy for the evils already on us and the worse
that threatens to come. We do not think
so, and our firm belief is, that through the
agonies of anarchy, the nation will emerge
into an Empire of huge proportions ; and if
our civilization does not perish like that of
Rome, under a deluge of barbarism, Amer
ica will some day eclipse even that grand
old empire in everything, not even except
ing its corruption and folly. Y r ou cannot
build a pyramid on its apex —a temple on
pillars of ice —and governments cannot
stand nor prosper when human folly and
weakness are-relied on as its support. Eter
nal laws have eternal penalties, and one is,
“If you sow the wind, you shall reap the
whirlwind.”
There are men in office now (in the South)
with little more intelligence than the baboon
of Asia, and in moral fitness as little to be
trusted with the sacred rights of others as
the hungry Bengal tiger with the innocent
lamb. To look to the slow processes of
mental growth to remedy this state of things,
is very like a man with wooden legs nursing
them daily with a view of entering the arena
of the athlete for foot-racing. But we are
trenching on forbidden ground and must
hasten away.
Judge Jackson by an easy transition passes
from the mere literal home to that which
constitutes its chief charm —woman. He
justly, not too severely reprehends the last
phase of folly in American thought, the de
sire to unsex woman by giving her the bal
lot. We agree with these strong-minded
sisters in some of their abstractions—they
reason well, but only on the surface. If
they are not wiser, they are better than men
in many respects, but what they are is
chiefly attributable to their restricted sphere
—home life —out of this we do not hesitate
to say, they would soon wane in their excel
lencies, and rapidly develop those qualities
which constitute the weakness of the sex.
If a woman is unmarried, it may seem hard
and wrong to deny her the right of voting,
of assisting in making the laws by which she
and her property must be governed. But
SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
cases —they all want to
B of them will succeed.
■ diversity of ernploy
ment, dna NfieSKM of enterprise is open to
her brains, iter money, and her hands. She
must mot become a politician —we do not
want to hear her preach. Let her nurse her
babies, and be ambitious to rear great men,
and daughters who will bring sunshine to the
otherwise cheerless homes of men. She may
write prose and poetry —may wield a painter’s
brush that will bring money and fame —may
make music sweet as that which drove Satan
out of Saul, but when she gets on a rostrum
to speak, for one, we would be glad to be
deaf until the ear-piercing shrieks die away.
Place a giant at needle-work just as soon as a
woman in politics—the thing is incongruous.
We are nearly over with our duty which has
been a pleasant one, noticing this admirable
address.
Our friend is proud of his Alma Mater —
the Georgia University—and well he may be
when her records are unrolled. A galaxy of
Nturs might be made that would shine with a
lustre and light as beautiful and bright as
the rainbow. Let all her sons have equal
reverence for their mother all seek to
honor and adoru her as she sits with queenly
dignity in her beautiful home oa the bills
and banks of the Oconee.
We have written hurriedly, as we are wont
to do, but not without, reflection,first, in com
rnendation of this unique address We have
known Judge Jackson long, if not intimately;
have witnessed his fervor as a Christian
layman ; have known he was a polished wri
ter, and a pathetic speaker, hut this speech
has evinced a breadth of thought, an extent
of reading, a felicity of expression, which
have enhanced our high estimate ami appre
ciation of his admitted abilities.
J. W. H.
PREACHERS ANI> DEBT.
We call attention to this topic with some
reluctance for obvious reasons, but what is
talked of so much in private may as well be
aired a little in public. It is almost impos
sible for our traveling preachers to avoid ma
king debts entirely—our system of deferred
payments necessitates buying on time, to say
nothing of the small pay when it comes.
The man and his household must eat, to
doso he mustbuy; if not supplied with money,
credit is the only alternative. The amount
of final receipts is contingent—generally falls
below the estimate of stewards and ministers.
Under these circumstances it is easy to see
how difficulties are likely to arise—debts will
be made which cannot be paid.
The preacher excuses his conscience on
the plea that his failure is not worse than the
stewards —it is an offset. Plausible as this
plea is, it will not do either in theory or prac
tice, and any man who follows the plan will
become as bankrupt in moral character as in
money. He does not and cannot buy exact
ly from each of his people just what every
one should pay him; most likely buys from
the very persons who do pay him, as well as
from others who have no other relation to
him than that of a creditor. The set off will
not do in such cases. lie is in a (ix —what
is he to do? One thing he cannot afford—
to ruin his reputation by inti lelily to con
tracts. It is a nigh way to wretchedness.
Let us reason together: Make your calcula
tions closely, and allow a margin for a failure
in receipts —a large margin at that. Now
spend according to prospective income—put
everybody around you on a war footing—live
poor, unless your prospects are rich. Make
frequent surveys of the situation, slate and
pencil in hand—think, plan, retrench. Men
who do this are not likely to fail; if they do,
it will be deemed a misfortune and accident
and not a fault.
If a term of years shows that you cannot
succeed, quit and try another vocation? God
does not demand of you a service that does
not even afford an economical living ; to con
tinue under such circumstances seems to im
ply a right to go through life by something
like forced loans.
We have been led into these remarks by a
sophistical defense of a case which would be
discreditable in a court-house, and is shock
ing iu a Christian paper. There are preach
ers who keep out of debt in both high places
and low, a fact which shows that where there
is a will there is a way.
All men, indeed, are not alike—some will
save and thrive on an amount on which
others would almost starve. It is so in all
vocations, and hardships are common also in
every profession. The first iu the ministry
never reach the highest pay which the first in
talent in other callings do—they are the finan
cially damaged class. With the bulk of the
ministry, the pay corresponds more nearly
with that of other trades, and never, except
in rare cases, falls to the lowest possible
point. The pay is uncertain, and for this
there is no absolute remedy ; an approxi
mate relief can only be afforded by toning
the Church up to its promises as well as the
preacher.
Bishop Marvin goes farther than we do on
this subject. He has such a horror of debt
that he tells the preachers to “ starve, yes,
literally starve,” rather than take on them
such an incubus. “ Better have your clothes
patched seven deep, or seven times, than to
make debts you can’t meet.”
The good Bishop is very severe in this mat
ter, but he knows the evil by h is long obser
vation of its working.
We do not write in view of any special sng
gestions coming from our own bounds. So
far as we know, our brethren and their ex
cellent wives, are struggling heroically these
terrible times to serve God and keep free
from embarrassment. Let no church take
advantage of this integrity and devotion to
scale payments down to a point just a little
short of actual starvation. Encourage your
preachers and cheer them with your sympa
thy and timely liberality.
MISSIONARY C ELECTIONS— SOUTH
GEORGIA CONFERENCE.
We would remind our brethren of the near
approach of the time for taking our collec
tion for foreign missions. Indeed, the time
is near at hand—the work must proceed now,
or very soon, or not at all. We are aware
of the excuses for delay—they are specious,
in some cases entirely just; but. if the post
ponement of the Spring collections was in
good faith (in order to get more money), let
our people prove it by their contributions.
We greatly fear, in defiance of authority,
some brethren will combine these several col
lections and make sad failures. Our crops
are as fine as nature ever produced—univer
sally so in Georgia—and there will be ability
to meet all demands ; there ought to be in
creased liberality as a thank offering to God
for the abundant temporal blessings bestow
ed. We insist, here and now, in the double
capacity of Editor pro tern, and Missionary
Secretary, that an earnest etfort be made by
every preacher to bring up his full assess
ment. These are always made on the mini
mum scale—there is absolutely no margin for
failure. We make a special appeal to our
own district to redeem itself from the dis
creditable figures of last year. Giving is as
much our duty as praying—we incline to think
that many people would get good sooner by
doing good than by trying to get right through
prayer to God. “ I will have mercy and not
sacrifice.” J. W. Hinton, Sec'y, etc.
The Galaxy for September will contain a
biographical sketch of General Custer, writ
ten by Captain Fredrick Whittaker of the
cavalry service ; also a continuation of Gen
eral Custer’s “War Memoirs.” The pub
lishers of the Galaxy received copy from
General Custer just before his death’’"and
his “VVar Memoirs” will be continued in
several numbers of the Galaxy. Ex Secre
tary Wells will also contribute articles in the
next two numbers of the Galaxy on “The.
Nomination and Eleciion of Abraham Lin
coin.” Also articles by Richard Grant
White, Albert Rhodes, and J. H. Siddons,
together with several interesting short stories
and poems.
CHURCH PERIODICALS—LADIESVIE
posiroitv.
The eff irt to make something new aiJKbet
ter out of the Lailies' lieposiloiy, Cincinnati,
is suggestive of some reflections which we
have revolved in our mind for some time of
a general character. That periodical has
had a subscription list of thirty thousand
names—it has fallen off to about ten thousand
subscribers. It was designed to be a first
class monthly magazine, chiefly for ladies.
It was to be pervaded by a religious tone and
free from the taint that attaches to periodi
cals of similar grade—the taint of worldliness
and even of infidelity. Why has it failed (as
confessedly it has) after a run of many
under the most favorable auspices of editing
and publishing, backed also by the greatest
Church in America? Ddes this collapse
show a decline in religious sentiment among
cultivated people-a relaxing in favor of a
free and easy style of thinking on religious
subjects ? Partly this is so in the Methodist
Churches, North and South ; the intense type
of Wesleyan Methodi-on is now not promi
nent, to say the least, among cultivated peo
ple. But, then, the Repository was not ex
effusively q religious print. ; it was a liGuary
periodical of bqffi prcteusuips. We
exactly understand this special ease, and it
is none of our business, but we have <4ome
views about the matter which may be worth
the trouble of expression. It was a mistake
to get up a literary periodical especially for
ladies , as if they needed a peculiar kind ot
literary food.
So far as fashions are concerned, they do
seek what the other sex values as trifling. A
cultivated woman, rich or poor, would as
soon be out of the wot Id as out of the dash
ion. This is their nature, and (as Dr. Bond
sa'd in relation to prejudices against colored
folk,) “it cannot he ref ginned away.” But
only a few women care to have a mere fash
ion magazine; they consult their dressma
kers ami each other.
The only danger in this matter would be,
not the absence of a fashion department, but
an indiscreet and fruitless discussion of dress,
etc., from a sectarian standpoint,. Some of
the best magazines have no fashion depart
ment —notably the Galaxy, which, wo prefer,
to any monthly.
The publishers have done well to change
the name a periodical specifically rolled
“ Ladies’ ” would not he sought by men; and
after all, it is the sterner sex who must do
the paying and most of the reading. We fear
ladies do not read very much, but we aie
rather afraid to say this itr view of the thou
sands of graduates in the land. We give it
as our opinion, not as strongly expressed as
conceived. Hoping our Northern brethren
will make the National Repository a success
—because we are too poor in money to make
such an enterprise —we cheerfully and , cor
dially recommend our people to try Dr. Curry,
the Editor, in his new field.
We do not believe a magazine distinctly re
ligious can succeed against the comp -tituin it
must encounter, and this will not be its char
acter. A religions tone it should have, and
it should be a Repository of literature, beau
tiful, refining, elevating from every depart
ment of the world’s great affairs. The mind
needs food, and, like the body, it craves va
riety—the solid and the sumptuous, in pvoper
alternation and proportion. Money liberally
expended far original articles will pufAlfh*-
repast to please the palate of all except those
of such vitiated tastes that they can feed only
on the garbage of Police Gazettes.
What we say in regard to this higher class
of periodicals, we think applies equally to
the weeklies of the Church. They are nearly
all “ Christian Advocates," as if Christianity
was always on trial and in court, and these
learned counsellors were ever ready t. do
duty in the line of apology and defense.
There is lack of variety and vivacity in a pa
per exclusively religious which repels a large
class of readers most needing religious in
struction. A good church paper is a powerful
auxiliary to the pulpit—it is a necessity—yet
all the advantages it brings might he attained
with increase if the mental, aesthetic wants
of readers were consulted as well as the pure
ly religious. Philosophy, poetry, biography,
art, and scieuce, should all he laid under con
tribution to meet the multiform desires of the
human soul. If the weekly secular press in
its best form could be expurgated ofits vicious
lone, and in the stead of such features a&are
relished by the, low and vulgar, would nave
engrafted a religious caste, interspersed here
and there in all its departments, this would
give our ideal of what is needed for the good
of the religious press. In fine, the secular
prints should he more religious, and the re
ligious papers more secular. Such are our
ideas, for which no one is responsible but the
Editor pro tem.
Persona]..—We had the pleasure of meeting
in the Advocate office, last week, two promi
nent legal gentlemen, well known in Georgia,
Judge R. J. Morgan, of Memphis, and Judge
Jas. Jack Hon, now of the Georgia Supreme
Court. Judge Morgan had cheerful words to
say about Vanderbilt University, of which he
is a trustee, and Judge Jackson talked to us
about his Alma Mater, the University of
Georgia. These gentlemen are true friends
to the Church, and are properly appreciated.
Obituaries. —We have an unusual number
on hand. We publish in order of reception.
All will appear in due time, though a little
later than might ordinarily be expected.^
THE ROUSEMENT TEST.
Some preachers and many hearers count
the sermon and the service a comparative
failure if there is no stir in the congregation.
It seems altogether the part of wisdom to
avoid extremes in our views on such a sub
ject—perhaps it is wise to avoid extremes on
almost all subjects. We have little confi
dence in the power of preaching or of hear
ing where there is never a stir. To be
“Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly
null,”
seems to be the fate of some preacln-rs and
of some congregations. There is no life,
no power, no fruit in such preaching or such
hearing. An English Bishop once said of
his Church that it was “dying of respecta
bility.” An awful death, one would think.
But we have very meagre and unscriptural
ideas of the operations of the Holy Spirit
and of the functions of the Christian minis
try if we conclude that no good can be done
where the emotional nature does not show
signs of excitation. The Spirit is also the
Teacher, and preachers should be teachers.
Jesus, the greatest of preachers, was also
the greatest of teachers. There must be in
struction in righteousness. Men need to
know the doctrines of the Bible; to know
them they must learn them ; to learn them
they need to be taught them. Many times,
as we suppose, our most fruitful preaching is
followed by neither tears nor shouts. And
it is quite possible that we over value the
shouts and the tears. Sometimes there are
shouts and tears without repentance for sin
or amendment in morals.
What should have resulted in conviotidn
often expends itself in mere emotion. Thwe
is great danger here, not only of failure to
produce good results, but of deception.
There are those who “do wonderful works
in the name of Christ” who never truly
know Christ—who are never known by
Him as his true disciples. If, in our preach
ing and in our hearing, we will only yield
ourselves to ihe leadings of the Spirit then
the right—because the most needful result—
will always follow both the preaching and
the hearing. And the wise preacher and
the wise hearer will prefer that result which
the Spirit prefers, H.
Oxford.
A 814,000 FARM.
It lay in the North and belonged to a
saintly old Methodist woman. She was
nearly ready to go to a country where there
is no need of farming—where they do not
“ eat bread in the sweat of their face.” She
had a fine farm—worth sl4,ooo—and the
Wesleyan University that lost so much by
Mr. Drew’s failure was in sore need of it.
So she gave it to the College—gave it in the
name of the Lord and in her love for the
cause of Christ her Saviour.
Nobly and wisely done ! Her farm will
yield large returns; it will make substantial
contributions towards the progress of the
race in true knowledge and godliness. It
will feed many hungry minds; many of the
Lord's poor will get ready, through this ben
factiou, to do the Lord’s work.
Many of our friends say “Emory College
must be endowed; our boys must be educa
ted ; especially our poor boys must be pro
vided for. But alas 1 we have no money.”
They mean no money they can give without.
p But how myiy have land
they can’t manage, that they don’t know
what to do with ? Give laud, brethren and
sislers. And don’t wait. Give it now.
A chair at Emory College should be endow
ed —can be—iu thirty days, by gifts of land if
those will give who can and ought. 11.
Oxford.
CULLODEN-DISTRICT CONFERENCES
—CHOI'S.
The praises of Middle Georgia have been
celebrated by many writers. Good Geor
gians believe that there is in all the world no
country like theirs, and with Middle Geor
gians Middle Georgia is the very flower of it
all. We will not he over-careful in defining
the boundaries ot Middle Georgia, but, Ox
ford is in it. So is the Griffin District,
whose District Conference was held at, Cul
loden, Monroe county, August. 2-0, Ihe P.
E., Rev. G. W. Yarborough, filling the chair
to everybody’s satisfaction. In one thing
especially he had rare skill and success.
He so managed a searching inquisition into
Church finances as to make questions, an
swers, and discussions minister to spiritual
ity. How important is this ! In fact, Church
business rightly adjusted and managed should
always contribute to the development of true
religious power. Any so-called Church bus
iness that cannot be so managed is not true
Church business, but a foreign and injurious
element. All such business the Church
should throw off, at whatever cost.
The more we see of the District Confer
ences—and we have attended scores of them
—the more we are satisfied that whatever
tends to diminish their religious power tends
to destroy them. It is a great blessing that
the law of the Church leaves the District
Conference comparatively free. It is nei
ther legislative, judicial, nor executive, ex
cept as to the one thing of electing lay del
egates. Keep the District Conference where
it is. It should not trench upon the terri
tory of either the Quartetly, the Annual, or
the General Conference. Nor should it
come nearer the Church Conference than it
is now.
The District Conference rightly managed
'is a great power ; otherwise there is no need
of it, nor good in it. The District Confer
ence was not designed to furnish opportuni
ty for elaborate essays in theology, in sci
ence, or metaphysics. We have heard of
one District Conference where a brother was
appointed to read an essay on Darwinism 1
Fortunately he did not get there. Another
appointed a learned brother to discuss the
“immortality of the soul metaphysically
considered.” Fortunately for us, we were
no there. And still another appointed a
brother to read an essay on “ The Interme
diate State”! No wonder that in some few
sections they complain of the District Con
ference that it is dull. Any meeting can he
killed, if only the right means are used.
A District Conference that does not send
its members home refreshed in spirit, with
increased zeal, wilh greater devotion to the
Church, with broader and clearer views of
duty, and above all, with more love to
Christ, is—a failure.
Culloden, the seat of the recent District
Conference, is a fine old village where the
cultivated and comfortable and hospitable
people think and talk, perhaps, too much of
what they used to be, and too little of what
they now are and of what they could be—if
they only use the mpans that God has so
bountifully given them. Culloden has been
a famous place in Georgia. It has been a
good place to bring up men and to raise fine
crops and fine horses. Last year Culloden
claimed as her “boys” Governor Smith,
Senator Norwood, and Judge Trippe, of the
Supreme Court, all in office at the same
time. Judge Spear, of the Superior Court,
is another Culloden boy. Many preachers
have gone out from Culloden. Dr. E. H.
Myers went to school here once; Rev. Dr.
Eustace Spear, of the North Georgia Con
ference, was brought up here. So were
Rev. W. F. Cook of the North Georgia, and
the Rev. J. O. A. Cook, of the South Georgia
Conference, and others, “ not a few.” Hon.
A. D. Hammond, of Forsyth, is of Culloden.
“ But the time would fail me to tell of” law
yers, doctors, teachers, preachers, senators,
judges, and governors, that have gone out
from this delightful village. Our very hospi
table host, the Hon. Orren Woodward, has
the whole history in his heart and at the end
of his tongue. If we are not, mistaken, the
Rev. Alexander Spear, the honored father
of the two gentlemen above named, is buried
here. The veteran Prof. John Darby once
taught school here. A gentleman pointed
out the house in which, as he said, the Pro
fessor first invented and manipulated “ Dar
by’s Prophylactic Fluid” —a good thing, by
the way, that “ every man should have in
his family.” What has become of it?
Traveling to and fro through this great
and wonderful State of Georgia, during the
last three weeks, we have found out several
things, two of which we mention here.
In the first place, our preachers are, for
the most part, badly behind in their finances.
Who is to blame we do not undertake to
determine. But our opinion is, Messrs.
Panic and Hard-Times gel more blame than
they deserve. We have a painful remem
brance that the papers said last winter that
Booth, the actor, gathered up nearly $30,-
000 in Georgia in about three weeks 1 We
do not know —only he got none of this cor
respondent’s money.
One other word we venture on this deli
cate subject—there is a great difference in
stewards. Perhaps also there is some differ
ence in preachers. But we notice in some
cases that the hardest working preachers are
as poorly paid as some others who spend
more time than Wesley would approve
whittling goods-boxes and “swapping
yarns.” A right lazy preacher is an incu
bus, and of the kind —to borrow a rather
mixed metaphor from a friend —“ that ought
to be eradicated.” The career of such a
preacher —to borrow from another frieud—
is generally “not only short but brief.”
Would it were more so 1
In the second place, we find that the crops
in most sections of Georgia are just as good
as the soil and culture can make them. But
better culture would help the soil wonder
fully. If Georgia takes care of her magnifi
cent corn-crop there will be little need of
Western corn in these regions next spring.
But let nothing be wasted ; the grass-hopper
—whose skirmishes have startled us this
. summer —may come in force next season.
And let none of it he worse than spoiled in
the still house. But some would make
whiskey of the corn if every grass-hopper in
the world were poised in mid-air and ready
to descend upon our fields. Ingrates.
Oxford. ' H.
Corrcsponknct.
SUNDAYS FROM HOME.
In the judgment of friends it was deemed
advisable for me to escape the warm sum
mer, my physical condition being such that
the least exposure to the hot suns would
bring back the symptoms of paralysis, if not
the fatal disease of apoplexy. To avoid
these, I started out upon another journey,
seeking a cooler place.
The first. Sabbath from home I spent in
Philadelphia. In the morning l visited, with
a number of Macon Methodists, a Quaker
church, on Race street, known as the Hicks
ites. There is something peculiar and sol
emn in the very silence of this simple-heart
ed people. To a meditative mind there is
great opportunity for improvement, even in
the absence of a sermon. 1 have never felt
more devout, or prayed mere earnestly in
Church service, than I did upon that Sunday
morning, as I sat with these quiet people for
nearly an hour, without a word spoken audi
bly. There was an earnestness depicted in
their countenance, that would assure the
most skeptical of their sincerity. One broth
er and one sister spoke a few words of en
couragement before the congregation sepa
rated. It was not a profitless hour to my
heart.
At, night our party went to Dr. Hatfield’s
church, on Ihe corner of Arch and Broad
streets. This is said to he the finest church
building in the city. It is a nAssive struc
ture, and is most elegantly finished. Not
withstanding its vast dimensions, it was
crowded to its utmost capacity, even the isles
filled with chairs. Dr. Hatfield is a very
popular preacher, hut I was greatly disap
pointed in him. He Was neither in stature
or delivery what, I had conceived him to be.
And wherein bis great power lies to control
multitudes, is difficult to determine. I should
judge from the meager information I have
upon this point, that, it is a combination of
elements, rather than any one peculiar or
prominent characteristic. 1 have heard men
more eloquent in some of the more obscure
pulpits. I have heard men more profound
in thought, and more complete in analysis,
than he, who never could command the pub-
lie ear. Yet there is a charm about his
preaching that claims the attention of the
listener. He is in the meridian of life, and
will doubtless make his influence felt upon
the Church many years to come. He be
longs to that class of preachers so common
in the Northern Church, and becoming some
what, annoying in our own, known as “Star
preachers,” moving from point to point, to
gratify the whims and caprices of pretentious
congregations. They are never much in
building up the Church, but tremendous in
drawing crowds. A set of stewards dis
cover that they have so much money to
raise; to do this they must have a preacher
to attract the crowd; the peligjous character
of the sermon is not of so much importance
as the monetary. Dr. Hatfield has played
this role successfully. Starting in the New
\ r ork Conference, thence to fill the promi
nent Churches in Cincinnati, thence to Chi
cago, and now in Philadelphia. He is no
charlatan, however, but a man of fine cul
ture and ability, and an earnest Christian.
Although recently transferred to this Con
ference, the brethren honored him with the
lead of this delegation in the General Con
ference at Baltimore. He is less to blame
for what'seems to be a want of stability in
Conference relations, than the fastidious and
aristocratic congregations in the Church, and
the disposition of the Bishops to pander to
this unhallowed propensity.
The grandest exhibitions in Philadelphia,
is that of John Wannamaker’s Sunday-school
at the Bethany Mission, on the corner of
Cherry and 22d streets. I was a little late
in reaching the building, and the doors were
closed. Every seat was taken and even
standing room was scarce, and there were
some forty or fifty visitors waiting at the
door. I felt disappointed, but gaining a
position near the door, and whispering my
desire to the doorkeeper within, he opened
it for my admission only, leaving the others
standing without. ITe conducted me to the
gallery for visitors, which I found filled by
about 2,000 strangers like myself. I looked
down upon Ihe most magnificent scene that
I ever beheld. Standing upon an elevated
platform in the centre, near the fountain,
was Mr. VVannamaker, the soul of the insti
tution. By him was his choirister, organist,
and cornet player, who led the music, with
the vast multitude joining this branch of
worship. About him, in all directions, were
seated 2,200 teachers and pupils. The open
ing exercises, similar to that of other schools,
being over, folding glass doors were loosen
ed and brought together, and with sundry
curtains, and the massive building was divi
ded into ten or twelve different apartments,
grading the children according to their ages
and capacities. The Superintendent’s Bible
Class, for want of room, was compelled to
assemble in the church near by. The infant
class, the ages ranging from three to seven
years, numbered two hundred and fifty, al
most in itself as large as the largest Sunday
school in Macon. Then there was the inter
mediate rooms for boys and girls, from eight
to twelve. It was an interesting study to
watch the movements of the Superintendent.
The secret of his success evidently lies in
the consciousness of his power. He moves
among them as a master; he never hesitates
or seemingly doubts, before his audience,
whatever may be his struggles of heart and
mind in private. Like a commander and
chief of an army, his will is law, and the peo
ple are never to suspicion even but that all
that he does is right. It is one of the most
complete exhibitions of will power that I
have ever witnessed ; and what is best of all,
it is power exerted for good. These thou
sand gather thus every afternoon, to learn of
God and his goodness, and every year hun
dreds of souls through this instrumentality
are brought to the Saviour. Should the
reader ever spend a Sunday in Philadelphia,
do not fail to visit John Wannamaker’s Sun
day school, on 22d street.
There are other features of this school, and
other impressions of my first Sunday from
home that I would gladly speak of, but my
article is already to long. S. S. Sweet.
Jonesboro , E. I'enn., Avgust 9, 1870.
Cairo Circuit, South Georgia Confer
ence.—The Rev. J. T. Ainsworth writes
August 10th : “It is with much gratitude
that I report through yourcolums a gracious
revival of religion. Early in June we began
to hold prayer-meetings twice a week in
Cairo among the families, which resulted in
a very gracious revival about the middle of
J uly. Our protracted meeting at the Church
continued two weeks, and resulted in four
teen accession by certificate and profession
of faith, and a large number of conversions,
and a very general revival among the mem
bership. So the prayer-meetings are carried
on when I am absent, and many families
maintain family religion. Since the above
meeting we protracted at Tired Creek one
week, which resulted in ten accessions, and
a number of conversions, and a gracious re
vival in the membership.”
MARION DISTRICT.
Mr. Editor : The first sermon preached
iu Marlboro county by a Methodist minister,
was addressed, nearly a century ago, to an
audience assembled in a Quaker gentleman’s
barn. The seed then sown fell into good
ground, and lias been very productive. No
where in South Carolina has Methodism been
more successful. Bennettsville, the county
seat, was named in honor of Governor Ben
nett. It is a beautiful little town, and is distin
guished for the morality, intelligence, and
generous hospitality of its citizens. A first
class High School, under the care of Mr.
and Mrs. J. S. Moore, both of whom are ex
perienced and accomplished teachers, oilers
line advantages to those who have children
to educate. Here the parsonage of the Ben
nettsville Circuit is located, and the preach
er who occupies it, will never have cause to
complain of any want of social, educational,
or religious advantages, either for himself or
his family. For many years, this has been
justly regarded one of the best circuits in
the Conference, and notwithstanding the fact
that anew “swarm ” has ever now and
again left the “ old hive,” Bennettsville Cir
cuit remains, in numbers and financial
strength, second to none in the State. When
the last transfer of territory was made to the
North Carolina Conference, this circuit lost
a membership sufficiently large to make a
separate charge, which now bears the name
of Laurenburg Circuit, and raises yearly for
ministerial support, the sum of one thousand
dollars. Two years ago another draft was
made upon it, and nearly three hundred
members were taken to aid in forming the
South Marlboro Circuit; still Bennettsville
Circuit remains at the head of the list, with
a membership of more than eight hundred,
and means sufficient to do all that is neces
sary for the support of the Church at home,
anil much, very much, to aid in sending the
Gospel abroad. May the Lord enable his
people here, whom He has so greatly pros
pered, to consecrate soul, and body, and
substance to his service.
Rev. J. M. C is in charge of this circuit,
and Rev. D. /. D. is his assistant. This is
brother D’s first year in the itinerant work,
and I may say of him, as my first, presiding
elder said of a young preacher iu his district,
“ He’ll make a valuable man if he will only
continue to study.” Zealous yet prudent,
affable yet dignified, with a clear, well-bal
anced, and sprightly mind, and a heart all
aglow with love to Jesus and his caiiße, he
cannot fail if he continues humble, studious
and prayerful, to make “ a workman that
needeth not to be ashamed.”
Brother C. has long been a member of Ihe
Conference, and has ably sustained the in
terests of the Church wherever he has been
sent. In appearance, he more nearly re
sembles the celebrated Valentine Cook, than
any one whose likeness I have seen. He
walks with his head very much bent, and
when approaching you in haste, looks as if
he intended to run into you head-foremost.
Like Thomas Carlyle, the essayist and his
torian, he is an inveterate smoker, and like
Tennyson, he prefers a clay pipe to any
other. Asa preacher, he ranks among the
first in the Conference When he speaks,
you are charmed with his soft, round, full
voice, delighted with his jpire and nervous
English, and impressed by his intense ear
nestness. He is greatly beloved by the peo
ple of his charge, who, in addition to many
other evidences of their regards, have made
him up a purse sufficient to cover all expen
ses, and requested him to take a few weeks’
vacation, and visit the Centennial.
The spiritual condition of the Church in
this circuit is improving, and there has re
cently been about fifty additions to the mem
bership, and a number of bright, Scriptural
conversions.
The northern portion of this county is
embraced in the North Marlboro 'Circuit.
This charge has a Church membership of
more than three hundred, and is under the
pastoral over-sight of Rev. M. M. F. This
is brother F’s second year in the ministry,
and he is laboring with commendable zeal
and diligence to advance the interests of
Christ’s kingdom. Up to date the stewards
have collected for ministerial support forty
hree dollars, leaving a small balance of only?
four hundred and eighty seven dollars to be
raised at the close of the year. Of course
the preacher is hopeful, and has no misgiv
ings about being able to meet all his expen
ses, and providing anew suit in which to
make his appearance at Conference.
W. H. F.
ST. MARY’S MISSION, FLORIDA COX
KNOK.
Brother Kenneiiy: The good work still
goes on iu this mission. I feel hopeful, yet
we have many trials and much opposition to
bear with. We had on the middle prong of
the St. Mary’s River a very flourishing
Church ; many were being added to this
Church, and much opposition was manifest
ed. This Church was burned up ; a stunning
blow to the small band of Christians, yet
they have rallied and are now hopeful, and
are going to rebuild their Church. This
burning was the work of unknown parties.
These Christian brethren need the sympathy
and prayers of the Church. The work of
Church goes on slowly on this mission, but
surely we see great changes in the society,
and here and there is added one or two to
the Church. Oh may God hasten the time
when His Church may become a blessing to
this wicked people by being fully established
in their midst. We have had many good
meetings, and we are now going on our
round feeling that we shall be blessed with
the presence of the Lord in all our meetings.
Pray for us, brethren.
Now, friends of the Sunday-school, we
are laboring in a mission where Sunday,
schools are denounced, and greatly opposed,
therefore, we have not been able to organize
many schools, we have now adopted the plan
of establishing schools at our appointments,
and to hear the lessons once a month our
selves, hoping that, by this means to awake
an interest in its favor wilh the people. We
believe this is the best means of working for
good here. The hope of the Church is in the
children. We should then feel that we are
individually called upon to help in this work.
We are poor, and we need books to teach
140 children. Methodist books or Union
books, and from the first catechisms to good
Bible question-books. May God send the
needed help. *W. 0. Hamiton.
Appling Circuit, North Georgia Con
ference.—The Rev. B. F. Fariss writes
August 14th: “We have held five protract'
ed meetings since the District Conference at
Milledgeville. I think I can truly say the
Spirit was present in great power at every
meeting. The churches much blessed, and
many converted. The meeting at one of
the churches (St. Marys) I think was the
most remarkable and powerful I ever at
tended. Within ten days there were seventy
three accessions to the Church, and I pre
sume there were seventy-five or one hun
dred converted at this meeting. The con
versions were as bright and clear as any I
VOLUME XXXIX., NO. 34.
ever witnessed. One hundred and thirty
have joined the Church during these meet
ings. I can’t tell the precise number con
verted. Many already in the Church were
converted, and most of those who joined,
probably the number would amount to one
hundred and fifty.”
IJdus of fl;c (QlcHr.
GENERAL NEWS.
Omaha, August 11. —Parties from Fre
mont report that immense bodies of grass
hoppers have lighted there.
Washington, August 11. —The river and
harbor bill, as it passed both houses of Con
gress, makes the following provision for the
rivers of Georgia: Coosa river $30,000,
Etowah SIO,OOO, Ocmulgee $16,000, Chatta
hoochee $20,000, and the Savannah harbor
$02,000. It. also provides $270,000 for the
Tennessee river, to he expended in opening
Muscle Shoals, anil SIO,OOO for the Iliwas
see. The bill provides for improvements
along the entire line of the proposed water
communications between Mississippi and the
Atlantic Ocean at Savannah, except con
necting canals between the rivers. The
South gets nearly two of the live millions
appropriated, the House insisting that she
should have a due proportion. It is regard
ed as the fairest bill for the South ever
passed.
Lynchburg, August 13. —On Saturday
morning about three o’clock a water-spout
struck the line of the Virginia Midland Rail
road, near Mclver’s station, six miles north
of Lynchburg. The flood extended for
about live miles, swelling the smallest creeks
into rivers, and submerging hundreds of
acres never under water before. A culvert
was carried away, leaving a gyip ninety feet
broad and fifty feet deep, into which the
south bound freight was precipitated, killing
C. 1). Keyes, an engine man, and Bob An
derson, a brakesman. The storm lasted
only a few moments and all passenger trains
were stopped by the track-walkers and es
caped without disaster. In six hours the
water had receded so as to allow a child to
step across the stream. Passengers were
transferred around the break and there will
he no interruption to trains after Sunday
night.
Washington, August 13. —In the Senate,
the concurrent resolution passed by the
House for a commission of three Senators
and three Representatives to devise a gov
ernment for the District of Columbia, was
adopted. The Hawaiian treaty was resumed
and Norwood concluded his speech. In con
clusion, he said: “The effect of this bill
would he to give to the Hawaiian Islands a
bonus of a million dollars a year, and would
increase the difficulties iu the way of their
being acquired by the United States.” lie
argued that the Chinese upon the islands
were increasing; the coolie labor Was in
creasing, and suppose the United States
should acquire them, it would only get a
race of Chinese coolies and half-breeds.
The people of this section were more inter
ested in the defeat of this bill than all of the
United States. Besides, to take the duty off
of rice.would lie to diminish its price below
the cost of production in this country. He
said that over 300,000 people were depend
ent upon the production of rice in South
Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana, and that
the interests of all these people would be in
jured by the passage of this bill. Mr. Mor
rill of Vermont spoke against treaty. Logan
supported it; Boutwell also. Mr. Gordon
of Georgia said it was his purpose to have
spoken on this bill at some length, but he
was physically unable to do so. He pro
tested against the passage of a law to carry
into effeota treaty so partial in its operations
and so unjust to a number of the people of
one section of this country. One objection
existed against this measure as a matter of
policy and another as a matter of principle.
It aimed a death blow at the interests of one
section of this country that, was of doubtful
constitutional propriety, and therefore
should be rejected. He knew the Southern
rice and sugar planters, and no people on
this continent were more capable of self
sacrificing patriotism than they were; they
were in favor of free trade, but. was it a mat.
ter of surprise that they opposed a bill
which proposed to single out of all our pro
ductions, those two upon which they solely
depended. It was not just, and begging the
pardon of the overwhelming majority of this
Senate, which thought proper to force upon
this section this measure, we must say it
was not consistent with that equality guaran
teed, not only by the constitution, but by the
formation of the American Union ; much
less was it just to try this experiment upon
a people, who, by the vicissitudes of war,
had been made poorer than any other peo
ple ever were before. After further argu
ment, he moved to postpone the bill to the
second Tuesday in November. Rejected.
The bill was then read a third time and
passed. Yeas, 2‘.) ; nays, 12.
Savannah, August 14. —A special to the
Morning News says : A fire at Quincy, Fla.,
yesterday destroyed several stores. Mayor
John 11. Gee was killed while blowing up
a warehouse to stop the spread of the flames.
Plli i.aoki.piiia, August 14. —This morn
ing the Statue of Washington was placed
in position in the front of the Judge’s pa
vilion and unveiled without ceremony.
Nkw'York, August 14. —The first traveler
wire for the construction of the East river
bridge was carried across the river and
stretched between the two towers this morn
ing. This wire is made of twisted chrome
steel wires, and is three quarters of an inch
in diameter.
Washington, August 15. —The August
statistical returns of the Department of Ag
riculture show an improvement in the cot
ton crop during July, bringing its general
condition nearly up to a full average. Hsu
ally, there is a decline from the July figures.
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Texas,
Arkansas and Tennessee, show an improve
ment, especially Tennessee and Louisiana,
which maintains their July average. North
Carolina, Florida, and Mississippi, have de
clined in some of the eastern counties, and
along the Mississippi river local drought or
excessive rains have injured the plants. The
caterpillar has also appeared at numerous
points, but it has done but little damage at
the date of the returns, and anticipations ot
serious ravages in August were expressed,
but the planters were preparing to resist
them. The average condition of the cotton
States was as follows: North Carolina, 96;
South Carolina, 97 ; Georgia, 104 ; Florida,
89; Alabama, 103; Mississippi, 92 ; Louis
iana, 89 ; Texas, 100; Arkansas, 98 ; Ten
nessee, 102.
San Francisco, August 15. —News of the
passage by the Senate of the bill to carry
the Hawaiian treaty into effect was received
on ’Change with much satisfaction. Several
disengaged vessels in port will at once be
chartered for Honolulu on account of local
refiners.
Columbia, August 15. —The State Demo
cratic Convention convened at 8, p. in. Jas.
A. Iloyt, of Anderson, was elected tempora
ry Chairman. Every county is represented,
making the most imposing body of whites
ever assembled in the State since 1860. The
permanent organization was effected, with
W.W Harley, of Marion, as President, and
one Vice-President from each Congression
al District, as follows,: First, J. W. Har
rington ; Second, ex-Governur Manning j