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[ From the Rural Sun. ]
! A Ural and Itirail Sermon
lor Binprovident
ra nucix.
H V HOAZ.
Children have you any meat??
John, chapter?verse?,
I once heard an old minister preach
a funeral sermon from this text, and
he said that it could be found somewhere
In John. I don't know whether
I he told the truth or not, but, tor the
l j purpose of this sermon, I will he rash
' enough to take for granted that lie did.
1 do not remember that I ever saw it
there, to my shame perhaps he it said
' but if my present hearers know as lit
tie about the matter as I do, I can assert
with assurance, on the authority
of our beloved brother of a peculiar
persuasion, that the text is there, and
. none of you can say aught to the contrary.
Therefore I will say to you,
my scaly hack auditors, that my text
? is in John, ami wo unto you and your
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g I i 1111? 11 i;il, ?W!U UMM) yuur CI11HIITH'1
j children for coming generations ad
infinitum, if you give not greater heed
to that which your humble prcachist
j lias to say about the passage then to
- the particular locus in quo the beauli.
ul language. was originally written
whether in the Bible or almanac or
the dictionary, or any book under the
, sun. But the word "originally" brings
inc back to the orgiu ol iny remarks,
and forces out of my burdened heart
the pathetic inquiry,
v . O
ClflLORUX, 11A V ? VOU ANY MI'AT r
Before proceeding to unveil th0
I mysteries and to elaborate the bounties
ot my text in all their intricate ramilicut'ion**,
I feel constrained to say that
M I suspect our peculiar brother misap
'I nrehi>mli>tl lha mmininir /-?!' ?!?? ! >?
- . - - - v.. w ...uitia* II L, VI UVV 1 I I ?
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.1 guage, as he mood in the midst ol tlm
weeping relatives of the delunoL whos^
j luiicr.il he was preaching, and, with
is eyes turned skyward, propounded the
searching inquiry, unless perad venturei
is he had failed in obtaining his main*'
tinal repast, in whieh event it was na.
is tural that he should liave been more
^ thouglitful ol the comforts ol his crav
a- ing stomach, than to the bereaved
0 hearts of his hearers. J am not preaching
a funeral sermon my beloved, but
L* verily I say unto you, that a failure t?:
ijr give proper heed to the teachings ol
^ this beautiful text will be a public in.
i- vitalion to the funeral ot your fortunes
S" your farms and your country, and yo
!- will wander through the laud, like (lit
[)| lean and melancholy ghost that chase:
i- along the Hiver Styx without the casl
" to pay the terrage, and your voice:
will be heard, like the voice of tin
jd Hebrews by the rivers of Babylon
!t. uowiing t.<> every passing breeze,
til CI11LD11EN HAVE you ANY MEAT?
\. Awake, therefore, ye .slothful agvi
VH eulturist, awake, and lend me you
I ears, while I elucidate and fructil;
iis the everlasting trut hs that corruscotl
along the everlasting crests of my text
re like?like?like?plague it, like.
[? )
"John Jirown s soul that still marcho
on."
nb
I propose, then, to consider th
meaning of the words in this beantifu
11- passage, in a two-lold light.
its I? INDIVIDUALITY.
l'h TT
(J. 11 ?COLL ncn V ELY.
I would remark that there aitj onl,
two words in the text which I deem i
necessary to individualize, and t
j catch the true ring of, as the raise
ih- calcholh the ring of his coin before h
1,11 drops it into bis old sock and bids i
ui 1
eel under the hearth, and those tw
}y words ore "children" and "meat,
lie
] opine, my beloved, that the wor
children in the text hsti a much broade
signification than that segment ot th
Ik M ion n I'll ? I ??!-? < l-? ?11 ?
j J. ijuiiihii hhiiiij wiiieu 1.111! (?1<1 WOITlJin I
the country spank, with impunity, an
\\. glwy 'n f'10 Llessed consciousnes
oJ that they can do it again il they war
eo. I am persuaded that in the fu
ire r
a amplitude of its height depth, it
'I'" length and its breadth. ?t includes e\
Its e. ...
11m ry native born American citi/.ei
irs white and black, blue, and yellow an
re- ' ' J
gray, male and female, old and youi>?
,p- together A'ith all ihe rest of man an
woman on the face of this ti.no-houn
earth, and I do not think, therefor*
my benighted lriends, that L would b
oU six etching my imagination too lar if
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rC'JLX -X
.An Indopei
WA YHOKO, S. C., TU;
wore to venture the assertion that it
includes even you.
The word "meal'' nicancth not alone
the aggregated globules which forineth
the fleshy portions ol' the corporeal
tabernacles in which the spiritual essences
of the beasts ol llie field, the
fowls of the air, and the fish of thc
deep "live and move and have their
being," but to every eatable thing
under the sun which the tongue of
man hankereth after, or which he
hidcth beneath the broad bosom of
bis abdominal ocean, for it is said "his
meat was locust and wild honey." I
say, therefore, my brethren, that meat
hear means "vittles" whether it be
"chicken tixins" or "Hour doiiis," ham
bones or corn dodgers, pickle pork or
biled cabbage and I challenge the un
iversal creation to refute tlio correct,
ness of my doctrin.
Judging by tho shine of your eyes,
my hearers, that you have imbibed my
meaning thus far, I will now proceed
to the second head and take a bird'g
eye view of my subject.
COI.l.ttOTI V KI.Y.
Having eliminated the true doctrine
involved in the words children and
meat. It is easy to arrive at the collective
meaning n{ the whole passage,
and instead of saying, children, have
you any meat, we may express the
same sentiment in the more artistic
and poetical paraphrase,
o! FA 1<M ICR, HAST THOU A nT " V1TTI.KS ?'?
"Aye, there's the ruh." Ilast. thou
the wherewhilhal?not to gorge thy
everlasting stomach at the next mealbut
to feed tliysell and thy family,
thine ox and thine ass, thy hogs and
thy cattle, even unto the tiheep that
browse upon thy pastures, and the gob.
bier that struts in thy barn-yard, until
another crop shall come in the full"
ness of time.
() ! my brethren if I could covert
> my sell into an angel and soar with tin
1 speed of thought throughout the length
ami breadth ol this Southcln clime.
' and pausing at every doojstep, exclaim
in "thoughts that breathe and words
that burn,"
FAUMKlt II AST THOU ANY "VITTLUS ?'
how many in this congregation could
rise up and, shaking the dew dropt
from their shaggy manes, answci
proudl v,
>
f llYEA FATI 1KU, I 1I1VB."
I
I Weeping, I pause for a repl y. Oh
my breathren, many are called but
few are choosen, and hangdog looks
, proclaim with trumpet tongue that
, most of you are in the vocative. Then
k wo unto you, foolish farmers, for ver
. ily you arc laying up (or yourselvef
, hunger against the day of hunger
Wo unto you 1 say, for the folly ol
the foolish virgins that trimmed not
their lamps was w isdom com pared
with y ?ur idiotic neglect. Wo untc
you and your wives; wo uulo youi
flocks and unto your children. Wo
I wo! wo! Alas! echo answers wo!
Kxeuse mo, my hclove<l, while I
* pause iu the presence of this picture
to weep and?blow awhile.
Vanity of vanities, Faith the preachci
vanity of vanities; all is vanity,?Liu
0 son of David, king of Jerusalem, must
1 .
II have invented that idea on a full stom
ach, whereby his reason clouded, foi
the doctrine which he there propound:
is not altogether corect. A myriac
y of voices spring spontaneously fron
the universal animated creation, am
If i
0 uniting in one grand choral strain pro
claim iu tones of thunder that "vit ties'
^ is not vanity, and I foil sure, 1113
brethren, that you will all take stool
^ with me in that beautiful and pathctii
,, sentiment.
Give me "vitiles" or give, me death,
,r It haw been beautifully 8ni<l lha
0 bread is the start'of life. I cati vouel
,j for the truth of this remark with pain
tl ful fervor, for verily I Bay unto ym
that, in ni}' meandering* througl
it these low grounds of ?in and sorrow
U it hatli often happened that portion o
:8 my earthly tabernacle, which is grace
fully encircled with the waistband o
), my breeches, hath travailed for "vit
d ties," and, even so have I been forcei
to cry unto the children of Mammoi
<1 in the language of my text,
d CUKII.DUKN IIAV8 YOU ANY MEAT?
It therefore ye raise not the "vittles,
'u how can yo have the staff, and if \
1 have not the start how can ye sup*
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"ne
ldoiit tlourn.a,l.
ESDAY, FEBRUARY
the life, and if ye support not the life^ i
what in tlie thunder is to become ot j
the country and I lie preachers? I will j
tell you, my agrarian bretlicrin, what
will become of you. You will sit, I
like the prodigal son among the swme, j
and dolefully sing,
I wan/- but "vlttles'' hero below,
Ami want that "vittl<\sM quick,
Or I shall wipo my werpimj eyes,
Ami 1110 bucket sooniy kick.
"No we wont," soinc chukle headed
! brother will say, "we will arise and go
unto our merchant and buy the fatted
calf on tick."
Hut what it I lie merchant should
say:
"O foolish and impecunious generation,
ye scekcth after tick, and no tick
shall be given you save the tick of the
prophet Jonah."
You know; my hretheron, Ik? tued '
to obey the Lord on tick, and the eon- I
sequence was that he got ducked in
the sea, and swallowed by a whale, '
and walloped around generally in the !
way that made him "git up and git|
J list so will you get soused in a sea of
trouble, swallowed by a whale of debt, i
and walloped about until you will
look, meaner than that yaller dog that
Adam found slinking around his
kitchen, and has slunk around the universally
creation ever since.
O, misguided brethren, arc you contonteut
to sit, like a legion of l.azu.
ruses, at your merchant's door's and
Iced oji the crumbs you are free born
American citizens as long as you whine
after others for your "vitt les?" Then
rise, rise, ye slouthful farmers, Irorn
the hog holes of credit, soar abut
on the blessed consciousness ol having
raised your own "vittles," and year
after year you will rise higher and
higher, and when your lives shall
reach the 'sere and yellow leaf,1 you
will perch 011 the piuaclo of independence,
and, planting the point of your
thumb on the apex of your nose, you
, will be able to twist your lingers in
, eontemptioiiH defiance at the ltordcs
^ of Shyloeks who lie in wait lor the
! unwary fanner, trying to gobble up
all lie makes by furnishing him with
"vittles," And when the caterpillar^
? like the angel of death, shall spread
I his wings 011 the blast, and sweeping
, from cotton field to cotton field, shall
> 1
. gather into his capacious stomach the
crop of the South, thou rising from his
least, like hit ?\'igle w ith hloodly talons
shall startle the land with h s exultant
screams of
Cllll.nUKN wil Mine's YOUtt VITTLKS?
then you will be able to smile "with n
smile that is child like and bland,11 ami
shout hack the defiant answer:
"I got yon that time old fellow, I
raised 'em myself."
^ Then from every hill-top and out of
valley between I5oss Sheppard's ranche
J and the (Jreasers ol Mexico, ten thousand
times ten thousand "spircts o|
just men made prefect" will kick up
( tboir heels and shout,
iu i.ly koit you.
Austin Texas, January 1G.
This evening a posse of the Travi
Rifles marched up from the State at
mory, and each member tells his ac
tpiaintanccs tliitl Mayor Wheeler ha:
^ been arrested by Radical negroes
numbering from forty to t.vo hundred
The long roll was beaten and a call
| made for reinforcements to rescue live
mayor. As if by inspiration, froir
| every direction came men, on foot am
horseback, with such arms as could hi
} got, and among them were sever,a
whose locks indicated that they hat
seen service tint bar the Texas republic
The. crowd continued to increaso unit
the streets were filled, when the may
or arrived, having been released
Governor Davis stated to Sheriff Leim
^ pieman that the arrest was withoul
1 authority. One company was inline
* diately raised and placed under tin
] ? i % ^ '
- command oi iU ijor llalston, of Gal
1 vuaton, ami tlieti marched to llie fcapi
> tol and offered their services to act'ti??
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1 Genera! Steele, of San Aut/onio,
Latkk.? All the \roops on hot I
1 ides have disband^', and tjnoto is luuol
- ejoicing.
1 ^
a Miss Mrii y '^tnuiton of Chicago" b*
becncdect ^ t)kird assistant cievW *
IU'.m IJouseof liopwwot^' l)l i
'' 'f ympetitory were aU v .tives. 1
^ ' years of ^?ge, ?je~ ,cn, kho iy
lt and of ^m]?lo f, *r mlv in appeaia
" a."
VV
3, 1874. NO. 5.
Ill*- ? Ill I M n mm mm khii i i
Men cr Boasts.
In a speech at Lambeth (England)
Joseph Arch said, 44 lhousands of
no res remain uncultivated while idle
laborers starve in the winter." This
moans something in England, whore
ncii'H are few, comparatively, and
there is no doubt of the truth ol the
%
last clause of the statement. The
former is made plain enough by the
fact that the Duke of Argyle has just
served notices to quit v?n a number ol
his fanners, in order that he may make
a deer forest five miles square. It will
be reinombered tli.it the Duke of
Soiillierluud, whose ivife was so much
exorcised over the sorrows of American
slaves, dispossessed Scotch tonal s
to make room for sheep-walks. The
Dukoot Argyle 11:is written so much
on tho theory ol* theology that porhaos
, 11o has not time lo put what ho has
written into practice. Acres arc now
few, however, in the I'nited State.-*
I and yet we have agitators from kurcpe
i:i our midst who set up outcries that
I show they have no appreciation of the
! wide dillerenco here and there. Ii
may be safely assumed that these
agrarian leaders from abroad are men
who have no disposition or purpose to
work themselves, and take advantage
of the temporarily unemployed in this
country, who are industrious when
work is at hand, to get up a wild and
dangerous agitation on which they
themselves may live at the expense ol
theii fellow men.
Sharks.
I
i Sharks, though not t?? ho compared
t<> :i leg of four-year-old mutton, I'm
nisli !>y no means a bad dinner to ;i
hungry num. The negroes ii
Central America consider younji
shark's tail a delicacy, a conijdenioni
said not to las returned hy the sharks
The writer has tried to satisfy hiinscl
as to the accuracy ot this legend ii
sliarklore?namely, that it is only un
dor pressure of hangar that a sharl
will banquet oil" negro, but has neve
been able to come to a conclusion frmi
the evidence, as there arc numerou
instances of a dinner oil* negro beiiu
preferred when the shark had hi
choice. Thus it happened once a
(Jreytown, on the Mosquito Coast ii
, ; Central America. A large life boa
j crossing lhe bar of the San Juan riv i
upset, precipitating the crew, cousin
ling of two oHicers (white) and Lei
i colored men into the water, the boa
I being turned upside-down. "I fell,1
says the narrator, "that my life wa
not worth hulf-an-hour's purchase
The cockswain of the boat, a week I;
black man, rose along side ot me a fie
the plunge. He was in great t.erroi
and I felt that even if the sharks di<
1 not harm him, ho could scarcely icac
? the shore without help; ho I eucoui
ag(;d him, by teling him 1 would swi.
by him, and give imu a hand if he lei
tired. 'No tired, massa; neber live t
be tired; look at dcon round us.' 1 (el
M that he was about as close to th
truth as possible, for we were literal)
in the centre ol a school of shark:
* whose black triangular iins we con!
> see on ill sides sailing round us. A
1 the beach was guile ehjoc, wo Pu4 < i
deavorcd to make that, but soon dii
covered that I he current was ? stron
1 that we made no headway; and w
' were forced to turn toward the b ?a
which was a hundred ami lifty \ ar 1
away, drilling out to se.i, turned u,
^ ?ide down, with the rest of the ore
astride on her keel. There \va
i nothing, however, for it but to swii
to hei; and aided by tho strong cm
. rent, wc soon shortened tho dhtane<
^ All t)i s tinio the sharks wore aroun
us, making, I tauoied, smaller circh-j
" and once or twice 1 thought I fcjJ
something touch my toot with a ru>;{
as these horrid brutes do bej^io '*
bite: if it was my i nagb^j^"
> not a great stretchy w
had not got .owevor, lor 1
1 spot w)jc4 j yaidsahoad oft
J throw ? ' niy eompaion shirks
t?e&- his arms, and diss
, .ed beneath the waves. A rush
ualck tins, and their sudden dis:
the Pcaran('? wnder water, was the 1
l,.r tiling I remember, until I found r
22 H,dt alongside our ship, in the ste
uco , sheets of tho cutter which had b
| sent to the rescue,"? To-Day.
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Carpontcr on Contempt.
Judge Carpenter's extraordinary
! action in the bo called contempt caso
I of the Attorneys of tho Citizens' Savmgsliank,
seems likely to not hitn into
liot water. It is stated that one of tho
1
Circuit .lodges ot the State is about to
investigate tho status of some of tho
suspended Attorneys, who will appear
in his court in a few days in the discharge
of their professional <luti -. If
found to he as they are, licensed Attorneys
and Solicitors of South Carolina,
without stiiin on their csent hco:i,
he will prounoee them live ol di?-pi.dilioition
in his court end entitled .o
imo't r 1 Imro ii.?t K ? * i ? *' 4
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If this be done, u will be awkward P?r
.fudge Carpenter. The | ress of t'u??
Uate, we may add, has b? n outspoken
ii c?mdemnation of the Judge's entire*
low aids the Alturners.
I l.o Legislature, too, iu consequence
?t .Judge Carpenter's recent very j.roper
dismissal ot an ignora.it negro jury
in C.imden, is thre.\ieni g liiin wit.li
impeachment.? Kt fx! Urute
JVt'irs ti/'d Courier*
vVno Li t I)at Monbv on Dat Ace.?
i'he recent plan ot our enlightened
Secretary ol the Treasury tor resuming
specie payments with a tea pot full of
silver halves and quarters, to he pai I
out in nituis not exceeding live dollar*
to each lull holder as long us tln v
lasted, reminds us of an incident sai l
lo have occurred at a small iaro haute
kept hv a colored gentleman in >t
Louis, at the commencement of tho
war. I lie proprietor, a haughty old
i hou-e servant trom \ iruinia. who ha I
I somehow got }ii? feedom ami strayed
> mil West still.o gh his capital w. *
> small, ami his banking house an huu,..
hie shanty in the suburbs, inspired
!? immense awe among the crowd of
* blacks alio oatuc to woo chance under
1 his humble root, by wearing :t terrible
i Irown, a suit til seedy black, an ini.
mouse shirt coll .r and a milled shirt*
* to wliieh last garment the boldest
' All ie..in mind surrendered at discretion.
> l'hi* rl.d.e.", as may estsily bo imagine*!*
R were exe< dingly small, being nicely
l proportioned to the im ager capital of
* the boil and ranging Irom hall dimes
t to quart* r dollars the last being tho
1 higneM single bet that was pcrmitrefi.
? The son of the proprietor acted as
"t dealer, while the dignified sire paced
the room during the evening session#
,w and kept a general oversight over tho
gamesters. One evening, a couple of
army otlicors induced their black serH
vants by the present ol a small fee to
! smuggle them into this temple of luck,
)' where whites were not commonly tolv
orated, an I prov1 ing 1 hat facile men'?
ial Willi ten silver debars, in structcd
^ liiru to put them on the ace.?The pro.
prietor, who was absorbed in spelling
' out the no.vs from the evening paper,
" had n >t observed the entrance of tho
stranger, nor the queer turn tho gamo
{> had lak-'ii. Presently however, ho
,l- lilted lii> eyes an I vspic 1 the fabulous
' pile oi sp--eie glut ;ug over tlie painted
>' cards.?Kor ji moment he was struck
S dumb, but recovering Ids voice, ho
d cried out in a voice of thunder: uWlu?
h put dat money on dat ace?'' Tlmro
'* was a dead tulcncc, the trombli.ig
s" darkies wero all afraid to answer.
^ "Who put dat money on dat aoeV1'
l' repeated the outr igcd sou of Guinea.
1) There was no ans k r and ho went on:
"Whoevei put dat nimuy on dat aoo
" had better tako dat tnoiwy otV of <1 it
w acc, and be dam quick about -it, too.
l* Vou niggers must 'tiuk dar's some of
11 <le Koftonilde about din y*r bank."?
iVew York Sun.
ll | A couotv^ y;iper exclaims: "Livea
j ther*. t? f0;in wjj^ HOU| dead who
U61' *
( I , er to himself has said. I'll pay before
1 go to bed, tlie debt 1 jwe the printer?
1) Yen there are some we know full well,
I who never such a tale could tell, but
>v0 they, I tear, will go to well, the
place where there's no winter."
ip- A company ot British capitalist?
of havo recently invested #1,000,000 in
p* water power at Augusta, Ga., for ihe
ast purpose of manufacturing cotton. A
ny- fine cotton mill is on the property, audi
rn- it has been proved that cotton can be
eon spun there cmisi lerably cheaper tbau
in O'd or New Kuglaud.
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