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COLUMBIA DlirT?IOTOOrr STK?BNCK
OF TUB M. B. CtiUBCR ?OHTH.
MB. EDITOR:-By your permission
I proposa briefly to sketch the doing? of
this body, whioh convened io Camden
OD th? 7th inst., after an introductory
germon by Re?. J. W. Murray, de
livered the previous evening. About
fifteen minister? ?ad thirty laymen wore
io attendance M members from the va?
rious pastorate? in Riohlaod, Fairfield,
Chester, Kershaw and Sumter counties.
Th? ?mall number of laymen present ia
mainly, if not exclusively, attributable.,
to the pressure of th? farming interest
at thia season of tbe year. The time
appointed waa selected for the conve
oieooe of our beloved Biahop W. M.
Wightman, whonrwe were all anxious
te have with us, and who eould not
attend at any other time, in oonaequenoe
of indispensable engagements elsewhere.
The writer is hopful that the repart
of a brief synopsis, as above, and tho
publication of a few of the several pa
pera, adopted by the body, while it will
not infringe upon any principle of public
and impartial journalism upon your
part, nor impose upon your readers
matters in whioh they can feel no in?
terest, nor provoke any unkind feeling
or spirit of controversy with our sister
churohes in this territory, will, never?
theless, stimulate to a wholesome reli?
gious inquiry and emulation. Indeed,
sir, is it not possible that religious
bodies err in restricting the publica
tion * of their transactions to. their
respective organs ? Publio opinion ia
moulded by the ministry of religion and
the publio is reaohed mainly through the
secular press. If these oould but aot in
concert on all the great moral interests
of humanity-the ministry ignoring
party politios and the press eschewing
seoular issues, knowledge and virtue
eould not fail of an early triumph over
ignorance and superstition.
But I shall not intrude into your
columns a detail of the proceedings of
-, the District Conference held at Camden.
What was done is all I propose to report,
aud that in a brief synopsis. And what
was done by this body does not possess
the weight of a legislative enaotment or
judioial deoision. It is only an advisory
body, exoept that as a delegated and re?
presentative" assembly, it elects lay
delegates to the next Annual Confer?
ence. Its other duties ara simply to
confer and reoommeod by resolution or
otherwise to the higher authorities of
the churoh. This is generally done at
the suggestion ol Committees upon the
various interests involved. The hearing
of verbal reports from the various pasto?
rates ocoupiedthe time of this Confer ?
ence to near the dose of the secona day,
after whioh the following resolutions
wore discussed and passed in relation 1
to V M
THE COLORED MEMBERSHIP OF TffE
CHURCH.
1. Thot in our judgment, the plan
for the organization of a colored Me tho
dist Episcopal Churoh South, adopted
by tho General Conference in I860, and
rc-affirmed in 1870, is the best that
oould have been devised for our colored
membership, under the ciroumetanoes/
2. That we approve the proposition of
our Bishops to organize in December
next, a General Conference for the or?
ganization of a oolored M. E. Church,
South, in accordance with the above
plan. .
8. That we heartily approve the coo
templated organization of a oolored
South Carolina Conference of the M. E.
Churoh, Sooth, by Bishop Wightmao,
io August next, io order that those of
our oolored membership io this State
who have so nobly stood by their true
mother churoh io th? trials aud tempta
tioos of the last few years, may be
represented io the Geoeral Conference
io December.
4. That we will give to our colored
members ?od friends all necessary in
formation and such other assistance as
may be praotioable in aid of this move
ment.
5. That we still feel a deep interest
in th? spiritual welfare of the colored
people of this country, and that we will
continue to render them suoh ministerial
or other religious assistance as they may
desire at our hands-limited only by
the diotatos of prudenoe and ability.
6. That we reoommond brethren in
charge ef circuits, stations and missions
within the bounds of this Distriot to
give their personal attention to th?
religious interests of the colored people
whenever it is manifest that they
desire it.
The following oxtract is from report
No. 1, of the committee on
j . EDUCATION.
*' EdaeatiOn-religions education-has,
from the beginning of the Gospel dis
Iiensation, been on? of the greatest pil?
ara of the Christian Church ; and no
denomination can hope for muoh suc?
cess, either in a material or spiritual
sense, without npeoial attention to its
claims. This fait has so impressed it?
self upon tb? religions world, that
Romanist and Protestant have vied
with each other in affording educational
facilities for the yoong. Romanism is
wide swak? on this subjeot, and her
schools ar? scattered all over oar coun?
try, in our large cities and towns -
wJ??i et nominal prices, Protestant
children aro invited to be educated.
The time has ooma when the ohuroh
should know her danger, her duty ?od
her obligations.
"We ar? persuaded that the Metho?
dist ohuroh should interest herself
more deeply on the snbjeot of denomi
tional education. Sh? has th? resources,
in material wealth, intellectual capabili?
ties and influence to sooesed io any
?ell directed effort ; and we hope ?he
Will ?van Herself or tb? facilities whioh
the present forma tire condition of
society affords, to renew her effort? in
thia remunerative field.
"We Aright ednoate onr ohildren out?
side the oburoh, and commit to un*
sanctified bands this delicate and im?
portant interest, bnt tho risk is fearful.
It is Hke arming and .equiping a giant
with bow, spear and battle-axe, end
challenging him to meet Us in single
combat. The odds will be agaiost us.
Not let tbe whole process of education be
?o conducted that the truths of science,
?ll illustrated, sanctified and made
radient bj the holier truths of the re?
ligion of the Gospel shall, while thej
impress the mind sanctify the heart. Let
the troths of literature, science and art,
intertwined, interlarded and ornamented
by the blossoms and fruits of a sound
piety, shed a holy perfume all around,
sxoiting taste, appetite and habit to
that which is pure, holy and of good
report. With education, separated from
Christianity, we hold no fellowship:,
'unto their assembly, mina honor, be
not thou united." Let others talk ot
Pierian Springs and Castillan Orores,
be it oura my countrymen, to draw over
sur ohildren the shield of Omnipotence,
ind proteot their interests with the
thick darkness in whioh Jehovah dwells.
Le xis teseh them that tbeir only secu?
rity is in God, and that the rioheBt
lowers and most lusoious fruits are
those of faith, hope and lore, whioh
bsog in inviting dusters from the
jrosa."
The report speaks hopefully of the
prospect for the re-opening of Columbia
female College at an early day, ami
illudea with pleasure to the brightening
prospects of Spartanburg Female Col?
lege. .
Report No. of the same Committee
refers mainly to the interests and im?
portance to the ehuroh of Wofford
College-than whioh no institution in
the Sodth is more deserving of patronage
>r better culpable of returning its pupils
'thoroughly furnished unto every good
*ork" or high position.
CHURCH FINANCE.
The sentiments and piinoiples enun
riated in this report are of euch in
crest to the general church of Christ,
hat, if you oan find room, other than
Methodist? will no doubt be edified by
ts perusal.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE.
Your Committee feel to commend the
Conference, and the Church throughout
ts bounds, to most devout thanksgiving
o Almighty God for the blessings ex?
perienced during another year-for the
divine outpourings-the lioh dews of
Heavenly graoe, that have deaoended
ipon many of the fields of labor, orowo
ng the faithful efforts of a zealous and
levoUd Ministry with rich rewards;
md for the temporal blessings, io in
ireased measure, ??which have been
vouchsafed. Oar loved soil, under the
)enignant hand of our meroiful God,
tas given to us more freely of its fruits,
tending more vigorous currents of aotion
hroughout the industrial interests of
he country, and affording more ample
seana from which to draw for the sup
jort of the Church. We feel, too, that
he Ministry and the Church, should
give thanks and take fresh courage and
leterminstion, in view of the increasing
nteresfc and attention which is being
nanifesteri in behalf of a more adequate
naiotainance of the v. hurch, and for
he marked improvement in this respeot,
n many seotions, aa indioated by the
noreaae of conferenoo connections and
he more favorable reports in connexion
vith ministerial support. The intro
luotion of the laity into the represen
ation-our district Conferences, bring
og together intelligent members from
he several parts of the body of the
Jhuroh, for consultation and aotion,
vhose spirits are quickened and hearts
nore throughly enlisted in this great
?nd good work, is doing muoh, we bo?
ieve, to rouse up latent energies, to
nform the uninformed, and creates more
idequato sense of duty in this eonnexion,
o encourage the heart of the ministry,
md to deviso and develop new means
br advanoing, in this connexion, the
nterests of the Kingdom of our blessed
Redeemer.
But, easting our eyes over the field
>efore us, we find thst there is muoh
o be done ; sod we would here exhort
mr burthen of the laity-tho official
nembersbip, throughout the bounds of
he Conference--to enter with increased
teal upon the work before them. Upon
hem the burthen of the responsibility
'or the adequate support ot the Church
esta, \yhat is probably most needed,
s a more effioientstewardship. Systems,
is perfeot as human wisdom oan devise,
nay be wrought out, and yet they must
?rove ioeffioent, it there be not the I
?roper power of notion brought to bear
tpoo them-if there he not the zealous
tod efficient worker to put them into
?peration, and carry them forward to
luoeess. Tho maohioery of the Metho
list Church is more comprehensive and
tower ful, in its construction, than that
if any other branch; and were this
naobinery, in all its parts, put in mo?
tion to the extent of its legitimate oap*
>ity, Methodism would send forth its
resistible power throughout all the
lountry-would move forth asa mighty
giant against the legions of the Prince
>f Darkness.
But, if the Church, in her great busi*
tess and mission prosper, it munt be,
loder the Divine blessing, by tho earn?
est attention of those who, in tho Pto-,
ridenoe of God, are charged with ber in?
crests. If private, temporal interests
toro subjected to the negleot and ir
egul'rity whioh has attended thb
aonetary affairs of tb? Church, beggary
md ruin would ensue ; and in looking
o the history of the Church, within tho
>Mt few decades more especially, we
iee more olesrly the impres of its divine
ireation and establishment, sines, had it
?eeu, of merely human institution, it
would Ung sine? have . teased to ex?
ist. - ? V
The Stewards' meeting should be
held with unvarying regularity/ and
the financial and other business of. the
Churoh receire that degree of system?
atic attenlion, to ita tum, sod at the
time set apart for it, wbioh is bestowed
upon other interests, public or private,
about wbioh real oonoero is felt, but
which weigh so little io the great bal
aooes of inmortal interests, sod eome
so far short of a counterpoise when oom?
pared to this.
Loren of the Church oauuot. fail to
see, especially under the great ohanges
which have come over the county, that
the great interests she represents must
languish, unless, auder the moving
inspiration of th* Divine spirit, they
thus como up tp r-or help. Every offi?
cial member of the Church should set
spart, speoifioially and regularly, so
muoh of bis time and energies as shall
be sufficient to enable him to disoharge
properly the duties of his position, and
in a spirit of ohristian justice end love
for the Churoh, and the building up
and extention, through her influence,
if our Redeemer's Kingdom on earth,
it is urged thai our Boards of Stewards
should be filled only by members who
will thus give attention to the work of
their Lord and Master.
The preaohor should be so provided for,
as to leave him free from aotual anxiety
or eare in connexion with the support of
himself and family. He should feel an
abiding confidence that the amount
determined upon as his allowance will
be fully paid-entirely discharged
previous to his departure for oonforenoe
and realized by him all along during the
year, to the extent sufficient to meet
his wants. This, it is easily seen, oan
only bo accomplished by regular col?
loorions from the membership, and
regular meetings of the Boards of Stew?
ards. And these regular meetings will
be found to infuse a healthful vigor
into the energies of the official member?
ship, and aggregating, at the olose of
the year, an amount of systematically
accomplished financial and other busi?
ness, which, under the irregular, spas?
modic and disjointed praotioe of the
past, it were idle to hope for the attain
ment of.
And here your Committee foel oalled
upon to make allusion, direot and poin?
ted, to a praotioe into which Boards of
Stewards have fallon, in too many
instances, whioh is not ?only an ovil
whioh cries aloud for Reform, but whioh,
when viewed deliberately, and in the
light of truth and fairness, amounts to
a roproaeh. The allusion is to tho
habit of specifying and fixing an amount
Tor the support of the preaoher and his
family, and afterwards refusing or neg
lectiog to moot that amount-pledging
the faith and promise of the Churoh and
violating that faith and promise. A
moral delinquency, the remedy for
which is found in clearly defined and
easily accessible rules of law and
praotioe, in referonoo to all secular
iflnira, but whioh, in tho relation here
alluded to, is practiced with impunity,
because the Churoh, in her high and
holy mission, whioh is not of the world,
leeks not the ways and contrivances of
the world for the enforcement of her
mandatos and the proseoution of her
great business' This praotioe, wore it
brought to bear in the ordinary business
ifiairs if life, would break down and root
?ut all confidence, and bring disrepute.
And how is it that a Board of the Stew
irds of the Churoh of our Lord Jesus
Christ, may do that, in connexion with
her interests, when dealiug with her
ministers, with impunity, whioh they
would not, and it may be could not, or
dare not do, in their oonnexion with the
world ? Is it because the injured and
wronged servant of God has no means of
redress except that whioh is to be found
in the oorrcotive power of tho princi?
ples and sentiment of the Churoh ? If
this be so, then let the Churoh speedily
lift her voioe, and create a sentiment
on this subject, whioh shall at once ap?
ply the remedy May God give to the
stewardship of the Churoh, eyes to see
the moral deformity of a practico Uko
this, and His grace lead them into
higher and purer and better ways.
A proper disoharge of duty on tho
part of the stewardship in connexion
with the body of the membership, will
go far to relieve the premises of the
evil of wbioh we complain. And a
part of that duty is, by "line upon line
ind precept upon precept," to impress
the truth that the obligation to support
the Church rests alike upon all her
members, aooordiog to tho means whioh
?od has given thom-that from this
none may olaim exemption. In the
Bnanoial system of English Methodism
sven those whose indigenoe enables
them to draw from the charities of the
Churoh, are expected or required to
rast baok into the treasury a penny or
more a week, in order that the princi?
ple of which we speak may bo fully
applied. And our Churoh, in hor finan?
cial interests, oannot bo placed upo" ftu
easy and safe basis, until this principle
is brought into operation. And it ie
believed, that in the administration ol
discipline, looking to her spiritual vital?
ity snd progress, ss involved in thc
temporal means for her support, she
ihould resort to some praotioe, founded
and executed in tho spirit and teach?
ings of our b'ossed religion, by whioh a
just proportion shall be roa I i zed from
oaoh and every member.
It is difficult to see how it is, thal
soy mao or woman, may regard hersell
yr himself as a member of a Church, ot
inffer themselves to be thus rogarded
by the Churoh, and yet withold all
means for the support of that Church.
Members whose names thus appear
apon the books-who from time tc
time-from year to year-nogloct ot
refuse, to pay towards its support, it is
Do?ered, in their silent influence, il
aothing more, retard rather than advanct
ber interests > and, as dead branohes, 01
as fruitless vines, pr?sent an uncomely
sight io the midst of the vigorous ever?
green boughs and clustering fruit of tho
vineyard of oar Lord.
The application of a principle like
thia, while just before the eyes of
Heaved and mao, it ia believed would
place the ohuroh upon a more solid
and reliable basis, financially, whilst
bringiog new seal and devotion in com.
mon with her great spiritual interests,
And here, too, is involved a principle
which, in its operation, looks to the
avoidanoe of the necessity for the
Ministry to seek or pursue other
employment than that oonneoted with
the sacred office. The dangers whioh
beset a secularized Ministry have been
previously touohed upon, but it is
believed that they have not been pre?
sented with that prominence and force
whioh their great importance demands,
or, it may be, realised to the extent to
whioh they exist. They who preaoh
the Gospel of our Blessed Redemer must
live of the Gospel, and wherever there
has been departure from this Divine
injunction, on the part of those who
have eooseorated themselves apooifioally
and entirely to the work', there has
been loss ot influence and spirituality
to the one, and, as a consequence, neg
leot and suffering to the other.
The Conference Plan, as published in
our last annual Minutes, is indioated,
specifically, as a xystem whioh has been
found to work successfully, wherever
applied, in raising the amounts necessa?
ry for the support of the Churoh in her
soveral interests. It will be observed
thal it proceeds upon the voluntary
system-it being left to eaoh member,
in the presence of his conscience and
his Qou, to determino what amount he
will appropriate, quarterly and monthly
-quarterly on the Circuits, and month?
ly at the Stations-for the support of
the Churoh. Wherever this system has
been employed, it has been found that
larger amounts have been realized, and
more prompt payments scoured, than
under the system of assessment by the
stewards. The plan, therefore, is ear?
nestly reoommended, and when under?
stood, will be found to embrace all
dotails of application whioh a report like
this may not embrace.
In looking to tko several olairas. The
Bishops, our educational interests, the
superannuated preaohes and tho widows
and orphans of preachers, and tho cause
af missions-all of them are alike urged
-none of them should be neglooted.
And it should be borne in mind that
the faith of the Conferenoe is solemnly
pledged to the realization of the full
amount of all these several claims. And
if a word is here said, particularly, in
behalf of our educational interests, it is
because of the fact that, in some in?
itanoes, there has been exhibited a
Imposition to discriminate against it.
Methodism, if she keep peaoe with the
nardi of intellectual progress, and with
the advancement of other branches of the
Church of Christ, must turn hor atten?
tion more directly and earnestly to tho
sause of sanctified education. An
iducated ministry is a requirement
which cannot be dispensed with, if the
Jliurch is sustainod, whilst an oduoated
nombership will go hand in hand
u furtherance of tho great interost
nvolved. And it is for those who
snow and appreciate its incalculable
blessings and its irresistible power in
:he world, when accompanied by the
ipirit of God, to throw themselves to
the front, and, by dooidod action, and
earnest words of truth, to overthrow
tod oblitorate every vestige of prejudioo
which would hinder or retard its pro?
;ress. The Churoh, within all the
sounds of our Conferenoe, should rally
to the support of Wofford College. Its
influence for good, and its value to the
Church within our limits are inestima?
ble. Close up its olassio halls-where
he youth of tho ohuroh and of the
country are educated alike in head and
in heart, and you inflict a damaging blow
jpon the Churoh, and extinguish one of
the brightest lights that shines around
is, in tho midst of the darkness and
iiffioulties of the present day.
The following resolutions are respect
fully submitted.
Resolved, That the spirit and purposes
)f the Churoh, require that the Min
stry, as far as possible, should be freed
[rom all complications and anxious care
in connexion with support and that, io
>rder to aooomplish this, itboobmes the
luty of tho stewardship to aotc promptly
ind efficiently, and to hold their meet?
ings regularly throughout the year
laving made an honest effort to oollool
?rom the membership, in the intervals
tho amounts they may have agreed tc
give.
2. Resolved, That with unitod voici
wo appeal to the membership of thc
ohuroh, and more especially tho officia
membership, to come up, with nen
interest and zoal to her support, in hoi
several interests.
8. Resolved, That tho duty of ead
ind every member to appropriate ao
sording as God has blessed them, o
their means, for the support of thi
Churoh, in her several interests, ii
enjoined as a sacred and solomo obligo
Lion, laid upon us by the great head o
the Ohuroh himself, aid that we maj
not have sustaining faith in the provi
ienoes of God, whilst living in negleo
?f this fundamental principio of chris?
tian obligation.
4. Resolved, That tho contribution
required for tho support of the Chu roi
in all its effioienoy ovg?t not to b
regarded as eleemosynary, but as a deb
tot inestimablo benefit, whioh dob
ought to be paid in his or her just an?
pquitable proportion by eaoh and ever
individual who participates ir. th
benefits of Divine service, whether h
or she be an enrolled member of th
Ohuroh or not.
5. Resolved, That effioient stowardshi
is tho great vital principio of any soho m
for the cropper advancement of th
financial interests of tho Churoh, and
i* consequence, it ia urged that io tho
reorganisation of our Board? of Stow
arda, referen ea should be had mainly to
the christian leal and faithfulness of I
those who may bo chosen as members.
6. Resolved, That ?towards of the
Churoh, under ea?h charge, ought, at
the expense of the Ohuroh; to prooure a
book of the sise and form ot a merchant's
ledger, and to enter therein all amounts
contributed to the support of the ohuroh,
the names of the persons by whom they
hare been contributed, together with all
other things connected with the finan?
cial records of the ohuroh under that
oharge, and carefully transmit suoh
book io their successors in office, for
preservation as a ohuroh-record.
7. Resolved, That we oan but view,
with eootinued apprehension, anything
within our bounds which may tend
towards a secularized Ministry, and we
present this matter, as one worthy the
most serious consideration, both of the
Ministry and membership of the Church.
8. Resolved, That we heartily endorse
the provision whioh is made, in the
financial economy of the Churoh, for
the assistance of Wofford College, and
earnestly and affectionately urge that
this provision be carried out to its full
intent and meaning, and that all Meth?
odists throughout our bounds, whose
means admit of it, are warmly recom?
mended to send their sons to this noble
institution of christian learning.
CHUR0II LITERATURE.
The report upon this subject sets
forth the difficulties in getting a supply
of our own publioations from the dis?
tance of the publishing house and laok
of a depository or book store at whioh
they can be had in the State. It also
recommends the organization of joint
stock company to meet the above de?
mand, a plan for whioh was submitted
and ordered for publication in the
Advocate and tho Neighbor. The
Sunday School Visitor, published at
Nashville, is recommended. Also Burke's
Weekly, published at Macon. Ga., for
boys and girls. The Christian Advocate,
Macon, Ga., is the organ of the South
Carolina Conference. The Christian
Neighbor, Columbia, is a favorite in
many families.
L. WOOD.
LOTHAlft.
BY D'ISRAELI.
The best novels of the present age,
excel in morals, as much as they do in
style and power, those which delighted
our fathers and mothers.
The works of Scott, Bulwer, Thaokcry,
Dickens and D'Israeli, are, with rare
exceptions, as chaste in thought as they
are vigorous in manner. Wo give them
to our daughters to read without fear
that their innocent natures will be shock?
ed by tho vulgarity of Fielding or tho
license of Smollot.
Of the work now under review, we
may safely say that there is not in it
a lino whioh might not be read with
perfeet propriety by tho purest person
iu the world. Wc mako this remark
in advance, because we have heard the
morality of the work impugned.
In order that our readers may judge
of the purity of the story, we will
give a brief account of tho'plot.
Lothair, tho hero of tho book, is
a wealthy patrician just about to reach
his majority. Boing without parents,
he is under tho guardianship of his
unole, a Scotch Laird, and Cardinal
Grandison, an English Catholic. Nei?
ther, however, appears to havo exercised
any influence over him. Satisfied with
their conscientions devotion to his world?
ly affairs, they seem to have thought
their duty completed, when they suc?
cessfully invested his immense incomo
and kept his wide domains in first rate
condition. Lothair possesses a fine in*
telleot and a good heart, and is natural
ly of o'religious turn of mind.
Coming, at tho age of twenty, into
the refined and elegant sooicty of th?
English aristocracy, he is charmed with
all he secs, and his heart and mind
ready for strong impressions. It so hap?
pens that his most intimate friends aro
of opposite religious opinions. Ont
family ore strict and ardent Catholics,
tho other pious and earnest members of
tho Angclioan Churoh. This puzzles
our hero beyond conception, and he is
kept in a continual stoto of excitement
rod unrest by the absorbing study of
this moral problem, aided by tho power?
ful influeuee of a dawning love. Both
families are wealthy and distinguished,
and each has a bouutiful and acoom -
plishod heiress worthy of tho devotion
oi Lothair.
To strengthen tho Catholic interest,
Cardinal Grandison a??J sevoral priests
of Home usc^ ?very art and argument,
that highly cultivated Intellect and
elegant manners can bring to bear upon
a naturo gentle and impressible.' Just
whon we think that Lothair is about to
become tr Catholic, there appears wo?
the soeno the real horoine of tho book,
Theodora, an Italian patriot, mart'^ t0
an American Colonel, (not ij/xookeo
but a Southorn gcntlemo>> as tn0
author remarks) This>% ?fl 8'fted
with every charm, ph/0*1 ?nd ioto1"
leotual, that can re/?r woman lovely.
Lotharr immodiayy f<>rra? ? friendship
for her, whioh >ouJdebi? futuro life.
Aa Theodora ia actively engaged in the
cause of Italian Independence* ah? ia
naturally an anti-papist, and tho' not
a member of any Protestant communion,
she oses all her powerful influenoe to
prevent Lothair from beoomtng a Oath*
olio. At her husband's London house,
be meets a cultivated and pleasing
society, different from any he hai known
before, and spends most of bis time
there. It is this friendship, which .seems
to us as pure as the love of sisters for
eaoh other, that, has given rise to the
oarpings of some ill humoured oritios
We cannot understand' why a marriod
woman of great intelligence, high culti?
vation and unimpeachable virtue, may
Dot be sincerely loved and respected by
an unmarried mao, without a thought or
idea of impurity. .
The op iso Je of the pearls ought to
convince any one, not biassed by preju?
dice, that Theodora, like Caesar's wife, is
above suspicion. A more beautiful
inoident, we have never read. And the
mind that conceived it, must be noble
and chaste.
Theodora joins the Italian insurgents
under Garabaldi, her husband holding
a high rank in the patriot army.
Lothair, after eolebrating his majority in
true old English style, unites his for?
tunes to tho cause so dear to his dearest
friend. The patriots are defeated, The
odora is killed by a stray ahot, and Lo?
thair severely wounded. In this condi?
tion ho is oarried to Rome and tenderly
nursed by his Catholio friends from
England. He is thus again thrown under
Popish influences. Cardinal G rand ison
and his priests lend their aid ?to his
attempted conversion. The whole plan
rails because of the dying injunction
of Theodora, and the discovery by Lo?
thair of a base and groundless sohemo to
sntrap him into the Church of Rome
i>y means of a pretended miraole.
This naturally disgusts his cundid and
high toned nature, and he breaks away
from his wiley friends and aftor many
idventurcs returns to England and
marries the protestant heiress.
The jesuitioal sohemo appears to us
the great fault of the book. It seems
un fair to the Protestant cause to make
the hero unable to resist Catholio alure
monts, until he discovers that a fraud
indji protended miraole are being used
for his conversion. It is also an injustice
to the Catholio Religion to assume that
it cannot suoooed without falsehood and
Joccption: This is the only weak point
n a work of remarkable power and in?
terest.
At a timo when so mnoh that is un?
worthy finds its way into. the domestic
iirclo undor tho guise of Fiction, it is
'efreshiog to read a Novel so pure and
loble-so beautiful in style, concise and
rigorous in description, and so full of
thought and information.
C. II. 3V?.
?OSH BILLING'S ANSWERS TO
COURBSPON DUNTS.
FRED.-Yew oio't obliged to ask the
girl's mother-you may go homo with
lier from a party ? get the girl's en
lorsemeut, and go in ; it is proper
enough to ask hor to take your arm, but
rou have no right to put your arm
around her waist unless you meet a bear
in the road j and then you are sup?
posed to relinquish your hold as soon
is the bear gets safely by.
WHIP--You are right-mules do live
to a lonely oge ; I havo known them
myself to live one hundred years, and
dot half try. You are also right about
their being surefooted ; I have known
them to kick a boy twice in a second,
ton feet off.
GERTRUDE.-Your inquiry stumps
mo. The more I think about it tho
more I can't tell. As near as 1 can
recollect now, I think I don't know.
Much might bc said both ways; neither
may be right. Upon tho whole, I think
that I would or wouldn't, just as I think
best or otherwise.
PLUTARCH.-You'ro mi&tukeu ; th
Shakers don't marry. If tho youn/J
Shakers foll in love they aro set ? I
weedin' onions, which cures them if .
iv i th ly I can't tell you how ra/T, "
takes to join tho Shakers, but jooheve
thc expenso used tobe, includ^o having,
your hair cut and lenrnin/ *? dance,
?bout sixty fivo dollars. . ?
SPORTSMAN.-Your inquiry is not
ixnotly in my line, bat/1 hasU to reply
is follows, to wit / TIJO right length to
?ut off n dor?'*' hfls ??vor "ften
ly discovered, but it is undoubtedly
somewhere back ol tho cars, provided
you tfrt thc dorg's consent. N. B.- lt
isn't necessary to have thc dorg's con?
tent in writing.
KITTY,-To my own personal vie.w
in the premises, ituppenrs that tb'
rat-and mico exterminator > 'a wcll
.cgulatcd Thongs cat : , ^^T(s of "?sc
initstion?; sold hr tl,c respectable
lrugg><3.
NEV-R forsake a friend. When ene
nies gutlior around, when sickness fulls
n tho heart, when tho world is dark
nd ohcorlcs*, is tho timo to try true
riondship. They who turn from tho
cone of distress botray their hypocrisy,
nd prove that intcrost only moves
hem. If you haVo a friend who loves you,
rho has studied your interest and happi
icss, be suro to sustain him in adversity,
jct hun feel .that hi? former kindness
s appreciated, and that his love was not
brown away. r**v#BP
! SPEECH OP
HON. H. ?, OABPBNTEtt, BEFORE
WW fat ASS HUTTING AT CTR A ?l LU?
TO If, JTfJl/r SO.
From tb? Charleston JVetet of the 2lat,
we extract the following allusion to the
greet Mass Meeting at Charleston on
tho 20th, ?od the speech of Jud ga Car
pouter. .
Agreeably to the publishe d announce
fneot, thousands of. our oitis ens assem?
bled last evening in front of the Char?
leston Hotel for the purpose of attending
the mooting called to ratify tho nomi?
nations of the Union llefrom Conven?
tion. Por more than two hours the
clouds had been lowering and the
elements every moment threatened a
deluge. Notwithstanding these adverse
oiroumstauoes, the spacious corridors
and piazzas of the hotel were throng?d
with ladies and gentlemen untif there
was soaroely standing room left, while
the broad street io front of the uland
was packed with an eager multitude.
At the hour appointer) for tho com?
mencement of the proceedings, tho
lightnings flashed and the thunder
roared, to a degree well oalculatod to
excite the liveliest desire to retreat from
a threatened inundation j but even after
a heavy rain begen to fall, not more
than two or three hundred of tho
immenso audienoo retreated from the
scene.
Prom beginning to end the interest
manifested by the meeting was a con?
vincing proof of the abiding faith of the
people of Charleston in tho prospects
of the campaign, and in the enlarged
principies of truth and right which gov?
ern, aud direct, tho mighty movement,
whose sole obloot is tho redemption of
the State from a rulo of ignoranae and
corruption.
SPEECH OP JUDGE CARACTER.
My Fellow-citizens :-If anybody sup- I
poses that a shower of rain like this is n
unpropitious, he is mistakon. On the i
contrary, I look upon it as ono of tho f;
blessings whioh Providence reserves in t
store for South Carolina. As the earth a
responds with its abundant orop and all q
nature smiles more sweetly, so will the f
career upon whioh wo of the Uuion Kc- p
form party have started-a career in ti
which we can, even now, anticipate the vt
renewing and fruotifioation of our grand tl
old Stato. If these were tho only ele* j
menta with which we had to contend, I p
should feel that God himself was speak- b
ing to us with His lightning, and bid n
us speed forward in the language of His ti
thunder heads. (Great cheering.) p
Gentlemen of Charleston, that patti? tl
otic body of men, representing the d
integrity, industry and capital of tho fi
State, who met in Columbia, on the 15th h
ofjast month, honored me with a nom- p
?nation for tho distinguished office of w
Governor of South Carolina. While I h
am fully sensible of the great distinction
thus conferred, and of the dignity and b
magnitude of the office itself, I have
neither directly nor indirootly sought al
that exalted position, because, in my A
judgment, it might moro properly have p
been tendered to somo one of thc many b
gallant native sons of tho State, those I
who in the past wore, and in tho future b
must be, her representative men. Conn tl
Adorations of a personal character n
bushed tho strong voieo of ambition, p
ind inclined ute, not, indeed, to sloth- U
f.ilness, but to peaceful and oongonial n
labor. The scene of my life, before my lt
locationPin this generous hospitable and tl
plundered city, was in tho mighty West tl
amidst its mujestio rivers, broad valleys b
and grand, old forests ; its notion, ioy
jessant combat; its results, little moy{*?.D
perhaps, than true friends and fuiphr ?"
bio enemies. ? /..
At the time of my nora i nay,.0 , ,
this had changed. I occupied o/xaltc? ,or
station, had discharged its /fI0f and mn
responsibilities in ?mon/ '?1,1? but
tho opproval of tho hon/und loleHi; dt?<
?eot If [ missed thoAT1 ?ra8P of m.e
the tried friends of y/? \ ,,ad n? ?"? h"
mies, save those of/iv and ord?r M* an
hours of relaxatio^y5 "P?ot io aooial ho
intercourse w?tl/pc<>ple remarkable for . wu
their intclle/T*' urbla.nl7 ft,,d rc; tlu
finement Xo' 'tavc tn,s honor and po;
luunch ii/"nrk uPon tno *tormy ?* ol
Der on"j?on?l?ct nnd politiotil commotion
rcqiilr~*''l'10101'1'1'11*0 which I poscss- oas
cd./Tccra-)
/iodides all this, 1 knew tho foes with sui
'hom we havo to contend-not honest cv
ion, nor open and manly adversaries, it
rtned with truth, meeting reu- on with th
rgument, and buttling (pt a fuir field nu
jr tho honor and prosperity of the Stato wo
ut the debris of penitentiaries, fugi- un
ives from justico, and ravcuous wolvi s mi
rho have como to claim tho last drop of
lood Iroin the Palmetto State. Thejr to
rcapons aro in harmony with thoir dc
otestable diameter. Their averment* ftc
?alignnnt falsehoods ; their proofs, toi
eijury. To this general statement on
here arc a fow exceptions, nnd they ar? op
nore remarkable*'1*0 *h? fule, for ho.w I
.ny honest ,,n'' intelligent mah cutt
,ct with ?* body who are well known to til
)(. t-rtivc thieves ami publie robbers, re
rfu os t beggars human credulity. 1 have h\
ecu charged with a violation of almost ol
very command in the "Deoalogue. liy qt
rhum ure these charge* made, and whut di
? tho proof to sustain them ? They arc th
nude hy tho Governor, Lieutenaot. Gov- to
t nor, Treasurer and Comptroller Goner na
I through their infamous tools nnd'f)
iurohnsod slaves, tho editors of tho. N
lydra-headcd orgun of tho Fcott King, cl
)iihlished herc j (loud chocri.ng.; ) men di
vlui drive thc soft ombraco of slumber nt
ron) thoir eyelids to study tho delight- I
ul sojpnoo of libel, mid med?talo upon if
he sweets of falsehood, omi early risc to
md inako "most hclish meals of good a.?
ncn'h names." This sewer of calumny 'o
lud'oaespool of dotraclion is owned in 0
treat part and ooutrnllod entirely by u|
he corrupt liing who now rulo thia .
StatQ to ila lasting detriment und their ti
CJh>h
om
The Sumtej
Highest Style of &|fctetJ
OWD enormous profit! ?2$uJI
plauso J ~'jjr&^^^^^^L^Kj?**- )
Do j?*?*ik why lh*t sheOt tf^rlydra- j
hesiod an 1 ?ot entitled to bUitfT*^
Beende it ?4 itself a representative ct yt
the swindling pertinacity of ita owoarV'-j
tt is because it publishes IQ th** city $f ?
Charles ton thr?e ' papers, one dubbed "t
with the nanto of thia city, ono 'with %
that of Beaufort, and one with that of ;
Columbia. And hy thus triplicating Itt ?
Issues it commands from the State three *4
prices for every advertisement, each '. >
price being, I undertake to.aay, double
that which is paid to any other paper . fi
in the State. This is tho precious sam.
pie of honesty and public deoenoy from
which emanate the charges t li?t I bare
bribed the 'Legislature)-oh arge?, wy q
fellow -oitisens, which ara-hot made' so
uuch against me aa ?gain?t you, tho
)coplo, that those who are in-power hod V
rho own this infamous organ, whioh
leeks to control public sentiment, may I
ceep themselves out of tho penitentiary. V
^Prolonged cheering.] '
It has been said in the columns of that
?aper that I bribed the Legislature?
?Voil, Heaven knows, that was not much
o do ! [Laughter ] And tho charge ia
Dade by the noting Lieutenant Govor- \
tor, the Codifier of the Laws, the City \
Vttorney, the Phosphate Attorney, tho
Jnited States District Attorney. If I 1
tare Ibrgotton any of his titles I beg hil
?ardon. And that ho, the owner of the
lonors aforesaid, actually did bribe a
udge of tho State to render suoh a :
lecision as best would suit his interest.
iVhat ! that immaculate speoimon of
nortality bribe a judge ? [Laughter.]
3entlomcn, the confession only illite?
rates tho weakness to whioh these j
momios of honesty and political deoenoy
ro reduced io order that thoy may !
urti fy themselves in tho offices they
told and thus bo enabled to continue . .;
heir depredations upon the treasury of
ho Stat o and the purses of the poor.
Great applause.] Up to the present timo
have paid no attention whatever to these
negations, and I do not propose to do ao ?
n the future, because they emanate
rom a source whioh it would defile a man
0 handle; but here and at all times . I
m prepared to answer any respectful 1
ueetion that maybe asked py an honest
ellow citizen. When thieves and
ublio robbers interrogate me, I plead
s the jurisdiction. [Applause.] It '
rould be a very pleasant thing for
nieves, no doubt, if they could aoouse ?
udge, or take thoir place on a jury, or
lay the part of the solicitor; but I have
eeo taught to know that criminals
lust stand in the dook, be arraigned,
ried, found guilty, and sent to tho'
enitentiary for punishment. It is for.
Iiis reason that I plead to the juris-:
iotion, and refuse to be tried by. those
ho have assumed tho lion's skin to
ido their ignominious identity. . I re
eat, therefore, that if any gentleman
?shes to ask tue any question, I am
ore to answer it frankly and truthfully.
A voice. Tell us about the Phosphato
ill.
Ju Ige Carpenter. I am glad you have
(Forded me the opportunity of daping HO? j
LS a shareholder I was intep**ted in a
hosphate company, ab o ut,-?T ich tu ooh
as been written j but, ?Verstand me,
did not'sell my voteX a legislator to *
eeome a shareholder^* did not imitate
ie example of aojr0* those who have
lade these oha/^fl- J- wa? simply a '
rivato indivioV1"? an<i? U8'?g my pr i FI-'
'go as suoh/11111110 an investment of '
ty moans/11 W?8 a ri8ht which be
>?SedP^as Tuoh M to any man in i
"^theso interests woutai*ipTO6SWy
^?iie matters pf litigation,^'occupying
1 offioial position whioh I did, as a
iu of honfcr,' I. felt in duty bound to
pose of thoVo, interests, and I accord
;ly disposcd^otf them, lt was a personal
nsaotion, and what I thus cb tai nod
abona ?debusiness interest, legiti
.tcly acquired, is no man's business
t my own. I moreover emphatically
ihiro that I havo never approached a
ni ber of tho Legisla turo and asked
u to vote for tho Phosphate bill, or
y other bill. The truth is, I Ratlin
neut man oould have done veiy HitleC
th tho Legislature, and about that
ne I was personally anything but
pular with the members of the Gencr
Asscmbly.
A voice. How about the Orongolurg
tc?
Judge Carpenter. I have simply to
f that I decided that case as 1 havo
ery oilier, according to tho .law ; and
is not for this audience to iuipugU
c motives of a man who, until ho was
initiated us a candidate for Oovcroor
LS not suspected of doing aught that
honest, upright and a just judgo
ight not do in tho'performance ul thu
L*red functions of hi? office. I wish it ,'
bc understood also that I make tkie ?fol
nial, not because tho ehargo ^'HtfM?
>ui a sourco fo> which I feel .'<'ii^^P
ii.pt, but because jit originates with
ot*f tho people-*o sovoroi^n whoso
inion I respect aud to whoso integrity
pin my fuith. . *
1 desire no higher endorsement than .
at which orovvned^ny of?aial labors.on,/^ j
tiling fiome^oJPIrich of this'oitfyil^SjpJ
>r two ycarjUprcsidbd over tho
' registrar jwvaokruptoy, ?ml .KMpre
icm ly, for two yeats, I perforaton tho
il ie* of a Jungo, And whcn.l.rcNijihod
0 iattcr pos lion, tho Bar of Charles?
ti, ns astuto, high, toned omi dUciiuM;
itirrg a body of gentlemen as eau no
und tn America, pre mL<J over hy tho
?stor Of tho Ba*. of tho *?|i>l?^
LChiot Justice Ihuikiil-ouMBiy
iclarod that I hud proved a. fafli?rViL~
id un upright kftMgij. [Apjih'J^i.'fl?
dohir'u no higher c?iiimendation ; uii'TjP
tho pcnplo of South'Carolina clinn.-nj*
1 bolK'VC tho slanders of such a ?ling
I CXis 8 in Columbia, With h paid agc Ut
! ri'presoiit their vilifications i-i
liarlt slon, j4ct ?hem do it. [' ?n .>t t
opUuse.] . >?lr
This is not roy fight. I; is not "MIIO
ley arc striking down ; it ls the po?jiTO