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??? ???????? ????????? ,. Sgg-? & JJ.J L". *..'."."gggf? vol. Yl.TI. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1886. NO. 41. T \/ JLJ* -4. rn. A CENTURY OF BRIGHT WOMEN. FROM .MARTHA W \SHI\GTO.\ TO RO*E ELIZABETH (LEVEL VMS. An lntere?tin;: sketch of the Women Who Ha\e B**en Ml?tre???n of the White Houtw. (Fr-m :he Pbilade'p'iia Titre*) < i i l - T> ...M 4 The announcement mat tut- rrr?mnu will marry Miss Frances Folsom in June recalls the historic series of White House nuptials. Washington, it is well known, j married long l>efore he became President, or even general of the army. He j met the lovely Widow Custis at Wil' liamslmrg during his service as a member of the Virginia Legislature. Mrs. Washington presided over the Executive household at the seat of government, first in New York, tlien in this city, "with a good deal of formality. Their house : in this city was one rented from Robert Morris, on Market street, l>etween Fifth and Sixth. It was here the Friday levees were held, and the rules, were very rigorous. The first President's wife was born a Jones, that of the second a Smith?Abigail Smith?so the Republic, so far as the domestic head of it was concerned, was ushered in with a certain democratic simplicity. John Adams married his wife when she was twenty, and her fr Lher, who was a clergyman, preached a ? xl. ? C!..oftor Mwl(line sermon uu uic u uuu.. _ 0 ?so a historic old chestnut relates?from the text, "John came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say he liath a devil." During Adams's term of office, in 1800, the Government was removed to Washington. Mrs. Adams was the first lady of the White House, but she never liked it and lived there altogether but four months. Her picture, by Gilbert Stuart, represents her as a cheerful and not unhandsome looking woman of fifty, with cap, and ringlets of curls wreathing the edge. Jefferson went into the "White House a widower of nineteen years' standing, and his diary lately published by John Bigelow shows he understood thoroughly the domestic economies which were necessary in the matter of providing for the wants of the mansion and its hospitali ties. His wife was the widow of Bathurst Skelton, a Virginia gentleman, and the daughter of John Wayles, of Charles City County, Virginia. She was said to be a beautiful woman, and Jefferson to have won her over other suiters through his musical voice and ability to play the violin. Dollv Madison was one of the most popular of the White House women, if we believe tradition, and vet she certainly was not pretty, if Prudhomme's en- . graving from the picture of Herring is to be accepted, with the queer turban, pro- : fusion of ringlets, large nose and positive mouth. There is, however, a glimpse of a prettily rounded arm and a classic neck through the lace and drapery, that ! perhaps may have combined with her ' well-attested tact and vivacity to have 1 given her the reputation she certainly ' enjoys among the President's wives. She ' was an F. F. V., Dorothy Payne, al- < though born in the Pine Tree State, and ' in early life her parents lived here and Dolly actually joined the Society of Friends in this city, although no doubt a rising young Quaker lawyer, one John ' Todd, whom she afterward married, nad . something to do with this. Todd died and left her a widow with one son, so ! Dolly set her cap for some of the fine looking young members of the Congress then wont to come to Philadelphia to transact the public business, and in 1794 married James Madison, one of the most talented of the body. ^ Mrs. Monroe was the daughter of a British army officer named Cartwright, distant relations of the Philadelphia Cart vvrights, who settled in New York after the peace of 1783. . She was one of four girls. One of these married Mr. Heyliger, Grand Chamberlain to the tt"?a* o r>av rv iniT ui. x/euiiiaxa., oixv/uucx a -un. xtuu.i, of New York City, -whose only daughter was the wife of the late Alexander Hamilton, son of Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury; a third married Nicholas Gouverneur, of New York, and ne fourth Senator James Monroe, of Virginia, afterward President. The first White House wedding was ; that of President Monroe's youngest daughter, who married her cousin Samuel L. Gouverneur, in 1820. It took place in the East room, and was a Knick erbocker afiair, stylish and hightoned for ' the day. A number of brilliant receptions in Washington were tendered to < the bridal couple, and tfce cards were . out for a very swell one by Commodore "Essex" Porter and wife, when it hatod be given up, owing to the untimely death of Commodore Decatur, tilled by Barron in a duel. The dead officer had i given the young couple a brilliant party but a few days before at his own home. An older daughter of President Madison ! married Judge Geo. Hay, of Richmond. Hortensda Hay, a beautiful girl, daughter of this match, was the wife of Lord i Rogers, of Baltimore, whom old society : people of this city remember. Lady ] Rogers died in Paris, and is buried in j - Pere la Chaise. ! Most persons who have read the vol- ] uminous diary of the "old man eloquent" know more or less of Louisa Catharine : Adams, his wife. She was the daughter : of a Mary lander named Johnson, who lived in London during the Eevpln^ion, ^ sl^e was iiorii. Charles Francis Adams was lie:' third son. She accomi paniedher distinguished husband during much of his diplomatic and official journeying abroad, and did the honors during his Executive term, and was a woman of varied accomplishments, A fine painting pf her by L^sljp is in possession of the Boston family, and represents her as a pr-etty woman, elegantly robed, a jewelled tiara in her hair, necklace ornament and lace shawl, with a handsome gown, cut far more decollete than Rose Cleveland could possibly approve of. Mrs. Adams died in 1S02, end is buried with lier husband at.Quincv. General Jackson's wife died before he went into the White House, and, as he had married before she was formally divorced, the iron-hearted old Democrat was, with her, often the subject of pitiless political calumny. She was a plain woman, but undoubtedly possessed the undivided affection of the greai Presi (lent, who never was so happy as when 1 praising her memory or defending it from slander. i Van Buren married a woman who, like 1 himself, came of Dutch stock, Hannah " Hoes. She died early in their married . life at Albany, and her brilliant husband 1 never after took another partner. The . wife of Major Van Buren was the lady < of the White House during her lather- j i in-law's tenure, and ably filled the place. | f Ann Symmes was the wife of General 1 Harrison and was a Jersey girl, l>orn ] near Morristown, her father being a Continental army officer. She never entered < the White House, for when the Presi- 1 dent came East in 1841 to l>e inaugurated her health was precarious and would not 1 permit the journey. He died a month < after he became President, while she s lived until February, 1864. President Tyler's first wife was Letitia t rlo-rirrkf/vn /-\f Q.T1 J of Xew Kent County, Virginia. Tyler < was at the time of his marriage a young law graduate from the office of the cele- 1 brated Edmund Randolph, but his polit- 1 ical prospects were bright, as the son of 1 Governor J ohn Tyler, and to this honor 1 of the father the sou succeeded, and < from thence to the Presidency. Miss ] Christian was a noted Eastern Virginia belle, and when her husband became President assumed the 'White House < duties. Her health was feeble at the < time, and she died there in September, 1 1842. Elizabeth, third daughter of c President Tyler by this union, was mar- 1 ried in the White House to a Southern * gentleman named Waller. Three grand- 1 children of this President, sons of c Lightfoot Jones, who married the eldest 1 daughter, fought in the Confederate J armv. One of tliem, Eobert, received 11 v 7 7 | .. three wounds at Gettysburg. Mrs. -1 Eobert Tyler, a daughter-in-law of this ^ President, acted as the mistress after his ? wife's death. She was a lady of great ^ culture and manners, the daughter of * the tragedian Cooper. Her eldest child, r Letitia, was born in the White House. I President Tyler remained a widower but a short time, paying the Johnsonian compliment to his first spouse by soon y selecting another, Miss Juliet Gardiner, r of New York. She was the daughter of ^ the wealthy gentleman who owned Gar- ^ diner's Island, familiar to many naval 8 people as near the roadstead in East C - - - - ... c .Long island wnere tne navai practice v squadron, with the Annapolis cadets, ^ spends much of its slimmer cruising and 13 exercising. Although Mr. Tyler -was the |( first Resident?and so far the only one 11 ?to marry in the high office, the cere- ^ mony -was not performed in the "White House, but at the Church of the Ascen- ^ sion in New York, June, 1844. After r the wedding a grand reception -was given ^ in the Executive Mansion. ^ ti Mrs. Polk, now living at an advanced age in Nashville, was one of the most admirable mistresses the "White House Las ever had. She was Miss Sarah 8 Childress, born near Murfreesboro', and married James K. Polk, then a member of the Tennessee Legislature, in her 19th ^ vear. He went to Congress the follow- ^ ing year, and for fourteen sessions con- ^ fcinued there, being elected Speaker in 1836. In 1839 he became Governor of ^ Tennessee, and Mrs. Polk presided with grace at the State Executive Mansion, so ^ that when in 1845 they came to the j White House she proved one of the most agreeable and popular of hostesses. ^ Many innovations or rather changes in ^ old customs of receiving were introduced & during Mrs. Polk's residence at the capi- ^ tal, notably the one of dispensing wkh ^ refreshments during the levees. ^ The wife of old "Bough and Ready" u was a member of the extensive family of a o :rif -a. o^:x"U x* oiiiiiaJL b?OJLLLIUU, a JJ.ul > mnu i. girl?daughter of a plain fanner of that ti State, and their married life for many a years was the prosy one of an army cou- b pie on the frontier. The first home they v had really was when in 1840 Col. Taylor h went to the United States barracks at A Baton Rouge. It was while stationed L here that Jefferson Davis met and wooed & old Zach's second daughter, much t] against the father's wishes, who disliked 1< to see his children subjected to the same t] slandering existence he had led his c spouse as an army officer. Lieut. Davis was then a. handsome young subaltern, n and the seceding element was so strong n in him even at that time he ran away p with Misc Taylor, who died shortly after -w their marriage and before the stern old a parent had become reconciled to the h elopement. a Miss Betty Taylor, the youngest ^ daughter, was the mistress of the White House during President Taylor's short a Incumbency. She became the wife of ^ Major Bliss, Taylor s adjutant general in r' Mexico, and was a charming woman, e well known in her youthful days in this scity, where she went to school. The ^ wife of the President never received or ? went out much in Washington society, u and, like Mrs. Garfield, never liked the c White House or enjoyed the life there. ^ Millard Fillmore married a New York c school teacher, Miss Abigail Powers, be- 0 fore he became, like Cleveland, a Buffalo lawyer. She performed ail the public ^ social duties devolving ur>on her bv rea- J 0 x" -- / son of her husband's political eminence 3 with great grace and intelligence. When 0 he became Chief Magistrate she was not 0 in very good health, and a few weeks * after the close of his term died at Willard!s Hotel, Washington, of an illness 13 probably muph hastened by her attention to the onerous requirements of her sta- ^ tion. President Fillmore survived his j wife twenty-one years, dying in 1874 at 11 BufMo, and l>oth lie buried, with an a only daughter, in the beautiful Forest x Lawn Cemetery of that city, G Franklin Pierce?praaounoed Perse c ? l- - p tt up iu JKos^on?"was a classmate ui xiawthorne's at Bowdoin College. The presi- ^ dent of the college then and for many years was the Rev. Jesse Appleton. a Jenny Appleton, a daughter of this college president, became Mrs. Pierce, and her husband, at the time of the marriage t a young New Hampshire lawyer and 1 Congressman, became afterwards Presi- 3 dent of the United States. The first 1 few years of official life was shadowed f with grief, owing to the death of their s ?i - r l e at, ? c umjr sun, ul lew wwas lkjjlujtc tuc jllu?u$u- ration, in a frightful railroad accident, 1 in whicli Mr. and Mrs. Pierce were also injured. This cast a gloom over the early years of the social regime of their f term. Many living persons remember the incidents of society life of this period, the quiet, graceful manners of Mrs. Pierce and the hearty cordiality of the President, at the levees and State receptions. Mrs. Pierce died at Andover, Mass., during the war, i_ud the ex-Presiient at Concord in 1869. Both are buried in the cemetery, not far from the spot where the embattled farmers fired , the shot heard round the world in t-liat pretty New England town. James Buchanan was a bachelor, and everybody recalls the presiding lady of riio cfAvm v Aovtinv in TXTTlif** TTmiCP?? Harriet Lane, his niece?who was well inown in her youth in the society of this )itv, Lancaster and Pittsburg. It was it Bedford Springs she met the young Baltimorean, Johnston, who married her it Wheatland in 18G0. The White House never had a more accomplished, lomestic and social head than this young Pennsylvania girl. It was while she was aostess that the Prince of Wales visited lie United States and was entertained at lie President's mansion. Albert Edward bore away with him, so the story )f the day comes down to us, warm ap jreciations of tlie grace and beauty of Miss Lane. With the history of Mar}* Todd Lin:oln, the wife of the Great Emancipator, >f Mrs. Johnson, who was Eliza McArile, and of Julia Dent Grant, the wife )f the Silent Captain and President, who xas so lately passed away, the public of o-day is familiar. Mrs. Lincoln and tfrs. Grant both took part in the social luties of their stations, as did Mrs. Hayes and Mrs. Garfield?the former Lucy Webb, daughter of Dr. James iVebb. of Chillicothe, Oliio, the latter jucretia Eudolph, daughter of Zebulon Rudolph, of Garrettsville, in the same state. Lincoln lost a son, his favorite ["ad, in the Wliite House. Nellie Grant, he General's beloved daughter, was maried?a brilliant wedding?in the same >lace. President Arthur assumed the Chief Jagistracy a widower, and, although umor was very free with his name durQg his term, he did not marry. His eceased wife was a daughter of Captain lerndon, of tlie United States Navy, the ;allant officer who went down on the Central America. James Buchanan and xrover Cleveland were the only two ! aclielor Presidents, and if the latter larries Miss Folsom this year it will : save the Pennsylvania President alone ' a the celibate list of Chief Magistrates. ],onr Presidents were widowers at their oaugu ration?Jefferson, Jackson, Van ^ .luren and Arthur. Sixteen were mar ied when they went into the "White ] louse. One alone, President John Ty- ! 2r, married while holding the Executive itlp. f BLOODY WORK OF THE SOCIALISTS. ' ixty-Three He r*ou*. Killed or Badly Wounded, Forty-One of Whom are Polleeineu-.Arre*t of , Five Ringleader* of ihe Riot. Chicago, May 5.?The Anarchists of ^ Jhicago inaugurated in earnest last night tie reign of lawlessness which they have \ [ireatened and endeavored to incite for ] ears. They threw a bomb into the lidst of a line of 200 police officers, and , ; exploded with fearful effect. Almost < efore the missile of death had exploded ( tie Anarchists directed a murderous fire j ?rvAT* +V> r\ O a if iiiii iouivcio MO AA lieir action -was prearranged, and as the j itter were hemmed in on every side? mbuscaded?the effect of the fire upon , tie ranks of the officers was fearful. , Vhen the police had recovered from the ; .rst shock of the attack they charged j pon their would-be murderers, shooting : t every step and mowing them down, as ] heir fellow-officers had been laid low by , be bomb. The Anarchists fled in dislay before the charge. The collision etween the poHce and the Anarchists . ras brought about by the leaders of the itter, August Spies, Sam Fielden and j l. E. Parsons, endeavoring to incite a iwro mooc.mocfinrr is-t rinf onrl 'KIr?ru:l- ' ?A6v ^ - ?- ' Led. From Socialistic headquarters bere issued late in the afternoon the fol)wing circular, which was distributed hroughout the laboring quarters of the ity by thousands : "Attention! Workingmen: Greatmassleeting to-night at 7.30 o'clock, at Haylarket, Randolph street, bet-ween Des laines and Halsted. Good speakers dll be present to denounce the latest trocious act of the police in the shoot2g of. our fellow-workmen yesterday fternoon. Signed: Executive Commitse." . August Spies, Schwab, Sam Fielden . nd other Socialists (all foreigners) ^ arangued the crowd in a blatant and _ tJfjtuess maimer, wxieu tut; pujjue jluuiv;u.d np to the wagon containing the ' peakers, and Captain Bonfield said: "In lie name of the State of Illinois, I com- ' land this crowd to disperse." Almost nmediately a bomb fell between the two . olu mns of the police and literally mowed ; iiem down. Sixty-three persons were ither killed or badly woxinded, forty ne of whom were policemen. Several stores "were raided and the enire contents carried off. Dynamite ! ombs were fonnd in the office of the 1 orberter Zeitung, and all parties found n the premises were arrested. Threats i { burning the city are freely niiwie by be Socialists. The Vigilants $re aroused. ever}- J 3g pftpprs publish the following: He.ujquakters of the 49th Vigilant Committee, May 5.?Meet sharp ftt '1,40 l. B. 78, 5th inst. Business of 'gre$t mportance. Spies, Parsons $nd Schwab, nd others of their kiud beware! Tlie ' ope does it*? work quick. The massacre : if our brave jKihcemen must l>eavenged, Jy order of the Executive Committee. >ignedf Several of the leading Socitdihts lave > en arrested on the charge of murder .nd will l>e held without hail. ?An English statistical writer says liat while population in Euroj>e and the Jnited States has risen 34 per cent, since .850, working power has increased 105 >er cent., and as a consequence of thi3 ive men can now accomplish as much as ix in 1870 or eight in 1850. The world's iteain power is now five and a half times vhat it was in 1850. ?Miss Mary Anderson is negotiating tor a large stock rancli in Nebrsska. A FATHER'S LETTER. ~-j Sonir Paternal Counael <?ivcn fn a Very Original Manner. (Ki 1 Nje in The G rhplr'c Xt*S.) My Dear Sox?Your letter of last week found your mother anil me fairly wen, tnougn x 'an see unit a am t luu same man I used to be by any means. Even* Spring I have trouble with my . longs. One of my lungs is entirely J gene, and the other one is hepatized, so the doctor tells me. I've tried most even-thing in the way of medicine for to I' renew my lungs, but they get worse and 1 worse all the time. But still I eat a good j hearty meal of victuals. .You refer, casually, in your letter, to a misspelled , word in my last communication. You ^ speak of grammar also in a reproachable ~ way, which is annoying to a man like me. I am not great on the spell, I admit, Henry, for when I ought to been " - n ?A Al. . 11-- : learning ior to speu at uie s|>eixujy ^ schools and great orthographical retorts of our section of country, I was licking _ the smart Alecks from town that seemed J to be smarter than their parents. No, Henry, I never got a meddle for : spelling long hard words with great fluency, but I've tried to be a well-behaved parent. In my poor weak way j I've aimed to be a good father to you, ? Henry, and so has your mother. I think I may say, with pardonable pride, that I i have been more successful in that line ( than she has. : We have l>oth tried, in season and out j' of season, to so live that we would not bring your gray hairs with sorrow to the ^ grave. I, for one, have tried to shun the | demon rum for your sake. I have come ^ home early nights, so tliat you could j know where I was, and I liave always j been willing that you should smell of my ; breath if you felt so disposal. I liave never filled a drunkard's grave or j brought reproach upon you. Spelling is not always my best holt, ^ but I aim to please as a parant. I have tried not to bring the blush of sliame to j your fuzzy cheek, and wish you would try to do as much for me sometime. ^ When I was a boy, they didn't sugar- s eoat ediucation and make it one long +. drawn liallelooger to go to school as they ^ now do. On the contrary, the straggling ^ ideas of the roodiments which I now ^ have, was socked into me by main c strength and awkwardness. To get the e roodiments of an edjucation we had to possess great physical strength and nor- ^ mal courage. When I see the student to-day with a v big picture book done up in a sliawl strap, wearing one of those little cigar- j. ettes in his mouth, and riding on the p hind end of a hoss car towards the big j, red female seminaiy, I often think of ^ the days when I did a day's work before v breakfast, and then walked tw > uiiles in order to be ready to get licked when the f( old cast iron cuss that presided over our ^ school felt like it. .. ^ He was a noble brute. He taught oj; ^ school, I reckon, because lie hadn't edju- v ?ation enough to engage in other manual 'j pursuits. c He is now dead. I do not go over to ^ the cemetery every Spring to decorate ^ bis grave. Spring is a very busy season | svitli me. If he had died in the Winter, c 'bout forty years earlier than ho did, I j svould have gone out of rny way to dec- a orate his grave. It would have l>een a M pleasure to me. . e When he died, your mother asked me 0 if 1 was going to the fhneraL { "No," says I, speaking up in that a Iroll way of mine?"No, says I, I shan't ^ lo to the funeral, hut, as the feller says, ^ [ approve of it." That's the way I am ^ ibout everything. I speak my mind j right out and nobody ever knew me to jj hesitate about saying what I thought of i man, even if he was dead. ^ With better edjucational advantages, I ii ilwavs thought our schoolmaster would o have made a good pirate; but his parents was poor and so lie had to hustle for e himself. He had an earnest desire to t< idvance in his profession, but he did not a succeed in carving his name on the h heights of fame. He yearned for glory o md grub. I remember that he used to g teach school Winters and work out Sum- e mers on a farm. In this way he kept up bis muscle all the time; and thcngh he I frequently got mixed up in long division, & Lie was never successfully licked, up to tl the time that old Mr. Bright came along e with his justly celebrated disease and in- h troduced it into tlie schoolmaster's daily g Life. Tlien he yielded gently. Like a a Sake of ice cream on the bosom of a fat p aian, the schoolmaster began to subside. I One by one his kidnies began to fade, n Paler and paler grew the great educator, f( bill at la$t, one evening in Spring, just as C the bull-frogs over in the north medder C bad unwrapped the red flannel from I their throats and sounded ' 'A," our old e schoolmaster skim out for the sweet ultimately. Hundreds of his old pupils all <2 over the State telegrafted their consent. ^ It was the most liarmonious thing I ever ^ knew of. I regarded it as a great sue- j cess. tj So you can see, Henry, the kind of a ^ tooter I had, and that is partly why I p sometimes spell words eroneonsly if the a ink has been froze. q I hope these few lines will find you in good health, and that in JQ\]X subsequent ^ letters you y,:ijl devote more space to telling of the things you know, instead of telling me alwut the things I don't know. Your mother also joins me in rj hoping so. TJic IUh Memorial. ^ A inference of citizens interested in j the movement toward perpetuating the , memory of the late Cxener&l (ieorge a. McClellan by erecting a monument ? held in Philadelphia on Fyi.day. After ^ some discussion, during which it was contended that the present wae not a favorable time, owing to the lateness of T. the season, to press the object of the gathering, it was decided to postpone all further active efforts until the first Tues- ^ day in September. I ^ ?The latest form of brutality which i is in clanger of becoming popular is the shin-kicking match. Why not have ear- r clipping, or eve-extinguishing, or rib- ( breaking matches, too? Where is this v sort of thing to stop? I ? ? t ?A rose seventeen and a half inches c in circumference is the attraction of a c flower garden in Santa Barbara. Col. i c n. THE QUADRENNIAL CONFERENCE ; THE GREAT t Ol .VIL OF THE METHO- 1 DlfcT 1'III RCH, SOl'Tlf. I Four amd Two Huuilrrd kud Fifty Lay ^ Delegate# in Richmond. (Sptc'at to the N w* and Courier ) ( Richmond, May 5.?The General Con- j ference of the Methodist Episcopal , Chnrch, South, met to-day in Centenary Church. Nearly all the delegates were 1 present. The thirty-eight Conferences, * under the control of the General Confer- 1 ence in the United States, reach from > Man-land to the Republic of Mexico, ( rod from Florida to Washington Tern- r tpry. There are two other Conferences, ^ Dne partly in Texas and partly in ( aiexico, ana the other entirely m ALexi- ] lo, witii headquarters at the City of \ i^xico, making forty Conferences in all j Jie Southern Methodist Church. ; - Tlie membership of the Clmrcli, ac- s wording to tlie last report, received only < i few days since, is nearly one million ( persons. It lias increased to this from : WO,000 persons in I860. Besides, there s s mission work among the Indians and } sparsely settled districts of the West, on f ;he borders and in Mexico, and in Brazil c tnd China. f wuviui wuicitiiV/t lujntocnw iuc ( Dhurch. It employs nearly tliree hun- ] Ired missionaeies, and expends in the i naintenance of missions and the per- ] ormance of mission work some ?300,000 ] tnnually. Its church extension hoard, ( vith headquarters at Nashville, has been t >rganized only four years, but in that ime it has expended about $150,000 and j rns assisted 550 churches. The publish- s ng operations are conducted at Xash- i ille, where the largest printing-house is ^ ituated, and operated by the Church. 8 't is interested in a large number of sducational enterprises, the largest of phich is Vanderbilt University. . Tlie General Conference is the chief egislative body of ft large Churcli scatered over a vast domain. It is, in reali- , y, the Congress of the Church, having ^ upreme power in forming and main- ^ aining the Church j>olity. It is com ossd of delegates selected by each of ^ he annual Conferences in proportion to & heir membership. The Conference omprises at jut 250 members, divided ^ qually into clerical and lay representa- ^ ives. Secretary* L. Q. C. Lamar is a Q irominent delegate. r) The whole work of the Church in its arious departments will l>e reviewed at 0 he Conference and plans devised for ? ature operations. In fact, the whole ^ olity is subject to the revision of this v, ody. The Discipline of the Church rill be gone over, and any advisable re- & isions made. ^ A resolution was made at the last Con- ^ jrence to cliange the name from the lethodist Church, South, to the Metlio- ? ist Church of America, but was over- n rhelmingly defeated, and the matter ^ rill probably not lie brought up again, g lie general drift of feeling seems to be ^ onservative, and there is not likely to ^ e any radical cliange. The relations ^ the Northern Church are most cor- ^ ml. jj The Conference is charged with the 0 uty of electing all the general officers, ^ nd will probably elect five new bishops, -ho hold their offices for life; three gen- K ral secretaries and editors of the vari- u tis organs of the Church, besides filling ^ lie various boards, the membership of e] 11 of which will be revised. The bishops c] ill preside over the Conference in turn, C( ut are not properly members of tliat u odv. They have no right to vote. a; liey have the privilege of the floor, g| owever, but rarely avail themselves of ^ The secretary of the Conference, an ^ nportant officer, is elected after it meets y, i regular session and is not necessarily f that body. The Conference, wliieh meets only ^ very four years, will last from twenty ^ 3 thirty days. Much interest has been ^ roused on account of the important j usiness to l>e transacted. The election C( f bishops has especeially attracted a ^ Teat deal of attention, as there are sev- a] ral candidates for the high honor. n The Conference was called to order by bishop H. N. McTyiere, of Tennessee, 0 enior bishop. Four other bishops of f? be Church were present, to wit: Keen- 0: r, of New Orleans, Wilson, of Mary- y aid, Grandberry, of Missouri, and Har- 0 tove, of Alabama. Besides these there re about 250 delegates, clerical and lay, u resent. The Conference elected the n lev. Dr. John S. Martin, of the Balti- a lore Conference, secretary, with the t< allowing assistant secretaries. Dr. B. B. e, Jrawford, of Alabama; Rev. Dr. W. A. <i handler, North Georgia Conference, and n lev. John C. Vincent, Missouri Confer- ^ nee. h The Rev. Dr. A. C. Bledsoe, of Broad b itreSt Methodist Church, Richmond, 1 elivered an address of welcome in be- d alf of the people of that city, and cl Jishop McTyiere responded and in the a: :ame of the Conference returned hearty f< lianks for the welcome from a people so g iroverbial for their hospitality and from b city so rich in historic associations of c< Jhurcli as well as of State. s< The address of the bishops was read ^ y Bishop Keener. The rapid growth f the Church in the past hundred years a nd the attractive simplicity of Meth^ ? dism were favorably commented upon, [be history of the Church and its " rogress to date were fully reviewed, and n ondemnatory terms were used in con-. ^ ection with -violation of marriage vows ? y obtaining divorces; o| gambling in P 'futures;" of neglecting to attend church nd of Sftbliftth desecration. Attending ^ litres, balls and matinees were referred ^ o as growing evils, c< At the afternoon session various eomlailtoos were formed. The delegates to j n he Conference embrace some of the : a nost prominent divines of the Southern ll: lethodist Church. H. C. Hernandez, t< ny delegate from the Mexican Border a Conference, is the only active Mexican ? n attendance upon the Conference. ti Richmond, May G.?In the Quadren- h lial General Conference of tlie M. E. it Church, South, to-day, after divine ser- j t] ice conducted by Dr. Hunter, of Ar- j a auisas, and after the transaction of rou-' p ine business the secretary- called the ?. lelegates by conferences for iho intro- t; luction of rcGolUkions. A resolution was a xl./x a? o natil_ p UUjnWl lyJL IrUV vx ? vv*** t ^ mittee to de\*ise a plan by wliicli the entire Churcli can be called on to contribute to tlie expenses of the General Conference. The special committee on rules reported rules of order for the gov srnment of tiie Conference. ine discission of the rules occupied the entire lay's session, and after thorough revision and amendment they were finally idopted. Richmond, Ya., May 7.?This was the 'liir/l rlnv's spssinri cif t.lit? M. E. CllUrch south Conference. After the usual devotional ceremonies, and the reading of resterday's minutes, the conference concluded the consideration of the rules of )rder for the government of the body. Hie organization of the various committees was announced, and additional special committees were appointed. Dr. VIcFerran, the publishing agent, submitted his own report and those of the busiless manager and book committee. Dr. ifoung, Secretary of the Board of Misdons, submitted the fourth annual report )f the l)oard. The Centenary Conference Committee, which undertook to raise tw o 1111 HULL UUUUIX7> IVI VitllUUfc CllUlUU ;es, made a most satisfactory report. It las received SI,382,791, and there are iniuences at work which will result in the :ollection of an even larger sum than the irst mentioned. A number of large bequests were made. Dr. W. E. Brown, of Vlissouri, has given thirty thousand dolars to the church, and Dr. Moses W. 3ayne twenty-five thousand dollars to the ?ayne Instigate of Georgia. A number )f other bequests range from ten to wenty thousand dollars. Dr. McFerran, Publishing Agent, re >orted a number 01 requests to be preentetl through him to tlie churcli regardng the disposition of these funds. They vere referred to the Finance Committee ,nd a special committee of five. PXEI'MOXIA. Vliat a Well-Known Medical Journal Has 10 ^ Say About It. . The prevalence of pneumonia, its rapid 1 Licreuse, ?uiu xuuu cuiiscijueiicea in uiuuy ^ ostances, says Hall's Journal of Health, j iave led a number of our abler pliysiians to carefully investigate the pecuiarities of this alarming disease, and ome of them have published the result ' f tlieir observations in a way to benefit lie public, not only by pointing out the est methods of prevention, but likewise f treatment, in the event of its occur- 1 gnce. ( Dr. John T. Xagle, Deputy Register t f Records of the Health Board *of the c !ity of Xew York, has given much at- i mtion to tne disease, ana nas prepared c aluable statistical tables concerning it. "Tlie prevalence of pneumonia," lie 1 iys, "may be owing to a lack of ozone 1 the air, or it may be because there is >o nmcli ozone. Sudden changes of a eather and liigh winds, particularly c :om tlie north and east, certainly have 1 inch to do with it, and draughts of all f inds are bad, and should be avoided, moking may be a predisposing cause, c 5 tobacco is certainly an irritant. Any- a ling which irritates the lungs should f e avoided. If people would breathe t irough the nose instead of through the c louth, especially when in the open air r facing a cold wind, the lungs would f e less irritated. 3 "One great cause of the fearful death ite among children from this disease is ndoubtedly the criminally foolish way c 1 which they are dressed. Many moth- t rs seem more anxious to make their r liildren look pretty than to dress them a / _1_1 1__ A_ _ ?J_1_ Al- * C jmioriauiy. un a par wnn uus is c orse tlian folly of low-necked dresses s mong women as viewed from a health ;andpoint. Ladies so dressed will rush om a heated ballroom or theatre into le open air, and then wonder that they f ave colds or pneumonia. Wear season- "v ble underclothing, and don't remove ? our heavy flannels too early in the I oring or defer putting them on until too r ite in the fall. I should not advise peo t le to coddle themselves, but one should a ress according to the season, and should 1 Dver the body evenly. Add to this a roper regard for the general health and 1 a avoidance of draughts, and one need i ot worry- mucli about pneumonia." a Prof. A. L. Loornis, in Iris "Practice c f Medicine," says: "It is a well-known e ict that the disease attacks the poor s ftener than the rich, the private oftener 1 lan the officer, the sailor on shore a ftener than on ship, the soldier oftener 1 lan the civilian at the same post. It is I nknown in the polar regions and com- t ion on the Mediterranean, increasing in "v direct ratio from the poles to the equa- c >r. Elevation above the sea predispos a 5 to it; north and east winds favor its 1 evelopment; rainy seasons or damp and c larshy districts do not seem to influence 1 Periods of steady and extreme cold s ave little effect except upon the old, 1 ut sudden changes are very disastrous, t 'he first predisposing cause is age, the 1 isease being most common in early e hildhood, from twenty to forty, and t fter sixty, The proportion of male to I jmale victims is as three to one. Any c eneral condition of the body which de- * ilitates is a predisposing cause. The j omplications -which render the disease d dangerous are those which diminish ie nerve supply or weaken the muscult power of the heart. Bad sewerage ^ ad miasmatic influence are potent causes ] i the disease." j Pneumonia usually begins with a eliill, i itense and prolonged, generally at c iglit, and followed l>y ? corresponding- ( r high fever and sharp pains in the ^ ides. Tlie disease is very rapid in its ^ rogress, reaching a crisis in from five to f Ix days, and sometimes causing death ithin three days. Usually but one mg is affected, and often the disease is * onfined to a single lobe. A person may have "double pneu- * lonia," or pneumonia of both lungs, nd recover from it, but the chances are c - - - gainst him. When the disease spreads . ) all of the lung lobes, death is certain, ( s the patient cannot breathe, and (lies * f suffoeation. The diseased lung, at ? rst inflame*!, soon becomes hard and 1 >athery, and incapable of performing s natural functions. A curious fact is Liat usually no second chill occurs vin-u <. nother lobe is attacked uiid there ap- c ears to bo relation between the c mount of lung affected and the intensiy of the symptoms. All physicians gree in saying that the disease is. p,oi a ' ? i \ ontagious, uui may m;tv uu uj^iueuxic, [ ' and it lias been noticed that it is developed under tlie same conditions as diphtheria?that is, the conditions -which produce diphtheria in the young are apt to cause pneumonia among adults. Dr. J. R. Learning, special consulting physician in chest diseases in St. Luke's Hospital, lias published a little pamphlet concerning it, entitled "Endemic Pleuropneumonia, as seen in New York during tlie past ten or twelve years." In that pamphlet Dr. Learning holds to the theory that the pneumonia of the present day, or pleuro-pneumonia, as he calls it, is the same as the epidemic which caused such havoc among the troops in Canada during the war of 1812-15. That the weather has much to do with pneumonia is apparent. The number of deaths in New York city for the first seven months of last rear was as follows: January*, 375; February, 486; March, 587; April, 512; May, 337; June, 229; July, 150. After August there is usually a steady increase until March, the most fatal month of the year. The death rate, too, is very high. The statistics so far published, both in hospitals and private practice, show an average death rate of at least 20 per cent., or one in five of those attacked. The theories concerning the nature of the disease itself are many and varied. Some physicians hold that pneumonia is only a local manifestation of a general n+lTiTv it. ic r> rHsAasr* caused by a specific poison, while still others hold as tenaciously to the germ theory. Without speculating upon these different theories, from what has been said in which all agree, it is plain that anything which lowers the vitality of the system is conducive to the disease, and should be carefully avoided. ' Overwork, either physical or mental, has much to do with it, and this explains why so many business men and brain workers become its victims. Sudden changes of the weather and draughts of all kinds are also to be guarded against. In a word, Jive temperately, dress warmly, avoiding all manner of imprudences, and you need have no fear of pneumonia. "18 THAT YCl , JEFF J" Mr. Daw* Meet* a Xamexake at th?* Savannah l>rill Ground. (Savannah Morning Ne^s, if ay i ) Among the plearant incidents conlected -with the visit of Mr. Davis to the lrill grounds yesterday afternoon was he introduction to him by Mr. Comer, >f Mr. Jefferson Davis Stewart, of Covngton, Georgia. Mr. Stewart handed the :x-President the following letter: Richmond, Va., July 21, 1863. Mr. ,J. L. Stewart, Conyers, Neicton County, Ga.: My Deae Sir?I have the honor to icknowledge the receipt of your letter >f the 20th ult., informing me of the )irth of a son in vour old a^e, and of the act tliat you have given him my name. Please accept assurances of my sense : >f the compliment you have made me, ; md of my hopes for a bright and happy , hture for the little boy, who will, I , rust, do honor to his parents and to his tountry. With the best wishes for you and your amily, I am very respectfully and truly ' our fellow citizen, , Jefferson Davis. When Mr. Davis read the letter his ; :ountenance lighted up and he said: "Is 1 hat vou. Jeff?" and rrrasneu the vounc V ' U X V V . uan heartily by tlie hand, and enjoyed i pleasant conversation with him. Mr. , stewart came all the way to Savannah to ee Mr. Davis and to show him the letter. The Joys of Married Life. Eeferce D. R. Shiel has reported in , avor of awarding a degree of limited di- . orce to Mrs. Henrietta F. Hartman, of . klount Yernon, X. Y., from her hus >and Jacob. The testimony in the case < cvealed a long course of treatment of he most inhuman, ingenious, humorous ,nd lingering cruelty on the part of the oving husband toward the unfortunate tfrs. Hartman. In his jocose moments le was accustomed to slap his wife, strike ler with his fist, pull her hair, knock her .round the room, jump on her, throw sold water on her, fire dishes at her and ( impty slops on her. On several occa- , ions, while eating his meals, he hurled : us dinner plate at her, slued the teapot it her head, fired knives and forks at ler, heaved a platter of fish in her face, wunded her with a broom, threatened ; o shoot her, smashed dishes against the vail, kicked the table over, cut and burst >pen packages of tea, coffee and sugar, ind scattered them on the floor; beat lerwhen in a delicate condition, and :aused dangerous illness; threw a lighted amp at her, setting her on fire, when lick in brxl; made her lie down on the >ed and iumned on her. and threatened :o kill lier if she screamed; presented a evolver and threatened to kill her if she tver told anybody about his abuse; hrew mustard in her face, broke her )edroom windows, so that she caught lold and had the pneumonia, and comnitted divers other acts of violence -which nade it impossible for her to live with lim. So Hope* for Cluverius. The counsel for T. J. Cluverius, convicted of the murder of Fannie Lilian Vladison, entered a motion in the Supreme Court of Appeals on Friday for ehearing of the case decided on Thurs- i lay, in which the judgment of the lower Dourt was fully affirmed. Xo rehearing ( vill l>e allowed unless one of the* Judges , vlio concurred in the decision is dissatis- ] led with it and desires a rehearing. ? ^ m ?The Montreal Gazette says: "We j lave no spring in this part of Canada. Hiere is a straight leap from winter to nimmer. On Tuesday afternoon the ice owered on tlie mountains before the J rity. On Thursday morning the grass liowed green and tender in Place I'Armes. Within a fortnight, while races of winter will still be seen in nooks ind culverts, the snowball will be swingng from its stem, and its successor, the ike, will not bo fur behind." ?Eight thousand persons attended iam Jones' first nieetinu in Baltimore >n Sunday niglit. The wrings will 1 :ontinue several week* A rose IT A inches in circumference is the ittraction of a flower garden Or. Santa U;ir- 1 >ara, California. ;i THE SOUTHERN' BAPTISTS. Proceeding* of the Convention at MontgomeryInteresting Facts and Telling Figures. The Southern Baptist Convention met at Montgomery, Alabama, on the 7th inst. Tlie Rev. Dr. Mill was elected President. With the exception of eight years, he has been President since 1863. The following Yice-Presidents were elect ed: The Eev. Messrs. B. Manly, of Kentucky, J. B. Hawthorne, of Georgia, G. B. Taylor, of Virginia, and J. C. Furman, of South Carolina. Secretaries, the Eev. Messrs. L. Burrows, of Georgia, and A. F. Gregory, of Baltimore. A devotional meeting was then conducted by the Rev. Dr. Ellis, of Baltimore, and Dr. Ford of Missouri. The Eev. Mr. Martin, pastor of the TV Tl. 1? 1 /-II 1. 1 J3 At, ? x irsi JDapusi uixurcn, weicumeu. mc cuxivention and introduced ex-Governor Thomas H. Watts, who delivered an eloquent address of welcome. He said one source of regret was that there was any division. He hoped there would soon be one Baptist Convention of the United States. Fifteen States, are represented by over 500 delegates. ' Missionaries from China, Mexico and Italy are also present. Rev. Dr. Ellis of Baltimore responded, making a grand address. Many committees were appointed. The hours of meeting are 9 a. m., to 1 p. m., 3 to 5p. m., and at night from 8 to adjournment at pleasure. The only decoration in the church is a star with a crescent hanging over it. The centre of the star has the letters S. B. C., and on the points the words Africa, China, India, Italy, Brazil, Mexico and Asia. The galleries were crowded to-day with spectators, a large number of them beinc ladies. At the afternoon session Dr. Tychenor, Secretary of the Home Mission Board, read the report of that board. It opens with the statement that forty years ago the board made its first annual report to the convention, -which then met in Richmond. From that point the history of the board -was simply reviewed to the present. Nearly every church of importance South of the Potomac has been nursed in its infancy by this board. It has borne the gospel to the very verge of our advancing civilization, but much remains to be done. Forty years ago the South had a population of 7,000,000, now there are more than three times as many. Then there were 1,000,000 professed Christians; to-day there are 4,000,000, and yet the work is three-fold greater than then. Last year the work had be<m extended beyond any of its past history, and there have been in the employ of th?- board 225 missionaries during the past year. Of these one has been sustained in Alabama. Since the last meeting of the Convention the Eev. W. P. Blake has retired from the service of the board, and the Eev. William ilcCombs has been made a general missionary among the Creek Indians. The board is endeavoring to make the Indian churches as far as possible self- sustaining, as only by this course can their Christian manhood be developed. The Lo ruing Manual School is in a flourishing condition. The results of this school are most gratifying. The board continues its co-operation with the conventions of Western North Carolina, Florida, Arkansas and the general association and State Convention of Texas. The Home Mission Society of New York has withdrawn from co-operation with the Texas Convention in mission work, arv>/>n/y riAWinYic The consolidation of all the denominational bodies of Texas into one convention has been agreed on and will soon be a consummation. "Washington City has appealed to our board for help. Arrangements have been made to grant the request. . Satisfactory arrangements have been made for the publication of nine Sunday School papers. In addition to the papers, quarterlies of different grades will be published, together with a magazine for teachers. H. H. Cabaniss, of Atlanta, Georgia, has been selected as publisher. -r "? i f "IT 1 7 1 -LH ciiurcii uunaing more uas oeeu uune than ever before. Forty-nine churches Lave been built upon mission fields in addition to Valence Street"ChurcL. New Orleans. The work in New Orleans and in Washington is only an evidence of what can be done in other cities. Already Memphis and St. Louis are making appeals for help. Aid ought to be rendered to these. brethren who are endeavoring to establish self-sustaining interests in these cities. The board renews its ap peals for $100,000 from tlie several South- % ern States -with which to prosecute its work. The board desires to enlarge its work among the colored people, and needs aid in this direction. Contributions were $94,522. Dr. H. A. Tuppcr read a report on foreign missions. After three decades, ^ says the report., the Convention meets again in Montgomery. The strides made during that period have been marvellous. Dr. J. L. M. Curry, President of the board, resigned last November to go to Spain, and Dr. H. H. Harris lias been appointed in liis pluce. The receipts cf the Foreign Mission Journal during the past year have been $1,682, and the expenditures $1,632. Dr. Eider, a generous Baptist of Maryland, has donated in trust to the Executive Board of the Baptist Union Association of that State $20,000 for missionary purposes. The American Baptist Publication Society has made a donation of $2,525 for circulation of the scriptures in foreign lands. The total receipts of the board for the year were $135,553. A large number of missionaries are snstf ined in China, Brazil, Mexico, Africa and Italy. ?The object of the journey of the Emperor of Russia to the Southern districts of his Empire is ljelieved to lie to revive the loyalty of the population; there, which has been considerably shaken by Nihilistic agencies. Ii is generally believed among the pessantry tliat the Emperor is a sort of prisoacr at 5t. Petersburg, and is prevented by the nobles of Court from granting them tlie land they claim from the landowners. Meanwhile art army of from 50,000 to SOvOOO soldiers are told off to guard thecailway during the Emperor's journey, WhaJ some people call pleasure is a mixture of frivoHty :md nonsense, dashed with [he claret of humbug and imbecility.