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I'j.3 Press and Banner Uy Hugh Wilson anil II. i. ?aruinu Wednesday, Feb. 2,1S81. The National Debt. The rp^e-.-h of the Honorable P. W. AIke that we print in another column will bofoun to c?n tit in practical suggestions which wi not full lo convince tho*e who u*a<l it, win til er or not it convinces ttie Conurc-smen t whom it was spoken. Wo haw always bee Jn favor of reducing the prtUil.! debt us last a porsible. To maintain Its solvency tbc Go^ eminent must huvc a proper regard to tl: practical management of its.'lnancc . In on opinion it 1* a great mistake to def<-r tlie pHj 'uvni oJ' any debt when it Is possible tf> setti the demand. There ?re muny gcod reason jor an early liquidation of the bonds of tii Government. TIk* pnyment of any part t the debt would stop a proportionate share < the drain upon our commercial and auricula ml interest, and would put that much mono, In circulation, which is now locked up. 1 would also in a measure put a stop to thu demagogical and senseless cry against th b.ond-hoUl'"'", which prevails in some seet'oi and would forever shut the mouths of repud atorsol every kind, including the Greenback ers. Wc rrga.'d any tampering with the pubii rredit as a matter to be lamented by nil ?'<o eiti/ens, and if no othergrod was accomplisl cd than the'juietin:; of the Ilepudluto:s an their twin brothers, the Green backers, th payment of the public debt would nut b v.Mihout benefit to the whole country. We areplca>ed to note Mr. Aiken's posltioi and in order tliatgur^people may be themur fully impressed with t lie great danger of debi to individuals, as well as to nations, we hav added some figures bolow which wcie^oln the rounds of the news-papers some years agi 'The matter of interest should receive the al tenticn of every citizen, and we hope tha Air. Aiken's speech and the article which iin incdiatcly follows it, may do at least some (. Diir people a benclit. Interest produces noth in?, but Is like an eating cancer, which at. t-o.-lis the substance and the very life-blood c that upon which it feeds. ?ki/\]h~nn:l of ffnrt. I.nst Wednesday, January .6, 1881, Colonc K. B. Ciary, tlic Hon. P. Wvatt Aiken's attor ii?jy In the contested election case, so ved hi answer on General Curios J. Stoltraud when he was employed as gaugor.or something c that sort, at a Government authorized distil Icry near Seneca City, in Pickens comity. Colonel Gary, i:i speaking of his visit to tin quarters of the Republican aspirant for Con grcssional honors In the Third Congressiona District, said that he was treated with all tin politeness and alten i Ion which ouegentlemai (could expert from another. On the 2Stli instant Mr. Aiken was notlflc* of Mr. f?tolbrand*8 intention to take tostlmu !!>' From tbo promptness with which tin work tins commenced, we have no doubt tha the full time, forty days, allowed will be use* In a vigorous search for irregularities in tin lcccut election. The law regulating conte?te< ?ases will clve Mr. Stolbr&nd forty days fron the date of notice, the With; after that, Mr. Ai |i ken has forty days In which to refute the tes f liinony taken in Mr. .Stoibrand's Interest I Htoibrand then hns ten days to reply. So tha in ninety days from the 2tHh of January tin whole of the testimony must be taken am sent to the Clerk of the House of Reprcsenta lives at Washington. We notice In the R-yitkr a paragraph sta ting thatHo'obs i? actively at work in Colum i- " " bla, taking testimony In the case of Ktnlhram l ngalnst Aiken. We may expect that petsoi I to appear in Abbeville at an early day. whet & a choice set of negroes will no d>ubt tlock t< I his assistance. Let our people watch thi ! movements of their enemies who may swea L 'flltoetyr W&. ahti'.M h??e?a w?ha:\h>g will them. Altaian who would attempt to con vie jf v nnJUstly any citizen of crime, is no botte pr than an assassin, and ho should be looked ai t ter. The miserable dupes cannot swear sc ^ cretly. We will have nn opportunity c knowing what they do, and If we do not rc sent it, we will le?s brave than we hav credit for. A man who from personal dislik attacks another in this covert way is n publi I/ 'enemy to the peace of the country, and h Li should meet his Just deserts. We hope tha , our young men may commit no personal vlo lence or insult to such people, but that the; Indict them for any false swearing they ma; do. False swearing is a grave oH'ence, and w should be ready not only to disprove false ? hoods, but to indict and punish them by th< * Jaw. We had as many witnesses at the election as they did, and we should make It ho for perjurers. There ought to be a hcreuftc [ for such peoplo. ft +45*+ t ' Death of an ex-Abbevillian. j"' The Okalona (Miss.) Chickasaw Gazcl'.c con tulns tho following notice of the deuth of In < JubC()h 11. Knox, a brother of our townsmui i . Mr. John Knox. jn 1817 u fumlly often broth crs and two sister* came to this e< untry iion Ireland. Since tlicn ad have died cxcc.pt .Mr John Knox. We extend oar sympathies ti him who l? bcrelt of so much that is deur,un< . trust tliat lie may be spared for many year: yet to come: It becomes our painful duty to record th< death of another ofOUaloims most promt iient and enterprising citizens. On the even Ingot tlie 11th instant the spirit or L>r. J. 11 * Knox looii its Huh!* fioni earth, and all tha was left of a kind husband, a doting father, i htfilftol&Ci a thorough business in..n ;.n; mi energetic cfiT2wt-A> ?s a Iuinp oi inui.imuu clay, Or. Knox, c-umeiO i>iJal"na more thai iweuty years ago, when he was (jOilt aydui.. man. i-iis ? nu m i.u?v .... I in integrity, energy, politenexs and .-ouni f- business sense, and by tueir constant e.\t,rci.?< i lip t'? tlio hour of Ins death Jic succeeded ii Accumulating a handsome pioperiy. L?r Knox was a member of llie Masonic lraterni "* iy,xuOdd Fellow and a Knlgut ol PMhlos and was held in high estceui by Lis brethun ... >viio one and all extend their hearticlt sympa _ thy io the bereaved family of ilieir deceased fiiend. lie was buried yesterday la Udd I"\l Jo^s' Ccmeteiy.witij Masoniclioi.ors. "Eartli k to eai'tli, dust to dust, ashes to asucs, and llu i*. uplrit to Cod who gave 1:." Our friend tlie Christian ycighbor thinks il l about time to let the "Generals buvc a rest." "NV'e agree with our friend, but a good oppoitu El Jiity was given for the publication of a fcv K.' facta about prominent citizens, and we thinli there Is no need of withholding ut any tini< a Just meed of praise. What we said abou 1 education was merely to call attention to tin fact that educated mcu had taken conspicu ?>os parts as leaders in both the military atu civil pursuits of life. While we think a na tion should be exceedingly cautious ubofct go ing to war, there is certainly no objection tc individuals holding the best and the nios' L conspicuous places, and then when the war i: over, the best and most sensible and th< most practical men should come to the fron in restoring poace and prosperity to tho coun try. The yew York Times in commenting up on the number of "Itcbel Brigadiers" in Con gress which bad attracted much unfavorabli criticism, remarked that the reason for It wai that they were the most capable men of tin Kouth, both in the field and in State affairs The Stighbor's article n oy be found in anoih ee pait of this paper. The Public Schools. The trustees and teachers of (he publli -V.^1- nfill fl.wl o r% I 1 other column from Mr.Cowan, the proseni school commissioner. The pay of teacher! Jia# very properly been reduced, bo that win Judicious management of this public fund tlx t'-nn of the schools will bo longer than If i higher rate was paid to the teacher*. The sec onct examination of teachers takes paccoi Friday next, 4th instant, when a number o candidate* for certlUcates will apply. Th schools ot our county have been managed li a most excellent manner, and the public ow the old board of oxainlners a debt of thank1 and wo have no doubt the new board wi! serve the nubile with the ?ame fidelity. Wit such men us compose the b'?ard, the publi inuy rest assured of a superior managemer of the schools. Amusements. In times past we have had something to sa on this matter. This week we 6imply tram fur to our columns an article going the rouni credited to the Philadelphia Rcord. The rei zoning of that article is so clear and practin In its bearings that we would not attempt i add one word to what has already been so wt *ald. Read it, and If you don't concur wit the opinion, It will at least furnish son thoughts you njuy coin bat at your leisure. The letter of Uncle Uufus Hatch, of W# Street?not the good Mr. Hatch?to a provli cial lady will be found interesting. Tho who contemplate gambllug in Wall stre Blocks and cotton futuics would do well heed the advice which ho gives iu tho un. Tho new lease of the Cincinnati Ponthei will combine with the Knoxvillc und Carol na system of railroads for Southern eonne tlons. Thi.< will stimulate the Kabun Cape: inisif.ns and pave the way for the Au^ii#: 0 ju KilOAViilc coutiuuation in Carolina. : Sto'brautl Makes His Appointments. The follow Ins notlcc will wphtiu It1 r. It I win lie seen innt iieor ins unu>ut??m w j Greenwood on tne oil the i-'lsr, 22d and 'J3d of r j ti.ls uionth. At present no other nppointI tiient is unnouueod for this county, but we presume tl r.t he will come to Abbeville t". H. - Let our people look well after thoHO who lire attempting to K<t us into trouble. Stol! br.'.nU, it was reported, promised before the n | election that he would, if defeated, contest its *' | validity If he ?ot but two votes, and he is " i keeping his word: 1 (State of South Carolina, ) "! tini?i? 1itio-ki.INAI. District. < " ' Iii tli".- Matter of Contest In tlie Forty-Seventh s j Congress. 1 Carlos J. fttolhrand, 1 v! l'auntiir. Contestant, | Notice to tnko Tctii?K;?in>-t ) inony ai;d cej osiI D. Wyatt Aiken. Pef t. | tloiia of Witnesses. Ke unit-il Member. j e ; The Hon. I). M'yrttt Aiken: s j Take notice ttait the undersigned \vl!l proj ceed to till;*- testimony mid depositions In the euibove staled cause. before the following olli>f! C"M>, on tin* following dates,and at the lul.ow places to wL: : Fir*!.?The witnesses to ho examined at each place arc: 1st, The Republican Supervisors of >' Kieciion lor the county in which the place is; I I ami 2d. The Republican poll-watchers and ! ticket distributors; ana oil, livery licpublicin j vol.-r In general. ei Second.?'Theofficers li'-fore whom said dei ; positions and testimony will be taken are l". ,'|s. Commissioners li. M. Stuibor and I Huston. 1 Third.?Said depositions ami testimony will ' he taken at the to.lowing tim^s and places: ' l*t. Columbia. Richland i o.January ilist and c February I, l.sSl; Newberry C. II.. Newberry il Co., February 5.7, !'. 1". 11 and i2. 1S-1; .lalappa, Newberry Co.. February 10, 11 and 12, KSI; Laurens C. 11., Laurens Co., February H, II l.i, Ii>, 17. IS and III, 1*81. Martin's Depot. Lalie reus Co., February 17, IS and 10. 1SMI ; (ireci: e! wood. February -I. ?! ami ?'<. i-si; noitrnsi.. II.. I'ickens Co.. March 1 and'.', 1SS1: W'silhaUa, | Oi onef Co.. Maich it nd 28>1: Anderson C. i.' II., Anderson Co., March .5 and 7, 1881: Lcxe imiton C. H.. Lexington Co.. March 8. 1881. j Fourth.?Thls contestant will bo and appear ' by attorney ai the aforesaid times and places, ej Col. John K. lloblis is the retained and au? thori/.ed at tornev. " i Kifth.?The uiidersinne l and contestant ' herein agrees, if concurred in by the returned ; member, that each party 'contestant and re. ' turned member/shall proceed to take the testimony and deposition of witnesses without notice to the opposite party, or without the i! appearance of the opposite party, either In poison or by attorney, to cro?s-f.\a:uir.o wit" i nesfC-s '*1 (Signed) CAIU.OS J. STOMlKAND. ifi Janjai y 2?i. 18S1. Contestant. ??> . ? j At some future time we want to write soine| thing on the importance of tbe recent tleei. stun in the Jell" David case. The Supreme I j Court In that decision opens the door of the - t,? i.iwv pdiivict who may be s ; able to present niter-discovered evidence sufe licieut to warrant the Circuit Juilge in giaut' ii.gft new trial. The dee.'slon having so re jeently boon delivered, Jctt" David will not be I tried until the June Term. - j This we?k we present our readers with one 1 of IJeecher's pecullardoclrinal sermons, which e: wi.l be found both interesting and instructive 1! to all who may give It a reading. ! i! Rational and Harmless Amusements. - j [I'hiludelphia Itccurd.] ? It may well be questioned whether it Is whe t for Christians to sel their faees against popu lar amusements as i ssentially irreligious, und ; to devrv ail indulgence in them as ineonslste.ent with ChriK>ian ehe ranter. While the I church is not of the world, it is in it; ami secI ular vocations, interests and cares must en1! gross a large share of the thoughts and uotivi-{ties of its members. To discharge the duties . i o! life eil'ecilvely there is needed an alterna tlon not only of rest but of r< creation. En-Jjoyiuent is an obligation as well as work. Our II Und is n God ol ghidnexs, and 11 is service, in<>t ii doleful slavery, isa perfect freedom. Religioncannot aecommodate lis standards to 1 j the | asMons and in firm i t i <'.s (if man, nor is It \ dca!rai'le that the strict iuic of i?U-al rectitude J should bo ic.;arded as otherwise than everywhere and always binding. Cot.s'ience, the I sacerdotal element of human nature, attests - continually th'* paramount verity and the J eternal, impeiial primacy of right; so that *j each man bears wlilun liimseii' an inexorable J! uitiHSSo! motui law. lint there is no gain in i; the multiplication of sins by bianding assuch . I acts that arc Intrinsically innocent. Life is i indeed a solemn thins.but he who loolyg^Sly * upon lis somhcrslde and sees HotJi* afUuencc i 01 gayety and brightness fuil^*^nlerpret it . | aright. The (jS'-'-tlo eheafcSnlinsclf out of | mucii that he' would be the better for eujoy1 i-lflg, 'Usd liis morose abstinence from guiltless t! i>.easurrs Is not only a wrong to himself but ?| to his neighbors, whom hccomes to loolc down 1 upon from an eminence oi jimhuui inmv, I-1 and toward whom be neglects to exercisc that ..' i has ity which iy t'ie sweetest of the Christian ,f grac. I i It is surely hard enough for mon to conform ' their conduct to the n.unites! and undoubted c requirements of duty in the various re.ationships they bear to each other without being e i subjected to any nevdiy exactions, 'i'lie Ic-iiitc 1 lumtooccasions for hardship and self-dental e! are sulllcicntiy abundant to call for no additional privations. T!ie Master tells us that ' i Ilis yoke iseasy and His burden light, iiis -! gospel is one of benefaction us well as sacriv i fiee. and the iciigion lie established upon the . I eaitb, while the prophet? f immortal hopes. ' i ha* reference also to the prescm sphere ot our e existem e. and promises happiness here no less than hereafter. To reject the blessings of this j ll:e and to refrain from using the privileges - i that are vouchsafed to us in tins beauiiful and -, plad.-ome world, is one of the worst phases of II practical intldelity. It is ungrateful and dis[loyal to (ioil and a wicked fraud upon ourr selves. Todciiouncuwhatis harmless as a sin implies a confounding of ethical distinctions ! which isaltogether as perilous as the casuUtry j that avers the propriety under certain circumstances of committing humoral acts. In ci' ther case theie is a breaking down of t!ie par. itition between right and wrong. J' Is danger. . ; ous as i! is Impious to add anything to the "j i>ecalogue. An undue extension ot the listol 1 ! things prohibited impairs ihe moral senseand - j tilniini.vlH S the vi-rnloti to that l belongs to a healthy mind. The young man j who goes forth into the world instructed that ' I it is just as really a sin to dance, to go to the j theater, or to visit the park on Sunday, us it is 1 j to steal or commit murder, is very poorly < e>iuipp. d against temptation. If he believes s what be has been taught, he is likely to be a dangerous member of society, 'icn to one, he J wilt break down under the load given him to * carry, and, instead of being prctcrmiturally 2 good.get to he a very bad man indeed. Ainusementsol some kind area necessity of j human nature. All history declares this tobe H true. As a pious and discreet clergyman of . i the Anglican Chureh said recently, the dc, I mtind ot the Roman people for bread and the r j circcnsiau g unes was not merely a pagui but I a tinman cry. Every parent iinds proof of ; I lii'... the instinct <.f his little onr-s for piny. . j Men arc b."' "bildren of a lari?or growth, and ' they can no more do Without pastimes and di' versions than they can gel along without 1 1 - ' - ?..ii c.,.. i ?,,,| ; 11 wuiuu i v ?'!n I'JI ? iMiot...,. iiuvi women to thoughtfully consider tnis whole. '! They should :isk themselves whether. Instead j ol' putting the drama and other institutions I which minister to the need of amusement un'j iter the bun of their disapproval, it would not 11 be better to use their Influence to elevate and ] purify them. So far as they have relaxed the [lold puritanical rigor on this point, and sought : | to make things pleas-int fi>r the young people! by getting up fairs and sociables, they have J done well. Isut there is room for an advance !in ti.at direction. An eminent evangclilst t ] sets his revival melodies to popular airs, on tj the ground that thedevil ought not to have till I the best tunes, it would be a sagacious step to " i carry out this idea still further. Itsurely Is r '< not wise to abandon the wide field of popular . j amusement almost wholly to the gentleman "; in black. ;} A Tutor for Erskino. ' J *?-' ? i i[ si rouciute: iirjur/firii i /co(/^n/iw?t.j For years there has been n demand for a tu -' ' i tor for the Academic Department In Erskine ; ! College. ISoys, in that department, require I . I the constant supervision of a teacher. 15ut,l j heretofore, the means 01 the College would not \ justify the employment of nnotner tc.?eher. j t f Now, we are glad to learn, there is a prospect ; for some increase in the income of tneColleg , land it is thought by some that it would he ?| well to employ it in making such provision as | t may be found practicable for the Preparatory .| department of the institution, if the endow-J t ment fund*) would not yield a sufficient " j amount lo pay all the Professors and a Tutor, - j would it not he better lor patrons of the PriJ mary department topa> half-tuition,say, and j thus secure the whole time of one devoted to ' the supervision <f their boys. The Female j College admits boys up to twelveyears of ate, ] and afier that they are turned over to Erskine ' | to receive such attention a1-- Proiessots whose * bands are pretty full with tin; College classes, i can give them, it would pay to have a Teach! i r it) the Primary department of the Instilu! tlon. if half 1 he salarv had to he made up hy the payment of a low rate of tuition. The subject Is worth considering, at any rate. -j Contested Seats. 11 Washington, January 22.?The Committee j on Ectl' ns of the next House of Representj alive* will have more contested cases boiore 11 It than have ever heen brought in on.)' on?j gress, if all who have signified their purpose , to contest seats do so. Five out of the six Democratic members fiom Mls-isippi have 'i been notified that tlieir seats will be contested x I by Republicans. Several con lest c?? cases ?111 r come uu from Alabama, ihree from Louisiana, three from South Carolinn, <ine from Florida, 01 one from Arkansas, two from Virginia, one or i i from North Carolina, and a number from othe!er States. The only member from Mississippi who escapes a contest Is Mr. Money, and there * was no Republican candidate la his district. II An Impression seems to have gone out that the Republicans Intend to unseat a goodly number of Democrats from the South in the lC next House, and nearly every man who ran it for Congress as a Republican In that section j has given notice of a contest. I SAVANNAH VALLEY" RAILROAD. R\ The Contract for Grading Twenty Miles lM j of the Lino Let Out at a Fair Figure. Il~' ANDr.itsoN, January 28.?The directors of il the Savi'nnah Valley Railroad Company met lo here to-day and let out a contract for grading the Hrst twenty miles of the road at a very low price. The first t\*o miles, winch have a -h pretty heavy grade, were taken at S1.2.V) per ic niile, and the other eighteen miles at $o~-r> per mile. At this rate the road cun be graded easily tor the amount voted. - ?> ^'I'*; outlook for the future of the Columbia i S. C. Theological Seminary Is said to be very I encouraging. More than have tieen se raised for the endowment of the seminary, et and the Rev. J. it, Mack, J). 1?., was appointto t(' financial agent fur two years to pusn ihe j endowment sebemeand secure lunds lor the .t- relief ol the school. The board lias deferred thw election of a professor to tlieannual meeting in May next. The Seminary l:a> now SUO.OUO invested funds. u ???*? i- These heavy roads require a good wagon. ...' Gel one of the O.eloaied Milburn Wagons Ironi Mr. J. \V. Robertson. ' Mr. -I. W. Robertson has received a cur load 'H ' ol the Celebrated Milburn Wagons, which ho i olleib fur tuie chcup. # ?^r.imKTT aa^aMaroggiiig | Virtue iu Wall Street. \ - 1 1 ONE OF THE STRAY L>?IBS MEETS ' A MERCIFUL OLF. I The Fererof Speculation in (he Rnralj* j Districts Exemplified In a Business | i Letter to an Eniinontlr Respectable | Firm of Bankers?A Virtuous Reply -Why Wall Street Brokers I)iue so Sumptuously at I)elmonico?s. t, (Xriv York Sun.) ^ j Mr. Unfits Hatch, of Wall street, sat In Ills ! oiflee yesterday afternoon discussing with oth- t< ! er gent lemon the Western Union deal. "Il's)? a question said Mr. Hatch, "whether two i ? laud two make nine. thirteen or seventeen, j0 j Th? stock market 1* now llltc a prairie on fire,i j wl;h a northwest wind and the crass dead and j o ! dry. Tho spirit of speculation is more ramp- j n 'ant In the country than In the city. To prove j. ' this I'll read you a letter,changing names and I n I l.xtr.C ? | ^ j Tlio letter was nddrcnsedto "Mr. H. Hutch, J j of Fisk & Hatch, bunkers, Wall street, N, Y." r? i It was us follows: "A , N". Y.. January 12,1SS1. ' " Mr. Hatch?l>e??r sir: I take the liberty to ^ ! cncroi'ch on vottr valuable fine, an<l address j * i you personally, instc;ul of ihe firm of' Fisk & w j Mulch,' because1 so wish your own opinion ! on what I am about to write of: I a1 j " 1 hud a moripnge of 5.5,<KK) (part of my prln- ? I clpal; paid in to ine lust week. I Citnnol hear I j of n good investment here In the country j b | at prc.-ont. so I have decided to speculate u " i little. I have come to this conclusion uot'd ; without some ill Is^i vines'. I trust you will 1 j not langh Just here, for I know the amount I jr< i mention may seem smail to you, but quite d | large to me. Von will S'.-e tlsat I inn trying to jo. gut ^ UU Ml LCI ill l??J H tuu.v, nu,.ui. ?. ... j.kirnllyiulvl.se nw wliut It is best to do, the i r:i ; same as you would advise friends and then 1 l" will have much more confidence to try tills t' ; rink than IT I had merely the bankers'opln- <- < < ion. I am under the Impression that you re- jr! ! side In Glen Cove at least a part of the year, j I'1 and that you are acquainted with the Rev. r? | Mr. I'.lauk and his wife, who Is my cousin. I ti ! mention thin that you may know who I ain. H ! 1 lease not to mention to them this venture ol V I mine, for my friends here might hear ot it, tl I and pu would not like it. as he does not be- I11 llcve in Wall street. " When I was married (which was several rj years after the clergyman and cousin lictsy, *'< j lor i was then hut a school girl at Packer *, pa it j nave me ft wedding present of jjlO.OO*', to see b< j how I would manage it, he said. I liaval- b , ways in vested on bond and mortgage on Jef! ferson county farms, and never lost, but added i ?i several thousands by pulling from time to j g< time Interest to the principal. Several years in I ago, tor certain reasons, paf.u bld my hut-band m I to tome lieie. I now know nothing of his j tl i movements. I tell you this so that you will j w carefully advise me about this Investment j ti ! when you ste that i re.y on myself, and have : n two little daughter* to educate. John Smith, j ft j ex-president of the Bricklayers' I5a.uk, Is my ? I father-in-law. You have heard of his busi- gi . ness management, I presume. My father is a | ci I director in a bunk a lew miles from iiere, but ?' [ Is in his Mtth year, so I do not bother aim with <?' I business, but help him instead. 1 have never I had a brother or sister, so haven't t'lcm to ask "I advice of. |M "I think I saw you in thesuniiner of 1877. i ii I Your beautiful ysaciit was anchored two miles J s< I oft" Mammls' Hoscl, Fim inland, near Stone's j j I'.tuch House, where you and mio: her gentle-' v< . man had supper of roast elttms. I saw you ti | board tlie yacht and was aft.*rv.ard told who r? | II was. tn 1 ci-rtalnly missed it awhhc ago that I did 11: not buy Krle. hut I fiu:ed to, and, besides, 1 *? i had no loo?e money at tlmt time. There is, I n< I notice, a good deal oi speculation in Western ? I Union. 1 read some lime ago that (ionhl was ai j interested in Texas i'aeilie. If tlmt is so, the [stock will be likely to go up. will it not? I Would it be sale lor me to invest In Terns l'a- < I citie at H>.and hold on to it lor some lime? li j'' | it should go to HO I cott'd double my money. " j Do you think it will be low er before it is high-1u j er? Forty is pretty high to pay and expect lo jc< I make much. Of course I understand Hint in 1,1 I most .slocks it is buy one day and sell the next l' I with a small pioht. unless, like in Krle some y I time ago, one wo.ild not be alraid lo hold on. j \V Inch do you think I would muke the most c I in, and be the salcct at the same time, Texas n iVellicor Northern i'aciiie? This latter seems Iv Vl>li.<>p|,lll i.-. I ? I 14 I' * ** KIV/I , W?? II c? 4 V . AO 1 UUMVI vim I tcrcMcd ill Noriht'rn Pacific, or Hie A''.untie l'( unci i'uctiic? I'lcuse tell mc which, if any, of P ! thise } ou deem j:ood ? 1 I " You ste I fuvor buyl"? and holding on " sometime in hopes ? making a lar^c ?um,' * ; but if you tlilr*. ii better to buy and sell oil- j * ; en, why, 1 ly <>n yourgood JudgmenM^l ex-1" ! pcriencc-. IT you think tliere Is ^Kwuio;1' ! ch-.wce of my making awl more elmt^eof my j J1 | (oxiiii/, 1 ti list j ou will candidly write inc so. |'} ; l-'or ibis reason 1 have wiilleii you, thinking i'"1 | ihut knowing of me and how I am situated ! ? j you would perhaps be so kind as to take an j}"' i ints rest in investing for mecure/ully.ditlerent! ' tl.au the linn woiihi on receiving ashortbusiI ness note. If you invest lor me, would it not | be best lor you to ell any time. If neccssury, ' without llrst advising mc, and so losing pie- ** clous time? 'i hen, It that same stock seemed P {about to rise, you could immediately invest j!1 j again. " i " If I send the amount, you will give me a ' receipt lor it. What percentage do you have 11 I for bu\ lug and selling? ' i "I tear, for a stranger, I have asked too * ! much. Very respccttully, " "Jennie ?. ." ! "Now." said Mr. Rtifus Hatch, of Wall fl j street, " tins Is a genuine letter. Truth is Li J stranger than ilclion. There are 1,100 brokers, ti j members of the Stock Exchange, and each b j oue H ci-ives more or less similar letters from <> | the rural districts. And that's why we can in I dine at Lielmoiiieo's." t? "Well, did you answer the letter?" Mr. vi ! Hatch was a-ked. ' t< I ' i ir Kiiiruit I ^lit " ho r/.itllpfl " Tnhniinn 'I' ; get nie the copy tlmt I wrote lust night." b The answer was as follows: m " iti'Frs hatch <t Co., ) !'j "47 Exchange I'lace, > , "New Yoke, Jan. Itf, lWl.j ^ " My Deai: Madam :?Yourcommunlcauon : I(1 i has reached me through I lie courtesy of Flsk ! _ j Hatch, an eminently respectable firm ol' ft, : bankers, with whom, probably unfortunately tJ i for myself, 1 am unconnected. Mr. Hatch, ot I the tirin of M?k <k Hutch. is president of the b | Howard Mission, ami i* considered the good . i Hatch of New York City. There are several { I wicked Hatches in the bunking buslr>css in ' litis wicked Willi street. Neulie' the eooU (t j .Mr. Hatch nor my?elf live ai l?!on Cove, and. . | so far as 1 know, neither of us were yachting in 1N77. Neitncr the good Mr. Hatch nor myj self, so far us 1 know, are in the habit of invlt j ing ladies to eat clam? under assumed names, ,M j and neither of us. so far as I know, are In the g| I habit of entertaining ladies on our yachts. t( : when wedogo yachting,unless they arc mem- a| hers of our families. Allow rac, however, to q give you t ome advice: "hirst? In writing to Wall street brokers, avoid giving n detailed statement of your an- .,] eestors, your friends and your posterity. |? "Second?Invest your jm.iwu in additional (J, mortgages in Jet'en-on county cheese and but- o( ter larms. liy doing this you have thedownes ol >our two:ltilegirls always under jour rj own eyes. "Third?If.however, you have the Insane ll: I idea of becoming suddenly rich through the M I action of some unknown quantity, send your tj money to the good Mr. A. S. Hatch, of the re- t> speciable banking tirm ot Fisk A Hatch, and | in.-truct him to invest lt in Government bonds, and nothing else. Your profits may be quite small, but you will be sure of what you have. " Fourth?In reply to your Inqui'ieR about * Messrs. (jould and Vnndeibilt, 1 will say that 11 their rrmiNition in Wall street at Dresent Is not of the best <)imlily. 1 hey have gone out | of things that they weie In and have gone into tilings tl<nt they were out of, and the t" 'street is greatly puzzled. All outsiders who <" | venture into Wall street, whether ladies or 1,1 gentlemen, arc looked upon as lambs to bo ? fleeced. ^ "Fifth?If you desire any further advice, I <lf would advise you to address the good Mr. A. al S. Hatch, of the respectable banking tliniot ?'r Klbk & Hatch, and not your obedient servant, ni " Uncle IIvkus Hatch." si CI Huffy People. !|j One of the oddest things to witness, if not one of the most disagreeable to encounter, is the faculty some people have of takiugoflense when nooil'ense is meant?taking "nuff," as j ht the phrase goes, with reason or without? making themselves and every oneelse uncomfortable for nothing deeper than a mood or more than ufancy. Huffy people are to be 1 A met with of all ages and in every station, I A neither years nor condition bringing ne-'A Icessarily wisdom or unsusplci<>usne*s. But A j we are bound to Miy that the larger propor- A I tion will be generally found amoug women, i A i and chlelly among those who are of an un- A certain social position, or whoareunhappy in ] A ! their clrcumsiances, not to speak of their | A tempers, ilulllness, which seems to be self-1 A ! assertion in what may be called the negative ] A | term, and which the possessors thereof class- i A i ify as a high spirit of scnsliiveness, according | A nrvnllon U In rmillll' I A ! the product of self-distrust. The person who j A 1 has self-respect an<t nothing to four, who Is of (A | an assured social status, i.nd happy private ' A condition. Is never apt to take offense. .Many | ! and great are the dancers of action with huIt" | 8I ! people, and you are sure to flounder Into the I w ixwith them, whilo you are innocently j <* thinking you are walking on the sol ides 11 v I esplanade. The dangers of speech are just us w i manifold. The dangers of Jesting arc, above 'ail, great. It may be laid down as an absolute n rule, which has no exception anywhere, that h no hully person can bear a Joke good-humor- n ! edly, or take it as it is meant. If you attempt ti i the very simplest form of chaffing, will soon t, I be made to llnd out your mistake, and not! it 1 unfreuuently the whole harmony of an even- ti ing has been sot wroiii! because a thin skin-id ! mil, huJIy person has tnkpn a pleasant Jesi as ? a personal alfront, and either blazed out or i ? gloomed sullenly, according to his or her lit-! e I dividual disposition,and direction ofthewind j\ j at tho time.?Hoiuctvold. 0 ? mr. e Might They Not Rest Awhile. ? (Christian Xcighbor.) '' The A 66ert'lle Pre** and Banner of .Tannsry 10th I 'I , has nearly three of its capacious columns tilled with n j solid set small type giving A LitUt History of the tl Contodoiate IJcneralb." The main rcarnn given for' 0 1 pulilibhlrg the selection seems to be that ' It furnish-1 *1 j os one of the bust ar. umonts in fivor of education." i w I Friend Prt-.vs and Banner: We are not in for tho ' ; least sort of a dispute with yon about anything, but' t> I in ist a>k if the laiowar?caus?, aim, management,!" cost, results?Is illustrative of ihe " education " oi the tl , Conf< derate Generals ? If so, the boys now in school ? j who are looking aionz the military line for "glory " ' h bait better turn their books the lower end upward or i * stand on th-ir heads ; e .Just one wi.nl more," as some preachers say: j Wouid it be an unpardonable treason to 'ct our Gen-; c< erals" rest awhile,and give a little?just a Utile ? hie- u tory of the men who were not " lienor ais." "Colo- I' nels," (.'at'taiii or anything more or less than prl- r< val-s? Any Uenerai wlio has not been "educated " A out of his senses?there Is much u? just such edilra- 2> lion?will admit that there were hundreds of privates & in the war who had as milch sense, fought as hard, suffered as much, loved their country as much, as any W General in eithei the Federal or Confederate army. | jj We know nothing troin experience or observation < " about a battle, l ut have ?n idea that in a battle the , & Generals, "stalland " stutl " are In the rear? sometimes a (food long distance?while tho privates are to P tli? front: ami since the war we have a knowledge " that tlie G? lieiais hiv in liont I ke a stonewall, while j' the privates wiili-iiitfuriouch aio permitted to ' strag- ti gle" to tlie io:u* or any iviic.e clso theyjehooae?except. ; to the front. 1 u ? !r; The "no fence" is gradually creeping on us it and there is no use to try to sloni the tide of t< puldic sentiment which is daiiy growing in " Its favor. We believe It. will in Ihe eotlisc of ' a few years Include the limitd of Lunoister ''' i County.- Lam:'Jist.?r Ledger. Ir' Let Us Pay the Debt. *HE HON. D. WYATT AIKEN'S VIEWS av rxv i vnv discussion of the Bill to Facilitate the Refunding of the National Debt?The Cash Balance In the Treasury should be applied to the Purchase of Outstanding Bonds. In the Mouse on January 18h. on thf Mil to fncill*tc tlic ulumllne ill tue National riibt, Col. I). Wyutt iken, our member fioni tli?Tliiul(-.\<iig.-eBsiuiial IjUrlct of stout li t'hriilin*, spoko us lollown: Mr. Chairman?1 Imvo been an attentive li-ti ner this |iiutr:>cir<l de'ute. .mil though from the outset pen to conviction, I "til not yet convinced that It rill be either wi*? or economical to r.-tiuid no milch I' the public debt in inn tires iluiinp the 3 ear lssl. believe th?- prosperity of our coun.ry will wnrrunt U< lii]iiidnlliiK thn ft nn<1 (i per criit. bunds ns th?-y latnic ?r in tiMi *hort u time nfier maturity to Im onu u|n>n u* tbu necessity of attempting tn float a I ew lo n ut lower interest and short time. Th* only nestion, then, Is. cau we pay Ibis dei?t? I believo we in, ?nd will assign sue Inctly the reasuu for the iltiilDuie. A DELUSION AN t) A US ARB. Tbe secretary of tbe treasury iclsus that on the 1st iiy of November last there w.re in the treasury 'JIS.710,iM tn c-lii, of wbtcb amount tl41,,M)7.018 ere "an available cash balance. Tills latter sum had icr aird by the Hist of December bo fur as to bee.ome l that lime JMKSOS.CIS. Wllh the Name r itlo of wrease this availablec-ln will amount to $i!'J0,0"(t.ti0i) c ore i lie expiration of the present year, and would c an amount equal tn the entire 6 per c nt. inilebtid- j ess. Then why thoiild it i ot be appropriated fnrj le purpose of catitielbni; that portion of the public: i'bt 1 Grntlcnieii reply, b. cause It is only avai'ab;e >r specitie purpites. to wit. resumption and redempon. Why. Mr. Chairman, until I heard t( asserted) ii lids fio -r a f-w da? s ago that It was a "delusion"! nd a * Ktiare." I thought that reMimption was a tixed | cl. The secretary of the treasury ti lls us In his rei.rt tli.it '-while nu distinction us to value Is made be?een coin uid notes In business transactions. n mark1 preference Is shown for notes, <>? intr to tht-lr supeor convenience In converting and carrying. Ami s further assures lis til it "I'nited plates n<>teS (ire adily taken al par with coin In nil parts of this cuutlV ami in the chief commercial marts of the world." "this be not resumption. Mr. Chairman,wbat is it? 'e are t<dd by the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Httrd] utt resumption w.ll be fissured when all debts are ni'l in specie, rructiculiv. sir, that time never lias pen and neVer w 11 bo. Indeed, 1; the monthly teilaof tlint centleiunn were protlVred him by the Gov j nir.e:.t in specie, tn cold, to assure him thatresumpon was an establish) tl f.ivt, wo know very well that t' would rebel a.nlnstnuch payment of Government idebtednefcg. To all practical purposes specie paylent* are ma n'.iiin- d !o day, and the much-abused lvcr dollar has the same purchasing power that the ild dollar bus. It will buy as many yards of clothing, i m:my pounds of food, as many pluirs of tobacco, id as m.iuy drinks of whisky; and w all know tat in the mind of the average Anisriran citizen. I ill not say averacu American Congressman, these ur articles are essentially necessary to sustain huian comfort. No, Mr. I would not hold this amount ir rcfiimptiun.because as the Bicretary of the treasiv Well says "In a supreme emergency the power ranted to sell bonds will supply any possible drfi eiiey." and lie has in the treasury authorized to be ild, tint not sold *'10-1,6,V2,-0(J of 4 per cent. bonds ra labb- for this purpose. llut then we are told this "available cash balance"' r $l4S,508,(il.*> must be held for redemption purposes. | Ir. Chairman, during the year 1SS0 theie were held j I IUC IIV.I-MII J IUI Ml" UIKI HIT croiary tells lis $7uC 633 worth ?' not;-# were pre nted lor redemption. An r-isnrmoiiH trap pet fir i-l'y little came, tiurrlr. And 1 venture the snej.'P*on. that twelve months hence wj will hear a similar port simply bccju?e Unit'd State* notes are now In mi, security un<l convenience the best circulating lediitm k' own. Hence I conclude, s;r. that this re rve fmid tie used to cancel the C piT cent indebtedrs# of the country during the current yetr, thereby ivinc to the laX'paylns citizens of the country an inual sum of $12 OeO.OO?. A J"KW FINtKKS TOR OOSSWfcHATtOM. Hut then, sir, durlmr this fame year of lsSl the 5 rr cent. Indebtedmnj of the <onntry mature*. un<l hat dl.-|M>sitloit <io wn propose to make of It? Pay of course, as rapid y as the net revenue of the mntry will enable tis. The decretory of the tressry csrmatesthat we will liaveftsnrplusof $9-" 000.000 apply to the extinguishment ol the jitilillc del>t. tld t'j this the $12,0011,000 saved l>y tbe C per cent, ebt, as above supirestud. in.l It will be fair to conude that we can i?ay * 100,000,000. Mow, Mr. t'hxlrlan, if up<"* . uebt ol $170,000,000 at ft per cent, per ill"--.:. .- c pity the interest and an annual payment of |l)i:,000,C00 ti|?on the principal, we will have liquidat1 the debt in six years and s:x months and ?III hav*. :iidout f<ver?s:.'.'"i"000 In interest. If, on thenther mid, wo fund this d- Di t:-."> 3 per cent, bonds, payslo after five yeara ?l the option or the G -v?.- merit, | e will in six yeais and a ha'f hare psld out over I DO,00(l,ti00 of interest and th? principal will rtmain ntuuehed. Ami the $l0l'.00",0O0 which we propose pay npoit the principal annually will have tone Into te fcinkine fund which, the secretary tells us, will ive reached Houte'binjc over $300,00(1.000 by the midle of 1K*8. lint then we are left with a "deficit of 170,000.000, when as by apply inz our animal net reviiilea to the payment <-f the debt direct we will have rjoiilated the entire 5 per cent indebtedness at the Eviration of six years anil six months. Mr. Chairman, suppose these millions of 3 per cent, n year bonds should lw I'sued, and the various cretar es should iitid that nat onal adversity had revented the pavmentof any portion of the principal | r even iiceumnl-tine a 6'tiktiii; fund, how will we ml ourjvlves in 1S9I i A', that time $2.'.0,<00 0( ft of percent. t>on<is nii'itire. inn me government wuma > it-n he compelled to negotiate a new loan f r longer hip. anil tlms the people w-'uld have I.tiil upon their lotilders a petpelnal debt, which, i.s bus bci-n huid on lis floor, is "un-Aoiei lean." Hut, Mr. Chairman, I ma* bclold that such gtreniiiis effort-Ho nay the public debt would produce a nancial disturbance that would cheek the prosperity I'tbecouiitrr. Totny mind ju>t the reven-e would i ike place. Money now wrapped up in bonds would l? free and privileged, or rather compelled to feck tber Investments, All over thin broad country fertile itid# are lying Idle that by a free circulation of this nr.ded >v?-alth might be brought Into pioliiablc cultlat ion. In our Appalachian chain of mountains, ex rd nir through Virginia, Noitliand South Carolina, eiincssee, Ge< rgia, and Into Alabama, ther" are ine.\mistiblu supplies of coal, iron, marble. sandstone ml rleh mines of gold, silver,and copper, all now imsdded wlihln the bosom of Mother Knrth. And uoiighout the entire Piedmont section of country, (tending from the Po.oinac to tbi iron hills of Ala- j itna, illunitab'e water powers, so uir-jestic that one | els like standing uncovered in their presenc", are j inning to waste, and their constant roar ng sounds >lf li were a mournful dir^e murmuring because the ipitallsts of the country would not utilize tin be I I'M of lint u re. Yes, Mr. Chairman. Instind of wrapping up the pople's money in the country's debt let it be invested i tnetiMcnltlvated lands ol the South and West, and jr exports. which are onr only guarantee of prospery, will be In ere a ed; let It btulii lip fnntorleson tbel nit where our products are grown, and we will tlx n (port flour Instead of wheat, bi.con Instead of pork, irnsaml cloth Instead of cotton, and our material re | llirces will oe bo oeveiopen uiai nnr j>rui?|iiTiijr win permanent mid perpetual, while our debt will be lort lived; nnr income will be mi Increased as to tnn rtnlly decrease our taxes. nn<l ours will be the freest ill haopiest people In the world. In conc'uMon, Mr. bnii man. I would eay, and 1 spenk now only for that cti"n where can be found those magnificent water >wers und those invaluable mineral deposit?, the penlo there tire thisduv, with outstretched arms, extend it to Mpita'lsts a welcome, nt:d urslng them to come rer and help t hum In developing the natural resources ' that beautiful country. And it, sir. by paying the itional debt we could effect but this single result I| insce In it # heH'thfnl Influence npon tlie politic#of j le country which would be ample compensation for i-burdens of taxation to which the peojde would be ibjected until the debt was paid; because, sir, socmialism would then be destroyed, and ours would be mt happy jieople we once weie. Therefore, Mr. Iiairman, 1 say let us pay the debt. a grotvincT giast. aterest Never Sleeps?Some Important Facts and Figures. The subjoined statements, showing In a variety of rmstherspid lncresso arising from Interest (relitor ury being very neailv synonymous terms) charge for le use of accumulated wealth?which we take from b-cture that was delivered in Association Hall. New ork, by Wallace P. Uroom, on the ' Currency Needs 1 Commerce"? coutaln much -'food for thought'' for I elasses, old or young, man or woman, employer or nployed ; for interest nffects the price ot every comodity in the most vital man er. Many carelosslv Infer that the Increase of money at x percent Is just tuice as rapid as at Hired per lit.; but in reality the increase Is vastly mote rojiid ian this. In one hundred years, at six per cent., the crease on any given sum Is nbout eighteen times as tich as at three p. r cent. If one dolUr l>e invtsted and the Intcreit added to it< principal o'lnuatlu, st the rates named, we shall ive the jollowlng result as the accumulation of one indred yens: OMB HOLLAR, O.VZ Hl'NDCD TEAKS. t 1 percent $ 2J t 'I per cent 7j t per cent lit t 8 per cent 19j t 8} per cent 81J t 4 per cent 60J t -4 per cent 61 i t 6 per cent 181J t 6 per cent 840 . t ? t H per ccnt 2.208 t 9 jicr cent 5 543 t in per c. lit J8.S09 t 12 per cent 84 675 t 15 per c- nt 1.174.4i'5 t IS jur cont 15.145.0n7 t 24 jf r ccnt 2,651,799.41)4 There are probably few, however familiar with the nbji ct of the rapid Increase of capital put at Interest, ho Would not be startled at the statement that the Hi of the outfit of Christopher Columbus In his first oyaee of discovery, put at Interest at fix percent, onld by this titn<- have amounted to more than the nitre money value of this continent, together with je accumulations from the tndustry of all who have vt d upon it. If any doubt this, let them reckon the mount, Chiltnatinp the entire outfit to have cost only IO SIOUII BUU1 Ol live luuUBailll UUI till n, ?UI| itmnui-rlnsr that money donbles, at six per cent.. In a liule BS than twelve years?or accurately. In eleven years, jii months, uiid* twenty-one days. Allowing it to ouble every twelve years, this five thousand dollars t interest at six per cent, slnco 1492. It will lie found mild have amount-d to $17, b'Jii,7U0.000,000; wbicti. stlmuting the populntion of the entire continent ol .merlca (North una South) to be eighty-flvo millions, r seventeen million families (averaging Ave members uch), would give more than a million dollars as the ossossion of evi ry one of tbose. The intorost upon million dollars as tho possession of every ne of lese. The interest ii|>on a million dollars at six per ent. is sixty thousand dollars, which would now be lie princely animal income of ench of these seventeen ililion families from the accumulations up to this line upon so small a sum as that named for the outfit f the discoverer. In IIildretb's "History of the llnlt(I states," it isstaUd that Manhattan Island?afterraril call New Amsterdam, now the city of New York -was bought by tho Dutch from the Indian* for sixty tiilders, or twenty-lour dollars (f:i!4), and this only bout two hundred and fifty years ago And yet, if je purchasers could have securely placed thut $24 here it would have added to the principal annually utercst ut the rat?of7 per cent., the accumulation i'ould exceed the present market value of all the real state of the city and county of New York Again, if a man at the ase of twenty-five should iiiimnce business with a capital of one hundred Ihous lid dollars and could by any possibility add thereto iterest at our legal rate of 7 per cent annually, ihe wilt would be (in round numbers) as follows: ge. Capital. 1 $ liHiino r, 200.000 i 4OO0i.U 1 600,000 V 1.000,00(1 8.2?O.OUO 0,100.0 0 Now. tile growth of national wealth is only about 3^ eriutit. per annum, notwithstanding the assertion o| l lose who luive plarwl it much hither, through comiiring the old vaiuations Willi the new (which have een gie itly Increased). instead of taking ; ? the basis | f llieir calculation, as tney should have done, tlie aetal number of horses, cattle, hogs, etc., at the differ-' lit periods. It is plain, tbeieloie, that the meat mistake i tost men make ism attempting to use borrowed capal at an Immensely high loin, ordinarily termed mn >t. While the growth of the imtinnal wealth ren,in* ut the present rate, the average man who at-! nipt* to pa) even 7 per cent, for nil the capital he m net, fchould not esjivct Ui avoid bankruptcy as the .bUlt. 1 Plymouth Pulpit. VIEWS OF THE REV. HENRY "WARD BEECHEtt ON SECTARIANISM. Unity of Hearts ns well as of Creeds the Trne Principle of Clirlstlauity; Otherwise Religion weakened of its Strength. [ "Knr In Clirlnt Jesos neither circumcision nvn'letli anything, nor iincircnincislon, bnt a new crmture. And An iiiuny ns walk uec 'Mine to this rule, pi-ace be no tlif in. n n< I mere;, sod upon the i a rue 1 of God."? Gal. vl , 16. 16 One grand ceremonial of the .Jews that hart both * nuUi>nx!rnid a religious character was ctrcmnclMoh. We have not nude n* much of any o ber service as the Jewtt ui!\de of clrcumciidon . It la s?ld that baptism haft taken the place ot it: and In some aeniie it lias; hut not blutorically nor by command; It Mmply bus been employed asanoidlnancc in Initiating one into imi v uriBuan toiiiijiumi/ uou 111..11 wnt> iniiiiueu nuoine Jewish by th i act of eircutnei-lon; and this ordinance, like the o-ilinance or circumcision, unci- exp-rlenced, is supposed l>y many to have in It a charm. The onljnanceof c rcumclslon w is a sort of exorcism of evil,of an amulet will) ull charms contained In It: and men wire very poud of it; ami tbey hail a contempt, therefore, for all those w'io hail not b-ien so fortunate as to have ?-X|?erifuc? d li: unci you could not have struck anything else In the whole Jewlati economy thut would have had clustered around uliout It so many il'ics of importance runnli.g out of every p.irt of the sVnieio. Hut the apostle declares that neither the presence of llnor the ahsenco of |>. in ule nny difference. He is describing the n< w life; or, in oiber words lie In pi vine what I* called the gospel view? the marrow of the Gospel?ami lie mean*, sunstaiiHallv, that in all forms, ad ordinances, all things external whatsoever, however much liriimrtauce they may have, it Is the new creature that la .he one effectlvu thine? tbitt, unci that only. l'aul and his Master both handled, obs rved, and to fine extent revered services, as we call t hem. as the means of urace. Our Matter attended the synapogleal worship of the abh ith ilaya, as lie was accustomed, It Is said- a* he was wont. He was a ihu-ollgli Jew He did not tread down the Jewish manners aud habits. Wherever tlii y were used to promote a w,ong spirit he brought them to naught; t-n" Wherever they were of any benefit lie not only did not discourage them, but was himself a glorious observer of thetn THERE WAB NOT 80 JEWISH A Jr.w IN ALL PALESTINE AS JlSl'li CUBIST In hlsdiy; and that wai one of the rensnnsof his ereat popularity for ihetiuie. Amonir his own countrymen n- wad a typical .Tew, and brought b >ck, they thought, the days of heroic Jew#?the old propheti.and deliverers l'aul himself, we need not say, If ?e liuu> read his biogtapty with any attention (and he glvet us son ethlng of It innlmosieverything be wrote). ?as an Intensely Jewl-h Jew, second to none; nor did he ever desplae, ridicule or uuow name ins noneston 10 uewisn customs On the c iitrury, even to the last "lavs of bis life, ami within iivar or two uf his ileMli. he ostentatiously vwlit through therltuj.i ol the temple; but lie declares in another passage thut. fur the sake of winning men to spiritual life, he becoii.o all thin:;* to *11 tncii. Anion* the Jews he was under the law?tinder Motes' law?lor the sake of wlnnlnzthem; and when he was among the Gentiles he laid nslde the law of Moses ns such, find wis without Inw? that is without that law? although hesajs he whs order the law ofi'hrist. lleie is sn instance, then, both of the Master ai d of his foremost apostle. in two respecs?first, nti observance of Instrumentation, And secondly, a persistent nntl luminous conception-bearing testimony to the fact thut none of these things were religion; In other words, that they did not constitute the Onspel. Everywhere the Gospel was taught ns hclne?what! Not n hist orical document; not a nlstory of the life of Christ; not a n cord or his sayings and ileal lues. We. In ? ift-nefsil sense, use the term so; but In its vifcil and spiritual sense, everywhere It was laiutlit, b th by the 'laster and his iipostles, that the (Jusjwl was n living experience In humnu hearts; not the educating Influence by whcll that was inspired and developed, bnt the thine UBi-lf? the new creature created in righteousness by the power of the Holy Spirit. The Gospel, then according to their conception, was n living st ite of spiritual farts: It was not a book, nor wii- Its system ol truths, philosophically reduced and connected ; It w-as that which these things were In tended tn product-?11 n-w cieature. A developed manhood around the c. liter of love by the piwer of the Holy Gh -st?that is toe Gospel. In ei.cb man, and in every assembly ol tuen called a church, the (J< (pel Is not what they believe, but what they are. WE A?E NOT TO I'.NDEKVALl'C CHURCH OEOAMZATIO.NS nor church ordinances, be they more or b.- they less. Some like them ami aic ben> tiled by th?-to. b?ine do not eare for them because ihiy aie nol hen tited by them. We ure not to tread on each other's preferences, tnsti8, associations or education: but we a<e never t<> allow ourselves to be so misled as to mistake the instrument fur the end, the cause for the effect?-th<t Is, the initiistiant cause. We should fa'l into precisely the same mistake If We should speak of school-houses, hiaek-boards, books, or physiology and muthetnaties, Willi the greatest reverence meaning all tha time simply the educated ri fined ni.d inieillpent man. WedUcrimipMc fit once ill ihecaseot culture and intellectual development. We kn?w that a train ol institutions and ii iluelires are necessary for broad development. but ilie development llseli, I ineducation, is always not In the books, nor In the corps of professors, but In tn* scholar?ihero or no where. It is a living thing ; it is a term or phrase that conveys the idea of a ceitaiu condition of ac.ua! iivirtK men. Now, the Gvf-pe', as it was taught by the apostles, was light Irom oil high in the souls ol men. It was a condition of ciindue fl .wing from a condition cliaructer. It wan the living experience of a soul attuned to the love of liod and of rneu by the indwelling ol the divine Spirit. Tills IT WAS WHAT WAS rKEACltlD. Listen to snch language as Is found In Tlins. the second chapter and the eleventh and fifteenth verses inc lltive : ' Km- the grace of God thit brlngeth salv itlon bath appeared to all men. teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly litsis, we would live soberly, riiibteoui-ly and godly In the present wmId : lin king for that blessed h<>peatid the glorioils appearing or the great (iod and ?ur Saviour .le.-us Christ; who ^ave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all' iniquity, and purify onto himself a peculiar people, zeatounuf Works. These things speak, and ex hurt, and lebuke with all authority. Let no man despite thee." Here, then. i< what men were to preach?the dlspossession of evil, and the peife itlon and b- aliilcat'oii or the :oul by reasonnt thisbpiritu.il life flowing tri m the heart of God. 1 ha: was tbu g- spel to cv?rj man. Of course there 1? a I. rue ruiige of debatable ground ns to the method by whirh ?ali?* cm produce ll> inrli this m-lso < ! iht'ir need, ol the nature of sin. the pliiloi??|iliy uf it, tlie ol c<nivieiliiif men of it, and ol tile transition fr->1(1 the dominion and |iowi*r ol Bin to tlu< development und power of a tri.ly rcgi-iit rated life in the miiiI. There is a wide variation which Is ijuite pi rmlssible here , but according to the lingunge of chuicli disputants, one m.>n boiling a ceiuiiii line of hitttoilc truth dec an s that that Is the Gospel. It is no umre the Gospel than an cggsln-H is the chicken. It id v. ry neces-ary tlint every i-UK should have tt (hell to proUct it, bill it Is not the chicken, nor (he bit<1, nur the eagle. It Is an ext. rind cmid lioii uiiulot ring to an cud ; but tbu end is the life of ibe thing itself. Here arc men Jlntrenched behind Institutions that have, as they think, the hlstoricol prolongation backwind, until, link alter link, the staple is hitcbcd to the throne uf God?the apostolic succession. A id they hold that they have the true Gospel by virtu*- of that Jointed succession. In other words, here Is an external historical development; and thy hold that that incloses the only true Gospel. If the historical aposto;ic churches, as they are called, could make it appear to every dispassionate man that within the circuit of their walla there was nsweeter, purer, Bolder development of human life, their argument would be bus a.nabie, perhaps ; but il wi'bin the circuit of historical churches human n.ilun doe* not rist aiove the average level of that which is outside of tbeio the argument falls. TUB GOSl'IL DOES NOT LIB JX HISTORICAL Sr.Qt.IXCES, bat In the living development, the spiritual contclousness of men. Here is the greater church out of whose loins the Episcopal t'huicb sprang, reformed from the mother church, that holds ;iiat it lies a living connection between it and its liesd, properly augmented and auxiltarled liy ilsotllcera; that there Is substantially a li>Ing God hi the midst of the Church of Home ; and that there is no solvation out of Koine except the mere gratuity which God, out of his generosity, muv be pleased to give, hut of which there is no guarautee no warrant, no pioper grounded expectation'. Now if, with all the accumulated organizations and tho long, and In tunny respects illustrious histoiy, that have gone with that gr> at sect (lor it ie nothing but a sectl, mere was also uniformly, or so cenerally as to Indicate the working of cause anil iffcct, the highest style ol manhood, and a nobier life In tne family and Mate; If men had bco./tne clearer-minded, with a turgor conscience and purer aspiration; If the household life were sweeter and richer; if there were world. Hut Is there such a characteristic difference | os that they stand, as compared with other sects, in [ the consent of nil men. above nl others? Differences | or degre* are recognizable. You could not mnltp ? | coin! lunliy believe that the vine was a stately, strong I auk tree of centmleti; you could not make men be! lleve that any number ol candles In a dwelling were I like the ton in light and in ntiengib; you eould not | make a community believe thut this, that, or the other sect had tmch an advantage ov.-r all others that the men and women In Ibis sect stood heed and shoulueis above people in general. There is no such difference in sects. When you coino to look into the actual reI lations of denominations to one another they are very I largely relying upon organization, upon o'dinances, upon nhilooophluil statements, upon doctrines, upon historic and external conditions, in their assumption of superior ranks one over another ; whereas the VVorJ | ol God Mill sound') Its note. '* Circumcision or uncirI cumcision, baptism or no baptism, organization or no organization, doctrine or no doctrine, it is the new creature created In righteousiess in Christ Jesus that is the Gospeland he Is the new creaturo who Id this lile rises night 6t. shine* brightest, and is irradiated with the must beauty. THE TWO COUNCILS. There came together, not Ion# ago, a great convention of very noble men? the Pan Presbyterian Council; and in their deliberations it was debated whether there should be an attempt made to restate the creedu of the Presbyterian Church?substur t.ally the Westminster Confession, end ther concluded not to meddle with It, but to let it stand, and dispersed and went I their several ways home. There wa? convoked, not a great while after, what is ! catK-d the Triennial Council of the Congregational | churches. Professor Mnylbe, of Andover, read a long | and very able essay to show that the Congregational ciiurchesought to have a new creoil; and alter debate I it was resolved that steps should bu taken lor making I a rew creed. A couuniltecol seven was appointed by | the Council, not to make the creed, but to select the creed-makets. Ttvrnty-flve is the number, I think | that are to bo called Into council. | Mow, it Is to be rcmeuibere-l that the Cong'egatlon al Churches of New Kng.and, und <etierally ol the | United Mates, are substantially in agreement with the > Presbyterians in holding tint lis lormulaled in the Westminster and Savoy Confessions of filth. The i t'.vo great platforms of .New Knglu'o) lire substantially the Savoy Confession and the Cateohlmn The Longer und shorter Catechism* have been substantially those of tlie West minster Confession or Assembly. The Congregational churches then, is lepreSentcd In their great Triennial I oiinell, uni(U(sliotiI>bly sitld, by tills action, that these confessions of faith do not any longer perfectly express dlv.ne truth. I think that may be said !? bo a very lair Inlermuv. They have siibstanti illy declared I al the mind." of tli" people to-day need to be illuminated by a reconstructed statement of religious truth. Web, that Is a good deal?a govd ileal. , tur. present cnEcus iNScrnciRXT. I One jten that I touk more than tlilrly yearn ago wa? to deuliro . hat the medieval needs, though they po-aesttwf much virtue, ulid hud like uliclt-rs been v. ry usef tl indeed In |>mt storms, like anchors were not Kooil for anything whfcn the ship wuS lied up In the harlur. And n.ore, I have held, from the beginning, that ihc creeds which have come down to us from the medieval age*, or frutn two hundred years Hgo, h id In them much tlmt whs solid anil nohle, and (hat would be ong to all lime, Yet the most momentous pari of them?that which touched upon the character of God. upon the work of the L)lvln?- >plrlt In the human soul, upon the erncei-f the Lord J.stisChrist, upon Ills sacrifice nml death, and upon the atonement?was expressed in luiisuaRe which not only did not Interpret Scripture correctly, but stood rijjlit over against it, hlilliiif and biwlerli-g it; and Ibive taken the vmnnd that it was th- ?luty of the ministry that held such creeds to yet them otitof the way us stumbling bine- s before I ho Word of the Lord, In ortli-r chat men could come at the real truth; and l tldnk that under divine girovldcnce the thnuuhis of men hare traveled about io that point They have traveled for Hity or a hundred vears. from the days of Kdwards, and Sprint.', and ifxpklns, and Bellamy, and Backus, and a ho?t of nen such ah these, and they have Come at last to the conclusion that those creeds do not express the truth .is it is held by the Ch> istiun public within the range >r Congregational cuurciiea. Now, thi-ro la om? step further that I have taken. ?nd do take, a?d shall Insist upon; and that Is, tbat VE ask NOT I2f a CONDITION At) YET TO FOKXCLaTK A CliJttP. The world has not lived long enough. God's mode of working consists In in:tkInp men live gr at truths first, and then tell what lliey have got by their actual life. The spiritual concclrnc" hno not gone through nil that r< find of development which is necessary to disclose the philosophy of mind ; und if you <lo not understand the philosophy of mini! >ou cannot understand ibe philosophy of God. We have no oiher light than our own con.-cloustieas. If I say that God is Just, and have never bad any consciousness of Justle* myeclf. it Is nothing, or >1 in as a dark lantern in a dark hole to me. We have had given to us reaiion. judgment and tn iral sense?the sense of truth, the sense of honor and rectitude, the scns? of purity and love; and a* these are developed In lo?v< r trades among men lliey are types, lliey are single letters; and hy putting the vailous ripeiI. n es of men together we get the sentences of what tinth, ai d honor, and reciltud -, ai.d purity and love art* In the divine nature; but in the jueiriil state of Ignorance, or nesrlei.ee. or science. If yi'iichooso 10 oil it so. to unfold I lie whole theory of the divine i nture. of the origin of men, of the source I of e\ii and i-lii, of motive and desire, is a task th-it neither Individual men, nur mm in association in me family or In society, have so fur been able m perform. The truibs that an- coming upon tb-s world liaVe not yet been all evolved: u. d there am one ?r two questions tliit woulil naturally c?me t'p belore the committee that are appointed fur the founding ot the new creed. gUKRTIOSS FOR TUK BXDIKOTAWDISO. Aro they g lng to undertake to tlvo such an Interpolation to i b : old loiimila an will mane It palnUbl:without esaeiitul change? Arc they going to patch the old chariot ? or are tliey going to bntld a new um? Wbleu way are they working? wiih their fuce to iho p:islai.d their buck to the future,or with [heirback to the past and their face to the future ? Are they going tuinvito Into the niimh-r of those that ore to give e*pressiuti to a new creed the men that are devoutly and thoroughly scientlfl.? Are they going to include in> n that wi.l give tome sort of expression to the present tendency of men's belief upon the subject of the origin of tprclet in this world? Are they going to have ainone thele tnen some who will cxprem their We*s an to what God has actually done as revealed by the manuscript of rock# by gvo ocy ? Are the> (join:: to linvo some expreS'ioii in reunrd to the nature of Scripturc iu the light that modern learning and interpretation have brought to bear upon It, so as that * plain common man will know precisely what the best men of the chlircb believe in repaid to the Bible? Or, are they going tu put a flow upon the old creed, and swallow itlike a sugar-coated piil ? Men that are rinding the Dlble are pointln? nut place after place and tliTnir aftf r thing that seem inconsistent; and our refuge from these a:saults Is to say, "Wi.II. they aie infidels." Mi n rend about David's imprecatory songs; they read of the slaughter ol ihousinda and hundreds of thousands of people; they read of the terrlD'n worldlinesa and animalism that possessed even tin; best of meu of certain generations; mill being til ed with superstition in regani to the Inspiration of Scripture they suppose that tlieyhae either Km to r< ject tile w hole li'ble. or to accept l< nil; and u declaration of what the Bible really 1* In its simple origin?is tliiil going Into the en ml? If it Is not, what in the u>e ol it? Ii it going to meet the exigency of present thought ? oris It going to bea creed that w II substitute the machinery ol religion' for religion itsell? '1 lit- Cot.ceplion th:it tuns parallel with the tenebinp of scripture, and with thu declaration of the phases of experience that a limn cues through In passing from the ioweH carnal state up to the highest rncb of splrliuul life and spiritual Joy?namely, llm evolution j)f the soul under divine guidance Iroin ftclfl.'hncsa and sin and woildliness, up, otep bv step, to sempb'c bl.ss ai d spiritual unity with God-that It the Gospel ; and Is there going to heacrci d (but will set lorlb the spiritual life <.f men? IS THIS TEt'E CIlBtSTtASITT ? Tn-dar a m>n may go to tho Com mnnlon Tnlde who yesterday exploded oaths, if bo has sal.I his prayers and Is sorry for hi* prolanity. A man may inive all the Wiek long not violated the law of the l?n,I hut violated the law ol ehai itv a'd love in his di-uing with his fellow-man ; he may have troil down i lit* weak: he may h.ivo u:ri<n the feeble; he mav have made nil im-ii his servants, instead of beln(i the ee- vnnt of nil men, belnjr stronger hi <1 smarter thuti iheyj ami lie b' llevts In the Thirty-nine Aill* cle.-.or lii the Creed and Confusion of the t hurches, Hiid hait violated none of them, b>* may sit unrebuked at the tahlu of the I^ml, Men Biy, "On, well. I here <a weaknes< ainunp the brethren, hut no sense ol shock come# to them. If he gives liberally to variont fa r# and h-nevulniit ?iovcim-iits; If lie iirlba love and ci'i fider ce. the fact ifcat he If n: iler the Irillin ni c of curnai, selfish, wlcki d passions, fr?m lime 'o time, d'? s not disfranchise him. A man may he hitisli, roiuie, n-Tere. very wicked, and thin gh the kb t'd"in of Uoii in-iy not have shone upon his battlement* for years, and though he may bi plunged Into r>.found | daiknrss, yet it be would yivu his body to be burned rather than have an article altered in I he Creed, and II lie stand* up lor his chu en, he Is coi sidered a faithful Christian by his brulb'en. If he Is a good sectaI rlaii. ihev eXneiteliCe no shock nt an) thing be may tin. Cut II I were to deny the atonement <if Christ, 1 mli'ht live Just Ilka < hrlsl, aid mi ll would put nn: out of ihe chinch. If I denied 111* bls'oricai statutnetils of (lie lile and death ot (. hi 1st, ami net aside the commercial, the oynnstic. the fiien?lc lliuiiiy In reKurd t'> Cuts', bat i:tngb~ the Inward itn.I spiritual theory of bis Jlle and death, and of his low for tin1 soul* of men, voiding ami vacating tho old churrh ! theories of atonement, nml substituting in Ibeii | iiiacca spiritual fact, tnouiib 1 wrre to live at Christ I lived 1 itiiouol lie call.d tu acc juntas a danycrum man ; and u beivbian.li. 18 Tilts TO MS A OOHKD IN T]IK citrncn ? I Ve have bail treatise* on holy living and bo!y dyi lug : lb there ever to be n statement ef the Inct thai | tr.?i spire* and mu<t trail pire in one wuy or uniubir, ! when a conscious miuI under the insjiiintlon nf Cud i spirit is going up from daiknva* tu li^hu. and pausing on trom dealt! UliloHe 1 Is Ihnt to be n cried in thr church!' Is toy liie in holy men to be the m.tlii cieedol the sa> ciuary ? Aficr the declaiution of the n|i >?tle, "-Neither circumcision nor iincii cuiiicUiun avuiletb anj tbii.1.', ' ia this newm ss of lile ever (o becon.e ? doctrinal sinteiurni so tlist nun slmll conn into the chinch foolhig in tlicir innermost smil tbe pressure of lb* desire and of llie obligation to live til llii.t spirituul lovo which arose from the bosom ol U n? I know not what these twenty-five mon are point: ti do ; .lit 1 I'now what is going to b?r done. \\ illioiit being n prophet or the son uf n prophet. I am nure, 1 do know, that more and more as the years go on, m< virtue grows purer in the household?and it ia grow, ing purer ib'-re ; us philanthropy beci mes iai^er and nobler??nd it is becouiliiK larger nnd nobler; a? benevolence takrs on ni w costnlcul proportions, and Is 1 ?? ?.. |?|w? ? ?,|L,|,|??. Iiiioil mid ii< iglilutrtioori, anil brlwcrn Indivitliiul ami tlioividu .1 ; as tt>u moral element Is incorporated more and More into law.-, and institution*, and customs, the old scholastic slat> tneuu must under, and tin re will bi; a restatement of the truth which shall teach the world the marrow of love. Tiie ciihtsTiAXtTV or iiib roTvac ' Prayer Is not j.lcty ; praise Is not piety ; belief Is not pletj. All these (111* may be auxniaiy to piety ; as a Mihuolma^to Is auxiliary to learning ; but as > schonliiinstei is not learning in tbc pupil, so religious observances are not piety In the Individual; and w? am coming to the limn wb>-n we shall have the mlml of Christ when that mind of Christ shall be domiiiunl uve> every other thing, and when we shall cease tu I look to externalities. >.ud shall look entirely to the in ward and spiritual elements. Then th at will come to pa?a which men have now bi gun to seek by blind and devious ways. When Christianity b<o.ines tolargely developed it produces what is called the principle of elective ulliiilty, Cliein sis of ibeolii school ichtinistry bus been reVo' iiitionlzed, as everything e se ha- ; and 1 do not know how it Is In the new school) taught that certain oleuients being br< unlit into near neighborhood, had an aflinity lor each other, and rusiud tog<the>. (Jne thine Is very sure ; there is an elective utllnity between fondues# and goodness, benevolence and benevolence. svmnathy and sympathy, puriiy and purity. found there the pardon and orchard of spiritual expetimer, then manifestly that sect would give evidence of being more Uhri.-tlike tbun any other; and I would K" Into a community that whs more Chrlstlike limn any other?that in to cay, If It were a community that had existed a sufficient length of time to show Hat It had universal relations with tnai kind, and that it did produce a Holder type of life, social, domestic and civic, as well as spiritual, than any other community. I would seek such a community as that no matter what their doctrines Were. There is the kingdom of God, where human i.aiure effloresces and cumes to Its highest development. THE Cl.ilM or THE rsrSBTTJCUIAM ClILBCn. The Calvlnistic?the Presbyterian?church holds that having subordinated all history and exurntd elements, and mail*) them merely the servants of the cnurch, they have a better declaration uf God's truth and will than any other church, and thi.t within the senile of their bellovings ft mail is a great deal safer and a great ileal nearer to duty and to Goo than be could be elsewhere. If itmuld be shown that human nnture generally had risen higher within those limits than anywhere else, there would be a ver> strong presumption in lavor of their statement; but ills not enough that there *ro here ami there stately growths ' ?these are In every community. I is not enough that you point out much that is goon and i.dmiraliU'? i Lhms are valuta beloiiirinjr to Almost every sect in the 1 What, thon, are we lo uu r iuitdu uumnonj iu bring them into unity ; ani thai Id by bridging tnein | hi to unity of ihougblalrom the insid . You cannot I make a light to a aiuu's presence that be will nut seo it. fcvtn ii bo shut# ins eyes bo will notice the cilt ference. You <.*111101 present beauty to men aud they not udmiru it. You cannot &eo uoule Christian men, wbu live in trannci ndeiit heroism ail their life long, singing in tbo household, choiring l> the congregation, ami uioving to anil Iro with blessings for everybody, and not well nigb rover* them. Their very presence is u picture of beauty, and tbeir passing by is iu- tho fragrance of Uowern. Yuu cannot have beauty In life j and have men buto it, or reluse to be in alliance with It; and if you kindle it in churches tboy will come together Just as mucb as it Is possible lur people to come together. It in ot making them chant the same hymn*, It in ' not making litem oay A. B, altogether, tbut makes I this or that school. '1 lie true creed of uny church Is ' thr way Its im nibers live. The true Gospel ofntiydei nomination is the attainment which it makes in the de{ velopineiil ol holy Christian dispositions. When it i comes to that we are wry nimble to deleml ourselves; i and we have uimbiu Instruments of war by which to attack our neighbors on the subject. Here detioiulilatioiis wage tight; but onto let tho orthodoxy of a ; church nti nd in its new spiritual life,and in the exnlj tatlon of its mcrnbcis, und no weapon th t is formed | nuailiot It shall prosper. Molhinu can keep apart n.en who art diawti together l-y tiie same splril that draws j Ibclli to tbeir common (lead, Jetua Christ. Till: llllEAKINH or THE MOHM.Nfl. t And now, brethren, 1 shall die. 1 have been a hewI er of wood und a carrier of water. 1 aui not In the I s.ighleat decree pulled up with any conception of my ' own importance in my time. 1 am unspeakably grateful to have been permitted to do a Hide, iiutob, I I lone such a sense oi the movement i f God U|>oii the whole earth 1 1 see that the morning Incoming, and ! thul the truth is breaking the liars of night, not bej cause 1 happened to gel up a little earlier loan you did, j but because God is working. The morning Is coming ] by reason ol the revolution of the earth. 1 nave such j a sense of tbo outpouring and the oowming of the dl If you want to uiiito Christians, you do not unitt them Hiiy more by sweeping uwny tlit-ir cu inches, Supposeyou wanted to brill:; t*o piovIncus togi tbrl lu tiarinoiiioiiB re'ations, in civic aunt} ,111 peaceful in< j teicou.ee with uicli oilier, and su| pogo yuu should ] promise to do it by pulling down mi the forts, by ov| urthrowing ail the walls that snrroujid tbe citli-s, and by destroying all tbe ivcupona of war, thus le.vlnu the people just a> they Here before they hud any j means of protection ? Changing the external conditions does not chauire tlie ti lie interior conditions, i Changing outward observances dues not change the inwaid disposition. A CHANGK IN Ilt'MAN NATCKE HKCIMART. You might Uke away nil tbe medieval framework ol the Hoiiian church; you might take away all tbe i n-wly-lushiuiifd framework ol tbe Anglican cmirch; I you might take nway all the laws of tne Culvi nistic j an . Arm< man systems ol theolig); jou might take I away pretty much all tbe uruiiinuces < f ihe chuiebes, ' and get all Ukr.ailans to write their names in blood, il j it were necessary, in league and cov?nant that liiey j would come 'o^etber in unity, by a sinking ol all tho e things tbut tended to sepatatu them; and if human nature was not cbariged thry would Dot be one particle n> nrer togetber, and there would be no more u nit) than there was before. '1 be;e ran be no unity In m're juxtaposition. YuucannotcrowdmeM together In tbut way. Yuu cannot have unity of churches in the ariii-e that every Christian ou the globe wul accept what every otiier Chi isiian does. You have giit to uiert on different days, it dillcrmt houses. Si. ' !' Iii'ilt' Vim i^an never be I jucru wui uv u"?pu?o-v?i u.n^, . -- ? ? ! untied by calling yotirse.yes all Catho.ics, or all 1 Prdiooiani*. 1 be Ca.holic thinks he has unity. In | ?oii)o respects be buy n technical, theological, dynastic | unity; but mr the most purl ho has no inure unity I tbwi we liave. The Protestants are broken ti|> into aerta, It is said. Yea, you would think so to b>aitbeui squabble. IV t there ia no more real unity among the Catholic* than tbne la among the Prot slants. All atleuipta to produce unity Iroin the outside are vain and loolirh: and even if the impossible should become a possibility it would uut be worth the having. TIIE OMLT WAY. v!no Spirit upon the hnmnn rS^e. lhat my own wmk Seem# to me Very little; mid J'et that little seems to lit! n great honor. To have been porn>ltt??rl to turn a single leaf, even, In th? bnf.k of tlmr,by which men bavo i gmiu up on?? step; to have been periiifltou to uiake ' some smiles, to take away forne aorrout, and to point I but tliu right road to any, baa been an unspl-akablu privilege to me. Jiut no human being Is of much arconnt. God Is the on y man that Is worth reckoning much nbnr.t? 0<id tbat pours himself Into men, and la the one great Man, the one great Soul, the one greft Power... I, with unspeakable Joy. IihiK down the line of the com1 .....I u 1,1,..mi l.?lr,? ? ? ..? ?lfk ?!.? i?K ...... - J I'CiMs) of tb^ oUI prophets. I decern the light grow- \ Ing stronger and strong r. Old things rhali pa-s nwiiy. AII tilings shall become new. Ant) I rejol e. J nut because my clin ch Is going up, not becau-e the denomination tow bleb I belong Is going up, nor be. catiM1 any other church or denomination Is itotxgdnwn, but brcousc nil mankind lire going up. The Heavens ] areHtoopinir; thevnrobowing themselves, ij* ir tokl-s themrih; the ? rth Is llfiiiigItself outoi its degradation, !mt externally and,Internally ; tbfe way is being vat tip; and the inrst'tiied of the Lord shall ri turn ( and cm* to Zlon with soncsnnd eveil tntnig joy upon j their heads ; and I shall be there to see It; and you will be there to se.*|i; and our d nr olil dreb will be there to see it; and ev?ry one of us that on the way kindles and lilts up a brighter torch or tlame >jf experience ?nd life, and s-ts a more heroic example of Uhrat likeness and Chrlstllvltg. shall find fre.-b tho n..n,.,m of ?ml like a written Look ; and when you elm' U) ?!and In Zlon and before God. and receive th?t one look which no tongue q.in dt'scillic. and be shall irny, "Come to nie," though von hnVe gone through ?n oc.-nn of blood. though yini have sivnli) through rivers of tears, that moment will obliterate all, nni'yoii will cast your ?r?wn ai bU feet, ami nay, ' -Not unto ua, not unto ua, but unto tby name, be tbe pralae." JACOB MILLER & CO. ?DEALERS IN? PHOSPHATES, GOANOS, k ABBEVILLRS.C. HAVE a large supply of the best GUANOS on liaoU. 'J'ne (Juriio's .sold tor several u.. ?l,l? h.,M anllrnai.l. J vnin JJUOl, ryj blll-l ill mi fet ? v-?? vuvmv u?? V lsfactlon. Their jatrons Invariably cull for the Hiiine each Micceidlng year. Try it, and It will please our farming friends. JACOB MILLER & CO. Jan. W, 1881, if RM. I1ADD0N <fc CO., Sewing Machine Department. The Genuine Victor. The New Victor. Tlic IniproTeil Weed. Are Sewing Machines that we sell and guarantee to be as good as any In the market. Pricesj'Jo to&io. Jan. 20. ISM, tf Strayed or Stolen. A WHITE SETTKR PUP, WITH BLACK ears, black spot on left hide, cross between a Llewellyn and Gordon. Seven months old and well grown lor age. Answers to the name of Dan. Mve dollars reward will be paid for his recovery to W. C. McGOWAN, Law Range. Abbeville, S. C. Jan. 20. iasi.tr |} M. HADDON a CO.. are oflsrlnjr some lit Dargnins in lino ur<*t>s uonu.i u> wmcu they call the special attentionof ttie Ladles. Jan. i't?, 1881. tf RM. IIADDON* A CO., haveJust received another case of Milliucry, Uufllings, Ijiccfl, ?kc. Jan. lUi, 1881, tf VALENTINES. JAMES M. LAWSON HAS on exhibition and for s:il?, n beautiful assortment of VALENTINES ot every kind, shape and variety. Call and see them. Jan. 20,1881, 3t _ _ _ RM. IIADDON & CO., have a full stock of 10-1 Slicetliign, 1-113icii?!ied Homespuns. Inn. L'6. 1881, tf GLORIOUS NEWS! FOR PIANO BUYERS. IAIIGK Reduction In prices of the favorite t "Southern ukm," the most popular jflnnos in America. Over 5u,ihh) now in use. .Sold by us for 10 years past ?1th splendid sat-1 Isiacilon. 7 Oct.. lit ru? size. Hose wood case,] beautiful tone, only 8170. 7J<, Oct., larpext size! groat volume of tone, only &WJ. 7}^ Oct,, Square Grand, 3 strings, Magnificent Case , (llnost madei, only $250. Stool and (.'over with ' eaali. At those prices the liest. and cheapest Pianos ever sold by any dealer North orSoUih 15 days te?t trial; 6 ye.ir* guarantee, Easy i Installments, with email increase on cash rates. ISiij a Southern Oem, and you i re absolutely certain of Netting a bargain and a r< liable Piano. Address, for Fall 1880 Price List and I'a'alogues, LITDDEN & BATES' Southern Music House, Savunuah, Ga. Jan. 2li, 185*1, 2t Wntici*. 0WINO to the bnd weather anil high water there will be unolher examination of tcnchcm on Friday itli February, at Abbv1 v111c, 10 o'clock A. M. Tt'urhers who ha^ebeen exnmlnefl will call at School Oonimlwiioner's offlccfor tlnlr eer! tlllcaloH. or cpcIosc a slump to lilm, if they 1 i wish It flint by mull. E. COWAN", W. C. RENKT. 1 II. N. PKATT, Examining Doard. January 2fl, 1831, 2t "notice i'PA o/iuAAr ff,DrTCrrii,T?vi ? 1U ounuuu iiiuoirjuoi Okfick Kciioot, CoaiJCisstouETt, AliUKVIM.K II.. M. C , Jilt). I. K-sSI. WE have this iluy appointed the following; M?-hooi Trnrti'f.s lor AI?l?evlllecountj,,to nerve for two pears, If not removed, viz: 1 SCJIOOI. DISTRICT NO. I. J. A. Bozcmnn, J. R. Moore, Frank Cnsnn. i 8CHOOI, DISTRICT NO. 2. C. A. C. Waller, T. F. Riley P. B. Hodges. SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 3. i M. ft. McGee. G. Whit. Conner, M. A. Ca?on. SCIIOOI. DISTRICT NO. 4. | W. B. Acker, O. A. Moore, Robert Dunn. school district no. 5. . J. A. Robinson, R. M. Armstrong, II. M Johnson. school district no. 6. Frnnk Henry, E. Westfield, R. II. Rushes. , school district no. 7. i I). R. Williams, James Miller, J. L. Wulker. > school district no. 8. f J. N. Dcmly, W. C. Hunter, T. J. Hearst, i school district no. 0. ' 1 J. H. Chiles, S. O. Young,O. M.Slbcrt. srilool district no. 10. Dr. H. Drennan, Charles Evans, J. C. Lites. school district no. 11. W. A. Templeton. John G. Edwards, J. H. Rarksdale. school district no. 12. W. V. Clinkscales, J. H. Boll, J. E. Brownlce SCJIOOI. DISTRICT NO. 13. J. M. Lntlmcr, Jr., Dr. O. R. Horton, Geo. F. * Burdett. SCIIOOI. DISTRICT NO. 14. E. Calhoun, W. A. Lanier, William Riley. SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 15. : M. O. Tolman, M. O. MeCaslan, 8. S. McBrlde. SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 10. I J. C. Jennings, E. P. Holloway, J. H. Jones. The School Trustees will meet the Board, at Abbeville, on Monday, 31st Inst, to discuss matters of importance. A full attendance of | all the Trustees Is earnestly desired from every school district. E. CO WAX, W. C. BENET, K. N. PRATT, , Examiners Board Abbeville county. Jan. 5,18SI, tf J Teal&mtlwaine HAVE all the grades o' Buggies from the cheapest to the best, whicu will be sold at the lowest, figures. Dec. 8. If80. tf iililii i I Will Have a Limited Supply of Superior "DTTAOTJTT A TT? ! jmjijj Jt auox uaiu COMBINED WITH POTASH, FOR composting with COTTON SEEL) which I aui offering on liberal terms for Cash, or on Credit Till Next Fall Payable in Cotton. And it is guaranteed to contain 9 to II Per Cent. Soluble and Available Phosphoric Acid. 3 to 4 Per Cent. Potash. By the addition of COTTON SEED to I I furnish AMMONIA, you will have a 'complete ^FERTILIZER,1 ! ! | adapted to nil soils and crops at a low cost, j As tho supply is limited engagements should be made at once. A. V. JONES. Jan. 1!), 18S1, tf SPECIAL NOTICE. Headquarters for sewing machines.! The very best at ?ir> uml $30. NVo . have machines in stock and more to arrive. Needles, Oil and Attachments constantly on i bund. r. M. Haddon & CO. I ! Nov. 3,18^, tf ?. v To Let. rvN* Saleriny In Kchrnnry the recovering of I ) the Poor .House Chnpcl will be let to the owest responsible bidder. By order of the Board, T P nrtTRRAN n. R. C. G. Jan.iary 5, 1881. "greenwood FEMALE HIGH SCHOOL. airclses Will Open January 17,1881. CLA98KH OR.VDItn. All collestntelimnrhes tnuL'lit, Including language-saild music. Soard al reasonable rates. MISS M. R. BRIGHT, Principal. Jan. 5.1881, 3t 1 HXTotioe. THIE County Commissioner* have dlstrlbti1 ted the townships among themselves oh follows : TO W. T. COWAN. Long Cane. Diamond FTII1, Donnnldsvlllc, Abbeville, Cokesbury und Due Went. TO W. R. McRINNEY, Ninety-Six, Greenwood, Smlthvllle, White Hull and Indian Hill. TO J. T. BASKIN, Lowndesvlllr, Mngnolla, Calhouns, Cedar Springs ami Bordeaux. Jan. 5,1881, tf J Geo. F. E, Wenck, M.D. Physician and Surgeon, ANO PUOPUIETOK OF DR. WENCK'S APOTHECARY, Oct fl 13S0. NINKTY-SlX. 6. CWM. H. PARKER W. C. McGOWAN. PARKER & McGOWAN ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS, AliBEVILLE, C. II., S. C. V\/ ILL practice also In the Circuit Court# ot ?> the United states for South Carolina* Jau 7.1880. tf NEW GOODS !" At the Mcllwaine Coi ner. ilLl & II, HAVE received a superb sto-k of goods 01 every variety nnd overy quality. All id wantof good bargains should cull at once. Spet a), 1&J0. State of South Carolina, County of Abbeville. in tiie probate court. In the matter of the Estate of J. R. Nickles Minor. Petition for Settlement and Discharge. NOTICE Is hereby given that J. II. Niokles as (iuardian for It. J. Nlcklcs, minor, ha? ti!lo?l IiIh netlllon in this Court, praying foi selilcnient and discharge. It Is ordered, Tlml Friday the 11th of Feb ruury next, be tlxod lor the (settlement of th( siild crtnic and discharging the guardian, ai prayed for. J. FULLER LYOX, J. Pro. A. C. Jan. 12, 1881, 4t * GREENWOOD MALE HIGH SCHOOL. 'IMIE next session of this school will begli I I on Monday, January 17,18SJ. | TEltMS, moderate. | Board can be obtained at reasonable rates For further particulars apply to J. F. DARGAN, Principal, Ghees wood, a. C. January 12, 1881. <t FOMITOYE f FURNITURE! Robert Jones, ' Ninety-Six, S, C, OFFERS to the public a complete and so lect stock of furniture of the very l>e? mulct'. Within? tu ilisconllnut; business n I this placc, I will close out my stock at rod I bottom figures. Give me h cull aud be con i vlnced. ROBERT JONES. January i-, 1001. Dr. H. D7 WILSON, DENTISTRY, Abbeville, C. H., S. C, fjj" Ofllcc; Upstairs over the Post Office."? i Change in the Time of Hold ing Court. Clerk's Office, Abbeville, S. C., Jan. 11,1881. To all whom It may conccrn : The Court of General Sessions and Commor j Pleas for Abbeville county will commence or | the 31st January, instant, Instead of the firs Monday In February as heretofore. All par tics Interested will lake duo notice and gov ern themselves accordingly. " M. G. ZEIGLER, C. C. P. & G. 8. January 12,1881,3t FRESH ARRIVALS. JELLIES, Marmalades, Mince Meat, &c.,Jzc at Mcdonald &. co's. Jan. 12. 1881, tf J BARGAINS Jn clothing and dress goods. at Mcdonald a co-s. Jan. 12,1881, tf J ANNUAL RETURNS TO PROBATE COURT! ADMINISTRATORS. Executors, and other? will take notice that the law has been amended, and now require* the Probate Judge shall Issue rules against fiduciaries who fail tn make their returns during January or February, annually. J. FULLER LYON. Jan. 12,1881, J Probate Judge. SAVANNAH VALLEY R. I m inn! Treasuher's Office. AniiEVillk, January II. 1SH1. THE followlnz circu'nr from the Comptroller General Is published for the bonettt of the few Tax 1'uyerH In Abbeville County who have not pnid iho Savannah Valley Railroad Tax. J.W. PERRIN Treasurer Abbeville County. Executive Department, Office ok Comptroller-General, Columbia, S. C., Jan.s, issi. J.W. Perrin. Esq.,Treasurer, Abhevlllc.S.C. Dear Mir?The following concurrent resolution Is sent you for your uuidanee, lowlt: "iitoioltrrf, by the Ilou?e of KcpreVentailves of the State of South Carolina, the Senate concurring: 'flint the Comptroller General be. and ho Is hereby authorized ard directed to extend the lime for the collection of taxes voted as subscription to the Savannah Valley Kallroad Company, in certain townships of Abbeville County without penalty until the tlrst day Of February, issi." Very respectfully, JOHN BRATTON, Comptroller General. Jan. 12, 1861, tf j j. s. Cotiira.v. r,. W. Perrin, T. P. Coriiran. Co(liran, Peirin& Cothran Attorneys at Lfiw, ..ABBEVILLE, S. C. Jan. H, lcW, if irtiiiT it nnimTin jn Mini, COlSraAREE IM WORKS. Co umbia.S. C. Agent for riTT A "PAT A Xr'Q JL -A- ^L-JL. ? -i-TJL. JLA. -A. ^ * ' PERPETUAL EVAPORATOR. rpHESE WORKS WERE ESTABLISHED J tn 1847 by Messrs. Geo. Sinclair and Juincs Anderson and purchased by me in the year 1N5H, and from that time till now carried on successfully by myself. My friends and customers will bear witness of tho large and stupendous Jobs executed by me. It wa? at my works where the largest and almost only Job of It# class ever oxecuted in this city was done, viz.: the nwklng of the pipes for the City Water Works In tho year 1X5"*. In the branch of BELL FOUNDING, I can say that I have made the laruci-t l>el!s ever c:ist In the .State, suHi as the bell for the Cliy Hall In CMlumbiu. My'stock of patterns for AKCHITECTU- iVhB| RAL WOKK. COLUMNS for Store fronts, is lurgoand various, and In RAILINGS for Bulconles, Gardens and Cemeteries I have tho largest variety and most modern patterns; many 01 uiese arc patented anu 1 uuve purchased the right for thin State. In the machine line I can furnish my p*-* trons with STEAM ENGINES and BOILERS' of any slzentid description. My CIRCULAR SAW MILLS have carrlcd off the prize at every State Fulr held In this city, and In tholr construction I have taken pains to combine" simplicity with the most useful modern Improvements, and may flatter myself that my CIRCULAR SAW MILLS And favor with every sawyer who understands his business. The many orders 1 am steadily receiving for SUGAR CANE MILLS prove that the public appreciate the mi lis of my make, and so It Is with my GEARING for HORSE POWERS, GIN WHEELS, GRIST MILLS and other MACHINERY. I have the manufacturing right of many PATENTS, such as eastings for ROCK COTTON AND IIAY PRESS and three or four different FEED CUTTERS and other lmpl?v men re. I will be pleased to send my circular* to any applicant, together with price list or estimate. My prices aro moderate, and I assure the public that they are lower even than those of Northern manufacturers,And that my work will compare favorably with that of auy otb? er maker. Address John Alexander, Congahee Ikon Works, Columbia, 8.0. State of South Carolina. County of Abbeville. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS' Andrew B. Wardlaw,' John G. Edwards, as j c.. f Wardlaw & Edwards, 1 Plainlifts, COPY SUMMON8. against , (FOE BELIEF.) Thomas Grant Perrln, i (Complaint not Served) Mary N. Perrln, Lewis Perrln, James H. Perrln and John G. Edwards as Administrator, Defendant1?. J * TO THE DEFENDANTS, Thomns Grant " Perrln, Mary; N. Perrln. Lewis PerMn, James H. Perrln, John O. Edwards, as Ad' tuixmtralor; s Vou ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and reJ qui rod to answer the complaint. In this action, which Is tiled In (lie office of the Cleric of Common I'leas, for the said County. and Unserve a copy ol your answer to the suld comElaint on the subscribers at their olllce, AbcvilleC. 11.. within twenty days after th? servleo hereof, exclusive of the day of such kit vice; and If you fall to answer the complaint within the time a'orcsnld. the plain--' , tiff in thix action will apply to the Court for the relief demunded in the complaint. PARKER & MeGOWAN, > Pialn:lff's Attorney. i Pafed, January 4, 1881. M. Ci. ZEIGLER, C. C. P. (L.S.) ' TO THE ABSENT DEFENDANTS Mary N. Perrin, Lewis Perdu, James H. Perrin, TAKE NOTICE, That the Summons of which the above l? a ^ojy, with the Com--' plaint, hu* this day been Hied In the offic e of ti e Clerk of tbe Court of Common Tleas for I Abbeville County. ' PARKER <fc McGOWAN. Plaintiff's Attorney, January 5, 1S8J, 8t. Have a large and well selected btoek of DRY GOODS, -ANDGROCERIES, , ?and the newest style# of? : EADY-MADE CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES, Hats and Caps, ) WIIICII TUEY SELL CHEAP. 1 Oct 0,1S80, tf : FRESH ORANGES-" -FROMOLLIN'S ORCHARD, -atE. PARKER. Dcc. 1,1880, tf SYRXTPOFTHE Hypopiiosphate lime and soda. EDWIN PARKER. Dcc. 1, 1SS0, tf J. F. MILLEK. J. C. MILLER. I ! WILL OPEN | On First January N xt, 1881. A Splendid New Stock of ; | General Merchandise. i Doc. 20, 18S0. tf I rtiiookl Jamaica Rum SursaparUIn )5ittortf or Plantation Tonic, miiwanU'Cii to be tlie Host I Ionic Ai>y,rtivr ai:d Wholesome Mlimilunt. i anil JtlooU Purifier in the Worhl, | Nov.b. KDVN'iy I'AEKER.