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I .'WIM'll I I I I . .'V W?m.*.m I.W Tie Press and Bannei. Bjr Hu^'h Wilson and H. T. Ward law. Wednesday, April 13, 1S81. r?-? : -tt Abnsc of Liquor-Dealers Docs not A<1 vancc TViuperance. "Wo linvp tio lionovi-il j?}ir:isi<-P t?i write siliont thr liquor ti-iiKc: wv have i.o sjmjiithy or resjicct f->r the Jrqu* r-<!?a!i r," Thefibove arc the first words of an editorial article by "I,." in th<> la> t Issue of tli '.li'^ c/d.V lieformed Prtsbi/terwn. Tlic reniaind. r ol tlie artle'c. about a column in length, 's tnuch ?f. tor the fashion of tlio specimen lines copied. Alihmph the author may be a learned Doctor of Divinity those words go toshow how easily the best of us may be lendawny from the true eonrse of action. While our first parents wero still in the garden of Lklen they furnished a precedent, which their descendents haveboen ever ready to ailopt us excuse for evil-doing. It is human nature for us to blame others for our own errors, and too many are ready to "Compound for sins they have no mind to. By damning those they arenot Inclined to." The selling of whisky unity he usin, but we have the highest authority for the positive assertion that tho drinking of whiskey to excess U a sin. Then why not preach against the sill which wc ourselves commit, and not lower tho standards of a great and glorious c:uise that of temperance, to one of personal abuse of the whisky-dealer. Selling whisky is one act and the drinking of it is entirely another. The masses drink?the few sell. There arc t>ins which are committed with the concurit rencc of others, but in rare instances, when the pulpit pays the least attention to this greater sin, the preacher warns his brethren against the danger that may lie in wait. lint even admitting that the selling ot whisky is a grievous Kin, is it a greater sin than that of uncliaritableness? Even suppose that it is worfe than a violation of one of the cardinal principles of Christianity, charity, is such offensive language the best way of correcting the evil? Is it not barely possible that the whisky-dealer may look upon theau Ihor or stu'H language wim *con?, ?uu ?*.sponse entertain "no sympathy or respect for the Christian" who follows not the example of Jlim who was the "friend of sinners"? Him who came not' to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." The action of Christians who may proclaim for themselves n monopoly of the moral virtues, and assume to take charge of the Lord, to the exclusion from his presence of even the vilest sinner, may suggest to some persons the idea of the fellow who felt soyood and pure,while liesaw eo many defects la H-c character of his neighbors, that he was constrained to "thaukOod that lie wr.s not as other men are." If the temperance movement is one of no higher incentive than that of petty spite and ill-will to the whisky-dealer, then it is a cheat and a fraud, and any thing elso than its name would imply. If the movement Is agitated for the purpose of disgracing or injuring any set of men, then it is unworthy of the consideration of our people, but if It is proposed to benefit mankind and to bring about a more sober, a more prosperous, aud u more moral condition of utlnirs among the masses, ? * t *' "? ? %? ?? I. a flvinr^ mnv -W'nuu rvgrcuiiig ?..v V>.??,? ? bring to the few, it is worthy of all commendation. and forthe success of tlic undertaking, the prayers of all righteous people should ascond to the throne of Him wiio controls the destiny of nations. But any banner bearing the sentiments i>t the head of this piece deserves to be trampled in the dust. Common humanity, to say nothing of Christianity, revolts at t he uttcianceof any such expressions, and until the so-called temperance people learn to put other mottoes on their banners, their cause will meet tne fate it so justly deserves. We would not be misunderstood in thiB matter, for we feel a deep interest in tlie temperance movement, and are fully convinced of the absolute r.eccssity of some law restricting the sale of intoxicating liquors. The rapid growth ot intemperance is truly alarming and patriotic citizens every where should do. mand that the e vil bo abated, and if tlic Prcis ; and Manner has any influence at a!Li twill be cdeerf'uliy to the advanceTi^uof the temperance cause, and we shall _Ti"ii ifr any friend of temperance may Sluco the above was rut in type Mr. Edward Carswell delivered a temper*nee lecture in the Court House, but had 110 word of malig* nan t abuse of the whisky-dealer. # ?? ?? Death 0! Gen. M. W. Gary. Last Saturday our citizens were surprised to learn of the death of this distinguished citizen of the State, which occurred at his home at Edgefield village, about two o'clock that morning. Ills remains were brought to Cokesbury, being escorted by a delegation from the EdgefMd Bar, and other prominent citizens, and on Sunday morning Interred In the cemetery nt Cokcsbury, in tho presence of a great companyof flriendsand relatives,Kov. Thomas who was the Chaplain of his Brigade during Ihe war made some touching remarks at the grave, referring to the personal qualities of the deceased and recalling , 1 many incidents of his life which had come under the preacher's own observation. General Gary was about fifty years of age, and died just exactly sixtseu years to the day, from ttie time that, he refused to surrender, and cut his way through the Federal lines. Generous tributes have been paid to the memory of tho deceased by the daily papers, which we transfer to our columns, and which will be found intqjjgsting. He was a native o( our county anil known to our citizens. Few men ever became more widely known, < and more distinguished for courage arid for open and frank manners than did General Gary. His friends were as true to him as steel, and his enemies respected him for his many noble characteristics. Iking a man of decided decision of character and possessing great personal magnetism he occupied a place at the front, whether in war or in the civil pursuits of life. Our exchanges have said so much, and said it so truthfully of this distinguished son of Abbevillethat there remnltis but little for us to:wld to the memory of him who has Just yielded up his life. The following gentlemen acted as pall-boarcrs : Hon. J. C. Sheppard, B. \V. Pctts, B. L. Abncy, J. I>. Addison, W. A. Moore, B. Z. Herndon, G. L. Connor, G. W. Couuor, L. D. tuauur. ? * Unequal Assessments. From an examination of tlic Comptroller General's books in Columbia, it appears that mules in this county have been assessed at St3: while in many of the counties these animals have been returned at nearly double that figure. This difference should not exist and wc hope that not only our mules, but all our property, will be assessed at something like Its true value. Abbevilledoes not seek tc "* evade her share of the burden of taxation And the pride and patriotism of her citizeni demand a fair return. Let every man return liis mule for taxotion at the price which li< paid for it In cash, or if it was bought on i credit, let it be returned at $23 less than th< price promised. This will insure a return be yond reproach, and will cost the tax-payer the merest trifle. Wo went Abbeville to stand fairly before Ibe people of the State, ami this cannot be done with our personal property assessed for taxation at half the same kind ol property is assessed In another county. Foi ? the pride and honorof old Abbeville, let there l>o no flinching in this matter. We confess to our mortification at the comparison of figures as shown elsewbero. A year or two ago, we felt Justified in protesting against the attempt to raise the assessment on our lands, and still thiuk we were right in that particular, but we can see no equity in assessing a route higher in other counties tlian it is in Abbeville. ? 49 Judge Samuel W. Melton, of Columbia, and Jlr. A. Blythe, of Greenville, have been appointed respectively to the oflices of U. S. District Attorney and U. S. Marshal, for this State by President Garfield. Both these gentlemen are natives of our State and the appointments are by far the best that could be made ont of the Republican material in South <!arollna. Judgo Melton is a man of ability, fine pers' nal appearance, and ranks with the first lawyers in the State. Mr. lily the was for several years the Solicitor of tills Circuit, and discharged his duties with fairness, zeal and mercy, and was liked by the people of the Eighth Circuit for his agreeable and geulai disposition. The Atlantic and French Broad Railroad. f Over flvo thousand dollars havg been subscribed in Abbeville village for the gradlugol the French Broad aud Atlantic RailroadOne firm subscribed a thousand dollars, and several cit'zons each subscribed five hundred dollars. To us this looks like business. Rkt. Tm. Robert Irvi*b, an eminent minister of the Presbyterian Church, died in Augusta last Saturday. The State Press Association. The fieventh Annual Meeting of the South Tarolina Preso Association will be held In the town of Beaufort, S. C., on Wednesday, the 4th dny of May next. Business matters of special interest to all Journalists of the state will be discussed, and It Is hoped that every newspaper in South Carolina will bo represented at the approaching session. Ail Journalists of thcState not members of the Association are invited to joiu the same. Admisxiou fee sf>, to accompany application. Annual dues fcl. Application for membership maybe addressed either to the Recording Secretary, Major A. S. Todd, of tho Anderton Journal, or t<> the president, at I-aureus Court House, or implication may be made when the meeting take* place. After the nsnal business has beeu transacted arrangement* have been perfected for the Association to make an excursion to Florida .and seethe "Land of Flowers" at a most delightful season of the year. Tho Association will go from Beaufort bj rail to Savannah, spending oue day in tin 'Forest City," thence by steamer lo Fenian dina, and thence by rail to Jacksonville, i shortrnn of less than one hour. From Jack aunville to various points on the S1. John's. X. U. CKKVS^PrcsIUcaL Death of General Gary. SOUTH CAROLINA LOSES A DIS- 1 TINGUISUED SON. He that was Ever Active in L.ue,j Now Rests in Death. , The Originator ol" the Stral(?htnutJ, I'olicy that Saved the Stato in 187G \ has Cloned his Record?i'eace tot , his Ashes. {Columbia Register.] j Tlu- death of General (Jury litis o?mc upon ! J us like a thunder clap. Have you heard of j tiic death of "Mart tiary?" was the deeply j ! sympatnetla Inquiry on everybody's lips duriiiir ill <!ay. The very day of theuighton I ; whir!) lie died lie was out as usual among his j ( ' fi lends, and nohodydrenint that that night he , shoiiid lay him down anddieand that 110 inorc ! , should we greet the gallant and gamey <!ary,;. who bound his friends to him w ith hooks of , steel, and no man who ever lived had truer ; and nobler fi leads than this s ime proud sou , of the old I'ainietto state, which we believe lie . loved with th^same beautiful tllixl devotion that he ever displayed to her who gave hint;. birth. Let It not be loruottea that last Sum- t I mer, when it was feared that the (iene al i. , would, under certain temptations, have turn- . I ed inn k in ttie path, that his demotion lor Car-j | olina shone tnrough all the compromising-, | surroundings and his brave Carolina heart, j lliouuh 'tis known he felt wronged and In- ^ JIUXM, 1)1 HI irilC lO Uie u11Km wi.ini II'M> <-vi v I thiougn iiis veins Anil long and well ami j , lovingly will the name <>t' Martin W. Gary be ' remembered by hosts of friends in all parts of! | South Carolina?friends whoareas good and I true men in ail tne rciations of life as ever j lived. South Carolina has mu"h to be proud : j of in Mart (inr.v's life and sdl will freely say j I South Carolina did owe him much and wherI ever his grave shall swell above our soil, there j the heart of manhood will stay to drop an holiest tribute to the bold, outspoken, manly leader of our times, who never tailed his State | | and people In the day of need and time of! | trouble. ! As a public man General Gary lias, ever i since the war, been rccornized as one of the ; leaders in the State, Having frequently atj tended public bodies in the St ite, in 1st0 he. witli General M. C. Jtutler, came to the front as the two first lend.-rs of the Struightout l movement, and liis shrill voice was heard over the din of political con fusion and dismay like n clarion note, culling the tried and true ' men of the state to stand for deliverance. ! And that stand saved us; and we all may i gather around all that remains of Mart Gary I a> of oneof t lie chi? f men to whom i he people | of South Carolina owe their redemption. | We eoti'.d go on recounting his distinguish| cd career as a State Senator; we could pive a picture of the audacious eloquence which ! plucked the state, with a skout and a hurrah I that froze the bloo l in their guilty hearts, j from the scoundrel crew that dominated here i hut we prefer not to do t his. We prefer simply j to uncover, nod as the sod falls upon thecollin I of Mart (Jary to say to our South Carolina I brothers: There lies one of our heroes South . Carolina cannot atl'ord to forget, and whose i memory atl true South Carolina hearts will I cherish forever. ! The remains of General Gary reached the ] Wilmington Junction at 10 o'clock last night ]and were transferred to Hie special train I which was to convey the body to Cokes bury. | A number of gentlemen, among wiioin were Governor Hagood, Mayor O'Ncale, Captain I \V. H. Stanley, Captain Wilie Jones and Colo| ii fl W. It. Cat heart, went down on the special i Irain to t lie junction to assist in escorting the remains to the city. Other citizens were also I found tiwailing the funeral escort at the Junej tion. The escort from Edgefield wascomposi d j of the following gentlemen : Hon. J. C. She|>| pard, I'lOnjaniin Abney, Ksq., James Devoe, j Ksi|., Benjamin F. Ileitis. Esq., J. I,. Addison , I Esq., and 1). T. Uuiz, Esq., members ol the j Edgetied bar. I I pon theapproach of the train bearing tne , distinguished dead the citv bell was tolled by ' I order of the Mayor as a mark of respect. We were in formed thatGencral Gary'sdeath 1 | resulted from a severe kidney alfection. The day previous to his death he attended a tintj nicipal political meeting. His death was a ' ! great shock to the people of Kdgetleld, but 1 few of whom were aware of the tact that the General was so seriously ill. General Gary was aware of the approach of , death,and lie passed away with little paiu, retaining his conscience until about an hour before he died. [Xcws and Courier.] i A conspicuous figure in South Carolina noli- j tics is removed from the stage by the sudden and wholly unexpected death of Gen. M. W. Gary, which took place at his residence in I Edgefield county on Saturday last. Martin Withcrspoon Gary, the third son of ]>r. Thomas iiceder Gary and his wife. Mary Anne l'orter, was born in Cokesbury. Abbe- : ! ville count v. South t.'arolina. He attended ttie well known High School at that place, and in . December, IKja, entered the South Carolina College. Two years later, in consequence of an unsuccessful attempt to Induce the Faculty todoawoy with ilieCoinmons Ilnll, he left the College, with a number of his fellow-students and entered the Junior Class of Harvard'Col- ' I lege, where he was graduated with dlstiw'icii I In l8oh Returning to South Carolina, he reiiuoved to Edgelleld and -sthJlei law under ! dmhcei]<>F"CuTr<TH, ?Tn 1855 he was admitted j to the liar, and quickly achieved success as a I criminal lawyer. J Cieti. (iary was a member of i"1 ; Una Legislature 1 1, and ! made a strong-Jnpp?rt of the proper , jsition to ca^^i State Convention to adopt an ?crdimmcjybf Secession. Secession being acj coiiiplWioU, he went at once into service as iCapUilnof the Watson Gu.irds, Company it, ! Hampton Legion. At the First Battle of Manassas the couiruand of the legion devolved upon theg.dlantG*ry, when Col. Wade ilamp- , ton and Capt. Conuer had been disabled and Lieut-Col. Johnson killed. He was with the command In the subsequent engagements un- i til the reorganization, in 1802, wheli he was alerted Lieutenant-Colonel of the Infantry of the Lesion, consisting of eight companies. In the battles around Richmond, at Second Ma- , nassas at Iioonet-boro' Gapand at Sharp<-burg ' he shared the glories and sufferings of the Le- , gion. After the campaign the battalion was (Increased to a full regiment and attached to Jonklns's Brigade. With the regiment and I brigade lie Ftwed at Fredrieksburg, Sutlbik. Chickamauga, Hean's and''ampbell's Stations i and the siege of Knoxville. '1 he Legion was then ordered to be mounted, to serve as cavalry or mounted Infantry. This was speedily done, and Col. Gary was placed in command of all tlit> cavalry on the north side of the lames Klver. Alter the light at Kiddie's Shop, in June, ISiii, he was promoted to the rank of ISrigadier-Gcnerul, his brigade consisting of the Hampton Legion, the 7th South Carolina, the7th Georgia,and the 21th Virginia. In all j the heavy fighting on the North side, Gen. Gary led the brigade, and shortly before the ] evacuation of Richmond lie was promoted to I the rank of Major-Gencral. Gary's brigade l was part of the rear enard on the retreat, and I was fightin incessantly. When the surrender had been agreed upon he made his way through the lines, and Joined President Davis at Greensboro. Taking command of about 200 men of tho brigade whom he mot at that point on their wav to Virginia, ho escorted .Mr. Paris and the Confederate Cabinet as far as Cokesbury, S. C., where the escort was dismissed by the President. A member of liis stafl', in a memoir published a year or two ago, gives the following description of his characters- ' tics and qualities as a soldier. "Gen. Gary could not be wdlcu a red-tape disciplinarian. lie hsid no faith in the 'pomp of ( war." and his study was not to make a cheap , . reputation by the imposition of unnecessary , restrictions, but to alleviate the hard lot of his soldiers, while in camp, by the allowance of 1 every liberty and indulgence consistent with ] the demands of th e service. No man, howev1 er, laid greater stress upon the essentials of j real discipline. Itank and file were made to feci that whatever was required of them must be done, and thoroughly done, and that for , | neglect or disobedience of an order no excuse would In; received. Human life and the pur- . j posesof the war the General regarded as too ] I sacred to be trilled with, and he made it a rule ' I never to receive apologies or explanations | from his sut ordinate of lice rs for neglect, Inat- , tention or mistake. There was no pride of rank about him- His promotion failed to lift him above, but lie was in sympathy with the , humblest private in the ranks. There was ' nothing assuming or 'stuck up'about tlie j man. Perhaps something of dignity was wanting, but his familiar bearing endeared ' him to His men. He rested his authority, not | so much on his rank, as on his conscious ability and his supcrloriitness for command. No I general otlicer was more familiar with orrnore accessible to his men. He recognized theliigh j character of the Confederate private, and re.' spected his rights and feelings." I The war beitifc over (Jen. Gary resumed the i practice of law in Edgelieid, and speedily ob-1 I lained a lucrative practice. At tlies.-ime time r lie engaged in planting and, in a few years, ' amassed considerable property. M Apart from his attendance as a delegate at , the Taxpayers' Convention, where ho warmly , ] advocated immigration, as the rational, praeI t1ca). and legitimate solution of the social and II political problem in this State, Gen. Gary ; | too!: no active part in politics until 1876, when 11 he and General {Sutler were the foremost advocates of the Kttaight-out policy, and the ! nomination of Wade Hampton for Governor. -[Tills view prevailed, and Gen. Gary took , charge of the campaign in Edgefield county, ' I where Governor Chamberlain was met and ' 1 discomfited by Gen. Gary with the ltcd-shlrts. i ] Tlic enforced "division of time" at the Kdgefield meeting discouraged the llepubllcansevI cry where and encouraged the Democrats. ' j Edgefield was carried by over 3,000 majority, which elected the Democratic ticket. Gen. , I Gary was elected StatoScnator from Edgefield | county, ana served lor lour yearn, deeming ' j re-election. lie was a candidate for election i to t he United States Senate before the Demo, | cratic Legislature of 187ti, but was defeated by I Gen. llutler. Last year he was regarded as a candidate for t tie Democratic nomination for Governor, and an active canvass was made by his friends in his behalf. In the Convention, however, lie declined to allow his numc to be presented. Gen. Gary's merits as a lawyer are attested by thecantldence of hisclients. Ueforeajury ! he was particularly elective, being a pietur-1 esijue speaker, and knowing intuitively how to touch the sympathy of his audience. It Is true that his knowledge, at times, was not I well digested, but ho was always ready andj j ever had a good word to say for whatever | cause lie espoused. In public life he was outspoken, and even audacious, and in this way | he concentrated opposition upon himself: ! which was avoided by more courteous pollti| ciaus. The most serious mistake of his public life, as affecting himself, was his attitude in I | the campaign ot JtfT.S when lie was placed In jj ; the position of being the personal antagonist ! of Gen. Hampton. This caused (Jen. (Jury to.' j lose the support of many staunch friends,and 1 afterwards led to his being sharply assailed by lien. Hampton's warm supporters. There Is j j no doubt tiiat had hcconfiiicd himself toques:- 1 ! lions of policy, in his public utterances, and had curbed some over-zealous ft lends, he would have beeu a formidable candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governs last year. The report was busily circulated tiuit he would run as an Independent candidate. ' Had he chosen to do so lie could have done tor South Carolina what Mahoue has done for Virginia, but he did not waver, and, tlrst and last, was true to the party. In theSenaie he was violently opposed to the election of Judge NVillard as Chief Justice by the Democrats,insisting likewise that Democrats could not bej bound, even by a party caucus, to support a ! I Republican, lie was the leading champion of I' the Usury law, and went as far as any in ad- 1 vocatlng the investigation and readjustment j' of the state debt. One of his axioms was thatj' the political differences in South Carolina are i' 1 due to an antagonism of race, and that the 1 race issue cannot be eliminated from our pol-!' I ities. In accordance with tills view he was J I opposed to makiiiKaity appropriations for the j' | support of the Clatilii University ami South ' j Carolina University, (which last ho improper- '' II ly regarded as an aristocratic institution) and i' | he also opposed, we believe, the adoption of: ! the constitutional amendment providing for ' ! an anual tax for the support of the public ' ; schools. He was a white man's man through- j ! out, maintaining every where and in every |' I way the need of exclusive rule by white men. ! j In this he was not alone, but. as we have said, ' ' the conflict with Governor Hampton put him ' j In a false position, and weakened him in the | ' Democratic party. It was ex peeled, however. 1 1 that he would be a potent lactorin political j combinations next year. | It seldom was our l'ortunetoaaree with Gen. t1 i Gary In public atlalrs. To us bis policy, sub- ! sequent U> the campaign of 1876, seemed un- 1 i j wise and pernicious, but he had one most'1 , excellent quality which Is exceeding rare in ! public men in these times. It was easy to as-! s certain what his position wus. What lie . thought, lie said. In politics, as In the Held, it : was njs habit to be far in front, whatever came of it. Faults he had, no donbt; but all! i ' that we care to remember is that, In bis own ; way and as to him seemed best, he wa&assld uous and untiring in the service of the State. 1 l The disagreements we hod are forgotten now, and we have no other feeling than one of sini cere regret at the terrible swiftness of hla | death. 1 THE SCARLET FEVER. Some Facts about the Nature an Treatment of the Disease?*TIie Treat meat in Charleston. Tlie prevalence of scarlet fever in this ctl; five's especial value to any suggestions thii iswiy be nuiiie as to the prevention tuul treu mciit of the disease. Prof. Chandler, of th New York Hoard of Health is, credited wit saying that "the scarlet, fever caused nior Jeaihs In New York last year than theyeihn fever did in the South and yet failed to exclt public apprehension or make people ordina: i.v caiclnl to prevent Infection." The phys i-i.ilis and professors all agree as to the iiiKld ions character of the disease. Dr. t'onipto Kays iu the Indiana Merficul lievorter, "II th peropie can only tie educated to know th contagious character of scarlet fever at al stages as Hie pliyslcan knows It, there woul not bo so much trouble in securing their c< jpcra'iou In ell'oi ts to prevent the spread ( ,ue disease a." soon as discovered." Scarlet fi is i)i<> nrodnct of snecitic noison. which i -( produced during the progress of the dis j.ise. It isnccompanlcd with an affection c >f the kid i leys often with severedisease ??f tli ,hroat, or of somciiitcrimlorgan.audIkkoiik lines followed by dropsy. It runs a dctlnit ;ours? and, as a rule, oeeursonly once in lilt I'here eau he no doubt t hat it poisons tin ilood, as demonstrated by experiment, o ixiy-Mx rabbits lnnoculated with scarla inous blood by t'oze and Kel'z slxty-t wodiei lietwecu eighteen hoursand fourteen daysaf or the blood had been injected into them \n examination of the blood after death ri .valed the presence of living organ'sin* th ante sis found 111 the blood of sear la ti noil vitienis themselves. The poisonous princl )lc enters the blood at the time of the incep Ion of the disease and is dependent upon tin lie disease genus contained In the blood vhieli are capable of reproducing tlietnselve luring the progress of the disease, and th xhaSiitlons from the sk'n, the lungs and the iicietlons generally ull contain the conta rious principle upon which the infection ii lependeiit. The poison may he taken int lie system through absorption l?.v the tiiucou nembranes trom a patient sutl'ering witn th lisease. This absorption may take place hyi lealtliy person breathing an atmosphere con aminated by the exhalation trom. the sick >r i;. may be directly by rceiving upon tli nucous membranes the Dying particles <j ** It 'XIolUUlM llusi, nuiu uui jujis ui lumitu u?u< Scarlet fever Is set down in tlio list of pure y contagious diseases, tlie poison of whirl .ini be convoyed from one person to a not he :?y contact. It is so easily communicated thti >o su^coptible person can remain in the rooti >vi tli a pal lent without contracting it. Tlielti ccting distance is much greater than ill tj jIiuk lever. Among the remedies recommended by th lhvsicians is the practice of freely oiling th in tire surface of the body to allay the itchl'i iccompany the fever, and the use of diuretic md diaphoretics to eliminate the poiso; Jirough the skin and kidneys. Home physl jians recommend sponging the surface witl jold water and the use of tjuininc to reduc .lie fever. A case lsgiven of a child fouryeai jld to which twenty grains ol quinine wer ?iven on each day for threo successive day with the most satisfactory results, and asa eliminator of scarlet levc-r poison quinine i 'aid to be entitled to a placostt the head of th list. Another remedy highly spoken of is th muriatcd tlnetureof iron in solution of chl< rale potassa, which is used iu place of the oh style way of mopping the t h.'oat of the pa tient, and acts as nn etlective antidote to th poison in tiie blood. The use of warm baths isalso highly recotr mended by several eminent physicians. D Charles T. Thompson recommends tiie use < Lliroe warm minis <uuy, me [limum i<> uc >11 the bath from throe to five minutes, raph Iy dried, wrapped in a blanket and return t bed. Astho disease subsides the number ( d atlis should bo rcduced, 1 he result of thl treatment lias been to bring out the rnsli, t reduce the temperature and to soothe the p;i tient. The profession generally aro o|>pose to use of any strong medicines. The greate: care should be taken to preventcontact wit patients affected by the disease; and, after al this seems to be the main thing. The following directions of an Ohio phy? cian to a nurse are exactly in point; Wear i In sick room a loose gown, which must I thrown off before leaving the room, and, If tli patient lias beta handled, wash the hands 1 water into which a little carbolic acid ha been dropped; not a handkerchief, napkin o piece of bed linen must be taken out of th room dry, but niusi first be plunged into wi ter. During cutaneous exfoliation the scu <hould be carefully collected from the sheet and thrown Into the fire, and especial car should betaken that none falls upod the ca pet. The patient should be Isolated for at leas ten days after the dead skin ha? peeled ol and the week prior io leaving tiie room cai bolic acid baths should be given onco a da In tepid water into which an ounce of the si 1UUI.I1 SIHHUll uu lin.wu, r.vvij IIIVI1 tl Kiirlace of the body should be carcfully dish fected, especially around the hair of the heai us the minute scales abounding In Infoctloi linger in the head longer than any wcreon th person. No child should bealiowed to cnti room where a sick patle*t ha? Leon conflne until it has fccon disinfected, which may t done: by-burning sulphur in It ufter aii tli openings have been tightly closed, and afte wards by allowing the doors and windows t remain open day and ulght for week. By tli use of such precautions the progress of tfc disease may be successfully < it ravages greatly resti IctQUr? ? tjns no jffiatement ?^L?J??^rr i this city, and during the past week there wei nine deaths, making the total number < deaths since the first of March twentyt-hrci Of this number there were twenty deatl amontr the whito and three amontr the colo ed patients. The City Hoard of Health wi hold their regular monthly meeting o Wednesday night, and will doubtless take tl: fever under consideration an do whatever the can to check Its course. A correspondent writes that the followln recei nt comes from I)r. Elliott, a son of ills hop hlllott, of Georgia who says It is a pr ventive of scarlet fever, and even where tb disease has been contracted It modltles I severity if taken; One ounce of sulphite < sodium three pints of water. A teaspoonfi three times a day for children and a table spoonful for adults. Unequal Assessments. [ Ifiiuborro' Xeii'S and Herald.] A writer in the Columbia Register calls a tention inawel? written article to the un quality of assessments of similar property i iIdetent counties of the State, and then, a mining very justly that the higher values ai not excessive since it Is not human nature 1 tvercstimate any property Jfor taxation, coi :ludes that while the burdens of governnier unequally on ditierent sections, the State he self is wronged, and immigration repelled b :his apparent stagnation tuid poverty as com rui.rr**! u-irh Ilia return*; nf nthnr mirte nf 111 union. Full statistics, in proof of his posl Lion, ure lateen l'rom the report of the Comt [.roller-General for li>79, and they certalnl jhow remarkable discrepancies. A sufllelei lliustrution can be given in tlie assessment i horses and mules. The valuation of the foi mer. per head, was, in Georgetown, $07; I Horry, SOG; in IJeaufort, Fairtlcld, Kersha\ und \\ iliiamsburg, SOI: Clarendon, $58; Aike mul Marlon, $57: Charleston and Chester, to md soou, continually diminishing o $40 i Hampton, $39 in Oconee, Edgetleldand Ande son, j'W in Spartanburg and $35 In Laurei: md Pickens. Tiie average for mules was in Ilorry, $Si Georgetown,$72; Williamsburg,$70; Furiielt jtiS; Clarendon, $05; Kershaw, SOU; C'hnrle ton. $02; Marion, Sol; Colleton, $00; ChesU imd Orangeburg, Soil; Uarnwelland lJeaufor 55if: York and Lexington, $57; and tbenc Jown to $-17 in Abbeville and Marlboro; S1U1 Newberry, $45 In Anderson, $14 in'Oconce, $In Spartanburg, $12 in Pickens, $41 lu Edg< Held and $37 in Laurens. The average for the wiiole State was $44 fc horses and $->2 for mules. Tills comparative statement give abumlar food from reflection, and either tlie tables ai incorrect or the assessment incoutroverllbl unequal. A grouping of counties gcograph cully will show this moro plainly. Accordin to this statement an average mule was wort In York $57, in Chester $50, In Laurens ?37,1 Newberry $10. In Marlboroamule was wort >17, in Marion $01, in Horry 3.S2. The fourcoi tlguous counties ot Chester, Lancaster, Fai field and Kershaw give a combined average < fOO per mule; while another group of tou Abbeville, I>aurciis, Newberry and Kdgefiel Kive an average of but$4!j. Yet it willhardl be averred that tlie livestock in thellrstgrou is of better quality than that in the second. This comparison is made In no invldioi spirit, but for the purpose of directing attei Hon to an existing incongruity,so palpnblei to necessitate careful inquiry into Its cans Are prices higher in Fairfield than in adjoii ing counties'/ All are equally accessible t the stock raising sections of tlie West, an this factor is remoccd from the problem. Is that some other counties buy for cash whil Fairfield, (as a type of those sections in whic assessments are lilgher,) buys on credit? so, her assessment Is too high, for the cash va ue is the basis of assessment. Is Abbevllli with her hundreds of thousands of bushels < red rust-proof oats, content to support a $; mule, while Falrtleld aspires pamper a s I x t j eight dollar mule on W estern corn "at a do lar and ten'' a bushel? Tho theory of taxation is that all articles < equal utility or value must bear an equal bu den, whether the burden itself be great < small. It makes nodilference.as for asdetra; Ing public expenses is concemeu, whethi nrnnprr.v is n.ssr?ssf?il sit. its full vnl tin or Tin provided the assessment 6c uniform. The e: pendituresareatixedsiiin.and the levy tomei them varies inversely as the assessment If million dollars are needed, It makes nodi He ence whether the levy he ten mills ou a hui dred million dollars, or twenty mills on flit million dollars. The proportionate tax is tl same on eacn county In either case. But property of the same kind, an average niu lor instance, be valued at lorly dollar* in 01: section and eighty in another, It is evidei that the latter Is doubly taxed. The state Hoard of Equalization is frame specially to regulate these discrepancies, n< to say that the people of any county hav sworn falsely, but to say that, for purposes i taxation, the average values must bo tli same over the entire State, and therefore t raise the assessment for one section or low< it for another, or both, so as to bring each t the average. The Radicals swindled the people, not t much in an excessive lovy, as In excessive a sessments. The Democrats have reduced but the levy and the total assessment,mid thuse tected a compound reduction. But as long t unequal assessments exist, there isabuudat: room for remedy. Wc do not mean to sa ihat theaverap;e of each county must be pr? cisely the same all over the Suite; but noti uan deny that the difference between tliirt; seven dollars and eighty-two dollars Is soin< ill Inn more than one of degree. It should L Investigated. MA HONE'S BACK PAY. Claiming One Hundred and Twentj I'ive Thousand Dollars of Salary a President of the Mississippi an Ohio Railroad. Richmond. Va., April 5.?Among the pn pers filed in the ease of the Atlantic, Missis iippi and Ohio Railroad, iti the United state Circuit Court, isa petition of General Wllliar Mahono, praying that his salary of Si5,n<xi pc mnuin, as President of the Atlantic, Mlssii ilppl and Ohio Rallroiul Camptuiy, from th 11 tli of June, 1876, to the recent sale, be allow 5d. This would now amount to 8125,OuO. Th petitioner states that "in performing his di Lies as President lie has been called upon n<i jnly to bestow his time and labor upon th vffairsof the said corporation, but to lay or and expend his own private means to tli amouut of thousands of dollars iti travellin expenses, hotel bills, postage, clerical labc ind otherwise, for which he lias never recel% I'd from tli Is Court, or any one else, any rotur ar compensation whatsoever. Petitioner hn iilso by reason of the pendency of these pr< seeding* been compelled to employ and ha pmployed as President of said company an the representative) of the same, its directoi ind stock holder, counsel to protect and pn serve their interests, but as the whole propel ly and estate of said company is in the hanr! of receivers appointed by the Court, and ns n [irovislon has been made by this Court to pa said counsel, petitioner is without the mean of adequately compensating tlicui.' White Brothers have five hundreddollai woi'lhol' llumburgtrimmluKsaiHl loceswhlc Lliey now offer for sale, ladles, go and m Lliein and be astonished at the low prices. AjiV lady in search of a fine black drei would do well to look at that niece of Sll Warp Henrietta Cloth at White Brothers. Wuitk Bkotii i:iw have a lot of suits to t boys froia ton to eighteen years of age. Sighting Success, il - riERCING THE RIFTS IX THE LAND OF THE SKY. y ? The Whole Augusta nud Knoxville e Railroad System Spread Out Before 'u Us ? Staking Off the Line From the * Hilltops or tlic L'aroiinas ? ncrcing r- Cumberland Gap. '* f Augusta Chroniclc and Sentinel.] ii The Chronicle'* Spartanburg special ypslere day morning laid bare the muscles of the Atie unsla and Knuxvllle Railroad connections. I It touched a nerve-centre in Augusta: for, (i "taking oiki consideration with another, the I >. city is more interested just now in en indo)f pendent route to the West, than In anything .. else. The recent hectic pulsations of (Joorgla ! '8 and Central have given premonition sutlicieiit. | . ! that the Clyde Syndicate, or the Louisville j if! and Nashville, might, soon capture the (Jeor- ! c ! gla Railroad. The State Road, at least. Is un-1 uj certain. Neutral now, an expiration of its j e 1 lease and contemplated sale of the road, may ! put the entire State at the mercy of an alien B" enterprise. Augusta must protect herself; r protect tills section of (ieorgla, protect I'ort . | ttoyal and Charleston. Just as Atlanta, then, 1 i is asserting liter independence by encouraging . | Gen. Cordon to build the Georgia Western,so it! Augusta must scuond Mr. Verdery in his ef: i forts to complete the Augista and Knoxville. C OUK IitllDGK AND BONDS. J* Taking up the Augusta end of this line, we (Ind that track-laying i> goinir rapidly on * twelve miles above Augusta. Work has cotnI menced on the bridge over theSavannah Rlv' | er, sixteen miles above theclty, so that when I s j the rails arc In id to the river the bridge will ] 0 ; be linished and trains can go right over unin- j terruptedly. The Augusta and Knoxville I Railroad Company arcotlering no more bonds j Jon the market., and holders are sticking to I thetn, believing that the strength of recent | p combinations will carry them to par. II TilK CAROLINA CONNECTIONS, - once finished to Greenwood, and the Dlrectory have ample means for that?two routes o open to.Spar I an burg. The present route Is up | 'f the Greenville and Columbia Railroad and I -I . t ...? ... ???? Woiwlof. I nilMiiMi: IU o|.nn?n...i.h . son and Ashcvilk*. By the Chronicle'sspecial, however, the formation of the Greenwood, li Laurens and Spartanburg Railroad, sixty-six r miles in length, d>>cs awny with this circuit-! t ?us route, and gives 11 straight Northern AI r j > Line from Augusta to Ashevlllo, N. C.?17<1 i* miles. The counties of Ijiurens and Spartan-1 hurt; are fully alive to the importance of this route, and there is little doubt of their sub-| e scribing the necessary stock. J t was a fort it-1 0 nate thing for tins Augusta Uoarl that the I K Clyde Syndicate or Richmond and Danville I ^ combination did not, buy up the Spartanburg | and Asheville Railroad, as threatened; else - one of our most important Carolina conn cell lions would have iieen wiped out, and we e j would have been bottled up i:s Charleston is 's now. As it Is, this everlasting It. & I), mane agement. is threatening to steal from Ausnstn s and Charleston the new territory of the t'aroil Unas and Tennessee, by the completion of the s Western North Carolina, which now Is oper- j e aled by the syndicate, and Is being pushed e through to Tennessee. The Governor of Ten-1 ?- nessec has sinned the bill to extend the time ! 1 for the completion of the Kast Tennessee and - Western North Carolina Ralliond. Ilehadal-i e ready signed the bill under which tlie East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad ' i- will be enabled to exiend their lines to f lift r. Warm Springs In North Carolina,at which )1" point it expects to meet the Western and >t North Carolina liailroad. All this is for the 1- henetitof Itichmondand Norfolk. Unless Auo gusta, then, makes sure of her Carolina court nections, we may get euchred in our plans by Is the great corporate power of Virginia and the 0 East. j SPARTANBCRO AND AStlEVri.T.E. (t There seems to be no reason, then, to doubt h that the Spartanburgand AshevlUe liailroad 1 has been bought in by its own bondholders ' and in their own interest. Steps will be made |. to complete it at an early day. A short hisn tory of this road may be Interesting just here. ,e The organization of the company was etl'ected 1C at Hendersonvilie, N. C., 31st July, 1871. by the n consolidation of the Spartanburg and AislieH ville Railroad of Soutii Carolina, and the r Grecuvillc and French Broad liailroad of ie North Carolina?Hon. ('. (5. Memmlnger, of Charleston. being President, and E.G.Allen, rf Esq., of Asheville, Vlce-Prosidont. The capl,s tal stock was the present and future subscrlpe tlons which then, or soon aftor, were: Bonds r- of Union county, S. C., SloO.dOO: bonds ofSpar5t tan burg county, S. C., 8100,00); bonds of JlenT, derxon county, N. C? 3100,000; bonds of BunrJ combe county, N. C., ?100,000. The object of .. ftia nntnmrlsB wns nnt. nnlvtoonen to their I o natural market an outlet fur the products of! 10 the mouutuin districts penetrated by the rond j. but to complete a link in the project of 18-W? the Clncinnatti, Cumberland Ga? and Chailesx' ton Railroad?for connecting tlie great busi10 news centres of the Ohio Valley with the sea5,^-board. Spartanburg, tlio Southern terminus d of the road, is the Northern terminus of the ,o Spartanburg, Union and Columbia Railroad, ,e dlstaDtdircctly 170 miles from Augusta. The r- property passed Into the hands of a Kecelver o in the Fallot 1878, the grading at that time .? having been completed to Hendersonvlllo, a dUMu*of and the track ^ -mid rt) within Reven.or ei?hl miles of that place. It was estimatea^l'at to complete the n giadlng, ready for track J>?fc|h|^kjrsnnville e to the W. X. C.R. H. JunctionJ^P^inelcen miles, would require$50;000. The motttftfi'j1 u. district, of which Ashevllle is tiie railway is centre, has always sought a Southern market, r. and the Western N. 0. Railroad Company is 11 conscious of this. n Once nt Ashevllle, then connection with the >c EastTennessee and Georgia Railroad branch iy on the Tennessee State line, even now going on. will bo speedily insured. This branch ,K connects with the E. T., V. and Gu. Railroad j. at Morrlstown, 42 miles from Knoxvllle, seq. curing our conncctlon beyond peradventure. ie Kven at Morrlstown, however, the missing [8 link passing through Cumberland Ga,r>, at the 3f cornes of three States, Virginia, North Caro-j jj Una and Tennessee, promises speedy complos Hon. Tills line has for a long time been J graded, or the greater part of It. It will place Augusta nearer Louisville and Cincinnati, by j over 100 miles, than around by Chattanooga, | as at present. .In fact, these places will bo in closer and more direct connection with Augusta and Charleston than with Baltimore or Richmond. e- Advantages of Railroads. jseiow we puuiiMi u n-utT iruui jiuii. \t. \ hu- ; J1" non, of Spartanburg, addressed to ("apt. S. s. ;? Klrkland, Chief Engineer of the Greenwood, ^ Laurens and Spartanburg Railroad, in reply , * to certain enquiries in regard to railroad facll,l ities: Dkar Sir: I have carefully read your letJ tor, and found a vast amount of information desired?more than I can ?i vc in the limited |c time; -but I will give a few facts?and itrst as to the morietiiry value the Railroad* have " conferred on our county, Ac. I have cxamJ. ined the Comptroller's Reports, andfludthe ^ assessed value as follows: r. Spartanburg in 1872.' Lnurens in 1872. n Heal Kstatc, S2,16<7K0 Real Instate, f2,Sl0,1}0 Vi Personal, 1,210,780 l'erso ial, 019,290 J1 Total S-'!,-i0S,">G0 Assessed Value in 13S0 n i not reported. r. 18S0, Assessed Value. ! _ Pool l&lnln KSfHIrtT.Oi l.?n_l?rnl ok. Personal, ' 1,757,540' late,. $1,075,209 >. Personal, 7o0,52.> V Total, $5,734,^20. ? i Total, $2,725,731 >r Increase In the eight t years, $2,324,700 Loss of $1,003,090 Taxes on in crease; 1 val- Loss of School Tax ? no, S!8.aj8 of S-2.007.sK) Cj Of which the State 1S72 Laurens was 320,107 j. pets, $11,623 more than SpartanSchool, 54,011) burg. )r County gets for Its use, $22,0*0. it Spartanburg hasRO mileR of Railroad nssess'e cd at$S)2u.00o included in the above increase, y In istfO Spartan burg was $3,003,5-6 more than I- I^iurens. I could refer you to other counties, g but this Is enough. h The reduction on freight has certainly rcn duced the cost of living. We get bacon froru h Chicago by car-load at 52 cents per 100 pounds; i- (lour from Cincinnati by car-load, at $1.10 per r- barrel: com by the car-load, laid down hero, jf including cost, freight, Ac., at 70 conts per r. bushel?other articles In proportion. Our u Free School funds are increased $4,019. We are y in direct communication by rail and wire P with the outside world. Competition has reduced the freight greatly to the benefit of the is farmer. Spartanburg Is equally ns good a i- market as Columbia, sometimes better. The is freight on cotton from here to New York is e. $3.50 per bale, or 70 cents per H>0 lbs. on 500 i- bales. Saving to the farmers not less than $2! -o per bale ?from former prices. Wc get fort III- i d zers, salt, Ac., proportionately cheap; a ready it home market for what we ht.ve to sell at faille prices and all the articles we purchase at reah sor.ably low prices. Building rallroaus has If done more for our people than the most san1 guine ever expected. Sir, I think the buildc, fng of the Greenwood, Ijiurens and Spartan~>t burg Itailroad Is a necessity. That road would j 17 bo Independent of the rallread monopolies j '- which are beicg formed and drawing the cords j '1- around us. J5y building this road we have ; the choice of markets?Augusta, Charleston, of or the great commercial ciMcs of the North, r- Also, the provision States of the West by the j >r Snartanburir and Ashevillc Hai'road. which ! f- will certainly be extended to Aslievllle. N. 3r at no distant day; thus making connection t, with the Western North Carolina Railroad, x- which will bebulIttothoTennosseo llnewlthst in this year. Objections have been mode to a the three miles of heavy grado on Tryon r- Mountain. The heavy grade Ingoing wont, ti- from whence all the heavy articles of freight y come. We have been running for over three ie years, dclne pood business and not a single acIf cldcut?making good time* Ie \ ours, truly, O. Cankok. ie | t 11 The Spartanburg and Augusta Rail^ road Connection. e [Spartanburg Herald.] An Important meeting of the friends ot the ^ Spartanburg, Laurens and Greenwood ItailZ, road was lield In tills city on last Monday, 'i Gcu. It. P. Todd, of Jjiurens. was called t.othe Chali'and Capt. A. B. Woodruff requested to act as secretary. Mnjor Klrkland, Engineer, " submitted his report on the survey of th? route and estimate* of cost. According to rcr port of Engineer, a good line can be scoured, :2 miles in lengtli, which will cost , for the grading, masonry and bridging. This ^ estimate Is made on the route by Woodrufls. f Another route by Glenn Springs and Cross " Anchor, will be run In a few days, and hereaf' tor reported upon before the route will bedefl[' nttely decided upon. ' Col. E. F. Verdery, President of the Augusta c and Knoxvlllo railroad, addressed th<i meeting. giving most encouraging accounts of the early completion of his road from Augusta to Green wood, and the bright prospect of bulldlnx this road from Greenwood toSpartinburg, and stated tlmt lie had no doubt but that the road could be built, if liberal county s!ibscri|>tlons were voted by the counties of Spartan,S burg and Laurens. He said that the people of , Augusta were awaking to tho importance of ll securing connection with Spartanburg, to get another competing line to tho North-west. Encouraging speeches werealso made by Hon. G. Cannon, Hon. T. J. Moore and others. " On motion of Capt. A. B. Woodruff, a repolu'c tion was prised directing steps So be taken to ' have the questions of county subscriptions of ,r I 875,000 each from the counties of Spartanburg s. land Laurens submitted to the voters of said n! counties, and requesting Dr. B. ! '. Kllgore, j f. Chairman of the Spartanburg Committee, to. ? ' appoint sub-committees to secure th.ir object i . j In Spartanburg, and Gen. H. l'.Todd toup-| point similar committees in Laurens. c| We ff;l much encouraged by the action of | ,t ! this mt' llng and the enthusiasm manifested a by the friends of the enterprise. If Spartan* burg and Jjiurcns counties will vote county! ,7 subscriptions of S7;>,<XK) each totliis road it will! r icertalnly be built, and we feel certain that n I wild subscriptions *111 bo carried in each H ' countv by large majorities. So that the early j | building of the Spartanburg, Laurens and c Greenwood Itall road can he put down as a certi I talnty, giving Spartanburg another import's ant railroad In the near future. r- Justice Woods, of the United States Circuit ls ' Court, has decided that a|stututeof Texas,pr<?- j ? hibitlng the intermarriage ot the white and y black races, Is unconstitutional, being con18 trary to the Htb amendment, and therefore volu. - 40^ ? Under a new Wisconsin law treating at the 7* bar subjects a man to a line of not less than SO ~ j nor more than 810. The State Agricultural Department will pay I Into the State Treasury this year 825,000 from | the 25-ccnt tax per ton on fertilizers. The car shops at Helena on the Colombia ,t and Greenville Railroad will be consolidated 11 with the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad shops at Columbia. IfMRnnHHMDBmsnMEBaiPHMMMWMmi Trinity Church, Abbeville. $ PC SERMON EY REV. FRANK HAIJ,AM. b!i so fll The Precious (lift of Charily?The Ex- |{j pcndituirc of Soul. m scriptures where tlie division of their substance In to chapters Is more unfortunate than n, in that portion from which my text is taken. jc Ttic continuity of thought is hrulccn,and tli the Apostle's treatment of the virtue of charity tu is like an Isolated article, cut ott'troni those to surroundings which it was meant, to lllumlnnte, and which wire meant to illuminate it ye 111 return. In The Apostle lind been writing to his Corin- |0! thian convertsof those jjltts and graces which xi are peculiar to the Christian dispensation, or S(, are more largely and -.lumeroiisly developed u, i>y Its Divine power. He recognises, as it was | cu tit that one so richly endowed us he should i fa] recognize, the inherent value of every gift clt and grace. He honors them for their hl?h j?:v- ,\i rentage; they wer?j horn cf the spirit of God. j po lie mentions each with proper emphasis, and | W( calls attention with clearness and power to an their relative positions and respective func-1 lions in the jrreat body of Christian truth. Hence it mightbc with some surprise?at. least I an in this our day?that nne should lind him, af- | wl ter such a review, selecting a virtue so desti- j sai lute of ulltter, so averse to pantile, as tiie vlr-1 ex tueof charity; and proclaiming it the highest wl and greatest of them all. eh Christians ml^ht suppose that the faith I tai which appropriates the redeeming grace of j *1}' Christ, or the hope which already embraces 'J the shining rewards of heaven would over- Be tower It far. .Minils of a thoughtful turn, jcoi whether Christian or otherwise, might iiui>- frr pose that the uil't of heiilihu would surpass it, i is! as working a lariror practical benetlt. to wan-!,!l kind ; that the uil't of tongues would create f. ge greater stir in the world: or that the exercise i Ni U1 it II jr (junvi 1'IWJIVI IJ I.MIIVVI ??III?\/HI1#U.-, woulil excel it both In brilliancy and force. Pr Hut not so. Wc arc taught here; if we havujhc not learned it elsewhere, that glitter and stir; re; aro not at all necessary to any blah degree r.f value, ihaf the thiiiss which com? witha iiulit i tii that dazzles or a crash ihut astounds arc not] In the lnostellcctivc forces In the universe. The : if silent things in nature and in grace are the j va most potent and the most sublime. | hl| Ami this is our comfort as we compare the pr first and tin; nineteenth centuries. 3s ot only i an so: it is our rational satisfaction. j th If we have ever le:trcd that the ngcof Christ th carried with it Into the hopeless past the;no greatest man I Testations of spiritual excellence. s;> we 'tow know ttnitour fears were gtoundle-s. j po If v have ever thought th it miraculouspow-1 of er was the triumph ot the divine energy, wo ch now learn of our grievous error. Wc reineiu- li? ber that Ti MIRACLES WEUE TIIE FOt'NDATIOX OF THE IV? ClIltlMTIAN KAITII in the world, ntid wc cannot be guilty !Vc of the absurdity of longing to see the wl founilation rear itself as high as the super- j structure. We rellcet tliat miracles jierpettia- th ted through the weary length of eighteen cen- si turics, would ccasti to be miraculous, and we te will not bewail the absence of a treasure t-iat of time would have reduced to cipher. We will i it' rather, with profoundest gratitude, celebrate, as !?ur intieritance of a blessing which the reino- ij-i test time cannot allect. Wc will praise (tod m with devout enthusiasm, because lie has be- th stowed upon the church of our own day that ()f precious gift of charity, which, in rlchncssand ri; in power, in uraeeand in cU'eet. in breadth of w /..W.t ntliin ?..>l<ml>iir..wi1?.r Hf/? It! tlin irfoot. ,,\ est of the spiritual ulfts of heaven, "for yes- it terday and to-day and forever." Certainly, you will say then that the charity of which the apostle speaks Is comprehun- ''J1 Kivr. It could notcrown the beatitudes unless t'1 It wore. It must embrace the yearning of the heart toward the author of its life, as well jis ' it? t'.-nckrcsl consideration f .r the sharers ot its nature. Faith roaches to Ood, and heal- ot tug to man; and charity to be greater than ai both must link (jod and man together, and livons though man in God.andUod in man jj1 and In Ilimseli were the objects of its being. 111 Yes ... ni tiiisi 13 the broadest definition ok j? charity; ns and in this breadth It Is the fulfillment of m the law; for it is the love 01 God with heart c? and mind and soul and strength, and''thy cc neighbor as thyself." Hut to-day we slmllcon- tr corn ourselves especially with its bearing on hi the latter half of I ho law. Ill And here I n*cd not tell you that it is love to to man?that the word charity means love? m for that is more than a "twice-told tale." It w has been rung from every pulpit until the les- bl son ims well-nigh lost Its power. in I need not tell you that charity is not cc alins-glvlng; for though certain custom has hi dwarfed It to that measure, I think it Is the tc custom of earrlessness; for none that are thoughtful need to bo told tliut such a belli- y< Moment of the graco Is Inconsistent with the b; praise that Inspiration has bestowed upon It. to But there is need that we should all be re- le minded, in this day of religious differences, 01 that it. does not consist In liberality for thco- b< logical views and ecclesiastical practices. O Such liberality Is not necessarily the off- m spring of charity. It may exist wnere charl- in ty Is wanting,and It may bo wanting where y> charity Is abundant. - ? It may be the liberality of Indifference. For 1' there are minds to whom any system would J) be as acceptable ns tho one they endorse whose endorsement Is based purely uponc< or preference; with whom there Is no principle Involved In the acceptance or ifcfocilon of fa any Christian system. Thoy$ojtf>t cling with ai tenacity to any group of Ideas. They are not di positive In their oonvJtftions, and notvehc- w persuasions. Tosnch liberality w Is a very easy mattor. They have nothing to w lose by it, nothing to snrrendor. They make ir nosacrltlce; no expenditure; and no admls- 11 slon for tho sake of others which they have ei not already made without regard to others, w If the active virtue of love Is present In such m a mental status, It Is difficult to detect Its element*. j Liberality may be, also, that of Ignorance. I Where the merits of ecclesiastical dlilerences 9J have not been canvassed. It Is so. Whon 9* Christ hail partially restored the blind man to * sight he saw men as trees walking." And y such Is the obseu'lity of vision of those who Fc are unlearned in t he wisdom of theology, that 5 differences as great as that between men and ^ trees may pass within their view without reo !/ ogultlon. . DOCTKINKS MAY SEEM DNIMPORTAXT fr because they dnrTfotf know their bearings, tx Principles may lie undiscovered under their 11 stoadfost gaze. Propositions radically averse E< to each other may exist In two systems which f< In a shallow examination appear quite alike, u And because nil these differences have not cl {leaped boldly Into view, and assorted them- tc selves In tho face of men, because men nave It I passed their lives without ever being nble to d give an accurate account, of the distinctive n principles of the various forms of faith, they It are willing to magnify themselves ns expo- tl nents of cbarltv and denounce those who. by ui thought and Investigation, have become by ir comparison with their denouncers, princes In h knowledge and Intelligence- "Ignorance Is the mother of error." It would bcamnzlng to And It as well thefarent of charity; and yet such Is the proposition that confronts us In JT | the confident boasting of the superficial. Ig- " jnoinnec confounds tradition with authentic ' history; accepts impressions for proof; mistakes learning for intolerance; and iu detl- ?' anceof the laws of .^anlty proclaims itself the P. very charity which "vaunteth not Itself." Liberality may also be that of prejudice. I I know the statement Is a paradox. In fact It ,. I isonly one form of describing an opposition, H ! so violent, to one set of views, that Its agent J; j becomes by reaction exceedingly gracious to ' ! everything else. In this v. ay I have heard Ro- " | manisin ana uuuaiism i-nu napususm, miu i I the doctrines of Sanctlficallon and Predesti- ,, j nat ion and the Real Presence and Apostolical , ; Succession denounced with a frenzy thatcould " find Ms only natural calm In a sentimental embrace and laudation of all that is unlike them. Then there is THE LIBERALITY OF WORLTJLINESS. One that mcnadoptto avoid allegiance tonny church system. One. again, that, unices pollcy the ground of its life. That hides ecclesi- J. astinal principles for fear of alienating the '] world, aud that carries the same policy inio " secular affairs, praising ecclesiastical orgaui- J.1 zatlons In which it has no religious interest V In order to win or retain the favor and com- *. morclal patronage of their members. And, once more, there Is the liberality of In- ? tellectual conceit. It springs from a fancied , superiority of knowledge to the great reli- ' gious world. It's possessors assert a kind of , I monopoly of nature and science, and because ? of the great mysteries of both ; because tliere " are ideas suggested by thein which may be J: fundamental to religion, and which arc not : fully explained, they arc disposed to regard ' ecclesiastical difl'erenecs as trivial by their , side. Such men are broad. I do not condemn i. their breiulth. I condemn, where It exists, " their assumption of superiority; tlieir assumption that religion and religious organizations have not been for ages considered sclen- ' tlflcally. I condemn the assertion that we ! "know too much" to attach any special value ij | to any particular doctrines, polities and rlt- ^ uals; and I do not think there is room tor the slightest hcsltancy in saying that a liberality which grows from such ideas-?ideas that rob systems of their distinguishing charucterls- J tics, destroy their Identity, level their (litterences, ideas that regard all distinguishing i features as Insignificant.?I do not think there *; is room lor the slightest hesitancy In saying 1 that such a liberality is neither in whole nor in part a product of the grace of charity. ? Tho truth Is CHARITY Id NOT A MENTAL ATTRIBUTE b C( or endowment, and consequently need a have no dealings with facts and opinions. Jt sl is a virtue of the heart; and if it acts in con- a nectlon with the Judgment, it deal., purely si; and entirely with motives. In other words, t,| [Its sphere of action Is the sphere of morals. ? not of intellectual research or ecclesiastical w i practice, and it can only operate In the direc- n lion of those sphere# when it assigns a motive p for belief or action. (;| If it applied to opinions in themselves, it 01 would have no limit; and yet custom?the y same custom which priorities it?has eontincd c it within very narrow bounds. Custom has ci drawn the line at the very point where ehuri- ir ty Is most needed; at the point where the dif- fc feront systems contradict each other. t,i Men are liberal so far. and no farther. Thev are willingthatothersshould dlfl'er with them fc about unimportant details: but when the dif w forence extends beyond, wlicn a 1'avorlte doc- fj trine is touched, or a petted idea is denied, m they aro ready to hurl anathemas without fl stint upon their brethren. They say charity tv j allows a man n right to his own oninion. Ilut c( it must agree with theirs in the main. If it does not the man who holds it is hlmselt un- tl charitable. Ho may be as honest as the day. m iie may have a conviction bused upon pro- ti found thought, and laborious study; but this ' ai i?nothlng. He Is placed under the ban, if ids cl conviction is not to be reconciled with the b< treasured part of their own. And so they e< point the linger of scorn at the .Bapt ist who fc insists upon immersion; at the Episcopalian who asserts the succession; at the Romanist. \v who worships the suints: and at tho ITnlta- bj rian, who denies the Divinity of Christ, i' Hut why ? the question comes nnbhlden ? a should charity stop here? Cpon what prinet- w pleof reason can charity beallowed to rearan ni aristocracy, discriminate between believers, in constitute classes, and dr>ny to one class the si cordial embrace which It extends toothers, tli I.et us go farther, and a?k why it. does not w look fur out upon the universal horizon of bi faith, and generously smile upon other ti creeds? Ill What is the flaw in Its vitality that It should Hi expire upon the very threshold of the great w temple liurnan conviction, which it miirht till with such distinguished presence? if it is said that everything human must submit to at limitation, I relpy that ?t CHARITY IS DIVINE, j J}} and was meant to becot in man that tli breadtii of generosity which Is peculiar to the irl divine nature. If it be said that some of the alien doctrines are blasphemous, and some of i)t the distinctive opinions excluslvo, 1 reply u{ that this Is not an answer to the questions v< asked. Who will not solemnly acquiesce co when it is said that those who are guilty of 1,1 blasphemy and exclusiveness are flt subjects . ca for tlie jirofoundest charity? God had such j charily for tliein that Hesent Ills .Son intothe, ijf world that they "might not perish, but have j Wl everlasting life." The very doctrines that ap- tli pear blasphemous to us may lie sacred to. those who hold them, hallowed by every tie | of association, education and conviction. The | ' question of their sacmlness Is the issue be-, lo tween us, and when charily denies the pro-|fn prlety of an Issue It degenerates into 1>1 THE MOST ABJECT BIGOTRY. If it Is urged that charity, because a virtue belonging to the Christian system, has no call j Cl to go outside of the sphere of Christianity, I to reply that Christianity Hxetf lias taught us of, tli a brotherhood Unit is brouder than Christen-i re (loin, and tiiat charity Is an essential to the : bt integrity of thut brotherhood. ! ro Moreover, the Unitarian, whose reverence j A for the spotle-s character of Christ is so lnsig- j tb nlflcant beside the adoration of the orthodox re soul is a Christian. lie professes as severe a j tt loyally to Christ as any other Christian. Tim ac worshippers of the Virgin aro Christians, *ud | i ny with powerful resentment the Idolnti which they hits aecunetl. Die .lews and Mohnmmedons nreworsht >r.s of The Christian's God, and warm adht its ol' that elder filth Which was at once tl isIh and the herald of Christianity. At 111 every memorable creed there a nd/unentals which belong as \rcil to Chrl mlty; and mankind is Joined together I nt universal religion of which those fund cutals arc the substance. Illnsphcnious then, or fatally wanting ns m hercrccd may appear, If charity applies pinions It becomes Its function to regai em with com passionate forbearance: ! p.ccate their error; to find extenuation fi em on the ground of the social and Intelle til environment which has produced then consider them within that range of conn ;s possibilities which the wit of man Is 11 t keen enough to coninnss. But, It slsted, some of the doctrines of coin in u ns within theChristlan fold aro exclusiv le word is an invidious one; and yt ange to say, it. places the accused bodies I e best of company. The hue and cry of a: rut Koine was raised against the L'hristia tli, because it was exclusive. Keally, e; isive ineans 110 more than contradictor; ul in this sense Christianity Is exclusive 1 lilts in all other creeds. Frotestantlsin irse than exclusive of Romanism; It Is hi d llery condemnation. In fact AM. SYSTKM3 e more or less exclusive. In that tliey nfllri 1.'iI. others deny; and all affirmations nece illy exclude their negations. Hut the woi elusive Is most invidious in the vague ie ticli is commonly given It. When called e: isive a doctrine some times appears to ei 1 consequences for which it is not at all r imsiblc. I'ake tlie npostolical succession forexampl cause It asserts the factor necessity of ntinuous line of orders, through Hlshop 1111 the apostle's times, It is supposed to a Ik 1 nil non-Kplscopnl bodies off the facec earth, to transform them, ns by some ev nlus. Into one huge ecclesiastical vaciiur ij*. 1 think there are some who verily h vp thnf It was meant to arirue the total d uvltyand final doom of all who are nice rs of other folds, lint the succession 1m ni iponsibte for this. It is not responsible y suppose that those who believe In It deri f evidences of the presence of God's splr o*hercomrnunions. It Ik not respon.slb any suppose that they do not recognize tl st work done by those communions, tl uli de 'elopnient of spirituality in them, tl ospccts which their members have of (In d exalted bliss. If the succession lnvolvi e Invalid ty of non-Kpiscopai orders,?ar ere are many minds to which it involv thing of the kind;?this Is nottheobjei ujrht by it. IL simply belongs to that host sillvc beliefs which are maintained l ecau their intrinsic merit. The facts they e: ide are not the facts aimed at. The destrn >n of ideas is not the object of their beln >c love of ta'al consequence is not the at us of their life. They are simply altlrm ins valued for thc.Siikc of the positive tin ey contain, and utterly destitute of that I r of war and thirst for annihilation wi men mey arc accrcmica. Suppose however that ccrtnin dcnomln >11 ill doctrines arc essentially exclusiv ippose they partake of the nature of a pr si, and were framed with the direct purpo exclusion. Shall they be cutoff from clu >* :>n that account? Has it"not been set i the pillar of religious liberty that "a mi isa right to his own opinion ?' An'd will >t shame logic to reverse position and si at a man Is not entitled to an cxclusl le? Verily that popular cry "a man has jlit to his own opinion" needs revision, otiis too freely In opposite directions, ves a perfectly boundless latitude. In fn is radically false andshould "die the death I HAVE NO 111UMT tho opinion that my neighbor Is icf; If he is not. I have no right ic opinion that he Is a heretic: If he is w have no right to believe the Pope infnllib he Is fallible like other men. Over tliegra ' the sentiment so common we must phi jotlier standard, namely, a man has a rig lly to the opinions which are correct ai ic convictions which are true. Measured I lis standard an exclusive opinion stands i 1 equality with all others. It may be as he t, as decided, as natural to tho man w )lds It, as any other. Its possessor may i pure, as thoughtful, as loving as any otli an. lie may deprecate with profound co irn the very conscquences It involves. T institution of his mind; the effect of 1 alnlng, the providential circumstances is research, may make his conclusion abi itely Irresistible to him. It is actual cruel > denounce such a roan. He is Infinite ore deserving of consideration than the o Iia uimnlv fnllnn In t.hA nnlninim Is grand fatlier. TliesulFerlng he undergo i the mental struggle against unwelcoi mvlctlons, and the bitterness poure.i up lin bocause he is true to them, entitle hi > the very tendercst charity. It may ho that ho is wrong after all; and ju ask how his convictions can be it. easur y the standard there Is but one answer, H iry will aid; ecclesiasticalauthority willttl arned writers also. If these arc Insufflclc not explicit, the man himself mustjudj :forc his God. No other being can, save t od In whose presence he stands. Then lay say to you: lam not to bo judged ian'8 Judgment." If the charity of whl du boast applies to my opinions, it,must? lit them to be whut t)u:y will. They may rotcstant^pc_KcMa<Tn, Greek or Mohammi Hindoo, the charity which hope >1 tilings" will cover thera all "as tlio wati jver the sea." And If yoti tell mo that Jot or tittle of r ,ith must be renounced because It is unchsi ible, I answer that charity makes no su amand. It "rcjolceth in the truth;" a hen I seek truth I must not look roanwu 1th respect to man's opinions; but G< ard, with respect to God's verities. Truth lore precious than the praise ot man. 1 I eve, and as the greatest of German refor ?.M Hhum r ctmwl. I niMMl ,lr> ,.l I, a OUIU. UV&O A OW1HU , A VMIIUWV UV will Ise." I cannot sacrifice to the demands lau tbo mith I owe to God. THE POSITIVE SIDE. Time bldH mc hasten, over the positive si r my subject; at?d yet It Is broiid as t jean, and deep aa tbo human heart. fo brick to definition and say that elm s affection, I do so to show you that Ills iction based upon the sacred fact ol broth* ood among men; a brotherhood ordained od for the happiness of our race. Churl fy ie Inward recognition and practical i nowledgment 01 that bond. The spirit >rvlce and thesplrlt of sacrifice arc essenl > 1 u Tbo spirit of the divine master, w inght It with uurlvalled living force, Is fe and Its power. ''Ho went about dol jod." "He did no evil; neither was gn nind In his month." "He reviled notagiili nder tlio keenest taunts to bitterness. A larlty, like Him, Is Inspired withdevotl > the interests of man ; it Is averse to lnju Is destitute of revenge. Whatever afl'cctl eniands on behalf ol our race, charity i lands with more enthusiasm, because ch y Is affection broadened and deepened ie divine Influence. It dwells In the san nry of the human heart. It moves wl mil "whithersoeverhegoetli;" undltproinj lm TO JUSTICE, TO MERCY, TO GKNF.ROSITY. It Is not limited to his religious life. ! lay pray in his closet for the conversion ie world. 11c may give of his means for t ?Uef of poverty. Hut charity asks for xpenditure or soul which shall overfl ich narrow bounds. It asks that he v elp the weak, succour the struggling, vl ie sick, comfort the suffering, relieve I ppreused. If demands its place In ills he hen he works at his calling or profession, lat professional pride will notullnd him isticeand businesssk'll will notlead him jiud. It forbids "corners" In the market, a lonopolles lr. trade; and all their petty < aring. It forbids the sacrifice of comp on to the Iron severity of "business" hab ie grinding of the poor, because "bnslnci emands that obligations he cancelled. It urds the motives of men as undiscoveral ive by thenilnd of (iod; and it regards t Iterance of a calumny as AN ATTEMPT AT MORAL MURDER. And liere we discover, possibly, the great nd broadest province of charity In Its dc lgs with social life. Motive is the lnspl on 01 iiunmn acimn. 11 is me diisis hi < Nation to our followmcn. It determines < stimate of them, our association with the ur mental and practical dealings by the lotlves. In a metaphorical as well as it tiiltual way, exalt men to heaven and c lem down to hell. Here then for the fl nie, charity becomes imperious, lslsts. without qualification, that lan shall pronounce, mentally or illy, ft gratuitous Judgment on his folic lan. Itcrlcs with the power of nn cchofn thousand hills, "be not busy bodies in otl ion's matters." It is like tfle hand o rophct, lifting tho veil of the lnvlsi orld,and showingthatsceneof controvo: 1 which an arch-angel of God "durst i ring" against the prince of crime "a ralII ccusation." And upon no subject Is such emphatic uirement necessary, for there is not a ci 'hen hundreds of human hearts are not i ing in Judgment upon matters over wh iiey have not a shadow of Jurisdiction. I ot of course refer to matters which threal icicty, for in such every citizen?not to? hrlstlan?becomes an officer of society, a Uinds committed to loyal action, lint I re ) matters by which society is not. airectc tiose about which action, or even public rcsslon of opinion, would be manifestly 1 roper. I refer to TIIE l'RONOUXCIKO OV JUDGMENT here theic Is no personal Interest luvolv< hero there Is not the remotest connect! etween tho person judging and the till Hidcmncd; where Judgment Justltios t mazement of Innocent witnesses that c lould be willing to waste time, and thoug nd even the most transient attention un Hairs so purely private to otnor people, li >c least that can be said of such a habit, lil It Inappreciably little; to say thatit 1st ortliy ot the dignity of a Christian mil . Is worse than this. It is tresspassing up rlvate property. It is intrusion Into p nets where the members of the public e illy beregarded asaliensand enemies. It Muting the sovereignly of the lndividt onseience. It is pitilessly drugging the ets of another heart before a foreign Ju< lent seat, where there is no clmnce lor a < mce. And, worse than all, It Is an invasl f the prerogative of God. Hut charity not only forbids this. It ev irbids the suspicion which prompts it. I? hile suspicion may be some times nccessu ir self-delence, and has important work ses, iinelthergrows nor blossoms by the I uence ol Christianity. "Charity thlnkc evil,"and by that very meekness of s]>i jtidemns gratuitous suspicion. Nay, it goes farther still: it "hopelh n lings." Where appearances are against 01 nd rumor has already spoken In condemr on. It Insists that Judgment shall bejucflc id demand the strictest, proofs. It re-p aims that principle of secular law that ft . tier that ninety and nine guilty men shoii scape, than that one innocent one should s r. And oh! let mo say hero my Irleiul tli ords cannot picture the havoc Unit Is ma y the exercise of uncharitable Judginci have seen strong men bowed down benea wlckcd Imputation, and crushed by t eight of a calumny until lift? became dark iglit. I havo seen tender noble women, li ig in agony and tears; innocent chlldn iirerlng blight and want for sins which 111 ler they nor their parents did commit. Ai by? Because there were thoso in whn o'therly love had so far decayed as to ma icin convict their equals In good fame, upi in merest shadow of report., of crimes Willi icy (heuiselves would abhor, iiecuuse the ere those who wero VIIjR ENOUGH TO KII.T, A RHI'UTATION', id bind blasting falsehoods upon i vent shoulders, without regard to cons icnces. Because there .were t hose who, va ' their own fancied subtlety, and proud leirown Imagined discernment, could "ru i where angels fear to tread." I havo seen bitterness, rankling in II eastsof men and women ; quarrels perpi ited through monthsandyours; children I jived In the feuds of parents; .social Inti mrsc poisoned, and Christian prnicip ackened by an under current of enmity, I ,usc motives never would be undcrstoc havo heard people arraigned before t! ir of social criticism, and accused until 01 ould suppose that under their every wo ere lay hidden a vice,and IN EVKKY ACT THKltK SKULKED A CltlMK l'he love of reputation for aceteuess: I ve of tho mysterious; tiie lovo of foul ode Dili character; the love of empty contemp e tattle, are the cause of more burnings sart, and anguish of mind than mort nguc can ever express. ' And before such pictures of vr'etchedne lribtlan people sigh, and utv', "alaek-a-day r tho sins of a godless world ! They forg at from beyond the clouds an eye may stingupona loveless heart, and a voice mt : striving to pierce its casing of stone iuho It with tho cry of "Thou art the man nd so there are so-called Christian peop at foist motive* upon Innocent souls, an peat, and will repeat until the day ol uooi e libels of Imagination upon human cht iter. : But, brethren, may (JoU save us from tl :y power of this crtnic! We cannot be too cat tlousand too clrtumspect. We cannot ncrut p- nlze the hearts of our fcllowmcr.. We ar :r- moving In the dark when we ascribe motive! to when we leap tt> unwarranted conclusion-' id and we may trip or tangle in a cord that wi re ring the death knell of a neighbors hupp s- uess. In And now, my brethren, if you should thin a- that cliarl ty demands a refinement of tende; ne.--H greater tliun the human heart am na n- urally give ; If you Fay that itcalls for gene to osity, Uinoeeiiceof thought, toward our neigl ... I ..in , nf ,.nur,l iinnll rilir riu'll to muut, such as Is superhuman; 1 answer tlu or by these very demands It demonstrates the d c- vlneness of lis birth and the greatness of 11 i; nature. t- In the fact that these demands are met I ut human experience Is revealed the extent < is lis power over the human heart. Tosubdu 11- the hearts native passion; to create benevt e. lence; to kindle love; to bind mankind tc ;t, gnther In a unity U^^hall not be broken in this Is the mission ^^Klgion. And becans n- charity ac.com pi lsl)!?^l> Is It hccomc9 til n greatest power in trro religion of Christ. H, x- the unity of love, and worlt of love, which i y. produces in human II .'ps, It stamps that, rel uf nlon as divine. It becomes the greatest c is Christian evidences. It satisfies, so far as a jt Internal spirit can satisfy, the test of the ai thority of the Christian faith so eager! sought In the prayer of its sacred Founder "that they all may be one; that the worl m may believe that thou hast sent me." ,s* And here weliavo the crowning vlndlcaMo 'u of the title of charity to that praise which In 10 spiratlon has bestowed upon It, when it dli A" plays liseil as one hi uie iivmix i-rcui'imnn ? 1- thai urccions faith which linds for its honii c* tlio heart of man; Itsxphere, the universe Its life, eternity ; and Its reward, God. ?* I'HAY Kit. s, "0, Lord, who lias taught us that nil our d< il- lugs without charily are nothing worth; sen of thy Holy (Jlmst. and pour intoour hearts thi il most excellent gift of charity, the very hon ii. of pcaoe and of nil virtues, without wlilc q. whosoever liveth is counted dead before the u- Grant this for thine only son Jesus Christ n- sake Amen." ot ??>? if The Road Lair. it The County Commissioners publish the fo lowing extracts from the Road law, for ti: ,c guidance of al[ concerned: Sf.c. 2. That cacli township In the seven al Counties of this Stale shall constitute a higl f? way district, and It shall be the duty of tli ,a, Hoard of County Commissioners of eae ^ County annually, during the early portion i each year, to appoint some suitable and pro) er person Superintendent oi Highways ft sc each highway district: he shall be a perso x' resident in the highway district for which I: c" Is appointed, and of those liabie to road dut ? therein, and by reason of his office exemi u" from said duty. Each Superintendent i /}* Highways shall hold liis office and bo requl ed to discharge ttie duties of the same f< :r twelve mouui.i uoui mu iuu.b in mri uu|/<mi 111 ment. He may bo removed by the Count Commissioners ami uuotiier appointed to li a" out his term, if for any cause they shall deci 'c* his Jremoval necessary or proper; tie sha f>" have general supervision of the higliwaysai se roads in his district under the direction of tl tr" Connty Commissioners. He shall once in e' W cry three mouths report to tho County Con mlRslonfcrs in writing the condition of tl 11 roadsnnd bridges in his district. Sue. 3. The Superintendent of Hlghwr ve Districts shall divide the highways in his dl JJ trict into suitable sections or districts of n less Mian two nor mole than five miles eae IJ' and he shall appoint an overseer of roads f ;c? eacii of said sections or districts. He shall i ' so divide the nersoni iiablo to road duty 1 iiis highway district into convenient and su a able squads or companies, and assign a sqnj to or company to each overseer of a section ot, district. lie shall, as far as practicable, i le* sign the road hands to the nearest roads. 1 Vq shall require the overseer of roads In his big ce way district to call out the hands assigned j,t, their respective sections or districts and woi ,j the roans and repair and build bridges i,y same, whenever he may deem It necessar after twelve hours'notice, and shall requi u,. every road hand to bring with him for use ho hoe, axe, mattock,spade or other tool for woi Ijq on the road or bridges. He shall determh icr the number of days for each working and tl n. tools to be brought by such road hand: 1't jie vidcil, Tiiat not more than twelve days' woi ,IS arorequlrcdof any one hand in a year. Win 0f the County Commissioners or any of the 30. give orders to the Superintendent, of His tv way Districts to have any work done in I: ,jy district, and he neglects to do tlio same, 1 n'> shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeam of j and, upon conviction thereof In a Trial Ji )es tlee Court, he snail be fined In a sum of n lle less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, ai on the overseers of districts for neglecting jm call out their hands and work the roads win required by the Superintendent of Highwi If Dist ricts shall be deemed guilty of a inlsr e,j meanor, and, upon conviction thereof in t! j3. Court above named, be lined in a sum of n j. less than live nor more than twenty dollai nj Whenever a highway runs along the line ,je two highway districts the Superintendent 1,0 the same shall Jointly divide the highway 1 jl0 to suitable sections and appoint an overse 0f for each of said sections and they shall assij tr\ moH nvftrsrpr fmm tholr ri'snouM vedlstrii I or from either district BuCh-k?bow?f*-Hi?U roi l,'e | hands as nuiy be necessary to work the salt Each .Superintendent of Highway Distrit shall cause his overseers when working s< org tlons In which there are bridges to have sin repairs or work done on such bridges to pi nv serve them and keep them in order as ? rj. conveniently be done by the road ham Cf, And in case the needed repairs lo bridges a 11(l of such a character Hint they shall In t rj opinion of the .Superintendent be given o -^1 under contract by the County Commlssionc jo he should report the same to said Comm je_ sloners without delay. ... 8t:c. J. Any person liable to road duty, wl er. shall liave been duly warned two days befo 0r the day fixed In his notice for such workii Rtuting the hour and place of working, shs be subject to the overseer In charge. If ni person of the legal age refuse to work up< de highways and roads (having no Justifiable c ,ho cuse) according to the direction of the ovi If seer, ho shall be deemed guilty of a mist ,ri- ineanor, and, upon conviction thereof in af- Trial Justice's Court, shall be fined in a su sr- not less than five dollars, nor more tlinn t of dollars, or bo Imprisoned In the County Ji Is for a period of not less than five nor nit iC. than twenty days. of Sec. 5. That on any extraordinary occ lul sion when any highway shall be suddenlyt ho structed by storm or otherwise, so as to i its quire immediate labor to remove such o ng struction, it shall be the duty of theoversc He In whose district such obstruction occurs i(" proceed forthwith to have such obstructs nd removed.and for this purpose shall sumnv on t > his aid a sulHcient number of workmen ty; j open and repair such highway. If any pi on son shall, in such case perform more da; ile- j labor than is required by law for the year, nr- shall be paid for any such overplus, at t by i rate of one dollar per day, by tho County Coi ci-1 missloners, upon the certificate of the ovi Ith seer showiug that such overplus of labor w tits performed. If on any such extraordinary i caslon the overseer slm!I, for the space of day afLer application made fo him for su purpose by any clllzon residing In Is is d He triet, neglect to call out a sulilcient muni i of of pvrsons to speedily open and repair su he highway, he shall forfeit and pay to the Con an ty Commissioner of his County, to be expei ow cd in the repair of highway, when and wh< "111 necessary in his district, the sum of fifteen ( sit dollars unless the overseer shall show sul the clont reason for such neglect the said fifle art dollars lo be collected by an action for del so In the name of such County Commisslone to as plaintiffs, before any Trial Justice In s: to County, if on any such extraordinary oci nd sion any person liable to work on lilghwa; ufl- after being summoned lor the purpose of as- moving such obstruction by the ovcrse Its, shall neglect to turn out and assist In on< sis" I lngand repairing such highway, he shall re- deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and. up ilc, conviction thereof In any Trial Justic ho Court, shall be flni three dollars per df said flue to be collected and expended as he inbeforc provided in tho matter of forfeitui . of overseers. , Skc. 7. The County Commissioners sh ;'1- authorize the overseer of any district to nll< a man working one day, and also furnish) a horse, plow or cart, two days' labor,and o .m working himself forono day and furnishlni wagon ?nu iwo nurses, muics ui u.vcu, uu ' days' lsibor. ' , Sue. H. All able-bodied male persons I tween the ages of seventeen and fifty yet shall be liable annually to work on the pi " 11c highway and roads not less than three 11 r? more than twelve days, under thedlrection iw "1C overseer of the district In which they in "J* reside. In warning men to work upon t public roads, the overseer shall make out f* list for the warner, requiring him to give i [ .? tlce to each person the kind of tool he sh use In working upon the highways and roai "I* And It shall be the duty of any employer ini fumlsh the overseer a list containing t lll? names of all persons In his employment I ble to road duty whenever the same shall i ' required of him by said overseer. Upon t failure of any employer to comply with su ,'f" demand nesnail ueueeinca guiuy 01 ?m SJ: demeanor and upon conviction thereof befi uny Trial Justice, shall pay a fine ot ten d lars or ten days Imprisonment for every su offence. lor ?EC< The overseers in their respect! districts shall have full power to cut down a: make use of any timber, wood, earth or sto In or near the road, bridges or causeway, I m* the purpose of repairing the same, as to the shall seem necessary, maklngjust coinpcns tlon therefor, should the same be demandc >(j: overseers shall not authorize the cuttii on ; down of any timber trees reserved by theow nii | er In clearing his land or planted for the pi ;he ' P?se of shade or ornament, either in the tie! in0 j around the springs or about the dwell! 1, t I houses or appurtenances, northecuttingdov on' of any rail timber when other timber may t lh ' procured at or near the place, or take stone to earth from within thegrounds of any porsi in. enclosed for cultivation, without the consc Kl, of the owner of the same. Jf any person on persons shall by any means hinder, forbid re-1 oppose tlie snia overseers, or eniiur 01 an from cutting down and making use of at |S timber, wood, stone or earth In any or ne ln| I said roads or causeways, for slight repairs so_! bridges, for the purpose of making or repal j.r. j Ing the same, or sh <11 in any manner obstru jJL the passage of said road, causeways or brlilg on by gates, fences, ditches or any other obstru Hons, except where authorized by law, < en I shall hinder, forbid or threaten any travel I 'or from travelling any public roads, and evei iry Person for such offense shall be deemed gull 11V of a misdemeanor, and upon convletic In. thereof in a Trial Justice's Court,shall lie fi Ij) ed In a sum not less than live nor more ths rit, ten dollars. Knelt overseer will be held r sponsible for his division of road. tU XV Statutes at Large?p p. 781# 1C( XVII Statutes at Large?j) p. IK. ILANDRETHS' 17Qi SEEDS K BEST lnni <i I I f fl/I If not iwld in your town, yon I (1(1 I I I I |U-can get them by mull f)mp 11 III I tl? ; JLI UT n8 a j\?tal Card for Cat? JLl/l/X lie i lo^no and Prices. The Oldest and most extensive Seed ILS Grnircr* in the United States. v- DAVID LANDKETU<k80N8,PHiLADA.^ Hi TIIE ONLY fjjGeiiiie White Sewing; Machia ire \JLJK are informed that there arc parties 1 ' VV Abbeville comity who are frying to sc [the WHITK SEWING MACHINE outside n-! our agent. I? 1HK, J. L. SIMPSON ol | S'11 is our only authorized dealer, and no MJ . | ("II IN ICS are genuine or warranted, excel j^e those sold by him. Respectfully, ? White Sewing Machine Co., ile CLEVELAND, OII1C Jjj- March 0, lS81. lt Bargains! Bargains !! ll1 I N MILLINERY, Dress Goods, Dress Trln 1 inings, Mannols and all kinds of good preparatory to spring purcnases, are now b lie lug oll'ered at tho ;r,* Emporium of Fashions, 0(- January 1W, 1881 " inglurin! ss 4 SPECIFIC In vomiting In pregnancy: a et J\ so useful in Cholera Intantuni, l>ia be rhtvaaiut Marasmus. & EDWIN PARKER. Feb. 13,1881, tf h ESTEY ORGANS. ,rI rp\VO Superior Iustriunents on hand at lo 1 prices. EDWIN PARKER. \Xti Mai ell 2,1861, U 1 It tmmmmmmmrn** Notice. 3 ' I ;j * 1,1, persons having demand? apalnnt tlic A estate of the late J. W. ROBERTSON will present them duly attefcted, and all ttiope ir Indebted to tlie sumo will niuke Immediate r. pavment to BENJ. S. BARNWELL, iny duly t_ authorized ngent. AGNES B. ROBERTSON, it Administratrix. 1- March 10,1881, tf us ? ,"r THE HORSE. 10 A REVISED edition and trcatlHe oh the >- J\ horse and his diseases; a valuable little work '23 ecu is. e Edwin Parker. e March 0,1881,2t ? CARDS, BLANK BOOKS. ,f afedicated paper, tooth picks, n 1Y_L Paper Fasteners, Ac. - Edwin Parker. March!), 1881,2t KENDALL'S S" PAVINE MIXTURE. EDWIN PARKER. !f March 0.1881,2t ' uHiv iirruihr 5 JM MJAMIIij, u ' h pi CONGAEEE ; III WORKS, LC !! Co umbia. S. C. p? Agent for I CHAPMAN'S t PERPETUAL EVAPORATOR. :.y II , m II nl rpHtSE WORKS WERE ESTABLISHED J in 1W7 by Messrs. Goo. Sinclair and Jame# Vm Anderson and purchased by me in the year ii- 185(1, and from that time till now carried on ic successfully by myself. My friends and customers will bear witness or the large And stuf5' pendous Jobs executed by me. It was at mr s-; works where the largest and almost only Job ?t! of its class ever executed in this city wasdone, b, viz.: the making of the pipes for the City i>r Water Works in the year 1?58. In the branch *1- of BELL FOUNDING, I can say that I have In made the largest bells ever cast In the State, ' r such as the bell for the City Hall in Columbia, d I My stock of patterns for ARCHITECTUor RAL WORK, COLUMNS for Store fronts, is large and various, and Ir RAILINGS for Balls conies, Gardens and Cemeteries I have the b-! largest variety and most modern patterns; to | many of these are patented and I have purk chased the right for this State. of In the machine line I can furnish my pay, trons with STEAM ENGINES and BOILERS ro of any size and description. My CIRCULAR a SAW MILLS have carried off the prize at evr,? cry State Fair held In this city, and In ttieir >e construction I have taken pains to combine he; simplicity with the most useful modern Im'o provcinents, and may tlatter myself that my rk : CIRCULAR SAW MILLS find favor with ev-U j cry sawyer who understands his business. in i mm?a ?"??? arrlamo 1 om clanHIk* rn?.ntvln(r f(\r t>-1 SUGAR CANE MILLS prove that the public >'s appreciate the mills of my make, and so It Is lie with my GEARING for HORSE POWERS, ,r? GIN WHEELS, GRIST MILLS aDd other >s- MACHINERY. 't i I hnvc the manufacturing right of many 'J ; PATENTS, such an eastings for ROCK COTto;i'ON AND HAY PRESS and three or four en 1 different FEED CUTTERS and other impiety i menU?. Ii>-; I will be pleased to send my circulars to any lie applicant, together with price list or estimate, ot Aiy prices are moderate, and I assure the pubre. lie that they are lower even than those of of Noi them manufacturers, wd that my work , will compare favorably with that of any oth"-|er maker. Address ;u John Alexander, id Ccnoakek Ikon Works, Columbia, S. C. >c. ?.. S Trusses?New Kind. ph VENTILATED, Single and Double, "e- V EDWIN PARKER. }? Feb. 22,1S81, tf Is. ! ! re he S A. m. HILL tio re UK ! & SONS, jr- ' 1 oa m s Dealers in >b-1 eI Groceries and on to srI Farmers' CP* (in ocI Supplies of inid J re f every il'd I Description. be Ji on I Abbeville, S. C. nil jw Dcc. 15, 1880, tf. ne gn ee be- Estey Organ Co. ib- A RE the largest manufacturers of Reed Or ,or l\ px.ns In the world. The Estey Organs are ,.f warranted. Two on hand: for sale at low prices. EDWIN PARKER, fre March 23,1881, It '? t. lTcalhoun, m. d. [is. Surgeon and Physician, In- ABBEVILLE, S. <J. he Office?In rear of O.T. Calhoun'B law office, ch March 23,1881, 12m ik- , ?ro I ' : New nd I fin m irds i1;/ ? i*n or X O MiT.anrcfAYi Xr " A4d/VViJVU W or or I Wardlaw ct ? ABBEVILLE, S. C. nr ry II AVE opened a new stock of FURNITURE ly I! over the store of A. M. Hill A Son, nntl tit will be pleased to recclve a call from their 11-! friends. Their stock consists of every variety in of FURNITURE usually kept In atirst-class e- store. All of wlilcti Is od'ered at prices to suit the times. Feb. 23. lSSI.tf ? J. S. C'OTHKAN', Tj. \V. PBUHIN, T. P. Cotiikan. Co(Iiran, Pen-in & Cothran .Attorneys at Law, abbeville, s. c. Jan. 14, JoM), tt WM. H. PARKER W. C. McGOWAN. PAEKER & McGOWAN ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS, 8,; aijueville] c. ii., s. c. : I \\7 II-L practice also In the Circuit Conrtsoi i t the United States for South Cartdlna* of Jan 7. KSSO. tf Dr. H. D. WILSON, v. ?0? " DENTISTRY, Abbeville, C. H., S. C. _ 43 Olllce; Upstairs over the rost Ofllcc."?5 t JACOB MILLER & CO. e-DEALERS IN? PHOSPHATES, GUANOS, k. ABBEVILLES.C. HAVE a largo supply of the host GUANOS on hand. Too Guano's sold for several yeni*s past, by this firm, have given entire satisfaction. Tlieir patrons invariably call for the same er.cb succeeding year. Try It, and it will please our farming friends. JACOB MILLER & CO. Jan. 23,1SS1, tr IfWIMt TWILL ortfr nt private *a!o the personal property of the late J. V. ROBKKTHON, consisting chicfly of the Celebrated Mllburn Wagons, among which are r 8 Light Two-Horse Wagons, 8 Fall Two-norse Wagons, 3 Tftrce-Qaarter Wagon** ALSO, 1 Six Seated Brake with Top, 1 Light Fonr Seated Rockawarj 1 Top Btiggf, 2 Setts Baggy Harness, G Setts Wagon Harness, G Setts Combination Harness, . ' mTt ; Lot Buggy Umbrellas, Wbtyst Sttr The above will be sold at private vale only "" EENJ. S. BAENWELL, Aecut for Agnes B. Robertson, A<lmlnl*tra? trlx. [March 16,1881, If BARKER'S CELEBRATED Horse and Cattle Powder* / EDWIN PARKER. March 10,18S1, 2t GtRADED SCHOOL "MUSIC BOOKS. SO r cents. EDWIN PARKERj Murch 0,1881, It JUST RECEIVED! Another Lot of White Sewing Machine which we guarantee Ut be the very best that's made. R. M. IIADDOW & CO, < March 23, 189K . . . Clerk's Sale. Peter McKellaragnlnst J. L. Hughes', W. P Anderson, L. Slicppard, Tho*. Duckctt, Mrs, Georgia C. WJillaros, Maggie C? and WeatC< Williams, Order of Cotiit to sell lands In Pfcrtitlofl. PURSUANT to an order of Conrt to me directed, I will sell in thotown of Green- _ u'ood, Abbeville County, Sooth Carolina, in from of Bailey, Barksdale & Go's store.at2 o'clock, Immediately on arrival of down pa*; . senger train, oi: the second Monday of April ncxi,(llth prox.ifor partition, the following renl estnte, to wit: Tho inf. In f ho tnwn nf f}rw>nwnnrl In Afore* Bold county ana State, known aa the Presbyterian Chapel Lot containing ETGHT ACRES, more or !e?> " with buildlnfrs thereon, bounded on tbeSonth by the Abbeville rood, on the East by Cokes* bury road, on the North by a spring branch, and on the West by a lot belonging to Tbos/ Duckctt. Said sale to be subject to the oou<< tract for rent for the preswt year. TERMS OF SALE. One-half cash, the balance on a credit of twelve months, wfMi leg*! Interest from dntcof sale; oredft portion toba secured by boud and mortgagoof the premlses. Purchaser to pay forpapeu. AI. 0. ZEIGLER, C. C. P. Clerk's Office, March 0,1881. FINE TOBACCO. FINE Chewing Tobacco and Secare and Tobacco. QUAKLE8 dc CO. Fob. 9,1881, tf 1 ! : v ONION SETS, extra lino. , , EDWIN PARKER/ Feb, 23. 1881, tf . TOWN TAX RETURNS MUST bo made to the Treasurer at once. and taxes to be paid by the 1st day of AP ,L T. P. QTJARLES, Secretary and Treasurer# Mnrcli 2,1881, tf v Lumber. rjAUTIES having Hnrd Lumber. Artie, 4 * L Hickory, and White-oak, pan fflnd sale for the same at SEAL A McILWAUTETS, Carriage Shops, AbbeYllIe. 8. C. March 10.1881 tf RHODES' COTTON PLAHTEH, ?AND? SIMS5 Fertilizer Distributor. THE beat machinery, of tlis boot materia?* ' and of the bc?t workmanship. Satiate <y Hon guaranteed. No farmer con afford to bf without thorn. Manufactured by ' t. a. McAllister, Calhoun's Mills, S. C. Feb. 2.1881, tf A notice WE tnke this opportunity of tbaakln* not friends for the libera) patronage bestowed upon us the past year, wlfh oar stow room cnlarpod and greater facilities for ftoik ducting our business, we shall-, by keeplnj a much larger stock and finer quality of foods . endeavor to merit a liberal share of the publie patronage. Very respoctfully, R. M. fiaddon & Ca March 23, 1881. rpo ARRIVE THIS WEEK I Another lot ( of the Light Running Domestic Machines the Domestic ranks amoDg the best of JJgbl running machines. ..." R. M. HADDON & CO. March 23, 1881. coming!SPRING AND SUMMER MILLINERY,Our Millinery department will be far more Attractive this season than ever. ~ < R. At. Haddoa A: Co# March 23,1881, tf ^ LADIES' SUUJitf. TT7"E make a specialty of Lacil:**. &&VM and *? Children Shoes. R. M. lir dOB 4c Co# March 23,1881, tf E M. HADPGN'S Sewing Machine d epartment T>0 MEET THE WANTS of a rapidly inX creasing business, wo have opened r SEWING MACHINE AND MACHINE FURNISHING DEPARTMENT, We have arrangements by w'.ilch we can tar> nlsh almost any machine that our friend* may > want. We have now in stock and to arrive: The Genuine Stewart, price 820 toS30. ' The New Victor. 825 to 830. -m The White?with drop leaf and 4 drawer*? $35 and MO. The Improved Weed, S25 to $30. The Light-Running Domestic, 835 to HO. On short notice we will furnish for auy machine: Rufflere 81 00 Tuckers ?75 eta. Corders 50 to 75 cts. Hemmers...3o to 50 cU. Sewing Machine Needles [for any map chine], per dozen ? ....30 cts. Machine Oil, per bottle 15 cts. We guarantee all the above goods to be first class. Feb. 16. B. M. HADDON & CO. Tie Williaiston Female College i Respectfully offers its services to those parents who desire to secure for their daughters ; the thorough and symmetrical cultivation of I their physical, intellectual, and moral powI erf. li Is conducted on what Is called the "0iJS-STtJD7" plan, with a Skmi-Ansual Couiwe of Study ; and, by a system of Toitional Premiums, Its Low Rates are made still lower for ALL whoaveragoHS per cent. No Public Exercises. No "Receptions." Graduation, which is always private, may oc- , cur eight times a year.' For full Information, write for an U Inst rated Catalogue^ _ ^Address, KEY. S. LJlMJfcH, rresiaeru, 0ct27,80,ly "WllliamHton, 8. C. SPOOL COTTON. ESTABLISHED 1812. j /C>/tpade\(P\ (<aji>) . (?ono? ox White Spools.) GEORGE A. CLARK, SOLE AGENT. 400 BBOADWAY, IEW YORK. i Since tho introduction of this Spool Cotton into the American market, its soceess has been unprecedented. No other brand of thread has ever met with the same amount of public favor in the same space of time. The "O. N. T." manufacturers were tha Afirst to recognize the importance of the Sewing Machine and to make a six-cord cotton, which Las ever since been tho recognized standard for machines. All the improvement in machinery that the inventive genius of the nineteen? century has produced have been adapted by tho manufacturers of " 0. N. T." At all the great International Fairs of thff world, " 0. N. T." has. been awarded th? highest honors. The "0. N. T." factories at Newark, N. J. and Paisley, Scotland, employ 5,200 operatives?make sufficient thread daily to go ? round tho world four times. Consume 140 tons of coal daily. The manufacturers of " O. N. T." are thg largest manufacturers of Spool Cotton in tho. j world. | A full assortment cf this Spool Cotton 0*0 be li&d at wholesale and retail at Wardlaw & Edwards, < AND Cunningham & Tempieton. Feb. 23,1561, 6m '