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THE WEEKLY UNION TIMES, ***' ^ ^ , INij&fj 1? y, SortiijuNurt. gomistic Q-cononiij. golite ;uul the tf hitch! .Uruii oflite gag. THE ATHEISTIC TIDE | SWEEPING OVER THE CONTINENT. I The threatened Destruction of the Simple 1 Faith of the Fathers by the Vain Deceits * of Modem Philosophers?A a Attack . Christians Must Meet. t The dread sign of the times, as I see it. is I growing skepticism in clie leading circles of ^ thought and action throughout the country s ?a swelling tide of atheism and unbelief ' that has already swept over uiany of the out- 1 posts of religion. ' 1 am not alarmed by the fact that Henry s Ward Itoechor shook liands with Ingersoll 1 on a public stand, and has since swung be- * youd the limit of orthodoxy, any more than 1 1 am ressured by the fact that Stephen II. H Tying has, by indorsing the miracles at 11 Lourdrc, swung back into the strong hold 1 of superstition. These uro mere pers uul I expressions that uiay mean much or little 1 They may be classed with the complaint of 1 Dr. Taluiage that he found religion dead in ,s a circuit of it.001) niiL-s of travel last vnar * which complaint is balanced by the asset- ' tiou of l>r. Hall that the growth of roll- 1 gious sentiment was never so decisive as at 11 present. J I have noted in the first place, that the 1 latter-day writers?novelists, scientists, and 1 essayists?are arraying themselves iu great force either openly on the side of skepticism, a or are treating religious sentiment with a 0 readiness of touch and lack of reveranee v that is hardly less dangerous. 1 need not s run over the ii->ts of scientists, beginning ' " with Tyndall, Huxley and Stephens, that 1 |l have raised negation?nor recount the num- | '' bcr of novelists who follow the lead of a_ ?wect Heorge Kliot, the sad and gentle wo- ' titan, who allied sentiment to positivism so a subtly, and who d'.ed with the promise on 1 her hps that her life would "be gathered a like a scroll in the tomb, unread forever"? * who said that she "wanted no future that ' broke the ties of the past," and has gone Sl to moot the Hod whose existence she denied. We all know that within the past twenty i " years there has been an alarming increase v of atheism among the leading writers iu all f branches. Hut it is the growth of skop- " tieisui among the people tit >t has astouished ! 0 me. ' I ant not misled by the superb eloquence ' w ?d Ingersitli nor the noisy blasphemy ol his '' imitators. I was with live journalists, and 1 found that every one of them were skopt ies, twool them in the most emphatic sense. " In a sleeping car with eight passengers, av- ; . cragc people I take it, I found that three ! 11 were confirmed atheists, three were doubt- r< litl about it, and two were old fashioned l' Christians. A young friend ol' mine, a 01 journalist and r lecturer, asked me a few f-r mouths ago what I thought of his prep.tr- | l', a ug a lecture that would out do I ugiir.suII ? his excuse being that lie found Itigcrsoll so 11 popular. I asked Henry Wattersou once 1' what eilect Ingci'soll's lectures had on tlx: '' Louisville public. "No more than a then- st incal .representation," was the quick reply. ' Wiutterson was wrong. 1 ha?c never seen n man who came away from an Itigcrsoll lee- 11 tore as stout vi'faith and as strong in heart 11 as he was when hi went there. ' '' I do not know that this spirit of irrcligion ' and unbelief has made such inroad on the churches. It is as yet simply eating away l' the material upon which lire churches must recruit and perpetuate themselves. There is a large hotly of men ami women?the Vl 5c*. 1 k probably of our population ?that is " hotween the church and its enemies?not I' members of the church or open professors err religion, they have yet had reverence of " religious beliefs, have respected the ruie of s| conscience, and helievetl in the existence of w one Supreme IJeing. These men and wo- w men have been useful tit the causa of reli- n gioti in that they held all tin: .imposts about 11 the camp of the church militant, and pro- t 1 tecVd it with enwrapping eonserva' isin and sympathy. It, is this class of people that j a are now yielding to the assaults of the in- . 1 lidel. Having mme of the inspiration of w rr religion, and possessing neither the enthu- : si asm nl" converts nor tlie faith of veterans, tlicy arc easily bewildered and overcome. It is a careless and unthinking innltitiide ou which the atheists are working, and the 1 ^ very inertia of a mob will carry thousands if the drift of the mass once sets to the J1 ocean. And the man or woman who rides , on the ebbing tide ones never to return.? I' Hcliginti* beliefs once shattered are hardly " mended The church may reclaim its sin- !1 tiers, but its skeptics, never. It is not surprising that this period of 1 critical investigation into all creeds and lieliel's has couio. It is a logical epoch, conic 1 in its appointed time. It is one of the pen- 1 altics of progress. We have stripped till the earth of mys- i ' tery, and brought all its phenomena under . the srjHire and c eiipi>s?so that we might ; 1 have expected seicnea to d >ubt the mystery * of lif: its?df, and to plant its theodalito for :| a incasureiiiemcnt of the eternal, and pitch its crucible for all analysis of the soul. It was natural that the t J reek should be led to 1 the worship of bis physical gods, for the j 1 earth itself was a mystery that he could not divine?a vastness and vagueness that he j ' could not comprehend Hut we have fathomed its uttermost secret?felt its most secret pulse?girdled it with steel ? harnessed < it and (rapped it t?i our likim;. \t hit was) i mystery is now demonstration? what was 1 vague is now apparent. Science has (lis- I polled illusion alter illusion?struck down ? error alter error? made plain all that was i vague oil earth, and retluceil every mystery i I to demonstration. It is little wonder that at i last, having red need all the illusions of m it- j i ter to an cipiatiou, ami anchored every the- 1 ?>ry to a lixed formula, it should assail the | < mystery of life itself, and warn the world i that science would yet furnish the key to < ; (he problem of the soul The obelisk, j plucked from the heart of Kgvpt, rests up- , i en a shore that was as va ju lv and iulinit ly Meyoiid the knowledge or aspiration of it-' i guilders as the shores of a star that lights :ho spaces beyond our vision are to us tolay?the Chinaman jostles us iu the street, Mid the centuries that look through his lrcamy eyes have lost all sense of wonder ?ships that were freighted from the heart >f Africa lie in our harbor, and our market daces r re vocal with more tongues than bovildercd the builders at Babel?a letter ilips around the earth in ninety days, and lie messages of men flash, along the bed of he ocean?wo tell the secrets of the uniri.rsc as a woman tells her beads, and the itars whirl serenely through orbits that sci nee has defined--we even read of the intant when the comet that plunged in dim lliuiitable distance, where even the separate L'lM !?! !? lrwf. ill ItiKl fiiul fatnir vliv II u?liii?l i igaiu into the vision of man ; a wanderer 1 hat conld not shake ofl' the iuexorablc su i icrvision of soiouco, even iu the.^hill and 1 lieasurolffSS'diTpfnef of ttii* ttmversis. FU**1 inie is this, for science to make its last and < uprcuic assault?to challenge the last and '< uprcme mystery, defy the last and supreme (tree. And the church may gir l itself for lie conflict. As the pope has said : "It is i 10 longer a rebel that threatens the church 1 t is a bclligerant !" It is no longer a shad- '< ng of creed. It is the upsettal of all creeds ; hat is attempted. : It is impossible to conceive the misery < ud the blindness that will come iu the wake | f this spreading atheism. The ancients a witnessed the fal> of a hundred creeds, but I till had a hundred left. The vast mystery ' f life hung above them, hut was lit with j i eligions that w. re sprinkled as stars in its I opt lis. From a host of censers was their i < ir made rich with fragrance and warmed ! ' mm a field of altars. No loss w.,.- irrepar- I a hie. Hut with us it is different. lie have 1 cached the end Destroy our one belief | i ud we are left hopeless, helpless, blind.? j 1 )ur air will he odorless, chill, colorless.? j < Iuxloy the leader of the positivists, himell confesses?I fpn to from memory?|t Never, in the history of man, has a calaui- I t y so tcrriflic befallen the race as this ad- ; t anting deluge, black with destruction, up- t outing our most cherished hopes, engulf- t ig our most precious creed, and burying < ur highest life in mindless desolation."? [ i Hid yet Mr. Huxley urges on this deluge i < itli furious energy. Tin- aggressiveness of ! I u* atheists is inexplicable to me. Why s icy should insist on destroying a system \ :at is pure and ennobling when they have ?i otliing to replace it with?why they should s latter a faith that eolors life, only to leave i colorless?why they should take away the insolation that lilts nieii and women from t ic despair of ber lavement and desolation. *j r the light that guides the feet of Strug- <1 ling humanity, or the hope that robs even 1 ic grave of its terror ; why they should do , j II this, mid then Maud empty buudud and i ? nresp.iusivc before the yearning and sup- ! 1 licntiug people they have stripped of ail ' lal is precious, is more than 1 can under- ' i and. The best atheist, to my mind, that t ever knew, was one who sent his children -s ? a content IV?r their education. l,I can i ot lift the blight of unheliel' Irotn my own lind," lie said, ' hut it shall never fall upon le minds of my children if I can help it 1 .s for tno, 1 would give all 1 have an earth ! 1 ?r the old faith that I wore so lightly and ' new oil so carelessly." i ' The practical cfleets of th growth of v llicistii are too terrible to contemplate. A 1 l'sscI on an unknown sea that lias lost its 1 aider and is tossed in a storm?that's the j ' ieture. It will not do for Mr Lngersoll to ' :I iv that a purely it unci n code of right and 1 long can be established to which the pas- , mis of men can be anchored and from : hieli they can swing with safety. It,' ill not do for him to cite his own cor- 1 net life, or the correct lives of the skep? ! ' oil scientists, or of leading skeptics, ' ! s proof that unbelief docs not bring li 1 en so. These men are held to decency by i } pride of position and by a sense of special 1 esponsibility. It is the masses that atheism ' ill demoreti/e and deliauch. It is the, 1 liolisauds of simple men and woman, who, 1 ' losed of the one restraint that is absolute j ! ml imperious will, that will drift upon the urrcuts of their passions, colliding every- ' here, and bringing confusion and ruin ? 1 'lie vastly greatest influence that religion 1 as exercised, as far as the world goes, has 1 cen the conservative pressure thai it lias j 1 ut upon the bulk, of people who are outside 1 f tin* church. With the pressure barely felt 1 ml still less acknowledged, it has preserved ' he integrity of society, kept the dangerous 1 iistincls within bounds, repressed savagery ml held the balance. Conscience has dninnated over men who never confessed, j 1 veil to themselves, its p over, and the dim cligious memories of childhood, breathing 1 inpcreeptihly over long wastes of sin ami irutality, have dissolved clouds of passion n the sollls of veterans. Atheism will not mil; its full i licet on this id ts.< of men even Iter 11 lev iia \ e in u rile red eon science b v with ; loldinjr tlie breath upon which if. lives; its [host will ?j?*>po lliroit^li the chambers of li. ir liraiu, menacing am! terrible, mi l to lie last. ' ('rcepimr <>n a broken win^ I lironub cell.- o| madness, haunts of horror ami fear !" It is on the younji men ami woman ? I lie ;enerafion bred in the chill atmosphere el in Indict'?that atheism will do its wn?t ? iVitli no t radii ions in which to otiido their "siith, no alter before which they can do rev. rcnce, no ideal to which their eyes can turn )os tandard lefty enough to sati.-l'y <o- stead last ciiouoh to assuia?with no ti)?liIt:n<r hat is m>t limited, no aspiration that has ivinl's. and no enthusiasm lliatji'" not absurd , ? with life but a fever that kindles in the j nolle and dies in the crave. Truly atheism meets youth wit it a ilrenil ju osjiecC tillni, <(<>|'||| S\VO|>t, lloJll'lt'sS. In the conflict lliat is coining, thocburch is impregnable?because (Ik church is rifiht, because it is l<>1111?I < 1 on n r?>ck. The sci i litis:.- 1/>:?-t that tiny have cv. lvcl every- 1 thing logically from'^JTolinft particle ^ matter?that, from the crystal rook sentient man is a steady way, marked by natural gradations. They even say that, if a new bulk were thrown off from the sun tomorrow, it would spin into the space of the earth and the sauie development that has crowded the earth with life would take place in the new world. And yet Tyndail says, "We have exhausted physics, and reached its very rim, and yjta mighty mystery looms before us." And this mystery is the kindling of the atoms of the brain with the vital spark. There science is bathed, for there is the supreme force that is veiled eternally IVoui the vision of man. The church is not bound to the technicalities of argument in this contest. It has the perfect right to say, and say logically, that soniclhiug must rest on faith ? that there must be something in the heart or sotiT hclMre-cntivicriTflriB WT> 1# J list as we cannot impress with the testacies and transports of earthly love a man who has never loved, or paint a rainbow to the man who lias never seui. And yet the time has passed when religion can dismiss the skeptic with a shriek era sneer. I read i little liook a year ago, gentle, firm, deci ive book, that dein m.-trated the necessity iml existence jI the Supi'iiue Ueing, as dearly anil as closely as a mathematical proposition was worked out. l?ut the strength ol" the church is aft? r all, the high-minded consistency id' its members? llie waruttli and earnestness of its evangel ism?the purity and gentleness of its apos? les. If the creeds are put at peace, and ivory man who wears the Christian armor ivill go forth to plead the cause of the meek ind lowly Naz.n iiie, whose love steals into lie hearts of men. as the balm of flowers nto the pulses of a summer evening?then ao shall see trie hosts of doubt and skepticism put to rout. Of course I have no business to write all bis. It is tlie province of (be preachers o talk of these things, and many no doubt a ill resent as impertinent oven the suggestion of a worlding. And yet it secuis so sure ome that in the swift and silent marshaling d" the hosts of unbelief and irreligion there s presaged the supremcst test that the faith >f Christians lias ever undergone, that I elt impelled to write Tin re are men, outiide of the active workers ol the church, vIim have all reverence I'or its institutions iml love for its leaders?whose hearts are tirred now ami then by :i I'aitli caught at a nother's knee, or the memory of some rapt md happy moment?want to live, if not in he fold of the chosen, at least in the shadow if a Christian sentiment, and among a people loininated by Christian faith?and who lope to die at last, in the same trust and tencc that moved the dying Shakespeare? vinuHt, ewoctent mi ml ever clolhctl in mortal lesh ? a lien he said : ' 1 commend my soul into the hands of God uy creator, uoping ami assurcuiy nciieviug, (trough tho only merits of Jesus Chris, my vivior. to he made partaker of life evcrlastng."? II. \\\ (J., in At /mitu C 'oust if it fit Hi. 1'itAl"l?I I.KNTI.lt ,'\\CKK!? ('oTToN.?Tho Joard of Managers of the .New York Cototi I'iXehange are continning their work of mprovingthe methods ol the business hero, is regards both spots and futures. This vork has been largely in the direction of endering the rules more definite, and the esult is that the Kxchang now has a body if by-laws and rules that for completeness ire unexcelled by those of any organization >f the kind in the world. The latest change in tho rules, which was e.lopted by the Hoard on Monday, re ates to fraudulently packed cotton. No Material change is made in the ol 1 rule on his subject, but the new rule is much Ion *er and more exact than the old one. proriding |dr contingencies for which no provision was made in the former rule. Tho new rule reads that the loss by reason of fraud shall be '"based on the difference in the market value at the date of discovery between such bale and a bale of cotton ol similar ^rade, sound and in ?;nod cuudition. **uch difference in value .shall constitute the claim, regardless of the original cost of the cotton or of any fluctuations in the inarkot of the price of cotton." As before, claims may he made against all sellers for nine months from the d ?te of sale, but a new provision is made that tine notiee of the existence of fraudulent packing must he for.varded within ei?:ht days of its discovery. and the date of such discovery of fraud shall he in cot pornted in tint sworn certificate, 'flic old provision that these claims for fraudulent packing could he sustained without limit of time against the original packer, is wisely dropped. The members of the New York Cotton Kxehan^o are determined to do their utmost towards stamping out this evil of fraudulently packing eotton, which has attained some magnitude in certain sections of the South. All of which will strengthen the reputation of the New Yoik market anion" .-pinners ami exporters.? 0 A correspondent says the entire 17"? miles ol territory lit-t\\l> -lgc t'ity ami I,as Animas, Col., is a cattle graveyard. Thousands ii|ivl tlions:i 11 1 s of carcasses lie within of tin railroad, an I thousands of emaciated creatures so ferlilo that they can scarcely stand, and art unalile to rise if they fall down, totter about ii a vain ctl'ort to find food. At l.akin, a wtatioi midway between Itolgc City and l.as Alliums the people estimate that at least Icattli were crowded in and around the town tlttrin] the prevaller.ee of the severe storm a few week ago. - I'ottr inches of snow fell in Northern Virginii on Friday night, making the third snowfall thi month. Ilit; ap| le, the principal truit crop o the section, is not injured. All farm tvork i delayed by the protracted w inter. A snow plow engine made a dash at a ?no\ bank on a Minnesota Fai'iioad on Thursday.? The bank gave way unexpectedly, and the en ginc plunge I into a gang of laborer*, k illin and wounding several. tut iamftmj Til km T?Senator j naww|#BWWBi jaftchusriia, occupies a position which shoald disgrace liim in I lie eyes of liis j > brother StfBMQrs. He stands charged with ! of i slander of. MRb'ost aggravating kind nnd lias' (ho had cast Upotgilim an imputation which it would ; bell seem no hmyflfrablc man, and especially one rus who nssoii^i Iritfeprcsent a great State, ^in the uut most cXalfl B,/tribunal in the country, could I par for one support. We have before j ^ alluded (o^SiSinfortunntc position in which lie j you had beCqj HjQBflhg Senator Ocorge, of Missis- | s,,i' s'|?pi-^PRBtW^|lbig to excuse or palliate the conduCTO^HKjjMrly in sustaining Malionc, lie l>ru put dh r4Hlr*altie United States Senate the Vs story eT^Kwflnty-headed1' citizen of Mas dreds^2ELli4f'iuid vvlio for opinion's sake had '' b*en f^^t^^jSbtnlicrloss insults nml persetory nn<! his being compelled to leave ttie . 'laic ami return lo Massachusetts. Willi thecliarac- suj| i terislic, cowardly evasion of the authors of m;|| ; similar stories of occurrences in the Southern |j,|, Stales, he refuse"! to give the name of the alleged 1 out vietiin. Then, when brought It) the book by (|lt? Senator (icorgc, who informed him that there was were but two or ihtee factories in the whole ' State of Mississippi, ami that one of lliein coubl cau | not be burned without its being a matter of l'U> I common notoriety, he hesitatingly stammered ilia] [ out that it was not a factory but a cotton-gin j t-'atl | house. The Mississippi Senator, thereupon de- I t'Vt' j niud tlie whole story, ami informed Ikiwes, that having refuse<l to give the name of the gray- t':"1 i haired victim, he must assume the authorship, | and thereby the imputation which had been cast upon the author. * ' Under this giave charge the Massachusetts t'u*> Senator rests to day. The army of active newspaper men in Washington, ami indeed, all over ""V country, have endeavored to come to his rescue . hy discovering this gray-haired Northerner, but in vain. Finally one of them is compelled to i telegraph to his paper: "It is now known posi- V(|j( ; lively that Mr. lbtwes has not one particle of j reliable evidence upon which to base his atro- ||lc ci?)iis calumny jngaiust the people of an entire Stale. slto A slander of this kind, involving charges of j ;itty brutality, uncivilized and inexcusable, coming ! tail from a Unite"! States Senior in his official capa- , lieu city, and as such entered upon the records of and the government, cannot be classed with the ordi- abtl nary newspaper reports detived from irrcsaoiis- 1 ihle sources. Its truth has been denied, but j -'t>li this is not sullicient. The Senate of the United j "}? Slates cannot alTord to allow mm of lis iiiimilini-. ?If" j to lost under the imputation of falsehood. If t"P | he has not the manliness to clear himself of the "l;,t j charge or to retract it, the Senators should illus- rU!>l j irate their own manhoon hy expelling him from ' "" | the hoily.?Churlulle Observer. usli I tu 1 M KIM'll ANI.ISK IN Til K AIAII-S. I lie i|.iv,oiL.. i whether lags on samples of iiierchatulisc con- ;\ s; taining figures indicaiiig the price and width ; nm ; are mailable as fourth clat-s matter was recently tier brought to the attention of the Po tollicc 1'cpart- | iI t iiieut hy some leading dry goods linns. The ^ Ian r.iliug of the department upon this question .are 'I v Ctnliodied in the following general order, which "'.V' his just been issued by 1'ostmaster ticncral ) I .lames : "Tags or labels attached to samples of merchandise may have the price and width of " the goods printed thereon, either by the originil impression or by a hand stamp, filling in blanks left by ihr original print. This will not ! ' authorize such use of a hand-stamp for any 1111 . , . . ?"> i other purpose than as a description ol the thing ( ^ 1 a'liiched. It cannot be used to convey itifcrma- ^ i tioii personal in its nature or disconnected from , the thing to which the matter so stamped is atI.ached, except at rates for first-class matter.? wji ' The width of the article of which a sample is j ' given may be stated in writing, but v. hen so (.:M written, the purpose of identification being held w|t j to have been accomplished as authorized by the js i 1 statute, the price of the article cannot he added, ] suj 1 either in writing or in print, without changing i tra the classilieation of the matter to letter rales-" I no " ? lin F.\ I Mil K OF 111 F. Ill.AI'K It Kit IIY Clint'.?I'llO till- ' paralleled nature of I lie past season lias capped i ' llie climax I v an unheard of event. From va- i ? lov j rious parts of the county comes the announce- i(j incut that the blackberry briars are dead. The ,)(M oldest inhabitant does not rcir.ember such a (.ot ' tiling as a failure of the blackberry crop.? ! When everything else has failed the blackberry _\u has offered its consolation. Hut it is now posi- j jn ! lively asserted by those who have examined i elg closely into the matter that the briars have been is i killed to the ground. The consequence of | tin Ibis in this immediate section is to deprive the pit people generally of a cheap luxury at a time j O'g : when it is most needed and the poorer class of |>" | pe >plo of no unimportant source of revenue. - :"l| 1 How it will he in those sections of the Slate where the blackbcrrv trade itas been developed I1" * 1 i to a considerable extent and the fruit constitutes ' a principal staple, remains to be ascertained.? , ' j C'li'irloflc Ohstrvrr. * ' *1' A I * \ 1.1* v it i.k. Shut.?'I'be New Vork II't/7, sj? referring to ilie pelitien of (ien. Maltoue for an j in allowance of per year as President of ' on f the Atlantic, .Mississippi and Ohio Itailroad f a Company, for the four years and more during "li i which the business of the road was administered in j I hy receivers, and the (Jcneral was engaged in Id j working up his political readjustment schemes ' ' ? 1 for liis own advancement, says: "Mr. Mnliuiic j i | has put in ft little cluini tor Luck pay as a railroad l'r 1 president at S-").(t(h> a year, and does not oiler ''' the slightest encotirngcinoiil to any proposition j r1 lf to scale it down and readjust it on a tooling ; ^ ^ ! more favorable to the shareholders in the em- i : bnrrassod concern. In his individual capacity ,ir i as a railroad president (Jen. Mnhone vviil not . n 1 pit s | 'set his f?ce towards the moriiing'?no, uot lo ; f ohligo all the Hoars in .Massachusetts." ! j s ?. ' I'ostmastr.it Tvlkk, of ]hil:itnore, is being , tried for outrageously insulting Miss Murray, a vt tespeetable employee of the office. The girl , ov - j had no money with which to follow the rctnov- ''' g | als and ft) peals, and citizens of ttultimorc con- of I tributcd what was needed. | ni ? SOME POINTS ABOUT RUST. OuANOK.mmu, 8. C , April 4. To the. Kilt tor of Cotton : Tl?c subjee ust in cotton will only b> interesting t so in this State living below the ela l. Wc all know that ulav lands do no t cotton, but continue to mature I'rui il frost. Why they do this will be aj cut as we proceed. Ah it is i ust hi cotton' Sonic will t el i it is a want of vegetable matter in tin ; others that it is caused by an execs moisture ; others again that cool night duco it ami 1 have hcaidsome old farm say it always starts from pokowcod grow near the cotton. Sow, all these different opinions prov elusivcly that this scourge of our cot tot Is has been having its own way. not be se there is no remedy for it, but becaus disease is so little understood. It can be for want of vcgctublo matter in tin , for we Iroijiteuify see cot run .tins? i s abundantly supplied with vegetabl Iter. 1 will adtnil it does correct it to ited extent. I have seen eotton almo.irely destroyed by rust in bottoms, wlier re was an abundance of vegetable luunu lied in Ironi surroumlirg hills. S'either can moisture l>e the prevailing se, or the clay lauds Would also Miller h t in wet seasons and ihe same rcasoi y he assigned why cool nights do no se it. The pokeweed does not gro\ rywhere, and partieularly ahout thcsi ly cotton patches; therefore the hlam not he lai<l at its doors. Then if muie of these opinionsadvaneei the cause of rust, what is it that cause on to i list on nearly all the lands hclov cotton or clay he It '? My answer is. th it of sufficient potash in the soil. Am j for the proof: iVhy does rust start and spread from : t weed growing near cotton'? Nut soleh ausc it takes the disease from the poki heeaiise 'the poke has exhausted all th ilahle potash in the soil near it, and th Ion near, being the first object to lee want of potash, shows symptoms of nisi e analysis of poke ami Irish potato vine w*- that they contain more potash thai other vegetable product. We are a Is ght that clay soils abound in potasl ice the absence of rust in cotton on llieui in consequence of their superior adapt ity to coltm. n 187-1 I applied fifty bushels unleaehoi is to an acre of laud tliat hael been rust eotton badly. The cotton retuaiuei en until IVost, and matured fruit to th . when the: adjoining coUun tailed h lire any top crop, some of it dying w it L the first of September. That strip i 1 has not rusted eotton since. The pni :... i. . . i ? ? 111 i no asims was wnai llie soil iiccU'-i liccyt tiio cotton from rusting. j r .... . . ick of kniuit or (icruiau potash salt o ' aero, through the middle ol' a so vet 0 patch id' cotton. The land had bee cultivation lour years?lijjhc, sandy, oa d, and rusted cotton badly. In the la ras a pleasure to show this acre strip t friends, while the cotton ou both side it was denuded of leaves and all the to Is dead before half . rown. This act lained ??r.-eii until frost, and matured il it to the top. Phis last i xperiuient itself was evident elusive to inmind that potash was th ledy for rust in cotton. I have bine iced the same results in similar exper lit s. I believe on lands thorou"hl ined (and no other kind should be plat in cotton), and not entirely destitute i ;etable matter, potash in every iustaiie 1 correct the tendency to rust in cottoi I?y rest and rotation the tendency torn i bo corrected in a "teat measure, hi en lands are planted every year, and el: not near the surface, potash must I iplied either in unlimited amounts sli and litter front tin; woods, stable m re, ashes, or some of the eoiiunerei 'partitions ol' potash. K. d i:kt: x<; nr rut: tit ants.? I'reston II. ray and Andy Walkei both colored, in John Seheiick's bar room. They h;i rer met before but knew each other fro union reputation. Andy Walker is in band on the Charlotte, Columbia an i<?U.?t:i I! iiIr?i:i<1 and is tin; bii^ost neip tin; two (hirolinns, beint; in heijrht nean 'nt 10el than seven. Preston Hollow; not so hi^ hut still is distinguished \vil ; title of "lii^ Klephant." l'J5i^ JC 1< ant'' upon this occasion was smoking :ar. Andy had imbibed sufficiently t him in a hii'_ro contempt lor such air d walking up to I?ivJ Klephant ' he it uied him that lie had learned that lie : ed to In- (lie "bos*," and lie (Andy) w siro::s to know what foundation In1 has < preteioi his upon Sayinj; this, wilho re ado he sent Klephant V' ei" inning across lhe floor. The latter i added with a liohtiiiiio h|ow whieli ueai verted Andy, hut did not wholly oxti isli his courage. lie returned to the en t. hut I?i-_r Klephant," ha\in^ "otten t n|oe" on liilii, prostrated him twice lie sueccssion, when he took to his heels a t. The ease was called in the Mayo >urt yesterday hut Andy >1 i<I not ajijx il " who is iiikKt tin- spec election of tin; city, ami is as doeilo i' animal after which Im is named, w ven his ohl place on the street foree. Ii'irfuttc Ofist rnr, April \'i. ( V., Wm. Winston Font nine, l'rincipal of aleiny in Louisville, Kentucky, read a h ipor hefore ilie Southern Historical Society recent meeting, in which he claimed that 1 rl II. I.ee was seventeenth in direct ilesc oiii lloherl Itruce, i f Scotland, and ] osses fry many of his iiotahlu characteristics. Mt or, licit of the five heroes who partictiln ?titigni?hrd themselves on the glorious fi llantiockhiirn, l.ee, through the same c!i t?l, was the direct descendant of four. Tiif; War on tiik Sot tii.?The reckloss men who are seeking to split the m?11 I , South by suhtlo'y are doing a work the i wickedness ai d dauber of which all eves. Of however blinded by greed. pas ion and parti' i z 11 -11 i 11 can seo. in Tennessee llepublicans ( and straight IVmocrats have united t<> ( chanse their coiiunouwealth of the taint of repudiation bv set!lino |)1(. State debt liouII estly. lairly and liberally l>ouiagnguesand , agitators who desire t ? overturn that settles ineiu and repudiate nut right a large atiiount of the iudehtedu. ss now ery lor a Malione to lead them. The newspapers of thai State that have been petted and complimented by Northern Uepuhlieans for their lit,.....l" I i? ? .11111 I MM|| I H 1 I MMII 1 UKMIIJ*. I . . . ( violently assail tin; decision <it" tin* debt (jiicstioii, ami suck lo maintain tin.' feud that ^ arose over it in the Democratie party ami elected a Republican governor. In Alkalisas a wing of the Deinocratie party is at - . (j tempting to efT c> repudiation of tUo- Won?> ^ debt of the State, aO?l (torrefy hornfit.i iinctf ( us "anti-llourbon." In V irginiu, Mahono ( is leading a piriv that will, if successful, tainish the fair name ol the *rrnii?l old mothc ? . D ^ er id'States with an evasion of piying holiest indebtedness. All three of these States ir have patties with the same avowed object, ~ hearing the same name?ail seeking rcpndiatiou and all calling thcinsclvcs "antil Rourbotis." These facts show the meaning of the new words in our political dictionary, , and explain dark and mysterious terms-? L, Uy practical delinitions we tind at last that "llourbon" signifies a payer of debts, and i "anti llottrbon" a rcpmiialuv s The Republican party is using its utmost ^ power ami patronage to aid the repudiators c in their war against lmne-ty. They do not j I ostensibly light the Denmeratio party.? They call themselves Democrats. The issue t they light on is simply between payment and repudiation, honor and dishonor, right and wrong. lly giving them aid the Re(>' publicans are encouraging the spirit of dishonesty, fostering denrago??ttery and olferI ing a premium for violation of all personal j and public faith. They are abetting lareenv and breach of trust on a in: giiiliecnt scale, and arousing a tendency that w ill destroy tin: credit of the States, disgrace the u . , people and spread financial distrust, clioas ami ruin from sea to sea. If siieeessful in their aims, they will throw every Southern State under the heels of the lowest white and worst negro elements, destroying material prosperity and social order. The spliti ting of the Democratic party now will put 1.1*0 . * me rxiiuii in a worse ami more hopeless coil( ?lit ion tlinn (luring reconstruction. \\ hatevcr success they may have in their e evil w uk will be visited upon them heavily. I I hey can not use the tools of repudiation I and dciuagc^ucry without beiii" visibly d'dihd by their touch ISut doubtless nei, t ther this nor any other consideration will ' I restrain tlicni trom the course which they ' are pursuing, and tlmy will continue in it |( ; until their designs are lo'led, as we hope k j and believe t icy will he, by tic ?;nnd sense I ' and {{noil faith of the South. Their ellort i w ill he a desperate one. however, and South< | { I t .... ,s j cm men must <1 > their loll duty if it is to he successfully resisted, bet the party .j, j lines be drawn closely everywhere, let every man be on "Uard against deserters and spies and let a ijuiet, ae^resMve warfare on tin; , I enemy be iiiaiiitaiued. IJy the sufferings i of the p.ist, the hardly won blessings of the present and the hopes of the luturc, let J every true man ran^e himself as a fully 1 developed linurhnn," crushing out inde| pendentisiu and other treason wherever (|. they appear, and standing fast for the ?jlu(> riotis, solid South?solid for IK-mocracy, h 'lite rule and honesty. st An Kxcitinu ()tiift;s Acciuknt.?The Philadelphia Time* says : Last ni;;hf, '.v while Coup's circus was in full blast down ; at llroad and Hiekinsoii streets and while I the electric li^lit flashed out with a constant :l" brilliant effect upon an audieiiee of fully ten thousand people, one of the most, cxcitinj* affairs known to circus life of late years in this city occurred in the "Teat riu<^ of the Hippodrome. It was in the fl it races, and 1-1 Prank Morgan, the celebrated jockey, and 1 ' four others were (Iviui: like ii^htuitio around 1,1 the lino, each on the hack of rmc of the' :l w ild horses. Kvery round the horses scem"1 ed to ?ii faster and every round the riders ii I a ... j fi rimn in v' 1 l'xciicii ;iii<i to urge cncm '' I forward :it greater speed. Morgan was ') { ahead and his horse had attained a speed '* i that made the head dizzy to look at it, when l-'" i just as he was flying at this treiriendoits rate u i around the upper or east turn of the ling his h< rse made a sudden, unexpected stop 's* and Morgan was thrown headlong to the i~ ground Instantly a most exciting scene ,s' occurred. lively man, woman and child :,s underneath the great lent sprang to their rl' feet ; women screamed and covered their nt tac< s with their handkerchiefs ; men rushed forward ; musicians and circus hands rushed to the scene, and in one moment it seetn'.V cd as ii' the whole assemblage was panic? stricken. Meantime the second horse, rid " den hy a colored jockey, which was a 1< W yards behind Morgan at the time of the sic,ri' j eident, cime right against the prostrate man striking hii hody with one of its hoofs, r while the other three horses came right on its heels. For a moment it seemed as though i;i' lie would lie crushed to death. Fortunate* as ; ly the last three horses, with wonderful in ns slict, jumped over him. Home hy the arms ? of a (lo/?'ii circus men he was carried behind the scenes insensible, while two or three medical men in the audience went *' hack and examined him. It. was found that he had been bully .stunned, but altera nl few minutes' work by the physicians In: rc',<v "ain d consoiousncss and they pronounced on, his injuries not dangerous. sc<l ... >re- Snow ix tiik Mm\r\iX". ? (Jreonville, April rjy 7. ? A heavy fall of Snow occurred alien; the j'j I Hue l!id);u Olid I'lnc'.: Mountain last infill and y slot day. A mountaineer who readied 11rectinn" I villu litis afternoon says I!mt the snow ha I fallen on Itlack Mountain to a depth of two fuel.