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THE ATHEISTIC TIDE | builders as the shores of a star that lights I thin*
SWEEPING OYER THE CONTINENT.
The threatened Destruction of the Simple
Faith of the Father* by the Vain Deceits
of Modern Philosophers?An Attack
y Christians Must Meet.
Tho dread sign of the tiuice, as I see it, is
growing skepticism in (he leading circles of
thought aud nctiou throughout the country
?a swelling tide of atheism and unbelief
that has alreudy swept over mnuy of the outposts
of religion.
I am not alarmed By tho fact that Ilenry
Ward Beecher shdok, habds with Ingersoll
on a public stand, and has since swung be{ond
the limit of orthodoxy, any more than
am ressured by the fact that Stephen H.
Tying has, by Indorsing the miracles at
Lomdro. swung b?Qk into tho strong hold
expressions that may meaar"maoh or^fu^fe
Thoy may be classed with the oomplaint of
Dr. Talmago that he found religion dead in
a circuit of 3,000 rnlljs of travel last year,
which couinlaint is hslnuced bv thn niwnr
tion of Dr. H?U that- the growth of religious
scrititreut *&9ti6V6r so decisive as at
present.
I have noted in th$ first place, that the
latter-day writers?-novolists, scientists, aud
essayists?are arraying themselves in great
force either openly on the side of skepticism,
or are treating religious sentiment with a
readiness of touch and luck of rcvcrancc
that is hardly less dangerous. I need not
run over the lists of scientists, beginning
with Tyudnll, Huxley aud Stephens, that
have raised negation?nor recouut the number
of novelists who follow tho lead of
sweet George Eliot, the sad and gcntlo woman,
who allied sentiment to positivism so
subtly, and who died with the promise ou
her lips that her life would "bo gathered
like a scroll in the toiub, unread forever"?
who said that'shc "wanted no future that
broke the tic9 of the past," and has gone
to meet the God whose oxistence she denied.
We all know that withiu tho past twonty
years thoro has been an alarming increase
of atheism among the loading writers in all
branohes. But it is the growth of skepticism
among the people that hns astonished
me.
I am not misled by tho superb eloquence
oi ingcr?oii nor the noisy blasphemy ol bis
imitators. I was with five journalists, and
I found that every oue of them were skeptics,
two oi them iu the most emphatic souse.
In a sleeping car with eight passengers, average
people I take it, I found that three
wore confirmed atheists, three were doubtful
about it, and two were old fushionod
Christians. A young fricud of mine, a
Journalist and r lecturer, asked mo a few
months ago what I thought of his preparing
a lecture that would out do Ingereoll?
Lis excuse being that he found Ingersoll so
papular. I asked Henry Watterson onoe
what eiiect Ingersoll's lectures had on the
Louisville public' "No more than a theatrical
representation," was the quick reply.
Wottcrson was wrong. I have never seen
a man who cauionway from an Iugorsoll lecture
as stout ?f faith and ns strong in heart
as he was when fas went thore.
I do not know tkut this spirit of irrcligion
and unbelief has made such inroad on the
Churches. It is as yet simply eating away
the material upon wfaicb the churches must
recruit and perpetuate themselves. There
is a large body of men and women?the
bulk probably of our population?that is
faotwecn the ehurch and its eoomics?not
members of tho church or open professors
or religion, they have yet had revercnco of
religious beliefs, have respected the rule of
ooDaoicoce, and believed in tho existence of
one Supreme Being. There men and women
have been useful to the cause of religiou
iu that they held all tho outposts about
the camp of the church militant, and protected
it with enwrapping conservatism and
sympathy. It is this class of people that
nre now yielding to the assaults of the infidel.
Having nouc of tho inspiration of
religion, and possessing neither the enthusiasm
of converts nor the faith of veterans,
they are easily bewildered and overcome.
It is a careless and unthinking multitude
on which the atheists are working, and tho
very inertia of a mob will carry thousands
if the drift of tho mass once seta to the
ocean. And the man or woman who rides
on the ebbing tide goes never to roturn.?
Religious beliefs onco shattered are hardly
oionded. The ohurch may reclaim its sinners,
bnt its skeptics, never.
It is not surprising that this period of
eritieal investigation into all creeds and beliefs
has come. It is a logical epoch, como
in its appointed time. It is one of tho pen*
ultiea of progress.
We have stripped all the earth of mystery,
and brougnt all its phenomena under
the square and compass?so that wo might
have expeoted science to doubt tho mystery
of lifo it**lf, and to plaot its theodalito for
^ a nteasureinement of the eternal, and pitoh
m its oruoiblc for an analysis of the soul. It
w was natural that the Greek should be led to
the worship of his physical gods, for the
earth itself wa? a mystery that he could not
divioo?a vaatoaoa and vaguonesa that he
could not comprehend. But we have fathowed
its uttermost recret?felt its most secret
pulse?girdled it with steel?harnessed
U and trappod it to our liking. What was
mystery is now demonstration?what was
vague is now apparent. Seienee has diapolled
illusion after illusion?struck down
orror after error?mado plain all that was
vague cn earth, and reduced every mystery
to demonstration. It is little wonder that at
last, having reduced all the illusions of matter
to an equation, and anchored every theory
to a fixed formula, it should assail the
mystery of life itself, and warn the world
that soicnce would yet furnish the key to
(ho problem of the sonl. The obelisk,
piqeked from the heart of Bgypt, reeti upon
a shore that was as vaguely and infinitely
pc^ond the knowledge or orpiratjon of ltd
tho spaces beyond our vision are to us today?the
Chinaman jostles us in the street,
and the centuries that look through his
dreamy eyes have lost all sense of wonder
?ships that were freighted from the heart
of Afrioa lie in our harbor, and our market
places rre vocal with tnoro tongues than bowildered
the builders at tiubol?n letter
slips around tho earth in ninety days, and
the messages of men flash along tho bed of
the ocean?wo tell the secrets of the universo
as a woman tells her- beads, and the
stars whirl serenely through orbits that scionco
has defiued--we even read of tho inatant
whoa the comet that plunged iu diui
illimitable distance, wberucveu the separate
stars are loet in mist and vapor, shall whirl
again into the vision of. man ; a wanderer
that could oot shake off the inexorable su
lime is this, tor science to make its lust and
supreme assault?to challenge the lust and
supreme mystery, defy the' last aud supreme
force. And the church may gird itself for
the conflict. As the pope has said : "It is
no longer a rebel that threatens the church.
It is a belligerant 1" It is no longer a shading
of creed. It is the upsettal of all creeds
that is attempted.
It is impossible to conceive tho misery
t tw> blindness thai will coma iu tho wake
of this sproading atheism. The ancients
witnessed the full of a hundred creeds, but
still had a hundrod loft. The vast mystery
of life hung above thorn, but was lit with
religions that were sprinkled as stars in its
depths. From a host of censers was their
air mude rich with fragrance aud warmed
from a held of altars. No loss was irrcpnrublo.
But with us it is different. - lie have
reached tho eud. Destroy our one belief
and wo are left hopeless, helpless, blind.?
Our air will bo odorless, chill, colorless.?
Iluxley the leader of tho positivists, himself
confesses?I qurto from memory?
"Never, in the history of inun, has a calamity
so terriflic befallen the raco as this advancing
deluge, bluck with destruction, uprooting
our most ohorished hopes, engulfing
our most precious creed, and burying
our highest lifo in mindless desolation."?
And yet Mr. Huxley urges on .this deluge
with furious energy. The aggressiveness of
the atheists is inexplicable to me. Why
tlicy should insist on destroying a system
| that is pure and ennobling when tbey have
nothiug to replace it with?why they should
shatter a faith thut colors life, only to leave
it colorless?why they should take away the
consolation that lifts men and women iVotn
the despair of ber lavement and desolation,
or the light that guides the feet of Strug
giiug humanity, or Lho hope that robs even
the grave of its terror ; why they should do
nil this, and thou aland-amply banded and
unresponsive before the yearuing and supplicating
people they have stripped of all
that is precious, is uiore than 1 cuii understand.
The best atheist, to my mind, that
I ever knew, was oue who sent his children
to n convent for their education. "I cannot
lift the blight of unbelief iroui my owu
uiind," lie said, '-but it shall nover fall upon
the minds of my children if I can help it.
As for me, I would give all I have on earth
for the old faith that J wore so lightly and
throw off so carelessly."
Tho practical effects of the growth of
atheism are too terrible to contemplate. A
vessel on mi unknown soo that has lost its
rudder and is tossed in a storm?that's the
piciuro. It will not do for Mr Ingcrsoll to
say that a purely human code of right aud
wrong can be established to which the passions
of men can be anchored and from
which they can swing with safety. It
will not do for him to eite his own correct
life, or the eorreet fives ot the skep^
tical scientists, or of leading skeptics,
I ns proof that unbelief docs not bring license.
These men are held to decency by
a pride of position and by a sense of special
responsibility. It is lho massos that atheism
will demoralise and debauch. It is the
thousands of simple men and woman, who, <
loosed of the one restraint that is absolute
and imperious will, that will drift udou the
currents of their passions, ooliiding everywhere,
and bringing confusion nod ruin.?
The vastly greatest influenco that religion
has exercised, as far us the world goes, bus
been the conservative pressuro that it has
put upon the bulk, of people who are outside
of tho church. With the pressure bnrely felt
and still lees acknowledged, it has preserved
tho integrity of society, kept the daugcrous
instincts within boutms,- repressed savagery
and held tho balanco. Conscience has dominated
over men who never confessed,
eveo to themselves, its power, and the dim,
religious memories of childhood, breathing
imperceptibly over long wastes of sin and
brutality, have dissolved clouds of passion
in tho souls of vctornus. Atheism will uot
work its full effect on this ohss of uieu even
after thoy havo murdered conscience by with
holding the broath upon whioh it lives; its
ghost will gropo through tho ohambcrs of
their brain, uieuaoinjjand torrible, and to
(bo lint.
"Creeping on a broken wing
Through collr of oiadnoss, haunts of horror
aud fear!"
It is on (he young men and woman?the
generation bred in the ohill atmosphere of
unbelief?that atheism will do its worst.?
With no traditions in whioh to guide their
fnith, no alter before whieh they can do reference,
no ideal to which (heir eyes can turn
nos tandard lofty enough to satisfy or atcadr
a l -
iin cnuugn io assure?wun no upiimng
that ia not limited, no aapiration that has
wings, and no enthusiasm thatjis not abaard
-" with life bat a fev<jr that kindles in tho
cradle and dies in thegrare. Trely atheism
meets youth with a dread pmpect? sftllcn,
storm a#ept, hopelesg.
In tha conflict that ia oooriag, the eborch
ia impregnable? because the church is right,
because it is founded on a rock. The set'
enlists hoa4l that tltey evolved eterj
-t * V>? T ' fP -??< *4*
matter?that, from &e crystut'^o^^SW
ticut man is a steady way, marked by Dntural
gradations. They o^ren say thut, it' a
uew bulk werj thrown off from the son tomorrow,
it would spin into the space of the
earth aud the sauio development that has
crowded the earth with life woulcf take place
in the now world. And yet' Tyiidall says,
"Wo havo exhausted physics, aud reached
its very riui, aud yH a mighty ftiystcry loohfs
before us." And this uiystury is the kindiiug
of the atouis of the brain with the vitul
spark. There science is baffled, for thoro it
the supreme force thut is veiled eternally
from the vision of man.
The church is uot bound to the technicalities
of nrgutncufc in this contest, it has
the perfect right to say, and say logically,
that somethiug must rest on fuith?thifw
there must be something jn the heart, oyqj
Just as we cununt impress With tho (testacies
and transports of earthly love a uian who
has never loved, or paint a raiubow to the
man who has never seen. Aud yet the
tiuio has passed wheu roligiou can dismiss
the skeptic with a shriek < r a sneer. I read
a little book a year ago, gentlo, firm, decisive
book, that demonstrated the necessity
aud existence of the Supremo Being, as
clearly and as closely us a mathematical
proposition was worked out. But the
strength of the church is, nft-r all, the
high-minded consistency of its members?
the wuruith and earnestness of its evangel
isui?the purity und gentleness of its apos*
ties, if the creeds are put at peace, and
every man who wears the Christian armor
will go forth to plead the cause of the uicek
and lowly Nazariue, whose love steals into
the hearts of uico, as the balui of flowers
iuto tho pulses of a summer oveuing?then
we shall see the hosts of doubt und skepticism
put to rout.
Of eourse I have no business to write nil
this. It is the province of the preachers
to talk of these thiugs, and many uo doubt
will resent as impertinent eveu the suggestion
of a worlding. And yet it seems so sure
to mo that in the swift and silent marshaling
of tho hosts of uubolief and irreligiou there
is presaged the eupreincst test that the faith
of Christians has ever undergone, that I
felt impelled to write. There are men, outside
of tho active workers of the church,
l who have all reverence for its institutions
and love for its leaders?whose hearts arc
stirred now and then by a faith caught at a
mother's kueo, or the memory of some rapt
and happy moment?waut to livo, if not in
the fold of the chosen, at least in tho shadow
of & Christian sentiment, and among a people
dominated by Christian faith?and who
hope to die at last, in tho same trust and
peace that moved the dying Shakespeare?
wiwit, Bvrootcnt Oiind etor clothovl in mortal
I flesh?.vhen he said :
"I commend my bouI into the hands of God |
I uiy creator, honinir and aesurcdlv believim?.
through the only merits of Jesus Chris, my
Savior, to be made pnrtaker of life everlasting."?II.
W. (J., in Atlanta Constitution.
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Euaudulenti.r Packed Cotton.?The
Board of Mauagera of the New York Cotton
Exchange are continuing their work of
improving the methods of the business hero,
as regards both spots and futures. This
work has been largely in fho direction of
rendering the rules uiore definite, and' the
result is that the Exchang > now has a body
of by-laws and rules that for completeness
i are unexcelled by those of any organization
of the kiud in tho world.
The latest change in the rules, which was
adopted by the Board on Mouday, relates
to fraudulently packed cotton. No
material change is made in the oil rule on
this subject, but the new rule is much longer
and more exueb than the old one, providing
for contingencies for which no provision
was made in tho former rule. The
new rule reads that tho loss by reason of
fraud shall bo "based on the differeuco in
thu uiarkct value at tho dato of discovery
between such bale oud a bale of cotton of
similar grade, sound nnd in good condition.
Such difference in value shall constitute
tho claim, regardless of the original cost of
the cotton or of any fluctuations in tho
market of the price of cotton." As before,
claims may he mado against ull sellers for
nine uionths from the date of sale, but a
new provision is mado that duo notice of
the existence of fraudulent packing must
be for.vnrded within eight days of its discovery,
and the date of such discovery of
fraud shall bo incorporated in tho sworn
certificate. Tho old provision that these
claims for fraudulent packing could bo sustained
without limit of time against the
original packer, is wisely dropped.
The members of tho New York Cotton
Exchange are determined to do their utmost
towards stamping out this evil of fraudulently
packing cotton, which has attained
souro magnitude in certain sections of the
South. All of which will strengthen the
reputation of the New York market among
spinners and exporters.? Cotton.
?. ? - ?
A correspondent anye the entire 175 miles of
territory between Dodge City end Las Animas,
Col., ia a catjlo graveyard. Thousands upon
thousands of eareasaes lie within aight of the
railroad, and thousands of emaciated creatures
so feeble that they oan scarcely stand, end are
unable to rise if they fall down, totter about in
a vain effort to find food. At Lakio, a Station
midway between Dodge City and Las Animas,
the people estimate that at leant 45,000 cattle
were orowded in and aronnd the town during
lb* prevatienoe or me NW? storm a row weeks
I
Pour Inoheo of now foil in Northern Virginia
on Friday night, making the third snowfall ibii
month. The apple. Iho prinoipal fruit crop ol
ibo Motion, is not iiOured. All farm work h
> delayed by tho protracted winter.
A snow plow engine made a dash st a snow
bank on a Minnesota Railroad on Thursday.?
1 Tho bank gars way unexpectedly, and tho en'
gine plunged into a gang of laborers, Is illlni
and wounding several.
II Thkm T?Senator I
teitples a position |
n the eyes of his
ids charged with 0
ing kind and has (
ition which it would lj
ind especially one r
great State, 'in the u
lie country, could [
We hare before
osition in which he >
George, of Missis- B
use or palliate the 0
aining Mahone, he F
States Senate the ?
l'1 citizen of Mas- 1
0 Mississippi with
ind employed hun- J
opinion's eako had
is insults and perseburning
of hia fnct
nrrenvr Tire- smto J
and return to Massachusetts. With the cliarac- 8
teristie, cowardly evasion of the authors of t
similar stories of occurrences in the Southern ]
Dimes, ne rciuscu to give the name of the alleged c
victim. Then, when brought to the book by t
Senator George, who informed him that there \
were but two or three factories in the whole
State of Mississippi, nud that one of them could c
not bo burned without its being a matter of r
common notoriety, ho hesitatingly stammered E
out that it was not a factory but a cotton-gin C
bouse. The Mississippi Senator, thereupon de- e
nied the whole story, and informed Dawes, that r
having refused to givo the name of the gray- c
haired victim, he must assume tho authorship,
and thereby I lie imputation which had been cast :l
upon the author. c
Under this grave charge the Massachusetts 1
Senator rests to day. The army of active news- V
paper men in Washington, and indeed, all over E
country, have endeavored to come to his rescue
by discovering this gray-haired Northerner, but j
in vain. Finally one of them is compelled to ^
telegraph to his paper : "It is now known posi- ^
lively that Mr. Dawes has not one particle of {
reliable evideuco upon which to base his atro- (
cious calumny jigninst the people of an enliro "]
State." 9
A slander of this kind, iuvolving charges of ?
brutality, uncivilized nnd inexcusable, coming t
from a United States Sentor in his official capa- |
city, and as such entered upon the records of u
the government, cannot be classed with the ordi- a
nary newspaper reports deiived from irresponsible
sources. Its truth has been denied, but a
this is not sufficient. The Senate of tho United
States cannot afford to allow one of its members P
to rest under the imputation of falsehood. If 1
he has not the manliness to clear himself of the 1
charge or to retract itk the Senators should illus- [
Irate their own mauhoon by expelling him from
the body.?Charlotte Obterver. ^
MKRCUAOT.imnv TIT* MXTTJJ.?-raw ?|m-H.whether
tags on samples of merchandise con- ;
(aining figures indicatng the price and width <
are mailable as fourth class matter was recently i
brought to the attention of the I'o^toffice Depart- i
ment by some leading dry goods firms. The
ruling of the department upon this question are 1
embodied in the following general order, which '
has just been issued by Postmaster-General (
James : "Tags or labels attached to samples of '
merchandise may have the price and width of 1
the goods printed thereon, either by the origi- '
nil impression or by a hand stump, filling in
blanks left by iho original print. This will not '
authorial such use of a hand-stamp for any
other purpos3 than as a description of the thing |
a'.(ached. It cannot be used to convey informa- (
tion personal in its nature or disconnected from ^
the thing to which the matter so stamped is at- ,
tached, except at rates for first-class matter.? ,
The width of the article of which a sample is
given may be stated in writing, but when so (
written, the purpose of identification being held
to have bee* accomplished as authorized by the
statute, the price of the artiole cannot he added, i
either in writing or hi print, without changing
the classification of the matter to letter rates "
Faill rk or tub Blackberry Crop.?The unnaralleled
nature of the nast reason has canned
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the climax by an unheard of event. From various
parts of tho county comes the announcement
that tho blackberry briars are dead. The
oldest inhabitant does not remember such a
thing as a failure of the blackberry crop.?
When everything else has failed the blackberry
has offered its consolation. But it is now positively
asserted by these who have examined
closely into the matter that the briars have been
killed to the ground. The consequence of
this in this immediate section is to deprive the
people generally of a cheap luxury at a time
when it is most needed and the pooror class of
people of no unimportant aouroo of revonue.?
How it will be in those sections of the Slate
where the blaekberry trade has been developed
to a considerable extent and the fruit constitutes
a principal staple, remains to be ascertained.?
Charlotte Obterver.
A Palpable Shot.?The Now York World,
referring to the petitien of Oen. Mahone for an
allowance of $26,000 per year as President of
the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad
Company, for the four years and more during
which the business of the road was administered
working up his political readjust men t schemes
for his own advancement, says: "Mr. Mahone
haa put in a little claim for back pay as a railroad
president at f'io.OOO a year, and does not offer
the slightest encouragement to any proposition
| to seale it down and readjust it on a footing
| more CaverMble to the shareholders in the erabarraaaed
concern. In his individual oapaoity
k as a railroad president Oen. Mahone will not
, his fees towards the morning'?no, not to
r TOlige all the Hoars in Massachusetts."
Postmaster Tylkr, of Baltimore, is being
f inea tot outrageously insulting niu Murray, a
iespectable employes of the office. The girl
had no money with which to follow the removI
ate and appeals, and eitiseM of Baltimore contributed
what was needed.
SOKE POUTS" ABOUT BffST.
Orangeburg, S. C., April 4.
To the Editor of Cotton: The subject
f rust in cotton will only b? interesting to
hoso in this State living below the clay
iclt. Wo nil know that clay lauds do not
ust cotton, but contiuuo to mature fruit
intil frost. Why they do this will bo aplarent
as we proceed.
Wh it is rust in cottou ? Some will tell
ou it is a want of vegetable matter in the
oil; others that it is caused by nu excess
if moisture ; others again that cool nights
iroducc it aud 1 have heuidsouiu old faruirs
say it always starts from pokewced growog
near the cotton.
Now, all these different opinions prove
ionclusively that this scourge of our cottou
ields has bceu having its own way, not because
there is no remedy for it, but because
he disease is so little understood. It can
be for want of vegetable ugU^t in tho
oil, tor we TTequomty sue miwnaiiap
oils ubund^ntly supplied with vegetable
natter. I will admit it does correct it to a
iuiited extent. I have seen cotton almost
mtirely destroyed by rust in bottoms, where
here was nn abundance of vegetable humus
Fashed in from surrounding hills.
Neither.can moisture be the prevailing
aviso, or the clay laudsjvould also suffer by
ust in wet seasons; and the same reason
nay bo assigned why cool nights do not
uuso it. The pokeweed docs not grow
very where, and particularly about these
usty cotton patches; therefore the blame
annot be laid at its doors.
Then if none of these opinions advanced
re the cause of rust, what is it that causes
otton to rust on nearly all the lands below
he cotton or clay belt ? My atiswer is, the
rant of sufficient potash in the soil. And
low for the proof :
Why docs rust start and spread from a
lokewecd growing ooar cot'.on ? Not solely
iccauso it takes the disease from the poke,
?ut bccnuso*thc poke has exhausted all the
oidablc potash in the soil near it, aud the
:olton near,- being the first object to lccl
he want of potash, shows symptoms of rust
flic analysis of poke aud Irish potato vines
ihowi that they contain more potash than
iny other vegetable product. \Vc are also
aught that clay soils abound in potash,
icuec the absence of rust in cotton ou them,
ind in consequence of their superior adaptibility
to cottju.
In 1873 I applied fifty bushels uuleaclied
ishes to an acre of land that had been rustng
cotton badly. The cotton rcuiuiucd
;recn until frost, and matured fruit to the
op, when the ndioinintr cotton failed in
nature any top crop, souic of it dying with
ust the 6rst of September. That strip oi
and has not rusted cotton since. The potish
in the ashes was what the soil ueeded
o keep tho cotton fruiu rustiug.
J- ?J- ftul
\ suck of kuinit or German potash salt oil
sue acre, through the middle of a seven"
icre patch of cottou. The land had been
in cultivation four years?light, sandy, oal
land, and rusted cotton badly. In the fal
it was a pleasure to show this acre strip tr
my friends, while the cotton ou both side:
jf it was denuded of leaves and all the to]
!)oils dead before half grown. This acn
remained green until frost, and matured iti
Iruit to the top.
This last experiment itself was cvidcuct
tonclusivu to my mind that potash was tin
cmcdy for rust in cotton. 1 havo since
loticed the same results in similar expert
nents. I believe on lands thoroughly
Iruincd (and no other kind should he plan
ed in cotton), and not entirely destitute ol
vegetable matter, potash in every instance
will correct the teudcncy to rust in cotton
By rest and rotation the teudcncy to rusi
can be corrected in a great measure, bu
when lands are planted every year, andela;
is uot near the surface, potash must hi
supplied either in unlimited amounts o
trash and litter from the woods, stable ma
nurc, ashes, or some of the comuicrcia
preparations of potash. F.
Meeting ok the Giants.?l'reston IIol
loway and Andy Walker, both colored, uie
at John Schcnck's bar room. They ha
never met before but knew each other fron
common reputation. Andy Walker is i
train hand on tho Charlotte, Columbia anc
Augusta Railroad and is the biggest ncgri
in the two Carolinas, being in height ncarc
eight feet than seven. Preston Elollowa;
is not so big but still is distinguished will
the title of "Rig Elephant." "Rig Klc
phant" upon this occasion was smoking
cigar. Andy had imbibed sufficiently t
put him in a hugo contempt for such ain
and walking up to "Rig Elephant'' ho in
formed him that he had learned that he m
pired to bo the ''boss," nud he (Andy) w:
desirous to know what foundation ho nasc
his pretoomns upon. Saying this, withot
more ado he sunt "R'g Elephant's" cig:
spinning across tho floor. Tho latter r
sponded with a lightning blow which near!
inverted Audy, but did not wholly cxtii
guish his courage. lie returned to the coi
test, but "Rig Elephant," having gotten tl
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in succession, when he took to bio heels an
left. The ease was called in the Mayor
Court yesterday but Andy did not appet
and "Llcphant," who is under the spcci
protection of the city, and is as docile i
the animal after which ho is named, w:
given his old placo on the street force.Charlotte
Observer, April 12.
Co', Win. Winston Fontaine, Principal of i
academy in Louisville, Kentucky, road a lo
paper before the Soulhcm Historical Society
a recent meeting, in which he claimed that E
bert E. Lee was seventeenth in direct de?c<
from ltoherl Bruoe, ? f Scotland, and possess
very many of bis notable characteristics. Mo
over, that of the five heroes who nwilmitm
distinguished themselves on the glorious fi<
of Bennookburn, Leo, through the snme clit
1, wee the direct desooodnnt of four.
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Tin? War on the South.?The rockless
men who nro seeking to split the solid
South by subtlc'y arc doing a work the
wickedness acd danger of which all eyes,
however blinded by irrccd, pas-ion and partisanship
oau see. In Tennessee llepublieaus
and straight Democrats have united to
cleanse their common wealth of tho taint of
repudiation by settling the State debt honestly,
fairly and liberally Demagogues and
agitators who desire t? overturn that settlement
and repudiate outright a large amount
of the indebtedness now cry fur a Mahono
to lead them. The newspapers of that
State that have been petted aud complimented
by Northern llepublieaus for their
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munii una "unit ISouibou" sentiments,
violently assail the decision of the debt
question, and sock to maintain the feud that
arose over it in the Democratic parly and
elected a Republican governor. In Arkansas
a wing of the Democratic party is at as
"anti-Rourbou." In Virginia, Mahono
is leading a pirty that will, if successful,
tarnish the fair 11:11110 of the grand old mother
of States with an evasion of paying holiest
indebtedness. All throe of these States
have parties with the same avowed object,
bearing the same name?all seeking repudiation
and all calling themselves "antiBourbons."
These facts show the meaning
of the new words in our political dictionary,
aud explain dark and mysterious terms -?
By practical definitions we find at last that
"Bourbon" signifies a payer of debts, and
"anti Bourbon" a repuuiator.
The Republican party is using its utmost
power and patronage to aid the repudiators
iu their war against hono-ty. They do not
ostensibly figbt tho Democratic party.?
They call themselves Democrats. The issue
they fight on is simply between payment
and repudiation, honor and dishonor, right
and wrong. By giving them aid the Rc'
publicans arc encouraging the spirit of dishonesty,
fostcriug douiagoguery and offering
a premium for violation of all personal
aud public faith. Thev nrn nhitllinn i-??
. cony and breach of trust on a ui; gnificcnt
scale, and arousing a tendency thai will des|
troy the credit of the States, disgrace the
people and spread financial distrust, choas
1 and ruin from'scn to sea. If successful iu
their aims, they will throw every Southern
State under the heels of the lowest white
and worst ucgro elements, destroying material
prosperity and social order. The splitting
of the Democratic party now will put
the South in a worse and more hopeless condition
than during reconstruction.
Whatever success they may have in their
evil wjrk will be visited upon them heavily.
They can not use the tools of repudiation
and demagogucry without being visibly
defiled by their touch. But doubtless neither
this nor any otlicr consideration will
restrain them trom ttic course wmcn tney
are pursuing, and they will continue in it
until their designs are foiled, as we hope
and believo t icy will be, by the good sense
"j and good faith of the South. Their effort
( will be a desperate one. however, and Southy
crn men must d> their full duty if it is to
} be successfully resisted. Let the party
, lines be drawn closely everywhere, let every
man be on guard against deserters nud spies
and let a quiet, nggrcssivo warfare on the
, enemy be maintained. By tho sufferings
[ of the past, the hardly won blessings of tho
| present and the hopes of the future, let
every true man range himself as a fully
developed "Bourbon," crushing out independent
ism and other treason wherever
? they appear, and standing fast for the glorious,
solid South?solid for Democracy,
home rule and honesty.
* An Exciting Circus Accident.?Tho
1 Philadelphia Times says : Last night,
1' while Coup's circus was in full blast down
8 at Broad and Dickinson streets and while
* the electric light flashed out with a constant
' brilliant effect upon an audience of fdlfy ten
thousand people, one of the most exciting
affairs known to circus life of late years in
this city occurred in the great ring Of the
- Hippodrome. It was in the flat races, and
I Frank Morgan, tho celebrated jockey, and
-i four others were flying like lightning around
II the ring, each on the back of one of tho
1 wild horses. Every round the horsed Secui1
ed to go faster aud every round the riders
I seemed to get more excited and to urge them
r forward at greater speed. Morgan was
V ahead aud his horse had attained n speed
II that made tho head dizzy to look at it, when
' just as he was flying at this tremendous rate
a around the upper or cast tnrn of the ring
0 his hi rso made a sudden, unexpected stop
'? and Morgan was thrown headlotlg to the
- ground. Instantly a most exciting scene
B* occurred. Every man, womau and child
18 underneath tho groat tout sprang to their
d feet ; women screamed and covered their
tacce with their handkerchiefs ; uieu rushed
>r forward ; musicians aud circus hands rush?*
cd to the scene, and in one moment it seemly
cd as if tho whole assemblage was panic?
?* stricken. Meantime the second horse, ridden
by a colored jockey, whtoh was a few
10 yards behind Morgan at the timo of the acrc
cident, cimo right against the prostrate man
'd striking his body with one of its hoofs,
8 while tho other three horsos ouuio right on
ir its heels. For a moment it seemed as though
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vw viuouvu IU ucuui. ji'ununiuc1
08 ly the last three horses, with wonderful in118
Rtict, jumped over him. Borno by tho arms
? of n doxen circus men ho was (tarried behind
tho scenes inseusible, while two or
three medical men in the oudicnco wcut
*D back and examined him. It was found
that he had been badly stunned, but alter tt
few minutes' work by tho physicians ho rct<v
pained consciousness and they pronouueed
>ni his injuries not dangerous.
*.
re- Snow is tub Mou.vtais*.?Greenville, April
rj_ 7.?A heavy fall of snow occurred alone; the
. . Blue Ridge and Black Mountain last night and'
8 yesterday. A mountaineer who reached Greenin*
villo tliia afternoon ?nya that tho anuw had fallen
on Bla?k Mountain to a depth of two feet.
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