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^??????????>???????? ????^????? LEWIS m. GRIST, Proprietor.! An $nilfjj?iil>?ilt .familg fUtospptr. ^for fji? ^romofioit of tjjt political, Social, Agricultural anb Commercial Interests of % Sont{i. | TERMS?$3.00 A TEAR, IN ADVANCE. VOL. 23. YORKYILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1877. NO. 41. $hc JFtorg ^PUT ^YOIJRSELF^IN HER PLACE. The long summer day had crept slowly away, and it was nearly five o'clock. The hours at the railway station were marked as by some gigantic clock, that told the laggard minute by screaming whistle and clanging bell. The 4:30 accommodation had gone east, the western express, due there at 4:55, had thundered through the village, gone on over the great viaduct, and disappeared round the vast curye beyond. So one counted the hours by the trains. Lydia by name, a girl cf the best New England type, quiet, and yet with an immense capacity for doing and daring should love and the occasion demand. The local freight would come next and then?then she would see him again. She laid aside her work, put some ; split zephyr vanity upon her head and went j out toward the railroad. As she approached the statioo she saw her brother, the station master, opening the little freight house on the farther side of the track. By this she knew that the local freight would stop this time. Her heart beat the faster and she quickened her step. *' ^ On reaching the passenger station where the village street crossed the railway, she looked up and down the line and then crossed over and turned to the left and walked beside the track towards the freight bouse. To understand all that took place on this occasion, and to fully appreciate her consummate skill in controlling the events so quickly to crowd upon her, we must study the construction of the road at this point. The main line for more than a mile to the right, or towards the east, was perfectly straight and comparatively level. To the left, or the west, it crossed a deep valley by a lofty stone viaduct, and beyond the valley it curved to ward the north and mounted the hill by a long grade. Just east of the passenger station a branch road entered the main line and there was, as might be supposed, a cross over switch. Beyond the passenger station, on the west, was a short siding ending in a small I freight shed and coal yard. At this point i there was also another cross-over switch. Lydia walked on past the freight bouse, and, crossing the side track, found a large flat rock beside the way and there, under the shade of an ancient apple tree, she sat down to wart till her lover should come. He comes! She heard the three long whistles sounding far down the line, and a bright blush mounted to her face. The train would 8top. That was the signal for the station roaster. Her brother came out of the freight nlasoan?ln In kor And then I UUU9C| O|/uao piononuvij bw mv* walked on toward the switch at the head of the siding. Suddenly the main line track before her began to sing in sharp metallic murmurs. The train had entered that section of the road and he was near. Then there came the sound of escaping steam. The engine was slowing down and the steam, no longer employed, was bursting with a loud roar from the Bafety valve as if impatient of delay. With a jar that shook the ground, the immense freight engine rolled past her, and the engineer, leaning out of his window, nodded to her as he slid past. Then the cars, in long procession, came into sight and moved past, with slowly decreasing speed. Four brakemen, busy at the brakes, weDt past, and still he came not. At last, the rear car appeared, and a young man swung himself down from the iron ladder on the car and sprang to the ground at her feet. A sooty man, clad in blue canvas now 1 tea black with smoke and dust. Only a brakeman 1 No; a trifle better?the conductor of a freight train. A year ago he had been glad to take the place of a brakeman and already he "bad beeo promoted. Love did it. He had met and loved Lydia in the days of his foolish idleness, aod she had insisted that he do some manly work or she could not?yes, 1 she could and did love him; but he must show himself worthy of ber love. Already he had advanced, and she was well pleased 1 with his progress, and they had become engaged. A grimy, dusty man in unlovely garments, hut in her eyes he was a man made for better things. As he stood beside her, one could see in his clear eyes and sensible face that he had ' good stuff in him and was worthy of her love. ! It becomes us not to linger while they talk qoietly together beside the track. The train moved slower and slower, till, finally, it stopped with the last car just beyond the switch. The iron horse was moved on, the station master signalled with his arm in a cu- ! rious fashion, and each of the four brakemen 1 repeated the motion in turn. White puffs of 1 steam rose high in the air from the farther end of the train. A curious rattling sound , spread through the train, and the last car backed down, turned aside, and entered the 1 siding. The station master left the switch, 1 and came hastily toward the lovers. "Good day, Alfred. Light freight to-day, only one car?by the way, the brake chaiu is broken, and you had better drop the car at * the repair shops. The freight can be thrown 1 out without leaving the car." So saying, the station master went on into the freight house followed bv the rattling and rumbling cars. They gradually lost their | speed and then came to a stop with the end | of the train lost in the dark cavern of the freight house. There was a shout from the building, and then one of the brakemen began to move his arms as a signal to go on. Again the white puffs of steam shot up in the distance, and with a jar and quiver the train started again. ' ",s J*'- -* Car after car rolled past thelfc Tlfere were hurried whispers, a warm hW^NIttke and perhaps a kiss, and then the young man swung forward, grasped the ladder on the last car, climbed quickly to the top and sat down. She stood gazing after him as he was drawn away from her, and smiled and waved farewell to him with her handkerchief. "Here, Lydia, you must help me." It was her brother who stood be&ide her with a bunch of keys in his hand. "The passenger train follows this at once, rand I must go to the station. Will you please close the Bwitch after them ?" She took the keys mechanically, and then ' turned again to gaze after her lover seated on ' the last car of the retreating train. It had J passed out of the switch and was crossing the j great viaduct and moving more and more swiftly away. To close and lock the switch wa9 neither difficult nor dangerous, and she quietly walked on toward the end of the siding till she came to tho switch post. Here she leaned against the wooden frame for a little space, shading her eyes from the sun with her hand and watching the train. It had run around the valley and was turning into the great curve that crept upward in a long grade over the hill beyond. It was now a mile away and she could no looger distinguish any one on the cars. She turned slowly away, seized the iron bar of the switch and easily threw it over into place, so as to leave the main line open for the next train. She looked back down the road and saw ^ that the passenger train had entered the line from the branch and was just pulling up at the station to discharge passengers. It may seem surprising that a passenger train should be allowed to follow a freight train so closely. Bad engineering as this arrangement was, it was not so serious as it seemed, for this passenger train did not follow the freight except for three miles, when it reached the end of its trip and was turned off upon a siding. She turned once more to look after the retreating freight train. It was in full view, climbing the grade on the great curve. Suddenly she put up both hands to shade her eyes, and leaned forward on the switch frame. What had happened? Two tiny puffs of steam rose from the engine. It was the signal to stop. Ah ! the train has parted! Faint and far away came the short, sharp danger whistle. A single car had broken loose from the train, and had been left behind. It was standing alone on the track. No! It was moving backward. It was beginning to roll down the grade. It was moving faster and faster. There was a man upon it?her lover. Involuntarily she spread out her arms and let them fall to her side three or four times in succession?the signal to put on the brake. "How foolish ! He cannot see me, and?" She leaned against the switch frame and shook with fear and agony. The brake was broken. ^? ^ -~1 lnJ /IJoft Klfl/1 nor OWlIier auu swijici luiicu hjo uioauiw vhk It was coming down the track, gaining speed at every rod.'.-' n She sprang to the middle of the track and tried to shout to the engineer of the train at the station. She made the motions to back down out of danger. Her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth, and her cry became an articulate moan. Onward came the car. She could see her lover upon it, frantically waving his arms from right to left. What did it mean ? Her brain seemed to be on fire. She could do nothing but gaze on theadvancing car in dumb horror. Ah ! The passengers! Could she not save them ? With a violent wrench she opened the switch again and stood holding the bar in both hands. Better so?better oue life lost than a dozen. Her feet seemed bolted to the ground. She must stay and see him killed, and by her own band. The rails began to murmur with the tread of the advancing car, now rushing furiously onward to destruction. Ah ! Why had she not thought of it before ? J The cross over switch! Could she reach it in time she might save him. She snatched the key from the switch and ran with frantic speed up the line. She never knew how she opened the switch. With moans and cries she threw herself across the line and began to run down the other side. Could she reach that switch before the car ? Its roaring rang in her ears. Panting, with almost bursting bosom, she reached the switch, opened it, and stood clinging to it as the car came thundering over the viaduct. She looked up at her lover upon the car. He had seen and understood the change in the switches. His car, helpless though it was, would cross over to the down track and roll harmlessly along the level line till its force was spent. He was saved, and by her ready wit and skill. The passengers in the train were also saved. Great heavens! What's that ? The express 1 The down express was coming 1 All was vain. He was lost. She saw him throw up his arms in despair. The very plan she had devised to save him would be his destruction. Better far to have thrown him off upon the siding as she had intended. Now he would meet a more dreadful death, and the destruction would include scores of lives instead of a dozen. All this flashed through her mind like lightning. She felt her knees give way beneath her, and she clung to the switch in desokiit tor avoQ tn hirla thp Pftminff pail UUO QIIUU 11VI VJ vv vv H4V4W WMV disaster. Hark! The whistle on the express. They had seen the imminent collision and were doing their best to avert it She, too, must do something. With a bound she spraug to the next switch, tore it open and stood panting and moaning beside it, with the bar in her hand. She must save the train even if she buried her lover uuder the splintered wreck of the car. Onward came the car, thundering over the viaduct and just ahead of the traiu. It turned quickly at the switch, crossed over and shot past her into the siding. He had one look at her upturned face. It was full of love and helpless misery. She was sending him to certain destruction?to save the express train. The instant the car passed she closed the switch and sprang back again to the other switch and closed it, just in time to see the express train sweep past in safety. In an instant the helpless car ran into the freight house with an awful, splintering crash. The express pulled up opposite the station, and in a moment a crowd of people ran shouting and frantic up the line. Some of I them had seen the whole performance and knew what it meant, but for the majority of them it was a tragic mystery. They found Lydia upon the ground by the switch, and with the keys still clutched in her hand. What had she done? What had happened to her ? She could not answer. JNature had mercifully takeu away her senses. They took her up tenderly and carried her to the station, and laid her upon a seat in the waiting room. The passengers of the two trains crowded the room and offered every aid, for in some vague manner they began to understand that she was the creditor to the value of all their lives. She had paid for their safety with costly sacrifice. The freight train backed down to the crossover switch, and the engineers of the three trains met and began to examine the positions of the switches. A number of men also came from the express train, and among them was the one who seemed in authority. He, too, examined the line carefully, and the engineers explained the matter to him, and listened to his remarks with becoming deference. The little room in the station was packed with people, idlers and others, and they could with difficulty bring him in. "No," said one of the ladies who were trying to restore the girl. "It may be too great a shock for her. She must not see him yet." "Make way there, gentlemen. The superintendent of the road is here." The crowd moved slightly, and the superintendent advanced into the room. He took - CP l? ~ ??J an/tlrn rtn!nf 1 xr f/\ 1\n/inla t'lj U13 iini auit opuao \|uictij tv vnw near, and then he stooped over the unconscious girl and kissed her, like as a father. "She saved all our lives, and I fear she thinks she paid dearly for them." Suddenly she opened her eyes and sat up bewildered. "Where is he? Is he much hurt? Oh! perhaps he is." "Let me alone, I tell you ?" cried a big, bold voice in the crowd. "I must go to her." He escaped from those who would detain him, and iu a moment was beside her. Some of the people laughed in foolish joy, others cried. The more delicate and sensible were silent, for the meeting was not for words ; or description. * - .... .. 1 ^ | Alter a Blignt pause me superuiujiiueuu said to the youug man : "I congratulate you, sir. You were on the car?" "Yes, sir. I was ou the car and saved myself at the last moment hy jumping off. I landed on a pile of fine coal and got a rough tumble?and that was all. The car is a heap of splinters." Then the superintendent called the young man nearer to him and spoke to him privately, and presently they both shook hands as if greatly pleased over something. The young man sat down beside the girl and whispered in her ear, "I've got the place, Lydia. We are all right now." T?L-_ .1. L-ll J men lu? uhiib rnu^, ouu tuv pcup? ucguu to disperse towards their trains. As they departed a small creature?probably a stockholder?objected to the proceedings and remarked to the superintendent that "it was not best to give fat offices to brakemen for doing nothing." "Precisely," said the superintendent. "But the woman did something, and if you wish to know the full measure of her splendid deed, go put yourself in her place." Uliscctlattcous grading, For the Yorkvlllc Enquirer. "BAPTISM OF CHRIST." There appeared in the Yorkville Enquirer of the 16th of August, an article by Rev. Robert Lathan, on the Baptism of Christ, containing some statements from which Baptists heartily, conscientiously and Scripturally dissent. My attention was called to this article soon after its appearance, and recently a gentleman kindly handed me a copy of the paper containing the article. T tiarl nrocinnalv snme thin PS in VOUT column of "Reading for the Sabbath," which I could not endorse, but thought it best to let it pass ; but there is so much that is objectionable in the article in question, that we hope we may be pardoned for asking for space for a reply. 1. Mr. Lathan says: "We proceed to declare that iu the accepted meaning of the word baptism, Jesus Christ was not baptized at all." Now, we readily admit that in the meaning of the word accepted by pedobaptists, "Jesus Christ was not baptized at all for they accept sprinkling and pouring as the meaning of baptism. But in the meaning of the word accepted by Baptists, and according to Matthew iii.'13; Mark i:9; and Luke iii: 21, Jesus was baptized of John in Jordan. 2. Mr. Lathan asks: "What does the word baptize mean ?"?and answers?"It will be admitted by all candid controversialists, no matter whether.-they be advocates of sprinkling or immersion, that the word baptize has a variety of meanings, according to the circumstances and connection in which it is used." But we deny his assertion, and will show by candid authority that it is incorrect. Dr. Conant, although a Baptist, is a "candid controversialist," aud says: "This word expressed a particular act, namely, immersion in a fluid or yielding substance. The word had no other meaning. * * From the earliest age of Greek literature down to its close, (a period of about two thousand years,) not an example has been found in which the word bad any other meaning. There is no instance iu which it signihes to make a partial application of water by effusion or sprinkling, 'O 4. * 4.1. . 111. or to cleanse, to purny, apart irora ine literal act of immersion, as the means of cleansing or purifying." Dr. Doddridge, a Presbyterian, on Romans vi: 4, says: "It seems the part of candor to confess that here is an allusion to the manner of baptizing by immersion." Dr. Philip Schaff, who is high authority, but not a Baptist, in a work recently published, says of the same verse: "All commentators of note, except Stuart and Hodge, expressly admit that in this verse the ancient mode of baptism by immersion, is implied." Dr. Stourdza, a native Greek scholar, aud one of the most learned of the present age, says: "The verb baptizo has, in fact, but one application. It signifies, literally, and always to plunge. Baptism and immersion are, therefore, identical." I have made it a point for the last twenty years to examine every Greek lexicon I could ' find in any library, and all that I have ever ! seen aive "din." "immerse." or "Dlunere." as the meaning of baptizo, and not one gives "to | sprinkle" or "to pour." Liddle aDd Scott, in J the first edition published by the Harpers, of New York, did give "to pour upon" as a "metaphorical" meaning of the word; but! they were called upon to show their authority for this meaning or to retract it, and being unable to give such authority, they left it out iu their next edition. I might continue these quotations from candid authorities to show that "it will" not "be admitted by" them all that "the word baptize has a variety of meanings;" but 1 fear that the reader has already cried out enough. 3. Mr. Lathan says in the same conuection : "This is the case with every word. We are not able, at present, to think of a single ex ception." But what I have seen of his writings causes Die to thiok better things of him ; that even a little reflection will convince him that "every word" has literally but one meaning, and thst any other use of that word is figurative. 4. Again, Mr. Lathan says : "There are two baptisms spoken of in the Scriptures? John's baptism and Christian baptism," and he argues that our Saviour was not baptized, because John's is a baptism unto repentance, and Jesus had no sins to repent of. Now, we glory in the sinless purity of our Saviour. We love to think of him as holy, harmless,! undefiled and separate from sinners. But we i love to know that "He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no siu; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." Prophecy represents him, long before he suffered, as making the sins of his people his own, and saying of them : "Mine iniquities ! have taken hold upon me." We know that when the Father laid on him the iniquities of na all .Tftsiis said : "Mv soul is exceediDC sorrowful." He assumed our low place, and ; was really the sinner's substitute. In obe-1 dience to a law of his kingdom, he was bap-' tized as one dead to sin. The argument from i the siulessuess of Christ, who is the sinner's ; substitute, weighs nothing at all; especially j since the Bible, which is a complete revela- ! tion of divine truth, and a perfect rule of i faith and practice, makes no difference be- : tween John's baptism and Christian baptism. I That Jesus received John's baptism is cer- \ tain; for the Bible says he was baptized of! John iu Jordau. I was startled to see that Mr. Lathan says I of John's baptism : "This much we do know, it was not of divine origin !" John expressly says: "He," that is, God, "has sent me to baptize." Jesus teaches the same thing in the question : "The baptism of John, whew was it: from heaven or of men ?" 6. Mr. Lathan says: "Christian baptisi was not instituted until after the death an resurrection of Jesus," and quotes the con mission. To this I will reply in the languag of George W. Clark's commentary on Ma thew xxviii: 19. "The language of this lai commission implies that this was not the it stitution of the ordinance. It was the e: tending to all nations the preaching of tb gospel, baptism and the observances < Christ's commands. As well might it be sai that here began gospel preaching, as tbc posnel baDtism here had its beginning." Tht the gospel dispensation began before the deat of Jesus is clearly taught in the Word < God. Mark calls his account of the baptist of John, "the beginning of the gospel of J< sus Christ." If the gospel dispensation ha not already begun, how could Jesus say "From the days of John the Baptist, until no' the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force." How coul he say again: "The law and the prophel were until John; since that time the King dom of God is preached, and every ma presseth into it." Not only did the gosp< dispensation begin with the baptism of Johr but the act of baptism was the same, both b< fore and after the death of Christ. Whs John did to Jesus and the multitudes in th wilderness, that Jesus commanded in the las commission, and the same act was performs on the believing thousands on the day o Pentecost, on the believing jailer,, the believ ing eunuch, and all other believers; for tb same word, baptizo, expresses what was don in every case, and that word, as we hav shown, means only to dip or to immerse. 7. Mr. Lathan says: "John baptized?tha is, washed?Jesus in or with water, prepare tory to bis entering upon tne puonc iuncuon of his office as priest." But the Bible says m such thing. It does say that he is prophet priest and king; but nothing i9 said abou his induction into either of these offices. Fo the consecration of the priests, see Lev. viii 1?14. It was done at the door of the taber nacle. Christ was baptized in Jordan. Be sides, nothing can be found in tbe so-calle< induction of Jesus into the priest's office cor responding to the garments, tbe crown, tb< breast plate, the mitre, the golden plate, etc Christ's baptism was not an induction inb the priest's office; for it is said of him: "Thoi art a priest forever, after the order of Mel chisedec." With all due respect, I wouh ask, Are not all these efforts to find a differ ence between John's baptism and Christiai baptism, so many efforts to avoid the plaii truth that baptism and immersion are identi cal ? And might it not much more reasena bly be expected that infidels would place thes imaginary differences among their evidence that the Bible is not of divine origin, thai that Christians should use them as they do? Mr. Lathau defines baptism thus: "Bap tism has been Scripturally defined to be 'i sacrament of the New Testament, whereii Christ has ordained the washing with wate in the name of the Father and of the Son am of the Holy Ghost to be a sign and seal o engrafting into himself, of remission of sin by His blood, and regeneration by His spir it.' " He continues: "If this definition b< correct, it is clear that Jesus was not baptize! by John." This definition is clearly unserip tural and incorrect. The very fact that ac cording to it, Jesus was not baptized by John is positive proof that it is incorrect. It is an article of tbe faith of Mr. Lathan'i denomination, as well of Presbyterians ant Baptists, that if a person is "once in Chris he is in Christ forever." There is no sue! thing as falling from grace and being finallj lost. When Mr. Lathan baptizes a child, i has a sign and seal that it is engrafted int( Christ; that its sins are remitted by Hii blood, and that it bus been regenerated bj His spirit. This favored child grows up anc becomes desperately wicked?a drunkard anc a murderer. He is justly condemned to b< hanged for his crimes. Mr. Lathan is callec to visit the prisoner, and to be consistent wit! his definition, and with the doctrine of th< perseverance of the Saints, he needs only t( say to the wretched criminal: "Be of gooc cheer; you are a child of the covenant, anc as such I baptized you in your infancy. Youi engrafting into Christ, the remission of youi oino vnnr regeneration are sealed. Feai J - -D Dot; you are safe." We conclude that Jesus was baptized, anc that iD his baptism he received both John'i and Christian baptism, which are identical that his baptism was not initiatory to thi priest's office; that the whole scheme of ma king a difference between John's baptism anc Christian baptism is an effort to avoid thi truth that Baptists alone baptize, and tha Mr. Lathan's definition of baptism is fearful ly unscriptural and incorrect. B. G. Covington. HOW MATCHES ARE MADE. A block of wood two feet long, and of i sufficient thickness for the match, is placed 01 an iron shelf on a machine not a great dea more ponderous than a sewing machine. Th< shelf moves forward by I'ttle jumps, bringing the end of the block just above a cutter com posed of tiny circles of steel, which takes of twelve splints at each ascending stroke. Thes< splints then pass between the links of a chain as it is called, composed of two pieces of wooc (each the length of a common clothespin, anc of the same shape were it open at both ends' placed together, their convex sides towardi each other. These pieces are linked at eithe; end in twos, the parts about an inch apart forming a continuous chain two hundred fee in length. This chain passes through th< machine directly over the cutter, the splint a3 they are separated from the block beinj received between the two sides of the clothes piu link, which is grooved to suit them. Th< chain moves just rapidly enough to take u] the result of each cutting as the knife per forms its work. Passing along a few feet, i little hammer jumps up from the floor an( strikes each link with force enough to dislodgi the imperfect splints which are but slighth held, and they drop on the floor. A few fee further on the chain passes over a wheel which revolves slowly in a tiny reservoir o i -j i--:?*? .u. ;nn;n;an meueii uniu&iuiie, mc cuno ui mo matches getting a bath as they pass. Aftei this they move forty or fifty feet further, un til quite dry, when on their return course the; are held down by a steel finger, and made t< just taste the liquid phosphorous, which is ta ken up by a second wheel from a reservoi similar to that which holds the brimstone They then finish their journey of forty or 6ft; feet, by which time they are quite dry. A the end of the course the chain passes over i wheel elevated above the cutting machine from which it falls perpendicularly. As eacl link reaches a tray made to receive them, th matches, smoking and threatening to ignite :e are gently pushed from it by a sliding piece of steel, which is thrust out just often enough n to dislodge each row as it is brought along by ^ the endless chain. This emptied of its contents, soon passes again through the machine 1_ over the block, to receive another package of !e its tiny freight within each of its innumerat ble links. Eight of these machines (the wrist ter has reference to a particular manufactory) v are running constantly, making eight hundred gross of matches per day, a gross numbering fourteen thousand, and chipping away in the ? course of a year six hundred thousand feet of " pine lumber. This lumber is thoroughly dried d in a kiln before being prepared for the malt chines. Two hundred thousand feet of bass it wood are annually made into shipping cases, h Three hundred barrels of brimstone and ninety thousand pounds of phosphorous are taken up yearly by these endless chains from the lifen | tie reservoirs. d THE PRESIDENTIAL PEACE.MAKING. : A Radical Ohio Editor's Experience in the w Sooth with Hayes. 3, What I have seen with my eyes, heard with d my ears, and investigated with my faculties, ^ I am fain to believe, until otherwise convinced by better testimony. I went South on the recent Presidential tour with some misgivings D as to the manner of his reception, and incredd ulous about the sincerity of the invitations exi, tended to him to accept Southern hospitality. y. I was the more incredulous because in addit tion to the shocking history of some of the e Southern States during a few years past, I had witnessed violent scenes and heard virult: lent sentiments in Louisiana, less than four d years ago, that had impressed me that the f Southern people of this generation were incori. rigibly hostile to the nation which had been e established by arms in 1865. I had even e some prudential personal doubts about venturing further South than Nashville, at least, 6 for in my correspondence from New Orleans I had been plain spoken. I bad reason to A ? 4 .? 1 1 t minx tnat mere were tnose wno reaa newspai pere who would not take keenly to a corresa pondent who had told the truth as he saw it? 0 and as it at that time was abundantly confirmed. But the cordial, hearty and mani'' festly sincere greeting of the President at 1 Louisville, where Southern feeling was as inr tense during the war, and since, as anywhere : else in theSouth, tempted me on to Nashville, . thence to Chattanooga, onward to Knoxville, . and finally I found myself marching through j Georgia to Atlanta. The contrast between the spring of 1874 in Mississippi and Louisiana, and the autumr of 1577 in the great 8 battle ground of Ken.ucky, Tennessee, Alai. bama and Georgia, wat surprising if not amaz0 ing. I could hardly have credited the peacej ful change from hearsav evidence. I am free to say that warm as I have been in my feel, ing about the South, incredulous as I have been about their professions, apprehensive as '* I have been about the result of the President's 1 policy?although I indorsed it from the bei ginning?I returned from Atlanta assured . that I had seen the beginning of practical per. manent pacification, satisfied that it will be g as vain hereafter to check it on its onward career as it was futile to attempt to stop the 8 irrepressible conflict of 1861 to 1865 with pa3 per protocols. I did not, in the wonderful excitement of the tour, forget the humble freedmen, the i prominent object of all Republican sympathy 3 in the North. I inquired of many about r their condition, and they told substantially , but one story?"Since Masser Hayes been in, we's all been treated better than afore." This 3 is good testimony, but it is not conclusive evs idence that they are not considered an infevinH nflan In Th nt? am anrl ho whrk ornonfn I e that the feelings and traditions of the master j class, or whites of all classes, can be subordinated in ten or twenty or thirty years to the sentiments of right which the North recognizes iu their treatment of the colored people, knows little of human nature. All the legislation and all the bayonets on earth could not B create such a revolution. Time and the j changed condition of things alone can do it. But it is much for the colored people that the "haughty" whites call them not "niggers," hut "colored people;" that they have the right of entry to public places, from which they would have been cruelly clubbed but a few years ago ; that not only the politicians but the common people exhibit a surprising respect for their lawful rights, and accord to them a sympathy hard to be realized by the people in the North who have read of the 1 atrocities of Mississippi and Louisiana. Much i more, it is a great stride for the people of the 1 South, utterly impoverished as they were by . . t , the war,to attempt at tnis comparatively ear3 ly day to provide educational facilities for their former slaves. For it should be remembered } that their commou schools for the whites are ' not of a superior grade, excepting in the cities. * The touch of nature, however, wh;ch brought r about the great civil revolution which Presi dent Hayes has inaugurated, was best expressr ed by Southern men themselves: "Mr. Hayes trusted, us." Many Southern men with whom . I talked said they felt as if they had been abused. They felt dishonored because the 3 professions they made were not believed in > the North, and it exasperated them. To 3 their astonishment, President Hayes accepted . their professions. They were put upon their j honor, and they said that they intended to 4 prove to the President and the country that they could be relied upon. Hence their sincere and cordial reception of bim. They said ' that they were grateful to him, and I could not doubt it when I saw, as I did, people? men and women?in Nashville, whom I had personally known during the war were among the most passionate rebels of the South, foret most among the throng to welcome the Presij dent with all public ceremonials and private ] courtesies that could be accorded to the Chief 3 Magistrate of the nation. Nay, more; at all r points visited I took pains to circulate in the ! crowds about the platforms, and in public f places, to hear the remarks of the common 3 run of people, and the result was, as any one j might have judged from the cheering when \ the President was speaking, that I was coni vinced that the people generally meant all ) that they professed?not that they would 3 change their party, but that they sincerely r want peace, and that the policy of the President would assure it. I t In the bar-rooms the ruder sort of fellows a drank to "our next ticket"?Hayes and 3 Hampton?with great round oaths that soun; ded strangely enough. The wives, widows - and daughters of Confederate officers, the 5 elite of the South, were prominent in the ex > hibition of courtesy to Mrs. Hayes, a fact of - peculiar significance, as everybody who has i understood the intense feeling of the ex-Cou1 federate women since the war may readily e comprehend. I could enumerate a multitude f of incidents illustrative of the points I have t given, which would add spice to the narrative, , but it is hardly necessary. Suffice it, that f from Louisville to Atlanta no member of the t press heard any disrespectful word uttered to r or about the President, but everywhere the - utmost respect for him was exhibited, vastly f more than for the name of Tilden. In fact it ? was a verv common thin? to hear men sav. "I - voted for Tilden, but I am glad that Hayes is r President, for he has done and can do more ). for us than Tilden could have done!" jr I shall not repeat the story of the amazing t journey through the South. It was more in a the nature of a triumphal march, celebrtting >, the reestablish men t of peace and good-will, li than anything else with which I can compare e it, and the President deported himself with a ), dignity, ability, self-possession and manliness that was deeply gratifying to those who knew him well. In conclusion, I repeat that I believe that the President's Southern tour will prove vastly beneficial to the country. It has already established a better feeling, and has opened wide the gates to permanent pacification.?W. D. Dickham, in the Dayton Journal. ME. STEPHENS ON THE SITUATION. Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, has already gone to Washington, in advance of the meeting of Congress. His health is said to be unusually good, and he hopes to be at his desk during the greater part of the session. Since his arrival in Washington he has given expression of his views on leading political questions of the day, which are reported as follows : Regarding the President's Southern policy, Mr. Stephens said that his reception throughout the South has been quite as enthusiastic as was ever accorded a President in any part of the Union, and the reception at Atlanta was a grand tribute from Georgians to a President whose administration has been in accordance with the principles of home rule. Mr. Stephens objects to the term Southern, as applied to the Prcsiderrt'rpolicy, for the re&-> son that it gives a sectional aspect to the question. He prefers the term constitutional policy, as being more in accord with the JefFereonian Democratic doctrine of home rule, and the settlement by each State of all domestic questions. Mr. Stephens further said that the President had made grand strides in doing away with all sectional feelings, and in assuaging the bitter recollections engendered by the war. That President Hayes, through his policy, has done more for the pacification of the country than Tilden could have accomplished had he been inaugurated; that the appointment of a representative Southern man to the vacancy on.the Supreme bench would be a further grand step towards the ends so earnestly desired. The South now has no representation on the bench, and the appointn C M nii/] Iwm/S Mtnn r>Am f kn f AAA lueut ui a guuu auu uuc uau IIV/IU tuai ow tion would be a grateful act of justice on the part of the President. Mr. Stephens considers that the appointment of ex-Governor Herschel V. Johnson, of Georgia, to the vacancy, would give general satisfaction throughout the Southern States, and would receive the cordial approval of seven-tenths of thS Northern Democracy. He considers ex-Governor Johnson head and shoulders above all the candidates he has heard mentioned for the office and in every respect preeminently qualBed for the position. Mr. Stephens strongly favors the selection of Mr. Randall for the Speakership, and says that bis course during the closing hours of the Forty-fourth Congress is worthy of the thanks and gratitude of the whole country. In regard to the Texas and Pacific Railroad, Mr. Stephens says he is decidedly in favor of it, and has been for the last five years; in fact, even before the war he favored it as the route to the Pacific, which would not only benefit the South but the whole country. YIEWS OF ROBERT M. WALLACE. United States Marshal Wallace was in New York last week, and while there fell into the hands of the inevitable interviewer. His views regarding the policy of President Hayes are reported as follows: "The people of the South are pleased and surprised with it. At first they were intensely bitter because Mr. Tilden was not seated, but Mr. Hayes has done all for them that they could have hoped, even from Mr. Tilden, thus far, at least. I have, myself, not the least doubt of Mr. Hayes' sincerity of purpose, but his policy is as yet only an experiment, which I am sure will fail. It would onnnaar) ajifti tVio nonnlo nf tnv rtfKop nflpt nf OUV.V.V.V.VJ (/VV^.V -"J the Union?the Western or the Eastern people?but the Southerners are peculiar in all things, and particularly in their present relations to the national government; they have no ground work of kind feeling toward it as a government to begin on. They think the concessions they gained were made because their attitude frightened the Northern people; they have no generosity. They mean to keep all they have; they intend to get all they can, until they again control the national government, as before the war. The South * i r rr ernera were pleased wild Mr. Hayes personally and are showing it by the way in which they received him during his Southern tour. Some enthusiasm is for Hayes and no small part for Wade Hampton ; but the Southerners are doing much of it for effect. They want to make such an impression on Mr. Hayes that he shall believe they are preeminently fitted to hold office. Hungrier officeseekers were never seen, and they hope to convince Hayes if he is really sincere in civil service reform, that they are the right men for all places. Wade Hampton, by his performance in the Presidential tour, is striving to acquire a national reputation. He is vain enough to believe that he may be the next President, or at least Vice-President. He must be careful, however; the Southerners are even now beginning to regard his sentiments as too cordial toward the North. There is a point beyond which he must not pass, or he will fall in their opinion in the condition of Mr. Key, whom they ridicule for servility and denounce as a traitor/' To the above opinions as expressed by Mr. Wallace, the New York Tribune remarks : "Mr. Wallace betrays some nervousness as to the office-seeking propensities of the Southern Democrats. It is to be hoped that none of them have been so inconsiderate as to seek his." Sam Houston and the Ham.?On a recent business trip to Houston, Texas, I had for a traveling companion a well-known merchant, who told story after story of early days in Texas. One struck me as worth preserving. "When my father first came here," said the merchant, "he settled in Houston?then the capital of Texas. I was put in a grocery store under a very strict and parsimonious boss. One morning, just as I had swept out, Tom, Gen. Houston's body servant, came into T ?Ann/? Kfl arviorl a Una I Lit? BLUJC* JJUUaiug luuuu uo ojiivu u uuv ham?a rara avis in those days. Having asked the price, he said he would take it and the President would call around and pay for it. I felt proud of my sale, and called the attention of the boss to it as soon as he came in. "Did you get the money ?" he asked quickly. "No; but President Houston is coming round to pay for it." "President Houston?the devil! Did Tom say he would see it paid ?" "No, sir." " 'Then you are a fool. Now, sir, you go straight to the President's kitchen and bring me that ham, unless Tom will say it shall be paid for.' "I started off very much crestfallen, and not likiug the job before me. ?ut I resolutely walked into the President's kitchen. Tom was there. I saw my ham lying there, with a few slices cut off it, and seizing it, told Tom that unless he would undertake to see that the money was paid, I must take it back. "Tom cogitated awhile, and then said:? 'Young man, take back your meat. The Gineral is a mighty good master, but a mighty poor paymaster, and I don't keer to involrilate myself with his debts.' "This was enough for me. I left with the ham in my hand. Going around to the gate, I had to pass the front door. There stood Gen. Houston, the President of Texas, with a pocket handkerchief in one hand and a toothpick in the other. 'My little man/ says he, in his superb manner, "tell your master I am nnder great obligations for a most delicious breakfast, and would pay him, but I really haven't got the money. The fact is, young man, Texas is very poor, and, as her President, I must share her poverty.' " Good Manners.?The essence of good manners is kind thonghtfulness of others. The man who goes to his 'room in a hotel stamping and talking through the corridor, slamming his door, and flinging his boots down heavily upon the floor is merely brutally selfish. He is not aware that he owes duA^liAa nAAnlft tnltA mill ka O ku tlCO bU UbUCi pcvuio TTUV VVUi W wuvywvu wj his conduct He does not think that he rudely awakens some one to whom sleep is indispensable, and whom he has no right to disturb. Hayden'8 picture of the man in the chop-house waiting for the Times, which his neighbor has held for an hoar, and is evidently bent upon holding nntil he has read all the advertisements, is an illustration of this common selfishness. The talk and conduct in the cars are generally signs of vanity or a morbid self-coBsciomness. A^well-bred man keeps his toothaches and headaches to himself, and does not assume that strangers are interred in his digestion. A well-bred woman keeps her children quiet, and does not assume that all her fellow-traveler* mast share her fondness for them. If Mrs. P., with her vivid sense of Mr. P.'s peculiarities and of her fine house and equipage, could only once know how supremely unimportant any individual is, how well the world fared before Mr. P. arrived, and how unshocked the universe will be by his departure, she would be a modest and well-mannered woman. That knowledge, indeed, would be a general corrective of manners. A certain kind of personal conceit often : accompanies undeniable superiority. There are men, like Lord Chatham, who like to have their going and Coming regarded as I events, to move with a pompous bustle, and to be constantly recognized as great men. But if they could only know it, that very taste is constantly accounted to them for weakness, and their influence is just so far lessened. Av AwTTQTwa flrirvTz ?THa Nnrfnllc nnnn ty (Massachusetts') Gazette vouches for the trutn of the following: Two drummers, agents respectively for rival blacking and mucilage, were in Hyde Park on Thursday last,, drumming up trade. They encountered each other in Mr. Miles' grocery storein the Town Hall building, and while advocating the merits of their wares one man hinted that the other's articles contained an acid injurious to leather. The insinuation was indignantly repelled, and the agent offered a bet of $5 to $2 that it was not so, and to prove his sincerity he would eat the contents of one box and wash it down with a bottle of mucilage. The bet was taken. Calling for two pilot biscuits, he sandwitched the blacking between them, and without flinching ate the whole, and as a stimulant drank the contents of the bottle of mucilage. The spectators looked to see startling developments, but the man coolly took up his two dollars, and with a bland smile took the grocer's order for several gross of blacking and walked hurriedly away, leaving his astonished competitor to meditate on the loss of a customer and two dollars. "Over the River."?A minister who had lost his child asked another minister to come and preach for him. He came, and he told how he lived on one side of a river and felt little interest in the people on the other side, until his daughter was married and went over there to live, and then every morning he went to the window and looked over that river, and felt very muoh concerned about that town and all the people there. Now," said he, "I think that as this child has crossed another river, heaven will be dearer, to him than ever it has been before." Shall we not just let our hearts and affections to-night be set on the other side of the river ? It is but a step, it is but a vail; and we shall soon be in the other world. If we have the Good Shepherd He will be with us in the dying hour, and ?l*i.t As\ IT 14a 5o nnf fkfiA in YYUAL nil1 bUUU UU ll ug to UVV nivu ww m? the swelling of Jordan. Lightening Life.?-If we take from business and worldly cares no time for recreation and relief, no time for acts looking to the future and a better life, the hour is certain to arrive, sooner or later, when a crisis will confront us, compelling us to do all these things which we so muoh neglect in the routine of business or professional life. How much better is it, then, to make rest, recreation, reflection, thoughts of a future and a better, purer and holier state of existence, a part of our daily experience, combining business with charity, industry with kindness, perseverance with fortitude, experience with religion, a commingling of qualities and hopes that lighten life as we go through the world, and add to the pleasures of the present with a view to the hereafter. Wealth Not Omnipotent.-?Wealth is potent in its own sphere, but imjpotent beyond it It can pat a telegraph under the sea ana cover the land with a network of wires as with a spider's web. It can build railroads and bridge oceans. It can buy houses and lands and every material advantage! but here its power stops. It cannot purchase goodness, or justice, or gentleness, or patience, or love, or true friendship. It cannot make character stronger or life sweeter. It can say to the minister, I will feed you and clothe you while you are making men better, and to the teacher, I will take care of you while you are making men wiser, but it can do nothing without the brain of wisdom or the heart of goodness. It can build railroads, but it cannot build men. Hate Not.?It is not worth your while. Your life is not long enough to make it pay to cherish ill-will or hard thoughts. What if this man has cheated you, or that man has Dlaved vou false? What if your friend has * ?* ~ * # # forsaken you in time of need, or that one, having won your utmost confidence, your warmest love, has concluded that he prefers to consider and treat you as a stranger. Let it all pass. What difference will it make to you in a few years, when you go to the undiscovered country ? A few more smiles, a few more pleasures, much pain, a little more hurrying and worrying through the world, some hasty greetings, abrupt farewells, and our play will be "played out," the injury will be laid away, and, ere long, forgotton. Is it worthy to hate each other? A Terrible Shock.?The courier from Helena bearing dispatches, reached Shaw the following day. As the dust-covered horseman approached the quarters, a lady, sitting in front of one of the cottages, with a young babe in her arms, accosted him : "Have you news from the command ?" "Yes, madam, I bring dispatches." "Tell me the news, quick." "A battle was fought on the ninth. Cap,ain Logan and Lieut. Bradley are among the killed." The babe dropped from the nerveless arms and the young mother fell back in a swoon. It was Mrs. Bradley, the wife of the brave officer first to fall in the recent Indian battle of the Big Hole.?Helena (Montana) Herald. WaS" He went softly behind the door and murmured, T am a man of very quiet taste/ Then he took a flask from his pocket and quietly tasted something. \