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*. ** ■ ■ i ■ - V jr-SBIc o - 7?' - >►.* •• rail: /■ *' *'■■■,.'■: '■■•* r A -if* HE ■-?. — . CHARLES E. R. DRAYTON, Manager. AIKEN S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1SS0. : V? YOLUME 5.—NUMBER 26. ■ REMOVAL TO IS THF VFORO 4 F4IFURF i men tif a * 1 race8 ,00 ^ hack to the; R.T. Greener, himself a fair mulatto, neKrolaborerujnot the introduction of ±X11J -L’ Aj'* ^ i xiij. j ^ ome an ,j cradle of their race j says, in all such cases the white mania white peasantry -which shall by 1 with love and loji"i»jr—all except the has been the miscegenationist and j some process displace and supplant negro. He does uat desire to go back : the negro woman the facile victim, the negro. I have endeavored to make AN ABIiE AND SCHOLARLY RE- VIEW OF THE QUESTION. Views of Hun. W. C. Renet, of South Carolina—the Brother in Black ami His Future. Abbeville/B. C., March 31. to Africa; he cannot be induced to go | and the offspring is proof not of the ! there. The dark Continent lias no j attractiveness of the negress in the ! charms for him. Of the one hundred white man’s eyes, as Fredeiick D«>ug- and twenty-seven petty African tribes lass would have us to believe, but only 1 which are said to have furnished the ' of a convenience. There may be iso slaves to the fields of the South, is | lated cases of intermarriage, but they there one negro of all the seven mil- j will never betoken a race movement, lions who knows or cares to know to j The mulattos form a fringe of bas- whicli he belongs? Judging him by j tardy the on great negro race—asignof Editors Chronicle: Your letter of| t^J’bBjdard, applicable to other men xCTPFWggjgga "s) REPAIRING AS RE Cl ALT YY* JUHlAtMUQ* CM*M-a 4.0. 267 King Street, Opppsite Masonic Temple, CHARLESTON, So. Ca. • :0 ■ McElree s Jewery Palace, WILL BE REMOVED TO ITS NEW LOCATION ON KING STREET, (OPPOSITE MASONIC TEMPLE) ON THE 18TH INSTANT. Thf^J^ildiiig has been Specially altered and repaired by Mr. McElree. The eeiif^Kraised and frescoed in oil—u new plate glass front of antique design, surmounted by double rows of small squares of colored glass which has a pleasing and stricking effect—no other storefront like it in the United States. The interior is like a FAIRY PALACE and worth a journey to see, and Mr. McElree is now at the North selecting an entire New Stock. The Ware for kale will be in keeping with their surroundings, ahead of any thing ever Of fered in thissection «f country. During the next TEN DAYS (to 18th instant,) he offers the entire stock in his store under the Waverly House at YOUR OWN PRICE, MAKE YOUR ^SELECTIONS AND NAME YOUR PRICE is all that is necessary to effect k sale. ^member this thing last for these TEN DAYS only, after that we make jets. IVIcElree’s Jewelry Palace, fG STREET, - - - - CHARLESTON, S. C. 18th inst. was duly received. It calls to my attention tlie conversation with i Prof. White, of the University of Geor gia, on “The Negro as a Failure,” | printed in a recent issue of theChron- } iele; and you ask my “opinion about | the negro as a laborer, and of the race | as a peasantry for the South.” And | you further ask if I “believe that we I must look for a new class to supply ! his place on the farm,” and if “scien- | tilic’ and intensive farming, and j Northern and foreign immigration are j j the best substitutes for the present ' i labor system of the South.” It gives j me pleasure to comply with your re- j quest. First, then, as to THE NEGRO AS A LABORER: Prof. White does not say the negro is a failure as a laborer. He does pro- degradation of the white man and of nounee him a failure a “skilled -ii— 1885. New Goods. FaS! Trade. 2835 Window Shades and Lace Curtains, Wilton, Velvet, Brussels, 3-ply In grain Carpets, Hearth Rugs, Door Mats; Art Carpet, Window Shades of every size and Color, embracing all th« New Styles, Cocoa, Cuton and Napier Mat tings, Floor Oil Cloths and Linoleums. Lace Curtains, Window Cornices and Poles, New Walnut, Cherry, Ash Ebony and Brass Cornices and Poles. Turcoman Curtains and Draperies. Upholstery Goods. Raw Bilks in a variety of Patterns. Fringes in all Colors. Hair Cloths, Cane and Gimp and Bultoms. Wall Papers, Borders ami Decorations. Just Opened For All Trades: Oil Paintings, Engraving ami Chromos. Brooms, Duster*, Baskets, Door Tats, Walnut and Rubber Weather .Strips for Doors and Window, to keep out cold, ami all sold at Lowest Prices. ^ J ARIES G. BAILIE & SONS, Chronicle Building, 714 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. Bontiurant, Japing & Co, Manufacturers or-— ^LL KINDS OF BRICKS! .. Proprietors of the Old and Popular DeLAIGLE AND AUGUSTA BRICK YARDS, establish .1 in 1820! Esti mated production since then 2")0,000,000 Brick! Quality and color unsur passed North or South. Large stock always on hand. For information, Held F6SS BONDURANT, JOPLING & CO., Augusta, Ga. laborer,” and in this no doubt he is correct. Nor would he go far wrong if lie said that the field-laborers of “France, England and Ireland”— three countries he mentions—were failures as skilled laborers. Having some acquaintance with the peasan try of those European countries, I can not agree with the professor that they are “scientific-laborers.” Intelligent they may be—very many of them are —much more so than the negro; but surely not scientific. Is it really necessary that farm laborers should be scientific or skilled? That the farmer himself should be so, needs no argu ment; just as the ship captain must be skilled in the science of navigation whether his crew he so or not. It is the lui> of the crew and of the farm la borers to obey the orders of the cap tain, to carry out the directions of the farmer. “Theirs not to reason why; theirs not to make reply.” And the captain and the farmer must see that i heir commands are obeyed. Asa laborer pure and simple. I do not regard tbe negro a failure. On the contrary, when under the super vision of the white man, he is an ex cellent laborer; but white supervision constant and efficient, firm if kind, the white man must exercise over him. His line physique enables him to stand hard work; and, easily satis fied, easy to manage, light-hearted and simple, he never is so happy as when left alone by demagogues and philanthropists and suffered to do hi* day’s work and eat his frugal meal. Employers of labor in other parts of the world account the Southern States, fortunate in possessing in the negroes a laboring class whose docile and con tented disposition prevents them from combining in strikes and unions while the white laborers of the North and of Europe, with much turbulauce and violence, are forming themselves into a grand army of the discontent ed. OUR SOUTHERN CLIMATE. must not be forgotten in this discus sion. What white laborer can hike the negro’s place in the sweltering rice-fields, the steaming corn-field.- and blazing cotton-fields of. our too sunny South? The negro is the child of the sun and the swamp, and he thrives and grows sleek where the philanthropy, at great cost es tablished for the negro the republic of Liberia, and a second exodus was looked for. But the negro prefers the flesh-pots and still lives in the land ] an almost invisible selvage of Egypt. He prefers to live in a — :1 * " *— u --* K — white man’s country, subjected to the influence and example and control of the white man; and in truth, the negro is at his best with these sur roundings. Shall we ask him or compel him Tv) MIGRATE to some Western or Southwestern res ervation? Even if like obstacles did not make migration as difficult as emigration, it would he found, I ap prehend, that reservation does not re serve; for would the white man ob serve the reservation? Let the red man testifv.. WILL THE N-EGRO “DIE OUT,” As Some sanguitd* prophets foretell? They predict the speedy extinction of the black race as in the case of the red Indian, the CariV, the Maori the New Hollander. But the negro, although of tiie most obliging disposition, will not oblige us in this regard. He will not for our convenience ettace himself and disappear us if his day were done and his lamp going out in tue dark ness. He thrives and multiplies best and quickest when living in a white man’s country. The elasticity and plasticity of disposition whicii is the negroes distinguishing characteristic, vlfashnabled liim t<< suomit contentedly RySq^^ries of slavery, and it will epableMKii in a state of freedom to live in the pn«^mce of the white man without dangc extermination. Of all savage people, the negro is tlieiinly one that can see the Anglo- Saxon’s face and live. The fierce red Indian, the gentle Uarib, the brave Maori, the savage Australian all van ish from before the white man. Civ ilized they can not be, demosticated they will not be, It is with wild peo ple* as it is with wild animals; the untamable are doomed to extinction —only the tamable can survive. The no elevation in the negro. That fringe, so broad under slavery, will gradually but surely grow narrower in a state of freedom until it will become And it will be well for both races when it shall wholly disappear. The mulatto class has supplied nearly all thestirr- ers-up of strife between the two races They do not like to consort with the blacks. au<l they cannot make their way into the society of the whites. Hence the too frequent • hut quite natural bitterness and antipathy in the breasts of those people. The blacks of Hayti have a suggestive pro verb about the mulatto: “H* hates his father and despises his mother.” He can be of little use to either race, and the sooner, lie vanishes out of sight the better for both. I am glad to believe with Prof. Greener that the signs of the times betoken his disap pearance. • What is the conclusion of the whole matter? Emigration, migration, in termarriage, extinction—there is no hope in any nor in ail of these. The two races are destined to live together in the s^me country, under the same laws. Can they live together in peace? Can there be political union without social fusion ? Can there be proprinqUity without hybridity ? Can theie be nationalization without amal gamation? Without being too sanguine, I feel that I can answer “Yes,” if oniy the people of the North and the people of the South will let the negro alone to work out his own civilization—to live out his own history. To South and North alike I would say, “Let the ne- ro alone.” To the North I would , Let the South alone; let tiie races live here in peace. Let the ne gro be no longer tiie spoilo l pet of sen timental philanthropists—tiie special object of care to all people with a mission, Treat him as a man and not as a little child. Meddle not witli race movements; they will adjust them selves. There need be no conflict, for their lives are diverse. There need be no antagonism, for there is no riv alry. Left to himself, tin* negro seeks horse and the ox, the camel and the | and needs no better friend than hi- will secure the negro from extinction and danger of extermination. He is a nation of cockneys, as Carlyle says, happiest when living with the white ! fair skinned whitemuu shrivels upand j man ; and as such be will continue dies. There is much truth in what j to live with the white man happy and Sir George Campbell says in bis “While and Black in tiie United dog live and thrive as man’s faithful servants: but the days of I lie lion and the buffalo, tiie tiger and the wolf are numbered. Job’s question is tiie test —‘ Will lie make a eouvenant with thee? Wilt thou take him fora ser vant forever?” The Southern negro’s present con dition is one of domestication and not of civilization. He has adopted the language, the religion, the customs, the dress of his former master. Civ ilization is the outgrowth of influ ences and tendencies from within: domestication comes from influences from without, and it necessarily take- its color and character from its sur roundings. Civilizntioq is a polish, domestication is a veneer; the one conceals the rough grain of the pine, white neighbor aud employer. From the cradle to the grave the white man and the black have the kindliest feel ings towards each oH;er. A negro nurse rocks the white man’s cradle; a negro nurse arrays him for the grave; and negro servants and neigh bors shed honest tears at his funeral, i'liere is the most cordial friendship between white man and negro and yet no social intercourse. Neither seeks i it, nor will ever seek it, Tims they live together on the same soil, next- door neighbors, with distinct social sytem; not on different social plans or levels, as is sometimes charged, for their lives are. so distinct there is no medium of comparison — no higher, no I' v. erA-but entirely apart. There let them live, pursuing tl cir course in the other brings out the grained beau- . parallel lines of progress, never meet- ty of tiie oak. But the very ease with : ing, never coming in conflict, but each which he puts on the veneer j helping the other when their interests GIN RIBS! GIN RIBS! I HAVE secured Patterns and propose to furnish RIBS for all makes of Gins at reasonable prices. CASTINGS of all kinds in Iron an Brass at short notice. Special attention given to Repairs. Satisfaction guaranteed! TRIY PEHDLET0NY70UN0RYYlHDjt'aaSHIH£YW0RKS Nos. 615, 617 and 619, Kollock St„ - - AUGUSTA, GA. CHAS. F. LOMBARD, Proprietor.V r M PENDLETON, Snp’t. contented—if the politician ami the pseudo-philanthropist will only let States.” —(pp. 160-1.)— him alone. “The American blacks are in a fair Some think they see a solution of wav of becoming a comfortable, well | the knotty negro problem, the only ALFRED BAKER, President. JOS. S. BEAN,-Cashier. *THE AUGUSTA SAVINGS BANK, OF AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. to-do population to a degree found in very few countries, a condition which may compare very favorably not only with the Indain ryot, the Russian serf, or the Irish tenant-farmer, but also with the Dorsetshire laborer. I doubt whether, on the whole, a better I laboring population, more suited to the climate and country in which they I find themselves, is anywhere to be found.” YOUR SECOND QUESTION RELATES TO THE NEGROES AS A PEASANTRY FOR THE SOUTH. Prof. White is reported as having said that “the great necessity of Geor gia was a peasantry,” meaning by iliat term “intelligent and scientific Cash Assets Surplus - $300,000.00 50,000.00 Interest on Deposits of Five to Two Thousand Dollars. Sums of OneDolllar aud Upward Received. -O- Dlrcctors—James A. Loflin, E. O’Donnell, Eugene J. O’Cornner, Alfred Raker, E. R. Schneider, W. B. Young, William Schweigert, EdgerR. Derry Jules Rival, Joseph S. Beam, J. Henry Bredenburg. JOSEPH BIEIIMAX, rm TAI LOR 61S Broad street, Augusta, Georgia., - Would respectfully ano,,m*e to his Mends and the pub!!<* that he has now on hand and is dail^ receiving, a select stock of Spring and Summer SSyies, Consisting of SUI iTNGh and TROUSERINGS, etc., which he will m ike up in the Latest Style at Lowest Prices. Sati.-faction guaranteed in every particular. reasonable and natural cue, in amal gamation of tiie two races by INTERMARRIAGE, whereby the whites shall absorb tbe blacks, or the blacks shall absorb the whites. Of this we need have no fear. The proud race whose blood flows in our vains will never stoop to marriage with the negro, or with any colored race. It has scorned so to do with the Hindoo, the New Zealander, the Red Indian; there is no reason tosupposc- it will content to marriage with the ! less attractive negro. Although Bishop Dudley, of Ken tucky, sees it in the far distant future and Cannon Rawlinson plainly and forcibly advocates it as the true rein- laborers such as” France, England, all our social ills and race and even down-trodden Ireland con ^ ie * s ». 1 a ! K 1 fedei ick Doug us- iiiive.” If such be lits meaning, no wonder he says “the country is abso lutely without a peasantry.” I have already ventured to doubt if there is such a peasantry in France, England or Ireland. What is a peasantry ? That class of rural laborers who do field and farm work. It does not include farmers or employers ly speaking, a peasantry ! agrees with him in theory and him self furnishes an illustration—yet is race fusion so abiiorent to our race in stincts and so out of accord with tiie history of our race that we can smile at the" absuretl suggestions. Rawlin- son goes so far as to say that such amalgamation “might be counted on to improve in cert tin respects the men of labor. ‘Proper- j t: ‘ l :l ! Kl t l “<V al temperaimnt if m t tbe is of the ! Pl'yaieal characteristics” ofour race, same blood and race as the rest of the j lo quote his words is to explode his inhabitants of the country. The Irish ,, , ,. _ . , peasant is kith and kin to the Irish . ' lhl * ** no theoretical question but peer; the Duchess ,f Devonshire is of! amost one It is no question the same blood as the Devonshire ! ^ improvement m breedingofcattle dairy-maid. In this respect the but u question ot the future of two South lias no peasantry, aud I rather fancy she never will have; for the negro takes the phlce of peasant in the Southern Elites. No doubt he is not like that “bold peas- rMANUFCTURED BY- 8. H. M ATHEWS, (Successor to MATHEWS BROS.,) ^Opposite the Ashley House,) - - - AIKEN. SOUTH CAROLINA, T HESE Wagons are made of first-class material, and in thejmost workman like manner. Improved Axle Cutting Machine for taking up lost motion without the cost of new axles. Buggies made to order aCshort notice, or ordered at Manufacturers Prices from the best inakcri.^Repairing and Paiut- DOWN TOWN CREEN MASK!?! FAMILIES WITH FIRST-CLASS VEGETABLES. THAT IS: NOLTHERN CABBAGES. TURNIPS, BEETS, CARROTS. ONIONS. POTATOES, APPLES, BANANAS, ORANGES, LEMONS, COCO AN UTS, NUTS, RAISINS, CITRON, CURRANTS, &c. ALSO ^ELECTED GROCERIES IX GREAT VARIETY! Goodr. Delivered ut the House. Call at the VIENNA BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY ! W. T. HOFFMAN. PARK A YEN E. ------- - AIKEN, S. C. antry, their country’s pride.” sung by Goldsmith; but here lie is—some seven millions of him. What is to be done with him? He cannot di races of human beings. This is no question of caste; it is no question ot race; no question of master and men ial, rich and poor, intelligent aud ig norant, cultured and rude, but one of race; it is not a question of “tradi tional sentiment,” as 51 r. Cable thinks, but of instinctive race antipa thy: it is not even a question of p<»li- i tics, but only of race. Although Cable L of race instincts as without us, ami I fear we cannot g^-, , on without him. But, supposing we , ^nd Rawlinson to supply his place on the farm by the | ‘"“F theorize about improvement introduction of white peasantry from ! ” f 1111 Anglo-Saxtou stock by the tiie North and from Europe, shall we do with tiie negro? we ask him to EMIGRATK TO AFRICA? This he could not do even if he de- White, 1 ' may i: of an Anglo-Saxton stock by what i iiifasion ot negro blood, tiie test ques tion after all is this; Will you lei your daughter marry a negro? He who can say “yes” to that question readily, easily, and as a matter of course, and not in tbe spirit of a mar shal 1 are mutual, tiie white man helping his weaker brother whenever possi ble, as the negro knows so well bow to obtain help, and as the Southern white man Knows so well how to be stow it—a unique relationship unders tood nowhere else. Tiie foregoing remarks, Mr. Editor, show that in answering your third question, “Must we look for a new class to supply the negro’s place on ihe farm?”--in my opinion, we need not. There is great need of Improve ment in him as a laboring class. It is true that among the negroes, as Prof. White says, “there is a low state of morality and little disposition to “acquire property.” But let us be pa tient. Charity am-l the one-wife fami ly system distinguished our Teutonic race in tiie dawn of history. It is not suiprising that tins negro and negroes are unmindful of the sanctity of the marriage vow when we reflect that their progenitors of three or four gen erations hack practiced polygamy and polyandry, and that among their uot- distant e< usins hi Africa to-day chast ity is an unknown and unknowable virtue. As to their learning to acquire prop erty,this,too.is a virtue of slow growth among inferior races. To lay up some thing for the morrow; fora rainy day, or for winter; for next year; for sick ness ami old age; for one’s children and heirs; these, in rough, are tiie suc cessive steps i.’i ihe arduous and slow task of learning economy; and the negro has hardly arrived at the point of saving up for next year. But he will learn in time, and we must be patient wit h him. The Germans have a proverb, “When emptying out the bathing tub, don’t throw out the baby.” Asa farm laborer cannot be dispensed with in the South, and if we could do without him, the South ern farmer and planter would soon spoil the white laborers and unfit them for labor. Nor can we get on without the negro in many other kinds of work. For example, as house servants; with all his and her faults, aud they are not few, the Southern housewife prefers the negro and his wife to the white servant. Tiie negro nurse, the negro cook, the negro housemaid, the negro serving- m in—what Southern woman, who values her peace of mind, would ex change those faithful and kind-heart ed servants for white ones, no matter how much more competent they may be? Kind hearts are more than com petency, and broken crockery is easier to stand than Ivoken contracts. In regard to “scientific and inten sive farming,” as a “substitute for tiie plain that such a substitution, even if desirable, is not possible. What, then, is the remedy? Will Prof. White permit me to suggest that what the South needs is not a white peas antry, but a largely increased yeo manry ? A YIMMAXRY. By this term I mean that class of white citizens generally known as small farmers—men who with hired negro labor work farms of fifty, a hundred er two hundred acres; if they own the farms they till, so much the better. There are many such in the South, but their numbers should he, and with well directed efforts could be increased ten fold. Inured to work with spade and plow from boyhood, they do not play the gentleman farmer but take their place in the field with their hired negroes, and not only see them do their work, but set them an example. They do not aspire to he planters; they do not deal in futures and try to make fortunes by specula tion; they arc simply farmers who make the earth yield her increase f >r the support of their families. They are not rich, nor are they in haste to be rich; but they are well-to-do, and their thrift and frugality keep them out of debt and thus independent. Perhaps the most prosperous county in South Carolina owes its prosperity f * the unusually large number of such s nail farmers within its borders—a yeomanry t(4 be proud of—such a yeo manry as, to my thinking, the South ern States need above all tilings else. It was just such a yeomanry that about the second quarter of last cen tury came intotlP* Piedmont region of the Carolines and Georgia: Irish and German settlers moving from Penn sylvania; Seotch-Irish ami Scottish settlers from tide-water Virginia; a hardy race of frontiersmen who hew ed their way southward through dense forests and braved the toma hawk and bullet of the dusky savage at every step; an intelligent race of poineers who built a church whore- ever they erected a fort, and planted u- school wherever they planted a crop. Those were they who reclaimed the Piedmont country from nature and tbe savage native, and whose descen dants bid fair to made it Jho most pro-perous and populous part of the Southern States. “We must work for immigration,” says Prof. White By all means— biit let it be for the immigration, net of a white peasantry, but of a yeo manry such as' I have tried to de scribe—small farmers skilled tnechan- cs, tradesmen with small capital. Let them come from England, Ireland or Scotland, from Germany, France or Scandinavia, from Maine, Vermont or Massachusetts—let them come and welcome. “Norman and Saxon and Dane,’ they may be, and even Yankee, whsn thev come, but one generation shall not have passed be fore they will ffil have become South erners. The Southern States and Southern railroad companies should act on Prof. White’s advice and do all in their power, by advertising and olTer- Ing inducements, to divert, in some degree, the current bf immigration to the South, not by such laudsluwk schemes as that which recently brought a Scottish colony of well-to- do settlers to the barren sandy-banks of Sarasota, Fla,; but by such truth ful representations as will assure the industrious and intelligent immigrant that if he will come to these Southern States* and buy a little farm, lie sbaii here find a home where he will delight to dwell. Tons of thousands are seeking such homes, and Hindi homes are here for them. I feel sure that if proper steps were taken thousands of such immigrants might be induced to come frou the North and from Europe and be happily and permanently settled in our Southern country. Thus would the unoccupied lauds of the South become the abode of a sturdy and numerous yeomanry; and thus only, in mv opinion, will the vexed negro question tie pleasantly, sucees- fuliy and finally settled. W. C. Bixvlt. HOW $«0,*JOO WAS RAISED. 7'f The High License Bill in New York. New York Observer. Those who advocate High License as the means or lessening the evils oi strong drink are somewhat divided in opinion as to tin) distinctions Unit should be made between the different classes of sellers. Writing on this subject a \y extern correspondent says: “Ju our opinion a great mis take has been made in the new Excise bill now before the New York Legis lature in the broad distinction pro vided for between distilled and fer mented Imuors. ,Snell a scheme has been tried, in Missouri for instance, uul it has been found that saloon Keepers, with a $100 license, went right along selling distilled liquors under the name or pretence of selling cider, beer, alefetc., and the curse of tiie trade was not abated. New York saloon-keepers, T wilj venture to say. will be found as ingenious and tis un scrupulous as the same class are in other places. If tbe object is to sup press the lowest and most brutalizing part of the liquor machinery, the low g.oggery and beer simp, there should be no broad distinction made in its favor. I am informed that after a fair trial Missouri abolished all distinc tions,and ail nut sorts of liquors on tiie s i me footing, with the same high !i- C ill a?.” There are others who hold that beer selling should be placed under tbe same restrictions as the sale of dis tilled liquors on the ground that tiie general eftects of beer-drinking are quite as bad, if not worse, than those >f stronger drinks. In this connection a paragraph from a recent number of the .Scientific American lias point and interest. “The use of beer, it says, is found to produce a species of de- The Visit ol Dr. Rroadns, of the South era Baptist Seminary, to New York. Louisville Courier Journal, Afarch 28. ' • Last evening Dr. John A. Broad us , returned home from New York after a successful effort for tiie Southern Bap tist Theological Seminary.in which lie is a professor. He js now, among re ligious people, and especially among Baptist, the hero of the hour. In one week lie lias collected $60,000 to cruet seminary buildmgs. Work will be gin at once on .the handsomest loca tion in the city of Louisville, on Broadway, between Fourth and Fifth having frontage of several hundred feet both on Broadway and on Fifth Several weeks ago, when the great evangelist pastor Dr. Edward Judson of New York, was conducting a suc- . esful revival at Broadway Baptist Church, a party of Northern million-,, aires passed through this city aud stopped over on Sunday. Among t in? party were several Baptists. Dr. Judson, Mr. John S. Long, anil sev eral Louisville Baptists called to see the visitors, and, in escorting them around tiie city, called attention to the building site for the Theological Seminary. “When are you going to build?” asked one of the New \ orkers. “We are waiting for the money,” was the reply. “Dr. Broadus, come to New York, and I will help yofi to get some money,” said Dr. Judson. In due coui>e of time Dr. Broadus started to New York. As he is a very modest gentleman it v.as published that lie had gone to Orange, N. J., (near New York City,) to aid in the installation of tlte Rev. James Taylor Dickinson, a former seminary student He did attend the installation, but he did more than that. When the subject of money for seminary buildings was mentioned, he was asked: “Is the lot all paid for?” “No,” said he; “there is due on it $26,500.” . ....... “Bay for the lot and we will build the house,” said Mr. John J). Rock- afeller. “How much will the house cost?” he added “Sixty thousand dollars.” said Dr. Broadus. Then be telegraph President Boyce, of tiie Theological Seminary wanting to know what progress lie had made, and asked for instructions. What time will be given us to raise the money liere to pay for the lot?” asked Dr, Boyce by wire. “Two davs,” was tbe reply. “Go ahead,” answered Dr. Boyce “we will raise the money.” Now came the tug oi war, Dr Boyce in the absence of Dr. Broadus, \\a> burdened with double duty, aud he was sick besides, but he called to his aid his lieutenant, tbe Rev. II. Allen Tapper, Jr., pastor of Broadway Bap tist church. This fervent young pas tor had just won u great victory in aid. of the foreign mission board, which had called <>n Kentucky to ad vance $9,500. Mr. Tapper secured s8,000 cash alone from his church. He was glad to engage in this second emergency for his alma mater, the seminary. He went to work at once animig hisowfi members. In a quiet office on Jeflerson near Fourth. Mr. George W. Norton, who had already gi ■cff.fJi.OO t > the seminary,gave his ciieck for $10,000 more. His brother, Mr. William F. Norton, gave $(,o00. Mr. W.C. Hall, gave $5,000, Col. An drew Cowan, Mr. A. D. Miles, Mr. C. \V, Gheens and several others gave |5«0 and lesser amounts, till the whole amount was given by members of the Broadway Baptist Church, ex cept $500 given by Mr, Theodore iia.- ris, of Chestnut street Baptist ! Church. , it “Close yon bargain,” telegraphed. Dr. Boyce* “and come home.” Dr. Broadus saw his friends. Mr. John D. Ltockafellar gave $25,03); his brother William, Messrs. Bostwiek. Pratt* aud others gave smarer anion:.till too f6Q OOQ was made up. thus was accomplished a fin am ial feat which will set much further forward the foremost theological seminary of theUnited States. This great South ern institution orignuted in tiie* boeth ern Baptist Convention in Lcuisville forty years ago, but was not establish ed till* 1859, ami was situated at Green ville, S. C., being ihoved to Louisville in 1876. It has in interest-hearing bonds a quarter of a million dollars iml in real estate and individual bonds a half a million dollars. T'.n library buildings will make its total valuation exceed $ 1,000,000. Of this a nountKenteC -y Baptists have givan one-third, Louisville Baptists giving tin* larger part of this. Tiie students and attendants expend in the city about $31,030every year. The faculty is composed of Profs. John Albert Broadus, Basil Manly, Win. Heth Whit-ftt, John Randolph Sain pc \ and James PeUigrew 'Boyce. The latter is chairman ot the faculty, its general financial agent, and the life power of tiie institution, having pit- served it during the war and at try-i ing periods by his private fortune. ! Dr*. Boyce, Broadus and Manly have j 1 been with the seminery from its for- ! mutton. 40 XU I'M. •Autographs may be had for very little, •aid a gentleman, who frankly put Mm- self dowu ns an autograph fiend, “and some of them are the signatures of men who in their day were pretty Wg men. For example, a dealer in that sort of lum ber Writes me that he lias got in a new stock that ho has put down at very low figures. For example, I may have a whole letter of William Harmon Ainsworth, the novelist, for 50 cents. An autographio letter of Ixml Ashburton, the English diplomatist, may be had for 7o cents. A very neat letter of Aubcr, the French mu- ■k-al composer, is offered to me for $1.25. Lyman Beecher’s sign manual comfcs at 25 cems less. A letter of Thomas II. Ben ton is also offered at $1.25. A letter of Erick Ho 11man, who is memorable for bis efforts for the escape of laifayette from the Austrian prison at Olmutz, can be bad for $1, A document signed by Boss- net, the great French divine, is set dowu ns ‘very rare,’ still it may be had for the price of a quart of champagne. “Simon Cameron’s autographic letters ire quoted at only 50 cents, and letters by ex- Postmaster General Campbell, father of John M. Campbell, the surveyor of the port, are sold at the same low rate. A whole letter of Canovn, the Italian sculp tor, costs $4.25. ‘A specially fine and friendly letter’ of Jefferson Davis to Gen, McClelland is offered at $1.50. ‘Mr. Charles Dickens presents his compliments—ft will afford him pleasure to avail himself of Mr. Russell’s tickets,’ wsy be hud, all in the novelist’s own hand, far $2.50. For 50 cents you may get this bit of wisdom in the handwriting of William Ewart, the noted English Liberal: ‘Great fool for spending J2S0,000 for getting into parlia ment.’ A document signed by James I, of England, however, is worth $10; an other signed by Fcrdinurid V, of Spain, sells for c20, and a letter of plain James Smith, a signer of the Declaration ot In dependence, but a rare letter writer, is held $30.”—Cor. Philadelphia Press, The Di-nlty of the llaruxtormer. The intense mock dignity of the liurn- storming tragedian is a ftunilar subject of jest, but I defy anylxxly to caricature it, for it is itself an exaggeration that no description or picture can increase. Tho old-fashioned actor of this type has become so thoroughly impregnated by the artifi ciality of his calling that nothing unaf fected remains in him. It was one Of thcs« who strode up and down past a Union Square chop honse, with his dented nilk hat newly polished, his long hair dank with oil, mid a fur-bordered overcoat flap ping its broad checks in a manner that doubtless had awed many a hamlet. One hand was covered by a glove, and care lessly dangled its mate, while the other hand, thrust negligently into his breaff*, broke off bits of a doughnut there con cealed, and occasionally conveyed them slyly to his month. -Why don't you retire to obscurity for luncheon?” said a frieud, upon whom it was useless to waste his arts of subterfuge; “what makes you stalk in this thronged square mancliing your 5 cent banquet?” •*My professional cxp'-rience has taught me,” the actor replied, in a deep bass voice “that many of the pleasures of life depend upon imagination. “Fool thy self ’ is the right motto. Make yourself believe t hat you arc happy, and you are happy. Here is a chop house. The grill U right in the window, with a thick, jtiicy cut of mutton sizzling over the lire Tho jsight of it costs nothing; neither docs lho« scent of the savory viand; all but the act ual meat is mine. My trained, artistic imagery supplies t ho lack. At the present moment, my dear friend,” and the old fel low transferred a pinch of the doughtnit t« A '*3 *A*j3r '. . V- ' '*v ; * ■ > - :V* -rM ; to^-i H(i I s -less Exiiemlituve. E, lye field A dvcrl iscr. Our Sceretar> of State reCt ive.s fiv< , hundred dollars per annum for keep ■ ing the Slate House grounds in order, j If this is so. and we get our iiitorma , ii‘>ii trom a creditable source, it m at* J iltogetlier use jess exli avagaqce. ocean from shore to shore, and a con- j Hl u,! n* 1 tinuous procession of negroes were to ‘ * " keep steadily marching day and night from Georgia to the Guinea coast, the daily birth rate among the nogroes of the South would more than keep pace with the number daily de parting. But lie has no desire to de part. (inly shall I say: That it would seem j aniiuaiism, sensual, selfish, sluggish. Beside, the negro, his own writers j to me that scientific and intensive! varied only with paroxysms of anger being the judges, does not desire mar- j farming can surely be carried on by | that arc senseless and brutal. In ap- riage witli the whiles, and the whites a scientific and intelligent farmer, j pearaneo the beer-drinker may he the next in the social scale to the negroes j even though bis laborers be not “in-! picture of health, but in reality lie is tbe “poor whites,” the “mean j Ujijjjjent and scientific,” but only j most in capable of resisting disease, trash,” “poor buckra —in that class j 9 tout,likely negro’field imnds. It is not j Compared with inebriates who use the prejudice against tiie negro is clear to me that 1‘rof. White is rigin in j different kinds of alcohol, he is more The fir.-t slave ship in this country was tlie shin Desire, built in 1636, a! Marblehead, in the Hi ale of Massa chusetts. The first cargo of slaves aside from a few brought in a Dutch ffiiiu) wa- imported in the ship De sire, into the harbor of fSalem, Mass., in 1*>J8. One hundred and fifty years afterward the Rev Jeremy Belknap,in ids h s.ory of Massachusetts,says that rum 'distilled in Boston was the mainspring of the slave traffic. The Senate almost unanimously confirmed Col. W • Ii- Treniiolni, ol CharlestVm, late Civil Service Com missioner, as Comptroller of Hie Currency. strongest and it is met by a hostile saying “we must live independently incurable and more generally dis- but the ucto leaves behind bim ’ ‘•“'-j *"*‘-o- * ( must maae tme ii Yfric’s suniiv fountains to mil down i ove f to-day. Oberlin and Be yea introduce white laborers have been | The most dangerous class of ruffians rlu-ir frolden sands: u*i11. „ rro-rst Colleges have carried on co-education made in the Soul their golden sands with scarce a regret and he makes himself equally happy and at home with the Englishman or the Frenchman, the Portuguese or the Spaniard, the Turk or the Arab. The Sioux and tha Cherokee dream of regaining tiie land of their forefath- of the races and the sexes for many | invariable result of failure to keep , Recourse to beer years; and yet from their own records 5 them in the field. The vjuite laborer 1 learn that not one instance has oc- will not remain a laborer where the curred ot intermarriage between the } negro is his rival, equal or competi- the Southern States with the in our large cities are beer-drinkers. as a substitute for increases the students of the two races. As against this view, it lias been fre- fic slope that he may go back to his far-away home to live aud tiie and be buried there: tho Coolie in Jamaica longs to sea again (he coral reef and ers; the Chinauian slaves for moiiej' ,<] f uenUy thllt tbe ^ge number among kicks and scowls on the Paci- " MULATTOS of all shades disproves any assertion «*f race uiiiipathy mi the part of ilit: white. This at first Looks (ike a very fringe of palms an uud his native isle | stronguryumcntuin >ul fioviwttm. but In situ distant Indian Ocean; the Jew I o.u a closer in.-peclion it will be lottmi | wi turns longing eyes to Jerusalem; ail to support the assertion; fur as Prof, fru tor. Prof. White says, “We must work for immigration.” This brings me to answer yourlast question as to North ern aud foreign IM .*! IGRA1 TON. Undoubtedly iinmuration must In- looked to a.s the ci:;''* f*>r many of our troubles, but not the immigration of »ite laborers from the North and from Eurone us a —LMifir*. — other forms of alcohol danger and fatality A wife in Greenville lias recovered i <; 125 damages from a barkeeper for sell ! ing her. husband whiskey after she j had given him'notice not to do it. It scons, from the President’s an nual report, that the net receipts ol 1 the S. C Raiload fell short of meeting the interest accruing during the year 1335 by $24,117. The present Cabinet is one of heavy weights. The President weighs over 391) pounds. Mr. Manning, ut the time of ids attack, weighed 325. Mr. Garland and Mr. Lamar are both large men, weighing over-») > pound* each. Mes*r-. B.i\avd nub Kim.cotf, though tail, are rather s;;;::*u. They each tip tiie scale atubo it 2u J, while Messrs. Whitney and Vilas will each _ .. ‘•out 175 pounds. The Italians who came to Charles ton last winter to work in the phos- ; phate mines, are returing : r'cvoral hundred have already li ft und i others are going. Ids lips,“I am eating that chop.”—“U .tda - Bill'’ in Chicago Herald. He Couldn’t Quito Call It That. Col. Michael Bolaud, of Kentucky, recently related to a reporter in New York a story which illustrates tho ready T’ isli tongue. He was with the advance guard of Sheridan in the valley of Shenandoah. The soldiers in hi> command became en gaged in a close-quarter fight in the woods. They ran oat of ammunition, and he went buck and brought them new supplies. As he was dealing it out the bullets wero flying uncomfortably around him. Ono ball struck a man nmneT Kelly, a native of the Green isle, just as tho colonel was handing him some cartridges. Ha, was knocked senseless, and Boland thought ho was dead. But there was something about his appearance that made Boland run his hand down where the bullet had struck. The touch showed that there was no blood flowing, and the colonel pursued the in vestigation further. The noise made by the striking bullet was as if it hud hit a button. Inside the man’s breast pocket he found a sot of three-card monte cards. They had the bullet imbedded in them. Kelly began to come to and was soon able to sit up. The colonel knew him for an old sport. He handed the man the card* and showed him the bullet, remarking: i “The’cards have saved your life.” The Irishman looked dazedly at tna bullet for a moment, and then os,Ills mind became clearer, he replied in great cnci-ft- ment: “Heaven help me! if It hail been c prayer- book it would have been a miracle.”—New York Tribune. M:ifle l’|> t'hoto of the Kmperor. The Berlin police tribunal has re cently been engaged in tlie examination of a very peculiar fraud. Isiyal Germany buys eageriy-ail tiie photographs, get table of the Emperor William. Like must human livings, William detests to lie pho tographed, and he has sat but a very few times. In spite of this fact’Germany has bjcu flooded with photographs depicting the emperor in all possible poses. Yon can buy photographs of him sitting, stand ing and rkliqg, m groups or ttlqae—any way (me please, in a word. The supply of pictures has kept up to th-** demand, until the emperor discovered a photograph of himself with a baby on his knee, the later purporting to be one of his grandchildren. He w.is sure that he had not sat for the plate, and he nad the matter Investigated. The police arrested the enterprising artist, who confessed that he had “constructed his majesty" out o£ a model with the ‘imperial uniform and a couple of authentic photographs. The testimony at the trial goes to show thht not 10 por Cent, of the pictures of the royal family sold in Beilin are authentic.—Bea ton Transcript. A Contrast Between Great Composers. Aubt-r was somet imes surprised at tiie grandeur of his fame. He was modesty itself, and it is rather amusing to compare him to another composer, a contemporary of his, Spontini, who, at a dress rehearsal of one of his operas (I believe it was “Olympia”), apjieared at the desk in grand costume, covered with all the decorations he was favored with. Approaching the desk slowly and majestically, he elevated the baton, fixed his eagle eyes on the full orchestra and chorus and spoke as follows: “Gentlemen, the work which we are go ing to have the honor of performing is 4 . nasterpiece. Now thenF—Temple Bar. „ The MuKfiel a Rival of the Oyater. The mussel lias been turned to account for stewing at North Haven, Me., and is already said to rival the oyster for that purpose among local epicures. Hestruetiveneu of J>yuauiite Shell*. It is thought that a dozen shots from the new German bomb, charged with dyna mite shells, would destroy the strongest fortifications in the world. One Man's Opinion of Evarte. A western sight-seer being told that the dried-up man of 110 pounds weight was Iv. rri tr-. the New York senator, said: “By « -.i! 1:1 bet lie boards.” 4*>. J* .*.•«. •, ' , '7 -JrVvJ 'V. . I* * Jfl 5 A; is The Cbnrl*-’-t'*u t.*otto:» seed ;*i! riiiiL i are 1'» be s-dd. The iuveslfiteul j\a»| ‘ not a profitable one. The PbikdrinhH uomml bm hu’.h iiutedcwkiag furntythoLgy in i studies. Julian Hawth •km of hair." >rue wean “a early: