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HOYT & 00., Proprietors. ANDERSON 0. H., S. 0., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2, 1873. VOLUME IX.?NO. 13. The Approaching Conference of the Evan gelical Allianee. The New York Herald summarizes the his? tory and objects of the Evangelical Alliance, which convenes in that city on the 2nd of Oc? tober, as follows : It is now many months since we first called public attention to this conference. In the interval we have frequently alluded to it, and it is only a few weeks since in an exhaustive article we gave a history of the ?association, as well as a sketch of the programme to be follow? ed at the approaching meeting. For the bene fit-Gf out readers, we are not unwilling to repeat some of the statements which have already been made. Let us explain, first of all, what is this Evangelical Alliance. _It is a fact not generally known that the association which has now assumed such gigantic proportions really dates its origin from the Bicentenary Com? memoration of the Westminster Assembly, held at Edinburgh, Scotland, on the 12th and 13th of July, 1843. A volume of essays on Christian union was the immediate result of that meeting?a result brought about mainly through the liberality of a rich Glasgow mer? chant whose name is now widely known throughout the Churches?the late John Hen? derson, Esq., of Park. The essays did much to diffuse the feeling that the Protestant world was painfully and even shamefully divided. There was surely some common platform on which the various Protestant sects could meet, confer and make arrangements to act against what they believed to be common enemies. Preliminary meetings were held in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Liverpool, and finally the Evangelical Alliance was formally organized in London in 1S46. At this first London meet? ing six different divisions were agreed upon, as follows: First, Great Britain and Ireland; second, the United States; third, France, Bel? gium, !3outh Germany and a portion of Switz? erland; fourth, North Germany and a portion of Switzerland; fifth, British North America, and sixth, the West Indies. Branch associa? tions now exist not only in all the places just mentioned, but in Sweden, in Turkey, in Afri? ca, in Australia and in New Zealand. Succes? sive meetings have been held in Paris in f855, at Berlin, 1857; at Geneva, 1860, and in Am? sterdam, 1867. The New York meeting will rank as the sixth General Conference of the Evangelical Alliance. The creed of the Alli? ance may be briefly stated as follows: The Divine inspiration, authority and sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures; the right and duty of , private judgment in the interpretation of the Holy Scriptures; the unity of the Godhead and the trinity of the persons therein; the utter, ^depravity of. human nature in conse? quence of the fall; the incarnation of the Son of God^ His work of atonement for sinners of mankind and His mediatorial intercession and reign ; the justification of the sinner by faith alone; the work of the Holy Spirit in conver? sion and sanctification; the immortality of the soul; the resurrection of the body; the judg? ment of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, with the eternal blessedness of the righteous I and the eternal punishment of the wicked; the* Divine institution of the Christian ministry and the obligation and perpetuity of the ordi? nances of baptism and the Lord's supper. Such, in brief, is the creed of the Alliance, although- it is distinctly declared that this does not involve an assumption of the right to de? fine the limits of Christian belief, and is to be regarded only as an indication of the class of persons whom it is desirable to embrace within the Alliance. It will thus be seen that the Evangelical Alliance clings to the side of or? thodoxy, is soraewiat exclusive in its charac? ter and docs not by any means cover the whole of the so-called Protestant worlcL Mr. Beecher can belong to it, but Mr. Freeman Clarke can not. What are the aims and objects of this Evan? gelical Alliance? This question we have in? directly answered already; but, in attempting to present the character and' the claims of the Alliance before the public, the answer must be directly and explicitly given. As we have said before, the association owes its existence to an anxious and earnest desire to heal, as far as is possible, the divisions of the Protestant world. At the first meeting in London three resolutions were read and approved of?reso? lutions of which the burden may be said to be regret for existing division among the Protest Ant churches and an anxious desire to bring about among those who had a common belief something like sympathy and unity. In addi? tion to this, however, the Alliance "endeavors "to exert a beneficial influence on the advance . ment,of Evangelical Protestantism.-and on the counteraction of infidelity, Popery and-other forms of superstition; error and profaneness, especially the desecration of the Lord's Day.'* These are the objecto of the Alliance, and it is claimed that the association is more and more accomplishing the end for which it pro? fessedly exists. It is itself a visible form of Christian union. It secures sympathy and united action where formerly there was neither the one nor the. other. It has in many in? stances prevented persecution where persecu? tion was threatened, and made an end of per? secution where persecution existed. It has lent v. powerful influence to Christian missions in all parts of the world, and, by encouraging co? operative efforts in the foreign field, has done much to commend the Gospel to the heathen, who were wont to langh at the Christian mis? sionaries who had come to convert them before they themselves were reconciled to each other. It has done more than all this. It has brought men of different persuasions nearer to each other, has removed many old religious barriers, and has paved the way to a union which is much larger than was originally contemplated, the union of the entire Christian Chnrch, Pro? testant and Catholic, Greek and Roman. Such, then, is the Evangelical Alliance; such is its history and such are the ends which it seeks to accomplish. This is the association which, on the 2nd of next month, will hold the first session of its sixth General Conference in this city, and the object of the ten days' discussions will be to advance the cause of evangelical religion in the large and not un? generous sense in which its members under? stand it. It would not be difficult to point out defects in the organization, to lay the finger on points which are disagreeably sectarian, and otherwise to show that it lacks the genuine spirit of catholicity. Borne, however, was not built in a day, and there is so much that is good and promising in the Evangelical Alli? ance that we feel as if it would be ungenerous to complain. Wnen the Conference is called to order it will be found that no such galaxy of divines was ever before assembled in New York. The subjects to be discussed are full of interest, and they will, no doubt, be ably han? dled. We wish the Conference success. ? A distinguished business man in Holland has made a proposition, new in possession of Senator Morton, to, build a four track rail? way from New York to. some point in Indiana or Ohio, with two tracks thence to St. Louis cr Chicago, the road to be built of steel rails in the most complete mannef. No grants, subsidies or subcriptions are asked; the proposition ex? acts only that the road shall be chartered by Congress. The Generation of False Pretence. A few years ago and this whole vast land was blessed with peace and unrivalled prosper? ity ; it was the abode of a free and virtuous f?opulation. Its history was filled with the iving light of a mighty glory. Its honest and active commerce whitened the seas. It could point to its long roll of statesmen and patriots, each with his escutcheon unstain?d by the slightest taint of personal dishonor, or by any vile ambitions. There was a general spirit of devotion to the Republic in every breast. Each citizen was conscious of an honorable self-ap? preciation, and was instinct with the pride of citizenship born and nourished in the indepen? dence and freedom of State rights ' and local self-government! There was no national debt. There was an equalization of taxes among the S tat es and. people, and an uniformity of taxa? tion required by the constitution; and withal the taxes were so light that no one complained of oppressive burdens, and *they were borne with convenience and perfect contentment.? The North was rich ; the West increased daily in its irrepressible strength; the South was opulent, tranquil, powerful, with not a beggar in the streets of its cities; with no radicalism or pestiferous isms within its borders; with its hundreds of millions of dollars in cotton, sugar, rice pad tobacco, employing and main? taining hundreds of thousands of Northern men, women and children in the manufacture of her profitable staples. The voters through? out the country exercised the elective franchise without interference, and cannon and bayonets were not used by party leaders to set up or put down at pleasure State governments, or what are called "our free institutions I" All this is now completely altered. In no part of the country is there genuine peace, and in many States there is not prosperity, but ruin! The great question for discussion is, shall the President of the United States be Caesar ? Shall Grant be elected for the third time? Two Vice Presidents of the United States have been proved guilty of taking bribes. The Congress itself has been showu to have aided for pay in the organization and workings of the Credit Mobilier. :The people them? selves are thoroughly demoralized, the govern ? ment corrupt in every department, and the telegraphic columns of the newspapers are crowded with accounts of thieves or defaulters in office, so thai; an honest man is almost an exception. The President of toe United States has given his signature to the basest act of Congress ever yet passed; and General But? ler, Massachusetts' statesman and hero, is tri? umphantly soliciting (most probably) the suf? frages of the people of that State for the office of Governor, supported by the sympathies and the official power of the President, while he himself openly upholds and defends the great theft by color of law from the Treasury. All is changed. The land that appeared to bask in the favor of Providence is now afflicted with misfortunes which amount to a deadly curseI The very atmosphere is loaded with crime I Lawlessness reigns everywhere. The people are discontented with the present, and the omens of the future are appalling. It seems to ns that^he Nemesis of the mighty wrong and the fatal sin. of 1861 is at work compelling the natiou towards a catastrophe in which that wrong and sin can only find its expiation ! On. our first page will be found an article from the New York Herald of remarkable power. Its description of tttese times is per? fectly true. Truly, this is a generation of "false pretence" in moral and social life, and "mediocrity77 in politics and statesmanship. There is no false pretence in politics, for scoun drelism, open and unblushing, is the role! The denunciation of Colfax is overwhelming, and the stab of Grant would ordinarily take a man's life. Surely there is not much to choose be? tween the man Grant, who signed *he salary steal bill containing its douceur of $100,000 to himself, and who has endorsed Colfax after his exposure and condemnation by the country, ana the other poor little creature who took the Credit Mobiliar stock and Oakes Ames' check 1 The interesting question is, Why is there in politics and statesmanship "false pretences and mediocrity" and corruption and lawlessness everywhere ? The answer is, Because the great conspirators who inveigled the majority of the Northern and Western people into a disunion agitation first and actual war afterward, first destroyed the conscience of the Northern sec? tion and afterward murdered the South I To? day the South does not exist, so far as states? manship and true government of the country are concerned. To-day the North and West have not a single statesman outside of the con? servative or rational classes. In the old slave holding days of Massachusetts, New England and New York, and- in the succeeding genera? tion, the North produced some statesmen (rare? ly a genuine friend of a republic), but of late they have no statesmen. There cannot be in the nature of things a radical statesman. No radical can be other than an agi tator and mere Slitician. There were the elder Adams, and imilton, and Franklin, and Burr; there have been Webster and Choate and Silas Wright and a few others; bnt there have been only a few really distinguished statesmen in the North. What would this country have been at any pre? vious period of its history without the South ? Take the colonial and revolutionary period. What would it have been without Henry, and Washington, and Mason, and Jefferson, and Madison and Monroe? The whole drama would have been the play of Hamlet with Hamlet left out. In 1861, with a Democratic President in office and the South in the Cabi? net and the Congress, the statesmanship of the country was as well represented by the South as it had ever been by Calhoun, Clay, Jackson and Benton, and their peerless contemporaries. If the Herald wishes to 6ee this reign of "false pretenses and mediocrity" end, just restore the true South to its rightful heritage. But, alas! is not this now an impossibility, and is it not the tremendous crime against God and man that has made it an impossibility, the cause of the presence of the implacable Nemesis, whose I direful vengeance approaches nearer and nearer l its accomplishment with every wretched year ? ?Montgomery {Ala.) Advertiser. A Mistake.?That the editors are delighted to get anything to "fill up" the paper. That they have plenty of time to correct bad manuscript. That they should "puff" everybody for noth? ing. That they must have no opinion of their own. That they should know everything, whether informed of it or not. That they have plenty of Money. That they should "notice" every scalawag show that travels. That they should have news, whether there is any or not. That they should print every man who at? tends a dog fight or horse race. ? It is said that counterfeit nickels are tu circulation down South. That man can have no desire for earthly power or distinction who would dbgnterfeit a nickel. Wc should as soon think of counterfeiting a paper collar or a brass button. Growing Old Gracefully. No plan of life is complete which does not embrace the whole of it. It is well, therefore, for the young to anticipate the day when the "almond tree shall flourish," and they shall bend in obeisance to the years that bring them near the final home. It is not out of the way for the middle-aged to look forward 10, 20 and 80 years and male such provisions as will in? sure a peaceful, honorable, and beneficent old age. Indeed, we all talk'about "laying by for the rainy day," but how olten does this include solely the providing for the mere physical wants of decrepitude and senility, withotnwiny reference to "Honor, love, obedtwico, troops of frlenda, And all that should accompany old age." The statistics of longevity make it quite easy for each individual to tell about how long he may live. Though nothing is more uncertain than life, yet the figures show that, in certain families, the period of years attained by its members varies but little. A man who lives according to the laws of health and escapes accidents is likely to last as long as his father or his mother did. If he passes the age of the one who died first, he will probably reach that of the one who died last, for longevity is now considered as a transmissible inheritance. Ev? ery man and every woman may calculate, then, according to the period allotted them, just as in Arctic latitudes or in the tropics the inhabi? tants provide for their varying Winter. The individual who by inheritance has but a short life in this world should regard this fact, and so order his programme; the one whose years may outlast the century is wise in making am? ple provision therefor. The time to?begin laying up in store for Win? ter is certainly in the Spring, and the sugges? tions we offer are more for the young than for the old. We do not plant our principal crops, in July and August, out in April and May; in September and October we expect to reap only as we have sown, and in November and the following months we depend for sustenance upon our storehouses and granaries. Many of us look forward to Winter as the gayest and happiest season of the year. "I put up a peti? tion annually," says De Quincy, "for as much snow, hail, frost, or storm of one kind or an? other as the skies can possibly afford us." Sorely, everybody is aware of the divine pleas? ures which attend a Winter fireside?candles at 5 o'clock, warm hearth rugs, tea, a fair tea maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies on the floor, while the wind ana rain are raging audibly without. "Yet the least entrance find thc> none at all; Whence sweeter growa our rest sccu re in massy hall." There is little doubt that when the great mas? ter of rhetoric penned that passage, his coal bin was well filled, and he had abundance of eatables?grain, fruit and vegetable?in his cellar and store-room, and the "fair tea-maker" was well satisfied with her fleecy blankets and her voluptuous feather bed?, without which Winter in Northern England is not to be hail? ed with rapture. In like manner, old age, the winter of life, may be a season of hilarity, of warmth and brightness and cheer, but it most have been preceded by a busy seed time, a vigorous cul? ture, an ample harrest, and remembering the last days of Immanuel Kant, we add, it must anticipate a coming Spring that shall know no Autumn. It is only when found in the ways of righteousness that hoary hairs' are a crown of glory : and when see in those advanced in life,' not virtue alone, but intelligence, experi? ence, charitableness, wisdom, fine in quality and abundant in measure, we can but exclaim, "Oh, that my last days might be like these!" Biography is full of instances that should stimulate and direct our energies in securing an honorable and happy old age. Humboldt, after he had passed the allotted three-score and ten, performed his greatest literary work, and, as the average age of woman exceeds that of man, our examples of clever and distinguished old ladies exceed in number those of the other sex. At 89 Joanna Bai Hie was the centre of a circle of which Miss Berry was 90, her sister Agnes a year younger, and Lady Charlotte Lindsay the same age, all maintaining their powers to the last, learned, charming, witty, brilliant. Doubtless there is life-sustaining power in brain-work. Not exercise, but frictiorr, wears* out the human machine, and where the temper? ament is calm and equable, or the lot free from harassment, the more earnestly and persistently a man works with his brain,-the longer he will live, and the more certainly will he resemble the "One Hoss Shay" in the instantaneousness of his departure from this world?a "consum? mation devoutly to be wished." ? We, then, who would wear the honors of ad? vancing age with grace and dignity must begin betimes to cultivate those virtues and affections which bear fruit late in life as well as those of earlier maturity. Among these we would enu? merate a hearty and genuine interest in the public good, a sincere and earnest devotion to the increase and advancement of intelligence, of morality, and of charity in our respective communities, and a cultivation of whatever enriches and ennobles daily life, and brings the character nearer the ideal perfect manhood and womanhood.?New York Tribune. Edward F. Stokes, Esq. This widely known individual has recently added much to the notoriety by allowing him? self to be committed to jail, by Judge Cooke, for contempt of Court, where he now is. As there seems to be somo misunderstanding about this matter, we propose to give its his? tory briefly from the record. A statute of this State provides that if the sheriff can not make the money on an execu? tion in his office, and tho plaintiff in the execu? tion believes that the judgment debtor has property, but of such a character that the sheriff can not levy on it and make the money, then he can bring the defendant in the execu? tion before the Court on supplementary pro? ceedings and compel him to answer concerning His property. A proceeding of this character was taken out against Mr. Stokes more than a year ago, before Judge Orr, returnable to the September term, A. D. 1872. When Court came on Mr. Stokes was iu the North-west making political speeches. Judge Orr issued a rule against him, requiring him to show cause at the Jan? uary term, why he shonld not be attached for contempt of Court, for neglecting to appear and answer. There was no Court in January, no civil business was heard in May, and at our last term the matter was called up. Plaintiff's counsel did not press the rule against him, but simply required him to go upon the stand and be examined, as the law required.' Mr. Stokes flatly refused in open Court to be examined. Judge Cooke committed him to jail, as the law required him to do, and as his self-respect rc quireo him to do. This is the whole matter in a nut-shell. We feel called upon to make this sstatemcnt, because Judge Cooke is absent, and vre understand Mr. Stokes accuses him of being improperly in? fluenced. He simply did his plain duty, and ho did it kindly, but ?rm\y.?Greenville Re? publican. A Word to the General Assembly. The Aiken Tribune (Republican) gives the following timely suggestions to the members of the Legislature, upon the subject of exempting manufactories from taxation: "On the 21st of October, if we are. correctly advised, tbe Legislature of this State will be convened, in extra session, for the purpose of taking such action in regard to the late de cision of the Supreme Court, in the bond eise as will be most likely to secure tbe adjustment of the question of the State debt upon terms at once favorable to the citizens of South Caroli na, and equitable to her creditors. The subject is one of profound interest to every tax-payer in the commonwealth, and upon its determine tion will^doubtless hinge much of the prosperi ty or adversity that may be in store for us for some years to come. But there are other, and scarcely less important, measures which de mand earnest and intelligent action on tbe part of the General Assembly, not the least of which is the disposition to be made of the bill introduced at the last session, to provide for the exemption, for a term of years, of all capi? tal hereafter employed in manufacturing enter? prises in this State. When the proposition contemplated by the bill to which we refer was first made in the Legislature, and, from that time to the unfruitful end of its discussion, we zealously advocated its adoption, because we believed that it would eventuate in unmeasured advantage to the State. Subsequent observa? tion has confirmed us in this view, and the anxiety which we then felt for the passage of the bill has been largely increased by watching the benefits which have flowed from similar legislation in other States, and comparing them with the losses we have suffered by the want of such a law in our own. Had the sagacious policy which prevails in Georgia, on this sub? ject, obtained in South Carolina, there can be no reasonable doubt that many cotton manu? factories would have been started this year, and much of the capital, since then diverted, would have been permanently invested in our midst. Gentlemen, who last winter were en? thusiastic advocates of the erection of new factories in this County, have now become lukewarm on the subject. Some of them, in? deed, since the recent decision of the Supreme Court, are bitterly hostile to making any fur? ther investments in a State where taxes are likely to be largely increased, and the Legisla? ture of which seems utterly indifferent to the best interests of the people. "This is in striking contrast with our neigh? bors in Georgia, who not only exempt all man? ufactories from taxation for a term of years, but, in some localities, at least, pay a bonus toward the inauguration of every new enter? prise of the kind. As p consequence of this policy, several factories are being erected at Columbus, which will employ many thousand spindles. At Augusta, a capacious one is ap? proaching completion, and that city is making considerable expenditures to enlarge the canal so as to procure water power for others; whilst at Savannah, where no water power is availa? ble, steam has been successfully substituted in the establishment of manufactories. Yet Co? lumbia, in our own State, which possesses more water power than any other point in the South, has not a single factory constructed, and it is very doubtful whether one ever will be built there unless the Legislature exempts 5t from taxation temporarily.. Looking nearer home, we see that the Langly Company ha3 done nothing towards enlarging the capacity of their mill, whilst the Graniteville Company, which had commenced preparations for doubling the scope of their operations, suspended all work in that direction as soon as the Legislature, at its last session, decided adversely to the bill proposing to exempt manufactories from taxa? tion. And now we ask the intelligent members of the Legislature whether they can afford to persist in so unwise a course ? It requires no extraordinary sagacity to perceive that the restoration of our State credit, the reduction of our taxe3 and the increase of our prosperi? ty, which would naturally follow either or hoth of these results, must depend chiefly on the development of our material resources and the attraction of capital to our aid. We believe that if the Legislature passes the bill, new vitality will be imparted to all our industries, and capital enough to place them in successful operation will be easily obtained. If it re? fuses to do so, however, a requiem for all enter? prises of a manufacturing character in our State might just as well be sung at once, and the corner-stone of an imperishable monument to legislative folly *be lain on the banks of the Congaree, where, in sight of the Capitol itself,' the best water power in the South will flow, unutilized, out to the sea." How South Carolina is Robbed. The Radical organs in South Carolina com? placently state that the next tax in that unfor? tunate pachalic will probably be twenty-five mills on the dollar. The taxable property is ?150,000,000. The tax, at 25 mills, would ag? gregate $3,750,000. This is equivalent to 58, 593 bales of cotton. No wonder that excel? lent journal, the Winnsboro Newt, in the face of such audacious brigandage, has this bitter comment: "The annual tax of the Jews, a people pecu? liarly blessed by Providence, was only a tenth of the crop; and this State, though by no means blessed at present, pays one-eighth for the privilege of having such rulers as are now in power. And because the people complain of this fearful condition of affairs, they are called Bourbons and sore-heads. Gov. Scott said recently that he would run the whole gov? ernment on a tax of nine mills, and then make a profit of several hundred thousand dollars. Let the State be farmed out to him. Even he is better than the present administration." We trust that the day is not far distant when South -Carolina shall be emancipated from native robbers as well as alien thieves. The choice between Scott and Moses is the alternative between the devil and a witch. Scott pretends cheapness and reform now, be? cause ne is out of office. Once back again, he would not be satisfied with anything less than the exaction of the last farthing. God speed the day of South Carolina's de? liverance 1?Augusta Constitutionalist. ? A remarkable story comes to" us from St. Joseph, Missouri, which runs thus: While a man was gettiug off the train in that city a few days ago he was robbed of his gold watch and chain, and that night he dreamed that it was hid under the depot. The next morning, re? membering his dream, he went to the depot and found the watch, all right and ticking. ?A Southern paper has this among its per? sonals : "St. Paul is away out West in Minneso? ta. St. John will spend the summer in New Brunswick. Elmira is in New York. Eliza? beth is in New Jersey. Marietta is in Ohio. Charlotte is in North Carolina. Augusta is down in Georgia. They don't intend visiting each other this season." ? A "spelling match, opeu to the world," is a feature of tho Knox county, Indiana, agri? cultural fair. Sickness and Death. The Washington (Ga.) Gazette makes the following touching allusion to the presence of the great destroyer, w-hich will be appreciated by all whose households have been darkened by the shadow of his wing, and whose loved ones are gone before: From all sections of the State, indeed from all sections of the country, we hear and read that it has been a year of great affliction. Dis? ease has devastated the whole land. From the first day of January to the present time sick? ness has prevailed to an extent unknown for many years, and the cold hand of death has been laid upon many a young life, and the grey hairs of the aged have disappeared under the sod. The reaper, whose blade will sooner or later cut down all, has been busy this year, and has gathered into his garner a rich har? vest of all kinds and classes. The rich have given up their wealth and their pride and their pleasure, and have gone and laid down in the dust by the side of the pauper; the famous and distinguished in men's eyes have gone to rest by the side of the unknown and obscure. The great leveler has regarded no worldly distinc? tions, but has called many to a couch where all distinctions cease. During this year, long to be remembered for the number of public and private afflictions which have been sent upon the people, our community and our county has not escaped. Death has called home, during the past months of this unfinished year, many of our best citi? zens. The cold hand of the destroyer has been laid upon the high and the low in our midst. The rich and the poor have been called to lay aside their daily vocations, and join the great host whose work is done, and who are only waiting for the final judgment of the good and evil done on earth. Many homes which were bright and happy a few short months ago are now desolate and made lonely by the absence of a well known and dearly loved face, which will be seen on earth no more. Many houses which were joyous are now hushed in grief and sorrow, aud each room, once so bright, is now desolate for the want of a presence gone for? ever, and a voice to be heard no more. And still the hand of death is not yet stayed. Sickness still prevails throughout the land, and disease is still rackiug and destroying the peo? ple. War, pestilence and famine are the three great curses of the human race. We poor Southerners have bled freely by war, and we are now silently swept away by pestilence, must we yet suffer from the worst of all? must we see the gaunt apparition of famine stalking through our country? must we yet be called upon to hear the cries of starving men, women and children, and be unable to help them ? is this last and greatest curse to be sent upon us? If so, when will our suffering end, when will our penance be done? And are the people any better for all the afflictions sent upon them ? We fear not. It is time for all men to pause and reflect,' and to try and stop in their mad career. It is time to look backwards. It is time for men to cease their struggle for self, it is time for them to stay their iuordinate greed for gain and gold for a moment, and to look, if they can, where they are rushing to. It is time they recognized a power above this earth, and one who is richer than gold and mightier than gain. It is time to be more humble, and to bow down and ask for forgiveness, and to plead that the baud of the destroyer be stayed, and to implore that, if he must come, not to come in the shape of hunger and starvation. Corsets Defended.?We know perfectly well that some persous lace themselves too tight, although it is not at present fashionable to do so. We know, too, tha<t some women have seriously injured their health, while some have sacrificed life itself on the shrine of a slender waist. But the wearing of the corset does not necessarily, and, in fact, does not com? monly, end in tight lacing; while lacing, and that, too, of a very hurtful sort, may be, and frequently is, accomplished without the use of a corset at all. We have seen men's clothes worn as tightly as any corset ever was. The condemnation of tight-lacing is perfectly just, of course, as everybody having tjie smallest knowledge of anatomy knows. But many wo? men who never lace, wear corsets, and derive great benefit from their use. It is certainly very absurd to demand that these people shall forego a,comfort-giving article of apparel mere-' ly because they could turn i% into an instru? ment of torture if they were fools. They find that to put the entire weight of their clothing upon their shoulders is to give themselves paiu, and in order to divide it they let part of their apparel depend upou their hip? for support. To do* this without a corset it would be necessary to wear the garments altogether tighter about the waist than they should be worn, and to bind them around a single narrow zone, which would be both uncomfortable and unwise. The corset, however, distributes both the weight and the pressure over the strong muscles of the hips, and as it is less yielding than the flesh, it obviates the necessity of tight waist? bands altogether. The con. t, properly used, in other words, furnishes the very best remedy for tight-lacing, particularlv now that taper waists have gone out of fashion. Railway Cars on Wires.?The wire rope railway has recently been introduced on an im? proved plan?mainly designed, in this form, to be usea in connection with a narrow guage railway or horse road, where coal or ore is moved in small, square box cars. The tracks are laid to the edge of the river or lake to be crossed, and, if the span does not exceed three hundred feet, a steel seven-eighth inch rope is stretched over the 'stream. It is passed round large wooden wheels, properly secured at each end, and so arranged that, when one wheel is turned by steam power, the entire rope travels like any ordinary band. Close beside this, and at just the width of the cars from it, is placed another rope, secured in the same way, aud made to move with it. These two ropes pass over strong supporting wheels at each side of the stream, and bang about four feet above the end of the rail. Each car is provided with four strong iron hooks, one on each corner, and, as they arrive at the stream, they are pushed, one at a time, up to the moving ropes. The hooka on the cars fit over the rope, and iis friction lifts them from the track and transports them over the stream. On reachiug the other side, the ropes pass over the wheels, and the car slides upon the rails again without injury. Its momentum sends it along the track, aud it is easily se? cured to the engine. When the train has passed the rope transit, one car at a time, it is made up and goes on. ? Children's rights?pure air, wholesome food, abundant sleep, suitable clothing, liberty to make a noise, and a modicum of pocket money. ? There is no time, perhaps, when a wo- j man so thoroughly commands the respect of a j man as when she stops on the aidowalk to tic ' her?shoe. The True Policy of the Farmer. Governor Smith, of Georgia, in a late speech made before the Agricultural Convention at Athens, advances substantially the sar. ? views which were contained in the speech of the Hon. B. H. Hill, (extracts from which were published in a late issue of the Intelligencer,) with reference to the impending bankruptcy which threatens the farmers of the South, and the necessity of reform in their labor and modes of culture. He states that in the last decade there has been a falling off in the pro? duction of corn in the State of Georgia of more than 13,000,000 of bushels; of oats of 400,000 bushels; of wheat of near 1,000,000 bushels?and this among a people essentially agricultural, and who through mismanagement and unthriftiness are thus forced to buy or beg their bread. One cause of this is doubtless the unreliability of the present negro labor, but the chief cause is the neglect of the South to raise a diversity of crops, to meet its home con? sumption?a neglect of the ?irail economies which can alone make as commercially and politically independent: "I am not, the speaker said, with marked feeling, for undoing the past. If to move my little finger the system of slavery, as it once existed here, could be restored with its com? plete environments, I would not move that finger. Let matters rest as they are, as to that. But humanity itself?all good men?all states? manship?cry out against tolerating a state of society that assumes that one-half of an entire population are to be nothing else?nothing better?than a herd of legalized paupers and vagrants. Let the law, in its wide and thor? ough sweep, spare neither white nor black. The remedy is not simple or self-evident, I admit, said the speaker. But something must be done to alleviate the evils that are pressing our section over the precipice of bankruptcy. "Let us all contribute the best we have to offer in promoting measures of relief. I sug? gest, as my contribution, that in all such cases as we have alluded to, that we appeal to tbe courts for the enforcement of a "specific per? formance" of the contract. The remedy is as old as equity law itself, and if courts now in existence, are not numerous enongh or suf? ficiently convenient for a proper care of such cases, let us establish and empower them when? ever they may be needed. While we are caring for the perverse and dishonest laborer whr en? gages to work, don't let us forget to take care at the same time of the dishonest hirer who is too perverse and corrupt to pay. Let all have equal justice and be made to stand on his en? gagement. Then, when we have secured relia? ble labor, let us reform our mode of life as planters and farmers. Send no money out of the country to enrich strangers which can as well and better be kept at home. Study small economies?waste nothing, that charity and hospitality may never be left as a burden, and that the great staple crop which so blesses, or rather which might so bless, our land, if proper? ly used, may be held in reserve for that diver? sified industry which it is so much the fashion of those preaching reform to urge upon us. Now, it is worse than folly to talk to us of "di? versified industry," manufacturing and all that sort of thing, when there is no surplus money in the land. Make the tillers of the soil pros? perous, and then call upon them for aid to manufactures and mining. There is^sense as well as logic in that sequence, but until the money is dug from the soil, there is no hope or sense of talking to u* of a diversified indus? try." Great Men's Thoughts.-We always think of great men as in the act of performing the deeds which give them renown, or else in state? ly repose, grand, gloomy and majestic. And yet this is hardly faij-, because even the most gorgeous and magnificent of human beings have to bother themselves with the little things of life which engage the attention of us small people. No doubt Moses snuffed and got angry when he had a severe cold in his head, and if a fly bit his leg while he was sitting in the desert, why should we suppose he did not jump and use violent language and rub the sore place ? And Caesar?isn't it tolerably certain that'he used to become furious when he went up-stairs to get his slippers in the dark and found that Calphurnia had shoved them back under the bed, so that he had to sweep around wildly for them with the broom handle; and" when Solomon cracked his crazy bone, is it unreason? able to suppose that he hopped around the floor and looked mad or felt as if he wanted to cry? Imagine George Washington sitting on the edge of the bed, putting on a clean shirt, and growling at Martha because the buttons were off; or St. Augustine with an apron round his neck having his hair cut; or Joan of Arc holding her front hair in her mouth, as women do, while she fixed up her back hair) or Napoleon jumping out of bed in a frenzy to chase a musquito around the room with a pil? low.; or Martin Luther in his night shirt trying to put the baby to sleep at two o'clock in the morning; or Alexander the Great with the hiccoughs; or Thomas Jefferson getting sud? denly over the fence to avoid a dog; or the Duke of Wellington lying in bed with the mumps; or Daniel Webster abusing his Wife because she hadn't tucked the covers in at the foot of the bed; or Benjamin Franklin paring his corn with a razor; or Jonathan Edwards at the dinner table wanting to sneese just as he gets his mouth full of hot beef; or Noah standing at his window at night throwing bricks at a cat.?Max Adeler, Day and Night in Sweden.?The pecu? liarities of day and night ir Sweden strike the traveler very forcibly, after being accustomed to the temperate zone. In June the sun goes down in Stockholm about 10 o'clock. There is a great illumination all night, as the sun passes around the earth towards the North Pole, and the refraction of its rays is such that you can read at midnight without any artificial light. There is a mountain at the head of Bothnia, where, on the 21st of June, the sun does not seem to go down at all. The steamer goes np from Stockholm tor the purpose of conveying those curious to witness the phenomena. The sun reaches the horizon, you can see the whole face of it, and in five minutes more begins to rise. At the North Cape, 72 degrees, the snn does not go down for several weeks. In June it would be about 25 degrees above the horizon at midnight. Iu the winter the sun disappears, and is not seen for weeks; and then it comes, and remains for ten or fifteen minutes, after which it descends, and finally does not set at all, but makes almost a circle around the heavens. The Swedes are very industrious and labor is reckoned by the hour, twelve hours beiug reckoned as a day's work. Birds and animals take their accustomed rest at the usual hour whether the sun goes down or not. ? If there ' is a meaner dog than the fellow who reads a paper that some one else pays for, and then has Che unblushing impu? dence to use.contemptuous language about the paper, wc would like to have him described. ? The women of the United States use ?more pin3 and needles than those of any other country.