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HOYT & CO., Proprietors. ANDERSON C. H., S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1874. VOLUME X.?NO. 5. For the Anderson Intelligencer. SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION. Address to the People of the State. The undersigned having organized them? selves into an association for the purpose of establishing an institution of learning in the State of South Carolina, which shall, as far as possible, supply the place of the venerable College which has been destroyed by the Leg? islature, and which shall furnish an opportuni? ty for the education of that portion of the peo? ple of the State, who, in the present political condition of its affairs, are practically excluded from all participation in the advantages of those educational establishments, which they are heavily taxed to support, confidently appeal to their fellow-citizens for their aid and sympa? thy. "Without further reference to the painful condition of public affairs, it is sufficient to recognize the fact that the political power which controls the State, has deliberately ef? fected such changes in the management of the South Carolina College as to destroy its useful? ness by degradiug its character. The whole body of the Professors, men venerable for their years, their abilities and their character, have been removed without even the pretense of cause, only because their lives had been devo? ted in service and sacrifice to the State. Their places have been filled by men, who neither by learning, ability or reputation, command the confidence of the community. A system of mixed admission has been adopted, which has closed its doors to all of its accustomed stu? dents?a system so prejudicial to the interests, and so repugnant to the feelings of all classes in the commonwealth, that Congress, sustained by the administration, has just refused to sanction it by National Legislation, while the avowed purpose of these changes is to be? little the past history, to destroy the old tradi? tions, and to obliterate forever the old charac? ter of South Carolina. The undersigned are perfectly aware of the whole breadth and depth of the political and social revolution which has been worked at the South by the result of the late civil war. Without complaint they accept it in all its fullness. They have no mission to defend the errors of the past, and they are not foolish enough to attempt to check the will of God. To that great body of their fellow-citizens to whom the war brought freedom and political rights, they feel nothing but good will, and they would not interpose the slightest obstacle j to any progress they can make or desire to I make iu their own improvement. Heavy as the taxation they bear, they would feel them- j selves amply repaid if every year found the I colored citizen of the State better informed as to his duties, more capable of comprehending his true interests, and nearer to the level of moral and intellectual culture of the white man. But representing the race they do, they feel that they have filled no obscure or dishon? orable place in the history of the country; that their contribution of courage, of culture and of character to the national life, has not been inconsiderable, and that the great Union, at whose very existence they struck in obedi? ence to what they had beeu taught from child? hood was their duty, would scarcely consent to see eliminated from the national character, that purity of private life, that devotion to public duty, that obligation to pledged faith, that well balanced order of public policy com? bining in harmonious action the interests of property and the intelligence of the pop? ular will, which formed the traditional stan? dard of Carolina life. Indeed, rather would j the national heart rejoice that these virtues, for virtues unquestionably they are, should be [ preserved to exercise their wholesome and ele? vating influences upon that common future, which is now broadly open to the country, freed from an institution which perplexed the con? science of one-half of the nation, and in self defence forced a sectional policy upon the other. The undersigned feel, therefore, that in es tabliehing such an institution, their first duty would be to put it under such influences, to surround it with such associations as will pre? serve the moral tradition of the State, and en? courage an intellectual freedom not inconsis-! tent with a true aud loyal veneration for its I pa3t history. This achieved, the undersigned feel that, connected with this spirit and elevat? ed by it, the most urgent need of the State is a system of education which will fit its young men to deal with the new condition in which their lives are to be matured. One of the re? sults of the great social revolution through which the South is passing, and a result per? haps not altogether to be regretted, is that the State is, as it were, commencing life anew ; a life in which every citizen is required to be a worker, and in which the character and pros? perity of the State is dependent upon the en? ergy and intelligence with which that work is prosecuted. In the present condition of the world's culture, the undersigned do not think argument necessary to show that what is need? ed is Scientific education. Everywhere indus? trial pursuits and the development of material resources are shaping the future power and in? fluence of nations; and with us, especially, after the devastation of civil war, and the de? struction of property consequent on the aboli? tion of slavery, it is evident that our first need is to restore the wealth of the State, and that success can only be commanded by an intelli? gent and energetic use of the knowledge which Science supplies. Sheltered by the Blue Ridge mountains on one side, exposed by its open coast line to the genial and prolific influences of the Gulf Stream, with a soil rich in itself and capable of unlimited improvement, well watered and well wooded from the rice-fields of its delta, all through the broad zone of its cotton cul? ture up to the wheat and oats land that run up to the slopes of its mountains, it presents an area for human industry that in older and better educated countries would be crowded with a thrifty and" prosperous population; while its mineral and manufacturing resources contrast sadly in their abundant profusion with countries which have grown rich and famous by the intelligent development of a tithe of its hoarded and wasted material wealth. But these resources cannot be reached or used without knowledge. As an illustration of the direct effect of this scientific knowledge upon the material prosperity of a country, they would commend the following fact to consid? eration : "In 1818, Dombasle established the Agricul? tural College of Roville. For several years that establishment was a blessing to France. Records of its practical and experimental agri? culture were published, and with the best effects; but at last Dombasle had sunk health and fortune, and the College stopped. It was spoken of as a failure. Was it a failure? Two young men quietly went out from it and wrote an answer on the soil of France?wrote it in letters so deep and wide that it will never be effaced. The first of these young men went out upon the wretched, barren heaths of Brittany; took over 12,000 acres?brought to bear upon it the science and practice he had learned at Roville, and produced a noble, fer? tile farm. That farm is now the seat of an Agricultural College, and a centre from which has radiated scientific and practical knowledge for the reclamation of all that part of France. "Another pupil, M. Neviere, went forth. He went to the southeast of France. There he found, near the confluence of the Rhone and Saone, a district of sixty-seven square leagues? a marsh, supposed to be irreclaimable, with a population dying of fever. He took a farm of 1,600 acres, applied methods learned at Ro? ville, and reclaimed it in two years. The re? clamation of the remainder followed, the fever rate sank from twenty per cent, to one-half per cent, of the farm bands ! The district is now the seat of a thrifty, healthy population, and in the midst of it stands the Agricultural Col? lege of "La Saulsaie," a centre of scientific and practical knowledge for all parts of France. "At the Imperial College of Grignon, they shewed me a map of France, all dotted over. Eaeh of these dots represented a graduate. There they were, in every corner of the coun? try, each man thoroughly trained in the best science and practice of agriculture. And justly, indeed, is that institution proud of their character and influence."?President White, of Cornell University. Their object, then, is to establish a Scientific School which would prepare the youth of the State to become intelligent workers in the ma? terial development of the State. They do not underrate what may properly be called a high? er culture. They do not undervalue the grace and the glory of arts and literature ; but they know that arts and letters are the development of accumulated wealth, and that with material I prosperity they are sure to come, provided that there is national character enough to prevent such prosperity from degenerating into a mere greediness after money. And they know of no surer preventive to such degradation than the proper study of science, which, while it makes knowledge subservient to the wants and com? forts of humanity, impresses, even in its most utilitariau teachings, the presence of great laws, which require patient and unselfish la bor for their comprehension and obedience, and humility in their application. The undersigned think that they have found in recent events a fitting opportunity for the effort which they propose to make. Whatever be the estimate placed upon his political career; however men may differ upon the sounduess of the political principles which he lived and died to vindicate, no one but feels that Mr. Calhoun was the highest repre? sentative of character and intellect that this State has given to history. Pure in his private life, almost to austerity, devoted in his public life to his sense of duty, wit!. .?.n unselfishness of purpose that commanded the respect and admiration even of those who differed from him most widely and bitterly; clinging with singular tenacity to the sentiment and preju? dices of his native State, and yet identified with the highest achievements of the Union, loving both the one and the other with a love that could not be divided and could not be re? conciled, he died the highest representative of I all that the State had been in the Union. His home has been for more than one generation, an object of reverential pilgrimage, and the sentiment of our people still heightens the picturesque beauty of its situation with the warmth and glow of human affection. His immediate representative, the Hon. T. J. Clemson, his son-in-law, and who is himself well knowu from his scientific reputation, his diplomatic service, and the ability with which he administered the agricultural department of the Patent Office, sharing the opinions which the undersigned have endeavored to ex? press, has offered to them laud at Fort Hill as the site for such an institution as they propose i to establish. This site, comprising some of the finest land on the Seneca River, and at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains, combines great beauty of situation, with exceptional hcalthfulnsss of climate. It is situated in a section of the State cheap and abundant, exempt from many of the disadvantages which might affect such an institution elsewhere, and is within a short distance of two great trunk railroads?the Blue Ridge road connecting the up-country with Charleston and Columbia, and the Air Line road passing within a mile and connecting New York and New Orleans. The undersigned have received assurances of aid from other sources, both ablo and disposed to give liberal assistance. They feel that no nobler monument could be raised to the great Carolinian than such an institution on the spot where the tradition of his great and beautiful life would bo most strongly felt, aud where the youthful mind of the State could be trained to take up his work uuder altered circumstances, and benefit by the unexpected but fixed solution of problems which perplexed his judgment and disturbed his patriotism. And however widely different the political and social life they may be called to lead, they are sure that to no people could be presented a higher exemplar of public and private virtue than his life-long devotion to the country and the Constitution. As soon as a sufficient amount has been sub? scribed to justify the practical commencement of their work, the necessary legal conveyances of this property will be executed, and those interested will be called together to select a Board of Trustees, to whom the completion of its organization will be confided. In conclusion, the undersigned would ask that portion of the Press of the State which sympathizes with their effort, to publish this address, and commend its consideration to the people of the State. BEN. SLOAN, Chm'n., A. H. CORNISH, J. W. LIVINGSTON, A. N. ALEXANDER, H. W. McLEES, JOHN H. MAXWELL, J. W. CRAWFORD. Pendkton, S. C, Aug. 9, 1874. A TEMPTATION RESISTED. a SKETCH FROM LIFE. My heroine is no creation of the imagination, but lives and moves among us, not suspected of being a heroine at all, but known only as "a perfect woman, nobly planned." Her beauty is not of the ethereal type of which poets dream and novelists rave; indeed, she might not be considered beautiful, judged from a critical standpoint, yet hers is a face one loves to look upon, with its changeful ex? pression, clear, red and white complexion, and grey and earnest eyes. Above all these her chief charm lies in her innocent gayety and childlike truthfulness, which contact with life's trials will never remove, though she live until her pure forehead be furrowed with age, aud the hair that shades it be silvered. She is now middle-aged, but at the time of which I write, was thirty-one. Knowing noth? ing of the world, and nothing of real true love, she married very young, and fancied herself the most favored of women. Her husband, a true and loyal gentleman, loved her devotedly, and was proud of her, and liked to have others ad? mire her. So the first few mouths of her mar? ried life passed on smoothly and pleasantly enough. But as the trials of her new position increased, she felt that the love which support? ed other wives in their troubles, and through which medium even these trials sometimes seemed "confer de rose" to them, was not like that she felt toward her husband?the convic? tion forced itself upon her that she had made a great mistake in her early marriage. But her real heart religion made her discharge her du? ties faithfully and cheerfully, aud she hii in her heart her disappointment. The children came, and she was the most loving and proud of mothers; but God called the brightest aud dearest, (though what mother could choose when death came?) leaving her heart-broken and wishing to die. Still struggling to be re? signed, once more she "took up the burden of life," and in her family, among the poor and suffering iu her church, found solace and re? gained cheerfulness. But just at this epoch of her life came its romance suddenly upon her. A friend of her husband, a man of the world; a man too busy to have thought much of love or marriage, came to visit their little home, and rest in quiet, country scenes. He was a close observer, and, not a little surprised at the depth and suscepti? bility of her nature, and sought to draw her out, and succeeded as no oue had done before. He found this at first simply an amusement, but as he grew daily on moro familiar terms in her household, and watched her gentle and woman? ly ways in one of which she was the light and joy, he found himself strangely interested, un? til he, who had seen all phases of city life, and on whom fashionable beauties had made no impression, was madly in love, where love could only be a guilty passion ; and she watched him and hung upon his words with all the en? thusiasm of first love, for to her it was a new revelation. She did not seek to. She was happy in the present; to see him every day, to feel him near, to hear his sweet songs and listen to his eloquent tongue, was happiness she had never dreamed of. But the time came that he must go, and, yielding to a mad impulse, as they happened to be together alone the evening before he had left, he suddenly embraced her and poured into her car words of the most pas? sionate love, begging her to fly with him. For an instant ouly she wavered. He who had been her guardian all her life did not fail her now. Swift as a flash rose the prayer to her lips, "Jesus, save me," and as swiftly was it answered. Before her rose the image of her husband, "tender and true?" of her children, sweetly sleeping, to whom the name of "moth? er" meant everything pure and holy; and of those little ones, dearer still, who, she thought, would be grieved even in Paradise at their mother's sin. With a look which haunted him long after?a look of pitying love and passion? ate entreaty?she tore herself from his arms and rushed from the room. They met again next morning, probably for the last time; and it was better so. With a silent pressure of her hand, and a whispered, "Forgive me, and God bless you !" he weut on his way, carrying with him, wearied as he was, the memory of one pure, religious woman, in whom principle had triumphed over passion. She lives oti, loving and beloved; her sunny smile undimmcd, her sympathy for human weakness deeper aud truer as "the years rolled on." She has crushed out the last embers of the passion, which but for prayer and faith might have been her undoing, and is happy now in the love of husband and children. Yes, happy ! for I hold, in spite of modern novels and the sickly scntimentalism of the day, that the "peace of God" which dwells with a spirit subdued and chastened brings happiness the most complete and lasting.? Chicago Time*. Treed by a Stuffed Dog.?A Worcester i boy was engaged in nocturnal cherry-stealing a short time ago, and was obsesveu' by the owner of the fruit, who unnoticed by the young i robber, placed a large stuffed dog at the foot of the tree, and retired to watch the result of his : strategy. The boy descending, observed the the dog, and then fun commenced. He whis? tled, coaxed, threatened nnavailingly, the an- i imal never moving, and finally the youth, ac? cepting the inevitable, settled down to passing the night in the tree. After some hours had passed, wearily enough to the lad, morning dawned, and the proprietor of the tree coming from the house asked him how he came to be in the. tree, to which the boy answered that he took to it to save himself from the dog, who had chased him quite a dis? tance. It isn't healthy lor a smaller boy to say stuffed clog to that youth now.?Exchange. For the Anderson Intelligencer. From Anderson to North Georgia. Dalto*, Ga., Aug. 8,1874. Mr. Editor : It has long been my privilege and honor to be a friend and advocate of the Intelligencer, and I have also long felt a deep interest in its many readers in upper South Carolina. It, therefore, gives me pleasure to place before them, through the medium of your paper, a few thoughts and observation. I left Anderson some timo since on the Blue Ridge road, and was soon engaged in watching from the car window the many beautiful and flourishing farms along this road between An? derson and Seneca City. It was with a great degree of pleasure, and a hopeful feeling for the future prosperity of South Carolina, that I noted the arrangement of the farms this year. On every plantation I noticed numerous stub? ble-fields, where wheat and other small grain had been harvested, and extensive corn-fields in a very fine condition, while at the same time I noticed but few cotton-fields. This is certainly a promising feature in the farmiug interests of the country?that of raising tho necessaries of life at home, and not depending upon the people of other sections. Would that the plan was more general. Arriving at Seucca City, I found that I would have to remain over night, and there? fore had ample time to stroll over the city Building is going on rapidly here, and if kept up at the same rate for a few years it will be a city indeed. The miserable connections made at this point by the trains on the two roads are calculated to impress upon travelers an unfa? vorable opinion of the place. It is good for the hotels, but hard on travelers. Taking the train next day, I arrived at At? lanta in due time. Atlanta is a bustling, busi? ness place, but not tastefully laid out and built up. It has some fine and beautiful buildings, but they are hidden from view by the narrow, crooked streets. Tho various railroads having their terminus here all meet in the heart of the city, creating a noise and confusion that is very annoying to a stranger from the country. However, the people of Georgia are "very proud of having the "Gate City" in their State. I met several prominent Carolinians in Atlanta. I take the train again, and am soon speeding along in the direction of fertile, healthy, beau? tiful Northeast Georgia. Having arrived at Dalton, I stop for a time. Dalton is a pictu? resque little city, situated as it is in a beautiful valley, surrounded on all sides by romantic looking hills and mountains. It has a popula? tion of about 3,500, who are divided off into the various denominations of Baptists, Metho? dist, Presbyterians, Cumberland Presbyterians, Episcopalians and Catholics, all having their neat and substantial churches. They have two first class institutions of learning here, besides various schools of minor importance. The Dalton Female College, although a com? paratively new institution, holds a high position among the schools of the State. The Crawford High School?a branch of Mercer University ?is also in a very prosperous condition, not? withstanding it is but one year old. Dalton is certainly an attractive summer resort for peo? ple residing in the low country. The sur? rounding scenery is grand and beautiful; the health of the location is unsurpassed; the educational and religious facilities are as com? plete as could be desired, while the society is second to none in the country. When we look at Dalton and the surround? ing country, enjoying the blessings of a good government, and note the prosperity and hap? piness reigning here, we cannot help admiring the patriotism, courage and perseverance of the noble people of this section of the Sunny South. As many of your readers know, Dalton is situated immediately In the track over which Sherman's army, like a monster dragon, drew j its slow and destructive course. Yes, this beautiful land has been robbed, pillaged, de? stroyed and polluted by the hordes of demons that overran it for plunder and not for the love of country. Nevertheless, when the struggle j was over and might was declared triumphant, the people of this country rose up like the phoenix from the ashes, turned the sword into the plowshare, and went to work with "A hoart within and God o'erhead." They did not look back and repine over the past, but went forward, inspired with a hope for the future, and tkeir efforts hare been crowned with a glorious success. After looking around me over this broad, beautiful and prosperous country?thinking of what it has gone through, what it is now and what awaits it in the future?with a sad heart my mind reverts to poor South Carolina, flaun dering in the depths of poverty and degrada? tion, bleeding and dying! Why is calamity and oppression brought upon her, the once prond leader in the cause of liberty ? The soil of Carolina is as rich and fertile as that of Georgia, then wherefore is her poverty ? Can it be the fault of her people ? "Heaven helps those that help themselves." Have they given up in despair, because of the dreadful past, of the dark cloud that now overhangs them, or of the gloomy future ? God forbid ! What, then, is the cause, and what the remedy ? Certain it is that nothing can be accomplished without a united effort on tho part of the people?a struggle for the right, come what may. Would that they could be brought to a proper sense | of their situation, for surely then they would J rise up unitedly, shake off their cumbrus leth- j argy, and march in solid phalanx against the country's oppressors; and soon the cry of "victory" would be heard throughout the land, sending joy to the hearts of thousands, and bringing peace and prosperity to their homes once more. Then the people of South Caroli? na would hold again the longlost position which their home in the South deserves. WANDERER. ? What is the best key for a Christmas box? A tur-kcy. Taking Cold. Of all the erroneous notions pertaining to the preservation of health, no one is fraught with more mischief than that about taking cold. According to the popular, aud I may j also say to wtue extent professional view, j taking cold is the greatest disease and death j producer in the world. Fully eighty per cent. I of those who consult physicians premise by ? saying, they have taken cold. If a relaps oc I curs during convalescence, ten to one tho blame ! is laid on the action of cold. "My pain is ! greater, I must have taken cold ; my cough is ! worse, I must have taken cold, I do not"feel ! as well this morning, I think I have taken cold ; but I don't see how," are expressions which the I physician hears a dozen times a day. The lat? ter is thereby often led to the reflection that if it were not for death-dealing colds he would have little to do, aud convalescence would sel? dom be interrupted. But if the physician takes the trouble to think a little more upon this subject, he will be convinced that to hi3 own craft is due this stereotyped and never ending complaint of his patients about taking cold. The sick and their friends nearly al? ways take their cue about disease and its . causes from the tr.isted family doctor; and he accounts very often iudeed for an aggravation of the symptoms of those under his charge (the cause of which aggravation by the way, may be, aud often is,very difficult to detect) by the easy and satisfying explanation of having taken cold. In this way he gets over the trouble of attempting to make plain to un? tutored minds what is often a puzzling prob? lem to the most trained iutellect, and at tlie same time shifts the responsibility for the relapse on the uncomplaining and much abused weather. So it is that men and women have been led to regard climatic changes as the greatest enemy to their health; if it were not for them, their health would be next to perfect from the beginning to the end of the year. Thousands of consumptives, especially in the first and second stages of the disease, ?are firmly of the opiuion that if they only could escape theraaligu influence of one cold after another, their recovery would be assured. To this end precautions of the most thorough character are scrupulously observed, and yet cold after cold is taken : the patient, mother or nurse knows not how. When the human body is at its prime?with youth, vigor, purity, and a good constitution no degree of ordinary exposure to cold gives rise to any unpleasant effects. All the ordi? nary precautions against colds, coughs, and rheumatic pains may be disregarded and no ill effects ensue. But let the blood become impure, let the body become derauged from any acquired disorder, or let the vigor begin to wane, and the infirmities of ago be felt by oc? casional derangements in some vital part, either from inherited or acquired abuses, and the action of cold will excite more or less dis? order of some kind, and the form of this dis? order, or the disease which will ensue, will be determined by the kind of pre-existing blood impurity or the pre-existing fault of the or organic processes. If the pre-existing fault be in a deficient excretion of lactic aud uric acids by the kidneys aud skin the disease developed by the cold will be rheumatic; if the lungs be at fault, either by acquired or iuherited abuses, inflammation will be likely to ensue; or if there be conjoined with the pulmonary fault an impure condition of the blood from the long-continued re-breath? ing of breathed air, consumption will not un? likely show itself. In no other way can the influence of cold in the development of diverse diseases be accounted for; developing this disease in oue, and that disease in another ; this disease at one time iu a person, and another disease at auothcr time: while at other times and sea sous, great aud prolonged exposure to cold is harmless.?J. 11. Black, M. D., Sanitarian for June. Insult and Ingratitude to the Colored Peo? ple. In the address of the Republican State Ex? ecutive Committee, to the Republican voters of this State, says the Union Times, we find the following: "The executive committee would make no race distinctions; but it cannot longer be de? nied, and it would be criminal longer to with? hold the facts, that the present condition of affairs in our State is made chargeable to the colored race, who represent not only the great bulk of Republicans here, but who constitute the majority of its citizens." If that is not the coolest pieco of impudence and ingratitude ever heard of, we would like to see what does excel it. The address from which the above is taken is signed by at least eight office-holders who owe their elections, al? most entirely, to the colored voters of this State. Many of them have been connected, directly or indirectly, with the most bare-faced frauds upou the State Treasury, and, as leaders and guides of the colored people, are entirely to blame for all the errors which that deluded race have committed. The colored people were ignorant and blind party voters, and through the threats and advice of the signers of the address, they voted solidly for those self-same signers and the rest of the vile wretches who have brought about this terrible "conditiou of affairs" in this State; and now those fellows tell the colored race they are to blame for all the rascalities committed by the men they elected to olliee. We deny that the colored people are to blame. They wished to do what was best, but a set of scoundrels, who pre,ineditalcd a whole? sale robbery of the State Treasury, look wicked advantage of their ignorance, and coaxed, cajoled and drove them by threats, im.o voting for a gang of unmitigated thieves. Will the colored people longer suffer them? selves to be the tools of a set of men who will deceive and rob them, and then turn round and publicly tell them that they did the steal? ing? It is the basest rase of adding insult to injury we ever read of. Stanley to Go Back to Africa.?That tide in the affairs of newspaper correspondents which carries them into Central Africa is again to lake there Mr. IIeuro M. Stanley, the man who found Livingstone. This time Mr. Stan? ley goes as the high joint commissioner of the London Daily Telegraph and the New York Jfrrald, and his mission is to learn the secret of the Nile and to do what he can toward abol? ishing the African slave trade, known as "the infamous and lucrative." He is to continue the work of Livingstone, and open the un? known country to commerce and civilization, thus shedding glory on himself and the news? papers, while he is benefiting mankind. The wealthy journals employing him arc to equip him amply for the great work, and much is hoped for from his courage and perseverance. Should he prove successful in his explorations and accurate in his accounts of what he ob? serves, he will acquire fame enough for the most ambitious of discoverers, and will give journalism a prestige that, with all its power and usefulness, it has never yet known. ? "Romantic school girls now spell "jell} " with a final "ie." Manufacturing Cotton in the South. And now some of the Eastern papers have gone to work again commenting upon the prof? its of cotton manufacturing in the South, and rejoicing that, notwithstanding the striking success of oue or two notable ventures made in this line in Southern States, the raw staple continues to travel a thousand and odd miles to New England looms. They wonder in their hearts that the thing should be so, but whilo wondering never forget to thank themselves that it is as it is. Certainly there is not lack I ing testimony that would indicate there is good ! reason for their wonder. The history of the Augusta Cotton Factory is au apt case, such another remarkable commer? cial venture being rarely witnessed. This fac? tory has been used more that once in these columns to point a moral to this same tale, but it will excellently serve its old purpose to-day, since the latest information concerning its bus? iness shows that the aforementioned career of unexampled prosperity coutinues. The fac? tory under consideration was established at Augusta, Georgia, soon after the war, and the company which owns it has divided amongst its stockholders since that time $1,068,000; has property to-day worth uo less, at the very low j est calculation, thau Si,200,000, and holds a : surplus fund of $265,870. That shows in all ! $2, 533,S70 in one decade of years. And what think you was the beginning of this thriving enterprise? A paltry capital of six thousand dollars. That is all. Not a cent more of as? sessment was ever levied on the stockholders. During the fiscal year just ended the com? pany has expended $350,000 for new machinery and for the enlargement and improvement of the buildings. The managers of the factory are proud, and justly so, of their achievements, and call loudly ou their fellow-citizens of the South to turu their money, labor and talent to the same good advantage by following in the path ? way they have marked out. There is plenty room for more, and yet they don't come. Wherefore the wonderment and joy of New England manufacturers. The road is clearly defined and the opportunity startlingly mani? fest, and yet, for some unaccuutable reason, the Augusta Factory stands almost alone, a solita? ry pioneer in this field. Georgia consumes but 25,000 bales of the half million which its soil produces; thus ful? ly nineteen-twentieths of its product going North to be woven and brought back again saddled with the double freight, to be sold at the doors of the very planters who grew it. It is a dependence of one section upon another, which the example of the Augusta Factory gives incontrovertible evidence is without any good reason. Aud yet a revolution, for which there are such extraordinary and tempting in? ducements, caunot be brought to pass. Not even the experience of the war, when the South was shut out from the world and went in tattered rags with millions of bales of raw cotton available, taught the lesson which seems so simple. In the West there is a similar obliquity, and here in St. Louis we have shipped East all but an infinitesimal portion of the hundred thou? sand bales we have received iu the past ten months. Both South and West it will be dif? ferent some day, since there can be no question as to the ultimate outcome. How long the ac? complishment of the expected revolution may be delayed, may not, however, be said.?St. Louis Republican, Mysteries of the Bible. All vital processes are mysterious. No one knows what life is, in any of its gradations? vegetable life, animal life, spiritual life, eternal life. These are beyond definition and compre? hension. No sillier argument has ever been urged against Christianity than this, tha* it has mysteries. Before you attack the Bible on this score, take a kernel of corn, a grain of barley, a seed of mustard, and tell us its secret, unfold the mystery of its life, and build up for us the theory of its generation. Everywhere through the domains of nature, we tread with awe, we are compassed with mysteries. We go through her dark caverns with feeble torchlight, and sec only a little, though that little is full of glory. Our footsteps have a hollow sound, and the sound floats away, reverberating among mysterious spaces and abysses around us, which we cannot enter and explore. The student of nature seems to me like a man in the Keutucky cave with only a box of matches in his pocket. He scratches on the wall, and a dome of glit? tering salactites breaks in a feeble flash upon his eyes. Thus he gets here and there a glance, while all beyond is unseen, unknown. Tho lower you go down in your research into ani? mal and vegetable life, the greater the myster? ies. One would think the minutest would be the simplest; but the smaller objects carry in their diminutive being the mightier mysteries. The border land between the smaller vegetable and animal forms is full of mysteries. In those aggregated animals called the I'olyzoa, out from a cell starts a gemmule. It is an animal germ ; it swims hither and thither, finally anchors it? self somewhere, and then glows and puts forth buds, as though it were imitating a vegetable, and builds up a new animal household. On the other hand, in some plants which have no flowers nor seed, a microscopic atom, answering to a seed, sallies forth, swims about as though it was an animal, which it is not and at last set? tles down into the steady, unlocomotive life of a vegetable. When we come to a vital process, we stand within God's inner temple, and are constrained to exclaim : Here is the hidden, glory of the Creator, the Author of life. His way is past finding out. We reach the thres? hold of the divine operation, and we are not able to cross the boundary ; we stand this side, and worship. A Scripture, a religion, without mystery, would be confuted and contemptuous? ly driven out from among men by every voice of nature, and every syllable of life. A NoitLlS Tribute.?In an article in the At? lantic, George Gary Egglcston, touching upou the South and her cause, thus speaks: "The women of the South could hardly have been more desperately in earnest thau their hus? bands, brothers and sons were in the prosecu? tion of the war, but with their woman natures they gave themselves wholly to the cause; and having loved in heartily when it gave promise of a sturdy life, they almost worship it now that they have" strewn its bier with flowers. To doubt its righteousness, or to falter in their loyalty to it while it lived, would have been treason and infidelity ; to do the like now that it is dead, would be to them little less than sacri? lege." ? A married lady who is in the habit of spending most of her time in the society of her neighbors, happened to be taken ill, and sent her husband in great haste for a physician. The husband ran a short distance, and then returned, exclaiming: "My dear, where shall I find you when 1 come back ?" ? it is said that when the doctors at Selma, Ala., refused to work on a eredit and therefore did not, temporarily, work at all, sickness almost entirely ceased during that interregnum. Of course this is a joke. What could we do without ' cur doctor?"