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_ '_ '. _ '_'_ \ BY E. fi. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON. S. 0" THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 20, im. ~ VOL. XIV-'NO. 32 14 rit* ot* scaacziPTioN.-~o*9 VULVA? sad furry Cexrs per aumin, lo ad ti nee. Two Jloi.Uks al ?od o? yow. 8*V*ST?-FIY? Cwxxm for nix ?on'fce. Jub?? ri plions ari? soi take? far ft let? period (hlU) t's ,*?ntki. ?ur?J OP Aovsanaitra.-on* Doiiar per Mirare ol on? lach for tho CeninMrtloo.ant' YUL? Cont? per square forsutacqaentiuaerUonalesslhjua three months. Ko cdrertleerueate count? le*? thoa turo. UUltl toulrnur ? vii i oo mud* with lh*ee wUblni to arl? crtlaa for Uaroo, alx ot twelve inontht. Ad veriUlog hr ceatract must bo conBned to th? tm mediato boil neu of ibo firm ar toAlridul con tr to ting. Ob'tnarjr Notleo? exceeding fire Unos. Tribute* of Rexpeet. and ail po?-KImu communications or - malton of individual interest, ?111 bo charged for atadvertising ratos. Aaaoumeraonta of inarritfea und death*, aad notices of a lellglou? character,are ?.psetfullv aollclted, and will be inserted gratis us ?7. ft ito ?h te ia m .nd Ino ?I ai art isa oro VU AL liLSUttTIION. A Ber mon Preached hf Hov, Wm. Henry ?trtcklsnd, tu Anderson lluptlst Chtin li, Fc?.raary 8iul, 1870, and Fublisued by lleqaest. "Thus saith tho Lord, Stand yo In tho ways, and seo, and ask for theo'd paths, where w the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.1' ^Jeremiah, vr.lt). The Prophet Jeremiah lived ii. C. C50-680, aud prophesied- during the reigns of Josiah, Jehoiakim, Jeholachin and Zedekiah. Ue lived in au age of great national and spiritual decline, and is prophecies are either (1) exhortations to repeutenco, (2) warniugs and threat enings against- the impenitent and incor rigible, or (8) lamentations over the ruin and desolation of Judea, that followed the burning of Jerusalem and the cap tivity of the Jews under Nobuchadne&zcr, King of Babylon. Ho lived among a peoplo whose moral natures bad been olontod and calloused by wars and idol atries, and who loved th* wayo of ein in which they had bern born and rear d. His prophecies-calling to reform and revival to forr&rr piety and uprightness-grated on the ear of both kings and people. He never delivered a single message that was , acceptable- to his countrymen. Ho never tiroachod a sermon that did not render lim moro unpopular. He endured re proach and persecution. He was the ! victim of murderous conspiracy, aud was more than onco doomed to death, but escaped at the last extremity by the in terposition of friends. He describes him self as one tn whose, bonce tht-snctiage of God. burnt like fire, and had lo be delivered. And yet wheu delivered they but Btirrcd tho rago of au emasculated people, who, rather than mend their lives, preferred to kill the mau of God, who faithfully told them cf their <>iu8. Tito words of my text seem to bo a special message from the God of Israel to his wandering, lost, bewildered people. "Thus saith the Lord, ?taud yo in the ways, and see, and ask fur the old paths, where is thc good way, aud walk therein, aud ye shall find rest for your souls." (1) The words "stand ye in the ways end see" mean : come to a halt in your journey, and consider if ye bo in the right road. "Stand and see," look at your guide-book, examino the way-marks, aud you will discover that you are out of the highway and have wandered iu some by-path. (2) Having stoppod to consider-as the manner would say, to get your bearings -you will surely discover that you have goue wrong. What then ? "Ask for the old puths." Enquire for tho true high way. Find it as speedily as possible. (3) And having fpund it. without further delay, "walk therein." Beat a retreat, sot yourselves right, then "for ward" nil along tho line. "Walk there in"-show the same eagerness to go right that you did to go wrong. (4) What will be the result sf this j change of conduct? "Yo shall find rest for your souls." I know that tho language Is highly figurativo aud the imagery pootic, but I think I have given you the truo exposi tion. In plain language, God exhorted his peoplo to examino their positiou to wards Him-to make inventory of their past lives, to hunt up their Bibles and bring their lives into submission to its teachings, to go back to first principles in religion, and they would he a happier und LI better people. And as prophecy was not given for one people or age ex clusively, but for all time and rd! men, we may with all propriety appropriate this exhortation to ourselves ana our time. I think tho text is a call to mot al re I sumption, addressed ta men in 1879 A. G. j as properly as 625 B. O. History fe ' pents itself, tin and iniquity repeat thom [selves, and in this nineteenth century we [find suspension of morals just as did i Jeremiah twenty-five hundred years ago. [After an interval of sixteen years, we have just had a return to specie payments in the United States. Opinions differ as to the advisability of this measure at this tims. I do not know ; but I do know that moral forces that bovo been held in suspension for many years ought to be re turned. lu truth, they ought never to iiavo been suspended : and, as they were suspended, they ought to have been re iUT.od long ?go, but as they have nov joen fully resumed, the work should bo loue at once. t 1) perhaps vrSll any ibero hos been io moral suspension. May be not, but ?y observation ia that the moral forcea n operation among us before tbe war lava never been fully resumed. Wo are to look at the results of the war os iiytjical, social and political. (1) It is easy for us to call up tho san iinary fields and roview the thousands slain and wounded. We daily look m the armless sleeve, the wooden leg, i scarred face, the mutilated hand, and ?ember that thoso men now growing ..y, and bearing ubout them the marka Calilo, were ouce thc living wall brist? with bsyonots "along the Potomac.-' 1 so we contemplate the physical ovila the war. (2) We look upon the. impoverished Klition of the old people of our land, once lived io easy affluence. Wc co seen, the whole social fabric thrown and broken by a mighty upheaval, have seen some thousands of mil of doiiors of property wasted. Wi i the widows ana orphaus, and be children descended from tha firsl lilies in the land grown up in Igno ice and vice, whose patrimony, swept ly hy tho war, aro left no means ol icatldh. And we are familiar witt j social evils of the war. (8) The changes wrought in thopoliti I sphere aro. moro marked than thos< the social or physical. Several mil ! of people- ignors?t, " Bviiii-b?ro? of low order of iptellect-i-have beet d to position abd power, wholly in mtible with thoir safety or thu HUfeij icir rulers. Not capable of apure lng liberty,: they have turned il mu ?tioua?eas, Invoking the torch an< ,. thoy have dotted our land witl nit homesteads and smouldering-ruins busts' of Habersharn arid Berrini Walton nod' Hall have looked dowi ihei. nh-hft.^ in the Georgia Stati ss, upon the wretched farce* onacte? ilserable nbortious. white and black [claimed to bo their successors} an< .jtries of MnDaftie and Hayns an< >un and Butler have rattled lu thel while Elliott and Smalls and Cali tatterson have desecrated their scat National Oongrew. Men hav ced to tho point of starvation tba might be wasted in tho most tuc " senseless extravagance, as invea committees havo shown In man; 8tate*. Tho bonded debt o baa no oppressed thc citlten nome instances,'growing despe ev have gravely deliberated o Jon. I need not enlarge. It I ns to soo tba political OVIIB'K fremthowar. destinies of "tho American nat?o }cen'chanced forever,- Never wi of nur. nndbn be ?hut it on' .-. , East and West, baa been wrenched from ita anle bellum status, and bas grown into new shape and proportion-in many re specta disproportion. These things be ing visible and palpable engross our at tention. We feel and see and know and regret them. . The moral evils, greater than all others, are not seen so readily nor ac knowledged co willingly. What wo see of thia world ls but au infinitesimal part of thu whole. What we see of tho results of tho war aro small matters compared with that which we do not ooo ou the surface. What you eau see of the world as you stand on some high hill may be subtracted from tho whole without appre ciable loss. And what you see on the surface as the evil, of a great national upheaval, you may substract from the sum-total of evils without bel?g missed. It is absolutely impossible for all tue moial evils of a groat civil war to be ag gregated. The war left none of us as it found us. Not a man, woman or child who was not moro or less injured. Even the children born since tho bloody con flict, have been brought up on both sides by those who, either in feeling or in fact, or both, engaged in it, and the sectional prejudice ana bates of parents have been infilled into their children, and the dreadful enmity and strife of 18?0-1SC5 is the inheritance of the children. Thia is not all. I go further. Children of war are morally unequal to children of pcaco, Wo beget sons and daughters in our own image, and transmit to them the miseries and sins and peculiar environ ments of ourselves. I leave this for you to reflect upon. What have boon the results of tho war upon indivinual character 7 At the be ginning of the cooutlict our circulating medium was at" par, i. e., a paper dollar would buy a gold dollar. During tho war, gold ran up to 285. and greenbacks down to 35. Now. if tue moral and re ligious status of tue iudividual was par at the beginning of the war, then have uot most of us fallen lower than 35 7 and have not anle bellum morah and religion been higher than 285? This moral de {ireciation is not confined to any particul ar section of tho United States. In the South the "var resulted in poverty and misrule ann prejudice and "Ku Klux" so cieties. In the North men were finan cially onriched, but misrule and demoral ization woro perhaps just as great. We have not forgotten "Black Friday," when tho "Bulls and Bears" on Wall street, with Jay Gould, Fisk and Speyer, canned a fearful eruption in financial circles. We havo not forgotten "Credit Mobilier," "Tweed Bings' and other gigantic revo nue frauds, which were indexes on the moral dial-plate. But recently a "Bail road Strike threatened to mase tho great arteries of commerce useless, when Uni ted States troops were called out to put down armed resistance, and many States were in danger of civil war. 1 refer to the -strike"' on tho Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and ?bnneeting lin?a^ Tbe fre quent robbing Of express cars, the "Coal Strikes," "Oil Strikes/' "Molly Ma guires" and other war-hko combinations, all go to show the low state of morality in our laud. How often have wo seen paragraphs in our newspapers headed "Conscience Money," in which was re corded the fact that some one who had been glutting himself at tbe public treas ury bad disgorged. Red bot iron applied to tho cuticle destroys it ; iron picked up cold and frozen does the same Ming. It is likely that tho conquered Stat is are butter off to-day than those who waged the war for the preservation of the Union. With all their wealth and power at the North, there are greater dangers menacing the social and political fabric than are found among us. While guant poverty and petty theft disturb the South, our Northern brethren aro besieged by armies of "tramps" and "Communistic Leagues," and it is gravely charged that while the friends of the present Chief Magistrate ?tole the Presidency for him, his opponent and bio Democratic friends tried to steal it for themselves. I do not say these things are so. the fact that the public gazettes make the charges are sig nificant. Nor ia this moral deterioration pe culiar to our late war. It is the con sequence following all wars. France and Prussia wero lately arrayed against each othor on tho ensanguined field, aud both the victor and the vanquished are now reaping the fearful results of the suspension of moral law. War is abnor mal, spasmodic, unnatural, and it always leaves it blighting effects on the people engaged. 1 nccunot say that as regards th eso European powers, Prussia is to-day in a worse : condition morally than France. - "Socialism" has assumed such proportions in Germany that Bismarck and the Keiser, and the whole ruling power, are seriously alarmed, lest a gen eral uprising and revolution shah occur at any time. All wars, from that of words and blows among children, tc those that shake ' tho continents, leave thoit deleterious effects on thoso engaged. Tho earliest war of which wo have any account occurred between Cain and Abel, and the . victor was worsted. Tho re boud injured his moral nature and left bim an impurer man than he was before The reflex' influences of war on each party engaged injures each party fai ! worse than the anGaul ts of tho othor : From 1860-1865 the North and South imagined they wore destroying ead [ other. The truth it each party teas de . ?srajfvty iUe'f. I qm told that ibis plo turo is overdrawn. Not at all. It ii ?j impossible to draw lt as dark and forbid . ding as it ought to bc, for no painter cai k mix all the evils and miseries and tran \ gressions in his preparation of colors. ] L am asked why this declino is not ob served by every one? I answer, noni . but tho older part of our population cai ? see the change, and among them man' , do not stop- tu think. They are inten . '_"*. b"^?"cr~ cr picture- ~, ti>w chain ? , daily duties drag them on and they di . not consider, lt ia amusing how fei j people da any thinking at all. Other . among our older peoole do perceive) tb > sad changes in morals, but aro not* will j lng to say anything about it, and do nc j admit it. .Among the young men am women this deterioration is not known j because they were born and bred In il , and know of no othor state of morah , You ns people under thirty years of ag j hove nc'ver| with mature vision, seen an; other state of social and political am j moral lifo, and therefore. suppose th j present state to bo normal. 1 bc cart! r revolves with appalling speed, but wed . not percol vo it unless we mako astronora _ leal observations. If we will fix our cys . on the sun we will eco that our cart * does, not stand still. So if wo will fi J ?uf eyes on God aud. His immmutabl 'justice and righteousness,' wo will see t . what our deflections from virtue and hoi > caty and purity and charity and love ar? ' But if wo are all absorbed in "what sha wo cat and what 'shall wo drink an Q wherewithal shall wo be clothed," an >m aro all on a moral inclination, and ai " "sliding down hill/' it ia quito likely tb; wo won't notice lt much, n How often does your clock on tl ll rnaat?e sirike ? You nra sitting iisd??. o ! bur?. absorb?! with the rmedLs a* U h 1 newspaper, y OM uy net notice ii. Ko !0 j oft^n has God spoken; and yet the static bad sent Gabriel down to inspect and re view oUr country, socially, politically and morally, in 1865. Suppose tbe Angel to have been sent back on the tame mission in 1876. What changea for the worse would Gabriel have report ed back to Heaven? Would not the depreciation bo greater than thirty-five cents to the dollar? Now things aro lookod upon with indifference that twen ty years ago would have filled the coun try with horror. Grimes aro committed with impunity now that a quarter of a century ago would not have been so much as named. Men are caressed and hon ored now who would have boen spurned by the meanest. Public sentiment has olidden down hill, and wo all help to make up public sentiment. "Ja social life, there was once such a thing as a loss of casts/' Ts it so now ? "It seems that nobody has any -laste ; or there is no way of losing it." A chatty noi taken from tho Bible will condone any thing in those whom it is policy to sus tain. Benedict Arnold betrayed an Anio- ?eau army to tho British during tho Revolutionary War. When tho war was over ho made England his homo, and on ono occasion presumed to make his ap pearance at Court, and sought the notice of the sovereign. Ho was scorned and hissed away ns a traitor. But the fedoral officer who held the post of New Orleans during our late war, and enriched him self and friends off the private plate of the unfortunate citions, has been petted and honored by his own Commonwealth and the National Assembly. Demorali zation among tho American people is universal. Of course there is a great dani of good left among us, but it is not of that high grade that wo had before tho war. The churches como in for their quota of this evil. How has the fino gold be come dim, when pastor's salaries, mission money and church-building funds eau only be raised by "fairs," "grab-bags," "lotteries" and "raffles." An eminent divine waa called to tho pastorate of a church in one of our leading Cities in the South after tho war. The City had suf fered much from its having been occupied by tho armies. The Doctor found the church-building sadly out of repair. In legitimate ways ho tried to raise funds to put tho houso in good repair. Failing all round, be assembled the young men of his congregation and submitted the question to thom. They heard him with interest, and replied: "Doctor, if you will let us get up a horse-race for thc benefit of the Church, wo will raise you as much money os you want." These were not exceptionally immoral young men. Recently a Church was turned into a "shooting gallery," and tho young people of both sexes bad a "big shooting match to raise money for Church pur poses." A very expensive church-build ing was but last year erected in one of our most enlightened and religious Staten. The space between the upper and lower floor.", Wa3 padded rr itu caw dust. Thc pastor, explaining the matter to a visitor, said : "wo may want to occupy both rooms at the same time, so we put in thu stuffing to deaden the uound. The young people have dancing parties.for the ben efit of tho Church, and sometimes these {?artie? fall on tho evening when the old biles ore holding prayer meeting down stairs. Wo have it so arranged that one won't interfere with the other." Ever the New York Tribune takes the fashion able churches and pastors to task sharply for their extravagancies in theatrical and sensationalism, and soberly exhort: them to return to the legitimate business of their callings, and preach tho Goape to their congregations. While spoakinf of demoralization among churches, can dor compels me to say that many ombez zlements and defalcations have occurret among ministers and mission-agents, am some of the saddest chapters in mora suspension are those that record the dis graceful conduct of ministers of th< Gospel. lt all goes to show that thoro is a mor suspension, and that old-fashioned hon csty is below par. IL But moral resumption is what we need How is it to be obtained? Let ministers and all Christians-yea all men everywhere-take their reckon inga again. Let them climb up int Mount Zion for their observatory, am fix their moral telescope on tho Sun o Righteousness and see bow far in th eccentric they aro wandering, and by th centrifugal force of Divine Grace lc them return to their proper orbits. 1. Let churches "ask for the old paths ; let them return to the former ways-th Scriptural ways of raising funds for God1 cause. Let them no longer make God' Templo a gathering place for fairs an lectures and entertainments. Let ther leave raffling aud grab-bags and shootin matches and balls te the world wher ' they have always belonged. Ono of th grandest teachings of Christianity i cross-bearing-the making of sacrifice Said Paul : "I beseech you, therefor brethren, by the mercies of God, that > Eresent your bodies a living sacrifie oly and acceptable, unto God, which ! your reasonable service And be nc conformed to this world/' A sacrifice i something unpleasant, done for Chri \ and his causo, out when you advertise t . give fifty cents worth of oysters ac i coffee for fifty cents, whero is tho idea < i sacrifies ? "Presont your bodies a livir . sacrifice," said Paul. I submit the que . tiou, Are baila and rruuca and euterlaii i menta, tn the name of Christ, calculate ? to remiud one of croaa-bearing and cn i ci fix ion of tho flesh? Tho idea of saci . flee is being rapidly eliminated from oi I minda in our present modes of raisit . church funds. I think the Lord's way a raising money for his cause is to give, ? a gift, what you wish to bestow, and do f unto the Lord. Churches should exe fc ciao moro rigid ^discipline. There h i* been a sensinio decline, in Its exerci ? since the war.'^ Abuses crept into tl o churches then, and. in many cases ha s never been ferreted out. I know of b 0 ono denomination of Christians who ha . bad the herve to enforce disci nil t agalnst/defrauders. I refer to the Prb 1 itivo Baptists, commonly known i, "Hard Shells/' They haro invariab ', excluded such of their members as ha i. availed themselves of homestead a a bankrupt Ure te evade thc payment y their just dnbts. Perhaps they hs d made thc rules unnecessarily severe, I e If they havo swung to ono extreme, om tl other churches bav? swung tc the oth o and of tho two, tho former is to be p; i- fer red. *;,? 2. Wo.need social reforms. Lot t tt lines be' sharply drawn ; let society \ s its veto on crimes and bad men. Tbi 9 are crimea and callings and conditic 0 that should exclude men and Won) P from polite, refined, genteel society. |: long as men and women may follow a .J caluug, do any thing and be any tbi <J however immoral and dishonest, and' a have free access to the best society, tb' . ls little hope of reform. But let soc! ^ elevate . its standard? - and purify canons. Let it bo known ?hat iL ie j standards and canons cannot be bro! U j with impunity, and then will we seo t id i men and sretucs, unwilling io bc oat w ; cisvu. win mend their w*.ya, and tho BO< ttlfisbrlc will bo improved. I maintain t it to make lawn for tho government of Ita . members. One of the great factors in i the moral deterioration of the American , people has been the breaking down and ' overriding of the laws that govern society. ' I advocate an aristocracy tu society and ' in State. Not aa aristocracy of wealth nor blood, but an aristocracy of moral worth. I take tho word, not in ita per version and abuses, but in its original sense. It roeaus a government wbere the best, most moral nud pure bear rulo. Should not tho purest, roost cultured, most genteel in society make lows for the government of the body? Should not the most moral, most intelligent and most capable rulo the Commonwealth? The evils of the destruction of casto aro far reaching. Our children are brought up to think one calling or condition as hon orable as another. We allow them to associate with all people promiscuously. The moral sense in them, i. e., tbe chil dren, becomes blunted while it is imma ture, and they will moro naturally glide into vice and sin since we, by actions, at least, tell them that ono way of making money is as honorablo and respectable as another. "Evil communications corrupt ?'ood manners." He who associates with be unchaste will himself, moro than likely, become unchaste too. Ho who associates with thieves will have all tho f;crms of dishonesty withiu him put into > ot-bed and rapidly developed. Ho who "puts the bottle to his neighbors mouth," for a living, will almost surely learn to put that same bottle to his own mouth. We may palliate sin and glozo indecency till we ceaso to condemn them in our own hearts. You may allow profanity and blasphemy to go unrobuked, till you forget that it is as heinous in Gods sight aa dishonesty and adultery ; but one is just as bad os the other. Let us not con done offenses in any ono, anywhere; neither in society or Church or State. If wo do, the moral recoil will bc sad for us, and God will visit tho iniquity of these things on our children. Well did tho poet say : "Vico li a monster of such hideous uiotn, Tbst to he hsted, needs but to bo seen ; But EC cu too oft, fstuUlsr with tho fsce, Wo first enduro, then pity, then embrace." Woo with the day when society or Church fold to their bosom tho vilo, the sinful, the reprobate. 3. Reforma are also demanded in com mon honesty. Tho war, among tho many evils that it generated and developed, Eroduccd the monsters, laziness and dis onosty. For years men "drew rations" and clothing, working o;^ j day in fifteen. They learned to hvo without work. Many of them aro trying to do tho same thing yet. They say : "The world owes me a living, and / intend to have it." When I hear a man talk that way, and live on in idleness, I instinctively feel to seo if my pocket-book is Baie. The world owes no one a living. The God of Nature has blessed men with strength and intellect, and has ordained that in I dust ry and economy shall not fail of their reward ; but a healthy, strong beggar in this land is an unmitigated nuisanco. To-day labor rauks higher than cotton or corn or sugar or bacon or clothing. Im migration Bocisties aro encouraging labor to come among us. Any man who will eau lease land and mako himself a farm. Tbeso things being so, laziness is a crime, and ought to be punished. Tho armies of tramps that infest the land aro but ulcers on the surface of our demoralized body politic. While the feeble, the widows, the orphans and the helpless are to bo assisted, I do insist that it is a B?U to assist those who can work and wont. There is no charity to God 01 man In giving a bushel of corn to a mci who ia able to work for it and yet ia un willing to do it. Paul Baid : "If anj would not work, neither ehould he eat/ -(2 Thea. 3:10.) That doctrine soundi healthy to me. It ehould bo put inte practice rigidly. Laziness lives new neighbo. to theft, for he who must eat and won't work, mid has no money tc buy with, must be sorely tempted, tc break the eighth commandment. Tbt Prodigal Son desorves a higher reaped than people are wont to givo him. Wi Elace his reformation at tho point whet e was obliged to live on husks with thi swine, and siuco no ono would give bin anything better, be decided to go bael and live on his old father's bounty. No so. Go back to the time when the faniim , arose, and he "began to bo in want.' Here was the crisis and point of turning Did he say, "tho world owes me a living and I must get it somehow ?" Did hi curl his nose at any rough or monia work ? Did he fear to soil his~aoft, "lily white," dainty hands? Did ho cit ??til and "wait for something to turn up?' Did he turn tramp and mako it his trad to live off of others? No. He niethe ?turned thief nor beggar. He took th first work that carno to hand. It wa base, low, degrading to Jewish sensibil ity, but it was honest. His manlinu comes out hero: "Ho went and hire i himself to a citizen of that country, an he sent him into the fields to feed swine, and he went. Ho was honest, and thor : was help for bim. If he had not bee ; manly enough and honest enough t i work, he never would havo found h\ i tvay bank to his father's house a peniton i There is hope for a mau-a tromp ; there be manliness enough in him to ir i duce him to work. Let this bo tho tru i test: "If any would not work, neitht f should he eat." When all the men, an ; remen, too. who are able to work for ? living, aro induced by law or moral sui ? eioa or necessity to go at it, you will ?? i moral resumption in honesty, industr; ? manliness and soif-respect I "In ti ? sweat of thy face bb alt thou eat bread. ? Too many people are trying to eat the ; bread In tbe sweat of other people f faces. ' 4. In the last place, tbcro ls need t reform in political and government " circles. The words statesman and pol * J Uct&a 0~ght tc bc Si??? oynonymou 3 We ought to elevate our purest ac 3 ablest mon to office. It is a sad cor I mentary on our government and poop * that tho men wno will stoop to spot 9 rooney and encourage intemperance ci 9 control more votes than the high-tone " sober, capable man. "Ask yo for tl * old paths, where is the good way, ai 7 walk therein." It was Henry Clay wi * said, "I would rather be right than Prc * ident." And whon^our own Oalhoi ' was urged to recede from his position < ? tho tariff question, with the promiso tb t If he v/ould abandon his position thei t on he could be elected President, i '? plied: "I would not sacrifice principio '* be made President of tho world." Y may havo tust such rulers as we wu e from President down to Trial Jusch it \V*ben tho freo pooplo of tbeso Unit o States determine to be governed only s men good and true; whon they dcci n that purity and integrity nm worth mc o than whiskey or money; whin men, w y seek office only for tho cohesivo attn r, tioc of the loaves and fishes, are elect >t to stay at home, then will wo have mo e resumption In political life, i Hore I wi y to raisp my voice against a sentimt Ls that I often hear among Christlai ;.) ''When a Church-member goes into p< n tics, bis usefulness aa a Christian is at it end." It does not follow as a necessi i- coimequence. . xfus, ?5 ???? KI?, ten il tatlons and trials of his fm th, but I pu it I higher estimate upon tho Raving grace ? \ Christ tbao to admit that it is not ac clent to koop a man pur? in Legislativo or Congressional Halls or Gubernatorial chairs. Tho question is this: ls it right to have Governors and General Asse tn . blies? Yea? Then ia it pot right to put the best men to fill these responsible position*? Ought we not to pray for our ruters and law-makers more ? Ought wo not oftener to commend them for their good acts ? Are not the people respon sible for bad rulers and bad law-makers ? Who but the people put bad men in power? For my part, I thank God when a Christian maa is put in office. I thank Him for Alford H. Colqutt, of Georgia, the present Governor, who is a consistant member of the M. E. Church, aud a lay preacher. I thank Him for John Is. Gordon, United States Senator from Georgia, who is a consistent Presbyte rian, whom I have reen kneel down under a "brush arbo>/ iu the dirt, aud Erny God to be present and bless the unible words of him who addresses you now. 1 thank God for Wade Hampton and Judge B. 0. Pressloy, and all tho Christian geutlemen everywhere who are serving the meek and lowly Saviour, on the Bench, in the State and National Councils, in every office whatsoever. Christianity ;is a poer religion if it has not power to leaven tho mass of political corruption and jobbery that calls so loud ly for redress. Politics and religion are not to bo sep arated, nor ls religion to be a part in tho back-ground ; bnt religion is io permeate the whole i-.nd elevate ii and purify The New Testament docs not separate reli gion and piety. When Jesus stood on the crest of Olivet and looked down on Jerusalem, his own city, tho pride and joy of every Israelite's heart, it was an well the voice of patriotism aa of religion that cried out, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stouest thom that are sont unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children to gether, even as a heu gathereth her chickens under her wings, and yo would not."-(Math, xxiii:87.) No purer patriot ever lived than Jesus of Naza reth, and no more patriotic words ever burst from tho lips of man than those. As a man, as an Israelite, Jesus loved his own countrymen moro than any other nation. As a patriot. Paul stands out as a pre-eminent example. In that sublime expression of Paul, in Rom. ix;2,8, made in bebah of Israel, his fellow-man, his beloved nation, wo find n deep undertone of patriotism trembling on the lips of him who was tho chief Apostle of tho Gentiles: "I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could W?BII that myself woro accursed from Christ/or my brethren, my kinsmen : according to (he flesh : who are Israelites" In all reveronco I say it : Jesus of Naza reth and Saul of Tarsus bad a patriotic love and dovotion to their own fellow citizens and their own nation, that they had toward ns other people. We are to distinguish between Christ tho God, and Jesus the man ; between Paul the Apos tle, and Paul the Jewish citizen ; ana no violence is done to Scripture nor the sacredness of their office in thes distin guishing. Speaking reverently, I do be lieve that if our Lord and Puul were on the earth now. aa American citizens, that they would both go regularly to th? polls, ' and deposit their bal lots on the sido of truth and purity. And yet I have heard Christians and Ministers say, "I shall never cast another vote ; I seo bo use ; I shall givo it ail up to the demagogues." Well, that is the way to have bad laws and bad rulers. Let the better part of the peoplq,loso all interest in the matter, and relegate it to immoral and irresponsible and ignorant men, and moral suspension will continue. For oue, I feel that I owe it to my coun try and my God to excrciso my franchise at every election, and cast my ballot for the purest and most capablo man before the people. I feel lt my duty to encour age Christian gentlemen to accept offices, and then pray for them, that they may let their light shine for Christ among their ungodly associates. If I wo?o a stranger here, I should bo favorably im pressed when told that our members of the General Assembly from Anderson County wera all intelligent, sober men ; and some of them Christians. Let us resume our ante bellum status in every moral respect. Let us go back whence we came. Let us denounco o very evil that we would have denounced be fore the war. Let us raise all onr stand ards to where they wera. Let tho moral register in society, in honesty, in indus try, in Church and in politics stand where it did when Franklin Pierce was President. Let each one examine his own heart and life, and see whoro the war hurt him, and go to work to repair the injury. Take it for granted that you are one of the wounded, and go to work, and ask God to help you to heal the wor-ul. "Subdue resentments, crush out prejudices, down with animosities, lop o?' ?irJ1 habi's, throw away your sus picion . jealousies." Moral wouuds may bo ; <:oved by promoting general spiritual ;',.alth. The best fever to Util tuc ship from the sand-bar is Christ Jesus tho Lord. The best safeguard to a na tion's liberties is an open Bible, a puro press, and a pulpit devoted to proclaim ing tho Gospel. Tho best lierttage that iou can bequeath your children is intel igence, honesty and thc fear of God. "Thus saith tho Lord, Stand ye ia the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where ia the good way, and walk therein. I and ye shall lind rest for your souls." JUYEKILK JjC RAT?TUPE.-A woman Sots on the train and says a very warm carted good-bye to a great cub of a six teen-year-old boy who sets down hoi bundles and turns to leave the car with a gruff grunt that may moan good bye or anything elso. There is a littlo quiv er on her lip as she calla ?.tt*>r bini. " Bo a good boy, writo to me often and do as I tell you." He never looks around as he leaves the car ' Ho looks just like tho kind of a boy wht will just as she tells him, but she musi bo careful to tell bim, to do just r_. h( . wants to. I have ono brightsparkv,. cou [ eolation as the train moves on and I set i that boy performing a clumsy satire ot 1 a clog dance on the platform. Some o ' these days ho will treat some man ai i g ru fly and rudely as he treats his mother 1 Then tho man will ciimb onto bim ant . lick him ; pound the very sawdust ont o - him. Thea the world will feel bette * and happier for the licking ho gets. I * may be tong deferred, but it will corni > atlast. I almost wish I bad pounded hin ? myself, while bo was young and I felt abl . to do it. He'may grow ap into a ver; I discouragingly rngged man. extremely ' difficult to lick, anil tho world may havi 5 to wait a very long time for this net o 5 justice. It frequently happens that thea > bad boya grow up into distressingly "bad j men.-Burdett? tn the Hawkey e. I Another Fat Person Reduced SO lb? \ ROYALBTOK, Misa, Jilly 10tht 1878. '. Botanic Medicine Co., Buffalo, N, Y. i What will yon send Allan's Anti-Fa f per dozen for; There is no pla^e wlthi - eight miles whers vro can buy i?. M a mother bas taken five bottles aud it ri fi doced her weight 20 pound?. SOUTHESK TEXT BOOKS, Northern Carping ?nd Southern Cogency. Tho Now York Examiner and Chroni cle, the organ of the Northern Baptist Church, in its issue of January the 8d, criticised the uso of Calhoun's work on Government aa a text book in tho de partments of history and political science In tho University of Georgia. Pro fessor Browne, of tho chair of history and political science, replied to tho Northern critic, in a masterly and crushing re joinder, in justification of the use or tho text booka complained of. Tho Exami ner and Chronicle, as we are informed by the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, satis fied Itself by publishing the "greaterpart?' of the reply under the beading, "Cal hounism in a Georgia College-A Letter Defending it," which the Northern edi tor kindly attached to Professor Browne's communication, interjecting at the samo time soveral headings into the body of tho professor's letter, which ho did not se? tit to make for himself. Tho Chroni cle and Sentinel, In Saturday's issue, gives us the whole reply of tho able professor, tho material part of which we publish below, and tho perusal of which will richly repay our roaders. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE, ATHENS, GA., January 9,1879. Editor of the Examiner and Chronicle: . .?.... To tho first of these toxt-books you say, "prepared by a Southerner, who certain ly does accept tho situation," you make no serious objection ; but you sincerely regret that Mr. Calhoun, whoso political heresies were tho vory tap-root of tho re ccut civil war, still furnishes tho only text book from which tho students of the University of Georgia are instructed res pecting their duties as citizens of tho United Staten. The political horesy which you chargo mo with teaching consists in my instruct ing tho students as you suppose, to re gard a 'nation,' which has abundantly vindicated its nationality, us a mero fed deration of sovereign and substantially independent 'States.'" I bopo I havo steted fairly your chargo and specifica tions. I admit that tho text book you have named are those which I URO lu tho Uni versity of Georgia, and tho only text booka that I use which bear on American af?imv. But if you mako ?o serious ob jection to tlie uso of those of which Hon. Aloxander H. Stephens is tho author, you I cannot justly tako exception to the uso of Mr. Calhoun's work, becauso Mr. Cal houn has never, by pen or word, moro emphatically assorted tho doctrine that the union of tho S'atcs is a federation of sovereign and independent States, and not a nation in tho sense of a consolidat ed republic, than does Mr. Stephens ir. his "Constitutional View of the War Be tween the States." if the doctrine of tho great statesman of South Carolina as to tba nature of tho Union is political here sy, the great statesman of Georgia ii equally guilty, for tho views of both on the subject aro precisely identical. I admit, further, that I d; teach the students that tho union of the States ts a federation of eovoieign and independen! States, and not a consolidated republic But is this "political heresy?" I do nol teach those solely becauso Mr. Calhorn or Mr. Stephens asserted it, though ] havo tho highest possible respect for theil opinions, nor do I teach it because it ii tho view maintained by any pol?tica party. I believo I do not allow party pol itlca or my individual party afilliattoni to affect in tho least my teachings o what I believo to bo historical trutb Did I believe, os fully and aa conscien tiously as I supposo you do, that tin fathers of tho republic made a mistaki in their choice of a form of governmcn -that it would havo been much bette had all tho States beon fused into one and bad a national govorumont boen TS tablished-with the facts of history bo fcro me, I do not BOO bow I can t _acl otherwise than that a purely Federa government was established-a gov ern ment for States and by State?: Whatever may bo my individual opinioi as to tho guilt of Charles I, whether I d or do not believe that bo ought to hav been put to death, I cannot teach stu dents that ho was guilty of trefoil, a tbat crime was then defined in the'statutc book of England. Nor, whatever I ma think of tho political treachery of Straf lord, can I teach that means employed t convict and coudemn him were lcgall o', morally justifiable. I may bo th firmest be"evor in the wisdom, justlc and good policy of tho alien and Soditio acts, but I cannot teach that thero wet not flngraut violation J of tho letter an spirit of tho constitution of tho Unite States. You quote thrco questions from m examination paper which you say, ai "especially BUggeativo" and "redolent < Calnounism." Tho first is: "3. Show, by a consecutivo statement t historical facts, that the thirteen State from tho beginning of their dispute wit Great Britain to thu ratification of tb constitution of 1787, always acted as se] erato and distinct political co m mun i tic and never as one nation." Allow mo to cite a fow of tho historic) facts which I asked tho students to stat and let us see whether or not tin show what tho question demands, j hold it to be an historical fact that fro: I their original settlement to tho deolan linn of independence the thirteen col nies were separate and distinct, several! . governed by laws of their own makin' ? and, beyond tho ties of good neighbo i hood, having nothiug in common exes; ? that their inhabitants wore subjects ' tba British sovereign. . The Congress ci tho coloides wh? met in 1774 was, as tho opening lines I its journal ahow, composed of "a nut ber of delegates" chosen and appoint \ by tbo "several colonies and provinces l North America, to meet and bold a Co j gross." Tho very first thing whicb the . delegates did after they organized, w . to declare that they were a Congress [ soparato aud distinct political bodii f and that, in ail their deliberations, ea , colony should have one vote. In t credentials of the dolegates I do not fl j even the shadow of a hint that any dei f gate represented any thing, but his ot r colony, that any delegate claimed to i t present any otbor people than tho peoj 9 of that particular colony from whom , derived his commission. ?j Tho second continental Cong* ,. which cjet in Philadelphia in 1776, li T -the first, was organized es a Congress 3 sep?ralo and distinct political bodi ,f and in it also each colony bad ono vc o every attempt to changerthis rulo bavl ? been uniformly defeated. The deel . ation of independence by this Congrt whicb Judge Story admits was "an u of paramount and sovereign autborit "an act of original, inherent sovereign! was made-as we leam from the m authentic record extant, namely, t communicated by Mr. Jefferson to 1 X Madison, and published in tho Madii n papers, vol I, v. 9-by tho delegates y wS si '??\ vO?oii?i-3 ih obedienco to >. I et ructions from their respectivo con I tuonls, "as no colony could bo bm \ but by its own consent." Fiual act on the declaration was delayed until four of the States-little Delaware waa ono of them-had severally empowered their delegates to assent to it. The title of the declaration of independence hf "the unanimous declaration of tho thirteen United SUtes of America." The de claration says that 'thcso colonies aro and of right ought to be free and inde pendent States." Washington's commission os Comman der-in-chief of the continental armies was mado out In the name of all tho col* I onies, each colony being expressly sam? I ed. The officers of the army swore that ? they acknowledged "the thirteen United States of America-namely, New Hamp? I shire, Massachusetts, etc., etc, (al! being : named) to bo free, independent and sov ereign Slates." In the treaty cf peace with Great Britain, in 1788, "HlsBritan I ie Majesty acknowledges the indepen dence of tho said United Bistro, v.' ? : Now Hampshire, Massac-'nusetu, etc., etc., (naming every one of tbs thirteen,) to bo free, sovereign and independent States." Tbe articles of confederation, the first written constitution of the Uni ted States, wore submitted "to tho re spective colonies for their consideration I and ratification." and were not of legal force until all tue colonies bad ratified [them. The allegiance of the citizen was duo to the laws of the colony of which ho was n member. (Resolutions of Con gress, June 24,1776.) Under the confed eration, each State punished treason, counterfeiting and the like. The per ' mission of each State was asked and ob [ tained before Congress could raise troops ' within its limits. Each Stalo had ex clusive power to levy and collect taxes and regulate commerce. Congress bad no such authority. During tho seven years of its existence the continental Congress novor claimed to exercise any inherent powers. It nev er pretender? to compel a dissentient colony tb 'Wiforra to its will, ovon though nil tho others had severally given thoir consent. -JR never enacted a law. It morely cxprcssd opinions, passed resolu tions, mado recommendations and re quests. Tho very first declaration of the articles of confederation, after setting forth tho stylo of tho ? anfederocy, was that "each State retains its own sover eignty, freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction and right not by tho confederation expressly delegated to the Uuited States in Congress assem bled." The constitution of 1787 was framed bj dolcgates commissioned by tho several States "for tho sole and express purpose of rovising the articles of confederation.' In nil the discussions the voto was taker by States, each State having ono vote and tho proposed constitution was sub milted tq tho several States, and ratifi?e by conventions of the people of thu aov eral States called for that purpose, 7i the clause providing for tho coustitntloi an i o cr into *(f*ot- W:en iiluc State? skal have" ratified it, it was declared that i should only go into effect "between thi States ao ratifying the samo." Are not these historical facts, and di they not show that the thirteen State from the beginning of their dispute wi tl Great Britain "always acted aa separat and distinct political communities, am nover os ono nation or consolidated re public?" As I read and undorstam thom, they Bhow this and thia only ; an I cannot teach otherwise. You canne say that it ls political heresy to teach th truth. If I have misstated, perverted c suppressed any historical fact, I wis ?-ou would prove that I have dona so. tave not intended to do it. Tho second question to wLich you tal exception os redolent of Calhounlsm as follows : "6. Demonstrate from the provisioi of tho constitution und the amendment and from the history of its adoptier, tl Federal character of the government Tho equal representation of tho Stat in tho Federal Senate, by which a mi jority of States bas the absoluto power I veto any measure adopted by the Houi of Repr?sentatives ; the Impossibility ' deprive any State, without its consent, ? this equality in tho Senate, and the la! guage of the tenth amended article wi! reference to the reversed powers of tl States, demonstrate, I think, tho Feder character of tho govornment. Ie it h the prominent idea of tho constitnUc from beginning to end, that it is a coi pact between States just as much os tl articles of confederation were? Do not the history of its adoption provo t slime thing? I need only refer to t striking out of the word "nntiona wherever it occurred in Governor Ra i dolph's plan, and thc substitution of t words "Government of the Unit i States," to prove that tho framers of t constitution believed that they were ci rying out their intention to framo a Fe era), and not a nai.on.il, governmei Surely nobody can read tho history i tho "Great Compromise" in tho conve tion and come to any other conciliai os to tho intent of a majority of tho Rta f represented in that body. Tho third question to which you e jc-ci is : "8. Show how the fact thrit the com tution was submitted to tho Legislate i of the soreral States, that the Legit tures might provide for its submission 1 conventions of the people of ino se ve i States, proves that absolute soverolgi was tl.araby recognized as residing w . the people of each State respective 1 and not with the people of all tho 8ts ? as ono moss." It certainly cannot be denied that ' constitution was submitted to the St ! Legislatures, that the Legislatures mi| ' provide for its submission to apecinl c t ventions of tho several States, and tha f was so ratified by these conventic Was not lin'? set cf ratification ? bt>? i eign act in the fallest sense of tho wo f Could the constitution bavo bound * single State that might have refus?e I ratify it? Was it binding oh Rh f Island and North Carolina during - period of their hesitation to ratify? 3 not those facts, referring cmphaticailj ? separate State action, exclude the pc f bili ty of a contemplated fusion of all , States into one moss? ) Whether or not, Mr. Editor, had I a making or tho constitution, I abe i ?ame Yt differently, obi ile rat? S ia ie i - ereignty and reduce the States to i condition of dependent provinces, 5 "districts of people," I cannot ohs B the facts. Mr. Mar ion, Gol. Hand p and mauy others who desired a " tional" government "accepted the si a tion at too time, and whether they li o it or not, declared repeatedly that if government established by tho cons ii Bon was essentially Federal. I cai ), mako it anything else, and' sd I g obliged to tench. And I do this svitl > any reference to the "lato war,' i, causes or results. For I cannot see "X the late war can bo said to have afle " tho fundamental law, or cht -ged " character of the government. I it eider the groat work? of Mr. Step it and Mr. Calhoun eminently able, v. fectly truthful and critically accurst n poeitionn pf the constitution, and tl if fore it is thu* T have ?depied the i- textbook' ii\ ray depart mont. So 1- os' the cooatitatlou remains as it id shall be obliged to teach tho stn? >n. ;thAf CMors la eiaentially a Federal go 'Alt A J) VJXB TIS IA W* MS ?*tafce?le& W Malt usvnutnU for. sjtmUxiec . "", Aara?nlairetora UtA other fldwcJerU*. Jiereviib Rppea? ?ho retos for tb? otrjlo^y ; nwtsst?sw?ioutr, - - 8a#* ErUttsK^Jtes.tJiiejinKrtJo??, . . . &e* . Tins! BaiUentetits. ?vd li;4t;Uoa? ? -.eve CO&BMSI>?IfDiiefm.-la ord#r Co rscelts , commonlofttioRs oust ts ticot*f-?st*3 . tros naroo sad udrVfts* cf lt* ?rite?. ?V> msnvocripts wi J J Mt ha Ktars wi, aslMHH ; r? stwnp* / xe fttroUyw?t<J rcis.jr i ha posts* . ?s* W# Mt isspon*tbH for tho T5*ws*nd oplwtousof oar correspond? -rfu. All coBJoiuolcsAJoMs tao?li bs eddroated t*f?Ed itors Intelligencer," pjid sll e&etks, drsft?, ?o.\sy orders, Ac., h?oujtt 00 wade psjrsblo totheo?dor ot ' . yV. K. H. liUKB/iY A CO.. Acdcrson.B. C. ment, and that wo ara not a nation Ir. tho eonse of a consolidated republic. I think, Mr. Editor, I am quito as will? lpg as you can be?to "let by-gones bc by-gones," but I cannot trent. historical truth ns a by-gono. J? rrjuafc believe that it ?8 mighty and will prcv?il. I know how prone men ero .to reject unwelcome knowledge, and to refuse all kuowledgo, fact ami Inference which fun counter to their prejudices and! inclinations. I don't suppose, however, that you aro of the number, but that, whether .facts aro unwelcome or the reverso, whether they are congenial or otherwise, you will will ingly acknowledge troth and do justice. Very ne*pcctfi:lly yours, WM. M. BROWNE, Professor History ac \)litical Science. A STOB? WITH AMORAL /The Woy to Texas and th? %Y*j Dach. Tho down passenger train from Chat tanooga that reached Atlant.. WeCuesday night last brought among its numerous passengers a family , of eleven persona who were on their return homo te South Carolina from Texas, where they have been existing for the patt three years. The head of tbe family gare bis nnmo as F. M. Coker, and asked a policeman at tho dopot to show bim and bis party to some placo where they could stay for the night. The policeman took tho entire parly to tho station-house, where a com fortable room with a fire In it was placed . at their disposai. Here they remained until Major D. A. Cook, the kind-hearted and * Jicient atollon-houso keeper, carno on duty in tho morning. Major Cook, upon visiting thom in the room, learned from Mr. Coker that neither ho nor any member of bis family hnd eaten a morsel on tbo day previous, and in couscquouco we're nearly famished for want ot food. As soon as Major Cook learned this ho sent out and got eleven breakfasts for tho starving family. "Well, it would Lavo dono you good," said Major Cook to the reporter, "to eeo how that family demolished tho contenta of tho numerous dishes that wera set be fore them. Tho little ones just pricked tip their ears aud snapped their eyes aa ! soon os they beard the rattle of the dish . es. A little three year old blue-syed boy I eprang out of his mother's lap and com- : ruenced clapping his hands for joy. "Faces that were without a partido of life in them changed in the twinkling of an cyo and bore expressions of delight. DcBpito the great hanger of every one there was plenty for all, and after a half bour rpent in stuffing themselves with tho good things, the family, from the old man to tho baby in tbs arms of the moth ar, bad their appetites fully eatlefied." At noun tho reportar looked in ypoa tho group. Thors were tho old man and his wife, apparently sixty years of arra. Iscsicdon ?ne i?oor, and n??r them wei ! their family. In conversation with Hr. Coker, tho reporter learned that tho family went to tho southeastern pirt of Texas . about thrco years ago, and that, they had Bot tled upon a tract of land that they ron - ted, which is located a few miles from Huntsville. During their stay in tho Lono 8tar State, Mr. Coker says he baa met with nothing but adversity on every, turn. Ho says that he mudo poor crops, and in consequence bad little to eat. ? The laud he said wes poor, and would ! bring nothing whatever, although ho worked hard to mako a living for him self and family. Two of his daug'.terH, who aro grown, assisted him in plough ing in ibo fields and worked upon tho farm in various other way?. Shortly af ter their arrival in Texas, tho members . I of his family were taken sick with chilli} I and fever, end op to tbe dato cf their leaving that State, nearly nil jf them were still subject to thia kind of sickness. Mr. Coker says ,th^t having bceorno disgusted with^ the land and elimata. o? Texas, he concluded Bover?l months ago to return to his former homo, near Wil liamsburg, South Carolina. Every effort that be made to securo. .money enough upon which to return homo proved to bo a failure, until a few days ago when ho secured ' two hundred dollars from his. brother-in-law. who resides at William?* burg. With thia money ho at oy?n p?r chrucu tickets which brought bim nnd his family to Chattanooga. Hero he was again without money. Tho chief of tho police learned of tho destitute condition of tho family, and informed Major Hill of their situation. This gentleman coos after'repaired to the office of the Wes tern and Atlantic Railroad and requ ted tho manager to pass tho family lo Atlanta for half rates, stating that if th??, road would do this Chattanooga would pay for tho tickets. Tbs request was promptly granted and the party nrrived in this city without accident, Mr. Coker states that tho conductors along the lines over which ho was haul ed havo been universally courteous to himself and his entire family, and that he will alwavi feel indebted to them for numercu'. kindnssDco. Ko says that upon bis arrival at homo ha will return to his old pursuit, which ia farming, Hia brother-in-law, he says, has promised to givo him every nsslstinco that ho can to get thoroughly under way once moro iu his old State. Mr. Coker says that thoy can all go to Texas that want to, but for bis pun. h? has had enough, and will re main'the remainder of bia life in the Statu of his n.iti vity. He says that tb reo families who reached .Texas a few days before he left took tho train for home tho day after their arrival, they having seen all that they wanted to of that State, Mr. Coker says, that ?uriug his sojourn in Texas of ihr*, years ho only accumu I lated about five dollars, -?=r paying uti "ms exponeos and iV^lng hit family. Y-fitorday Major W. JJ. Calhoun tel egraphed to Augusta requesting tho au-. porlntendent of the Georgia Railroad to pass ibo family over the line io Augusta for half fare. Major Calhoun says that if the road will do this, that Atlanta will ft. nish the money with which to poy for tho tickets. At last accounts Mayor Calhoun had not received answer to his dispatch. He thinks that, the Georgia Railroad will grant the request and hopes tn ?at ?he family oS to-dsy. ?>u rtug their stay here Major Cook has shown them much kindness, He baa allowed them to retain possession of the room and has given them pleuty to cat. Mr. Coker, with his family, will prob ably get off to-day.-Allanto Oontiitu f?o*?. Viaoitoy MIND AHI) BODT.-Every per son would have more vigor of mina and body, ind mental clearncM wero they to une a daily diet of unbo'v i wheat flr-.ir. Mix with tho flour dry, Dr.Price's Cream Baking.Powder, stir iii par?water, turma soft batter, bsko in gems pr biscuit, nod tho result will be tho most nutritious? ar ricio of food th& can b? mado. DEM?irr AI,T. LOVERS or SCKNT?.-Tba Unique Pcrfatosa madt Dr* Price djlight. by their bstimt cl *?nh~ ?\nd. refreshing twjfranco, ah lo" of sweer, scenf?. Dr. 1'rice'o Ftnyei?] Not. Ylang^Ylabg. Musk Bose, A! Bociiifct, and h