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BY E. li. MUltllAY & CO. AMERICAN METHODISM. ANDERSON, S. C.. THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4. 1881 VOLUME XVII.--NO. 4 SBrigifi. Growtl?, and Strength of lu j i mi < li ?? .., ai '^lven by ? Northern Writer, //. T. in Cincinnati Oar'tte. H^Iethodism i? th? United Staten is di Gaded into many branches, and ia called WL Keveral different names. All these ?Bganizntions, however, are shoots from Ke some stock ; they all owe filial alie ?Junee to John Wesley. It is nol Haimcd that WCBICJ* personally directed no formation of each of these societies Kr ere some of them came into life tbh SKcat organizer lad been long in bit Brave, lt is sim ? claimed that thej Ke ni' the nrodu,,. of his principles, auc Kat but for his life and work thost Bren of this number which aro tho fur Kcst from direct descent would eithei Bot be in existence at all, or, if they hac B hoing, would ?tili Jack pia ny of thei ^Hrttinguitihiug peculiarities. To Jobi Beesley, therefore, this country owes ; B?rge ?lebt of gratitude. Ile was hinisel ?ir a short time a missionary to tin B^mericau colours. Couver'- to hi |Kachings were the bund of I tish emt Braids who instituted the first Methodis Borvices on these shores. Phillip Embu Ky was a Wesleyan ; HO was Barbar ?Peck, who roused l'billip to duty; sc B?s?. U':W Unpt. Webb, of the Britisl Bnvv, who caine providentially io bel| Bi! this movement. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. ? The labors of f hese throe made possibl !^hc building, in 17G8, of the first Mettle Moist Church which adorned this couti Kent-the old John Street Church i Kew York City. Not long aftcrwar BVesley sent a detachment of his preacl: Krs to America. This advance guar Bras supplemented by other squads, uut ?finally, the revolutionary war bavin Separated tho Colonies from British rub Kind, therefore, from the care, to a larg Kxtcnt, of the Established Church, D Koko caine over, empowered by Weslc o confer ordination on the America Kinerants, and to give to the Weslcyanisi Hf the laud the dignity of a separate o Kauizatiou. That organization wi Kffected i? December, 1785. J ?altimorc, and was called "Tl ilethodiat Episcopal Church in the Uni >d States," Thomas Coke and Franc Anbury being elected, according to \\rc ey's desire, its General Supcrintetulen jr Bishops. This Bret Methodist organization i America adopted the "rules of Society which governed the Wesleyans of Gre Britain, aud accepted as its creed We ley's abridgment of tho thirty-nine art des of the Church of England. Of i distinctive Wesleyan character, exec I.r some features of government, thc cnn be, therefore, no question. Tl statistics of the New Church co trust strangely with those which repr sent its strength nt tho present day. bad then 14,988 members, 13,381 of who wet? south of Mason and Dixon's lin Its itinerant preachers numbered eight four, and there were reported to bc fort six circuits. This was less than a ce tury ago. The same church boasts nr. 1,742,022 members, 12,096 travelii preachers, thirteen Bishops, ninety-fi Ennual conferences, and owns chun nd parsonage property valued at abo 173,000,000. The Methodist Episcopal Church, t ing John Wesley's first progeny-t first and only American church ho pi Bonally aided in establishing- ve at e ii surprised to find nearly all '.he oth Methodist bodies in the couulry aro c Ehots from this, and that it is throu heir original connection with this tl bf Wesley's own planting that they tm their Wesleyan ancestry and establi their claims to representation in t forthcoming Ecumenical Con taren To thia rule there are, however, two < ceptions. These a?o lue UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST AND T EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION. Neither of these sprang directly from I ioi ns ot British Methodism, nor v either acknowledge the Methodist Er copal Church as ita parent. They m bc accorded separate and indepondt origin. They are in the great Method family not by right of birth, but adoption and on account of the strik: resemblance to the other children i which they have grown. THE UNITED URETHREN CHURCH originated a little more than a centi ago, in Pennsylvania and Maryla under the labors of Phillip W. Otterbt a German Reformed preacher, ntatiot at Baltimore. Up to 1830 it was ext Bively a German church. Its doctri and usages aro very similar to th churches which are distinctively Met distic, but a3idc from these it has b distinguished by two peculiarities, \ continuous opposition to slavery and utter intolerance of societies whose un hers are bound to secrecy. Slaver; baB seen abolished, but secret BOC?C still live and prosper. There is a ?tr and growing liberal element io Church, which it is expected, will suec ere long in putting her in tho lino of | gress with reference to tho last nat subject, and when this bas been don rapid growth may be looked for. 1 Church has now about 160,000 merni aud about 2,000 itinerant preachers. .recent writer in the Gazette cstim that if this Church maintains ber pr?t rate of prosperity for tho next dee she will then report 250,000 memben THE EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION. Tho other Methodist organiza which originated independently of Methodist Episcopal Church, viz., Evangelical Association, took its in Eastern Pennsylvania in'1800, tu thc labor? of Jacob Albright. Thc ni hers of this church nre frequently ca Albrights. It is almost exclusivel German church. It has an electivo siding Eldership and elects ita Bisl every four years. Its membership n bera 112,107. It has fifteen annual fcrences, 893 ministers, and church p crty valued at $2,035,000. With thc t.vo exceptions above ni the church organizations in tho Ur States which will send delegates to London conference nre all offshoots i the Methodist Episcopal Church. 1 in a country reveling in freedom, whoso intense life renders the brai fertile of inventions, and the spir impatient of control, a largo bod devoted, zealous Christians sh occasionally send out a nunibe persons bent on trying some and, to them, seemingly better observing God, .? a phenomenon w ??ll bu viewed by tho thoughtful wit the least fooling of either regret or prise. Tbf wonder in connection the divisious of Methodism is nc much that they have occurred as Lb; view of tue bitterness aud recent ds tho feuds between sonic branches these should now bo ready to conn gelber for frieudly conference. An thing in the study of this subject v strikes one strangely is that all ibo < jons that have occurred in Melin bavo been for reasons which had lil pe reference to doctrinal matters, its interpretation of tho cardinal t of Scripture Methodism seems to unit. "This conference," said ...... ?.luiir, rciemng to the comme heu men ical, "can not be for the discus 1 sion of doctrinal differences, for Meth odism had no doctrinal differences." FREE METHODIST CHURCH. The nearest approach to a split on doctrinal grounds was in 18f>0, when tho Free Methodist Church was organized. I bis organization was effected at Pekin N. Y., by a number of ministers who had* been expelled from tho Genesee Confer ence of tho M. E. Church. Its projec tors insisted strenuously upon the doc trine of entire sanctification. This, to be sure, was no new doctrine to Metho dist^ yet in the popular interpretation given to it by these reformers it was new wo may safely say. to the bulk of the fol lowers of Wesley. This offshoot was also distinguished for a bitter opposition to tecrc-t societies, a peculiarity which it still retains, as evidenced by the fact that tho fraternal delegate from tho M. E. Church to ita last general conference wa* asked by the presiding officer if lie was a Mason, and when he replied that he was, paid the penally by being refused recog nitiou by that body. Another peculiari ty of this Church is the adherence of its I niemborolo plain modes of dreeing. In I this peculiarity, however, time ?3 said to J be working some modifications. Tho I Free Methodist Church eschews Bishops j and Presiding Elders. It has thirteen ! annual conferences, 271 preachers and j 12,042 members. METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH. A very influential body of M?thodiste is that which is known rs the Methodist? Protestant Church. Tho differencet which led to the formation of this Churc'c bad reference Bolcly to questions ol church government. There were those in tho Methodist Church, even as early as iu 1820, who were anxious to dispense with the Presiding Eldership, and whe felt that thc laymen of thc Cbur.h should be represented in its conferences. A long and bitter controversy eusued ot j these subjects, the leader on the anti ! Eldership side being a wealthy layman j Wm. 8. Stockton, wno began the publi cation at Trenton, N. J., of a peri?dica ! called "The Wesleyan Repository." j After four years this gave place t< I "The Mutual Rights," published iu tin i same interest. Meanwhile, flagrant in I stances of disobedience to the order o I the Church occurred in tho reform party and as a result some expulsions toril . place. Tile expelled members, in 181! , organized ibcmselv*. into a body callei "The Associate Methodist Reformers,' . and in 1880 there was formed from tbi '? nucleus thu body known as the Metilo i dist Protestant Church. This Churcl has neither Bishops nor Presiding El der*. At its organization it adopted ii substance thc rules of thc M. E. Church and the Articles of Religion held by tba j body. Its organizers did not regan themselves as seceders from the pareu ! body. They claimed, as do their follow ; crt- for them, that they organized the! i church when, having been expelled fror i the Methodist Episcopal fold, they wer without a church home, and were, then fore, at liberty to act for themselves, a they did. This Church commenced wit about eighty ministers and 5,000 men bers. It now has 1,314 ministers, and membership of about 115,000. COLORED METHODIST CHURCHES. The connection with the Mctbodii Episcopal Church of large numbers < colored people, aud the early prejudic existing against this class, are two fae which, as might have been cxpectei have given rise to several divisions < Methodism along social lines. The fir of these occurred in 181G, when the Afr can Methodist Episcopal Church wi forn"-J. The colored people in tho: days attended the same churches th; the white people patronized, and had certain portion ol'the meeting houses r served for their especial use. In a ce tain church attended largely by colon people, an innovation was introduced the shape of a gallery, and straightwi a dispute arose as to where the dusl hued brethren should thenceforward s An effort was probably made to crov them out of thc main body of the chun into the gallery. This dispute was tl entering wedge which, so far as clair privileges go, has'now entirely separat the two races. The African M. Church organized with about 3,000 mci hers. It now has a mombershlp of abo 215,000 Other colored branches of Melhodii arc thc Methodist Episcopal Zi Church, organized in New York in 181 and the Union American Method Church, organized in 1813. The form took its name (Zionl from thc cluir in New York wbcre the colored pcoi who started tho new organization b long worshiped. It began with less th 1,500 members, and now has nearly 201 000. Tho latter was organized by Ri Peter Spencer. It is a weak body, hi ing 121 preachers, and 2,000 lay me bera. Perhaps one reason for the si growth of this Church is tho pract which prevails in it, of requiriug ev< member to contribute no less than $2 a year to the support of the goapel. Another fruitful cause of dissenti among the followers of Wesley has bc the question of the right or wrong of s very. The question is now forever set rost, so far as this country is concern but forty years ago it rent in twain I great Methodist Episcopal Church, a still later threatened to disrupt our i tion. There were many in this Chur ! even at thc time of its organization, w opposed this institution, aud this fai i ful band steadily increased, both in nu ! bers and influence. Thc Church at i body, however, did not seem to ki ! peace witb its anti slavery wing, and j 1830-41 large numbers, for eonscie: I sake, left ita fold, the result being formation in the latter year of thc Am ?cnn Wesleyan Church. THE WE.SI.EYAN CHURCH. This Church was organized at Ut N. i . Its distinguishing cbaracteri: was its uncotnpromizing hostility to man slavery. It also opposed secret cieties, and refused meraberniiip to who belonged to such bodies. It i tbcrmore differed from tho mot Church in dispensing with Bishops i Presiding Elders. Until slavery abolished the Wesleyan Church moderately prosperous, but after the about 100 of ?ta ministers and a il number of lay members, realizing t the old enemv they were specially ganized to fight had been vanquisl came hack to tho Methodist Episce fold, and since then tho new organ ,. . . i_:..u..l T. 1.?? ...... I IO ll 11113 lilll?UI01K.U. a? ...... ...... ministers and about 25,000 members. METHODIST BPI8COPAI. CHURCH 601 Tho Wesleyan secession carried a comparatively few of the many in Methodist Episcopal fold who held a slavery views. Nor did those who maincd feel that they compromised tb selves by so doing. Their purpose to fight tho enemy from within, an possible to bring the whole Churcl t!u ir way of thinking. That some lef sbij) in despair only strengthened t in their determination to stay ab and pilot the craft, if possible, into desired heaven of abolition. It ia pr ble, too, that the Wesleyan mover served another good purpose in shaking; j up tho cousciencies of thoso who rad |?eenied indifferent to this evil, and in drawing more distinctly the dividing lino between the defenders of this institution aud thoso"',who opposed it. But ht '.his as it may, history records that while in 1841 a large number left the Methodist Episcopal Church because, apparently, titey were in a minority in desiring that slavery might be abolished, in 1844, three years afterward, a still lar ger number look their departure because they were, unmistakably, in the minori ty in desiring that the institution might be maintained. This, latter separatton resulted in thc organization of the Meth odist Episcopal Church South-the sec ond largest Methodist body on tine con tinent. I A short time prior to the General j Conference of 1844 Rev. Francis A. i Harding hud been suspended from the ! Baltimore Conference for refusing to j emancipate slaves owned by bis wife. I About the same time Bishop Andrew, o? j Georgia, was united in marriage to a lady j ;f the same Stale who ?as a slave owner. j The laws of Georgia would not allow the emancipation of slaves, and the Bishop's 1 culpability arose from the fact that he contracted this marriage with a full j knowledge of this fact and of thc : awkward position in which the alliance j would place him. lu both thea'' casca 1 tho General Conference took action. lu the first it sustained the Baltimore Con j ference in suspending Harding, and io the case of Bishop Andrew it passed res oiutious by a vote of lil to 69 which vir tually suspended him from tho episcopal office. Tbi? action tho delegates frort the slavehold ng States sought to hav< changed, and failing iu this, they enteret a formal protest against it Later in th? session, when it oceanic apparent tba the action of the conference was likely tc result in the separation from the Churcl of a large number of ministers and mern ber?, a Select Committee of Nine wai I appointed to report to the conference tin j basis on which the anticipated separatio! ; should be made. The report of tbi committee was adopted, and the confer ! enco adjourned with the understandin] that if the Southern churches filially de cided to leave the parent body they "coull depart in peace. A convention of leading Souther; ; Methodists, held at Louisville, Ky., ii May of the following year, developin thc fact that the slavcholdingState? wer almost a unit for separation, the net Church ttl onco took shape, its first Ger 1 eral Conference being held at Teten I burg, in May, 1846. This new organize tion carried away 450,000 members, c two-fifth of tho entire membership ( the Methodist Episcopal Church at tin time. The Church South now has 3 annual conferences. 7 Bishops, 3,8t] traveling preachers, 5,832 local preacl ors, and a membership of about 330,00 OTHER METHODIST CHUItCUES. The organization known as the Colo i ed Methodist Episcopal Church wi formed at Nashville, Tenu., Decembe 1874, under the direction of the Melin dist Episcopal Church South. It wi the outgrowth of a feeling in tho la named church that its colored membe ship would be better off in an organiz tion of their own. This Church admi no whites to its fold. It has four Bis ops, seventeen annual conferences, 6: preachers, and ll2,-100 members. The Primitive Methodist Church the United States is modeled after t church of that name i- Great Britai It reporta 196 itinerant preachers, ai 3,210 members. Tho Congregational Methodist Chur originated in 1852. Its operations f \ chiefly confined to a few States in t South. Membership, 10,000 with abc 150 minister. The Independent Methodist churcl report an aggregate membership of abc I 15,000. REPRESENTATION IN ECUMENICAL CC FERENCE. j These different branches of the Metl dist family will send delegates to I I forthcoming Ecumenical Conference follows: Methodist Episcopal Chur 80; Methodist Episcopal Chur South,38; African Methodist Episco| Church 12; African M. E. Zion Chur 10; Colored M. E. Church, 6 ; Evatigi cal Association. 6 ; Union American E. Church, 2; Methodist Protest Church, 6 ; American Wesleyan Chur 4 ; United Brethren, 2 ; Free Methoc Church, 2; Independent Methodists Congregational Methodists, 2. Life's Brightest Hour. Not longsojce, I met a gentleman v ! is assessed for one million. Silver ? in his bair, care upon his brow, and slightly stooped beneath his burden wealth. We were speaking of tho pei of his life time he had reached the u perfect enjoyment, or rather, when had found happiness to be nearest alloyed. "I'll tell you," ?aid tho niilliouc I "when was tho nappiest hour of my At the age of one and twenty I bad ss $800. I WBB earning $500 a year, and father did not take it from mc, only quiring that I should pay my bo At the age of twenty-two I secure pretty cottage just outside of the < I was able to pay two-thirds of the vi down, and also furnish it respectably was married on Sunday-a Suuda; June-at my father's house. My I bad conic to me poor in purse, but ? in the wealth of womaubood. The ? bath and the Sabbath night we pa beneath my father's roof, and on Mot morning I went to work, leaving mo and sister to help in preparing my hi "Gu Monday evening, when thc hors of the day were done, I went nt I thc parental shelter, but to my house-my own home. The holy ati plier ofthat hour seems to surround even now in thc memory. I opened door of my cottage and entered. I ! my hat oil tho little stand in the and passed on to tho kitchen-our k en and dining-room were all one t I pushed opeu tho kitchen door and in-heaven ! The table was set ag the wall-the evening meal was i prepared by the bands of her who come to be my helpmeet indeed as as in name-and by the tea-table, w throbbing and expectant look upo: lovely and loving face, stood my I could only clasp thc waiting ang my bosom, thus showing to her ecstatic burden of my heart. "The years have passed-long ye and worldly wealth bas Sown apoi and I nm honored and envied-b true as beaven-I would give all i dollar, for the joy of that June eve ! in the long, long ago."- Exchange. ^_ - Pledger, the colored man rei appointed Deputy Collector of In Revenue at Macon, has actually dd . the oOice. - God extracts good from evil. ! many noble, honorable, uibliir.? beautiful traits in Gat field's cha would havo been lost to thc world belief, bad not Guitcau'fl bullet the President down ! THE TEMPERANCE ISSi-F. Address from Cltltent of Columbia to the People of South Carolina, Proposing a Stair? Convention lu September next to Consider nnd t'rge n I'lan of Action. At a meeting hi\d on tho 20lh July by thc joint committee of tho temperance organizations and citizens oi Columbia the following address and plsu for the calling of a convention was unanimously | adopted : Tu the Citizens of South Carot inn : The enormity of the evils resulting 1 from the unrestricted use of intoxicating liquors-evils which affect every class and condition of socioty and imperil every interest of our social, merni and political system-baa become apparent ; to every citizen of our State who has | given even a casual consideration to thc subject. 'fhe press, the pul; ;t, the Judged from \ their high official places, the records of ; crime and of pauperism, the languishing j industries JIU the sn Hering women and cbildreu >f tho State have borne their i unimpeachable testimony to these evils, ! aud in t?rms of eloquent and indignant pathos they call loudly lor relief. Tho : power ul appeals from all these sources | have not Leen without good results, aud ! wo gratefully recoguize that much has ; been done in awakening public senti- ' meut to tim necessity for effort to coun- 1 teract the evils and remove their prime j cause. The recent Act of tho Legislature pro- j bibiting the. traffic outside of iucorpora- ! ted towns and villages has already beeu : marked by tho most gratifying results in . every county where its provisions have been enforced, and there has followed I directly and immediately therefrom a \ marked improvement iu the moral char- ! acter and material condition of the com- \ muni ty, and tic correctness of the policy j of prohibition has been fully corrobora ted and confirmed. lt is true, however, that, in spite of | the power of law and the appeals to rea- . son and conscience which have been j called forth by the public interest in this subject, both thc law and public senti ment are in sume places openly set at j detiauco by the comparatively smallclass i who would make merchandise of human misery and spoil tho dearest interests of i human society if only they may enrich I themselves thereby. In no singlo instance bas a body of citizens given expression to a desire that the law of thc last Legislature ought to be relaxed or repealed; while, on the contrary, so well satisfied are tho people everywhere of the benefits which result from ita enforcement that in tho few cases where its provisions have been evaded or disregarded there comes up an imperative demand for its rigid enforce ment, ni d the law aud peace officers have been constrained by that voxpopuli t to pursue thc violators to the extremo penalty of thc law. No license system can be satisfactory, for so long as tho j law discriminates in dealing with this traffic between one persou and another and ono placo aud another, it is vulnera ble to tho objection which will always be made against class legislation, and engenders a spirit of sympathy with the class whoso rights are supposed to be invaded, and rendering it difficult to convict them of violations where severe pains and penalties would bc the result. Besides, tue very object of the law-a protection of those communities who ap prove of and desire ita provisions-is de feated by the failure to niako these pro visions general and. uniform. The pro hibition of the traffic in thc country may, and unquestionably, ns is shown by the testimony, does result in good, but much of the good possible under its pro visions is lost if, from the neighboring town or village, the supply is made al most a? accessible as if it was to be had at every cross roads store. But it may be said that the incorporated towns have it in their power to prohibit thc traffic by their own action, and then the reme dy is within their reach, and that addi tional legislatiou is not needed. Perhaps if in every city, town and village in South Carolina w here the traffic prevails to day the issuo could be made free from any local or political or party complications and free from the cor' Mug influences which always attend exciting popular elections, it would be safe to ailinn that the remedy would bo most effectually applied iu this nay. But while the friends of prohibition affirm and confi dently believe that such a trial would re sult in success, yet on account of some political complications which would in evitably arise to disturb the balance aud imperil tue integrity of tho present po litical power, we believe success in this way would be purchased at so great a cost and sacrifice of other important in terests as to justify the friends of prohi bition iu refusing to assume so fearful a responsibility and only to seek the rem edy in this way as a fast resort, and when tho effort to obtain it by legislativo ac tion proves to bc hopeless. As a result of a careful review of tho present status of thc question we affirm and believe, 1st. That the sentiment of the people of South Carolina is overwhelmingly in favor of the prohibition of the traffic in alcoholic liquors as a beverage, as a means of suppressing crime, pauperism und thc innumerable evils, social, mmal and political, which everywhere attend the indulgence in strong drink, and as a means of improving the moral, intellec tual and material condition of our w hole people. 2nd. That if this be the prevailing sentiment it is the duty of our fellow citizens everywhere to give it expression in sucii form and through such agencies as shall make it effective in demanding such legislation as shall provide tho rem edies for the evils which endanger our j civilization from this source. .'td. That as the most practical method of calling out and giving expression to the public seueo on this most moment ous issue, we invite the fellow-citizens everywhere throughout the State to ap point from among them discreet and worthy men, to assemble in a conference or convention at Columbia on thc 27th day of September next, lo consider and ad vise what legislative action should be taken by the Legislature at ?Ls next SCH sions to effectually suppress the traffic in alcoholic liquors and remedy thc evils resulting therefrom. I 4tb. we respectfully submit tho fol lowing plan by which tho selection of delegates to said conference may bc made : 1. That the Grand Division of Sons of Temperance of South Carolina be re quested to take such action at their ap proaching meeting as to insure a full representation from the order throughout the State in a couvention of thc friends of prohibitory legislation, to bc hold in Columbia on the 27th day of September next. 2. That a similar request is hereby made to thc Grand Lodge of I. O. G. T., or iu the interval of the meeting of said Lodge, then that tho Grand Worthy Chief Templar and Executive Committee of said order be requested to give effect to this request. That the Woman's Christian Tem perance Union bo requested to appoint i' -. - . . nt least two representatives from each Union to ropreserv 'hom in said conven tion. 4. That tho clergy of tho State he re quested to select from each congregation two representatives to said convention thc certificates of such clergymen to h< regarded as a suflicieut credential foi such representative. 5. That the citizens of each county ht urged to call count? conventions for lu? purpose of electing delegates to said con vention, tho basis of representation t< he the same as that in tho Legislature o thc State. Democratic Address in NOTT York. The Democratic memhen of 'he Net York Legislature, through t. ir join caucus committee, have issued ai. ?dd re.-: in regard to the recent deadlock, in whic! they pay : ".The chief cause for this un called for detention was a quarrel bc tween the President of tho United Statt on one side aud tho Vico President an two Senators from tho Stalo of Ne York ou tho other. The ?urce of th: discord was a question of ouicial patrol age or spoils ot office. Tho collector ( the port of New Y'ork was forced to r< sigu in the midst of his term of servit from a placo whore ho was Berving wit general acceptance to the public aud a] {minted to u place abroad uncalled ft >y his friends or by the public, in whic he has no experience. This chang against which tho merchants of Ne York protested iu large uumbors, wi made in total disregard of civil servil reform, and was uot called for hy at principle of political duly, nor in tl interest of the public service Tho pu pose of thc act was to reward those wi had been porsisteutly successful iu s curing particular nominations and pu ni.-di those who had assisted a lcadii member and other members of the N ! ional Republican Convention, clnimii the right of a third term of executi service for the previous President." Referring to the resignation of thc C Senators, they say : "Ike mau who i spired this resignation was thc ,nui Senator of the State, who had been tin times elected to thc United States Sent by one party of the State whoso lon/, service ho now refused, and was simj owing to the fact of thc nomination the Scualc of one of thc chief o lie nd who had opposed his ambition and wisl at Chicago and elsewhere. Appeals dude by tho Democratic t nority to submit tho question to the p pie were met by the insulting d?clar?t that the possible choice of Dcmocra Senators in Congress would bc a pul calamity, aud thus after just elect Thomas C. Platt as the successor FranciB Kernan and after filling the s cession with tho choice of a man nan Warner Miller, a member of the pres and previous House of Renrcsentnti' where he was only conspicuous and torious as the direct and present ben ciaries of one of the greatest mouopo in thc country, and where he has H ported that monopoly by his voice influence, und with the threat that ot public interests should sutler if his tercats in wood pulp iu tho manufaci of paper were uot protected. The most distinguished and cap: men of the dominant party not in pu place, apart from Mr. Conkling, inc mg men like Messrs. Fish, Wheeler Rogers, and others who have served State with ability, have had to give y to two mcti elected to Congress, their nomination made tbc excuse passiug a law to fill vacancies mad their election and for no other rea These special elections thus prov? will be as untimely as they are unn< sary. The men elected caunot take I seats before December, whereas the eral election takes place early in No' ber, aud all thc votes will" be cou before Congress can meet. The whole Senatorial discussioi Albany resolves itself into three discreditable conclusions : First, mis of the people of the State on the pi the Republican majority in tho Lcf ture ; second, a quarrel over the s of ellice ; third, abuse of power fro long use, and misuse, until two o least capablo persons have bceu d from thc popular branch of thc Cou of the United States." Thc address then calls attention t bribery and corruption iu thc Rep eau party, which has buen exposi the quarrel between its iactions. Alluding to the attempted assa tiou of tho Presideut, the address "The chief magistrate of thc govern for daring to put in practice prim of executive right and authority i choice of public officers nearly lo life. This sad aud terrible crimo not alone through the personal ma of a Bingle mau, but from that pei fanaticism which was and is tho fr greed for public offices, and of u and dangerous political creed, crime is evidence that now if ever time to teach nil men that public is the property of the people, am places of official trust can only be fully distributed to men of noble pose, of pure lives, of wisc expo and of unqualified fitness for the w be performed." - "Now I lay me down tosle:p, little Toddlepina. Then stopping ; ute, "but I ain't going to pray foi mn's sole to kee?, 'causo it hurts." is regarded as .ne Rob Ingersoll family. - A celebrated lawyer ouco sai the th reo most troublesome clici ever had were a young lady who \ to bc married, a married womat wanted a divorce, and an old who didn't know what alic wanted - The yankee nasal twang ?sot: London, hut not. n whit moro so t is to the ear of well-bred people Southern States. On the other ha lovely soft, liquid intonations o marked in Southern ladies, parti among these born in the Gulf Sta admired in England, as they desi be.- New York Sun, - Oarficld once got mad at HO lows who crossed him v.antonl; driving in thc road. Ht said tc Swain in a low tone: "Now I an to take a wheel off." At. that Mrs. Garfield leaned forward an "No, James, no, you are not!" am," said Garfield. "James, you going to do it." Ina minuto he off, as if under her tone, and tur horses tho other way. How I How many men know how it i nolvcs! - A jealous barber deliberatol young man down in the streets o I dolphin on Su..day while tlicstrc j full of people returning from the. j a citizen of Pittsburg was about i j timo brutally ?toned to death by I on Water street of that citv ; evening before, in Washing! brother-in law another in the family circle, and nltnost in the of tho aged motlier, and yet th< ern papers, with daily occurrei these around it, taunt us with c ward civilization in thc South. ATTEMPT TO BAISE TEA. Ilcport to L'oiiimleslonei- l.orlnj;. WASHINGTON, July 28. William Saunders, uf tho Agricultural Department, who wa>< ?eut to South Car olina by Commissioner Luring to inven ligate tho tea culture experiment making in that State, bas returned and handed his ieport to the Commissioner. From bis description of tho tea farm it appears to be an exhausted piantatiou, onco a ? country residence, having upon it tho ruins of a large mansion, pleasure ground aud customary surroundings, including an artificial lake now dry. The work thus far undertaken seems to consist largely in tho parti? 1 removal of tho old ruins, preparatory to tho rebuilding of the mansion, and the construction of an avouuo or drive through thc grounds. The plans included the filling up of the artificial lake and construction of au iron bridge across il, with other similar works necessary to the successful cultiva tion of tea. "Tho soil," Mr. Saunder.-, says, "is a poor, hungry sand. Some portions of tho tract might bc classed as a pour sandy loam, as some appearance of loam may be detected in it, but it is of a character to support only Ibo scantiest kind of vegetation. A course of ame liorative culture, including manuring, would be required before attempting lo procure reasonably satisfactory crops . f even such annual planta as ure usually grown iu that climate; but for perma nent ligueous plants, such as tuc tea plant, a much more thorough prepara tion than that conveyed above would be " essentially necessary, including deep ploughing and cross-ploughing, followed ni each furrow by a deco subsoiling, to prepare a proper physical or mechanical condition of the soil for tho free ramifi cation of roots. % * * With regard to tho futuro prospects of tho enterprise, if continued iu tue line of Ibo prcaeut systein, it may bc said that libero ia not much room for encouragement." Mr. Saunders gives a brief history ol the culture of tea iu the United States Referring to Mr. Jackson, the prescnl superintendent of the tea farm at Sum morville, bc says that gentleman, wlu had had experience in tea culturo ii British ludia, being in the United State: ou a pleasure tour, had his atteulioi called to the efforts of tho Department t< introduce tea culture, aud iutcrestinj himself in the subject, he purchased i tea plantation in Georgia. His firs effort in the manufacturing of tea wa made iu the spring of 1880, and the rc suit waa deemed encouraging. Tho tea were lino in appearance, but lae!:c< strength. "It is au established fact," Mr. Saun ders continues, "that tho strength of tea depend upon the climate where the plan is grown. The warmest tea climate produce the strongest teas. Teas prc duccd in localities where frosLs occur ur always pronounced to be weaker tho teas which are produced in localitic where thc thei...omcter never reaches t the freezing point. This ia well undei stood in all tea-growing countries, and certainly would not be wise to ignoro th fact in making experiments in this coui tr>'-" Thc position may be considered as fui ly represented as follows : "Having evei reason to conclude that tho locality nei McIntosh, Gn., is too far North for tl production of teas which possess sufi cient of strength and pungency to con maud tho best prices, or even profitab prices, ii is therefore considered prop to try ibe experiment at Summerville, C., which is one and a half degre further North. However unfortunate may be, it is clearly evident that the b experiments must bc made in a mo Southern latitude. The State of Flnrii may bc looked upon as presenting tl most favorable conditions, and if thc e pcriinents are to be proceeded wit operations should bc transferred to tb State without delay. "As to the futuro management of t tea farm, following the conviction tl no experiment which can bc made int future of tea at this place will warrant continuation of the undertaking, it m be suggested that expenses bo cut doi to the lowest figure admissible, and ll all operations of clearing ground stumps and trees be stopped at once, tl tho expensive superintendence t>3 mo lied so that $300 a month will ??ot be pi for the management of $i-*0 worth labor during tho samo period of time, at present, and that all labor cease < cept so much as may be found neceas! to look after thc young plants. "lu a geueral way it may be stated tl since July 1. 188U, $15,000 have ht appropriated by Congress for encouro? tneni of tea culturo. So far as is visi to the ordinary observer, tho only pr tical, palpable result of expeuditu from this fund ia what is to bc found r what bas been done on this farm." Commissioner Loring asked Mr. Sa ders to advise him what steps bad bel be taken. Mr. Saunders has submit ibe following suggestions: "Having determined that uxpcrimt in regard to thc growth and manufact of tea in South Carolina cannot bi sufficient value to warrant further penditures in thal direction, conseque ly there can bc no reason for a conti ance of thc present force. All that \ bo necessary might thus bc suggest Tho young man now acting in capacity of overseer could tiiko en charge * of tho plauts and prope Abandon all improvements. Thia keep tho expenses within $100 per uni Tho whole matter of care of plants bc managed through the Departm Mr. Jackson need not be louger 1 from his own farm, where he bas mat rcquring bia attention, and, if he is t employed in further investigations iu a new arrangement of compensation be made." Commissioner Loring has not yet cided what to do in regard to the ma but thinks he shall adopt the suggest of Mr. Saunders. J. Jackson, tho superintendent of tea farm, bas also made a report to C missioner Loriug. Ho describes bis liminary tour ot inspection an'l coi ucs: "I satisfied myself and Gen. Le that thc thing was well worth trying aa no appropriation bad been grante thc government for that purpose, turned to Georgia and sot to work mj At Gen. Lc Due's urgent request, 11 mid act tho Department quantifie tea, v .ute reports and comtnunicntet the information in my power, which m at ely resulted in an appropriate $5,?0? being grained by Congress in I was thercupou commissioned to sci sito in South Carolina for an ex mental tea farm. I would ask y bear in mind ibat my strong rccom I dation to establish the government i in the State of Florida as a much ' likely field of success was overrulec ! fact, too many important considera i , bearing upon a judicious, well ma i. commencement was waved aside. I cled around on the seaboard of this ' for some weeks locking for a vite finally made a selection of three p : all varying in advantages as to soi labor, accessibility, etc. Tho vi features of these sites were diacussc visit of inspection by General Cn *^i?<' and Congressman McGowan in January I last, and this site at Summerville was fixed upon as thc best for the farm." Wood Pulp. A reader desires an explanation of what wood pulp means, and why its po sition on tho tariff sheet provokes indig nation. Wood pulp is a leading ingre dient in thc manufacture of paper. The paper upon which the Observer in printed if from one-quarter .0 o'.e-half wood pulp ; its proportion in other kinds of paper varies with the quality of the ?ni cle. It is made by sawing spruce i^d poplar logs into blocks and running thorn through libre machines. A very few men own thc patent upon this process, hast year il was asserted that Congressmen Warner Miller, of New York and Russell of Massachusetts were the sole owners of this process in the United Stales. It may be that Home others are interested in it, but to all practical intent these two men may hu r.-yarded as the American proprietors ol t e monopoly. Owning this, they are hole to say how much wood pulp shall be sold for. and thus regulate thc price of paper. They have grown wealthy bj forcing up this price and by preventing thc importation ol wood pulp undei heavy duties-thus levying a tax upoi the education and intelligence ol* thc country. The newspapers and publishers ami thc general public united fifteen month: ago in thc demand that wood pulp bi ... ricken from tho tari If sheet and place?, on tho free list. Thc object of this dc mund was to throw open tho market t Canadian competition, not because thor is not wood enough over here, but si ni pl to force this handful of monopolists dow to a decent price. Tho two Congr?game nnmcd above made a savage light again: this popular demand, and succeeded, b dint ot combinations with other Coi greasmcn who wanted protection ft other articles, in keeping tho duty o wood pulp up, and maintaining thc monopoly. It is because of this tin the "New York Time?, Tribune and Era iwj Pos/, and Utica Herald, and vei many other Republican papers denounce Warner Miller as an unfaithful ropresei tativc of tho people. It is because < this that tho Ohsa vcr and all other hoi est papers and persons think now th he is an unfit man to bo even named f thc high oflico of Senator in Congress. l/tira Observer. Neus and Cossip. - Thc British troops in Ireland nu; ber 30,000 men. - The Chinese physicians receive fee until the patient is cured. - Ninety million boxas of sugi coated pills were swallowed in this con try last year. - An average of two thousand pos cards reach tho Dead Letter Ofiico ec day because pouted without any addr - Thc water in Sandy River, Ches county, ceased to run on Saturday, I '.Uh Jilly, for thc first time since Augi 1845, thc celebrated dry year. - Two men have shot and killed, u Palatka, Fla., fifty alligators tho j week, measuring from seven to twe and a half feet in length. The hi teeth and tallow are preserved. - The other night lightning str Thomas B. Clarkson's house at Rall? New York, badly damaging it, and t ing off a piece of Orville Campbell's without further injury to his person. - "What is tho meaning of a bi biter 7" asked a gentleman at a Sun School examination. This was a puz; It went down the class until it came simple urchin, who said : "Perhaps a Ilea !" - A shower of toads is reporte? have fallen a day or two ago near L ware City. Tho reptiles appeared i a violent storm. They vary from un inch to au inch in length, and very numerous. -. Conkling aud Platt have been tnotcel once moro to the dignity of liri citizens. If they will in futuro ucl in a manner becoming to this posi they may in lime regniu thc respect have lost by their diversion in politi - A youngster was sent hy his pi to tnke a letter to the postofiicc and tho postage on it. Tho boy retu highly elated, and said : "Father, I a lot of men putting letters in a pince, and when no one was lookii slipped yours in for nothing." - Thc fountains of free ice wat Now York aro now three iu numl one at thc postofiicc, a second \ Five Points used to be, and the thi the southern end of Union Square, tons of ice are consumed daily in co thc water for these fountains. - Here is a good one from Scci Windom : "When I was at the > House au hour or two ago, they Betting up a new apparatus tlesigu cool the atmosphere. I asked if how cool the room could be made he said : 'As cool as you please asked him if he thought a room cot made so cool that office-seekers ke*?p out of it, and he replied tl thought it might. Then I asked 1 send me over a half dozen machi bo set up iu my office here. I am they would do very little gtiod, hov nothing seems lo chill or discoure ofl?ce-seekcr." - Tho South can raise ?' wi and bread quite as chea; ' as it ca them from the West or North. W genial climate and fertile soil it agricultural anomaly that it shoub to obtain corn and wheat from ? markets, and with ils millions of a pasturage an.l forest it should coi stock farms by tho thnusnnd and I to supply its planters and farmer all kinds of meals. Such a system be based on commou-sensc priucip might bc happily supplemented rational culture of cotton, which these circumstances would pay far than tho monster crops which mnk figures on paper, but leave few do tho planters' pockets at the end year." - Thc abundanco of Conf money durinc ?ho lalo war is en? counted ibr, if a statement said been mado recently by Hon. Toomba toa newspaper interview he accepted as true. He is qu saying that "Mr. Mern minger, th federate Secretary of tho Treasu of an economical turn, anti used colored men to print tho Conl money, and instead of paying ti their labor ho gave them tho usc presses at night to print for them There were many slipshod ways management of tho Confederate cial and other departments, but tl attributed to Mr. Toomba is too be taken without several deg allowance. THE TItAPPKIl TKAPPKD, A party of hunters from thi* city won havo just returned ?rout an. expedition into the Sierra Novada, about forty miles from town, relate tho following romarkablo inci dent:-On last Thursday afternoon, about three o'clock, two of the party were on tho trail of a deer, which lcd them into n remota (avine in tho fastnesses of the mountains, Into which they had not boforo ventured. Tho snow being about two feet deep and the walking very heavy they became discour aged, and losing ail hopo of overtaking thc door, which they had wounded, they aban doned tho pursuit. On their r jtura -soe of them discharged hi? gun at a har?, and soon a faint halloo was beard at sorno distance to tho right, aa if from somo one in distress, Uncertain whether they were not mistaken and had not been deceived by the wind, they shout sd aloud, when tho cry waa repeated. AB night would soon com" on, they hold a con vu?Vvtion, and were about proceeding ti-, their camp, three ur four milos away, con cluding that the noLio was modo by wan dering Indians, or came from a party of wood-choppers. They started on, but soou s prolonged and mournful howl waa horno down by the wiud and again roached their ears. They stared at each other a moment, and then, by a simultaneous impulse, turn? ?d in the direction from wl?ch tho sound proceeded. They went ou for some diu lance, floundering t'irough the HUUW down i precipitous descent, which led thom into a gloomy canon. As they 'trow nearer tho voil ?' of a human being could bo distinctly aeanl calling for relief. They answered that aid was approaching. Tho man's yells of misery ehauged to cries of joy, _uud they roiiM bear him at intervals shouting, "For Hod's .-akc. don't go away and louvo me,"' "Come und get me out," "I am caught and starving." Still they could BOO uothiug. But, guided by the man's cries, and cheat ing him with hopeful aniiwera SA they oil ran ced, they pushed forward and at last discerned what appeared tobo a small cah ill built ol' heavy logs, without windows or doorv. The snow had drifted against ono ?ide of the hut nearly tis high as tho roof, ind ?ii? they could soc no entrance, they went around to the other side. As soon in the occupant tiuw timm ho uttered exclama lions of the greatest, joy, and explained hw situation in a few wonts by atating that hu bad built it latar trap and had caught him leif in it live 'I ivi- before. The dour ?MM made of heavy logs, ami was so arranged os to ?-Iii? down into it? ptiue tuon above. Tliey tried i i lift it up, hut failed. Finally, by means ot a stick of Umber ? bieh lay n"?ir by, they pried it up milicien I ly for thc prisoner to crawl bo neath, ll- uppi; ire 1 moro dead than alive, bu' by Ibo judi? Km? u se of a llask of brandy they wt.-ic able to g.-t bim to their camp about dork, w li JIM their companions luadra 1' in; Uro awaiting theil return. Tho balf-f.imishc 1 in in atti ravenously. Ho was supplied wi Mi plenty of hot coffee ?and linoked a .^?e. utter which his strength louie., ii .1 revived, aud ho gave the follow ing account nf how he got into tho situa tion iu whit ii !; - was found: He said lu-, lum : was Thomas Way, and that ho had hem uujigol in chopping wood in the mouut lins during thu sununur. Bulee thu tirut *now:ull, about a month ago, he had frequently noticed tracks of bears inning the pino trees, aud had often tried to get a slut at them, but without success. a.1 last tho idea struck him to build a pen luch as he bel often aeju grizzly boars caught in in Like County, California, whure he used to live. Ho explained that the bear tra]> is nm ic by building a small square house o! n v.vy hewed logj and covering it with ti strong rom. Tile dwr id of heavy log.j also and slides up ind down in tho jjroo\?--. \\ o -ii it i-i iiji thara is un opon entrance iiliout this fe .'I lugli and four feet wide. \ i':i?op is kilted tn t hung up in lide i>: ino p"ti a"t i'-ii - I to a rope, which ia CMliiicc:. I with i trigger, i:o that when th* bear eui is un i soi?OJ tho uiutton thoj door ftdls -.ii i ?io Ls i*ag?d. Way ?eui I" work .iud completod bia trap to Iiis s iti.s'.'otion, tuid intondod to ! bait it tba dame itignl. Having a curiosity to soo how it would work, ho want in and pulled Um ropo slightly, when tho door foll down. He at I e.opted to raiae it, but waa I horror-si rick ;II, und his hair stood on end when he found h.? was nuable to budgo it an inch, ll? worked and struggled, but tho ? heavy weight refused t.> move. Tho pea worked only too successfully, and ho was caught in his own trap. Ho yellod, shout ed, called for help, but, knowing that he was miles from a hum tu habitation [und in ii savage locality where few persons over ventured, he 'wt dowu i/ blank despair. He spent thut night in *?ouy and got but little sleep, lt ootu.-o/meid to snow, but, fortunately, ho had * heavy bmnlcct over ! coat, which kept bim smpiratiYoly com. [ fortable. The ue\t woraing lu? commenced shouting again until lw.s throat waa sore, but waa only answered by the bowlings of the tempest, ll i h;ul sot his gun against it clump outside, and longed to got at it that he mi^lit let it oil und attract somebody'a attention. Ile soon began to got hungry His thirst wa? ipiuuchyd by thrusting hu band through the eldale! between tho log? mid raking np sm w and .. -ting it. Thu? day ofter day cup si during which hi* mojltal Bufferings were terrible. He was profuso in bia gratitude to his deliverers, but declare 1 Iiis intention of getting out of the Siorra Nevada aa aeon as possible and abandoning heir huutiug Tho next morning li : left for the camp ot somo woodchop]) "i", srhw were, uc doubt, al a loss to account mr his long absein" DANIEL PUAIT ?a.Grand Master *? u Jtd#> ot Sons of M?t i, at tackport, N . . lork, and he now weirs ?l-n:i shiita fer ?fcv Aral limo iu years. - When a Cincinnati wifo applied for a divorco on tho ground of stinginess, tho husband proved that ho purchased for her in one year a gold watch, a gold chain, gold bracelets, gold ear rings, gold breast-pin, four gold rings, a fine piano, four silk dresses, twenty-four sell of underwear, and sent her to tho college of music. - At ono of tho Western towns a mut who made a balloon ascension last week in tended to take up a thcrmom-ter with him, but this thc people would not allow. They said tho thermometer had already been too high ns it waa. - A scat in thu New York Colton F.x chnngo now costs *I,G0O.