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LUKKA Y <S? CO. ANDERSON, S, C., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1882 VOLUME MEMORIAL ORATION. | though admirably equipped for th* - '.?-. Bair Life and Service? of GarUeld, j |.raite which tbo Honored Sub W, ,i"ui Dcneiretl. I WASHINOTON, February 27. BBclock ibo doors of tho Capitol Ked and iu half an hour the HBftr t|ie House were filled with ?B?nate enough to hold ticket * to Sid memorial services : E?fliuse was called to order nt \'Z Brayer waa offered by the Chap MBE speaker announced the House BBberforin its part of the cererao Hl? IO p. m. the members of the Btered, followed by the Judges BRpreme Court. Tho President Sf few minutes later and prayer Rd by Chaplain Power. Tho Hff pro tem., Mr. Davis, then in Rdr. Blaine, who iu a loud, clear Receded to read his oration. Bffiiing his remarks Mr. Blaine, Kf allusion to the English and ?migration to America which SH from '-he landing of tho 1 *i I - Sa Plymouth to the upv-aing ?Kharies I, showed that from ?Rsourccs, thc English-Puritan Bfrench-Hugucnot, came the lato gW hu father, Abram Garfield, Blended from tho one, and bia ?Eliza Ballou, from the other. BL he said, good stock on both W?nc better, none braver, none ?here was in it an inheritance Rte, of manliless, of imperisba BBf iiberty, of undying ndherencu Rle. Garfield was proud of his Kel, with as much satisfaction as Hire a British nobleman reading Hilly ancestral record in Burke's Hbo spoke of himself aa ninth Rbt from those who would not Bte oppression of thc Stuarts, und HD descent from the brave French BS ts who refused to submit to tyr BBn from the Grand Monarque. HparGeld delighted to dwell on Bi ts. and during his only visit to BE he busied himself in discover H trace of his forefathers in pa Bptries and on ancient army rolls. Bf ?th a friend in the gallery of the Hf Commons one night after a Hgp labor in this field or research, Byith evident elation that in every Bb ich for three centuries patriots ??fell blood had struck sturdy blowo Ritutional government and hu Kty, his family had been repre BgThey were at Marston Moor, at ?and at Preston ; they were at BgHill, at Saratoga, and nt Moii RTnd iu his own person bad bat Sfpe Bame great cause in -the war Reserved the Union of the United Rd was boru heir to land, to the MBree-holder which has been the gHmd passport of self-respect with Ro-Saxon race ever since Hengist Spa landed on the shores of Eng nEis adventure on tho canal-an ?ve between that and the deck of ? Erie schooner-was a farmer Rwice for earning money, just .as Hf England lad begins a possibly Heer by sailing before the mast on Kg vessel cr on a merchantman Bb thc farther India or to the Bknly man feels anything of shame Hg back to early struggles with ad Hcumstances, and no man feels Her pride than when he has con Hie obstacles to his progress. Bul H of noble mould desires to bc m poa as having occupied a meni Bon, as having boen repressed bj EEK of inferiority, or as having suf ? evil of poverty until relief wai i the haiid of charity. Genera 's youth presented no hardship imily love and family energy dn come, subjected him to no priva lieh he hid-not cheerfully accepl no memories save those whicl ailed with delight, and transmit i profit and with pride, speaking of Garfield's early lift jfgles to secure au education, hi ?ance, self-reliance, self-sacrific ntion, tho speaker alluded to h: fe, his success in the field, h: idgment and quick knowledge < istratinp the versatility ot li iud rea' i a is* with wbi?ih", he coi e honor* oi me civilian to assutn I and rugged duties'of the soldie: down to his service in the hall ress, Mr. Blaine said : OAKFIELD IX CONGRESS. J ia no test of a mau's ability i (partaient of public life mo ban service in the House of Re] ive? ; there is no place where i ?ference i? paid to reputation pr. acquired, or to eminence wc ; no place where so little conan is shown for tho feeling? or tl of beginners. What a mt n thc House he gains by abe f his own character, ana if 1 d falls back ho must expect t md will receive no sympathy, d in which the survival of tl it is the recognized rule, nt io pretenco can deceive and i rcau mislead. The leal man red, his worth is impartial !, his rank irreversibly decreed, possibly a single exception Go w the youngest member in ti when he entered, and was b ears from his college graduatio B had not been in his seat six store bia ability was recognize place conceded. He stepped Qt with the confidence of ono wi ? there. The House was crow ? strong men of both partie o of them have since been trar 0 ibe Senate, any many of th* fred with distinction in the g rmi chair? of their respecti and on foreign miesiona of gr< lenee; but among them.all no rapidly, none ao firmly aa Gi As lt is said by Trevelyan of 1 penury hero, Garfield succeed ie all the world in concert cot ro Kept.bim in the back grout ?cause when o nco in tho fr< ?ed his part with prompt intrep 1 a commanding ease that wi s outward symptoms of the i reserves of energy, on which his power to draw." Indeed, I Qtly reserved force which Garfil ed waa one of his groat charact He novor did so well but that he could easily havo done beti ?Cu cxPended so much streoi ?heseemed to be holding ad ?ower at call. This is one of st and rarest distinctions of e debater, and often counts foi nipersuadiog an assembly aa ? an elaborate argument. Sreat measure of Garfield's fe .ed by hia servie/ in the Housi entatives. His milifary lifo, ill uy honorablo porformnce, and i nu*, was, as ho himself felt, j ny terminated and necessarily u Speculation as to what have done in a field where ?rites are ao few cannot Tie prol tja sufficient to say that as a ?did his duty bravely: he dh [ently ; se won an eviablo fa retired I, ut; the Mrflca..witt breath ag? oat-him. . As a law ,07,u,'? ne. can scarcely" be ?aid?? h'kVe ! entered on its practice. The feweffort* be made at thc bar were distineu shed\ bv the same high order of talent which be exhibited on every field where he was put to the test, ancf if ? man may he a" copied as a competent judge of his own capacities and adaptations, the law was i.?.r?f?.,0J,..t0 W',ich Garfield should Sss?c1* ilm?e,f- Uut fftte opined mtt\I ?L?Tr 5nV lia "PUtot?o? in history HoL? , r irfgC,y Upon his 8cr'icc in Mouse of Representatives. That service times consecutively chosen to tho House an honor enjoyed by not more than six other representatives of tho more than five thousand who have been elected from thfs h?uar""l,0n ?f th? Govcrnraent ^ As a parliamentary orator, r.a a debater on au issue squarely joined, where the position had been chosen an,, the ground laid out, Garfield muBt bo assigned a very high rank. More, perhaps, than any man with whom he was associated in public life, ho gave careful and system atic ?study to public questions, and he came to every discussion in which he took part with elaborate and complete preparation. He was a steady and inde fatigable worker. Those who imagine Uir ?Aleut or genius can supply the place ur achieve the results of labor will find no encouragement in Garfield's life. Tn preliminary work he was apt, rapid and skilful. He possessed in a high degree the power of rendily absorbing ideas and incts, and, liko Hr. Johnson, had thc art af getting from a book all that was of value in it by a reading apparently so rjuick and cursory that it seermd liko a mere glance at the table of co.:'cuts He was a pre-eminently fair and candid man in debate, took no petty advantages, stooped to no unworthy methods, avoided personal allusions, rarely appealed to prejudice, did not seek to inflame passion. He had a quicker eye for thc strong point 3f his adversary than for bis v/eak point, ind on his own side he so marshaled his weighty arguments as to make his hear ?rs forget any possible lack in tho com plete strength of his position. Ho hnd i habit of stating his opponent's Bide with such amplitude of fairness and such liberality of concession that his followers jften complained that he was giving his :ase away. But never in bis prolonged participation in the proceeding? of the House did he give his case away, or fail ?ti the judgment of competent and im partial listcnore to gain the mastery. BLAINE DESCRIBES HIMSELF. These characteristics, which marked barfield as a great debater, did not, how ever, make him a great parliamentary leader. A parliamentary leader, as that ;erm is understood wherever freo repre sentative government exists, is necessa rily and very strictly the organ c.' hie party. An ardent American (brined th . instinctive warmth of patriotism when lie offered the toast: "Oar country, al ways right; but right or wrong, oui louutry." Tho parliamentary leadei ,vho has a body of followers that will dc ind dare and die for the causo, is one who believes his party always right, bul right or wrong, is for his party. Nc nore important or exacting duty devolves jpon him than the selection of the fiele ind time for contest. He must know noi merely how to strike, but where to strike ind when to Btrike. He often skilfully i voids the strength of his opponents po iitiou and scatters confusion in his rank by attacking an exposed point when re illy the righteousness of the cause am ibo strength of logical intrenchmcnt an against him. He conquer, often botl igninst the light and the heavy ballal ions ; ns when young Ciia?l?? Fox, in tb Jays of hi? toryism, carried the House c Commons against justice, against its im memorial rights, against his own convie lions, if, indeed, et that period Fox ba convictions, and, in tho interest of a coi rupt administration, in obedience to tyrannical sovereign, drove Wilkes fro: the seat to which tho electors of Middle Bex had chosen him and installed Luttre in defiance, not merely of law but < public decency. For an achievement ( that kind Garfield was disqualified-di qualified by the texture of his mind, L the honesty of his heart, by his coi science, and by every instinct and asn ration of his nature. Differing, ac Garfield does, from tl brilliant parliamentary leaders, it is n easy to find his counterpart anywhere i the record of American public life. F perhaps more nearly resembles Mr. S ward in . .s supreme faith in the all coi quering power of principle. He had tl love of learning, and the patient indu try of investigation to which John Quirn Adams owes his prominence .ind h Presidency. He had some of those poi derous elements of mimi which disti guisbed Mr. Webster, and which, indee in all public lifo havo left thc gre Massachusetts Senator without un int? lectual peer. GARFIELD AS PRESIDENT. Of Garfield's Presidential career ai untimely end, Mr. Blaine said: With perfect comprehension of all tl inheritances of the war, with a cool ct culation of tho obstacles in his way, ii pelled always by a generous enthusiasi Garfield conceived that much might 1 lone by his Administration towards i storing harmony between tho diff?re sections of the Union. He was anxio Lo go South and speak to the people, J -arly as April ha bad ineffectually e Jeavored to arrange for a trip to IS as ville, whither ho bad been cordially i > ited, and he was again disappointed few weeks later to find that, he could n TO to South Carolina to attend tho ce fennial celebration of the victory or t Cowpens. But for the autumn he dr aitely counted on being present at thi memorable assomblies in tho South, t lelebration at Yorktown, tho opening the Cotton Exposition at Atlanta, a the meeting of tho Army of the Cumb land at Chattanooga. Ho was airea urning over in 'Js mind his address ?ach occasion, and tho three taken toge ar, he said to a friend, gave him the exi scope and verge which ho needed. Yorktown he would have before him tssocintionB of a hundred years t bound the South and tho North m I mcred memory of a common danger fl x common victory. At Atlanta he woi present the material interests and i industrial development which appea to tho thrift and independence of en household, jind which should Unite two sections by tho instinct of nelf-inl -st and self-defence. At Chattanooga would revive memories of the war o to show that after all it' saster and ?ts suffering, the country was stronger j rreater, the Union rendered indissolul and tho future, through the agony i blood of one generation, made bngt and better for all. THE FIGHT WITn TUE STALWART! The political events which diatur the President's security for many we before that fatal day in July form an portant chapter in bis career, and, tn own judgment, involved question! principio and right which ure vitally sential to tho constitutional adminis tion of the Federal Government, would be out of placo here and nov speak tho language of controversy ; iuo ?venia referred to, however they may continue to he a source of contention with other?, have become, so far as Gar field is concerned, as much a matter of history as bis heroism ntChickamauga or bis illustrious service in tho House. De tail is not needful, and personal antagon ism shall not be rekindled by any word uttered to-day. The motives of those opposing bim are not to be here adverse ly interpreted nor their course harshly charactered. Hut of the dead Presi dent this is to be said, and said because his own speech is forever silenced and bo can be no mme heard except through the fidelity and the love of surving friends ! Prom tho beginning to tho cud of the controversy he so much deplored, the 1 resident was never for one moment actuated by any motive of gain to him self or of loss to others. Least of all men did he harbor revenge ; rarely did ho even show resentment, and malice was not in his nature. He was congenially employed only in tho exchange of good offices and tho doing of kindly deeds. There was not an hour, from the be ginning of the trouble till the fatal shot entered his body, when thc President would not gladly, for the sake of restor ing harmony, have retraced any step be had taken if Buch retracing had merely involved consequences personal to him self. The prido of consistency, or any supposed sense of humiliation that might result from surrendering his position, had not a feather's weight with him. No mau was ever less subject to such influ ences from within or from without. But after most anxious deliberation and the coolest survey of all thc circumstances, ho solemnly believed that tho true pre rogatives of the Executive were involved iu the issue which had been raised, nud thai he would be unfaithful to his su preme obligation if he failed to maintain, in all their vigor, the constitutional rights aud dignities of his great office. He be lieved thia in ail tho convictions of con science when in sound and vigorous health, and ho believed it in his suffering and prostration in the last consciout thought which his wearied mind bestowec on ibo transitory struggles of life. More than this need not be said. Lest than this could not be said. Justice te the dead, the highest obligation that de volves upon the living, demand th( declaration that in all tho bearings of tin subject, actual or possible, the Presiden was content in his mind, justified in hi conscience, immovable in bis conclusions In speaking of his religious principle Mr. Blaine remarked : The crowning characteristic of Gen Garfield's religious opinions, as, indeed of all his opinions, was his liberality lu all things he had charity. Toleranc was of his nature. He respected i others tho qualities which he possessei himself-sincerity of conviction an fraukness of expression. With him th inquiry was not so much what a man b< Heves, but does be believe it? Tho line of his friendship and his confidence et circled uieu of every creed, and men e no creed, and to tho end of bis life, o his ever-lengthening list of friends, wei to bo found the names of a pious Cathe lie priest and of an honest minded an generous-hearted Free thinker. IN CONCLUSION. In closing the eulogy, Mr. Blaine spol as follows : Great in lifo, he was surpassingly gre in death. For no cause, in the ve: frenzy of wantonness and wickedness, 1 the red hand of murder, be was thru from the full tide of this world a intere from its hopes, its aspirations, its viet ries, into the visible presence of death and he did not quail. Not alone for t! one shoit moment ia --hieb, stunned ai dazed, be could give up life, hardly awn of its relinquishment, but through dn of eleadly languor, through weeks egony, that was not less agony beean silently borne, with clear sight aud cn courage be looked into his open gra' What blight and ruin met his nnguish eyes, whose lips may tell-what brillia broken plans, what baffled, high am lions, what sundering of strong, wa manhood's friendships, wbut bitter rei ing of sweet household ties ! Bchi him a proud, expectant nation, a gr host of sustaining friends, a cherist and happy mother, wearing the full, r honors of her carly toil and tears; wife of his youth, whoso whole life Inj his ; the little boys not yet emerged fr cbilhood's day of frolic ; tho fair, yoi daughter ; the sturdy sous just spring into closest companionship, claim every day and every day rewardin father's love and care, and in his be the eiigrr, rejoicing power to meet all maud. Before him, desolation and gi darkness ! And his soul was not shat His countrymen were thrilled with stnnt. profound and universal Hymnal Masterful in his mortal weakness, he came the centre of a nation's love, shrined in the prayers of a world, all the lovo and all tho sympathy ce not share with him his Buffering, trod the wine-press alone. With ur tering front he faced death. With failing tenderness he took leave of Above the demoniac hiss of the nssasj bullet he heard tho voice of God. V Bimple resignation he bowed to the vino decree. As tho end drew near, his early c ing for the sea returned. Tho eli mansion of power had been to him wearisome hospital of pain, and begged to be taken from ita prison w from its oppressive, stifling air, fron homelessness and its hopelessness. G ly, silently, the love of a great pe boro the pale Bufferer to the longe< healing cf the Bea, to live or to di God should will, within sight of its li ing billowp, within sound of its man voices. With wan, fevered face tene lifted to the cooling breeze, he lookei wistfully upon tho ocean's changing tiers ; on its far Bails, whitening in morning light; on its restless w: rolling shoreward to break and di neath the noonday min ; on the clouds of evening, arching low to horizon, on the serene and shining | way of the stars. Let us think lbs dying eyes read a mystic meaning * only the rapt and parting soul may li Let us believe that in the silence o receding world he heard the great v breaking on a further shore, and fe ready upon his wasted brow tho b of the eternal morning. The eulogy was concluded at 1 m., having taken just au hour and ? in its delivery. As Mr. Blaine ga< teranco to tho last solemn words the tators broke into a storm of app which was not hushed for some mon The address was listened to with i tense interest and solemn silenc broken by any sound except by a si relief, such as arises from a large enco when a strong tension J rei from their minds, when the orator j from bis allusion to the differeno isting in the Republican partj apriag. _ The benediction was then offer the Rev. Dr. Bullock, Chaplain Senate. Thc marine band playc Garfield dead march as the invited filed out of tho Chamber in the order in which they bad entered it Thc Senate was the last to leav then thc House was called to or j tho Speaker. Mr. McKinley, of Ohio, ' offered a resolution of thanks to Mr. Blaino for Ilia masterly address, which was unanimously adopted, and theu tho Hou?e adjourned. Bishop W. M. Wightman, ?, ?., L.L.D. Farewell ! since never more for thee. The sun come? up our eastern skies, Less bright henceforth shall sunshine he To some fond hearts and saddened eyes. There are who for thy last, long sleep Shall sleep as sweetly nevermore Shall weep because thou canst not weep, And grieve that all thy griefs are o'er. Sad thrift of love ! the loving breast On which the aching head was thrown, Gave up the weary head to rest, But kept the aching for its own. In our last number we merely men tioned tho death of Bishop Wightman, and gave up our editorial page to a lengthened sketch of his life and labors, from the pen of our esteemed fellow citizen, Cleo. W. Williams, Esq., who had know him for many years, anti who WM, by a former marriage, his brother-in-law. It might seem that this excellent and faithful sketch might excuse us from further editorial reference to our deceased and glorified friend ; but we prefer not to be excused. Aside from our pomonal relations to thc deceased, which, though of a tender character, would give us no right to obtrude our reflections upon the public, the Bishop's connection so long aud so honorably and usefully with tho ?Southern Christian Advocate, and his com manding personal and official relation to Methodism, especially within the limits of our circulation, make these memora bilia both appropriate and necessary. The Bishop died in the city of his birth. His residence on Anson street, where he peacefully fell asleep in Jesus, was in a stone's throw of where lie waa born, just sevon'y-four years and sixteen days before. Hi? earliest recollections were of old Trinity Church-the building that stood in tho" place of the present Trinity, on Hascl street. His mother, a godly wo man of a severe but beautiful type of piety, was accustomed to take him, while yet an infant, with her to tho Trinity meetings. We remember to have heard the Bishop, pointing to the imagined pew in which his mother used to lay him, pillowed on her shawl, during the ser vicer, thank God for the influence of a pious mother, aud attribute to her, under God, whatever of success may have fol lowed his ministry and life. Though his parents were iu quite mod erate circumstances, they were people of unusual intellect aud intelligence, and of very decidedly marked character. He was brought up under the friendly bina of circumatnncea naturally promotive of just auch a fortune and destiny as the Church ia called upon now admiringly and gratefully to consider. He carried all through lifo a grateful appreciation of what the home of his childhood had done for him. He early entered Charleston College-. Among other class-mates, he waa asso ciated in the early part of bia College career with James C. Furmon and E. T. Buist. In after years these three college boys developed into leading and learned intnistcra of their aeveral Churches. And il KO happened that tho three were at the same time presidents of three lead ing denominational colleges in adjoining counties in the upper part of the State Dr. Furman being President of the Uni' versity that bears his name in Greenville Dr. Buist being President of the Laurens ville Female College, and Dr. Wightmnr being President of Wofford College. He graduated alone, but not wilhou marked distinction. He waa a close stu dent, and laid the foundation early ii life of those habits and attainments tba made him one of the most cultured mei of his generation. He went nt once into the ministry Ho joined the South Carolina Con ferenc on his twentieth birthday, 1828. H traveled two circuits, was stationed on year in Charleston City, and was on ?ear Presiding Elder of the Cokesbtir )istrict. This made up the record c his strictly ministerial life until hewn made Bishop, in 18G6. He made ful proof of bia early ministry. He sprun as by a leap into the front ranka of a effective ministry. His ministry was i "demonstration of tho Spirit and ( power," from ita very beginning. Til wonderful effect of Bomeof his early BC mons.ia handed down by tradition to th day in the sections of our Conf?rent where he early traveled as preacher i charge and Presiding Elder, while not few witnesses still remain who claim hi as tho means, in the hand of God, i Ilia call to the ministry was very di linet and emphatic, and he realized i this a definite cali to make the very be possible use of his great po wera and groi mg opportunities. The burden upon hi was not only to declare without reserv lion the whole counsel cf God ; but, at especially, to do this under a thorouj consecration of intellect and sensibih to tho service of God. It was duty, n ambition, that drovo bim to be the vc best preacher available with the gifts ni graces with which ho waa endowed. I improved as a preacher, we doubt n< from the very beginning of bia minist to within a short period of his dent He frequently mentioned to us with the past few years, plans and points sermona that ho had in preparation, "under the anvil," ns he was accustom to express it; and, within the last f< weeks, when, on one occasion, M Wightmnn read him a beautiful incide that had attracted her attention, begged her-true to the instincts of laborious ministry-to file it nway wi a certain one of hia sermons, that might uso it when he preached that si "?on again. Tho Bishop was fond of thc word tu (ion. He frequently used it iu chi acterizing preachers. It meant a gr? deal in bia estimation of a norme Speaking to us on one occasion of a vt intelligent nnd cultured preacher, o who apoke with great taste and wi much intellectual force, he declared tl his sermons carried no weight. Said b "They have no Holy Ghost powe That ia the power tho Bishop most of nffectcd. lie wanted fire-tho fire tl burns in the very bones nnd shines a scintillate* from face aud eye-tl wanna the heart and stirs tho mind a loosens the tongue-the fire from off I altar, this he wanted in a sermon. A when his own sermons were delivei under such conditions-and they gen ally were-he was a preacher of gr magnetism : id spiritual power, covered up no paucity of thought i shallowness of feeling with a noisy clamation of crude inanities. Not He apoke from a deep experience ant foll mind ; and tho loudness or softe of his utterance, the nervousness or qu ness of his manner, all this was the ai dent of the moment of the delivery his sermon. He never atudicd efl He studied ouly the deep thing? of G and declared them aa God gave him teran'ce and liberty. Psi.? op Wightman spent sixteen y< of his activo life serving bia Churcb Colleges. He WHS four years (18il5-i>) a Professor in li undo! ph Macon College, Va. ; five yearn (1854-9) President of our VVoflbrd Collrae; seven years (1859-C6) Chancellor of the Southern University, in Greensboro, Ala. It waa while ho was in charge of NVolTord College that we first knew him. For three years and a half it was our privilege to sit under his instruc tion and ministry. Ho towered up be fore our young mind as the greatest man we had known. He was in tho early prime of his distinguished manhood. Ile was so clearly master of every situa tion that his sludenV looked up to him with well nigh unquestioning obedience to all the commands ho chose to issue. He was a student, and his scholastic habits, tastes and instincts made him en tirely at home on a college campus ld the congenial intercourse and communion with bis pupils and his college associates. He never failed to sustain himself in any of the callings into which Providence wisely led him ; but, taking him all in all, it has occurred to us that possibly he was better suited for the professorial chair than for any of the various posi tions he graced during his long and emi nently successful career. His life was that of a student. Ho delighted in books. More, he do-lighted in study. He was fond of Metaphysics and Ethical Science, and wc have no hesitation in expressing the opinion that, had the Church kept bim in the congenial society of his well filled study, he would have left to the coming generations of our people thoughtful works of standard and perma nent value-rather only a few volumes which can only live with the single ??di Lion which publishes them to tho coun try. Bishop Wightman was Editor of tho Southern Christian Advocate for fourteen pears. Elected at the first General Con ference of which ho was a member, in 18-10! he remained in charee. a part of thc time assisted b" his len- tried friend Dr. T. O. Summers, till ISM. l?e made" 1 distinguished reputation for himself ind his paper. Ho was on the tripod in 1844; and thc claim that the stirring and vital issues of that historic period mado jpon him, as a representative man, at mee marked him as ono of thc leaders n thought and action, both of his Con ference and Church. He wielded a mighty blado and wielded it mightily, rjut never forgot that it was tho Lord's >vork he was doing. His editorials du ring his long incumbency were prepared with elaborate care. They wero in tho tiighest otylo of newspaper composition. A volume, indeed volumes, of admirable matter might be made up from the files af the Advocate. Ho gave to the paper luring his editorship a distinctively re ligious caste. It was always, while it went from his hand, not only a vehicle af the highest thought and culture, but also n menus of grace in tho families of ? ur people. He bad high conceptions of the vocation of an Editor, and embodied them in the most brilliant and successful editorial career which thc history of our Church has yet developed. His stylo, ae a writer, was remarkably clear, vigorous, nt times pictorial, but always abounding in the exhibitions of a chastened Chris tian spirit. God was always and dis tinctly glorified in all tho product of his pen. He was mado Bishop at the Genera! Conference in New Orleans, in 1806 Ho had in fact been elected nt the Gen Bral Conference nt Columbus, Ga., twelve years before by one vote. Tho electoi wrote his ballot carelessly, W. M. Bishop At the next ballot he was defeated by i small majority. He and Bishops Mc Tycire, Doggett and Marvin were electee at the same time. Three of thc foti iinvu gone to their reward. When count was announced and it nppenree that he bsd been elected at tho head o the tick"', instead of being elated nt th distinguished honor placed upon him, b was completely overcome by his high wrought feeling, and wept like a chile! Ho realized what responsibility meanl and went forward to meet it in no apiri of self-satisfaction. Being set apart t his high office, meant at the samo tim being set apart to "labors more nbun dant." How he went in and out befor the Church for the last fifteen years, pre siding nt Conferences, holding Distrie meetings, dedicating Churches, "in joui neyiiigs often, in perils of waters, i perils of robbers, "in weariness an painfulness," in heat and in cold, in sui shine and in rain, from the Atlantic l the Pacific, threxigh all thc length ar breadth of our vast domain, never con plaining of the work, but only rcgrettii that be bad not more strength lo give its growing demnnds, all this is fresh the memory of his brethren. He waa faithful servant of thc Church. I loved work because he loved thc Lo who called him tn it. He was a wise administrative officer had high conceptions at thc dignity bis office, and nf the authority and i sponsibility which it imposed. He w not too wise to err, but was incapable oppression or unkindness tn tho humble of his brethren. He presided in t Conference sessions with great digni and with uniform fairness. The Bishop was a man of deep ai solid piety. This was the strong point his character. Ho was a man of pray -of much prayer. His very presence not affectedly austero but permeated a controlled and sanctified by Divinegrei -was a speaking power of the Tlc Ghost. You felt while, with him ti you wero with a man of God. His re Sion was deeply grounded in the ort! ox views of tne Church bo honored long and loved so well. He once said the writer of this notice, under circu stances that bring up tho whole scene I fore us as a present possession, "I hat godly father and mother; was blest w a religious home ; had the influences piety around me from my earliest rec lection. Up to the time of my conv sion, when about seventeen years old never swore an oath ; I had never tas liquor ; was understood to bo an exe plary young man. And yet," said with his eye flashing with a raptun insight grace can only give, "and j when I came to God in repentance t faith, I came as a miserable, xcrctched, done sinner !" With a conversion nn call to preach as distinctly marked Paul's, ho never turned aside from call and path of duty, till duty bees its own reward in thc joys of the etor world. But a sbo.. time before his decease, claimed the privilege of conversing w him about the prospects that lay bel him in tho event of his early dei Said the dying man : "If it were Gi will that I should yet be spared a wi longer, to bc with my family and sc the Church, I should b? gratified ; hu whatever may bo His will I bow v supreme submission-willing to s ready to go." When some ono asked him if it she please God to raise bim up and he she be allowed to preach again, what tex would take, be promptly answered: " very G>d of peace sanctify you whe anel I pray tlod your whole spirit soul and body bo preserved blain? unto the coming of our Lord J Christ." He constantly became r and more heavenly-minded as ho 1 down into the dark valley, and thc Iii? protracted illness entailed so much Bullering, we feel like glorifying God in him, to a degree we might not have done, had Ida afflict'.:;?: hoc:: n* great, nor had it not so greatly illustrated the grace of our sympathetic I/ord. On Sunday beforo his death, Wednes day nt 3 o'clock in the morning, ho had family prayer for the last time, hi* loved ones kneeling round his bod while he lcd tho devotions. On Monday night, bis life-long friend, the venerable H. A. C. Walker, Dr. Meynardie and his beloved and faithful wife, together conducted a service at his bed aide. Brother Walker prayed, Sister Wightman then sang Jesus, lover of my soul ! nnd Dr. Meynardie then followed in prayer. Tho Bishop took the liveliest interest in the services, responding in telligently and with evident emotion. All day on Tuesday be was in something of a comatose stale, mensing up for a few moments at intervals. To his broth er-in-law, Brother Walker, bespoke most piously of his indebtedness to the good ness and mercy of God in the compara tive comfort which he had in his dying hours. On Tuesday night Dr. .Meynar die prayed with him-a prayer of unu sual fervor and simplicity and power, This was tho last service offered at his bed-side. After this ho continued to ??row weaker and weaker, till Rt the lusl bo fell Bweelly asleep. Asleep in Jesus'. Blessed sleep, From which none ever wake to weep. The services over tho rcmaips of tin Bishop at Trinity Church, on Thursday, Lhe loth inst., were attended by a Inrgt ?ongregalion, among whom wero tin ?iiniHtcrH of the various city churchei ind many prominent business and pro fessional men. St. Michael'? bell wm .ol lui from lia. m. to 1 p. m. in memo .y of the deceased. Tho casket in whicl tic remains wero enclosed was made o polished black walnut, heavily mountec ?vith silver, and was literally coveret villi floral tributes. Tho following gen .leoieu acted as pall-bearers: Senior-George W. William?, Dr. J rt. Mood, F. J. l'clzcr, F. W. Caper? William McBurney, W. A. Courtenay Et. \V. Burnham, Dr. H. Baor, Dr. Mid llctou Michel nnd S. A. Nelson. Junior-Harvey Cogswell, J. A.Cham )erlaiti, C. H. Muckcnfuss, Georgo W Williams, jr., J. J. Wescuat, Fred. Crow W. li. Flint and Herbert F. Mooro. The interior of Trinity Church wa ?ouiplctely draped in mourning, tho gal cry rails, pillars, altar rails, pulpit an Kacket? being enfolded iu black clot! Tho large stained glass window bnck t he pulpit wan heavily curtained wit jlack cloth, and the raised daia on whic ,he pulpit stood waa draped in tho sum naterial, the heavy folds of tho clot 30?Dg caught up nt intervals with rosette ind knots of crape. The altar immcd vtol y in front of the pulpit was occupic jv tho officiating clergymen. At ll o'clock the funeral cortej reached thu church, and the casket coi Laining the remains waH borne within tl .vails whero thu voice of thc lamcntt lend had BO often becu heard plcadii thc causo of the Master ho served ao wc ind long. Tho services were openi with the hymn, "Nearer, My God, rhee," sung by a trio with organ accoi Eianiment. Thc rev. W. P. Mouzon, tl 'residing Elder of the District, then a nounced the hymn, "Jesus, Lover of n raoul," which wa? Bupg by tho whole co arrogation, the choir leading. This w followed by ?elections from theScriplui read by thc Kev. D. J. Simmons and t Rev. S. A. Weber, and after anoth hymn, the services at tho church wc concluded with prayer by tho Rev. E. Meynardie. Thc remains were then cc veyed to Magnolia Cemetery, where, af thc reading of the burial service, th wero committed to their last resting pit in that beautiful "City of the Dead." Wc Hurrender our brother ir Chi Jesus lo the will of thc Lord without pining, and iu constantly Increasing c< tulenco in tho r.-indom and goodness our Heavenly Father. Hervnnt of Qod, well done Heat from thy loved employ ; The battle fought-the victory w Enter thy Master's joy. [Southern Christian Advocate THE CONFEDERATE ROLL. The Ki-ri>ril to Ito Muelo or tho 8?>l?ll?-r Hu- Liu t CHUSO from tilt- l'ulmotto Stat Tho following W the Act passed by lasl Legi?laturc lo effect the purposi securing a roll of thc Suite's troop? the Confederate war : SECTION l. lie it enacted, ?fcc, Tbt shall be tho duly of the Adjutant nnd specter General to collect the namoi all persons of thia Stale AIIO served the army of the Confederate States o the militia of the State in active ser during the war between the Cor.(ede and United States, nnd lo prepare roll the same, corresponding aa near aa i be to tho usual form of muster roll military service, and ?tating as far as now be ascertained the name, age, pla< enlistment, company and regiment battalion, battery or squadron, to w! each such person belonged, or posi held by same as general or stan oil with statement also as to wounc wounds, death, discharge or surrende such person nt the end of the said nnd any other particulars in regan any Buch persona which in his judgi should be recorded. SJ-:?;. 2. That the said Adjutant am Hpector General ?hall also prepare cause to be prepared, a brief histor sketch of each and every regiment, talion, battery, or squadron, of i aid ti furnished by thia State to tho army o Confederate Stales, or of the m of the State in active service di he said war, giving thc namea o battle?, Bieges, or nffairs in which body was engaged. SEC. 3. Thal tho sum of $2,000 be, the simo ia hereby appropriated fo said work, of which the said Adjutan Inspector General shall received ?5( bis extra services therein, and the ance, ?1,000, if so much be neccfesat applied for stationery, printing, hire, nnd postngo in connection will raid work. Sr.'-. 4. That tho rolla, when ao pared, shall bc transcribed or printei permanent book form and kept in tl lice of the Adjutant and Inspector eral, nnd such rolls shall bo tiled ii office of tho Secretary of State at preserved with tho records of the office. Approved January Slat, 18^2. - A nnowball stopped au elop in Louisville. It was thrown by in the street, knocking off thc hat < driver of the carriage in which tin away couple were riding to ? ra ?talion, and thus causing ju?t c delay to make them misa the Thu? hindered, they were caugl separated by the girl'a father. Moses How, Esq., of Havcrhill, strongly indorses st. Jacobs Oil fo inat'iHm, etc., from the observation effects in his factory an also in li family-so wc see from ono of oui eachusclta exchanges.-liridgport ( Standard. NO POLITICS IN THE ORANGE. Important Curretpondouce llvofjm Mr. i:<lliu, ami OJO Mitdtw G '. Sb? StMtttCUrang?. -Tim "Reform Signal" not nu Official Organ-Slick tu Itie Democratic Party. Columbia IteaitUi: PRESIDENT'? OFFICE STATE GRANGE, CH A ITEM-, NEWBERRY CO.. 8. C., February 20\ 1882. MK. BDITOR: EncUwed I send you a letter from Hon. T. N. Edina, of Marl boro, and my answer thereto on Ibo sub ject of politics in tho Grange or the Grange in politics, which I ask you to publish in your very excellent and able paper. As it is a subject of specific in teiL-st to every member of the order ol Patrons of Husbandry, and they nre sub scribers in greater or less number to every paper published in the 8tate, I respect fully request each and every paper tc copy this correspondence into its col umns : Veiy respectfully. JAS. N.'LIPSCOMH, Mnster State Grnngp. GMO, 8. C., Feb. 10, 188'? Hon. J. y. Upteomb-SIR : 1 seo there is a measure on foot to lug thc Grande into politics. I write to you ns tho Mas ter of om ?tate Grange for information and ask your views on tho mensuro. Honing to bear from you soon, I nm, in full respect, vour friend and brother, T. N. EDIN?. Hon. T. X. Edin?-DEAR SIR ANII BROTHER: I have just received yours ol February 10th, saying : "I see there is f move on foot to lug the Grange into pol ?tics. 1 write to you ns Master of oui State Grango for information and asl your views on the measure." I suppose this alludes to a ncwspapei recently established in Columbia, namec tho Urform Signal, and its claiming te bi an agricultural and graugo paper, .?s . understand it, this paper was establisher by a number of stockholders, most o whom are members of Fcastervill Grange, Fairfield County. Tho Maste of that Grange wrote mo a letter and th Grange passed a resolution and sent it t me, setting forth that such a paper wa to bo issued to advocate, the interest c thu Grange and agriculture without set ting forth either the name or politic? tenets of it. To this I replied that th Stale Grange had acted upon tho matte of a newspaper organ for it and its off cers, and had placed tho matter in tb hands of its Executive Committee t carry out. When the Executive Con mittci: takes finnl action, said action wi be mandatory upon me and tho othc officers nf tho Slate Grango, and sugget ted that any proposition aa to being n organ bo submitted in writing to til Executive Committee. I could, Iben fore, do nothing ns to constituting or r cognizing said paper aa in any way coi uectcd with tho State Grange, but I wi glnd to see that a paper was going to 1 published that intended tn advocate a, riculture and grange, ns it claimed, nt thal I or any officer would cheerful furnish nuy information from our r spective offices that might bo of intcre to its subscribers who wero patrons husbandry. I closed by saying th there could bo no political connects between tho Grange or any of its office and a newspaper of any kind. I laid t correspondence and mnttcr before Mn Patterson and Massey of the Exccuti Committee, Bro. Norris not present, a tho conclusion was that nothing wan bc done by thc Commission or me, uni ! some definite proposition was made, a then we would act. Upon thisstateim ibu muller sunnis, this way. So far Feastervillo Grange is concerned I Urform Signal .is an organ, but so far thc State Grango is concerned then not Ibo slightest foundation for such assertion, or so far ns I know ns to r number of individual members of order. I have never received but i note, except those from Fea?.'.?T Grange, before stated, or had bl a sin patron to talk to mc in BUCII a way as cause mo to suppose it was "dunnee represent tho Slnte Grange or OM The State Grange adopted a resolut instructing its Executive Committee nu* ko nu effort to havo the Agriculti Bureau ind State Agricultural Soc join it in publishing a paper that wo serve an an organ for encli respecliv and, failing in that, lo recommend to order in tho State the Southern Pairo grange paper now published in .Mi si poi. A communication from (he ecutivc Committee of tho Stato Gra ii now in tho hands of Governor Hagi tjhairmau of thc Agricultural Bun awaiting a meeting of said Bureau, the Executive Committee is waiting au answer to said proposition as proli nary to action arno inc Mississippi pa Now, as lo politics in the Gra There can be none of a partisan cha ter, and so far as I am concerned, though nlways considered rather ext, "straight-out Democrat," I have end omi to do no act or say no word would bavo the slightest semblanc political partiality in my intercourse the members of the order, officiall otherwise, and I feel confident that members as belong to other political ties will sustain me in the asser Some, even in tho order, may no aware that even in South Carolina t are "Republicans" and "Greenback as well as "Democrats," in the Gn and some of tho most efficient Mr and officer? of ?orne of the strongest most flourishing Grange? are of tin first named. In other States the ec of grange organs are divided arnon various parties. My views as to po in the Grange are to discuss any thin; everything of benefit or interest ti order or the people, but to do it sti as Patrons, and not as cither Demo Republicans or Greenbackcrs, and a conclusion is reached, that is dc wise, true and just, then let each ai go to their political party meeting) work end insist that said party sha and aid in carrying such conclusion On this ground I stand in the Nal I Grange and in tho State Grange. There can bo no harm dono in di ing and considering any question, i rule is fairly adhered to, and the G be more useful nnd bettor nppre if it was moro extensively used ii way. Now, I have written you a long as Master of Slate Grange and closing I want to say a word as i official citizen. Thcro seerr.s ? great rani cf ; understanding among the people I between the people and their publ i-jsentatives and officials. Doesnol if not all of this come from our nol I and fully cxprevsiug our views and nt the right time and in the righ Instead of grumbling, abusing a noiincing our repr?sentatives and ening to quit tho Democratic pan tldngs are done, would it not be to determine what wo want and ? don't want done, and bo suro w the men that know how and things to suit us ? No man realiz fully than I that deep and thoro form is needed in tho public a tho State, and also in the Den party, and no opp will go farther nnd secure it than I, within the party ; bul I fail lo see that chancea or prospects of reform are any more promising on the outside than (he inside. There may be a "ring" in the Demo eratic party, and if thero is I will aid all I cnn to break it up nnd defent it; hut if it can't be done. And I must allow a ring to "run" me, I want to bcjmro'itjs n Democratic one, and am* not nt audia posed to run out of n Democratic ring into unknown rings. If the Democratic party is run by n ring, what guarantee nave I that other pnrtien aro not run by mon objectionnl ones? An John Ran dolph snid, when n man bantered him to bet on tho race course, and said : "My friend hero will hold the slakes." "Yes, but who in thc devil will hold your friend ?" The Democratic party in bad enough, but I don't intend to "fly from the ills I have to those I know not of." Let us nil stick Ut our Stnto Dcmncrntic organi sation nnd fight fur reform within it, but not leave it until tho last plank sinks. Then it will be time enough to form new lien. Now for reform within the pnrty, while organizing to fight all opponents I in the coming nnd future campaign*. An there is rame misapprehension ns to the Orange, nnd many false ?dens ns to ita position in thia Stale, I would like you should give ns much publicity as you om to whnt I have written you, even to pe dishing it in tho newspapers. Rut If so, do! do! do! Fee flint it is done cor rectly, for I am sometime* mndo to ?ny things I never thought. Let mo hear from you Hoon, and give me your views and those of the order in your part of tho State. Very rcsnectfully nnd fraternally, JA?. N. LIPSCOMB. A MYSTERIOUS SroT IN NORTH CAR OLINA.- In this county (Chatham), about three miles from (he Randolph line, is a ,-dace that baa been known to the oldest inhabitant mid his grandparent? as tho "Deveil's Tramping Ground." Situated iu the woods and surrounded hy giant trees, principally red oak and abort leaf pines, ia a circle about twenty-fivo feet in diameter aa perfect aa though drawn with compasses, the circle being marked hy a path aa clean cut na though used , every day ; through the center another path, equally us clean, about one degree to the east of north and south ; no paths to or from and none except cow-paths in tho neighborhood. The Boil of the coun try ir. red clay, thickly .strewn with rocks, and no grass except somo short scrub bindea that struggle rather unsuccessful ly for sustenance. Tho soil within tho circle is sand mixed with clay and cov ered with a thick growth of long wire grasa (not another bunch of which grown within right mile? of the pince) nnd which never croles thc path that marks the circle, and though large trees hnve grown and rotted to the ground nt tho edge of the plot not ono iin? ventured to intrude within the ring. The natives have all of them n super? stitious dread of the place, and it was with difficulty I succeeded in getting one of i hem to visit tho place with mo for ibo purpose of digging into it, and after getting down nbout three feet and find ing nothing he iras so impreased with the supernatural origin that ho refused to go any further. In my rending the only thins I can find a? acompnriaon for my Devi ia Tramping Ground arc tho fabled fairy walks of Ireland and ono place in Norway. So if any of -/our readers can give ua any theory of ila or igin or uno they will oblige me, and any way this will h ive tho eflectof giving to the world ..hat (he old North Stntc ia not deficient ni curiosities.-I siter tn Will minyton Star. AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN GIRLS. In Europe every g{rl learns cooking ns un art, and that pnrt of her education ia aa essential as that of rending or writing. Every restaurant nnd hotel hos a num I 'rer of these volunteers, who pay for tho "iv i lege of learning under tho tuition of a chef, in addition to which they do work around the kitcho . No mntter how rich n man in, his daughters must learn in this manner, BO th?', they can supervise the household and learn to cook well and economically. Thin custom linn been im-, ported to tin? country in a different form and is now permeating tho East in tho shnpc of the schoola of cookery. In Europo the girls are also taught cookery in the, schools, nnd the consequence is that they aro wives in fact ns well ns in name. When girls iu this country stop look?i ? down on housewifery ns dishon orable, and begin lo learn cooking ns mi art, they will all pass out of Bingle bles sedness, but until that time tho crop of Old maids will continue to increase alar mingly. The oft-heard remark that two can T|\ ff n? ohcnoiy a? one, is rank none sense. Any young man can live like a fighting cock, dress weil and smoke tho best cigars on $1,000 per year. He can not murry on $1,500 and do tho same." Kantaa .Sty Time*. THE SAINTS IN THE FIELD.-Week before last we stated that we bad been informed that several Mormon mission aries were working among tho people in the neighborhood of Black's Station. This week we are ebie to announce the truthfulness of our information. We learn from a trustworthy source that two "apostles," named Burton and Easlin, have been Drenching alternately ata point near Black's Station, near the reaidenc? of Mr. J. R. Faria, and atOatea' Saw Mill j in King's Mountain township, this conn ty. Our informant elates that they hnvt I made converts of about thirty people it the township named, in several instance gathering in whole familiea. Their meet lDga are conducted publicly, and are salt i to be well attended. It is a burnip) I shame that auch polygamous emiaaarie I are permitted to defile theaoil of a Chris tia community, and if there be an; law io reach them, it ought to bc opplic speedily.-Rock Hill Herald. - Thero aro 1,000 indiana yet in th Everglades of Florida. - There are 5,500 Odd Fellows in Te> as and 164 subordinate lodges. - Four hundred b?rrela of whisky ai manufactured daily in Davies? count; Ky. Eight coons and thirteen opossums we recently ?aught in ono tree in Dyer cou ty, Tennessee. - A turnip is on exhibition in Tamp Florida, which measures 24} inchea circumference. _ Within a radius of ten miles Tallahassee, Florida, at least 10,000 b; reis of Irish pr.tatoes will bo made a -hipped thia jeaaon. - A MinneaoUinob did not lynch I man whom thev had intended ao to pinn He argued with them a while, and tt gave them $5 to buy beer. They w convinced that he waa not so bad as tl had supposed him to be. We can, without hesitation, say t Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup br.? given best aatiafaction. We have sold an menso amount of it duiing the past i tor.-Wallace. Hilton A Co., Brugg . Lock Haven, P*.