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It ls connected with Ballymena on the west aud Belfast on the south by rallrond, and carries on considerable traffic with England and 8cotlaud. Boats run be tween London, Liverpool, Fleetwood, Glasgow and various other porta, both in England and Scotland, and Larne. Between oeveral of these potts, perhaps all of them, and Larne steamboats run every night. Very large quantities of limo are shipped from Larne to Ayrshire, Scotland. This lime is mainly used for agricultural purposes. Here it may be remarked tr?4t tho farmers of the British Isles devote more attention to raahing manure than the farmers of America do. With the farmers of England, Ireland and Scotland immure making is (he bus iness. They use large quantities of lime; we, as a rule, use very little lime. This is strictly true with regard to South ern farmers. In Ireland-and the same is true of England and Scotland-noth ing is planted or sown without the ground being first thoroughly manured. The manuring is not done, as it is most fre quently done in our Southern country, by dropping down a small handful of manuro in the hill or'by scattering it sparingly in the drill, but it is always lipread broadcast over the ground so thick tbat the ground is literally covered by it. Not only are the fields designed to be planted in oats, flax, turnips, po tatoes and other crops manured broad cast, but the pasture fields are manured. This ' system of manuring has been in practice for several hundred years. The result is that the soli is made permanent ly rich. Land, which in eotne coses was naturally poor, has, by this long contin ued process of thorough manuring, been made BO rich that it may be compared to those placeB in our country on which hogs or cows have been penned for years, j In fact, I was told that sometimes the land is made too rich to bo productive and requires to be tempered with pooi Boil. In Ireland a. manure beau is a par! and parcel of every well conducted farm, From the low marshy placea tho farmers haul muck, and having placed it in some convenient place, it is mixed with lime, This is allowed to remain until it ie thoroughly decomposed, then it is hauled out into the fields and. scattered. , Lime is scattered broadcast oyer tho fields on which the crops are growing. So far at I now remember, the practice of scatter ing pure lime, or .lime unmixed witt muck, is con fined to potato, fields ou which il is designed to sow oats after thc potato crop is gathered. I frequently saw potato fields covered so completely with lime that they presented the sami appearance os if covered with snow Lime is sometimes sown over the pasture fields. I think this is done in earlj Spring. The cost of lime at the kilo, it Ireland, is about the same that it is ii our country, I do nut think that ou ridge lands would bear the heavy appli cations of lime that are made by Iris! farmers, and it would prove of no nvni if applied to old worn out laud, in wbict there is no vegetable matter. But I au not writing an essay on agriculture. lt one time in the world'a history ..-ruo was a place of perhaps more not than it is at present. On the cst rem point of a narrow peninsula, which, bo causo of its resemblance to a sickle, i called Carran-Carran, being the Irisl word for sicklo or reap hook, are th. remains of Olderfleet Castle. It wa9 a thia place that Ed wu ni Bruce, tho brotbe of the celebrated Robert Bruce, King o Scotland, landed. This waa in 1315 Edward the Second was King of Eng land. Ireland was in a wretched condi tion, and Scotland was not much, if anj better. As a? evidence of this, it ma; be stated thai by an Act of Parliament held at Kilkenny, in 1309, the murder c an Irishman was not punishable by Liv, and the defaming of an Iriah woman wa declared no crime. After the battle c Bannockburn, which was fought on th 2-1 th of June, 1814, the Irish invite Robert Bruce. to become their Kine. Many reasons were urged why this ste should be taken., The similarity of th manner and customs of the Scotch an Irish, their common lineage and lat guage, and the fact that both wer harrassed by England, seemed toindicat the wisdom of the movement. So it ar neared to Robert Bruce, and to abow b interest in poor down-trodden Irelam be sent his brother Edward with an arm of six'thousand men to assist in tho d< li veranee of the Irish from English rub ?Edward Bruce, with his nix tbousan men, landed at Larne, or rather at Olde fleet Castle, near Larne, in May, 18L The Irish'Hocked to his standard, and b began in earnest the work of dcvaatatioi The Earl of Ulster waa defeated an many of the English noble alain in battle which waa fought soon after tl landing of Bruce. Carrickfergus wt next attacked. Being strongly fortifie and well garrisoned its capture coul only be effected by siege. Lord Mai dcville was in command of the garrisoi Many deeds of daring valor were pe formed, both by the besieged and besiej ero. Prominent among these may bo m ticed thc heroism of one Neill Flcmin, the commander of a Scotch guard i sin ty men. * At a time when the con mander of the besiegers eccma to bm been apprehending no danger,'Lot Mandeville led bis forces out to attar them. Neill Fleming and his guard < sixty men, were the only persons in tl Scotch army prepared for bau le. Tl troop? led by Mandeville were desperat Fleming saw that the Scotch army wi likely to ne surprised and ranted onie something desperate was done.- ? promptly sent a messenger to Edwai Bruce to warn, him of the irnnendi; danger, and threw himself and his gum in front of the advancing forcea of Mai do vii lo. Aa tbe forces of the besiege made desperate by hunger, advance Neill Fleming shouted to his men, "No let them see how we can die fot'oi lord." The desperate courage of Flet ing and bis sixty men stopped, for a tim the forces of Mandeville. But sixty mi could not stand long before thousand They were cut to pieces. Not one aa vi ved. Mandeville now divided li forces, hoping to be able to surround tl Scotch troops. But Bruce, warned I Fleming, waa ready to meet them. Tl two armies met, led by Bruce and Ma deville. Not only so, but the two leadt met face to face. In front of Bruce w one Gilbert Harper, a man of great mt cular power and tried valor. 1 As the ti parties neared each Other, Harper ai Mandeville, whom ho knew by bis dre Regardless of consequences,^ he nub furi oualy on Mando vi 1 fe, BU rtop.nd ed as was, by his body guard, and rith o blow of hin battle axo laid him on t ground. Bruce, who witt tri she thick? of the fray, dispatched him with 1 knife. The English, when they learn that their commander was killed, fl back toward the castle, but only a f roached that point. . After a close siege for along time t garcon agreed to surrender on a ccrti day. When tho day arrived, Brace ? thirty mea to tako the castlo according j to tho stipulation. The garrison bad, In j the meantime, Changed their mind and 1 determined to bold the castle to the bit? ' ter end. To enable them to effect this purpose, they retained as prisoners the thirty Scotchmen sent to receive the eur i render of the castle. These prisoners I they afterwards eat. But notwfthstand ! ing this they at last surrendered, nnd i Bruce placed a garrison in the castle. ! Edward Bruce, after having overrun a j large part of the north of Ireland, was j killed by a man by tho name of John Mampbus, near Dundalk, in Louth County. East, or rather south-east of Larne is Island Msgee. This is not an Island, but a peninsula. It is n strauge piece of. land. Larne Lough, which is wedge shaped, the Bharp point being about' opposite Ballycarry seems to have, at some time, Slipped in between Island Magee and the other part of Antrim County. The peninsula is, perhaps, ten miles long and at its widest point two miles broad. The inhabitants are gener ally Scotch. They are remarkable ior their law-abiding character and their kindness to each other. On the penin sula of Island Magee there are two Pres byterian churches, each having a pastor. 1 his suggests a fact which I may as well mention here os elsewhere It is this: In Scotland and in Ireland, and I sup* puse in England, too, the system of ono man being pastor of two or three or four congregations has no existence. It ls not known. In thia wc Americans may, if we will, learn an important lesson from the Scotch and Irish. In connection with Island Maggee there are some historic incideuts which may be interesting to the general reader. At tho peninsula, that is at the northern extremity, is Brown's Bay. In this bay there is a large stone which is called the Rocking Stone. So nicely is it poised that a child ia able to give to it a rock ing motion, but so firmly is it fixed in its place that, in the language of an Irishman, "Fifty horses can move it no more than a child." Brown's Bay was named in honor, or in commemoration, or in Bimplo remem brance, of a clan of witches by tho name of Brown, who, in the olden time, were wont to celebrate their nocturnal orgies there. The reader will remember that, according to. tradition, there were once witches in Ireland. In fact, according to the same authority, there were witches in America. I suppose some persons could be found now wno have, they think, seen witches and ghosts. These persons must excuse those of us who have not seen these hobgoblins from giving cre dence to their declarations until some witch presents herself to us.- Then, and not until then, do wo propose to believe in the existence of witches, cither in the present ol' the past. When the Brown family lived I do not know, neither do I know that such a family ever had an existence. It is pos sible, however, that such a family once lived on or near what is now Brown's Bay, and that the female part of them were regarded as witches. Be this as it may, abont the year 1711 eight women living, I think, on or near Island Magee were charged with the awful crime of bewitching one Mary Dunbar. It is very remarkable that the actors in all tho witch tales that I ever heard were old, worn out women, and the persons upon whom they practiced their nefarious arts wero either young girls or little children. If the actors were young, rosy cheoked girls and the subjects young men just completing their teens, witch tales would not be BO hard to believe. But to proceed with Mary Dunbar's case. It seems in the month of February, 1711, she was at the houso of James Hattridge, on Island Magee. She waa a lass of only eighteen summers. The house of Ja mc;i Hattridge was thought by a number of persons to be haunted. This was not strange. Everybody bas seen or heard of houses that Homebody thought were haunted. There are some ?sople that have very strange thoughts, heir minds are curiously constructed things. They believe without evidence, and refuse to believe when the evidence is overwhelming. One day, while Mary Dunbar was at the house of James Hattridge she found lying on the floor on apron which had been missing for sometime. Thia apron was tied up Tin five knota the like of which no one had ever seon before.> The next day Mary Dunbar, poor thing, was sud? denly attacked with a violent pain in hes thigh, and not long afterward ehe fell into convulsions.. .Sne.avered that she was grievously form cn ted by eight old women whom eh o described and* whom all in the community knew nnd believed to be witches. The old women were prosecuted and taken to Carrickfergus and in March tried and condemned. The testimony given at the time and on which the jury brought in a verdict of guilty, was thal strange noises, stich as whistling, scratch ing on the honso and the like were heard in and around the house of James Hat triage. Some of the witnesses- testified I that they' bad smelled snlpbur in th? j house. Anotber witness testified thal ! rocks, turf and other missiles were often ! thrown in and around the house. Ap I other witness stated that the bed-clothe. were often taken off the bed and made ; up in the likeness of a dead body. Bul to fix the matter beyond peradventure one witness avered that a bolster on lette \ of the bedB leaped down from ita propel place and having put on a.night gowc walked out of the bouse into the kitchen In reference to the. extent of Mary Dun bart affliction lt waa proven to the sat is faction of tho jury' that ebb nt time: vomited feathers, cotton yarn, pins, bot tons and the like.. If she bed'been lr America abo no doubt would bave vomi ted lizards and snakes. On such testi mony aa the above eigvt old women wer< confined in prison for twelve months anc besides subjected to the' punishment e the pillory. No doubt tome readers are ready t< say the Irish were a great set of fools No doubt this Ia true, but no grastet than the rest of the world. In 1688, o: about that time, the English Presbyte ri ana in New England were putting peopli to death because the celebrated Cot toi Mather and- e number of his follower believed in the existence of witches, The simple fact is, in 1688 only a Itv bad the discernment to discover tbi troth on this subject. The belief ii witches is one of tho natural outgrowth! of Popery, and traces of it still remada I remember when a boy of bearing i good old lady felling about tho daughter of one Drury Walker who lived some where In Fairfield County, who vomitei needles and pins, and who were accus terned to get up In the dark hoar? of tb night and in their night clothes sm i barefooted walk around en the top of tb pointed patea or. "paling*" which cn closed ibo garden,, ? . ... ^'-f - They bsd bsd ? little party of geest at ibo house, sad he remarked to hi acted the part of bott lu rather a brillia o manner. "I caa only recall on? bril liar action of yours" ebVsaid. ? "What wi ?tat!" "Lighting tb* gas." BETSY HAMILTON. Betsy and Her Gang at Ox? World'? El co till?n. Atlanta Constitution. This hero New Orleans is tho biggest and the noisest town ever I seen ; the most houses sud the most foll:s, and tho most fuss ever I beard at wonat, and al together hits enough to run a body plum distracted, in portickler rae and Caledony and our crowd that lives in the bills of Alabainy, and dont never bear uolbin' but frogs and screech owlBnnd whippoor wills. This is the meanest place to try to sleep of nights I ever havo saw ; tho kars and the steamboats is a wbistliu' all the time, and tho street kars a runnin' and bolls a ringin' and waggiuH and bug gies and lino carriages isjista stavin'like they was a gwine attar the dock. Some kind of a bell is a ringin' continually Cutty nigh all the time, and bit keeps a ody busy axin "whats that bell for, and whats that whistle for?" and no two dont answer you alike and you dont know no more'u you did fore you axed-but thoy aro powerful good about ehowin' you the way when you git lost. I beam some folks say it was mighty different up North, that up thar it WBB ever feller for his eef, and they never tuok time to tell you notbin', and if you got lost it was your own lookout. All our gang tried to stick together to-day, we didn't want to git lost no more ; Cousin Pink she never got two inches from me all day, and it tormented Cap Dewberry putty nigh to death, kose bo couldn't git a chsnce to say nothin' to me. Buddy and Cousin Jake Mowed to-night they had enjoyed they selves most to death, and Cap he never said whether he had or no. Hits worth the money you pay to git in j ?nt to seo what all is made out'n cotton, and the machines to work it with. Thar was Mr. James H. Hall's plows from Maysville. Ky., to work the ground whar ita plantea, ana plows from Obattaooogy, ano plows and bocB from a heap of other glaces I disremember now ; and Mr. J. . Lamar's cotton chopper and cultivator from Augusta, Qa., and hit saves a sight of work with the hoe, and Mr. somebody else'B cotton picker, but pap 'lows notbin' cant beat the Angers for picking out cotton, and then we seed ever BO many cotton gins, and cotton presses, sud A. B. Steen's New Orleans cotton compress, hit takes a big bale and packs it into a little one. Then comes the machine whar they card the cotton and spin it and weave it into clotb, and it was the flintiest weavin ever I seed. I wished for maw and Aunt Nancy and Aunt Dlcy Ann ; i know -in reason if they could see it they would want to fling away thor old wheel and loom. Somebody was a tellin' about the Exposition they bad in Atlanty, in 1881, and what a crowd they d rawed one day to see what they could do with cotton. Thoy picked it, ginned it, carded it, spun it, wove it, cut it, and mp.de two suits of clothes for two Gover nors all in ono day. It was dono to show how and what the new machines could do, and bow fur it was ahead of-the old way. I thought about the difference twixt them clothes and the ones we'uns made at home for buddy and pap. We Kicked the cotton with our fingers, and auled it with the ox wsggin to old man Roberson's gin 'ouso and bad it ginned on the shears, then we carded it and spun it, and died it with walnut bark and plum roots and sot it with hickorylye and coperas, and then wove it, and cut it out and sewed it with our fingers, and spur the thread to sew it with-but I can tel you it tuck more'n any one day to do it We seed the cotton and corn stals cutter of Geo. W. Brown & Co., Gales burgt 111., and the cotton cloth from th? Mississippi mills, Wessen Miss., as gooc aa that what comes from up North oran} whare else. And we seed a heap ol things made out'n paper, a paper bouse and some paper car wheels, and pape water buckets; and the paper was al made out'n cotton. They don't los? nothin' about the cotton now, they ss; they ore even makin' paper out n't cottoi stalks, and pressen ile out'n the cottoi seed ; we seed a machine for Lulim* th? seed and a machine for pressin' 'em inti ile. They feed cows on the cakes nt tc the ile is pressed out, and some uses thc ile to shorten ther bread with. I ..an fdnm will lu' for every body to eat it tho ikes it, but give me the old fashion hoj fat for mine. .Hits curls to see bow many things cai be made out'n cotton. Bat that wir fencing tuck buddy's eye-he 'lowed i was cheaper'n rails, and would save i sight of mawlin' and spllttin'. They've got a machino here for might nigh ever thing you can name, and som' of'em eaves 'o power of work too, nu that is what folks wants-they'll do mot anything to git out'n work. Hit was bard to pull buddy and pa; away from them machines.!. I could hav looked at 'em all day hut Caledony an Cousin Pink wanted to go and see tb pictures and tho pretty things tb? wo mo -folks bad thar to explay. Cousin Pin she wanted to stop a half hour to loo at a handkercher they axed $75 for, an a apron marked $100, and a little ol table-kiver for $2*3. Buddy ho kep ?erkin' us.to come on-"come on," sa] ie, "I wouldn't give a cent a tbousan for .sith ns that," and Cousin Pink sb wouldn't have gin a cent a thousand fe the. things buddy liked to see, and i they was a pallin' and a jerkin' oe another ail the time to come on and lei E"i some'rs else. "Have'you saw tb iberty bell ?" says buddy, "Yeas" taj she, "I have saw it and it wasn't muc when J. seed it. The old thing is a hui d'red year? old, and, cracked at that dont see what in the name of sense ev? made 'era fetch it here." Her and but dy couldn't agree on notbin', and si turned him loee to go whar be please) Cap Dewberry didn't keer whar he wei jes so I went with him. In the. government buildin' we oye hcarn ono crowd say to tether, "We at gwine to Kansas now, meetmeinMexh at 2 o'clock," and they 'lowed : "Hits cit tin' so warm we'd rather meet yon I Virginia or Vermont"-"Spoao we me at tue Texas department. Have you sei that, thar banner made by them Cei burne, Texas ladies? They say Mi Graves and Miss Osborn hau a band i makin' it." They , passed on and v didn't find out whar they met, Wo'ui went in .a bonse made out'n the Dorie Wey i crackers and tuck, a seat Hits g 1,280 different kinds, of crackers. \\ seed the Cleveland gem that they ax< 140,000 for, bnt they've got the inxnran to ax a fortune for over thing they sel they. sb owed u s a hand ? painted chat plate and lowed if waa 1 GO years old ai was worth $150. I told 'em ray maw h: seme bine age flowery dishes .at hor wasn't nigh that old and she'd eoll 'c for a sight less money.. They bed reticule over a hundred years, old, sud table.'kiter ,400 yeer, old: that-tb wouldn't sell. A solid , lamp of ce from Alabainy weighs thirteen tons Uiey offered to give it to buddy ai Cousin i Jake if they'd lift it and tote away. We/ona went to tho Cuate bouse and went io a room that cost oi a million of dollars, and pap he a tight and kept a et ay i o' and a atavia' git a chance to shako hands withi Voil Thia we wont to the mint and aced 'i makin' i."tiver dollars-thor had 'em thar by the hamper baskets full, whether you believe it or not. Wo seed tho French market and hits a ?turu good i hov.- by itself, aud we seed ackson's*and Clay s and Lee's statu*?, and Margaret's monument, and orango trees with ripe and green oranges and the blossoms all on the treo at the same time, and we hoard some black niggers talkio' French, and Cal sbo laughed right in thor faces. "Liviu* aud larnin'" is what we'uns is a doing now. Wo bavo saw nearly ever thing thats to bo seed, but thar issump'n new to bo seed, ever timo you go to the Exposition, and maybe bit9 sump'n you've passed right by and tetched aud didn't know it ; you'd bo so busy a look in' at one thing you couldn't soe tother, and seeln' of so much makes ? body forgit what they have saw. We even boara a 'oman say lookin' at the folks was as big a show aa she wanted, and she was a gazin' right straigbt at we'uns as bard an she could atare. Cousin' Fink 'lowed she'd know us next time she seed us.. Cal 'lowed sba was a gaeta' at we'uns to git tho patron of our Sunday frocks, and L known in reason she was, kase our*n haiut trimmed like no body's that I have saw senBo I been here. BETSY HAMILTON. tien, Lee on tho Object of tho War. MK John Leyburn, of Baltimore, pub? J lishoa in tho Century a highly interesting* Recount of en interview which ho hau? with Gen. B. E. Lee shortly after the close of tbo war. What was said on the subject o? slavery as tho object of the war is reported by Mr. Leyburn ns fol lows,: "After dwelling with omphasls and with feeling- on this point, tho General then ? introduced another topic which also moved him deeply, viz., the persist ent manner in which tho loading North ern journals, and the Northern people generally, insisted that the object of the war baa been to secure tho perpetuation of slavery. On this point be seemed not only indignant, but hurt. He said it waa not true. He declared that, for himself, he bad never been aa advocate of slavery; that be .had.emancipated most of nie slaves years before tho war, and had sent to Liberia those who were willing io go ; that tho latter were writ ing back most affectionate letters to bim, some of which be received through the lines during the war. He said, also, os an evidence that tbo colored people did not consider him hostllo to their race, that during his visit to Baltimore some of thom wno had known him when be was stationed there had come np in the most affectioaate .manaor and pat their bands into the carriage window to shake hands with him. They would Hardly have received bim in tVis way, be thought, had they looked upon bim as fresh from a war intended for their op fression and injury. Ono expression must give in bis Own words : " 'go far,'said Gen. Lee, 'fromengaging in a war to perpetuate slavey, L am rejoiced that slavery ia abolished. . I believe it will be greatly for tho iuteresta of the South. Bo fully am I satisfied of this, as regards Virginia especially, that I would cheerfully nave lost all 1 havo lost by the war, and have Buffored all I have suffered, to havo this object attain* ed.' This he said with much earnest ness." This ?B precisely what one would have expected to hear from Gen. Lee, and it accords, wo fully believe, with tbe gene ral sentiment of the South. Grant's armies would have made short work ol their opponents if they had encountered only those Confederates who were fight ing for the perpetuation of slavery. Gen. Lee was right, also, in asserting that the abolition of slavery would bo beneficial to the South. The danger ii not in emancipation, bub. in enfranchise ment, and the serious dangers of enfran chisement-dangers that will be over, come-will be confined to three or foui 8tates. , A. Remedy For Sprees. A young wife bad just settled ia hei sew home. All seemed fair and promis ing, for she did not know her husband wan s drunkard. . But one night he came home at a very late hour and much thc worse for liquor. When he staggered into the house his wifo waa very muet shocked ; he told her he was sick and mutt lie down at once; and in a moment or two he was comfortably laid on thc sofa in a drunken sleep. His face'wai reddish purple, and altogether be was a pitiable-looking object. 'The doctor wac cont for in haste, and mustard applied tc tbe patient's feet and bands. When, thc doctor came and examined him, and found ho Was only drunk, ho said : "Ht will be nil right in tho morning." But the wife insulted that be was very sick and. that severe remedies must be used "You must shave his bead and apply blisters," she urged, "or I will send foi someone who will.'' The husband's beac was accordingly shaved close and blisten were applied. The patient lay all night in a drunken sleep, and, notwithstandTof the blisters were eating Into his fles?i, il was not till near morning that he begat to beat nb on ?, disturbed by tho'pain About daylight he wcie np iu the un comfortable consciousness ol blisterec agonies. "What does this mesh?" hi said,- putting hts hand to hil bandager head. I "Lie still; you mustn't stir," sale bis wife : "you have be; A .tick." "lao not sick." "Oh. ye?, yon are ? you havi had the brain fever. Wo hnvo work cc with you all night." "I should thin! ?rou bad," groaned the poor victim .'what's the matter with my feet?' "They are blistered." "Well, 1 ara bette now : take off the blisters-do," hi pleaded piteously. He was ia a mos uacomfbrteble stats-bis head covcrec with corea, and his feet and hands stil worse. "Dear," he said, "if ever IshouU get sick lo this way again, don't b< alarmed and send for a doctor, above all don't blister me again." "Oh I indeed : will 1 AU that saved you were tho blis ter*. And if yon have soother sad spell I shall be more frightened thai ever, for tho tendency, I am sure, is t< apoplexy, and fron? the next attack yoi are likely to die unless the severes m ca? q res are used." He made no furtbe d?fense. 8u iii co it to say that he neve had another attack,-Daily JJaltimorcat How Ile Got His Title. .- . "Were you actively engaged ia the lat war?" asked a stranger in Austin o General Jeff Blakeman. "O, yes, I waa very actively engaged I eb 1 p ni ug cotton to. Ea rope i during th ^?Th?u how. did you come to bo. calle '^?rw/yott<e?t I made money darin the war, and afterwards tho boys cam homo ooor, and wanted to borrow a li ttl .money. I ge neral ly loaned it to .then and lhat f* how I came to be calle 'Geno.al/ and lt has stuck to mo ove >^^Yss,MUssrid, "before marriage thought I could liV* on I07C< lam oo #?|ng^W - The Baptists of tho South* AUGUSTA, May 6.-Tho Southern Bap tist Convention met in tho First Baptist Church ia this city this morning. The Convention waa organised in the sarao church forty years ago, in May 1845. When the Convention assembled to-day thero was a large audienoe in attendance.'! Tbe pulpit was beautifully decorated with flowers, and a white dove with wings outstretched floated above. - The Convention was called to order by Dr. Mell, the Moderator, who was elected in 1863, and has : held the office ever j since. The first Moderator was the Rev. W. B. Johnson, of South Carolina. After the Convention came to order the audience sang "Rock J.' ARCS." The Moderator then read thu . 188d Psalm : "Behold how good and pleasant for brethren to (?Veil together in unity." Dr. Basil Manley, of Kentucky, made the opening prayer, and thb rolf was then called by States by tho secretaries, Dr.' Lansing Burrows, of Augusta, and the Hov. O. F. Gregory, of Louisiana. Over sevon hundred delegates answered to.roll call. Among tho delegates from Arkan sas three ladles were ?ported. A motion was naakle and carried to refer - the quos tion of their admission to a committee of five, composed of Messrs. Jones of Vir? ?lnia, Manley of Kentucky, Kilpatrick of loorgia, Wharton of Alabama, and Car? roll. After deliberation tho coimnittco pre sented two reports. The majority report signed by the Rev, Basil Manley. Rov. M. B. Wharton and Rev. J. L. Carroll being in favor of the admission of the lady dolegates, and tho minority report signed by the Rev. J. W. Jones and Rev. J. H. Kilpatrick being against their admission, an animated discussion ensued. Dr. Mn n loy desired tho Convention to construe its constitution strictly, and if thiB was dono tho ladles would bo admit ted. Ho would admit that if he had been in Arkansas whoo tho question of selecting the delegates came up. ho would have opposed the selection of the ladies; but os they had been selected this Convention bad nothing to. do bot admit them. Dr. Jones vehemently opposed the ad mission of lady delegates. "If," said he. "wo admit theso now the Convention will be flooded with women neat year." Ho was in favor of standing by old customs -by the Word of God-and therefore the rejection of the female delegates." Dr. Wharton said > "Tho question is not whether the women wanted their privileges, but one of loyalty to the con stitution. Shall wo exclude legally elected delegates hy an ex pott facto law ?" Judgo Stewart and Mr. Kilpatrick both objected to female delegates. The Hon. J. P. Eagle, of Arkansas,, thought the ladies should be admitted. They not only contributed more to the Church, but did more mission work than tbe men. Mr, Eagle ia Speaker of the Arkansas House ot Representatives, and his wife was accredited as one of the dolegstes from Arkansas. Dr. Hawthorne, of Atlanta, j opposed tho . admission of fe malo delegates. It would bean error and .wrong in princi ple to admit them. Of course he under stood why Mr. Eagle favored admission. "If jnv wife," said Dr. Hawthorne, "was knocking at the door I would bo the last to raUo my voice in opposition." The Rev. Mr. Howard and the Rev. Mr. Early, of Arkansas, spoke in favor of the majority report. It waa moved to substitute the minority for the majority report of the committee. Thia was adopted, and pending a discussion on a motion io adopt this report, the delegates from Arkansas withdrew the names of the lady delegates, and this settled the vexed question. Dr. P. H. Mell was re elected Modera tor and tho Rov. Lansing Barrows, of Georgia, nnd Rev. O. F. Gregory, of Louisiana, Secretaries, and pending the count of the votes for vice-Presidents the Convention adjourned until 3.80 p. m. News and Courier. The Child's Prayer. _i "Kiss me good night, papa, I have said my prayers," and with the father's kiss noon her Mps the darling child goes Eeacefully to sleep. The little crib, that appy face so calm in slumber, that little evening prayer sent op to God wi th such innocence and faith, do you not remem ber it father, mother. The youngest child, the.darling of the household, the dear, sweet girl, what p. wealth of love she receives I Wherein life is there.aught so puro as that homelike scene?.. Doer not. the memory of lt come back sweet ana fra - j grant'to refresh the heart, as rain upon the thirsty ftelds? How tenderly the little pillow io smoothed I How softly the quilt is sproad over the ? little slumberer as she lay with lips half closed, the teeth of I ??early whiteness gleaming through that] ringe of redi < Child of my heart and love, sleep on ; dream on tho long night through., In-1 nocent the sleep ; Innocent the sleeper ; j innocent r.ud pure the player. '" ? - Sacred and holy is the niter from whence that prayer ascent1-*. Not in the church with its rich fre**>?a and gorge ous windows, is that all?t* reared, but Ja the sacredness and, 'auctlty of home, where carriage vows Lt? kept unbroken. That altar, do you not remembers hy the sido of the little crib? That kneel ing child, with folded palms, do voa not Bee her tn her long whito robo? That, little pleading voice, which so often was ? as muslo, do you not bear its sweet tones again as she prays to her Father lo heaven ? Was ever picture painted on canvas so fair arid pure ? Was ever j prayer offered so full of faith and trust? Was ever heaven brought so near - (o j earth ? . ' * The vision of it comes hack framed as 'j io gold after long years of mingled joy and sorrow. That quiet room, the quiet evening hour, the little crib with its snow-whito pillo? and its ?now-whito counterpane, the little girl with her oyal face, her dark-brown hala, falling in waving folds from her olear, white brow, under which sparkled round and foll jet black eyes. "Yes, child, kneel again and pray to I thy Fainer in heaven. In tho busy world | ibero is no calm, in wealth and fashion 1 no deep, pore joy, no quiet rest such as is found in thy good-night kiss and thy n j .-scry prayer. This kiss ia love, thy prayer Jp faith, and these ar? the Jewels of the home. They burn with undying glow through aU changing years and minglo at last I into tho deeper and purer radiance of j the love and homo io heaven. .., , ....... ""J" - Gae of the Professors at the tjnl vcraity of Texas ls ono of the most absent minded men in tho State; Not AW waa absorbed in thought for a ft w, moment?: 'ead -than; replied: ^Ya^-W think ?o, if Lam not mistaken.' ? - It is said that there U a soft aldo to I afrKsWl^ h?eTT * dQd018 ' Q if flirt in st i A ntl on. Alli nfifiu. "T ? --~ TT^*'^ ??e^ejB1 The Blue and tho Gray. BALTIMOBB, May 6.-Baltimore to-day presented a more active appearance than Tor some time past. There is a great deal morn decoration than waa expected, and the streets are Oiled with p?opTe drawn here by the meeting of tho Society of the Army of the Potomac. Uniformed men are plenty, and they aro greeted with a cordial welcome. Hebert E. Lee Camp of Confederate Volunteers arrived in the city at 1.40 p. m., and received quite an ovation. The business meeting of the Eleventh Army Corps was held in the forenoon, and that of the Society was held at Ford's Opera House at 2 p. m. Cen. Grant tras reelected Comman der by acclamation amid a storm of enthusiasm which lasted several minutes. AU of the old ofltcore were then re-elect ed j it a similar manner. At this point General W.?. Brown, of Washington, took tho floor and suggested that as the RV E. Leo Camp of Richmond, Ta., were in the Immediate neighborhood, it would be both generous and graceful to invite . them to occupy seats on the floor of the house and make their acquaintance. A motion to that effect was .made and seo* onded,' when tw6 or three men jumped j up sad violently opposed such a proceed ing, one saying that a rebel, no- matter how repentant, had no interest ip the business of Union soldiers, and that their presence was an insult which he could not endure; Nearly every man in the house was instantly on his feet, trying to make himself heard,. and for A ? while thero was . a scene of wild confusion, which threatened to terminate (n a per- . Bonal encounter. Tho Chairman vainly endeavored to secure order and threaten ed to invoke the aid of the police. Quiot waa finally restored and a committee ap pointed to invite tho ex-Confederates to meet their old opponents after thebusl ness of the meeting was disposed of. After adjournment the committal ap pointed to invite It-, E. Lee Camp tb seats on the floor came in, bringing with them ' a long string of men In., gray .suits. They were greeted with great, applause and in return filled the house with a genuino "rebel yell" that threatened to pull down tho ceiling. The ex-Confed erates wero scattered among the brno coats and their officers invited to occupy seats on tho stage. Colonel McGinnia of Montana welcomed them with a graceful speech, to which Commander General Cook responded. Short but brilliant addresses were made by Colonel Charleo Marshall, who was chief of G?n?ral Lee's staff, and Colonel Evans of Richmond, Va. ' _ ? .. ; Tho Bos*D?irft*?t?2 0f Africa, Prof. T.; McOants Stewart, a colored South Carolinian now acting aa general ! agent for the advancement of industrial education in Liberia, lectured to a large nudionco at Morris Brown A. M. E. Church last night on "The regeneration of Africa." Prof. Stewart began by saying that Afrloa bad already played an important part in the ancient history of the world and that every indication pointa to the i fact that she will yet act an Important role in ita modern history. <VM that when abo does become civilized, hers will bo the finest civilization of the world. We have been acquainted with Northern Africa for centuries and vith Southern Africa for generations, aa both of these Sortions aro without the tropical zone, ut Central Africa has until within tho last fifty years been as unknown to out siders as the contents of a sealed book. Siuco the explorations of Livingston and Stanley bava thrown open much of this portion of the continent and shed a ray of light into some of ita darkest recesses there is every reason to believe that Ks regeneration and ..civilization will; be more speedy than it baa been np to thia time. Tho reason why mc.? has not been accomplished in this direction ia that there ia an unhealthy belt extending aronnd the continent for a distance of about fifty miles from the coast, and the colored enigrants who have gone there from this country have been compelled to settle in this coast belt on account of their poverty and inexperience, and a So od deal of the vigor and vim which icy carry with thom from thia country is taken out of them. He did not think " that the time had yet come for general, emigration to Africa, i and said that the only kind of emigration that could , now result in any good to tho emigrants and to the country was that which waa back ed not only by thrift and industry, but also by capital. Aa yon advance into tho interior of tho country the climate becomes bealthier, and hence lt is tbat the hope of the regeneration of Central Africa-lies in the development of tho in , lorior towns and settlements. It . will ? have to be founded upon the . aboriginal stocky in other wprde, ?u? development of Central Africa will have to como from within. Liberia, the lecturor ?aid, ia in a-fairly prosporous condition, but noth i lng to boast of. The trouble ia that most of the emigrants who havo. settled .there * aro poor and ignorant and not in a con dition to promote ita development. What the country needs is not muscle; itt baa plenty of that,) but capital.--.JYcwo :arA Courter. .. ...c...... - Story of a Smart American Dog. Ono Summer afternoon a group' of children wer/? playing at tho end of a pier which projects into uko Ontario, near Kingston, New* York, ?VS.-A* The proverbial careless child of the paVty made the proverbial backward atepooff from th o pier into the water. Nono of bia companions could save him, and their erica bad brought no one from the shore, when, jost aa he was sinking for the third time, a superb Newfoundland dog rushed down the pier into tho water, aaa , Suited the boy oat. Those, of tho cha ron who dla not accompany .tho noy 1 home took the dog to a confectioned on tlo shore, and fed Mm with aa great a va rieiy of cokes and other. sweets, xu> ho coald eat. So far the story is, of course, only typical of scores of well-known casca. The individuality of thia base1 is left for tho ?equal. Thc next afternoon tho carno group of children were playing at tho u am o place, . when the canine hera of tho day boforo came trotting down to thom with the most fr iou dly wags and nods, f Thor?' bo . <h tog no occasion this time for supplying bini with delicacies, the childrou OB ly stroked and patted him. Tho dog, how ever, had hot come out Of pur* cociabili 'tjr. A child in the water and cites and candy stood to htm in tho cloie and ob vious relation of cause and c?ect. and- if this relation waa not clear; to the children, .. ho 'resolved. to impress it upon them. Watching his chanco, he crept up behind tho child who wac standing nearest 'lo ikxitM ~f -.1--'_.? JJI-- 1-V ' which soot hist into;the watet,,.th?n sprang m after him and gravely brought Mm Ashore. ,p To th oso of ca who L&V& bad a high respect for tho disinterestedness ?f dogs, thia story may givo proof tim?, in? devel opment of tba intelligence^ at the ' ex pense of the moral nature, is by no means ?j. i.t. ~u :r? 1 o? ???iii?Vniin'i'> .'j,. - JL calico wrapper-t-A dry ge-sds clerir.