The Charleston daily news. (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, November 19, 1869, Image 1
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VOLUME VII.-NUMBER 1157.
SIX DOLLARS A YEAR
EMWB JFMO M WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, November 18.
iii public and private business was suspend?
ed to-day.
The French Government has ordered a war ves?
sel to accompany the English and American ves?
sels conveying the remains of Hr. Peabody home.
General Bazen, commanding thc district of
lower Arkansas, apprehends trouble from indians
In the spring.
THE ILL-FATED HOBNET.
Nsw TOBK, November 18.
Thc investigation yesterday into the case of |
she privateer Hornet shows that the coal was un?
it for use, and vindicates Higgins.
. THINGS IN EICHMOND.
RICHMOND, November 18.
Thanksgiving Day was generally observed.
The churches were open and places of business
closed.
Fifteen members of the Washiogton press ar?
rived this morning and wero entertained by the
members of the press in this city at the Spotswood
llotei. They return to-morrow.
NORTH CAROLINA.
WILMINGTON, November 18.
The day was generally observed and most
.f the business houses were closed, and there
was service m the various churches.
About eight thousand people are at the Cape
Fear Agricultural Fair to-day. Pickpockets and
.harpers were operating pretty extensively, and
several were arrested, on suspicion, but were re?
leased.
THE COMING MAN.
DON PIATT ON THE CHASE MOVEMENT.
TM? Chief Justice Again boomin- np
SW av Candidate for tile Presidency
p- Vitality of the Cn terrified Demo
er any-How the Chaae Movement was
Throttled at Mew York In 1868, die.
Don Platt, the Washington correspondent of j
tho Cincinnati Commercial, thus spicily venti?
lates his views as to "Thc Coming Man :
I have been at some pains since my arrival
here to ascertain the force of what is now
known as the Chase movement. Any one look?
ing ??er a collection of exchanges, can get
glimpse of lt; but in addition, it has been my
fortune to meet and converso with men whose
feelings, views and prejudices make unerring
indication of tho current.
The fact tg the late elections have made the
Chief Justice to the Democratic party what
Grant was to the Republican-a political ne?
cessity. It has been defeated in Pennsylvania
and walo, with so small a majority against
them, as to bear the morale unimpaired-hut
wi thine fact demonstrated that as long as the
party looks more to Its history than Its princi?
ples, such defeats arc irresistible. The Demo?
cratic party, like Lot's wife, should be warned
against looking back. There is death in the
retrospective business. The people will not
l'- trust a party that is forever (?diing attention to
its lack of character In the r?ast.
Toa know that I have great faith in tl.? im
mortality of the Democratic party. I believe
r lt W?1 Se on hand ready to regard the last
trump to judgment as a call to the polls, and
come streaming up "to vote the ticket, the
whole and nothing but the ticket" I have
faith in the vitality of a party that can take
* into its arms Sam. Cary and Lew Campbell
and survive. This is more trying to its con?
stitution than was its Infamous war record.
I can bet on the longevity of an organization
that carries successiully the Hebrew Belmont
and the publican Tweed. But this grim devil,
called defeat, must in the end demoralize, and,
if not destroy the party, at least leave it in a
deplorable minority. "The day drags on,
though clouds keep out the sun." said the gen?
tleman, whose morality old mother Stowe is at
so much pains to doubt, "and- Democrats de?
feated, yet defeated struggle on."
"We must have a new departure," cry the
leaders, and they look longingly at the tall,
imposing form of the Chief Justice, and wish
that the everlasting colored man could be so
boned under the wood-pile as never to be
heard of again. There are live issues press?
ing upon the people for immediate solution,
?pou which the Democratic party could ride
successfully into power, if they could be In?
duced to leave their dead and dying In the
rear. A gentleman of high political and social
?Unding fr the South, assured me. the other
day, that Chase, placed on such a platform as
f . that offered the Democrats at the celebrated
Fourth of July Convention, would sweep the
Soutk taking up In Its support all parties.
Tne shrewder leaders rejoice over the defeat
erf Pendleton, as ending forever the monstrous
" greenback proposition, that, justly or unjustly,
Sad been fastened on Ohio's unfortunate eon.
And, on the other hand, they dread these
thieves and thimble-riggers of New York,
. whose success would not only be the death of
file Democratic party, but a Anal winding up
rf the Republic. They find safety in the Chief
Justice and the new departure.
By-tbe-by, I heard, not long since, from a
v. gentleman who claimed to be behind the
p scenes at the time, that the Chase movement
. in New York came to grief through the un?
happy condition, for the moment, of an ?mi?
sent statesman who went from a wine party
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to the caucus.
Mow, the Fifth Avenue Hotel drink,
in bottles, does not make one drunk; it makes
one powerful, and our solemn states?
man made his appearance among the dele?
gates like a roaring lion. He mounted the
table, and, ina voice that sounded like rumb?
ling thunder in the very bowels of the earth,
proceeded to denounce the Chief Justice with
more force than elegance. His remarks, in?
deed, were exceedingly profane. This coming
st the very moment when the delegates hau
resolved to support Chase, and had, indeed,
met on this occasion to devise means to se?
care his nomination, was, to say the least,
embarrassing. To make it worse, the next
' day this great statesman, sober or sane, found
lt necessary to sustain himself, as he had been
mnder the influence-and so the weeping Sey?
mour was nominated on the pathetic appeal of
the tender Vallandigham. But it may be only
fair to say that Vallandigham was not the
great statesman who passed through the ex?
perience related.
And, by-the-by again: Do you know that
* here, and in Now York, where I was last night,
the belief among tbe leading politicians is that
Pendkton was beaten designedly by thc disaf
jrL fee ted in hie own ranks? In a word, that he
i was stabbed in the house of his friends. In
confirmation of this, they point to the very
quiet condition of the canvass on the Demo?
cratic side, in which the once familiar voices
were wont to thunder, while the windy Cary
alone stumped the State. I can not convince
them that this was in consequence of Mr. Cary's
advice and high old strategy, looking to the
further benefit of Gentleman George.
To return to Ute Chief Justice. The rock
Sxra which his prospects are likely to go to
eces is this Yergcr case. It ls drifting into a
general consideration of the reconstruction
acts, and this venerable court of ours, with
Chief Justice Chase at its head. Is as independ?
ent as swine on congealed water and as plucky
as bull terriers. Now the country is sick of
agitation of this sort, and hoped to be near the
end of it This ls especially the case at thc
South, where the cotton crop, now sn its way
to market, has been unusually abundant, and
commanding a high price. The poor peuple are
getting a taste now of thc peace and prosperi?
ty so long strangers to their country.
It ls a little curious that- the Democratic
porty, that now stands at the back of the court,
urging on such adjudication, was the first to
question such power, and, under Jefferson,
^denounced the tribunal dangerous to < ur lib
.rtles. But, then, a Democratic pla' orin is
Only a spring board to turn somersaui s from.
The Supreme Court is made up of aged gen?
tlemen. I meet them frequently, m their
postprandial vibrations, or morning constitu
; Monals, and they shake as they walk, in a way
< fearful to look on. Tki9 ii true of ail save the
.j Chief Justice. I saw him last Thursday. He
v age^arbwly. What a superb physique ne has !
g aacatb trunk, and such a massive, intellectual
; head i and, withal, a rery winning smile when
ke talks to you.
THE SURVIVORS OF THE WAR.
Convention of Delegate? from the Seve?
ral District-Organisation of a State
Survivors' Association.
In response to an Invitation from the Survi?
vors' Association of Charleston District, dele?
gates from similar organizations throughout
the State met in convention at noon yesterday
in South Carolina Hall.
The convention was called to order by Colo?
nel E. McCrady, Jr., who moved that Gcn'l J. B.
Kershaw bc called to the chair and Messrs. T.
Pinckney Lowndes and Pierre Bacot .be re?
quested to act as secretaries.
The motion being adopted, General Kershaw
took the chair. He said that to hold the hum?
blest position in an association like this would
be regarded as a privilege to be prized, and
that to be called to preside over its delibera?
tions was an honor indeed. He had hoped j
that his gallant comrade, General Wade Hamp?
ton, the representative man ol South Carolina
In this connection, would have been present;
but as he (General Kershaw) had been called
to preside over the deliberations of the meet*
lng, he could only promise that he wonld do all
that he could to conduct the proceedings with
proper regularity and harmony. As explain?
ing the business before the convention, and
the purposes for which it was called, he read a
circular from the Survivors' Association of
Charleston District, and thc following pream?
ble and resolutions adopted by that associa?
tion on July 13, last:
Whereas, The late war between the Con?
federate and United States of America are
now fresh in the minds of its survivors, and
many records do now exist which time and
neglect will certainly 'destroy, it is highly de?
sirable to have these records ano thes.-; recol?
lections put in such substantial form as to re?
sist the ravages of time; and whereas, we have
no government which will collect and pre?
serve the history of those transactions of
which we are proud, it is therefore the duty
of all South Carolinians to place the history of
the late war In Its true light before the world,
in order that those who lought and died lor
their country may have, nor. only the reward
of their distinguished patriotism, but thc
justice which their achievements deserve; and
whereas, the survivors' association ol any
single district may do much In collecting and
preserving these records, yet because ot the
intimate association existing during the war
between all the troops of the State, thc work
will become proportionally less onerous and
much mort eirectivc il" the survivors of the
whole State were to unite in a common e.Tort;
therefore, bc it
L Resolved, That the Survivors' Association
ol Charleston District earnestly invite the sur?
vivors of each district in the State, where as?
sociations of record do not now exist, to form
district associations composed ol'thc survivors
of tlie Confederate Army and Navy, to col'.oct
and preserve the records of #io late war.
2. That thc various district associations be
invited to send Ave delegates to a convention
to meet at our hall in Charleston, on Thursday,
November 18,1869, to lorm a State Survivors'
Association, for the purposes set forth in the
next resolution.
3. That thc primary object of the proposed
State Survivors' Association is the preserva?
tion of all matters of history connected with
thc late war; that the proposed means ot ac?
complishing this object is the establishment of
a State Bureau, under the control of thc State
Association, where all original matter sholl bc
regularly and conveniently filed away for the
reference of such persons as thc association
may see fit; that a competent person shall be
employed to take charge of this bureau; .that,
thc expanses shall be defrayed by an assess?
ment of the district associations: that the sec?
ondary object of thc proposed State Associa?
tion, the future development of which is lett
to the action of the State Association, is the
preparation of a standard Southern history
and smaller school histories, in which the
part the Confederacy bore In the late war may
be properly related to thc world, and that the
rising generation may bc taught that their
parents were cot tho vile traitors that the
common school histories now prepared by our
enemies assert.
4. That a committee composed of the presi?
dent, secretar} and five members of the asso?
ciation be appointed to correspond on the sub?
ject of thew: resolutions, to make all necessary
arrangements for the assembling of the con?
vention, and to take such measures as they
may deem essential to the lui. accomplishment
of tho intentions ot the preamble and resolu?
tions.
Under the foregoing resolution, the follow?
ing committee was appointed: Colonel Ed?
ward McCrady, Jr., president; Colonel C. Ir?
vine Walker, Colonel B. H. Rutledge, Major T.
G. Barker, Colonel J. M. Kinloch, Captain F.
K. Huger; Captain James Armstrong, Jr., sec?
retary.
On motion of Major Barker, delegates were
requested to register their names, and survi?
vors in good standing, from districts net regu?
larly represented, were invited to act as dele?
gates.
On motion of Major Barker, thc presidents of
sister associations, present by invitation lu the
convention, were requested to enroll them?
selves as members of the convention.
The following delegates registered their
names :
Abbeville-I. T. Robertson, G. M. Jordan.
Anderson-Colonel James A. Hoyt, A. J. Bit
ton, Dr. E. M. Brown.
Barnwell-Robert Aldrich.
Beaufort-Captain William Elliott, Dr. John
A. Johnson.
Charleston-Colonel E. McCrady, Jr.. Major
T. G. Barker, General James Conner, Colonel
B. H. Rutledge, Captain G. H. Moffett. Alter?
nates-Colonel C. L Walker, Colonel P. C. Gull
lard, Dr. J. F. Prloleau, Isaac Kayne, Lieuten?
ant T. P. Lowndes.
Ghester-John A. Bradley.
Chesterfield-Theo. F. Malloy.
Darlington-J.* Jonathan Lucas, E. W.
Lloyd.
Edgefleld-Captain T. W. Carwile. Captain
0. N. Butler, Captain F. L. Smith.
Fairfield-General John Bratton, Captain
Pierre Bacot, J. Macfie, A. S. Gaillard.
Greenville-W. L. Mauldin, John Ferguson.
Kershaw-General J. B. Kershaw, Captain
W. L. DePass, Wm. Clyburn.
Lancaster-B. J. Witherspoon.
Laurens-H. Legare Farley.
Marion-S. A. Dunham, D. E. Gilchrist.
Marlboro'-Dr. W. J. David.
Richland-Colonel F. W. McMaster, General
Wm. Wallace, Warren Adams.
Spartanburg-C. E. Fleming.
Williamsburg-J. Furman Dargan.
The following officers registered their names
as presidents of sister associations:
Colonel Z. Davis, South Carolina Rangers
Charitable Association.
Colonel A. Rhett, Moultrie Association, 1st
S. C. Regulars.
A. James Minis, Charleston Riflemen So?
ciety.
Major G. L. Buist, Palmetto Guard Charitable
Association.
Major Barker read the follov. lng letter from
General John A. Preston, which waa ordered
to be preserved willi the minutes:
COLUMBIA. November 1?, 186'J.
Jiy Dear Sir-lt is a painful regret to me
that 1 cannot bc present ut. the- preliminary
r-eeting of the StaW; Survivors' Association
Up to this hour I had set my heart on bein"
thereto join in its organization, and u;d in
Iving the first impetus to Ita honorable and
oly work, and to meet again many who I hud
known, honored and loved in the field. I am
very, very sorry that it is so that I ?annot be
there. Will not you have the kindness to make
known to our comrades my profound and en?
tire sympathy ? Wo arc all survivors of our
brothers and sons who died gloriously for their
country and for liberty, and we have survived
that liberty and that country for which they
died.
We now associato ourselves to keep alive in
our hearts, by solemn rite? and good deeds
the memory of the virtues and the great deeds
of those who perished, that thereby our spirit
may be so inflamed ag never to forget th?
cause for which they died, although that c
did seem to die with them. It does see
me that this is a duty near to and very c
upon our duties to that God in whose pr'esi
the justitiell spirits of our comrades are ll
forever-past all survivorship. It is c
equal to our duties to theil' and our poste
and to our own present
Let the Initiatory performance of this sa
duty be made with the profoundest impres
of all its solemn relations. lu dictating
terms ol our association strive to do justic
all the heroic dead and to all the-living w
God has blessed (although condemned to
vive their liberty) by having made Hiern
dicrs of the army of the Southern Confeder
Many of our fathers have been soldiers oT
erty for centuries; but we muy suv with p;
humility that we have given a new blazoi
their shields, by adding to them the quai
ings of soldiers of the Southern Confeder
It ls as noble a title of honor as was ever
by man. Let us. then, build for it not only n
uments of marble and brass, but those e
living memorials which will dwell in the
man heart as long as there lives one dm
Confederate blood.
This association, then, is meant to perpcti
our own honor and that of our brothers 1
won it at the price of death.
We assume thus the gravest obligations,
I do trust that thc organization will be as j
and free from living passion as if our hu
were joined over thc graves of our comrai
and that with earnest and patient dclib
tion it will bc so constructed as to bini
In a holy brotherhood, and as our Charlee
comrades have already expressed it, br
comfort and blessings to many of the "su
vors of the Confederate" army and navy A
are disabled by wounds received and dise
contracted in the service from earning a li
lihood for themselves and their families, i
many widows and orphans left destitute
the death of their husbands and fathers in
cause of their country."
Pray communicate to the meeting, in si
wise as yoi: may choose, this expression of
earnest and acure sympathy.
Faithfully yours,
. JOHN* S. PRESTO
To Major BARRIR.
On motion of Colonel E. McCrady,
was
Resolved, To appoint a committee of five
draft a constitution and nominate permain
officers.
The chair appointed as the coramittc
Colonel E. McCrady, General Conner. Gei
ral linn ton. General Wallace, and Colonel 3
Master.
Tile convention then adjourned until
o"clock P. M.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The convention reassembled at huif-p;
i P. M., with a full attendance of the de
gates.
Mr. F. L. Frost, of Georgetown, Warr
Symmcs, of Ooonee, and Myer FJ. Moses.
Sumter, enrolled their names as delegates.
Colonel McCrady moved that the delega:
seat themselves around tho tables.
General James Conner, from the commit!
appointed to draft a constitution for thc cc
vention, reported the same. On motion, t
constitution was considered as a w hole, ai
adopted unanimously.
General Conner, from the committee n
pointed to nominate permanent officers for ti
convention, proposed the following nam?
which were adopted by the convention as ti
officers for the ensuing year : Lieutenai
General Wade Hampton, president ; Lie
tenant-General R. II. Anderson, first vic
president ; Major-General Jus. Ii. Kershaw
second vice-president; Major T. G. Burke
fourth vice-president; Colonel A. C. Haske
secretary; Captain W. R. Bachtnan, treasure
The chair t?en appointed the following F
ecullvc Committee to serve for thc cnsuln
year: Colonel Edward McCrady, Jr., Colonel V
W. Wallace, General Ellison Capers, Colom
J. H. Rion, General James Conner, Colonel <
I. Walker, Colonel J. McCutchen.
On motion, lt was
Resolved, That one thousand copies of th
constitution be printed, together with the p
port of the proceedings of the meeting of o
ganlzation.
General Conner said that ho had been ii
structed by the president of thc Charlesto
Association to state that they weald ussum
charge of the printing and distributing th
pamphlets.
Colonel McMaster moved that the Executiv
Committee bc Instructed to assess the distric
associations $50 each for thc current expense
of the year, and that they bc urged to pa
promptly.
General Conner spoke of thc great Import
ance of collating carefully the historical mate
rial and records of each district, and statet
that the sen-Ices of a competent man as libra
rian would be required to properly arrangi
the data sent from thc district associations,
His salary would be paid from the assessment:
made on those associations.
Major Barker stated that he had been re
quested by some noble ladles who were cn
gaged in a work of charity to appeal to th<
convention for aid for thair institution. Th<
Home for the destitute widows and children o
thc Confederate soldiers was the name ol UH
charity, and one that appealed to tile warmest
impulses of every soldier's heart. He showed
that it was not a sectional charity, but was for
young and old over thc broad State. Major
Barker closed in an eloquent and earnest ap?
peal to the convention to give its support to
this Home.
Mr. Berkeley Wilkins seconded Major Barker
in a few feeling remarks, and moved thal a list
bc opened.
Major Barker objected to tho members pres?
ent bearing the exclusive burden, but suggest?
ed that they should treasure up the subject
at their homes, and represent the clarity to
their own associations, and urge them to ex?
tend the aid.
General Councr, General Bratten, Captain
DePass, Colonel McMaster and Mr. Hobt. Al?
dric!) participated in the discussion, the last
four mentioned gentlemen taking Hie position
that a list should be opened, and that tri?
members present could either give or pledge
themselves for ar.y amount they felt disposed.
The speakers were anxious to relieve the lome
from any embarrassment in its career of use?
fulness, and stated that Charleston should nol
have all tho honor ol supporting ao noble and
deserving a charity.
General Brullon moved that a list be opened,
and Colonel McCrady, Jr., moved lo lay thal ru o
tion on the table, which was carried.
General Conner then offered thc following,
which was unanimously adopted:
Resolved. That this convention dr? cordially
recommend the "Widow's Home'' to the atten?
tion of the district associations in the Slate,
and tho members here pledge themselves to
use their endeavors to obtain contributions
thereto.
Mr. William Elliott moved that Hie thanks
of thc convention be tendered to tile Survi?
vors' Association of Charleston for their zeal?
ous efforts in behalf of thc cause which brought
them together.
No further business being brought to the at?
tention of thc convention, on motion, it stood
adjourned.
-There is a papkr^nach? church, says the
Churchman, actually existing near Bergen,
Germany, which can contain uearly one thou?
sand persons, lt is circular within, octagonal
without. The relievos outside, and statues
within; the root, the ceiling, the corinthians,
capir.l*. are all ttapier-mack?, rendered water?
proof by a saturation lu vitriol, llmo-water,
whey er .ut whilo of egg?.
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY
-Thc Church of the Madeleine, in Pat
o? the ?nest and richest in Europe, cost !
OOO to build.
-M. Jules Loyson, brother of Pen
cinl.be, and a Professor at Sorbonne, is
to publish a historical work entitled "?\
Ute du Clcrgi; de. France cn li30'2." .
-The question whether free churches
supported is answered by the fact that
.twenty-eight Episcopal parishes in the i
of Maine, twenty arc supported by the
tory alono.
-In 17S9. there were but 52,000 mern
thc various monastic orders in Franc
18GI, there were 108,119 persons of both
bound to conventual Life and distributed i
U.032 houses.
-Latin will be the language of thc (Ec
ical Council, and a uniform pronunciatio
be fixed, in order tiiat thc assembly, ow
the diversity of accents, need not doge
into a second Tower of Babel.
-The Board ol Visitors to the United
N-.val Academy protesten.their report n
the regulation which requires tho cadi
pursue their secular studies on Sunday,
rule is "stringently enforced."
-The Manchester Guardian says tho
Pope is a great smoker, "invariably tak
cigar after every meal.'' Ile was latelj
seated with several thousand cigars 1
manager ol' a large tobacco manufactory.
-Tiic budy of German Lutherans, for
known as the Missouri Synod, has now a
ed the official name of "General German I
rau Synod of the United States and Can
Thc organization embraces four part
synods.
-Tbcre are two gentlemen, eacli of \
will be enc of one thousand to give $1000
for the establishment ol'a college or nnivt
somewhere in thc West, to be under the
trol of t he General Assembly, as a meir
of i he reunion of the two branches ol'the
bytenian Church.
-In Liverpool two Low Church dignlu
the Bishop and Dean of Chester, have
giving addresses in favor of the appoint!
of deaconesses-women are to engagt: in
gious work in schools, hospitals and pen
tlaries-only there must be no vows, no
fessions, no peculiar costumes.
-We hear from Rome, says the Pall Mal
zotte of November 1. that at the approac
Council red,blue and white balls will be ena]
ed to represent the votes in the following r
uer: "The rod will be affirmative, the
negative, the white will express doubt oi
sent, hesitation or skepticism."
-Sir Moses Montefiore, the celebrated.
isii philanthropist, has just inaugurated a 1
llam-midrash, or house ot learning, ni Ri
gate. England. Il ls said to be a spic:
edifice, with a large lecture hali, synugo
and ten suites of rooms. Ten thorough
mudicul scholars from Bossln, Bohemia
Poland nave been appointed teachers.
-Thc Church Times hails the practice ol
invocation of saints, lately introduced am
thc Methodists In America, as "a step in
right direction." It wus at a camp-meet
where Rev. J. S. Inskip, with both hands i
cd, "invoked the spirits of Wesley, Flete
and all the redeemed lu beaven, to help tl
accept the truth in ali its length and bread
-A writer in the Church Times (Engl
says that thc rubric declaring the absolutio
to be said by the priest alone, does not m
that the priest alone shall say it, it only mci
that the congregation are not to join in it; I
further adds that there ls no absolution al
in lt-it ls merely an earnest prayer for
giveness-which a layman may use as w
There is, it says, no absolution without aurl
lar confession.
-A Conference of the Free Religious soi
ties of Northern Germany was held at Bm
wick on the 19th ult., which was attended
the representatives of twenty-six congre
Hons. The assembly declared their assent
the proposition that body and soul, force i
matter, God and will, cannot exist separ
from each other. A new petition to the Pr
sion Landtag for the separation from Chui
and Slate was proposed, and Mr. Clich v,
requested to attend the Council of Freethir
ers at Naples, as delegate of the Conf?rent
The assembly resolved that in consideration
the "backward condition of the great mass
the people the progress cf religious rcfoi
must bo moderated."
-Tile Roman Catholics are organizing
Philadelphia an association under the title
"Tile National Institute of A mirica." Its o
Ject is allirmed to be "the cultivation of eve
species of learning, as well as every soda
political and financial interest vhich can l
rendered subservient to the causeof the churc
in America." The "Iustltute" is to bc divide
into twelve schools, each giving Attention to
particular branch ol study, its object is Hu
defined in the printed prospectus: "Thl
academy will devote itself with unremittin
zeal to thc extension of Catholic ideas in th
education of the people. While acting wit
prudence, determination and a just respect lb
national institutions, it will lose to oppurtuni
ty ol' combatting the false and dliastrous edu
cational system which is at presort favored b;
our authorities."
-A London letter to the New York Time!
says: "At this moment two cle'gymen an
being tried for heresy-an advawed Rational?
ist, Mr. Voysey, for denying the Incarnation
and Atonement, and an udvauc:d Ritualist,
Mr. Bennett; for teaching the R<al Objeclivc
Presence, sacriiice offered by the priest, and
adoration ol the Real Presence. Tac caso, as
all such cases ure. will be carried ?) the court
of last resort. Hut thc decision ofthat highest
court will not be, in the slightest decree, ac?
cepted by either party. If the Qiuen in Coun?
cil declare these doctrines hereticd. they will
be preached ali thc more defiantly If they are
declared orthodox, the Protestan party will
all the inore violently anulhernatl& them; end
if her Majesty In lier wisdom (beides that
each parly may believe as it likes, both
will condemn lier decision, aid pray to
be delivered from tho yoke of m heretical
government. There is nothing br them but
to fight il out, and the sooner the State with?
draws from such a eon Lest the beter."
-Thc same correspondent wries: "Thc
Catholic Weekly Register says a Urge body of
Anglican clergymen have determncd to sub?
mit to the approaching Council ho question
of thc validity of Anglican ord rs. If the
Council rhould decide that they are invalid,
they will then pray to be receive. Into the Ro?
man Catholic Church, ordained a priests, and
that those who are married mr/ be permit?
ted to so remain, but not to bef confessions.
Many English Bishops, (Roma Catholic) the
Register says, will support th> petition, and,
il granted, the result will bc a accession to
the Church of Rome of an immense
body of the very best arnon, thc Anglican
clergy. This is thc Btory; did, in the ab?
sence of any special informtion, I am in
?anal wonder that it should Oe true, or pub?
lished in a paper of each staci a.'if not true.
There arc, no doubt, two or three hundred
Roman Catholic priests in this country who
were once clergymen in the Church of Eng?
land, and, but for the marriage question, there
would be many more-still the idea of such a
movement en masse is startling and almost in?
credible. But, if Earl Shaltesbnry and the
Evangelists succeed In driving the Ritualists
out of the Church of England before dlsestab
ment, we may still see a still more formidable
movement; and what is the object of thc
Eirenicon of Dr. Pusey and of the English
Church Union but to carry over to Rome the
great body of thc English clergy ?
-An Archdeacon made a speech at Exeter
the other day, which sounds rather odd so
near 1670, and in a country becoming everv
day more governed by newspapers. He was
speaking at an anniversary meeting of some
Christian Knowledge Societies, in the report
of which it was said that, though less books
had been sold than usual the past year, they
were of a better quality. Thc venerable Arch?
deacon considered this a good sign, and re?
joiced in the decadence of "a light, feeble,
frothy literature." "I say this," said he, "es?
pecially with reference to newspapers. I hate
newspaper*. There were no newspapers in
St. Paul's time; but hod there been I believe
he also would have hated them. I think they
arc some of the most injurious things possible;
not because they spread abroad a parcel ol'
rubbish, but because they arc such feeble
tilings. Then there are tho magazines. A
magazine to mc is simply a rubbish hole, in
which a large quantity of goods is stored up,
but out of which you can't lind anything that
you want. Nothing in them is sorted ready
for use. There is nothing solid in them. A
man rea-ling newspapers and magazines is
very much like a Brahmin living on rice pud?
ding, enfeebling his intellect, und lowering
the tone of his mind. We ought to get people
to read good solid books, which tell them some?
thing, instead of books which really tell them
nothing-such, for Instance, as Tristram's Ge?
ology of the Scriptures, Instead of silly tales
about 'Goody' this and 'Betty' that, who never
lived. Speaking of these kind of talcs, a man
said to mc once, 'Why I don't believe them-I
nm told they arc not true, aud I think it very
wrong in you to fdvc them to mer* but when I
gave him Jeremy Taylor's Life of Christ he
read it for three years night and day, and never
stopped." _ _ _
S AT ?OKAL POLITICS.
Prescient Grant's McHsagc-A Devout
Exordium- Nothing Distinctive to bc
Expected in thc Mcucagc-Boatwell'a
Labored Report-Thc Western Mem?
bers of Congre?* and thc Taxes-Thc
Revolutionist* in Ilaytl Demand
..Recognition"-Thc Elections in Mi<
nlnsippi and Tcxa?-llayonct Ruk to
be Enforced.
Thc Washington correspondent ol' tho Balti?
more Gazette writes:
All account-, official and unofficial, agree as
to thc probable length of the forthcoming
"message" ol President tirant. It will be very
brief, and (as stated some days ago in these
letters) will be a mere compendium of tho re?
ports of the several secretaries ol' thc depart?
ments. Mr. Hoar has finished thc exordium,
which I learn, is very devout. Thc conclusion
ls not yet completed. Secretary Fish has
furnished his quota, in respect to our foreign
relations, the main features of which consist
of a broad avowal of friendly relations
with all foreign governments, and the
manifest impropriety of detailing the
individual Incidents pertaining to ull par?
ticular unfinished negotiations. Tho pub?
lic will, therefore, be disappointed, if lt
ls expected that any definite Information will
be communicated in reference to thc negOr
tialions with England, as to the Imprisoned
American Fenians, the Alabama claims, or thc
Reciprocity treaty. The same may bc said
about Cuban affairs. It must not, on this ac?
count, be inferred by incredulous Irishmen,
suffering merchants, or Cuban patriots, that
thc government has been at all derelict.
Doubtless, an amazing bulk of correspondence,
containing any amount of generalities couch?
ed in the customary pompous and senseless
phraseology of polite diplomacy, might bc
forthcoming. Of one thing we may feel as?
sured, and that is that the despot of Russia
will come in for a large share of fulsome
panegyric. His accomplished minister at this
court hos already commanded his serfs
throughout our land (there aro probably a
couple of dozen yet in Alaska) to pray for the
prosperity of the Uuited States on the 18th of
the current month.t It is a riddle hard to
solve, this excessive cordiality between thc
greatest and most despotic government in the
world, and the greatest and elaimcd-te-be thu
freest republic. Extremes sometimes meet.
Is Russia to become another model republic
or America another model despotism ?
But the chief interest just now seems to be
concentrated in the "report" ol' the Secretary
of the Treasury. Tills dignitary has again sud?
denly departed for his' "home" in Massachu?
setts to revise his labors of last summer, some
screw seeming to be louse. He has already
thus spent about three months upon lils vol?
uminous "report." It is said he cannot metho?
dize and put iuto language the thoughts of his
ponderous mind anywhere except in a certain
room of his own dohilcil, "ilxed up" in a pecu?
liar manner, ami hence his frequent exits from
tho metropolis, lt. is known that he tims pre?
pared Iiis tremendous effort delivered with so
much effect in the great impeachment trial. It
may be thought by some that this apparent
singularity is without a parallel. Not so.
Biography furnishes many examples of very
great men being unable to express their vest
or beautiful ideas except in certain situations
and under special circumstances. Uold.smith
could not for his life make a rhyme except in a
garret, with a mug of beer and the remains ol j
a leg ol' mutton before him. Hymn was in?
spired by Boneo, aud wrote always in the (
breakfast room, and il is said that the most (
pilby and must elegantly expressed speeches
of General Grant himself have been composed ,
under tho Inspiration of a uixth cigar, anil in
the solitude of his own bed chamber.
It is not probable, however, that the elabora?
ted views of Mr. Boutwell, or any of Iiis com?
peers, or even of thc President himself, will
influence Congress in the slightest degree this
Winter. The election in Minnesota has seared |
the very lit'.; ol' Radicalism out of Western <
members. They see in it a warning not tu be <
unheeded. The people ol the (?real West de- \
mund to be relieved from at IcRSt a part of the <
burden which oppresses them unendurably- i
and tb; ttr.r<\i wiu be reduced, or the Rtuuoal i
faction (Hsmcmbered. (
Our adjourned Alabama difficulty wi'li Great i
Britain threatens to be further complicated by ?
thc peculiar condition of things in Hayti. The |
revolutionists ur "patriots'' there insist upon a ?
recognition ol' belligerent rights. Sumner r
would seem to be cornered in this maltcr. t
Two petitions have been received here from i
merchants tn Boston and New York insisting c
upon "recognition." The petitioners assign i
as a sufficient reason for tho government's i
compliance with the petition, the lung con- !
tlnuance of the war, aud the fact that tue fol- i
lowing important towns are in possession of l
the revolutionists: Jacmel, Aux Caves, Jere- t
mic: Miragoane, St.. Mare, Gonai'ves, ami (
Acut; while Sainare holds but three: Port-au- t
Prince, Port au Paix, and Cape Haytian, This t
precise argument was usc! by the Confederate i
Government to (?real Britain and Frunce, to- (
getltcr with others, founded upon tacts siiil \
more weighty. t
The Texas "and Mississippi elections are lo lie r,
carried at the point of the bayonet, if jtracti- i
cu'??e. Tile Memphis Avalanche of Wednes- r
day (according to a telegram,) publishes a list l
of persons residing in that city, who, it asserts, c
have been imported by General Ames into s
Mississippi as managers ol' the election lhere, s
in Hie inlorest of Hie Radical parly, anti calls
upon the authorities at Washington to inter- f
fere. The authorities at Washington have ul- i
ready interfered. At the Cabinet meeting on {
Friday, the Secretary of War submitted Gen- {
eral Amos' rogulatious and details of officers ]
fur thu election in Mississippi, which are ap- c
proved by the President. 1
IMPORTAKT MEETING.
Tbc Asheville Railroad Extension.
In accordance wllh previous announcement,
a meeting of thc friends of the extension of
tho Spartanburg and Union Railroad to Ashe?
ville, North Carolina, was held in the court?
house on Tuesday night, the lGth instant.
Delegations from Charleston, Columbia, Union
and Asheville, North Carolina, were present.
On motion, Colonel Gage, of Union, was made
chairman of the meeting, and R. W. Shand,
secretary.
The chairman briefly explained the object of
Hie meeting, after which letters from Ashe?
ville and Columbus, North Carolina, were
read, expressive of the deep interest felt hy?
the people of Western North Carolina in the
extension of the Spartanburg and Union Rail?
road, and appointing delegates to attend the
meeting in Spartanburg.
By request, Colonel Blake, of Asheville, made
some interesting remarks in relation to the
enterprise, showing that there are but two
gaps to be provided for to make the connection
between Louisville and Charleston complete.
The one between Morristown and Cumberland
Gap-forty miles-is already partially provided
for, leaving only the gap between Spartanburg
and Asheville-seventy miles-to bc built. An
extract from a letter, written by Colonel Fink,
superintendent of thc Louisville and Nashville
Road, was read, in which the writer expressed
the liveliest interest in this extension, which,
if built, would intluencc the building of a
branch of thc Louisville and Nashville Rail?
road to Cumberland Gap.
Mr. Jeter, president of the Spartanburg and
Union Railroad, being called upon, made a
long and interesting speech, In which he pro?
posed a plan to remove thc present indebted?
ness of the Spartanburg and Union Railroad,
and then mortgage thc road to secure and to
complete the extension.
Dr. Winsmith then made some very inter?
esting remarks as to the great benefit this ex?
tension will prove to thc State at large, and
advocated applying to the Legislature for State
aid.
Dr. Vandlver in a few interesting and amus?
ing remarks, advocated immediate action, of?
fering the enterprise a subscription of land.
On motion of Colonel Cannon, our members
of tho Legislature were requested to act as a
committee, and the directors were authorized
to appoint a committee to co-operate with
Hiern in an endeavor to secure ??tate aid for
completion of this enterprise.
THE WINTER IN WASHINGTON.
Society Gossip-Thc Arlington und thc
Fashionable Quarter-Thc Palace of
Congress and Its Luxuries.
A gosslpping Washington letter, alluding t o
Uta preparations for the coming winter in thc
capital, says:
Members of Congress are thickly here, set?
ting their houses in order for Hie session.
Whether it is so or not, everybody believes
I liai we are to have a festive winter. The be?
lief comes in part from the tact that the ses?
sion Is to be one ol (hat longer order not lim?
ited by the fatalities of March. Every day we
are hearing either of some new notable who
will entertain, or some parvenu who will be?
come a notable through entertainment. Fish
and his Assistant Secretary, Fernando Wood
and a score or more, are among the Dumber.
Then Coreoran's new hotel, the Arling?
ton, is to become a ?rand centre of
attraction. The whole town is cantering
up around that. All about there for a square
or two, under thc shadow of Its lofty eaves,
will make such a court circle as Washington
has not known formerly. For a beggarly
Italian to get his peanut stand In the edge of
it will be io be in good society; at least it is
likely to be so regarded here, where society
regulates Itself by very strange caprices. I
have spoken with half a dozen gentlemanly
elephants already, who, by the right of long
purses, propose to take winter quarters at the
Arlington. Great business shrewdness was
evidenced in thc choice of this euphonious
name. It rolls under the tongue iike an aris?
tocratic morsel, and to Mrs. Pastedlamonds
will bc irresistible. Inside of this huge show
temple there will be gathered, from January to
April, more members of the Veneering family
than ever knotted together in one Washington
hotel before. "Fine les bagatelles, vanity and
velvet trains!" will be the motto of that
house.
Meantime, at the other end ot the capital is
heard, these two weeks, the unceasing sound
of hammer and trowel. The last repairs are
being put upon thc capitol, and thc carpets are
being laid in the legislative chambers. This
laying of carpets is thc last touch to the capi?
tol before the coming of a Congress. A Brus?
sels carpet lasts the House of Representatives
Just three years; the Senate four or five years.
In proportion to size, the two chambers have 1
about an equal populousness of members. But
your Congressman in the Lower House is al?
ways walking thc floor, shullliug his feet, ex?
pectorating on thc carpet, and uneasy general?
ly until he gets into the Senate, where they
have better poised manners, if not morals.
This accounts for the difference of time
in wear of Carpeta, They aro putting down
a masterpiece ot new English Brussels
in the Representative hail, a massive
green, threaded with gold. This carpet is ex?
pected to last a year longer than usual, us
Woshbiirne, who was always snorting aud paw?
ing there, is happily shilled to Versailles. Let
V?mjiereur look out for his tapet. On the
whole, thc capitol will never have been plas?
tered and polished so elaborately as for the
coming session. It has been repaired Inside
and outside during the summer, with a cost
without stint. Taking everything into consid?
eration, it is now the completest palace In the
world. All a man's bodily and mental needs
can be furnished inside of it. Sleeping on the
luxurious sofas of his committee, room, by the
light and warmth of hickory-wood tires, draw?
ing for his Intellectual wants on the great
library, and for those ol' the stomach on the
splendid saloons below, a bachelor Congress?
man, willi quiet tastes, would not have to go
out of the building from December until May.
It might be well it the constituents of sonic of |
them would swear them before coining herc to
keep within such prudent limits.
Closing for Hie present this sketch of Wash?
ington winter preparation, thc perspective
now indicates thal Arlington House and the
capitol building will be the two model points
of our society-the former for a display ol' the
vanity of woiuen, the latter for the vanity ol'
men.
THE FUTURE OP LAHOR.
(From the New York Times.)
Organization for the protection of class in?
terests is rapidly spreading among the vari?
ais ranks of artisans. Like other divisions
)f society, they have discovered tho strength
.vhich results (rom combination, and thc wls
lom of that policy which makes the wel
are of the individual identical with thc wel
are of Hie mass. As society itself is but
>ne organic whole, there seems, however, to
ie a growing danger of sectional reforms
)eing prosecuted to the negleet of more com
ircnensive measures, which equally elevate,
md ought, therefore, equally to interest all.
Phe truly regenerating forces of society arc
hose which tend to break down tile barriers
.vliich mark the divisions of rank, and more
slosely to assimilate all classes willi the
deal of that perfect organism whose grad
ml increase is shared by all its parts. The
?rsl requisite of cordial co-operation is a con?
viction of identity of interests; tn? second, a
>ciief that thc existing relations of one class
o another are as they ought to be. Thc de
dared aims and purposes of labor organiza
ions, cast a doubt on both these facts. Their
?(institution presupposes, with greater or less
ilstinctncss, that the interests of employers or
?apitalists are opposed to theirs, and their per?
roding tendency is to rectify the unequal dist?
ribution of profits, which, it is maintained, at
iresent exists. Without attempting to deter
nine the relative justice of these positions, it
mist be remarked that their existence cannot
HJ too steadily kept In view by ali who cn
Icavor to cement the bonds of human fellow
hip, or aim at effecting any comprehensive
ichcnie of social elevat ion.
Antagonism of classes has hitherto been
bund inseparable from human progress, and
t is highly probable that it will be a veiy long
icriod before it is eliminated. Kept within
iroper limits, if is by no means so much op
losed to general advancement as might at first
appear. We are familiar enough with the po
itlcul vitality whiok regalte front party attife,
and contending social influences serve a simi?
lar purpose ol causing motion between them;
Their consequences are to be dreaded, how?
ever, when nothing less than the extinction of
Hie one will satisfy the other. Nothing can be
more obvious than that labor is indebted to
capital for one-half of its power. Left to Its
own resources it can neither be properly dif?
fused, nor profitably directed. Its results are
wasted in a place where they are not required,
while in another locality they would find their
natural value. A large portion of the grain of
the Mississippi valley would be as useless as
the carcasses of Australian sheep, were means
of transport equally wanting to convey it to
the proper market," A truth so obvious is only
needed to show thc suicidal tendency of au
movcmeats which would exalt any one inter?
est of society by the extinction of another.
Thc growing Intelligence of workingmen,
and the rectifying Influence of practice over
theory, will doubtless prevent the diffusion of
Buch errors as we have alluded to. Meanwhile
thc extension of facilities for international
communication, and the gradual weakening of
international Jealousies, may reasonably be ex?
pected to counteract the deadliest evil which
labor has to undergo-its aggregation in ex?
cessive masses. It has been remarked, that
as the straggle for existence becomes less In?
tense, the society thus relieved assumes a high?
er level which lt does not readily lose. In our
Eastern centres of population we are already
beginning to experience some ol the Industrial
phenomena which have already been felt by
older communities. The recoil from such a
pressure, which may naturally be expected,
will leave society free to attain a further stage'
of development which will serve to prevent
the recurrence of such an evil. And so by
successive stages, the gradual elevation of the
status and dignity of labor will be found to be
accomplished.
THE FOREIGN CONSUMPTION OE
COTTON.
Interesting Statistic*.
According to statistics furnished by Mr.
Trampler through S. H. M. Byers, United
States Consul at Zurich, the following are the
number of bales of cotton consumed In Europe
during the year ending 30th September, 1869:
No. of bales No. of bales
Years ending S e p - from from
teraber 30. America. all sources.
1860. 1.432,000 4,5?3,0C0
1865. 1,735,000 4,604,000
1887. 1,648,000 4,147,000
1866. 1,247,000 3,936,000
1865 . 236,000 3,055,000
1864 . 242,000 2,603,000
1863. 133,000 2,146,000
1862 . 562,000 1,983,000
1861. 3,443,000 4,388,000
1860 . 3,407,000 4,272,000
It will be seen that, according to Mr. Tramp?
ler's statement, thc lowest ebb was in 1863.
The impression that the cotton manufactur?
ers are suifering through a decline in the de?
mand abroad ls not correct, the demand being
.rreater now than ever. Thc three years im?
mediately before the American war, 1859,
1860,1861, were exceedingly favorable to Eng?
lish cotton interests; but the return for three
years, 186G, 1867, 1868, have a still better as?
pect. The lollowing are the returns of the ex?
ports ot cotton manufactures of ali descrip?
tions:
Yards. Yards.
1 K>9 . 2,562.545,476 1866 . 2,575,998,138
I860 . 2,776,218,427 1867 . 2,832,023,707
1801.2.563,409,007 1868 . 2,966,706,542
TOtal...7,902,222,910 8,374,428,387
Showing an increase in the quantity of ex?
ported cotton goods of 472,205,477 yards over
the exports ol 1859-60-01. The extension of
commerce is due to the opening of new mar?
kets in India. Ia tho two periods quoted
there was a decrease of 311,282,290 yards, or
13 per cent. In Euglish-India exports,, If yarns
were included, the decrease would appear still
greater. Thc tables of exports and imports
show that the sale of British cotton goods In
countries which are thought to be outstripping
England have increased 6 per cent., whilst the
Imports from those countries have decreased
2k per cent. The following are the figures of
the exports:
1859-60-61 1866-67-68
Pounds. Pounds.
France. 12,247,289 37,590,05?
Holland.128,841,125 118,537,380
llanse Towns.142,362,588 138,229,899
Belgum. 4,824,196 11,672,922
Total.288,276,798 305,930,263
The increase in the value of exports is ?16,
160,863 or nearly 90 per cent.; the total amount
in the first period of three years being ?18,093.
553, and in thc second period ?34,254,416. It is
the home consumption that has fallen off; the
amounts of the value in this respect being ?32,
324,000 in the first period, and but ?28,858,000
in thc second. The great depression in the
cotton trade occurs through a falling off in the
trade abroad. It is a remarkable circumstance,
of which notice should be taken, that there ls
at tlie same time an Increasing expenditure in
Intoxicating drinks, as exhibited in official re?
turns. In 1866 the amount in value was ?101,
252,551; In 1867, $99,900,502; and in 1868, ?102,
886,280; a total in three years ol' ?304,039,333.
Whilst this large sum was spent ^Intoxicating
liquors, England expended upon cotton goods,
the staple production of the country, only
?28,858,000. _
A FAMILY PUZZLE.-Alluding to the report
that M. Lesseps and his son-wno are referred
to as "MM. X. p?re et /??s"-are about to marry
two Bisters, thc Rappel suggests the following
complications as likely to arise .from these
double espousals: To begin with, M. X., the
son, will be the brother-in-law of his father,
and his wife will become thc sister-in-law of
her own Bister. If M. X. senior has a son, and
M. X. junior a daughter, and they should
marry, the daughter of X. junior will become
thc sister-in-law of her father; and the son of
X. senior will be the son-in-law of his brother
and ot his sister-in-law. If there should be a
child of this second marriage, it will have two
grandfathers, MM. X. senior and junior,
wa. ncc it follows that X. senior will become
the brother ot his own son. More than that,
if a boy, he will be thc brother of his own
mother, since he and his mother are alike
grandchildren of X. senior; and as a mother's
brother ls an uncle, he will be in the anoma?
lous position of being his own uncle.
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pS~ IMPAIRED DIGESTION. -ALL
thc organs or thc body are, so to speak, the pen?
sioners o.' thc stomach. In that living laboratory
is prepared thc nourishment required to sustain
them, and hy the vessels and ducts connected
with the digestive apparatus, that nourishment ls
conveyed to every part of the system. Upon the
quality and quantity of this element of life, and
upon the manner In which it is distributed and
apportioned, physioal health mainly depends, and ?
as the mind inevitably sympathizes with the body,
the vigor of the one is absolutely necessary to the
well-being of thc other.
It ls because IIOSTBTTER'S STOMACH BIT?
TERS accomplishes this double object that it en?
joys a reputation as a preventive and curative
never heretofore attained by any medicinal pr?p?
aration. But itb direct beneficial operation upon
the weak or disordered stomach ls not Its sole re?
commendation. It ls ?ac most comprehensive of
ill known remedies. It tones, strengthens and
regnlates the discharging as well as the assimi?
lating organs; gently moving thc bowels, promo
ling healthful evaporation through thc pores,
rousing the inert bver from its torpor, and induc?
ing harmonious and natural action in the whole
animal machinery. Tiis benign result is not pro?
duced by any of the reactionary drugs whlci are
used so lavishly In the old school practice, found?
ed by Paracelsus; but by mild, safe and agreeable
vegetable agents intermixed with a pure and mat
tew s ti mc ?ant whick diffuses their inna an M
through the systen aad readers their sanitary
properties active aid ?Mettle. nevi* SM? i