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[For the Mes('1ger. MATTAPONL . It was Iy pleasure a fewv weeks ago, to visit, in company with a very cliarming - young lady,'Mat 1aponi, a very'old colonial church in King and Queen County, Va. This church is the only one re maining of several.built At intae v'als of ten miiles, by our fore-fLath ers, soon after the colonizatiol of Ainerica. This pirt of the new.country w-as settled by English aristocracy, most of whom iwerc Ejpiscopailians. These had mes,1 and.would not vor'hip in rude huts, as 'did the New Englanl Puritans; hence tihese above uentioned churches were buIt. At preselt, Matt.an)(li is lbout t lie oNy <e savd from t lie de vastations of time ; her sisters hav ing long since fallen ilto decay. She came near shasring like fate in the deeline of Episcopacy in Va. The Episcopalians becominr too weak to maintain -a church, had :1)andolned it to fate; it wats tlien re(eelned. about one-lh undred years ago, by the Baptist, who have helT- it ever since. . About 1 N83 t lips 14)icopalians tried to rei.over the property, but failed, the Bapt - ists taking out a varriAto or the w hole. Mattaponi is. beu'kifiuUy situa ted on 'a small rise, suirrounded by a dene( trove of on'ks andi edars, and is near the centre of King and Quticen, oIe of the neuIst bea itfuilI col lit ies of tide watti, Va. It i built of brick which wAore brolg'ht from Enltd1anld about the middle of t he 17th century, over two-hun idrt(d years ago.'' Likeo (oa hurches, it is of. gothic s' yle i n archijtectu re,is in the sha~pe of a ross, beinrg ab out (5x25, and 50x 0,the exteriorwa preJ 1I'sentingo a Sceked alppe.Vrance, .be(inrg b u ilt of red anld glazedi bick after that pat ter -''l 1 surmounljted b y a sin gled roof, without a steeple. -h ihuch has thre.o entrances, one in ecQh end of' the cross, and one in thle long end of the long pice. Tihis lat ter' was originaliy intended for the fr ont door.'. but the mrod has been zhbanged1 and) anothe' is nowV used. Thecceilinxg of the in terior' areC ar'ched andv last(eed overhea:d; the walls ar'e all plas. tered1, this is of course all new. The (church was at one time fur n)ishtd with anrtiqie' high back pes these have been reimoved by'% lihe Bsp)tists and)( commn pe~ws substituted1. TIhey nre in numrber M4, there is a 'partition about, .15 feet from the front door which.con tains 14 benches, miaking iunall 9R8 this wa&s once used to generatc the masters from their slaves. The old ohancel fIls the extre m Cnd of the cross beyoud the. ', all of this has been lately cutoff by a partition of folding (loops across the front of the chancel. On each. side of the chalneel is a small room one of which is .used as an infant eh('lfl-Swool, the other as a d ress ing room1. .ly comn panion and self.. beiI deeply impressed with the solemn gloom and stillness around this Imlomitient of -days long gone by, broken aloi by oi' r hushed voices anil tiiid footisteps, .vere in the proper condition to be fii iihtened I by anythinug ihat we might encoun ter, which. was at all out of ordi nary, timidilv opewld t he d in room d()Oor, but started back afrighiv ed on seeing a pair of legs and feet protrlding. froil behilld the (o leadi. ..inao the claneel, Which alone with i s 11 uin.- puir ple and g)l. dimly disceriable in1 the gloom, wa- .iu liciet. of it-vslfi: to fit le g ! he r ror idf horror-;. what was it:. on lV a pair of baptizilig pants. The chareel differs but lit from 1 le orkliliala , havin t he Lord's Praver, ( ree , ( onulnian grutwillh Jpr )li and( I-e.1 tri. ming 1(, and ':c fr(e , wvi~h n1 Bibb ill the ceiltre al Bible pict a i( es aroill it. This ebanee(l i n o.-.1 a AN ExcunsmsIO TRAIWm T'.-The en.tir. tin of lie ears con11ta Inin the Alh"1alla contin genit of* th gran11d &unune eIxeur11 tioi fro CharleI(S- on to the moun utI es a fterm 8 o'clo ck Fri day even ing,~ wvas thrownm fromi the track alt a1 poinlt 'abouit fou ib-s110 sh)ore 1e on~j by the g)j~,iin awayV of a pair1 of trucks underone gf the (ears. ThIere wvere bet weeni two and (1Ihiwe hu ndred e xeiirimsts3 on t he0 ti-ainU. not oine of 9tom was inIjbe Pd, I.] t hoiugh all theI car's were' mloreor less (dam lagedl andI the t rack torn : lup for some distance. The eniginme attached to the t rain was immedmi ate~ ly ispatched 'to Anfderson6f wvhere four box cars were~ obtalinedl with whc th asegr were transferredt to their desltnationl. '.'he conistrucetioni t'rain tat ionied at Belton wa.s ordered to the scene of the accident, thle dlama'ge to the track r'epai red and the'obstructing coachies removed so as to 'allow the (hown) train on the Blue Ridge to reach Belton in time for the up) tr'ain on) tihe minI line yesterday afternoon, ailthiough the morning p~asseng(-r from *this,. point was ob liged to run up to the Ureak in or der to receive thme passengers from the Waihalla train. The accident could hardly have occurred at a more inopportune timeo, nor could it have oeurred~ at thetime it did ovith the inflition of less dhnaac han has been reported sO far. 'ho remuaiuing detachmenpts of the XOUr'Siol reached their respective lestinations in safety, the exeur sionists reporting pieasant trips., 'hie experience of the Wntlialla party must h ave been diffirent. 11owever, as they did not, -reach tle'ir destination untitil early yes Lerday morning, after making the brip of 25 or 30 miles in box car1s minus springs The1(i regular up1) passenger on the . & . road was delayed an hour aud a half yesterdi(ay evening by soie nceideit occurring to the en rilne( which necessia'ted 1epairirig. -Dajily News. 17th'. A Vif. Svrouy.--Oi the 8th inst. he Sentinel, of Indianlapolis, 11nd., -oiitained a edJitorial cliarging that P a ine hiad betr'ayedis present xife inl Kentucky anrud then lied to MaIine ; that the young lady and ler father followed him nd thait 1 mrr ii Qied her at, the mxzzlie of-'a diot gui-L This haiiving reaciledl Baine, e sent the Followigg ile patch to Col. I ralovay: BAn HAnn01tol, MIs.,Auo . V. W. R. .11al loway.--I have his mme)n(111t rec-ei ved the at rocious ibl ()I the I11.ninapolis Sen"ltinl. It is ulterly and abomia)Ity false 1 evry stcatemelvnt aid in every! oiie4a' ion. i.'olitical slianl ers I I() nt st to notice buit this edi tor' assails the homor oi mlly wile I-1 my clibir en. I desir you, without an hour's, .1 ly to ) epo ' a proper att'foney anld have the rek.spons~ible editor of Lbhle Sentinel 41ed Co. 11)ibl il -tle V. S. District C ourt of Inudiana. It S my I onlV. ).1y reimdy. I aml surie hiat hilonoraible deimicrats, alike ith l1(orahle recplli alls, willi u stify mle in- defen11,ingf the hlonor! )f imlv fcamily it iee(l he wvith iny ifre, J A Ms G. LAkUN - Col. I IHollow'ayv placed the inatLer it tihe hanId (f -Seniator 'IIalrri son's aw firI, and the papers are now Scourse of pepa ration1 in1 accord ma(a wvi th Blaine's direction1. -Hlot r'ols-tosslug ariouind in t bed of a sultry snmmer nia.:j NOTICE a)f F inal Se ttlemeCnt & Dischar ige. IN wlJpl o.. II. 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