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The Orphans’ Friend, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1833. NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CH RITIES AND CORRECTION. This body met in Louis ville, Ky., last week. Dele- j^at.cs were present from many of tlie States, and the pio- ceedings were of the utmost iLterest- The body was pre siped over by Rev F. H.Wines, of Springfield, Ill. Addresses of welcome were delivered by the Ma3'or of Louisville and the Governor of Kentucky. These were responded to in behalf of the Conference by Hon. F. B. Sanborn, of Mas'., and Mr. Rich^d Vaux, of Phil adelphia. The object of the meeting was set forth by Mr. J. H. Mills, of North Carolina. Judge Knapp, of Florida, and Senator John S. Williams, of Louisville. The annual ad dress of President Wines was an ab^e end interesting paper. W? would gladly lay it be fore our readers it we liad space. We print the follow ing extracts: “There are political and so cial dontrinnires who deny the necessity for organize! re- lief, or for any inteiferenco with social evils on the part of Jie State, and who profess to bo Mixious that all help ex tended to those who need it should be “relegated to the domain of private relations ’’ and be given only by individ uals to individuals. On this subject a great deal of roman tic gush is current on the lips of men who only partly com prehend what they are talk ing about. That there is a demand fur relief of some sort is un deniable, so long as human ignorance and passion and error contiaue to produce want and misery and crime upon earth. Help must be given sometimes, even to those who do not deserve it. It is not always a question of what we owe to others, but of whttt we owe to ourselves. We can not stand by and see the tide of insanity, idiocy, pauperism and crime rising, without trying to rescue from drowning those whose retreat wo see to be cut off. To re strain the operation of this nat ural instinct would be to do violence to our common humanity, and the reaction could not not be other than injurious. The proper objects of re lied’, the extent of relief, the to) of relief and the mod ) of relief are later questions, and admitof variousanswers. We are probab’y agreed that no;nian should receive help who does not need if; an! that no more help should bo given him than just so much as is requisite iti order to en able him to help himself; and that the best form of aid for thosr able lo work is (mploy- ment; and that in gratiting re lief regaid should be paid to the moral effects of it upon the i.ci{ ient These are axion s ill the administration uf char- it}: the art of relief consists in tlieir judicious application ill particular cases. * * ' * * * Hero, at this meetiti^', pub- I'c ..'pi' ion has the ojiportuns iiy to vxpress itself, where the ( xprc'3ioii will affect legisla- li.Hi and tlio policy of States. \V‘ .si ifle the voice cfnonian; wo open our ears to every sotno.!, laniie from w'hat (quar ter it mt.) ; W’o allow public opinion to shape itself, only taking care that it be a w ell- informed and not an unin-- formed opinion; then, by our publications, and by the agen cy of the delegates who re turn to their homes and make report, we disseminate and render it fruitful. The greatest peril we have to encounter is the danger of falling into what may be term ed social quackery There are educated, as well as unei- ucated quacks, of course, but the essence of quackery is al ways the same^ it is a real or pretended belief in the effica cy of nostrums to cure diseas es or avert disaster. It is easy to get a view of the social sys tem from some one point of view, to perceive clearly some one coil which afflicts man kind, to see in that one coil the root of all others, and to delude oneself into the con viction that, if resort were only had to some particular measure or favorite prescrip tion, it might be possible to put an end to the wickedness and iniquity which infects our blood. Numerous illustra tions occur to me, but I fear to name them, lest I should initiate a profitless debate. Notf'ing is plainer, however, to an attentive observer than the subtle connection which exists between the parts of tlie social organism, the logical interdependence, of their re lations and the immensity of the possible consequences which may follow any injudi cious interference. In socie ty, as in the case of the indi vidual, it is often wise to trust to the vis medicatrix mturee] or, if the emergency will not admit of this, then we ought at least not to experiment too boldly with so delicate an ap paratus, lest we derange its mechanism. We have no right to rush in where angels fear to tread. Before professing to have mastered the problem of so cial therapeutics, let us be sure that we know something about anatomy and physiol-* ogy, to say nothing of social pathology, for I strongly suspect that a good deal is re garded by- some people as an evil which is really no evil which reminds me of the fable of the hen and her brood of ducks, whom she would not allow to go into the water, lest they should d own.” A letter was read irom Ex- President Hayes, who was re cently elected President of the National Prison Associa tion, expressing his sympathy with the Conference, his hear ty CO operation in the work, and bis regrets that he could not be in attendance. Re po ts were received from stan ding committees upo/i various subjects connected with char ity organizations and the dis pensing of public charity. These reports frequently elic ited discussion. Reports were made by the delegates from the different States with regard to the status and pro gress of Reformatories, Asy lums, etc. Senator Z. B. Vance spoke as follows for North Carolina: “While not prepared to give statistics in regard to the State in which he lived, he would state that when the war clos ed they were in great pover ty and distress. They had one institution for the insanty and one for the deaf and dumb. Since then they had found means to bu.ld each of the in stitutions for the colored peo ple and aijothei splendid in** stitution foi the white personsl While their efforts were small compared with other States, in comparison to their means, however, they ranked with any other State. When a man did wrong in North Carolina at one time they took him up and gave him the law of Mo ses—forty stripes, save one— and then be took the advice of Horace Greeley and went West, and frequently rose to distinction there. If a man was guilty of murder he was hung and buried at the pub lic expense. The penitentiary s} stem was inaugurated since the war, and was in one sense a success, as it has been full to overflowing ever siuce. Ills effort had cbiefly been devoted to the punishment and reformation of the great criminals lather than the small ones.” The Superintendent ot Pub lic li struction of North Car olina, Mr. Scarboro, told of the charities of his State: “At Raleigh there is a peniten tiary located containing 1,100 prisoners, most of whom are blacks. They are worked on the railroads, the State never lo.'ing control of them. The muiiagement of theje men, so fai as lie knew,was good. The county jails wore poorly man aged. The insane asylums, two for white and one for blacks, were 11 attended to. The poor were put up to the low est bidder, to be taken care of. This system proved to be a very poor one. He men', tioned instances where even the poor-houses were put up to the lowest bidders. They were not honors to the State.” The paper read by Mr. Geo. W. Cable, of New Orleans, seems to have been the most impressive that was presented to the Conference. His sub ject was the system of letting out prisoners which prevails in the Sou’h. We make this extract from ' the Courier- Journal's report : “The event of the evening session was the reading of a paper by Mr. Geo. W. Cable, of New Orleans. Mr. Cable is the ablest writer the South has had since Poe, and ranks as a novelist with Howells and James He is a slight, dark complexioned, black beard d young man, rather delicate'- looklng. He reads unusually well, and throws a fire and in tensity into his reading that one would hardly think him capable ot from his slendei frame. Mis paper lasted two hours, and it is safe to say that during that time not a man but kept his eyes fixed on the speaker. His subject was the “Lessee System.” With wit and pathos and burning invective, he denounced the whole system, at times giving page after page of unanswer able statistics, every' figure weighted down with ita histo ry of woe, at times giving a glimpse of life between these figures of starving men hap py.only when killed.by blows and bullets, of ignorant,brutal wardens and lessees of crowd ed, vermin-infested cells. All this was done so quietly, with so little apparent effort that one wondered that could be so mild. Mr Cable’s pa per is to be printed in one of the great reviews, and it will doubtless be as powerful for good in abolishing . the hor rors of the lessee system as Dickeo'8’’ Nicholas Nickleby was in wiping out the abuses in the Yorkshire s bools. It is needless to say that the Southern author received an ovation. He was applauded time and again and at the con clusion of his reading there was a storm of hand-clapping.” Rabbi Sonnescliein r ad a paper on “Hebrew Charities in the middle ages.’* He pre faced the reading by the foK lowing statement: “I feel proud to stand in the presence of this august body; august not because of its aris tocratic bearing or princely style, but august because of eminence and intelligence;and though I belong to the race which does not bow in worship to that great martyr,the Naza rene, I still pride the moment that I stand here before tb s 8ymbol”(pointing to the cross) “of the faith and hope of every^ Christian, and I tell you as a Jew that while we may dif fer in symbols we are surely' one in the leality and essence of that spirit of divine thought which says charity to all and malice to none.” The session of the Confer ence continued several days and the interest was maintain ed throughout. We regret our want of space which prevents as from laying the proceed ings before onr readeas. We are indebted to the report of the Courier ^Journal for what we publish concerning it. The Conference was an able body, and it will have a vast influence upon the efforts of our people, to relieve the des*- tressed and to promote re-, forms among the criminal classes. . The next annual ses sion will be held at St Louis. General Albert Pike’s Long Journey.—General Al bert Pike, the poet, soldier and lawyer, arrived yesterday from an extended tour to the Pacific coast* Gen. Pike holds the distinguished posi tion of grand commander of the Suprem*' Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons He left Wash ington on the first day of April and will get back with in two days of six months from the time he started. He went from New Orleans via the Southern Pacific route, and returned by tbe new Nor thern Pacific route, having ridden ninety miles in a bug' gy, as the railroad was dot yet linked together. On bis trip out he made a Lodge of Perfection at El Paso and one at Tucson, Arizona. He took a side trip into old Mexico, visiting the Masonic bodies in Chihuahua, of which he was made master for life. He started a German lodge in Ssn Franci co. He went up the sound, visiting the British possessions, Portland, Oregon and other pomts on the coast The Grand Commander of Knights Templab.-TIio third annual conclave of the Grand Commandery of the Knights Templar for the State of North Carolina will meet in Char lotte, Tuesday', October 6th. Delegates and representatives will be present from Wilmings ton, Raleigh, Durham and Asheville, and it is expected thattiiey will be the guests of Charlotte Comma dery of that order. Grand Master Hon. Rol)ert E. Withers, ex- United States Senator from Virginia, the highest official of the order in the United States, has accepted an invita tion from Grand Master Mun son to be present. John Mlnge, M. D., Berkely, Va., June 25th 1854, says: ‘'It Is with pleasure that I assure you of t he great benefit I have received personally from the use of Beckwith’s' AntUDygpeptic Pills; and their happy effect in my own person, led me. to use them in an ex- lensive practice near Mobile, and al ways with decided benefit and with re peated application for more of them, particularly in all cases proceeding from iudigestion.” For sale by all druggists at 26 cents per box. FALLandWlNTER 1 8 S 3 . A. LANDIS, NEW AND ATTKACTIYE STYDES AND PRICES PKOMEECENTLABeE DRY GOODS AUCTION SALES lij iffevT YORK.' I OFFER FOR CASH. Ghr'eat; 1 IN EVERY SPECIES OF DRY GOODS: At especially low figures the’ following goods: Plaid Poplins at 8^ cents, worth 12:ceHts. . ■ Dress Goods at 16| cents, worth 25 cents. . 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