North Carolina Newspapers

fli&aSoiitliera Iom: PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY D. H. HILL, CHARLOTTE, N. C, Devoted to the vfudicaUon of the truth of rioutlieru History, to the preservation oi .Southern Characteristics, to the develop meut of Southern Kesources, under the changed relations of the Labor System, and to the advancement of Southern Ingwta m Agriculture, Mining, Manufacturing and the Mechanic axis. ; e, the ... .i.iimf inns irom me old corps -of writers of "The Land we r.iWE." the services will . be secured of thorough men of Hcience, auu ui. riM- Farmers, Miners, juaciuniBia, . TERMS OF SOUTHERN HOME On'-copy; one year, in advance, $2.60 12.00 22.50 Fb( copies, one year, : TV. n' Kiniiii nllir vs.i : : t rpm iff nne In everv case must be by pheck, P. O. Order, or Registered Letter. o Tn those wishinc to subscribe to an Agricultural paper we would state that'. -we will furnish the Southern Home and Rural Carolinian at i and Southern Cultivator " " and Richmond Farmer " f v " " and Carolina Farmer 4 4 '-.,. . an(i Reconstructed " 41 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.50 4.00 3.50 '' . "and Practical Planter, To Advertiser9, The Southern Home, having now the largest circulation of any paper west of 'Raleigh, atlbrds a line adver tising medium. -Terms moderate. H. BrSCHOFF. J. H. WULBERN. C. PVEPER. Henry Bischbff & Co., Wholesale Grocers, ' AND DEALERS IN IV i nes, Liquors, Segars, Tobacco &c. ; 197 EABT BAY, CHARLESTON, S C. I Ca. Rice and N. O Molasses constantly on 4ndl Dec. 9-6m Notice This. I Don't let your Hogs die o-f Cholera. . No necessity lor that. Read the following cer tificate.. "Third Creek Station, 4 W. N. C. R. R., Sept. 1st, 1872. 4 Rev. C. Plyxer Dear Mr : I tried your remedy for Hog Cholera. It is all it claims tj) be hot another hog sickened or died af ter I commenced the useof it," i Very truly yours, i ' J3.ivr, Barrier Address, inclosiDg $1, Rev. C. PLYLER, Salisbury, N. C. dec. 9-12m. I! AEEXANDER & BLAND, DENTISTS, I CHARLOTTE, N. C. ALL WORK GUARANTEED. Teeth extracted without pain, by "Nitrous Oxide Gas." Office, in brick buildinc ' onnosite the Charlotte Hotel. - Nov 7 tf Central Hotel. chaklotte, n. c. ' II. C ECCLES, PROPRIETOR. j The patronage of the traveling public is respectfully solicited. I Jan 27; '73 ly feb, 12, '72 J, B. JONES. JOS-GRAHAM 1 J ones & Ciraham, (physicians md surgeons, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office over Kilgore & Curetori's Drug Store. April 1. '72-ly "; Z. B. VANCE. A. BURWELL. (VANCE & BURWELL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, j CHARLOTTE, N. C - Office in the Court House. -a . 'April i, Charlotte Hotel. j Charlotte, N C. W. M. MATTHEWS & SON, Proprietors. Trust that the liberal patronage of the . S public will be continued. 56 ly , . . - j . ' - Druggist and Chemist, j CHARLOTTE, N. C. i Has. a well selected stock of PURE DRUGS AND CHEMICALS, Oils, Paints, Lamps, &c. W. F. COOK, (farad Street, on North Carolina Railroad.) j CHARLOTTE, N. C. The public will please call " and see the ! CIDER MILLS, Ida Greeley Cider Mills, Old Lady Greeley Churns, Old Man Greeley Plows, Harrows Ac- All Orders promptly attended to. Jan 23 tf - . -' ; F. M. SHELTON, UNDERTAKER, And Dealer in Furniture, &c, Tkade Stkeet, Opposite the Mabket, charlotte; n. c, A full supply of Coffins and Caskets con stantly on hand, ready tor use. jan 0, '73-iy TO TAX-PAYERS. All who owe BARRINGER. & WOLFE are reauftsied to .come forward and settle. Ve have been patient. We can not wait any monger as the old business must be settled up. vau at once. We desire to settle up with eryDoay ourselves. Nov. 4. BARRINGER & WOLFE. I : FOR SALE AT TTTkTkV.a HoSe-?Xc?itory Thoughts on the Gospel, ! QuIstVonr111' n Roman9' (with j Jesus, by o.F, Deems History of thp ki J Eighteen Chl 8Sby. Dr- Wm. Smith, gt PaulySe-White, ; Spurouth Africa. WE HAVE fivnr: 500,000 Envelopes 30,000 Paper . A larer noiseless Slates, Emerflon'nateel of Writing goods whfch Xaue8. andmaHy .AM IC1 - other TUDDY & BRO VOL. 3. L. W. SANDERS. J. E. 0ATES. SIMIM,; 111 II &: -' :il ll ifflM UAI1LY ARDRIVIKGr & IN STOKE. - t . .- 1 Tl he following (Grimuos will be sold either lor (Lash or on Time, with approved se curity. When planters so desire, we will bind ourselves to receive cotton in payment next Fall; at 15 cents per pound, giving them the benefit of 1he advance if there should be any. The following Fertilizers have been xised for years past by many of our most successful Planters, with the most satisfactory results. We can give HOME references and do not deem it necessary to add the usual numerous testimonials : WILCOX, GIBBS & GO'S. MANIPULA1E0 GUANO. Wilcox, Gibbs & Oo's. Phoenix Guano, (This Guano is imported by WILCOX, GIBBS & CO., from the Phoenix Islands, South Pacific Ocean, direct to Charleston and .Savannah in BULK and sold in its natural State without manipulation. It has a welb-merited reputation throughout the entire South, as being the most successful agent used in the recuperation of worn-out .soils. ) UAVASSA O-TT-SlICTO- : The NAVASSA is manufactured in Wilmington, N. C, by an association of Southern business men and planters of known responsibility. We could adduce strong HOME testimony as to is efficacy and ivalue as a manure. SToijo; o-t3a.:etcv STONO PHOSPHATE, (Valiiatole JPor iJompostingr witli CJotton Heed.) Jan 20, '73 ly 1.1. 1SMS1 1 COMMISSIONJVIERCHANTS, HAVING completed our New Three-story Brick Building, on the the corner of College and Fourth Streets, we have iust Removed into it. and are readv for our customers. Our House is divided into Five Departments and arranged as follows: - FIRST DEPARTMENT FANCY GROCERIES Soaps, Candles, Candy, Starch, Soda. Raisins, Oysters. Sugar, Coffee, Teas, Spices, Prize Candies, Bratidy Peaches, &c, &c. Purchased direct from the Manufacturers with the view of supplying the WHOLESALE SECOND DEPARTMENT HEAVY GOODS. Molasses, Bacon, Flour, Lard, Mackerel, Ac. Our facilities for handling such goods. are superior to those of any Mercantile house in the city. Merchants may rest assured that they can always obtain goods of us at the LOWEST FIG URES. THIRD DEPARTMENT PRODUCE. Cotton, Corn, Wheat, Oats, Rye, Hay. &e. Bought at highest cash prices. Sold on Commission. Stored, with cash advance's made tion to our COMMISSION and STORAGE attention, FOURTH DEPARTMENT PHOSPHATES. We are Agents for ZELL'S and other SUPER PHOSPHATES, the most reliable arti cle oja the market. Certiflcate from reliable farmers furnished on application. We are also Agents for GILHAM'S CELEBRATED TOBBACCO FERTILIZER. FIFTH DEPARTMENT LEAF We have complied with the Revenue Law, and are now ready receive Leaf Tobacco, which we will buy or sell on commission. Our Warehouse fees are thn th ame at Richmond or Danville, and the best prices in those markets always obtained. Our Large and Commodious Hall will be 1st of March h ' We thank a generous public for the liberal patronage which has heretofore been be stowed upon jus, and we hope that through strict attention to business, and selling our goods at low ngures, we may merit a continuance of their favor. January 11, 1873. ' '! New Inducements! ! In order to. make room for a A HEAVY SPRING STOCK, we will eell all our Fall and Winter Goods AT Greatly Reduced Prices!! Your attention is particularly invited to our Stock of FINE DRESS GOODS, SHAWLS, FLANNELS, . CASSIMERES, BLANKETS, and all kinds of Woolen Goods, together with a large Stock of ReadyMade Clothing, WHICH WE WILL SELL VERT LOW i McMURR AY & DAVIS. Jan 27 55 Diamond Spectacles; Thp Snrtnclea.are manufactured lrom."MiJirtB Crtstai. PEBBtEs" melted together, and are called Diamond on account ol their hardness andtyilhancy It ie well known that spectacles cut from Brazilnan or Scotch pebties are very injurious to the eye, i .rk;.nniirindr liorht ; Havinir been tett- ed with the polariscope, the diamond lenses have been lound to admir fifteen pi cent Jess heated rays . . . . . . . . m , Mvnvkl with crrtidt man any oioer peoDie. iucy ic giuum scientific accuracy, ajre free irom chromatic aberra tiona, and produce a orightnesa and distinctness ot vision not before attained in spectacles. Manufactured by The Spencer Optical Mamj pactueimo Compaxt, JJew York. For ale by re 8toneible agents in every city in the Union. . J.T.BUTLER, Jeweler and Optician, is sole agent for Charlotte N. C., from wbom they can only be obtained. No pedilere employed. , , The ereat demand for these Spectacles has induced unscrupulous dealers alm off an inferior and spnriou article for the ''Diamond." Great care should be taken to aee that the trade mark (wnich is protected by American Letter Patent) la stamped oneverypair. i i Novll-lj Hrv CHARLOTTE, N. C, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1873. W. C. BLACKWOOD. 1 SANDERS, OATES & CO., CJliarlotte, IV. O. TRADE. upon the same. We invite special atten busmen, to which we pay close personal TOBACCO WAREHOUSE. finished and opened to the public about the li. M. MILLER & SONS. VJ.R. BURWELL & CO. (Successors to 'Kilgore & Oiireton,) Druggists and Apothecaries, AND DEALERS IN Drugs, Medicines, PAINTS, OILS, DYE STUFFS, &c Springs' Corner, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Jan 1, 73 ly NEW GOODS CLOCKS, JEWELRY, Spectacles, i&c. , AT JOHN T. BUTLER'S, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Those wanting Good3 in my line, will do well, to examine my stock before trying the Northern markets. MY PRICES ARE MUCH LOWER, as I have moved to the store Next the Express Office. MY STOCK CONSISTS OF FINE GOLD and SILVER WATCHES, JEWELRY, DIAMONDS, SILVER AND PLATED WARE, SPECTACLES, &c, I And everything usually kept in a first- class jeweiry oiore. Call and examine ray-BttK k tod prices - JOHN T. BUTLER, Oct. 17, 1S71. . Trjon Street. Land Deeds. A lot just printed and for sale at this Ofiice. Wi ITS hltdtb v votitQ. THE HEEMIT'S VIGIL. BY MR. MARGARET J. PRESTON. Here is the ancient legend I was reading From the black-letter vellum page last night ; Its yellow husk holds lessons worth the heeding, If we unfold it right. The tome is musty with dark superstition From which we shrink recoiling to th' ex treme -Of an unfaith that, with material vision, Accounts as myth or dream. Problems too subtle for our clumsy fingers High truths' that stretch beyond pur reach as far As o'er the fire-fly in the grass that lingers Stretches yon quenchless star. Give rather back the old hallucinations The visible spirits the rapture, terror, grief, Of faith bo human, than the drear negations Of dumb, dead unbelief ! But will you hear the story ? In a forest,; Girt round by blackeri'd tarns, a hermit dwelt ; And as one midnight, when the storm raged so rest, Within this hut he knelt, In ghostly penaiice, sounds of fiendish laughter Smote on the tempest's lull with sudden jar, That sent the gibbering echoes shrilling after, O'er weir and wold afar. 'Christ ban ye now !". he cried, the door wide fliijging, "Fare ye some whither with perdition's dole!" "We go" out from the wrack a shriek came ringing "To seize the emperor's soul, "Who lies this hour death-smitten." Exe cration . Thereat still fouler filled the sulphurous air; Before the rood the hermit sank : 4 'Salvation Grant, Lord! in his despair !" And agonizing thus, with lips all ashen. He prayed till back, With ghastlier rage and roar The demon rout rushed ; strung to fiercer passion, - nd crashed his osier door1 ?'Speak, fiend ! I do adjure the! Came re pentance Too late ?" With wrathful curse was an swer made ; "Heaped high within the Judgment Scales for sentence, The emperor's sins were laid ; "And downward, downward; with a plunge descended Our scale, till we exulted! when a moan, 'Save, Christ, O eave me ' from his lips was rended Out with his dying moan. "Quick in the other scale did Mercy lay it, Lo, it outweighed hi guilt" , -"Ha baffled 1 braved!'' The hermit cried ; "Hence, fiends, nor dare gainsav it, The emperor'' $ soul is saved V A BIDE DURING THE WAE. We left Winchester in the stage coach for Strasburg, at 10 o'clock at night, on the 24th of December, 1861. The weath er was bitter cold, and we congratulated ourselves that the coach was not crowded. Mr. McG. and the girls were on the back seat; a Methodist clergyman, a soldier and myself on the middle, and two sol diers and our maid Betsy front seat. We went off by starlight, with every prospect of a pleasant drive-of eighteen miles. As we were leaving the suburbs of the town the driver drew up before a small house uuui n issued two women witn a baby, two baskets,- trr-wal bundles and a box. The passengers began rr-ir. "Go on driver I what do you mean I There's no room for another !" The driv er made no answer, but the women came to the stage door and began to put in their bundles. The gentlemen protested that they could not get in there was no room. The woman with the baby said she would get in she "was gwine to Stras burg to spend Christmas with her rela tions, wbar she was borned and raised, and whar she had not been for ten years, and nobody had a better right to the stage coach than she had, and she was a gwine too, and Hitty Grim she-s a gwine too she's my sister-in-law and so is baby. So, uncle Ben, she exclaimed to the driver, "take my basket and box by you, and me and Kitty and baby and the bun dles and the little basket will go inside." All this was said amidst violent protes tations from the men within, "you can't get in I Go on, driver, go on !" But suiting the action to the word she opened the door, calling, "Come Kitty," got on ibe step, and thrust her head in, saying "If any of these gentlemen is gentlemen they will get out and sit with uncle Ben, and let ladies come inside t'r A pause ensued. At last a subdaed tone from the soldier on the middle seat was heard, "Madame, if you will get off the step I will go put. "Very well, sir, and why didn't you do so at first. And now, said she, loosing at a man on-the iront seat, "there s another Beat by uncle Ben, 'sposenyou get out and let Kitty Grim have your seat, she's bound to go 1" The poor man quietly rose, without a word, and the very expression of his look was subdued as he got out of the stage. "Now Kitty, gil In and bring the little basket and them two bundles, they won't pester the lady much. The door was closed and the scene be ing, over, th passengers shouted with laughter. Our heroine remained passive until we reached the picket post, a mile from town. ,The driver reined up and a eoldier came forward for passports. She was thunder-struck. "Passes! passes for white folks! I never heard of such a thing I I ain't got no pass, neither has Kitty Grim P I suggested to her that, her best policy was to keep quiet. Just then a Tennes see soldier had to confess that he had for gotten to get a passport. You can't go ' iL. A3 ' I J 4i. ..II- uu, oaiu mo uiuuum, anu ine BOiuier stepped out. Presently the woman's tarn came. "Madam, your passport if yon please." "I ain't got none, neither has Kitty - H NO. 166. Grim, (she's my sister-in-law,) we ain't a gwine to git out, cause we's a gwine to Strasburg to spend Christmas with my relations', and I ain't been there for ten years, and I never heard of white folks having passes ! N j : ''But, madam' began the official. : V "You needn't 'but madam' me ; I ain't a gwine to get out and I would like to see the man that would put me out. This is a free country and I'se a gwine to Stras burg this night, so you may as well take your lantern out of my face !" f "Hut Madam, my orders, began the picket. j Don't tell me nothing 'bout orders, and you needn't think because the Ten nessee man got out that I'se gwine to git out, cause I am tl Ain 1 1 got; three sons in the army, a great sight bigger than you is, and they fit at Manassas and they ain't no cowards, neither is their mother, and Iain't a gwine to git out of thia stage this night, but I'se. gwine to Strasburg, whar 1 was borned and raised ! The poor man looked non-plusaed, but with another effort ,he began 'my dear madam." f I ain't none of your 'dear madam.' I'se just a free white woman and so is Kitty Grim, and we ain't no niggers to git passes and I'se a gwine Xo Strasburg long this pike. JNow I'se done talking. With this she settled herselt on the seat and leaned back with a most determined the discomfited man shut the door amid peals of laughter within and with out. In a few moments wei were quiet again and ail settled tbemsel yes for sleep when the silence was broken by our he roine. "Kitty, is. you sick ?"' "No.'' said Kitty. "Well, it's a wonder : gent emen can't one of you take Kitty's seat and give her yourn ? She gits monstrous sick when she s riding with her back to the horses.' There was a death-like silence, and my curiosity was aroused to know how she would manage this point. After a few minutes she began again. ' Kitty, is you sick ? "No," said Kitty, "not yet." "Well, I do wishTone of you gentlemen would give Kitty his seat." i Mill no reply. AH was becoming quite again when she raised her voice. "Kitty Grim, is you sick ?'t "Yes," said Kitty, 'just a little." , "I knowed it I knowed she was sick and when Kitty Grim gits sick she most ginerally flings up " The effect was electric I ) "My dear madam," exclaimed both gentlemen, "take my seat by all means." The Methodist minister being nearest exchanged with her, amidst .the most up roarious laughter, and all realized that they were fairly out-generaled for the third time. j Six, stores, Post ofiice, and twenty dwelling in Lake City, Chicot county, Arkanksas, were burned on the 20th ult. Happy land of incendiary loyalty I Confession of a Murderer. Wm. L. Langston, at Chicago, confesses killing his mother and a little girl near Paradise. Cole county ; was instigated thereto by his wife. 1 f Brother-in-law Casey, whom the Presi dent has re-appointed to the New Orleans Custom House, is mixed up with all sorts of rascalities in Louisiana. ' We are satis fied, though, that, in order to retain his place, fie has bad himself represented to the President as a much grander rascal than he really is. Couriir Journal. Standing Up for Their Rights. The colored Republicans in New Orleans have passed resolutions endorsing Judge Dur- rell and President Grant, but expressing pu? t the failure of the Senate tok accord the Hon. x " inchback. col.i his seat in that body. The resoiut.1 jjiso threaten the secession of the coloreNJ Republicans from that body unless they are treated better by Congress. Disloyal Agassiz. This eminent man of science is down upon the negro. He says of the negro and the white man: Each is a distinct and separate crea tion. The neero and the white man were created as specifically different as the owkj and the eagle. They were designed to fill different places in the system of nature. The negro is no more a negro y accident or misfortune than the owl is ibe kind of bird he is by accident or misfortune. The negro is no more the white man's brother than the owl is the sister of the eagle, or the ass the brother of the horse. How stupendous, and yet how simple, is the doctrine that the Almighty Maker of the nniverse has created different! species of men, just as He has different! species of the lower animals, to nil different places and offices in the grand machinery of na ture." , The Bostonians ought to turn the dis loyal fellow out of Harvard Co) lege. Nearly all the Preachers in Gotham last Sunday week, devoted the greater part of their sermons to the Car-book murderer, Foster, and his -execution. Even the preachers of Yankeedoodtedum seem to gloat over the crimes and trage dies' of their favored but sin cursed sec tion. The New York Herald closes an article, headed the pulpit on Foster's pun ishment, with these words: "Our read ers will perceive that the chief speakers in our collection of sermons to-day devot ed a portion ot their services to a refer ence to last week's tragedy, and only one to the tragedy on Calvary eighteen cen- ern saints took the ground thai capital punishment is a relic of bar bannm. Hen ry Ward Beecher, the socialistic clown and ritualistic humbug, was especially poiuted in his .denunciations of this so called relic of barbarism. Such views and such preachers are the main causes of the alarming prevalence of crime in these times., There is nothing so well adapted to the preservation of law and! order, to the prevention ot crime, and to; the chris tianization of the whole people, as the Gospel of the world's Saviour ; if it were only presented by those w no assume to teach and lead as ministers, in tbat plain, practical manner and devoted spirit which it inspires, unclogged by new theories logal tttntxititits. human logicprejudice, and passion. It is beliered that if there was i:iore zeal, more real christian devotion, manifested on the part of those who assume to ex pound the gospel, there would be lesu crime in the; world. Political ' preachers and religious clowns, such .as Beecher, are bringing religion into contempt . . ' Carolina Watchman. From the Baltimorean. Waiingtca's Creel Editors of the Baltimorean: Last week , I read in the New Yorjp World a remark able discourse, reported as having been delivered by one who is, 1- think, an or daioed clergyman, Mr. Frothingham; whose deliverances, in 'and out of the pul pit,; many will remember. Its leading purpose was to object to the introduction , of a proposed amendment into the consti tution, recognizing the Christian religion. And he would prohibit-oaths, as taken upon the Bible, the employment ot chap lains, and, in fine recommends that we ,' should "expel from the constitution even the implied Christianity that it now. holds." And, moreover, he illustrates his argument by announcing that Washing ton was hot a believer in the Christian religion. The IForW introduced the ser- -mon with. a special commendatory notice of its leading purpose. Believing that at -least the flagrant error of the last named statement should be exposed, I addressed to the World the following communica- v tion, which that journal has not published, nor in anv manner noticed : and 1 now : submit it to you, from? the suppoaUwa that you may consider the subject to be a . r A. 1 i A M J -. importance for publication : "To the Mditor of tne tvoria : in your issue of the 3rd inst., under the head of . Corrupt Churchmen,' you gave to the public the discourse of the Rev. O. B. Frothingham, dekvered on the day pre- - vious at Ly rio Hall, wherein he discussed . the subject of an amendment proposed to be made to the Constitution of the Uni ted States, by introducing a clause re cognizing Christianity, exhibiting freely his views of the incompatibility between political governments and religious creeds .. and forms: and as your approbation of - the conclusions ofrhis argument might be taken, possibly, to imply also your ap- . Eroval of the statements and illustrations e employed to sustain them, I would respecfully ask permission through the same chauuel, to except specially to the statement, which he broadly makes re specting the religious opinions of Wash ington ; a statement which, if it be cred ited, as coming from an intelligent source, will painfully surprise very many who may have given less attention to the teachings of history. The Rev. preacher a a :c t. l a i i l assents, iuai ii iuv aiueuuuiout uau ueen ut into the Constitution of the United tates at the beginning, 'George Wash ington could not have taken the oath of -office as President of the United States, for he was a Deist. The statement is cal culated not merely to cause surprise to most ot our people, but also to startle and shock them, inasmuch as it would neces sarily follow, that Washington was, dur ing his whole life, a very great hypocrite. And such the preacher must believe him to have been from his familiar acquaint ance with his history, both public and ' private, and all that is known of him. 1 will give a tew of the evidences of Washington's creed, in the order of time: : 1st. Among his boyish manuscripts that were preserved, were found extracts in verse, one of which, on the subject of Christmas, reverently appeals to the 'Sa viour of mankind.' It is supposed that he was .then about thirteen. It can hard ly be supposed that a youth of that ago would have employed! himself in that manner, unless his mind had already re ceived a, bias from his training and in struction. Sparks, Vol. 12, page 399. 1. In his first military campaigns, be was careful to have religious services in camp, even in tne active scenes at Great - Meadows. Same Authority; ; 3. After the French war. he was much - interested in Church affairs and became a vestryman in two parishes, as appears, 1. . y the records ot Fair tax Parish; 2. Of Turro Parish, the records of both giving the names and number of votes given to each of the parties elected, one bearing date 28th March, 1765, and the other 22d July, 1765. The church in the former was at Alexandria, where be usually at tended with his family when at home, during his life. The distance from Mount . Vernon is ten miles. The writer has of- ten seen the 'Washington pew,' a square : double pew, which has never been chanced. Perbans it never will ha ay-. cept bjrxfce haiid oftitavr -; 4. In May, 1774, the House of Bur gesses, whereof he was a member, issued an order, (which Mr. Frotbingham's sys tem prohibits,; lor a day ot lasting, hu miliation and prayer, in view of the im pending calamities; on that day, Wash ington writes in nis uiary, 'went to church, and fasted all day' In this diary a Sabbath day raiely occurs, in whicbit is not added that be went to church. 5. In the Orderly Book, under date of July 9th, 1776, he refers approvingly to an order ot Congress allowing a chaplain (n Arh rAaimAnt nffhfl ormv anH rliront- - - O w V- . J , MA. A I. ing .the reception and respectful treat-, ment of them by the several officers in command : and he adds, 'the : General hopes that every officer and man will en deavor to live and act as becomes a Chris tian soldier, defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.! Various others of these orders contain injunctions upon the chaplains ior the constant and faithful performance of their duties. I 6. Still more emphatic," if possible, are some passages in his circular letter to the Governors of the States on the disband ing of the army in June, 1783: 'The free cultivation of letters, the unbounded ex- , tension of com merce, the progressive re finement of manners, ana above 'all, the. pure A and benign light of Bevelationt have bad a meliorating influence on mankind, and insured the blessings of society And in another part of this admirable let-.' ter, he recommends the virtues of 'that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics -of v the Divine author of our blessed religion, without an humble imitation of whoso example in these things, we can never" hope to. be a happy nation." ' Additional proofs on the subject need no be cited ; and I will only, reiterate the necessary conclusion from them, that is to eay, that Washington' was not a deistv but waa a firm believer in the' Christian religion; or else, if he Was not- and Mr, Frothingham of course hold this i alter' native he was a nte-iong uvceiver oi tne -world a stain which probably no one,l since Thomas Paine, has ever publicly aU tempted to fix upon his name. Baltimore, 3tarcb. 7. 1873. J. F. A, . . . ; 1 . -:. . ...... ; v i i A Uw Partt.A National party is being organized under the lead of Josiah Quincy, the objector which is to procure redress of the wrongs done the peop'e by railroad rings. 1