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PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY A COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS FOE THE METHODIST EPI SCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH. RUFUS T. HEFLIN, Editor.
RALEIGH, T lTuiTsXrrEC EMBER 8, 1 859.
VOL. IV NO. 49.
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For the N. C. Christian Advocate.
CoJportage in I-rth-CaroIina.
Since September 1st I have visited 497
families in IS counties. In some portions
of these counties the families are blessed
with religious and educational advantages,
by which they are made happy, intelligent
and active iu extending the Gospel to poor
and destitute families. In one of these
favored families I proposed to a gentle
man that we would go out among some of
his poor neighbors. Among others we
called at the house of a poor widow who
had recently moved there. She had been
a member of the church many years ; one
or two of her grown children were also
in embers. The family had been sorely
afflicted, and from their poverty and im
perfect views they had scarcely no educa
tion or books. After I talked, prayed
and supplied them with appropriate tracts
to be read to them, the aged mother ex
pressed her gratitude for such aid an en
couragement, and remarked that it was
the first religious visit and prayer in her
family. Near to this family I found chil-
dren from 8 to 10 or 12 years old who did ; as an individual, to enter my decided pro
not know who made or died for them. On j test. All union which involves any sur
my return to the house of ihe gentleman j render of conscientious views of religious
who accompanied me, he remarked that j truth would be pernicious, and promotive
he saw and understood Colportage in a of the spirit of infidelity,
light he never had before, as being im- Let us suppose, sir, that you are an
portant for the laity to take hold of to aid honest Pr. sbyterian, and I am an honest
t'.ie ministry iu conveying the Gospel to j Methodist; that is to say, we each consci-
families, and that he should henceforth
more clearly feel it his duty and privilege
to give annually to its support without
being called iu. and also make religious
visits himself to the families of his neigh
borhood, distributing tracts and teaching
the children.
In another county, I visited 25 families
in two days, only 4 of whom ever had a
religious visit before ; 19 were entirely des
titute of religious books ; 13 habitually
neglected Church, which was about 6 miles
distant ; 11 of the mothers had not heard
a sermon or prayer in two years, and some
of them in a much longer time, owing to
their poverty, heavy family duties, and
wicked drunken husbands. Some of the
children that wore 12 and 14 years old
liau never berd sermon i- prayer, not
even a blessing asked at the table. Be
sides the catechising and other religious ex
ercises, I began teaching the alphabet to
7 fathers 18 mothers, and 43 children.
I enaed the services of three suitable
persons to continue visiting and instructing
these families. I also employed a faithful
Colporter for this county, to visit every
family, to suply all, and especially the poor
and destitute, with printed truth, and to
enlist Christian men and women in the
blessed work of making voluntary religious
visits to their own poor and ungodly
neighbors, supplyinjr them with books
and tracts at their expense, instead of al
lowing the Society to do all, by which they
follow up and cultivate the seed sown by
the Colporteur, and by the Society in their
own neighborhoods will be improved, for
the greater safety of ch ldren and servants,
who are now being corrupted by these poor
degraded families ; and, finally, souls -vill
be saved as the result of such continued
efforts. Every Christian should have a
fixed habit of making relgious vists to some
family or families, as often as possible,
leaving a gcod book or tract, by loan or
gift.
A few years ago I found a father and
son drunu.by the road side. When I
reached the home I found a crushed-hearted
wife and ignorant children. The kind
treatment and instruction at once made
them feci that Christianity cared for them.
I sot a godly neighbor to visit them oftener
thau I could. In less than a year this and
other poor families were so interested by
religous truth at their homes, that thoy
were formed in a Sabbath School, which
they opposed before. In this school, a few
Sabbaths ago, I saw the above father and
son engaged as Sunday School teachers,
both having learned to spell and read,
and been converted since the commence
ment of this s;hool. Now, instead of
being druukards to corrupt, they are a
blessing to the community as Christian
teachers, as the result of bringing gospel
truth in contact with them, cultivated by
a Christian neighbor under God's blessing.
Will not every one help extend this work
in North Carolina, as a gent eman recently
did by giving me $200 to support a Col
porteur, or as a pious working lady who
gent tne $100 to secure 5 Life Mem
berships, (by which each one draws
1500 pages, gratis, each year,) or by
giving a smaller amount, according to
ability, united with prayer and individual
Christian effort, in visiting needy families,
to set before them religious truth, in per
son, by example, by word, and by the
printed page, which will remain and con
tinue to direct souls to Christ ?
Yiurs truly,
W. J. W. CROWDEll, Gen. Agt.
of Am. Tr. Soc. for N. C.
Raleurb.X. C, Dec, 1859.
SELEUTIONS.
Cookman's Anti-Sectarian
Speech.
The following extract from a speech
pronounced before the Young Meu's Bible
Society of New Brunswick, N. J., by the
Rev. G. G. Cook man, of the Methodist E.
Church, is copied from a Magazine for
1829.
Time was, when, for a Presbyterian
minister and a Methodist preacher to ap
pear as joint-advocates in the samo com
mon cause, would have been a crying
wonder ; but, sir, thank God ! the age of
sectarian bigotry is passing away : "E
pbraim is ceasing to vex Judah, and Ju
dah Ephraim."
I am well aware, also, that many well
disposed persons have imagined that the
surest method of silencing infidelity would
be for the Christian Church to effect a un
ion in doctrine, to lay aside their peculiar
ities of religious opinion, and amalgamate
into one uniform mass of sentiment and
r c'ion.
Against such principles of Christian un
ion yon must permit me, sir, this night,
entiously believe our principle to be right.
Let us suppose that we are engaged in a
friendly debate on the respective merits of
our peculiar doctrines. An infidel stand
ing by cries out, "Gentlemen, you are
both wron?." Well, sir, what is to be
done ? A fourth person appears as medi
ator between the parties. 'Brethren,"
says he, "the scruples of the gentleman
standing by arise from your contradictory
views of Divine truth. Now make a un
ion ; lay aside your sectarian peculiarities ;
be liberal, and think and speak alike."
Suppose, sir, we agree. Is the infidel con
vinced? What says he now ? "Gentle
men, I am now doubly convinced you are
both wrong, and I charge you both with a
want of principle and courage, in not main
taining and defending what you believe to
be the truth."
We say, let each sect and party main
tain its own distinctive position, and pur
sue its own plans of operation in its own
way, to the very utmost. Let us agree to
differ. We are none of us infallible. It
is j ossible we may all be a little wrong,
for it is as natural for a man to err as to
breathe. But how are we to set each oth
er right ? By the silent quiescent neutral
ity of a nominal union V Nay, sir ; in
such a motionless reservoir the waters of
life would stagnate. Let them run and en
counter the winds of opposition and the
rocks of controversy, and they will clear
and purify and sparkle. Truth never did
nor ever will lose any of its power by
open and liberal discussion, even on relig-
ious points. Give it an open field and fair
play, and it shall overthrow the empire of
infidelity and conquer this world of sin.
Let, then, the Bible be the rallying
point of protestant Christians. Let them
dispute for truth, not victory ; let the God
of peace preside in every controversy, yet,
let it all be conducted in the unity of the
spirit and in the bond of peace. Let each
go to his poi-t of duty, and, without inter
fering or quarreling with his neighbor, do
his utmost under his own particular stan
dard. Let there ba no strife, for we are
all brethren, and the world is large enough
for us all.
The union, theu, which I would propose,
would be a union in spirit, rather than a
union in doctrine.
I believe, sir, we are on the eve of a gen
eral engagement. Now, sir, borrowing
the allusion, will you permit me to mar
shal the Christian army on those princples
of union I have endeavored to sustain ?
Let, then, our Bible Societies, witn their
auxi iaries, be a Jine of forts established
along the enemy's frontier, as bulwarks of
defence. Let them be military magazines,
well stored with spiritual weapons and gos
pel auiunition : general rallying-points
for the whole army, and strongholds from
whence our missionary riflemen may sally
forth on the enemy. Let our Sabbatn
schools be military academies, in which the
young cadets may be trained for the bat
tles of the Lord. Let the Tract Societies
be so many shot houses for the manufac
ture of that small, but useful material.
Having thus, sir, disposed of the out
works, let us now endeavor to arrange the
army.
Suppose, sir, for example, we begin with
Methodists. As they are said to be toler
able pioneers and excellent foragers in new
countries, and active, withal, I propose that
we mount them on horseback, and employ
them as cavalry, especially on the fron
tiers. And, as our Presbyterian brethren love
an open field, and act in concert, and move
in solid bodies, let them constitute our in-
fantry ; let them occupy the centre in sol
id columns, and fight according to Napol
eon's tactics, in military squares, ever
presenting a firm front to the enemy. Our
Baptist brethren we will station on the riv
ers and lakes, which we doubt not they will
gallantly defend, and win many laurels in
the lake warfare. Our brethren of the
Protestant Episcopal Church shall man the
garrisons, inspect the magazines, and di
rect the batteries.
But, sir, we want artillerymen. Whom
shall we employ ? The light field-pieces
and the heavy ordinance must be served.
I propose, sir, tnat we commit this depart
ment to our brethren of the Reformed
Dutch Church ; and, sir, may they acquit
themselves with a valor worthy of their an
cestors, when the proud flag of De Witt
swept the sea, and the thunder of Van
Tromp shook the ocean !
And now, sir, the army is arranged.
We have one great Captain, the Lord Je
sus Christ, whose orders we are all bound
to obey. Our standard is the Cross, and
Onward is the watchword. Let us give
no quarter. We fight for death or victory-
At the same time let us preserve our
original order. United in spirit and de
sign, let us be distinct in movements
Let not the ca?alry, infantry and artillery
man mingle "n one indiscriminate mass.
Let each keep his proper position, adopt
his peculiar uniform, act under local col
ors, aud fight in his own peculiar manner.
Thus we shall act with consistency and
vigor, without discomposing each other, or
disordering the ranks.
Let a strict religious discipline prevail
through our camp ; for we must not suffer
that shameful reproach, that we recom
mend to others what we practice not our
selves. Accordingly, let us, like the sol
diers of Oliver Cromwell, read our Bible
and pray twice a day in each of the tents.
And no sir, let us to the field of action.
May the God of Battles give the victory,
and the trembling gates of hell shake to
their centre.
Before I sit down, I have a duty to per
form to that portion of the army here as
sembled. I have to forewarn them that
there is lurking, in different sections of
our camp, a dangerous and malignat spy.
I will eudeaver to describe this diabolic
spy as well as I can. He is remarkably
old, having grown gray in iniquity. He
is toothless and crooked His name, sir,
is Bigotry. He seldom travels in daylight;
but in the evening shades he steals forth
from his haunts of retirement, and creeps
into the tents of the soldiers ; and with a
tongue as smoothe and decoptious as the
serpent who deceived our first mother, he
endeavors "to throw arrows, firebrands
and death" into our camp. LTis policy
is to persuade the soldiers in garrison to
despise those in open field ; and, again,
those in open field to despise those in gar
rison ; to incite the cavalry against the in
fantry, and the infantry against the caval
ry. And in so doing, he makes no scru
ples to employ misrepresentation, slander
and falsehood, for, like his father, he is a
liar from the beginning. Now, sir, I trust
the army will be on the alert in detecting
this old scoundrel and make a public ex
ample of him.
I hope if the Methodist cavalry catch him
on the frontiers, they will ride him down,
and put him to the sword without delay.
I trust the Presbyterian infantry will re
ceive him on the point of the baynot ; and
should the Baptists find him skulking
along the banks of the river, I trust they
will fairly drown him ; and should be dare
approach any of our garrisons, I hope the
Episcopalians will open upon him a double
flanked battery, and the Reformed Dutch
greet him welcome with a whole round of
artillery
Let him die the death of a spy without
military honors ; and after he has been
gibbeted for a convenient season, let his
body be given to the Quakers, and let
them bury him deep and in silence. May
God grant his miserable ghost may never
revisit this world of trouble !
Christian in China.
The missionaries in conference with the
bishop of Victoria have under consideration
a plan for locating in the district cities a
native deacon or catechist under the sup
ervision of an itinerating European mis
sionary. The Rev. Canon Stowell narra
tes the following discouse, by a Chinese
tailor with reference to the relative merits
of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Christian
ity : A man had fallen into a deep, dark
pit, and lay in its miry bottom groaning
and utterly unable to move. Confucius,
walking by, approached the edge of the" pit
and said, ' Poor fellow, I am sorry for you ;
why were you such a fool as to get in
there ? Let me give you a piece of advice,
if you ever get out don't get in again.'
'I can't get out,' groaned the man. A
Buddhist priest next came by and said,
' Poor fellow, I am very much pained to
see you there ; I think if yon could scram
ble up two thirds of the way, or even half,
I could reach you, and lift you up the
rest.' But the man in the pit was entirely
helpless and unable to rise. Next the Sav
iour came by, and hearing his cries, went
to the very brink of the pit, stretched down
and laid hold of the poor man, brought
him up, and said, 'Gj and sin no more.'
It must be admitted that this allegory poss
esses the merit of much originality, while
the simplicity of its details renders it easy
of general comprehension.
Bishop Senile's Farewell Address.
To the preachers of the Tennessee Confer
ence, after the solutions passed in re
ference to himstlf'Cohtmbici, October
20, 1859.
I feel a deep sense of obligation with re
spect to the resolutions adopted by you.
In looking back upon my past life, I see
defects and weaknesses. I have been an
unprofitable servant. Yet by the grace of
God I am what I am.
A few words to the preachers of the
Tennessee Conference. I have no reason
able expectation of meeting you again on
earth. Such a thing is scarcely probable.
In taking leave of you, you will indulge
me in a word of myself. Sixty years ago
the fifth day of last January, I left my
father's house and went to a circuit. I
have been in the work ever since. I have
never been a su perannuated preacher;
I have never been a local preacher. And
from the first day I entered the itinerant
Methodist ministry, I have never looked
for nor made calculations of any location
but one, and that is a location in the grave.
By the grace of God I have been enabled
thus far to continue.
During your present session a consider
able number of young men have entered
the traveling connection, and have done so,
I trust, from settled fixed principles. I
trust they have entered here with one de
sign and purpose, to devote themselves to
one work the mintstry of the Lord Jesus
Christ : work enough for one man, most
assuredly.
The qualification of young men for the
ministry : Much has been said about qual
ification. We all need it. But you may
take young men, and if they have a capac
ity for acquiring knowledge, and a thirst
for knowledge, thoy will obtain it, place
them wherever you will. I speak senti
mentally. But if they do not have this ca
pacity and this thirst, you may carry them
through your schools, and they will come
out minus. "Study," my 'Jear brethren,
to show yourselves approved of God ;
workmen thac need not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth." What
an important lesson St. Paul teaches to
Timothy, his son in the gospel : "No man
thdt warrcth entangleth himself with the
affairs of this life. ' Beware, my dear
young friends, how jou entangle yourselves
with the cares and concerns of a family.
It will be time enough I speak with feel
ing and experience to devote yourselves
to domestic affairs when you shall have
become elders in the ministry, and shall
have made yourselves acquainted with the
doctrines and discipline of the church, and
become capable of preaching those doc
trines, and ministering that discipline. I
advise you to keep free from matrimonial
alliances. If you do not, I look for your
early location.
I can proceed no further. May the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ abide with
the Tennessee Conference.
(Here the venerable Bishop would have
closed, on account of physical weakness and
frequent coughing; but the members urg
ed him to go on.)
I wanted to say something more, I will
touch one point. In looking over your
work, I have suffered pain. I have seen
contracted, poor circuits placed in charge
of preachers on trial. Of your course I
would speak respectfully ; and with regard
to these young men, I estee m them highly
But may we expeet them to be so well read
in the government and discipline of the
Methodist Episcopal Church as to take a
wise and profitable course in the due ad
ministration of that government and disci
pline ? At their age I needed government
myself, instead of being prepared to gov
ern others. I speak plainly on this sub
ject : I speak m view of the judgment.
In looking over our General Minutes, I
perceive that over three hundred circuits
and stations are in charge of preachers on
trial Under these circumstances the
church cannot be prosperous in all its de
partments. Again : I believe there are thousands of
members of the M. E. Church, South, who
do not receive the sacrament of the Lord's
Supper, from first to last, during the year.
Why ? Because you have sent to them
young men who cannot administer the
Lord's Supper. This is because you have
cut up the work into small patches. How
many four week's circuit Lave you in the
Tennessee Conference? There are but
few. How many circuits with two preach
ers on them ? There are but few. Our
colleges are excellent ; but, depend upon
it, a large circuit, with two preachers on it,
is the best place to train our young men.
I hope to see this thing of cutting up our
circuits ended. If I had time and ability,
I would enlarge on this subject.
But, again : We need parsonages. This
is an important part of our system. There
are but few of them in your bounds. I sug
gest that one cause of this is the cutting up
of your large circuits, and changing the
form of them so frequently. Thus you
have small circuits and little bits of sta
tions. Do you expect our members to
build homes for the preachers in these
small circuits and little bits of stations ? I
do not expect it. But when you make
your circuits permanent, settled, fixed, and
make them sufficiently large, you have my
word for it, the members will show a libe
rality in building parsonages which you
have not witnessed heretofore.
If I see you no more until that day when
we must give up our account to God, I
trust I shall meet you and dwell with you
in that city which hath foundations, whose
builder and maker is God. Nashville
Ch. Advocate.
That Unbroken Chain.
Every now and then our attention is
called to some High Church arrogance,
some haughty assumption of superior offi
cial sanctity, arising from the unbroken
succession of orders, which has come down
from apostolic times " upon their own
pates." We can never gravely argue with
tLose men. They remind us of a man
standing at the mouth of a huge sewer,
catching the inky flood, and shouting to
those who drink from the gushing fountain
over the way, " Stop ! stop ! We have a
chartered right to these pure streams.
They flow to us by authority. You are
good people, and in a fine state of physical
preservation, but you don't drink under
ourcharter " This could be endured, for,
if men prefer the sewer to the fountain, it
is a matter of taste, but, when they make
it a sine qua non that ere we are acknow
ledged as citizens we too must take the
same inky compound, we beg to be excus
ed. But we simply design to ask those
men to read what follows, which we clip
from the Press and Tribune of this city,
and see whence their orders come, and they
may be refreshed when they next quote,
as they are so fond of doing, the line about
Wesley,
"Who laid hands on himV
May they not naturally claim, that their
honor is enhanced in proportion to the
distance they have descended from such
orders ? We surely should.
THE PATRIMONY OF ST. PETER.
The high-sounding phrases with which
the pope seasoned his late alio cutory sniffle
to the Catholic clergy "Vicar of Jesus
Christ," "patrimony of St. Peter," etc.
would have more force with the world at
large if they could be read without the
light which history throws on former vicars
of Jesus Christ, and the way in which they
severally scraped together the patrimony
aforesaid. When it is borne in mind tha
one of those "Vicars" was a woman,
another an atheist, a third a Unitarian, a
fourth a pirate, a fifth the murder of two
other popes, a sixth guilty of incest, a sev
enth deposed for adultery with 300 nuns,'
and eighth the getter-up of a model artist
exhibition, and that scores of them were
assassins, thieves, poisoners and adulterers,
what degree of respect can attach to the
mouthings of Pius IX. about the sanctity
of the papal office ? Let the reader look
into the biographies of the Johns, Grego
rics, Bonifaces, Alexanders and Benedicts,
who have worn the tiara, and held the keys
which bind on earth that which is to be
bound in heaven, and learn whether we
haxe exaggerated tha Newgate Calendar
of the Vatican. All this would count for
nothing as against the " holy religion" if
the infallibility of these persons were not
an essential part of the religion. The
Johns, Gregories, Bonifaces, Alexanders
and Benedicts, according to Catholic ideas,
are all rejoicing together in Paradise,
singing the praises of the Father and the
Lamb the one who drank his own poison
while attempting to poison his cardinals
not less loudly thanthe rest
And then, ' the patrimony ofSt. Peter."
History makes no mention of the patrimony
of the fisherman of Galilee. "Neither
scrip, nor staff, nor two changes of rai
ment" belonged to the estate of Simon son
of Jonas. Nor had his successors, (so cal
led) any landed sovereignty or temporal
power for a period of 754 years. The
patrimony of St. Peter" came from Pepin
the Brief, King of the Franks, who wrest
ed it from the Lombards and bestowed it
on Stephen II., bishop of Rome. Charlc- j
magne is said to have bartered the same
territory to Pope Leo III. (A. D. 800.)
for the title of Roman Emperor. Yet this
was a small share of the patrimony which
Pope Pius IX. is clamoring for. It de
volved on Matilda, of Tuscany, two hun
dred years later, to make recompense to
the supreme pontificate for the failure of
St. Peter to leave any patrimony. This
woman donated to the needy Gregory VII.,
who was "sick and in prison," Tuscany,
! Mantua, Parma, Modena, Verona, Anco
na and several other pleasant places, which,
three centuries afterward, were all taken
awayjby the unlucky exclusion of the popes
from Rome by the outraged populace.
The expatriation continued seventy-one
years.' When the priests returned they
set about the enlargement of the Papal
dominions ; and Pope Julius II. raised an
army, which he commanded in person, and
with which he subjugated Bologna and
Ancona. This warrior is, more properly
than any one else, the founder of the Pon
tifical government By the " holy league"
of Cambray, in 1509 he used the power
of France, Spam and Germany, to wrest
the richest portion of the Romagna from
Venice, and by another holy league the
next year he prevailed on Spain and Ger
many to expel France from the same ter
ritory, and allow him to absorb it. He
consolidated the States of the Church,"
flourished mightily in his dominions, order
ed the sale of indulgences for revenue, and
brought on the Reformation of the six
teenth century. Ferrara was wrested from
Modena, in 1598, and Urbino bequeathed
to the church in 1620.
In this way the " patrimony of St. Pe
ter" was pieced together. Twice in the
present century has the pope found him
self without any patrimony at all, and
twice have foreign armies been invoked to
restore him that which was never rightfully
his. It would seem that the warning of
the Son of Man to St. Peter "they
who take the sword shall perish by the
swora" is not far from being realized in
the person of his two hundred and sixty
third successor."
From the Fay. Observer.
Texas in North Carolina.
Messrs. E. J Hale & Sox : Gentle
men : Two letters have recently appeared
in the Observer, written from Texas, giv
ing a description of the climate, soil, pro
ductions, etc. , of that new and flourishing
State, and of the cheapest and best way to
get there from North Carolina. No, be
it known to all whom it may concern, that
we have rich, very rich lands in the old
North State, that, for climate, productive
ness, convenience of market, etc , can
scarcely be, if at all, surpassed anywhere.
But I wish to speak particularly of a dis
trict of country below Ncwbern, which I
have recently visited, and some of which
I have very carefully examined. There
is a body of elevated low lands commenc
ing near Neuse and stretching thence
North by the bead of Bay river and down
South creek to within a few miles of Pam
lico river in Beaufort county. It is about
15 miles wide and on an average 24 long.
All of it, however, is not first quality, but
I suppose that at least two-thirds, or one
hur.dred and fifty thousand acres are. It
will bring from 8 to 15 bbls. of corn per.
acre. Some of it is very good for wheat
and some of it for cotton, producing, it is
believed, a bag to the acre. Mr. Noah
Guilford, on South creek, sowed 4 acres
in wheat and measured up bushels,
per acre. But let the reader judge of its
productiveness from the following descrip
tion :
The soil is from 6 inches to 7 feet deep.
It is of a dark mulatto color in the more
elevated portions, and in the lower, black.
It is of course of vegetable orgin. Under
lying the soil is a red marl clay from 12
to 18 inches thick, under that a blue marl
clay of about equal thickness, and under
the blue clay an immense bed of shell marl
of uneven thickness and in various stages
of decomposition. Can such land ever bo
exhausted? The timber is gum and pop
lar, mostly, with some oak, ash, horn
bean, beech, with rattan and reeds and
grass. The range exceeds anything in
North Carolina. Thousands of cattle not
only live through the winter but keep fat
upon the reeds, &c.
These lands are at an expense of not
more than $1 50 per acre, at the outset,
and are very easily kept drained. The
yield of corn per acre the first year will
more than pay for clearing. I saw a field
of corn on the lands of Charles Tripp, on
South Creek, in which there had never
been a plough nor mattock ; the timber
was felled in the Fall, and everything burnt
off the last of May, and holes dug in the
ground with a hoe and the corn planted
and chopped out twice. It was thought by
good judges, when I was there in Septem
ber, that it would produce 11 bbls per
acre.
On the Neuse river there are beautiful
sites for building at a town just laid off,
called Cherryville. This place is near
enough to all the Southern part of the
lands ; it is healthy. The river is from 6 to
8 miles wide, the water salt, and ebbs and
flows, and the freeze delightful. Fish
and oysters abound. Ex-Sheriff Chadwick,
who lives, and has lived for many years,
on the river, just above the town, told mo
that it is nearly as healthy as Beaufort ;
that chills sometimes visit them, but thty
are mild and readily yield to the usual
remedies. And Samuel Whithurst who
lives at the place, and has for many years
assured me that he never had a phy
sician professionally called in to any of bis
family, white or colored.
Now is not this place those lands, tako
them all in all, one of the garden spots
of the world?
Vessels, bound from and to Newbern,
go up and down on the Neuse, in full view.
Also, steamers, fishing smacks, etc.
The very best of those lands can bo
bought now or could a fow weeks ago
for $6, $8 and $10 per acre. $10 is
the highest price, I believe, asked for any.
Thousands of acres have been bought in
the last few months by Camera from Iljdo,
who say that the land is nearly equal to
the very best Hyde county land, worth
$125 per acre. Other farmers have and
ate buying. J. B. BLOCKER.
The China Mission.
Shanghai, China, Aug. 1C, 1859.
Rev. E. W. Sehon, D. D., Missionary
Secretary of the M. E Church, South:
My dear Brotuer : The newspapers
will no doubt contain many bloody stories
concerning the recent disturbances at this
port. The last mail left during the height
of the excitement, and wo may suppose,
from the alarm which prevailed generally
among the foreign residents, that the let
ters which it carried away will tend to
magnify our real danger. Wo were in
danger, and perhaps our danger was at
one time greater than we were aware of !
but, thank God, the storm has passed over,
and we sincerely pray it may not return.
On former occasions of difficulty and
danger here the dispute was with the Man
darins not with the people ; but this time
the masses were enraged against us, and a
fearful thing it is to sec the heavinzs and
swellings and to hear the roarings of such
a turbulent sea. There is majesty in tho
voice of the people, especially when they
cry for vengeance on their oppressors. Tho
bloody scenes of India came up before ns,
as awful realities which might soon be re
peated at this hitherto quiet port. An ig
norant heathen populace could not be ex
pected to discriminate between those who
had injured them and those who were of
the same country, though not guilty of
any offence. No more would they dis
criminate than the waves of the sea all
would have been swept away.
We now look back with sincere grati
tude to God that so little mischief has been
done. Two churches in the city have been
partly def-troyed one belonging to tho
London Mission, the other to the Protes
tant Episcopal Mission. Some three or four
foreigners lost their lives, but not one mis
sionary has been seriously injured. Broth
er Lambuth was assaulted, but escaped
without the least injury.
The cause of all this uproar and trouble
was in the "coolie trade," as it is called. It
is in fact, as practiced hero and at other
points on the coast, a system of kidnap
ping little better than that practiced on
the coast of Africa. The coolies are called
' emigrants, ' and wages are offered them,
and such like ; but were 1 a coolie, with
my present knowledge, I should consider
myself a bondman for life, if once on an
emigrant ship.
Going into tho country will be, for some
time at least, unsafe. If the English de
clare war against China, as probably thoy
will, our fair hopes and prospects for labor
in the interior mnst be held in abeyance
for a time. Still, the way is opening, and
will be opened wider. Tho present diffi
culties must soon pass awny. AH well.
Your brother,
W. G. E. CcNXTSGHAM.
P S. The native Christians are now
suffering persecution of the recent difficul
ties. Will the Church remember these
few sheep in the wilderness ' Pray that
their faith fail not. W. (J. E. C.
Fekin.
A recent traveller, speaking of tho Chi
nese town of Pekin, and the first impres
sions a stranger receives on entering with
in the wall, says:
Once he passed under the ponderous
northern gate, measured the thickness of
the stupendous wall, and is fairly in Pekin,
he will bo entirely bewildered ; all before
him is a confused and dusty mass of co
lors, men, mule--, caps, hundreds of ca
mels, with tho weary Mongols in their
once red gowns, enthroned and fast asleep
on their high summit; an immensity of
wide, perfectly straight, and endless
streets ; a living ocean of the most degrad
ed beggars, of cooks, barbers, blind men
beating upon- kettle drums, orators de
livering speeches ; then, right and left,
brilliant shops, cafes, and hotels, aur
mouutcd by long poles of all colors, woo
den walls beautifully carved and gilt over;
in fact ii is a scene so unique in tho world
that no dream coull ever be so eccentric.'
Pastoral Visiting. John Wcs!ey said:
" By repeated experiments we barn t'aat,
though a man preach like an angel, he will
neither collect nor preserve a society which
is collected, without visiting them from
house to house." A writer iu an exchange
adds: "One hundred years ofMetho
discic labors, suffering and successes, have
greatly added to the strength of this remark."
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