McKinney Messenger. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 19, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 7, 1871 Page: 1 of 4
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M KINNEY, COLLIN COUNTY, TEXA
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CO-OPERATION MEET1KO
oy
DISCIPLES IN NORTHERN TEXAS.
nplinnco with a call of the
>f Christ at Keuluckytown,
In com
Church o
Grayson county, Texas, for n meeting
of the Disciples to consider iho wunts
of tho churchcs uiul promote potU'o
harmony, and cooperativo effort,
tlei'e woro assembled at thin place
on ilio 25th September, 1871, u re
speoiublo representation Irom Collin
mid Gray son, and a lew Iron coun-
ties adjoining.
The moeting was organised I y the
«lection 'nf Bro. John B. Floyd, of
Breckinridge, Dallas county, to the
Chair, and Jiro. Ii. C. Iloi n, of Ale
Kinney, Secretary.
It was resolved to dispense with
l.lio question of credentials and «dni¡,t
ituy one presenting himself ns u
brother in Christ to participate in the
deliberation# and discussions of the
mooting. On a call for reports witL
n viow to ascertain the condition of
the churches, eighteen (18) were heard
from; but the details being neither
full nor exact, are decided urnvorlln
of publication. It is hoped, however,
that the attention thus called to the
subject will elicit a moro satisfactory
rosiilt at the next meeting.
Altor having boon detained for ti
timo on the discussion of a quoit ion
of mere local iuiorost, a motion took
cfl'ect lor a committee to set in ordei
iho business for the house. On this
were appointed brethren, W. 11. Scott,
Denton, Denton county, (chairman);
JI. I'. Dyer, Kculuekytow i, Grnysoi
•county, (Secretary); A. S. Reynolds,
Koutuokytowri; U. D. R. liarrett,
Mantua, Collin county ; J. R Wilmo'h,
ileKinney, Collin county; A. Cart
wright, Furmington,Grayson county;
Philip Miner, Kentucky town,Grayson
«utility. Their deliberations rosulteii
in the following resolutions which,
being submitted to the meeting, were
.severally and unanimously adopted.
ON DltfCIPMNH.
Rtxolred, That the attention of the
brethren be directed to the scripture
qualifications of officers, and that, wo
■earnestly recommend that, nono be
ordained us Elders or Deacons—and
much less tu the Work of an Evan-
gelist—who have not, tho moral and
executive qualities prescribed by the
.New 1 c-lament.
Jle&dred, That we recommend to
u ■/'djwif «ItWm U
character is not known, without a let-
tor showing his good standing in
some cong'egatiou ; and, furthorniore,
that where there is reasonable con
viction of immoral conduct even be-
fore the granting oT the letter, a let-
ter of cninmoudulioti shall not be
«leemod sufficient.
ii evolved, That the congregation*
be Instructed and exhorted to mee*
on every Lord's day, and to establish
in o* cry congregation, a Christian
Sunday School, in which only Chris
tiaii Sunday School Books shall be
Used.
Jicsolecd, That wo recognize u
script urally organized congregation
of I liseiplos us tho highest ccclesiast i
cal authority, the execution of Christ V
Jaws on earth, and recommend tha'
through the officers thereof di«
ciplinc in all tho departments bo en-
forced, with a watchcaro over all for
good, to tho end that peace, order,
and purity bo maintained in tho body,
and that, tho cause of Salvation lie
advanced in the world.
ON ruBMCATION.
Whereas, tho cause of Christ in
this State, fuiVors for the want ol
eonie common center of intelligence
and reliable source of information,
Jlesolved, That wo recommend tho
establishment of a weekly paper de
voted to the interests of tho cause,
and to this end appoint as a commit-
too on Publication, to correspond with
each other and determine tho ways
and means by which tho samo may
be *et. on a | radical footing at the
■earliest practicable moment, the fol-
lowing brethren : L. D. II. Currlng-
ton, A ustin ; Dr. C. Kendrick, Bryan ;
J. 15. Ivibunk, Circlcvillo; Ed. Stir-
man, Siarville; Jas. Beard, Fans;
Charles Carlton, Bonliam; II. 1J.
Dyer, Koiitiickytown; Ad. Clark, Ft.
tor, of Warren; Burnott, of Mantua; i'Hw KUM.iMC'K
llorn and the Wilmeth Bro's., of Mo
Kinney; participated in tiie labor* of
tho "protracted meeting, which con-
tinued for six days and roeulted in
six confessions.
Embezzlementand Treason.
The following extracts are from an
editorial in Iho Palestine Central
Journal:
Mr. Reagan said in opon District
Court, hero the either day, that of his
own personal knowledge, and by the
records of the county, be knewjlint
the Into county officers had beeú'guil
ty of embezzlement. Now, Mr. Rea
gan, when lie said this, told a lio, and
when the District Attorney, in can
tious Isngtrngo, told him "that two
Grand Juries had .thrown the lio in
his teeth, by refusing to find hill
upon his evidence, Mr. Reagan waxed
wrothy, and swelled .himself up and
••wiiiisí his big bulky carcass around
hugely, and pulled off his specks, and
lilted up his mighty hand, and piped
ilotid his mighty bellows, and said,
in tho presence of the Court and n
large concomio of people, that he had
not been before any Grand Jury since
'lio present District Attorney htm
boon in office. The Histriet Attorney,
knowing this to be a lie, but no'
wishing to makoan issnoof fact will
Mr. Heagan till ho was prepared with
proofs, made no reply. < 'n tho oven
i tig of tho same day the District At
torncy called up tho matter of Mr.
Reagan's denial of tho charge of ta
king fees to procure indictments, ami
then making himself a witness u
swear tho thing through the Grand
Jury,and then denying tho thing pub
icly when caught; whereupon Mr.
Itougnn sneaked out of tho thing,and
as thero woro but low people present
«aid he IhMoved, alter taking half a
lay to think over, that ho had boen
summoned before the last Grand Jur\
•irid hud appeared, in obedience to the
•mmuions,and testified to tho-e thirig-
if which be had been questioned.—
!y this little stroke Mr. Reagui
<avod himself tho trouble «if being
proved a liar in opon court.
But wo must come back to tin
original purpose of this article and
talk about
X1IB 0 It EAT EMBBZZI.EMKNT.
f. Reagan says that tho militan
ippointoos embezzled the ooiin'y
mid*. and he knyw it. Now. Mr
An Unpnblislied Story of tlwSweet
Poet's tife.
I From tho Oblongo Republican.]
en the Cury sisters in ad o their
-mills, ui
.lohii li. Mormon ....■• •>. u ,w ;¡
Kelly, late Treasurer and sHiernTTTr
this county? It you will sav that
over your own signature, wo will give
y«u a chance to prove it, wo will
throw tho lie in tho mouth of the
poor, old, driveling traitor, who tit
lerod it ; we will tell Mr. Rengan,
that tho lio is a black as the traitot
soul of the author, as black as the
-«able garments in two hundred thou
sand houses, made desolate by hi*
ireason; a* black as the corpses ol
i lie live hundred thousand voting men
of A morion, w bo died in tho "blue and
grey" at. the beck and nod of Mr.
Reagan and his associates.
Mr. Reagan had belter go and take
lie slump mid mako speeches in the
••omiiig canvass, along with Jeff'.
Davis. But id' all things this talk ol
Mr. Rongun's about embezzlement is
iho richest. Mr. Reagan, who with
his intimate friend, Jeff. Davis, em-
bezzled tho | enplo of this country
into war, embezzled five thousand
millions of money out of tho pockets
of the people, embezzled tho young
mon into the army by hundrods ol'
thousands, embezzled them out of
iheir blood, and their lives, embezzled
a nation into ruin ; embezzled a quar-
ter of a million of wives into wid-
ows; embezzled a hundred thousand
families into mourning; embezzled
iho people out of lour thousand mill-
ion dollars worth ol i-lavos ; embez-
zled tho people out. of five years crops
and. time and loll them naked and
ruined. Bali! Mr. Reagan, got out,
go way, dry up; you ate getting old
and pussy; you are played out; as a
rular ,y"U ain't n Kticce.«s; us « public
man \ on are a dead boat; as a first
you've got a pardon in
your pot kot; your neck is safe from
ilie halter, and you ought to be
thankful.
Subside, Mr. Reagan; the people
lure sick of you ami your leadership
—you can retire.
It is a shamo to the Democratic
peak
tllO"!
going
Worth; A. D. Darrmll, Sherman ; and
J. R. Wilmeih, McKinncy—the last
us Corresponding Secretary of tho
first pilgrimage to thé eastern litera-
ry .-Mecca, Rufns VVilmot Griswold was
among the curliest acquaintance*.—
This gontlemnn was a prominent (iter-
uteur when men of letters wore less
numerous in New York thar^i|'pres-
ent. lie was born in BensTgn, Ver-
mont, in 1815, ami was consequently
hut nhout live years tho senior of the
oidor sister. Having been educated
us a printer, he became successively
a Baptist prcacher, a journalist and
an author. As an editor lie preside/l
o\;or tho destinies of the .Brother
Jonathan rifid i\it A'ew World, nmnjt
niorh" weeklies; tho Á'eiO J 'oner, a
celebrated literary hebdomadal, and
Graham's and tho International mag-
azines. To the last monthly men
tionod ho addod considerable chsrrac-
U'r. Tho lust, resembled Jinrper's
Weekly, and was bought, out by the
owners of that magazine after u brief
existence. In the wider field of let-
ers, ho should bo spoken of rathoi
.is a compiler than asan author, lie
published various collections of the
prose and poetry of Kngland and
America, and, in connection with
>thor authors, so*eral works of pop
••lar biography. No one was better
icquainted with the state of the lit
orary market, or with tho publishers
d' iho metropolis, than Mr. Griswold.
Tiie two rural devotees of litera
i ii re from the fur West wore strangers,
and needed a chaperon*. Ho came t<>
tho rescue. He gave them space in
•lis books, ffattoro.f them, encouraged
i heir hopes, and assisted them in
ending a market for their wares.—
I'oward Alice ho moro especially ic-
idined. Their first acquaintance ri
poned into friendship, friendship into
ntiniacy, and intimacy into love. Ii
wus said at lust that the parties woro
solonuily affianced. This was nearly
t wenty years ago, and Alice had then
passed thirty. He was still older,
ami would seem to havo passed the
hounds of juvenile folly, if those
hounds are ever passed by man. But
he was a blase, citizen of the world,
and she was quiet, retired, sensitive,
lomestic and unassuming. Trouble
came between the two in the shape
ol a woman of society, oxiernallj
moro attruciiv , u.«j -.ftOTfltrTrrrnTri-r'
I'OU :> v.v« n,
ceivo souiul
moral dot#,
the causo of
closely
exisioni
in the
sua
{'lice,^fonceiiiíTig Tor sorrows, kept
herself moro closoly at home, and
urned her altoiition more assiduously
l.o horspoolul labors, Tho story need
not bo fully detailed here. It has
been told over and over again ever
since tho world has had a literature.
Several ¿ears passed, and in 1857
Rul'us Wiluiot Griswold lay dying of
a lin^ot'iiig disease in the metropolis,
in poverty and alono. His literary
ventures iiud brought inadequate re-
muneration, and ho bad lived a lile
which it was not altogether pleasant
to look back upon. But tho sisters
hud made many friends, and boon
reasonably blessed by fortune. The
injured woman forgot her wrongs,
and forgave the past with a readiness
characteristic of hoi' sox. Sue camc
again to the bedside of the man who
had so grievously deceived her, and
watched with him day utter day, and
week after week, as life slow ly ebbed
away. The sick room wus made
cheerful with books, (lowers, and all
necessary comforts; and, to defray
iho accessary expenses, tho money
earned by days and nights «if labor
with tho pen was freely lavished.—
At last death ended the sufferings of
the falso lover, and the grave closed
over tho secret of a woman's sorrow,
now for tho first (iivo made public.
. V. Mercantile Journal,
opolwf Education.
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'•Education, sai.1 Edward Everett,
"la • bet,ior safeguard of liberty than
/finding army." The welfaro and
prosperity of a froo nation require
tho exisiince of vlrtuo and iutelli
genna in tiie mass of the people. Our
youth, thfereflprt should be nroperly
instructe<i in the principle* of science'
and literature, and they should re
instruction an to t|ieir
It is easy to see bow
popular education is
with the healthy
eociety, especially
" h society has as-
-been ift lib-
^ént (brodr*
ed loTho lie-
pnhlicao moitv, the first principles of
which is, that the people are tho
source ol* nil political power. Rnrh
individual for himself bus assented to
this furm of Government, and each,
therefore, is under contract with nil
for its preservation. The obligations
which any form of Government im-
poses on tho citizen, do not rout alone
in the constiiution and laws. Some
of tho most essential «ra implied in
tho very nature of the Government
adopted. Such are those which have
regard to personal character and con-
duct, and their influence for good or
evil on the stability and pormaneuce
of the political forms in use. .
It is universally conceded tlwtt pop-
ular intelligence and popular virtue
are indispensable to the existence and
continuance ol such a government as
ours; and if so, then, us the charac-
ter of the public will bo what the
mass of individual character is, it is
ho duty of every individual to be
virtuous, and to possess a fair share
of intelligence. Every man who lia
any voice or influoiiio in public af
fairs, is bound to inform himself and
act honestly; for if one is excusable,
all aro at liberty to be both ignorant
and disliono'st, and whenever such u
condition of things shall exist, the
Government being in tho hands oi
the people, and swayed by the majori-
ty, must become the most odious anil
oppressive of all tyrannies, and has-
ion to a violent conclusion. The
whole power of the community rests
with the majority, and no matter how
well defined and strictly guarded the
w—i . i v .I'V." _ ? I? ■} . 11
constun,! *!I<J.
xceotf Tholje li
, lie constant strong tclnptaijvns
o exceed those limits, and the grand
8o thorough is onr eonrietton
that noNRsTY should be an ahnolut*
prerequisite in every aspirant for pub
lie omco that we are impatientm
anything even remotely implying th<
contrary. For this reason, we har«
objected when mere honesty has beei
unduly magnified ae a qualification ii
wither officer or candidate; as if tbi-
wa« not to be rigorously demanded
(f> its fullest extent, of every one hold-
ing or expecting any place of public
trust f or us if this qualification couli
he so exceptional in any man that wr
must be culled upon to rote for bin
as a candidate, or sustain him as ai
officer, merely because fee possessor*
it. We huvo sometime* urged oil'*
View* mi.this point >ith « wariivil
which has perhaps 'seemed 40* oü>
friends uncalled for. But we see n<
reason to change I hem. MorHovor.
this appears a propitious time to rc-
iteruto u truth which, more than nn¿
other; needs to be worked into tin
public mind, via. í that integrity
should be deemed so essential in even
tnun who is io bold public office thu<
his name should never bo mentioned
as a cundiduto without it. If one has
not this, wo should talk of him as n
subject, tor criminal prosecution, bo'
never us u nominee; bid him thiuk o
Sing Sing, but not of the City Hall,
or Albany, or Washington^ Dishou
o ty, or oven well founded Suspicion
of it, is Buth a disqualification linn
no guilty man should over think ol
receiving tiie votes of any party for
any place. And wo would have af
aspirants well understand this; we
would huvc our young men eniorlilV
with this as the first axiom of their
political creed; we would have out
children learn it with the alphabet o
their dutiOs to the St ato.
How' lur wo aie from this standard
we need tuko no room to say. That
wo have boon continually rocodin^t
from it, i off lead of upproucbing, is
equally obvious. Fifty years ago il
is probable such transactions as now
occur every V\ inter in the lobbies of
every Statu House in tho country
could hardly have been found in a
single one; and all the putretuction
in Iho land could not have ap'proachcd
the stench wo now have in our cit}
[lull. But what then ? Must this
state of things continue; and this
corruption no on increasing? It" tho
oáfu
ng the silent hoi
brought back to
warmth, and enere
igaift, insto
oiccumbing to
tesa, drooping
deep to
indwart #1
, w ■
down in
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"Ho
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ii 40*. t .
laffllah ByUoliym .
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illustration of
c wrrviTiod nor itty fiaving
: of abips is called a fleet,
> fleet of shoep is oallod •
Printing Oifices not to be
Taxed.—William Alexander, Attor-
ney General, writes to J. 1). Elliott,
of Austin, Ksq., as follows;
Attorney Genkuai.'s Office, )
Austin, Aug. 25, 1871. )
J. D. Elli'Ht, Ksq., Austin, Texas:
Sill. —In reply to the enquiry con-
tained in your favor of tho 24th inst.,
"whether or not a printing establish-
ment. is exempt Irom taxation," I
would «talo that all mechanics' tools
used by any person actually engaged
iu any'trade, occupation or profession,
are exempt from taxation ; hence any
tools or implements used for tho pur-
pose of carrying oil tho business of
printing, are exempted from taxation.
, , , i The Act of April 22, 1H70, simply
ground to fight on attor | po.ei(BetK the exempting clauses of the
this, hvory man u ho is true to thoj At|t 0f Aug. 15. 1871, « bich will be
Government of iho United States lias loUn(J ¡n 84. of An Act for tho
Imon threatened with hunuing and assoKsmout and Collection of Tuxos,
iho ponitcutiary, with insult and
abuso long enough, If you will fight
it out on this line, it is a game two
. i It. is a shamo to the Democrn
Being persuaded of the «dvantngos ¡IomJoi>) ,|mt W(J o f( , o
ol nniformny in our public service. wr¡(ü ,h(M B|Jt wo tfivo' t
lu'Solvcd, \ hat wo reeommond t.ie ^onj|onittll not ico that wo aro goi
u<0 ,1'10 • '"'"i ,VP, I ,0 choose tho ground to fight on all
itsseuibly ol the Saints, and that ol
the Liiile Minstrel, for tho Sunday
School.
ticxob:vd, That a condense I report
©f the proceedings of Ibis meeting
with a request lor its publication, be
furnished to the Jivvivw, Timen, and
Advocate,
On motion, life meeting adjourned
to meet with the church at Hotfkberry
Grove, Collin county, Saturday, 10 A.
M. before the 1st Lord's day iu Feb-
ruary next, with an invitation to tho
brethren from all tho churches within
reach to come up with reports, with
counsel, and with words of encourage-
ment-.
Tho sessions of tho mooting wore,thomselvos^
attended with seasonable devotions, amuses and
and tho discussions marked with a and of all fasbionnblo pleasures is tho
nodulous loyalty to the divine word, ¡cheapest. It is capable of fame with-
can play ut from this timo out.
[ Houston Union.
Mtrstc.—Iloroco Walpolo wisely
said, " Had I children, my utmost en-
deavors should be to muko them mu-
sicians. As my oim would bo to
Approved August 15, 1870. (Seo
General Daw of 1870, page 212.)
Very respectfully, your ob't serv't,
V\ IIit.lAM Á IiEXANDIilt,
Attorney General.
Flake's Bulletin dono unces this do
cisión as unjust, but wo ugreo with
tho Austin Gazotto, which says :
of lion. \\ m. Alox-
security must rest, after all with the
involligcnco of tho majority to dis.
over tho proper boundaries of their
power, and their eeiiso of moral obli-
gation to keep within them.
In I he country iu which the poople
are invested with all tho political
power and aro called upon, nt certain
periods to elect tho functionaries of
Government the importance of hav-
ing every nun quulifiod to exorcise
i he right of sufl'rugo Is most obvious.
History teaches us that in popular
government there isa tendency to
unsteadiness and fluctuation. Tho
hero of to-day is often tho exile of to-
morrow. Under tho guidance of pas
sion, and unprincipled dotnagogues,
deeds of violence aro committed, for
which nu subsequent regrets can
mako atonomeut. But Iho people,
properly instructed, will promptly do
l ect the sophistries of the art lul do in
agogue, by a thorough cultivation oi
tho intellect, tho masses are taught tu
think before they net, and to modor
ate the violouco of their passions, us
well as to resist sudden misguided
impulses of feeling. Whan instruct-
ed in their various combined inter
ests, tho people aro prepared to uvoid
tho evils of excessive legislation.—
With enlarged and liberal views of
national policy and inspired with tho
true principles of national freedom,
love of liberty will not degeneraie
into irilicentiousness, nor contract in-
to an exclusive and sottish patriotism.
As it is not'ossary tu be virtuous, as
well as intelligent, the education
w hich is. n<M flMj>i'y for tho safety and
pi'usporiiy<íSp<ljp) State comprehends
■ill the instruction, restraints, and
moral discijftiiio which uro requisite
for tho government of tho passions,
the moulding uf the affections, tho
formation of an enlightened con-
science. Moral instruction is quite
us important to tho object had in
view in popular education, us intel-
lectual culture; il is iu fact, indispen-
sable to that object. But to be effec-
tive, it should be given according tu
tho best codo of morals known to the
country urid the uge. If we keop in
view iho ohjoct of popular cducution
—tho necessity of tilting tho people
for solf-governmont, no one can doubt
that uny system of instruction which
overlooks the training of tho moral
fucultics, must bo filially defective.
Crime and merely Intellectual culture,
so far from being dissociated in histo
ry and statistics, are, unhappily, old
acquaintance*. Know ledge is power.
sc!^ol*years!Wl!^l5Wl'tfl"gW '
worth preserving. History only re-
peats itself. Altor it bfguti to be
truly said, "all things nro \'enal at
lióme," tho fall of the City and lüm-
piro woro not tar off.
There aro two or Ihreo things we
want to say very briefly in this con
tied ion. Tho fact is (ho robberies
recently brought to light in New
York havo very properly turned tlio
eyes of the whole country hither, but
it muy be well for tho good people of
other piucos to remember that possi
lily something very similar is taking
place much nearer homo. This rule
of " dishonesty a disqualification for
office " is good for all lutitudos. It
has nowhere been enlurcod as it
should bo. .
Another thing, truoas trite, !* that
good moo of all parties will firui that
i hoy have been sacrificing too much
for party ties. Too often dishonosty
«Iocs not disqualify for office on "our
side," though it ought toon the other,
It is alleged that largo sums obtained
by tho-o Now York robberies have
been used to purchase corruptible mon
of both partios whoso votes were
needed for certain measures. Tho
prospoct is better than it was that we
shall know whether this is true, and
what tlioy did with tho money. At
uny rate, ii is a hopeful thing, now,
that men of all parties unite in fer-
reting out the facts, and appear roady
to imito in punishing Iho crime, it
is not so hopeful a feature that so
many should be ut .once squaring their
plans to incrcuso their own political
ciipitul by the means.
Tbo copiousness
'oiigiiQ, as well ai
ig the ability
noose- voeab«l ry en
XhihUfld, in <1)0 folio
nonymous words •
new, is yeta capital
ho nico dist¡notions which character*
>ze so many of our vocables. It is
no wondor tfalt wo slip occasionally,
oven the wariest of us.
A little girl wus looking at a píe*
turo of a number of shipe, when sb«
exclaimed, what • flock of
shins I" We oorronted her by having
hut a flock " - ' ' '" * k
and that a
dock.
And hoce wo may ndd, for tbe ben*
ofit of t he foreigner who is mastering
the intricacies of our language in f'o-
sped to nouns of multitude, that a
ilock of girls is called a bevy, that a
bevy of wolves is called a puck, and
i pack of thieves is called a gang,
"id a gang of angels is called a host.,
mid 0 host of porpoises is culled u
hoalj and a shoal of buffaloes ia
ealled a herd, and a herd of children
s called « troop, and a troop, of part-1
ridges is called M covey, and a covey
t" Iwautios is called a gnlaxy, and a
galaxy of ruffians is culled á borde,
and a horde of rubbish ia oallod a
heap, and u heap of oxon is callod a
Irove, and a drove of blackguards is
nailed a inoh, and a mob of Whales ia
called a school, and a school of . wor-
shipers is called a congregation, and
a congregation of engineers is oullnd
n corps, and a corps of robbers irf
culled ii hand, and a band of locusts
is called a swarm, and a swarm of
pooplo is called a crowd, and a crowd
f gentlefolks is called tho elite, arid
tlio elite of tho city's t hie vos and rus-
uuls are called the roughs, and
miscellnneoo*
¿ocular public.
[ American Educational Monthly.
I? k r. ifltoua.—On last Wednesday
ovenliig wo listened tu qujto a lengthy
discourse—near two homy loiig, from
flov. Rufas Burleson of Watfrt. Tlio
discourse was charactorizod by many
good points, bating its extreme length
and some uncalled-for ullusions and
flings by Iho speaker, to ministers of
tho north, the irreprosslble " ftlgger,"
tho Slate police, Stato guard, ote.-
Our poople—Republicans and Demo-
crats—expect something else from
tlio pulpit besides high-flown pane-
gyrics upon 'J ii ion or Confederate
Generals, and contemptuous allusions
to poliiical opponents and their acts.
During tho war t hoy woro nflliotcd, if
not cursed, with a perfect torMft of
politico religious preaching; but at
this day and hour tlio people demand
soinotblng different. Such preach-
ing—and wo regrot to say it—may
suit tho lutitudo of tho lower llrazos,
or beyond tho Cross Timbcr/i, but
here iu enlightened and liberal Gray-
sou county, the peoplo ol all naHies,
with perhaps very few exceptions,
desire something bettor,—aula of ii
purely, religious character, untainted
by politics of any kind. From such
Konnotis us alluded to, we exclaim in
the expressive language of Josh
Billings—good Lord, deliver us!
[ Sherman Patriot.
>
I,Em its OF Recommendation.—A
gentleman advertised for a hoy to as*
One other thing is dial this revived jsist him in his office and nearly fifty
call for inlegtity, and indignation nt applicants presented tbomsolvos to
corruption, must bo something more! him. Out of tho whole number ho in
than a xptism, or il will ho useless.—
Certainly, we believe tlioro aro men
of integrity enough, lis yet, in tho
city and laud to suve it, but they
must see the need, and tho duty, and
gird themselves for the?work. The
public sentiment for integrity must
be mudo permanent and controlling.
[ New York Mercantile. Journal.
u short time selected one and dis-
missed the rest.
"1 should liko to know," said a
friend "on what ground vofi seloctod
that boy, who had not a single rocom*
mondatlon."
"You are mistaken,"
said the gen-
tleman, "ho had u groat many, lio
but uiifortunatoly it is
purposes.
sometimes
j '*Tho opinion of lion. \\ m. A lex-j f,,r ovil purposes. To neglect
mako them hnppy, I think it tho most ander, Attorney General, on the sub-,||10 nu„.„| powers iu ednculion is to
probable method, ll is a resource j®'''- exemption of printing ostiin- o<lii<,nt0 less than hulf Iho man. And
which will Inst thom their lives, tin- '¡shutouts from taxation, will bo read'¡|' t|,¡H |uiter is omilted in populared-
loss thoy grow doaf; it depends on with interest, lhorocan bo no quos- acation, then literally nothing is done
not on othors; always l'on '',0 juotno and' accuracy of: toward creating and establishing pub-
soothes, if not consoles, his opinion. —Jefferson ftmes. ¡ lio virtue. If wo would have an in-
Helloctual, and at tho samo time a vir-
" Whero do you hail from?" asked tuous people, tbo moral powers must
a Yankco'of a traveler. " Where do bo cultivated, and brought up as near-
rain at all," ly as possible to tho highest standard,
astonished Jonathan, In this way only shall we become
hall; so mind your justly distinguished and exaltod
among the nations of the earth.
wiped Ills feet when ho camoin show-
ing thai ho was curofiil. lie gave up
The Tiuvemsr in the Snow.—Ajhis seat instantly to that old man,
traveler was crossing n mountain'showing ho wuh kind and thoughtful,
hoiglit alone, o\or almost untrodden: He look olf his cap whon ho cumo in,
snow. Warning hnd been given him and nnswerod my questions promptly
that If slumber pressed down his utid respectfully, showing lio wa« po«
weary eyelids they would inevitably lite and gentlemanly. Ho picked up
bo sealed in deuth. Fur a timo ho tlio book which I had pti'rposoly laid
went bravely along Ids dreary path ¡ upon the floor and replaced it on tho
but with tho deepening shade and¡table, while all tho rest atoppod over
freezing blast nt night thero loll a,11 or shoved il aside, and he waitod
weight upon bis brain and eves which quietly for his inrn^ instead of push-
seomod to be irresistildo. In vain ho ing and crowding, showing Hint ho
triedlo reason with himself, in vain j was honest and ordorly. When I
he strained his utmost energies to tulkod with him I noticed that his
shuko riff thut fatal heaviness. At!clothes were carofnlly brushed, bin
this crisis of his lute his foot struck hair in nico order, and bis teeth wbito
against a heup that lay across his ns milk ; and when he wrote bis namo
No stuno was that, allhongb'l noticed that his finger nails woro
i lile
path.
brethren
danger
of criticism
who ont tho
visiting
\itiotig
stis-
iio stone could bo colder or morelil'e-iclean, instead of being tipped with
less. IIo stoopod to touch it, and jot, liko that bandeóme little fellow's
found a bumnn body, half burled be-; in tbo bltio jackot. Don't yon call
neath a fresh drilt of enow. The those things letters of rMonimenda-
next moment tho.travler had taken a tionT I do, and 1 wonlcl give moro
brother in his arms, and was chafing'for what lean tell «boat*
bis hands, and chest, and brow, using my eyes ten tninntoa than
breathing upon the stiff cold lipe the tbo fine Icttors bo can bring me.*
W Hlvl V
boy bv
than all
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