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GHRIsTLAn LITERATURE.

viewpoint fr0na Wif}cli christianity re-
CARDS man. that re are toseeh the cIiar-
acteristie features 81 christian iiteTa-
/ ture.' Our first inquiry thcn must be,
what are the great truths Whicn christi
anity reveals, and which must give tone
10 all the WORKS ~ Z literature laat l.
truly christian The central Facts Of
christianity, upon which al ~ truths
hang, are the lie, death and TesiFree-
ton OF Christ. me assumption o.
human nature = tie son 81 sou, Is ia
every point OF view, the most wonderful
event in the annals q the world. II
was the commencement al the laS{ and
most glorious epoch II the history OF
our race. n TIE risen man, thrlst
Jesus, we see tie type OF man III the
perfection on Ills humanity. IN as
Stunning the nature a mai and bearing
it in triumph through every conflict,
and over every Toe, Gilfis1did hot simply
redeem ii from the ruin Of the i,ili and
restore 1t back to Is original purity HI
Adam, but he infused into tia new, IN
destructible and divine life. As through
sin, we have fallen below Adm 50 in
Christ shall We rise ABOVE him. In
Christ, at his resurrection, humanity
was reconstructed after q nobler form
than at the first. Manhood redeemed,
is higher not only than manhood fallen,
but manhood created. Christ Jesus,
delivered from the curse, and exalted to
the right hand of the Infinite Father,
stands at an unapproaehable distance
above the first Adam, in all the glory of
his unfallen state. Here we behold Our
nature reaching its highest point of eX-
altation. Through the union of the two
natures in the one person, The chasm
between humanity and Deity Is bridged
over, and the Son @ Man stands forth
the acknowledged Son OF God, and heir
to the everlasting throne. Infinitely
wonderful was that work done in the
person Of the God man, when the human
nature was built up anew out of the
wreck of death, and brought into that
state of perfection, ia which the eternal
Son was willing to abide in it forever.
Christianity. therefore. is a new leaf
turned over in the history Of man. on
which he finds written higher promises
than ever met his eve before, and the
highest to which any creature can posi-
Div attain. To be the q Body of Christ,
the fullness of Him that tiileth all in
ali - is q standing. beyond which i'm
agination can conceive nothing of purity,
DIGNITY and grandeur-for it involves
absolute oneness with the glorious head
of creation, and through Hin with the
Invisible Godbead.
The position then Of the christian. as
DISTINGUISHED from that of the Heather
and the Jew. is this-Ae has before him,
in Christ q perfect moael-the HIGHEST
nossih,e form oflnmanitv: and secondly.
there is working in christendom the
mower of a new and higher life. flowing
from Christ in his glorified manhood.
,ro uaathonism bplonos the natural man
to Judaism. man under yoles and
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1t is currently rumored at Washington
that President johnson will veto thebill
for the admission of Colorado into the
Union should it pass the House OF Rep
resentatives.
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between negroes ard white people; and
to 60 tfef ubea NEGROES every privilege
and immunity which 9H- white citizen
Of the United State eaias4.
This provision plaees the negro above
every non-natuFaliza3l FOREIGNER In the
country. and gi1gs u tlle late slaves
rights which afe denied Il every Ger
man, IrishHlf4a. or ether foreigner re-
siding in the III i6,l.-!'os il gives 70 the
negro every right 81 al American born
citizen
Scol&tG 10 axe AMY rom lne south
ern states tae fisaa b which iheN are
emitted amer the Constitution as thoW
stands, te count the negroes as part oil
theif representative population, unless
they shall confer upon these the elective
franchise, attd hefei1 the Committee
again discriminate against foreigners.
T"tfd: To exclude all persons who par
ticipatee. III tae rebellion from voting for
member, o. Congress, President or Vice
ifesl''ett1' tti1 aleef 'le foart' VI @d's,
low
ioiu17h: 10 prevent the payment of
debts contracted ia aid Of the rebellion,
or claims for compensation for loss OF
slaves.
The bills Which the Committee report
are 70 be enaefed after the ratlflcaton
OF the amendment, The first proposes to
admit the Senators and Representatives
from such Southern States as shall rati-
~ the amendment.
The second declares that thePresident,
Vice President and heads ofdepartments
of the Confederate States; members of
the thlrty-slXth Congress OF the United
States; those officers OF the army and na-
Wy OF the United States who took part
with the Sohfederaey; All officers OF the
confederate army above the rank of col
ohel; ahd all officers OF the navy above
grace OF master; The governors OF each
OF the Confederate states, ana many 9th
ers, shall be hereafter lneilSlDie to Office
under the United States
Such is the plan for tie reconstruction
of the Union, submitted by this COM
mlttee, after an incubation of several
months-a plan which proposes to dis
FRANCHISE the negfoes-to subordinate
the late masters to Their late slaves-and
throughout the country, to place the
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BY TELEGRAPH.
THE NOON DISPATCHES
COTTON AND GOLD QUOTATIONS

WASHINGTON, Nov 2O.-A public meet.
ing of whites and blacks, held here last
evening to consider the suffrage question,
was addressed by Senator Harlan and
other orators, including one negro. Har-
Ian expressed the belief that if Congress
was petitioned for impartial suffrage,
there would be no difficulty in the pas
sage of a law for that purpose.
BALTIMORE, Nov 2O.-PresIdent John
son arrived here this morning to attend
the Masonic display. He is the guest Of
Governor Swami.
PORTLAND, November 2O.-The Hiber-
MAN from Liverpool Sth arrived. A
number of Cabinet councils are being
held. The London Times says they can
hardly be on the subject of reform.
Stock of cotton in Liverpool, 63l, 900
bales, of which 1900 are American.
New YORK, November 20.-Gold, l4ls;
exchange, 8; sight, 81; cotton, frmer,
at 34@359.
Arrived, steamer Saragossa, from
Charleston.
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More About ]. Wilkes Booth,

The Yicksburg Times of the 9th, after
copying a rumor which runs the rounds
of the press, to the effect that j. Wilkes
Booth was really in the land of the living,
makes the following remarks:
The above, with many other state
ments, bearing upon their faces equally
strong evidence that John Wilkes Booth
was not killed, have been going the
rounds of the press, and without any
desire to add another sensation para
graph to the already long list of this
subject, we make the following state
ment
There is gentleman residing within
day travel of Vicksburg "a personal
friend of one of the editors of this pa
per- who, if he has not shaved his nous
tache very recently, bears remarkable
resemblance to the local photographs OF
Booth, and long, long after the reported
death Of the actor, this man was arrested
in Louisville, KY, for Booth, and was
compelled to undergo strict examina-
ton, and establish his identity before he
was released.
The question is very pertinent one,
why were detectives in search of the man
who killed Mr.. Lincoln long after that
man was dead?
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Governor Seymour.

Ex-Governor Seymour, Of New York,
is not only opposed to the amendment,
but he spoke out on the subject at the
Cooper Institute. Here is one extract
from his speech;
We have more TO fear from the South
if it accepts the doctrine of subjugation
than we even had to fear from it's armed
rebellion; we cannot enslave them with
out enslaving ourselves. We cannot
have a government whose northern face
shall smile devotion to the popular will,
and whose southern aspect shall frown
contempt, defiance, and hate to the PEG.
pie of eleven States. The South has
comparatively little to fear from mis-
government; its lands have been laid
waste; its system of labor broken up;
its homes impoverished, and its families
thinned by the sword. 1t has seen and
felt the worst 1t can bide its time.
1t is not wise or safe to trample upon
those who for years, with desperate cour'
age, held their ground against the mil
lions we sent to the field, and the thou
sands of millions Of treasure we spent in
the contest
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minister referred to was the famous John
Armstrong, afterward Secretary of State,
To NJ. De Champaegny. Duke De Cadorc, Min.
lister for Foreign Relations at Paris.
PARIS. January 10. 1910.
MONSIEUR DuKs De CADoRc: You
must see the Minister from America. |,
is beyond all ridiculous that he writes oil
things that one does not comprehend.
prefer that he should write in English,
but at length and in manner that we
can understand. How is it that in affairs
so important, he contented himself with
writing.lctters of four lines? a
Speak to the Secretary who is about
arriving from America. Send by a
courier extraordinary dispatch in ci-
pher to America to make them under
stand that the Government is not repre-
scented here; that its minister don't I'M
derstand French, and is morose man,
with whom one cannot deal; that all OBJ
stacles would be leyeled if we have any
envoy to talk with.
Write in detail ON the matter. Let me
know what effect the letter from Often
burg has had in the United States, what
has been and what is proposed.
Write to America in such manner that
the President may know what fool has
been sent here
Signed NAPOLEON.
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the highest grade, under the auspices of
the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the
Dioceses of South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama and Texas.
1t was determined by the Board to re-
commence the erection of the University
buildings as soon as possible, and, with
this view, Bishop Quintard was appointed
to present the subject to the men of CAPT
tai in the several Dioceses named, and
solicit subscriptions. Several hundred
thousand dollars were subscribed before
the war, and the erection of buildings
began, but the Federal army destroyed
the latter, and it is likely that many of
the subscriptions will prove worthless,
on account of the loss of property by
subscribers and their consequent inabil-
ity to meet their engagements.
However, this is only conjecture on
our part; and whatever may be the fact
in this regard, the trustees will have
ample use for much more to build up a
University of the high grade contem-
plated in the plan proposed by its orig
inators, Bishops Polk and Elliott, and
adopted by the Board-a University to
rival the best Universities of Europe.
Such an institution appeals to the patriot.
ism and philanthropy of every man in
the South who is to contribute; for moth
ing conduces more tothe prosperity great
ness and goodness of people, than insti-
tutions of learning of an elevated char
acter, conducted on Christian principles
Democrat.
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HOW WE STAND.

The Knoxville Commercial says Ac
cording to the best estimates we can now
make there is in the Northern States
5000 voters, According to the vote
of those States, the Radical vote is about
2,5CO,OOO; the Conservative is about
100000.
We will now refer to the situation IN
the Southern States.
There is in the Southern States at this
time at least 100000 Conservative
voters.
In the whole tbirty-six States the Con-
servatives have 100000; the Radicals
have 100000 eA
Now look at the representation. The
Conservatives of 100000 have only 81
members of Congress, yet the Radicals
of 2,5OO,OOO have ZIG members Of Con-
gress. This condition of things has been
brought about by Congress refusing the
Southern States represc ntation. And
still this minority party are talking of
Constitutional Amendments and of de-
posing the President of the United
States
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VENETIA.
Henceforth One With Italy.
NAPOLEON.


The Venetian deputation had been
received with great enthusiasm and state
at Turin. After receiving the result OF
the plebescium from the Venetian depu.
tation, King Victor Emanuel said !.
This day is the grandest of my life.
Eighteen years ago my father proclaimed
from this city the war of independence,
and today you bring to me manifesto
tons of the popular will in the Venetia
provinces, which, united with Italy, de-
clare my fathers wish to he accomplish
ed. You confirm by this solemn act
what Venetia did up to l848, and has
maintained up to the present day with
admirable consistency and abnegation
i therefore pay grateful tribute to
these generous patriots, who upheld their
faith in the destinies of ;their country by
every kind of sacrifice, and by their blood
To-day foreign dominion ceases forever.
Italy is constituted, if not accomplished
Italians must now defend and make her
great The iron crown is also restored
to Italy; but to that ] prefer the one
which is dear to me, made by the love Of
my people.
Senators have been appointed for Ven
eta.
Royal DEGREES had also been issued
appointing the release of several persons
undergoing term, of Imprisonment in
different parts of the kingdom.
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NASHVILLE.
Cholera = Westward, Hol-M Muir.
der-Eleeted to Brownlow's
Legislature-What Came of
Cavalry Ride.

NASHVILLE, Nov lS.-The cholera
has again appeared at Shelby, Tenn,
and Thomp. Tollinger, an old citizen,
died Of it Wednesday night.
The country press of East and Middle
Tennessee notice q very extensive ex-
odus of citizens going on, for two months
past, in the direction of Texas and Ar
kansas.
William Tynor, sergeant of the 10Th
regulars, was stabbed and killed by a
soldier, on Friday night at Chatta-
nooga, at a low dance house, in a quar-
rel about prostitute present
Clark is elected State Senator from
Wilson and DeKalb counties, a Conserv-
alive gain.
Ledbetter, Radical, is elected floating
representative over Jones, Conservative,
from Maury, Lewis and Williamson
counties
John S. Bronsford, of L. 4 N. R. R.,
to-day received from L. II. Leib, captain
9TH cavalry, Mitchellville, tho following
telegram:
Arrived this morning from Black
Jack. Capture six desperate men. Jim
Taylor, Tom Tyler, Jim Price, John
Finch, Bob Horton and John McGleslin.
! suppose you know what they intended
to do next week. The band was organ
lied for the work.
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Woman's RICH is.

A Rochester, New York, paper says
Ii the women's rights women desire
success they must run their best looking
and smartest termagants. An elderly
dame like Mrs. Stanton, with large fam
lily and weak-minded husband tied to
the end of her apron strings, has none OF
the elements Of popularity. Still Mrs.
S. does very well to start with. She has
made a beginning. If our amiable sister
citizen, Susan B. Antony, and the gentle
Anna Dickinson, had taken the stump
in their respective districts, they would
each have polled a much larger vote than
Mrs. Stanton did But eight votes are
something Let women not be disheart-
ened They have just elected two mig
gers" to the legislature in Massachusetts,
and surely sex ought to be no impedi-
ment to political preferment where race
and color stand for nothing
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THE CABINET POLICY.
A Wild Goose Chase After Sup
positions.

WASHINGTON, November II. CHIEF
Justice Chase was again with the Presi
dent to night and remained with him un-
til late hour, interchanging views with
Mr.. johnson relative to the proposition
proposing a general amnesty in consid'
Grafton for qualified suffrage.
Governor Swami and several members
of Congress were also In waiting for an
interview with the President, but the eve
ming being spent in consultation with
Judge Chase, the rest of the visitors failed
to see the President
The amnesty suffrage proposition meets
almost universal appreciation from the
representatives of all parties here assem-
bled.
Chief Justice Chase is again at the
White House this evening in con-
sultation with the President upon the
subject of the compromise measures,
which the leaders of both the principal
parties are now urging on Mr.. johnson.
The compromise is said to consist in
offering to the South general amnesty,
in consideration of their accepting uni
versal suffrage, with qualification of
either property or intelligence. 1t is be-
lieved that this measure will be well re-
ceiyed by all parties. The President
seems inclined to give the subject full
and fair consideration.
The Cabinet meeting to-day was at.
tended by all the members with the ex-
ception of the Attorney General, who is
on visit to New York The meeting
lasted several hours.
Conflicting rumors are sAoat respect
ing Mr.. ChaseG second interview with the
President. 1t is said that the question
of impartial suffrage was discussed, but
all the statements thus far are specula'
tons and unworthy Of crsdence, as
neither Mr.. Chase nor the President has
communicated a word concerning the
conversation. All that 10 known is thai
three or four individuals, Democrats and
Republicans, have advised the President
TO recommend impartial suffrage TO the
South in his message.
1t has already been stated that during
the past week President Johnson has had
audiences with prominent gentlemen
from all sections in relation to the pres
ent cOuutlOu OF pOHlCat ahoio-
Justice Chase, General Grant, and MaJoi
Generals Sickles and Dix among others
haye freely given their views, being &C
tuated BY a desire for such action as maj
be best calculated to fully restore thI
late insurgent State, in all their relatisn'
to the general Government
The idea seems 10 be, that as long al
the executive and legislative branches
are divided in opinion the South must re
main unrepresenied in Congress; hence
the desire to effect some arrangement u
accommodate the difference between
them.
According to the current representa-
tons the President lends willing cal
to all suggestions in that direction, bu
,hEs fer nothing definite has been &C
eomplished.
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DUTCH AUCTIONS.

The Philadelphia Ledger says: THE
Internal Revenue Bureau was recently
astonished by an inquiry as to whether
sales at Dutch auctions we're taxable.
Not knowing what it meant, the officer
sent dispatch to the person making the
inquiry to know what Dutch auctions
we're, and, in reply, the definition in
WEBsTER's Dictionary was quoted :
Dutch auction-the public offer of prop
erty at price beyond its value, then
gradually lowering the price till some
one accepts it as a purchaser. 1t is an
nounced that the Internal Revenue Com
missioner decided that, under the law.
the sales at such auctions were clearly
liable 10 tax"
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ourselves. If we do this, we will grow
and strengthen, if not SO fast, yet more
securely. Since we have to depend upon
ourselves, we must the more carefully
and generously stand by each other, In
all the walks of business Our own
manufacturers, our merchants, our own
farmers, our own schools, our own news
papers, our own cities, must have our
patronage and sympathies; and we must
all be diligent to supply each other with
the best articles, on the cheapest terms.
Let there be none who would take adj
vantage of the general purpose of mu'
tual support, to indulge negligence, or to
discard ingenuity and energy.
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN I

The Baltimore Transcript says the
South is at this moment in the most pro
found quiet and repose. There is not a
rebel in arms; there is not United
States soldier necessary to preserve order
in any part of the Southern States (;
there is absolutely not ripple left TO
show where the great ship of the Confed-
eracy sunk, and sunk forever. Yet, at
Radical meetings. the proposition to
march slaughtering, burning and confs-
eating columns into this peaceful and
unresistiBg South, is received with up
roarious applause In the name of hn-
manity, justice, civil cation, what does
all this meau2
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THE soUTH-A CALM AND SENSIBLE
VIEW OF THE SITUATION.

The Richmand Enquirer says that
unfortunately for the Southern States,
the supremacy of certain party at the
North, depends on the odinm in which
the Southern people are there held.
Whatever adds to the bitterness against
us adds 10 the Republican strength.
Every injurious allegation has its value
in votes. Under these circumstances
we may as well make up our minds to
be traduced and villiGed, as business
and by system. The demand for tales
of horror will create market and sup
ply. The trade is especially diligent
whenever WEAKNESS or disquiet in
clnes the Northern people to candid
views, and thus imperils the Radical
supremacy. If that party were to thrive
only upon our faults, as doctors by
disease, and lawyers by litigation, we
could not perhaps complain. But we
must expect much more than this See
how the Northern papers are daily filed
with scandalous inventions, prepared to
order. The difficulty in New Orleans
gave opportunity for misrepresentation
which was so happily improved that
perhaps States we're thus carried in the
late election. The extraordinary ae-
tivity and audacity displayed at this
moment in the New York Radical press,
show how entirely they rely on SANDER
Of the South to secure their present
sway
Since such is to be our lot, it is wise to
adapt ourselves to it as we may, to con.
slider its effects in our calculations, and
seek the best that remains to us. In the
first place, we must consider that the
hostile state of the Northern mind, and
the incessant vituperation by which it il
fed. will render the influx Of foreign cap
ital and population exceedingly slow
We have been hoping Tor a large immi
grafton of valuable sort, but it has no
come. Our unfriendly friends q" jee
us with our failure, and we have failed
The tide of immigration pours into tn
United States in unprecedented current
but it enters at Northern ports, where !
is warned against the South as q nest o
villains, and pointed to the West; and u
the West it flows In short, we are DO
to expect any appreciable assistance
from the introduction of immigrants o
outside capital, SO long as more than tel
millions of people, with multitudes o
newspapers and the ear of the world, fu'
it congenial aud profitable, and in tn
line Of their business, to destroy Oh
credit and assault our character.
Nothing remains but for US to rel
upon Ourselves, and do the best we maj
under the circumstances. Locked GU
from the North and Europe, and LOCKED
in to ourselves, let ~ AZ least be true tC
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SCIENCE.

Professor Rawls is of the opinion that
hair, wool, feathers, nails, horns, teeth,
ETC., are nothing but vegetables, and
is not, therefore, surprising to see them
grow on the bodies Of animals after death,
He goes so far as to say these produc-
tons may be tFansplanted as vegetables,
and may grow on different place from
that where they were FIRST terminated.
Why may not a new crop Of hair be
set out 4" on bald head, and made to
grow2 If this theory be true, the APP
pearance of meu may be strangely alter
ed. Our beaux may fancy feathers for a
moustache, wool for side whiskers, and q
pair Of ornamental horns for the brow.