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SUNDAY READING.
The Church Home

For the Sunday Appeal
MEMPHIS, July ., 1863
Editors Memphis Appeal:
There Is in our midst an institution
but little known to the general public
TO which I desire to call attention
through the columns Of your widely
circulated paper. The institution re-
ferred to has been in existence about six
moEths, and in that short period Of time
has accomplished a great deal Of good.
1t is known rs the Church Home,
and is the first enterprise inaugurated
under the auspices Of the Charity
Foundation of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the city of Memphis The
objects Of the Home are the relief,
shelter and maintenance Of destitute
persons, but more especially widows and
orphans. In the reception of inmates
preference - given to those who are
members Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church but when there is room, none
are refused who are willing TO receive
the religious ministratons Of that
Church. There has been received, as
inmates, since the opening Of the Home
in January last, seven men, thirteen
women and twenty children and during
the extremely cold weather in the early
portion of this year one hundred per-
sons were temporarily lodged, and three
hundred fed, who were not inmates.
The number Of inmates at present are
one man, four women and nine children.
Twenty two infants and two adults have
been baptized at the Home, and two Of
the inmates have been confirmed. 1t is
regularly visited by some Of the clergy
of the city, and is working under the
supervision Of the two Boards govern
ing the Church Charity Foundation. 1t
has been sustained by contributions
I'm the people, many Of whom have
II as they were able, money and sup
gwen various kinds. The City Fa-
Plies ol likewise aided the institution
Tiers nave If furniture. The actual
by a donation the Home, including
,ash e ,rE;eb e snv dollars, have aver
rent ~ wiz. onn 5un, 'red dollars per
month. and with this SINAI. SuHi' auueu
to the supplies afforded by tle se ait.
itv of the people, four hundred : 'teIing
poor have been relieved and comi 'rDeg
and forty destitute persons have recelNeu
continued support as long as II was
needed.
This is no small matter to be accom- |
plished by such small means; and only
to the blessing Of Providence upon the
faithful and earnest efforts of the noble
ladies of the Church can these results
be attributed. They have worked under
all the disadvantages incidental to the
present unhappy condition of the city
and country, and under discouragements
of various kinds, which only they can
appreciate. But their faith and zeal
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st. George with the GIT OF.

This pink of chivalry was born about
the beginning of the fourth century, in,
or shortly before, the reign of the Great
Constantine. His parents, who had emf
grated from Cappadocia to Epiphania,
in Cilicia, were employed in an humble
branch Of the cloth trade; and George
himself was born, not in an enchanted
castle, but in a fuller's shop in that
town-a PLEASANT bower of half-cleaned
toge and smallclothes of those days.
Arrived at mans estate, George obtained
an important contract to supply the i'm
perial army with provisions. So far as
we can make out, this was the gallant
Georges only connection with the pro-
fession of arms. Instead Of riding
about on fiery steeds, performing mi
raculOus feats of arms, Staying dragons,
and delivering damsels, the fullers son
was employed in delivering bacon to the
imperial commissary and very badly
he performed that duty. His bacon was
generally rancid and the quantity short.
He was a true member of the armv-con-
tractor race, one of the sort that We'll
lington would have liked to hang, to en-
courage the others. He made lots of
money in this business. For long time
the powerful friends whom his Gift of
fattery kept around him protected him
from the anger of the authorities and
the fury of the soldiers. The former
had to wink at short weight delivered by
the favorite of the ministers, and the
latter had to chew their rancid bacon,
and curse the rascally contractor beneath
their breath. At length, however, there
arrived time when this sort of thing
could endure no longer. George had to
flee. He narrowly escaped death at the
hands of the soldiers, whose commons
he had so shamefully robbed, and he
was sought after, perhaps not very dill
gently, by the imperial officers of JUS
tiee. He managed to conceal both him
self and his money, and to reappear at
the proper time in more distinguished |
and lucrative sphere. Thus the great
George of England, the greatest knight |
of Christendom, the peerless champion
of virtue and valor, retired from the
military service of his country. What
would those thousands of stout knights
who Glove Moslew crowns to the inspirit-
ing music of his name, and who sought
death on the fields of Scotland in his
honor, have said if you had told them
that they were shouting themselves
hoa4e in the worship of a rascally ba-
con factor p Chambers Journal
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ficted with a rattan thong, are laid OIL
the prisoner while he is in this painful
position.
A fendish mode of torture occasional
ly used upon State prisoners is called
the hot water snake. Hollow pewter
tubes, made in the form of snakes, are
so constructed that they can be wound
round the arms of the prisoner. An
other, and the third coil, is sometimes
wound round the body. Boiling hot
water is then poured into the mouth of
these snakes; and as it runs through the
hollow tubes it burns into the unhappy
victims flesh, and occasions the most ex-
quisite torment This deyilish con-
trivance is still occasionally used at the
capital on State prisoners.
The torture Of the shirt of iron wire
is even more diabolical than the
boiling snakes A shirt-like garment,
made of very fine iron wire, with inter
stices something like those of fishing
net, is put on the prisoner, the clothing
from the upper part of his body having
DCCu ACulONGu II GDlu 10 ddJdCiCu W IL,
in such way that when pulled the shirt
will press down closely on the body, and
The skin and flesh will protrude, more
1r less, through the interstices. A
lnife-like instrument is then passed over
he wires on the outside, cutting or rasp-
ng off the protruding skin and flesh.
The operation is repeated at the option
# the dispenser of justice.
The torture of the whip of hooks is
10 less inhuman. A large number of
cry fine hooks are securely fastened to
handful of the fbres of hemp. The
7hole is then used as whip with which
0 beat the prisoner in order to elicit
onfession When blow is given with
his whip, many of the hooks will stick
D the body of the victim, and unless a
satisfactory confession is forthcoming,
he whip is pulled or jerked back by
lain force, and another blow given. The
peration is repeated according to the
ictatiOn of the presiding officer.
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have not gone unrewarded already thel
!. see the work bringing forth good fruit
: and have the satisfaction of hearing
well done from the lips of their spir
itual head in the Diocese.
The rent of the house now occupied
by the Home is fifty dollars per month
and is paid in equal proportions by the
four City Parishes, one lady being APP
pointed in each to collect the amount
from the Practitioners.
The Home is regarded as the starting
point of the work Of the Church Char
ity Foundation, and is intended to be a
permanent institution Ten acres of
land have been donated to the Founda-
ton, and the Board of Managers hope
soon to be able to erect buildings on it.
If our Church people, and others who
may feel interested in providing for the
necessities of the poor, will only give
their hearty support to the work, and
contribute money and material as God
has given them ability, we may hope to
! see an institution grow up from this
small beginning that will say more for
the Christianity of our people than any
other work that could be undertaken
This is emphatically Church work
| Christian wOrk-and should be done by
the Church, and carried on under the
supervision of the officers of the Church,
and it will be seen that the more of this
kind of work the Church is enabled to
do, the greater will be her influence for
good upon the people of the land
Faith without works is dead" and if
the Church and Church people do not
give evidence of their faith by works Of |
piety and charity, the presumption will 1
be, that there is little faith in them. /
Let, then, our people come forward and /
put their hands to the pillow, and support /
and carry out this work, to the very best
Of their ability let those who are able
to do so, emulate the example of those
generous hearted daughters of the
Church who have donated the ten acres
Of land let those who cannot give much
do their diligence to give what they can;
and let those who have nothing else to
give, contribute their time, labor and in
fuence, as much as may be; and the
blessing Of God will certainly be upon
their work, and we shall see life and
spirit springing up in the Church which
has hitherto been sadly wanting, or only
confined to few individual instances. 4
Contributions of provisions, clothing, ]
etc will be gladly received at the S
Home, No. GA Shelby street, and cash {
subscriptions may be handed to any of t
the Board Of Associate Managers, of G
whom there are FIVE in each Parish. '
" Blessed be the man that provideth a
for the sick and needy; the Lord shall
deliver him in the time Oe trouble"
ChrTPCHNTAN I
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SUNDAY APPEAL.
Fer the Sunday Appeal
LENGTHENING SHADOWS.
BY MARY K. rope.


LENGTHENING SHADOWS.
BY MARY K. POPE.
Youths clOudless Sky was Ger me
Sweet blossoms filled my hands
As the white-winged moments bore me
over Pleasures shifting sands;
The waves were sonly singing
on smooth, bright, Summer sea,
The golden sunlight filnging
Glory over grove and lea;
Bright, merry streamlets woOed me
sui my pastime TO prOlOng,
And feweSt warblers luTed me
With the dulcet voice Of song,
While with garlRnds Love adorned me
As danced the hours away,
Till the length'ning shadows warned me
OF the swiftly closing day.
Long and black they stretched before me
On the fair white cleaning sands;
Then a chilling fear crept DER NE
Meath my garlRnd's rosy bands,
And I turned 20 face the sunshine,
That the golden beams might throw
Far behind those CHASTITY spectres
With their wsrning shapes Of woe,
Dreaming thus to cheat the hours
OF the surely closing day,
Aud gather fresher flowers
BY the pIessure-haunted way.
But alas the buds hsd faded
When the sun had drunk the dew,
And the unseen spectres shaded
All the bright scene to my view.
Closer still behind me ever,
Though I turned my eyes away,
From my FteFs they would not sever
Wheresoeer my pathway lay.
Though the fragrant breeze OF evening
Famed my flushed and fevered cheek,
Stin my heart dark dreams was weaving,
And Its &C Olaess did but speak
10 my chafed and frighted spiiit,
or the gloomy shapes behind,
That came with claDklesS fet,ers
My dancing steps to bind.
Then gentle whisper stayed me
As with sEuddering heart fed,
And in loving accents bade me
Turn aud lace those shadows dread.
In snrlghted anguish seeing
All she lessons they would teach,
Ny poor, silly heart YVES fleeing
From the wisdom IN its reach;
FOT the phantom shapes that lengthen
On the evening path Of lie,
Are bat angels sent TO Strengthen
Spirits weakened in LIES strife;
o. to point with loving Ginger
10 carele ; feet the way,
Where the SaviOr's footprints linger
On the read to endless day.
Now & weary pilgrim watching
GiImpses OF the clOudiess land,
] love the shadows stretching
% L before me on Lifs's strand.
NOt the golden sunlight fiinRing
Brightness over dewy bowers
Not the spicy odors springing
From the many-Jinted dOw. IS
Not the breath OF music chauRung
Witching strains unto my ear
Not the rosy pleasures haunting
YOuth's morning hours, can cheer
The spirit once awakened
From its first de'usiye dream,
Like TIE misty shapes that lengthen
In the setting suns soft beam.
Tokens they. which the true-hearted
send Us from the distant hills"
Where each loved one Eecee departed
sill an angel ofic5 NILS.
sAISr MARY's.
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NEGRO SUPREMACY.

BY virtue of the acknowledgements the great
mass OF the white people, Tennessee is now
practically under the dominion Of the negro
1t was not, however, until ii became apparent
that no franchise law, however restrictive or
harsh as to the white population, VI uld retain
power in the hands OF our dOmes tic faction that
the negro was end wed with the ballot. To
serve alone their selfish interests, are The great
body of the white people Of the State, cit. zsns
of the Republic, long accustomed under an
Gent usage and the laws of the State to exar-
ciss the right OF suffrage, disfranehised and the
lately emaucipated African slave, untitled, ac-
cordfng TO the universal experience OF man
kind, for sslf-government, entrusted with the
gravest duties ever devolyed on fresmen. II
this legislation resulted from any conviction
that universal suffrage, regardless OF race, as a
principle, should be introduced into the Amer
lean sys EN-, however foolish and dangerous
we might esteem the measure, its projectors
would at least be alftled to that respect which
ever attaches TO sincerity. But we are not
them this consideration. If 1t was from prin-
ciple and from an honest conviction or DUTY
that the ballot was granted the rude, ilIlteraie
and still semi-barbarous negro, II would have
been done at once and not postponed until ey-
ery expedient had been tried by the present Of
fetal incumbents to get along will bout his vote.
Nor would an honest advocate Of negro outrage
deem il consistent with his theory to exciude
the great body OF white people from the elective
franchise, while bestOwing 1t on the African
race. We are, therefore, compelled in Justice TO
the truth of history, TO Represent all these ont
RACES on the ancient rights, liberties and D w.
ileges of American citizens AS perpetl ate sole
~ IN the interests of a party, and to maintain
in official position a particular class Because
the whites would not sustain this class and
their policies they are stripped of the fran
chises of American freedom and the African IL
arrayed against them-fOr the present DONNA
ting over them-an elevation of an inferior
race, however inconvenient and insulting for
the present to the superior, to ultimately result
AZ all Intelligent men must know, In the ut
most future calamity to the negro. In the past
career of the Republic, party antagonism has
been productive OF many evils, and great
wrongs-hes often been marked BY public 10.
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Two men in attempting to cross Nj
sgara river at Chippewa, in a canoe,
were swept into the rapids and over the
falls few days since. They we're both
intoxicated.
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Canine and Feline JeaIoUsY

A New York letter contains the fol-
lowing
a striking case Of jealousy in an ami
NAL occurred recently. We have New
foundland dog, who has been a great ia
vOTite in the house, and the recipient of
much attention. A few DAYS ago we
brought home a couple of " pointer .
pups, which became objects of great at
traction with young and old. The old
Newfoundland dog at once manifested
great displeasure on the pups making
their appearance. Whenever the ju-
veniles have petted or played with them
he has grOwled and looked as savage and
morose as could be, and he has become
an altogether changed animal since their
coming. Last evening, while they we're
being earessed and fOndled by the iu-
veniles, the jealous old Newfoundland
with teroeiOus glare in his eye, seized
the head of one Of them in his mouth.
and crushed the life out Of it in a-mo-
ment. On relating the circumstance
this morning to a gentleman who has
had much experience with Newfound
lands, | was surprised to be informed
that Of all breeds of dogs they are the
most treacherous and jealous. They
can never bear to see any other dog re-
eeive attentions, and will take a most
bitter dislike to the bestower or recipi-
ent of such attentions, and cherish their
dislike for a long period At the same
time they combine with this treaehery
and jealousy many splendid qualities.
A friend tells me that cat which has
been a great favorite with his children
and played with them constantly, sud
lenly refused to have anything more to
10 with them when he introduced lit
lie terrier into the house a few days ago,
Now on coming home at night, the cat
lies at the dog the moment the door is
opened, and, having endeavored to
cratch or bite it, skulks away and re-
mains out of sight all the evening.
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Within the past week six deaths
from casualty have occurred at Niagara
Falls,
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"A bill exempting property Of blind
persons, amounting to $1,000, from taxa.
ten, has been defeated In the Conneeti-
cut Legislature.
John H. Trap, Of New York, SEN
fenced tn the penitenlisry for defraud-
ing the General Government, has been
paFdoned,
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THE New York San says: 1t is stated
that the Rev. j. A. D. Wingfeld, of
Petersburg, Va, has been called to the
Church Of the Holy Savior, on Twenty
fifth street, at a salary of $4,000. Dr..
Potter, nephew of the Bishop of New
York, lately accepted the care of the
souls of those who attend Grace Church.
for the consideration of $4,000 a year,
and a small white marble palace on
Broadway. Dr. Hall, of the Presbyte-
rian Church, corner Of Nineteenth street
and Fifth avenue, has come all the way
from Dublin to feed the flock that wor-
ships there, which ne consents to do for
the modest pittance of $4,000 a year
in gold and a handsome parsonage. The
Doctor has the old country notions about
currency; he doesn't understand green
backs, but prefers his pay in solid metal.
Dr. Morgan Dix, Of Trinity, receives
$4,000 and house; while the more
popular preachers coup to a much higher
figure, Dr. Chaplin receiving not less
than from fifteen to twenty thousand in
salary, and the results of outside literary
work while Henry Ward Beecher's in
come reaches from twenty to thirty thou
sand from like sources. On the other
hand, our Catholic clergy are underpaid,
and have to distribute a good part of
what they receive among the poor of
their parishes, while the very worst paid
preachers of all are poor Judge Edmonds
and Robert Dale Owen who NOT onIv
have to minister to the Spiritualists for
but get abused for it BY the rest
of the world.
The APOSTLES received very different
instructions from the Savior, when he
sent them out to preach. Peter and
Paul and John had no salaries.
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That provision Of the Federal Constitution
which forbids State TO pass bill of attainder
or eE post JGct0 law has been either audaciOusly
violated, IL is SO easy of evasion as to be Ut
terly worthless f0I the protection OF American
citizens against the madness OF fae:iOn or The
HcentiouSness Of power and the intentions OF
the trainers fthat instrument have been ut
terly frustrated by the inge1 NOUS devices of re
venge and hatred. For it cannot be denied
that under the pretence Of fixing the qualihca-
ton of voters two-thirds OF the white men of
this State have been Invested Of the elective
franchise by Ii gisl alive enactment as punish
H5eflt for assumed offenses, for which taey have
never even been challenged by any process of
Law.
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A still more repUlsive and tyraunical feature
of these DISTINGUISHING acts is fOand in those
provisions which p-opOund TO the citizen. in
order TO exercise tne right OF suffrage, harsh
and inqutsitOrial oatbs, reaching not only his
conduct bus his opinions ~ the past and put
ting upon him the alternative OF committing
perjury, or OF becoming his own accGssr for
the disabling acts aid sympathies which. by
the terms OF the law, exclude him from the
ballO'. Thus has been inaugurated amid the
ctviliz lti on OF the nineteenth century, and in
a rep1blic, that odious fnQuistton INTO the Sc
cret thoughts and private opinions OF men
which has been justly deemed the peculiar dis
grace of even remote and bat barous pericd-of
even the mot Ignorant and cruel despoIis1n.
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Mt. 4. W. Brown. OF Tennessee, on behalf Of
the Commute, submitted the following

A Convention constituted by the peopIe OF
tennessee, ana representing the great mass Of
Ihe legitimate hony poIilic of what should be
nee anu equal state or the Federal Union
directed your memorialists TO make report to
ms assen0iage Of freemen OF the Oppres-
sions' usnFpations and misrule TO which this
StaIe mas Dsen subjected by the minlons and
asellS OF the party now in possession Of the
Government of the United States
Buchanan County bulletin and guardian., 1868-02-21
Agricultural Retnrns fcr & Grea, Brit.
aim.

By a carefGl average Of local ave-
ages, from reports similar u those f
this department. though not so sy-
lenaaiic ard general, the following Is
Inmates Ter the present season are
made:
Yield Of wheat PEI acre 10 England
aa.d Wales, o4.4 bushels, barley. 33.7
bushels; eats, 4l2 bushels; beans,
81 bushels; peas, s2.s bushels; po-
taioes, 5.3 .ous; tureips, l5.l tons;
swedes. l6.s tons; /; mangolds, 60 tons.
From returns received ia tie stats
tical department Of the British Beard
OF Trade. tie aggregate acreage un-
der al kinds oi corn crops in Eogland
aud Males was 7,94l, ,578 acres,
against 1921 PA acres returned in
1866; and in Scotland ,367,ole acres,
against ,S69, 9,5i0 acres in 1866.
The land under wheat is returned
for England and Wales at 3,255,9i7
acres, against 3,275, ,s93 acres in 1866
and for Scotland a. l15,ll8 acres,
against llo, l0l acres IN 1866 Esti-
mating the average product of wheat
at 28 bu-hel. per acre, tie aggregate
sield for 1867 would be 94,3s3. $50
bushels, against 94,79l ,o3e bushels in
1866. This years estimates, how
ever, gives only "a bushels to the
acre, which reduces the crop 10 about
81 100000 bushels.
The number Of cattle is returned
for England ard Wales At 4,9l7, 79o,
against 3,848, ,435 i'll 1866, and tor
Scotland as 979,i7o, against 937. .4ol
III 1866.
Sheep are returned for Eneland and
Wales ~ the number OF 22,o97 ,226,
against 1878, ,2o4 in 1866; and for
Scotland 10 the number 0: 6,s93,693,
against ), ,a55.o77 il 1866. The large
Increase in the number oi sheep re-
turned in 1867, as compared with the
previous year, is accounted for by the
fact that the returns IN 1866 were
niade fer the purpose Of the cattle
plague inquiry ut date preceding tie
lanbing season in some parts Of Great
Britain.-1y. Report
Buchanan County bulletin and guardian., 1868-02-21
Original Notice

Thomas A. Datis, Emcine Packer, Thomas h.
Bullen, Lathrop Bullen and James Jamison,
Vou are hereby notified that on or before
II the st day Of March. ls6s. there will be
on file in the office OF the Clerk of the District
Court Of Bueh .nan County. Iowa, q petition Of
Edward p. Baker, claiming against ou the title
in fee to the west half Of the south west quarter
OF Section eleven (lp. Township eighty nine
ts9l. north Of range eight 80 west of the 5th
7. ~. in Buchanan Comfy, and State of lows.
and praying that the title Of said land be per
fectei in him, and that all legal title and in terest
that You. or either Of you, o. any person claim
ing by through or under you. except the peti-
tioner, may be forever barred and cut OF. and
for general relief And unless you appear and
answer thereto on or before noon Of the second
day of the April Term Of said Court for lsGs,
default will be taken and decree entered
against You in accordance with the prayer Of
sad petition.
EDWARD =. BAKER, Plaintiff.
n32>4r by Lee 4 Wsart, ATTORNEYS.