The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
THE CHANGERS.

is located at Windsor. Henry county,
with capital of $4,000.
Roman Catholics in Wisconsin are
leaving the oranges, the bishop of Mil
waukee having issued pastoral against
them.
GEN. FTTzHUGH LEE, of Virginia,
favors the apparent objects of the
Changers, but objects to their secrecy
and to the introduction of women into
its membership.
The Kansas executive committee warn
those who organize oranges in occupied
territory that in future they will have
to consolidate with othe grauges or sur
render their charter.
THE Kansas Farmer objects to the
grange taking so much money out of
the state, and shows that if the dispen-
sation fee were So instead of S15 the
sum of S14,0 900 would have been re-
tanned in Kansas.
Toward the close of the last
session congress received a petition
from the colored citizens of Georgia
asking for an organized militia and
arms, coupled with complaint that
there is a secret society known as the
"Patrons of Husbandry," which they
fear intends to bear oppressively on
them.
The south is rivaling the north ard
west in the number and strength of her
oranges. The members of these oranges
wherever located, are brethren. They
don't ask each other whether a decade
ago they wore the grey or the blue.
They only want to know that they are
American citizens, and working for the
same laudable objects.
The grange movement has been more
successful in California than elsewhere.
Not content with the success already
achieved, the Patrons are starting q
bank of their own, with a capital of
$1,000, 900 in $4,000 800 shares. The
Patrons have been enabled to charter
fifty vessels themselves this year, and
are confident that facilities will be am
pie in future to take all their grain to
market.
A CALIFORNIA patron says of the re-
suits of the organization in his neigh
borhood: "The discussion of questions
of practical interest to the patrons,
which forms feature of our grange, is
having tendency to develop not only
better manner of expressing ourselves,
but greater willingness to make the
effort. Great Improvement has already
been observed in even the little prac-
tice we have thus far had"
NJ. L. RETTzEI, in the Indiana Far
mer, says of the grange movement in
Hendricks county: 1.-THE grange move
ment seems to have eclipsed everything
else, and is constantly increasing. Old
politicians and wire-workers are looking
down their noses with doleful express
sion. The farmers and laboring people
of the country are being more strongly
united than ever, because theirinterests
are identical. in union there is
strength, and being a free people, with
the ballot we expect to right our polit-
cal wrongs"
UNADILA GRANGE, Ann Arbor, Mich.
thinking that a wage of $50 month
was too high for hired men, sent an
agent to New York to capture forty
newly arrived Germans and engage
them for a season. After two weeks
work he secured his men and paid their
fares west. Arriving at Chelsea Mich.
all but eight refused to disembark. and
went further west, while six of the
eight hired themselves to countrymen
of theirs who were not patrons. The
grange is out about 81 900 by the at
tempt to import cheap German labor.
THE grange, national, state and sub
ordinate, is not porperIy the origin of
the farmers movement against the evils
under which tie agricuiturists have
long suffered, and from which they
sought redress, but it is more properly
an overgrOwth of, or a capitalization OF
the forces, both moral and physical,
which have been brought to bear to
redress these grievances, and is thus the
principal factor employed in CARRYING
this mighty movement into effect. Oh
but recent origin, without agricultur-
lists for its founders, the grange has SO
exactly met the pressing wants of the
times as to gain everywhere enthusias-
tic adherents. Farmers have derived
help from it farmers wives and daugh-
tiers have gathered new life and
spirit and energy under its social
and intellectual influence, and have
given IN return sOCiality to it's meetings.
Business and pleasure have been prop
erly combined; the monotOny of toll
has been broken and relieved by con.
versatiOn and song and harmless amuse
ment. Economy, thrift and manage.
ment have been taught its members.
Its success proves conclusively that il
has had the power of making average
men and women work in unison for 8
common good, and accomplish what
they hardly dared dream of. In the
meetings of the order all but members
are excluded, and its proceedings
while conforming to rural pursuits, are
designed not only to please and charm
the fancy, but also to purify the heart
and cultivate and enlarge the mental
faculties.
1t was to he expected that after theil
superhuman efforts politicians would
succeed in some sections in divertinc
the grange to partisan purposes. The
only wonder that they have met with sc
little success. The decease of Good
Hope grange bears out the Western
RuraPs asse, tion that, as soon as the
oranges allow themselves to drift into
politics, they will cease to exist. Tue
premature death of this grange will be
danger signal TO such bodies as may
be inclined to coquet with politics, and
transgress the fundamental law of then
order. The decease of one grange, nay,
of hundred OF a thousand oranges
from dabbling in politics, would be nc
reason why the thirteen or fourteen thou.
Stiuu Otll6E bOtlleSs WHICH nave not DfOkGD
their laws need despair The true value oil
the grange lies in its social and business
features and as long as farmers pock.
et-bOOks contain good tangible testimo.
malls of such value, the grange will live
On, despite isolated instances of failure
and Encouragement. And if the grange
were now to collapse it would have ac-
c0mplished n noble work. Farmers
have been taught that combination is
possible, easy, profitable. Monopolies
have learned that there is a step beyC L d
which extortiOn can not go. Politicians
have discovered that farmers are no
longer the humble servants of party
despOtism-t that there is a disturbing
element existing which must be taken
into account and propitiated. But the
grange. s mission is not yet fulfilled. 1t
will not pay farmers TO let it die
Western Rural
The Largest Church in America.
Says a Richmond correspondent :
The First African Baptist Church in
this city is the largest IN the world save
Surgeons. 1t numbers 5000. 1 at