The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1875-11-17

The West Virginia Legislature The Legislature
of West Virginia assembled at Wheeling on Wed
'nesday aud the message of Governor Jacob wa
submitted He represents the Agricultural inter
ests OF the State IN good condition, aud the man
uiacturing Interests as giving encouragement o.
near prosperity He asks the Legislature to ap
prnpriate a sufficient sum to defray the necessary
expenses OF board of centennial managers, thai
the State NAV be fifty represented at Philadelphia
next year. Touching the permanent location Of
the State capitol, Governor Jacob poiutedy asserts
that Fictitious Importance has been attached to
the question, aud appeals to the Legislature to
create hesltbful instead of sectional feeling =
Such sectional feeling will not enhance the State
reputation at home abroad, aud he says the seat
OF the government is not so important as the en-
actment of wholesome laWs-DSpdtch.
The Charleston West Virgioia) Courier states,
uDon the authority of Senator Davis, OF that State,
that report recommending the appropriation OF
one million dollars for the further Improvement OF
the Ksnawhs, has been made by General Hum
phreys chief of engineers and approved by the
Secretary of War; in whose forthcoming report to
Congress it has been embodied. It also announces
on good authority that in addition to the two locks
already under contract third lock aud two dams
viii be let to contract, so as to have the whole
under way by early spring.
President Gilman of the Johns Hopkins Univer-
slty, of Baltimore, returned last week from Europe,
where he has been for several months gathering In
formation concerning the EurOpesn universities
In conversation with representative OF the Bal
timore Gazette he said that while no definite plan
had been adopted, it was designed to make the
Baltimore University in measure unlike any OF
It's predecessors ia America and that It's several
departments would be presided over by men OF
eminent intellectual attainments.
New Orleans November II Hon. Jefferson Da-
Wis has accepted the presidency ct the American
Department of the Mississippi Valley Society Of
London, rendered him by the president OF the or
ganzatioD.
The object Of this movement is to direct atten'
ton to the development of the commercial, ogIl-
cultural and mineral resources of the Valley OF the
Mississippi.
Col Preston will discuss before the Teachers
Institute in Lexington, on the 18th, THE merits OF
the new Statue of jackson as a work Of Art y
Oriental Finauciering The Reputation by Tur-
KEY of half OF its debt has created great excitement
bonds have been regarded for decade past as
gambling stock, it being well known that the In
terest was paid from the proceeds Of New loans.
Turkey began borrowing Immediately after the
Crmesn war, and has gone on borrowing ever
since, being tempted into needless debt and eX-
travagsnce by the readiness Of capitalists to lend.
Those capitalists are now denouncing the Sultan
and his Grand VizeT as scouudres and bankrupts,
and they express fears that if one half the debt
be paid By reputation now, the quick. witted ORR
entails will not be slow to discover that the other
half can be paid BY reputation next January
There seems TO be general apprehension that the
khedive Of Egypt will follow the example of bis
Suzsrain. -Sn.
Religion in Politics =" If you don't want reli-
gion IL politics, said layman in the cars the
other day, where on earth do you want it?'-
So says the Philadelphia Presbyterian. But week
before, the same paper had an excellent article I'M
der the head Of "a sect in politics, in which 1t
took the Roman Catholics to task for trying to
make their church party IN politics on the Com
mon School question
We want religion in everything, politics. and
every act of our lives. But, as Robert Hall said
about Calviuism in preaching We want it as we
want sugar in our Coffee A man religion should
make him pure, honest, and patriotic, and then
his purity, and honesty aud patriotism should
make him good citizen. 1t is the indirect effect
of religion that we want in our politics The State
was divnely appointed to do one set of things, and
the Church another, and this effort to make the
Church do what the State was organized to do, is
the grand error of the Roman Catholics and of
many Protestant churches also, aud the sooner
Protestants throw aside this filthy rag Of Roman
ISM the better it will be for them and the country
at large.-"H" az ST. Louis Presbyterian.