The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1876-02-16
FoR The CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
LETTERS OF DAVIE CALDER TO AN
ELGIN GENTLEMAN.
No. 10.

Dear L.,-'Tis possible you may come
over to the great Centennial. The Phila.
delphians expect the world and his wife to
be present As Lossie Bre was 50 bent on
going TO the Orkneys, perhaps she would
like a longer voyage. shall not stir step
to the grand affair. No, not even to see
yourself, for such is my aversion to Cities
The solitude of Alexander Selkirk suits me
better than a crowd. It amused me that the
North Carolinisns brushed up an old Decla-
ration of Independence which preceded JEFF
ferson's by fourteen months, and forty thou
sand people cOngregated in the town of Char
lotte. It's signers didn't squander many
words upon the document. They were words
aa rem. Some are incredulous about the
Mecklenburg Declaration. What profound
historians We like North Carolina be-
cause Flora Mcdonald once lived in that
State. But we apprehend she was more 10y
al to her Prince than to the State. DR..
johnson when be went to the Hebrides, was
more anxious to see her than any other wO-
man in the world.
VIII you be good enough to send letter
to old Peter Bell, of KinrOss, and inform him
of the following fact In his letters which
were published in Richmond, he dwelt 50
lovingly on the Lowland Msuses that the
people think there are no such affairs in our
Highlands Tell the old gentleman that he
must seize his quill for second decade. Let
his opening letter be clap of indignation
against this huge mistake. If he will clear
up this negligence on his part, his name will
be immortal in this Southern KIRK. There
will be more than one ring about his name,
for concentric circles will be visible to the
gaze of Presbyteriaus, wearing beautiful col
Ors. If he neglect this hint, the halo will
be dispersed before the next Halloween
How transient is the fame of this world
Hope that the elder of Kinross Kirk may live
to the age of Parr, or jenkins. The waters
of Loeb Leven have often felt the keel of his
boat, and the innets have sung at the IN,
furling of his sail.
We have tried in conversation to correct
the error into which the people have fallen
The Lowland Manses of COrstorphine,
GerthrOn on the Fleet, DuddingstOn in the
woods of Neddry, Dalkeith, Tongland, among
the cascades of the Dee, Dunbar on the
Forth, Lanark on the Clyde, Churnside (of
the railroad we hope, Berwick on the Tweed
and many others are handsome boxes il
which ministers may study, and from which
they may go forth among their people. Bu
our Highlands contain eighty Parishes, anC
ministerial manses present an appearance
of comfort to summer tourists who come from
England and Virginia. This is true o
Fairkirk, BOrridale, Laggan, Elgin, For
doun, BslmOral and other Manses. Then
natural position is often such that they nigh
challenge the soft pencil of Claude, or tn,
wilder one of Salvador Rosa. Some of then
are half way up the mountain decliVitie8, ol
crown hills that rise in valleys, or overlook
locks equal to the one at Duddingston, or a
the seaside, or hidden in copse8 of fir anG
oak. We are not so outlandish as some peo
pie take US to be. Our Highland minister
have not been Modsratss to the same exten