The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-07-18

spirits and wines, sago, arr0wroot, &C.,
were entirely absent. When stimulants
were needed for the sick, the slender pri.
vate stores of the captain or myself had
to be called on.
THE CABIN PASSENGERS,
of course, Jared differently. They had
their meals in the forward saloon, hav.
ing comfortable table, chairs, napkins,
knives and forks, &C., while those in the
steerage had nothing of the sort. The
fortunate ones in the cabin had also
cabin boy and steward to wait on them.
OF course the ration system did not apply
to them, they partaking of their food at a
general table, as at q hotel. The cap
tain, the two mates and I took our meals
in the after saloon, getting the same food
that the cabin passengers had. Indeed,
/ think some of them used to watch US
closely to make sure that We did not have
the advantage of them either in quantity
or quality of "grub." Our salt beef was
usually made into hash, known among
seafaring folk as "mystery,") while our
bacon was carefully boiled, cooled and
sliced. We had also an occasional roast
or broi,ed fowl, generally good biscuit or
bread, butter, potatoes, Goldfish, mackerei,
baked beans, curry, every now and then,
and rice,y with an invariable desert of
pies, pudding, or ..hot cakes and syrup.
We had two meals day. Other ad-
vantages that the aristocracy of the Azor
possessed were pickles, vinegar, 8 limited
supply of fresh water to wash in and, q
plenty to drink. There should have been
a good supply of.yinegar for everybody,
for it.would have rendered much of the
food and the water greatly more palata-
BILE; but there was only small cask
aboard, and if was scarce luxury among
the people5 In the Ssteerage., The latter
were required to perform their ablutions
in salt water, (when they did perform
them,) and were allowed three quarts of
the beverage per adult. From this was
substracted sufficient quantity with
which to make coffee and tea. Each
adult received about quart and a half
day. 1t was issued as early as possible
in the morning. Capt. Holmes tried all
imaginable ways to make the food ego"
aswell as possible, having it made into
general stews, &C. Now, I expect that
most of us have seen the time when rice,
meat, meal and other etceteras, we'll
boiled together and seasoned, would have
been relished; but these people took a
curious antipathy to it, and, would have
none, of the mess. However bad the
supplies may have been, it seems as if
any sane sparson, out at sea with all the
possibilities OF a long voyage before him,
would refrain from wasting them. Yet
I've seen nearly enough bread, meat and
rice, which would have looked estable
enough to a starving man, thrown care
lessly or angrily over the Azor's side, to
feed all aboard of her for week.
Invent down to
PRAYER MEETING
and wished, for. the, first time, that; the
Ne,rs and Co,trier:was q "pictnrea paper,
thst Iwas an artist, and that the scene
could have been reproduced in all of its
strange picturesqueness, even were the
other two conditions fulfilled. On almost
all Of these occasions I was fervently
prayed for, one brother revealing by a
little extra plain language the probable
inspiration of this portion, when he said,
in tones of passionate pleading. "Bless
the Reporter. Oh, help him not to write
any lies to Thy glory, and the advance
ment of Thy work. Though the gram.
matical construction OF this sentence rem
dered it somewhat dubious, it was easy
to discern its raeaning.
The minister brought along in charge
of the A. N. E. congregation is fair
specimen Of his class. L think, from
close observation, that he is q man of
really earnest piety, who does his best
according to his lights. But the lights
are so, dim. He lacks entirely the edu-'
cation and training which many colored
Enthusiastically in the cities--pos-
sess. He seems barely able to psdn and
write, misprononncing .tho simplest
words, and PRODUCING aiafully ludicrous
effects at tbs most solemn moments.
ST''iiffifsse Y ifi fssse, twisted and half developed
ideas and reasonings on subjects, he COW
cred up and hopelessly confused what
meaning he had, with a food of misap-
piled, miscalled, and confounded words.
To the observer who thinks o moment
there is something peculiarly saddening
in this. This man is representative of
those chosen e1pounders of the plan of
sslvation who taught, and doubtless be-
feved, in rs that servants of God could
only work and vote for Chamberlain, and
that his political opponents constituted
the world, the flesh and the devil. Is
not this most literally the leading of the
blind by the blind2 Heaven only knows
what diverse, tangled and mistaken ideas
aud theories these poor darkened minds
dc extract from the shapeless mass of
confused words, sentences and metaphors
hurled upon them by their teachers.
Tie negro's intensely devotional nature
is distracted and wanders until nearly
every one acquires separate belief and
doctrine, some of them as horrible and
gross as can be. It seems to me that the
managers of the L. E. "A. could do better
than feed these unfortunate involuntary
pro6igals on theological and doctrinal
husks, which satisfy the natural craving
for religion without strengthening the
spiritual life, which is to be the negro's
greatest incentive and aid to civilization.
For preacher who can teach his people
sound, simple Christianity, there is work
to do among these emigrants. While we
are told that from the mouths of babes
and sucklings shall proceed wisdom, l
don't believe it was ever intended that
those persons or their grown-up proto.
types, should furnish steady intellectual
diet for men and women.
The third nautical day closed at II
o'clock on Wednesday, April "a. The
Azor has made good use of the fine
breeze of the preceding twenty-four
hours, and scored 214 knots, or miles,
thus bringing he. total run to 43S miles
in the three days, and putting her on the
average required to make Monrovia in
twenty FIVE days-144 miles per diem;
On this day the captain and mates raided
on the steerage and had every piece of
bedding brought on deck and spread out
in the sun and wind to be.aired and ven-