that no waters could quench; a joy that mocked the toils and persecutions of earth; a pure, precious, priceless pearl of Christian charity, that the bitter-brimful, burning cup of partisan prejudice could not dissolve. From the day of his conversion to the day of his death he seemed never to doubt either the resources and promises of the Gospel or his own individual interest in them. He was often a member of the State Legislature: in early manhood was elected one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Ga., then the highest judicatory in the State; and afterwards represented the State with distinguished ability in both branches of the National Legislature. He opened his courts with prayer, and Sir Matthew Hale himself did not better define, by his illustrious example, the character of a Christian judge than did Judge Colquitt. While a member of Congress, he was regular in his attendance upon the services of the sanctuary--often preached in the Methodist church in Washington City to audiences deeply impressed, and on one occasion Ex-President Adams met him, as he descended from the pulpit, with streaming eyes, and grasping him with both his hands, thanked him for the sermon. The writer of this sketch does not propose a critical analysis of the character of Judge Colquitt, public and private, and an enlarged detail of the actions which make up the history of his eventful life. Such an undertaking would fill a volume, and if properly executed, a highly interesting and instructive one. He thundered in the forum like Demosthenes. He stood in the ranks of statesmen like Caius Marius in his consular dignity. He "smote" the multitude "with his eye." To a mental and social constitution possessing all the grace and flexibility of the Grecian model, and all the firmness and "imperatorial grandeur" of the Roman, he added much of the gayety and volatility of the French character. Never, perhaps, has any individual affected the public mind of Georgia so variously, so profoundly, so permanently. As an advocate, he was unsurpassed by any orator in the State; as a politician he stood in the first rank of statesmen ; as a popular orator, he had no superior in this or any other country. He was impulsive, sincere, earnest. He possessed wit and humor. These qualities, combined with his quick mental perceptions, and his attributes as an orator, and stimulated by the excitements of political warfare, made him a terrible adversary in heated political controversaries. That he should have made enemies in the course of an active life at the bar and in politics is no matter of surprise. Opponents imagined that his bitter raillery and impassioned declamation were evidence of his uncharitableness. Men often had no better revenge than to depreciate his Christianity and throw suspicion on his character. He made no concessions-an honest man, a noble man, he thought with old Trajan, and, perhaps, thought erroneously, that "Cæsar ought to die standing." If he had yielded somewhat to the prejudices of mankind, he might, in some greater degree, have escaped their animadversions. His best friends would not pretend that he was faultless. That he was an eminent Christian, his private virtues and triumphant death doubly attest. Judge Colquitt was a perfect model of a genuine Christian gentleman; a devoted, unselfish friend; none was ever less exacting, more patient, polite, kind, and untiring in effoats to serve. His hospitality was ungrudging, generous, cordial. Never did the writer of these recollections meet with another man, his equal in point of self-denying solicitude for the poor. He seemed ever ready to serve all their wants with his money, counsel, or substance. His beneficent, open-handed charities live in the "memory of the poor and suffering; and many will rise up in the great day and call him blessed." In the appropriate language of another who was intimately acquainted with his domestic habits: "As a master never was one more humane; none who ever kept more in his mind the remembrance that he too had a Master in heaven; and if he forgave not others, how could he expect to be forgiven? He was ever full of mercy and good works. His hospitality and his attachment to his friends you well know. How shall I speak of him as he deserves in the domestic circle? about the fireside? at the family altar? All kindness, love, devotion, self-sacrificing affection, in honor preferring others to himself. But he has gone to his reward, and oh! how rejoiced am I that the prayer was answered, which I have so often heard him present at a throne of grace, that he might die in his senses.' He was long and painfully afflicted. A complication of disorders invaded his system; for years he withstood their assaults, was always hopeful of recovery, and up to a very short time before his departure, he seemed to feel that he might recover. As his condition became more hopeless, he was not insensible to it. I saw him frequently during his protracted term of suffering; conversed freely with him on the subject of his Christian hopes-always found him calm, joyful, assured-sorrowing only to leave his wife and children, and expressing those natural sympathies, without which, if he could have been a Christian at all, he must have been one of an inferior type. The day before he was carried in his bed on the railroad, en route to Montvale Springs in Tennessee, I visited him at his house in Columbus. There he lay emaciate, prematurely gray, worn down by disease, until he could not support himself in an upright position in his bed. I never saw a more venerable man; a few moments' conversation convinced me that he was near the goal, hastening to his last account. His voice was feeble, his eye as clear as an eagle's, his mind calm and unshaken. He was quite conscious that his hold upon life was frail. Said I to him: "How do you feel in view of a change of worlds?" His eyes instantly gathered tears-gazing into the depths of my heart, replied: "My peace is as a river! there has not been a shadow between me and God in two years." He wiped the tears from his face and continued: "You talk of the dissolving of this fleshly tabernacle. In the midst of all my afflictions and persecutions, it seems to me it will take fire and burn up!" He then discoursed glowingly of the mercy of God, the kindness of his family, his servants, his mother and friends. I bade him farewell. I knew we should meet no more on earth. During his long affliction, I never heard him make the slightest allusion to any thing he had ever done that the world might esteem great. He seemed as wholly unconscious that he had made a sensation among men, as a child. One might have been with him for days, and never learned from him that he had been Judge or Senator. He was oblivious of all that the world most highly prized. Before his removal to Macon he had suffered excruciatingly. After his removal his pains continued. In addition to all his other maladies he had two fistulas. A friend who was with him there up to the moment of his departure, has furnished the details of the closing scene of his earthly career. "I wish," says the narrator, “I could relate all he said at different times of the glorious prospect that opened upon his vision. He was more emaciated than any one I ever saw, literally wasted and worn away. We could scarcely define the moment when his pure spirit winged its flight from earth. Oh! what a contrast to the strong, noble, vigorous man of my first acquaintance! He surely suffered more than any human being I ever knew-all the afflictions that flesh is heir to, seemed concentrated. He would so often say, 'When the earthly house of this tabernacle is dissolved, I have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.' He fre quently requested singing, which he ever regarded a most delightful mode of worship. It never failed to elevate his soul, and often while friends would sing his favorite, All is well,' would he rapturously exclaim, 'All is well.' He delighted to speak of the New Jerusalem where the inhabitants shall no more say, 'I am sick,' where there shall be no more night, where God shall wipe away all tears from our eyes, where there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying; neither shall there be any more pain, but God himself shall be there, and shall sit upon the throne surrounded by a sea of glass. To the last he sorrowed to part with his wife and children, though resigned to his Father's will. On Saturday he inquired of his physician if he could not return home to breathe his last, and said it was foolish to have gone to Macon with an expectation of going to Montvale, but he was so anxious on his wife's account to live to help raise the children, that he was willing to use every means for his recovery. "On Saturday afternoon he took hiccough, and remarked that he well understood the indication. That night when in a heavy cold sweat, he inquired of Dr. Franklin what he thought of his chance to live through the night. The Dr. frankly responded that it was doubtful whether he would survive until 12 o'clock. He did survive and seemed to be better the next morning, and as he sat in his large sick-chair, looking out upon the bright Sabbath with a greatly-improved circulation, he said: Who knows after all, but there may be more vitality in my system than the Dr. supposes?' On Sabbath night, oh! The pains, the groans, the dying strife!' On Monday morning while in great pain, for he suffered to the last, said he to his wife: My wife, my work is done!' Then,' said she, 'my husband, you will rest from all your labors!' 'Oh! yes,' he replied, there is not a cloud to hide my Jesus from my eyes-there's not a vestige of doubt or uncertainty of my acceptance with God!" So calm, so tranquil, so sweet were his dying moments, that his loving wife could scarcely realize that the king of terrors was bearing away her beloved husband from her embraces. Holding up his emaciated hands, and looking at them-the life-blood cold and purple in them-he inquired of a female friend and relative, 'Is this death?'-felt his pulse, and said: 'Dying in Jesus! In sight of heaven! Glory be to God!' His little daughter, the youngest, came weeping in her childish grief to the bed-side. He turned his dying eyes on her, and said, God bless her little heart!'-blessed his little boys, and entreated his beloved wife not to weep; to cast all her cares on Jesus, to rely on God, and she and her children should not be forsaken, but that He would be a Father to the fatherless; inquired of his son Alfred if he had a message for Dolly, (his wife who had died but a few days previously, in the faith and hope of the Gospel,) clasped both hands together around the neck of his wife-energetically drew her to him, kissed her again and again, and said: 'My dear, sweet, kind wife; you are sweet to my whole soul-God bless you!' Some moments elapsed, it was not supposed he could speak again. His wife inquired: 'My husband, can't you speak once again?' With his tongue so palsied that he could scarcely articulate, he responded, 'Yes, dear, kind wife'-'home!'-' home!'-and so passed away into the heavens. There was not a moment between consciousness and eternity. He was in full possession of all his mental faculties. Said he to his wife a few days before his death: Harriet, if heavenly spirits are permitted to minister to those on earth, it is a mission I will ask of God, to watch over you and the children by day and by night.' Oh! how fondly does the bleeding heart of his amiable, pious widow cling to the belief that this is even so! Philosophy and revelation conspire to assure her hope. 'Are they not ministering spirits ?" His mortal remains were conveyed to Columbus, where they await the resurrection of the just. Dr. Lovick Pierce preached to a large concourse of his former friends and fellow-townsmen a characteristic funeral-sermon. Earth has no power over him! He has passed the flood of death! His body sleeps in the sheltering grave! His emancipated spirit exults amidst the blissful scenes of the blessed Fatherland of Faith! Long will his farewell to earth-"home! home!" echo in the hearts of his numerous friends. De mortuis nil-nisi Verum ! Ex-GOVERNOR COLLIER. W. F. SAMFORD. Ex-Governor COLLIER died at Bailey's Springs, near Florence, Alabama, on the 28th ult., of an attack of cholera morbus. His remains were taken to Florence, and after funeral services, performed by the venerable Dr. Manly, were committed to the dust in the presence of the corporate authorities of the place, and an immense assemblage of the citizens of the town and surrounding country. Alabama has never bestowed honors on a purer or juster man. The Florence Gazette contains the following: "Henry Watson Collier was born in Abbeville district-in that home of genius, South-Carolina, on the 17th day of Janury, 1801, consequently was in the 55th year of his age at his death. Having acquired a classical education, he studied law, was licensed to practise, and settled in Huntsville, and a short time afterwards moved to Tuscaloosa, in which place he resided to his death. By ceaseless application to his chosen profession, he made considerable proficiency, and was soon promoted to the reponsible and arduous station of Circuit Judge, which station he held till 1836, when our present organization of the Supreme Court was formed. Governor Collier was chosen one of the Associate-Justices, which dignified position he held from June, 1836, till June, 1837. At this period, a vacancy having occurred in the seat of the Chief-Justice, and Governor Collier being the oldest Judge, was made Chief-Justice of the State of Alabama, the most honorable and elevated station known to our laws, a position which he held for twelve years, and one which he filled with honor to himself and usefulness to his country. In 1849, he was called by the voice of the people to be Chief-Magistrate of our Commonwealth, and at the expiration of his first gubernatorial term, such was the approval of the public of his administration, that he was again elected. His second term expired on the 20th of December, 1853, when he retired from the vexation and turmoil of the public to the more peaceful and happy walks of private life, in whose sequestral charms he sent the remaining portion of his time. Such is a brief and imperfect sketch of a man who retired from public service with a constitution so shattered that a rest from his labors could not restore him to his health. "The many high stations in which Gov. C. has been placed, and the long period of time the people trusted in his honesty, integrity, and ability, sufficiently establish his reputation, both as a civil magistrate and a jurist; but he was equally celebrated in his ministration of Christian charity and love, and to the kind husband and affectionate parent were added those noble and philanthropic feelings which so much exemplified the purity and beauties of his moral character. Requiescat in pace.” Governor C. was long a consistent member of the Methodist Church. While Supreme Judge he taught a negro Sabbath-school, in Tuescaloosa. During the time he was Governor of Alabama, occurred a trifling but characteristic incident. The boat reached Mobile Saturday night or early Sunday morning. A military company, after the fashion of Louisiana gubernatorial Sabbath parades, tendered him a "reception," which he declined, on the ground that it was the Sabbath, and quietly attended church. CHAPTER XVI. MISCELLANEOUS. SAVANNAH, GA.-The S. C. Advocate of January 12, contains the report of a committee appointed to express the appreciation which the Church had for those ministers who remained at their posts during the fearful raging of yellow fever in that city. The report very warmly sets forth the courage and holy devotion of the following brethren : Rev. W. M. CRUMLEY, pastor in charge of Trinity Church, who with his family were strangers, had resided here not quite two years, and realized in their household the power of the fell destroyer, in the death of an amiable and promising son. Rev. J. G. PAYNE, pastor of Wesley Chapel, who was also a stranger, and but a few months a resident, a young preacher of much promise, who died at his post, in the discharge of his duties. Rev. C. P. COOPER, who for the past year was in the discharge of the arduous duties of city missionary. Rev. J. E. GODFREY, long a resident of the city, and pastor of Andrew Chapel-a IS TEXAS OF SUFFICIENT IMPORTANCE TO HAVE AN ADVOCATE OF HER OWN? If size is to be taken into account in the settlement of the question, she certainly is. Let us see how she compares with other sections of the Church, South. Texas has an area of 237,504 square miles. Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, have altogether, 222,215. Texas is 15,291 square miles larger than all of them; enough to take in New-Hampshire and Massachusetts also. Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, have altogether, 244,941 square miles, but little over the size of Texas. From this it is plain that Texas is more than twice as large as the sections of territory served by any of our other Church papers. As to soil, scenery, climate, seaports, and all the elements that enter into the prosperity and greatness of a country, Texas, throughout her whole extent, is utterly unrivalled. As to population, the strongest, the densest, the most energetic the world ever saw is to be that of Texas. A goodly proportion now occupy from the coast to the 4 mountains, thousands more are pouring in, and our population will soon be equal to our size and soil. PRIZE ESSAY.-The essays, drawn out by the prize offered by the Louisiana Conference, on Ministerial Support, have been submitted to the committee for award, and award made. Dr. Young informs us that several were deemed worthy of publication. The one written by the Rev. S. H. Brewno, of Anderson district, S. C., was judged the best, and to the author the prize of $200 was awarded.— N. O. Advocate, Jan. 27. ORGAN.-The congregation of Carondolet-Street (Methodist) Church had their first pleasure of hearing "the deep, rich tones" of an organ, in that place of worship, last Sabbath. The instrument has been installed in the gallery, and looks and sounds as though it were in the right place-so say those who were there. We learn the congregation was very large, and sang with all their might. The energy and taste of Mr. John Irvine, a Sabbath-school officer, were largely instrumental in "getting up" the organ. It is pronounced first-rate in tone and strength. Cost, about $1800.-N. O. Advocate, Feb. 3. CHURCH BURNT.-Ebenezer Meeting-house, (M. E.,) about five miles from Winchester, Ky., on Todd's road leading to Lexington, was destroyed by fire on Monday, Jan. 23. The flames were first seen issuing from the garret of the building, and as no services had been performed in the church since the day before, it was evidently the work of an incendiary. [From Nashville Advocate, Feb. 8.] SALARIES OF THE PREACHERS OF THE KENTUCKY CONFERENCE. The manner of reporting the claims and receipts of the preachers of the Kentucky Conference had, previous to its last session, been such, that neither the preachers nor the people could form any just idea of our salaries, as compared with the salaries of the preachers of other Churches. And I suppose this has been the case in other Conferences, North and South. Our present mode is such, that our Stewards' reports will show the whole amount claimed and the whole amount received by each preacher in the Conference. The report before me is too long for publication, and it would fail to be readily understood by many if published; but the following result of calculations based upon it, may prove instructive to many persons who have desired information on this subject. Taking the districts in order, we find that for the Conference year ending Sept. 14, 1854, the Average of the claims in the Lexington district, was $523.06 66 receipts 493.82 66. claims receipts " 279.55 claims 66 491.84 receipts " 467.02 claims 460.87 claims 66 144.32 claims "" 197.00 claims These results have been obtained from the data contained in the report as it stands. But it is proper to state, that fourteen appointments are left blank, from the fact, I suppose, that the brethren who could have given them were absent when the Stewards made their "call." Upon filling these blanks with supposed |