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VOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDIAY, FEBRUARY 20. 189. NO.1 JOSEPH F. RHAME, ATTORXEY AT LA T, MANNING, S. C. JOHN S. WILSON, Alorney and Counselor at Late, MANNING, S. C. F N. WILSON, IXSURASCE AGENT. MANNING. S. C. A.LEVI, ATTORNEY A7' LA t, MANNING. S. C. ;MYNotary Public with seal. REAL ESTATE AGENT, FORESTON, S. C. Offers for sale on Main Street, in business portion of the town, TWO STORES, with suitable lots; on Manning and R. R. streets TWO COTTAGE RESIDENCES, 4 and E rooms; and a number of VACANT LOTS suitable for residences, and in different lo calities. Terms Reasonable. Max G. Bryant. JAS. M. LEIwaND, South Carolina. New York. Grand Central Hotel. BRYANT & LELAND, PRoPRIEToRS. Columbia, South Carolina. The grand Central is the largest and best kept hotel in Columbia, located in the EX ACT BUSINES C'ENTER OF THE CITI, where all Street Car Lines pass the door, and its MENU is not excelled by any in the South. Manning Shaving Parlor.. 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MANUFACTURERS AND WIIOLESALJ Doors, Sash, Blinds. Mouldings. .Mantels, Grates, etc. Scroll Work, Turning and Inside Finish. Builder's Hard ware, and General~ Building Material. OFFICE AND SALESROOMS, 10 and-12 Hayne Street,. REAR CHARLESTON HOTEL, Charleston, S. C. All Work Guaranteed. '-Wzit for estimates. THE HOMEWARD MARCH. Sermon by Rev. T. DeWitt Tal mage, D. D. How David's Soldiers Recovered Their Loved Ones From the Amalekites-The Great March of the Earthly Host to the Heavenly Home. The subject of Dr. Talmage's recent ser mon was "The March Homeward." and the text L Samuel, xxx., S: "Pursue for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all." The eloquent divine spoke as follows: There is intense excitement in the village of Ziklag.. David and his men are bidding good-bye to their families, and are off for the wars. In that little village of Ziklag the defenseless ones will be safe until the war riors, flushed with victory, come home. But will the defenseless ones be safe? The soft arms of children are around the necks of the bronzed warriors until they shake themselves loose and start, and hand kerchiefs and flags are waved, and kisses thrown until the armed men vanish beyond the hills. David and his men soon get through with their campaign, and start homeward. Every night on their way home, no sooner does the soldier put his head on the k:uapsack than in his dream he hears the welcome of the wife and the shout of the child. 0. what long stories they will have to tell to their families, of how they dodged the battle-axe! and then will roll up their sleeve and show the half healed wound. With glad, quick step they march on, David and his men, for they are rnarching home. Now they come up to the last hill which over looks Ziklag, and they expect in a moment to see the dwelling places of their loved ones. They look, and as they look their cheeks turn pale, and their lips quiver, and their hands involuntarily come down on the hilt of the sword. "Where is ZiklagS Where are our homes!" they cry. Alas: the curling smoke above the ruin tells the tragedy. The Amaleiites have come down and con sumed the village and carried the mothers and the wives and the children of David and his men into captivity. The swarthy war riors stand for a few ,.inutes transfixed with horror. Then - ir eyes glance to each other and they :r t into uncontroll able weeping; for when a strong warrior weeps the grief is appalling. It seems as if the emotion might tear him to pieces. They "wept until they had no more power to weep." But soon their sorrow turns into rage and David, swinging his sword high into the air, cries: "Pursue, for thou shalt overtake them, and without fail recover all." Now the march becomes a 'double quick." Two hundred of David's men stop by the brook Besor, faint with fatigue and grief. They can not go a step further. They are left there; but the other four hundred men -under David, with a sort of panther, step, march on in sorrow and in rage. They find by the side of the road a half dead Egyptian, and they resuscitate him and compel himto tell the whole story. He says: "Yonder they went, the captors and the captives," pointing in the direction. For --.,. y Tv OUr ista 't - w ore 480- -- a""* - Very soon David and his enraged company come upon the Amalekitish host. Yonder they see their own wives, and children, and mothers, and under Amalekitish guard. Here are the officers of the Amale kitish army holding, a banquet. The cups are full, the music is roused, the dance begins. The Amalekitish host cheer, and cheer, and cheer over their victory. But, without note of bugle or warn ing of trumpet, David and his four hundred men burst upon the scene, suddenly as Rob ert Bruce hurled his Scotchmen upon the rev elers at Bannockburn. David and his men look up, and one glance at their loved ones in captivity and under Amalekitish guard throws them into a very fury of determina tion, for you know how men will fight when they fight for their wives and children. Ah, there are lightnings in their eyes, and every finger is a spear, and their voice is like the, shout of the whirlwind. Amidst the upset tankards and the costly viands crushed nder foot, the wounded Amalekites lie (their blood minglng with their wine) shrieking for mercy. No sooner do David and his men win the victory than they throw their swords down into the dust--what do they want with swords now --and the broken families come together amidst a great shout of joy that makes the parting scene in Zik lag seem very insipid in the comparison. The rough old warrior has to use some per sussion before he can get his child to come to him now after so long an absence; but soon the little finger traces the familiar wrinkle across the scarred face. And then the empty tankards are set up, and they are filled with the best wine from the hills, and Dayid and his men, the husbands, the wives, the brothers, the sisters, drink to the over throw of the Amalekites and to the rebuild lag of Ziklag. So, 0, Lord, let thine ene mies perish! Now they are coming home, David and his men and their families-a long proces sion. Men, women and children, loaded with jewels and robes, and with all kinds of trophies that the Amalekites -had gathered up in years of conquest-everything now in the hands of David and his men. When they come by the brook Besor, the place where stayed the men sick and incompetent to travel, the jewels and the robes and "all kinds of treasures are divided among the sick as well as among the well. Surely the lame and exhausted ought to have some of the treasures. Here is a robe for this pale faced warrior. Here is a pillow for this dying man. Here is a handful of gold for the wasted trumpeter. I reall~y think that these men who fainted by the brook Besor may have endured as much as those men who went into battle. Some mean fellowvs objected to the sick ones having any of the poils. The objectors said: "These men did not fight" David, wvith a magnanimous heart, replies: "As his p-art is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuL." This subject is practically suggestive 'to me. Thank God, in these times a man can go off on a journey, and be gone weeks and months, and come back and see his house untouched of incendiary, and have his fami ly on the step to greet him, if by telegraph he has foretold the moment of his coming. But there are Amalekitish disasters and there are Amalekilish diseases that sometimes come down upon one's home, making as devastating work as the day when Ziklag took fire. There are families in my coingrgation whose homes have been broken up. No battering ram smote in the door, no iconoclast crumbled the statues, no flame leaped amidst the curtains; but so far as all the joy and merriment that once be longed to that house are concerned, the -home has departed. Armed diseases came down upon the quietness of the scene scarlet fevers, -or pleurisies, or consulnp tions, or undefined disorders came and seized upon some members of that family, and carried them away. Ziklag in ashes! And yon go about, sometimes weeping and sometimes enraged, wanting to get back your loved ones as much as David and his men wanted to r-econstruct their despoiled household.. Ziklag in ashes! S ne of you went off from home. Ybu counted the days of your absence. Every day seemed as long as a week. O, how glad you xmeV fie :. 4 for you to go aboard te stesus W C% car and start for home! we --vq. Oar went up the street where your thfC was, and in the nigft you put your hand on the doorbell, and behold! it was wrapped with the signal of bereavement, and you found that Ainalekitish Death, which has devastated a thousand other households, had blasted yours. You go about weeping amidst the desolation of your once has home, thinking of the bright eyes clod, and the noble hearts stopped, and the grUe hands folded, and you weep until you have no power to weep. Ziklag in ashes ! A gentleman went to a friend of mine in the city of Washington, and asked that through him he might get a consulship to some foreign port. My friend said to him: "What do you want to go away from your beautiful home for, into a foreign port!" "O," he replied, "my home is gone! My six children are dead ! I must get away, sir. 1 can't stand it in this country any longer3' Ziklag in ashes. . Why these long shadows of bereavement across this audiences Why is it that in al most every assemblage black is the predomi nant color of the apparel! Is it because you do not like saffron or brown or violet, 0. no! You say: "The world is not so bright to us as it once was;" and there is a story of silent voices, and of still feet, and of lovel ones gone, and when you look over the hills. expecting only beauty and loveliness. you find only devastation and woe. Zikla. .: ashes. -s In Ulster County, N. Y., the village c'inm was decorated until the fragrance of the flowers was almost bewildering. The maid ens of the village had emptied the place of flowers upon one marriage altar. One of their own number was affianced to a minis ter of Christ, who had come to take her to to his home. With hands joined, amidst a congratulatory audience, the vows were taken. In three days fgom that time one of those who stood at the altar exchanged earth for Heaven. The wedding niarch broke down into the funeral dirge. There were not enough flowers now for the coflin lid, because they had all been taken for the bridal hour. The dead minister of Christ is brought to another village. He had gone out from them less than a week before in his strength: now he comes home lifeless. The whole church bewailed him. The solemn processioh.moved around to look up on the still face that once had beamed with messages of salvation. Little children were lifted up to look at him. And some of those whom he had comforted in days of sorrow, when they passed that silent form, made the place dreadful with their weeping. An other village emptied of its flowers-some of them put in the shape of a cross to sym bolize his hope, others put in the shape of a crown to symbolize his triumph. A hundred lights blown out in one strong gust from the open door of a sepulcher. Ziklag in ashes! I preach this sermon to-day because I want to rally you as David rallied his men for the recovery of the loved and the lost. 1 want not only to win Heaven, but I want all this congregation to go along with me. I feel that somehow I have a responsi bility in your arrival at that great city. I have on other Sabbaths used other induce ments. I mean to-day, for the sa-e of another kind of inducement. Do you reatt want to join the companionship of your loved ones who have gone; Are you as anx ious to join them as David and his men were to join their families? Then I am here, in the name of God, to say that you may and to tell you how. I remark, in the first place, if you want to join your loved ones in glory, you must travel the same way they went. No sooner had the half-dead Egyptian been resusci tated then he pointed the way.the captors and the captives had gone, and David and his men followed after. So our Christian friends have gone into another country, and if we want to reach their companionship we must take the same road. They repented; we must repent. They prayed; we must pray. They trusted in Christ; we must trust in Christ. They lived a religious life; we must live a religious life. They were in some things like ourselves. I kuiow, niow that they are gone, there is a halo around their names; but they had their faults. l'hey said and did things they ought never to have said or done.'They were sometimes rebellious, sometimes cast down. They were far from being perfect. So I suppose that when we have gone, some things in us that are now only tolerable, may be almost resplendent. But as they were like us in de ficiencies, we ought to be likethem in tak ing a supernatural Christ 'to make up for the deficits. Had it not been for Jesds, they would have all perished; but Christ con fronted them, and said: "I am the way," and they took it. I have also to say to you that the path; these captives trod was a troubled path, and that David and his men had to go over the same difficult way. While these cap tives were being taken off they said:. "0, we are so tired; we are so sick; we are so hungry !" But the men who had charge of them said: "Stop this crying. Go on." David and his men also found it a hard way. They had to travel it. Our friends have gone into glory, and it is through much tribulation that we are to enter into tihe kingdom. How our loved ones used to have to struggle. How their old hearts ached ! How sometimes they had a tussle for bread! In our childhood we wondered why there were so many wrinkles on their faces. We did not know that what were called "crow's feet" on their faces were the marks of the back raven of trouble. Did you never hear the old people, seated by the evening stand, talk over their early trials, their hardships, the accidents, the burials, the disappoint ments, the empty flour barrel when there were so many hungry ones to feed, the sick ness almost unto death, where the next dose of morphine decided between ghastly be reavement and an unbroken home circle? 0, es ! it wastrouble that whitened their hair. It was trouble that shook the cup in their hands. It was trouble that iwashed the luster from their eyes with the rain of tears until they needed spectacles. It was trouble that made the cane a necessity for their journey. Do you never remember seeing your old mother sitting, on some rainy day, looking out of the window, her elbow on the windowsill, her hand to her brow-looking out, not seeing the falling shower at all (you well kncev she was look .ing into the distant past), until the apron came up to her eyes, because the memory was too much for her l "-Oft the big, unbidden tear, Stealing down the furrowed cheek. Told in eloquence sincere, Tales of w-oe they could not speak. "But this scene or weepitig o'er, Past this secne or toil and pain, Trhey seall feel distress no more, Never, never weep again." "Who are these under the altar?" the question wvas asked: and the response came: -'These are they which came up Out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in tile bood of the Lamb." Our friends we nt by a path of tears into glory. lBe not surprised If we have to travel the same pathwvay. I remark, again, if we want to win the society of~ our friends in Iheaven, are will not only have to travel a paith of faith and a cataipf trKiusti~"u. but we will also have bdtiCggno fe; their companion MMtiSPje .ant invulnerable shields and le ra'sit pliate, so Much as they wanted on the day when they cane a upon the Analekites. If they lost that battle they never would have got their families back. I sup pose that one glance at their loved ones in ,captivity hurled them into the battle with tenfoid courage and energy. They said; "We must win it. Every thing depends Upon it. Let each one take a ian on point of spear or sword. We must win it." And I brye to tell you that between us and com Iug Into the companionship of our loved Onea who are departed there is an Auster litz, there is a Get tysburg, there is a Water lood, War with the world, war with the frih, war with the devil. We have either to conquer our troubles, or our troubles will conquer us. David will either slay the Amalekites, or the Anialekites will slay David. And vet is. not the fort to be taken worth al gji pain. all the pxril, all the besie;:einag 1,00: who are they on 'a brighb O t If leaven yon der Tht4 are. those who sat at your$S teb the t-hnirnow vacant. There they maetoas gizon .on rocked in in faucy in the cradi Hthu hed to sleep in your arms. There they art., those in whose life your life was bound un. There they are, their brow nore radiant than ever before you saw it, their lips waiting for the kiss of licaven, iv gre.ting, tie'ir cheek roseate with iiie healt h of eternal snin:ner, their hands f koinim v.>n up t he steep, t heir feet bound g With the iti ix of heaven. The pallor of te ktst sicknies gone out of their lace, 3ser more to b - si,-:, never i mre to cough, et'er nore to miap, never more to be old, never u.re to wep. They are watching froma tiose heights to see if through Christ you can take that fort, and whether you will rush in up.>n themz-victors. They know that upon this battle depet. ds whether you will ever j.oia their society. Up! strike harder! Charge maore bravely! Ilemrember tiat every inch you gain puts you so much farther o:i toward., that lieavenly reulion. If this maorn.ng, while I speak, you could hear the caninonaade of a forcign navy. c'mi ing througkh the "Narrotws," wivh-l w:s to ieloil our ciif, and if they really shoua.l sec etd in carrying oic famiii lie-s away from us., iw long would we t-ke b.-tore we re solved to go after thom! E very weapon, whether fresh from Springlicld or old and rusty in the. garret, would be brought out; and we would urge on, and. coming in front of the foe, we would look at them, and then look at our f.unilies, and the cry wou!d be: '-Victory or death:" and when the animuni tion was gone, we would take the captors on the point of the bayonet or under the breech of- the gun. If you would make such a struggle for the getting back of your earthly friends, will you not make as much struggle for the gaining of the eternal com panionship of your Heavenly friends! 0, yes! we must join t!em. We must sit in their holy society. We must sing with them the song. We lutist celebrate with them the triumph. Let it never be told on earth oriu Heaven that David and his men pushed out with braver heart, for the getting back of their earthly friends for a few years on earth, than we to get our departed! You say that all this implies that our de >arted Christian friends are alive. Why, had you. any idea they wero dead They w oi1Li .g hodo4 here one of yoar friends lived and found him gone you would not think that he was dead. You would in quire next door where had ho moved to. Our departed Christian friends have only taken another house. The secret is that they are richer now than they once were, and can af ford a better residence. They once drank out of earthenware; they now drink from the King's chae. "Joseph is yet alive," and Jacob will go up and see him. Living, are they! Why, if a man can live in this damp, dark dungeon of earthly captivity, can be not live where he breathes the bra' ing atmosphereof the mountains of Heaven! 0, yes, they are living! Do you think that Paul is so near dead now as he was when he was living in the Roman dungeon! Do you think that Fred erick Robertson, of Brighton. is as near dead ow as he was when, year after year, hle lept seated on the floor, his head on the ottom of a chair, because lie could find ease in no other p)osition 1 )o you think that Robert Hall is as near dead tnow us whlen, on his couch, he tossed in physical tortures! No. Death gave themi the few black drops hat cured them. That is all death does to Christian-cures him. I know that whfat I have said implies that they are living. There is no question about thuat. The only uestion this morning is whether you wil ver join them. But 1 must not forget those two hundred men who fainted by the brook Besor. They ould not take another step further. Their feet wvere sore;, their headh ached; their en tire nature wvas exhaiusted. Besides that. they were broken-hearted b.eauise their homes were gone. Ziklag in ash'es! And yet David, wheat lie comes Up to thtem, di vides the spoils am~oug themt. He says they shall have some of the jewels, some of tile robes, some of the tr'easures. I look over this audience this morning and I find at least two hundred who have fainted by the brook Besor-the brook of tears. You feel as if you could not take another step far ther, as though you could never look up again. But I ant going to inmitate David, and divide amoiig you some glorious tro ph~ies. Here is a robe. "All things work together for good to those who love God." Wrap yourself in that glorious promise. Here is for your neck a string of pearls, made .out of crystallized tears: "'Weepig iiay endure for a night, but joy cometh in the mtorniuig." Here is a coronet: "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." 0, ye fainting ones by thme brook Besor, dip your bistered feet in the running stream of G~od's mercy. Bathe your brow at the wells of salvation. Soothe your wvounds with the balsam that exude-, from the tree of life. God will not utttriy cast you o!L. 0, broken hearted man, 0. broken-heartedl woman, fainting by the brook Besor. A shepherd finds that his miusical pipe is bruised. He says: "I can't get any_ more music out of this instrument: so I will ju-st break it, atnd I will thro w this reed .away. Then 1 wvill get another reed, and I will ploy music on that." But God says lie wvill not cast you otT tuecause all the music has ;gone out of your soul. "The brmis-d reed lie will not'break." .As fur as I enn tell the diagnose of your disease, you want divine nursir.g, and it is pr'Omlised you : ."As one whom his mothei' comnforteth, so wiill 1 comt fort you." God will see Syou all the way through. O troubled soul, and wvhen yocu conic doivn to the Jor'dan of death you will find it to be as thin a brook as Ilesor; for Dr. Robinson says that in April Besor dries up. anti there is no brook at all And in your last moment you will be as placid as the Kentucky miinister', who wvent up to God. saying. in the dying hour: "Write to my sister Kate and tell htir not to be worried and frightened about tthe story f the horrors arouiid the death bed. Tll her there is not a word of truth in it, for 1 am there now, and Jesus is with me, and I find it a v'ery happy way ; not because I am a good man, for I am not; 1 am nothing but a poor. miserable sinner; but J have an Al mighty Saviour, and both of His arms are arounil me." May God Almighty, t hrotugh the blood of the everlasting covenant, brinig us-iinto the companionship of our loved ones wvho have already entered. the Heavenly land and entered the presence of Christ, wvhom, not having seen, we love, and so David shall re cover all "and as his part is that goeth down to t'he battle, so shall h.is part be tllat tarrith by the staff." THAT FAMOUS CORN CROP. The Ofricial Report of the Coniittee Which .Ieasurted Dr. Parker's Yleld of Corni from an Acre of Ground. (Columbl~e Diy Regiseter.) A great degree of interest in the pos sibilities of corn culture in this State has been excited by the offer by the American Agricultarist of a premium of $500 in gold for the largest yield of corn from one acre of ground, and to which our State Board of Agriculture will add $50) more if the premium is secured by a South Carolina planter. .THE REGISTER has already given ex tracts from a letter of Dr. Parker, whose record for the largest yield of corn has never been equalled, in relation to the manner in which lie prepared the land, etc. Below will be found some oilicial statements in regard to the mat ter which were published at the time in the Farmtr and Plauter, and which now are furnished for publication by the Department of Agriculture: g }ir the Formter and Pl nter". ) REI'(RT ON CoRN. 7h the Erenfire Comistre of the St'ate .4ried GENTLEMEN: As a competitor for the premIiul to be awarded for the largest yield of corn from two acres of ground, i herewith present the certilicate of the committee, and the letter of Mr. Veal, who measured the land; also the follow inig report on the preparation of the round and culture of the crop: The ground selected for my experi ment was sand hill branch land. After drying it by underground drains, it was broken up with a conunen tongue plough in November. About twenty-five two horse loads of manure from mly cow house were spread over each acre in I)eeenber, and well ploughed in with a wo-horse plough (Glaze), followed with tin subsoil plough. drawn, by twe mules. About the first of March another coat of stable and cow manure was spread and plouglied in as the first. Early in April three cart loads of air slacked ime and two sacks of salt were spread over each acre and lightly ploughed nn der. 0n the 14th of May the ground was thoroiahly ploughed with Glaze's large iron plough, harrowed level and laid off thirty inches apart with a shovel plough. Guano and plaster was sprinkled in the furrows-near 200 pounds of the former and :mt, pounds of the latter to each acre. The seed selected for planting was from North Carolina and designated 'Bale Mountain Corn." After soaking it during the night in a strong solution of nitre it was planted from eight to twelve inches distance in the row, covered it with hoes and rolled the ground leaving it. perfectly level. On the 14th it was >loughed with a long, very narrow ow and dressed over with- hoes. On was repeated, each time leaving the ground leyel: About the first of July it was necessary to draw a ridge about the roots of the corn to prevent its fall ng. During a protracted drought acre No. I was twice irrigated and acre No. 2 had the water turned on it once. As you will learn from the certificate of the committee, the yield from acre No. 1 was 200 bushels and twelve quarts: from acre No. 2, 116 bushels and six quarts, making from the two acres 316 bushels and eighteen quarts. All of which is respectfully submitted. .1. W. PARKER. Columbia, Nov. 9, 1857. The undersigned, acting as a commit tee, certify that they have, with care, spel intended the harvestimg and mea srment of the product of two acres of roumd bielonging to and cultivated by Dr. J. W. Parker, whiieb ground we ould denominate sand hill branch land; ad tind the viebd of- corn to be on Acre No. 1 t wo hu'ndred bushels and twelve (uarts, and on Acre No. 2 one hundred ad~ sixteenl buishels and six qutar.ts aking from two acres (according to Ufr. yeal's survey). Itree Inainelred and ~i.teen lotshely~ anel eig/hteenU qtuarts of ood, sound corn, the manner and ineal uremien t of which we regard as accurate, ad such as would be entirely satisfac tory to us if we were buying. ft is knowvn to a part of the commit c that Acre No. 2, or a large portion (it it, wa plughied up at a late periou and plantedl over~, which very probatbly was ani inijuiry to the crop and~ lessened the yield.' Jonsx DENT, JRt., WM. WXALLACE, W. L. G4oonwiN, Jous GLAss. "Dairy Farm," (Columbiai, October 21, 1857. DR. JT. W. lPARKE---Deardir 1 mea sured on vesterdayv the corn lot as shown ime inl the'tield on West( side of the main rod, anid find it to contain one acre, and have measured oft atnd staked one acre' of corn i:1 the field East side of the road. Verv truly yours. THos. C. YE.L, Architect. (olumbia, S. C. October 21, 185i7. The Cowles- Initernail Revenuez. Bi11. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.- A call has ~en issued for a special meeting of the 11ouse commninittee on appropriations to morrow to consider the Cowles internal revenue bill. handall says that as his coit tee has completed all of the rou tine work of the session connected with th1e preparation oif the regular annual apiproprttion bills, he believes that it must as a matter of duty obey the in strueionis of the lfouse conveyed by the vote upon which the revenue bill was referred to the committee. lIe was un able to say wvhat disposition would be made of the bill by the committee on approriat ionis. A Drawni Slugginig Maitch. NoRTil J cul).iN, Ind., Feb. 13.-At the end of the sixtyv-sixth round the referee declared thle ighit between MeAulifife and Myers a dIraw. secretairy ColmandtConlfirmledi. WASm tNuTON, Feb. .13Z.- The Senate has conitirmedC~ the nomination of Coin miissioner Cohnain to b~e Secretary of Ariultuiire. The Itond P'urca,.es. \ AsuuNc.TON, Feb. 14.-T'he Treasury to-day accepted $886.500 four and a half per. ent. bonds at 109(dil91. BOULANGER'S POSSIBLE BRIDE. An American Lady may Share the For. turnes of the Ativenturos Gree-na;l. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 11.--The Rk public ibis morning announces that it has good reasons to believe that if Gen. Boulanger, the central political figure in France at present, obtains a divorce from his wife, he will shortly thereafter marry the divorced wife of Joseph D. Lucas of this .city. The lady in ques tion was, before marriage, Miss Fannie McLaran, daughter of Colonel Charles McLaran, one of the old and prominent citizens of St. Louis. The union with Mr. Lucas, whose father, Jamas I. Lu cas, was the wealthiest man in this city before his death, was an unhappy one, and she obtained a divorce a year or two ago, since when she has been in Europe, and is now in Italy. She is a very handsome and accomplished wo man, and first met the General in New York in 1S81, at a reception given to the delegation of French notables who came to this country to participate in the celebration of the centennial of the battle of Yorktown. le is said to have been much impressed with her beatuty on that occasion. Later he met her again in this city, and it is said that he has improved this acquaintance since Mrs. Lucas has been in Europe. THE APPLICATION FOR DIVORCE. General Boulanger's application for divorce accuses Mmne. Boulanger, nec Lucy Renouard, of having resided at the Hotel du Louvre while her husband was at the War Office; of having refused to reside at the latter building, where her proper.place and true domicile were; of ha4ing refused to reside at Clermont Ferrand during the time of his coin nand there, and of having only gone there for a month, when her husband was obliged to be in Paris to sit on a military commission: of lever having appeared at his residence while he was confined to bed after his duel with M. Floquet; of having forbidden her daugh ters to go there; of not only declining to be present at the marriage of her daugh ter, but of having twice refused her con sent to it, without giving a reason, in spite of attemps made by the General's notary, who went twice on purpose to Versailles, and of having thereby clearly shown that her only object was to thwart and interfere with the wishes of her husband. In reply to this Mime. Boulanger has lodged statements. As regards her resi dence at the Hotel du Louvre, she says it was General Boulanger himself who selected and took her apartments at that hotel; that during the whole period of the General's tenure of office as Minister for War the closest unity never ceased to exist between husband and wife, ex cept as regarded the question of resi dence at the Ministry, and that she went at Clermont-Ferrand, one of the daugh ters lived there with him, and his wife remained behind for a time, thinking at first that his residence there would be of short duration, and fearing a removal. She went, however, to Clermont-Ferrand while the General was there, and she even returned to Paris with him. As for the duel, Mme. Boulanger de clares that she knew that the wound was not serious and that the General was admirably attended to. She ob tained daily news of the state of the patient. and if she was unwilling to go to the house in the RIue Dumont d'Urville and to allow her daughters to appear there it was be cause she did not know what persons she or her daughters might be .brought in contact with. The statement of Mine. Boulanger is silent as regards her absence frotn her daughter's wedditng and her refusal to consent to it. This looks as if Mine. Boulanger'wished to avoid replying to a question which would exp~ose her to the risk of piassing judgment on the course taken by her daughter and as if, in such a case, she proposed to reserve her r ply, if it should be required, to be made in the pleading of M. Barboux, her counsel. It. ap~pears from all this that, except ing the allusion to the encounters to which she might be exp~osedl on going to see her husband, the statetment ot Mine. Boulanger contains no accusan on against the coniduct or p)rivate life of the RICHMOND TERMINAL PLANS. The Gigantic D~eal With Jay Oonh11 Nearly Consti umiatedt. NEW YoRK, Feb. 12.-Messrs. Dow & Jones say: "We hear that the finan cial plan of the Richmond Terminal con templates the authorization of an issue of $25,000,000O blanket bonids, .but that of this amount only enough will be is sued to take up the $4,500,000 floating debt incurred by the purchase of the Georgia Company, the preferred stock and the collateral trust beyond. The bonds needed to take care of the floatinig debt are said to have been sold last week." An officer of the Richmond Terminal is quotedi as saying: 'The ne gotiations between the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the Richmond Terminal Company have been practically com pleted, although the p)apers .have nio been signed. As soonl as thrsis d(one work will be begun upon the line from Birmingham to Huntingdon, where the Iron Mountain road will connect with the Missouri Pacific. The money for completing this line has been provnded.' LIKE AN OLD ROMAN. Rusian Sentry Sticks to his Post -Through an Earthquake. The Emperor of Russia has just deco rated andi rewtarded a private soldici wvhose fidelity to his duty recalls tihe sto ries of the Roman sentinels who perished in the destruction of Pompeii. When thc recent earthquake destr-oyed a small Russian town in Central Asia, this sol dier was on duty in the military treasury. Although the hoijses wer-e erashmin ar.und him this faithful fellow stood motionless, waiting death. The onl.1 sign'that he showed that he appr-eciated the situation was the fact that he raised his hands as soldiers do at prayer. For tunately a sergeant in the strecet saw hir amid thie ruins and instantly ordered him to leave his post which he did right wilnlv. ICE CREAM AND HEAVEN. A Trance Prodigy Rata the One and Thinks She Is In the Other. 1f AIRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 11.-Hundreds of people are still flocking to the resi dence of .John Parthemore, at Steelton, where little Lillie Bodmer is lying in what is denominated a religious trance. Her form is rigid. She constantly stares upward and claims to be in communica tion with God. Lillie is said to have been converted on the 1st inst.. at a revival at Steelton. Her religious fervor was followed by a calm, which was succeeded by. the trance. The-physicians are unable to prescribe any treatment, and the only things she has eaten since her confine ment are oranges and ice cream. She seems to believe herself in heaven and almost constantly speaks of Christ. She recognizes no one- by name. ,While talking of objects which she claims to see in the spirit world she will stop suddenly, her form will become rigid, her eyeballs roll upwards and re main fixed, and her hands and arms continue stiff in whatever position they happen to be whef she sinks into the trance. She was asked by Rev. Mr. Keefer where she had been, and she re plied: "Oh! I have been flying around with Jesus. We have - been to Highland, Ilarrisburg and Steelton. Oh! we have been all around." She never received any education, a fact to be noticed in her formation of sentences. Upon returning to conscious ness from one of her trances, during which she had wept, she. was asked what made her cry. Her answer was: "Oh! I was praying for my relatives " When any one speaks to her she does not look at them, but feels for their hands and takes them in hers. She has never read the Bible, yet whenever she is asked by any one who holds her hands about certain Biblical doctrines she will answer in an intelligent manner. When asked a question she cannot answer she says: "Wait, I'll ask Jesus." Then she turns her head to the wall, her lips move, and a little later she gives the correct answer. She speaks of the Lord with perfect freedom and assur ance, and is extremely affectionate with. those who talk to her. The girl never gets any spasms, is not hysterical and does not grow weak. She is wholly without pain. Said the Rev. Mr. Keefer, he'r pastor: "It is a wonderful case, but it is no mental aberration. I am not a Spiritu alist in any sense of -the word, but I do believe that this girl has direct commu nication with the spirit world. She- is with them; she speaks to them; she is a manifestation of the diviue power. I could give you columns of strange things she has told about people whom she it is a great mystery, indeed." Other doctors speak from a purely medical point of view, and say that the girl's mind is unbalanced. An Important Conference. On the 26th inst. this city will be the scene of a most important meeting, not' -= only to the Episcopal Church, which . is most directly concerned, but as well outside the denomination, for anything pertaining to the settlement of the "color question" or any branch thereof can but be of general interest. On the date stated a conference will be held in St. Luke's Episcopal Church (colored) between the commission ap pointed at the Episcopal Diocesan Con vention, which met at Anderson last May, and the vestries of St Mark's Church of Charleston, St. Luke's of this city, the Church of the Epiphany of ~Summerville, the Calvary of Charleston and the colored clergy of the diocese, to effect, if' possible, a complete separation into two organiza tions under the Bishop of the diocese of the white and colored churches thereof. The comnmission referred to was ap pointed at the Anderson Convention undler the resolution offered by. Dr. Porter of Charleston, and is made up of three clergymen, selected by the clergy, three laymnen, selected by the laity, with the Bishop as chairman, and con sists of the Rev. Dr. A. T. Porter and the Rev. Messrs. Ellison Capers and John Kershaw, and Messrs. R. W.. Shand, J. L. Manning and J. P. K. Bryan. A meeting was held by this commis sion near Hendersonville last August and another at Sumter on the 18th of January last, with the purpose -of dis cussing the matter entrusted to it with a view of making a report to the next convent ion, which will be held at Aiken on the 10th of May next. The decision reached at the meeting at Sumter was not made public at the time. but is now in part made evident by the conference arranged for the 26th in this city. It is thought probable thitt the com mission have decided to recommend, if it shall be found practicable tor the re commendation tn be carried into effect, the adoption by the Aiken Convention of the "Sewanee canon," or something similar to it, to settle the present dif tiulty. The canon in question was adopted at the Sewanee Conference held in 1883 for the government of missionary organiza tions within constituted Episcopal juris diction. Ii provides that in any diocese con taning a large number of persons of color, it shall be lawful for the Bishop and Convention of the same to consti tute such population into a special mis sionarv organization, under the charge of the' Bishop, such organizations and their ministers to be received into union with the convention of the diocese only on such terms and by such process as may be provided by the committee it self. It is therefore to settle, if pos sible, the "terms" and . process" re ferred to that the Columbia conference has been called. The colored Episcopalians of this city, who comp~lrise some of the most intelli- - gene and respected members of their race, are greatly interested in the com ing meeting. and at St. Luke's next Sun day the matter will be discussed in all its bearings and the necessary.- arrange ments made for the conference.-Colum ia Reaabter