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A StBLiME SACRIFICE. HOW CHRIST PURCHASED OUR DE .. ; LIVERANCE on calvary. . ' -,i 3 c Dr. Taimai? Delivers an Interesting D? ctpkgoe OB Paul'# Bald Cfcstteaqpe - - \\ I* He That C^ndemn etitr'? CJQxtet Oar laterces sorat a?? Throne of God Beooklvn, Aag. 13. ? Kev. Dr. Talmage today chose for his subject ?A Bold Challenge," the text being: j Romans viii, 34: "Who is he that eoodemneth? It is Christ that died, yea, rather that is risen again, who w* even at theYight hand of God, who also maketh intercession for as."/" >. "This is the last sermon I shaJf-ever preach," s&id'Christmas Evans on the I3th of June, 1838. .Three days after ward he expired. I do not know what his text was, but I know that no mas could choose a better theme ? though he knew it was the last time he should ever preach ? than the subject found in this text Paul Hung this challenge of the text to the feet of all ecclesiastical and pivil authority*, fie feared neither swords nor lions, earth nor hell. Diocletian slew uncounted thousands under his administration, and the world has been full of persecution; but all the perse cutors of the world could not affiright Paul. Was it because he was physi cally strong? Oh, no. I suppose he was very much weakened by exposure and maltreatment Was it because he was lacking in sensitiveness? No; you find t he most delicate shades of feeling playing in and out his letters and aer, aaons. Some of his -communications burst into tears. What was it that lifted Paid into this triumphant mood? The thought of a Saviour dead, a Saviour risen, a Saviour exalted, a Saviour interceding. SUBLIME SACRIFICE. All tlje world has tang the praise of Princess Alice. One child having died ^ofa contagious disease ? she was in ^ the room wherre another was dying, and the court physician said to her, "You must not breathe the breath of this child or you yourself ' will die." But seeing the child jnenrning because of the death of her brother the mother stooped down and in sympathy kissed the little one, caught the disease and perished. All the world sang tfye , heroism and the self sacrifice of Prin cess Alice, but I have to tell you that when our race was dying the Lord Jesus stooped down and gave us the liaeof his everlasting love and - per is&ed that we might live. "It is Christ ! that died." * "t. "3* Can you tell me how tender hearted Pay! could find anything to rejoice at in the horrible death scene of Calvary? i We weep at funerals; we are sympa thetic when we see a stranger die; when a murderer steps upon the | tcaffold we pray for his departing, J spirit, and how could Paul ? the great hearted Paul?find anything to be' pleased with at the funeral of a God?' Besides tbat, Gbri*t had only recently died, and the sorrow was fresh in t&e | memory of the world, ^pd how in the fresh memory of a Saviour's death could Paul be exultant? It was because Paul saw in that death his own deliverance^ and the de liverance of a race from ^t231 worse disaster. He saw the gap into which the race must plunge, and he s *w the bleg&ng hands of Christ close it The glittering steel on the top of the ex ecutioner^ spear in his *ig-kt kindled mto a torch to light men heavenward. flbe persecutors saw over the cross five words written in Hebrew, Greek and Latin; but Paul paw oggyjhe cross of | Christ only ^ expiation i" He heard in the dying groan ofChrist his own groan of eternal torture taken by another. Paul said to himself, "Had it not been that Christ volnn ; teered in my behalf, those would have ijeen my mauled hands and feet, my.j gashed side, my crimson temples." ' ~ THE* BUBDB? OP CHXIST. Men of great physical endurance have sometimes carried very heavy burdens? 300 pounds, 400 pounds? and they have still said, "My strength vsnot yet tested. Put on more weight" xfaisffor awhile tiiey were compelled to rfayr ont- "Stop.; I can carry no J mere.1' But the burden of Christ was illimitable. First, there was bis own burden- of hunger and thirst and be reavement and a thousand outrages that have been heaped uppn him, and on top of that burden were the sor rows of his poor old mother, and on top of those burdens the crimes of the ruffians who were executing him. . - "Stop P" you cry. "It is enough. Christ can bear no more." And Christ says, "Roll on more burdens. Roll pn me the sins of this entire nation, and after ihat roll on nia the sins ofthein -babited earth, and tb^ roll en me the one <uf the 4,000 yeafrs^ast, so far as those sins have been -forgiven." And. the angek of God, seeing the awful pressure, Sry: "Stop! ] He can bear no more** And ih& bioed rushing to the ncetrel'and Kp N^sma to cry out! "Eooqgh! He can ensure no mores" But Christ says, "JRoll on a greater burden? ^oll on the sins of the nestf L 1,900 years, roll on me the sins of all -.the succeeding ages; roll on me the agonies ^ hell, ages on ages, the fur naces and the prison houses and the tortures." That i^what the Bible meant when it asps, ("He bore our sins and csaatied ew jorreite." . "Kow," says Paul; *1 am free. That suffering purchased my deliverance. Gog sever jollects a debt twice. I have a recgapi fti full If God is satis fied* itfc me, then what do all the ^Jbfea ts of earth and hell amount to? Bring on all your witnesses," says PauL j 'Show all yourlbroe. Do your #orst against my soul. I defy you. * I dare you. I challenge you. Wbo is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died.* OS, what a strong argument that pats in the Kami of every Chris-, tian man? Some day all the pastjga*: of his Kfe come down! on him in a fiery troopr3 acd they pound away at the gate k hiksoul, and they say: "We ^have cosEe^ferryour arrest. V Any one Of us could overcome! you. We are i,O0<Mt2OBg. Soireoder!" Aad yon the doer aim single handed and . that troop, diviae weapon into their scatter those sins as quick as yo<st It I. r "It b Christ thafc di^i" Why then ttiag np to as the sins of our pastlife? What barer we to do with t hkm& ob solete things? Youksow bow hard it is for a wrecker to briate up tanythin? that k lost sear the shore o f?e sea, bat suppose something be lost halt way between Liverpool and New York. ; It cannot be found, it cannot * be fetched vp. \?Xo*r mp God, "your sos I have east intg the depths of the sea." Mid-Atlantic!: ; : All tb* machinery ever fashioned in foundries of darkness, and launched from the doors of eternal death, working for 10,000 yeara, cannot bring up one of our sins forgiven and forgotten and sunken into the depths of the sea. When a sin ia pardoned, it is gone ? it is gone out 6?4&e books, it is gone out of the memory, jt is gone out of ex istence. "Their sins and their in iquities will I remember ro more," THE TRAGEDY THAT SAVES. From other tragedies men have come away exhausted and nervous and sleepless; but there is one tragedy that soothes and calms andsaves. Calvary was the stage ?n which it was enacted, the curtain of the night falling at mid noon was the drop scene, the thunder of falling rocks the ofcphestra, angels in the galleries and devils in the pit toe spectators, the tragedy a cruci fixion. "It is Christ that died." Oh, triumphant thought! ; I- ;J ji If you go through the picture gal leries of Versailles, you wi&iiad a great change there. I said to a friend who had been through those galleries, Are they as they were before the Ffench war?" and I was told there was a great change there; that sill that multitude of pictures which repre sented Napoleonic triumphs had been taken away, and m the irames were other ^pictmeg* representative of Ger manic success and. vietory. Oh, that all the scenes of wrtuftfe triumph in our world might he blotted out, and that the whole world might be a pic ture gallery representing the triumph ant Jesus! Down with the monarchy of transgression! Up with ti& mon archy "of our king! Hail ! Jesns^hail! But I must give you the second cause of Paul's exhilaration, If Christ had staid in that gi$ve, we never would have gotten out of it Tfei grave would have been dark and dis mal as the eonciergerie during the ?reign of terror, where the carts -come up only to take the victims outof the scaffold." I do not wondej that the ancients tried by embalmment of the body to resist the-diesoSaiionef death. The grave is the darkest, deepest, ghastliest chasm that was ever opened if there be no light from the resurrec tioti throne streaming if into vi^ hut Christ staid in the tomh all Friday night and all Saturday, all Saturday night and a part of Sunday moiling* He. staid so long in the jomfc that he might fit it tor us when we go tfceiik He tarried two wfcol?. nights in the grtfve, so that hj&\saw" how important it- was to have plenty otflighy and he has flooded it with h? own glor?. It is early Sunday mornings start up to find the gravie of We find the morning mm gildin^ dew, and the shrubs are iweet as foot crashes them. What a place to be buried in! Wonfci,-, , did not treat Christ as weil whenj - . I was alive ss they do now that heis dead. * Give the military salute to th* soldi*. who stand guarding the d " But, hark to the crashlan The soldiers Ml hade as ,.} wese dead, mid the stone at the of Christ's tomb spins down the flung by the" arm of an ar^el. Come forth, 0 Jesus! from the darkaesti into the sunlight. Come forth and breathe Christ tomes forth radiant, sud he steps out of the excavation of the! rock I look down into; the excavation and in the distance I see others coi-j ing hand in hand and troop after troop, and I find it is a long proces sion of the precious dead. Among them are our own loved ones? father, mother, brother, aster, companion, children, coming np out oftie excava tion of the rock until re last one has stepped out into the light, and I am bewildered, and I cannot understand1 the scene until I see Christ wave ., his hand over the-advancitig procession from the rock, and hear him cry, ."l am th&, resurrection and the life; who believeth in me^ though J?e were dead, yet .shall he live." And thenj I; notice that the long dirge of tjhe: world's woe suddenly stops at the a^changelic shout of ''Come forth!" i ! RESULTS OFTHE RE^KKECTION. ' * i ?' v ? ' J ? | ' ? ? * I ! : * * ' ' " I Oh, my iriends, if Christ had not broken oat of the grave yotr ami I would sever come oat of it! It would have been another case of Charlotte Corday attempting to slay a tyrant, herself stain. It wouH have been another case of John Brown attempt-, ing to free the slaves, himself hung. It would Have been death and Christ in a grapple and death the victor. The black flag would have floated op all the graves and mansoieum of the dead, and hell would have conquered the forces of heaven and captured the ramparts of God, and satan would have come to coronach in &e palaces of heaven, and itifwjtiave been devils on the throne and sons ofGod in the dungeons ? : ? No! .no! no! When that stone was' rolled from the door of Christ's grave, it was hurled .with such a force that if crashed in all ^^the grave doors of Christendom, and now the tomb is innly a bower where God's children take a siesta, an atfteraoou nap, to wake up in mighty invigorationi KTariat k risen " Hang thai lamp among all the tombs of my dead. Hang it over my ow? restaig placa Christ a soaring is ended; his work is done. The darkest Friday afternoon' of the world's- histoy becomes the brightest Sunday mowing of its resur rection joy. The Good FHdsy of Est- ; ter memories becomes jfche Easter of. glorious transformation andijjleswTe^i feion. Ye mourning saint s, dry weijiiear . ., For your departed Lord. ; Behold the place. 4 He is not here. ' - The tomb is all unbarred. The gates of death nere closed ia vain. The Lord is risen ? he lires again; I give you the third cause of Paula exhilaration. We honor the right hand more than we do the left. If in accident & battle we must lope one hand, Jet it be the left- The left hand being Muer the heart, we may not do much of the violent "work of : ? ? ? ? life with that hand without physical danger, but he who has the right arm la fall play has fchef mightiest of ail e irthly weapons. In all ages and la all lalg&agea the right hand is the symbol of gtrength and power and honor, Hiram sat at the right band of Solomon. "? Then we have the term, "He is a right hand man/' Lafayette was .Washington's right hand man; Marshal Ney was Napoleon V right hand man, and 'now you have the meaning of Pauljrhen he apeaka of Christ, who is at; the* right hand of God. * THE HEBO OF THE UNIVEBSE. , That means he! is the first guest of heaven. He^has a right to sit there. The hero of the universe! Count his wounds; two in the feet two in the hands, one in the side? five wounds. Ob, jou have counted .wrong. These are not half the bounds. Look at tfaie severer wounds in the temples; edeh thorn an excruciation. 'If a hero comes back from battle, and he lakes off his bat or rolls up his sleeve l and shows you the scar of a jwounjl gotten atJBaH's Bluff or at South Mountain, you stand in admira tion at bis heroism and patriotism, but if Christ ahou^ make conspicioes the five wounds gotten on Calvary ? that Waterloo of all the ages? he would display only a small part of his wounds. Wounded all over, let him sit at the right hand of God. He has a right to sit there. By the request of God the Father {and the unanimous suffrage! of all heaven let him sit there. Inithe grand refiew, whefa the |e aed" pass by in cohorts of splendor, will look at him and shout, "Yic " oldest inhabitants of he&v^l saw a grander day than the one i Christ took hand of God. his place cm the Hosaana! With lips of day I may not appropriately utter it, but let the, martyrs under the altar throw the cry! to the elders be before the thVone- . and they can toss lit to. the choir on the aeajof glass until allj Heaven ^all lift Hue on poin$ of scepter, and . on p^iog of harp, and some on the tip of the grten ' tranches. Hosan haa!| Hosanua. . A fourth cause oij Paul's exhilara tion; After a clerg 7 man had preach ed a sermon in rega d to the glories oflieaven and the splendors of the an aged won an said, "If. all have ? wouid. is to go on what will ph? my ings jgoin^ B PerUps Psal ven, I don't of my poor there will^e in heaven I | if the Lord iiJfaui said sometimes; UI God dose not fozget me down in Aintioch, and in the prison, reels. There are so jrirfcaany wayfrrera, so many heart m the shipwreck many sailors, 90 so many I prisoners, brofcelrP2? haps God then I am so" vile How l\ whipped With w^at vengei cavalry, horse arid] Damascus!'; Oh! it attorney to plead my cai ve fijee." Paul, "per me; And a ]" sinner. Christians! intecFthat up to mighty -get But just came in upon mightier frhftn ship intoj Melita, . swifter that Raul's soul some surges that It was the swift and overwhelming it of Christ's intercession. re an advo* than no than ;the hone he ro? le to Damascus. thought My friend*, we cafe. A poor lawyearjit^ lawyer at alL ? We mfrst have one whoi is able sucoeaefally to present our cause' before God. ! Where is he? Who 58 he? Therfjsionlj one advo* cate in all the universe that can plead ? jn the last [judgment, that our cause before God in the :h great {tribunal. _ I I lines in earthly courts attorn specialties, and oub suc ceeds better in patent i cases, another in insurance cafes, another in criminal cases, another in land j cases, another in will cases, and his success generally ^ upoi/his sticking to that ty. I have to tell you that can do many pings, but it .seems to me that nia specialty is to take^the bad case of tfaie sinner and it before Goduhtil he gets eter nal acquittal.- r for our advocate. But| what plea I must have him ^he make? Some times an attorney inWirt will plead the Mtiocenee of the prisoner. That would to inappropriate ; for us; we arc all gnil#! guilty! Unclean, unclean? Christ, our advocate, will not plead our innocence. Sometimes the attor | ney in court tries to prove an alibi. ; He sayB, "This prisoner was not at j the scene. He was in Some other place at the time." Such a plea will not do in our case. The Lord found us in ail our sans and in the verv place of oar iniquity. It is Impossible to prove an alibi. Sometimes an attor ney will plead the insanity of the pris " say he is irresponsible on That plea will never do We Binned wjainst light, the dictates oner that in ou r against knowledge, if our own* conscien ,y. ??? y wikmciicc9| we knew what we were doings What then shall the plea! be? f Christ's MARTYRDOM. The p&ea for our eternal deliverance will be Christ's own martyrdom. He will ??y:i.v ^LooV at all these wounds. By all these sufferings I demands the rescue of this man from sin and death and heil. Constable, knock off the shackles? let the prisoner! go free." "Who is he that condemned^? It is Christ tfe|at died, yea, rather\bat is risen again, who is even at the* right hand of God, who ^Iso maketh inter cession fqr ns." . ' But why all this gladnCM on the faces of these sons and daughters of {he Lord! Almighty? I know what you aire thinking o? ^ Saviour dead; a SavSomt risen; a Saviour exalted; a Saviour' j interceding^ " you, "is apl that fir .me4 Never let me hear you about anything again. pardoned sin behind' * cessful Clirist a glorious hea say Jp ira plaining., ffith you* and a . suc ig above you, and fore you, how can _ ?vnfc x you be despondent about anything? "But," pays soma man in the audi ence, "all tthat is very good and very true for those who are inside the king dom, but how about those of us who dome if) to lie prison ligbl of | 4*^ come days of the reign 1793. ? j! jiundieds Wmm& P^wMHerthe guilliUue. Franaf groaned rafcthe tyrannies of Robespierre sod the J?cobio dob. The last j group ?rf suf&rers had bad the* locks ishorn bv Moodwtte, the pmbn barbeT? tbi ttenedk might i? bare toTihe keec fcniife of the guillotine. j F The carts came up to the pUoD, the poor wretches were placed in! the carta y?^S*!l.ar tow?wl the ! scaffold, *ere s^ag t0'r*r<1 the scaflold there was an outcry in the ^TuSdJ?8* siMck of firearms, ?j: "Bobespifie has faUen. Dowir with the Jacobins! I* France be jfree!" But the armed soldiers rode in upon these rei that *he poor Wretches i in U ?~^faaon|othe?1iab^ But Eat very night these monsters ?^e?cutKmJare eased, and Robe ?oner's basket. ! Then the ajes of the excited populace were beard pjoundiig against the gates of the prison, aid the poor pnwnera watted oiut free. M7*??>ds, on |8 the pj of Ji Bohefiierres. It .is the tyU^ ?f g?nta. It h^ built a prison house for oar souL It plots oar ^th. has shorn as for the sacrifice- but Mested be Gtod, this morning we hear the axes of God's gracious deliver ance pounding against the door of our prison. ^Deliverance has' oome. ' Light ""tt>gh All the wards of the .Revolution! Revolution! ?to"?d?d grace dop much morejabound that whereas sin reigned unto death even is grace may reign trito eternal life tbiiouKr Chnstjour Lord." Glorious troth! Aoa^ionr dead; a Saviour risen; a ioteroed "? '? \ r/'1 1 ' - ji 1 ' , ' I I j WEATHER Gfeop BULLETIN. f ' * ' - - . t ' " -"! i Condition of th? Cropa Throughout tb? The* following is the weather crop bulletin for the week ending Monday: The temperature for the past week has been about normal with the rainr All in excess of the average which hag gone towards making up the great deficiency of the month of July which ranged from^ne to three and and oneihalf -inches below the average forjmany jean, j . ? j p tepotfsfrom all sections i show a materialj: advance! it* all crope ^ fennels are more hopeful than for many weeks. " IK THE PIEDMONT REGION. Cotton has improved decidedly, and growth has been rapid, esjfe^ally |al& ootton* H seine sections ootton is shedding rapidly, but as the plants are heavily fruited, *me shedding wiB | not materiaBr affect the crop. Some localities report that the plant' has not yet commenced to shed, and with continued^ good weather wilkJ make a aplendid crop. A few scat tered repots show that the contkued sjaios haye slightly injured cotton, causing rtist to make its appearance and the lower leaves to^drop off. Near the mountains \he cro^ will be short Unless saved by ^ 4ate frost The plant generally is attaining a good sized stalk. Cerfis reportedas unifbmly late but doing well; in places young (corn Turnip sowing has begun in earnest and a good crop, some coming ua Pea vina are exceptionally fine thi^ugh out this region. Tobacco in! Pickens County look well. Sorghum and sweet potatoes doing nicely. Fruit genearaHy^good except "apples and gfapes. Fodder pulling has com menced, bdt has 'been retard^i bv rains. \Work will be resumed a* soon as weatfifcc permits.' f IN THE MIDDLE BELT. ? / Cbtton is casting fruit in sections very much, more especially where rain was heavy and continuous; it is there also taking mi rust. Thfr ap plies, however, only to limited areas. The concensus of opinion seemes to be that Sjias made a wonderful improve ment anchbas grown rapidly, is fruit ing heavily, and while the crop is not as large as last year, it will make about as much to the North and West of the belt Old ceirn will be cut of some, but not as much as was expected. : It is nearly made and will run from a. half to a two-thirds crop. Young corn is doing well; on bottom lands it looks I fine, the rains have caused it to ear put considerably. Corn fin stubble and oat patch looks welL v : -Nearly every farmer is puttisg in turnips. Some are up in Darlington County, but look poor; those in Flor ence County are up nicely. Peas are fiine, so are potatoes. . Late cabbage and lima beans doing well. Fruit good, but falling off, especially pears. < ? JP y*TB COAST COUNTIES ? ?? '? t . : Rains are beneficial to everything, although here and there too fceavy tod washed lands badly. Cotion is opening IrapkUy in Colleton Ceunty. Late corn, po tatoes, peas and ripe art greatly improved. Berkefy Cbunty reports caterpillare in some sections. Beaufort Comity reports too much mm fcr cottocr ^In Hampton Qmnty rain has beaten some of the oottfcn off on the ground wl?ie it is getting soiled. With more rain {fea^spill shed their leaves and fruit Charles ton reports the first bate of <sotton from Fairfax, Barnwell County* was received on th^ 5th. - 5. J.E Harmon, Director. : > AMimi to the People of Oie State . meeting- of the Alumni of the South Carolina College, held alr^he Capital on May 21st, last, the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed "by the ohairinamof the meeting ,to communicate with the Alnmni of the South Carolina College in every county of the State, calling upon them to organize associations in each county of the State, to be known as the "South \ Carolina College Alumni Association of ^coun for the purpose of advancing the best interests of the Soath Carolina College. ^?IThat the committee be also re quested to prepare and issue ad dress to the people of the State, call ing upon them to rally to the support of the South Carolina College, and to give it the encouragement and sup port it so richly deserves. 3. That Use committee shall formu late a plan for securing beneficiary scholarships to the College from every county in the State, this committee to report at the June meeting of the Association. Agreeably to resolution No. 2, the committee of five have the honor to addran themselves to the people of the whole "State in behalf of the South Carolina College. , j The committee d^em it unnecessar/ $o rehearse the history of the College or to make a display of its rich fruit age in the influences it has organized and the manhood it has trained. This appears in striking colors in La Borde's pages, as well as in the annals of the commonwealth. ^ Founded in 1801 by Legislative act, on the ground that the establish ment of a college in the central part of the State, where all its youth may be educated, .would highly promote the instruction, the good order, and the harmony of the whole community, it has ^obly fulfilled its high mission. Says the historian of the college: "Has the college accomplished the great aid for which it was established? Has it done its work in educating the people of Carolina? There can be but one response to these questions. Every part of the State, and the up -coontry particularly, has derived from it an amount of benefit which cannot be estimated by dollars and cento. If it be true, as I think it is, that .South Carolina has rivaled her most fovored asters in virtue, intelligence, and pub lic spirit, much of it is due to her college. If her Governors, her Sena tors and Representatives in Congress, and her Judiciary, have shed a bright lustre upon her name, the college will point to the laiger number of them as J having been trained in her walls, and thereby fitted for their "high positions." ?- Assuming, now, as we*^ave every right to assume, that this time honored Institution has'done its whole duty to 8outh Carolina in its past of ninety two years, the committee submit that, in the record of its achievements, the college furnishes a strong argutnmit in fivor of its present support, ftd supples the grounds of the appeal. Bit, fortunately for the South Carolina College, it need not rest its case upon- its past laurels ? upon the ennobling part it has played in the his tory if the State. Waile adverting to these memories jand treasuring them as a grand heri tage, your committee prefer to base the claims of the college for popular support upon its present advantages ^as a school of education and training, and upon the peculiar conditions that now confront us in the State. Your committee point to the thorough appointments of the college for its needs as a State college; to its accomplished corps .of Professors; its extensive apparatus for teaching; its ample library; its commodious build ings; it$ healthy locality; its central position -in the State? the peer in these respects of any other college in the country V ? Your committee further point to the spt dal advantage offered by the college to those studenia^eekiug a general education as 'distinguished from special instruction ? seeking a symmetrical mental and moral train ing as distinguished from technical learning. Challenging the claims of no ottifc institutions of learning in the State State or Denominational ? the South Carolina College addresses itself to the whole commonwealth as a central institution ? non-political, non sec tarian, utterly divested of all class re strictions, and* adorned by beneficent provisions for the poor. But your committee have reserved for the last what they deem the strongest argument in behalf of the duty of the citizenship of South Caro lina to rally to the support of the State college at the Capital. This argument is based upon JLhe advan tages arising from the. unification of ou* people in thought and in senti ment Your committee do not propose to discuss the philosophy of the present situation in South Carolina, nor the causes that have led to it It is enough to recognize the actual condi tion ? political ^and social ? and to de plore it as a serious bar to the good of South Carolina. Never before in our history as Colony or State have our people been so unhappily divided. Never before has there existed so much acrimony of feeling, so much of actual distrust. The committee feel that to cure, or even to mitigate, these divisions amoiwt our people would be the higheft statesmanship ? an act of patriotism to enure to our common prosperity. Now, as a means to this end, the committee are aware of no instru mentality more potent than the State college, organized to promote "the harmony of the whole co?nm unity," and bo veil adapted now to bring about this mos| desirable consumma tion. It is here, in the present as in the past, that the student learns to know his own people the men from all parts of the State ? to "love the State of South Carolina as a unit" ? in fine, to "enlist under the banner of South Carolina brotherhood, in the develop ment of Sodth Carolina manhood, mind, and character, on the enlarged plane of liwffal education, discipline, and culture." The committee, therefore^ advocate the college, upon the gronnds^f its .1- . . 1 intrinsic worth and its pectifer adfcpt ablijy to the demands of a policy in dispensable to the future honor and glory of South Carolina. Placing the cause of the college far above the entanglement of faction or the antagonisms of party, the com mittee commend it and its large issues, not to its Alumni onf)j, but to the en tire community of a State, which, in its heart of hearts, touched by its lofty instincts, must aspire to that fraternal sentiment and that patriotic fluty which make up South Carolina's crown of beauty in the j*asL May the old college still have the fostering care ot all Soath Carolinians, and may the patriotism ot our people prompt them not to turn their backs upon their mother State by patronizing colleges of other States, when the means of an ample liberal education are afforded at home. In conclusion, the committee, in the discharge of their further duty in the premises, call upon the Attitani of the college, in every county in the State, to organize Alumni Associations, to the end "that they may advance the best interests of the college, and to create a fund for the benefit of such ambitious and aspiring young men as may need the help of Beneficiary Scholarships to obtain the advantage of the college course. Jno. P. Thomas, Jr., , Theodore G. Barker, W. A. Clark, P. A. Willcox, Will A. Barber, Committee of Alumni Association. THE YELLQW FEVER. A Favorable Feature of tbe Situation at Fensacola. . Pensacola, August 13. ? A very favorable feature in connection with the yellow fever situation occurred at 6 p. m. this evening. The State health officers gave official assurance to Mayor Chipley that the guard could be released which was stationed at the resideuca^of Mr. Waite, and the fami ly and mends confined in the house since the death of Mr. Waite, as after an investigation it was decided that he did not die of yellow fever. The guards are continued at the residence of Mr. Wood, father of little Ellen Wood, as the investigations in this case have not been completed. It is now nineteen day's since Capt Northup died, more than ten day's since Mr. Waite and Ellen Wood were taken sick, and four days since they died. Had these three persons, or any one of them, died of yellow fever," more new cases would have existed . here._ At 6 p. m. no new cases have been reported to the board of Toealth. Surgeon Carter, who arrived here yesterday . has been ordered to Brunswick, as the State surgeon at that place has reported two new cases of yellow fever there. This leaves Surgeon MacG ruder as the only rep resentative hereof tbe national depart ment, but Surgeons Murray and Hat ton are expected to-moriyi*. There is much rejoicing over the decision of the Waite case. ^ Charleston on the Safe Bide. Charleston, S. C., August 13. ? The Charleston board of health today ordered quarantine againt Bnmswick Ga. The step is purely precautionary , and little uneasiness is felt either by the authorities or the people of the city. The health department announ ces that similar action is to he taken in regard to other cities in which* yel low fever may be, _ -Many curious and interesting sights are seen on the Midway Plaisauce, this street, of all nations, the Mecca of all visitors to the Great World's Fair, at Chicago; but among all its exhibits the-i>Panorama of the Swiss Alps" is doubtless the most highly artistic.^ To those whose good forune it has been to go "abroad," this panorama awakens old memories, and to the many who have been less fortunate this really grand painting is a reve lation. It is a perfect representation of the famed Bernese Oberland, as it would appear in all the immensity of reality to a sight-seer in the midst of the Alps. The illusion Is made per fect by the truthfulness of local color and by the vigorus and sincere paint ing of such artht as Burnand, Baud- j Bo vy and F u ret Thia^suberh can vas was painted in Paris, France, for the express purpose of exhibition at the World's Fair, and has received the well-deseryed encomiums of all the leading French and American artists. How They Treat Such Fellows Kven in ?j Laurens County. ?; Laurens, August 8. ? There are things more potent than ancient eggs. I^ast week a citizen arrived here and soon began to advertise tliat he wanted a drink. Ostensibly he was peddling a small mechanical contrivance, hut he wa& very soon suspected of being a Till man spy. A 8 he seemed j>aui fully thirsty, and express*^ contempt for a town where a gentlemau could not get a toddy, some of the boys came to his rescue. His thirst was quenched, but he retired to private life for sev eral days. The story is that the toddy contained croton oil. Greenville, S. C., August ?_ John Q. Henson, a white nmn, came here Friday and testified before the United States Commissioner in a rev enue case. He has been working with a deputy marshal against block ad ers. He started for his home in the mountains, al>out twenty five miles Trom here, ami stayed over Friday night with a friend, and resumed his journey Saturday morning. Late that owning he was found in a loney side road, within a mile of his own house, dead with bis neck broken, his mule and wagon standing a short dis tance away. He was evidently killed , for informing. Mobile Otiarantlne!*. Mobile, Ala., Aug, (.i. ? A report from the Health Officer of Pensacola, Fla., that two cases of yellow fever has developed in the city of Pensacola, received tonight, has caused the mayor of Mobile to issue a pro clamation that no person nor baggage from Pensacola shall be admitted to Mobile from that date to December 1 unless the quarantine is 'sooner re voked. * j for Infants and Children. oMU'smedicine. 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