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^ - -- ?--- RELIGIOUS REVIVALS Dr. Talmage, In a Timely Discourse, Declares His Belief in Them. Sermon Adapted from tbe Story of Simon and tbe t'libcri?(ireatc.t Obstacle to Revivals la aa Unconverted Ministry. [Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch, N. Y.] - Washington, March 24. " ' This discourse of Dr. Talmage is most pertinent at this time when a widespread effort for religious nwak ening U being made; text, Luke, verse 0: "They inclosed a great multitude - * of Ashes and their net brake." Simon and bis comrades had experienced the night before what iishcrmen call "poor luck." Christ steps on board |lhe fishing smack and tells the suitors .to pull away from the beach and direota them again to sink the net. Sure enough, very soon the net is full of fishes, and the sailors begin to haul in. 80 largo a school of fishes was taken that the hardy men began to look red in the face ns they pull, and hardly have they begun to rejoice at their success when snap goes a threat of the net, and snup goes anothsr thread, so thsre is danger not ouly of losing the fish, but of losing the net. Without much care as to how much the boat tilts or how much water is splashed ou deck the fishermen rush about, gathering up the broken meshes of the net. Out yonder there is a ship dancing on the wave, and they liail it: *8hlp ahoy! Bear down this way!" The ship comes, and both boats, both fishing smacks, are filled with the flbundering treasures. "Ah," suys Rome one, "how much better it would huvo been if they had Btaid on.shore and fished with a hook and line and taken one nt a time instead of having this great excitement " and the boat almost upset and the net broken and having to call for help and getting sopping wet with the sea!" The church is the boat, the Gospel Is the net, society is the sea, and a .great revival is a whole school brought In at one sweep of the net. 1 have admiration for that man who goes out with a hook and line to fish. I admire the way he unwinds the reol and adjusts the bait and drops the hook in a quiet place ou a still afternoon and here catches one and there one, but 1 like also a big boat and a large crew fcnd a net a mile long and swift oars nnt oa tic and u atl krnava nnd > great multitude of souls brought?bo great a multitude that you have got to get help to draw it ashore, straining the net to the utmost until it breaks here and there, letting a few escape, but bringing the great multitude into eternal safety. In other words, I believe in revivals. The great work of saving men began with 3,000 people joining the church in one day, and it will close with 40 or a y hundred million people saved in 24 ^ hours when nations shall be born in a B day. But there are objections to rer rivals. People are opposed to them because the net might get broken, and If by the pressure of souls it does not get broken, then they take their own penknives and slit the net. "They inclosed n great multitude of flslies, and the net brake." It is sometimes opposed to revivals of religion that those who come into L^" the church at such times do not hold L out. As long as there Is a gale of blessthey have their eails up. llut as i-.H strong winds stop blowing they drop into a dead calm. But are the facts iu tho una? in all our ohurches the vast majority of thv useful people are those who arc brought in under great awakenings and they hold out. Who are the prominent men in the United States iu ohurches. in prayer meetings, in Sabbath schools? For the most part the> are the product of great awakenings. I hare noticed that those who are brought into the Kingdom of God through revivals have more persistence and more determination in the Christian life than those who com? in under a low state of religion. Peo pie born in an icehouse may live, bul they will never get over the cold the> taught in the ioehouse. A cannon bal depends upon the impn'se with whicl It starts for how iar it shall go unc how swiftly, and the greater the re rival forco with which a soul is started the more far-reaching and far-resound ing will be the execution. But It is sometimes objected to re rivals that there is so much excitemenl that people mistake hysteria for relig ion. We admit that in every revival oi religion there is either a suppressed oi a demonstrated excitement. Indeed if a man can go out of a state of con demnation into a state of acceptance with God or ace others go without anj agitation of soul ho is in an unhealthy morbid stata and ia an repulsive nnc absurd as a man who should boast h< saw a child snatched out from under < horse's hoofs and felt no agitation, 01 saw a man rescued from the fourtl story of a house on fire and felt no ac celeration of the pulses. Salvation from sin and death ant hell into llfo and peace and Heaven for ever is such a tremendous thing thai if a man tails mc he can look on i' without any agitation I doubt his Christianity. The fact is that some times excitement is the most impor tant possible thing. In case of resus citation from drowning or freezinf the one idea is to excite animation Before conversion we ure dead. It h the business of the church to revive arouse, awaken, resuscitate, starth Into life. Excitement is had or gooi aeoording to what it makes us do. I it make un do that which is bad, it ii bad excitement, but if it make us agi tated about our eternal welfare, i, it make us pray, if it make usattcm upon Christian service, if it make ui cry unto God for mercy, then ii is j good excitement. A Wrecked Life. Corporal Harry K. Ycakley. aged HO of iho Forty-third comDanv or coast ar tillery, stationod at Fort Terry, Plum inland, diod Thursday from the effoote of a dose of wood Aloohol self administered. Corporal Yoakloy was a physioian having earned his degree at tho University of Virginia, and had boen in the enlisted servioo only a short time, his object in entering the army having been to put himself under rostrains of military disoipline, which he believed would bo bencfioial for habits he had acquired. His body will bo shippod to tho family homo in Winohostcr, Va , for burial. Name Changed. The name of tho villago of Sing Sing has been changed to Ossirg. Tho ro Bidonts found that whon they wont away from homo and tohl that they name from Sing Sing pooplo tuspeotod they were ox convicts, because tho location of the New York Stato prison at that plaqo has been Sing Sing's only olaim to fame- So'lhcy fctiticuicd for a ohange. Thorp's somchting in a name Lafter all Whon the namo is that of a penitentiary site,?Columbia State. V v. / . r'ifMiii' i ?- i , It la sometimes uld that during ra< rivals of religion great multitudes oi children and young peopla are brought into the church, and they do not know what they are about. It has been my observation that the earlier people come into the kingdom of Qod the more useful they are. Robert Hall, the prince of preachers, was converted at 12 years of age. It is likely he knew what he was about. Matthew Henry, the commentator, who did more than any man of his century for increasing the interest in the study of the Scriptures, was converted nt 11 years of agei Isabella Graham, immortal in the Christian church, was converted at ten years of age; Dr. Watts, whose hymns will be sung all down the ages, was roilvrrt.rcl nt. iilno venrn of Air#* Jnnn. thnn Edwards, perhaps the mightiest intellect that the American pulpit ever produced, was converted at seven years of age, and that father' and mother take an awful responsibility when they tell their child at seven years of age: "You are too young to be a Christian," or "You are too young to connect! yourself with the church." That is a mistake as long as eternity. If (luring a revival two persons present themselves as candidates for tho church and the one is ten years of age and the other is 40 years of age. I will have more confidence in the profession of religion of the one ten years of ago than the one 40 years of age. Why? The one who professes at 40 years of ago has 40 years of impulse in the wrong direction to correct, and the child has only ten years in the wrong direction to correct. Four times ten arc 40. Four times the religious prospect for tho lad that comes into tho kingdom of God and Into the church at ten years of age than the man at 40. I am very apt to look upon revivals ns connected with certain men who fostered them. People who in this day do not like revivals nevertheless have not words to express their admiration for the revivalists of the past, for they were revivalists?JonathanEdwards, John Wesley"George Whitfield, Fletcher, Griffin, Davies, Osborne, Knapp, Nottletou, Moody and ninny others whose nafhes come to my mind. The strength of their intellect and the holiness of their lives make me think they would not have lind anything to do with that whloh was ephetneral. Oh, it is easy to talk against revivals! A man said to Mr. Dawson: "I [ like your sermons very much, but the after meetings I despise. When tho prayer meeting begins I always go up into the gallery and look down, an>1 T d? Miv.u ? ?I.I Mr. Dawson, "the reason is you go on the top of your neighbor's house and look down his chimney to examine his Are, and of course you get only smoke In your eyes. Why don't yeu come in the door and sit down and warm?" Oh, I am afraid to say anything against revivals of religion or against anything that looks like them, because I think it may be a sin against the Holy Ghost, and you know the Eible says tiwit a sin against the Holy Ghost shall never be forgiven, neither in this world nor the world to come. Now, if you are a painter and I speak against your pictures, do I not speak i against you? If you are an architect, and I speak against a building 1 you put up, do I not speak against you? If a revival be the work of tha i Holy Ghost, and I speak against that i revival, do I not speak against the [ Holy Ghost? And whoso speaketh against the Holy Ghost, says the i Uiblc, he shall never be forgiven, neither in this worjd nor in the world to come. I thinks sometimes pernio lmvo made a fatal inistake^H^jf^jdis rection. \ \ Now I come to tho real, genuine , cause of objection to revivals. That is the coldnesn of the objector. It i? i the secret and hidden but unmistak able cause in every case, a low state r of religion in tho heart. Wide awake consecrated, useful Christians are > never afraid of revivals. It is the 1 spiritually dead who are afraid of having their sepulcher molested. Tho t chief agents of tho devil during a i great awakening are always uncon verted professors of religion. As soon t as Christ's work begins they begin ' to gossip against it and take a pall I of water and try to put out this i spark of religious influence, and they I try to put out another spark. Do they succeed? As well when Chicago I was on fire miirlit some on* > ?** pone out with a pardon writer pot trj'inp to extinguish it.. The difficulty - is that when a revival begins in a t church it begins at so many points that while you have doused one anxr ious soul with a pail of cold water there nre 500 other anxious souls on , fire. Oh, how inuch better it would - be to lay hold of the chariot of 5 Christ's Gospel and help pull it on r rather than to fling ourselves in front , of the wheels, trying to block their 1 progress. We will not stop the i chariot, but we ourselves will be i ground to powder. r But I think, ufter all, the grentest obstacle to revivals throughout - Christendom is an unconverted ministry. We must believe that the vast 1 majority of those who officiate at - sacred altars are regenerated, but I t suppose there may float into the t ministry of nil the denominations of s Christians men whose hearts have - never been changed by grace. They - are all antagonistic to revivals. How - did they get Into the ministry? Per? haps some of thein chose It as n re. spcctable profession. Perhaps some u of them were sincere, but were rnls, taken. As Thomas Chalmers said, he j had been many yer.rs preaching the i Gospel before his heart had been f changed, and ns many ministers of a the Gospel declare they were preaching and had been ordained to aacred f orders years and years before their 1 hearts were regenerated. Gracious j God, what a solemn thought for thoao i of us who minister at the altar! With the present ministry in the Sergt. .Jasper's Company. The Columbia Stato says in tho valu' ablo "rubbish" at tho Stato house thoro has rooently bcon found tho original i oompany roll of tho oompany of whiob Sorgt. .Jasper of Fort Moultrie famo wan ! a member. Tho roll not only gives the ' namo of oaoh commissioned officer but of oaoh privato in tho company, it also | givoH the dato of enlistment and discharge, and has oomploto marginal notos. This is rogardod asoco of the most valu ablo finds among tho Stato's revolutionary rcoords yot made. A Good Suggestion. The Atlanta Journal says in llhodo Island there is an avorago of ono divoroo for every eight marriagos. A good doal of useless formality and expense might ho savod by morely adopting a sort of probationary system whereby couples oan tako oaoh other, not for bettor or for worse, but until they can find out tho difforenoo? on trial, as it were?without oalling for tho sacrament of marriago until they are sure about it. Certainly tho perocntago of "sticks" oould not bo any loss than under tho present oomo easy go easy system. ' X \ i ! "-.Ift (maial temperature of piety, this ^ fond will never be enraloped with re- ' vivsla. While the pewe on one eide the alter cry for mercy, the pulpits on the other eide of the altur muat E cry for meroy. Ministers quarreling'. Ministers trying to pull each other down. Ministers struggling for ecclesiastical place. Ministers, lethurgio with whole congregations dying on their hands. What a spectacle! During our civil war-the president of the~Unlted States made proclaraa- "\ tion for 75,000 troops. Some of you remember the big stir. But the King of the universo to-day asks for 1,200,000,000 more troops than are enlisted, and wo want it done softly, imperceptibly, no excitement, one bjr one. You are a dry goods merchaht on a largo scale, and I am u merchant on a small scale, and I como to you t and want to buy 1,000 yards ot cloth. j L?o you say: "Thank yon. I'll sell you 1,000 yards of cloth, but I'll sell you 20 yards to-day and 20 to-morrow ^ and 20 the next day, and if it takes } me six months I'll sell you the whole ^ thousand yards. You will want as long as that to examine the goods, and I'll want us long as that to exam- 1 ine the credit, and besides that 1,000 ( yards of oloth is too much to sell all ] at once?" No; you do not say that. < You take mo into the counting-room, < and in ten minutes the whole trunsac- y tion is consummated. The fact is we ( cannot afford to be fools in anything ( but religion. That very merchant who on Satur- j day afternoon sold- me the thousand yarns 01 cioin at one stroke tne next j Sabbath in church will stroke his j beard and wonder whether it would not bo better for a thousand souls to ( como strangling- along for ten years Instead of bolting in at one service. It seems to me as if Ood Is preparing the world for some quick and universal movement. A celebrated * electrician gave me a telegraph chart of the world. On that chart the wires ' crossing the continents aud the cables ' under the sea looked like veins red ' with blood. On that chart I see that ' the headquarters of the lightnings are 1 In Great llritain and the United ' States. In London and New York 1 the lightnings are stabled, waiting to be harnessed for some quick dispatch. That shows you that the tel- I egraph is in the possession of Chris- I tlanlty. i It is a significant fact that the man who invented the telegraph was an i old-fashioned Christian, Prof. Morse, j and that the man who put the tele- ] graph under the sea was an old-fash- | ioned Christian, Cyrus W. Field, and that the president of the most fa- j mous of the telegraph companies of ' this country was an old-fashioned | Christian, William Orton, going from the communion table on earth straight to his home in Heaven. YTbat does all that mean? I do not suppose that tho telegraph was invented merely to let us know whether flour Is up or down or which horse won the race at the Derby or which marksman beat at the latest aontest. I suppose the telegraph was invented and built to call tho world to God. In some of the attributes of the Lord we seem to share on a small scale. For instance, in Ilia love and His" kindness. But until of late foreknowledge, omnlsoience, omnipresence, omnipotence, seem to have been exclusively God's possession. God, desiring to inako the raac like Himself, . gives us a species of foreknowledge in the weather probabilities, gives uq a species of omniscience in telegraphy, gives us a species of omnipresenco in the telephonej{jl^^^^Aa8pecie^of__ iilHW about us, }>eople are asking wffatnext ? 1 will toll you what next. Next, a stupendous religious movement. Next, the end of war. Next," the crash of despotism. Next, the world's expurgation. Next, the Christlike dominion. Next, the judgment. What becomes of the world after that I care not. It will have suffered and achieved enough for one world. Lay it np in the drydocka of eternity, like an old man of war gone out of service, or fit it up like a Constellation to carry hrsad of relief to soma other suffering planet or l<rt it be demolished. Farewell, dear old world, that began with paradise nnd ended with Judgment conflagration. Last summer I stood on the Isle of Wight, nnd I had pointed out to me the place where the Eurydiee sank witlf 200 or 300 young men who were in training for the British navy. You remember when that training ship went down there was a thrill of horror all over the world. Since then there was another training ship missing. The Atalanta, gone down with all on board. By order of her majesty's government vessels went cruising up and down tho Atlantlo trying to And that lost training snip in wnicn thero were wit many young men preparing for the British nary. Aiua, for the lost Ataianta! Oh, my friends, this world is only a training.ship! On it we are training for Heaven. The old ship sails np and down the ocean of ini- 1 mensity, now thiough the dark waves of midnight, now through the golden 1 crested wave of the morn, but sails ' on and sails on. After awhile her 1 work will be done, and the inhabitants i of Heaven will look out and find a i world missing. The cry will be: "Where is that earth where Christ died and the human race was emanci- I pated? Send out fleets of ADgels to find the missing craft." Let them sail I up and down, cruise up and down the ocean of eternity, and they will catch j not one gliiuj^e of her mountain masts ( or her topgallants of floating cloud. Gone down! The training ship of a world perished in the last tornado. Oh, let it not be that she goes down with all on board, but rather may it be ( aald of ber passengers, as it wan said of the drenched passengers of the Alexandrian corn ship that crashed into ( tlia breakers of Melitai "They all as- 1 raped safe to landl" ] ?? , A Ilorriblo Crime. ] A horrible crime camo to tho light I Thursday when John Kavatona and his i daughter, Annie, were discovered oold I in doath in thoir homo on Pordito I street, Now Orleans. Both had been murdered by burglars during Wodnos i day night. Tho burglars rannaoked tho i premisos after killing thoir viotims. 1 Kavalona kept a gropsry and fruit stand i and olosed up his plaoo about 10 o'olook ] Wednesday night. When he did not i open Thursday morning neighbors ? forocd thoir way in and discovered tho < crime. > I A True Girl. Djllio K. Wilkins, tho adopted ' daughter of Mrs. Sarah E. Wilkins, a { rich and ocoontrio widow living near 1 Atchison, Kansas, loses an estate c valued at $75,000 beoauso sho married tho man sho loved. She was married a c few days ago to Qcorge Woods, tho son 1 of Jamos Woods, a farmer, against the 1 wishes of Mrs. Wilkins, and the widow r now announces -that her adopted G daughter, who was her sole heir, will 0 not rooeive a penny of her fortune. Tbe 1 girl is 20 and her husband is 20 years * her senior. * . : * * >OMRPASi HiirpRY Brought to Memory by )6aih tf JUCfga W AN (XCITINO PE^Sr rn? Stirring Events o! inetcences cf the Hd^cs House. Hampton'sVd V ute to WaibctwJ> The Columbia State says 'tribute o the memory cf Gen. WalSu could >o more gratifying to his 1 Re d ones han the kind expressions Gen. TVade Hampton, who wat<S^ Gen. ^allaoe's career in the wtj 1 who ?aa Governor at the time ^B^*udgo Wallace was leader of the ^^^^atior louse of Representatives i^V~, To k representative of The QCn. Jamptoo txprcssed his reflet the leath of Gen. Wallace. that Gen Walla Va great sol^H uali ies were Uglified to by b^K and lebcrved promotion; that lHtf ienoe ks a legislator is a m*Uei^B iev ,tory kod thai his broad judioiai^Hn aquali icd him to prebido in th^K unified, kble manner whioh oharaA /red his ong, trne and faithful senBu on the jonoh. 1 sinoeiely regret T\a death," oncluded Gen. Hampton ..[ Gen. Robert R Hempbyl, of Abbo rille, ahj was a member *| the Walt c > IIoumj, hp? ko llius of Judge Wal aoe: "My (irtt acquain'%uoo with Judge Wallace was inl87tiwlen ho r-ecamo Speaker of th<j hiet< rio House of Kep'esentativos whioh has linoe that time been known tu tho Walaoe Hou o Ho was the rifcfct man for that trilioal time 11.s oouAm, judg ment and discretion savcd^fc State from many ?vls. If he hi^Hot been [lerfictly s T-posscesed whe^ke State House was first enteicd a col^B would have onsucd and all our peop^j would havo bcoome inv lved. Ihejsame is Ltue of tho time when the H(use was somptlied to quit the State 'House. He was an excellent presiding' tfficar, impartial in hiB rulings and r^uiok in bis decisions. Those who served with him wi.l hear of his death with protonnd sorrow. Ho was a brt vo and patriotio soldier, a learned lawyer, an honorable orunicllor and a jus. judge. Tho State has lost one of hor noblest tons " The death of Gea^^^^^^km oalls vividly to tl.o mindN^HHQMt tho exciting scenes enao^^^wliijj) South Carolina was ia tho bands o' a dual tovernment. Mr. John S. t Vt-rnor, master of Rich'and County, was a member of the Wallace House; repro Eenting Oconee County. Ho p ye a high tribute to the obaraotcr of Judge Wallace. "That gcoiltnim, h0 says, was me of the most evoQ tempered men this State produeod in tho closing years of tho last ocntnry. In all tie ixciement, wh? n tragedy Lroodod over tho law-making aseeuibliy. Gen. Wallace was cool, determined! knd in full possesbion of tho situation.', Referring ?c the incidents of that tiiie, Mr. -?- ? J . uui. 5?io m iuuuiu^ ob?u^a;?ql &8 10 the puniipal bap(cniag*. Id the general clociiou of IbiG the Democrats elcotod a largo Dutabor of lepreseotatives to the General AstemL1 which had fotmjfly h^en over ?n< IjiJ" R aa?l >?f thodelegations from Ec'gealld and Laurens counties was conteateJ, Lowover. The State Doim critic executive committee urged the Democratic members elect to report to Columbia prompt ly. This was done and the night before the assembling of the Logiala?ute the Democratic representatives met in Clark's hall a d in caucus nominated the following ticket: W. 11. Wallaoe, Union, Speaker; J no. T. Sloan, Sr .Highland. clerk; W. B. Williams, of Yotk, reading oleark; and John Brown, Barnwell, sergeant at arms. The negro scoretary of Slate, Hayne, had in tho meantime refused to grant certificates of election to the Demooraolio cor (esters from Edgefield r.cd Laurens. Tho llcpublioans gathered in the State capitol tho day the Geniral As-embly was called to o:der and circled E W. Mackoy, of Charhston, Speaker. The DiUKcrats in a body, headed by the Elgefield ? jd Laurens delegation maroked to the Sia'e oapitrl, lut were refused admusioo. Whereupon John C. Shcpjaro, of Edgt field, delivered a protest. The oap:tol building was in ohargo of Fed oral troops commanded by Gen. Rugcr. Tho Democrats then marched baok to the Carolina hall, whioh is now standing, in tho rear of ltiohlacd County court house and behind the stores on Main street. This bmldmg is historic in many ways, having been built of briok still hot from the smoking ruina of Columbia in 18t>5. la this hall the Democratic members, constituting a r{Uorum (though not a me jority) of the General Assembly, procoeded to elect the ticket nominated in oaucus the night before. Tho Senate, which was oonc:ded to be Republican, was notified of the organization at Carolina hall, but took no notioo of tho body and reoognized thr Kopublioan Hou*c, whieh was in sessiou at tho State oapitol. From this the Dimooratio House brought aolion in the State supremo sourt to mandamus Hayne, tno sacre tary of State, to issuo election oertifioatos to tho Demoorata from Kdgcfiold and Laurens. The Democrats won their point- Then at tho suggestion of the State Democratic executive commit too tho W allace House decided to get sontrol of the hall of the House of Representatives. Gen. linger agreed to interpose no martial interference if the Demoora'.s would conduot themselves peaceably. Howevor, although admission to the building was obtained, it was nooosiary to pass tho portals of tho legislative hall. Stratogy and force were both brought into play. The Radical House was to assemble it noon on Thursday. The Demoorats, singly and by lack streets, madu thoir way to tho Stato oapitol and obtained tdmission. The Radicals wnrn not t t peatiLg thia movoment. However, the negro aergcant at-arma, a burly fellow, ittompted to prevent entranoo at the twiDg ng doora of green baiso. Col. James L. Oir, of Aodoraon, thrust aim to ono aide. In the souflle Mr. John S. Verner scrambled through the ega of the oomkatants and snatohed the ioor opon. The Democrats then filod n and Qcn. Wallaoo took the speaker's ihair This was a few minutea before 12 t'olook. Whon tho hour of nooa arived tho Kopubliean House officials attempted to get their seats, but wore ofusod. They obtained ohaira, howler, and eat beaido thu Democratic offi icra. From Thursday until Monday at toon tho dual government oontinucd hua, two Bpoakers, two oloiks, two of very offioo. Duiing that time no ) I ft . / X? - s . I . r ? Democrat left the hell fot fear that he could not gain reaemisaion. Pood was : brought by friends, and the Democratic legislators alept in the hall. If a Democrat would rise to address ' Speaker Wallace a Radical would ad dreBS Speaker Maokoy, and both iuembors would speak at the eaioe time, |J taoh trying to drown out tho other. No business was transacted or attempted. Id (ho mcantimo four negroes,came ovrr to the Dtmooratio standard, Hamilton and Myers, of Beaofort; Wostberry, of Sumter; Bosthn, of Newberry, and another fiom FaitfielcLHamilton was the first to make a break. He is said to have beenamegro . of intelligence and means. Jig walked into the hall faultlessly attirod in broadoloth. Laying his beaver hat and gold-headed oano on his derk, and displaying his revolver, whioh ho also laid close at hand, ho addressed Judge Wallace as "Mr. Speaker;"? The ne, roes crowded arcuni J 'm enraged. The white men also sorgea up towards his disk "Whom did he mean to ad dress as'Mr Sp< aher?' " Tolling the negroes to stand baok, Hamilton kept them at bay' with His pistol aod eaid that as Boon as quiet was restored he wou'd explain whom he meant. J ho eagtr.-r'owd fell baok and the negro tl on proclaimed why be would uphold* tho decent political patty "and would align himself with the Democrats. The following Monday at noon on the advice of Judgo Wallaoo the Democratic House abandoned the ball of the House of Rrj resent atives and woDt baok to Carolina hall. TLis was. done for a reason that no good could be ao comphstud by remaining and it was feared tl at the terrible strain .-on *}t\c people would bo followqd by. ^disaster unless the tension bo relaxed. Having now, with the*n-gro rcoruitB, a oh ar majority as well as a quorum, the Wallaoo Hou-e elected God. MC. Butlar to be United States Senator. A stand was built in front of Carolina hall, there being ) buildings boiweeb that tqot aod Main Street, and there Gen. Hampton was iDauguiatcd Gover nor, the oath being administered by J. (J Marshall, a Democratic (rial justiod, now Senator from Hiohlaud oounty. ? 1 The Kepublloans ele cted D. T. Corbin to tho United S.atcs Senato. Corbin was an alioD, but a very capable lawyer. No business was transacted, no laws enacted. Resolutions word disousscd by the three several branches of tho General Assembly meeting dailv. Dr. James Woodrow voluntarily did the printing of tho Wallaoe llause, but wai afterwards repaid Just before Christ maa the Radical Houre adjourned and the Wallaoe House followed suit. The expenses of tho Wallaoe House - were met ty voluntary services of tho-nnm hers and ty voluntaiy contributions from patriots. The next spring affairs were chaotic.' The Democrats refutod to pay taxes to Radical oounty officials, tut made a contribution to the Hampton govern mont. When Rutherford H. Hayes beiauie President March 4th, ho with drew the United States troops from South Carolina and tho backbone of the Radical party was gone. D. H, Chamberlain, R? publioan Governor, abdio.t ed, and Wade Hampton, the hero and idol of the Demcorats, oocupied tho exeoutivo office at the State eapitol A spcoial b< Biion of the General A sembly was called, and as there w?r> no funds fur tho expenses of the Radicals, the Mackuy House was d.ssipati'd, Hovovor, thero were many Republican ne groes who sat in the Logi ia'urc 'after the Wallaoe House gained full control, btoause Ute/v.TOAYta whiih. they re und :ubu dly R.publiW. D Simp,ion, of L urens, had al ready been sworn in as Liotuonant Governor. When" Cnambtrlain ?gave way to Hampton GrtavvS, the negro Lieutenant Governor, gave way to Mr. Simpson. Greaves tried to fqreo . Gov. Simpson to to lake the oath of < flics. Gov. SimpsoD, s veiling with indigna lion, replied: ''l'he Senate will Come to order. I have taken the oa.h of iffioe once, and no power on earth can make me take it again." Thero w?b no dramatic . soeno after this announcement, but quiet was after some difficulty restored and Gov. Simpsou did not take tho oath as proposed by the nogro. Gen. Mart W. Gary was a member of the Sonato and defied the : legre Senators to dispute Gov. Siffi'p>iOO s right to the office. Gov. Simpson was eicoted oLicf jus lice of the State supieme oourt and Jeter, of Union, became Lieutenant' Governor. Gen. Waltaoe, me presiding officer of tLe lloubo, vias alto from Union. When Gen. Wall&co the presiding offieerof the House, was elevated to tho eirouit beech in 1877, John C. Sbepj ard, after an interesting contest with J as. L. Orr, bccamo Speaker of tho blouse. Mr. Sheppard afterwards married Gen. Wallace's daughter. Nono but a man of highest attainments. delioato taot, supreme courage and indomitable will oould have bcou Speaker of the Democratic House of 1876 and 6Uoh a man W. 11. Wallace is< declared by all who served with him. 0 f Committed Suicide. A dispatch from St Goorgos to The State says <aa tragedy has occurred in our midst, and odc which, under the particular oircumstanoos by which it was occasioned, causes the sympathy of the entire community to be extendod to the bereaved ones. It was a suioido, Mr. Carney Gaoirins, an old aod rospooted cilitoa, precipitated the end of his existence of his own vjlitiou Wod nesday afternoon about f> o'clock. Mr. Gaekins was just onvalescout from a protracted spell of severo illness. On tho afternoon of tho suic.do was the first time that ho dared vontnro' oat of doors for months. Ho managed to make his way to a store nearby his plaoj of rcsidoLco, and from its proprietor prtcurod a pistol under tho protonso that bo dosirod to kill a dog or oat which was annoying hiui at his homo. HiB wifo, beoomiog alarmed at his lengthy absotcj from the -house,' instituted a searoh and found him in one of tho cuthouseB in tho rear of their residency with life extinot, with a wound in the hoad, intlcited by a to , volvor, which was grasped tightly in tho left hand. Tho ball cn'torod on tho; left aide of the faoo, a little above tho tomplo, passing through tho hoad and embedding itself in a bundle of fodder wh.ch was beneath his hoad. It is preBurned that ho was driven to tho dsjring and rash act from despondonpy, produced by protracted suffering frofii a chronic disease. Tho unexposed cccurronoo has proved almost fatal to Gaskin's wifo, and she has been at tho point of death from nervour prostration ever sinoo. Murdered a Little Hoy. Noar Six Mile, W. Va., Thursday Charles Core, 20 years old, shot and killed a 7-year-old son of John llagar and seriously wounded the father because some ono had stoned his horao. He eaoaped to Kontuoky. \ ? - - - -' - ? - ? - - - A BEAUTIFUL POEM. * - \ ' B vouac cf the Dead," Or?at?et Martial Eulogy Ever W?t?t?n. ITS ADAPTION WORLD-WIDE. I Written by Theodore O'Hara In ConnhriernorAtlon of the Oal-' . u.vi tki V... -" at ? / wi iiiv rvi r, ' lucky Soldiery. ? [Like Providence, La , Banner-Democrat.] Having [aJely s^cn a beautiful tribu'e to Tbcpdorc O'Hata, author of the immortal poem, "Tho Bivouao of the Dead," and as O Hara waa'my ptrsonal friend and assistant in the Adjutant Gen< rat's 1 ffioo of the Kentucky divition, commanded by Mr jor General Breckei ridge, I take pleaserj in Bond ing you an extract from ibo irtiolo. with the fyll poem, which I haver rar, rir'd in my notebook ever-sinoc the w?r. It is worthy of reoc-rd that this eon of tho .south produoed tbo ono perfect and universal martial eulogy that the world known and1 thai the south has been absolutely unmind'ul of this fact. Tho first of these statements is proven by the fact that without any advertisement or exploitations, the wonderful words have, in the fif*y years sibtfo thoy wero written, permeated the wh<lo world, and been laid hold on by Koglibh speaking people cverywhere^to c.lebraie their honored dead whp passid away in batilo. Upon Orion an battlefields, the renting place of Eoglirh heroes is marked by a great monument, en which bhinos, O llara's maiobless words, and yot Ecjilahd Mid not koow from -whom she' borrowed when bhc-wrote them: "On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with so emn round, . '* The BlvoUic of the dead." Forha'ps tfio anonymous ohnraotcr of tke poem-was 'a blestiog, since it ip di ubtf.ul if tho Federal govirom nt of the Unitrd Slates would have used the lines in s-uoh lavish fashion in im moria.liz. og tho. dead . of fhe ' Union Army, i>ad t^oy.-baca reoogn aad as the. product of tho genius of a soldier and effioer of the other bide, In any case, >1 j: j 1 i- --'j - 1 mux u>u ?ui kuuw, sou; every nauorai eemoiery in America has gained thereby, biuoo the) arc not only tho moat appioiriate but the only appropriate lines for BUth a purpoeo. Over.the gateway of "life rational cemetery at Washington the famous first b fact a is cd graved, and. there, as at Atitietam.aol other national cometcr'wrs tho 'entire poem is reproduced, starza by stansa, on blibs placed along tho xiiivoway. ' O H-ara Iks in the bUTjicg grou id at ..KranWort, K.y , with otly the lh'icip tion cn a birnplo slab of marblo which says: Tfoodoro O Hara,' Mcjcr A. D C Ditd June 6. 1867 B 1 iw is a copy of h a poem in fuli,' wrifeo cd ' ooasion of the r? moval ?t the Kentucky dead from Mexico to tKeir natjve. Sta'.a i(t>r the war with that Q^untry.. Joho A Buoitier" . < rr> 1 ' " TUK BlVOUAO OX T1IK I)EAO ("Written by Xhoodoco O'Hara-rn lS-lr) fTbe ipnflbd drum's end'roll has be it The Soulier s last.tattoo; "No more on life s parade shall meet . i \' That brave and fallen few t, , .Vs fame's c erual ramping ground Their bilent tents are sprea 1, A'nd gtory guards, with solemn round; The bivouac of the dead. a * ' No rumorofthe foe's alvance, Now swells upon the wind: No troubled thought at midnight haunts Of loved ones left behind; No. vision of the morrow's strife The warrior's dream alarms: No Graying horn nor screaming fife At dawn sh-ll call to arms. Their shivered swords are red with rutt, Their plumed heads are bowed; Their haughty banner, trailed in duet, l? now their martial shroud. And pleuleouafuueral tear.*have washed The red ruins ffom each bro*; J And Ihe proud forms, by hatt'e gashed; ' Are free 'rom anguish now. n Thc.peighing troop* the flushing blaJe, The bugle's stirring blast. Tho charge, the dreadful cannonade, The din aud shout, ate passed; Nor war's wild note nor glory* s peal t-hatl thrill with'fierce delight ! i Thi se breasts that nevermore may feel The rapture oftho buhl. Like the fierce northern hurricaue That sweeps hi* great plateau, Flushed witn the triumph yet to gain, Came down the serried foe. , Who heard ihq ihitaderof the fray break o'er the field beneath, Knew ipell tbd wat? hword of that day Was "victory or death."' Lcr.g had the doubtful confliot raged O er all the micken plain, For never fiercer fight had waged The vengeful blood of Spain; And still the stofm of battle blew, Still swelled the gory tide; I Not long our stout old chieftain knew Such odds bis strength could bide. I 'Twas in that hour this stern command I Called to a martyr's grave | The flower of his beloved land, * The nation's tlsg to save, by rivers-of their fathers' gore iiia first born laurels grew, And well .he deemed the sons woftld pour Their lives for glory, too. . Full many a northeV'e breath has swept O'er Angostura'S;plain? And long the pitying sky has wept Above itfe mouldered slain. . The raven's scream er eagle's (light, Or shepherd's pensive lay Alone awakes each sullen height That frowned o et that dread frayful. Sons of the dstk and bloody ground,' Ye must hot slumber there, Where stranger eteps and tongues resound Along the heedless air. Y'our own proud land's heroio soil Shall be your fitter grave; duo claim* irom war niB ricnesl spoil? . ' The ashes of her brave. .. .. . \ Thus 'neftth theit parent turf they rest, Far from rh" gory field, Borne to a Spartan mother's breast On many a bloody shield; The sunshine of their native sky . Smiles sadly on them here, And kindred eyes and hems watch by The heroes' sepulchre. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead! Dear as the blood we gave; No impions footsteps here shall tread 'the herbage of your grave; Nor shall your glory be forgot i While fame her record keeps; Or honor paint thi hallowed'spot Where valor proudly sleeps. ? . . Yon marbfe minstrel's voiceloss stpnt In deathless sing shall tell, ? When many a vanished age hath tlown, t The story how, ye. fill. ' ' 'Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight, Nor timels remorseless doom, Shall dim one ray of glory's light That glides your deathless tomb. - ' ' jwv? - THOU LABBJjrCALVAEY.'' Saw Millg How a Oroat Hymn Was Xad? by a /^ . -m jr 11 Corn Mills, Wj One d?y daring the winter of 1830 a Cane Mills, mi young man, a graduate from Yale, eat 7 down in bin room in the oity of New TJiwaw* E-l iillnwo I Yirkcnd witbc) esfi!ltd with tears wro.e XXlill"JTOj in bis pookot mi in >randum-book four w-w w 11 bimplo stansts, whioK he said, '"were j_ 0ft XJl111i01*S? m born of my own soul." Two years la- # ' j ter. Dr. Lowell Mason composed for Ivrinri tiacj .t.r.il .v.- ??.. #ui~* Alillfcc 1 Ilr!?l, to wbioh the hymn is still sung, and it "n *i is certainly one of the mo*t p.eoioui X301161TSa contributions whioh Am rioan genius has made to the hymnology of the Planprfl fill/I 1 Christian churoh. Itr ads thu : ltWlvI O tlllU My ruth looks to Thee, Matchers, I Thou Lamb of CeWary, 7 B ?ii.iprV, Swing Saws, J Take all my guill away, "Ta ri ? U let ue troiu ibts day |-f 1Stl WG B. wholly Thine." 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