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r r, >1 > : ?-? ? ?1" - - - ^ RELIGIOUS REVIVALS " _________ 1 Dr. Talmage, in a Timely Discourse, ! Declares His Belief in Them. , ? Sermon Adapted from (be Story of Simon enil (be Kliberi?Greateat Obstacle to Revivals Is an Unconverted Ministry. (Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopacb. N. Y.] Washington, March 24. "" This discourse of Dr. Talmage is X. most pertinent at this time when a (widespread effort for religious awakening is being made; text, Luke, verse 0: "They inclosed a great multitude of fishes und their net brake." Simon and his comrades had experienced the night before what fishermen ?all "poor luck." Christ steps on board |Lhe fishing smack and tells the sailors !to pull away from the beach and direots them again to sink the net. Suro nougb, very soon the not is full of fishes, and the sailors begin to haul In. 80 large a school of fiElies was taken that the hardy men began to look red In the face as they pull, and hardly have they begun to rejoice at their success when snap goes a threat of the hot, and snap goes another thread, so there 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 on deck the fishermen rush about, gathering up the broken incshes of the net. Out yonder there is a ship dancing on the wave, and they hail it: "3hip ahoyl Bear down this way!" The ship comes, and both boats, both fishing smacks, are filled with the fibundering treasures. "Ah," says some one, "how much better it would huvo been If they had staid on shore and fished with a hook and lino and taken one at a time instead of having this great excitement and the bout almost upset and the net broken and having to call for help and getting sopping wet with the sea!" The ehurch is the boat, the Gospel is the net, society is the sen, uml a ' " .grca. revival is a whole school brought In at one sweep of the net. I have admiration for that man who goes out with a hook and line to fish. I admire the way he unwinds the reel and adJusts the bait and drops the hook in a quiet place on a still afternoon and here catches one and there one, but I like also a big boat aud a large crew Snd a net a mile long and swift oars and stout sails and a stiff breeze and a great multitude of souls brought?so 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 iuto 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 hundred million people saved in C4 hours when nations shall be born in a Iff day. But there are objections to reiff rivals. People are opposed to them because the net might get broken, and If by the preaaure of souls It does not get broken, then they take their own | penknives and alit the net. "They inI closed a great multitude of flslieB, and " the net brake." It is sometimes opposed to revivals I of religion that lliose who come into the church at such times do not hold out. As long as there Is a gale of blessIng they have their calls up. 13ut as -fee strong winds stop blowing they drop into a But hat are the fu< ? lu T our churches the vast majority of the L useful people are those who are brought in under great awakenings, and they hold out. Who are the prominent men in the United States iu ohurchea, in prayer meetings, in Sabbath schools? For the most part they are the produot of great awakenings. I have noticed that those who are brought into the Kingdom of Qod through revivals have more persistence and more determination in the Christian life than those who come In under a low state of religion. People born in an Icehouse may live, but they will never get over the cold they taught in the icehouse. A cannon ball L depends upon the impose with which it starts for how iar it shall go and how swiftly, and the greater the revival force with which a soul is started the more far-reaching and far-resounding will be the execution. But it is sometimes objected to revivals that there is so much excitement that people mistake hysteria for religion. We admit that In every revival of religion there is either a suppressed or a demonstrated excitement. Indeed, if a man can go out of a state of condemnation into a state of acceptance with God or see others go without any agitation of soul he is in an unhealthy, morbid state and is as repulsive and absurd as a man who should boast ho saw a child snatched out from under a horse's hoofs and felt no agitation, or saw a man rescued from the fourth tory of a house on Are and felt no acceleration of the pulses. Salvation from sin and death and hell into life and peace and Heaven forever is such a tremendous thing that if a man tells mo he can look on it without any agitation I doubt his Christianity. The fact is that sometimes excitement is the most important possible thing. In case of resuscitation from drowning or freezing the one Idea is to excite nniination. Before conversion we ure dead. It is the business of the church to revive, fciuunu, uhukcii, i u6 hsc11 iii c1, flflftlo Into life. Kxcitement is bad or good acoording to what it makes us do. If it make us do that which is bad, it is bad excitement, but if it make us agitated about our eternal welfure, if it make us pray, if it make us attend upon Christian service, if it muke us < cry unto God for mercy, then it is n good excitement. A Wrecked Life. Corporal Harry K. Yeakloy. aped 30, of the Forty-third company or coast ar- ? tillery, stationed p* Fort Torry, Plum island, died Thursday from tho effoota J of a doso of wood Aloohol self adminis- k tcrod. Corporal Yoakloy was a physioian " having earned his degreo at tho Uni- c vorsityof Virginia, and had been in the 0 enlisted service only a short time, his K objeot in entering tho army having been to put himsolf under restrains of military discipline, whioh ho believed would s bo benofioial for habits he had acquired. * His body will bo shipped to tho family homo in Winohostcr, Va , for burial. Namo Changed. ' Tho namo of tho villago of Sing Sing d has been ohanged to Casing. There n sidonts found that whon thoy wont s< away from homo and told that thoy c oamo from Sing Sing pooplo fcuspootcd t they woro ox oonviets, boeauso tho lo- 6 cation of tho New York Stato prison w at that plaqo has been Sing Sing's only n | claim to fame* So'they [ctitioncd for a a ' ohango. Thorp's somehting in a namo " Lafter all Whon tho namo is that of a d ponitontiary site,?Columbia Stato. t< _ _ i i t rmn - - It Is sometimes Mid that during re* p rivals of religion great multitudes of li children and young people are brought into the church, and they do not know t what they are about. It has been my o observation that the earlier people c - a 1 1.4 .1 n 1 at ? vuuio iuvv vuc autgugiu ui uou iuo uiurc j useful they are. Hubert Hall, the <1 prince of prtachers, was converted at a 12 years of age. It is likely he knew v what he was about. Matthew Ilenry, t the commentator, who did more than any man of his century for increasing o the interest in the study of the Scrip- t tureB, was converted at 11 years of t aget Isabella Graham, immortal in the c Christian church, was converted at ten 1 yearH of age; Dr. Watts, whose hymns 1 will be sung all dowu the ages, was ii converted at nine years of age. Jona- c than Edwards, perhaps the mightiest c intellect that the American pulpit c ever produced, was converted at seven a yours of age, and that lather' and I mother take an uwful responsibility y when they tell their child at seven y years of uge: "You are too young to a be a Christian," or "You are too young I to connect* yourself with the church." t That Is u mistake as long as eternity. 1 If during a revival two persons pre- a sent themselves an candidates for the 1 church and the one is ten years of age y and the other is 40 years of age. I will a have more confidence in the profession ^ of religion of the ono ten years of age e than the one 40 yeurs of age. Why? t The one who professes at 40 years of c ago has 40 years of impulse in the * wrong direction to correct, and the child lias only ten years in the wrong d direction to correct. Four times ten J nre 40. Four times the religious pros- ? pect for the lad that comes into the I kingdom of God and into the church at * ten years of age than the mto at 40. c I am very apt to look upon revivals 1 as connected with certaiu men who fostered them. People who in this i day do not like revivals nevertheless have not words to express their adini- e ration for the revivalists of the past, c for they were revivalists?Jonathan- c Edwards, John Wesley* George Whit- 1 field, Fletcher, Griffin, Davies, Os- v borne, Knapp, Nottleton, Moody and ninny others whose nafties coma to ' my mind. The strength of their in- ^ telleet and the holiness of their lives make me think they would not have * had anything: to do with that which I was ophefneral. Oh, it is easy to * talk against revivals! : * A man said to Mr. Dawson: "T like your sermons very much, but 1 the after meetings I despise. When c the prayer meeting begins I always 8 go up into the gallery and look down, 6 and 1 am disgusted." "Well," said Mr. Dawson, "the reason is you go on the top of your neighbor's house and look down his chimney to exam- * ine his fire, and of course you get only smoke in your eyeB. Why don't * you come in the door and 6it down 6 and warm?" Oh, I am afraid to say anything against revivals of religion or against anything that looks like them, be- . cause I think it xnay be a sin against the Holy Ghost, and you know tho Bible says that 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 T against j'our pictures, do I not speak against you? If you are an nrchl- . tect, aud I speak against a building , you put up, do I not speak against c you? If a revival be the work of the e Holy Ghost, and I speak against that fi revival, do I not speak against the Holy Ghost? And whoso epeaketh , against the Holy Ghost, Bays the Bible, he shall never be forgiven, neither in this worjd nor in the world . to comc. I think* sometimes people huvo made a fatal mistake^ rection. Now I come to .tho real, genuine cause of objection to revivals. That is the coldness of the objector. It is the secret and hidden but unmistalc able cause in every case, a low state of religion in tho heart. Wide awake, consecrated, useful Christians are never afraid of revivals. It is the spiritually dead who are afraid of having their sopulcher molestod. Tho chief agents of the devil during a great awakening are always unconverted professors of religion. As soon as Christ's work begins they begin to gossip against it and take a pail of water and try to put out this spark of religious influence, and they try to put out another spark. Do they succeed? As well when Chicago was on fire might somo one hare gone out with a garden water pot tiying to extinguish it.. The difficulty la that when a revival begins in a church it begins at so many points that while you have doused one anxious soul with a pail of cold water there nre 500 other anxious souls on ' fire. Oh, how much better it would V.- To,, ~ -l ?-> .... in/m ut iuu cuunot or f Christ's Gospel nnd help pull It on 6 rather than to fling ourselves in front 1 of the wheels, trying to block thair / progress. Wo will not stop tha t chariot, but we ourselTes will be A ground to powder. i Uut I think, ufter nil, the grentest t obstacle to revivals throughout s Christendom is on unconverted minis- n try. We must believe that the vast ? majority of thosa who officiate at c acred altnrs are regenerated, but I ? suppose there may float into the v ministry of nil the denominations of f Christians men whoso hearts have v never been changed by grace. They " are all antagonistic to revivals. How A did they get Into the ministry? Per- P haps some of them chose it as a re- A spcctable profession. Perhaps some u of them were sincere, but were mis- ? taken. As Thomas Chalmers said, he n had been many years preaching the ? Gospel before his heart had been G changed, and ns many ministers of v the Gospel declare they were preach- G Ing and had been ordained to sacred M orders yenrs and years before their hearts were regenerated. Gracious ? God, what a solemn thought for those r of us who minister at the altarl tl With the present ministry in the c Sergt. Jasper's Company. mL /t t ? " - i no noiumDii State nays in tho valuable "rubbish'' at tho Stato bouse thoro Tl ias reocntly been found tho original di lompany roll of tho oompany of wbiob in lorgt. Jasper of Fort Moultrie fame wan st; . member. Tho roll not only gives tho m lame of oaoh commissioned officer but da >f oaoh privato in tho oompany. U also pi ;ives the dato of onlistmont and diB- Fi barge, and has oomploto marginal notes, ai ^his is regardod as one of the most valu \\ bio finds among the Stato's revolution- oj ry records yet mado. fo or A Good Suggestion. Tho Atlanta Journal says in Rhode sland there is an averago of ono diorco for every eight marriages. A good da oal of uhoIobs formality and expense ri< light bo savod by morely adopting a A ort of probationary system whereby va onplos can take eaoh other, not for bet- th ir or for worse, but until thoy can fe nd out tho difforenoo? on trial, as it of 'ere?without calling for the sacra- wi tent of matriago until they aro sura no bout it. Certainly the percentage of da sticks" could not bo any loss than un- no or tho present come oasy-go easy ays- gii :m. he rtMBi temperature of plot/, tkk snd will never bo enveloped with r*< ivals. While the pews on one side he sltsr ory for mercy, the pulpita u the other side of the sltar must ry for mercy. Ministers quarreling, ilnlsters trying to pull each oth^r own. Ministers struggling for eccleiastical ulaoe. Ministers, lethurgio rith whole congregations dying on heir hands. What a spectacle! During our civil war-the president if the "United States made procl&raalon for 75,000 troops. Some of you emember the big stir. Dut the King if the universe to-day asks for ,200,000,000 more troops than are enisted, and we want it done softly, mperceptibly, no excitement, one by me. You aro a dry goods merchaht >n a largo scale, and I am a merchant n a small scale, and I come to you .nd want to buy 1,000 yards ot cloth. )o you say: "Thank yon. I'll sell "ou 1,000 yards of cloth, bat I'll sell ou 20 yards to-day and 20 to-morrow Lnd 20 the next day, and if it takes d? six months I'll sell you the whole housand yards. You will want as ong as that to examine the (foods, >nd I'll want as long as that to exanine the credit, and besides that 1,000 rards of oloth is too much to sell all it once?" No; you do not say that, 'ou take me iuto the counting-room, ,nd in ten minutes the whole tranaasion is consummated. The fact is we annot afford to bo fools in anything >ut religion. That very merchant who on Saturday afternoon sold- me the thousand arris of cloth at one stroke the next iabbath in church will stroke his icard and wonder whether it would lot bo better for a thousand souls to lome straggling along for ten years nstead of bolting in at one service. It seems to me as if Qod is preparng the world for some quick and inlversal movement. A celebrated lectriclan gave me a telegraph chart ?f the world. On that chart the wires rosslngthe continents and the cables inder the sea looked like veins red vlth blood. On that chart I see that he headquarters of the lightnings are n Great Britain and the United itates. In London and New York he lightnings are stabled, waiting o be harnessed for some quick dis atch. That shows you that the telgraph is in the possession of Chrisianity. It is a significant fact that the mnn vho Invented the telegraph was an ild-fashloned Christian, Prof. Morse, ind that the man who put the telegraph under the sea was an old-fashoned Christian, Cyrus W. Field, and hat the president of the most fanous of the telegraph companies of his country was an old-fashioned Christian, William Orton, going from he communion table on earth tralglit to his home in Heaven. TThat [oes all that mean? I do not suppose that the telegraph vas Invented merely to let us know vhether flour Is up or down or which torse won the race at the Derby or vhich marksman beat at the latest icntest. I suppose the telegraph was nvented and built to call the world o God. In some of the attributes of the ,ord we seem to share on a small calo. For instanae, in His love and Ii?-kindness. But until of late fore:nowledge, omniscience, omnipresnce, omnipotence, seem to have been xclusively God's possession. God, deirtng to make the race like Himself, ; fires us a species of foreknowledge n the weather probabilities, gives u^ i species of omniscience in telegraphy, fives us n species of omnipresence in he telephonejgJ^^^^MUspccie^of ibout tis, people are asking wnntnext? 1 will tell you what next. Next, a tupendous religious movement. Next, ho end of war. Next," the crash of lespotism. Next, the world's expurgalon. Next, tie Christllko dominion. Cext, the judgment. What becomes >f the world after that I care not. t will have suffered and achieved nough for one world. Lay it np in he drydocks of eternity, like an old nan of war gone out of service, or fit t up like a Constellation to carry >read of relief to some other suffering ilanet or lift it be demolished. Fareveil, dear old world, that began with >aradlse and ended with Judgment (onflagration. Lnst summer I stood cn the Isle of Yight, and I had pointed out to ine ho place where the Eurydiee sank vitlf 200 or 300 young men who were n trainiag for the British navy. You emcmber when that training ship vent down there n as a thrill of horror .11 over the world. Since then there vas another training Rhip missing, fha Atalanta, gone down with all on loard. By order of her majesty's govrnment vessels went cruising up and [own the Atlantic trying to find that ost training ship in which thero were ro many young men preparing for he British navy. Alas, for the lost Ltalanta! Oh, my friends, this world s only a training.ship! On it we are mining for Heaven. The old ship alls up and down the ocean of imnensity, now thiougli the dark waves f midnight, now through the golden rested wave of the mora, but sails >n and sails on. After awhile her vork will be done, and the inhabitants if Heaven will look out and find a i*orld missing. The cry will be: Where is that earth where Christ ied and the human race was omanciated? Send out fieets of angels to nd the missing craft." Let them sail p and down, cruise up and down the eean of eternity, and they will catch otonc glimj?;o of her mountain masts r her topgallants of floating cloud, lone downl The training ship of a rorld porished in the last tornado, h, let it not be that the goes down rith all on board, but rather may it be aid of her passengers, as It was said f the drenched passengers of the Alxandrian corn ship that crashed into he breakers of Molitai "They all asaped safe to land!" A Horrible Crime. A horrible crirno ctmo to the light harsday when John Favalons and his vugmer, addio, wcro aiscoverrd cold death in their homo on Pordito reel, Now Orleans. Hoth had been nrdcrcd by burglars during Wednes \y night. The burglars rannaoked tho cmises after killing their viotims. avalona kept a grooery and fruit stand id olosod up his plaoo about 10 o'olook Wednesday night. When he did not )on Thursday morning neighbors rood thoir way in and discovered tho ime. A True Qirl. Dollio K. Wilkins, tho adopted iughter of Mrs. Sarah E. Wilkins, a ;h and oooontrio widow living near tohison, Kansas, loses an estate lued at 175,000 booauso sho married o man she loved. She was married a 1 w days ago to Qeorge Woods, tho son 1 James Woods, a farmer, against the 1 shes of Mrs. Wilkins, and the widow 1 w announocs -that her adopted ' ughter, who was her solo heir, will 1 t roooive a penny of her fortune. The 1 1 is 20 and her husband is 20 years 1 r senior. ' J : \ i I SOME. PAS. tWoRY ; BV Brought to Mvmory by )?ath cf JuCgi W alla an (XciriNo peBS? 1 Thw Stirring Evonta of I VuiJtwminetcorces of tha ffopca Houaa Hampton'sVd V 1 uta to Wallt-CiW' , The Columbia Slate says ^'tribute to the memory cf Gen. W?!.fce oould be more gratifying to his 11c. d ones than iho kind expressions Gen Wade Hampton, who watW^r Gen. ! Wallace's career in tbe waM < who was Qovernor at the time ^B^*adge Wallace was leader of the ^B^aticr Ilouto of Representatives iTo a representative of The H)} Gen. Hampton expressed his reflet tho death of Gen. Walla?;.-, tfl that ' Gen Walla o's great sul^H uaU ties wero UBtifit** to by h^H and deserved promotion; that l^J lenoe as a legislator is a matiot^B les-story and that his broad judioiai^Ki jujuali ficd him to preside in th^B unified, able manner whioh chara* />-,cd his long, true and faithful boiWw on tho konch. I pinoeiely regret f\a death," concluded Gen. Hampton ..I Gen. Robtrt R Hemphyj, of Abbo ville, who was a memberthe Wallic>Hou<-e, hp< ko thus of Judge Wal lace: "My firtt aequain'*noo wiih Judge Wallaciwas in 187*> wl en ho hccamo Speaker of th^ histtrio Houso of ltep'OsectalivoB which has since that time beon known kh tho Wallace Hou o He was tbe rifcfat man for that critical timo 11.s oou^|e, judg ment and dkorction savcd^B State from many iv Is. If he hi^Hot been perfectly B'l'-posscssed whe^kc State House urns first entered a ool^B would have enBUcd and all our peop^j would havo beooup inv lvcd. 1 ho jsame is true of the time when the H(uso was oompe lied to quit tho State 1 House. He was an excellent presiding' efficer, impartial in his rulings and r^niok in his decisions. Those who served with him wi.l hear of his death with profound sorrow. Ho was a brt vo and patriotic soldier, a learned Tcr, an honorable orumc 1 lor and a jus, judge. Tho StatO has lost one of hor noblest sons " The death of oalls vividly to tie the exciting scenes enao'c^^Ti^ South Carolina was in tho hands o' a dual government. Mr. John S. Veroer, master of Rioh'and County, was a member of the Wallace House; rcpro coating Ooneo County. Ho p yi a high tribute to the oharaotcr of Judge Wallace. "That gentlemen, h0 says, was e no of tbe most even tempered men this State produced in tho closing years of the last oenlury. Id ?U the ixoiement, whin tragedy brooded over tho law-makiDg assembling Gon. Wallace was cool, determined! md in full possession of tbo situation/ , Referring ?o tho incidents of that ti^ie, Mr. Vomer gave a running statom* at as to tho piiQiipal bap{cnicgs. In the general election of lfaTti the D^mtcrats elooted a lar^o nutjber of tepreseDtatives to the General Asiembly^ which had forutj^rly over i ' m si ly,,'"-*!* Rfijaal i twaJBlk?i of the delegations from Kd^eowid and I Laurens counties was contested, however. Tho State Dem< cralio executive committco urged tho Democratic members elcot to report to Columbia prompt ly. This was done and the night before the aisembling of the Logtalatu'e tho Democratic representatives met in Clark's hall a dio caucus nominated the following ticket: W. H. Wallace. IlnlAn Slnnakrr- I ?a 'I1 iJlnan 1J > - land, clerk; W. B. Williams, of York, reading oloark; and John BrowD, Barnwell, sergeant at arms. The negro secretary of Slate, Hayno, bad in tho meantime refused to grant certificates of election to the Demooraotio cor teatcrs from Edgefield r.cd Laurens. The Republicans gathered in tho State capitol the day the General Assembly wts called to o:der and elto.td K W. Mackey, of Charltston, S| oaker. Tho IXmecrats in a -hpdy, headed by the Eigeficld aud Lauren# delegations marched to the Sta'e oapit >1, tut wero refused admi.-sion. Whereupon John C. Shopp&rd, of Edgefield, delivered a protest. Tho oapitol building was in ohargo of Fed eral troops commanded by G?.n. Kugcr. Tho Democrats then marched back to the Carolina hall, whioh is now standing, in the rear of ltiohiacd County court house and behind tie stores on Main street. This building is historic in many ways, having been built of briok still hot from tho smoking ruins of Colnmhia in 18H5. In this hall the Democratic members, constituting a quorum (though not a me jority) of tho General Assembly, proceeded to eleot tho ticket nominated in oaucus the night before. Tho Senate, whioh was conceded to be Bepublioan, was notified of the organization at Carolina hall, but took no notioo of tho body and recognized thr Republican Ilouec, whioh was in session at tho State oapitol. From this the Democratic House brought aotion in tho Stato supromo court to mandamus Hayne, tho socrc Ury of Stato, to issue olection certificates to tho Domocrats from Edgefield and Laurens. The Demoorats won their point- Then at the suggestion of tho State Domooratic executive commit teo tno Wallace House dooided to get control of the hall of the Houso of Keprosentativcs. (ien. Ituger agreed to interpoae no martial interfercnoo if the Oemoora's would conduct themselves peaceably. However, although admission to the building was obtained, it wan nooossary to pass the portals of tho legislative hall. Stratogy and force wore both brought into play. Tho lUdioal House van to assemble at noon on Thursday. Tho Democrats, singly and by taok streots, made their way to tho Stato oapitol and obtained admission. The Radicals wore not ex peeling this movement. However, tho negro sergeant at-arms, a burly fellow, attompted to prevent entranoo at the swing ng doors of green baiio. Col. | James L. Oir, of Andorson, thrust him to one side. In tho soutUo Mr. John 8. Vernor scrambled through the legs of tho combatants and snatohed tho door open. The Domoorats then filed in and Gen. Wallace took the speaker's 1 chair This was a few minutes before 12 i o'olook. Whon tho hour of noon ar- 1 rived the Kopublioaa Houso offioials attomptod to get their seats, but wore refused. They obtained ohairs, howaver, and tat besido thu Democratic offi 1 scrs. From Thursday until Monday at 1 coon tho dual government oontinued i thus, two Speakers, two clerks, two of < ivory offioo. During that timo no 1 I V. ? Democrat left the bell for fear that he Bonld not gain reaemieaion. Food was brought by friends. and the Democrat io legislators slept in the hall. If a Democrat would me to address Speaker Wallace a Radical would ad dress Speaker Maokoy, and both inembore would speak at the same time, eaoh trying to drown out the other. No business was transacted or attempted. Din tho meantime four, negroes,came over to the Dtinoeratio standard, Hamilton and Myers: of Beaufort; Westberry, of Sumter; Bostbn, of Nowberry, and another from Fairfield.Hamilton was the first to make a break. He is said to have been a Jtsgro of iotelligenoe and means. ilq walked into the ball faultlessly attired io broadoloih. Laying his beaver bat and gold-headed oauo on his doi-k, and displaying his revolver, whioh he also laid oloso at hand, he addressed Judge Wallace as "Mr. Speaker:"? The negroos crowded around >1 irn cor?ged. The white men also surged up towards his disk "Whom did to mean to ad dress as 'Mr Spiaker?' " Telling the negroes tp staad back, Hamilton kept them at bay' with Kis pistol and said that as soon as quiet was restored he wou'd explain whom he meant. Tho eagir.rowd fell back and the negro U oo proclaimed why be would uphold' the decent political party "and would aligo himself with the Democrats. The following Monday at noon on the advioe of Judge Wallaoo the Deinooratio House abandoned the ball of the Houbo of Rry resent ativcs and went baok to Carolina hall. This was . done for a re?6oo that no good could bo aocompliBtud by remaining and it was feared t) at the torrible strain on poople would bo followed by ..disaster uoIcbb the tension bo relaxed. Having now, with the*u-grb recruits, a oh ar majority as well as a quorum, tho Wallaoo tiou'e elected Qen. >10, Butlar to be United States" Sonaior. A stand was built iu front 'of Carolina hall, there being n> buildings between thatriotaod Main Street, and there Gen. Hampton was inauguiated Gover nor, the oath being administered by J. Q Marshall, a Democratic) trial jusliod, now Senator from Kiohlaud oounty. V ' The Kepublloans clcotod D. T. Corbin to the United S.ates Senato. Corbin was an alien, but a very oapable lawyer. No business was transacted, no laws enaoied. Resolutions word discussed by the three several branches of the General Assembly meeting daily. Dr. James Woodrow voluntarily did the piioting of tho Wallaoo llausc, but was afterwards repaid. Just before Christ mas the Radical Heuso adjourned and the Wallaoo House followed suit. The expenses of tho Wallaoe ilou60 were met by voluntary Ecivioes of tho-mem bers and ty voluntaiy contributions from patriots. Tbo next spring affairs were chaotio. The Democrats refuted to pay taxes to ltidioal oounty officials, tut made a contribution to tho Hampton govern mont. When Ru'1 erford B. Uayis bo:amo President March 4th, ho with drew the United States troops from South Carbltna and tho backbone of tho Radical party was gone. D. H. Chamberlain, R? pubiioan Governor, abdio*t' id, and Wade Hampton, tho hero and idol of tho Democrats, ooeupied the executive office at the State ca'pttol A speoial hcbiiod of the General A sembly was called, and as there win no funds for tho expenses of the Ridicals. the Mackoy House was disvipajuti, Hotnvnr thArn vnr.t tnanv I^AntiKli.tan nn - " J *.ypW.av-M MV groca who Bat in iho Legi la'uro after the Wallace House gamed full coatrol, because the /v.'&uVtt.a whidh. they ^ppHBV^10 an<i-obtcdly U.publiW. D Simeon, of L.urens, bad al ready been sworn in aa Lieutenant Governor. When"" Unambtrlain vgave way to Hampton Grcav.a, the nagro Lieutenant Governor, gave way to Mr. Siinison. Greavea tried to fqroo.G^v^ Simpson to to take the 'oath of ?ffiea. Gov. Simpson, a veiling with indigna lion, replied: "The Senate will Como to order. I have taken the oa.h of effioe onoe, and no power on earth can mako me take it again." Thero waa no dramatic . soeno after this announcement, but quiet waa after some difficulty restored and Gov. Simpeon did not take the oath a9 proposed by the negro. Gen. Mart W. Gary waa a member of tho Sonato and defied the tiegre Senators to dispute Gov. "SiffipLod a right to the office. Gov. Simpson waa elcoted oLicf jus tioe of the State supieme oourt aud Jeter, of Union, beoamo Lieutenant' Governor. Gen. Wallace, tno presiding officer of tLe House, was alt-o from Union. When Gon. Wallaco the presiding officer of tho House, was olcvated to the oircuit beech in 1877, Jobn C. Shepj ard, after an intcrbstiog contest with J as. L. Orr, bccauio Speaker of; tho House. Mr. Sheppard afterwards married Gon. Wallace's daughter. None but a man of highest attainments. delicate taot, supreme courage and indomitable will could have been Speaker of the Democratic House of 1S7H and 6uoh a man W. 11. Wallace isdcolarod by all who served with him. ' Committed Suicid6. A dispatch from St Goorges to The State says '*a tragedy has occurt'ci in our midst, and one which, under the particular cirouuistanooB by which it was occasionod, oausos tho sympathy of the entire oommunity to bo extended to the bereaved ones. It was a suioido, Mr. Carney Qajkins, an old and respooted citizoa, preoipitatod the end of his existence of his own volition Wed , nesday afternoon about 5 o'clock. Mr. Gaskins was just onvalesoont from a protracted spell of severo illness. On tho afternoon of tho suic.do was the first timo that ho dared vonturo' out of doors for months. llo managed to make his way to a store nearby his placa of rcsidoieo, and froiu its proprietor procured a pistol under tho protonso that ho desired to kill a dog or oat which was annoying hiui at his homo. His wife, becoming alaimed at his lengthy absot cj from the honse,1 instituted a search and found him in ono of tho outhouses in tho rear of their residcnc), with life extinct, with a wound in tbe head, intlcitod by a re-, volvor, which was grasped tightly in the left hand. Tho ball cntorod on thoi left aide of tho faoe, a little abovo tho tomplo, passing through tho head and embedding iteolf in a bundlo of fodder wh.ch was beneath his hoad. It is presumed that ho was drivon to tho daring and rash act from dospondonpy, produced by protracted suffering frofo a chronic disease. Tho unexpected cccurronoo has proved almost fatal to (Jaskin's wifo, and she has boon at tho point of death from norvoui prostration svor sinoo. Murdered a Little Boy. Near Six Mile, W. Va., Thursday Charles (lore, 20 yoars old, shot and; killed a 7-year-old son of John ilagar and seriously wounded tho father bemuse some ono bad stoned his hoiso. Ho osoaped to Kontuoky. \ A BEAUTIFUL POEM.! - i ' Bvouac cf the Dead," Greatest Martini Eulogy Ever Written. > * * ' _ . t ITS ADAPTION WORLD WIDE. I Written by Theodore O'Hara In C6hnhnerno(?tlon of th? Gal-' , '-ilar try 'of thd Kentucky Soldiery. [Like ProvMenoe, La , Banner-Democrat.] Having lately Been a beautiful tribu'o to Tbcpdorc O'Hara, author of the immortal poem, ''Tlio Bivouao of the Dead," and as OHara wn my p< rsonal friend and assistant in the Adjutant Gent rat's i ffioo of the Kentucky division, commanded by Mijor General Brecket ridge, I take pleasure in send ingycu an extract from iho ariiolo. with tbo fpiH poem, which I have rar, ritd in my notebook eversince the wtf. It is worthy of reocrd that this bod of thonouth produced the one perfect and universal martial eulogy that the world h.*:tat)wn and' that the south has been absolutely unmindful of this fact. Tho fir&t of these statements is proven by the fact that without any advertisement or exploitations, the wonderful words have, in the fifay years sitrtfo thoy were wiittea, permeated the wht le world, and been laid hold on by Koglifeh spoking people everywhere^to c .-libra to their honored dosd who passrd away io battle. Upon Crimean Battlefields, the renting place of Eoglith heroes is marked by a great monument, i n which shines, .0 Hara s maicbless words, and yot Borland 'did not kDOw from "wh6m sho ' borrowed when bho wrote them': "On fume's etttnalcamping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with so emn round, . u TBe'blrodac of the dead." FerhapB tfio anonymous pharaoter of tLe poem was a blessiog, since it is dt ubtful if tho Federal govirnm nt ot the United Slates would bava used the linrB in t-uoh lavish fashion in im moriajii qg tho. dead of fhe ' Union Army, had tl^y.-boca reoogn aed as the product of tho genius of a soldier and tffi cor of the other hide, In any case, they did not know, and; every natioral cemetery in America has gained -thereby, binoo they arc not only the most apptoi riate but the only appropriate lines for surh a purpose. Over tho gateway -of 'the national cemetery at Wabhington the famous first bi'anza is engraved, and. there, as at Antietam.aol other national cemeteries iho'enure poem is, reproduotd, stanza by staDza, on blibs placed along tho tfiivoway. O H-ara lus in tho btrryicg grou id a] .Frankafcrt, Ky , with only the lh'tc'ip lion to a bimplo slab of marblo which says: . . Tloodoro O Hara,* Mojor A. D C Died June 6. 1867 B> 1 iw is a oopy of h s poem in full,' wrtfeo en occasion of the removal -t tho Kentucky dead from Mexico to their natjvo S'.a.e afb> r the war with that p'^untry.. John A. Buok.DdrT~~ * T11K BlVOUAOi>v THE HEAD '(Written by Xhoodoro O'Hara'm 1347^) ,Ihe iptiCltd drum's sad'roll has be it "The soldier o last.tattoo; is#-* ?- n.tt a 1?V U.UICVI1 JIIC O pursue BQAU IUQCI . J ' \' That brave and fallen few t. , .<(>0 fame's e ernal ramping ground H'heir silent tenia are sprcal, * And glory guards, with solemn round, A The bivouac of the dead. I *t ' * No rumor of the foe's alvanee, Now swells upon the wind: No troubled thought at midnight haunts Of lpved ones left behind; No. vision of the morrow's sirife The warrior's dreatn alarm-*: No liraying horn nor screaming fife At dawn bh.ll call to arms. Their shivered swords are red with rutt, Their plumed heads are bowed; Their haughty banner, trailed in duet, Is now their marital throud. And pleuleottafuneral tear* have washed The red trains ffom each brow; * And the pfoud forms, by batt'e gashed; ' Are free irom anguish now. *. Thc peighing tr*)opK the flashing blade, The bugle s stirring blast; The charge, the dreadful caunonade, 'lhe din aud Shout, are passed; Nor war's wild note nor glory's peal rhall thrill with -fierce delight ' Th* se breasts that nevermore u at feel The rapture of the tight. Like the fierce northern hurricane That sweeps his great plateau, Flushed with the triumph yet to gain, Came down the serried foe.. Who heard the tftilifdernf the fray Break o'er the field beneath. Knew Ipell thd wat? hword of that day Was "victory or death." Long had the doubtful conflict raged O cr all the Uiicken plain, Por never fiercer fight hsd waged The vengeful blood of Spain; And still the stofm of battle blew, Still swelled the gory tide; Not long our stout old chieftain knew Such odds bis strength could bide. 'Twas in that hour this stern command Called to a martyr's grave The flower of his beloved land, * - The nation's flag to savs. By rivers *df their fathers' gore ilii first born laurels grew, And well he deemed the sons wotkltf pour Their lives for olnrv Inn 0---* Full many a northeY's breath has swept O'er Angostura's;plain? And long the pitying sky has wept Above itfe mouldered elain. The raven a scream er eagle's flight, Or shepherd's pensive lay Alone awakes each sullen height That frowned oet that dread frayful. Hons of the dark and bloody ground," Ye must not slumber there, Where stranger steps and tongues resound Along the heedless air. ? Your own proud land's heroic soil Shall be your titter grave; She claims front war his richest spoil? . - ' The ashes of her brave. .. f Thus 'neath their parent turf they rast, Far from the gory field, ltorne to a Spar'an mother's breast On many a bloody shield; The sunshine of their native sky . Smiles sadly on them here, And kindred ejts and he iris watch by The heroes' sepulchre. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead! Dear as the blood we gave; No impious footsteps here shall tread "fhe herbage of your grave; Nor shall your glory be forgot While fame her record keeps; Or honor paint the hallowed spot Where valor proudly sleeps, i ... Yon marbfe minstrel's voiceless itone In deathless song shall tell, ? When many a vanished age hath flown,t The story how, ye; f+ll. * ' 'Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight, No^ tinteis remorseless doom, Shall dim one ray of glory s light That glides your deathless tomb. "TH0?u"0f CALT"T" Saw MilK How a Onat Eyma Wm Midi by i /n m?'*ii *m*m? ,f Y.i., Corn Mills, 1 One day daring the winter of 1830 a Cane Mills, V young man, a graduate from Yale, aat 7 down in bin room in the city of New g*?? TTllllova Ycrksnd aitb ejes fi'ltd with tear* wro.e XVXX?a5 XXLlXXv/X?j in bia pocket rutin randurn-book four w~v ?w n bimplo Btanias, whioh, he said, ' were Jl 0ft Jlx11.1x01*S# V born of my own snal." Two years later. Dr. Lowell Mason composed for KTlCrTlpa these stabsak the beautiful tone Olieet 1 wlIf^n lH7Qf to whioh the hymn is still eung, and it Tt *1 is certainly one of the mo?t p.eoiout DOllGrSa II contributions whioh Am riian genius has made to the hymnology of the PI ft 71 Pl*fl ft 1141 Christian church. It r ads thu : XIOllCIB ttliU "My fiilh loots to Thee, Matchers, I Thou Lauib of Calvary, 7 Swing Saws, .1 Take all my guilt away, m c-* , O let ue trom this day leirk Vn Alr G B; wholly Thine." XVIJJ ijUtt Sj 1 ? WW aw _ ? Thi. bJmo of nJ?mpUM, wbi.h oiner Rlmtt or wood sprung from a devout soul, begins in working machinery. My Herptuitcucc, but rods in praise, aud geant Log Beam Saw mill is with a glorious assuratoe of bop ; and the heaviest, strongest, and I how many a penitent while hearing or most efficient mill for the uttering those words, has nuoo pardon . . , aud peace in bcli* ving t Bowing before ^ market, quick, a oiuc fiod S^vitur and kok to Him accnrate. State Agunt for H. alono, his cry is: B. Smith Machine Company _ w ? ? wood working machinery, Take all mi s ns away, ? _ , . , , . . r RLd J For high grade engines, plain let me from ihu day slide valve? Automatic, and b.* wboiiy ibiuu. Corliss, write me: Atlas, The of th.l o-, of f.ilh W?tfJ,t0,7n' aDd Strather? fiods a resp< n-o in the bos 111 of infinite ana Wells, m-rev, mad tho prayiig soul obtains V. C. BA1)HAM, strength. He is mspired wiib a pure, J320 Main St., Colnmbia. 8. O. warm, a d change less levj for the K: __? dcruiei?' a living fire." e7ar"* Tnen. looking iorward. ho sres that Cfc(, Gothst mane hour - are before him, w hen i tho ?.up ? f bitterness ma t be preesed V fcJsvUcA *\ to his lips, *:.d while eu rrun led wit i clouds of di c lurageaunt and tempts fd lion he preys: ^f Be Thou my gui le; A llid dftrkurss mro I d?y. TagOB 5Cute .*: Wipe aurrow's tears away, r** "v ?* $? Nor let me evtr Bir?y . From Thee aside." CS 0 ~ v, . ? . . OLD NORTH STATK OIHT Yet there is ono more valley, da krr w Vvm . than any passed before. It if the one JJ15?7' th? Gr?*1 Antiseptic in which ends lifo's irtnsient dream, Healer, enres Piles, Eczema, and thnogh wh oh 10 is death's oilu. Sore Eyes, Gianni at ed Eyelids, tu'len stream;, and as his little baique Carbuncles, Bolls, Cuts, Bmisi.borD.,ifilyto..rdjho-,hiwo.im , 0Id B Bnroa, Corns, eternity, lis last mumphatu words -r?' , , , J, ,, ' trc-; Bunions, Ingrowing Toenails, Inflammatory Rheumatism, _> ? b esed Savi?.ur, then, in love, Aches and Pains, Chapped H?n?l. and Lip., EryripKl... A rausjmed soul!" It is something everybody . . needs. Once nsed always nsed. There is m re Catarrh id this p? o ion For sale by all druggists and oftheatun.rythanaUotherdiseaf.es dealers. At wholesale by I put togCaher, and uotil iho lftit few rvvp-gia uiiuu a v- hw1tj nn .Cars was supposed to bo incurable A MIKKA Y DKLvr CO., i Her. a gtcAt many years doctors pro Columbia 8 C |H| counoed it a localdisease, ard pre?crib ? 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