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VOL. XLIX. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1894. NO. 6. |j r.;. ' . |p BOODLE HUNTERsT \ THAT IS ABOUT WHAT THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC IS. They Complain About the Hard Requirement?, and Crlt-'clae Congress and the South for their Attitude on the Pension jawriuiii L Pittssukg, Ta., Sept. 12 ?The deleBl gates to the National Encampment of V the G. A. R. got down to a solid busiH ness basis this morning. While 200,000 Hf persons have left the city since the last H old soldier passed in review yesterday, Hf there are still 200,000 strangers in town, B a majority of whom will stay until Satn urday and Sunday, while some remain V even longer. The national encampgjfc. merit opened this morning in the new M Grand Opera House. The commanderW in-chief and delegates were welcomed f on behalf of the Citizens Executive Board by Chairman Daniel C. Ripley rand, also, by W. C. Quincy, chairman ~ of the committee on invitations and reception. Governor Patterson welcomed them on behalf of the State of PonTxwrtr-ani** while M&vor McKeuna t of Pittsburg and Mayor Kennedy of Allegheny performed the same pleasant duty on behalf of their respective k cities. f The serious business of the encampment proper then began. The election for Commander-in-Chi if wiil not be held until tomorrow. Since the withdrawal of Judge Chas. D. Long of Michigan, the opinion Is rapidly growing that Col. T. N. Walker of Indiana wiilj secure the coveted honor. The selection of the next encampment city has also been deferred until tomorrow. "While surface indications are that Louisville will have a walk oyer, it is hinted that St. Paul has been doing good work in a quiet but very effective way. Hn The claims of Louisville for the locam I tion of the G. A. E. encampment of 1895 were presented to the national MBLconvention by Henry Watterson this H thfe mojjdng_Jjjistas^on as welcom ing addresses were concluded a motion to suspend the rules and give an audiI ence to the Kentucky orator was adoptI led with enthusiasm. He received a HB cordial reception. The speaker retired HS amid a storm of applause. Then the M K doors were closed and the encampment Wwentinto secret session to hear the adwf dress of Commander-in-Chief Adams | and associate national officers. Ia the ^sentatioa of Watterson at the opensession,the supporters of Louisville wmj^ a big march on St. Paul and the locates of the latter are considerably ^K..io(TTOnMflH TTerarnfnr* if; has been I Jk B the practice to defer nomination of the next encampment to the second or closing day of the convention. "When Henry Waiterson was intro[ duced to present the plea of Louisville BL^or the next encampment, the silverHKRongued escort of the "Star Eyed God ?dess"wasin his best mood. Among his audience, from pit to gallery, laughter alternated with applause and when in a pathetic moment, he allowed a few tears to-course down his cheeks, H there was- a lachrymose response that would have been appropriate to a funore his preparation had been reached, the success of the leading city I of the Blue Grass State was secured, R and the orator retired amid such an ^B| ovation as a national encampment has rarely bestowed even upon one of its Hr iavorite sons. Close attention was paid by the dele* HB gates to the report of the Commander in-Chief and frequent references that I It contained to the attitude of the congress and of the people of the Soath toward Union Soldiers and patriotic movements originating in the North were heartily applauded. When the report of the committee on pensions was read, cheers punctuated every paragraph. It was signed by comrades H. & Taintor, A. M. Waener and J. N. Walker, cnairman, and reads as follows: "Your committee would respectfully reiterate the sentiments and renew the recommendations touching the rights pf the Union veteran and the duties of pe government towards him, embodied in our report submitted to the twenty-seventh national encampment. After the adoption of that report by the national encampment there was a r change in the action of tne i'ension ^Department in its rules for the suspension of the payment without heariDg, pd many of those whose pension had Been suspended under that unfair rule nave been restored to the rolls. Your committee is, however, of the opioion that there is still just cause for complaint in the technical rulings and requirements of the Tension Department which work unfavorable to the applicant and result in unjust discrimination against his interests that doubts areuniustly decided adversely to the claimant, which under any reasonable r and liberal construction should have been decided in his favor. "Order 229, from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Tensions issued June 19,1893, is especially obnoxious as establishing needless and hard requirements in the preparation and forward ing of testimony in support or claims. We insist that evidence very often procured after years of effort and at great expense of time and money on tne part of tne applicant should not be thrown out rfor mere lack of form or want of compliance with any purely technical or arbitrary rules and we urge that this order be so modified as to provide that all evidence presented be fairly examined. Your committee feels constrained to call the attention of the National Encampment to the fact that a large part of the appropriation made by tne Fifty-second Congress for the payment ot pensions for the year ending J une 30,1894, was unused and turned back RB into the Treasury, wnne nunareas or thousands of unadjacated claims re& mained pending in the pension bureau. K At the same time, credit is claimed on behalf of Congress and the adminis'.ration upon the grounds that the immeH diate appropriations have been reduced, yet it appears the only reducWr lion has been made by the cutting the appropriations for pension; that ^ Union soldiers alone feel the effect of B the spirit of economy. It is a signili? cant fact that while a period of sevenA teen years elapsed between the ending of our war with Mexico and the close of 'he war of the t ntonjet tne amount now expended for tie pensioning of the soldiers of the Mexican war is increasing, while the amount expended for pensions to Union veterans is diminishing. We feci compelled to say that there is evidently on the part of feflr both the administrative and legislative Hr departments a feeling of hostility to H our worthy and suffering comrades, the V wards of the nation, who bore the heats and burden of the battle, a feel ing which certainly should not exist in a country saved by their devotion. ^ "While the Grand Army of llepublic B>- Is pledged to purity in public affairs ? * ">nl tK<ii.ofnra ax?mnathi7.fl and CO J AilU WUIj UiiCi Vi.V4.v, ? BfeL operate with any and all proper eiToros H * at economy, to the end that all public B burdens may be reduced to the minimum, we view with extreme regrets that talse economy which shaves and J - pares to the quick at the expense of J i ;Or honor, justice and patriotism. We insist upon an honest, patriotic construction and administration of existing pension laws and that every just claim shall be speedily settled so that whatever is found due shall be paid while the applicant is alive to receive it. We are confidett that the loyal sentiments of the country will condemn a policy that attempts to recuperate the public treasury at the expense largely of the slender purses of our disabled heroes, widows and orphans," /TlVx. a/3 yv-P TXT O O ?110 ctUUfulUlX U1 Llic icyum n uj moved and seconded by a dozen voices from the body of the house. Commander Adams waited a moment as though in expectation of a speech either in support or dissent. Not a delegate rose. The motion was put and the report was adopted with a. deafening shout. Again the order of business recurred to the location of the next encampment and the invitation of St. Paul was presented in eloquent addresses by ex-Commander- in-'Jhief Judge John P. Il9a and Col. J. N. Davidson, but an overwhelming majority of the delegates were stili under the spell of the "Star-Eyed <Goddess" and her old Kentucky home sjid when the question was put the viva voce vote in lavor of Louisville was so overwhelming that the opposition instead of demanding a call of the roll, bowed acquiescence and gracefully retired from the field. The Headlight Dimmed. Spartanburg, Sept. 12.?This has been an off day with the Gantt family. Col. T. Larry Gantt, editor o? the Headlight, got into a discussion with two men from the country. These men said they had always been for Tillman until the oast two weeks.and since they were convinced that Tillmanism meant Tnla thoTT mnnM naTOr VAt.A t.hat. ticket again. Gantt told them that they were d?d traitors. Gantt was very much under the influence of liquor and became boisterous. Mart Floyd was standing near, and told the men to talk to him (Gantt) whereupon Gantt made at him with his fist. Floyd then administered two stinging blows on Gantt's head and he fell off the sidewalk into the street. Friends interferred^nd it was thought that everything wSs-oxfir. Half an hour later Gaatt's two grown sons accosted Floyd at the Windsor Hotel and demanded satisfaction. Floyd told them they could get it Thereupon the elder Gantt, Jesse, struck him, and the other Gantt drew a pistol and demanded fair play. Floyd's brother came in and " ' I graDDea tae pisioi. xue meu iuuguo for some time, and John Floyd and Mart succeeded in taking a pistol each ? from the Gantts and clubbed them un- ; mercifully with them. It is feared that one of the Gantts will lose ah eye. ! The Floyas are not hurt, -except that ' each has a sprained finger. a card. ! To the Editor of the Headlig'it: I wish to state through your columns ; that I was alone to blame in the difficulties that occurred last Tueslay af- ' ternoon,and deeply regret the unfortunate occurrence. I have seen Mayor Calvert and assumed entire responsi- 1 bility for the disturbance, and asked that any cases made against other parties be dismissed, as I aggravated the assaults. I also desire to apologize to those gentlemen whom I offeaded, hav- , ing already seen as many I could ana cenaerca a personal apuiugj. As to the difficulties of my sons, I have only to say that like t;be brave boys they are, they defended their father, knowing that he wa3.in the wrong. For this they have respect of every .-true man. Respectfully, T. L. Gantt. Carpenter Escapes Banking. Columbia, S.C., Sept. 12.?Governor Tillman this raornin? commuted the sentence of William Carpenter, (.he famous Ejgefield murderer from death by hanging to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. All remember the fa mous murder case. The killing of young Preston Younce by Murrell and Carpenter, who met him in the public highway and filled his body full of lead. That was in 1889. Murrell was captured after an exciting chase by a posse from Columbia, brought to the city, bound hand ana roor, ana nnauy tried in Edgefield. He was found guilty of murder and sentenced by the presiding Judge to be hanged. Governor Richardson pardoned him, for reasons sufficient, and in the face of a petition upon which was the name of B. JR. Tillman, who was then nothing more than a private citizen of Edgefield county. Did he think then that he would have to pass upon the sentence of Mur- ; rell's fellow murderer? Carpenter es. ; caped into Georgia and lor several years lived in the swamps of that State | and eluded arrest. His first arrest and : the trouble Governor Tillman had in getting him away from Governor Norihen's jurisdiction are well remembera/J TTq roaa hrrtnorhf-. hmfc inallv. and tried in Edgefield, and found guilty of murder, with recommendation of mer- < cy. Under such a verdict there was nothing for the presiding judge to do but to sentence him to be hanged, i which was done. In such a form the 1 matter was brought to the Governor's attention. Thea'ffidavit of nine jurors was submitted in which t hey stated that they thought that a recommendation to merey would save Carpenter's life, and it was for that reason that they found such a verdict. It seems that after thejuiy had baen out for some time, the judge sent ior the foreman and asked if the j ary were hesitating about a matter ot law or fact. The foremaa said a matter of law, and in the collcquy which followed the judge was understood to say that a recommendation to mercy woulcl save Carpenter's neck. So such a verdict was found,under this understanding by the jury. After Twelve Years. Columbia, Sept. 12.?Go rernor Tillman yesterday granted a pardon to Pleasant Miller, an old negco, who was convicted of arson in Juue, 18S2? twelve years ago?in Abbeville county and sentenced by Judge Pressley to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. It appears that the old fellow is innocent of the crime for which he has been a Drisoner all these vears. Governor Tillman based his action 011 an affidavit duly witnessed, signed by F. W. Kqox, stating that he was present at the trial of Miller, and that the conviction was based entirely upon circumstantial evidence; that at the trial a measure was introduced by one Sam Adams, a witness for the State, purporting to be a measure of the defendant's track: that the measure was after wards compared with Pleasant Miller's tracks and that the measure did not lit, but was very much longer, that the said Sam Adams thereupon cut o:I about two inches of the said measu::e, so as to make.it correspond to what was known to be pleasant Miller's trask; that the measure was produced at "he trial and sworn to be the measure of the tracks seen around the burned building. Furthermore, that the prosecutor tried to get him (Knox) to testify ttat they were Pleasant Miller's tracks, b it that he refused to do so, that neither he, the defendant, nor his attorney knew these facts at the trial, and that he (Isrnox) was not called upon to testify for the defendant.?State < THE JUSTICES' AT WORK. ARGUMENTS BEGUN IN THE DISPEN- 1 r> m r\\r rsncync* . OMMT v^nocoThe Soprtim Court at List Getting Hold ot the Most Momentous Matter In the , State?The Attorneys Against the S:ate Pressing the Lw of Stare Decisis. Columbia, S. C., Sept. 13.?It was ex- . actly 11 o'clock yesterday morning when the three Justices of the Supreme Court solemnly 51ed Into the court room and took their seats. They wore the black gowns which tradition says all Judges must wear. Chief Justice Mclver took the center of the three | arranged for the Judges. Jus tice Pope took the seat on the right of i the Chief Justice, the one formerly occupied by Justice McGowan. Justice Gary took the seat on the left formerly ; occupied by Justice Pope. Justice Gary did not seem ill at ease in his position and a stranger walking in could not have told but that every member of the honorable court had been there for j years. t The Chief Justice announced the < court ready for business. The court 1 room was fairly well filled with visitors i and among the number were several i lawyers outside the city. Bssides these ] were a number of saloon men and one c or two prohibitionists. t Everybody knows that the court has * been called in exira session for the purpose of passing on the constitutionality c of the Dispensary law. The constitu- 1 tionality of the law is involved in two l cases?what is known as the Aiken case i and what is Known as tne unaneatuu j injunction case. The titlesof the cases i are "The State ex relatione J. V* George c and G. T. Polley, relators, against the 1 City Council of the City of Aiken, re- f spondent,"' and "Theodore Melchers and i F. W. Jessen, complainants, petitioners e against W. T. C. Bates, Treasurer of t the State of South Carolina, and D. E. J Traxler defendants." r There are some points of difference t in each case but the case3 are to be \ heard at the same time and the court i will dispose of them about the same t time but notlikely in the same decision, c The attorneys representing the State t in both cases are Attorney General a Buchanan and R. W. Boyd ot Darling- i i-rm for tha citv of Aiken. G. W. Croft; a and for Meichers andJesaen, J. P. K. d Bryan and H. A. M. Smith of Charles- s ton. All these were present yesterday i morning except Mr. Smith, who is in d Tennessee on business and could not t get here. Mr. Bryan explained to the t court Mr. Smith's absence and asked v that the latter be allowed to file his ar- c gument witbin a certain time. Tbe i court conferred on this a few seconds t and answered that Mr. Smith could file ? the argument within ten days. The \ Chief Justice, however, announced that c the court might reach a decision within l ten days. This was the only indication given during the day that tbe court r proposes to hurry the cases. I The proceedings were opened by At- a torney Croft reading the records of the fc Aiken case. Attorney Bryan followed a by reading the petition for the injunc- r Lion. In response to this petition At- s torney General Buchanan submitted c the following formal answer: e W. T. C. Bates and D. H. Traxler, 1 upon whom has been served a rule re- t ~~whv fr.hfl \ UUUlUg uugrn uv wuv <* vrb*%?ww ? writ of injunction prayed for by the r petitioners herein should not be grant- t ed, respectfully make return to said r rule, and for causes show: t 1. That the respondent, W. T. C. i Bates, is the duly elected and qualitied s Treasurer of the State of South Caro- i lina, and the respondent, D. H. Traxler is State Commissioner duly appointed c under the Act of the General Assembly t of the said State, entitled "An Act to "t prohibit the manufacture and sale of s intoxicating liquors as a beverage a within this State, except as herein pro- i vided" and continue in said office un- t der the provisions of an Act of the 5 3aid General Assembly entitled "An ? Act to declare the law in reference to, and further regulate the use, sale, con- t sumption, transportation aad disposi- s tion of alcoholic liquids or liquors with a in the State of South Carolina and to police the same," approved Dacember, 23,1993, and now in force in this State. 2. That the acts of respondents, both those done and performed, complained , of and objected to by petitioners herein E are each and all required of respondents a by the said last mentioned Act, and t have been performed and will be per- formed by them and each of them in a the faithful discharge of their sworn t duties as officers of the State as afore- r said, ^ 8. That they deny the unconstitution- \ ality, invalidity and nullity of said r Acts, in the particulars specified in the g petition herein or in any other particu- i Lar; and, on the contrary allege that the ? - - - ? 1 said Acts were pas3ea oy tue u-auerai j Assembly in the legitimate exercise of c its constitutional power of legislation t and with the purpose and in the sincere j desire to minify the evils of the sale of ( liquor within the borders of this State. r 4. They deny that petitioners, or those ] united with them, have suffered iDjuries ( or are about to suffer injuries from the t operation of the said Act of 1893; and, t on the contrary, allege that the opera- t tion of the said Act has conferred and g will continue to confer great benefits ( npon them, and upon all the law abld- ? mg citizens of the State, in the way of rescuing the people, and especially its t youth, from the corrupting and demor- ? alizing influences of the liquor saloon. ^ That petitioners complain as taxpayers j but that on their own showing, the ^ moneys th9 disbursement of which c they seek to restrain are not the pro- ? ceeds of taxation but derived from the ? sale ot liquors by the State. t 5. The respondents further ans wering i the rule herein, allege that the writ of j injunction prayed for should not issue ( tor tnat petitioners aiie^e aueuiai Irreparable in juries to themselves beyond those suffered by the people at large, nor do they" allege in what respect they have been or are likely to be injured by the operation of the said Act. 6. The respondents further answering the rule herein, allege that the writ of injunction prayed for should not issue, for that they are officers of the State and should not, at the instance of private citizens, be restrainea in the discharge of their public and official duties on the alleged ground of the unconstitutionality of the law requiring their action. The respondents having mide full re- I turns to the rule herein pray that the J same may be discharged with costs. 1 Attorney General .Buchanan arose i and asked permission of the court to ] attack the decision of the court in the ] case of McCullough vs Brown et al., on i WHlCtl tne isyz law was ueuiareu uu- j constitutional, Permission was grant- i ed and without that permission a great ] deal of the argument prepared in both < cases would have been useless. < Chief Justice Mclver stated that no 1 limit on the time for arguments would < be fixed. < Attorney General Buchanan an- 1 dounced that the attorneys had agreed ] that Mr. Croft should cpen the argu- ; ments; Mr. Boyd follow him, Mr. Bry- < an next and the Attorney General last. All the preliminaries having been disposed of the attorneys were ready to begin arguments about 12:15 o'clock and Mr. Croft arose and began. It Is well enough here to state that the court adjourned at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon after having heard the argument of Mr. Croft and part of that of Attorney Boyd. The latter will conclude this morning and will be followed by Bryan and Buchanan. All the arguments will be concluded this afternoon. REBUKED BY O'FERP.ALL. Invitation of Alro-American Press Asao elation Declined. Richmond, Ya.,Sept. 12?la answer to an Invitation to address the AfroAmerican Press Association, Governor O'Ferrall today wrote as follows: Governor's Office, Ricnmcnd, Va? Sept. 12,1894. Messrs. JohD Mitchell, W. Calvin Chase, John C. Daney and Others, Committee of Afro American Press Association, City: Dear Sirs: In response to your inviation to address or attend the conven;ion of the Afro-American Press Association, now in session in this city, I jeg to say I would not think of acceptng an invitation to address any contention or assembly that endorses, as four convention did last evening, the ;ourse of Ida Wells in her slander of ;he people and civil authorities of the south. I condemn lynch law as much as any me, and as long as I am Governor of Virginia every man, whether white or )lack,whatever the charge against him nay be, shall have a trial by judge and ury li x nave to ex^ix an luo puwoi fiven m9 by the Constitution and laws >f Virginia, and should any ca3e of ynchiaj? occur I shall endeavor to enforce the law against the lynchers, but t strikes me that the action of your invention in endorsing the misrepresentations and slanderous utterances of da Wells is calculated to do harm ather than good, and intensify rather han mollify the spirit of violence vhichso frequently manifests itself tot only in Virginia, but throughout he South, when a certain crime is :ommitted. The brutes who commit his crime, too horrible to mention, and ire summarily dealt with, seem to elict sympathy from Ida Wells and her upporters, as though they were murlered innocents, while not a word of ympathy is expressed for their vlctms, who have suffered more than leath. I believe that if your convenion would condemn the crime which las caused the lynchings in the South roth rare exceptions, and the leaders ?f the colored people would frown upon t and cry out against it, and not exert heir energies and devote their time to i denunciation of the lynchings, there vould be fewer outrages, and if so, :ertainly fewer instances of mob vio ence. I do not know, but it looks very nuch to me as though the work of Da iVells was a deep laid scheme to check is far as may be the progress of the South, and every good citizen, white md colored, should feel an interest in ef uting her villificatioas rather .than auctioning them, as your convention lid last evening. She and her supportsrs certainly stirred up a feeling against ler race which did not exist prior to ler crusade. The p so pie of the South, vho have labored so assiduously for learly a generation now to recuperate tna build up their waste places, will lot take kindly to the effort which his woman and her followers are naking to bring reproach upon their lection, and create the impression that t is a land of lawlessness and disorder. 1 have a most friendly feeling for the :olored people. They have my sympahies in all their struggles and lauda>le undertakings, as I think I have hown in my private and public life, ind I was indeed deeply pained when I ead this morning that your conveu ion, composed of representatives or 'our race, had struck the South a blow rhich she does not deserve. While I thank you for your invltaion, I must decline, under the circumtances, to address your convention or ttend its sessions. JEtsspectfully, Charles O'Ferral Enthusiasm Over Gordon. Pittsburg, Sept. 12.?Well on towards last midnight that, which to the aembers of the Union Veteran Legion ittending the encampment, and the 'ittsburg members of the organization pas, perhaps, the most remarkable cene since'the close of the rebellion, ook plac9, when Gen. John B. Jcrdon, me of the leading commanders of the Confederate army, appeared before a ra3t number of Federal soldiers and aised his voice for the obliteration of ectionalism and a united America. Co say that the old Union soldiers eere responsive to Senator Gordon's )lea gives no adequate idea of the reiprocal feeling manifested by the hunderous cheers and hearty hand rrasDs with which the ex-Confederate Jeneral was received. It was regular neeting night of the Union Veteran liegion ana the hall was thronged. x0D. Gordon was the first member of he Confederate army to ever enter the lall. A great crowd gave three very le^rty cheers. Gen. A. L. Pearson, in t happy remark, introduced the rebel xsneral, whom many present had met it the surrender of Appomatox. General Gordon said: "I and all right hinking men of any section, would ilwavs admire men who fought." Darning to the Union flags which cov;red the speaker's stand, he delivered a rery eloquent apostrophe, pledging his levotion and that of the ex-Confederites of tne South to that banner and ill that it symbolizes. He addressed ,he soldiers as comrades and coontrynen, and every time the Gsneral, in lis calm, deliberate tones used these mdearing terms, the audience was visbly affected. At the end of his elojuent address three tremendous cheers were giyen. Corporal Tanner respond;d in an address of no les3 fervid elojuence, pledging the respect and admiration of all real Union soldiers who :ought and suffered,and for such loyal, patriotic men and soldiers as were represented by Gen. Gordon. Corporal ranner's remarks were deliveted most earnestly and eloquently, seated in a ;halr, the recent amputation of his imbs preventing him from standing )n his feet. Swift Jast:ce. T>- ~ ?-II A 11. XJL JJU miug Ureen special to the Dispatch says: Near Bowling Green yesterday, at the aouae of J udson Carter and in the abjence of the family, Carter's little girl, Moselle, seven years old, was criminal;y assaulted, by Mosss Christopher, a legro boy, who lives with Carter, and ias been in his employment for a lumber of years. The condition of the little girl is critical; she will probably lie. A large crowd, though terribly sxcited, permitted the iiend to be conveyed quietly to jail, through deferance to the law. Christopher was iniicted this morning, arraigned, put on trial and today convicted, the jury imposing the death penalty. Judge E. C. Moncure sentenced him to be hanged on the 14th of November. SOME ENGLISH SNOBS COMES OVER HERE TO INVESTIGATE THE LYNCHING REPORTS. What Governor O'Ferral, of Virginia, and Governor Northern, ot Georgia, Has to Say to Thorn?They Were Treated Tost About Right. Richmond, VaM Sspt. 10.?The following; appears in the Evening State here this aiternoon: Governor 0 Terr all received last night the fallow in? telegram from the New York World: New York, Sept. 9.?To Governor Charles T. OTerrall, Esq.: An English committee has been sent here to investigae and denounce Southem lynchings. Will you please telegraph us what you think of Eoglish meddling with our aftairs." The Governor-reply: Common wealiS?5f Virginia, Governor's office, Richmond, Va? Sept. 9th, 1894. To the World, New York: Things have come to a pretty pass in this country wnen we are to have a lot of English moralists sticking their noses into our national affairs. It is the quientescence of brass and .impudence. They had better sweep in front of their own doors before seeking to regulate us. We might as well investigate Eogliah affairs in India, her White Chapel muderes, her Jack the Ripper'e slashings, the Maybrick trial and her alleged injustice an- cruelty to this woman, her rapacious colonial policy in Africa and the degrading effects upon the Chinese resulting from the opium war. What do they propose to do in case they find that the law is not administered here accord log to meir measr jjeciare war agamat m, or open the vials of their wrath upon oar beads? What Information do they seek? Do they want to know that the white,people in the South have lvEche.d negroes whose miserable lusts led them to the commission of the black crimes of rape upon white women. If so, they need not investigate, for such is the fact. Do they desire to know that this has been done by infuriated communities lor the protection of their white women and to save the victims ot these fiends from the humiliation of testifying In courts? If so, this is the fact. Do they want to know whether there was any doubt as to the guilt of the men lynched? If so, for the satisfatioa of their yearning souls, they could have ascertained without encountering the perils of a sea trip, tbat their guilt was clear in every instance. If they had desiretrto learn whether these lynchings were permitted or countenanced by the civil authorities, they could have learned through the regular channels of corresDondencftthat in ever? case the civil au thorities were either without knowledge or were overpowered. In Virginia, the authorities ia every case have asserted all thejr p^wer to suppress the lynching spirit 3$d%Ithin the last few months I have protected from violence with military, at heavy expense to the State, thiee negroes who were charged with outraging white women, They had fair trials, were convicted and executed. While lynch law is to be condemned, and every effort has heen made ami will be made to suppress it in the South, without the advice of those would.be philanthropists, who have taken so much upon themselve, lynching will surely cease when the crime of rape ceases. Thwo ovmnat.hhttr. "Rnclifthmeo mi^ht fiad missionary work among the negroes of the South In warning them against the consequences of the forcible gratification of theirjdevifish lasts. (Signed) Charles T. O'Ferrall. Governor of Virginia. got. northen's reply. Atlanta, Sept. 10.?This morning the following telegram fron She New York World was received by Governor W. J. Northen: uAn English committee has been sent here to investigate and denounce Southern lynchings. Will you please telegaph us what you think of English meddling with our affairs ?" In reply to this query, Governor Northen, this morning, wired the following reply: To the World New York: Say to tne "English committee" who have come to this ceuntry "to investigate and .denounce lynchings at the South," that I am in position to know that they have received tneit information from irresponsible sources, and that the English people have declined and refused to be properly informed about our laws and tbe conduct or our government. The Eaglisb papers to my knowledge have declined time and again to publish statements made to them in defense of the South by Ea Klisnmen, woo am iiuw rtsatueuus ui wo South. Under these conditions we do not want any farther outside hypocrical cant upon false ideas of our goverment. The people of this State are quiet able to administer their own affairs and they are doing it in full justice to the negro, as our laws and our conduct will attest. We have already endured more outside interference in our local matters than we will submissively tolerate in the future. Let these kindly disposed Englishment return to their own country and prevent by law the inhuman sale of virtuous girl3 to lustful men in high places, hang all such demons as Jack the Ripper, punish, as it deserves, the barbarous wholesale slaughter of negroes in Africa by Englishmen who go there to steal their gold; supply the necessities to prevent bread and labor riots and strikes, which are wholly unknown to the people of the South; feed and give employment to the poor, as do the people of my section; give to the oppressed Irishmen the rights humanity demands, and when they shall have pulled the beam out of their o wn eyes, then they may, with better grace, appoint themselves a committee to hunt for the moat that may be in our eyes. While wo Have trrpornlariHpS at the South and negroes are sometimes lynched, they are never slaughtered by wholesale as Englishmen sometimes destroyed them. I send you by mall tbe law and record of my own State on these matters and 1 challenge not only the English committee on lynchings at the South, but the civilized world, to show a better. Why come with this investigation to denounce the South just prior to a Congressional election, wnen we have just had a negro lynched in Kansas April 2, another in Ohio on the Sabbath, April 15th, and when white Poles and Hungarians have recently been brutally butchered in Michigan and Pennsylvania and negroes ruu out of Franklin Park, N. J., in herds? We challenge investigation by all persons who have the right to investigate these nhorcrpQ hut. an?a at.tflmnf. linnn thft T>arfc of Englishmen tainted by their own national crimes to arraign us for trial must be considered a gross impertinence. W. J.liORTHEN. Governor of Georgia. WHAT OTHER GOVERNOR SAY. The following letters, in addition to those above have been received by The World: Governor William Flshback, of Arkansas, says: That cowardly assassins who seek the protection of the mob to commit murder infest every country is to be deplored, but as long as human nature remains as it is the efforts of the better class of people to suppress them can only be embarrassed by the officious intermeddling of outsiders. This is true even when the interance comes from our nearest neighbors,to whom we are bound by ties of political relationship i but that England, a foreign country i mm a Trrk J rtii ? n nn iVi nv\ A f j Oiiu uuc ? uuu.j. yaya xcoo oxxau uuo-idilu as much money per capita for the education of its people as the United States pays, should assume the role of a missinary to teaci us our duty, can but excite ridicule as well as resentment. If its committee is really sincere in its efforts to suppress lynching, it must be sadly wanting' in common sense not to have learned this much, of human nature. My advice to the committee, if it is indeed in earnest and is honest, is to go home. The reply from Governor Matthews, of Indiana, is as follows: The visit of the English committee to investigate and denounce southern lynching is certainly a remarkable and singular procedure. It should be regarded as a meddlesome interference, wholly unwarranted, and not deserving of even courteous or tolerant treatmeat by our people. It is a good opportunity to let Eaglandor other countries understand that we can and will manage our internal affairs without interference on their part. _ The governor of South Dakota, Hon. (J. H. aheldon, writes as follows: We have no need for English committee in the country when the purpose is to give peculiar emphasis to the English ida of English superioity. We deprecate lynchings. Punishment for crime doej not require such means. We can, however, tafce care of our own affairs without the aid of E nglish Pharisees. If I were the Governor of a State which they propose to investigate they would get sc;mt courtesy. Governor Altgeld, of the state of II- , linois, says: Answering your telegram, I will say there are outrages committed in the south in violation of law, and there are outrages committed in Ireland in the the name of the law. Pos-r ( sibly the English committee can do some good in the south. If it does then the southern people should return ; the compliment and send a committee to Ireland to stop the outrages there. Hon. W. A. McCorkle, governor of West Virginia, sends the following: T rpcmrri t.ha Rpnriinc nf an "English committee asa.pieceof intermeddling with our affairs not to be excused. The south is always, in a proper case, ready ( and willing to give full hearing of its affairs a competent tribunal, but cer- j tainly it does not require an English ( committee in that light. From away out in Utah, the follow- ( ing protest is entered by Gfivernor Caleb W. West: The coming of the English committe for the purpose named is presumptuous effrontery. We are fully capable of managing our own affairs without ( interference from any quarter, and are entirely willing to permit full occupation to our English cousins in attending to their own business. I am firmly opposed to all lynching, and willing to indorse all proper efforts to stop it. I heartly commend the energetic and vigorous action of the Tennessee autho- , ricies to that end, < FTon. Elias Carr. who aroverns the Tarheel state, says: North Carolinians are a law-abiding people, and hence opposed to lynching. We believe that the law is adequate if promptly administered. The sovereign states are competent to cope with the question without the officious intermeddling of a foreign power. This is the way Governor Reynolds, of Delaware, puts it: I have entire faith in the power of American laws and American courts to protect the liberties of oar citizens. We are amply able in this grand coun-v try to take care of ourselves. Governor Stone, of Mississippi, says: The coming of the Eaglish committee, of which j cu speak, to invstigate lynchings in f-he United Statesis an exhibition cf superb cheek, but I am sure 1 do not object if the committee shall be guided by a genuine desire to know and tell tbe truth. Govern ot Shortridge of North Dakota Js short and pointed when he says: Lynching Is wrong under all circumtances in any country?north or south. The Eaglish had better attend to their own business. America will not tolerate foreigners meddling' with our home affairs. AMATT^finAfi Cn1?TAAfA? . vlcjjuu o jjurciuui, ojt1vcoloi. iouuujer, says: The Englished are running the present national administration as to its financial policy,and arethus emboldened to further impudence. It is all wrang, but just now the English appear to be running our government. Swept the State. Augusta, Sept. 11.?The Republicans regard the results of the state election as the biggest victory they have achieved since the birth of the Republican party. The total vote for governor, which two years ago was 130,000, was reduced from 15,000 to 20,000. The Republicans claim that Cleaver's vote v:ill reach nearly 70,000. In every one of the 16 counties of the state, Democracy was defeated. Waldo county elected their whole county ticket for ? v.firof Hma In mnnr voura "P.trerv UUO UJLOU UiU'V AU tHWUj JMf city in the state has probably ?one RepublicaD, which is something phenominal. The returns so far indicate that Johnson (Democrat) will not get over 35,000 votes against 55,000 cast for him two years ago, and this may be reduced hy later returns. The Republicans have carried both branches of the legislature, electing a solid senate. In the house of representatives, which consists of 151 members?and which twp years ago stood 107 Republicans and 44 Democrats?the Republicans, it is believed, have elected 110 members, while the remainder who have been elected are Democrats and Populists. Among the Republicans elected to the house Is Lew Powers, of Houlton, who will be the next speaker. Accused of Murder. Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 13.?Walter A. Holt, a young man from Macon, Ga., was arrested here today on a charge of murdering G. M. Beard, a prominent attorney o? Frankling, Texas, on September 24, 1893, who was found with his head erased in. Holt claims that he had just arrived in Franklin the day the murder was committed and was at the house of his uncle, Thomas Simmons, when the murder took place. Holt's leaving Franklin five days after 4-Ksn anoni/iiAr? Vlfl tuc ill UlU^i 1/flUOCU OUO^IWIVU UUVi uv was traced to Macon, Ga., to various points in Florida and finally to Jacksonville by Macon detectives. He was arrested by Constable Land on information furnished by Datective Ford of Macon and Land refuses to give up bis prisoner until Ford divides tbe reward by the murdered man's widow. Holt is still in jail, but is willing to go to Texas without a requisition. He will probably be released on a writ of habeas corpus. He was preparing to start for Texas when arrested, having already bought a ticket. A SUBSTITUTE FOR COTTON. The Sugar Bset Recommended to Oar Farmers. Columbia, September 10.?Governor Tillman did not bother himself today with politics. He did incidentally asfc about the report of the Murray conference, which he says was unfounded,but he spent most of the time answering an accumulation of mail. Among the letters was one from Mr. E. F. Ferguson, of Chicago, which was given prompt attention and whicfc he hopes will amount to something. If Mr. Furgeson is not able to do anything vm am rt nvm a avs a ttt V* /\ Unn f ka may uc surnc uuc c:ac wuu uoa ouc quisite capital will be able to see things as he does and develop the beet sugar industry in this State. The entering wedge has been given. Will It amount to anything? The letter from Mr. Ferguson reads as follows: 874 West Pole Street. ) Chicago, III., Sept. 4,1894.) Governor Tillman, Columbia, S. C.? My Dear Sir: From a careful examination of the formation and soil of South Carolina as given in a book published by the State Board of Agriculture of South Carolina, 1 believe yo-i have one of the best States in the Union for the cultivation of the sugar bees and the manufacture of beet sugar. It is a fact that the cultivation of the sugar beet under the scientific method necessary to its success increases the productiveness of the ground for other crops. It is also a particularly hardy plant, adjusting itself without difiisulcy to conditions of soil and climate with extreme tenacity of life and succeeding where manv other agricultural products would under the sams conditions be a total failure. Tne sugar beet would average in most parts of your State fifteen tons per acre and would ?flll fnr SU rifi tin SSn a fcnn at f.hfl fatitorv. Factories could be established on your navigable rivers and railroad lines and located so as to be convenient to the largest number of beet sugar producers. I write you became I have been deeply interested in your Administration and the able manner in which you have conducted It and because I like your State and want to see it prosper. How is your State Board of Agriculture formed? Do you appoint it? Could you secuie me a position to experiment with raising sugar beet in your State? I know the introduction of sugar baet culture and the manufacture of beet sugar woull be of the utmost value to your State,and I would be pleased to have your personal views In relation to the same. Take your coast counties from Beaufort to Horry; then the next tier from Barnwell to Marlboro; then the next from Aiken to Chesterfield; and next Elgefield to Lancaster; all possess the soil sutable to sugar beet culture and would produce the.best results, making from S5G to $60 per acre clear profit, and a sure crop, no danger of failure. If you can inaugurate this new source of wealth it will be a fitting crown to your Administration. Will you kindly let me hear from you? I will furnish you satisfactory references ii! there is a chance for busind&s. Respectfully yours, R. H. Ferguson. Governor Tillmaa replied as follows: Columbia, September 10,1894. R. H. Ferguson, Chicago, 111.?My Dear Sir: Your letter of September 4 has been received. In reply I would say that experiments in the cultivation of the various varieties of beets, including the sugar beets, have been made in this State time and time again, and there is no doubt whatever asto our soil and climate being well suited to beet culture. The difficulty which I forsee in developing tbe sugar industry here will be lack of capital to manufacture the beet and tbe sugar. The production of theN beet in paying quantities will be easy. The skilled labor, confined mainly to superintendence, can be easily obtained in Europe. The question 13, who will furnish the machinery to make up the product. I am particularly interested in developing the production of any new crop that will take the place of cotton in our agriculture. and will be glad to haye you give me, if you are familiar with the subject, estimates on tbe cost of a plant to manufacture beets into sugar. We have large areas of very fertile, cheap lands now devoted to CJtton culture. Our-farmers can supply all the beets at prices as cheap as they can be produced anywhere in the world. The time is propritious for enlisting their support to any new agricultural production which promises ?? ~ ~ *>!/?! A CI yrout, <45 cubtuu <*u yicacuo pnuco jaoiuo Lone. We have no State Board of Agriculture at this time, be t you might correspond with the director of the experimental station located at Clemson College, but as I have already told you, if somebody will buy the sugar beet at the prices you name our farmers will contract to cultivate them according to the instructions and to deliver any quanity. I shall be glad to hear from you further on this important subject. Respectfully, B. JR. Tillman. A Qtuutly Dlacovcryi Eicemond, Va., Sept. 12.?A Bristol, Tenru, special to the Dispatch says: Charles Eector and a boy named Morris in exploring a cave near Seven Mile Ford, Va., thirty miles east of this place, yesterday discovered two skeletons forty feet below the surface. The cave had been long Knotfn, but no one had ever attempted to explore it because of its great depth. The Morris boy was let down by a rope. When the find was reported a party of citizens went to the cave to investigate further. In all ten skeletons were taken out,and were adjudged to be the bones of men, women and children. One skeleton was found in a sitting position, with the skull reclining on the arms, which were folded across the knees. Thus far there is but one way to account for the charnel house. Old citizens say that many years ago there was an inn kept near this cave by a man named Allen and that occasionally pec pie who stopped there had mysteriously disappeared, and were never again heard of. The supposition is that they were killed in'this inn, robbed of their valuables and then consigned to the cave. Mnrdered by a Boy. Connellsville. Pa., Sept. 13.?Yesterday Bernard Toker, a German farmer was shot dead and his wife mortally wounded-by Frank Morris, a sixteenyear-old boy. Morris is a son of the man from whom Toker purchased his little farm. The woman is badly shot and cannot recover. The scene of the tragedy is Reich Hill, five miles distant from Conneilsville in the mountain*. The probable motive of the crime was robbery. While Toker was building a wall in the cellar, crawling along on his hands and knees, the boy shot him in the back of his head, the bullet coming out at his forehead. The murderer ransacked his yictim's pockets, securing a f?w dollars in cash and his silver watch. Morris then searched the house and tried to conceal his crime by setting fire to the building. Mrs. Toker arrived home at that moment and was fired on by the murderer without warning. The woman fell and the boy lied. ... .. WTiS!! REPUBLICAN RALLY. STATE COMMITTEE CALL THEM TO THE FRONT- . ^ An Address Issued Wednesday?Congrezsionsl Candidates to be Pot Oat. Elee Hons to be Contested All Alone the Line. CoLUiiBiA.S. C., Sept. 13.?The Bspublican corpse in South Carolina has began to show signs of life again. It has had a good long and peaceful slumber, and, as soon as it gets thoroughly awakened, will doubtless fall off into another death-like swoon, it will be so much surprised at itself. . % But to be 3erious, the Republicans are on the move now, and getting ready for the part they are to play In the - y coming November general election. The following address, issued yeste^^ .. day by the State Republican committee, shows wk is being done, and is entirely self-exjianatory. ? Headquarters of the SSate Republican executive Committee. Columbia, S, C., Sept 11,1894. To the Republicans of Sou^i Carolina: A political struggle of far-reaching and widespread importance is now in progress. Vermont and Maine have al ready spoken in such grand Kepablican majorities as have not been known since the days of Abraham Lincoln. This Democratic.party, in full posses- ..<2 sion of every department of the govern- . ment for the first time since 1880, has demonstrated its incapacity to successfnlv administer the government. " " ^ Eyer^hiug seems to indicate that the next House of Representatives will be largely Republican, and that the landslide of this November will be bat tne prelude to the Republican cyclone of 1896. Although illegally disfranchised by the registration and election laws of this State, the Republicans of South Carolina cannot afford to remain inactive and indifferent in this great straggle. Pabllc sentiment is crystalizing against tnese infamous registration and election laws, and whether they are legally decreed to be unconstitutional or not, a Republican Hoaiie of Repressntatives would not heritate to -./& unseat and send home in disgrace those whose only claim to election is based v>|s on tne suppression of the right to vote of a large majority of the citizsns of the State. The Republicans at this election should record an earnest and vigorous partes; against their illegal disfranchisement. Candidates for Congress should bs nominated in every Concessional district, ana all Republicans should attempt to cast their voten for representatives in Congress. A record snouia DSKepcorau woo are rejeccea under the operation of the registration law, which svill serve as a basis to contest that law before the next National House of Representatives. - -Sgs Congressional committees should at once arrange for Congressional conventions to nominate candidates for Congress, not waiting for a call to be issued for a Stat9 convention. yM Congressional conventions will b3 constituted as follows: ' . First District, 31 delegates?Beaufort county, 6; Berkeley, 2; Charleston, 13; '"~;M Colietoa, 3; Georgetown, 4; Williams- ?a| Second District, 27 delegates?Hampton, 4; Barnwell, 8; Aiken, 6; Eigefleld, Third District, 27 delegates? Abbeville, 9; Newberry, 6; Anderson, 7; Ocone6,3; Picfcees, 3. Fourth District, 35 delegates?Grreanville, 9; Laurens, 6; Fairfield, 5; Spartanburg, 7; Union,4; Richland, 4. Fifth District, 25 delegates?York, - -4^ 7; Chester, 5; Lancaster, 3; Spartanburg, 2; Cne3terfield, 3; Kershaw, 4; * ::,"M Union,-!. csixcn uiSuTic, zi ueiegates?jiarendon, 4; Darlington, 5; Florence, 4; Marl- ?^ --^sIb boro, 4; Marion, 5; Horry, 3; William* 3IS burg, 2. ?3?s Seventh District, 29 delegates? Berkeley, 4; Colleton, 4; Lexington, 4; Richmond, 2; Sumter, 7; Orangeburg, 8. E. A. Webster, Chairman. Attest: J. H. Johnson, Secretary. A Texas Outrage. S^^^sjkI Waco, Sept. 11.?James H. Johnson, who, three weeks ago, married Emma Cooley, a pretty girl of 15, livea with his wife and her sister, Miss EFa Cooley, in a tent on the Mosley plantation, on the JBrazos river, seven miles belo w Waco. The family is engaged in cotton picking and are in camp for that purpose. At an early hour two men calle'd Johnson out and, dragging him away, beat him into a condition of helplessness. They then went after the women and one of them caught Mrs. Johnson ana outraged ner uoar me utmo. miao Eva Cooley escaped by running and hiding under a culvert, where she remained until daylight. Johnson managed to get to Waco, and returned with three officers, who arrested C. F. Ely and J. W.Vernon, two young tenant farmers who were also engaged in picking cotton on the Mosley plantation. .^1 Both men were very drunk when ar- ?? rested. James H. Johnson, his wife, and Miss Eva Cooley all three identified Ely and Vernon as their assailants. The men were locked up for grand jury investigation, that body being in session. On the big plantations below Waco hundreds of families are in tents ?JlVsZX*4J? Wl/UUUj UUVk WUV WU.V4.UHW -* spread consternation down the Brazos valley. The pickers will all move together in groups for protection. Hot Campaign. Frankfort, Ky? Sept. 12.?The contest for the Congressional nomination in the Ashland district has reached that degree of intensity wbere adjectives fail to describe it. The utmost good nature has characterized proceedings here, though all parties have been active and all claim everything in sight. The sensation of the pasl twenty-four hours was the speech Monday night of Rev. B. L. McRead7 of Grace Episcopal Church. He has been a lifelong friend and admirer cf Colonel Breckinridge, but savs . that he can follow him no longer. He deoccaced his cause before a political meeting in burning language. He said in substance that ne had' heard Colonel Breckinridge speak at the unveiling of the monument erected to the Confederate Tr?fr?ns at T.PTincrfrin. When he pointed to the newly made grave of bis svite, ana paying her memory a touching tribute, said all his hopes laid buried. "According to his own confession," said the minister, "he was then carrying on his shameless intercouse with the Pollard woman. Loat Over a Million. New Yokk, Sept. 11.?It is intimated ttet the Louisville and Nashville report to be submitted to the stockholders at the annual meeting will show that the losses sustained by the company in its effort to control the South Powlino Roilrno/1 hov* hMn rharmd to VAtVUUa XV^iUVMV* UV4TV MVVM ?Q- w? profit and loss. The amount has been variously stated. The exact amount, however, is not far from $1200,000. The resort will also show that the floating indebtedness of the company has been reduced.to less than #1,250,000, . all ol which is carried on time.