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y ' ; ' VOL. LIL ~ ~ ~ ~ WINNSBORO, S. G, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER ,1 1897. NO, 4. " THE OLD VETERANS." ' I# THE GREAT CONFEDERATE REUNION f !N GREENVILLE. Meeting c'th? South Carolina Division o United Confederal? Yeterace ol the i United Sons o' Veteran?--Ucboanded Hospitality cf the Pesple of Gr?env:lle. | The recclection of the stirring scenes |k enacted in the sixties were vividijr re called Wednesday in Greenville, by i||f|j|k^ the presence of hundreds cf battlescarred, <?ray-haired Veterans, who llglil?s> followed the fortunes of the Starry jj||i? Cross of the Confederacy, and save i renown to rco-ny a leader. The ir^eet j ing of these Veterans was ruost aiFect-j ing. Some of then: had not seen esch j other since the sad surrenders at Appo ; zr.attox and Grseasboro. Groups ofj t&ese Heroes woo nvozs me zicy ^u:u . >- ' bo seen at every comer, in the hotelsj about the public places where tbey! lovingly recalled reminiscences of the! glorious past?a past to which they] recur with pride, and in which they i displayed courage, and exhibited forti j l tuderarely equalled, certainly never! L excelled. Almost every command 8 that South Carolina seni to the field j |||t was represented. Most of the Veterans j plk belonged to districts contiguous :o ihis cou: ty, and are splendid specimens y of the hardy and heroic men who for four years upheld ihe martial renown of South Carolina, and aided the armies_ of Northern Virginia and of the West, as wen as me men wuas -served on the coast, to repel the vasi l J^gions raised in the North by the; ^ Federal Government to ecrquer the; ^ South. The Jower pari of the State! also sent its quota of brave men to! again join haads, an-'? unite hearts I : with their comrades of the war. Aj notable feature of the gathering was j W that the Sons of Veterans were present j in convention. They, together withj the Daughters of the Confederacy, j have gone to work with a commenda- \ 1 ~ fl-kCiTT t Oie spirii., tALiU. JUJ&V C S4J.V VOX IU-GU r( are worthy of their honored sires, aad j that the future o? Scuih Carolina will j be safe in their hands. It is comfort- j k 12 g to the veterans, whose footsteps j & are slowly but steadily approaching * ?S the border line which divides time j |?l from eternity, to know that when j llll they have joined their comrades in? p||P the spirit land the fair fame of the > & Confederacy will be preserved and 3 perpetuated by the camps of the Sons [ and* Daughters of the Confederacy. 5 T^at the Piedmont section furnished j k - its fur share of soldiers was amply jIk' shown at Greenville by a casual glance 5 o-ver Lfce register. During Tuesday and j & "Wednesday there were 1,200 Veterans 5 who registered, and a great many did j noi xase me irouoieto register, auu ui? " that number the vast ma jority were j from Greenville, Spartanburg, Aobe-1 vilie, Anderson. Oconee and Pickens. 5 What a throng it would make if the j Piedmont sent its % gallent soldiers to | the coast to join in the reunion that is j to be held in Charleston nest jear. f k "While the general crowd was not as j large as it was is Charleston on a' ||||. similar occasion, this has gropes - to; llill be the largest gathering -?of Teter-1 |||#> ans. neighborhood of; J3J? ? who wc:3 the grey and did honor | BBp|||feso their Stale. It was one of the hap j M^^^^piest gatherings that could .be seen. | pF*---' Men actually"" shed tears in meeting j ffipnds and f^nmradps -crhnm thev had I knot met in y?arsand years, and be-j tween whom there was more than the j - ordinary bond of friendship. If the i * stories asd reminiscences that .were!! told could only be gathered in j book form what a chapter of history 6 it would make. How it would put to i shame Goldwin Smith and others of ? me historical tr&aucers or me soutn- s land. Gen. Walker by his hard work has given the Veteran Association an impetus that it is not likely to lose soon. One of the happy ideas in connection | with the reunion this year was the elec-1 iion of sponsors and maids of honor | of the various camps. They werej the heroines of the occasion, and were j feted and cared for by all with the! greatest attention. The Veterans and ; their sons and daughters are marching j forward, and they will ba in Charles-1 lijc 1UU iVi V,Vj ?l VI UUV j Veterans vriil cecide 10 go there, and j L the Sens will follow their lead. Mana- j 1| ger Gales, of the Mansion House, whei knows a thing or t wo about hotels and i their facilities, in talking about the] gathering theie. said that if the hotels s of Atlanta had tried to accommodate j the crowd there they coula not have j done so. But this did cot mean that those -who attend lacked for ac-jj commodaticns not a bit of it. House J after house and home aft^r home had | |i opened its doors for the Veterans and p. their friends, and every one who was j p there had ample accommodations, and j there was no attempt or suggestion of] gouging or try.ng to take advantage) of the situation. The Convention was c.^Ikd to order] by Col. Hoyt, as cc romancer of ttie | <jreenviiieoivisicn. ne saia icaiDe-j fore going oil he would ask for a pray- \ er by the chaplain of the division, the \ Rev. S. F. H. Elweil. With ail thefeeling and fervor o? the old soldier? preacher he prayed for the soJdieii;? who had gone ahead, and that the? Veterans would continue to live with ! out stain or blemish upon the record! of the Confederate soldier. ^ Cci Hoy t then introduced Ex Lieu-1 pSS tenant Governor Mauldin, chairman ! ||||k of the committee of arrangements, j p5?K "who Tceiccmea ;ne v derails ou ucua:;. sjgfip^r of Camp Puiliam. Major Williams, as a member cfi 16:b, welcomed' the audience for | tbeciij of Greenville. The greatest] privilege that could be given to any j community is to entertain the old sol j dit r. The memories that this picture i recalled so afftc'.ed him that it almost | unStted hirn to speak. It was the grandest cay in Green-1 viile sisce the sixties, when the reports i came: '"L-e has licked them again." ^ He ntvtr iiked to surrender, but aid so to such brave visitors, w Major Gen. C. Irvine Walker then, p en bejaaif of the Veterans, responded ' to the hearty vrelcon^e. According to the constitution ore cf the Srst things to be done is to pay a . tribute to the Confederate dead. At ^ me signal from Major (ienerai Walk er every one of the hundreds of sol diers rose and joined in the tribute to th"" dead. This tribute was followed w -with % tribute to the women of the Confederacy. Thsrwork ci organizing lbs Ccnven^ ticn 9;.as then entered upon. Adjt. f Gen. xlcimes having charge cf tne making of the roil. Alter tre reading of the ro;i Gen. Walker read his splendid report of the work during: the past year. ? Upon motion of Gen. Car wile it was . *< decidcd to receive at the night session the report c? tfceccmmittfe on the pro-: position to build a monument to the | Confederate monies. Col. Hojt re-j quested that all of the sponsors meet [ a; the Southern Hotel during the af ! ternoon. Mrs. S. Reed Stone j hss undertaken j to hnvg a mural tablet erected to the I memory o? the signers of the Ordi-j nance of Secession, and Gen. Walker asked that th* descendants of the signers and all interested meet at the Man| sion House relative to the proposition. The audiencs was so large and the l difficulty of hfaring so grres.t that I Capt Lide moved that Gel. Kcyt be j requested to appoint a special deta ] i v?i;h palmetto slaves to keep prace and oider. Tilings had been goiogalocg quiet1ly, when some of the old soldiers ! wasted to give fire and snap to the : proceedings, and called upon Gen. i Butler for a speech. The demand became imperative, whereupon Sen. i Butler said he had no idea of breaking into the proceedings, even to make ! acknowledgement of the honor shown | him, but he hoped at some other time to have something to say thai would !interest the Veterans. He asked to; j be excuse*3 from having anything to J say at tkis^me. Ha said he was pro- [ foundlj grateful for the opportunity! ! of n*eeting so many of the old soldiery ; and it was s sincere and honest pleas ure for the Veterans to meet each oih- J ;er. for they and he were all getting? old very fast. He then feelingly ra-l fered to his attending the funeral service of General Mc'rowan, and told how the whole population turned out to do honor to that old soluier. He thought that it was as little as ecu Id t J + ^ ' ~ s/vl/liow f/> /-??-> r?->f> J uc :u: tjjc viu together ores e^ery year. He heartily thanked the Veterars for the honor shown Mm in calling on him. Capt. W. Aiken K>l!y, of Charles \ ion, in behalf of Gen. Edward McOrady and others, offered resolutions roi ? ative to the death of Gen. McGowan. i Upon motion it was ordered thai the j resolutions bs printed. Daring the! reading of these resolutions the name ! of Gen. Hampton was mentioned and \ this provoked a long and leud ouiburst' from the oid soidie.-s After the transaction of routioe bus-j ,* V> i!ia or? TOT! r? n Pti lirifi! ? evening when it reassembled NIGHT SESSION. It is seldom that such a scene as that of to night is witnessed. A hall crowded with young and old Carolinians went wild with enthusiasm j over a bevy of charming and pictur i esque women as a^e to be seen any-j wheie. The sponsors were to attends the meeting to night in a body, and j owing to the rain were a lit lie late, but when they did c^me, with Col. liOjt at tiieir head, what an ovation thev received! At the suggestion of Gen. Walker the audience arose en maiS9 to receive these promising youn* women of Carolina. The line marched into the nail with Hvias banners. After the young ladies had been s?ated on the rostrum the young men of tne Sons of Veterans came in ana occupied front seats. Gan. Walker, v-bo had -welcomed the young ladies S^tTTe inspiration of cur brav-i -d'eds then welcomed the yc-uae sponsors. He spoke with much fervor, and spoke of how their mothers iuid devoted their lives to the Southern, cause, and how he hoped they would g:o w up to follow in tne ideas of devotion, and patriotism their mothers had, asci said that the Veterans felt proud to nave sucn supsis. jus sneii sdjss w i the Sons of Veterans, acd ?ai<i as the | ycucg ladies could cot speak for; i themselves they had a worthy spokes I man in Gen. Ebnham, a son of a gal-j ant soldier. Gen. Bonham respond-j ed is behalf of the young iady spon- | sors, and he said all history could be S searched for such a scene as this. More than thirty years ago this | people was declared conquered, and! yet here are thousands vhr celebrate { their nart in this slrus-jle. This is 1 due to the fact that the Southern sol- j dieis fought for principle and loyalty, j that is why not such a seine is pre- \ seated elsewhere. He graphically pic'.ured the suffer \ icgs and motives of the Southern sol- j dier. Great and glorious as were tiie j achievements of the soldiers there; were others who endured as much, j the women of the Confederacy. Re was old enough to have received lasti i*-*o- *YV\rw*cjc,c?irkr?? r\-f fVia t hrtroe < land the wayside hospital. It the j ; time should ever come when the mem-, j ories of the past are waning the wo-1 ! men will keep them alive. They j I were last at the cross and first at the \ | tomb, and will always be foucd fore | most in this resurrection of the South, j They will always he true and loyal. (A.pplause ) Gen Bsnham was full c? -- - ? ' 3 1-- .*iu U exuausiasiu, snu souse wim muuii j I fervor. He concluded 3mid shouts of applause. | When Gen. Bonharn took his seat there were numerous calls for iier." The Chair then reminded the Con: vention that the business before the meeting was to consider the report of the committee on the monument to | Confederate vromen. The oro^c ^rasi finally quieted upon being promised;' ! chat Geu. Butler would sneak later, i j Then, on account of the sickness of { |Rtv. Mr. Elwell, chairman of the | j monument committee, Gen. Carwilej 'read the committee's report, which! recommended the adcp'iic -1. of the foi* | lowing resolutions: 1. We recommended that a com- < rrirtp nvmnintpd r<-t ha Irrinwn s?i the general committee, com cosed of i : one member from each county, ~hoj \ shsil have power to appoint sub com-} j mitiees as they may deem proper, loi i assist them in whatever way ihey may 1 in die it e. j 2. That the general committee be j authorized ar.d empovveicd to adopt 5 such methods asthey may!adjudgebfst j to raise the nece;sary funds to ercct } the monument. ! 3. ^ve recommend that the aid of] i the Di'jp-Titers of the Confederacy anc-i ; the Sons of Confederate Veterans be |solicited in this enterprise, asd that. [ they be allowed to adopt tbeir own {methods severally for raising; funds | and awakening sympathy and cnthuIsissm in tbe undertaking. 4. Vv'e recommend that tbe general ? committee be authorized to locate tbe monument in such town as in their j judgment oilers the best inducement, ! the iocaiity and money being consid J} W " " I crtu. S. P. II. El well. Thos. W. Car- j vriie, Win. Lou, Co2irnitte2. Coi. F. M. Mixsos, o: Columbia, j j moved the adoption ot the committee's S report as a whole. Tnis was inter- j rupltd by calls for Batier to speak, j and -when he stepped on titestaie with : his stick in hand mere vras a mighty j hurst of applause. 1?* > ' x* i. ^ ? i uen. jjl. x>uuer saiu uuai as ]>"et ?err*d that the Rev, Dr. ill well should X 4 address himself to the resolutions, but as the cbsp'.am couid net be p resent he would undertake the tnsk. It was peculiar that while the States of the North had called upon both the St~.te and Federal Governments to aid them in erecting monuments to their desd the women cf the South, in their err orts to p'.sc3 monuments to the South em dtaa, nad never as^ea 'urn uui Jar's worth of aid from the Governments. Gen. Batler said such a monument would appeal to the sympufcy of the civilfzid world, tie reacted hew r mcdest monument has bcea erecud to Mrs. Horn in Saluda .'. oiioly. She had followed her husband and son through the war. The nniv nthfr monument to the women of the Confederacy was that of Cad. While. He pxinsed that a committee prepare an es>s?.y en the late war. He nau just read a pap2? by General Dc-dge, of Massac buss t is, which spoice of L*e and Jackson ia the highest terms. Another Federal army oiricer said an account of the disparity of numbers wcuidshow the Southern zrxy to be have been the <>rea'est in history. He went on to r&]i> e the dis- i flrivantages of the Southern soldiery. | -- ? o - - - The world ;s now beginning to realize what magnificent soldiers the South, bad. Kiipatrk-k, in an official statement 10 the government, had said that ho (Butler) and Wheeler and Hampion icok 140 prisoners, and yet he Vvouid sxear icat he look 475 prisoners. When he was t&ikinj? about KilPatrick's escape someone suggested ] that he ran in his drapers. (Applause ) j Gen. 3utier said he was noi.dressed;i that was all he kne'v. He expressed j his grateful acknovyleJgemen's for the j audience given him. Chaplain E! vv ell was presented, and: said that bat for his deep interest in the cause he would not speak at all, because he was sick. He pathetically pictured the return o* the Confederate soldiers, and how the women were j unconquered acd cheered the return-1 ina: troops. It his b:en said that but j r?- ?'-? ^ Q iron >TT/-n!<-! V> OS tt ?> 1 IW L i_iC7 WyUxCiy. IUO TfVU.W WW'V , ended id a year. L's> than 10 build j tbis monument cannot be done. In; the name of God let not the valor of | the Southern women be unmarked. I His heart ^as bubbling ove*: in the; work. He asked the endorsement of the young women. They ought to be as proud of their mothers as of their fat hers. He was willing to erect a. i monument for the whole Scuih, but i South Carolina led the way, let her be first to erect a monument to her women, and he wanted if, in some place in South Carolina. He wanted substantial evidence tonight. He wanted some idea of what would be j raised, and if sot secured it would do no harm to promise it,and do the best to try and raise it. The resolutions were adopted. The roll was called to see how much each camp would try to raise. They responded as follows: Camp Sumter, through Gen. Coward, promised to try to raise one thousand dollars. Much applause. Camp Catawba, Rock Hill, through Mr. Jones, offered to do all possible, and wqu!d work towards ?100. Uamp jasper ttawtnorne prom- i iiecl -to . try $1 .for every member. Camp Pulliam, Greenville, was put down for $500. Palmetto Guard Camp 8100, Camp Jas. D. Nance, Newberry, $100; Abner Perria, EigsSeld, Si a head, ?50; Camp Hampton, 1100; Camp Walker, Spartanburg. $200, { Camp Secession. Abbeville $1 per member; Camp Wyatt Aiken, Greenwood, $50; Camp Austin, Green | ville, $75; Camp Gariicgton, ] T,3nr#.r<! ?100 or m'jre: Gamoi hosier Marshall, $L00; Camp Marion, ] Marion, ?75; Camp M. Jenkins, York, j $75; Camp Holme?, Waterloo, $i per j member, $20: Camp Jim Hagcod, | Allendale, $50; Camp Jackson, Lay-i ton, $100; Camp Fort Mill, 550; Camp Royd, Jonesville, $35; Camp Owens, i Clinton. ?S0: Camn M. C Batler, $50; | Camp Giles, Uaion County, ?50; Camp Edward Manigault, $50; Camp Kilcairick, Sensca, $L00. The Sons of Yeterens, through Gen. | 3onham, volunteered $150, with priv- i iiege of increasing. Many camps were j not represented Wednesday night or < had noc decided uoon the amount to he i subscribed. (Jhapiain Eiwell made a Snai appeal for every c^mp to be rep- \ reseated. Over $3,GOO was raised tonight. J. L. Svrink, of Woodruff, offered $10. The Convention then adjourned until 10 o'clock Thursday morning. On Thursday morning Chaplain! Elv^eli renewed his etforts for the! monument for the women of the Con-1 federacy. He wanted the camps absent: the night before or undecided to come j up. He would have :ao camp left out. j He wanted every regiment to chargej and be at the front. It would wastes too much time to go through a roll* j call, but the cams could indicate what j they aim for. The cli'ers were not pledges, but the expectation of the! members: Camp Darlington, $100; I Camp Orangeburg, ?50; Camp Dick Anderson, $75, Sumter; Camp Steph en D. L?e, $100, Anderson; Camp Haskell, $100, Walhalla; CarnpHhett, j Charleston, $50; Camp Crittenden, j Piedmont, *25; Oatr-p Hene?an, Marlocro, $100, BenneUs villa; Camp at Lexington, $100; Camp J:rn Tillman, $i0 \ Parks v:" ; Camp McCrsery. Aiken Count}, ?50, E.lenton; Campi Bland, Bradley, ?1 par member; Camp | Anderson, $30; Camp Kershaw, $30; Camp Pee-i)ee, Florence, $100; Camp j r txr 1 /il x? ! itoomson, $oj. j. vv. rveea, v^:iesier, | personal, $5. Major M&uldio, on behalf of ti ladies of Greenville. invited the entire a?sernbla^e to a picnic scar Greenville. The invitation was accepted with pleasure, Gsn. Walker said the Vet- ! eracs vrere gettir?ir a little old, but they wanted to march there, as he understood, and he su^c-sied that a line be formed outside of the hail at 1 o'clock. Charleston was chosen as the next; p-sceof meeting. Then cams the election :f officers. J Coi. Coward tcck charge c-i the meet ing, aad ss'-ced for nominations. Mr. Schumperi named ihe present officers, and Gen. Walker tried to get to the front to deciine, but the motion was put, and with a unanimous vote the f'rt) r?DMc- ir- -1 r.'t'c.'i Maj">r Gcii. C. Irviu^ W-' r com mandc?. Staff: Coi. James G. Holmes, adjutant general, chief or ?tsi":, Charles ton; Lieut. Col. E Scott Carson, insocctor general, Surr.ttr; Lieut. Col. E. P. warins-, quarter master general, Charleston; Lieut. Col. Geo. 13. Lake, commissary general, Edgeiielcl; Lieut. Co:. J. IS", jjicore, surgeon gri.er;sl, Spartanburg; Lieut. Col. liooert W. Snard, juJce advocate s-eoeral, Co Iuosbia; iiev. s. i'. JLi. ?-lvreii, ciaap- ] Jaiu genera]. Kingstree; Msjjr X. j Ingrahain Ilaseil, aide, Charleston; j [ CONTINUED OX PAGE FOUR.] AGAIN THE ALLIANCE. GREAT GATHERINGS OF THE CLANS !N UNION COUNTY. Senator Tillman Talk* to Them?He Is SecsJv.'rt With tho <)!?! Enthusiasm, Oatcsu;, Winborn scd Tfllson Also Sj)?ak, Ot? of the largest gatherings seen 1 in Union County for year* was held i at Duck Pond church Thursday, four: mil^s above Union, the occasion bein?; the Union County Alliance rally. It hau been given out some days ago that Senator Tillman would be present to address the assemblage, and at an early hour Thursday morning clouds of dust were seen on all thei roads loading into town from the low- j er portion of '.he county, caused by j people going to the meeting-. Many { went up on the morning train to join the throng. There were between 1 500 ( and 2,000 people present, including j quite a larg^ numbsr of ladies. ilr. D. P. Duncan was the first! spc-aker introduced. lie ur^ed the Alliance to reorganize and stick together. He told them of their strength j and how they were feared by ihei trusts, whose whole aim is to grind I down the people and make them p :y j xorbitant prices for anything that! they cculd get control of. He illus- { trated by recounting tbe great iignij that was made against the cotton tie) trust and the irreat advantages that re-{ suited to the farmer by the success of i the fii;ht. He said one would bavej some idea what an eccrmous profit | would have went into pcckets of the! trust if they had not made the fijbt, j if the multiplied half a million bundle! ties necessary for the crop of the south by the 70 cents raise they had put on each bale. He spoke for an hour telling of the good work the Alliance had done in - ' - - 1 the way or bringing me agricultural j and laboring classes together through- j out the land, notwithstanding the slurs j of the newspapers in their squibs, say- j ing the Alliance was a corpse, was a < dead thing of the past, and that these: same people would some cay find to j iheir undoing that the Alliance is the} most lively corpse they ever had any- J thing to do with. He complimented ? Senator Tillman for the work he wasj * -t- ? J ? doing; in me senaie, auu saiu cuai uc j was keeping wide awake to the in- j terests of the farmers. Ke told of the J trouble the Alliance had at organize-? tion by politicians going in for per-j sonal advantage, setting left and droppin? out. He said we need statesmen? j we don't need so many leaders. The j country, if ever saved, would be j through the Alliance principles and not by politicians; that the politician dares only fcr the people while trying to their votes. He deplored the fact of Texas going j iato the cotton raising business and go- j ing out of sheep raising. Give theia a j wool tariff, so they would raise sheep, j and let us raise the cotton. Texas! could raise a bale to the acre without j fertilize*; we can1!, com pet? with them. j We want more manufacturing iadustries. We need to manufacture those things which we buy from the north. We want people nere vsho will consume farm products and not produce them. This will give us better prices. Mr. Wilborn of York, president of 5 the Alliance, was next introduced. He] told of the work he was doinz and pro-1 POSSCI WOO IU IiXIO wa_y <js Jccu1ga.u141.ij15 > the Alliance, and told of the soreheads who had gotten into the Alliance and dcn9 it more harm than good because their personal excectations were not realized. He urged the reorganization in every section of every county of the Alliance, until the entire veomanrv of the State should move solidly togetner in any measure looking to the advancement of the general welfare of the agricultural interests of the country. Mr. Stanyarne Wilson was next introduced as the silver-tongued orator of Spartanburg, and spoke for forty minutes mostly upon national issues. Advocating the cause of bimetalism as the remedy for hard times, he said I that when silver was cut doTrn that! there was about an equal amount of i silver and gold. The result was the] " 3 ~ I cutting on na;t our money; auu stare: f money always caused hard times, while plenty of money caused good prices and goci times. Prices had gradually advanced 1 per cent a year; for twenty years prior to 1873. and| since then in six years the price went I down to 20 percent. He said the is-1 sue of greenback bills was the starting j point of the money monopolists in| their destructive work. Greenbacks,: were a necessity, but the bankers in-j serted a clause that the',' should notj be gocd for interest on the national j debt,. .ud import duty. From this beginning they had gone step by step! until they now have their clutch on | the very throat of the government. He was opposed to the tariff on cotton; was in favor of getting as low tariff i as possible; showed the extra cost the | ou per cem. ianu wuum lm^ o-u ; ing apnare!, etc. He said the tariff j was not a revenue, and 1 bat while ten j millions of revenue woald be raised} one hundred and fifty million will go ] into tne pockets of the manufacturers, ? who are thus protected agaiast for | eign importation. We should not tax h?riuse we exocrt it; should? tax rice, because we import it. E*yp | :;ian cotton is no more in competition to our cotton than it is to wool. It is .*n entirely different article. After dinner J?r. Tiilman was intro-j ducea. The crowd had patiently: waited to hear the senator, and from j the cheers tha-: went up it was evident j that he had lest no ground in Union j county. He was the sf.rae blunt Till j man that faced the Ua ion peonleinj IS90 and since, and he hit just as haid.! iicks as ever. lie inc.Lea questions! from the audience, and got mem anci j gave quick ana reaay anssver 10 au. i which got the audience as enthusias tic as of old, and many remarked that oid Ban was just as good, is not better, than ever- He gave an account of his stewardship in tne senate and gav.j some of the newspapers and some of his enemies generally fits for trying to turn the people against him by a pack of lies. He denied emphatically that he had got a cent of rebate; said those I who accused him of it said it was be-1 cause he had bad the opportunity, j wcic'a was virtually admitting tttaij they would steal if they had a c'harxe. j He gave Judge Simonton hot shot! abftiiL his coDisiuon to the disoensarv,! and said he thought he was paia to do it, "because he hadtheoppotunity." Asked if he thought local manage merit cf the dispensary by towns, abolishing the state dispensary, would be an improvement, he said, "If we cannot Sua honest men to run one insti- j tution, and tbev will steal, if it wasj j worked locally there wouid be one 1 hundred staling machines instead of j one.'' Ke said if the railroads hauled j the ori^inol packages in violation of tfie dispensary law. thej should be j I presecuted. Being asked if it was by j his influence that IdcLaurin was appointed senator, he replied that he was j in Washington at the time. He did j; not commit himself. He said he was j nanas en in iois election, out mat ne i knew the neople were going to vote! for ' John." Tillman's talk v-r: impromptu, and ; had the sound of a conversation with i the boys, which took immensely with ] them, and he ttss assured by them < several times that he was as dear to them as ever, asa they were gemp: to < keep him where he is. He said that j; no politicians made him; that God i made him, and the people found him | and put him where be is, and, so helo i mm u-ju, us was going 10 sisuu. yy j them and talk cut in meeting Icr their J rights, no matter who his pitchfork; went into, and that he talked to those felloes in Washington just like he j talked here. He voted for a tariff on ; white piue, cotton, etc. He knew that j a cotton tariff would do no one any j good, but hs had an object in it, whicti: he will use out west next year in his speeches to tliera. He depends on the wool hat boys for his re election. PENSION FRAUDS. Th? Jixpeass for P?nsl- ns Steadily Swell- j I lag. A 'st#tempT)t. dr!?T7n unatihe r>en-: sion office shows that the number of j pensioners on the roll for Jane 30, j the end of the last 5scal year, was i 983,528. This prodigious total breaks j all records, the surprising; fact beicgj that now, 32 years after the close of j the civil war, the number of pensions I is larger than at any preceding time, j although the ravages of death among the survivors of the war ara now becoming so great. In other words, the infl.ix to the list still exceeds the in- j cre^ine outflow. In 1SS5, the last year of hostilities, j' the number of pensioners of June 301 was set down at So ,9S6. A year later j it got into _,ix figures, with 129,722- j The increase thenceforward wasj steady, yet mtxierate, until 207,495} ?? " 4 T^rTT^s TfQoxi? 1 o t n>? a w JL C^aL> JLCU. Ill .JL<J IX. O. w V j vui. j Jdb?.i . ' in 1S73, what then appeared to be its I mpximutn was attained, June 30 show- j he 23S.411; for the following year it J1 fell to 236,241, this being the first de- j crez;se in a dozen years. The next 11 Jur e there was a falliDgoff to 234,821; | i.hc uext, to 232,137; the nest to, 232,-J 10s . the next, to 223,99S. I" at then, just as a continuing ebb,}1 wii i these five successive years, seemed j a;ss* ired, the tide turned. The arrears j1 ape other pension acts made a vast difference. Ia 1S79 the record for June 30 rose to 242,755, and each succeeding June from that time has shown : an" increase, larger or smaller, up to j the one just past. In 1883 thenum-j1 her had grown to 303,658; in 1887, to t1 408,007 while in 1890 it passed the haifr^.'li'on mark, June 30 of that year showing 537,944. f xnereaiter is iook. prcuigiuus uuuuua influenced largely by the disability ; pension act. The first year's jump was nearly 140,000, to 675,160 in 1S91; ^hile even that was outdone by an increase of nearly 200,000 in the fcl- : lowing twelve monhs, to 876,06S. A third increase brought the number to 936/H2 on June 30, 1893. Just there, however, when there 1 was a general expectation of reach- 1 ing the million mark the following j Jun?, since 1'ewer than 34,000 net additions were required to do it, the annual gain dwindled to a few thousand, the number reached being 969,544 The next year the gain was smaller yet, not quite a thousand, the total twin.o- 970.524. When, therefore, last year, the gam fell of? to only 154, the total being 970,678, it seemed an easy prediction that this year there would be an actual loss, and that the 1 ebb would again set in. But, on the contrary, the gain is the striking one of 12,'850, or the biggest J' in four jeari, and with only 16,4721' more to be made up, tne minion mars: j may soon be reached.?New Yorkj Sun. AN ASSASSIN'S 5ULLE". ? ? i Lays Low Xbe President oi the Republic of Uruguay. During a national feto which was ! held at Mentevideo, Uruguay. Wed j' nescay, President J. Idarte Borda was j shot and killed by an assassin. The 1 assassination of the president occurred as he was leaving the cathedral, where ' m_ T-x 1 a j.e i^eum u.su. ueenauug. i^oiucut Borda died almost immediately after 1 he was shot. The assassin, a youth \ named Arredondo, was arrested. ! Senor Cue3tas, president of the senate, j has assumed the presidency of the re-j* public ad interim. Senor J. Idarter Borda was elected president of Uru-r guay for Lhi term extending from?1 March, 1894, to 1S93 The lete at 3 which he was assassinated was being i J held in celebration of the indepen-j' deuce Oi ?IHW vvaa aumo- I ed on August 25, 1S25. At the timely of Senor Borda's election he belonged (3 to the official party and was elected j * by a very narrow majority. The peo-1' pie, it wassjiid, were sadly disappoint-}5 ed at the result, but order and quiet j was maintained. The leading papers j of Uruguav deplored the election ofj, Senor Borda and declared that it), marked a reaction in tne country's j progress. Liter, President BDrdais-L sued a proclamation tD the effect that < ais administration would conduct the 1J business o? the state in the interest oil] the whole nation and that he would ^ invite the assistance of all political] parties to that end. This prociama-j tion made a very favorable imores- , sion. An attempt was made to assas siuate the president on the afternoon . of Anril 21 last. An unknown mail met President Borda on the street and : shot at him. The president escaped . without is jury and the criminal was j; captured. On that occasion the presi-1 dent, accompanied by his aide, Lieut, j Col. Turrene, had been horsebsci | riding. As he dismounted in front of j the government palace a youth ap-jl proached him and drew a pistol. Be- ; fore the trigger couid be pulled Lieut, i Cel. Turrene struck up the arm of the ] would bt assassin acd the ball pj^sed j over trie presidents neau. ^.nomer attempt to assassinate him was made on May 20,%when he received a bomb sent to him from La Plata, Argentine It was in a box and so ar- 1 ragged that it would explode when the bos was opened. Fortunately, suspicion was aroused, and the box! was turned over to the police and de- j stroyecL 11 CRAZED BY RELIGION. I 1 \'?G ROESCF MOUNT VILLEIN A STATE j CF HYSTERIA. Snnclrsds of Elscks Gather at a Place of Glorification?Platform Arranged TThtro the FaUbfal Vlnj Lie Dotvn and li?st. The white people at Mountville, in Laurens county,'are witnessing deeds amazing s.ncl exciting that are performed hv frantic negroes, religion srsz.'d. T .70 weeks ago a church bell was received here for the colored church, which sits in the southeastern portion of Mountville and since that time not ten minutes have passed when the sound of this bell was not heard. Then the crisis came on. As soon as it was mounted iu the steeple it was rune- for six consecutive hours, i after which the tolling apparatus was' for six hours used. J The ringing, ihey claim, was to an- j nounce Lhe time of gathering to wit- J ness tiie final burial of the devil, whose death was announced by the j tolling. The ministers claim that they j have attended the court of heaven, where God, the judge, after the devil j had been convicted by a jury of; twelve representative angels from! abroad the universe, passed sentence j on him, turning him over to the col- j ored people of Mountviiie vicinity to \ bury ones and forever. When ihis claim was announced abroad an invitation sleeping everywhere was sent urging all colored persons to come t^ witness theaestruc-j of Pit ton "fiV.rth with tP.PT? hfp'an ! to assemble and since two weeks age \ they have come to remain. The first to come have not jet left j bere. There seems to be a spirit working from home to home, causing everj I one to come. The news is scattered j more and more each moment and still i they come. No signs of food they j Dring,nor drink, nor does it seem they do aught but shout. E very passenger j tV>af r>arrips hv rwnnlfi i ***** ^? - -? i wondering whether such unceasing: j sounds as that may be caused by joy or woe. . | The grounds are not dotted here and J there with a group, but one immense j throag fills five acres square and in the centre packed. A near-by cornfield is being: tram-? pled down, and like a vrave that from < its centre spreads this people stretches out broader and broader. A portion shouts from one sounding | of the bell to the other?ten minutes? and then another begins. There is a petition and a response: ''Lord, don't call the roll till I gits j dar," goes up from four or five thous-1 and voices and thev say a voice speaks j out from the throne of God, s&yiag: i "T will not nail mv roll till mvi Mountville negroes get here." According to their saying they hold a position, midway between earth and heaven and that they have no more earthly feelings and have no memory of the past and recogznz-3 no bodily needs. Mountville negroes are more independent than negroes elsewhere in South Carolina and have nic8 convey ances, but mules and horses are driven here to starve, receiving no attention. Each train incoming unloads fifty or sixty negroes and they strikes a run for the chuich. Benches are debris and the floor is a I wreck. Women embrace men and men each other. . Now and then eight or ten get in a tussle ard a woman j comes out half naked or more, but i still she paces about in wild shouting, j Their faith strengthens. Several black j maidens are stepping from timber to timber across an uncsiled loft and] worship there; the bell now rings and now tolls. j Now and then hands on a passing' train, by some spirit moved, dessrt their post and iock. themselves in mis j heaven going throng. A platform is built in front of the church three feet high end twenty j feet square, on which'negroes are laid j to recover strensth and senses after j they have lost tbem in their shouting. This platform is unceasingly filled. Occasionally the congregation looks toward the east in concern and says: 'kLo! See stars and moons and suns | rolled back from our aerial path and] hear the mighty song of welcome j echoing from universe to universe." j ^ r ~v> + V*\r*ot t VV X1CLL LLLC dUU J ?st*w i Lheir feet, keeping; time to the music | made by angels1 bows as they glide? across the gray lines that fret the mcr-1 ning skies. Thunders roll and lightnings leap, j but this excited throng does not seem j to hear them. A bicjcle rider of their color, whose j faith is strong, attempted io wheel it! nn in liMircTi }w inpl-inino' a twenty-! root plank upward and by rapid speed j ascending it to ran off its upper end j md fail a cripplc. There is a great craze among these i ;nthused people for raiments of white | ind if one happens to arrive with a j iark suit on, so much is at once re | xinved as shows up a white costume. j The white psopie in this place are j measy as to what will result from ;hese proceedings. * * * ? "? J _ _ L L i. x- I it would oe us3ie3s io attempt iu 5 lisperse such a congregation, for it is! ^creasing daily by 600 to S00 and as j >ocn as a negro arrives he falls into [ ;heir ways, insensible to all earthly j surroundings. Shot HJfl Wife. William Karper, who lives eight! miles southeast 0? Cbnalton, Ma..shot! md killed his wife about 2 o'clock] Wednesday morning. Harper claims! ihat he nad been out with bis gun to j see what was disturbing his chickens \ ind as he was going back into the Kouse, he stumbled and fell when the ran was accidentally uiscnargeci, j shooting bis ^ife in the back ana kill- j iog her almost instantly. On account j of Harper's reputation and previous! trouble between his wife and himself, a great many people think the shootins: was not an accident. Mrs. Harper I leaves a babe about a month old and another small child. Harcer is about 2S years old. Song of VeterAii*. The Second Annual Convention of ] the South Carolina Division, United] Sons of Confederate Veterans, was: called to order at 10.20 A. M. in the! Kniprhis of Pjthias Hall, Greenville, j by Major Gen. M. L. Bonham, com-j manding the division. Oa the sta?ej with Gen. Bonham were seated the! Rev. Dr. A. J. S. Thomas, chaplain, the Hon. A. H. Dean, Robart A. j Smyth, commander in-chief. The i convention vras opened with a prayer j by Dr. Thomas. The roll of camps j a I ~ n _3 4.1 4. 1 was men canec:, me ueLegates pruuuc j ing theii credentials. The convention j finished its business and adjourned the ] same day. j RA'LRO^DS TC EE SUED, SersgstlnrsI .Action c: ;?<? of 1'ho j State. - j The expected ssa??.tic-n in dispessa | ry circles did not i cca*' Tuesday fron.*. i the alters r-y g#*r?ew:l . ciiice as was ex ppcted, but it r^rr^ from the executive | oi2ce. Gov. Eiiarb;* c-x pressed himself very plainly ?T-.d biantiv on the situation as far as r- c..;T:cts the dispensary. He said trsr- uie State would bazin proceedings?:<. once against those railroads which L-.iJ hau'rd original package liqu^n j?.l>?he Slate under the folio wir? n ? o" the dispense r~ law? la all pure* rs<?s or s*!e? of intoxicating liquors :m.:e -is contemplated ia ibis act, tiie Smts board cf control shall cause a certificate to be attached to each and every package containing1 ^iid liquors ~hen the same is shipped t. the Slate commissions? I'roni the place of purchase, or by Stale commissi oner to the county dispensaries, j certided by 1 heir official signature and I seal, which certificate shall state that liquors contained in said packages have been purchased by the State board of control for sale and use with-in the Stale of South Carolina, under the laws of said State, and shall also a. _ t_- _ii i J i._ u cause io oe auacseu tc au suou u^uura : the certificate of the chemist of the I South Carolina College that samples] of the same have 'osen tasted as re-1 ! quired by this act; and without such | [certificates an 7 package containing li- j iquors vrhich shall be s'aippsd frcil place to place within the State, or de- j ! iivercd to the consignee by any rail- s ; road, express company, or other com- j ! ... _ r 2 J.i- - t mon earners, or oe lounu in i,ue pusI session of any common carrier, shall be regarded as contraband, and may be seized without warrant for cociiscation, and s xch common carrier shall be liable to a penalty of $500 for each offense, to be recovered against saia common 'carrier in any court of com- j petent jurisdiction by summons and 5 ccmpla-nt, proceeding to be icsti- j luted by the solicitor cf any circuit] with whom evidence may be lodged i by any officer or citizen having knowl* j edge or information of the violation; j and any nerson attaching or using j suci eeruucaie wunoui ins auiuujrit<y l of the Slate board of control, or any counterfeit certificate for the purpose I of securing, the transportation of any I intoxicating liquors within this State j in violation of law, shall, upon con-j viction thereof, be punished by a hnei of not less than ?500, and imprison- j merit in the penitentiary for not less j than one year for each olfense. The governor was asked how he! could proceed against the railroads) | under Judge Simonton's decision. He ireplied that the decision referred to j ! individuals and not to railways. He} said proceedings would &e comcaencea \ "forthwith if not sooner.1' ! Continuing, the governor said: <;l) j am anzious to see the dispensary j | sound red given a fair trial. If it | pans cut :* *riU be all right; if not the j oeocle can change it. I believe it the j ! best liquor law and a majority of the i ! people favor it. 'lam glad to see,") i he continued, "that a good many! j towns opposed to the dispensary lawj !are requiring licenses or demanding! I half Ci the profits ia keeping with the ' 'dispensary law." The governor was' I asked to name these towns but he said j | that he did not think it necessary now.} Asked as to what he thought of the j prohibition movement the governor j said: 4'I don't think it will amount J to anything. Between it and high li-! cense the people will vote for prohibi- j tion, asunder a high license the law j could not be enforced. It would be I too much like the old barroom system j ?with so many temptations to make j money and so many ways to evade j the law." As to the possible action of the legis- j lature the governor said that the pro- j babilities were that some amendments j would he made to the dispensary law. j What they might be he did not care l to suggest, bat he said that he would | make some recommendations in iris j message. As to what tney would be j he did not care to speak. Returning to the subject cf the suit I against the railroads it was stated that \ tiie suit would be brought into the { State courts and should an attempt be j mp.de to carry the case to the (juitedj Stains court, the charters of the roads j vrauld be annulled under a statutes oas3ed bv the last legislature.?Regis- j tar. 1 2 Bahr Is Sa?p8aded. Governor Ellerbe Tuesday morning ] made the oiScial announcement that j he suspended Chief Constable Bahr, { who has been in charge of the c.onsta { balary in Charleston since the present t administration took charge of the af-1 fairs of the Stats. The governor stated ] that he had been suspended until a full j investigation could be made into certain matters. When asked, he said that he did not care to discuss the reasons for the suspension of Caief Bahr j for ihe present; he simply wished to j mske the announcement. The sus- j pended chief arrived in Columbia last j night and will have a talk with gover- j ncr Jidier^e i.u<jay. kjcj\auvi jlluich? says that until tne investigation j referred to has teen held and Una! j action has been taken in Mr. Bahr's I case, the constables in Charleston! will be required to report directly} to the governor's oince, when tbey j will receive their instruction?. 0: j cDurse, while the governor would not j talis about the cause of the suspension, j reasons therefore could be heard ehe-j wnerd. it appears ma; :ias uesii I doing too much talking through the j newspapers down, in Oaarleston, as-j sumiog to be the mouthpiece of Gover j nor Eilerbe. He, had, it is said, bsen j warned about this several times, j Again, it is said that there is no lore j lost oetween Bahr and Chisf Martin of the metropolitan police. Ther are; each charged with tne enforcement of ] the dispensary law in Charleston and j experience has taught that nothing I can be accomplished when the heads j .-if cnrtti f>ono??r,iont! ow fi y hT7 nC PPfih i other. It may be thatitie encounter j that Bahr had vrith Editor Itloore of j j The Critic ia the Charleston Critic 1 cilice last vreek has something to do | vrith the governors action. EJiior j Moore, in a strocg open letter, brought | the matte*- and certain charges that he had previously made against Ba" r to the governors attention. Shot E&ch Oilier tc Dtalb. It is reoorted that Gior-je H. Steel, j ' --JP? V a : ; ex-scerm, aau ohuj. iuuug, sherilFof Leslie county, were both kiliied in a csnibat at Hyden, Ky., MonI day. Both men fought to desperation land both fell dead in the fifth round. ! Young had three bullets through him ; and lived two hours. Both were pro- j minent. Steel was a Democratic lead- j er and Young a Republican leader, s and they quarrelled over politics. j 4 THE QUEEN'S REPLY - .* ;5 COMMUNICATED TO MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS Sy Minister Delorae Conrtfoiis and Gra c!cus-25Iss Clsncrog tc Have Oonslderat;c2?Dj!om9 Says there's Lying. In response to an appeal cabled to the queen of Spain by Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Mis. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other notable American women, urging clemency for the young girl, EvangeJine Ccssio Oisneros, incarcerated at Eabana by the Spanish military authorities, and who it was re j. 4. ? 7. J A- _ Al _ f 7_ porieti lo oc; exueu io me psnai colony at Ceuta, Africa, the resident Spanish minister, Dupuy de Lome, has addressed 1x2.0 following letters to Mrs. Davis, giving the official Spanish version o' the arrest of the young Cuban and the alleged reasons lor her letention and proposed trial : Lenox, Mass., Aug. 24. To Mrs. Varinna Jefferson Davis, Narragansett Pier, H. I. Dear Madam?Don Juan Du Boso, first secretary of the royal Spanish legation, who went to see you in my name, has reported to me the conversation. he has had the honor of having with you Saturday last. I have not failed to convey to he? majesty, the queen, through her minister of state, the Duke of Tetaun, ihat you had really telegraphed to her majesty, and I ha\e also supported me no Die woras you nave expressed lit your convert ^"on. Mr. Du B^so .old you that when your cablegram was received by the queen, the Spanish government had no knowledge of the arrest of Miss Evangeline Cossio Cisneros, and also her majesty had given orders as soon as it was received to report to her the merits of the case, and had been pleased to command me to inform you, if your message was true, that - t. ^ i ! "UT sue nau cuxiaiucrcuiavuraui^ ouu y>j.i.u. all the regard due to a lady so worthy of respect as you are. The information received from Cuba by the Spanish government and laid before her majesty and that has been transmitted to me by cable, shows, in my opinion, that a shameless consoiration to promote the inter ests of one or more sensational papers is at the bottom of the romance that has touched your good heart. The facts show that Miss Evangeline Cossio Cisneros lured to her house the military commander of the Isle of Pines, and had men concealed in it who tried to assassmaie mm, in connection with an uprising of the prisoners in the island. For that offense, far fro22 being condemned and being ready to be transported to a penal settlement in Africa, she has not yet been tried; the public prosecutor has not yet presented the case for the government; he has not yet, as is requisite of our law, asked a sentence to be imposed on her, and the case is not yet ready to be fully disposed of. These facts are very easy to prove. The American consul general, any of the foreign consuls in Cuba, willing * to get information can convince themselves of the truth and couJd have been applied to by the papers which have started this sensation, if they had really been prompted by a sentiment of humanity instead of having been prompted by the desire of increasing their circulation by their usual slanderous methods. THp p'rwnlnte falsehoods of th.9 Dress publications, in relation to concrete facts related with the case, is not favorable, certainly, to the exactitude of the considerations with which the innocence of the accused pretends to be proved. I have the honor of giving you the above information by order of her majesty, and to inform you by her special command that she is well and favorably disposed to respond to your earnest plea and I am instructed to add thai as the case stands, and before the trial has been completed and a sentence imposed, she is not allowed to interfere, but that instructions have been communicated to the governor general of Cuba to bring a speedy trial, and to grant to Miss Cisneros all possible consideration. I am madam, very respectfully yours, Enrique DuPuy de Lome. Edisto County Defeated. Tne full returns from the election held on the ISth on. the question of the establishment of the new county of Ejisto are at last obtainable. Here they are, showing that the proposed new couuxy nas oeen aeieateu: AIKEN COUNTY. For. Against Oak Grove..... ? 21 Ferry.................. 93 2 Sally..., 28 84 Oits 23 72 Seivern.....? 4 20 Wagener.......... 74 11 Total .,. -, .. *....219 210 ORANGEBURG COUNTY. For. Against. Springfield... o?-c? 12 141 Sdvryerdale............ 18 78 Total 30 219 LEXINGTON COUNTY. For. Against. Rull P.fframn .... 19 19o RECAPITULATION. For. Against Aiker. 219 210 Ot&igt Varg.30 219 Lexington 19 195 Total ,268 624 This, it is said, will likely be the last heard of Edisto county for some time to come. A JIa(less Attacks a Woman. Without the least provocation Joseph Prunty, a madman, of Charleston. Wednesday made a murderous assault on Mrs. John Mallo, a Greek fruit dealer, and shot her onc8 in the necs with a pistol. She is lying in a hospital and is not expected to live until Thursday morning. Prunty is said by his parents to be crazy. Wednesday he left home with his pistol and wandered aimlessly through the streets trying to pick out some one to shoot. Oaca or twice he stopped and seemed ready to firs, but did not. Later he walked through a side street and stood in front of tfc" fruit store. Tae Malic woman came cut and was arranging the stock in the window when Prunty, with a wild yell, rushed on her and let his shining weapon touch her neck. Then he fired, and quietly walked away, while the woman was rolling in a pool of blood. Prunty is locked up in a cell a rav7r.tr maniac. It is said tnat Prunty noliced some fruit on the stand for Triicii he has a strong dislike. The rr.au wiil probably bs sent to an asylum.