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.'"* ' .- . VOL. LIII. WINNSBOftO, S. G, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1898. NO. 20. .. " 1 mm, nnnnnT I TTTl A Ti T\ /\ A Tl Tm ^ VISITED THE SOUTH.. President McKinlev Invades the Late Confederacy. HE iS CORDIALLY WELCOMED Spent Two Days in Atlanta, V ? ? Then Visited Montgomery, Savannah, Macon and Asgusta. President McKiiley and his party left Washington last Tuesday afternoon week for a trip through the South. The primary object of the tour was to be present at the Atlanta Peace Jubilee which took place last "Wednesday and Thursday. The following persons comprised the party: The President and Mrs. McKinley, Secretary and Mrs. Gage, Secretary and Mrs. Alger, Secre-> tiry and Miss Long, Postmaster General and Mrs. Smith, Secretary and Miss Wilson, Secretary aud Mrs. Porter, Assistant Secretary Cortelyou; Gen. Joseph Wheeler, Miss Wheeler, Gen, Henry W. Lawton, Mrs. Lawfcon, Capt. L. C. Scherer, Mr. Adelbert S. Hay, Mr. B. F. Barnes and a nuiaber of newspaper correspondents. The President's train, which was exceptionally fine in all its appointments, * as under the immediate di.ec tion of Col. L. S. Brown, general agent r>f Rnnthern Railway Comnany. The train arrived at Atlanta on Wednesday, and the President and his party were m*st enthusiastically received. The crowds in Atlanta were very large, enormous, excursion trains arriving at short intervals from all directions. The hotels have been turning away people since noon Tuesday but the overflow found accommodation in the numerous boarding houses throughout the city. Gen. Wheeler was cheered at every step and tfen. Lawton, -Young, Oates and other army officers were heartily received at each appearN ance. The feature of the occasion was the civic military parade which passed through the streets during Wednesday afternoon. The parade consisted of ten divisions under command of Grand Marshal West. Six thousand infantry, ten thousand school children, 400 carriages containing 1600 peo' ^ /NA^V ? ? ?1. ??? /\-f A j P16) IjWV jUIVIUUCI^ Ui awiv" ties, 500 Confederate veterans under eommand of General Wheeler, 1,000 laboring men, 100 officers and marshals twelve bands, 100 Grand Amy men, a squad of policemen, 200 mounted police, members of the Y. M. C. A., ministers of the Evangelical Association, 200 members of the Capital City Club and the Fulton Club, the Atlanta fire department, the representatives of 500 -civic organizations from all parts *f the South took part in the parade. The president and other distinguished i^guests rode in carriages at the head of f fifre pageant^ They were escorted by ^JWSe Third New Jersey and the Fifteenth Pennsylvania. The President was compelled to bow almost continuously to the cheers which assailed his ears from the crowded sidewalks along the liae of march. A roar of welcome denoted the position of Gen. Wheeler and the band of cavalry who followed him through the civil, war and the wizened leader was at times ?-j e 1 compel i eu iu iuxue uuuvw uuuugu the throngs of would be worshippers who blocked hi* path. After the parade passed the reviewing stand the President and the other guests of the city were driven to Piedmont Park, where they were guests of the Piedmont Driving Culb at an elaborate luncheon. The President addressed the public in the auditorium at Piedmont Park. The building has a seating capacity of | 10,000 and was jammed. President Hemphill of the Jubilee Association was master of ceremonies and after a short address introduced Mayor Collier, who welcomed the distinguised guests and visitors to the city. Gov. Candler spoke on the part of the State, and formally welcomed the distinguished party to Georgia. The President, who was introduced by Col. Hemphill, was given a tremendous ovation by the audience. He sooke in part as follows: Other parts of the country have had public thanksgiving jubilees in honor of the historic events of the past year, but nowhere has there been greater rejoicing than among the people here gathered, representatives of the South. I congratulate them upon their accurate observation of events, which enabled them to fix a date which insured them the privilege of being the first to celebrate the signing of the treaty of peace by the American and Spanish commissioners. Under a hostile fire on foreign soil fighting in a common cause, the memory of old disagreements fade into history. From camp and campaign come the magic healing which closed an ancient *ound and effaced its scars. For this result every American pariot should forever rejoice. It is no small indemnity for the cost of the war. The government proved itself invincible in ^ the recent war and out of it has come *^Lg. nation which will remain invincible ^or evermore. No worthier cootributions have been made in patriotism and valor than by the Southern States. "When at last the opportunity came they were eager to meet, and with promptness responded to the call of their country, intrusted witn aoie leadership, men dear to them, who had marched with their fathers, under another flag, but now are fighting under the old flag again, have gloriously helped to defend its spotless folds, and have added new luster to its shining stars. That flag has been planted in two hemispheres, and there it remains the symbol of ^liberty and law, in peace and progress. Who will withdraw it from the people over whom floats its protecting folds? Who will haul it down? "We could have avoided all the dif ficulties that lie across the pathway of the nation if a few months ago we had eoldly ignored the piteous appeals of the starving and oppressed inhabitants of Cuba. If "we had blinded ourselves j to conditions so near our shores and | turned a deaf ear to our suffering j neighbors, the issue of territorial ex- . p&nsion in the Antilles and the East Indies would not have been raised. But could we have justified such a I course? Is there any man who would now declare another to hare been a better course? With less humanity and less courage on our part the Spanish Sag iastead of the Stars and Stripes wonld still be floating at Cavite, Ponce and Santiago, and a chance in the race of life would be wanting to aillions of human beings who today call this nation noble, and who, I trust, will lire to call it blessed. Thus far hare we done our supreme duwy. Shall we now when victory is won in war and written in a treaty of peace and while the civilized world applauds and waits in expectation, turn timidly away from tne duties imposed upon tne country Dy its own great deeds? And when the mists fade away and we see with clearer vision may we n?t go forth rejoicins in our strength which has been employed solely for humanity and always tempered with justice and mercy, confident in our ability to meet the exigencies, which await us, because confident that our course is one of duty, and our cause that of right." Among the arrivals "Wednesday were Gen. William R., Shafter and his aides. Gov. Jos. F. Johnston and members of the Alabama Legislature, a number of army officers from Anniston, John W. Thomas, president of the N&slroille, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad, and Mrs. Thomas of Nashville. President McKinley left Atlanta Friday and visited Tuskeegee, Montgomery, Savannah, Macon and Augusta, at each of which place he was accorded a most cordial and enthusiastic reception. The party passed through Columbia on their way back to Washington late Monday night." They arrived in Washington Tuesday morning. HORRIBLE NARRATIVE. The Vile Treatment of Friars and Nuns by Filipinos. The Manila correspondent of the Hong Kong Press gives the details of the shocking treatment of the friars and other prisoners captured by the insurgents in the northern part of the island of Luzon. General Leybe, who was sent by Aguinaldo to attack the cities of the extreme north of Luzon, sont a report to his chief that he had brought the entire section raided completely under the control of the Filipinos. Leybe mentions the capture of one hundred and twenty-four friars and lay brothers, many Spanish soldiers with arms, and property and silver and gold valued at $800,000. ( The Press correspondent states that from Spanish sources have come the reports of terrible atrocities committed by the rebels who looted the churches and several towns. The correspondent says: "The bishop was subjected to the grossest indignities. The friars were beaten with sticks, kicked and hung up in the torrid :un for eeveral hours. The natives we. forbidden to render the friars any assistance. During the greatest suffering while hanging hungry and naked, in th? burning sun, Chinese and natives supplied them food and water. One aged friar was placed upon a horse's saddle and jumped upon until the blood poured from his mouth and nose. Another, clothed only in a rain eoat, was carried in triumph for two hundred yards and then eudgeled to death amid savage cries. Nunfc in the convent were subjected to t" most shameless treatment." Am Expansionist. Editor Baeon of the Edgefield Chronicle is an expansionist. His treasury receipts showing a deficiency in cash, due to a lack of circulating medium in his vitinage, he inaugurates a spirited campaign of annexation! against all the raw materials and finished products of Edgefield county; making proclamation as below: "Two or three weeks ago we wrote this: {The Chronicle will take wood, hogs, chickens, eggs, meat, fiour, meal, greens, turnips or corn in payment of the arrearages 6t subscribers .rrhohave not the money for paying up.' We now enlarge the opportunity as follows: Pumpkins, potatoes, peaches, popcorn, billy goats, pigs, horses, hay and land, mules and cows and calves, rabbits and wheat and turnips, turtles and tomatoes, and any old thing you've -? a rx~r_ i ? goi. trenayeon uire ucc??iwua ocu takes money on subscriptions." A Tragic Death. A special from Athens, G-a., says: Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock Lieut. James H. Hoskinson, adjutant of the first battalion of the fifteenth Pennsylvania regiment, met a tragic daath on Clayton street, in front of the postoffice. He was thrown violently from his horse, his head striking the hard ground with great force. A large artery in the brain was ruptured, compression was followed by paraly*is and in two hours he was dead. Lieut. Hoskinson was one of the most popular young officers in the Pennsylvania regiment. He was the son of Mi. and Mrs. Wm. Hoskinson, of Erie, Pa., and prior to his enlistment was assistant cashier of the Keystone bank of that city. The remains of Lieut. Hoskinson will be sent to Erie Friday morning for interment. A Fatal Fall. Wednesday atternoon at nan-past * o'clock an accident occurred at the new Sacred Heart church, Augusta, Ga., in which one man was killed and another so badly wounded that he will die. The man killed was Lewis Rohland, white, a Iricklayer. late of Kansas City. Both men were working on the gable of the church, one hundred and ten feet from the ground. They were on the very top, standing on a board of the scaffold, dressing the last line of bricks, when the bricks toppled and fell, carrying the two men to the ground below. Rohland was alive for some time, but his brains were crushed out. John Williams, also a bricklayer, was internally injured and will die. Takes the Blue Bibbon. The Abbeville Medium tells of a gold watch that was swallowed seven years ago by a calf wnich found it in the pocket of a vest hanging on a fence. That is not very strange, but the Medi*? ? 1 .3 P 1 i? urn says tHe cow was DUtcnerea xor Deei last week and between the lungs the watch was f6und, still running, the respiration having acted in such a way as to wind up the Watch, which was a stem winder. Here's the blue ribbon, brother Bob. THE DEATH KNELL Of Sectionalism Sounded in Atlanta by President McKinley. HIS MEMORABLE WORDS. The Northern Chief Executive Pays a Just Tribute to j Uarnir finnferlpr. Ul^ I 1^1 vtv WVlf! "V?w. ate Dead. President McKinley made memorable the first day of the Atlanta peace jubilee by a notacle utterance in his speech before the joint session of the Georgia legislature Wednesday afternoon. His reception by the general assembly was warm f>nd hearty in the extreme, and his speech was punctured with frequent outbursts of cheering. It is admitted on all sides that the address marked aa epoch in history and is tonight on every lip. Upon the president's arrival at the capitol he was greeted vrith a field artillery salute and was at once escorted to Governor Candler's office. There a short informal reception took place. Upon its conclusion the president was onduetedto the assembly chamber, where he occupied the speaker's chair with Governor Candler on his right. When President Dodson of the senate called the legislature to order the galleries were thronged with men and Wumen. The body of the chamber was well filed with State senators and assem Mymen, while the uniforms of various officers and the governor's staff gave a touch of brilliant coierto tne garnering. On the first row facing the speaker sat Secretaries Gage, Long, Wilson and Smith and Secretary Porter. Besides the speaker's desk and below the president Gens. Wlteeler, Lawton and Young, in full uniform, sat on chairs. The speaker rapped for silence and introduced the president to the audience after congratulating the State of Geor-. giaupon the presence of their distinguished guests. As the president arose the audience applauded. MEMORABLE PASSAGE. DoriHg the course tl liis snort speecn Mr. McKinley referred to his notes and constantly paused for the cheers to stop. A scene of intense enthusiasm followed when amid impressive silence these words fell from the lips of the president: "Every soldier's grave made during the unfortunate civil war is a tribute to American valor.' And while, when these graves were made we differed widely about the future of this government, those differences were long ago settled by the arbitrament of arms ?tnd the time has now come in the evolution of sentiment and feeling-under the providence ef God. when in the piric of fraternity we should share with you in the care of the graves of the Confederate soldiers." A wild cheer went up from every throat in the typical southern audience, a cheer that echoed and reachedthrough the chamber until it was taken up by the crowds outside. A TOUCHING INCIDENT. Old men who fought for the south, rose from their seats and waved their hats. One Confederate veteran now a venerable legislator had passed forward until he was leaning against the speaker's desk, hanging on each word the president uttered. When the reference was made to the Confederate dead, this old man buried his head in his arms and while cheers rang out, cried like a little child. Of all the many conciliatory speeches which have been made since Grant said "Let there be peace," nothing has more deeply stirred a southern audience than the simple words of President McKinley Wednesday. THE SPEECH. The president spoke as follows: tional lines no longer mar the map of the United States. Sectional feeling no longer holds back the love we bear for each other. Fraternity is the national anthem, sung by a chorus of 45 States and our territories at home and beyond the seas. The union is once more the common atlas of our love and loyalty, our devotion and sacrifices. The old flag again waves over us in peace with new glories which your sons and ours have this|year added to its sacred folds. What cause we have for rejoicing! Saddened only by the fact that so many of our brave men fell on field or sickened and died from hardship and exposure and others returning, bringing wounds and disease from which they will long suffer. The memory of the dead will be precious legacy and the disabled will be the nation's care. ''A nation which cares for its disabled soldiers as we have always done will never lack defenders. The national cemeteries for those who fell in battle are proof that the dead as well as the living have our love. What an army of silent sentinels we have, and with what loving care their graves are kept! 'Every soldier's grave made during our unfortunate civil war is a tribute to American valor. And while, when those graves were made, we differed widely about the future of this government, the differences were long ago settled by the arbitrament of arms?and the time has now come in the evolution of sentiment and feeling, under the providence of God, when, in the spirit of fraternity we should share with -* ? * r? ^ v you m tiie care ot tne graves 01 me Confederate soldiers. "The cordial feeling now happily existing between the north and south prompts this gracious act, and. if it needed further justification, it is found in the gallant loyalty to the Union and to the flag so conspicuously shown in the year just passed by the sons and grandsons of these heroic dead. "What a glorious future awaits us, ir unitedly, wisely and bravely we face the new problems now pressing upon us, determined to solve them for right and humanity." "that little 31 an." No sooner had President McKinley concluded before there were loud cries for Wheeler, and when that little man got up, his head scarcely higher than the speaker's desk, the audience once more gave vent to wild enthusiasm, j Gen. Wheeler referred eulogistically to the efforts of the president towards pre- i serving peace as long as the country's j honor would permit such efforts and of his masterful policy after war was inevitable. Gen. Wheeler paid a tribute to Admiral Dewey, and added: "The ; f},a r\m\rv wns tii'ILiy, lU UUUJUUblUu nnu mv . ordered to attack and destroy the Span-1 ish forces at Santiago. In four weeks that order was obeyed, and its purposes accomplished. The proud Spanish nation stood suing for peact from the nation which a month before, it had held up to ridicule and scorn." Calls for Maj. Gen. Young brought that officer to his feet with a short speech regarding the conditions of the army camps in the south. He said that no troops in the world were better, more regularly fed and treated than were the troops in South Carolina and Georgia. Gen. Lawtonwas loudly cheered, but refused to make a speech. He simply thanked, on behalf of his men at Santiago, the legislature and people of Georgia for their tribute to himself. Secretary Alcer refused to speak and the legislature dissolved. The president held a private reception in the senate and afterwards a public reception on the steps of the rotunda. There were hundreds of southerners who crushed and jostled each other in their anxiety to shake a northern president's hand. Many had come from miles distant, and when, at 2:15 p. m., the president left the capitol, there were still hundreds bitterly disappointed because tbey had not been able to make their way through the surging throng to get a second's hold on his hands. The day's festivities included a unique floral parade, which was reviewed by the president, and a reception Wednesday night to the distinguished guests at the Capital City club. Wednesday night the members of the Capital City club opened their club house to the President and Mrs. McKinley and the guests of the city. The occasion was notably brilliant. The receiving party consisted of a number of Atlanta's representative women and a large company of club members. The decorations were flags, American smilax and American beauty roses. The late arrivals Wednesday were Hon. Evan Settle of Kentucky, who win speaK in tne piace ox uou&rcaouMm Bailey, Richmond P. Hobson and Miss Hobson, and Gov. Voorheesof NewVersey. CUBA'S NEW ETJLEBS. Military Governors for the Cubans in Place of Spaniards. ".(V4, It was formally announced Wednesday that the President had designated Major Gen. Brooke to be tne military Governor of the island of Cuba , T&e new post carries with, it all the control over the military and civil br?nohefrOf the island formerly exercised by the Captain General under the Spanish regime. Gen. Brooke arrived in this city to-day from Fort Monroe. Each of the six provinces of Cuba will have its own military Governor, just as Gen. Wood is now military Governor of the province of Santiago, but all of these will receive their instructions directly from Major Gen. Brooke, who is in supreme authority of the island. Thus, in Havana, Gen. Ludlow will be Governor of the city, but answerable to Gen. Lee, the Governor of the province of Havana, who. in turn, will be answerable to Major Gen. _ Brooke, the Govereor of the island. In answer' to a question as to when he intended to assume his new duties Gen. Brooke replied that he would proceed to Havana and take charge just as soon as he could organize his staff and forces. Such disturbances as occurred in Havana night before last, it if believed, may be expected to reoccur there, and to happen in some of the other Juban cities and towns. And, as the United States is pledged to restore the reign of law and order in Cuba, Gen. Brooke >-1 .5 will De under ine necessity ui providing an elaborate system of administrative machinery in order to hold the disorderly elements in check and secure a proper application of the laws. Gen. Ludlow, the Governor of Havana is already giving his attention to the organization of a semi-military force, to take the place of the orden publico and garde civile, the Spanish police forces, which maintained order in towns and country. The repatriation of these forces recently has left this country, and particularly the city of Havana, exposed to an epidemic of crime. The Delights of Boyhood. T'rl like he a bov aeain without a woe or care, with freckles scattered on my face and hayseed in my hair; I'd like to rise at 4 o'clock and do a hundred chores, and saw the wood and feed the hogs and lock the stable doors; and herd the hens and wa*ch the bees, and take the mules to drink, and teach the turkeys how to swim so that they wouldn't sink; and milk about a hundred cows and bring in wood to burn, and stand out in the sun all day and churn, and churn, and churn; and wear my brother's cast of clothes, and walk four miles to school, and get a licking every day for breaking some old rule, and then get home again at night and do the chores once more and milk the cows and feed the hogs and curry mules galore, and then crawl wearily upstairs to seek my little bed and hear dad say: ''That worthless boy! He isn't worth his bread!" Id lite to De a Doy again; a boy has so much fun, his life is just a round of mirth from rise to set of sun; I guess there's nothing pleasanter than closing stable doors, and herding hens, and chasing bees, and doing evening chores. A Wrong Righted. Michael O'Donnell has served ten years of a thirty year seatence in Sing Sing prison, New York, for a burglary T1 WlflC *3tTiA ftJfA wniuu A1JL0 UiyiLti y auxvo uuu wnv v/w*w* men committed. On his death bed in the Presbyterian Hospital James confessed the crime for which his brother is suffering. Investigation by detectives of the district attorney's office has confirmed this confession, and Wednesday District Attorney Gardner sent an official letter to Governor Black recommending O'Donnell's pardon. THE PEACE TREATY. The Terms Agreed Upon Between the United States and Spain. I INTERESTING DOCUMENT. Spain Loses Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippines and a Half Dozen Other Islands in the East. The Paris correspondent of the Times gives tne toiioiring as tne text 01 tne Hispano-American treaty, omitting diplomatic circumlocutions: "Spain relinquishes all claims of sovereignty over and title to Cuba; and, as the island is, upon its evacution by Spain, to be occupied by the United States, the latter will, so long as such occupation shall last, assume and discharge the obligations in respect to protection of life and property which may, under international law, result from its occupation. "Spain cedes to the United States the island of Porto Rico and the other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies, with G-uam, in the Mariano or Ladrone islands. Spain cedes to the United States the archipelego known as the Philippine Islands. "The United States, for a term of ten years from the date and exchange of ratifications of the present treaty, fcdmit Spanish ps and merchandise to ports in the Philppine Islands on the same terma as the ships and merchandise of the United States. "The United States will, upon the signature of the present treaty, send back to Spain, at its own cost, the Spanish soldiers- taken as prisoners of war on the capture of Manila by the American forces. The arms of the soldiers in question shall be restored to them. Spain will, upon the signature of the present treaty, release all prisoners of war and all persons detained or imprisoned for political offences in connection with the Insurrection in Cuba and the Philippines and the war with the United States. "On their part, the United States will release all persons made prisoners of war by the American forces, and will undertake to obtain the release of all Spanish prisoners in the hands of the insurgents in Cuba and the Philippines. "The United States will, at their own cost, return to Spain, and the government of Spain will, at its o^n cost, return the United States, Cnba, Porto Kico or the Philippines, according to the situation of their respective homes, the prisoners released, or caused to be released by them respectively under this provision. u "The United States and Spain mutually relinquish all claim fdfindenmi-' ty,* national and individual, of every kind, of either government or of its citizens or subjects, against the other goverhment that may have arisen since the beginning of the late insurrection in Cuba and prior to exchange of the ratifications of the oresent treaty, includ ing all claims for indemnity for the cost of the war. The United States will adjudicate and settle the claims of its citizens against Spain relinquished un- i der this stipulation. "Spanish subjects, natives of the peninsula, residing in the territory over which Spain by the present treaty relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty, may remain in auch territory, or may i remove therefrom, retaining in either event all their rights of property, including the right to sell or dispose of such property or its proceeds, and they shall also have the right to carry on their industry, commerce and profession, being subject in respect thereof to such laws as are applicable to other foreigners. In the event of their remaining in the territory they may preserve their allegiance to the Crown of j Snain bv makinc. before a Court of I of Record, within a year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of the treaty, a declaration of their decision to preserve such allegiance, in default of which declaration they shall be held to have renounced it and to have adopt ed the nationality of the ,territory in which they may reside. ''The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territory hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by congress. The inhabitants of the territory over which Spain relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty shall be secured in the 'free exercises of their religion. "Spaniards residing in the territories over which Spain, by this treaty, cedes or relinquishes her sovereignty shall be i rv oa 1 oa SUUJCUO 1 li U-UiLXWO uuij iivxa criminal, to the jurisdiction of the courts of the country in which they reside, pursuant to the ordinary laws governing the same, and they shall have the right to appear before such court, and to pursue the same course as citizens of the country to which the courts belong: "The right of property, secured by copyrights and patents acquired by the Spaniards in the island of Cuba and in Porto Rico and the Philippines and the other ceded territories at the time of the exchange of the ratifications of the treaty, shall continue and be respccted. Sparish scientific, literary and artistic works, not subversive of public order in the territories in question, shall continue to be admitted free of duty into such territories for a period of ten years, to be reckoned from the date of ratification of the treaty. / "Spain shall have the right to establish consular offices in the ports and other places of the territories sovereignty over which has been either relin quished or ceded by the present treaty. The government of each country will, for a term of ten years from the exchange of ratifications, accor to thed merchant vessels of the other country the same treatment in respect of all port charges, including entrance and clearance dues, light dues and tonnage duties as it accords to its own merchant vessels not engaged in coastwise trade. This provision may at any time be determined on six months' notice given by either government to the other. "It is understood that any obligation assumed in this treaty by the United States with respect to Cuba is limited llTT fll/i tiiC UUiC/ VI buc uvvuyavivu uj vuv United States of that island, but the United States government will, upon the termination of such occupation, advise any government established in the island to assume the same obligations/' EEYA2TS RESIGNATION. He Is Highly Complimented by His Superior Officers. Tbe war department Thursday made j' blic the iollowipg letter from Col. ' William Jenning^Bjyanj resigning his commission as a volunteer officer: Camp1 Onward, Savannah, Ga., Dec. 10, 1898. To Adjutant General U. S. A., Wa?h* ington. Sir: The dispatches fiom Paris announce that the terms of the tieaty between the United States and Spain have been fully agreed upon and that the, commissioners will sign the same as j soon as it can be CDgrossed. Believing that under present conditions I can be more useful to my country as a civilian than as a soldier, I hereby tender my re&ignation to take effect immediately upon its acceptance. * * Respectfully, etc., \Y. J. Bryan, Cpl. Third Reg. Xeb. Vol. Infy. SThg letter bears the following endorsements from the division and corps commanders under whom Col. Bryan seweoC First endorsement: '.Headquarters First Brigade, First Div., Seventh Corps. Dec. 10. Respectfully forwarded. It is with sincere regret that the First brigade should lose the services of so efficient an officer "W. H. Mabry, Col. First Tex. Vol. Infv., Comn'dg. Second endorsement: Headquarters First Division. Seventh Army Corps, Dec. 30, 1898. It is with regret that this resignation is forwarded approved. Col. Bryan's regiment, the Third Nebraska volunteer infantry, is in a high state of efficiency and discipline, and his efforts for its welfare have been untiring Loyd Wheaton. o_:_ n? n s it n? jjrig,. vjreu. u. u? v. uuuiiunuuiug. Third endorsement: Headquarters U. S, Forces, Camp Onward, Dec. 10,1898. Respectfully forwarded, approved. I deely regret that Col. Bryan is called on to tender his resignation. I concur in what is said in the foregoing endorsements. J. Warren Keifer, * ~f- Maj. Gen. Commanding. Fourth-endorsement* Savannah, Dec. 10, 1898. Having tinned over the command of the troops here to Gen, Keifer, I will not be prevented as Col. Bryan's former commander on the eve of my departure for Cuba from sajing I greatly regret that the colonel has decided to sever his relations with my Seventh corps, for our relations hive been very agreeable, and he has ever been most faithful and conscientious in all-duties confided to him. Fitzhugh Lee. Major General, U. S. V. Accepted, by order of the president R. A. Alger. Dec. 12, 1898, Secretary of War. The response to the letter was con- J tained in the following telegram, dated Washington, December 12,1898: Col. William Jennings Bryan, Third Nebraska Volunteer Infantry through corps commander, Savannah, G-a,: Resignation received and arcepted. H. C. Corbin, Adjutant General. A TESRIBLE ACCIDENT. The (Jiving Way of a Huge Tank in New York. r When dawn l'gl.ted- up the district of the devastated collapsing big gas tank in New York Wednesday morning I of the Consolidated Gas oompany a spectacle of ruin was presented. Twenty-first street was barricaded with twisted and bent iron stanchions, girders and uprights piled to a height of 25 feet. Twentieth street was filled with bricks, household goods and tiwbers piled high in one promiscuous mass. All night long hundreds of men worked assiduously to discover bodies that might be in the ruins. The basement of the furniture factory of Henry Fuldner had six feet of water. Three men were on a raft which had been floated, searching for the body of the engineer, who is missing. Pious Baum was in the basement when the tank swspt away the rear wall of * *1 V TT* _ T _ 1 U J tne DuiiQing. ms ooay was iouuu uuder a mass of debris. Seven others are missing. The tank that collapsed w^s about 175 feet in diameter and 160 feet in height. The iron supports over which the immense cables ran were about 200 feet in height. The iower tank, into which the upper fitted, was 25 feet in height and rested on a mason work pit. The pit was 15 ft et deep. The buildera wure testing the strength of the tank with water pressure. The workmen were preparing to leave the place when the mason work on the pit crumbled away like clay. It is said that there were eight millions of gallons of water in the tank at the time of the break. The steel plates of the tank were rent asunder by the pressure like paper. The great force of the water vented itself on the rear walls of the building?. Avenue A is all torn away with the exception of a part of the rear of the gas company's engine house. The masonarv brick were thrown into the street and piled into hallways of houses and buildings. Tremendous iron beams and uprights, swept by the water, were carried away down Twentieth and Twenty-First streets, to the river front. Th2 arms and legs of a man were found entangled at Twenty-First street. Six were Killed. A passenger train on the Florida Centra) and Peninsular railroad was wrecked Thursday afternoon near Madison, caused by a collison with cattle on the trace, although the engineer made every effort to stop the train. Six were killed as follows: E. H. Chandler, engineer; James Evans, colored, fireman; John T. Sullivan, of St. Augustine, attache to the army; Rev. S. H. Coleman a colored preacher, of Jacksonville; John A. Rhoados, ofPensacola; Alfred Mustin, of Chaires, colored. tuts -LUVJUJ 1JUS BUUXJ1. Tlie Pathetic Funeral of Captain C. E. Chichester. One of the most pathetic funerals, says the Anderson People's Advocate, and one that appeals to the hearts of every old Confederate soldier, and sends the blood tingling along his veins, was witnessed in Charleston last Friday week. It was the funeral of Captain C. E. Chichester, who, although a Northern man, and went to Charleston about a year before the war began, was an old Confederate captain and had died the day before. He had written " v . #s r ?_ * J 1 down minute directions ior nis iunerai four years ago, and they were tliat lie should be buried ' 'right under the shadow of the large soldier monument, the centre of the confederate plot,*gin Magnolia cemetery," an4 that "tl|e burial take place, ? convedieA, atithe close of the day, to terminate about sundown," and "that a salute suitable to "the rank of a Captain of Artilery be fired ?vet my grave after all other services are?over," and telling where his old Confederate captain's uniform could be found to bury him in and then comes the last, the tenderest, and the most touching injunction as follows: "Just as the sun is setting, and everything connected with my burial is finished, let my friend and brother, Mr. F. F. Whilden, or some other proper and competent person, step to the head of the grave, and with his cornet sound the 'Tattoo,' and then the signal, 'Lights Out!'" It makes the heart of an old soldier grow tender and his eye moist to read it. 'Lights out' in this world, but resplendent and eternal lights shining in the other world for the brave, gallant, loyal old soldier who had "kept the faith," and "was faithful onto cjjpath." He had loved the "bonnie blue flag" when first it rose, fair as the morning in all its dewey freshness. Fe had loved it, when, like the sun mounting the* heavens toward the 7pnith. it flnttftred in a sea of irlorv. ? ? ? J ? ? O " 1 and waved over many a victorious ? eld. He loved it still when its sun went down at Appomattox, and its precious. folds, stained with the blood of heroes, were furled forever. He loved it to the end, and was faithful to his trust Brave, noble old veteran, we send thee a soldier's salute. Let thy grave be the Mecca of every old veteran who attends the reunion in May. THE FREE MASOffS. A list cf the Newly Elected Grand Officers. The Grand Lodge of Free Masons held its annual meeting in Charleston last week. The following rrand officers were elected: Grand Master, B. J. Witherspoon,, Lancaster, S. C.; Deputy Grand Master, Orlando Shappard, Edgefield, S? C., Senior -Grand Warden, W. M. Whitehead,. Charleston, S. C.,* Junior Grand Warden, Rev. Byron Holly, Greenville; Grand Treasurer, Zimmerman Davis, Charleston, / S. C.; Grand Secretary, Charles Inglesby, Charleston, S. C.; Grand Chaplain, Rev. S. P. H. Elwell, Charleston, S. C. The following grand officers wera appointed: Senior Grand deacons, E. C. Secrest and J. M. Spratt; Junior' Grand Deacons, J. L. Michie and S. E. Moore; Grand Marshal, John Kennedy; Grand Pursuivant, W. M. Crawford; Grand Tyler, W. A. Winkler. The Grand Master named the following District Deputy Grand Masters: First District?W. G. Ma2yck, Charleston. Second District?G. M. Buckncr, Ridgeland. Third Distnct?J. R. Bellinger, Bamberg. Fourth District?W. A. Giles, Lancaster Fifth District?S. J. Watson, John- ' ston. Sixth District?T. E. Harrison, Abbeville. Seventh District ?T. F. Hill, Anderson. Eighth District?R. M. Wertz, Liberty. Ninth Dislrict?W. K. Grant, Green-. ville. Tenth District?J. W. Nash, Spar tanburg. Eleventh District?H. F. Gaffney, Gaffneys. Twelfth ' District?J. W. Ardrey, Fort Mill. i Thirteenth District?M. A. Bridges, Columbia. Fourteenth District?F. L. Zemp, Camdea. Fifteenth District?Louis Jacobs, Kingstree. Sixteenth District?W. E. James, Darlington. Seventeenth District?C. P. Quattlebaum, Conway. Eighteenth District?W. L. Glaze, Orangeburg Home Happiness. Probably nineteen twentieth of the happiness you will evfcr have you will get at home. The independence that comes to a man when his work is over, and he feels he has run out of the storm into the quiet harbor of home, where he can rest in peace with his family, is something real. It does not make much difference whether you own your house or whether you have one little room in that house, you can make that room a true home to you. You can people it with such moods, you can turn to it with such sweet fancies, that it will be fairly luminous with their presence, and will be to you the very perfection of a home. Against this home none of you should ever transAn 1/3 olwQTTC f JL VU OJUUU4V UA TT VHJ W l>AVW? VMVM other with courtesy. It is often not so difficult to love a person as it is to be courteous to them. Courtesy is of greater value and a more royal grace than some people seem to think. If you will but be courteous to each other you will soon learn to love each other more wisely, profoundly, not to say lastingly, than you ever did before.? American Messenger. A Railroad Horror. Eight men were killed and four injured at Winspeare bridge, near Corfu, on the New York Central railroad, Thursday. They were Poles, with the exception of John Warner, their foreman, wbo is among the killed. The men were engaged in shoveling snow, of i which there were numerous drifts on < the iine. < nii UiTUSES IT. Colonel W. J. Bryan's Platform Against Imperialism. A MOST LOGICAL PAPER. He Thinks The United States Government Should Treat the Philippines the Same as Cuba. Upon leaving his command at Savannah last week Col. W. J. Bryan, of the Third Nebraska Regiment, gave the following interview: "My reason for leaving the army was set.forth in my letter to the adjuntant general tendering my resignation. Now that the treaty of peace has been concluded. I believe that I can be more useful to my country as as civilian than a soldier." Col. Bryan then proceeded to the discussion of public questions, sayirup 4 The people of the United States, having rescued Cuba from foreign control, many now resume tile discussion of the domestic problems which confront * this nation and turn to the consideration of the nee questions arising out of the war. "I may be in error, but, in my judgment, our nation is in greater danger just now than Cuba. Our people defended Cuba against foreign arms; now they must defend themselves and their country* against a foreign idea?the colonial idea of European nations. Heretofore greed has perverted the Government and usedits instrumentalities for private gain, bat no* the . very foundation principles of our Government are assaulted. 4 The imperialistic idea is directly , antagonistic to the idea and ideals which have been cherished by the American people since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Our nation m!ast give up any intention of Entering upon a colonial'policy, (such as is now pursued by .European countries,) or it must abandon thejleflstrine < that governments derive their just powers from the rtrmRpnt, nf flip irnTArnM. ' 'We may believe that government* , come up from the people, or we may believe that 'governments come down to the people from those who possess the heaviest cannons and the largest ships, but we cannot advocate both doctrines. "To borrow a Bible* quotation, 'A house divided against itself cannot stand:: paraphrasing Lincoln's declaration, I may add that this nation cannot endure half Republic and half colony, half free and half vassal. Our form of government, our traditions, our preseat interests and our futurowelfare all forbid our entering upon a eareer -of conquest. . Jefferson has been quoted in support of imperialism, but our opponents must distinguish between imperialism and expansion; they most also distinguish between expansion that involves ns in the quarrels of Europe and the iOrient OThey must still further distinguish between expansion which secures contiguous territory for future settlement and expansion which secures us alien races for future subjugation. "Jerfferson favored the annexation of necessary contiguous territory on the North American Continent, but he was opposed to wars of conquest, and expressly condemned the acquiring of remote territorv" ' When asked how the colonial policy, could be prevented. CoL Bryan said: "Some think that the fight should be made against the ratification' of the treaty, but I would prefer another plan. If the treaty is rejected negotiations must be renewed, and instead of settling the question according to our own ideas we must settle it by diplomacy, with the possibility of international complications. It will be easier; I think, to end the war at once by ratifying the treaty .nd then deal with the subject in our own way. The issue can be pre sented directly by a resolution of Congress declaring the policy of the nation upon this subject. The President says in his message that our only purpose in taking-possession of Cuba is to establish a stable government and then turn that government over to the people of Cuba. Congress could reaffirm this purpose in regard to Cuba and assert iT ' 1 a. i.r _ tne same purpose in regara to me Philippine Islands and Porto Bico. , Such a resolution would make a clear-' " cut issue between the doctrine of selfgovernment and the doctrine of imperialism. "We should reserve a harbor * and a coaling station in Porto Bico and the Philippines to return for services rendered, and I think we would be justified in asking the same concession from ^ Cuba. ^ "In the cace of Porto Bico, where the people have as yet expressed no desire for an independent government, we might with propriety declare our willingness to annex the island if the citizens desire annexation; but the Philippine Islands are too far away and their people too different from ours to be annexed to the United Sk tea, even if they desired it." Col. Bryan left Savannah Tuesday for Washington, P. C., and will arrive there Wednesday afternoon. He intends to enter actively into the fight against the colonial policy. In fact it is evident that this was the main cause that led to his resignation. A Fatal Accident. ?r Engineer Arthur E. Williamson has for 14 years guided ponderous locomotives over peri" 013 places, and has always come home safe. But Wednesday afternoon he started out in his buggy on a business errand, and was brought home cold in death. His neck was broken by falling from his buggy within the corporate limits of the city. Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock he left home to buy some lumber for improvements upon his home. His family was much worried when the night wore away and he did not come back, for he was a sober man, and his absence under such circumstances was somewhat unusual. Thursday morning his body was found cold in death, and almost frozen, in a ditch at the foot of Lumber street, where it intersects Huger street. It is not known when his death occurred, but life had evidently been extinct for longhours.?Columbia State. r ' *>' c -