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TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NI<?HT THE DAT, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN. BY THOMPSON, SMITH & JA YNES. VOLUME XLIII.-NO. 22. IM A ZV . By J. Y. Jones. SPOKEN AT THE CLOSING EXERCISES OF TUE WESTMINSTER HIGH SCHOOL. \ - Mun had his origin in the South r r - y western part of Asia, where the orig inal seat of the human race has dis persed itself over the globe. In short, it was in Southwestern Asia where the first large mass of ripened humanity was accumulated ; and ; from thence it spread in all direc tions, until it filled Asia and Africa and overflowed and divided itself into three great human species-the Caucasian, the Mongolian and -the Ethiopian. These three races, inter niingling'with each other and spread- ; in? out into various countries and ; \ Jclimates?.cawtrtiite the" foundation! from whence all thc nations of the | world have come. The Caucasian being thc most prosperous and the j "race to which we belong, this is the one of which I propose to speak. When we look out upon this beau tiful v.-r.rid and behold the grand things that man has added "to her importance, we sigh with exclama tion, turn and look upon him as the ^jDO'.verfuI engine of prosperity and \ progress and a nucleus of civilization and knowledge. Let us reflect and see what he commenced with in the WS?y Imagine what he had when first pia.yd upon the earth, and to what a stupendous height he has risen, and we will comprehend what ? an- increasing ratio of progress he1 has made from that time until now. ? The Egyptens seem to have been : the most ancient people of civiliza- ; tion and were the first to make any marked progress. But to look upon : insignificant prosperity then: fast yielding millions to-day, ? we are filled with wonder to see the ; : great difference. Here thc people . of the United States have grown and i j are still growing to an almost fabu- j Vis, height.by which she forms one ? \ f the most powerful and prosperous j ; nations in thc world, tier sons of j ] patriotism restored her from beneath < the waves of tyranny, which, if had i not been done, she to-day would < " ave been a poor, dependent nation ; \ -<he patri"?sni of man we are ! j y one of the most happy people i j od's great united kingdom. The ! ] ?le of the United States enjoy i ?ay moro pleasure^an^ Maerty;j . ..'we should bo to j < our forefathers, who, with the help j of God, have bestowed such a bless- ( in?, upon us. Man has brought civilization from , ,?^8 state to a height that now l .ds shining in the face of the ' Yid as a perpetual sun. Ile has j ited literature from the sods of 1 ignorance to a destiny of pleasure, j : enjoyment, happiness and knowledge. . Ile has changed the mode of travel ing and trans]>ortation from the backs of camels and horses to our great , steam engines and electric telegraphs of modern progress. Ile has revealed to- the world all her important sci ence, and by this has enabled us to look into the interior of the earth and beyond the farthest known plan eU with an intellectual,scientific eye. in short, man has taken up tue pros crit}- of the" world in a low state of. pression and has lifted it to a tow-1 ring height of humanity. We now see man in the bloom of prosperity and progress. Let us : rn the question over and look at i with his sepals of prosperity and ogress closed and his sj ?ear of . downfall piercing the people of civili ation. While a whole nation is living in peace and the sun shines down upon -.?eaceful province some ambitious rit of some reckless man rises upon*1 ~t of war and directs its flow *>t, liberty and law upon his ->nd the expectation of a ? gdom or presidency in his ^auses all the Cruelties of ; .ridows and orphans to ' .acer their boats over stormy seas, j .d causes fields of blood of many an eminent citizen to be spilt. "Man was born to blunder." When I we look at him, wanting to rule the world and -can't rule himself, and wishing to be a guide after which '\e world ought to pattern ; T<ut5 he s only a target for enemies to shoot >t T- -VF?" by such deficiencies of 3 their ungovernable t caused Greece, the .ledge, and Rome, the nd the conquerer of "were once the most Tul and prosperous nations on i, to fall from their great height "lization, knowledge and art to rt- state of depression. Some of us praise ourselves too .eh.. It is well enough to look t for number one and to think m?thing of yourself, for if you do ot no one else is going to think nything of you. Bat there is a irait to zll things, and when you .?*..? this limit yon-are sure enough ocean of destroying waves """solate, alone, without -rt*"?ven the sympa rades. y it is to-day. Our *t would have us ?raised from the despondency that hangs over the South to day are more for themselves than for the people, and this course mnst be changed or else it will elevate a few j to princely fortunes and drive many into the hands of poverty. The only way of pre venting this is to expose those few to the waves of the ocean and let them share with us, who are ! being- washed down for the lack of means to build dikes against their waves. AU this is caused by the ill starred deeds set up > 2 man m order that he, himself only, may be lifted above others either to look down upon them with scorn or to smile upon them with nattery. It seems impossible for man to do right. They are quarreling and fussing from the school boy in the1 school room to the Senator in the j House of Congress; from the boot; black cn the streets to tho million- j rires tn New York. Now man is either an elevator or a depressor. Indeed, he has put rn ucl) in reach of science, but it is as Newton said after all his wonderful disco\ eries : '*I seem to myself to have been only' a boy playing on the seashore, while thc great ocean of j truth lies undiscovered before me." Advices from thc West during the j past week indicate that the Hoods in : '. tho Mississippi valley are the most, destructive that have occurred in the j past fifty years. Nearly all of the 1 streams in Kansas, Nebraska, Indian j ' Territory, Iowa, Missouri and Arkan- 1 sas an; high out of their banks and j ' working great destruction to the adjacent bottom lands. Throughout j: the flooded district as many as 300 ?1 lives have been lost within the past j ' week or ten days, and ''the destruc- J1 tion to property within a radius <Jf 1 twenty miles of St. Louis alone j1 amounts to considerably more than ' 55,000,000. The dispatches state ' ' that it is hard to give any definite 11 idea of the iloods. From the city of i1 Alton, on thc Mississippi, just Oppo- J ?ite the mouth of the Missouri, to j St. Charles is a distance of twelve jJ niles, and the whole country is cov- jc ?red with one vast Hood of muddy !1 .vater. The same condition of affairs j I ?xists fur many miles down the river * oward St. Louis, and there is no * probability that thc river can resume J ts nat-irai channel for several weeks. ? [n many places the swift current has ;1 vashed away whole farms, and it is ! lot thought that the river can ever i1 ?*~'"v?~ . . Vw ^ . - .. ...V.W?C -us original channel. Hun-;1 ?reds of families have been driven \ * rom their homes, thousands of acres 1 >f crops have been destroyed, and to j J ?dd to the otherwise beleagured con- j lition of the people, sickness has broken out to a most alarming extent. J The cry of distress has been raised in many localities, and funds are 1 ^ li being raised for the relief of the suf- ; ferers. The governor of Illinois and ; ' staff boarded a steamer at Alton last j: Saturday and made a partial tour of | ' the flooded districts with a view to ' ' calling an extra session of the Legis- j ?ature to make an appropriation for j i the relief of the people. Tents, I ' blankets, cots and other quartermas ter stores have been distributed in iargc quantities, (?tit there is no prob- j ability that the supply will hold out. j Congress has been asked for an appropriation for the relief of the . people along tho lower Mississippi, but it has refused to make such an appropriation. The Height of the Tallest Man. ! [Tit-Bits.] Turner, the ' naturalist, declared 1 that he once saw, upon the coast of j Brazil, a race of gigantic savages, one of whom was twelve feet in ! height. M. Thevet, of France, in 1 his description of America, published at,Paris ir? 1 f>75, asserted that he saw and measured the skeleton of a South American which was eleven ! feet five inches in length. The! Chinese are said to claim that in the last century there were men in their country who measured fifteen feet in height. Josephus mentioned the J case of a Hebrew w?ho was ten feet two inches in height. Pliny tells of j an Arabian giant, Gabara, nine feet nine inches, the lallest man in the days of Claudius. John Middleton, born at Hale, in Lancashire, in the time of James L, was nine feet three inches in height ; his hand vvas seven teen inches lon?; and 8?inche? broad, says Dr. Plott in his "History of ! Staffordshire." The Irish giant, ; Murphy, contemporary with O'Brien, ; was eight feet ten inches. A skel*> ! ton in tue Museum of Trinity Coi" j lege, Dublin, is eight feet six ?ncherl I in height, and that of Charles Bvrno i in the Museum of the College ol { Surgeons, London, is eight feet for* inches. The tallest living man- is j Chang-tu-Sing, .' the Chinese giant. His height is eight feet three' inches. The descendants of Chrisit-opher Columbus, who are to oe4ttvited to the World's Pair, were narae& as .fol lows in the United States Senate : "Cristobal Colon de Colon de Gorily Duke of Veragua, itarquis de Bar boleo, his brother; Don Cristobal de' Larreatigui, his son*- and their wives and children, if any.* 4- Put Yourself in My Place." A TALE OF THE PAST. [York Enterprise.] The following story may not pos sess the merit of being true to (hu man) nature as it too often exhibits itself in matters where self interest is concerned, but it has the higher claim to hist?rica) truth. Jas. L. Strain, Esq., of Union county, who sends it to thc Enterjirise, says : "It is a part of the history of John Bishop, the Revolutionary soldier, a sketch of whom you published a few weeks ago. The incident described took place in Chester county soon after the Revolution. A reproduc tion of it in your paper might inter est your readers, besides teaching a j salutary lesson." "I cannot wait any longer ; I must have my money, and if you cannot pay it, I must foreclose the mortgage and sell the place," said Mr. Merton. "In that case, it will of course be sold at a great sacrifice, and after all thc struggles I have made, my family will again be homeless. It is very hard. I only wish you had to earn your money as I do mine ; yon might j then know something of the life of a ! poor man. If you could only, in imagination, put yourself in my place, I think you would have a little , mercy on mc," said Mr. Bishop. "It is useless talking; I extended the time one year, and can do so no longer," replied Mr. Merton, as he j turned to his desk and continued ; writing. j ; The poor man rose from his seat 1 ind walked sadly out of Mr. Mer- j \ ton's office, his last hope gone. Ile j 1 iad. just recovered from a long ill- ' less which had swallowed up all the neans with which he had intended \ o make the last payment on his ' louse. True, that gentleman had j i waited one year, when he failed to j < ?nect the demand, owing to illness I n his family, and he had felt very j 1 mich obliged to him for doing so. j This year he had been laid up for j ' l?verai months, during which he|i :ould earn nothing, and all his sav- '. : ngs were then needed for the sup-11 >ort of his family. Again he had . ailed, and now he wouid again be 11 lomeless, ami have to begin the world i i mew. Had Heaven forsaken him j md given him over to the tender ( uercies of the wicked 'i j 1 After he had left the office, Mr. I ] Merton could not drive Tawn.v fr^jjpi lis thoughts Stat remark to which 1 . .. ,hc poor man in his grief had given J < itterance, "I wish you had to earn ? i four money as I do minc." ? 1 In the midst of a row of figures, j ? 'Put yourself in my place," would , 1 ntrude. : ] Once after it had crossed his mind, ; ie laid down hispen, saying: "Well, 1 [ think I should find it rather hard, j [ have a mind to drop in there this ? afternoon, and see how it fares with ; bis family. That man has roused my ? curiosity." About five o'clock he put on a: Errav wig and some old worn, cast : off clothes, walked io the residence of Mr. Bishop, and knocked at the | door. Mrs. Bishop, a pale, wear}-- j looking woman, opened it ; and the j poor old man requested permission : to enter and rest awhile, saying he j was very tired with his long journey, ! for he had walked many miles that day. Mrs. Bishop cordially invited him ; in, and gave him the best seat the room afforded. She then began to ? make preparation for tea. The old j gentleman watched her attentively. ; He saw there v.-"?s no elasticity in her j stej), no hope in her movements ; and pity for her began to steal into his i heart. When her husband entered j her features relaxed into a smile,: i and she forced a cheerfulness into her manner. The traveler noted it ? all ; and he felt himself compelled to admire this woman who could as- . sume a cheerfulness she did not feel i for her husband's sake. After the table was prepared there was noth ing upon it but bread, butter and tea. They invited the stranger to eat with j them, saying : "We have not much I to offer you, but a cup of tea will be refreshing after your long journey." He accepted their hospitality, and as they discussed their frugal meal, he led them, without seeming to do I so, to talk of their affairs. ' "I bought this piece of land," said Mr. Bishop, "at a very low price, and instead of waiting, as I should have done, until I saved the money to build, I thought I would borrow two hundred dollars. The ! interest on the money would not be nearly as much as the rent I was ! paying, and I should save something by doing it. I did not think there would be any difficulty in paying back the borrowed money. But the first year my wife and one of roy children were ill, and the expenses left me without the means to pay the debt. Mr. Merton agreed to wait anc%gr year if I would pay the interest. I did tbat. Th s*fear I was for seven months unab. \to work at my trade and earn anything ? of course whenpay day comes found, . and that is very soon, I shall again j be unable to meet the demand." j . ?But," said tne stranger, "will not figg, j??ferton wait another year, if yoq make all the circumstances knoM him?" "Nb, sir," replied Mr. Bishop saw him this morning, and he he must have his money, and sh be obliged to foreclose." "Ile must be very hard-heart replied the traveler. "Xot necessarily so," said Bishop. "The fact is, these men know nothing of the strug of the poor. They are men just all the balance of mankind, an am sure if they had but the fain idea of what the poor have to j through, their hearts and their pu would open. You know it has p; ed into a proverb, 'When a poor n needs assistance, he should apply the poor.' The reason of this obvious. The poor only know curse of poverty. They know h heavy it falls, crushing the spirit < of a man ; and, to use my favoi expression, they can at once ] themselves in the unfortunate on place and appreciate his difficulti and arc therefore always ready render assistance as far as they i able; and if Mr. Merton had t least idea of what I and my fara have to pass through, -1 think would bc willing to wait sevei years for his money rather than d tress us." With what emotion the strang listened may be imagined. A n( world was being opened to him. I was passing through an experien that had never been his befoi Shortly after the conclusion of tl meal, he rose to take his leav thanking Mr. and Mrs. Bishop fi their kind hospitality. They invite him to -tay all night, telling him 1 vas welcome to what they had. Ile thanked them and said, "I wi trespass on your kindness no longe I think I can reach the next villas before dark, and be so much furtiu cm my journey." Mr. Merton did not sleep muc that night. He lay awake thinking [Ie had received a new revelatioi The poor had always been associate in his mind with stupidity and ignoi mee, and the first poor family h had visited he had found far in ad i-ance in intelligent sympathy an real politeness of the exquisites am fashionable butterflies of the day. The next day a boy called at th cottage and left a package in a larg )lue envelope, addressed to Mi Bishop. t . ..^ ,r ? -^i?rSr?nT?p^vvr.s very lift when she took it; y mvelopes were associated in he nind with law and lawyers, an< mought that it boded no good. Sh< put it away until her husband cam< home from his work, when shi handed it to him. Ile opened it in silence, read its con tents, and said at once, "Than! Heaven !" "What is it, John?" inquired th< anxious wife. "Good news, wife," replied John "such news that I never hoped for or even dreamed of." "What is it-what is it ? Tell m< quick, I want to hear it, if it is any thing good." "Mr. Merton has canceled th< mortgage, released me from the debt both the interest and the principal and says any time I need any fur thor assistance, if I will let him know I shall have it." "Pm so glad, it puts a new life ii me," said the now happy wife. "Btv what can have come over Mr. Mer ton ?" "I don't know. It seems strang( after the way he talked to me yester day morning. I will go right ovei to his oftice, and tell him how hapoj he has made us." He found Mr. Merton in, and ex. pressed his gratitude in glowing terms. "What could have induced you,' he asked, "to show us so much kind ness?" j "I followed your suggestion," re j plied Mr. Merton, "and "put mysel: j in your place. I expect it woulc surprise you very much to learn thal the strange traveler to whom yoe j showed so much kindness yesterda} \ was myself." j "Indeed !" exclaimed Mr. Bishop, j "can that be true ? How did yoe ! disguise yourself so well ?" i "I was not so much disguised aftei I all, but you could very readily asso I ciate Mr. Merton the lawyer, with a ?poor, wayfaring - ha! ha! ha!' I laughed Mr. Merton. "Well, it is a good joke," said Mr Bishop ; "good in more senses thau j one. It has terminated very pleas ! antly for me." "1 was surprised," said Mr. Mer ton, "at the broad and liberal views you expressed of men and their ac tions generally. I supposed I had greatly the advantage over yon in means, education and culture; yet how crammed and narrow-minded have been my views bes'^e yours ! That wife of yours is an estimable ? wdman and that boy of yours would b?.-an honor to any man. I tell, yon Bishop," said the lawyer, becoming animated, "you are rich---rich .be yond what money could make yon. You have treasures that g?M * wifi "not buy.. I tell yourj-on owe me no thanks. Somehow I seem to haye l^ved years since yesterday morning. I b&ye got into a new world. What I learned at your house is worth more ihan you owed me, and ? am a debtor yet. Hereafter, I shall take as ray motto, 'Put yourself in his place, and try to regulate my actions by it." A Confederate Called on to D?lirer an Oration at the Tomb of Gen. Grant. BALTIMORE, Mn., May 24.-Col. Charles Marshall, who served on Gen. Robert E. Lee's staff during the late war, has been invited by the U. S. Grant post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Brooklyn, to deliver ar; oration at the Memorial Day exer cises at Grant's tomb. Col. Marshall has accepted and will leave Sunday j night for Xew York. Col. Marshall says : "I am very glad to be able to assist in honoring the memory of Gen. Grant, because I consider his service ! to the country, boin North and South, in the terras made at the surrender j ; of Appomattox are worthy of honor. | i [t rested with Grant at the moment] '. tbe Confederate forces were over-;? ?onie there, whether the North and .louth should thereafter assume the : .dative positions of brothers or of i conquerors and conquered. He had ' io one to advise, him, but, acting < ?pon his own lights, he made such i ;enns of surrender that the South- < ?rners went to thoir homes feeling < ;hat their honor !;ad not been < inpaired. The most, profound peace ] ?vas the result. Never has a war < )een brought to su^h an abrupt and i iomplete ending. Had he caused < bc Confederate forces to give up ' heir arms or required other equally ; < ?arsh terras of surrender, the result vould doubtless not have been thc i ;ame. Then when the government ? vi shed to try Gen. Lee, Gen. Grant < nsisted that the parole be not vio- i ated and threatened to give up his t ;ommission if the trial was persisted ] n. The trial, as everybody knows, i lid not come off. Politicians and i ion-combatants are the only ones ! J vbo have waved the bloody shirt ' s dnce the close of the war. Soldiers : ? m neither side have been guilty of 11 my expression cf ill will. In three j 1 nonths after Appomattox the armies j t >f both sides had disbanded. The j i 'allant men who fought on either : t ide went back to their vocations, j ? md only scars of war were left. I j ?tribute th* er-e?t^?- r"? wl '*ml' tion of good feeling to Gen. ? < [ and it is for this reason that I j < ay I shall be glad to be able to assist ; t n honoring his memory." j 1 The Rocky Mountains. _ [Nineteenth Century.] j I No description, however full and ; ' .doquent, can do justice to the scenery j >f the Canadian Rockies and British : Columbia. The human eye alone \ ian do so. The countless giant peaks, j clothed in everlasting robes ol snow, \ the glacier, waterfalls, lakes, rivers, valleys and pine woods which pass j before the gaze of the bewildered j traveler from Banff, in Alberta, to' Vancouver would make half-a-dozen j Switzerlands and leave enough of the j Alpine material and glacier wonders ; over to supply every other country ? in Europe with as much of the mar- j vellous and sublime in nature as would suffice for home admiration. \ Going down the enchanting canon j of the Fraser, one is puzzled which j to marvel at most-the variety and i beauty and wild extravagance of j scenic grandeur, or the daring genius of man as seen in the construction of a railway through a regiou where j precipitous but timber-clad moun-1 tains and roaring torrent were apparently intended by nature to ; reign supreme. Lamartine, in his "Voyage en Ori- j ent," writing of the effect which the first sight of thc ruins of Baalbec i made upon his mind, said that if a | language existed which would con vcy in a word as much as the eye ; could take in at a glance it alone j would enable him to describe the i views before him in a manner that would interpret his impressions of them to his readers. A language of this compass would be needed in order to give a true : conception of the five hundred railes I continuation of every possible com j bination of natural scenery along j which the Canadian Pacific railway i carries the tourist, from Banff, on j the summit of the Rockies, to Van ? couver, on the banks of Burrard Inlet. NASHVILLE, TEXX., May 27.-The will of ex-President James K. Polk was to-day declared invalid, and his home place, with his historic man sion and tomb, being about one acre in the centre of the city, will be sold and tr^a proceeds divided among fifty or more heirs-at-lajF, who are scattered from New York to Cali fornia. PresicVit Polk, although a fine lawyer, attempted to establish a perpetuity, and left his place to the State in trust for the use of the most deserving of the Polk family, and on this ground the will .was to-day set aside. The place is worth $50,000. .Some people imagine that the world stands still until it bas heard their side of the story. A Sectional Debate. COL. JOHNSTONE DEFENDS VHE SOUTH The Washington correspondent oj The Nexos and Courier, writing from that city under date of May 25, says : While the politicians in the Sen ate were struggling with the silver question the members of the House were fighting a phantom force bill, On the proposition to appropriate *1U0,000 for the colored man's department at the World's Fair a bitter partisan discussion ensued. Representative Johnston, of Indi ana, a young Republican who repre sents President Harrison's district in Congress, made a regular "bloody shirt" speech, with the probable inten tion of remindi .g the Southern dele gates to Minneapolis that it is their duty to stand by President Harrison, the champion of the force bill. Gen. Hooker, of Mississippi, made a patri otic speech defending the Southern people, black and white, and denounc ing the effort of the young n an from Indiana to revive sectional feeling it this late day. For some time there was consider lble excitement in the House, and a lumber of stormy scenes occurred. The more prudent Republicans con lemned the course of Johnston as mpolitic and uncalled for. On the ither hand it gave the Democrats an >pportunity to appeal to their Farra ?rs' Alliance friends, who are dis posed to drift away from the Demo cratic moorings. Thousands of cop es of Johnston's speech will be imme diately printed and distributed ;hroughout the Southern States for campaign effect. After Gen. Hooker was through ?vith the Indiana Johnston, Repre sentative George Johnstone, of South karolina, challenged certain state nents which his Republican . ..me sake had made reflecting upon the acople of the Palmetto State. Mr. Johnstone was allowed but three ninutes to speak, but in that brief ?eriod he delivered one of the most ?cathing rebukes to the Indiana Con gressman ever h ?ard in the House of Representatives. With considera te feeling in bis voice and gestures .hat could not be misunderstood the South Carolinian proceeded to arra"'-' he prot?v.%>f President F;,^?. v >aid he : ; "My c ,ue grar ?ountry lignity ; x> the fte termV House..' j - Repul Ame/ be ' " ,^.*?? wiici c E/xisls to-day a Republican adminis tration which would allow the gen t'eraan from Indiana, in the terms which he used, to become its spokes man. They are peacemakers, 'the sworn protectors of the liberties and rights of the American people, not disseminators of discord. But, sir, to show how fsa he has gone wrong, how far he is trespassing upon the courtesy of the Democratic House, and has permitted his viperous tongue to slander the people of the section that I represent, the State which I rep resent, I beg but a moment's time tc call the attention of the House to the facts underlying his words and tc give him and the country the trut history of that which he seeks tc detail. I challenge him, sir, herc and now in the face of the Araericar. people to deny that it was a Repub lican Supreme Court, composed of : Republican native Carolinian, ? Republican negro and a Republicar imported from the North, whicl determined the question of thc valid ity of the vote of South Carolina ii 1876. If that be so, and I challeng? him now and here to rise in his plac< and deny it, his slander, coming witl the venom that it did from hisser pent tongue, falls back with it malignity buried in his own bosom." Mr. Johnston, of Indiana : "Tba is, I understand the gentleman, t ! 'deny the allegation and defy th i alligator.' " i Mr. Johnstone, of South Carolina' ' "There is no alligator here ; I bea 'but the serpent's hiss. Ah, Mi j Chairman, permit me to state tha j the gentleman from Indiana, afte i having indulged in the bitterest vitu > peration against the Democrat! ' party throughout America, has bee I able to instance but one place, th 7th district of South Carolina, i which he says specifically that th rights of the colored man have bee subverted, and in the same breath i which he makes that statement h tells the country that at the time t which he alludes a Democratic Hons seated the Republican nominee upo the contest made. "One word more, Mr. Chairmai I had imagined that the judien office is a sacred one. I had imag ined that no Judge with the spirit < right implanted in his bosom, with broad conception of the judicial cha: acter, would permit himself to sit i judgment upon a case, not yet hean and to deliver a decree therein. Bi that is the position in which the gei tleman from Indiana- stands. He* a member of the committee on elei tions with a contest pending in- tl 7th district of South Carolina with i not a syllable of testimony. Yet! . before the committee, with the case ! unheard", he violates the sacred oath ! . he has taken and attempts in advance ? 1 to prejudice the case .and to deliver: ?' his decree. If that be the spirit that; ? actuates the gentleman from Indiana, ! if that be the sense of justice that is ! < ; implanted in his bosom, I do notu believe that even the Republican ? : membership of this House can com- ' I mend it, and I know that if any of j I the training usually given to Ameri-. i j can youth has been expended upon c ! him he will yet hang his head in 1 j shame for his departure from the cor j rect rule." [Applause.] ( While the South Carolinian was ! c j speaking his Democratic associates^ ?gathered around him and listened j t attentively. When he concluded il j there was a burst of applause on the ' s ; floor and in the galleries; which : ( ! showed that he had won the approval i; i of his Democratic friends and the j t ? unbiased spectators. Mr. Johnston, I c , of Indiana, made no attempt to reply ?j ; and some of his Republican associ- t j ates said he deserved the reprimand | s j so vigorously administered. j n Progress and Prosperity. ! f - [v : The congestion of money in the i n , great financial centers of the world ' has reached its limit, and now a ! ti ! . j ; reactionary wave is beginning to roll t I outward. i: Taris, London and New York i a j complain that* the money market is ! v glutted. The Bank of France has ii reduced its rate of discount to nomi- ! f : nal figures. The Bank of England g discount is barely 1 per cent, andie the accumulation of money has caused ! a i a lively demand for American securi- ! v ; ties, and there is a very active invest- ; ? mont demand. In New York last j a week the average rf.te for call loans j o j was about 1-J per cent, and loans for v i a year are quoted at from 34 to 4 j per cent on good mir:'' collateral, t I The drift of gold from this country ! s ; to Europe has stopped and it is not j 1< J likely that any more will go out this a ; spring and summer. I j Capital will not remain idle and jp j unproductive. It will seek invest/"r ;' ment and employment outside of tb' f j ruoney centers, and as th* S/--**-*? ' ?nie aT"*- -~-T ...... .-a*, o bcea?lly ? increased our crops of oats, wheat, j t j corn and hay, and our supply of j home-bred horses, mules, cattle and 11 hogs. ! i We have in the past decade ? increased our taxable values 75 per j ? cent, agricultural products 54 per cent, live stock 47 per cent, manu-;1 factures 12.9 per cent, mineral out put 867 per cent, frniis 100 per cent, : pig iron 108 per cent, lumber pro ducts 13b* per cent, and population 19.9 per cent. Then our State, county, municipal I and per capita indebtedness has I decreased. The commercial reports show fewer failures and reduced lia bilities. Despite the decline in cot ton, the failures and liabilities in the South are less* for 1892 than for 1891. Our average increase of per capita wealth from 1S80 to 1890 was 100 per cent more than in the New Eng land States or in the central West. We are now producing more pig : iron than the whole country turned ' out in 1870, and in ten years the number of our looms and spindles has increased 300 per cent, while the : South consumes nearly as much raw '. cotton in her manufactures as was consumed in the entire country in 18b(). Our wool manufactures have also increased nearly 300 per cent in ten years. These facts do not make it appar ent that existing financial conditions are just and favorable ; they simply show that the South has prospered in spite of a robber tariff and an oppressive financial system. That. we have done so well under disad vantages shows that with thc liberal legislation demanded by the Demo cratic masses this.section would leap into an era of flush times. But it is in the highest degree,' encouraging to know that we are i forging ahead. In the near future I the completion of the Nicaragua! canal, the opening of direct trade ! with Europe, and the shifting of the cotton manufacturing industry to t*?e cotton region will make our advance ment and development still more rapid. We have passed through the worst of our trials and struggles, and our future is just what brains, pluck and hard work will make it ! JACKSON, MISS.* May 27.-Ever since the adoption, putting into force the Mississippi constitution of 1890, its validity has been questioned., for it was not submitted to the people, for-ratification. The Supreme Court yesterday held that the constitutional convention was competent to put into effect a new costitution with out sn-bmissioir td the people. They Were Sea-SIck. HIE NERVE OF THE BRIDE ALONE SAVED THE MARRIAGE FROM FAILURE. [?an Francisco Chronicle.] A clandestine marriage took place outside the heads the other morning >n tho tug Ida AV. The groom was i Christian and the bride a Jewess. They took a minister with them, who lerformed the ceremony. The ?room s believed to be a resident of this ?ity, while the bride is thought to >e a resident of Oakland. This marriage at sea was a little mt of the general run. On Tuesday (vening a young man appeared on fission Pier 1 and wanted to char er the stem wheel steamer Grace forton to go outside the heads. He aid he had just run away with an )akland young lady, and that they nust be married right away. When old that the Grace Barton could not ;o outside, he appeared very much lisappointed and endeavored to get he Ida W. Capt Dan James dis uaded him from going to the sea at light, as the bar was breaking. Vfter a consultation with the pros lective bride it was decided that the redding should be deferred until le.vt morning. Promptly at 9 o'clock Wednesday lorning the bridal couple boarded he Ida W. They were accompanied ?y the groom's sister, her husband nd a tall, slim minister. The bride fas good looking, short and plump. >he was of dark complexion and her eatures were of the Jewish cast, die appeared about nineteen years ld. Her dress was snuff colored, nd she wore a small hat. The groom about medium sized and nicely Yessed in a black suit. He did not p] ?car over nineteen years old, and ?ly the faintest sign of a mustache ras visible on his upper lip. There was a pretty good swell on he bay, but the wedding party in isted upon remaining on deck, and scated themselves on a big hawser t the stern of the tug. As Point Sonita was neared the tug besan to 'itch and roll. When directly be W y?m S?rth and Sorr* " The brother-in-law seemed to stand ;he ordeal quite well, but thc pros active groom wilted. "Do let us ;urn back, Captain," said he ; I can't ;tand this any longer." "No, we will not," cried the bride, ;<at least not until we arc married." "AU right, my plucky girl," said Capt. James, "the marriage goes." The tug had reached the three leagued limit, and was slowed down, with her head on the high sea run ning. The minister pulled himself together, and the bride attempted to rise, when a lurch of the tug threw her across the c "tn. The groom also started to rise, but fell back with the exclamation : "I can't get up ; my logs are in thc- way." Ile got on his knees, and thc cere mony was performed with celerity and the ring slipped >>n the bride's ringer. The tug ?as then headed for port. The bar was very choppy c in, and thc bridal couple were very sick. The bride was the first to recover on getting inside and was very loving, petting and carressing the groom and doing all in her power to bring him back to himself. The bridal party was landed at Vallejo street. Sioux CITY, IOWA, May 27.-Gov. Boies arrived hereto-day in rcspo;:^ io a request of tho relief comm::: ec, and after investigating the flooded district resolved to issue a proclama tion inviting the people of Iowa and the country generally to contribute for the relief of the distressed peo? plc. The proclamation will be sent out from Des Moines to-morrow, and will state that *200,000 is needed for this purpose. Two more bodies of drowned people were recovered this morning. It will undoubtedly surprise many. : persons to learn that the nursery or ; floral interests in the United States \ now reach a value of nearly $42,000,* ! OOO and claim an. empire of more i than 170,000 acres. 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