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_-L. _Shr_ -_ 4tIII VO.XIX. P~ICKE~NS, S. ('.; TIIUHASDAY, FEITA~ItY 27, .890.NO2. A CONVERT To DAVIS. JA M h'3 RIE:PATH, A BOLITIONIST ANI) UNION MAN. I;.nmarkablo U'terance" Itont n sttprae $,urcer--'t'ho Inpit?n?tvt' niity of the Con;i:d,rnte Ex-i'r'etsf-t tt -No itebel ort 'i't'nttor-The Catse oC ti eo ^out I ren,-uted in a Nutehell. New York World. 1)uNVER, Col., Fei> 19.--- "Neither Rebel nor Traitor." Writing with this for a subject, Prof. .tames Redpath, in the Commonweal h, say of Jeflerson Davis: "I spent nesrly the tL tire summer of 1S89 as a guest of feaivoir House, the home of the iate .Jeffersou Dty is I was in his company i ,r from six to ten hours every di'y during the whote time of my visit. l lit i' g that period we talked of every imu ortt'nt event in his long and eventfui hie, and discuss ed almost every is-ue ietweon the North.and South. My 1'sition enabled and autlhoriz-! me io : ;k questions andtl to introdut e t"pi::s w hich other vise it might ha+ve bcn ungracious, to say the least, or in ba form, as the kites-, phrase <:, o reser ' in the home oft he ex Prerhlen t of the Confederate taites by and Northert; writer, especi ally one who, .ike my self, had been an Abolitiontst of the mat radical sel' : from his earliest w :nhood-a fact weil known to mv voa rah'e host. "I first met Mr. Davis in tie suan mer of t888. Mr. Allen Tliorudike Rice h .d detirmined to 1r CparO as a companion volume to his teuiniscen ces of Abraham Linco'n, + a sort of (.onftderate supplement, a volume of RIeinis ences of Leo and . tonewall .Jackson. Having con' 'Iced him itha. it would be imp.asib! to secure the contributions he tei't from fa mous SouthenIers without Mr. Davis's co-operation, I was conm issioned to visit Beauvoir ndul secure and to ob tain one or two historical : says from hinm for the North American ;eview, of which at the time I was th" :anag ing c.ditor. "Well, 1 reached Beauviot i'i re tl:ained there about a week. bet"re I b.l ttcen with Mr. Davis threet days evir"y prceonceived idea of hi._ :terly atnd forever disappeared. Nobody doubted Davis's intel rctual capacity, but it was not his meniul power that most impr'1-se(d me. it wt- lilt good ness, first, of all, and then hi:; intellect uad integrity. I never s:W at old man whese face bore more eiplhatic evi (ence of a gentle, refined und beiig tant character. He scconi' to ime the ideal emhodiment of ,wretness and light. His conversa+ i. : bowil that he had 'charity for ali t:t : malice to 'aid none.' I never h:_ r. i h'ni utter ai unkidl word of any m o, ad he .,poke of nearly all of h w :r' famous - opponlentas. His w a' could best h' :l.cril)e'l as gracio :.-, so expui-itely re.L:ed ,so courtly yet. heartwairi. The dignity of most ofour public metn .ften remin1; one of the hod-carrier:, 'store suit' it is so evidently put oo ,al ill fitting. Mr. )avis's dignity was as natul ::iid as charming a-; the per f time of a ros--the fitting expressi.m ot' a srene, benligi and comely n'oral natm ite. IIowever haudsome he :.ay have been when excited in bat f or dlebate---and at such times, I was told, he seenel an incarnation of ih: most, poetic conceptions of a valiant, knight --it sur'ely was in his owi t home, witi his fa nily and frinds ai'riiid him, that lie wias s:-en at his best; and that I-est wa~s t he high~iest point 0f grace arid r'elinreen. that the Southern '.har'acter has ever each ed. Mr. Red path tells o' Iris greo t iond- (l shin for Jeff'erson D)avis, ami; con tinuesc : ''Piut with this slight-aid inatequiate exIpresSioni of my afl'em;ion for Mr'. l)tv%t, I mnust now r'est c mitenut, in Or' tder 1(o slate as c'lerily an.d ter'sely as I matty whly thre oid Co.:mier'ate chief.. Lain never'i 'r'epentedl .ind why he never iegardedl him. . as cither~i a rebel or at tirai 0or: hm scotuted suchr titles., hencycr r'pphe)trd to hipnse.lf or to the Souther'' people, 's a prioof thatt t e utterer of t beon wa,u ignorant of nonsti iutjinal law and oi t h e truie na tuare of' t he F'edeiral Uii, "'I retur tned to Beauttvoi :.adt( r'ermain u'd tl hree- or four 1 mionth s a sisting M.r.. Da)v is iun p)reparing ai Sh n i Ilistory of th e Con federat e States. A fter the last pages oft that woi'k (n'ov ini piress) ham pre'; at e for the same pubtl is:hers an ex inded auitobiogr'aphy if I wvould1 rer mi. in to assist, himi. lie ha: d not pro etLened hiar with his life before business r'eciilIed mne Northi. Althnoi'g I rec tur'ned in ai few weeks it, was t oo late, as in the mean time Mr'. D avis had visit ed his plantation at lBriarfield wh'lere hei cautght the marlarial fever that enided ini his death. "Ini ordler to assist Mr D)avis wit-I the least friction andi( los itf tm, i b,ecame necessary at the begirnning o imy woi'k th0t I should clearlIy tuder st rand the Staute Righits doctr'imi as tok by thle C on feder-ate leadter'. M~Ir. D)avis Ii herefoie, gavet me such of his writ ingst on the topic as embodicel his per sona:l vijews andi also othier a rgtuieri t hat lhe approvedl. In addition t.o thesi doeiuments I had many arnd lonig con versaitvins with Mr'. D)avis antil 1 fiel corn pet eni t, to state the( Souithieiri theor;' without, ainy doublt as to the cor'r'ect ne'ws of may uniderstandiing of it. It tiu lpapetr I will piesenit conly stu ch view~ ii Mr'. D avis himnself min tani nend, B it. understood 0( thait thle lamnuage oil1 ofI wliat f')llo ws is inme; th~e st atementi ire t hose of Mr. Davis ''A traitoir is one who violatt iis alliegiance tan P betrays his .ou: "A rebel is one wvho revolt- froi t,be coiuntry to which lie owe; ta;leg No)w, fr'ori tbe Southern pomt <iI view, noi secessionist, violated hnis a~ le'giancee or betrayed his count.ry b< cause lie held that his allegianice V. dure to his Starte, and he was loyal I hiis Mtate in followidih its fortunes aft< It withdrewv fi'omn the Union. Of cour underOi this def iiition the Secessioni enourd n'ot he a rebel because lie miai State, and 'sovereigns cannot he reb els. A citizen's allegiance to the federal government comes only through his al legiance to his State, for the federal government was only the agent of the States which formed it, and they never surrendered their severeignty to it. "What, then, is the true nature of the federalunion? If the fathers in tended to create and did create a na tion, then it follQws without dilspute that the Coufederates were both rebels and traitors, for they certainly did fail in the ir allegiance to the federal government for four years and the; certainly were rebels against its au thority. But if the fathers did not create nor intenl to create a Nation but only a Federation, then the States that seced ed only exercised an inherent right of sovereign ty-'i a withdrawing from th e Union they had voluntarily entered, and the only question that remains is rather a moral than a political one woro they justilied in withdrawing? Practically, such a question can never be considered, for if a comnun ity has the right to secede, it must also he the judge of its necessity. The power that holds the whip by the h tn,ile never does recognize the need of the groatml_ and kicks that comie from the body that stands at the other end! "Mr. Davis m:naintained that. the vin dication of the Suuth rested on these two considerations-their riehtful power to secede and tho cau e t hat justified the exercise of that power. "I confess that while his argument in favor of that right seemed to t e ex ceedlingly strong, yet 1 do not see the same ."- :', his statement of the justiticato , its exerciso But. then, I Wis at a ne other entd of the whil and I justiftied .John Brown.'' Artic'e X., an atmendment of the Const at ion, declares that: The p owers not ci"kgated to the Unitet States by the ('.nstitution nor prohibited by it to tho tie are re served to the tates resetively or the peoPle. ''This amendment wo:; one of the conditions on which the Const.itu tion was ratified. It clcarly shows that sovereignty remained With the States." 'The writer states the Cons.-t it ut ion would not have been ratified by the majority of the States had it nut been for the assurance that this ame,dmment wouhl be aslopted. The stai taken by the Southern leaders is (lescribed as follows: Hr. Davis submitted as a just i leation of the withdrawal of the Southern States ini 1SS6: "The destruction of the ialtiance of power which existed when I he Con sti tution was adopted, and subse,<ii eat legislation for sectional adviu e rather thlan the general welfire, t gether with gross and persistent viola tions of obligations which the ;t ates had assumed in the formation :. the compact of Union, adding to tie :sing hostility shamefully displayed and ctl minating in invasion, which tre. ted the feeling that the fraternity in which the Union was founded I isd cc ,esd to exist-that the Union was was no long er one of the heart.'' ''Vre the Sceessionists, thcn, t ree to the faith ontce deliv.red to the State? May be? And yet, risght here, it seems to me, is both their best. de fense and their weaked point. No live race consents for vet y :.n- to he ruled by dead men. Eaei neratt ion manages to rule itself-i UI by the letter of the law or or a t i constit.u tion thet, by amlendtmens ':o cotstitu tion ar . revisiont of cret d! I niever muet, ansy puic man who s eveiec Ledl theI (Constitutioni as Mr. D)avis reverenced it. '"Lest aniy foreignmer should read1 thlis article let mue say tor htis beniefit1 that there are two Je(l'ersoni Dav ises in Americant history-one is a consir ator', a rebel, a traitor, and the 'Fiend oif Andersonville' he is a mtyt ht evolved from the hell-smoke of' cruel war--as pulrely iminaiitry a person0tage as Me phlistop)heles or t he H1ebrewv D evil: the other was a str teuam wit hx clean hands and piure heart, w ho served his people faithtully from budding manli hood to hoary age, wvithoto. thIoughit of self, with unbending int &rityv awl to the best of his great abilit -. lhe was a man of whom all his counstrymeni who kniew htimt personal ly, without, dlistinte tion of eteeod piolitical , are proud, and1 prJoudi that he was thteir countriyman51.~ LOT1 I'ElY'S I)ESIPEl(XITlE EFFT )ltT. WiItinig to 1ny th il ch trtt of' i,,nuisinn,,, 'or a New'.. I,raense 4 Se d.i New Ottuus s, Fet. 19. ---iTie Lis~ i ania L)t tery Comatpatny i sti mating5 a dIes pierteit effort ti retaoin its cor-porate tle. it h,u faiild to secure a eihut er froni Nmth D i akotas, and its t;ex't movi, it i satir. will bie ani enOoou bri itbe to the Lsouisiana L4egistaturte for ta reneiw. of its preisnt chml ter, wvihih wil~ expire t w years biene i tiropositions will lbe t< fromu $11,000.000 to a t2,000,000O. Tb<s flottery is eairninig $2/50,000 a mth,il mi -$'3,000. 000( per year, net. Many priami nesit 1Inuisiaianss fear that the biribi mtay be accept ed. - T14oSpyOu s,t Geop.in. ' ATLrANTrA, Feb., 28.-Ani exusirsiot will leave D)ayton. Ohio, on Feb. 2-I for G eor'gia, cosmposedi oft resreoSnt a - Stivye farmeirs andi biness1155 im oif thei , Miami valley. The party will mnake: tu of inssyection oft lie agriclt.uiral manufarin isg and fruiit -grow insg se St ions ot the Emtpire St at e. C A telegrani fromi (anrijoharie, N. Y. Y samys: Ja50m Askell, WV. .J. Askell asi SBeirnharid t, ( ill ami of t he Jiteg anmt Fran k Lest ii's withI thei r fa mitlies ait Sseveral (it tiers. I eft htero ini a spiecit car ti is otig I->r a tisur of t he Houst I at the invitatiosi of (Governor J . I SGordon of Georgia, Noverntor Gordo will accosmpassy the patrty in their v'is to the imp lortantt cities. RsA, sAumnt, N'. C., Feb. 20. --The Sr I, ? reme (Court has deniied the moti tr to grant tin arsrest of,jusdgment in Il toecase of (Cross and White, the Italeigs at bank forgert. T1herefor.e they wi n- have to serve otst theotr respsectit tornas on the County road. ARP'S PHILOSOPHY. BILL TALKS AIOUT TE MISCNIEV OUS LITTLE ONES. Tho Dli,renic, letween Misckeevousuoe mii 3IItutunePn --Sompe Rrcuirk on tii1 l'oculinritie o' loyr. 'There is a wide difference betwcen mischief and m nouness. But mischief is close akin to it, when it injures any body or hurts their feelings, or breaks the rules or the laws. Most all boys love a little mischief. I used >.i . a good deal. I remember when we thought it ever so snar t to slip around at night and change gates and the signs, or s retch a rope across the sidewalk, or tie a goat in the school house, or put one man's horse in another man's stable. I have worked mighty hard at such things and I did think it was just as funny as it could be, but some how or other I don't see a bit of fun in it now. I won der what is the matter with inc. My children inherited mischief, I reckon, and so I 1evo to excuse them, but when my little girl thoughtlessly pulled the chair away just as I was about to sit down. aucd I Cie down with a shock hat jarr2d the house, and my feet flow up1u.nd knocked the lamp off the table, I was mad, very mad until I looked at her and sow how tightened she was, for she had n 't con uted on uch a eatastrophe. So I tempcrid d1oW, picked up the bro ken fragmnrurts and never said a word, and was a minute before anybody spoke. Mrs. Arp was the first to break the awful siler.ce with an explosion of laughter, and that started the children, of course --all but Jessie, poor little thing, who cane to me arid said, " Papa I didn't mean to do it.'' 1 knew that she didn't, but my offended dignity was at stake, and I got in another lamp and went" to writing. I wanted to laugh as much as they did, but 1 wouldn't. That was four years ago, aad Mrs Arp. is not done laughing at it yet whenever it is alluded to. I believe it would do her good to cee ime bump the floor and kick over a lamp about oncu a week. I was ruminating about, this because my boy came home from school ahead of tie ;,d uat down before the tire looking solemn and sad. I was writing by the window and wondered what was the matter. For a while he never moved or ypoke, but suddenly he looked up at me and said, a pitiful voice: ''Papa, waa you e' er suspendcd 1" "Suspended I" said I, ''I dlon't understand you---sus penlei how?'' ''Suspended from school,' said he. "\Vhy, no," said I. "What makes you ask that question ?'' lie choked up, and said : ' Well I'm -uspnmdcd, and so is 'Tomi Miller.'' ''Is it possible' said 1, as 1 laid down my pen. "What have you been doing?" Ta :n he told as how he a a.1 T>u i: Lat > t.i: wing water Y.t .ia tnei while tFu rrofe,or was in the other room and how he inissed Tomn and the whole dilper ful: otru k the blackboard and put out the sum and ran down upon the floor, and the professor came in just at the wrong time and asked who did it, and suspcndcdi him and Tom, and told them to t:.kc their books and go home. 1 felt greatly relieved of course, for I saw that it was mischief and net mean nec, but I never said anything and looked solemn and resumed my writinig. Now, it distresses my children to see me distressed, and that is a good sign. As long as a boy loves his parents, and is troubled when they r.re- troubled there is hope of that boy. After a while he said : ''Papa what must I do obout It?'" "'I dlon't kniow"' iaid 1, '"Util I see the professor. Not long ago we had tip a case (if suspenslionii, and the hoard retu edl to take the t. >y back, I don't know what they will do with yout and Tom. I expect yeu have bee n trying the profes sor's paitien ce for some time. You tire not bad boys and are very good] scholars, bitt your dlisposition to isc~hief has t roubledt him aind set, a badl exam'ple. The o(t her boys are t al king abotut you, and( soy thit the pirofessor i3 partial to you and 'Toim, and I'mi af[raid t hat lie is; I am] glad thlot he has sitopped( yotur mi chiief." Ilout ii camne out tall r ighit. Thel boys were inot 50-pen ded , and the y w ent back tIhe ite xt miorio and apologized, and now everything is calm anid serene. ch boys imulst cofo rmi to tho rtiles. If one boy thm ows water, all the boys have the right to throw water, and that wouldni't do, anrd a senosiblIe boy k nows it. Let nv.:ry boy net tupon priincipIle. TIney tiay be temripted to tell a story to get out of ai little serape. Buit it is better ~to tell the truth. The trth is the thin', the biggest thing I know of. If I ha3 ia great buisiness5 that wouhill give - em ploymeint to ai thousand'i( boys, and I had to go abouiit and( sel'ct themIi, thet first luest in I wvouhld,a k w on d be "DI oes lie always tell the truth r' I wish the bass and girlIs could icalize how miueh 7.nxie they give uts. ILiee are 4100 goiing to sc:huool ini ouri little townt, and( in a few y earsI they have got to take otur ) places andi make the lowa and 'i the bnsiness andl inake uip society at.d1 estallishi thu imoials of the comninuuiity, andu uplont their conductit the happtliini t an. good inine of the peo(ple will eepend The young men1 of this generatioin wil have to solve lie race problem and the other pirob) lems1, and1( upon them will deCpend( the ex istene of the govornmnt . \Ve think about this a good deal, for it, affects out chiildlein and grnd childreni. It trou tiles us to) Enktl abiout wars aind anarchy and( rivolt' i>n and1( aou:,' tILLn:4 and the rih ot,.Kting richler and( the poor I pioor. I know 'hat it will be all rigit Iif theo peCople w till do i ighit - if the chi! Iren grow tillwithi goodi morals a.d OOdl prnils We have got goon schoo13 ll amost every where in the South. SI know we have iiin:atersville'. I an proud of thle professors aind the teacheri and the ppIls. WVe are a long waysj ttheadI of I 1 onl. IThe re are no0 liir piockets in) oilr schools- nit kick inrg o'I tealchers, no haind l f forty thtieves. Wi a havy hit i tit tecache rs and thle mnora o traiin~g goes righit alonug withI the schoo hi book c. Thle boy or the girl wvho gets nm 11 more ceducat ion t hi.n can be haid in ou o schiools htas the [oun dation laid for an' beginner in life. AN ATTACK ON GRADYY. Au Explodet Ntory Itevnnu,dI About F.x Menntor Bolb 'roomntbM nid tbes RColl of Ill binvo.. Bos'roN, Mass., Feb. 20.-In his lee txre at Fremont Temple yesterday, the Rev. Joe Cook made an attack upl)on t.he dead editoi , Ilenry V. Grady. He said: "I think Boston ought not to cheer treason. Mr. Grady was a man of genius. and ho is now in his grave, but his principles are not in their grave, and therefore I take the occ. sion to say that since a Southern Sen ator threatened to call the roll of his slaves on Bunker Iill, :othing has ''1 said much more atrociously in Sulilig to Nort"hern sentiment. than the aflirmnation of the Soutthern orator before his Boston au-lience, that even if the nation were I l'tlL forth its whole military power, the South would yet trample ont the neVet par agraphs of the Constitution. That is calling the roll of sla m*; on thet heights of the political Coast i ution itself, and the slaves are thore who chetish such political sent imet."A A BOST1ON MAN'.3 SWVALLiOW. A lhr l-14uMh1nuu Iiutlitd Iliiui, but I FreanchY Wton,ldn'( Sl4undi 1. 'Th're were a nunber of us in one of the l.ondont taverus made famnous by Dickens, when a great big fellow tlouchled in and made hinself very dis ngreabIlc wilt hisi mouth. One of our party was a man from Boston, a1id in yoie way or other he and the big man oamo to exchange words. The flr t we heard of the row the big man was saying: tYou Yaikees is grea; on the brag, and that's all you can do.'' "Vell, 1 dunno," rel'lied Botou. "But I do. , h1en (lid you ever 'do a blooming, blar':tod thing?"' "How about 1776?'' "Nover heand of it.'' "flow about 1812?" "Never he,u,1 of it.'' "Did you ever hear of Bunker 11111'?'' '-I have sir. That's w'he re 61 red coats licked the life out of '4,000 brag ging YankGoa!" ''1 gu1es not."' "Not! l)oes you dare to dispute the Liverpool Kid?'' "You'd hotter read what history says." "I havo done that 'eru, you bloom'. lug idiot, and it says as how all you Yankees run at the first lire! )on't it now?" "I never heard that it did.'' ''Don't it say that?" 'lhe big fellow had pushed U) his sleeves and put up his fists, and it was Plain tnat a row was on hand. IIe was lig 'nough to eat up two such men as Bo on, while he had ftiencls to look oat for the rest of us. Our companion therefore took the most prudent coulr:'e,and acknowledged that history might say so and prcbably did say so. This satistied tho big fellow, and lie turned away and glared at a Frenchman, also a tourist, who had como in later. After a loug stare he walked up to the Crapc'o and shouted "Blast yer blooling parley vouts, but we've always licked ye out of yer bOOts on land and sea!'' "You speak von big lie!'' shouted the Frenchman, hot in a ninute. ''What? Call The Liverp)o Kid a liar to his face?" "Aye! and I shall now give you von awful beeg licking!'' ''Johnny"' got out of his coat ill a ,jiffy , (lanced ar'ound with 11 is hiands upl, anld to ou.ar utter' astonishment the Kid wenlt r'ight dlownl into his boots and slunk out. of' thle room, hlaving 1no more pluck than a hien. We sat there for' live tminutes before any one .spoke. Thlenl it was thle Boston man who said: "Just think of it! I cani lick six fel lows like that, hanty Frenichman, and yet that big dutffer' made me swallow two wars for' independence r.nd Bun ker Hill 011 top of them1i.-New Yorik II1nga(gesI alIos riar a i(ear. 'The Charlotte Chronicle states thait Mr. ThomInas A. 1>1dison has1 en1gnged a sulit of roo'ns in that city for a year. Tlhey wilt be for the tise of himnself aind his experts whenever they shall be t here, during the niext twvelve mionIths to pursue their miii ill' iovestigations. among tlte mines of Southwei'sterni dorthI Caroli CU, which121 lhe dleclare' is thle richest minecral region on the globeL. 'lhe oil ('omlpanay ne.fponsibuility. N.isnvi sui, Tenn., Feb. 20.- Ini the cii cui' couirt Pe ter Swanii was awardedd thle sum of $i 2, 000 dama~ges algalinst the Staindard 0if Company, in thle suit which has oeClliedf the~ a;tention of thi coAIlt for a week. 'The lin tiff sumed for the( full extant of thle danges, amounting to $l-1,00t0, sustained August '2;1, 1889, byV the de(stru:t ion of his marble yards in the nort IIw 51erni suIbulrbs of t he city, b)y thle burning of the st alldairdt (it Coim - painy's estabbshmillent. There is aniot her suit against t he oil uompaniy for the de strmucti on of thle bond,1ed w arehioue of C.X S. Pears, from the saime caiuse, inI the~ sum1 (If $ 15,000O. (IHlARLESToN, S. C., F"eb. I8. -A double1 triagedy ocurred -he(re last night. Napoleon I ,aval called at thle st,are of B. Fehlmann11 & Co., andl asked Ito see his wife, who had been separated ~4 fromi him f'or soime timeal. WhIen theo wvoman came down Laval shot heri, andl thlin enlterlintg the1 stor'e shIot ldmhuiannI. 81he has sin1ce d ied'. F'ehlmanna wvill recove'. Mirs. Lava'l w~as at ulece of Febbann, mind had bieon living with his fiamily for soe time. Onl beinig arrested, Laal stated that it was merely a family affair, and that there was nothing more to b)e saidI about it. 'The ltall'i hlas creaitedl a great solisationi, as the plarties a wellI kniown'I andI proinel)int inl bus13 en~ andl society circles. -T'lhe Rumssian Nihilist Stepnliak writes al11 his wvorks in English, and tIhe' are revised by William Westhiall, FLOGGED) WOMAN. 110W MAI)AME SIGIDA DIED UN )Elt' TIlE CZAR'S KNOUT. TCht."e Oither lFeuinlu Pr'onerN, FenrIina I.er Fute. ('ouiftit Mittlie--Sor row A laca Ieves TIwo llen to I)enth--RFunnt: At rocit es. Provided with a cale dispatch of in troduction ftron (ieo. Kenan, the cel ebrated Siberian traveler, the London agent of the Associated Press called on Serguais ktephnian,t.ho well known writer upon Russia's political and ser ial conditions. Stephnian was aske'l whether he could give any informa tion in regard to the outrages in the p)oliti(al prison at Knra in Eastern Si heria, rumors about which had re contly reachod the public press by way of Ihe Russian colony in Paris. ONLY A 1i1NT (H TitH TRA(ED)Y. i tephnian stated that the reports .lready pultlished gave only a hint of lie horrible ti agedy enacted at Kart. Perfectly tirustworthy information, lie id, had been recived in cipher let ers that :-unceedtied in getting through .o I'aris anl London from exiles in I:astern Siberia. These letters, which re nothing but mlleagre scraps of pa= per, tell the story of the recent horror rnly in its main outline, but one w ho {uows about, Siberian lifo doe5 not leed a circuiistantlitl recital to tun leiestand the cruelty of the (liscipiinte tnd the agony of uflering of which his horror was the cuilination. The ill deti us of the dre'tdful story ci ,ot be long now in reaching the W1es era world, coming so so.n after the )ublicity given to tao Yakutsli atro iiy. It can hardly fail to deepen the cnse of horror already felt by the iviiized wor'l at Russia's treatment >f polii ical olenders. )NE wVOMAN FL.( aEDTO 1Ci'TH AN1) H'i1REEK3UIC(I)E. The facta so ftar i'eceive(d arc as lol lows: Mladame Sigida did not coin mit sui&de, as the earliest reports stated. Sho died from the etfects of a orutil floggiug to which she was sub jected. '1'he logging took place \Ved nesday, the 6tit of November. 1. was continuc(d nutil under the brutal blows the unhappy victim lost consciousnes: andi lay as one dead. The poor wo man never revived from the terribl shock, but continued to grow i"eake: and weaker until Friday, when deati cane to her relief. The news of het shockinr otlicial murder lroiucet wide-spread dismay' and anguiish ong her follow prisoniers and tlhree of them, unable longer to bear their wret died fat , coininitted suicide by tal:ni,g poi:on0. Ilow they obtained the poison is not known, but. probablY they had it. a long time in their po.s sessiotn and were keeping it as a lst reort. The ituies of the womleu were \larie K aluslh, Maria c'adloviin Karalefskega atd Nadeseuta Sin ii' netka. SAti FATE U1' A Git.. Maria Kal4ish was arrested in 1 882 being then a girl of 18, Ott chat go o disloyalty. ller" father was a ier("h ant at Odessa. I)uring her imlprison ment every mealis was tried itt vii i tc extort ft en her a con fession implica. ting her friends. At last Col. Katus kye a gen d'artie oflicer, brought it lier a skillf'ully f rged st ate tent, pur. porting to be a cionfession from bei fellow conspirators, and promhisedI I iat. muinitty it shte also cotnfes..etd. Marit fell iito tie tra1, anti conftessed , amu her con fessiont was uisedi againtst, hter ft iends, wvho were sentencted to piena servitude. Whten she learnedl thiey had inade no conf ession , 1butt liad beet conivictedi on heri testimony alone, shit ptrocur ict a revrol xer anid on Aug. 21 cal led upon Cal. K atuskya tand tiref at him, wouninig hinm slightly. Foi this attemnuted assassinat.ion she wat conidemnted b)y court matrtial at, Odes sar on Sept. 1'0, 1884, a itd sont entced twenty years penail se-rvitudie. TjORN FtOM IIER 11UsnAND), i:iAso F12iEts. Bl ary Padllovia K aralefsk iga wa a young married lady M yoeris otf ag a dlaughter of ai well kno(wnt lande< preopruietor1 int t,ht soth I f RIitssi Pauil VTor.autsog, i tl a -it ier of tBa~si Vorauttsoti, onte of theibest, knowi potl it ical e*o'iornists tin Rusia. Sit joinedi a socret circle, wih it waxs sur' pr'isedl andt (alptutredl 1by tht police h~ i"ebruiariy, 1 879., anI was sentI t-eeit thirteetn years pen(lal ser'vitudite witl exile to Siberia for life andi deprivai ttin of atll civil rights. IIer' huisbandi thItought no t p reset, was soent by a admi n isitrat ive priocess ai thouisi mtiles fromtit tie tiaines to whic}h sit was senat' Th le separ tion1 l <ove hei insanet , atd slie wits 1put in at strigh' jaucket cInl 1881 she was allowedt joitt her hushaiitl ini the hope of restoi i'ng her iteasolt. EEhe tecovetti, l:i the neIw governnt Ior ieparated thei aguiut and she was restoretd to t h I-at a tines. Nadlesenta Simirnet zkai was 1" yea' elnd antd a student ini ai woman'st cle i(e wvasseiit, to Ihle 1Kata itnitie t litteeni years with peilal st'ivitlide. }IioR~t liRi JYKs TWIO MEN T) DEATl r'hortly tafter the .ui:itdo of thI thire'e wvomeni, a br-othet' of Alaie 1K lish, also at polit ical prisotier, dii suchletily. It, is nt, def'initely know as yet whether lie too died bty pioiso ort whlethert his (deathi was; th ItresulIt< overptoweing gief ont leariinig of tih deathi of is insiste,r. .Another't exile, intmed Boh ok ov< comm ititted'( suido( rather ci iat ha ubit I the crueol htoiliationt andt suteingu< fl ogginhg. iHobokovo was a uitiiver.sit sttdet't andi took pait ini sonie publi demliioineti atins of t he siuents wic wvere dlispleasing to tho atthorit ie, II e wvas thtere'fore, orderetd to imak hixK abotde at. l'inego, a smia-ll villagei the printVimce of A rchaitngel , t lie ntort eirni-mfost piortioni of' Eniroptan Ru;i: Frl"omt thtere he tl timpted to iniake h, esgape, atnd~, fori lthis heinioils o t'e ns was exiled to the mines of East eini y heria. THE1 t'oAit~IINO OF MADA si ar4 DA The flogging of'Madamoc Sigida o (curred u tnder orders issued bty Lienut y. naron 1(ro, goero~. ee of the province of Amour, in whici the Kara mines are situated. Thesl orders directed that the secret edic - of March; 1888, signed by 'Jalkin< Vraski, direoto;-general of the prisor for the em)ire, should ho enforced This edict was to the effbct that polit ical convicts should be treated by pris on o}hcials in precisely the same man nor as criminals condemned for com mon law ofil'ences. Political prisonere were thus made liable to flogging for breachcs of )rison (liscipline. In what particular way Madame tigida had transgressed the prison rules is not clearly explained, But the flogging of a sensitivo and cultured woman to death for any lack of conformity to prison regulations Stepniak thought would impress the Western world with a profound horror. The political prisoners at Kara, Step niak said, had in some way learned that, the political exiles imprisoned at Saghalien had also been subjected to cruel flogging. They were constantly in dread of simihir torture to that in flicte( u)onl Madame Sigida. FLO(UING Olti)EREiI BY TH1: CZAR. Stepniak was aske( whether he thought, the czar, in view of the fact that the cxcol)tional horrors at Kara had been niado lublic, would mitigate the severity of prison (liseipline in the case of political convicts. lie repli('( that, he thought it. was nut, ulhkely that. the publication of' the facts would force the iuperior ollicials of Russia to take some notice of aftlirs, but he said flogging ani a'I other brutalities were enitirelv (ue to the direct orders of the cIIta'l governnment at, St. P tershrg, namely, thn edict of March, 18. ''he government. was, ihcrefore, di'ectly responsible for the renewal of the corlporal puni?hiutct of polit ical I)t'risoncr:, wi ich had been susp enlcd in I$77 aftcr T'-Irepof ordered Ilogolu boll' to be floggetl. A F Ot'1, 1lt'I;IE11. .1 oh,n II::o + tn AeVil uan iSho anl iilleitl .A Neyun .1rr(".it"tdtur te ('riunt"--I etri of rt l.inchinu (,nt,... Ji.. ten,t,va ' n l ('oiut,tbin for tnte:c, ( uI.\lu.oTTr I, \ . I ., 1'.b. 1t),--.lulhl li-.l, the father o, ;:hteIT W , II. ltio.l of lie:ter S. I., w: :.bhl with i (lu blc-barreled shiotgu1n, at 'l k:illedl, i Ciester, Situraiy ight. Mr. Iloo ' IbIlod1y w;as f1uInd at 7 u'tlock Sunda mornintg. Su-i1ci1n )(ittei to G re r \V ii, at negro, a the assu- ii. 11 was arrestetl. to a 1uuble-barreled gtt w tvaa found1 ini his h.use, with m1)udl (1 the Lsock, and app'trently having bcci only recently shot. 'lThe (hester - r stonduInt, of th Chroniclc says t!e evidence was s< st rong that fears were 'ntcrt:iii: ed o Brown being lyt--h.cd, and1, (hivcrno 1liichartisun wVa.s itn.neditett !y tel('graIh el tio antl aked for intr uctions. to re nove lirow +n tI Clutinbia ur (l sewhn.' Tlhe Gouvernor rttee , in.tttulting th: the Le: I.ight, liulatry be enlld on p)rotect the p)ri tnrr.. tiuu:lhy att(ern(oof the plrioner was ttaken to Colu11a111it. A to the (:IuI of the murder, ind ti vcrdlict of the cuot(n'e jury the 011, llndlnit say.: ")thcr f:cts gathere' lby your orirespon,nt ire that. l;rowi sIuSpectei a ('olIred an 10 1 of b(in1' t') lintiimatce With1 htis w,if' andt ',turdtl ni.ht :,taitd ia :ui ,ush th:" olbj(ct o his jeah>l,uy. W hen I[ontd Paitd by c: hit, way frr1in visiting tome relative.s -iruwn mtlitou k haim fot the otlter lt11,1 andL fir< d. It was on a treet withou any lights whatever. 'Tlie verdit of th< curone's in<1uest, hell itre Suniby, wa that dlo!u lli)1d Ci'n( to his tlienth bt g'nz sloit wounilds at the haniia if G re I ro wni teoloLredl.)" MIr. Ihd wa1 vis 70i years Lil. Mortailit.i l'eiOi Saanit-I',. S.\ N ~\A'Tox\iL 'I'iTxas, lL e i>. 1. Lat reinirts frLtn the smaill-pLx dlistriLt along~ the liin GindeLh show ani appaillini miirtaility ls.<nalnh nDv ciunty, 1 (Lilut of i) 15 n LmpLyedL wer str icken with tIw iisease, andi (ii oif thet dhid. 'There is a l;reait s:areity iLf ourst andl phlnticiu:. A nLiumi:r ,f thl yoL uger docLtors: of t his5 pLIaCe niL ing ti \i it thle atl\hietedl pie , e in l a Iuntit ie .'ayltin.i flittl Ii: lck, A Ik., say3 - \At 0 'cliL 1 SLinLLa.y nL >riniri., tih iLbrki hit ii tl boLllur rioiln Lif the ILliLa' A'vlutai niei tis place :ui spireadl rapiidly through out. te rLiinvt i tuilii.T ln r e w rt eairl Sto Itie th.Lt fIor, preparatoy ti takini uL an thi ob ng with terrior is th ki IL pe I hut, L h em fii u nn boor tii fl or,ii ut tin ofiL , the buibu hr <>eicl-ie [th bilehr rOL:n, pumpij roomhl, ingine houis In oiu :.bl u i , 0L . ii TLLiwr-- iL itL Iuinneae . I u a i .\i i T\ I H b 20'i. Thei Stit 1-' I. 1nwr1' .\!bant hasIi t ukeni pos -eionL e iil its iw rn mot cotrm i o ull <p'arte ,ts altits. TheL AlianLCe hia been expii i tinig toia tiii hei ichange4L fior mnuth ni Theii biin wasII ' t dl for th l ui uf of the iorder fori Ik L t aLrs as one of ti ei IL LiLetiints1 iLITeLd Lbly AthILita foi,i ein thL Le excharL,L here. The iL e tariv uf th l Ian ILL 1huL t ii iorgan of ti 0 burotheirhioodi, te -uithiirn Al.liancL F'a >f' mier, lso3 have riLoms in the iehaaiii h aaly( liiid iis ol Tkie hije. i lvi, ouis : Fe. 20.i'ett yur rhad mned 1)oot ihe Boohi Rev. t W isman,~li nea Cohin pt03 on,11 v., a f- aitally ct il wii to knie. Whing hisi aindck. e orgot.Iwas accompani< a1 wrnn<. WORK OF THE ALLIANCE. j HOW THE ORGANIZED FARMERS ARE PROGRESSING. The 'rospect of tho (irder in Mouth Car olinn-Chcoring Vords Frot Pioident StlClOUue. The Alliance people in South Caro lina have now entered upon the second year of educational and co-operative eflort on the several linea of Alliance woi-k. 1888 was devoted to the work of organization; in 1889 the work of organization was continued, and is now--8th Feb., 1890-planted in every county in tho State. The planting, under the direction of your Executive Committee, has been (lone at the min inium of cost, and this work will likely be very nearly completed before your second annual meeting in July next. Our (lesperatc condition, fiuancially, rendered our orgau: ttion poasible, and to the betterment of !hat condi tion our grcatest efforts have been put forth. Last year the eilbrts at co-op erative trade was by Sub, and County Al iuees secuting for t hemselves the bet tormn possible. 'Tho results ob tainel, while Inure or !esssatisfactory, were vet y unequal, the saving eflect el being estimated at from 8 to 33 per cent. on last year's purchases, de pendent largely or mainly on the ii ntancial con(ition of the different sections of the State, the larger saving being only possile on the credit sys. tent of p urcalsing; and attention is es plialy invited to this as showing how ruinous has been that system, and as ruinous morally as financally. Let us not blame others solely because such a conudition of things was ever possi ble, but, kt us like true men assume our fit I sharo of the resuonsibilty. ltecklcss risks (letanded~ ruinous prolits, but we now see our folly in (consenting or submitting to such con <litions so long. And now that we have organized to correct this and oth er abuses, we must be careful, very careful,about the character of our mem bters. We l'ave taken in and must cantinue to take in members who are "financially bankrupt,'' if they have ' "goold moral character.'' This is right. We honor our organizations by 1 the elfort to lift them up-to improve 1 their Iinancial conditiolt--but we can not atlord to carry them if they should Sven seem to be careless about their "1 liuncial obligations. Should they 1 fail to practice tht orict economy, or to exhibit that iudustry and constant application to business so necessary to stucess, we muttst expel them. To re tain t hem would ho wrong to all wlo ate hattling for the manhood and in dependence of the fit rmting and indus - il 1 c:sses. The financial depression caused by a Impatitl failure of the crops last year Sis a itrying ordeal to our young organ Sat ion inl some sect ions of t3te State, which is a inatter of (ee) eelecrn to those more fortunate elsewyero, but their activity and forwardness in pre. paring for anlot her crop prove their indomtitablle pluck. In some places Jast year the crops were less that half the taverage. lin such places (lepres i:"ion like l'yptian darkness must ho 1 felt. Juist how, ..uch conditions are to o b met atntd oveIcomnle is a prioblem( difli cult ofsolut ion,but it will best b done t by our people standing together a uni ited brot,herhood. '1'ho ellorts at in c r.a-l inutstry and a closer economy Slesscn tlie danger front such crop fail i tires; but I.for the ptract ice ofstichi econ olity aiUd induistry 1last yari, the deC preCsSon growing ot, of t.he crop fail - iure wotl have. hieen more extendedl andi trtying ihan it nowv is. L In'oofof' te tis, it. may safely be claimed that the s Sotth Carol ina farm'iers, tak ingu the average of' lie whole St at e, cown nence i the year' 1890) in betteor iiinancial condi euo thant they did ti.r year 1889; a no(twi thistanidi ng the shtort crop, the s shortness05 of whtich mort)i h i"e lliet the *a higheor prices at wIhih it wats sokd. A hutgel- percenitage oif thle supplies bouight totr Al lianice trier~s ini 1890 will be bought for cash thana has been so bought anty previous year b)y t hese Same&i timers. I shouhl not deem it, ni necesaryv to reindii( these cash buy~ k er.; t at they now hiave a State Busi 0 ness 1Exchange whichol they cani tuse in r i )he purchaseit of supil es and stile of liii produit fs, bit for the fact that they y hiave blen doing thtisi ver'y same butsi a nes;s through aigent,s of their local or Sgantizat ionts so successfully bef'ore the 1Exchtange wats e'stalished.- You r bus e ness aiget, can be, must be, the lar-g it est. catsh lpurichaser ini thle State, and g shiould he, andu with youri pattronage s will bh, able to puRrchtase more cheap il ly thIan tiny other. It. is your agency i- and will lie what, you make it. m lait I have possibly said as much its n I shotubI now ont the Iintancial otitlook. ' het e<iucatIiona11 work of the Alliance e is pirobuably more( aidvanlced along the I linantcial linte tharn anty other. The imeiithtods of learnting along this line ar-e ~etinenttt-ly practicatl. I intended to e:<cxtendt t his fetter to conivey some thoughts on political economy, and1( ottr orgtant, Slt to and Nationtal, buit I fitnd it will miiake thtis article too long, ~.so 1 iut defer- atny attempt itn that di. of' rection itt t his time. rs M1y recenti visit to thle (different 50c :h t ions of' th, S-t ate suggested the 1)ro e- priety of what I have writ-ten as well H. its whatt I h)loose wr'iting ini t,he near e fututre, Its f maty have opportunity.I to grateful ly tick nowlodge miy indebted ness for per'isonal k inadnesses while on -t his 1tour1, an,i m1ty tun<f lai fied admit-a eo t ion for the devotion of out' people to r. t he linitci ples of' our order. E. T1. STAC tROt uoa The11 l'eisonee', was~ Acuittedt. RA IElIit, N. C., Feb. 19.- -There har- been ai greatt sensationi at Smiitht field thte past5 few (lays, on accoun It of lhe triialI of J. E. Star'ling for n.uorder. It hias resulted in an acquittal. He wits charge wihthe mreofan Saged woimani, his mother-in-law, and little boy, his nephew, whlo were fon ea,wth.hirsul crushed, .1d Te Senate has ratified the British ad extradlitiont treaty, with unimpor tant nmendlments.