The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, February 27, 1890, Image 1
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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.