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PICKENS, S. Y. TfI IRSDAY ,N El 4, 1891. NO. 3 E DFINES IS1 BELIEF. ONE WEEK'S WORK THE SUBJECT OF DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. fie nel:i " In the' Momile Ac r-mit of he Creation. ii mom No4t- menitato to say so M1ot EI'l>Hleat llv.1-A Notable Ser mkon 'rent h-it su a v, m:y I ,tb. Bitoohim.N. IMay 2 1.--Thrie striking selmon Dr. 'Ia!mage delivered this moringI1" to an a1u"dienlce which filled the lew Tabernacle in evcry part diat, with i topic of iterest, to all who have Watched the discussions i)ow agitating the churches. Wherever the question of the inspiration of tlie Bile is raised, the trustworthin.ess of the Mosaic narra tive of the ceationl is alwa3 the poiit chiefly assailed. The fact thof,so promn inent and cloquent a preach.er as Dr. Tahnage places himsell clearly oin re cor-d on the side of orthodoxy will doubt less have a marked inlluence oil public opinion. Ilis text was Genesis S, : "And the evening i)d tile iorlin-, W( the sixth (ay." From Monday morning to Saturn y mght gives us a week's work. If' -- have filled that week with successes we are happy. lut I 11am going o tell you what Go(l did in one week. Cosmogo~ny, -geolovy, astronomy,% orit hology. ichith.N ology, botany, aiatomy are sich vast subjects that no hunain lihe is long cnugh to vxplore or comprehend any one of them. Liut I have thought I might ill an Iusuial way tell you a little (i what (;od did i one week, and that the hirstI week . And whlether you make it a week ol ss or a week of ages, I cale not. for I shal I reach the same prac tical result of, reverence and worship. Til .: FI UST lONDAY 3I0RNI N(. The fir-.t ALoI(Idty morning found siit-,i space the piledI ip luimber of reks and metal and soil and water h Which the calth was to Im builded. God imatde up his iind to create it hu man fiamily, and they nitist have a house to live in. But wherey Not a roof, not at Wall. not at door, not a room was fit for hjuian occupaucy. There is no, a pile of' black bcsalt inl Yellowstone park or an extinct volcaio in IIonolulu so inl appropriate for human residence as was this globe at that early period. More over, there was no Ihuiman arlchitect to draw a plan. no (u1arryian to blast the foundation stoanes. no earpenter to hew out a Leami. an(l no mason to trowel at waill. Poor prospect! But the time was coming wheln at beinit called muanl was t( be constructed. and lie was to have a bride; and where lie could find a lioilestead to wihich he could take her must have been a wonder .ent to anl gelic intelligelces. There had been Varthquakes enou.h and volear oes timl-oui and glaciers enough, but eartlit quakes and volcanoes anV glaciers destroy instead of' build. A worse looking world than this never swulg. It was heaped up deformities, scarifications andl([ monstrosities. The Bible says it was without form. That is, it Was not rouIn1d, it m as not square. it was not octa(_ronal, it was not a rhom boid. God leyer did take iny- one in his counsels, but it' he had a1lied some aingel about the attempt to tunal this planet into a place for litoman residence the angel Would li:Ve sad: "No. no; try some other wor'd; the crevices of thiS earth are too deep; its crags are too ap palling; its darkness is too thick.'' ]ut, Monday miorning came. I think it was a spriig morning and about half' past four o'clock. The first thing need ed was light. It was not nee(led for God to wvork by3, ihr he can wvork as well in thle darlkneCss. Iiut light may be nec essairy, for angelie intelligenees are to see iln its hull glory the process of' world -building. liut wherie are the candles, where aire the enltulelab)ra, where' is tihe chnd(elier? No risaa suan will roll ill the morning. foar ii the sunt is already createdl its lighlt will nlot yet reach the carthi jar three days. N or mioo)n nior staas can braghlten this darIkness. The mooni and stars are not bo)rn et , or if' creattedh thir light will not reachl thle earth for some time 3 (t. I it there is need oif immiediate light. W here shall it comeilt from1? D)esirman to aaet ouant for th ings'- ill at natulral walv you say. ami r'easonaIlbl y any, t hat heat, an d electi ity' thrmy) out, light indtep)emik ut, of the sun, and( that the metalfi: bates thriow out light, laulc lenidenlt of thle suan, anad thalit alikalies t hrow ouat hgh t indcelindetif thle suan. Oh , 3es; all1 thlat is trueti, hiL I dii not, think that is te way light was created. Thie record miake's me t hink t hat, stand ing over* t hi c alith tihat sprinig mioring, God looked upon the darakness tihat pall e3d the hieight s tit this wiorh l, and the chasmsi of ii, andi the awful reachies of-it, andl uttered. why' her ini Ih liebhrew of earth or somc hoiC!uaLe ich lst al I know not, thait w~ord whicb star.ds toir the sub fluid, that wordl which thrills andi Jar lands andl IIits e very t~Ihiing at touches. th at, wei'd the tull nmeaning~ ot- n lieh all ihe chenmists orfluhe aiLes have Ibusied thiem selves ini explorinig, that word which suggests a for'ce t hat, flies (one hiundired andI nlinct3-fItSanilellIlIhs l in ali secnd, * and( by3 unidu laatioiis seven ahuidried and twenty+seven trillions inl a secotnd, thfat one w ord that God utters-Light. Andt instan tly thle darkness be!atn to shimmer, and the thick folds of' blaaektness to lift, and thiere wvere sci:it Ilations andi coruscations and flashes nad a ilIlowing tipof'resplendence, and ini gr('at sheets it spread out, northuwad, sothwaird, east,ward, west w ard, tand a radiamnce filled the attmlospihre uint a it could hold 110 more of' the br'illiatnce. 4it?ht no0W to woi k by while supernattural matelligences look on. Light, the first chiapter of t,he liist day of the wteek. Light, ther joy oif all1 the centuraies. Lig ht, the gr'entest blessing that ev'er t ouchied the hiumain eye. The robec of the Almiizhuty is woven Out of it,, for' lie covers hlmse'lf w ith lIght as with a gar'ment. Ofh, blessed light! I atm so alad t his was the first thing createtd that week. Goodl thainir to start every week wvith is lighut. Thait will make our wvork eaisier. TIhat wail keep our (his position rmore raidiaant. Th'lat -wIll hinder even otir losses from b)ecomn ing too somber. Gave us more light atural lighIt, iel lectuial Iliht., spiritual lIght, everlasting light. For lac(k of it the body stumbles, and the sou! stum bles. O thou Father of Lights, give us light!t The great German philosopher in his last v oment said, "I want more light." A minister of Christ recently dying cried out In exultation, "I move into thelight!" .Mr.Toplady, the immortal hymnologist, in his expiring moments r,xclaimed, "Light! Light!" Heaven itself is only more light. Upon all superstition, all upon all ignorance, upon all sorrow let in the light. But now the light of the first Monday is receding. The blaze is going out. Thje colors are dimming. Only part of the earth's surtce is visible. it is 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock; ob seuration and darkness. It is Monday night. "And the evening and the morning were the first day." TUESDAY'S WORK. Now it is Tuesday morning. A deli cate and tremendous undertaking is set apart for this day. There was a great superabundance of water. God, by the wave of his hand, this morning gathers part of it in suspended reservoirs. and part of it lie orders down into the rivers and lakes and seas. How to hang whole Atlantic oceans In the clouds without their spilling over except in rightquanti ties and at right times was an undertak ing that no one but Omnipotence would have dared. But God does it as easily as you would lift a glass of water. There he hoists two clouds, each thirty miles wide and fivo miles high, and balances them. Here lie lifts the cirrous clouds and spraads them out in great white banks as Ihough it has been snowing in heaven. And the cirro-stratus clouds in long parallel lines. so straight you know an illinite geometer has drawn them. Clouds which are the armory from which thunder storms get their bay~onets of fire. Clouds wh ch are oceans on the wing. No wonder, long after this first Tuesday of creation week, Elihu confounded Job with the question, "Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds?, Half of this Tuesday work done, the other half is the work of compelling the waters to lie down in their destined places. So God picks up the solid ground and packs it up into live elevations, which are the continents. With his tin ger he makes deep depressions in them, and tiese are the lakes. while at the pil ing up of the Alleghanies and Sierra Ne vadas and Pyrenees and Alps and Him alayas the rest of the waters start by the law of gravitation to the lower places, and in their run down hill become the rivers and then all around the earth these rivers come into convention and become oceans beneath, as the clouds are oceans above. HIow soon the rivers got to their placis when God said: "Iludson and James and Amazon, (own to the At laLtis; Oregon and Sacramento down to the Pacific." Three-quaaters of the earth being water ano only one-quartor being land, nothing but Almightiness could have caged the three-fourths so that they could not have devoured the one-fourth. Thank God for water and plenty of it. What a hint that God would have the human race very clean! Three fourths of the world water. Pour it through the honies an(d make them pure. Pour it through the prisons and make their oc cupants moral. Pour it through the streets and make them healthy. There are several thousand people asleep in Greenwood who but for the filthy streets ol Brooklyn. and New York would have been to-day well ind in churches. More over, there n-ver was a filthy street that remained a moral street. Ilow important an agency of reform water is, was Illustrated by the fact Lhat when the an 3ient world got outrageously wicked it was plunged into the deluge and kept under lbr months till its iniquity was soaked out of it. But I rejoice that Onl tile lirst Tuesday of the world's ex istence the water was taught to know its place, and the Mediterranean lay dowvn at tie feet of Europe, and the Gulf oif Mexico lay (down at the feet of North America, and( Gene va lay down at the fect of the Alps. an'd Scroon lake tell to sleep in the lap of the Adirondacks. "And the evening and1 the morning were the secondi day. - THiE cREATION OF' VEGETA'TlON. Now it is Wedensday moriiing of the wvorld's first week. Gardenling andl horticulture will be born to-day. IIow (ulcer the hills look, and so unattractive they seem hardly worth having been madle. But now all the surfaces are changing color. Something beautiful is creepiing all over them. It, has the col or of emerald. Ay, it is hierbage. IHail to the green grass! God's favorite col or' and God's faivorite plant,, as I judlge from' the fact that he maKes a larger number of them than of anything else. But look yonder! Scmethiing starts out of' the ground and goes higher up higher anId higher. andl spreads out b)roadl leaves. It is a palm .tree. Yonder is another grow ih. and its leaves hang far dlowni, and It is a wvillow tree. And yondier is a growvth with mighty sweep) of branches. And here they come-the pear, and the ap)ple, and tile peachl, and the pomegran ate, and groves andi orchiard's and forests, their shadlows andl their fruit girdling the We are pushing agriculture and fruit culture to great excellence in the Nine teenith century, h-it we have inothiing now to equal what I see on this first WVednesdlay of' the world's existence.I take a taste of one of' t,he apples this WVedunesday morning, andI I tell y'ou it mingzles ini its juices all thie flavors of Spitzhergeni and Newtown pippin andi luhode island gr'eening and D)anvers Winter Sweet anid lioxbury russet andi I lbbard(stonl Nonesuch, but added0( to all, andt overpowering all other flavors, IS the paradisaical juice thatt all the or chiards of' the Nmneteenth century fail to reach. I take a tast,e of t,he pear, andI it has all the luxury of the three thousand varieties of the Nineteenth cent,ury; all the Secl and the Bartlett of the pomn ological gardens of' later tinmes an acidity comp)ared with~ it,. And the grapes5! Why, this one cluster has in it the rich ness of whole vineyards of Catawbas anid Concords and 1sabellas. Fruits of all colors, of all odors, of all f lovors. No hand ot man yet made to pluck it or tongue to taste it. The banquet for the himan race is being spread before the arm ival of the first, guest. In the fruit of that garden was the seedl for the orchards and gardens oi"the hemispheres. Not,ice that the first thing that God made for food was fruit, and plenty of It. Slaughter houses are of later minention . Fa eu ~o n a It is Saturday afteriloonl. No ottc but tle Lord Almighty can origInate a liu man1 bein.. In the world where there are in tho atter part of the Nineteenth century over fourleen hindred million people, a human being is not a curiositv. Ilut how about the firstL human eye that was ever kindled, the first humaji ear that was ever opened, the first hu man lung that ever breathed. the lirst humaii heart that ever beat, tle first litnianmi lile ever constructed' That eeded ithe origination of a God. Ile had I) model to work by. What stupendous wvork for a Saturday af ternoon! Ile must oriinate a style ot himati heart through which all the blood in t(e body mnst pass every three minutes. Ile must make that heart so strong that it can, I during each day, lift what would be equal to one hundred and twenty tons of weight, and it must be so arranged as to heat over thirty-six million times every year. A bout live hundred muscles must be stlting in tle right place, and at least I two haundred and liltty ho..es construc tel. Inito this body must be put at least lune million nerves. Over three thousand perspirinv p>ores must be nade lor every inch ot leshly silitce. The human voice must be so construct ed it shall be capable or producin-, seven teen trillion live-hundred and niluetv-two billion one hundred and eighty-six mil lion Forty-Four thousand lour hundred and fifteenl sounds. But all this the most insignilieant part of the human be Ing. The soul! Ah, the construction tof t.hat (Vod hiiself, would not be equal Lo it he were any the less of a (G'Od. Its understaning, its will, its m1emory, its conscience, its capaciLties of* eijoyment mr sullering, its immortality! What a - work for a Saturday afterioon! A ye! - etfwe night there were to be two such I umn1 and yet immortal hings coli I steted. The woman as well as the 'Man was formed ,- aturd:ay afterIoonl. I Because a deep sleep fell uponl Adamli, -and b) di inc surgery a portion ot his -s:41e was removed ior the nucleus of an (tler creat ion, it has been supposed that perhaps days and nights passed between the masculine and ieminine creations. lit no! Adam was not three hours If a phyN, ician can by an:estletics put one into a deci, sleel) in three miuiltes, G1odl certainly could have put Adam into a prolIld sleep in a short while that Saturday afternoon, and made dle deep and ratli al excision without causing is Iress. BY a manipulition of tle dust tle same hand that molded the moun tains molded the leatures and molded t ie limbs of the lither of the humanu ra,e. But his eyes did not see, and his norves did not teel, and his muscles di4l not move, and his lungs did not breathe, and his heart did not pilsate. A per feet Imoin Ie lay along the earth, sym. metrical and () ,!odlike countenance, Mlagniliceit piece of, Divine carpentry aid 0maipotent sculpturin,_,-, but in vitality. A body without a soul. Then the source ol all libe stooped to the inanimate nostril and Ilip, and as man v a skillfil and earnest physiciin has put his lips to a patient in comatose state and breathed into his mouth and nostril, and at Ile same tiie compress ed thle lungs, until that which was arti ieial respiration became natural respira ton, so Imethlinks God breathed into this cold sculpture of a man the breath oflife, and the elivart begins to tramp, and the lungs to inliale, an<i the eyes to open, and the entire form to thrill, and with the rapture of a life just come the prostrate being leaps to his lfeet-a man! 1ut (ie c Il of this Saturday is not yet dlone, d iln th e atmiosphiere, dlrowsy Iwith the breath ofiblowers and the song of' hioboliniks aind robin redbreasts, the man aidministered, (lie slumber dleepiens until without the oozing oif one drop o1 blood at, the time or the hiitest scar afterward, t hat portioni is removed fromni his side which is to be built, up the Queen oft Il'aradike, the dlaugh ter o1 the great (;od, the mother of (lie hiumani race, the bene iltom of(i all ages, woiiani the wife, aftter wardl w*man the mother. Anid as t,he twio ji n hands aiid stroll dlown alomnr the banks of the, Euphirates tiiw.ard a hiwier ofI iielioinette aiil wildI rosem a:iim honeyiC~sluckle, and are listein~g to the (call ol thie wip-ploor-w.ill Ironi thie airoiniatic thickets the. sun sinks bieneat.h the hori zin. "A iil the eve'tiiiiig ati the noniii iig wvete thie sixth iday." Whai.t (ho you thiink of' that 'ine week's wo rk? I review it not I. r enitertaini nmint, but, becauise I w ivl have you joini mi Da).vid 's doxoh>igy, "Grneat anid marvel ous are thy works, Lord ( od Anighty;'' because I wanit you to know what a hionmestead our Father built, fhr his chii dren at, the start, thouitth sin has des -polled it, anid hercauie I waiit you toi kiinowiui how ' the nh wrbl l lomok agaiin whieni Chiist shall11 have restored it, s wmingg no1miw beitwreeni I woi IEdens; bmeauise I wv .nmt -3'u ioi i realIiz.e soimeting of wh at a miighity ( od lie is, atid the tutter folly ob trying to war against huim; hierause I wamnt, you to inake peaice it,h this Chiiel of the I iiveise, thiroughu the (Christ who - imeiatesl beli'tweeni ollenided ( )mnip oteiice 1liI htimihuman rebelhoni; biecause I wat youii ti) kniow thow fearlul ly amid wvonder - illy y~ou are mnade, your bodyv as wvell as because'~ I want yon to realize thaot ordher reignms throulghlout the uiiverse, and that Go's wa'tches t.ick to the secomnd, amid that, his clocks strike re'itlarl y, though they~ sirike once in a thousand years. A.I lerned mnan once asked amn ol Chrisliani man who h:ad no adva0ntages ot schioolmlg, why lie believed there wals a God, amid the good obil man11, whlo prob ably had never heiardI an argonitenit on the subject mi all Ius liife. made this mio b le rel: " Sir, I hauve bween here gingif( -ard up onli ifty 's ears, lEvery day sinmce I have beemi iin this worhit I see t,he sunm rise ini the east ait .a imn t,he west. T1hie - niort.h stari stands where it, did the irst timie I sawv it; the seven stars and Jlob's collini keep oni the same pathu in the sky mian's woirk. iIe mailkes clocks ai - iwatchies; they may run wvell for awhile, butt they get out, of lix andl standi stocd still. But, the suit and moon andl stars keep on this same way all the while The hieavenis (declare the glory of Ghod.' Yea, I preach this, because I want, you to ivalk In appreciation of' Addisoni 3 sunhime sentime.t w .,e ......es vegetarian, but an almost exclusivC meat diet is depraving. Savages con fine themselves almost exclusively tc animal food, and that is one reason that they are savages. Givc your children more apples and less mutton. Tbc world will Lave to Live dominance tc the fruit diet of Paradise before it gets back to the morals. of' Paradise. MaN God's blessing come down on tihe or. chards and vineyards of' America, ant keel) back the frosts and ti.e curcuio, But we must not forget that it is Wed, nesday evening in Eden, and upon thal perilect Irult of those perfect trees lel the curtain drop. "And the evenin and tie mornng were the third day.' P'UTTINO TH[INGS TO RIMilTS. Now it is Thursday morning of tlt woril's first week. Nothing will b( created to-day. The hours will be passe< in scattering fogs and mists and vapors The atmosphere must be swept clean Other worlds are to hove in sight. Thi, little ship of the earth has seemed t( have al' the ocean of inimensitv to it self. But mightier craft are to be haile( today on the high seas of space. First the moon's white sail appears and doe! very well until the sun bursts upon th( scene. The light that on the previou! three mornings was struck from ai es pecial word now gathers in the sui moon and stars. One for the day, tho others for the night. It seemed as i they had all within twenty-four hour: been created. Ah, this is a great thm in the world's first week. The moon the nearest neighbot tt our earth ap pears, her phoLtograph- to be taken in the Nineteenth century, when tie tele scope shall bring her within one hundre( and twenty miles of New York. An( the sun now appears, ifte rwart to be found eight, hundred and eighty eight thousand miles in diameter, aind put in astronomical scales, to be fount to weigh nearly fomur hundred thousan times heavier than our earth: a might furnace, its heat kept up by ieteor pouring into it as fuei, a world ,devotur ing other worlds with its jaws of laimic And the stars come out, those stree lamps of heaven, those keys of pearl upon which God's lingers play tie inus ic of the spheres. How bright they lool in this oriental evening! Constellations Galaxies! What a twenty-four hours o this first week-solar, lunar, stellar ap pearances! All this Thursday and tir adjoining nights employed iv pullin; aside the curtain of vapor from thes flushed or pale faced worlds. Enouh "And the evening and the moring wei the fourth day." TilE FISHES AND THE nIRDS. Now it is Friday morning in tihe firs week of the world's history. Water but not a fin s itming it; air, but not i wing flying it. It is a seInt world Can it be that it was made only for ve etables? But hark! There is a swit and a splashing in all the four rivers c Pison, Gihon, Iliddekel and Euphrates They are all aswirn with life. soinu dart ing like arrows through split crystal and others quiet. in dark pools like shiml ows. Everything, firomn spottei trou to behemoth, all colored, all shaped, th ancestors -f linny tribes that shall b their wonders of' construction confoun, the Agassizes, the Cuviers arind tie Lin tizeuses and the ichtlhyologits of' ti more than six thousand years followimit this Friday of the first week. Arid while I stand on the banks o these Paradisaical i ivers, watching thes( linny tribes, I hear a whirr in the ai: and I look up and behold wings-win! of larks, robbins, doves, eagles, Ilainin goes, albatrosses, brown threshiers Croatures of all color--blue, as if' dippe( in the skies; fiery, as if they had flowi out of' the sunsets; golden, as if tihe. hat taken their mnorirnmg bath in buttercuips And while I am studying fire colors tire begin to carol anti chirp and1( (00 an< twitter and runr up and down tire seahn of a music that they must have hrear'd a heaven's gate. Yes. I find threm in Paradise on this the first Friday af ter noon of t,he world's existence. Andt sit (Iown on the bank of tihe Eni>hrates andI tire murmur of the river, togeti with tire chanrt of birds in the sky, put me inito a state of' somnnolence. "An< tire evening and tire muoring wer'e thu fifth (lay.' inE~ASTIS AND' M EN. Now it, is S trdtay morning of' thi world's first week and whhr this day tin week closes. But, oh, what a climnacter ic dray! Tire air has its piopulation ali< tihe water its piopulation. Yet tire lant hars niot one inhabtitant. But here tire' come, by tire voice of God createdi IIlorses grander than those wich ini at ter time Job1 will describe as hiavinig niee clothed with thrundler. Catt.le enough t< cover a throusandl hills. Shreep sihep iherded by him who made for them ti grcen pastures. Cattle superior to thr A tierneys and .Ayrshires and De)vonr h: ires of' after ti mes. L4eopiar. so 8 bjeau tiftul we ar'e gladi they (anniot, ebanr their spots. Lions w ithout t,heir t iertce nress antd all tire quadru'npetd world so isen tIe, so sleek, so p)erfect. Look out how you treat tis animia creation, whether they walk tire ear.l or swim tire waters or fly tIre air. 1)h you not not,ice that God gave them lire cedience of' tire human race? Theyw3 weri created F"riday amid Saturday mioi'rig as man was creat,ed Satrdalry afternoon They have a right, to be here, iIe wh< galls a horse, or exposes a cow to t.i storm, or beats a dog, or mauns a cat, o; gambles at tire p)igeon shrooting, or ton' tures an insect, will have to ranswver Iti it, in tire judlgment, day. Youi may con sole yourself tirat, t,bese creatures ar< not. immortal and1( they crannot aippea against you, buit tire (God who mad these creatures andi wla~ saw tire wrome youirdi( them will be threr'e. lietter' lo01 out, y'ou stock raisers andi r'ailr'oad comn panies who birinz tire catt.le on traim without food or wrater for t hre'e or ibu (lays In ho)t weather, a long groan of argo ny fromi Omaha to Newv York. Better look out,, you farmer ritdmng lhe hrind( that limping horse with an nail tia tire blacks.nith dirove into the~ qictk ]Better look out, you boys stoning hull1 frogs and tur'ning turtles uplside tdown andi robbing birds' nests. int, some ting is wanting in P'arhrdise rind tin week is almost (lone. Who is there t, pluck tire flowers of' tis Edenic lawn Wiho is there to comnmand these wor'ld of' quadlrup)ed and fish and bird? Fo whom has God put back tihe curtain fron tIhn faco of ann and mnoon and st.ar? TIhi The spacioufirnauittntoni high, With alI the blue vthvriaI sky Atd spangled heav'is, a shitfing rainue, Their G %reat Original proclaim. li reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, Forever singing, as they shine. ''ho iand that made us is diviniv. MRS. SURRATT'S EXECUTION. A ( O%m i raime U-pon J u l n iit tho Opliion of ler (eonersa. WVASlIx(T()N, INIay 2%-. The Nev. .1 A. Walter, pastor of St. 'aterick', Church, this city, has propared and pre sented to the Catholic II istorical Societ 3 of New York a paper on Mrs. Stirratt which he thinks will throw new light or the character, trial and execition ol that unfortunate woniin. It. will h<( read before the Society to iorrow nirlt Father Walter wias pastor of St. 'at rick's Church when 'residenit Linicolt was assassinated, and Al rs. Surrat t w; a member of his congregation. ( in tih very night that Booth fired the fata shot shoe wasat Father Walter's cliurch and that circmnstaice alone, in the mind of the clergyman, wes partia proof that sie knew nothing of* thi plans prepared by tle assassins at iv house. lie becamie dveply interester inl her ease, was her confessor and a(l. viser after her arrest. as well as before and did everything in hiii power, botl by appeals to President .Johnson aii< by bitter denlinciations of the unjusi measures adopted by the (Goverieni inl its prosecition, to save her from tIl ti gallows. .Although the occurrences which Fia ther Walter describes in hi tor tii'r curred so long ago, that. he st ill fl freshly and keenly the injiustile whiel led to Mirs. Stirratt 's exectution. it speaking of the inatter to a Sn rpw sentative ie said: If' 'resident .hlmh son had been a muan oI courage tihe ex ecuition wvoilld not, have tak(-n plave lie simply acted inl accordaiwe witI public clamor, ani signed the deati warrant without even reading the testi imionly on which the woinlai hail heel convicted. I went to himu and lold hiin that I had read every line of the testi moniy, and that there was not ei'nougi evidence to hang a cat, pin; tIIt I dit not ask a pardon for Mis. Surratt, noi a colmutation of selit eice, bll ini-erell a re preve for teni days, inl order that I m it prove her iunnocence, but P'resi dent Johnson didll not. have -oiurm eiough to comply with inv1% rqiusI lie feared if lie did sg. lie woulti Ie ae cused of commending the dued that lIm put him il the Presidential Vlati'. Sk he coiisiglied all iinocent wol;illi to ; shainefui death in order to escape ti adverse criticism of a I renzied ip lact The whole trial was an outrage, aum there is no doubt that the tiioverinen resorted to fraudulent. inieasures ini mr der to obtain a coinviction. "Mr. Iradley, who d(k(ifendil .1(1hl Surratt, had allioig his Impi'rs - teh graph book showing that .ohn Sirra was in -'lmira on tihe nizlit. of April 1: yet when a search was imt for I he Ih< tel register, that woild have shii li presence there onl that date, it had di ap perd and not until a year ago wa I able to ascertain that the (;ovrmnine had taken posses:.iok (if it. arnd hal withlheld it order to d'tprive ihe pris( ers of the benelit of this hit of vvi dence. ",lii S1irr'iatt was allowed to e.scaip a trial bmeauise the (aovernient. Iem it Ia:1 io case against hilli, and if ii1 were innocent, his mother was also. I has been charged that I forbade %Irs Surratt's speaking, but this is not triu Site declared her ilniiovenice up to ti tilno of' her (dlat h, aiid beyond 1 his de laration she had nothing to say." Ial timore Silli. F"irin.g on a Train,a l.AN;oon, 311-:., M1ay 27.- A trair whiiich.l ef t langor f'or St. ,Johni last. iIgh at 7:-It0 was hield tip juist. bevond I-',i letl bty four men, who lired at t he enrgfinee' andi( cars. 'l'he tr'aiin lef't, Enlield witi' a mn, wh'o was not icedi by the ttieninu erawling over' thle teinder, tol thenmi stop the t rain 'The gong oii ihe' enigi i 1'ouind(ed biut thre enginieer did riot s.toj the t rain r untilI tihe gonig soiufded a gain The traini 1hen caine to a stalud, whIt' ih ootinmg w'asl heard, and f'or Ii vt. mliite tie gaing kept uip atn inudiser'itn int firing, the inail Icar be'inrg the partUiuIa object, of attack. ''Te leader of the gang was arile, withI a ite, thle otheri ns with r'vl ve r. Th'ley fired seveiralI shofts into thle Ibag gage and mil a r 'ts, buti the li eniginrei piulled the tralin ott before anyonei wa injuiired. Tfhtestat ion aigenitat -:l'icht was fired at by the uteri a; lie was imogti lug out, a signal lighrt. Tlhe glass of' t Ii Ian itern was b)roken arid th lIigh t ex tiin uished. TJhe imen orideredt iin to a av andl( he id so1(, ( )ftlic'rs will b e st'n t ion to) catuire the assai lan tIs it ipossible TJhie affair caurseid cinsideirable i'xc'it nient fi this sectiili. Or1 ime or Aciient'sia T'l'r'I- .\ , IUansas, Mavt 27. A\ sitial f' ranme residtence* at t Ihe conenr o f I uieh ananu f avenuet an G11(ordion striee't.v wa bulrnedl this miornting. In tire ruins wein fotund the chtarredi reiinains oft rts. A ip tegi'ew, aged 3.5, andI heir t hiiee e1uhtlr'n all girls, aiged from tl t een imnth.s i I i years. All tire sir ruini g ciren m.st ar ces poinitedl to a delibie'rate an 11(nrefu i ll planntted tripile inttrdier arid uiie. ThIt sceine of the t ragedy is ini a spar'e'l Settledl portion of N or'th Tope11'k , aum tIhe house was su1pposedi to have b,er' uininhabited. It is learned Ithat thr fanmily moved in tire hoiuse about. muontim ago. Th'le fathter is a tc-mnritei anid lel t toiwie early this inuormnlig 1look fitr worx{. lp, ai negro fromr Whieeinig, whio wa work inig w'ithI a ganmg of' Italians livi In iles east of here, hiad a despterat e h at tIe with them omn Sat urduay. 'lThere wa a trill rg dI ipte and a fighit. TIhie rL gro c'Autght up a Wiiehiester rifle, ani backing hitmmself againlst a stoni e w al kept fitllIy 2(M 1 talijats at Ihav from reni rI Snatrrday mn(rninrg ti th tIe a fterniooi wh'len lie was arm'estedi. I m the cors of' the fray lie shot twvo of the I talianit infl icti ig~ fatal woundais. Three Mon Killedl by I otal A ir. CiENTrm.\ i.\, Wash., Mlay 27.- W\hl grad(ing a street this miornmng a labiort tuncoveredl an old well to auscert ain i dlepth. lie was overcome wit.h iul a and fell into the w ell. Tl hiree ofi h r I borers, who wenrt to his aussisance', we also precipitated into tIre well in i same manner. After the aIr btecani pure the men were brought to thre su face. Only one, named F"ord, couldI restuscitated. The names of the dlen arn Burns. 1errv andt nahbann CLOSE ON ITS HE1,ELS. rHE "CHARLESTON" SIXTY-FIVE MILES BEHIND THE "ITATA." Wer5 m1et b.y Ih "It, lima'-iu mors ThAt 111" 1nugn el-pll W e U710 Ilm " t t . SAN 1 N A N' F-' . i.\l y 25. Ti first tthentienews abouti the Itta sin sie eft this port, was rect-:vi-I here to-day. 'he steaimlsh ip C0lMin, whicli has jut irrived from li'alai ad o way port,s, re )orts that she 8soke both 1 the I tta and .he (hiarleston. T i %%tat,a wis met 1 152 o'clock hle morning of the 15thl inist., going ionltlh at I till steam, sixt y-live wlAes rlomll Acapulco. At 5.2f p. it. the same lay the (Colimt spoke the ( larleston I3 llite 'S tfrom1 A cail lco. ,'aPt. U1einy, ohfI the Charleston, asked the captain of t ie Colitia i 'he had seen the Itata. lie :nswIreTd in the aflir mIative, al<l then the41 Il 'iteil States er'tsier w%en-t straig I 4i her w;v. E-:v idently I it- Cluirl'o. Ill nih sed t he pirato steamiieri by mnlv aboit 4114. h11umid-ed and twenty Itilbs, by ,iit "tlng inte .\capulco. I'lhe ilsmerali's rItn 4llt o .\cadiulco a,nl Ick again, atlYit! tit. I ime of the ( harles4 ills ar-rival, was claIlv Imade to wari tlw. It t0.1, which Lept off shore. It sit- has v,:.. enitmlih t1 ea-Iv her to hilii ll., she w\ilIl - 1h|. to i-r'v arms too the its.rgent -w-, so liist stop at 'aiian:a . wi . ",- C!Iarlestonl will pr4b1ably v.1c11 i-lr. It is r-1mor011d 1.-()t d:Iy tha0, insilr gelit lentierS havo. agr I ti dhve, tOhe Itata to tlta. (' ie t ts aluthorilit's oi her arrival at I4jii ie ;t tht there fore thet Charh-ton will mako n1o filr therseiouis ef Its at Cait ure. W hel tie l-si,erahla lirst entered port at Acapilvo she sAtIed the fort with tweIt y-one guis, which saltito was iot retirned. ()iI t h- i ollowing ay li-r comntilildlr inade ;m tlicial visit to the commllandanit of thll mailitary f 1ors. The Rolpt Brcolo4. BUI)KE'N low\, Noh. 1*lay 2.--h respite of' thirty day graNIteLd by (tov ernor Boyl to .\lIer!. Il lt-itine, th miirderer of lItr:n liteli and William Ashley, exlir- I tidAv, and at 1:30 o'clock tit cmn<ittd I mIian was hanged. In spite ol thet- storin, 4,1), pIoplegath ereil tio witiw-s thie cxvctimn. WIwil the tfa p wias spro itig t he }it~sot(On ward andplr(-o p () ,h ,igvtmd, Lhe rope hiaviig rlkw. The hall conscious mani was sWi-iZ tI I h she-rl'I anid car ried back on tihle gailiw\. Ile rope was thel il dtiklehl ;ail t ;e Ir.p ;1:,aili sprung. Thlis- tiul)I !.I: ; w biok en by Ilit fall. Ilie said that tu%(o wk r. 1.mr to the IIuirI-e0 - lie was14 Wc,e;!i pt r thiev hn. 'Ile 111i.li llwh A lv s 11ttltl0yed .1111l thl. :11-it-14 I h !. -At m-e lites(Itm .IIl-,)- Iptw't11ed vv:i04-1 that lie lind halled it; barr-. ( in ihe t:'tal day Roten and41 Ashly 4:1 1110i to his Ilace, withlollf. aithIrt.v, "'sere or a v'ock that hall lven takeni Itrl! i1v school hlise. 1t-ten v,rrai, a Winchester across his arm, I lauer? ii1 u- e thli the clock ail t lien i- iitd lit-it tio 4inl ier. TIhey w4,1ld uIm t 'a i thim. An al tercatioll took plh-c, ;nd iin I le heat of iassion li(e shit Nwitei to I, iLtect him seltf. 'I'llvl Ii" shiit Asliv, w Io at tellpted to draw his pi'st<il 11rom11 his pocvket, Ele.v n Mink31114.rs Kile( I i l NIM.1, it\Iy 22. .\t, the Pratt fltli's t o-dhy iii tti pasili ti gas jii tjh shaft where coliviets art. worked killed t'll Ilegro colivits ;til (ne free n1iiner nilled I'otli Miii,re, I t is belieyed thbat, Ille tin-lt bail ill soitie way lkiioekmd off' aplank fromIn ihe door which stood :utross atti ll i'baittia-u' iiti oni whichi thte word "tias" was wvrilt.cit. lIe gas' rislil( mtit nitld c;iiught line froa lm (Olli'ers oh t hi-eiiomp;iy winit, to the ret5tt:1 ii i orked to'isave tIh e. ,bit were thle inselvtu-'. sit Iii-:Oed :114 inar., riiwly t'st!id41, h tit lig tIia; ggeil oil t u11 al'llls. Th-eoi-. bad e ofitiheS de; hyt conideredli- ini danig~ hifrom nas as a rule, and t.hiis is the iir.st aceiht-it. of' tie Sort, ill a long I tume. l'wii liiei- ioiv iets wotrkedl fait Ii fully u it hi Ih rs-- n piarty. lhiinchvgt b.y (:uieri>il:ar. thei .JouirluiIli ii r mtht A.!ii.\linn., says that all trainis on I hi- .\ twuw Wi oadt this inorni h arei i -I;iyid at a point, seven ililes milt <>f ti s -it y lly ('atertil lars, wichiil hiad craiwh- Ii fltm theo rails t) slin thll isil vi s. The sand b oxes were soon1 ex hau stl d1and 1 Wi) eng inest were hiaridly atb' to mtove- the traini. Tlhie iii lilrii g lii leit wvas am hour' anti teiiltiintittes lIt guilig 1 W' iiilies, Cat erpillars wereI1 groundi( itti inasses of grease (iver wh~ic-l thte whetiels sli pped like so imuchbuth ti-r. Theii iatterpillars4 luave le-n a1 pest fin ihe lotuility fori twot wvee ks. *Dealt hi of a Colorec-iiIt 'renchereu. (ii Ai *I.a:s'ri>N, S. ('., M1ay 2fl.-licy, .iao iL a d Iills, pr1ob1 ably tIhe ilitest colored preachtetr ini th e cttr y, di el yesiter<hty in Charle-ston. lie wvas inelwt v- one veath of~ age. Whent <ilte younit lhe wa.s iniade the wvar. ( )t hte year-s was pastor' 4t Centenmnary (hiiieb, this rit v. thu h-il the respiect of all wh'lite titizens whIo knew him, andtt hisnti plellt venertled him.~ 'Thle funerical to)-tday tinok the shape oft a puic die l mnstr-at!iii. Iiie is said to haiive mnarr1i "I4 Cd '2111 over :,0 mcre couiples in Char'leston. K No XyltI: LI lTenn ., \lay 2.~. ('oni gressmnan Iiiuk i ell heire early this ing frotm heart disease. 'ietstetday le wenCit, to a druig storu e to get au pr escr'ip and( putt it- downi in a glass niear antither and hie took thei lat ti-r by unst rke. lit deCr miedieal t reaent l~ ie seemedi to bet recovering hast. tight. butt tireamei worste towardl mornt ig anad ied-i a. I. o'clock ALM1.1, Neb. M:ay 27.- -The worst rain storm ever' knowni here occuirred 1:ist night. 'The city is comiepletelhy itiunda ted. Th'le water wats from two to four feet deop. The WVest wall of SIims block gave way underIC tho pressure anid is a total wreck. TIhe sidewalks succombeid to the pressutre, anid twventy-live feet of the datm at Lake D)tsapoin tmient is swept away. The damltage to crops will be enormiousf. CAN'T HOLD TWO OFFICES. I The oloverntor R(emnoves the SniServixor of lIegimtratlonl for Charlenton. ('On' IM A, S. C., May 28.-Mesrs. .1. M. 1Iason and G. IV. Dingle of the ballot refOirm committee of Charleston Yre in the city yesterday, and inter Vitwed tlio (;overnor in reference to the moatter of' the Supervisor of RIegistration for Charleston County. They represeni ted to him that the present Supervisor, Mr. Cantwell, held t .vo oflices, viz.: that 1 Supervisor of Registration and 'lerk of the Board of* County Commis Sioners. 'The (overner concluded that Mr. 'antwell could not legally hold two (1ics, and determed to remove him. lie first, however, submitted the point involved to the Assistant Attorney Gen eral, who -ave the llowing writtcn oltiiou: "The iniiry refoerred by your Excel I ency to the Attorney (teneral, of' this :datc, embraces, as I understand it, two questionv,: I the Clerk of the Bloard of' County Cotmissioners ai oflicer?" -Is a personl holding the ofllice of Spervisor Of leistration eligible as Clerk of the 11oard of' County Comnissioners?" Without havinlg timne to give my rea sons in Itill. I have the honor to state to youlr Excellency oriefly that in mly opinl ion the Clerk (o' the 'Board of County Comnussi oners is an ollicer, and second, that a persoln cannot hold two oflices at the same tiine. I refer your Excellency to Section 30, Article 2 of the Constitu tion midl sections 9 1 and 612 of the (Gen eral Staliutes of South Carolina. The (Goverlor on receipt of this opinl imn 41wr4te as follows to Mr. W. 1'. C in well: S ii:-- I lt has been brotn;ht to my at tention that you are the Clerk of the lo,ard o ('ouity Comin issioners, while at the same time you have held the oflice (it Supervisor (41 le"istr.1tionl. In the Opinion Of the Attorney General one 1nan1 calot, hold these two offices legal - v, and .you are therefore removed from the ollice of Supervisor of legistration, Said will turn over all public property be lonm4ing to said ollice reainining in your possession to) the prement Ioard of Com Mi.siolers Of 1Ieistration. "lIespectfu Iy, "H. IU. T11i A N, (;overnor." The ( , i)vernor also wrote to N r. ( eo. W. Willhims, Chairman of' the I;oard (.f* ( 'mmlissioners of Registration for Char lestn41 County. advisinlg him of the re 11uOval of Air. Cantwell,4 and directing his I 'Mard to take charge of the books, etc., 1 411 the offivl1i util his successor has been Sppointed. 'lie committee from Char - hsto have suggested the name of Ma itqr Hall '. Me(ee as Mr. Cantwellis IMCCsuc r. and b it is probable that le will -2et the appoitmleln if Hle will a:'ept it. 'legister. -1 unoi WIII lo TrieoI. S .4).1 11 A, S. 0., May 28.-.1ones, tile ip' ldgI ie in1murderer, is to be tried at the next terim of court in Lexington t Comity, the change of venue having beenl in1adv sone rionths ago, but Solic itol Nf.lsonl has had somne doubts of* his abilily to secure the State's witnesses froil 1'dgelivld, on account of the fjact that there was no provision made for the paymnent, of their per diem and uileage. II e accordingly wrote to the 4overnor suggesting that lie pay these '\exlenses (it of' his contingent fund, and inl response to this reluest the Gov 'i'nor .e's.ttr:lay wrote to him is fol lows: - Nl 1 i:.\ I Si i: Your letter of' yvs ternly, asking that arrangement be niade14 for 1pay'inig the e'xpenises o1 wit nesses in t lie .1 ones' case, (cani1e to handi( Lb is tuiorning. I am very anxious that 1no delay sf11111 (ccur in birinuging that r iniatter' to an (end, and( I will pay out of t im contLin1gen1t Ind ae ' su flieienit per dmim to each(1 of thle State's witnesses to coever actua :l eX lenses~, noit, to exeedt th e alI(4niut 1namle(Il by you $85. 1 d10 this ith thle ixpre'(ss 1 undlerstand~1ing Iluit. you will inslist on a triial at any ai441 (1 alhazards. 1h1. T'li .i.MA N, Governor. F JIngall'e Viewvs. 4I114(r44 N5(N, Kansas, May 27.- At a t ing4 of lI epub41lican edi t(ors o4f the ~e'vent h Conigre'ssiornah I)istrict, a letter rlfon ex-SeniatLor Iigalls wias read and3( waernily app111ihued. Ainonig other fhings~ t.he letter said : The lIetpublii - (can paty) is confrtion tod w'i th greait prob1 lIns wVhic thi Lireateni its sup r(4mnacv. If we are to succeed we 44nust deal withI the 15ssues of t o-eday as5 we (dealt with slave'ry, seeerssianr arnd State s()verlinty t,hirty years ago. T'he lIepulicanism (of the futur mu(C ilst readjuist it,self' to -the chantig'ed ('On-litionis oIf Amleirican li f'e or it will pe(rish. I wish to save it from43 thiis l ate by reealling the spirit of' I ('niergy, aggr'essi ve and( patriotic f'orce -cof the f'oumnders to the ('ainipaign of a 1 IY.2. T'h is wvill be 4w iaged 4upon4 econoiiC :11and fpractiCail IlleStions, and3( not upon01 hinor(liies orl 14notions. I Iarrison4 will ,be r('n o nin:de and1 C11 eveland will be -hi s an1talgonlist. II we hiave courage - :d ( conien('(ce it, wiill be~ Autsterli tz. It we" 0 4ficker' wiithm popu)ilar e'rrors, c:omi proise~ withI (1F unpinci 1eed lea:de'rs and1 snieer at h(onlest diiferenices of' ju'dgmient I 11(1 op1inion1, it, will tbe Waterloo."' Th'atl Necw larty. S .\1 4.u.iN, Wis., May 27.- ILailroad r (''nuisi SOmi r II. A. Tlaylor, in at hetter to ie St at e , on rnal, of this city', satys. of tIhe p l)1ec's party inaulgura'ted. at Cincinn1atft i : "' l'he 1 conveniltien ai t Cinr cininat i flas n10 rightful claim to be - ('ailed( at na:tional convention, In it we II 1i(d inen who have been pIromIinent in rlneithe(r political nor business circles. - he~ mieni of brain, of' integrity andl S staitesmanlhshlip, the men wvho hatve or - ig:aniz,ed atnd conitriolledh ou r great linan I, (lnd tenterpr1ise's, who have enacted our I, liws and( dle'oted( Iivyes of' fidelity to all y h-'gif ituiate pulblic interests, haven't *, risedl ieirF voices in thie clamior of dis-' e con(tenIt which conmes from the Cincin 4, ii:ti convlienltioni. I cannot believe that anIy conlsider'able niluber of leading iiienf of either of tile greatt parties of the country will be found in the ranks (e of tis ne0w party. It will be largely r IId(e upl (If pe'rhaps well meanlnm', but tsiliisinformedt'( men.'' -The Agon,y Over. re TVA .LAIiAssi'.ile, Flat., May 27.-Sena le tor C'all was re-eiected Unitedl Senator 10 by thce Legislature in joint session to r-hday. ile received flfty-one votes, only >e lifty-four members being present. T1he id anti-Call men atbsented themselves from the ioint session.