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vo.XX PICKENS, S. C., IIUlISDAY TOBEl{ 29, 1891.N6 LESSON OF T1lE PYRAMID "WHAT I SAW C .NFIRMATORY OF THE SCRIPTURES." Dr. Talmage Beginis a Merich of Seranoi on IiM 01mervatiom in the Eanters Landls-Tho a:e;f;fg ...g Gizoh and the Ltnmin It Teaches. BJ3oocT;N, Oct. 18.-The vast con gregation at the Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning was delihted by an ex. quisito rendering, by Professor Henry Eyre Browne, on the new organ, ol Denier's second sonata in G. Dr. Tal. mage's sermon was the first of a series he intends preaching on his eastern tour, entitled, "From the lyramids to the Acropolis. or What I Saw in Egypt and Greece Confirmator'y of the Scriptures." I1is text was 11mah xix, 19, 20: "In that day shall I here be an altar to the Lord in the midst of' the land of Egypt, and a pillar -it If-e border thereof to the Lord. And it -hall be for a sign and for a wit,ness." Isaiah ne doubt hare refers to the great pyramid at (;zh, the chief pyra mid of' Egypt. The text speaks of a pillar in E,.!) pt. mil this is the greatest pillar ever It te0; and the text says it is to be at the border of' the land, atnd this pyramid is at the bordler of tihe land; and the text sa.NS it shall he N), a wit. ness, and tih. object of this sermon is to tell wht th p1ramid witnesses. This sermiot, is the first of a course of sermons i'titled, "From the Pyramid to the Acropcli-, or What 1 Saw in Egypt and (reece Confirmatory of the Scri pturik,."I We hed, on a morning of December, 1889, landed in. Africa. Amid the howl ing boatman at Alexandria we had come ashore and taken the rail train for Cairo, Egypt, along tle banks of' the most thorougely harli-ssed river of all the world-the river Nile. We had at even tide entered the city of Cairo, the city where Christ dwelt while staying in Egypt duriig the IIerodic persecution, It was our first night, in Egypt. No des troyIng angel sweepitg through as on6e, but all the stars were out, and the skie@ were filled with angels ot beauty and angels of ligit, and the air was baim as an American ,une. The next morn. ing we were early awakeand at the win. dow, looking upon palm trees in full glory of' leatfage, an( upon gardfens o: friiis and thwers at th( very seasor when our hones far away ire caiople by bleak skI-s fi-d the last leaf of th forest has gone down in the cquinoctials But how -.an I ('escribe the thrill o expectation. for today we are to set what all the world has seen or wants t( see-the py-amt ds. We are mountec for an hour a1nd -L hall's ride. We past on amid bazaars stuffed with rugs an carpets, and curious fabrics of all sort from Smyria, fiom Algier4, from Per. sia, t, -1m Turk(ty. We meet cameli gruntTng under their loads, and see buf faloes on either side browsing in pastur( fields. The road we travel is for part of the way under clumps of acacia and by long rows of sycaiior- and tamerisk, but af. ter awhile it is a path of' rock and sand, and we ind %ve have reached the mar. gin of the desert, tho great Sahara des ert, and wc cry out, to the dragoman as we see a huge pile of' rock looming in sight, "Dragonian, what Is that,'' liE answer is, "The pyramid,'' and then if seemed as if we were living a century every minute. Our thoughts and emo tions were too rnpid an(] intence for ut tcirance, andl we ridle on in silence until we conme to the foot of' the pyramid spoken of' in the text, the oldest struc. turce in all the ear't h, four t,housand yeairs old at least. Uerie it is. We stand tin dier the idbadow of a stiructure that shute out all t,be ear'th and all the sky, and we look up and str'am our vision to appre ciate the distant, top, and are over. whelmed while we ciry, "The pyramid! The p)yramid!" Each personi ini our party had t,wo oi three guides o' hielpeis. One of' then uinrolled his turban and1( tied it arouni miy waist andl he held the other end o: the uin ban as a matter of' safety. Mans of' the blocks (f stone are four or fiv< feet, high aind beyond any ordmuary hui main stridle unlhas iissistedl. But, twa .Arabs to putll and two A rabs to putshi, J found imys'I i rpidly aiscending fronr height to bie ilit. and on to altit.udes ter' rific. andl at 'aist at. the ftiptop we Ioma ourselves ot a level space of' abiont, thir ty feet squarle. TIhroughi clearest att mosphlere weolotked oiff upon the dIeserf, andW oflf upon the windmuug Nile, and of uponi the Spuhinix, with its features o verlasting stoi,e, and S ondr upo'n thu irmycets o~ Cua g'ittering in the sun d volhie qibr Memphis in ruins, an< upon the wireck of empires a nd thi battlefields of ages, a ra<ius of' viev enough t,o fill the mind and shock thi nerves andi oveirwhelm one's ent,iire lbe ing. Affeir lookimg arotind for awhile and a kodak had picture'd the group, wi descended. P. I satid the dominant coloir of tli pyraid was gray, hut, in certain light. it seems to shake ofl'f lie gray of eeni furies andh become a blondi, andi the sil ver turns to fthe golden. 1I, covers t,bi teen acies of 'roiund. What an anti quityl it was at least t,wo thiousaun years old1 "hen the baby Chirist wias car riedi within sight, of it by his fugitivi parents, Joneph and Mary. The storm of forty centuries have drenched it, born harded it, shadowed it. flashed upon It iut there it stands, readly to take anot,he forty centures oh aitmiosphieric attacki the world should coatinuie to exist The oldest buildIngs of' the earth ari juniors to this great sonior of t,he een turies. IIerodoftus saisa that foir ten year pre parations were being umade for th 4 building of' this pyramid. It has eighty two million onie hundired and elevei thousand cub!c feet of' masonry. Oni bundred thousand workmen at one tim< toiled ini its tweet.ion. TIo birinig the ston< from the quarries a causeway sixty fee wide was l-uilt. The top stones weri lifted by machinery such as the worl knows nothing of todlav. It Is sevei h igdre an forty-six feet each sute C tesquare base. The structure In fou 'hundred andl litty feet high; higher that the cathedrals of Cologne, Strasburg Rlonen. St. Peter's and St. PanP's. Ne surprise to me that It was put at the head of the seven wonders of the world. It has a subterraneous room of red granite called the "king's chamber," and another room called the "queen's chamber," and the probability is that there are other rooms yet unexplored. For three thousand years this sep ulchral room was unopened, and would have been until today probably unopened II ;16ht -uperstiL[ous impression got abroad that the heart of the pyramid was filled with silver and gold and dia monds, and under Al Mamoun an ex cavating party went to work, and hay in)g bored and blasted through a hun dred feet of rock, they found no opening ahead, and were about to give up the at tempt when the workmen heard a stone roll down into a seemingly hollow place, an( encouraged by that they resumed their work and came into the under ground rooms. The disappoint nent of the workmen in liading the sarcphazus empty of all silver and gold and -precious st,ones was I so great that they would have assas- 1 siated Al Mamoun, who employed them, had he not hid in another part of the pyramid as much silver and gold as would pay them for their work at ordinary rates of wages and induced them there to dig till they to their surprise came upou a0equate compensation. I wonder not that this mountain of limestone and red granite has been the fa.-cination of scholars, ol scientists, of intelligent Christians in all ages. Sir John Herschel, the astronomer, said he thought it had astronomical significance. The wise men who accompanied Napo leon's array into Egypt went into pro found study of the pyiamild. In 1865 Professor Smyth and his wife lived in the empty tombs near by the pyramid that they might be as continuously as possi ble close to the pyramid which they were investigating. The pyramid, built more than four thousand years ago, being a complete geometrical figure, wise men have concluded it must have been div. inely constructed. Man came through thousands of years to fine architecture, to music, to painting, but this was per fect at the world's start, and God must have directed it. All astronomers and geometricians and scientists say that it was scientifical ly and mathematically constructed be tore science and mathematics were born. From the inscriptions on the pyramid, from its proportions, from the points of the compass recognized in its structure, flom the direction In which its tunuels run, from the relative position of the blocks that compose it, scientists, Chris tians and infidels have demonstrate(d that the being who planned this pyramid must have known the world's sphericity, and that its motion was rotary, and how many miles it was in diameter and cir cumference, and how many tons the world weighs, and knew at whai point in the heavens certain stars would ap pear at certain periods of time. Not in the four thousand years since the putting up of that pyramid has a single fact in astronomy or mathe matics been found to contradict the wisdom of that structure. Yet they had not at the age when the pyramid was started an astronomer or an archi tect or a mathematician worth men tioning. Who then planned the pyra mid? Who superintended its erection? Who from its first foundation stone to its capstone erected everything? It must have been God. Isaiah was right when lie said in my text "A pillar shall be at the border of the land of Egypt and it shall be for a sign and a witness." The pyramid is God's first Bible. Hun Ireds, if not tnousands, of years before the first line of the Book of Genesis was written, the lesson of the pyramid was written. WVell, of what is this Cyclopean ma sonry a sign and a witness? Among1 other things-of the prolongation of human work compared with the brnwity of human life. So men die but their work lives on. We are all building pyramids not to1 last four thousand years, buit forty thiousand, forty million, forty trillion, forty quadrillion, forty quintillion.1 For It while wve wield the trowel, or pound wvith the hammer, or measure with the yard stick, or write with the pen,-or experiment with the scientific battery, or plan with the brain, and for a while the foot walks, and the eye sees, nd the ear hears, and t,he tonguei speaks. All the good words or bad words we speak are spread out Into one Iayer for a pyramid. All the kindI d (eeds or malevolent dleeds we do are spreadl out into another layer. All the Christian or uin-Christian example we set is spread out in another layer. All the indirect inluences of our lives are sp)read out in another layer. Then the titue soon comes when we put down the implemIent of toil and pas~s away, but the pyramid stands. If one of those granite blocks that I just touch with my feet on this Decem ber morn in g in l889D as the two Arabs pull ine and the two other Arabs push me, could speak out and tell its history it wotuld say: "The place of my nativ ity was (downi in the great stone quarry of Mokattain or Asswan. TIhen they began to bore att my sides, and then to drive down great iron wedges, crushing aga' smt me till the whole quarry quaked and tbundered. Then I was pried out -wit.h crow bars and levers, scores of men - putting their weight on the leverage T hen chalins were put around me and I Iwas hoisted with wheels that groaned -under the weight, and many workmen lahd their hands on the cranks and a turned until the muscles on their arms - stood out in ridges, and the sweat rolled ,from their dusk y foreheads. 1. "i'hen I was drawn by long t eams of r oxen, yoke atter yoke, yoke after yoke. ,Tlhen I was put on an inclined plane and~ luau led up ward and how many rntools, and how many human arms, and how many beasts of burden were employed to get me to this place no one Scan tell. Then 1 had to be measured a and squared and compassed and fitted - in bel ore [ was left here to do my silent a work of thousands of years. God only a kn Qwe how many bands were busiedi in a getting me from may geological cradle in the quarry to this enthronement of i nnumerale ages." Pd hearers, that is the autobiography o din't blo'ck of th pyramid. Chep. id' build the i pyramid. Some boss mason in the world's twi light didn't build the pra fmid. One hundred thousand men built e it and perhaps from first to la.t two i hundred thousand men. 8o with the pyramids now rising a pyramids of evin n' pyramids o. good The pyramid of drunkenness, rising ever since the time when Noah got drunk on wine, although there was at his time such a superabundance of water. All the saloonists of the ages adding their layers of ale casks and wine pitchers and rum jugg until the pyramid overshadows the GreatSahara desert of desolated homes and broken hearts and destroyed eternities. And ig the widiu -Liifse,1 erioT luman skulls piled on top of human ikulls and other mountains of human ones to whiten the peaks reaching ur to the heavens, hundreds of thousands f people are building that pyramid. So with the pyramid of righteousness. .lultitudes of hands are toiling on the iteeps, hands infantile, hands octogen irian, masculine hands, female hands, itrong hands, weak hands. Some clang ng a trowel, some pulling a rope, some neasuring the sides. Layers of psalm wooks on top of )ayers of sermons. iayers of prayers on top of layers of ioly sacrifice. And bundreds of thous tuds coming down to sleep their last leep, but other hundreds of thousands ;oing up to take their places, and the yramids will continue to rise until the nillennial morning gilds the completed York, and the toilers on these heights ihall take off their aprons and throw lown their trowels, crying, "It is fin shed!" Your business and mine is not to mild a pyramid but to be one of the mndreds of thousands who shall ring a ,rowel or pull a r:pe or turn the crank, )f a derrick, or cry, "Yo, heave!" while ifting another block to its elevation. 'hough it be seemingly a small work ind a brief work, it is~a work that shall ast forever. In the last day many a nan and woman whose work has never been recognized on earth will come to i special honor. The Ecumenical ,ouucil, now in session at Washington, .ts delegates the honored representa ives of lifty million Methodists in all parts ot the earth, will at every session lo honor to the memory of John Wes ey, but I won:Jer if any of them will ;hink to twist a garland for the mem )ry of humble Peter .Bohler, the Mo avian, who brought John Wesley into 1he kingdom of God. I rejoice that all the thousands who iave been toiling on the pyramid of 'ghteousness will at last be recognized md rewarded-the mother who brought ier children to Christ, the Sabbath .eacher who brought her class to the inowledge of the truth, the unpretend og man who saved a soul. Then the ;rowel will be more honored than the cepter. As a great battle was going :n the soldiers were ordered to the front and a sick man jumped out of an Ambulance in which he was being car ried to the hospital. The surgeon asked Min what he meant by getting out of the ambulance when he was sick and lmost ready to die. The soldier an iwered: "Doctor, I am going to the Front. I had rather (lie on the field than lie in an ambnlance." Thank God; if we cannot do much we can do little. This pyramid of rock seven hundred md forty feet ea-h side of the square Jase and four hundred and fifty feet iigh which was the tomb of Cheops wins for him no respect. If a bone )f his arm or foot had been found in ;he sarcophagus beneath the pyramid, t would have excited no more venera ion than the skeleton of a camel )leaching on the Libyan desert; yea, ess veneration, for when I saw the car ass of a camel by the roadside on the way to Memphis, I said to myself, "Poor 'hing, I wonder of what it died." We lay nothing against the marble or the )ronze of the necropolis. Let all that culpture and florescence and arbore icence can do for the places of the dead )e done, if means will allow it. But if tfter one is dead there is nothing left o remind the worl of hIm but some )ieces of stone, there is but little left. All around Cairo and Memphis there ire the remains of pyramids that have lone down under the wearing away of ,ine, and this great pyramid of which [saiah in the text speaks will vanish f the world lasts long enough; and if the world does not last, then with the earth's dissolution the py'ramid will so diseolve. But the memories of hose with whom we associate are lnde tructible. They will be more vivid he other side of the grave than this ide. It is possible for me to (10 you a rood and for you to do me a good that ,wIll be vivid in memory as many years ifter the world is burned up as all the iands of the seashore, and all the leaves )f the forest, andl all the grass blades of ,he ild, andl all the stars of heaven idded together, andl that aggregate nultiplied by all the figures that all the Jookkeepers of all time ever wrote. That (lesire to be remembered after we are gone is a dlivinely implanted de mire and not to be crushed out, but, I mplore you, seek something better ~han the immortalization of rock or bronze or 3)ook. -Put yourself into the sternity of those whom you help for Dothi worlds, this and the next. Com-. fort a hundred souls and there will be through all the cycles of eternity at east a hiundrea souls that will be your monuments. A prominent member of this church was brought to God by some one saying to her at the church leer at the close of the servIce, "Come :again!" Will it be possible for that one mo invitedl to forget the invite? A minister passing along the street everv day looked up and smiled to a baby in the window. Tile father and mother wondered who it was that thus pleasantly greeted their child. TIhey round out that he was the pastor of a ehurch. They said, 'We must go and hear him preach." They went. and both were con verted to God. Will there be any power in fIfty million years to erase from the souls of those parents the memory of that man who by his friendliness brought them to God?y Matthew Cranswick, an evangelist, said that he had the names of two hundred souls saved through his singing the hymn, "Arise, my soul, arise," WVill any of those two hundred souls in all eternity forget Matthew Crans wick? WVill any of the four hundred and sev enty-nine women and children impris onedl at Lucknow, India, waiting for massacre by the Sepoys, forget Iilaye lock and Outram and Sir D)avid heard, who broke in and effected their rescue. To some of you who have loved and served the Lord heaven will be a great picture gallery of remembrance. 11osts of the glorilled will never forget you. Ah, that is the way of building menu mnents that shall never feel the touch of decay. I do not ask you to suppress this natural desire of being remember ed after you are gone, but I only w ant you to put your mnemorials into a shape thatshall never weaken or fade. Dur lur the 00nne.0 2 my ministr avm been intimately associated in Chris' ian work with hundreds of good men and women. As in Egypt that December afternoon, 1889, exhausted in body, mind and soul, we mounted to return to Cairo, we took our last look of the pyramid at Gizeh. And you know there is something in the air toward evening that seems produc tive of solemn and tender emotion, and blt great uvranid seemed to be hu greau ~ ~ ~ r . ..11 tolle it manized and with LIU JI t seemed to speak and cry out: "Iear me, man, mortal and immortal! My voice is the voice of God. i1e design ed me. Isaiah said I would we be a sign and a witness. I saw Moses when lie was a lad. I witnessed the long pro cession of the Israelites as they started to cross the Red sea and Pharaoh's host in pursuit of them. The falcons and the eagles of many centuries hvive brushed my brow. I stood hero when Cleopatra's barge landed withi her sor ceries, and Hypatia for her virtues was slain in yonder streets. Alexander tho Great, 8eostris and Ptolemy admired my proportions. llerodotus and Pflny sounded my praise. I am old, IL am very old. For thousands of years I have watched the coming and going of gen erations. They tarry on a little while, but they make everlasting impression. I bear on my side the mark of the trow el and chisel of those who more than four thousand years ago expired. Be ware what you do, oh, man! for what you do will last lofg years after you are dead! If you would be affectionately remembered after you are gone, trust not to any commemoration. I have not one word to say about any astrono. mers who studied( the heavens from my heights, or any king who was sepulcher ed inl my bosom. I am slowly passing away. I am a dying pyraimid. I shall yet lie down in the (lust of the plain, and the sands of the desert shall cover me, or when the earth goes I will go. 1ut you are immortal. The feet with which you climbed my sides today will turn to dust, but you have a soul that will outlast Inc and all mily brotherhood of pyramids. Live for eternity! Live for God! With the shadows of evening now falling from my side, I pronounce upon you a benediction. Take it with you across the Mediterranean. Take it with you across the Atlantic. (od only is great. Let all the earth keep silence before himi. Amen'" And then tihe lips of granite hushed, and the great giant of masonry wrap ped himself again in the silence of ages, and as I rode away in the gathering twilight, this course of sernions was projected. Wondrous Egypt: Land of anciett polip and pride, Wlhere Beauty walks by ho.ry luin's side,g Where plenty reigns and still the seasons smile, And rolls-rich gift of ((Il -vxha,ustless Nile. DOth of I Iaby. The following fromi the pen of Bill Arp is as good as anything 1w tver wrote: "The baby is dead." That was the sad telegram th:at caine to us from far away whero one of ouir b:ys is living. It saddened the household. for we had never seen the child nor the Imother, and they w ere to come and visit lis next month, and expected to Me so hap py. There is trouble that is trouble grief that is grief. The first child, and Old enough to have twined arotnd her mother's heart and absorbed her very life. Tie father can love, too, and ea ress and feel a father's pride, and he can weep and feel desolate. Time will temper hi grief', but a mother never ceases to lament the death of her lirst born child. It has been more than thirty years since we lost one, but the little gar ments that he wore were hidden away somewhere, and somietimes I see thue mother fondling them as they lie in tIhe 01(1 trunk-the trunk that hols her heart's best treasures. It was Sterne who said: "God tempers the winid to the shorn lamb," and so in time the young mother's grief will be sweeter than it is sad, and she will rise from it wilth a hope and a trust that she never knew before. A child in heavenm is a bond that cannot be taken-it is not lost-it is savedl. liut still the pang of saperation is very crushing to thei pa rents heart. llow *.he world shrinks up; how mnean and insigniuicant are all its pleasures. I have felt that way, and been comfortedl with t,he feelinmg, and( so) I know has every parent who has lost a child. A (Generai IHangmna,,. Wash ix('O, C. I1.,. ( ., Oct. 19. WVm. A. IBunett, of thiis city, is downm in Fort Sumithm, Aruk., and ini a personai letter recently receiv~edl by a f rienud he(re Mr. Ihiirnett says: "'-'ort Sum ithc is qu'it e an historic la~ce. Thew old tori- sill stands, or at least part~ of it . 'Thc wvalls were twelve feet high wheni tir'st bu lIt. and they enclose about ine[I acr(es. 'The Uniitedl St ates jail is in thbe center mcd to the south is the gallows. Thecre are at the p)resent time 110 priisonmers Coin flnedl in this jail, wvhich is a I rge and substantial structura, and, whcen once behind these bars, it,'s dollars to dougni nuts a fellow will not esc'ape. A rrange meats are being made for another hang ing; but the people don't pay any mciore attention to a haowinrg luere t han they would to a dog light at bouie. 'The hanging is all (lone by one muan named Mailadon, about 65>aears of' age. lIe has broken ninmety-sevenm necks on tihe same scaffold, and has swung off as many as six at one ti me. Alallaidon gets $25 for every man he hangs. Some times the hangsncan gets to talking about the men he has executedl -and cries like a child." lie Cut. Oil ie,r IEarg, CoLUinIA, S. C., October 15.-- Fred Kempson, an escaped convict, went to the homuse of a wvomani ini Lexington county who had bceen instrumental In securiing his pros'cuitionm andl counvic tion for assault and battery with intenit to kill, tied her up and tol her that lie would either cut her throat, or chop off her ears, and that she mcight choose. The woman dlecidedh to lose her ears, and the scoundrel hacked them off with a dull knife, Hie then untied time wo man andi left the neighbliorhood. The D)reade(l Mali.~ NEiW OItLEANS, Oct. 1i.-G(aAano Barregona, an [talianm luier' ownsr, was assassinated last night. The nahir hears all the marke of tIme Maria. Tlheire was a jolly game of cards at an Italiacn a loon near the French mar'ket. a quafrel, a stampede, and -'as the vict.im reachedl the door lhe was riddled with bullets, The pollee have arrested thle proprietor of the place anid several others, but there ia no poet a to who ,di1 the shoaing, JlS SHIP AGAINST SEV EN. CAPr. INGRAHAM DEMANDED JUSTICE FOR AN AMERICAN. | 1Its Batt eries Twice Trained en the Arch ditho's Siip--A Story of the Early3 monym of our Navy Itecialled by Capt lag; a I ' sLW 1jeadSLa. Ew YoRK, Oct. 2.-In these days of tie rehabilitation of i he l'nited Stn.es navy we may recall with pride unalloye(d t with regret the good old days of yovr when all the world knew and respectc< tho prowess of Am2rican war vessels. 6 And the death of Dunlcaln Nathaniol hii i graham in Charleston. S. C., on Friday gives a )rOper Oppo um)01tllnty to IecL1 those days. For, as wag stwosted in the obiLuary notic published in the Sun 11 of' Saturday llorlinlg, this Duncan Na .h1 anel InuralinN was the hero of ont of thosc remarkab!e episodets wliell ill e I oter nations understani that the tai of L thie American bird could not he pull .d, s phicked, twisted, trodI upon, or oth r- I wiie disrespet,luilly us-;ed under the gu.n. I of' vn American war vessel. There had buen Ca 'pt a Jones 1nd I C-1mm1odore l'err". and old Afihnt l l,'rter, who brA fou'hlt, En:h1sh4 1 .ll I Fi oech and lPort'1ucue ald tho Barb.ry h States, and all nlt 1iwr o1 uraft Iiy n Ilhs's legmitimatoe and ll s of them hild come toff k.<ItlerCr. * Those were the days 4t wo->e filh ji r and sailng craft, viin tho eli'm en4 romance was enliancil by tie big sis t and the swarming over the sides withi cutlasses and lialburds and all that sort 1 of' thing. A go"d 1turt of the oflic.rs Ihen were of' Sout,irn failitje-sei< 114 o of houses that unelid thicniselves in l sotnet.hing like feudal state. h'llese ] Young Inenl Came of (xcullant, anices"r.y of Which t.h(y Were exceedingly prokd. , Of these Duncan Nathianicd 1111ali ll Was one of' the hest xailiple. flis fither had been a naval ollicer, a friend of Paul J ones and one of' Ihi.i co:n, panlions in that jamioulS Jllh bi-tween'.l thue Sera)pis and the Ion Ilonmllie I" .,I ard., It, was qu11natural thakt the, I onl should enter the navy. Ile was b-'rn in 1802, and when Io yeair: ohd was al ready a m-idshipmilite. rinotion ill those das Was s1" Slow 1s low, 1perihu.s a little slower. S,) alithouli this 01..ig inn lou.t, through he war ol I 1 '. ht wi ,till a1 mi)ds,liIi,mank. Inll I:- r - r Llereabout 1V4Whenl ti:e ori,,inal I)hl td Port.er went, down to !.he S-.luthrn v, ..t- r el--i of the nite,d State-, to atteid o t plirattui who inlfeFtel thle s:ali.;a., Is i 1 h myl' Ster'iosl 1 iniletA o1 theL' (i It Il tie Caribian Svit, yoin., In-ral im wv A vb-ard his Nessel, :Ulld saw ltira:es inlged at the yard arm, and learclne to be vigilant, <lick iresohite andn lie - in-: in tile best schorl cver naval ofi, r had-,1 t Iingrithaml, iisen to a commandcl, f served ill the Mexican war, andit a w vcars after its close was sent to join he i suadron oftie Mediterraiwan. 'Ie e .is c inl coimmiid of tile St. Louis, whici is sa I to have been the Iide of I hIe .\ m ..r- t ic..n1 navy and which was ctin!-, a h1 formlable ship for those dys. It i as m a -loop ot war triled with two 50 L'm- I ers. On June 22, 1>31, lie sailed i"to v the harbor of Sillyria, in Asiatic T;er- 'I key. lie found that he was it4 ill I.h l nick o' timc to take advanhuta oI t n o1f a hose chances for fam Whiecbiome to1 every mllan, so it is 4ai.d.- 0 Ini tile relt4ion.ifl of l i:marzv agai;1t 1. Autia in 18418 49., wvhichl I.u'i:2 N 45su1h1a Iled, Mar't,in Koszta was acopenu hi'e. When111~. the reion w 11 Iis pSIut a down, Kossuth.I, Kosztaiiil and(sveral o(,h1 na. .Aller long negotiations the~ 1Turk- e ishi Governnmenlt retfuised( to give them up, o ThenCf Kossuth and1 Kz.a wtent t,o the h~ Uniited States. whero't i\o'zta.i dlecided to r' settle. He enlgaged ill business inl New York, andi in JIul y, 18~52, declare1'd unfderi' 011t,h 11us in)tenitIion of bet'ominig a eitizen( of the United StaLes,. Th1e neCxt, year, I haiving buIsiness illn1 Styriia, Noszlat ent, w. ther31c iand r'emained34 Itor 011 111ne tim 11 uni.( tur betd, as indeed I ii hel migh) hav e 11 x metf ed, sin1ce Simyrna was nIot. 44n A 1ustiant n so1,i l. Bu i%o)zla ihadee soi0 ilamed4 .he r4 a plot 'vats hat.ched41I toi caturef him. ( )n June14. 21, 185.3, a bandi It (4 ireek imre 3n.. artes43 il Smiyria, hired3( by the3 Austir ian a t'onsul, overp'iowered K 4..zi 3, hiust f <3 himl init.) a boat aindl took him abhoardI aii ( was5 ingii! ml the harb'o:'. I L is said fiamt i' tls his wasil W5inl (coimand11, (4 no les i ae perIsonl than11 thie A rchduIikte .lohni, brow.er l A\t anly ra1tte, Mtatin h0osz.la was lit v :n ir'ons and( Iotl.ierwlis e t retewd as it er' mi iiil 1and4 danger'.31ous person0. 'iThe n3xt I daiy, when3I all Siny'ia wa'is talking aboutlw mandfer I ngr'ahaml. sail ed4 into4 the (barti- c' bierI. ( 'at. In griha h1ea1rs114i the storiIy of the kidlnaiping, 11114 tIhe itt thait the k id nappedCt manl was iani Amer('1ican <i- eIt~ z/enI, ftom K'..oszta 's Iris m141. Capt Ia- ,I gr'taam, whiohiad been31 il a wiar ill wicha the Un~iitedi State.' had autght, Gri at w. I iitain ia fe3w lesson of1 reIspectL for A mer'ican ci tiz.ens. was up ill arm a'~lt I on1ce. Hie wenft abodthe'u Llzari an/.1 ~ld a very courmteously atsked( l)er-n)issionl 1.o Mee Ko.szta. '1Te Austrho11 connaander,1431' a41- . ter some1 hlesitamtion, 3.ran1ited thle rluest. Commillander' Inigraham1i) assured1.( him:self3 i: that KszAta was tt!f24d to thei pro'ttc- .9 11i)n1 of the American flag, lie demand-ti(l I ed his release of theac A ustian1 coil)m11,n- t der', atnd, when it wias re(fused34, cent a note to the nearest 1 mletd States elli- v (cial, Consul i$rown), at, (Conistimt.inople. i Whbile hie was awvaitinig an answer six Austrian warl shlips sai ed init' theC bar'- a her anid took up positions near the( IIluz- e~ zar. On .June 29, belor'e any answer had come from Consul il'rown, tile St.. ( Louis nloticed( unusual signs of aictiity I oin board the Hfuzzar, andt pretty soo 441 site began to get untder wily.a Capt. Ing)rtaam sti'aightway puit the e St. Louis ini Suh a positionI that theO 1!uzzar ::ould not pass5., 1and4 cleared his 1 decks b r actmilt. ThaIi Iluzzar haOve. to, and then Capt,. Ingrahiam went aboard I and( staidi to tihe Austrian commander, who1 received1 him with) great court,esy: "Whlat is tile meanling of' t,is move on yonr nnrL?'' We prolose to sail for home," replied lie Austrian. "The consul has ordered a to take our prisoner to Austria." "You will pardon me," said Capt In rahaim very calmly. "But I hope you fill not leave this harbor with the Am rican gentleman you have kidnapped. f you do I shall be compelled to resort o extremo mesures." The Austrian looked around the har >or at the lino of friendly war ships and hen looked at the St. Louis, with her *lsiroll civid then smiled pleasant -"1said that lie y at Capt Ingraliaayad t L e bouglit such remarks were e Ko .ely itsh and that the Iluzzar would do a lie pleased. Capt lu%raham bowed and betook him elf to the st. Louis. Ile had no sooner ot aboard than he said: "Clear the guns for action!" And the Archduke had the ploasure I seeing Lhe batteries of kt. Louts turned pon lim. Ile realized that having the rrong side of the matter, he had put imself in a very bad position. The Iuzzar was put about and mailed back > her old anchorase. The Archduke mnt word to Capt Ingraham that he rould await the arrival of the note from Ir. Brown. On the afternoon of July 1 Capt In rahain got his reply. The consul at .:01nstalltilo)le commended his course, nd told him to do whatever he thought est to prevent an outrage to an Ameri kii. Lato that evening Capt Ingraham nt an oflicer aboard tho Iluzzar with a ote, The note formaily demanded the leae ol Mr. Koszta, and said that un ,ss thc prisoner was delivered aboard ie S,. 1luis by 4 o'clock the next after OI Citit It-raiani would take him -mn the Austrians by force. The Arch uikt sent, back n. formal refusal. At 8 'lock on the next morning, July 2, 'apt Ingrahan once more cleared his ecks for action antd trained his batteries :) that the I[uzzar would get their full irce at the first disAharge. The seven Lustr ian war vessels cleared their decks nml iut their men at the guns. All this while great excitement had revailed im Smyrna, and when the cit :ciis saw these last hostile demonstra ons they croNwded the shores, eager to '0 this oneside battle, which all knew '-ld not end so long as the American iwe tloate1 above water. , \, iIn o'clock the Austrian sent an tlicer to Capt Ingraham. This oflIcer Ned to temp irize, but Capt Ingrahamn elused to listen to him. lie said: "To NOhd the worst, I will agree to let the AMi ht delivered to the French consul a Sa rna until your (overnment has a 1um1iCeO to act. .1,ui, he must be delivered here or I will take him. I cannot. fail. Iy cause is.jiuft. I have stated the lie.'' Aga;n the Austrian sent a man to 'alit i,raha. But this time Capt nirahaii refused to receive him. Then he A ustrian consul general came out 'omi Symrvnnna and tried his diplonmacy. 'apt Ingraliam simply reveated that the Irench consul nust have Koszta by 4 'clock or there would be trouble. At, 12 o'clock a boat left the side of lie 1luzzar with Koszta on it, and one our alterward the French consul sent Ff)rd l(l Koszta was in his keeping. ,ater ;i the (lay several of the Austrian 'air vessels sailed out of the harbor. 'hlen came long netrotiations between ecretary of State William L. Marcy ud the Austrian charge d'afl'aires at Vashington, M. Iulsemann, at the end f which Austria admitted that the :iited States was right, apologized, nd r'eleasedlall claim upon Mr. Koszta. C'apt In'zrahiam got a gold medal and vote of' thanks from Congress, a gold edal from the cit,izeas of' New York, iedals and other testimonials from soy rali A mericani cit,izens, and a present I a fine chronometer and an engrossed ~tter from the workingmen of England, used b)y penny subscription. As a sort of' addition to this incident then st.ory of how J. Clavcy Jones used ommanider langrahanm's name in a sumi r' eplisode in 1859. Mr. ,Jones was bien minister to Austria. The Austrian ;>ver'hn('mnt was mlost anxious that nio las of the fo'rtlfications of Vienna be mde1(. A younig American studying ta'dicinie ini Viennia, was making s~ome ketches of' these fortifieations one day :uanile spirit and in uitter ignorance I thec law agamnst it-. Hie was arrestedl nd lockedh up MaI lOnes' iujiredl into it andl found uti the truitht, and( explained it, fully to bie A uistian miisiiter, at the same tIme '(ieLuin.g the release of the young Am rhiin. Th'le prime minister refused to stenu, aind said th'at the young man houbl h anda wouIld be punished. Wlh cn M r. .Jones saw that, the A ustrian 'as 1et lie siaub: '"Thfen 1 rgr'et, very much that I shall ave to bid you f'arewell.'" "'A re you going?'' said the Austrian. 111am indeed sorry, and hope that your oiintryv will heC as ably agreeab)ly repre ntiaed byv your successor." "I tear' that t.here will not be a suc esRsor to mue very soon." said Mr. onies. "I amn compelled to demand ni aitence with the Emperor. I wish ) eet my passports." '"What!" said the Austrian, ''your asspoirta? You do not Int,end to make I thais episode 5o sie[ious a mate? "'It is a serious matter," saidl Mr. onies, "and remInds me of the Koszta mase. C:apt Ingrahami is st,ill cruising mte Mediterrancan, by the way, and I hall lbe able to p)ut, him in immediate niowitdge of this affair also. I have bie honor(iL to bid you farewell.'' TheIa Austrian minister did inot know hlat;to make of this. But he felt that tonericans were not proper persons to iinish as examples, and, after delaying hay or two, released t,he young inedi ali student. Withu the outbreak of the civil war ;apt .Ingraham resigned, and in March, 861, enteredl the Confederate service. Ic was then 59 years old, and was ssigned first to the navy yard at, Pensa ola and then to Charleston, whore he istinguishedl himself by breaking the >lockade. Since the war he had lived 'ery (quietly in his birth-Dlace, Charles. on. Hie was marriedl to a granddaugh er of Henry Laurens and John Randolph mnd through his wife was connected with iome of the greatest officers in the British laVy,-New Yor Sn. A TALE OF LOVE. TEN HOURS THE BRIDE OF A ROMAN TIC MARRIAGE. A Hardware Salesman Rescues a Pretty Girl from Drowning-Love at First Sight -Marriare at Midnight on Her Death Bed. NEw YORK, Oct. 18.--Louis 1'. Rol lins,a hardware salesman of 113 Colum bia Heights at Brooklyn, has just fal ir to $250,000 through a romantic HIis bride was taken away marn Aeath ten hours after the from him bj -:LL=aJ.Lbeen1 performed. marriage ceremon et n perW to rwo years ago Mr. Roliiii .... Charleston, Me., to spend his vacatuv While out rowing in a lake one day he rescued a beautiful young girl, the daughter of a wealthy Boston lumber dealer, William Narcross. Kate E. Narcross was 11), and the belle of the Summer resort. She lived with her widower father at the old Maine town during the summer months and at somerville, Mass., during the winter. It was a iase of love at first sight be tween the salesman and Kate Narcross. When Mr. Rollins left Charleston he secured a promise fM hi3 weetheart that she would be his bride. Mr. Rtol lins went to Somervile at every oppor tuialty, and the marriage was put oif from Lime to time till Mr. Itollins could secure a permanent situation in New York which would not require him to travel. Two weeks ago Kate's father died, leaving the bulk of his fortune to his only child, who had nursed him tender ly through a long fit of sickness. The strain of attending to her father night and day was too great for the dutiful daughter. She was taken ill the day of her fatter's funeral and never left her room. Pneumonia set in and the phy sicians told Aliss Narcross that she must die. "Send for Louis, we must wed before I die," was Mliss Narcross' request. Air. Rollins was on a long business trip through the west for a Chambers street hardware firm. iIe hastened to the bedside of his intended wife and arrived on the eve of the day before she died. At Miss Narcross' request the Itev. A. It. Winship was called in at mid night. The physicians did not believe Mliss Narcross could iive till morning. "This is a very different marriage to what I had hoped for." was the dying woman's greeting to the clergyman. Between midnight and 1 o'clock of the next morning the ceremony was per formed. Immediately after the ser vices Miss Narcross had a notary suni moned and she made her will, the wit nesses being her husband, the clergy man and friends in the house. The newly made wife signed the document that gave nearly all of her property to her husband in a clear broad hand. She seemed to have gained new strength by the marriage and the physicians thought they saw signs of a change for the better in Mrs. Itollins' condition. Bit It was too late, for a relapse fol lowed and the bride sank into a peace ful sleep from which she never awoke. "Good-bye, Louis, my darling hus band," were her last words. The heart broken husband followed his wife's re mains to the grave, and then returned to Chicago to settle tip his business trip. IIe vill return to Somerville at once and settle up his wife's estate. The Charleston (Me.,) academy was alse re membered by Miss Narcross. She had been a pupil of the academy. When a reporter called at Mr. Itollins's Brook lyn residence, he learned a rather pecu liar story about another girl. It was said without names being given, that Mr. Rollins had been engaged to an other Brooklyn girl for several years. It was said she was the daughter of a lirooklyn clothier, and that an explana tion of the queer midnight marriage might be asked for on Mr. Rollins's re turn to Brooklyn. When Mr. Rollins was in Brooklyn lie was quite a favorite in a large circle of friends. iIe was an excellent conversationalist andl of good address, and he made acquaintance qluickly. iIe has been drawing a salary of $2,000, but may now go into busi ness for himself. Their Last Assignm,ent. CiiuCAco, Oct. 15.-A (dispatch fromn Crete, Ill., says that two reporters of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, named Wash burne and IIenry, and McCafferty, the special artist of that paper, were in stantly killed last unight at that place The two latter had been assigned1 to write an article upon a midnight rail- , road ride on the (1hicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad. Washiburne was re turning from his vacation tb act as best man at the wedding of another member of the Inter-Ocean staff, The three men, with General Passenger Agent Stone, were riding upon the lo comnotive. Stone left them to go into the (dining car, and a moment later the train struck a misplaced switch, and the locomotive plunged through an en- / - gine house. The engineer andl fireman jumiped and saved themselves, but the three newspaper men were killed. 3111ll)Disaster at Manchester. MANCHIESTiER, N. II., Oct. 15.-The fly wheel of No.7 miii of the Armoskeag corporation burst about 9.30 A. M, tear ing through the floor of the first and second stories. Two persons are be lieved to have been killed outright and a dozen badly wounded. The excite ment about the mill gates is very great. Eleven girls were employed in the draw ing room over the steam pumping room ad joining the engine house. When the wheel burst they were carried to the basement in the debris. Seven of them were caught in the heavy timbers anid Iron beams and badly in.jured. One died three hours later. An engineer named Bunker was taken out of the ruins dead. Eleven persons were in jutred and one girl is missing. Proba bly two or three more deaths will result. The. Cotton Suippy. NEw YORK, Oct. 17.-The total vis ible supply of cotton for the world is - 2,595,402 bales of which 2 216 802 baleg are American, against 1,i19373 and 1,.. 428,978 respectively last year. Receipts at all interior towns, 25'7,681; receipts on jatations, 442,814; crop insight, Lest, With All on Board. BOSTON, Oct. 16.--The schooner Re becca A. Tiaulane, Capt. Nickersoni, of South Chathamn, carrying a crew of seven men is no doubt lost, with all on board. She left Newport News, Va, August28, for Galveston with a carg - Of coal, and has nio been ie.ad of sice