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VO.XXI PICKENS, S. C. 'IIHURSI)AY, NONI'ML!~., 8I.N7 TABERNACLE PULPIT. DR. TALMAGE'S SECOND SERMON Of HIS OLD WORLD JOURNEYS. H1e Firds Confit anailJon of the Truth a the Scriptures in the Testimiony of th Cities and ItIverf and Places of Loni Ago. BiRooK LYN, Oct. 25.-The render ing of the -First Senata in D Minor, b: Guilmaut, on the great organ of til Brooklyn Tabernacle this morninz, b: Prolfssor I] onry Eyre jlrowne, the or gaist, held tl.e vast congregation spell bound with profound emotion. Dr. Tal mage ureached oi "Sailing Up the Nile,I the second sernjon of the series eutitlet "From the P ramies td the Acropolis or, What 1 snw in Egypt, and Greec Confirmatory of the Scriptures." Ii text was Ezekiel xxix, 9, "The Itive ts Mine and I Have Made It." Ai! This is the Itiver Nile. A browi or yellow or silver cord on which ar hung more jewels of thrilling interes than on any river that was ever twistei in the sunshine. It ril.ples through th book of Ezekiel, and flashes in the book of Deuteronomy anti Isaiah and Zecharh and Naihun, and on its banks stood tl iighities ol ilanV a,-es. It was thi crystal cradle <, 'lose, and oil its bank. Marry the rvhtgev, carried the infan dJesus. 'To tiE i:ie birthplace of thii river was t. fa- rination and defeat. o expedi,tionis n% i:-hou i numiber. Not inany .cear- aolay,ai d Taylor our !i(iL A.ucrian traveler, wrote "Since Colu'us iret, looked upon Sai Salvaih.r', the earth has but one omo tionl of triu iipl left lor her bestowal, an that she reser% es for hii who shall firs dritik from V o Jowntaiins of the Whit Nile iiahr t , stiow fields of' Kilmi Njare.'' l1u' th a scovery of th sourc.s of the Nile by most people wa -considertd an 1im1; lossibili(y. The nui lrias, the wil. beasts, the savages, th unelimalllle 'elpi, the vast distauce toppcd all tlh ex!editions for age. 1ui. the k% !itl Nile would do littl for E-vpt if this were all. It, woul keep 1s bank- and Egypt, would remni a deset. t u' trom Abyssinia ther comes Ihat : called the ilue Nih which, though d:v or nearly dry Ia the year, und( r trnc-udous raiis ab(a lhe middle of' .Jule rises to great , ineitui, and :his Blue N ile dashes wit suddeti i-iflux into i he White Nile, whic in ons( quentce rises thirty feet inl their coimbiticd waters Inundate Egyl with a rich Soil which <arops oi ali ti Iklds and gnrdens as it, is conducted 1:, ditchesi and sluices and canals evei whither. The gi eatest damage that ever catr to Egypt came by the drying up of ti River Nile, sind the greatest blessin! Ii its healthful and abvudant flow. Ti flmine in .Joseph's time came from ti lack )f sutlicient inundation from tl> Nile. Not enoui!h Nile is drought; tc much Nile is Freshet and plaguE. Ti rivers of the earth are the mothers of il prosperity. It by some convulsion < nature the Mississippi should be take from North America, or the Amavo from South America. or the Danub from Europe, or the Yenisei from Asi -what, hemispheric calamity! Stil ,here are other rivers, that could ferti ize and save these countries. What happens to the Nile, happens t Egypt. The Nilometer was to me ver suggestive as we went np and down it damp stone steps -nd saw the pille marked with notches telling just hos high' or low are the waters of t,he Nik When the Nile is rising f'our criers ever mornmng run through the city annoum ins. how many tfeet the river has risen ten feet, fifteen feet, twenty feet,, twer ty-four feet-and when the right heigl: or' water is reachled the gates of t,he ei nalh are flut- g opent antd the liqluidl an refieshing benediction is p)ronoun~edl o all the land. As we start where the Nile emptie ito ti e Medtiterranieani sea, weC behiol wonde'rful fulfillinen t of propihecy. TLh Nile iner~my ancet, times used to hav seven mouths. As the great river atj pr'oachedl the seal it, enteredl the sea sevenI diflt?erent places(. lsiahi prophlesi ed, '"'Te L ord shall utterly (destroy th tongue o1 the Egyptiian sea and slha smite it, in the seven streams.'' Tht lact, is they are all diestroyedl but tw( and Jlerodotus said these two remaiti ing are ar-tificial. Up (lhe Nile we sha g); pairt, of the w ay by Egyptian ra train andl( thien by boat, and weO shall uii dsrstand( why lie I ;ible gives such ptromi inence to0 this . ivt r, which Is the lar'ges river of all Lh- earth with one exceptiorl .lut betore we l *ard( the train we mu, take a look :dt Alexatidria. 1I, wat - ounided by Ale'x,'nde-r the GreatI, an wais seeW the New York, the Pai-, t London of the world. Tlemples, pl] yes, fountta~ins, gardens, pitlared itn d el flores;ent,L wi.hlt tIi aitectura nl an Edtn(ic igranid< ur anid swetnessQM. A p' Ios, thet elorqu< ut whaltni ini New T'esit ier(t times st mecpeople tried to imake rival to Paul. lived here. II[ere Mlarl the athorlli of the secoind book of th~ Newv Testiiamet. ? xpliredl tunder N ero atnathuema. Fromii here the sip sails that, lft Paul and thle crew strutgclizngi the breakers ol' Alelita. ]But, A hexiai der, fascinit,Lir fo i r this or that thiint alccordhing to the I-ste of the visitor, wi to imet mo(St (eieraing because it, ha been the site < 1 thes 1!eiitest library tin lie wornld ever sa1w, conisidering the lat t hat, thle art, ofl prin tig had1( not, bieen ii tumes iitd all the work of' a slow her ]But down it all w(ent under thce torch< besiegers. Unltilt aigin atid destroyt aguini. ]Built tieain, but the Arabs camt along for Its final demiolition and Lih four~thousnd baths of the city wet hieatedl with those volumes, the fuel lasl ing six mont,hs, and were ever tires kia (lied at such fearful cost,. Only one book has been able to wit?: stand the bombardment, andl that hia gone through without smell of fire on it lids. No sword or spear or musket 10 its defense. An ulnarmedl New Testi ment. An , uniarmied Old1 Testauneii Yet iinvulnera ile and triumphant. Trher mud be something supernatural abot: It. Conqueror of books! Monarch< -r books! All the books of all the ages I all the libraries outshone by thils on book which you and I carry to church in a pocket. So methought amid the ashes of Alexandrian libraries. 4 But all aboard the Eyptian rail train going up the banks of the Nile! Look out of the window and see those camels kneeling for the imposition of their load. r And I think we maht take from them a lesson, and, instead of try'ng to stand r upright in our )wn strength, become conscious or our weakness and need of divine help before we take uon us the heavy duties of the year or the week or the day, and so kneel for the burden. We meet processions of meni and beasts a on the way from their day's work, but r alas, for the hoies to which the poor . Inhabitants are going, f:or the most part hovels of mud. But there is somethini in tie scene that thoroughly enlists us. It is the novelt.y of wretchedness and a scene of picturesquu rags. For thous ands of' years this land has been under a very damnation of' taxes. Nothing but Christian civilization will roll back ithe influences which are pollini the Egyptians." There are gardens and palaces, but they belong to the rulers. About, here under the valiant Murad Bey, the Mamelukes, who are the lin est horsemen In the world, came like a hurricane upon Napoleon's army, but they were be iten back by the French in one of' the fiercest battles of all time. Then the Mamelukes turued theirl hor ses' heads he other way, and in desper ation backed them against the French troops, hoping the horses would kick L the lie out of the French re-iments. The Mamelukes, flaihng aga.n, plunged into this Nile and were diowned, the French were for d.t3s ishing out. the dead bodies of the Mamelukes to get the valuables umon their dead Ibodies. Na poleonl, at the darli,nV 01 these Maie lukes, exclaimed, Could I have united the Alameluke hoi se to the Ficncli i:i t fantry, I would have ieck>ned myself master of the world.'' This ride along 1he Nile is one o' the D most solemn and impressive rides of aIll tily lie tiie, 1111d wur emotions deepen as the curtains of the night fall upon alI surroundings. 1ut we shall not be sat isfiel until we ean take a ship and pas right out upon these wondrous witter and between the banks crowded with the story of eipires. Ac,.ording to thw. lead pencil mark in my lBible it was Tlinksgivin- day iorn it tg, Nov. 28, 1889, that with my Cumlily and friends we stepped aboard the steaner on the Nile. The Mohaunmeda call to prayers had been sounded by th h priests of' that religion, the Muzzins from the four hundred mosques of' Cairc it as the cry went out: "God great. I dbear witness that there is 1no God ba God. bear witness that Moh tiilne d i: 'Y the apostle of God. Coni to prayers Come to salvation. God is great. Ther is no other but God. Prayers are bette than sleep.1 y As we slowly move up the majest i, river I see oa each bank the wheel., lic e pumps, the buckets for irrigation, am , see a man with his fCtt on the treadle o o a wheel that fetches uii the water for I e garden, and then for the first time I un (jerstand that pa-sage ia Deu.eronomj ) which says of the Israelites after they 1 had got back from Egypt, "Tle lam n whither thou goest III to possess it Is no as the land of Egypt, from whence ye a came out. where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot." Then I underistood how the land could b watered with the foot. How do you 0 suppose I felt when on t,e (leck of that steamer on the Nile I looked oil' upo 8 the canals and ditches and slulces r through which the -ields are irrigated b that river', andl then r'eati in Isaiah, "The~ burden of Egynt-thie iver shall be wasted andl dried up, and they shall turn the rivers far away and the brooks of _ defense shall be eniptied ando dried1 upl; .and1 they shall be birokeni in the pur'poses t thereof, and that make sluices and ponds . br fish." 1 Tlhat Thanksgiving miorning on the Nilei und my text of'today. Phairaoh ii this chapter is compared t,o t,ht. dragon or tipopotamus suggestedl by the crocodiles that usedl to line thes banks ol e hsrvr KT'hus saith t,he I o'rd God: e Behold I am agzamst, thee Phlaroahi, king ofEgypt the uIreat dragon that, lieth in Sthei mid st or his riveis, which hiathi said . my river Is miin1a own, and I have nmade e it, for' mysel f. But, I w ill put, hooks ini thy jaws and I will caulse the fish of thy eirivers to stick unto thy scales, and I w!ll bring thee up out, of the midst of thi . rivers, and all the fish of thy iriveis shall Istick unt,o thy scales, and the land oh 1 gypt shall be d -solote andl waste, andi .they shall know that I am the Lord; lbe .cause hei halthi sid the river' is minie r i:6 t I have madite it.'' . Whbile Silingii. on this riv'er or stopiping alt 01ne of the villages, we see plCoI on] the banks who verify the Bible dlescrip-' tion , for they aire tilow as thle y wer'e in e Ilible1 times.* Shoes aire niow ta ken (il . li r':verenice tiacre Ilaces. ('hiblren ..ii Iarned astide thle m101 other' shioule1r a1s iin 1 ligar''s time. Wmin ith priii iotulsioni .01 jew eliy as whleni Iebecca was afliainc . ed. I4rtils shlelledl int' the polttaa0. as al,en Esau so111hins hiathrnight to get 1.'uchi aI dish. * h'Ie i'5am edabb of saluta-hi Lion as .wh en . ose ph anid his brethriieii a tell .ii each oilher's necks. CourtLs of a tines. I 'ople1 miakint bricks ithilout .straw' '.copelled by c ircums1: ttnces tol uiste stule d instIeadl of tra. v. F llinig Eover ori stambIng oni the banks das ni .-ctripiture day arev ii:L Iiigoes, tand bulbhnines. (i ll I sides of' Lthis .chers. Cliieis I Iseputlcheris. NaIti')m .of C lelhers. And( oine i.s temp I tedl it j call it, an empire of tombifs. I never saw d such ai pla1ce as Egypt is foir graves, e Aud now we ulnder'stand the comuphiin e oug otarcasm of the Israelites whieii the's e were on the w av from Egyp)t to CanaaIn .' "Because there are no0 craves in lEgypt .hiast, thlou taken 11s away, toe die in t,bt willderness." D)own tbe river banli .comie the bullalo andl th, cattle or knmt a to (trinik. And lI, was the ancestors o a these catt,le that inspiredl Pharoah' r dIrea of the lean kine aind the fat, kine, .here we dlisemlbark a litt,le while foi .Memphis, off from the Nile to t,be right e Memphis founde d by the first king o it Egy pt and for a long while the capital ,f A cit,y of marble and eold. Home of tI< a Pharaoha. City nineteen miles In cir. c umference. Vast colonnae. throu one hutdred years, or nearly ten times i as long as the United States have exist ed. Here is a recumbent statue seven ty-live feet lont. Bronzed gateways. A necropolis called "the haven of the blest." Here Joseph was prime minis ter, Here Pharaoh received Jacob. Ai possible splendors more built ilp into this royal city. Hosea, Ezekiel, Jere- t miah and Isaiah speak of It as some thing wonderful. Never did I visit a city with such ex- t alted anticipations, and never did my y anticipations drop so flat. Not a pillar 1 stands. Not a wall is unbroken. Not t a Ifoutain tosse in the sun. Even the c ruias have been ruined and all that re- r iains are chips of niarbh, sniall pices t ot Eractured sculpture and splintered humn bones an( there a letter of some i elaborate inscription. a toe or ctr of a sliauc that once Pcood in niche of palace C wall. Ezukiel orophesied its blotOllng out, and the propiecy has been fulAtled. ;ut bic to tle Nile and on and up till e you reach Thebes, in Scripture called the Y, City of No. Hundred gated Thebes. A s piadrangu!ar city four miles from limit a to limit. Four great temples, two of t them K-triac and Luxor, onca mou- t taniis of exquisite sculptor and gorge- f, ous dreamus solidified in stone. Statue t of Raineses 11, eight hundred andeigh- \ ty-seven tons in weight and seventy- t five feet high, but now fallen and scat- r tered. Walls abloom with the battle- v fields of centurit s. Thebes mighty and g duininant five hunCred year.. Then shiv (I weat down in fulfillinient of Ezekie'fs prophecy concerniim, the Cily of No, a wich was aulo' Icr itaipe for The)es; "I 1 will execute jtd-.enent in No. I will cut cif the inititudes of No." Jere miah also prophesie;l, "Thus saith the t Lord, f will puuibh the multitudes of P No." Thi city of Thebes and all the other r de:4d cities of Er3 pt iterate and reiter- I ate the vern,it., of the S.riptures tell- I ing the snne sliury which Mo.s and the t propliet,ts t.il. lave yont noticed how t God I:kept back t h-so nrch:eological con firianions of the ilible until our time, whn the o1r is fiul of unbelief about the thi iuth Itilues o the dear old bcok *e ie w%aited uitil the printing prcss ha i t been set, up in its prfected shape, and the s11111arilnlt (able was Id , and the i world was inltelligint enough to aIpDrt. the ttsiimony, and then he resirrect.d I he (Idad citics of the (varth, and com- t manid- tiem, saying: "()pi voiur l)nl i se,iled lips iii sp,-:k:1c Meilphi I and 1'e-.i4 ti l,ible tn-i ' "Tit"!" rc Spoud Mmii an Thebes. "Babylont , iz; the Book of )maiel tr?" "True"' r-SponlOd B Lbylon. 'l{iins of Palest ile and ayria, is the Ntw Tre,t aimeit t: it 1'rli!"' re-si.nid the ruinzi aIll the( way froti J,pp)i to the D,ad sea and from Jertrusalein to )amascus. What a mercy that this testimony of the dead citiets should come at a tiin when the Iible is especially assailed. And this work will go on until the -e racity of the Seripture.i will be avi cer tain to all sensible men and wonien as that two and two make four, as that an isos3eles triangle is one which has two I of its Sides equal, as that the diameter of a circle is a line drawn through the center and terminated by the circum ference, as certain any mthematical demonstration. Two great nations, Egypt and Greece, diplomatized and almost came to battle for one book, a copy of 1"ischyltus." Ptolemy, the Egyptian king, discover- I ed that in the great library at Alexan dria there was no copy of ".ichylus." The Rgyptian king sent up to Athens, I Greece, to borrow the book and make a j copy of it. Athens demanded a deposit t seventeen of thousaid seven hundred . dollars a security. The Egyptian king received the book, but ref usedt to return t that Vhich he had borrowed, and so for- c lfeted the seve-nteen thousand seven hundred (dollars. The two natIons rose in contention concerning that One book. Bleautiful a anid mighty book indeed! I ut it is a i book of horrors, the dominant Idea that a we are the victimis of hereditary inIlu- t ences from wvhich there is no escape,r and that fate rules the world, aind al- t though the author dloes tell of Il'rome- t theus, who was crucified on the rocks t for sympat.hy for maikinid, a power l e suiggestioni of the sacriflice of Chr-ist in later years, it is a very poor book coim pared with that book which we hued tot our hearts, because it contains ou r oinlyr gide in life, our onily comflort in i dea&thi, and our only hope~ for a t)issfu ii immort-ality. 1 I two niationis coil afl ford,to struggle for one copy of ";Eschy hus,' how much more can all nations atford to struggle for the possesion m and! triumph of the lIolly Scriptures ? r li t the dead cities stung along the Nile not only dlemolish infidelity, but, -thunder down thle absurdity of the miodetrn doctr1inlme of evolution which I 5ays thle wor-ld star Ltd wit h nothmug aid then rose, and hu:nani naiur-e begaim wvith niothing but, evoilvted into splen-lid N ay.thiie scul1p111re ofl ihe world wva imore watlIltl in the dayis of Mem phi aind TI:i 4- iz.tl Cartha:mg than in t lie dhtys of U >stoni andi New Yor-k. Th'Ioe bilocks of stone weig(hiing tlhrea hunidred tons high ap ini the~ wall at Karnac impl,y niathinery t<uual 14o, if not surpa)ssinig, the miic:iniliy of thuei Nintenth cen turyi. I low was thatu1 statue of I hamt-s, weighing '-ight hiunredi-- and eighity - M-ven tons, tranSi.portedl froni t tfuar-< ries two hunidired m,ile- away ami how was it lifted? Tell' us i, nderi m a choimnists. hlow wvere th-ose galleries tofr rock, still stamdbng aT. Thiebes, filbled wi th11 aitogs)~ surpass1-d b1hy no( atLlst's ptnel o tf thle pro emnt day ? Till us, artists of the Ninieteeunth ce:tur-y. Tlhie I dea ttt le of]~ )h lE'ypt, Si) fir as t hey h ave Iloft erioug h luiillar or stat e's or sep ul -t chers or- templed ruina to tell the story ( M cmp jhiis. Mtd, lg(l ierapol is, Z'an , Thlebcs, (Goshien, C'artuhage -all of tIhem 1 dlevelopinig (downward inistead of up- 1 ward.- They hiave evoluted iromi mag. I iicence inito destruictioni. Tht Gospeli of JIesus Christ is the only elevat a- oft individuial antI social national char-ac ter-. Let all the Iliving cities know that pomnp and oputlenice andi( temp)or-al pros- ( perity aro no' security. Thiose ancient cities lackedh niothiing I hnt. gotd morals. i)issipation and smn j slew them, andi iunless diissipation and 1 sin are haltedi, they will sonie day slay i our nmod'rni c t irs, andl leave our palaces f of mermidise and our galleries of artt anid our1 city hail as flat in the (dust as weo founld Momphis on the afternoon of thamt ImInksgiving (lay. And if the cities go dlown, the nation will go 1 down. "Oh," you say, "that is inpos- I sible; we have stood so long-yea, overi a hundred s ears ias a nation." Why, what of that ? Thebes stoodl five hun- 1 dred years. Memphis stood a thousand I rears. God does not forget. One 0!av vith the Lord is as a tkousand years mid a thousand years as one day. Rum and debauchery and bad politics ,re more rapidly working the destriic ion of our American cities I han sin of .my kind and all kinds worked for the estruction of the cities of A fr*va, oice o mighty and now so prostral e. But heir gods were idols, and could do othing except for deasement. Our lod made the heavens and sent his Son a redeem the nations. Anal our cities ,ill not go down, and our nation will ot perish because the gospel is going 3 triumph. Forward! all schools and alleges and churches! Forward! all 3formatory and missionary organita ons. Forward! all the influences nir baled to bless the world. Let our iodern European and Amierican citi-s sten to the voice of those aicien1t ities resurrected, and by hammer and bisel and crowbar be comp.-lled lo peak. I notice the voice of thoso ailewlt ilies is ho irse from the ex po:mre of >rty cenitiries and thev accentuate owly vith lips that were palsicd i'r yes, but all together those cities along ie Nile intone these words: "H1ear s, for we are very old, and it is hard >r us to speak. We were wise long efore Athens learned her first. iesso:a. Ve sailed our ships while yet naviga on was unborn. Theseobetlisks, these yramids, these fallen pillars, these recked temples, these colossi of black ranite, these wreckel sarcohiaA ii.i er the brow of the hills, tell Nou of 'hat I was inl grandeir aid W1 what I Hi c'mling down to he. We SillIt'd atid ,e fell. ()ur lear!inr could not sltvu s. See tihose half ,bliterated hier>.. lyphies on yonder wJlI. Our archiLee tre could not save us. See tih painti d olumns Of l'hih, and the shkattertd emple of E'sneh. Our heroes cold ot save us. W itne-s Menes, I Diodoris aneses and ltoleiv. Our (ods Anmi ion and osiris could not, ve us. See heir fallen teimples all along the four housand miles of Nile. O;, ye ine-rn ities get some other (Cod: a Gild wo an help, a (G'od who enn pardon, a ( "i ho can save. Called ip as we are ttor little while to give tstiloo>y, again hie sandls of the destert will bury us. Uslies to ashes, dnst to dust! And as hese voices of porphyry anl grailito eas.e:, all the sacphagi lidnder the ills respolnded, "Asho s to anles' atnd Ie capital of a lofty cohlilumli tell grikd n1g itst-lf to powder aniont, the rock,", rid responding, "])ist to dist ?' A Itscally Tr4,jsnI,Vr. Hiu trow'r, S. C., Oct. 22.-A masd Ileeti ng' of the cit izens of IBlaufort N as 1ld4 at the hall of the Washiligtonl team Fire Engine Company to con ider the retort of the committoe alp >Ointed to investigate the inldebtederiess >f the town and ithe duficit inl the ae ounts of the abscondiug ex-treasurer. Uajor W. If. Lockwood was called to he chair. Mr. E. W. Hailivy, of the oniitttue, read thei. report. The total bondel debt of the town vas stated to he $9,9W. The total dell it caused by the operatio,s of the late ,reasurer amounted to e5,432 32; of thim $1,361 W is based oii orders for pay en lorsed by him and received and 'held )y the merchants of the town in pay itent of accounts. It scems that all hecks for salaries have to be signed by he intentlant according to the ordi lance, so that these orders are probal y worthless. The rest of this deleit, ionsists partly of false balances. A ash balance of 8115, reported to be on tand at the time of his leaving, was ound wanting. The total amoint of lie floating debt of the town, is 815, 2.65. Mr. Thos F. Walsh, of the oommit eo, stated thata check for $313. in favor f "E. A. Scheper or order," hadl been ssued by the int,endant arid had been .tered by TIaylor to be payable to ' I. i. Seheper or bearmt" and been caushed. Ir. E. A. Scheper st ated that the inter et on his bonds which the check was upposed to have represented had never eon paid. IL was stated by the com nitteei that their investigation of thle eflit had not extended hack iniore han thirteen iioniths, :and that the I - ications were that an investigation overmng the time previoils to thil, ieriod wonub( disclose a11 muchI lar d.' cit. Mr. WV. 1I. McLeod offered a n.o ion to requnest 1,ho in tend(lantt to offer' a twardl of' 851)0 on belili' of' the' town Or the appirehenision of S. l'). 'lavlor'. Lifter conide(rable dIiscusision tht'i ioll w~as reject.ed. Tlaylor 1 i ep)orti d to be' now in I li L(d(lpia, his old home. S. .1. Ham p. -Id, the icolored clerk of Coui it, read an rd inanice w hiich shIow~s that all chech - or~ dIisbursei5(iiien ts of' tI,b town fu lIs itnrst he signed hy tIhe initeirdamt. of' thIiich lie said the init(endanit seermied to e in total ignorance. l'The responsibility ' >r this (delicit. may\ (est. tither on t lie initendanit or' the iii. 'hhiid iimieies of' 'oiiril, as Taylor lidi iiot give boniid as r'eqmre id by I aw, Ilus itmy rehcve thei' talxpayers f'romi he hiiiidten. h't AnioI1oni, Md., ( ht. Si. -L-' 'nit'd Stateis Seinatoir Wale I iraiptuon s v isitIing in thIis city. lIe says hie ii mt of politie's, and' intends ini the it ore to keep I n~ h backrouind. he 'arimers' A\ltiaiice, hie said, is rapidly isirntegrating in I lie South, and withiin hi' next four years iit will cenipletely isapar. "T'lhis will bec t lie case not itly ini ouith CaXrolirna, but throuighoiut itt whole N~i.lth. l'ihi e'.ple' thiere are apidb~ an akenirig to the abtsurdtity of' hie (demtands thant t he or'gaiza'.tioni lhta rotuulg.ateid, and arei gi ladIsid ly drop ug oft andt forswearimg all alleginnte o tire Allhianice. In miy own State the ~overnotr who waIs el(etd by thei sent i neut that secured my def'eat for re lection to the Senate has alreadly roken away ini a great mneasu rt froni lie Aliance mieasures and is entering in his aidmninistration ot' the affairs of' lie Stat.e to the conservative and better hinkiuig element. Thie uplrislig was onrded on demagoguery arnd I ania:i ism, and therefore cannrot have a long xistence. We ar'e tot) coniservativye a eople, anrd too fair minidedt in outr uidgmrent of right arid wrong in popui-i ltr government, to p)ermtit airy awaly by) ecret societies. In rmy opinion it is oIly for any one in this country to en. er into a controversy withr a Farmers' Ullance adherent on thre sub-treasury dlan. T1hie measure is so p)atpably vrong on its face as to make it, absuradI 0 atll who have the' prosper'ty and( wel-I are of the country at heart. fThis 'eature of the Alliance lhas never been ully accepted in the Soith, arid I have oo much confIdence in our people to hink that It mmer umi bn." A PlETTY TOUGH STORY. A Ginme of Cards ii 'Whica Invigibli P'ermonm 1Playedl. PJ LADELP111A, Oct. 20.-This story was told me by a young medico, and wo all kniolow that medical students are of a peculiarly reserved, reticent and sober race, averse to exaggeration and re markable for the veracity ot their anec dotes. lie who related the following astonishing experience told me that it to-4 place at St. Bartholomew's or per hiaps it was at Guy's or St. Th 1om11as'. The essential thing is that it took place at a hospital. It was evening, aid not late. ()ie of tie trsidevnt, ious(i phystiians-a young man, with a friend also a yoting medi cal man whose evidenxc! ann be procur ed t corrooorate the stfory- -was plav ing a 1mble dt-mm111uy, vithl an accoim paniment of tobacco an<d whiskey anI watcr. They had been playing S0oniLk timne, nothing untusual ha:ppening. Tey w-re seated at a s<quare table. One of them at the beginning of a new game had to deal with his own duiniuny, as is the rules at louble dIuimy. Whbcn lie had 1nislid a most wonderful thing hapwlenld. 'T cards o I the two dill - mi*'; wee takenl 1p b in,visibbi hand, ti harraew d (I th i'e l a bhl tIe , 4 lhe'l l i tw -sual ai'e, lor In . l w: si sai t1 ca i ds w%e rU I i hI :r. The 1n 1% luer lookeild a11c o th i r and at ti phe tiomiton with a stupvIt. -ion. I thol had not hievil neil of, Se' ('.Ce tit . wekl III have 11odl, shrickinig. ';t:wn 01i - o, -t ho dumm11111liesi h i;lls werv sharpl, ra dI I on te tabII lI. "That, it Im 1an Iflal, wth is rde rIo1 f tIhI t1, I A , Wit - a 'I'p, lll i1 I' lay of te i vis, ble 1n111110'ies was a l right. The a - ig parinor 1Imk tho trick a et,ta -lee d, h thi Suit to Show te halit she 1lwid. p Say She, b.-eaus b hy tan',; l im-- there \%crv visible tih'! b;,u1is au1-1 arnles tal' hedthe cards bt noIIthi aol e. 0n ot 11 l players was a w%( imw with bare artu.4 showing rom i Sherve ofr* wnte liacv: h1friins li1rsa ringp 1poil thebll. I'lhe othi, Wits i maiN's, wili :tit a trdiatiry coat sleeve -old white eull'. le winean. puil down th' i plipt's anl.t removd I he whiskey and water to ain other tabl. Ty playied tof gae u i Oleitl silence. aresently iha becamiei' aprent that the latly playte a maste Iy game. She livil gooit Cards; -so di-I her partnr. Te; sii-ortd in the first. rolb--doble, treble and he t rub, ande in ih second--trblo, sinle and the rub). "Nuver , ily nlarrator tld te, "di I play with a intr plaver. She seemed to know by instinct here every card in thet pack was. At the end of the dou ble riihber the airmis disappeared. Tiey went, away as thy came. I have never Lbvell thecn since, though I often invited ilhivil to cornle by dealing thle Cards wi tLe fAllo. I have oe*t(n wo lfired who the lady was; you g, as I gathered from the appearance of her arms; ai ge thI! woman, as was shown by lie taps r finiger's andi I he rings andl the !ace an1(1 a cort.ain way of carrying hwr arm. Frolicsome, as proven by her sittin., dowil to play w%1I ith only ho ersas Vis: ble; u1llinarried, Froi I he alh.iwot of' :t weddling rilng. "Who couhic he b Why wai nlm. bmight, to tle hospital? What is her stoly? Why did She dil So youig -- Above .ll, how couild She, at hilr. 'iiy * v at-c, have- an<iiired such a knowk.uize o f % i A '.- It 1 v ee ry rare to i t I ( trIi l paying ihist, eve decentIv. ll'rl 111, afte lu,tVingj the1C hospitAl," hto ad.led, may5tflt havetounm opprtnit ies ol'r,tie tier.i Asitn forptiher . copneiot,1e was compaatively5011 uinetetlng 11 gad'i c1( halsiied etons on a iner~~st arel he inas ly a15tl meiocithre plaer.I sii ne ilciet. edl4l i pan rter's loead, was bot.t1 h dher itti 'y any oii ousi lines I lt iihtt4 1ithe hid l.i heul:-- w-sei ndeed, wa p0 div hIne'"1ci 11:1 i, ltyit Texas,t (u: u. nu.ll- Ful d here tiId.v Thellr piss gol ('(llk he otrail sin ht ofIt he robbers 3 in a))l dee ennon on) t,h i \ ii ak n(i'(h e ar ~ (;r ila Si ngl s, lion 1'roeg4t t C ounty.cI Th pli se ('a11 pyroneh-ed unsce to wntithin4-4Is ahri di yar ofa the en,fi 1t'1 whe Capai .lones rdiered a dearg ~nd runni4)ing lihtfoloed Langsdon u;s'on wea. Ot .-ikeneigviu anda Tiiin ('d oonferardsot itin<o ingi ahidselie h 'ard rsed sur'italer-d Wi(1 rll tead aFlin r2 aseerl miles unythim . .1 h-t h cna and Cie all up thvel 'side ftelounalrmn hu ae tiajo).iines ragigh fro hi tond ce 'ie his retreat,r wee uof he surroo ~t-t .Flint~ii5 Ohn rt:e atOhfu( spe Al diene f tern mles, firins bac up rh tiit iursut has re wnte. The re as 'ret totedal \')t lled a nwrt ab otl 31X ing lr- aled brat poll te fll l sr.eh ducidOli a1pnci Ve mid ape andfwrmter by. abouthen) pule- aeg:lars tarkm hie efna cherly and therbrin Iouno Nitalk Ol -it ingee)ac0ihsvetpol READS LIKE ROMANCE. How a Convict, Convicted of Forger Secured Freedom, JEIREY CITY, N. J., Oct. 28.-, acw and most remarkable feature in tLi .ase of Charles B. Stoddard, no%y cor lined in Hudson County jail for forgin -hecks, has just come to light. A littl less than two years ago Stoddard, the mnasqueridinlg uider the name of IIenr 13. Davis, was convicted of similar oI cues in -Nashville, and was bent V Tracy City, a bratih pison in 'I'ennilio ice, to srrvo a term of s:x years. Ile was put to1 work in the miie Tis year, however, ie obtained hi iretedoim 1y onle ok the boldest and mos iugenius ruses 1int crininai in:enuit L'ver devisud. 'Thie dFscovery of th 1raitud hlis leil Govern'r B lidlali, ( TelleSsUC, t0 ma1-ke a retiuisitiol o Governor Abbott, ot New%,' Jersey. i order thatt the prisoner auy be tried i' the crime bY whkki i he secuire(d ins lit orty. It appears that Goverilor 13-hiu1han1an few monthis ago receivel a petition pu porting to be signed by tifty of th! lea in.- residents of Covilnlgtonl, ashing it Stoddard',s release, aceompaielud by letter, presiimably signed by N. N lhibtist, oftho firm o Babtlist & Bead repitable a;d wei-knovn attorneys ( that plavc. This ',eLttver wavSi aitk of Imace abOt Stoldird or Jl)avis. I lie was known inl le T.1 1-i-sei pri- -r m11A recites i great del.l how he wa the victim 1!*,t a wnspiracy plained ainl cn.giieered by a wicked atd a varicill Steplathier nam,n ,hd . Sherrill, anl abetted by the latter's wick-d birott'e This step-father's uel coiltiet, t11 letter alleged, Irove the prisoner to Iidh sipation, allt w s the steo-fat r biy- lai had him -onv\ic(te-d 1t foler oeml enj l - Cee4t:ttv ei.:)ai liel ahe'stM I tbti t asi a 10t i; ' la a I that ( ha m-cured dhe dhvisi,-n fl Sherrlill's estat Which n\oul givu thle prisouer the stm sum f G,000to eMi lite anlew. Il h-tter also sta'-ed that a niote of a1 coi' dcntial rcharacter had iben sent to til (overior to htil to 1toddmr, becaui tie law %er coul iot, cmis stently hat it to him, andl Luen C11!lin11Wd: "(, li him kiudly admotiin and god-pw< Ie 1ha1s slme tueney withim, at.dL shot he need more, anid not 1e sufitably cli kindly meet hin nweedt alot I will send cheek. le is a Nlason and a member tho Alliance, ani his iibrothers ivre ai very anxious to hear ot his iprompt t lease. I trust that the acknowletdenicti this letter will be the news that I)avis free." After this charming hit. ot naive which paved the way for StILoddard liltehi m110n1cy and a muit, f'I* clothes fr< til Governor, the uliuM' (CII)CIlt sit that Day s and his friends will he sat Lied with tile puushmeinit ol Sherrill, a that the signature of every cilizen Topton County could have been obtai ed to tle petition. Tie( "sigiers,'' goes on to si, "are all first-class Ci zenls and deeply interested iml the m1 ter. .Justice demanids his immedia pardol, anld I aisk it as a personall fav and whatever I can do to reider yo administration successFull and for voi fuiture advancemonit in political life wi be done, as you know, cheertilly v.' The gignutires attacht"d to the p lt Lion include the names ofs . 12. Coi rolt, attorney g'eneral ; T1. 1). lippel d1 udge of the Circuit C2ourt; I)aii Sii aheiffII of 1' plon (county13, and14 miat oth er*s, inichiing the la w tirm o)l labti: ReaCfdl.J to wvlhi the wrliter of It letter wvas suplpoped to belong. Stoddai was diuly r'elesed, ma the Goi, verrli only discovered thei fraud whe heai spit h'etition, ~ who idenounttced the wholae thi. as a frau. lhe cani he >ient, to the Stato pr:son tetn year . After' lhat he cenn he si'nt POPE B3EGINS [REFORM. Ti4t11 Nune of Si)Inctorzsi : l Clerki to, I cii: town. ( 0,l.1MInA, S. (C.. (k)t. 27. TlI governor toiday iued a ri'Usi t ion1 wanIIted Io 11 arietny in ' artanburi Chiristopherc is ini. Asheille.1 it witi i t,akeni to Spiartanhuilre tomiuorw. 'The "A \asembily," onei of tihe leaii siicial iorganiizationis ini ihe itv, w'; reorgiationI k i the g itii a coli. ..ala. tle ini re'i2md ito the' inisuranti'e iompi)tti receiplt iihr ta xation am114 i tday lie lssu ordeis t.o auitorliis to inuneuidi atelIy invec ti!nte thiis miat er thlorough l y, by h av ii aigents appear?t biefire Item for extnin:i Attorney G eneratl l'ope todiay conl liletedI a lan for reor;;aniza hg the ei grosinlg depiartmient, oi the legistlatiri A fler miature~ reflect ion hI hc1as d cid toi reuce thet ni1lubVer<f solie tors at cl erks. Ile ill cadll upon the~ folhlowin to serve: .J. M. Johlnson. ji the fourt circuit; II. Nelson, of' the fifth; 0. ] Sclbumpert,, of thes sixth; Mi F. Ause of' the eighth. T1he Initber of clert has been cut, down and the loltownt alpomtmenits madle: .1 . IF. Covingtoi Florenice, chief; II. T.1. Wardlaw, .Abb vil'e; \Villiam Kelley, Chiarlesto James Fur, Barnwell; D). 1I. Withc spion. Blacksburg; S. A. VXant Laurens; Maury Sims, Columbia; W. ] Stack, jr., Columbia; RI. T. T1ownsen Giencral l'ope says if aft,cr the legisl ture convenesj he finds it necessary have others they will be secured promI ly. iIe believes this sweeping~ reductic is demnrded in the interest of economi but if after a practical demonstratio he sees lie Is in error hie will take stel to see that the publIc interesta '0 14 BUfym*r.-Grcnnitlo l a ws.m A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. DISASTROUS RESULTS OF THE COL LAPSE OF A BOILER. c - Ono Man Killed, Soveral Injured atd a 6f Half Milion Doilarm Worth of Pruiper, 1 1 V DeNtro.etl. 1 L * ISVI LL ., K.)., Oct. 20.-Ily a boil Y er explosion here this afternoon one iman was killed, several persons injured aa nearly half a million dollars worth - of property destroyed. At 6 o'clock William i. Adams, a fireman at the elkctric light pltnt of the Louisville its Comi>any, was throwing coal in the fUlrnace when one of a nest of seven a biler: buist. Tho shock in the vicin I ity was l1ke an earthquake. Adams wx3 thrown to the ground with terrific worce(, and received such internal injur i es I hat he will dia. Ta shei ill which the boilers were local d was completely deniolished and pikct'es ot iion and of timber and show Ir of red-hot coals were thrown in i( every (irtikon. A. great mass of iron anial a deluge of burning coals were r throwtaros. the narrow alley into the a rear of Kauffman & Strait's big retail dr i- ods store, and the wall of the - ' ais ,ari ivd away. IIalf a dozen c-r%s were gathered about the book kp'-.%o Sl I)reyfts, at the back of the h . Ai woro cauight in the wreck a ,it it is believed all escaped alive. I bevfis was strioisly injured but not kin.rously, Carrie 1)inkelspoit, IIattle 'nws ad Lena Sickles were ;slightly 10.iured. In a mnonent, apparently the whole -latiiunig was in flames. The weather e has ien very dry for two weeks and i1w u rt-ckage and goods burned like tI Ili l . t A!i a;;rn was tiuried in from the au twnit w fire alaria box in the Courier d1una uImilding and the department ":Ii uickly at work. The fire in the a ired bailding was at once beyond coi-il and attention was turned to a vn thv Cotiner-Journal building, \o nm: .Is lior h, and tre P'olytechnio l'ibIAr tmiiliig, two numbers south. A N\ a(r towei was manned and the u hose in the Coirier-.Jourtal building I w.re at aiied and turned through the e side anid rear of tio iiiing, and four 1. iemn :re engines were put in position d anti :et to plaing upon the flames. W, \\ it i all this forco it Wasl half an hour a hettare the ilaimes gave way and an hour of i-1-r they wero tinder control. At t ow Iine it, seeined that the Courier .ouri votild certainly be burned. T he few printers who were in the com posing room left and the reporters and .f tditoirs wyho were on duty gathered is their valuiables and prepared to escape, aioit o1't hei actually leaving. But te I he wiid was f rot the nrth and car to ried the heat in the opposite direction. m Iy strentions elforts the Polytechnic y3 binlk hg, on the south, was saved with heavy damage by water to the books, pictures aid other art collections. The fire caught arId burned out the two up . - per floors of .1. V. Escott & Sons, deal it tr-s in pictires, line mirrors, wall paper and photographers' suipplies, and the two lower floors were flooded with wa ter till hardly anything was saved. On LC the south Crerone's confectionery and r, P'orter's rillinery store were slightly ir damnagred. ir '1'he principal losses are nearly as can 11 now >e I arned is about as follows: Kl1 Ill 1Man & Stratiss, retail dry goods, i stock *30,00, nearly covered by insur al.!; Ili';imberger Bloom & Co. owners obiuing, $S0,000. insured; JI. V. Es b Iraty, btuildin~g, books5, etc, $1 ,000, part ily iiisuret; LotusvjIe (his Company, S.,000, co ernd by insurance. Th 'fis e venaing tihe mniners deccided to e call out all thie lien inl the district. e I .ls will inchide one thousand men ic workinig at the advneetit. . -nlha 'atttti, wvithn his wife andl in I.mi vihild. appid I o the authorities to w ! ht ir food. Hiesaid he was a strik ,U tg 1m inr andh they had walked from '. 'Iielolle hitre, having tasted noth inii fori nearly forty-eight hours, Tne inof hir was too weak to suickle her babe alil, t.> savett h le little one's life Mattel said lio cuii is flager and allowed the il i to dIrinik his blood. The cotuple w'i'e ttrri bly emaciated, and the child was al.mo:t dead. F'ood and lodgings w'rt fuinishied them. Mattel tells an e ai wI Iu story oif privationi and sutfering n amone: g the miners. r. ltf':inmatn. Oct. 22.-Reports f' riomi I hm priovinices of Sunbirsk and Sa e n:tu a show that the local government ls mnble to col-e withi the prevailing distiess andit that relief has not is irethd ih' more remote districts. The 3 W9 "i. dist ribution is not properly or n w'uii:' . Ntita bers of prosperous per 11 mun7 am n receiv-nag help while many who II an nin ely destitute are (lying of hun in gti . ' he authorities have forbidden li 0 inIdpress to record the state of af 'urs.T' Zemttoos (or provincial as Sin bht) are panlic strickeh sand are ut-J t jei:- uabl e to i'eimedy thmYadisorder. , ~ Ilie prosed reserves of' grain a're miBs - in hg. 1. laos bieen discovered that whol ii thme ( zar ordered the dlistribuition of the S- resere grain in the governmnent grain a :rie:;, t lie ofhecials did not dare acknowl. S.- edge that the stores wvero empty and - i'ived to nike tip the dehicency from the ii i a ry granaries, in order to conceal thir i'pculationi. It is feared that this wa.ll greatly hamper the military comn d i "isaanat mi the event of Ruassia engag. Inag mn war. Funds for the relief of the starving pleople have also been dleplora lbly miismianaiged. lIn sonme districts hwthich are undIer powverful p)atronage t here is more than an abundance of re 1,lief, wvhile in other distcicts no heed is as paid to starving peasants. Many gov g ernmnents emiiployees complain that 1, their superiors dledu ct a certain amount o- from their wages for a relief fund, there ~;by leaving_theim poverty_sti'icken. r- ailiding into the Rtiver. e, Ni:Wt OnJEANS, (Oet, 't.--T'he levee f. and1( wharf at the foot, of St. Philhp. d, Du)imanio and Ursuline streets continue to cave mi, the land having already sunk a- fromi thi'co to eighteen feet, covering five to acres in extent. The LouIsville and -Niashville Railroad hans abandoned its ni decpot at, the foot of Canial street andI v, transferi'ed its business to the Ponchar na train dlepio because of the ((anger to its a5 property. 1t0looks as if all the land up >t to the Franch market would eventually go into the river,