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I 4 I VOL. XXI __ EEL PICKENS ~* (~*, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1892. NO 38. FUR FREE COINAGE. THE SENATE CONSIDERS MR. STEW ART'S BILL ON THE SUBJECT. A Safe Malorily for the Aleanre Ineli. cated in the Vote by Which It 4 Takui Up-HillI Dodges the Issue and Irby I)d Not Vote. WASIIINOTON, May 27.-in the Sen. ate yesterday at the close of the routine business Mr. Morgan resumed the dis cussion of his silver resolutions. iI said he wanted legislation, and, hope less as it might seem to some, he be lieved that if the Senators who had ex pressed their views by their votes would acihere courageously to thei convictions, even before the close of this Congress, some conclusion might be reached on this question. There were mt i enough in both kouses in favor of free coinage of silv.-r to pas. a bill entisely satisfactory to the ceui try. He it'-dulged the hope-notwith. tstanding the intimations thrown oul from time to time-that the Executivt would bow to the popular will, for he coulu not conceive that the President who was himselt an avowed bimetal list, and had so proclaimed himself oil many t.c-'asions, would attempt to set up his judgment in the form of a vetc against the expressed will of bothi branches of Congress. lie further in timated that the feeling on this subject aing the people was so deep seated that it was possible that the election of President might for one, or perhaps twc terms pass out of the control of the national conventions of the two par ties and be thrown into the House of Representatives. Mr. Morgan ex pressed an earnest desire that when the present debate should have been ex hausttd the Senator from Nevada (Mr Stewart) thould move to take up his free coinage resolution and press for a vote upon it. Uontinuing, Mr. Morgan said we ha( other Preeid%,nts to veto a silver bill and what had become of them ? Therc was a prominent gentleman before tht country, much revered for his manly integrity aud statesmanship. Yet the Democratic party, because they loved the people more than they did him would put him in his political grave rather than give him the opportunity to join hands with the Senator from Ohio in giving a death blow to silver The Democrats of this country, ij Grover Cleveland were put at the head of one ticket and the Senator fron Ohio (Mr. Sherman) on the other, wouk not know which to prefer, except thal the Senator had accomplished his work before the ex-President was recruited in his services to prevent silver beini restored. Some man would rise ul who would represept the popular wil on this question, and who would over turn both of these gentlemen, in spitc of all they could do. lie (Mr. Morgan w-, wedded to the Democratic party at ftw men were. le would put up witi most anything rather than be driver o- if its ranks, but tnehOL ..ould bt thousands driven out of the Demo cratic party if the Senate should nov show by its votes that it was oppose6 to the tree coinage of silver. Mr. Sherman complained that th whole morning had been wasted in thi discussion of the silver resolutions o the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Mor gan.) Ile defended the finance com mittee Irom charges of a desire ti pigeonhole this question, and was pro ceeding to reply to some of the state wents of Mr. Stewart yesterday on thi subject of the importance of silver by India, after the passage of the silve bullion law of 1890, when the hour o 2 o'clock arrived, and the unfinishe< business of yesterday came belore the Senate. V Mr. Stewart of Nevada, acting on thi suggestion thrown out by Mr. Morgan moved to lay aside the unfinished busi ness and take up the order of business No. 2571, "a bill to provide for the free coinage of gold and silver bullion, ant for other purposes." This was a bill in troduced by him last December, ant placed on the calendar last Februar3 with an adverse resolution upon i from the committee of linance. It pro vides that the unit of value in thi ,United States shall be a dollar of 412p grains of silver or of 25 8-10 grains o standard gold, and that any owner o gold or silver bullion may deposit it in sums of not less than $100, in an: United States mint, to be coined inlt4 ataindard dollars, without charge, an< that the Treasury should be authorize< to issue gold and silver certilicate thereof. Mr. Morgan demanded the yeas ant nays on the motion to take uip this bili and they were ordered, and resulted Yeas '28, nays 20, as follows: Yeas-Republicans: Allen, Jones o: Nevada, Paddock, Power, Sanders Shoup, Stanford, Stewart, Teller (9) Demoerata: Bate, Butler, Cockreli Coke, Colquitt, Harris, Jones of Ar kansas, Kenna, Mills, Mitchell, Mor gain, P~ugai, Ransom, Turple, Vest Voorhees and Walthall (17); l"armecrs Alliance: Kyle and P'effer (2)-28. Nays-Republicans: Cameron, Cub lom, Davis, Dawes, Dixon, Dolh, Gal Slinger, Hale, Hawley, Higgins, Morrizl Perkins, Proctor, Sawyer, Stock bridge Wilson (16); Democrats: Gray, Palmer Vilas. W hit,e (4)-20. Mr. 11111 was in the Senate before arid after the taking of the vote, bui riot during the roll wall. Mr. Gorman was absenit arid nol paired. Mr. Carlisle was paired will Gleneral debate on Mr. Stewvart's bil was then opened by Mr. Teller of C2olo Srado lii severely commentedt on Mr Sherman's statement that discussion o the silver question was a "waste o time." lie admitted that the discus sion of free coinage in the Senate a this time might interfere with the ini ternational monetary conference. I it dId, there would be no man more re sponsible for it than the Senator froun Ohio (Mr. Sherman), who yesterdaa made a staitement on the authir"ity u e, some uunn:r.ed Senator, that hiliver pre duction a ould be quintupled if frei coinage were adopted--a stateen which the Senator from iowa (Mr' Allison) characterized at the timte al most absurd. Mr. Tellir said if thIs statement ha< been~ madt to the Senator from Ohio bl a Senator from a silver State it wa mrade either in grossest ignorance o: most malleious imischief. it would bi believed on this floor that thuis state ment had been put out to prevent ni Sinternational ag reement. In previoul conferences this was the bugbear helk up before the nation-R of Europe. The productinn of silver was increasing in this country, but to a slight extent only. It was increasing also in Au stralia, but in no other country. But. on this i:oint no man's word-no mere Senator fromn the Rocky Mountains would bts received with so much weight before a European conference as that of the Senator from Ohio; and lie sug g ested that Mr. Sherman owed it to himself and to the Administration to explain that the statements as to a quintuple production of silver was an extiggeration. Turning to the economic aspect of the question, Mr. Teller contended that some consideration was due to the 10,000,000 farmers of the country who by law were put under disadvantage in two ways, by stimulating the manu. facturer of New England, where lie said the price of labor had increased the price of prodKets. The farmers of New England were able, to some ex tent, to compete; but what should be said of the farmers of the West and South, where there were no nanufac tures at all? If there interests were to be looked after, it must be by a change in the financial system of the country. It is time for the Senate to stop and consider whether it had not entered upon a course of financial policy which would lead to the ruin and destruction of the very noblest element of Ameri can manhood. At the close of Mr. Teller's speech, the Senate went into executive session, and adjourned at 3:50 p. in. THOUSANDS HOMELESS. Many Livem Lost and Much Suffering and Destitution. MAITANNA, Ark., May 25.--Appall ing reports come froim the low lands on the St. Francis and White rivers. It is estimated that at least 10,000 people are rendered homeless. Forty-two peo ple have lost their lives, and a report comes from the St. Francis bottoms that serveral negroes and Indians haye been drowned there. DEs MOINEs, Iowa, May 25.--Govern or Boies has issued a proclamation call ing for reuief of the flood sufferers at Sioux City. The proclamation says that the destitution greatly exceeds the early estimates. The number of fami lies rendered homeless is placed at 1,000, the number of people of all ages desti tute at 5,000; the number of dwellings swept away is given as 167, and 700 more were rendered untenable. Vicisitno, Miss., May 25.-The news from below on both shores is alarming. Bayou Macon has overflow ed and caused heavy losses to the plant era. Tiv Bou-it and Texas rivers are rising fast, over live feet in twenty-four hours, and Tensas parish is being heav ily flooded. MMPinms, May 2-1.-Pemiscot county Missouri, is a sceiie of desolation. Three fourths of the county is now Under water and assistance is urgently need, ed at several points in the county he tween Reelfoot inki and Paragould on the Arkansas side. Three families have bein drowned. It is estimated that 30) horses and mules and 2,000 head of cattle have been drowned, and that 700,000 acres of caltivated farms are under water betwedi Memphis and Cairo. According to Captain Iloward, of the st,-amboat. line, there are 225,00( acres of wheat desttro) ed, 300,000 acres of corn ruined and nearly 200,000 acres of cotton iindi ted. The water con tinue to rise and in two days more it is 6xpeted that 1,000,000 acres of cul tivated ground will be flooded. Arkan sas bott"oms are all under water and a number of lives have been lost, and the property destroyed can not be estimat ed becaume no boats have gone into the flooded district. STr. Louis, May 24.-The fall of the high waters of the Mississippi contin ued but slowly yesterday, only a tenth being recorded 10r the day. TIhe mer chants' exchange Ihooded relief associ ation is now pushing its work in every direction, seeking contributions and distribuving the relief funds collected. TIhe committ('e has at its disposal, col lectedl in three days without systeimat ic e ffort, $8,000. With organization the increase in the fund will be rapid. An other fumd that Is being raised by the Post-D)espatch has reached $7,213. Benefits etc., are being arranged for, and within a week the worst of the dis tress will be alleviated. .In addition to money large quantities of clothing and food are coming in, bread especially are coming in by t he thousand loaves. The dlistributioni is being handled even more symtematically than the collec tion, and no needly person in the flood ed district will be allowed to suffer. The rail road situation is rapidly im proving. -ThIlnnn Taken. a Hland. CIIAltLEsTON, S. C., May 2t.-Gov. ernor Trilmain astonished the natives here by putting In an unexpected ap pearanice hetre to-day. Soon after his arrival he wvas closeted with C. Ri Miles, thme Master, who has charge of Ithe direct tax claims. While In the court house the Governor was called upon by Mayor Fieken and a number 01 prominient citizens. The object of the Goveruior's visit is to look into the direct tax matter. It seems that the chlnmants, dlespite the Governor's direc tion to the contrary, are being held out of their certificates at the instance of the lawyeors, wvho claIm 30 per cent. of the money under the Camnpbell-Tres cott-Eie agreementr. The Governior called a- meetlig of the claimants to night and put them up to a wrinkl y or tw nte way of gettinmg their money. Threwv P'epper- in Her Eyes. CmmA IT,.STON, MaIy, 28.---A horrible assault was committed in Jiedon's ally this mnoring. Sa~rah Goetly and Betsy Fraser, both colored, had been having a dispmt e anid were on their way to the trial ju.,tie to have their dlifferences settled, when the Goetly woman's hius band aed i riends commenced to beat het ant agon ist uni merci fully. '['le Fra ser won daished' a handful of led pep per into Sarah's face. 'Thle latters eyes were co'mfpletely rined andi terribly scarred. 11er inujuries are not. fatal, but a more painitul injumry or a more -brutal (teed was never perhuaps record ed1 in this city. I Murdier-e, by Ilurglars. d ACKsON, Ga,, M 'my 26....C,. J. ISloan, eighty-one years old, one oi Me D)onoghue's most respectedl citizens anid father of ex-Congressmani Andrew Sloan of Savannah, was murdered Sun day ni ghut by burglars. The robbers secured about $1,000. Lynchers are WAILING AND WEEPING. c A TORNADO PLAYS HAVOC WITH TWO a t KANSAS TOWNS. Gay Diacors Cattight by Falslug W1i0. Appalling, Scenex of t*moliotton-Tite Death Lst Continuey to Grjw -Marvul lotma Frcaks of the Vind. WELLINGTON, KAN., May 20.-1t is now known to a certainty that twenty lives were lost in Friday night's tor- ] nado in this city, and the fdtally in- j jured list is adding hourly to the list of of dead. There are half a dozen per sons known to be missing, but no trace , of their bodies can be found until the wreckage of the Phillips Ilouse and the C stores on Washington avenue have been s removed. 1 Among those killed was a bride of t only three months, burned to death. Her husband is insane from grief, and has been placed under restraint. A L piano tuner, who was reading his Bible when the Phillips House collapsed, was also killed. The tornado was not ex ceeding two minutes in accomplishing its terrible destruction and death. The residence portion of the city that t was in the line of the storm, which was I about two and a half blocks wide, is laid low. In its path were located t many of the best residences in the city, as well as hundreds of small homes. All are laid on a common level, and their late occupants form a wandering army of homeless, clothless citiz3ns, Every home left standing is a hospital for the reception of the injured. There are many incidents of the storm that are remarkable. A ball that was in progress at the Phillips House had just begun. The music had scarcely struck up when the storm came. Ladies in evening dress lied terror-stricken into the street, where the rain of mortar and bricks were I falling. Strange to say not one of these who ran out of the hotel was killed outright, although nearly all were injured to some extent. Where the ball room stood is a dense pile of brick and lumber twelve feet high. Two hundred men were working at the ruins all day, rescuing one man, who was found in a box, where he hadi taken refuge. There was two feet of bricks above him, but lie had air, and was hardly hurt at all, although he was frightened into a state bordering on imbecility. Another strange freak of the tornado i was its method of handling the infant i child of Henry Bower. The Bower home was unroofed and the baby taken from its crib, carried four blocks, and laid on the green grass in the mayor's yard, where it was foiiud, crying, in the heavy rain storm early Saturday morn ing, unhurt. It did not even have a cold, and was not at all hurt from its all night's exposure on the wet ground, with a chill wind blowing a re,gular tornado until davbreak. Twenty freight cars were standing in the Rock Island yard. Ten of them were taken in one direction and ten in another, the two bunches being found a mile apart, smashed to smithereens. It was in one of these cars that Ilenry James, a boy tramp, was found killed. The Rtock Island lumber yard was one of the biggest yards in Kazisas; now, not enough lumberremains in the limits of the yard to build a lien house. The telephone system, except one lone wire whiclh is all right from end to end, is completely ruined, and the switchboard at the central oflice was takea a mile and dropped in a pond. The electric light dynamo and a pon- 1 derous Westinghouse engine were picked up like shingles and cairied over the town and deposited not far from the Phillips Iouse ruins. Another freak of the storm was the maiiner in which a plate glass was taken from the elegant Spicknall block: and carried several yards, set up against a f rame house, and, aside from losing a few chips around the edge, was not broken. Trees were torn from their roots and houses were turned right-about face. Staves were lifted until they finally landed In the upper floors of the ruins. flow this was done is beyond explana tioin, but it is a fact, nevertheless. In one instance a horse wasm actually< takeii from his stable and dumped on top of a two-story building. ?he Lutheran church, a massive1 frame building, one of the most sub stantial of its kind in the city, was takein up, turned completely over, and 4 now stands with the floor upward, as1 solid, apparently, as if it had beeni built in that way. it is not a small building, I either, for it has a seat,ing capacity of W00 people. The old court house, a solid two-story stone structure, was comp iletely demnoi ished and reduced tosplinters, with the exception of one little frame oflice that] a pair of donkeys could drag from its 1 foundation, which was lei t standing intact by the side of the rules of the old court house. THlE T'ORNADO A'T IHAliPEIt, IIARtPERt, Kan., May 29.--Thle toirnado that devastated the city of Wellington at 9 o'clock Friday night reached this town about thiee hours later. Thlei depot was blown away, and all electric communications with the outer world] was cuit off. At present nine persons are known to have been killed and(l many more are not accounted for. Thlere are scores of injured and at least thirty are missing. The scene in the devastatedl town is one of ruin and destruction. IIardly a building in the entire town escaped de struction, and the place Is stirewn with < debris from end to endI. It is almost a miracle that more lives wvere not~ lost. In the Ebbitt Ilotel there were at least t hirty guests, and many of these cannot be accounted for. Th'ie torniado() camne without any warning whatever. I TIhere was a small cloud in the south- I wvest, hut nao one noticed it particu:larly,. All of a sudden, with a imighity roar, I the work of destruction was begun. The big lRothschild building, just' completed, and the p)ride of the towni,< was torn to pieces in an instant. Fifty dwellings were smashed into kindling wood, and most of toem were piled ini I one spot near the opera house, which a was liited bod~ily for fiity feet and dlroppedl within a block of its site, where it fell all to pieces of Its own I weight. Tn,e force of the tornaido w as inati- s aiuaa bl. I t took a locomjot i a e h at stood I nlear the depot and deposlitili It, still steaming, ini a creek hall a mi le amway,. The Catholic and German chu:rches were dlemolished and thme I hiptist and Christian chuirches were greatly in- t jmrnd. Hundreds of families are homeless nd without food or shelter. lelief onuittees arrived here yesterday, nd everything possible is being done i relieve the destitute and care for the ijiired. SAiMPSON ON HIS MUSCL.E. Or'. Pib Am"allits Col. keitt With at Canei NxwnisnA, S. C., May 30.-An nCounter occured this morning between )'. S.n1sOn 1'ope and Col. Ellison S. Ceitt. Col. Keit met Dr. Pope at a treet coi ner and said, "Good morning, ir.'' Dr. Pope replied, with an oath, '1ow (dre ),ou speak to nie, sir, you --d impertinent puppy,'' and quickly truck Col. Keitt with his walking cane ,ur or live times, breaking the cane and nocking ol' the Colonel's hat. Col. Keitt warded off' the blows and tadc no .il'orL to strike back. Ile had o cane. and only said, "You d--d cow rd.'' IHe sustained no injury from the ano. The combatants were seperated by wo gentlemen stan(lng near. A police-1 nain took Dr. LVope betore Mayor B.a ock. Dr. Pope plead guilty to the barge of* violating a town ordinance, mnd was fined $10. A policcman subsequently took Col. itt, before the mayor, but the case igainst him was dismissed. I asked Dr. Pope the cause of' his at ack upon Col. Keitt. Ile said it was ecause of a reflection upon his war re :ord made by Col. Keitt in an article in ast week's -ierald and News. The irticle is a column in length, and in it, liter speaking of the courage and bravery Af Carolinians, the artic!e read,: "lu the late war between the States, iouth Carolina led with a voting popula ion of 60,000. She put 65,000 soldiers -i the field. The annals of' the human 'ace tell us of' no such people. O1 that rast number it would be curious to know low many of the Tillman gang, who ire pre-eminently 'in it for revenue mnly,' were in the war-one, at least, vho is loud in their councils. "The first fight his company was in le lit out and left. Ile lifted his feet so ast a bullet couldn't catch him. IIe nude straight for the hospital and yel ow fhig and never lessened his speed imtil lie got safely within the walls of .he one (and under the folds of the other. [e could never be induc.-d to return to US commnan1d. "'The end of the war found him under .be yellow Ihag attending to the sick and ,vounded-a sat'e place. lie is now in :ongenial company. This is the only personal reference in hie aiti;le. I asked Col. Keitt whom lie uitended the language to aj)ply to and lie replied, " li have called no names., Dr. Pope says that Col. Keitt wrote what lie did because he (Pope) intro ,lucca anti-Third party resolution In the recent State convention. 1)r. Pope says lie waited at the street corner to meet Col. Keitt to tackle him about what he iad written.-State. THE MAURITIUS HURRICANE. D1etali of the Worst Storm of the Con t ury. AnsILLi, nJune 2.--The mails vhich have just arrived trom Mau 'itius confirm the statement that twelve iundred persOns were killed and four housand injured in the recent hurri !ane. The hurricane was preceded by , violent magnetic disturbance. The en rose nlhife feet, the highest level inco the cyclonie ef 1818. Scarcehlv a iouse in the colony escaped damage. liany churches and public buildings w'ere destroyed. 'Thew fine Church of' he Immaculate Conception is in ruins. ['lhe Cathedral, however, by a strange :h ance escaped. 'The dead include a large number of eading inhabitants, Fearful sights were witnessed in tIhe streets. (ine actory collapsed, killing two hundred nihans. One half of the sugar crop vas destroyed. P'lanters' losses are in aululable. A special relief loan of '60,000 will be obtained from the im >ermal Glovernent to be repaid in wenty-five years. 1)uring the whole suimmer t.he weath 'r in Mauritius was unusually hot. )n April 27, two (Jays prior to the hiur 'icane, the heat was dreadful. T1hfs, ogethier with the roar of the surf on he coral meefs, which was heard for niles inland, ind(icated that sormethin g iniusual wats about to happen. On f'riday, the 29Jthi, the (lay broke stormy, ret thI ere was no thought of very erfous results. Business mien went to 'ort Louis, leaving their wives5 and 'amilies in the country. The observa ory reported that the storm would bui )f short duration. The first Intimation of troubale was ~he non-arrival of trains and tIhe cut .ing of telegraph wvires. Sudi(denly, ibout noon, there was heard a furious ihssing, and then the pent up storm >roke, rn'shing upon the town froum the lorthwvest. For ninety minutes a itiless tornado raged, accomupaniedl by m (deluge of rain. Builings collapsed, *oofs were blown oilf anid trees blown lown. The baroimete'r fell oiie iinch indI then suddtenily begani to rise, the ,vind lulled, the blue sky and the sun Lpp)ear'ed, amid many people wvent out, >elieving that all dlanger was past. l'ho more experienced, however, pro lictedl that the worst was to conme. I'be sea had already suirrouindled anid nado Islanids of' t.he chief bu mhdinmgs. At 3l o'clock, withlout, warning, the r.'ndh burst upon the towii again in wof old violence from direc'tly t he op ,osite <luarrer', I s velocity was onei lurd red and twenity miles per' hour, mud its f'uiry was malintaliied for two iouris. Each blast was worse than thle ireceedin~g, filling p)eople wilth terror. 'l'he centre of' the storim was dirtetly ver l'ort, Louis. A t 6 o'clock tIe vether was againm calmn, e'x ept for an ecasmional gust, atnd petopIe were er,a. >led to go (out andl see the work of' de. tructiforn. F"ires t,bei br'ok o out in thle eastern ubtirbs and( des'tro. ed whiat, thle windl and sparedl. A survivor says that the vhole (desolation in Labourdonnats treet wats causIied( by1 a single deadly last,. )O:cupanits of houses there rushed hout it,h pierciig Shrieks to meet eat.h or' tort,ure, o'r escaped being rushed under theo ruins of their hormes nly to be maitmed by lhying~ debris, andl hen to lie huddled together until res utn was nnsible. POLITICAL PYROTECHNICS. A Lively Scone tu the House of Repro ventativoA WAsHINGTON, May 27.--While the politicians in the Senate were strug gling with the silver question the mnem bers of the Mouse were fighting a phan tom force bill. On the proposition to appropriate $100,000 for the colored man's department at the World's Fair a bitter partisan discussion ensued. Jiepresentative Johnston,of Indiana, a young ltepublican who represents 1'resident Ilarrison's district in Con gress, made a regular "bloody shirt" speech. with the probable intention of reminding the Souther! delegates to .Minneapolis that it is their duty to SLInd by President I1arrison, the champion of the force bill. Gen. Ilooker, of Mississippi, made a pa triotic speech, defending the Southern people, black and white,and denounced the effort of the young man from In diana to revive sectional feeling at this late day. For some time there was considera ble excitement in the House, and a number of stormy scenes occurred. The more prudent Iepublicans con deinned the course of Johnston as im politic and uncalled for. On the other hand it gave the Democrats an oppor tunity to appeal to their Farmers' Al liance friends, who are disposed to drift away from the Democratic moor ings. Thousands of copies of John ston's speech will be immediately printed and distributed throughout the Southern States for campaiizn effect. A fter Gen. Ilooker was through with the Indiana Johnston Representative George Johnstone, of South Carolina, challenged certain statements which his lIepublican namesake had made re flecting upon the people of the Pal metto State. Mr. Johnstone was al lowed but three minutes to speak, but in that brief period he delivered one of the most scathing rebukes to the In diana Congressman ever heard in the flouse of lepresentatives. With con siderable feeling in his voice and ges tures that could not be misunderstood the South Carolinian proceeded to ar raign the protege of President 11arri son. Said he: "My conception, Mr. Chairman, of the grandeur and the destiny of this country and my conception of the dignity of man forbid me to reply to the gentleman from Indiana in the terms in which he addressed this Ilouse. Ie assumes to speak for the lepublican Administration. As aln, American citizen I deny the fact that he does. I do not believe that there exists to-day a Republican Adminis tration which would allow the gentle man from Indiana, in the terms which he used, to become its spokesman. They are peacemakers, the sworn pro tectors of the liberties and rights of the American people, not dissemina tors of discord. But, sir, to show how far lie has gone wrong, how far he is trespassing upon the courtesy of the Democratic I louse, and has permitted I his viperous tongue to slander the peo pia of the section that I represent, the State which I represent, 1 beg but a moment's time to call the attention of the 11ouse to the facts underlying his wordi and to give him ad the country the true history of that which lie seeks to detail. I challenge him, sir, here and now in the face of the American people to deny that it was a iepubli can Supreme Court, composed of a lIe publican native Carolinian, a Republi can negro and a Republican imported from the North, which determined the qlestion of the validity of the vote of bouth Carolina in 1876. If that be so, and I challenge him now and here to rise in his place and deny it, his slan der, coming with the veniom that it did from his serpent tongue, falls back with its mailign ity buried in his owni Mir. ,Johinston, of Indi,main: "That is, I uinderstaind the gentleman to 'denty the allegation and defy the allegator." AMr. ,Johnstone, or South Carolina: "Thlere is no alligator here; I hear bit the serpent's hiss. All, Mr. Chairman, permit me to state that the gentleman fromi Indiana, after having inidulged in th~e bitterest vituperation against the Democratic party throughout America, has beeni able to instance but one place, the 7th district or South Carolina, in which he says specifically that the rights of the colored man have been subverted, and in tile same breath in which he makes that statement he tells the country that at the time to which lie alludes a Democratic I louse seated the Riepublican nomince upon the contest made. "Otne word more, Mr. Chairman. I had imagined that the judicial olhice is a sacred one, I had Imagined that no .Judge with the spirit of right implant ed1 in his bosom, with a broad concep tien of the judicial character, woul permit himself to sit in judgment upon a case not yet heard and to deliver a (decree therein. But that is the position in which the gentleman from Indiana stands, lie Is a member of the coim mittee on elections with a con test pendling In the 7th district of South Carolina with not a syliable of testI mony. Yet before the committee, with the case unheard. he violates the sacre'd oath he has taken and attempts in ad vance to prejudlge the case, and to de liver his dlecree. If that be the spirit that actuates the gentleman from In diana, if that b>e the sense of justice that is Implanted In his bosomt, I do not believe that even the Rtepubalican membership of this IIouse can com mlendl It, and I know that if any of the training usually givent to A mlerican youth has been expendecd upon him he will yet hanlg his head in shame for his departure from the correct rule." { A p lause. I While the South Carolinian was speaking his D)emocratic associates gathered around him and listened ate tentively. When lie concluded there wa's ai burst of appllausHe on the floor and in the galleries, which showed that lie had won the approval of ills Deomo cratic friends and the unbiased spee tators. AM r. J ohniston, of Inadianma, made [no attempt to reply and( seine of his liIepumblican associates said he dleserved t,he repri mand so vigorously adminis terel .-News and Courier. ST'. Lou is, May 28--it is reported he~re that a heavy wind storm, followed by a cloud-burst, passedl over JIefferson City, Mo., at 3:30 p. m. to-day. The telegraph v/ires are down and It Is ima possible to get, particulars at presents. TIhe operator at iAnn, twenty-four miles east of Jefferson City, says a heavy wind is blowing and rain is fall ing matrranta. LET UPON THE LYNCHINGS. An Earnest Appeal by Negroes in Das Meeting. COLUMBIA, S. C., June 2.--Som4 time ago a meeting of the leading mer and women of the colored race was hek in New York city to take Into consider. ation the situation in regard to the col. ored people in the South, particularly ir reference to the matter of lynching, lesolutions were adopted and the meet Ing suggested that the negroes every where in the South observe the last da3 of May as a day of memorial and prayer, that def,.nders would lie raised for them with the manly courage "to build up a sentiment in every Southern hamlet against violent and brutal treatment to. wards a defenceless people,11 It was in conformity with this call that an immense gathering of the lead int colored people of Columbia was held in the Second Calvary Baptist Church yesterday afternoon at 3:3( o'clock. In the audience were not only the prominent negroes of the city, but niany others who are here in atVndance upon Allen University commencement. Entlhusiastic speeches were made by the Rev. Messrs. Dunbar, Tobin and Wil son; Dr. C. C. Joh-son, C. F. H1olnee and others. The following preamble and resolu, tions were adoptod without P, dissentinc voi-e: Whereas, We believe the time hae fully somo for our race to make an earn est appeal to all our fellow-citizens it behalf of justice and right, and to re <quest, a thoughtful and serious attentior to th3 enormity of the sin against Go( and humanity so frequently committet in our Southern States by lawless an< blood-thirsty mobs, who often upon evec a suspicion of certain crimes transgrRs tWe most sacred of all hutan rights, and hurry colored men off to a violent and cruel death; for it is admitted to bi a fundamental law of the land that evei the vilest criminal has an inherent righ to life and liberty unless deprived there of by a due process of law. And whereas, While we, in no mens ure, seek either to justify or excuse th< crime for which these, lynchings are thi usual punishment nor, indeed, any crim inal act of any member of our race, ye we insist that one crime never justitie another, and that to willfully depriv, any man of lite without a fair and impar tial trial is murder, and that these to< frequent scenes of violence and blood shed tend to familiarize men with law lessness and cruelty, to render humia lite cheap and human rights of no in portance, and thus to do incalculab] injury to all the higher interests of s< ciety at large. And whereas, While we ara awar tint therc are a great number of whil citizens who do frown upon, and in n wi-c encourage these lynchings, an who firmly believe that the reign of la, and order is in all respects most subsei vient of the general welfare of all, y( we fell that in view of that universE brotherhood of man which is alike th teachings of common sense, of scienc and religion; in view of all that is JuE and true and right, which these midnighi marauders set at open defiaace in viei of the civilization of this last ecade c the glorious nineteenth century; and i] view of that God, who has made eer man to some extent his brother's keell er, we leel that this better class, tli; Ilaw-abidinog and ordler-lovmig portion c the white cit,izens are not doing all the can (do, nor all they should do to preC vent, these acts of violence and blood shed( on the part of' the more vicious and Ignorant, memnbers of' their race that thi oflicers of the law sworn to bring thi guilty to justice are not faithful in car rying out their vows in the punishmen of t,hese midnight, murderers, and thia their disapproval of the hanging, shoot, img and buenmng of colored men wit,hou even the form of a trial is not nearly ai p)osltive and( emipha tie as it, ought to be thierceore, be it, lIesolved, That we urge all our fellow citizens to listen to t,he appleals of hun inanity, ofjustice and reason with ref er ence to this greatest, evil of the preseni time; we urge all our fellow-citizens tc allow just laws to be executed upon all crimInals in a legal manner; we urge all criminally (disposed persons to se4 that the punfshment for crimes does not (1epend( uipon the uncert,ain and waver, ing acts of any howling miobs of mid, night assassins, but tinat law is evei p)otent to p)unishi the ,zuilty and protecl t,be innocent, *that they may thii learn to respect the law and be restrain ed in their vicious purposes. lResolved, further, That we hecartill commendl the efforts made(1 by his Excel lency, II. It. Tillman, to prevent lynch img in the State of South Carolina, an< that we are grateful to him for the noble stanid he tins taken since his inaugura. Lion as Governor in endeavoring to put a stop to this cruel and unjust mob vio lence in.our State, and that we herebj reiterate our expressions of gratitude tc all those noble spirits who in any waj try to influence these lawless mobi! ag ainst their unholy designs upon tin 1ma11 life. Rlesolved, That we bei eby solemnli urge any member of our race who mnaj be crIminally inclined or disposed to dlis. regard the rights of their fellowmen t< ease their evil course and b)ecomi strictly obedient to law both human an< D)ivine; and that we appeal to any an< all members of the~ white race who ma' have joined thaese mobs of lynchers ant cutthroats, or in any wise aidled or abet, ted them in their midnight assassina ions, to listen to the dictates of human it,y and( reason, and allow the law t< take its course; we appeal sto themn hi b)ehalf of the thousands of innocent miei they have slain in behali of' the widow and orphans of those whose innocen b)lood cries from thie ground, in behal of the truest interest of our commo1 country whose very permanency an prosp)erity depend upon obedience t law and a respect for lawful authority and in 'behalf of that God who has writ ten so plainly in Ills own Word an hardly less so in human history "Vengeance Is mine; I will repay," Sita. A COLUMBIA MYSTERY. S A YOUNG WOMAN HOMELESS, FRIEND LESS AND INSANE. Her Strange Conduct Attracts Attention She Is Provided With a Home, is Ex amined and Pronounced Insave---Goes to the Asylium---Her Identity Unknown. CoLUMurA, S. C., May 31.-On Sitt urday af'ter noon last the prelude to what later on developed into a tragedy was introduced on the stage of human lite and enacted at McCreery's upper a tore. After midday a young woman, bru nette, good features and good from and apparently about 25 years of ase, enter ed the store. No particular attention was paid her, the floor walker and clerks thinking she was probably a visitor or was waiting to meet some one, as she walked about from place to place iak ing no purchases. But as the day wore on, and she showed no signs of going, she was ac costed by one of the employees and ques tioned as to her business, and why she did not go home. She said she had no home, and was going to stay there all night. IIer manner was very strange. and Mr. McCreery or his manager, III order to get rid of her presence, she having said she was without money as well as homeless, offered to pay for her board and lodgings it she would go. This she agreed to after much persua sion, and she was sent to Mrs. Chap pell's private board:ng house. Her manner there was so strange that an effort was made to find out who she was and where she came from. She would give no name, saying at one time her name was Maggie, and at another Willie. WheLe she ca ie from she could not be induced to tell, but she did say she was going to Greenville, and thought she got off in Columbia. She had by some means secured a phial of laudanum, and had taken ore dose when it was taken from her. She said to some one present she wanted to kill herself. By this time Mrs. Chappel believed her to be crazy and bad the authorities notified, and to-day Judge Ray appoint ed a commission consisting ol Drs. Kendall and Dubose to examine her condition and report upon her sanity, which was (lone and they reported her insane, but owing to the lateness of tho hour at which their report was filed the proper papers for her commitment to the Asplum could not be made out. She will be committed by Judge Perry to-day. * From all that can be learned of the woman, there is a mystery about the case. Those who have seen her rep)ort e that she is evidently a lady of rtline . ment. She was plauly dressed and had only fifty cents in nioney and one pos e ta,o stamp which she carried carefully L ucked away in the bosom of her dress. 0 The Register reporter at a late bhour I last night interviewe(l one of the phy V sicians, who examined her as to what he - thought of the case. le said he had niade very close examination, spending a long period of time in doing so, and C while she answered his questions with e great shrewdness, (answering what she saw fit to answer, an( then at times t knowing nothing,) he was compelled to V believe her mind dcrauged and signed a f certificate to that ellect. IIere is a case I'or sonie of the inany a;Dateur detectives to ferret out. There is evidently a se - cret somewhere in the woman's history Swhich she is trying to keep.--Reiste,-. D)isastrous oloudburst. NILE.s, Ohio, May 26.-A cloudburst at Kingsman, a small village t,wo miles northwest of this city, has resulted in a flood which has caused the death or at least six persons and the distruction of a vast amount of property and stock. A number of physicians from this city are now at the scene. The water fell in torrenits from 4 o'clock p. m. till a tow minutes after 6. A small river overflowed its banks and poured its volume of water over a fertile and wvell farmed country. A large damn, about two miles above the village, broke, and a solid Wall of water poured down the river's bed. No one was warned, as all thought themselves secure. Pymaten ni mg River was over a ml e wide and covered the bottoms. K. Stewart and son were at their barn, which was some rods away from thme house. It was carried away and both drowned. Th'ie house withstood the torrent, and his wife observed the destruction and death. J. D. Campbell and wife were carried down with s rush. They lodged on the abutments of the bridge and were rescued. The bodies of six, known to have perished, have been recovered. All were found in a large pile of drift wood, which reached nearly across the river. The banks of the river are crowded with excited sightseers, and sacigparties are overhauling the drfwo,believing that all of the dead have not been found. Hie Was Accomildated. BASTRtOP. La., May 26.-A most pe culiar murder and a most peculiar lynching occurred here Sunday. One man committed the ,murder. S. C. Brigman manager of a plantation on Island DeSlard, was shot from ambush by an old negro. The negro then walked to the plantation residence, summoned Col. Phillips, thme owner, and told him he had killed Brigman and wanted to be hanged for it. Col. Phil lips put a rope around the negro's neck, pulled the rope over the limb of a tree, and the negro was soon swinging in a death struggle. It is thought the nie aro was Insane. A Familly D)rowned. TEXARKANA, Ark., May 28.-The family of Turner Adams, consisting of himself, wife and ive children, were drowned to-day while trying to escal,e off the flooded Gilass plantation, above Shere, on the Rled river. Adams had gone to bring them food, but not sue Sceeding, went back to convey his family t to asafe place, when their boat was t caught in an eddy and swamped, and I all were drowned. Five Hundred Death. Daiiy. * CA LCUTrA, May 26.-Cholera con tinues its ravages In Serinagur, one of th aials of Cashmere. The popula tooftecity Is 58,000 and the disease, if it continues as fatal as at present, - will depopulate the place. Deaths are Ioccurring at the rate of 500 daily.