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AT TilE TABERNACLE. DR. TALMAGE ILLUMINATES AN OB SCURElEXT. SignifiCRnc o the Verule. "I Answered Thee In the Secret I'laoe of Tbunder." In the BIbW Thunder I@ the TyVe of Power and Dystery. BROOKLYN, May 29.-Dr. Talmage gave a Iresh illustration this morning of the power he possesses of extractiug val uable lessons from a text which preach ers have generally neglected as bairen ground. His sermon was based on the text Psalms lxxxi, 7, "1 answered thee in the secret place of thunder." It is past midiighit, aid two o'clock it. the morning, far enioui from sunset andO sunrisc to make the darkness very thick, and the Egyptian army im pursuit of' the escaping Israelites are on tbo bottom of the Red sea, its waters hay ing been set up on either side in mason, ry of Sapphire, for G od can , a :14~ SolYhid ,''4~H .lale a wvall atr as out of granite, and the trowels with which tlhete two walls were built were none the less powerlul because invisible. Such walls had Lever before beeu lifted. When I saw the waters of the ed sea rolling through the Suez canal they were blue and beautiful antid flowing like other waters, but tonight, as the I;yp tians look ipl to them bailt into walls, now ou one side and now on the other, they must have been fiowninig waters, for it was probable that the same power that lifted themli upl) might sliddenly f1tng them prostrate. A great lantern of cloud hung over this chasm between the two walls. The door of that lantern was opend toward the Israelites ahead, giving them light, and tie back of the lantern was tcward the Egyptias, and it. arowled and rumbled and jarred with thunder; not thunder like that which cheers the earth atter a drought, prom ising the refreshini shower, but charged and surcharged with threats of doom. The Egvptians captain lost their presence of mind, and the horses reared and snorted and would not answer to their bits, and the chariot wheels gou, interlocked and torn oil', and tile char ioteers were hurled headlong, and the led sea fIll on all the host. The con fusing and contounding thunder was in answer to. the prayer of the Israelites. With their backs cut by the lash and their 1et bleeding and their bodies de crepIt with the suffering of whole gener ations, they had asked Almighty God to ensepuicher their Egyptiau pursuers ;u one great sarcophaigus, and the splash auid the roar of the Red sea as it droppt d to its netural bed were only the shutting 01 the sareophagus on a dead host. That is the meaning of the text when God says, "I answered thee in the secret place of thunder." Now, thuntler, all up and down the Bible, is the symbol of' power. The J.vptian plagte of hail was accompa nied with this lull diapason of the heav ens. While Samuel ned his men were makmg a burnt offering of a lamb, and the Phiistines were about to attack them, it was by terrorizing thunder they were discomili ed. .lob, who was a coml bmnation of the D)antesque andi the Mil tonic, was solenmixed oni this reverbera tion of' the heavens, and cried: ''The thunder of his puower', who can uinder siand.'' and lie challenges the universe by saying, "'Can'st thou thunder with a vulce like him?"' aind he throws Rosa Bonheuri' "'I trse i"air" irnto the shade by tihe liihle phnotog~aph of' a war-horse, when lie describcs hils nteck as '"clot.hed with thunder."' 1ecause of thne power of' dames anid Jlohn, they were cal led "'the sons ('f thunder.'" The law uivein (in the basaltic cerags of Mount Sinai was3 emiphnasizcd~( withi thni. cloudy clulli tioni. Tho rlJes al atroun<I i>Out M'-. ,JhnI at P'atmaos weie fuill of I lie thunder rat war and the thunder of Chriast y i umpih and the thntmduer of' resurrection inithe thunder of' eternity. Now right -along by a natural law there is always a spir aual lawi. As there is a secret la(ce ofI naturatl thun dier, there is a secret pine'e of' moral thun der. In other wvordls, the religious power that you see abrwoad in the clhurch and1( in the world has a hiding place, andt mi mitny cases it.is never discovered at all.* I will use a similitude. I can ive~ only the dimi outline of a particular case, for mnany~ of the remarkalde circumstan ces I have forgotten. Many year's ago flere was a large church. It was chatr inenized by strange and unIaccounitale con versions. There were no great re vivals, but individual eases of' spiritual arrest and( transformation. A young nian sat, in one of thne front pews. lIe was a graduate of Yale, brillhant its the north star tandt notor'ious ly', dissolute. lFverybody knew him and liked hiim for his geniality, but deplored his imoral errantry. T1o please his par ents lie was every Sabbath morning in chturch. One day~ there was a ringing of the doorbell of the piastor of' thaut church, and that young man, whelmned with repentance, implored prayer andit advie oand passed io comiplete irefor n'ation of heart and life. All the nei borhiood was astonished aind asked, WIny wv.us this? IIis father and mother baud said nothing to him about his soul's wel fare. On another aisle of thne same church sat an old miser. IIe paid his pew rent, tut was hard on thre poor and had no interest in any philanthropy. Piles of money! And people said: "What. a st ruggle lie will have when lie quits this life, to part with his bonds(1 andl mort gages.") One (lay lie wrote to is miin later: "Please to call immediately. I he'tve a matter of great importance about which I want to see you." When the pastor came in the old man could not speak for emotion, but after a while' lie gathered self control enough to say: "1 have hived for this world too long. I want to know if you think I can be saved, and, if so, 1 wish you would tell me how." 'Unon his soul the light soon dawned, and the 01(1 miser, not only rev olutionized in heart but in life, began to scatter benef actions, and toward all the great charities of the (lay lie became a cheerful and bountiful ahmoner. What was the cause of this change? everybody asked; and no one was cap)able of giving an intelligent answer. In another part of the church sat Sab bath by Sabbath, a beautifuland talent edl woman, who wvas a great society leader. She went to church becauset that was a respectable thing to do, and In the neighb)orhood where shne lived it was hardly respectable nzot to go. Worldly was she to the last degree, and all her family worldly. Sne had at her house the finest germans thmat were ever danced, and the costliest favors' that were ever given, and though she attend ed church she never liked to hear any .story of pathos, and as to religious emo tion of any kind, she thought it positive ly vulgar. Wines, cards, theaters, J ond of costly gayety were to her the highest satisfaction. One day a neig h. bor sent in a visiting card, and th's lady came dowR the stairs in tears, and told tie whole story of how she had not slept for several nights, and she foured she was going to lose her soul, and she won dered if some onic would not come around and pray with her. From that time her entire demeanor was changed, and though she was not called upon to sacrifice any of her amen. ities of life, she consecrated her beauty, her social position, her family, her all to God and the church and usefulness. Everybody said in regard to her, "Have you noticed the change, and what in the world caused it?" and no one could make satisfactory explanation. In the course of two years, thoui there was io general awakening In that church, ninny such isolated cases of suh unex pc ted and unaccountable conversionis took place. The very people whom no one thought would be affected by such considerations were COVerted. The pastor an d the oflicei-s (f the church were on the lookout for the solu "WVhere is i,' ie" sald, "alld who is it and what is it'' At last t-e discovery was made and all was explained. A pioor old Christian woman standitng inl the vestibule of the church one Sunday morning, (rymng to get her breat.h again befTore she went upstairs to tihe gallery, heard the iiuiry and told the secret. For years she had been inl the habit ol concentrating all hcr prayers for partic ular persons in that churich. She would see somlle iaenli or soie Woma11n pr1esent anrd, though she nivht not k:ow i Ot person's 1ame, slhe would pray ', r I.Ih:A per-on uintl lie or she was coiiv( rt . to God. All hier prayers were fhr that one peron-just that one. She waited and wiited For coulilniillionl days to see when tle candidates fhr micibership stood uip whether her prayurs-..had been el'eclual. It turned out that these marvelous in stances of converson were the result of that old womani's prayers as she sat imthe gallery every Sabbath, bent and wizened 1nd poor and unnoticed. A little cloud of consecrated humanity hovering inl the -alleries. That was the secret place ot the thunder. There is some hiiden, unknown, mysterious source ot'almost, all the moral and religious power demon - strated. Not one out of a million-not one out, of ten million prayers ever strikes i lunan car. On publ'e occat sious a iwtwlter of religion voices the supplicauions of en assemblage, but tihe. prayers of all the congregation are in silence. There is not a secondi in a cen tury when prayers are uot ascendinig, but Imlyriads of themli are not even as lld as a whisper. for God leurs a thought as plainly as a vocalization. That silence of' suppheation-hemisphiri andi per petual --is the secret place ot thunder. The( day will cone-God hasten it when people will lind out tie velocity, the majesty, tire iiltipotence of prayer. Wo brag about our limited express trains, which put us down a thousand miles away in twenty-lour hours, but, ere is sonething by which Ill a mionent, we may confront people live thousand miles away. We brag about our tle phionies, but here is sorething! tha", beats the telephone in utterance an rl.OYi, for God says, "Before they enti, ! will hear." We brag about tire pho' taph, mi whichi a man can speaiik anti iris words aiid t,he tones of' his 'voice con be kept for ages, anti by the turrninrg of :u erankI tire wordi may come torth upoirtir e ars of' another century. but prayer allows us to speak words into the ears of' everlast ing rememhbrance, iand on the other sht!c of all the ete 'rities they will lhe hreanr'. Ohi, ye w ho mare washing your b reath, andi( w ar'tinig y,our br'ains, and.t w~astnr your nire~S, anud wastinrg your lunngs, wi'lhing for this' good andi that anod for time :ichrh and the world, why do you not gointo thi. secret place of Ithurnde'? "But,'' says one, "'thatt is a beauiti bnl theor'y , yet it docs. not work in myi case, or I aim in a cloud of1 trouble, or a cloud o1' slekness. r a cloudl a1 perisecui in, or a cloud of poverity, or ai chr'rd of hueravemient, or a cloudt of pe'rplexity,'.' Il ow glad I ami that, you told ime ta.. '.l'nnat is exacetly thre place to) wich imy text refers. It was frm a cloud( thatr Godl answered Israel, tihe cloudii over Ire charsmr cut throughn tire lied .;ea, tire cloudi tha:t was lighrt to thre tarachities ai: darkness to tihe Egyptiarns. It was f'rm ai cloud, a tr'emendous cloud, that Godl made(l reply. it was a c'loud that, wars tire secret, place oif thiundler. So you cant,u uct away hr'om tire conisolaiton)i '' my text by talking thia', way. I,eit. all tire pleople under a clound h eai' it." answered thee ini t' .e secret phic of TIhre bl1essing~ of God)1 is askedi oa tire hood, arnd the mieau o,ver the tanily ible is put uiponr tire white tablc cloth, ad aili chapt.er is read and prayer umade, whnich includes all the initei'ests h'oi' this worldi and tire inext. Thre children pay not so miuch at,t.entionr to tire prayer, for it, is ab)out tihe saime thing day after day, lbut it puts upon threii an imipressionr that ten throusandt years will oinly make mor'e viv idl andI tremnendouQ. As long ais the ol folks live their pr'ayer is for their childr'en aund threir ehildhren's chrildr'en. Day ini and day out, mronthi in andt imonth ourt. year in tand year omit, dIecadle ini and de crade out, tire sonis and tdaughirs of' that faimily ar'e remremiberedi in eairnnest prayer, and they know it, aund tbey feel it, and they 'rannot, get aiway fromi if. Two fuinerais after awhile-riot more than two years apart, for it is seldlomi that, threre is more irhan that lapse of time between father's going arid ninth er's going-two luinerals put out of' sight tire old folks. But wirerec are tire chil dhren?y The (laughters are rir onmes wher'e they are incarnations of' good sense, iniduistry and piety. Thre sonrs, prerhaups one a farmer, anrothier a mrer chaint, anothrer a miechranie, another ai physician, another ai minrister of tire Gospel urseful, consistent, admrir'ed. What, a power for good those scyoni sons and daughters! Where dhi( theuy get thle power? .From tire se,hools, andrt tire scmminaries, and tthe colleges? Oh, nio throughl threse many brave hrelp)ed. Fromi their suiperior' menrtal endlowmrent? No, L do riot think they hand unusual mieiital caliber. From accidentaul circumnstaunces? No, they hadit nothring of whaL is carlled1 ast.ouniding good lued. 1 think we will take a train arid rie t.o thre depot nearest to the hiormesteadl from which those men andi womren st,arted. Tire trarin halts. Let urs stop a few minurtes rat tire village graveyard and see the tombust.ones of the parents, Yes, tine one was seventy-four years ol age and tire otirer severity-two, and th < epitaph says that "after a useful lif( they died a Christian death.'' How op, proprhately thre Scripture passarge eu on the mother's tombstone, "She hiath (done what shre coul.'' Anti howy beau tnfnl tire passage on tire father's tomib stone, "Blessed are the dead who tie in thre Lord, for they rest fromi threir labor and their works do follow them."' On over the country road we ride the road a little rough, for the spring~ wather. ia not mqfIe setild,'n antu c down in a rut it Is hard to get the wheels out again without breakiug the shaits. But at last we come to the lane in front of the farmhouse. Let me gtre out of the wagon and opei the gate while you drive thiough. Ilere is the arbor under which those boys and girls many years ago used to play. But It Is quite out of order now, for the property is in other hands. Yonder is the orchard where they used to thrash the trees for apples, sometimes befo' e they were quite ripe. There is the mow where they hunted for eggs before Easter. There is the doorsill upon which they used to s it. I'liere is the room in whicb they had fitinily prayers and where they all knelt -the lather tliere, the mother therc, and the boys and girls there. We have got to the fountain of pious and gracious influences at last. That iv the place that decided those seven eart.lI and immortal destinies. Be hold! Behold! That is the secret place of thimder. Boys are seldom more in their fathers will lzt them b)e G irl a1-16 itu're than their moth Us will let t.hem be. But there conic Limes when it seems that parents can not control their children. There come linies in a boy's life when he thinks he knows more than his fither does, and I remember now that I knew iore at fit 1een yearsofae tU I have ever known sinwe. There ome tinies in a girl's life when she t.hiink her mother is notional and does 11ot understand what is proper and best, and the sweet, child says, '"Oh, pshaw!'' and she longs for the time when she will not have to be dictated to Itil she goes out of the door or goes to bed with pouting lips, and these moth ers rencimber for themselves that they knev wmore at, lourteen vears ofage than they have ever klown since. But, tath er trid mother do not think you have lost )Our inflience over your child. Y ou have a resource of prayer that puts the s) m11pathetit and olnipotent God in to I our parental undertaking. Do not waste youir timne in reading thimsy books about, the ways to bring up children. (o inito) the. secret place ol' thunder. 'Tlie reason that we ministers do not accomplish more is because others do not. pray enough for us and we do not prty enough for ourselve.i. Every mii ister could tell you a thrilling story of sermons--sermows hasty and imi promptit, because or finerals and sick beds and annoyances in the parish; yet those sermons harvesting many souls for God. And then of sermons prepar ed with great care and research and toil iininterrnpted; yet those sermons fall ing fat or powerless. Or of the same seiion mightily blessed on one occasion andti useless on another. Oh, pray for us! I Poor sermons in t lie pidpit, are the curse of God on a prayer less parish. People say: "What is the matter with the ministers in our time ? Se) many oef them seem (dissatisfied wit Ib thl lib, and they are trying to help Aleses and 'aul and Christ out of in consistencies and contradictions by fix ing up the llible." As well let the inti %iilans go to work to fix up Haydn's "Creation," or Handel's "Isreal ill Egypt." or let the painters go to fixing up lhiplael's "Transfiguration," or aicitects go to iixing up Christopher W ren's SL. 'al's. I hit I will tell you N hat is the matter. Thure aro too iiiany uinconverted min te-rs. The'.ir hearts have never beeni chunged by the grace of Go ~d. A mere int 'lleettiiut ministr-y is the deadest fail m'e this side of perdition. Alas for the G~o- I of ieicles. Froim apologetics and er * tueneutics and diogmnaties good LOnt deliver us! Th'ley are trying to ge fi rom t rantscendental theology, or cII' pr~ooundl ex igesis, or* from tihe a it of :.plit ii ig ha:ir-s bectweeni north and nort hi west side', inusi eadl of getting their powerfr m' t he secret pilace oft thundmoer. We want ilhe poweir a man gets when heK is alfoie, ihe dloor locked; on his k n es; ttil idn ighlt; with such a burden ofl -eOl s uipon1 him i that makes himn cry C i first in lamneinat ion muidt thlen ini raipt inies. Le,t all thle Sabb:1,th scho0o l tteachiers an md .1ih le cla'ss inustruictors, atnd all re iorteruiirs and alil &evaiigelist s, and all iniinisteris kno1w thait dleploma s aiilti die t1 ionaies' and( ii enylopiedias and ti-eat ise aud libraries are not the source 01 iun>ral and spiritual achiievminent, but that, t' roomi of perayer, where no one bu1t GOdh is present and nit one butt God hiears, is t he secret place of thunder. .Steret ?A hi, yes! So secret that comil paratively few ever lind it. At os)c tbel, Enuglandii, we v-isit ed at house whetre a ki ng \%is (once1 hid. Ne one', ulhess it were hoimitedl out to hlim, could find thle d oor in athle floor thmroig h whichl the kinug enittered hits hiding place. Whlen tilre hidden the armed pursu ers loo kted ini vain for' him, and after vartd t b rough an iinde-rgrounzd passag(e, liri out1 inI the fields, lie came 0-it in the open ajir. So this limperial power o1 s eiriit oull imence has a hiin g p lace, a secret place which few know, and it coimes forth noinet ines ill strange and tuyster-ious ways, and far otf from the ph;iee w hiere it. was hidden you can find it onity by diligent searching. Ilait you will flid it, and I wish youiinight, all findl it, It' stec:et phice of thunider. A t nineI o'clock Wiednetsdaiy mlorning, .1 tne l5 intxt , oin the steamer ('it y of New York, I expect to sail for Liver j)e)ul, to be gone' unitil September. It is ini airrcptance of mnany invitations that I am goimig (on a l'reachiing tour. I ex - peel to devote my) timle to preachinig Ltii Gospel mn England, Scot land, Ire 1.1 ii ando Swedenm, I wanlt to see hiow nuany souls I cani gather for- the king tdom of Godl. TIhose counitries have for manyIi years beelonigedi to my parish, and I go to sp)eak to theta andi shake hands with them. I want. to vi sit more thor oughly than before those regions from whfich miy ancestors camie, Wales and Se 'tlanid. I wili make it a camnpaign for G od adi eterniity, and I hope to get (luring th,is absence a baptisml of p)ower t,hat wiall make mec of iiore service to you whieni I return thtan I ever yet have been. F"or, bret hiern amnd sisters in Christ, our opportunity for usefulness will soon1 bet gone, and we shall have our faces uplifted to the thironie of .judginent, before which we imust give aic:oiint. That daly there will lbe no secret pia1ce of thunder, foir mll thle thiiuiders will be out. There will be thle thundt-r of the tummblinlg rocks. l'herre will be the t.hunder of tie burst ing waves. There will be tile thunde'r of descending chariots. 'lTere will be theI thundcer of the parting heavens. Ilioom! Ilom! litut all that dlin mand uproar and crash will find us unfalTrig htened, and will leave us nndismayed if we have nmade Chirist our confidence and after an Au gust shiower, when tile whole heavens have been an unlimberedi batterv can nonlading thes earthl, then fields are~ morre green, and the Sunrise Is more radiant, and the waters are the morn opaline, so thie thunders of the last day will make the tiees of lIfe appear miort emerald, anid the carbuncle of the wall more crimson, and thie saipphifre seas the moltre shilmnmering, mand the suni.ise of ete'rnal gladne'ss the more emplog0iled. TIhe thuiinders of dlissolving niatture will be followe'd by a celestial I salmody, the sounid of wvhich St.,John on l.'atmos dec scribed, wvhen lie said. "1 heard a voice like theO voice of mighty thunderings!' A men. LAURENS' ALLEGED LYNCHING. Detale'of Dave Shaws's Spiriting Awa Looking for Shaw. COLUMB1A, S. C., June 2.--The re ported lynching of the negro, charge( only with larceny, in Laurens, count created considerable talk yesterday it the city, and much interest was 'iani fested in the matter In the State depart ment. During thc forenoon Governor Till man received a reply to his messege U Solicitor Schump6rt, stating that h4 would leave by the next train for th scene of the trouble and make a thorouw1 investigation of the all'air as instructed Until his report arrives the (overno will take no further action ii regard t< the matter. iy t (low [iri1seste rday the Gov Z:or received the following lette which clears the trial justice in clar_( of the district in which the crime oc c irred from any .-harge of neglect a duty, and gives the fullest details ye received. It is dated irom Dorrah, S U., May 30, is and siined by John 11 liellams, trial ju3tice of Dial's town ship, Laurens county: Dear Sir: There was an unlawful ne of lynching, occurring in Laurens coin ty on Friday night, the 27th inst. Th circumstances were as follows: On the 27th inst., one .1. 11. 11opkin came before me and swore out a war rant against Dave Shaw, colored, foi burglary and grand larceny, for enterin his father's store by means of fal-o keys and taking therefrom goods to th amount of $60, belonging to himself ram his father, W. L. 11opkins. I sent m3 constable, J. M. Abercrombie, for the defendant, Dave Shaw. Ile, i coi paly of'J. II. llol)kins and V. L. Aber cronibie, went and arrested Dav,,e Shaw tied him, and were bringing him to my ollice to stand the preliminary examina tion. In crossing the bottoms of South Ilubourns' creek they were accosted by a body of ien. who were in ambush and called on "to hands up;"' the constabh reports that lie was covered with pis tols, and fired into, and ordered to take the road back. Others grabbed hold of him and forced the line by which hc held the prisoner from him. He says that it was then gool (lark, and he could not recognize any one among the out laws. I have been on tile scene and tried to investigate the matte-:, as far as I was able. I found where they had carried the prisoner in the thickets anid hung him to a limb, either to whip or otherwise punish him. I found a pool of blood there and from the signs there must have been a considerable body of men. My constable says there were fifty or seventy-live. The prisoner has not been heard of since the liching. I have had the creek and mill pond searched for bhe body but have made no discovery o! him. It is the general opinion that lie was murdered, and concealed. It may be that lie was ordered to skip the coun try. The facts lea-hlng to the lynching are these: 11 was generally conceded that Dave Shaw did the stealing, and tihe evidences leading to proof were circuim stauxtial, and would not, probably convic hitn. It,is known that lie was runnimr a one hoise fhrm without any visibli means of support, that corn cribs wer being entere<f by means of false key and corn taken therefrom. This lyn chinig is depllored by our best citizens If' any further facts conme up I will nxoti y' .you. T1he negroes ar*e still seareb ing for D)ave.-State. llurrah for' the Goverunor. C'oL.:uA., S. C., May 31.- (Governio Tillmian has been working very qjuieti; bu'it eftefetially to break uip an evil thia has been intlictedl on the citizens o Ilamibuirg by reaisoin of the strict en forcement of' law in A ugusta. It xtp pear's that sinice tlie change in the cit governmet(nt of Augusta her cit,izen wYho dIulidtot cairry home ai "ticklher"' ou Sat urday night were as dry ais a huoni on Situ?tay. I anmbiurig, ac:ross tfhe ri ver was a v'ery pleaisant Sundlay walk amn thi ther the thirsty crowd h:ied thema se'lves on Sunday ini order to wet thei dlry ami parche(d lip~s, andi in conse5 'jitence' tie Sitnday liuluior trailic grev' int,o such an open violation of the lav as to make It (fisgusting to decent pteo pie. Tlhe law-abiding citizens cota< (obt in no redress, as the mayor, aider' men and even the chief of police, wht also fills the ollice otf Trial d1 ustice, han all gone into the liquor trallic and wecrt violatinig the law. So the law abiding peop)le appealed to the Governor for re lief. TIhe Governor was determinei that tho business should stop, so hi (ietly senit Messrs. Ilartin and 11ol loway to the scene and they went t, work inl ai (Iet lbut effectuial way ti break it up. They had the legal know] edlge of Assistant Attorney tienera Tlowrinen who made several visits to 1llamnburg to assist thetm, and yester:la) Governor Tillman received a telegrant front im announcing the fact thal twenity-two) arrests had b( en madle foi violation of the law. Further dlevelopi muents wvill be watched with interest Goverinor Tillman is dleterminled tint South Carolina shall not supply An gusta's dintkers with liquor on Sun day.-Register. The.y Bu.y Staves. NEWv Youn., June 2.-Tihe bark Libe ria, Capt. 1togersu, which arrived toda3 Irom ulonrovia, and Sierra Leone, coin pleted the round trip in the unparaliel ed time of soventy-five days. Th'iis in eludes the timie of discharging anc taking on cargo at two West Africar piorts. Among the Liberia's passen ge were the Rev. A. McCullough, o: the International Missionary ;Society and his wife, whose ill-health inducet him to return to A'nerica. iIe spen Ill t,een mont hs in Sierra Leone. le hat not acqfuiredl a high opinion of eithei the American negro or the educatec A frican there. Several of the Liberua't colored steerage passengers are nativi Africans coming here to be edeated arid four are returning Americans. Mr McCullough says that much rum is im portedi into Sierra Leone, and that, at the natives absorb it with the doctrinet of the missionaries, the results of th( conversions are not always agreeabhi to conltempilate. Many of the colored A mericans who stay in Sierra Leone cal led themselves Europeans, and when they get prosperous bay slaves to in crease their wealth. The Porttuguiesc and the coloredl Amnericans trea~t theft slaves Wilth greater hiarsihness than any other slave Owners. Thue natives A!f rican is usually spoiled by a European education. 'The Liberia b)rought sev eral boxes of pythons and monkeys. DEA'TH no0-:8 NOT dliseriminate. Ii the terrible dlisaster at \Vellington dIan cers at the balhl and( worshippers at th( prayer meeting, were alike buiriedl h the ruins or buildings, but, as the (G reen ville News says, "nmost of' us, howeve, our notions of such matters may be Iwould probably have preferred going, to the great beyanxd from thie prayei mnleD" IT MEANS VICTOnY. The Democrats and People's Party Fusoe In Kansas. ToPEKA, KAN., Juce 2.--For th e first tune in tho histcry of Kau.as it is t posRible to take from the Ropublicans every State office, every Congressman, and the Presidential electors. Whether t this will be done or not depends entirely 1 upon the Democratic leaders. They are I at present divided, and each faction de- I cares that unless it can control it will not move. Outnumbering the Democrats four to 3 One, )08i)ly 'live to one, the People's party declares that it will not depart form its priicilAes as set forth in tihe St. Louis platCoru. Long ago they adopted at catchy phrase. "Keep in the middl e ot the road," ain), t i,e4bo1ilch i idea of a (apaign, they will not depart from it. The party is well organized, which t leadil many Deiocratic le,ders to be- I lieve that this year they should take ad. vantage of that power. Realizing that three ,ickets assue lItepublican success, they % ould fiirst break the power of their old-time political enemy tad then reforim their lines in an open field. Their plan t is to draw the lepublicans from their I entrenclhments and completely rout them I believing that evontually such defeat , would add to Democratic strength and result in the total demoralization of the present dominant, latlrty. In ac.,ordance With their ideas of po- I litical strategy, to at.coiplish this they are willing to concede to their allies, the 1 '.ople's party, all the olices. if necess-try, beleving that the fight over the Ppoils will ultimately disinte.rate that party and( eventually leave the Democrats masters of the field. Other Democratic Leaders concede this situation; but believing that this year there will be national Democratic j success, would hold *itact the Demo- ( cratic ranks, maintan their organization, t and thus control the Federal patronage. t They would make a ticket, make State and Congressional nominitions, aud also name an electoral ticket, though fully realizing that a thrru-cornered light can only result In tbe R-ipublcan success all around. The People's party in its strength de clines a fusion in the general acceptation t of that word. Its leaders believe their numbers are great enough to give them t the right to dictate, and they propose, i except in isolated cases, to exercise that t right. They will name the State oficers', the Congressional candidates, and tihe 0 electoral ticket, and then ask the Demo c[ats to vote with them. Their organization has been on the Ocala and St. Louis platforms. To yleld, or even to appear to waver, would cost the party thousands of votes, for .vhether right or wrong the farmers of State are contending for what they be lieve to be principles. They believe that finally the Democratic party will give them all they desire, but the are not yet ready to place In Democratic hands, except indirectly, the power to control them. The combined People's party and )eniocratic vote is greater than the Rte publican vote by at least 20,000. In tile election last fall the Republicans had a majorit,y in only 27 of the 165 Senatorial and Represent,ative (listricts, proving that the cominued olppositlion still held its st.rength from the previous year. possible that the People's party in the 1st Ccrngressional district, will eni dlorac tihe Democratic nominee. The llepublicans have friends enough in the new p)arty in that (district to lorce sep arate action, as wvas dlone two years ago, when IBrodlerick was elected over Mooni r light,. The newi~ parl,y is not strong there4 and cannitot hope to wini anii Lng byindepeiiiirnt, act,ion. lIn the six ether 'ilstricts there arme Don-ioeorats who desIre to miakec the rae, - although by3 domii3 so thiey kno3w nlow as - well as they will after tihe election that, they can only aid the ltepublicanrs. There will he eight, Congressmein elected ini Kaarsas this y ear. With three tickets the lIe-publicanis will ciect, seveni, the 6th udisitrict., niow rep:esenrted by Raker, b einu~ the orily one that, cant be carried by the P eople's party ,v er the o(ds. Three State tickets in the field will "ive U, e election to thre Republicans by at, least, 15 ,000) pluraility. Tihre endorse.. mreint. of thre l'eople's patrty ticket would elcted that ticket, by 20,000 majority. . The electoral ticket will be in the same shape as the Stare ticket. Th'ose of the I D)emocrats who faivor lusioni on any terms realize that it, ii in their power to take tire teln Electoral votes of Kansas - out ot' the Riepublican colum: , some Ithing never before p)osibl;. Thiree tickets wIll forcycer losuthis prospect. TlEY HAVE FUsKO. mneet,ning of- the Democrats aind l'eopile's part,y of Kansas was held here to-day. Thne meet,ing (heudoed that it would be well for tire Diemocrats arid People's parties to form a coalit,ion against the ltepublhlicans in the coming elections. The nmeeting went into secret,session at 11 o'clock and1( didi not adjourn until 5 o'clock in the afternoon. During tire intervening hours the whole matter of fusioni was throughrly%discussed, and a resolution was ado~ptedl giving tIre sense of the meeting ars in favor of fusion. An Appecal for Aid. WVEL LINOTON, iKan., ,June 2.-The commrittee appointed to procure relief for tire suffers by the recent cyclone to-day issued an appeal to the people of the United States. Tire people, says the appeal, are met on every sidle with want, discouragement and depression. All that could be done to relieve dhis tress has been done by those citizens of the town who suffered n'. loss, and still the amount of aid yet to la. rendered is. very great. A few thousand dollars of: aid now would accomplish miore than many thiousandls at a more dlistant day. "We nreed money most of all," says the appeal; "but wouldt be greatf ul for anry tiring valuable, especi ally household furiiiture." Foll Ouit b>y thre Way. G R EE N y I LLE, S. C., May 30.---Richmard Stroud and Rhansy St,rond, two brothers, were iassault.ed on Saturday rnit in the ulpper part, of thuis county by two unr. known white men, who asked to ride ini thre wagon in wich thre Strouds were on their way hems. Richaird Stroudl was fa 'ally inrjuredl andl hiB brother was ipain fully hurt. Blothr men were knocked Uiunconsious. If robbery wias tire obrject of the crime the mien did not get airy. money, alt.hough Richard Stroud had some on Is person. It is believed that the horse attached to tire wagon ran away andl threw out the two wounded briothers.4 J)rowned in a Hole. A Ven Us'r, GI a., Many 30.-TLhils after noon0, ai little aft.er 7 o'cluc k, (George Cobb, a child about eight years old, aci cidently fetl into a hole dug for a tele-j graph pole, which Was full of water,i and was drowned before assistance ar rived. A Neation ian 11arsrwenk. A shocking affair ik reported from lrnwell, the result of which involves lie good name and liberty of a hitherto ighly respected physician, a brother n-law of Abraham Lincoln. Some lays ago the ( oronir was callod upon 4h1ohl an iniest over the deald bo)die4 if a youig white woinai, who. it ap wals. had bei led autray by the over ures of a railroai conlractor froi the vest., and her infant. A jury was em >anele(, and after a number of wit. .esses had been examined, including everal leading physicians, the jury ren lered a verdict holding Dr. Todd guilty. )r. Todd is a brot her of the late Presi [ent Lincoln's wile. lie caie to South Jarolina from Kentucky several years )efore the war, ard settled in liarn veil, where lie soon built up an eXiA11 ive- r.jedieal praciice, and has ever inCe enDjoyed the contidence and esteeni A the entire cominutity. Ile served ts surgeon in the Cmi'ecrato army, id won Iuch distinction. It is sail hat he amputated no les.4 than 700 inbs during the war. Wr. Todld wias irrested tipon a charge in accordance vith the jury's finding, and furnished >ond inl the sum of 91,500 for his ap earance at the court of general ses. ions. If convicted of the charge, he an be punished by iinpri4oninent in lie penitentiary for not less than fivo ior more thau ten years. The affair ims created a great sensation in Barin veil. Thti P1arbl.za nP F>t11hion Jurnald. "l,a Mole (t Paris" and "Alhnm des 61ot!vs," So well-kilowl 1s th pluiblica ions giviig the choice:it '.tris style.-s me n itlh in advance of all other jotir mls, appear to be growing just. a little 00 popular. 'I'he demand for them is ,rowing so rapidly that the publishers, . Alcl)owel & Co., 4 West 14th Street, "ew York, have found it difficult to Cep p) wil .1 the increaisinIg demand ach month. Thwy lain thut the 'tu.ei ic-m lait-,s are noi% buying their ournals to such :ain extent that most f thw newsde.Ilers are entirely out of hetm by the filth of the month. 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