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VO.XIPICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 9,183NO25 ' THE COLLEGE ROW. ->IT MAY CAUSE THE DOWNFALL OF i HE INSTITUTION. A Number of Prominent .4mizens G in i Body and Appeal for the 1%,ys, but thi Faculty Stands to its Deelsion. COLUMBIA, S. C., March 1.-Th( trouble at the South Carolina Collegi over the recent demonstration by som4 of the students is assuming a serioui aspect, and some of the friends of th4 College are fearful that it will injure the institution. It will be remember. ed that eleven students were suspended and nine others admonished by the faculty through the president for burn ing some mat tres4es and other articles on the campas some time ago, causing tie tlre department to come out and to be laughed at by the students. The stu dents claim that the fire alarm was rung by some outsider and that by building the bonfire they were follow ing a harmless inherited custom. The three ringleaders were suspended for the rest of the .lear. Of the senior class two are suspended and two were admonished. All the classes except the freshman lose men. Only four men are left in the junior class. There has been a good deal of excite ment among some of the students who declare that they will resign, alleging that the faculty was partial in its ac tion and was toading to the State ad ministration. It is stated that the fac ulty were requested by the police au thorities to take action. There is however, much sympathy for the stu dents and a petition asking that the sentence be revoked was signed by sev eral hundred persons and presented to the faculty asking that -their action is the matter be recousidered and the students excused. The matter was taken under advisement by the faculty for some days and yesterday it an ndanced its decision the strong peti tion of the citizens In the following note to Capt. I. S. DesPortes which explains itself: OFFICE OF TIE PRESIDENT, SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEOE CODUUIRIA. S. C., Feb. 27. 1893. Messrs. R. S. iesPortes, W. A. Clark, Geo. A. Shields, V. Myers, and others: Gentlemen-The faculty )I the South Carolina College have re ceived your petition, requesting ther to reconsider their decision, in the casi of certain students, and I have given il the most careful and respectful consid eration. They would have been ex tremely glad to have acted in accord afice with the wishes of their fellow citizens, could they have seen their wa3 clear to do so. But I am sorry to sa3 that they could not. After fully reviewing all the fact. and circu mstances of the case they hav adopted the ,ollowinojeolution: Resolved, -TiiS -he faculty of tho South Carolina JUollege, in reply to th( petition laid btfore them by the citi zens of Colum ta and students of thih college, regret4o say that they can find no reason foreconsidering their actiou in the suspelVion and admonition ol certain studelts of the college. I am yours 'Very respectfully, JAMES WOODROW, President. The president also sent this note ad. dressed to Messrs. 1). S. Black, L. J White, J. S. McLucas and other stu !dents of the ccllege: "GENTLEMEN: The faculty have re ceived your petition in behalf of youi fellow students, and have given it care. ful and respectful consideration. I they could have seen their way clear tc act in accordance with your request they would most gladly have done so But I am sorry to have to say that they could not.". The State says the~ members of the faculty refuse to say how they stood o[ the matter, but it is ascertained thai there were seven votes for- maintaining 1,ne position taken and four for grant. lag the petition of the citizens. The fomi were Dre. Patton, Joynes and Flinn Prof. Pope. The opposition consisted of President Woodrow and P'rofs. Bur ney, R. Means Davis, E. W. Davis Sloan, Woodward and Bagley. A great deal of indignation was ex. pressed at the refusal of the faculty te withdraw from its position, and the faculty was severely criticised through out the city. The boys had arranged to hold a mass meeting at 2 p. m. but postpcned it owing to the efforts o1 others. The ladies of the city were talking of getting up a petition to the Governor, asking him to call an extra meeting of the trustees of the college to take action in regard to the matter One aged graduate of the college sald that if the report were true that the faculty had ordered the suspended st-u. dents to leave the campus, he would i up the second story of his residence anc Iavfte the youig men to be his guesti till their time is up. The boys are ver) gloomy and very much hurt at the fac ulty's action. They say that they hac no intention of committing any serioui breach of discipline and they had nevei been warned that bonfires would bi consirered such an offense. Col. John, T. bloan, Sr., the oldest liv ing graduate of the college, was seer yesterday and a'sked for his opinior about the present trouble. die said: "I have no objection to expressin~ my opinion on the recent trouble ai the college. I am, indeed, one of the oldest living graduates of the college' having graduated in the class of 1831 I have no doubt that the faculty of the college acted const'ientiously and tc the best of their judgment in this case, but the faculty is not infallible. 1 be lieve that the punishment of the stud ents on account of the bon-fire in the campus too severe, unusual, unprece dented, and unnecessary, to maintain strict discipline of the students. I be lieve if any one of the faculty whose p residences surrounded the boo fire had appeared and ordered or requested the students to put the fire out and repair to their rooms, it would have been im. mediately complied with, which would have been an end of the matter. "This was not done, and the lIre alarm was given. Who by ? Not by the students. The conduct of the stud ents towards the firemen was culpable and deserved severe admonition whicli they have acknowledged, and have made an ample apology as is p roved by the fact that the chief and other mem liers of the fire department signed a pe. tition for clemency. "Not believing, that should the sus. pended students not return, as has heel said, would be a good riddance, I have advised them, inasmuch as they have paid their tuition for the session to return; that at the end of the session their parents or guardians will direct their future course. "I am irmly of the opinion that if the action of the faculty is not modifled that the demise of my beloved Alma Mater and that of a majority of my sons is doomed for the present. There is, however a higher tribunal than that of the faculty, to wit: the trustees, to which tribunal I hope the case will be appealed as soon as practical." As soon as Capt. DesPortes received the note from the faculty yesterday morning, and learned that the faculty was to meet at 5 p. m., he again took up the cause of the young men, and many prominent gentlemen joined with him, resulting in an event in the afternoon, which has not a predecessor in the history of the institution-the visit of a body of prominent men to the college to plead for the students against the severity of their instructors. The party was headed by that silver tongued orator, Gen. LeRoy F. You mans, and was composed of Capt. R. S. DesPortes, Capt. W. K. Bachman, D. A. Tompkins, A. M. Boozer, Solicitor P. H1. Nelson, Capt. W. G. Childs, E. McC. Clarkson, Dr. 8. M. Smith, Dr. S. J. Duflie, Jacob S. Muller, J. W. Mul ler, John G. Capers, Win. II. Lyles, Col. F. W. McMaster, Maj. W. A. Metts and others. They waited on the facul ty in the library building. Gen. Youmans advanced to the front and addressed the faculty earnestly and eloquently. Among other things he said the pardoning power was exer cised in all civilized countries. An ap peal should be treated with great con sideration to justice; the faculty had the right and power to pardon, and "it is to this power that we appeal this af ternoon." Youth, he said, would ever be disorderly If it got the chance. "In the experience of the world never has there yet been a race created with old heads on young shoulders." le presented to the faculty a paper, in the name of the students who were under the displeasure of the faculty. It said that they, the students of the South Carolina College, regretted any improper conduct that they may have indulged in on the occasion of the cel ebration of the termination of the in termediate examinations, and promised good behavior on their part in the fu ture. While not questioning the jus tice of the faculty's action, they asked for a remission of the sentence. Gen. Youmans in conclusion, hoped that the faculty in its wise discretion 'va uld see fit to yield to their petition. President Woodrow rose as Gen. Youmans ceased speaking and said: "Gentlemen, I will only reiterate what I have said previously to Gen. You mans, that the faculty will take great pleasure in giving its earnest consider ation to your appeal, and I am perfect ly sure that if practicable it will act in accordance with this petition. The pleading party then withdrew. The faculty at once began a session on the matter, which continued for five hours. When an adjournment was reached, at 10 o'clock, President Wood row and all the professors refused to have anything to say beyond the fact that a decision had been reached and it would not be made public till this morning, when it would be oflicially communicated to the gentlemen who presented the petition and the students who signed it. The faculty are immovable in their stand in regard to the suspension of the young men. The committee of cit izens who attempted to intercede for the boys had their trouble for their pains, Pi will be seen from the reply made by the faculty, published below. The faculty held a lengthy session af ter the committee left them, and took ample time to render their decision, which was handed to Capt. DesPortes by President Woodrow in person. The reply re:.ds as follows: "COLUMrnIA, S. C., March 1, 1893. "Messrs. R. S. DesPortes, L. F. You mans, W. A. Metts, F. WV. McMaster and others. "GENTLEMEN: As was promised at the close of our interview yesterday, the faculty of the college gave the most careful consideration to the views presented by you and to the petition from the students, of which you were the bearers. I need hardly repeat that if the faculty could have seen their way clear to take the course recom mended by their friends and neighbors, whom they hold in the highest esteem, it would have delighted them to do so. But it pains me to say that they could not, and that they were unable to grant the students' request. "With sentiments of the highest re spect, 1 am yours very truly, "JAMErs WOODROW, President." Capt. DcsPortes was seen later by a State reporter, but said that he had no comment to make except that the com mittee had been actuated solely by a Ikindly feeling and sympathy for the students in the matter, and had only to regret that they had accomplished no good. That the acti on does not meet with approval it is needless to say. Every one considers, without a dlesire to criticise the faculty harshly, that athey have acted rather arbitrarily uan der the circumstances. The students are not exactly satis fied with the action of the faculty, but just what action they will take has not been determinedl. They had a meeting last night, it is understood with the purpose of withdrawing from the in stitution in a body, but the proceed ings of the meeting were keyt very quiet. Several of the students were asked about the meeting but they all refused to talk. It is fair to infer that no immediat,e action was advised. From what has been learned all action will be pos.:poned until a future day. A Deaperado Killed. NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. 24.-The Picavune's 10.o Grand city, Texa, special says: Sherifi Shelly and Lieul Lowe, wiLh two scouts, attempted to arrest Eaisobia M. Mar tinez, alias Man gas de Auga, yesterday mornine, in this county, about thirty- five miles from this place. lie resisted arrest and was k"led. Marrt.inez will he remember-ed as the man who killed Itufus Giover, one of Capt H ail's spies. lie also attempted to kill Neal, another of C.apt Hall's spies, and was woun~ded by Neal. He also tried to kill Prudeniano Barria, at Gonzales's ranch in this count,y, and was cut and woundled by his intended victim. Hfe also killed. Capt Seguero aft.er he had surrendered at San Ignscio. Hie bore markspf the wounds inflicted by Neal and Barria and had on Glover's leggluars I when killed. KILLED HER TW-) SISTERS THE DESPERATE DEEDS OF A YOUNG LADY IN ATLANTA. She Rays She Was Slighted All Her Life by the Other Members of the Family Details of the Horrible Tragedy.-Uer tainly Insane, ATLANTA, GA., Feb. 25.-Another chapter has developed in Atlanta's week of crime. This afternoon, a few minutes before two o'clock, Miss Julia Force, thirty-eight years of age, shot ani killed her two sisters-Florence, thirty years old, ond Minnie twenty-five years old. She then walked to the police station and gave herself up, saying she had committed the crime and desired protec tion. Thi was the first knowledge of the murder, for the killing was done when site was alone at home with her two sisters. The family is one of prom inence. The brothers of the family are J. H. and A. W. Force, shoe mer chants. They have been prominent citizens here for years, coming here from Charleston. It is believed the woman is ineana. She had been considered irresponsible at times, and had frequently threatened to kill members of her family. She says that she has for a year been writ. ing out a statement of the family troub. lee, and just completed it. Today when her mother was absent from the house, she sent the servants out on errands. Then, going to the room where her sister Florence was sic k in bed, she placed a piPtol to her right temple and shot her dead. Then, going to the kitchen where her other sister wap, she shot her in the same manner. None ot the neighbors heard the shots. Miss For-ne calmly locked the door and sent to the police s,ation, as described. The bodies of the two women were found by a brother, to whom she had sent a message to the effect that her sis. tec Florence was worse. In response, he went home, to find the bodies of his dead sisters. ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 27.-To-dty's sensation is the publication of the full statement of Julia Force, who mur dered her two sisters. It is a state ment probably ten thousand words in length, and was found by the police in possession of a friend of Miss Force, to whom it had been entrusted, but who knew nothing of its contents. It is the story of the life of a high strung, sensitive child, who grew to womanhood and to mature maidenly years in the belief that her mother, sis ters and brothers at all times slighted her. She goes into minute details of many happenings in the family, which she takes as corroborating all she has claimed. "They all loved my sisters better than they did me," the story goes. "Of course, they were younger while I was growing older. Everything in the house was for 'Sister Minnie,' or for 'Sister Florence.' A new dress or a new ornament would always look so well on them, without ever once referring to how it would look on me. I had the trouble of helping to raise them, be cause I was the oldest, and it made my blood boil to see them preferred before me in the love of brothers and mother. I could not stand it; no, and nobody else would. After summing up a great many in stances of imaginary wrong she goes on: "I was willing to bear my private griefs in private. I did not wish to liar row the public with the story of my personal griefs. But when public dis giace is piled upon me by notifying merchants not to credit me, the limit of endurance has been reached. When the clerks along the streets can thus point at me, for what I ve I to live ? .Just think of it! I am thus marked out, while my sisters are favored and tondled and pettedl. Public disgrace is too much, and I can't, will not, stand it." "It is enough," she writes. "I have borne all I can bear. May God avenge, and, for every insult that has been given me, heap the ciushing weight of insult, mortification and suffering, moral and physical, upon the heads of these scoundrels and traitors (meaning her brothers.) Oh, my Father! help your child." Thus was the climax reached on Fri day. Miss Julia, according to the story as told by herself, resolved to immedi ately execute the vengeance she had been plotting so long. She gave no sign of her intention. Iler mother left home early in the morning to be gone until afternoon. Miss Julia seized upon the opportuDity to do the terrible deed. She went up town and purchased a good pistol and a box of cartridges. She loaded the pistol and laid it aside for use. She then took from her trunk the statement which she had been prepar ing for so many months. She wrote a final entry upon its pages, and drawing a heavy line across the bottom of the peze, signifying that the end had been reached, she hurriedly left home and went to a fric id's house and left the statement. She t men returned home. TIhe time for her deadly revenge had come. She sent Lula Jenkins, thle house girl, off on an errand. The cook was first sent to the grocery sto'-e, and then after her brothers. With the cook and house girl away, Miss Julia was alone in the house with her victims. No one knew of her fatal pur pose. Without the quiver of a musa cle she made l'cr last preparations for the slaughter. A cros the hall was her sister Minnie. Thme young lady was en gaged in doing seine fancy needlework, and as she worked she sang. Scarce ten feet away her murderous maniacal sis ter was leP ling a revolve:. Outside the sunlight gleamed and the street was full ot the nois3 of the noon of day,. Miss Julia crept across the hall into the room in which Miss Minnie, 9'l un suspecting, sat alone. Miss .Julia held the pistol beh'id her. Miss Minnie looked up with an expression of dis pleasure as her elder sister entered her room. lier relatio is with her sister were always of an exceedingly acrid nature and sheg greeted her sister's ap pearance with di sgutst. "Minnie, why did you tell the store keepers not to sell me any more goods ?" asked Miss Julia venomously. The young lady started to reply, but before she could do so .Julia threw her pistol from behind her, and, placing it almost against Miss Minnie's head, fired. The young lady dropped to the floor with a grman. She wr-ihed a lmttl in the death agony. Blood spurted from the bullet hole. Julia bent over her dy ing sister and watched her expiring struggles. While she stood over her with the smoking revolver in her hand, Miss Minnie died. After being shot she never spoke once. Miss Julia then locked the door and walked up stairs to Miss Florence's room. The invalid was standing beside the fireplace in her Inightgown. Julia was in a terrible mood and Miss Flor ence received her coldly. Julia spoke to her sick sister roughly. "Julia, will you leave the room ?" Miss Florence said. Julia's eyes gleamed with an expres. sion of deadly hatred. She made a move toward her trembling sister. Miss Florence started toward her bed. Weak as a babe from long sickness, she totter ed as she walked. Behind her came her sister, bent on her terrible revenge. The younger lady reached the bedside in satety. Florence half turned as she reached her bed to see if her sister was leaving her. Julia was beside her, the fatal pis tol in her hand. Florence threw up her hands. There was a sharp report, and Miss Florence fell back upon the white sheets with a bullet in her brain. Julia saw the blood stream from her sister's head and left the room. She locked the door behind her, and walkng down stairs and out of the house she made her way to police headquarters. There was no undue haste; she was calm. The rest is known. Miss Force will be tried on a writ of lunacy tomorrow. Millionaire Mackay Shot. SAN FRANCiSCo, Feb. 24.-,John W. Mackay, many times a millionaire, a miaing man and the financial backer of the Postal Telegraph and Commercial Cable Company, was shot in the back today and badly wounded. The assail iant then shot himselt in the breast and is reported dying in a hospital. Mack ay's wound is not thought to be dangerous. Mackay took his new situation with characteristic coolness, quietly an nounced to the crowd that assembled at the sound of the shooting that he was shot, and awaited the coming of the doc tor. The bullet has been extracted. Mackay knows nothing about his assail lant: did not recognize him. The name of the man who attempted to kill John Mackay is W. C. Itippey. le was undoubtedly insane. He had in his pocket a letter addressed to a morning paper in which the writer stat ed that he was 73 years of age. It was signed W. C. Rippey. There was also upon him an envelope bearing the name of Dr. L. L. Lincoln. On the back of the envelope were the words:" The end is not yet." Upon a sheet of paper un der the heading "Food for reflection" were the words: "Paid $150,000 for on3 sapphire to place on the forehead of his wife-a suficient i aount to have saved at least live hundred of his vic tims from suicidal graves. Just think of it; inscribe it upou his tomb." Mackay's wound proves to be only a severe flesh wound. Rippey has been identified as a man once wealthy, but who squandered his fortune in mining stock gambling. ie had no acquain tance with Mackay at any time in hIs life, and Mackay was in no manner connected with his misfortunes. His brain has been turned for several years. Rippey is still alive, but unconscious and dyi. Gen. Heauregarti'm will. NEV ORTAIA XS, March 1.-The wi i of the late (en. Beauregard was probated yesterday. His estate, with the excel) tion oI a few beqluests, i . left to his children. To the soldiers lie gives *500, To the city of' Charleston, S. C., the General gives the sword which was pres ented to him by some ladles of New Ojrleans in 1861 as token of honor for his services in cap)turing Fort Sumter. To the State of Louisanna lie bequeath's the lfe-size portraIt of himself painted by Genin, the artist, of New Orleans, and by him presented to Beauregardl. After disposing of his property, the testator instructs his executors to have his body cremated1, providled however, that there be a crematory in successful operation in or near New Orleans at the time of his death. The Gelieral gave as a reason for wanting his body cremated that lie considered creamation better for the s'.nftary condition of such a climate as Louisana than the p)resent mode of burial As there is no crematory any where near this request was considered void. The Respublicans Must 00. TOPEKA, Kas, Feb. 24.--The Pop ulist administrat,ion is preparing for a complete overhanhing of the state mil itia. Every lRepublican oficer will be discharged and Pogulists put in t.heir p)laces. There are more than 100 com missioned oAlcers im service who will have to go. Trheir lace will be fliled with trusty Populists who will obey ordlers. The P'opulists' military forces are not, to ha con fined in the Kansas National Guards, which has a member. ship lisoILed t.o less than 1,800 men, but a military force of such magnitude as ha never bean seen in this country. except, in times of war is being formed. it is estimatedl that fully 50,000 Po', ulists will be idlentifiedl with this n iw movement. Men are dirilling all e yes Kansas to-day not with guns- dhey have not got them yet-bnt in ir.cingr und marchings, and they will be drilled with gruns when they are ready f"r them. The Populist Surrender. TOPEK1A, Kas., F'eb. 27.--The Popu list llouse members, after caucusing all day and part of the night, have finally decided to yield to the decree of the Court and recognize the Republican IIouse. One of the members appeared In the lRepublican House this afternoon and there was loud applause when he addressed Douglass as "Mr. Speaker." Tlhe two houses will be amalgamated to morrow. The Popnlist Senators will also recognize the D)ouglass f louse. Gets Leave of Abmenoe. CIIAnI,RLTON, S. C., Feb. 25.-Sher ill Rtiser of Newberry, who is still in contempt, and who sys he has no idea of purging himself a la Sheriff Nance, get a leave of absence today and has gone home to New berry to spend Sun day. iIe is to report to Mare' al Cunningham on Monday, and will probabybe taken to Washington later in the Week on the habeas corpus nrocewngs will need in the next four years, mort than ever before, the support of a vigilani party and an aroused people represented In a perfect:organization, whose princi. pies and purposes are beyond any possible question. A miscarriage in the election of 1894, t:at ' to say, a failure to return another lar-e tariff reform majority, wouldbe be a calami y of crush ing magnitude. Agalust it we can have no assurance exeept in a system of Dem ocratic clubs, well organized, active and aggressive, in every State and district where a contest is to be made, and their union in Sta'e and national asso::i atlans, It is unnecessary to remind either straight Democrats or conscientious reformers of the imperative necessity of this form of organization or of the impor tance and value of the work it is appro priately and perfectly designed to accom plish. They have been too recently demostrated by events to requrie further comment. From the goed hour in which the Nationai Convention of Democratic Clubs assembled at New York in the first days of October last. the election of Cleveland and Stevenson was seen to be beyond a pera lventu e. That magnificent assmblage of active and patriotie men from all parts of the country, associated under a si,uple declaration of axiomatic Democratic principles, was a spectacle so btriking and encouraging as to resolve all doubts, and it i3 now very plain that to the thousand Demycratic clubs represented iu that Convention and in this association too large a share of credit for the final result cannot be accorded. Lst us belfound even better prepared in 1894 and 1896. Yours truly, Chauncey F. Black, President. Lawrence Gardner, Secketary Win. L. Wilson, Chm'u Ex. Com. THE LOAVES AND FISHES. What The Augusta Chroniole Says About South Carolina'ti Quota. WAS[INUTON, March 1.-The ques tion most intricate and inter esting to South Carolinians just now is which faction of the Palmetto democracy will control the federal patronage of that State. Senator Butler is cerMain toc)me in for his share, but it is a fact co needed by every one here that Congressman Brawley will have powerful influence. ie is a warm personal friend ot the president-elect, and is in thorough ac cord with him on the silver question. In fact, lie is the only anti-sliver man In congress from his State. It is general ly believe< that lie will be Mr. Cleve land's personal representat ive in the lower house during the next congress. Senator Irby expects proper recognition of the Tillman faction, and his efforts are zealously backed by Shell, McL,aur in and Strait. Many gentlemen here who own allegiance to the conservative faction openly state that in their opin ion Mr. Cleveland wU favor the Till manites with the largest of the South Carolina patronage. Messrs. Iatimer and Talbert are in the same boat and will pull tcgether, but where they will pull to or with what success n1obody knows. However, their certificates of election, based as they are upon an ul. tra-alliance vote, make it certtin that their roception by the presid -t will b3 anyth' i- but curdiial. But in the gen eral division of spoils ex-Governor Thompson aiid Comptroller Trenholm will carry an influence to be enur': d rather than neglected. At present the race for district-attor n.y lies between General Earle and Congressman Elliott, alt' oagh Charles A. Douglass, of Columbia, is backed by ,Judlge H'monton. But the gent,leman first, named has a dlecidedl lead over i, whole fIeld of eighiteen. The fight for muaLshal Is as compllica ted as that, for district, attorney. it ha-; narrowed to ai tr''m.tular affair between Pope (Tillimanite), Donaldson(all;.mce) andl Brooks (conservative). Chances favor Capt. Brooks, who belonigs t.o one of' the most prominent families in South Carolina. The lon. Preston Brooks, who caned Sumner, and Whitfield Brooks, of' Mexican war fame, were bot,h his brother,, Ilowever, D)r. Sam son l'ol,e has rentedh rooms at t,he Na tional hotel and proposes to make it lively for the man who beats him. The omeie oi'collector of' internal rev enue will be filled either hby Col. 1). A. Tompkins, Gov. Tillmaui's p)rivate sec retary, or Gen. ,John Bratt,on, both good men, The one is backed by the Tillmanites, t,he other by the conserva tives. Knowing ones agree that ox-Mayor Geo. D. Bryan will be collector of the Charleston p)ort anid Marion M. Hlutson of Ycmassee, collector of the port at Beaufor.-Augusta Chronicle. Mr. Cleveiand Objec't,,. WVASIIINION. March l.-Secretary Noble to-d ay sent a letter to the chair man of the inauguration committee, in which he states that his attenti on had been called to the fact that ft is the purpose of the commifttee to open the pension builing on Sunday, the 5th in stant, for one or more musical enter tainmeonts, at which a charge for ad mission wfIlf be made. The Secretary explains that in granting the use of the pension building for the inaugural ball it was not contemplated that it should be open to the publIc on Sunday, and as there will be opportunity on the next day during which the buiiilding will be at the disposal of the commit. Lee to give the concerts, ale declines to grant permission for its use on Sunday. The Secretary of' the Interior to-day received the following telegram from the P'residlent-elect: LA KEwooD, N.J., March 1.-To the secretary of the Interior: I am strong ly opposed to the use of the pension building for a Sunday concert on the ith instant, and object to regarding such a thing as a feat.ure of the in guration. GnRoVER CL.EVELAND. Secretary Noble immediately sent the following reply to Mr. Cleveland: WAsHINGTON, March 1.-lon. (iro vejr Cleveland Liakewood, N. J.: Yodr telegram received. Orders were issued already, forbidding the use of the pen sion building on Sunday, and ILam grat ified that this action is in accordance with your wishes. JOHIN WV. NoDLE, Secretary. Th'e proposed concert has been post poned until Tueay ovafo. THE DEMOCRATIC FIGHT. ITS AIM8I AND OBJECTS, AN0 MEANS OF SUCCESS. The People Must Rally Around the Dem o4ratio Presidext and the Democratic Congress in their Hir,rt to Orartbrav the Power of Monopoly. WAsHINOTON. Feb. 27.-The ad dress of the National Association of Democratic Clubs, issued in April last, outlined the issues upon which the con test of 1802 must, it appeared, inevita bly be conducted. We were not mistaken in the views then expressed. The great battle was pitebed at every point upon the lines in. dicated. The vital principle of strict con struction was put at issue, and it was deliberately approved by a great major. ity of tle votes cast. The tarit question, resolved and settled by the application of the rule embodied in the 10th amend ment, Is a question no longer, if the ov erwhelming judgmetnt of the people ex. pressed at the polls is to be respected and obe7ed by their representatives. The details of tarift reform-of a sys tem of taxation looking only to the larg est returns ot revenue consistent with the widest liberty of trade-remain so be adjusted by a Democratic Congrets with the aid of an enlightened Execu tive chosen to serve alike the interests of all classes of American citizens. In the address above mentioned we de clared: "Congress may, under the Consti tution, tax the people to sustain their own Government. It has however, just as much right to take their lives or sell their children into bondage as it has to take a dollar from them for any oth er purpose. But the Federalist party, purely to create monopolies upon which it may rely for political support, and to further enrich its wealthy favorites. bold ly assumes the ungranted and forbidden power to lay taxes, with no view what ever to public revenue, but with a sole and avowed view to transfer untold mil lions of money annually from the pock ets of many, who have earned it, to the coffers of the few who are licensed to seize It in virtue of their unconstitution al monopolies. If this can be done, there is an end of libel ty; our Federal Government is utterly perverted; it is not merelv a fraud, but a despotism; and there is nething left worth a strug gle. The power to take and appropri ate to others the proceeds of the peoples labor is the power to enslave the peo ple. None such can be found in the Federal Constitution. And the question whether it shall be exercised, though ungranted, and, therefore, forbidden, is the question, as Mr. Jefferson stated it, 'between a limited and unlimited gov ernment,' between self-government and corrupt centralization, between popular liberty and a graspingand greedy tyran ny, between the masses and classes, be tween Federalist-Republican and the Democratic parties." With great deliberation and solemn emphasis the Chicigo Convention took the same pos'tion. It is unnecessary to set out here that clear and definate provision of the platform. It was one which could neither be misuderstood nor misconstrued. It planted the Dem ocratic party and its candidates of al' grades, from the highest to lowest, in that campaign on the original and im pregnable Democratic ground-upon the constitution strictly construed which forbids under any pretence what ever every form of taxation except tax ation for purely public purposes. The people0, plundered by a gigactic combi nation of monopolies under favor of the government and actually threatened with the subversion of' free nstitutions by force and corruption, united for the aggrandizement of private interests at the general expense, approved the Cbi. cago platform by unprecedented majoii t,ies, so distibuted geograiphiically as to demonstrate the universalit,y of the sen timent andh the p)ermanence of the ro suilt,s. But, while power steals readily and almost imperceptibly from the many to t,he few, the process of' reclamation is ever painful and slow. The enormous ly rich beneficiaries of the Federal poli. cy, taxing the many for the benefit of the few, circumscribing the indIustries of' the masa to enlargs the license of a class, are still "in power" as they have been for more than a quarter of a cent ury. They are in full possession of the monopolies, which have enrichedl them as no privileged class was eveL' before enriched in the same lengt'i of time, and enabled them to protect the part,y pro tecting them. Ti oy wiil remain "in| power" unt,ill a julst revision of tax laws| on the lines of the Constitution, as de creed by the peopleO in the late election, shall lop off their undue profits and re store to the common people that pro p)ortlon of their own earnings which the Federal Government does not p)lainly require for~ oblects legitimate and sprci fled. They are bandled still, as hereto fore, in defence of their unconatltutional privileges. They will resist stubbornly at every point and stage, and taruif re form-tariff reform in its whole wide beneficient, scope-as contemplated by the Democratic party and the majorit,y of the people, will be accomplished on ly after a fierce and prolonged strugtgle. The people, it is true, have selected their inst,ruments, an Executive and( a Congress to makr this battle for them. But the battle is to be made, andl is yet to be won. Everything subst,antial re mains to this hojur with the enemy, in cluding the vast wealth of t,he monopoly combination, increased every dlay the monopoly laws stand unrepealed. The object of this~ adldress is b urge the D)emocrat,ic people and those who unlt3d with themi at the election in November last to maiatain, perfect and extendl the system of alliliated Demo cratic societies, whose recent service to the great cause was so conspicuous as to be known of all men, and which must, until the fruits of the la o v!ctory are gathered and garnered, be required to uphold the hand of our official repro sen tatives In the long and desperate strugale with private interests, which is still before them. A Democratic president, and a Democratic Congress THE LAW ALL RIGHT. THE EVANS LIQUOR LAW BEFORE JUDGE SIMONTON. An Ex-Parte Application for an Isjane tion-Judge Slmonton Decide* that the Law In Constitutional-The Liquor Men In the Soup.) CRARLESTON, March 2.-The first gun of the liquor war was fired in the United States Circuit Court yesterday morning. On the 24th of February Messrs. George F. Von Kolnitz and Thomas W. Bacot filed the petition. The complainants in the case are A. and E. Cantini, two Italian subjects, engaged in the liquor business here. Their lawyers are T. W. Bacott and G. F. VronKolnitz, members of the bar, neither of whom, however, have been retained by the State Lquor Dealers' Association. The matter was kept very quiet, and nothing was known of the case until the decision was filed late this afternoon. -Judge Simonton's decision is very exhaustive. The following is a sum mary of the points made by the com plaint and the rulings of the court thereon: First. It Is alleged that the State dis pensary act is in violation of Section 10, Article 1, Constitution of the Uni ted States, forbidding States, with out the consent of Congress, to levy any imports or duties on imports or exports, except what may be abso lutely necessary for executing its in spection laws. The court rules th.it there is no pro vision of this act op-n to this objection. Second. That the act is in violation of Section 2, Arttcle 4, and also the fourteenth amendment, which declares that no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immuuities of citizeds of the United States. The court declares that there is no inherent right in a citizen to sell intox icating liquors by retail; that the right to sell intoxicating liquors is not one of the rights growing out of citizen ship of the United States. Third. The complaint charges that the dispensary act is in violation of the lifth amendment of the Constitu tion of the United States, which for bids the taking of property without due process of law, and the taking of private property for public use with out just compensation. To this the court rules that acts done in the proper exercise of governmental powers, and not directly encroaching on private property, although their consequences may impair its use, do not entitle the owner of such property to compensation from the State. That the destruction of property in the ex ercise of the police power of the State, when such property is used in viola tion of law in maintaining a public nuisance, is not the taking of property for public use, and does not deprive the owner of it without due process of law. Fourth. The complaint alleges that the law is In violation of the Constitu tion of the State, which requires that every act or resolution shall relate to but one subject, and that shall be ex. pressed in its title. The court is very positive in its rul ing on this subject. It says it is a set tied principle of parliamentary law in this State that so long as the enacting words remain in a bill it can be amend ed to any extent, even by striking out all up to the enacting words and in serting other words as a substitute. The Constitution does not require every word in an act to be read three separate times on three separate days. if it did, ne important bill ever became or can become a law. Fifth. Tile complaint urges that tihe plaintiffs are Italian subjects, and are protected by tile treaty, article 2 of which gives them the liberty to travel In the States and Territories, to carry on trade, wholesale and retail, to hire and oocupy houses and warehouses, etc., upon the 'same terms as the natives of the country. Article 3 gives them con stant pirotectionl and security for their persons and property and the same rights andi privileges as are granted to the natives. Judge Simonton says, under these articles the complainants have the samne righlts as citizens of the United States, andl it would be absurd to say that they had greater righ ts. The right to sell intoxicating !iquors is not a right liherent in a citizen, and is not one of the p)rivile-ges of American citizenship. it is not withiin the protection of the fourteenth amendment. it is within tihe police power, whlichi is a right pre lerved by thie State thnat has not been delegated to the general government. In its lawful exercise the States are ibsolutely sovereign. Such exercise aannot be affected by any treaty stipu ations.-The State. Terrible Flood. VIENNA, March, i.-On account of theo sudden rise of the D)anube, sixteen hundred inhabitants of [ergeiy, near the town ol Pakas, In hIungaria, found the mud huts in whlich hiey lived surrounded by water, and ~ook refuge in a chlurch and school, bwhich are built of stronger material, :lopmlg the buildings would hold out igainst the flood. The swelling wateas began to beat agamnst the church and schlool buildings with such fury that they decided that to remain would mean tihe destruction of all, whileg I[ 11hey rledl some might escape. They made an lttempt to reach Pakas. Many wore .rowned and the survivors reached Pa kas in a most deplorable condition. A Bleedy Affair. AsuvyILnLE, N. C., Feb. 28.-On Sat urday night J. HI. Roberts and Bud Whittemore, living at Barnardsville, In this county, got into an altercation and began shooting. "Big Jim" WVhitte more, father of Bud, ran in to heflp his son, and was shot three times, dying in stantly. Roberts died last night of his wounds. Young Whittemore escaped. The killing was the putcome of troLble bet ween young Whittemnore and Rob erts. One ny One. NEosHro, Mo., M irch 1 .-Brigadier General T. R, Freeman, commander of Freeman's Brigade in Price's army during tine late war, died near this city to-day of typhoid lever, aged 63, . e command was the last to surrender It .i in 1885, aind he was well known in theO ConfMeirate servIce.