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A SUBLIME SACRIFICE. HOW CHRST PURCHASED OUR DI LIVERANCE ON CALVARY. OrTalmasge Delivers an Interesting I)l 6uwrseon Paul's Bold 0hallenuga, ''Wl Ite .That Condeinneth?"-christ 0 I1tercesser at the Throne of (nul. BROOKLYN, Aug 13.-Rev. ])r. Ta mam today chose for his subject Bold Challenge," 'he text bein I, manevii, 34: "Who is he that condtmt eth? It Is Christ that died, yea, ratli that is risen again, who is even at I right band of God, who also maketh ii tercesslon for us." "This is the last sermon I shall ev( vreach,'' said Christmas Evanis on 1.h 13th of June, 1838. Three days alte ward he ex1red. I (lo not know whi 1%'Mt was, but I know that no ina could choose a letter theme-thougi 11 knew it was the last time he shoul1 ev or preach-than the suiect found i this text. Paul flung this clhallen.,e of the tex to the feet of all ecclesiLval and civI authority. lie feared neither swolds n: lions, earth nor hell. 1)ilcletia') s1er uncountedl thousands unsier his adnii-lis tration, and the worb, has beenI hill ol persecution; but all fit1 persecutors o the world could not affright Il'al. Wa it because he was phyically strong? Oh no. I suppose he was very much weak ened by exposure and maltreatment Was iL because lie was lacking in sensi tiveness?. No; you li-id the most deli cate shades of feeling playing Im and oul his letters and sernons. Some of hii Communications burst into tears. Whal was it that lifted Atul into this trium1 pliant mood? The thought of a Savioui dead,1 a Saviour risen, a Saviour exalt ed, a Saviour intereceding. All the world his sung the lipraise o Princess Alice. One child having diet of a contagious diaease-she was in ti< room where another vtas dying, and th court physician said to her, "You mu1si not breathe the breat'i of this child 0l you yourself will die." But seeing ti child mourning because of the death c her brother the mother stooped dowl and in sympathy kissed the little one caught the disease and perished. Al the world sang the heroism and the se sacrifice of Princess Alice, but I have t tell you that when our race was dyin! the Lord Jesus stooped (own and gav us the kiss ot his everlasting love at perished that we might live. "IL i Christ that (ied." Can you tell me how tender heat te Paul conld flud anything to rejoice at i the horrible death sceine of Calvary? N weep at funerals; we are sympathet when we see a stranger (lie; when murderer steps upon the scalfold pray for his depatiUng spirit, and ho could Paul-the great, hearted l'aul find anything to htb please(d with it ti funeral of a God? Besides thal; Chri had only recently died, aid the sorro was tresh in the memory of the wor and how in the fresh memory of a Sai' iour's death could Ilauil h xiltan? it was because Paul saw in that, (ent his own deliveranco, and the deliverattic of a race from still worse disalster. I1 saw the gap into which the race nu plunge, and he saw the bleeuing ham of Christ close it. The glittering stci on the top of the executioner's speari his sight kindled into a torch to ugh. men heavenward. TLlie piersecutlors sat over the cross live words writ,ten in ie brew, Greek and Latin; but P aul sayr over the cross of' Christ only one wort "expiation!'' ile hear<d in the dlyini groan of Christ his owni groan of et 3r nal torture takcn by another. I''au said to hImself, "IIad it not been thai Christ volunteered mn my bhahill, thloat would have becen myl mauledl lands anm feet, my gashed side, mny crImson temi pies." Men of great phiysicali endurance have sometimes carried very heavy burdenis --300 pounds, 400 i'ounds-and they have stIll said, "My strenigth :is not yet tested. Put on more weight." lut'af ter awhile they were compelled to cry out: "St,op, I can carry no miore.'' But the burden of Christ was liii nitable. First, there was his own buirden o1 hun. ger and thirst andl bereavement and ia thousand out,rages tbat,have been hieapie( upon him, and on top ot that burden were the sorrows of his poor old mothii and on the top of those burdens th< crimes of the rufians who were execut ing him. "'Stop!" you cry. "'It is enough Christ can bear no mot e." A nd Chris says, "itoll on more burdens. Roll om me the sins of thIs entire nation, and at ter that roll on me the sIns of the in. babited earth, and then roll on mc the sins of the 41,000 years past, so faur as those sins have been forgiven." And the angels of God, seeing the awful pies sure, cry: "St.op! iIe can hear no more! And tile blood rushing to the nostril and l1ps seems .to cry out; "'Enoughit! IIe can endure no more." lint Christ says, "R~oll on a greater burden--roll on th( sins of t,he next, 1,0010 years, roll on mne the sins of all tile succeedhng ages; roll on me the agonies of hell, ages on ages, the furnaces and the prison houses and the tortures." That Is what the Bible means when it says, "HIe bore our sins and carriedl our sorrows." "New," says Paul, "I am free. That suffering purchased m ny deliveranuce. God never collects a dlebt, twice. I have a receipt In full. 1t God is satisfied with me, then what do all the threats of earth and hell awrount to? Bring on all your Witnesses," says Paul. "Show all your .force. Do your worst, against my soul. I defy you. I dare you. I challeing you. Who is he that condem~eth? It Is Christ that died." Oh, what a stront argument that puts in tile haund of ever~ Christian maul Some day all the paas sins of his life come down on him in fiery troop, and t,bey pound away at tht gate of his soul, andi they say: "Wi have come for your arrest. Any one o us could overcome you. We are 10,00t strong. Surrenderi" And you opet the dfoor and single handed and alon. you contend against that troop. Yo, fling this divine weapon into thleir midst You scatter those sins as quick as yo can think It. "It is Christ that died." Why the bring up to us the sins of our past lit What have we to do with thlose obsolel things? You know how hard it is for wrecker to bring up anything that lost near the shore of the sea, but suj poesomething be lost half way betwec Lverpool and New York. It cannot h found, it cannot be fetched up. "Now, says God, "your sins I have cast in] the depths of the sea." Mid-Atlatti All the machinery ever fashioned I foundries of darktiess, and launched f'rom the doors of eternal death, working 1 10,000 years, cannot, bring up one of otr sins forgiven and forgotteti and sunke lato thsed Us of the sea. When asai isaiknd.lt isgone-it is gone out c A ~I~fis oeonot ofthe mmory it is gone out of existence. "Their sins C and their iniquities will I remember no H more." From other tragedies men have come away exhauste(d and nervous and sleep less; but there is one tragedy tbat soothes and calms and Saves. Calvary was the stage on which it was enacted, the cnr Lain of t,he m1Lht falling at Imidnoon was the drop scene, the thunder of falling rocks the oechestra, angels in the gal lerics anl (levils m the pit the specta- t tors, the tragedy a crucifixion. "I t is I ~ Christ that died,1'' h, triumphant I & t,hought! 1 - It you go 1.brough the picture galleries of Versailles, you will litid a great V ,r change there. I saii to a frienl who I e had been throtigh tho8e galleries, "Are -!Cey as they were before thn French wat:'' and I wai told there was a great , r change there; that all that nmit11itLu'11e of C pictures which rei)resented Napoleonic I triumphs hall heen taken away, fond in - it the frainmis were other pictores repre- r i sentative of Germanic auccess and vle- ( 0 tory. (Oh that all the scenes of' satanic j - riuimph i our world mni-h1t he blotted 3 'I out, and that the whole worlt miht, be 1 a picture .nllerv representing the Lrium- t t pI:nt JsIs! D wi with the monarchy (fI U1transression! W ) with the monarchy I ol'onr kintg! Itail! JO-ss. hail! But I Imst give you the second cause oF I'aul's exhilarat,ion. If' Christ had C staid in that grave, we never would have g tten out of it. The grave would beeni dark and dismal as the conciergerie dur tug t,he reign of terror, where the carts cAIne t) only to take the victims out to I the scallold. 1 (10 not wonder that the t aucients triell by emibalmunent of the body to resist the dissolution of deatl. The grave is the darkest, deepest., ghastliest chasm that was ever opened if there bo no light from the requrrec iton throne streamtntag into it, but 4 Christ staid in the tomb all Friday night and all Saturday, all Saturday I night. and a part ot Sunday morning. II e statd so long In the tomb that he 4 might lit it for us when we got there. Ie tarried two whole nigits in the grave, so that he saw how important it % as to have plenty of light, andl ne has flooded it with his own glory. It is early Stinday morning, and we start up to find the grave of Christ. I I We find the moring sin gilding the I I dew and the shrubs are sweet as the , foot, crushes them. What a bea(utifil I place to ie buriled in! Wonder thev did I I iimo. treat Christ as well as when he 1 i was allvo as they do now that he is dea(. Give the military salute to the soldiers who stand gntarling the dead. I I Bit., hark to the crash! an earthquake! I 'lhe soldiers fall back as thougn they < were dead, and the stone at the door of Christ,'s toilb spins (lown the lill, fIhIng ( by the arm of an angel. Come forth, 0 1 A .1 esis! from the darkness into the sun I e light. Come forth and breathe the i e perfume or .'oseph's garoen. a Christ comies forth radiant, and as he e stOps O. of the excavation of the rock w .I look lowIl Into the excavat,ion and - in the dist,ance I see others coming I hanld inl hand and troop after troop, and I find it is a long procession of the precious dead. A iong them are our (wi loved ones--father, mother, broth. er, .d-4ter, companion, children, coining Stp oit of the excavat.ion of the rock uItil t,he last one has stepped out into b the light, and I am bewildere(i, and I e cannot tiderstand tho scena until I see e Christ wave his hand over the advanc ,t ig procession from the rock, and hear iW him cry, "It ain the restirrectlon and the a a life; lie who believeth ini me, though lie a were dleadl, yet shall he live." And< t then I notice that the long dirge of' the] , worldl's woe suddenly stops at the .archanigelic shouit of "Come forth!' Oh, my friends, iif Christ had not 1 broken out I of' the grave you and Iii1 wvould never coume 0o:t of' it ! It would n have bseen another ease of Charlotte t1 Cor'day att.empting to slay a tyrant, b herself' slain, It would have been p aiiothier case of Johnm Brown attempt- h ing to free the slaves, himself hung. sj 1t0 wouild have been deaIth andf Christ cii a grapple and dheath the victor. The el black ilag would have floated on all ti the graves and imisoleum1s of' the di dead, and hell woul have conq ueredl al tIhe forces of heaven and( capturedi the LI ramparts of Godl, and Satan would have i come to the coroniation in the palaces of U heaven, and it, would have been devils on the throne and( sons of God4)( in the 0: dtungeon. t No! nmo' no! When that stone was 1F rolledi fromn thme door of Christ's grave, n it, was hurled with stich a force that it L1 erashed in all the grave doors of Chris. 5' teindomn, and now the tomb is only a A bower where God's children take a ti siest,a, an afternoon nap, to wake tip k in might.y invigoration. "Christ Is riseni." If ang that lamp among all the p tombs of my dead. Ilang it over my own al resting place. Christ's suffering is en- I detd; his wvork is dtone. TVhe darkest tI Friday afternoon of the world's hits. at tory becomies the brightest Sunday al muorning of' its resurrection joy. The il good Feriday of bitter memories be- F' conmes the Easter of' glerious transfor d mation andl resurruction. ti Veo mourninig saInts, dry every tear ' For your depairted Lord. Behold t,he place. Uie Is not here . 'Thle tomnb is all unbarred.0 TIhue gates of death were closed in vaIn. e 'Thle Lord is risen, lie lives again. ti I give you the third canse of P'aul's exhilaration. WVe honor the rIght hand a more than we do the left. If in acci b dlent or b)attle we must lose oine hand,P let It bue the left. TIhe left hand beingt nearer thme heart, we may not do much P of the violent work of life with that sI hand without physical danger, but he U who has the rIght, arm in fuill play has at the mIghtiest of all earthly weap)ons. d In all ages and in all languages the i Ight hand Is the symbol of strength hi and power and honor. Iliramn set at ac the right hand of80ol0:ion.Trhen we have the term, "ie is a right hand man." Lafayette was Washington's right t hand man, and now you have time mean ing of l'aul when lie speaks of Christ, at who is at the right hand of God., th Trhat means hie Is the first guest of e~ heaven, le has a right to sit there.li The hero of the tuniversel Couant his(i wounds; two in the feet, two in the Sa hands, one ini the side-five wounds. Oh, you have eaointed wrong. TIhese are not haif the wounds. Look at the severer wouinds in the temples; each af thorn an excruciatlin.14 If a hero comes back from bat.ti, and a I he takes off hIs hat or rolls up his sleeve aw .and shows you the scar of a wound got-m a ten at Ball's BluffT or at South Moun- m tain, you stand in admiration at his f hrimand patriotism, but if Christ f shudmake conbpiclous the five v ewounds gotton on Cal vary-tht WVa- er a terloo of all the ages-he would display ci a onya small part of is wounds. I - right hand of ioll- lie has a right t n sit there, By the request of God theC se Father and the unanimouis suffrage of " all heaven let him alt there, in the a grand review, when the redeemed p s i by in cohorts of splendor, they will look Ia n at him and shout,"Victory."y e The oldest inhabitant of heaven never h rsaw a grander day than th -one when ni ir Christ took his place on the ight hand ii rof God, Hiosannial With lips of clay I I a may not appreciately utter it, but let f a the martyrs under the altar throw the a f cry to the elders before the throne, atnd a theyean tosegit tO tha ahte anthe . i a THIE SILVER QUFSTION. f 0 K -CONGRESSMAN BARNES DISCUSS- i1 ES THE PRESIDENI'S MESSAGE. 7 n Able Icview of 111n selnaacl, Qa,- C It, tiott.. N i)t Osaly liMishy Inst ructlae, 1taa *-aotertiiicasgui we,li-Thae (Cuaauae or 0 it Ilauril TiabeM atad Lo P'ricesi. AiTs-rTA, G,A., Aug. 17.--L'he fol whig interview on the 'resident's y esage is clipped fronm the Chronicle e recent date. The Chronicle reporter t died on Maj, larnes and opened the iterview by saying, "You have of mrso, read the 'resident's messalge, l-jor-what do you think of it?" lie at onco repliel, "No candid and ktelligent man can rise *rom reading , Without Coiling to the c0onclusio i at the 'resident, is in Iavor- itnder Kisting eircuimAst.nce--ol estabdlisl 1g the gold standard in this cointry. le urges the Ilconditiold repe:al of le purcliasing clau1si of the Sherman j xt and lie recomm1a111ends 110 811btit.ute Iver legislitionl. The adoption of I 1i policy mes. t.he cessatlion of all t ilver Coinage, aid the coinage in fu ire of no otier ntal bu t gold. I reatly regret the "!resident, is deter li3d on this policy, bujlt I colifess I In not disappoilited in the message. L is what, I expected The President on the money q iest ion P as never been inl accord with the .rge Inujority of his party. Tlhe silp orters oi the 'resident will be coll imed of the main body of the lepll). P cans, with a matiority of the 1)emo rats, while I he large body of the i)e. kocrats, with a minorit.y of 1te Iepub. C cas, and the l'opliists will oppose iA. ir. Cleveland will bie inl the ngilar position of a president eClected i I)emOacrat.ic platform, sistainede y a majority of leptiblicans, and op. sed by a 1najority of' Democrats. Votes taken on the silver question in Ii past, show t.hat the contit y is di d"d geographically on the suibject.. A he advocate-s of silver are generally 0 mn111d inl the agricultural sect,ions of' tit cotintry. 'The advocates of goll ono-metallism are found in tilt large I' ties, or in those state having large i ties, Iat which exert in the stjie.4 herein they are located a preponder ing inibieice. I have before me an lysis imade somne years ago of two t >tes taken in the Forty-nithi Con 'ess, which clearly illaistrates what I ive said. Air. Clevelaid, it will be t. collected, in his first annual message C his first administration recommend I the s1speisianl of silvor coinage, di- l cted nider the 11.and-Allison Act. n a vote taken inl the Iloilse on the lestion of suspension there were ghty-four yeqs lal tweity nlays. O1f le yeas there were thirty-two I)eno aits anal litty-two Iepublicans, and me nays thein were 12~ Deamoerats ati ih-publicans. ( i the eight y-four -as New -ngl,aid, N ow York, Penn Fivania and New Jersey faarilished ,venLy-three; of t.he relamminag ele i df 'Vo were foIM' Chicago, five from larylanld. a smaaall state inl which the irge city of* Baltimore is loented -and, v the o.lier loair, olie was froi the " est and I he other three was from the mlth. i t le same day a vote was a tken on a bill providing for free g )inage. 'he yeas were 12-iininety- I -venl D1)emocratu1, tweity-eight Iteplib- W cans, and onte- Indepeindent. There 0 ere 1i3 ntays, coiniposed of sevenity b (imocrats am iIner.y-t.hree Rlepuibli- ir mas. Of the l26 there wats naot a single 1b >to from New Enagland, biat one from f a3w i'k out of thirt.v-jour votes, Ii ime I roia New .Jersey, bait two froma r. muaasy vania, outf of t wenty-seven, and gi t 01ne f romn Maryland. The whole Li] 1 i camet f romn the South an: W1~est. jt C? .II thuis he s(een that Mr. Cleveland CE t.agoniizead the miaority of his party w~ the Early lust Ory ot his5 previouas ad- CC inistration.11 Thle mietropolilan l,ressx are now tIming tbat public sentimecnt de- W :md(l the immedliate unIcon'ditioal Pr peal of the sherman act, still I ap- 3 ehend that this is bait the re-llex of rn 0 opiions of the large bond-holding A iases in the great Cities of' the Norttl th 1(1 East, and1( th 10country conitigliu 111 t t.hem, it is an easy matter in large a" Lies, where popuilation is (dense mn rough organized boards of trade, and m *anmbers of' commerce and other hod- lii s easily assembled to obtain expres.-t mn of' opinion. J 'enple act more slow- Cai in thae rural dIstricts, but long he- n' re the final vote is taken on thais vt lest,ion, sentators andI representatives Congress Will hear from the people ui. the agricliltural sect.ions, and the m sekly couintry press, and I have no b3 mubt their voice will he heard no0w as mn was in the 1 orty-nInth Congress I ar not believe that Mr. Cleve-land is in ke 'coral wit,h his pairty now oan this hc jestion, 1and1 I) o t lhink lie can w cceed in carryuing outf hits policy of' wi icondfitional repeal. ol I legardless of t.his di fferenice thme ph nmocratic partfy uaaited anid elect.ed ai in In 18t1 on other grouands. While tir ese v-ites disclose a widle (difference thi opliioni at the titme ia the I)eamo- air tic party theaay shoiw alinost as ser- (he is a dhivisiomi 10 t,h rutaks of' t,he le- tic bIlican party. TIhe truth is, that go inte.ver aaaay be saidi ii phatforims, an nauon on the silver (fliestion has nevy- ir1 ye3t beenl made fin prauice~t a test of of r-ty fealty, eit her tfh l)emocrat s or mt p11 -tbin. I ex paec. when the v'ot, tune1( coruies to see~ the Souith andi an est st.ain g t ogethier againlst New ci igiand and ,hae M idd(le States. ci The Shiermaan law wa'is, in the Ian- I8M age of tile I )emaocratic platform, a thi ike-shift and ougnit to be repaled, I. the very resolt.ion whIch dlemand In repeal decl ares far the use of bo0th rei *d and1( silver as the st,anadard money 'Th the country, andl the colnage of' bot.h thi ld and silver without (discrimination wI: ainst either metal. Iloth art) in one tin olauti on, and the resolution should ble carriedi ouit-not in part, buat in Its Au Irely- Ias l'he P'residenat belfeves that all oar lalt ancial trou bles are chargeabile chiefly vai the purchase of' silver tinder thme uun ermani law, and In fact seems to Ac nk that this is the sole cautse, for dis only remedy suggested Is the re- jof ii of' the act. 'Th evidence offered ces support of this view is the large ex- ant .5 of gold exports over imports, and Wi 3 large decrease of gold In the u,reas- faut y with the large increase of silver. '4ow, there has no doubt been uinus I demands for gold withIn the past ir or two. I t has arIsen In part f romn no dtemaand of Austria-lIungary- COr ich hats adopted the gold stanldardl- lyl I from thme Russlin loamn of :ll100,000)- tell or gold for war putrposes. The ed'. ba rhal of The Chronicle on this saubject hio terdlay morning Is admirable. These lyl uisunal demands were supplemented her' s your paper shows by the dliffer. ste 3e of 30,00,000 beatween our ex- bi t aand Imports in excess of what for ~y were the year prevIous. The t,rade gai lance was against us and hence gold tht s exported to settle it. As Thle ronicle truly says these things are caused by the Sherman bill. Our orts are now increasIng and the Ing din the country and the treasury Is Iye :reasinag. The Sherman law still un- seI >ealed does not prevent the gold from jRe tiing In. The cry Is raised now-as Ite' wras under the Bland act....that the I d if glass until all Heaven shall lift it ome on point of scepter. and some on tring of harp, and some onl the tips of ho green branches. Hlosanna! i1osan- E i! A fourth cause of Paul's exhilaration. fter a clergyman had preached a ser ion in regard to the glories of heaven A nd the sp'endors of the scene an aged voman sai(d "If all that is to go oil it Leaven, I don't know what will become f my poor head." Oh, my friends, here will be so many things going on in heaven I have sometimes wondered f the Lord wottid not forgot yot an(I ne. 10 Perhaps 'aul said sometimes: "J n1 ionder God does not forget me down o ore in Antioch, and in the prison, and 1 the shipwreck. There are so Inany 9 alfors. so many wayfarers, so many i risoners. so many heartbroken men " C( ays l'aul, "perhaps God may forget A ie. And then I am so vile a simer. low I whipped those Christians! With that vengeance I mounted that caval y horse and dashed up to lDamast:us ti Ohl it will take a mighty attorney to 9 lead my cause and get me free." Bitt list at that moment there came in upon 'aul's soul something mightler than he surges that dashed his ship into 4elita, swifter than the horse he rode 1 o Damascus. It was the swift and .1 verwholming thought ot Christ's in- 1 ercession. t My friends, we must have an advo- R ate. A poor lawyer is worse than no awyer at all. We must, have one who a s able successfully to present otir cause iefore God. Where is he? Who is he*y L'here is only one advocate in all tIeh mLiverse that can plead our caise i he last judgment, that can plead our ause before God in the great tribun,d. Sometimes in earthly courts att.or leys have specialties, atid oneo man su(- c weds better in patent, cases, another in naiurance cases, another m criminal ases, another In land cases, anot,her i h will cases, and his success generally de- a ;ends upon his sttcking to that spe,ial- 0 ,y. I have to tell you that Christ. van to many things, but it seems to me P iat his specialty is to take tile had ase of the sitner and plead it before i 'od until It gets eternal acquittal. v )h! we must. have hin for Otr advo- I 'ate. lit what plea cani he make ? SoM imes an attorney inl court will plead " he innocence of the prisoner. That ci 6vould be inappropriate for uts; we are ill guiltyl guilty! Unclean, unclean a hrist, our advocate, will not plead our inlocece. Sometimes the attorney in ,otirt, tries to prove an ablii. lie says: "T7his prisoner was not at, the scene. it .le was in some other place at, ther ime." Such a plea will not do in our !ase. The Lord found us in all our Mis and in the very place of our ini juity. It is impossible to prove an I Ul. Sometimes an attorney will plead 'he insanity of the prisoner and say he q s irrespomtsible on that, accoit. Tat plea will never do in our case. We t iinned against light, against know. ledge, against, the dictatts of omr own consciences; we knew what we were loing. What then shall the iea be ? y 'he plea for our eternal deliverance will be Chri-t's own maityrdom. lIe will say: "Look At all these woutnds. t By all these sniferings I demand the rescue of this man fromn sin m antd dath o %md hell. Constable, knock off the ihackles-let the prisoner go fro-e.' 'Who is he that condemneLli ? It is Jhrist that died, yea, rather that, i; isen again, who is even at. the right land of God. whoialso maketh interces- if lion for its." itt why all this gladness otn the fa(es >i these sons andl dauighiters of' the word Almighty? I know what yo i re thinking of. A .Saviour dead; a aviotur risen; a Saviotur exalted; a Nav )tr1 initercedinig. " What." say youi, "is II that for me ?" All! all! Never let ie hetar you complaining about anly- 1 ilng again. With your pardoned sitn ehind yotu, and a sutccessful Christ wn loading above you, and a glorious eaven before yout, how can you be de 'ondent about anything'? m "lint," says some man in the audi-cI ice, "all that is very good anid very cl 'ne for those wvho are in.ide the kinig- rm inm, but how about those of us whor 'e outside'?" '.Then I say, come into tl ie kingdom, come out of' the prison tl rtise into the glorious stunlighit otf od's mercy andt pardon and come no w. d It was in the last (lays of the~ reign 9 terror, the year 17913. Ilmtndreds amndc tousands hadi~ perished uinder the 1 rench guillotine. France groanedi c Itb, the tyrannies of Robespierre and te .Jacobin clutb. T'he last grou po oy lifferers had had theIr locks shotrn by I [onchotte, the prison barber, so that to neck might be bate to the keen(t nife or the guillotine.il The carts came uip to the prison, the nor wretchis were placed in the (eartsw ad dlriven off towardi the sca if old1.(I uit while they were going t.owardIi 1e scai1fold there was an out.cry in the .ret, and then the shock of' lirearmis, 'id thten the cry: "Itobuesplerre has I ilen! Down with the ,Jacobins! Leit si rance be free!" lint thue armned sol iers rode in upon these rescuers, so tat the poor wretches In fthe cartsli 'ore taken on t.o the scatlfolil anmi h orrm i ly died.t 10t1t that very night these monsters o fpersecution were seized(, andlih r upierre perished tinder the verv guiilIo.m no that he had reared for others, all I rance clapping thleir hands withI joyw lihis head rolled inito the execuitionier'so isket. Then the axes of the e'xcite'de r)pulace were hteardl pountdinig againtt te gates of the prisoun, and( the 1)oor i risoners walked out free. My fr'i'mt(s i n is the worst of all lIobespierres. I t is ietyrant of tyrants, It has built, a pril n hotise for our sotuls. It, plots our ' ath. It has shorn tis for the saicrifice; -g it, blessedl be God, this morninug wel bt 'ar the axes of God's graciouts deliver- . ce ponidinog againist the dloor of its ir prison, go D)eliverance has come. LIght breaks " rough all the wards of the prison ..go avolutionh Revolution! " Where sin ag oundedgrace does much more botind, re at whereas sin reigned unto death lhe en so grace many reign ento eternal en1 0 through Jestus Christ our Lord.". orious truthl A Saviouir 4ead; a to viour risen; a Saviouir exalted; a to viour intercedIng! Sh "The Ulnwritten Law.'" th ATLANTA, Ga., Augfust l4.---T'his pt' ternoon at the uinion depot, in the in art of the city, l'at i. Mettan shot cev *d killed Rtobert McB?ride. Mcitride tht la presidlt or the cottoni seed Lull ti Ills atJiewman, Georgia, and a protm enit citt/.en of that place. Mehani's nta mily has lived at Newiman; he travels Ye r a wholesale liquor house in Louis- '.hu lie, Kentucky. McBlrdo was a ISoard. wi at Mrs. Mehan's house, and Niehmhn an urms ho killed McBride because the 1)1 ter insuiltedi his wife, lie shot Mc- Ito ride twice. A third b)all found ioodg- yei ent in the shotulder of a bystander, un1 S. Reid.' A atndke in Hi itonacht. AsiuIL.AND, Aug. 15.--Anthony Itow- thi nd, a hotel-keeper of this place, af ter ba Iffering for several months fromn what we 5 supposedj was cm amps, Oni Saturday Chi ght vomited a live carpet snake, nine no lohes long and thick as a lead pencil, ox ,ately Rowland had been eating enorghi go r tWo men, but is in an awful emaci- in ted condition. Drinking from a spring re] t night is probaly how thte snake got Co t his stama i urther coliage of silver will drive gofd ut of the country. Nevertheless gold has continued to ow in or out as the balance of trade as happened to be for or against us. 'he quantity of gold has greatly In reased since we eommencpd the pur hase of silver under the Bland act. I ave not access to statistics to show 'to rate of increase, but here is a speech f Senator Teller delivered in the Sen te on the 17th of last February where i he says that In 1875 when we passed to act of resumption, we had only 2-11,000,000 of gold, I do not know 'hether he intended these figures to )ver the entire gold metallic stock in ie country at that tine or not, but ro comimenced our purchases of silver nder the Bland act in 1878, and under tat act and the Sherman act they have een continied to this day. In spit.- of the false prophecies we re still rich inA gold, and our gold lock at the date of the last. published port of the director of the mint, for 41.2, surpassed those of Grvat Britain nid Geriany, and was only exceeded y that of France. That report shows tat our stock of gold coin and bullion ily 1. I8P2, was $664,275,335, being an icrease of over $17,61.0,000 since J uly 18111. This increase was against a loss m previous fiscal year of $48,980, 77. Doubtless the report for the pres ut year, owing to the causes we have ientioned, may again show a consil rable loss. litt. these figures show that he gold will flow in or otit as our ex orts increase or dimtinish over our im orts. (old will continue in the future o flow in or out in settlement of trade alances ai it has always done in the ast. lit there is another and a special 01ason why I do not regard the Sher ian law as the chief cause for finan tal troubles. The Sherman law is a Inited States statute operating only in ur territory. These financial troibles xist throughout, nearly all Christen on. Look at the itnmense failures 'i Atistrailia, the conse(Itent commer ial disasters in England; consider the f-sing of cott.on mills in Lancashire, 30 convention of manufacturers in lanchester to investigate the causes I distress the assemblage of agricul irists in London for the same pur ose, the meeting not ten days ago at ie Mansion houtse the oflicial residence I the Lord Mayor of London, of the isiiess men of that great city for the ine purpose, where they were ad ressed by the iUt.. llon. N. 1. llalIour; he extraordinary linancial distress in !issia anid It aly, and we cannot but mclide that, such universal financial 'ouble iiplies a tiniversal cause. We m no mnore ascribe it to a local infin ice-as the Shernan law--than we uld attributi the epidenic prevalent iroighout Georgia to some dis.rder Kisting alone in soime interior town. That general or universal cause I be eve to be falling prices. Now I do At mean low prices, but I mean what. say-falling prices-that is, prices i)nng, going lower constantly. ]in rease or dimunition of production iny sometimes check or accelerate the -cline, bit. year a,fter year the decline nit.intes We see it in the shrihkaie inl t lie Aluie of securitius, in the contsant fall i the price of cotton, of wheat. and rk, in all commodities and in all the rticles of coninierse. For years it has rme oti, and it still continues to go onl. is this coinItant, cont.itiotis declined hich discoitrages and impedles and I)structs the investment of capital in ismiess eniterprise. There is but lie uducemenit to enter intoi anty business, a it nnm the farm, in the shop, or ini the uctory, if at the end ohf the year prices ive so declined that the produicts I is(d, the merchandise sold, or the >0dB mianufactured, will not bring to e mtvestor a reasonable prolit. h ence pitalist hoair(l capital, enterprises asedI, store close, arid factories and i >rkshops shut down. The reply is nistantly made-laws of supply and mand regulate trade. Where riatural pp)ly andl natuiral dlemand operate, til determind what are the natural 'j ices. But the action of government metimes intervenes and alters the I1 .tural supply or the nattural demand. high protective tariff greatly limits e importation of some articles of y reign mterchandise. The natuiral pply is cut off, but the natural deC mni contintues, and the price is deter med by the artificially reduced supply ~ dI the natural demand. Of course e price is adlvancedi as long as these uises operate. This is eclually trite~ t o the increase or decreased in the liume of trouey. Up t.o 1873 the commercial world ed both silver and gold as primary mtey. TJhis was the money p)rovided the God of nature for the wants of an. While some nations used1 gold dI some silver, yet as long as France p1. her mints open to the coinage of ih muetails at a fixed ratio their parity th each otheir was preserved. There is a naturai supply of moniey and a tiural demand, and the natLural sup. and deantn for prodtucts pireserved atural price. Butt government ac n now intervenied ini Germnany and i Unitedl States andl altered the nat. at sup~ply and dem,md. Silver was I monetized at that time by these na ns. An lncre3asedh strain was putt on 1(d to discharge thie money function il the supply of moniey mietal heing uted to the extent or the exclusion silver, the value of gold as a money tal necessarily adlvancedl. l'here was a contraction in money : hence a fall in prices. As Mr. Glos sm, the former chancellor of the ICx Kluer or IEnglatnd, said as far hack as 3. "The fall of prices comes from rise of gold". Vow sinice demnonetiniation took place 187:3, the United States has partially tored the money function of' silver. Is has tendled somewhat to break fall in prices. B,ut in the mean ie dlemonetization of silver has con uied in other countries. The scram for gold in Europe has increasedl stria, Hunirary entered the market t yeatr and( 1tussia seeks the accumut Ion of' gold. Gold continues to aid lee and prIces continuie to fall. TIhe ::onditional repeal of the Sherman t means that the UJnited States must card further coinage of silver and a ini the general scramble. ThIs ne sitates of further advance in gold I a still further decline in prIces. e are to ptut outthe lire by adding ( I to the IIlames. B UJnaer the Teilnr', NoRe. B Tr. P~AIUL, Minn., August 14.-At U mn to-day a daring thief stole a bag g tamning $10,000 in gold, which was R ig at tne window of the receiving E~ en of the First National Bank. Thes si e had been sent over to the clearing zme by the Merchants Bank, and was B 'ig just insidIe of the receiving tel- I a window. An unknown man ' pped up to the window, seized the, e, made off with it, and escaped he e any sort of pursuit could be or-E ilzed. As yet there Is no trace of H robber. seventeen Drvownedi. IT. PETERSnURO, Aug. )6.-A fish fleet was overwhelmed by a storm 1 'terday' in te Baltic, ofi' Hlapsal, a port abont sixty miles douthwest o01 vol. Many boats foundered and renteen perbons are known to have wned. Many Ot,.'s are mlinr. Cotton Mills Start Up. PROVIDENCE, It. I August 14. The score of cotton mille ownde and operated by B. B. & IR. Knife, ot this city, and located in itode Island and MassachusettR. startel u) this morning after having been stopped a week, The firm is one of the largest, 'fnot the largest, in the country eugaged in the macufahture of cotton Loods. Its mills are locatea at Pontiac. Na tick, River P1oinL. Arctic, Lippit, Fiske ville, Jackson, Providence, White Rock and Woonsiket, In this Stale, and at Mancauga, Ifebronville, Dodgeville and teadville, in Massachusetts. It operates nearly 450.000 spIniles and Upwards of 11,000 looms; employs aearly 8,000 operatives and has a weekly pay-roll of about $50.000. Increasing the Coinage. 'llrILADELP11IA, August 14.-The uperintended of the Philadelphia mint las received instructions from Wash ington to push small gold and subsidi try silver coinage as rapidly as possible mnd i f need be to have the mint worked ifter hours to get the specie out. Ad vices from Washington state that the itock of small gold cotn is getting de pleted, and the above order is to hurry the coinage to till up the'hold that is being made. Work will be commenced at once, and eagles, half eagles and sil ver halves and quarters will be soon roling out by the thousands every hour. The advertisement of L. F. Padgett Augusta, Ga., should be carefully read by everyboay who wants anything in the way of f urniture or house-furnish ing articles. His catalogue ought to be in the hands of everyone intending to buy goods of any kini to go in a house. See also his testimonials from numbers of people in South Carolina and other States wh- have given him orders. These show how Padgett has kept his promises both as to prices and charac ter of goods. Mail orders receive prompt and careful -attention-goods being selected so as to please the pur chasers inst as well as if he chose them in person. Mention this paper. P14,n05 at oceaus. Now is the time to buy summer plan $25 cash balance Novemuer 15th 1893. Will twy a 1liano at spot cash price $10 cash, balance November 15th 1893. Will buy a organ at spot cash price. See the list to choose from. Steinway, Mason & Hamlin, Mathusuek. and Stir iing Pianos, Mason & llamlin and Stirling Organs. Fifteen days test 'rial and freight both ways if n.-)t satis ractory. A large lot of nearly new and iecond hand Pianos and Organs at bar tains. Good as new. Write for prices, N. W. 'rump, Columbia, S. C. * Chicago Hotel Burned. CIUCAoo, Aug, 14.-A hotel tire re mlcimr in the death of a number of ruests occurred this morning. The ire was in the Senate lLotel, a three itory structure on Madison street near Fifth avenue. One man jumpted from i window in the top story and was cilled. About hall a dozen of others were suffocated and burned to death. Burned In ERgy. Gi;oiCOtorwN, TIexas., August 14. At ,onah, itear here, a mass meeting )f Democrats, Republicans and Popii its was hew. The speeches criticis ng President Cleveland's message were f such iln incendiary characi.er that ;he meeting wound up burning PJ1resi lent Cleveland i elligy. 01? SOUTHl CAROLINA. For the trcatment of inebrIety, Opnim, Morphine, Chiloral) amnd Cocaine l)iseases, 'obacco Habit and( Nervous E~xhmaust.ion y thme methods of Leslie E. Keeley, M. D)., .L. D., Surgeon Chicago and Alton Rall ,ay and formerly Surgcon IT. S. Army. For literature or further informnation lease add ress THE KEELEY INSTITUTE, COLUMBIA, S. C. $50) ir a Trip to the World's Fair Free, Ti. X.. L. lie igreat pinf allevIator, is strictly p, g and free from opiates.'of all k Ius, I relieves pain In all lt.s forms whu properly applIed. F ull diree' with each b)ot tie, for 25 Cents Sold by druggsts everywhere. SIx bottles by express for $1. Prepared by TV. X.- Company.' 1 (C. M. D)empsy, Manager,) 230 Main Street, Columbia, 5- (1. 'THEC MURRAY D)RUG COMPANY. Wholesale Agents, ColumbIa, S. C. Full partIculars sent by' 'mail for tw amps. 001) WORK ING M ACH INERY RICK AND) IlEA ARR1EEL STAVE " INNING RAIN THRESHING" (W MILL " ICE HULLING" N(3INES AND BOILERS. ate Agency for Talbott & Sons' Engines and Boilers, Saw and Grist M ills. rower's BrIck Machinery. ouble Screw Cotton Presses. homas' Direct Acting Steam Presses, No Belts. homas' Seed Cotton Elevators all and Lummus' inus. ngleberg Rice Hallers. . B. Smith Co's Wood-Workinog Machmiu ery, Planers, Band Saws, M oulders, Mortisers Tenoners-comprising com phete equiment for Sash, Door, and Wanatories cLoacho's Plantation Saw Mills, var ia ble feed eItIn , Fittings and Machinza,Suppiles. Wrim forpr-lees. V. . SA DHAM, Manager, - OLUMPIA, . . 0 PARETT PAYS THE FREIGHT V hy I'ay Fxtreme Prices for Goodsi end for I ahlogue and Soo What You Can Save I ) frL..A 771 -4, 1 1 H $69 orNm $37 4 No frieighol )Iibl ,I, Il Or -- U i- U tara teer t io IL - - 4 i e 4,4a o l Ior llo nley ro it to your ins h>j) 1 4r $33. - 4;This No.7 ,COOIN ~wit STOV I mrlee II - wnure w~*il -le tll $1r iC to yovr A * & DGEWICG MACOIKN with ~ ~ ~ ~ it 21 inre.ns o ON LY $10.50 - deliverere t . r t r. * *h 0 r E WIh. M,&C].- 31f1hZi -I--i ONY $10 n :.Sano The Jillufne: in r r P n' the x p n 4e4..,. I 44- 4 C 44rn to ytil I'm. f l2a7. u rgitati . N4 I*I'14 4. 4 1il on i u y -I h A *43 IANO sill I'l-0011~ !i 'l 1"41 1 "llos, Tell4 161111 il i. A . I. ~ A.... :011d L. F. PADGETT "T";;; YOUR BRAIN Is your capital and you- salary of twelve hundred a year is eq'uiv alent to the income from a twenty thousand dollar block. You would insute the bUildings, why not your life? There is a chance of fire, but death is a cer tainty. It is prudent to protect your properly against POSSIBLE loss by fire, it is necessarX, to protect your family against the pecuniary loss your death will inevitably occasion. A policy 46 in the EQUITABLE LIFE is exactly adapted to your needs. For facts and figures, address W. J. RODDEY, Manager,. For the Carolinas, ROCK HItt, S. C TO FAR MERS MANUFACTURERS: As a matter or buIshiles4. initerest to you md ourselves we ask you to allow usi the irivllege of making estImates upon aniy nachinery you may wish to) buy b)efOre ilaclng your ordiers elsewhere. Our faellIties and connlectionsq with mari 9 ifacturers are such that we can" quote ont heo same goods' as low pritces as are ob)tain ,ble In Americn. it is but a ntarowv mind hat would pass by the home dealer to) pay n equal or greater price to a foreign eaher or manufacturer. Only gIve us the opportunity and we will arve you to advantage, and keep at home small part of the money which is going way from our State to enrich others. 1V. H. Gibbes Jr., & Co, COLUMBIA4 8. C. will be P'leasedto Furnish Pjrices for larness, Carriaiges, Buggies, &e., llarnessq Leaithler and Saddiery, IIardware, TIeam and( Buggy Collars, Collar l'ads, WhIps of all kinds, Lap Itobes, D)usters and Fly Nets, Axle OIl, Axle Oroes larness Oil, IIai net s Sonap. Ilarniess I)ressing, Saddles, lBridles, and( arty and everything kept In a first class llarnesqs andl CarrIage Store. Give me atrial 4 and Iwill save you money J. S. DUTNN, 186 Main Street. Columbia, 8. C.