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OF A UEART. Dear heart-dear heartI the sweetest bear that ever Gave one qtick throb for met I do pray God that your kind steps ma' In paths of darkness bol But i they were-O, dearest eye of bluo I would walk there through all my 11Pf for you! Dear heart-dear heart! the gentlest heart, that, beating, Felt for my heart one day! I trust that there shall be a tender meeting For our hearts, far away I But if there should not-O' my love, my dear[ Since you were happy, I the grief would bearl DO THYSELF NO HARM. Rav. Dr. Talnage Discouraes Upon 1W4 EvIne ot Suicide. BltOoKLYN, Aug. 12.-Rev. Dr.Tal wage, who Is now abroad, has selecter as the subject for today's sermon throug the press the word "Suicide," the texi being Acts, 27, 28: "le drew out hit sword and would have killed himself supposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm." Here is a would be eucide arrested ir his deadly attempt. Ile was a sheriff and according to the Roman law a bailif himself must suffer the punishment du an escaped prisoner, and if the prlonei breaking jail was sentenced to be endun geoned for three or four years then th( shenfi must be endungeoned for threo or four years, and it the prisoner break ing jail was to have suffered capital pun ishment then tie sheriff must sufer capi tal punishment. The sheriff bad received especia charge to keep a sharp lookout for Pau and Silas. The government had not ba< confidence in bolts and bars to keel) safi these two clergymen, about whom ther seemed to be something strange ani supernatural. Sure enough, by miraculous powo they are free, and the sheriff, waki.ng ou of a sound 8leep, and supposing these ministers have run away, and knowini that they were to die Ior preaching Chris and realizing that he must therefore die rather than go under the executioner'i ax on the morrow and suger public die grace resolves to precipitate his own de cease. But before the sharp, keen, gilt terng dagger of the sheriff could strik his heart one of the unloosened prison era arrests the blade by the commani "Do thyself no harm." In olden time and where Christianit had not interfereo with it suicide wv considered honorable and a sign of cou age. Demosthenes poisoned himse when told that Alexander's embassad( had demanded the surrender of tt Athenian orators. Isocrates killed hir self rather than surrender to Philip Macedon. Cato, rather tha'n submit Julius Ca3ar, took his own life, and t ter three times ile wounds had be( dressed tore them open and perishe Mithridates killed himself rather the submit to Pompey, the conquero Hannibal destroyed his life by poiac from his ring, considering life unbarabli Lycurgus a suicide, Brutus a suicidi After the disaster of Moscow, Napolec always carried with him a preparatic of opium, and one night his servant heal the exemperor arise, put something in glass and drink it, and soon after th groans aroused all the attendants, an it was only through utmost medical ski lhe was resuscitated from the stupor c the opiate. Times have changed, and yet Lth American conscience needs to be Lonel up to the subject of suicide. Have yel seen a paper in the last month that dii not announce the passage out of life b one's own behest? Defaulters, alarmed s the idea of exposure, quis. life precipitate ly.*Men losing large fortunes go out of th world because they cannot endure earth ly existence. Frustrated aflection, dc mestic Infelicity, dyspeptic anger, re morse, envy, jealousy, destitution miu anthropy, are considered suficient cause for ataconding from this life by parl green, by laudanum, by belladonna, b Othello's dagger, by halter, by leap frot the abutment of a bridge, by firearmi More cases of "felo do so" in the lai two years of the world's existence. TI evil is more and more spreading. A pulpit not long ago expressed somx doubt as to whether there was reali anything wrong about quitting this hi when It became disagreeable, there a: found in re spectable circles people apol getic for the crime which Paul in U text arrested. I shall show you belo: I gret through that suicide is the wor of all crimes, and I shall lift a warnim unmistakable. But In the early part this sermon I wish to admit that son of the best Christians that ever live have committed self destruction, bi always in dementia and not, responsibla I have no more doubt about their ete nal felicity than I have of the Christia who dies in his bed In the delirium of tyi phoid fever. Wh'le the shock of the ca #strophe is very great I charge all thot who have had Christian friends unde cerebral aberration step off'the 'bour daries of this life to have no doubt abor their happiness. The dear L'rd too them right out of their dazed and frenzie state into perfect safety. How Chrie feels toward the insane you may knos from the kind way he treated the demc niac of Gadara and the child lunatic an the potency with which lie hushed th tempest. either of sea or brain. Scotland, the land prolific of intellec tual giant., had none grander than Hugl Miller, great for science and great fo God. He came of the best highlani blood, and he was a descendant of Doi aId Roy a man eminent for his piety an< the rare gift of second sight. His attait ments, climbing up as he did from th' quarry and the wall of the stonemssoi drew forth the astonished admiration c Buckland and Murchison, the scientists and Dr. Chalmers, the theologian, an< held universities spellbound while hil told them the story of what lie had seet of God in the old red sandstone. That man did more than any beinj -that ever lived to ahow that the God c the hills Is the God of the Bible, and h' *.: struck his tuning fork oni the rocks c Cromarty until he brought geology ant theology accordant in divine worshir the Creator" and the "Testimony of th Rocks" proclaimed the banns of al everlasting marriage between genuin (science and revelation. On this lett< book be toiled %lay and night throu love of nature and love of God until could not sleep, and his brain gray way and he was found dead with a I volver by his side, the cruel Instrumer having bad two bullets-one for bi and te ther for the gunsmith who a the c4oer ~aue was examDining and t~tda. Have you any doubn the betfction of, Jluah Miler after bl b4 ot brlhad coeud throgbing thdt mi ~ ;$ ~ .fi~~t~n' stwld atPorttbellc Among the mightiest of earth among the mighties of heaven. No one ever doubted the piety of Wil ]law Cowper, the author of those three great hymns. Oh, For a Closer Walk With God?" "What Various Hin I drances We Meet?" "There Is a Foun tain Fi!ed With Blood," William Cow per, who shares with Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley the chief honors of Christian hvmnology. In hypochon dria be resolved to take his own life and rode to the river Thames, but found a man seated on some goods at the very point from which he expected to spring, and rode back to his home and that night threw himself upon his own knife, but the blade broke, and then he hanged himself to the coiling, but the rope parted. No wonder that when God mercifully delivered him from that awful dementia he sat down and wrote that o-her hymn just cs memorable: God moves in a mytorlous way His wonders to perform. 11e plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm. Jilind unbelief is sure to err And scan his work in yain, God is his own intorpretor, And lie will make it plain. While we make this merciful and righteous allowance in regard to those who were plunged into mental incoher ence I declare that the man who in the use of his reason by his own act snaps the bond between his body and his soul goes straight into perdition. Shall I prove it? Revelation xxi, 8, "Murder ers sull have their pirt in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone." Rev. elation xxil, 15, "Without are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and mur derers." You do not believe the New Testament, Then perhaps you believe the Ten Commandments, "Thou shalt not kiil." DO you say all these pas, sages refer to the taking of the life o0 others? Then I ask you if you are nol as responsible for your own life as foi the life of others? God gave you a spe cial trust in your life. He made you the custodian of your life as he made yot the custodian of no other life. He gav4 you as weapons with which to defend ii two arms to strike back assaillants, tw< eyes to watch for invasion and a natura love of life which ought ever to be o the alert. Assassination of others Is i mild crime compared with the assassina tion of yourself, because in the latte case it is treachery to an especial trust it Is the surrender of a castle you wer especially appointed to keep; it is tro son to a natural law, and it treason t God added to ordinary murder. To show how God in the Bible looke upon this crime I point you to th rogues' picture gallery in some parts o the Bible, the pictures of the people wh have committed this unnatural crime Here is the headless trunk of Saul o the walls of Bathahan. Here is th r man who chased little David-10 feet I stature chasing 4. Here is thelman wh consulted a clairvoyant, witch of Endo1 Here is a man who, whipped in batth f- Instead of surrendering his sword wit n dignity, as many a man has done, ash his servant to slay him, and when th servant decilnes then the giant plant the hilt of the sword in the earth, th n sharp point sticking upward, and hi throws his body on it and expires, th ' coward, the suicidel Here is Ahithope n the Machiavelli of olden times, betray n ing his best friend David in order tha dlhe may become prime minister of Absi a loin and joining that fellow in his at e temp~t at parriciuie. Not getting whia he wanted by change of p)olitiCs, hie takei a short cut out of a disgraced life mntc a suicide's eternity. rhere lie is, the ingrate!t Here is Abimelech, practically a sul j cide. Hie is with an army bombarding i a tower, when a woman in the towel takes a grindstone from its place an< drops it upon his head, and with wha t life he has left in a cracked skull he .commands his armor bearer, "Draw thr e sword and slay me, lest men say a wo .man slew me." There is his post mor .tem photograph in the book of Samuel. .But the hero of this group Is Judas Is. . cariot. Dr. Donne says lie was a mar a tyr, and we have in our day apolgist a for him. And what wvonder, in this da) y when we have a book relealing Aaror a Burr as a pattern of virtue, and in tiun ,, day when we uncover a statue to Georg t Sand as the benefactress of literature e and In this day when there are betrayal of Christ on the part of some of his pri e tended apostles-a betrayal so hlack y makes the Infamy of Judas Iscari( Le white? Yet this man by his own han ae hung up for the execration of all t1: . ages, Judas lecariot. e All the goodi men and women 6f ti ee Bible left to God the decision of the at earthly terminus, and they could has gsaid with Job, who had a right to con f mit suicide if any man ever had, whi ie with his destroyed property and hi d body all aflame with insuff'erable ca at buncles and everything gone from h ., home except the chief curse of it-a pe e. tiferous wife-and four garrulous peop a pelting him with comfortless talk whil . he sits on a heap of ashes, scratching h . scabs with a p)iece of broken potter: e yet crying out in triumph, "All the dai r of my appointed time will I wait till mi . change come," t Notwithstanding the Blible is agahui k this evil and the aversion which it cri d ates by the loathsome and ghastly apel t tacle of those who have hurled then i selves out of life, and notwithstandila -Christianity is against it and the argin I ments and the useful lives and the illus s trious deaths of its disciples, It is a fac alarmingly patent that suicide is on th - increase. What Is the cause? I chars a upon infddelity and agnosticism thl r whole thing. If there be no hereafti I or if that hereafter be blissful wlithoi i reference to how we live and how we di I why not move back the foldin~z dooi between this world and the nexft An s when our existence here becomes troub lesome why not pass right over into El3 f slum? Put this down among your moa solemn reflections and consider it atte I you go to your hqmes: There has neve been a case of suicide where the opera a tor was not either demented and there fore irresponsible or an infidel. I chal ( lenge all the ages, ani( I challenge th f whole universe. There has never beel 5 a case of self destruction while in ful f appreciation of his Immotality and of th I fact that that Immortality would b .glorious or wretched, according as h *f accepted JesuS Christ or rejected him s You say It is business trouble, or yoi 1 say it is electrical currents, or it is this e or It is that or it Is the other thing. Wh: hr noegocea thak my friend, and a hkoldehainevery case it isth e abdication of reason or the teaching c lnfldellty, which practically says, "I e you don't like this life, get out of it.' t And you will land either In annihilation a whore there are no notes to pay no per. t secutions to suffer, no gout to torment 4 or you will land where there will b f everytnint glorious and nothing to pa e for It. Infidelity always has been apol a ogetic for self immolation. After Ton 9' Paine's " Ae oaf an"? was pubhishe and widely read there was marked In crease of self slaughter. A man in London heard Mr. Owen deliver his infidel lecture on "Socialism" and went home and sat down and wrote these words. "Jesus Christ is one of the weakest characters in history and the Bible Is the greatest possible deception," and thou shot himself. David Hume wrote these "-orde: "It would be no crime for me to divertt he I le or the Danube from its natural bed. Where, then, can be the crime in my diverting a few drops of blood from their ordinary channel ?" And having written the es say he loaned it to a friend to read it who wrote a letter of thanks and admi ration and thon shot himself. Appen dix to the same book. 1tousseau,Voltaire,Gibbon, and Mon taigue, under c9rtain circumstances, were apologetic for self immolation. Infidelity puts up no bar to people's rushing out from this world into the next. They teach us it does not make any difference how you live here or go out of this world, you will land either in an oblivious no where or a glorious somewhere. And infidelity holds the upper end of the rope for the suicide, and aims the pistol with which a man blows his brains out, and mixes the strychnine for the last swallow. If in fidelity could cairy the day and per suade the majority of people that it does not make any difference how you g out of the world you will land safe y the rivers would be impeded in their progress, and the crack of a suicide's pistol would be no more alarming than the rumble-of a street car. Ah infildlity, stand up and take thy sentence! In the presence of God and angles and men, stand up; thou mon ster, thy lip blasted with blaspemy, thy cheek scarred with lust, thy breath foul with corruption of the ages! Stand up, satyr, filthy goat, buzzard of the na tions, leper of the conturlesi Stand up, thou monster inildelity 1 Part man part panther, part reptile, part dragon, stand up, and take thy sentence! Thy hands red with the blood in which thou has washed, thy feet crimson with the human gore through which thou hast wadded, stand p and take thy sen tencel Down wi thee to the pit and sup on the sobs and groans of families thou hast blasted, and roll on the bed of knives which thou hast sharpened for others, and let thy music be the ever lasting miseries of those Iwhom thou hast damned! I brand the forehead of infidelity with all the crimes of self im molation for the last century on the part of those who had their reason. My friends, if ever your life thought > its abrasions and its molestations should seem to be unberable, and you are tempted to quit it by your own be. hest, do not consider yourselves aE F worse than others. Christ himself was y tempted to cast himself from the roof of the temple, but as he resisted so re slot ye. Christ came to medicine all oni e wounds. In your trouble I prescribE life instead of death. People who havE had it worse than you will ever have i1 0 have gone songful on their way. Re. member that God keeps the chronology . of your life with as much precision aE he keeps the the chronology of nations, 8 your death as well as your birth your B grave as well as your -radle. s Why was it that at midnight, jusit e at midrAight. the destroying angel struck the blow that set the Israelites e free from bondage? The 430 years wer up at ,12 o'clock that night. The 43C years were not up at 11, and 1 o'clock would have been tardy and too late The 480 years were up at 12 o'clock, and the destroying angle struck the blow, and Isreal was free. And God knows tjust the hour when it is time to lead you up from earthly bondage. Bly his gaemke not the worst of things, but the best of them. If you must take the pills, do not chew them. Your ever lasting rewards will accord with your earthly perturbations, just as Caius gave to Agrippa a chain of gold as heavy as had been his chain of iron. For your asking you may have the same gtace that was given to the It alian martyr, Algerius, who, down in the darkest of dungeons, dated his let. ter from "the delectable orchard of the - Leonine prison." And remember that this briet life of ours is surrounded by a rim, a very .. thin but very important rim, and closs up to that rim is a great eternity, and you had better keep out of ituntil God breaks that rim and seperates this froir that. To get rid of the sorrows of eartt do not rush into greater sorrows. TC get rid of a swam of summer insecte lea nI~ot into a jungle of Bengal tigers Teeis a sorrowless world, and it ii so radiant that noonday sun is oni) 4the lowest doorstep, ahd the aurorathia t lights up our northern heavens, con d founding astronomers as to what it car e be, is the waving of the banners of th4 procession come to take the conquerori e home from church triumphant, anm r you and 1 have ten thousand reaons to e wanting to go there, but we will neve . get there either by self immolation o Simpenitency. All our sins slain by thi Christ who came to do that thing, w want to go in at just the time divinel: Sarranged and from a couch divinel; 'a spread, and then the clang of the sepul 'chral gates behind us will be overpow e ered by the clang of the opening o e the solid pearl before us. 0 God, what is ever others may ch oose,give me aChrist , ian's life, a Christian's death, a Christ s ian's burial, a Christian's immortality y AIDual Life. MXIoNGTN,' Ky., Aug. 14.-Judgel Maho andWalters, of Hannibal, Mo, are In the city taking depositions i the suit recently institutedi at Hlanniba - by D~orcas M. Hampton to recover Sdaughter's interest in the estate of lie -father,-Dr. John Hampton, who die4 - several weeks ago in Missouri, leavin, t an estate valued at $75,000. a The deposition already taken air e startling in the extreme, and prov s that D~r. Hampton led a dual life, th rone clouded by suspicions of a doubl Scrime, and the other brightened by ull rightness and integrity. The defens e exuect to prove that Dorcas Hlampto: Sis an illegitimate child of the doctor d and that her mother, although betray - ed by Dr. Hampton was recompense -by a sum of money, a receipt of whici t is on file at the Lexingion courthousi r Depoaitions show that Dr. Hlamptoi r was suspected of having poisoned hi .. wife, Maria Burch, here in 1845. JJ .. had been forced to marry her at th' . point of the pistol, and she died so after the marriage. A druggest name SHayes, who had remarked he knei i enough to send Hampton to the ga: lows was murdered, Hampton wa a tri ed for the murder and acquItted. H1 went to St. Louis and married a Mia 5 Sweeney. He then moved to Hannibal where he amassed a large fortune ani led an irreproachable life. Ils daughtes Dorcas Hampton, claims that Hlamptoi 'married her mother, ]sliza Horton, an< that she holds the certillcate of mai riage, If this is so, then Dr. Hlampto was also a bigamist. Ruiled by Lightining. CINoINNzATr, O.,Aug. 12.-Thes He bron, Ky., basebal team was playing game with a nighboring club yesterda) *afternoon, when the sky became over Scast. John Tanner, pitcher for the Hie r brons ran to catch a fly. As the bal -was settling into his hands, there wai iafah of lightning and Tanner droppe< A BRISK FIGHT BETWEEN TWO POLITICIANS IN HOTEL LOBBY. Editor Kooster and W. Gibbe Whale Uone to Hlows-The Origin of the Tron ble-Cowardly Attack an Mr. Koeste frCm the Rear. COLUMBIA, S. 0., August 1.-A p6% sonal difficulty in the lobby of th Jerome Hotel yesterday afternoon be tween George I. Koester, editor o the Register, and W. Gibbes Whale of Charleston, a delegate to the Stat convention, caused some excitement o1 Main street. It is unnecessary to g, into details. The following is an a( count of the trouble as given to th reporters of other papers by the princl pals: FROM MR. WITALEY. Mr. Whaley being asked for a stat ment of the catilses leading to the tror ble between himself and Editor Koe ter, said: "I sent Mr. Koester a not this afternoon at about 5 o'clock, stai ing that in an editorial on the 14t instant lie had willfully perverted conversation with me and that he ha told a deliberate falsehood. Mr. Koei ter called at the hotel this afternoo and had a conversation with me cox cerning this note. le stated that 1 had in a measure implied in a convel sation whilst in Charleston that I wi a coward. I told him I would ask hij a simple question: 'Did he mean to so that I was a coward?' le begged ti question and I had to repeat the que tion several times,stating that he mui give a positive answer, yes or no. H finally answered 'yes.' I at once sla) ped his face. le struck at me, slight. grazing me. The crowd in the lobi at once rushed in and separated us. regret to say that one of my friends separating us struck Mr. Koester. would have preferred attending to ti matter myself. I stated that I w then and there entirely willing to fini out the matter with Mr. Koester. I that time the crowd had collected the lobby of the hotel, and I got upi one of the benches and stated to tl crowd that Mr. Koester had made statement in one of his editoria which I had denounced as absolute false; that I had desired to slap his fa and I had done so." FROM MR. KOESTER. Tuesday morning I published in t! Register an editorial severely critic ing Mr. Whaley for the part he hi taken in the 'ring' tactics adopted the meeting of the Tillman Refor Club, in Charleston, Saturday nigi Among other things I stated that i outsider (myself) had told Mr. Whal< that he was too big a coward to repe to any one of the men excluded fro the meeting an insinuation he hi just made to me that they were n there in good faith. Today I receivi a letter which will be found elsewhe in the paper in which Mr. Whaley o jects only to that part of my editor] containing a statement above narratE The statement that he had been calli a coward he denounced as a falsehoc As soon as I received this letter walked over to the Jerome Hotel ai saw Mr. Whaley engaged in conver tion. When he was through I walk up to him and told him that I had i ceived a letter from him,which I wou like to discuss for a few moments public or private, with or witho friends being present. iVe said th either a public or a pivate discussie suited him but finally decided on ha ing the matter ventilated in the hol lobby. He commenced calling up y rious members of the Charleston del gation, while I asked Mr. W. W. Pi< to be present as my friend. There no necessity for going -into all that wi said. It amounted to this: That stated to Mr. WVhaley that possibly had not used the word coward bi that I had used words to the aan effect and that I had certainly calli up one of the gentlemen whom he ha insinuated was not at the Charlest< meeting in good faith and had te him that he did not dare repeat to hi the insinuation he had just made me. Mr. Whaley kept asking dit mean to say he was a coward. I tc him that I did. He then struck at ni ie struck at me again and I gave hi a lick. Friends then interfered a pulled us apart. While I was bei: ehoved away I was struck three or fc times from behind, one of which w exceedingly severely, landing upon t neck, just below my right Bar. I do r know what outsiders interfered in su a cowardly manner.' MRt. WHTALEY's OARD. The following is the card of lI Whaley which brought on the troubi COLUMBIA, August 15 I U. Rt. Koester, Esq., Editor the Colu bia Register. rlDear Sir: I have only today seen editorial in your issue of the 14th ins The editorial is an attack upon ni 3 self, and amongst other things you si y "Mr. Whaley said to an outsider ti f the men whom he had excluded wi - not there in good faith, ie vi - promptly told that he was too bi ! coward to repeat that slander to a -one of those men face to face." 'I - outsider you refer to is yourself & - you will recollect that, the conver I tien was as follows: I told you ti you knew that a combination had hi formed by yourself, Terrell and F. Wagener by which a number of nr ,were to be rushed up to the meeting the last moment with the intentior 1 capturing the meeting and thati i men were not there in good faith. Ti said in a high flown style: "Youi I not undertake (or you will not dare: g say so to these men." I laughina and satirically replied: "Oh, no, 1 ha o no intention of saying anything ofi e kind to them." You know well t: a the word coward was not used. I a have wilfully perverted the convei -tion and in my opinion told a delil a ate falsehood. I must request yeo. a give this note equal publicity iw s your editorial, but as I much doi -your doing so, I will give a copy il another paper. Very truly, W. nIBBEs WhIALEY .MR. PRICE'S STATEMENT. a I wish to say under my own sig s ture that when Mr. Koester asked a to be present as his friend I d il not a ticipate anything serious.E voni af tot i blows had passed between them I i not consider that it was my busln i to interfere. I was simply preseni L see fair play. I did not see Mr. Koet a struok from the rear as he was so e distance from me and I was watchi a Mr. Whaley,who had been jerked ne ly to the floor by Mr. Koester. I Ssee a demonstration by two men as ', they intended to attack Mr. Koet 1 and I called them down. They acou I me of trying to be a bulldozer. I -not know even then that Mr. Koes had been struck from the rear and t these excitable men to keep cool not to interfere in the trouble. Late was told that one of these same r had been the person whoI been so cowardly as to strike I r Koester from the rear, and was furt - told that he made a motion to dra pistol, presumably to use on me, 1 had niot the remotest idea at the ti that there were any cowards in I crowd or I would naturally have lo ad1 mor careunly after the interests my friend. The only satisfaction I afterward had was to denounce public. ly as a coward whoever had struck Mr. q Koester. That Is all I have to say on this line. I also desire to say that Mr. Koester's face was not slapped and that Mr. Whaley struck him on the forehead with his lst. W. W. PRIOE. CAPTURE OF BLUEFIELDS. lRundreds of People Leave for Fear of Their Lives. MOBILE, Aug. 15.-Steamer Semniva arrived here at 9 o'clock tonight from f Blueflelds, Moequioto reservation. She left Bluefiolds on the morning of August e 10. a The Semniva binlgs the foilowing ad D vices: The Nicaraguans arrived at Blue fields Monday, August 6th, and moved 1 on Bluetlelds August 8th. Their force L- numbered 800. Blueflelds was occupied peaceably. The Mosquito flag was lowered, loaded into a caution and fired with a salute to the Nicaraguan flag which had been hoisted to the top of the - stafl. The British and American marines were notihed by Gen. Gabe zas to re turn to their vessels. The order was a obeyed. The British of'ered to take the d Jamaicans and na'l ives to Port Limon f. tree of charge if they desired. Six hun n dred of these subsequently accepted the - invitation, as there were rumors that e the 1 icaragnans Intended to kill all . Jamaicans and natives. There was for is a time a reign ot terror among this class n of inhabitants. They ran through the Y streets, the women screaming and the Le children crying, the men hurrying hither 3- and thither, carrying their household 3t goods. Some left all that they had and , rushed to the wharves willing to go in any sort of a craft, their only desire be ing to get away from Blueflelds at once. The sceno at the wharves was one in long to be remembered. The Mohawk I took as many of the refugees as she it could carry and others went In private as beats. General Cabezas assumed com 3h mand of Bluefleld3 and issued a prccla ly mation declaring martial law in force. In The Americans telt much disappoint >n ment at the action of the commanders 10 of the American vessels, the Marblehead a and Columbia. They thought the Iy American marines had been landed to ce protect American lives and property, but at the supremo moment, these had been abandoned. The officers claimed [ie they were compelled to obey the orders is- of Cabezms, bur, would nevertheless .id brook no interference with American at Interests. The Americans who attend m to their own af'airs and have taken no tt- part in the presont intrigues are not in 4n the least molested. Those Americans 3y who were involved in the political in. a trigues have left. They went to Captain m O'Neal, of the United States man-of-war id Marblehead, and implored his protec od tion. He told them briefly that if they re had violated the laws of the country he b could not afl'oid them protection, and if al they took refu'e on his vessel and a de id. mand was made for them he would he Bd compelled to give them up. Captain id. O'Neal remained firm in his position I despite the appeals and entreaties of id those American intriguers who sought a- his protec'ion. ed The Mohawk was not in port when !d she Semniva left, having gone to Port i Jmon with her load of natives and Ja ut macians, from which port Capt. Stewart at stated that lie would continue his jour. mn ney to (Colon for instructions as to who y. ther to let Spaniards in or drive them el out of Biluollelds. - MIGHTY HOT WEATHER. IHe Efractsa Upon the Orops-Twoa Divisions s in the state. I COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 14.--The fol I lowing is the weekly weather crop re It port:. te There was a decided change from id cool to excessively hot weather in the id past week, the average temperature mn varying from one to nine degrees a day ld in excess of the normal, except on the m 7th, when it was slightly below; on this to date the minimum for the week, 54, I I was reported from Batesburg. Friday, Id the 10th, was the hottest day with to. maximum generally above ninety and m reaching 100 at Batesburg, Columbia ad and Spartanburg. Few higher temper. ag atures in August have ever been re ur corded. as During the greater part of the week he there was a plenty of sunshine, that iot was highly benefncial in drying the oh soil, permitting plowing of late corn and cotton, which should have been done two and three weeks earlier, and Zr. generally favorable for haying opera. i: tions and curing the fodder that is be .ing stripped. On very wet or partially Tt- submerged land it proved injurious, crops firing badly. an There was but little rain after the t. 6th until Saturday and Sunday, when Ly- showers occurred in the Northern, cen iy: tral and Southwestern counties, ac iat companied by some hail and high wind are that did considerable damage over Jim. Tas ited areas, blowing down a house neai r a St. Matthews and injuring cotton andi ny corn slightly. 'he The State can be divided into twc nd distinct divisions. In the fIrst the ha. crops are uniformly good and promis iat ing,the only exception noted being cot. en ton on which has grown too much tc W. weed and not fruiting as heavily as ii ten should. A correspondent who hal at made careful and extended inquiry of states th~at it is over-estimated, owing the to its fine stand in this division. Tile ou above conditions exist In the Western nil central and 190rth central counties, 10 to in all, Wile in the other division, comn Iir rsn Abbeville, Aiken, Barnwell l erkeley, Beaufort~ Chesterfneld Char. bhe leston, Clarendon, dolleton, Darlington hat Edgefleld, Florence, Horry, Hampton 'on Kershaw, Lexfngton, Lancaster, Mar 'sa- ton, Orangeburg and Sumter countie: ,er- most crops are doing well, but cottoi to has been materially inj ured by the ex ith cessive rain fall. Some fields wert abt completely submerged and ruined, bui to by far the greatest damage resulte4 from excessive shedding of shapes ani .fruit and leaves. .In some counties the falling off in condition is estimated ai na- from 10 to 40 per cent. Tihe foregoins me applies mere particularly to lo w ani in- sandy lands than to upland Ili the which are generally tine and promli did tng. Caterpillars are attacking thb ess boils In the lower prt of the State to dolls are begining.too p en in the mor< ter Southern counties. AtSociety H1i11 the me rain fall in forty-eight hours was 7.5 ing inches, and it ranged from that dowi ar- to about three inches, and until the did submerged and washed lands have 5 if chance to make a partial recovery nc ter approximate estimate of the damage sod to crops can be made, although reporti did indicate that it was serious and ex ter tended. old Peas are shedding their loaves or but wet land and growling too much tc r I vine. Sweet potatoes and other root ten crops doing well. The sowing of tur tad nip seed continues under favorable Zr. conditions. Sugar cane and sorghun her seemingly doing well, but poor yield o: w a syrup reported from Newbery county I Grens growing well, except cabba me ges, which are rotting badly. A heav3 the hay crop being secured under favora. ok- ble conditions. J. W. BAUE, of Director. BUTLER INTERVIEWED, HOW HE LOOKS AT THE LATE STATE CAM PAIGN. Not More Exoitement than Usual in P'olt. tical Ontests-IReports Greatly Ezxag gevated-Some of the Speeches Vrsa In structIve-The Result is isosm. WA5IIINGTON, Aug. 13.-The News and Courier correspondent to-day had the following interview with Senator Butler: "What Is the outcome of the State canvass in South Carolina?" "Politically chaos." "Do you mean to say that all politic al parties are at sea?" "That Is exactly what I mean to say. The Democratic party is divided into two factions, the Conservative and Re form factions The Republican party is showing some animation and appears to be getting ready to take advantage of the Democratic split, The Third Partyites are taking comfort and cour age from Democratic delays and dis sensions in Washington, and so it goes. So you can see what Tillmanism has done for the Democratic party in South Carolina." "What will the Conservatives do ?" "Saw wood and say nothing. They are thirty-five or forty thousand strong, and have been disfranchised, so far as the nomination for Governor is con cerned, by the ring in control of the' fifty thousand Reform faction. Do you suppose that many white men will sub mit to disfrauchisement?" "Do you say the Reform faction is controlled by a ring'?" "The most unscrupulous ring that ever dominated the politics of any country, but I am not alone authority for the charge. You may remember that my colleague, Mr Irby said in most emphatic terms last winter or spring that there was a "State Ilouse ring" in Columbia. Reformers have, during the recent canvass, iterated that there was a ring in the Reform faction. Every intelligent man in the State knows it is true, and masses of the Reformers are kicking volently against the ring and its flagrant methods. The Reform candidates who have been and will be slaughtered by the ring are very mush outraged, and I do not believe will quietly submit." "What will be the upshot of these conditions? "In my j ugment the Conservative ele ment will in due time come to the front and bring order out of chaos, and give us relief from the confusion and wranglin.; which the ring has brought upon our politics. On the stump and otherwise I have warned our people of the -i'igers of division. So have Messrs 'lAndal, Ellerbe and Pope, Reform candidates for Governor, and other Reformers. The ring rulers have met appeals with scorn and ders on, and the day of reckoning for them will come in the near future. "What about the dispensary ?" "Oh, well, the dispensary is a huge political machine which has borrowed the livery of temperance and morality to serve the ring in. It is honeycombed with corruption, and if its management is ever investigated and the facts dis closed you will see a seething mass of corruption that will astonish the people of the country. It has been reopened without the consent, as 1t has been re ported without the consent, as I am in formed, of two of the three members of the State board of control, and I have no doubt is to be run in the interest and for the benellt of the ring candi dates. "The ringsters have so complicated the ;political machinery that nobody except those in the ring 3an understand it. Let me see if I can state the situa tion so that you can comprehend it: On Saturday, tihe 9th instant, the Re form clubs were to meet and elect dele gates to a County Convention. This Convention is to meet on the 13th and send delegates to a State Reform Con vention to meet in Columbia on the 16th. The State Convention is expected to nominate for Governor and Lieuten ant Governor. Mind you, now, the Conservatives are to have no voice in this business, but, as I have said, are disfranchised. Then there is to be *a primary on the 28th of August, not to vote for Governor and State officers, but to appoint delegates to a State Convention to meet some time in Sep tember to nominate candidetes to be voted for at the general election in November. Follow this problem through and you will see that the peo ple are cut oil from giving a direct vote for any offce except at the November election. I have stated the case as I understand it, and if a more adroit scheme could be devised to bamboozle the people and defeat a free expression of their wishes I should be obliged to have it suggested. And yet we are told .one of the cardinal features of the Reform Movement was to give thepri mary for ali public offices. Satan could not have hit upon a more effectull met hod to usurp the people and turn thien over, bound hand and foot, to a handful of selfish, corrupt ringsters." "Senator, you seem to have survived the ca-npaign in good shape." "Oh, yes; I was never in better kelter in my life. I spoke in every county, at every campaign meeting and extra meetings." "Was there as much excitement as represehted in the papers ?" "I do net think that there was more excitement than usually attends a po litical canvass. The accounts were retyexaggerated and sensational. ihafew exceptions the meetings ,were quiet and orderly-not very large -and the people listened attentively and respectfully.- Of course at some places a few drunken fellows would create a disturbance, but they were generally attended to by tbe special con t stables or committee of arrangements I and soon suppressed. Personally I I have no cause of complaint except on 3three occasions, when two or three t rowdies .attempted to interfere with me. I had no trouble in thrusting I them aside and in proceeding with my , speech. Everywhere the committees -and the people were as kind and hospi table to me as they could possibly be .and appeared anxious to hear me 3 speak. Thme canvass has had a good B effect in shaking things up and, as I 7 have said, I believe order will come out of the political chaos into which ring a rule has brought us. And I want to s say another thing: Some of the stump >speeches were as fine and instructive 3 as I ever listened to-notably so with several of the candidates for State oflices, whose names I will not mention as I do not care to discriminate." "What about your re-election ?" "Well, you know, there are few things more uncertain than a popular election, unless it be the verdict of a petit jury, but I have the strongest reasons for believing I will suc ceed myself. Thrughout the entire discussion not one word was said against my public service or ofmical record, except that I had voted for Judge Signonton's confirmation. That you know, was the veriest stuff and nnnsena I have gone fae to face with the peet , riven an sC Dornt of my a wardsbi, and they must now settle it. Alt ough I say It myself, I am quite sure I can repre. sent the people better and more acoe ably than any man they can send-and In this I believe they agree with. me. The only reason assigned for 1 retirement that I know of is that have been here a long time. This bet. ter qualities me for the duties of the position and ilts me to discharge Its re Iponsibilities more satisfactor y. One thing has gratified me inexpressibly, the cordial and hearty reception ten lered me yesterday on my return to the Senate by my colleagues on both sides of the chamber and by the Senate Dmployees without exception. If left to a vote of my associates who have served with me here so many years I think I could safely count on its being unanimous." . X. L. 0A ad See What Ye C" Sai $69 * $37 ute nt ice temn No frre it Paid on this or. Sorgan or Moy . AM-LAn tha. PARLOR IJIT8, oonsistins ilf Xorv., A\rmz (11tair, Roohin chair Dlvauk id 2 &ijChar.. -worthIV ,6i. Wni dlivel It to Your doput for *as. 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