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VOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1889. NO. 13. JOSEPH F. RHAME, ATTL)RXEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. JOHN S. WILSON, Attorney and Counselor at Law, MANNLNG, S. C. ,".? WILSON, ISVRANCE AGEX, MANNING. S. C. ATTORNEY AT L AW, MANNING. S. C. Notary Public with seal. J. BRAGDON, REAL ESTATE AGENT, FORESTON, S. C. Offers for sale on Main Street, in business portion of the town, TWO STORES, with suitable lots; on Manning and R. R. streets TWO COTTAGE RESIDENCES, 4 and rooms; and a number of VACANT LOTS s itable for residences, and 1n different lo ities. Terms Reasonable.. MAX G. Bryant. Jas. 3. LISAD, South Carolina. New York Grand Central Hotel. BRTANT & LELAND, PRoPaIETORS. Columbia, South Carolina. The grand Central is the largest and best kept hotel in Columbia, located in the EX A L' "UStSES CE XTER -0F Til C1T)Y where all Street Ga- Lities pass the door, e and its MEN Uis not excelled by any in the South. Manning Shaving Parlor. 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Mouldings., Mantels, .Grates, etc. Scroll Work, Turning ani Inside Finish. Builder's Hard. ware, and General Building Material. OFFICE AND SALESROOMS, 10 and 12 H{ayne Street, REAR CHARLESTON HOTEL, Charleston, S. C. All Work Guaranteed. meWrite for etimates, THE PRODIGAL'S RETURN Sermon by the Rev. T. DeWit Talmage, D. D. He Rejolees at the Reception of 240 Nev Members of His Flock, and Preache About the Return of the Prod igal Son-A Day of Jubilee. A jubilee sermon was preached recentl, by Rev. Dr. Talmage, the occasion being ai especial communion reception of 240 net' members, making the present communican membership of the Brooklyn Tabernaci 4,408. Dr. Talmage took his text from the fifteenth chapter of Luke, twenty-thiri verse: "Bring hither the fatted calf ani kill It." The eloquent preacher spoke as follows: Joy! Joy ! Joy I We banquet to-day over this accession of a multitude of souls. Ir al ages of the world it has been customary tc celebrate joyful events by festivity-th( signing of treaties, the proclamation o1 peace, the Christmas. the marriage. How ever much on other days of the years our table- may "have stinted abbply;6on Thanks giving Day there must be something bount" eous. And all the comfortable2 homes of Christendom have at some time celebrated joyful events by banquet and festivity. Something has happened in the old home stead greater tkan any thing that has ever happened before. A favorite son, whom the world supposed would become a vagabond and outla* forever, has got tired of sight. seeing and has returned to his father's house. The world said he never would come back. The old man always said his son would come back. He had been looking for him day after day and year after year. He knew he would come back. Now, having returned to his father's house, the father proclaims celebration. There is a calf in the paddock that has been kept up and fed to utmost capacity so as to be ready for some occasion of joy that might come along. Ah! there never will be a grander day on the old homestead than this day. Let the butchers do their word, and the housekeepers bring in to the table the smoking meal. The musicians will take their places, and, the' gay groups will move up and down the floor. All the friends and neighbors are gathered in, and extra supply is sent out to the table of the servants. The father presides at the table and says grace, and thanks God that is-long absent boy is home again. Oh! how they missed him; how-glad they are to have him back! One brother indeed stands pouting at the back door and says: . "This is a great ado about nothing; this bad boy should have been ciastened instead of greeted; veal is too good for him!" But the father says: "Noth ing is too good, nothing is good enough." There sits the young man, glad at the hearty reception, but a shadow of sorrow flitting across his brow at the remembrance of the trouble be had seen. All ready now. Let th covers lift. Music. He was dead and he is alive again! He was lost and he Is found! By such bold imagery does the Bible set forth the merry-making when a soul comes home to God. L-First of all there is the new convert's joy. It Is no tame thing to become a Chris tian. The most tremendous moment in a man's life is when he surrenders himself to God. The grandest time in the father's homstead is when the boy comes back. Among the great throng who in the parlors of this church professed 'Christ one night was a young man who next morning rang at my door bell and said, "Sir, I can not contain myself with the joy I feel; I came here to express it. I have found moredy in five minutes in serving God than in all the years of my prodigality, and 1 came to say so." You have peen, perhaps, a man running for his physical liberty and the officers of the law after him, and you saw him escape, or afterward you heard the judge had par doned him, and how great was the glee of that rescued man; but it is a very tame thing, that, compared with the running for one's everlasting life--the terrors of the law after him, but Christ coming in to par. don and bless and rescue and save. You re. member John Bunyan in his great story tells how the Pilgrim put his fingers in his ears and ran, crying: "Life,.,life; eternal life !" A poor car-driver in this city~some years ago, after having had a struggle to support his family, suddenly was informed that .a large inheritance was his, and there .was joy amounting-to bewilderme1t',jbut that~is a small thig oompared~ with the experience of opie when he has put In his hands the title deed to the joys, the raptures, the splendors of Heaven, and he can truly say: "Its man sions are -mine, its temples are mine, its songs are mine, its God Is mine!" 0, it is no tame thing to become a Chris tian. It is a merry making. Is is the kill lng of the- fatted calf. It Is jubilee. You know the Bible never compares it to a funer al, but always compares it to something bright, It is more apt to be compared to a banquet than anything else. It is compared in the Bible to the water, bright, flashing wvater; to the morning roseate, fireworked, mountaintransfigured morning. 1 wish I could to-day take all the Bible expressions about pardon and peace, and Life, and com fort, and hope, and Heaven, an~ twist them into one garland, and put it on 'ah browof the humblest child of God in this assem blage, and cry: "Wear it, wear it now, wear it forever, son of God, daughter of the Lord God Almighty." 0, the joy of the new convert! O, the gladness of the Christian service. You have seen- sometimes a man in a re ligous assembly get up and give his experi ence. Well, Pal1 gave his experience. He arose in the presence of two churches, the church on earth and the church in Heaven, and he said: "I~ow this is my experience: Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing-poor, .yet maing many rich-having nothing, yet pos sessing all things.'" If the people in this house this morninsr knew the joys of the Christian religion, they woulc' ::? pass ovet Into the kingdom of God the next moment When~ Daniel Sandeman was dying of cholers his attendant said: "Have you much pain?' "," he replied, "since I found the Lord)] have never had any pain except sin." Theti they said to him: "Would you like to send a message to your friends?" "Yes, I would: tell them that only last night the love oi Jesus came rushing into my soul like the surges of the sea, and I had to cry out 'Stop, Lord, it is enough; stop, Lord, enough' " 0, the joys of this Christiante ligion I Just pass over from those tame joys its which you are indulging--joys of this world --into the raptures of the gospel. The world can not satisfy you; you have found that out-Alexander lornging for other worlds tc conquer, and yet drowned in his own bottle: Byron whipped'by disquietudes around the world.; Voltaire cursing his own soul while all the streets of Paris were applauding him Henry IL. consuming with hatred agains poor Thomas a Becket-all illustrations o: the fact that this world can not make a mar happy. The very man who poisoned thi pommel of the saddle on which Queen Elis abeth rode, shouted in the street: "o save the Queen !" One moment the worli applauds, and the next moment the worlk anathematizes. 0, come over into thih greater joy, this sublime solace, this reag ncenbsatitude. The night after the bat +ls af Rhiloh- and tnere wore thousands oa wounded on the field, and the ambulances had not come. Une Christian soldier lying there a-dying under the starlight began to sing: "Tbece is a land of pure delight," and when he came to the next line there were scores of voices uniting: "Where saints immortal reign." The song was caught up all through the fields among the wounded, until it was said there were at least ten thousand wounded men reuniting their voices as they came to the verse: "There everlasting springabides, And neverxwithering tiowers; Death like a narrow stream divides That Heavenly land from ours." 0, it is a great religion to live by, and it is a great religion to die by. There is only one heart-throb between you and that re ligion this morning. Just look into the face of your pardoning God and surrender your self for time and for eternity and He is yours, and Heaven is:yours, and all is yours. Some of you, like the young man of the text, have gone far astray. I know not the history. but you know it, you know it. When a young man went forth into life, the legend says,. his guardian angel went forth with him, and getting him into a field the guardian angel swept a circle clear around where the young man stood. Jt was a circle of virtue and honor, and he must not step beyond that circle. Armed foes came down, but were obliged to halt at the circle-they could not pass. But one day a temptress with diamond hand stretched forth and crossed that circle with the hand, and the tempted soul took it, and by that one fell grip was brought beyond the circle and died. Some of you have stepped beyond that circle. Would you not like this day, by the grace of God, to step back I This, I say to you. is your hour of saivation. There was in the closing hours of Queen Anne what is called the clock scene. Flat down on the pillow, in helpless sickness, she could not move her head or move her hand. She was waiting for the hour when the ministers of state should gather in angry contest, and, worried and worn out by the coming hour, and in the momentary absence of the nurse, in the power. the strange power which delirium sometimes gives one, she arose and stood in front of the clock, and stood there watching the clock when the nurse returned. The nurse said: "Do you see any thing peculiar about that clockl" She made no answer, but soon died. There is a clock scene in every history. If some of you would rise from the bed ofiethargy and come out from your delirium of sin and look on the clock of your destiny this morning, you would see and hear something you have not seen or heard before, and every tick of the min ute, and every stroke of the hour, and every swing of the pendulum would say: "Now, now, now, now!" 0, come home to your father's house. Come home, oh, prodigal, from the wilderness. Come home, come home. II.-But I notice that when the prodigal came there was the father's joy. He did not greet him with any formal "How do you do?" He did not come out and say: "You are unfit to enter; go out and wash in the trough by the well, and then you can come in; we have had enough trouble with you." Ah I no. When the proprieter of that es tate proclaimed festival, it was an outburst of a father's love and a father's joy. God is your father. I have not much sympathy with that description of God I sometimes hear, as though he were a Turkish Sultan, hard and unsympathetic, and listening not to the cry of his subjects. A man told me he saw in one of the Eastern lands a king riding along, and two men were in alterca tion, and one charged the other with having eaten his rice, and the ktig said: "Then slay the man, and by post-mortem examina tion find whether he has, eaten -the rice." And he was slain. Ah ! the cruelty of a scene like that.. Our God I not a sultan, not a czar, not a despot. but a father-kind, loving, forgiving, and He makes all heaven ring again when a prodigal vomes back. "I have no pleasure," he says, "in the death of him that dieth." If a man does not get to Leaven it is be cause he will not go there No difference the color, no difference the history, no dif ference the antecedents, rto difference the surroundings, no difference the sin. When the white horses of Christ's victory are brought out to celebrate the eternal tri umph you may ride one of them, and as God is greater than all, His joy Is greater, and when a soul comes back there is in His heart the surging of an infinite ocean of gladness, and to -express that gladness it takes all the rivers of pleasure, and all the thrones of pomp, and all the ages of eterni ty.. It is a joy deeper than all depths, and higher., than all height, and wider thasn all width, and vaster than all Immensity. It overtops, it undergirds, it outweighs all the united splendor and joy of the universe. Who can tell what God's joy is? You remember reading the story of the a'ng who on some great day of festivity scattei ,,, silver and gold among the people, and sent valuable presents to his courtiers; but methinks when a soul comnea back, God is so glad that to expreab his joy he flings out new worlds into space, and kindles up new suns, and rolls among the white-robed an thems of the redeemed a greater hallelujah, while with a voice that reverberates among the mountains of frankiucense and is echoed back fren , he everlasting gates, he cries: "This, my son. was dead, and he is alive again." At the opening of the Exposition in New Orleans I saw a Mexican flutist, and he played the solo, and then afterward the eight or ten bands of music, accompanied by the great organ, came In; but the sound of iat one flute as compared with all the orchestra was greater than all the combined joy of the universe when compared with the resounding heart of Almighty God. For ten years a father went three times a day to the depot. His son went off in aggra ating circumstances, but the father said: "He will come back." The strain was too much and his ind parted. and three times a day the father went. In the early morn ing he watched the train, its arrival, the stepping out of the passengers. and then the departure of the train. At noon he went there again watching the advance of the train, wvatohing the departure. At night, there again; watching the coming, watching the going for ten years. He was sure his son would come back. God has been watch ing and waiting for some of you, my broth ers, ten years, twenty years, thirty years, forty years, perhaps fifty years-waiting, watching; and if this morning the prodigal shuld comehome, what a scene of gladnesn and festivity, and how the great Father's heart would rejoice at your coming home. You will come, some of you, will you not? You will, you will I III.-I notice also that when a prodigal comes home there is the joy of the minis ters of relIgion. 0, it is a grand thing to preach this gospel! I-know there has been a great deal said about the trials and hard ships of the Christian ministry. Since I entered the profession I have seen more of the goodness of God than I will be able to celebrate in all eternity. I know some boast about their equilibrium, and they do not rise into enthusiasm, and they do not break down with emotion; but I confess to you plainlythat when I Isee a man coming to God, and giving up his sin, 1 feel in body, mid and soul a transport- When I see a. pan wh'o Is bound hand and foot In evil though it were my own emancipation. When to-day in our communion service such throngs of young and old stand at these al tars, and in the presence of heaven and earth and hell attest their allegiance to Jesus Christ, I feel a joy something akin to that which the apostle describes when he says: "Whether in the body I can not tell, or out of the body I can not tell; God knoweth." 0, have not ministers a right to rejoice when a prodigal comes home? They blew the trumpet, and ought they not to be glad of the gathering of the host? They pointed to the full supply, and ought they not to re joice when souls pant as the hart for the waterbrooks! They came forth saying : "All things are now ready;" ought they not to rejoice when the prodigal sits down at the banquet? Life insurance men will all tell you that ministers of religioteas a class live longer than any other. It i confirmed by. the sta tistics of all those who calculate upon human longevity. Why is it? There is more draft upon the nervous system than in any other profession, and their toil is most exhausting. I have seen ministers kept on miserable sti pends by parsimonious congregations who wondered at the dullness of the sermon, when the men of God were perplexed al most to death by questions of livelihood, and had not enough nutritious food to keep any fire in their temperament. No fuel, no fire. I have sometimes seen the in side of the life of many of the American clergymen-never a:cepting their hospital ity, because they can not afford it; but I have seen them struggle on with salaries of five and six hundred dollars a year-the average less than that-their struggle well depicted by the Western missionary who says in a letter: "Thank you for your last remittance. Until it came we had not any meat in our house for one year, and all last winter, although it was a severe winter, our children wore their summer olothes." And these men of God I find in different parts of the land, struggling against annoy ances and exasperations innumerable; some of them week after week entertaining agent.! who have maps to sell, and submit ing to all styles of annoyance, and yet with out complaint, and cheerful of soul. How do you account for the fact that these life insurance men tell us that ministers as a class live longer than any others? It is be cause of the joy of their work, the joy of the harvest field, the joy of greeting prodi gals home to their father's house. 0. we are in sympathy with all innocent hilarities. We can enjoy a hearty song, and we can be merry with the merriest: but those of us who have toiled in the service are ready to testify that all these joys are tame compared with the satisfaction of seeing men enter the kingdom of God. The great eras of every minister are the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, and 1 thank God I have seen eighteen of them. Thank God, thank God! IV.-I notice also when the prodigal comes back, all earnest Christians rejoice. If you stood on Montauk Point and there was a hurricane at sea, and it was blowing toward the shore, and a vessel crashed into the rocks and you saw people get ashore in the life-boats and the very last man got on the rocks in safety, you could not control your joy. And it is a glad tihne when the church of God sees men who are tossed on the ocean of their sins plant their feet on the rock Christ Jesus. 0, when prodigals come home just hear those Christians sing. Just bear those Chris tians pray. It is not a stereotyped suppli cation we have heard over and over again for twenty years, but a putting of the case in the hands of God with an importunate pleading. No long prayers. Men never pray at great length unless they have noth ing to say and their hearts are hard and cold. All the prayers in the Bible that were answered were short prayers. "God be merciful to me a sinner." "Lord, that I may receive my sight." "Lord, save me or I perish." The longest prayer, Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the temple, less than eight minutes in length, accor dig to the ordinary rate of enunciation. And just hear them pray now that the prodigals are comifng home. Just see them shake hands. No putting forth the four tips f the fingers in a formal way, but a hearty grasp, where the muscles of the heart seem to clench the fingers of one hand around the ter band. And then see those Christian faces, how Illuminated they are. And see tbat old man get up, and with the same voice that he sang fity years ago in the old ountry meeting house, say: "Now, Lord, lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation." There as a man of Keith .who was hurled into prison in time of persecution, and one day e got off his shackles and he came and stood by the prison door, and when the jailer was opening the door with one stroke he struck down the man who had incarcerated him. Passing along the streets of London e wondered where his family wvas. He did not dare ask lest he excite suspicion, but, passing along a little way from the prison, he saw a Keith tankard, a cup thate beonged to the fam'ily trom generation to generation -he saw !t in a window. His family, hop ing that some ay he would get clear, came and lived as n air as they could to the prison house, and they set that Keith tankard in the window, hoping he would see it; and he came along and saw 4z, and knocked at the door, and wvent in, and t-he long-absent famn ilv were all together again. O,'if you would strt far the kingdom of God to-day. I think some of you would find nearly all y'our friends and nearly all your families around the holy tankar'i of the holy communion fathers. mothers, brothers, sisters around that sacred tankard which commemorates the love of Jesus Christ our Lord. 0, it will be a great commun ion day when your whole family sits around the sacred tank ard. One on earth, one in heaven. 'V.--Once I remarked that when the prodi gal gets back the inhabitants of Heaven keep festivaL. I am very certain of it. If you have never seen a telegraphic chart, you have no idea how many cities are con nected together and how many lands. Nearly all the neighborhoods of the earth seem articulated, and- news flies from city to city, and from continent to continent. But more rapidly go the tidings from earth to Heaven, and when a prodigal retuzrns it is announced before the throne of God. And if these souls this morning should enter the kingdom there would be some one in the Hea-enly king domn to say: "That's my father," "'That's my mother," "That's my sonl." "That's my daughter." "That's my friend." "That's the one li used to pray for," "'That's the ono for whom I wept so many tears," and one soul would say, "Hosanna!I" and another soul would say, "Hallelujah !" "Pleased wit". the news the saints below In songs their tongues employ; Beyond the skies the tidings go, And Heaven is filled with joy. Nor angels can their joy contain, But kindled wi*h new ilre-: The sinner l-ast is found. they sig And strike the sounlding& lyre." At the banquet of Lucullus sat Cicero the orator, at the Macedonian festal sat Philip the conquerer, at tae Grecian banquet sat Socrates the philosopher. but at our: Father's table sit all the returned prodigal, more than conquerors. The table Is so wide its leaves reach across seas and across lands. Its guests are the redeemed of earth and the glorified of heaven. The ring of God's forgiveness on every hand, the robe of a Saviour's righteousness adroop from every shoulder. The wine that glows in the cups is from the bowls of ten thousand sacraments. Let all the redeemed of earth, and all the gloritied of heaven rise, and, with gleaming chalice drink to the return of a thousand prodigals. Sing ! Sing ! sing I "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to re cive blessings and riches and honoer and g.1-or an oar world without end I HOT TALK IN THE HOUSE KENNEDY. OF OHIO, BREAKS LOOSE ALL OF A SUDDEN. An Old Time Bloody-Shirt Whoop.-Car lisle Denounced as a Robber and Crisp as a Fraud--Lee, Beauregard and'Rosser Should have been Hanged. From theiAssociated Press dispatches to the Columbia Register is taken the following account of a part of the pro ceedings in the House : The House then went into committee of the whole on the Indian appropria tion bill. Kennedy of Ohio referred to the speech upon Southern elections made by him in July last. No answer to that speech had been made until a few days ago, when Crisp of Georgia had alluded to the speech of a man whose name he believed was Kennedy. The gentleman from Georgia had said that he (Kennedy) had been mistaken when he said that the com mittee on elections had been appointed by the Speaker. If the selection of the gentleman from Georgia for the chair manship of that committee had been an insult to the House and to the intelli gence of the people of the United States, was it not as much an outrage if he was selected by a Democratic caucus as if he was appointed by the Speaker? The records of the Forty-Eighth and Forty Ninth Congresses showed that the Speaker had appointed as chairman of the committee on elections Turner of Georgia-a gentleman elected by the same sort of fraud and in famy which lad returned Crisp to this floor. If it was an infamy to appoint Crisp, was it not an infamy to appoint Turner, In the Fiftieth Congress Tur ner did not desire to continue at the head of that committee, and asked the Speaker to relieve him. He was trans ferred to the committee on ways and means. The people of the United States had been insulted and outraged by the selection of a man whose election was challenged by every sense of decency and honor. The committee had been appointed f6r a purpose. With undue haste the committee had reported the case of-John G. Carlisle to the House. At this point Taulbee broke in with the exclamation that the gentleman from Ohio had selected i. good time for his speech, Mr. Carlisle oeing.absent. Bland then denounced it as unfair for the gentleman to make his speech, and raised the point of order that the gen tleman must confine his remarks to the Indian bill. At firat the Chair was inclined to the belief that the point was well taken, and directed the gentleman from Ohio to proceed in order. Kennedy proceeded, but his first re mark was in line with his previous re marks, and again brought Bland to his feet with the declaration that the gentle man was in emphatic contempt of the rules of the House. Utterly ignoring Bland's interruption, Kennedy said that he desired to show that the gentleman from Georgia, at the head of the elections committee, did not treat the Carlisle election case with the same precision and exactness with which-he treated the case of Robert Smalls of South Carolina. Eleven months after the Carlisle case had been considered the case of Robert Smalls had been brought into the House. Again Bland interrupted with a point of order and demanded that Keunedy should be kept to a strict observance of the rules governing debate. His point was overruled by Dockery (in the chair). Bland appealed, and the House sus taied the ruling of the Chair. Kennedy said that by his reference to the Smalls case he wished to show that the D~emocratie party never had done and never would do jus ice to the black man. Bland again raised a point of order, was overrttled, and appealed, and the vote resulting 125 to 20 in favor of sus taning the ruling, raised the point no quorum. A call of the committee was1 ordered, a quorum answered, the ruling was sustained, and Kennedy iesmamed, only to be interrupted by Bland. After three or four times repeating this programme, Kennedy was allowed to proceed. He contrasted the Butter worth case in 1879 and the action of the Democratic House upon it with the action of Democratic House in the Car lisle case. The Speaker, he said, had remained as silent as a Sphinx. Never but once in the history of the govern ment had there been such a proceeding. He would not mention any names, but the gentleman would go out to private life condemned by his political asso ciates and despised by his political enemies, without society, save that only which ill-gotten gains could purchase1 him, too low for pity, and be nath contempt. Was it any wonder that the. contestee stands, after ihe vote, covered with humiliation and shame ? Was it any wonder that he left the exhilarating effects of Wash ington society and sought the breezes of Old Point Comfort to restore him' to his mental and morai equilibrium ? He (Kennedy) left him to himself, his country and the people of Kentucky. Hisses on the Democratic side.j The gentleman from Georgia had said that he (Kennedy,) knew nothing about Georgia. If in 1863 the gentleman had not been moving so swiftly to the South, a he might have made his acquaintance in Georgia. His (Kennedy's) standing might not be as high in Georgia as thes gentleman from Georgia, because that. gentleman had worn the Confederate grey and he (Kennedy) the Union blue in the great contest. ie ad no desire to compare records with the gentlem'an from Georgia; but he be lieved that in the estimation of every loyal man ini the country his record was as high above the gentleman's in that great conflict as the angels of light were above the angels of darkness. ~Applause on the Republican side and 1 rieisive laughter on the Democratic side.] Kennedy then referred to the speech recently miade by Gov. Lee of Virginia, b in which he declared that the country wanted a white man's government; he (Kennedy) wanted an honest man's gov- h ,rnment. He wonld rather have an honest a aek ma gernment in this eoantry b than a dishonest white man's govern ment. While the beringed and bejew elled ngers of the Southern aristocracy had been endeavoring to pull down the nation, not a single instance could be cited where the black people had not been loyal to the Constitution and de voted to the flag. History would forever record the fact that a black m-mo had run boats past Fort Moultrie and that a black arm had sustained the flag of the Union on top of Fort Pillow. [Applause on the Republican side. 1 In Arkansas, only last week, four members of the Legislature had resigned because they had been elected by fraud, intimidation and violence. The same election which returned them to the Legislature had returned a member to this House who had not yet handed in his resignation. He then quoted General Rosser's de elaration that a Southern gentleman could whip a Yankee every time, and suggested that at the point of the bayo nets and the end of the sabre and in 800 battlefields the North had punched that idea out of the South. If Lee and Beauregard and Rosser had been hung at the gibbet. as they ought to have been hung, after the contest was over, they would not now be teaching rebellion and treason to the young men of the South. (eneral Bradley .Jo:':son had said that the government was controlled by the Uonfederates. He thanked God that that control was passing away, and that the Confederates would be compelled to take back seats. He congratulated the 2ountry that the other side of the cham jer would be free from the dictation to hich it had been subjected--a dictation which had been hun ilating not only to the House but to the entire laud. Crisp said that be 'ore he would char acterize the gentleman's remarks as they leserved to be characterized, he would expose to the House and to the country heir deliberate and wilful inaccuracies. ho charge had been made by the gen leman in a speech delivered in July ast-a charge that he could not'erade )y prating about his loyalty. No as sault had been made upon that; no in imation had been made that the gen lefan was not a true loyal soldier; and .t was entifely out of place for a gentleman, when charged with delib ;rate inaccuracies, to say that he Was a soldier in the army of the Union. The gentleman had charged that the commit ;ee on elections had been appointed by the speaker. This he (Crisp) had denied, mnd he now quoted from the Record to show that the committtee had had been lected by the House. The only charge ie had made against the gentleman 'rom Ohio was the arge of ignorance, ad he left it to the~ouse if he had not submitted proof sufficient to convict the tentleman before any jury on God's :arth. The gentleman, from his re narks to-day, seemed 'o be willing to ly from the position. of ignorance and assume that of malicious defamation. He Crisp) said that with a full knowledge )f the meaning of words, malicious de amation of the Speaker of the House gentleman who ha@ had no contro ersy with the gentleman from Ohio, a gentleman who stood before the House nd the country as an honorable and ligh-toned man. The gentleman from )hio had come in here and made a tatement in direct contravention of the Record, so that he might say malicious hi ngs of a man who occupied a high >osition in the Democratic party-things hich he had absolutely failed to sus ain. The gentleman had cited the case )f Thoebe vs. Carlisle. In, justice to the ~ommittee on elections and in ustice to Mr. Carlisle, he would av that the committee had oi'med a docket for tbc trial-of these ~ases, and that that docket had met the pproval of every Republican member f the committee. The' gentleman had eriticised his mall vote in Georgia, anid he called at-. ention to the fact that there had been lo opposition. The object of the gentle nan in referring to his district seemed o be to justify the Republican party in ome outrageous conduct which was t'o ome in the future. He would not. fol ow the gentleman into a criticism of his ar record. There was nothing in his Crisp's) record that he was ashamed if, nor had he any regrets to express. 'he gentleman had spoken about tonesty, and had assumed a igh moral position. When the entleman' assumed a high position af honesty, the inqluiry was natural rhether there was anything in his char cter or past life which would lead the sublic to accept his statenments. He hen referred to the well known pro eedngs which took place in the Ohio tate Senate, when Kennedy, as Lieu enant Governor, presided over it, stat g that but with seventeen of thirty 1 members present the gentleman had ntertained a motion to turn out four )emocrats and seat four Republicans, nd ad refusagl to permit the Demo ratic members of the Senate upon their eturn to place on the journal their pro est against the injustice and iniquity of uch a ruling. This was a circumstance v which gentlemen could determine hat value could be placed on the opin n of the gentleman from Ohio on the tuestion of honesty. [Applause on the )emocratic side.] When it came to olities the gentleman figured that 17 ras the half of 36. [Laughter.] That ras the kind of gentleman who put him elf on the high pinnacle of honesty and. aid that he was the friend off the South nd that he wanted honesty and fair ealing down there. [Laughter.] The outh had suffered many ills ince the war. She had strug -led through poverty and hard imes and oppression; but he thanked iod that it had not fallen so low that it ould like to have the support of such riends as the gentleman from Ohio. Laughter and applause.] Breckinridge of Arkansas and Turner Georgia also replied briefly and tem erately to Kennedy. The reading of the bill by sections as then entered upon, but in a few ioments the committee rose, and the louse, at 5:30, took a recess until 8 clock-the evening session for the con ideration of the Indian appropriation -Considerable guano has been andled in Aiken CoZunty this season ad many of the farmiers hare yet to an1 thains home. THE FOUR NEW STATES. An Interesting Study-The Growth of the Great Northwest. Tlihe four new States -North Dakota, South Dakota. Montana and Washing ton-which have just been admitted to the Union make a very interesting study. No other government in any part of. the world can have the experience.which we are now passing through. The sense of growth and increasing strength which we enjoy is extremely exhilarating. One by one these great stretches of territory lying in the Northwest, the West' and the Southwest are being populated by pioneers of our own blood and 'nation ality. Physicians, tradesmen, lawyers, preachers and artisans who found no outlet for their energies in the. crowded and suffocating cities have poured over the millions of acres beyond the Mis sissippi, formed governments, knocked at the door of the republic and been admitted to equal State privileges with ourselves. First. as to area. The two Dakotas cover very nearly fifty million acres each. South Dakota is larger than New York, New Hampshire and Massachu setts. There is enough more to,, make six or eight Rhode Islands out of." Montana is one of the gigantic States. She is bigger than New York ani the whole of New England, with New Jer sey, Delkware, Maryland and North Carolina tihrown in. Washington is about the size; of each of the two Dakotas, half the size of'Mon tana, and has an acreage that would cover Maine, New Hampshire, Massa chusetts, Vermont and New Jersey. At the end of the last century a famoas Englishman visited this country, and on his return wrote a book about us, as nearly every foreigner does. He de clared that the Alleghany. Mountains' would forever bar our progress. They were a wall that must always keep our population on the seaboard. The West, he declared. would remain an uuidevel-. oped territory. What would he-day if he could return? Second, as to. population. Tidal waves have been sweeping Westward during the last twenty years.. In. 1860 the two.Dakotas had 4,837 inhabitants; in 1870, 14,181;' in 1880, :135,177; in 1887, 600,000. Such an increase is well nigh incredible. Montana had within her borders eight years ago 39,159 per sons; her estimated population at the present time is 175,000. Washington had in 1880 75,116, and eight .years later 160,000. - The West is clearly the field for en-. terprise. With shrewdness, energy, genius, hardihood, these four States have carved out their own magnificent fortunes and have not yet exhausted themselves by any means.. Their future is grander than the prophets of earlier days ever dared to dream.-New York Herald. THE BROTHER IN BLACK. The Conference of the Episcopal Dio cesan Committee and Colered Dele gates Has Meagre Results. At the St. Luke's Episcopal Church yesterday morning was held the confer ence, notice of which has been exolus ively given in THE REGISTER between the commission appointed by the Epis copal Diocesan Convention. at Anderson, and the vestries of St. Mark's and Cal vary churches of Charleston, St. Luke's of Columbia, and the Church of. the Epiphany of Summerville, and the lergy of those churches.: The object of the conference, as has een several times stated in these col mns, was to arrange,if possible,' for a. eparate organization of these, colored hurches under the Bishop. Bishop W. B. W. Howe presided and r. J. P. K. Bryan of Charleston, a ember of the commission, 'acted as secretary. There were present of the ommission besides Mr..' Bryan, the Rev. Ellison Capers and'R. W. Shand, Esq., of this city. Rev. A. Toonmer Porter, a member, was prevented by illness from being resent, and the Rev. John Kershaw, nother member, was absent having gone to Florida with his father. The colored delegates p resent included he following: A. M. Wallace, N. Eugene Lwis and J. H. Bryant from St. Luke's; orman Montgomery from St. Mark's; ay delegates, Rev. J. H. M. Pollard, Rctor of St. Mark's; Rev. E. N. Hol igs of Charleston, antT Rev. Mr. Quarles of ~ Edgefield County, of the lergy,representinlg the various church a bove named. The result of the conference as given ut to the press is: "That all the colored lergymen and the vestries of St. Mark's ad Calvary Churches and the vestries f Church of the Epiphany were found pposed, and St. Lukes of Columbia as in favor of a convocation of col red churches as recommended by the ommission." It is further understood that the ves ry of St. Luke's was not in favor of an ntirely separate organization of the olored churches, and the convention eferred to as favored by them is an ar angement similar to that of the quar terly conferences held in the Methodist hurch. The commission will therefore be bliged, apparently, to report the mat ter back to the next Diocesan Conven tion, which will be held in Aiken on ay 10th, leaving the condition of af fairs, which has caused the dtscussion, bout as heretofore.-Colurnbia Daily eiter, February 2W. Reform that Suoceeded. Among the officials who will probably e going out of officeeby and by is a enial gentleman from the West, who akes a handsome figure on horseback n tihe avenue of a pleasant afternoon. hen he was appointed he was taken about the division by the gentleman he as succeeding. After they had made the rounds, the outgoing official asked him how he was pleased. "Everything appears well," was the reply. -W bo is that lady over there?" "5-he is one of our best clerks." " Is she marriedt" "-No" "Well. there is a reform I will insti tute at once. PIl marry her myself." Ad he did wi-in three weeks. Wahnnsbn Nkt.