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VOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13. 1889. NO. 14 J)EPH F. RIIAME, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. N S. WILSON, A1toirney and Counselor at Law, MANNING, S. C. N. WILSON, I - STA CE AGZF - MANNING. S. C. .a. ;LEVI, A TTOREY AT LAW, 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 G roomp: and a number of VACANT LOTS suitable for residences, and in different lo calities. Terms Reasonable. 3Ih G. Bryant, Jas. M. LELANYD. South Carolina, New York. Grand Central Hotel. BRYANT & LELAND, PRoprIETons. - Columbia, South Carolina. Tie grand Central is the largest and best kept hotel in Columbia, located in the EX ACT BUS13E.S CENTER OF TIlE CITY, where all Street Car Lines pass the door, and its MENU is not excelled by any in the South. Manning Shaving Parlor. hAIR CUTTING ARTISTICALLY EXECUTED. and Shaving done with best Razors. Spec ial attention paid to shampooing ladies beads. I have h-td considerable experience in several large cities, and guarantee satisfac tion to my customers. Parlor next door to MasI-so TIMES. E. D. HAMILTON. NEW WAVERLY HOUSE, IN the Bend of King Street, Charleston. The Waverly, having been thoroughly renovated the past summer and newly fur nished throughout, makes its accommoda tions unsurpassed. Incandescent Electric Lights and Electric Bells are used in all rooms and hallways. Rates $2.00 and $2.50. G. T. ALFORD, Proprietor. PAVILION HOTEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. Firsl Class in all its Appointments, Supplied with all Modern Improvements Excellent Cuisine, Large Airy Rooms, Otis Passenger Elevator, Elec tric Bells and Lights, Heat ed Rotunda. RA TES, $2.00, $250 . AND $3.00. Rooms Reserred by Mail or Telegraph THE BEULAH ACADEMY, Bethlehem, S. C. B. B. THOMPSON, Principal. Fall Session Begins Monday, Oct 29. Instruction thorough, government mild and decisive, uppeahng generally to the student's sense of honor and judgment in th- importarit matter of punctuality, de portment, diligence. &c. Moral and social indUences good. *LO0C A T IO F INSE. Tuition from $1.00 to $2.00 per month. Board in good families $7.00 per month. 4 Board from Monday to Friday per month $3.00 to-se.0 pa-For further particulars, address th - Frincipal. J. G. DINK~IN.3, M. D. R. B. LORTEA. 103, Dinios& Go, Druggists and Pharmacists, PURE DRUGS AND MEDICINES, PERFUMERY, STATIONERY, FINE CIGARS AND .. TOBACCO. Tuf stock ~of PArsTs, OrLs, G3LAss Ngonoand Wmrr LEDa, also PAL'sT and WrrEwMsH BRUSHES. An elegant stock of SPECT ACLES and EYE GL ASSES. No-charge made for fitting the eye. Physicians Prescriptions carefully compounded, day or night. J. 6, Binkins & Co., Sign of the Golden Mortar, MANNING, S. C. [Gzo. E. TOAu.E. HENvY OI.vER.) Gee, E. Toale & Co, MANUFACTURERS AND WJIOLESAL.L Doors, Sash, -Blinds, Mouldings. Mantels, Grates, etc. Scroll Work, Turning and Inside Finish. Builder's Hard ware, and General Building Material. OFFICE AND SALESBOOMS. 10 and 12 Hayne Street, REAR CHARLESTON HOTEL. Charleston, S. C. All WVork Guaranteed. marWrite for estimates. WROTE IN THE DUST. Dr. Talmage Preaches on " The Literature of the Dust." Christ's Rebuke to the Scribes and Phari sees-His Compassion for the Perse auted Woman Who Had Sinned 1Against Society-A G1' rious Example. Tne sun3oes of Rev. Dr. Talmage's recent sermon at the Brooklyn Tabernacle was "The Literature of the Dust," and his text, John viii, 6: "Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground." Dr. Talmago spoke as follows: A Mohammedan mosquo stands now where once stood Herod's temple, the scene of my text. Solomon's temple had stood there, but Nebuchadnezzar thundered it down. Zorobabel's temple had stood there, but that had been prostrated. Now we take our places in a temple that Herod built because he was fond of great architecture, and he wanted the preceding temples to seem insignificant. Put eight or ten modern cathedrals together and they would not equal that structure. It covered nineteen acres. There were marble pillars support ing roofs of cedar, and silver tables on which stood golden cups, and there were carvings exquisite aed inscriptions re splendent, glittering balustrades and orna mental gateways. The building of this temple kept ten thousand workmen busy forty-six years. In that stupendous pile of pomp and magnificence sat Christ and a listening throng stood about him, when a wild disturbance took place. A group of men are pulling and pushing along a woman who had committed the worst crime againstsociety. When they have brought her in front of Christ, they ask that He sentence her to death by ston ing. They are a critical, merciless disin genuous crowd. They want to get Christ into controversy and public reprehension. If He say "Let her die," they will charge Him with cruelty. If He let her go, they will charge Him with being in complicity with wickedness. Whichever way He does, they would howl at Him. Then occurs a scene which has not been sufficiently re garded. He leaves the lounge or bench on which He was sitting and goes down on one knee, or both knees, and with the fore finger of His right hand He begins to write in the dust of the floor, word after word. But they are not to be diverted or hindered. They kept on de manding that He settle this case of trans gression until He looked up and told them that they might themselves begin the woman's assassination, If the complainant who had never done anything wrong him self would open the fire. "Go ahead, but be sure that the man who flings the first mis sile is immaculate." Then He resumed writing with His finger in the dust of the floor, word after word. Instead of looking over His shoulder to see what He had writ ten the scoundrels skulked away. Finally, the whole place is clear of pursuers. an tagonists and plaintiffs, and when Christ has finished this strange chirography in the dust, He looks up and finds the woman all alone. The prisoner is the only one of the court room left, the judges, the police, the prosecuting attorneys having cleared out. Christ is victor, and He says to the woman: "Where are the prosecutors in this case? Are they all gone? Then I discharge you; go and sin no more." What did Christ write? I have always wondered what Christ wrote on the ground. For do you realize that is the only time that He ever wrote at all? I know that Eusibius saysthat Christ once wrote a letter to Abgarus, the king of Edessa, but there is no good evidence of such a correspond ence. The wisest being the world ever saw and the one who had more to say than any one who ever lived, never writing a book, or a chapter, or a page, or a paragraph, or a word on parch ment. Nothingbutthis literature of the dust, and one sweep of a brush or one breath of a wind obliterated that forever. Among all the rolls of the volumes of the first library founded at Thebes there was not one scroll of Christ. Among the seven hundred thousand books of the Alexandrian library, which by the infamous decree of Caliph Omar were used as fuel to beat the four thousand baths of the city, not one sen tence had Christ penned. Among all the infinitude of volumes now standing in the libraries of Edinburgh, the British Museum, or Berlin, or Vienna, or the learned reposi tories of all nations, not one word wrntten directly by the finger of Christ. All that He ever wrote He wrote in dust, uncertain, shifting, vanishing dust. My text says He stooped down and wrote on the ground. Standing straight up a man might write on the ground with a staff, but It with his fingers he would write in the dust, he must bend clear oyer. Aye, he must get at least on one knee or he can not write on the ground. Be not surprised that He stooped down. His whole life was a stooping down. Stooping down from castle to barn. Stooping down from celestial homage to mobocratic jeer. From residence above the stars to where a star had to fall to designate His landing place. From heaven's front door to the world's back gate. From writing in round and silvered letters of constellation and galaxy on the blue scroll of heaven, to writing on the ground in the dust, which the feet of the crowd had left in Herod's temple. If in January you have ever stepped out of a prince's conservatory that had Mexican cactus and magnolias in full bloom, Into the outside air 10 o below zero, you may get some idea of Christ's change of atmosphere from celestial to ter retal. How many heavens there are I know not, but there are at least three, for Paul was "caught up into the third heaven." Christ came down from highest heaven to the second heaven, and from second heaven to first heaven, down swifter than meteors ever fell, dowvn amidst stellar splendors that Himself eclipsed, down through clouds, through atmospheres, through appalling space, down to where there was no lower depth. From being waited on at the banquet of the skies to the broiling of fish for his own breakfast on the banks of the lake. From emblazoned chariots of eternity to the saddle of a mule's back. The homage cherubic, seraphic, archangelic, to the paying of sixty-two and a half cents of tax to Cmsar. From the deathless country to a tomb built to hide hnman dissolution. The up-lifted wave of Galilee was high, but He had to come down. before, with His feet, He could touch it, and the whirlwind that rose above the billow waas higher yet, but He hadJ to come down before, with His lip, He could kiss it into quiet- Bethlehem a stooping down. Nazareth a steeping down. Death between twvo burglars a stooping down. Yes, it was inconsonance with humiliations that had gone before and with self-abnega tions that came after, when on that memor able day in Herod's temple'He stooped down and wrote on the ground. Whether the words He was writing were in Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, I can not say, for He new all those languages. But He is still stooping down and with His finger writing on the ground; In the winter in letters of crystals, in the spring in letters of flowers, in summer in golden letters of harvest, in autumn in letters of fire on fall, en- leaves. How It would sweeten up and enrich and emblazon this world oould we see Christ's caligraphy all over it. This world was not flung out into space thousands of years ago and then left to look out for itself. It is still under the divine care. Christ never for a half second takes His hand off of it, or it would soon be a ship-wrecked world, a defunct world, an obsoite world, an abandoned world, a dead world. "Let there be light," was said at the beginning. And Christ stands under the wintry skies and says: Let there be snowflakes to enrich the earth; and under the clouds of spring and says, Come ye blossoms and make redolent the orchards; and in September, dips the branches into the vat of beautiful colors and swings them in the hazy air. "Without Him was not any thing made that was made." Christ writing on the ground. If we could see His hand in all the passing seasons, how it would illumine the world! All verdure and foliage world be allegoric, and again we would hear Him say as of old. "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow;' and we would not hear the whistie of a qua:, or the cawing of a raven, or the roundelay of a brownthresher, without say in,, "Behold the fowls of toe air, they gather not into barns, yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them;" and a dominic hen of the barnyard could not cick for her brood, yet we would hear Christ saying as of old, "How often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathered her chickens under her wings:" and through the redolent hedges we would hear Christ saying, "I am the rose of Sharon;" we could not dip the seasoning from the salt cellar without thinking of the divine suggostion "Ye are the salt of the earth, but it the salt have lost its savor, it is fit for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men." Let us waie up from our stupidity and take the whole world as a parable. Then if with gun and pack of hounds we start off before dawn and see the morning coming down off the hills to meet us, we would cry out with the evangelist, "The day spring from on high hath visited us;" or caught in a snow storm, while struggling home eyebrows and beard and apparel all covered with the whirling flakes, we would cry out with Da vid, "Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow." In a picture gallery of Europe there is on the ceiling an exquisite fresco, but peo ple having to look straight up; it wearied and dizzied them, and bent their necks almost beyond endurance, so a great looking glass was put near the floor and now visitors only need to look easily down into this mirror and they see the fresco at their feet. And so much of all the heaven of God's truth is reflected in this world as in a mirror, and the things that are above are copied by things all around us. What right have we to throw away one of God's Bibles, aye, the first Bible he ever gave the race i We talk about the Old Testament and the New Testa ment, but the oldest Testament contains the lessons of the natural world. Some people like the New Testament so well they dis card the Old Testament. Shall we like the New Testament and the Od Testament so well as to depreciate the oldest; namely, that which was written be fore Moses was put afloat on the boat of leaves which was calked with asphaltum; or reject the Genesis and the Revelation that were written centuries be fore Adam lost a rib and gained a wife? No, no; when Deity stoops down and writes on the ground, let us read it. I would have no less appreciation of the Bible on paper that comes out of the paper mill, bat I would urge appreciation of the Bible in the grass, the Bible in the sand hill, the Bible in the geranium, the Bible in the asphodel, the Bible in the dust. Some one asked an ancient king whether he had seen the eclipse of the sun. "No," said he, "I have so much to do on earth, I have no time to look at Heaven." And if our faculties were all awake in the study of God, we would not have time to go much further than the first grass blade. I have no fear that natural religion will ever contradict what we call revealed religion. I have no sympathy with the followers of Aristotle, who after the telescope was invented would not look through it, lest it contradict some of the theories of their great master. I shall be glad to put against one lid of the Bible the miroscope, and against the other lid of the Bible the telescope. But when Christ stooped down and wrote on the ground, what did he write? The Pharisees did net stop to examine. The cowards, whipped of their own consciences. fed pell mel!. Nothing wiltlflay a man like an aroused conscience. Dr. tStevens, in his "History of Methodism," says that when Rev. Benjamin Abbott, of olden times was preaching, he exclaimed: "For aught I know there may be a murderer in this house," and a man rose in the assemblage and started for the door and bawled aloud, confessing to a murder he had committed ffteen years before. And no wonder these Pharisees, reminded of their sins, took to their heels. But what did Christ write on the ground? The Bible does not state. Yet, as Christ never wrote any thing except that once, you can not blame u for wanting to knew what He really did write. But I am certain He wrote nothing trivial, or nothing unimportant. And will you allow me to say that I think I know what He wrote on the ground? I judge from the circumstances. He might have written other things, but, kneeling there in the temple, surrounded by a pack of hypocrites, who were a self-ap pointed constabulary, and having in His presence a persecuted woman, 'who evi dently was very penitent for her sins. I am sure He wrote two words, both of them graphic and tremendous and reverberating. And the one word was Hypocrisy and the other word was Forgiveness. From the way these Pharisees and scribes vacated the premises and got out Into the fresh air, as Christ, with just one ironical sentence, unmasked them, I know they were first, class hypocrites. It was then as it Is now. The more faults and inconsistencies people have of their own, the more severe and cen sorious are they about the faults of others. Here they are-twenty stout men arresting and arraigning one weak woman. Magnifi cent business to be engaged in ! They wanted the fun of seeing her faint away under a heavy judicial sentence from Christ, and then after she had been taken outside the city and fastened at the foot of a preci pice, the Scribes and Pharises wanted the saisfaction of each coming and dropping a big stone on her head, for that was the style of capital punishment that they asked for. Some people have taken the responsibility of saying that Christ never laughed. But I think as He saw those men drop every thing, chagrined, mortilied. exposed, and go out quicker than when they came in, he must have laughed. At any rate it makes me laugh to read of it. All of these libertines, dramatizing indignat ion2 against impurit.. Blind bats lecturing on optics. A flock of crows on their way up from a carcass de nouncing carrion. Yes, I think that one word written on the ground that day by the finger of Christ wns the awful word Hypoc Irisy. But I am sure there was another word in that dust. From her entire manner I am sure that arraigned woman was repentant. She made no apology, and Christ in no wvise belittled her sin. But her supplicatory be haviorand her tears moved Him, and when He stooped down to write on the ground He wrote that mighty, that imperial word For giveness. When on Sinai God wrote the law -He wrote it with finger of lightning on ta bles of stone, each wqrd cut as by a chisel nto the hard grannte aurfaee But when Ha writes the offense of this woman He writes it in dust so th:at it can be easily rubbed out, and when she repents of it, oh, He was a merciful Christ! I was reading of a legend that is told in the far east about Him. He was walking through the streets of a city and He saw a crowd around a dead dog. And one man said: "What a loathsome object is that dog!" "Yes," said another. "his ears are mauled and bleeding." "Yes," said another, "even his hide would not be of any use to the tanner." "Yes," said another, -,the odor of his carcass is dreadful." Then Christ, standing there, said: "But pearls can not equal the whiteness of his teeth." Then the people, moved by the idea that any one could ind any thing pleasant concern ing a dead dog, said: "Why, this must be Jesus of Nazareth." Reproved and convicted they went away. Surely this legend of Christ-is good enough to be true. Kindness in all His words and ways and habit,. Forgiveness. Word of eleven letters, and some of them thrones, and some of them palm branches. Better have Christ write close to our names that one word, though He write in dust. than to have our name cut into monpmental granite with the letters that the storms of a thou sand years can not obliterate. Bishop Babington had a book of only three leaves. The first leaf was black, the second leaf red, the third leaf white. Thu black leaf suggested sin; the red leaf atonement; the white leaf purification. That is the whole story. God will abiundaintly pardon. I must not forget to say that as Christ, stooping down, with His finger wrote on the ground. it is evident t-hat His sympathies are with this penitent woman, and that He has no sympathy with her hypocritical pursuers. Just opposite to that is the world's habit. Why didn't these unclean Pharisees bring one of their own number to Christ for ex coriation and capital punishment' No, no; they overlook that in a man which they dam nate in a woman. And so the world has had for offendini women securge3 and objurga tion, anl for justone offsue she becomes an outcast, while for men whose lives have been sodomic for twenty years, the world swings open its doors of brilliant welcome, and they may sit in Legislatures and Senates, and Parliaments or on thrones. Unlike the Christ of my text, the world writes a man's misde rueanor in dust. but ohisels a woman's offense with great capitals upon ineffaceable marbe. For foreign lords and princes, whose names can not be mentioned in respectable circles abroad, because they are walking lazarettos of abomination, our princesses of fortune wait and at the first beck sail out with them into the blackness of darkness forever. And in what are called higher circles of society there is now not only the imita tion of foreign dress and foreign man ners, but an imitation of foreign dis soiuteness. I like an Englishman and I like an American. but the sickest creature on this earth is an American playing the Englishman. Society needs to be recon structed on this subject. Treat them alike, masculine crime and feminine crime. If you cut the one in granite, cut them both in granite. If you write the one in dust, write the other in dust. -No, no, says the world, let woman go down and let man go up. What is that I hear plashing into the East river at midnight, and then there is a gurgle as of strangulation, and all is still. Never mind. It is only a woman too discouraged to live. Lot the mills of the cruel world grind right on. But while I speak of Christ of the text, His stooping down, writing in the dust, do not think 1 underrate the literature of the dust. It is the most solemn and tremendous nf all literature. It is the greatest of all libraries. When Layard exhumed Nine vah he was only opening the door of Its mighty dust. The excavations of Pompeii have only been the unclasping of the lids of a volume of a nation's dust. When Admiral Farragut and his friends, a few years ago, visited that resurrected city, the house of Balbo, wno had been one of its chief citizens in its prosperous days, was opened and a table was spread in that house, which eighteen hundred years had been buried by volcanic eruption, and Faragut and his guests walked over the ex quisite mosaics and under the beauti ful fresco, and it almost seemed like being entertained by those who eighteen centuries ago had turned to dust. 0, the mightyv literature of the dust ! Where are the remains of Sennacherib and Attila and Epaminonda5 and Tamerlane and Trojan ad Philip of Macedon nnd Jutius Cmsar' Dust! Where are the heroes who fought on both sides of Chieronea, at Hastings. at Marathon, at Cressy, of the 110,000 men who fought at Agincourt, of the :350,000 men who faced death at Jena, of the 40.).000 whose armor glittered in the sun at Wag ram, of the 1.000),000,000 men under Darius at Arbella, of' ihe202.000 men uder Xerxes t Thermopyht:? Dusti Where are the guests who danced the floors of the Alhamnbra, or the Persian palaces of Ahasuerusi D)ust! Where are the miusiciaus who played and the orators who spoke, and the sculptors who chiseled, and the architects who built in all the cen turies except our own? Dust ! The greatest library of the world, that which has the wid,.st shelves, and the longest aisles, and the most multitudinous volumes and the vastest wealth, is the underground library. It is the royail library, the continental' library, the hemispheric library, the planetary library, the library of the dust. And all these library cases will be opened and all these scrolls nrolled and all these volumes unclasped, and as easily as in your library or mine we tke up a book, blow the dust off of it, and turn over its pages, so easily will the Lord of the Resurrection pick out of this library of dust every volume of human life, and open It and read it and display it. And the volume will he rebound, to be set in the royal library of the King's palace, or in the prison lhorary of the self-destroyc*. 0, this m.hty literature of the dust ! It Is not so wonderful after all that Christ chose, in stead of an inkstand. the impressionable sand on the floor of an ancilent temple, and, instead of a bard pen, putt forth his fore tiger with the samlie kmnd of nerre, and muscle, and bone, and flesh as that which makes up our own forefinger, and wrote the awful doom of hy pocrisy and full and com plete forgiveness for repentant sinners, even the worst. And now 1 can believe that wvhich I read, how that a mother kept burning a candle in the window every igh~t for ten years, and one night very late a poor waif of the streat ntered. The aged woman said to her, "Sit ?own by the fire," and the stranger satd, "Why do you keep that light in the win ov9" The aged womaui said: "That is to light moy wayward (laughter when she re turns. Since she went away ton years ago, my hair has turned white. Folks blame me or worrying about her, but you see I am her mother, and sonmetimles, half a dozen tmes a night, I open the door and look out into the darkness and cry. - Lizziep - Lizzie!' But I must not tell you any more about my trouble, for, I guess, froin the way you cry, you have trouble enough of your own. W y how cold and sick you seem! 0, my ! can it be? Yes, you are Lizzie my own last child. Thank God that you are home again !" And what a time of rejoicing there was in that house that night! And Christ again stooped down, and in the ashes of that hearth, now lighted up not more by the great blazing logs than by the joy of a reuanited household, wrote the same liberating words that He had written more than eighteen hundred years ago in the dust of the Jerusalem temple. Forgiveness I A word broad enough and high enough to let pass through it all the armies of Heaven, a million abreast, on white horses, nostril to nostril, flank to T -h k tDERAt FORCES.' DEM0CRATIC OFFICE-HOLDERS STEPPING DOWN AND OUT. The Victors Making a Rush for the Spoils- Prominent Candidates for the Vacancies in the Various Departments. Ex-Governor Thompson Acting as Sec retary of the Treasury at Secretary Windom's Request. WASHINGTON. March 9.-Secretaries Blaine, Proctor and Tracey came to their respective offices early this morning, but if they had any idea of attending to of ticial business they must have abandoned it when they saw the number of people awaiting them. Senators, Representa tives and high officials came in twos and threes; some brought friends, and many ladies were among the callers. Russell Harrison, with a party of Montana peo pIe, made the rounds of the departments. They called on the secretaries only to pay their respects and had no designs upon offices. Gen. Sherman and Aami ral Porter were among -he notables who attended these impromptu receptions. No official changes have yet been re corded in subordinate offices; but Walker Blaine occupied the seat vacated by First Assistant Secretary Rives in the Department of State, and Thomas Sher man, who formerly served as Secretary Blaine's private secretary, was endeavor ing to protect the Secretary from the in roads of the public. Both ot them have voluntarily taken hold to help smooth the way for the new administration, but in neither ease has an appointment been made. In the War Department William C. Endicott, Jr., continues to fill the post of private secretary. His father, the late Secretary of War, called upon his successor this morning, presumably to supply him with information respecting current business. Senators Paddock and Hawley and Representative Dorsey of Nebraska were among Secretary Proctor's callers, and they subsequently called upon Secretaries Blaine and Tracey. No appointment has yet been made to fill the private s3cretaryship in the Navy Department vacated by Mr. Fletcher, and an assistant is discharging the rou tine duties of the office. Ex-Senator Chandler called about mid-day upon Secretary Tracey and had quite a long chat with him. In all of the executive departments lo cated in the State, War and Navy build ing, changes likely to result from the change in politics of the administra. tion are few in number, because a long line of precedents favors the continua tion of oureau chiefs in the State De partment, while those in other superior posts are mostly filled by detailed army and navy officers. First Comptroller Durham, Commis sioner of Internal Revenue Miller and Fourth Auditor Shelly have tendered their resignations to Secretary Windom, to take effect at his convenience. Mason of West Virginia, Montgomery of Ohio, and Evans of Kentucky are the leading candidates for the Internal Revenue Commissionership. Evans occupied the position under President Arthur's ad ministration. Treasurer Hyatt will tender his resig nation to the President at the first op portunity. It is said that Huston, Chairman of the Indiana Republican Committee, is likely to be his successor. Charles E. Coon, formerly Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, is reported to be an applicant for the position of Comptroller of the Currency. It is said, however, that Secretary Windom has requested him to resume his former positi-mn. Burchard, formerly Director of the Mint, was a caller on the Secre tary this morning, and is said to be an applheant for this oilce, but Director Kimball has not sinnined his intention to tender his resigna,.ion until his term is expired. It is espected that most of the Demo ratic bureau officers will send in their resignations and give the Secretary an cportunity of naming their successors. Geo. C. Tichenor is prominently men tioned as Assistant Secretary Maynard's most probable successor. He is now special agent of the department. Mr. Parsons of Onio, A. D. Lynch of Indiana and Mr. Sickels are said to be applicants for the office of Comptroller of the Cur. reney Assistant Secretary Thompson was acting Secretary of the Treasury to-day, at the request of Secretary Windom, who announced his intention of devoting the day to reception of visitors. A large number of Senators and ex-members of Congress availed themselves of the op portunity afforded and called to pay their respects, and throughout the day the room of the Secretary was filled with visitors. No distinction was made in favor of politicians, and the general public was largely rep resented The routine business of the department was net seriously interrupted, and there was nothing apparent in the various bureaus tshowv that the department had passed from Democratic to Republican control. North Carolina Negroes Going West. RALEIGH, N. C., March 9.-What looks like the beginning of an extensive exodus of colorcd people is noted here. Last night addresses -by two colored preachers and a lawyer were made. in which the negroes were urged to go to Kansas and Arkansas, but not to go to Louisiana and Mississippi. This advice was listened to attentiveiy by about 2,000 persons, all colored, and it made a great impression. particularly upon the women. It was stated by the speakers that meetings like this would be held all over the State. and that announcements had been made from th'e pulpits of many churhi-s, and would be made from all. It was further stated that 40,000 negroes were wanted in Kansas, and that negroes would also be given work and made welcome in Mlaine, .Vermont and Massa chusetts. The railwvay fare from here to Kansas has been put down to $11. That Staie appears to be the most popu lar, and many labor agents from Kansas arc at work in this State. -The repairs and improvements on the Baptist Church at Newberry, com prising a thorough remodeling of the pulpit, repainting the interior~ and cushioning all the seats. have been conm pleted, THE COTTON (R AB lMADE BY THE 'NITEI) STATES A'TJlOIt ITIES AFTER THE WAlR. The Money Now in the Treasury, Which Should be in the Pockets of the People of the Southern States-How It May be Identified. WASHNnTON, March 7.-'The records of the Treasury Department are full of good material for you newspaper men," said an official to-day. "There is plenty that will interest your Southern readers. "Take that bureau called the division of abandoned lands and property, for example. It has in itself one -rear romance. Its history is fuller of the marvelous than anything that was ever written. Why, there are about s^13, 000,000 in its keeping belonging to peo ple in the South alone. During and at the close of the war valuable property of all sorts fell into the hands of army officers, and was turned into the Trea sury. Finally the amonut became so great that, when 'Bill' Chandler was Assistant Secretary, he created a division that should have. charge of the entire matter. "Over X12,000.000 of the money charged to that division is the proceeds of cotton taken from plantations and various towns all over the South :mud sold.. I know of one case in which. TWO MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF COT roN was taken from a far South plantation, when the staple was worth $500 a b:ale, and sold. The people to whom it be longed were not rebels at all, and it wouldn't be at all difficult for them to make their case if they only knew what to do. But it has been nearly twenty seven years since the money was depos ited there. I don't know whether any of them are alive or not, and if they were it is hardly probable that they will ever get back what was really their own. All the testimony in the case is in the nos session of the government, and it never lets go anything it gets its hands on. The agent who took this cotton is dead long ago, as is the man who sold it. So you see the owners could not prove their case by either of them. "There are other instances similar to this. In 1863 we received over $100, 000 from a government agent, which was the proceeds of cotton taken from a foreigner, supposed to be a blockade runner, in one of the larger cities of the South. When Secretary McCulloch heard of this he said: 'This money is only held in trust by the government. Some day we shall be obliged to account for it, for the United States really HAS NO RIGHT TO KEEP IT. But from that time until now no de mand has ever been made on us for it, and there it lies. I doubt if the owner ever knew just where it did go. Wh-en General Sherman's army occupied the towns of the South Atlantic seaboard the Confederates destroyed all the cotton possible before they surrendered. Mil lions of dollars worth was burned to keep it from falling into our hands. The real owners could not tell what was thus burned and what was saved. But we know, and this was the way: The books we often captured showed that James Brown, for instance, who was a merchant, bad so many bales burned marked a certain way. The bales not burned could thus be easily identified from the marks and names on them. In all cases the books captured containing the names of the consignors and owners were sent forward to the treasury with the paper relating to the capture." "Where are these books and papers?" "Well, I don't know, but I suppose they are somewhere IN THE TREAsURY vAULTs. "As we never knew when the claim ants might come forward and make a emand on tbe treasury for the proceeds of their cotton, the money it brought was never turned into ihe general fund. but always remained in an account by itself. But it has been so long ago, and the testimony necessary to make a ease that would be valid bemng in so many instances unattainable by the owners, it is scarcely probable that any great por tion of this really enormo~us amount of money will ever leave the treasury. The only very large sums that was ever returned to its real owners was paid to Gazaway B. Lamar, of Savannah, Ga., which you must have heard of. "Well, ex-Attorney General Williams and General B. F. Butler of Massaebu sets were his counsel. They got back for him $600,000 for cotton taken in the manner I have described. General Butler said to me when that case was pending. 'If I were a few years younger and wanted' to make a vast fortune quickly, I could do it more easily and certainly in the prosecution of these cotton claims than in any other nay.' "If I were a Southern man and had a case of this kind I wouild rather risk General Butlers getting it than any lawyer in America. It was always a wonder to me thlat after the action of the government in the Lamar ease more Southern people did not attempt to re cover their money from the treasury. The prmnciple ot repayment was then established. The main difficulty would, of course, be to prove that their parti cular L :ton was taken, sold, and the money :urned into the treasury." JUDGE cULBERsoN'S VIEWS. The above was shown to Judge Cul berson of Texas, chairman of the judi ciarv committee of the House, to-night nd I asked him what efforts had been made by the South'ern Representatives to secure for thie~r constituents the money referred to. ie'states that the fact is that for the last four Congresses, eight years, there hans been a determined ettort on his part nd on the part of others to provide a method by which those persons at the' South interested in this fund might es tablish their rights therein. This fund was collected in the trea sury under the Act of March 12, 1863, known as the captured and abandoned property Act. It provided that the agents of the Treasury Department should follow the armies of the United States in the South and take charge.- of all property found to be abandoned and such as they might find belonging to the' Confederate States government. The seizures of property under this wvas .. s ae. ina o.Ma A. eat deal of oppression and wrong was committed, and persons were deprived of their cot ton and other property under the pi'e tense that the Confederate government had a claim upon it, while they were justly entitled to it. In most cases the property was sold by treasury agents and the money paid in the treasury to the credit of the property, with such description and alleged ownership as the treasury agents saw proper to give. In all, this fund AMOUNTED TO ABOUT $30,000,000. It has all been paid out of the trea sury to the persons who have proved their rights therein except $10,500.000. The Act of 1863 authorized all persons claiming an interest in the property so seized within one year after the close of the war to bring suit before the Court of Claims and establish their rights therein. But this privilege was only a6lloTteW1 those who could establish loyalty. 'The bar made by the Statute of Limitation Was coupletc on the 20th of August, 1867, the Supreme Court having decided the war closed for all judicial purposes on the 20th August, 1866. the date of the President's proclamation. Persons who could not estabbsh their loyalty did not bring suit in the Court of Claims, after the close of the war, because it was generally understood that they would have to establish loyalty to the government before they could recover. The Supreme Court of the United States, however, decided in 1867 that the Fr-si dent's proclamation of pardon and am nesty wiped out the disability and dis loyalty and therefore it was not neces sary to prove loyalty in cases arising under the captured and abandoned pro perty Act, but before this decision Aad become known at the South the Statutes of Limitation had effected a bar. A TRUST FUND. The Supreme Court in the Klein case, in 18 7, decided that the governmient held this fund as a trust for those to whom the property belonged. In 1871 ' Congress passed an Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to hear and determine application for this money upon the part of those who claimed an interest therein. This. law by its own limitation expired in one year, and those only who could prove loyalty were per mitted this privilege. So the balance of the fund has remained in the trea sury since that time, there being no method by which the owners can prove their claims to this fund. Judge Culbertson's bill provides for the REVIVAL OF THE RIGHT OF ACTION in the Court of Claims for two years This bill was before the House in the Forty-ninth Congress and was discussed. It was defeated for the want of time. It has been discussed in this Congress, but lost its place because of the expira tion of the morning hour in which it was being considered. It is now on the cal endar and will be passed whenever time is secured for its consideration. From time to time since 1871, Con gress has passed special bills giving in dividuals the right to go into Court of Claims and prove their right in this fund, but such special laws have, without ex ception, required the proof of loyalty. It may be safely said that every dol lar in the treasury belongs to those who participated in the rebellion against the United States government, as those who could establish their loyalty secured their rights in it before the bar of linii tation was made, or uud& some special Act of Congress. Some Southern ien; however, got their rights through the Treasury Department by Northern in= fluence. THlE JA3MES MURDER TRIAL. One of the Assnain Turns State's Evhi dence-The Murderers Hfred to Commit the Crime by the Victim's Son. I)ARLING:ON, March 7-[Special .ta The Register.}-The trial of the James murder ~case commenced yesterday in. the Court of General Sessions at 3 O'clock p. m. William Scott, the first witness for the State, testified that three colored men-Robert Arthur, Louis Williams and William Scott-were hired by Joe James, Jr., to kill his father, Joe James, - Sr., because he (Joe James, Jr.) wanted to obtain control of his father's money. Six hundred dol lars was the price to be paid. Louis Williams did the shooting. He used the gun belonging to Scott, which was loaded with large shot and two 38-calibre bul lets and wadded with a piece of red check homespun. These three men went to the house, and two of them, Wil lams and Arthur, went inside of the fence; Scott stood out in the road. Joe James, Sr., as was his custom, came out after supper to get wa er. when he was shot and killed. The assassins ran off. Joe James, the son, planned the murder in all its details. When Scott asked him for the money he said that the numbers of the bills had been taken down by Dr. Josey, and he would have to go to Darlington and change the money before paying. The examination of witnesses is still going on. When Scott was arrested he asked the officers if they were going to get Louis. Williams also. This question was asked before Scott was told why he w:as arr rested. A more cold-blooded, brutal murder has never been committed. Eer Faith Did Noti Save Mrs. Edwards. SYRCUSE. March 4.-Mrs. Mary C. Edwards, who has just died in this city, was a believer in the Christian Science doctrine, and herself protessed to effect ures through the agency of faith. About six weeks ago she went to Utica to treat a patient. Whbile em her way to the ears to retarn home she fell and ~roke her hip. She was immediately brought here, and two physicians were called in and reduced the fracture. Then tihe Christian Scientists. took charge of the case. the patient being at tended by Mrs. Ellen E. Cross, principal of the Academy of Christian Science im this city, and 'another disciple of the chool. Mrs. Edwards grew worse, andI regular physicians were again called, but the could not save her life. They say that their failure was due to the inter ference of the Christian Science people. The Seientists" say they could not save th woman's life for the reason that she did not have sufficient faith herself whe the arisit name.