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VOL.. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1889. NO. 22. TO THE SLAUGHTER. Rev. Dr. Talmage Preaches a Ser mon at St. Louis. How Young Men ore Led Into Tempta tion :by -Evil Companions and Ex travagance--The Horrors of Debs -A Sneak Thief Better than. a Deadbeat. Rev. . eWitkTalmage, D.. D., preached at St. . gis pecend~y to i vast 'audien His subject was "The Slanghter," and his text, Proverbs, vii, 21: "As an o' to the slaughter." The eloquent preacher spoke as follows: There is nothing in the voice or manner ,of the butcher to indicate to the -ox.that there is death ahead. The ox thinks he is ,going to arich pasture$eld of clover,whefe .all day long he wil' revel in the herbaceous luxuriance; but after awhile the men and the boys close in upon him with sticks and stones and shouting, and drive him through bars intib a doerway;where he is fastened, 'and with ,well-aimed stroke the axe fells -him; and so the anticipation of the redolent ,pasture field is completely disappointed. So ,many a young man has been driven on by temptation to what he thought would be paradisaical enjoyment; but after a while influences with darker hue and swarthier arm clew-in urn him, and he finds that in stead ,f-making an excursion into a garden he has been driven "as an ox to the slaiugh ter." First -We are apt to blame young men for being destroyed when we ought to blame the influences that destroy them. Society slaughters a great many young men by the behest, "You must keep up appearances; whatever be gour salary, you must dress as well as 9tbertyou must wine and brandy as many friends, you must smoke as costly cigars, you nust give as expensive enter tainments,'and you must live in as fashiona ble a boarding house. If you haven't the mone, borrow. If you can't borrow. make a false entry, or subtract here and there a bill from a bundle of bank bills; you will only have .to make .the deception a little while; in 'few months, or a year r two, you can make all right. Nobody will be hurt by it; nobody will be the wiser. You yourself will not be damaged,". By that awful process a hundred thousand men have been slaughtered for time and slaughtered for eternity. Suppose you borrow. There is nothing wrong about borrowing money. There is hardly a man in this house but has some times borrowed money. Vast estates have been built on a borrowed dollar. BAt there are two kinds of borrowed money. Money borrowed for the purpose of starting or keeping up legitimate enterprise and ex pense, and money borrowed to get that which you can do without. The first is right the other is wrong. If you have modey en~iig'li of your own'to buy a coat, however plain; and then Sou borrow money for a dandy's outfit. you have taken the first revolution of the wheel down grade. Borrow for the necessities: that may be well Borrow for 'the luxuries; that tips your prospcote over in the wrong direction. The Bible distinctly says the borrower is servant of the lender. It is a bad state of things when you have to go down some other street to escape meeting some one whom you owe. If young men knew what is the despotism-of being in debt, more of them would keep out of it. What did debt do for Lord Bacon, with a mind towering above the centuries? It induced him to take bribes and convict himself as acriminal be. fore all ages. What did debt dolor Walter Scott? Broken hearted at Abbotsford. Kept him writing until his band gave out in paral ysis to keep the sheriff away from his piet. ures and statuary. Better for him,if he had minded themaximwhichhe had chiseled over the fireplace at Abbotsford, "Waite not, want not." The trouble is, my friends, the people do not understand the ethics of going in debt, and tliat if gou purchase goods with no ex: pectation of paying for them, or go into debts which you can not meet, you steal just so inch 'ioney. If I go into a grocer's store,,and I buy sugars~and coffees and . meats, writh no capacity'to pay for them andi61ntention of paying for them, I am more dishonest than If I go into the store, and wbh the'grocer's farce is turned the other way I-fll my pockets with the arti cledftmerchandise and carry off a ham. In the one case I take the merchant's timd, and I take ige timero his-messenger to transferieiO6toisy house, while In the other case I take none of the time of the merchant,-and!I wait upon myself, and I transferbe s without any trouble to him. Ia -- naaiisnekAthief Is not so bad 'as a man who contracta debts he never expects tg pay.. - Yet in alt 'our eftiesther are families that move ever7-May day to get Into prox imity to other grocers and meat shops and apothecarles.. They-owe everybody within half a mile of where they now live, and negt May they will move into a distant t'art of tyetit f, flsding a newv -lot of victims. Meaihite-y~u, -tiie bhemest family in the new house, are bothered day by dry by the knocking at the door of disappointed bakers and butohers,-and dry goods dealers, mn newspaper carriers, and you are asked where your predecessor is. You do not know. It was arranged you should not know.~ Meanwhile your predecessor has gon& to some distant part of the city, and the people who have any thing to sell have sent their wagorns and stopped there to so licit the "valuable" custom of the new neighbor, and be, the new neighbor, with great complacency and with an air of afliu once, orders the finest steaks and the high est priced sugars, and the best of the canned fruits, and, perhaps, all the newspapers. All the debts will kepp~on accumulating unti' he geti his goods on the 30th of next April -in t'fuirniture dart. Now, let .me say, jf there are any svch persons ip the house, if. you have any 're gard for youp~ own convenience, you had better yemove to some greatly distant part of thefty. It is too bad that, having had all the tron'ble of consuming the goods, you should also' h ave the trouble of being dunned ! And let me say that If you find that this picture's your own photograph, insliad ol being in church you cught to be in the papitentiary! No wonder that so many &f oui- merchants fail in business. They are swindled into bankruptcy byv these wandertnp4rabs, these nomads of city lire. They' ceaet the grocer ont of the green. Rpples which make them sick, the physician yo pttgndg-their distress, ?nd .the under taker who fits them out for departuse from the neighborhood where they owe every body wvhen 'they pay the debt of nature, the ony ebt they ever do pay ! Now our young men are coming up in this depraved state of commercial ethics, and I am solicitous about them. I. want to warn them against being slaughtered on the sharp edges of debt. You want many things you have not, my young friends. You shall have them if you have patience and honesty and industry. Certain lines of conduct always lead out to certain successes. There is a law which controls even those things that seem haphazard. I have been told by tihose who have observed that it is possible to calculate just how many letters will be sent to the dead letter oflice every year through misdirection; that it Is possi mae in calcnlate inst how many latters 'will be detained for lack of pistage stamps through the forgetfulness of the senders, and that it is possible to tell just how many people will fall in the streets by slipping on an orange peel. In other words, there are no ace4dents. The most insignificant event you ever heard of is the link between two eternities-the eternity of the past and the eternity of the future. Head the right way, young man and you will come out at the right goal. Bring me a young man and tell me what his physical health is and what his mental caliber, and what his habits, and I will tell r u what will be his destiny for this world, .and his destiny for the world to come, and I will not make five inaccurate prophecies out of the-live hundred. All this makes me solicitous in regar.l. to young men. and I want to make them nervous in regard to the contraction of unpayabie debts. I give you a paragraph from my own experience. My first settlement as pastor was in a village. My salary was S80) and a parson age. The amount seemel enormous to me. I said to myself, "What ! all this for one year?" I was afraid of getting worldly .under so much prosperity ! I resolved to in vite all the congregation to my house in groups of twenty-five each. We began, and as they were the best congregation in all the world, and we felt nothing was too good for them, w'e piled all the luxuries on the table. I never completed the undertaking. At the end of six months I was in financial despair. I found what every young man learns in time to save himself, or too late. that you must measure the size of a man's b'dy before you begin to cut the cloth for his coat. When a youngman wilfully and of eno!ce, having the comfort; of life, goes into the contraction of unpayable debts, he knows not into what he goes. The creditors get after the debtor. the pack of bounds in ful cry, and alas! for the reindeer. They jin gle his doorbell before he gets up in the mornir' they jingle his do-rbell after he has gone to bed at night. They meet him as ho comes off his front steps. They send him a postal card, or a letter in curtest style, teil:ing him to pay up. They attach his goods. They went cash, or a note at thirty days, or a note on demand. They call him a knave. They say be lies. They want him disciplined at the church. They want him turned out of the bank. They come to him from this side, and from that side, and from before, and from behind, and from shove, and from beneath, and he is in sulted and gibbetad. and sued, and dunned, and sworn at, until he gets the nervous dyspepsia, gets neuralgia, gets liver com plaint, gets heart disease, gets convulsive disorder, gets consumption. Now he is dead, and you say: "Of course theywill let him alone." 0, no! Now they are watchful to see whether there are any unnecessary expenses at the obsequies, to see whether there is any useless handle on the casket. to see whether there is any sur plus plait on the shroud, to see whether the hearse is costly or cheap. to see whether the flowers sent to the casket have been bought by the family or donated, to see in whose name the deed to the grave is made out. Then they ransack the bereft household, the bocks the pictures the carpets, the chairs. the sofa, the piano, the mattresses, the pil low on which he dies. Cursed be debt! For the sake of your own happiness, for the sake of your good morals. for the sake of your immortal soul, for God's sake, young man, as far ds possible. keep out of it. Secona-But I think more young men are slaughtered through irreligion. Take away a young man's religion and you make him the prey of evil. We all know that the Bible is the only perfect system of morals. Now if you want to destroy the young man's morals take this Bible away. How will you do that? Well, you will caricature his rev erence for the Scriptures, you will take those incidents of the Bible which can be made mirth of-Jonah's whale, Samson's foxes. Adam's rib-then you will caricature eccentric Christians or inconsistent Chris tians, then you will pass off as your own all those hackneyed arguments against Chris. tianity which are as old as Tom Paine, as old as Voltaire, as old as sin. Now you have captured his Bible. and you have taken his strongest fortress; the way is comparatively clear, and all the gat's of his soul are set open in invitation to the sins of earth and the sorrows of death, that they may come in and drive the stake for their encamp ment. A steamer fifteen hindred miles from shore with broken rudder and lost compass. and hulk leaking fifty gallons the hour. is better off than a young man when you have robbed him. of hici Bibla. Have you ever noticed how desp'cablty moan It is to take away the world's Bible without proposing a substitute ? It is meaner te an to come to a sick man and steal his medicine, meaner than to come to a cripp'e and steal his crutcl, meaner than to come to a pauper and teal his crust, meaner than to come to a poor man and burn his house down. It is the worst of all larennies to. steal the Bible. which has been the crutch and medicine and food and eternal home to so many ! What a generous and magnanimous business in fidelity has gone int o! This splitting up of life boats, and taking away of fire escapes, and extinguishing of lighthouses! I come ont and I say to such people: "What are you doing all this for?" "0," they say, "just for fun." It is such fun to see Christians try to hold on to their Bibles! Many of them have lost loved ones, and have been told that there is a i esurrection, and it is such fun to tell them there will be no re .urrection ! Many of t hem have believed i at Christ came to carry the burdens and to heal the wounds of the world, and it is such fun to tell them they will have to be their own savior! Think of the meanest thing ycu ever heard of; Lhen ge down a thousand feet underneath it and ycu will find yourself at the top of a stairs a hundred miles longigo to the bottom of the stairs. and you wRil find aladder athousand miles long t then go to the foot of the ladder and look off a precipice half as far as from here to China, an'd you will find the headquarters of the meanness that would rob this world of its only comfort in life its only peace in death, and its only hope for immortaelity. Slaughter a young man's faith in God, and there is not much more left to slaughter. Now, what has become of the slaughtered? Well, some of them are in their father's or mother's hous3 broken down in he.ath, waiting to die; others are tn the hospital; others are in Greenwood, or, rather, their bodies are, for their souls hanve cone on to retibution. No~t much prospect for a youn' man who started liie with good heaith anmd goo4 ed 2cstion. and a Christian examp'k set him, and opportunity of usefulness, who gathered all bis treasures and put them in ons box, and then dropped it Into the sea. Now, how is this wholesale slaughter to be stopped? There is not a person ine the house but is interested in that question. Young man, arm yourself. The ohject of my sermon is to put :i weapon in oach of your hands for your own defense. Wait aot for Young Men's Christian Associations to prtet yotu, or churches to protect you. Appealing to God for help, taka care of yourself. First, has e a room semewhere that you can call your own. W hethe:- it be the back parlor of a fashionah'e boarding-house or a room in the It urth story o a cheap lodging. care inot. Only have that one rcom your fortress. Let not the- dissipator or uncican sep over the threshold. If they come up the long flight of stairs and knock at the firmly refuse them admittance. Have afew family portraits on the wall, if you brought them with you from your country home. Have a Bible on the stand. If you can afford it and you can play on one, have an instru ment of music, harp or flute, or cornet, or melodeon, or violin, or piano. Every morn log before you leave that room, pray. Every night after you come home in that room, pray. Make that home your Gibral tar, your Sebastopol, your Mount Zion. Let no bad book or newspaper come into that room, any more than you would- allow a cobra to coil on your table. Take care of yourself. Nobody else will take care of you. Your help will not come up two or three or four flights of stairs; your help will come through the roof, down from Heaven, from that God who in the six thousand years of the world's his tory never betrayed a young man who tried to be good and a Christian. Let me say in regard to your adverse worldly circum stances, in passhig, that you are on a level now with those who are finally to succeed. Mark my words, young man, and think of it thirty years from now. You will find those who thirty years from now are the millionaires of the country, who are the orators of the country, who are the poets of the country, who are the strong merchants of the country, who are the great philanthropists of the country-mightiest in church and state-are this morning on a level with you, not an inch above, and you in straitened circumstances now. Herschel earned his living by piayig a violin at parties, and in the interstices of ti-. play he would go out and look up at tlhi midnight heavens, the fields of his immor tal conquests. Geor _ e Stephenson rose from being the foreman of a colliery to be the most renowned of the world's engineers. No outfit, no capital to start with ! Young man, go down to the Mercantile library, and get some books and read of what wonderful mechanism God gave you in your hand, in your foot, in your eye, in your ear, and then ek some doctor to take you into the dissect ing room and illustrate to you what you have read about, and never again commit the blasphemy of saying y, -1 have no capital to start with. Equipped! Why, the poor est young man in this house is equipped as only the God of the whole universe could afford to equip him. Then his body-a very poor affair compared with his wonderful soul-oh, that is what makes me solicitous. I am not so much anxious about you, young nian, because you have so little to do with, as I am anxious about you because you have so much to risk and lose or gain. There is no class of persons that so stir my sympathies as young men in great cities. Not quite enough salary to live ou, and all the temptations that come from that deficit. Invited on all hands to drink, and their ex hausted nervous system seeming to demand stimulus. Their religion caricatured by the most of the clerks in the store and most of the operatives in the factory. The rapids of temptation and death rushing against that young man forty miles the hour, and he in a frail boat headed up stream. with noth ing but a broken oak oar to work with. U;n less Almighty God help them they will go under. Ah! when I toli you to take care of your self you misunderstood me if you thought I meant you are to depend tpjn human resa ution, which may be dissoived in the foam of the wine cup. or may be blown out with the first gust of temptation. Here is the helmet, the swor.I of Lord God Almighty. Clothe yourself in that panoply and you shall not be rut to confusion. Sin pays well neither in this world nor the next, but right thinking and right believing and right act ing will take you in safety through this life and in transport through the next. I never shall forget a prayer I heard a young man make some fifteen years ago. It was a very short prayer, but it was a tre meedets prayer: "O Lord, help us. WA find it so very easy to do wrong and so bard to do right. Lord, help us." That prayer. I warrant you, reached the ear of God, and reached His heart. And there are in this house a hundred men who have found out a thogsand young men, perhaps. who have found out that very thing. It is so very easy to do wrong, and so hard to do right. I got a letter, only one paragraph of which I shall read: "Having moved around some what I have ran across many voug men of intelligence, ardent strivers after that wvill o'-the-wisp, fortune, and of one of these I would speak. He was a young Englishm::n of twenty-three or four years, who came to New York, where he had acquaintances, with barelyv sufficient to keep him a couple of weeks. He had been tenderly reared, perhaps I should say tco tenderly. and was not used to earning his own living, and ound It extremely difficult to get any posi tion that he was capable of filling. After many vain efforts in this direction lie found himself on Sunday evening in Brooklyna near your church, with about three dollars left of his smalcapital. Providence seemed to lead him to your door, and he determined to go in and hear you. "He told me his going to hear you, that night was undoubtedly the turning point in his life, for when he went into your church e felt desperate, but while listen'g 1 o your discourse his better nature got the mastery. truly believe from what this young man told me, that your sounding the depths of his heart that night alone brought him back to his God whom he was so near' leaving." The echo, that is. of multitudes in the house. I am not preaching an abstraction, but a great reality. Oh! friendless young man. Oh 1 prodigal young man. Oh ! broken hearted young man, discouraged young man, wounde young man, I commend you to Christ this day, the best friend a man ever had. He meet. you this morning. You have come here for this blessing. Deise not that emotion rising in your soul:; it is divinely lifted. Look into the face of Christ. ift one prayer to your father's God, t o your mother's God, and get the pardonine bc'ss - ing. Now, while I speak, you are at the forks of the road, and this is the right roaid, and that is the wrong road, and I see you start on the right road. One Sabbath morning, at the close of my service, I saw a gold watch of the world-re nowned and deeply lamented violinst. Ole Bull. You remember he died in his island home off the coast of Norway. That gold watch he had wound up day after day through his illness, and then he said to his ompanon, ''Now, I want to wvid this watch as long as I can, and then when I am gone I want you to keep it wound up until it gets to my friend. Dr. Doremus, in New York, and then he will keep it wound up until his life is done. and then I want the watch to go to his young son, my especial favorite. The great musician. wvho more than any other artist had m'ade the violin speak and sing and weep and laugh and triump~h-folr it seemed when hie drew the bow across the string4 as If all earth and heaven trembled in delighted symipattiy-the great musician, in a room lookingofT up a trio sea, and sur rounded by his farorite instruments of rusic, elosed his eyes in death. While aill the world was mour'ning at his departure, ixten crowded steaiiers fell into line of funeral procession to carry his body to the rain land. There were~ fifty thousand of his countrymen gathered in an amphitheater of the hills waitiftg to hear the eulogium, and it was said when the great orator of the day with stentorian voice began to speak. the fitty thiousand people on the hillsides burst Into tears. Oh ! that was the close of a life that had one so much to make theO world 'nappy. But I have to tell you, young man, if you ire right and (die richt, that was a tame scene compared with that which will greet you when from the galleries of Heaven the one hundred and forty and thousand shall accord with Christ i'. crying: "Well done, thou good and faithful servant." And the influences hat on earth you put In motion will go down from generation to generation, the inituences you wound up handed to your child ren, and their influences wound up and handed to their children, ntil watch and clock are no more needed to mark the progrwe "N'w Me %self shall eao ngnner. THE CENTENNIAL A lIG ()(N'ASION IN THE BIG CITY OF NEW YORK. A Splendid Military Parade, and an Equally Fine Civic Display-Particulars of Interest to all Patriotic Citizens. (Telegrams to The Columbia Daily Register.) NEW YoRK, April 30.-The town woke up more sleepily this morning than it did yesterday, and with good reason. There was no real necessity for it to get up so early; and besides, its inhabitants, permanent as well as temporary, were tired-the latter even more so than the former. Still the earliest streaks of dawn found many people in the streets, and these indeed were fortunate, for in all the range of meteorological chance a more perfect morning could scarce have been found. It was too cold, perhaps, for those who shiver in a light wind, but it was a morning to delight .the heart of the soldier who has a long tramp before him. The air was exhila rating in the extreme and the wind was sharp enough to soon put the tinge of bloom on the cheeks of those who faced it. Many not already there in these early hours wended their way toward? the lower end of the city, more resplendent than ever, in the early morning light, with the wind stretching every flag and streamer taut and snapping their folds as though in jubilation. One of the things which attracted people to the Battery on this second day was the sound of martial music proceed ing from the band which preccdcd Riker Post, G. A. R., to the Battery, where a flag was raised with appropriate ceremonies. This, however, was not the only at traction, for asshe sun rose the soul inspiring strains of "Old Bundred" were borne on the breeze to many listening ears. the chimes of old Trinity, rung by Albert Mcislahn, Jr., furnishing the music. The following programme was gone through with: "Old Hundred," "Hail Columbia," "Yankee Doodle," "Centennial Maich," "Columbia the Gem of the Ocean," "America," "The Starry Flag," Our Flog is There," "Auld Lang Syne," "My Country's Flag of Stars." Then the sound of bells calling the people to thanksgiving services in the various churches awakened the people anew to the true solemnity of the occa ion. Services were held in all the churches of the city of every denomina tion, votive mass being offered up in the Catholic Churches. at wiich special prayers were held. As a matter of course, the principal services were at Sr. Paul's Church, in Broadway, where Washington attended on the morning of his inauguration, and simi lar services were held in the Church of the Annunciation, the Church of the Ascension, St. George's Church, Church of the Holy Apostles, St. Thomas Church, St. James Church and the Church of the Holy Trinity, Harlem, all Episcopal. At St. Paul's the exercises were conducted by the Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, D. D., LL.D., Bishop of New York, and the services on the day of Washington's inauguration were con ducted by the Bishop of New York, the Rt. Rev. Samuel Provoost. At 8 o'clock thbe committee of States escorted the President from the Fifth Avenue Hotel, accomnpanied by the Chief Justice arid members ot the Cab inet, and under an escort of police pro eeded to Vice President Morton's resi dence. The Vice President entered President Harrison's carriage, and the procession moved down to St. Paul's. At the Vesey st reet gate the party was met by a committee of the vestry of Trinity Church, and the President was conducted to Washington's pew. The editice was filled with the wealthiest and most prommnent people ia the country. After the ceremonies at the church were concluded the Presidential party escorted by committee, were driven down to the Sub-Treasury building at the corner of Wall and Nassau streets, where the literary services of the day began. The crowd at the Sub-Treasury defied computation, and the cheers which greeted the President upon his apnearance on the platform. -under the heoie statue of Washington, shook the foundation of the building itself. The moment the exercises at the Sub Treasury began, the military parade started up Broadway from Pine street on its triumphant march, with General Schofield commanding. The parade was in three divisions, the first consisting of regular troops, cadets and a naval corps. The West Pointers, 600 strong, led the column. The second division consisted of State militia, and they marched in the order in which their respective States were admitted to the Union, with the Governor of each State at the head of its troops. The crowds that lined the streets and filled the windows and houset ops were unprecedented eve a for New York. The march was simply an ovation along the entire route, both for the troops and the Presideut. At Union Square a stand was reserved exclusively for women and children, free of charge. It held 2,500 persons.I It is estimated that 100,000 people were able to see the parade from the stands specially built for that purpose. The procession was headed byv a coin pay of mounted police. Mayor Grant sat in the first carriage. President liar rison, Vice President Morton, with Mr Gerry and Clarence Bowen, were in the next carriage, and were loudly cheered. As the carriage containing ex-President Cleveland and ex-President Hayes passed, the cheering was particularly marked, and Chauneey M. Depew, who* came in a later carriage, was kept busy: raising his hat, and General Sherman came in for no small share of honor. The -procession thronged into Pine street and proceeded to the Pine street entrance of the Sub-Treasury. building. The Treasury side of the walk was kept cleant for nearly a block, and a carriage being drawn up by the curb the enmire distance, a large part of the ccupants were enabled to alight at once. They proceeded through the cor ridor of the ub-r-asury builing and out to the stand. The religious exercises were as follows: 1.-Processional hymn. 2.-Our Father, etc. 3.-Psalm LXXX: 4. 4.-First lesson, Ecclesiastes XLIV. 5.-Te Deum. 6.--Second lesson, St. John VIII. 7.-Benediction. 8.-Creed and prayer. 9.-Address by the Rt. Rev. Henry C. Patton,.Bisbop of New York. 10. -Recessional hymn. - Hamilton Fish, Sr., opened the exer cises by introducing Eldridge T. Gerry, chairman of the committee on literary exercises, who addressed the assemblage as follows: "FELLOW CrITzs s: One hundred years ago, on this spot. George Washington, as first President of the United states, took his oath of office upon the Holy Bible. That sacred volume is here to-day, silently attest ing the basis upon which our nation was constructed and the dependence (f our peo ple upon Almighty God. In the words, then, of one of the founders of the government. with hearts overflowing with gratitude to our Sovereign Benefactor for granting to us existence, for continuing it to the present period, and for accumulating on us blessings spiritual and temporal through Wire, may we with fervor beseech Him Eo to continue them s best to promote His glory and our wel fare.'" Mr. Gerry then introduced the Rev. R'chard T. Storrs, who delivered dhe in vocation in a very clear voice. Clarence W. Bowen, secretary of the Centennial committee, was next intro dmced. He read John G. Whittier's poem, composed for the occasion. It is as follows : TLE vOw OF WASUINGTON. The sword was sheathed: in April's sun Lay green the fields by Freedom won; And severed sections, weary of debates, Joined hands at last and were United States. O city sleti . b; t'., Sea! How proud the day that dawned on thee, Whn the new era, long desired. began, And, in its need,- the hour had found the min! One thought the cannon salvos spoke. 'the re'opant bell-tower's vibran- stroke. The voiceful strets, the p'audit echoing halls, And prayer and hymn bor heavenward ft om St. Paul's ! How fel: the land in every part The strong throb of a nation's neart, As its great leader ga' e, with reverent awe, His pledge to Union, Liberty and Law! That pledge the heaveas above him heard. That vow the s.ep of centuries stirred; In world-wide wonder listening peoples bent Their gaze on Freedom's great experiment. Could It succeed? Of honor sold And hopes deceived all hfstory told. Above the wrecks that strewed the monrnful past, Was the long dream of ages true at last! Thank God! the people's choice was just, Th" one man equal to hls trust, Wise beyond lore, and without weakness good, Calm in the strength of flawless rectitude! His rule of justice, order, peace. Made possible the world's release; Taught prince and serf that power is but a trust, And rule, alone, which serves the ruled, is just; That Freedom generous is, but strong In hate of fraud and selfish wrong, Pretense that turns her holy truth to lies, And lawless license masking in herguise. 1 and of his love! with one glad voice Let thy great sisterhood rejoice; A centRry's suns o'er thee have risen and set, And, God be praised, we are one nation yet. And still, we trust, the years to be Shall prove his hope was destiny, Leaving our flag with all its added stars nrent by faction and unstained by wars! Lo! where with patient toil he nursed .And trained the new-set plant at first, The widening branches of a stately tree Stretch from the sunrise to the sunset sea. And in its broad and sheltering shade, SItting with none to make afraid. Were we now silent, through each mighty limb, he winds of heaven would sing the praise of him. Our first and beet!-his ashes lie Beneath his own Virgmnian sky. Forgive, forget, 0 true and just and brave. he storm that swept above thy sacred grave. For, ever in the awful strife And dark hours of the nation's lire, Through the fierce tumult pierced his warn-1 ing word,1 Their father's voice his erring children heard! The change for which he prayed and sought In that sharp agony was wrought; o partial literest draws its alien line 'fwixt North and South, the cypress and the pine! One people now, all doubt beyond, H is name shall be our Union-bond; We lift otur hands to Heaven, and here and now, Take on our lips the old Centennial vow. For rule and trust must needs be ours; Lhooser and chosen both are powers Equal in service as in rights; the claim f Duty rests on each and all the same. The' let the sovereign millions, where Our banner floats in van and air, From the warm palm !ands to Alaska's cold, Repeat with us the pledge a century old 1 At the conclusion of the reading. the assemblage gave Whittier three cheers1 and a tiger. Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, the orator] f the day, was next introduced. He received a hearty greeting, and when1 this had subsided be proceeded to deliveri his oration.1 In the midst of the enthusiastic cheer ng that followed Mr. Depew's sitting down, Eldridge T. Gerry, said, "The President of the United States will now< address you." Presd'ent Hat-rison then arose from his: seat, placed his hat on the chair in which e had bien sitting, and advanced to1 the front of the platform. This was the signal for a grand outburst of cries. A I ozen cameras were pointed at him from: the surrounding houretops, and ho stood still for a moment, unconsciously giving< the photographers an exceilent opportu nity. H~e began to speak, howev-er, be-i fore the cheering died away, and it was mpossible for any one to hear his first few words. lie spoke as follows: These proceedings are of a very es icting (-harter, and 'make it quite impoissibie t hat [ soud de~diver an add ress on tbis occa~ion I t an early date I notitied :our committee 1 at the programme must not contain an ad dress by me. Tne select ion of M r. D~epew as the orator on this occasion made further I ~pech not only diflcult but superfluous;. lie h-as m'.t the deuiand of the occ-a ion on itsI own lMgh leve . Hie has brought before us iueatentsof the ceremonies of the great in ugurtion of nashin.-t:n We seem to e part of the admiri e and al most adoriog throng that filled -t't-ee s'reet-s one hundred years ago to grett h always inspiring presence of Washing He was the incarnation of duty, and he eaches us t-ay this geat leanon: that those( who would asoociate their names with events th t shall outlive a century. can only do so by the highest consecration to duty. ie was like the captain who goes to sea and throvs overboard his cargo of rags that he may gin safety and deliverance for his imperilled fellow-men. Washington seemed to c-rme to the discharge of the duties of his high office im;ressed with a great sense of h's tin fanmuiarity with the pos:tion newly thrust ui on him, modestly donbtful of his own ability, but trusting implicitly in his hopeful ness of that God who rules the world, pre sides in the conscience of nations and His power to control human events We have made marvelous progress in mate-ial events since then, but the stately and enduring shaft we have bui t at the nation's capital at Washington symbolizes the fect that h; is still the iiret American citizen. The remarks of the President were frequently interrupted with cheers, and when he sat down the -air was rent with the applause of the assembled crowd. Then came cries for "Mortou," but the Vice President merely responded by rising and bowing to the throng. Archbishop Corrigan then pronounced the benediction, every one within hear ing standing uncovered. The Arch bishop was attired in his pontificial robes, and while sitting, occupied a posi tion between Viee President Morton and the Rev. Dr. Storrs. GORGEOUS MILITARY PAGEANT. The crush in the streets in the lower part of the city was so great, as the vast bodies of military continued to arrive at their appointed places, that it was found necessary to make a formal start some what earlier than had ben intended. This was done in order that the line might be lengthened out and got in marching order, thus relieving at once the pressure in the lower wards and placing the head of the column in such position that when the President reached the reviewing stand he need be subjected. to no delay. At precisely 10:25 General Snhofield gave the order, and the greatest mili tary parade of modern times started. From Pine street, the point from which the start was made, up Broadway as far as the eye could reach, the sidewalks were literally blockaded v:ith people, while windows, doorways and roofs of buildings were simply a mass of human ity. As the gorgeous pageant began to move up Broadway, all the patriotism in this mass, which had been pent up now many hours, broke forth. Cheers rent the air; handkerchiefs and banners held in the hands of the population began waving, and New York and its many thousands of visitors were haupy. The scenes along the first tart of the line of march almost beggar description. The crowd, however, under all its crush ing sufferings, was marvelously good natured, its sense of touch being ap parently subordinated by, or, more pro perly, drowned in, its excess of patriotic feeling. Broadway as far as the eye could see was a blaze of bunting and a sea of taces. Elouse-tops, windows, ledges, telegraph poles and lamp-posts, private stands without number, and every possible vantage ground vied with the sidewalk rowds in numbers. The largest and most closely packed rowd that tried to see the parade was tt the point where it was dismissed. Ac ording to the programme, dismissals bhould have taken place at Fifty-ninth ;treet and Fifth avenue, but owing to he inability of the police to clear the venue from Fifty-seventh to Fifty inth street, the committee dismissed ;he troops at Fifty-seventh street, leav .ng the great assemblage entirely out in :he cold that has been waiting above that oint since morning. When the bead ,f the procession reached Fifty-seventh ;treet the mounted police made an ef Lort to disperse the crowd, but they only mecceeded in causing the greatest con usion and excitement among the women md children. In the crush three women ere seized with convulsions and ~ainted.- They were cared for by a stur eon stationed near by in a poliee wagon fitted up as an ambulance. The mnd of the procession did not reach E~ifty-seventh street until after 7 o'clock. NEw YORK, Mlay 1.-The third day ot ;ge great Washington centennial cele >ration broke clear and cool-another in day for marching. The chief and amost only notable feature of the day ill be the great civic and industrial >rade, which forms early this morning t Fifty-seventh street and Fifth avenue. n account of the unavoidable length of :he pageant and for the personal eon renience of the President, the startis to >e made at 8:20 a. m. At 9 o'clock the residential party will take up their po tion on the reviewing stand at 3Madison. quare. The route will be just the re erse of that of yesterday';i procession lown Fifth avenue to Seventeenth street. o and around Union Square by Four eenth street, to Fifth avenue, to Wash .ngton Square, to W averiy P'lace, to Broadway, and down that thoroughfare o ine street. The order of march in ~luds features that catablishi beyond >erad'enture the fact that the parade il be indeed a great one. It will have o mo' e more slowly than that of yes erday, on account of the number of ableux and floats in line, and those vho ittain points of vantage early this nornng as witnesses of t be spectacle tre likely to be kept in their seats all lay long. General Bntterfield, with his staff of 00 men. took up their position at Fifth venue and Fipy-fifthi street at 8-30 a n., but at that liour none of the organi ations had put in an appear-ance. In pectors Williams and Steers, who on ceount ot the injury sustained by In pector Conhn will have entire charge >f the parade, were early on hand. By. a. m. the orgamuzations began march g andl countermarcehing in the side trets, getting~ into position. EARLY MoRNXING sCENEs. Fom early in the morning the famil ar scenes of the t wo days previous were --enacted at the variotus railroad depots eading into the city. except in this: that he incoming crowds, instead of being argely made up of military, were comn >osed of sightseers and industrial -or anizations which were coming to take ;rt in the patrade. Visiting Iiremnn vere comning in on every train and nany of them brought their gaily bc lecked apparatus with them. At the elevated railr-oad stations in his city the scene throughout the morn ng was one of almost indescribable con usion during the hours from 7 to 9 enctock, Variou hbrdie of men which were to take part in the great parade generally sought to avail themselves of the facilities afforded by these roads to reach their destinations rapidly, and consequently the crush was great. On the East side the difficulty was added to by the fact that the crowd was only ad mitted through a single door to pur chase tickets, and being compelled to go in single file, their progress was necessarily slow. This was also true, in a corresponding degree, of the West side stations, where, however, the crush was not so great. Up town in the side streets the scene was a busy one, though of course one of endless confusion owing to the diffi culty of handling undrilled men. THE CRUSH ON THE BIG BRIDGE. The crowd on the big bridge, too, was greater than it was on Tuesday. Car loads of passengers were, however, emptied at the New York terminus with marvelous rapidity and kept moving to the street or the elevated railroad with out delay. Hundreds of mili tiamen from other cities, who participated in yesterday's parade, visited the bridge on a sight seeing tour, thus adding to the crush. The throng on the promenade was swelled by thousands of people who had never seen the structure before, and the police had their hands full to keep the passageways at the towers clear. Of course the crush at the bridge aggravated that at the City Hall station of the ele vated road, but it was all taken good naturedly by the people, and no serious damage resulted. THE CIVIC PARADE. At i:30 o'clock the parade started, headed by Sergeant Baumr and sixteen mounted policemen, Grand Marshal But .erfield and his staff of aides, number ing 110. finely mounted and wearing orange sash with silver bullion rosettes and fringe. The Grand Marshal showed considerable annoyance at the tardiness with which the organizations which should be among the first in line ar rived. He and his aides were on hand at Fifty-seventh street and Fifth avenue before 7:30 o'clock. and it was thought. that the grand civic parade could be started at 8:30. The telegraph station 'at the point where he and his aides were stationed brought knowledge of the slow move ments that occasioned hours of delay. Inspector Williams was in charge of a large squad of police about the starting point, and everything went on smoothly. All along the line of march, sidewalks, stoops, stands and wagons found eager occupants, and women passed in steady streams to points of vantage, many car rying wooden boxes and campstools and nearly all having packages containing lunches. The assemblage was an orderly one and gave no trouble to anybody. The ,various churches all had stands for their parishoners. The stand at the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum was well crowded, the lower portion being set apart for distinguished clergymen. An arm chair set in the centre of the space and was occupied by Archbishop Corrigan. The stand of the "Four Hundred," with one towering above, it erected by the Common Council, were filled when-- - the Grand Marshal reached that point, at twenty minutes before 10 o'clock. Just before the head of the parade reached this point sounds of fire bells were heard, and a hook and ladder truck came thundering along through Forty-second street. The street at this point was choked with people many of ,vhom had been driven along down by be mounted police. They and the regu ar patrolmen took in the situation at a lance, and in a most admirable man er cleared a way for the fire tiuck ,ithout occasioning any great confusion >r using undue force. At the Stewart mansion, Fifth avenue nd Thirty-fourth street, the head of the arade made its annearance just before 10 o'clock. As airady intimated, the ifferent trades and associations were so ate in arriving at the point of assembly tht they could not take the places as igned tnE m in the line by General But erfield. The boys from the various haritable institutions and public chools, being more used to discipline han their elders in the parade, were the first on the ground. AT THE REvIEwING sTAND. President Harrison, in his barouche, rawn by five horses and headed by a quad of mounted police, accompanied by Vice President Morton, Col. Cruger and Lieutenant Judson. U. S. A., drove up to the Madison Square reviewing tand at ten nminutes past 10. Ex-Presi dents Hayes and Cleveland, Secretaries Proctor, Tracy. Windom and Rusk, 'en. Sherman and Russell B. Harrison ad previously arrived. Others on the tand were ex-Senator John A. King, Co. 'S. V. R. Cruger, Gen. J. L. Var um and John E. Brodsky, Park Com issioner J. Hampen Rabb, ex-Comp troiller Loem, Col. Alex. Warner, Gov. Burleigh and staff of eight officers, and six aides, Brig. Gen. LI. 31. Sprague, Brig. Gen. John Harper, Fred Douglass. (who received a cheer as e entered the stalid) and Representa tive Gibson of Maryland. As soon as the Presient had entered the platform reserved for himself and arty, Dr. Bulzall, the Rev. Sylvester alne and tihe Rev. James Nilan of oughkeepsie were presented to him. ayor Grant, with a body of aides, who ird been waiting at Twenty-fifth street, then stepped forward and presented the resident with an address enclosed in a ylinder of response silver. The address rds as follows: To Benj imin irrison, President of the Ined mates. April n0. 18&9.-The under iged t representa?tion of the civil, -ommeflrcial, udnatrial and educational >-aizaionls and bodies of the city f ~ New ork, on the occasion of the entenniil celebration of the inaugura i~n ot W'a-higton, the first President, pre et anew to ther President of the United aates, in his official cipacity, their alle giane to the government, Constitution and aws, with their congratulations upon the iompleiition of a century of constitutional rovrmist and the progress made in that ~entury. ,Signed) Hugh J. Grant, M-yor of the i'y of New York; Dan:el Butterdld, Chief ahal: tires &. Smith, President of the hambier of ommerce; Robert Butler, Gene ral Society of Merchant Tradesmen; Henry lrister, Acting President of Columbia Col lege; Bryce Gray, President of St. Andrew's Society; Henry W. Duneher, President of