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VOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, ]889. NO. 28. ABOUT PURIFICATION. SermCn by Rev. T. DeWitt Tal mage, D. D. How Dtfferent reople Try to Cleanse Their Souls from Sin-Rut Little Good in Humanity Until It is Recon structed by God's Grace. Dr. Talmage's recent sermon at the Brook. lyn Tahernacle was upon the subject of Purification, and his text Job ix, 30-31: "If I wash myself with snow water, and should I cleanse my hands in alkali, yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me." The eloquent divine spoke as follows: Albert Barnes-honored be his name on earth and in heaven-went straight back to the original writing of my text, and trans lated it as I have now quoted it, giving sub stantial reasons for so doing. Although we know better, the ancients had an idea that in snow water there was a special power to cleanse, and that a garment washed and rinsed in it would be as clean as clean could be; but if the plain snow water failed to do its work. then they would take lye or alkali and :nix it with oil, and under that prepara tion they felt that the last impurity would certainly be gone. Job, in my text, in most forceful figure sets forth the idea, that all his attempts to make himself pure before God were a dead failure, and that, unless we are abluted by something better than earthly liquids and chemical preparations, we are loathsome and in the ditch. "If I wash myself with snow water, and should I cleanse my hands in alkali, yet shalt thou plunge me in theditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me." You are now sitting for your picture. I turn the camera obscura of God's word full upon you, and I pray that the sunshine fall ing through the skylight may enable me to take you just as you are. Shall it be a flat tering picture, or shall it bea true one? You say, -Let it be a true one." The first pro file that was ever taken was taken three hundred and thirty years before Christ, of Antigonus. He had a blind eye. and hecom pelled the artist to take his profile so as to hide the defect in his vision. But since that invention, three hundred and thirty years before Ch rist. there have been a great many profiles. Shall I to-day give you a one-sided view of yourselves, a profile, or shall .t be a full length portrait, showing you just what you are? If God will help me by His al mighty grace I shall give yon that last kind of a picture. When I first entered the ministry I used to write my sermons all out and read them, run my hand along the line lest I should lose my place. I have hundreds of those manuscripts. Shall I ever preach them? Never: for in those days I was somehow overmastered with the idea I heard talked all around about, of the dignity of human nature, and I adopted the idea, and I evolved it, and I illustrated it, and I argued it; but coming on in life, and having seen more .of the world, and studied better my Bible, I find that that early teaching was faulty, and that there is no dignity in human nature un til it is reconstructed by the grace of God. Talk about vessels going to pieces on the Skerries off Ireland ! There never was such a shipwreck as in Gihon and the Hidded rivers of .Eden, w ,,ax ou-first parents r9&erOd. Talk of a steamer going down with five hundred passengers on board! What is that to the shipwreck of fourteen hundred million souls? We are by nature a mass of uncleanness and putrefaction, from Which it takes all the omnipotence and in linitude of God's grace to extricate us. "If I wash myself with snow water. and should I cleanse my hands in alkali, yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me." T .-^--' - . . n that so - p. to cleanse their soul o sin in the snow water of fine apologies. Here is one man who says: "I am a sinner: I confess that; but I inherited this. My father was a sinner. my grandfather, my great-great grandfather, and all the way back to Adam, and I couldn't help myself.." My brother. have you not, every day in your life, added something to the original state of sin that was bequeathed to you? Are you not brave enough to confess that you have sometimes surrendered to sin, which you ought tohave conquered? I ask you whether it is fair play to put upon our ancestry things for which we ourselves are personally respon sible? If your nature was askew when you got it, have you not sometimes given it an additional twist? Will all the tombstones of those who have preceded us make a bar. ricade high enough for eternal defenses? I know a devout man who had blasphemous parentage. I knew an honest man whose father was a thief. I know a pure mar whose mother was a waif of the street. The hereditary tide may be very strong, but there is such a thing as stemming it. The fact that I have a corrupt nature is no rea son why I should yield to it. The deepstains of our soul can never be washed Out by the snow water of such insufficient apology. Still further, says some one: "If I havE gone into sin, it has been through my com panions, my comrades and associates; they ruined me. They. taught me to drink. They took me to the gamiblin.hell. They plunged me into the house of sin. They ruined my soul." I do not believe it. God gave to nc eepower to destroy you or me. If a destroyed he is self-destroyed, and always so. Why did you not break Sfrom them? If they had tried to steal -our purse, you would have knocked them down; if they had tried to purloin your gold watch, you would have riddled them with shot, but when they tried to steal your im mortal soul. you placidly listened to it. -Those bad fellows have a cup of fire to drink; do not pour your cup into it. In this matter of the soul, every man for himself. That those persons are not fully responsible for your sin. I prove by the fact that you still consort with them. You can not get off by blaming them. Though you gather up all these apologies; though there were a great flood of them; though they should come down with the force of melting snows from Lebanon, they could not wash out one stain of your immortal soul. Still further, some persons apologize for their sins by saying: --We are a great deal better than some people. You see peeple all around about us that are a great deal worse than iv. You stand up columnar ini your integrity, and look down upon those who are prostrate in their habits and crimes. What of that, my brother? If I failed through recklessness and wicked imprudence for ten .thousand dollars. is the matter alleviated at all by the fact that somebody else has failed :for one hundred thousand dollars, and some body else for two hundred thousand dollars? 0, no. If I have the netiralgia, shall I re fuse medical attendance because my neigh bor has virulent typhoid fever? The faoi that his disease is worse than mine-<does that cure mine? If I, through my foolhard -ness, leap off into ruin, does it break the fall to know that others leap off a higher cliff .into deeper dairkness? When the Hud son 'River rail train wlent throurh the bridge at Spuyten DIuyvil, did it alle':iate the mat ter at all that istead of two or three peo ple being hurt there were seventy-live man gle~d and crushed? Because others are depraved, is that any excuse for my depravity? Am 1 bette-r than? they? rer haps they had worse temptations than I have had. Perhaps their surroundings in life wet-c more overpowering. Perhaps, 0 man, 'if you had been under the same stress of temptation. instead of sitting here to-day, xou would have bepa looking through the 'bars of a penitentiary. Perhaps, 0 woman, if you had been under the same power of temptation. instead of sitting here to-day, you would have been tranmipng the street, the laughing stock of men and the grief of the angel-s of God. dungeoned, body, mind, and soul, in the !blackness of despair. Ah, do not let us solace ourselves with the thought that other people are worse than we. Perhaps in the future, when our for tunes may change, unless God prevents it we may be worse than they are. Many a manl after thirty year-s, after forty years, anter fifty v-ears, after sixty years, has gone to pieces on the sand bars. 0, instead of wasting our time id hypocriticism about oth ers, let us ask ourselves the question: Where do we stand? What are our deficits? What are our perils? What our hopes? Let each one say to himself: "Where will I be? Shall I range in summery fields, or grind in the mills of a great night? Where? Where? Some winter morning you go out and see a snow bank in graceful drifts, as though by some heavenly compass it had been curved; and as the sun glints it the lustre is almost insufferable, and it seems as if God' had wrapped the earth in a shroud with white plaits woven in looms celestial. And you say: " Was there ever any thing so pure as the snow, so beautiful as the snow?" But you brought a pail of that snow and put it upon the stove and melted it; and you found that there was a sediment at the bot tom, and every drop of that snow water was riled; and you found that the snow bank had gathered up the impurity of the field, and after all it was not fit to wash in. And so I say it will be if you try to gather up these contrasts and comparisons with others. and with these apologies attempt to wash out the sins of you heart and life. It will be an unsuccessful ablution. Such snow water will never wash away a single stain of immortal soul. But I hear some one say: "I will try something better than that. I will try the force of a good resolution. That will be more pungent, more caustic, more extirpating, more cleansing. The snow water has failed, and now I will try the alkali of the good, strong resolution." My dear brother, have you any idea that a resolution about the future will liquidate the past? Suppose I owed you five thousand dollars and I should come to you to-morrow and say: "Sir, Iwill never run in debt to you again; if I should live thirty years, I will never run in debt to you again :" will you turn to me and say : "If you will not run in debt in the future, I will forgive you the five thousand dollars." Will you do that? No! Nor will God. We have been running up a long score of indebtedness with God. If for the future we should abstain from sin, that would be no defrayment of past indebted ness. Though you should live from this time forth pure as an archangel before the throne, that would not redeem the past. God, in the Bible.-distinctly declares that He "will require that which is past"-past opportunities, past neglects, past wicked words, past impure imaginations, past every thing. The past is a great cemetery, and every day is buried in it. And here is a long row of three-hundred and sixty-five graves. They are the dead days of 1SSS. Here is a long row of three hundred and sixty-five more graves, and they are the dead days of i887. And here is a long row of three hundred and sixty-five more graves, and they are the dead days of 1SS7. It is a vast cemetery of the past. But God will rouse them all up with resurrectionary blast, and as the prisoner stands face to face with the juror and judge, so you and I will have to.come up and look upon those de parted days face to face, exulting in their smile or cowering in their frown. "Murder will ou ' is a proverb that stops too short. Every siX however small, as well as great, will out. 'In hard times in En gland, years ago, it is authentically stated that a manufacturer was the way, with a bag of monev to y dQ -A man ... ''with hunger met him on the road aed took a rail with a hail in it from a paling fence and struck him down, and the nail en-I. tering the skull instantly slew him. Thirty years after that the murderer went back to that place. He passed into the graveyard. where the sexton was digging a grave, and while he stood therd the spade of the sexton turned up a skull, and, lo! the murderer 'saw a nail protruding from the back part of the skull, it seemed with hollow eyes to glare on the ''irderer; and be,~fr~ wih Rc n s soon cried out, "Guilty ! guilty ! -O God!" The mys tery of -the crime was over. The man was tried-and executed. My friends, all the un pardoned sins of our lives, though we may think they are buried out of sight and gone into a mere skeleton of memory, will turn p in the cemetery of the past and glower pon us in their misdoings. I say all our unpardoned sins. 0, have you done the preposterous thing of supposing that. good resolutions for the future will wipe out the past? Good resolutions, though they might be pungent and caustic as alkali, have nc power to neutralize a sin, have no power tc wash away a transgression. It wants something more than earthly chenmistrv to do this. Yea, yea, though "I wash myself with snow water, and should I cleanse my hands in alkali, yet shalt though plunge me nthe ditch, and mine own clothes shall ab or me." Ydli see from the last part of this text that Job's idea of sin was very differeni from that of Eugone Sue, or George Sand or M. J. Michelet, or any of the hundreds ol writers who have done up iniquity in mez otint, and garlanded the wine cup witb elegantine and rosemary, and made the patb of the libertine end in bowers of ease in stead of on the hot flagging of eternal tor ture. You see that Job thinks that sin it not a flowery parterre; that it is not a table land of fine prospects; that it is not music dulcimer, violoncello, castanet and Pandeat pipes, all making music together. Ne. Hie says it is a ditch, long, deep, loathsome. stenchful, and wve are all plunged into it, and there we wallow, and sink, and strug gle, not able to get out Our robes of pro priety and robes of worldly profession are saturatedin the slime and abomination, anc our soul, covered over with transgression.. hates its covering, and the covering hates te soul, until we are plunged into the ditch, and our own clothes abhor us. I know that some modern religionists carl cature sorrow for sin, and they make out an easier path than the "pflgrim's'progress' that John Bunyan dreamed of. The road they travel does not stop where John's did. at the city of Destruction, but at the gate ol the university; and I am very certain that it will not come out where Johin's-did, unde! the shining rampart of the celestial city. No repentance, no par-ion. If you do not, my brother, feel that you are down in the dich, what do you want of Christ to ilft you out? If you have no apprecia tion of the fact that you are astray, what do you want of Him who came to seek and save that which was lost? Yonder is the City of Paris, the swiftest of the Inmans, coaming ac'ross the Atlantic. The wind is abaft, so that she has not only her engines at work. but all sails up. 1 ami on board the Embria, of the Cunard line. The boat davits are swung around. The boat is lowered. I get into it with ia red flag, and ross over t.o where the City of Paris is oom ag, and I wave the flag. The captain looks off from the bridge and says: "What do you want"' I reply: "I come to take some of your passengers across to the other vessel; I think they will be safer and happier there." 'he Captain would look down with indigna ion and say: "Get out of the way, or I will run you down." And then I would back oars, amidst the jeering of two 'or three hundred people looking over the taifrail. But the Umbria and the City of laris meet under different circumistan'ces after a while. Trhe City of Paris is coming out of a cyclone; the lire boats are smashed, the bulwarks gone, the vessel rapidly going owa. The boatswain gives his last whistle 'f despairing command. The passengers run up and down the deck, and some pray, and all make a great outcry. The c.aptain says: "You have about fifteen minutcs now to prepare for the next world." "No hope !" sounds froni stem to stern, and from~the rat lines down to the cabin. 1 see the distress. I am let down by the side of the U'mbria. I push off as fast as I can toward the aink ing City of Paris. Before I come up people are leaping into the water in their anxiety to get :to the boat, and whieu I have swung up under the side of the City of kParis, the frenrzied passengers rush through the gangway until the offi cers, with axe and clubs and pistols, try to keep back the crowd, each wanting his turn to come next. There is but one lifeboat, and they all want to get into it, and the cry is: "-Menextl mgenext!" You sethe ap plati be.or I make it. As long as a man going on in his sin feels that all is well, that he is coming out at a beautiful port, and has all sail set, he wants no Christ, he wants no help, he wants no rescue; but, if under the flash of God's convicting spirit he shall see that by reason of sin he is dis masted and waterlogged, and going down into the trough of the sea where he can not live, how soon he puts the sea glass to his eye and sweeps the horizon, and at the first sign of help cries out: "I want to be saved. I want to be saved now. I want to be saved forever." No sense of danger, no applica tion for rescue. 0, that God's eternal spirit would flash upon us a sense of our sinfulness ! The Bible tells the story in letters of fire, but we get used to it. We joke about sin. We make merry over it. What is sin? Is it a trifling thing? Sin is a vampire that is sucking out the life blood of your immortal nature. Sin? It is a Bastile that no earthly key ever un locked. Sin? It is expatriation from God and Heaven. Sin? It is grand larceny againstthe Almighty, for the Bible asks the question; "Will a man rob God?" answer ing it in the affirmative. This gospel is a writ of replevin to recover property unlaw fully detained from God. In the Shetland Islands there is a man with the leprosy. The hollow of the foot has swollen until-it is flat on the ground. The joints begin to fall away. The ankle thick ens until it looks like the foot of a wild beast. A stare unnatural comes to the eye. The nostril is constricted. The voice drops to an almost inaudible hoarseness. Tuber eles blotch the whole body, and from them there comes an exudation that is unbeara ble to the beholder. That is leprosy, and we have all got it unless cleansed by the grace of God. See Leviticus. See II. Kings. See Mark. See Luke. See fifty Bible al lusions and confirmations. The Bible is not complimentary in its lan guage. It does not speak mincingly about our sins. It does not talk apologetically. There is no vermillion in its style. It does not cover up our transgressions with blooming metaphor. It does not sing about them in weak falsetto; but it thunders out: "The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth." "Every one has gone back. He has altogether become filthy. He is abominable and filthy, and drinketh in iniquity like water." And then the Lord Jesus Christ flings down at our feet this humiliat ing catalogue: "Out of the heart of mon proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornica tion, murders, thefts. blasphemy." There is a text for your rationalists to preach from. 0, the dignity of human nature! There is an element of your science of man that the anthropologist never has had the courage yet to touch; and the Bible, in all the ins and outs of the most forceful style, sets forth our natural pollution, and repre sents iniquity as a frightful thing, as an ex hausting thing, as a loathsome thing. It is not a mere bemiring of the feet, it is not a mere befouling of the hands; it is going down, head and ears under, in a ditch, until our clothes abhor us. My brethren, shall we stay down where sin thrustsus! Ishall not if you do. Wecan not afford to. I have to-day to tell you that there is something purer than snow water. something more pungent than alkali, and that is the blood of Jeaus Christ that cleans eti from all sin. Ay, the river of salvation, b>g h~t, crGt e caaen-tortsdido through this audience with billowy tide strong enough to wash your completely and forever away. 0, Jesus, let the dam that holds it back now break, and the floods of salvation roll over us. I Let the water and the blood, From Thy side a healing flood, Be of sin the double cure, Save from wrath and make me .'ire. Let us get down on both'knees and, bathe ih that flood of mercy. Ay, strike out with both haul and try te swing to the other shore of this river of Goa's grace. To -u is Tt his~ c ~ 6d th argess1 e vine bounty. Though you have gone down into the deepest ditch of 1 ibidinois desire and corrupt behavior, though yo have sworn all blasphemies un til there is not a sinful word left for you to ] speak, though you have been submerged by the transgressions e f a lifetime, though you1 are so far down in your sin that no earthly help can touch your case-the Lord Jesus Christ bends over you to-day, and offers you is right hand, proposing to lift you up, first making you whiter than snow, and theu raising you to glories that never die. "Billy," said a Christian bootblack to1 another, "when we come up to Heaven it won't make any difference that we've been bootblacks here, for we shall get in, not somehow or other,,abut B-i1y, weshall getstraightthrough thepgate." , if you only knew how full and free and tender is the offer of Christ, this day, you would all take Him without one single ex cption; and if all the doors of this houseI were looked save one and you were com-I pelled to make egress by only one door, and stood there and questioned you, and the gospel of Christ nad made the right impres sion upon your heart to-day, you would an swer me as von went out, one and all: "Jesus1 is mine. anA I am His !" 0, that this might be the hour when you would receive Him ! t is not a gospel merely for foot pads, "ad vagrnts arid bucancers; it is for the highly poished, and the educated and tho re tined as well. "Except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God." What-1 ever may be your associations, and what ever your worldly refinement, I must tell ou, as before God I expect to answer in the last day, thdst if you are not changed by the: grace of God you are still down in the ditch of sin, in the ditch of sorrow, in the ditch of condemnation. a ditch that empties into a deeper ditch, 'the ditch of the lost. ButI blessed be God for the lifting, cleansing, lustrating power of his Gospel. The voice of free grace cries: "-Escapo to the 1 mountain: For all that bAeve. Christ has opened a foun tain. Haelujah !to the Lamb who has bought us our pa'do~n: W'ln praise him again when we pass over THE SUGAR TRUST. Determined to Rob the People While They Have the Chance. NEw YoRK, .June 14.-Insiders in su ar trust predict 200 for the stock. They laim that the trust has a surplus equal1 o 40 per share, and that upwards oif 92,000,00 aire being put by every month. The following figures are given by a prominen t Boston sugar dealer: Cent ri ugal, 96 test, raw sugar, cost the refin cries last year 5- cents, the price for< granulated was then 6i1 cents. Tl-dlay I I be raw matecrial costs 8 cents alnd thei price of granulated is 9 cents. The re ines, therefore, get cenit less pier 1 poundl than last year. A trecasuiry otli eal, who has madle a study o'' the sugar question, is qjuoted as saying that "'thle sugar trust realhzes that Congress will1 have to do something toJwardl removing1 the duty from sugar at the next session,1 andl therefore they lropose to run sugar: u to the highest notch before Congress has an o~pportumity to interfere in behalf: of the consumers. In other words the1 sugar trust has (determineif to iob thei people while they have the chance." Marshal Boykin Resigns. Mir. E. Mhiller Bovkin has sent his re sigation as5 Eiteil States Mfarshal for~ Suthi Cairolion to President Harrison with the requ'st that it go ito eiTect uoon the appointment and qjualificaionl of his successor. Mfr. Bovkin was ap pointed M1arshal by Presidenit ('leveland in June, 1885. Ilis appoinitmecnt was confirmed by the Senate in July of the same year, but his second or preseint commission is dated August 2, 1886, and tinder the four-year rule would not ex pre until August, 1890. Norfolk's Contribution to Jolyistown. NoRFOLK, Va., June 14.-The Miayor of Norfolk telegraphed to Governor Beav'r of Pennsylvania to-day to drawv upon him for $2,20J0 contributed by the peoile of Norfolk for the relief of the THE STRICKEN VALLEY. NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS ENDUR ING GREAT PRIVATIONS. Provisions and Other Supplies Being Gobbled Up by People Who Are Not Entitled to Them and Do Not Need Them-The State To-Day Takes Charge of the Work of Clearing Up the Wreck. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., June 11.-Notwith standing this is the twelfth day since the flood, most of the newspaper corre spondents are still without sleeping ac commodations of any kind, and,. as on the first day, are sleeping in barns, brick kilns and other plaees, without cots or blankets. Cots have been sent them, they are told, but as they are too busy to watch the incoming trains some one else gets them. The militia have cots and blankets, as have also the labor ers, but the correspondents, who are doing the hardest kind of work for the outside world, are forced to endure the greatest hardships. The supply of pro visions is improving somewhat, and they manage to get one and sometimes two fair ineals a day. PROVISIONS, ETC., MISAPPLIED. The provisions sent to this valley dont seem as yet to have reached the right place. A number of carloads of all kinds of all supplies have been sent to Morrellville. and as there was no damage there the stuff has been misap plied. A prominent citizen of Morrell ville said this morning: "There is a large class of people here who have not lost a thing in this flood, yet every arriving train finds them in line ready to receive their share. It is safe to say these people have secured provisions enough to last them six months, and clothing enough for five years." AT THE CAMBRIA IRON WORKS. The Cambia Iron Company's Works and yards show this morning the best results thus far of the hard work to ward a semblance of what they once were. Eaci department was told to clean up their own part of the plant, and as each department is damaged to about the same extent they will finish about the same time and :he works will be started. The railroad running through their yards was first repaired, and wood and iron wreckage is hauled to different parts of the yard, and great piles of wood are being burned, while the iron will be examined later. THE STATE TAKES CHARGE TO-DAY. This is the last day for clearing away the effects of the flood by volunteer authorities. To-morrow the State takes hold of the stupenduous work of restor ing the valley to its condition before the UL .m vo-ldb after to-cay ill be under the supervision of Adju ant General Hastings. The volunteers vio heve so untiringly worked for the )bject of restoring order will have fin shed their self-imposed task to-day. kfter twelve days of almost superhuman vork by the army of volunteers, the tate will assume its proper place in the work, and do what every citizen of this :ommonwealth has known for l its duty. 9 . ,GOOD EFFECTS OF THE RAIN. The weary and dreary succession of -ainy days since the flood continues, and he day broke amidst a drizzling rain. With but a single exception every day iere since the deluge has opened with amn, but while the rain has nade the work more disagreeable, thas had some good results. But for the almost continuous rains ie river would have been too low and hallow to float away the debris that is ast being loosened and thrown into the iver. The continued full stream has endered the work of getting wreckage way from the stone bridge much less Lrdois and much more speedy. Again, he rain has served to cool the 'air and emper the rays of the hot June sun. lad there been continuously such eather as prevailed yesterday after ioon, hot and exhausting, it is believed > many that it would have been im )osible~ to continue ttie work of search ng for the dead. Even as it is, the ues arising froni the decomposed odies of persons and animals are most uffensive and at times almost overpow ~ring. So noticeable has this become hat each gang of men searching for lead carries quantities of disinfectants, Lnl when a body is located the vicinity is horoghly sat urated with d isinfectants. y this m'eans the work, which other vse would be unbearable, is less offen THE HORROR OF THE SITUATION. s not diminished, but rather grows. [he search for the dead continues, and n all sections and directions bodies are >eing found, Numbers of. bodies are ow coming to the surface of the waters, Lnd those whose work has made them opetent judges say as many more odies as have been foun~d are lying omewhere. In many unexpected places odies are hourly bemng found, and vhere this will end no human mind can uess. At seven o'clock the monotonous york begaii, and as the day advanced lie sun came out and the morning hours' vere hot and muggy. The fires that iad been kindled among the timber near lie stone bridge were quenched by the *ain and the valley was filled with teamy and ill-smelling vapors. AN ExoDUS t in here to-day, which before the day loses will have reduced the number of ien now here by many hundreds. WilI ng and hard-w~orking volunteer laborers egan to leave early this morning, and he train leaving here at 8 a. m. took way over 400. This is merely the be iming of the great out pouring that vill set in to-morrow, and many are eavig to-day in order to avoid the rush o-morrow. Among those who left this norning were 150 laborers from the .Iartman Steel Company, Beaver Falls. l'hey said they wotild not work for i.30. It is the general opinion here :at Gen. Hlastings has made a mistake ni offering less to the men than is paid m present-$2-and that the result will >e- the temporary eessation of the work. One of the tirst things to be done by Jeneral Hastings will be to discharge 001 poiee nlow doing duty here. In his connection there is likely to be much trumbling and hard talk. -it has been lecided that they should not he paid out f the relief fund, but that the County, -hose Sheriff deputized them, should pay or their services. Some persons look 'or trouble from this source, but . the eneral opinion is that the question will > amicably settled. All the men ein nloved by Booth & Flynn will be paid1 iff'to-day and discharged and transpor :ation furnished for as many as do nol; rish to work for the State at $1.50 pen lay. A number of men will remain. mut the great majority will leave. MERCHANTS REsUMING BUSINEsS. A nmber of proprietors of stores are L munn in to gt t heir plac-es of business in order and open up. Already a num ber have done so. and this has done much to encourage others. A more cheerful and hopeful feeling prevails and is daily increasing. Work all over the valley is being pushed with vigor, as if the present force were trying to show how much they could do. The channel of the river above the stone bridie is being washed clean out, and while comparatively little impression has been made on the great mass of debris near the bridge, the re sults along the channel are very marked. MISS CHRISTMAN'S BODY FOUND. Thirty-eight bodies were recovered to day, all of them being in an advanced stage of decomposition. This afternoon the body of Miss C. A. Christman, the foreign missionary from New Orleans, who was on the express when the flood swept it from the track, was found. On her person was found a draft for $275, a valuable gold watch and a small amount of money and some jewelry. The body was embalmed and held to await the order ef friends. THE HEALTH BULLETIN issued to-day is, with few modifications, a repetition of yesterday's. There were no new cases admitted to the hospitals, and all patients 'are reported convales cent. There are no contagious diseases, except two cases of diphtheria already reported. JOHNSTOwN, June 12.-The borough of Johnstown and the surrounding towns are not under military rule. At 7 o'clock this morning General Hastings took charge and soldiers were placed on guard duty at all the commissary sta tions and morgues. A slight rain has been falling all the morning, and the city presents a most dismal appearance. Everything is turmoil and confusion, and little or no work is being done. For the first time since the work has com menced, the men seemed fagged out and are not in a hurry to get to work. How ever, all the men at the morgue and the relief committees were still hard at work. NATURE ASSERTS ITSELF AT LAST. Sufferers were at the commissary sta tions as early as usual this morning and. stood around in the rain for several hours before they were served. They have the same distressed look as they have had ever since the flood, and as the days roll by. they do not seem to liven up any. In fact, the people that are residents are just commencing to realize fully the te3'rible ordeal they have gone through. Excitement has kept them up until now, but since the excitement has been dying out they are now co - us of the situa on. and if a nu thing remarka DISHEAR For the first people are corn financial loss worr y them as and to say tha mer merchants tine it mildly. a~si" m: use; we will never recover from this; we have lost everything." Pittsburg wholesale merchants, who are here, are trying to comfort them, and are offer ing all the old merchants some very el- I egant inducements to make up again. t A circular has been received by these t men from several Pittsburg merchants offering them all the credit they want. PAYING OFF THE LABORERS. All the laborers employed by Booth & lynn and all the volunteers and other orkmen were paid off at the club ouse this morning by the finance com nittee. Over 4,000 men surrounded the lace, and it was with considerable dif iculty that they were paid. A number f them forgot their numbers, and it aused no end of trouble. The pay roliI ltogether amounted to about $90,000- t ~CARCTY or LABOR UND)ER THLE NEW REGIME. Few hodies were recovered this morn- s ng, owing to the chi'otic condition of t ffair's pending the transfer of authority C nd to the bad weather. Although I >sters axe conspicuously displayed v .out calling for men at $1.50 per day a o continue work on the ruins, there are b: nlv about 130 men working, and these t n a dilatory and half-hearted mnanner.d ~our bodies' w.ere taken to the first ward in orgue, none of which were identified, a ndl but one to the fourth ward morgue. ( t Kernville and the First Presbyterian hurch morgues nothing was done. V 'hree bodies were observed in the ruins d tar where the rink lies a wreck, butt here was no effort made to get them c ut. Laborers almost unanimously re- o use to handle bodies when discovered, o d the men at the morgues are obliged o o go after them. To this there is much betion. Undertakers at two school ouse morgues are serving gratuitously nd refuse compensation. '1hey will re- ti air until General Hastings makes ar-t angenents to relieve them. The body p rashers were paid offet~o-day. i GENERAL HASTINGs'S REIGN. Order is coming out of chaos. Mili- ~ ary discipline has shown its effect the C ist day of General Hastings's reign.1 t a eitizens' meeting, this afternoon a esoltion was passed bidding General Iastings God speed and ordering the ~ ~ity officials to keep hands off. General a iastings has his large staff in working C rder to-night, and aside fromi some ight friction regarding teams for the se of the.. comnmissaty department, g here has not been a jar in the day's , roeedings. The grand exodus of workmen hasa een going on all day. As fast as money ~, 'as handed out of the paymaster's win low at the Baltimore and Ohio depot a vorkmen boarded the trains on which heir picks and ear's were loaded andl i eft .Johnstown without any expressed egrets. Work upon the ruins has beent t a stand still all day. hut to-morrow norning General Hastings expects tot ae 2,500 men at work. They will be e mder tbe supervision of Contractor amnes McKnmght of Pittsburg, and are I urisihed by Booth & Flynn and James fecnihit of Pittsbuirg, Cobtrn & Ste- t ~art, of Altoona, and McLean & Co. r m Easterin Pennsylvania. T he newi plan of canvassing the city udt systematizing the distribution of ~uplies is meeting with genieral favor. rovsi..ons and supplies continue to come n freely.. . There is little change in the health ;ituation. Ten bodies were recovered y the small force of men working, BUsINEss MEN's MEETING. . A meeting was held in Alma Hall by 'itizns of Johnstown to-day, at which1 rominent business men were present. 1 Col. J. P. Linton, a prominent busine'ss( an, presided. Remarks were made by several Qf these touching the great work I efore them and the necessity of unitedI nd' individual action to rebuild the 1 . d the cultivation of fortitude toll ye r p und~er the bnrdens and griefs so It suddnly thrust upon thetm A eries of I resolutions were proposed and adopteu, thanking James B. Scott for his untiring efforts to bring order out of chaos, the pee of Pittsburg in particular and citizens of United States generally for their prompt and generous assist ance. They pledge united sup port-to the State officials in every way in their power in the work now un dertaken to the end that the work may be expedited. There were some sharp animadversions upon Governor Beaver for his tardiness of action relative to the great disister which has rendered thou sands of people homeless, and his at tempt to belittle matters in favor Wil liamsport and other Susquahanna Valley towns which have beenanundated. These expressions were received with manifes tations of disapproval, and the matter was dropped. SOLDIERS SUPPLANT SPECIAL POLICEMEN. The 800 special policemen employed here by the Sheriff were discharged this morning and soldiers put in their places. This will cause satisfaction to almost every one, as the police always had orders that conflicted with the orders of General Hastings, and there was no end of trouble getting through the lines. Gen eral Hastings gave orders to the soldiers to permit all persons wearing press badges to go to any place they wished, and consequently newspaper men are happy. REGISTRATION OF SURvIvoRs. The registers who have been making a house-to-house canvass will be ready to report this evening to Colonel Rogers, who has charge of the bureau of regis tration. After this a second canvass will be made, to verify the first, and as this will take over a week there will be no correct list of the living until that time. This register will be official and s being made for legal purposes as well as general information. CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE SUFFERERS. HARRIsURG, Pa., June 12.-Addi ional contributions for the flood suffer :rs were received by the Governor to lay from all portions of the country. The total amount received by him to late is about $408,000. JoHNSToWN, Pa., June 13.-The gene ral opinion among well posted : eopie icre is that tbe loss of life will be be tween 3,000 and 4,000. It was generally riven out that Johnstown and the bor )ugh adjoining had a population of 35,000, buit this was a very high esti Onate, and conservative people put the population between 25,000 and 28,000. ol Rogers, who has charge of the regis tration, state.; that from all he can learn the populatio i only amounted to about 25.000, and t ais accounts for 10,000 peo ple supposed to be lost. Reports sent out from here to the effect that 12,000 000 people were missing were based supposition that there were nts in these boroughs. he number of bodies oints along the conflicting. e been sent hpq~ mre red. THE WORK OF CLEARING UP. The first real woi-k under the super 'ision of the State commenced this horning at 6 o'clock. The whistle of he Cambria Iron and Steel Works was he signal for the men to commence, mnd about 1,500 started in with their >icks and shovels. The early morning ras warm and cloudy, and the fumes d odors from dlecayed hodies was omething almost unbearable. As the orning advanced the weather grewv armer, and by 10 o'clock the sun was hining brightly and every one on the 'round was hard at work. LOAFERs TRY TO MIAKE TROUBLE. During the-morning a crowd of worth ss loafers in some mianner secured en rance to the town and wanted to in urate a strike among the workmen. ome of the laborers were alretidy dis tisfied at having new bosses over bem, and only wanted a chance to nrplainl. Jaries McKnight of Pitts urg, one of the State contractors, got rind of the trouble brewing and went mng the men and informed them that e would have no kicking, and that all >ose who wished to quit would have to o so immediately. About 100 of the men left, but the loafers remained round, and Mr. McKnight went to reneral Hasting and demanded protee on for his men. A dletachmlent of mi tia from the Fourteenth Regiment were etailed to the place and drove away all te men who refused Jo work. This aused General Hastings to issue an rder to the soldiers not to admit any ne to Johnstown proper without an der. RESUMiPTION OF BUsINEss.. The business men of the town seenm >have awakened to their senses, and 2is morning a number of theta were: reparing to start over again in bus ess. Two giocery stores were started ear the Pennsylvania Railroad freight ation. Both'placs were doing a land flice business, and this encouraged other usiness men to start up, and~ the prob bihties are that inside of a week at ie latest, a hundred stores will be in teration. Already two barber shops: nd one 'jewelry store have been pened. A BETTERt FEELING PREvAILING. To-day was the second day since the ood that .Johnstown was not dleluged rith rain. Under the influence of a right sun the sandy soil was soon dry, d things in general brightened up ronderfully. A number of stores, with beir wares inside, were started anew. nd large sales of flooded goods were ffectcd, beingg bought chiefly as relies. eople are making heroic effort-s to clean ut their houses to fit them for habita ion. Numbers have conmtined to help ach other to restore their homes on~ heir foundations and to remove the ac mulations of drift and rubbish which ars the entrancee to their doors. Sewer ipes are all awry and cellars are all ll of water. There is need for enlgines o pu.np out the water as early as pos ible. Syphoning has been tried, but rith no success, as thle cllars are mouch aer thman the ground. TIhe Cambria ~omay started out a corips of survey .rs this atlternoon to locate the lines of .emrkation for the rebuilding and re. air of their demolished plant. BEGINNING BUSINEss ANEW. The first decisive step toward putting ohustown business men on their feet gain was made to-day, when about 200: aerhants who had survived the flood, tany of them without a dollar, met~ 'eneral Hastings this afternoon and as ured him that they would be re-estab ished in business on long credit. Both ittsburg and Philadelphia wholesalers tave offered Johnstown merchants this usiness courtesy. The meeting to-day urned out to be an ovation to Generalj ~ati. The meenga penned hv the General, who said: "I have been directed to clear the streets of Johns town, and make contracts with men to open the way i.i order that the ier chants may be enabled to get to and from their business places. Our work is progressing rapidly and vigorously, and the best thing for Johnstown merchants to do is to begin business over agaiai. I have communicated with Eastern firms, who offer to assist you if you will re sume basiness in this city I wofild suggest that you build temporary struc tures for the present, until more favor able circumstances warrant the erection of permanent establishments. Pittsburg houses offer to stock your stores with a a full line of first class goods on long credit. I advise you to improve this opportunity; and when in the course of time matters take more tangible shape, you will be able to repay all losses in curred." - JOHNSTOWN. Pa., June 14.-Rain is pouring down this morning and has ef fectually stopped work of all kinds in this stricken city, where work should go ahead as rapidly as possible. Even the soldiers have sought the shelter of their tents, and the newspaper correspondents - missed this morning with considera ble relief the familiar 'Have you a Pass?" from the guards at different places. The wreckage at the stone bridge, whicb was fired last night. has been dampened con siderably, and unless the rain stops soon that invaluable work will also come to a stand still. THE CROWDS AROUND THE COMMISSARIES, which seem to increase with each day, are a mud-bedraggled set. The entrance to each station is very narrow, yet into them women and children, each with capacious baskets, crowd like sheep into a pen. The line is long, and those who are so unlucky as to have arrived after 6 or 7 o'clock have been standing unpro tected, and, in some instances, half clad. in the pouring rain. Their baskets are generally well filled, yet on leaving the commissaries complaints are heard on all sides of "No butter, nor anything fresh, after two weeks," etc., etc. WHEREIN THE RAIN IS A BLESSING. in one way the rain to-day is regarded as a blessing, as The terrible stench from burning flesh, which was almost unbear able last night, is scarcely noticeable. A number of lumber men from the Clarion region were engaged clearing wreckage with their hooks last night and this morning, and their work was so ef fective that another detachment was sent for. It has been decided to tear down all unsafe buildings in the town and burn the wreckage. A house-to-house canvass will be. in augurated to-morrow, to secure, as near as possible, an accurate list of the living end dead for the State officials. The system of registration attempted a week as not effective. R FEATURE loons i Jo ustown an the ounding owns, but two escaped destruction. The Chi nese 'laundries were also completely wiped out and a number of Chinamen are missing. The rain, which poured down all the morning, ceased at noon. Work was I roceeded with, but only 700 workmen a started in. A large amount of lumber is arriving o-day, consigned to the State. It will ~ e distributed to the more needy mer ~hants to erect temporary structures in wich to resume business. CLEARING AwAY THE WRECK. tl HARRIsBURG, Pa., June 14.-Gov- d ~rnor Beaver has received an official re ort from the State Board of Health, in hich the district from the railroad ~ ridge, over the Conemaugh River at ~ ohnstown, to the mouth of Stony Creek b iver is $leclared a nmisance. The Gov-- a ~rnor now has the legal machinery and V Lhe funds to apply it, and the work will be n ushed without delay. AN URGENT NEED OF THE HOUR. ri The Governor this afternoon issued a b roclamation, in which he says, among )ther things, that there can be little ca oubt that the most useful and judicious d ~xpenditure at the present moment for n e entire people of the region would be s1 fund which could be used for puitting u p simple board shanties, in which bus- n ess might be commenced by the cour- 'E geous business men of Johnstown, who o ae signified their intention of remain- a g where they are and assisting in g )uilding up .the ruins which speak so o loquently in their behalf. Credit is b enered them to any extent by mner- n bants' in our great trading centres. L hat they need is simply a cover for ni heir goods and wares. Contributions A kind, or especially designated for the I] )urpose of building board shanties in si vhich business can be commenced, a 'ould be a great boon to the community, p Lnd will tend more than anything else o1 t the present moment to the restora- n ou to a moral condition of affairs in .bat community. el J!OHNsTowN WILL BE REBUILT. 3efore that is done, howvever, legal steps mst be taken to consolidate several in Iepedent boroughs, among which its unicipal government was divided. It ; unerstood that the people expect to n >nsolidate their government under a :itv charter. and that legal steps will be ken looking toward this end. Until his is done, streets cannot be laid out, trades cannot he established, the work I~ )f permenient reb~uilding cannot go on. I One locality in the far West otfered a k ew days ago twenty-five catloads ofr mber, with the expressed intention of loubling it. Such gifts would be more han acceptable'at this time. They can e consigned to General Hastings, onstown. who will see that they will c properly (distributed, if designated f apecially for that ipurpose. If persons fr ho have already contributed desire hat their contributions should be ap )ropriated towardl this object, a simple utimation from them as to their wishies will be sutlicient. n To) REsToRE THE CHIANNEIs OF TRADE. d The problem which confr'otts the ir ele of Jlohnstowvn andl vicinity. and ri the the solution of which their well wishers everywhere must be deeply in terested, is thie restoration as early as JE possible of the various channels of trade v and the machinery of supply and demand c< Merchants aind tradlesmien must be en- tI ouraged to begin the work of rehabilita- rt ion at once. If their property had - een destroyed by flre they would p~ro ably have insurance upon which to be ia business. Under present con ditions. however, they have simply and G absolutely no thing. This object is cor- S dially comumended, especially to the busi- st ness' men of Pennsylvania, and to al others who have transactions with what zu was one of the most thriving and pop ' i .ou n ant Commonr < INDIAN UPRISING. TIlE CIIIPE WAS DECLARE WAR AGAiNST THE PALE-FACES. Seven Swedish Laborers Massacred and Others Wounded by the Savages-The Old Story of Encroachment by the Whites Upon the Rights of the Red Man. ST. PAUL, JuUC 141.-A dispatch from Mora Linn says: The treacherous Chip pewa Indians are on the war-path again, and there are grave fears of a general uprising. Already seven Swede laborers have been massacred and several hun dreed laborers and settlers are now hur rying here for safety. Sheriff Nicolsen rode to town yesterday and gave the alarm. He also communicated with Governor Merriam, requesting him to order out the State troops to quell the uprising. The present trouble is the outgrowth of the eneroachment by whites upon Milielacs reservation. Recently a con tract was awarded by settlers to Folly. Brothers of St. Paul to dig a ditch for irrigation purposes from Millelacs Lake to a point on Smoke River, near this place. When the Indians learned that the ditch was to be dug they came to the conclusion that the - intention was to drain the latter, and deprive them of their fishing privileges. Notice was served by the Indians upon the contractors, warning them if they (lid not leave the Territory at once they - would be put to death. The contractors gave no heed to the warning, but came here and engaged- 300 laborers, who began work yesterday morning at Millelacs. About noon yes terday they were attacked by a party of 400 Chippewas. led by White Snake and Great Bear. The Indians were in full war paint and armed with Winchester rides and tomahawks. As soon as they saw the reds coming, the laborers drcpped their shovels and fled toward this place. They were pursued by the savages, who shot and killed seven men. Seyeral others were wounded, but not seriously. The Indians scalped two. men and mutilated the bodies of two :thers in a fiendish manner. Indians who have been gathering on the South shore of Millelacs Lake for a week or more on Wednesday night en ,aged in a war dance as a preliminary, o the massacre. Three of the sev victims have families here in-d aircumstances. Ex-Senator H. M. Rice of St. Paul, Bishop Warty of Dakota and Dr. Whit ng of Wisconsin, the commissioners ap ointed by President Harrison to reatr - with the Chippewa Indians, are in this ity, and were to have started out next eek to negotiate with the tribes a t ifillelacs. HARRISON'S STRATEGY. 'Judiciously" Sharing Spoils in Ala bama to Satisfy all Factions. BIRMINGHAM, June 11.-The adminis ration is playing the Republican party n Alabama for "keeps." The visit of a ommittee of Birmingham iron mann acturers to the President last wi Brats in this State suggested Alabama s a possibly doubtful State in 1892. ut the organization of the White Re ,ublican Protective Tariff League in this ity seems to have upset the plans of Re ublican leaders to capture this State by judicious distribution of patronage. The leaders of the movement hastened o Washington and sought recognition t the hands of the administration, urg 1g that they could and would break the solid South" by capturing *Alabama. he opponents of the movement were not le, and represented to the President >st if the colored voters were to be riven out of tihe party the "South would >rever remain solid After the organization of the new iovement several weeks elapsed before ny appointments were made, in Ala ama, and it is now well known that the dministration was carefully investigat ig the strength and purpose of the. ovement, and the strength of the opo tion. When at last Alabama appoint ents were taken up, both sides were sady to claim a viet ,.A oh have een disappointe'd. The appointments made so far i tte that the administration proposes to. ivide the offices between the two ele tents, giving the colored man a fair iare of the minor places. The appoint-. ent of R. L. Houston, a new move ent man, postmaster - at Birmingham, as followed by the appointment of - pponents of the movement at Anniston __ ad Oxford. A member of the new anization was appointed Superintende Sthe Birm public buildings; b is clerk, jt ited, is one of the tost bitter i of the movement. ewis E. ParsoL. .le originator of -the ew movement, was appointed District .ttorney for the Middle and Northern. istricts of Alabama. This created.con ernation among the negroes, but to lay their fears a colored man was ap >inted postmaster at Luverne. and an :her colored man receiver of public toney at Huntsville. Thus the situation remains, neither ement of the 1.arty in the State being >le to claim any decided advantage in te way of odiciid recogniition. A Duel With Bowie Knives. ST. AUGUSTINE, TeX., June 12.-Rube olk, Jr., andi George Audry, t wo young en of this city, fought a duel to death ith bowie knives last night for a wo an. The men attended a party and ft together, apparently the best of iends. While on the way home they iarrelled over one of the girls, and ey dismounted, and, dirawing their ives, fought it out on the adside. Polk was killed in a few inutes, Hie was stabbed to the hea-rt id his jugular was severed. Auidry ceived a fearful cut in tile side and ie in tile leg. lie was carried home om the battle groundlt, and told his iends to inform the Sheriff that he was ady to give himself up. Large Gold Export. NEw YoRK. June 14.-Gold engage cnts for to mnorrow's steamers are very savy, four banking houses having or tred $3,975,000 in gold bars for shl ent to Europe. A Strict Party Vote. hARTFORD, Con~n.. June 13.- The ouse has defeated the resolution pre - ding for submitting to the people a nstitutional amiendmlent providing for ec election of State officers by a plu lity vote. It was a strictly party vote -yeas 80, nays 114. Shot and Killed by His Stepson. CH ATTANooGA, June 11.- At Dalton, a., this morning, Hon. S. ~E. Fields, :ate Senator, was shot and killed by his epson. Dennis Taylor, whom he had xempted to chlastise. Young Taylor as arrestedl and taken to Dalton. His tother is prostrated with her dlcuble