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oL. vi. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1890. NO. 29. CEN7S ' LEGISLATION. A REVIEW OF THE ACTION OF THE STATE SENATE. The Senators From Charleston Give a His t4ry of the Proceedings lit That Body and in the House of Representatives. To the E1thor of the News and Courier: C:.pt. Tillman has on sev eral occasions seen fit to denounce those members of the State Senate who voted against the census and Yeapportionment bills. We have waited to see whether any one, other than ourselves, would give the reasons for such action. We are unwilling longer to have such reasons unstated, especially in view of the recent at tack on that upright soldier and gentleman, Judge Izlar, whose po sitionl iccessarily forces him to keep .rlence. THE FACTS BE AS FOLLOWs. The General Statutes of the State contained and now contain the gen eral provisions for taking the census. About two or three days before the close of the session of 1884 a bill came over from the House to the Senate, amending in certain particu lars the general law, on the subject of the census--principally as to the rate per capita to be paid and in other minor points. While, however, is left the duty on the Governor of having an enumeration made, neither this bill nor the general law appro priatodany money to enable him to have the work done. The bill, there fbre, as it passed the House, was in complete, and would have effectedno result. On inquiry it was ascertained that the probable expense of a State cen sus would amount to some $50,000 or $60,009. This was the estimate made by careful men, who were supposed to be in a position to know. The majority of the Senators,nearly all of whose countio were unaffected by the result, did not feel justified in .puttingupon the people this heavy expense. And asthe House, which was the body whose membership was in question, had not deemed it prop er to take the responsibility of mak ing the appropriation necessary for the work, these Senators, acting on the bill sent them by the House, re j6cted it. The counties whose representation would be affected by the census were about equally divided. The very large majority of the Senators were entirely disinterested, as it did not affect their counties in any way. A majority of these disinterested I Senators voted against the bill, and by their votes it was defeated. In 1885 the -amendment of the Constitution was proposed allowing reapportionment on the basis of the Unite Staes censas of 1890 and erafter. ~Tis wasated by the rote of every Senator present except one, Mr. Reynolds, of Beaufort. It was proposed and passed as a fulfil zent of the requirement of the Con Wtitution providing for reapportion ient, but as saving the taxpayers of the State the heavy expenses of tak lg the census by the State. At the same session, 1885, the House again sent over a bill for tak ing the census by the State authori ties. But as the amendment to the tu the Constitution had been passed providing the other method for re apprtionment, as a measure of economy to the State, the Senate did not feel called on to pass this bill There was another serious objec tion, to wit: Whether an extra ses sion of the Legislature could legally be called to reapportion in time for the election in the fall of 1886. Thns had due consideration. But that hich determined the matter was that another method of reapportionment had been provided, by which the taxpayers were saved some $50,000 or $60,000. The matter then camle before the people of the State at the general election in 1886, when this amend ment was submitted for their decis ion. It was adopted by an over whelming popular vote. The people of the State thereby ratified and ap proved the action of the Legislature in substituting this means of reap portionment, and saving them the heavy tax and expense of tang the census by the State. And the peo ple themselves having thus acted on the question, it was settled fin ally. During the session of 1886 the bill to ratify this constitutional amend ment came before the Senate. It was passed by the vote of every Senator except one. In 1887 and again in 1888 bills were ~itroduced into the Senate to reap portion on the basis-of the census of 1880. These w~ere opposed as not being within the scope of the amend ment, which provided that the first reapportionment should be made un der the census of 1890. There were also practical difficulties, as for in stance with Charleston county, which had been divided since that census into Charleston and Berkeley. This prevented any accurate or proper re apportionment on the basis of the census of 1880.- The Senate, there fore, by a decided majority, rejected the bills. This is a simple statement of the cse. Who do not propose to in dulge in intemperate language or to be drawn into vituperation or recrun ination. We desire solely to give the reasons which governed the Senate mn its action. Augustine T. Smythe, Geo. Lamb Buist Senators from Charleston County. -Carpenters in Greenville have struck for a ten hour day with the samepay they have been receiving for eleven and a quarter hours. --While Senator Tom Woodward of Fairfield, and Mr. John Howie of this city, were sitting in front of the Hotel Jerome Monday evening, some rearks of the latter about the State government and its officers gave the Senator such offense that he struck Mr. Howie. Bystanders prevented further hostilities, and in a few mmn utes the Senator and Mr. Howie made ptheir differencesand peacereigned agin So quietly did the affair take pethat some of those looking at it did not: e that it was more than as it hplay.-Reister, 24th. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. -Col. Robert Aldrich of Barnwell is out in an interview in the Charles ton World, squarely favoring Till man. -A commission has been issued to the Capital City Guards, colored, of Columbia. The company comprises eighty-three members. -Alexander Noisette, colored, is in jail at Charleston charged with the murder of John Worthy, colored, by driving an iron pin ito his head. -Preparations are being made to begin the work of erecting the cotton compress at Sumter, the stock for which was subscribed a month ago. -Napoleon Levelle, who killed his wife and nearly murdered his uncle in Charleston on Febuary 17th, was convicted of murder, and sentenced to be hung September 5. -One of the census emunerators appointed for Catawba. township, York county, claims to have found a negro woman who gave in her age as 114, and is still right spry. -Steel McLees, the only son of the widow McLees, living ten miles be low Anderson, was drowned in Bar ris' Pond on Saturday afternoon. He was caught in a suck hole. -Work on the new Cathedral in Charleston is progressing. The arched windows on the west wall have been about finished, and the work is pushing forward all over the building. -Newberry has been selected as the place of this year's encampment of the Citadel Cadets. The corps will use the grounds of Newberry College-these havir.g been offered for the purpose. -Mr, L. L. Harris, of Chesterfield county, saw a peculiar looking old stump the other day, and after close inspection concludedthere must be something in it. He turned the stump over, and in the bottom of it found 93 leather-wing bats. -The new aad handsome building erected by the Masonic fraternity of Anderson was dedicated on Tuesday with imposing ceremonies. Col J. A. Hoyt, a Past Master of the lodge there and a Past Grand Master of the State, delivered the dedicatory ad dress. -The meeting at Lexington on Wednesday was attended by about 350 persons. Speeches were made by Capt. Tillman, Gen. Bratton, Gen. Pope, Col. Marshall, and Col. Gary. Everything passed off quietly. The sentiment of the meeting was strong ly with Mr. Tillman. -Judges Bond and Simonton, in the United States Court, at Charles ton on.,Wednesday, decided the town ship railroad bond cases in South Carolina. The suit was brought by the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chica goRahad-g Company. Thevalidity of the bonds had been attacked by the townships that issued them, but their validity is upheld. -The Charleston World of Wed nesday says: "Soon after the rain and thunder and lightning yesterday, and especially after the severe clap of thunder, thousands of dead fish came to the surface on Ashley river They were of all kinds, large and small, and lined the shore and float ed in the stream for a considerable distance. The tugs and vessels which had to run up and down theriyer encountered them in every direc tion." -On Sunday morning, Mr. R. E. Tyler, of Aiken county, met with a fatal accident. After harnessing a young pony for the first time to, a road eart, he attempted to get in, and got his Loot hung in the spring. The pony dashed off and dragged him for some distance. After it was stopped and he was released it was found that he was fatally injured, his skull being fractured, with numerous internal and external bruises. He died on Monday morning. A Move Against Chairman Brlee. NEW Yonx, June 25.-There are hints that some influential persons think that Senator Calvin S. Brice would do well to resign his office of Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and that such a move would be of considerable advantage to the party at large. His railroad and other financial connections and his lukewarm tariff sentiments are iven as the reason for making a change desirable. The position of head of the committee is no sinecure, and it gaay be rather difficult to get any ofte to fillI Mr. Brice's place. While nominally favorable to Mr. Cleveland's renomination and re-elec tion, he has been accused of really favoring the nomination of ex-Secre tary William C. Whitney, although that gentleman has over and over again stated his refusal to be a can didate. Taken with other early indi cations of the campaign, such a con troversy would seem ripe to add anew complication the many now surround ing the Democratic situation here. An Eminent Young Georgian. Pat Calhoun of Atlanta,though but 34 years of age, is general counsel for the great Richmond Terminal system, which stretches over 8,000 miles of road. He was strongly talked of for president of the system. Mr. Cal is a grandson of John C. Calhoun and of General Duff Green who figured in Washington journalism during President Jackson's adminis tration. Both his ancestors were re markable men, and young Calhoun has the characteristics of both. His advance has been extraordinary. Ten years ago he was poor and .just be ginning his law practice. To-day he is a lawyer and railroad attorney of the first rank, and wealthy, with a creative business capacity of the highest order. -Dr. J. B. Patrick, a prominent dentist of Rock Hill~died on Monday. He was a native of Charleston. Taking Pleasure in the Future. Briggs: "What an eloquent ser mon Mr~. Longwood preached in favor of a belief in a future life. There can be no doubt that he is a firm bel iever in ani eternity." Braggs: "Yes; he thinks that when Ieternity begins he will have a chance to preach as long a sermon as he OPA'S STRUGGLE. A LESSON FROM THE STORY OF NAOMI'S DAUCHTER-IN-LAW Dr. Tahnage'. Striking Sermon en a Strik - ing Chapter In Bible History. Dr. Talmage took for his text on Sunday Ruth i, 12: "And they lifted up their voice and wept, an Orpah kissed her moth er-in-law, but Ruth clave un to her." Following is the sermon: Moab was a heathen land. Naomi is about to leave it and go into the land of Bethlehem. She has two daughters-in-law, Ruth and Orpah, who conclude to go with her. Naomi tells them they had b Ctter not leave their native land and undertake the hardship of the journey, but they will not be persuaded. They all three started out on their journey. After awhile, Naomi, although she highly prized the company of her two daughters-in-law, attempted again to persuade them to go back because of the hardship and self-denial through which they would be obliged to go. Ruth responds in the words fiom which I once discoursed to you: "En treat me not to leave thee, or to re turn from following after thee, for where thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge, thy people shall be my people and thy God my God, where thou diest will I die and there will I be buried, the Lord do so to me and more also if aught but but death part thee and me." Not so with her sister Orpah. Her de termination had already been shaken. The length and peril of the journey began to appeal her, and she had worshipped the gods of Moab so long that it was hard to give them up. From that point Orpah turned back, the parting describedin the words of my text: And they lifted up their voices and wept again, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-Jaw, but Ruth :lave unto her. Learn from this story of Orpah that some of those who do not leave the Moab of their iniquities are per sons of fine susceptibility. It was compassion for Naomi in her widow hood and sorrow that led Orpah to start with her toward Bethlehem. It was not because of any lack of affec tion for her that she turned back. We know this from the grief exhibited at parting. I do not know but that she had as much warmth and ardor of nature as Ruth, but she lacked the courage and persistence of her sister. That there are many with as fine susceptibility as Orpah who will not take up their cross and follow Christ, is a truth which needs but little de monstration. Many of those who have become the followers of Jesus -e-but very little natural impressi bility. Grace often takes hold of the hardest heart and the most unlovely character and tarrsforms it. It is a hammer that breaks rocks. In this Christ often shows His powers. It wvants but little generalship to con quer a flat country, but might of ar tillery and heroism to take a fort manned and ready for raking can nnade. The great Captain of our salvation has forced his way into many an armed castle. I doubt not that Christ coald have found many a fisherman naturally more noble earted than Simon, Peter, but there was no one by whose conversion He could more gloriously have mag iged His grace. The conversion of a score of Johns would not have il lustrated tho power of the Holy Ghost as much as the conversion of one Peter. It would have been easier to drive twenty lambs like John into the fold than to tame one lion like Peter. God has often made some of His most efficient servants out of men naturally nnpressionable. As men take stilf and unwieldy timbers, and under huge-handed machinery bend them into the hulk of great ships, thus God has often shaped and bent into His service the most anwieldly natures, while those natur ally impressionable are still in their unchanged state. Oh, how many, like Orpah, have warn, affections and yet never become Christians? Like Or-pah, they know how to weep, but they do not know how to pray. Their fimeness of feeling leads them into the friendships of the world, but not in communion with God. They can love everybody but Him, who is altogether lovely. All other sorrow rends their heart, but they are untouched by the woes of a dying Christ. Good news fills them with excitement, but the glad tidings of great joy and salvation stir not their soul. Anxious to do what is right, yet they rob God. Grateful for the slightest favors, they make no return to Him who wrung out the last drop of blood from His heart to deliver them from going down to the pit. They would weep at the door of a prison at the sight of a wicked cap tive in chains, but no compassion for their own souls, over which satan, like a grim jailer, holds the lock and key. When repulsive, grasping, un sympathetic natures resist the story of a Saviours love, it does not excite our surprise; but it is among the greatest of wonders that so many who exhibit Orpahs susceptibility also exhibit Orpah'simpenitency. We are not surprised that there is bar renness in a desert. but a strange thing is it that semetinmes the iRose of Sharon will not grow in a garden. On a summer morning we are not surprised to and a rock without any dew on it but if, going among a flock of lilies, we saw in them no glitter ing drops, would say, "What foul sprite has been robbing these vases?" We are not surprised that Herod did not become a Christian, but how strange that the young man Jesus loved for his sweetness of temper should not have loved the Redeemer. Hard-hearted Felix trembled, proud Nebuchadnezzar repented, and cruel Manasseh turned unto the Lord, but many a nature, affectionate and gen tle, has fought successfully against divine influences. Many a dove has ref used to come in the window of the ark although finding no rest for the sole of her foot. Again, the history of Orpah impres ses upon me the truth that there are many who make a good starting, but after awhile change their minds and turn back. When these three mourn er start from their home in Moah there is as much probability that Orpah- will reach Bethlehem as that her sister Ruth and her mother-in law, Naomi, will arrive there. But while these continue in the journey they commenced, Orpah after awhile gets discouraged and turns back This is the history of many a soul. Perhaps it was during a revival of religion they resolved upon a Chris tian life, and made preparations to leave Moab. Before that they were indifferent to the sanctuary, churches were necessary evils. The minister almost always preached poor sermons, : eaise they had not the heart to hear them. They thought the bread was not good because their appetite was poor. Relig'ou did very well for invalids and the aged. but they had no desire for it. Suddenly a change caie upon their soul. Theyi fouind that soimethuig must be done. Every night there was a thorn in their pillow. There was a gall in their wine. They found that their pleas ires were only falselights of a swamp that rise out of decay and death. Losing their self-control they were startled by their own prayer, "God be merciful to me a sinner." They did not suspect it, but the Holy Ghost was in their soul. Without thinking what they were doing they brushed the dust off their family Bible. The ground did not feel as firm under them nor did the air seem as bright. They tried to dam back the flood of their emotions, but the attempt failed, and they confessed their anguish of soul before they meant to. The secret was out. They wanted to know what they must do to be saved. Alas! Alas! Starting out for heaven is a very different thing from arriv ing there. Remember Lot's wife. She looked back with longing to the place from which she came, and was destroyed. Half way between Sodom and the City of Refuge that strange storm comes upon her, and its salt and brimstone gather on her gar ments until they are so stiffened she cannot proceed, nor can she lie down, because of this dreadful wrapping around her garments and limbs; and long after her life has gone she still stands there so covered up by the strange storm that she is called a pillar of salt as some sailor on ships in the wintry tempest stands covered with a mail of ice. Ten thousand times ten thousand men have been destroyed half way between Sodom and the City of Refuge. Orpah might as well never have started as afterwards to turn back. Yet multi tudes have walked in her footsteps. Go among those the least interested in sacred tluings and ypu willfind that they were once out of the land of Moab. Every one of them prayed right heartily and studied their Bi bles; and frequented the sanctuary, but Lot's wife looked back wistfully to Sodom, and Orpah retieated from the company of Ruth and Naomi. It is an impressive thought that af ter Orpah had gone so far as ac tually tQ look over into the land of Bethlehem she turned back and died in Moab. We talk about taking up the cross and following Jesus, but that cross is not half so heavy, as the burden which the sinner carries. It is a very solemn thing to be a Christian, but it is a more solemn thing not to be a Christian. There are multitudes who, afraid of the self-denials of the Christian, rush into the harder self denials of the unbeliever. No yoke but Christ's, however tight and gall ing! Orpah goes back to her idola tries, but she returns weeping; and all who follow her will find the same sorrow. Just in proportion as gos pel advantages have been numerous 'will be the disturbance of the heart that will not come to Christ. Again: This subject teaches that a religious choice and the want of it frequently divide families. Ruth and Orpah and Naomi were tenderly at tached. They were all widows, and their life had been consecrated by a baptism of tears. In the fire of trial their affections had been forged. To gether they were so pleasantly uni ted, you can hardly imangine thom separated. Yet a fatal line is drawn dividing them from each other, per haps forever. Naomi cannot live in a heathen country. She must go into Bethlehem, that there among the pious she may worship the true God. Ruth~ makes a similar choice, but Orpah rebels. "And they lifted up their voice and wept again, and Or pah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clave unto her." The history of this family of Elimelech is the history.of many families of this day. How often it is that in a circle of re latives, while they look alike, and walk alike, and talk alike, there is a tremendous difference. Outwardly united in the affectional relations of this life, they are separated. in the most important respect. Some now are the children of the light, and oth ers the children of darkness. These are alive in Christ, and those are dead ini sin. Ruth in the land of Bethle hem, Orpah in Moab. Of the same family are David and Solomon, wor shippers of the most High God, and Adonijah and Absalom, who live and die the enemies of all righteousness. Belonging to the same family was the holy and devout Eli, and the reckless Phineas, and Hophni. Jona than Edwards, the good, and Pierre point Edwards. the bad, belong to the same family. Aaron Burr, the dissolute. had a Most excellent father. Dying, yet immortal hearer, by the solemnity of the parental, and filial, and conjugal relation, by the sacred ness of the family hearth, by the hon or of the family name, by the memo ry of departed kindred, I point out this parting of Ruth and Orpah. Again: This subject suggests to me two of the prominent reasons why people refuse the kingdom of Christ. There may have been many other reasons why Orpah left her sister and mother-in-law and went back home, but there were two rea sons which I think were more promi nent than the rest. She had been brought up in idolatries. She loved the heathen gods which her ances tars had worshiped, land, though these blocks of wood an'd stone could not, hear, she thought they coul hear~, and, though they could not see. she thought they could see, an(a though they could not feel, she thought they could feel. A new reli gion had been brought to her atten She must often have heard her moth er-in-law talk of the God of Isreal. She was so much shaken in her origi nal belief that she concluded to leave her idolatries, but, coming to the margin of the land of Bethlehem, her determination failed her, and speed ily she returned to her gods. This is the very reason why multitudes of persons nevex become Christians. They cannot Tbear to give up their gods. Bnsiness is the American Jug gernaut that crushes more men than the great car of the Hindoos. To it they say their morning and evening prayers. A little of Christ's religion may creep into the Sabbath, but Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday,Thurs day, Friday and Saturday are the days devoted to this American idol. Every hour there is a sacrifice on the altar. Home duties, health of body, manly strength and immortal affec tions must all burn in this holocaust. Men act as though they could take their bonds and mortgages, and saws, and trowels, and axes, and day books, with them into the kingdom of heaven. There are men who have no unho ly thirst for gold, yet who are devo ting themselves to their worldly oc cupations with a ruinous intensity. Men of the stock exchange, men of the yardstick, men of the saw, men of the trowel, men of the day-book, what will become of you if unforgiv en, in the great day when there are no houses to build, and no goods to sell, and no bargains to make? It is possible to devote oneself even to a lawful calling until it becomes sinful. There is no excuse on earth or under the earth for the neglect of our deathless spirit. Lydia was a seller of purple, yet she did not allow her extensive occupation to keep her from becoming a Christian. Daniel was secretary of state and attorney general in the empire of Babylon, and yet three times a day he found time to pray with his face towards Jerusalem. The man who has no time to attend to religion will have no ime to enter heaven. But there are others who, while their worldly occupatioR has no par ticular fascination over them, are en tirely absorbed in the gains that come to that occupation. This is the worship of Mftimmon. The ring of dollars and cents is the only litany they ever utter. Though in the last day the earth itself will not be worth a farthing, a heap of ashes scattered in the Adhirlwind, they are nowgiving their time and eternity for the ac quisition of so much of it as you might at last hold in the hollow of one hand. The American Indian who gave enough land to make a state out of for a string of beads, made a princely bargan compared with the speculation of that man who gains the whole world and loses his own soul. How much comfort do the men take who died unforgiven ten years ago, leaving large fortunes to their heirs? Do they ever come up to count the gold they hoarded or-walk through the mansions they built? Though they cculd have bought an empire, they havenot now as much money as you have this mo ment in your pocket. Solomon look ed upon his palace and the grounds surrounding it, pools rimmed with gold, and circling roads along which, t times, rushed his fourteen hun dred chariots, while under the out branching sycamores and cedars the apes and peacocks, which by the navyof Hiram had been brought from Tarshish, and from the window urtains with embroidered gold and purple through which came out the thrill of harps and psalteries ming ling with the song of the waters. When Solomon saw that all these luxuries or sight and sound had been purchased by his wealth, he broke forth in the exclamation, "Money answereth allthings." But we cannot receive it as literal. It cannot still the voice of conscience. IR cannot drown the sorrows of the soul. It cannot put a bribe in the hand of death. It cannot unlock the gate of Heaven, The tower of Si loam fell and killed eighteen of its admirers, but this idol to whose wor ship the exchanges and banks and custom houses of the world have been dedicated, will fall and crush to death its thousands. But I cannot enumerate the idolatries to which men give themselves, They are kept by them from a religious life. "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon," and the first thing that Christ does when He comes into the temple of the soul is to drive out the exchan ges. But it was not only the gods of Moab that made Orpah leave her sis ter and mother-in-law. She doubt less, had a dread of the hardship to which they would be exposed on the journey to Bethlehem; and Orpahi was not alone in the fear. Doubtless some of you have been appalled and driven back by the self-denials of the christian life. The aunt of the world the charge of hypocrisy which they would sometimes be obliged to con front, has kept many away from the land of Bethlehem. They spend their life in counting the cost and, because a christian life demands so much courage and faith, they dare not begin to build. Perhaps they are courageous in every other res pect. They are not timid in presence of any danger except that of trusting in the infinite mercy of Christ. The sheep are more afraid of the shep herd than of the wolves. They shrink away from the presence of Christ as though He were a tryant rather than a friend who sticketh closer than a brother. They feel more safe in the ranks of the enem~y, where they must suffer infmnite defeat, than in the army of Christ, whieh shall be more than conquerors, through him that hath loved them. Men shiver and tremble before religion as though they were commanded to throw their life away, as though it were a sur render of honor and manliness, and reason and self-respect, and all that is worth keeping. What has God ever done that His mercy should be doubted? Was there ever a sorrow of His frailest child that He did not pity? WXas there ever a soul that He left unhelp d in the darknesd. Was there ever a martyr that He did not strengthen in the fiames? Was there ever a dy inc man to whose relief He did not~ come at the cry of "Lord Jesus re cive my siritd" Aye, my soul, what has God done that so basely thou hast doubted him? Did He make the whole earth a desert! Are all the skies dark and storm-swept? Is life all sickness? Is the air all plague? Are there nothing but rods and scorpions and furnaces? God knew how many suspicions and un beliefs men would entertain in regard to him and therefore, after making a multitude of plain and precious promises, He places His hand on His own heart and swears by His own existence: "As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in thy death." Why then fight against God? This day the battle rages. Thou art armed with thy sins, thy ingratitude, thy neglects, and Christ is armed against thee, but His weap ons are tears, are calls to mercy, and the battlecry which He this day sends over thy soul as he rushes to wards the is " save thee from going down to the pit for I have found a ransom." I would not envy thy vic tory. 0 hearer, if thou dost conquer for what wilt thou do with the weap ons thou has snatched from the arm ed Redeemer, what with the tears, what with his dying agonies, what with His calls for mercy? Would God that Orpah would get tired of Moab! Would God that Orpah would go to Bethlehem. THE STATE zXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Important Action of the Body, Touching the Pending Campaign. At the meeting of the Democratic State Executive Committee, held in Columbia on Wednesday night, the following resolutions-were adopted: "Resolved, That a convention of the Democratic party of South Caro lina is hereby called to meet in the hall of the House of Representatives in the city of Columbia on Wednes day, the 13th day of August, at 12 m., for the sole and exclusive purpose of determining whether delegates to the State nominating convention to be held on the 20th day of September thereafter, shall be elected by a primary election to be held on a day certain throughout the State, and for no other purpose whatsoever; and the number of delegates to be, elected by each County shall be equal to double the number of representatives in each branch of the General Assembly to which each county is entitled." "Resolved, That the call for a State nominating convention hereto fore ordered to meet in Columbia on September 10th, be and tire same is hereby confirmed." "Resolved, That the several coun ties of the State be earnestly request ec not to elect delegates to the Sep tember convention until the question of electing by primary election is de termined." A sub-committee was appointed to prepare and distribute "such printed matter as they may consider wise and proper." The sub-committee comprises Colonel Hoyt, Secretary Jones, and Messrs. C. S. McCall, John C. Haskell and J. E. 3oggs. Shoting Affray in Columbia. CoLummu, S. C., June 19.-At ten minutes after six o'clock this even ingseven or eight pistbl shots were fired in qaick succession in front of the Opera House in Main Street, and then two men were seen grappling. They were Dr. W. W. Ray, of Con garec, this county, and Trial Justice F. H. Weston, recently appointed. The men are cousins and bo0th are young. Weston was shot in the left side and left thigh. Ray got a scalp wound. The firing was at close range, the combatants being almost within arn's length. The trouble is reported to be over a private matter. -Professor F. N. Crouch, the com poser of Kathleen M~avourneen, is nearly 90 years of age, but was able to march in the procession at the unveiling of the .Lee monument at Richmond. THE PALMETTO FIBRE A Posaibly New Industry for the Palmette State-What the Government is Doing to Encourage N~ew Inventions. Some days ago an interview was published in the News and Courier with Mr. Charles Richards Dodge, a special agent of the Government in the Agricultural Department. Mr. Dodge has been making a study of fibre, ramie, jute, palmetto, etc. While here he called on Dr. Panknin, who, as is well-known, is the inventor of the only perfect decorticating method known. "Some questions have been askeil as to what is the use of palmetto fibre. This fibre is about to be manufac tured in Florida in numerous places. Two uses are made of the fibres. From the tree is made a long ligheous produc6hich is used instead of hair in compounding the ordinary plaster ing for walls. It is said to have the special advantage over hair that it can be cut easily while being used on the wal and it will not stick to the trowel and fall out in whole sections of plaster. The other fibre is made from the 'bootsi' of the tree, the stumps of the old leaves. This fibre is short and is made into door mats, etc., etc. There is plenty of palmetto in South Carolina if one waints to make a trial." There are a great many other things which have been suggested in the News and Courier for the manu facture of bagging, okra stalks, etc. Dr. Panknin said yesterday that lie understood that a bill would be passed by Congress in aid of discov erers and inventors of valuable addi tions to the commercial fibres. It is not unlikely that the ranmie cultiva tors and inventors will get, and will deserve, the consideration and assis tance of the Government. Every body in South Carolina who discov ers something in this line will doubt less receive encouragement from Con gress. Mr-. Dodge said when he was here th itt the United States paid out at le'ast 8:25,000,000 annually for things that could be produced in the United States, and that it w~as within the scope of his work to see how becst that $25,000,000 could be saved to 'the consumers-Ne wvs and C2our-ier. -John Russell Young has resumed the managing editorship of the New WTrk Herald. HURRARHFOR HEMPHILL HE STANDS UP IN CONGRESS AND DOES STRAIGHT TALKING Lodge Makes a Labored Effort in Behalf of His Infamous Scheme-Hemphill's Splendid Argumuent--Other Speeches. The debate in the Lodge election bill commencedin the House on"Thusr day. Lodge made the opening speech, urging the measure as necessary, just, wise and constitutional. Hemphill, of South Carolina, fcl lowed, begminng with an argument to demonstrate "-, unconstitU0tiona nature of tie bih, that Congress should not interfere with the returns. He read oi the legislative declara tions in the past by the States of New York, Ohio and New Jersey against congressional usiupation of th2 right to conduct elections. He declared that this was not anational bill. It was sectional. Under the provisions of the first section some portions of the United States would be under the supervision of from two to five super visors according to the respective size of the congressional and judicial districts. He could conceive of no honest purpose for such provision. It could have no effect but to place the people of some districts between the upper and nether mill stones. As to the terms under which the law was to go into effect (petition of a limited number of persons,) why was it so limited if it was a good thing? The law should be uni versally applied. Why was it that this very complicated and unsatisfac tory provision was put in unless there was an intention to put the yoke on some portions of the people of this country and allow others to do as they saw fit? He called for an explanation of that provision. Now suppose the United States Courts were corrupted and from the amount of corruption reported by the gentleman from Mas sachusetts it might safely be inferred that one-half of the people were un worthy of trust, that they were to be watehed as criminals or ticket of leave men. Suppose that the super visor were to turn to a Democrat. He had a life tenure and could not be removed. That hadn't occurred to the gentleman from Massachusetts. This was a measure to rob them of their dearest rights. He had march ed before the glittering bayonets of United States soldiers to cast his ballot. Troops of soldiers had been sent to his town, and every soldier had cast a ballot for Greeley. The result was that the party had a big ger majority than it had ever had in any Presidential election. Under this system, which it was proposed to revive, the people of the South had beeu rob p&icke illain e ort , ab. -&e up by the bayonets of the Umted\States army. The South didn't want to be caught in that position agaia.. "We," Hemphill continued, "know that we must either rule that zo.ntry or leave it. Now for myself, before the people of the United States and Wore God, in all reverence, I swear we will not leave it. (Applause.) It is the home of our fathers. There their bones lie buried. They bought it with their blood when Concord and Lexington were the battle fields of this country. They have handed it down to us unimpaired and, gen tlemen, are we not our fathers' sons? Shall the blood first turn back in our veins? Shall we transmit to the com ing generations a great and noble State which has been overruled and down trodden by those who God never intended should rule over us? I don't hesitate to say the colored man has as many rights as I have, but he can't have his 1*hts and mine too, and this law is intended to put him again in control of the Southern States-intended to waken their pre judices which are fast dying out-in tended to bring about again that constant irritation and clash between the two colors in the South which will retard its growth and which will be the destruction of the joys of hu man life." Hemphill then read from a recent address by ox-Governor Chamberlain of South Carolina, Republican, in Boston to show what a former Gov ernor and Republican thought of the negro situation in the South. He knew it was useless to reason with cer tain men in the North. They did not want to and would not believe any thing the South might say. But there were many people in the country who believe in honesty and he had not doubted that "when we pass back of politics and'get to the great body of the American people and have stated to them honestly and fairly the truth as to the Southern country and the black man in it; when they have un derstood the whole facts and have come to a conclusion, Ihave no doubt they -will render an honest and right ous verdict, and whatever that ver dict may be, as common citizen of a common country I pledge the people of the South to accept it as the final arbitrpnent of this great problem, and relying upon Him who is the God of Justice we will go forward in the great work of life before us and endeavor to perform our whole duty to this country honestly, patriotically, faithfully." Hemphill was loudly applauded by the Democrats as he sat dowun and all of them pressed forward to congratu late him. Rowell, of Illinois, said after the presentation of the case by Lodge the Republican side might well af for dto rest the debateand after the elo quent closing of the speech of Heinp hill both sides of the House ought to cry aloud for the passage of the bill. But he proceeded to speak at length, asserting that the necessity for the bill arose chiefly from the con dition of affairs in the South, and upon being challenged for specifica tion by Southern nmembers he gave instances i Alabama, Georgia, Mis sissippi and Arkansas. His asser tios were disputed by gentlemen from these States so constantly and stubbornly that at tinmes two or more mebers would be speaking at once. Rowel, however, held the floor and abated nothing of the sweeping na ture of his charges. Lehlbach, of New Jersey. Repub lican, said he could not favor the tion of elections in many parts of the country would seem to justify the passage of such a measure. He had no doubt frauds were perpetrated to a certain extent both North and Soath. It would, however, in his opinion be worsenot to let the people of the several States regulate their own elections. [Loud Democratic applause.] The moral sentiment of the country and education would bring about the same results, and relief then would be permanent. The bill was not general and uniform. He questioned the right to make a, law applicable in some States and not in others. It should be uniformdly ap plicable and not dependent upon the petition of any number of citizens. United States supervisors were to be appointed and supervisors, experience had shown, were liable, like others, to seek to influence elections their own way. He thought the law woiyld bring about a conflict of authority between election officers chosen by' the people and those appointed by the United States Judge and this might bring about a deplorable state of affairs. The law could not be en forced when moral sentiment was so low as to favor corrupt elections and when that sentiment was elevated the law would be unnecessary. Tucker, of Virginia, opposed the bill specifically and generally. He claimed that it gave supervisors the right to determine the qualifications of electors, a right reserved by the Constitution to the States. REPUBLICANS SNUBBED. How ERx-Congressman Smans, Miler and Cunningham Were Treated by Wanama ker. WASmNGTON, June 26.-Postmaster General Wanamaker is saidnot to be making many friends for the admiu istration among the colored people. The colored politicians who come. here from the Southern States are particularly displeased with Mr. Wanamaker and accuse him of gross incivility towards them on numerous occasions. A few days ago three South Carolian Republicans, 'one. white and two colored, called at the: Postoffice Department to consult Mr. Wanamaker on the subject of-> changiug the Democratic postmaster> at Charleston in favor of a colored Republican. The South Carolina trio consisted of ex-Congressman i Bob Smalls, now Collector of Cus toms at Beaufort; Tom Miller, con testant for Congressman Elliott's seat in Congress from the Seventh South Carolina Distriet, aud United States Marshal Cunniugham, one of the wealthiest and most popular white Republicans in South Carolina. Miller was a little shy about calling upon the Postmaster. General' be cause of former experiences.-How. ever, Smalls insisted it was desirable that they should make an effort in. behalf of their colored brother, Crum vho is an applicant for the Charles ton pstmasterslup. Arnvng at the door leading to Mr. Wanamaker's office, they were in formed they must send in their cards before obtaining adiion to the-in ner chamber. This was resented in lively terms by Smalls. In spite iOL protests, however, he and his comn panions were obliged to cool their heels in the hallway f->r more than half an hour. Finally Mr. Wanna ker appeared at the doorway of his. office. and the South Carolina cona tingent; arose, expecting to be invited to "walk into my parlor." In this - they were disappointed, for Mr. Wan amaker stood directly in the door way, and informed his callers that they might unburden themselves then and there. Miller promptly re marked that he had no business with, the Postmaster-General, and was there simply to accommodate his' friend Smalls. The latter managed to stammer out something about the' Charleston postoffice, but was chok-, ed off with an emphatic declaratio' that the present postmaster is cen ducting the affairs of that office in a manner highly satisfactory to th~e business people of Charleston, and a change at this time is not . deemed advisable. smalis was disposed to, argue the question, but Mr. Wana maker cut him short by intimating that if he did notlike the ruling of the Postoffice Department on this subject he might appeal to the Pres ident. Overcome with rage and mor tification, Smalls and his companions withdrew, the former vowing that'he would go directly to the President and complain of Wanamialer's treat ment. Miller who is more diplo matic because of his pending contest suggested that the President would probably sustain the action of the Postmaster-General, and - in that event a trip to the White House would simply be a double-barreled rebuff. Miller therefore declined, to call upon the President.-Balti ~more Sun. A DELUCE AT DUBUQUE.. A City Smitten by an Electrical storm Eain at tho Este of an Inch an Hour. DBUQU, IOwn., June 26.-An elec trical storm struck Dubuque Tuesday morning two inches of rain fell in two hours and the wind blew forty miles per hour down town and on the hills with greater velocity. The lightning and thunder were terri ble and incessant. Many families sought refuge in cellars, fearing a cyclone. InRockdale Valley, south of the city. the flood carried away bridges and drove the people to the hills for safety. At Thompson's Mill drowned cattle and horses were swept through the: . rst story iwn dews of Mr. Titzig's ,residence and the family sought refuge on thehills. The bridge at Washington Mills, on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, went down with a crash. On the Illinois Central two bridges were washed away between Dubtique and Julien and 600 feet of track were washed out near Farley. The Chica go. St. Paul & Kansas City Rail way was washed out for forty miles west and north of Dubuque and the road has not been in operation except~ east of Dubuque. In the city the damage done was great. Manyhouses in the upper part of the city are fooded with water. The riamage done in this county is estimated at ever $100,000.