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4 t-4 VOL. VII1. NMANNING, S. C., WED-NESDAY,_JA'NUARY2.81 N.6 SUFFERING EUROPE. SEVEN WEEKS OF SEVERE WEATHER AND NO ABAT EMENT YET. England is Wrapped in Snow, and Many Rivers and Streams are Frozen Over Numerous Deaths from Cold and Hnu ger..Much Sufferinn. LoNDo, Jan. 11.-It is now the seventh week of the prevalence of frost through the United Kingdom, with no signs of abatement of the severity ot the weather. From John O'Groat's house to Land's End, the country is ' rapped h:: snow, and canals and streams are ice-boind. Even numbers of tic" rivers are froxen fast. For the duration of the fi ost period this is the greatest winter of the cen tury, and in point ofjneicity the winters of 1813 and 1814 alone exceeded it. Fairs were then held on the ice on the Thames, Severn, Tyne and Tweed. Booths were reared on the ice, and all the usual fair frolics were held thereon. The Thames below Richmond re mains partially frozen and is covered with ice floes, which are impeding navi gation. Above Leddington, ice on the Thames is eight inches thick. Carrier's vans can traverse the riveais frozen sur tace from Sutton Court to Abingdon. Skaters have a free stretch for many il4es above and below Oxford. Numerou deatEhave resulted from extreme cold, several of then. at the very gates of workhouses,wherevgroups of poor people were waitina for shelter. Midland newspapg declare that thousands et persons in ft?t regine are in a condition of semi-starvation, many laborers being compulsorily idlewithout fires or food. . of The mayors of cities, with the aid of local boards. are directmg an organbm distribution of bread and coal, and are starting relief kitchens; still they fail to reach hosts of cases of distress. Numer ous instances occur ofcoroner's inquests on bodies of peopie found dead in bed where the verdict, is that death resulted from cold or hunger. In every country on the centinent there is suffering because of severe weather. In Northern Italy snow began to fall Wednesday and did not cease till today. The inhabitants of that region are suf fering acutely. such weather being en tirelv unknown to them, and it is feared numbers of people have perished in the storm. At Mantua, Turin and Milan, railway trains are much delayed on ac count of the heavy snowfall. Dispatches from Vienna say com muication with points south ot that city is greatly impeded. and on all railways centering there the movement of twins is partially suspended. The coasts of Belgium, Holland and North Germany are blocked with ice. In the Scheldt river navigation is nearly at a standstill on account of ice. At the North German port of Cuxhaven twen ty-nine steamships are ice-bound. The pilots there are unable to communica-te with the vessels on account of ice floes, thus making the harbor maccessible. Several vessels were struck with im mense masses of floating ice and sunk. In every instance the crews were saved from death only with great difficulty. A number of steamers are drifting helplessly between Oldendorf and Brunsbuttel. They have lost their anchors and have been considerably damaged by floating ice. At Hamburg navigation is greatly ima peded by immense blocks of ice,.which till the river. The board of navigation is making every offort to keep the river open, and employing three of the strong est tugs that could be secured as ice breakers. Many vessele have also been damaged here by ice, but no serious ac cidents have as yet t.een reported. At Antwerp ten thousand workmen have been thrown out of emplopmuent owing to the unusually severe weather. The misery caused among tbe poorer classes in consequende is widespread end intense. The use of dynamite is about to be tried ,to break the ice at Copenhagen, where several steamships lie ice-bound. At many ports tugs are actively engaged in efforts to break the ice, but not with much effect. Oeresumle is full of ice floes. Dispatches from the German ports of Lubeck, Stettmn and Swmnemunde all tell -of the inaccessibility of their harbors on account of ice, and say that navigation has ceased, that there is much snow and that there is no open water visible. In Berlin the temperature is at 16 de grees Fahrenheit. Harz railway is snowblocked, and the malls usually con: veyed by its trains are now transportee in sleighs. All Bavaria is covered with snow, ane in the country between the Danube anc Alps snow is eighteen inches deep. It certain localities along the Rhine snow drifts are piled in some spots seventeer feet high, threatening inundations whier they thaw. A telegram from Madrid report: heavy snowfalls in Spain, and says tha communicationi with all the province: of Spain is difficult. It also reports the prevalence of intensely cold weather r Valencia, where the orange groves havy been swept by storm, entailing heav: losses. At Marseilles the hospitals are fille< with sufferers from various affection caused by cold weather. More ano' ha~s fallen today in Marseilles. Th dock laborers there have lit, along quays great fires, at which to warm themuselve during work hours. Violent storms, accompanied by hai an d snow and extending a long distanc inland, are reported from Alaiers. Th re port is coupled with assurance tha nothing like such severe weather wa ever known in that region before. isAldvices from Paris say that the Sein is b ocked with ice near Rouen and tha the Taone is f rozon above Lyons. Telegrams from .Arras and..Nime say much suffering is being causeda these places by intensely cold weather that a number ef persons have beel found frozen to death. A Negro Exodus. AUGUSTA, Ga., Jan. 8.-Hardly; week passes in which from twenty t five hundred negroes from South Carc iina and North Carolina do not pas through Augusta on their way to Sout: Georgia. Alabama or Arkansas. Las night twenty-five came down on th Knoxville train on their way to Als bama. The Columbia train brought i nearly fifty, bound for Southwest Geol gia, who were going to work in the tu: pentinie business. A car load numbe; ing over fifty negroes came in last nigh on the South Carolina train. They ar bound for Arkansas. SUING ON CONFEDERARE BONDS. The Wild Goose Chase of a Hollander Living in Glasgow. BALTIMORE, January 8.-Jacques Van Raalte, a native of the city of Rot terdam, Holland, but residing and doing business In Glasgow, Scotland, where he also represents the Netherlands as consul, to-day instituted suit in the Cir cuit Court of the United States for the district of Maryland by W. Starr Gep hart, his solicitor, against James G. Blaine, as Secreary of State of the Uni ted States of Am'erica.. The bill sets forth t-iat-km H. Se ward, when Secretary of State, issued on July 28, 1868, a proclamation which recited that "neither the United States nor any State shall pay any dept or ob ligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellioD against the United States, but all such debts shall be held illegal and void." Prior to July 28, 1868, the plaintift purchased for their full value $125,000 of negotiable coupon bonds issued by the Southern States as joint and several ob ligations, and he contends that the proc lamation was illegal, in that it included past debts er obligations, and Secretary Seward's proclamation contained an im plied admission that without such pro ii bition *the States referred to would owe a just and valid obligation. The plaintiff seeks an entrance into Court to prove, first that the preclama tion obliges the Secretary of State to take the curious position that although the States never lost their status in the Union, yet their obligations could be an nulled as if they had, and second that the State obligations already incurred could be thus repudiated and vested rights taken away. The plaintiff also claims that beig citizen of Great Britain and M)end such acts on the part of a4ecretary ot State were also illegarnd void, because it was interference th his rights as a citizen of a foreig" country, between which and the nited States treaty stip ulations ed that protected him. T uit is to recover for destroying 1he'value of negotiable bonds and their coupons. Interest is also claimed on the bonds, amounting to the same as the principal, the total amount being $250, 000. Gephart says that as the Govern ment or the United States cannot be sued, it was necessary to proceed against its officer, the Secretary of State. In that respect he thinks the suit involves the same principle as some of the recent suits against the officers of the State of Virginia. To Surround The Indlaus. PIYE RIDGE, Jan. 9.-Yesterday evening all the commands in the field were ordered to march from three to six miles nearer the hostiles. Last night the order was put in effect. It of course attracted the attention of the Indians. At intervals of two or three days the cordon will be drawn more tightly round the hostiles until they agree either to come in peaceable or be whipped into submission. The reluctance they display to accept the overtures of General Miles are sus ceptible of but one interpretation and that is that they propose to surrender and retain their arms or die in their de fence. This is backed up by the fact that the majority of those who have come in from the hostiles are squaws and children, who it is desired to get out of the way. Some bucks come in occasionally. They domesticate with the alleged Friendhes and at the same time retain the feeling of hostility which impelled them to flee from the agency. The coming in of Red Cloud is vari ously interpreted. His good fait' is doubted by many because it is well known that he could not have stolen away at nignt, for the hostiles desired to retain him in their midst. The Fight for ConneotIent. HA RTFORD, CT. January 13.-The Senate this afternoon took the action that has been so long threatened, and swore in the Democratic candidates to the State offices. The Senate sent a special committee to Governor Buckley invPinrg him to be present at thz. insuguration of his suc cebs.r. He told the committee that he would not recognize the authority of one branch of the Assembly to act in the matter and warned them that they do so at their individual peril. Senator Shumway protested against the resolution of the Senate whIch de clared the officers elected, for the yeas and nays. The vote was 16 yeas. all Democrats ; 7 nays, Republicans. Sen ator Cleveland, of Hardford, a Demo crat, retired from the Senate at the time of the vote, and it is understood that he did not favor action at that time. After this was done the Senate ad journed to meet next Tuesday. The per sous who had taken the oath visited the different offices and made a demand for them. but the incumbents re fused to give them up until it was shown that the new officers had been elected and declasred by the General Assembly. Koch's Rival. CHICAGo, 1ll., Jan. 1.-Dr. E. Fletcher ingalls, of this city. reports good progress with the use of the tuber culosIs cure of Dr. Shurly, of Detroit. He has fifteen patients under treatment, and duringz the two weeks he has been using the cure lie says signs of improve ment are visible in every case. He said tonight that unless he was mistaken Dr. Shurly had discovered a specniic for the most dreaded of all known diseases. Some of his patients, he said, were in the last stage of the disease, all of them having tuberculesis in ;a pronounced r ornm. One patient who two weeks age was wasting rapidly, now coughs a great deal less. Another patient. who ten days ago was breaking down very fast and losing flesh, besidles exbibiting other terrible signs of disease, has gained two pounds under the new treatment. eDr. Ingalls says he believes firmly in Dr. Shurly 's treatment, as there is nc danger in the adminstration of the iodine and gold chloride. The iodine kills one of tile animal poIsons and the gold chloride the other, there being twc kinds of potmaines in tuberculosis, Strange Criminal Revelations. SPRIN~GFIELD, Ohio, January 9. Efie Taylor, a crippled old maid committed suicide here to-day. She confessed that she aided J. M. C Clark, a Baptist preacher, and Carrie Moss, to poison Clark's wife, succeed ing after four attempts. The preachel - two weeks later married Carrie Moss The woman also said she had been ina .Iplace one story below pugatory evel since. It was brought out before thi Coroner to-day that Dr. Steinberger who knew her secret, got all of he. money, and that Clark and Carrie Mos: blackmailed her. She also said he, father and Carrie had lived together -Clark and Carrie Moss are in jail charged with murder. A vigilance committee is talked of. All of thi noprties na conlored. NEW SOUTHERN PARTY. WHY THE SOUTHERN PROTECTIVE TARIFF LEAGUE WAS ABANDONED. Republican Promaises and Pledges Unful filled-Some Interesting Reading for President Harrison, Lodge, Hoar and Company. WASHINGTON. Jan. 11.--The Manufac turers' Record of Baltimore will pub lish this week an article which Presi dent Harrison, Senator Hoar and Rep resentative Lodge would read with profit. It will state that the New Yorx TrIbune, in pursuance of a plan to get funds from Southern protectionists for the purpose of a campaign of educa tion, addressed an appeal to Major J. B. West of Tedega, Ala., whom it de scribes as "the head of a land and in dustrial company that has 81,500,000 capital. Born and educated at the North, and imbued with its ideas, he has always been a protectionist of the Henry Clay school, and an earnest Re publican." In an interesting reply which the Record will print, Major West says: "You will pardon me for expressing the conviction that the movement is much like locking the staLle door after the horse has been stolen. Three years ago was the time for such a movement," he says, and continues: "At that time I knew a number of Southern business men who were Republicans at heart, and who would have come to the front with enthusiasm and force if the 1party had offered any guarantee that the next Republican administration would turn its back upon the objectionable negro and white people who then had control of the party organization in the South." le continues: "At the time I write of, leading members of the American Protective Tariff League held out the idea that should the Repiblican party win in the impending presidential cam paign, something not only tangible but great would be done to bring out the latent protectionism here; and party leaders were at the same period profuse in promises that a reorganization of the party in the mineral Southern States would be accomplished in such a way as to give control;of the respectable ele ments of society and to make it possi ble for decent people to take an active part in party affairs. Their prospects and promises encouraged us greatly, especially after a delegation of promi nent protectionists visited the Presi dent-elect at Indianapolis and received satisfactory assurances as to what would be the policy of his administra tion of the matter. "A Southern protective tariff league was put in process of organization. Leading, cultivated and wealthy men in the Virginias, North Carolina, Ten nessee, Alabama and Louisiana were actively engaged in the movement. A call for a convention at Chattanooga was printed and ready to send out. The writer, in conjunction with others, com menced the publication of the Southern Protectionist. Then they appealed to their Northern allies for help." He continues: "We were told that all the money of the Northern people would be needed for the Congressional elections of 1890, and that if we wanted to undertake any Southern proposition we must find the means ourselves. "N ow, it became manifest very soon after the inauguration of Benjamin Harrison that the party organizatier. in the South was not to be changed; that none of the assurances extended to the Southern protectionists were to be given practical effect. The elements generally recognized were getting as bad as ever. Conviction, which was universal on these points, dissolved our embryo protection tariff league. We stopped publishing the Protection ist, and suspended the light. "Then the force bill gave the coup de grace to the whole thin I. Republi cans engaged in every department of material development, production or trade every where protested unanimous ly against the bill. Their protests have been uheeded, except as to negroes and a few politicians. The Republican par ty died in the South with the force bill. Respectable men of affairs and family, miners, manufacturers and merchants in this section, prefer a low tariff with out the force bill to a high tariff with ths force bill and consequent race and social disturbances. You will find that thinking Republicans here, who under stand the social -questions of the sec tion much better than the Eastern dic tarans can be expected to, would not be well pleased to have their interests and progress attacked by a national party which Is only humanitarian in the case of the negro, while it is at the same moment highly and violently util itarlan by the oppression of other col ored races, even to the extent of viola tion of solemn-treaty obligations. "In short, what with indifference at a time when action might have been pro ductive of good, with the violation of promises and the commitment of the party irretrievably to a policy vastly obnoxious to every element of decency in the South, our Northlern protection ists and Republicans have at a blow murdered protection and respectable Republicanism in all the Southern States with the conditions of which the writer is at all familiar. Both ele ments are dead beyond the power of a first-class miracle. You will only waste your money in trying to work~ one of them in any of the common wealths I have named above." Major West's letter was dated Decem ber 31, 1890. -A Terrible Accldent. PARms. Jan. 13.-A terrible accident by which nine persons lost their lives occurred here to-day. The Seine, with the exception of the centre of the river has been frozen over for come time past. Yesterday the whole river was covered with ice, the middle of the stream however being hidden by what the police judged to be dangerously thin ice. Consequently the authoritiet forbade the people to attempt to cross the river and the police were instruct ed to enforce the order. In spite of this a number of venture some men and boys, utterly disregard ing the warning cry of the police and of the crowd who were watching them attempted to cross the Seine on the ice As they neared the middle of the strean dull cracking reports were heard caus ing a number of the foolhardy peoplc to rush back to the side of the rive: where the ice was much thicker -Others, to show how daring they were jumped on. Immediately. withl a long series of rumbling cracks, the ice gave way and precipitated the crowd of peo pie into the freezing water. Cries of horror and alarm arose or -the banks and the police and the iff savers rushed to the scene of the disas ter and did their utmost to save life SIn spite of their efforts, and though -number of people were drawn from th< river, nine pe'rsons are known to have been drowned. Twelve Men Killed. SA N ANDREAS, C'AL., Jan. ll.-Elevei Sor twelve men were killed in l'tica mine Angel's camp, to-day. A load of mei were being lowered on a skip, an< when about one hundred feet from tih< Ssurface the rope broke, precipitating ali a distance of fourhlundre'd and fifty fee to the bottom of the shaft. THE CLEMSON COLLEGE. The Agricultural Department to be Brought Closer to the People. ANDERSON, S. C., Jan. 11.-In its last issue the People's Advocate pub lished the following: In the course of a personal interview with Col. R. W. Simpson, the President of the Board of Trustees of the Clemson College, he said that it is the purpose of the board to to bring the Agricultural Department in more direct contact with the people, and make it a medium of communication with the people, in keeping them post ed on all matters pertaining to agricul ture and the experiments of that nature conducted at the college, and that it will be the aim of this department to put it self in close touch with the people by holding farmers' institutes during the summer vacation. It is a well known fact that the items of board and tuition is what debars many a poor youth of ability fr,,m en tering college, and it is on this line that Clemson proposes to offer superior ad vantages to the sons of poor men by reason of it handsome income of about $70,000, not a dollar of which is raised by taxation, and the handsome real es tate property which it owns. consisting of an immence body of the finest lands in. the Piedmond belt, upon which it is proposed to raise the larger part of the supplies of the mess hall table and thus furnish beard to the students at a min imum cost, it is thought not to exceed $3 or $4 per nioath. In addition to this, provision will be made for students to pay a part of this by laboring a cer tain number of hours daily in the field, and furthermore it is proposed to keep a larre number of sheep on the farm, from the sale of the wool of which it is proposed to furnish a clothing fund to aid poor young men in supplying them selves with clothing. No young man who wishes to acquire a technological training will be permitted to leave the college without having his education developed along other lines which go to make up a well rounded, practical man. Notwithstanding the fact that the Board is somewhat embarrasseed, by reason of the failure of the Legislature to appropriate the $60,000 asked for to complete the buildings at once, it is con templated to fill the faculty in June and open the college for students on the first of October, using as class rooms and dormitories such buildings as will them be completed, and ereet the main build ing during the following year. Col. Simpson also stated to us that despite certain publications to the con trary not a single member of the board has received or will reveive a single cent as compensation for services ren dered, they being ontirely gratuitous. and it is a matter of great surprise that the statement should have been made in certain papers that the Board of Trus tees had voted to pay the three mem bers of the Board of Control a salary of $3,000 each. There is not a syllable of truth in the dntire statement, as they give their scrvices to the college. EARTHQUAKE IN TEXAS. The Town of Rusk, Texas, Startled About Midnight Wednesday. ., RUsK, Texas, Jan. 8.-At 12 o'clock lasdght0his. town and its vicinity ex perienced at least two well defined shocks, believed to have been of a seri ous nature. Each paroxysm was accumpanied by a detonation loud and long, as if rolling from South to North. Several chimneys were leveled with the earth, and sleepers in various portions of tihe town were shaken into wakefulness. J. W. McCardis, in charge of the County jail, a very strong structure, declares that for fully one minute he ap prehended tile collapse of the building, and Thomas Miller says that the Acme Hotel was shaken to its foundation dur lag these disturbances. There was no wind, though a slight rain was falling and some electrical force was prevailing, but not of suffi cient strength to produc'e a shock. A few parties here who were thrugh the Charleston shock of 1880 pronounced the phenomenon -of last night a genuine earthquake. GALVESTON, Tex., Jan. 8.-This morning at 1 o'clock a sevare shock of earthlquake was felt. Many chimneys were shaken out of their plumb. Tile vibrations were from South to Normi and lasted forty seconds. A sIhoCK IN oHto. TOLEDO, Jan. 9.-At noon a shock of earthquake was felt here. It shook houses, rattled windows and frightened horses. The shock camne apparently from the South and a slight rumble ac companmed it. It was at first supposed to be a dynamite explosion in the oil fields, but a telephone message by the Blade to all points within a radius of 50 miles to the South and Southeast showed that to be incorrect. The shock was about the same in its offects at all points as at Toledo, and a similar shock was experienced all over the same area in the fall of 1884. Two Governors. LINcoLN, Neb., Jan 9.-The morn ing session of the Legislature was wast ed in a wrangle over the minutes of the journal which were badly mixed on ac count of the confusion in the proceed mas. This work was utnfinished at ncon. All of the newly elected Staf8 officers are in possession of their offices except Governior Boyd. Powers. the Aliance candidate, took the oath of olice at 1 o'clock to-day, and it is said that the Legislature recognize him as Governor. All the new State officers have been reco.:nized except the G3over nor. MIcKeijhion was installed as Lieu tenant Governor and President of the Senate under pr-otest. Governor Boyd has been recohinized by all of the new oflicers as Governor, nd they will rep)ort to him. 4Another State Treasurer Short. IST. Loris,. Jan. 12.-The Republic this morning prints a special dispatch from Little Rock, Ark., with reference to the rumored shortage in the office of State Treasurer Woodruff. MIayor Woodruff leaves the ollice on Thursday, and will be succeeded by Col. Mlorrow. A sen sation was created yesterday by a state ment made by C. T. Walker and W. J. Turner, two leading bankers, who have been at work on the treasurer's books, one of whom is reported to have said last night that M1ayor Woodruff's short age would not fall short of $9,000. The investigation is not yet concluded, ald it is likely that the shortage will reach a large amount. Boiled to Death. Gosnrx, lad , Jan. 12.-John White man fell into a vat of boiling lye last night at the Indiana Paper Company vats at 311shawaka. IIe managed to keep his head above the boiling lye and screamed for help. When rescued the flesh fell from his bones and death wvas instantaneous. IHe was forty-two yersold and left a family. A BMBSHELL. IRREGULARITIES IN THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE. Investigat ion S:ows Between S1,000 and $2,000 of Protested Checks-Gen. Ron ham A cknowledges his Responsibility and Makes Arrangements to Meet his Liability. COLUBIA, S. C., Jan. 15.-Yesterday Adjt. Gen Parley handed the Governor the following statement, and last night copies were given to the press. Later the Governor decided to withhold it at the earnest plea of Gen. Bonham. To day peimission was given to publish it, Governor Tillman saying that he con sider ed it his duty to (1o so: COLrMBIA, S. C., January 14,1891. Ills Excellency B. I. Tillman, Gov ernor of State of South Carolina, Co lumbia, S. C.-Dear Sir: Having in formally communicated to your Excel lency and also the lon. Attorney Gen eral ./ope onyesterday certain facts re lative to the disbursements of the ap propriation for 1890 for the support and maintenance of the militia of this State, I deem it my duty to submitthe following statement of the whole mat ter with accompanying letters and then to await further instructions from your Excellency as to the course to be persued. On January 8,1891, 1 received the en closed letter from the lon. A. M. You mans, of Hampton County, to the effect that "Capt. R. A. Brunson. Troop A. 1st. regiment S. C cavalry, had re ceived from Gen. M. L. Bonham a check on the Carolina National Bank of Co lumbia. S. -C., for $l51, being the amount of the appropriation for his company for 1890; that the notice to him by' Gen. Bonham that he had drawn and sent the check Is dated No vember 19, 1890, and postmarked De cember 2 at the postoflice in Columbia. The check has been received, and is made payable 'to order.' Capt. Brun son endorsed the check, it has beernpre sented to the bank for payment, and payment ref used by the bank, and the check gone to protest, as shown by the notice of S. N. Walker. notary public. Now what we desire you to do is to look into the matter at once for us and write at your earliest convenience the cause of the trouble, as it is creating excitement and unfavorable comment here." Gen. Borham coming into this office next morning, the 9th, I immediately brought the matter to his attention by handing him the letter received. He said: "I Lave been away in George town for some time and I will attend to the matter at once," as "there is some mistake." I answered the letter from Mr. Youmans, telling him what I had done and repeating what Gen. Bonham said. Trusting that the matter was all right, I said and did nothing until Jan uary 12. when I received the enclosed letter from Mr. Butler Hagood, of Barnwell, dated January 10, stating as follows: "1 have been requested by Capt. J, A. Hayes to enclose you notice of protest issued by the Carolina Na tional Bank of Columbia for a check for $148, issued by Gen. Bonham for the quota of State appropriation to the Hagood Guards, and asking: 'Will you' kindly look into the matter and write Capt. Hayes at Appleton ?" On receipt of this letter I at once went to the Carolina National Bank to find if any other check had been protested, and found from the statement of the casher that some eight or ten checks, averaging about $150 each, had been presented from various parties and had gone to protest from non-payment, no funds being on hand to meet them. I again went to Gen. Bonham and told him of the receipt of Mr. Hagood's let ter and the contents, and also of the facts learned at the National Bank. He again informed me that these checks had been presented during his absence in Georgetown, and that he was prepared to meet every one of them, with other explanations as to the custom of paying these claims in the past. Und er the circumstances I deemed it my duty to consult with Attorney Gen era~i Pope and yourself in regard to the matter, as I did on yesterday evening. Early this morning after some confer ence with Col. Wilie Jones, cashier or the Carolina National Bank, as to the amount protested, I again aporoached Gen. Bon ham on the subject, and at my suggestion we came to the office of At torney General Pope and had another statemient of the matter. Gen. Bon ham reiterated his former statement to the effect that checks had been pre sented during his absence, and that he was prepared to meet thenm when pre seted again. After this conversation wvith Gen. Pope, by agr eement, Gen. Bonham and I went to the National Bank to see Col. Wilie Jones. the cashier, and it was there arranged, at the instance of Gen. Bionham, that Col. Jones should recall the protested checks or drafts for payment, and Gen. Bonhami then drew and left with Col. Jones a draft on the general manager of the Union Central Life Insurance- Company, which he represents here, for $2,000, which, it was estimated, would cover all of the protested paper. At Gen. Banham's request the draft is to be forwarded to the general man ager for his endorsement, and then sent to the general ofiice in for payment, Gen. Banham stating that he hadl already arranged and given bond and security for the amount desired. It is impossible at this time for me to ascertain the exact amount covered by the protested paper or the amount of pay now due and in arrears to the troops. as all of the receipts have not yet come in to this otlice, and some of them represent cheeks which have not been honored, but it can bc approxim ated as soon as the protested drafts are returned to the National Bank. Such is the situation at present, and I will make no comments until further deveopments. I wonld say, in conclu sion, however, that as this is neither a bonded nor a d isbursing oflice, properly speaking, I see no reason why the -..n necessary custom which seems hereto-, fore to have prevailed should continue. The amounts (due the troops from year to year can be drawn from the treasury on warrant by the - and signed by the --in favor of and to '-the order of" the companies :o whomn the money is due without passing through tis ofice, which I do not think the law contemplates. Possibly if this had been clone heretofore the apparent trouble now confronting us might have been avoided.1 It may be necessary or well to add that all that has been done so far has been done with as kindly a spirit as possible and with a view to the impor tance of securing the money due to the troops still left unpaid. 1 am, very re spectfully, your obedient servant, 1I. L. Parley, Adjutant and Inspector General. The notice of protest for the check for $148, in favor of Capt. Ihayes, is appended, as also are the letters from4 Messrs. Butler Ilagood and A. M. You mans. rrhe frmer bears the ata &f January 10 and the latter that of Jan uary 7. Gen. Bonham telegraphed for Col. Aldrich, his brother-in-law, and he ar rived on the night train from Barnwell. He was met at the depot by Gen. Far ley and taken at once to the Executive mansion, where he held a conference with the Governor. After the consultation Col. Aldrich ,alled at the Bureau and stated that Gien. Bonham would to-morrow give to the press a full statement of his side of the case. He will no doubt make a frank acknowledgment of the use of Lhe money and assume the conse quences. In an official way the above is a com plete statement of the whole case, and there was little more to add. The matter in some way became known among many citizens this afternoon, and it was freely discussed in all its bearings. Gen. Bonham was visited at his resi dence to-night by The News and Cou rier's representative, and the columns of the paper offered him to make any statement he might desire. le was found in bed, and said he was suffering from the grip. When told that the Governor had given the statement: out for publication he seemed very much surprised. le thanked the Re porter for calling, but said he had nothing more to say.-News and Cou rier. FOR THE NEW CONGRESS. Men in Both .Parties Favor an Extra See. son. WASINGTON, Jan. 13.-The belieJ that President Harrison will find it nec essary to call the Fifty-second Congres into extra session in the spring is gain ing ground among the Democratic Sen ators, and a good many Republican Sen. ators will not be surprised if it happens On the Democratic side of the chambei the felling is becoming quite genera the-.t an extra session will be a good thing for the party, and there are som( Republicaa Senatrw3vho think it migh1 be of advantage to thbrpartv. Democratic Senators are lookig-foi more or less friction and bickering iT handling the enormous Democratic ma jority in the next House of Representa tives, composed of so many new men They have a notion, too, that among the majority will be found several "cranks, who may have a chance to do the part3 harm before they are found out, and th( best means of suppressing whom wil have to be developed as their traits de velop. Wild and visionary schemes which will never be enacted into law but which will be annoying to financia and business interests, are sure to bi brought forward and the Democratic party will be held responsible for them Even if every Democratic Representa tive was a conservative, it would take, long time to get a House having s< many new legislators into good workinj order. The Democratic. Senators have con stantly in mind the fact that a Presiden tial election will be held next year, ani that the record made at the first sessioi of the next Congress will have a grea1 deal of influence upon the result. So they argue, it will be a good thing if, a1 an extra session in March or April, thi Democrats can have the chance to be come acquainted with each other. Thi new members can "learn the ropes" o Congressional legislation, and then thi Democrats can come back for the regula session in December in good workinm a3dar ad all prepared to avoid mistake: that will hurt in the Presidential cam paign. Such Republicans as favor an 4xtri session do so because they expect to sei the Democratic majority in the Hous< get into trouble in consequence of its unwieldy size and the radical notions o: some of its Alliance and other elements and they argue that the sooner the Democrats begin making blunders ani creating factional dissensions, the bette> it will be for the Republicans. But whatever may be the opinion oa the majority of the Senate as to the desirability of an extra session, th< course of the Senate so far has beei precisely that best calculated to fore such a session. The present session be gan December 1, and will end March 41 so that less than two months remain yet the entire time up to Monday las1 was wasted upon the partisian force bill, and since then the finance bill has held the floor. A few puplic buildini bills and some private measures havy been acted on at odd moment, now ani then, but none of the important publid measures which ought to receive atten tion, and not one of the great appro priation bills, which must be passed i an extra session is to be avoided, ha: yet been acted'upon. The finance bill will remain the un finished business until at least the clos of Wednesday ssitting, so that one-hal: the session will have passed with no more than one important measure dis posed of. If it had been the design c the Senate majority to force an extr session the record of its work for th first half of this session would be re garded as convincing evidence tha the design would be successfully carrie< out. The Ruined Cities of Yucatan. CmcAco, Jan. 16.-There are betwee1 sixty and seventy ruined cities in Yu catan, so far as they have been discover ed. Within a radius of one hundre< miles from Merida are such ma nificen examples as Mayapan. Ake, thicker Itza, Rabah and Labna, but nonei more interesting and grand than Uxma: about seventy-six miles by road trayi from Merida. By far the finest building in the cit: both from its commanding position on; lofty eminence and the completeness ( its preservation, is the Royal Palac< otherwise known as the Casa de Gobe: nador in Spanish. It stands on the to] most of three terraces of earth-once perhaps, faced with stone, but no' crumbled, broken and in state of heterc geneous decay. The lowermost and la: gest is 575 feet long; the second 545 long 250 wide 25 feet high, while the thir and last is :360 feet in length, 30 i breadth and 19 in height, and support the building, which has a front of :32 feet, with a depth of only 39 feet and height of but 25 feet. It is entirely of stone, without orna ment to a height of about ten feet, wher there is a wide cornice, about; which th wall is a bewildering maze of sculpture The roof was flat and once covered wit cement, in the opinion of some trave] lers, but Is now covered with tropics plants, trees and verdure. There ar three large doorways through the eas1 ern wall about eight feet square, givin entrance into a series of apartments, th largest of which is sixty feet long an twenty-seven feet deep, divided into tw~ rooms by a thick wall. Tfhe ceiling each room is a triangular arch, cappe by that flat block at a height of twent: three feet above the floor. The latte: like the walls and jambs of the doorwa is of smooth faced stones that have onc been covered with cement.-Tribune. A Case of small Pox. CIIARILEsTON, S. C., Jan. II.-A ca! of small pox has been discovered Ilardeevile. It is supposed to hay come from Savannah. .Precautionar measures have aiready been adopte< A physician will be appointed to watc ~the cnse. NOTICE TO PENSION BOARDS. An lindortant Circular from the Comp troller General. COLUMLA, S. C., Jan. 8.-County ex amining boar<1s of pensions are reqiur ed by law to meet on the third Monday in January of each year for the purpose of considering applications for pensions, as provided for by the laws of South Carolina. There were no changes in the pension law by the last Legislature and these boards are expected to follow the same rules governing them the previous year. The law, as we understand it, does not contemplate a re-examination of appli cants passed upon and approved hereto fore, but county examining boards of pensions will receive new applications under the rules heretofore governing them. When all applications shall have been acted upon, then the County Examining Boards of Pensions and the Board of Pension Commissioners elected by the survivors of the respective counties, shall meet together and examine the pen sion roll for such county, and select therefrom such number of the most needy applicants as will be sufficient to consume the appropriation of such coun ty, allowing to ea-h applicant so select ed the sum of three dollars per month from such appropriation. In selecting such applicants for pensions the said board shall have regard to the physical and financial means of such applicants, and also to the financial condition of the near relatives of the several appli cants, and shall, in every instance, se lect the most helpless and needy appli cants for aid that can be found upon the pension roll. A majority of the members present composing the two said boards shall be necessary to determine any matter pre sented to them, and a majority of each board shall be necessary to form said joint board. Where survivors failed to meet salesday in October, 1890, or in I November, 1890 and to elect the five Lmembers of the board of pension com missioners, as required by Section 7b of an act to amend an act. &c., approved December 24th, A. D. 1888, county ex aming boards are requested to report . such facts to this office at once, and when .sucmr intngs 'were held and the five .members of the board of pension com missioners elected, report to us the name of such commissioners. All applications approved by said County 3oard, with the papers upon which they act, shall be filled in the Comptroller General's office by the first day of February of each year, to be sub mitted by him to the State Board of Pensions for their review. Respectfully, W. I. ELLERBE, Comptroller General. Union's Bloody Record. UN1oN, Jan. 11.-News has just reach ed here of a murder committed in the lower portion of this country on Tues day night last. Warren Worthy, color ed, was shot and instantly killed by an other negro. The murderer and another negro, who was in some way implicated in the murder, have been arrested and placed in jail to a wait trial. Warren Worthy, the murdered man, was a very quiet, peaceable negro, and the owner of a large plantation. Tho negro, who is now in jail awaiting trial, was a tenant on Worthy's place. The tenant was making arrangements to leave Worthy's place and was getting ready - to move when the murder was committed. The tenant had some cot ton in Worthy's crib and went to Wor thy to get the key to the door to remove the cotton. The tenant owed Worthy a debt and Worthy told him he could not gettis cotton until he settled the debt' Worthy told him that they would -make settlement then, but the negro Ewas not willing to makes it and demand ed his cotton. Worthy would not deliv er the cotton. The negro declared that he would have the cotton. Worthy re plied that he would die by the crib be fore he would deliver the cotton, which he (Worthy) had a claim on. T he tenant left, and in a few minutes returned with a gun and again demand ed the cotton. Worthy would not let the cotton go. So the negro fired on him with his shotgun. Coroner Gregory left Wednesday to hold an inquest over the murdered man. This makes ten murder cases on dock et to be tried at the coming March Court. The Force Bill. WAshINGToN, Jan. 12.--There is to be a renewal of the fight over the force bill as soon as the silver bill is disposed of, and every Republican Senator will be . expected to vote with his party or suffer i the consequences. sThIs is the substance of an order sent out from the force bill headquarters to - day. Tile silver bill will probably be a passed on Wednesday evening, after f which there wlll be a general scramble t between the force bill, tile pure food bill, - the international copyright bill, thle ap Sportionment bill for the right of way. A Slarge nmajority of the Republicans insist as a matter of party pride thlat thle force t bill will be plushed through at any cost, i and if the measure is taken up after the silver bill, an eft'ort will be made imme diately to adopt the aag rule. The Democrats are not dismayed by 1 the hustling and bluffing indulged in on the other side of the chamber, and they are prepared to resist any move calcula ted to revive the force bill. They are tnot certaIn how many Bepublicans can be counted on to vote against the bill, as the partisan pressure is very strona on those Senators supposed to be doubt ful. The two parties arc so evenly divid r, di that none of the leaders are willing a to make a prediction as to the result. Alliance Men Against Palmer. - SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Jan. 15.-The -standilng of the three farmer members of the lower house of the General As Ssembly in the coming Senatorial fight -is no longer one of uncertainty. While it is not yet knowni who their candi date w~ill be, it Is certain that it will i not be John 31. Palmer. Representa a tive Cockrell says that under no cir s cumstances would he or his colleague~ 2 support Palmer. They had no objec a tion to Palmer, except that he stands on the old Democratic doctrine that e the government can make nothing le e gal tender but gold and silver. We e say. added Cockrell, that gold and sil a ver as a circulating medium for the i development of our country is inade tquate. W'hat we desire is a per capiti t circulation. and we want an American e system of linance. We have come to .the conclusion that money is neither Ssilver nor gold nor any other material. e If Palmer is elected lie would spend d his six years in Washington lighting o the tariff measure, while the money if trust is squeezing our v-alues and profits d into their incomes and robbing us all r- of our homes. We will elect our man ror force the Democratic or Riepublican Sparty to adopt our policy. e Stole a Red-Hot.Stove. KANsas, Cr, Jan. 11.-W. R. Greg ory was sent to jail by justice Worthe: e to-day for the unique offense of stealing t a red-hot stove, the oven of which was e lilled with biscuits. Gregory obtained y the stove on D~ripp street, got an ex i. pressman to haul it away and sold it at h a second-hand store, buiscuit and all, for REPUBLICAN RASCALITY STEALING A STATE, AND THE POOL IN SILVER. Two Political Iniquities that were Forced on the Attention of the Hous, The SJlver Steal and the New Hamp shire Theft. WASHINGTON, D. C., January 12. In the House to-day Mr. Blanchard of fered for relerence the following resolu tion: Whereas, it is alleged and believed that certain evil disposed persons have within the territory and jurisdiction of the State of New Hampshire, by conspiracy and show of force, recently set on foot and carried into execution plans by which the will of the people as legally expressed at the polls in the recent election has beea set aside, and the Government of the State subverted; and whereas, these alleged unlawful and revolutionary proceedings involve the title to the office of Chief Magistrate of the State and of the United States Senatorship: Resolved, that the committee on the judiclary of this House is hereby direct ed to investigate the present political condition of the State of New Hamp shire with the view of determining whether or not a republican form of i overnment exists there within themean ng and intent of the Constitution of the United States. Mr. Dockery, rising to a question of privilege, offered a resolution reciting the fact of the reference of his "silver pool" resolution to the committee on rules, and the fact that the committee had refused to report the same, and directing the committee on rules to re port the resolution to the House for its confirmation. Mr. Dingley made the point that the resolution did not involve a question of privilege. Mr. Dockery held that inasmuch as the original resolution was a question.-of privilege, it lost none of that privilege by reason of its reference to-the cdmmit tee. He changed the-~phraseology of the pending res.t-on so as to discharge the conmittee on rules from the farther-. considoration of the resolution, so as to bring it now before the House. In the discussion as to whether the original resolution presented a question of privilege Mr. Crisp said that there was no express rule authorizing the dis charge of the committee, but this was not an ordinary case. The original re-. solution was unquestionably a question of the highest privilege. If the commit tee refused to report the resolution, a motion to discharge was privileged. The Speaker inquired whether the gentleman believed the orginal resoln tion was one of privilege. Mr Crisp replied that he had assumed that the Speaker had so held. The Speaker stated that he had not, On the contrary, in a somewhat similar case, he had ruled (and the House sus tained the ruling) that the resoultion did not present aquestion of privilege. The Chair desired that in this case the mat ter should be disposed of by the House, and he therefore submitted the question as to whether or not the pending re solution was one of privilege. The Houseg48 MPna 80-tbat- the ques'lon was one of privi Iege. Mr. Rogers, of Arkansas, offered an amendment to the Dockery resolutiod providing for the appointment ofa spe cial committee of five membes to inquire into all the facts and circumstances con nected with silver pools in whith sen ator and Represehtatives are alleged to be interested ; also as to the alleged passage of the Act of July 14, 1890, in cluding the names of persens purchasing or selling the same, and who are the owners of the 12,000,000 ounees of sil ver bullion which the United States Is asked to purchase. Mr. Rogers's amendment wasn agreed to and the resolution as amended was agreed to. A Negro Colonization Project. WASrINGTON, Jan. 11.-Senator Teller of Colorado to-day introduced a bill, by request, in behalf of the African-Amer ican Colonization Society of the Dis trict of Columbia. Accompanying the bill is a long petition setting forth a desire on the part of a large number of colored people to settle in Lower-Cali fornia, and they ask the government to lend them money for a period of forty years, at the smallest rate of interest possible. In Lower California the peti tioners believe they have at last dis covered their Utopia, and have aband- -- oned the Liberia-Congo colonization proposition. They claim that it is dif licult for them to get along.with the white people, as the latter Insist upon keeping them down and preventing their progress. They cite Hayti and Jamaica to show that the negro can prosper by himself if afforded sufficient opportunity. The bill and petition was referred to the commnittee on foreign relations. Safe Bobbery. JACKSONVILLE, FLA., Jan. 14.-A special from Key West to the Times Union says that the safe in the postof ice there was blown open by thieves Iearly th is morning and 82,800 in money, stamps, ete, was stolen, besides the con tents of twenty-four registered letters. H. L. Hioter, of Barnwell, S.C. by trade a baker, has been arrested on suspicion His chum, John Cline, is missing. The amount of money in registered letters is supposed to be large. The Georgia Fever. MARION, S. C., Jan. 16.-Over two hundred colored people left Marion one night last week for the turpentine woods of Georgia. In the number were men from sixty years old to boys of twelve and upwards. Several boys were along who had every appearance of hatving run away from their homes in order that they might join the hap py band, who were ail in high spirits over the fact that they were "going to Georgia."-P'ee Dee Index. Killed by an Electric Wire. LYNC11nUIno, VA., Jan. 11.-The th'rteen-year-old son of Councilman J. D. Sullivan, while walking on the street to night, laid his hand on a guy wire from an electric pole and was instantly killed. His companion endeavored to release Sullivan from the wire and was knocked down, but escaped serious in jury. A heavy rain has been falling since noon, and it is supposed that the wire became charged from that cause. Murdered in a Church. SAYANN11, Jan. 12.-John Wilin shot and killed James Taylor last night at a church on the Gibbons place, six miles from Savannah, on the Augusta -' road. .Both parties are colored. Tay lor had been paying attention to Wil son's wife, with whom Wilson was not living. Wilson became jealous and followed Taylor to church, and as he was going out of the door shot him InU the breast. Taylor ran inside and upN to the pulpit, dying at the alter. The murderer escaped.