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VILE AMUtM& [ DR. TALMAGE ON THE WOEFUL EF FECTSOFT HEMODER'N DRAMA. ItDistorts Rea1Lifb With Crtatior, of Diseased Imagiinations-Stage Hieroes and Heroines Unifittin:: the Youth of Our Land for Honest Latbor. BRooKLyN, March 15.-Dr. Talmage irepched the fourth of his series of ser :Lous on the Plagues of the Cities" thi: morning. The sermon to-day is on Bale ful Amusements." The text A as 11 Samuel ii, 14: "Let the young men now srise and play before us." The follo:ning is substantially the ser Mron: There are two armies encamped by tLe pool of Gibeon. The time hangs heavily on their hands. One army pro poses a zame ot sword-fencing. Noth ig could be more healthful and inno cent. The other army accepts the chal lenge. Twelve men against twelve men, the sport opens. But sometiing went adversely. Perhaps one of the swords men got an unlucky clip, or in some way had his ire aroused, and that which openly in sportfulness ended in vio lence, each one taking his contestant ioy the hair, and then with the sword thrusting him in the side; so that that which opened in innocent fun ended in the massacre of all the twenty-four sportsmen. Was there ever a better illustration of what was true then, and is true now, that that which is mnocent may he made destructive? What of a cworldly nature is ir ore important and .strengthening and innocent t'an amuse men,. and jet what has counted more victims? I have no sympathy with a straight-jacket religion. This is a very bright world to me, and I propose to do all Ican to make It bright for others. I never could keep step to a dead march. A book issaed years ago says that a Christan man has a right to some amusements; for instance, if he comes home at night weaiy frora his work, and feeling the need of recreation, puts on his 'slippers, and goes into his garret. and walks lively around the floor several times, there can be no harm in it. I be heve the Chutch of God has made a tre mendous mistake in trying to suppress the sportfulness of youth and drive out from men their love of amusement. If God ever implanted anything in us, he unplanted this desnte. But instead of providing for this demand of our nature, the.Church of God has, for the main part, kiored it. As in a iiot, the mayor plants a battery at the end of the street, and has it fired off, so that eve-ything is cut down th:; happens to stand in the , range, the good as well as the bad, so htere are men in the Church who plant their batteries of condemnation, and fire away indiscriminately. Everything is g ondemued. Bu. uy Bible commends those who use the world without abusing it and in the natural world, God has done everything to please and amuse us. In poetic figure we sometimes speak of naural objects as being in pain, but it is -a mere fancy. Poets say the clouds weep, but they never yet shed a tep -; and that the winds sigh, but they never S dhave any troable; and that the storm Zbowls, but it never lost its temper. The -world is a rose, and the unal erse a gar aahnd. And I am glad to know that in all our cities there are plenty of places where e may find elevated moral entertaiment. -E Bt all honest nmen and good women 'ill agree with me in t'ee state.nent that one of the worst plagues of these cities 3-s corrupt amusement. Multitudes have 'gone down under the blasting influence nver to rise. If we may judge of what ~~oing on in many of the places of -ma~iieent by the Sodomic pictures on ee-d-fences and in many of the show dSadows, there is not a much lower a hof profligacy to reach. At Nap'eb, ? tay, they keep such pictures locked rp reindiscriminate insecaion. Those piictures were exhumed frora Pompein, ~aadare not fit for pabhic gaze. If the peeontery of bad places of amusement 2azgmg out Improper advertisement of Osbat they are doing night by night glows itere in the same proportion, in fifty ears N~ew York and Brook~vn will beat Emotonly Pompeii, but Sodom. To help tay the plague now raging, I project ~etain princp'es b; which you may juein regard to any amusement or re ereation, finding out for yourself whether -ii right or whether it is wrong. e Iremark, in the first place, that you Ma'cn judge of the moral character of any isnansement by its healthful ies alt, or by Stit baleful reaction. There are people 9thwo seem made up of hard facts. Theyv ~are a combination of multiplicat'on W-ales and statistics. Ifyou show th' m Es exquisite picture, they will begin to biscuss the pigments involved in the 9:hc~ering, If you show them a beautiful diose, they will submit it to a botanical selaysis, which is only the post-mortem MaIain tnof a flower. They have no gre'bound in their na.are. They never do -aething more than smile. There are aogreat tides of feeling su.ging up from h'badepths of their soul, in billow after biow of reverberating laughter. They Saeem as if nature had built them by con tinci, and made a bungling job out of nieL But blesaed be God, there are peo S ple in the world who have bright faces, .- and whose life is a song, an anthem, a pcan of victory. Even their troubles are like the vines that crawl up the side ,f a great tower, on the top of which the sunlight sits, and the soft airs of suui mer hold perpetual carnival. They are he people you like to haie come to your house; they are people I like to have ome to my house. If you but toach the hem of their garments, you are --healed. N. ow it is these exhilarant and sympa Shetic and warm hearted people that are mosttempted to pernicious amusements. In proportion as a ship is swift, it wants a strong helmsman; in proportion as a horse is gay, it wants a stout driver; and these people of exuberant nature will do well to look at the reaction of all their amusements. If an amusement sends you home at night nervous, so that y oa cannot sleep, and you rise up in the morning, not because you are slept out. but because your duty draas you from \your s uxtbers, you have been where yca oght not to haye been. There ate amusements that send a man next day toG his work bloodshot, yawning, stupid, -nauseated; and they are worng kinds oI ~musement. There are entertainments that give ai man disgust with the drudgery of life:; -.with tools because they are not swords; with working aprons because they are not robes; with cattle because they are not infuriated balls of the arena. If any .amusement sends you home longing t'or a life of romance and thrilling adventure. -love that takes poison at d shoots itself. -moonlight adventv-es and hair-breadth *escapes, you may depend upon it that you are the sacrificed victim of unsane -'tified pleasure. Our recreations are in-~ -tended to build us up; and if they pull us down, as to our moral or as to our phy sical strength, you may come to the con lusion that they are obno.:ious. There is nothing more dep~aving than attendance upon amuseraients that are full of innuendo and low suggestion. The young man enters. At first lie sits far back, with his hat on and his co't -collar up, fearful that somebody there --may know him. Several nights pass on. -He takes ofl'his hat earlier, and puts his cocoltclar down. The blush that nrst --came mnto his cheek when anything inde' cent was enacted comes no more to his cheek. Farewell, young man! Y~ou w!,cn ends iQ consiaiiate destru-tion. The stars of hope wIll go out one by one, until vou will !)e lift in utter darkness. Hear 3 (u not the rush ol the maelstrom, inl whose omter circle your boat now dances. makirg merry with the n% hirling waters But you are bem drawn in, and the gentle motion will become ter rific agitation. You cry for help. In vain You pull at the oar to put back. but the struggle will rot avai ! You will be tossed, and dashed. and ship wrecked. and swallowed in the whirlpool that has already crushed in its wrath ten thousand hulks. I saw a beautiful home where the bell rang violently late at nig4ht. The son had been ofl in sinful indulgences. His comrades were bringing him home. They carried him to the door. They rang the bell at one o'clock in the morn in. Father and mother came down. They were waiting for the wandering son, and then the comrades, as soon as the door was opened, threw the prodi gal headlong into the door-way, cryimg, -There he is, drunk as a fool. Ha, ha!" When men go into amusements that they cannot afford, they first borrow what they cannot ea-n, and then they steal what they cannot borrow. First they g into embarrassment, and then into lying, and then into theft; and when a man gets as far on as that, he does not stop short of the penitentiary. There is not a Drison in the land where there are not victims of unsanctilled amuse ments. How brightly the path of unrestrained amusement opens. The young man says, "Now I am off for a good time. Never mind economy. I'll get money somehow. What a fine road! What a beautiful day for a ride! Crack the whip, and over the turnpike ! Come, boys, fill high your glasses. Drink Long life. health, plenty of rides just like this !" Hard-working men hear the clatter of the hoofs, and look up and say, -Why, I wonder where those fel lows get their money from! We have to toil and drudge. They do nothing!" To these gay men life is a thrill and an excitement. They stare at other peo ple, and in turn are stared at. The watchchain jingles. The cup foatr,. The cheeks lush. The eyes flash. The midnight hears their guffaw. They swagir. They jostle decent men oil tile sidewalk. They take the name of God in vain. They parody the hymn they learned at their mother's knee ; ad to all pictures of coming disaster they cry out, --Who cares !" and to the coun sel of some Christian friend, "Who are you" Passing along the street some night. you hear a shriek in a grog-shop, the rattle of the watchman.s club, the rush of the police. What is the matter now ' Oh, this reukless young man has 'aen killed in a grog-shop light. Carry him home to his father's house. Pa rents will come and wash his wounds, and close his eyes in death. They for ive him all he ever .did, althougzh 'ie cannot in his silence ask it. The prodi gal has got home at last. Mother will go to her little garden, and get the sweetest flowers, and twist them into a chaplet for the sileirt heart of the way ward boy, and pusu back from the bloated brow the long locks that were once her pride. And the air will be rent with the agony. The great dramatist says. "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." I go further, and say those are un christian amusements which become the chief' busess of' a ma's life. Life is an earnest thing. Whether we were born in a palace or hovel; whether we are affluent or pinched, we have to wolk. If you do not sweat with toil, you will sweat with disease. You have a soul that is to be transfigured amidst the pomp) of a judgment day; and after the' sea has sung its last chant, and the trountain shall have come down in an avalanche of rock, you will live and think and act, high on a throne where seraphs sing, or deep in a dungeon where demons howl. In a world where there is so much to do for yourselves, and so much to do for others. God pity that man who has nothing to do. Your sports are merely means to an end. They are alleviations and helps. The arm of toil is the only arm strong enough to bring up the bucket out of the deep well of pleasure. Amusement is only the bower where business and phi lanthropy rest while on their way to stirring achievements. Amusements are merely the vines that grow about the anvil of toil, and the blossoming of the hammers. Alas ! for the man who spe'ids bis lhfe in laboriously doing noth ing, his days in hunting up lounging places and loungers, his nights in seek ing out some gaslighted foolery ! The man who always has on his sporting j cket. ready to hunt for game -in the mountain or fish in the brook, with no time to pray, or work, or read, is not so well off' as the greyhound that runs by his side, or the fly bait with which he whips the stream. A man who does not work, does not know how to pray. If God had inten ded us to do nothing but laugh, he would not have given us shoulders with which to lift, and hands with which to work, and bramns with which to think. The amusements of life are merely the or chestra playing while th'e great tragedy of live plunges through its five ates-mn fancy. childhood, manhood, old age, and death. Then exit the last earthly op portunity. Enter the overwhelming re alities of' an eternal world ! I go further, and say that all those amusements are wrong which lead into bad company. It you go to any place where you have to associate with the inteperte, with the unclean, with the abandoned, however well they may be dressed, in the name of God quit it. They will despoil your nature. They will undermine your moral character. They will drop you when you are de stroyed. They will give not one cent to support your children when you are dead. They will w eep not one tear at your bur a1. They will chuckle over your damnation. I had a friend at the West-a rare friend, IIe was one of the first to wvel come mue to my new home. To fine persoial appearance, lie added a gener osity, frankness, and ardor of nature that made me love him like a brother. But 1 saw evil people gathering around him. They came up f ronm the saloons, from the gambling-hells. They plied him with a thousand arts. They seized upon his social nature, and he could not stand the charm. They drove him on the rocks. like a ship lull-winged, shiv ering on the breakers. I used to admon ishi him, I would say. "Now I wish you woukl quit these bad habits, and become a Christian." "Oh," he wouldl reply. "I would like to; I would like, to; but I have gone so far I don't think there is any way back." In his mements of re pentance, lie would go home and take his little girl of eight years, and embrace her convulsively, and cover her with adornments and strew around her pic tures and toys, and everyuhing that could make her happy; and then, as though hounded by an evil spirit, he would go out to tihe enflamingr cup and and tile house of shame, like a f.ol to the correction of' the stocks. I was summoned to his death-bed. I hastened. I entered the room. I found him, to my surprise, lying in full every day dress on the couch. I put out my hand, Ie grasped it excitedly. and said, "Sit down, Mi. Talmage; right there." I sat down. ie said. "Last night I saw my mother, who has been Ced twenty years, and she sat just where you sit rnow. It was no dream. I was wide awake. There was no delu sion in the matter. I saw her just as painly1 as r see yn_._Wife, I wish you would take these strings oil of me. There are strings spun all around my body. r wish you would take them otf of me." I saw it was delirium. "Oh," replied his wife, "my dear, theic is nothing there." Ile went on and said. -Just where you sit now, Mr. Tahnage. my mother sat. She said to me: -lleury. I do wish vou would do better.' I ;:ot out of bed~, put my arms around her, and said, 'Mother, I want to do better. I have been trying to do better. Won't you heap me to do better? You usedto help me.' No mistake a)out it. no de lusion. I saw her-the cap and tie apron and the spectacles, just as she used to took twenty years ago;-but L do wisli vou would take these strins awav. fhey annoy me so. I can hard ly talk. Won't you take them away." I inelt down and prayed, conscious ot the fact that he did not realize what I was saying. I got up. Isaid. "Good bye; I hope you will be better soon." He said. *-Good-hye, good-bye." That niuit his soul went to the God who gave !t- Arrangements were made for the obsequies. Some said, "Don't bring him in the church; lie was too dis solute." "Oh." I said, "bring- him.. He was a good friend of mine while he was alive, and I shall stand by him now that he is dead. Bring him to the church." As I sat in the pulpit and saw his body coming up through the aisle, I felt as if I could weep tears of blood. I told the people that day, "This man had his vir tures, and a good many of them. le had his faults and a good many of them. Batif there is any man in this audience who is without sin, let him cast the first stone at this coffin-lid." On one side the pulpit sat that little child, rosy, sweet-faced. as-beautiful ais any little child that sat at your table this morning. I warrant you. She looked up wistfully, not knowing the full sorrows of an or phan child. Oh, her countenance haunts rae to-day. like some sweet face looking upon us through a horrid dream. On the other side of the pulpit were the men wh) had destroyed him. There they sat. hard-visaged, soae of them pale from exhausting disease, some of them flush ed until it seemed as if the fires of i quity flamed through the cheek and crackled the lips. They were the men who had done the work. They were the t-en who had bound him hand and foot. They had kindled the tires. They had poared the wormwood and gall into that orphan's cup. Did they weep? No. Did they sigh repentinglv? -No. Did they say, -What a pity that such a brave man should be slain ?" No, no; not one bloated hand was lifted to wipe a tear from a bloated cheek. They sat and looked at the coffin like vultures gazong at the carcass of a lamb whose heart they had ripped out! I cried in their ears as plainly as I could "There is a God and a judgment-day !" Did they tremble? Oh no. ro. 't hey went back from the house of God, and that night. though their victim lay in Oak vood ceme.ery, I was told that they blas phemed, and they drank, and they gam bled, and there was not one less custom er in all the houses of iniquity. This destroyed man was a Samson in physi cal strength. but Delilah sheared him. and the Philistines of evil companionship dug his eyes out and threw him into the prison of evil habits. But in the hour of his death he rose up and took hold of the two pillared curses of God against drunkenness and uncleanness, and threw himself forward, until town uvon' him and his co~npanions there came the thunders of an eternal catastrophe. Again: any amusement that gives you a distastie for domestic life is bad. IHow many bright domestic circles have been broken up by sinful amusements! The faTher went off, the mother went ofl'. the child went oftf. There are to-day the fragments before roe of blasted households. Oh, if you have wandered away, I would like to charm you back by the sound of that one word "Home." Do you not know that you have but little more time to give to domestic welfare? Do you not see, father, that you children are soon to go out into the world, and all the influence ior gooui yo are to have over them you must have now? Death will break in on your conjugal relations, and, alas, if you have to stand over the grave of one who per ished from your neglect! I saw a wayward husband standing at the deathbed of his Christian wife, and I saw her pomnt to a ring on her finger. and heard her say to her husband. "Do you see that ring?" Ie replied, "Yes: I see it." Well" said she. "do you remember who put it there?" "Yee," said be, "I put it there," and all the past seemed to rush upon hem. By the memory of that day when, in the pres ence of men and augels, you promised to be faithful in joy and so -row, and in sickness and in health; by the memory of those pleasant hours when you sat together in your new home talking of a bright future; by the cradle and the joyful hour when one life was spared and another given; by that sick-bed when the little one lifted up the hands and called for help, and you knew lie must die, and he put one arm around each of your necks and brought you very near together in that dying kiss; by the Uttle grave ia Greenwood that you never think of without a rush of tears; by the family Bible, where amidst stories of heavenly love, is the brief but expres - sive record of births and deaths; by the neglects of the past, and by the agonies f the future: by a judgment day. when husbands and wives, parents and chil dren, in immortal groups. will stand to be caught up in shining array', oir to shrink down into darkness; by all that. I beg you give to hone your best atfee tions. Ah, my friends, there in an hour com ing when our past life will probably pass before us in rev'iew. It will be our last hour. If from our death-pillow we have to look back and see a h~fe spent in sinful amusement, there will be a dart that will strike through our soul sharper than tihe dagzger with whieb Virginius slew his child. The memory of the past will make us quake lhe Macbeth. The iniquities and rioting through which we have passed will come upon us, w elrd andl skeleton as Meg Merrilies. Death, the old Shylock, will demand, and take, the remaining pound of flesh, and the remaining drop of blood; and upon our last opportu nit for repentance, and otur last chance or heaven, the curta:n will C ore'. er drop.__ _ _ _ _ _ Folk on1Palmier's Election'. WASING roN, March 12. -1President Polk of the National Alhiance dheclined this morning to express his views on the election in Illinois of Palmer to the Senate, and the position of the three Alliancemen in the recent contest in Illinois, further than to say that it :ap peared to him to have been a light be tween the Republican and Democratic parties rather than a contest between those two parties and the Alliance. The Alliancemen, lie thought, had fought manfully for their principles, and though they had not been victori ous in sending a Farmers' Allianceman to the Senate he believed that Palmer's election would generally be regarded with more favor than that of any other candidate. Polk said, further, thnt he knew of no promises being mad. by Palmer as to his policy in the Senate on any question whatever. ratal Contact With a Dynamo. NEW YoRK, March 12.-John Free man, aged 18, a clerk in the employ of Melville, Strong & Co., was instantly killed by electricity at the factory of the firm this afternoon. Ile reacd over to turn off the current of the djyn amo which rau the machinery of the place, and his body came in contact with the machine. A j1tjio K E LM D. OUTRA3ED JUSTICE VINDICATED BY INDIGNANT CITIZENS. Ki 1et i a h i. vEz 01 the Iioody 31tfiCa :-cultd-A Clamorous Mob Fotred. thie Ga.tes-T, e Terror strickcen mn e;;;et for W:ps NE-' -w )ni..\Ns, M-.rCh 14. --New Or leaus str kth:. M;Iia a death blow to day. I r in its miahzt almo;st at i :zld w'reaked a terrible venge ace u t'I hIe S:eh as aSsin.s w.ho re s le.x I.id 3. C. llennesev. and thouh th er' ar :'Ieven men dead to-nigh i who were happy yesterdav over their v: t-orv in !he greatest criminal trial tl eity has ever witnessed, the work 0: blod ws accomplisihed with out utn: e*Csiary disorder, without riot ing, ithout pillaging and without the inlieti:.r of suffering upon any inno cent m. :, s ive one. :m1d he was only slightle hurt. It. was not an mruly, midnight mob. it was simply a sullen, determientd body of citizrs, who took into .wir own hauls what justice had gon i r ol.v f aild to do. Cn f Volic I I e:I;iessy was slain on Oct ob 15th, and that very night evi dece m tro a;ccunulate showing that 1.; .a'..ha been deliberately plann:, bN- secret trj bunal and carried out b i All suc'ecessfully by the tools of (he, u r s f he tr al lasted twenty-five d iiys, and hough the evi dence I emed conclusive, the jury, Cur re-ntlx 'h.rzed wita having been tam e i failed to convict. Last nght a body of codolheded men, law vers. Wetors, imerchints and political leaders, all persons of inilueno and social standing qietly met and decidtd th:it se- me action inmuist be taken, anid the ia'- justice. swift and sure, visito upon those whoa the jury had to punish. This morning a call or a moasS meeting at the Clay moiinument on Canal street. appeared in the palpers which editorially depre catej violence. A signilicant closing sentence cf the call was: "Come pre pared for actilon." Down in a large room on Bienville anl llovai streets. there was an arsenal which had . been prepared by a body of eitzens. .'ho cali was ar.swered by the r. ulace. At 10 o'clock there was a -rOwm Iif sev'ral thousand anxious peo ple congreg led o and around the Clay ST au1'. They hardly knew what was g -o:ng to happr, but they seemed ready to o Io :y length, and while there were, f course , n:aiy of the lower ele ment in 'i throng, a large propo.tion %% ere led people of thetown. There were three aduresses, short and pithy an: 1.,usiness like, and t he assemblage, not wawisigly, was soon keyed up to a igh pich, ndI emostrative in its dennciation of the as:-assins. Each of the said tire had been a tret imass meeting months before vhI cith had met qut-itly and dispersed r"'cefl-lly so that the law might take its coir-e. The law id failed, and the tim-.e t; a'Cr had comle. WV. S. Parkcrson, the leader, is a prominent 1-wyer here, President of the -"('utlierii Ahletic Club and the in w v.ho l-d a vigorous city reform moven.ent three years ago. Walter D. Deneger, another of the speakers, is one of the leadlers of the NeVw Orleans bar. John C. Wickliffe is also a prominent attorney, and .1ames 1). Houston, one of the foremost men of the State. Af ter denouncing Detective 0'Iallay, who is tupposed to have tampered with the jury, the speakers announced that theyv old lead the way to the parish prison. Wieklilffe concluded with these wor ds: 'Whall the execrable Malia be allowed to ilouirish in this city? Shall the Maria be allowed to cut down our citizens on the public streets by foul means of assassination? Shall the Maia be allowed to bribe jurors to let murderers go free ?" By this time the crowd had swelled to 3,000) or rmore. and before any one could realze what had happened, the great tbrong. gaining recruits at every step. was tramping down the street toward the neighborhood of the prison, stop' ~ing only once, and that was at the arsenal wvhere doub'.e artillery, shot uns, W incherter rities and pistols ere' handed out to responsible and re snectible citizens in the party. Start inut oif the crowd hadI an electric etect on the city. Soon the streets were aliv'e with people running from all directions anl iaing the main body, which moved sullenly down Rampart street to the jail, inear Congo square. Doors and wx indows were thrown open and mn, women and children crowded on the galleries to encourage those who wIere taking part and to witness the scenes. When the main crowd from Canal street reached the prison there hiad already collected there a dense throng, all eager to take hand in whatever might happen. When the vanguard 01 armed citizens reached the prison, which is many sqanres from Canal street that grn old building was sur rouided on all sides. Sheriff Villere, wen he heard that a mox'ement was on foot to take the prisoners, armed his deputies and then started on a hunt for Mayor Spakspeare. The Italian Consul and Attorney General Rogers joined in the pursuit, but his honor does not reach his oflice until noon and lie was not to be found at any of his r gular haunt s. The Governor had not heard of the uprsing andI he had no time to act,and the polie- force was too small to offer much resistance to the army of aven* ers. Sup~- rinte~ndient (Gaster had or de: i':n exi' det:.di of othecers to be sen to the~ j .d anid the small crowdi pttesewlkls around the oldbuild ing ('i.:r until the great multitude swllie a:dlr h ite like a mnighty roami "'drem su.r~ed- around the door "'nd crowje Ith e Lil baud of blue' -o1t awayv. Captain Lemn Davis was on ;;uar:i et the miain entrance with 'a s*n foirc of d'-puties. They were spt awayv like cenaff before the wvind, an iin an stanit the ante-room was ja1uw w'ith e u xcitel men. Meantiine t pris~one.rs wxerestrick?L ti tir.r for they cold hear dis tir etly thoutsi' If the people with out in ily di 'i' ng their b lood. In c" an aity :.l.ke were rmightene( out )jt to 2ir senses. and~ prisoners, wh'o werei c-r 'd ith . Lrims otneir than 'oic. in i urer of' the Chief, Itio. -''ae i the bave ones, a rep resnd-n the2.:3, rtey i oul rio l -t:.:frthir li, : , '. mmj U i'i tierod theage. n iwha he thal ot the11 t .d depata'i, ie threo thc m"':-: it iilians rerole iintero u1tu the romen an the~ doors woul r ei t tril he iai ngryt rni of th tta ~ in 'ai refused bo'rn request open' 'N nrion 'm th cro w ba btihe .. .ok h. itter .g. i lthe ors, "" o OlieA"'s otr thee wa a h ine wooden ~2' doo m, whi le bee seurl barein xAnticipatifon of OC co itd of the"( areninc fors thi tril r od'eect' rs teir was to chanc read'(-'';"niled a s ande bttexvring ram i-'-m." o ing hands wrrent 'to turn toefor5 a ox'ra'ri nd Theskeys ntak poen ft di.ibni takto the theeblite uti pteri'ani throxg. oon wth rei tacaninstnt amedolit'iensh were dor thawa ndglr aclto mtidnd. tn enen thim. leaer ihatside the ecisone p)Ssessl-n of the keys, -ie insi- gate vas proanptly unlocked anA the depu ties in the lobby rapidly got out of harm's way. The avengers pressed into the yard of the white prisoners. The door of the first cell was open and groips ef trembling prisoners stood initde. The\- w're not he men who wero wanteld and the crowd very quietly, thoug- With arkable co ness, burst into the %rd. Pering through the bars f the- cooklo-uned cell was a terror-strick-nt 1 u -i some olle miiistook for Se G-'C.1' !-* . A vollev wais Iired at the u.ma i :ma' ie droppe.T. but none of the shot struck him. It was sibsequently fou1nd out that he was not one of the assassins. The in mnates of the jail were ready to direct the way to where the Italiais were. "Go to the female department!' some one yelled, and thither the men with their Winchesters ran. -ut the! door was locked. In a moment ti t key was produced. Then the leader called for some one who knew the right men and volunteers responded and the door was thrown open. The gallery was de serted, but an old woman speaking as fast as she could, said the men were up stairs. A party of seven or eight quick ly ascended the stair case, and as they reached the landing the assassins lied down at the other end. A half dozan followed them. Searcely a wor. was spoken. It was time for actionP. When pursueJ anad their pursuers reachel the stone court yard ths former dartel to ward the Orleans side of the gedhery and crouched down besde the cells. Their faces blanched, and being un armed they w ere absolutely defenseless: In fear and trembling they screamed for mercy, but the aveugers were nr ciless. Bang! bang' bang! bang! Re ports of murderous weapons and a deadly rain of bullets poured into the cronching figures. Gerachi, the closest m,, was struck in the back of the hear and his body pitched forward and lay immovable on the stone p.vement. Romero fell to nis knees, with his face in his hands, and in that position was shot to death. Monastaro and James Carusa fell to gether, under the Gre of half a dozen guns, the leaden pellets entering their bodies and heads and the blood gush ing from their wounds. The bloody executioners did their work well, and eneath the continuing fire Cometez and Frahina, two of the men who had not. been tried. but who were charged jointly with the other accused, fell to gether. Their bodies were literally rid died with buckshot and they were stone dead almost before the tusilade was over. When Graupe, one of the assassins, wqs discover-d oi the gallery, Macheca, scaffedi and old man Mar chesi separated irom the other six and ran up stairs. Ihither a half dozen men followed them, and as the terror stricken assassins ran into their cells they were slain. Joe Macheca, who was charged with being the arch c n spirator, was a short. fat man, and was summarily dealt with. le had his back turnled when the shot struck him immediately behind the ear and his death wits instantaneous. Politz. the crazy man, was locked up in a cell up stairs. The doors xere flung open, and one of the avengers, taking aim, shot him through the body. Ile was not killed outright, and in or der to satisfy the people on the oitside who were crazy to know what was going on within, he was dragged down stairs, and through the doorway by which the crowd had entered. Hlalf carrit;d, half dragged, he was taken to the corner. A rope was provided and tied around his neck, and the people pulled him up to a crossbar. Not sat isfied that he was dead a score of men poured a volley of shot into his body, and for several hours his body was left dangling in the air. Just as soon as the work was done Parkerson addressed the crowd and asked them to disperse. This they con sented to do with ringing shouts, but irst they made a rush for Parkerson and lifted him bodily and supported him on their shoulders while they marched up the street. The avengers came baack in a boby to Clay etreet where they dispersed- Immense crowds rushed from all directions to the reigh borhood of -the tragedy, while the street iin front of the newspaper olhi ces were blocked~ with people anxious to see the latest bulletins. There was intense suppresse.l excite ment, but from one end of the city to the other the action of the citizens was applauded. O'Malley, the detective, who would have shared the fate of the assassins i f he had been cauaht has dis appeared and is not expected to return, and the members of the jury are in hid mg. The atmosphere has ueen consid erably purged, and though there is a big crowd on Canal street to night the trouble seems now over. The prisn was surrounded until dark with a motly multitude, but the police found no dilliculty in maintain ing good order. The bodies of some of the slain were removed this evening. Caruso was married, but had no chil dren, Roimero has a wife anal children, and Macheca a wife and fammily. Conmi tez leaves a wife. The stock exchange met to-day and discussed the action of foreman Selig an of the llennessey jury. As a re sult of the discussion Seligman was ex peled. Selleman has also been ex p~elled from the Young Men's Gym nas tic Club. A meeting ot the Cotton Exchange was called to order at 1.30 o'clock this evening by President Chal~ee who stated that he had been called upon by a large committee of members with a request that he convene the institution i a general meeting for the purpose of adoptng suitable resolutions endorsing the acnion of citizens of New Orleans in tihe deplorable event of the morn A Deiaieted Navy. Wasarso-roxN, Miarch 17.-An order as ber sent to yam-ous receiving ships of the navv to discontinue all enlist ments for the present. This is because the legal limit of 8d50 men and boys has been nearly reached. It was discove-rcd last week that the number in service is within lirty-two of te limit, and in order to priovide for continuous-serviee men, whom it is always (desirable to re-euist. it was leeed advisable to call a haljt before there was no romil ICltfor these mnen. In ordier to make more room, it was d lecidedl to dilschiarge a numiiber of menc whol0.C term of enlistment had inarly ex pired. TIhe crew oaf the Galena. about ity me101, wrre to have beeni (dicharged upln the narrival of the shi at Ports mau'hi, lbut is 1s proababka that they will be reinued nlow unil the ewal of their term. :s they have laost all their clothinu. It is expected that if there should be Po re~lii aorded byX the leg..isltio duin the next Congress it wilbei possbis to properly man the vessels that have been oi-dered by name tao ar ticipate mU the tnvy revie w in 18, in conelton with tile WorldI's hiir. In oter u-ordls. the vessels that hiave beenc ii the olicial announcements will need morei' mlen thanlf ar-e now all)owed tihe en tre navy without reckoning ships that it Iis absolutely essenitial to keepou f~~orelinr stations. The annual appalsd of the secr-etary o the navy' to Con.:ress for i-lief froml Ithils canaui~itly growin;; difliculty have been icunored until it has become a di lemafl with which tihe navy aiepairtnment is now face to lace. The granvity of the siutan ayl be~l realizedl when it is stated that it is now impossible to izive the vessels in comisiion thleir l ull com plnient of menm. Thc new cruiser New ark is about- one hundred mna short, and them-e is scarcely a vessel iu thec navy that has its full comp11liet of A ecmpicte Bedroom &uit for .965 freight paid( to your depot. send for Catalogue. Address L. F. Padgett, Augsta, Ga. Breaks on the Mississ1ppi NEW ORLEANS, March 12.-A Picay uno's Vicksburg special says there are no material developments in the break in the levee at Sunflower landing sInce the telegram of this morning. Dis pathes received here from above stato that trains on the North end of the Riverside division of the Valley Road Lave been abondoned, but trains on the mam line ire still runnmu. The break in the levee is one mile below Sunflower. At a point above the levee crosses a low flat iw amnp out of which flows Bucks Bayon which empties into Hushpuckana, cne mile from the levee. The water rnom thiLs break will extend no further N3rth than Bobo Sation on the Valley Road which is about eight miles South of Clarksdale. The embankment on the main line of the Louisvllie, New Orleans and Texas Railroad will no doubt direct a large quantity of this water in a Southerly direction. M]~N'ris, Tenn., March 1.5.-A dis patch from Hill House, Miss., in Coaho nia County. says a levee on the Missis s'ppi River broke at 12:30 this morning Great damage will likely result. \FW ORLEANS. La.., March 12.-A Natchez special says: A steady rain has fallen all (lay and it will have a bad effect on the levees, as it will soften them and stop work on the embank ment. N1E3IPHIS. March 12.-The levee at Conley's Lake, thirty miles South of Lhis city gave way late last night and water poured into the little village. completely flooding everything. The tracks of the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas road are completely submerged and the water is reported to be rising. VIcKsBURG, March 12.-News was received here to-day of a break in the levee near Sunflower Landing in Coa hcnia County, three miles North of Bolivar County line at 8 o'clock this morning. The break was 150 feet wide. The water from this break will go into the Hushpuckana and thence into the Sunflower River. It will overflow the Bolivar Loop Railroad and the trains on that line are expected to stop to-day. A Levee Blown Up. M1E3PiIIS, Tenn., March 1.-Major D. F. Gourney, chief engineer of the levee board of the district in which the new Robinson levee, which gave way yester day is situated, was in the city last night having come direct trom the crevasse to 1emphis. le said to a reporter: "The break is seventeen feet wide and water is running through it about six feet deep, or was when I left there. The levee was cut or blown up without doubt. It was one of the finest and most substancia. in the district. Thirty or forty laborers on contract were turned loose without their pay recently, and they were heard to make threats of get ting even. It is rumored that some of these placed a dynamite cartridge where it would do damage. Gold Brick Dealer Released. AUGUSTA. Ga.. March 12.-Parker, the gold bar fakir, who played a slick game on Messrs. Weathersbee and Ken nedy, of Williston, S. C., and robbed them of 55,000 several weeks ago, who was caught in Atlanta several days afterward by Sergt. Ozburn, has been brought here from Aiken, and released. Suirm party from Chicago, claiming to be Parker's brother-in-law, met him here. It is sa:d the Caicago party paid the officer the amount of money that x'arker had faked from the Williston merchants, and Parker was then turned loose and went his way meedly. JOSEPH F. RHAME, ATTORNEY AT L AW, MANNING, S. C. JOHN S. WILSON, Attorney and Counselor at Law, MANNING, S. C. A. LEVI AW MANNING, S. C. pf Notary Public with seal. ~1ALL4EN HUGGINS, D. D. S., eJ CHJER AW, S. (. grVisits Manning every month or two professionally. BRUNSON HOUSE, SUMTER, S. C. First class accommodations and excellen table. Convenient to the business portion of the town. 25 cents for dinner. J. H. DINON, Proprietor. JOB PRINTING. T HE TIES OFFICE IS FITTED UP IN a manner that warrants it in soliciting your patronage for job printing. Send us your orders which shall have prompt atten tion. Prices as low as the cities. Satisfac tion guaranteed. Keep us in mind. Manning Shaving Parlor. H AIR CUTTING ARTISTICALLY EX. ecuted, and shaving done with best razors. Special attention paid to shampoo ing ladies' heads. I have had considerable experence in several large cities, and guar antee satisfaction to my customers. Parlor next door to Manning Times. E. D. HAMILTO'N. A. s. J. PERRYl. E. P.. sioNS. P.. A. PRIN~GLE. Johnston, Crews & Co., -WHOLESALE JOBBERS OF DRY GOODS, Not|onS and Small Wares, Nos. 49 Hayne & 112 Market Streets, CHARLESTON, S. C. - a 28 UNIONSQUARE.NY.'~i~ sIi.ouis.MO. DALLA5.TEX. W. E. BROW N & CO. Manning, S. C. FORESTON DRUG STORE, FORESTON, S. C. I keep always on hand a full line of Pure Drugs and Medicines, FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES, TOILET SOAPS, PERFUMERY, STATION ERtY, CIGARS, GARDEN SEEDS, and such articles as are usually kept in a firs: class drug store. I have just added to my stock ai line of PAINTS AND OILS, and amu prepared to sell PAINTS, OILS LE AD, VARNISHES, BRUSHES, in quantities to suit purchasers. L. WT. NETTLES, M.LD., Foreston. S. C. ADGER SMYTH. F .3. PELZER, Specil aa"w SMYTH & ADGER, Factors and commission Merchants, Ncrtb. A..tlanatiC ~VWharf CHARLESTON, S. C. OTTO F. WIETERS, WHOLESALE GROCER, Wholesale Dealer in Wines, Lituors and Cigars, No. 121 East Bay, Charleston, S. C. OTTO TIEDEMAN & SONS, Wholesale Grocers and Provision Dealers, 172, 174, and 176 East Bay Street, ESTABLISHED 1844. Charleston Iron Works, Manufacturers and Dealers in Marine Stationary and Portable Engines and Boilers, Saw Mill Machinery. Cotton Presses, Gins, Railroad, Steam boat, Machinists', Engineers' and Mill Supplies. Si*Repairs executed with promptness and Dispatch. Sendfor price list& East Bay, Cor. Pritchard St., Charleston, S. C. PERCIV.A.L 1mFGr. CO. S L ~'CRO S ICC'ES AND BLINDS 478 to 486 Meeting St., CHARLESTON,$. C. THE BEST AND THE CHEAPEST. All goods guaranteed. Estimates furnished by return mail. Large stock, promp; shipments. Our goods do not shrink or warp. Geo. E. Toale & Company, MINUrFACTUrES oF AND WIOLESALE DEALEBS IN Doors, Sash, Blinds, Moulding, and General Building Material Office and Salesrooms, 10 and 12 Hayne St., CHARLESTON, S. C. OLD CLOTHES MADE NEW. SEND YOUR DYEING TO THE CHARLESTON STEAM DYE WORKS, All work guaranteed. 310 King St., CHARLESTON, S. C. SMOKE HENO CIGARiHE BEST NICKLE CIGAR SOLD. B. A. JOHNSON, Sole Agent, Manning, S. C. SOL ISEMAN, Wholesale Grocer, State Agent, 158 East Bay, Ch~a'lestori.. S. C. M. Drake & Son, BOLLMLANN BROTHERS, -WHOLESALE BOOTS, SHOES, &TRUNKS. Wholesale 235 Meeting St., CHARLESTON, S. C. Lrgest stock, best assortmient, lowest prices. GroCers, S. THOMAS, JR. J. M. THOMAS. Stepen Toma, Jr &, ro. 157 and 169, East Bay, W.&TCI~SCHARLESTON, S. C. JouN F. WERNER. L. H. QUI~oLMo JEWELRY, SILVER & PLATED WARE, JH .WRE ' Spectacles, Eye Glasses & Fancy Goods. UI .r#Watches and Jewel-y repaired by Wholesale Grocers competent workmen. 257 KING STREET, CH ARL ESTON, S. C. Provision DealerS, ESTABLISHED 1830- 164 & 166 East Bay and 29 & 31 Carrington, Thomas & Co., Vendue Range, -DE ALE RS IN- CHA RLES TON, S. . W.&ToI-ES. A. Mc COBB, Jr. JEWELRY, SILERWARE AND FANCY GOODS, General Conunission Merchant No. 251 King Street, AND DEALER In CHARLESTON, S. C. LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER PARIS, HAIR, FIRE CH A RLES C. L ESLIE BRICKS, AND FiRE CLAY, LAND PAS Wholsal&Retil~mmisionDealrinAgenis for White's English Portland Cement F' ISI- 1 9& & 190 G Charleston, S. O malm aNMY PHILADErman SINGER.s Consignments of poultry, eggs, andalA'EA3 kinds of country produce are respectfully $28,.20 solicited. Ofice Nos. 18 & 20 Market St., E. of East Day CHARLESTON, S. C. SEINES, NETS, TENTS, AND SPORTING COODSi Double Barre' BreechLoading shot Guns9, choke bored, SS to $100. Single Breech Lead ig Shot Gunns, s to $25. Evetry kind of Breech Loading and Repeating itles, 83 to $40. Muzzle Loading Double Sh1ot Ous, $I etol e3. Slingle hot Gns. $2.0 to $ Cockers, $2.50 to $10. All kinds of Cr tridges, Shells, Cips, Wads. Tool-:, Powdler FITE DA STR L ens forhIllsrte Cataloue. Addres J. H. JOHNSTON. GREAT WESTERN TEC .WO GUN WORKS, Pittsburg, Pa. r. -. couu.A. s. Drnows. torEr. r. ETANS GRAND CENTRAL. HOTEL, COLUMBIA, S. C. M cGAHAN, BROWN & EVANS, bs the largest hoteliin the city, and has, during the patst year, been thoroughly reno JOBBERS OF aed r*oeld andaete ywital mod offers inducements for the accommodation Dry Goods, Notions, oit atos Hse 6pciought, a BOOIS Shoes an Clothing, Mr c. ot lateofLokout Poin Bote Lookout Mountain, Tenn. The proprietor Nos. 220, 228 &230 Meeting Street, hope bstit attention? totep nSo i