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DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES ON LAW BREAKING. Polise Reports or New York and Brook lyn More suggestive Than Dante's In terno-Ways Outlined in which Chris tians Should Work to Arrest This Plague. N EW YORK, April12.-Dr. Talmage, in continuance of the course of sermons on "The Ten Plagues of the Cities," to day preached to large audiences in the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the fore noon and The Christian Herald service at the New York Academy of Music in the evening, on "The Plague of Crime." He took for his text Exodus vii, 20, "All the waters that were. in the river were turned to blood." Among all the Egyptian plaues none could have been worse than this. The "Nile isthe wealth of Egypt. Its fish the food. Its waters the irrigation of gar den and fields. Its condition decides the prosperity or the doom of the empire. What happens to the Nile happens to all Egypt. And now in the text that great river is incarnadined, It is a red gash across an empire. -In poetic license we speak of wars which turn the rivers into blood, But my text is not a poetic licenser It was a lact, a great crimson appaling condition described. The Nile rolling deep of blood. Can you imagine a more awful plague? e modern plague which nearest rresponds with that is the plague of I in all our cities. It halts not for oodshed. It shrinks from no carnage. It bruises, and cuts, and strikes down, and destroys, It revels in the blood of body and soul, this plague of crime ampant for ages, and never bolder or more rampant than now. The annual police reports of these -cities as I examine them are to me more suggestive than Dante's Inferno, and all ,.Christian people as well as reformers need to waken to a present and tremen dous duty. If you want this "Plague of Crime" to stop, there are serveral kinds of persons you need to consider. First, the public criminals. Tou ought not to be surprised that these people make up a large portion in many communi ties. The vast majority of the crim inals who take ship from Europe come into our own port. In 1869, of the 49,000 people who were incarcerated in the prisons of the country, 32,000 were off oreign birth. Many of them were the very desperadoes ot society, oozing into the slums of our cities, waiting for - an opportunity to riot and steal and .hbauch, ioining the large gang of American thugs and cut throats. There arein this cluster of cities-New York, Jersey City and Brooklvn-4,000 peo $1. *hose entire business in 1fe is to w mit crime. That is as much their as jurisprudence or medicine 4or merchandise is your business. To it ey bring all their energies of body, mmd, and soul, and they look upon the -tervals which they speuf in prison as omnuch unfortunate loss of time, just as you look upon an attack of influenza or rheumatism which fastens you in he house for a few days. It is their ifio business to pick-pockets, and low up safes, and shoplift, and ply the anel game, and they have as much Iideof skill in their business as you have in yours when you upset the argu ment of an opposing counsel, or cure a 'gunshot fracture which other sur sons have given up, or foresee a turn ofthe market as you buy goods just be tore they go -'p twenty per cent. it is duur business to commit crime, and I do ?UingUPPOse ' that once in a year the [Benh of the immorality strikes them. M 1~Led tohee professional criminals, ~American and foreign, there is a large "las of men who are more or less mndus os in crime. in one year the al ithli cluster of cities arrested 00 epefor theft, and 10,000 for adbattery, and 50.000 for in tin Drunkenness is respon sil o much of the theft, since it con fea a man's ideas of property, and he his hands on things that do not to him. Rum is responsible for noch of the assault and battery, inspir ~men to sudden bravery, which they mustdemonstrate though it be on the T'a of the next gentleman. Men million dollars worth of property Dinin this cluster of cities in one You cannot, as good citizens, be t of that fact. It will touch urpktsince I have to give you the that these three cities pay about 4&O00,000, worth of taxes a year to ar rgtry and support the criminal pop SYou help to pay the board of eserj riminal from the sneak-thief that nthna spool of cotton up to some inwho swamps a bank. More than Nt, it touches your heart in the moral pesion af the community. You 21igtM wall think to stand in a closely Mnfined room where there are fifty peo ~and yet not breathe the vitiated air, istand in a community where there sneha reat multitude of the depraved wtntsomewhat being contaminated. histhe fire -that burns your store ow compared with the conflagration Inc consumes your morals? What is e theft of the gold and silver from ider money safe compared with the ^hefofyour children's virtue? We are all ready to arraign criminals. W shout at the top of our voice, "Stop '-nef" and when the police get on the ack we come out, hatless and in our slippers, and assist in the arrest. We enfe around the bawling ruffian and hute him off to justice, when he gt in prison. what do we do for bim? ~Wth great gusto we put on the hand -cuffs and the hopples; but what prepara tion are we making for the day when 'te handcuffs and the hopples come ofl? Society seems to say to these criminals, 'Vilain, go there and rot," when :t sought to say, "You are an offender -gainst the law, but we mean to give ou an opportunity to repent; we ann to help you. Here are Bibles 'and tracts and Christian influences. Christ died for you. Look, and live," Vast improvements have been made by introducingindustries into the pr:ison but we want something more than ham -rs and shoe lasts to reclaim these peo pe. Aye, we want more than sermons :.n the Sabbath day. Society must im press these men with the fact that it does not enjoy their suffering, and that -it is attemputing to reform and elevate them. The majority of criminals sup pose that society has a grudge against hem, and they in turn have a grudge against society. They are harder in heart and more infuriated when they come out of jail tan when they went in. Many of tbe eople who go to prison go again and agan and again. Some years ago of :ffteen hundred prisoners who during the year had been in Sing Sing, four hundred had been there before. In a house of correction in the country., where during a certain reach of time tere had been five thousand people sore thaji three thousand had. been eebefore. So, in one case the prison, bdin the other case the house of cor to, left them just as bad as they were before. The secretary of one of the benevolent societies of New York saw a lad fifteen years of age who had spent three years of his life in prison, and he said to the lad, "What have they done for you to make you better?" "Well," replied the lad, "the first time Ias brought up before the judge he said, 'You ought to be ashamed of your sef.' And then I committed a crime again, and I was brought up before the same judge, and he said, 'You rascal 1' And after a while I committed some other crime, and I was brought before the same judge. and he said, -You ought to be han-d.' " That is all they had done for him in the way of reformation and salvation. "Ob." you say, -these people are incorrigible." I suppose there are hundreds of persons this day lying in the prison bunks who would leap up at the prospect of reformation, if society would only show them a way into decency and respectability. "Oh," you say. "I have no patience with these rogues." I ask you in reply, how much better would you have been under the same circumstances? Suppose your mother had been a blasphemer and your iather a sot, and you had started lite with a body stuffed with evil proclivities, and you had spentmuch of your time in a cellar amid obscenities and cursing, and if at ten years of age you had been compelled to go out and steal, battered and banged at night if ycu came in with out any spoils and suppose your early manhood and womanhood had been covered with rags and filth and decent society had turned its back upon you, and left you to consort with vagabonds and whart-rats-how much better would you ha re been? I have no sympathy with that executive clemency which would let crime run loose, or which would sit in the vallery of a court room weeping because some hard-hearted wretch is brought to justice; but I do say that the safety and life of the commu nity demand more potential influence in behalf of public offenders. In some of the city prisons the air is like that of the Black Hole in Calcutta. I have visited prisons where no air swept through the wicket; it almost knocked me down. No sunlight, young men who had commited their first crime crowded in amomg old offenders. I saw in one prison a woman, with one child almost blind, who had been arrested for the crime of poverty, who was waiting until the slow law could take her to the almshouse, where she rightfully belonged but she was thrust in there with her child amid the most abandcned wretches of the town. Many of the offenders in that prisoa sleeping on the floor, with nothing but a vermin-covered blanket over them. Those people crowded and wan and wasted and half suffocated and infuriated. I said to the men, "How do you stand it here?" "God knows," said one man, "we have to stand it." Oh, they will pay you when they get out. Where they burned down one house they will burn three. They will strike deeper the assassin's knife. They are this minute plotting worse burglaries. Some of the city jails are the best places I know of to manufacture foot-pads, vagabonds, and cut-throats. Yale col lege is not so well calculated to make scholars, nor Harvard so well calculated to make scientists, nor Princetoj so well calculated to make theologians, as many of our jails are calculated to make crimi nals. All that those men d'> not know of crime after they have been in that dnngeon for some time. Satanic machi nation can not teach them. In the sut ferable stench and sickening surround ings of such places there is nothing but disease for the body, idiocy for the mind, and death for the soul. Stifled air and darkness ans vermin never turned a thief into an honest man. We want men like John Howard and Sir William Blackstone. and women like Elizabeth Fry, to do for the prisons of the United States what those people did in other days for the-prisons of England. I thank God for what Isaac T. Hopper and Dr. Wines and Mr. Harris and scores of others have done in the way of prison refor u; but we want some thing more radical before will come the blessing of him who said: "I was in prison, and ye came unto me." Again, in your effort to arrest this plague of crime you need to consider un trustworthy officials. "Woe unto thee, lamb, when thy king is a child, and thy princes drink in the morning." It is a great calamity to a city when bad men ga into public authority. Why was it that in New York there was such unparalleled crime between 1866 and 1871? It was because the judges of poilice in that city, at that tune, for the most part, were as corrupt as the vaga bonds that came before them for trial. Those were the days of high carmval, for election trauds, assassination and forgery. We had- all kinds of rings. There was one man during those years that got one hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars in one year for serving the public. In a few years it was esti mated that there were fifty millions of public treasure squandered. In those times the criminal had only to wink to the judge or his lawyer would wink for him, and the question was decided for the defendant. Of the eight thousand people arrested in that city in one year, only three were punished. These little matters were '"fixed up," while the in terests of society were "fixed down."' You know as well as I do that one vil lain who escapes only opens the door for other criminalites. When the two pick pockets snatched the diamond pin from the Brooklyn gentleman in a Broadway stage, and the villains were arrested, and the trial was set down for the general sessions, and then the trial never came, and never anything more was heard of the case, the public officials were only bidding higher for more crime. It is no compliment to public authotity when we have in all the cities of the country, walking abroad, men and women notor ious for criminality, unwhipped of jus tice. They are pointed out to you in the street day by day. There you find what are called the "fences," the men who stanad between the thief and the honest man, sheltering the thief, and at great price handing, over the goods to the owner to- whom they belonged. There you will find those who are called the "skinners," the men who hover around WV all street, with great sleight of hand in bonds and stocks. There you find the funeral thieves, the people who go and sit down and mourn with families and pick their pockets. And there you find the "confidence man," who borrow money of you be cause they have a dead child in the house and want to bury it, when they never ad a house or family; or they want to go to England and get a large property there, and they want you to pay their way, and they will send the money back by the very next mail. There are the "harbor thieves," the "shoplifters," the "pick-pckets" famous all over the cities. Hundreds of them with their faces in the "Rogues gallery," yet doing nothing for the last five or ten years but defraud society .to escape justice. When these people go unarrested and unpun ished, it is putting a high premium upon vice, and saying to the young criminals of this couutry, "What a safe thing it is to be a great criminal." Let the law swoop upon them. Let it be known in this country that crime will have no quarter. that th~e detectives are after it, the the police club is being brandished, that the iron door of the cell is being opened, that the judge is ready to call on the case. Too great leniency to criminals is too great severity to socie Again: In your elfort to arrest this plague of crime, you need to consider the idle populatioii. Of cource, I do not refer to people who are getting old, or to the sick, or to those who cann ot get work; but I tell you to look out for those athletic men and women who will not work. When the French nobleman was asked why he kept busy when he had so large a property, he said, "1 keep on en graving so I may not hang myself." I on carem who the man is. you cannot afford to be idle. It Is from the idle classes that the criminal classes are made up. Character, like water, gets putrid if'it stands still too long. Who can won der that in this world, where there is so much to do, and all the hosts of earth and heaven and hell are plunging into the conflict, and angels are flying, and God is at work, and the universe is aquake with the marching and counter-, marching, that God lets his indignation fall upon a man who chooses idleness? I have watched these do-nothings who spend their time stroking their beard, and retouching their toilet, and criticiz ing industrious people, and pass their days and nights in barrooms and club houses, lounging and smocking and chew ing and card-playing. They are not only useless, but they are dangerous. How hard it is for them to while away the hours! Alas for them! If they do not know how to while away an hour, what will they do when they have all eternity on their hands? These men for awhile smoke the best cigars, and wear the best clothes, and move in the high est spheres; but I hive noticed that very soon they come down to the prison, the almshouse, or stop at the gallows. The police stations of this cluster of cities furnish annually between two and three hundred thousand lodgings. For the most part these two and three hun dred thousand lodgings are furnished to able-bodied men and women-people as ible to work as you and I are. When they are received no longer at one police station, because they are "repeaters," they go to some other station, and so they keep moving around. They get their food at house doors, stealing what they can lay their hands on in the front basement while the servant is spreading the bread in the back basement. They will not work. Time and again, in the country districts, they have wanted hun dreds and thousands of laborers. These men will not go. They do not want to work. -I have tried them. I have set them to sawing wood in my cellar to see whether they wanted to work. I offered to pay them well for it- I have heard the saw going for about three minutes, and then I went down, and 'o, the wood, but no saw! They are the pest of socie ty, and they stand in the way of the Lord's poor, who ought to be helped, and must be helped, arid will be helped. While there are thousands of industrious men who cannot get any work, these men who do not want any work come in and make that plea. I am in favor of the restoration of the old-fashioned whipping-post for just this one class of men who will not work; sleeping at night at public expense in the station house; during the day, getting their food at your door-step. Imprisonment does not scare them. They would like it. Black well's Island or Sing Sing would be a comfortable home for them. They would have no objebtion to the alms house, for they like thin soup, if they cannot get mockturtle. I propose this for them; on one side of them put some healthy work; on the other side put a rawhide, and let them take their choice. I like for that class of people the scant bill of fare that Paul wrote out for the Thessalonian loafers: "If any work not, neither should he eat." By what law of God or man is it right that you should toil day in and day -out, until our hands are blistered and our arms ache and our brains get numb, and then be called upon to support what in the United States are about two million loafers! They are a very dangerous class. Let the public authorities keep their eyes on them. Again: Among the uprooting classes I place the oppressed poor. Poverty to a certain extent is chastening; but after that, when it drives a man to the wall, and he hears his children cry in vain for bread, it some times makes him desoer ate. I think that there are thousands of honest men lacerated Into vagabondism. There are men crushed undei- burdens for which they are not half paid. While there is no excuse for criminality even in oppression, I state it as a simple fact that much of the scoundrelism of the comunity is consequent upon ill-treat met. There are many men and women battered and bruised and stung until the hour of despair has come, and they stand with the ferocity of a wild beast which, pursued until it can run no longer, turns round, foaming and bleeding, to fight the hounds. There is a vast underground Ne w York and Brooklyn life that is appalling and shameful. it wallows and steams with putrefaction. You go down the stairs which are wet and decoyed with filth, and at the bottom you tind the poor vic tims on the floor, cold, sick, three-fourths dead, slinking into a still darker corner under the gleam of the lantern of the police. There has not been a breath of fresh air in that room for five years, hterally. The broken sewer empties its contents upon then. and they lie at nightin the swimming filth. There they are, men, women, children; blacks, whites; Mary Magdalen without here re pentance, and Lazarus without his God. These are "the dives" into which the pick-pocket and the thieves go, as well as a great many who would like a differ ent life but cannot get it. These places are the sores of the city, which bleed perpetual corruption. They are the un derlying volcano that threatens us with a Caracas earthquake. It rolls and roars and surges and heaves* and rocks and blasphemes and dies. And there are only two outlets for it: the police court and the potter's fieled. In other words, they must either go to prison or to hell. Oh, you never saw it, you say. You never will see it until on the day when those staggering wretches shall come up in the light of the judment throne, and while all hearts are being revealed, God will ask you what you did to help them. There is another layer of poverty and destitution, not so squalid but almost as helpless. You hear the incesssant wail ing for bread and clothes and fire, Their eyes are sunken. Their cheek-bones stand out. Their hands are damp with slow consumption. Their fiesh is pulled up with dropsies. Tneir breath is like that of the charnel-house. They hear the roar of the wheels of fashion over head, and thie gay laughter of men and maidens, wonder why God gave to others so much and to them so little. Some of tem trust into an infidelity like that of the poor German girl who, when told in the midst of her wretchedness that God was good, said: "No, no good God. Just look at me. No good God." In this cluster of cities, whose cry of want I interpret, there are said to be, as far as I can figure it up from the reports, about 300,000 honest poor who are de pendent upon individual, city, and state charities. If all their voices could corne up at once, it would be a groan that would shake the foundotions of the city and bring all earth and heaven to the rescue. But, for the most part, it suf fers unexpressed. It sits in silence, gnashig its teeth, and sucking the blood of its own arteries, wa.ting for the judg ment day. Oh. I should not wonder it on that day it would be found out that some of us had some tuings that belonged to them; some extra garment which might have made them comfortable in cold days; some bread thrust into the ash barrel that might have appeased their hunger for a little while; some wasted candle or gas-jet that might have kindled up their darkness ; some fresco on the ceiling that would have given them a root ; some jewel which, brought to that orphan girl in time, might have kept her from being cro -vded off the precipices of an uclean life; some New Testiment that would have told them ofHim who "came to seek and save that which was lost," On this waof agrnarncv and hunger and nakeduess that kashes sadly against our front door step! If the roof of all the houses of destitution could be lifted so we could look down into them just as God looks, whose nerves would be strong enough to stand U? And yet there they are. The iftv thoasand sewing women in these three cities, some of them in hunger and cold, working night after night, until some times the blood spurts from the nostril and lips. How well their grief was voiced by tiat despairing woman who stood by her invalid hus band and invalid child and said to the city missionaty: "I am down-heartcd. Everything's against us; and thei there are other things." "What other thing?" said the city missionary. "0," she re plied, "my sin." "What do you mean by that?" "Well," she said, "I never hear or see anything good. It's work from Monday morning till Saturday night, and then when Sunday comes I can't go out, and I walk the floor, and it makes me tremble to think that I have got to meet God. 0 sir, it's so hard for us. We have to work so, and then we have so much trouble. and then we are getting along so poorly; and see this wee little thing growing weaker; and then to think we are not getting nearer to God, but floating away from him. 0, sir, I do r.ish I was ready to (lie." I should not wonder if they had a good deal better time than we in the future, to make up for the fact that they had such a bad time here. It would be just iike Jesus to say; "Come up and take the highest seats. You suffered with me on earth; now be glorified with me in heav en." 0 thou weeping One of Bethany! O th->u dying One of the cross! Have mercy on the starving, freezing, home less poor of these great cittes. I have preached this sermon for four or five practical reasons: Because I want you to know who are the uproot ing classes of society. Because I vant you to be more discriminating iii your charities. Because I vant your hearts open with generosity and you hands open with charity. Because I want you to be made the sworn friends of all city evangelisation, and all newsboy's lodg ing houses, and all childran's and so cieties, and Dorcas societies, under the skillful manipulation of wives and moth ers and sisteas and daughters; let the spare garments of your wardobes be fit ted to the limbs of the wan and shiver ing. I should not wonder if that hat you give should co -e back ajeweled coronet, or if that garment that you hand out from your wardrobe should mysteriously be whitened, and somehow wrought into the Saviou's own robe, so in the last day he would run his hand over it, and say: "I was naked, and ye clothed me." That would be putting your gar ments to glorious uses. But more than than that, I have preached the sermon because I thought in the contrast you would see how very kindly God had deait with you, and I thought that thousands of you would go to your comfortable homes, and sit at your well filled tables, and at the warm registers, and look at the round faces of your children, and that then you would burst into tears at the re view of God's goodness to you, and that you would go to your room and lock the door, and kneel down, and say: "0 Lord, I have been an ingrate; make me thy child. 0 Lord, there are so many hungry and unclad and unshel tered to-day, I thank thee that all my life thou hast taken such good care of me. 0 Lord, there are so many sick and crippled children to-day. I thank thee mine are well, some of them on earth; some of them in heaven. Thy goodness, 0 Lord, breaks me down. Tae me once and forever. Sprinkled as I was many years ago at the altar, while my mother held me, now I conse erate my soul to thee in a holier bap tism of repenting tears, "For sinners, Lord. thou cam'st to bleed, And IFm a sinner vile indeed; Lord, 1 belie re thy grace is free, o magnify that grace to me." Negroes as Lynichers. KAXsAs CITY, Mo, April 9.-A crowd of five hundred negroes last night attack ed the county jail with the intention of lynching William McCoy, who brutally murdered Nellie McGruder last Sunday night, by beating her to a jelly with stones. An attempt to lynch McCoy was made last Monday, at the time of his preliminary trial, but the prisoner was so well cruarded that the attempt was abandoned. The sheriff concluded that the excitement, amoi g the negro populaion had subsided sufficiently to warrant the withdrawal if the extra guards, and when the attack was made last night it was wholly unexpected. The negroes gathered quietly about the building and at 12.45 twenty of their number, masked and otherwise disguised, broke in the outer door and immediately proceeded to that part of the building which was partitioned ofi for a jail. This is separated from the rest of the build ing by a stout irou door. :Only one guard was on duty. He drew his revolver and threatened to shoot the first mian who approached the door. The committoe of twenty, after some parleyimg, with drew and joined their comrades outside. After further parleying the entire mob dispersed. The guards have been doubled in anticipation-of a further at tack. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Whose Fault Was It. NEW YoRK, April 9.-The agents of the Fabre Line of steamships, which bring most of the Italian immigrants to this port, have involved themselves in serious complications with the United States authorities because of the viola tion of the immigration laws. The superintendent of the immigrant station, Col Weber, several days ago ordered that twenty-four Italians, who arrived on the steamer Burgundia should be taken back to Italy as they were deemed to have come here in violation of the laws. The steamer agents pro tested against this action, and yesterday Col. Weber sent an inspector to the steamer to see if the barred immigrants were on board, as the vessel was to sail at 4 o'clock this morning. The inspec tor found only three of the immigrants there, but he was told by the officers of the steamer that the others were ounging arcund somewhere and would turn up in time for the steamer's s. iling. The inspector remained aboard till the Burgundia sailed and then reported to Col. Weber that theimissing twenty-one immigrants had not turned up and their whereabouts is unknown. Col. Weber will report the matter to the Secretary of the Treasury. Death of a Young Groom. WILMNG ToN, Del., April 13.-Count Reidhold A. Lewenhaupt died sudden l at his home, No. 1017 Adams street, in this city shortly after 6 o'clock this morning of typhoid fever. His illness was short and no one outside ot his immeniate family was aware that his life was in peril until the sad news of his death wvas announced. Hie was married April 2 to Miss Ellen, young est daughter ot ex-Secretary .Bayard. He was attached to the Swedish Lega tion during Cleveland's admninistra ion, but came to Wilmington some time ago to learn practical shipbuild ing and iron woring in the shop of Harlan & Hollingsworth. He was ttled, wealthy and handsome and a sciety favorite, but he was employed as a mechanic and had his bench among the rest of the employees. He had become an excellent workman. Horrible Death. 3ILWAKEE, Wis., A pril 12.-Joseph Hammuen, an employee in the Schlitz bre wery, met a horrible death yesterday by falling into a vat of boiling water. When he was missed the water was drawn off and his parboiled body found in the bottom of the vat. How the ac cden occrred s not known. A REIGN OF TERo. RACE RIOTS GROWING OUT OF THE MURDER OF MACCA. The Negroes Fire Upon the Militirv from a Churca-The Soldiers Riddle the Building With Ballets-Threats of Incendiarism. CHARLOTTE, N. C., April 13.-Char lotte is considerably wrought up today over a distardly murder, committed Saturday night about 11:30 o'clock, in an Italian fruit store on West Trade street, near the Richmond and Danville depot. John Macca, an Italian, and owner of the store, while in the act of drawing a glass of cider for a negro, was struck on the back of the head with a freight car coupling pin and his skull was crushed, and he was robbed of $230. So quietly was the act committed and so stunning the blow that the murder was not discovered by the police until twenty minutes thereafter, when Ser geant Rigler heard the groans of the dy ing man from the street and went in and found him prostrated. He was car ried to his bed upstairs, and Sunday morning at 10 o'clock he expired. He never was conscious from the time he received the fatal blow. The assassin's name is Henry Brand ham, a negro gambler, well known in the police courts of Charleston, Savan nah and Atlanta. This negro had been hanging around this fruit store all day, and a few minutes before he committed the murder Macca's son saw him in the store, and identified him Sunday morn ing. On his person was found a hand kerchief, in which the pin was wrapped before the murder. The handkerchief was soiled with rust and a plain imprint of the pin. Last Saturday night he sold the suit of clothes he wore at the store to a porter at the Buford Hotel, and Sunday morning, when captured, he had on a 87 silk hat, a fine black serge cut away, and a handsome pair of patent leather shoes. These clothes were in Dawn, and Saturday night he redeemed them with the money, and only $5 was found upon his person Sunday. News of Charlotte's excitement has spread rapidly, and all trains leading in to the city were crowded this afternoon with people from the neighboring towns. The streets are crowced with a lively mass of humanity, surging back and forth, and excitement is at a high pitch. The negroes of the city are holding a mass meeting to-night to decide what they will do. The African Methodist Episcopal Church was filled all night long with a crowd of angry negroes, seemingly de termined on mischief. About 2 o'clock this morning a squad of negroes went to the jail and asked for protection, stating that the lives of their fellowmen were in emminent danger at the church. Col. J. T. Anthony at once despatched a portion of the militia to the church. and as the men were being drawn into line, some negroes who were in the cupalo of the church opened fire on the soldiers. This so incensed the military that the fire was returned and the negro church was riddled with bullets. Today it presents an appearance not unlike that of a ,sifter. All the stained glasses in the front were smashed by the flying bullets, and it is reported that several negroes were badly injured. Mayor F. B. McDowell issued a proc lamation this afternoon that all the bar rooms of the city should be closed at 5:30 o'clock, so that whiskey should not lead the infuriated mob to uncalled for violielice. An extra police force of 200 men have just gone out froi police headquarters to uard the jail. It is not thought ad visible to put the military on guard aan tonight, as they were up all last mg ht. - T'he hardware stores have been raided to-day by citizens in search of any kind of firearms, and young men, boys and all have guns. Never before in the history of the city has such excitement existed as during the past twenty-four hours. Crowds of men have abandoned their business to join the mobs about the streets. The ladies of the city are frightened terribly. The negroes say that they expect to burn every white church in the city but what they will have revenge for what transpired last night. The minds of the whites have some what wandered from the idea of lynch ing, and now it is a contest of white su premacy against negro domination. Crowds of South Carolinians are swarming into the city from all sides, with their blood fairly 'boiling with in dignation, and grave fears are appre hended for the safety of the city. THE HOME FOR BAPTIST ORPHANS. It Wi Be Located in the Town of Gr een wood. COLUMBIA, S. C., April 10.-Green wood is to be the home of the Baptist orphans of South Carolina, and the lit tle ones will soon be gathered into an in stitution where they can be clothed, ed ucated and raised to become citizens that the State will be proud to own. Yesterday morning the committee oi twenty-two, appointed by the last Bap tist Association met in the First Baptist Church and began the consideration of the offers of location they had opened the night before. A session lasting until 2 o'clock in the afternoon was held. After a full consideration it was decided to accept the offer of property at Green wood. This offer embraces $2,200 in cash, ten acres oi valuable land, a mortuary title to 4'70 acree, six acres on which is located the handsome residence of Dr. Maxwell and a beauest of other valuable property. This offer is by far the best presented, and the property is consider ed some of the most valuable in the State. A sub-committee consisting or J. L. Vass, W. H. Lyles, R. M. Pratt, N. N. Burton and J. D. Pitts was appointed to meet at Greenwood on Monday for the purpose of receiving the deeds to the property. An afternoon session was held and further detai~ls of the establishment of the institution were discussed and ar raned. Last night the final session was held and thereat the orgranization of the in stitution was completed. The following were elected trustees of the orphanage: J. C. Maxwell, J, K. Durst, J. W. Sprowles, S. P. Brooks, Greenwood: Ed Lipscomb, Ninety-Six; H. P. McGhee. Due West; Rev. J. D. Pitts, Laurcas; Rev. W. T. Hlundly, Johnston; Rev. J. L. Vass, Darlington; W. H. Lyles, Columbia; B. P. Smith, Charleston; W. F. Cox, Anderson. The officers of the institution were elected as foliews: President J. C. Max well; vice-president, W. D. Hundley: secretary and treasurer, J1. K. Durst. The Rev. J. L. Vass was elected sup erintendent, and his salary lixed at .$1, 500 per annum. It is not known whether he will accept or not. A resolution was passedl calling on the Baptist denomination in the State for $10,000 as a building fund. The home will consist of a number of small airy, convenient and carefully arranged cot~tages, which will be erected from time to time as required. The executive or main committee then adjourned to meet again at Green woodl on next Tuesday, for the purpose of ar ranging for the early opening of the or phanage.-Thie State. THE Coosaw affair will prove a rich pum to the lawyers engaged in the HANGED AT SUMTER. The Assasslns of Capt. Maxey Pay the Penalty. SUMrTEn, S. C., April 10.-At 10:50 o'clock this morning Centry Butler and Hampton Nelson paid the penalty of their crime upon the gallows. At 10 o'clock the representatives of the press were admitted to the jail. Everythng was in readiness, and the prisoners seemed prepared for their fate. Rev. William Mood had been with them all the morning, and Rev. J. B. Middleton came in a little after 10 o'clock. The sheriff told them that everything was now ready, and if they wished it, they would be allowed a few minutes for prayer. Mr..Mood accordingly gave out the hymn, "Alas, and did my Saviour bleed," and the prisoners in the neighbor ing cells sang it. During the singing Butler was very restless and Nelson was crying. After the hymn they knelt together and Mr. Mood offered up a prayer closing with the Lord's prayer, in which both prisoners joined. Rev. Mr. Middleton taught them to say, upon the scaffold: "Lord Jesus, receive my soul. Into thy hands, 0, Lord, I comwit my spirit." At 10:30 they were lead to the scaffold, which was erected in a shed in the back lot of the jail. The roofs of the neigh boring houses were crowded with spec tators, but none could see the scaffold. They ascended the steps together, Butler on the right and Nelson on the left. When asked if they wished to make a statement, Nelson said. "As I trust in God, I did not kill Captain Maxcy." He then leaned against the post of the scaffold, and said nothing further. Butler, in a semi-theatrical style, spoke for several minutes. He,two, disclaimed 'all knowledge of the crime, thus giving the lie to all he had said during the trial. He said he expected to go straight to heaven, and asked forgiveness for all his enemies. He thanked the jailor for his kind treatment, and closedi by singing the hymn, "My soul, it has been re deemed." As the rope went over Nelson's head, he said. "Thank God, I never killed Capt. Maxey," while Butler, getting the words a little mixed, kept repeating: "O) Lord, into my hands I commit thy spirit." The black caps was then adjusted, the condemned men were told to be ready and the drop fell. Both kicked convul sively for a few moments, and all was over. They were pronounced dead af ter eleven minutes and were cut down in twenty-two. The bodies placed in pine coffins and taken to the potter's field, as their friend did not want them. -The State. A Lightning Shave. LOUISVILLE, April 15.-During a thunder storm, J. F. Rotinson. a prom inent merchant, was being shaved in Taylor's barbor shop in Jeffersonville. Direct over head was an incandescent electric light. Suddenly there was a flash of lightning, and the customers in the shop were astonished to see flames playing around the razor in Taylor's hand. The barber dropped the instra ment, and in a flash the lights were out A lamp was lighted and Robinson was found lying unconscuous in the harbor's chair. He soon recovered, however, and has experienced no ill effects. The electric light fixtures were found to have been burned out.' It is supposed that lightning struck the electric light wire and leaped from the carbon point of the lamp to the steel razor on the man's face. Natural Ga s Explosion. BRADDOCK, Pa., April 7.-Elevenmen were'seriously injured by an explosion in the Iow of front tenements on the cor ner of Washington street at 3 o'clock this morning. They were all Hunga rians. The houses have pipes of natur al gas but no fixtures. One of themen arose at 3 o'clock and lit a lamp, and an explosion follo wed, setting the building aire. Three men will certainly die. The other eight have only a fighting chance for life. The Philadelphia Nat ural Gas Company has assumed the re sponsibilty of caring for the injured. JOSEPH F. RHAMdE, ATTORNEY AT LAW - MANNING, S. C. JOHN S. WILSON, Attorney; and Counselor ai Law, MANNING, S. C. A. LEVIL MANNING, S. C. pEENotary Public with seal. ALl EN HUGGINS, D. D. S., e CHE AW, . C. ,yrVisits Manning every month or two professionally. BRUNSON HOUSE, SUMT ER, S. C. First class accommodations and excellenl table. Convenient to the business portion of the town. 25 cents for dinner. J. H. DIXON, Proprietor. JOB PRINTING. T HE TIMES 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 guaraniteed. 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 experience in several large cities, and guar antee satisfaiction to my customers. Parlor net door to Manning Times. E. D. H A MITTN. A. . J. PERRY. E. R. SiMo~s. P..A. rBINGLE. Johnston, Crews & Co., --WHOLESALE JOBBERS OF DRY GOODS, Notions and Small Wares, Nos. 49 Hayne & 112 Market Streets, CHARLESTON, 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 ERY, CIGARS, GARDEN SEEDS, and such articles as are usually kept in a frst class drug store. I have just added to my stock a line of PAINTS AND OILS, and am prepared to sell PAINTS, OILS LEAD, VARNISHES, BRUSHES, in quantities to init purchasers. L. W. NETTLES, M1.1)., Foreston. S. C. ADGER SMYTH. F .. PELZER, Spe-ial" artnr SMYTH & ADGER, Factors and commission !achants, CHARLESTON, S. C. OTTO F. WIETERS, WHOLESALE GROCER, Wholesale Dealer in Wines, Liuors and Cigars, No. 121 East Bay, Charleston, S. C. OTTO TIEDEMAN & SONS, Wholesale Grocers and Provision Dealers, 172, 174, and 176 East Bay Street, CmA . -3S r o S, 1. c. 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-1?epairs executed with pronptness and .Diopatch. Sendfor price lists. East Bay, Cor. Pritchard St., Charleston, S. O. PEJR.OV.AL MG-. CO. DOORS AND BLINDS 478 to 481 Meeting St., CHARLESTON,S. C. THE BEST AND THE CHEAPEST. All gpods guaranteed. Estimates furnished by returni mail. Large stock, prompe shipments. Our goods do not shrink or warp. Geo. E. Toale & Company, MANUFACTURERS OF AND WHOLESALE DEALERs I Doors, Sash, Blinds, Moulding, and General Building Mater 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 CIGAR, THE BEST NICKLE CIGAR SOLD. B. A. JOHNSON, Sole Agent, Manning, S. C. SOL. ISEMAN, Wholesale Grocer, State Agent, 1os mast may, chaarleston. S. C. M. Drake & Son, BOLLMANN BROTHERS, -WHOLESALE BOOTS, SHOES, & TRUTNKS. Wholesale 235 Meeting St., CHARLESTON, S. C. L2fgest stock, best assortment, lwest prices, GroCers, S. THOMAS, Jn. J. M. THOM1AS. Stepen homa, J3 & ro. 157 and 169, East Bay, WA.TJoux F. W ALESTON, S. C JEWELRY, SILVER &PLATED WARE, JOHN F. WERNER & CO., Spectacles, Eye lasses & Fancy Goods, .s~ilWatchnes and Jewelry repaired by Wholesale Grocers competent workmen. 257 KING STREE T, CH ARL ESTON, S. C. Provision Dealers. ESTABLISHED 1836. 164 & 166 East Bay and 29 & 31 Carrington, Thomas & Co., Vendue Range, -DE ALERS IN-. CHIARLESTO.N; S. C. w~oro -. .A. Mc COBB, Jr. JEWELRY, SiL.YERWARE AND FANCY GOODS, General Commission Merchant No. 251 King Street, A&N DEALE IN CHARLESTON. S. C. LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER PARIS, HAIR, FIRE HAR~L ES C. LE SLIE BRICKS, AND FIRE CLAY, LAND PLAS TER, AND EASTERN HAY. Wholesale &Retail Commission Dealer in Agenis for White's English Portland Cement F' I SlH, ______________o_-_ ADELr'n11 SINE: Consignments of poultry, eggs, and all mAr kinds of country produce are respectfally $8 solicited.$ 0 Office Nos. 18 & 20 Market St., E. of East Bay CHARLESTON, S. C. IWODDWORK:9 A1'fACIE1 NEH0E:{IN AHN * R 645.FIFT EEN DAYS' TRIAL Denola agenus s or ~,bt BePAY for ST.LOUI5.MD.CRiL rLA.E. THE C. A. WOOD CO.1 .? wthT..tJ* {_WN an GRAND CENTRAL HOITEL, F. MCGAAN. A. . COLUMBIAT.P..EC. McGAHAN, BROWN & EVANS, Is the largest hotel in the city, -a a 9 i during tepast year, been thoroughly reno vated, remodeled, and refitted with all mod JOBBERS OF ern imhprovements. Centrally -located, and offers inducements for the accommodation Dry Goods, Notions, of is aom""H6 paius'lgt, a Boots, Shoes and bIotinng, Mr E.B ostlt o Lou Poitoel 'Lookout Mountain, Tenn. The proprietor Nos. 226, 228 & 230 Meeting Street, hes l* sti atetorte ansohi CHARLESON, s. . W. SEjEGERS E. E.POT