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NYAY ALERCIES OF TIlE LORD. 'E..tON BY THE .!EV. T. CE WITT TA-M ASE, SU' tDAY, N CV. 29. U-4tidet Been Good to the Petpie Dar ing the Year Closed by Thanujgiving IDay-Let All the Creatures of the Barth fPralse the Lo;rd. BROOKLYN, Nov. 29.-Dr. Talmage's sermon this morning had a distiactly Thanksgiving character. The appear ance of the Tabernacle was in keeping with it. The doztor's text was taken from Psalm cxlviii, 10, 12 and 13, 'Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things and flying towl; both young men, and maidens; old men, and children; let them praise the name ef the Lord." What a scene it was when last Thurs day, at the call of the president and governors, this antion assembled to chant the praises e: God. But the day was too short to celebrate the divine goodness of such a year. The sun did not rise over Brooklya antil one minute before seven o'clock that morniag, and it set four o'clock and thirty-five mimu tes that evening. What a small space of time in which to meditate upon twelve months of benetactions. Soo I add to that day this Sabbath morning service, and wita the fruits and harvests of the earth still glorifying the pulpit and the galleries, ask you to continue the re hearsal of the divine goodness. By a sublime egouism man has come to appropriate this world to himself. when the fact is that our race is in a small minority. 'e instances of hu man life, as compare with the instances of animal life, are rot one to a million. We shall enlargE our ideas of Godz goodness and come' to a better under standi..g of the tex: ii, before we come to look at the cup of our blessing, we look at the goodnes., of God to the irra tional creation. Although nature is out 0 joimt, ye' even In Its disrnDtion I aim surprised tc 11nd the almost universal happiness ol the animal creation. On a summer day, when the air and the grass are most populous with life. Ton will not bear a eound of distress unless, perchance. a heartless schoolboy has robbed a bird's nest, or a hunter has broken a bird's wing, or a pasture has been robbed of a lami and there goes up a bleating from the flocks. The whole earth is filled with anirnal delight-joy feathered and scaled ani horned and hoofed. The bee bums it; the frog croaks it; the squrrel e-ti's i!; the quail whistles it; tbc iark carol. it; the whale spouts it. The snail, the rhinoceros, the grizzly bar, the toad, the wisp, the spider, the shellfish have their homely delights-joy as geat t t'1em as our joy is to us. Goat; climb ing the rocks; anaconda crawling througk the jungle; buffalo plunging across th( prairie; crocodile basking ir tropical -un; seal pufing ont the ice; ostrict striding across the desert are so manj bundles of jov; they do notgo moping or melanchely; they are not only hal supplied; God says they are filled wi31 s ood. The worm squirming through the soi upturned or plowshare, and the antA rack"g up and down the hillock are happy by day and happy by night. Take up adrop ox water under the microscope and you find that within it there are mil lions of creatures that swim in a ballelu jah of gladness. The sunds in nature that are repulsive to our ears are oftez only utterances of joy-the growl, the croak, the bark, the howl. The gooi God made these creatures, thinks~ o0 them ever, and will not let a plowshare turn up a mole's nest, or Aisherman'e hook transfix a worm, until, by eterna decree, its time has come. God's hanc feed all these broods, and shepherds all these flocks, and tends all these herds. He sweetens the clover top for the ox's taste and pours out crystalline watere inmossed cups of rock for the hind t. drmk outof on his way down the crags, and poars nectar into the cup of the honeysuckle to refresh the hummmng bird, and spreads a banquet of a hun. dred fields of buckwheat, and lets the honey bee put his mouth to any cup 0. all the banquet, and tells the grasshop per to go auywhere he likes; and gives the flocks of heaven the choice of all the grain fields. The sea anemone, half an imal, half flower, clinging to'the rock it midocean, with its tentacles spread tc catch its food, has the owner of the uni verse to provide for it. We are repulsed at the hideousness of the elephant, bal God, for the comfort and convenience of the monster, puts forty thousand dis tinct muscles in his liroboscia. I go down on the .tarren seashore ani say, "No animal can live in this place or desolation;" but all through the sands are myriads of little insects that leai with happy life. I go down by the marst and say, "In this damp place and ii these loathsome pools of stagnant wa ter there will be the quietness of deaith;' butslo! I see the tairtles on tie rottet log,- sunning themselves and hear the bogs quake with multitudinous life, When the unfledged robbins are hungri God shows thie old robbin wbere she can get itod to put into their o e:: mouths. The animal creatioin also has its army and navy. The most insignificant has its means or defense-the wasp its sting. the reptile its toothi, the bear its paw. the dog its muzzle, thle elephant tts tusk the fish its scale, the bird its swift wing, the reindeer its antlers, the roe its fleel foot. We are repelled at the though1 of sting and tusk and hoof, but Godh goodnuess provides them :a the defense of the animal's rights. Yea, God In the Bible announces hii care for these orders of creation. & says that he has heaved up fortitications for their deteuse-Psalm civ, 18, "'The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats and the rocks for the ronies." Hie watches the bird's nest-?salm civ, 17 "As for the stork, the fir trees are nei house." Hie sees that the cattle have enough grass-Psalm civ, 14, "He caus eth the grass to grow for the cattle.' lie sees to it that the cows and stee! and horses have enough to drink-Psaln civ, 10, 11: "He sendeth the spring into the valleya, which run amnoag the bills; they give .drink to every beast o the field. The wild asses quench thei, thirst." Amid the thunders of Sinai God ut tered the rights of cattle and said thal they should have a Sabbath. "Thot shalt not do any work, thou nor thj cattle." He declared with ininite em phasis that the ox en the thrashing fioo should have thle privilege of eating som< of the grain as he trod It out, and mnz zliug was forbidden. If young bird were taken from the nest for food, th< despoiler's life depended on the motbe: going free. God would not let the moth er bird suLfer in ane day the los: of her young and he: own liberty. An' he who regrded in olden ime the con duct t ian toward t.ke ue luu looks de xn frnm hw.veri and :s iter' ed In -:ery ruiuno-v that swim. the strem. :mnd ervr rook that leave e ar, and :very herd that lias or ned'-'s or lows in the pasture. Why did God make al these. and why make ib m so happyy How account -r all this ugin, tud dancing and fr.k amid the trrationa, creation? Why th i hearen -br the animalcule iu a dedrop? Why for the condor a throne on Clim borazo? Wby the gitter of the phos phorus in the ship's wake on the sea, which is said to be only the froLe of mil lions of iusects. Why perpetual cbant ing of so many voices from the irration al creation in earth and air and ocean beasts and all cattle, creeping things and c flying fowl, permitted to join in the praise that goes up from seraph and archangel? Only one solution, one ex. planati-n, one answer-God is good. "The:earth Is full of the goodness of the Lord."' I take a step higher, and notice the ad- i aptation of the world to the comfort and happiness of man. The sixth day of creation had arrived. The palace of the world was made, but there was no kinz to live in it. Leviathan ruled the deep the eagle the air; the lion the field; but where was the scepter which should rule all? A new style of being was created. Heaven and earth were represented in his nature. His body from the earth beneath; his soul from the heaven above. The one reminding i.im of his origin, the other speaking of his destiny-him self the connecting link between the ani mal creation and angelic intelligence. In him a strange commingling et the temporal and eternal, the tnite and the intinite, dust and glory. The earth for his loor and heaven for his roof: God *or his Father; eternity for his lifettme. The Christian anatomist, gazing upon the conformation of the human body. exclaims, "Fearfully and wonderirily made.'" No embroidery so elaborate, no aauze so delicate. no color so ex quisite, no mechanism so graceful, no handiwork so divine. So quietly and mysterioualy does the humau body per form its functIons that it was not until five thousand years after the creation of the race that the circulation of the blood was discovered; and though anatomists of all countries and ares have been so long exploring this c-ast.e of life, they have only begun to understand it. Volumes have been written of the hand. Wondrens :strument! Eth t we give friendly recognition. and grasp the sword, and climb the reck. and write and carve and build. It constructed t .e; pyramids and hoiste.1 the Parthenon. It made the harp, and then struck out of ' all the world's minstreisy. in it the wtdte mar:>Ie of Pentelican mines dream ed itscif away into immortal sculpture. It reins in the swift engine; it holds the steamer to its path in the sea; it snatches the fire from heaven; t feels the pulse of the sick child whith its delicate touch, and makes the nations quake with its stunendous achievements. What power brought down the forests, and made the marshes blossom, and bur dened the earth with all cities that thnm der on with enterprise and powery Four fingers and a thumb. A hundred mil lion doljars would not purhase for you a machine as exquisite and wonderful as your own hand. Mighty hand! In all its bones and muscles and joints I learn that God is good. Behold the eye, 1which, in its photo graphic gallery; in an instant catches the mountain and the sea. This perpetual telegraphing of the nerves; these joints, that are the only hinges that do not wear out; these bones and muscles of the body with fourteen thousand different adapta-. tions; these one hundred thousand glands; these two hundred million pores; this mysterious heart, contracting four~ thousand times every hour; this chem ical process of digestion; the laboratory, beyond the nderstanding of the miost skillful philosophy; this furnace, whos~e heat is kept up from cradle to grave; this lactory of life, whose wheels and spin dles and bands are God ditected. If we could realize the wonders of our physical organization we would be hypochond riacs, fearing every moment that some part of the machine would break down. But there are men here who have lived through seventy years, and not a nerve has ceased to thrill. or a muscle to con tract, or a lung to breathe, or a hand to manipulate.I .I take a step higher an~look at man's mental constitution. Behold the benevo lence of God in powers of perception, or the faculty of transporting this outsIde world into your own mind--gathering into your brain the majesty of the storm and the splendor of the day dawn, and lifting into your mind the ocean as casily as you mnight pit a glass of water to your lips. Watch.-, - of ass cociation, or the myste/ Mmg" together of all you ever <,et or knew or felt, and then givn~ou the power to tafke held of the clew line and draw through your mind the long tramn with indescribable veloci ty-one thought starting up a hundred and this again a thoneand--as the chirp of one btrd sometilnes wakes a whole forest of voices, or the thrum of one string will rouse an orchestra. Watek your memory-that sheaf bin der, that goes forth to gather the harvest of the past and brira it into the present. Your power and velocity of thought-. thought of the swift wmng and the light ning foot; thought that outspeeds the1 star and circles through the heavens and weighs worlds, and, from poising amid wheeling constellatious, comes down to count the blossoms :n a tuft of mnigt:o-I nette, tflen starts aginf to try the fathom ing of the bottomless, and the sec!'n of the insurmountable, to be swallowed up in the ineomprehensible and i"st in God! In reason arnd understanding, man is alone. T he ox surp'asses him in streug th, the antelope in speed, the houud in keen 'ness of rostril, the eaghc in far reachirit sight, the~ rabbit in quickness of hearin:, .the hone' bee in dflcecy of t,,cgue, the snder 1in ilneniess ot touch. Man's power, thlerefore, consisteth not In what he can 111t. or ho w fast be cain run, or hoW strong a wrestler he can throw-for in these respects the ox. the ostrich andl the hyenA are his superiors-but by his reason he c,'nes forth to rule all; throug~h his ingenious contrivance to outrun, out. h:t, outwrestle, outse, cuthear, outdo. At his all conquering decree the orest that had stood for ages iteps aside to let1 him build his cabin and cultivate his iifarm. The sea~which rated and foamed upon the race has become a crysta!t -pathway for commerce tomac on The tundercloud that slept lazilyabe the mountain is made to come dlown and carry mail bags. Maw, dissatisfied with! hIs slowness of advancement, shouted Ito the water and the fire. "Come and lft" "Come and dIraw!" "Conme and help!" And they answered, "Aye, aye, we come," and they jomned hands-the fire and the water-and the shuttles fly, I nd the rail train rattle n, ,and te di rit n - ,Ity rrten upo eVery ear4:y: V uu' d-s uned to range in un(uI a heres of activity log -Ater the Orld is. put on ashes, and the. solar yte hppe d itS axle, and thS -starS hat, in their courses, fouight a st isera. shall have been slamn and buried niid the toilling thunders cf tho last You see that (od has adapted every hing to our comtfrt and advantage. .leasant things for the palat*; music or the ear; beauty for the eye; aroma or nostril; kindred for our affections: )oetry for our taste: religion for our gul. We are put in a garden, and told hat from all the tress we may eat ex ept here and there one. le gives the unn to shine on us, and the waters to re resh us. and food to strengthcn us: and ne herbs viela medicIne when we are Ick. apd tne forests lumber when we ,ound build a house or cross the water n a ship. The rocks are transported for our oundation, and metals upturned for yur currency, and wild beast must give is covering, and the mountehis must be unnelled to let us pass, and t!! fish of I he sea come up in our net, and the birds )f the air drop at the iaisi of our guns. und the cattle on a thousmd llls comae I lown to give us meat. For us t Ie peach rchards nend down their fruit andx the rineyards their purple cluters. To feed ind refresh our intellect, n ou and vonders in nature and pr. idenc vonders of muind and body, woc ndetr of arth and air, and deep analgies and mtitheses, all colors a::d sou::ds. l' rxis n the air, idyls in the :1.1 e g I ions in the sunset, robes 9f 1 't 01. uountains and tzie "Grand a rch" of Jod in the storm. But for the soul still higher adpta :ions: a fountain in which it ni.v w i ladder by which it may cli-1: song >f endless triutup that it may sing: a rown of unfading hght tha: it mly ear. Christ came to saveit-came win i cross on his back; came with spcikes in uis feet: eame when no one ese would 3ome. to do a work which no one else would do. See how suited to man's con lition :s w-bt God has done 'or him. Nian is a sinner; here is a pardo. He as lost (lods image; C:ristl reo-rarst 'Le Is helpleqs; Almighty grace i prof rered. Ie is a lost wanderer: Jsus rings him hrle. le is i:nd. Ia %t :>ne touch of him who cured Bartimeu ternal glories stream into his sou. Jesus. I sing tMV grace: Cure of worst isease: lammer to smite off Leavi t chain: Light for thickes. darkness: race divine. Devils seOft ait an men rejiet it. but heaven celebrates i'' I wish you good cheer or tMe nation ii Leaitu. Pestilence, that in other years, as coUe to drive out ns tLhuis Antd I earses te Greenwocd and LOure., 1il1 as not visited our natioi. T ia;glo rious thing to be well. H~ow stran.e that we snouud ktep our health whoa I -ne breath from a iarsh or the sting, of in insec, or the slppin- of a foot or the falling of a tree hranceh might fa tallyV ass!Ault Our life' Reuar ne lungs work, and their motion seins to be a szirit withm us pSnting alter its immortahty. Our sights fail not, though the air is so full of objects which by one touch could trea k out the souls window. What ship, azter a year's tossing on the sea, could come in with o little damage as ourselves, though we arrive after a year's voyage today ? I wish you good cheer for the nationl a harvest. Reaping machines never swathed thicker rye and corn husker's peg never ripped out fuller ear, and mow poles never bent down under sweeter hay, and windmill's hopper never shook out larger wheat. Long trains of white covered wagons have brought the wealth down to the great thoroughfares. The garners are full, the storehouses are overcrowded, the canals are blocked with freights press ing clown to the markets. The cars rumble all through the darkness and whistle up the flagman at dead of night to let the western harveste come down to feed the mouths of the great cities. A. race of kings has taken possession of this land-King Cotton, King Corn, King Wheat, King Rice, King Grass, King Coal. I wish you good cheer for civil and religious liberty. No oiicial spy w atch es our entrance here, nor does an ar med soldier interfere with the honest utter ance of truth. W'e stand here today ith our arms free to work and our tongues free to speak. This Bible-t is all unclasped. This pulpit-there no chain around about it. Ti.orecis no snapping of musketry in the strrt. Blessed be God that to day we* are free men, with the prospect and deterxnna ion of always being free. No e:,tablis d1 religion-Jew and G eutile A rin and Calvinist, Trinitarian and Un ita ian. Protestant and lurnan Catholic on the same footing. If prosecution shrnao2 ::i' the most unpopulaie of al th: sects, I belve that all denominst:ci s i and together and arm themsel':es, a heart woulli be stout. : lood woud be free, and thue right of muen to worship God according to the dictates of thii~r consciences would be conte~tat th point of the~ bayonet, and wirnx Hood iowng up the bits o' he horse's i F'or muercies temporal and 3 ii% let consecrated !ives be .flred. Kire ever (fod's iir'nt in''-' and' b.oXs fl' serds and~ God's wrey brocods th'> thanksgi vin. arise D 'T:aorr, Mich. Dec - T . I o -' pp:'.i:ng eitastrophe t:ut W -:'.e Detrcit xiu.e the burnig of the T ide se' o!, two years azo, ;ok u~ace atbot 2 o0iek this mror-nn- Fie urna 0u in t ue grocery store of G~eorze .j. Re~Is ;33 '.rleans steet, and eenil nnscuto ere to deatth Charles Res gdt n hims brothers Joste an 'idi agni 11 an ; e::rs. The later ebildr ci re founrd it their hed an~d the' olt!r br.' was discover'i by the 117e : u ly;:'' upon the ik~or before a wi idow as if he, ralizing the dangtr, had ax 'a;Ipted to eserce by. that egress. The father and mothcer we-re f'JUnd ockd in eaich other's armu a: the hewl f the stsiis leading out xnto the yard. hey were burned to a erusp. Why they took the rear steps mnay iever be kniown, for if they lad takenm the i ront way they wonid undioubted]'iiavg- be1n saved. As it wa~s they rusneil io a ther furnac, for the cofiagraition did th tdaage where their bodies wre found. TWo other children--Ma. :tged la, and Toney, aged 13, an'd a hired girl, who'se name could ncot be ascertaxned, e caped by jumpIngr out of the windowis into the armis or the police and firemcen. There was no means of xnding ou: justj how the lire started. When tirst seen it was issuing from the front windows! up stairs, but an examination of the~ grocery store showed an overturned stoe, anid the damage done to the lower story would indicate that the lire A UiBOULICA 1 mEED, WR CK 'F THE DOWN COLJM B!A TR-IN NEAR CHARLESTON. Or.. P.,rpn 1?d amti Five Injured-It ws Debea.tvy 1'Ianued and Well Executed Trainu Wreek-The Detalli of the Di)saster. C;;AurE-rox. S. C , Nov. 2.-At 10 o'clock inst night a train on the South Carolina Railway, on its way from Col umbia with nearly two hundred passen gers on board, was thrown into the swamp just this side of Lincolnville and one person was killed and five in jured. The following is a list of the causualties: Killed, Mason Parker, colored, fire man. Injured, Thos. Anderson, white, baggage master, serious; S. M. Preston, white, express messenger, seriously; Victor La Vergne, white, passenger, probably fatal, Charleston. Mrs. Phillip Cahrs, white, passenger, Charleston, not serious. Annie Kelly, white, passenger, broken arm. There is abundant evidence that the train was calmly, deliberately and ma liciously wrecked. The rail on the east side of the track had been systematical ly loosened, and even the tools which had been used for the purpose were found on the side of the tra(:k. The train consisted of five coaches, Includ ing a Pullman. All except the Pull man car were thrown down the em bankment, turned over and completely wreckeJ. Tnat so few persons were injured can only be attributed to the miraculous interposition of Divine Providence. The crew of the wrecked train, or such of them as were not disabled, act ,d promptly, one of the brakemen run. nong to Summerville, three miles dis taut, for assistance. By 12 o'clock are lief train arrived from Summerville, anu a halr hour later one from Charles ton, under the charge of Manager C. Ul W ard. Dr. Lee, of Summerville, came do-s.n to the scene and aided Dr. F. D. Frost, who was on train and who had 'esto wed as much attention as possible to the injured. The locomotive jump ed the track, but remained on the cross ties. The tank was thrown into the swamn and the colored fireman was crushed to death under it. His body remains at the scene of the wreck, only his legs being visible. It was not until after 1 o'clock that the rescurers suc ceeded in cutting a way out of the wreck to remove Daggage Master Anderson. Conductor Speissl ger was uninjured. Engineer Wiliam Waters remained on toe cab, wich rain fully three yards from the displaced rail on the crossties. The five coaches were crowded, two of then with white and two with colored people, there being an unusually large propcrtion of women among the num ber. These were picked out of the wreck ty the passengers and taken up on the embankment, where they remained un t:i the arrival of the first relief train from Summierville. On the train were the passengers who cm.me from Columbia including a num ber of the members of the Legislature and sose oflcials and a representative of the News and Courier, and a large number of Charlestonisns who got on the train at Branchville, having come that far on their way from the Augusta Exposition, and a number of ladies who got on at Suinerville. The ill-fated train left Branchville at 9 o'clock and made the run to Summerville without stopping, forty miles in fifty minutes. It was only a few moments after leav ing Sumnierville that the catastrophe occurred. The railway authorities lost no time whatever in starting out in search of the villian, who moved the taps from the bolts on the track. Trial Justice Limehouse was communicated with and tr:e Cbarleston police were asked to detail an oflicer to assist in working up the fearful case. There was a heavy downpour during the several hours the passengers were detained at the nineteen-mile post. Work on the wreck had consequently to be abandoned until a cessation of the rain storm. The train arrived at the depot at about 5 minutes after 3 o'clock. *The passengers hurried out of the coaches to meet those who were waiting for them, and it was not long before every carriage was crowded and the passen gers who had been miraculously saved rom dleath were on their way home. Although there had five hours passed between the accident and the return home of the Providentially saved pas segers,no one was in condition to say anything about the wreck. A diabolical deed was what everyone pronounced it. During the day at the scene of the wreck many made personal observa:ion and convinced them selves that it was a premeditated and deliber ate act, done witn satanic intent. The wrench with which the bolts were in faserid was left upon the scene. The potin of the bolts, one of them being relae on the wire edge after being uien out of the rais, all indicated the debratetness of the act. Y oung La Vergue was lying in the exrerss coach of the relief train. Im mdately upon :mrival of the train knifriends rushe-i to the coach, and, piig up the paliette, carried the woumlUed man to the ambulance of the City Hom~ttau. IIe eas yet alive when care 6the los pital. '.u'rintendent. 111. Ag new, of the ie: 'arlina R~ailway. is one of the moC. c'Jhpdent.2 persons In the city to giv adscriptIon of the wreck and its c "'s ro a railroad stanudpoint. He le f t aeeo the relIef train, and remain eattese.e:.e of the disaster until the wrs .o! been cleared, H~e was seen vsenlay :norniing by a lteporter for 'ih- N -; andl Courier, to whom he gav- a. nuinuite account or some of the features of the wreck and Its cearing. "Rt is two clearly evident from the apuearance of everything around the se tw" e said, "that the spikes and ~ol:s'had been: deliberatelv removed fromu the rails by some one who evident nderstood, howv to derail a train: it wouh( have becji Impossible to have had th tracki in a better condition for a de railem. he splice b>ars were moved frm.mjoint (that is where the two rauis comue together) and all of the spikes w.r5rn for the entire length of one o thue east side. The rail was discon netted whiere rne splice hars were taken out ando was pressed inward and held in that poaition by a bar of Iron. T nis ua:wed the guage to such an extent that. whenu the wheels camne to the joint were the splice bats had been removed th "nd of the rail proppedl on the ties ani cumsed the deramlment. After lear ig the rails the train onlyran about ive ear-lengths. The rail on the oppo site side was not disturbed. "There was a track wrench and a clawbar lying near where the bar had been removed. The spikes that had been withdrawn were lying on the tis from which they had been taen. It was absolutely impos sible for the derailment to have been accidental tunder the circtumstan ces. The rail next to the misplaced one was intact throughout its~entire length also the rail on the opposite side, except that the ties were cut up to some ex ten t by the flange of the wheets" M|SSON OF THE NtGRO. The Goveruor of Texas 1tis:dives a Com ni:-ee of Pro-acers. a coimmittte of eight prominent prca:h ers of tht Colored Meihodt c'oufcreu.e called on Goveruor Hogg at his o&ice in the capitol. The governer, in a brief address, said among other things: "You celored people do -very well, ex cept whEn you go into politics. When you do that you generally have some mean white man to stir you up and get you into trouble." 'Governor Ilogg referred to the peace able and praiseworthy conduct of the negroes during the four years of the war when the white men were in the army and their homes and families un protected; when the negroes had the opportunity to pillage, burn and de stroy, but did none of these things. The governor said that in his own county, during the war, there was not a case of incendiarism. The ncaro had mair. tained his fidelity to the whites till the proclamation of emancipation. The governor alluded to the lynching of a negro in Cass county and to his en deavor to put down mob law in Texas [applause by the committee], and said he would do his part as governor of the state to protect their race in their lives, liberty and property. [Applause.] Gov ernor Hogg counseled the colored peo ple to lay aside race prejudice, which the intelligent men of both races ought to educate the people against. A colored preacher, recently from Pennsylvania, replied to the Governor, saying there ought to be no antipathy felt by the negro against the white man and that they ought to have the white man's conhdence. Governor Hogg replied, saying the state was dominated by the Democratic party which' had equally divided the school fund with the negro when it had the nower to do otherwise. Addressing the Pennsylvania preach e: the governor said: "W hen you go back north tell your people that the people of Massachusetts first brought African slaves to America. Slavery was a godsend and emancipation wasfa god send, because,,"as the gouernor believed, these two events will ,eventually result In the enlightenment of A~riza, which can be done by the negro himself better than by the white man." The governor counselled the colored race of the souLb to send all its surplus educated young men to 'the dark continent. That he believed was the great mission of the southern nc gro. itevenge Long N ursed. AU sUSTA, Ga., Dec. 4.-The past is not forgotten, uor are our ills forgotten. The truthfulness of this saying was given by a most remarkable incident which really occurred here. During the war a Confederate soldier, who was wounded in battle and was unable to contend further against the enemy, was arrested in Augusta by a Confederate oficer because he did not have proper furlough oapers.- This private Confed elate soldier, 'who is now a resident of Augusta, while walking in the streets, siightly intoxicated, this afternoon, ac cidentally noticed and at once recognized the officer who had caused his detention in Augusta while he was on Lis way to Columbia to join his sick wife. The old soldier had never forgotten the occur rence nor forgiven the officer, and when he met him to-day he piled is on him and abused and reproached him for having caused his arrest. The officer, who is now a New York drummer, had forgotten the affair, but recalled it when the oflended and re vengeful veteran made mention of it. The old officer avoided any difficulty with the infuriated so~dier who bore mal ice toward him and who wanted to sat isy his grievance by carving him. How ever, the vindictive survivor was sgamn searching for the officer to-night, arme~d with a knife with the avowed intention of doing him bodily harm, but the meet ing was prevented. The wounderful memory of this old private is something remarkable, and his identification of the man whom he considered had done him an injustIce upon first sight, after thirty years' interval, is still more wonderful. The Japanese Earthquake. VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 3.--Ad vices from Japan via the steamer Em press of China give later news regard ing the great earthquake of October 28. Careful figuring now places the number of dead at 7,560 and injured at 10,120, with 89,620 houses wholly and 282,625 nartly aestroyed. Over 443,000 people have been rendered homeless and des titute. Many curious freaks of the earth quake have been noticed. In one place a fissure swallowed up four persons, who have remained visible, but whose escue proved to be impossible. For tunately the weather remains mild. Rain or cold weather would cause terrible dis t-ess. Decent buri.al has been given to most of the bodies recovered from the ruins in the larger towns, but horrible scenes are presented in the country where the people are unable to inter their dead. Foreigners have come for ward generously with gifts of money, clothing, medicine, etc. Twenty thous and dollars have been contributed by the foreign reidents, ex~lusive of the Chincse funds, which Is large. Satngha~i has sent $5,000 and $110,000 has been rasedl in various ways in Tokio. T4 addition to these sums the Japanee. government has made a gratit of 22.225 000 to the two prefectures that suifored most. Twelvo [estantly Killed. Ta con~, Washington, Nov. 2-~.-One of the worst accidents ini the history of the Northern Paciiic Railroad occurred at noon to-day at Canon station, on Green River. about 10) miles ead of Tacoma. About sixty workmnes -ere sent to the locality of the recent lan slides to repair washouts ou a branch of the main line, and while thiu sem p~ioved at the base of a hign bluff sev ral inousand yards of shell rock sud denly tumbled on those beneath, in stantly killiug twelv-e, wrecking about 300 yards of roadbed, carrying two men into the river and burying several others, some of whom it will be impos sible to rescue alive. __ Died at Bila Post. DA .INGTON, S. C., Dec. 3.-Rev. J. W. Murray of the South Carolina Con ference, now in session here, was stricken with apoplexy (luring the ser vices last night at the Methodist Church. He was taken home where everything possible was done to relieve him, 1Ie died dur ing the night and will be buried here. His son was with him. He was pastor of Fairield Circuit and well known and admired by many Colm bians. He leaves a wife and several children. He was a good man, greatly oedr by all who nenw him. iW'hLe UkleeC D)or. i:. .1(,.Ih ;1'. ,- 4 tiovera!fi iport;:.nt M i' ln' 1d -'s td A.d Referredt naid O.i-r., Vote1-: Uon and 1KinHed. branches of the Legisiature asembledl today at twelve o'clCIk. In the 1iOuse a multituce of new bills has been intro duced, but up to this time Ucisive ac tion has been taken on very few of them. The first debate in the House was brought about i,y Mr. FIcken's bill to provide for marrige licenbes in this State. The measure had been discussed in a measure at the last seslon and would probably have gone through but for the tinkering that almost invariaIy follows the passage of a bill which has a few vigorous opponents. After some discussion the bill was indefinitely postponed. The next bill to get a ;lack eye was the bill to authorize the Governor to remove sheriffs from ofice in certain contingencies. This was generally credited with being an Administration measure, but it does not appear that the Governor or his friends made much of an effort to get it through. It was killed without discussion. In the Sen ate there was nothing of special import ance in this the opening day. Among the bills introduced was one to permit the construction of a private railroad from Glovers in this county to the Ashevoo River. By Senator Evans, to provide for the reapportionment of the House of Rep resentatives under the census of 1590. By Senator Stokes. to incorporate the town of Prewit, Orangeburg County. Senator Stokes gave notice that he would ask to make the bill on the sub ject of Calhou:-. County confirm to the lines of survey on the map before the Senate. On Wednesday in the Iouse the mar riage license bill was reconsidered and passed to a third readicg, and the meas are is now likely to become a la w. It provides for a license fee of fifty cent. Bills requring railroads to provide separate coaches for the races and for the prohibition of trains on Sunday has been introduced. A n invitation from President Walsh, of the Augusta Exposition Company, for the Legislature to be present on Carolina Day was, on motion of Mr. Evans. accepted. The bill to provide a fee of lifty cents per diem for coroners' jurors was indeti nitely pobtponed on motion of Mr. Evans. There would probably have been a lively Oght over it if Mr. ic Laurin had nut stated there was in course of prepara*ion z, bill to reorgan ize county matters and i,hat this would be treated therein. The following were introduced. Joint resolution to extend the time for the payment of taxes for the 1iscal ye;ar comuiencing November 1, 1Wl), to t:ue 1st day of February, 1S92. Bill to icenst person.s or czrporat!ois to sell clocks or patent medicines through the tate, declaring them pd diers and imposing a n of $500. Bill to amend tue act providing for a license for the s.le of pistols and pistol carridges so as to include ritle cart ridges. Bill to amend section 1.00! of the General Statutes relating to the com pensation of county school com mission t-rs, so that they shall receive annuany, in additiou,s ueh sums as may be neces sary to pay the actual expenses incurred by him in zattending meetings called for the purpose of advancing educational interests and In visiting schools. Bill to prohibit the giving as security and the taking as security any lien or mortgage on any ungathered crop. Bill, wit petition, 1to incroporate the town ouf Vance's, Orangeburg county. In the Senate on Wednesday the in vitaton of the IIon. Pat Walsh, Presi dent of the Augusta Exposiloto, for the Legislature to aittend~ on Carolina Day was communicated by message from the Governor, and accepted. A joint resolution extending the time for the payment ot State and county taxes to the 1st January,189J2 was introduced. A bill to empower the governor to re move sheriffs from office who willfully or negligently allow prisoners to escape, or to be injured or killed by lynching or other wise, while In the custody of said sheriffs was indeinnately post poned. Among the third reading bills on the calendar is a joint resolution calling for a constitutional convention. At the request of Mr. Meetze It was passed over for the present. Another third reading bill on thc cal endar is the bill to reduce the salaries of the State officers, cierks and employ ees. It was recommitted to the com mittee together with the amendmnents proposed during the closing e'-nes of the last session. Thursday being Thaniksgivinlg Day there was "no sessIOn of the lionse on that day, but on Fricay the regular work of the session svas resumn. The bill to reqiuire the several Co'un ties to pay all expenses of their luna ties in the State Lunatie Asylum, and to proevide for keeping separate ae counts of the same by the Comnptroller General, was kiuied after a short but breezy debate. A mcemorial was rCe'd f'ttin frth the neee.5sity of tu n aroida having proper represen~tanonf at the Wor!'i' sFair. Th~is was ordered -re ferredi to a ,pecial co::emiitee consist 1g of onze froma each~ Congrsional Dstric.t to be appoited roy the:'pea;ger. I Mr. John C. ilaskeil i-troduced tr folowig resolution: R'es4ved by the Ihouse of Representatives, That a eom mitt'e of three be 3"a'uc byu th p-ker to investigate a epr 'o tr~is Hlouse upo'n the contmCL et n aeent of the Pnlosput inL.ret the 5ate for the pa~ y,'r, aud rg~ thie c.miittiee nave power 'o *'td ror p:r Sons and papers, anid to takes n".e eirps as mil enabic them to make~ a il in qir into the~ mainagement by L o a af t' C~?ae tales reat tt th innatic Asyluni passe it~s third rdiig andi was ori'rd e'nroJ'd f or rarlatZion. T'his bi11 provd1 -an the Governor shall :appe:t by andx w th the advice and ccnsenit *' ?the NDE ive regents of the Lunat Myn who hall hol ,lie~ for s year from te day of appointmer, excP !in" he currence of a vaicany ie u Governor shati till the same by an up pontent for the unexplired ter onlv;O that for the purpose of conoring the administration of the Lunatic --sylu'a to the foregoing Sectuon, as sog'n a practicable after the approval t' tius Act, the incumbient regenlts shanlc~ cde by lot on four oftherir unmbr, 0a sal thereunon cease to be regents, .a. the remairifig live shall for tne nreset constitute the board; that of the r maning live, two shall be~ selected .Dy lot to serve for rwo yects, two to serve for four years, and one to serve for six years, their successors to be appointed by the Governer as above. The Liouse bill to authorize and re q.ire te-m.eror Lieuemmt Gov iiaw neasurr an oujriitent1iet, of caac;. Guat .. n ipaer L wiliu all iut O .un ted rn as .UaeuLitei. yoS 'A t.' to asi~eiu seiuoen 2,120 ai the Ge~~ner., m t.e. in e-LtioI 'o Ie sal ae'sA Clicul. J udgts bS ma'Kug tWe aIU i,0UQ instea.t V1 b3,ouV; isoV, Lo aLolsl costa of attorineys m11 Clvii ac LIVU wa:s inItrGAiUUed. Lhe zenate, naie the Iouse, held no seasni On Inursdy, but was nard at wvork on Fridlay. Ine following new bUSineSs was ii troduced: A bill to establish a bureau of geolo gy and mines, to provide for an agri cultural, geologicai, mineralogical and paysical survey of the State and for otner purposes. A bili to amiend section 647 of the General *tatutes of this State and to proylae for tme appointment of an ex aminer for banks u the itate and bank ing istitutions. A bill to repeai the tax on fertilizers ana a bil to incorporate te Orange burg Rlailroad Company. In the Rouse on -aturday the follow ing Ulls were introduced: .dil to provie salaries for sheriffs and clerks of court, in lieu of nuila bona costs in criminal cases. Tne bill provides annual salaries of $700 for sneriffs and *;550 for clerks of court, in place of nulla bona costs in criminal cases, except sherias' accounts for diet ing persons, which sihail be paid as here tolore. Bul to require court stenographors to turnish Ireo of charge certilied copies of proceedangs and evidence taken in appeal cases. Dill to amend section 1,636 of the Gen eral Statutes, relative to legal holidays. ne amendment adds September 1 to tWe list or holidays. Bill to prevent the moving, dtstroy mg or leaving down of fences, bars, gates or araweis, providing a penalty vt from $10 to $5 or imprisonment or thirty days. Tis bill does not apply to the owner. In the senate on Saturday the most interest centred around tue report on uie bil to estabilshi tne new county of Calhoun. lnere were two bills beiore tae Stonate to establish this new cou ty, anu one, the oia uill, was rejected. i. ae otner one goes on toe calendar with tae unfavorabie report of tie judiciary I couMittee. senator Woodward, of Fairfield,has introd uced a b1il to prohibit state olli cers and members of the Legislature au.:eptug free passes on railroaas. WINDAND RAIN STORM. iDzaa aud Loss of Life Reported irom WasrnioToN, Nov. 2.5.-A terridc wind and rain stormu amounting to al most a hurricane, passed over this city about 12:30 o'clock, doing a great deal of damage to buildings, in the ruins of ten of which several peonle were buried and completely prostrating the tek graph wires. The storm seems to haTe been quite general. The worst damage was done to the flne Metzerott music hall, the walls of which wrce well ad vanced to completion, and were at that stage of progress when they oiler the least resistance to it. The wind swept into the high walls of this building and part of the structure went into a crash, breaking into several stores on F street near Twelfth, adjoining the Metzerott music store. One of these stores was occupied by George White, ladies' tailor,. and the second by Gude & Brother, florists. Four persons were in the rear of White's establishment, and were buried in the rujas. Three persons were taken out not very seriously injured, but the life in P'roiprietor 1? hite's body was ex tinct when he was reached. A number of persons had narrow es capes, but, the accident occurring at the noon hour, workmen and others were, fortunately. at lunch at the time of the storm. A section of stone balustrade around the white house root was blown down r.d crushed through the roof of the portico at the eastern entrance of the basement. The east portico was also wrecked by falling stone. The accident caused commotion in tihe president's household, but it was soon found that no one was in jured. The president was receiving a Minnesota delegation at the time, and his first action was to hastea to the pri vate p)art of the house to reassure the ladies of his lamily. Lightning struck one of tile large gas reservoirs of the Washington Gas company, in George town, near the water front, snapping one of the tall iron columns surrounding. the tank; the gas was !ggmted and 500, 000 feet, stored in the reservoir, was consumed berre the fire had spent it self. The gas company's loss is about 6->0.000; no insurance. Many buildings were unroofed and a numnbet were partly blown in. Thxe total loss will considerably exceed 6100, M'steek Mlorphine for Qninine. Gi:ExNLLE, S. C., Dec. 4.-W. B. A nd'erson, a well known and highly re spcted young man of the Cedar Grove ~etion of Lanrens County. died Mon day mlorrnn from a mistake in tattmg a~iie. ILe had not been well, andI \orxday morning got up out of bed to take som qinine. It sems from wha~'t can be learned that there was a bor' cotiingi morphine near the o.. containing quinine, and the two: battules were nmuch alike. A fter takingI wa"t he supposed was qjuinme Mr. Anrders.on startedi from home. Ab~out hafamile from his home he became a el ~i and was taken into a ] n *ghour's house. Before any thing couldi be don-' for hime the morphine had done in work. Hie was about 23 years< ofi X.Mr iAdrson was given the dose of supposed cmnine by his mother. who< ok l frm amolng somie medicine that( hd been left several yuears ago by her huathe late Dr. Andersen. She 1 e prposed it to be quinine. Th"e 'ievalution~ In China. SLINGISATH, Nov. in33.-The apeciail c:resondent in China of the United Press 'is able, con thec beat authoulty, to stg that the rebellion (for it is really a tI rebelie) is spreadingr rapidly in the nortern provinces. so that there is COnl siderable alarm felt at Pekinhand is nehborhood. The rebels are advane-. ing in mases upon Pekin, and are being oed en route by reinforcements trom" c tle people and from the army. Severai I gutadrons of the so-called regular caval- I iv havc alrea d joined the rebeis. in ad- C dtilon to bards of deserters from thej troops classed as regzular infan try. Fin aly, the rebels ha' been joined byab umber of mandarins, and each day their strength and audacity have been increas ng. All the Gbristians at Kinchowis )ETAILS OF A TERRIBLY FATAL EARTHQUAKE. Rallroad Irons Twisted and Rlver EM bankments Thrown Down-New Lake Formied at the foot of mountains-Great Fissures and Cracks Appear. .Nx FEaxcisco, Nov. 28.-These .eails have been received of the Japan .arthqiake of October 28: The up and lown traius ea the Tokiado Railway r-ere just meeting at GiTU station, the :entre o. disturbance, when the first shock occurred. The shock was ac :ompanied by a rumbling sound and was iolent. People on trains thought a collision ad occurred. On looking out ot the windows, however, they beheld the sta rion in ruins. some oi the passengers made their way into Fifu ana found im mense heaps or ruins. lany houses had fallen, while others were so shattered that succeeding trem ors of the earh threw them to the ground. Lu almost every house some unfortunate was buried and the chances of escape were diminished greatly by condagra tions in many places. The railway line was too much dam aged ro allow of the moving of trains, and passengers were accordingly com pelled to make their way on toot to the neighboring towns. Tne roads were found to be almost impassable by As bures and landslides. The town ot Kano was found to be wholly in ruins, not a house remaining standing. Kassamatsu suffered a liae fate, every dwelling being a mass of debris. Everywhere survivors were dig gimg out the dead and wonaded and fight mng against conlagrations on all sides. At Lchinomya and Kiyosee the people managed to save a few mats and were preparing to pass the night in the fields. Throughout the day and night the work o! carrying the wounded to Nogoya, proceeded, a continual stream of bearers passing along the railway, which was the only avallable route. 'The inhabitants of the ruined town say that the first sensation was that the houses were being shaken and then sud dely lowered two or three feet. In act there was a karked subsidence of the earth's -surface for a considerable area about Gliu, showing that this town was the centre of the disturbance. Very soon after the houses were thrown down and while nundreds of peo ple were buried in the debris, :dames uurst from the ruins of silk factory and in a short time spread to such an extent that the citizens were compelled to desist n tneir work of rescue. -The conflagra Lion burned out in one direction, but three other fires broxe out ana soonjoined together, sweeping from street to street, thuned by a strong wind. The police, aied by normal school students and prisoners in jail, fought the iiru all nigat, ut it was not subdued un tl the lorenoon of the next day, when almost tne whole town had been burned ofer. Potteries in the prefectures of U wari ana Mino. great centres in porcel ain manufacture ia Japan, and tnose 'at Seto and otter towns were almost en tirely des,royec, and it is reported that there is no prospect of resuming their industry this year. The shock was SO severe that scarcely a sound house is left standing, with the exception of h castle. The Gobo tem ple, beienging to the Shin sect of Budd hiSts, was crowded with worshippers. when it fell. burymng at least fifty people. The ruins took fire and the shrieking victims were consumed before the eyes of the horrified en-lookers, A slight sheck'was felt at Nagoya on the night of Sunday, October 25. On Wednesday morning, while forty Chris tians were assembled in one of the build inns of the Methodist school, the struc tre began to totter and the worshippers fled. One Christian and his wife'ere killed ani two Japanese were fatally'% jured. Mr. and Mrs. Van Dyke, mis sionaries, and one other white person, were dangerously hurt. Out of doors the city was in an up roar, wild shrieks and indescribable noies filled the air, while every few moments came terrible thunder from the angry earth. Many streets were blocked with fallen houses and others were choked with fleeing people. A thread factory and a large brick buifding caved in, killing hundreds of persons, but the old castle, despite in its four hundred years, stood firm. The loss of life in the three towns which go to make up the city of Nagoya is estimated at irom 950 to 1,000. 'Up to the morning of Friday, October 30, 36 distinct shocks were reported as folowing that of Wednesday. As the wouanded were brought into' the city from surrounding towns, re ports continued to come of lives lost, 1amage done and stirring incidents. Reports were also received of fissares n the earth two feet wide and several eet deep. Railway rails were twisted, ron bridges, river embankments crum bled and fields flooded. A lake six hun red yards long and sixty yards wide as formed at the foot of' the Hukusan afuntain, in the Gifu prefecture, and reat cracks were formed in the ground 'esde the hills in Gifu. Water sprang from the cracks in the round, and the water mn the wells was :hangedi in color to a brownish tint and as rendered unfit for dnnkina~. The m bankments of mest of the rivers were isroyed, and in this city's prefecture 150 miles of embankment must be,re )ullt. Express Robbery. +.Loris, Dec. 4.-The Adams' Ex ress Company, it is now stated, will ose about S75,000 by the robbery of the 'risco" night express car nesr Glen lale Monday night by six masked men. Ehe safe of the express company was :omletely ritled and although yester lay Superintendent Damsel placed the ss in the neigh~orhood of $20,000,it is it known that the sate contained far no than that amount. Superintend t Damsel refuses to deny or confirm he story that the total loss reaches ~75000,. but admits that it exceeded the ,m'unt he first gave out as the co' >any's loss. There is still no clue to he robbers. Famine Zn Mexico. I r':INVo, Mexico, Nov. 25.-The to a failure of the corn and bean crops this state, owing to the drouth, is aung intense suffering among the or. The price of corn has risen to an mmense figure, selling in some parts f the state at over one dollar per bush iThe laboring element of Durango ae neither work nor feed. The bet er classes, who are so fortunate as to ave food, are compelled to guard their pplies closely to prevent the famish 1 horde from robbing them. Only the tere measures of the government sol