Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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(I . id s r nii are a biddt d LIut' tO fAw S al-e s cff:or tt:e wa?. I t s! 'e .in2 (I Ztkat ti:e deht ni - " :-- e -All mutil ie wa res vi iti h v-e( ry. ccme?-.oe. But Ai* I 3 i<t-riele-s (Le be ra'e? The !tft et Fi oi chIl&en art 6 aroand ite eek- s uf ibe b:.tz d warriors m until they sahue tIhur:stves f-ee an start. aid bardkerchiets atd fligs are waved and kisses itrwn until the armed roen vanish be cud the bils. Dav'd a:d 0 his men son get thr ugh with their 1 night on their way hom waid. Ever. ' night on their waN beme no sooner doe, b the soldier put his bead on the knapsack n tban in his cream he !ears ice selcome 2 of the wi.e at d - ie shc ut of the child. Oh, what long stor'es they will have to t tell their families ot how they dedged the I battleax, and then will roll up their b sleeve and show the ba'f bealeJ wcued With glad, quick step, they march on, U David and his men, for they are march- ( ing home. A MARCH AND A VICTORY. Now the% cotre up to the last hill which overlooks Z Kia, and they ex pect in a momer. to see the dwelI-rg places of their loved ones. They look, and as they look their cheek turns pale, d and their lip quivers, and their band in voluntarily comes down on the hilt of the t sword. "Where is Z klag? Where are our homes?" they cry. Alas, the curl- d ine smoke abcve the tuin teils the trag- C edy! The Amalekites have come down and consumed the village and carried the C mothers, and the wives, and the children of David and his men into captivity. The swarthy warriors stand tor a f-v moments transfixed with horror. Then their eyes'glance to each other; and they t burst into uncontrollable weepefo- . when a strong warrior weeps t. e grief is appalling. It seems as if the emotion might tear him to pieces. They "wept until they had no more p)wer to weep.) But soon their sorrow turns into rage ndc David, swinging his sword bigh in the air, cries. "Paraue, for thou sraalt over take them and withcut fall recover all." Now the march b'eccmes a "deuble quick." T wo bundren o? Davi-ds men stop by tue brcck Besor, laint with ft. gue and grief. Tcee1 cartnot go a ster, farther. They are leit there. But the n other 400 men under David, with a sor; of panther step, march on in sorrow and e in rage. They find by the side of the e road a half dead Egyptian, and they re- b suscitate him and compel him t tell the a whole ,,sory. He sais, "Yonder they te went, the captors and the ceptives," c pointing in the direction, Forward, ye i< 400 brave men offire ! Very soen Dovd and his enragedt com pan ccme upon the A-nalekitish he-si 3 Yuncer they see their ow'n wrves and cbildren ana mothers and an~der Amale- a kitish guard. Here are the officers of 1 the Amnalauard. Here are the <fliers e of the Amakekitish arm'y bokmng a bar.- I quet. The cups are inil; the music is p is roused; the dance begins. The Amal ti ekitish bost cheir er d cheer ar~d cheer b over their victory. But withe'ut note of b bugle or warming o! trumpet Da.vid anc 5 his 400 mer. turst upon the scene. David and bis men look up, and cue 1 elance at their loved ones mt captivin v and under Amaiekilish anard throies I them into avery fury of 0-ter mina'ion.r for yo-u know how men will fight when 1 thes fiebt lor their wives and children. Ah, there are lightnings in their ey e, and every tinu er ts a spear, and their voice 1 is like the shout ot the w1hirlwinol Amid the apset tarkaros and the costly vtandse crushed under f ot, the wonded Amal-r ekites lie-their blood mingling with their wine-3Drieking for mercy. No 1 sooner do David and his men win the t victory than they throw their swords down into the dust-what do they wantt with swords r-ow?-and the broken fami< lies come together amid a great shout ofr joy that makes the parting scene in Z1kI lag seem very mnsipid in the compariacn.t The rough old warrior has to use somet persuasion before he can get his child to) t come to him now after so long an ab sence, b-ut soon the little finger traces1 the familiar wrinkle across the scarredt tace. And then the empty tankardsr are set up, and they are filled with the best wine from the hills, and David andt his men, the husbands, the wives, thet brothers, the sisters, drink to the over throw of the Amaiekities and to the re building of Z:klag. So, O Lord, let tbmnea enemies perns?! ' THE RETURN. I Now they are coming home, David 1 and his then and their iamilies-a long I prccession. Men, wcmen and childr en, I loaded with jewels and~ robes and with all kinds of trophies that the Amalekites had gathered up in. y ears of conquest-c everything now in the hands of David< and his men. When they come by the brook Besor, the place where staid the f men sick and incompetent to travel, the jewels aud the reates and all kinds of treasurs are div:ded among the sick ast well as among the well. Surely the lame and exhausted ought to have some of the treasures. Here is a robe for a pale faced warrior. Here is a pillow for this dying man. Heie is a handful ofi gotd xor the wasted trumpeter. I really I think that these men who fainted by thet brook Besor may have eccured as much t as those men who went ite the battle.t Some mnein fellows objected to the sick ones having any o-f the Spcils. The ob- f jectors said, "Teese men did not fight."' 1 David, with a magnani-nous beart, re-t plies. "As his part is that goeth down i - gjhe battle, so sh sil his part be that tarrieth bywtbe 8i''._ --~ ~ This subj'ct is practically surgestive to me. Tflank God, in these uimes a 1 man can go cfl on ajourney and be gone weeks anco months and come back and see his bcuse unmcehed ci inicendiar3 1 and have hislazemi'v ibe ste pto creet 1 him if by telegram he ta- f -retold the I moment ef his c- -ia. iBa Qere are ekitish diseoses t2t OL soies om-2 down upvn ene's hen-e. ma-n a de took fie. Th' are fa-- ..u reere sent brcht upI. -" huu r :romi s~not in tie-cr o i cm'ed threi statues, no *e -7 he cur i ment tha ' a~ to tt at hcuse1< are ccrcermed 1b home itas departed. Atrize &- tes came downr unon the< u:e s o. the Pcene-Fcarlet tevers or tur-ts-es or cot-eumptions or undefined iord-ers came and s'.zid upon some -er hi. q r,1 that farni) and carried them xav. Z kla%, in i-s e! And you 2o b vl' (-metires weet og and some r-s .!-reed, wn ing to get back .our ved ecoa as much as David and his :.en tVcnted to recorstruct their de porled hWuse-olde. Z kls in ashee! Irwe of you went efi forn nome. You <uted tb- dat a of Nrur absence. Ev-j rv d:.A etree aQ lor:L sas week O. ow "ad ycv w're when thec tu-ne came >r i. n -o, i:o - hoari the stlearboa- or ai' cir ar ! sirt for I oane ? You ar ;ved. Y< u wer'.u, the s-reet where our (awti! s wag. and in the rnht put o:-r heral on 1;e 6h orbell, acrd, hehold! ' ari; ed wit'! 'he signal heleave .fn aCTd %-OU 4(ud that Amalekie' i Ceh Vas de vaetbTked a tusan' t fr rcu eholds, had bla'ted )our'. 4 u ao ab; u. w~eing amd the dpsol I %0 yr-u: ml c- hat);> borne. thinki2I Stie hzid t. eyes clostd, and the noble warts storpd, and the nentle bands l ed a 6d vu wet:4 uni vOu have 13n t re- (er t > we ep. Z klaR i.n ashes. A en!t man wentIt o 10 faiend (if mine 1 t e c-v of Waebineton and asked bat tru -b him be mieht get a consub -,t to some toreign port. Mv friend ,id to him, --What do you want to go way trom vour beau'ful bome fr into toreitin por:?" 'O ," he reulied, -n boweis gone ! Mv six children are e-d. I mutw:. net away, sir. I can't teind in this eountry any longer." ASHES OF LIFE. Why these loug shadows o.f bereave ient z'cross this audience? Why is it 3at in almost evtry assemniaae black the predominant color of the anparel? a it because you d- not like safiron or roxn or viole? O. n ! You say, -The world is not so bright to us as rce it was," and there is a story of si nt voices and if still feet and of loved nes goce. and when you look over the ills, expectna only beauty and loveli ess, you find only devastation and woe. klan in ashts! One day in Ulster county, N. Y.. ,e vdlage church was decorated until .e fragsance of the flowets was almost ewilderine. The maidens of the vil we had emptied the place cf flowers non one marriage altar. Oae of their wn number was afMinced to a minister f Christ, who had come to take her to s own home. With bandsjoined, amid congratulatory audience, the vows ere taken. In three days from that me one of those who stood at the altar xchanged earth for heaven. The wed iog march brose down into the funeral Irge. There were not enough flowers >r the coffin lid, because they had all een taken for the bridal hour. The ead minister of Christ is brought to an ther village. He had gone oat from them less than week before in his strength; now he mes home lifeless. The whole church ewailed him. The solemn procession ioved arcund to look upon the still face at orce bad beamed t .e message of avation. Little children were lifted up ) look at him. And some of those rhom he had comforted in days of sor w, when they passed that silent form. ade the place dreadful with their weep g. Another village emptied of its owers-some of them put in the shape f a cross t- symbolize his hope, others ut in the shape of a crown to symbol ;e his triump. A hured lights blown ut mn one strong gust from the open cor of a sepuleher. Z kleg in ashee! A RALLY CRY. I preach this sermon tod ay because I ant to rally you as David rallied his en, fir the recovery of thie loved and 2 lost. I want rnot only to win heav n, but I want all tbis congregation to o along with me. I feel somehow I ave a responsibility in your arriving t that treat city. Do vou really want a j->m the companionship of your loved nes who have none? a re yousas ax us to jin them as David and his men ret e t i join their families? Then I am ere, inthe name of Gd, to say that on may and to tell son how. I remark, in the first place, if you rant to join sour loved ones in glory, on must travel the same way the~ rent. No sooner had the halt dea4 igyptian been resuscitated than he ointed the way the captors and the cap es had none, and Daivid and his mnec liowe.d after. So our Christian friendR ave gone into another country, and if (U uwant to reach their companionship we must take the same road. They re 'enec'; we must repent. They praved; ue must pray. Tney trusted in Christ; re must trust in Christ. They lived a ligious life; we must liva a rel'gious fe. Tney were in some things like urselves. I know, now that they are one, there is a halo around their names ut they bad their faults. They said d did things they ought never to have aid or done. They were sometimes eeblicus, sometimes cast dan. They ere tar fcom being per'ect. So I stup ose that when we hava gone some his in us that are now only tolerable na be almost resnlendent. But a' hey were iike us in deheiencies we uht to be like them ia taking a super ai Christ to make up. for the deficits. Iad it not been f.,r Jesus they would ave all perished, but Christ confronted hem and said, "I am the way," ana ey took it. .1 have also to say to you that the ath that these captives trod was a roubled path. and that David and his sen had to go over the same difficult ray. While these captives were being ken off they said, "Oh, we are so ired; we are so sli; we are so hungry!" 3ut the men who had charge of them aid: "Stop this crying. Go on!" David id his men also found it a hard way. They had to travel it. Our friends have one into glory, and it is through much ribulation that we are to enter into the ndom. How our loved ones used to iave to struggle! How their old hearts ched! How sometimes they had a tus le for bread! In our childhood we won ered why there were so many wrinkles n their faces. We did not know that shat were called "crow's feet" on their ces were the marks of the black raven t trouble. Did you never hear the old rople, eeated by the evening stand, alk over their Larly trials, tneir hard hips, the accidents, the burals, the dis pointments, the empty flonr barrel sen thers were so many hungry ones o feed, the sickness almost unto death, rhere the next d->se of morahine decided metween ghastly bereavement and an ibroken home circle? 0o. yes, it was rouble that whitened their hair! It was rouble tbat shook the cup in their hands. .t was trouble that washed the luster rm their eyes with the rain of tears intil they needed spectacles. It wss roule that made the cane a necessity or their joiurney. Do you never re nember seeing ycur old mother sittlun in~omne rainy day, lookin cut cf the indoi, her elbow on the window sill, er hand to ber brow-looking out, not eior the falling shower at al!-ycu rell knew she was looking into the dis an: ptst- untnl t.ie apron came up to ier eyes, because the memory was too uch for her. Oft the big, unbidden tear Stealing down the furrowed cheek, Tod in eloquence sincexe. Tla es of woe they conid not speak. But, this sc-ne of weeping o'er. Pa3st this -eene of toll and p41in, They shall fe.-I distress no more, Yever, never weep again. A CALL TO EFFOR T. "Who are these under the altar?~"the buestin was asked and the response1 :ame, "fbese are they which came outj :beir robes and made them white in he blood of the Lamb" Our triends went by a path of tears into glory. He iot surprised if we have to travel the iame nathwav. I remark, again, if we want to win :te -ociety of our friends in heaven,we Will Lot only have to travel a patti of faith and a path of tribulation, but we 6vill also have to pusi ively battle tor their companiorship. David and his m;en n:ver wanted sbarp swords and rvulterable shields and thich breast pates so much as tney wan'ed them on :n- day when they cate down upon Annaalkit'-s. If they had lost that ,ttl, tr$ never would have got their Fimilies back. I suppose that one :atce at their loved ones in captivity m; led them ijre the battle with tpn old courape and ereray. They said: 'We mtnt win it Eve-rythirig depends ipoi ir. L-t each one take a man on 'ftit Of sp-r etr sw ord. We must win t." And I have to tell you that be :ween us and coming into the co:.apan orship of our loved ones who are de 3ar ad there is an Ausrerlitz, there is a eTt~sburg, there is a Waterloo. War vith thbe world, war with the flesh. war v, i h the devil. We have either to con - luer our troubles, or our troubles will or.quer ue. David will either slay the Au-al.kites or the Amalekites %ill ;lay David. And yet is not the fort to e taken worth all the pain, all the peril, ali the Desiegement ? Look! Who are they on the bright 2ills of he iven yonder? There tney ire, those who sat at your own table. ;he chair now vacant. There they are, bose whom you rocked in infancy in be cradle or hushed to sleep in your irms. There they are, those in whose ife your life was bound up. There they ire, their brow more radiant than ever 3efore you saw it, their lips waiting for the kiss of heavenly greeting, their :hetk roseate with the health of eter 3al summer, their beads teekoning you 2p to the steep, the feet bounding with he mirth of heaven. The pallor of heir last sickness gone out of their ace, nevermore to be sick. nevermore o cough, nevermore to limp, never more to be old, nevermore to weep. L'hey are watcbing from those heights o see if through Christ you can take hat fort and whether you will rush in ipon them-victors. They know that ipon this battle depends whether you will ever join their society. Up! Strike iarder! Charge more bravely: Re nember that every inch you gain puts ou so much farther on toward that leavenly reunion. VICTORY OR DEATH. If this morning while I speak you :ould hear the cannonade of a foreign mnemy which was to despoil your city, md if they really should succeed in car rying your families away from you,bow ong would we take before we resolved :o go after them? Every weapon, whether fresh from the armory or old md rusty in the garret, would be rought out, and we would urge on, md coming in front of the foe we ould ;look at them and then look at >ur families, and the cry would be, 'Victory or death!" and when the am niunition was gone we would take the ,avtors on the point of the bayouet or inder the breech of the gun. If you would make such a struggle or the getting back of your earthly riends, will you not make as much truggle for the gaining of the eternal *ompanionship of your heavenly rienas? Oh, yes, we must join them! We must sit in their holy society. We nust sing with them the song. We nust celebrate with them the triumph. [eb it never be told on earth or in leaven that David and his men pushed >t with ocaver hearts for the getting yack of their earthly friends for a few ~ears on earth than we to get our de >artecdl You say that all this implies that ar departed Christian friends are live. Why, have you any idea they re dead ? They have only moved. If you should go on the 2-id or May to a iouse where one of your friends lived md find him gone,you would not think :hat he was dead. You would inquire :axt door where he had moved to. Our 1eparted Christian friends have only :aken another house. The secretis that hev are richer now than they once aere and can afford a better residence. rhey once drank out of ea~then ware; hey now drink from the King's chal e. "Joseph is yet alive," and Jacob ai go up and see hIm. Living, are hey ? W by, if a man can live in this lamp, dark dungeon or earthly captiv iy, can he not live where he breathes he bracing atmosphere of the moun ains of heaven? Oh, yes, they are iving! FAINT. YET PURSUING. Do you think that Paul is so near lead now as he was when he was liv ng in the Roman dungeon ? Do you bink that Frederick R )bertson of Brighton is as near dead no w as he wa when, . ear after year, he slept eated on the filnor, his head on the ottom of a chair, because he could nd edse in no other positi n? Do ou think that Robert Hall is as near lead now as when, on his coucb. tie ossed in physical tortures? No. Death ave them the few black drops that ured them. That is all death does to a Christian-cures nimn. I know that what I have said implies that they are iving. There is no question about hat. The only question this morning i whether you will ever join them. But I must not forget these 200 men who fainted by the brook Besot. They ould not take another step farther. rheir feet were sore; their head ached; heir entire nature was exhausted. Besides that, they were broken hearted because their homes were gone Zikiag in ashes! Anid yet David, when he somes up to them, devides the spoils imong them. He says they shall have some of the jewels, some of the robes, some of the treasures. I look over :his audience this morning, and I find it least 200 who have fainted by the prook Besot-the brook of tears. You Feel as if you could not take another itep farther,as though you could never .ook up again. But I am going to imi ate David and divide among you some ~loins trophies. Here is a robe, "All bings work together for good to those who love God." Wrap yourself in that glorious promise. Here is for your aeck a string of pearls, made out of rystallzed tears, "Weeping may en lre for a night, but joy cometh in the norning." Here Is a coronet, "Be ~hou faithful until death, and I will rive thee a. crown of life." Oh, ye Fainting ones by the brook Besot, dip your blistered feet in the running tream of God's mercy. Bathe your brow at the wells of salvation. Soothe pour wounds with the balsam that ex des from trees of life. God will not itterly cast you off, 0 broken hearted an, O broken hearted woman, faint Dg by the brook Besot. A shepherd finds that his musical ipe is bruised. He says: "I can't get my more music out of this Instrument, io I will just break it, and I will throw his reed away Then I will get another eed, and I will play music on that." But God says he will not, cast you off ecause all the music has gone out of our soul. " rhe bruised reed he will aot break." As far as I can tell the liagnosis of your disease, you want livine nuraing, and it is promised you, 'As one whom his mother comfortteth, so will I comfort you." God will see you all the way through, 0 troubled oul and when you come down to the Jordan of death you will find it to be as thin a brook as Biesor, for Dr. Rob msen says that In April Besor dries up and there is no brook at all. And In your last moment you will be as placid as the Kentiucky minister who went up to God, saying in the dying hour: "Write to tny sister Kate and tell her nint to be worried and tightencd about toe story of the horrors around the deathbed. Teil her there is not a word of truth in it, for I am there now, and Jesus is with me, and I find it a very happy way, not because I am a good man, for I aui not-I am nothing but a poor, mierale sinner--hnt T have an A1. mighty Saviour, and both of his ar are around me." May God Almighty, through t] blood of the everlasting convenar bring us into the companionship nur loved ones who have already ent ed the heaver-ly land and irto the p1 sence of f brist, whota not having sei we love, and so David shall recover a "and as his part is that goeth down the battle, so shall his part be that ta rieth 'by the stuff." AGAINST THE ROADS. The State Wins la the Tex Penalty Re b i Fiaht. COLMBIA, S. C., May 23.-The Sta has won again in the railroad t eases. Yesterday Attorney Girmer Buchanan received a copy of Jud 6ioonton's decision in the matter tbe- Richmond and Dinville to ha 'be penalties on its back taxes remitte Tbt decision declares that the penalti must be paid and thereby gives t ,tate about $30,000, whIch it would n have otherwise obtained. The decision reads as follows: With regard to the penalty this pr vision is made in the tax acts to secu promptness in the payment of tax and as compensation for delay in the pay ment. The provision is general a picable to all taxpayers alike; indei operates for the protection of taxpaye who pay their taxes. It is not unre son& ble, and its wisdom cannot be di puted. When a taxpayer thinks hit self aggrieved in the amount of t] tax levied upon his property, amo the considerations which must prese themselves to him if he contemplat resisting the tax is the risk he rurs the provision for a penalty. And whi he litigates, however good may be b faith in the litigation, if he fails I must accept the consequences of d feat. The question be makes is ve simple. The tax officers make a clafi He denies it. The court is appealed I decides and the consequences follo If be loses his case he is in default. the law is written. Now a receiver occupies in this i gaard no better position than any oth taxpayer. He is bound to fulfill all t duties of a property holder, must p the lawful taxes levied upon his pro erty and enjoys the same right eve other texpayer has of disputing the I gality af the tax it he thinks it illeg subject to the same consequences whii befall every other taxpayer if he fat True, he is toe hand of the court, at acts under the instruction and prote tion of the court. And in wiese casi after application to the court, was a thorized to make the test. But t] court did not and could not free hi from the necessary result of failure such suit. The laws of South Carolii are as binding on the court as they a on any inhabitant of her territory, at no order of the court could protect t) receiver from incuiring tne penalty it posed by these laws. After careful consideration this cou has reached the conclusion that it ca not interfere or prevent the payme1 of the penalties attached to so much the tax as was delinquent. Of cour under the words of ohe law such pe alties attached to so much only of t] tax as was not paid, but with regard tne cost of executions the result otherwise. All this property was I ready under execution and in the han, of this court. The universal rule that property in the hands or conti of a court cannot be reached by ai other process whatever. This Is t fixed and Invariable rule in this cou try under our duplex term of gover ment. This court cannot Interfere w1 the process of any cf the State court however humble. Nor can the gover ment of the United States interfe with property seized under the reveni or police powers of the State. Whe therefore, attempt was made to levy< this property of the receiver such tempt was Dugatory and void. Noe ecuion could be levied on it and costs attach. It is ordered that the receivers pi the penalty on all balances of taxes r paid, and that they do not pay al costs of levy on any property in the hands as receivers. CH ARL Es H. SIMONTON, .Circuit J udgc. DESO . ATION IN VENEZUELA. Further Reports et the Destructionl Lif eand TowDs by Earthquakes. NEW YoRK, May 22 -Tbe Re Joserin Norwood, agent for the Amei can Bible Society in Venezuela, arrty at this port on the Red D1 Ltnse steam Philadelphia late Wednesday night. was in Venezrteia at the time the cent terrinle earthquakea, and when se at the B~ble B ouse early yesterd morning. he save an account of the d aster. Mr. Norwood said that, while was only on the edge of the disturbanc he had received advices before he I Veezuela showing how widespreadt disaster was. "I was impossible to get absolute correct statements before I sale, said, "owing to the fa'it that telegrapi communication was entirely destroye but I learned enough to make me 11 lieve there had been a terrible loss life. The whole country Westward Caracas felt the disturbance. "The most damage done was in I towns of Merida, Lagunillas and Ejid and several smaller towns, all of whi were alincat to ally destroyed. "At Lagunillas a lake now covers I site of the town, which sunk out sight. As this town was in a valley 1 t . een two mountains, some of the mai lakes in the vicinity may have ove whelmed it or an entirely new lake mi have been formed." Mr. Nowood said he was in Maracai in the Hotel America, a structure ts stories high, at 9:45 p. m. en April when the first shock came, and was pr paring to sail on the steamship Mer the next day. When the shock can be though:. it was a disturbance int street, but when other shocks followe he knew there was an earthquake, a1 he noted the time. The trembling the earth lasted for about two mmnute but the severe shocks only about a mi ute. The shocks nuegan with undulatic and ended with an oscilating movemer "After the disturbance ceased," said, 'I found several cracks in the wa of my room, one of them big enough put my arm through." Mr. Norwood said that only one hon in Maracaibo fell, and that nobody w killed there, as far as he knew. 1 doubts the story that 150 soliders we swallowed up at Merida. Charles Pulgar, a young Venezuel; who arrived on the same steamer, as the military barracks at Merida we destroyed, resulting in the instant des of 150 soldier s. Diapatches from Caracas, the capit of Venezuela, dated May 9. report t earthquake of April 28 to have been t severest sinCe the great earthquake 1812, on Holy Thursday, when thee tire city was destroyed and over 20,0 people perished. It is impossible toe timate the amount of property destroy by the reseat earthquake or the numb of lives lost. Ruin and desolation ha spread over the entire Western scti of Venezuela, and sufferInir is ient especially in the State of Los Ande Gen. Antonio Fenandenz. Governor t~he State, has notidied Presiderit Cres that Merida, the capital of the State, w toaily diestroyed, Later dispatches report that the tow of SAn Juan and Chiquara were also tally destroyed, and Jabay, Macnral Timotes and Trujillo also suffered ses rey. Actinir Mmnister Bartleman h cabled to Secrutary of S ate Gresha that any asisistance rendered by ti country would be appreciated in Ver zela. Already a large sum of mon has been suhscribed for the zeliet of I distressed by people in' parts of Vet zu1l not sited by the arthquake. Is GEN. BUFLER S ANSWER ae I, TO THE QUESTIONS PROPOUNDED a of 'r BY THE FARMER'S ALLIANCE. e n Opposes the Sub-treasury and Govern .11, mental Owoersh'p of tI11radr, Tele- f toS gr- a*ph and T-l;phone Linee-Will , OT be Bound by Caucua Rules. a t COLUMIA, S. C., May 21.-Senan- e tor Bu it has written the following re t ply to the questions propounded to him r by the Farmers Alliance: C ,te WASHINGTON, D. C., May 12, 1894 1 ix Mr. T. P. bitchell, Chairman Execuiv# 1 -al Committee, F. i. A , Woodwards, S. s ge C. of My dear sir: Some days ago, I re we ceived the fjllowinm letter from Nou: d. '-Hon. M. C. Butler, Washineton, D es 5 be ot ''Dear Sir: As chairman cf the exe f cutive committee of the State Farmers Alliance it was made my duty by a '0- resolution to propound the follow re ing questions to all candidates, 1 es and request a written answer ir to same, and as ycu are a candi. P- date for the United States Senate, I sub d mit them to you and would be pleased a to hear from you in regard to same at s- your earliest convenience. a n- "Frist. Will you discuss the Alli c 2e ance demands in the coming campaign, e Ig particularly those relating to the flnan- s at ces of the country, and defend them r es against the enemies of our ordei 8 of "Second. Will you pledge loyalty to t mn the demands of the National Farmeri a is All.ance and Industrial Union, above r 1e loyalty to party caucus, and vote e- against any and all candidates who de- V ry cline to commit themselves; to this e x - teni? "Yours respe.-tfullv, "' ("SiEned) THOS. 1. MITCHELL. t Chairman Executive Com., F. S. A." t In reply to a request from me, you c ,e- transmitted the following as the plat- c er from or demands of the Farmers Alli- a ie ance of South Carolina: e iy First-We demand a national cur p- rency, safe, sound and flexible, issued a r7 by the general government only, a fall I te- legal tender for all debts, public and %I, private, and that without the use of ,h banking corporations, a just, equitable s- and efficient means of distribution direct 1 t to the people at a tax not to exceed 2 t per cent. per annum, to be provided as t u- set forth in the sub-Treasury plan cf a e the Farmers Alliance, or a better sys m tem; also by payments in discharge of i in its obligations for public improvements. h a We demand the free and unlimited C re coinage of silver and gold at present C id legal ratio of 16 to 1. e We demand that the amount of cir I n- culating medium be speedily increased rto not less than $50 per capita, exclutive rt of legal reserve. We demand a graduated income tax. of We demand that our national legisla- g se tion shall be so framed in the futuse as i n. not to build up one industry at the ex- I e pense of another. to We believe that the money of the 2 is conotry should be kept as much as possi- C a- ble in the buus of the Deople, and hence e d we demand all national and State reven i is ues shall be limited to the necessary ex ol penses of the government economically r ly and honestly administered. e We demand that postal savings banks be established by the government for th aedeposits of the earnings of the t Speople, and to facilitate exchange. n: Second-The land, ircluding all thet re natural sources of wealth, is the herit -ge 1 ne of the people and should not be monopo an, ized for speculative purpcses, an d allen 1 >n ownership of land should oe prohibited.C it- All land now held by railroads and x- other coroorations, excess Ot t']eir actual no needs, and all lands now owned by aliens should be reclaimed by the government ay and held for actual settlers only. n- Third-Transportation being a means r of exchange and a pubhec necessity, thet agovernment should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people. t The telegraph and telephone, like the< postoffice savstem, being a neaessity for the trar~smission ot news, should be t ~owned and operated by the governmentt oin the interest of the people. I Taking up the questions of your letter V. in their order, I beg to say in response ci- to the first, I will discuss any publbe ed question the people may desire to have er discussed, and as the "finances of tbe -le country" are legitimate and proper sub e- jects for discussin, I will discuss themt en with pleasure and without reserve. I ay will refer more fally to the last point or is- your inquiry, whether I will "defend be them against the enemies of our (your) is, order," when I come to discuss the Al Bit liance platform. I don't quite under he stand, however, whether you mei:n to ask me whether I will defend the "fin-1 1y ances of the country against the enemies I he of your order, or the "finances oi thet tic conry" as proposed by the Alliance. I d; I assume you mean the latter. e- Replying to vour second question, Is of beg to say that in my political hie I havet of never allowed any caucus, or society, ort organization, to bind my conscience,c he and shall not do so in the future. Cau-E es cuses, or societies, or organizations oft ch any kind, which seek to bmnC the politi-t cal conscience of any free American citi-t he zen, are in my ]udgment, inimical to that1 of freedom of conscience and political action 5- so essential to the preservation of the< ny republican institutions. I have attended r- many caucuses o1 the Democratic party, I y to which I belong. I have ne.vei heard the suggestion that any man's consci o ence, or political actio't should be boundj o by them. I never w'll so far surrender 8,my individual jndgment as to be bound, e- by any caucus. I am loyal to the prin da ciples of the Democratic party, and shallt t, maintain that loyalty so long as it ad-I1 he heres to principles I think conductive toll d, the best interests of the people, not a1 ad day longer. I have been under the im of pression that the Farmers Alliance wast s, not a political organization, but an "In- 1 n- dustrial Union" for the protection of the< n'i armers against impositions from other it. sources. I do not believe in secret politi-< he cal organizations, we had a sad experi ll ence some years agc with them. What- I to ever concerns the political welfare oft our people shoud be open to the fullest,, se freest, most public discussion. In order as to prevent impositions on the people. the t [e light must be turned on from all poIntst re of view. I recognize no master in this1 country, except the people. Caucus rule< an should not be allowed to usurp the rule: iid of the people. I will, therefore, say I< re will pledge my loyalty to the demands th of the -Alliance, so far as they meet the demands of my1 a judgment, and I cannot hold them he above loyalty to party caucus, because I he make no pledges to "party caucuses," of and deny the ris:ht of "party caucuses," n- or any other caricuses to command pled-t 0 ges from me to surrender my conscience< s- and judgment to its dictation. ed Coming now U- the demands, permit I er me to say, by way of preface, that tbere ye seems to be a very grave misapprehen D sion in the minds of some people as to e, the power of a caucus over its members. m. I have attended Democratic caucuses of since I have been in the Senate, but no p body ever dreamed of binding any mem- ' as her of the caucus to vote against his j jadgment. For instance. Democratst us and Republicans differ widely among r o- themselves oni financial questions. A ;a, caucus is held for consultatnon and tinau. re- cial topics are discussed, but in the Sen as ate and House each man votes as his .m judgment dictates; some may favor the is tree and unlimited coinange of silver at - one ratio or another; some may fauvor o y the sub-treasury plan cf the Alliance, s be and after a consultation in caucus they i: te- vote for or against eitber prposition- t: arhen the occasion arises. Nonody is lI ound by the caucus uuleEs he chocses o&unterily to ba -o bournd. No oaths re administered, no pledges exacted, as requisite ot uarty fealtv. If there were., would cever attend a cauuea. In regard todemand "first of the Al ance, I will say that the sub-treasury Ian has been abandoned because it was mund to be impracticable and uncon titutional, and therefore it is unneces ary to discuss it. In my judgement "better system" would t)e attained by he repeal of the ten per cent. tix on tate banks of circulation, and I tr-st bat the Alliance will take that up and ,ake it one ot its "demands" I cannot f course, discuss this . proposition at -ngtn in this cfnestioo but take the oerty of handiog you one of my peectns delivered in the Senate at the ist ext ra session, in w hich I have at empted to elaborate the argament in avor of the repeal, and b#-g you to do 2e the favor to examine it. I think ou will findthat if this tax should be epealed we would have "a safe, sound, exib'e currency" and enougn of it.. I favor "the free and unlimited coin ge of silver and gold at tne present ,gal ratio of 16 to 1," and advocated it 2 Corgress before the Alliance was or anized, and am gatified to know that he Alliance has adopted my platform n this subject. Fifty doliars per capita is not too auch currency for a country like ours, ut the trouble with our present fin ncial system is not so much the per apita amount of currency as the un quality of its distribution. Some ections of the country have much iore than $50 per capita, while in our ection, I doubt if we have 82 per capi . If in our State we could be guar nteed $20 per capita, if so much was ecessary for the transaction of our usiness, I would compromise on that; 7e should then have aboui sn,200,000 f currency in circulation in South arohna, wher-as I doubt if we now ave $2,000,000. If, by the repeal of he 10 per cent. tax, the States should e permitted to autnorize banks of cir ulation, we should have just so much urrency as our local wants require, nd no more-but we should nave nough. 1 favor an income tax and shall have n opportunity of voting for it in the ending tariff bill. I concur in the de aand tuat the money of the country hould be kept as much as possible in e hands of the people, and that all ational and State revenues shall be mited to the necessary expenses of e government, economically adminis ered." This is good, sound docirine, nd I heartily suboribe to it. I can see no objection to "postal sav g barks," although a measure of that ind would be largerly tentative in this ountry, and should be adopted with aution and circumspection. The second general demand, as to the ublic lands, is sound and in accord nee with true Democratic principles. 'Ch third general demand, "that the overnment should own and operate he railroads in the interest of the peo le," and that "the telephone and tele raph should be owned and operation a the interest of the people" would, a my judgment, be impolitic and un ise.I have always understood that the LIlance was opposed to the further in reaes of the bonded debt of the gov rnment, and I agree with the Alliance a that proposition, The government ould not pay cash for the one hundred ,nd ninety odd thousand miles of rail oads, and the vast mileage of telegraph nd telephones. The rate of taxation iecesary to raise the cash would des ro the people, and the only alterna ive to put the government in ownet hip of the railroads, telegraphs arid lepones would be to issue .eight bil ons of bonds to buy the railroads, and o bddv knows how many millions to muy the telegraph and telephone sistem if the nountry. Is the Alliance prepar .d to urgo the creation of such a nond dde-bt upon the present and future enerations, and thereby prepetuate he national baaking system indefit 1 ? If so, I cannot go with it. The ovenment now has control and sup'-r isan of the railroads by and through e Interestate Commerece Commission nd the experiment has not realiz.-d he expectaions of Its friends. The wnersnip of the railroads in dispotic overnment S is justified on the ground hat they are military necessities for he rapid mnobilize ion and trasnsporta ion or armies. In has not redounded o the interest of the people, for freight ates are 50 per cent. higher in those ountries than in this, and they are onsequenitly a great burden upon the nasses of the people. I believe I have ow made full and complete answers o your inquiries, in general and in de ail. If anything has been omitted, I will ladly supplement what I have said, if u will call It to my attention. Very truly your, M. C. BUT LER. Come so stay. COLUMBIA, S. C., May 25.- -The ad. ocates of the dispensary system nave ept their mouths closed as to their in entions, and no one bas been able to redict what kind of a fight they would ake. All that has been known so far ras Governor Tillman's statement that he liquor problem would necessarily ake a prominent place in the coming ampaign; that the firht for the disoen ary system would be made over again, and that the dispensary system had come o stay in South Carolina. Some thought hat advocates of the dispensary system ere depending on the re organized upreme Court to reverse the decision n the constitutionality of the law when ,new one was passed and resented. Others believed that he dispensary advocates were :oing to abandon their scheme, n view o1 the fact that the campagn is ow drawing so near, representatives oi ['ho State have been endeavoring to find t something about the future. AlU of he advocates of the system, when ap. roached, say, first that the dispensary aw has come to stay. One of the most fluential advocates of the law opened L and talked pretty freely yes erday. He says that the liqaor ques ion is going to be one of the bigges uestions in the campaign. They -are ~oing to fight for the dispensary system if control of the liquor tarilic. H~e statesa bat he does not behieve that prohibition tands a ghost ol a show. He does not ink tha't if the question o1 prohibition vere put to the people now it would re eceive 20 per cent. c(f the vote it got wo yeary ago. His idea seems to be hat as soon as the Legislature meets it !ill 'se asked to make an appropriation *lea,ng up all ot tue outstanding busi ess. In will be asked, too, to pass a Lspenary law. This new lasr, he says, vill be a modinication of the law recently leclared nconstitutional. He sus the rofit ieature of the law was the sole :raund upon which the old law ,vas ce lared unconsuitutional, and the pr osed new set will do away with the rofiL feature entirely will provtide 'or he dispensary system of furnishing Ii tuor to the people at the actua cost of urchasing, botiling and handiina the quor. So far as can be ascertained tim ems to ba the plan for the future, but sore will doubtless ibe beni d of it vcry oon --State. r..cuiar CAm. GTTHRIIE, 0. T-, My '4-D -V rackett, or Norman, is lyiog at tne oi-t of deat fro~m blood puis nina rought about in a very peculiar mnan er. Mr. Trackett is an undertaker, d a week ago wascaltled upon to taki arge of the body of azman named Henn, who had committed suicide and ad not been found for some d.. he body was badiy decompused and overed with tes, and while the under iker was at work the dies would light n him in great numbers and bite htm arply. Tue doctors state that he was 0culated with the deadly poison of se ceopse , he flis, nd he canno)t ENTHUSIASTIC FOR ATES. Nozm'nated fotGovernor by tb Albama Demccrats. MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 22.-The L emocratic State cnvention met at noon tod.-y, iu Represeniative Hall in the capitol buildiog, but soon adjouuned un til 4 p. M., owning to the failure of the S'.s.e committee to report upon the con tests. The convention reassembled at 4 p. re., and was called to order by Chairmw Smith. whose remarks were well r cived. His mention of Cleve lacd's name wag laudly cheered. His speech was a plea for harmony in the D. mocratic ranks. The State commit tee recommended Hon. R. H. Clarke for temporary chairman. This was ratifed wai:hout a dissecting voice. Mr. Clarke's appearance on the stand was received wiih baud- clapping, cheer iog and waving of bats and fans. He spoke only a few moments and declared the convention ready for business. A. Steinbart of Greenville was selected for temporary secretary. The roll of coun ties was called and the action of the State committee ratified without dis .Pent. Their report gave seats to the 0 Ites delegates from Lee and the Col bert and Have delegates to Johnston. This made no cbanae in the status of the candidates as heretofore reported. The acceptance of the committee report re moved all posei ility of turiher contest before the convention and was a great relief; as the delegates desired to get tbrough their work. A committee was appointed on permanent organization. During its retirerent, a motion was made to adjourn until 9 o'cloek to mor row, but it was voted down. Then a motion tor recess until 8:30 p. m. suffered a similar fate. During the absence of the committee on permanent organization, a committee was appointed to invite and escort Gov ernor Jones to the stand. His appear ance was the signal for a wild outburst of cheers and applause. He made an ad dress itll of feeling and urging the com ing together of the partisans of the vari ous aspirants and working for the suc cess of the party. It was moved that the committee report for the temporary organiz ition be the permanent. Adopted without a vote. The order of business made the nomi nation of Governor come first. A reso lution was introduced eulogizina Senator Morgan and favoring his re-election. It was referred to the committee on plat form. A committee on platform was appointed, with H. C. Tompkins for chairman, and one member from each Congressional Distric%. The rules ad opted forbabe any speech or eulogy of a candidate in placing his name before the convention. The chair then announzed nominations for Governor to be in order. The name of Col. Wm. C. Oates was first pre sented. . The name of.Capt. Joseph F. Johnston followers at once sent up a shout which lasted for a briet spell. When it subsided, the Oates men concluded to test their luong power. It was a scene of extraordinary enthusiasm on the fiuor and in the gallery. The applause and cbeering continued until it looked as if order could not be restored. When the abouting died out, it was taken up again only to icrease in volume. Fnally nuiet was restored, and the roll call be gan. Not a cb inge from the rep irts al ready p:ubished was made. The figures of the advocates of Colonel Qates made last Thursday morning atter the conven tions were held were verified to the ful est extent. The result was 272 for Oates and 232 tor Johnston. i-ef're the- Recretary announced the vote. R W. Rhodes of the Birmingham eleisauon arose and, sf-er brief tribute to Captain Johnston. moved to make Lhe nominauion of Ostes unanimous. There was another wild demonstration of cheering and shouting. A committee was appointed to escort Coionel Oates to the hall. Hie was not in the Capitol bumlding, but at his head quarters down town, where the commit tee found him During their absence, Captain Johnston was brought into the boll and made a brief speech, in which he ;.ledzed heartiy support of the ticket and urged harmony in the ranks. Gates's entrance started the enthusi esm afresh and it coatinued for some moments, while he was waiting for it to subside. He made a brief spsech of acceptance, thanking the convention for the treat honor ensferred upon him of leading the Demccratic hosts of his native State. His remarks were all pitched on the key of harmony and made a profound impression. The convention adjourned until 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. The Lrcast Scare, The Washington Department of Agri culture has issued a bullatin on the approaching prevalence of locusts in some portiens of the country. This bulletin says that no unnecessaay alarm need be felt on account of the predicted appearance of two great broods of the periodical Cicada, or so called "17-year locust" this year. The announcement that they were to ap pear in various parts of the country this year was made a short time ago, and the bulletin says the insects seem to have been confonuded with the true locusts, or so called "grasshoppers" an1 hence the alarm. The entomolo gist of.the department says that the damage done by these insects is, as a rule, quite immateriai, consisting in the slight, cntting, breaking and dead ening of the terminal twigs of fruit and shade trees by the females in the act of laying their eggs. The injury becomes serious only when the insects are exceptionally numerois. Accord ing to the entomologist's reckoning these insects will make their appear ance during the last week of this month. The last appearance of these broods was in 1877, It occurred in the immediate vicinity of New York, Brokly'n and Jersey City, and along the Hudson river as far north as Troy, and in portions of Connecticut, New Jersey, P'ennsylvania, Virginia and the District of Columbia. Seventeen years prior to 1877 the insect was recorded in North Carolina, in Dearborn county, Ind., and In Kalamooza county, Mich. In all of these localities it is said that 17-year locust may be expected during June of the present year. The other brood which is to appear this year be longs to the 13-year race, and its range is in th'e soutnern states. Its last ap pearance was in 1881, in southern Illi nois, Missouri, Arkansas, Indian Terri tory, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mssssippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The en tomolgist of the department says that this visitation of locusts will .not last more than ulve or six weeks. shocking Tragedy. ARLINGToN, Gs.,MIay 26. Oa Friday last tne fourteen-year-old daughter of Wasiigton Smith, liviug near aere, was assaulted and outraged by at negro while returning from schol. The negro met desperate resistance and after fir. ing a pistol over her nead several times he plutidge a kniife into her side Smith csime no on horseback and the neirro iid.b'tree bullets into his body andtled. t'he neighbors found the father and caghtetr insensible in the road and c-ok thema home. Smith died Sunday mornng and the daugnter is not ex credl to live. Sheriff Wilkins captur d the negro Sunday and placed him '?irar a strong guard in Miuler County j sl. At 3 o'clock sesterday morning and armed ban:1 of 75 men stormed the jsil, took toe negra to an oak tree in he publingouare and hanged him and fired full dye nuadred blulete into his The Wire .Broke. NASHVILL, Tenn., Mav 23.-While George Charist was attempting to walk a s'eel cible stretched acroas the publi. square at Shelbyville. Tenn., and carry his wife, L'zze Charisi., the cable snap ped and both fell to the s'onv macada mized ground, thirty-tive feet below Charist's hip is broken and he is terri. blv 'jruised, but will recover. His wife ir secriously injured and will die. He was a professional wire walker and had given many previous perfirotances in various parts of the country witbout in K POWDER Absolutely Pure. _Acream or tartar baking powder Highest of all in leavening strength.-La test bnited States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 106 WaUl St., N. Y. "iMETT PAYS THE FREIGHI Why P;y Extrss Pd.s ter Goods! tend for Catalogue and So What Yu Co Sol n-MRi -MZ em U $5 PRICE Now $16 to ier 2 ,room iuits, all prie. $ 9# *$37 No freight othid Or gan. Ua& r to be a unded 1 n Puh ao o r ao re El'gant Plush ?PAP.I,ORn. Th congliting of .-ofa, Arm Chair, Bocktr~g Cbair, Divan rund 2 side tnair, -worth $45. Will detev: it to your depot for 088. 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NOW IS THE TIME TO PLACE YOUR ORDERS FOR Threshers)! And I Seli the Best In the Mar'iet. 3Write te me Before Buying. Shingle Machines, Stave Machines, Brick Machines, Planing Machinfes, Swing Saws, Band saws~, Gang R$ipSaws, and all kinds of wood working michines. lrist Mills $115 to $250. Saw Mills $190 to $4030. Watertown E ag'ues and Bailers. Talbott Etngines and B ilers. Seed Cotton Elevators. Cottoh Gm's and Pr'eses. HIGH and LOW GRADE. VC.LU818. .C