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VOL. X. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1894. NO. 8. BOODLE HUNTERS. THAT IS ABOUT WHAT THE GRANb ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC 13. They Complain About the Hard Itt qtre mente, and Criticise Congress and the South for their Attit ude on the Pension Questlon. PITTsBurnG. Pa., Sept. 12 -The dele gates to the National Encampment of the G. A. R. got down to a solid busi ness basis this morning. While 200,000 persons have left the city since the last old soldier passed in review yesterday, there are still 200,000 strangers in town, a majority of whom will stay until Sat urday and Sunday, while some remain even longer. The national encamp ment onened this morning in the new Grand Opera House. Tae commander in-chief and delegates were welcomed on behalf of the Citizens Executive Board by Chairman Daniel C. Ripley and, also, by W. C. Quincy, chairman of the committee on invitations and reception. Governor Patterson wel comed them on behalf of the State of Pennsylvania, while Mayor McKeuna of Pittsburg and Mayor Kennedy of Allegheny performed the same pleas ant duty on behalf of their respective cities. The serious business of the encamp ment proper then began. The election for Commander-in-Chief wiil not be held until tomorrow. Since the with drawal of Judge Chas. D. Long of Michigan, the opinion is rapidly grow ing that CoL T. N. Walker of Indiana wil;j secure the coveted honor. The selection of the next encampment city has also been deferred until tomorrow. While surface indications are that Louisville will have a walk over, it is hinted that St. Paul has been doing good work in a quiet but very effective way. The claims of Louisville for the loca tion of the G. A. R. encampment of 1895 were presented to the national convention by Henry Watterson this this morning. Just as soon as welcom ing addresses were concluded a motion to suspend the rules and give an audi ence to the Kentucky orator was adopt ed with enthusiasm. He received a cordial reception. The speaker retired amid a storm of applause. Then the doors were closed and the encampment went into secret session to hear the ad dress of Commander-in-Chief Adams and associate national officers. Ia the presentation of Watterson at the open 1ng session,the supporters of Louisville stole a big march on St. Paul and the advocates of the latter are considerably disgruntled. Heretofore it has been the practice to defer nomination of the next encampment to the second or closing day of the convention. When Henry Watterson was intrc duced to present the plea of Louisville for the next eucampment, the silver tongued escort of the "Star Eyed God dess" was in his best mood. Among his audience, from pit .o gallery, laugh ter alternated with applause and when in a pathetic moment, he allowed a few tears to course down his cheeks, there was a lachrymose response that would have been appropriate to a f uan eral. Before his preparation had been reached, the success of the leading city of the Blue Grass State was secured, and the orator retired amid such an ovation as a national encampment has rarely bestowed even-upon one of its favorite sons. Close attention was paid by the dele gates to the report of the Commander in-Chief and trequent referenes that It contained to the attitude of the Con gress and of the people of the south toward Union Soldiers and patriotic movements originating in the North were heartily applauded. When the report of the committee on pensions was read, cheers punctuated every paragrauh. it was signed by comrades H. E~. Taintor, A. M. Waen er and J. N. Walker, cnairman, and reads as follows: "Your committee would respectfully reiterate the sentiments and rene w the recommendations touching the rights of the Union veteran and the duties of the government towards him, embod ied in our report sutnmined to the twenty-seventh national encampment. After the adoption of that report by the national encampment there was a change in the action of the Pension Department in its rules for the suspen sion of the payment without hearing, and many of those whose pension had been suspended under that unfair rule have been restored to the rolls. Your committee is, however, of the opinion that there is still just cause for com plaint in the technmcal ruings and re quirements of the Pension Department which work unfavorable to the appli cant and result mn unjust discrimina tion against his interests that doubts arenjnustly decided adversely to the claimant, whic~hiunder .any reasonable and liberal -onstfruction should have been decided in his favor. "Order 229, from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions issued June 19, IS93,-is especially obnaxious as establishing needless and hard require ments In the preparation and for ward ing of testimony im support of claims. We insist that evidence very often pro cured after sears of effort and at great' expense of time and money on : tne part of the ap plicant should not be thrown out for mere lack of form or want of com pliance with any purely technical or arbitrary rules and we urge that this order be~ so modified as to provide that all evidence presented be fairly examined. "Your committee feels constrained to call the attention of the National Encampment to the fact that a large part of thie appropriation made by tne Fifty-second Congress for the payment of pensions for the year ending June 30,1l89-, was unused and turned back into the.Treasury, while hundieds of thousands of unadjucated claims re mained pending in the pension bureau. At the same time, credit is claimed on behalf of Congress and the administra tion upon the grounds that tthe imme diate appropriations have been re duced, yet it appears the only reduc tion as been made by the cutting the appropriations for pension; that ULnion soldiers alone feel the effect cf the spirit of economy. It is a signm11 cant fact that while a period of seven teen years elapsed between the ending of our war with Mexico and the close of the war of the Unio~n,yet the amount now expended for the pensioning of the soldiers of the Mexican war is in creasing, while the amount expended for pensions to Union veterans is di mmis.hing. We feel compelled to say that there is evidently on the part of both the administrative and legislative departments a feeling of hostility to our worthy and suffering comrades, the wards of the nation, who bore the heats and burden of the battia, a feel ing which ceri~ainly should not exist in a country saved by their devotion. "While the Grand Army of Rtepublic is pledged to purity in public ailairs and wull, therefore, sympathize and co operate with any and all proper eiforts at economy, to the end that all public burdens may be reduced to the mini mum, we view with extreme regrets that ralse economy which shaves and pares to the quick at the expense of honor,3iistice and patriotism. We in sist upon an honest, patriotic construc tion and administration of existing pension laws and that every just claim shall be speedily settled so that what ever is found due shall be paid while the applicant is alive to receive it. We are confider.t that the loyal sentiments of the country will condemn a policy that attempts to recuperate the public treasury at the expense largely of the slender purses of our disabled heroes, widows and orphans," The adoption of the report was moved and seconded by a dczen voices from the body of the house. Comman der Adams waited a moment as though in expectation of a speech either in support or dissent. Not a dele gate rose. The motion was put and the report was adopted with a deafen ing shout. Again the order of bus: ness recurred to the location of the next encampment and the invitation of St. Paul was presented in eloquent addresses by ex-tCommand'r-in-,hief .Judge Jonn P. Rea and Col. J. N. Davidson, but an overwhelming majo rity of the delegates were still under the spell of the "Star-Eyed Goddess" and her old Kentucky home and when the question was put the viva voce vote in tavor of Louisville was so over whelming that the opposition instead of demanding a c:dl of the roll, bowed acquiescence and gracefully retired from the tield. The Headlight Dimmtd. SrARTAsNsnG, Sept. 12.-This has been an oil day with the Gantt family. Col. T. Larry Gantt, editor ot the Headlight, got into a discussion with two men from the country. These men said they had always been for Tillman until the Dast two weeks,and since they were convinced that Tillmanism meant ring rule they would never vote that ticket agaiu. Gantt told them that they were d-d traitors. Gant-t was verv much under the influence of I quor and became boisterous. Mart Floyd was standing near, and told the men to talk to him (Gantt) whereupon Gantt made at him with his fist. Floyd then administered two stinging blows on Gantt's head and he fell off the side walk into the street. Friends inter ferred, and it was thought that every thing was over. Half an hour later Gantt's two grown sons accosted Floyd at the Windsor Hotel and demanded satisfaction. Floyd told them they could get it. Thereupon the elder Gantt, Jesse, struck him, and the other Gantt drew a pistol and demanded fair play. Floyd's brother came in and grabbed the pistol. The men fought for some time, 'and John Floyd and Mart succeeded in taking a pistol each from the Gantts and clubbed them un mercifully with them. It is feared that one of the Gantts will lose an eye. The Floyas are not hurt, except that each has a sprained finger. A CARD. To the Editor of the Headlight: I wish to state through your columns that I was alone to blame in the diffi culties that occurred last Tuesday af ternoon,and deeply regret the unfortu nate occurrence. I have seen Mayor Calvert and assumed entire responsi bility for the disturbance, and asked that any cases made against other par ties be dismissed, as I aggravated the aszaults. I also desire to apologize to those gentlemen whom I offended, hav ing already seen as many as I could and tendered a personal apology. As to the difliculties of my sons, I have only to say that like the brave boys they are, they defended their father, knowing that he was, in the wrong. For this they have respect of every true man. Rlespectfually, T T. L. GANrT. Carpenter Escapea Hangling. CoLUMBI, S.C., Sept. 12.-Governor Tillman this morning commuted the sentence of William Carpenter, the fa mous Eigefield murderer trom death by hanging to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. All remember the fa mous murder case. The killing of young Preston Younce by Murrell and Carpenter, who met him in the public highway and tilled his body full of lead. That was in 1889. Murrell was captured after an exciting chase by a posse from Columbia, brought to the city, bound hand and foot, and finally tried in Edgefield. He was founo guilty of murder and sentenced by the presiding Judge to be hanged. Gover nor Ricbardson pardoned him, for rea sons sutflcient, and in the face of a pe tition upon which was the name of B. iR. TillmaD, who was then nothing more than a private citizen of Edge ield county. Did he think then that he would have to pass upon the sentence of Mur ell's fellow murderer?~ Carpenter es aped into Georgia and for several years lived in the swamps of that State and eluded arrest. His first arrest and the trouble Governor Tillman had in getting him away from Governor Nor then's jurisdiction are well remember ed. He was brought baick finally, and tried in Edgetield, and found guilty of murder, with recommendation of mer cy. Under such a verdict there was nothing for the presiding judge to do but to sentence him to be hanged, which was done. In such a form the matter was brought to the Governor's attention. The a~lidavit of nine jurors was submitted in which they stated that they thought that a recommenda tion to mercy would save Carpenter's life, and it was for that reason that they found such a verdict. It seems that after the jury had been out for some time, the juidge sent for the fore man and asked if the jury were hesita ting about a matter of jaw or fact. The f oreman said a matter of law, and in the colicquy which followed the judge was understood to say that a recom mendation to mercy would save Car penter's neck. So such a verdict was found,under this understanding by the jury. After Twelve Years. COL UMBIA, Sept. 12.-Governor Till man yesterday granted a pardon to Pleasant Miller, an old negro, who was convicted of arson in June, 1882 twelve years ago-in A bbeville county and sentenced by Judge Pressley to life imprisoment in the penitentiary. It appears that the old fellow is innocent o the crime for which he has been a prisoner all these years. Governor Tilman based his action on an aflidavit duly witnessed, signed by F. W . Knox, stating that he was present at the trial of Miller, and that the conviction was based entirely upon circumstantial evidence; that at the trial a measure was introduced by one Sam Adams, a witness for the State, purporting to be a measure of the defendant's track: that the measure was after wards com pared with Pleasant Miller's tracks and that the measure did not fit, but was very much longer, that the said Sam Adams thereupon cut ofi about two inches of the said measure, so as to makejt correspond to what was known to be pleasant Miller's track; that the measure was produced at the trial and sworn to be the measure of the tracks seen around tne burned building. Fur thermore, that the prosecutor tried to get him (Kuox) to testify that they were Pleasant Miller's tracks, but that he re fused to do so, that neither he, the de fendant, nor his attorney knew these facts at the trial, and that he (linox] was not called upon to testify for the dfn dant-tate THE JUSTICES AT WORK ARGUMENTS BEGUN IN THE DISPEN SARY CASES. The Snpr* me Court at Last Getting Hlaid of the Most Momentous Matter in the Sate-The Att arneys Against the State Pressiug the Lw of Stare Decisis. COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 13.-It was ex actly 11 o'clock yesterday morning when the three Justices of the Supreme Court solemnly filed into the court room and took their seats. They wore the black gowns which tradition says all .Judges must wear. Chief Justice Mclver took the center of the three seats arranged for the Judge3. Jus tice Pope took the seat on the right of the Chief Justice, the one formerly oc cupied by Justice McGjwan. Justice Gary took the seat on the left formerly occupied by Justice Pope. Justice Gary did not seem ill at ease in his po sition and a stranger walking in could not have told but that every member of the honorable court haa been there for years. The Chief Justice announced the court ready for business. Tae court room was fairly well filled with visitors and among the number were several lawyers outside the city. Besides these were a number of saloon men and one or two prohibitionists. Everybody knows that the court has been called in extra session for the pur pose of passing on the constitutionality of the Dispensary law. The constitu tionality of the law is involved in two cases-what is known as the Aiken case and what is known as the Charleston ij unction case. The titles of the cases are "The State ex relatione i. V- George and G. T. Polley, relators, against the City Council of the City of Aiken, re spondent," and "Theodore Melchers and F. W. Jessen, complainants, petitioners against W. T. C. Bates, Treasurer of the State of South Carolina, and D. H. Traxler defendants." There are some points of difference in each case but the cases are to be heard at the same time and the court will dispose of them about the same time but not likely in the same decision. The attorneys representint the State in both cases are Attorney General Buchanan and R. W. Boydot Darling ton; for the city of Aiken, G. W. Croft; and for Melchers and Jessen, I. P. K. Bryan and H. A. M. Smith of Charles ton. All these were present yesterday morning except Mr. Smith, who is in Tennessee on business and could not get here. Mr. Bryan explained to the court Mr. Smith's absence and asked that the latter be allowed to file his ar gument within a certain time. The court conferred on this a few seconds and answered that Mr. Smith could file the argument within ten days. The Chief Justice, however, announced that the court might reach a decision within ten days. This was the only indication given during the day that the court proposes to hurry the cases. The proceedings were opened by At torney Crott reading the records of the Aiken case. Attorney Bryan followed by reading the petition for the injunc tion. In response to this petition At torney General Buchanan submitted the following formal answer: W. T. C. Bates and D. H. Traxler, upon whom has been served a rule re airing them to show cause why the vrit of injunction prayed for by the petitioners herein should not be grant d, respectfully make return to said rule, and for causes show: 1. That the respondent, W. T. C. Bates, is the duly elected and qualitie d Treasurer of the State of South Caro lina, and the respondent, D). H. Traxler is State Commissioner duly appointed under the Act of the General Assembly of the said State, entitled "An Act to prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage within this State, except as herein pro vided" and continue in said o11ice un der the provisions of an Act of the said General Assembly entitled "An Act to declare the law in reference to, and further regulate the use, sale, con sumption, transportation and disposi tion of alcoholic liquids or liquors with in the State of South Carolina and to police the same," approved December, 23 1993, and no w in force in this State. 2. That the acts of respondents, both those done and performed, complained of and objected to by petitioners herein are each and all required of respondents by the said last mentioned Act, and have been performed and will be per formed by them and each of them in the faithful discharge of their sworn duties as officers of the State as afore said. 3. That they deny the unconstitution ality, invalidity and nullity of said Acts, in the particulars specifled in the petition herein or in any other particu lar; and, on the contrary allege that the said Acts were passed by the General Assembly in the legitimate exercise of its constilutional power of legislation and with the purpose and in the sincere desire to minify the evils of the sale of liquor within the borders of this State. 4. They deny that petitioners, or those uited with them, have suffered injuries or are about to saffer inj uries from the operation of the said Act of 1893; and, on the contrary, allege that the opera tion of the said Act has conferred and will continue to confer great benefits npon them, and upon all the law abId ing citizens of the State, in the way of rescuing the people, and especially its 3iuth, from the corrupting and demor alizing influences of the liquor saloon. That petitioners complain as taxpayers but that on their own showing, the moneys the disbursement of which they seek to restrain are not the pro ceeds of taxation but derived from the sale of liquors Dy the State. 5. The respondents further ans wering the rule herein, allege that the writ of injunction prayed for should not issue for that petitioners allege no special Irreparable injuries to themselves be yond those suffered by the people at large, nor do they allege in wat re spect they have been or are likely to be injred by the operation of the said . The respondents further answerIng the rule herein, allege that the writ of injunction prayed for should not issue, for that they are oilicers of the State and should not, at the instance of pri vate citizens, be restrainea in the dis charge of their public and official duties on the allege:1 ground of the unconsti tutonality of the law requiring their action. The respondents having made full re turns to tne rule herein pray that the same may be discharged with costs. Attorney Generat Buchana'i arose and asked permission of the court to attack the decision of the court in the case of McCullouga vs Bro wn et al., on which the 182 law was declared un constitutional. Permission was grant ed and without that permission a great deal of the argument prepared in both cases would have been useless. Chief Justice Mclver stated that no limit on the time for arguments would be ixed. Attorney General Buchanan an douncedi that the attorneys had agreed that Mr. Croft should open the argu an next and the Attorney General last. All the preliminaries having been disposed of the attorneys were reaay to C begin arguments about 12:15 o'clock and Mr. Croft arose and began. It is well enough here to state that the court adjourned at 3 o'clock yesterday after- v noon after having heard the argument of Mr. Croft and part of that of At tot~ney B yd. The latter will conclude this morning and will be followed by Bryan and Buchanan. All the argu ments will be concluded this after noon. REBUKED BY O'FERRALL. h I avitatlon of A fro-American Press Asso cl-tin D aclined. RIcIrMoxN), Va., Sept. 12.-In answer to aa invitation to address the Afro American Press Association, Governor OTerrall today wrote as follows: Governor's Office, h Richmond, Va,, Sept. 12, 1894. ei Messrs. John Mitchell, W. Calvin Cnase, g John C. Daney and Others, Commit- a tee of Afro-American Press Associa tion, City: - C Dear Sirs: In response to your invi tation to address or attend the conven tion of the Afro-American Press Asso ciation, now in session in this city, I beg to say I would not think of accept ing an invitation to' address any con- tt vention or assembly that endorses, as oi your convention did last evening, the i1 course of Ida Wells in her slander of g1 the people and civil authorities of the T South. I condemn lynch law as much as any ni one, and as long as I am Governor of Virginia every man, whether white or M black,whatever the charge against him . may be, shall have a trial by judge and r jury if I have to exert all the power i given me by the Constitution and laws rs of Virginia, and should any case of t lynching occur I shall endeavor to en- re force the law against the lynchers, but ti it strikes me that the action of your tt convention in endorsing the misrepre- in sentations and slanderous utterances of u Ida Wells is calculated to do harm 0 rather than good, and intensify rather than mollify the spirit of violence tt which so frequently manifests itself not only in Virginia, but throughout the South, when a certain crime is le ,ommitted. The brutes who commit cr this crime, too hor-ible to mention, and sC are summarily dealt with, seem to elic- is t sympathy from Ida Wells and her tb mnpporters, as though they were mur- m lered innocents, while not a word of w sympathly is expressed for their vict- fi ims, who have saffered more than in leath. I believe that if your conven- tb tion would condemn the crime which a[ has caused the lynchings in the South with rare exceptions, and the leaders th )f the colored people would frown upon tI it and cry out against it, and not exert ce their energies and devote their time to Pf a denunciation of the lynchings, there el would be fewer outrages, and if so, de 3ertazinly fewer instances of mob vio- w lence- cr I do not know, but it looks very tt much to me as though the work of Ila Dt Wells was a deep laid scheme to check tb as far as may be the progress of the 01 South, and every good citizen, white at and colored, should feel an interest in a, refuting her villifications rather than sanctioning them, as your convention 81 lid last evening. She and her support- hi ers certainly stirred up a feeling against t her race wnich did not exist prior to th aer crusade. The people of the South, o who have labored so assiduously for tr nearly a generation now to recuperate and build up their waste places, will at aot take kindly to the effort which w this woman and her followers are w making to bring reproach upon their p section, and create the impression thatu it is a land of lawlessness and disorder- ce 1. have a most friendly feeling for the T eolored people. They have my sym~pa thies in all their struggles and lauda ble undertakings, as I think I have ol shown in my private and public life, LI and I was indeed deeply pained when I Li read this morning that your coniven tion, composed of representatives of your race, had struck the South a blow which she does not deserve. While I thank you for your invita- t Lion, I must decline, under the circum stances, to address your convention or attend its sessions. Rtespectfuily,a CIIARLES OTERRAL E athuiasm Over GOrdon. IT TsBURG, Sept. 12.-Well on to wards last midnight that, which to the tt miembers or the Union Veteran Leg ion re attending the encampment, and the T L'ttsburg members of the organizati on was, perhaps, the most remarkable h; scene since the close of the rebellion, gi took place, when Gen. John B. Jordon, 8: :ne or the leading commanders of the tI D~onfederate army, appeared before a til vast number of Federal soldiers and tt raised his voice for the obliteration of at sectionalism and a united America. al ro say that the old Union soldiers g< were responsive to Senator Gordon's m plea gives no adequate idea of the re- ai :iprocal feeling manifested by the tU thunderous cheers and hearty hand g] grasps with which the ex-Confederate St Lieneral was received. It was regular n, meeting night of the Union Veteran ril Legion ana the hail was thronged. ex Lien. Gordon was the first member of qi mhe Confederate army to ever enter the ra ball. A great crowd gave three very LIl tnearty cheers. Gen. A. L. Pearson, in cc a happy remark, introduced the rebel et Lieneral, wnom many present had met ot at the surrender of Appomatox. m General Gordon naid: "I and all right to thinking men of any section, would tL: always aduaire men who fought." b' Turning to the Union Ilags which coy- gi ered the speaker's stand, he delivered a al very eloquent apostrophe, pledging his p1 devotion and that of the ex-Confeder- w ates of tne South to that banner and A all that it symbolizes. He addressed st the soldiers as comrades and country- tc men, and every time the General, in st his calm, deliberate tones used these tt endearing terms, the audience was vis- et ibly affected. At the end of his elo- p] quent address three tremendous cheers 11 were given. Corporal Tanner respond- ai ed in an address of no less fervid elo- bi quence, pledging the respect and admi- m ration of all mal Union soldiers who se fought and suifered,and for such loyal, o patriotic men and soldiers as were rep resented by Gen. Gordon. Corporal b< Tanner's remarks were deliveted most 1y earnestly and eloquently, seated in a w~ chair, the recent amputation of his de limbs preventing him from standing tt on his feet. t tI SwifcJt Jutce. [ RICIONnoD, Sept. 11.-A Bowling st Green speial to the Dispatch says: vi Near Bowling Green yesterday, at the pi house of J1udson Carter and in the ab- w sence of the family, Carter's little girl, lE Moselle, seven years old, was criminal- Si ly assaulted by Moses Christopher, a I' negro boy, who lives with Carter, and bi has been in his employment for a ai number of years. The condition of the o; little girl is critical; she will probably el die. A large crowd, though terribly w excited; permitted the fiend to be con- et veved quietly to jail, through defer- 01 ence to the law. Christopher was in- ni dicted this morning, arraigned, put on u trial and today convicted, the jury im- ni posing the death pernalty. Judge E. C. Moncure sentenced him to be hanged on the 1.4th of November. SOME ENGLISH SNOBS t OMES OVER HERE TO INVESTIGATE I THE LYNCHING REPORTS. rhat Governor O'Farral, of Virginia, r and Governor Northerr, of Georgia, Has to Say to Them-They Were Treated Just Abut Right. RICHMOND, Va., S3pt. 10.-The fol wing appears in the Evening State are this afternoon: Governor O'Ferrall recsived last night ke following telegram from the New ork World: NEW YoRK, Sept. 9.-To Governor Charles T. O'FERRALL, Eiq.: An English committee has been sent 8 1re to investigae and denouace South- b n lynchings. Will you please tele- j aph us what you think of English t eddling with our aflairs." The Governor's renly: 0 ommonwealth of Virginia, Governor's office, t RIOUMoND, Va., Sept. 9th, 1894. 1 o the World. New York: S Things have come to a pretty pass in 1 is country wnen we are to have a lot 0 'English moralists sticking their noses u to our national affairs. It is the P fientesaence of brass and impudence. t bey had better sweep in front oi their r vn doors before seeking to regulate t We might as well investigate E 2g ib affairs in India, her White Chapel C uderes, her Jack the Ripper'e slash gs, the Maybiick trial and her alleged u justice an -' cruelty to this woman, her p pacious colonial policy in Africa and I e degrading effects upon the Chinese f4 sulting from the opium war. What do y ey propose to do in case they find that a e law is not administerd here accord- S g to their ideas? Declare war against y , or open the vials of their wrath upon' v r beads? What Information do ey seek?. D) they want to know that i e white people in the South have iched negroes whose miserable lasts t d them to the commission of the black s imes of rape upon white women. If 0 , they need not investigate, for such the fact. Do they desire to know that is has been done by infuriated com. t unities for the protection of their white t )men and to save t'ae victims ot these t nds from the humiliation of testifying courts? It so, this is the fact. Do V ey want to know whether there was y doubt as to th: guilt of the men c ached? It so, for the satisfation of v eir yearning souls, they could have as- 3 rtained without encountering the a rils of a sea trip, that their guilt was a ar in every instance. If they had t sirea to learn whether these lynchings c ere permitted or countenanced by the j vil authorities, they could have learned 14 rough the regular channels of corres mndence that in every case the civil au- f, orities were either without knowledge 0 were overp-)wered. In Virginia, the o thorities in every case have asserted h I their power to suppress the lynchiag e >irit ad- wittia the last few months I t Lve protected from violence with mili- 1 ry, at heavy expense to the State, 0 iee negroes who were charzed with i ttraging white women. They had fair h als, were convicted anil executed. r While lynch law is to be condemned, r d every effort has been inade and 1 ill be made to suppress iU in the South, thout the advice of those wonld.be iilanthropists, who have taken so much i >on themselve, lynching will surely p ase when the crime of rape ceases. s tese sympathhtic Eaglishmen might q id missionary work among the negroes n the South in warning them against e consequences of the forcible gratifiea- 0 yn of theiridevilish lusts. (Signed) Charles T. O'FERRALL. Governor o1 Virginia. 3 GOV. NORTHIEN'S REPL Y. t ATLANTA, Sept. 10.-This morning e following telegram fron the New ork World was received by Governor t J. Northen: "An English committee J: is been sent here to investigate and b !ounce Southern lynchings. Will I mu please telegaph us what you think b English meddling with our affairs?" a In reply to this query, Governor Nor en, this morning, wired the following t; ply: othe World New York: t Say to the "English committee" who 'I ive come to tbis country "to investi- 0 te and denounce lynchings at the r; >uth," that I am in position to know b at they have received their informa yn from irresponsible sources, and e at the English people have declined id refused to be properly informed s' lout our laws and the conduct of our 11 >vernment. The English papers to tI y knowledge have declined time and b ain to publish statements made to b tem in defense of the South by En ishmen, who are now residents of the uth. Under these conditions we do ,t want any further outside hypoc- ti :al cant upon false Ideas of our gov- a ment. The people of this State are li iet able to administer their own af-n irs and they are doing it in full jus ~e to the negro, as our laws and our 13 nduct will attest. We have already , dred more outside interference in tr local matters than we will suab-r Issively tolerate in the future. Lete ese kindly disposed Englishment re rn to their own country aind preventc rlaw the inhuman sale of virtuous rls to lustful men in high places, hang I such demons as Jack the -Ripper, iish, as It deserves, the barbarous3 olesale slaughter of negroes int frica by Ieglishmen who go there to b al their gold; supply the necessities h prevent Dread and labor riots and rikes, which are wholly unknown to b e people of the South; feed and give s ploymnent to the poor, as do the peo- y e of my section; give to the oppressed r ishmen the rights humanity demands, 1] id when they shall have pulled thet am out of their o wn eyes, then they a ay, with better grace, appoint them- t lIes a committee to hunt for the oat that may be in our eyes'.t While we have irregularities at the uth and negroes are sometimes nched, they are never slaughtered by holesale as Englishmen sometimes tE stroyed them. I send you by mall (3 e law and record of my own State on 0 ese matters and I challenge not only a e English committee on lynchings at t< e South, but the civilized world, to h ow a better. Why come with this in- h ~stigation to denounce the South just tU ior to a Congressional election, wnlen i e have just had a negro lynched in n ansas April 2, another in Ohio on the i Lbatb, April 15th, and when white tU oles and Hungarians have recently y ~en brutally butchered In Michigan p id Pennsylvania and negroes ruui out s' Franklin Park, N. J., in herdsy We a iallenge investigation by all persons ti ho have the right to Investigate these A iarges, but ans attempt upon the part p Englishmen tainted by their own 0 itional crimes to arraign us for trial iF ust be considered a gross imiperti- 'I mece. W. J. NORtTHEN. p Governor of Georgia. c WHAT OTHERL GOVERNOR SAY. 9 The following letters, In addition to lj hose above have been receivsd by The Vorld: Governor William Fishback, of Ar :ansas, says: That cowardly assassins who seek the rotection of the mob to commit mur er infest every country is to be deplo ed, but as long as human nature re aains as it is the efforts of the better lass of people to suppress them can 'nly be embarrassed by the officious in ermeddling of outsiders. This is true ven when the interence comes from ur nearest neighbors,to whom we are ound by ties of political relationship ut that Eagland, a foreign country .nd one which pays less than one-third s much money per capita for the edu ation of its people as the United States ays, should assume the role of a mis inary to teach us our duty, can but ex it3 ridicule as well as resentment. If s committee is really sincere in its ef orts to suppress lynching, it must be audly wanting in common sense not to a-,e learned this much of human na ure. My advice to the committee, if is indeed in earnest and is honest, is D go home. The reply from Governor Matthews, f Indiana, is as fallows: The visit of the English committee o investigate and denounce southern inching is certainly a remarkable and Lngular procedure. It should be re arded as a meddlesome interference, rholly unwarranted, and not deserving f even vourteous or tolerant treat Ieat by our people. It is a good op ortunity to let Eaglandor other coun ries understand that we can and will ianage our internal affairs without in rfeience on their part. The governor of South Dakota, Hon. H. Sieldon, writes as follows: We have no need for English com iittee in the country when the pur ose is to give peculiar emphasis to ie English ida of English superioity. Te deprecate lynchings. Punishment yr crime does not require such means. 7e can, however, take care of our own fairs without the aid of English phari es. If I were the Governor of a State hich they propose to investigate they ould get scant courtesy. Governor Altgeld, of the state of Il nois, says: Answering your telegram, I will say iere are outrages committed in the )uth in violation of law, and there are utrages committed in Ireland in the ie name of the law. Pos bly the English committee can do me good in the south. If it does ien the southern peopie should return 1e compliment and send a committee Ireland to stop the outrages there. Hon. W. A. McCorkle, governor of 7est Virginia, sends the following: I regard the sending of an English ymmittee as a piece of intermeddling ith our affairs not to be excused. The )uth is always, in a proper case, ready ad willing to give full hearing of its Rairs a competent tribunal, but cer uinly it does not require an English >mmittee in that light. From away out in Utah. the follo w ig protest is entered by Governor Ca ib W. West: The coming of the E aglish committe )r the purpose named is presumptu us effrontery. We are fully capable E managing our own affairs without iterference from any quarter, and are atirely willing to permit full occupa on to-our Eagtigh consqins in atten ig to their own business7 am firmly pposed to all lynching, and willing to idorse all proper efforts to stop it. I eartly commend the energetic and igorous action of the Tennessee autho ties to that end, Hon. Elias Carr, who governs the 'arheel state, says: North Carolinians are a law-abiding sople, and hence opposed to lynching. fe believe that the law is adequate if romptly administered. The sovereign :ates are competent to cope with the uestion without the officious inter eddling of a foreign power. This is the way Gxovernor Reynolds, ( Delaware, puts it: I have entire faith in the power of merican laws and American courts >protect the liberties of our citizens. Te are amply able in this grand coun y to take care of ourselves. Governor Stone, of Mississippi, says: The coming of the English commit ~e, of which y ou speak, to invstigate nchings in the United Statesis an ex ibition of superb cheek, but I am sure do not object if the committee shall e guided by a genuine desire to know c d tell the truth. Governor Shortridge of North Dako i,s short and pointed when he says: Lyncning is wrong under all circum mnces in any country-north or south. he E aglish had better attend to their wn business. America will not tole it foreigners meddling with our ome affairs. Oregon's governor, Sylvester Pennoy ", says: The Englished are running the pre mt national administration as to its ancial policy,and arethus emboldened >further impudence. It is all wreng, at just now the Enaglisn appear to C running our government. Swept the State. AUGUt6TA, Sept. 11.-The Republi mns regard the results ot the state elec on as the biggest victory they have hieved since the birtti of the Riepub can party. The total vote for gover or, which t wo years ago was 130,000, as reduced from 15,000 to 20,000. The epublicans claim that Cleaver's vote ill reach nearly 70,000. In every one Sthe 16 counties of the state, Democ cy was defeated. Waldo county ected their whole county ticket for i first time in many years. Every ty in the state has probably gone Re ublican, which Is something phenom Lal. The returns so far indicate that ohson (Democrat) will not get over ,000 votes against 53,003 cast for him o years ago, and this may be reduced y later returns. The Republicans ave carried both branches of the leg. lature, electing a solid senate. In the use of representatives, which con st of 151 members-and which two ears ago stood 107 Republicans and 44 'emocrats-the Republicans, it is be eed, have elected 110 members, while ie remainder who have been elected ce Dsmocrats and Populists. Among i Republicans elected to the house is ew Powers. of Houlton, who will be te next speaker. Accusedi of Murder. JAC~rSONvILLE, Fla., Sept. 13.--Wai ur A. Hoit, a young man from Macon, a., was arn ested here today on a charge Smurdering G. M. Beard, a prommnent torney of Frankling, Texas, on Sep inner 24, 1893, who was found with s hea:l crused in. Holt claims that e had just arrived in Franklin the day ie murder was committed and was at e house of his uncle, Thomas Sim ons, when the murder took place. olt's leaving Franklin five days after e murder caused suspicion and he as traced to Macon, Ga., to various ints in Florida and finally to Jack nille by Macon detectives. He was crested bf Constable L and on informa on furnished by D~etective Ford of Lacon and Land refuses to give up his risoner until Ford divides the reward the murdered man's widow. Hoit still in jail, but is willing to go to exas without a requisition. He will roably be released on a writ of habeas rpus. Hie was preparing to start for 'exas when arrested, having already noht a ticket. A SUBSTITUTE FOR COTTON. The Sugar Bet Recommend.d to Oar Farmers. COLUMBIA, September 10.-Governor Tillman did not bother himself today with politics. He did incidentally asic 4 about the report of the Murray confer ence, which he says was unfounded,but he spent most of the time answering an accumulation of mail. Among the letters was one from Mr. R. F. Fergu son, of Chicago, which was given prompt attention and which he hopes p will amount to something. If Mr. b Furgeson is not able to do anything b may be some one else who has the ro- b quisite capital will be able to see a things as he does and develop the beet a sugar industry in this State. The en- n tering wedge has been given. Will it amount to anything? a The letter from Mr. Ferguson reads d as follows: cJ 874 WEST POL1K STREET. CHICAGO, ILL., Sept. 4, 18-4 d Governor Tillman, Culumbia, S. C.- s, My Dear Sir: From a careful examira- 1 tion of the formation and soil of South f Carolina as given in a book published by the State Board of Agriculture of South Carolina, I believe you have one 1 of the best States in the Union for the cultivation of the sugar beet and the a manufacture of beet sugar. It is a fact p that the cultivation of the sugar beet r( under the scientific method necessary c: to its success increases the productive- si ness of the ground for other crops. It T is also a particularly hardy plant, ad- si justing itself without difliculty to con- n ditions of soil and climate with ex- di treme tenacity of life and succeeding t where many other agricultural pro ducts would under the same conditions ti be a total failure. Tue sugar beet b would average in most parts of your la State fifteen tons per acre and would tj sell for $450 to $5 a ton a'; the factory. oj Factories could be estantished1 on your t navigable rivers and railroad lines and o1 located so as to be convenient to the C largest number of beet sugar produ- ti cers. g] I write you because I have been a deeply interested in your Administra- ai tion and the able manner in waich you a1 have conducted it and because I like ti your State and want to see it prosper. Ij How is your State Board of Agricul- u ture formed? D> you appoint it? w Could you secuie me a position to ex- o1 periment with raising sugar beet in o1 your State? I know the introduction tt of sugar beet culture and the manufac ture of beet sugar woull be of the at utmost value to your State,aud I would p be pleased to have your personal views cl in relation to the same. Tate your s1 coast counties from Beaufort to Horry; si then the next tier from Barnwell to si Marlboro; then the nex: from Aiken to r( Cesterfieid; and next Elgetield to st Lancaster; all possess the soil sutable u to sugar beet culture and would pro- la duce the.best results, making from $50 tE to $60 per acre clear proat, and a sure H crop, no danger of failure. If you can inaugurate this new source of wealth 0. it will be a fitting crown to your Ad- ti ministration. Will you kindly let mi g ear from you? I will furnish you SL satisfactory references if there is a chance for business. cc Respectfully yours. R. H. FERGUSON. c Gavernor Tillman replied as ollows: C SBIA, September 10, 1894. b R. H. F ~icago, 1i.-Ay Dear Sir: Your lette'.e&Septemn 4 t< has been received. In repiy- ou j say that experiments in the cultivation of the various varieties of Deets, in- vi cluding the sugar beets, have been n made in this State time and time again, and there is no doubt wnatever v as to our soil and climate being well t suited to beet culture. The diiliculty which I forsee in developing the sugar p, inaustry here will be lack of capital to b manufacture the beet and the sugar. L The production of the beet in paying quantities will be easy. The stilled' d labor, confined mainly to superintend- b ence, can be easily obtained in Europe. b The question is, who will furnish the machinery to make up the product. k I am particularly interested in devel oping the production of any new crop that will take the place of cotton ia our agriculture, and will be glad to haye you give me, if you are lamiliar with the subject, estimates on the cost of a plant to manufacture beets into sugar. We have large areas of very C fertile, chieap lands now devoted to h ctton culture. Our farmers can sup- l, ply all the beets at prices as cheap as they can be produced anywhere in the world. The time is propritious for -p ricultural production which promises j proit, as cotton at present prices yields u Lone. We have no State Board of Ag- n riculture at this time, but you migut a correspond with the director of the ex- a perimental statIon .'ocated at Clemson y College, but as I have already told you, hi If someoody will buy the sugar beet alt n the prices you name our farmers will a contract to cultivate them according ti to the instructions and to deliver any a quanity. 1 I shall be glad to hear from you fur- ir ther on this importhait subject. Respectfulty, r 3.RI. TILLMAN- a A Ghaatly Discovery~ 3' RICrIIOsD, Va., Sept. 12.-A Bristol, ii Tenn., special to the Dispatch says: 5 Charles Rector and a boy named Mor- 1~ ris in exploring a cave near Seven Mile p Ford, Va., thirty miles east of this 5 place, yesterday discovered two skele- V tons forty feet below the surface. The g ave had been long Enown, butuc one had ever attempted to explore it; be ause of its great depth. The Morris boy was let down by a rope. Wn en the e find was reported a parry of citizens t! went to the cave to investigate further. g In all ten skeletons were taken out,and were adjudged to be the bones of men, ti women and children. One skeleton was found in a sitting position, with the skull reclining on the arms, which i were folded across the knees. TIhus far L there is but one way to account for the L harnel house. Old citizens say that h many years ago there was an inn kept F near this cave by a man named Allen a and that occasionally people who stop- t ped there had mysteriously disappear- d ed, and were never again heard of. The a supposition is that they were killed ir In this inn, robbed of their valuables and then consigned to the cave. Murdered by a Boy, CONNELLSVILLE. Fa , Sept. 13.-Yes- e terday Bernard Toker, a German farm er was shot dead and his wife inortally wounded by Frank Morris, a sixte~en year-old boy. Morris is a son of the man from whom. Toker purchased his 0 little farm. The woman is badly shot I and cannot recover. The scene of the tragedy is Reich Hill, live miles distant from Connellsville in the mnountains. The precbable motive of the crime was t robbery. While Toker was buliding a p wall In the cellar, crawling aloog on nls e hands and knees, the boy sbot him in ti the back of his head, the bullet coming p out at his forehead. The murderer ran sacked his victim's pockets, securing a few dollars in cash and his silver watch. - Morris then searched the house and tried to conceal his crime by setting fire to the building. Mrs. Token arrived home at that moment and was fired on I by the murderer without warning. The t oman fell andl the boy fled. a REPUBLICAN RALLY. TATE COMMITTEE CALL THEM TO THE FRONT. .n A idress Issued Wedn)sday-Congres sional Candidates to be Pat Oat. Elec tions to be Contested All Along the Line. COLUMBIA,S. C., Sept. 13.-The Ri ublhcan corpse in South Carolina has egun to show signs of life again. It as had a good long and peaceful slam er, and, as soon as it gets thoroughly wakened, will doubtless fall off into aother death-like swoon, it will be so tuch surprised at itself. But to be serious, the Republicans :e on the move now, and getting rea y for the part they are to play in the yming November general election. The following address, issued yester .y by the State Rspublican committee, lows what is being done, and is entire self-explanatory. eadquarters of the S.'ate Republican Executive Committee. C ilumbia, S. C., Sept.11. 1894. o the Republicans of South Carolina: A political struggle of far-reaching ad widespread importance is now in rogress. Vermont and Maine have al iady spoken in such grand Republi Ln majorities as have not been known nce tne days of Abraham Lincoln. ris Democratic party, in full posses on of every department of the govern ent for the first time since 1860, has )monstrated its incapacity to success :lV administer the government. Eqverythiing seems to indicate that Le next House of Represertatives will largely Republican, and that the nds!ide of this November will be bat ie nrelude to the R apublican cyclone 1896. Although illegally disfranchis . by tue registration and election laws this State, the Republicans of Santh torlina cannot afard to remiata inac ve and indifferent in this great strag e. Public sentiment is crystalizing rainsc these infamous registration id election laws, and whether they e legally decreed to be unconstita onal or not, a Republican House of epres3atatives would not hesitate to aseat and send home in disgrace those hose only claim to election is based i the suppressioa of the right to vote a large majority of the citizen3 of Le State. The Republicans at this election Lould record an earnest and vigorous )rtest against their illegal disfran isement. Candidates for Cngress Loald be nominated in every Congres onal district, ani all Repnolcaus.., Lonld attempt to c.st their votes for - presentatives in Congress. A record Lould be kept of all who are rejected nder the operation of the registration %v, which will serve as a basis to con st that law before the next National ouse of Representatives. Congressional committees should at ice arrange for Congressional conven nas to nominate candidates for Can ess, not waiting for a call to be is ted for a State convention. Congressional conventions will be instituted as follows: First District,31 delegates-Beaufort munty, 6; Berkeley. 2; Charleston, 13; olteton, 3; Georgetown, 4; Williams arg, 3. Second District. 27 delegates-Hamp n, 4; Barnwsi, 8; Aiken, 6; Elgadeld, Tird District, 27 delegates-&bbe lie, 9; New berry, 5; Anderson, 7; Oco e, 3; Pickeas, 3. Fourth Dist;Jct,33 delegates-Green le, 9; Laurens,J;; Fairdeld, 5; Spar nburg, 7; Union,4;..tchland, 4. Fifth District, 25 asiegates-York, Chester, 5; L incaster, $f37MMD. lirg, 2; Chiesterfield, 3; K-ersh aw, 4; nion, 1. Sixta Distric, 27 delegates-Olaren >n, 4; Darlington,5; Florance.4; Marl >ro, 4; Marion, 5; arry,3; Williams arg, 2. Seventh Disrict, 29 delegates-- Ber eley, 4; C )lleton, 4; Lexington, 4; icnmond, 2; 8tnuiter, 7; Orangeburg, 8. E. A. WE~BSTER, Chairman. ttest: J. H. JoussoN, Secretary. A Texa Oatrare. WACO, Sept. 11.-James H. Johnson, ho, tnree weeks ago, married E mma ooley, a pretty girl of 15, lives with is wife and her sister, Miss Eva Cao - y, in a tent on the Mosley plantation, a the Brazos river, seven miles belo w (aco. 'The family is engaged in cotton icking and are iv camp for that par ose. At an early hour t wo men called ohnson out and, dragging him away, eat him into a condition of helpless ess. They then went after the women ad one of them caught Mrs. Johnson ad outraged her near the tent. Miss sa Cooley escaped by running and iding under a culvert, where she re iained until daylight. Johnson manl ged to get to Waca, and returned with iree ciliers, who arrested C. F. Ely ad J. W. Vernon, t wo young tenant imers who were also engaged in pick ~cotton on the Mosley plantation. ith men were very drunk when ar ~sted. James H. Johnson, his wife, ad Miss Eva Cooley all three identified ly andi Vernon as their assailants. he men were locked up for grand jury Lvestigation, that body being in ses 'on. On the big plantations below taco hundreds of families are in tents ~cking cotton, and the outrage has aread consternation down the Bsrazos alley. The pickers will all move to. hrin groups for protection. Hot Campaign. FRANKFoRT, Ky,, Sept. 12.-The ntest for the Congressional nomina on in :he Ashland district has reached mat de gree of intensity where adjectives Il to describe it. The utmost good na tre has chatracterized proceedings here, iough all pacties have been active and .1 claim everything in sight. The sensa on ot the past twenty-four hours was te speech Moaday night of Rev. R. L. ldlReaady of Grace Episcopal Church. be h been a lifelong friend and ad iirer c f Cjlonel B:eckinridge, but says mat he can follow him no longer. He encu:ced h-is cause before a political meting ia burning language. He said subs tanice that ne had heard Colonel Leckmaridce speak at the unveiling of le mccu-nent erected to the Confeder ;e vs~rans at Lenugton. When he o:itcca to the nesly made grave of his ia: paying her memory a touching ibute, caid all his hopss laid buried. Acco:diVng to his own canfession," ndi the minister, "he was then carrying a his siamnelees intercouse with the L ost O1rer a hilion. NEVw YoR1g, Sept. 11.-It is intimated iat the Louisvlle and Nashville re >rt to be submitted to the stockhold :s at the annual meeting will show :at the losses sustained by the com any m its effort to control the South aroliaa Railroad have been charged to rofit and loss. The amount has been aricualy stoated. The exact amount, owever, is not far from $1200,000. 'he retecrt will also show that the float ig indebtedness of the company has een -educed to less than $1,250,000, nI o whichi armied on time.