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AN IMPORTANT LA W. THE ACT CALUNG A CONSTI rtUTION AL CONVENTION. Fuli Text of the Law Caning the Coiven tion Which i.. to Change the Organic Law of the State. Below is given in full, with all of the amendments, the act which. per haps, of all others passed by the re cent Legislature, is of greatest mo ment to the people of this State, viz: "The act to provide for the calling of a constitutional convention and to provide for qualification of electors, registration of voters," etc. Whereas,by the Constitution of this State it is provided that "whenever two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the General Assembly shall think it necessary to call a con vention to revise, amend or change this Constitution, they shall recom mend to the electors to vote at the next election for representatives for or against a constitution; and if a major ity of all the electors voting at said election shall have voted for a con vention, the General Assembly shall at their next session provide by law for calling the same; and such con vention shall consist of a number of members not less than that of the most numerous branch of the Gener al Assembly." And whereas, the General Assem bly by joint resolution, adopted by two-thirds of the members of each branch of the same, and approved De cember 19th, 1892, did provide "that the question of calling a Constitution al convention of the people of South Carolina be submitted to the qualified electors of said State at the next ceneral election; and if a majority of the elec tors qualified to vote for the members of the General Assembly. voting on said question, vote in favor of suen :i convention, it shall be the duty of the General Assembly at their next ses sion to designate the time and place and to prescribe the manner of hold ing said convention. And o ereas,at the generale d heldo .ovember last a majoriry of the electors quali fled to vote for members of the Geu eral Assembly voting on said ques tion did vote in favor of such conven. tion, and it thereby becomes the dutyv ef the General Assembly to providt by law for calling the same; now, therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of'South Qarolina, now met and sit ting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: Sec. 1. Thata convention of the peo ple of South Carolina is heieby or dained to be assembled in the city- o: Columbia on the second Tuesday ir September, in the year of our Lori one thousand eightiundred and nine ty-five, for the purpose of re'visimg amending or changing th'e Constitu tion of -the State. Sec. 2. The said convention shal consist of a number of delegates equa to the whole number of Senators and Representatives of which the General Assembiy is now composed. who shal. be elected at an election held on the third Tuesday in August Anno Dom ni eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as hereinafter provided. Sec. 3. The several counties shall be each entitled to elect and send to the said convention a number of delegatet equal to the whole number of Sena tors and Representatives which said county is now entitled to send to the General Assembly. And the delegatet dto the said convention shall be, enti tied to the same freedom from arresi in going to apd returning from anc while attending said convention as 1i granted the members of the Legisla ture by existing laws. ~Sec. 4. Every male citizen of the United States and of this State of thE dee disailteea, not brn *Constitution of this State, and duly qualified to vote under the existin~ laws of the State. and duly registerec as now required by law, or wh ing been entitled torgs a votei --~attheie-oflie general registratior of electors in this State, which tooli place in the year of our Lord ont thousand eight hundred and eighty' two, or at any time subsequent there to, failed to register at such time as required by law, or who has becomet a citizen of this State, and who shall regstr as hereinafter provided in such cases, shallibe entitled to vote for delegates to said convention. Sec. 5. Every person entitled .tc vote for dee'tsto said convention shall be eli %e to a seat therein. Sec. 6. Tt on the first -Monday o1 March in the year of our Lord on( thounand eight hundred and ninety' five, the supervisor of registration ol each county shall, at the county seal thereof, open his books of registration and shall hold the same open for ten consecutive calendar days thereafter, except Sundays, between the hour oi 10 o'clock in the forenoon and 4 o'clock in the afternoon, except Char leston, Beaufort and Richland coun ties, where the said books shall be kept open from 10 o'clock in the fore noon until 6 o'clock in thc afternoon, during which time any elector then, or therefore at any time, entitled tc register as a qualified voter, or whc has become a citizen of this State, shall be during the time hlerein fixedi for such registration, and also on the days now fixed by law for registra tion, entitled to register as such at hereinafter provided: and any electoi having been heretofore duly register ed, or having since changed hisn resi dence, or having lost his certificate, shall be entitled to have, the same transferred or renewed as now provid ed by law. Sec. 7. Any elector who shall have been entitled to register at the gen eral registration in the year of omi Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, or at any time subsequent thereto, and who failed to register at such time as required by law, and who shall make application under oatli in accordance with a printed form tc be prpared by the Attorney General, -stigforth in each case the fact. to wit The full name, age, occupation and resicence of the applicant at the *time of the said oeneral iregistration or at any time iereafter when tht said applicant became entitled to reg ister and the p lace or placas of his res idence since the time when lie becamt entitled to register. which aflidavil shall be supprted-: by :.. m ~its o1 two reputable citizens wuo we:re eac of the age of twenty-one years on tLo ~30th day of June, Anno Domini eigh teen hundred and eighty-two, or at the time the said applicant became .enti tied thereafter to register; orany elec tor who has become a citizen of this State by moving into the same ac cording to the Constitution of the State, and who shall make application under oath stating the tinie of hi: moving into the State, and his place o1 residence since living in the State. which application shall be supported byX the affidavits of two reputable citizene who were twenty-one years of age a1 the time the applicant became a resi dent of this State: such applicant shial be allowed to register asa votar, anct *to have issued to him a certificate a~ a duly qualified elector in the mnanne1 en tice ld to vo'te' at samd etuou wrM deleg-ates to 'aIdk! etin See. At such e'le:i the supervi sor of: r.-istration shal'l tari'sh thie. tne reqzgsraloi bos omsc pre- i cilict fortectar. ;ilcusdy of wh i\\b| the Imianzers re-ci-:iIg the se1i1sh"all 1- resplisil. anad wvicI they return to the supervisor of regi'tra tion within three- days aftr thI (.lose of the- el etion1. m 1. )ct shall bev istered as her.in'oro already pro vided by law and who dos 1ot pr0 duce his risriin certiiente at tihe Polls where he (erS to Vote. Sec. ().L 12r:hkpro . f h saidl election it shal bI) theo (I i v of the Governor. and hI is he auhoiw and empoed a least tir days before electionui ). t o oin each county threecoisionersof eecti whieCi con1issio niershal aS mbt )'lat the county seat at leaSt two weeks be fore the date of said elction. aid Or ganize thenselve's ilto a board 0lconI nissioners by electing on1e of thei inembers afChairm 1a'" and take the oath prescribed inSection :0. Article 2 of the Constitution. and the oath7 ,against duelling, and they may elect soIe suitable person as clerk and the Chairman shall admiiiiister to hIu tle eats aoreSaid. anld all of said oaths shall be ;iled in the ollice of the clerk o the Court of General Sessions and Coinnon Pleas. and if there be no such dulv qualitied clerk in any county, then in the otiice of the Secretary of State. The said commissioners shall appoint three managers of electiol for each precinct in their county, as n1oW provided by law. and notify themui by mail of said appointiment. and shall -a so have published a ioice of election and names of n-uagersas nl proid ed by law for "enerl eleetlons. The said coni!ssioners shal make reAu tioni up'on the county sIpervisor 'n one ballot box fo each preemet m their couitV. to]. b )ustraied as lr - inafter dirt and the outy super visor shall urn sh :! :e. be p id for bv thie c board( r comlls solers out o .' coiunty funds not otherwise appropratet. SeIC. 10. One of tile maniagers ap Pointed. .1s provid ed inl t1e preCedi election., procure trom tie Comuis sioners of Election, the ballot box, pa I Peand registraiUon book of his pr cinct. The bo0ard- of ni ger for each preciect sliall meet on or before ti day of election and organi tlemu selvcs into a Board of Managers by electing one of their number chairman and some suitable pelso clerk. The chairman may then administer the oath prescribed in article I, section 30, of the Constitution. and the oati against duelling to each memnber of the board and the clerk mitay in turn administer the same uaths tc th" chairmian. The said oaths av b administered by any other oilieer au thorized to administer oaths and siall be filed in the ollice of t cler of the Court of Common Pieas and General Sessions, and if there be Io sneh duly qualified clerk in any county then"m the office o the Secretary of State. Sec. 11. The poils shall be open at such places as are now designated and pointed by law, at S o'clock in the forenoon of the day of election and closed at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day. and shall be kept open during thede hours without internus Isionl or adjournment, and the mana gers shall administer to each person offering to vote an oath that he is qualified to vote at this election ac cording to the Consti:'tion and laws of the State. and that he has not voted during the election. Sec. 12. The deputy State constables and other peace otiicers of each cot. nty shall at this election act as no0w pro vided by law for general elections. Sec. 13. The voting shall be by bal lot, which ballot shall be of plain white paper, two and a half inches wide by five inches long, clear and even cut, without ornament, descrip tion, mutilation. symbol, erasure or mark of any kind whatsoever except the names of the persons voted for, which names shall be written or print ed, or partly written or ar a ,i1n acin-, and such alot shall be folded so as to conceal the name or names thereon, and so folded shall be deposited in a box, to be constructed, kept an'd disposed of as hereafter provided, and no ballot of any other description found in any ballot box shall be counted. Sec. 14. An opening shall be made in the lid of each election box large enough for a single ballot to be in serted at one time, through wich op ening each ballot proper to be received shall be inserted by the p~ersoni voting and no other. Each box shall be pro vided with a sullicient lock and key. and shall be publicly opened and in spected to show that it is empty and secure, and locked before the opening of the poll and tile key returned to the managers of election, and said boxi shal not be opened before the hours for voting. At each precinct a space or inclosure. such as the manlagers deem proper and sufticient. shall be railed off, or othierwise providedl with an 0op ening for the entrance of the~ voter at one end or side and an opening at the other for his exit, as a p)olling~ plge But one voter shall be allowecd to enter any polling place at a time, -and nlo one except the manager s shalh be al lowed to'speak to the voter while in the polling place easting Is vote. Sec. 15. Each clerk of the poll shall keep a poll list, which shall contain a column headed " Names of voters., and the name of each elector v-otinig shall be entered in such columl~. Sec. 16. At the close of' the electioni the managers anid clerk shall Iimmledi ately proceed pub licly to open the bal lot box and count the votes therein, and continue such count without in terruption or adjournnment until the same is completed, and make state ment of the result, and sign the same. If. inl counting, two or~ more like bal lots shall be ~founid folded togetheri compactly. only one shall be counted and the others'destroyed. hut if they have diifferent 1nes all shall be- d stroed, and none co(unted. If more ballots shall be founid in the box upon openinlg it than ther arename onl the poli1 list, all the ballots shaill be r-eturned to the box and thorougly mixed together and one of the mnan -arers or clerk~ shall, without seeing the ballots drawn ther'efrom,. and immnedi ately destroy as many ballots as ther'e are in excess of the nlumiber' of names on the poll list. WXithin thriee dlays thereafter the chairman of the Board of Managers. 0or one~ of themi, or somte other suitab~le p~ersons appointed as iesselgrJin writingxand taking oath prescd .av the managers. shall de lver to the Comnmissioner-s of Elec tion the poll list, the box contadning the ballots and a wr-itteni statement of the result of the election in the pre cinet. Sec. 17. The Comm11issiiners of El-hi tion shall meet at the county seat on the Saturday next following the elec tio,. before 1 o'cock in the afternoon of tiiat day. and shall prioceed to o ganizc as thre County B~oard of Caun -assers. Thiey shall'or'ganize by elect. ing one of their number as chairmnan. They maity app)oint someI comp~let et per.son to act as secretary. The chairman shlil then admtinister the C onstitutional0 oath to each mem1Iber of the Board of Caiivasssers, antd to the sebretary, and the secretairy shall in tm-n admuinister the samie to poceed to canvas the votes and make statement thereof within tan (Ia vs teom the ti:ne t of their th-i meat in. as a Board of County Canvasser's. an shall transinit the same to tIe l;oard of state Canvassers together witn an y protests and all papers per taiiiig to thle election. They shall imake duplicate statements and ile the same in the offie of the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and Gen r ess1ins of the counltY and !" thire be no such duly qualified clerk, ijien with the secretary of State. There shall be prepared by the canvassers three s;,parate lists of each statement. besides the list to be filed with the clerk of the'court.aid each list shall be certified as correct by the signatures of the Board of County Canvassers sub scribed to such certifi'ete. Upon the final adjournment Vf the Board of County Canvassers. and within the ten days prescribed above. the chairman of said board shall forward to the Gov ernor and Secretary of State, by- mes senger, the return., poll lists and all papers appertaining to the election. The said m1iessenger to be paid his ac tual expenses. upon a certificate to be furnished him by the Secretary of State. out of the funds provided for the expenses of said convention. No per diem, mileage or other compensa tion shall be paid tothe Comuission ers of Election, Managers of Ecletion. or clerks appointed by them. Sec. 1S. The secretary of State shall appoint a meeting of the Board of S tate Cimvassers, to be held at his of fice or soie convenient place withlih lifteen days next aftcr the said lec tioi. for the purpose of canvassimgtlie votes thereof. Sec. 19. The Secretary of Stat". Comptroller General, Attorncy U-ne ral. State Treasurer. Adjutant and In Isspector Gcneral. and the chairman of the comuittee on privileges and elec tions of the House of Re)reseltatives. shall constitute the Board of State I Canvassers. four of whom shall be a I qrUIi. If a majority of these otti eers shall be unable to attend. tile President of the Senate. being notified by the Secretar: of State. shall att wn'ihout delay, and with th tending --I, of Stat .1 es. e 0oard when thu: formed and organized, shall Open tii certifiedI returns of the Boards o. County Canvassers. -proceed to maket statement of the whole number o votes cast at such election, and - foi each of the persons voted for thereat They shall certifv such statement t< be correct, and subscribe the sam< with their proper names, and file the same in the ofIice of the Secretary o State. Sec. 20. The Secretary of State shat thereupon issue to each personl electer a delegate to such convention a cer tiieate of such election under his offi cial seal. Sec. 21 Every person who shall voti at said election who is not entitled t< vote, -and every person who shall b) force. intimidation, deception, fraud bribery or undue influence, control th< vote of any elector to be cast for an. candidate other thani as is intelndet or designed by such elector, or wh< shall violate any of the foregoing pro visions in regard to elections. shall b punished by a fine not exceeding on thousand dollars, or by inprisonimenl in jail, not exceeding twelve months or both, in the discretion of the court Sec. 22. Every person who. being ap pointed aComamissioner or' 3anager o Elections, or clerk to either the Board of MIanagers or of Commissioners shall refuse or fail to act as such with out lawful excuse, or who, acting a such, shall fail to open a poll at the tme and place required of them by this act, or to keel) the same open af herein required, or who shall make o: aid in making any false count or re turn of votes cast, or shall commi1 any fraud in the management of said election, shall be punished as provided in the preceding section. Sec. 23. In case any one of the per sons duly appointed manager of elec. tion shall fail to appear and act as manager at the time and polling place appoifited for holding said' election, the othe~tu'.rn anaoers are hereby from the bystanders some, competeni person to act as manager in the plac4 and stead of the person .so failing tc act, and shall administer to him the oaths aforesaid. In case any two oj the persons duly appointed to act as managers at any polling place shall fail to appear and act at the time and place appointed for holding such poll, the one duly appointed manager, whc shall appear and act, is hereby author. ized and required to appoint from the bystanders two competent persons t( act as managers in the place and stead of the absent managers, and shall ad minister to them the oaths aforesaid. Sec. 24. That said convention shal assemble in the city of Columbia, it the hall of the House of Riepresenta tives, on the second Tuesday in Sep tember. A. D. 1895. at 12 o'clock noon. and shall be called to order by th< Secretary of State. Sec. 25. That the members of saii covention shall receiv'e as compenso tioni $2 per' diem and 5 cents per ik~ coming to and returning from tla same. That should any vacancy, : vacancies occur in the representatlo! in any county by death, resignatior or otlierwvise," the same shall be fillet by election by order of the Secretar: of State. in the same manner as va cancies in the House of Representa tives are now filled, except ten days which said election shall be ten days, which said election shall be conductel by the same commissioners and by nanagers to be apploinited by then; andl uder thie samec rules and regula tins'above~' 1)rovided for the first elee tioni. Sec. 203. That the sum of $3O,'00 i so much be necessary, be and the samt is hereby appropriated to defray th< expenses of said convention. inicludl ig ~the per1 diemn and mileage of the delegates. See. 27. The State Librarian is here by authorized and required to pur chase for the use of the dclgates t( the convention her':einb~efore provided fo.eghy W sets of the "'American C onsti gtto"v yGog .Gyn published by the A rgus C'ompany. Albany, N. Y . e(cst of same t( cone out of' and. be paid for fromi the 83(:,000 herin provi\'de~d tor in Section 2 of the ac. Then cost of the sa~na not to exceed '84l(. Sec. 28. Thiat thle State Librarian i hereby requ ired to distribute and for ward to the clerk of the court of cach county, for thle use of the dreeates,a., soon as elected, its pro r'ataL share of the above books. Sec. 29. That upon the adjournment of said convention the delegates shadi rtrn to the State Libra ian the said books, taking a receip~t fer the same, and the Librarian shall deposit two copies of said books wvith each of thc folowi ng educational institutions, to wit: Clemson College. the Winmthrop Nomal Industrial College, the South Carolina College. the Clafim Un iv-er city' and thme CitadelAcademy and six copies ini tihe State library. Sec. 30. That the r'emau1~~ing copies shall be sold by the State ibriain at such tpricies 'as miay' be 1fixed by the Governor. the Attorney General and the state Librarian, the pr oceed: of such sales to be turned over to the State Terasury. Sec. 31. All acts or partsof acts in consistent with this act is here by re n~ealed. TAJ MIALIAL OF . 1A. rdV. CR- TALMAGE DES^.,RES A wNDOERFUL TOM. vi.i.: i ar.-of the Mu:st Wouierfri ol 1..atrou- .Temples--An to Cover a iamtirai of toat.-nAITe creat Campaign prtwGel. U oas.Jan. t.-11n continuling his series of round the world sermons tlhrouhi the pres-s Rev. Dr. Talmage today c -s for his subject "Tomb and Tem'ple." having reference to that ilost famuious and beautiful of .mau solums. the Taj Mahal. The text se lectcd was. "Froim In<fa even unto Ethiopia" Esther i, 11. In all the Bible this is the only book in which the word India occurs. but it stands for a realm of vast interest in thI tie of Esther, as in our time. It yielded then. as now. spices and silks and cotton and rice and indigo and ores of all riehness and precious stones of all sparkle and had a civilization of its own as marked as Egyptian or Grecian or Roman civilization. It holds the costliest tomb ever built and the most unique and wonderful idolatrous temple ever opened. For plractical lessons in this ily sixth dis course in round the world series I show you that tomb and temple of India. il a journey around the world it ma y not be easy to tell the exact point which divides the pilgrimnage into liales. But there was one structure tow'ard which we were all the time travelig, and having seen that we felt that if we saw nothing more our expedition would be a success. That one object was the Taj Mahal of India., It is the crown of the whole earth. The building is about six miles from Agra, and as we rode out in the early dawn we heard nothing but the hoofs and wheels that pulled and turneja along the road, at every ?r'uf'which our e ' until we had gaIt t iat we might be disap poiited at the first glimpse, as some salthev were disappointed. But how can any one be disappointed with the Taj is almost as great a wonder to me as the Taj itself. There are somie peo pL1e always disappointed, and who knows but that having entered heaven they may criticise the architecture of the tempjle and the cut of the white robes and say that the river of life is not quite up to their expectations, and that the white horses on which the conquerors ride seem a little spring halt or sprvined? My son said, "There it is." I said, 'Where:" For that which he saw to be the building seemed to me to be more like the morning cloud blushing under the stare of the rising sun. It scened not so much built up from earth as let down from heaven. For tunately vou stop at an elaborated gatewav of red sandstone one-eighth of a mile from the Taj, an entrance so high, so arched, so graceful, so four domed, so painted and chiseled and scrolled that you come very gradually upon the Taj, which structure is enough to intoxicate the eye and stun the imagination and entrancethe soul We go up the winding qstairs of this ma.jestic entrance of the gateway an buy a few pictures and examine a few curios, and from it look off upon the Taj and descend to the payment of the ~gar'den that raptures everything be tween the wateway and the ecstasy of marble andI precious stones. You pass long a deep stream of water in which all manneir of brilliant fins swirl and float. There are 84 fountains that spout and beind and arch themselves to fall in showers of pearl in basins of snowy wvhiteness. Beds of all imggin able Ilora greet the nostril befor6 they do the eye and seem to roll in waves of color as you advance- toward the vis ion you are soon to have of what hu man genius did when it did its best. Moon Ilowers, lilacs, marigolds, tulips and almost everywhere the lotus; thickets of bewildering bloom; on either side trees from mi ay lands bend their aborescence over your head, or seem 'with convoluted branches to reach out their arms toward you in welcome. On and on you go amid tamarind and cypress and poplar and oleander and yew and sycamore and banyan and pa'lm and trees of such novel branch a leaf and girth you cease to ask their name or nativity. As you approach - the door of the Taj one experiences a strange sensa tion of awe and tenderness and hum ility and worship. The building is on ly a grave, but what a grave: Built for a queen, who, according to some' was very good, and according to others was very bad. I choose to think she was v'ery good' At any rate, it makes mec feel better to think that this comn memnorative pile was set up for the immortalization of virture rather thain vice. The Taj is a mountain of white marble, but never such walls faced each other with exquisitness; never such a tomb was cut from block of al abaster: never such a congregation of precious stones brightened and gloom -ed and blazed and chastened and goieda building since scuptor'5 chisel cut its first curve, or paimter's -penicil traced its first figure. or mason's tplumblinte measured it first wall, or architect'scomplass swept its f irst cir -The Taj has16t great arched windows four at each corner; also at each of four corners of the Taj stands a mini aret 137 feet high; also at each side of this building is a splendid mosque of redl sandstone. T wohundred and fifty veatrs has tihe Taj stood, and yet not a wall is craceked, not a mios aic loosened, nor an arch sagged. nor a panel dullied. The storms of 250 winters have not marred nor the heats of 250 summers disinte rated a marble. There is no story of ilge wr'itteni by mosses oii it~s white surface. Monmaz, the queen, wa~s beau tiful. a nd Shah Jehan, ",the king, here prioposed to let all the centuries -or time knfowV it. Shte was married at 2(1 ear's o f age and died at 29. Her life ended as another life began. As the rose bjloomied the rose bush perished. Toadorni this dormnitory of tihe dead at thteconnniand~ of tile kingr Bag~dad sent to this huilding its cornelian, and Cevlon its lanis hazuli. and Punjab its ja per. and Persia its amnethyst, and Tibet its tur-quoise. and Lanka is sap uohire'. and Y~een its agate. and Pun ma its dianuds. atnd blood stories and sadonyix and chalcedony and mlOSS aaates ate as connunon as though they vere p)ebbles. Yo in d one spray of vine beset wi"th 80 'and another with 100 stonies . Twenty~ thiousanid men were 2(o years inl building it. and al though the labor wais 'slave la bor and not paid for thie 1 nilding cost what would be about 800. 000,000 of our American money Some of the jewels have been picked 9ut of the wall by hicolasts or conqueror's. and substi tutes of less value have taken their places. but the vines, the~ traceries, the arbesques. the spandrels, the entabla tures are so wondrous that you feel like datinig the rest of your life fronm the day you first saw them. In letters of black'marble the whole of the KCo raii is speiled out in and on this an gust pile. The king sleeps ini the tomb beside the queen. although lie in~tended to build a palace as black as this was white otn the opposite side of the river for himself to sleep in. In deed the foundation of such a necrop ois of black marble is still there, and f.mnt the whitto lakll templ of the dead a bridge was to cross. but the son dethronxed him anad ilm prisoned him. and it is wonderful thaL the king had any place at all in which to be buried. Instead of n indows to let in the light upon the two tombs thre is a treiha work of marble-umarble cut w') deli cately thin that the sun shines throuti it as easily as throughi glass. Look the world over and find so much translu cency-canopies, traceries, lacework, embroideries of stone. We had heard of the wonderful res onance of this Taj, and so I tried it. I suppose there are more sleeping echoes in that building waiting to be awak ened by the human voice than in any building ever constructed. I uttered one word, and there seemed descend ig invisible choirs in full chant. and there was a reverberation that kept on long after one could have expected it to cease. When a line of a hymn was sung, there were replying, rollin, rising, falling. interweaving sou nds that seemed modulated by beings ser aphic. There were aerial sopranos and bassos-soft, high, deep, tremulous, emotional, commingling. It was like an antiphonal of heaven. But there are four or five Taj Mahals. It has one appearance at sunrise, another at noon. another at sunset and another by moonlight. Indeed the silver trowel of the moon, and the golden trowel of the sunlight. and the leaden trowel of :he storm build and rebuild the glory, so that it never seenis twice alike. It has all moods, all complex ions. all grandeurs. From the top of the Taj which is 250 feet high. springs a spire 30 feet higher. andthat is en ameled gold. What an anthem in eternal rhythm! Lyrics and elegies in marble. Sculptured hosanna: M1a sonry as of supernatural hands: Mighty doxology in stone! -I shall see nothing to equal it till I see the great white throne and on it him from whose face the earth and heavens tie. away.- - ' Thrhja is the pride of India and es 'jicially of Iohammedanism. An En glish officer at the fortress told us that when, during the general mutiny ir 1857, the Mohammedans propose( in surrection at Agra the English gov ernment aimed the guns of the fcrt at the Taj and said, "You make insur rection, and that same day we will blow your Taj to atoms," and tha1 threat ended tile disposition for muti ny at Agra. The Taj "Iahal has itu uses as an architectural achievement, eclipsing all other architecture, but a, a memorial of a departed wife and mother it expresses no more than th' plainest slab in many a country grave vard. The best monument we cat any of us have built for us when we ar( goie is in the memory of those whose sorrows we have alleviated. in the wounds we have healed, in the kind nesses we have done, in the ignorancE we have enlightened, in the recrean1 we have reclaimed, in the souls w( have saved. Such a monument i built out of material more lasting thar marble or bronze and will stand amid the eternal splendors long after the Taj Mahal of India shall have gon down in the ruins of a world of whidl it was the costliest adornment. But j promised to show you not only a toml of India, but a unique heathen temple and it is a temple underground. With miner's candle we had seei something of the underside of Aus tralia, as at Gimple, and with guide' torch we had seen at different time, something of the underside of Amer ca, as in Mammoth cave, but we are now to enter one of the sacred cellarn of India, commonly called the Ele phanta caves. We had it all to our selves-the steam yacht that was tc take us about 15 miles over the harbo: of Bombay and between enchanted is lands and along shores whose curves and gulches and pictured rocks gradu ally prepared the mind for apprecia tion of the most unique spectacle in India. After an hour's cutting through the waters we came to the long pier reaching from the island called Elephanta. It is an island smal] of girth, but 600 feet high. It declinem into the marshes of mangrove. But the whole island is one tangle of foliage and verdure. We stepped out of the boat amid enough natives to afford all the help we needed for landing and guidance. You can be carried by coolies in an easy chair, or you cat walk if you are blessed with two stout limbs, which the psalmist evidently lacked, or he would not have so de preciated them when he said, "The Lord taketh no pleasure in the legs o: a man." We passed up some ston( steps, and between the walls we saw awaiting us a cobra-one of those snakes which greet the traveler oft times in India. Two of the guides left the cobra dead by the wayside. They must have been Mohammnedans, for Hindoos never kill that sacred rep tile. And nowv we come near the famnou: temple hewn from one rock of por phvrv at least 800 years ago. Or either side of the chief temple is chapel, these cut out of the same stone. So vast was the undertakIng and tc the Hindoo was so great the humau impossibility that they say the god: scooped out this structure from thc rock and carved the pillars and hewed its shape into) gigantic idols and dLedi cated it to all the -grandeurs. We climb many stone steps before we get to the gateways. The entrance to thi: temple has sculptured doorkeepern leaning on sculpturea devils. In these Elephanta caves everything is on a Samsonian and Titantian scale. With chisels that were dropped fron nerveless hands at least eight centuries ago the forms of the gods Brahma and Vishhu and Siva were cut into the everlasting rock. Siva is here repre sented by a figure 16 feet 9 inches high, one-half man and one-half wo man. Run a line from the centre of the forehead straight to the Iloor of the rock, and you divide this idol into masculine and feminine. Admiired as tis~ idol is by many, it was to mec a)out tile worst thing that was ev-er cut into porphlyry. perhaps because there is hardly anything' on earth so objectionable as a being hlalf man and and half wvoman. Do be one or other'. my hearer. Man is admirable, aud woman is admirable. but either in flesh or tr'ap rock a compromise of the two is hideous. Save us from effemi inite men and mascailine women(1. Yonder is the King Ravana worship imr. Yonder is the sculptured reprne setation of the marriage of Shiva and Parhati. Youder is Daksha. the~ son of Brahmma, born from the th~umb of his right hand. ie had G1) daughters. Seventeen of those daughters were married to Kasyapa and became the mothers of the human race. Yonder is a god with three heads. Tile een tre god has crown wound with neck laces of skulls. The right hand god is in a paroxysm of rage. with fore head of snakes, and in its hand is a cobra. The left hand god has pleasure in all its features, andl tihe hand has a flower. But there are gods and god desses in all directions. The chief temple of this rock is 1:30 feet square and has 26 pillars rising to the roof. I was imnressed as never before with the thoughlt that man must have a r'e ligion of, some kind, even if lie nas to contrive one himself, and he must have a god, even though lie make it with his own hand. I rejoice to know thle day will conic when the oe God of the universe will be ac knowledged throughout India. That evening of our return to Bomi bay I visited the Young Men's Christ ian associain with the same am ~U- : Ai? IC.L and tie II,1ii. * a*1L L,, t I ddlresscd a throng (f native chil Wren who are in. te schools of the Chr11istian1 I.Aiss;ions. Christian, univ-. sities -aLiter un11d".r their wing of ben ediction a host of the Young mein of this country. Bombay and Calcutta, the two great coninercial cities of In dia, feel the elevating power of an ag gressive Christianity. Episcopai-tn liturgy and Presbyterian Westiin ster catechism and Methodist anxious seat and Baptist waters of consecration now stand where once basest idolatries had undisputed sway. The work wmich Shoemaker Carey inaugurated at Serampore, India. train slating the Bible into 40 different dia lects and leaving his wornout body amid the natives whom lie had conic to save and going up into the heavens from which lie can better watch all the field- that work will be completed in the salvation of the millions of In dia, and beside him, gazing from the samte high places, stand Bishop Heber and Alexander Duff and John Scudder and Mackay, who fell at Delhi, and Moncrieff, who fell at Cawnpur, and Polehampton, who fell at Lucknow, and Freeman, who fell at Futtigarh, and all heroes and heroines who, for Christ's sake, lived and died for the Christianization of India, and their heaven will not be complete until the Ganges that washes the ghats of hea then temples shall roll between churches of the living God. and the trampled womanhood of Hindooisn shall have all the rights purchased by him who amid the cuts and stabs of his own assassination cried out, "Be held thy nther!" and from Bengal bay to Arabian ocean and from the Himalavas to the-coast of Coromandel there be lifted hosannas to him who died to redeem all nations. In that uav Elepi-Jf.tave will be one of the places where idoi are moles and bats." If any clergyman asks me, as an un believing minister of religion once asked the Duke of Wellington. "Do you not think that the work of con verting the Hindoos is all a practical fare:" I answer him as Wellington answered the unbelieving inis ter, 'Look to your marching orders. sir.- Or if any one having joined in the gospel attack feels like retreating I say to him, as General Havelock said to a retreating regiment, "The enemy are in front. not in the rear." and leading them again into the fight, though two horses had been shot un f der him. Indeed the taking of this world for I Christ will be no holiday celebration, but as tremendous as when in India during the mutiny of 1857 a fortress manned by sepoys was to be captured by Sir Colin Camp bell and the army of Britain The sepoys hurled upon the attackin. colnmns burning missiles and gren ades and fired on them shot and shell and poured on them from the ramparts I burning oil until a writer who wit nessed it says, "It was a picture of pandemonitm. Then Sir Colin ad dressed his troops, saying, "Remem ber the women and children must be rcscued,' and his men replied: "Aye, aye, Sir Colin. We stoo by you at Balaklava and will stand by you here." And then came the triumphant assault of the battlements. So in this gospel campaign which proposes capturing the very last citad el of idolatry and sin and hoisting over f~t the banner of the cross we may -have hurled upon us mighty oposition and scorn and obloquy, and many may fall before the work is done, yet at every call for new onset let the cry of the church be: "Aye, aye, great captain of our salvation. We stood by thee in other conflicts, and we will stand by thee to the last." And then, if not in this world, then from the battlements of the next, as the Aph ployonic fortification shall crash into ruin, we will join in the shout; "Thanks be unto God, who giveth us the victory! Halleluiah, for the Lord God omnipotenat reigneth. Counterfeiters Jailed. BRaaswicK, Ga., Jan. 10.-The ar rest of P. H. Allsboro, reported brief ly in these dispatches last night, hau developed into one of the largest sized sensations of the new year and em braces several States and many peo ple, besides bidding fair to implicate a governmental official in a neighbor ing State. Alhsbrook is the king bee of a gang of dangerous counterfeiters. who have been floodingthe Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia and other South ern States witth spurious money for a long time past. They dealt in big game and coined only gold metal, considering silver too small to bother with. In addition. his gang made ex cellent counterfeit bills,and there was little trouble in passing them, so per fect was their work. The secret ser vive division of the Treasury Depart ment has been on his track for months. It is believed that a government otH cial some distance from this city is uspected of being a confederate. Alls brooks also had confedlerates in Bruns wick and nmre arrests will be made in Brunswick tomorrqw morning, in cluding both white and colored peo ple. Allsbrook was trapped by a de coy notice from Postmaster Brown that a registered letter awaited him. Brown had been put on the watch by Inspector Forsythe of Atlanta, an~d when Allsbrook~ responded he was ar rested. His commitment trial for the passage of counterfeit coin and bills in Brunswick will be held before Commissioner- Lehman tomorrow. Allsbrook is modest and retiring in disposition and worked in Brunswick under the guise of a laborer at Brown & Garber's uiaining mill. Inspector Forsythe arrived thiis morning and regards the catch one of the biggest of his experience. Thankr'uptin~g a state. PIERRE. S. D., Jan. 9.-State Treas urer Taylor. who should have turned over his cash to his successoi- yester day, failed to appear and his bank, the Redield National Bank, has closed its doors. When last heard of Taylor was in New York. On Saturday lie should have had $.350, 000,. and should have paid $190,000 Satur-day to take up funding warrants in New York. His bonds are $350.000, but will stand 50 ~e cent. shrinkage. It has been known for some time that Treasur-er Talor was hard pressed. lie was caght in the Chemical National Bank failure at Chicago for a large amount and lie lost $20.000 in the bank at Milbank, and 810.000 in that at Geldsber-g, which failed during the paiie. Altogether lie lost $100.000. The First Nationial Bank at Redfield, dalors banik, closed its doors vester Ta'. The bank is in good" condition ani it is thouwhit will pay all its debts. The banks attPierre will not lose any thing. If the defalcation is as large as thfe bondsmen believe, it will place the State in a very embarrassing posi tion. No warrants or bonds can be sold, and there is a considerable defi ciency in the revenue. Without this it would have been a difficult problem to make both ends meet; now it is im possible. Taylor has always had a re p)utation as a financier an l a man of integrity. The school fund liay lose INSURAJCZ CC*'-MPA;,:z. i: ti pay tui. re~gular Ll~~ .c: of the Sttate, CoUptroller :GnerAl Norton has been doing some investigat inz aid has foun!d tlat a inumber of tire iSuranIce comupalies are doing business without having paid the re quired license. A good deal of the in formation has been secured through letters received from persons holding policies in these comjpanies. These policy-holders, since tie talk about in surance matters, are anxious to know whether they have policies in cormpa nies which have complied with the law and which are responsible. Mr. Norton states that lie proposes to take steps to prosecute every corn pany or individual doing business who has not fully complied with the provisions of the law. The majority of the violators do a small businees and that is thereason why they have not been detected before this. The laws on the subject are plain, and the Comptroller Genral says h1- proposes to follow them. The consolation policy-holders in companies now violating the law have is that while the companies and their agents or adjusters are liable to punish ment the companies are not released from their policies. The following are portions of the iisuran ce laws of the State. complied by the Comptroll ed General, which may be of interest at this time: 'Every foreign insurance company of any class-fire. life, marie, surety, securityinnteehail-storm. live stock, accident. plate and other like insurance comn panies-foreign land associ-ations. foreign building and loan associations. foreign banking associations. and all - other like classes of like business, not incoriorated u:nder the laws of South Carolina, except national banks and except benevolent institutions organized under the grand lodge system, shall each, before trai sacting any business in this State. pay an annuallicense fee of $100 to the Comptroller General, on or before the 31st day of Marchofeach year. to be deposited by him in the Treasury of the State. "It shall be unlawful for any such foreign companies as are requi red to pay license fees, to transact any busi ness in this State until they shall have and keep some duly appointed resident agent in this State on whom legal process may be served, so as to bind the company lie represents, and ser vice or process upon his agent at his main office shall be sufficien t to give jurisdiction to the court issuing same in any county in this State. And ev ery resident agent shall return to the County Auditorfof each county his gross receipts from said counties for taxation as other property is returned for taxation. "Any person who solicits iusurance in behalf of any insurance company not organized or incorporated by the laws of this State. or who takes or trans mits other than for himself any appli cation for insurance or any piolicy of insurance to or from such company, 0r who advertises or otherwise gives no tice that he will receive or transmit the same, or who shall rieceive or de liver a policy of insurance of any such~ company, or who shall examine and inspect any risk, or receive, collect. or transmit any premium of insurance. or make or forward any diagram of any building or buildings, or do or perform any other act or thing in the making or the- consummating of any contract of insurance for or with any such company, other than himself, or who shall examine into and adjust, or aid in adj usting, any loss for or in be half of any such insurance company. whether any such acts shall be done at the instance or request or by the em ployment of such insurance company, shall be held to be acting as the agent of the company for which this act is done or the risk is taken. "Any person who shall transact any business of insurance in this State for any ccmpany of the United States or foreign State not incorporated by the laws of this State, without first having obtained license by law required, 0r after his license has been wvithdr-awn, or shall in any way violate the fore going provisions in~ relation to license of insurance companies or agents thereof, shall, upon conviction in any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined for'every such offense not more than $100: Provided. That nothing contained in this section shall release any such company or companiies upon any policy issued or delivered ov it." Under Negro Rule Again. RALEIGH, N. C.. Jan, 10.-Two hours of the time of the House todayv was spent in listening~to the Gove nor's message, which cont-ained about twenty-eight thousand words. The Populists and Republicans then intro duced bills upsetting past Democratic legislation, chiefly in the election-law and the county government system now in operation. The fenatorial fight grows warmer if anythinf. and it is now thiought that the fiend is combined against .Jeter Pritchard, who is considered Butler's man, according to his alleged bargain with Congressman elect Richmond Pearson before the election- C'andi date Mott, who is considered by many probably the most sagacious of the candidates, says that the complexion of the light may change when election time colmes, and lie said this with seeming sureness of eii'ective opposi tion to dev-elop against Pritchard. Only one copy of the Governor'S message w~as prepared and it will. therefore, be read to the Senate to morrow. This was criticised by some, One Republican member i ntroducinrg his bill in the House called it a bill'- to secure a free ballot and a fair count. - Another Renablican called his a b1ll. to find out whether the peCop~e of this State had a right to govern them selves. - A motion to adopt the rules of the last Senrate until new rules coulId be adopted w-as defeated, anid the Senrate proceeded to business without rules. although the House adopted the old rules. This is understood to mean that a resolution will be passed taking the appIoirntmenlt of commiiitteesC oult of the hands of the Presidlent of the Sen Sen ator Mewbornle. Populist. in tro dluced a bill to repeal the charter of the State Farmers' Alliance and to re store the old chartel', which was amended by the last General Assem bl. This bill was p~assedl arid sent to te House. Senators Aycock and Smrith., Democrats, u-ho held certifi cates of election inr the 9th district and whose seats were contested by Grant and Paddison. Fuisionlists, u-ere riot present, arid the latter were declared to be the duly elected Senators and were seated without opposition. DRING th3i late cold sp~ell Jimaskel ton, of Lawrernceburg, 1nd..- began to realize thre hardships of a bet that lie nade before election. He vowed that if the Republicans u-crc successful, lie would wear his straw- hat all winter. He is wearing it and has a cold in the MAKIl POWDER Absolutely Pure. A eream or tartar Vainug powter. ofst of a: iii leaveniig streingth.-La u i sted 6ates Goveriwnt FIU'O'I Re royaI Vaki.a Powder Compani. 106 Wall St.. N '. The Consi itutional Convention. The Columbia Register in discuss ing the constitutional convention says the members of that body ought not to be picked up haphazard: they should be chosen with care and delib eration. due consideration being given to the merits and abilities of all candi dates. It will be a high and great honor to a man to be entrusted with the power that belongs to a member of the constitutional convention. The General Assembly has so fixed it that ieimbers of the convention will zet little else out of that office than honor, which is well. There will be men who will aspire to mem _hip in the convention. - :of the as pirants will not be fit to sit in such a body. When it meets, South Caroli na's fate will hang in a trembling bal ance. and it will depend upon the character and ability of the members as to which side shallgo up. The Re form faction is responsible for thecall ing of the convention, and therefore thie Reform faction will be held re sponsible for its results. This is a great and pressing responsibility. It should be felt to be such by every Re former who voted for the callingof the convention, and doubtless is. bav ing common sense, undoubted integ rity and true patriotism should be manifestly the leading qualities of.the convention's members. They should be above all men deeply imbued with the idea that the good of the entire State is a higher aim to seek to accom plish than the good of any faction. If the convention is composed of meln with that idet firmly implanted in them, there is little possibility -of its work being harmful. To such a con vention it would be absolutely safe to entrust the immense power of a body charged with the duty of devising a new fundamental law for the State. Little has yet been said as to what part the State Democratic organization will take in the constitutional convention election. That is a phase of the mat ter which should be discussed and set tied. The Democratic Executive Com mittee ought to meet and provide for a Democratic primary for the nomina tion of delegates. Such action will probably create some complications, and thesooner their nature is known the better will it be for the success of work for their removal. The white men of South Carolina ought togosol idly to tae election and there is no reason why they should not. Other wise ther'e is dianger ahead. More Bonds. We have a wonderful system of fi nance in this etuntry. The Atlanta Constitution presuming that the Dem ocrats in Cougress arc as blind to the gold movement as they are to every thing else that is calculated to lay new burdeus on the people. calls their at tention to the fact that more than half of the gold paid into the treasury for bonds a few days ago has been drawn out by the Wail street banks. This means ;mother bond issue, of course. The gold that has been withdrawn has not been exported. Not more than a third of it has been sent across the wa ter. The rest have been secured in the vaults of the Wall street banks, where it will be held until another bond issue. Then it will be paid into the treasury again, and agin with drawn to bur more bonds. This rob bery of the people ls going on right bef ore the eyes of Congress-right un der' the iioses of the Democratic lead ers. Ins~tead of making a protest, iri ste'd of providing a remedy, instead of p)uttin1g through a joint resolution wari'ng the Shlocks that the bonds the me~ b. uying are illegal. these lead es andl their' followers are nudging onei another in tl~e short ribsand pre pa)rng or a spree at the expense of t he pdoule. The attitude of Congress, browbeatenu. suboser'vient andl imbecile, is a1 hideous mockery. Eve'ry matter that co::es uip e:<eept the guestion of inancial relief, receives ahlnost in stant attention. Rut when the inter ets ofthe people ar'e to be considered. the agents of Wall street pass the word around and imta~tely there is con fusion and disorder in the Democratic ranks. The leade'rs go to the rear and tuft-hun ters and th e time-servers conie to the front. No wonder the people are dlisgusted and dieartened. It is enough to dihearten and disgust them to see thira chiosen representa tives give W'' treet fhe right of wvay in all finn neial legislatio~n. Ca.riisli NoJt H opcees. W.asmI'r- Ja i. 10.-The admin ijtrationle i. epo'red not to have lost all hofpe ofth pssL of a financial mesutre by the ilouse. Secretary Cris is ~ co .'iig today the sub stitute bill v~ cih has been before the Hfouse. vith th view of mending it in such articlars as mayv result in s:eur'in" ,r the ne bill the support of so:ne -) thos who have antago ize itIt is said thi morning that the Peien't ii wiin to mak-e any conc'ssionl to the opponients to the ill that will no: impair its general fature or. tat will not be regarded i a clear surLrentder to the free silver T l-: iasas City Times says the '*at y of the ll)emocrartlie party is ir a reorgiru1,iion unider' ai Westerin lead ership). The south and West hiere in terest in conmil~On wh-ich can only be subsesr\'ed by unity of action in the manag~iemen~lt of the iparty. To the pr~iniiles of that party thei WVest must look for the priotecttioni of her people agains15t ihe enicroachme'nt~s of nmonopo ly and thehoeothpaylisn tedominance iitconisof the rugdadunperverted course of the West and South. S .e it :Taar of State Tompkins has his hands full making out and sending out conmmissions to appointees to vari ous gubernatorial ottices. The com missions are to county olicers. Trial .Justices, township commissioners and a host of others. There will be between three and four thousand commissions. to send out before the Governor gets