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I ft VC)L. X. S. C.. WEDNESDA, JANUARY 30q 1895. NO. 27. PLAYJNG AT WAR. BATTLES THAT AMOUNT TONOTH ING MORE THAN SKIRMISHES. IDteresting Comparison of the Chineste Japanese War With the Late War Be tween the Confederate States and the United States. We ~are able-by this -time to study the fighting which has been going on between Japan and China, and to see how it compares with the 'bloody struggles-known to us through the civil war. Japan has been celebrat ing her victories over China, and she celebrates well, since nearly all the laurels- of the coitest have fallei to her. Yet it 4as been'a war singularly lackin- in battlts of the first class. The naval engagement off the Yalu was a really great encounter: but most of the fand fights would have ranked as little, more than skirmishes . in our war. -We read sometimes of desperate charges and stubborn de fences thatmid gt'seem to belong to an Antietam or a Gettysburg: but the story winds upwith a- tally of a dozen or a hundred- killed or wounded on each side. Take, for-example, Couut Ovama's campauin ith the 'Japanese heeond Army d I k-.L'aving Hiroshima, he lauded foity nis niorth of Port Ar thui.on tb.2thof-October, and- ro ' ' etronghol His first ' *ai*- Kinchow, fought by the First Bri . n 'tLperhaps1.100 or 1,200 Chinese. The estimates of the Chinese loss was 20 or 30: that of the Japanese still less. Then followed the battle of Talien Wan. The Chinese are said to have been 3.180 strong in six forts, mounting eighty guns, and the Japanese had two divisions pres ent. An unofficial account gave the Japanese loss as two killed and ten wounded and the Chinese loss as fifty. Oyama's own report makes the Japa nese loss ten, and the enemy's "incon siderable." We do not understand the strategic advantage gained at Tal ien Wan, for it opened the way to the great objective point-of the campaign; - but the fighting was trivial compared with what the case called for. Port Arthur being reached, we had striking accounts of the three days of terrific fighting that caused it to suc cumb. The place had been spoken of as a'sort of Gibraltar, defended by the flower of the Chinese armv. On the first day came a bombardment with nearly 100 guns, and then alow range of hills was carried with a rush. On November 21, according to Ovama's official report, the right division stormed and captured a fort 1i its front and then carried by assault Fort Kokinsar. Meanwhile the lft dftis ion carried a fort southeast of Hacha viso. On the third day, without re spite from the arduous work, the two divisions captured all the other forts. The victor adds that "the enemy fought bravely throughout the at tacks," and closes by observino that "the number of Japanese kill and QXoupded eceeds 200." Admiral Car penter's dispatch puts the Japanese force at about 15,000 and the Chmese at about 13,000 in this affair. The Chinese loss is somewhat uncertain, the g-rsnescaping. rlsblf7Y a W 4s previous cam irther soni, with the Firs Oyama's; but teonly combats rating above a skirmish were at Ping Yang. One of the first battles of the war was at Kaan in August The Japanese credit the Chinese with a loss of "200 killed and 200 wounded," evidently round numbers, out of 2,800 engaged; but their own loss they put at 75. or, according to one account, 32 killed and 50 wounded. When Count Yam agata afterward arrived ha fought a well-contrived pitched battle at Pm~ig Yanig, his three columns combining against the Chinese army, on Septem ber 16, and completely defeating it. General Nodzu gave the Japanese loss as "11 officers and 154 men killed; 30 officers and 521 men wounded." be sides 40 whose fate was unknown. At utmost the Japanese loss in this great est land battle of the war, or "series of desperate battles," as one account puts it, was therefore 755, although -strong works had to be carried. The Chinese put their loss at 6,600; but it seems that most of the army estimated at 29,000, threw down their arms. It is said that 14,500) unwounded prison ers wveap captured. The .:Japanecse re portedsthat..of the remider 2,00 were 'ied but-another account g'ives 2,000 kiled and wounded' 'The Japa nese were the more numerous, per haps 30,000 or 34,000 strong. About six weeks later, the First Army Corps undertook the crossing of the Yalu, timing itself admirably with the landing of the Second Army Corps above Port Arthur, the two -_movements thus co-operating. Gen eral Nodzu moved his troops over without difficulty, and the advance fought the enemy, estimated at 3,500, at Fushang. .The Chinese loss was re ported to be "over 200 killed," and the Japanese to be 20 killed and 83 wounded. This proved to be the de cisive encounter, since on the march of the main army to Chen-Lien Tching, "an important strong-hold," the Chinese, reckoned at 16,000 or 20, 000 fell back without fighting. Coming at a later period we received about a fortnight ago the details of a battle at Kung--Wa-Sai, which had been "fought with great obstinacy," the Japanese charges upon the strong entrenchments being repulsed with great loss, until reserv-es camne up and carried all before them. The Japanese loss was reported to be 350 killed and wounded, while that of the Chinese was supposed to be '300. Finally, the Japanese say that last Thursday they repulsed 15,000 Chinese, with a loss of 900; their own being 1 killed and 40 wounded. I~w ii'ire turn -to.the records of our civf waf e find the Union losses at Gettyaburg; accordiug to Col. W. F.Fox, who has made a spectal study of this sub ject, to be 3,070 killed, 14,497 wound ed, and 5,434 missing, making a total of 23,001; at Spottsylvania, 2,725 killed 13,416 wounded, and 2,258 mnissing: at the Wilderness, 2,246 killed. 12,037 wounded, and 3.383 missing: at Anti etam, not including South Mountain, 2,108 killed, 9,549 wounded, and 753 missing; at Chancellorsville, 1.606 killed, 9,762 wounded, and 5,919 mis sing; Serei Days' battle 1,734. killed. 8,062 woinded, and 6.053 missing: at Chickamanga, .655 killed. 9,749 wounded, and 4,774 missing; at Cold Harbor, 1,844 killed, 9,077 wounded, and 1,816 missing; at Fredericksburg. 1,284 killed. 9,600 wounded, and 1, 769 missing; and the Second Manassas with othe opetions, 1,747 killed, 8,.452 wounded, and 4,263 missing: at Shiloh, 1.754 killed, 8,408 wounded, and 2,S85 missing; at Mufreesboro. 1,730 killed, 7,802 wounded, and 3,717 missing: at the assults of June 15 to 19 on Petersburg, 1,68 killed, 8,513 wounded and 1,185 missing. The tremendous aggregates in these actions must be increased by the Con federate losses. in order to show the true desperation of the fighting. Here we find Shiloh with 1,783 killed' 8,012 wounded, and 959 missing; Second Manasses. &c.. 1,481 killed, 7,627 wounded, and 89 missing: the Antie tam campaign, 1,886 killed, 9.348 wounded, and 1.367 missing; Murfree sboro, 1,294 killed, 7,945 wounded, and 1,027 missing: the Seven Days' Battles, 3.478 killed, 16,261 wounded, and 873 missing: Chancellorsville, 1,G65 killed, 9.081 wounded, and 2,018 missing: Gettysburg, 2,592 killed, 12, 706 wounded, and 5,150 missing; Chickamauga. 2,312 killed, 14,6t4 wounded, and 1.468 missing: Peach Tree Creek and Atlanta, 1,341 killed and 7,500 wounded. In these Confed erate reckonings the wounded include also the mortally wounded, making the death roll still higher. From these battles we might go on to others, only less tremendous: and indeei there were 112 battles in our four years' war, in which one side or the other lost over 500 in killed and wounded alone. Some of the minor battles were were most deadly in their intensity. Such are the comparisons with th'e half year of hostilities in Corea. - It is true that the battles here cited from our annals were fought with far greater forces on each side than those of the Corean war: but in any case there is no comnarison for desperation and bloodinessin theaverage fighting. Col. Fox gives a list of twelve Union regiments that in single battle had from 50 to 80 per cent. killed or wound ed, and of over sixty regiments that lost that percentage by adding the mis sing-in cases where the latter were also "mostly if not killed or wounded. The Fifteenth New Jersey took 432 officers and men into action at Spotts vlvania of whom 116 were killed or lied of their wounds. The Twenty fifth Massachuusetts lost 53 killed, 139 wounded and 28 missing at Cold Har bor, out of 310 reported for duty that morning. Other instances could be cited both on the Union and the Con federate side. On the other hand, the latest state ment is that up to December 6. which inciudes Ping Yang, the Japanese army had in all only lost 350 men killed in battle and 430 by disease. Mr. Kirkley, the well-known statistician puts the Union deaths from battle dur ing the four years of the civil war at 67,058 in action and 43,012 from wounds, a total of 110,070. To make closer parallels in the for ces engaged, we find the Second Corps losing at Antietam 883 killed, 3,359 wounded, and 396 missing, out of 15. 000 effectives; atGettysburg, 796 killed, 3,816 wounded, and 368 missing, out of about 13,000 present for duty and 10,500 engaged. The Fifth Corps. with 25,695 present for duty, lost 487 killed, 2,817 wounded, and 1,828 miss ing at the Wilderness, and then, within a week, at Spottsylvania, 657 killed, 3,448 wounded, and 375 missing. The Sixth Corps lost, out of 24.163 present foi- duty and equipped, 719 killed, 3,660 wounded, and 656 missing at the Wil -derness, and 688 killed, 2,820 wound ed. an'd 534 missing at Spottsylvania. When we consider the populations of Japan and China especially the lat ter, the armies put into the field seem small, even allowing for the lack of railroads in China and for the trans portation by water needed by Japan. The latter, ~however, must be cedited with furnishing all the troops she re quires for her purposes, and also with fighting hard enough always to beat the Chinese; but it is seen how the re sulting battles in severity of fighting fall far short of the great shocks of arms in our civil war.-New York Sun. A Horrible Find. BRINKLEY, Jan. 23.-TwoQ hunters andtrappers have come in from Cache river bottoms, southwest of this city. and report the finding, last week, ol two dead men in a cavern on White river. They were out arranging to set a bear trap ~when one of them, by an accident, noticed a queer opening in the bank, and upon investigation they found that it was quite a large an~d deep cave. They struck a light to ex amine the interior, when, to their hor ror, they discovered the bodies of two dead men. This served to check their explorations, and they quickly left the place without stopping to look furthei ito the mysteries of the cave. The dead men "weife ev'idently white, an~ had been dead several days, as decom position had set in. On the oetside ol the cave an old envelope wasind containing a sheet of blank paper and bearing the name and address as fol lows: "James D. Carroll, 3.122 State street, Chicago. Ills."' The hunters had been temporarily camping for fomn days near the cave, but knew nothing of 'it or its ghastly contents. Camping Anrong Churches. NEW YoRK, Jan. 21.-The first bri ade under command of General Louis Fitzgerald, ordered to Brooklyn .by Governor 3Morton to suppress the riots caused by the trolley car strikers. ar rived in 'Brooklyn early this morning. There are over'4,600 men in this bri ade. The Ninth Regimnentof 700 mer ere the first troops to cross Eas1 River to Brooklyn. leaving this city shortly after 5 o'colck. The Twenty secnud Regiment. 600 strong. followed shortly after and by 9 o'clock. the whole~ brigade had started for Brook lyn. Before thle- first brigade was or dered under arms, thiere were abou1 3000 troops in the Second Brigade or duty in Brooklyn. These with the soiers of Gene'ral Fitzgerald's comn manid, either in arms now, or who wvill reach their regiments during the day, will, it is estimated, form an army o. between 7,000 and 8.000 men. wllici ought to give the trolley railroad: ample protection for the running o. their ears. Negro Exodus. SAN AN-roNIO. Tex., Jan. 22.-On< hundred thousand negi-oes will be're moved from the States of Alabama, Louisiana and Georgia to Norther. Mexico within the next six months. This is the statement made by W. H. onization company, who has just re turned fr'om Atlanta. Ga. He states that the missionary wvork among the negroes is meeting with great success, and the first 100 families will pass through here tis~ week, en route for the promised land. The Mexican cit izens living in the section to be colon ized by the negroes have protested tc the Mexican government against thE POLITICAL IARSONS. COLORED PREACHERS TO TAKE A HAND IN THE FIGHT Over the Constitutional Convention Del egates-Another Move by the Republican -Call For a Second Convention-Their Reasons. COLUMBIA, S. C., Jan. 22.-The fol lowing call was issued last Saturday: COLUMBIA. S. C., Jan. 18. 1895. To the Negro Ministry in South Caro lina: Dear Brethern in Christ: By fraud, ;reatly surpassing the glaring robber ies in accordance with which the elec tions in South Carolina have been conducted for so many years: by methods that are a burning disgrace to a civilized people, much less a pro fessed democratic form of government -to say nothing of their tendency to prevent, vitiate and surely destroy the public's moral sense of honesty and right: by machination so grossly out rageous that the alleged end sought, viz: "To keep the nero eternally down." is inadequate for the high handed means employed, a Constitu tional convention was "counted in" in the recent election and accoi-dingly called by the last Legislaure to meet at Columbia, September, 1895. Though changing the very organic law of our State the work of this convention will be amendable to no power other than the wishes of its members: for it has been decided that the doings of this body shall not be submitted to the peo ple for their approval. Among other things of a partisan nature, provisions are to be made whereby the negro can be effectively and perpetually robbed of his right of franchise and, at the same time and by the operation of the very same law, the white man, in a similar or more degraded condition, shall exper ience no political inconveniences. In fact, the only argument offered in be half of this convention has been along the line of more thoroughly intensify ing the already abnormal and by cir cumstances, unwarranted prejudice against the unoffending negro. As the embezzler begins his career by stealing smaller sums and using every precaution that skill can employ or in aenuity invent to cover over what he tas done, grows more reckless. as suc cess makes him the more involved and the greater rogue. and finally, in em boldened despration takes everything in sight, leaving his suffering victims the consolation contained in the ques tion, "What are you going to do about it?" so has been the history of the pre sent Democratic party in bouth Caro lina. It began its career by breaking every sugar-coated promise made to the negro by Hampton and the repre sentatives of his government, declar ing in the meanwhile, however, to the outside world-both through leading men and powerful newspapers-that dishonesty was unknown inthe State's political realm; growing bolder, be cause of the success attending it met hods of fraud, suppression and intim idation, and, as is natural, perhaps, less sensitive of right and more defiant to sentiment. We have, as a climax, the assurance given by those empow ered to speak, that our right of fran chise and all the accompanying privil eges will be taken away from us with out the question of how we like it be ing raised to the dignity of considera tion. The present is not the time, nor does the occasion justify a mincing of words much less a lack of activity. A des peration born of and fostered by a righteous cause and a deep sense of what we have to gain or lose should fire us. Since our people as a race, have but few leaders in whom they have any confidence other than their preachers, and since it is our God given mission to cry aloud against wrong at all times and in all places, even in high places, we the negrommn istry of Soith Carolina, regardless of denominations, must awaken to the re sponsibilities which our vocation, the demands of the hour and the otherwise helplessness of our people impose. Too long already have we been con tent to lift up a standard of right and honesty for the individual life of the governed, without even attempting to manifest our righteous indignation against the indisputable dishonesty on the part of those governing. We who p reach with the ardor of our spiritual ly awakened souls the doctrine of the golden rule and obedience to the com mand "thou shalt not steal," can do no wrong if acting on the pr.inciple that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." we do all in our power by the. employment of legitimate neans to prevent our fellowmnan either from stealing or himself from being robbed. The fact that the coveted thing in question is a right which God has given and civillized and honiestly managed governments unquestionably grant, in no way changes the matter. unless perchance, it is made thereby the more obligatory upon our profes sion to be other than placid spectator-s. Now we do not forget that, in the midst of so much political dishonesty there have always been a large and constantly increasing number of white men who are sufficientlv conscientious and far seeing enough to understand that dishonest methods in affairs of government must, in the ver-y nature of things, contain in themselves inei pient germs of bickerings, discord and a retarding. if not a complete destruc tion of the common wealth's prosperi ty. Among the Reformers these men are found. In the ranks of the Con servatives they are niot absent. Even in the Republican party there are some broad-minded, patriotic meni. The emergency which confronts us. how ever, demands that we shall be tied to no party or party leaders-that we shall stand and contend on the broad plane of eternal righit rather than on the circumscribed platformn of a particu lar party. Men and measures must be our aim. Moved by these considerations and views, we hereby call upon our fellowr workers in the ninistrv in the State of South Carolina to meet in a State cou vention at Columbia, Thursday, Febru arv 14. 1895, at 11:30 a. in. in the Cal very Baptist Church, that we may de liberately advise and wisely piln as to the means we shall employ to secure for our State an honest government. to the poorer whites and ignorant nie groes the public schools more desirablyv equipped and of longer terms, and to at least the intelligent citizen, regard less of the color of his skin, the un hampered rights of citizenship. Since the conditions making one eligible to vote for electors to the Constitutional convention are such that nearly every negro having become of age can comn ply, it is desired that we shall take vigorous campaign by the ministry may be arranged for the purpose of getting the negro registered to a man and standing ready to vote for any set of men regardless of their party name. who are in favor of an honestly man aged government and opposed to radi cal, class or impracticable measures be ing encouched in the new Constitu tion. Asking your earnest prayers for this righteous undertaking and begging you at a reasonable sacrifice to meet your fellow-workers in the above men tioned convention, we are Your brethren in Christ Jesus, E. H. Wilson, J. C. Daniels. E. H. Coit. H. M. Raiford. R. E. Hart. .. R. Wilson. W. D. Chappelle. A. P. Dunbar, J. H. Jhonson. R. V. Baylor, C. P. Nelson . J. C. Tobin. THE MILLS ARE COMING. Cheap Power andi a (Good -White Elenent Wanted. BosToN, Jan. 2.-The Legislative committee on mercantile affairs gave a hearing this forenoon at the State House on the petition of the Boot aud Merrimac Mills of Lowell for permis sion to manufacture goods outside of the commonwealth. the latter coipara tion also asking for authority . to in crease its capital stock from $2.500:000 to $3,500,000. E. C. Clarke. treasurer of the Boot Mills, first addressed the committee and exhibited samples of the kind of goods manufactured by the mills. These consiste(d- if' coarse cotton goods. drilIi ngs. she'ftings and shirtings, and a class of finer goods. Mr. Clarke said the Boot Mills were incorporated by special charter in 1835 for the m9:infacture of cotton goods in Lowell:' Fbr fifty years these goods has been made for export and .home consumption, the only competition for the greater part of the time. coming from the Northern States and abroad. Within the last few years. however, competition has arisen in the southern States where fuel and labor are much cheaper. The increase in the number of mills in the South has been phe nomenal, the per cent. being in the past few years 50 per cent. to 12 per cent. at the North. All the Southern Mills are making the same class of goods as are being made in the Boot Mills and they are making them much cheaper and if the Boot company is to continue to make the goods they must make them where they have the same advantage- as the Southern companies. At the present, the Southern compa nies are making a good profit at what would be starvation for the Boot Com pany. He further said that the principal desire of the conpany in its present move is to pfeserve its trade mark. which are very valuable, especially in the foreign markets, notably Chi na. The company. if allowed to go South. will devote its Lowell plant entirely to making finer goods oii which living wages can be paid. The company in tends to keep the Southern labor on cheaper goods, although Mr. Clarke admitted to a member of the commit tee, in time it is probable that the la bor in the South-will become as skilled as that at the North. ' The capital of the company is now permitted to be $1,500,000, but only $1,200,000 has been issued, so that enough remains authorized to allow the company to build what it needs without asking for an increase. Augustus Lowell, president of the company, said the company has not yet decided into what-Southern State to go.-and the idea of inoving has not yet been submitted to the stockholders. No decided step has yet been taken; it is only seen that some more of this kind must be made in the near future. If the plant is established in the South it will likely go to where 'the - white element predominates, rather than where the negroes are. Nr. Lowell said that the Boot'and Merrienac comn panies are tihe Lowell conceti nithat are likely to move, but tat it is prob able some -of the Biddeford, Mane, companies will soon hav e to do. Howard Stockton, the president of teMerrimac company. said that the reasons for his comprny -asking to go out of the State to make goods are the same as in the case of the Boot company. T Te -Merrim ac comnpanty, however, desires an increase of capital because its capacity for printing is so great that it ~will be necessary to erect a large plant to supply coarse goods enough to meet the demands of the print works. At present the company makes each year 5S,00,000~J yards of coarse cotton-goods and prints 88,t-00, 000, making it necessary to buy 3:), 000,000 yards. " It is a sad matter for Lowell, too," said Mr'. Stockton, "that of tihe goods I buy about all are bought in the South. although they are made by a Lowell concern next door to mie. I cannot buy in Lowell h)eeause theyv cost too much. At present it costs us $25,000 more a year' for our coal than it costs a mill at the seaboard. like New Bedford, and $50,000 a y-ear more than if our mills were -in Northwe'st ern Georgia." No one appeared to oppose the petitions and the hearings were closed. Murderer-, runi to Gro und. CoLDMBUS. Ga ,.TJanuary 24.-The myvstery' surrounding the munder' of Toni Jairrett on the streets of Colum bas on Monday evening last. is about being solv-ed. 'Colonel Harris. a noted negro diesperado was arrested in (Opeli ka yesterday by chief of police for anl offence committed in tha t city and carried to Moiitgomiery las-t 'afterinoon where he was lodged in jail. John Hojlt, another negro, i s companimon. was arrested and brought to Columbus at noon. He aniswers the descr'iption of the negro who was seen running from the :3cene of the murder. Holt confesses that he and Hiar ris wei'e in Cohuntbus onl Mont day and were the men who htad a diliciuity with ,Jarrett. Hie says Jarrett attempted1 toar-est them~n. theyv resisted and .Jarriett Itred in the ait', when H-arris direwv his pistol. and shot Jarrett, inflicting the fatal wound. They both escaped by r'uninig in~ dif ferent directionis. It is believed that Holt is the guilty party and has only charged Hiarris in hope of bene!:tting himself and gaining time. siide. LUIsviLL~E. Jan. 22.-An unikn own man committed suicide by hanging himself in Cave Hill cemietei"-. The body was found dangling fr'om the limb of a tree at Sa. mn. TheL mnan used a window cord about four feet long. He is supposed to have been a carpenl ter. A HOT DEBATE. The Lost Cause Was the Theme that Caused It. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-"When the gentleman says I believed the Lost Cause to be right he slandered me. I know that cause was right." With these words, uttered by Mr. Jones. Denocrat, of Virginia. on the floor of the House one night last week, closed another and almost riotous discussion, growirig out of the proposed pension legislation. The immediate cause of the out break was the blocking of the bills to increase the pension of the widow of Gen. Abner Doubleday and to pen sidn another widow who had per formed services as a voluntary nurse during the war by the parliamentary opposition of Mr. .Jones. Mr. Cooper. Democrat. of Indiana. took .the place of Mr. Springer last Friday night and with considerable temper he charged Mr. Jones with a lac!k of chivalry in thus opposing measures for the benefit of the fair sex. -- He said. with something like a sneer. that if Mr. Jackson. the great leader of the party to which they both blkonged, could be present lie ~would be heartily ashamed of the Democracy of the gentleman from Virginia. Mr. Jones responded with warmth that he was not tighting women, and asserted that there was no foundation for the charge. "What I am fighting r" lie said, "is equality before the law, and against the granting of large pensions to the rich, powerful and in fluentmal.i' "I qhstion the motives of the gen tlemau from Virginia." shouted Mr. Cooper. "His opposition to these peasion bills. I believe, is actuated by the sentiment expressed by him last Friday night, wh'en he said he was proud of the cat.se he had fought for in the trenches. Although he has taken an oath now to support the flag that floiits above your head, Mr. Speaker, (pointing to the Stars and Stripes above the desk), he now dis plays toward it the same spirit of op position as when he fough-: against it thirty years ago. I say only what he himself says;" Mr. Simpson, Populist, of Kansas: Mr. Cox, Democrat, of Tennesse, and Mr. Moses. Democrat, of Georgia, took part in- the colloquy. Epithets were bandied about, and for a little time it looked as if a personal conflict might insue. Mr. Simpson said - he was not only surprised but ashamed that a man from the South siould come here and say, as Mr. Jones had said, that he still'believed in the Lost Cause-a cause founded on slavery. Getting.the.floor ostensibly to ask Mr. Simpson a question, Mr. Talbert, Democrat, of South- Carolina, whose controversies with Mr. Pickler on pen sion nights earlier in this Congress wein the relieving features of -these sessions, made asviolent speech despite the, utmost endeavers of the Chair (Mr.- Bretz, Democrat, of Indiana,) to rap him to order. He ranged up and down.the centre aisle, wildly gesticu latingwand shouting loudly. He dep recated, he said, the continual appeal to sectional passions, but he noticed that they usually came from those who werc invisible in war and invinci ble in peace. "As to the Lost Cause," he said, "it is the everlasting cause, and cannot be lost because it is the cause of liberty; under the same cir cumstances," he continued shaking his fist in a defiant manner at the Re publican side, "and for the same reason the men who fought then would -fight again. You can like that er you can lump it. I love the cause today as much aslIdid when ahboy I baredl my bosom to the battlefields of Viro'inia" fr. Jones was accorded the floor for a few minutes at the close of the session, and denounced Mr. Cooper's language toward him as being un Iworthy of a gentleman. Referring to the "Lost Cause," he said he would answer always and everywhere as he had.' then, "that he was proud of it. and when the gentleman said I. be lieved it to be right he slandered me. I know it was right.~ This brought the Hous-: to the hour of 10:30. at which time the session closed under the rules. and on motion by- Mr. Martin; Democrat, of Indiona, it'a ad'ornd. After the adjourn ment knots of members gathered in the aisles and discussed the exciting ev'ents of the session until literally diin' out, by the janitors shutting off the light. A AMoonshine Factory. Sran~TANIUR-o, .Jan. 24.-An illici distillery, operated in the heart of the city: For several days past the car-1 p)enters and brick masons have been at woirk remodeling the store owned y the Trimumier estate. which was until recently occupied by Charles Huse Iman as'a barroom. This store had bceen use d as a saloon for ten years or more, but during that time nobody ever sus peeted the possibility of opereating a "moonshinme" attachment in the base mient. This is found nowv to be a pos sibility and indeed a miost reasonable conclusion from the evidence vester daru discovered. Tnh frt thing that attracted atten tion, w~as the fact that the entire ground floor of the place-the base Iment-was crossed by deep ditches. leading from the various sides and corv'ers and empting into a long trench six feet wide. On the baniks of these ditches there appeaired piles of rubbish, which had evidently been taken1 from the trenches. Scratching into this refuse showed a white. nmealy substance, with an occasional black streak. suggestive of charcoal and ash es. Following the clue and pushing investigations, the still, with the wormi. the Ca') and all the working par'ts wer'e uneairthedi. There is hard ir any doubt that some time or othei', areaf, live, full fledged bug juice fac factory wvas operatedt on the public square of this city, within t wenty feet of the court house and within ten steps of the revenue officers. The still has a capacity of about 15glosprday. Iti o n a most dlpdtdcni tion an 'd has two holes ini it. It is nought that the trenches were used to run,' the refuse into the big ditch and the"re it w.~as burned. There is a fire 1)1ce in1 the~ basement, whichi carried oir the smoke. Altogether it may be said. the~ meni who ope'ratedl the planit were good ones, but it. is har'd to un de'rstaiid why the tracks were not ob literated. -Ierald, Iiurne.d toDet. Un3RiOKLYN, .Jan. 23.-At t :45 this evening fire occur'red on the top floor of the fonr story brick building Nos. 11 and 13 Schenck street, owned and occupied by Frederick Lenhardt, as a morocco factory. Three men were burned to death. They were empl oyes of the concern. The other men were THE BROOKLYN STRIKE. rhe Reasons Given for Its Existence by a State Board. BROOKLYN, Jan. 24.-So far sever il men have been killed by the soldiers wv ho were sent here to put down the trike of the car conductors and mo tornen. Several soldiers have also been killed, and the end is not vet in sight. but all are hoping that the worst is over. The Stat borad of mediation and irbitration met recently and adopted a special report on the strike.which was submitted to the Legislature. They ;ay, in part: "A strike of the em ployees on the five electric service street railways of the City of Brook lyn. who are members of District As s'embly No. 75. Knights of Labor., em bracing nearly all the operating forces. ook place on Monday morning. Jan aary 14. The Coney Island and Brook lyn Railroad Comiany alone affected i settlement which enabled it to con ,inue business without interruption. Ihis board made every possible effort :o settle the differences between the .ther companies and their employees, >ut vas successful only in the case of Broo:'7yn City and Newton Railroad ompany, with which and its former miployees. an agreement was brought ibout and contract signed, under which :raffic was resunid Thursday morning md still continues without interrup uon. "Investiration of the causes of the itrike was made. and it was found :bat it proceeded from failure on the -art of the ecuwctive committee of District Assembly. No. 75. Knights of abor, to effect a renewal of the con ract of 1894 with the companies for tS9 with certain proposed changes Athich involved principally an ad rance of wages from $2 to S2.25 per lay to conductors and motormen who orm the bulk of the employees; an stablishment of the proprotion rominent regular unions for ;pecial trips made for con rested travel at certain times of lav, and an observance of the statute vlich prescribes ten hours' labor per oried within twelve consecutive iours on street railways as a day's wvork. The demand for an increase of ,vages was finally withdrawn, and the >ther two points of difference, which he men deemed vital, remained in ,he cases of the Brooklyn Heights and ktlantic avenue companies, while the Queens County and Suburban Com pany was willing, to yield them, but :ould not effect a settlement because :f individual contracts made with new m'en. and to this the exe::utive board >f District Assembly, No. 75, would ot assent. "However, the existing troubles on the Brooklyn Street Railroad may be iettled, the statute with regardi to the ours of labor will, unless amended so is to explicitly state and settle what hall contitute ten hours' labor, re main a constant irritant and source of lissatisfaction and contention on the part of the employees. The companies construe and enforce the words "ten hours labor" to mean labor while the cars are moving upon the rail, without taking into account waiting- time at either end of the routes. Thus. by the evidence taken, it was hown that upon one line where there were eight regular runs a day, there was waiting time of three minutes at ach end, making 48 minutes per day, dring which the conductors and mo termen were on duty and in charge of their cars, but for which they re eeived no compensation. How this method of computation of time of labor came to be established, it is clear ly not within the terms or intent of the law, and is not just, as the emplo yees contend. 'With a view therefore, to removal of this cause of the present strike and prevention of its agency in working further trouble on lines of street railroad, it is suggested that chapter 529 of the laws of 1887 be amended so as to prescribe that the "ten hours labor to be performed with in consecutive hours, with reasonable time for meals," provided for a day's labor, shall commence when the em ployee reports for service as required by the rules of the employer, and cease when the employee, upon their expira tion, is relieved from duty for the day. Another Constable Shot. DARLINI ToN. .Jan. 23.-News reached Darlinzton this morning of the shoot ~ing of o~ne of the Stato constables at H~artsville, whereupon The State's cor respondentrepair'ed to the scene of the crime and oh:.ined an interview with Constable C. L. .Jenkins. Mr. Jen ins is inl thec service of the United States. is a mxxem' of the Pinion De tetive Agency, and is emplo~ ud by the Governor of this State as a privat~e detective to aid in breatkingup the illi it sale of liquor in a section of this ounty kniownu as "Kellvtown." He has been boarding in thai. section ever since the first of last December, and evidently had the confidence of the parties guilty of violating the liquor law, for he had worked up forty-eight cases against. dif ferent parties, and was ''hell vtown" coniiii ons when the shooting took place in the Wylie Bell Hotel in Ha rtsv ile last evening at 9 o'(cock~ .Constable Jenk tins had retired nd Newi tt relly. camne to his room ad insisted on Jenkins getting out of bed. Jenikins sait up in bed, and by chanx'c' wvas rubbing his head when he was shot thrioughi the window by an unknown party. the ball striking the third an~d second fingers of his right hand. glanc ing ad str iking the muas toid bone on ihe righ't side of th e head, and then extending downward abott an inch. The shootin wa ''s (lone with a. :3-caliber pis~toL. Jenkins is a native of Ewart. N. (. ., vers old and has beenm in the detective~ service sixteen ear's. The wo .ud is not very danger ous, and Jenkins is feeling inuch bet ter than on last evejning. lHe was only about t wo feet from the pistol. and had it notL been i'or the window glass and iis hanmd. the results would have been fatal. The neighiborhiood in wvhich Jenkinis had :xeL'i' worin~ig up the illicit sale of liuor is thickly popuated with Rformn ers. an d the principal parties are reputed to be strong Tillmanites. Warrantis have beenm issued, but no Miurder anld Suicidie. HiE:;)uuN.s Ky., .Jan. 22. -Edward River;. living near Brown ville, in Ed :nondson county, killed his two chil .xen-a boy of (. and a girl of 8 year's -and tired a bullet into his own brain. R~ivers. was addicited to the habitual se of mnorohine, and labored under he delusion that his family, if allowed o0 live, would become hopelessly in ane. At the time of the tragedy his vife was absent from home upon a ~isit, and upon her' return the bloody pectacle threw her into convulsion, rhih imperil hem. life. AN ADDRESS TO THE DEMOCRACY Of South Carol~na in the Interest of Peace and Unity. COLUMBIA, S. C., Jan. 24.-The fol lowing address to the Democracy of South Carolina speaks for itself: To the Democrats of South Carolina: As an executive committee author ized by those who put forth the recent address in which they urged upon you to consider the question of secur ing a non-partisan convention, we again call your attention to that sub ject and summon you to action. Dissention in your ranks threatens disaster. The purity of government, the very safety of the State, depends upon unity. To preserve these war rants your utmost endeavor, and the burial of prejudice. Those in both factions, who would avert the catas trophe of an appeal to the negro for control of the convention, must-come shoulder to shoulder at once. Let white men, from the mountains to the sea combine to make our convention and new Constitution a bond and seal of reunion between the white men of South Carolina. This may be done by having the convention represent truly all elements of our Democracy, not a faction merelv. It will be a su preme body limited by its own will only and the Federal Constitution. Its composition will be of'the highest importance to the welfare of the State. Therefore, in behalf of the earnest men who have already spoken, we call upon any and all white Demo crats in accordance with those views to meet at their several cQunty seats on Saturday the second day of March next to select three representative men from each county who will at tend a general conference which will assemble in Columbia at 5p. m. on the followirgWednesda. March 6th, 1895. to consult how best to affectuate the purposes herein expressed, subject to the regular Democratic organi.a tion. In order that full notice may be given we also request citizens in each county, who agree with us, to repeat the call for their respective county meeting to be held on the second of March. (Signed.) W. H. TDmDERmN, D. K. NoRms, J. Tow ES RoBERTSON, JOHN R. HARRISON, J. E. PETTIGREw. D. E. FINLEY, JOHN W. LYLEs, THos. J. KIRKLAND, GODFREY B. FOWLER, J. E. ELLERBE, W. HENRY THO3IAS, D. McL. THERRELL, JosH W. ASHLEY. FOUNDERED IN THE ICE. Fate of a Steamer and her Crew on Lake Michigan. BENTON HARBOR, Afich., Jan. 23. All hope for the safety of the Graham and Morton screw steamer Chicora has been abanoned here by the findiii of wreckage from the ves sel off South Haven. The fate of twenty-six men who are known to have been abroad when the steamer left Milwaukee for this port Monday morning is almost as hopeless. Vet eran mariners number every man with the dead. The ill-fated vessel was caught while crossing the lake, and fell an easy prey to the seventy-mile an hour hur ricane which swept the icy waters of Lake Michigan throughout Monday and which continued with little mod eration for another twenty-four hours. The fears of all concerned were con firmed when the following dispatch was received from South Haven: Cap tain Donahue, the light horse keeper, noticed this morning, through the hazy weather, postions of what seemed to be wreckage floating abreast and on each side of the harbor here, a couple of miles outside and close to open water. Captain Matthews of the life saving station led a party of volunteers on a dangerous trip over the moving ice until they came into a lot of fresh wreckage. Some of it was wedged between the ice, but the greater portion was seen underneath the ice. The parts which were brought here were easily recognized by vessel men as belonging to the Chicora. A perilous gale is still blowing, the weather is thick and the darkness combined to prevent another search for further proof of the disaster. The number of dead may be 29, pos itive statements being made that 4 St. Joseph business men instead of 1, Joseph Pearl, were guests of Capt. Stines. "Doe" Ballinger'. a manufac ture, is the name of o::e who is said to be on board. The disaster will prove a heavy fin ancial blow to the transportation com pany, as there was no insurance ex cent ag'ainst fire. The following telegram was received here by the steamship company this evening from South Haven: "We have just found some of the Chicora's upper works in the ice off this place. There is no doubt she has foundered." The vessell was commanded by Captain Ed Stines of St. Joseph, 3Micli. Captain Stines' son was second mate. The loss on the vessel, exclusive of the cargo. amounts to~ $163,000, and the cargo of thirty-eight carloads of flour for export was valued at $20, 000. The Chicora was a screw steamer of 9)00 tons burden, built by tihe De troit Dry Dock Company two y-ears ago. The Graham and Morton Com pany carried no insurance on her ex cept for fire, and there was no insur ance on the flour. Owing to dull busi ness she was taken out of commission January 1, but last Saturday was put in commission. She was a strongly built boat and well manned. It is hardly possible that the victims are adrift on an ice field. Captain Stines is said to have had foreboding of impending disaster and sometime ago said as much to friends. This is the first disaster that has over taken any steamer from this port since the sinking of the ill-fated Hippocam p us in the fallof 18803. from being over loaded. James Ri. Clark. who was filling tile place of the regular clerk. J. W. Hancock, was ex-United States Marshal for the Western District of Michigan. He was born in 1844 at Montereal and had residcd in Michigan since two years of age. He was a telegraph operator in the army during the war. After the war, lie was en-' gagoed by the Goodrich Transportation Comp~any until 1876, when we became deputy sheritf of Berrien county, and at the end of four years. was elected sheriff. From 1890 to '94 he was Un ited States marshal with headquarters in this city. Since retiring from of fice, he has been engaged in Lake Shipping. He leaves a wife and daughter "CAROLiNA'S CROMWELL" EX-GOVERNOR TILLMAN WANTS A NEW NATIONAL PARTY. He Writes a Letter Suggesting the Plat form--Directed to the Leaders of the Western "New Reft-em Party" Idea. COLIBIA. S. C.. Jan. 2.-It has been quite a long time, nearly a year in fact. since the statement was made that Governor B. R. Tillman, the "Moses" of South Carolina, was set ting his cap for something beyondthe Unted States Senate; that he was lookino- to the possible organization of a new 'ational third party in Ameri can politics, and to being put up as one of its leaders. Nearly every one perhaps has forgotten th3 interview the new Senator gave along this line about the middle of March last, but his utterances at the time will be easily recalled when one reads a letter he penned a few days ago. For some time Thomas F. Byron the editor of the Des Moines, Iowa, Far mer's Tribune, has been agitating the organization of a new National third party. to be known as the "National Reform Movement." Hehasbeen pub lishino a series of letters from all the big Western and Southwestern leaders of the old Third Party and of the Democratic party. Many of the lead ers differ on certain particulars. bit all agree that the time has comefor a new national party to be founded-a party differing in its demands from the Third party in the last national campaign. Byron, after gettingtheviews of all the Western and Southern men on the matter, wrote to ex-Governor Tiflman,. whom he refers to as the "Cromwell of the South," and asked the new United States Senator for a latter. This letter was written on the 8th ulti mo, and Byron considers the letter "a powerful one." The following is a copy of the letter as sent onby the ex Governor: Trenton, S. C., Jan. 8, 1895. Thos. F. Byron, Esq: Dear Sir-Your valued favor of the 3rd, with marked copy of your paper, have been received and read with in terest. Thanks for your kind words about myself. I am called a. "Popu list" by the Republican papers and by the Cleveland Democrats-God save the mark! Both of these names are beginning to stink in the nostrils of good men. Beginning? Alas, they are a byword and a hissing to the Democrats who believe with Jefferson and Jackson, and the Republicans who followed Lin coln. I see no hope of relief orof sav ing our institutions unless the farmers of the South quit voting the Demo cratic ticket and the farmers of the West quit voting the Republican ticket. We must get together, and names should not divide us. But the Popu lists have too many cranks among them and want to do too much. We cannot enlist the conservative masses unless we appeal to reason and com mon sense; aiid the nmore reforms we demand the fewer we will obtain. Plutocracy is drunk -with power the success it has had in amal ing Republicans and so-called crats under the lead of Sh Cleveland. The tops will down tighter and after a thing will explode. Sou is ready with baggage pa the new party of e emancipation of the men from the slavery trusts and monopolies. The name "Democrat' conjures here The its memories, not its p tions. A new p arty n cessasy, and all we ask~ to the principles of old cy: "Equal riovhts, eq ties, equal burdens.A Americans, an asylum f industrious homneseeker but anarchists and law-breake as well as the poor. Free 'o gold and silver, and no pa~ except legal tender greenbaks. tariff that will enable our mianufactur ers to supply the home market with out becoming millionaires at the ex pense of the farmers; atariff that will give work to all- who wish it. A fi nancial system that will give a fair price to the farmer for every bushel of grain and every pound of meat." This is platform enough, and any more will conf use and divide us on these essen tials. If the scoundrels and traitors who now rule in Washington are todiotate the policy and name the ticket, our electoral ~vote will not go to a "Dem ocrat" in '9G. It cannot go to a Repub licani under any circumstances; and Populism, as now organized and led, cannot get it. It is the part of wisdom and patri otism for the Third party leaders to retrace their steps and be less radical in their platform. The conditions are similar to those existing in '26 and'58. Jackson and Lincoln were the outcome Let us hope the people will be again victorious. I have great faith. This country is not ready yet to sink into servitude to mloney. ~ hallots or bullets will bring relief. The Chicago strike caused a demand for an increase in the army. In 1739 the national guard of France fraternizedl with the starving masses. People who have ballots should not re quire bullets. The people are now be wildered but angry. Let us pray that the mists will clear away by 1896, and that the lost sheep will have found a shepherd. Abe Lincoln said: "You can fool part of the people all the time; you can fool all of the people part of the time, but you can never fool all o the people all of the time." It is a g'rand truth, and while we believe it wve can hope. Yours truly, B. R. TILL3!AN'. A Fatal Accident. CmeIC':0. IL L., Jan. 21.-A lage sec tion of enclosed scatfolding surround ing the top) stories of the Fort Dear b)ornl bujlding. a t welve-story structure in course of erection at the corner of Monroe and Clark streets, was blown across the street by a violent gust of wind this morning, smashing the plate glass windows of a number of stores and injuring eig~ht pedestrains, one of them, H. H. Erwin, agent for the Bundby automatic time recorder, fat ally. Mr. Erwin's skull was fractured, and he was also internally injured. He was taken to the county hospital. The injuries of the other seven men are not serious. Kmled the 31arshal. ALA310s, Colo.. Jan. 22.-Abe Thompson shot and fatally wounded City Marshal Charles IH. Emerson while resisting arrest. Thompson was charged with having stolen a carload of oas The mnurderer escned.