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VO. xV. MANNING., S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1899. NO. 1 A~111 IST SKL If. insurgents in Large Force en the Banks cf the Bagbav. THEY DISPUTE OUR PASSAGE Several Americans Killed and Wounded Before the Filipi ncs Retreat. They are Weli Drilled. Adviecs from larrihi -aV that Gcn. MacArthur's division f Le.t its way to the Filipino trenches befoie Calunpit Wednsday. advaneirg four n~iles, most !v through woods and u.iugle and cross ing the Bagbav iver. This was accom plished at a cost to the Americans of six killed and twenty eight wounded. the Firzt South Dakota rtaiment beiig the heaviest lo-er. After fo! ding the river thu South Da kotans purUed t': in.urgents to the outskirts of Calurpit, but the town was fou.d so t.gy protecred that Gen MacArthur deenia if Le to Ntuuras the tired fichters and to zo into evLrm. for a night's r. st betere makim:the rtal umpit were bing tir-d b% tht ihijo while the Au-ricans e cru g I river fuily a n i:e away, inditint enemv's inten-im tv abn:"ii the a The insurgents -een to have adop'edl a settled poliey of retiriL ' from cne pO sition to another. after ti;(,eti c greatcst po.sible dama upc: the au vancing army. Their z-rces rocay 1%cte well deifled. Every foot (' 1e groani was tenaciousiy disputed by thorough ly organized troops wifo stood iewarka bly firm even before artillery. The eu emy had plained to wreck our artillery ansport train. This attempt was a ailure, but a span of the iron railway bridge over the iiser was destroyed. hampering the Anerican transportation for some time. The Filipinos cut the girders, intending to haVe the structure fall with the train, but it collapsed pre maturely of its own weight. The Bagbay river which is about a hundred yards wide at that point. was splendidly fortified. and the Ameiicans were compelled to approach across an open space from wLich the rebels had cleared every obstruction to sight. The bank of the river, a high bluff, was surmounted with trenches. capped with rocks, loopholed and partly hidden b) bushes. Gen. Wheaton's brigade ap proached the river along the railroad, leaving camp beyond Malolos City. Gen. Hale's which started yesterday was earhier on the march. and sweeping westward toward the railroad. The ar mored train was being puhed by Chi nameD, the T-. antieth Kansas regiment advancinr in extended order on the left and the irst Montana regiment, with the Utah ight artillery on the right. The rapA 1rin4 guns of the train "opened the ball ' at 11:30 a. m., about a mile from the river, their popping al ternating continuously with the onom of the six pounders. The Montana re giment and Utali artilhry batteries at the same time entered the ,avgle, fromt which the insurgents, whto were occupy ing a large, straceling village of huts. poured heavy volley s. In the course of an hour the Americans had fored a pasgage through the woods to the open space in front of the river, and the ar tillery, immediately on whehnt. inte the open, began shellltg the Filipino trenches. In the meantinme. Co. K. Twenuieth Kansas, led by Capt. Boitxood, per formed one of the mcst brilliar.t achievements of the campaign. Thef regient was being held in reserve ani Co. K charged a distance of a quiarter of a mile over a corfteld to the bank a the 'river, near the bridge, where the insurgehts from a trench were pepper ing the armored train, then about two hundred yards down the track. The company found shelter in a dt -h. CAd Frederick Funston called for volunt eer. to ross the ricer and the colonel himt self, Lieut. Ball. a private of Co. K a private of Co. E, Trumapeter Barsuela and Corporal Ferguson of Co. L, crawl ed along the iron sird1ers. Wite this was going on the nmen of C. K from the ditch were fusillading the trenches in the endeavor to diver t atention, but the Filipinos got the range from a trench down the river and their bullets se:s spatter-d th water under the struerure. Having reached the br ken: s-an, the stmal, bu valorous pa ry o Amerieans shd dow te caissou, swam a fewv yards to t shore and crawled up theC banik, the lit te colonel leaeing~ tt6 way i. tin trenbes, revover 'a hawi, whie the. few remainingz Fipinrs bened. Cl. Fun-t 'u iaid aernarei . wacn't uch to do- We kne i: could not shoot straight arid that oun boys would a.:en d to tho l'em w we were crossinz. Gen. H ale's troop., ot the right, had the hardecst rIg~nunt They followed the north bank of r1 river neare-t tie town. from the' carst with she First Nebraska regia-ent m the left and the First Southi Dakot; and the Fifty-first Iowa beyond. The country traversed was most!: jungle but the Frli1inos stood thei ground eve-n in the cl-en spaces. Gen. Hlales right jloi Gen. Whet ton' left soon af:.er n'or, a curve the river enablinig the Atterica~nst pour an enfilading fire into tihe enemy trenches- About this time the cheer of the Kansas troops announced tha the Americans had crossed the river Gen Hale's men began to ford the Chi o, a branch of th~e Uagbay, stuetehna o the northeast. The ge-neral hnusel plunged, in up) to his nock, ani the r giments' all carryitig flais, boundere across the streams. Thne guuts .f th U tah light artillery were uraigg el0C next and formed into anr extendeu un to advance upon the t-re ee ,jefm Calumpit, from whin Ie 1'~pi were pouring e-ontnuous vehet s. The armored car hau One .man il and two wounded. Th e Kan as reg men had three woundeu during tI charge -nd the Dah f1iight artilcry or killed -and t-wo 'oun ed- Mj-t f i other casuahies befell the South Dak< ta regiment. It isdiilicult to ectima1 the insurgent tosses. jut they nad fewer than 7 killed, many of thetm i artillery. DEATH AND RUIN. More :han a Hundred People Killed by a Cyclone. A siecial from Kirksville, Mo.. says: A catheig storm t"at had been theat en ios al' afterno broke upon Kirks vill. t*0 O'clock Thursday nitlit in all the fury (f a cyelone. A path a quarter of a utile wide and as clean as the prairie was swept through the east ern portirns iof the city and four hun dred buildin's, homes- and mercantile. we(re leveled t, tie ground in scattered ruiinS. In the heavy rain that f dllmved tl-e people wI h:: ecap'd turned out t) rec-ue the 'jtinj d. For two hours not much wa -o mplih.-d as all was eet~uson. u h 'lock 2G dead bod:es were taken fron the ruins. it is conrfidently expected that the list of dead will reach between 50 and 60, if it does not exceed that. Almost a thousand jeople were uore cr 1kes in jurei. DaNlitht will le necessary before the adequite estimnate of loss of life and propert. can be had. Each blanched tace relorts a nss calatuity. Iuteuse uarkne.ss prevailed after the eyeloue, :~'vdttia--e ia a;d th r v se e wre a t a i avatge for a shor t ti:ne u:?tIl ir- broke out in a doz-ai ilacis in tho ruin3 and shed light ever the scene. No attermpts wcre jadet t hetii!ULi1 tUc fl'ats artly because the recurers had no toe anU p.C ly beauie t f the need ,f ilzt. OL b th sid:s of the storm's -oh the debris was prikd hisgh and burnid :itreely. In all p:oba l.y a tinibe'r of bodies have Coencinr-e ent~d. TIe stort first struck the eastern portOfn oflhe ei. near that part occu :i, d by the boardinrr hou-es of the -0ett's o4f tihe Anhie W chool i f 0t o:.atly. State Nurmalacho;)l, and .lwa:d's teminary. It wa, just sup pir tine for the rt uleuts. aid it i, bocught very probtble the list of dead .%ili i-c well filled with :tudents, as a aree number of these boarding houses were demolished. As far a. known to uight these three institutions of learn iu escaped the storm. The storm then went northwest and wiped out Patterson's nursery. pulling the trees out the ground and hurling them tnhrough the city. A second edition of the e)elone followed the first 20 minu tes later. It came as an inky black cloud and covered the whole town but tassed above the houses. doing no ma terial damage. It undoubtedly struck the ground a few miles out of Kirks Ville. THE RACE QUESTION. A Disturbing Feature at the Sunday School Convention at Atlanta. The race question was a disturbing feature at Thursday morning's session of the iaternational Sunday school con vention. It made its appearance iu two ways-the endeavor of Georqia and South Carolina negroes to pla colored men ou the committee on nomination with whites, and by reason of the fac that the convention in permitting ne gIo delegates to be seated with whites t iolating not only the city ordinanet but the'State law, which requires tha1 white and blacks be separated at all public gatherings. The trouble came up during the se lection of delegates to form the commit tee on nomnuations. When Geogrit was reached on the roll call a negr<t delegate nominated E. R1. Carter, col ortd, of Atlanta, as Georgia's membe on the committee. This was objectec to by John 31. Green, of Atlanta, see :cdGe president of the association who informed the convention tha Georgi-is choice was W. S. Whitman A u mro from South Carolina thet placei in nomination a colored Utat fromt his State. Considerable confusiot ad excitement ensued. There were mo ti'a andU counter motions in attempt t< seutle the mauer, and, after a heated de .ate, both whites and blacks w'ere elect ed~ to the nominating committee. This tuat.ter was hardly adjusted be fore the news that the police were at tempting to separate the whites and th< oacks. spread. This brought out a Bloo< of raory on the question from botl a bite and colored delegates. The pre idinrg. otlcer Mir. Green, said the matte .,f seating delegates was made plain t' he Northern d&legates whan the con Vnioin was spoken of for Atlanta, an< it was then perfectly satifactory. outcce wa calied between the pc ice and Col. Candler in charge of th .-iterttament c.ommwittee, and it wa tu~Uh decided to let the delegates s ithey wished. The balause of tht uonn ses-.ioi was giveu over to tL apoerts of olles Danger of Mob Law. The murder of the negro Striekl:in Sono thre iustau:es of th utnreasotl *g c..haraeter of a mob. The ideac allowhing a wretch like IHose by his ut -ptt' ed vord to prtoonnee the deat -entenc e ot an~other. lie might ha' Liamed~i any person in tihe communit and so fr a the evidence goes no N er in the community was less guilt han old Lice Strickland. Let th morb spirit coutiaue unbridled, and ti victims wvili not1 always be Negroe When a howling, bloedthirsty and m~ easoningt motb starts into stringing u w hte men without al h aring, lynchir wii not be viewed wIth such compliai ance.-ugusta Chro'niele. Political Reformers. A~n invitationl ha- been sent to Go ror Ellerbe to attend the natio:ial s, cal and political conference to be he) at Bufialo, June 2a Jaiy 4. The col freuce is. said to be for prorressive no and woimeri of various political and s iacl beliefs to consider the present eo diton of Amueriean polities and econ mies and what is the next best thing do int -.ocial political and industrial a firsit. The invitation denies that it the object of the conference to form political r rty. I Pensions Delayed. The Co. lumbia Record says prospe ive pensinerS are writing from vario parts of the state for their money, b s -e\ eral coun tes still have not vol pleted the rolls the mioney canntot dividt d. An ice e ise' is shown ini net xis erycuuty, arnd the sum goirg eat-h will be pitifully small co npari with w~hat they ought to get, if the sta CAPTURED BANNlE.' A Confederate Soldier's Story of Gaine's Mill Fight. BRAVE MEN FROM MICHIGAN Their Flag Will be Returned if It Can be Found. A Palmetto Sharpshooter Telis cf the Battle. In the Greenville MIountaineer, Col. James A. Hoyt, who was a member of Co. C., Palmetto sharpshooters. gives some personal reuiniseeuecs of the bat tle of Gaine& Mill, in which the Pal metto Sharph.booters cap:urt d the fla: of the Sixteenth 3Miehigan. It will be remembered that Gov. El leibe reecatly received a lutter flom Lieut. R. T. Lackie of DLetroit asking for the returu of inte ag and no infor mation was at hand in rnira to tile 'he-reabouts of the capturd tianucr. On this point Col. Hoyt sa: s: "We can speak with contfidence for the ursivors of the Palmetto Sharp -hooters that, were it possible for the Bi ii to be r.turned. every man of themi would Igladly give lis consent, but alovg with other captured dacs the beautiful ilken banner of the Sixteenth Yliehi -all was destroyed in the conflairatioi which swept Columbia on the 17th-of February, 1S65. This fl),g had beenl deposiei for safe keeping in the lud itate ho:.e, a wooden buildinZ. which was aing the frst sacriiees in the nemorable fire which laid wate the capitai 0f South Carolina. The writer re:!embers the inscription as it is given by Mr. Laekie, and recalls the admira tion which he felt for the men who stood so nobly beneath the fag and who surrendered it with such reluctance. The fate of war had overtaken then. and now after 37 years the remnant of a heroie band are scarcbing in vaiu for this emblem of their state and country which had falle: into the custody of erstwhile enemies." Before the publication of Mr. Lack ie's letter, Col. Hoyt had prepared for publication in the Confederate Veteran an account of the battle of Gaines' Mlill, and because of the publication of 31r. Lackie's account Col. Hoyt has pub lished in The Mountaineer his story of the fight which differs very sliabtly from the report given by the Michi gan soldier. Col. Hoyt writes as fol lows: Editor Confederate Veteran: In the February issue of your excel lent magazine I find the report of a Federal soldier as to the part borne by his brigade on the extreme left of their line at the battle of Gaines' Mill, Va., on the 27th of June, 1862. As I was a member of the Palmetto Sharpshooters, which captured the flag of the Sixteenth Mi:higan to which 31r. La-kie belong ed, I will give you a brief account of the action of R. 11. Anderson's brigade in that fight. 3Mr. Lackie is mistaken in saying that Col. 3Mieah .Jenkins (not Jennings, as he has it). was in command of the brigade, as will appear later on. Anderson's brigade was composed of South Carolinians, and the five regi ments are properly designated, except that the Fourth was only a battalion at that time. The Secondi rifles had ar rived only a few weeks before from South Carolina, and was participating for the first time iu an engagement This brirade was one of three forming Longstreet's original division as it was organized at Centerville, and had been held in reserve all the afternoon. Gen. Longstreet says it was near sundown when this reserve was sent forward to reclaim the day which was then vwell nigh lost, but the intense fighting had thinned the enemy's ranks and fouled their guns so greatly that our las.t charge won the tield, which gave the victory to the Confederates and comn pelled Gen. MceClellan to make f'or his gunboats on the James river. 'In going forw'ard with the assaulting column, Anderson's bsigade was on the extreme right of the Confedentate line, and dashed down the slope and into the ravine, above which were the enemy's batteries and lines of infantry with temporary entrenehments. Anderson presaed up the st'ep ascent across the rivine and met with little resistauce, al though under a constaut fire, while the bat .Ie was raging with more vigor oui our left where Hood's and Pickett's h-i aes were engacing the %'derzals. We p rss -d to the fronzt iu pur~tuit of brok-u lues which were moving towards the main body of 3L-Cicilau's armny anda enee getting in fro:,t of Hood and Pi.kett, who drove everything b- ftre them. 'It was a moment of intcs anx~ety. The san had set. andi the smoke -f b.attle was drifting oli to the valley of the C :ickchominy just beuneathi the hill on which we had charged thme Gon. Auderson, with the gallent Sixth, the Seond rifles and the Fourth battalion, moved straight fonward for everal hundred yards after we re-inched teopen on the crest of the hill, and he had directed Col. Mieah Jenkins, of the Palmetto Sharp.'h'->ters. to take hii, own commiian'i and the Fifth South Car olinna under Col. Jackson. and move to wards the Chnickahomiiuy. in order tc protect the right flank of L ee's army. In was not imagined that there were an) .Federals in that vicinity, but it wa' .rapidly nearing night, and at the timtn was accepted only as a wise precautot - which soon resulted in a brisk and de :n cided engagement. Stockton'sSixteentl .M3ihigan regiment and the Eighty. .'Tti-d Pennsylvania, under Col. Joht . . 1ebarne, had been completely cui LoI off by our mioveument from their army - and Col. Stockton assumed coanrd o: j the setmi-brigade, undertaking to cx a tricate his command from the perilout: position. hlis troops came from th< woods and on the slope towards thm, Chikahominy, and it was suppose. - that he was seeking an escape down ih< s valley, under cover of the smoky atmos it phere and the fast falling shadows o "the evening. Col. .Jackson with ti eFifth South Carolina was on the cres of the hill, and~ae reported at once ti to Col. Jenkius that troops were mnovin, ot from the woocs on our right, and ii - a few minutes the head of the coluuu wa visile to the Pal metto Sharnshoot r1 a hundred yards down the hill. Co!. Jenkins instantly prepared to give battle if necessary, and it was a magni ticen t !.ight to look upon these men narching so steadily. but their flags were furid or at least the folds were tJo imiistinct to know whether they ee friew1is or foes. The Sixteenth i,u: was in front. and when it ap proceied' our vicinity Col. Jenkins de imanded to know what troops they were, to wi~ch no response was made. In :,ilence they came on. only the steady tramp breaking the suipense, when Jenkins shouted that he would fire upon them unless they told to which army they belonged. and vet there was no re 5lp-isC. Their columu was not more than 50 yards in our front, marching by the flank, while our miten were at the ready. nd u.s the head of their column came in front of our color con;pany, the offieer in command broke the silence be s.v, -11 lt' l-ront!" to which Jen kius replied, "Fire." and our volley nimale deaily work in their ranks. They quieki'. returned the fire. when Jenkins ordered the eharze, and in a few minutes the incident was over. The Fifth South Carolina and the Eighty-Third Penn s lania had a siuilarexperiene on the hill, and resu ting in the same way. 'Te Sharpsbooters secured the fias of the Sixteenth Michigan, a beautiful bauer that was never trailed in the au-mt. andl a Mr. Lackie says. it was etit to Ihe ;ro-:ernor of our state, who deposited it ,ith other car.tured flags in the old state house. which was de stro:, ed oo the 17Ith of February, 1865, by the careless manner in which Gen Shermau's imen were handling fire on that day in Columbia. The lo-s of the Sixteenth Miehigan in that brief enqacemnent was 47 killed, 114 wounded and 53 mi-,sing. making a total of 214, in Addition t) the prism ers tzken. I was sent by Col. JenkiLs witht a detail to look after the wounded and .prisoni rs, and my recollection is that the killed. wounded and captured reached 375. while those reported miss ing lieIL to the swamp below. Col. T. B. Stockton was mortally wounded, and a more gallant soldier was never on any battlefield. The Eighty-Third Pennsylvania lost 46 killed, 51 wounded and 99 missing, makinir a total of 196 casualties, out of the 554 present, according to Federal staistics. Col. McLane was killed. This reziment was said by Gen. McClellan to be one of the best in the Federal army, while another has said that it encoun tered more fighting and lost more men in battle than any other Pennsyl vania regiment. its losses being the sec ond hizhest in that army. Truly, these were "foemen worthy of our st 'el," and the fight between them and the South Carolina regiments is the only incident of the kind in the war be tween the states, so far as I know. Then there was the meeting once more at Appomattox! I was not there, on account of a disabling wound re ceived a few months before, for which I am carrying a crutch at this day, but my comrades told me with sadness and yet satisfaction that they stacked arms in front of the Sixteenth Michigan. "What regiment is that?" It was the unanswered question at Gaines' Mill, but this time the response was, "Pal metto Sharpshooters!" and the Michi gan boys broke ranks again, but it was to rush across the line that was no lon er to divide them, and press the hands >f the South Carolinians, the remnant of the command that bore off their flag nearly three years before. The heroic Jenkins was not there, for his gallant soul had gone to a better land, but there were 2.) officers and 355 privates, the largest number of men at the final surrender ef any regiment in the Army of Northern Virginia. Haversacks mnd canteens were onened to the famished "rebs" by the Michi an soldiers, and there was rejoicing amid the gloom of Appomattox, by men who had faced each other squarely on the field of battle and had made the trust test of each other's manhood. It is a singular fact that the Sixteenth Michizan and the Palmetto Sharpshoot ers were organized for special service in the resuective armies, and yet neither fufilled this purpose; the heavy losses in 1832 prevented. The Sixteenth was kow'.'.as "Stockton's Iudependent regi mnc," and it had 12 companies; the Saarsooters were organized under a speial act of the Confederate congrcss for sharpshooting as an independent reien. aind also with 12 companies rTie Sixtenth has a record of 870 killed and? woundued. The Sharpshooters had a loss of 750 killed and wounded from Ma . 1k62, to Jane :30, 1862, less than 60 days., iucluding the battles of WNil im.?bur-. Scvea~Pines, Gaines' Miil and Frtair's farm. Soaie.wncere there ought to be a re ut. on of t' se ixteentfi Michigan and ''he I itetto sharpshiooters! Louis vlle.Ky. miay repeat its inlVittion to te Cou ed.:ate ve terans, and that wuld be a glorious opportunity uext year for thec sarvivors of these comn nae to meet ea'n other once more. Whiat a flood of reutmiisences would be p >ured tosh. aud under the flag of a reunited eauntry we would pledge anew Iour tidelity t'o eaih ot her, recoguizing it as the emblem ot freedom and of unity. reresenting~ a broad nationality that1 emtratcs the whole union of indestrue Co. C., P. S. S. Greenville. S. C. IDrowned in the Pee Dee. On the mnigmt of March30~ Privat< Fanik Gougi of thet First Ramode I-sland rgimnt, who had been mu-tered oul at Couaba was on his way home and. stpped or tell fromr the Atlantic Coast Line at 1Pe Dee station, in Florenct c 'nty. Nothing was heard of him, and after four days the Coast Line authorities had the swamp and rive near the :,tation searched and dragget for a week. but without avail. Th< mstery was unraveled on Sunday when an old Neirro, who was coming uj the Pee Dee river in a boat two mile: from the railroad bridge, round th< b dy of Go.u:;h in some tree limbs where it hadl ti.ated and lodged. Th< b)dy was identified, though in a horri ble 'state of decomposition, and has beei prepared for burial and shipped to the voluuteers honie in llbode Island. The WVaxhaa Eiterprise says: "Some time-,, when we ask merchants for ad vertiements, they tell us that the: really have nothing that it would pa: themu to advertise. That is equal t saying that they have nothing wortl letting the people know about. Nos su pnose that the peopie knew such t h ethe case." A BRAYING BISHOP. The Georgia Lynching Subject for Fiery Discourse. NORTHERN PEOPLE WARNED They Must Rescue the Negro or Pav the Penalty in Blood. Bishop Walters Lets Down the Bars. The New Jersey annual conference of the African 31ethodist Episcopa. Zion church was opened Wednesday in Jersey City. Bishop Alexander Wal ters, D. D , presided. The visiting bishops were: J. W. Hood, D. D., LL. D ; C. C. Petty, A. 31.,D DC R Harris D D; G. W. Clinton, D D., and J. B. Small, D. D. Bishop Walters in his address at the afternoon session bitterly denouaced the Georgia lynchings and said: "The civilized world has been shocked by the unpreedented butchery and burning of Samuel Hose. colored, near Palmetto, Ga , on Sunday, April 23. The fiendishn -ss of the crime beggars description. Samuel Hose was charged with killing Alfred Cranford. white and assaulting bis (Cranford's) wife. It is said that he confessed to the killing of Cranford but denied to the last ac-ault ing hiswife. It is generally b.-lieved by the fair-minded that if Hose did kill Cranford it was to avenge the killing of fi-e colored men by a mob said to have been ied by Cranford at Palmetto M1arch 18." After referring to newspaper com ments that Hose outraged Mrs. Cran ford, the bishop asserted that the charge or assault was manufactured as a justi fication for the lynching. adding that within a fortnight his statement would be irrefutably established. "If." said bishop Walters. "the good white people of the north are not di allusioned and do not put a stop to thi sweeping tide of lawlessness, it will not be long before they will be again called upon by a God of justice to give their best blood to pay the penalty of the crimes of the South." Continuing, Bishop Walters said: "The Cubans and F4ilipinoes whom we have spent so much money and shed so much blood to free from Spanish op pression, were never treated so barbari ousiy in time of peace by that govern ment as some Negroes have been in the states of Arkansas, Texas, North Car olina, South Caiolina and Georgia. "It is rather amu!ing to intelligent Afro-Americans to read in the great dailies and weeklies of our country of the purpose of the A'nericans to give to the Cubans and Filipinos an equit able and beneficient government, when they are powerless to even secure life and liberty to their citizens at home. "The greatest problem of America today is not the currency question, nor the colonial possessions, but how to avoid the racial war at home. You cannot forever keep the Negro out otf his rights. Slavery made a coward of him; for 230 years he was t->.ught to fear the white man. But he is rapidly emerging from such slavish fear and ere long will contend for his rights as bravely as any other man. "One of two things must be done in order to avoid trouble. The Negro must be treated fairly Or furuished with sufiient money to return to the land from whence his ancestors were stolen. It would be a burning shamie on the boasted Christian civilization of America to be obliged to confess before the nations of the world that she was unable to overcome her prejudice against the Negro and therefore expa triated him. "Those who speak flippantly of our extermination will tiud, when that work is begun, that all the white peo ple of America will not be againsr the Negro, any more than they were during the civil war. "Why will not the intelligent and far-seeing white people call a halt to these injustices bef'ors it is too late? Have they so soon forgotten the histo ry of the past? It was the policy of conciliation and the conde.ning of the sin of slavery' that led to the loss of so much blood and treasuro Well did Thomas Jefferson say before the con diet, in speaking of the injetiee of whites to sard the blacks: 'I tre mble for the future of my country when I remember that God is just.' "The tirst Sunday mo June has been set apart as a d1ay of f tiec ad' pr'aw to Alitighty God for al in this hour A distress by the bishops of the colord other col-red de ommatimons trs out the country. ''We appeal to a'.l white ini-ters and Christians w'ho bclieve in fair oia> to unite with us i. ou: petition. Commenting on the above the Co lumbia State say s: "Bishop W\alters of the A. M1. E church is mai~ng trou ble for his race b: such speech s asthat at Jersey City. Itf they adop hir theo ry that by violence they can r.'vencue themselves upon the white people of the south for such exceptional crim's as thosein Georgia they will be wined out It is a fat al idea to cherish. Tihe Negro's only ho'pe is in peace andl law. In a race con'liet he must inevirawbl and signally fail. The Negro l'ader wid do the best service to their race by al mitting and combaring its crimes as the white pulpit and press admit andl cow Oat the crimes of white men. Rerim ination and threats arc purely mis chievous. Eaceh race must try to re form itself." Our.Losses. In M1eClure's M1gazine for M1ay, 0 car King Darvis, the correspond"'to the New York Sun at 3Manila. will re late some stories and live some remnn iseecs of Admiral Dewey as M1r. D~a vis himself' has seen and knmows hia during months of service bosidie him a M1anila. In the wvar with Spain we lo 279 men killed and 1.40; woulnd'd i: battle, and active hostilities lastedl bu 113 days. In the wvar with the F'ilipi nos, which has lasted since the th o August, we have lost 240 in killed somy 1,200 wounded and a number missini or prisoners not definmitely stated, a well as between 500 and 600 dead o NAVY CLAIMtS THE CREDIT. Cautain Wilde Declares General Mil ler's Promotion Was Unearned. Capt. G. F. Wilde. U. S. N., of the United States ship Doston. has pr.ite:t ed against the promotion of Col'onel Miller to a brigidier generabhip as a reward for the capture of Iloilo. It ap pears that this capture was effected eu tirely by naval forces under the com m1anid of Captain Wilde. and that it was not until after the capture had been effected that the place was turnid over to Colonel MIiller. who up to that time had nothing to do with its capture. ThIs action is endlorzed by Admiral De wey. Captain Wilde's protest comes too i lat to be effeetive. as Colonel M1iller i was promoted to a briuadicr generalhip February 15 in recognition of his ser vices in the capture of Iloilo and was retired in that grade March 27 by opera tion of a on aciount of age. He was in coTnan-i of the expedition sent from Manila for the capture of Iloilo, and the cruisers Bo-ton and Petrol were sent with him to iend-r as-iistauce. While the vessels of the expedition were lying off tb port, the natives be gan to strengthen their defenses. and ired several shots at the Petral. which VCsscl was auchored nearcst the shore. The cowwader of that small war.hip asked and received permlisbion of Cap tain Wilde, of the Boston, to respond. At this time, according to naval ad ,.iees, General 31tier's transports were far out in the roadstead Without communicating with General M1t ler the two warships opened fire on the shore I batteries, and soon silenced them. Lieutenant Niblack. of the B ston. lauded with a battalion of marines and sailors and took posses-ion of the town. They caturel the insurgent flags on the governors hou e and 7(n the bat teries. and turied the citv over to Gen eral 1iller an hour or so later. They kept the cipured flhgs. however, in spite of General 3Iiiler's demand for theul. This is the naval story of the battle of Iloilo. The official report of that engag.ment first received in Washing ton was made by General Miller to the war department and simply announced the surrender of that city to the Ameri can forces under his command, .,ithoat going into pa ticulars. Acting upon this report. and in view of the fact that General Miller had but a few weeks more to serve on the active list, th. pre:ident appointed him to a vacancy then existimt in the list of brigadier generals He is now on his way home from Manila and is expected to reach San Francisco in a few days. TURNED UiJ THE CaURCH. Two of the Lake City Lynchers Pat out of the Methodist Church. There was a time when Joe Newham and E trly Lee were me:nbers of the ethoui-t Cnurch, in Lakec City. rlaev paid their dues and were in good staed inz. but the uames of the pair were strtkern fron the list sIt Sinday. I-p uty M1arsh di Reed, who went to Lake City with the defendants in the lynch ing case to secure bond. a-aid yesterday that he attended serv;ecz at the 3Metho dist Church ou Sunday. The Rev. Mr. Kirtonm, who is editor of the Dewey E igle. is its pastor. Aiter the service M1r. Kirton announced that Newham and Lee would have to quit the congre ation. The wife of Lae was also a iember of the church, though she was not disturbed. Tlhe pastor said she had a bad ihusband and hadi suffered ntvu-h on that account. It was not told whet her the men had been turned out of the church for h-iviug been implicated in thelyttchirng. or for having told about it when the case went to trial. At any rate the record has been relieved of their names. Whet Judge Reed arrived in Lake City on Sauduay iorning with th.e de fendants he said that nearly two thois and people, or at least he thought that tany, were gathered around the depot to meet the young men who had been away two weeks at the big trial in Charleston. lie -,ays there was a terrn ble amount of ha'idshiking and hugging and kissiur, anid there was great r-joie i throughout the time. It was nke the re uro s a victorious arm~y home from the front. '-Why those L Lke C ty people is the hot s.uff," remtarked ".Jadge" Re:d veste rday. "They sire treated rue ine. I just arc barrels of strawberries that mtu-t have cost ten cents a stra w. iwas gironf c earria.:e drive over the town andt all the points of ihttreet were flown mte. At the hotel I was treated like asoldier boy and the people were tis:itab~e to beat the band. Yu ke iw i hand for the thrivingi lit-e vill~ge to offrer under the record of the lynehina. The people are givd, a:,d Sundry the churches did a good bu~iaea."-News aid Courier. An Effective Protest. The Column'ia 1R cord srys when the Scond1 South Carolina was mustered out. its memrnYrs went to their h> :nes with many dollars in their poikets that would not have be..t her bu ctt for the waenfulness of Cdl Witie Jones and the prozmyi aCtic of S.:aor Tillmaui. Privates were paid $13 per mnonth in ti es if p ac and '.) pe c.-ut. more. or 0:>3 a nth, in t war. T he Set ih-Amnrican war was o iialy declared a- an end ou A\pril 1t) ad the Se'cond South Carolina was mi'stered out or the ltmh. lit the troops whicth had srved outside of the L ti-ed States. a ati the Sc .>d Sout h Car olin1, we e ehl to two mioruth- extra p .ty. O0 the 17th Colinel -Jo. es d i.,eo vred that thei p:ym:i-ter ar A'iorsta inttn e I t' give bi-, regiment the: twol m->th s ox tra pity at the rare of $1.3 a monith, elabningC that this was riuhr. as thet reabni'ut wvas mtstered outt af er peac. w a, de-llred. Colonel Jones consider ed this wronz and not ia accord with he inteni in of coaress and h1 promptily telegraphed Senator Ti lwai, who just as promptly ma~de a protest te tie w ar d-:partmient, with the resul thait tihe payma~ters at Augusta wert inudiatetily ordered to give tihe Pal mntto State regb~uent the extra pay at the war rate. It is n-:edh:-s to sas that the solieirs of that reiment ar< grateful to Colonel Jones and Sen ato. OUR NOBLE DEAD. Their Nemory Honored by the United States Army and Navy. The feature of memorial day exer eiscs in Savannah Wednesday was the presence at the head of the procession of two companies of the Second United States infantry (regulars) under com ma-d of Lieut. John L. Hines, and the firMig by that body of the custornary salute to the dead at the Confederate monument in Forsyth park. The par ticipation of the regulars in the excer cises was some what unexpected. Wed nesday morning the veterans' associa tiun ha% ing charge of the ceremonies received a tender of escort from the regulars and quietly and cordially ac cepted. This is probably the 6i time in history when a salute i% honor of dead Confederates has been fired by recular troops of the Federai army. Followina the regulars there were in line the Coufederate veterans, the local militia and citizens. TGCCUED H2ARTS IN AUGCSTA. The Augusta Chronical says: Con federate menorial day in Augusta, 1899, was mirked by one of those hap py occasions that so frequently in the past year have borne witness to the fact that we are one great, loving, loyal na tion united in the strongest bonds of patriotism and brotherly love. It was with grateful bearts that Augustans received the tender of the bands of the Fourth Illinois and Third Nebraska regzirents to partici;'ate in the ceremo nies Of the day. Tne emotions of the people as they saw in the same proces sion the bands in blue and the C.n federate survivors in their old gray uniforms were too deep for cheers, but the scene is engraved upon their mem ory aud will always be one of the most sacred pages in Augusta's history. MATRINEs 31ARCIIED AT VICKBURG. A dispatch from Vicksburg. Miss., says: The Confederare decoration day ceremonies were probably the most notable ever held here. A detachment of 75 marines and siilors from the United States gunboat Nashville took a leading part in the ceremonies. The blue jackets were heartily cheered by the Confederate veterans. Several of fieers of the gunboat also took part in the exercises. Shot from Ambush Alfred Thurman. a well-known Ne gro of Leesburg, Ga., was shot and killed from ambush near that town on Thursday. Thi cause of the tragedy is bclieved to have been revenge. When George Bivins, George Fort, and Bill Holt, the three Negroes outraged Mrs. Maroney in the presence of her hus baud in this county a few. months ago, they were run down by Thurman and it was through his efforts that they were brought to justice and later lynch ed. 1hurman at that time expressed himself as bitter'y ooposed to the crime committed by the Negroes and openly stated that he would use all his efforts toward their cap' ure, which he did. His life was threa:ened by friends of thle dead Negroes. Tne lynched Ne groes' friends had arranged to kill three prominn nt white men of the country who had made threats against Bivins, Holt and Fort and were about to carry it out when flhurman heard of it and be g tn to hunt out the scheme to prevent m nurder. He almost succeeed in com pletely trapping the nine conspirators when they turned the tables and shot him to death in the road. The parties are nearly all known and a number of arrests will be made within the next few days. Volunteor's ?xtra Pay. The Columbla Record says Secretary Boyd Evans is receiving a tlood of let ters from voluuteers and those reject ed ab ut tae pay which it is hoped to b go)tten for them, and he states that all sueh commuunica ions should be sent t thle various captains, who can give Iall the neces-ary information. Tho-e rejeted will receive pay for the time they were here until their rejectiorn by the med iaal examiners. It is estiwat d that -about 2.rJ00 mnen fall in this a tt-egory. and they will get on on aver age of $~>. The men accepted will also probably get pay for the time elapsing bt w en their euli-tiug and aeceptanee All or tnis is now in process of setile ment, and thle money will come through the gpvernor. if it is gotten at all. The g-vrnor has put the mnitter in the Shr ofJ Jude C. P. T.)bnsen.d and r. ~Bord Evae s, who are cotid-at of pting ths mnauey. Press'.cy's Parlors. Mr. D. A. Pressley, of Columbia, who represents the Ludden. & Bates Suthern 3Music H~ou-e, has just fitted up his exhibition parlors. Here may be found specimens of the standiard in strunats which he haudles-Mathu shek pianos. Mason & Hamlin and Sterliug Orgrans. These are first-class instrunents of established reputation. 3r. Pressley invites lovers of music and admirers of hih grade instruuneuts to cive him a call, Hie stands ready, also. to give prompt attention to all inquiries atidressed -to him by mail. See advertis.:went in another column. A Madmaa's Fearful Deed. Early Thursday morning &b.lard 0,walid. an intraun int in iker, age 1 25 y ears. stabbed to death his wife, Mary, aged -'. and thecir six-year odld dangem ter, Gus-ie, at their home. 96t2 Jeifer s.i avenmu', Centrville, a suah'rb if Ca uudeni . J. He then eut h's throat a ,d was taken to the Coip 'r llo p tal. whe- nea is not exj ected to iv e. It i bei':ed he becamie suddenly insane during the niat An, Unausual Welding Gift. A rather una,u:il wedd.ing presenta tion was madie in W\ashimctou a nay ot two ag~o. The bride was Mrs. McKay, 'he <hvorce I wite of Gxordou McKay. ai I h io' led' illniona.ire. The bride grooun wa i II rr you Breuniug, former iv antache or the. Gcrrman leg.ttion at na ti-ton. The. present in qu st i )U .1,1.00 wht orth of securities. sent to tie bride by her form. r husband as a wediog gift. It would be interesting o know ii lr. 3L iry congratulated he bride or the gioom. SUMMER SCHOOLS To Be Held In Each County to Teach the Teachers. A STATE SUMMER SCHOOL To Be Held at Rock Hill for the Benefit of Graded School Teachers and Others. State Superintendent of Education Mcfaban sends out the following cir cular letter to various educational peo ple throughout the State. Office State Superintendent of Edu cation, Columbia, April 26, 1899. County Summer Schools-It is now well known throughout the State that we shall have this summer in each county a summer normal school of four weeks' duration, with a regular course of study in common school branches. I hesubjects taughtthisyearwillbeEag lish, geography and arithmetic, upon which examinations will be held at the close of the school. Each school will be conducted by a faculty of two in structors, each faculty teaching in two counties and thus employed for two months. State Summer School-But there are many teachers who could more profita bly spend their time at a higher school. Hence a summer school of a high grade and varied courses will doubtless be welcomed by graded school superin tendents and college professors. To meet this need and to raise the stand ards of education in the State, I am planning to hold at Winthrop College (whse co-operation has.been secured) a State summer normal school, such as is conducted in many of the leading-uni versities of to-day. The persons engag d to instract in the county schools will be required to take courses in the State school. This school will offer elective. courses in pedagogy, English language, Eiglish literature, Anglo-Saxon consti tutional history, politicaleconomy,-bot any, physiology, physics, physiography, mathematics, astronomy, drawing, vocal music and possibly Latin and Greek. Fuller details will be given in a printed announcement letter. Each course will be conducted by a specialist, and particular care will be taken to see that the sciences are taught practically, to lead to their introduction into the grad ed and common schools. Many of the best country teachers and most of the graded schoQl teachers of the State will be expected to take advantage of those courses and thus be stimulated along the lines of the most modern develop ment of educational ideas. Periods of recitation will be onehour in len3th in each subject, six days in the week. Not more than three courses will be allowed to any one student, and the taking of only two will beencourag ed, the objecL being to learn something thoroughly. Board and lodging will be agreeable and (including laundry) will cost not over t welve dollars for the four weeks, porsibly only ten dollars. The professors will, for the most part, be ch->sen from the faculties of of our best colleges. State and denomi national besides whom there will be seveial noted educators from abroad. It is expected that several hundred teachers will be assembled, represent ing every college and progressive school in the State, as well as many that are not teachers. The intellectual pleas ure and the stimulus of these associa tions and consequent professional spirit shoud give an impetus to education that will be felt in the remotest corner of the State. Fresh from this inspiring study un der master-teachers, the instructors of the county schools, (some of whom will have been instructors in the State school,) will go forth to their work with higher standards and greeter zeal. It is for this reason that the county schools will be held later (.July 15. to Augzust 15, and August 15 to Septem ber 15 ) Attendance upon either the State school or a county school will probably be compulsory by regulation of the State board of education. It is h'ped that graded school superintendents and boards will encourage, if not require, their their teachers to atten~d the State school. The object of the cirpular is to call attention of the educational public to the ab ve programme anid to appeal to the better equipped andi more ambitious teachers to make their arrangements now to attend the State summerschool. City superintendents are asked to lay this matter before their teachers, and county superintendents are requested to communicate with such of their teachers as they think will endeavor to take ad vantage of the opportunities of this State school; all are urged to send me as soon as possible the names of those who express a purpose to attend this school. Price of board, railroad rates and many other coniderations affecting the sa ~eess of the State school are some what dependent upon the estimate of probible at tendance. I trust that all friends of the proposition will at once commulnirate with with ace, giving me such assurances as they can. I John J. McMahan., State Superintendent of Education. The State has contributed to the sup port of the school and it will doubtless be successful. Reward for a Ravisher. The governor has offered a reward of $150) lor the capture and conviction of the Negrro fiend who committed rape on IMrs. Williams in Greenville. The people rose up en masse and hunted for the brute, but h'e esciped and is now thought to be in Georgia. He is a black negro, about 5 feet, 9 inches tall, has wide ope isuaces between his upper teeth and had on a soldier's uniform. He has a general slovenly appearance. Won Them Over Bigamist Woodruff, of New York, who has married over fifty wives and has five living in New York, has rewon the t~vo who were prosecuting him and jk thy efs to teify against him.