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SOME GOOD ADVICE Given the Negroes by a Co'ored Man ON EMANCIPATION DAY He App3al to His R ic3 to Fit Themselves for Citiz irship. Opposes Reduction in the South's Representation. Emancipation Day was cclbrated in great style in Beaufort. The grand marshal of the day was Joscph Dais. There was a street j gradc of colercd veterans of the late war, eclored militia and business men and citfz~rs. The exercises were held at the sch'ol house. The emancipation p 'elamation wa read by Edivard Mayors. R.v. P. P. Watson was master of ceremonies. Robert Smalls delivcred a short address reviewing the first emancipation cele bration which was held at B aufort in 1863. Gen. Rufus Saxon wired con gratulations. as he wax pre sent in Beau fort at the '63 celebration, which were read by RWv. Watson; after which he introduced the orator of the day, Presi dent Thomas E. Miller, who spoke in part as follows: Mr. Chairaan, veterans and feh citizens: I am here at my old hcmnc, having been honored by your commit tee with an invitation to deliver the ad dress on this the thirty seven-h anni versary of cur emancipation. It is not in my po wer to express here or elsewhere the hearteelt gratitude that 1 owe you and how deeply I appreciate this call to be with you en this day-a day that means so much to us negro s It is indeed cur passover, for upon it the pronunciamento that mtdeus men and citizens and that severed the chains that bound us in fetters that were gall. ing iodeed went into effect. Every nation weak cr strorg has had its passover day; and the more loyal they are to their ecuntry. the rze-.re ;a triotic they are to their birthiar d, the more faithful they have beyn in cowu memorating the ar of their deliverarce. And this msgtifcent di-play of citizens and soldiery and es: ecially that solid phalanx over there of battle scarred veterans who fought that this day might not be robbed of its hallowed blessings, remind me of the full meas ure of loyalty, patriotism and self-sacri Icing devotion to principles that are the embodiment of the American Ne gro. While in the state senate, one of "e greatest compliments that was ever paid to the head, hand and heart of the American negro fell from the lips cf that splendid Confederate chieftain, Gen. Mart Gary. Said he: "The ne gr'o is ignorant, but he is loyal to a cause, he is faithful to a trust, and there is no body of men found anywhere who will follow a lersdcr with more confidence, love and fidelity than the negro" "Give himn les dership," said Gen. Gary, "and be becomes blirda to everything other than to the call of duty." Yes, Mr. Chairman, our people have never betrayed a trust, whether at home, in the fields, in the work shops or on the battle f1:1. Eistory re cords him as never a carping hypo crite with foul treason in heart. Standing here amidst the v:ry first moments of a aew century, having been permitted to live durit g the last half of the ccntury that he, j'tst passed away, I am able to recall many events -ome of which are recor ded history And as I stand here and draw acide the curtain, and peep down, away down the vista of time, 1 see the events, as if with magic, passing before my vision all tho way down. d~vn the vista, por tions which are obscured on account of hoary age. Can 1, must Istop for a momer t and point out a few of the things we sufi -red previous to :his, the birtbo ay of our de liverance? No, oh, no. Moat o'f them are engraved upon our hearts as ii burnt in by hot steel. Nevertheless this is not the rime for me to indu ge in the temptatica to re all them. There is another ta-k-a self in flicted task assigned me, and it is to deal brit fly wita present cnditions, and from them take a retkonicg so as to present to y ou a b:rd~eye view of the blesaings tha; arc to be ours in the future-bessings that must co-me if we can only continue to bear andi forbear; bl'ssings that we will enj'y if we wl only labor, prepare ourselve,, and wait for their coming. Hence, I hace Jhosen for my subje ct "At sps non fract\." franlated iit erally my subject is, 'everthiess hope is not broken." At present our situition is not wha' we would like to have it. To one who sees an obj -et. supcrficially the iu lo is gloomy, but af ter all the sun is s'i. shining, and the fog, the mist, must and will disappear. But, fellow citizers, we must lint uD our hands and execute, for no peo ple has ever prospered by waiting - supinely waiting-ror outside assistance or for outside iaterference. Where ace we? Where are the ten millions of neeroes loeate6? We are principally in the slave holding states, and there we m'ust aud will reai-o un less we fly frcm uoder the A actian flag to a laod over w hich the Ariaan eagle spreads not its s~irgs in majesty and power. The north does not want us. Why, even the great state of Illinois, which furnished car emancipator, through its present governor, TFanner, tells us we must not come. HI.vo you forgotten that not two years ago be forbide negro laborers entering into the state of. Illi nois to labor in the miines? He called us aliens and said that if, we persisted in coming there to work-not to vote to labor in the mints, the lowest of labor, to earn bread by the sweat of cur brow; if we persisted in comirog there to labor and to work he would meet us at the border with Galling guns and shoot us to death. Yes, friends, he was so rcpor:ed in the daily papers, and I have on ver scea it contradicted. Nevertheltss ho is one of our Republicant governors. In every Repumean convent'on, upr to the time Garfield was nominated, something was said in the platform favorable to the negro. But since then our great natiornal Republican conven tions have not had mnn in uhem who were loyal enough to us to place in the p latform one word of hipe and cheer for the negroes who hiad been faithful to them at all timos atnon all cceca-ions. The nation has just succeeded in electirg a republican presieent, W~m Mc10ntey, a-:d he has written a loug message to congress. 1 know a nertj preacher who grows frautie every time he sees the word negro priut'd with a little "n!"; but on the r.ish: alter President MoMinley's recent mena::e claim-" would have been thankful t nresni lcKinley if he had able to renmember the negro with a little "n." The truth is fellow citiz ns, he did not remember to write us with any kiad of an "n" in his message. The truth is, the national republican party, threugh its offiHers, have served notice on u that they have grown tired serving ui, a-d that they do not intend to interfere with or aesist us. When Presiae'nt MicKinley made his southern tcur he paid in Gera that every Confhdcrate grave was a m ;nu ment to ".Am ri an patriotism1. Fellow eitizens, let me q'ote Presi dent MlcKinley again: "Every Con federate r'v is a monument to Ameri can ra riotism." Do you doubt it? It you are republicans, which I know you are, you do not dare doubt it, for our rei ub::can pre-ident, wh~o is the official mouth-piece of the republican party, slid so, and the party at the last elec tion edorsed it by re electing him; hen c', it is true. It is useless to live if you intend to live in biindnesss. Every utterance of imper:ance falling from the lips of nothern republicans, with very few ex ceptions, tends to show that the repub lican party is getting in doubt on the subj, ct of who was right or who was wrong during the last war. What is a patriot? What is patriotism? Can the graves of men who wer guilty of doing wrong be monuments to patrioti-m? No, fellow citizens, we must acaept Wim. McKinley as authority on th.s subject. One of the sore subjects with us negrees, particularly the negroes of iseaufort county, is the matter of our partial and temporary distranchisement; and we blame the white people of Soutb Carolina for it. In part they are to blame, but only in very small part. 'hey have aceomvlished this act with, through, and by the permission of the national republicans of the north. If the north did not want it so, the hand I ful of w:iite people in the south could not make it so. A republican supreme court, by re fusing to interfere and assist us have :aid that they were right in this act. The rerublican congress. by refusir.g to seat rerublican congressmen from South Caro:ia, have further emphas:z.d the fact that the white people of South Carolina in this act have been right. The truth is but the truth, and I am here to tell you the whole truth, and it is this; the national republican party has deserted us, has abandoned u-; and with a very few exceptions, they show by their failing to act, and aften by their utterances, that they need the forgivenness of the south for ever hav ing assisted us. We have a few friends left, but they are in a woeful minority. Chandler, Mason, Allison, Tom Reed, and Ben Harrison are still with us, but where are their backing? When it comes to the negro they stand almost alone! From time immemorial (as measured by the life of the American repuolie) the negro has been the bone of conten tion. In the early part of the century the fact of his being in the south, and thereby was counted by the south in its claim to and possession of political reptesentation in the national council was a cause of a long and bitter strife between the north andI south. The southern masters said that though he was a black slave, he was human, and for that reason insisted that he should be counted in the an prtionment of political representauani among the states; and they did succeed in naving counted him in part. On the other hand the north said thai although he was human being be was only a chattel, hence in the political appor tionment he should not be eoonted at al; and that only free white men should be counted. This subj-et of political representa tion fur the nigro agitated the nation from its earlitest b-rth, and was the chief and dir~ et cause of the firing of the first shot at Fort Sumter, and the sur render of that n b e chieftain at Appo iatox. It was the chief cause of the emancipation proclamation that wa read here today; avd ioday, thirty-seen years after our emancipation, it is the bone of contention. The question that concerns us more than any other one question is the fift> coreemen who are accredited to the south on acaust of the p esence of ten million ue-grot~s in the siuth. N arny cv ry negro pli eran, nearly v. ry negro preacher, raeatly evt ry thinking, well meaning nek'ro through out this glorious southiana &' ours, sa thit the sout-n should lore those fifny congressmen becau-,e of our partial and temorary diisfranchis. ment. "A prophet is not without honor save in his own country;" and why so? Be eause he is a seer-one wnlo uavr ils the future, and s.hows to his fellow country meu tthiugs that are for their be~t good. but selcom in accord with their thoughts or wi-hes Fe.low ciuxzens, that i my position before you tocay. I have iiird e this subj ct, and as 1 see it, u myowngood, my country'sgo Ju. ad especially the good of my race. I feel that i amn not in accord with the thoughts of that race, but, 0h, country men, negroes, have patience, give me your symnpatny and bear me; for the cause of negroes unborn. I am unalterably opposed to the cut ting down of the south's representation that is given her on account of the ten milion negroes within her confines. I am opposedi to it, first, because I am a ne-ro; second, because I am a southern negro; third, because it is my expecta tion to live and die here, and my solemn wish is that all who are connected with me, as neg~roes, should remain in this southland-Lhe best plane in the world for negroes. Remain here and bear the oppression; remain here with a heart full of love for the oppressor; remain here doing the right; remain here making and saving money; remain here with a purpose to better your condition regardless of the surroundtngs; remain here clidiging to the land becau:e it is our birthright; remain here nesting upon the promise of God, praying to God for a better da, asking God to open the eyes of our white citizens that they may see that it is to their interest to assist us in all our undertakings; to unite with us in a purpose to make this southland the home of free men. Remain here until tne day comes when, with the as sitance of the white people, the law of the land will drive out violence; remain here uatdl, through and by the white people, the law iwill be sufficiently ad miristered that the humblest black or white citizen will, at any and all times, be protected in his lhfe, liberty and prosperity; remain here in the south land, that by our presence, and on ac count of our greait numbers, great polit ical power will cone to and remain with the south. Yes, General M'cCrady says we came here from Barbadoes, one year after the white maa, with the gun in one had protecting the life and property of our masters, and with ax, pick and ho in the other. reclaiming and clear ir g the swamps and forests to make this fine habtation and abode for free. "At spes non fracta"-nevertheles hope is not broken, and let us r~sL up on the anchor of hope, f ,, the day when every right guarantcti to ew ;z -n ship by the consitu-n wil. be riven to us by and through the waite uan of the south. God can niove ncu taia. We are not any worse stil eted in our citizen ship aad rights than have been other nations. i have stated that I am opposed to th - cutting down of the representation of the south. Why am I opposed to it? IBcause it would be wrong, and if it is a wrong to temporarily disfranchise u;, the taking away of the south's represen tation for that reason wou'd b. a great er wrong Two wrongs can never make a right. Have you ever stopped to ouat the cost to us negroes shoued the south lose its fifty corgressmen that are allotted to her on account of our presence here? If the re;rezentation were taken away it would mean absolute and to-al disfranchisement of the propie wio had no representation in the general gov--rnmeut. For a time the white people wonld &uter, but if tl e representation were taken away from the south the negro would be practioally killed for one hundred years. Some go so fatr as to say that they do not care what happeta to 3 neg.oes so long as the souin loses her fitty representatives, but ie' us stop and count the c.t before we j )in the hue and cry: "Cut down the represen tation, out down the bouth's represen tation." It is argued that it is no use to have a thing that you cannot use; a right that you cannot er j iy. BAt that noes not hold good in all cases. The children of Israel were given the ark of the covenant, asd after they had crossed the Jordan tney forgot the teachings of Moses, ani for them the ark of the covenant lost its power, but it was the insignia of Jehova's promise It failed to do service for the sinful Israe'ites and the Canaaainites carried it away, and placed it in their temple, in the midst of their idols to mike it a thing of derision in its helphssness in that temple of biindncss. wickedness aad tin; but when they went back to look at it in derision, surrounded by the idols of Bal, what dii they behold? Whiy all their idols hid tumbled to the ground and were crushed; and in that sight the heathen saw that the ark of the covenant, which was the magna harta of the Jews, had in it the strength and protection to the Jews. Let our right to vote be locked up temporarily in the temple of prejudice, but do not seek to destroy it by asking congress to cut down the representation of the South, which was given on account of our presence here. A right once given is never annihilated, and should the south lose the representa tion given on account of our presence we will be disfranchised forever-we, and not the white man, will be the sufferer for all time if the act is per petrated. No, fellow citizens, let the south have her repreeentation, although the right is looked up in the temple of blind prejudice; but if the right re mains the time will come, and come it must, when the white men of the south will invite us to enjoy it with them. Let us prepare ourselves for its er j or ment, for it will come back to us in its fullness and its right. Let us resolve to use it with our white neighbors for the benefit of ourselves and our white neighbors. Let us rm solve to fit ourselves educationally, spiritually and materially for its use and enjoyment. In short, jet us look to the south,abso luely to the south to assist us in the ejyment of every right that belongs to free cilsenship. If they do not ive it to us the north wili never inter fere or assist us to get i:. We have been the bine of contention between the t wo secetions too long. It is time for us to educe ourselves that we may see the true inwardness or motive of this p->;tical agit ation. The Jews had been disfranchised in rope for hundreds of years, bu-. they remaint d a virtuosas piring,achie v in, God-fearing, neighoor inving p o -le; andI toiav on ace ,ant of their in teigence, high moral ceve-lop- ment, integr.ty, and wealta, they dictate al most any terms of peace or war to the crowned head. of the wo~rld. GAd it. God and right is right. "Jus tuce. like a volcanic fire, may sleep awhile suppreser d, but can't expire.' Live rigmit. Dai right. God is not dead 'Ar spes non fraora." We must possess ourselves of tech uieal education, commnercial education. industral educati.n We must pre pre ourselves to o'c -upy every avenue f thritt and legititua-e gain Get mo ney, but get it honesdly. Keep woney ut do not hoard it. Keep it to as-is' ou in d. vel-iping the s ,uthland Keep L.>uey to a-srst yvu in bettering 'our c nditon, and se.auring h. mes. Ks aoey for a r-ainy day. Keep upi your ehuren' ; sui port y our pre aioere; samp por j our acauol--; teach your girin t work at hoize, aan by' so doi'-i nu v 1: strengthen their morality. An i let us oot forget that we ose a duity:first t(' South Carolhna; secocd to the natio:.; third, to cnurselv.s; and last, but not east, to God. From the report of Superintendent McMahan we see that more negroes attend pub ic schools than whites It is true that we get less than one third of the money appropriated for the publie rchools of the rtate, but when we c.>nsider who the ruling cia-s es are, and are reminded of the pelti cal antagonism that has existed be tween the two races, I am r.ally sur prised, edifi-d and gratified to see that our political anttagorists have treated us so well, and are spending as much as they do spend on the negro for the purpose of education. My subj'at, "At spes non fracta," is the motto of the Hope family, but their court of arms is more striking than the motto. If I had the power of a great artist I would throw that great coat of arms on canvas tha: you might behold it; but as I cannot draw I will present you a pen picture of it. At the bottom of the picture is a represeai tation of our world-the globe on which we live-but it is cracked nearly in half. On each side of the yawning ibyss separated by the chasm, arc the two Hope sisters, each one of them with the end of a chain thrown over the shoulder that is ring boltcd to the earth, and at the other enas of the chains are achors that are held a'oft by the right hand of each si-ter. One of them is the picture of despair; but the counte nanee of the other beams with smiles as she points to the rent in the earth that separates them, and she casts her eyes away off to the sun that is just ris lag;do not moan on account of this s a en ing abses that separates us, for never theless hope is not broken, and God's :wn time the strength of the sunlight will close the breach in our sphere that paris us and we will be united again. And, oh! fellow citizens, let us take ourage, and possess ourselve-s of the raith of Abrahamz, the confidence of Daniel and Nehemiah, that some day, the sunlight of liberal education, the sunlight of loving forbearenoce, the sun liuht of deter-ination and patience will drive, yes, drive away the rancour and prcdjudice that divide our race from the white tace. Yes, if we live right, give and take, the day will come when the gulf that separate us will be bridged across Then let us look to the southern white people for help; a-k them by ourlife,to help us to c'ose up the rent that now ex:sts in poi.cal sphere; and until it c -ims let us not f rg.:t this beautiful motto, "At spes non fracta"-nevertheless hope is not broken. The New App rtionmmnt By a vote (f l65 to 102 the house Tuesday acceptel the reappotioanwent plan pr.p)sed by the B irleigh bill wbich icreaies the memb >rship of the house during the nex. decade from 357, the present membership and the mem n.reuip proposed be the committee or Hopina biil to 336. The result was iargely brougut about by the influence of certain senators from several of the larger northern statcs who threw the weight of their influence in the se-le in favor of the larger membership. When it became apparent that these faitors were at work against his bill Mr. Hop kins attempted compromise by giving an additional representation each to N-..rth DaIota, Colorado and Florida, out his adversaries rotused to compro mire after complete v.ctory was assured [ne Crunipaaker prosposition t, recom mit the bill for the purpose of a-car taining what states abridg-:d the right to vote to an extent which would entail reduced representation was defeated 130 Lo 110. There was no roll call on the vote but a number of ?Reoublicans vot ed with the Dmocrats. Under the bill as passed today no state loses a re presentative and the following make gains; Illinois, New York and Texas turee eaci; M1innesota, New Jersey and 1enLSyivauia two each; Arkansas, Cal ii o.nia, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, L.>uisiana Ma.sa3buetts Mississippi, Misouri, North Carolina. North Dakota, Washington, West Virginia and Wis consin one each A strange Case Despondent because her love for Mrs. John White must be confined within the bound of friendship, Miss Katherine E. Gorham, ef Wichedon, Mass., com mitted suicide Wednesday evening by shooting herself in the head while sit ing in a room with her mother. The infatuation dates back two years, whet they lived in adjoining houses. The intimacy was not pleasing to Mrs. Gor ham, but there seemed no way to stop it. Last fall, when Miss Gorham went to Boston to study elocution, Mrs. White hired a room there so as to be near her friend. About a year ago Miss Gorham went to a sanitarium in Phila delphia for treatment for a mental trouble, and came back apparently cured. Miss Gorham was 21, the only daughter of Mrs. Marian Gotham, Grove street, editor and proprietor of the Winchendon Courier. Miss Gorham spent the greater part of the day with 11rs. White, going with her to her home on Linden street. Mr. White, who did not approve of the intimacy between the we oen, ordered Miss Gorhamn out oi the house. Sne went direct to a store and b ught a revolver. She had gone tc the Hotel Winchendon and hired room, to which she was accompanied by Mrs. White. Tney remained in the room until 7:30, when they left foi their respective homes. Arrangtements for the funeral will not be completed until the arrival of Mrs. Gorhamt's sister, Mrs. Smith, from Paiiadelpaia. White is a travelinp alesman for White Bros., cotton manufacturers. Force Hanna's Hand. According to the Washington corres pondent to the Atlanta Journal Sena tr Hanna is using the threat of an ex tra sss~on of congress to force actior on his ship tubbidy bill. He is reported ahaving appealed to S,:na or Clay, thre eider or the minority, to allow the bilj to com~e to a vote in oraer to preveni The necessity for an extra sessio ; te .hich appeal Sernntor elay, very j~ro pery, turned1 a deaf ear. This is as it shoud tw, and it is to o hoped tne op ptiUn to thib incx:uaabte grab will stand fixu througaouL the presect ses iOn oe aded if Harjna arid his oreq in-st ujion it; .it will only make this ubndy iniquity stand Out in its unE hint. L is aimoply a determined ef lort on the part of H sana and the ad mnaitrauion to re wa.d certain syndi ec es for t~heir contriOui ions to the Re puwnean camp~argn fund, and they woud io waue to accepi. full responsL b.iy f or it. Tae p~opie mray wake up to a faui realizauion of the situatiot hen they se.e ttaat the people wno now nave control of the government are even willing to :orce an extra sLs~iOn o conuresn if nee.sbary in order to ex trt this immenbe trinute for the bene fit ol a few iniitionaires. Trusts Beat Him. The defta. ot senarur Chandler of New Haznes:uire fur renonminaalon by LLIe RiouAlean etueus of his State a sitar is possioly mnore of a sur rie to tre people of the c.>untry than to the senator himself, who has indi eated forebouingb of this result. 1t is IoL often tuat a sanator whose service as b.:en lons as Mr. Chandler's is re jeted by his party, and very seldom tnat nrs Geteat is accomplished bi so overwelinIiig a maj ,rity. It is pos :i19ie tnat his attitude on the silver quetion has somrc thing to do with re ueing nis popuarity, but the senator hieli has neelared that powerful railroad influene~s were devoted to his defeat. 1t has beco-ne a very ticklish matter with Repubnlican statesmen to offend railroaas and trusts. Attorney .emeral Monnett of O(io prosecuted the Sandard Oil trust and his head ei in the badet. Accoriaing to Chan dier the raiuroaas of Lew Hampshire are in charge of the Republican guillo tine in that State.-The State. The Kingstree Matter. The Cojlunia State says the board of directors of the State dispensary met Wednesday and took up the Kingstree shortage matter. A conference was held with the Williamsburg delegation _in the general assembly. It was determin ed to call the present county board up for a hearing, that charges of official misconduct are to be formulated, and that if the resignations of the members ar not forthcoming, the board will try them according to law. The legiblative delegation is understood to be in sym pahy with the board, and it looks as if te old county board must go. The Sta board has determined to probe the Kigstrce matter, so the members say, to the very bottom, and do every thing possible to have juistic meted out D.ruetor Dukes, at the reqiest of Ch airman Wdiiiams, went in person to Krrstree and directed the arrest of the aieused dispenser, taking the pe luminary steps in the prosecution. Tne afternoon session of the board was devoted princi pally to the consideration ~f v.rious rerqiests for the return of l:q'ars seized ny the dispensary con tables a ontraband. SPECIAL MESSAGES From Governor McSw teney to the Legislature EX?ENSES OF THE MILITIA lncu red in Suppressing the Threatened Uprising In Georgtown, Some Vilued Relics. The governor Friday transmitted to the general assembly three messages upon matters ot some interest. One is accompanied by the expense account of the soldiery sent to Georgetown to put down the alleged trouble. The second message relates to the flgs of the PAlmetto regiment in Flor ida, and the vase presenter Andrew Jackson by the women of S >th Caro lina and left by him at his death to the last survivor of the Palmetto regiment This was referred to the comnittee on military in the house. The message as to the expense of the troops went to the ways and means committee of the house, and the third which referred to the ceding of certain lands on Sllivan's Island to the Uri ted States government was sent to the judiciary committee of the house The following is the text of the three messages: EXPENSES OF TROOPS. Gentlemen of the General Assembly: Oa two occasions during the past year it became necessary in order to maintain the peace and prevent mob violence to call upon the strong arm of the militia. The promptness with which the volunteer troops responded and the healthful influence of their presence is strong evidence of the edi oiency of the service and the wisdom of properly maintaining a well organiz ed, disciplined volunteer soldiery. There was necessarily some expense connected with the calling out of the militia, and I bag to Submit herewith the itemiz:d statement of cost and re commend that you make provision to pay the same. In the Florence trouble I paid out of my contingent fund all the expenses except the amount due the railroads for transportation. In the Georgetown matter only one item has been paid, that of transporting the Sumter company from Sumter to Georgetown, and which had been ad vanced by the captain of -the company. I could have arranged to borrow this money but there was no authority of law for it, and I thought best to let it stand until an appropriation could be made by you, My contingent fund was inadequate to pay it. Proper vouchers are on file for the various items. It is a just and proper charge against the State, ard I am sure will receive your favorable consideration. Here are the items for which an appropriation is asked, and also a statement showing what has been paid: GEORGETOWN TROUBLE. First battalion rof infantry: Two days for 177 men..........$ 531 00 Hauling guns, etc 5 52 i barrel beer.. .. ...2 75 Bread, etc . .. 55 rransporting 177 5 men and guns Charles ton to Georgetown an d return (A.. C. L ) 921.00 $1.465.85 Sumter c~mpan': Three day s for .36 men........... 157.50 ['ransporting 36 msn Georgetown t o Sumter (A C L ) 87.75 243 25 G-.orgetown coampanies: T.wo days 37 mea troops K S. C. V. talary . ... .. .111 00 Four days, 45 me'n, Co 1, S. C. V. 1. 270.00 381.00 Total amount due in Georgetown trou ble .......2,090.10 Amunt paid out of contingent fuod. Transpotation Sum ter tO Georgetown 85 75 Total cost of State to Ge or ge towna trouble ..... $2,175.85 FLOEENCE TROUBLE. To amount due the A. C. L. railroad fo~r special irain . - $ 446,00 Phid out of contingent fund: Timnmoneyvile Guards.. .$200 62 R M:L .nd >n, sher>ff... 98 75. R. McLendon, Stieriff... 15 00 314.37 Total cost to Stato in Florence ti-ouble... .. ...$ 760 37 RECAPITULATION, Amou2t due by State in Georgetown trouble... $,390.10 Amount cu> by 3:'te in Flor ence trouole............. 446.00 Total amount for which appro priation is asked.... ...$2,536 10 Yours v~ ry respectfully, M. B. McS veeney, Governor. THE MEXICAN WAR RELICS. Gentlemen of the General Assembly: In the early part of tne past year Col. James D. Bianding president of the Pa metto Regiment SuLrvivors' associa tion, addressed me a letter as governor turning over to the State of South Carolina in perpetuo one of the two flhgs carried by the regiment in the war with Mexico, together with the regimental records. He also submitted a request of the executive committee of the survivors association that they be allowed to place the "Jackson vase" in the legislative library under a glass atE and under Care of the secretary of state or of the librarian; so that the survivors may know, at, least, where it is. Both were accepted as the correspon dence hereto attached will show. The flag was placed in the State library and the vase is in the office of th, secretary of state. There is no glass case under which it may be placed. Under a resolu:ion of the survivors'i association the vase is to be kept by the executive committee for and to be the property of the last survivor of the regiment. There are still about 40 sur ivors as the records herewith submit ted will show. These are precious relics and have a history which all true Carolinians should be proud to cherish. The records should be preserved in some place where they could be easily I ecessible in case it should be detiredi to refer to them or have the history< published and these record. put in more permanent form.C I beg herewith to submit the corres-< pondence ad te.recordsfor such dis- 1 position as your honorable bodies may teem proper to make. Respectfully submit ted. M 8. MeSwCCy. Governer. THE SULL' VAN'S ISLA'D FORT. Gentlemen of the General A s'eab'y: 1 big to hand you herewith a letter which I received from the Honorable E-1hu Root, secretary.of war. whicb ex. plains itself. Al-o a draft of a bill which he susget ts hat le wouli like to have passed by the general acs(m bly. I ask for this matter y'ur c,>n ;ideration and such action as in y our wisdom may seem proper. Respectfully -ub n tied, M. B. McSeeney, G. v -ruor. Mr. Alihu Root in his lettr to the governor says: Sir: By an act approved February 3. 1900. the legislature of S Guth Caro lina ceded to the United S atcs title asd jurisdiction over certain tracts of hind in the town of Moultrieville atd Slivan's Inland, South Carolina, cx e'pting from the acres described "those portions which are occupied and in use by the public as highways, known as Central avenue and Beach avinue " B,aoh avenue, within the limits of the reservation, is impassable by vehicles on account of send drifts; and the ci s ing of this avenue is essential to the proper laying out of the military post. Central avenue is a winding street with a narrow shell road and is not rop-rly kept up by the town on account o.f lack of funds. It would seem des&rab!e that title and jurisdic-ion of tha p -ri.n of Central avenue within the res vatio, should be in the Uaitcd States in order that it may be improved and main tained by the govenment I have the honor, therefore, to in close the draft of an act pr.vidzng for the cession of title and j iredicti' n t.ver those portions of B3aeh isv.nue and Central avenue, excepted from the lands heretofore granted to the Uaitcd States, for the closing of Beich Iland for a highway, and for the keeping open of Central avenue as a public street, and to request your good offices in recommending the same to the sen ate and house of representativ,:s of your State. Under sections 71 and 72 of the gen eral statu:es of South Carolin;, 1882 the title of these streets is in the State of South Carolina. Very respectfully, Elihu Root, Secretary of War Dep't. The Tax Extension. The time for the payment of taxes has been extended after all. As thing now stand the taxpayers who have fail ed to come to time will have unitl Feb. 1 to do so. Friday morning the special commission in whom is vested the right to extend the time, consisting of the governor, the comptroller general and the attorney general met and it was de cided to extend the time till the day named. The State says this action was the result of the action of the house in adopting the Ashley resolution provid ing for the extension until March 1. The commission has been strongly against any extension this year, but the legislature seemed determined to pro vide for one. The comptroller asserted teat an extension till March 1 would tan gle up the books all over the State that it would be a serious matter. The r su't was the action taken Friday, which, it is said, will prove satisfactory to the senate. Those who have failed to pay their taxes will be glad to hear of this action, but every treasurer and an liter will hear of it with regret. True Chivalry. A little ragged, dirty, cypical negro boy was riding an old wornout, hroken down mule that wouldn't trot if a lo comotive were to push it along The boy held a bundle in his hand and wa, using his coat as a saddle The mule had almost stopped in the muddy str' et and in his effbrts to coax the animal he dropped his bundle and his , oat feil in to the mud below. A promninent bank president of Greenville was '.n the itreet neat by at the time noticed the discom fi are of the black African. With the kind and tender heart, charac eristic of a true southerner, this moneyea man wadd shrougli mud and with the same motuve he would have hrad had be been waiting on President MceKinley handed this little coon his buxdie. as isted him arranging his coat abd with the aid of a switch managed t.> Oiax the mule on. This act of the en kuown bank president is worthy~of i itation.-Greenville News A Busy Life Ended. Col. wns L frenholm, who was com troller of the treasury dutiog Cieve lanad's first administration, died at his home in New York Friday of pneumo nia. Col. Trenholm was a native of Charleston but had lived ia New York for several years, where he was eoated in business. In commenting on his death Thbe State says durtng his stay io New York Col. Trenholm was the con stant friend and advisor of those South Carolinia :s who appealed to him and 'we have seen it stated that he never permitted an inquiry or request from his old State to pass unheeded. thus, although absent in body, he gave constant evidence that his heart was still with the people of South Carolina. Charleston Wins. Secretary Long, Friday made public the report of the board of naval officers, submitted Thursday, -concerning the establishment of a naval station on the outh Atlantic coast, and more par ticularly with reference to the relatuve cerits of Port Royal or Charleson,S. ., as the site for this sta- ion. Tnie board recomends in favor of Charles ton, reinforcing its views wis h an elabo rate statement of the advantages of hat place over Port .Roy alI. A dissen ing view is presented by Rear Admi al George Summer, who favors a retea ion of the naval station at Port Royal. Why, Oh, Why? The Spring field, Mass , Republican ays: "Congressman Moody of this state akes the position that the fourteenth medment is mandatory upon c~n ~ress-respecting the reduction of re resentation in the Southern ststes, or example, to correspond with any re ncion which may have been made here in the rnegro vote. If that is so, hen even more clearly is the thirteenth mendment mandatory upon congress; nd yet what is Mr. Moody doing by ~ay of enforcing that amendment gainst slavery in the dominiens of our ubsidzed Sulu under lord?" An Old Man. The Florence Times say s Clio, S. C., athe happy possessor, perhaps, of the Idest citizen in the State. "Jesse ~olton," is is noted, "live I five yeart n the 18th. century, all of the 19 h. entury and is starting out on the 20th entury" Olio should feel proud of her isinguished centenarian- He is one f the wonders of the t ventieth cent DAZZLING LGHT. Illumination of a Car That Has Been Short-Circuited. Electricity played a queer prank on a Northern Central car the other night To lookers-on at a safe distance it was merely a remarkable display ,the like of which as never befcre seen in St. Louis. To those on the car it had many elements of tragedy. One man narrowly escaped death by fire and others of the passengers may have been injured in the panic that fol lowed. Even the officials of the United Railways Company have not yet ar rived at he exact extent of the damage done. The cars on the Northern Central line are the oldest in the service. Their fas es burn out freuently, but that night's occurrence was the most serious acci dent of the kind that has yet occurred. At 9:30 o'clock a car was rounding the sharp down-grade curve at Thomas street and Leffngwell avenue. It was half filled with passengers. Suddenly there was a grinding noise, which deafened those in the car and awakened residents in the neighbor-. hood. The car c-me to a sudden stop. What followed is told by an eye-wit ness. who was attracted to his window by the unusual sound. "When I looked out," he said, "the street was lit up for several blocks as if a powerful searchlight had been turned into it. The brilliancy all radia ted from the car, which I at first thought was on fire. I could see the car distinctly. It seemed a shadowy form, seen through a halo of light. The outer edge of this light was a brilliant, dazzling white, but the inner portion, the nucleus, as it were, nearest the car, was the deep red of a consuming bleze. "With the first play of the flames I heard passengers in the car cry out in alarm. Two young men jumped through a window and the other- pas sengers rushed for the back door. I saw a man leap from the rear platform with his coat smoking. He pulled the garment off as he left the car. "The illumination could be seen at a great distance, apparently for people come flocking from bloeks a-ound to see the illuminated car. Most- of them walked home. Another car pushed the disabled one to the sheds." Investigation Saturday morning showed that the accident was one of a number of electrical freaks caused by the recent damp weather. At the power house of the Northern Central line it was said that the current had become short-circuited. This meant that the current on coming from the wires, in stead of going through the controller on the front platform operated by the motorman, went through the one on the rear platform. Unable to get into the motors by that route it passed out again and sought the nearest route to the.rails. This was by way of the met e.l work about the sides and roof of the car. On its journey around the car a por tion of. the current escaped into the moist atmosphere, causing the appear ance of a halo. Enough of the current went through the controller and the motors to burn them out, which caused the red light of consuming flames. It was the burning out of the controller that ignited the coat of the man who stood near it on the rear platform. Street railway men agreed that the ac cident was a most unusual one.-St. Louis Post Dispatch. THREE JOINTS. Removed From a Man's Backbone and He Still Lives. Minus three joints of his backbone, John Kaller, of No. 50 Willoughby street, Brooklyn, N. Y., lies on a cot in St. John's Hospital, Long Island City, making a brave fight against death. The missing pieces of his spinal column were removed on Thursday last by five surgeons. It was an opera tion almost unparalleled in surgery, but it was his only chance for life. Kaller has been a telephone lineman. Recently he was sent to repair wires .along the Shore Road, in Astoria. About noon he was working at the top of a pole near the Woolsey estate. Just how It happened neither Kaller nor any one else knows, but suddenly the line man found himself in the clutches of an electric current. He had grasped a live wire, his body was twisted in tor ture and puffs of smoke arose from his burning hands. The man kept his senses. Hanging there, burning and in terrible pain, he .realized that to remain in ccntact with the wire for but a few seconds more meant death to him.. With strength born of that knowl edge Kaller tore himself free from the live wire on which he had fallen and deliberately threw himself to the road way. He fell 35 feet and struck upon his head and back. He was taken to St. John's Hospital, and doctors worked over him for eight hours before the dangers from the electric shock were removed. Then they performed the operation. In falling Kaller had broken his back. The seventh, eighth and ninth verte brae were badly fractured, and splin ters of the broken bone pressed on the spinal cord. The pressure had produced paralysis, and would have caused death if not removed. Dr. John Francis Burns was in charge of the operation. Assisting him were Dr. H. A. McGronen, Dr. J. 3. Mulcahey, Dr. Thomas Cassidy and Dr. John F. Farwell. Technically, the doc tors took out the spinous prosesses and transverse sections of the seventh, eighth and ninth vertebrae. The oper ation was successful. "I do not know of an exactly similar case." said Dr. Burns, last night. "Three vertebrae were badly fractured, and had to be removed, leaving arches to protect the spinal cord. But Kal ler's other injuries make his recovery douli tful, and at my suggestion his rel atives have telegraphed to his mother, asking her to come to his bedside. She lives in Illinois." Kaller's condition is very grave. He has remained conscious from the first, and has taken a keen interest in the remarkable operation performed upo.n him. _____ Following closely upon the rumor or the retirement of John Burns, of Eng land, from all active participation in the great movement of organized labor. in Great Britain is the loss of another famous leader in the person of Joseph Arch, the well-known agricultural la borer and member of Parliament. Mr. Arch confirms the rumor that he wi:l retire from all active work In the la ter fiel:1 at the next general election. The Tea industry The eesessful experiment of Unitedr States Commissioner of Agriculture Le Due, follo wed by the successful plan-t ing and maeuracture of tea at the Poec hurst farm-, Suumerville, near Char laston, has attricted northern capital iste: who will ga into the business on a la&rge cale a..d who expect to raie 300,000 pounds annually for the Amer an market. Col A (I. Tyler and Maj R DTrimble of New London, Conn., and the Baron A. von Brunig, formerly of the German legation rat Washingtenz arc leaders of the enterrpris and ~have arealy bought 4 000 ac-e. cof pine land alorng the line of ihe Charleston and Savannah railroad, 15 miles from here, Messrs. Tyler and Trimole were in camp at Summerville during the was with Spain and Eaw the suecess of tea culture at Pinehurst Mb j Trimble,will, it is said.be the active head of the com pany. It is said that Dr. Shepard h..s h.ad this year twice as many orders for tea as he~ e ni.. fill As It Should Be. President w iuliams~ of the seaboard Air Line hss appoin-ed Capt. V. E~. McBee, now superintedent of the Sea board, vice president and general mar POWER OF WATER - Hole Bored In a Bluff as if by a Can non Ball. A little group of solid citizens was standing on Baronne street, New Or leans, watching a cleaning gang at work with the hose. "That reminds me of old days in Cal ifornia," said one of the party as the stream veered slightly and shaved off the corner of a pile- of dirt. "I never realized how much force could be de livered by a jet of water," he con tinued, "until I tried hydraulic mining. It was in 1870, up on the Sacramento River. They had brought a stream down the Sierra Nevada Mountains In a big 'flume' that ended in a length of wire-wrapped hose and a six-foot noz zle with arm on the side for a couple of men to take held of. "They played the stream on a big bluff directly opposite, and it bored out the solid, packed foundation like living fire eating Into tinder. For a dozen feet from the nozzle the water seemed like a hard blue bar and there was something strange and murderous look ing in the way it drove straight out that made by flesh creep to watch it. Several laborers had been accidentally struck by the stream and in each case the man was killed as suddenly as if hit by a cannon ball. "I remember on one occasion some rival claimant came down from Shasta and took possession of a cabin not far from the end of the flume line. Our boss, who was a big Irishman named Murphy, told us to play the stream on the place, and as we were all spoiling for a row we lost no time in obeying. I never saw such a demolition in my life. The shanty flew seven ways for Sunday and one of the fellows inside was pitched bodily through the air and landed in the river. The distance was so great -nobody was hurt, and after that our gang was known as 'Murphy's light artillery.' Mark Twain draws a very vivid picture of hydraulic mining. in 'Roughing It,' and from personal ex perience I can assure you he hasn't embroidered the facts in the least." A Tornado's Freaks. John R. Musick of Kirksville, Mo., thus describes, in the Century, certain madcap pranks of a tornado which passed through tht city. 'Many strange freaks were played by the tornado. In a tree-top was found a woman's hais, supposed to have been torn from her head as she was carried through its branches, yet no person was found near It. A human scalp was found three miles from the city limits, under a bridge. Notes, let. ters, and papers were blown from the city Into Iowa, and found ninety miles away. One promissory note of $400 was found in a field near Grinnell, Iowa, nearly 100 -miles away, while clothing and papers were scattered along the entire distance. "One woman was decapitated by a tin roof, and her child was killed near her. Some persons who were outside the rotating current were killed or in jured by flying timbers, which, like bolts from the catapult of Jove, flew with deadly force for a great distance, while others In the very center of the storm escaped with little or no Injury. Perhaps the most remarkble experi ences were those of Miss Moorehouse, Mrs. Webster, and her son. The three. were caught up in the storm, and were carried beyond the Catholic church, nearly one-fourth of a mile, and let down on the common so gently that none were killed. Mrs. Webster had some slight cuts about the' hea4, her son had one arm fractured, but Miss Moorehouse was uninjured. "I was conscious all the time I was flying through the air,' said Miss 49>orehouse, 'and It seemed a long time. I seemed to be lifted up and whirled round and round, going to a great height, at one time far above the church steeples, and seemed to be cat" ried a long distance. I prayed to the Lord to save me, for I believed he :-ould save me, even on the wings of the tornado, and he did wonderfully' preserve my life. As I was going through the air, being whirled about at the sport of the storm, I saw a horse soaring and rotating about with me. It was a white horse, and had a harness on. By the way it kicked and struggled as It was hurled about I know It was alive. I prayed to God that the horse might not come in. con tact with me, and it did not. I was mercifully landed upon the earth un harmed--saved by a miracle.' "Young Webster says he saw the horse In the air while he was being borne along by the storm. 'At one time It was directly over me, and I was very much afraid I woril come in contact with Its flying heels.' The - horse, It Is said, was caught up and carrned one mile through the air, and, according to the accounts of reputable witnesses, at times was over 200 feet high, passing over a church steeple Many who were not In the storm say that they saw horses flying In the wind. Beyond being well plastered with mud, the white horse was uniln Jured by his aerial flight" A Fine Job. Two park laborers sat on tbe curb stone of the Eastern Parkway In Brooklyn eating dinner out of their pails, for It was the noon hour, and discussIng their surroundings in a brogue which suggested that they had n't been over very long. One of them fell to admiring the Museum of Arts and Sciences, which stands back from the Parkway. "It's a foine big buildin'," he said; "an' solid enough put up to last for iver." "'Tis thot." agreed the other. "But what Is It fer?" "To kape dead boogs an' other crachures In," said the first "It's a museum, It is." "An' are them big letters cut into the stone above the windIes the name iiv it?,' "I dono what thim leters wud be," said the first speaker. He fell'to spell ing out the words, and presently a ray o intelliigence sueeded the puzzled expression on his face.. "Sure, I hav it," said he. "Thim Is the names av the contractors." "'Tis a folne job they done. ainny way," observed the other admiringly. "They'd be big men In their own line wid slathers of inflooence. belike." And Patrick made a good guess, for Ithe names graven In the stone were Aeschylus. Sophocles. Pericles. Hero Sotus, Socrates, Theydides, and Demos thens. The Prize Fool. The Chicago Chronical says of Col. Victor Vifquain: "The prize ass of 1901 has already made his deep, sc-n orons bray heard, thcucth the year is not yet a week old. lHe is the military gentleman on thc staff of the governor of Nebraska who sternly refused to at tend a gubernatorial reception because Fitzhugh Lee was to be present-Fi-z hugh Lee, in the estimation of the military gentleman, being a reb'l, and therefore offensive to all true patriots. Of course it is idle to hope for the en lightenment of people lhke the n' litary gentleman. The only thing to d. is to extract all the amo'sement pJ tible from their proceedings" Money for Schools. At ameeting af the board of directors of the dispensary Friday asternoon Chairman Williams stated that the~ fi nancial condition of the insti'ution now warranted the payment of $100).000 into the school fund anid a tesolution to this effect was immedia'e'y offered by Director Dukes and adopted. Mr. Williams further stated that the dispen sary would be able to pay into school 2 fund $50,000 additional within the 3 et thirty days.