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f^SJ* Dr Tai ling this city, a large and m iience in the irian church, of e is pastor, on Jordan^ by the being from lie priests that ground in the, , 'iad all the n *4iy ground, -e passed clean ?.-? . ' V on crowed the Delaware Hcwae pronounced impos nlid it by boat, ?erxes Heilespont^rith 2,000,000 K> did jgM bridge. The o?ed the^fted sea, but the tra that celebrated the de i^ose army sounded- the n of the other. This Jor~ ^diito Som a it .There, sffce of human liie? not so * loss ef'a ? lincfcpa*. ^ The sfthe host, made up of raced until they pat their m?:;:msk rivef* when^ rtfa streets of Jerusalem re dry (Bin the bed of that k th? hosts m uniform; following m the wives* the children, &e flocks, rbnefa The people look up at the vb&ine wallof the Jordan as they is and think what an awful disaster ddcometo them # odbre they ; fc the opposite baa* of that alon wall that wall should fell on ?V*ad the thought makes the libera- hug their children close to $r fcearts as they swiiteu their pace, ribk, now; get them all up tm the sks, the arroed warriors, the wives t c&iJdren, floeks and herds* and this wonderful Jordan ic passage be ?fetb^oa the shelved limestone, I k <& upoar that* Jordan wfcfere fa?Wed aoder the triumphal h of fbt rainbow woven out of the ay; tSeriver which afierwatfi be jfftfebapdstry^ber^Qtfist-^wa* r 1 " A)p fttrji*' tviiAfo 41 U2C rcvor vT ucio i ax-&ibe borrowed 4* ? miracu aly swam at the prophets order; r river rllastrioas in the hittory of the rfcf ^ heroic fiath and omnipotent iv^ranceaad typical of scenes jref Sraaspiie m your liie and mine? ses enough to make bi, from the i of the Sot to thr- crown o? the -KY . ? _w i. yiufce*; ? ? _zrr- ^-'Ai - CAMDEN, S:^Wk . ljet t{ie ^hool H^in to An elci'yfl ?,-g i^der: fc'orth to de(;\ft lTt^ shall l>? Aad '*?? 1 .. j , xeaanre, and the ' 'j^^^.i&lilghep the pleas ?WBUM toadied are con c . There are a greet many peo who are afraid of death in the atare. Good John Livingston once, on a sloop coming from Elizabeth port to-New Ytfrk, was dreadfully fright ened because he thought he was going to be drowned aa a sodden gust came up. People were surprised at him. If as j man in all the world was rea^j to die, it was good. John Living ston. So theie are now a great many good' people who shedder in passing a graveyard, and they hardly dare think of Canaan because of the Jordan that intervenes^ but once they are down on 4jsek bed then all their fears are ; gotfe. The waters of death dashing on the beach am like the mellow voice of ocean, shells ? they smell of the blossoms of the tree of life. The music of the heavenly choirs comes stealing over the waters, and to czose now is only a pleasant gaiL How long the boat is coming! Come,. Lord Jesus; come quickly! Christ the Priest ad vances ahead, ai d the dying Christian goes over dry shod on coral beds and Sowers of heaven and pafrhs of pearl. Ok> coald we make our dxtfbXy remote ? Those gloomy doubts tbat rise ? ; ; Aad view the Canaan that we iere ij . With aabeelouded eje nl J , . ? ' ? : Could we bat dimb where Moset stood And "fiew the lasdseepe tint, Not Jordan's siiWHn nor death's crid ftaod Cou'id fright" as from the shore > AV INVISIBLE DA3T. t , Again, this Jordan ic passage teach es me the completeness of every* thing tfcat God does. When God pot an invisible dam across Jordan and it was halted, it would have | been natural, you would have sup posed, for the water to have overflow ed the region all around about, and that great devastation would have [ taken place. [ But when God put the dam in front of the river he put a da$ on die other side of the rivefc so that, according tp the text, the water halted and reared and jrfbod there, and not overflowing the surroundiog country. 6br~the completeness of] everything that God does! :hy '$ One would have thought that If the waters of Jordan had dro?>ped until they weire only two or three feet deep [the Israelites might have marched through it and have come up on .die other bank with their clothes saturat . ed agtd their garments like those of] r men coming ashore from shipwreck, and ;that would have been as wonder ful a deliverance,? but God doe* some thing better thin that When the jfriestB' feet tboehed the waters of Jordon and they were drawn off they might hav? thoffght there would have been a bed of mul3~ and dime through which the army should pass./---;.) Draw offthe waters of the Hudson or thej Ohio, add there would be a good many days, and perhaps many f weeks, before the sediment would dry up, and yet here, in an instant, im mediately, God 11 provides a path through the depths of Jordan; It 'is so dry. the passengers do not even get their feet damp. Oh, th& aeorpfete ness of everythiu/HSat God does! Does be make a un -vers^l^ft. is 4 per fect clock, running ever since it was wound up, the^fcred stars the pivots, the constellations tSe intenpoiving wheels, and ponderous km the weights and mighty swinging pendu i Turn, the stars in the great dome of j night striking the mid-night, and the sun, with brazen tongue, tolling the I hour of noon. The wildest comet has a chain of law that it cannot break. The thistle down flying before the schoolboy's breath is controlled by the same law that controls the sun and the pknets. The rosebuSiHn your window is [ governed by the same principle that governs the tree of the universe on which the stars are ripening fruits, and on which God will ond day put his hand and shake down the fruit ? a* 1 perfect universe. No astronomy has ever proposed an amendment If God makes a Bible, it is a com-, $]ete Bible. Standing amid the dr^S^Jrand delightful truths, you aeem to be in the midst of an orches tra where the wai lings over sins, and the rejoicings over pardon, ahd the martial strain* of victory make the chorus like an anthem of eternity. This book seems to you the ocean of | truths on every wave oPwhich Christ walks ? sometimes in the darkness of prophecy, again in the splendors with which he w&s on Galilee. In this book apostle answers to prophet, Paul to Isaiah, Revelation to Genesis ? glorious light turning midnight sor row into the mid noon joy, dispersing every fcg, hushing every tempest Take this book; it is the kiss of God on the soul of lost mflKfl Bible, complete Bible! No ever proposed any improvement. GOD PROVIDED A SAVIOUR. God provided a Saviour. He is a Saviour? -God-man? divm manity imited in the same r. JtplS set np the starry pillars of the^ uamrae and the towers of i fight He pkwted the cedars and the p&vqnly Lebanon. He struck oat of | the rock the rivers of lUe,*inging under the trees, singing* under the thrb?Ss. fie quarried the sardonyx and \-Crystal, and : the topaz of the heavenly wait He put down the jasper for the foundation and heaped up. the amethyst for the capital and ^OTing the 12 gates, which are 12 pfe^rV' la one instant he thought out a universe r and yet he became a child, earying for his mother, feeling along the sides of the manager,* learning to waBt Omnipotence sheathed in the musele and teth of a child's arm,?nwaence : strung in: fiheoptic nerve of a child's peje*-4n$niie love beating in the childfs fcfeart, * great God appearing in tM hrmJ efa child lye?**#, 5 years m m U /be^enawere aaet&ing iof j ana hotter and power on es^**. , e WIDg about their laces/bowedrdown before him crying, "Holy! HolyP on earth they denounced him m a blasphemer a od i sotBocked ina boat on that aii dirked the li^htabg from tJie storm and dismasted Lebanon of its holds the five oceans on the tip of* fel finder as a leaf holds the raindrop, r , ' Oh, the complete Saviour, ^ his hand oyer the place where we have the pain, yet the stars of heaven ^he adorning gems of hit right hand. Holding as in his arms when we take our last view of oar dead. Sitting down with us on thej tomb-stone, and while we plant nries there he plant ing consolation in j ?Qpr heart, every chapter a ttalk, evfery verse a stem, every word a roae. A complete Qaviour, a complete Bibk, a complete universe, a complete Jordaaic passage. Everything that God does is complete. Again, I [learn from this Jordanic passage that between us and every Canaan of success and prosperity there is a river that must"* be pussed "Oh, how I would lfke.some of those grapes on the other side!" slid one of the Israelites to Joshua.^ ^WelV'says Joshua, <lif you wanj^the grapes, why don't you cross over and get tbemr' There is a river of difficulty between us and everything that is worth hav ing?that which eoats nothing is worth | nothing. 1: ? ' God didnTiutead this world for an easy parlor, through which we are to be drum m a rocking chair, Jbut we; are tos we*k our passage/ climb masts, fight battles, scaie mountains and ford rivers. God makes everything valu able difficult to get ai, far the same reason that. he put the gold down in the mine and the pearl clear down m the sea? to .make us dig and drive for them. We acknowledge this prin-. ciple in worldly things; oh, that we^ were only wise enough toacknow-" ledge it in religious things! YoUi hsive scores of illustrations under your own. observation where men have hau the hardest lot and been trodden under foot, and yet after a while bad it easy. Now their homes blossom and bioom with pic tures, and csrpets that made foreign looms laugh now embrace their teeti The summeii'wkids; lift the tapestry about the modern ; gorgeous enough for a Turkish aifitan. Impatient steeds paw and neigh at the door, their carriages moving through the sea of New York life a very wave of splendor. \ Who is it? jWfejr, it is a boy that came io New York with a dollar ii^ his pocket and all his estate slung over his shoulder ijbi cotton hand kerchief. J All that silver on the diwnMP% span is petrified sweat drops. That beautiful dress ^is the faded cali co over which God: pot his hand ot perfection, turning it to Turkish satin or Italian silk. Those diamonds are the tears which sufering froze arthej felL Oh, therfds a river Of difficulty between us and every earthly achieve ment. You know thatrSFou admilt that. " : t ? ' \ '? "[] -i Nt- * RIVERS OP blPFICfJLTY. You know this is so with regard to the acquisition of knowledge. The ancients used to! say that Vulcan struck Jupiter on ihe head, and thie goddess of wisdom jumped out, illus trating the truth that wisdom comes by hard knocks. ' TWe was a river of difficulty -beUveen Shakespeare, the boy,' holding: the bosses at' the door of the London theater, and that Shakespeare, ' the,/ great JM winning the applause; of ^audiences by his tragedfe*. Thei lin, ^jth a loaf of* breadj an* 1/ walking the streets of phia, and that same Benjamin Prank lin, the philosopher, just outside <>f Boston flying a kite in the thunder storm. * ? i An idler was cured o?bis bad habit by looking through his Window night aifr>r night a man who seemed of writing after another until klmqst the dawn j>f the morning. The man sitting thees writing until n&rning was industrious Walter Scott; the maa who! looked at him througfi the window was Lock hart, his illustrious biograph er afterward. Lord Mansfield, .pur-' sued by the press and by the populsice because of a certain line of duty, went on to discharge the duty, and while the mob were arouud him demanding the taking of his life he shook his fist in the face of the mob and said, "Sirs; when one's last end comes, it cannot come too soon if he falls in defense jof law and the liberty of his country." ; And sp there id, my friends,- a tug, a tusele, a trial, a push* an anxieiy? through which every man^um-st go before he comes to worldly success and worldly aehievmeat. You admit it. NoiwTbe wise enough to apply it in religion. Eminent Christian char acter is only gained by the Jordanic passage; no man just happened to get good. k I Why does that man kno# so miteb abogt the Scrip^res? He Jwas in g the Bible while you wet? a novel. He was on fire witn the sub limities of the Bible while you . were* sound asleep. By tug. tcssle, pushing and running in the Christian life that man g^ so strong fo*. God; in a hun dred Solferinos he learned how to fight; in a hundred shipwrecks he ^ 2 how to swim. Tears over sin, Zion's uesolationi tears over the impenitent, tears over the graves made are the jWfm^whieh that man hadpaased- Sojr^^iles the brow, the ward robe, and there deaihs in _ family record ? all around are the relief ot the dead. The Christian has passed the Red Sea of trouble* and yet he thinks there k a Jordan oMeathi betvreeu htm fend ?;Ht comes down to that death W thinks how,. have Sbi* lost there. When P*o lyneus was exploring the Jordsi&r in Palestine, he hsd his boats all knock ed to pieces in the rapids of that river. And there are a great many men who have gqnie down in the fiver of dejrth; the Atlantic and Pacific havft not awsJlowetl many. ^ ? It w an awful lake shipwrecks on rock >?; moat* falling, hurricanes gioanings inthe moanings ia the wind ,3- -??-? ? -o ? oveig "I wil reread them in my wrath, and I will trample them in my faiy." The Christian comes down to this raging Upi**i and ferknows iie most pass wit, and as he comes toward the time his breath gets shorter, aod his hot breath leaves him as he steps into the stream, and; no sooner does he touch the stream than it is parted, dry shod while all TWtbeir plumes, < ing, <40 death, where ifr-thy sting? O grave, where is thy victoryf' ^jw: shall wipe away aB tears from their eyes, and there * shall beno more weeping, and there shall be no more dea&J - Some of -your children have already gone $p the other * bank You Jet them down on this side of the bank; they will be on the other bank to help yon up with topernafaral Strength. The o^her morning at my table, all . my family present, I thought to my-J self how pleasant H would be if I:j could put afl! into a boat aod, tl?en go ! in with them, and we could pull across | the river, to the njext world | and; be! there all together.: No family part- j ing, no gloomy obsequies. Itj wouldn't take five minutes to go from . bank to bank, and then iri that better world to be together fcrever. Wouldn't it be pleasant f<J? you to take a|l your fami- ' ly into that) plessed country if you could *11 go together?/- i I remember my mother in' her ^dy- 1 ing tyur said to my father, j ^Father, w(. uJ(Wt it be pleasant if we! could all go together?" But we cannot all go together. We most go onej by one, and tfe must be grateful if we get there iat all. What a heaven it wil| be if we hav# all our families there to look around aud see all the children are present! Yco would rather h%ve them nil there, and you go with hire brow forever, than that one should be missing to complete the gs rlands ofl heaven for your coronal. [The Lord Goa df Joshua, give them. a safe Jor danic: passage! Ev^u children will go through dry shod. | .Those of us who wefre brought up initne country remember, when thje summer was coming on in lour boy hood pays, we always longi " day ^hen wis wape to go and after teasing our gard Jo it for a good while, consented, we remember th? a of the cool grass [when put ofcr uncovered foot on^i Aujd the time will com$ when these shoes iwe wear now, lest we/be cut ot ^he sharp places of this if? rid, shall be taken off, and with unsandaled foot we will step into the bed of ; the river; with feet untrammeled, free from pain and fatigue, we will gain that last journey, when, with one foot in the bed <k the river and the other loot on the ojbe^ bank, we struggle upward. That [will be heaven; Oh, I -pray for all my dear peopl* a safe Jordanic , passage. That is* what the dyingJ Christian husband felt when he said: "How the candle flickers, Nellie! Put it out; I shall sleep well to>nigbt andl wake in the morning." I j ' \ } ;k ! 1 K WORD OP COMFOifr. - Oiie word of comfort on this subject for apl'the bereaved. You see, our departed, friends- -haw not bee:i submerged ? have not been swamped in the waters. They have ouly crossed over.; These Israelites' were just as thoroughly alive on the western banks of the Jordan a>s they had been on the eastern banks/rftbe Jordan, and gur I departecK&ristian friends have only crossed over ? not sick, not deady not exhausted, notr extinguished - not out, but with Healthier ion, and stouter pulses, and ?Bight, and better prospects over. Their sins, tbeiir l and mental disquiet, all left ] is side, an i eternally flowing, le obstacle between them and umfci and satanic pursuit, over! Oh, ? shake handa of tlation with all the bereaved consideiiktion that our departed _ian frien<fcare safe. ^ Why was the^e so much joy in certain circles ii^New York when people .heard from the friends who were! on board ihat ^belated steamer? It wjus feared the* vessel had gone to | the bottom of the sea, and when the friend 3 on this side heard ;that the l^teaijjeHiad arrived safely in Liver pool, had Ve not a right to congratu late jthe people in New York that theitf friends bad got across? And is ir not right this morning tfiat igratulate iyou tbafc ? your friends are safe on thkshore ven? Would you have them again? Would you have those old ; tots back again? You kjnow how it was sometimes far them to get their breath in the stifled atmosphere of the suminer; would you have them back in jbBis weather? Didn't they ' use theit brain long J enough?; Would your have your children back again? [/Woild you have them take the risk* of temptation which throng every human pathway? Would you cross the Jordan three to crossing & cross it again togteetyou then cross back afterward s srtainly you would not wanl to keen them forever out of heaieen. Paus| and weep, not for the freed mSopai*, But that the sigh of lore would bring theai ba k again. ; ' " / I ^ ? - Ias^ a question, and come back the ech com ^ Jlawy of departed we ; hail you from bank WaAt for ualriieit the Jordi shall part for us. Come down meet us half way-between the willowed banks of earth and the palm groves heaven. Mtfv-oar great Hijgl^J go ahead of us, and with bruised , tenth the water, an : then shall fulfilled the ^Words of ray text, Istael went oyer on dry ground nufil all I -the people were gone thrt^ugb. Jordan." ? 4 If J ask you what shall be the hymn of this morning, ! think t would be a thousand voices that w^^_ choose the same hymn? the hymn iSSji ofdea^i of Priert ^feet be 4U ufil clear glad that illumices bo nasi; death pham bere? the ! }yran that bat been the parting bjBtt in many an instance? the old hyn.n: ?? ? On Jordan' b stormy btakft I stand- life And cast a wislfal eye To Canaan'!! fair aad happy Where aojr pow?8uiona He. f Oh. the tr&MportijDg, rapture as scene That riws on my sigfct! ; - **+ Sweet fieldu urrijed in living green, & j t And rivers of delight. IN BEHALF OP THE SHERIFFS IN CON * ?'! i: TEMPT. . ? p-i- * ? The Administration Wins the Preliminary ?timl8h In the BailtsU War Before SapraaM ; Washisston, March 7. ? The State" has woo first blood In the great rail road' war. before the United States Su preme Court. There; was a prise for every one this morning the court announced its decision, and were more surprised than the meys for the State. The courts gtantafi - what was asked, and more too: ibe^ -merits will be consid ered- ; ] . : WhenW court met, with Justice Field * presiding, Associate Jnstioe Gray announced the decision of the court on the ; application for a writ of habeas corpus. It was verbal, and >was to the effect that a rule would be issued forthwith, requiring the United States marshal to. show cause why the sherifis should not be released, etc. The rule isi made returnable on March 27: * "*?. A United States attorney tells me the court wishes to take up the merits of the whole case, j i Attorney General Townseud says it is a great deal more than they asked for, and is tar better than the writ, for it provider for a full hearing on the merits of the whole case. He regards,' the action of the court in putting the matter in this form as a very favora ble Indication. The Attorney Gener al says that every detail will be heard, and, in bio opinion, the question as to ^tbe legality of the tax will he consid ered in detail and decided upon, thus putting an end to all the old casesj too. He jmkjs he will notify the roads of the hearing, and is willing to post* pone the time selected, if they wish itj. It has been impossible tp secure a copy of tltfe rule, as the cour^oes not make such things public till they are in printed form, it will be mailed tj> the Attorney General as soon as pos-* sible. He left tor Columbia to-night, accompanied by Mr Jones. Mr Tuck er also returned home to-night The Tillman in en here are over joyed at the result of their first effort in the United States Supreme* Court." ? Cor. the State. Patriotic l^roUnliiM Anxious to Serve i IJnele Sam. ?> Washington, March 7 ? To-night I am enabled to fumish a list of %p ^plicants for various offices who hare not beenknown to be Hrthe field be fore. It is as follows: V M^r i District Attorney ? Earle, You^ians and others, and W.< St. J. Jeryey, James F. Hart, Ellis G. Graydob, C.; A. Douglass. ( * For Collector of Interna1 Revenue ? J Hamilton, of Oraugeburif, McCutchen, G. W. White, of York, Dr Whit?, of Chester, H. E. Bowen, - W illiamson, Robinson, Carey, John son, Gen Bratton. : For United States Marshal ? Moore, Codgers, Earle, Moody, Gen Humphreys, of Anderson, W. L. Mouldin, Durham, of Union. Saltey, M. T. Holler, J. L. Carter, of Parks* ville, Tfe ' Sl Boykin, of Camden, 'Hunter, of Lancaster, J. H. Brooks, M. L. Donaldson, John T. Gaston, of Aiken, Ikhfin Harper and others. For ^Deputy Collector ? Shannon, Hugh, i Scott, L. D; Harner, De ?Lorrae, Holmes, Hodges. , N, For Collector at Beaufort ? Stakes,. Richardwn, Brown, Elliott, Hey ward, [ Hutson, IrWin, Johnson and M. Youmais. s. / For postmaster^? John Br- Ker [ sh&w, Blakeney and Walla'ce, Cam den; Crittenden and Addison, Green , ville;. Avid, Sumter; Morgan, IJnion; Mm Stewart, Newberry. 4v v Jolpi D. Logan wany^o be Clerk of the Senate. Maj Gary, of Augusta, is here looking after one of the district at torneyships of Georgia. \ Our office-seekers are here yet, and Cbl McMaster, Ben Perry, Cal Caugh man aud the others are moving about 'lively. ? Judge Bacon is here looking [ after a ^south American ? mission, and I hear Hemphill is kt work for the misiiioiivto the- "Court of St James. I have it y&y straight to-night that Irby is going to resign the vState Democratic Chairmanship, to be bet ter able to help Tillman in the next election. Mr Shell left to-night, and the re quested me to announce that he has enough of politics, and is about the only mip in South Carolina who will refuse to have more of it ? Cor. The State, o ' A MURDERED CAPTURED One of the LineolnviU? Fiends Locked Up In Charleston. CHAJJLEBTON.^farch 8. ? Special. ? The police detectives claim to have arrested one of the Lincolarille murderers. j feTbe^am is a bright mulatto named Jobnso i, and report has it that he was lasfseen in Twettmann's store Sat urday? night From that j time he disappeared from the community, and only returned to tbe town last night ft is Said that when v captured he had ~l>lood on his clothes, and acknow ledged having participated in the af&.ir, but gave the names of two otters] who be said, were along and did tbo bloody work. Reporters Were denied an interview; and no particulars were *given either by the detective or the chief of pol ice. ~ Johti8on was held at the police station until about 1 :45 today, at which iLirae he was taken, under a strong guard to the county jail> ? ThtSia&A We'* Son Prorided For. WaiihIkgton, March 9.? Secretary Carlisle to-day appointed! his son, Logan Carlisle, chief clerk of the vitp 'Sfocks, resigned. ? IRBY AND TILLMAN AGAIN CALL ON .1 CLEVELAND. Batier and Brawley, However, Have Evl 4 eat ly Spiked the TiUmanites' Gnsia? The Bash of the Office i j Seekers. Washington, D. C., Marchv 8. ? South Carolina affairs here continue to ! be interesting. The reason for Governor Tillman's remaming^jver'ls now perfectly clear. He^was not sat isfied with the formal visit paid to President Cleveland a few days ago; so to-day, about 12.30 o'clock, h^ and Senator Ixbf5 put on their best and drove out to. the' White House. They remained some time, having a private inter vigtf?with the new President, who ] ao long time ago "the tool of jifajl The conference was evfdentfv^bofakthe State patronage, and these tjro Tefrtejsjin<!bubtedly gave Mr Cleveland to understand, that they had claims upon him, on one theory or onc&er. But what trans ited remains a secret between th# 4aree. Both Tillman and Irby en deavored to keep their visit^eftet, and when asked about it they stfM they had agreed to say nothing to any one. They s^eimed to be in excellent humor when they returned, and Governor Till tu&n remarked that some of those who were smiling about them eating crow would grin before the end came. I hear that Senator I'rby was abus ing the president to-day before his visit jFrom a remark dropped by Governor Tillman to night, that he could not sign a petition for anyone f-tiH he knew how Cleveland ttould act in recognizing bis side, I ju<%? the conference was unsatisfactory. Senator Irby says he is not going to talk any more about politics. This morning about 1*.30 o'clock, Senator Butler and Congressman Brawiey visited President Cleveland, and managed to secure an uninter rupted private, interview of some du ration. When they left they went to the various appointive departments and had similar conferences with the beads thereof, evidently bearing di rections from the President for them fo hold off. , There fs a singular condition of things bp here. Perry and Cal Caughman have gone over to Butler's side and the Tillman men are very bitter against them. i Senator 5jby is threatened with a case of pneumonia, and he aud the Governor remained quietly in c their rooms this afternoon. The Governor expresses himself as delighted with his success in the railroad case -and the bond matter. The Governor left for Columbia at 10.43 to-night, by the Richmond and Danville vestibule. Snpt McBee'B private* car left last night, "Bunch" aboard; so there is no more bamboozling ahead for the Governor. ! ^ When the facts about the high com pliment paid Gen Hampton by the senators became kuowu todaJfTlhe old warrior-statesman was /warmly congratulated by his sootes w friend s,n About 1 o'clock ex Congressman Dib ble came around and took the General on , a ride of several hours. -GeU Hampton seems to appreciate the compliment very much. Mr Dibble says it U oue of the most flattering compliments ever paid to an ex-Sen ator. | Irby says lie was not asked to sign the request. The rush for the offices continues. J. F. J. Caldwell, of Newberry, is here, with strong endorsements for the Italian mission, the salary of which is $12,000 a year. There are three or four other' applicants from other States. ; Mr Caldwell has lived in Rome, speaks the Italian, language, and is v^ry familiar with Italian affairs. He was in Italy the time of the Garibaldi movement ; Judge Bacon is applying for his old mission.? Paraguay and Uruguay. It baa been many years since South Carolina has had a chance at the European missions^The only diploma tic appointments she*h^ held iu re cent years were those Tr Judge Bacon to South America and Gen Kennedy to China. She will ilaim three this time. J. C. Hemphill is the third man referred to He is officially an nounced as an applicant for the mis sion to the Court ofSt James. The special committee of the Demo cratic caucus appointed to make up the Senate committees is expected to report to morrow There seems to be no chance of Iiby getting a chairman ship. Col J. J. McLure of Chester,, Dr A. P. Jordau aud Gen John KrattoiV ar rived here to-day. The latter holds a good place in the race for revenuo j collector. Dr i Laud rum of Spartanburg has also arrived, to look alter a place in the medical department of the govern ment Dr Pope is going to remain here with Irby. He has not yet filed his application for marshal. # He would not ask a single Conservative to sign it Cal Cangkn an is still here, getting his toice-iii" training for the terft for reading clerk of the Senate. Irby is still pulling for Earle for district attorney. He received all of Earle's papers last iught and will pre sent t^em in person.* Irby, when a?ked to night it' the statement that he was going to resign the Stite chairmanship were true or not, said: "Personally, I might be very much inclined to do so, but there are political reasons which have tfiade me decide that I would not The main one of these reasons is that our people will not let me give it up. I have plenty of precedent in this course. Murphy of New York holds both position s; Carey ot Wyoming does likewise, and Barbour of Virginia held both till his death," ? Cor. tl\e fiat* i - m un? *m ??' >1 i IP. II ? ? ? mm Caveats, sad Trade-Marks obtained, and all Pat- $ est business conducted for moderate Fees. 4 Oun Omcc is Opposite U. S. patent OrncE' and we can secure patent in less time Uian those I remote from Washington..; S Send model, drawing or photo., with descrip- * tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of i charge. 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