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J#...... General Gordon Almost Mobbed ~ • ' .-s' -- Enthusiastic Comrades. RW ORLEANS FLOODED AGAIN. * ,■ This Vlnie It, Is a Flood of South ern Oratory. The Old Chief tain Kissed hy a Texas Malden. The thirteenth annual reunion of the United Oonfederate Veterans was opened fn the great auditorium at the fair grounds in New Orleans on Tues- day of last week. The weather was perfect and all the arrangements by ■"the local euterialnment'ljftnjraittees the most successful. There' were thousands of veterau soldiersj Jmp- dreds of beautiful / women anth-above' and around on every hand a profusion of fluttering flairs and waving stream- era. There was martial mu.-.ic with out limit and enthusiasm unbounded. Over the beauty and success of the day there was but a single shadow, and that promises to disappear before^ the morning. Tbisvfas the illness of Gen. Gordon^lhe commander-ln-chlef of the organization. He was not well when hd left , his hotel for the audi- {um and has not been in his usual ’ ;th for several days. His strength s not in reality sufficient for, the ideal to which he subjected himself and before session he was a greatTy wearied man. Nothing but his grim fighting spirit -curried him through the day without something akin to a collapse. He was have discovered in a meeting of such men, at such time, an omen of good to the cause- Qt liberty; and. A morl- can eyes should see in it nothing but good to the whole republic. It must of necessity be beneficent and only beneficent. We will not indulge on this centennial -this political mlllenial morning—nor at oilier times in any bitterness. We feel none. We pity those who do. - We have long since drawn the curtain of oblivion over the regretful and unseemly things of the past: and wechej-ish as Americans the valor and noble deeds of both armies ahd of all sections. We are satistied with our record; and the power that would attempt U» make us blush for it would be both stupid ajid blind. We are heirs, joint heirs, with the re public's children in the inheritance of freedom left by our sires. Wcanr proud t)f all the past. Moreover, we are n&w facing a future pregnant with tremendous possibilities; but we face it with a strength of hope ^and assur ance, born of an unswerving purpose to discharge our every duty to all races, and to the whole country 1 . We arc growing old; but we still Stand firmly the narrow strip of land which separates us from a boundless ocean, "And as we-^ga horpe, we>-will calmly /\ii»• yvxontloK iSn fif vITXTjy v/tlt tritrfT vrt* trtre mvri- uu- our sons, wfro^ will worthily wear them: and in no crisis of the republic whether in forum or field, will they be found wanting," — At the conclusion of Gen. Gordon’s address he turned tojg^et^ a- lady- Which Should be Read by Our and Girls. THE SOUTH AND THE LATE WAR. ‘•pid Any Other Feople Ever Face and Overcome Adversity as Did the Honthern People After the ’War'.’ •quietly in his fobriraTrthe hotel, re . ^ -oeiving no visitors. His condition is 1 In no manner serious, but it is pos- sible that he may not be able to pre side at all the sessions at the audito- rium between now and rriday noon. He expects^Jiowever, to be present Thursday. ^ V- the hour convention arrived crowded with fair ^dbase names are for opening the the platform was women and men household words . throughout the south. -Gen.. Gordon gowned in black, who fftntj^ome tiPlhe frouLof the rostrum during the latter portion of his address. Theq, lead-, ing her to the front of the platform he said: . __ 4 ‘it was my fortune and I will never the cioee of the openingto thank <iod that it was my fortune to follow, to know well, and to love Stonewall Jackson. He Is not here, but the best half of him Is here In the person of his wife. Comrades, notable ttMUteod the afternoon ses-^j-preaent/toyou, M re . Stonewall Jack- sion at the auditorium, and remained In his room at the son. "To your feet, boys, to your feet," was the cry of a veteran in the Ten nessee delegation, but swift us came his, cry, it came too late. The "boys” were up, ; earery man of them, and In tfte-wild the fairfaced' lady from North Carb- lipa was mad^ to know once more how southern love remembers, . ^ r / "And here’s a young ’Jacksop,’ called out the general, leading forward a very pretty girl, Miste Julia Jackson Christian, the granddaughter of the was deliyed somewhat in reaching the famousjsoWLle^. As he spoke he kissed! ' grounds and his entrance Into the hall and the cheers were redoubled was an ovation. Cheer after cheer for the general and the girl. raag through the building as he came .| uage ,| ol , n Ueagait, thwa*lft sufylv» rapidly down the aisles leaning on the ltlg me mt>er u f tlie Davis cabinet, arm pf Adjt. Gen. Mickle. He was Uien 8 po k e from one portion of the surrounded instantly by a group of! r( »st /runQt while numbers of %hfe old friends as be reached the rostrum and . tidier* threw themselves upon Gen. for all me was unable to reach bis G ()r don at the other end. * The recep- chafr. No sooner was he seated than 'tibn was smothering Mr. Ilcagan’s Xtatr young-woman, Miss Tarlton of The following Is a synopsis of the oratioiL delivered by Hon. John H. Rogers, of the United States District Court, at. New Orleans on Tuesday week, before the annual meeting of the Confederate Veterans: "Why are we here? No fanatical religious crusade prompted this Im mense concourse. Here are to be found all creeds and faiths and be liefs, in perfect peace with each other, freed from antagonism to excite the ions of men. In yonder sky are no angry Clouds of pestilence or war. No impending danger threatens our land, demanding consultation and means of protection from enemies within and without. We are at peace at home and aboad. Neither are we weary pilgrims to a holy Mecca, seek ing absolution from our sins. Nor are weasptrants for social or political pre ferment. This is no vast political txm- yention or mass meeting assembled for purposes of considering grave mat- ters of state or seeking to confer hon ors on favorite sons: N«y, nay, none of these. What is it that has brought us together? This great assembly hiajl festooned with bunting and flags, em blems of liberty and power, its am- pitheatre filled with the grave man- hood and—lovely—womanhood of the south, these venerable men, the survi- yors of the tremendous - conflict of the sixties—all the:<e things tell of a deep underlying catise. This gre'at sea of ap^rs TTrar Ttwciii, t.liW twtH^upnirneri faces, glowing wlth llfe, In tetltgencrand sympathy—'if not with joy unmingled with sorrow- proclaim that the purpose of our assembling has made X deep impression upon our hearts. We need not repress the de votions by which we are agitated. Whenever and wherever these re- u'fiJoM bcCur, we sre standing amid the’seputchers of our dead. Every foot _ jaLaiyr^ beloved southland is distin guished by their courage, tfieic su- -tjnrf,... "r-r, woman, Waco, Tex., approacued and bending down kissed the general. He sprang quickly to his feet to acknowledge the honor with ideated■'hbws.' Gen? J. R.„liev^rk comriiander of the -LouIn diana ’division otthe Confederate vet erans, called the assembly to order ao^i introduced the Chaplain general, Rev* J. William Jones, who delivered an eloquent invocation. Then, In suc cession came speeches of welcome to t vrtlbe and Gen. Gordon at the same I time, when Gen. I). Lee interfered ! with the gavel, beseeching the crowd fto be silent and' to allow Gen .Gordon' to rest. Mr. Reagan spoke but briefly after this, and an adjournment was taken j until afternoon. Immediately the mobbing Of Gen. tiordon was resumed with redoubled energy. One old sol dier, intoxicated by bis enthusiasm, sank on his knees before the general the veterans from Paul Capdevielle, alJ{ j have bugged him had not mayor of New Orleans: Loys Char-' tlle by slan de r8 interfered. ^ ' -hohrret, who spoke for the local, or- j ganisttiQD of the Sons of Veterans: THE A^INr-AL ORATION. Mrs. William J. Behan, representing the Confederate Southern Memorial Nation, and Gov. W. W. Heard, rho spoke of the people of the State of Louisiana. After a few opening words of welcome the governor sal<T:' -^published on the next column. It —-——-should be read by all and especially —V OOV. HEARD. ‘Veterans, ^ the outcome of the struggle that you carried on fot four long years against the most powerful forces and armaments that the world has yet seen, in no manner or sense can obscure the glory and farad Qtat you won for Dixie’s land. With X tdtal enlistment of 1100,000 you con The oratfrarof Judge Rogers con sumed the entire afternoon session. His address, whie.fi was remarkably wcH delivered, was a brilliant success. .'.speech is our young people. blime fortitude, their seif-denial, tHSir unwavering devotion and patriotism, and ganctitied by the shedding of their blood.- "Pime and nature have had their course’ in diminishing the num- Bers of those who surrendered at the close of the great Civil war, hut neit.h- and east, where it was for political, economical; and industrial reasons sedulously agitated and inculcated up to the Mexican war, and Urn rights distinctly recognised hy its leading statesmen up to IfiCO. Hiatory ought not to allow them to slip this odium, if odium it be, from their shoulders to file shoulders of the south. "Our children should know,that the Confederate States, by the act of sece*-' sion made no war on the United States: that the War between the States was not rebellion. It was the result of an, effort by tbe Uuited States to coerce States against their will to remain In the union, a power not to be found In the constitution, a power which ah the earlier fathers be lieved did not exist, a power utterly inconsistent with the right of seces sion, which ills believed all parts of the country recognized when the con stitution was framed and for many years thereafter. "if .the southern, States had the power, notwithstanding the constitu tion, to withdraw from the union in 1803, in 1812 and in 184o, as New Eng land statesmen then 1 ., a-ffifnjed, Lhtjys had tlie Same power » 18(11. WIT change of the constitution had .hedlfy made and tbe relation of the Stategtu ea^h other were unaltered, if that power existed at all, the.expediehcy of plunged by this characterless huidii withdrawing was one solely for eaoh State to decide for itself— "It t was not a question of»th'e oon- trotof the government or an economi cal or industrial question; it was not a questioq preserving the balance of power or the equilibrium of the sec tions, such as was felt In New Eng land when the Louisiana and Florida purchases were made and Texas ac quired. It was a question of civiliza tion, of constitutional liberty, of the preservation of the principles of the constitution; and the south when the alternative was presented of abandon ing the principles of the constitution or giving up the union with alacrity, but with deepest reluctance that the nocfttmity giUtad, choae the latter. She was overcome; she has suffered, but she ought not to be maligned or misrepresented. x x" * -"I must not be misunderstood. This whole question of secession and dis union has been forever settled, so far as the domain of constitutional law is concerned. The decree was render- numbers 300,000 were of foreign birth and had Europe been informal allh ;ance with the north, it could s^yeeiy -'ihive"’been expected to ‘send more than this number of its Organized soldiery fof its quota in such a coali tion. Considering the 200,000 negro soldiers, the 500,000 foreign soldiers and tbe 2,100,000 native Americans, it is not extravangant to say that the' 600,000 Cofrfederates Confronted a coalition of America, Europe and Africa. When we consider these in disputable facts we cannot but have . commlsseratlon for the person who would seek to detract from, the un-, paralleled resistance made by the armies in gray, thy impugning the mntlvesljy which they were impelled to make this truly legendary defense i of their homes and ‘. ceftstttatlonal —Tights as they construed these rig to be.” The governor concluded his addyes^ by repeating the welcome of thd " people Of Louisiana E. B. Krufctschnitt of New Orleans, chair- the local executive committee, . in charge of all the arrangements for the reunion then made a most happy " ‘ address. GKK. GORDON'S SPEECH. .s '"Sen. Gordon rose to reply he fas enthusiastically cheered. 7 . Gen, John B. Gordon said in part: "To my thought it is most fitting that this proud and patriotic organiza d meet again in this historic Ity which gave Rwrti: ing of such men as you welcome today whose past deeds will remain forever sn inspiration to American valor and to future sacrlfioes for constitutional fraedom, is an auspicious event in the ■country's history, whenever and wher ever it may occur; but haw peculiarly inspiring if this reunion in Louisiana, ^ ‘ Brtary of Uncle Nam’i* Ukane. Regardless of the outcome of the present negotiations respecting the political domination of Manchuria it can be .stated this goyernment is prepared to insist to tne endhpen commercial privileges for United States in those enjoyed by the merchants of other nations. Russia included. ’ The. state department has had pledges from Russia that even in the event of Manchuria passing under Russian control our commerce- and trade privileges should not suffer and it will hold that our commerce would suffer If Russian goods can enter Man churia free while United States goods are forced to pay duty. This attitude of the state department will, it is be lieved, go far toward reassuring the sou there cotton interest which have become alarmed at the possible loss of their best market. er time nor nature can relieve Ihosg who survive of,the duties they oWe 'tq the memory of our unrecorded dead, to our posterity, U> our beloved south land and to ourstlves. We are here today to discharge as we may those duties and to renew old friendship!; forged in the white heat of common sufferings and hallowed and sanctified bythe cbpse+ous convictions tliat.in tbe hour of triaLand peril we were true to the constitution as it was framed handed down to uaJiyi Wash- Ihgtbn and his compatriots. We are here also to pay tribute to the noble band of southern women, the mothers and daughters of the Confederacy. "If we would not have our very chil dren in the near future, if not asham ed and apologizing for us, then unable to defend us, wemust not-be idle in preserving, recording and teaching the real facts upon which the righteous ness of our actions must depend. land States that from the moment the Pilgrim fathers touched foot on Plym outh Rock they began and have con tinued dav hy day to record their o deeds; but it cannot be truthfully edat Appomattox and was written in the best blood of r11 sections of this land. It was rendered in tbe high court of last resort, where all laws but those of war are silent. From it no appealcan be had except to revolu- lion, which <.od forbid. From the clear skies His blessed finger points to a restored union and His lieniticient smile is >pread all over the land where dwells a people, tbe strongest, tbe most enlightened, tbe most prosper ous and happy to be found on the habitable globe. In all our struggles mt that their writers and statesmen have always been as just and faithful in . their interpretation and Treatment (rf the actions of others as they have been diligent in recording their own deeds, and afterwards escaping their respon sibility and logical consequences. It is a misfortune to the south that her Paid Her Well. > The bank account started from con tributions TfiCCived by Lulu Spence, the chambermaid who lost her posi- tlon at the Hotef English at Indian polisVTnd^ TOf refuslng to make the bed occupied by Booker Washington, wak Increased by 11,(144 Thursday. The largest contribution yet received was sent to her'by citizens of New Orleans. It was a check on the First National hank of that city for 81,000. The list of subscribers was not sent and the letter which acco check congratulated her on the stand she took, and was signed "Southern ere.” • like records. The true records of the south, If itcan be related with historic accuracy, is rich in patriotism, in in tellectual force, In civic and military achivements, in heroism, In honorable and sagacious statesmanship, of proper share in which no American efih afford to deprive himself. So much genius in legislation, in. achbloista- tion, in jurisprudence, in war, such Killed H4h Neighbor. ~ Joseph Jernigan, a white farmer, surrendered himself to the sheriff sOttS, If not indifferent then carelessly lorgntten.. lem s which the changed conditions of his desolate land presented. Stand ing by tbe graves of his comrades, in spired by their noble deeds, chastened and disciplined by the, horrors, self- denial and sufferings of war, encourag ed by the high achievements of his revolutionary sires, and loving venera tion the traditions of his anecastry, interwoven as they were with the his tory of ids beloved south, undismayed but hampered by the prejudices, and passions which the war tiad left be hind, he began the work of rebuilding her shattered fortunes and rehabilita ting her dismantled commonwealth. But as the south had fought for the principles of local self-government and lost, so In. the disjointed logic of the time she was to be denied its application it) the reestablishment of her State govrnment. The great north sent the carpetbagger,' who, aided by tfhose who had never ex ercised the simplest rights of citizen ship. were' exoectcd to set up and administer such governments, as were tit for a - picpie _,who, , for nearly threequarterH_of a century had. in the main, guided and directed the splendid prugiessand development of Hie Jgrcat Tepublic. 'The riotous and debauched condition into which a helpless and defenceless pe pie were R we had not been mighty hand has been felt, lifting us up from our calamities, chastened but made better and stronger by His lov- ir,g kindness. Slavery perished, like secession, as one of the incidents and results of tbe war. Thank God that it is gone for ever and that wc have a reunited country under one flag, the emblem of a free people in an inseparable union of coequal States and never destined, we pray God, to become the emblem of imperial power at home or abroad, or to float over vassal States and sub- ject^edples anywhere against their will , "■ "We are assembled here for no ignoble cnds, r; We Are here, to revive, no Issues settled liy that unhappy con flict. We are not here to defame Others or pervert or wrap the truth. We are netr here to exaggerate or magnify the glory and virtues of one neetion of our common country^ exppnse oL the other. ^ We are here that mankind may not forget nor falsehood nor calumny cloud or tarnish the calm judgment of posterity as to the sincerity of the motives and the honorable Conduct of Confederate Hbldlere. We affirm pur desire may understand these things that they may the more • “"' ancestry, that they insatiable oora»rahLK who assembled at our State capitals to blaspheme the very name to civil government and plot schemes to oppress ft fallen foe that they might prolong their op portunities for peculation, must be left for the future historian in the in terest of truth and as a lesson to posterity andwas a warning to us all that there is no freedom where one man is permitted to govern others against their wills, to drag away tbe sheet that covers tbe rotten corpse of reconstruction. It fell, as in the nature of things It.oould not endure. "With the south’s overwhelming problem still unsolved she has, never theless, under the auspices of her own pie, fallen into safe and peaceful not happy an<r~pfospef0QS times. Her sons and daughters haye resumed their rightful station and whatever the future has ln.jito«®*of good for her must rest upon the trains and eharacterisetics of her people. She will be patient, she will be prudent. To all the knightly and queenly vir tues she will hold fast, trusting to God and tire future, far tbe noble and the good. The south will not despair. Greed of gain and lust, qf ppwer, culminating in plutocratic usurpation of all the branches of tbe government has never found favor or encourage ment here. Our population, Anglo- Saxon still, has never been dominated by foreign elements, ignorant and careless of the principles of our govern ment and the practice of our fathers. We still have our splendid inheritance except as modified—let us believe for Che better—by war. I believe as I live, that If our iTffitttulions are to be reverence their may know of their suffertag arid sac rifices and beable to defend their good names** and proud of their achieve ments, emulate in the great struggles neglected to preserve for the historian 8UC ^ ou f coun l try the fidelity, patriotism, love of and •on this 100th anolye governmental her birth statement that he had killed Wm. Golden, a neighboring farmer, on the public roads several miles from Tip- ton, -Gx “ According *to Jernigan’s story he and Golden had not been friends for a long time. Tuesday after- temoon they met in the road. A quarrel was Begun when Golden drew a j Confederacy, knife and rushed on Jernigan, who rican States. A Roman eye would great capacities, should expel partisan and seetional prejudices ^ "The south is reproached for dis union—secession. It is the basis for the charge of treason, of disrupting the union, of violating the constitu tion, of rebellion, of making war on the United States. It must not be for- gotton that there is a wide difference between secession and.rebellion.' Tbe south made no war on the States re in the union. Secession meant disunion so far as the seceding States were concerned, but it neither meant war or rebellion. It meant a union intack so far as all the States were concerned which did not secede, and a union, too, under the constitu tion. As the States entered the union, pai-.h under acts of ratification of Its own so secession meant tfie r^umptTon ptlSff,' by each State of its delegated poWeis by repealing the acts under which each seceding State entered the compact; but tbe repeal of such acts did not and could not affect the acts hy which the remaining States entered into the home and country attested by the veterans of 1881 on a hundred bloody battlefields. “Who would have them forget the Lees, the Johnstons, the Jicksons and the Hills? Who woqld have.them for- get Bcqgg, Beauregard, Hardee, Price, Polk and Hood? Who would have them forget tfie great wizard ortfie saddles, Bedford Forrest; and our own little Joa Wheeler, Pat Cleburfi, the lamented Walthall and innumerable others? Who would have us forget tbe grand (fid man (Gen. John B. Gor don) yet with us, and others still spar ed and tbe hosts who made for them names that can never perish from the earth as long as genius and courage and patriotism challenge the admira tion of mankind? Did any other people ever .face and'overcome adversity as did the southern people? The same spirit which gave her armies unity, power and endurance followed the survivors back into civil life to .point the way of a new birth such as no other conntry has ever experienced. The south gave to her aftnies all of her male popula- preserved, much, so much, will depend upon this goodly south of ours. Ou^ deepest concern should be for a better and more righteous natioaal charac ter. All the bounteous elements of /&nh and sky beckon us away from ‘ lie base fascination of pelf which dis honors and destroys our country. "Let us invite all her people into paths of law and order, inculcating Mace, and keep alive our sense of jus tice and human freedom and let all our Advancement and growth be charcterized by such a recognition of the rights of man as shall make her people feel that the blessings of Provi- c ncc arc theirs, under a government ^f^usttandequal la»*fc May our beloved southland build all her temples, not upon tbe shifting quicksands of selfish. expediency, hut upon the everlasting principles right: "Let us not forget that in the \rmory of J(>ivbie. t Providence, justice forges her weapons long before her battles are fought;' that IrTCfif everlasting courts of heaven every man must suffer tbe penalty of his dis obedience and all nations the penalty nf injustice and wrong, Whatever jLlmay he our burdens or calamities, let us bear them 'ortitude that become* a just and a great people, and may oar children and our children's children be inspir ed to walk along the very mountain ranges of an enlightened Christian civillatlon, always in the paths of duty, and preserve and keep sacred the same great qualities that made their ancestry respected and beloved of mankind.” alliance with shot hlod dead. There was no wit ness. "I affirm, if odium is to attach tbe south for the act of secession must attach also to the great gray-haired men, and they went from every walk, profession, calling and station in life, Neither the bench the pulpit nor the Institutions o learning were spared, All answered with alacrity and determination tb call to arms. When the war closed there were none. upon whom to rely but tbe ex-Confederate soldier. He it was who took up the new prob- Mr. D. G. Zelffler ft*r a Perpetual — 7 f—-7— Motion Machine. The Washington Evening Star says: The conm>kwlonPL-«)f patents, Mr. Frederick”!. Allen, lias slated posi- tl'yefy that tfie parent office will not, under any conditions, issue- patentsou so called "perpetual motion'* machines and that no patents for such machines have lieen issued hy the office for the past forty years. This statement of the commissioner was made In re* sponse to an Inquiry of a reporter'for the Star regarding the alleged Is me of a patent f- ra i>erpetu;il motion mi- chine h+ a fhan tn Sooth Carolina; This m in claimed to have received a patent for his machine, and long articles praising him and the machine have appeared la several of the lead ing Southern papers, it was a clip ping from one of these papers, which contained, among other things, an alleged statement of the patent office officials regarding U.e utility and prac tical merit of the mnohlue; which brought forll; such an unqualified de- ial from Odramissioner Allen. The clipping was brought to the commissiofier by a Star reporter .with a request for a statement as to Its truth. Mr, Allen^did not ho&itate to pronounce the statement false. It has never oome Irom the patent office, lie said. "The article to which you call my attention,” said Commissioner Allen, "published in a daily paper of Colom bia, S. C., and entitled ‘Perpetual Motion Machine Patented. First Patent in Forty years, The In a Sumter Architect, Mr. D. G. Zelgler ^Generates Power for Effective Work,’ is absolutely false wnere it says, in respect to tills Invention: ‘It is tbe first perpetual motion invention that the Unjted Sta.es government Iras - allowed a patent for in forty years,’ because the patent office is not allowing patents, upon perpetual mo tion machines at tbe present time. "A long description appears in this article, preceded by the words: The United States patent office has the following to say about the machine, and at the end of it—‘This Indorse ment by the patent bureau shows Mr. Zelgler has hit upon a machine.' * * Mr. Zelgler took his machine to Washington AndlHustrat- ed it, putting it to practical test, and the commissioners were so well pleas ed with R that they told him that his application would be tiled and al lowed.’ "These statements are so utterly false In their application that the patent office would do anything so foolish that it is difficult to conceive for what purpose this article was writ- ten, unless it was prepared discredit upon tbe operations of the United Ktates patent office, or else to induce ignorant people to embark their money in a fraudulent enter prise. "It is enough to say that the United States patent office does not intend to assist in any schemes of such natDre." -•? Shocking Brntalit; pf Cafit Ftmaa. ‘ des pf the Bifrk Yen Crfili ~ - HE DESERTED HIS PASSENGERS f Water and Food. They Were Crazed and Dylag When. Reacned A m Revenue ■' i, , Catter. _ All the resources of the secret ser vice of the treasury department are txdng brought into play to capture Captain Fernand* z, the master of bark Vera Cruz 111 that was beached near <>eracoke Inlet, N. C., uu>re than a week ago, with 417 starving Immi grants on board. j The story of the voyage of the Vera Crus HI remains one of the days of the slave ships. The Immigrants are natives of Oape Verde Islands. . They were induced to come tb America by the fact that there is a large and prosperous Portu guese settlement in eastern Massachu-? *ttU*. The brig uf which Captain Fernandez was master, was owned the Cape Verde Wands. It Is a very uid vessel and unseawortby. . a plain got his cargo of Immi grants by sailing from point to point around the islands. Most of them paid exorbitant passage money, and when they went on board deposited all tbe funds they possessed in the world with the captain for safekeep ing. The brig was Inadequately pro visioned, had scanty supply of water, a*id the immigrant* were packed to gether like cattle. Tbe ship made bad weather most of the time, and tbe captain was intoxicated daring the trip. The destination of the hi#* was New Bedford and the vessel had a small cargo of oil. She met adverse winds—and was blown out of her ■ — r 1 -K- Cut His Throat. Washington Sellgman, banker and broker, son of JandfiPSeligman and brother of Jesse Seligman, was found tiriits room at the Rossmore Hotel in New York Thursday night with-* deep gash in tbe right side of bis throat. He was taken to Roosevelt hopltal a prisoner for attempted suicide:"TO PoTTceCapt: O’Connor Mr. Sellgman said: "I have been suffering from a nervous ailment fur the past twenty years, and only a few days I noticed that it was g worse, and I was afraid to face Beside, I have been having a iotpof trouble In Wall street lately, and so I determined to end It all.” he doctors say that there is no doubt that Seligman will be able to leave the hospital In Was Murdered. A dispatch from Langlejf to The State says a gruesome picture present ed itself to some passers-by Wednesday morning on the Langley dam about one-fourth mile from tbe mill. They saw the body of a human being lying cold In death. Upon examination it proved to be the body of Joe Wertz, a negro man who His been lu the etn ploy of the Langley Manufacturing company for a number of years. Wertz had been struck a heavy blow on the back of his,head and then his throat was cut. The coroner’s Jury rendered a verdict to the effect that Wertz came to his. death by a violent attack by unknown parties. Mouth Carolina's War Showing. It is a matter of record that this State furnished to the armies of the Confederacy nearly 10,000 men more than the voting population of the State in 1860. The census of the United States shows that at that ti there were in this State '55,040 men over the age of 311 The records .of the war department of the Confed eracy show that this State furnished 61,608 men for service. (Of that num ber 24,248 died In battle, in tbe hos pitals and in the prisons. Nearly one- half of the State’s troops never came home after they set oat to establish a government which they thought to be their acme of civic organization.— The State. Act of a Brute. A brutal and shocking act in Ybor City, Fla . has greatly incensed tbe — He Was Arrested While President Roosevelt was in Sacramento City, Cal., pn Tuesday a man pamed Harfilemah was arrested because he was beard to say : "One has died and another had just is well.” In his pockets was found a iggi A Sod Tale. r ~~ ; Miss Zella Lawrence of - Laoett, Ala., a pretty girl of 23* attempted Suicide on Monday by jumping into the Chattahooobe river, but was res cued alive. The failure of tbe bride groom to appear at the wedding wh* she was to be tbs bride was tbe cause. people of that section against a Span- lard named Candido BaUejo. Ballejo has a fine Deach orchard and boys have been poaching on it. He caught one, and in a fit of rage plied a hot iron to his body, branding him badly on the stomach. The boy may die, and Ballejo is in jail. The people would have lynched him had not the authorities taken him in charge. " ^ Twelve Killed. A special dispatch from Madrid an- nounoes that durlng a bullfight Sun day at Algecieres tbe amphitheatre collapsed and twelve persons were injured. Several wo men and children were gored by tbe bull. - • Bod Shooters. Two editors exchanged thirteen 1 abuts at each other un tbe streets of Durango, Col., on Tuesday without aeriont results, tbe-only ing a slight flesb wound in the leg ofyvaluables one of them. ' course and tbe provisloos which bad been scarce at tbe start, soon ran so low that the immigrants were put on one meal a day. Water also ran out and for. several days prior to the beaching of tbe Vera Cruz io Ooracoke Inlet, not a, man, woman or child among tbe Immi grants had a drop to drtuk.r- The cap tain said that-he would nininto Oora-.. coke to get food and water, and would then proceed to New Bedford. ' „ When the ship went ashore be Im mediately disappeared, made his wsy to tbe mainland and no trace has been bad of him since. He took with him the seamen’s wsges, tbe passage money paid by tbe Immigrants and more than $5,000 in cash that had been intrusted to bis care by the pas sengers. - When tbe life saving service went Tome asaiitnKsr of the Vura Cruz last Sunday a scene was presented Im possible of description. Scarcely a soul on board tbe brig that was able to stand. They were almost skeletons from tbe lack of food, their tongues were swollen with thirst, most of them were crazed; from drinking salt water, and all were violently 111. In the emergency quick action was necessary and tbe revenue cutter Boutwell, $t Norfolk, was sent to tbe sssistance of tbe crew and paseengsn. When the Immigrants received food ... their stomach refused to retain it, and tbe whole 417 bad to be carefully nursed back to HfA They were finally removed ta Newbome, where they were housed In t large building, which was Inadequate for their sc- commodatiou, and many were sent to tbe hospital. There they have re- -Riveral days, while the treasury department, has been busy - ylng to solve the problem what to do with these aliens cast away on the shores of United States. . Bertram M, Stamp, an immigrant inspector, and Surgeon Glover, of tbe ration service at Baltimore, the assistance oftheJm- - migrants, and Mr. Stump made, a report suggesting that the tax of 92 a head 00 each immigrant be waiv ed, and that they be transpbrted to New Bedford, where most of them have friends. Inspector Stump, in bis report received at the treasury de partment Wednesday says: . "The manifesting of passengers was false, the captain took all tbe money I be could lay bis bauds on, and, from I the statements of those examined, half starved them, was intoxicated most of the time, and they find them selves here in s most pliable condition. Assistant Surgeon Glover and myself are still of the opinion that tbe beat thing to do is to have these people transported, preferable by sea, to some point in Massachusetts, where they can communicate with their rela tives and friends. Tbe crew are also absolutely without funds, and with no possibility of shipping from this point. I respectfully urge that, you make some arrangements, by Monday next to bate them moved from here. Tbe head tax money and fines for not prop erly manifesting aUgra,cannot be set tled at present ^r the reason that there is no representative of the bar- kentine here. The agents in New Bedford disclaim any responsibility. "Tbe treasury department author ized inspector Stump to make arrange ments for the all-rail transportation of the immigrants to New Bedford, and tbe treasury department will pay tbe bills. It is quite likely that the whale msttsf will aost the i at least 120,000. r ■ A Seriown Oban Daniel G- Hart, who for tbe past two years has been night clerk in the Spartanburg postoffloe, has been ar- Immip : were; from litten. He ghrded as an exodtent young X' .