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RELIGIOUS REVIVALS "
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Dr. Talmage, in a Timely Discourse,
! Declares His Belief in Them.
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Sermon Adapted from (be Story of
Simon enil (be Kliberi?Greateat
Obstacle to Revivals Is an
Unconverted Ministry.
(Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopacb. N. Y.]
Washington, March 24.
"" This discourse of Dr. Talmage is
X. most pertinent at this time when a
(widespread effort for religious awakening
is being made; text, Luke, verse
0: "They inclosed a great multitude
of fishes und their net brake."
Simon and his comrades had experienced
the night before what fishermen
?all "poor luck." Christ steps on board
|Lhe fishing smack and tells the sailors
!to pull away from the beach and direots
them again to sink the net. Suro
nougb, very soon the not is full of
fishes, and the sailors begin to haul In.
80 large a school of fiElies was taken
that the hardy men began to look red
In the face as they pull, and hardly
have they begun to rejoice at their success
when snap goes a threat of the
hot, and snap goes another thread, so
there is danger not ouly of losing the
fish, but of losing the net.
Without much care as to how much
the boat tilts or how much water is
splashed on deck the fishermen rush
about, gathering up the broken incshes
of the net. Out yonder there is a ship
dancing on the wave, and they hail it:
"3hip ahoyl Bear down this way!"
The ship comes, and both boats, both
fishing smacks, are filled with the
fibundering treasures.
"Ah," says some one, "how much
better it would huvo been If they had
staid on shore and fished with a hook
and lino and taken one at a time instead
of having this great excitement
and the bout almost upset and the net
broken and having to call for help and
getting sopping wet with the sea!"
The ehurch is the boat, the Gospel
is the net, society is the sen, uml a
' " .grca. revival is a whole school brought
In at one sweep of the net. I have admiration
for that man who goes out
with a hook and line to fish. I admire
the way he unwinds the reel and adJusts
the bait and drops the hook in a
quiet place on a still afternoon and
here catches one and there one, but I
like also a big boat aud a large crew
Snd a net a mile long and swift oars
and stout sails and a stiff breeze and a
great multitude of souls brought?so
great a multitude that you have got
to get help to draw it ashore, straining
the net to the utmost until It breaks
here and there, letting a few escape,
but bringing the great multitude iuto
eternal safety.
In other words, I believe in revivals.
The great work of saving men began
with 3,000 people joining the church In
one day, and it will close with 40 or a
hundred million people saved in C4
hours when nations shall be born in a
Iff day. But there are objections to reiff
rivals. People are opposed to them
because the net might get broken, and
If by the preaaure of souls It does not
get broken, then they take their own
| penknives and alit the net. "They inI
closed a great multitude of flslieB, and
" the net brake."
It is sometimes opposed to revivals
I of religion that lliose who come into
the church at such times do not hold
out. As long as there Is a gale of blessIng
they have their calls up. 13ut as
-fee strong winds stop blowing
they drop into a But
hat are the fu< ? lu
T our churches the vast majority of the
L useful people are those who are
brought in under great awakenings,
and they hold out. Who are the prominent
men in the United States iu
ohurchea, in prayer meetings, in Sabbath
schools? For the most part they
are the produot of great awakenings.
I have noticed that those who are
brought into the Kingdom of Qod
through revivals have more persistence
and more determination in the
Christian life than those who come
In under a low state of religion. People
born in an Icehouse may live, but
they will never get over the cold they
taught in the icehouse. A cannon ball
L depends upon the impose with which
it starts for how iar it shall go and
how swiftly, and the greater the revival
force with which a soul is started
the more far-reaching and far-resounding
will be the execution.
But it is sometimes objected to revivals
that there is so much excitement
that people mistake hysteria for religion.
We admit that In every revival of
religion there is either a suppressed or
a demonstrated excitement. Indeed,
if a man can go out of a state of condemnation
into a state of acceptance
with God or see others go without any
agitation of soul he is in an unhealthy,
morbid state and is as repulsive and
absurd as a man who should boast ho
saw a child snatched out from under a
horse's hoofs and felt no agitation, or
saw a man rescued from the fourth
tory of a house on Are and felt no acceleration
of the pulses.
Salvation from sin and death and
hell into life and peace and Heaven forever
is such a tremendous thing that
if a man tells mo he can look on it
without any agitation I doubt his
Christianity. The fact is that sometimes
excitement is the most important
possible thing. In case of resuscitation
from drowning or freezing
the one Idea is to excite nniination.
Before conversion we ure dead. It is
the business of the church to revive,
fciuunu, uhukcii, i u6 hsc11 iii c1, flflftlo
Into life. Kxcitement is bad or good
acoording to what it makes us do. If
it make us do that which is bad, it is
bad excitement, but if it make us agitated
about our eternal welfure, if
it make us pray, if it make us attend
upon Christian service, if it muke us <
cry unto God for mercy, then it is n
good excitement.
A Wrecked Life.
Corporal Harry K. Yeakloy. aped 30,
of the Forty-third company or coast ar- ?
tillery, stationed p* Fort Torry, Plum
island, died Thursday from tho effoota J
of a doso of wood Aloohol self adminis- k
tcrod. Corporal Yoakloy was a physioian "
having earned his degreo at tho Uni- c
vorsityof Virginia, and had been in the 0
enlisted service only a short time, his K
objeot in entering tho army having been
to put himsolf under restrains of military
discipline, whioh ho believed would s
bo benofioial for habits he had acquired. *
His body will bo shipped to tho family
homo in Winohostcr, Va , for burial.
Namo Changed. '
Tho namo of tho villago of Sing Sing d
has been ohanged to Casing. There n
sidonts found that whon thoy wont s<
away from homo and told that thoy c
oamo from Sing Sing pooplo fcuspootcd t
they woro ox oonviets, boeauso tho lo- 6
cation of tho New York Stato prison w
at that plaqo has been Sing Sing's only n
| claim to fame* So'they [ctitioncd for a a
' ohango. Thorp's somehting in a namo "
Lafter all Whon tho namo is that of a d
ponitontiary site,?Columbia Stato. t<
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It Is sometimes Mid that during re* p
rivals of religion great multitudes of li
children and young people are brought
into the church, and they do not know t
what they are about. It has been my o
observation that the earlier people c
- a 1 1.4 .1 n 1 at ?
vuuio iuvv vuc autgugiu ui uou iuo uiurc j
useful they are. Hubert Hall, the <1
prince of prtachers, was converted at a
12 years of age. It is likely he knew v
what he was about. Matthew Ilenry, t
the commentator, who did more than
any man of his century for increasing o
the interest in the study of the Scrip- t
tureB, was converted at 11 years of t
aget Isabella Graham, immortal in the c
Christian church, was converted at ten 1
yearH of age; Dr. Watts, whose hymns 1
will be sung all dowu the ages, was ii
converted at nine years of age. Jona- c
than Edwards, perhaps the mightiest c
intellect that the American pulpit c
ever produced, was converted at seven a
yours of age, and that lather' and I
mother take an uwful responsibility y
when they tell their child at seven y
years of uge: "You are too young to a
be a Christian," or "You are too young I
to connect* yourself with the church." t
That Is u mistake as long as eternity. 1
If during a revival two persons pre- a
sent themselves an candidates for the 1
church and the one is ten years of age y
and the other is 40 years of age. I will a
have more confidence in the profession ^
of religion of the ono ten years of age e
than the one 40 yeurs of age. Why? t
The one who professes at 40 years of c
ago has 40 years of impulse in the *
wrong direction to correct, and the
child lias only ten years in the wrong d
direction to correct. Four times ten J
nre 40. Four times the religious pros- ?
pect for the lad that comes into the I
kingdom of God and into the church at *
ten years of age than the mto at 40. c
I am very apt to look upon revivals 1
as connected with certaiu men who
fostered them. People who in this i
day do not like revivals nevertheless
have not words to express their adini- e
ration for the revivalists of the past, c
for they were revivalists?Jonathan- c
Edwards, John Wesley* George Whit- 1
field, Fletcher, Griffin, Davies, Os- v
borne, Knapp, Nottleton, Moody and
ninny others whose nafties coma to '
my mind. The strength of their in- ^
telleet and the holiness of their lives
make me think they would not have *
had anything: to do with that which I
was ophefneral. Oh, it is easy to *
talk against revivals! : *
A man said to Mr. Dawson: "T
like your sermons very much, but 1
the after meetings I despise. When c
the prayer meeting begins I always 8
go up into the gallery and look down, 6
and 1 am disgusted." "Well," said
Mr. Dawson, "the reason is you go
on the top of your neighbor's house
and look down his chimney to exam- *
ine his fire, and of course you get
only smoke in your eyeB. Why don't *
you come in the door and 6it down 6
and warm?"
Oh, I am afraid to say anything
against revivals of religion or against
anything that looks like them, be- .
cause I think it xnay be a sin against
the Holy Ghost, and you know tho
Bible says that a sin against the Holy .
Ghost shall never be forgiven, neither
in this world nor the world to come.
Now, if you are a painter and I speak T
against j'our pictures, do I not speak
against you? If you are an nrchl- .
tect, aud I speak against a building ,
you put up, do I not speak against c
you? If a revival be the work of the e
Holy Ghost, and I speak against that fi
revival, do I not speak against the
Holy Ghost? And whoso epeaketh ,
against the Holy Ghost, Bays the
Bible, he shall never be forgiven,
neither in this worjd nor in the world .
to comc. I think* sometimes people
huvo made a fatal mistake^
rection.
Now I come to .tho real, genuine
cause of objection to revivals. That
is the coldness of the objector. It is
the secret and hidden but unmistalc
able cause in every case, a low state
of religion in tho heart. Wide awake,
consecrated, useful Christians are
never afraid of revivals. It is the
spiritually dead who are afraid of
having their sopulcher molestod. Tho
chief agents of the devil during a
great awakening are always unconverted
professors of religion. As soon
as Christ's work begins they begin
to gossip against it and take a pail
of water and try to put out this
spark of religious influence, and they
try to put out another spark. Do
they succeed? As well when Chicago
was on fire might somo one hare
gone out with a garden water pot
tiying to extinguish it.. The difficulty
la that when a revival begins in a
church it begins at so many points
that while you have doused one anxious
soul with a pail of cold water
there nre 500 other anxious souls on '
fire. Oh, how much better it would
V.- To,, ~ -l ?->
.... in/m ut iuu cuunot or f
Christ's Gospel nnd help pull It on 6
rather than to fling ourselves in front 1
of the wheels, trying to block thair /
progress. Wo will not stop tha t
chariot, but we ourselTes will be A
ground to powder. i
Uut I think, ufter nil, the grentest t
obstacle to revivals throughout s
Christendom is on unconverted minis- n
try. We must believe that the vast ?
majority of thosa who officiate at c
acred altnrs are regenerated, but I ?
suppose there may float into the v
ministry of nil the denominations of f
Christians men whoso hearts have v
never been changed by grace. They "
are all antagonistic to revivals. How A
did they get Into the ministry? Per- P
haps some of them chose it as a re- A
spcctable profession. Perhaps some u
of them were sincere, but were mis- ?
taken. As Thomas Chalmers said, he n
had been many years preaching the ?
Gospel before his heart had been G
changed, and ns many ministers of v
the Gospel declare they were preach- G
Ing and had been ordained to sacred M
orders yenrs and years before their
hearts were regenerated. Gracious ?
God, what a solemn thought for those r
of us who minister at the altarl tl
With the present ministry in the c
Sergt. Jasper's Company.
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i no noiumDii State nays in tho valuable
"rubbish'' at tho Stato bouse thoro Tl
ias reocntly been found tho original di
lompany roll of tho oompany of wbiob in
lorgt. Jasper of Fort Moultrie fame wan st;
. member. Tho roll not only gives tho m
lame of oaoh commissioned officer but da
>f oaoh privato in tho oompany. U also pi
;ives the dato of onlistmont and diB- Fi
barge, and has oomploto marginal notes, ai
^his is regardod as one of the most valu \\
bio finds among the Stato's revolution- oj
ry records yet mado. fo
or
A Good Suggestion.
Tho Atlanta Journal says in Rhode
sland there is an averago of ono diorco
for every eight marriages. A good da
oal of uhoIobs formality and expense ri<
light bo savod by morely adopting a A
ort of probationary system whereby va
onplos can take eaoh other, not for bet- th
ir or for worse, but until thoy can fe
nd out tho difforenoo? on trial, as it of
'ere?without calling for the sacra- wi
tent of matriago until they aro sura no
bout it. Certainly the percentage of da
sticks" could not bo any loss than un- no
or tho present come oasy-go easy ays- gii
:m. he
rtMBi temperature of plot/, tkk
snd will never bo enveloped with r*<
ivals. While the pews on one side
he sltsr ory for mercy, the pulpita
u the other side of the sltar must
ry for mercy. Ministers quarreling,
ilnlsters trying to pull each oth^r
own. Ministers struggling for eccleiastical
ulaoe. Ministers, lethurgio
rith whole congregations dying on
heir hands. What a spectacle!
During our civil war-the president
if the "United States made procl&raalon
for 75,000 troops. Some of you
emember the big stir. Dut the King
if the universe to-day asks for
,200,000,000 more troops than are enisted,
and we want it done softly,
mperceptibly, no excitement, one by
me. You aro a dry goods merchaht
>n a largo scale, and I am a merchant
n a small scale, and I come to you
.nd want to buy 1,000 yards ot cloth.
)o you say: "Thank yon. I'll sell
"ou 1,000 yards of cloth, bat I'll sell
ou 20 yards to-day and 20 to-morrow
Lnd 20 the next day, and if it takes
d? six months I'll sell you the whole
housand yards. You will want as
ong as that to examine the (foods,
>nd I'll want as long as that to exanine
the credit, and besides that 1,000
rards of oloth is too much to sell all
it once?" No; you do not say that,
'ou take me iuto the counting-room,
,nd in ten minutes the whole tranaasion
is consummated. The fact is we
annot afford to bo fools in anything
>ut religion.
That very merchant who on Saturday
afternoon sold- me the thousand
arris of cloth at one stroke the next
iabbath in church will stroke his
icard and wonder whether it would
lot bo better for a thousand souls to
lome straggling along for ten years
nstead of bolting in at one service.
It seems to me as if Qod is preparng
the world for some quick and
inlversal movement. A celebrated
lectriclan gave me a telegraph chart
?f the world. On that chart the wires
rosslngthe continents and the cables
inder the sea looked like veins red
vlth blood. On that chart I see that
he headquarters of the lightnings are
n Great Britain and the United
itates. In London and New York
he lightnings are stabled, waiting
o be harnessed for some quick dis atch.
That shows you that the telgraph
is in the possession of Chrisianity.
It is a significant fact that the mnn
vho Invented the telegraph was an
ild-fashloned Christian, Prof. Morse,
ind that the man who put the telegraph
under the sea was an old-fashoned
Christian, Cyrus W. Field, and
hat the president of the most fanous
of the telegraph companies of
his country was an old-fashioned
Christian, William Orton, going from
he communion table on earth
tralglit to his home in Heaven. TThat
[oes all that mean?
I do not suppose that the telegraph
vas Invented merely to let us know
vhether flour Is up or down or which
torse won the race at the Derby or
vhich marksman beat at the latest
icntest. I suppose the telegraph was
nvented and built to call the world
o God.
In some of the attributes of the
,ord we seem to share on a small
calo. For instanae, in His love and
Ii?-kindness. But until of late fore:nowledge,
omniscience, omnipresnce,
omnipotence, seem to have been
xclusively God's possession. God, deirtng
to make the race like Himself, ;
fires us a species of foreknowledge
n the weather probabilities, gives u^
i species of omniscience in telegraphy,
fives us n species of omnipresence in
he telephonejgJ^^^^MUspccie^of
ibout tis, people are asking wnntnext?
1 will tell you what next. Next, a
tupendous religious movement. Next,
ho end of war. Next," the crash of
lespotism. Next, the world's expurgalon.
Next, tie Christllko dominion.
Cext, the judgment. What becomes
>f the world after that I care not.
t will have suffered and achieved
nough for one world. Lay it np in
he drydocks of eternity, like an old
nan of war gone out of service, or fit
t up like a Constellation to carry
>read of relief to some other suffering
ilanet or lift it be demolished. Fareveil,
dear old world, that began with
>aradlse and ended with Judgment
(onflagration.
Lnst summer I stood cn the Isle of
Yight, and I had pointed out to ine
ho place where the Eurydiee sank
vitlf 200 or 300 young men who were
n trainiag for the British navy. You
emcmber when that training ship
vent down there n as a thrill of horror
.11 over the world. Since then there
vas another training Rhip missing,
fha Atalanta, gone down with all on
loard. By order of her majesty's govrnment
vessels went cruising up and
[own the Atlantic trying to find that
ost training ship in which thero were
ro many young men preparing for
he British navy. Alas, for the lost
Ltalanta! Oh, my friends, this world
s only a training.ship! On it we are
mining for Heaven. The old ship
alls up and down the ocean of imnensity,
now thiougli the dark waves
f midnight, now through the golden
rested wave of the mora, but sails
>n and sails on. After awhile her
vork will be done, and the inhabitants
if Heaven will look out and find a
i*orld missing. The cry will be:
Where is that earth where Christ
ied and the human race was omanciated?
Send out fieets of angels to
nd the missing craft." Let them sail
p and down, cruise up and down the
eean of eternity, and they will catch
otonc glimj?;o of her mountain masts
r her topgallants of floating cloud,
lone downl The training ship of a
rorld porished in the last tornado,
h, let it not be that the goes down
rith all on board, but rather may it be
aid of her passengers, as It was said
f the drenched passengers of the Alxandrian
corn ship that crashed into
he breakers of Molitai "They all asaped
safe to land!"
A Horrible Crime.
A horrible crirno ctmo to the light
harsday when John Favalons and his
vugmer, addio, wcro aiscoverrd cold
death in their homo on Pordito
reel, Now Orleans. Hoth had been
nrdcrcd by burglars during Wednes
\y night. The burglars rannaoked tho
cmises after killing their viotims.
avalona kept a grooery and fruit stand
id olosod up his plaoo about 10 o'olook
Wednesday night. When he did not
)on Thursday morning neighbors
rood thoir way in and discovered tho
ime.
A True Qirl.
Dollio K. Wilkins, tho adopted
iughter of Mrs. Sarah E. Wilkins, a
;h and oooontrio widow living near
tohison, Kansas, loses an estate
lued at 175,000 booauso sho married
o man she loved. She was married a 1
w days ago to Qeorge Woods, tho son 1
James Woods, a farmer, against the 1
shes of Mrs. Wilkins, and the widow 1
w announocs -that her adopted '
ughter, who was her solo heir, will 1
t roooive a penny of her fortune. The 1
1 is 20 and her husband is 20 years 1
r senior. '
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Brought to Mvmory by )?ath
cf JuCgi W alla
an (XciriNo peBS? 1
Thw Stirring Evonta of I VuiJtwminetcorces
of tha ffopca
Houaa Hampton'sVd V 1
uta to Wallt-CiW' ,
The Columbia Slate says ^'tribute
to the memory cf Gen. W?!.fce oould
be more gratifying to his 11c. d ones
than iho kind expressions Gen
Wade Hampton, who watW^r Gen. !
Wallace's career in tbe waM < who
was Qovernor at the time ^B^*adge
Wallace was leader of the ^B^aticr
Ilouto of Representatives iTo
a representative of The H)} Gen.
Hampton expressed his reflet tho
death of Gen. Walla?;.-, tfl that
' Gen Walla o's great sul^H uaU
ties wero UBtifit** to by h^H and
deserved promotion; that l^J lenoe
as a legislator is a matiot^B les-story
and that his broad judioiai^Ki jujuali
ficd him to preside in th^B unified,
able manner whioh chara* />-,cd his
long, true and faithful boiWw on tho
konch. I pinoeiely regret f\a death,"
concluded Gen. Hampton ..I
Gen. Robtrt R Hemphyj, of Abbo
ville, who was a memberthe Wallic>Hou<-e,
hp< ko thus of Judge Wal
lace: "My firtt aequain'*noo wiih
Judge Wallaciwas in 187*> wl en ho
hccamo Speaker of th^ histtrio
Houso of ltep'OsectalivoB which has
since that time beon known kh tho Wallace
Hou o He was tbe rifcfat man for
that critical timo 11.s oou^|e, judg
ment and dkorction savcd^B State
from many iv Is. If he hi^Hot been
perfectly B'l'-posscssed whe^kc State
House urns first entered a ool^B would
have enBUcd and all our peop^j would
havo beooup inv lvcd. 1 ho jsame is
true of the time when the H(uso was
oompe lied to quit tho State 1 House.
He was an excellent presiding' efficer,
impartial in his rulings and r^niok in
his decisions. Those who served with
him wi.l hear of his death with profound
sorrow. Ho was a brt vo and
patriotic soldier, a learned Tcr, an
honorable orumc 1 lor and a jus, judge.
Tho StatO has lost one of hor noblest
sons "
The death of oalls
vividly to tie the
exciting scenes enao'c^^Ti^ South
Carolina was in tho hands o' a dual
government. Mr. John S. Veroer,
master of Rioh'and County, was a
member of the Wallace House; rcpro
coating Ooneo County. Ho p yi a
high tribute to the oharaotcr of Judge
Wallace. "That gentlemen, h0 says,
was e no of tbe most even tempered
men this State produced in tho closing
years of the last oenlury. Id ?U the
ixoiement, whin tragedy brooded
over tho law-makiDg assembling Gon.
Wallace was cool, determined! md in
full possession of tbo situation/ , Referring
?o tho incidents of that ti^ie, Mr.
Vomer gave a running statom* at as to
tho piiQiipal bap{cnicgs.
In the general election of lfaTti the
D^mtcrats elooted a lar^o nutjber of
tepreseDtatives to the General Asiembly^
which had forutj^rly over i
' m si ly,,'"-*!* Rfijaal i twaJBlk?i
of the delegations from Kd^eowid and I
Laurens counties was contested, however.
Tho State Dem< cralio executive
committco urged tho Democratic members
elcot to report to Columbia prompt
ly. This was done and the night before
the aisembling of the Logtalatu'e
tho Democratic representatives met in
Clark's hall a dio caucus nominated
the following ticket: W. H. Wallace.
IlnlAn Slnnakrr- I ?a 'I1 iJlnan 1J > -
land, clerk; W. B. Williams, of York,
reading oloark; and John BrowD, Barnwell,
sergeant at arms.
The negro secretary of Slate, Hayno,
bad in tho meantime refused to grant
certificates of election to the Demooraotio
cor teatcrs from Edgefield r.cd
Laurens. The Republicans gathered
in tho State capitol the day the General
Assembly wts called to o:der and
elto.td K W. Mackey, of Charltston,
S| oaker. Tho IXmecrats in a -hpdy,
headed by the Eigeficld aud Lauren#
delegations marched to the Sta'e oapit
>1, tut wero refused admi.-sion.
Whereupon John C. Shopp&rd, of
Edgefield, delivered a protest. Tho
oapitol building was in ohargo of Fed
eral troops commanded by G?.n. Kugcr.
Tho Democrats then marched back to
the Carolina hall, whioh is now standing,
in the rear of ltiohiacd County
court house and behind tie stores on
Main street. This building is historic
in many ways, having been built of
briok still hot from tho smoking ruins
of Colnmhia in 18H5. In this hall the
Democratic members, constituting a
quorum (though not a me jority) of tho
General Assembly, proceeded to eleot
tho ticket nominated in oaucus the
night before. Tho Senate, whioh was
conceded to be Bepublioan, was notified
of the organization at Carolina
hall, but took no notioo of tho body
and recognized thr Republican Ilouec,
whioh was in session at tho State oapitol.
From this the Democratic House
brought aotion in tho Stato supromo
court to mandamus Hayne, tho socrc
Ury of Stato, to issue olection certificates
to tho Domocrats from Edgefield
and Laurens. The Demoorats won
their point- Then at the suggestion of
tho State Domooratic executive commit
teo tno Wallace House dooided to get
control of the hall of the Houso of Keprosentativcs.
(ien. Ituger agreed to interpoae no
martial interfercnoo if the Oemoora's
would conduct themselves peaceably.
However, although admission to the
building was obtained, it wan nooossary
to pass the portals of tho legislative
hall. Stratogy and force wore both
brought into play.
Tho lUdioal House van to assemble
at noon on Thursday. Tho Democrats,
singly and by taok streots, made their
way to tho Stato oapitol and obtained
admission. The Radicals wore not ex
peeling this movement. However, tho
negro sergeant at-arms, a burly fellow,
attompted to prevent entranoo at the
swing ng doors of green baiio. Col. |
James L. Oir, of Andorson, thrust
him to one side. In tho soutUo Mr.
John 8. Vernor scrambled through the
legs of tho combatants and snatohed tho
door open. The Domoorats then filed
in and Gen. Wallace took the speaker's 1
chair
This was a few minutes before 12 i
o'olook. Whon tho hour of noon ar- 1
rived the Kopublioaa Houso offioials
attomptod to get their seats, but wore
refused. They obtained ohairs, howaver,
and tat besido thu Democratic offi 1
scrs. From Thursday until Monday at 1
coon tho dual government oontinued i
thus, two Speakers, two clerks, two of <
ivory offioo. During that timo no 1
I
V.
?
Democrat left the bell for fear that he
Bonld not gain reaemieaion. Food was
brought by friends. and the Democrat
io legislators slept in the hall.
If a Democrat would me to address
Speaker Wallace a Radical would ad
dress Speaker Maokoy, and both inembore
would speak at the same time,
eaoh trying to drown out the other. No
business was transacted or attempted.
Din tho meantime four, negroes,came
over to the Dtinoeratio standard,
Hamilton and Myers: of Beaufort;
Westberry, of Sumter; Bostbn, of Nowberry,
and another from Fairfield.Hamilton
was the first to make a
break. He is said to have been a Jtsgro
of iotelligenoe and means. ilq walked
into the ball faultlessly attired io
broadoloih. Laying his beaver bat
and gold-headed oauo on his doi-k, and
displaying his revolver, whioh he also
laid oloso at hand, he addressed Judge
Wallace as "Mr. Speaker:"? The negroos
crowded around >1 irn cor?ged.
The white men also surged up towards
his disk "Whom did to mean to ad
dress as 'Mr Spiaker?' " Telling the
negroes tp staad back, Hamilton kept
them at bay' with Kis pistol and said
that as soon as quiet was restored he
wou'd explain whom he meant. Tho
eagir.rowd fell back and the negro
U oo proclaimed why be would uphold'
the decent political party "and would
aligo himself with the Democrats.
The following Monday at noon on the
advioe of Judge Wallaoo the Deinooratio
House abandoned the ball of the
Houbo of Rry resent ativcs and went
baok to Carolina hall. This was . done
for a re?6oo that no good could bo aocompliBtud
by remaining and it was
feared t) at the torrible strain on
poople would bo followed by ..disaster
uoIcbb the tension bo relaxed.
Having now, with the*u-grb recruits,
a oh ar majority as well as a quorum, tho
Wallaoo tiou'e elected Qen. >10, Butlar
to be United States" Sonaior. A
stand was built iu front 'of Carolina
hall, there being n> buildings between
thatriotaod Main Street, and there
Gen. Hampton was inauguiated Gover
nor, the oath being administered by J.
Q Marshall, a Democratic) trial jusliod,
now Senator from Kiohlaud oounty. V '
The Kepublloans clcotod D. T. Corbin
to the United S.ates Senato. Corbin
was an alien, but a very oapable
lawyer. No business was transacted,
no laws enaoied. Resolutions word
discussed by the three several branches
of the General Assembly meeting daily.
Dr. James Woodrow voluntarily did the
piioting of tho Wallaoo llausc, but was
afterwards repaid. Just before Christ
mas the Radical Heuso adjourned and
the Wallaoo House followed suit. The
expenses of tho Wallaoe ilou60 were
met by voluntary Ecivioes of tho-mem
bers and ty voluntaiy contributions
from patriots.
Tbo next spring affairs were chaotio.
The Democrats refuted to pay taxes to
ltidioal oounty officials, tut made a
contribution to tho Hampton govern
mont. When Ru'1 erford B. Uayis
bo:amo President March 4th, ho with
drew the United States troops from
South Carbltna and tho backbone of tho
Radical party was gone. D. H. Chamberlain,
R? pubiioan Governor, abdio*t'
id, and Wade Hampton, tho hero and
idol of tho Democrats, ooeupied the
executive office at the State ca'pttol A
speoial hcbiiod of the General A sembly
was called, and as there win no funds
for tho expenses of the Ridicals. the
Mackoy House was disvipajuti, Hotnvnr
thArn vnr.t tnanv I^AntiKli.tan nn
- " J *.ypW.av-M MV
groca who Bat in iho Legi la'uro after
the Wallace House gamed full coatrol,
because the /v.'&uVtt.a whidh. they
^ppHBV^10 an<i-obtcdly U.publiW.
D Simeon, of L.urens, bad al
ready been sworn in aa Lieutenant
Governor. When"" Unambtrlain vgave
way to Hampton Grcav.a, the nagro
Lieutenant Governor, gave way to Mr.
Siinison. Greavea tried to fqroo.G^v^
Simpson to to take the 'oath of ?ffiea.
Gov. Simpson, a veiling with indigna
lion, replied: "The Senate will Como
to order. I have taken the oa.h of
effioe onoe, and no power on earth can
mako me take it again."
Thero waa no dramatic . soeno after
this announcement, but quiet waa after
some difficulty restored and Gov. Simpeon
did not take the oath a9 proposed
by the negro. Gen. Mart W. Gary waa
a member of tho Sonato and defied the
tiegre Senators to dispute Gov. "SiffipLod
a right to the office.
Gov. Simpson waa elcoted oLicf jus
tioe of the State supieme oourt aud
Jeter, of Union, beoamo Lieutenant'
Governor. Gen. Wallace, tno presiding
officer of tLe House, was alt-o from
Union. When Gon. Wallaco the presiding
officer of tho House, was olcvated
to the oircuit beech in 1877, Jobn C.
Shepj ard, after an intcrbstiog contest
with J as. L. Orr, bccauio Speaker of;
tho House. Mr. Sheppard afterwards
married Gon. Wallace's daughter.
None but a man of highest attainments.
delicate taot, supreme courage
and indomitable will could have been
Speaker of the Democratic House of
1S7H and 6uoh a man W. 11. Wallace isdcolarod
by all who served with him. '
Committed Suicid6.
A dispatch from St Goorges to The
State says '*a tragedy has occurt'ci in
our midst, and one which, under the
particular cirouuistanooB by which it
was occasionod, oausos tho sympathy
of the entire oommunity to bo extended
to the bereaved ones. It was a suioido,
Mr. Carney Qajkins, an old and respooted
citizoa, preoipitatod the end of
his existence of his own volition Wed ,
nesday afternoon about 5 o'clock. Mr.
Gaskins was just onvalesoont from a
protracted spell of severo illness. On
tho afternoon of tho suic.do was the
first timo that ho dared vonturo' out of
doors for months. llo managed to
make his way to a store nearby his placa
of rcsidoieo, and froiu its proprietor
procured a pistol under tho protonso
that ho desired to kill a dog or oat
which was annoying hiui at his homo.
His wife, becoming alaimed at his
lengthy absot cj from the honse,1 instituted
a search and found him in ono
of tho outhouses in tho rear of their
residcnc), with life extinct, with a
wound in tbe head, intlcitod by a re-,
volvor, which was grasped tightly in
the left hand. Tho ball cntorod on thoi
left aide of tho faoe, a little abovo tho
tomplo, passing through tho head and
embedding iteolf in a bundlo of fodder
wh.ch was beneath his hoad. It is presumed
that ho was drivon to tho daring
and rash act from dospondonpy, produced
by protracted suffering frofo a
chronic disease. Tho unexpected cccurronoo
has proved almost fatal to
(Jaskin's wifo, and she has boon at tho
point of death from norvoui prostration
svor sinoo.
Murdered a Little Boy.
Near Six Mile, W. Va., Thursday
Charles (lore, 20 yoars old, shot and;
killed a 7-year-old son of John ilagar
and seriously wounded tho father bemuse
some ono bad stoned his hoiso.
Ho osoaped to Kontuoky.
\
A BEAUTIFUL POEM.!
- i
' Bvouac cf the Dead," Greatest
Martini Eulogy Ever Written.
> * * ' _ . t
ITS ADAPTION WORLD WIDE.
I
Written by Theodore O'Hara In
C6hnhnerno(?tlon of th? Gal-'
, '-ilar try 'of thd Kentucky
Soldiery.
[Like ProvMenoe, La , Banner-Democrat.]
Having lately Been a beautiful tribu'o
to Tbcpdorc O'Hara, author of the
immortal poem, ''Tlio Bivouao of the
Dead," and as OHara wn my p< rsonal
friend and assistant in the Adjutant
Gent rat's i ffioo of the Kentucky division,
commanded by Mijor General
Brecket ridge, I take pleasure in send
ingycu an extract from iho ariiolo.
with tbo fpiH poem, which I have rar,
ritd in my notebook eversince the wtf.
It is worthy of reocrd that this bod
of thonouth produced the one perfect
and universal martial eulogy that the
world h.*:tat)wn and' that the south
has been absolutely unmindful of this
fact. Tho fir&t of these statements is
proven by the fact that without any
advertisement or exploitations, the
wonderful words have, in the fifay
years sitrtfo thoy were wiittea, permeated
the wht le world, and been laid
hold on by Koglifeh spoking people
everywhere^to c .-libra to their honored
dosd who passrd away io battle. Upon
Crimean Battlefields, the renting place
of Eoglith heroes is marked by a great
monument, i n which shines, .0 Hara s
maicbless words, and yot Borland 'did
not kDOw from "wh6m sho ' borrowed
when bho wrote them':
"On fume's etttnalcamping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And glory guards, with so emn round, .
u TBe'blrodac of the dead."
FerhapB tfio anonymous pharaoter of
tLe poem was a blessiog, since it is
dt ubtful if tho Federal govirnm nt ot
the United Slates would bava used the
linrB in t-uoh lavish fashion in im
moriajii qg tho. dead of fhe ' Union
Army, had tl^y.-boca reoogn aed as the
product of tho genius of a soldier and
tffi cor of the other hide, In any case,
they did not know, and; every natioral
cemetery in America has gained -thereby,
binoo they arc not only the most
apptoi riate but the only appropriate
lines for surh a purpose.
Over tho gateway -of 'the national
cemetery at Wabhington the famous
first bi'anza is engraved, and. there, as
at Antietam.aol other national cemeteries
iho'enure poem is, reproduotd,
stanza by staDza, on blibs placed along
tho tfiivoway.
O H-ara lus in tho btrryicg grou id a]
.Frankafcrt, Ky , with only the lh'tc'ip
lion to a bimplo slab of marblo which
says:
. . Tloodoro O Hara,*
Mojor A. D C
Died June 6. 1867
B> 1 iw is a oopy of h s poem in full,'
wrtfeo en occasion of the removal -t
tho Kentucky dead from Mexico to
their natjvo S'.a.e afb> r the war with
that p'^untry.. John A. Buok.DdrT~~
* T11K BlVOUAOi>v THE HEAD
'(Written by Xhoodoro O'Hara'm 1347^)
,Ihe iptiCltd drum's sad'roll has be it
"The soldier o last.tattoo;
is#-* ?- n.tt a
1?V U.UICVI1 JIIC O pursue BQAU IUQCI . J '
\' That brave and fallen few t. ,
.<(>0 fame's e ernal ramping ground
H'heir silent tenia are sprcal, *
And glory guards, with solemn round, A
The bivouac of the dead.
I *t ' *
No rumor of the foe's alvanee,
Now swells upon the wind:
No troubled thought at midnight haunts Of
lpved ones left behind;
No. vision of the morrow's sirife
The warrior's dreatn alarm-*:
No liraying horn nor screaming fife
At dawn bh.ll call to arms.
Their shivered swords are red with rutt,
Their plumed heads are bowed;
Their haughty banner, trailed in duet,
Is now their marital throud.
And pleuleottafuneral tear* have washed
The red trains ffom each brow; *
And the pfoud forms, by batt'e gashed; '
Are free irom anguish now. *.
Thc peighing tr*)opK the flashing blade,
The bugle s stirring blast;
The charge, the dreadful caunonade,
'lhe din aud Shout, are passed;
Nor war's wild note nor glory's peal
rhall thrill with -fierce delight '
Th* se breasts that nevermore u at feel
The rapture of the tight.
Like the fierce northern hurricane
That sweeps his great plateau,
Flushed with the triumph yet to gain,
Came down the serried foe..
Who heard the tftilifdernf the fray
Break o'er the field beneath.
Knew Ipell thd wat? hword of that day
Was "victory or death."
Long had the doubtful conflict raged
O cr all the Uiicken plain,
Por never fiercer fight hsd waged
The vengeful blood of Spain;
And still the stofm of battle blew,
Still swelled the gory tide;
Not long our stout old chieftain knew
Such odds bis strength could bide.
'Twas in that hour this stern command
Called to a martyr's grave
The flower of his beloved land, * - The
nation's flag to savs.
By rivers *df their fathers' gore
ilii first born laurels grew,
And well he deemed the sons wotkltf pour
Their lives for olnrv Inn
0---*
Full many a northeY's breath has swept
O'er Angostura's;plain?
And long the pitying sky has wept
Above itfe mouldered elain.
The raven a scream er eagle's flight,
Or shepherd's pensive lay
Alone awakes each sullen height
That frowned oet that dread frayful.
Hons of the dark and bloody ground,"
Ye must not slumber there,
Where stranger steps and tongues resound
Along the heedless air. ?
Your own proud land's heroic soil
Shall be your titter grave;
She claims front war his richest spoil? . - '
The ashes of her brave. .. f
Thus 'neath their parent turf they rast,
Far from the gory field,
ltorne to a Spar'an mother's breast
On many a bloody shield;
The sunshine of their native sky
. Smiles sadly on them here,
And kindred ejts and he iris watch by
The heroes' sepulchre.
Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead!
Dear as the blood we gave;
No impious footsteps here shall tread
"fhe herbage of your grave;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While fame her record keeps;
Or honor paint the hallowed spot
Where valor proudly sleeps, i ...
Yon marbfe minstrel's voiceless itone
In deathless song shall tell, ?
When many a vanished age hath flown,t
The story how, ye; f+ll. * '
'Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight,
No^ tinteis remorseless doom,
Shall dim one ray of glory s light
That glides your deathless tomb.
"TH0?u"0f CALT"T" Saw MilK
How a Onat Eyma Wm Midi by i /n m?'*ii
*m*m? ,f Y.i., Corn Mills, 1
One day daring the winter of 1830 a Cane Mills, V
young man, a graduate from Yale, aat 7
down in bin room in the city of New g*?? TTllllova
Ycrksnd aitb ejes fi'ltd with tear* wro.e XVXX?a5 XXLlXXv/X?j
in bia pocket rutin randurn-book four w~v ?w n
bimplo Btanias, whioh, he said, ' were Jl 0ft Jlx11.1x01*S# V
born of my own snal." Two years later.
Dr. Lowell Mason composed for KTlCrTlpa
these stabsak the beautiful tone Olieet 1 wlIf^n lH7Qf
to whioh the hymn is still eung, and it Tt *1
is certainly one of the mo?t p.eoiout DOllGrSa II
contributions whioh Am riian genius
has made to the hymnology of the PI ft 71 Pl*fl ft 1141
Christian church. It r ads thu : XIOllCIB ttliU
"My fiilh loots to Thee, Matchers, I
Thou Lauib of Calvary, 7
Swing Saws, .1
Take all my guilt away, m c-* ,
O let ue trom this day leirk Vn Alr G
B; wholly Thine." XVIJJ ijUtt Sj
1 ? WW aw _ ?
Thi. bJmo of nJ?mpUM, wbi.h oiner Rlmtt or wood
sprung from a devout soul, begins in working machinery. My Herptuitcucc,
but rods in praise, aud geant Log Beam Saw mill is
with a glorious assuratoe of bop ; and the heaviest, strongest, and I
how many a penitent while hearing or most efficient mill for the
uttering those words, has nuoo pardon . . ,
aud peace in bcli* ving t Bowing before ^ market, quick,
a oiuc fiod S^vitur and kok to Him accnrate. State Agunt for H.
alono, his cry is: B. Smith Machine Company
_ w ? ? wood working machinery,
Take all mi s ns away, ? _ , . , , . . r
RLd J For high grade engines, plain
let me from ihu day slide valve? Automatic, and
b.* wboiiy ibiuu. Corliss, write me: Atlas,
The of th.l o-, of f.ilh W?tfJ,t0,7n' aDd Strather?
fiods a resp< n-o in the bos 111 of infinite ana Wells,
m-rev, mad tho prayiig soul obtains V. C. BA1)HAM,
strength. He is mspired wiib a pure, J320 Main St., Colnmbia. 8. O.
warm, a d change less levj for the K: __?
dcruiei?' a living fire." e7ar"*
Tnen. looking iorward. ho sres that Cfc(,
Gothst mane hour - are before him, w hen i
tho ?.up ? f bitterness ma t be preesed V fcJsvUcA *\
to his lips, *:.d while eu rrun led wit i
clouds of di c lurageaunt and tempts fd
lion he preys: ^f
Be Thou my gui le; A
llid dftrkurss mro I d?y. TagOB 5Cute
.*: Wipe aurrow's tears away, r** "v ?* $?
Nor let me evtr Bir?y .
From Thee aside." CS 0 ~
v, . ? . . OLD NORTH STATK OIHT
Yet there is ono more valley, da krr w Vvm .
than any passed before. It if the one JJ15?7' th? Gr?*1 Antiseptic
in which ends lifo's irtnsient dream, Healer, enres Piles, Eczema,
and thnogh wh oh 10 is death's oilu. Sore Eyes, Gianni at ed Eyelids,
tu'len stream;, and as his little baique Carbuncles, Bolls, Cuts, Bmisi.borD.,ifilyto..rdjho-,hiwo.im
, 0Id B Bnroa, Corns,
eternity, lis last mumphatu words -r?' , , , J, ,, '
trc-; Bunions, Ingrowing Toenails,
Inflammatory Rheumatism, _>
? b esed Savi?.ur, then, in love, Aches and Pains, Chapped
H?n?l. and Lip., EryripKl...
A rausjmed soul!" It is something everybody
. . needs. Once nsed always nsed.
There is m re Catarrh id this p? o ion For sale by all druggists and
oftheatun.rythanaUotherdiseaf.es dealers. At wholesale by I
put togCaher, and uotil iho lftit few rvvp-gia uiiuu a v- hw1tj nn
.Cars was supposed to bo incurable A MIKKA Y DKLvr CO., i
Her. a gtcAt many years doctors pro Columbia 8 C |H|
counoed it a localdisease, ard pre?crib ?
Ginning Machinery,
pronounofi it incurable., Sj eoce has mra|i w i
cata'rh to he a iiutieual ORW Mill
f Ctb.arrh Cure, Planinn
nay & Oo Aldlllliy 1^ Bl
mg ,
the
teasacts
blood
inuctui
oy offer one dollars
fcr circulars
Toledo, O -P..
y D.uugitta. 75c Rfll I
family Pills are the
These are
At Co'umbus, (7a , .Tim Lii'le, to and we hav^^^^H|^^^^^|flH|HHH
and its anily killed Police complete and
(Jffio. r K liotl and was himself shot and .
kV.led Thursday by Offioer Woods. ^ ""
Little V'.d been tlrcatmirgto kill his AS u fiihhoc At
wife, and starved to catty out h'.S threat. " ? QlUUCO V*
Othoers wtie summo-aed, and as Elliott
stepped in the door he was shot in the MACHINERY and MILL SUPPLIES
breast Wood, who was following, shot
the negro three times killing him in
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