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AT HEAVEN'S GATES. ANOTHER SERMON OF RARE POWE/? BY REV. DR. TALMAGE. Twolvo Onto? tiMU All of I'oiul-Tho Iloov UoopoiH timi tho I'owivord-A Pow "Word* About Bigotry ????I Hnctiirlunlsui-Bomo ii uro J -o ? UH. NEW Youie, April 7.---Tho bright spring weather has brought still larg or* crowds to tho Sunday afternoon sorvicos conducted by tito Hov. Dr. T^b?ir.gc. Ho toole for Iiis subject to day .Tho Gales bf Heaven," tho toxt hoing Itovolation xxi, 13: "On tho oastthrco gatos; on tho north tbrco gatos; on tho south threo gates; on Ibo west thrco gates." Tho Cashmoro gato of Delhi where converged a horoism that makes ono's ?ervos tinglo, tho Lucknow gato still dented and scarred with sopoy bom bardment; tho Madeline gate, with its emblazonry in bronze, tho hundred gates of Thobos, tho wonder of centu ries, all go out of sight boforo the gates of my text. Our subject speaks of n great me tropolis, the existence of which many have doubted. SUmdingon tho wharf and looking off upon tho harbor and seeing the merchantmen coming up tho bay, tho flags of foreign nations streaming f?om tho topgallants, you immediately mako up your mind that thoso vossols como from foroign ports, ?,nd you say, "That is from Hamburg, and that is from Marseilles, and that is from Southampton, and that is li om Havana," and your supposition is ac curate. But from tho city of which I am now speaking no weather beaton merchantmen or frigates with scarred bulkheads have over come. Tbero hus boen a vast emigration into that city, but no emigration from it so far as our natural vision can descry. "There is no such city," says thc undovout astronomer. "I have stood in high towers with a mighty tolo scopo and nave swept tho heavons, and I haye scon spots on tho sun and caverns in tho moon, but no towers have over risen on my vision, no pal aces, no tomples, no shining streets, no massive wall. Tbero is no stick city." Evon very good people tell mo that heaven is not a material or ganism, but a grand spiritual fact, and that tho Bible description of it are in all cases to bo taken figuratively. I bring in reply to this what Christ said, and ho ought to know. "T go to pro pare"-not a theory, not a principio, not a soutinrent, but "I go lo prepare a place for you." Tho resurrected body implies this. If my foot is to bo reformed from tho dust, it must have something to tread on. If my hand is to bo reconstructed it must have something to handlo. If my eye, hav ing gone out iii death, is to be rekin dled, I must havo something to pazo on. Your adverse theoi_ seems to imply that tho resurrected body is to be hung on nothing, or to walk in air, or to float amid tho intangibles. You may say if there bo material organ isms then a soul in heaven will bo cramped and hindered in its enjoy ments, but I answer, Did not Adam and Evo have plenty room in tho gar den of Edon?. Although only a few miles would have described tho ' cir cumference of that place, they bad ample room. And do you not sup {)oso that God, in tho immensities, can mild a placo largo enough to give the whole race room, oven though there ho material organisms? Herschel looked into tho heavens. As a Swiss guide puts his Alpine stock botweeu tho glaciers and crosses ovor from crag to crag, so Herschel planted his tolescopo between the worlds and glided from star to stai until he could announce to us that we live in a part of tho universe but sparsely strewn with worlds, and he peers out into immensity until he finds a region no larger than our solar system in which there aro 50,000 worlds moving. And Professor Lang says that by a philosophic reasoning there must bo somowhero world where there is no darkness, but everlasting sunshine, so I do not know but that it is simply because wo have no telescope powerful enough that wo cannot seo into tho land whero there is no dark ness at all and catch a gliihpse of the burnished pinnacles. As a conquer ing army marching on to toko a city comes at nightfall to tho crest of a mountain from which, in tho midst of the landscape, thoy seo tho castles they are to capture, and rein in their war chargers, and halt to biko a good look hofore they pitch their touts for thc night, so now, coming as wo do on this mountain top of prospect, I com mand this regiment ot God to rein in their thoughts and halt, and before they pitch their tents for tho night take ono good, long look at the gates of tho great city. "On the east three gates ; on tho north threo gates ; on the south three gates, and on tho west threo gates." In tho first plnco I want you to ex amine tho architecture of theso gates. Proprietors of largo estates aro very apt to' have an ornamented gateway. Sometimes they spring an arch of ma sonry, tho posts of the gate flanked with lions in statuary ; tho bronze gate representation of intertwining foliage, hird haunted, until the hand of arehi ti~ tectural genius drops exhausted, all its / life frozen into tho .,tono. Gates of ' wood and iron and stone guarded nearly all tho old cities. Moslems havo inscribed upon their gateways inscriptions from the Koran of the Mohammedan. Thoro have been a great many lino gateways, but Christ sots his hand to tho work, and for thc upper city swung a gato such as no eye over gazed on, untouched of in spiration. With tho nail of his own cross ho cut into its wonderful tracer ies stories of past su Hering and of gladness to como. Tbero is no wood or stone or bronze in that gato, bul from top to baso and from side to side it is all of pearl. Not ono piece pick ed up from Ceylon banks, and anothei piece from tho Persian Gulf, and an other from tho island of Margarette, but one solid pearl picked up from the beach of ovorlastihg light by heavenly . hands and hoisted and swung amid tho shouting of angels. The glories of alabaster vase and porphyry pillai fade out boforo this gateway, lt put? ont tho spark of feldspar and diamond. You know how ono little prccioiu stone on your finger will flash mulei tho gaslight. But, oh, tho brightness when tho groat gato of heaven swings struck through and dripping with tin light of eternal noonday I Julius Caesar paid 125,000 crown! for ono pearl. Tho government o Portugal boasted of having a pour) lar for than a poar. Cleopatra and Pbilii I dazzled tho world's vision witt precious stones. But gather all thes' together, and lift them and add ti thom all tho wealth of tho pearl fisher ies, and set thom in tho panel pf on door, and it does notequal this magu? floont gateway. An almighty han howod this, swung this, polished thu Against this gatoway, on tho ono silk dash all thosplondors of earthly beat ty. Against this gate, on' tho othc side, beat tho surges of eternal glor) Oh, tho gate, tho gato I It strikos a infinite charm through every ono tin passes it. Ono stop this sido of tb Kate, and wo aro paupers. Ono ste tho other sido of tho gate, and we ai kings. Tho pilgrim of earth goin through sees in tito ono hugo pearl a his earthly tears in orystal. 0 gate i un Jw ww ? ni??! min iiii niiiiwwwwwBiwfwMMwmiBi light, goto of pearl, gato of heaven, for our woury souls at last swing open I When shall those oy?s thy hoavon built walls M Ami pearly g tvs behold; riivbuiwRrks with salvation strong And shoots of sbluing gold? Oh, heavon is not a dull place I Heuvon is not a [contracted placo. Heavon is not a stuped placo. "I saw tho 12 gatea, and thoy woro 12 pearls." In tho second piaco, l want you to count tho number of thoso gates. Im perial parles and lordly nm nora aro apt tohavo ono expensive gateway, and the othors aro ordinary, but look around at theso entrances to heavon and count them. Ono, two, thrco, four, fivo, six'seven, eight, niuo, ton, dev on, twelve. Hear it all tho earth and all tho heavens. Twelve gates 1 1 admit this is rathor hard on sharp sectarianisms. If a Presbyterian is bigoted, ho brings his Westminster as sembly catechism, and ho makes a gatoway out of that, ho says to tho world, "You go through thoro or stay out." If a member ortho Roformod church is bigoted, ho mak?s a gato out of tho Heidelberg catechism, and ho says, "You go through there or stay out." If a Methodist is bigoted, ho plants two posts, and ho says, ' 'Now, you crowd in between thoso two posts orslay out." Or perhaps an Episcopalian may say, "Hero is a lit urgy out of whieh 1 mean to make a gate ; go through it or stay out. " Or a Baptist may say "Hero is a water galo; you gd through that, or you must stay out." And so in all our churches and in all our denominations thero aro men who make one gate for themselves and then demand that flin wholo world go through it. I abhor this contraetcclncss in religious views. Oh, small souled man, when did God givo you tho contract for making gates? I tell you plainly I will not go in that galo. 1 will go in nt any ono of the 12 gates I ehooso. Hero is a man who says, "I can moro easily and moro closely approach God through a .prayer boole." I say, "My brotnor, thoii uso tho prayer book." Hore is a man who says, "I beliovo thero is only ono mode ol' baptism, and that is im mersion." Then I say, "Let me plunge you." Anyhow, I says, away with tho gato of rough panel and rot ten posls and rusted latch when thore aro 12 gates, and they aro 12 pearls. Tho fact is that a great many of the churches in this day aro being doctraim ed to death. They haye been trying to lind out all about God's decrees, aha they want to know who aro olected tc be saved and who arc reprobated to bc damned, and they aro keeping on dis cussing that subject when there arc millions of souls who need to%havo thc truth put straight at them. *Thoy si( counting tho number of teeth in thc iawbono with whieh Samson slew thc Philistines. They sit on the beach and see a vessel going to pieces in the of fing, and instead of getting into a boa! aim pulling away for tho wreck they sit discussing tho di li?rent styles ol oarlocks. God intonded us to knov> some things and intended us not tc know others. I have heard scores ol sermons explanatory of God's decrees, but came away moro perplexed thar when I went. Tho only result of sud discussion is a great fog. Hero arc two truths, which aro to conquer thc world-man, a sinner; Christ, a Sav iour. Any man who adopts thoso twe theories, in his religious belief shall have my right hand in warm grip ol ? Christian brotherhood. A man comes down to a river ii linio ol' freshet. Ho wants lo got across Lie has to swim. What does ho do The first thing is to put oil' his heavj apparel and drop everything ho has ii his hands. Ho must go enmity bandee if ho is going lo thc other bank. Ant I tell you when wo have como dowi to the river of death and Und it swif and raging ive will havo to put off al our sectarianism and lay clown all ou cumbrous creed and empty handed pu out for tho other shore. "What," saj you, "would you resols il the Chris lian church iiito ono kiiid of church' Would you make all ChristondoH worship m tho samo way, by tho saim forms?" Oh, no. You might ns wei decide that all people shall eat tin same kind of food without referons to appetite, or wear tho samo kind o apparel without reference.to thoshapi of their body. Your ancestry, you temperament, your surroundings, wil decide whether you go to this or tba church and adopt this or that churcl polity. Ono church will best get om man to heaven and another churol another man. I do not care which om of tho gates you go through if yoi only go through one of the 12 gate that Jesus lifted. Well, now, 1 see all tho redeemed o earth coming up toward heaven. D< you think they will all got in? Yes Gate tho first, the Moravians como np they believed in tho Lord Jesus; the} pass through,. Gate tho second, th* Quakers como up; they have receivei the inward light; they have trusted ii tho Lord; they pass through. Gat tho third, tho Lutherans como up ; tho; had tho samo graco that mado Luthe what ho was, and they pass through Gate tho fourth, tho Baptists pas through. Gate tho fifth, the Fvee Wil Baptists pass through. Gate tho sixth tho Reformed church passes through Gate tho seventh, the Congregational iits pass through. Galo tho oightb tho German Reformed church passe through. Gate tho ninth, the Motile dists pass through. Gato tho tenth Sabbatarians pass through. Gate th eleventh, tho Church of tho Disciple pass through. Gate tho twelfth, th Presbyterians pass through. But thei aro a groat part of other denomination who must como in, and great inuit tildes who connected themselves wit no visible church, but felt tho powe of godliness in their heart and showc it in their lifo. Whore is their gate Will you shut all tho remaining hoi out of tho city? No. They may com in at our gate. Hosts of God if yo cannot get admission through an other entrance, como in at tho twolft gate. Now they minglo beforo th throne. Looking up at tho ono hundred an forty and four thousand, you ennne toll which gato thoy came in. On Lord. Ono faith. Ono baptism. On glassy sea. Onodoxolgy. Ono tri ump Ono heavon 1 "Why Luther, how eli you get in?' "I came through thothir gale." "Cranmer, how didyouyetin "I came through tho eighth gate. "Adoniram Judson, how did you g< through?" "I came through tho sc on th gate." "Hugh McKail, thoma tyr, how did you get through?" 1 carno through tho twelfth gate. Glory to God, 12 gates, but on heaven. In tho third place, notico tho point of tho compass toward which the; gates look. They aro not ono sid or on two sid-.s, or on tho thrco side but on four sidos. This is no fancy < mino hut a distinct announcomon On tho north thrco gates, on tho soul thrco gates, on the east three gatos, o tho west thrco gates, What docs th j that mean? Why, it mccans that r nationalities aro included, and it do not maleo any difference from wh qunrtor of tho earth a man comes u If his hoart is right, thoro is a gate c cn boforo him. On tito thrco gat< That moans morey for Lapland ai Siberia and Norway and Swodor?. ( tho south three gatea. That mea pardon for Hindustan and Algiers i Ethiopia. On tho east three gat That means salvation for Chinaba Japan, and Borneo. On tho west tm gales. That means redemption i 111 ll, |H lim III Ut } ll I j lum?mm*mu**U*U**U?*to'*MW>W**UUjp Amorloa'. - It (loos not mako any dif fovonco kow davie skinned or how palo faced mon may bo. Thoy will lind a 6ato righi boforo thom. Thoso pluokod aminas under a tropical sue. Those shot across Russian snows behind 'rein deer. Frpm Moxican plantoau, from Roman campania, from Chinese toa flold, from Holland Dyke, from Scotch highlands, thoy como, thoy como. Heaven is not a monopoly for ? few precious souls.. It is not a Windsor castle built only for royal families. It is not a small town with small popula tion, but John saw il, and ho noticed that an angel was measuring it, and ho measured it this way, and thon ho measured it that way, and which ovor way ho measured it it was 1,600 miles, so thut Babylon and Tyro and Nine vah and St. Petersburg and Canton and Pekina:'and Paris and London and Now York and all tho dead cities of tho past and all the living cities of tho presont added together would not equal tho cousus of that great metro polis. Walking along a street, you can, by tho contour of tho dross, or of tho face, guess whoro a man comes from. You say, "That is a Frenchman ; that is a Norwegian; that is an American.' But the gates that gather in tho right cons will bring thom in irrespectivo ol nationality. Foreigners somotimcf got homesick. Somo of tho tenderest and most pathetic stories have beor told of thoso who loft theis native clime, and longed for it until the) died. But tho Swiss, coming lo tin high residence of heaven, will no long any moro for tho Alps, standing amid tho eternal hills. Tho Russiai will not long any moro for tho luxu riant harvost hold ho loft now that lu hoars tho hum and tho rusti? of lin harvests of everlasting light. Th? royal ones from earth will not long l< go back again to tho earthly court nov that they stand in tho places of tin sun. Thoso who once lived among lin frrovos of spice and oranges will no ong to return now that they stain under tho trees of lifo that bear 1? manner of fruit. While I speak an over increasinj throng is pouring through tho gates They ave going up from Sonegambin from Patagonia, from Madras, fron Hongkong. "What," you say, "d you mtrouuco all tho h cathou int glory?" I tell you thc fact is that majority of tho people in thoso clime dio in infancy, and the infants all g straight into eternal life, and so th vast majority of thoso who dio in Ch: na and India, the vast majority c thoso who die in Africa go straigb into tho skies-they die in infam:) Ono hundred and sixty generation havo beon born siuco tho world wu created, and so I estimate that th er must bo 16,000,000,000 children i glory. If at a concert 2,000 child re sing, your soul is raptured within yoi Oh, tho transport when 15,000,000,OC little ones stand up in whit o befoi tho throno of God, their chantin drowning out all tho stupendous hm monies of Dusseldorf and Loipsii Pour in through tho 12 gates. Oh, yo redeemed,banner lifted,van j after rank, saved battalion after save battalion, until all tho city of Go shall hear the tramp, tramp ! Crow all the 12 gates. Room yot. Room o tho thrones. Room in tho mansion Room on tho river bank. Let tl trumpet of invitation be sounded uni all earth's mountains hear tho sbri blast and glens echo it. Let missioi aries tell it in pagoda and eolporlou sound it acrors tho western prairie Shout it to the Laplander on his swi sled, halloo it to tho Bedouin caree in g across tho desert. News ! News ! glorious heaven.and 12 gates to g into it! Hear it! Oh, you thin blooch ' nations of eternal ' winter-on tl north three gates. Hear it! Oh, ye bronzed inhabitants panting und equatorial heats-on tho south Ihr gates. But I notico when John saw thc gates they woro open-wide ope Thoy will not always bo so. Aft awhile heaven will have gathered i all its intended population, and tl children of God will have como bom Every crown is taken. Every ha struck. Every throno mounted. A tho glories of the universe harvest iii tho great garner. And, heav< being made up, of course tho gat will ho shut. Austria in, and tho Hi gate shut. Russia in, and the secoi gate shut. Italy in, and the th i gato shut. Egypt in, and the four gate shut. Spain in, and tho flf gate shut. France in, and tho six galo shut. England in, and thc sc onth gate shut. Norway in, and t eighth gate shut. Switzerland in, ai tho ninth gate shut. Hindustan i and tho tenth gato shut. Siboria i and tho eleventh gate shut. All t gates aro closed out oho. Now, i America go in with alhtho Islands tho sea and all tho other nations tl havo called on God. The captives ? freed. Tho harvests all gathered. T nations all saved. Tho flashing spit dor of this last pearl begins to mo on its hinges. Let two mighty ang putthoir shoulders to tho gate a neave it to with silvery clang. It done. It thunders. Tho twelfth gi shut. Once moro I want to show you t gatekeepers. Thero is ono angel each ono of thoso gates. You say tl is right. Of courso it is. You "lcm that no earthly palaco or forlr would bo safe without a sentry paci up and down by night and hy di and if there wero no defenses boh heaven, and tho doors set wide or, with no ono to guard thom, and \ vicious of earth would go up af awhile, and all the abaudoncd of h would go up aftor awhilo.and hcav< instead of being a world of light a {'oy and poaco and blessedness, woi io tho world of darkness and horr So I am glad to toll you that wli these 12 gates stand opon lo let a gr multitude in, there aro 12 angela keep somo people out. Robespie cannot go through thero, nor Iii ld brand, nor Nero, nor any of the bandied of oartli who havo not ponied of their wickedness. If one thoso nofarious mon who despii God shpul 1 como to the gate, one tho keepers would put his hand on shoulder and push him into ou darkness. Thero is no place in t land for thieves and liars and whe mongers and dofraudors and all th who disgraced their race and foil] against their God. If a miser sho got in there, ho would pull up gobion pavomont. If a house bur should got in there, ho would set to the mansion. If a libertine sho got in thorc, ho would whispor abominations standing on tho wi coral of Ibo sea beach. Only th who aro blood washed and prayer ped will get through. Oh, my broil if you should at last como up to on the gates and try to got through i you had not a pass writton by crushed band of tho Son of God, gatekeeper would with ono gin withor you forovor. Thero will bo a password at tho j of heaven. Do you know what password is? Hero comes a crow souls up to tho gato, and thoy "Lot mo in. lot mo in. . I was very ful on earth, I endowed collcg built churches and Was famous foi charities, and having dono so u wondorful things for tho world n< como up to got my reward." A t from within says, "I nover li you." Another groat crowd come and thoy try to got through. '. say, "We woro highly honorah oarth, and tho world bowed vcr* - j lyboforous Wo wore vory l&u ca lilo on oarth, und now wo como to get honors in heaven." And a voico from within says, "I never know you." "Wo woro very moral people on earth, very moral indooth and wo como up to gol appropriate recognition." A voico answers, "I noYor know you." Af tor awhilo I seo another throng approach tho gui?, ?nd one scorns to bo spokesman tor all the rest,although their voices ever and anon cry: "Anion I Anion !" This ono stands at tho gate and says : "Lot mo in. I was a wandoror from God. I dosorved to dio. I havo como up to this placo not becauso I desorvo to, but because I havo heard that there is a saving power in tho blood of Jesus." Tho gatekeeper says : "That is tho pass word-'Jesus! Jesus!'"-and tboy go in and surround tho throno, and tho ory is, "Worthy is tho lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and honorand glory and po wer, world without omi !" I stand hore this hour, to invite you into any ono of tho 12 gates. I toll you now that unless your heart is changed by the grace of God you can not get in. I do not care wiier^- you come from, or who your fathor was, or who your mother was, or what your brilliant surroundings-unless you repent of your sin and tako Christ tor your divino Saviour you cannot get iii. Aro you willing, thou, this moment, just whero you aro, to kneel down and cry to tho Lord Almighty for hhs dolivoranco? You wont to got iii, do you not? Oh.you havo some good friends there. This last year there was soino one who went out from your homo into that blessed place. Tboy did not have any troublo getting through tho gates, did they? No, they know ' tho pass word, and coining up they said, "Jo sus!" and tho cry was, "Lift up your heads, yo everlasting gates, and lot them como in." Oh, whon heaven is all done, and tho troops of God shout the castle lakon, how grand it will be if you and I aro among thom I B.lesscd ore all they who enter in through tho gates into tho city. / O o vor nor Ceuorul Cum pox. HAVANNAH, VIA KKY WEST, April 10.-Bri'if. Gen. Joso J i morrey. Moreno, chief ol' thc Governor General's stall', sailed today on tho Villavordo to re ceive Martinez Campos, who is ex pected to arrivo by the 15th. Campos will land at Guantanamo or Santiago, and by royal decree becomes Gover nor G?n?ral tho moment ho sots foot on land, avoiding tho delay attondant upon observing tho customary form of taking thc oath of ollico hero. Governor General Calloja will retire from ollico upon notico of the landing of Campos and will sail homo on the 20th inst. General Campos is expect ed to push active operations against the insurgents in tho pi'ovinco ol San tiago do Cuba, which is the only sec tion where the insurgents are known to be in any nunibors. Latest advices place tho number at 3,000, divided into bands of 50 to 200 men each. Gen. Bartolo Maso is in command. Tho olhor leaders aro Adit. Gen. Ccsnedes, chief Hold oilicer, Col. Estaban Tama yo, Capts. Rabi Pore/. Estrado, Bello Guerra, Levis, Capote Suarez Papas, Vega, Gonzalez, Aramburo and Brea. The insurgents announce that a syndi cate has beon formed in tho United Stales to furnish money for tho revo lution, reimbursements guaranteed from customs receipts when indepond once is secured. Wealthy and influ ential Cubans hero give no aid to the insurgents and declaro tho uprising a mistake. All three parties boro pledgo support to tho Govemmont. Tho gen oral belief is tho insurrection will bo short lived. Gon. La Chambro, in command of tho Govornmont forces in Santiago province, reports roving hands in tho mountainous section, but no massing of insurgents and no rising in other provinces. All aro under martial law. Troops aro stationed at all towns. Monday a band of forty-eight moun ted insurgents invaded Puerto Prin cipo provinco and wore attacked by Government forces and defeated. Ono leader, Panchin Varona, was killed, anothor mortally wounded and taken prisoner and a woman and child in a hut killed-by stray balls. Three of tho party, wno landed near Baracoa with Jtfaceo after killing tho captain of tho schoonor Honora, were captured Mon day. Tho others lied to tho moun tains. Tho members of tho party arrested Sunday ii} a supposed attempt on Ja ruca barraeks^wero liberated today ox cept Pedro Lopez, Gi land Francisco Paz. Tho others arrested at Puerto Principo April 5 wore also released, including Marquis Santa Lucia. TH10 CU HAN UPRISING GAINING GROUND. Now YORK, April 10.-Tho Ward Lino Steamer, which arrived this morning from Mexican ports and Havannah, says that it was learned that whilo nothing official could bo heard of tho progress of tho Cuban insurrection tho uprising wos genoral throughout tho island and was gain ing ground dally. Everything is at high tension among tho people, and tho insurgonts have moro sympathi zers than tho authorities aro willing to admit. A Cull to Kx-Confodorutoa. ! HEADQUARTERS S. C. Di V., U.C. V., ) I GREENVILLE, S. C., April 0,1805. \ General Ord ors No. ll. 1. Tho attontion'of camps of United Confederate Votorons of i bis division is called to tho great reunion which is to be hold at Houston, Texas, on tho 22d, 23d and 2-1 th of May proximo.and to thc importance of their being fully represented on that occasion. Business of great importance will como bofore tho Convonlion, and probably tho election of division commanders, fby Stato delegations,) as their respectivo terms of ollico, with non-eligibility to ro-elcction under the constitution, have expired* 2. Railroads throughout tho South have agreed to issuo tickets to volorans at one cent por milo, limited to ten days, which will probably bo extond cd to twonty-ilvodays, while our com rades in Texas are anxious to rcecivo us with warmest wolcomo and un stinted hospitality. 3. Tho constitution prescribes that each camp shall annually, durii$ or beforo tho month of April, transmiti? Adj t. Gen. George Moorman, Now Orleans, La, a complolo roll of its membership, with tho annual dues of ton cents for eaeh member. 4. This division now ranks sixth in tho number of its camps, hovmg thirty-four camps in full fellowship, and bid soldiors throughout tho State, in ovory neighborhood whoro fl/tcon or twoiity veterans can bo found, aro cordially invited to form camps imme diately,and provide for representation nt tho approaching reunion. By order of S. S. Crittondo-.r, Major General South Carolina Division, U. C. V. JAS. G. HAWTHORNE, Adjutant Goitoral. Newspapers throughout tho Stato aro respectfully requested to copy, Soured hy n Sturm, HAVRE, April H.-Tho captain of tho steamship Merrimac, which arrived boro from Now Orleans today, reports that on tho fourth, ho put his chief of ilcor and ton mon aboard tho British ship Arnos which had boon abondonod atsoa. They will tako tho vossol to Liverpool, he sayi Tho Arnos crow woro taken oft' m a Btorm by a Ger man steamship, Normannia, NOT VERY STARTLING. Sterling Morton und II Nobvnukiv KuUroiwl Mun Fxelwnigo Nous. , ATLANTA, April li.-Tho Constitu tion will publish tomorrow morning a Washington dispatch containing somo corrospondonco between Mr. J. R. Buchanan, a Nebraska Railroad man. and Secretary J. Sterling Mor ton bf tho Cabinet, and between Secre tary Morton and Hon. John Dowitt Warner of tho Roform club, Now York. Tho correspondence is based upon tho sweep of tho silver sentiment in tho West and in tho South and con tains tho suggestions that Frcsidont Cleveland should bo ro-noiainaled for a third term. Mr, Buchanan is gon oral passongor agont of tho Fremont, Eikhorn and Missouri Valloy railroad. Secretary Morton wrote to Mr. Bu chanan thanking him for scouring tho publication of an articlo entitled, "A Few Facts in Finance," by tho Secre tary. Mr. Beohanan had it published "in a groat many of tho paient inside papers which aro circulated out Wost." Replying to tho Secretary's lotter, Mr. Buchanan states that ho hardly thinks "tho very evil effect being exerted by tho so-called freo silver "interests in this country is appreciated in tho great centers." Mr. Buchanan states that ho travels a groat deal and meets and sees people from all classes and places, and he adds: "Tho wave of this banoful idea has almost reached an epidomio con dition and unless fully answered in kind, both great political parties will bo obliged in response to popular de mand, to either incorporate a substan tially free silver plank in their plat form or else a disgraceful straddle." Mr. Buchanan says ho presumes that tho Secretary has scon "Coin's Financial School." Ho proceeds to say that this book is sold and read on trains to a disgusting extent. Ile sccs and hears '4 discussed everywhere,and considers it moro than any other agen cy responsible for tho spread of tho sil ver sentiment at this timo. Continu ing ho says : "It is sweeping over this couutry, and in my opinion should bo answer ed by somo one who fully understands tho subject. That answer should be written with au equally facile pen. I understand this little book has boon purchased in largo numbers by silver people and distributed gratuitously, lt seems to mo tho banking interests should take tho requisite stops to pub lish a reply in equally attractive form and put it on thc market at the io west price." In conclusion Mr. Buchanan says : "My judgment, from tho present out look, is flio Eastern conservatives of both parties are likely to imito and possibly renominate Mr. Cleveland, who will oar ry the East and South no doubt; (thoEast on his ablo, honest conservatism, and tho South becauso they could never voto other than tho Democratic ticket, thus insuring a vote which would elect) and tho West will undoubtedly supporta Populist or free silvorite un less there is a great change. If this is not done, I feel tho election will be thrown into tho House ns the result of three tickets being in tho field, in which case the balance of pow er would bo with tho free silver inter est. I bolievo if there was a voto to day on tho naked question of a 1G to 1 silver platform. Nebraska would give it a majority of 50,000, ornear it." This lotter, from which Hie above quotations aro only extracts, is for warded by Secretary Morton lo J olin Dewitt Warner. The Secretary explains that his ob ject in sending tho lotter "is to give you a thorough going business man's views of tho situation. Tho letter shows how fallacies flourish among tho financiers of tho West ard South. Tho lotter also points out tho necessity of immediate, coherent and organized aciton in bohalf of sound monoy. Having read tho same (you may copy it if you desire it)f I wish you would return it, and I will thou write Mr. Buchanan. Possibly our frion'\i of tho reform Club may bo bo nofltted by seeing Mr. Buchanan's communication. Vetornns Protest. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April ll.-A special to tho Times-Union from Pen sacola, Fla., says: Ata mooting today of Camp Ward. Confederate Votera ns, tho following resolutions wero adopt ed: Whereas, tho Legislature of tho Slato of Florida, at its presout session, has passed a joint resolution known as Senate resolution No. 13, requesting tho Congress of tb United States to purchase tho site tho battlefield of Appomattox for a i .ational park and to erect a joint monument to Generals Grant ana Leo upon the spot whore tho latter surrendered to tho former, and Whoreas, tho battlefield of Appo mattox is known only as tho spot where the hopes, aspirations and in dependence ot tho Southern Confed eracy woro forever crushed; and Whereas, a monumont to Generals Grant and Leo at Appomattox is not desired by the Southern pcoplo; and Whereas if a monumont should bo erected at Appomattox to Generals Grant and Leo tho movement to that end would moro gracefully originate with tho victor than tho defeated; and thorefore, heit Resolved, by Camp Ward, Confed erate Veterans, No. 10. ?. Wo regret and deprecate tho intro duction and passage of Sonato resolu tion No. 13. 2. Wc urge each and every camp of Confederate Veterans throughout tho State to join with us in expressing dis approval of said resolution. 3. That the Governor of thp State of Florida is requested to veto said reso lution. 4. That tho adjutant of this camp be and is horeby directed to send a copy of these resolutions to tho Governor of tho Stato of Floi ida, a copy to tho Soulhorn Associated Press and ono copy to each camp of Confederate Vet erans throughout tho State of Florida. Killed by Lightning. PHILADELPHIA, April 10.- Willie Bradley, aged 12, and Sadio Stinger, aged ll years, wont out to pick dande lions yestorday afternoon in Wost Philadelphia. Not returning to their homes last night a soarohing party was organized to find thom. Tho searchers hunted all night without success. This morning thc bodies of tho children wero found in an open flold at 64th street and Springfield avenue. Thoy had been struck by lightning during a storm yestorday afternoon. it Hiles in lieut mut in Ohlmi. STAMFORD, Conn., April H.-Boforo tho Now York east conferenco, Dr. Hunt reported that 100,000 Bibles had boon distributed in China during tho past four months, A copy of tho Now Tcstamont was presented to tho dowa gor empress, and at his own request a copy ot tho Old Testament was given to tho oniporor. In Japan, 70,000 Bibles have boon distributed to tho eoldiors and Chinese prisonors, and tho omporor has appointed Christian ministers to chaplaincies in tho arm v. Turkoy Can't Strut. BEHLIN, April 0.-Tho Sultan of l urkoy has oxpressod to Emperor Wil liam by letter, his regret that tho con dition of the Turkish treasury is suoh as to pro\oi\t tho sending or Turkish war ships to take pert in tho Kiol na val parade attendant upon tho open ing of tho North Sea and Baltio canal. v \ I INCOME TAX DECISION. [CONTINUED FUOM PA?IC ONE.] ed. Tho judgment of thc Courts, ns far as it roiatcd to tho payment of tho tax on routs and Stato and municipal bonds, wns reversed. In the Moor caso tho oflect of tho Court's action is to affirm tiio rofusal of air injunction against tho commissioner of intornal rovonuo. Justices Fiold and White read inde pendent dissenting opinions. Justico Fiold devoted somo timo to. a roviow of the provisions regarding rents and denounced tho principle sought to bo established hythe income tax law. Mady of his conclusions woro in conformity with thoso express ed by tho Chief Justico. Ho'also at tacked tho law on account of its lack of uniformity and dwelt upon its ex emptions and the many discrimination found thoroin. Taking up tho exemp tion of mutual insurance companies, ho declared that they were conducted on lines identical with those on which largo corporations woro conducted for tho mutual benefit of stockholders Ho inveighed against tho exemption of saving and building associations, which wore not eharitablo institutions, but conducted for oithor money-mak ing or irtoiioy-saviiig. All theso ex emptions stamped tho law as class legislation of tho moat pronounced charactor. Tho law violated every, right and cornily guantccd undor the Constitution. That there shouldbe any doubt about tho subject surpassed his 1 comprehension. If tho consus figures did not convinco ono of tho magnitude and injustice of tho exemptions ho did not think Congress could bo convinc ed, * 'though ono roso from tbs dead" to convinco it. Tho law was also in valid in that it lovid a tax upon tho salaries of tho ono hud red and ono Judges of tho United States, many of whom recoived small salaries. If tho provisions of tho Constitution could be set aside by tho arbitrary act of Congress, woro, ho asked, would this power end? It was buta stepping stono to other a greater acts that would eventually opon tho way for a war be tween tho poor and tho rich. Such a power assumed by congresses and per mitted lo go unchallenged would murk thc hour when the decadonco of tho nation would commence. If tho limit by tho oxomption could bo fixed at $'1,000 futuro Congresses might fix it ut *15,000 or $89,000, thus compell ing one class alone to pay thu lax. Or, tho limit might bo fixed at an amount as a board of walking delegates might determine to bo necessary. In conclusion Justico Field announc cd his opinion that thou holo law of 1804 should bo declared to bo null and void. Justice. Whito prefaced his dissent ing opinion with tho statement that Hie custom of rendering long dissents in a Court of last resort was moro honored in the branch than in tho ob servance Their only effect was to weaken tho clllcacy of tho opinion of Court. Justico Whito said ho should not sneak to-day but for tho fact that tho Court lind overruled and set aside established precedents and tho settled and uniform doctrino of tho supremo Court down to tho present time. Ho regretted that at this late day this Court should thus ' over throw and nullify an Act of Con gress, supported and affirmed by all text writers and by every decision of tho Supromo Court of tho United States. When tho fathers constructed our from of government they gavo it, not limited, but unlimited power to levy taxes, with but ono exception, that of taxing exports.. Tho assertion that tho constitutional powot of Congress was limited was, ho thought, the fund amental error in the reasoning of tho majority of this Court. Tho great question beforo tho Court was, is the incom tax a direct tax? That question was practically decided a hundred years ago, and no did not deem it nec essary to on ter into an elaborate rev low of tho cases that had been deeided. In briefly reviewing tho cases presented to tho Court ho observed that tho ar guments made and the citations used ni this caso were tho same as those brought out in the Hy ton case, and now this Court was nsked to again take up tho question adjudicated by a unanimous Court a hundred years ago. Justico Harlan was of the opinion that a tax on gains, profits and incomo derived from rent of lards was not a direct that under numerous decisions of this Court the incomo derived from municipal bonds was not tho subject of specific taxation in any form by the United States. In other matters he was in accord with Justico White. ' At 2.35 the Court concluded the reading of opinions. Upon tho question of tho Constitu tionality of tho taxation of incomes from Stato and municipal bonds tho Court was unanimously in the nega tivo. Upon tho question of taxation of rents tho Court stood os follows: Af firming, Justices Harlan and Whito; against tho law, Chiof Justice Fuller, Justices Fiold, Gray, Brewer, Brown and Shims. Upon tho general question of the constitutionality of the law tho Court is said to bo divided as follows : For tho law, Justices ' Harlan, Brewer, Brown and White; against tho law, Chiof Justice Fuller, Justices Field, Gray and Shims. Tho Prosidont wns informed of tho income tax decision shortly after it was rendered by tho Supremo Court, and at 1:30 ho summonod Secretary Carlisle to tho Executive Mansion and tho two discussed tho mattor for some timo. Other mombors of the Cabinet dropped in later, among them the Attornoy Goneral. Tho decision was a disappointment; but tho Administra tion will at once issue instructions to col lceto ra of internal re venu o to con form to the emasculated law. Secre tary Carlisle followed his well defined custom not to discuss tho mattor for publication. Attorney Gonoral Olney said tho Government would not ask for a re hearing, but would accopt tho decision as rendered. Ho was not surprised at that portion of it oxcopting municipal and Stato bonds from taxation, but ox pressed tho hopo that the question of rents might be brought before tho Court in somo other shapo when ho entert ai ned tho strong belief that tho prosont attitudo of tho Court would bo revised. In tho treasury department Assist/ ant Secretary Curtis declared that tho condition of tho treasury was good, and tho revenues amply sufficient to moot current oxponsos. Commissioner Miller and tho ofBoia of tho incomo tax division held a con foronto tonight of sovoral hours dura tion at tho treasury, discussing tho bearing of tho decision upon tne in como tax machinory in opomtion, and changed it when necessary to meet tho changed conditions. Theso instruc tions will oe ready for publication to morrow or noxt day. A monument has boon ercotod ovo tho graves of. tho 6.000 Confederate soldiers buried at Chicago. It will bo dedicated On Decoration |)ay with ora tions by Gonorql Gordouj of Georgia, und Wado Hampton. Tho ilowors for tho decoration aro to bo sent from tho South, and several rofrlgorator car loads havo already boon arranged for, ; enough to cover ovory Confodra^o gravo in Chicago. FOR TEMPERANCE WORKERS. Unofull Suggestion? liam nu illinois ' K?ltor. In ft recent artiole, addressed moro particularly to members of tho ordor, tho Illinois Good Templar say?: Every member in our Ordor has prom?t! tn An ?'?11 iu y- ^ ^ vaneo tho cause of tempor?neo." Do wo realizo how far-reaching and signi ftcant this promise is? Aro wo doing "all in our power to advance tho causo of temperance?" While wo are edu catingiho young and persuading tho moderato drinker to forsako his habita, wo must not ovorlook tho drunkard,; because ho is in need of our most loV ing solicitude and consideration. Tnt ly. as Paul srys: "Wo must bo all things to all men that wo may save some. " It is this thought in our mind that impols us. to call attention to a lino of work much neglected, but which might bo takou up by almost overy lodge in the Stato with compar atively little offort; that is, tho treat ment'of inobriotyas a disoaso. Any lodge can, by aseries of entertainments or lectures, easily raise tho sum of money to be used for this special pur pose, to bo known as a "Rescue fund. " This is to bo used for dofraying tho exponsos of tho pationt whilo taking a courso of treatment at some Keeley Instituto. Tho patient, when cured, will, of courso, bo required to refund tho loan as soon as possible; and when repaid, it can bo used again and again, and thus bo a permanent feature of the work with practically no expense to tho lodgo aftor tho original fund is raised. Several Good Templar Lodges have bcon working ulong thin lino for somo time, and with great succoss. On the return of a pationt, ho should bo in itiated into tho lodge and the member's should endeavor to make it pleasant for him, thus by their influence in a social way making it possible for him to start lifo anew with brighter pros pects. Wo rofor to tho Keeley Treatment advisedly because it is undoubtedly the best known of tho many remedies for tho euro of inobrotcs and becauso of its uniform success, statistics show ing that out of over 200,000 patients treated, ninty-ilvo per cont, wero por manontly cured, and have boon return ed to society, not as a ch argo, but as self-supporting, respectable citizens. It has neon introduced into tho Sol diers' Homes and tho regular army. Colorado, Louisiana and Maryland havo laws providing for the treatment to bo administered tho habitual drunk ard at tho expenso of tho Stato. Bills looking to tho enactment of similar legislation aro ponding in tho legisla' turcs of Illinois and eight other States in sorno of which they have been pass ed in ono branch and reports aro en couraging that they will become laws. From personal observation among friends and acquaintances who have taken tho Keoloy treatment, wo can heartily recommend it as being all that is claimed for it. How successful it has proved in thc Soldiers' Homo can bo seen from tho latest olllcial report of Gol. A. J. Smith Go vernor at Leavenworth, which will bo found in anothor column. The treatment thus highly commend odis successfully administered, at'tho Keoley Institute, Columbia, S. C. Jitnnn's Torin s of I'ouco. WASHINGTON, April 10.-The cable announcement that sevon of the eight Japanese conditions have been accept ed by Peace, Commissioner Li Hung Chang is very gratifying to diplomats hero, who havo no longer any doubt that a peaceful termination will speedi ly result. Asunderstood in Washing ton tho eigh( conditions wore as fol lows : >, 1. Independence of Corea. 2. Cession of Formosa. 3. Cession of Lian Tong Promon tory, including Port Arthur. 4. War indomnity. 5; Admission of machinery into China and permission to foreigners to establish factories,. 6. Modification of likih tax and ex tension of system of transit passes for imports. 7. Opening certain Chinese rivers to commerce, including the Yang-tso Kiang to Chung King, the Siang from Han Kow on tho Yang-lsoto Siang Tan Kiang, Canton Rivor to Ouachow and Woosung and its canals as far as Suchow and Hang Chow. 8. Railway privileges and similar concessions to Japanese and foreign capitalists. In addition to those conditions it is believed certain promises havo been o will bo exacted from China, tho terms of which aro to remain secret. Tho condition which, it is thought, has .not yet been accepted by Li Hung Chang is that numbered three abovo, provid ing for the occupation of a portion of tho territory known as the Regent's Sword and Citadel of Port Arthur. That this would bo most strenuously opposed by China has all along beon undoubted, and it has been predicted that it might provo a stumbling block of such dimensions as to prevent peace unless some compromise could bo agreed upon as to tho length of occupa tion, the Chinese being likely to insist that it should not bo permanent. All other conditions, except that of indem nity, have been the subject of diploma tic consideration for many years, and all treaty Powers aro as deeply inter ested in them as Japan has been. Tho United States hayo been particularly active in urgiftg tho abolition of tho Ukin tax, which is not unlike tho oc tori of Franco, though less reasonable and less limited than th? French sys tem. Tho independence of Corea has always been in contention, anti the United States have firmly maintained that Corea was to bo treated as an in dependent nation since hor minister at Washington was recognized ton years ago._?_ GovKRNOit Holcomb has signed tho law passed by tho Nobraska Legislature appropriating $200,000 for tho purchase of seed grain and food for tho drought slrickon farmers of tho Slate, and it becomes immediately operative. 4?:0OTTON Mftkeo 40? ev?a on PIANOS & ORGANS ! H AMT *. discouraged, but l/Wll I wrlto for ?Hf gr?a,? BARO' *H LIST end V/ondociully Bas? : (nilmont form?. 4?. PRICES. .vM?^"'"*-?*,,"tt'0 .4* B&v*d on o f torUng ?fife Sfrror T? .*!*? WV i :, On. n-prgrr ff* ' mslffc?. NEVER ? - DELAYED .4 PAYMENT. NEVER. COMPROMISED A lilli CLAIM. Hil? A ; ' LAWSUIT. Sucn ls tho record of the STAUNTON LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Numbers of Benoflolaries Testify to It? ' -,V7- . '. v \, i f- Promptness and .?buadjqess. Natural Prooilum Insurance on tho moa Approved Plans, The new "Coupon Polloy" o? the Staun ton Lifo Is a model of simplicity. lu addi tion lo all the beat features of modern life insurance lt provides for the payment of the "coupon" IMMEDIATELY after death, without notice or the formali ty of proofs, Tho "coupon" covers 10 pot cent, of tho f aco of tho polloy, and ls In ad dition thereto. Agents wanted. Liberal Commission Live mon can mako big money. Address Jno, S. Reynolds, Qoneral Agent, VOIAJRIMIIA, M. 4). A $700.00 PIANO FOR $275.00, This announcement will certainly interest everybody that Intends to purchase a plano m tho near future. We have boen carrying Musical in strumento for several yearn'in con nection with our Furniture business, but for reasons satisfactory to our selves, we have decided to discon tinue tho ?ale of pianos, and ofter our entire stock at manufacturo ra* cost. We do this believing that it Is cheaper to dispose of thom at what they cost us rather than carry thom month af tor month hoping to get n small profit for thom. Tho Instruments that we offer are first olass tn evo ry rospeot and aro most positively guaranteed to be tully equal to aay instrument on tho mar ker without regard to nam? or price. Wo shall be pleased to send a cat loguo of ulanos to anybody who Will send us 6 cents postage for tho ?amo, And if you are interested and expoot to buy a plano in the near futuro you will certainly save quito ? sum of money to purchaso from us before our stock Is exhausted. Renierabor that when tho stock is gone fro shall buy no mure and (hat tels opportun? tty will olose forever as tho instru ments aro sent out. Wo desire to say that we huvo an illustrated oata logueof Furniture, embracing every thing usually carried lu a first class furniture store. Wo will bo pleased to mall this cataloguo upon applica tion. \ K L.T. 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