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AT HEAVEN'S GATES, ANOTHER SERMON OF RARE POWER BY REV? DR. TALMAGE. Xwolvo Gutos lind AH of ronrl-Xho I>oor keevorft mul th? Vnaaword-A Fow Word? About Bigotry ?ml Sectarianism--Some llaro l'carls. Nicw Yowie, April 7.-Tho bright Sering yoathor hus brought still larg . er ciowds io tho Sunday afternoon sorvlces conducted by tho Hov. Dr. Talmage. Ile toole for his subject to day ''Tho Gates of Hoavon," tho text hoing ltevolation xxl. 121: "On tho east thrco gates; on tue north threo gatos; on tho south thrco gates; on the w?st three gates." Tho Cashmoro gato of Delhi where converged a horoism that makes ono's nerves tingle, the Lucknow gate still dented and scarred with sopoy bom bardment, tho Madolino gato, with its emblazonry in bronze, tho hundred gates of Thohos, tho wonder of centu ries, all go out of sight boforo tho gates of my text. Our subjeot speaks of a great mo . tropolis, the existoncoof which many havo doubted. Standingon the wharf and looking oh? upon tho harbor and seeing tho merchantmen coming up the bay, tho Hags of foreign nations streaming f?oin tho topgallants, you immodiatoly make up your mind that thoso vessels como Irom foreign norts, and you say, "That is f; om Hamburg, and chat is from Marseilles, and that is from Southampton, and that is from Havana," and your supposition is ac curate. But from tho city of which 1 am now speaking no weather beatoii merchantmen or frigates with scarred bulkheads have over come. There has been a vast emigration into that city, but no emigration from it so far as our natural vision can descry. "Thoro is no such city," says tho undevout astronomer. "I have stood in high towera with a mighty tele scope and Rave swept tho heavens, and I have seen spots on tho sun and cavorns in tho moon, but no towers hav? over risen, on my vision, no pal aces, no temples, no shining streets, no massive wall. There is no stich oity." Even very good pcoplo toll me that heaven is not a material or ganism, but a grand spiritual fact, and that tho Biblo description of it arc in all cases to bo taken liguratiycly. I bring in roply lo this what Christ said, and he ought to know, "I go to pre pare"-not a theory, nota principi?, not a sentiment, but "I go to prepare a place for you." Tho resurrected bony implies this. If my foot is to bo reformed from tho dust, it must havo something to tread on. If my hand is to bo reconstructed it must have something to handle. If my cyo, hav ing gono out in death, is to be rekin dled, I must havo something to pazo on. Your adverse theory seems to imply that the resurrected body is to bo hung on nothing, or lo walk in air, or to lloat 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 ment^ bul I answ'er, Did not Adam and Eve have plenty room in tho gar don of Edon?. Although only a few miles would have described tho " eir oumforenco of that place, they had ample room. And do you not sup hose that God, ii} tho immensities, can build a place largo enough to give the wholo race room, oven though there ho material organisms? Herschel looked into tho bea vous. As a Swiss guide puts his Alpine stock between tho glaciers and crosses over from crag to crag, so Herschel planted his tolescopo between tho worlds and glided from star to star until ho could announce lo us that we live in a part of the universe but sparsely strewn with worlds, and he peers out into immensity until he finds a rogion no largor than our solar systom in which Ibero aro 50,000 worlds moving. And Professor Lang says that by a philosophic reasoning there must bo somewhere world where thoro is no darkness, but everlasting sunshine, so I do not know but that it is simply because wo havo no telescope powerful enough that wo cannot seo into tho land whero thoro is no dark ness at all and catch a glimpse of tho burnished pinnacles. As a conquer ing army marching on to tako a city comes at nightfall to tho crest of a mountain from which, in tho midst of tho landscape, they seo tho castles they are to capture, and rein in th oh* war chargers, and halt to take a good look bofore they pitch their tents for thc night, so npw, coming as we do on this mountain top of prospect, I com mand this regiment of God to rein in their thoughts and halt, and boforo thoy pitch their tents for tho night take ono good, long look at tho gates of the great city. "On tho east Hirco gates; on tho north three gates; on the south threo gates, and on tho west threo gatos." In tho first place I want you to ex amine tho ai'ohitecturo of t?ieso gates. Proprietors of large estates aro very apt to* havo an ornamented gateway. Sometimes they spring an arch of ma sonry, tho posts of tho gate flanked with lions in statuary ; the bron zo gato representation of intertwining foliage, hird haunted, until the hand of archi ( toctural genius drops exhausted, all its life frozen into tho stono. Gates of wood and iron and stono guarded nearly all tho old cities. Moslems havo inscribed upon their gateways inscriptions from tho Koran of the Mohammedan. Thoro have been a great many lino gateways, but Christ sets his hand to the work, and for the upper city swung a gato such as no eye eyer gazed on, untouched, of in spiration. With tho nail of his own cross ho cut into its wonderful tracer ies stories of past Buffering and of gladness to como. Thorp is no wood or stono or. bronze in that gato, but from top to baso and from side lo side it is all of pearl. Not ono piece pick ed up from Ceylon banks, and another piece from tho Persian Gulf, and an other from tho island of Margarette, butono solid pearl picked up from tho hoach of ovei'lastihg light by heavenly . hands and hoisted and swung amid tho shouting of angels. Tho glories . of alabaster vase and porphyry pillar fade out bofore this gateway. It puts out tho spark of feldspar and diamond. You know how ono little precious Btono on your finger will Hash under the gaslight. But, oh, tho brightness when the great gato of heaven swings, struck through and dripping with the light of eternal noonday I Julius Caesar paid 125,000 crow nf for one pearl. Tho government ol Portugal boasted of having a pearl lar for than a pear. Cleopatra und PhjHr I dazzled tho world's vision will precious stones. But gather all these togethor, and lift them and add tc them all tho wealth of tho pearl Usher ics, and sot thom in tho panol pf om door, and it docs notcqual this magni flcent gateway. Au almighty bant hewed Uns, swung this, polished this Against this gatoway, on tho ono side dash all tho splendors of earthly beau ty. Against this gato, on" tho othe sido, heat tho surges of eternal glory Oh, tho gate, tho gato i It striked ai infinito charm through every ono tba passes it. Ono stop this side of th gate, and wo aro paupers. Ono sto? tho othor sido of tho gato, and wo ar kings. Tho jpilgritn of earth goin? through socs in tho ono hugo pearl al his oarthly tears in crystal. O gato o light, gato ol'pearl, gate of heaven, for our woury souls at last sv lng open I When shall those eyes thy heaven built walis And pearly ? tes beholilj .Iby-bulwarks with salvation itroug And streets of ?blulng gold? Oh, heaven is not a dull placo I Heaven is not a Jcontracted placo. Hoavou is not a stuped placo. "I saw tho 12 gatos, and they woro 12 pearls." lu tho second placo, I want you to couut tho numbor of thoso gates. Im perial narks ?h'd lordly manors are apt lo have enc expensive gateway, and tho othors aro ordinary, but look around at these outrances to heavon and count thom. Ono, two, th reo, four, fivo, six'seven, oight, niuo, ton, olov on, twolvo. Hear it all tho earth and all tho heavens. Twelve gatos I 1 admit this is rather hard on sharp sectarianisms. If a Presbyterian is bigoted, ho brings his Westminster ns sombly cateohism, and ho makes a gatoway out of that, ho says lo tho world, "You go through there or stay out." If a member of tho Reformed church is bigoted, ho makes a gate out of tho Heidelberg catechism, and ho says, "You go through thoro or stay out." If a Methodist is bigoted, ho plants two posts, and ho says, "Now, you crowd in botweon thoso two posts or stay out." Or perhaps an Episcopalian may say, "Hero is a lit urgy out of which I mean to make a gato; go through it or stay out." Or a Baptist may say I'Herb is a water gate; you g? through that, or you must stay out." And so in all our churches and iii all dur denominations thoro aro men who mako one gate for themselves and then demand that tho w bolo world go through it. I abhor this contructcdncss 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 iii that galo. 1 will go in at any ono of tho 12 gates I choose. Hero is a man who says, "I cnn moro easily and more closely approach God through a prayer booie." 1 say, "My brothor, thou uso tho prayer book." Hero is a man who says, "I beliovo there is only ono mode of baptism, and that is im mersion." Then 1 say, "Let me plunge you." Anyhow, I says, away with tho gato of rough panel and roi tcn posts and rusted latch when there aro 12 gatos, and they aro 12 pearls. Tho fact is that a great many of the churches in this day aro being duct ra i ir ed lo death. They have been trying lo find out dil about God's decrees, and they want to know who aro elected to be saved and who aro reprobated to bc damned, and they aro keeping on dis cussing that subject when Inoro ure millions of souls who need to hove thc truth put straight at them. 'Thoy sit counting tho numbor of teeth in the jawbone with which Samson slew the Philistines. They sit on the beach and seo a vessel going to pieces in tho of fing, and instead of getting into a boat and pulling away for tho wreck they sit discussing tho different styles of oarlocks. God intended us lo know some things and intended us not to ! know others. I have heard scores of sonnons explanatory of God's decrees, but came away moro perplexed than when I went. Tho only result of such discussion is a great fog. Hero are two truths, whicu aro lo conquer thc world-man, a sinner; Christ, a Sav iour. Any mau wdio adopts thoso two theories, in his religious belief shall have my right bond in warm grip of Christian brotherhood. A man comes down to a river in limo ol' freshet. He wants to get across. Ile has to swim. What does ho doi The lirst thing is to put oil* his heavy apparel and drop everything he has in his hands. Ho must go empty hail dot if he is going to tho other bank. Ant I loll you When wo havo como dowi to tho river of death and find it swif and raging we will havo to put olf ali our sectarianism and lay down all om cumbrous creed and empty handed pul out for tho other shore. "What," saj you, "would you resolvoall tho Chris lian church into ono kind of church? Would you make all ChristondoH worship ni thc sumo way, by tho sana forms?" Oh, no. You might as well decide that all people shall eat th< sunn, kind of food without reference to appetite, or wear tho samo kind ol apparel without reforonco.to tho shape of their body. Your ancestry, youl temperament, your surroundings, wff elccido whothor you go to this or tba church anel aelopt this or that churcl polity. Ono church will best get on? man to heaven anel another churcl another man. I do not care which oin of tho gates you go through if yoi only go through ono of tho 12 gate! that Jesus lifted. Well, now, 1 seo all tho reeleemcel o earth coming up toward heaven. De you think they will all get in? Yes Gate tho first, the Moravians como up they belioveel in tho Lorel Jesus ; thej pass through.. Gate the second, tin Quakers como up; thoy havo recoivce tue inward light; they have trusted ii tho Lord ; they pass through. Gah the third, tho Lutherans como up; thei bael tho same graco that niaelo Lu tho: what ho was, and they pass through Gate tho fourth, the Baptists pas: through. Gate tho fifth, tho Free Wil Baptists pass through. Gato tho sixth the Reformed church passes through Gate tho seventh, tho Congregational isis pass through. Gato the oighth the German Reformed church passe: through. Gate tho ninth, the Melli o dists pass through. Gate tho tenth Sabbatarians pass through. Gate Uv oleventb, tho Church of tho Disciple pass through. Gate tho twelfth, tb Presbyterians pass (brough. But thor aro a great part of other denomination who must come in, and great multi tildes who connected themselves will no visiblo church, but felt tho powe of godliness iii thoir heart, anel shOwci it in their lifo. Whero is their gate Will you shut all tho remaining hos out of tho city? No. Thoy may com iii ot our gate. Hosts of God if yoi cannot get admission through an other entra?en, como in at tho twelfti gate. Now they minglo beforo th throne. Looking up at tho ono hunelrcd am forty and four thousand, you ennno tell which goto they came in. On Lord i Ono faith. Ono baptism. On glassy sea. One doxolgy. One triumpl Ono heaven I "Why Luther, how ein you gel in?' "I can io through tho thin gate." "Cranmer, how did you yot in' "I cunio th rough tho eighth gato. "Aeloniram Judson, how diel you gc through?" "I came through tho so\ on th gate." "Hugh McKoiT, tho mai tyr, how diel you got through?" " carno through tho twolfth gale. Glory to God, 12 gates, but om heaven. In tho third place, notice tho point of tho compass toward which .thos gates look, flu*y aro not ono side or oh two sid .s, or on tho th reo siele? but on four sidos. This is ne> fancy c mino but a dist!not announcomon On tho north th roo gates, on tho soul tbrco gates, on tho cast th ree gatos, o thc west three gates, What does tm that mean? Why, it mccans that a nationalities aro included, anel it do< not mako any difference from wh: ?uartor of tho earth a man comes ii] f his heart is right, thoro is a gato o en beforo him. On tho threo gate That moans mercy for Laplanef an Siboria and Norway and Swodon. C tho south threo gates, That moai pardon for Hindustan and Algiers a Ethiopia. On tho east threo gate That means salvation for China-ai Japan and Borneo. On tho west thr gates. That moans redemption^ America; ? It (loos not make atty di fi fo ronco how dirk skinned or how palo faced mon may bo. Thoy will find a Sato right boforo thom. Thoso pluokcd nnnuas undor a tropical ano. These shotaoross Russian snows behind rein deer. From Moxicnn plantouu, from Komnn canmauia, from Ohinoso toa flold, from Holland Dyko, from Scotch highlands, thoy como, they como. Heaven is not a monopoly for a few prcolouF souls. It is not a Windsor ?ustlo built only for royal families. It is not a small town with small popula tion, but John saw it, and ho noticed that un 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 that Babylon and Tyro and Nine vah and St. Petersburg and Canton and Poking and Puris and London and Now York and all tho dead cities of tho past and all tho living cities of tho prosont added togothor would not equal tho cousus of that great metro polis. Walking along a street, you can, by tho contour of tho dress, or of tho face, guess whore a mao comes from. You say, "That is a Frenchman ; that is a Norwegian; that is an American." But tho gates that gather in the right eous will bring thom in irrespective of nationality. Foreigners sometimes get homesick. Somo of tho tenderest and most pathetic stories have beon told of thoso who loft theis nativo olimo, and longed for it until they died. But tho Swiss, coming lo tho high reaieioneo of heaven, will not long auy moro for tho Alps, standing amid tho eternal hills. Tho Russian will not long any moro for tho luxu riant hurvost field ho loft now that ho hoars tho hum and tho rusti? of tho harvests of everlasting light. Tho royal ones from earth will not long to go back again to tho earthly com t now that thoy stand in tho places of tho sun. Thoso who oncb lived among tho groves of spice and oranges will not long to return now that they stand under tho trees of lifo that bear 12 manner of fruit. While I speak an ovor increasing throng is pouring through tho gates. They aro going up from Senegambia, from Patagonia, from aladras, from Hongkong. .'What," you say, "dc you introuueo all tho heathen into glory ?" I toll you thc fact is that ti majority of tho people in thoso climei dio in infancy, and the infants all gc straight into eternal lifo, and so tuc vost majority of thoso who dio in Chi na and India, tho vast majority ol thoso who die in Africa go straight into tho skies-they dio in infancy, Ono hundred and sixty generations have boon born sinco tho world wai created, and so I estimate that there must bo 15,000,000,000 children ii glory. If at a concert 2,000 children sing, your soul is raptured within you Oh, the transport when 15,000,000,00( little ones stand up in white before tho throno of God, their chanting drowning out all tho stupendous liai' monies of Dusseldorf and Loipsic Pour in through tho 12 gates. Oh, yo redeemed,banner lifted,rani after rank, saved battalion after savec battalion, nutil all tho city of Got shall hear the tramp, tramp ! Crowi all tho 12 gatos, Room yot. Room oi the thrones. Boom in tho mansions Boom on tho river bank. Lot Un trumpet of invitation bo sounded unti all earth's mountains hear tho shril blast and glens echo it. Let mission aries tell it in pagoda and colporteur sound it acrors ino western prairies Shout it to tho Laplandor on his swif sled, halloo it to tho Bedouin career ing across tho desert. News I Nows ! i glorious heaven,and 12 gates io ge into it! Hear it! Oh, you thin bloodci nations of etornal winter-on th north th reo gates. Hoar it I Oh, yoi bronzed inhabitants panting undo equatorial heats-on the south thrc gates. But I notice when John saw Hies ?utes they woro open-wide opon hoy will not always bo so. Aftc awhile heaven will h two gathered u all its intended population, and th children of G od will havo como home Every crown is taken. Every har struck. Every throne mounted. Al the glories of the universe harveste in tho great garner. And, heave being made up, of course tho gnle will oo shut. Austria hi, and tho Ari gato shut. Russia in, and tho sccon gate shut. Italy in, and the thir gate shut. Egypt in, and tho fourt gate shut. Spain in, and tho lift gate shut. France in, and tho sixt gale shut. England in, and tho so^ on th gate shut. Norway in, and tl eighth gato shut. Swit/orland in, an tho ninth gate shut. Hindustan ii and tho tenth gato shut. Siberia it and tho eleventh gato shut. All tl gates aro closed but ono. Now, li America go iii with alldhe Islands < thc sea and all tho other nations tin have called on God. The captives a freed. Tho harvests all gathered. Tl nations all saved. Tho /lashing sploi dor of this Inst pearl begins to moi on its hinges. Let two mighty ange put-their shoulders to tho gate an ncavo it to with silvery clang. It done. It thunders. Tho twelfth ga shut. Once moro I want lo show you tl gatekeepers. Thoro is ono nu gol i each ono of those gates. You say th is right. Of courso it is. You leno that no eorthly palace or fortro would be safo without a sentry pacir up and down hy night and hy da, ; and if thoro woro no defenses bofo heaven, and tho doors sot wido ope with no ono to guard thom, and tl vicious of earth would go up aft awhile, and all tho abaudoncd of he would go up aftor awhilo,anel heave instead of being a world of light ai ?'oy and peace auel blessedness, wou io tho worltl of darkness anel horro So I am glael to toll you that whi these 12 gates stand opon lo let a gre multitude in, thoro aro 12 angels koop somo people out. Bobespior cannot go through there, nor Ililele brand, nor Noro. nor any of tho el bauchcel of earth who have not i pouted of their wickedness. If ono thoso nefarious mon who despis< God should como to tho gate, one tho keepers woulel put his hand on I shoulder anel push him into out darkness. Thoro is no placo in th land for thieves and liars and whoi mongers anel dofrauders anel all thc who elisgrnccel their race anel fong against their God. If a miser shou got in thoro, ho woulel pull up t golden pavement. If a house burn shou ld got in thoro, ho would set ii j to tho mansion. If alibortino shou got in thoro, ho woulel whisper t ? abominations standing on tho wb coral of Iho sea 'beach. Only thc ! who aro blood washed and prayer 1 peel will got through. Oh, my broth' if you should at lust como up to ono tho gates and try to got through a you bael not a puss writton by 1 crushed hand of tho Son of Goel, I gatekeeper woulel with ono glai wi thor you forovor. Thoro will bo a password ut tho g of heaven. Do you know what t! passworel is? Hore comes a crowd souls up to tho gate, and thoy si "Lot mo in. lot mo iii,11 was vory t fui on cartu. I ondowed college built churches and was famous for charities, and having dono so mi wondorf ul things for tho worlel no como up to got my reward." A ve from within says, "I novor ki you." Another groat crowd comos and thoy try to got through. T say: "Woworo highly honorable oarth, and tho world bowed voi$'~ ly boforo us. Wo wove Yory he?, bio on earth, and now wo como til got honors in heaven." And a voico from within says, "I never know t'ou." "Woworovory moral pooplo on earth, vory moral indocd, and wo como up to get appropriate recognition.'' A voico answors, "I. novor know you." After awhilol seo another throng approach tho gate, and ope ?eoms to bo spokesman for nil tho rcst,nlthough their voices ever and anon cry: "Amen ! Amen !" This ono blunda ut tho gate and says : "Let mo in. I was a wanderer from God. I dosorved to die. I havo como up to this placo not becauso I deserve to, but because I havo heard that there is a saving power in tho blood of Jesus." Tho gatolccopor says : "That is tho pass word-'Jesus! Jesus!'"-and thoy go in and surround tho throne, ana tho ory is, "Worthy is tho lamb that was slain to recoi'vo blessing and ricbes and honor and glory and power, world without end I" I stand hero this hour, to invito you into any ono of tho 12 gates. I toll you now that unless your heart is changed by tho grace of God you can not got in. f do not caro whor^ 'you como from, or who your father was, or who your mother was, or what your brilliant surroundings-unless you ropont of your sin and tako Christ for your divino Saviour you cannot get in. Aro you willing, thou, this moment, just where you aro, to kneel down and cry to tho Lord Almighty for Iiis deliverance? You want to got in, do you not? Oh.you llave somo good friends there. This inst year there was some one who wont out from your homo into that blessed place. They did not have any trouble getting through tho gates, did thoy ? No, they know ' tho pass word, and coming up they said, "Jo susl" and tho ory was, "Lift up your heads, yo everlasting gates, and lot them como in." Oh, whoa heaven is all dono, and tho troops of God shout tho castle falcon, how grand it will be if you and I are among them I.Blessed aro all thoy who enter i,n -through tho gates into tho city. / . -/ Governor Cennrnl Campos. HAVANNAH, VIA KEY WEST, April 10.-Brig. Gen. Jose Ji mer roz Moreno, chief of thc Govornor General's staff, sailed today on tho Villaverdo to re ceive Martine/, Campos, wdio is ex pected to arrive by the 15th. Campos will land at Guantanamo or Santiago, and by royal decree becomes Gover nor General tho moment lie sots foot on land, avoiding tho delay attondant upon observing tho customary form of taking the oath of office hero. Governor General Calleja will retire from otlico upon notice of the landing of Campos and will sail homo on the 20th inst. General Campos is expect ed to push active operations against tho insurgents in the provinco of San tiago dc Cuba, which is tho only sec tion where thc insurgents aro known to bo in any numbers. Latest advices place tho number nt 3,000, divided into bands of 60 to 200 mon each. Gen. Bartolo Maso is in command. The other leaders aro Adit. Gen. C?spedes, chief field oflicer, Col. Estaban Tama yo, OaptS. Rabi Pore/. Estrado, Bello Guerra, Levis, Capote Snare/. Papas, Vega, Gonzalez, Aramburo and Brea. Tho insurgents' announce that a syndi cate hos boon formed in tho United States to furnish money for tho revo lution, reimbursements guaranteed from customs receipts when independ ence is secured. Wealthy and liillu ential Cubans hero givo no aid to the insurgents and declaro tho uprising a mistake. All three parties boro pledge support to tho Government. Tho gen eral belief is tho insurrection will bo short lived. Gen. La Chambro, in command of tho Government forces in Santiago province, reports roving bands in tlio 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-oight moun ted insurgents invaded Puerto Prin cipe provinco and wore attacked by Government forces and defeated. Ono leader, Panchin Varona, was killed, another mortally wounded and taken prisoner and a woman and child in a hut ki lied* by stray balls. Three of tho iiarty, wno landed near Baracoa with tfacco after killing tho captain of tho schoonor Honora, wero captured Mon day. Tho others lied to tho moun tains. The members of tho party arrestad Sunday ii} a supposed attempt on Ja ruca barracks'wero liberated today ex cept Pedro Lopez, Gilatul Francisco Paz. Tho others arrested nt Puerto Principo April 5 wore also released, including Marquis Santa Lucia. THE OU BAN UPRISING GAINING O ROUND. NEW 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 insurgents have moro sympathi zers than tho authorities aro willing to admit. A (.'all to Kx-Confe<lorut?H. HEADQUARTERS S. C. DlV.,U.C. V., ) GREENVILLE, S. C., April 0,1895. \ Goncral Orders No. ll. 1. Tho attention of camps of United Confedorato Veterans of ibis division is called to tho great rounion which is to bc hold at Houston, Texas, on the 22d, 23d and 2-1 th of May proximo,and to the importance of their hoing fully represented on that occasion. Business of great importance will como boforo tho Convention, and probably tho election of division commanders, (by Stato delegations,) as their respective terms of office, with non-eligibility to re-election under thc constitution, have expired. 2. Railroads throughout tho South have agreed to issue tickets to votorans at ono cont per milo, limited to ton days, which will probably bo extend ed lo twonty-ilvodays, while our com rades in Toxas aro anxious to receive us with warmest welcome and un stinted hospitality. 3. Tho constitution prescribes that each camp shall annually, durii ^ or beforo tho month of April, transniitto Adit, Gen. George Moorman, Now Orleans, La, n completo roll of its membership, with tho annual dues of ten couts for each member. A, This division now ranks sixth in tho number of its camps, having thirty-four camps in full fellowship, and old soldiors throughout tho State, in ovcry neighborhood whore flftcon or twenty veterans can bo found, aro cordially invited to form camps immo diatoly,and pr?vido for ropresonlation at tho approaching reunion,. By order of S. S. Crittondovi, Major Goncral South Carolina Division, U. C. V. JAB. G. HAWTHORNE, Adjutant Gonorai. No\s;?pnpors throughout tho Stato aro respectfully requested to copy, .Soured l>y a Storni. HAVRE, April H.-Tho captain of tho stoamship Merrimac, which arrived hero from Now Orleans today, roports that on tho fourth, ho put his chiof of ilcor and ton mon aboard tho British ship Arnos which had boon abandoned at sea. They will tako tho VOS?OI to Livovpool, ho sa^ys. Tho Amos crew wol'0 takon off m a storm by a Ger man steamship, Normannia. NOT VERY STARTLING. Sterling Morton and ti ?oliyiw?? Hnllroml MAU 1'xqlnuiKO Now?. ,' A'H<?NTA, April Iii-Tho Constilu lion will publish tomorrow morning a Washington dispatch containing somo correspondence bot ween Mr. J. R. Buchanan, a Nebraska Railroad man, and Secretary J. Sterling Mor ton of tho Cubinot, and between Secre tary Morton und Hon. John Dowilt Warner of tho lief o rm club, Now J ?ork. Tho correspondence is based upon tho sweep of tho silver sontimont in tho West and in tho South and con tains tho suggestions that Presidont Clovoland should bo re-nominated for a third term. Mr. Buchanan is gon eral passongor agent of tho Fremont, Eikhoru and Missouri Valley railroad. Secretary Morton wrote to Mr. Bu chanan thanking him for scouring tho publication of an urticlo ontitlcd, "A Few Facts in Finance," by tho Secre tary. Mr. Bcchunan had it published "in a great 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 vory evil effect being exerted by tho so-called free 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 wavoof this banoful idea has almost reached an epidomic con dition and unless fully answered in kind, both great political parties will bo obliged in responso to popular de mand, to oither incorp?ralo a substan tially free silver plank in their plat form or oise a disgraceful straddle." Mr. Buchanan says ho pres .unes that tho Scorotnry has seen "Coin's Financial School." Ho proceeds to say that this book is sold and road on trains to a disgusting oxtont. Ho sees and hears it discussed every whero,and considers it moro than any other agen cy responsible for tho spread of tho sil ver sentiment at this time; Continu ing ho says: "It is swooping ovor this country, and in my opinion should bo answer ed by somo ono who fully understands tho subject. That answer should bc written with an equally facile pen. 1 understand this little nook has been purchased in largo numbers by silvei neoplo and distributed gratuitously. It seems to mo tho banking interest* should take tho requisito stops to pub lish a reply iii equally attractive lorn and put it on tho market at thc iowcsl price." In conclusion Mr. Buchanan says "My judgment, from the present out look, is tho Eastern conservatives ol both parties aro likoly to imito ami possibly renominate Mr. Cleveland, who will corry tho East and South nc doubt; (thoEast on his ohio, hones conservatism, and tho South because they could never vote other than tin Democratic ticket, thus insuring a vote which would elect) and tho West wil undoubtedly supporta Populist or frei silvorite unless there is a great chango If this is not done, I feel tho clectioi will be thrown into tho Houso as tin result of three lickots being in tin field, in which caso tho balance of pow er would bo with tho freo silver inter est. I boliovo if there wns a voto lo J day on thc nuked question of a 1(5 to 1 silver platform. Nebraska would give it a majority of 50,000, ornear it." This letter, from which tho above quotations aro only extracts, is for warded by Secretary Morton to Join Dewitt Warner. The Secretary explains that his ob jectin sending tho lotter "is to giv< you a thorough going business mun'; views of tho situation. Tho lcttei shows how fallacies flourish amoiif tho financiers of tho West ane South. Tho lotter also points out tin necessity of immediate, cohoront ane organized aciton in behalf of soune money. Having read tho same (yoi may copy it if you desire it), I wisl you would return it, and I will thci write Mr. Buchanan. Possibly ou friends of the reform Club may be bc nelitted by scoing Mr. Buchanan' communication. Vetorntis Protest. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April ll.-i special to tho Times-Union from Pou sac?la, Fla., says: Ata meeting toda of Camp Ward, Confederate Vet ora m tho following resolutions woro adopt ed : Whereas, the Legislature of th State of Florida, at its present sessioi has passed a joint resolution know as Senate resolution No. 13, requcstin the Congress of tho United States t purchase tho site of tho battlefield c Appomattox for a national park an to orect a joint monument to Genera! Grant anel Lee upon tho spot whoi tho latter surrendered to tho formel and Whereas, tho battlefield of Appe matt?x ir; known only as tho spc whore tho hopes, aspirations and ii dependence or tho Southern Confee eracy wore forever crushed; and Whereas, a monument to Genera Grant and Leo at Appomattox is ne desired by tho Southern people ; and Whereas if a monument should I oreo ted at Appomattox to Genera Grant and Leo tho movomont to tin end would moro gracefully original with tho viotor than tho defeated; an thorofore, boit Resolved, by Camp Ward, Confee crate Veterans, No. 10. I 1. Worogrotaneldoprecatotho intri duction ona pnssngo of Senate resoh lion No. 13. 2. Wo urge each and ovory camp < Confederate Voterans throughout th State to ioin with us in expressing di approval of said resolution. . 3. That tho Governor of Um Stato c Florida is requested to veto said res? lotion. 4. That tho adjutant of this campl and is hereby directed to send a cop of these resolutions to tho Governc of tho Stato of Floi ida, a copy to tl Southorn Associated Press and or copy to cadi camp of Confederate Ve oralia throughout the Slate of Florid) Killed by Lightning. PHILADELPHIA, April 10.-Will Bradley, aged 12, and Sadie Stingo aged ll yours, wont out to pick dand lions yostorday aftornoon in Wc Philadelphia. Not returning to the homes Inst night a searching pan was organized to find thom. Tl searchers hunted all night withoi I success. This morning tho bodies < j tho children wero found in an ope J fiold at filth street and Springlio] avoiiuo. Thoy had been struck t lightning during a storm yestordn afternoon. ItlMttfl In Dcm mid In Chitin. STAMFORD, Conn., April ll.-Bofo tho Now York cast conference, D Hunt reported that 100,000 Bibles hi j boon distributed in China during tl j past four months. A copy of tho Ne j Testament was prosonted to tho dow gor empress, and at Iiis own request I copy ot tho Old Testament was giv< j to tho omperor. In Japan, 70,0 j Bibles have boon distributed to t j soldiors and Chinoso prisoners, ai j tho omporor hos appointeel Christi) I ministers to chaplaincies in tho arm ?in key Can't Strut. BICHLIN, April 0.-Tho Sultan Turkoy lias oxprossodto Emporor W liam hy lotter, his rcgrot that tho ct ditton of tho Turkish troasury is su I as to pro vont tho sending of Turki war ships to tako pert in tho Kiel i I val parado attendant upon tho op< ? mg of tho North Sea and Baltio can INCOME TAX DECISION. (CONTINUED FKOM PAO K ONE.] cd. Tho judgment of tho Courts, ns far as it reiated to tho paymout of tho tax on rents and State and municipal bonds, was reversed. In tho Moor caso tho effect of tho Court's action is to atllvm tho refusal of oil injunction against tho commissioner of intornal rovonuo. Justices Fiold aud Whito read inde pendent dissenting opinions. Justice Field devoted somo timo to a roviow of tho provisions regarding routs and denounced tho principle sought to bo 03tabli8.ted by tho incomo I j tax law. Many of his conclusions woro in conformity with thoso express-1 j ed by tho Chief Justico. Ho1 also at-1 tacked tho law on account of its hick of uniformity and dwelt upon its ex emptions ana tho many discrimination found therein. Taking up tho exemp tion of mutual insurnnco companies, ho declared that they were conducted on lines identical with thoso on which large corporations were conducted for tho mutual benefit of stockholders Ho inveighed against tho exemption of saving and building associations, which wore not charitable institutions, but conducted for either money-mak ing or money-saving. All these ex emptions stamped tho law as class j legislation of tho most pronounced character. Tho law violated every, . right and comity guan teed undor tho" Constitution. That thoro shouldbe any doubt about tho subject surpassed his comprehension. If tho consus figures i did not convince ono of tho magnitude and in justice of tho exemptions he did ? not think Congress could be convine- . cd, "though ono rose from tko dead" to convince it. The law was also in valid in that it lovid a tax upon tho salaries of tho ono budred and ono Judges of tho United States, many of whom recoived small salaries. Tf tho provisions of tho Constitution could be set asido by tho arbitrary act of Congress, woro, ho asked, would this power end? It was buta stopping stono to other a greater acts that would eventually open tho way for a war bo tween tho poor and tho rich. Such a power assumed by congresses and per mitted to go unchallenged would mark tho hour when tho decadence of tho nation would commence. If tho limit by tho exemption could bo fixed at if'1,000 futuro Congresses might fix it at $lf>,0U0 or $25),OOO, thus compell ing ono class alone to pay tho tax. Or, tho limit might bo fixed at an amount as a board ot walking dolcgatcs might determine to bo necessary. In conclusion Justico Field annouuc ed his opinion that then hole law of ?894 should bo declared to bo null and void. Justico Whito prefaced his dissent ing opinion with tho statemont that tho custom of roiidoriug long dissents in a Court of last resort was moro honored iii tho branch than in tho ob servance. Their only effect was _ to weaken the efficacy of tho opinion of Court. Justico Whito said ho should not speak to-day but for tho fact that tho Court had overruled and set asido established precedente and tho settled and uniform doctrino of tho supremo Court down to tho present time. Ho regretted that at tili? late doy this Court should thus over throw and nullify an Act of Con gress, supported and affirmed by all text w ri tors and by every decision of tho Supremo Court of tho United States. When the fathers constructed our from of government they gavo it, not limited, but unlimited power to levy taxos, with but ono exception, that of. taxing exports.. Tho assertion that tho constitutional powor of Congress 'J was limited was, bo thought, tho fund amental orror in tho reasoning of tho majority of this Court. Tho great question before the Court was, is the incom tax a direct tax ? That question was practically decided a hundred years ago, and he did not deem it nec essary to enter into an elaborate review of the cases that had been decided. In briefly reviewing the cases presented to the Court ho obsorved that tho ar-. guments made and tho citations used | ] in this caso woro the'samo us thoso brought out in the Hyton case, and now this Court was asked to again take up tho question adjudicated by a unanimous Court a hundred years ago. Justico Harlan was of tho opinion that a tax on gains, profits and income derived from rent of lards was not a direct that under numerous decisions of this Court the income derived from municipal bonds was not the subject of specific taxation in any form by the United States. In other matters bo was iii accord with Justico Whito. At 2. ?15 the Court concluded the reading of opinions. Upon tho question of tho Constitu tionality of tho taxation of incomes from Shite and municipal bonds tho Court was unanimously in the nega tive. Upon tho question of taxation of rents tho Court stood as follows : Af firming, Justices Harlan and White against tho law, Chief Justico Fuller Justices Fiold, Gray, Browor, Browii and Sh iras. Upon tho goneral question of tho constitutionality of tho law tho Court is said to bo divided as follows: For tho law, Justices Harlan, Brewer Brown and White; against tho law Chief Justice Fullor, Justices Field Gray and Shiras. Tho President was informed of tho incomo tax decision shortly after it was rendered by tho Supremo Court, and at1:30 ho summoned Secretary Carlisle to tho Executive Mansion and tho two discussed the matter for some timo. Other membors of tho Cabinet dropped in later, among them the Attorney Goneral. Tho decision was a disappointment, but tho Administra tion will at onco issue instructions to collectors of internal rovenuo to con form to tho emasculated law. Secre tary Carlisle followed his well defined custom not to discuss tho matter for publication. Attornoy Goneral Olnoy said tho Government would not ask for a re hearing, but would accopt tho decision os rendered. Ho was not surprised at that portion of it oxcepting municipal and State bonds from taxation, but ox pressed tho hopo that the question of rents might bo brought boforo tho Court in some other shapo when ho entertained tho strong bcliof that tho prosont attitudo of the Court would be revised. In tho treasury department Assist ant Secretary Curtis declared that tho condition of tho treasury was good, and tho rovonucs amply suflioiont to meet current oxponses. Commissioner Miller and tho offloia of tho incomo tax division hold a con foronto tonight of sovoral hours dura tion at tho treasury, discussing the boaringof tho deoision upon tho in come tax macbinory in operation, and changed it whon necessary to meet tho changed conditions. These instruc tions will no ready for publication to morrow or noxt day. A monument lins boon oreotod ovo tho graves of. tho 6.000 Confedorato Boldiors buried at Chicago. It will bo dedicated on Decoration Day wilh op tions by Gonoral Gordon^ of Georgi and Wado Hampton. Tho Howers for tho decoration aro to bo sont from tho South, and sovoral refrigerator car loadq liavo already been arranged for, onoufth to oovor ovory Confodrato gravo hi Chicago. FOR TEMPERANCE WORKERS. Jsofull Suggostloitn from nu Illinois ' ' J??itor. lu a recent article, addressed moro jartioularly to mombors of tho order, he Illinois Good Tomplar says : Every momhor in our Ordor has wombed to do "all in his powor to t. i /ance tho cause of temperance." Do wo realize how far-reuohing and si?riit ?cant this promise is* Aro wo doing 'all in our powor to nd vaneo tho cause >f temperance?" While wo are edu catingtho young and persuading tho modorato drinker to forsake his habits, we must not ovoxdook tho drunkard,., because he is in need of our most lov ing solicitude and. consideration. Tru ly, as Paul 8rys: "Wo must bo all things to all mon that wo may savo somo." It is this thought in our mind that impels us. to call attention to a lino of work much neglected, but which might bo taken up by almost avery lodge in tho State with compar atively little offort; that is, the treat mout'of inobriotyas a disease. Any lodge can, by a series of entertainments jr leotures, easily raise tho sum of money to bo used for this special pur pose, to be known ns a 1 'Rescue fund. " Chis is to bo used for defraying tho jxponsos of tho patient while taking % course of treatment at some Keoloy institute. Tho patient, when cured, viii, of course, be required to refund ho loan as soon as possible; and when .opaid, it can bousedagain and again, md thus bo a permanent feature of tho york with practically no expenso to tho odgo aftor tho original fund is raised. Several Good Templar Lodges havo jeon working along this lino for somo imo, and with groat success. On tho return of a patient, ho should bo in itiated into tho lodge and tho member's diould ondea vor to make it pleasant for him, thus by their influence in a jocial way making it possible for him to start lifo anow with brighter pros pects. Wo rofor to tho Kooley Treatment advisedly bocau?o it is undoubtedly the host Known of tho many remedies for tho cure of inobratcs and because of its uniform success, statistics show mg that out of over 200,00t) patients treated, ninty-flvo per cont, were por manontly cured, and havo boon return cd to society, not as a charge, but ns self-supporting, respectable citizens. It has l>een introduced into tho Sol diers' Homes and tho regular army Colorado, Louisiana and Maryland havo laws providing for tho treatment to bo administered tue habitual drunk ard at the expense of the State. Dills looking to tho onactmont of similar legislation aro ponding in tho legisla tures of Illinois and eight other States in somo of which they nave 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 tho 3oldiors' Homo can bo soon from tho latest official report of Col. A. J. Smith governor at Leavenworth, which will be found in another column. Tho treatment thus highly common j Sd is successfully administered. ntUhe Keeley Institute, Columbia, S. C. Japan's Tonna of Penco. WASHINGTON, April 10.-Tho cabio Announcement that sevon of tho eight lapanese conditions havo beon accept ed by Peace, Commissioner Li Hung 3hang is very gratifying to diplomats iiero, who havo no longer any doubt ,kat a peaceful termination wilt speedi ly result. Asundorstood in Washing x>n tho eight conditions wore as fol lows : ! 1. Independence of Coroa. 2. Cession of Formosa. 3. Cession of Lian Tong Promon tory, including Port Arthur. 4. Warvindemnity. C. Admission of machinery into Jhina and permission, to foreigners to establish factories,. 6. Modification of likin tax and ex tension of system of transit passes (or imports. 7. Opening cortain Chinese ri vol's to commerce, including the Yang-tso ICiangto Cluing King, tho Siangfrom lian Kow on tho Yang-tso to Siang Tan Kiang, Canton River to Ouachow ind Woosang and its canals as far as 3uchow and Hang Chow. 8. Railway privileges and similar concessions to Japanese and foreign capitalists. In addition to thoso conditions it is believed certain promises havo been o will bo exacted from China, tho terms jf which ai'o to remain secret. Tho condition which, it is thought, hos 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 tho Regent's Sword and Citadel of Port Arthur. That this would bo most strenuously opposed by China has all along been undoubted, and it has been predicted that it might provo a stumbling block of such dimensions as to provont peace imles?t> some compromise could bo agreed upon as to the length of occupa tion, tho Chinese being likely to insist that it should not bo permanent. All other conditions, except that of indem nity, have boon the subject of diploma tic consideration for many years, and all treaty Powers aro ns deoply inter ested in thom as Japan has been. Tho United States have boen particularly ictivo in urging th'* nbohtiou of tho [iain tax, whfoh is n. t unlike tho oc ;ori of Franco, though less reasonable md less limited than th? French sys tem. Tho independence of Corea has ilways been in contention, and tho United States havo firmly maintained that Corea was to bo treated as an in iopondont nation since her minister at Washington was recognized ton years *go. __ GOVEHNOR Holcomb has signed tho law passed by tho Nobraska I/Ogislaturo appropriating $200,000 for tho purchase of seed grain and food for tho drought ?trickon farmers of tho Slato, and it becomes immediately operativo. 4&* COTTON Makai 4o. FBIOHS? ?van on PIANOS & ORGANS nAMT tia discouraged, but JL7U4N i wilta ter ?ar gr??t BARGAIN LUT and Wanderr?lly Bas? Installment Tarma. g>4* Aro* <m a (Witting Piano. ?ft Mtoot *? ft*** oat? * PAYMENT. NEVEU. DOMPROMIS E D A. ; . 3LAIM. . ? . . ?| j ,. EAD . U?? ; ililli S LAWSUIT. Suon IB tho record of tho STAUNTON LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, S?umbare of Bonoflolarlos Testify to lt-1 Promptness and .So?uUfiOSS. Natural Fromlum insurance on the moa Approved Flans, The now "Coupon Polloy" of the Staun on Life ls a modal of simplicity. In addi lon to all tho host features of medora life H nu rance lt pi o vides for tho payment of ho "coupou" IMMEDIATELY after loath, without notice or the forman y of proofs. Tho "coupon" covers 10 per ont. o? tho foco of tho polloy, and ls In ad? litton thereto. Agents wanted. Liberal Commission jive mon eau mako big mouey. Address Jno, S. Reynolds, Goneral Agent, A $700 00 PIANO FOR $275.00, This announcement will certainly Interest everybody that Intends to purctiaso a plano m tho near future. We have been carrying Musical Ia? ot ian) en ts for several years'In con nection with ourFurnlturo business, but for reasons satisfactory to our* selves, wo have decided to discon tinue the sale of planes, and offor our entiro stock nt manufacturers* coat. We do this believing that it is cheaper to dispose of them at what thoy cost us ratbor than oany thora month af tor month hoping to gat a small profit for thom. rho Instruments that we offer aro first clftss lu every respect And aro most positively guaranteed to be tully equal to any mst m mont en tho market; without regard to name or price. We shall be pleased to send a < >t loguo of o?anos to anybody who Wlil send us 5 conta postage for thOBAue, And if you uro interested and expeet to buy a plano in the near futuro you will certainly Rave quito a sam of money to pu rc ima o from us beforo our stock ls exhausted. Komotnbor that when the etook ls gone wo shall buy no moro and that this opportun? ity will close forever as the instru ments aro sent out. .We desire to say that we huvo an illustrated otua loguoof Furniture, embracing every thing usually carried in a tir?t Class furniture store. We will bo pioased to mall this catalogue upon applica tion. \ L.F. PADGETT, 846 UKO AD STKKET. Augusta f Ga -??. MOTHERS READ THIS. THE BEST REMEDY. For Flatulont Colic, Diarrhoea, Dys> outcry, Nausea, Coughs, Cnolbra Infantum, Tootbiug Children, Cholera Morbus. Unnatural Drains from tho Bowels, Fains, Griping and all diseases of the Stomach, and Bowels FITTS' CARMIN ATI V E - Is tho standard. It carries children ovor tho critical porlod of toothing, and ls recommended by physlolans ns tho friend of Mothers, Adults and Children, lt Is pleasant to the taste, mid hover falls to give satisfaction. A few doses will demonstrate Its superlativo virtuos. Frico 2? ote. por bottle. For salo by druggists, and hy TUB.MURKAY DRUG CO., Columbia, H. C. TO E AHME KS ARD MIM, MEN: We havo on hand fifteen Corn Mills, sise? 20 and 80 moires la dlnmoter, made of iKsopns Stonos. Wo osnuot afford tobarry thoso Mills ovor, Thoy must bo sold, aud we are afferlng thom at snort* flee prices to Cash Buyors. Mbott and Watertown Engines and Bollo ors; DoLoaoh Fl nutation Haw Mills. [ am Gonorai Agent in North and South Carolina for II. li. Smith Machino Company, manufacturers of IMan-i era. Moulders. KcvSnws and all othor wood working ma chinery, and will-soil , at bottom factory prices. \ No, 3 ?)rewcr Brick Machines on hand at Bargain Fr?ow, \\ fte BADB&itt, OOr.UMBlA.S.Oo