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65474 A; BI?dSftT RELIGION. ?r. Tal mage Sots Forth Its Evils in His Sermon, Da tr y- Pt Christians to SpeaU Owl S3.?ft*Uiy on th?, Side ot UiuUt , oouBueaa-Cnattuv ?UI ibo ?Oopyrlaht, by Louis Ktopsch. N. Y.) Washington, Fob. 10. lu thU discourse Dr. Taluiago oalls tor a ?or? deiuoustaUvo religion and a hearty spcuking out on tho right wide of everything;, text, Murk Os2(5: "Thou dumb ?nd. deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him." Hore -was & caso of great domestic nug nish. Tho ?on of the household was possessed of an evil spirit, which, among other thing?, paralyzed, his tonguoandmadohim speechless. When tho influcuco wa* on tho patient, he se-i??d not say o word-articulation was Impossible. Tho upirlt that captured "this mombor of the household was a dumb spirit-so called by Christ-a spirit abroad to?day and us lively and ?otcnt as in the Now Tostamont times, et in all the roalms of sorioondom I cannot lind a dtscourso concerning this dumb devil which Christ charged up on in wy text, saying: "Como out of him." 'There ba? boen much destructivo su ?icrstitlou abroad in tho world coneern ng possession by ?vii spirits. Under the form of bellefin witchcraft, this de lusion swept tho continents. Poison? were supposed to bo possessed with some evil.aptvit, which mad* them able to destroy o the r.s. lu tho sixteenth con tury- in Genova 1,500 persons 'were burned to death os witohes. In ono neighborhood o? Franco 1,000 persons wore burned. In twp centurie? 200,000 portons were slain ns Tvltohes. Bu mighty waa the doluaiou that it includ ed among its victims some of the great 9?t intellects of nil time, sn oh as Chiof Justloo Matthew Halo and Sir Edward Coko, and suoh ron own od ministers of religion as Cotton Mather, one of whoso books, Benjamin Franklin said., ?haped his life-and Ki uh a vd Bastea*, and Arch bishop Crnnner and Martin Luther; and, among writers and philosophera, ?l-ord Bacon.. That belief, w hi eh! has becomo-tho lauding stock of all sen sible peoplo, counted its disciples among the wisest and best people of Sweden, Germany, England, Franco, Spain and;-New England? But while wo. roje.ot witchcraft, any man who be lieves {ho. Bible must boliuYo that there, oro diabolical agencies abroad in tho .world. While there aro ministering spirits to bless there oro infernal spirits to hinder, to poison and to destroy. Christ was spcnklng to a spiritual ex istence when, standing before tho nf filotcd "one of tho text, ho said: "Thou dumb Riid deaf spirit, oojne out of him." Against this dumb devil of tho text I put you on your guard- Do not think that this ngent of evil has puthis blight on thone who, \<g omission of the vocal organs, havo had the goldon gntes of spcaoh bolted and barred' Among those .who have never hpokon a word sro tho most gracious and lovely and talented souls, that ?ero ever incarnat ed. The chaplains o? tho asylums for tho dumb can tell you enchanting ?tories of thoso who never called thc mame of fat! or mother or child, and many of thc xnost devout and prayerful souls will never in this world speak tho name of God or Christ, Thoro has been epo theorization of si lonee. Some ono hos Bald , silence is golden, and sometimes the greatest tri umph ls to keep your mouth shut. But sometimes sll?noo is a orimo and tho direct result of thc baleful influence of tho dumb devil of our text. Thero ls hardly a man or Svomau who has. not been present oh como occasion when tho Christian religion boca mo a target for raillery. ...Perhaps it was over in tho 6tore some day when there wa? not Much going on, and the clerks wero in a group, or it was in tho factory at thc noon spell, or it was out on th? form under tho trees while you wore resting, tor lt was In tho clubroom, or it was |n a social,circlo, or it was in the street on tho way .homo from business, or it was on some occasion which you re member without ruy describing it. Some ono got tho laugh on thu Bible and oariqatured the profession of re ligion as hypocrisy, or miidc a pun out of something that Christ said. Thc laugh started, and you joined in, and not one word of protect did you utter. ?What kept you ailontV Modesty? No. Incapacity to answer? No. Lack of opportunity? No. It wa? a'blow on hoth your lips by the wing of thc dumb devil. If some ono ehould malign your father or mother or wits or husband or child, you would flush up quick and ?ither with au Indignant word or' doubled up fist multo response. And yet here ls our Christian religion which has done so mvtoh for you nnd so muoh for tho world that it will take all etcr' uity to celebrate, it, and yet whon it was attacked you did not so much assay: "^1 differ. I object. I am corry to hear "you say that.. Thero is another sido to this." You Christian pooplo ought lu such times a? these to go armed, not tvith earthly weapons, but with the sword of the spirit. You ought to have four or.?ve questions with whioh you could confound any man who attacks Christianity.-j, A man 90 years old was telling me how ho put to flight a scoffer. My. aged friend said to tho skoptic: /'Did you ever read th* history of Joseph In tho Bible?" "Yes," said the nunn, "lt is a fino story, and ns interest ing a story ?J I e'er read." "Well, now," said my old friend, "supposo that ?caount of Joseph stoppod half way?" "Oh," said.the man, "thon lt would not be entertaining." "Well, now," Bald my friend, "we have in this world only, half of everything, and do you not think !that whoa wo hoar tho last half things 'may ba consistent, aud that then we may find that God was right?" Oh, friends, better load up with af sw Interrogation pointai You cannot at? Want a Dispensary. Tho Charlotte prcaohers aro bound to koop tho old town in a formont. f hoy not only want tq -regulate tho mayor and tho . city oounoil-; not only intone, to break "up: tho cuohro and tun tho pokerplayor.into his bolo, but thoy havo bogunda 'orutfido* against tho bar rooms in order to Substituto a dispon sary. Thoy havo Bounded tho toosin of war in tho following and signed by thomoc'.voo anil .published 'inlho . oity paren;-. ^ vYhcVel$}, Wo" Iii o min lit ors of Char lotte aro uncompromisingly opposed to the lioonsed soloom, ..tho oyatpm-now in operation in thifi.oity;jvfia.,;:. Wlioro?-j??,-V\'o ,boliovo^that tho djg pen?aVy b-iUiin ' le?s?ih,V nVo'> civil * ?f druhV "mneiM and thereby tf?broaeo's all' tho t^Us!-..^? willoh, th.a; galoon ja .tho fountain head," wo tho undersigned minister^ $0ha?olU'?j ?orno, pf UH out and out %$#Wf3o^!ta apd; WHor**irt? tho right to oppose tho'dispensary here after, some of M believing (hat tho dispensai y is tho best solution of the liquor evil under presonl oirouinstao fort to?]? ?ruai**+?ck??*?thom* bl* wi* th? tbih#a ef eternity are ? salled. Your ?Ueno* fit?* cousent te the bombardment of your Father'* houle. You allow a alur to be oast ?fc your mother'* dying pillow. In behalf of the Christ, who fer you went through ine agonies or HMHSSIII&UOU on the rooky bluff back of Jerusalem, you dared not ?aoe a atokly joke. "Bettor load up with a few questions, io that next time you will be ready.-flay to the ?coffer: "My dear ?lr, will you tell toe what make* tke difference betweenthe condition of woman in China and fa th? United States? What do you think of tho Borruon on the mount? How do you like, th* golden rule laid down lu the Scriptures ? Are you lu favor of the Ton Commandment*? In your larges ?nd extensive rending- have you oome aoross a lovelier character than JOBUB Christ? Will you please to name the triumphant- deathbed? of infidels and atheists? How do you aooouut for tho fact that Among tho out and out be lievers in Christianity were suoh per- , ?ona'as Benjamin Franklin, John Rus kin, Thomas Carlyle, Babington, Mac aulay, William Penn, Walter Boott, Charin? Kings!AJ( Horace BusksMl, Jumos A. Garfield, Robert E. Lee, Strn r wall Jackson, Admiral Foote, Admixul Farragut, Ulysses fl. Grant, John Mil ton, William Shakespeare, Chief Jus tloe Marshail, John Adams, Daniel Web ster, George Washington? How do yoxt account for their fondness for the Christian religion? Among the in numerable colleges and universities of the earth will you name ino-three started by infidels and now supported by infidels? Down in your heart are you really happy in th* position you oooupy autagontstio to the Christian religion? When do you have the most rapturous vie wo of the next world?" do at him with a few such questions, aud ho will got so red in th* faoe as to suggest apoplexy, and he will look at his watoh and say he ha* an engage ment and must go. You will put him In a sweat that- will boat a Turkish hath. You will put him on a rout eemparod with, whioh e\?r troops at Hull Run made ne time at all. Arra yourself, not with arguments, but interrogation points, and I promise you riotory. Shall suoh a roan se you, shall auoh a woman aa you, surrender to one of the mean est spirits 'that ever smoked up from the pit-the dumb devil spoken of in the text? But thon there are occasions when this particular e pl vit that Christ exor cised when He said: "I charge thee to tome out of him," takes people by ; tho wholesalo. In th* most responsive religious audience havo you notloed how many people never sing at all? They have a book, and they have a voieo, and they know hew to read. They know many of the tunca, end yoi ere 6tlent while the groat raptures of music paB? by. Among those who sing not on? out of a hundred eings loud enough to hear his own voiee. They hum it. They givo a sort of religious grunt. They mako the lips gc, but it ls Inaudible. 'With a voice strong enough to atop a nt roc* car one blook away all they can afford in the praise cf God is ?bout half a whispor. With enough sopranos, enough altos, enough bassos to maka a siuall heaven between the four walls they let the opportunity go by unimproved. The volume of voice that asoonda from the largest audience that over assembled ought to be multi plied two thousandfold. But the min ister rise? and given out the hymn, th* organ begins, tho oholr or precentor lends, tho audienoo are steading BO "that the lungs may have full expan sion, and a mighty harmony is about to asoend when the evil spirit spoken of in my text-the dumb devil-spreads his two wings, ono over the lips of ono half th* audionoe and th? other wing over tho lipo of the other half of tho audieaoo, and the volcas roll back Into tho throats from which they started, aud only hore and there anything is heard, and nino-tenths of tho holy power is destroyed, and the dumb devil, is ho flies away, Bays: "I oould not keep Issao Watts from writing that hymn, And I could not keep Lowell Ma son from composing the tune to whioh it ls ?et, but I smote Into silence or half silence thc lips from whieh it would have spread abroad to bless neighbor hoods and eitles and then mount the I wide opon heavens." ?Ive tho long meter doxology the full support of Christendom, and those four Hues. would take tho whole earth for God. That hymn, "Ob, Por a Thousand Tongues to Sing," was suggested to Chuides Wcsloy by Peter Bohler, who, after his conversion, said: "I had bettor keop silont about it." "No," said Wooley, "If you had 10,000 tongues, you had better uso thom for Christ." And then that angel of nymuology penned tho words; Oh. for a thousand tongues to elna My dear Redeemer's pralso, Tho KloriT of my Qed and King, The triumphs of His crace I Jesus, th* name that calms our (ears, That bids our sorrows coast; 'Tts muslo In th* tinner's ears; 'Tis Ufo and health and peace. Whllo much of tko modern mu ?lo In a religious doggerel, a eonseorated nonsense, a sacred imbecility, I would' like to seo aomo great xnuslol&n of our timo lift the baton and marshal "Luther's Judgment Hymn," "Yar mouth," "Dundee," "Ariel," "Bnttle streot," "Uxbridge," "Ployel's Hymn," "Harwell," "Antioch," "Mount Pis gah" and "Coronation," with a few regiments of mighty tuaes made in our own timo, and storm Asia, Af rica and America for the kingdom of God. But tho first thing to de is to drivo out the dumb devil of the text from all our ohurohos. Do not, howover, let wp,-lone our selves in gonoralitles. Wot ene of us but has had our lives sometimes touched by ?ho evil spirit of the toxt-thl i awful dumb devil. We had just cue opportunity of say ing a Christian word that xnight have loci u mau or woman into a Christian lifo. The opportunity was fairly put boforo us. The word of invitation er consolation or warning came to the Oos, do horoby call upon our pooplo and upon all tho mi nia tor s and pc opio of thq country of Mecklenburg to aid^ in tho suppression of tho saloon by using aU'honorablo moana to havo a dispon sary lawpassod by this logislaturo. Pensions Goloro, It may intoront statisticians and por haps others to know that tho aggregate amount of monoy appropriated by con gross for ponsions sinoo tho ond of tho Oivil war inl865, plus the amount car ried by tho pending pension hill for tho fiscal yoar 1002, is $2,821,117/126 Another yoar will oarry tho total far boyond tho throo billion mark. By tho, consul of, 181)0 tho ontiro valuation of tho ll sotithorh 8taiofl afterward com posing the.,Gpnfedoraoy-tho truo valua "lionpfcbt^srfqsscd,: of all pr?porty, roal AJf^fr^orieJ. lu thoso ll Statos-was iCW'MM07-'"Now. Yoi'k 8un' ' Ufiii'ih iTdrod of Them. AJbill boforo tho Losinlaturo of No br^d?rujdoolarod sunflowers and oooVlo-. burrs a public nuisanoo, and mako* it tho duty of every ownor of land to dootroy thom botweon August 15 and Sopt, 1 of each yoar. " ' ' ;. \T Instele fftte o? tai tasuWi. but tatra lt halted, flonto h.indorlnff power looked tho Jaw? together to th at thoy did not opon. Th? tongue lay flat and Utlll In the bottom of th? mouth as though atruok with paralysis. Wo wove muto. Though God had arlyn?, un the physiological apparatus^ for ?peech and pur lungs were Ulled with air whloh by ihe o omni ?nd of our vyill could hftvo made the larnygeal mundos movo and the vocal organs vibrate, we were wiokedly and fatal ly silent. For all timo and eternity Vfo missed our chanoo, or it was a j?rayer meeting, and the sevvico was thrown open for prayer and remarles, and there was a do'ad halt-every thing* silent as a graveyard at mid night. Indeed, lt was a graveyard and midnight. An embarrassing pauso took place that put a wot blanket on all tho mooting. Mon, bold enough ou business exohange or in worldly circles, shut their eyes as though thoy wero praying in silence, tout thoy wero not praying at all. They were busy hoplug somebody else would do, his duty. The women flushed under the awful pause and made their fans inoro rapidly ?l.ut-to?. Some brother, with no cold, ooughed, hy that sound trying to All up the time, and .the meeting was slain. But what killed lt? The dumb dovil. This la tho way I ncoOUT l for tho fact that the stu pidest places on earth are eeino prayer meetings. 1 do not seo how a man can keep any graco if ho regu larly attend? thom. They are spirit ual refrigerators. Religion kopt on loo. How many of us hnvo lost occa sions Cf \isef illness? In a soulptor'a studio stood a ilgUr? ot the god Op portunity. Tho sculptor had mado the hair fall down over tho face of the statue so nu to completely cover It, and thero woro wings to tho feet. When asked why ho so rcpreB.cntcd Opportunity, tho soulptor answored: "The face of tho statue is thus cov orod because wo do not rccognizo Op portunity whon it comes, and the winga to the feet show tnat Opportu nity is swiftly gene. But do not let the world deride the ckureh Teeoause of all this, for tho dumb devil is justas conspicuous in tho world. The great political parties assemble at the proper time to build platforms for the candidates to stand on. A commit tee of each party ls appointed to meka tho platform.. Aft-er proper delibera tion, the committees come in with a ringing report: "Whercias," and "Whoreas," and "Whcroos." Pro numolnmontoB all shaped with the en? idea o? getting tho most votes. AU ex pression in regard to the great moral evils of the country ignored. No ox pression in behalf of temperate liv ing, for that would lone tho vote of thc liquor traiHc. No expression in rogart to the universal attempt at the d?moli tion of the Lord's day. No rooognitloi Of God in the history of nation-., foi that'would- lose tho vote of atheists But "Whereas," and 41 Whereas," am "Wheres?." Nine cheers will bo givei for the platform. The dumb devil o the text puts ono wing over ono plat form and the other wingovcr thooihe: platform. Those great convention aro opened with prayer by their chap lain?. If they avoided platitude? am told the.honest truth in their prayer they would say: "O Lord, we want i bo postmasters and consuls and foreigi ministers and Unitod State? distilo attorneys.' For that we aro } .re, am for that we will strive till the electio next Novembex*. Give us offloe, or w die. Forever and ever, arnon." Th world, to say the least, is no better tha tko ehuroh on thia subject of silence a tho vr van g timo. In other words, ls 1 not time for Christianity to beconi pronounced and aggressive as never b< fore? Take sides for God and sobriet and righteousness. "If tho Lord I God, follow Him." Havo you oppoi tuaity of rebuking a ?in? Itcbuke i ?ave you a ohsnco to choer a dishcar eaed soul? Cheer ft. Havo you a usi ful word to speak? Speak it. Bo out ?nd out, up and down fe righteousness. If your ship is nfloi on tho Pacifia ocean of God's mero, hang out your colors from tho ?ins head. Show your pnssport, if ye have one. Do not smugglo your soi into the harbor of Heaven. Spec out for Godl Close up tho chnpt< of lost- opportunities nuc? opon a no chapter. Boforo you got to the do< on your way out shako hands wit somo ono and ask him to join you c the road to llenvon. Bo hot drive \ to Heavon In a two-wheeled Msullfj with room only for one, nnd Un yourself, but got tho biggest Gosp wagon you pan find and pile it fi of friends and neighbors and sho till they henr you nil up and. dov tho skies: "Como with us, and > will do you good, for tho Lord ha promisod good concerning Israoi Tho ?pportuuity for good which y< may consldor insignificant may tremendous for rosults, as when < tho sea Capt. Hnldano sworo nt t ship's orew with nn oath that wish thom all in perdition, and a Scot sailor touched his cap and sai "Captain, God hoars prayer, and * would be badly off if your wish we answered." Capt. Haldane was b< vleted by tho sailor's remark and oe vertid and beoamo tho means of t salvation of his brother Bobcrt, w had been an infldol, and then Rob bcoanss a minister of tho (J impel, a under his ministry tho godless Fe Hoff became the world-ronownod rr sionary of the crossland ino worh Merle d'Aublgno became the autl of "Tho History fl tho Reformatio and will bs the glory of tho chm for all ages. Perhaps you may as musk as the Scotch sailor who j Upped his cap and used one brol sentence by which the earth and heavens aro still resounding with tent Influences. So somothlng God, and do lt right away or you \ never do lt at all. Timo flies away fa?t, The while wo never remember; Hew soon our Uto here Grows old With tho your That die? with tho noxt Daoombei A Bad Teacher. A spooial from Hunttiv?Ile, Ala,, ni "Nows roaohod hore toniglWo? gi exoitomont in Marshall county ovc oaao of criminal assault. A white ooh ton ebor named Hall, ruar Gruntoravi it ia said, oomroittoa u criminal asst upon a 13-yrar old girl. A mob soon tho country fop tho toaohor, but ho into tho hands pf o iii o o nj and this e\ ing was lodgod in jajl at Qunteravi A report flays hundred! of poopl? h geno thorp frcm tho opunty intent bro* king into tho- jul and-lynch Hall._ Tillman Endorsed. In tho Senato Thursday Senator J rioh offered -tho following, eonouri roaoluticn, whioh.wasadopted...,wit! disouaaion pr dissout, and sont? to hbuao: Bo it rpaolvod by - thc aon tho houaoof rcproHontatWoa. cnnOurr That tWaoknolodamontfl pf UXm ft ral aflaejnbly aro hornby, tendered tp phV?M; Tillman fo^nifc .?anio, ' triotio and-.conaiatont ojurso in United ?t?tcV -Mito," ! throughout ?oryico ip that body, whioh o JIU ac hcroby indorflod ?nd pronour.ood 1 of his H tato and poople. WORK OF VANDALS. Th* Buming of Columbia by Oen. Sherman's Army THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AOO. A ,8tory ct Suffering:, C'Uolty and Vandalism/?Ornphl ca'ly Tr ld by Capt D. A LDIckort. Tho following ia tho story of tho burring of Columbia in February, 1865, by Gon. Sherman's army as relaten by CJapt. D. Augustus Diokort in hiu his tory of "Kcrshaws Brigado:" When Sherman i ut his mighty ma ohino of war in motion Kowhaw's bri gndo was hurried back lo Charleston and up lo George's Station, thon to tho bridge on tho Edifto. Raiding partios vuro out in every direotion, destroying bridges and railroads, and as tho tu \uh< rn army lal no pontoon oorpB tu.' t ny mothods of orossing tho doop, til ur tish stteamb in their roar I ut by I ridge p, it oan b. cn eocn that tho cut ting of ino bridge alone might bo fatal to tho ai my lt was disoovorcd onrly in tho in:uoh that Shormun did tot in tend to turn to tho right or to tho loft, but to oontinuo on a direct lino, with Coiuabia ns tho oontie of operations. Wo were removed from tho Edism baok to Charleston, ai.d up (ho Northwest ern railroad to St. Stophon's, on tho 8antoc. it was foared that a raiding party from Georgetown would oome up tho Pantoo and out ibo bridgo, thereby iso'ating tho army Uni doo had in Char le s on and vicinity. Slowly Sherman "chanted bin voary length along." On ?1 o 13:h of February the corps of Gen. Bl m- readied Ringville and drove our p okets away from tho bridgo ever tho C< nga oo. OD tho 15th of February tho advance cohuna of thoTwontioth corps carno in Hghte f Columbia. All tho bridges lead irg thereto wrro barned and the south ern troopn withdrawn to tho eastern side. Frank Blair's corps ioft tho road loading to Columbia at Hopkins, and kept a direot lino for Camdon. An "thor corps, tho Fiftoooth, oroseod tho Broad nt Columbia, whiio tho Four teenth &nd Twentieth were to ores ? at Fresblcy's and Alston. Orders had hoon given to cvaouato, Charleston, and . ll tho troops undor Gon. MoLaws, at Four Bolo, Swau.p and along,tho ooast wtro to^'rendezveus at St. Stoph on's on tho Ban'oo, and either mako a junction with tho western army at Chester, S. C., or if notpoasiblo, tooon tii.uo lo Chcstcifitld or Cheraw. Tho plan of tl 0 campaign was now to eon conti ate all tho forocs of Hood's Stato uno] s f.ijcl Hardt c's at sonto point in nppi r South Carolina orin North Car olina, and mako ono moro dc6poraio sUnd, ard bv united action oru-h and overthrow Shorman s aimy, theroby relieving Loo. On ?ho teeming of February ibo 16th il cot.moy, without any warning wlat over, be* aa ^bolling tho oity of <lolum hift, filled with women aid ohildron. Now it must bo roojombcrod that thin aaa not 1er tho purposo of orossing the rivor, for ono of Sherman's oorps?had a'ready oroseod below tho oily and;two ot lier? above. Ono ?hell pasted through tho hotel in VAI??OII Gbj.-BgauTcgard waa at tho timo, others atnu-k ; tho. Stato house, whilo many fell through out the oily. Gon. Hampton withdrew h's SP all force of oavalry early on tho morning of thc 17th, and tbeinajcirof ibo oily met An offioor of tho federal army under a flag of truco and ten dered him tho Kirrender of tho city, and claimed protection for its inhabi tauts. Thia waa promised. All during tho day thousands of tho enemy pc ired into tho oity, Gen. Shor nau cn lei ir vi about midday. Gens DaviB* and Williams- corps eroased tho Salu la and oontinuod up on tho wost oin bank of Broad rivor, ono orossing 10, tho other 25 miles aVvo Columbia Tho pcoplo of C lumbia had hopes of a penooful o.oupatiou of (ho oity, but during the day and along towards nightfall, tho ttroatonirg attitude of tie toldiors, their ominous words, -h?eaiaof vor.gcat.oe, were too porlon HUI fur thopcoiloto misunderstand or to cxpiot nioroy. Thoso signs, threats and mutterings wero but tho proludo to that whioh was to follow. Vt UK ALARM. About 9 o'olook tho alarm of fire was give n and tho droad sound of the fire bo'ls, mingled with tho hm and roar of ten thousand voleos and thc tread of as many troops lurrying to and fro en their ouised mission, could bo hoard by tho. now thoroughly frightened pop ulsoo. Tho pet plo, with blanched countenances, not foaturos, looked in n-ute fd len co into tho ft. o s of oaoh oth er. All know and foll, but dared not evin to themselves to wbispor, thc ul mi-takablo truth.. Non another alarm, another firo boll mingles its sound with tbogtnoral chorus of disoord, shouts of tho soldiery, tho frightened orien of tho people-yells of tho drunkon .roots-all a seething, maddening tur bulonoo in tho crowded streots. A larid giaro shoots up abovo tho house tops, then the' oiaokling and roaring of tho dread olomonts told but too plainly that the beautiful oity was soon to bo wrapped in llamea. Tho eaok and pillogo ha i begun I ' THE LOOT OF THE YANKMEfl. Few mon boing in tho oity, tho wo men, with raro heroism, sought to savo some I itt lo necessity of lifo, only to seo it sliuok to tho floor or snatched from their hands and spattered in tho streots. lloro would bo n lono woman huggirg an infant to her broast, with a fow strips of clothing hanging on her anni ; helpless orphans lugging an old trunk or chest, now. containing all they oould oall their own--thoso would h? snatched away, broken opon, contents' rifled by tho drunken soldiers, or if not valuable, trampled undor foot. Soldiers, with axes and hammers, ruehod from houso to houso, broaking in doors, smashing trunks, boxes, bu reaus and robbing thom of all that ?van valuable, then leaving tho house, in fiamos. Helpless women, Eoreaming ohildron, bahes in tho arms, invalids ia bods, jolted and jostled against tho 'surging mob-^npno to help, nono toad vise-thoio dofonooloss flufforors rauh ed aimlessly about, their sole purposo hoing to avoid the fiamos and seek a plaoo of safety. Tho fires originated urinoipnlly in the abuthom seotioi) of tho oity, and as tho fire attf its way up, the howling throng followed, driving tho innooont and helpless ahoad. As tho night wore on, tho drunken F.oldiors, first made intoxicated by (ho winbin, privato collars ortho liquors in government buildings, now booanio beastly drunk in their gleo at tho sight Ot tho dentruotion thoy had wrought. Tho womon and ohildron followed the dark background of that part of tho city not yet in flamea. Tho f?deral officers, inetoad of offering asiiatanoo or ?help log hand to tho ruined wad dlbtroanod pooplo, addod intuit to Injury by Join ing with the private soldier? in tb? plunderlog of tho oity, insulting tho woroon and adding fuoi to tho llamo. All night long did tho fiamos rage, leap, and lick tho clouds as ono hlnnV of buildings af tor anotfior fell-food for tho dovouring elements. This drunk? rn orgio wno koot up till thoir ornven hoarts wcro fully natisttod. A few square in tho northeastern part of tho oity woro loft, ?IBO sovoral ohurohos, and into thoso tho womon and chil dren wcro hauled and paokod, and bad to romain for days and some for weoke, almost on tho verge of starvation. Tho fodoral commander, through tho bound loss diotatos of bis sympathetic hoart, after destroying ?ll that fire aodiapinc oould roach, left tho starving thous? ands a few rations oaoh of the plundor bo had robbed of tho planters in tho oountry. DESTITUTION. No vehicles or hornos woro left in the oity's limits-the bridges burned that led aerees tho rivor to tho wost. To the oast, Blair's Oorps was laying wanto everything in its pathway, while abovo and bolow tho city, for a distanoo of 50 milos, Sherman had swopt tho oountry as baro as if a blight had fallon upon it. How tho por plo of Columbia mb-ia tod during tho limo thoy wcro penned in tho oity olin rohen and tho tow buildings loft, will ever remain a mystery, and to nono io much as tho sufferers thotnsolves. Grains of oom woro eagerly pioked up ia tho streotsas they dropped from tho wagons, and tho womon and obil dron of tho lower olass and tho negroos flocked to tho doaortod camps to gather up tho orumbo loft by tho soldiers or tho grains iramplod under foot of tho horses. Eaoh house in a slrotoh of 50 milos was ontotod and insulto and indignities offered tho dofor.olrss women which woulu havo shamed tho savage Turk. Ladies woro forood to disoloBO at tho point of tho pistol or tho sabre, tho hiding plaoo of their littlo valuables Sjrao woro forood to cook meals and wait upon the hell hounds, while they regaled thomBolvos upon tho ohoioo viands or medicinal winos of thc plan tors' wives. Bul bo it known to thoir immortal honor, that it was only on ino most raro occasions that tho prond dames of tho South oould, oitbor by throat or brutal troatmont, bo forood to yiold to thoir insolent domando. With tho orders from the soldiers to "proparo a meal" or ''disoloBO tho whereabouts of thoir monoy or valuables," carno tho threat, "Wo will burn your houso if you do not.', But almost invariably carno tho quiok responso, "Burn it burn it, you cowardly wrotohos, and kill mo, if you wish, and all of us, but 1 will never noil my bands by watting upon a cowardly Yankee, nor toll you tho placo of oonooalmont-find it if you ear.." Tho soldiers would question tho negroos to find if thero were any watches, silver plato, or monoy bolong ing to tho houaoliold; if so, they would by a bj stem of icquosition, attempt t) foroo tho women lo givo it up, but in vain. A BRAY? WOMAN. A woman, Mrs. Miller, the wife of a neighbor of mine, had her husband's gold watch in bor bosom, dnd refused io givo it up ff ken demanded, oven wbou a oocked pistol was at her head The vandal struck her a fc tunning blow with tho butt ond of tho pistol-all in vain. Tho bravo he roi no hold to tho heirloom, and stoutly rosistod all on treaties nod thronte. Two old people living near mo, broth er and m aldon sin tor, named Loner, both past threo Booro, wcro asked to givo their money. Thoy had nono. Bat ono of tho ruth sus throw a Tito undor tho bed, tay ing: "I will put it out if you will toll mo Woore you keep your monoy; you havo it, fer I'vo neon so informed." "Lotit burn," answorcd tho obi wo man ; "Do you tbink to frighten or intimidate mo by buming my houso tb&t I will toll what I ohooso to con ooal? Do you think I oaro so muoh for my hottio and its bolongirgi? No, no; you mistake tho wornt n of tho South, you will never conquer her poo plo by . making war upon defonooleas women. Lot tho houso go up in fiamos, and my ashes minglo with its ashos, but I will romain truo to myself, my oountry lind my God." S jon all that wai loft of tho onoo happy homo was a heap of ashos. Will God, in His wisdom, ovor havo causo to again oroato suoh womon as thoso of tho Southland? Or woro there ovor con ditio ns in tho world's history that re quited tho prosonco of suoh noblo mar tyrdom as was displayed by tho wo men of tho South during tho Oivil War? But a Nomosis in thia caso, AS in maoy others, was lurking noar. Bands of Confederates and ooouts had- scat tered thomsolvos on tho flanks and rou ofthoonomy; old mon and boys and dhablod ve tor an* woro lying in wait in many thiokots and out of tho way plaoes, ready to pounce upon tho ua? suspooting frcobootors and givo to them thoir just dosorts. Was it any wonder that so roany hundreds and thousands, of tneso Gotha failed to answer to Sh.no man's last roll oall? Boforo tho sun was many hours oidor; af tor tho burning of tho Loner homostoad, tho dreaded "bunhwhaokors" were on the trail of tho vandals. For yoars aftorwards pooplo, from ourlosity, oamo to look at a hean of boneo in a thickot near, blcaobod j by winton) rain and summor's sun, whilo some of tho older mon, pointing to tho ghostly roiios, would say, "Thoso aro tho romains of 8horm?n,s hougoburn ors." Abd suoh we.ro tho scenes from tho Saltkaliatohio to the Capo Fear, Who woro to blaine ? _ Shorman now dircots his-marou to wards Wi nosh oro and Chou tor,.. still in tho four groat parole burning and plun' dering so they go. It' eoe n s that in thoir m?roh through Georgia thoy woro only whetting thoir appotltos for a full gorgo of vandalism in South Carolina. Af to thoir carnival of ruin in Columbia tho Redor?is, like tho tiger, whioh, with tho tasto of blood, grows mor? rav enous, bs oamo moro dostruotivo tho moro dostruotion thoy saw? Great oloudsof bl a sk smoko roso up ovor tho wholo oountry and darkonod tho sky overhead, while at night tho hoavone wore lit up by tho glato of tho burning buildings. Tho railroad tracks woro torn un mid bridges burnod, tho Iron being laid aorosshoaps of burning ties, then whop at rod ho at, wcro wrapped around treos and telegraph ponts -'-thone last through pure wantonness, . < as on army was in thoir roar that oould ever woo tho ?{fain.'t > - ? .-PP dHoQt./^OjM...,. respondo," nothing could well surpass tho snooimon furnished by tho Pm i tan and tho girl who had won his'atten tions, Biding up to ber bather's house, ho asked her io ba wiled,. VUt&ohoirV'ho said, "tho I/ord hath seht mo te? marry thoo." To whidhtho o^msol, afi?r A moment's pauso, replied, meekly, "Xho Lord's will bo done," i;.* 80MB ?LAIN ?S*? To Sixty-four Leic?iletors Who Voted for ffrec Pause?. Tho following utain talk fruin ?n??r son Maii is commended to tho sixty four members of tho House of ltopro aontativoa Who voted for free passes: And tho house by a voto of 64 to 38 ropeal?d tho nnti-froo. pass laWl j Sixty-four mombcra of tim.. houso want tho railroads to givo them fro o pasaos when tho State glvoB. thom 0 cont?: a milo oaob way and thoy ma ko 2 oonts of that cloar, as tho railroad faro la only 3 oonts a mito, and if they buy a mileage book it is only 'M oonts, so that tboy oan mako half of lt cloar. But ,"hatovcr it ia tho State paja it and moro too, and yot thoao 64 want froo peleaos. For what? The railroads aro willing to givo them-and why? You plain po?plo who work'on your f'.rmii and bu3?t>o8B mon who stand in your places of buainoaa day after day aak yourselves why ' thean railroads sro willing ta givo lhasa fron URBROR and thon givo a plain, common sonto answer to it. Do railroads do buainoaa for tho fut? of the thing? Do thoy not oxpoot roturna cf some port for every investment? And isn't tho giving of froo pasaos an investment? And do not tho railroads know that, these leg ialators may havo to pass on legislation affooting railroads? And don't thoy know that ovory legislator who aooepts a freo pass from thom is to that oxtont under an obligation to thom? Thoy do not oall it bribory or an attempt to buy a man's influonoo or hie voto, ' Oh no, th?y havo a nioor namo for it than that. Thoy oall lt exchanging courte sies. "Courtesies'* is a heap pleasanter word and there is no unpleasant odor about it. ThoBo legislators aro sont thoro to roproBont tho intoroata of tho pooplo and somo of thom havo a hosp to tay about tho "denr pooplo" and "my pooplo" and tho pooplo pay thom for their services, and not only pay thom by tho day but go fernher and pay thom a good allowanoo for travel ing oxponsos in tho sbapo of miloage, and thon they go and ask tho railroads for froo pasaoa. Why should a representative ask for a froo puss? J?an ho bo truo to tho trust reposed io bim when an isauo is joinod botweon tho pooplo and tho railroads? Admit for tho anko of tho argument that ho can, then why should ho put himself in a position to bo nis peotod? A truo ropro8ontativo ought t> bo liko Caesar's wife, above SUB pioion. Wo do not boliovo it ia right for legislators to aooopt freo passes for tho roanon aa atated above that the railroada oxpoot a return of tho cour tesy and a legislator should koop him self freo from any sort of obligation to them-not in any spirit of hostility to thom, but to maintain attitudo of fsirnosa and impartiality. Woori tho Urform movement bogan moro .han 10 y oars ago one of its battle ..ries was "no froo pasaos," and whon Gov. Tillman aoooptod freo p'aaa No. 1 this editor exo'u'latod' h hu mercilessly for aooeptlng it; and tho anti froo pass law followo ' and baa stood for 10 years, and wo havo no doubt that nitio tonlhs of tho pooplo today ondorsoH't yot. If, as tho father of tho bill, Mr Spears, oaid .tho law ia' a'?'I'reflection upon tho integrity of tho jubilo mon ?f tho State, what is to bo said of tho mm who repeal the law and aooopt freo passes? Tho antf-froo paas Taw is, no mor? art?cotion- upon any j ubl?? msn who proposes to do right than tho law against lareony is. a nil action upon good oit is-, ns who intend to .do right. Tho Mail hits tho nail on tho hoad with overystroke. .V A OBS AT ARMY AND N AV Y What Militarism and Imp erial lam will Coat this ' Country. Hero are figures, oompUt d from the latest ft v.iii able Govoi rino nt statistics, showing that the il ailed States ia pay ing a greater (rico for militai ism than any othrr nation on earth, and almoit as mu iii as any two others t<?gotbcr: United States-Army ... .$175 OOO 000 Navy. 78,696,973 Prione. 145.215 2?Q ... . $398,942,103 England-Army.$U>3 085,000 Navy. !.134 975,000 Pensions.'.' 1,407,810 $239 467.840 Franco-Army..'. . . . .$125 855,207 Pension linoluded in above.. 60,720,102 .$186 575 300 Gtrmany-Army. $160.625,200 Navy.33 353,250 Ponsions. . 16,323.000 , ,$210,302.350 Buf aia-Army.. .. '.;,.$159,185';0?? Nar/..-. .....v.-..V.",v41,582;000 $2?0,7li7,000 Auetri%-Army. $72.640,000 Navy.... 9,086.000 . . $B2,626;QOO Italy-Army.>V?.;!. ./$&2*889,000 Navy ..V:. 22.207,000. $78,096^000 And for thia enormous expondituro wo havo a smaller army than any of tho European Powors and a smaller navy than any oxoopt Auatria. Tho statis tioB follows: . ,' , United States-Army,.........100 000 I Navy...!..20,;000; ? . ; - i2o;ooo; ICogUnfl^?rmy.. N?Vy.,,.. .-2M-O00t| *110:640, :>$ ' .364y64Q . Franea-^Army.... ?,4^|M N*vy/V,.....<.^ U-y?.?*f?m m .. . ...^;; ;;:^|;, Gorma}?r~Army.' . ,.;'.'.*..K'?479 Navy........ .W: 20.6511 , ' ' V 605 880*. Hassle*-Army. 883 146 | Navy-.'.. ........ .-87,104 020^310 i " : vii','! ' ii ,\ . C Tho tvmptatloh to plant a largo oottdh crop -viii be groafi And many will not be able to resist lt. A HOftftftft fitAVBRY. A ?ew?pap?r Bays tho Contract labor 8yat? m in ??uoh Abused. ^Tfcsi- ."aeob?r o! thc ; Audc??vu dolosatiou who told Mr. W?lling, at Fairfield, that Nogroos woro bought and scldhoro ou labor contracts oan'doubt loas: * give affidavits in abundance to bstablis)! his statement. It is a niattoV of common roport boro that thia in o nt tautly dono, and it is also a matter of common rumor that many of thom aro shaokolod and put iu stockades and guarded and worked under guard like regular ponviots. From all that wo havo hoard wo do not think it would b) any troub^oto establish tho faot by indisputable tvidonoo. 41Tho ruethtd of proooduro is- about this: A Nogro gets into dobt and breaks his ooo (Mot, a warrant is Swcrn out and ho io ones tod and brought bo lero the roagistrsto or eommitud to jail to await tr?nh I n thc meantime a par ty goos to tbO la id lord and says, "how muoh will it take, to got that NOPTO? ' Tho amount boitg statod, the Nogro is, seen and agrees to. cater into a con tract for eometimos a longer poriod. than a year, tho amount duo tho land lord ?is paid, ?tho papers uro signed and tho Negro is hustled oil u udor guard to a stockade and is kept as soouroly as if rio had been brought boforo a 'inagis trato, tried, oonvioted and eontonood. . "And thoro aro plonty of similar pasos and wo havo hoard at loast one dian Bay "that Nigger is mino, I bought" him and paid for him." And it is mid tho lash ia freely used on those Nogroos. How truo ititi wo do not know, but it has.boon frooly talked of sn tho Btroots that thoro should bo an investigation by t^o grand jury and that, top, by aomo of Sho boBt oitizona of tho county. And tho grand Jury ought tq do it in tho interest of all con cerned. Thc public has an interest lu knowing if those charges aro truo and if they aro uni nu, tho othor parties having a dooper intorcRtin showing that thoy aro uotruo. Wo uinooroly hopo that the presiding judgo at the coming term of oourt will order tho grand jury tomakoa soarohiog investigation and to aso ii quire if tho ooo ts oolloo ted in oases that havo boon compromised havo been turned into, tho county treasury.1' Commenting on tho above tho Flor onoo Times says "tb^o story from tho Anderson Mail concerning tho twen tieth oontury slavery can, no doubt, dad a para" lol in a number of other jountio8. and a number of other etates than ?South Carolina. Io faot it is a uni vernal truth that dobt onslayes, and that whore tho opportunity to oppress is gi von tho ore di tor ho will uso it as Tar as ho osn. 'Tho only way to koop free is to koop out of debt.. Tho lion law, tho labor oontraot l?w and all Lhoso kind of Uws that aro intonded to protoot tho o'editor aro abused to their utmost limit and by m m of whom suoh ? uso wtu'd bo little oxrooted It ia tho Negro that sufforo mostly." Wc do not hoi ie ve that any mob v. condition of ?.flairs existo in this county. Gen. Floyd's History. "il ist or io al Ko s tor and Itinerary of South Carolina Volunteer Troops wno Served in tho Lite War betweoo Sp&in ?nd tho United Statos." Suoh is tho title of a woll conceited and well ar rang.d book rooentiy oompilod by Goo, I. W. Fioyd, adjutant and inspootor general of ?outh Carolina. Purport ing to bo a oompilatioa" only, tho book Qovorthcless ovidonoes muon work and Stoat caro on tho part of tho author l'h?re is a oarofully writ ton sketoh of iho events loading up to tho lato war with Spaip, and of tho d fiu-cnt stops in tho formation of tho commands furn ished by South Carolina to tho volun teer army of tho United Statos, fol lo wed with a biography of Ibo lato Governor t?llorbo and tho lato Col. Josoph K. Alston., Thoro ia a readable aooouat of tho formation, porsonnel and move momts of oaoh of tho oomtnands moa tiopodr-rtho First and Second regiments of .infantry, the heavy bjfttery of arcil lory and tho naval militia., Tho rotter of o ?1 oe rs and mon, gi von by companies, ovidooocs groat onro in tho proj a cation and will doubtloss bo found altogether, aoourato. Tho book contains a number of portraits-iuoluding th?'s? of Gbvor' rior'JHHlorbo, Gen. Floyd, and tho com mb ttibned officers in each command We olip tho above from tho State. Tho book should moot with ready sal > among tho s votora?s of tho Amarieaa-Spanish war. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Meioury ao moroury will mi roly don troy thosoiiBo of sinoll and completely dorango tho. wholo system whoa entering it through tho mucous Burfaoos. Suoh ant ioma1 tijouldnovorbpusod oxoopt on prosoripn tiona from roputablo physicians, as tho. dapSago they Will db is ten fold ta tho good yod oin possibly d?rivo'fiota thom*. ( Hallie Catarrh Ouro, manufaotittiVod by' F. jVChonoy & Ocr: j Tolodo, O , oon .tains-no'"rat roury,- ??d is taken inter ally, noting dircotly upou tho blood and mucous Burfaoos or tho system. Ju buy ing Hall's Catarrh Cute bp euro >ou trot tho genuino. It is taken internally, and mado in To'odo* Ohio, by Fi, ?jF Cheney cVOo. Testimonials, froo. ' Bol? by druggists, prioo 7f>o, por bottle. Hall's Family Pilla are the boat Tho Commoner iiysi. '*A Mattoon, 111., man asks for ?> divioroo. On tho grounds that bo..was, und?r hypnotic influonoo whoa ho wa? marictl. Thoro ?viiibo agravo danger to tho marriage laws if thin contention is' uphold by tad courts. 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