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Dr, Talmagc, in a Tiwoly Dlgcourso, j Declares His BoHef in Them. ?ormon Adapted from tl?? Storr ot ; Simon ?na tho V AsherM-Greatest ????iss?? ?vr, ;?CT?VI??? in an ? . Cm: o ?wo ri o cl Mlnlntiy, [Copyright, 1001, by Louis Klopsen, N. T.] Washington, March 24. ? This discourse ol Dr. Talinage Ks moat pertinent at thin time when n hvldeapread effort for religious awak ening ls being wade; taxi, Luke, verse bi "They inolosed ? great inultitudo ?ol fishes and their net brake." ?iin?n and his oom vadea had experi onos'd tho night before what fishermen ?cali (;poor luok." Christ steps on board ?tho fishing amaok and tells tho sailors .to pull away from the bcaoh and di Jreeta them again to sink the not. Suro ?hough, very soon the net is full of 'fishes, and the sailors begin to haul in. Bo large a school of fishes was taken ?that th? hardy men bogan to look ved jin tho face as they pull, and hardly lhavo they begun to rejoice at their sue bess when snap goeB a threal of the net, and snap goos another thread, so there is danger not only of losing thia fish, but of losing tho net. Without much caro as to how much ?tho boat tilts or how much water is ?plashed on dook the fishermen rush o-b'out, gathering up tho brokon meshes Of tho net. (hit yonder there is a ship dousing on the wave, and thoy hail it: "Bhip ahoy? Bear down this wayl" Who ship comes, and both boats, both fishing smacks, are filled with tho floundering treasures. "Ah." says somo one, "how much better it would have boen if thoy had ntftld on shore and fished with a hook and line and taken one at a timo in stead of having this great excitement and tho boat almost upset and the net broken ahd having to call for help and getting sopping wet with the seal " The church is tho boat, the Gospel is the not, society is tho sea, ami a Crroat revival is a whole school brought n at ono sweep of the not. I have ad miration for that man -who goes out with a hook and lino to fish. I admire the way ho unwinds the reel and ad justs tho bait and drops the hook in n quiet plaoo on a still afternoon and here catches one and there one, but I like also a big boat and a largo crew lind a net a mile long and swift oars and stout"sails and a stiff breozo and a great inultitudo of souls brought-so great a multitudo that you havo got to get holp to draw it ashore, straining tho not to tho ut mont until lt breaks here and there, letting a few esoape, but bringing tho great multitude into sternal safety. In other words, I beliove in revivals. Tho great work of saving men began With 3,000 pooplo joining tho church in one day, and it will close with 40 dr a hundred million people saved in 84 hours when nations shall bo born in a day. But there are objections to re vivals. Peoplo are opposed to them beoause tho net might get broken, and If by tho pressure of souls lt does not pet broken, then they take their own penknives and slit the not. "They in closed a great multitude of fishes, and the net brake." It ls somotimes opposed to revivals of religion that those who oomo into the church at such times do not hold out. As long as there is a gale of bless ing thoy have their .sails up. But as . goon 'an "strong*" winds stop blowing then they drop into a dead caira. But what aro tho faots in the oaso? In all our ohurohes the vast majority of the useful people are those who are brought In under great awakenings, And they hold out. Who are the prom inent men in the United States in iohurohes, in prayer meetings, in Sab bath soho ola? For tho most part they are the product o? great awakenings. . I have noticed that those who are brought into tho Kingdom of God through revivals have moro per sistence and more determination in the Christian life than those who como tn under o low state of religion. Peo ule born In an icehouse may live, but ?hey will, never get over the cold they taught In the icehouse. A cannon ball depends upon tho impulse with which lt starts for how far it shall go and how swiftly, and the greater the re vival force with which a soul ls started the more far-reaching and far-resound ing will be the execution. . Put it is sometimes objected to re vivals that thore is so much excitement that people mistako hysteria for relig ion. We admit that in every revival of religion tUoro is either a suppressed or a demonstrated excitement. Indeed, if a man oan go out of a state of con demnation into a state of ncceptanoe with God or see others go without any agitation of soul he ls in an unhealthy, morbid state and is as repulsive and ab mu d ns a man who Bhould boast he saw a child snatched out from under a horse's hoofs and felt no agitation, or saw a man rescued from the fourth ?tory of ? house on fire and felt no ac celeration of tho pulses. Salvation from sin and death and hell into life and peaoe and Heaven for ever is such a tremendous thing that if a man tells mc he can look on it without any agitation I doubt his Christianity. Tho faot is that some timos excitement ls tho most impor tant possible thing. In case of resus citation from drowning or freezing the one idea is to excite animation. Before conversion we aro dead. It ia "tho business of the church to revive, arouse, awaken, resuscitate, startle Into life. Excitement is bad or good aeoording to what it inakcB us do. Ii lt make us do that which is bad, lt is bad exoltemont, but if it make us agi tated about our eternal welfare, ii it make us pray, if it make UB attend upon Christian service, if it make us ory unto God for mercy, then it is n good excitement. A^Wr?okod Lifo. <Doiporal Harry K. Yoakloy. agod 30, ^nnSue Forty-third company or ooast ar iillory, stationed at Fort Torry, Plum island, diqd Thursday from tho offoote of a doso of wood Aloohol solf adminis tered. Corporal Yoakloy was a physician having,earned his degroo at tho Uni versity of Virginia, and had boon in the onlistod sorvioo only a short time, hie object inontoring tho army having boon to put hirasolf under restrains of mili tary discipline, whiohho bo lie ved would bo benofloial for habits ho had acquired, His body will bo shipped to tho family homo in Winohostor, Va., for burial. Name Changed. Tho name of tho villago of Bing Sii.g has been ohangod to Owing. Tho ro sidonts found that whon thoy wont away from homo and told that they carno from Bing' Sing pooplo ?uspootod (hoy w oro ox-eon vio ts, booauso th** lo cation of tho j New York Stato * c?0o? at ihal place has boen Sing Sing's only olaim to fabio. Bo they potitionod for a ohimgo. Thor?V Homchting in n namo after all when tho name is that of a penitentiary site,-Oolumbia Stato. ' ii ?s BOmetim?? fl?ld that durlntf f? vivait- ?f religion great multitude? ol children and young people uro brough,* into tho oh?roh, and they do not know what they oro about. It has been ruy observation that the earlier people como into the kingdom o? God tho moto UBeful they are. ?tobert Hall, the prince ot prfcaohers, waa converted wt 18 years of age. Ii la likely he knew .what he was about. Matthew Henry, tho commentator, who did moro than any mon ol his century for increasing the interest In the study of the Scrip* tures, was converted ot ll years of aget Isabolla Graham, immortal in tho Christian church, waB converted ot ten years of ago; Dr. Watts, whoso hymns will be sung all down tho ogoB, was converted at niuo years of ago. Jona than Edwards, perhaps the mightiest intellect that tho American pulpit over produced, was convorted at seven years of agc, and that' father and mother take an awful responsibility when they tell their ohild at seven years of age: "You aro too young to be a Christian," or "You are too young to connect* yourself with the ohuroh." Tl mt is a mistako as long as eternity. If during a rovival two persons pre sent themselves as candidates for the church and tho ono is ten years of ago and the other is 40 years of ago, I will have more confldenco in the profession of religion of tho ono ton years of ago than tho ono 40 years of age. Why? Tho ono who professes at 40 years of ago has 40 years of impulso in tho wrong direction to correct, and tho child has only ten yearn in the wrong direction to correot. Four times ton are 40. Four times tho religious pros peot for tho lad that comes into tho kingdom of Qod and into tho church at ten years of ago than the man nt 40. I am very apt to look upon rovlvnla as connected with certain m'en who fostered them. Pooplo who in this doy do not Uko revivals novortheless have not words to oxprcss their admi ration for tho revivalists of tho paBt, for they woro revivalists-^Jonathan Edwards, John Wesloy, Georgo Whit field, Fletcher, Griffin, Davies, Os borne, Knapp, Nettleton, Moody and many others whoso natnes come to my mind. Tho strength of their in tellect and tho holinosB of their lives mako mo think they would not have had anything to do with that whioh was ephemeral. Oh, it is easy to tnlk against revivals! A man said to Mr. Dawson: "I like your sermons very muoh. but tho aitor meetings I despise. When tho prayer meeting begins, I always go up into tho gallery and look down, and I am disgusted." "Well," Bald Mr. Dawson, "tho reason is you go on tho top of your neighbor's house and look down his chimney to exam ino his firo, and of courso yqu get only smoke in your eyoB. Why don't you oome in the door and sit down and warm?" Oh, ,1 am afraid to say anything against revivals of religion or against anything that looks liko them, be cause I think it may bo a sin against tho Holy Ghost, and you know tho Eiblo says that a sin against tho Holy Ghost shall never be forgiven, neither in this world nor the world to come, Now, if you aro cv painter and I speak against your pioturcB, do I not speak against you? If you aro an archi tect, and I speak against a building you put up, do I not speak against you? \l a revival be tho work of the Holy Giiost, and I spoalc against that rovival, do I not speak against the Holy Ghost? And whoso speaketh against the Holy Ghost, says tho Biblo, ho shall never bo forgiven, neither in this world nor in the world to oome. I think sometimes peoplo have made a fatal mistako in this di rection. Now I come to tho real, genuino cause of objection to royivals. That is the coldness of the objeotor. It is the secret and hidden but unmistak able cause in every ease,.a low state of religion in tho heart. Wido awake, consecrated, useful Christians aro ': never afraid of revivals. It is the spiritually dead who are afraid of having their sepulcher molested. Tho chief agentB of the devil during a great awakening are always uncon verted professors of religion. As soon as Christ's work begins they begin to gossip against it and take a pail of water and try to put out this spark of religious influence, and they try to put out another spark. Do they succeed? As well when Chicago was on Aro might somo ono havo gone out with a garden water pot tvying to extinguish it. The difficulty is that when a revival begins In a church it begins nt so many 'points that while you have doused one anx ious soul with a pail of. cold water thero are 500.other anxious souls on Uro, Oh, how much better it would be to lay hold of tho charlot of Christ's Gospel and help pull it on rather than to fling ourselves in front of tho wheels, trying to block their progress. YVo will not stop the charlot, but wo ourselves will be ground to powder. But I think, after all, the greatest obstaelo to revivals throughout Christendom is an unconverted minis try. We must believe that the vast majority of thoso who offlolate at sacred altars are regenerated, but I suppose there may float into the ministry of all tho denominations of Christians men whoso hearts have never been changed by grace. They ave all antagonists to revivals. How did they got fnto tho ministry? Per haps some of them chose lt as a re spectable profession. Perhaps some of them wore sincere, but wore rals I taken. As Thomas Chalmers said, he had been many years preaching the Gospel before his heart had been ! changed, and as many ministers of i the Gospel declare they were preach ing and had been ordained to Adored 1 orders years and years before their I hearts were regenerated. Graolous i God, what a solemn thought for thoso i of us who minister at the altarl With the present ministry in the Sorgt. Jasper's Company. Tho Columbia State says in tho valu able "rubbish" at tho State houao thoro has rooently boen found tho original company roll of tho company of whioh Sorgt. Jasper of Fort Moultrie famo was a mom ber. Tho roll not onlygivos tho namo of oaoh commissioned offioor but of oaoh private in tho company. It alco givos tho dato of enlistment and dis charge, and has oomploto marginal notos. This is rogar dod as ono of tho most valu able finds among tho Stato's revolution ary reoords yet mado. A Good Suggestion. Tho Atlanta Journal says in Rhode Island thero is an avorago of ono di vorce for evory eight marriages, A good doal of usoloss formality and exponr might bo savod by moroly adopting u sort of probationary system whereby couple? oan tako each other, not for hot tor or for worse, but until they oan find out tho difforcnoo- on trial, as it wore-without oalling for the snoia raont of marrlago until thoy aro suro about it. Certainly tho poroentago of "sticks" could not bo any less than un der tho present comeoasy-goeasy sys* tem. fjfM?Mi'temperatura .?* piety, tMa fand trill toey?r bb etivelop.?d-withre viv?la. Whllo th? pews oit ono sida tho altar ory for morey, tho pulpit? on tho other .alda-of'tho ojtar must Minister? trying to pull cooli ojthor down. Ministers struggling for eccle siastical place. Ministers, lctharglo with wholo congr?gations dying on their hands. What a spectacle I During our civil war the president of the United States mndo proclama tion for 75,000 troops. Sonic of you remember the big stir. But tho King of tho universo to-day asks for 1,300,000,000 moro troops than, aro en listed, and wo want it dono softly, Imperceptibly, no excitement, ono by one. You aro n dry goods merchant on a largo scale, and I am a merchant on a ?mall scale, aud I como to you and want to buy 1,000 yards ot cloth. Do you say: ?'Thank you. I'll ?ell you 1,000 yards of cloth, but I'll sell you 20 yards to-day and 20 to-morrow and 20 the next day, ond If it takes me six months I'll sell you the whole thousand yards. You will want a? long as that to examino the goods, and I'll want as long as that to exam ino the orcdlt, and besides that 1,000 yards of cloth is too muoh to sell nil at once?" No; you do not say that. You tako mo into the counting-room, and in ten minutes the whole transac tion is consummated. Tho fact is wo cannot afford to bo fools in anything but religion. That very merchant who on Satur day afternoon sold me the thousand yards of cloth at one stroko the next Sabbath in church will stroko ? his beard and wonder whether it w?j*ld hot bo better for a thousand nonie to como straggling along for ten years Instead of bolting in at one service. It seems to mo as if Qod is prepar ing tho world for some quick and universal movement. A celebrated electrician gavo rae a telegraph chart of tho world. On that chart tho wires crossing the continents and tho cables tinder tho sea looked like veins red with blood. On that chart I seo that tho headquarters of thc lightnings aro in Great Britain and tho United States. In London and Now York tho lightnings aro stabled, waiting to bo harnessed for some quick dis patch. That shows you that tho tel egraph is in tho possession of Chris tianity. It is a significant fact that the man who invented tho telegraph, was an old-fashioned Christian, Prof. Morse, and that the man, who put tho tele graph under tho sea was an old-iash ioncd Christian, Cyrus W.'Field, and that tho president of Iho most fa mous of tho telegraph companion of this country was an old-fashioned Christian, William Orton, going from tho communion table on earth straight to his home in Heaven. Vf hat does all that mean? I do not suppose that tho telograph waa Invented morely to let us know whether flour ia up or down or which horso won the race at tho Derby or which marksman beat at the latest contest. I suppose the telegraph was inventen and built to call tho world to God. In nomo of the attributes of the Lord wo seem to sharo on a small neale. For instance, in His love and His kindness. But until of late fore knowledge, omniscience, omnipres ence, omnipotence, seem to have been .excluslvoly God's possession. God", de? airing to make tho race Uko Himself, glvoB us a species of foreknowledge in tho weather probabilities, givcB us a species of omnisclenao in telegraphy, gives us a species of omnipresence lu the telephone, gives us a species of omnipotence in tho steam power. Dis coveries and inventions all around about us, people aro asking what next? I will, tell you what next. Next, a stupendous religious movomont. Next, tho end of war. Next, tho crash of despotism. Noxt, the world's expurga tion. Next, tho Christlike dominion. Next, tho judgment. What becomes of tho world after that I caro not. It will have suffered and achieved enough for ono world. Day it up in the dryd?cks of eternity, Uko an Old man of war gono out of service, or flt it up like a Constellation to carry bread of rcliof to some other suffering planet or let it be demolished. Fare well, dear old world, that bogan with paradlso and ended with judgment conflagration.. Last summer I stood on tho Isla of Wight, and I had pointed out to mo the place where tho Eurydico sank witlf200 or 3Q0 young men who wore in training for tho British navy. You remember when that training ship went down there was a thrill of horror all over the world. Since then thoro was another training ship missing. Tho Atalanta, gone down with all on board. By order of her majesty's gov ernment vossols went cruising up and down tho Atlantic trying to And that lost training ship in Which thero were so many young men preparing for the British navy. Alas, for the lost Atalanta! Oh, my friends, this world is only a training ship I On it we are training for Heaven. Tho old ?hip sails up and down the ocean of im mensity, now through the dark waves of midnight, now through the goldon crested wavo of the morn/but sails on and sails on. After awhile hor work will be done, and the inhabitants of Heaven will look out and And a world missing. The cry will be: "Whore ls that earth where Christ died and the human race was emanci pated? Send, out fleets of angels to find the missing craft." Let them sail up and down, cruise up and down the oaean of eternity, and they will catch not ono glimpse of her mountain mast? or her topgallants of floating cloud. Gone down! The training ship of a world perished in tho last tornado. ' Oh? let it not be that BIIO goes down with all on board, but rather may it be said of her passengor?, AB lt was said of the drenched passengers of the Al exandrian corn fillip that crashed into tho breakers ?f Melita: "They all as caped safe to land I" A Horrible Grime. A horrible orimo carno to tho light Thursday whoa John Favalona and his daughtor, Annie, woro disoovorod oold in death in .hoir homo on Ferdito stroot, New Orloans. Both had boon murdered by burglars during Wodnos day night. Tho burglars rnnnnokod tho promises after killing thoir viotims. Favalona kopt a grooery and fruit stand and olosod up his plnoo about 10 o'olook Wednesday night. When ho did not opon Thursday morning noighbors forced thoir way in and disoovorcd tho orimo. A True Girl. Dollie ?3. Wilkins, tho adopted daughtor of Mrs. Sarah E. Wilkins, a rioh and eooontrio widow living near Atohison, Kansas, losos an. estato valued at $75,000 booauao sho married tho man sho loved. She was married a row days ago to Gtoorge Woods, ?tho son of Jamos Woods, a farmer, against, tho wishes of Mrs. Wilkins, and tho widow now announoos ?that her adopted daughtor, who was her solo heir, will not reooivo a penny of hor fortune. Tho girl is 20 and her husband is 20 years hor senior. i Brough: to Memory by tho Death of Judg? Wallach ?N ?XC?T?NO PERIOD. The Stirring Events of 1876 Rom? Inesoenoe*. ef th? Wallace Mouse Hampton's Trib ute to Wall?? ce. Tho Columbia State says no tributo to the memory of Goo. Wallaoo could bo moro gratifying to his loved ones than tho kind expressions from G on. Wado Hampton, who wat ohed Goa. Wallace's oarcor in tho war and who was Govornor at the timo that Judge Wallaoo was lcador of tho Democratic ?I0U60 of Representativos in 1876 To a representativo of Tho Statb Gen. Bampton expressed his regret at tho death of Gon. Wallaoc. Ho said that "Gen Wallace's groat soldierly quali ties wero testified to by bis rapid and deserved promotion; that his eminence as a legislator is a mattor of biitory and th At his broad judioia) mind quali ficd 1 tm to presido in tho dignified, ablo ) J turner whioh characterized his long, true and faithful sotvioo on tho bonoh. I sinooroly rcgrot his death," concluded Gen. Hampton. Gen. Robert ll Homphill, of Ahbo ville, who was a member of tho Wal lt oiHoufeo, speko thus of Judgo Wal lace: "My iirrt aoquaintanoo with Judgo Wallaoo was in 1876 wron bo bpoauao Spoaker of tho historic HOUBO of Representativos whioh has nineo that timo boon known as tho Wal laoo Hou o Ho was tho right man for that cntioal timo. His oourago, judg ment and discretion saved tho State from many evils. If ho had not boen perfectly sel'-posseBOod svhon tho Stato Ho uso was. Grat entered a COL ll io t would havo ensued and &ll our poople would havo bo?omo inv lvcd. Tho samo is tiuo of tho limo whon tho Houso was oom pilled to quit tho Stato House. Ho was an excellent prosiding ofiioov. impartial in his rulings and quiok in his decisions. Thoao who sorvod with him will hoar of his death . with pro found sorrow. Ho was a bravo and patriotic soldier, a learned lawyer, an honorablo counsellor and a just judgo*. Tho Stato has lost ono of her noblest sons." Tho doath of Gon. Wa laco r.eilis vividly to tho minds of not a'fow tho oxoiting soonos enaotod while South Carolina was in tho bands of a dual government. Mr. John, S. Vernor, master of Rushland County, was a mimbor of tho Wallaoo House, - repre senting Goonoo County. He pt-y s a high tributo to tho oharaotor of Judgo Wallaoo. "That go ti tlc mm, ho says, was ono of tho most oven tem pored men this Stato produced in tho closing years of tho last oontury. In all the (xoi'.omont, when tragedy .' brooded ovor tho law-making assemblies, Gon. Wallaoo was oool, determined and in full possession of tho situation." Itofer ring to tho injidonts of that time, Air. Vorner gavo a running statomont cs to tho pnnoipal happenings. In tho general cleotion of 1876 tho Dem?crata elected a largo numbov of representatives lo tho Gonerai Assem bly, whioh had formerly hoon ovor-J whelmiugly ltepublionn. Tho oleotion of tho delegations from Er'gefiold and Laurons bounties was oontostod, how ever. Tho Stato Dornt oratio oxeoutivo oommittco urged tho Democratic mem bers ol cot to roport to Columbia prompt ly. This was dono and tho night bo lero tho assembling of tho Legislation tho Dcmooratio representativos mot in Clark's hall atdinoauom nominated tho following ticket: W. H. Wallaoo,. Union,Spoaker; Jno.T. Sloan, Sr Rich land, olork; W. B. Williams, of Yoik, reading oleark; and John Brown, Barn well, sorgoant at arms. Tho negro seorotary of State, Hayno, had in the meantimo refused to grant oortifioatos of oleotion to tho Domo oraotio COD tosteos from Edge field and Lamons. Tho Republicans gathozod in tho Stato capitol tho day tho Gen eral Assembly was called to order and ole ot ed JO W. Maokoy, of ?b arl est ou, Spoaker. Tho Dtmcorats in a body, headed by the Elgofield and Laurons d?l?gations marohed to tko Stato capi tal, but woro rofused admission. Whereupon John C. Sheppard, of Edge fiold, delivered a protest. Tho oapitol building was in ohargo of Fed eral troops oemmandod hy Gen, Buger. Tho Democrats then marohod baok to tho Carolina hall, whioh is now stand ing, in the roar of Richland County oouit house and behind tho stores on Main streot. This building is historio in many ways, having boen built of briok still hot from tho smoking rains of Colombia in 1865, In this hall tbe Dcmooratio members, constituting a quotum (though not a mt-Jority) of the General Assembly, procoedod to elect tho ticket nominated in oauous tho night beforo. Tho Sonato, whioh was oonoeded to bo Ropubltoan, was noti fied of tho organisation at Carolina hall, but took no notioo of tho body and reoognized th? Ropublioan Houso, whioh was in session at the Stato oapi tol. From this tho Dcmooratio Houso brought notion in tho Stato supremo oourt to mandamus Hayno, tho soore tary of Stato, to iesuo oleotion oortift oates to the Domoorats from Edgoflold I and Laurens. The Domoorats won i their point. Thon at tho suggestion of tho Stato Domooratio oxeoutivo.oornmlt too tho Wallaoo House deolded to get oontroi of tho hall of tho Houso of Rep resentativos. Gon. Huger agreed to intorposo no martial intorferonoo if tho Domoorats would oonduot themselves peaceably. Howovor, although admission to tho building was obtained, it was neoos sary to pass tho portals of tho legisla tivo hall. Strategy and for co wore both brought into play. Tho Radical Houso was to nsnomblo at noon on Thursday. Tho Domoorats, singly and by baok streots, made thoir way to tho Stato oapitol and obtained admission. Tho Radioals were not ex pecting this movement. Howovor. tho negro sorgoant at-arms, a burly fellow, attempted to provont entrance at tho swinging doors of green baizo. Col. Jamos T.. Orr, of Anderson, thrust him to ono sido. In tho soufilo Mr. John 8. Vernor soramblod through the logs of tho combatants and snatched tho door opon. Tho Domoorats ' thou filed In and Gon. Wallaoo took tho spo&ker's ohal? This was a fow minutes boforo 12 o'olook. When tho hour of noon ar? rivod tho Ropublioan Houso of?lolals attomptod to got their floats, but were refusod. They obtained onairs, how over, and eat beside thu Domooratio ofli cora. From Thursday until Monday at hoon the dual goYornmont . oontinucd thus, two Bp cakora, twoolorks, two of ovory omeo?, Dating that timo no bei?oorot loft tho hall fot fear that ho tibold,not gain roaoraisBion. Food .waa: brought by friends, and tho Demo cratic legislators slept in tho hall. .Ka Domoorat would rho to address Speaker Wallaoo a Radical would ad dress Speak er Mackey, and both mern hors would speak at tho samo time, *??h tryirg drown out thu other. No businoss was tranaaoiod or attempted? ?In tho menu ti mo four negroes carno over to tho Democratic standard, Hamilton and Myers, of Beaufort; Wostborry, of Sumter; Boston, of New berry, and anothor from Fairfield. Hamilton was tho first to mako a break. He is said to havo boon a negro of intelligenoo and moans. Ho walked into tho hall faultlessly attired in broadcloth. Laying his beaver hat and gold headed oano on his desk, and displaying his revolvor, whioh ho abm laid olos? at hand, he addressed Judgo Wallaco as uMr. Speaker." Tho no grooB orowded around him enraged. Tho whito men also surged up towards his de ak. "Whom did ho moan to nd drossas'Mr. Socakor?' " Tolling tho negroes to stand baok, Hamilton kept thom at bay with bis pistol and said that as aoon as quiet was rostorod bo would explain whom ho moant. Tho cager crowd fell baok and tho nogro tbon proclaimed why ho would uphold tho deoont political party and would align himself with tho Democrats. Tho following Monday at noon on tho ad vi co of Judgo Walla co tho Domo orat io Houso abandonod tho hall of tho Houso of ?lei rosen? nt ive s and wont baok to Carolina hall. This was dono for a reason that no good oould bo ac complished by remaining and it was feared tl at tho torriblo strain on tho poopto would bo followed by disaster unless tho tension bo relaxed. Having now, with tho njgrenrooruits, a olear majority as well as a quorum, tho 'Wallaoo Houso olooted Gon. M. C. But lar to ho United Su to a Senator. A stand was built in front of Carolina hall, thoro boing n 3 buildings botweon that spot and Main Street, and thoro Gon. Hampton was inaugurated Govcr nor, tho oath boing administered by J. Q Marshall, a Demooratio trial justice, now Senator from Richland oounty. Tho Republicans oleotod D. T. Cor bin to tho United States Sonato. Cor bin was an alion, but a vory oapablo lawyer. No business waa transacted, no laws onaotod. Resolutions woro discussed by tho threo several branches of thc General Assembly meeting daily. Dr. James Woodrow voluntarily did tho /'printing of tho Wallaco Hauso, but was afterwards repaid. Just boforo Christ 'mas tho Radioal Hcuso adjourned and tho Wallaoo Houso followed suit. Tho oxpciiEos of tho Wallaoo Houso woro met by voluntary SCTV?OOS of tho mom hors and by voluntary contributions (from patriots. } Tho next spring affairs woro ohaotio. 'The Domoorats rofusod lo pay taxes to (Lladioal oounty oflioials, but mado a contribution to tho Hampton govorn mont. When Rutherford B. Hayes bo limo President Mardi 4th, ho with drow tho United States troops from South Carolina and tho backbone of tho Radioal party waa gono. D. H. Cham berlain, Re publican Governor, abdio.it ed, and Wado Hampton, tbo bero and idol of the Demoorats, oooupied tho exooutivo office at the Stato oapitol. A special session of tho Goneral A'sombly >wnn oallcd, and as there wen no funds (for tho cXponocs of tho Radicals, the Mackey Houso vt ai dissipated, Ho ff ovor, thoro woro many Republican no igroos who aat in tho Loghlaturo after /tho Wallace Houso gained full eontrol, bcoauso tho oountics whioh they :??proBonted woro undoubtedly Republi can.. W. D. Simpson, Of Luirons, had al ready boon ?worn in as Lioutonant Governor. Whon Chamberlain gave way to Hampton. Greaves, tho nogro Lioutonant Governor, gavo way to Mr. Simpson. Groaves tried to foroo Gov. Simpson to to take tho oath of offioo. Gov. Simpson, H veiling with indigna lion, rcpliod: "Tho Senato will oorao to order. I havo taken tho oath of e fuco onoo, and no power on oarth can make mo tako it again." Thoro was no dramatic scono after this announooment, but quiot was after some difficulty rostorod and Gov. Simp son did not tako tho oath as proposod by the nogro. Gen. Mart W. Gary was a member of the Sonato and defiod tho nogro Senators to disputo Gov. Simp son's rigbt to tho office. Gov. Simpson was elootod ohiof jus tico of the Stat? supremo oourt and Jotor, of Union, bcoamo Lioutonant Governor. Gon. Wallaoo, tho presid ing offioor of tbo Houso, was oho from Union. Whon Gen. wallaoo tho pre siding officorof the Houso, was olovatod to tho oirouit bon oh in 1877, John C. Sheppard, after an interesting contest with Jas. L. Orr, booamo Sp0akor of tho Houso. Mr. Sheppard afterwards marriod Gon. Wallace's daughtor. None but a man of highest attain ments, dolioato taot. supremo oourago and indomitable will oould havo bcon Speaker of tho Demooratio Houso of 1876 and such a man W. H. Wallaoo is dcolarod by all who served with him. Committed Suicido. A dispatch from St. Goorgcs to Tho Stato says "a tragedy has boourrod in our midst, and ono whioh, undor tho particular circumstances by whioh it was occasioned, oauaos tho sympathy of tho ontire community tobo extondod to the boroavod onos. It was a suioido, Mr. Carnoy Gaskins, an old and re speotod ci ti/on, precipitated the end of hisoxistonoo of his own volition Wed nesday afternoon about 5 o'olook. Mr. Gaskins was just omvalosoont from a protracted spoil of sovoro illnoBS. On tho aftornoon of tho suioido was tho first time that ho darod vonturo out of doors for months. Ho managed to mako his way to a s toro nearby his pla 00 of rosidor.co, and from its propriotor proourod a pistol undor tho protonso that ho donirod to kill a dog or oat whioh was annoying him at his homo. His wifo, becoming alarmod at his longthy abner, oj from tho houso, insti tuted a soaroh and found him in ono of tho outhouse? in tho roar of thoir rosidonoa, with lifo oxtinot, with a wound in tho hoad, infioitod by a re volver, * whioh was grasped tightly in tho loft hand. Tho ball enterod on tho left aldo of tho faoo, a littlo aboyo tho tempi 1. passing through tho head and embedding itself in a bundlo of foddor wh'oh was boncath his head. It io pre sumed that he was driven to tho daring and rash ?ot from dospondonoy, pro duood by protraotod suffering from a chronic disease. The nnoxpootod co eur ro?o 0 has proved almost fatal to Gaskin's wifo, and she has boon at tho point of death from nervous prostration ovor sinoe. ' ;. ". ', . Murdered*a Little Boy. Near Six Milo, W. Va,. Thursday Charles' Coro, 20 voars old, shot and killed a 7-yoar-old son of John Hagar and sorionsly woundod tho fathor be oaunQ some ono had stoned his horno, Ho osoapod to Kontuokv. A BEAUTIFUL POEM. .Bivouac of the Dead/' Groat* et Martial Eulogy Ever Written. IT? ADAPTION WORLD-WIDE. Written by Theodore O'Hara In Comm?moration of the Gal lantry of the. Ken tucky Soldiery. . I Liku Provldenop, La , Bannor? Demoorat. J Having latoly soon a bosutifnl trib ute to Theodoro O'Hara, author of tho immortal poora, "Tho Bivouao of tho Dead," and aa O Hara was my personal friend and assistant in tho Adjutant Gcnrral'H (fBoo of tho Kcntuoky di vision, oommar,dod by Me jor Gonoral Brocket ridgo, I take plcasuro in send ing you an extract from tho article with tho full poom, whioh I havo car, ried in my notebook ovorsinoo tho war. It is worthy of rooord that thia son of tho oouth produced tho ono perfect and universal martial eulogy that tho world hts known and that tho couth has been absolutely unmindful of this faot. Tho first of thoso atatemonts is provon by tho faot that without any advertisement or exploitations, tho wondorful words have, in tho fifty years nineo thoy woro wi itt on, per meated tho wholo world, and boon laid hold on by English-speaking pooplo overywhoro, to oslebrato thoir honored dead who passed away in battlo. Upon (Ji i me au battlefields, tho. renting plaoo of Eoglhh boreen is marked hy a great monument, on whioh chinos O Dara's matohless words, and yot Eoglaad did not know from whom sho borrowed I when sho wroto them: "On /arno's eternal camping ground Thoir eilont tents aro aproad, And glory guards, with no'onm round, Thc bivouao of tho doad." Perhaps tho anonymous oharaet-er of tho poom. was a blousing, nineo it is doubtful if tho Fcdoral gove rom mt of tho United States would havo usod tho lines in mol? lavish fashion in im mortalizing tho dead of tho Union Army, had they boen recognized aa tho produot of tho genius of a soldior and officer of tho otbor sido. In any oaso, tboy did not know, and ovory national oomotery in America has gainod .thoro by, mimo thoy aro not only tho most approx riato but tho only appropriate linos for such a purpose. Over tho ga to way bf tho national oomotery at Washington tho famous first stanza io engraved, and thoro, au at Antietam and other national oome terics tho cntiro poem is roproduocd, stanza by stanza, on Blabs plaocd along tho driveway. O'Hara lies in tho burying ground at Frankafort, Ky., with only tho uno in tiuu en a simple Blab of marblo which Bays: Thoodoro O Hara, Mojor A. D 0. Died Juno 6, 1867 Btlow is a oopy of his poem ia full, written on oooasion of the , removal ot tho Kentucky doad from Mexioo to their native Stato aft<r tho war with that country. Johu A. Buck nor. THE DIVOUA0 OV THE DE AU (Writton by Thoodoro O'Hara in 1847.) Tho muffled drum's ead roll bas boat Tho soldier's last tattoo; No ni oro on lifo' n parade nh all meot That bravo and fallon fow On famo's e ornal camping ground Their eilont tonte aro apron i, And glory guards, with Bolemu round, Tho bivouao of the dead. No rumor of tho foe's a I vaneo, Now swells upon tho wind: No troubled thought at midnight haunts Of lovod ones left behind; No vieion of tho morro n's strifo Tho warrior's dream alarms: No braying horn nor soroaming fifo At dawn shvll oall to arms. Thoir shivered swords are red with nut, Their plumed hoads aro bowed; Their haughty banner, trailed in duet, ' ls now thoir martial shroud, And plonleous funeral tears havo washed The rod etaina from oaoh brow, And tho proud forms, by batt'o gashed, Are froo from anguish now. Tho neighing troop, tho flashing blade, The bugle's stirring blast; Tho obargo, the dreadful cannonade, Tho diu and shout, aro passed; ' Nor war's wild noto nor glory's poal thall thrill with fierce delight These breasts that nevermore may fool The rapture of the fight. Like tho fierce, northorn-hurrlcane That Bwoeps his groat plateau, Flushed with tho triumph yet to gain, Came down the sorriod foo. Who hoard the thunder of tho fray Droak o'or tho field boneath, Know woll tho watchword of that day Was "viotory or death." Lui g had tho doubtful con iliot ragod 0 or all the itiiok.cn plain, For novor fioroor fight had waged The vengeful blood of Spoin; And still the storm of battle blew, . Still Bwolled the gory (ide; Not long our stout old ohioftala knew Buoh odds his strength could bide. 'Twa? in that hour this stern command Called to a martyr's gravo Tho flower of hia beloved land, Theiiation's flag to savo. Dy rivers of thoir fathers' gore ' ill? first born laurels grew, And well ho deemed tho BOOB would pour Thoir lives for glory, too. Full many a norther's breath hos swept O'er Angostura's plain And long tho pitying sky has wept Abovo Ito mouldered slain. Thc raven's, soretun er eagle's flight, Or shepherd's ponalvo lay Alone awakes oaoh sullen height That frowned o'or that dread fray ful. Sons of tho da.-k and bloody ground, Yo must not slumber thore, ' Where stranger stops and tongues resound Along the heedless air. -. Your own proud land's heroic Boil Shall bo your fitter grav?; Oho olaims from war his riohost spoil The ashes of her brave. Thus 'neath their par ont turf thoy rest, Far from the gory fi old, Homo to a Spartan mother's breast On many a bloody shield j The sunshine of thoir native sky Smiloi sadly on them boro, And kindred o jr cu and houls watoh by Tho horoeV sopulohre. liest on, embalmed and sainted dead j Dear as the blood we gave} No impious foot ?topo here shall tread The herbage of your grave; Nov shall your glory bo forgot While famo ber record keops; Or honor paint tho hallowed spot Where valor proudly sloops; Yon marblo ndnnlrol'n voloetoSB stone In deathless tong shall tell, When many a vanished ago hath flown, Tho ?tory how ye fell. Nor wreck, nor ohango, nor winter's bl Nor time's rotnoraolcs? doom, Shall dint one ray of glory's light That glides your deathless tomb. "THOU L?Mfi OF CALVARY." How ft Qreat Hymn Wa? Mad? by ? Youppr Man of Yole, Ono d?y duriug tho wintor'of 1830 a young nun, s graduate fro ra Y???, ??t down in his room Sn ibo oity of Now Ycrkand with 03 cs'fillcd with toar? wro'o in Ms pocket m<!!!?randuni*book font simple eUnzRS, whiob, ho aaid, "wcro born - of ray own soul." Two yoara la ter, Dr. Lowoll Mason composed for thoso ntnc/.aa tho beautiful tuno Olivet lo which tho hymn is still sung, and it ia oortainly ono of tho mcnt piooious oontrihutions which Amaioau goniuB has mudo to tho hymnology cf tho Christian;ohuroh. lt reads thus: .?My hlth looks to Theo, Thou Lamb of Cn!vary, Saviour Divine: Now hoar mo whilo I pray, Take all my guilt away, 0 let n o from thia day ll? wholly Thine." Thia hymn of redemption, which sprung from a devout soul, begins in ponitonco, but ends in praise, and With a glorious assurai, 00 of hep?; and how many a penitent, whilo hearing or uttering thoso word?, has found pardon and poaooin bolkvingl Bowing boforo a ?ruo'fiod Saviour and kok to Him alono, bia cry io: "Tftko all my s'ns away," and "U lot mo from thU day Be wholly Thine." ;.? ';.' . .; '?? ' ?. ,..'":\> ,ii;{v'> ?I Tho oar nc ?In CHI of that ory of faith fiada a roepomu in tho bosom of ii.finito mcroy, aiid tho praying soul obtains strength. He ia inspired with a puro, warm, aod changeless love for tho lt ) dcemoi-"a living fire." Then, looking forward, ho sees that Gethsemane boura aro boforo him, when tho cup t-f bitterness niait bo pressed (0 hid lips, and whilo t-u roan lod with clouds of dLouragetnont and tempta tion ho pr?yn: "Bo Thou my guide; Bid darkuoas iura t d*y, Wipo sorrow's toara away, Nor let mo over siray From Theo asido." Yet thero is ono moro valley, darker than any passed before, lt it tho ono in which tnds lifo's transient dream, and through which rolla death's cold, Billion sircom; and as his littlo baiquo is born swiftly toward tho "whito anita eternity," bis last tiiumphant words aro: "B'osod Saviour, then, in love, Foar And distrust remove; O boar mo aafo above-> . A ranaamed soull" Thero ia moro Catarrh in thia scotion of the oouairy- than all other diseases put together, and until tho last few yoars was supposed to bo inourablo. For a groat many years dootors pro nounood it a looal disoaso, and pref crib ed looal rouiedies, and by Constantly failing to euro with local treatment, pronounced it inourablo. Sj'onco has provon oatarrh to bo a constitutional (1 isca 0, nnJthoreforo requires constitu tional treatment. Hall a Catarrh Cure, mtnufaolurod by F. J Ohenoy & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is tho only constitutional euro on thomaikot. 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