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" Do thou Groat Liberty Inspire our Souls and make our lives in thy possession happy, or our Deaths Glorious in thy Just Defence." YOI.. XII. I1 111 -1 NO.-8. lAJYJiN I? KUM A DIVE Whore 6ho Had Bion P.nc*d by a Blind Bapgar, WHQ SEEMS TO BE A FRAUD The Ti mn ly Reacut of a Litll? White Obi From a Notor ? out Negro D?n In Charieaton. Tho Charleston Poet, of Thursday Bays Nancy Juno MoAtoor, a young whito girl, aged 10 years, whoso homo IB in Ohoator, 8. O, was Thursday morning taken out of F. Capora'roatnu rant oh Matkot stroet hy tho polioo. Tho girl had boon plaood thoro by Robert Sumnor, a blind whiteman, who wan fined in tbo Heoordors' Court on tho ohargo of being drunk and for lar oouy of clothing from Anna Stewart, 111 Cumberland Btroot. Tho plaoo kopt by Capers, who is a negro, in a notorious divo, and ia in i-ho v?ry iioart of tho toughest and rnoBt wiokod sootion of Markot Ktrcot. It is frequented by all aorta of vilo mon and wounn and ia no plaoo for a young . whito girl. Capera haB frequontlv boon boforo tho grand Jury on tho ohargo of Bollltlg'liquor and haa alao appeared bo foro tho ~Itcoordor on tho ohargo of koopiog a gambling divo. As Boon as it booamo known at polioo hcadquartera that tho MoAtoor girl waa living jn thia notorious resort, Lieut. Dunn, tho offioor of thc day, sent an officer to tho plane and had h.or brought to tho station bouao. Sho seemed glad to got out of tho plaoo and exproasod a desire to return to hor homo in OhcBtor, whore her mother and father live. Stop? will bo takon to havo hor Bent to her homo. In tho moantimo aho will be oared for by tho Floronoo Crittonton ? Homo, as M?GB Thorin, tho matron of that institution, fcaa conaentcd to tako ohargo of tho girl whilo arrangomontu aro being made to havo hor roturncd to her people. Sho was sont to tho Grit tonton Homo. ?' Tho ohild waB Boon at tho polioo sta tion shortly boforo being sont to tho Crittonton Homo. Sho ia a bluo-oyod, flaxon-haiiod girl, and is exoeod ingly bright for a ohild of hor yoara. She told tho atory of how BIIO oamo to bo in Charleston in a plain, straight forward, ohild-liko mannor. Frequently sho would burst into toara and exproas a wieh to return to bor mothor and father1 in Oho?tcr. Sho carno horo last Friday with Sum ner, A b h nd man, to load hiinabcuUho Sirc?te, for which ho was to pay ber twontyfivo oents a day and board. Sho loft hor homo with hor mother's con sent to go to Columbia with Sumner, Who wa? to return her to her pooplo l??t Mouday, but instoad ho brought , hor Cl arloston. Evs.n w'vw.ifesfiaovi '"'WWirnW aM#M anchoo p. m. Pmyerj H j< him about the BtrcotB of tho oity and soilingv.re<s to pooplo. Tho voreos are of tho usual oharaotor that blind pooplopcddlo on tho stroets. Sbo slopt and took her meals at tho rostaurant on Markot s'reot. , "Mr Sumter is a bad man some timos," said tho girl, "and last night ho got drunk on boir and wino and was arrested. Ho is in tho guard houao now. Ho oursea, too. "What aro tho polioo going to do with mc?" askod tho girl, and in tho samo broath aaid nho hoped they would Bond hor homo, lier father's name, sho said, ?B Hoed Mo Atoor, and works in a ootton factory at Chester, Robort Sumnors atatod that ho had hired tho girl from hor mothor, saying that'bo had agrocd to pay her twonty fivo cents per day to load him about tho streets, and aooording to tho oontraot ho owes tho ohild $5, but is notable to pay hor as bubinocs haB been dull ainoo oom ing to Charleston. yChon aikod why ho oarriod tho MQ^ Atoor ohild to a negro restaurant."\ l f Bftid that it was tho only oh?^?# * Ard ing house he oould find. ?f*0\y7*o0'ftrot* ho never intended to oomA o Charlch ton again. Sumner b/^Pg curly hair, Which hanga dq?v-* bia shoulders, and ho looka lift ino modioino man of Dead Manv olul?h, lu epoaking about Mis ouriy ti t BBC a ho said ho had a . BWflvfhoart*n days gooo by whom ho loved intonsoly, and Hbo abkod him to , let his hair grow long, and ho granted s'.v,v her request; "you know, a follow will do any thin g for .tho girl ho loves," ho said; Sinoo ooming to Charleston Sumner has boon a high roller. All Wednesday afternoon it is iaid ho waa playing slot 1 maohlnos and drinking beer. Ho foll into tho hat<da of tho polioo and from him tho whereabouts of tho ohild woro learned._ Elided His Lifo. . Broooi, tho assassin of tho lato Ki?g Humbert, hal committed ?tuioido at tho pooitonttary of Santo Stofano, Italy. UroHoi rooontly had boen Gufforing from oxtromo exoitomont, doolared to bo from remorse. Tuosday tight he mado a ropo from his blankota and stranglod himself. On tho wall of his oell tho word "vongoanoo" waa 6or*tohed with his bloody thumb nail. Brosoi's vio lonee last week culminated in his at taokijpg a jailor, in oonacquonoo of v/hioh hov waa plaocd in a straight jacket. Later tho prieonor foigncd dooUity, in ordor to aoouro an oppor tunity to commit suioido whioh ho ao oompliahid by hanging himaolf with an improvisod ropo attaohodto tho ooh ing. In tho oalior days of his imprison ment Brosoi rosentod ordors to koop silont and throatnod to kill himsolf. At tho oabiaot oouaoil had tonight, Signor Golitli, miniator of tho intoner, informed the king of tho suicide of Brosoi, His majosty romained pensivo fork fow momontfl ftiid thon said: "It is, porhapj, tho boat thing that oould hVv?liapponod to tho unhappy man." Woodmen of tho World. A special dispatch to Tho Nowa and Courier says thoSworoign Camp of tho Woodmen of tho World at thoir rooont session in Columbus, Ohio, appropriat ed tho sum of $500 for the roliof of /Oalyostoo . suffers and tho sum of $1,000 fox" tho erection of a monumont in tho oity of Oalvoaton to comm?mo '!> rato tho momory of tho Woodmen who. loBt'tVioir Uvea in tho devastating storm. Tho Paolfb Jurisdiction mado an ap propriation of $1,100 for tho suffororj. DUN I WANT NEGROES A Northern Pap jr Says They Area Menaco. Thoro hw boon troublo io tho ooko rogiona of Pennsylvania. Tl$y havo boon ituporiiug nogrooa to Uko tho plaoo of recalcitrant workmen. Tho other day tho iynohuig of ono of thoso nogrooB wai narrowly averted. Tho Pittsburg Pout oomuieuds tho aotion of ofliojrs in protooting tho negro, but adds: Tho bringing in of Southern negcoou of lawloss oharaoter in on outrage on oitizoos who havo their homos in tho ooko rcgionB and desire peaceable aur roundiugs. That ?B Fotnctldng that bhduld bo Btoppod. Tho ?egrooB aro a nio?aoo, and appear to ho growing moro di&otdoily and rookies* as timo goeu on. Of oouiBO, negroes imported lo work in northern inuuutricB aro uot takon from souticru ponitcniiarioB, nor do tho agontu who oolleoc them advortUo for tho "lawlor" and ''rt ok lons." Thoy pimply tako thom ac thoy find them - tho common run of uogro mon to bo found on ibo streot? of any rou thorn town. Theao "lawless" and "rooklcss" negroes who aro "a monaco" in tho ooko rogionfl aro to bo fouud by tho thousands in ovory uouthorn stato. lu tho eyes of northern editor? it is a groat outrago whon a diBturbanoo oo oura in a uouthorn Iooality whoro thoro aro as many of thoso nogroes aa thoro aro whites, but to bring a handful of thom to work in tho mines of Pennsyl vania "is an outrago." Whon will ouv northern brothron "toto fair" with tho south in its bearing of tho whito man's burden, and bo roady to carry thoir share?-Augusta Ohrontolo Disastrous Floods. Adispatoh from ltiohmond Vn., Bays nowB reaohod thoro Wodnoedoy night of disastrous floods all ovor tho Stato. At LVmvillo tho Appomattox is higher than in 20 years and thoro has boon groat IOBS to farmers by tho washing away of orops. East and northbound Ohosapoako and Ohio trainu wero do layod at Oharlottosvillo by high water, and tho Charlotto?villo wollon mills aro floodod to tho ncc. md story, Danvillo reports muoh damago to tho Djmvilio and Wostoru railroad and at B*B8oU's, woit of tho oity, a churoh was washoa away. Tho Dauvillo mills aro floodod and tho olootrio light plant had to bo shut down. Now river, at Radford, is on tho biggest riso B?UOO 1878. Tho olootrio light plant is wrookod and tho rollo*; mills aro undor water tho nooond story. Traffioontho Radford division of tho Norfolk and Wostoru road is sus pended. Jamos rivor, at Columbia, has rison from fivo footabovo low water mark this morning to 25 foot tonight at ll o'olook and is still rising. This m?anB danger of a big flood boro. Tho nigh waler from up tho Jamos rivor is exprotod to roaoh hero about noon to morrow. Tho merchants and othors in tho low ljing sootion of tho oity aro ^noviug out. _ A .BrjfitpJ, aiT^iaJ "ays and Milton Boyd ol' Wullaoo, Va., aro roportod drownod in tho Hood in that section. Two rosidenoos, a Bobool house and a barn woro washed away in Washington oounty. Comos Too Late. In answor to tho quoutiou "what has boon tho effoot of tho pronidont's atti tude toward tho south. Has it tondod to bring about a r econciliation botwoon tho sootiooB?" Senator Oaimaok, of Tonnossoo says: "I fool about that a good deal as Dr. Johnson did with ro speot to tho gratuitous pntronago of Lord Ohoitcrfiohl: 'Had it boon oarly it had boen kind.' Whon wo mou* noedod tho oheoring word and tho lif'** ing hand wo got nothing from .V" Mo" i Kinloy and bia party but t>- ,?ur3? an<} 1 tho oliuohed fht^So lo?'?* a8 th?V oou,l(i naako parts jP^1 bi' waving the I bloody *l o ?y tORolnug tho north ! t0 w,"^?a dintrust tho u. uth, thoy I ^'-itf/and tho Rupuulioan oooooption AA all that was vile in human naturo wassummod up in tin words 'tho Con fed?ralo brigadier.' This brigadier wau forbidden by law to draw Bword for tho uoion and it waa not until tho uwcjrd was needed in tho war with Spain that tho law wai rcpoaled. Wo rt j MOO that tho timo of sectional ha ired baa passod or iu passing; but wo do not forgot that it might havo passed many your J ago if Mr. .MoKinloy and other Republican loaders had dosirod it to pass," Unprecedented May Rainfall. Not sinoo 1888 has tho totd rainfall for May beon so great as for tho prosont month. In that year 6 (JG inohoe foll, but with ouly ono hoavy rain 2 80 foll in 2-1 hours. This has boon oxooodod in tho past day, tho amouut for tho 24 hours onding at 8 a. m. of tho 21st hav ing boon <i 62 jnohos. Tho rainfall of tho past fow days aro uniepio in the annals of tho looal oflioo of tho weather buroau, not only on aooount of tho largo total, that sinoo tho ovoningof tho 1U ob amountod to 6 C9 inchon, but abo oe. aooount of tho rato of tho . fall, whioh can bo readily asoortainod by an olootrio solf-rogistoring guago with whioh tho of?oo has rooontly boon equipped. Tho rainy condition wau not confined to South Carolina, but aooompaniod a gonoral storm that entorod tho conti nent over lowor California and movod in an almost duo oas tor ly dirootion with oopiouB rains along its ontiro oourso. In breadth tho storm oovorod tho on tiro ootton bolt, and ovor thin vast aroa tho rainfall avoraged ovor an inoh in depth with, howovor, tho largost amounts in Georgia and tho two Coro linas,--Tho Stato. Shot for Eating Pickles. A dish of pioklos, a sick woman, A groody man and a man with a shotgun constituted tho olcuicnts of a tragedy in Birmingham, Ala , Thun day, IOsthcr Jomisou, colo)ed, was tho siok woman. Sho was abod with raouwatism and was oaticg from a dish of ?woot pioklos, that being all oho desired. Dan Allon, a friond, oallod and oommoncod oating pickles. Tho woman protected, but tho u an oontinmd to oat. About thin limo Fratjk Miller, anothor irie&d, entered tho room and bcoamo apprised of tho aotions of Dan Allon. Miller had a shotgun with him. Ho ralsod tho woapon to his shouldor and remarking to Allon: "I'll show you how to cat a slok woman's pioklos," shot Alton. Allon will dio. Miller was arrostcd and put ia tho oounty jail. M'LAURIN SPEAKS To A Largo Crowd In the C tv pf Qreerivi? o. < DEFENDS HIS POSITION, Which He Claim? Is True Domocnicy, ?nd Not Ra publient ism ns Many Claim lt ls. Tho following is tho spot oh of Sona tor John L. MoLaurin, whioh ho mado at Qroonvillo last Wcdnosday: Follow oUizens: Tho politioal Ho formation of 1890 had for ifs main ob ject tho indopoiidonoo of thought and action on tho> part Of thd people in po litical affairs. It was this that mndo mo a "Iljformcr," A white primary, whoro tho whito pooplo of thc Stn?o oould sottlo their difforonoos among thonigolvos. Ia part it has aooom pliuhod its obj sot in spito of tho efforts to dwarf it iuto a ono man movement. Its lcador has not boon oontont for it to bo oomploto, and has ntlomptod moro than onoo to diotato who should and who should not boolcotod to ornoo. All revolutions of this kind go farther than its originators design, no power oan oontrol thom. Mon who eupposo that tho "movo monf'of 1890 was a moro efforvoaoonoo to givo ornoo to a favored fowaro gro\t ly mi?takon. Somo of tho best and truest havo novor hold elli oe, and thc '//.?."io is coming whuu ihoBo who botrayod And prostituted this groat movement into a "ono man power" and moro Eoramhlo for Iho "loavos and tho fisboa" will bo hold to an aooount. T stand to day just whoro I stood in 1890, with tho addod oxporionoo of ton y jnrs of study and oontaot with publio mon and affairs. I thank God that ono thing has boon accomplished. Tho pooplo havo boon disenthraled and enlightened and will novor bo satisfied with tho ao oompHshmont of anything loss than tho full purposo of tho movemont-froo thought, froo spcooh, a fair ballot and rulo of the people. This must and shall bo tho final outoomo. No a'.tompt to break down tho roforms nearly accom plished oau suooood. Tho natural and inovitablo oonsoqumoos of that revolu tion must follow. Nothing oan stay them. THE "ALLIANCE." Follow-oitizons: lt affords mo great ploasuro to address you today. I thank you for tho honor and tho opportunity. I rooognizo tho fact that lam you. pub lic servant, and nm nooountnblo to tho pooplo who olootod mo for my steward ship. This responsibility of publio o?ioo is tho groat oonsorvativo and pro sorvativj foroo in our ropublioan form of ffovernnqont. It is tho provinoo and. _. 5 another Uiou&nu WUOTI SIW?J Mom important pubiic (luVstio?T'anST?r^oj v judgmont as to thoir effoot on tho wol- 0 faro of tho pooplo. To do this, ho must t at timos not .independently and load J publio sontlmont rathor than blindly * follow what is rcp'itod to bo tho maj m- j ty. It ?B his duty to fltudy national J problems and voto aooordiug to his ? best lights and honost convictions, lcav- f ing tho final dcoision as to thc wisdom J of his course to tho peonU- As for myself. I aoknowlodgo rv^Wter save tho sovoroign pooplo soaking at tho baltot box, and I r--T? to oboy tho dio tates of anv po'^oal BOBS, oithor in or OUtbide vf ?--uth Oarolma. This is my \ ^+jfilion of tho rights, duties and i ?tfosition of a Senator. My oourao J Binoo my olootion has boon projeotod j along tho lino of disorotion and aoooun- ? tability. In voting on groat national I. is.sui.s I havo ooniidcrod tho best inter- , esta of tho South and tho country rathor than tho impractical results to flow f 'om a rigid adhoronoo to party lines. It is j passing strango that somo. of tho mon I olootod to Congross in 1892 should J oritioizi mo for doing what thoy I! solemnly pledged thorned voa io do. Don't you roino.ubor that an Alliance Dolcgation was oloolo'l in 1892 pledged I not to bo bound by a Dj-mooratU eui- j Qua, but to voto for moatmrus oa'.oulated j to bonofib thu na'ion at large, irrospco- I tivo of party? I feol liko re.odling tho words, "Oh, Lord God of Hosts, Lost wo forget, Leot wo forgot." PRINCIPLES HIGHER TUAN PARTY. Politioal partios undor our form of govornmcnt aro a neoessity. They grow out of tho politioal rolations I established by tho govornmont itself. Thoro have boon since tho birth of tho nation and always will bo two groat politioal partios, if thoro worn no real issuoB thoy would divido and fight ovor J tho mero spoils of offioo. Thoao diffor- j onoos originated in tho diverso viowu ontortainod when our Constitution was I adoptod as to what constitutsd tho pro per functions of tho govornmont, Party platforms havo always boon supposed to bo tho oxpouonts of those viows. A bloody Civil war eettlod tho J quoation of Stato's rights, and for a I quartor of a oontury tho waving of tho "blood- Bhirt" on tho ono sido and tho "niggor in tho wood-pilo" on tho othor constituted tho dividing linos. I say that ovorv man, on a puroly ace.tional question, liko whito supromaoy, is a traitor and a renegado who doos not stand by his own sootion and his own pooplo. I say that any man, on do mestic probloms, probloms of intornal oonoorn, should, as f*r a-J pDssiblo, bow to tho bohests of his party. If ho oannot agroo with his party on quos tions of this kind, ho should, if poaoi bio, find a party with whioh ho is in aooord, I assert, follow-oitizons, that it is almost a orlmo for any party to mako groat, broad, non-politioal Ameri can moasurcs. involving tho politioal and ooinmorolal development of tho nation, tho toot of party fealty. Is suos escontial to tho maintonauco of tho honor and prestige of tho nation aro too vital to bo rologaled to the plano of partisan and sectional contention Oat of ohonged industrial and econo mic conditions havo grown great na tional quostions pertaining to tho ma torial interest of tho country, which must bo oonsiderod and sottlod by that sllont foroo,'tho reserved patriotism of tho pooplo.' DEMOCRACY BROADER THAN BKOTION ALIflM. Follow-oitizons: There is no groator monaoo to tho stability ot our govorn mont than a largo minority in tho Atnorioan Congress yoting upon broad,' vital, non-partisan Araorioan questions from purely ocotional consideration. I, am a Democrat-, honestly dosirous of remaining so, and witnessing tho tri umph of tho party to whioh I am at taohod by assooiati?o and heredity. It w*as never oontomplatod by tho found ors of that party that it should bco >me a purely soofcional rcff?ir, yot to day thoro is no DomocraUo party oapablo of inking itsolf folt outsido of tho South. In tho Norlh and Wost., it is poruifcatod with sooialism, and has dwin dled away into tho party of a scotion, pot a nation. 1 do not proposo, however, to puvBuo this lino cf thought; it U painful ar.d o vi aeoomplish no good pur peso. TUB MON KY QUESTION. Beginning whit tito pauio of 1893 thoro has never boon suoh rapid industrial ohangos in any country. These oh?ngoo wcro in progress, and cur w ir with Sp*\iu scry* d as n fUsh-Hsrht to show tn what.wau going on, Io 1890, wo had a campaign upoh Ibo iuoiuy--qusst^rr|< Everything WOB depressed. Men seek ingcmployuiont, ootton undrr-ivoaGii's. wheat below ?ho cost of production, and idleness, disoontont, dVrua.1; and misery ovorywherj. Wo woro told ?hat tho sab vation of tho oouatry dopondod upon tho froo coinage bfsilvor Iboliovod thon, and I bcliovo now, that theoretically wo were right; but now and unforeseen forucfl ojuio into play, and I havo enough Bonso to rooognizo tho faotthat tho "restoration of oontldonoo," abou< whioh Mr. Cleveland talked, and about whioh 1 did not know enough at tho J imo to understand, thc disoovory of Rold in tho Klondyke tho influx of monoy from abroad Booking invostmont, and tho inovoaso in banking faoilitios, for tho timo at loast, have settlod tho mouyy quoBiion, and nobody but a fool would mako a "froe silver" spoooh now. Instead of a doplctod treasury, thero in in it to day tho largost amount of gold iu tho history of tho country, and aotually tho Scorotary of tho Troasury, i fow wooka ago, dopositod monoy in a Spartanburg bank, something that has never boon dono boforo in tho history of our Stato. I havo boen listening for mmobody to ory out "ltopublioanism," oooauso 1 was instrumental in boginning i movomont whioh I hopo in tho futuro nay onabio our farmers and morohants o seouro monoy at a lo wor rato of in ;orost. Anothor groat chango as tho result of ,ho panio of 1893, is tho rapid dovolop nout of our oxport trade. Our homo na?kola failed us, manufaoturers found homsolvea with immonso atooks of ;oods on hand and nobody to buy them, his forcod thom to Book markots abroad, md ono onterprising firm in Binning mm, Ala., shipped 250 ton of iron to Cur ono, At that time iron oould bo ?ought for $6.00 por ton in Birmingham nd this small shipment six yoars ago va:i tho beginning of tho $130,000,000 1 yorth of iron that wo ahippod abroad o ?st year, 300,000 tons going from Ala- b ?ama. d JTojlay, ontiro EuvotncL?&,?l*nwA? Ifi^u^feM^11^. 1 A- Gftbto? iro ?oo every day ?nav^niiy natr|8 ombino ou tho part owrf^lury Lair, ho Uubod Stfttos. K' X>ovlt, Doiu yorld, instead of dopd?^g,no3' Tttt0f ..J i opo as wo did soyon yowtiv nonoy, England, Qormany^ lavo rooontly had to ocao to o plaoa thoirgovornmont loans. *JL jivon nothiugbjub a moro outlino, and ot I ask any man withiu the sound of ny voioo if thosOjfaols do not prosont a otally ohanged condition. Tho Spanish vnrsuddonly avvoko us to tho fact that mr oountry was ono of tho groat oom noroi*l and political powers of tho vorld. IOW CAN I MEST SERVE THE INTEREST OP SOUTH CAROLINA? Believing as I do that thoro aro vital issues which, growing out of ohangod industrial conditions, aro higher and broader than moro party quostiooB, I havo, as your Senator, looking boyond | ( Lho lino marked by Bootionalism and par tisanship, striven to promoto tho mato rial, political and commercial in tores to of our oommon oountry-for in BO doing, I | I oan ben sorvo tho intercuts of tho'Stato of South Carolina. For thin 1 havo boon arraigned boforo thopooploof thia Stato and oharged with allying myself with tho ltspublioan party. Criticism, abuso and gross misrepresentation has boon indulged in, Not OOH tout with this un fair method of attack, somo of tho papora in t hoir vi lo persecution havo do coivod tho pooplo by witholding informa tion on ono sido of those groat notion,1 issues and emphasizing and publishing ovorything on tho ottior. Thoy have poraistontly hold mo up as a renegado, and on moro than ono oooasion allogod that 1 intended to rotign and aooopt a F?deral appoint mont, Amid all thia porsooution 1 havo maintainod my si ionoo, oou?dont that when an oPPor tu nity was offored. the pooplo would seo that 1 received lair play, and that thoy would at loast aooord mo honesty of purposo. Thoro aro two quostion that ! submit' to tho pooplo of South Carolina: First. Am I honest in tho viows I ouvooato? Seoond. Amlmi&takon? As to tho first. All that I havo to say is that my pcoplo havo shod their blood for South Carolina in ovory oon tost in whioh she has ovor boon engag ed. I was born in South Carolina, I took my wife in South Carolina, and whon I dio I oxpjot my bonos to bo laid bo?ido fivo gouerations of honosfc mon and truo. womon who bavo gono boforo. I havo children who must boar my namo, good or bad. ( Evory dollar that I havo is inyostod in this 'bato, exoopt a small amount in North Caro lina and Florida. My intoroftti aro in separably interwoven with tho interest of my Stato, no good can oomo to hor in whioh I cannot participate, and no ovil of whioh I must not boar my share If I wanted to havo an oasy timo, 1 oortainly ohooso tho hard road. I might havo drifted with thoourront. Bang "mo too," and oontinuod to hold ornoo. I had pretty good tutolago and an illust rious cxaooplo iu my oarly political oaroer in tho arts of domaxogory, anc* could do it again in a plnoh. But, follow oitissons, tho "gamo isn't worth the oandlo." If I o Wt bo a Senator, worthy tho groat statoomon whom I mic oood, I do not wish to hold tho ornoo. I do not claim to bo infallible, and tho j limo .has boon; whon I would gladly j havo boon oonvinood that I waa wrong, j and thug enabled to oaoapo from tho position whioh at timos was almost un endurable; but, folloWfOUtadns, . X no longer fool that way.' I do not wish now to bo oonvinood. Whoa u man has sufforod for a oauueit booomos very |4*to hiin, and I thick that it would )Mk rayheaitifl should fiod now JftAV. after all, it is a rnistako, aud MW havo boon doooivod by a unrAgo ib tap bleak dosort. I om luun-m, and MO my full Bharooftho frailty ?nd TOty wbioh go with poor, weak hu mn E aturo. I look book to BOUIO TO? ^bftt I havo said ?nd dono, ?nd liknow that I was wrong, and I wioh it j|&r? othorwiso. But, lellow-oitizens, tfti?o within tho last threo yoars I havo fijt ythat I WAS noar the timo whon I w?uld havo to at and boforo tho bar of a jt?t'God, who knowe tho scorots of my HMi'ormost coul, nod I folt that ho would meroy havo for potty frailtlos intd sbort-oomings, and givo mo orodit fot "tho oaruoat and honoat effort, for tlf?j fjRorifiooa wlc\h I had mado to f orvo tb??|'boBt and highoat interest of ray Sf&f{rand oountry, I am not afraid to mh?fc my God and stand upon uiy pubUo rojV^dT-why, thon, should 1 b ar any irm??al herb bdo>v? I only wish that iiwlifo aa a man waa aa sinless and (reo &j^t?r,roaoV a? lt...tu.AB. ybuXpublio tommy -'JbavRfls of voorruptiou'?havo bsOD r'ilio in South Cardio? ?ii log tho. pR?tteia years, but my worst onoraiea havo n l'vor charged that a dirty dollar has ov()r orostitd tho palm of my hand. Follow oki zen*: To a man who lov ed society and that sort of thing, a Boat in tho Ronato may bo a priza worth having,; but to nae, it is of no valuo aavo 10 furthr tho oauso to whioh I am demoting tho bo-it yoars of my lifo. [ rmi bi tho Sonato for what I oan got fcA,?3outh Carolina, not to further my ? Avonal interest. I); you supposo ou joy boing flayed alivo, and ?rifonal 'Mil on jafljid all groining, all Borts of pot na mon by tho lg, grumbling Goi/zalos, and tho chinning, dinging dyspoptio Ilomp bill^ It dooB not worry mo very muoh, 'or I know that thoro il j ono kind of an m hu al that will growl Just for tho l)li}ABuro of growling, and a no thor that .viii whino, espooially when milk is lovuoo Thoro a geo Ideal of growling uni whining just now booauso of a 'oto Federal plums that havo boon bopping around, but 1 notioo that it ill oomos from tho direotioa whoro umo aro dropping or likoly to drop. <\oni observation I infor that thoro iro A plenty of Gold Domoorats, ?Ivor Domoorate, Bryan Domoorats, 3l,ovoland Domoorat<i, MoKinloy Jjoinoorats, Tillman Domoorats, and 3|omooratR nono whom obj sot to a WoLaurin Uomoort job uodor "Unolo lim," FEDERAL PATRONAGE. Now, felloW'oitizoQB. I want to say mojwori on this subjoot. I do not onfroi, Ido not nrofun to control, 1 10 wot wish to oontrol, nor will I bo ojno rosponeiblo for, tho Fcdoral pat ( tongo in South Carolin?. On aooount .:! my liberal views, and wbat ho ia ilcaBod' to oonsidor my patriotio stand or broad Amorioan dootriuos, tho 'resident has dono mo tho honor to Minuit Hi9 on oortain oooarions as to I outh Carolina appointments. Ho has ono so, to my oortain knbwlcdgo, with fi"""'??Tpfl Morgau, Sullivan MolSnory [ty "" ' .1. ftpprooiatp it 11 JF.?or man, a II ^_-,_u. i?iiif5?<rKT?/i17 Ohrt? an gontloman, never oooupiod tho "hito House than William MoKinloy. boliovo I havo his oonfidonoo and iondship, ?nd thoro is no troasuro at I valuo moro highly, I would not ve it and 1 oould not retain it woro traitor to my 8tato and pooplo. Ho lojaors mo, boo uno ho knows as woll isJany man living, how muoh I love ray i(u\ivo Stato. Whon ho oxprossod ade lircjto bo tho Prc sido ot of tho wholo icubtry and not of a eootion, why should ? nipt moot him half WAy? When ho iu vilfliug that tho patrons who support a )omtoffioo in South Carolina should bo lonsMtod na thoy aro in Vermont, tfaBBt.ohusotta and Ohio, why should I, is yoi ir Souator, stiok a pitoh-fork in 0 hie) vitals? Ahi follow oitVns, if I havo oon .rolhi'-. any patroiugo, it has boon in mo p<l)tlio intoroot, not my own. No lophewii of mino havo boon oommission jd in tj?o United Statos Army, I havo l\ad n[o son drawing a largo salary, travohhg this Si ato at govoramoot ox pon?o, imanipulating politioal affairs for ino. T'ako tho postoffioo at Aikon, of what pjbrBonal intortst is it to mo who fills nit doos not put a dollar into my po ok.i't and I do not got my mail thoro. 1 bol?jve in the rulo of tho pooplo, and 1 wan! to soo tho timo oomo whon tho patrouj of tho cfiioo, thoao who sup port it,, fihal 1 namo tho postmaster just as thoy do tho uiver itt and olork of tho oourt., . Who do you euppoEo tho pooplo of Albon, profor for postmaator-a man who i? idontifiod with tho town, born and roared arning thom, or a citizen of another Stato, with no intorosb in tho town ar pooplo f u. thcr than to uso thom forhiijown porsoD?l advantago? Who is not,?von wil,?K ?: itt** doath, to por mit his du?'. ; i .?gio with tho Boil of South OAwMn. , but had his body ?hipp od hoi?io to Ooanootiout fit burial whoro I am told his family aro soon to follow him. I profpr ono of our own pooplo, oithorfohitoror blVok, to birds of pas ??B9? ' who iavost no monoy horo, and fly aw^y whon thoro aro no offices for thom, w ii0t H bo undorfltood that wo gladly> wcloomo any good man who oomen horo Booking a homo, who ia* yosts his monoy and booomos ono of our own pooplo; we oxtond to audio ono tl^o right hand of followship, aod ho in (,ntitlod to all tho honors, sooial, political nnd oommoroiol, whioh his abilityWid oharaotor command. That ia noifr-^jvat wo moan by "Oarpot bagisnli^ ^ South Carolina. Somo pooploft'?, Vor, aro so disturbed bo oauso vlj -, ^idoot has appointed a man ?o\pooplo of Ai koa havo clootodSvis pUytholr town twiop, and who ifiavf our/and oourtoous gontlo man, lrpi*, .Jy aro proforriog ohargos againstl^i in Washington: thin is dono for pol?joal purpoicB aud I well under stand il|g a llok at rac, not Mr. Chaffoo. Who sjbuld ho Distr?ot Attorney of South yjfkdlna? A bright, onorgotio young a|fta, raised up h?r? in thia hoautifttfl/Aountain oily, or a foroigoor and oudH/or? I admit ono of tho boat o? his ffik?flj but, follow-oitl % ans, South CarolinYhns aro good ' oaough for mo. Nowf Vhon appointmonts woro mado abBolut0*y ropugaant to tho wishes and tho ' tuitions 0f our pooplo, I was tho %iy ono wjl0 hold up a confirma t*011^ tho Sonato Now whon * gontlo? T*X liko Mr, Ohaffoo or John (Japors, ?on o? a Oonfcdorato Brigadior, Mth four Yankoo bullont-holos in hh Dody, now tho Bishop of South Caro ."a ie xnad? by tho President, not foi Wyt loni purponou, but AB on indiotion oi.%9 good will towArds tho pooplo aol on-? of South Carolina but of th( Hou Hi, I ooo a thront In tbo papora that tho confirmation is to bo fought. If that ii politics, if that ia Dainooraoy, thon. God savo mo from suoh infamy. TUE GENTLEMAN FHOM MEXICO Thoro ia ono thing that 1 havo not hoard muoh of a kiok about, tho loan of tho govert)mont exhibit at llofl'alo to Charleston. I bcliovo, however, somebody oleo claims tho credit. That ia all right with mo, it mattera not who gets tho credit, just so tho oity of Charleston got3 tho friendly hand of thia government in a groat ontepriso in whioh tho whola Stato ia intoreatod. Irrospootivo of por.sonal and poliiioal diil*ronoo9, I am willing to join hands with my oolloaguo in tho S.mato and tho mombora in tho IIouso ia scouring an appropriation to roimbureo Char loatou lor all oxponsoa inourrod. If wo lay asido little dilloronoca and ovory body g ) to woik as ouo roan, it oan bo done. I nant to say hore, in julios to 8ouator Tillman and myaolf,'* Wa aro both oapetblo Of-rising high, onough not to promit anythiog to interioro with a mattor of anoh genoxtu intcrost to tho Stato. J. will even go ono bettor and agcoo, if Charleston gola tho appropria tion, to givo all of tho oridit lo tho "Gontlomau fioin Moxioo." WILL NOT BE DUI YEN. I have just ono or two moro things to Kay on tho first question I mu discus ing. My intimate frionda know that it han boen my douro to retiro from publio lifo. 1 had detorminod novor again to undotako tho oauvass of thia Stato, and woro it not that I folt that I owed it to tho pooplo of South Caro lina to diaousa thoso issues and onablo thom to aot intolltgoutly by plaoing thoniaolvoa in touoh with tho boat ho thought of tho ago, ;' I ^would not herc to day. Tho pooplo of this Stato gavo mo tho grandest clnnoo that any young nun hoa had ainoo tho war and I, fully realizo tho opportunity and duty. I wovor doubted for ouo momont but if allowed to praeoni my onso fairly to the peoplo, I would boro-olooted to tho Son ate. I havo not mado a voto that oan bo suco Bsfully assailed, savo upon nar row partisan grounds. I had, howovor, determined not to ruu on account of my health. Tho campaign of 1897 loft rao in a physical and mental * wreck. My physician has ropoatodly said that 1 could not stand oithor montally or physically tho strain of such another campaign. Within tho ton months past howovor, my hoalth has boon wonder fully improved and I am ready for tho fray. I desiro horo aud now to tell tho "Busies" (in and out of tho State) who hayodoorood my political doath, that I defy thom. Tho only way thoy oan do f oat mo ia to rulo mo out of tho primary and thus provont tho pooplo from ex pressing thomsolvoa. Lot thom, if they dare, prevent whito mon from passing judgmont al tho ballot box upon theao groat national issuos. Ono thing moro ou tho quoBiotn, Am I honest? Thoso who know mo and aro my frionda will novor boliovo anything olao. To thoso who aro fair and unprejudiced, I say, givo mo au impartial hearing, and if you are not oonvincod vote against ino, thou wo will still roapor'^^ ^1', x'?r in j ouomius, ui UM o' who would oondomn mo unhoard, tho growlers and whiners, I oare not a red cent what thoy think, ao long that I knew that I am honest. I desiro now to tako up aomo of my votes and apooohos, and address mysolf to tho question, Am I mistakon? When I waa placed on tho Ways arid Moana Oommitteo of tho IIouso, I began a sys tomatio oourso of reading on tho tariff question with roforonoo to ita efl oot upon tho pooplo of tho South. In March, 1897, I mado a spoooh in whioh I om bodied my V?OWB. I had offorod an amondment for a duty of two and one half oontB por pound on ootton imports, and had mado a fight in tho Oom nit too for a proper schodulo on rioo, pino lum ber, turpentine, ootton aood oil, oil oako, jute bagging, ootton ties and tho ooaree grado of goods mado in our Southern milla. Thia ia noithor tho timo nor tho plaoo to go into a discussion of tho tariff, 1 oan sum it up in tho Btatomont that I did not dieouss thc question from a theo redo or philanthropie stand point, but nu roly claimed a full sharo for tho South of all tho bono?ts to aooruo from legis lation. I rooognized tho faot that our rovonuoa wore to oomo from tho imposi tion of import duties, and asserted that this hoing truo, it waa but fair to givo onoh section and industry a share ot tho bontllts, aa tho burdon must bo berco by all. I nttaolccd tho doctrino of froo raw material as a olandestino and un just form of protootion. I traced ita history and ahowod that it waa devised and offorod to tho manufacturera of tho Etat by Mr. Clovoland in his first raoe, aa a form of protootion. In othor words, liogor Q. Mills, tho Chairman of tho Ways and Means Oommitteo of tho IIouso, waa sont up into tho Now Eng land Statos to olfor thom th's "loft banded protootion," while freo i .ado was talked in the South and Wost. It was a mero party expedient to oatoh votes. I think that no poliiioal party wiU ovor attempt again auoh a monatroua in j Ma tice It moana that the farmcra in this country shall bo forood to buy in a ro striotod market and thon Boll all of thoir produota in competition with tho pauper labor of tho world. I mado thia fight for Southern industries whilo a mombor of tho House, whon I had no idea in tho world of going into tho Sonato. You all romomber what universal ohorua of ap proval thoro waa, Sonatora Tillman, Bacon, Clay ,ond other* took up tho samo lino in tho Sonato. Tho .Nows and Oourior, tho Columbia Stato and nino ty por oent. of tho papera of the South eommonded my courao. I haz ?rd littlo in saying had x novor boon a ouidldato for tho Sonato, tho wisdom of ruy oourio would novor havo bcon questioned. 1 waa strongly urged to run for tho Sonato in 1896, butjl did not wiah to loavo tho Ways and Moana Oommittoo, and boafdes I was thoroughly disgusted with tho oondition of affaira in South Caro lina, I could hear of nothing but "ohargeo of corruption,1' "bond doala," "whi?koy robates," oto. I did not wish to bo mixed up in auoh an affair; how ever it might ovontuato, a man could not but fool loworod and degradod by com ing in contact with suoh filth. I felt reasonably auto at that timo that I could have boon oleo ti d to tho Sonato. I wae assured, by ono authorized to sp?tk{thai Judge Karlo would not bo a candidate if I ran ; but I oonoludod to go on in r modest, quiet way and work out raj destiny in tho Houso. This was not tc bo, howovor. It was not intondod '-hal my linos should fall in easy plaoos. Thaj puro man, chivalrous gontlomon atti up right Judgo, your townsman and m} [".Continuod ou i>*g* i,'} ?HE CLAIMS ?ELF DEFENSE. Mrs, Bonlno Has Confessed to Killing Young Ayres, Tho mystery attonding tho killing of Jarnos Soymour Ayres, a census office olork, in tho Konmoro lietel carly last Wednop.aay morning, at Waihinpton, 1). (J,, aed win h booauso of tho poou-. liar oirouuistanoos surrounding it has i-roused Washington moro than any tragedy in fovers! ears, was solved Monday by a voluntary confession from Mrs Lulu [, Hon'no, a m ?mod woman and a guosb at tho homo, that tho throe shots whiob. onded Ayroa' lifo had boon fired in a strugglo between horsolf and Ayron. Mrs. Bomuo, whoso husband ?B a drum < or for tho wholoaalo drug houso of DJ witt & Uo. of Ci.ioago, ox* V1 ai nod hov proccnoo iu Af ros' room at X o'olook in tho uior-oing by saying that ho bad oorno tb her roo.m complaining of a ohill and aokipg for m?dioin^_aud j had induced her UT follow Iii-.. toTns room to (alli ovor somo rr attars of diffor onoo thero had boon botwoon thom. Sho said that sho dressed horsolf in .* wrap per and went to his room. Ho had pro oeodod her and whon oho oponed tho door and walkod in ho quiokly oloacdit and inforoc o j. hor ho had ontiood hov to tho room for his own purposos and said if aho did not submit to his wishes ho would kill <hor. AyroB, sho said, was undrosBod and had a rovolvov in his hand aud iu ABtruggloforitspoBBoaaion whioh onsu?d immediately nitor sho ontorod, it was discharged throe diffor ont times, tho bhots striking Ayres at oaoh diaohargo, tho last ono proving fatal. After hor statement, which was mudo to tho ohiof of polioa and a nuuv . Lor of other officials, Mra. Bonino was nlaood under arrest and takon to tho houso of dotontion, whoro she will bo held ponding tho result of tho ooronor's inquoat, whioh hai boon in sonsion sinoo Saturday and at whioh Mrs. Bonino waa to havo appeared tomorrow aa a witness. Tho tragody whioh re sulted in Ayers' death was diaoovorod first about 8:30 o'olook hst Wednesday, morning when hisdoad body was found in his room at tho Konmoroj a small family hotel eituatod not far from the oapitol. An examination of Ayroa' body showed that ho had boon shot throe timos, ono ball ontoring tho loft leg, another tho loft arm, and tho third ponotrating tho hoart and oausing death. Huioido wai tho first thoory advanocd, but statomonts from two witno is that on tho night of tho murdor thoy had soon a woman dosoonding a firo esoapo loading from tho front of Ayers' room at tho ho toi and disappoar into tho parlor of tho houso ondod this thoory and tho Killing was quiokly de? volopod into a myAtoriouu and sensa tional affair that bafiled tho polioo un til Mrs. Bonino contested. Saturday tho oornor began his in quoat, but no substantial oluo was found to oonnoot any poraon specifically ?.with the tragody. Tho inquost waa B&> ?'?? !j.r. -?* ?-i-.- --J ?-A.. J-t-Jmf nothing dirootly boaring on tho trAgdiy-r oxoopt that Mrs. Bonino was muoh in Ayors' room, whon it waa Buddonly ad journed on information that tho dis trict attornoy and ot ho va wore wanted at polioo headquarters to hoar a stato mont inado by Mrs. Bonino. Disastrous Storm on Lakes. A special from Tawas Uity says: A torrifioo northoastor rovailod .all day and last night. Tho stoarmer Balti more, ooal ladon, broke in two and Bank off Au Sabio this morning boforo dayligt. Thirteon woro drownod includ ing a woman and a boy, Tho tug Columbia of Djtrcit with a govern ment Btoam d rod go and two loaded lighters for tho Soo was onught in the storm. Tho lightors and drodge wore lost, parting their oix in oh cabio, Tho orow of six mon is missing. Whilo Boarohing today. for hor tow tho Co lumbia piokod up two mon from tho Baltimore on a raft. Thoy woro almost dead and woro takon to oast Tawas. An othor man was on tho raft, but was lost doopito tho efforts to savo him. Tho Souoonor Montmorencys whioh wont around on tho Charity islands Bcvoral days ago, has geno to piooos. Hor orow loft her Thursday. Tte Tawas lifo saving crow mado a trip to hor at midnight und rowod T8 miles in tho storm and against tho wind, but found no ono aboard. Tho Columbia pioked up hor drodge tonight, but the lightors aud tho oxponsivo machinery thoy oarricd and tho six mon aro still missing. Tho wind is now going down. A Hundred Entombed. Au explosion oooufrcd Friday morn ing at tho Uaivoraal colliery at Sen geonydd, in tho .Rhondda valley Eng land. About A hundrol mon wero in tho pit at tho timo of tho disastor and thoro io littlo hope of saving tho lives of any of thom, rho voso mrs at tho Uaivorsal oMIiory aro working with groat difficulty owing to laok of air. Fivo bodies havo boon r o covered. Tao wreck ago of tho pit is oom plo to, al most precluding hopo that tho impris oned mon can havo survived. Thoro aro 78 minors missing. Tho rosouors havo found moro bodies, but thoro is no hopo that 70 minors who aro still on tombed will bo brought out rdivo. Killed Himself."" A dispatch from Cambridgo, Mass., says Fred C. Foator, of Oambridgo port, who was undor suspicion of tho polioo in oomnootion with tho explo sion whioh wrookod tho Oambridgoport National bank bore Wednesday, om mittod suloHo by shooting today in tho prosonco of a polios officer who had called on hosier malro inquirios in con nection with tho oaao. Foytov was 43 year? old, Foster had a wifo and threo ohildron. Ho had bien undor eur veilanoo, tho polioo say, sinoo Wedno day afternoon, whon it booamo known that ho propentod a ohook at the bank oalling for IL100 for whioh he had uo funds in tho bank. The gitcfl of Bilibid prisons, Manila, swung opon Friday and admittod a mulo wagon bearing throo formor United offi cers who roluotanllv alightod and bo gan to (iorvo Rontonccs in expiation of orimos in oouno?tion with the ooramta nary soandals. Cap!air. Frodoriok J. Barrows, lato dopot quat tor inastor ol tho dopartm.oi'.t of Southern Lu ?in, it sontonood to fivo yoavV imprisonment LI Captain James C. Hoed, lato dop ot oom ' mis?Ary at Manila, to throo yoara* im .. pvinonmont, and Lieutonant Frudorio. . I Boyer, lato depot commissary at Ca lamba, to ono your's imprisonment. M'LAUftlNS PLACE. ' ' ' ;. V - ' . - .X,-'.- ' ?' J'V-.Vv. . '?, Thora Ar? Many Candidatos In the Fiold For lt. THE CAMPAIGN OPENED There Will bs No Lack of Can-, didates, but Who the Lucky One Will Bs No Wi Ono Know I. Sonator MoL?urln's spOGoli Wedfios day at Greenville is gonorally rogardod SB tho opowing of his ohrnpaigu for ra olootion, although thoro aro somo who still profoBs to boliovo that . Sonator MoLturln will not bo in tho campaign noxi aumroor. Howovor that "may fb^r'hi?f;'W6?"v?r3r-*t >,<;h? ?-TOflca?) timo naturally dirjotn nttontiou to tho raoo for tho seat onoo hold by Wodo Hampton. From prosont indications that raoo will bo a warm ono. Con gressman Latiraar, of tho Third dis* triotj is already an avowod candidato and is notivoly at work, It is general ly understood that at this tima at loast Congressman Li timor h sn tho good will ir not tho aotivo support of Sonator Tillman. Stato Sonator D. S. Hendon son, of Aikon, is also understood to bo in tho raoo for all ho is worth, whioh ia not a Httlc. It has reoontly boon statod that thoro is an understanding botwoon Monars. Latimar and Hondor son; that tho former is looking, after Charleston and the low country and tho latter paying particular attention to tho Piedmont, dust what can bo. gained from thia alleged cooperation is not known, but oiroumstanoos give oredonoo to tho report. Congroasmaa Latimers efforts in bohalf of tho Charleston exposition aro suppoaod to givo him Charleston's voto so far at*, it oau bo ooutrollod, while Sonator Hen derson^ hoing possoBSod of somo influ onoo with tho ootton mill presidents of ; tho Piedmont would bo moro apt to undormino Mohnurln in that quarter. : Tho name of Col. Goorgo Johnstono, of Newborry, has boon oxton montionod in commotion with thia vaco- If ho should bo a candidato ho would bo pitted against tho man who do tented him for roolootion to oongross--A. C. Latimor. This is an interesting ooinoi donoo. Col. Johnstono waa in tho oity Tuosday, but waa not talking poli tics, being busy with somo logaf af fairs. A oloso friend, however, stated that it was most probable that Col. Johnstono would havo somothing to say on tho stump next Bummer. Ho ia ono of tho most eloquent spoakors iu tho Stato and a ready stump debater, so that his ontry into tho fiold would do much to li von mattors up. There aro a number of o thor gontlomon montionod for tho plaoo, among them hoing Gov. MoSwoonoyj_j. I?;; \ spooial says: Tobo orushod to death in tho ombraoe of a monstrous black boar and thoir littlo bodice aftorward mangled and partly de voured was tho frightful fate that befell tho three young obi Kl ron of E, ,P. Por torfiold, a mountaineer rosiding about 12 milos southoast of this plaoo. The romains woro found Wodnosday hy a soarohing party whioh had, been out nineo Sunday ovening. Tho party in oludod John Weldon, a Maryland hun tor, who within a fow minutos after dis oovoring tho bodies, shot and killed tho boar in a neighboring thiokot. Tho ohildren woro Mary, aged 3,. Willie, agod' 5, and Honry, aged 7. Shoxtly af tor noon Sunday they loft homo to , gather flowers in a oloaring noar thoir homo., Nothing moro is known but it is supposed they wapdorod Into tho woods and b coom i ng lout continue 1 on their way until thoy woro overtaken by ! tho boar in tho denso fore et threo milo? from thoir paronts' homo. Tho boar foastod off all threo of tho bodies. Tao bones of tho ohildren had boon orusaod like straws and tho flosh stripped off with tooth and ola wo. Tho party divided and bogan a soarah, Within a fow min utos Woldon disoovorod it in a thick olump of hemlock saplings noar a smaU stream. A singl? shot ondod its lifo. It WAS doolared to bo tho larg?st beac ovor soon in this neighborhood. Burned the Site. The Stato loper board reoontly quiet ly purohased alargorUntationin Jeff 'it* son parish, opposito Now Orleans, and mado arrangoraonts to establish a lonee lazArotto. Whon tho nows becamo public Jeff orson and Sb. Charloa parishes aroa.) to an indignant protost and threats wer J freoly mado that tho torch awl nib would bo omployod to prevent tho trans . for of t ho lop or colony to tho point se lected. At a uno ting tho board hoard tho vigorous protests of tho oki zens of tho two parfshos but decided to take no aotion at proaont. Tho pro testants oonoludod, howoyor, that tho board had determined at loast to at tompt tho establishment of tho lats trot to in J of for flo n. Tho result was that during the night tho proposod homo and othor buildings on tho plantation tia looted wer s prod and totally dostroyed. Lost in tho Mood. Millions of dollars of damago has boon don? and at loast oight lives lost in Upper TonnosBeo by tho floods, oauBod by tho rooont heavy rains. Tho Doo river, tho Wautaga, tho Holston, tho Ohukoy and tho Fro nob Brod aro out of bounds and growing orops havo boon swopt away along thoir oouraoa, O i tb? Ohukoy rlvor, throe ohildron of iXoBOph Hill woro drowned ia his hottso while ho waa at his barn' looking after his stock and unawaro of tho dango/. O.i this river sixbridgoa woro pwopt away, doing a damago of about 60,000. while tho damago to farms, housoa and a took along this stream in Groono oounty alono will amount to ono-lulf a million dollars, At Looper's -mill, oni ( Ohukoy river, two 'Bolivar brothers foll from a boat into tho tiver, ono hoing drownod. A Voyage iv.v ft. Buggy. A dispatch from Sharon flava Willio Hoyle stated to Yorkvillo wodnosday, morning in a buggy aud in oros&jng a small ntro .nm jiast thia sido of Yorkyitlo his buggy prok? looso and was o&rriod down tho stream. Ho oould not swim but flavod hlraaolf by getting on tho horse and riding it out, Ho wont on to York ville aad prooarcd assistanoo and cam? back took tho buggy out but it waa badly torn up,