The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 23, 1894, Image 4
0ov i'amiln Shun.
Till: SACRIFICE j
" A renegade ! A reliel against his
king! A black-hearted traitor! You
dare U> toll mo that tJeorgo Winthrop
lovos vo\i! Son of canting, lying K/.ra
Winthrop! Hy the Internal, I'll shoot
him on sight if he coiuoh this side !"
While old John Bedell was speaking ;
ho tore and Hung away a letter, reached
for his long ritle on its pins above
the chimney place, dashed its butt
angrily to the lloor, and poured powder
into his palm.
" For heaven's mercy, father ! You
would not! You could not! The war
is over. It would be murder!" cried
Until Bedell, sobbing.
" Wouldn't ' ?" Ho poured the pow
dor in. " Yes, by gracious, ouicker'n
I'd kill a rattlesnake?" Ho placed the
round bullet on the little square of
I ...... ..4 I 1.,. ..... 1 .. ..f t. ! . ...til,. .
rrjwiu ? "K at inr i.iu/,/,ir i?i ilia run?.
"A rank traitor--bono and blood of
those who drove out loyal men !"- ho
erowdod the tight load homo, daubed
the ramrod into place, looked to the
Mint. " Host there, old Surodoath?
wake up for George Winthrop !" and
the Moree old man replaced rillo and
powder-horn on their pegs.
KodeH's li at red for the foes who had
beaten down King George's cause and
imposed the alternative of confiscation
or the oath of allegiance on the vanquished,
was considered ferocious, oven
by his brother loyalists of tho Niagara
frontier.
" Tho Squire kind of sees his boys'
blood when the sky's red," said they
in explanation, liut their inference
erred. Hodell was so much an onthu- i
siast that he could ulmout rejoice be- I
cause bis three stark sons had gained i
the prize of death in battle, lie was!
Uk> brave to hate the lighting men he
had so often confronted. Hut he abhorred
the politicians, especially the
intimate civic enemies on whom he
had 'poured scorn before the armed
struggle began.
?% More than any he hated Kzra Winthrop.
the lawyer, arch-revolutionist |
of their native town, who had never
used a weapon but his tongue. And |
now bis Kuth, the beloved and only
child he had left to his exiled old ago,
had confessed her love for Kzra Winthrop's
son ! They had boon boy and
girl, pretty maiden and bright stripling
together, without tho Squiro suspecting?ho
could not oven now, conceive
clearly so wild a thing as their
atToction 1 Tho confession burned in
his heart like veritable firo? a raging
.1 i
uu^uinii ui in 1 ii^ it'll iiiiii/ii i ii^ nun iuvu. i
Ho stood now gaziug ut Ruth, dumbly '
?his hands clenched, head sometimes
mechanically quivering, anger, hate,
love, grief, tumultuous in his soul.
Kuth glanced up her father seemed
about to speak -she bowed again,
shuddering as though the coining
words might kill. Still there was
silence?a long silence. Bedell stood
motionless, poised, breathing haul?
the silence oppressed the girl?each
moment her terror increased?expectant
attention became sull'cring that,
demanded his voice?and still was
silence?save for the dull roar of Niagara
that more and more pervaded the
air. The torture of waiting for the
words?a curse against her, she feared?ovorwoio
Ruth's onduranoo. She
looked up again suddenly, and John
Bedell saw in hers the beloved eyes of
his dead wife, shrinking with intolerable
fear. Ho groaned heavily, llung
up his hands despairingly, and strode
out toward the river.
How craftily smooth the green Niagara
sweeps toward the plunge beneath
that perpetual white cloud above
the Falls! From Bedell's clearing below
Navy Island he could see the swaying
and rolling of the mist, over rushing
up to expand and overhang. Tho
terrible stream had a profound fascination
for him: with its racing eddies
eating at tho shore ; its long weeds,
visible through tho clear water, trailing
close down to the bottom ; its inexorable.
eternal, onward pouring. Because
it was so mighty and so threatening
his stern soul rejoiced grimly in
the awful river. To lloat, watching
cracks and ledges of its Hat bottom
rock drift quickly upward: to bond his
his oars only when white crests of the
rapids yelled for his life; to win es
diiuui mi uii^iii ii uiu ]'uiiit? ou
low down that ho somotimes doubted
but the greedy forces had boon tempted
too long ; to stake his life, watching
tree tops for a sign that ho could
yet save it, was the dreadful pastime
by which Bedell sometimes quelled
passionate promptings to revenge his
exile.
"The Kails is bound to get tho Squire
some day," said the banished settlors.
But the Squire's skill' was clean built
as a pickerel, and his old arms jron
strong. Now when he had gone forth
from tho beloved child, who seemed to
him so traitorous to his love and loyalty,
he went instinctively to spend his
passion upon the river.
Kuth Bedell, gazing at tho loaded
rifie, shuddered. Ilor filial lovo seemed
to have died with those threats.
Her fears was deep, but she had not
told all. George VVinthrop himself,
having made his way socrotly through
niu luiuat iiuui jmnu \ nin\i in, nmi
given hor his own letter uaking leave
from the Squire to visit his newlymade
cabin. From the moment of arrival
her lover had implored her to Hy
with him. Hut filial love was strong
in Kuth to give hopo that her father
would yield to the stronger affection
yet freshened in her heart. Believing
their union might be permitted, she
had pledged herself to escape with her
lover if it wore forbidden. Now he
waited hy the hickory wood for a signal
to conceal himself or come forward.
When Kuth saw her father down the
river she stepped to the MugstulT he
had ruised before building the cabin?
his first duty being to hoist the Union
Jack ! It was the largost (lag he could
procure; ho could see it Hying defiantly
all day long : at night ho could hear its
glorious folds whipping in the wind;
the old Ix)yal 1st loved to fancy his foemen
cursing at it from the other side,
nearly three miles away. Kuth hauled
the Hag down a little, then ran it up to
the masthead ugain.
At that a tall ycung fellow came
springing into tho clearing, jumping
exultantly over brush heups and tree
trunks, his queue waggling, his eyes
bright, glad under his three-cornered
hat. Joying that hor father had yield-'
ed. he ran forward till ho saw Kuth's
tilUl'U
"What, sweetheart!?crying? It
was the signal to come on," cried ho.
" Yoh ; to hoo you sooner, Georgo.
Father is out yonder. Hut, no, ho will
never, never consent."
"Then you will come with ino,
love?" he said, taking her hands.
" No, no, I dare not," sobbed Ituth.
" Father would overtake uh. Ho swears
to shoot you on sight! Go. George!
Fscapo while you can ! Oh, if ho should
11 nd you here !"
Hut, darling lovo, we need not fear.
Hut " thep he thought how weak j
her face, " wo might cross hero boforo I
* . " ' 4 " ' ' * a. . ...
he could come up !" erieil Wiuthrop, d
looking toward where the Squire's boat f
was now a distant blotch.
" No, no," wailed lluth, yet yielding f
to his embrace. "This is the lust time
1 shall see you forever. Co, love? i:
forever and forever good-bye, my love, 1
iuv love."' <]
But he elusped her in his strong urms, 1
kissing, imploring, cheering her?and 1
how should true love choose hopeless u
renunciation V
Tempting, defying, regaining his c
lost ground, drifting down, again try- s
ing hard to tire out and subdue his '
heart-pangs, Bedell dallied with death I
more closely than ovor. Often he could >
see the wide, smooth curve where tho
green volumo lirst lapses vastly on a \
lazy slope, to shoulder up bolow a huge
calm billow, before pitching into the f
madness of waves whose confusion of ji
tnaalno .....1 I < 1
v\'nmu^ iiuu VUI VUI UVI V IUOIO llVII'I'lUn I'll
the uby?s. The afternoon grew toward j
evening before he pulled steadily home, (
crawling away from the roarers against t
the cruel green. watching the ominous
cloud with some such grim humor as if t
under observation by an overpowering
but bullied enemy. t
Approaching his landing, a shout t
drew Bedell's glance ashore to a group
of men excitedly gostieuluting'. They t
seemed motioning him to watch the i
American shore. Turning, he saw a I
boat in midstream, where no craft then t
on the river, except his own skill, <]
could be safe unless manned by several (]
good rowers. Only two oars wore s
Hashing. Bedell could make out. two t
figures indistinctly. It was clear they
were doomed?though still a full mile i
above tho point whence he had come, t
they were much further out than he u
when near the rapids. s
Vet one life might be saved 1 In- n
stantly Bedell's bow turned outward, i
and cheers Hung to him from shore. <;
At that moment he looked to his own \
landing-place, and saw that his larger i
boat was gone. Turning again, he 1
angrily recognized it, but kept right 1
on?he must try to rescue even n thief,
lie wondered Kuth had not prevented a
the thieft, but had 110 suspicion of the \
truth. Always lie had refused to let f
her go out upon the river?mor- 1
tally fearing It for her. 1
f Ph iMKt.i nor hin ultilV mitr)ifSl\r fiu?ufuml *
?often it glanced, balf-whiried by up- 1
whelming and spreading1 spaces of 1
water the old I loyalist's heart was t
uit of lits pangs, and saw only with j
certainty he must abandon one human <
soul to death. lly the time that ho
could reach the larger boat his would
be too near the rapids for escape with 1
three !
When Goorge saw licdoll in pursuit, j
he bent to his ash blades more strongly,
and Uu?h trembling to remember
her father's threats, urged her lover v
to speed. They feared the pursuer
only, quiet unconscious that they were '
in tlie remoreless grasp of the river.
Until had so often seen her father far
lower down than they had yet drifted
that she did not realize the truth, and 1
George, just arrived from a distant district,
was unaware of the long cataracts 1
above the Kalis. ]
llo was also deceived by the stream's 1
treacherous smoothness and, instead of <
half-upward, pulled straight across as <
if certainly able to land anywhere lie 1
might touch the American shore. <
licdoll looked over his shoulder
often. When he distinguished a wo- i
man he put on more force, but slackened
soon?the pull home would tax his
endurance, ho collected. In some sort
it was a relief to know that one was
a woman ; lie had been anticipating
trouble with two men equally bent on
being saved. That the man would 1
abandon himself bravely, he being
brave, scarcely doubted.
Kor awhile he thought of pulling 1
with the woman to the American 1
shore, more easily to be gained from
the point wliero the rescue must oe
cur. ism 110 rejected the plan confident
lie could win back, for lie had
sworn novor to set foot on that soil.
Had it boon possible to save both he
would have boon forced, despite his
vow, but the squire knew that was impossible?three
would overload his boat
beyond escape.
Having carefully studied landmarks
for his position. Hedell turned to look
again at the doomed boat. At that
glance a well-known ribbon caught his
attention. The old man dropped his
oars, confused with horror. "Sly God,
niv God, it's liuth!" he cried, and the
whole truth came with another look,
for ho had not forgotten George Winthrop.
"Your father stops, Ruth. Perhaps
ho is in pain," suggested George to the
qnuking girl. She looked back.
"What can it bo?" she cried, filial
love returning overmaster!ugly.
"Perhaps he is only tired." George
alTccted carelessness, his first thought
being to secure his bride, and pull* d
hard away to get all advantage from
UcdolPs stop.
"Tired! lie is in danger of the falls,
then!" screamed Ruth. "Stop! Turn!
Rack to him!"
Winthrop instantly prepared to obey.
"Yes darling," ho said, "we must not
think of ourselves. We must go back
to save him!" Yet his was a sore
groan at turning: what duty ordered
was so Hard Ho must give up his luvo
for the sako of tho enemy!
Hut wliilo Winthrop was still pulling
round tho old Loyalist resumed rowing
with a more rapid stroke that soon
brought him alongside.
I Jn those moments of waiting all Hedell's
life, his personal hatreds, his
loves, his sorrows, had boon reviewed
before his soul. Ho had seen again
his sons, the slain in battle, in tho
pride of their young might; and tho
I gentle eyes of Ruth had pleaded with
| him beneath his dead wife's brow,
liow poor seemed hate how mean and
noor seemed all but Ix>ve and J royalty.
Yes, for he had looked through tho
veil into tho eternal, too, and stood a
trivial creature, before the Almighty
knowing his meaning. Wherefore resolution
and deep peaco had Come up/Of
4hA?Ytn?f
VJll UIU lUIUli (
They wondered at his look. No
wrath was there. The old eyes were j
calm and loving, a gentle smile lliek- !
orcd about his 1 ij?h. Or.ly that ho was <
very j>ale, Iiuth would havo been whol- '
ly glad for the hapoy cliango. (
"Forgivo mo, fatlior," she criod, as ^
ho laid a hand on their boat.
"I do, my child," ho answered, j
"Come now without an instant delay j
to mo." I
"Oh, father, if you would let us bo ,
happy!" cried Ruth, heart-torn by two {
loves. ,
"Dear, you shall be happy. 1 was t
wrong, child, I did not understand how t
you loved him. Rut come! You hesi- |
late: Winthrop, my won, you are in j
Homo danger. Into this boat instantly!
Both of you! Tako the oars, George. ,
Kiss ino, dear, my Kuth, onco more. ,
Good-bye, my little girl. Winthrop, t
be good to her. And may God bloso j
you both forever!" f
Aw the old woldier spoke ho stopped
into tho larger boat. instantly releasing
tbo wkilf. liiw imperative gentioyiews
bad secured bis object without t
lows of time, and the boats wero apart <1
with Winthrop'a readiness to pull, ?
"Now row! How for hor life to^on- b
lor shore! Bow well up! Awaylortho
alls will luivo hor."
"Hutyou!*' oriod Winthrop, bonding
or his stroke.
Yet ho did not comprohond Bedell's
ncaning. Till the last the old man
uid spoken without excitement. Dread
>f the river was not on Goorgo?his
>liss was supromo in his thought, and
10 took tho squire's order for one of exiggcrutcd
alarm.
"How, I say, with all your st ongth,"
tried Bedell, with a Hash of anger that
out the young fellow away instantly.
'How! Concern yourself not for mo.
am going Homo. How! for her life,
bVinthron! God will deliver you yet.
"Good-hye, children. Bomoinber alvays,
my blessing is freely given you."
"God bless and keep you forever,
ather!" cried Butli, from the distance,
is her lover pulled away.
They landed, conscious of having
>assed a swift current, indeed: hut
|UJM) U11L (11111\ 1 Ug OI 1111} pi'lCO |>UiU IOI*
lioir safety.
Looking back on the darkling river,
boy saw nothing of tiie old man.
"I'oor father!" sighed Uutli: how
cind ho was! I'm soro-hearted for
(linking of him at homo, so lonely."
I .eft alone, Bedell stretched with
ho long, heavy ours for his own shore,
nuking appearance of strong exertion,
hit wlieft he no longer feared that
hoy might turn back with sudden unlorstauding,
and vainly, to his aid, he
Iraggod the boat slowly, watching her
wift drift down?down toward the
oworlng mist.
Then as he gazed at the cloud rising
u two distinct volumes, came a
bought spurring the Loyalist spirit in
in instant. Thereafter he pulled
teadily, powerfully, noting landmarks
mxiously, studying currents, considerng
always their trend to or from his
iwn shore. Half an hour had gone
vhen ho again dropped into slower
notion. Then he could see (lout Isand's
upper end between him and the
nistof the American Kail.
Bedell was Hearing the first long
uvoop downward at the rapids' head
vhen those watching him despairingly
roni the high bunk below the Cliip>owa
Uiver's mouth saw him put his
>oat stern with the current and cease
owing entirely, facing fairly the up usliing
mist to which he was being
lurried. Then they observed him
itooping, as if wiiting, for a time.
\nd then he knelt with head bowed
lown. Kneeling, they prayed, too.
???
I'llOTUST AC*A INST FltKK SI'tJAIt.
Jecretary Carlisle Siiyn llin Uovoiiiio
on Sugar is mi Absolute Necessity.
The following is tho letter from
Secretary Carl isle protesting against
repeal of the tax on sugar:
Tkkasuuy Dki'akmknt, i
Washington, 1). C., Aug. 15. t
Hon. lsluun G. Harris, Chairman of
the Finance Committee :
Dear Sir Your letter advising mo
that the House of Representatives had
passed and sent to the Senate hills putting
sugar, coal, iron and barbed wire
an the free list and requesting an olliisial
statement from me as to the olToet
that the passage of these hills, or either
of them, would have upon tho revenues
of the government, is received
and in response I have the honor to say
that according to the most careful estimates
that can he made, if no change
ismado in the proposed revenue legislation
which has recently passed
through Congress, the total receipts into
the Treasury during the current liscal
year will be as follows:
From duties on imports, Senate bill,
including $43,000,000 on sugar, $170,000,000
from internal taxes?whiskey $05,000,000;
tobacco, $.'{.'{,000,000; fermented
liquors, $.'{.'1,000,000?income, $15,000,000
; oleomargarine, $1,800,(MM); playing
cards, $1,000,000 ; miscellaneous, $200,000;
from sale of lands and other miscellaneous
sources, $20,000,000. Grand
total $378,000,000.
Tho estimated receipts for the present
liscal year from the proposed tax
011 income and playing cards and tinproposed
addition tax of 20 cents per
gallon 011 distilled spirits, are, it will
he observed, much less than is stated
in the various tabulated statement
which have been heretofore used in
the discussion of these subjects, but
I am satistied the amounts here given
are approximately correct. The proposed
income tax will not become payable
by the terms of the bill recently
passed, until on or before July ], 181)0,
"which is the closo of the liscal year,"
and it is estimated by the commissioner
of internal revenue that by reason of
the large stock on hand, the receipts
from the tax on playing cards will not
umount to more than $1,000,000 during
the year. The estimated increase of receipts
011 account of the additional tax
on distilled spirits during the present
year lias already been prevented to
a great extent by the withdrawal of
large quantities of goods from the
bonded warehouses and the payment
of the tax thereon, 00 cents, and this
process is still going on.
The total expenditures during the
current fiscal year will bo as follows:
Civil and miscellaneous, including deficiencies
in postal revenues, $00,000,000;
war, including rivers and harbors,
$50,000,000 : navy, including new vessels
and armament, $33,00,000; Indians,
$10,000,000 ; pensions, $1-13,f>00,000 ; interests,
$30,500,000 ; total, $303,000,000 ;
estimated surplus, $15,000,(K)0.
The duty on sugar proposed in the
recent bill will, according to importations
of that article during the fiscal
year 1803, yield an annual revenue of
$42,478fl>58, and the duties on the other
articles mentioned in your communication
would yield under that hill about
$1,000,000 ; that is to say, iron ore, $27<>,020:
coal, $420,149, and barbed wire,
fencing wire and wire rods, of iron or
steel, when imported for the manufacture
of barbed wiro fencing, about
$800,000.
It will bo soon, therefore, that if sugar
alone is placed upon the free list,
the expenditures during the present fiscal
year, will exceed the receipts to the
amount of $28,478,058, and is the duties
aro removed from all the articles specified
in your letter, the deficit will bo
$29,478,058 not including any expenditures
on account of tho sinking fund,
i)r the payment of $2,808,000 of Pacific
railroad bonds, which will mature during
tho fiscal yoar. In view of tho existing
proposition and roqulrmonts of
the public seryico, J ipp of the opinion
that it would not bo safe to place all
the articles onumoratod in your letter,
>r even sugar alone, upon tno fret) list,
vithout imposing taxation upon other
irticlcs or subjects sufficient to raise
in annual rovonuo of about $80,000,000.
I have tho honor to bo vory respect fuly
yours. .J. G. CARLISLE.
Note.?Tho bonds of tho Pacific ruil oad
guaranteed by tho government to
Z.f OtO ?)<; > ? A A !
hi; twijvuiii/ ui wv, mutui c (luring
he present flseul your, and tho amount
h not includod in tho almyoostiinuto of
>xpendlturc8,
An operation or* injection of carbolic
icid aro extremely dangerous. Try
apuncBU 1'ileCuro. I'oaitivolv guar*
nteod by Carpenter Bros., Greenville,
?, C,
Til 1;TARIFF TERMINAL'
End of (he Great Struggle in
Congress.
tiit. si <jait mhnatorh ark triumphant.
Tim House Yielded to tli? I'fcs'.iiM'
atul Quickly Surrcmlcrod- Scci'i!*
tary Carlisle I'rotestH Against Kit?
Slipup -Continent* on the New Tariff
Schedule*.
Tito fjreat struggle over the turilT
ended last week in a triumph for the
Democratic Senators who held out
against free sugar, Iron, coal and
barbed wire. They dictated the tor inn
to the House, which receded from its
ii:.... ..... *i? .......?i 11...1 ii.. i?*
I'vmii umi nil tni; ^lUlUlU l/IUlt tfll' nt'llllir
bill was better than to do without uny
legislation on the turilT, and under the
guidance of Speaker Crisp and Chuirinan
Wilson, the Democratic I Representatives
agreed to accept the Senate
hill, which ended the light very
quickly.
The House coupled with Its agree*
mont the introduction and passage of
separate Dills to secure free sugar, free
coal, free iron ore and free barbed
wire, hut none of these measures will
stand the ghost of a chance to pass the
Senate. They were practically killed
when sent to the Senate, and the House
only intended to make a record before
the country as boing squarely in favor
of adhering to the pledges of the Democrats
along this line, placing the responsibility
for failure upon the Democratic
Senators who refused to carry out
these pledges.
Washington, Aug. II.?There was
something of a Hurry about the Senate
to-day during the earlier hours of the
session when the four separate tariff
hills came over from the House, for it
was feared that in some way, action
might be forced and a showing of
hands compelled to be made. Kspeei..iu.
....... ....... ..t ii.. I.MI
(n i > n un I/I1ID H ilt: <11 tin; III l l 1,1) (Mil SUKar
on the freo list. There appears,
however, to be no rope for any of these
bills t?> heroine laws, as there is a disposition
on the part of the leaders to
smother them in cominitteo. The sugar
bill, of course, possesses the most
political significance and it cannot be
doubted, but that thore are very many
Democrats who would like tho opportunity
to vote upon tho question of
free sugar as an independent proposition.
The Republicans can he depended
upon to do all they can to prevent the
Democrats from carving out any desire
they may have in this direction,
and they base their intention upon the
statement that it would be bad politics.
One of the leaders said to-night
that the Republicans made free sugar
and gave the growers a bounty, and
that the Democrats repealed that law.
Now tho Democrats wanted tho Republicans
to assist them in putting sugar
back on the free list without the
bounty. This the Republicans will not
do. it is believed that all theso bills
will be sent to the finance committee
without much trouble, this being the
usual course. Should there be any effort
on the part of those anxious for
free sugar to attempt to prevent this
and secure immediate action, as Mr.
Vest suggested to-day, then tho bills
will be called ui> one at a time and
made the basis for the formation of
another new tariff hill. Hill began
that work to-day when he gave notice
of an amendment providing for the repeal
of the income tax.
Stewart is ready to lay before the
Senate a free coinage amendment for
each of fhe independent bills. Allen
will oiler us an uinondin tit the I'olTor
tarilT bill, mul AUlrich will oiler tin
amendment that repeuls the emoting
clause of the hill to which tho llouso
agreed yostorday. A most determined
light will bo commenced should there
Ik-, any disposition shown to treat t hese
independent measures with any decree
of soriott-iiesu.
In view of th- anxiety of members of
Congress to got away and secure tho
dose of ml business, it does not appear
how a quorum can be maintained to
keep up this sort of thing, for the Republicans
would insist that the J)omocrats
provide the quorum with which
the Senate should do business. Already
Senators are preparing to leave
the city, Teller and Dixon having taken
their departure. In the House a number
of members have gone and the prediction
is mado in the Senate by both
; Democrats and Republicans that, tho
end of this week will liml the Senate
without a quorum.
The only thing' that now keeps the
Senate is the sundry civil bill, and the
tar'. IT bill, which will roach the president
to-morro\v, with these two things
out of the way thero would be no reason
why an adjournment should not follow.
Senators do not place much faith
in the story that the llouso will refuse
to adjourn until the Senate acts upon
the bills mentioned, but as soon as matters
now attracting tho attention of tho
Senate are out of the way. the House
I will bo put to the tost by tho passing
on tbo part of tho Senate of a joint
resolution providing for a timo for adjournment
sine dip. Any attempt to
frustrate an adjournment moans tho inauguration
of a period of filibustering
and tbo consumption of time by tbo
Senate with tbo inevitable result that
nothing will bo accomplished.
Washington, Aug. 1 .*>.?During tbo
routine morning business, tho chief
clerk of the House delivered a message
from t he House notifying tho Senate
of tbo discharge of tho House conferees
on the tarilT bill, and of the fact
that the House had receded from its
disagreement to the Senate amendments,
and further that he (the clerk)
had boon directed to presont to tbo
Senate tbo signature of its President,
the enrolled tarilT bill. Within a few
minutes afterwards tho Vice President
announced that he bad signed the
tarilY bill.
Quay gave notlco that ho would offer
as an amondment to the four bills putting
sugar, coal, iron ore and barbed
wlro on tho froo list, tho McKinloy
tarilT hilj.
Hutier offered a resolution, whioh
was referred, instructing tho committoo
on intor-Stato commerce to inquire
and reoort as to tho froicht and imls
songer charges differential, oto., of tho
Sou thorn Steamship and Railway Association.
At tho request of Harris, each of tho
four Houbo bills as to sugar, coal, iron
ore and barbed wire, was taken up and
received its second reading. This formality
having boon accomplished, Harris
rose and said : I deem it my duty
to submit to the Senate a communication
from the .Secretary of tho Treasury
received this morning. The letter
was read from the clerk's desk.
Horry moved, as soon as tho reading
was completed, that the Senate pro
eeod ut onco to the consideration of the
free sugar bill.
Harris: "1 tool it my duty to nay a
'word and to make a motion to refer
these bills to the finance committee.
While 1 am heartily in favor of fro?
sugar, raw and refined, and have certainly
no objections to putting the other
articles dealt wit h by the other bills
on the fro? list, still, in view of the
communication just read from the Secretary
of the Treasury and the strong
probability (if not the absolute certainty)
that if these bills shall beeomo
law, we will have during the current
year a deficieney in the Treasury of
or *:!<>,000,000, I feel it 'my
duty to*move to refer each of those
bills to the finance committee in order
I that the committee may, in dealing
with those hills, so deal with them as
to provide against that inevitable dolieiency.
I do not. think that Congress
can all'ord to adjourn withoutsuch provision
as will ellectuall/ guard against
such deficiency : and for that reason,
ami that reason only. I move that those
bills ho referred to the cominitteo on
finance."
Speeches against a reference and in
favor of the House bill wore in ado by
Horry, Vest and Mills. Vest's speech
was made in the execution of his promise
to turn tins calcium light on the
history of tins hill in the finance committee,
the Democratic caucus and the
conference committee. As us ml, ho
was earnest and impassioned, and there
was no lack of frankness or plain
sneaking in his remarks. His allusions
to the President were especially
entertaining to Senators and to the
galleries.
The President found a defender in
Vilas, and the action of the Democratic
party in Congress in passing the
bill was supported and justified by Palmer.
Tho day's proceedings were closed
with a highly amusing scene between
Chandler and Harris, in which Chandler
borrowed the words, tone and manner
of Harris on several occasions
during tho debate of the tariff bill?to
the ellcct that the day had been wasted
in useless discussion, and that the
country was weary of such debates and
was demanding immediate action.
Notico of an amendment to a free sugar
bill was given by Jones of Arkansas,
imposing a duty of .'10 per cent, ad
valorem on all sugars. Without any
action whatever on tho bill, the Senate
at fi.Uo p. m. adjourned.
W lUIIIMrlTAXT A in. I C. I ?......! .1 ....
I ...f.lltio I nil A. l UOUU'llV
| Cleveland loft tho city earlyithis morning.
l'rivuto Secretary Thurber makes
public tin' following' statement in regard
to tho 1'resident's departure :
41 Tlio President left this morning
for a fow duys' absence under the mivice
of his physician, in tho hope of
shaking otT an attack of malaria from
which ho has been suffering for several
days. Yesterday, the attack culminated
in a fever which was under control
this morning. Dr. O'lteilly, his
physician, expressed no doubt that a
few days of salt air will recuperate the
President sutliciently to renew his ollieial
duties, and he will return to
Washington by the middle of next
week. He has gone to Cray Cables,
and is accompanied by Dr. O'lteilly."
The President has never fully recovered
from an attack of malaria
which caused him to make two trips in
the light house tender down the Chesapeake
Day and outside the capes.
Anxiety over the tariff situation is
supposed to have aggravated the indisposition,
and when the matter was
ended by the action of the House in
| passing the tariff hill, the relaxation
came and intulo a change of air necesnary.
I 'resident Clovolarul took no action
upon the tarilT i>ill boforo liis departure
beyond Bonding it to tho Secretary
of tho Treasury for a report, as is customary
with all revenue bills.
It will be necessary for tho President
to be back in Washington by
Tuesday next. The resolut ion continuing
appropriations expires Monday,
but the sundry civil bill has not been
signed and all appropriations carried
by it for last year will cease Monday,
unless tho President returns and gives
the bill for the current year his approval.
The river and harbor bill also awaits
the action of tho President, and there
is much speculation as to whether ho
will approve it or not. Many of tho
appropriations carried by it will cease
if it is not approved by luesday.
? ?
HOW BUTLER LOOKS AT IT.
A ltUVir.W OP THIO SKNATOltlAfi
CAMPAIGN,
Hcnator lluilcr is Confident of Success
?He Fount I an Unscrupulous Iting
in South Carolina Politics?Gliaos
and Confusion Throughout (lie
state.
Washington, August l.'J.?Special:
The News and Courier correspondent
to-day had the following interview
with Senator Hutler:
' What is tho outcome of the State
canvass in South ('arolina V"
" Politically chaos."
l)o you mean to say that all politi
eai parties are ut bow V"
" That iH exactly what 1 mean to
say. The Democratic party is divided
into two factions, the Conservative
and Reform factions. The Republican
party is showing some animation and
appears to bo getting ready to take
advantage of the Democratic split.
Tho Third I'artyites are taking comfort
and courage from Democratic delays
and dissensions in Washington,
and so it goes. So you can see what
Tillniupisin has done for tho Democratic
party in South Carolina."
" What will tho Conservatives doV"
44 Saw wood and say nothing. They
aro thirty-five or forty thousand
strong, and have been disfranchised, so
far as tho nomination for Govornor is
concerned, by tho ring in control of
tho tifty thousand Reform faction.
Do you suppose that many white men
will submit to disfranchisement V'
AN' UNSCUUPLOU8 KING.
44 Do you say the Reform faction is
controlled by a ring ?"
"The most unscrupulous ring that
over dominated tho politics of any
country, but I am not alono authority
for tho charge. You may remember
that mv nnllnnirim Vf.? I ..K.. ! ?
---j \?u) iui . it uy, acliu ill
most emphatic terms last winter or
soring that there was a ''State IIouso
ring1' in Columbia. Keformors have,
during the recent canvass, iterated anil
reiterated that there was a ring in the
ltofortn faction. Every intelligent man
in the State knows it is truo, anil the
masses of the Heformors are kicking
violently against the ring and its llagrant
methods. ThoUoforiu candidates
who have been and will bo slaughtered
by tho ring arc vory much outraged,
and I do not bolievo will quietly submit."
THE DAY OF KECKONINCt AT IIAND.
" What will bo tho upshot of theso
CvHiditions ?
"In my judgmont tho Conservative
element will indue time come to tho
front apil bring opqer out of chaos, and
give us rolief from tho confusion and
wrangling which tho ring has brought
upon our politics. On the Htuuip and
otherwise I havo warned our people
of tho dangers of division. So have
Messrs. Tlndal. Kllerbo and Pope,
Reform candidates for Governor, and
other Reformer*. Tho ring ruler*
have mot appeals with scorn and
dorislon, and the day of reckoniug for
them will coiuo in tho near future.
'I'llK DIBl'KNSAItY COUKUI'TION.
" What about tho dispensary ?"
"Oh, wol', tho dispensary is a huge
political machine which has borrowed
tho livery of temperance and morality
to servo the ring in. It it hoooy* j
combed with corruption, and if it# I
management is ever investigated and
tho facts disclost d you will see a soothing
mass of corruption that will
astonish the people of tho country. It
has boon reopened without the consout,
as I am informed, of two of tho three
members of the State board of control,
and I have no doubt is to be run in the
interest and for tho benefit of tho ring
candidates. r
W 1IKKI.S WITHIN WIIKKI.S. ']
14 IMniruiitPu i .
tho political machinery that nobody
except tlio.se in the ring an understand
it. Let ino see if I can state the n
situation so that you can comprehend I
it: On Saturday, the !>th instant, the i,
Lie form clubs were to meet and i leet s
delegates to a County Convention.
This Convention is to meet on tho l.'lth
and send delegates to a State 1 Inform '
Convention to meet in Columbia on the C
Kith. The State Convention is expected
to nominate a candidate for Cover- f
nor and Lieutenant Gjvernor. Mind
you, now, tho Conservatives are to
have no voieo in this business, but. as
1 bavo said, are disfranchised. Then <
there is to bo a primary on the iWth
of August, not to vote for Governor
and State ollieers, but to appoint delegates
to a State Convention to meet
some time in September to nominate '
candidates to be voted for at the
general election in November. Follow
this problem through and you will see
that the people are cut off from giving
a direct vote for any olllce except at \
the November election. 1 have stated (
the ease as I understand it, and if a j
more adroit scheme could be devised
to bamboo/lo the people and defeat a
free expression of their wishes I
should bo obliged to have it suggested. '
And yet we are told one of the cardinal
features of the 1 to for hi movement was
to give the people a direct primary for 1
all public nlliccs. Satan could not t
have hit unon a more nlYootiiiil iiml.hnrl \
to usurp the rights of tho people anil
turn them over, houml hand and foot,
to a handful of soitlsh, corrupt rings
tors."
1?KHSON AI j KXI* K It I F.NC K.
" Senator, you Heem to have survived
tho campaign in good shape." !
"Oh, yes; i was never in hotter
kid tor in my life. I spoke in every
| county, at every eampain meeting and
extra meetings."
" Was there as much excitement as !
represented in tho papers?"
j " I do not think that there was more j
j excitement than usually attends a
political canvass. Tho accounts were
greatly exaggerated and sensational.
With a few exceptions the meetings
wore ijuiet aud orderly?not very
large?and the people listened attentively
and respectfully. Of course ;
at some places a few drunken fellows ;
would create a disturbance, hut they .
wore generally attended by the special j
1 constables or committee of arrangements
and soon suppressed. Personally
1 have no cause of complaint except
on three occasions, when two or throo
j rowdies attempted to interfere with
i me. I had no trouble in thrusting
them aside and in proceeding with my |
speech. Kverywhero tho Committees
and people were us kind and hospitable
j to me as they could possibly he and
! appeurcd anxious to hear me speak.
: 'I ho canvass has had a good etTcet in
i shaking things up and, as I have said,
1 believe order will come out of the
political chaos into which ring rule
1 has brought us. And I want to say
| anothor thing: Some of tho stump
speeches wore as fine and instructive
as I ever listened to?notably so with s
1 several of the candidates fill- State .
I otliccs, whoso names I will not mention
' as 1 do notoaro to discriminate."
NOT I'OCK BUltK,, HUT HOPKKUL.
" What about your ro-oloction
lt Well, you know, thoro arc few
I things more uncertain than a popular
' election, unless it bo the verdict of a
! petit jury, but 1 have tho strongest
reasons for believing I will succeed
I myself. Throughout tho entire disI
eussson not one word was said against
\ my public sorviee or otlieial record,
! except that 1 had voted for Judgo
! Simonton's continuation. That, you
I know, was tho veriest stulT and nonsense.
I have pop'* face to faeoSvith
] tho people, given an account of my
1 stewardship, and they must now settle
it. Although I say it myself, 1 am
quite sure i can represent the peoplo
better and more acceptably than any
man they can send, and in this I
believe they agree with me. Tho
only reason assigned for my retirement
that I know of is that I have
been hero a long time. This bettor
qualifies me for the duties of tho position
and fits me to discharge its re->
sponsibilltiOH more satisfactorily. Ono
tiling has gratified mo inexpressibly,
i tho cordial and hearty reception
| tendered mo yesterday on my return
| to the Senate by my colleagues on both
' sides of the chamber and by the Senate
employees without oxccption. If left i
I to a veto of my associates who have
served with mo hero so many years I
; think 1 could safely count on its being
; unanimous."
Johnson's Magnetic Oil cures cramps j
! apd colic und internal neuralgia: 40 i
god 75 cents. Sold at Carpcntor Bros., '
Greenvillo, S. ('.
Japanese I Jvor I'ollets are tho best
; family medicine for liver complaint i
: and constipation. 50 pills in vial 25 i
cents. Sold atCarpenter Bros., Greenville,
S. C. ,
Mental depression, wakefulness, lost
manhood caused by errors of youth or J
later excesses quickly cured by Magpotie
Nervine. Guaranteed by Carpenter
Bros., Gfoepville, S. p.
? ?r?
Itch on human, mango on horses*
dogs and all stock, cured in 30 minutes
by Wolford's Sanitary l.ot.ion. This .
never fails. Sold by Sloan Bros.,
Druggists, Greenville, S. C.
ftiTWfr JOHNSON'S
ilIBI^i MAGNETIC OIL! 1
?nstant Killer of Pain.
9 V.pl Internal and External.
^ Ak j Cures RHEUMATISM, NEURAL*
. OlA, latino li.'K'k. Hpralnn. Rruine-?.
^ . -iL-nE.. .Swelling*. Stiff Joints, UOI.IO anil r
vS?Nft2L?.(:j{AMl H Instantly. Cholera M r
Croup,Dlptherla, HflTe Throat,
n3QK?&EMHhlKAI>ACilK, as It by magic.
TUC UnDQF OQAun Especially prepared for
I fit nUnOL DnANU, stock, J>outilo Strength,
tho moat Powerful and PenetrnUriitLInlmentfor Man
or it oast la exUtoaco. Largo 1 size 75c., 50c. ol/o iOc.
JOHNSON'S ORIENTAL SOAP. 1
aindicAtod and Toilet. Tho Ureat 8kin Curo and
* noe Beautlflor. Lntiios will flud It the mo-t
delicate and highly perfumed Toilet Soap cm
l tho market. It In absolutely pure. Makes tho
! i.kln soft nnd volvety and restores tho lost oom?
plexloni 1? n luxury for tho Bath for Infants. J
It nlays Itching. oleniiRes the soalp and ptoniotes
fho growth of hair. Prloo 5Sc. For aalo by
Carpenter Hkob , Greenville,8 C
A VEST- POCKET*
tK'tnedj ? Dr.
Put up in little
that you know p\
There's nothng
in tin1 way of pills so small or so
asy to take as these little IVllcts.
There's nothing s<? easy and natural
ii m mm -noming imil can do as
nuch lasting good. Thov absolutely
,nd permanently cure Constipation,
iiliousncss, Indigestion, Sick or Bilous
Headache;, .laumlicc, Sour
itomaeh, and Dizziness. All deangements
of liver, stomach, and
unvols arc prevented, relieved, and
aired.
They're guaranteed to give jr-tisaction,
or your money is returned.
^ is perfectly, pcrina1/
by Dr. S.-igr's
f this medicine prove
^a case of Catarrh
vhieh they cannot cure. By all
lealcrs in medicines50 cents.
.1. IIIONmtIX M l,AN 10.
)ealli 11I' a Man Once Prominent in
South Carolina Politics.
Mr..), llentlrix Mcl.ane died in Coum))la
on tho 11111 inst. lie was a
ienrgiun by birth, and was fort *ILICl
cars old at the time of his death.
111 early age lie moved to Fairnoid
Jounty, where spent the remainder of
lis life until about ten vmns jiorn
Iii 1S7 ; Mr. Mt'Ijiino was an ardent
[Vmorrat and took an active part in
,he Wade Hampton campaign of that
fear. Boeoining disgruntled from
ion 10 on use or other ho soon showed
lis ilToct ion to the Democratic party,
mil became I he advocate of Greenbacksni
and kindred doctrines. In 1S82 ho
vmh the Greenback candidate for Governor,
but was most ignominiousiy de'eated
by Governor Hugh S. Thomp*
i in. the Democratic uominoc. Mr.
MeLune was not allowed to speak in
nvcrnl of the counties of the State, and
11 KnirHeld, his adopted county, the
'eeling was so great against him that
10 had to bo protected from bodily
larin by cool heads from the fury of
die mob.
In I^SJ he started the Koforin Signal
n Columbia to further his doctrines,
hit his paper soou came to grief, and
McLuno left the State and went to
Massachusetts^ whore ho entered TufTs
Jollego and studied for the ministry,
lo was licensed to preach, but was
irevouted from doing so by had health.
lo interested Senator Hoar and' other
iromincnt Republicans in Mussachuietts
in his causo, and from them seiurod
funds with which to buy the Counibia
Uoeord, which was run under
.ho editorial management of Mr.
jibbes Gardner. The Kecord made no
irogress and was sold out, and Mr.
McLuno disappeared entirely from pubic
view.
Ho was married twice, his second
vife being u lady from Fair Hold who
mrvives him.
AN INTERESTING SKETCH.
Nothing appenls bo strongly to a mother's
affection as ner daughter Just hmlding Into
womanhood. Following is an Instance: "Our
daughter, Blanche, now 16 yoars of age, had
been terribly ufllloted with nervousness, and
had lost the cntlro uro of her right arm. Bho
was in Buch a condition that we had to keep
her from school and abandon her music lossons.
In fact, wo feared Ht. Vitus diuice, and
arc jKjsltivo but for an invaluable r^moiiv b>>/?
would havo bad that terrible atUlctlon. NVo
had vmployod physicians, but she receivod no
benefit from them. Tho first of last August she
weighed but 75 pounds, and although sho has
taken only threo bottles of Nervine sho now
weighs 106 pounds: her uorvpusness and symptoms
of 8t. Vitus danco aro entirely gone, sho
attends school regularly, and studies with comfort
and ease. Sue has recovered complete use
Df her arm, her appetite ia splendid, and no
rnoney could procure for our daughter the health
l?r. Miles' Norvlne has brought her.
Whon my brother recommended tho remedy
I had no faith in patent nuf 'lines, and would
not listen to him, but as a lau'Tcsort he sent m
it bottle, wo began giving it to Dlanchc, and th?
cft'oct was almost iimuodlato."?Mrs. It. K.j
lhillock, Brighton, N. Y.
L)r. Nliles' ltcstoratlvo Nervlno is sold by all:
druggists on a positive guarantee, or sent direct
by tno Dr. Miles Medical Co., Klkhart, Ind., on
receipt of prlco, 81 per bottle, six bottles for 8ft,
express prepaid. It Is positively free from
ablates or daugurous drugs.
Sold by Carpenior Hro?.. DmtfgUt.
Soheduie of Local Mail Koutes.
tOUTE NO. 20278.?Kroin Gallvants Ferry
to Conway, mail arrives 1.4ft p in,on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday; leavoH at
2.80 p m on same days. Mail closes at
2.9ft.
tOUTE NO. 20280.?Fr$p?Conway to Hireway,
N. 0.. mail arrives ,at 4:;;0 p m on
Tii-sday, Thursday and Sh'urday; leaves
at ft p m on same (lays, Mail closes nt
4)65 p 111,
IOUTK NO. 20281.?From Conway via
Forney, Jordanvllle, Gideon, Indiana and
return, mall arrives at 7 pm on Tuesday,
Thursday nn?? Saturday; leaves at 0 a in
on Monday, Wodnesday and Friday. Mail
closes nt 9 p in.
IOUTK NO. 20iS'2.?From Conway to Lit.
tie River, mall arrives at ft p m on Monday,
Wednesday ant Friday; leaves at 7
a .?i Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Mail closes nt i> p in.
tOUTK NO. 207S!;,.-From Conway to Fort
Ilarrelson. mail'arrives daily at 12 ms
leaves dolly at 1:1ft p in. Mail closes at
1.40 p m.