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4.a ___H ]PEOPL3 SJO RA._ 1OL. 6.---NO. j6 PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 7, r396. ; DIAZ, THE BAPTIST MISSIONARY, WHAT 11E HAS ACCOMPLISHII) IN CUBA. Shot at in Ills Pulpit, Arrested and Jalled-iH Has Organized (ihuriiches and1 Sutnday Schools and Started Cemieteries. Ecw York Sun. Alberto J. Diaz, the Baptist nis slonary, has been drivon into the sea by Spanish troops, put in jail for preaching the gospel, his clothing torn from him by a mob and has been shot at in the pulpit. Ho has con verted 3,000pooplo in 10 years. His history is a remarkable story of mis sionary work. Ho was born near Habana 44 years ago and was one of 24 children, his mother having married at the age of 12. His father was a Habana apothe cary of some means, and $10,000 was spent on Alberto's education. 'Ile was graduated from the University of Habana in both literary and medical departments and began 1ife as a physi cian. Shortly after he was graduated the "'I on Years' War " broke out and Diaz went into the camp of the rebels, and was made a captain of cavalry. Ono afternoon he was sent ahead of his command to find a camping place for the night. The Spanish troops cut the two men off from their com panions and drove Diaz and his com panion to a point of land that made out I Into the sea. When darkness came on, I the two rebels drove their horses into a thicket, dmliounted and lashing their beasts, sent them ahead, hoping the Spanish troops would porsuo the rider less horses in the dark. But the I Spanish troops halted at the thicket I for the night, knowing that they had the two men on the point of land and could capture them at daylight. Diaz knew that capture meant death, and during the night he and i his companion dragged a log out of i the woods and pushed out to sea upon ( it. They calculated that a current a would carry them down the coast out t of harm's way, but at sunrise they < found themselves at sea out of sight of I land. They drifted about without I food or drink until Diaz's companion I hecame unconscious, fell into the sea a and was drowned. Thon Diaz became N unconscious from exhaustion, and I while in this condition he was picked I up by a fishing vessel and transferred a to another craft bound for New York. I H1e arrived here penniless and friend- I less. He found support as a reader I in a cigar factory employing Cubans. i lie boarded in Brooklyn, was stricken i with phneumnonia, and it was thought I he would die. Miss Alice Tucker, a i Christian worker, boading in the same I house with Diaz, left a New Testament i in his room, which resulted, so he says, 4 in his conversion, and impelled him to missionary work. Upon his recovery Diaz was bap tized in Gothsemano Baptist church, Willoughoy avenue, Brooklyn, and I was sent by the congregation-the I rebellion having onded-as a colpor- < teur to Cuba. Later he was aided by < the female Bible society of Philadel- I phia, after wbich the -Lon.s Mission board of the Southern Baptist conven tion supported him. le left Habana i with a box of Bibles for a missioniary I tour in the country. On the traid aI Spanish official arrested him, suspect- 1 ing that as Diaz had been a rebel, the I box contained dynamito and not Bibles. Diaz was taken to the nearest prison 1 and placed in one cell, while the box I of Bibles was carefully deposited in another. Notwithstanding contrary E orders from the jail keepers, he a preached, prayed and sang loud i enough for all the other inmates toi hear him, lie protested that lie wits I an American citizen, having been naturalized while in the United States;1 lhe sent word to the American consul I of Hlabana, and in three days Sore-< tary .Jamnes G. i31aine effected his ro- a lease. Afterwards the captured Bibles I sold at a premilum, one having been] bought by the mayor who had con- 1 vieted Diaz, atnd Diaz later hatd the satisfaction of converting the mayori and the jailer. On another' occasion Dilaz and two of his assissants. Godlnez and Herrera, wvent to Guanabacoa to hold an open air meeting, when the three were arrested atnd taken before the mayor on the charge that they had not given< notice of the meeting, its the Spanish I law requires. rThoy wore followed by< a throng of sympathizers, infuriated< and ready to mob the oflicers in charge. 'rThe crowd surrounded the prison, and1 Diaz was obliged to appoear on thei jail balcony andl deliver an address 1 dissuading his adherents from an at-< tempit ax. rescue. A day after, the ire- a qutiredl notice of the meeting wvas I lound in the mayor's oflice, where it had been imislaid. One (day while Diaz, was preaching, so lie states, it shot from behind and above was ii red. Th le ball, passing close to thme intended v ictimi, struck a - boy In froint of him. The screams ofI the woundled boy aroused cries of "Kill the Protestants!" "'Shoot the heretic!" Diaz and his brother wits mobb~ed, their1 clothing wits torn oil', and bruised and bleeding, they were carried hefore the mayor. lie ordered his police to sco them safely on the cars for liabana. Later a priest wits convicted of firing the shot into the meeting aiid sent to Spain for punishment. On a holiday as Diaz wams passing along the seashoro near ilabanat, he met two men fishing, lie beCganl talking of Christ to them. A party of' merrymakers stop~ped to 1lIsten. Others joined the party and soon pco ple came from a distance. Diaz warmi ed to his subject and the crowd be camne still larger. While he was speak ing two pbolicomoen stepped tip to his stand. J!ncouraged by their p~rosene and thiinking they were there to protect him, Diaz watxxd eloquent. When lie had finished ho, was placed under arrest, charged with preaching in the open air, and ho spent several days in jail. Ho has organized in Cuba 30 ehurohes and stations and 20 Sunday schools. Ho has 25 assisting clergymen. Seven of his churches have a membership of 7,000. lie has over 3,000 tehers and pupils, andl annually he baptizes 300 or 4100 persons. The Sout hern Baptist church bought for Diaz, a theatre in Habana at a cost pi $00,000. It seats 3,000 persons. In this building he converted his mother and he says that so overcome was h with joy that he forget the usual cero mony and could only say: " Lor Jesus, this is my mother," and ho in morsed her. When Diaz first wont to the islan the members of his congregation wor refused burial in the consecrated comc tories, then the only burial grounds I Cubit. Diaz overcame this by startinJ rival comoteries. The three cometorle uf the Baptists in Cuba now contal 7r .000 bodies. Diaz was In Now York a few week Lgo raising money for his missions b lecturing on Cuba and he was arrestet its a suspect immediately after arriv ing in Cuba from New York. Th Dhurchcs, school buildings and come tories in Cuba belong to the Amer 'dan Baptists. Diaz has frequent5 spokon In all the large Americar aities. SCRAPS OF UNWRITTEN HISTORY. PHU' LAST CABINET OFFICIR OF THE CONFE1IRACY qar'rates Some Interenting lxcinlents Never Before Published. lon. John H. Reagan, the only sur riving member of the Confederate abinot, recently made an address o inusual interest, in which ho gave >oints of history not generally known .nd heretofore unpublished. Hie 'emarks and illustrations concerning ho life and character of Jogfersor )avis are of especial value, as h rings into prominence some notabl< ncidents in his career as leader of th( jonfcdcracy, from which we quote the ollowing : No man known to history nore ichly deserves a monument to his noory than the president of the late 'onfederacy. The wisdom and cour ge with which he conducted th( .ifairs of the Confederacy ; the extra irdinary fortitude and constancy with whichli he .ndured a long and cruel mprisonment after the fall of the Con edoracy; the ability and fidelity vlhich he displayed afterwards in writing the history of " The Rise and "all of the Confederacy" are generally :nown. But there are some things in which a portion at least of the public iave all the time misunderstood Mr )&vis. And there are some other bings, which illustrate his character, vhich have not been made known t he general public, and to which ] hink it proper now to call attention nattor about which I shall speak frou ny constant association with him dur ug the war, and from porsonal knowl idgo. Many persons have been made tc )elieve that he was solf-willed at 6rbitrary in his action. Nothinf ould be farther from the real truth 3ut it may be said with truth that hi iad two characters; or rather that hil onduct in private life and In socia ircles was different from his action in he discharge of public duties. It >rivato life and in -the family and so ial circles he was of the most genia mnd pleasant men I over know. As ,entle and as tender as a woman, h >ossessed an enlarged knowledge of the >hysical sciences which always made Lim instructive. And his state pa >ers were characterized by an crudi ion rarely, if ever, surpassed by Eng .sh-speaking scholars. In his oflicial apacity he was guided by a strong onse of duty. and had but little tolor tion for that class of men who wort ivon to much talk and had no real nformation to communicate. It h. ikoly that such is the class who as umoed that he was harsh and self. villed. You will understand that Ir xis position his whole time was nec esarily occupied with great duties mnd cares, and that he could not afford o spend his time in unp~rofitable talk n relation to suggestions which have teen made that he was self-willed anc lid not consult others on piublic mecas. iros, I know this to be incorrect Mhon a question of importance cam< ip for consideration, his habit was t< xhaust all available sources of infor nation, whether from persons or docu nonts, and when this had been dont mnd a decision reached, th'at was am md of the question with him. And It ix >robable that persons who, under sucl ircumstancos, still insisted on furthei liscussion, without realizing the pros ure on his time, thought him self villed, You will understand that ont n his position, who had constantly t< >O deciding the course to be pursuoc in groat questions, must have actom ts lhe did in order to get through witi ,be pubiic business. I said there were some things illus ,rative of the character of Mr. Davix tot generally known to the public, Nhon General Grant was moving hit wemy diown the Mississippi bolov9 licksburg, Mr. Davis was notified tha xis Brniarliold plantation and larg< >ropcrty would fall into Federal hands mnd was advised to send and have th< novabie prop~erty carried out of dan er. To this suggestion ho rolplic( hiat the president of the Confedorac2 Mouldl not afford to employ meon to tak< mro of his private property'. Anm wvhcn the Federal army was moving or Jackson, Miss., lhe was acyvised tha xis hxiii home in H~inds County and hit valuablo library and other prop~orta Lhore would fall into lederal hands und that ho (ought to have it romovoc to a plaWo of safety, ho made the samt r'eply, that the piresident of the Con fedleracy could not affor'd to use met for~ the security of his private property AnxIi al movable property at both plhaces, i ncludli ng hxis negroes, wor lost tot him. i make these statementi because I wams pxresent at each of the conversationis, and I have not soex them in print. I mxay also) refer to another inciden illustrative of both his character ant his consrvatism. Colonel Dahlgroex made a raid on ltichmond, tihe thol capital of the Confederacy, the objoe of which was to liberate some 22,00 prisoners, to kill the presidont and th members of his cabinet, and to bur' the city. Richmond antd our' peopl wec saved fr-om these calamities b the morest accidlent. We had no troop in or' near' the city at thft titme for it defense. But a regiment of clerk and ofmlcnr in the department nn , citizens had boon organized, and 1 a battalion of workmen at the Troderga - works, where our cannon and smal I arms wvere mado, who on occasions o - danger wore called out for the defens of the city. Col. Dahligreen's plan wa 1 to cross James river some distanec a above the city and pass down the souti - side of the river to Belle Isle, where 2 the prisoners were, releaso the prison 2r ors and then commence the work o a destruction and death in the city. But i on reaching the river he found it swollen too much to be forded, and s turnod down the north side of th< r river towards the city. In the incan I time notice of his approacl had beer given, and the Tredogar battalion and the r egiment of clerks and others had - been called to arms and sent up th( - river to meet him, the Tredegar bat. talion in advance of the regiment. A short distance above the city, at a bend in the road, this battalion war suddenly met by Dahligroon's com mand, and was dispersed, and some of the mon captured. A countryman some distance from them saw what had happened and galloped his horst towards the city to give the alarm. Just at the edge of the city he met the regiment which was commanded by Colonel McAnory and informed him of the disaster to the battalion, and that Dahlgreen's command was coming down the road. It was then getting dusk in the evening. McAnery formed his line of battle across the road. By then it had become dark. le directed his men to lie down and sent his skir wishers forward, with direction as the enmy approached, to fall back slowly on the linm of battle, but in order, and to keep up the tire, so as to define the advance and position of the enemy. This d uty was well performed as many of those men were trained soldiers who had been crippled in bat tle and appointed to places in the do partnonts. It was a dark night, and when Dahligreen's men approached near enough the Confederates opened a dostructive lire on them, killed a number of men and horses and stamp eded the Federals. They retreated north across the Chickahorminy, and after passing the Pomunky river were ambushed by some furloughed soldiers who happened to be in the vicinity, and learning of Dahlgreen's movements prepared to meet him. They killed Col. Dahlgreen and a number of his men, and made prisoners of more than 400 of them. Those were brought to Richmond, and with them was brought the papers and orders showing the purposes of the raid as above stated, and also the turpentine balls and com bustible matter to be used in firing the city. If he had succeeded 22,000 prisoners would have be0n turned loose to plunder and bu'rn the city ; telns of thousands of women and cbildren would have been mado homeless, the president and his cabinet would have been killed, and the imagination may picture such other horrors as might have been perpetrated. When the prisoners were brought t< the city and the papers and orderi disclosing the purpose of this raii were turned over to the Confederat( authorities, together with the com bustiblo matter to be used in burning the city, all felt that the whole affair if it had been carried out, would have been a barbarous violation of the law8 and usages of civilized warfare, ani that it would have shocked the civil ized world by its cruel barbarity. The Federal authorities had on several previous occasions violated the laws of war as between civilized nations, and President Davis had notified Prosidont Lincoln of his purpose, if such prac tices were continued, to retaliate. When the foregoing facts came to the knowledge of the governmont every member of Mr. Davis' cabinet united in callUng on him to have these prison ors di'aw iots and every tenth man shot, and that he then notify President Lincoln what had boen done and why it was done. Mr. Davis suggested that if he had known of the orders under which these men were acting, it would have been r'ight to shoot them down while they had guns in their hands, but that he did not think w'e should have unarmed~ prisoners shot. The members of his cabinet called atten tion to previous violations of the laws of wai' and President Davis' threat of retaliation. And they insisted that retaliation alone could arrest such prmactices, and1 that the p~ur'pose of this raid, which the paper01s sh owed was understood by the whole command, and that the men hadl volunteered -for thc pur'pose contemplated, made it proper that we should1( make an example by having over'y tenth man shot. After the matter had been car'nestly discuss ed, Mi'. Davis ended the discussion by declaraing, in opposition to the views of the Gabinet, that he wouldl not have unarmed prisoners shot. But low, if any, would have agreaed with him then. But now sInce the passIons of war have died away, we shall perhap~s all say that hc did i'ight. -Thomas EstradaPalma, the Cuban delegate, has rotur'nod to Washington, andl speaking of tihe elforts of Presi dent Cleveland to secure concessiomr fromi the Spanish government for the people of Cuba ho said :" Mi'. Clove land is wasting his time. 'rho patriott in Cuba are fighting for independenct and not for reform. Nothing hut indc pendence or annexation will satisfy them. They will not lay down their arms until they have accomp~lished their freedom. The only home rule they will accept is that administered by magistrates of their own choice, elce fter the withdr'awal of th< Spanish army anid all of the ofillors oi the Spanish gover'nment from tht island. President Cleveland is doing no one a service when he tries to pro mote what they call reforms in Cuba. And unless hoe is willing to go factm.'re than that we shall appeal fr'om him tc the Americean people. '-Counr'ty roads in China are nevom bounded by fences, -but are entirol3 undefined. While the farmer hras th< right to plo0w uip any r'oad passing through his hnd, drivers of (vehicle: have an equal right-and they oxr' ) else it-to traverse any pairt of th< > country at large. - -The Austrian Em pr-ess -lizrabcnti a amused hor'sel f while in Naples reecert p ly by buying up tire entire M1ock eif a toy store and d istei'nuting it, amoni a cr'owd of delighted childr-en. Thor" s i8 no limit to that sort of amunomon 1 in Nmales. MORAL SIDE Of THE NEWSPAPER, AN INTICESTING PAPICR FRUOM PUItEACIIIt AND EDITOR. Some iceasions Controlling Newayp pers the Wrong Waty-The Pow and Responsibilty oit le Pi-ess. The following address on " Tl Moral Side of the Newspaper" was (I livered before the annual meeting the State Pross Association by lie W. P. Jacobs, of Clinton: Every papor has a moral side. Son unfortunately an immoral sido alway Occasionally it is the patont outs( that is immoral In news nOtes and ad and sometimes the not so patent inald The writer on one occasion advorthis a horse race in his patont outside at apologized for it on his Inside. But, after all, tho question of t morality or inmorality of a paper ci culates about the personality of I editors. All editors aro not pious inoi Some few (very few) got drunk afti the paper has gono to press, and thc invoke all the adjectivoIess of the dictionaries, versus drinkieg, in the next issue. We know an editor, wl wrote, "I was on a jag last wool I'm sorry. The public will plom excuse the imperfection of oitr maakI up that week, as we were quito loock up," so he was. As a rule editors are the best in forn ed people in the community. Unfo tunately no man can know everythint That accounts for the terriblo mii takes made in writing up church di inge. Proachers laugh at theso thing; but the editor can't soe the joke. Sti the editor might bo a splendid "cch slastical reporter," and yet not run moral paper. A preacher socetim( fills a fine pulpit, and had better n( be there. ",If the "moral man" of the newspi per is always its editor, the moral sid of It niOewspatper must neCcsLrilly be tht view the editor takes of all the highc interests of the community in whic he lives. Now, his views on moral subjects at very apt to be warped by several cot sidorations. 1st. His own lack of a clear-cut it ception of moral duty. A man tht lies will lie in print. A slandere takes pleasuro in "sharp, keen, Inc sivo vituperation." A wild, recklo: editor may write hightoned discourst occasionally, aping the goodness i ho has not, but the rul will be thi other way. 2. Pecunia-y consider'ations are ofte all powerful. Vilo ads are printe because they pay. The bulk of an community is disposed to sensationa ism, and henco vile things are ofte reported in full. How can a man tat clear-cut ecclesiastical views, if instance, as to Sunday editions of h1 paper, if the Sunday edition is tl best paying one of the week. 3d. Ltcar often has a great deal to with an editor's work. He does n wish to lose subscribers at any tim and hence even the mad fury of lynching bee may be condoned, or least not v-cry severoly dealt with, many patrons having at, quasi conne tion with it-not indecd that edito are alone in this. They perhaps b reflect the tone of the community. 4th. Politics largely alicet tho vios an editor takes on many moral (lic tions, notably that of prohibition or I correlative, the dispensary. Par lash is a powerful incentive to an ed tor to keep the "straight and narro nath " of political duty. We recent beard Judge Cothran remark thn he never know a minister whi became a lawyer to honor his profe sion, but per contr-a, a lawyer- whl entered the ministry Was always ii ornament to it. However that may bi we can say that a religious paper tha enters the political aroena is alwaa unreliable, but that a political pap< with str-ong mor-al and religious pril ciples Is a reliable and honorab] power in the community. Other forces, of course, operate the editor, as many winds on the sal to trim it this way and that. But few considerations deserve thoug] just here. I. A newspaper is the most powcrfl agent in any community for good < ill. The precachcr onily reaches ti church-going, and the teacher- i young. Trho editors reach everybod; Moreoomv- there is a certain latel force in "' coldl type " with muultitude especially of the half-learned, th; nothing else has. Who has not heat the vulgar-ism, "'I seen it in the p per," as an endl of all argument. Tl editor's trip~od is the gr-andest Pulpit. the universo. Crowned heads lam found it needful to bow before the i porter's pen. Tihiink of one great new paper sending forth a htalf millic. Issues diLy 3-its editorials read prol ably by twice that number- of person So gareat is thIs piower' that we venti the assertion that were all the pape)' of this country to agree to plunge th counttry into a war with l'brope, al to poersist in it within a week the thalr could be accomplished. 2. Power always entails respom bility. Newspapers, therefore, ougi to have hi ghaly developed conscionee [nstound of being weathercocks, inistet even of being leaders, they shaou have always at beart the supreme good of the community, anid shou preservvo it, regard less of mnoney co sidlerations, p~oliticaL in iluence or se fish schemes. Intdeponadoney in pol iti or religion may b)e ana error, but ti man who dleclares himself i ndeipendle of his own selfishness and persists in cur-sc of right, as straight as an a row, will be always tihe trusted at honored leadet-. 1In the present State of South Car hina social order, there atre many poin deserving careful study in the san tumn as to thme course to he pursuio We think thatt we can point with just pr-ido to the columns of ourt Sta press, and challenge comfparisorn wi others, as to their genoa-ally hl4 moral tone. T~he greater cr-ines a duly chastIsed. Our editori, al most a man, hate' mnoanness and love fal open dealing. While a few cI7e1 against the laws of couirtesy, the gre imajotrity of our editors at-c genitlemi as wvell in pirint as out of it. Ev pol1itical atagonists are-m given a sh<i of fairnaess. TIhe churceh wor-k of eve I community ia fully and dutly report< I, Iand that not in its sensational foature but in its regular routine We se great many of the papors published it this State, androxcept In thoir dealing with the liquor and the Sunday ques A tions, we have found an impressiv< amount of zeal for all that is good ant noble. In the publication of sermons especially those of Dr. Talntago, out - newspapers have done great good foi r evangelleal religion. Wo havo knowr one iman, Inl Our ownt pastoral expo rience, who traced his conversion tc an artiolo in a secular newspaper. to I would not leave the improssion :- that we are all living editorially in thc jf golden ago. As in oraiel's old-timc v. experience, " thoro is yet much land to be possessed." The foo of sensition. 1o alnim has very great powor over the s. average newspaper man. The clear le public like popper in their hash, and 8, the editor is tlo 111a to give it to D. them. Yet I do contend that the press d of this Stato Is using its Mighty power d for good. \Vith their generous aid not only aro railroads, cotton iIlls, and e now enter p rises of all sorts, for thle comierai prospority of tihe commun s ity, boomed into success, but I can say . from porso nal experience thua %.aren r 013, coIlloges and or)h1anag0s havo, n throiugh tile kndly fostoring care of r tihe editorial fraternity, hoonl nue rsod r into a vigorous life by being granted o that publicity nodful for success. c. ior mily part I ail not only a nows o paper ian byl )ractico, I ail 0110 also in faith. I believe in the pross, n)d d whether inl on1e line or atotheir with rarest exceptions, I havo found the 1- grandest ally of the church for the re demption of mankind from igti rance . and error to bo th newspaper, b it e- either tie great and far-reaching - daily or tho humblo country-bon and 3, brod patont outsider. a CHAGICE) WITIH CONTEMPT. is - ,t Five Charletstont Iiawyers lin Danger of' Being lDisbarrol. The ContmnI)t ptrocedings issuied by 0 Judge lienet last wook against livo promillLt, lawyers In Charlestont haIve attracted much attention, and the case is causiing mu11icit Interest in cOtaSe e clice of its intusial claractet and the )'omintienico of the men against whom tile order was Issued. It will be - remembered that cortain secutrity ,t holders applied for a receiver for tile r Palmetto brewery. The order to show cause was issued Oil Dcmber 31st, s 1895, and while the return to it was s still pending the m1iajority security 0 holders went beforo the United States e Court and had a recelver appointed. Subsequently Judge oeit issued an n order against those su'urity liolders, (I demanding that they shiow cause why y they should not ho ruled for contempt,. I- The case was ieard, ar'guiient was n made and the decision was reserved. : It had nbver been delivered, but or the 24th ult. the judge filed another . order requiring the attorneys in the caseo, among whmei are 11. A. M. Smith Julian Mitchell, J. N. Nathans, Huget lo Sinkier, aud James Simons, some o Dt the leading imemnbers of the Cbarlostor 0, bar, to show cause why they shall no a b disbarred, temporarily, ot' other it wiso punuislied for contempt, inasmtuel as all of them had knowledge of tha c- action pending in the State cour rs when they took their caso into ti It United States Court. Tite tenor o tihe order is such as would indicat< vs that Judge ionet is disposed to con s. sidor the action of the Attorneys con tL tempt. y Tiho Charleston Sun givos the fol I- lowing statement of the case. Tbc w Ile is aildo returnable ol thle -Iti of y May : At Certain stockholders of the Palmetto o brewery comtpany, dissttisfied with tlc i- condition of its affairs and with the 0 mtanner in whiichi they were admi nis' n tered by P residlent D~oscher, aplie~ ld tt 3, tihe Stato court for injunction and tht ~t appointmont of a receivor'. SThe injunctIon was issued by Judg< rI lienet and thc jurisdliction of the couri -thrown artountd tile property in dispute1 (3 hotween the stockholders, bumt thme nomni nation of a receiver, for some, r'eason nf was doeferrod. I 'endIng tis suspecns< 1, thle D~e La Vergno reftrigorating com a pany, a foreign corporationi anmd credil it tor of the I 'al motto brewing coinyl through its solicitor', Mr. J1. N. Nathtans il filed a bill in the United States circui ir' court for i njunctionl antd the app~oint .o mont of ai recciver' by that court in th< to interest of his clients. Mr. Nathmans (. as aL directotr itn ab defenldant banlt It which was a party to the procceeding s, In the State court, is evidently deemtne it iby the presiding judge of tubt. courlI d to have been stopped as an attorney o t~he cou rt froni d isregard ing the cou r t' 0 restraining order' and~ inititati ng nIowi n1 pr'coed ings in atnotlter coltrt to sol '0 asidoe the authiority of the~ court am:ii L-Oust it (of its jurisdlction. 5- Wheother this view of pr'ofessional ni etiqjuette presented itself to Mr' )-Nathains or niot, we, of course5(, do nol -. know. It has become so commo o|(110 0ct'ecent years to appjeali to thte 1?edior'i :8 jurisdiction to nuit Iify or overrulite th( is authority of thte Stto court, and th dI linets of domartktilon between t1h g julrisd iction of these co-ordinate couirts have been so cotifused by thne raptid i- strid es of Ionoroachtmont of thme een tt trailized( p)ower on the sovereignty o s. the States, tithat aL lawyer intent otn th<l d interest, of htis clienits rather tihan cr .d maintaining intact tho fendatmenta at ptincipjles of cut' con fedoratedl govern id mnett might well lose sight of thos< it- nice dIistlictions of prOfessional dut' .1- anl obiser'vance. as T1h 1)01lief wvhich, weO at'e aware, oh hO tains amnong 50ome familiar Ni th th it, (circumlstancos, and1( wIch mtay haivI aL gailned some credentce with thle jpres'id r- ing judlge of the Chtarleston diistmrlet id that the petition for ilojutnction am11 receiver was presented to and actor o- on by Judl~go Simnonton of thme UntitE< ts States circuit cout't without notice ti e- himII of the jurisdiction already takem LI. of thel mattttet' by the State court matu a have haid its i nliuenco in unpollIin ~e Judge lienet to the stm'ong cout's< hl pursued by him in this mtatter'. to -A little more than a million vol rerans of the Uniion, and consider'al at Cofeoate armIes, wer'e found liv in an in the United States b~y thte conisus tat 01' of 1890. r'y - The smnaller thle din k, the. clear't d, the head and tile cooler' the bloom 35, which are great bonolits in teompetr ar a busintess. Confederate Veterans are Defended, CONGRESSMAN TALBIRlIT SPEAKS IN THEIR JIWHALF. The Confbdorat Survivora tre Loyal (o E ahel 1Iher and to the Cause for Which Thoy Fought.. The 'ickler pension bill, which pro posed to givo poniions to deosrters 0rot1 thu Confedorate ranks, was vigorously fought by Congressman Talbort, of this Stato, and the follov Ing is his final protest against it. Ills defonso of Con fedorato veterans from unjust slurs and snoers l most adinir able in1 every respect, and as ho was personially namod by soveral speakers in connctbion with the Southern solder, ho felt it, a duty to rospond in bohalf of his native Stato: Mr'. Chairman, whilo I am opposed to this bill and shall vote tgairst every section of it, if the bill must pass I think to amondment offered by the gentilan from lowa (Mr. lopburn) is a vory good one. It puts all appli cants for pensioni upon the commolinis ovidence thatt is received in all court,s of justice. The whole hill is vicious and decoptivo from beginning to nd. An(, Mr. Chairman, the discussion of this bill has takn at very wido scope, omlbracing till 0m r partisanslhip as Well as the merits and demeurits of the Democratic and I tepublican parties, which is possibly somow hat of a logi titmte range of argiuent ; but, Sir. when the subject of tihe reunions of Confudorato vOterans has been lugged into this debato by the gnt,loman from Indiana (Mr. Uardy), I think the propor limits of propriety have boon transconded, nd that, is a matter entirely irrelevant and diseconnected froi this bill. 'YA gentlemai tilluded more parti cu .rly to a reunion Ittely hold in Charleston, S. C., a gathoring of ts trite, loyal, tand bravLo 111011 aS over as som10bled upon this or any other coat tinent. The oittburn soldiers, after( following Leo an0(d Jackson, Johititon, anld other luoor through four yoursI of winter's snow and sunmets heat, often half naked and hungry, after am com)lishing Ill thait humn ondurance and bravery cou1(l accomplish, after showing the world how hal f-ntced and half-starved troops could put to light an army bOtter equli))0d and thir'e times moro in number, yie.dod to fato, only when our Hag wont down upon the now historic Hl(d of Appo Imttox, they accepted the situation aid surrmidered when thu inmtnortal Ieo said they should fight no more. The war with themn was I(uded, they iceceptud their ptroles, shook the hands of their comralos in silence as they looked for the last tihnot over the hills of Virginita, dotted with the gravos of the slitn of both arminlos, and returned to thoL homos. But what did they find there ? In ainy uirts of the sunny South they found their houses burned, their property gone, and all over the land was heard the cry like that of Rachel wooping for her children becaiuse they wore not. Yet, amid all this destrue tion and devastation by the cruel hand of var, which had swept over the land with the crushing foot of a giant, they COImmenllcdO(l life atnew, and the fiolid that run red with blood in April woro green with thu harvest in June, and the horses that sniflrod tile battle in the sp'intg iunader the sabor3' (1) it said to the honor of tlait grand and noble soldier, Generua Grant, for ho imagnatni nously glvo back to the boys their horses) wero proudly walking bofore the plow in suitmltor. T'.Lhen, as the yea rs roll by, it Is propier, it is nturaol, it is right, yeak, IL t i or than righit, that those old soldiers should meet, togethemr in their reunionis to gras;) each other again bly the hand, to celebrate their trialis, an'd live over again for the mnoument then life oif tihe so1lieri. A nd it is umnk ind, it, is unfortunate, it is improper on tibo Iloor of the House inti the dIiscu ssion of a measure with which they have no conntectionl e'xcept to pay their patrt of the burdeon it may Iimposo. Beo this as it maoy. Mr. Chairman, I wish to say that while these moen of the Southm ar~e as trute and as loyal to the ihrg to day as those of the North, and as read~y to ight, for its defense, at the eamoe time( thmey will continue to have tihese reunilons as long as time it.self shall last,. Yes, sir ; as long as the suna stI ies by (day and the moon gi V&s hutr light bJ night, as long as the staors twinkle in the heavens, as long ris thme Il'otoumac anid tihe Shmonandloah continue to flow, as long as the dewdrops fall 11upon the resting places of our dead aond the Bilue Itidge sentinels thleIr graves, just so lonig will the mYOnI of the South meet, together in reunions to commonmor'atei the heroic deeds of her imnmortaol s<,Ilery in son~g and in story. (A pplause.) I hut let me say to this lhouse thtt this Is not dono in any spirit of dils loyalty to tihe Union to-daoy. It is not dono1( In any siit of pre'judicoe to tihe gallant anid brave solieors who fought on the Other side, for I ocoe 1 voice the sentiment of every tr'ue Southiern soldier when I say that with them the con Ilict of arms is over, the re3sult ac ceptedl in good faith, and that now Ithe soldiers of the South stand ready at all timnos to take biy the hand tho( soldiers of the North, whom once they met in the red blaze of battle, now meeting over the chasm of sectional Ism, ready andJ willing to bur'y forever the bloody spirit, and to plant upon its gravlt the w hito r'oso of peace, w ith thme praayer that it may bloom porpoetu ally, brintgi ng forth fr'uit for the up-) I build1i ng and prosperity of this great I nation of ours, wvi th but one1. ambthitiont, Lb hat, wo may forever~ retmai n a renit > (d, fraternal, and1( happy pcople. (A p Iplauso.) Then It, seems to m1e to be unchari talo In anyone to criticise the Con federate soldier fom his love for tihe lost cause, for while he stood by the Southerni cross, with more than filial affection, until it went down, he be lieved ho was right, and that his quar V' rel wais made upon a principal quar (3 ried troum the mine of everlasting truth ; and so he loves it still and ii :onltinlua to love it till death. While thme flag under which he fought h fitrtid and piut away forever, ami r. wihile wve are all reunited under tht( I;Star Spangled llanner, we feel that i d we are to respect that flag atnd igh for it, which we are wmoito do. I necessary, Its folds should wave gent) over the graves of our dead ahd the forms of our living. That Is Southern sentiment as I now understand It, and what is sentiment but patriotism it self? What is sentiment but principlq refined? What Is it to-day that con trols the universe ? Sir, from the timo that Joseph oar rlod the ombalmed body of his father back from Egypt to Canaan to bury it in a cave in the field of Machpelai sentinont has ruled the world. What was It but divine sentiment that led Joseph, the honorable counsolor, to go to Pilato to bog the body of his Lord that ho might wrap it in fine linen and bury it in his own tomb where never laid any other body-now, nice, and clean ? It was sentiment. What was it but a similar sentiment that load the devoted woman to break the alabaster box of ointment and anoint the had of her Lord? And when it was suggested by some one in the crowd of a morconary turg of mind (possibly like the fellow who injeeted this sutjet into this debato) that it might have boon sold and given to the poor', Hio said, " Lot he alono ; sho has done what the could ; and when 3v0irs and wherever in all lands and !ountrilos My gospel is preached lot this be told as a memorial of her." What was it that led those devoted women to he last at the Cross and flirs rt the sepuleher ? It was sontimon hon do not impugn the motives Dur peoplo for their devotion to t lwn sunny South and their devo till to the lost cause. What is it t rosters your fondest memories around the placo of your birth ? The old schoollhouse. the old oaken bucket, aven, that iing in the well, and oven the old gatdon gato. Sontiment makes 18 respeet, the living and leads us on mn our lpilgrimiage, to give decent bu Pjal to the dead, to strew flowers up >n their graves, and to mark their 'esting places with monuments as .nduring as marblo and as lasting as brass. Now, Mr. Chairman, lot me say, in onclusionl, that no amount of divor fio(n can divest this bill of its vicious LOndencios or relievO it from the ap pearlan1,1cO Of humubtiggery. it is a do lusion and a snaro, with no merit at L1 in it, and I hopo it will bo over wholningly voted down. (Applause n the Democratic sido.) l''mus.-Whcn visiting a friend last sumimixer' he called my attention to a tuirlious plan for preventing the plague of 1110 in lhis house. The uppor sash of one of the windows in his sitting roomi being open for ventilation, there was suiinled outsido a piceo of con moni lishing- net. My fri end told me that not a Ily would voiture to pass through it. lhe has watchod for an hour at a t.Io, and soon1 swarils fly to within iL few inches of the net and thon, after )ulzzing about for a little depart. 110 told me10 the flies would pass through the net if thoro was IL little light-that is another window in the ollpobito wall. Though the (lay was % Ory war'm, I did not soo iL singlo fly in the room hiring my visit, though Olsowhro in tne town they woro soon In abundatneo. I suppose they imagine the not to be a spider's web, or some other trap intended for their (lestruc tion. When a person is losing flesh an& wasting ILwaY there is causo for alarm. Nothing so worries ia physician. Con simptivos would never die if they could regain their ustual weight. In fact there would be no consumption if there was no wasting of the system. 'i'e cause of this loss of flesh is a fail ur'o to proplerly digest the food eaten. N Inc-tenths (If all our (dIsenses date back to somle derangemoent of the steom The ShaIker' Digestiv~o Cordial wilt stop this wasting of the bJody. Itacts by causing thle food we oat to ho0 di gestedi so) as to do good, for' undigested food1 does more harmn~ than good. The Cord iat lotains1 foodI lrieady digested anld aL is digester' of fodsI as well. E'ver'y mother haItes to amako heri chi ldron take Castor Oil. L~axol Is , sweet Castor Oil. -A mongI) the pac~kages of mnoney re cci ved at the treasury redoimption buronuai last week from the sub-treas ury at Chicago for redoemption was IL coulnteorfei t nlote oIf thle denomination of $1001. It was an old( nioto, of tileseries oIf 1872, ver'y ragged1 and very dirty. Thel( niobo haid beenl In circulation for mnany years and perIformed all the olices of money without its genuine ness being suspooted, and was finally accepted Iat the sub-treasury a~t Chica go) as good. And yet, according to the cler1k whlo Inlstanutly ilckedi it out of a r'oll of other- notes, it was but Ia ver-y poorly leeutedi coulnterfeit. Tho clerk in the sub-treasury who passed it in counmting will hlave to makIe up 1t1e amount out oft his own pocket. --All old maiid once owned aL par'rot, which ga~ve bor1 aL great del of trouble, owing to its profanity and disagrooa bio rcema~rks. She dlecided to ask her minister for i thin loan of his plarrot, whlich err1od in being aLmost too religi ously disposed in its conversatIon. The ministor cSonsen3ted, so Polly the good weni~t to visit Polly the bad. Some days later, uponl entering the 4 r'oom~ whlere the parrots woroe the maI~ilon lady wasH greoted with tue r'e mak (10 do(h1po thle old woman may die !" while the eiorgyman's parrot added, " We beseech thee to hear us, good Lor'd. SKiericIHM.--" Thlis weather," said the oldest inhabitant, "' reminde me of my boyhlood days." "BHut they say It is the hottest April. ever knownm." " Who says so ?" " The weather offlolals." " Well, mebbe 'tis, mobbo, 'tis," he grumbled. " But if they don't "show that they know any more about the weathler we used to have than they do about the weather we're going to have I'm blest if I wouldn't r'ather depend .. on my own recolleotIon." 1 ---A do alol' says there IS more steer' used in the manufactulro of lpens'ths in all the sword and gun factories I the world,