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R. WR,.C 2. NO. 11 fltl-WEEKLY IEDITfION.) WINNS13RO .C.TUESI)AY., NOY-EMBE1,R 5. 1878,.t THE ST. CROIX OUTBREAK. -- 0 TWO RACMS ANG AGE IN A CON WST OF CRUELTY. Twin Specimens of Barbarity--Lives Lost and Eotates Destroyed.--Special casualides. During the first week in October a fearful insurrection of the blacks broke out in St. Croix, a small island in the West Indies. The laborers bec.-me discontented with the labor law and all the troops having been removed from the o A end, an out.. break was the consequence. The riot lasted only a few days, but during that time over fifty estates were desolated. Troops restored order, and a number o' the ringlead era were tried, confessed their crimes, and were execnted. The women were the most violent, but they will not be executed, as the laws of Denmark forbid the capital punishment of women. SCENES OF 1O.non. A correspandent visiting the scene of the disturbance draws a sickening picture of the desperate conflict that raged for sever,il days, and the brutality of the contending parties. He says: On my way through the country I stopped at Grove placo, there to witness the remains of one of the most horrible acts of cruelty and barbarism ever known. On the second night the mob arrived at th s estate and found about nineteen oi the estate laborera. The latter at tempted to save some things and refused to join the rioters They were then Phut up in an enclosure used for storing the inegras, upon which kerosene oil was poured, and the whole was act on fire. Three or four escaped and now lie horribly maimed in tue hospital. The charred bones of tLe remainder are silenL witnf see i of the truth of the story This act of cruelty toward their own people showp whatlittle chance there was for any who opposed them after their passions had been fully aroused. CRUELTY OF TE WHITES, The conduct of some of the white people toward the negroes would seem to indicate that human nature is much the same whatever the color of the skin, and that when once the worse passions are aroused all the effects of our boasted civilization have given us no advantage over the savage. On my way to West End I met several bands of prison ers on their way to town under the escort of soldiers or volunteers, The negroes were tied to carts, and though some of them were in the last stages of exhausfion they were dragged along without the slightest consideration for their condition. Some were bleeding from severe cuts inflicted by volunteers who, in, their search for fugitives, have act ed in many cases like fiends, B3lows with their cutlasses and pistol shots were rathlessly and uselessly in-. %licted on the defenseless prisoners as they marched along8.0 ne case of cruelty is reported which, but for its beirg well authentieated, would be impossible to believe. It is to be ofileially investigated, and so I wvith. hold for the present the name of the guilty party. A manager on one of the estates was helped by one of the niegro overseers for two days, the slpgro assisting in saving many things. The third night, when ings were comparatively quiet, he went off, and on -reappearing the next morning was taken to task by the manager for his absence. He if ny f is rlvteproperty had "Yo li,"wasth relyfrom the manaer "yo wet of tosteal ; you re s ba astheothers." "Why Mass," he ngroreplied, 1i' epdynadben with you all the ime V" A torrent of abuse and the ques tion, "Why should I not put an ounce of lead in you?" was the man age3r's answer, "No, Mtassa you don't dare do tbat, for I ain't done nothing." "Do '. dare ?" cried the Aben in uratedmanag er, "Well, take that!"' . nd suiting the aetion to the word be shot the man through the head. A6 more eoL4, blooded, diabolical aurder could uot be imagined. AT WRIT ENAS. At lic tgeq ,4 ~ hed. ' nd thfr 't9% s compI@U ""Iwp uB es putb of thie fW .ms sa are two or three onuses romaining, which only serve tQ make the sur rounding desolation the more up parent. The Apothecary Hall, 1toy. Mr. Dubois' parsonage, and the house and shop of Mr. Mulgrave are standing. How the latter escaped when all was burned around is a mystery. The people were clad in all descriptions of apparel. They have lost all their own, and have been Clothed by the Relief Conaniit, tee oo friends. It woul(d be ludi erous, were it not so painful, to see men and women heretofore in good circumstances, now clad in motley Ind misfittiug garments, Tho Ite.. if Committee is doing what It can, and the neighboring islands have responded nobly, but the destitu ion is immense, PAINFUL AcCIDENT. One of the saddest passages in the whole affair is the death of a young man named Jamieson. He, with some twelve others, had pro i cured arms from the English man, of-war and were formed into a scouting party from West End. About the third day they went out in tie country and pit up for the night at estate "Two Williams." Sotme faithful negroos weiq there and were set ont as guards around the est-itt. About nine o'clock in the evening four of the party stir'e I out to visit the guards. They as certained that one had loft lis p)o.t, but after it few minutes the miII was found. "Jomo alttrelntion on sued and the lou I tal it tracted to attention of the party left in) tile house, who sallied forth, thinking the mob had ratuir-ned, By this time the four had started for the Iotiso. Some one called out, "Whlo coes there ?" and was answered, "Friends," and the four continued to advance It w 1. dark, and the wind, -which was blowing fresh, it appears prevented the words from being heard. A young Dane, who h:Ld served in tho army, was acting captain of the party. He raised is rifle and fi: ed, ail young .Jmuit(.sonl foil shlot thlIr the hUr A )sr i1)oedite_VLy othemstake was discov ered. I have the story dit-oct from the man who was advancing along - side of Janioson. Had the whole pary fired, the four would doubt less have bacn shot. The scene was indescrlbable. Several threw their guns on the ground and rolled over in the agony of the shock. Had the mob assaulted at that mo ment, declares one present, we were lost, for none of us could do any thing. The Dane reported to the authorities ; but, of course, it is one of those accidents which may hap pen in such times. Jamieson mas a promising young Scotchman, and had only bee in St. Croix about six EQUAL TO THE OccAiSoN. -B rag garts are generally easy to be scared. A, French shoemaker, fond of boasting that nothing could frighten him, proved an exception to the rule. Two young fellows resolved to put him to the test, so one shammed dead, and the other prevailed upon the shoe-maker to watch the body through the night. B3eing busy, he took his tools with hun and worked beside the corpse. About midnight a cup of black coffee was brought to him to keep him awvake, and lhe was so exhilarat ed by the draught that lie struck up a merry song, still plying his hammer vigorously. Suddenly the would-be corpse arose and said, in sepulchral tones, "When a man is in the presence of death he should not sin" The shoe-maker was startled, but recovering his self possession in a moment, lhe doalt the corpse a blow on the head with his hammer as he uttered : "When a man is dead he should not speak." NEVADA OmTuAnr.-Ata dead fall: "Hello, Jim 1" "'How are you, ,Terry--take "Hoard from yvoufr brother lately --Arbenie Bill, old pizen ?" "hWell, yes, not d'rectly. You know he was in the hoss and eattle business in Texas. His operations extended over a large territory mind didn't require much capital. One night they took him in. There were eight of them at one end of the rope and Arsenic Bill at the other, He couldn't keep his feet on the ground,. When they raisedi him he passed oat.- Here, barkeep'r, two whiskey souars." :It is eerbinhly.a blessing :te hawo a safe, reliable and cheap remedy for~ cough. and colds -uear at hand~ at this season :of: the2 'y ar~ Dr .Anile Oougth Syrup ha. eminently pJovel4 isef e sob'rje4yedf* TALMAGE'S SEARCH FOR SIN. THN FOUR GATRS TO HEML TIrQ' Wi. VIH RE TO 1 A t EP, Sights in a Gambling House -- A Young Man Who Lost All--Describing the Dissolute Daince--l Qodkjs P,,ql J%at Truth" to the Bescue. (L 4 om the Neto York Sun.] Liko one of tle gods who annoyed Tantalus, ir, Talnage holda out, every Sunday, the grapes of his vicious experience, only to wink and withdraw them slyly the instant that his congregation has pursod up its Inouth for their reception. I1epeatedly, with three conspicuous police officials and two deacons, 11e rolls through the moonlight in a maglificent earriage oll his way tQ the "Gates of Hell," but having reached his destination, instead of answering expectationis and d1O soribiig what his audiecieo ip waiting for, ho nimbly slips around the corner of the emergeney, and de votes the rest of his sermon to well worn generalities and the combined praise of Anthony Comstock and the Brooklyn police. The advance and retrea of the pastor of the Taber nacle were yesterday ahmost sinul, taneous. lie went up to the Gates lil;o a lion. only instantly to whisk awiy from them like a 1amb, "The gates of hell mhall not pre vail against it," Mr. Talmage shouted by way of a text. " 'It's only 10 o'clock,' said the officer of the law, as we got into a carriage for the pm pome of pursuing our miIduight explorations. 'It's only 10 o'c:ock, and too early to seeo anything in the haunts of vice, for thfj Wuatros have not VIt lot out.' 'Wh:At do you 111oanl T II maean that the pla-c-, of iniq!iity are not in full b n:1 te z.ares hav1:1O lot tu J.he 'r. [:..i ir of tihe law tells the drivor L stop in front of one of the costliest and molit bril. fiant gambling places in the city. The front is dark, tho blinds are down, and the door is guarded ; but after a little whispering between the officer of the law and tho door.. keeper, 1r, Talmage is allowed to enter into a h:il, and then into a parlor. There eight or ten men, in middle life and well dressed, are gathered about a gambling table, All is (Iliet, save the noisq, II)ade by the rattii)g aiips and by the re. Voivitig rOu1t tO ball in another par lor. Soeme of t.hes m1nio had served in State pris.m, some were bankers and ship brokers, and some we 0 going the first rounds of their. vicious career. There was some thing awfully solemn in- the silence, in tile intense gaze, and tile suppressed emotion as the players contemniplated the shifting fortunes on the board. "A man's life," declared Mr, Ttlnmage, "was not worth a farthing there, unless p)rotected b)y the police, if it should be sup)posed that he 1had( come) on a mfissio)n of Christian observation." (Smuiles from some1 in thea Taber nacle.] A young man camne in, put money down on the roulette table, and lost. He put down more money and lost. More, and lost. Feeling in his pockets for more money then, and finding none, "lhe turned his back in severe silence, and passed out." The literature about tihe costli ness and magnificence of these phaeea Mr. Talmage saidwas untrue, Men kep t their hlats on and smoked' and there was nothing in the u holstery or furniture to forbid it, It was; not uncommon, was Mr, Talma' s moral, for gamesters to resort to the suicide's revolver. In gambling processes, was his anti elimax, $19.8,00,00,000 change hands every year. At 11. o'elock Mr. Talmage passed out into the street, The burly guard slammed the door, anid they went down to the carriage and roldaway toward the Gates of Hel"Heaven, as everybody knows, has three gatos on each aide, all made out of eolid pearL, Hell's gates are set in sockets of deep and dreadful masonry, and are very' high, so that people may not get out. It is safe to go whers ,qod tells you. God told Mr. Tlmage to go and see and report, "and," Mr. Talmage said, "I am here to sketch the Gates of Hell. With the 'ham mer of God's truth J shall smite upon their brazen panels, and with theIlantern'of God's truth I sheJi flash thie lieht nnon . their shining Tage said was bad litUraturo. Anthony Comstock had api-od twenty tons of bad literqture, yet not all ad litoraturo was gripped by the law. Parlors and libraries were full of it, and children retire and read it with the gas jet swung niar to their pillows. It pxists under the title of (cipntifle inforna, tion, and under this guise one ven der in a single hotel disposed of a hidred copics of an infamous book selling Lhem all to wo1en. "Shame." cried Mr. Tainage, "on women who, when they clan get all usefill infor mation from the family physician, wade chin deep in abomination like tlls. .Do not dcvived. Though they bear the marks of eminent New York and Philadelphia pub lishers, they all come hot from the nether world." As for novelettes nobody who road thei, Ar, 'al mage said, coulI keep either integ rity or virtue, He pursued pleas antly, "100,000 men and women in the TJilted $tates to-day arp read ing thlms0lves into Wl," Tho leprous booksellers had gathered up catalogues of girls' seminaries and boys' schools and sent their circu lars of death to every one without exception. "There is no opp wh hpars me," id Alr. Talmage, Owho hasn't had offfired to him or her a bad book or a bad picture." Gate second was tb disfIl1to dance, Mr. Talinago oaid that there wias a dissolutp dance whicb was pursued both in the haunts oi death and in elegant mansions. "You know," lie cried, "what pos turos and motions are suggested by the devil." Hs continit(d that the dissolute dancer slid into the dip solute dance over an inclined plane, swifter and swifter slnd wilder, 1ntil with sped of light ho whistled off the edge of a dissolute life into a fiery future. No one had a right to take a position to music which he would be ashamed to take without music. "No Chickering grand of city parlor," wafs Mr, Talmage's clihnwx uiponi this Gate, 'or fiddle of Ife1ntain1 pieni (-an consecrate that whieb Gotd hath eursed." Gate third, indiscreet apparel. Mr, Taiflmage had been told that there was a new fashion coming from Paris whiah wAs shooking to all righteousness. Multitudes of men owed their ctornal damnation to the boldness of female aWire, Gate four, alcoholic beverage. The captive of the wine cup was also the captive of all other vices, which went in flocks like carrion crows, so that when you saw that beak ahead you might know that other beaks were coming. Courts and Legislatures swung wide open this creaking, stupendous gate of the lost. In the coming war to be wagad agaitst the Gates of Hell. Mr, Talmage said that the Christian press was to be the battering ram, that the pulpits were to bo arrang4d in a storming line, and that "God's rad-hot truth was to be the Oying ammunition of the contest." Thus Mr. Talmage camne only to the Gates, and left the wonders of the interior still unexplored. SELLING OFF ! 8JELLING OFF.I I HE subscriber, having fully deter mined to close the present business ais soon as possible, will sell, from this out until the 12th of November, the en tire stock of goods, wh4cob embrges a fine lot of Clothing, Ifate, Dry Goods, Notions, hosiery, Bloots and Shoes,at and under -.COST after which time the remainin~g stock will be disposed of at pnblle auction nntil the s,ale is complete. 8. 8. WOLAFE. eot 29 "TURE T EACUR l." {N JANUARY ne;t we vili iasuego te first :umber of UTHE TE~AOREE," . A monthly journoi devoted to theo in terests of Toaeber:, Schools, and the Caause of Edoostion 4n eoneral, To brinig it within the reneh of lJ, we hae fixod thae subsoription price at, the low rate of FIRTr GNTS Pzn ANUwa. Spenizsea copy will be sent by. agill propaid on receipt:of a five cent stami,T STescehers will do veJg to sem94 jy our Educational Coto)9gg.o Please ad dress oot 22-zt8m 17 No tht 0t. '8 .f pHEp0 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. BW nE BLOOD I A10 Pll TIVE PILL mnake new ro 400(~tw con'cte"' ciang bioa ,:r,15 et tre . hrp n .3Aht fper-. 1-n to twe ko may U~ re8t,r1d to 8OU heilth, sIuch a thin[ be possible. Aent. bl njll for eIgl1t letter staips. 1. S. 4OHNSON ACO., 111a0~r, Maine. DON'T 84Y 1VM-MUG, BUT JPPGE FOR YOUnORt. RBND FOR FlIEE LIT1OGRAPI OF 5-TON FIFTY DOLLARS FREIGIIT-PAIIA SOLD ON TIlAL WAGON SCALE, ALL IMON AND STEEL, IIRASS BEAM. ADj)RS! JONE OP BINQI4MTON. NEW YQRNy. A )AMN BAOK. ,R~ENS0108 C'APCINE Polort4 Br,As i" for lnnielemN or eakiess'of the back, 1111itIsn and all local (kolles aInIins the lic-t're'niody knowil. it Wa 81 voneti to overcome the 4slow ation of liction of the ordinary Porowi Pljaster. It, re lieves pain ;lt once, and tir' r.vllorc other Plasters will not ovenlralav. Sold every where ly Prtgkte, prce. 25 ent.. AGENTS WANTVD frTo FOR M A TCIfD I NEW 11O0 11i FROM Dark DAWN. In this; new volur4e the llpppilar Author of Night Seenwi In thc% 11110 ljortr43 ifith vivid clnor tarillingqrco and po uence the events of Haored truth, atida4i fro 11 to tiV pity to thle beauty, pathos and sublmit" o. ptorIes of the Bible. Agents will filnd this book wit.h itA sparkling thoughts, lowing style beautifl = vlaigs and aicih ginl nr, the. e8t, in th(j narket. Terms Liberal. rjcqlars free. Ad 4rgss q. C.'McCURDY P 0Q., '441adpiphia, Pa. PARIS, 1878. AT EVERY SWEEDEN, 1878, WOUID'S PHILADA., 1870. FIPOSITION SANTIAGO, 1875. FOR 12 VEARS VIENNA, 1873. HIQHtST PARIS, 1867.1 HONORE HAVE BEEN AWARDED T1E Mason & Hamlin OABIN9T ORGANS. At the Paris xp osi ion tis year t4ey are awvardied t. Gd Mtal. J-4LtIo 1liest recOM-~ Penqo qX th diplil of thie jury. They have' VPA received the urnti QQji M4al of wede lind Norway, 1878. Noe otl erj rca4~ rgan have ever attaie hihest a a a In dq Xx osItion. Rk)dfo goat or pay mn 1 y in Rtlnet.latest, GaMlof ue with n wes -'on,prce 4tc., frep. 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