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THE IMMIGRATION CONVENTION. SUGGESTIONS OF WORK IH TIIK . FUTURE. liOcal < )!???.;i ni/ni ions Are Recom mended?AdvertIsing tho Resources rf** tho South-Urging Co-Operattort Win. the Rai roads. ^ At the SoUthorn Immigration Con gross held lost week in Augusta, Ga., the follow in;: resolutions wore reported by tho com ni iti it on pi to is aud resolu tions submitted for consideration : 1. That whorovor county und State organizations have not ulroudy boon formed, thoy bo ut onoo perfected, und that tho officers of uuoh county organi zations ooustituto a Statu board of im migration. 2. That tho olllcors duly authorized by eaoh State convention shall report results of tholr olTorts at least twioo each year to the secretary of tho South ern Immigration Congress. 3. That tho Southern Immigration Congross urgo tho co-operation of all rail linos, St tto und county olllcors and the citizens at largo In tho furtherance of p an proposed. 4. That this Southern Immigration Congress earnestly recommend to tho Congress of the United States tho es tablishment of a permanent exposition at tho National Capitol in which the products and resources of tho several States of tho Union muy bo fitly und properly displayed, und wo urgo upon tho Legislatures oi tho various Status an appropriation of money necessary to ostnhlr.h and maintain this most prac tical inothod of bringing to public at tlon the resources of tho ouo common country. 5. That tho Congross of tho United Statos is earnestly urged to make such appropriations as may bo nuodod to curry into oiToot tho recommendations of this congress. <j. That ttiis congress appoint a oom mittoo of live of Its members, to devise some practical plan to lay *boforo tho bettor class of emigrants from Europe, tho manifold advantugos of tho South, and to induce and encourage emigra tion to tho Southern States, which committee shall report to the next mooting of this congress. Whereas, it is the souso of this con gross that tho exhibition of tho pro dUOte of the'farms, mines and forests of tho Southern States In tho Northern, Now England und Northwestern States and foreign countries Is uu excellent mode of u Ivertlslng, Therefore bo it, Resolved, That we endorse tho work of the executive committee of this as sociation and their efforts to make ex hibitions in the Northern, Now Eng land and Northwestern Slates, and in tho Dominion of Canada, and earnestly request Southern editors, landed cor ftoratioiis, immigration associations, )oards of trade, railway lines and pro gressive business men of tho South to co-operato with tho executive commit tee in liilai':: iii: this mode of advertis ing by establishing a train of curs in Which will boexhibited the products of the. South?said train of ears to be car ried to every section of the .said North ern, New IDnglutld and Northwestern States, and to the Dominion uf Canada, and that similar advertising shall be douo in foreign countries us soon us practicable. Tue details of those ox hib ts to ho left to toe executive com mittee representing us It doos the en tire South, as it is composed of one re presentative from each Southern State. Resolved, That a committee of live. Governor \V. J. Northen of Georgia us Chairman, bo appointed to confer with officers of the Southern Railway and Steamship AssooiotiOn in regard to rates on Southern products. Resolved. That in tho opinion of this convention one of the conditions which has greatly,retarded the material de velopment of the States hero repre sented, aud which serves todiseourugo immigration is the deplorable condi tion of our public roads. Resolved, That this convention ur ges upon tho Legislatures of tho sov oral Statos tho great importance of adopting better methods of building and maintaining our public roads under intolligont engineering supervision. Bo it resolved. That this convention endorse most earnestly the movement towards direct trade, both In tho mat ter of exports and imports between the ports on the South Atlantic and Eu rope, which has already been success fully inaugurated by * loading large steamers with grain and Western pro ducts from tho South Atlantic and Gulf ports. And, bo it further Resolved, That this convention will do its utmost to onoourago desirable immigration through steamers coming directly to Southern ports, and that all tho States in the South will unite to encourage and assist in settling up their wnsto lands und sotting forth the i?reat advantages of climate and soil n tho various localities. That tho only hope for tho future of our rail roads and tho permanent building up of tho Southern section of our country is by tho bringing in of now peoplo to stimulato industry und by putting now lifo into enterprises and doing for tho South what immigration has done for tho waste lands of tho groat West. Recognizing the faet that tho people whom it is desired to bring with their labor and capital into tho States here represented look to the States thom selve, to publish uccuruto and impar tial information concerning thoir ro soureos. Rosolvod, That this convontion oarn ostly recommends to tho governments of these sovera' Statos that thoy con tinue to collect, through thoir geologi cal surveys und departments of agri culture and immigration, such infor mation, and publish it on a larftor scale in an attractive form, and that this published information ho widely distributed in accordance with intelli gent organized plans. Recognizing tho fact that capital without labor can not develop tho rosourcos of a country, neither can labor without capital, and that they are equally dependent upon each other, ami that thoy aro equally entitled to tho fostering earo and just treatment of tho courts and legisla tures of tho country ; and recognizing the furthor faot that neither can bo induced to como into thoso Southern States without assurnncO that it or thoy will be justly and fairly doalt with without rogard to tho fact as to wbother it is organized or unorganized labor, or whether it bo tho capital of individuals or corporations. Thoro fore** Rosolvod, That it is the sonso of this convnt ion that it is tho duty of every good citizen to uao his best on doavo.rs and Jnlluenco to soo that ouch recoivo tho sutno fair equal and im partial justice and condemn and dls courage all prejudice and partially that may oxlst against olthor. Resolved furthor, That tho tlmo has como when wo should rogard railroads as allies, not enemies, for placing business boforo politics and to encourage tho enaotmont of laws to increase confldonoo both of tho laboror and capitalist in the exposition of tho people- of tho South to troat thorn fairly and justly. ? Tho fiivt foftturo of tho report was the ono whioh eleelted most debate It wis i.Hacked by a delegate from irginiu, Mfc Sharp, as ? scheme of tho Louisville- and Nushvlllo railroad, and was warmly defended by Mr. At wood of tlt?t road as a patriotic effort to inuko tbo most of tho facilities at baud. He said tho railroads wore al ready co-operating in overy way to facilitate the movoment, and thoy could not do it all. It was bout to have those county organizations and let each county got up the literature and forward it to tho railroads for dis tribution wboro it would do tho most good, and afterwards to run excursions to tbo advortised sections. Tho report of tho commlttoo was adopted. SOUTHERN DEVELOPMENT. United Stato Senator .larvis of North Carol inu read a paper on obstaelos to Southern development, In which ho ad vocated the establishment of suoh Stato, county and city governments throughout tho South as would give tho fullest assurance to tho wu.d-bo sottlor that his lifo, liberty and prop erty would be as soouro as in any other section of tho, country. Ho showed, that tho capital is tho most timid thing in tho world, that a man will risk"nimsolf whoro ho will not risk his money, and that the money would not seek investment, whoro there is bad government. With reference to tho I presonoe of negroes in tho South, ho said tho negroos are not responsiblo I for being hero, but aro horo to stay, j All plans for thoir colonization olso where, or their exportation aro wild add visionary. Tho nogro could not j go away if ho would ; and ho should 1 not if no could. Ho must bo recog nized as a flxturo in tbo South, and tho '? wisest plan to pursue is to oducato him and make tbo best possible oitizon ' out of him. Ho commended all that was being dono in this direction, but regretted that it was not more. Ho said tho elevation of tho negro race must begin in their homes. Thoy must I bo provided with better accommoda- ' tions with ample room to separate the sexes, and with good teachers in thoir schools. Thoir preachers must bo instructed and aided by tho white preachers, and whoro one Is unworthy, no must bo exposed and displaced, as tho teacher and tho preacher oxcor ciso tremendous inlluonco among them, and when vicious do a vast deal of harm. B.sttor homes, hotter sehools, and churches, better teachers aud preachors, aud better laws would make tho negro an intelligent and law abid ing citizen, and then capital aud labor would not hesitate to come among them. Ho referred to tho fact that strikes and strife among labor wero unknown among Southern negroos. and tho South doos not desire Indiscrimin ate immigration of those classes that aro not law abiding. It wauts only such peoplo as ean conform to our oivilizutam and becomo good citizens. In the course of his remarks, ho also advocated tho ropcal by Congress of tho 10 per eont. tax on Stato banks and the coinage of silver on tho same terms With gold. There is somo discontent oxprosed among representatives of distant States thats so much timo has been occupied in talking on matters extraneous to tho purpose of the convention. There is no division of sentiment among tho dele gates on the proposition that the South is tho best country in tho world, but what this congress wants to do. is to devise ways and moans for convincing the outside world of this fact, and Lo persuade people from distant sections to come hero to live. This was the object they had in coming hundreds of miles to the congress, and they feel that valuable timo is being wasted in discussing everything else but im migration. WHY WE WANT IMMIGRANTS. Sensible llcasons Cor Inviting the i:i;;bt Kind of People to South Caro lina. The State. 31st U.t. Tho Nows and Courier inquires if citizens of Northorn States "aro so convinced by experience that thoy could do hotter in a thinly sottled State than whoro thoy are, why, in tho name of senso, wo should want to im port several millions of them to put our States in tho samo condition as tho States thoy aro leaving ?" If a denso population means prosperity and tho development of a region, why, it asks, should theso peoplo want to come to our thinly sottled Statos? Unfortunately, there is not yet evi dence that Northorn farmers, in groat numbers wish to eomo to tho South. Wo want to put them in that mind, and wo know that it is to their inter est to come ; and that it is tho object of the immigration convention, lint farmers in the middle and contral Western Statos do seek homos in more thinly sottlod States for g*ood reasons. Tho thickening of population around thorn has increased the value of lands -so much that to increase their farming area is becoming moro and more cost ly. It does not pay to raise crops on $100*an-aore land whon thoy can bo pro duced as well on $-Van-acro land?thc^ investment required is too large, and tho owner of choap land has a groat advantage over them in competition. Tor this reason there has boon a con stant movoment westward. A farmer could once sell his land in Pennsylva nia for enough to buy twicoas much in tho Wost and still have a comfortable capital in cash. Tho Wost has now filled t * to such a degree that cheap lands ai 1 no longer plentiful, and tho farmer i < naturally looking to the South, attracted by our choap and for tilo soil and mild climate, and yot doubtful of tho venture for other rea sons. Tho timo is opportuno to remove his doubts and bring him horo. Why do we want him bore? Because his coming will muko our lands moro valuable, furthor diversify our indus tries, awaKon our yot dormant resour ces, touch by oxamplo bottor and moro economic methods than the haphazard ones which aro our inheritance from tbo slave systom, creato villagos, on largo tows and cities, multiply schools, ineroaso tho circulation of newspapers, add to tho wealth of tho Stato. Ho cause ho would holp to rellovo us of ovue.political slavery to tho ghost of black rulo, creato a fooling of politi cal security whioh would onablo us to vote us wo boliovo and hold public ser vants to their proper accountability, and in other ways mako us as froo in political action as tho peoplo of tho North. Wo want men of somo littlo moans, of course; men who can build com fortablo homes and live creditably, and this sort, wo a Mime, will bo tho only kind specially invited, or who can como as indopendont land ownors. ?A distinguished Chinaman, named Kim Wing, has roaohod Mobilo, Ala., on rote from his homo in Morida, Mex ico, to Hong Kong, China, whoro ho goos to got 200,000 of his countrymen to sottlo in Mexico. Wing Is a wealthy morohant of Merida, and is a highly educated man. It has been with groat dlflleiilty that ho has porsuaded tho Mexican government to pormit. him to bring so largo a numbor of his country men ovor at ond timo. Thoy aro to bo omployod on coffee and hemp plan* tatlons, which aro to be oporatod by Wing. THE GREAT TARIFF DEBATE. PEN PICTURES OF NOTED BEN? ATOK&. The Tariff Bill Will Pas? Shortly? Incident* ami Characteristic*! of the Prominent Men Engaged in the Die cuasion. (8peclal to fto Augusta (Jhronlole: Washington, May 29.?The tariff bill seems to bo on tho three quarter st. rote 11 at last. It has had protty hard running for tbo track up to this point has boon very muddy. The sugar schedulo will be iinished by the middle of next wook at tho farthest. Then partigraph after paragraph will be passed with a rapidity which the Son ate is noted for passing appropriation bills. Senator Hill will speak about free raw raatorial, and tho Republicans will probably vote with him aftor first voting for a bounty on sugar. Tho schodulo as it now stands will pass the Senate, however, but it ia exceedingly doubtful whether or no it will find safe anchor in tho conforonco. Tho question of tho tariff is now los ing part of its interest, but strange to say tbo interest which surrounds tho leaders of this groat movement, is in creasing. It shows that aftor all peo ple are moro interesting than princi ples und quaint characters more at tractive to ' muny people than great questions. For instance, if Senator A Id rieh takes the lloor to talk the gal leries are easily emptied, yot Aldrieh, ou his sldo of tho question, is a tariff oxport, tho same is true of Fryo of Maine, Allison of Iowa, und u number of others. Yot a wranglo botweon Hoar and Harris, botween Chandler and Vest, between Toller and Voorhoos, Lindsay and Aldrieh, or a speech from Senator Gorman, Hill or Vilas will crowd the galleries for a day. It is rather curious the number of men who havocotnoto tho front during this debate Tho most remarkable, in cident is that of Senator Jones of Ar kansas. He has really supplanted Senat or Voorheos In importance on tho Finance Committee, it has been a voluntary retirement of tho tall scya i/ioro of tho Wabash, tbo romoiubraueo of tho trying experiment of tho extra session was too fresh in his memory for him to enter upon another prolonged und arduous discussiou upon tho floor, however, aud his prosonco seems to add strength to tho cause of tariff re form. He is getting old and shows his advancing years. Ho has reached tho stago when bo is willing to remain in the counsel tents and not go forth with the army to battle. Tho victory ho Won in tho extra session would cover his closing years with glory from a par liamentary standpoint, even should ho not take any other prominent part in national logislution. Ho has certainly lowered his lance for this Congress a' least and thrown his raantlo upon Jones, of Arkansas. When sitting in his Senate seat, h? has tho appearance of a orouohing lion aud his tormentors havo failed utterly to far to rouse him from tho lethargy into which ho seems to have fallen, lie sits quietly hour aftor hour, his hdad bowed upon his breast, bis face Impassive and absolutely without ex pression. Ho knows that he must rest aud rest fully if he intends to live. Tho Republicans have tried to goro him into tho open, but ho glances at them in a half sleepy vacant manner and re sumes his pose which is that of a eom plote divorcement from activity. The most Interesting character in tbo fight is Harris of Tenuosseo. Ho is the ringmaster who cracks tho whip, asks the questions and shifts tho scene. All of his lifo has been spent in party warfare and ho knows how to meet steel with steel. Ho is tho aeknowl odgod parliamentarian of tho Senate and tho combined forces of tbo Repub licans cannot shako him. There is not a Senator, Democratic or Republican, who does not lovo him personally. Nor is there any other Senator upon tho lloor from whom thoy would receive the rebuffs, satire or lectures as they do from Harris. Hoar loves dearly to make him mad and succeeds iu do ing it. Harris speaks with great di rectnoss and vigor of language, has a way of pointing his long forefinger at tho face of tho man to whom ho is talk ing, and after scoring him soundly dis misses him with a gesture of disgust and then " moves to lay tho amendment on tho table." Harris in roality lays down tho law for tho Senate. He is positivo and dogmatic to the last dogreo, rides roughshod over evoryono that comes in his way, whether friend or foe, and is ospeeially equipped for his fight in eloso quarters. Whon Harris rises tho din of the fray is hoard, and tho audience look out for blood spots on tho turf. Ho hasn't a particlo of humor and fails to understand why either the Sonate or gal'orios should laugh when he courteously dismisses Senator Roar as an antagonist not worthy of h is steel. When bo rises to make a motion his words seem to fall to tho ground of thoir own woight. It is suid that Iono in Olympus could not pronounco tho ?fato of tho world moro imprcsslvoly than Senator Harris makes a motion in tho tariff fight. Theso wrangles represent tho daily show of the Senuto, and it is for those that tho gallories aro crowded at 11 o'clock ovory day. One of these sham battles was taking plaeo on tho floor tho day that Sonator Jarvis was sworn into tho Senate. Ho sat thoro eagorly drinking in overy word. His expres sion had boon noted by the press gal lery especially us something unusual in tho Senate, but no ono know how to deli no it until Angus McSwoon, a clever Scotchman and correspondent of the Hultimoro Sun, said : " Hoys, ho thinks it is all real." Tho gallory bocamo uptoarious and tho long-suffering Palmer of Illinois shook his head that tho Vico-Prosl dent did not rap for ordor. Sonator Vest represents tho reserve corps on tho Democratic sldo as Chandler doos on tho Republican. Whon the opposi tion charges too heavily upon Jones i and Harris, Vost throws hlmsolf into tho broach and helps to hold tho bridge. Ho is a cunning partisan and yet one of tho readiest debaters on tbo floor. He |g very plausiblo and though ho snarls liko a dog, whines liko a cat, ho is v ithal ono of tho heavy guns of tho light. Whon tho noise Is loudost thoro you will hoar the scrooch of Vost abovo all his follows, reaching out for fame, calling loudly for ap plause. Jones doos tho heavy thinking part, the part assignod to him by Voorhoos retired from tho dramatis porsonnao of this drai ia. It would seom that Sonator Met' orson would havo taken this rolo, but (mm tho incoption of the fight it was cl early ovldont that no Kastern man could load it. Thoy woro not to bo rolled upon suftiolontly for the work to bo dono, so It foil to Jonos and the opposition thought it had a cinch. Ho IB a lawyer, thoroughly equipped for handling mon and great mattors, and his physiquo is proof against futiguo. It is impossible to entrap him, for whon he is unablo to answer, ho says so with promptness. Ho is good-naturod and even Chandler cannot provoke him to wrath. Just now he Is the flowor from which all bees expect to sip their honey. He has the say so whuther an amendment shall bo adopted or not and manages l as exclusively this end of the line as Harris does the parliamentary strate gic part of the program. Chandler Is his own element. Ho Is now compeer and no confrer. He Is a freo lauco. He romlnds one of the bug who wanted to be a rhlnocerous and wear an Ivory tooth pick on his nosp but unable to gratify this ambition no is willing to remain a bumble boo or a Juno bug and buzz and but his head against the wall. Ho Is a gad fly on the Democratic neck and a wasp with in his owu party. Ho loves to tear Democratic shams to tatters and fling their unsightly rags to the broozo. Ho is quick to appreciate humor and if tho laugh is on tho othor sldoho brings both wit and satlro to his aid. He has no respect for fnets or figures,-sarcasm and wit are his handmaidens and bis humor is tho onlv thing which makes his speeches palatable. Senator Hoar Is a oherublc old soul, yot hiding behind his smiling counten ance is tho gall and wormwood of a century. There Is something like tho Shy lock about the Massachusetts Sen ator. Ho is thoroughly implucablo and will novor withdraw his lanco boeauso his victor wlncod. His words aro rasp ing and oven his voico is irritating. Ho does not arguo half as much as ho taunts tho Domocratio foos. Gorman, of courso, Is ono of tho pic ture cards of tho Sonate. Whatever ho does is attractive just as a jugglor is attractive. Ho remains silent and quiot during tho first part of any fight, yot when ho comes out of his hole ho foreshadows tho ond as clearly as tho ground hog foreshadows summer. Ho eati scont tho roundup of a battlo farth er than any man who Is on tho trail, and when once he joins tho forces, It (foes not tako him long to forge to tho front. Of courso thoro aro a number of others who speak in a dosultory sort of a way, but these aro tho men who aro rosily at tho head of their forces. The present fight is a groat show if one only knows how to appreciate it und it makes no difforonco which ox is gored. Tho tariIT bill is certain a?ud tho country may turn from anxiety of its fato to tho amusing featuros of tho fight. FIGHTING l <>il IUCPI3A.Ii. A Strong Attack on the Obnoxious Dank rax? Congressman Mcljaurin Makes an Able Speech on the Cur rency. In tho House of Representatives last wook, tho bill to repeal the ten per cent, tax on State bunks wee under" consideration, and -tho debate was very interesting und satisfactory to the friends of tho moasuro. Black (Dom.) of Georgia had the floor, and presented his argument against tho constitutionality of tho law. Ho spoke an hour, attracting the close attention of tho members. His peroration was an eloquent rocital of tho leading part taken by the South in tho history of the government and of the nation, and a refutation of tho as sertion that the repeat of tho bill was desired alone by tho Representatives of the South. At its close he was warmly applauded and received the congratulations of his associates on the floor. Walker (Rep.) of Massachusetts spoke two'hours upon agenoral finan cial plan as embodied in a bill intro duced early in tho session by himself. Ho had no dofeuco to mako of tho ex isting financial system ol th .ountry. What it needed was floxib> i/y. The object of his bill was to force into cir culation every dollar that could bo ad vantageously used. The present sys tem withheld from circulation GOO of tho 2,800 millions of currency. That, ho emphatically said, must stop. M'LAURIN SPEAKS. McLofttrin of South Carolina address ed tho House on tho bill. Ho told of tho direful results to tho cotton mar ket during tho financial stringency, and how ''King Cotton" was saved from dothronomont only by tho issue of cleariug honso confidence corticatos, which passed current in South Caro lina and enabled the peoplo to tide over tho crop moving period. But tho promised prosperity when tho Sherman act was repoaled hud failed to mate rialize, ho said, and tho crop moving period was agaiu upon them. What were they to do? If South Carolina had to pay a tax upon her clearling-houso certificates, ho saw no reason to oxotnpt tho groat clearing-house association of Now i'ork, for whtlo in tho uso made of the South Carolina certificates thoro was a wido dilToronco, tho legal principle was tho same. Ho did not believe as some did, that Stato banks would cure all our financial woes, but the ropoal of the this tax was a step to ward a radical change in our financial system, a step toward decentralizing tho enormous and idangorous powers now vostod in tho national banking system. Thoro wore, said Mr. MoLaurin, but two avenues through which tho cur rency could now bo increased, to wit : 1, Tho coinago of trold. 2. Additional National bank notes. Every other channel had boon closed. Ho bo"ioved wo noodod a currency which had both local and national characteristics. The old Stato banks woro not in touch with tho spirit of tho ago. Every section of tho Union was entitled to onough curroncy to raiso and market Its crop, and it was tho duty of the government to provido tho machinery to do this. Thor*United Statos might issue onough treasury notes to bo dividod among tho various States in proportion to population, tho Statos depositing with the government their bonds bearing a sufficient amount of intoroat to covor all oxpunsos. It would thou bo loft to oaoh Stato to provido tho method of distributing its quota of monoy and wo would have a currency to do local business which would pass at par overwhoro. Whoclor of Alabama followed Mr. McLaurin in an argument favoring the repeal of tho law. It was, ho declared, a war moasuro, pure and simple, and had no foundation other than in the necessity that was thon supposed to exist for tho national government to control tho issuo of tho circulating medium. Ho hopod tho Houso would yield to the oloquont appoal of the gentleman from Georgia and givo tho country an adequate amount of money. When ho spoko of monoy ho meant monoy with a purchasing power. Ho characterized tho national banks as a groat trust. Tho presldonts of theso institutions in Now York city acted as ono man. ?Duolling in Europe is increasing, and increasing at such a rapid rato that if tho weekly lists of victims kill od on tho spot or malmod for lifo by bullets, sabros and raptors wore footed up at tho ond of the yoar they would be found to exceed in uumber tho killed and wounded on an avorago hattloflold. And the majority of thoso unfortunate pooplo had as littlo roason on whioh to tako each other's live, as have tho bulk of soldiers in a Europoan war. Thoy aro forced to fight by "publio opinion," regulated by tho code of " knightly honor," whioh is approved and upheld by the army. , APPEAL FBOM THE WOMEN. WHY NOT ENEOIICE THE LAW ? The Saloon Eloiuont Taking Charge of Affair**?Mis. Cliapin Wants Abso lute Prohibition and Asks fbr Help (Vom the Mou. Tho Woman's Christian Temperance Union has mado an appeal to Gover nor Tillraan to do what ho can to aid in the enforcement of tho prohibition law aud also appeals to tho mon of the State to do likewise. The appoal is as follows and speaks for itself: charleston, S. c, May 22. Governor Tillman : Tho members of tho Woman's Chris tian Tomporanco Union of Charles ton do most oarnostly ontroat you not to relax your efforts for tho protection of our homes and dear onos from the destruction that now seems to throaton them in tho return to liconso and tho rostoratlon to powor of tho rum (londs. Nowspapors, which a few months ago proacnod prohibition so eloquently that many really bellovod they meant what thoy proacnod, aro now advocat ing liconso?high license?with re stictions, as though the restrictions thoy proposo have not been a dead let ter on our statute books for yoars, scoffed at and dotlod by the lawless crowd which thoy proposo to restore to office. "South Carolina, tho Pal metto Stato, iu tho liquor trntllc," has boon a rallying cry for tho anti-dis pensary host, and now, no soonor have tho dispensaries been elosed, than those very peoplo advocate, forming a now partnership, with tho "Tho Pal metto Stato," which thoy had taught us to boliovo they hold so saorod as chief partner in tho firm of Van Backt, Shop & Co. Whon tho Evans bill passed in 1892 ws wished it*had boon prohibition, and folt dreadfully over it, but whon wo read tho bill and found it proposed to c'oso ovory opon barroom in tho Stato and to allow liquor sold only by responsible persons whoso characters had to bo ondorsod by a majority of persons in thoir ward or town, as tho ease might bo, and who woro pledged under oath not to soli to minors, drunk ards, or .any ono under tho influence of liquor and to keep a record of all sales made, which would at all times bo open to inspection, tho liquor sold in tho dispensarios was to bo analyzed by tho Stato chemist to insure its purity, and tho places in which it was sold woro to bo closod at ? o'clock aud kept closed on tho Subbath : the Now York Tribune pronounced it " iron clad prohibition," and wo folt that it was only ono stop from it. So wo gavo it our encouragement and support and dospite of throats from barkeepers, and only dlsuouragoment from thoso whom wo had a right to oxpeet would havo stood by us, wo havo held the fort, working and praying for prohi bition. Somo uro rejoicing that it has como, not in our city, however, whoro tho dons of iniquity arb all open, oven on Sundays. Wo aro still hoping, praying, waiting. Whon tho Supremo Court decided that tho dispensary bill was unconstitutional, many were in clined to think, as Jacob did, "All thoso things aro against mo ;" but wo know better. Tho dispensary had done tho work God intended it to do. This tight is a battle between the devil and his allies and our great King and his followers, and unless wo prove traitors wo must win tho victory, for "Our God is within the shadows, " Keeping watch above His own." Tho dispensary proved that with a man of courage at tho head of affairs, liquor laws could bo enforced, if not absolutely at first, fully as well as laws against burglary, murder of any other crime. Public barrooms woro most certainly closed, and that in despite of tho combined efforts of all classes of peoplo who gavo encouragement, and actually brought in to promiuenco tho lowost oluss of peoplo, because they darod to dofy tbo law. You have shown what an immense revenue ac crues from tho sale of whiskey, but you havo told us your "object is not revenue," and we boliovo you aro too truo a man to sell the right of way into our homes aud barter our boys to tbo foroign rum-seller for revenue. " Whon for our cause all hope is lost, "When every heart was tempest tossed; " When homes in ashes round us lay " And o'or us beamed nochoering ray ; "When o'en our bravest were un manned " And wavod the woo wave o'er tho land, " Your Southern women chocked each tear '? And offerod nothing but words of ehoor." And now wo como to tbo men of Carolina, particularly to those who make and enforce our laws, and on troat you to protect tho homes wo took caro of during tho war. " Homo is our kingdom," you say, but wo aro powerless to defend it. You put into tbo bauds of the vilest of the scour ing of creation a weapon " firmer sot than ballots or than bayonets," with which to attack our homes and destroy our dearost onos. Your protection, you say, is all sufficient. God grant It may bo so, in this ease, for wo aro standing baliotlcss, utterly unablo to defend our homes, and wo appeal to tho mon of our Stato for help in this timo of threatened destruction. If I you do not help us now and tho do- i stroyers of our homes got into powor | again, the wives and mothers of our Stato will havo again to go, ns thoy havo gono in the past, into tho rum shops at night, and, on their knees, plead with brutal barkeepers, I who with curses havo thrust them into tho Street. Wo want prohibition, absolute pro hibition, without any "clauses ex empting wine, beer or any liquor ns a beverage." Atlanta's experience is an object losson to us. Men who sworo solomnly not to soil spirituous liquors soon perjured themselves, and as an oxeuso for oponing thoir bar rooms on Sunday, kopt a menagerie and made tho QXOUse "they hiul to feed the animals," I can nover forgot Mr. Grady's look as ho prophesied what exactly camo to pass. Hot us bo warnod by Atlanta's ox porlenoe to make no compromise with the berried trafllc, for tho divine con demnation rests upon any nation or govornmont which legalizes ovil, " frame! h mischief by law nnd just i lies tho wlckod for roward." With grout rospect, MKS. SALL1H P. Chapin, Stato President of South Curolinn, Mrs. T. P. DKGaPPHRBLLY, President of Charleston W. C. T. U. ?Col. William C. Oates, who hns just boon nominated for Governor by tho Alabama Democrats, probably has asdisctincta recollection of tho civil war as any man living. Ho was sovero ly wounded in battle six times, once In tlio right arm. thon in tho right log, again in tho loft hip and clear through tho right hip and thigh, then In the head and finally, in tho lust, grasp of tho lost cause before Hlohmond, his right arm was carried away. A CONSPIRACY IN ELOR1UA. Ono Negro Already Lynched Ihr n ' Viol to Couimittho Usual Crime and I Othera of the Conspirators May Share his Fate. Jacksonville, May 29.?A special to the Times-Union from Palatka, Via, says: Tho p^oplo of this section aro vory much excited over tho discovery of adiabolicul conspiracy a ?.; tho1 nogroos to commit a series of outrages upon whlto women. The particulars aro that about a week ago a negro preacher by tho namo of I. T. Burgiss came to tho turpentine stills in the neighborhood of Putnam Hall aud pro cured employment. After becoming acquainted with tho colorod employees ho made damaging remarks about tho daughter of a farmer living uear by, and proposed to the negroes that thoy should Seiko this girl and sevoral other white women and carry thorn into the swamp and make t hem submit to their embrace.^. It is understood that sev eral negroos agreed to tho plan a..d that preparations wore being mado to carry it into effect. Fortunately the white people got a bint of tho conspiracy and began to make an investigation. Thoy scoured evidoneo that such a conspiracy did exist aud they took steps to guard thoir homes. In the mean while the negroes learned that their diabolical plan was known and soorotly thoy boguu to loavo tho country. Ono of those to leave was Burgiss, who had suggested the out rages r.pon tho women. He fled just in tim ) to escape from a number of white men who had gonotosecuro him. It was learned that Burgiss had gone to Georgia and the father of tho young lady whom liurgiss had so vilely slan dered swore out a warrant against the negro. Tho Georgia authorities wcro com municated with and Burgiss was ar rested. A Florida officer went for tho negro and brought him back. Fearing a mob he stopped at a little station called Newburg, intending to secrete tho prisoner at a friend's homo nearby. Tho officer started to his friend's house, but bad not proceeded more than half a mile when bo was suddenly confronted by between seventy-live and ono hun dred mounted men. Thoy covered him with guns and ritles and demanded the prisoner. Being overpowered there was no other alternative but to givo him up, and tho next morning Burgiss was seon hanging from a limb two milos from tho place where ho was taken from Deputy Lane. Burgiss is described as being about 4? years of age, six feet and weighing about ono hundred and eighty pounds. Ho con fessed to Mr. Lane that tho roport he circulated about tho farmor's daughter was untrue, but ho mado tho remark about her to interest the nogroos in his undertaking. Tho white poople aro wild with rage, and it is boliovcd that more lynchings will spoodily fol losv. RUSSIAN INTOLERANCE. An Interest in..- Incident in Diploma tic Colors?Russia Denies Admis sion to a Citizen ol'the United States. Congressman Kayner, of Maryland, a member of tho foreign affairs com mitte, hub introduced in the Houso a resolution which will probably lead to an interesting diplomatic controversy with Russia. Rabbi Krauskopf, a well known He brew philanthropist of Philadelphia, has been denied the privilege of enter ing Russia, an?l tho resolutions calls upon Secretary Gresbam to insist that Russia shall keep faith with tho United States under the terms of the treaty of 1834, which says thut "the inhabitants of thoir respective states shull mutually have liberty to enter the ports, places and rivers of the ter ritories of each party wherever foreign commerce is permitted," and that If tho Czar's government rofusos to res pect the conditions that steps be taken to abrogato tho treaty. It is quite probable that the purpose of Rabbi Krauskopf's Jvisit hud uii; im portunt bearing on Russia's action in the euse. Ho desires to observe the condition of Russian Jews and to petition tho Czar to permit him to carry out plans to relieve the congested Jewish settlement by colonizing the excess of population in the sparsely settled interior parts of the empire. The means for accomplishing this, be believes, will bo subscribed i>y his co religionists bore and abroad. Rabbi Krauskopf's application for safe conduct through the empire was laid before Prince Cuntacuuzene, the Russiun minister, some weeks ago. Tho prince listened in silence und then announced his deep regret that ho must decline to take any official cogni zance of tho matter. Then through his friends in congress Dr. Krauskopf brought his plan to the attention of Secretary Gresbam and President Cleveland, who wont so far as to for ward an official communication upon the subject from the stuto department to Andrew 1). White, United States minister to Russia. This communica tion Wits in the nature of a "feeler'' put forth to ascertain, if possible, in what spirit Dr. Krauskopf's proposed visit to Russia would be received on the part ofthat government. It was un derstood that lie was to go fully equip ped with passports and with the most potent crcdntiuls of his American eiti zonship. It was also made plain that tho rabbi's mission was purely peaceful and philanthropic. This reply of the Russian government has been trans mitted througa Ministor White: " Russian government deeply regrets tho Impossibility of acceding to the request of tho reverned Jewish divine." Rabbi Krauskopf has been barred solely on account of his religious faith, and Congressman Hayner will raise the point whether a citizen of this country, no matter what bis religion may bo, eon be denied a safe conduct under the terms of tho treaty. This country imposes no such restrictions upon Russian visitors. ?Genova, Ala., close to tl.o Florida line, is agitated over a BOelaeial sensa tion. Ed Cowart, a prominent young man. and Miss Lizzie Lunwood, a pop ular belle, were to havo wedded. All arrangements were made; the preaohor and the guests had all arrived ; tho wedding supper was spread, but the bridegroom wus missing. A dolegtl tion wus sent after him, but ho declined to come, saying bo bad changed his mind. Tho bridal party was notified accordingly. The assembled gentle men provided thomselvcs with masks, again called upon the bridegroom, car ried him into the woods, buckle?) him across a log and lashed him unmerci fully, tho blood being mado to flow from hlH back. Thoy thronten to sorvo the noxt flirt ovon worse. ?During tho World's Fair tho Ferris whool went around 10,000 times und carried 2,000,000 passengers. Tho largest singlo load carried was Octo ber 19th, when at 12.20 o'clock 1,768 people woro on tho curs. Tho largest day's business'was October 10th, when .'W.OOO p oplo were carried. October 9th, 10th and 11th thoro were 114.000 passongors. tho largest number for any three days. state news in uk i he. Interesting Notes from Varloes.Soar obs. ?Tho Sututor Frooman nominates Hon. W. D. Evans nor the United States Sonate. ?Dr. L. C. Stephens, of Barnwoll, has gone to San Francisco, Cnl., as a dolegato to tho Amorican Medical As sociation. ?Tho St. Matthews cotton sood oil mill, In its first yoar's operation has earned for tho stockholders a dividend of 33i por cont. ?Tho peoplo of Clarendon aro anx ious for Hon. J. E. Tindnl to make tho race for Oovornor, believing that ho can do moro towards solidifying tho roform faction than any other man mentioned for the placo. ?An old woathor observor calls at tention to it as a romarkablo fact that nearly all hailstorms in this section go from wost to oast, and that a storm from north to south, though occurring occasionally, is something very un usual. ?Prominent citlzons of Lancaster havo, through a published card in the local paper, gien warning to all who may persist in selling liquor in that town that they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of tho law for every violation. ?Congressman Talbert has intro duced a bill " to enjoin tho further is sue of bunds by tho Secretary of tho Treasury and to coin the seigniorage,'* which amounts to #.V>.000,000. This. Mr. Talbert thinks, will solve our finan cial troubles. ?Tho Oakland club of Fatrfleld County has passed a set of resolutions in whioh it recommends that " Demo crats opposed to tho Reform movement should carry tho issue square into the November election without going i'.to tho primaries. ?Tho Secretary of the Stato has is sued a commission to tho Greenville County Hodge Fenco Company, with tho following corporators : lt. Y. Hel lans. H. B. Buist and A. Blytho. The capital stock is *12,00U, divided into shares of $100 each. ?Brigadior General D. W. Flagler, of tho War Department, bus issued ti docisiou which holds that the arms of tho Washington Light Infantry of Charleston aro tho property of the Stato under tho terms upon which thoy were given tho company by Con gross. Tho arms will accordingly be turned over to the State. ?Tho Lover, of Chicago, tho loading prohibition organ of the West, says oditorially : "Tho mayor ol Colum bia, S. C, is mado of tho right kind of stuff. He has issued a proclamation giving due notieo that under tho re cent doeision of the Supreme Court ho will onforco the laws of the Stato and of the city prohibiting the sale of liquor. Such a mayor is an honor and a credit to his city." ?The Prosperity Canning Company is arranging to can this season fifty acres of tomatoes, being 10.000 bushels, or about 140,000three pound cans. This represents about 500 cans of tomatoes alone per working day all the year round and does not include tho output of other canned products. Tho Pros perity cannery was begun in a small, experimental way, but, for Its capacity, has proved a paying, even a profitable, enterprise from the start. ?The Alken Times notes the sale of tho "Sand Dar Ferry," wbeh bo longs to tho estate of the late Miss .Julia Whatley. of Augusta, Ga. Tho Times says: " Tnis lovely place on the Savannah wa.; the regular duell ing placo of tho country gentry before the war. More duels have probably been fought there thi:n at any other place in the State. It has been in the possession of tho Whatley family for over sixty years." ?Tho safe used by the threo C's Railroad Company in its olllco at Yorkvillo was blown open last week and a sum of money not exceeding $45 was taken therefrom. Tho job was evidently the work of an experience I craksman, as it was accomplished by bouring a hole in tho door and forcing powder into the safe. The whole thing seems to have been worked ex actly in tho way told about in the dime novols. There is no clue to the identity of tho robber. This is Yorkvlllo's first experience with this c'ass oforiminals. ?Tho Republicans are preparing to test the constitutionality of tho regis tration laws of South Carolina, in ac cordance with tli3 resolution recently adopted by the State executivo com mittee of tho Republican party. The committee apppointod by the State committee to have tho test made and raise funds therefor has been bard at work and it proposes, if possible, to have the constitutionality of tho law docitled upon in very short rdo. The work has boon in tho bands of Stato Chairman Webster and ex-State Chair man Brayton. An Unreconstructed Rebel.?At the reunion of the Confederate cavalry veterans in Richmond last week, Gen. Thomas L. Rosscr was one of tho speakers, and among other things he spoKo as follows: 14 Comrades, when you marched out in 'til you were buoyed by hope of tho future. Now you have only the mem ory of the lost. The great principles which we fought for have been de feated, but they aro not dead. We are now only an ambulance corps. But we tire here today to do honor to tho men who foil, for wo love their mem ory us we lovo our Co I. The men who overran us rem nd mo of the locusts which are now inlostmj' portions of this State. They cou.d not whip us, but they devour? d c ur substance. The army that devoured us wus an army of substitutes. We killed all the substi tutes and the men whom they repres ented stopped at homo and made money, and now draw pensions. I de spise the man who gives the United States money toa pensioner. This coun try oan't stand when it makes oneciti Zon support another. I shall never vote for a Congressman who is in favor of government pensions. I will say to Massachusetts, you pay your pensioners as Virginia pays hers." General Rossor then went on to say that the G. A. R. was banded together to get pensions, and if ho had been at Birmingham he would have voted against the proposition to invite them to Atlanta/ He did not want them to come to Richmond. "Some time ago," ho continued, "wo unveiled a monument to tho greatest general who ever lived : today WO unveil a monument to the greatest paivate so.diers who over lived, and in time we will unveil a monument to tho President of tho Confederate States. Rut wo aro mocked at tho North, and will live to soo tho Yankee army inarch again throught the South and pull down our monuments. 1 don't know what sort of stub' the rising gen eration aiO mado of, hut if you and I are living, there will bo bloodshed when that is done.'' ?A Raleigh real estate firm is nego tiating for a tract of 67,000 acres of laud on the North Carolina sound for a fish and game prosorvo for Now York and Washington partlos. OENEKAL* NEWS Hl MMAffl^ Jj ! itcsl [tents and Curious Notes tV< in Mm' Our Exchanges. ^i^H ?Chief Justice Logau K. HlcccklcjH of tho Georgia Supreme Court, hto9 become a father at the ago of 77. HjfjH married the second time about a^ear-B ago, a young lady from New York. 1 ?Tho hotel at Columbia, Tex., was ' burnod lust week. Cburles Lewis, a capitalist, was the only person wh? o.-t his life. Soveral of the guosts jumped from tho second lloor ana wore uuu y injured ?The potitions for woman suffrage so far present! d to tho New York C?.n btitutioual Convention contain 212,153 signatures. Tbo array of names is as notable iu the standing and cbaructor us in tbo number of petitioners. ?Nearly every charitable institution in Now York, Hebrew, Catholic, Pres byterian, Episcopalian, and all other denominations is remembered in tho will of the lato Jesse Scligman, tho Hebrew millionaire and philanthropist. ?Secretary Lament is proceeding with his sweeping reductions"^! tho force in tho War Department. Five hundred employes have been dis charged, and about half tho army otll eers on duty will bo sent to thoir regi ments. ?Owing to tho late frost the orange orop of California will bo fur im low tue average for this season. Tho total output from Southern California will - reaoh about 4,000 carloads, of which over 3,000 will go Eus?-. This is 20 percent, below lust season's crop. ?Tho enormous sum of $l,2T>0,000 * cash has been paid iu royalties to tho interests represented by Mr. Moody since his book of hymns was printed twenty years ago. Tho sale of tho hymns is said to have readied the wonderful total of 20.000,000 volumes. ?The relatives of Tom Wool folk, who was haugud in Georgia lor ti.o killing of several members of his family after bankrupting his county to convict him, have put a monumont to his memory. ?Ex-Senator Walthall's health is so poor it is improbable ho will serve another terra in the Senate, i t. is Jus ambition to close his political career- -? as Governor of Mississippi, and thoro would bo no opposition to his nomina tion for that otllco if bo expressed a desiro to bo the Democratic candi date. ?At Port Townsond, Wash., Frank C. MoDlll, a restaurant keeper, has turned up as a long lost heir to a for tune iu Chattanooga, Tonn., valued at $50,000. Ho had been absent from homo for fifteen years and several thousand dollars havo been spent iu vain endeavors to ascertain his where abouts. ?Dooly County. (Ja,, is iu a happy financial condition and one of which its people have a cause to be proud. It does not owe a cent and has $13,000 in tho treasury, more than enough to run the county both this year and the next. Tho grand jury has therefore decided net to levy any tax at all this year. ?The common tuberose is an excel colleut illustration of a popular mis nomer. The plant is no rose at all and has no connection with the rose family^ Its name is a corruption. The French gardeners always call it plante tubo reuse, or tuber plant, and tho latter part of the name was corrupted by ig norant people into tuberose. ?A bloody tragedy took placo last week on streets of Hockwood, Tonn. In cold blood, without a word of dis pute, Holman Hinds emptied the con tents of a shotgun into .lohn Montgom ery. Both men are well-to-do farmers of Eloano County. The wounded man died in a few hours, and his murderer was arrested. An old dispute over land led to tho crime. ?The Winston Sentinel mentions as an instance of the economy of adminis tration that North Carol Am. with a population of 1,(117.1)47, pays $82,000 for her judges and" prosecuting uttering -sy-? wbilo Virginia, with 1,055,980, pays $200,000 for her judges and prosecuting attorneys. At the same timo .It is claimed that tho judiciary of North Carolina compares in ability aud in tegrity with that of any State of tho Union. ?II. Bollvor Thompson, tho assis tant State engineer of Louisiana, has brought suit against the Yav.oo and Mississippi Valley Hailrnad Company for the sum of $4<>,25U for the loss of an eye, caused by being struck by the boll rope which was running through the ear loosely aud irregularly and was suddenly drawn by an employee of the railroad company who was standing on the platform. THREATENS THE MAYOR. A Slate DetectiveOclS Ugly ami Tries to Sliool Mayor Sloan. COLUMBIA, S. C. May 30.?Today a sensational attack was made upon Mayor W. Meli. Sloan, of this city, which is curiously connected with tho liquor riots. Last night a young man named Power was arrested for disor derly conduct In a disreputable locali ty of the city. This morning tho may or imposed upon him a tine of $2">. Power, when arrested, had a Colt's pistol, which he said a man named Nowcomb had loaned him. Nowoomb is a Texan, claiming to bo a Plnkorton detective, and has papers which pur port that ho is in the service of tho Stato. This afternoon Newcoinb, armed to the teeth, called at Mayor Sloan's re sidence and presented a note from At torney General Buchanan, stating that tho pistol taken from Power belonged to the State and requesting its return to Nowcomb. Sloan promptly gavo him an order for it. Then Nowcomb commenced to abuse the mayor in u foul manner and swore that if he would come out into the street he would show him what he would do. Nowcomb pro ceeded to tho olHco of tho oify clerk. Walker, in the city hall building, and denounced that official. Coming down tho steps he saw Mayor Sloan at a dis tance, and, putting his hand to his pocket, declared that he would shoot him. Two polieomen promptly soi/.ed New comb, handcuffed him ami hustled him olT to tho guardhouse. Tonight At torney General Buchanan called on Mayor Sloan and. explaining that New comb was needed to testify before tho Florence county grand jury which will ho discharged tomorrow, asked his re lease. Tho mayor refused on tbo ground that ho had no right to do so, and Buohnnan said that he would re sort to legal process. Nowcomb claims himself that ho had been engaged by tho government in forreting out tho looting of the Florence county dispen sary, which occurred the night aftor tho Darlington riot. It is said that his friend Power had been working with him. Power was tried today in his absence* at Florence on t be charge of making an aggravated assault upon a man named Fladgor, hlfl cousin. Power is a man of good family connections. Nowcomb will doubtless be lined in the mayor's court tomorrow morning and immedia tely afterwards arrested on the charge of assault with intent to kill and re> mandod to a highor court.