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Whiskey Rebates Senator lillman on Dispensary Troubles, Tili; HUBSTXNCN OF THAT FA MOUS LUTTtilt. Tito Senator Courts Investigation into His Administration of the ? > ?--|?. usury ami J/uys 1118 Kospecis to Mis 1'UlCllllcs. Tho following statement of Senator Tillman was given to the daily news papers and appeared simultaneously on Sunday morning: Governor Ellorbo having \dcclinod to glvo my letter to tho press as I re quested, 1 waited t > hear from him be fore giving it out. It wMi written very hurriedly, and sumo things in it Boemed to him to bo a reflection on his administration, and ho also objected to my strictures on some men and things as coming through him for fear they would be considered as recoiving hbj endorsement. As I iutended no re flection on tho Governor, and had no purpose of "striking others over his shoulder," I have modified the lan guage which ho considered to retlect ou him and give tho letter to tho public in the form of a statement. I only ad dressed it to him, in tho first place, because, being Goveroor, ho alone could order an investigation. It is substantially as first written, exeopt that I havo ehangod my comments on the Agricultural iiall mutter sorno, since reading tho opinion of Justice Harlan, and loft out one or two sen tences which might be considered as making boastful comparisons. Tho dispensary scandals and the re cont decision in regard to tho Agricul tural Hail case havo excited a deep feeling of concern in the minds of the people of the State, and havo given my onomies a good oxcuso to engago anow in tho pleasant pastimo of abusing and slandering me in connection with bath. I commend heartily the Governor's action in pressing tho recent investi gation and join in the sentiment: "Let no guilty man escape." I havo no desire, nor do 1 believe has the Governor, to make scapegoats of anyono, but if thore are any big fish in the not, lot thorn not break through and punish only tho little ones. Thoro has been more or less looseness in vogue in regard to samples from the very start, and it is probable that con traband l'quors and samples became mixed in toe minds of men connected with tho dispensary, so that due regard to law has not been had in the disposal of contraband seizures. Hut if tberj arc no gravor crimes in connection with the management than these with which they havo thus far been charged, I do not s'ee that much good wilt come, even i Scruggs and Oaston are punished to tho fullest oxtcnt of tho law. in this connection, I would suggest that too much 9tress seems to be given to the having of a "hocus pocus" key. Scruggs wus tho trusted ugont of tho board of control, 60 much so that they refused or failed to oleet a commissioner, and I cannot 6oe what ncid ho had for a key. Ship ments must have been received con stantly, and I do DOt know how they could have been placed in the contra band room unless there wus a key al ways in his possession to open it witii. It is possible, ut this ditt'iuoe, how ever, and for tho lack of familiarity with the present workings of the dis pensury, that my criticism* along this lino are worthless. Samples wore sent in in great quantities when I was con nected witu the dispensary,, and not knowing what else to do wltb them, tho/ wero freely distributed among tho visitors to tho institution, as one means of determining the qualities of tho liquors, and also as courtesies. I carritu some to my house and used them, as did Governor Evans, and also, I presume, tho present Stato hoard of control have done likewise, and I have ? no apology to make for it. During my term there wero very few other arti cles than liquor seized, though I recall the fact that kegs and sratill barrels of liquors were found packed in rice barreis and also iu casks of haras. I instructed Mr. Traxler to take account of uli contraband articles and dispose of them according to law. Whilo thoro is a great howl raised In regard to tho dispensary by the old bar-room advocates, It is done with the vlow of undermining and destroying the dispensary system, and they do not care so much for the punishment of theso men as tbey rejoice in the opportunity the recent exposures have afforded them for revamping tho old slanders about "rebates." Tbo obvious purpose of tho anti newspapers?anti-reform, anti-temper ance and anti-decency?their obvious purpose, I say, is to follow up the line of fight laid down long ago; to be smirch the character of any and every man connected with the dispensary, and to magnify everything which can be criticised in its management in order to break it down in the affections Of tiio people and to accomplish the restoration of bar-rooms In somo form. Tho system has no inherent vice which ought to work its dissolution, and it only rt quires to bo conducted as the asylum or as tho tax department is run to command the respect and sup port of tho people No ono can claim that this is a matter of impossibility, and if tho system shad finally fail It will bo owing to tho improper admin istration of the law. So much for tbo goneral subject. Now, for particulars. I havo waited to see this wook's Headlight, so as to havo Gantt's specific charges covering the administration of the law under "Ben Tillman and Traxlor ;" and, like others, I have boon astonished at the effrontery which gives out so much smoke and so little tiro. He morely dips his syrlngo into tho gutter of filth and slime emanating for tho last three years from the News and Courier, tho State, the Spartanburg Herald, and tho Greonvlllo News, with which . the people havo boon so disgusted, and spattors mo along with others with its contents. He, however, winds up with a reiteration of tho ory: "in vestigate : Investigate : investigate}" I havo not shunned nor dreaded an in vestigation, and 1 do not shun It now ; but 1 venturo tho prediction that ray enemies will bo sorry if ono be hold, and will declare that it is not honestly made. They do not want the time to come when they cannot dig up tho question of rohatos and cast insinua tions against my honesty. When these stale slanders about rebates under my administration ?ere put in circulation by the newspapers and then taken up by General Sutler, in the oanvass three years ago, I met them promptly and vigorously at Union and else where, and last winter I joined with Governor Evans in asking that the Legislature should appoint a commit tee to look into the dispensary's man agement and sot the charges of cor ruption at rest forever. The books of the dispensary and everything con nected with its financial ?ff dm have been investigated and reported on time and again by a legislative com , .' ' ui , . : ? , nuti, incapable of seduction or of b Induced toelerk wrong. Tbo commit teo has never yet made a report re tlootlug on the Integrity or honesty of Its management. Now, theory is "ln vestlgaU ! ' and whileGantt and noouo else has or eau give any satisfactory mason why my administration of the l) spenAary should fie investigated. I desire to ask tho Governor to select a committee of oiti/.ous to enter upou an Investigation i mined lately, and I am willing to answer any inquiries made, and 1 doubt not that every other man connected with tbo Disponsary In any otllcitd way would be willing to do like wise. The exponsu oannot bo great, and could bo paid outof tbecontingent fuud, and the matter is of sutnciont Impor tance, I think, to warrant tbo outlay. Tho friends of tho DiBponsary can not allow It to bo undermined and smothered in filth by tho guttersnipes who are running the editorial pages of our dally papers, and If any corruption can bo shown, otbor than what has already beon shown to exist, punish ment swift and sure should follow. I stanC ready to explain and justify every act of mlno in connection with the law, and I doubt not that Governor Evans can do likewise. .Lot tho mat tor bo sot at rest and the smoldering embers of onvy and hate bo put out once for all. M. C. BUTLER REPLIES TO TILLMAN. A WARM KKJOINDKit TO it'll K, ?'KEV1SKD LiUlTUIl." Tito Ex-Senator Asks His Successor to Answer a Plain Question?Tho Imuo Cannot Bo Kvadod. To the Mditorof The State: I obbervo In the "modilied state ment" of B. R. Tillman, published in Tne Stato of too 23d Instant, ho lugs my name into his labored effort at vin dication. Tbo statement from begin ning to ond Is more in the uature of a ''confession und avoidance" than a vin dication. Expletives and slanders, bis favorlto weapona of controversy, will not satisfy an Inquisitive public, which is getting down to a more sorlous form of enquiry. He says "when thoso stale slanders about rebates under my administration were put Into circulation by the nows" papers and taken up by Gecoral Butler in the canvass three years ago, I met them promptly and vigorously at Union and eidowhere, and last winter I joined with Governor Evans In asking that the legislatures should appoint a com mittee to look into tho dispensary's management and set the charges of corruption at rest forever." This is very general, ovaslvo and or roneous. In tbo ?rst place the ".-tale slanders" were not "taken up by Gen eral Butler" by anything derived from "the newspapers." Rero is what oc curred at Union. I had received a communication from a gentleman in Charleston, not a nowspaper mau, in forming me t hat by the terms of tho ' whiskey trust agreement, every u.em ber of too trust was bound to pay a re bate of seven cents a gullon to ai who purchased a thousand gallons or up ward, that Is to su}, was bound un der .trie trust agreement to pay back seven oents on every gallon thus bought; that the Mill Creek distillery of O.uo was a member of the trust, and there fore bound tj ret .rn this rebate; that at Governor Ti'iman, as chairman of the hoard of c.ntrol, and understood to bo tho sole responsible bead, bad pur chased largj quantities of liquor from the Mill Creek distillery, ho ougbt to | have received large sums from tbo Mill Creek distillery, running up Into tbo tnousands of dollars. Tills Is substan tially the Information I recolvod from an entirely reliable, experienced source. ruts communication got into Tho Ndwg and Courier and can be found in toe flies of that paper of that date, be fore I had an opportunity to uso It on the stump, in this way: At a meeting preceding the ono at Union. I do not now remember where, M<'. Kuhn, the correspondent of Tbo Nowb and Courier, asked me if I bad any manuscript I expected to use, I would lot him have it in advance, so that ho could mako a copy at his leis ure, and thereby save him tbo labor when sending off his dispatches. I gave him tbo memorandum furnish ed me as above stated, enjoining blm not to publish it until I had embraced it in some dubsequont speech. Mr. Kobn, through inailvertenco, I suppose, forwarded It to his paper, and it was published boforo I had an opportunity to refer to it. Mr. Kohn aftorwards told mo he had Informed Governor Tlilman it had been published without my authority. Notwithstanding this information, Governor Tillman having the opening speech at Union, made this publication the text for a violent, coarse, vulgar attack on me, stirring up tho passions of a few ruffians and blackguards in the audience, aod then when I got up to roply, tho ruffians attempted to brow beat and howl mo down. Whon the excitement was at Its height and trou ble seemed imminent, Governor Till man, as usual, loft tho stand and sought a place of safety. In the course of his ribaldry and vituperation he denied having collected the rebates and on doavorod to tako rofugo from the awk ward dilomma In which ho 'ound him self by raising other and false Issues, having no relevance to the robato i question. When I replied, I said, I among other things, that thero were , but two alternatives, either Gov. Till man had culleoted the thousands of dollars of rebates from the Mill Creek distillery and not accounted for them, or had beon guilty of a gravo and cen surable dereliotlon of official duty in not collecting tho rebates and turning thorn Into tho Stato treasury for tho bonedt of the taxpayord. No charges were inado, but a simple enquiry which any taxpayer bad a rigbt to make, p d any honest man wou'J have invited and answered dis passionately and frankly. There was no occasion for such an outburst of coarse ribaldry and unseemly passion. The controversy stands to-day where It was left off at Union nearly three years ago, except that the suspicion of crookedness in regard to tho rebates ' has been intensified by a remark which I Governor Evans, his friend and cola borer in tbo dispensary business, Is obarsred with having mado to Mr. Mix son, lato ohtef dispenser, to the elToot that "Bon Tillman had lined his pock ets wltn rebates." Aod further, by re cent Intimations and suggestions on tho same line from some of Governor Tlllman's closest, and, as Is generally supposed, most confidential personal and political friends. Now, the simple and only question as to this branob of the dispensary management Involving hundreds of thousands of dollars to tho taxp. irs, Is, were the rebates of Sov en cv' w per gallon collected from tho Mill v. ox distillery and other whis key dealers, aod If not, why not. Governor Tillman oarnot sidetrack this momentous issue by tirades of 1 abuse against newspapers] and any and every body who oboses to exorcise their rights as tree and untorrUJcv elt It 1b tbo duly und business ol news papers to Inform the public of current events, und it is the business und duty of liberty loving citizens to hold every public oilieiu) t) the strictest ucuount ubility for his otliciul nets. Tho news papers buvo never, and can novor, Im pair the official integrity of any honest 001 ial. The official himself may be eioud and besmirch his own reputa tion by evasion, irritability and pas sion under legitimate criticism and onquiry. The stench from tho dispensary scan dals havo reached tho acute stage and its founders and promoters owe >t to themselves and to tho people of tho state generally to probe It to tho bot tom, let out tho foul effluvia, "or hush." That is what Governor Tillman has re cently advised tho Unitod States Sen ato to do. Legislative committoeB are very good things in their way, when they are in earnest, but when men have said "the horse was sixtoen foet high" they will scarcely turn round, eat their words, and admit the horse wus only sixteen hands high. If tho whiskey doalers i who havo sold whiskey to the Stato could bo brought into court and forced to testify, some repntutions would be much better or worse off. It is about timo tbo peoplo in the Stato wore taking matters in thoir own hands, stop listening to twaddle and nonsense and have a general over hauling of thoir affairs. Prejudice and passion and resentments may bo very handy weapons for charlutuns und dem agogues to boost themselves into office, but they are getting to bo very expen sive luxuries. Tuxcb which wore promised a few yours ago to be re duced, have been increased, and are likely to bo still further increased if a halt is not called, and the taxpayers havo to puy tho piper, while tho dema gogues danco. Public offices were promised to ho reduced, but they havo increased in numbers and tt.o taxpayers have to pay the salaries while tho increased officeholders dance. This, I say, is getting to be a protty expensive lux ury, especially when considered in tho light of the falling off of revenuo from the phosphate royalty, am other sources which holpod to moot publio expenditures. It was promised that tho dispensary would pay a half million a year into tho State treasury and ought to havo done , so under honest proper management. | What a pitiful showing has been made! M. C. Butler, j Washington. D. C, May 25, 18?7. KKMINISCKNUKi OIT KAllLU, The ImpresstOd ho Made Upon a Itoy? Him Splendid Fijfht iu 1su0. Columbhi Stato. Toe life of man is woven of mingled shade and light. Mich shadow clouds the orightnebs; excess of light banishes the shadow. When a career like Sen ator E trio's has olo?cd und wo road the Stainless rjll of his achievements, con viction seizes bruiu und heart that his public life, redounded to the honor of the land, as his private life hud over illustrated tho shilling virtues of tho Christiau gentleman. In a time of evil men, of foul speaking, of wickedness ? rampant and blatant, of a social up heaval, be "saved his* crown of spirit ual man hood" and followed not "u mul titude to do evil." His course fore- I bhudowed a brilliant career in the hub's J of nutionul counsel?brilliant and yet founded on tho rock of unremitting lu bor. "Over thoro in the 'undimmed | light ut last you love and know" won . fought tho light and died like a Romat sentinel at his post. ? ? ? #* ? ??*?' Sixteen years ago one dark night a boy lay on a cot in a little cunvuss ter.t at Buck Forest, North Carolina. Toe tent faced east where lights twink'ed in the windows of tho hotel. As .he. i boy lay half dozing a tull form ti led tho doorwuy, und in tho hulf-hght be came visiblo the form and features of u splendid man. Ah, heaven, what eyes ! Tho voice stainpod the impresslou It was my first sight ot Joseph Eirle. Nothing has over di.umed thut rocol- I lection. It wus un ora in my life. Col- j onel Earle tr.como a puludin. I fancied his ringing voice culling mail-clad knights to battle?himst It tho knight- . liest figure in tho turong. That boyish enthusiasm helped to a bottor under- I standing of tho mun. There wus roully ' no office do) ;? tat ion that he would not have grace, und dign lied. i *? * * * * * ? j Thoro was in tho man a forced re- | serve that signified uncommon mental strength. South Carolina was seething like a hot caldron in 1890. E/erythiog : ran like amillrace for Rjform. Tillman ' was the h oi of tho masoes. Against ah that Earle lifted up his voice. Ho fought ? the hydra of revolution at tho mouth of ' its lair. He failed, of course, as any man must have failed ; but he won more j gaculne respect from Reformers them- j selves?from tho beBt of thom?than Tillman could inspire in the plenitude j of his power. Tho effect of bis superb fight was his election as judge, follow- I ed later by his elootlon In tho Demo oratio primaries to tho Unltod States' ?eoate. He conducted that campaign on the highest plane. The unbiased judgment of newspaper men at the time was tnat it was tue only campaign of education they had ever witnessed in tbo State. Men heard with attention and went away instructed upon the great issues that engaged tho atten tion of the country. Had ho done no more than to pitch the standard cf pub lio debate on tnat lofty height, he would deserve an apotheosis. ** ? * * * ?*: I met Senator Eurlo in the campaign ' of 1802. He was roturning to Columbia ; from a business trip. In response to a question he gave hla judgment to the effect that the opposition would fail j and that Tillraanism would wane slow ly if upright men wore putJorward.and eiootod toi.ffioe. Otherwise, It would quickly pass and South Carolina bo the better for Its passage. After his tl iotton to the seriate bo wrote mo from Uoaufort, in answor to a congratulatory note, saying that ho would strive to fulfill tho expectations of his frlendB, but thatitho issuoi was in God's bunds. Propbetio thought I Po tent utterance 1 "Dis alitur viaum," and now he lies asloep, sentinelled by tho blue mountains in the "Pearl of tue Piudinoat." Thousands will render tributo to his worth, und will pay Utting respect to his memory. I joined the tnrong to lay this one flower upon his blor and now say farewell. James Henry Rioe, Jr. ?Josh Billings says he knows peo ple who are so fond of argument that they will stop and dispute with a guide-board about tho distanoe to the next town. ?" As diamond polishes diamond,'' says a German writer, "so man i formed by man." And we may add, aa diamond outs diamond, so man is tle.ee ed by man. ?In Mexico the>sohoolt "n w!> havo done best are allow* ok cigarettes while pursuing ti It la supposed that this Is ; der that the bright scholar* bToMght dcrwii to *ke ctowmoa M'LAURIN HAS BEIN APPOINTED SENATOR, UK WILL HUN FOR TBE UNEX PIHhll) I'KKM. A Sketch of/Ilia Brilliant Career-111b Populurlty ub u Public Man. John Lowndos McLaurin was boru in Marlboro County, May Oth, 1800. Bis father's namo was Philip 15. McLaurin, a lawyer of marked ability, who died at an early ago, leaviug tbo subject of this i.ketch, Thomas und Margaret. Tbomas died when about twelve voars old and Margaret is now living in Marl boro C.mnty as Mrs. Crosdand. Bis mother was a daughter of T. C. Woath orly, wbo was prominent in public life boforo tbo war. Whatever of political ability and taste t tat Mr. McLaurin has is from th s side of tbo house. Mr. McLaurin's fatber was elected at tbo very early ape of twenty-three to tho gcuoral assomhly. Uu was just old enough to bo eligible. On this shlo of tho bou o thoro was marked intellec tuality and culturo. His father died f^om lllnt?** contract ed fro , , KpUbUro lu tho m UlV in 1864. 1 .i 1?u7 bis mother married Mr. Win. S. Mowry, of Cbarl ston. Mr. Mowry was a vory wealthy gentleman, aud tho family lived for several years in Marl boro County aud then moved in 18711 to Eoglewood, N.J. Mr. Mowry hassinco that time been a very succohsful mem ber of tbo cotton and stock exchange In Now York. Mr. and Mrs. Mowry, and tivo half brothers and sisters are now living at that placo. All Mr. McLaurin's IihH brothers aro in business In New York city. In those days tho school system of South Carolina was defective aud "Jon nio and Tomraio" wero sont to Bethel military academy near Warre itoa, Va. Tommy died while there and John, the ouator of today, was then taken to 1 Knglewood and sont to school thoro un til he was 15 years of age. He was then sent to Swartbinoro college near Philadi lphia. A (J taker school didn't suit his ardent South Carolina lomper atnent and after two years Colonel Weatherly, his grandfather, concluded that a military school and a disciplina rian liko Col. John P. Thomas wore needed to properly train aod hold in chock tho promising young Carolinian. B > remained under Colonel Tbomas la bis BCbuol at Charlotte, N. C, until ho graduated in 1880 Ho then went tot to University of Virginia and took tue law eoui be, and iu 1882 went to Bon netisvllle and began tno practice of law. Lie huug out bis shingle. Soon an opportunity camo along in the shapr of cases brought agaiu.-t 32 road bauds ? known since, as tbo Hebron road cases. It was a kind of a feud in tho county. The prosecution employed ali the loan ing attorneys In the county, including tbo present assistant attorney gonoral of South Carolina, ox-Judgo Townsend. Mr. McLaurin was alone for the de fense, and many had advised the ac cused to plead guilty. After livo days of lugai lighting, Mi*. M Lauria woj iu every case by appeals to the jury, the law and evidence and prejudice of the people beiUi against him. Judge Town oend was attracted to the bright young lawyer and offered to take him into partm rship. This copartnership was formed in 1883 and continued until Mr. McLaurin's election to Congress, the tirm boing recognized as ono of tbo strongest in that section of tho State. On tho l?.'.h of February, 1883, Mr. McLaurin marriod Miss Nora Brenden, of Bmnettsvillo, iho daughter of Mr. T. J. Broeden, and a nieoo of his law pat tner, Judge Townsond. They havo six onlldron, four girls and two boys. Tbo marriage bits boon a most happy and congenial ono, and Mr. McLaurin attributes his success in law and poll i .e . to the influence of his life partner. Bis friends are tolJ that ho has never taken an import mt stop in his lifo without consulting his wife, and ho has even discussed his law cases with her. Iu 181)0 no was elicted to the legisla ture, lu a very few days Mr. McLiurin made a speech that devulopeu the faot that h was one of the coming factors in South Carolina politics. At tho second term of tbo Legislature At torney General Pope was elected asso ciato justice of the Supreme Court, and Gary, Wilson, Townsend and McLau rin wore candidates for at'oruoy gen eral to succeed Pope. McLaurin had an eaay victory. Ho plunged at once into tbo sea of litigation. His record as attorney general was good. During tho campaign of 1802, tbo main tight upon Tillman was made by Col. Youmans. Ho was a vory eloquent, fluent and forcible speaker. There wero personal differences between You mans and Tillman, and tho latter re fused to dobatoor recognize him in tho campaign at nil, which threw the light, so far as Youmans was concerned, upon MeLaurln. Barely has such a debato ever taken placo In any campaign in this Stato. It was of such a ebaractor as to excito tho keenest public interest, yet tho two men camo out of it tho best of frlend-? personally. Tho result crea ted suuh a wavo of public tavor for Mr. McLaurin that .when Mr. Stuck house, died in Juno, 1802, nothing could pre vent the people of Mr. McLaurin's dis trict from electing hum to Congress In November following. Ho was seated when the fifty-second C mgressconvened In 1802, In tbo month of l)?'C( mbor. Mr. McLaurin's first ut terances upon the II >or drew great atten tion to him all over the country, it was his remarkable oulogy on his deceased predecessor. He camo to Congress about tho tlmo tout Bailey, Bryan, Slbley and others of equal note made their en trance upon the Congressional stage, and immodiatoly began to attract at tention to himself as a debater. His upee ?he, thoro havo attracted national attention. M'LAURIN ACOKPTS THD HONOR. Ho is Willing to Trust tho People and WantBa Primary Election, Hon. John L. McLaurin has accepted the appointment as United States Sen ator In the following lettor to Governor Ederbo: D.iar Sir : Your notification of my ap Sointment ?o the Senate of the United tatos to fill the va anoy causod by tho sad death of Senator Earle, has been received^ Tho prldo and ploasuro at tho receipt of such a distinguished honor is sad- , dened by the thought that our Stato has lost, ono who to ray mind, wive tbo ideal representative of tho culturo, luteill* Renoe and refinement of Southern olv Izatloo. With a profound consclousc;^ of tbo j responsibility Involved and an honoBt determination to ropresont as far as I ami able tho interests of tho ontlre people of the Stato, I accept your ap pointment. I desire, howover, to say that I believe that United States S -natura should bo elected by a vote of tho people ; and as the constitution debars us that priv ilege, I sincerely trust that the Demo cratic Stato exeoutlvo commlttoo will. ' its oonvenlenon, order a primary, and o e v >.ry Damoorat tho onanoe of hav voice in the mo lection of one to fill e highest ofll jo In the gift of tho am *l?otea, X V1U bftV* proud consciousness of knowing that I am, in fact, truly the representative ol I the whole people of South Carolina. It is peculiarly gratifying to mo to receive this appointment ut your bauds, but had I not the exigonciesof tho situation in the Senate demanded tho immediate ap pointment of ono somewhat familiar with tho situation, I would have re j quested you to hold tho matter of ap ; pointment in abeyance uutil a primary election is ordered, which I hope tho oxccutlvo committco will see proper to do and other candidates see fit to enter. I shall ut ovory mooting insist upou no ono voting for mo merely because I havo boen appointed to tbo position. I rosign an office but littlo inferior in dignity and honor. If 1 am to bo con tinued in tho Senate, I want it to bo given me in an election whore every citizen, however humble ho may be, can havo an opportunity to say so at the ballot box. Nothing could give me more ploasuro than to represent South 0 irolinu in tho Senate chamber of tbo United States, after a freo expression from tho people themselves. John L. MoLaurin. THK PiiANBT VFNUS. Its Woii.Vrl'ul Brilliancy Attracts (Jrcnt Attention. Tho latest news in astronomy con cerns tbo planet Venus, who.-o wonder ful l.riliiunoy in the southwestern sky after sunset now awakens universal ad miration, says tho New York World. Mr. Perolval Lowell and his assistants at his observatory in Mexico havo seen more distinctly tbo face of Venus than it has over boen seen before. At least it would appeal- from thoir drawings and descriptions of the planet that such must be to. ease. Mr. Lowell unhesitatingly confirms tho discovery made some years aco by Sig. Scbiaparelli at Milan, that Venus always keeps the same side turned to wards tho sun. It takeo Venus 225 of our days to revolve round the sun, and accordingly that is the length of the year on Venus. Hut instead of having 22.'? days and night? iu its year, Venus has only one day and ono night, ard they uover in terchange place. Tho one unending day is always found on the same side of tho planet, and the one unchanging night forever reigns on tie other side. Some astronomers still question Sig. Schiaparelli's and Lowed ? result?, but 1 am strongly disposed to believe that they are right. The eons< quences that follow from them are exceedingly in teresting and some fresh views of theso aro now suggested. Suppose mat tho earth should sudden ly stop turning on its axis, or rather should slow down its rotation until it revolved just f ust enough to make a single turn in a year. Then it would in that respect resemble Venus, and while tho sun would never set on ono half of it it would never rise on tbo other half. At first siebt it might appear that pcrpetuul day would be a pleasant thing. Hut, neglecting its influence on sleep, which is so esseutiul to the pre servation of the vital powers, consider what perpetual day would mean for tho astronomer. There Is plenty of ovi douce, by the way, that Venus has an abundant atmosphere. Unceasing sun shine, und sunshine twice as hot as that which we get, because Venus is so much nearer the orb of day, would, in tho course of time, evaporate all tho water from that side of the planet on which it shone, or at any rate from tho central portion of thut side. The clouds thus formed would bo car ried away on all sides towards the other half, where the sun never shines. There, In const-quonue of tho intense cold prevailing, they would condense and fall us snow. In the end, perhaps, the oceans on the day side of the planet would ull bo curried in this manner through tbo atmosphere and deposited as snow and ice on the night side. Mr. Lowell thinks no water could re main on the bright side of Venus, and that tho dark side must In consequence bo completely eovored with ice, as Greenland is. It seems to me, how ever, that most of t> o ico and snow wouid bo gathered along tho region lying near tho outer edge of tho dark hemisphere, and that thus Venus may bo encircled with a groat ring of ico, rising eveu luto mountainous peaks, and forming an immense barrier be tween tbo day and night halves of the pi. net. Hut whether entirely burled In lee or only ringed round with it. the night hemisphere would unquestionably be very cold. On the other haLd, tbo day bemlaphoro would bo very ho.. In tho first place tho sun's rays strike at a comparatively small anglo with 4 he. surface of tho planet, and tho elTee4 must bo, just as upon tho oarMi, that thoir heating powor is greatly dimin ished. Then that may bo tho region whero tho cold air currents, sotting in from tho lee covered aroa, How near tho surface, while the hot air raised by the influence of the sun in tho central part of tho lighted hemisphere passes above thorn on the way to the night side. This would produce a further Ame lioration of temperature. Tho COnSO quenee may well bo that, just as on tbo night side there exists a broad belt of snow and ico completely encircling the planet, parallel and adjoining to tho lino between perpetual day and night, soon tbo day sldo, in a corresponding position, thoro exlbts a belt whore the temperature is not excessively hot, whore tho climate, though unchanging as to seasons, is at least endurublo, and whero bodies of wator and productive areas of vegetation are, to bo found. This would bo tho habitablo belt of Venus, and thus, If this speculation ? for of course It is nothing more?Is well founded, wo have prosonted to *us tho spectacle of a world almost oxaotly as largo as tho oarth, which has no Inter change of day and night, but which is divided Into two totally diHeront hem ispheres, ono frigid and ico encircled, and tho othor execssivoly torrid, dry and desort, while between the two In a narrow bolt?a bolt of life?dwell the inhabitants. And, after all, why should wo not In dulgo our imagination in rogard to these things ? Tho human mind would starvo with facts alono. It must make them live by exercising Its oreatlvo power over their dry hones and that power, when properly exorcised, never contravenes the truth, for It nevor at taoks tho truth, but on tho contrary, discloses It by lifting tho concealing curtain and lotting in tho light. Facts are the rails on whloh tho onglno of solenoe runs, but imagination furnishes the motlvo power. ?Two young women of Moscow re cently strangled an old female miser and took hor money, as they explained la court, In order to provide them selves with funds for traveling abroad to complete thoir solontlflc educa tion. I ?A man who olalms to know some thing about dogs, advises anyone wish ing to piok out a good puppy from a litter, to lot tbo motbor ebooso for htm. He says that In moving hor pups the mother dog always picks up tho West ohoe last. [ BILL All!? TAI.KS POLITICS. i Tho Georgia Philosopher i. ? j tiio Leaders of the Republican i*artj in Ceueral-IIe Doch Not Dote or j tho G. A. R. ! Horace said in one of bid philosophic odes that "anger is a brief lit of luna cy." Thou 1 am ready for the usylum right now, for I am mad ? mad with McKinley, and Buck and Bullock, und I the Grand Army, and tho Republican party, aud everybody clso who is try i ing to impose on our people. Tho Grand I Army demands tho publishing of a school history that will make Southorn I treason odious to tho generations to j como. This is not tho Grand Army for they aro about all dead except tbo pen I sioners. but it is the grand army of pol j itloal plunderers who dou't waut any peace with the South. Gen. Grant said: j ' Ljt us httve pouce," und Lincoln suid so, too, but those politicians are afrnid of peace. Peace would wot all their am munition. It is a very lata date to re vive this c*y of treason. Tho argument lias beer, long since exhausted, and now nothing is left butdisgusta .d coutempt for the poiitieal schemers who seek to perpetuate discord. Treason is a favor it) cry among pretended patriots. At baliuh murdered tbo sons of the king and usuiped tho throne, and when tho prophet ordered her to bo sluin sho rus led forth and cried treuson, troas on ! When Patrick Henry In his lirst grout speech denounced George the IV tbo judges cried treuson, treuson ! Weil, I reckon that Patrick Henry und Ben Prank I in, und Jefferson, und Adams, and Payne wore tho first trai tors this country produced, and we don't mind being in their company. In fact, wo aro proud of it. I gut aw'ul mad when I read tho vile Blunders of the Northern papers. Tho Scriptures toll ! us to love our neighbors, but thoso fol- | lows up there are not our neighbors, | and it is not forbidden to hate an army, is It? I Mi contempt for that grand army is not limited by time or dis anco or the statute of limitations, but I had made up my mind to l> t them alone if they | wouui lot mo alono. Of course there are Borne clever men belonging to it! just like there aro some clever men in tho Republican pa-ty, but that don't! prevent mo from hating both of tho I concerns as organizations, collectively J and categorically. Schemers and plun- j derers, and scalawags and slanderers run both. Nobody but an unprincipled politician would seek to put a negro in I tho post ollice at Augusta or in any | other Southern town. It is an insult to our poople and there is no excuse for I it?no palliation. Of all the ollicos in | the gift of tho government thero aro ! none about which the people havo such j moral, sociul and political rights as the | postotlices. Every man and woman in I the community should be consulted, if ' it were possible. But as it is not, then i the oublie sentiment should be consid ered anil tho businets men be consulted I and nobody should be appointed who I would not he acceptable to a large ma* j irity of tho people, in fact, thoro ! should be no partisanship about it. In : a Democratic community a republican \ who could not get a majority voto [ should not ask for nov receive the ollice, but inasmuch as the. rule now is that to ' tho victors belong the spoils of course wo must submit. We in the South must take the best R-publican wo can find, but no President who is a gentleman will seek to put a negro in this offi jo and no politician who is a gentleman will ask him to do it. It is an otlico that emphatically belongs to tho peo ple of tho community. Itconcerns thera and them alone. No doubt but that 00 per cent, of ail the letters and papers i and money orders that go and como I from Augusta aro to the white people i of that eity. Besides this the color line Is drawn at tbo South, and McKinley knows it, and so does Buck and Bul lock, und they cannot wipe it out. When will our people quit running after these scalawags who would stab us with the blido of Joab while they embrace us and say : "How art thou, my broth er? ' What is thoro that a politician will not do for office? When the sexton throw up a skull Hamlet said: "Per haps it is the puto of u politician, ono who would circumvent (Jod." And it does seem us if they become burdened to all sense of tbo proprieties of life. A hundred years ugo Sheridun wrotj: "Conscience bus nothing to do with pol.tics." Our pi oplo havo been doing their host to think woll of McKinley and esteemed him as a clever, upright gentleman, but the fact that ho enter tains the idea of appointing Lyons to Augusta has wiped out all respect for hlrn. Tho mugwump Democrats who voted for him havo all become cross eyed und can't look you struight in the face. Why did he single out that bright litilo town of Hogunsville to in sult her people with u negro postmas ter? Why does ho not appoint negroes to the Northern towns where they claim thero i no color line??towns whose white and black go to tho sumo school und sometimes intormurry. And now thero is another trouble hero in Cartersvillo. A Michigan man moved hero not long ago with his fami ly and went into purtnership with a negro blacksmith and they all live to gether on terms of BOOlai equality and eat at the same table, and as the Mich igan man's children go to our public Bchool, he has been notified that they cannot go there any longer. So ho lias taken his children away, and says he don't caro a damn what our people think and ho will do as ho pleases, for it is a free country. Well, that is bard on tho children, but the time has not yot passed when who sins of tho father will not bo visited upon tho children. Ho may conclude to sond them to tho I colored school, as that would bo more consistent with his principlos, but it is hoped that ho will pack up and go back to Michigan. Tho lino is drawn and will remain. Thirty-four years have pasted since freedom and there is no change, neither in hotels nor churches nor public conveyances or places of amusemont. Both racos would bo con tent If It woro not for tho politicians. As lung as tho nogro has a voto ho will bo made a fool or by tho candidates. They Bay that Lyons is moral and capa ble Suppose that ho is?ho is an im pudent idiot to want to thrust himself whore ho is not wanted. No gentleman will do that, either socially or politi cally, and no gentleman vill help him do it. Thank heaven, wo will now bo rid of Uuck for four yoari to como. I wish that moro of his sor*. would ljavo tho country for thoir country's good. And now I think I feel bottor. Bill. A nr. | ?Tho freedom of the city " Is a phrase which has lost Its meaning. In anolout times it conferred particular privileges whloh are now common to all inhabitants. But tho ceremonial is Btill preserved as a moans of paying a compliment to distinguished for Iolgners. ?Tho question was onco ralsod as to which was the more contont of tho two, the ownor of half a million of money or tho mau with seven daugh ters. " Tho latter, of course," was tho reply; "for tho man with half a roll* . lion is always wanting more, while the I ooe with seven daughters has plenty." IHE DESTRUCTION OF iiit TOMBS PRISON AN ANCIENT LANDMARK OF NEW YORK. Many Noted Criminals Have Been CoDttned in its Cells und Foul Tales <>i' Crime Havo Boon Heard by Us Walls?A Fine Hample of ' i'1 Architecture und a So euro I'rlson. New York Evening l'ost. Tho demolition of tho Tombs will re move ono of the city's most widely known buildings, it 18 not too much to say thut it was tho most unique structure in the city, and scarcely an other was us impressive. It .has boon described as tho most perfect specimen of E/yptian architecture outside of E/ypt. Interesting as it is as a piece of architecture, and part as't is of the city's history, no one seems to desire to perpetuate the existence of an cditice speaking Irom every stone of crime and Buffering. Tho Tombs has long been Inadequate for its objects, both in character and accommodations, and your after year cITorts have been made to secure its condemnation and r.replacenicut by a modern prison, but the logisla'uro und tho city oflluials havo always un til last year found other public pro jects moro seductive of Immediate at tention. When omething hud to be done in tho past to provide for the overflowing prit-onors they have pre ferred tho method of patching and adding, as in 1885, when a new wing was bailt inside the walls. liut not only has it boon Inadequate, but its site according to competent testimony, ' w?i8 ill chosen. All that beetion of the city was formerly u beautiful like with a navigable outlet into tbo North river, and tho Tombs stands iu the very middle of this region, which when the lake was drained otT, was gradual ly li led up with rubbish of tbo city. The building bad to be erected on piles, for the BOUnJ.logs recently made could discover no solid foundation oven at a depth of 150 feet. More than one war den has complained of th prevailing dampness of the place, and it bas been no uncommon thing for cells to bd ov 01 Mowed with water Whloh was forced back through tho drain pipes. The budding bas also on more than one oc casion been pronounced unsafe. Altnough the day of its complete erasement has only now arrived, the importance of the Tombs has for some years been diminishing. For a long tune after it replaced the ol l Bride well, the colonial jail?out of the stones of which, by tho way, it was largi ly constructed ? it was the city's sole place Of confinement for prisoners, but grad ual growth necessitated tbo erection of other prisons, aud for many years now it has divided honors with these out side prisons, notably that forming part of the Jefferson Market building. Then it wus uot ouly a prison, but a "Hall of Justice," and as such was, until the last few years, one of the most frc qucnteu and thronged of the public buildings, it contained tho court of special sessions, the Tombs police court, and one of the district civil courts. When the new criminal court builJing was occupied about three years ago, the court ol special sessions wu8 transferred there, and after a de lay of about a year the police court followed. Then the civil court migra ted, and these desertions divested tho placo of tbo greater part of its busy aspect. Au interesting history espe cially had tho old Tombs police court. It was thero that the legal oracles whom Tammany placed upon the bench displayed their wisdom, nnn isbed rivals aud enemies, and advanc ed generally the interests of the great organization which enabled them and thousands of their ilk to fatten on the pubi ie revenues. During tho long period since its erec tion in 1838, the criminal annals of the growing city have centered in tho Tombs, and the records would epitom ize the darker side of the city's life and development. Thousands upon thou sands havo been immured in its dark ceils, and in its yard many havo been banged upon its scaffold. The records of the wardens aro imperfect, unsum marized, aud at present inaccessible, so that exact (inures may not bo given, but it is roughly estimated that some thirty or forty persons havo paid the penalty of their crimes within tie so gloomy walls from 1S.J8 down to 1881), when executions there were discontin ued in ooufcquenoe of the passage of the law requiring the death penalty to bo administered by electricity at tbo State prisons. One of the last execu tions was memorable on account of three criminals boing hanged at the same time. Ono of tho earliest of tho most fa mous cases having the Tombs as a background was that of John O. Coll, a bookkeeper and teacher of ornamen tal penmanship, who, on September 17, 1811, in his ollico at Chambers street and Hroadway, killed Samuel Adams, a printer, alter a dispute. Ho packed the body in a box, salted it, and tried to ship it to Mow Orleans. The vessel was delayed, and tho pros once of the body was discovered. Colt was arrested and thrown into tho Tombs. There, as some other prison ers hi fore and since have done, ho lived luxuriously. His respectable and wealthy relatives caused him to be an immense sensation. He was the chief topie of the newspapers and town talk. After a trial lasting ton days Colt was eonvloted of murder in tho first degree. Unusumly strenuous ex ertions wero made to save him, but in vain. Then he wrote ono of the mo ? artistic confessions ever penned by a Criminal, which made him more than ever tho subject of all conversation. Pour hours before tho time sot for bis execution, ho was married to his mis tress, who was accompanied to Colt's cell by John Howard Payne, t he author of " Home, Sweet Homo." Justus tho hour of the execution arrived a cry of firo was raised iu tho Tombs, and the cupola was seen to bo ablaze. In tho excitement Colt was left alone and un watched in his cell, and when tho of ficers returned to tike him to the gal lows they found him dead upon bis bed with a dagger in his baud. j Perhaps few cases over oxcited greater attention than tho brut it mur der on April 11. 1830, of Helen Jewott, a woman of great beauty and much I mental vivacity, but of notorious char acter, who was well known to nuinbor among her acquaintances many men prominent in tho lifo of that day. Her murderer was Richard P. Robinson, who endoavorod to eonceal his crlmo by burning her body. Tho proachcrs of tho day discoursed on tho caso vig orously. Dr. Brownloo, a noted dlvlno of tbo tlmo, made from tbo pulpit an j appeal for the murdorer, and accord Ing to odo historian, "cooliy looked ; upon tho blotting out of Helen's young life as a deed i,o bo commended." In ' short, popular sympathy soon verged to the murderer's side. Tho trial was a great sensation. To the amaze ment of all, the prisoner was acquitted, aud it was afterwards prautioally Sroven that the jury bad been bribed, no assassin wont to Texas and never 1 returned* Another prisoner was John Stevens, , who was one of the first wife poisoners ! in tho history ol the city, and who in 1800 was hanged in tho yard of tho Tom ha, A coll was also occupied by Daniel Motherland, assistant assessor of tho city, who on November '2~>, 1869, shot and killed Albert D. Kiohardson, of the Tribune editorial statT. in tho ollice of which paper the tragedy took place. While Kiohardson was dying ho was married to the divorced wife of I McFarland, the ceremony being por i formed by Ilcury Ward Kooeher aud O. B. Frothinghum. in the end MoFar land was acquitted, Few occupants of colls in the Tombs ever became more notorious than Krank II. Walworth, who on JunoX, 1873, shot and Killed his father, Mans* I field Tracy Wttlworth at the Sturto i vant House. The young man's lifo was narrowly saved, and bo was sen tenced to lift; Imprisonment at Au burn. Then followed, as the prisoner whose deod has excited the most wide spread attention. Klward S. Stokes, the slayer of .lames Fi-k, Jr. More re cent tragedies which have peopled tho Tombs with prisoners wore those for which the wa. murderers Carlylo W. Harris and Dr. Buchanan paid tho ex treme penalty at Sing Sing; the poi soning for insurance money which sent Dr. Meyer to life Imprisonment, and the death of Mrs. BUss, for which hor daughter. Mrs. Fleming, spent many months in the prison under an indict ment charging poisoning, of which af ter a long and sensational trial, sho was acquitted. WAYSIDE tJATHIOKlNUS. Bits ol Humor and Nuggets ol' Truth for the Multitude. ?Four sailing vessels are lost at soa to one steamer. ?It does not require any brains to be a growler or a howler. ?In New York the average number of persons to a dwelling is -DlsFOotionj of human bodies by medical students has boon practiced sinco B. C. :i20. ?The li >t American liro Insurance company began business at Philadel phia in 1701. ?The United States has a less per centage of blind people than any coun try in the woi hi. ? A contemporary says lawyers aro note Mor losing their patience. How about doctors ? ?Tho largest single fortification in tho world is Fortress Monroe. It has already cost over i>3,000,000. ?The tongue of a man is an unruly member, and like tho tongue ol an ox it is never cured until after death. ?A person can generally consume the most of his time by minding his own business. ?A Venetian firm is making bon nets of spun glass, which aro as soft and pliable as silk. ?A Massachusetts editor celebrated the arrival of triplets at his house by printing his paper in red. ?Tho prcsont Qovornor of Maryland is the first one in many years who was horn outside the State. ?Tho oh lot trouble with our hearts is that they are under tho rule of gold rather than the golden rule. ?Oranges have been grown in Lyons, K in., the owner of a tree hav ing plucked three this season. ?Every real nice old woman thinks that people like to hoar about her married children and the grandchil d rcn. ?When wo strivo to do the best we can, wo aro sure to find that our best is beyon . anything we had dared to hope, ft . ?The world stands by every old lie till it is found untenable, and op pose s every new truth till it proves ir resistible. ? England pays her ambassadors from$35,000 to$40,000 per year, she pays her sailors in the navy $12 per month. ?An observant old bachelor says " If you meet a young lady who is not very shy, you had better ho a little shy yourself." ?The only experience that you cau fully comprehond is your own. That is why the world is so slow to learn. ? Date vinegar has boon made by the Arabs for ages. It has recently boon put On the English market, and the English say it is far superior to any hor vinegar. ?An observing politician says that the dilTerenco between those going in and those going out of ofllco is mainly this : the former are sworn in, and the latter go out swearing. ? Our fellow-creatures can only judgo of what of we are from what wo ?o; hut in tho eyes of our Maker what wo do is of no worth except as it Hows from what we aro. Bulks op a Modul Hotel.?-They were silting in the lobby at Murphy's talkin? about tho striking peculiari ties of some of the hotels they had been up against in the course, of their travels, says the Now York Herald. In the party were a red-headod drummer from Arkansas, a traveling railroad man and a spindle-shanked man who soils oil out of J'ittsburg. Too deal got around to the man from Arkansas, aim what he had to say was this : "I've had to stand for some queor rules and regulations in my time, out tho most unique code of rules govern ing a hotel I ever had sprung on mo was at the Tallewanda hotel, in Col lege Corner, O. I remember each ono of thorn distinctly to this day. They were posted in this order : " 1. Hoard, $50 per week, meals extra. "2. Breakfast at ">, dinner at t>, supper at 7. " If. Guosts are requested not to spoak to the dumb waiter. "?I. Quests willing to got up with out being called can have self-raising Hour for supner. "5. The hotel is surrounded by a bsauttful cemetery. Hear-.cs to hlro' 25 cents a day. " ti. Guests wishing to do a little driving will tind a hammer and nails In ho closet. "7. If your room gets too warm open the window unu seo tho flro oscapo. "8. If you aro fond of athletics and llko good jumping lift tiio mattress and seo tho bed spring. "'.). If your lamp goes out take a feather out of the pillow: that's light enough lor any room. '? pi. Anyone, troubled with a night mare will find a halter on the bedpost. '? II. Don't pick a quarrel with tho clerk. His brother Is tho chief of pollco and his father mayor of tho town. " 12. Don't worry about paying your bill. Tho house Is supported^ 1U foundation."