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VOL. XV. NO. 37. ECHOES OF THE I/OUISVII/I/E REUNION WHY - I1K VMM I S OF THK I'ASA? UeuaiiHH Our Dead Horoon Stiull N. t CJo Without Their Famo. K ? s . Li. M. I'almor, D.D., the. annual orator of tho Confederate r> union In Louisville, answered thi i quObtlOO Hb follow8 : "Aeeuatoiuod through sixty yurs to . ''.drees public assemblies, 1 urn uuVer tliolebd subdued with uwu in your pros uneo today ; for wo staod together uu dor the shadow of the past. I . is the solemn rcvoruuco one might fuel in the gloom of Westminster Abbey, -nr. rounded by Kngland's Illustrious dead. Indeed, we uro bore the living re pre uontatlvos of countless comrades won uloup In lonoly cemeteries throughout tho land; where perchance a single monumental -haft Is tho gno-tly -e..u nel keeping watch over the bivouac of tho dead. " It ia livu and thirty yearn since ihn Confederate war was cloned, und about thirty-nine years since It was begun; and It Is HotuctiuKti a^cd why we should Btlr the u?.:u o! that ancient loud, why wo should not bury the oast in Its own grave, and turn to the living Issues of the present and the future. To this question, comrades, we return tho answer with a voice loud as aovcn tliunder.-., because It is our history and the history of our dead heroes, who shall not go without their fame. As long as there uro men who wear the gray, they will gather the charred embers of their old camp lire;, and in the blu/.e of tbeso reunions toll tho story of tho martyrs who fell in the defense of country and of truth. "Nay, more than this! It i- the story of a strife that murks an epoch in the. annals of tho American people. It la known to every aehool boy in the latin that two parties existed at the foruia tlon of our government, who could not agree In locating the paramount sover eignty which should decide upon all iaauea arising between tho Stuten uuu themselves. The Federalists, us thoy were termed, demuuued a atrong gov ernment, concentrating power in the national adminlatrutlou; tho Lid publi cans, on the otuor hund, contended for the dlatribution of power among Ibe States, claiming their original aovor eignlty among thuir reaerved rights. LJoth parliea wore too atrong to adow the question to bo determined by urbi Iration or through forenale dhoussloa. It was, therefore, permitted toaiumhor beneath certain ambiguities of ex pression in the constitution itself, to be settled by the exigencies of the future, not as an ubatruct principle, but us un accomplished fact. I need not remind you how this Issue was raised in 18?2, and was postponed through the conciliatory legislation ol that period, Such an issue, cou'U not, howovor, aloep forovor. The admis slon of new States into tho Union, with their conlllcting interests, must reopen the question and compel dlbCUiulon. Thus it arose in our day, leading to the establishment of the Southorn Confed eracy and lo the civil war that followed. " Lt la simple folly to suppose that such a spontaneous uprising as that of our people In 1S?? und 1001 could bo etTected through tho raucbinutiona of politicians alone. A movement aoaud den and so vaat instantly swallowing up all minor contentions, would only spring from aome great faith doeply planted in the human heart und for whloh mon were willing to die. What ever may huvo been tho OCOaslon of the war, its 'cardo cauaae,' the hinge on which It turned, wua this old quostion of State sovereignty ua against national aupromacy. As thore could ho no compromise Ootween the two, the only resort was an appeal to the law of force, the 'ultimo ratio rogum." Tho aurrender at Appomat tox, when the tattered remnant of Loo's great army stood guard for tho last time over SOulhern liberties and rights, drew tho equatorial line divld ing between the past and tho future of American history. When tho will of the strongcat instead of tho 'consent of tho governed' became the baso of our national structure, a radical transfor mation took pluco. The principle of confederation gave wuy to that of con solidation and the American nation emerged out of the American republic. HISTORY Ol-" STONBWALL U RIO APE, Tho following interesting article waa contributed during tho reunion to tho Louisville i'obt by Gon. J. A. Walker, of Virginia, tho last commander of the Stonewall brigade I When Virginia seceded in April, 18Ul,shedld not immediately become one of tho Conlederate States, but for abrief poriodromalaed an Independent sovereignty. On the adoption of the ordinance of secession by the Virginia convention, the Governor, aa com mander in-chief of tho State militia, orderod tho organized volunteer coin panics to assemble at various points. Col. T. J. Jackson was plaoed in com mand of the troops at Uarpcr'a Forry on April 110, 18111, and remalued in com mand of that peat until Virginia joined the Confederacy, when Gen. Joseph K. Johnston, of tho Confederate army, on May 2Jd, 1801, suporccded him. The Virginia companios at tho Furry were organized Into regiments. Colonel Jackson was mado a briga dier general in July, 18?il, and the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Twonty-sovonth and Thirty-third Virginia infantries formed a brigade known as the First Virginia brlg%do, ami General Jackson was assigned to its command. Those regiments composed tho famous Stone wall brigade, and nono othors evor be longed to lt. Tho fain", of this body of troops so indissolubly connected with tho namo of its tirst commander was established on July .'flat, 18(11, when standing like a stone wall on the Henry r.ouso hill amid tho retreating and disorganized troops, lt re.trle.ved the day an 1 won the battle. On Octo ber Ith, Im>I , when General .Jack son was promoted to tho rank of major gonoral and assigned lo the Vaiiey division, he wa* bcpnrated from Uo First brigade for a short period. lie parted from It with regret, and bia only recorded effort at oratory is in the spooch he made in bidding farewoll to this command, lie reviewed, and in conclusion of his few brief remarks, he droppod tho ruins on the nock of his horso, and raising his hands said with doeD emotion: "in the Army of tho ShenanJouhI you wore tho lirtst brigade, in the Army uf tho Potomac you aro tho tlrst brl! ge.de; you are the first brigade in tho affections of your gonoral, and I hopo by your futuro doods and bearing you will be handed down to posterity as tho first brigade in this, our second war of independence. Farewell." The reparation was of brief duration, for In a fow weeks tho First brigade was ordered to report to him at Win ohestor, and Oen. II D. Garnott was assigned to Its command as brigadier. I in remained In command until after the battle at Kernstown, In Maroh, 1862, when he was relieved, and Gen. Charles S. Winder was assigned to the command. Winder was killed at Cedar Mountain on August l>, IHtii, und after tho lapse of three months Mnj. K. l'\ i'axton, u inomher of General Jackson's Stull, was promoted to the rank of brigadier general, and assumed com mand. General I'axton was killed at Uhunci llorsville on May 31, 1803, tho day after General Jackson was iuoi tal ly wounded. O i tho 10th day of Miy, 1815:1, Col. J. A. Walker, of the Thirteenth Virginia infantry, was promoted und assigned to the command. He remained In coiu maud until at SpottsyIvanla C. II. the hrlgude wus annihilated und its name never again appeared on the rolls of the (Jonlederate armies. The sinuil remnant left *as consolidate! with the trug me ii la of Johnson's d i vision Into one small brigudc, and tho fuinous old bri gade, which for throo yeutd had breasted tho storms of war on twenty battlefield*, and In combats an i skir mishes innumerable, which hud marObed thousands of miles over val ley, mountain and plain: which had ex ultuntly borne aloft its battletlag in summer's heat and winter's storm; which had struggled for freedom on the lof'uit peaks f the Alleehunioa. t?ti tho McDowell. DU tho rocky slums of Culp'd LIU, at Gettysburg, lu tho s.vaoa| . ' tin- Chlokahomlay, ami had i.over (altered In tho darkest Loir, pafi&cd Into hlstorv. But In passing it left a fume as bright as the stare, an enduring u> the ages. The beautiful ShenanJoah valley is tilled with the memories) of its triumphant marches and brilliant victories. The traveler who today gazes on the placid bosom of "tho daughter of tho stars," or on the bold peaks of the Massanuttou, thinks not of tue dusky warriors.whoso language is perp< mated In mountain and stream, or of the Knights of the Goldon Horseshoe, led hy tho royal governor, who first scaled the towering heights of tint lilue Knife aud sot the fjot of white men in the groat Valley of V. re i nia, or on the Ktirfuxe?, once proprietors ol this loft/ Hold; or on Washington, tho youthful surveyor, wIth chains and compus-; but of 8tone wall Jackson and his men. Tho waters of the Sncnandoah, as they glide peace fully through fertile holds to tho gor geous pass at Harper's Ferry, where its tide mingles with tho Potomac, murmur of Jackson and 10-veil, of K trly and Ashhy. Tho rugged Masiti uuttou springing midway from the vale and the majestic blue mountains which L'uanl these boundaries of the valley, stand us silent eternal sentinels over the imperishable fame of the brave soldiers who wore the gray aud [ought for tho caude and lor tho land they lovod. Tho old brlgado was known at dif ferent tiroes by several names. At Manassas in July, 1801, it was i Hi dolly designated "tho First Virginia bri gade." Afterward tho brigades were called by the name of their Command ers, and it was ( . arm-it's, Winder s, i'axton's and Walker's brlgado. Aftor Ooneral Walker was assigned to the commaud, it was othciaily designatod as the "Stonewall brlgads," which name it bore on the rolls of the Army of Northern Virginia for one year, and until it ceased to exist. All tho brigadier generals except Walker wore killed in battle, and ho was severely wounded atSpottsylvaola, C. 11. Winder was killed at Cedar Mountain on August (I, 1802. Jackson died of wounds received at Chanocl lorsvllle on May 2 I, 1863, Garnett was killed at Gettysburg on July IIJ, 1803. Kc-ides tho regular commanders, tho old brigade was temporarily com manded for brief periods by rogiiuontul ollicors, and several of these wore killed in battle. Colonel Allen, of the Second rogl ment, was killed at Cold Harbor. Colonel Baylor, of the Fifth, was killed while commanding tho h igado at Second Manassas. Colonels NelT, Funk. Botts, Randolph and Colston wore ull killed or died from wounds roculvod In battle. That there woro other troops In tho Confodorato army as bravo and deserv ing as the Stonowall brigade is not to bo gainsaid; but it is praise enough to say that there wore none bravor or hotter in tho Confederate or Fodoral armlos. That this famous hi igado was not on every Hold up to its highest mark is undoubted ly true, as It Is of ull troops, for It was unfortunate in losing so many commandors and in tho num ber of regimental otlleors temporarily In command bysoniority. All woro not skillful and ethclontor possessed of tho conUdonce of tho men. Tho tinest, tho bravest soldiers in tho world will bo eome unsteady and Inclllciont when led by timid and incompetent commanders. Tho old adago, "Show mo his company and I will show you tho man," may bo truthfully paraphraso?, "Show mo tho otllcur and I will show you tho soldlor." ? On two occasions one of tho bravest and staunohest brigades in the Army of Northern Virginia bohavod badly under tiro, hucauso thoy believed tho colonel temporarily lu command was wanting in tho courugu and skill to lead them properly. THE LAST SCOUT OP JOHNSON'S ARMY. Among tho vlaitora to tho reunion in Ijoulbvlllo woro Moasra. Jaoi"8 and H. Kogors, formerly of l3ourhon County, Ky., tho Bona of the lute Col, W. S. Hogers, and both of them were Id Morgan's cavalry. James Iligora haa maided sinoo tho war at Ninety Six. S. C, and 11. Hogers in Shrovcport, La., They were both dashing poldlers, and participated in tin; laut Buout boforo the Biirrondor of (Jon. Joo Johnston. I'roaldont Davis waa at Charlotte, N. 0.| when tho news of tho armI ??06 ho tween Sherman and Johnston was an nounced. General Stenern in waa then on a raid near Charlotte, threatening the bridgo acroBa tbo Catawnu river, twenty miles south. The telegraph lino south suddenly ceased to work, and lt was foared that he had burnt I tho bridge and cut otT communication. . it was important to attnt.it ice the' armlatice to the troops at Augusta, M aeon and other points. Coi. J. Stod tlurd Johnston was adjutai t genorul to General Kohols, then in command of that district, and volunteered to tako a Hag of tmen to Gonoral S'.oii^man and open communication with tho South. For this purposo ho selected llvo mon, Capt. Harry H. Clay, now of II iwkina County, Tenn.; Tom More i und, of Owenaboro; James and lit lt)gers. and dim) uthor. With thcriu und u tele graph operator with a ham) instrument, thoy loft Charlotto on a hastily mado up train. With a (lag of truco on the onglno, thoy proceeded cautiously, hut on arriving at tho Catawba rlvor, found the bridge burnt, tho tolcgraph wlros cut and monoman just departed. Finding tho ond of the wire thoy opened communication with General I Eohole and then first hoard of tho as sasslnation of President Lincoln, an announcomont rocolved with doop re* grot, as tho worst blow whloh could have happened to th ? South. Night was coming on and astorm, butColoml Johnston Beoured an old Qatboat and succeeded In ferrying his party across .the river. After soaroh la the dark .. \ ^?nntiHHlBiHiUujL.? tho southern end of thu wlro was found und the now* uf tho armistice tele graphed tu Augusta und Muoon. It proved thu salvation of the latter place, us Gen. J. 11. Wilson was about to at-sault with a heavy force tho next morning. When Gen. Gustavus W Smith, in command of tho Confederate force defending, communicatod hy II ?g thu annoucemont and tho attack was suspended, a capitulation followed. Tho party thou found tholr way to tho house of a wealthy planter, several miles otT, who, fearing tboy were Fed erals, first pleaded inability to enter tain them, hut on learning who they were and tho news they boro, opened his house anu entertained thorn royal ly. Up to that time thu house wus in darkness, but after tboy had boon shown to rooms for refreshing them solves, It wb brilliantly lit up, and when tboy .voro Invited to suppor (miml a largo company of beautiful young girls and olllcers of a crack Charleston company, who had till thon boon In conooalmont. Colonol John ston presented all his squad, Introduc ing them with titles, uone below cap tain. After a tine suppor, dancing and music followed and the party was kept up until a lato hour. CONFEDERATE HAND-SHAKE BILL AKl> UKKS t,Ol ISVIId.K Tin- Kxperieoce i>f livery Veteran Would Fill a Volume With IiitereHt ?The Great Add renn of Dr. Falmnr. It would tuke u week of time and a whole regiment of writers to toll about tho grout Confederate Votorune reun ion at Louisville. Nothing like it ha? been witnessed since the close of the eivll war. It uassoth comprehension. This Is Thursday, the second duy, und there are now hero twice us luuuy vuto runs us ever guthorod uny where. For muny years wo woro not allowed to gather uny whero to jubiluto, but now wo go where wo please and say what wo pleuse und voice our obi Confederate sontlmeuts und sing D.xiound un furl our bunnors und even the boys in blue join in the ginoral hilarity. I ro memoer when General George IJ Ttiomus was bore in 1805, und 1 huvo preserved u letter from him in which he suid we Hjhiuiis must not exhibit u Confedorute Hug uny more In public nor even keep one in privute, for it wus tho emblem of treason und the ounish ment of treason wus death Our Ho mun yoinii! mon and maidens hud used an old tattered baunor in a tableau ex hibition that wus given in the city hall to raise u little money to put back some pows in tho city churches, for tho Fed erals hud taken out the pows und used them for horso troughs and used the churches for pevonder, That old wur stuined bunnor was the one our boys of ttie F.ightn Georgia regiment marched into the first battlo of Munussus with under General Hartow, and our young people thought it no harm to place it in a dead soldier's hand in a tableau scene of a field aftor the battle. Then wo wero allowed to think what we pleased, but now we can say whut we pleuse and do what we please and there's no treason in it. What a good doctor old Father Time is. Why he was a Federal soldier who opened the bull at i'bonix hull lust night und guve u welcome to tho veterans. Captain i'irtio was one of tho boys in blue, but ho paid tributo to us and spoke kind and loviug words and would put us on the pension rolls if ho could, lie is n greut, big hcurtcd guntlemun, ho is. There are 41,000 veterans hero now ?suro enough voterans who woro tho gray, and they uro tho llveBt men in a dead cuuso the world ever saw. There ure twice us muny hero us woro in Char leston last your. Cuptalr. l'irtlo suid in his address of welcome : " Tho city is yours," and it is. Such hospitality was never witnessed anywhere. Just read the papers and it will autaz ; you. Tnoro are voterans hero in business who entertain ovory one who Is loft of their old regiments. Hero Is Captain Norton, who wont out from Homo with the Light Guards and has accumulated a fortuno hero since th j war. Ho wrote a letter to Ov-ory surviving member of the K'ghth Georgia regiment, urging them to coinn and to ho his guosts. 1 am proud to bo one of thorn, and Col onel Towers Is bore, too, giving irdors from ttieso hoaduuartors. A your ugo wo wore lamenting the rapid passing of tho Confederate veterans and we really feared wo would novor more gather enough of them to make it in teresting. Hut hero thoy have doubled In number and tribbled in life and it can't be aocountod for unices the Stutos 1 have Increased thoir pensions. Money helps to prolong life, no doubt of it. Georgia now gives half a ml.don a year to her old soldiers and they just keep living on and on. I'imc cuts down all, both great and small, Kxcept a pensioned soldier. They do not diu, Hut multiply Ab fast as they grow older. It may be, howuvor, that Louisville has importuned and rouchod out her generous hands so far and so wldo and has boon so lavish In her preparations to recolvo them that thoy dropped every thing and came. It was wor'h a pil grimage to Mucuato hoar Dr. l'almor's groat address?great Is tho word -groat and grand. 1 want ovory son and daugh ter of a Confedorato votoran to road it and feel inspired with Confodorato prldo. Tho truth Is, wo have whipped this tighi and tho viotory Is ours; after so long u time we aro slowly and surely kill' :ig ofT tho slundors. Barbara Frolt chic aud Sheridan's rldo aro dead and buried. Tho fact has now been estab lished that little 1 Mill Sheridan nevor rode at all?or, if ho did, ho rodo tho <Hhor way?General Manning haB Bot tled that, and evon tho Northern press admits it. lie. 1b tho braggart whosuld he would make our land bo desolate the crows would have to carry their rations with them whon thoy fljw ovor lt.I Uut tho crown dldent. Tho South is all right- no crows?no buzzards and no curpot baggers?thank the good Lord for ills mercies. As wo journeyed hlthor tho boys j mied us all along tho line. Thoyoamo with a shout, of hilarity, " All aboard fur Louisville." Car aftor car was at tached at tho country towns and rail road j motions, and boforo wo roaohed Chattun ioga there woro twolve coaches full of unrepontant. unrooonstruotod rebjla. Our Cartoravlllo boya wero qillot and eobur, b'tt ovon old Father Allday was as happy as If bo had boon sitting In tho amen corner of tho Moth odlst church. He, too, had fought and bled with tho Texas Hangers, and the Confederate cause Is part of hts relig ion, for ho is now a preacher. He sang a song, part of whiih was "Dixie" and tho othor part " Onward, Chris tian Soldiers," and It had a rofraln about, " Fight on, my soul; No'or think tho vlotory won, Nor lay thine armor down." At Tullahoraa ho ipl d some beauti ful strawborrlea and bought a whole orate of thirty-six baskets, and his good, prMutlo wife dbjtrlby'o'l ?hue to tho veterans In our oar. T"'>Ary juat thirty-six of us, and 1 Hoit. j whole bass: et fur oacb. All along tho line in Tonnossoo pretty girls uamu to tbu doors of Ibolr homes and cheered us, und wavod little Confedorato lUgs. I could not hoar ull tho good stories tho boys woro tolling as wo speeded alone-, but scraps came lu my eager oars?scraps about old Joo Johnston and (Jblckamauga and Murfrceshoro und Franklin and iluui' and Long street?I think we whipped 'em every* whore, from tho way tlio hoys talked a! on', it. But it would take a book to narrate tho stories of the boys, (or It is a fact that tho oxporiouce of most any veto ran would (ill a hook ful' of interesting roadiug. Some of It would be thrilling, some sad, some amusing, and all Inter Ing. The camp tire stories of tho civil war will nover bo written. Ten thou sand books could not contain them, but at these reunions many of thorn are re told, und tho boys Und willing listen ers. Those reunion-, are preservers of history and uf heroism. They Impress tho North with u fooling of rospoct and reverence for our earnestness and our abiding faith In tho justice of our cause. There is no weakening, no sur rendering of principle ; we still say to tho Northern soldlor, " You thought you woro right, and wo forgive you, but you musent do so anv mm a." Tho venerable Htid venerated Dr. Palmer delivered a grand address thut shuuld be road and pondered by tho youth of the South. lie has exhausted tho argument and no anbwer euu ho made to it. Louisville is all uhluzo with Confederate emblems and Confed erate glory, and tho city is ours. Hut I ean't see the end of this grout reunion. Comrades have nearly shuk en my arm oil" already, and the boys havo trodden on my sore toe a hundred times. My evening naps are broken up, and my gurdon needs looking after, for I am the boy?the only boy?aud I know that my little pets are moaning for mo. And more than all this, to rnonow is my wife's birthday ; and, as Cowper wrote of .lohn Gllpiu : "Tomorrow is her birthday, And how the folks would stare I f she should dine at ('artcrsville And I should not be there," BlhL AK1'. WKAliil.K ANI> CHOP ItKPORT. Weekly Bulletin or tho Wealth r Bu reau for South Carolin?. COLUMHIA, S. C, J uno 5, 1900. About normut totnporaluro condi tious prevailed during tho week end ing 8 a. m., Monday, June Lh, but early in tho wook the nights woro too cool for rapid growth of crops, with, however, favorable conditions at the close. Tliero was an ontiro absence of rain until Friday, when light showers oc curred over tho oxtroino northwestern portions, followed on Saturday and Sunday by showery weather over the central and oastorn portions also. Hain was I.sully needed over the eastern half of the State, while tho moisture conditions were quite favorable over the western half. Tho weather wasextemely favorable for the cultivation of crops, during the wook, most of which havo been well worked, and for harvesting wheat and oats now under way, except in tho ex treme northwestern counties, where both are fast ripening. Wiiout is an oxcoller.t crop generally, while oats varies greatly, but falls little, if ut all, bolow the average of former years. Upland corn is small, but healthy, and has good st?nde. Ii ?ttom land corn has made good growth, but stunds are kopt badly broken by tho ravages of worms. Kirly corn is in silk and tas sel. Tho cools nights retarded the growth of cotton which is unseasonably small, and also caused it to die on cortain soils. Stands are generally full, but vory lousy in places. Cotton is gener ally well worked, but a few Holds are still grassy. Marly cotton Is put ting on forms. Sea-island uceds rain. Tho weather conditions at the close of tho wook wero vory fuvorablo for cotton. The condition of tobacco ranges from good to very poor, and generally the plants are small for the season, and in Marlon County aro buttoning. Worms are numerous und damaging. Some fields have been luid by. I lice, truck, gardens, sweet potatoes, sugar cane and sorghum are doing well, but wero in need of ruin, which has been quite, copiously ?applied. Fruit prospects, except for applos, continue promising, Tho shipments of poaches bavo bugun. Many farmer have begun to plant peas In corn Heids, which is unusually early. ?The city of Stockton, Cab, will ro colvo on tho Fourth of July tho famous old guns UBod by Commodoro Stockton in tho conquest of California. The guns aro now at Mare Island and Sec rotary Long lost wook slgnod an order for their transfer to tho city named aftor tho commodoro. forth! (urttfUwc | / , OS^A \ \\ HACK ID UP by Dr. Pierre's Favorite Prescription, any woman is enabled to face tlie world witli its duties and pleas ures without fear of suffering. This medicine is not a cure-all, hut a specific for the chronic diseases jH'culiar to wom en. These diseases it perfectly controls and absolutely cures. Tens of thousands of women have testified that " Favorite Prescrip tion" makes Weak Women Strong ejid Wflt Women Well. THIS ?SITUATION IN CHINA. THK IlKVOLT OK TU K BOX BUS. An Attti Foreign Society DolUJj* aMur (Ioi-ouh Work?Public Bontttnent Ih With Them Tho Now York Sun nays that the grave situation in which tho Boxers of China have involved not only foreign lntoro:<ts in China, but uluo their own country, is the result of the past eight months of active hostility on their part against missionaries and their converts. The Boxers began their raid in Octo ber last and their movement has grown till thoy seem to have bot tho whole of northeast China aflame. Tho Boxers aro avowedly an anti foreign society. Whether or not tho society oxisls in all the provinces it cortuinly covers a wide urea, boing ftrongly organiz jd in Hunan and other central provinces ou the Ysngtse river, as woll as in Shun-tung and Peohlll provinces in tho northeast of China proper. 1 f tho report is true that a force of the Boxers of Hunan are on their way north to ro onforco their brethren in I'echili, it may he bttld thai tho anti-foreign activity of this society now extends through Chinu on a lino that Is <M5U miles long. At any rate, tho scones of their numerous murders and outrages within tho past eight months extends over a territory that measure ft&O miles north and south, from south western Shun tung to tho neighborhood of Hokln. The width of tho territory In which tho outrages have been reported varies from about 75 miles in Shun tung to about 170 miles in the latitude of Tientsin, in other words, as near us can bo es timated from the reports us to tho localities where the Boxers have mur dered native Christians and destroyed their property or that of 'he mission stutiom., this series of outrages has extended over an area of about iiU.UOU square miles aud tho area has been in creasing very rapidly within tho past few weeks. Tho moat recent report says that the li jxora have killed eight Methodist missionaries. No detinite details with regard to these alleged mordera have been received. K tho report ia true they liuve departed from their policy, ; which lias been to let tho missionaries alone. To ho sure, a small party of Uoxors In December laut mu. tiered the lt-jv. Sydney Brooks in Suuu-tung; hut ttiis crime appears to have been com mitted wlthuut the approval of the leaders of the movement. They re membered bow promptly Germany resented tlie murder of missionaries a litilo over two years ago and that her wrath was appeased only when China conceded to tier a valuable harbor and great privileges In Shan lung. The Boxers did not desire early in their otTcnsive operations to incense ti.e powtia ab far as to cause their direct intervention for tho restoration of order, and so they navu waged their war upon foreigners only by killing native Christians and destroying mis sion property at out-stations, while stopping short of shedding the blood of white men. But the lire they havo kindled has spread very rapidly in the past month, and they now seem em boldened to defy not only their own government, hut the Powers as well. Hon. William L. Scruggs, who was In China for several yoarj as consul general of the United States, haa fur Dished tho Atlanta Journal with the following explanation of the causes which led to the proacul outbreaks, and it will bo seen from what he says that tho trouble is serious and not likely to stop short of a revolution: These so-called "lloxera" represent what ia undoubtedly the public senti ment of the empire of China. That is to say, they represent the sentiment of iho inabaea in all parts of China. Ujspllo all treaty regulations and pro fessions to the contrary the inassea in China are unalterably opposed to any- j thing like foreign intlueneo in tho empire, Tho Chluudo claim to bo a choaon j people, ja t as much so as .lid the old llobrewt, Their whole government, ! their civilization, their social syalcm are all predicated upon the one idoa lh.it their government and their juria- ! prudonoo are aroveiation from heaven. Conaequently, all missionary work in China and all induatrial and com mercial enterprises by foreigners are looked upon by the. masses as directed to the overthrow of their civilization and, conaequently, of their govern ment. Tho "'Boxers," so-called, moroly represent that sentiment. The en lightened rulers of China, tho beat men amongst thorn, do not aharo that sentiment, but there ia no government that l know of that la more sensitive to popular sentiment than China : con siquonlly, lhe. cmproes dowager and the olllclals of ttio Chinese, govern ment heaitalo to antagonize what thoy conceive to be tho aui.timent of tho C reut mam.es Of the petiole. I think that will explain tho present attiiudo of tho Chiucso government. They have no dosire to treat foreigners unfairly, hut they realizo that thoy eannot reverse public sentiment all of a sudden. It is very important there fore, that foreigners in Chin* realizing this fact, should bo constantly on tbeir guard not to givo unnecessary olYonso to tho opinions and prejudices of tho ignorunt ma-sea. 1 was talking with tho viceroy of Nankin some years ago and explaining to him how a system of railroads would facilitate tho groat interior commerce of tho empire, how it would increase the value of their lunds and their farm products and make China a much mure, wealthy country than It Is. Ho readily assented to ail I said, but addod : " You muat remember, sir, that tho civilization of Cnina is so vory ditTeront from that of your country anc of Kurnpe that tho sumo conditions which make your country a greet one would mako ours one of disorder und anarchy Ab you see us hero now, our luborors, our artisans, our contractors, our agri culturists aro all occupied. Kvery ono has something to do. Kvery ono' is satisfied to work for small wages. There are novor any labor strikos with us. There aro never any idlors look ing labor. There, is Bomothing for ovoryono to do. Now, introduce rail roads and financial and commercial syndicates and combinations of capital, anil you will thereby throw out of em ployment by improved machinory a great army of laborers who aro now contented. Tho result will bo, ulti mately, a 'revolution which tho gov ernment at I 'i king would Und Impos sible to control. Wo niust, thoroforo, wait and givo our people tlmo to grow up to modern ideas. Wo cannot break away their traditions of the past all of a sudden. And, furthermore, if hup plnoss bo tho truo oljoct of lifo, why should wo mako a wholo pooplo un happy merely in order to mako thu oountry more rich aud powerful r" Hev. David L. Andorson, a Mothodlst missionary who baa lately returned from Booohow, and who has boon In China for eighteen years, nays that i tho recent outraged perpetrated by tho I Boxers are to bo laid directly at tho I door of tho Manchu government. Mr. I Anderson wab formerly a minister iu i Atlunta, and tie has made the follow ! lug statement about the troubled In China. "After the Germane entered Kluo Chow they got from the Chiuedo gov ernment many railroad and mluing concessions. The Chinese government wus not in a oosltion to rofuso Cor muny'd requests, but with itd udual du|>liclty, it proceeded at onco to dtir up the people in uppur Shuu-lung pro vinco to organized rodldtance of foreign olTort. " Foreign uiidsionarles and the native Christiana wore the tirst to come in eoutuct with the so-called 'Boxers,' as they wero living back in the interior. They Immediately protested to tho Chinese government and then through foreign consuls protcdtod to their own governments. " The Chinoae government tlatly and poditively refused to Interfere, and the result was the Missionaries and native Christians were at tho mercy of tho 'Boxers'. Villages wore pillaged and buruid, houses and property con fiscated and native Christians robbod and murdored. Foreign missionaries woro attacked. A young Englishman named Brooks wad tho Urdt missionary killed. That wad several months ago. " After the death of Mr. Brooks the Kaglish minister pressed the govern ment for relief and interference, but he never got it. Tho government promised to suppress tho riots but in reality it was secretly encouraging tho rioters. There eau be no riots iu China without permission of public olliclals. It is impossible. " While tho Boxers represent the at titude of the government toward forcignei'd, it deed not represent the attitude of a largo majority of the in telligent Chinese. Since the Japanese war the spirit of China has changed. All through tho emplro now, particu larly In tho central und southern portions, there is a largo body of men pressing for reform. Hut ail reformers are bitterly persecuted by the Manchu government. Schools havo boon closed and every reform movement crushed, while reformers are liable to lode their beads or huvo their property con tl sea ted. " When t in ->,.: persecutions begun many of the nativod Red to foreign OOUDtrieB1 and many are now iu hiding in Shanghai uudor tho protection of the c moult*. As a rodult of the perdocu tlon the gulf between the Manchu gov ernment and tho body of Cblnoao ia widening every day. " It would lead to a revolution if for eign governments would allow a revo lution, but owing to the fact that thore aro tlioudunda of foroignera there and milliond of foreign capital invedtod they cannot atTord to allow it. Probably tho only way tu ond tho trouble would he fur tho fore'gt. government* to land their troopa and take possession uf the entire Manchu government." " You will remember when Secretary of State Hay asked for an 'open-door' in China he suggested that tho foreign powers unite to secure goud guvcrn ment for China. This will havo to be done. Tho Macchus are a set of bar barians and should ho blotted out. Tho Chinese as a whule have nu sympathy fur tho 'Hoxer' movement. Tho Manchus cor.quored China throe hun dred years ago and took poaaeddiou of the government, and these aro tho people who should bo crushed. " The 'Boxers' drilled every night fur mnntbd lung hoforo tho present troubles began. They had arms and the drilling was semi-pubiio. It was understood all along they had the sympathy of the govc nment and no ono tried to stop tho drilling. They are regularly organized as military bodies with olhcers. Tho Kmpross Dowager approves of their work of destruction." ?The Now York Kvoning Post says a movement is now on foot under the supervision of several of the largo rail roads of tho South to induce tho Huers to aottlo in certain sections of the South. The general prevalence of tho belief that the war in the Transvaal can last but a little while longer has gl ?on an impetus to tho project to en courage the settlement in so.uo of tho Southern Statos thoso of tho Boors who will not submit to reconstruction under Knglish dominion. It Is re ported in railroad circles that definite plana aro being shaped to further tho poasihlo exoduo of Boors in this coun try. ? Kor the llrst Hmo in tho history of the national census there will be an enumeration this year of animals em ployed In tho cities and towns. Here tofore, the live stock census has boon confined exclusivoly to farm animals Tu)'; Louisville Reunion anu Chickamauoa Park.?Ood. c. I. Walker, commanding the South Caro lina division United Confedoruto Veterans' roturnod to tho city this mornlug, suya tho Charleston lJoat, having attended tho Louiavlllo reunion of Confederate Voterans and vlalted tho hattleliold ol Chlckamauga aa a member of tho commission to fix the site of the Stute monument on the scone of that groat struggle. Con. Walker aays tho Louiavlllo reunion waa an unusually euccoasful and enjoyable gathurlug. The rain provented the parade, but otherwiao interfered little with tho occasion. About (>0,OUU viaitora attended the reunion. The South Curoliua vetorana, Con Walker said, were royally treated, and every one of them Onjoyed the reunion to the full. The Chickuinauga commission waa | mot at the park by Con. II. V. Boyn.on, the chairman of tho national commis sion, and Oapt. Smart, one of the at taches, and tho party was taken to the hattleliold to aelect the site for South Carolina's monumont. Thia wus finally lixed, after a thorough inepoctlon, on tho crest of a knoll which was creased by Kerbhaw'a brigade In a churgo upon tho onemy. Tho spot is idoal for its purposo, being vijiblo from a wide rungo. Con. Hoynton and Cupt. Smart showed ovory courtesy to tho South Carolina party, and their inimate knowledge, of all the positions on the hattleliold made their company and conversation most dolightfui and in structive. ?One of tho most Important indus tries of tho Bahama Islands is tho gathering of pink pcar.s. U la tho only place in tho world whoro theso pourla aro found. They aro not taken from iho oystor sholl, but from a shell rosonibllng a large snail aholl, called a "conch." Thoao pearls, when perfect, bring vorv high orices, it Is said, rang ing from *f>0 lo tf>,OU0. Bow a tha ,41 he Kind You Have Always Boiijjil OUIl PAH 19 KXt'OSlriON LKTTKIt. PAUIS, M AY 28, l'.-UO. I have been in Purls t)ut two days after a soven .lav- tossing un the Atlantic und have had limu unly fur u glance at the P.xposition. Thin glance has imim ssed me with nut' ing so much as its utter uupn pareuncbs. Masonry, carpentry, painting, digging, carting, sweeping, dusting, sprinkling everywhere, with unly here and theie an exhibit complete aud ready for business. Thu shops, restaurants und midway plaisanco-liko shows art of course ready und uro doing u mure ur loss thriving business, and t! o same old features of Frenchmen, Dutchmen, Kngllshiuun and Yankees uaaequerad lug Oriental garb, and selling useless oriental giincracks fur twice tho amount they can he hud for in any city of the United States, aro vory promi nent. The Exposition is doubtless, as the lute Mr. Uirnum would say, a iiiuii strous aggregation eet, tot. It will when completed surpass all previous ex, usitions in bigness and richness uud will be an admirable epitome of the past century's transcendent progress. Why should it not excel all uthors ? Tho world at least in mulerial things is moving fast, and what was evolution made for, if each succeeding ex position shall notOUtdo its predoooesur . Moreuvor Paris, and 1 regret tu say it, soom-j to be but a poor fourth.in tlie export trade of the world, wi-.h Eng land, our own country and Germany ahead of her. Hut sliu guts back at us every tcu years or so by making a groat exposition, and with the picstigo of her only Paris levying tribute on ull tho wealth of the world. The amount of money wo bpond in Paris in one way and another ds regrettable. Hundreds uf rich American families live hero in winter and la tho tooth of France during tho summer. So far us I know the only advantage gained is in better housohold service. Servants in Prance are doubtless mure etlloient, Intelligent and ohoaper than in the United States. Hut in every other comfort of living wo surpass tho French, At least this is my lmpros*ion after a fourth visit to Paris and a residence oil and on uf several months. Tho reports that have beeu so ex tensively rpread abuut the crowded condition of the city, and ttie high cost of living, arc misleading. I do not lind tho prices at hotels or pensions (board ing houses) much higher than usual. I Thoy arc 1 think a little lower than r.t j the Kxposition of 1878. Anyone uc cording to his tasto, pur.-? and endur ance cuu got board und kdglng from ouo dollar up. 1 am lodgiug at No. 45 Hue de Clichy, about two miles from the Fxposltiou, in a pension with Steam-heat, elevator and electric lights, at a cost of lf> francs ($;i) per day. The same accomodatlons would cost us much In most Americuu cities. Before 1 soiected this place 1 inquired the rates and looked at rooms in many other loeulities. Some were higher, some lower, and 1 speak from personal observutluo when I Bay liiere is abund ant room hero and at reasonable rates. To say thut the Americans directly in churge of American exhibits are angry is to draw it mild. In spite of the utmost i Iforts they caunot get the Fronch authorities to complete the bulldiugfc for their exhibits. There aro lime, dust, mortar und rubbish everywhere, und only two or three French workmen whore there should bo twenty. Meauwhilo the French authorithe are urging the Americans; to open up their displays. The Ameri cans say "No, not until these buildings aro completed and cleuned. Wo will not subject our lino wures und dolicute food BtulTs to deterioration from dust \ and mud and lime." After much prayer and impreeutlon the American com missioners linully resorted to luw with the result of groat acceloralion on tho 1 part of the French. Tho buildings, it | is expeoted, will now bo completed iu two weeks. There is a sinister report that tho American nutionul building is insecure und unsafe, und that If Sou-nVs hind should play there, It will bo with peril to the assomblngc. The American nasionnl building is eelipsod by that of Italy, Lioumanla und by other countries that huve not one tithe our wealth. It wus vunity und folly to build a nutionul building anyhow. It dors no good, teaches nothing, brings nothing. It cannot till tho wandering American with pride when ho sees it, for he is always over ' llowing with that stall und ready to tell you thai while wo huvc no volcuno llko Vesuvius, wo have a Niagara Fulls that can put It out In li ve minutes. .luBtat present tho American corn propaganda soems to atTord our French friends some amusement. A kitchen has boon OBtablished to prepare corn bread, corn fritters, ect., us n tree lunch, und thus recommend the use of corn ami increase the demand for it. At the exhibits of all the countries there is a guurd or soldier stundlng or walk ing in the uniform of his country. The nutions huve not forgotten to select soldiers of good appearance for this service. Mr. Hugo Krause, of Mil waukee, a veritable Hercules, six feet live inches tall in his uniform, ruddy, handsome, Is on gua. d at the American corn bread kitchen, and if any for eigner is skeptical ub lo tho i IVoct of corn us a diet lie is pointed to this corn fed American, and Mr. Krause can toil thorn In good French whut corn baa done for 1dm. ? An old nogrk, living in Chapel Hill, N. C, baya the Baltimore News, boasts that In his youth he uaed to eurn not a little money by permitting tho students at tiie University of North Carolina in that town to break hoards on hia thick akull. Among the students who so amused themselves were James K. Folk, In later daya Freaident of tho United States, and William K. King, who waa Vico President in tho admin istration of 1'rcsldent Fierce. ? Historical romance finds access Into schools where "novels" would lind it Impossible to enter. " To Huve and To Hold" has been adopted In the reading courses of a number of young ladles' seminaries, whore tho character of tho rouding matter ia strictly scru tinized by those in charge. (>.io young ladies' school, at Dobb 8 Ferry, New i York, recently ordorod eopiea of Misa Johnston'.-- BUCCCSsful romance. OUR GKKATKST HPBC]AMHT. For 20 years Dr. J. Newton Hathaway has bo successfully treated chronic diseas 08 that he is acknowledged today to stand at the bead of his profession in this line, Hin exclusivo method of treatment for Vnr.coccle and Stricture, without tho aid of knife or cautery euros in 00 per cent, of all oases. In tho treatment of the loss of Vital Forces. Nervous Disorders, Kidnoy ami I i neu v Complaint-. 1'aralysis, Blood Poisoning, ftheumatism, Catarrh, and dis eases peculiar to women, ho is equally successful. Dr. Hathaway's practice is more than doublo that of any otnor spec ialist. (Jasos pronounced helpless by other physicians readily yield to his treatment. Write him today fully about your case. He makes no charge for consultation or advice, either at his ol'loe or by mail. J. Newton Hathaway, M. D? '11% ?outh Uroad street, Atlanta, Ga; PRKTOKIA I'lKto A8UKVILLU. Boor Capital Haiti to Look l.iko the North Carolina ltotmrl. I reached Pretoria after dark, writes a correspondent In the New York lOvenlng Post. A door in t he room to which I was asbiguod at tho hotol opens upon a hroad veranda on the hotel front. On tho morning after my arri val 1 turned out of a very couifortuh.o hod to opeu that door ami to observe my surroundings. As tho fresli morn ing air drove In 1 made a mental cum i ment that the stul) smelled exceeding ly like ihe air of the North Carolina mountains ? their September binoll. It ; wits clear and fresh?not exactly cool, but carrying a suggestion of cool in it. Some may think that air is air whur ovor il is fouud. There Is as much dif ference in the smell of air as there is In the taste of water. The Blue Kidgo variety is of the tincstuuulity, ami that of Pretoria brings it strongly to my mind. In theory there should bo a marked difference, Tho hills ami mountains of Western Carolina art) densely wooded to their very summits. Too hills around Pretoria are as des titute of trees as Is tho Brooklyn bridge. imprimis, then, my nose suggestod Western Carolina. My eyes corrobor ated my nose. It is lo that section that I am going for my comparison with this country and its poople. My first sight of Pretoria at onco suggest ed Ashevlllc, us my first smell hud sug gested its vicinity. A rod soil, ragged ?arkles, farmer looking men on horse back, canvas covered ox carts, and the general look of a place which has grown from a village lo a small olty within a dozen years or bO. That Is Asheville, N. C, and that is Pretoria, S. A. K. Pretoria at 1, .. '. lect has twice tho latitude of.Asheville. It lies in a .-ha. low bowl of surrounding bills, which overtop it from 100 to perhaps 500 foot. Tho diameter of the valley may be from tivo to seven miles. Not far IrOiU the very center of tho tx>wl there stands a church. It is the city's cen ter as well. It occupies the center of the large public square. Behind il, ou tho west is the postollloe. In front of it are the banks, three or four of them. Upon thu south stund the imposing government buildings, and upou tho north aro tho buildings of tho law courts, a structure which would be a credit to any city ol 100,000 Inhabitants. Pretoria has about 12,000. Tboro is no sign of barbarism, nu luck of sign of civilization in the center of thu ad ministrative and legal center of Trans vaal life. With the exception of tho southeastern corner, the ground plan uf Pretoria is that uf a parallelogram, surveyed intu blocks and crossed by Btroots running at right angles. Too roadways arc mucadenii/.ed, and are generally in fair condition, though not as well kept us thuse of the cities uf England's colonies In the They are nut as guod as the streets of ttiu cities of Japan, but they arc really rather better than thuse uf the average uf small American cities. The darkey of South African cities is about the most homelike thing I have seeu since 1 left home. He is nut the darkey uf the North, but the darky uf the South, lazy, ragged and jovial. I saw a couple this moment. A gruy and woolly haired old uncle drove a pair of bony little mules, with their wreck of a harness tied with hits of rope, hitched to a ramshackle old vehicle which threatened a wreck at evei y jolt. On the scut behind him .-at a fat old aunty, with a handker chief tied around her woolly pate. My lips puokerered instinctively into a whistle uf "Old Yirglnny Nebber Tire." The/ were the real thing, and might walk lvio streets of Richmond ur Charleston without attracting any mure attention than they did here Hut it is twu to uno tliat they spoke Dutch, and it is any odds that uncle never heard of a mint julep, and that aunty know no more about beaten hls cuil than sho did about electrolysis. The darky uf tho country is muro of the original bird. A very small pleco Of cluth will make him a full suit. Hut tho town darky, so far as appearances goes, might as woll be anywhere be tween Washington and Now Orleans as In Preturla. My Hlue Ridge mountain suggestion is .-till further omphasi/.jd by tho gen eral appearance uf many uf the citi zone, and I believe that 1 also hind a currespundenco in the typo. Nu peo ple ean be accurately measured by their city representatives. The real life uf a nation is Its country life. The real people of the nation arc tho coun try people. Tho Huer is emphatically a countryman. Pretoria is hut tho capital city of a country people. It Is a mistake to regard them us barbarous simply because they aro not well dressed. Tho clothes of Hjuhun Hay seed, of llillville, may look like the deuce, yet Kjuben may he a vory do cent and clever uld chap. Rauben und ills IVansvaul counterpart, will be quite certain to treat a strange visitor or a friend in his own homo with the utmost of Iiis possible hospitality. ? Hishop William Taylor, who Is now on the superannuated list of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has had a most eventful career. Before his re tirement from active life, four yearn ago, ho had preached regularly for fifty throe years. He begun as a street preacher !n California and then enter ed the foreign mission hold. Ho hits wui kod in Africa, Australia, Asia aud South America, and un must of thu islands uf Die Sun Hi PaolttO. ?Mrs. Caprou, tho widow of Capt. Qapron uf the Bough Riders, one of the tr . to fall In Cuba, will leave for the Philippines in a few days to sorvo in ttie army as a Rod Cross nurso. Since tho death uf her husband, Mrs. Capron has interested her-..-if In the welfare of the discharged and disabled soldiers, and is helping to socuro an appropriation from Congress for a monument in Arlington to thuse who fell in Cuba. ? An explosion In the Cuban customs service, which promises revelations us sensational as the disclosures in connec tlon with tho postfd service is oxpoetod. Custom house ollicials give tt e infor mation that tho custom honso in Ha vana is honeycombed with fraud and corruption, and tho employes Intorost ed are trembling in fear of an investi gat on. - The youth Chicago street railway company has introduced into Its oarj whiskbrooms and clothes brushes. These uccful articles aro placed in a small cabinet in the forward end of the car, within easy roach of tho pas sengers, with an announcement be neath notifying travelers that tho brushes are at ttioir di -p?nal. -A Hrltlsh army of 2'2?,u(,0 mon bus ! rlJden rough-shod over a force of 26, o mi, nays tho Savannah Pross, and "tho South African incident' la nearly closed. ?According to tho Associated Press, a conservatlvo estimate piacos tho Dum ber of Filipinos killed In the two wooks prior to May tirst at uOO.