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1IAMPVON HIGHLY HONORED. Veterans March in Body to Great chieftain's Home. Wade 11 a tti |> ou who has been do scribed l>\ (ifn. Gordon us the greulesl Ilia i ihr SliilO Ol South Carolina 0VOI' i>roiluce<l, was honored yoslrrduy as bill few men uro < vor honored do this cut!; It is itiro that it falls to the lot ol man to liav?j t-ueli tribute paid to him by liuudiods of men, each of whom is hiuisell a hero. Gen Hampton was roue i nlTeclod by the remarkable demonstration of alTuction and regard made by llie grizzled survivors of mam a blood} baitlelield und dashiugcharge: bO UUiell so thai towards the end ot the address I > his men bis voice was fal. h rim.', and lu: spoke with dillieulty. Hi.- lo an was lull to ovot(lowing. It was a sight thut those who witnessed can never forge?. Ii cariiod lo all the lessou liiai honor, chivalry and integ lily have a reward thai no ollier quult Ikiilions ran procure. li was aboul 5.U0 o'clock when ihr Confederate veterans in ihc city fell into line at Ihe iut ?tscciiou of (ii rVll'.S and Main streets for the purpose of marching lo Gen. [lampion's homu and paying tilbulo to him. The pro cession was headed by GCU. Walker and staff and Adjt. Flenniken, of Gamp Untnplon, beat lug the division colors, and Col. J. Fuller Lyon, commanding the Abbeville regiment, bearing the tattered colors of the Tenth South Car. nliua regiment. .lust in front wore Messrs. Asher 11 row no and C D. Bber bardl of the Columbia orchestra, beat' iug the kettle, ami bass dlUIUS. Fol lowing the voteraus were the Sons of Veterans, headed by Commander Hunt and stall", in the procession ol the veterans also matched several of the fair sponsors. The old soldiei* inarch ed out Gervais Btrect upon ihe north pavemcut, nud the line was over four blocks?nearly a half mile?in length, A number of C nfedornlo gray uui fotras were to be seen in lliu proces sion. As they passed a residence Upon Gervais Strcol a party of ladies and gentlemen gave three cheers for ihe old hoys. At (Jen. Hampton's residence there were chairs upon Ihe piazza, and the nicmhcis of Wade Hampton chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, occu pied them. Near tho ccutrosat Mrs. Waring, Miss Martin and Mrs. Kohu, tin? committee appointed to confer upon (on. Hampton the Southern Cross of Honor. Gen. Hampton was talking to Gen. .lohn 11. Gordon when the heat of the drum was heard. The two generals immediately said fare well, and (Jen. Gordon going out, jumped in a carriage and lelt. Gen. Hampton then stepped out upon the poiticonnd soon Maj. Hart met him and warmly shook his hand. The gen oral soon afterward sat down in a largo arm chair, as the inarching col umn advanced. On his left lapel Gen. Hampton wore a reception committee ladge; on the right was a beautiful Confederate badge. As the veterans came up, Gen. Walker entered the yard and came upon the portico, war ml) greeting (Jen. Hampton, who had risen lo receive him. He was followed by llie division sponsor and her imiids of honor and others. The veterans lined up out side, the fence, ton lo tlfleeu feel. In front of the portico, in the yard, were a number of lutle children. Gen. Hampton remarked that he wished he had horses for all those men out there." A- noon as Adjt. Holmes came upon ihr piazza Gen. Walker turned to the vrteiaiis"and exclaimed : "Colnrades, wo have conic to call on tin: greatest Of all South Carolinians, Wade Hamp ton. I want you lo welcome him with the good ol.l llebel yell. Now give it lo him, boys I" This was dune in line style. Then Gen. Walker said: "You hoys all know that 1 have been saying too much already, and, besides, I think that Ulis presentation should be made by one who followed the great cavalry leader of South Carolina all through those four years: I hare therefore, selected Maj. Halt, of Hart's battery, to present you to our great chieftain." (Cheer-.) Maj. Hart, of Vorkville, of the cele brated Hart's battery then spoke as follows: "Gen. Hampton: You have heard that yell before, and you heard it in days when it meant something more limn a tflbllle of love and affection to you; when it meant terror to those who siood before it. "It is my pleasing privilege lo present to you the assembled survivors of two Immortal Confederate armies -the one Of Northum Virginia, led by the im mortal Lee, and the other the army of Teiuessec, which followed the peerless] Joseph E Johnston. These are the men who stand before you this cyen mg, and who for four years curried on the r.oint of their hrighl bayonets the argument for S ?Uth?rn independence and the prayer for liberty. Hut well did thev perform their mission. There are standing before you this evening men who stood before the red-mouthed cannon at Malvern Hill and ut Ceme tery Ridge. Those haoners, some of which we saw this morning, and some of which I think are here, have flashed upon scons of battlefields before you, the great leader. I see men here who followed Lee's great line of soldierv tliat were ne'aily always invincible-, men who fought under Hill, and Early, ami J.ickson ami Ihimrcgard. I see before me men wb ? followed Joseph E. Johnston at I ?Vanklio, anil who on a scor.! of bnlliciiulds from Lookout Mountain to Atlanta fought Sherman ami nearly always repulsed him. "Ami, (ion. Hampton, there a "e mou StAOdhlg here, wlio followed your knightly blade upon A hundred battle fields; wherever you Ictl?for, air, you always led wllOIOVOl there wa? light* IOg to be done. (Applause.) There are men who wee with yen when you took command of the Confederate cav alry in 1804, and whore at Havres'shop you planted its dismounted lines before the advancing corps of Hardy and Sherman and wrenched Richmond from their gra-p with an iiiiignillcant little body of dismounted cavalry. The excuse of these men thou was that you bail been reonforccd. That was always their excuse; but, sir, then was nothing in it. "Ami so, sir, when Sherman met you at Trevalian si at .on, where tlx- Kulictd rifle was in Ilia grasp ot the cnvalry inou instead of tho useless sabre, Sher man as ho rode, awaj from the Hold wrote to Iiis ehief that he was met by Hampton's cavalry, but that it was re enforced by Kurly's division of in fantry, and that their combined forces wore too great for hiiu. But, sir, you know thttl yon, with a force loss than half as great its bis own, bad com pelled him to retire from the Held in ut tcr (iisoni :r. "Ami now, comrades, i present to you a chieftain worthy not only of your admiration, for CJen. Hampton lias always had that, not only of your love and affection, for he won that long, lon<j ago, but worthy of the high est meed of praise that man can la stow upou his fellow mau 1 present to you one who has done more for South Carolina in peace, in wir, and again in poacc than all the orators and all tlie statesmen thai overcame before or after. When m the dark days that followed disaster and defeat to our aims it was he who stands before you tliis evening, that lent that hope and courage to the hosts of iuvu ciblo in 01 hood and womanhood?if 1 may please say it?of South Carolina that uairied victory when defeat seemed almost the only result of the campaign. It was due to the sagacious statesmanship and the true courage of him that in a cam paigii which required greater courage than war, when South Carolinians fought for their liberty a sec >nd time, that a victory was gained. "Gen. Hampton, these men come to pay their respects to you. They love you,they honor you, ami as yonder sun which is setting in the West m irks the declining hours of a peerless day, so these battle-scarred hoioes before you, with their gray hair and wrinkled faces, indicate the declining .lay of their manhood. But such as it is, sir, it is yours, and yours forever." Loud cheers followed this speech. and there were Rebel yells as Clou. lIam|iton rose and faeed his soldiers. 1'heie were ones of "Hampton." den. Hampton placed his hand on his right breast and quiet pi evaded as lie addressed the great gathering as fol lows: "My Colnrades: I have indeed, as Maj Hart has said, heard that Rebel yell often before and when I heard it from my own men, from ihe men whom 1 bad the honor to command, 1 knew that we were safe. I think it is .mc of the British poets who says: ' The kites know well The lo uc league's swell That 'ads the Uomana close.' 1 might paraphrase this by saying: The Yankees knew well The Ioiik league's swell That lads the Hebels close. "My old heroes I hope it never will be forgotten. I hope il will be trans mitted to your children and to your children's children-?if not for them to use to tell how il used to ring from Ihe forests of Virginia, how it rang from Gettysburg to the West, and how it al ways told of men who were willing to die for their .Southland, to die for truth, for honor, for manhood, for chivalry and for a great truth. I Want you to try and leach to your children ami to your children's children that ours was not a lost cause. I want you to tell them that we were lighting for the right. George Washington was a rebel, but Lee was not. When (?real Britain recognized the independence of Ibis .ouutry she did not recognize the it.dependeucejof the)Unll<3d Stales, but of each sovereign State as inde pendent and sovereign. There were 13 independent and sovereign States. They founded this union and they had the right to withdraw from it when ever they chose so t> do. We were not successful?it is not given to mor tals to command success. You have done more?ycu have deserved it. "And 'now in your declining years and when miiu have extended long beyond the period allotted to man,you, myoid comrades, whom I loved, whom I trusted and with whom 1 felt as safe as I do now, I want to say to you all that all ihe love you have given me has been more than reciprocated; that all that 1 have ever been able to do for you, for any one of. you, or for South Carolina, has been more than re paid by the honors you have unsolicit ed conferred upon me and by this the crowning honorof my life. I may not see you again. 1 remember a story of an old bishop who when ready 10 retire from public life went to ihe abbot and said: " 'Father Abbot, an old man whoso heart is broken by the. storms of State i.? come to lay his weary bones among you." "That is all I shall ask of South U iro linn?a few feet of earth where my kindred for six generations are resting. And I am proud to say that one or more of each generation since they were known in South Carolina has tilled a bloody gr ive for South Carolina. (Applause.) I claim no credit for that. Kvory South Carolinian wh I was true was willing to give his blood and his life for the old State. I am *urc tha I win willing to do so. 1 think I ca say so to you, my men, that I never turned my back upon any of you when your faces were turned toward the enemy. The greatest honor that I felt during the war was once, when I came upon n poor private wlio was dying. I stopped beside him and lie Haid: ' 1 am liappy to die lighting ami 1 am proud to die fighting under you.1 '?I pray lhat (Jod will ideas you and will give you peace and prosperity, give it to the old State, give it to each one of you and that you will go home and tell your kindred that you have acen your old comrade and that he thanks you for them." Again the ltebel yells burst forth as the general ceased speaking at. 1 sal down. Some one then cried for Gordon, but Gen. Walker told him that the old C >n feds had done more than the Yankees could ever do?their coming had made Cm. Gordon run. Taking in hia hand n beautiful wreath of magnolia leavos Adji. Holmes then addressed Gen. Hampton ihus : " Gen. Hampton: Your comrades come to you today bringing liearls full of love, and words of esteem and praise and roveronce. They come also hear ing a simple gift which they want you i to tmug in tho room \ou most frc tiueully sil in no lb Hl ?H olleil litt you mil} lift your eyes toward it you may ic call the men who never once iu war <?? in peace fullered in their love foi \> n This wreath in mtule of leaves from n tree that grows in your nativ! Stale Thai lice was transplanted from lite Slate ol your ancestors, li wits trans planted from the l)l-mal swamp <>l Virginia ami now grows in the yard oi Lieut. Col .lufcH* Hinke, who hiinseil gathered these leaves and they win twined into tins wreath b) Mit. I -aac ?<. whose falber servcdill 'loxus and i' the Confcdern'u State-* navy. Wi have selected these leaves tor Um m iwo icuHons, anil we have bound then) with ribbon of the blue and white i I your State the Mali- thill will In known hereafter for all time a- tlx Slate of its avior, as Wade Hampton's South Carolina." My this time the yard was idled uith old soldiers whose t oil usiasni wa> I) iiindlu-H. Geu. Hampton roso and sold; ?> M \- friends I want i > > <\ > hut 1 thank you for the love an I kind U'ss you have shown me und t<> luvunn %? u that this wreath shall h?ug hang >< that if I can an control it the lust look I give on eatth will ho <>n that tin nun to of you ? kindness." Mrs. Clark Waring then in a in >st appropriate munnor 'sxprostdog tin most patriotic sentitmuils presented ihe Southern Cros* of Honor lo lien Hampton, and had sat down s> ihm his little grand daughter could pul ii on his coat for the Wndo Hamilton chapter. This was (lone, and Maj. Hart leaned over and kis>t d the lulle uhi. The general said he hit lik?; kissing the dear women. ?hist here Miss Margaret Klin 11, sponsor for Camp Hampion, came up With a beautiful floral design present itlg it l<? tin- griiei.il, and naively said, "Aren't you going lo kiss nu ?" T le general surrendered ami did kiss hei then and there, while the soldiers cheered. A linal rebel yell was given,and then an info'inal reception was held on the piazza, the soldiers crowding the one over the other to shake the. aged hem s hand. ID I, I, A UP QUOTES A PSALM. He Discourses on a Sermon by a Northern Fanatical Preacher " Fret not thyself because of evil doers. Fret not thjsclf because ol In in who prosper Cth in his way ami bringet!) wicked devices tu pass." There is good philosophy and much comfort in that psalm. .Its frequent perusal will fortify us against trouble and leave us calm and serene at bast foi a time. Hut 1 don't believe that David bad as many things to exasper ate him as we do. Now here, is a Chicago religious paper sent to me to disturb my trnnquility. It contains a sermon recently delivered by the editor to a large congregation of his followers and they said amen and amen at every malediction that ho uttered against our people. I don't tret myself about what a Noithem preacher says nor a Northern editor writes, but I don't like that amen ami amen from tin saints, and it grieves me to realize that the more malignant an editor is against us the more subscribe)s bis paper gels. Now this Chicago editor says in his sermon: *? If I were president when the next lynching takes place in the South 1 would put a cordon around that district and hang a hundred of them am) 1 would shoot a hundred. Worthy ol cannibals are the horrible things carried on in the South. As sure as you live these eight, million ncgl'OCS will 01)0 day burst loose. If it is tobe blood for blood, then woe to you in the black belt. You Southerners with your re bellious pride, still lett you lynch tin poor negro for the very crime that your fathers committed on their slaves. There, is one voice that will speak if all others are silent. (Applause.) When the time comes we will do more than speak. God will judge you?you whilcd Bcpulchers who strain at a gnat and BWal'OW a camel. I have been told that I have lost friends at the South. 1 never had any. They were never worthy of my friendship. Tiny are neither Christians nor good citi zens. I hear the march of eight mil lion Ethiopians, an I it will bo an awful day when they burst loose in the black belt." My wife says that 1 had better take the dowers out of the greenhouse ami maybe that will relieve me. 1 SCO that the first rose of Slimmer has come forth in all its crimson beauty. A pair of tiny sparrows are drinking at the foun tain in the front yard. They arc yel low and black, akin to the canaries. A mockingbird is Binging in a neigh bor s garden. Ou' thick of pigeons is sailing around in graceful curves. The peacock is Strutting and spreading his magnificent tail and is happy in his vanity. The dog lies lazily on the blue. grass and every thing is happy that Cod has made except some miserable peo ple who are never happv unless they are abusing something or finding fault with their neighbors. What a slack trOUgh the South is to that, class up North. They can differ with each other in politics and the tariff and re ligion and the Philippine war, but when tfiey get tired <>f quarreling they Bay, " Well, now, let's hold up awhile and abuse those nigger killers down South." That's a har roonizoi. Anolhoi preach er, Dr. Gunsuulus, delivered ihe. ora tion at Galena in honor of General Grant's birthday and made.it appear that Grant was the author ami finisher of emancipation and negro suffrage and it would ho sacrilege to permit the hallot to he tak( n away from htm while the shadow of that monument is over the nation. Oh. inv cuuntrv ! What nn idiot I Everybody who rends his tory knows that Grant was u slave I owner and Jived oil' the hire, of his nr irroes up to the very day of lh"ir free (loin? and he uniformly declared he wan not lighting lot the negro, hut for tho union. Let the. reverend gcnllO' mini read In Applelinks "(Cyclopedia! of American Biography " where. (Jen eral Grant's old father wrote to him id St. Louis in May, 1800. that il h COllldcnt live oil the hire of his negroes ho had heller move lo Ualona ami work in the lanyard. Hut I will take a brief rest again in the garden, for my wife suys the potato bugs have come SGROFULA AND ITS AWFUL HORRORS -CUUEl) BY Johnston's Sarsaparilla QUART BOTTLES. A. MOST l3Tc UFUL CURE, A Ornud Old i.mi> Gives llor ICxpcritnce. Mrs. Thankful OrlUa Hurd lives In the beautiful village of Brighton, Livingston Co., Mich. This venerable anil highly respected lady was horn In the year 1812, the year of the great war, In Hebron, Washington Co., New York. She came to Michigan in 1S40, the year of "Tippeeanoe and Tyler I too." All her faculties are excellently preserved, anil possessing a very re tentive memory, her mind Is full of interesting reminiscences of her early life, of the early days of the State of Michigan and the interesting and re markable people she has met, and the stirring events of which she was a wit ness. But nothing In her varied und manifold recollections are more mar velous and worthy of attention than aro her experiences In the use of JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA. Mrs. Hurd inherited a tendency and pre disposition to scrofula, that terribly destructive blood taint which lias cursed and is cursing the lives or thousands and marking thousands more as vic tims of the death angel. Transmitted from generation to generation, It is found In neary every family in one form or another. It may make its ap pearance In dreadful running sores, in unsightly swellings in the neck or goitre, or In eruptions of varied forms. Attacking the mucous membrane, it may be known as catarrh In the head, or developing In the lungs It may be, and often Is, the prime cause or consumption. Speaking of her case, Mrs. Hurd says: "I was troubled for many years with a bad skin disease. My arms anj limbs would break out In a mass of sores, discharging yellow matter. My neck began to swell and became very unsightly in appearance. My body was covered with scrofulous eruptions.. I My eyes were also greatly inflamed and weakened, and they pained me very much. My blood was In a very bad condition and my head ached severely at frequent interval-, and I had no appetite. I had s- -es also In my ears. I was In a miserable condition, I had tried every remedy that had been recom mended, and doctor nftct' doctor had failed. One of the best physicians iu the state told me I must die of scrofulous consumption, ns internal abcesses were beginning to forin. I at length was told of Dr. Johnston, of Detroit, and his fatuous Sarsaparilla. I tried a bottle, more ns an experiment than any thing else, as I had no faith In It, and greatly to my agreeable surprise, I began to grow better. You can be sure I kept on taking lt. I took a great many bottles. But I steadily Improved until 1 became entirely well. All the 6ores healed up. all the bad symptoms disappeared. I gained perfect health, and I have never been troubled with scrofula since. Of course an old lady of 83 years is not a young woman, but I have had remarkably good health since then, and I firmly believe that JOHNSTON S SARSAPARILLA Is tho greatest blood purifier and the best medicine In the wido world, both for scrofula and as a spring medicine." This remarkably Interesting old lady did not lok to be more than sixtv, and sho repeated several times, "I believe my life was saved by JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA." For >'ale by The Lam ens Drug Co , L urens. S. C. and I had holler got ready to poison them. She says ihcy arc almost as pestiferous as Yankee pren< aors and art much nearer lo us. My gardeu is a clay subsoil and bakes very quickly altera rain, and ll keeps me moving (|iute lively lo prevent a crust that will not let the lilt lo plants eome up. It has a,\\.i\s been a mystery to me how i little tender plant can upheave a clod that will weigh hall a pound. Hut about those preachers who are so distressed about the negro. I wish to remark that (bo same, paper that gave Dr. GuiihuuIus's sentiments about the negro bad m the next column in large headlines a press dispatch from Oonneilsville, L'a., an account of a fiendish crime committed by eight negroes upon Mr. MeMillian and his wife, shooting him and subjecting her 10 an outrage worse than death and left them both for dead. I hope the posse has got the negroes and lynched them by this lime. J)o you reckon 1 wo.ihl have refused to help lynch the brutes if 1 had been there and if that Chicago preacher had been there and i el used a helping hand 1 would have sai.i "Now, hoys, hang him up by the b gs to give him tune to repent lbe cowardly dog who would not avenge a woman's honor.'1 That's my futlb and part of my religion, and I'v been on thai lino ever since these oui_ >s begun. I rejoice over every lynching of a brute and our woods are full Ol good citizens uf the same mind. Gov urnoi Candlor may purge Ins own re cord about lynching and denounce that Philadelphia editor who lie d on bun, but 1 am ii it governor and am not a! target to be shot at and I am free to say thai a man w ho would Wait for the slow, uncertain process of the law ami the coin's to avenge our wives and I duughtol'8 i- no man at all and has my scorn and contempt. I think ! had better read a psalm or go out and plant some more beans, lor my wife says she wants a succession of crops of all these leguminous vegetables 1 think that is what she called I hem. It is that same puritanical set id' preachers w ho brought on the war and we thought the next generation would have in.ire s0us0 and lei us alone since, slavery was abolished, but like lathers like sons, and llicy are yet miserable as long as Mordccni is sitting at the gale. Some of our writers and orators de clare, that peace, and brotherly love now prevails, but il is like i be game of ?'three card monlo," now 31m see il and now you don't see. it. Henry Grndy made a great speech in llosion and fairly captured his audience, bill in less than two weeks the Hoston preachers were belittling his effort ami howling at the S ?nib foi its bad faith lo the fiflconlh amendment. The race problem is still their capita! slock and it lias spiead from New England to Chicago and the great West. The 'i. A. It's, have appointed a committee to write up a history of tue civil war, and the next thing will be to force it into the public school*. The ?. A. It's, are a power in the land and their croed is to draw more pensions and bigger ones, but I otiii'l understand how they can look a Confederate soldier in the face and boast ot anything. If it look four ol us to whip one of them IM never brau about it nor ask for a pen sion, and il it was given ie I would conscientiously pour it back in llio jug. When God created Adam Ho planted a garden for him ami put him in it to keep il and dross il and that was in ma t ut ami manly, ami so I will go out land dig s<?mo and turn the hydrant loose, for il Is awlul dry, Wish I could turn it loose on those preachers. Since Hi-hop Cuildlor exclaimed in big hen I lines, ?? Oh, for one more breath of i'urtsinnism I" I've, been perusing history. Of course bo dldont mean those Puritans who canto to New Bllgland and went to importing ne gnus ami robbing the Indians an I burning witches. Mr. Slcdmati ami Miss Hutchinson hnvo elovon vol. nines Amoilcnni literal uro and tic second is devoted lo those borribh wilchcrnfl limes when I ncroiise Mnthoi ami Cotton Mather and Samuel Sownll I and oil).a* saints bad helplo88 women arrested and trie I ami hung for witch craft. The who'o procedure Is In this volume ami it makes the heart sick to read how tllO poor CroatureS begged lor their lives and in their las! in i men's on the gallows denied their uuilt. IloW as many as Olglll wer? hung at one lime and many more at vaiioiis times, and bow old .lodge ' Si-wall afterwards repented and the I twelve jurymen repented and publish ed their repentance and asked God to rorgive their great sin, etc. One wo man, Mary Wntkins, who was a hired scviinl, a while woman, was tried, hut the evidence was not sulllcicnt to convict, ami so they did not hang her, hut sont her off lo Virginia lo bo sold as a slave. This is only a little scrap of New l?niiluud history, and if any of t heir descendants a re ashamed of it they have never said EO lo me. Those Northern brethren are awful slow on apologies. Ilm 1 must go and slick the sweet peas and hurry up the llow ers for the dune wedding. Our neigh bor's pretty daughter is to be married and they are ?inging to tue? " Illing Mowers. lirinK Mowers, for the bride to wear. They are horn to blush in her shining iiaii " Hii.i. Art. T1IF, OLD IIUGU15NOT CHURCH One of Charleston's Religious Landmarks is to be closed The most ancient sanctuary in South Carolin i is in jeopardy ol' beiug Cosed lor public worship. For more than tWO bundled years the HugUCUOl exiles of France, who tied lo this state after the revocation of (he edict of Nantes by Louis XIV, and their descendants have sent up their prayers from the same sacied spot I nder the beauti ful building ol the Huguenot chinch and around it in the elm shaded ceme tery lie the bones Of their fathers of the congregation, who, for conscience sake, loft home ami friends and braved the perils of the sea to make a new home in the wilderness. Formerly this church was wealthy, hut the war dec polled it of most of its capital, even the sacred vessels of the communion table ami the organ having bCOU .stolen by Sherman's camp followers. The organ, however, was foiInnately re stored to the church and still accom panies the praises of the congregation. The Huguenot church as it stands to-day is the Presbyterian church stripped of its baldness and ruggedncss and the low Episcopal church. Stran gers cannot teil which it is. The con fession of faith of the kingdom of France, which is translated in French and English in the appendix to the liturgy, is as red hid Calvinism as any thing furnished from Geneva. The church has a unique personality, a wonderful history. It remains the only distinctive Huguenot congrega tion in all this broad land. During the eenturiesjof its existence it has ex perienced fire, Hood, invasion, earth quake. Huguenots were strangely a part of the very hoginilillg of American his tory. The fust. Protestant settlement upon this continent was that ol .lean Kibaul within the present limits of South < Carolina. In 1080, tho date of the settlement of the city of Charleston, a colony of lluguen (s arrived, having been sent out by the. English government to cul tivate oil, wine and silk. Hut the. larger emigration came in 1035-0, when French Protestants 11 eked to ibis Siale in great numbers, They formed four settlements, one in the. city awl iluce, in tno country. Each of these Botllcnv nts had its church. Tho three ohtr.chcsin the country were] subsequently merged into the establish ed church of the c ?h?uy. The Church cd l?ugUnd became established in I 1700. Too poor to sustain, Offered support for their church and ministers by the established church, they gra dually yielded, hut they did not con form to the Kpisc.opal authority until after tho dccOOSO of the [IugUOUOt ministers. The Huguenot church in Uhniluaton retained its autonomy and Identity and held il until today. Tho church hero is tho only church in America wiioio Huguenot liturgies and Huguenot, songs are slid said and ->ung as of yore. Its prot 'type was a small upper chamber In Btionno Mau? ? in's house in Meaux, in 1546, the Huguenot church in trout of which | the Ural Huguenot pastor, the Mrst (Oders and the loader of the first Ilugue I not congregation were burned to death at fourteen different stakes, surround ed by weeping wives and children, einelly constrained to witness the as cent to henven of the souls of their dearest and best. Within Its sacred Wftlls in Charleston is repeated the simple and heautiful liturgy brought Irom tho valleys of "ranee, ami tin' songs <>i /ion which lusphed iwpc ami con lid i ncc to Buguonot martyrs auvl nru still bu )?: by ihvir descendants; pncnus of Coulras ami Ivry, dirges of Amboisc and st. liarlholmow, laments for Mon? contour, praises for the heroism of Lu Uochcllo, and leurful reminders <<f thoj sorrowful sighing of the prisoners in La Tour uo Constance, ami of ihe rowers ehaiued to the galley's beuch, all telling of bravo soldiers and glorious mart vi s, weary prisoners, wandering exiles, broken hearted parents aim lonely children in nllhction for cou sciem <? sake alone. At Ihi* time, the ch in Ii is the only one on the contitn nt whit h ret a ma the distinctive features of the Huguenot service. The spiritual concerns of the church are managed l>y a consistory, composed ol the pastor und a hen. h i t elders elected by members ol ihe cor poration. Its temporal coucerns are controlled In the corporation. The confession cf faith ?vas composed by .lehn Calvii., and is that adopted by the Reformed Church in France in 1059. A lilurgal form has always been used and this >s believed to have bo< n ihat of the church of Geneva. Alter the lire of 1740, which destroyed all the records of ihe church, the Liturgy of Neufchalel and Villangin w is adopted and is still in use. From the year 1810 lo 181!) the Kreut h language was partially disused?preaching alter nately bei ween this and the Fuglish. This gave much dissatisfaction and a return to the exclusive use of French was made. Hut thai tongue had large ly ceased t > be spoken or understood, and in 1828 n was decided to emnlm only Ihe Luglish longue in the uervice, The Kreuel) liturgy was referred lo un eminent committee tor translation,and it has ever si nee beeu used. Some changes w? re made in Ihe order and arrangenieut of the Liturgy <>f Neuf chatol and Villangin, and some addi tions, copied from the book of ihe French church in London and kindred sources. Some occasional and ton eluding prayers were supplied, and the sources from which Ihe Book ol Com moo Prayer was furnished were laid under tribute. As the Itelormed Church of France had n>> but in) ser vice, the funerals hi jug in silence and at night hocause otherwise prohibited by the. government, the committee had either to prepare one entirely new or adopt one already in use. They chose the scriptural ami impressive burial service of the Protestant HpiSCOpal Church, and following the example of the Church of Prance, the Huguenot church has alway8 observed Christmas, Good Friday and Basier. ANDERSON'S CONTRACTS Case Involving Validity of the So-Called 'Slavery" Contracts Magistrate V*. ilson, of Anderson, bad a case before him which in volved one of these slavery contracts about which we have heard so much. It was tl e case of the Slate vs. Alex Wilhams. Mr. P. 1!. Watson had paid Jl?O to ?el Williams out of jail and Williams signed a slavery contract to make a crop With Watson. He broke the contract ami Watson indicted him. Messrs. Honham A: Walkins repie sented the state and Quattlobaum .V Cochran Ihe defendant. After hearing the case Magistrate Wilson rendered the following decision, upon the ren dering of which, notice of appeal w as served : On the third day of January, 11)01, Alex Williams, being indebted to .1. S. Fowler for $150 hound and hired him self to I,. H. Watson to work for him for Ihe year 1001 to secure the payment of the said $160. From the evidence before me Alex Williams has neglected and refused to pet form the work re quired of him in said contracts and now P. II. Watson has prosecuted him n.r violation of contract. This is a criminal action to enforce or punish a laborer for violating a civil contract. In order to render a laborer liable criminally for violation ol a civil con tract the contract must be such u con tract as is set out in the statines. Sec lion 288 of volume %2, revised statutes, provides what must he si t out in a contract to render one liable criminally for iis violation. First, such contract must clearly set forth the conditions upon which the laborer engages tu work. Second, the length of limo. Third, the amount of money to he paid. Fourth, and when. This contract docs contain the length of time the laborer is to woik, but it is impossible forme to un derstand upon what conditions he is to work. Nor is it possible for me to de termine from Ihe contract what wages are lo he paid Alex Williams, and no lime is mentioned when any wages are to be paid to him. In fact, there is no promise in Ihe conti act to pay him any wages at all. For these rea sons I decide, the defendant is not guilty. This contract not bciiu* such a conti act as lenders a labour liable (o punishment ci iniinally lor violating. Again, Ibis contract Is one of those contracts in which the laborer agrees lo hind himself lo he locked up and whipped, etc.. Such a contract is op posed lo public policy and is therefore null and void, and the defendant can not he punished for violating a null ami void contract. It was argued that while these provisions opposed to pub lic policy are null and void the other parts of the contract are still in force and binding. ') his is not ah action rc quiiitig me to separate the void pro visions from the Valid provisions il I here are any such, hut simply to pun ish alabororfor violating this,contract as a whole and thoroforc I hold that lhis contract in part and in whole is absolutely null and void in ho far an this prosecution is concern cd < The de fendant is not guilty audit is ordered that ho bo discharged lt. v. Wilson, Magistrate Hereafter in tho state ot New York women who are owneis of property and lax payers, and who are of voting age. may vote upon any proposition to raise money l y tax or assessment for man it Ipal purposes. OASTOniA. Bean tU j9 ^9 ^ Vo" jj*W Always Boujjhl BANISH MF, NT OF NEGROES. A Negro Bishop Advocates the Battl8hinent of All Criminals Bhmop Henry M. Turner, o1 the Afrieuu Methodist church, advocates the bauishtucut of nil negro criminals. In a pcimou leceutly |treuehe(i i*i Hie city of Mucon, iie declared Hint llie United states povcrtiincnt should de poit all the black outlaws to Afrtcn, ami expressed the opinion Hint it ;i few steamship lines were established between the Southern ports and the Dark ContUM lit a prolituh.c commerce might thereby be built up. It ? uy be the bishop dlil ind iiiteiul thai In should be taken Berl' usly I>y hi- fellow citizens, generally; that I i- ohjee w i~ merely to impress u i >n his own raee, as forcibly as possible, his e i.idemn e lion of negro outlawry in the hope of bringing about better eond it ions, lie must know that the Feth r.ti govern ment h is no jut iodtct ion over the ma jority of the criminal nets committed by tin- blacks, that the punishment >>t them devolves upon sin courts of (he different states, und that tin ir ju :i? ial Iribunuls are deburred rrum the in lliction of thai form of puuishmcnt. lint ibis i- not the olll} ? bstacle in ihe way of the bishop's ; uni he program Ctiminnls could not be truiispniicd to Africa without the cons, m oi me pow ers which exercise sovereignly ovi r it, ami it is very certain thai no one ol them would be wil ing to extend a welcome to miscreants, ciihi r white 01 Dlaek. Ii may be, however, that Bishop Turner hud m view tin- fact that Thoa, Jefferson, when ho was president, and James Monroe, when 11 * - was governor ol Virginia, had a lengthy and inter esting correspondence on ih< question of the establishment <d aback penal colony. The initial move in the mut ier wa- made by the Legislature ol Virginia, which directed Monroe to so licit the good olliccs of the Federal low eminent in endeavoring In obtain per mission from the Siena Leone com pany t(< semi to that colony some ne groes that bud instigated an insur rection UgaitlSl the Stale govi i ninent. Jefferson wrote lo the American min ister in London ou ihe subject, but nothing came of the application. In I discussing the question, Jefferson did not think that either Spain or tireal llrilaiu would lie willing lo sell lo the Unilcel Slates any pan of llieii pos sessions for such a purpose, and doubt ad whether even the Italians oeiuhl be induced to do so. liisbop Turner'i idea, it will be see n, is not new. It was in dtscus-jiou by a Stale, tin- Feil end and ai h:.;si one foreign gov rn meut in the early pari ol the last cen tury, and hail as its advocates, the greatest and one of the greatest ol Democratic statesmen, li is,solo say, a sort of JelTorbon-Monroc ponalogicu) docti inc. Ii is n?.i improbable ibat if ihc ter ritorial conditions of the present ilay were in existence when Jcll'crson, Monroe and the Virginia Legislature were in correspondence with respect lo a penal colony, one would have been established. Had the United Stales ilu n owned Alaska, the Philippines, Hawaii, or any ol ihe oilier islands we have acquired in ihe la->i eighty or ninety yen's, sonn one ol iliem might have been selected for such a purpose. Virginia and the other iSoulhuril Stales were then fully alive to the dangers of negro uprisings, and would not have hesitated to adopt energetic nieasuies of repression, l ue old Republican or ,)tiVersomuii party was >o strong in Congress thai i, could have can led out any policy ii deemed essential and with Virginia leading the way there can he liltludolibl th ii she would have Induced all her Southern sisters lo fol low her. Slavery having been abol ished, tin- social ami political condi tions which, during it* existence, in spired the. project, nr?i no longer op erative, hut in tin- opinion of the Alii can Methodist bishop a cumin il State of affairs has nuscu which makes ihe consideration of ihe old proposition very nearly imperative. The question naturally suggests it self il the more heinous climes com milled by black men should he pun ished by banishment, why not deal out the same measure of justice to whites that stund in ihe same criminal category? Why make llsh of one iiuu llesh of the other? The cosl ol crime, lhat is Ihe annual laXlliotl, Federal, State, county, city and town, on ac count of the ci imiual classes, is estil' bllshcd by a coiiipeteut nuthority to be upwntds of $200,000,000 per annum. Tb?' great iiriu) of criminals at large in the couulry is estimated at !i?o,O00. These lijuie.s are of startling signifi cance. Might not the certainty of life banishment have the 1'fTccl ol turning a large percentage of these outlaws from their evil ways? ? m \ m Uni'Ah?onaiilk.? a Chicago clergy - mau nays that while traveling in liu ro(?e lasi summer he visited Venice, and among Hie institutions of thai cily which [iuiiciilii.lv interested him was a public bathing rcsorl. A few days later, while in Pisa, and wandering about its Famous leaning lower, ho encountered two young wo* men, whoso conversation, a few words of which be overheard, salisllud him they were Americans, lie introduced hlmsell, and they wer.- delighted to moot him. Tlioy bad just arrived ill | I'lsa and were very (lusty ami travel gained. (in learning that ho had come from Venice they questioned him eagerly concerning tho attractions oi the placo, a^ that wan on their ilineiary. Well," he begat), ?? you will want o go t i I he Maimnocco ami take a bath" " sir I" tln j exclaimed, turning iiway Instantly, anil having hi?n lo ;h< realization ot the fael that in ail Inno? t ruce be bad i> ..tie 01)0 Ol the great i mistakes m 'u- lifo Youth's Colli? p mi'mi. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Aiwtys Bought Bears th? S<?iUiture ?f l\vo 11 ii ml red bushels of po ol ? remove eighty [>ounds ol ' ..< u al " Potash from the s<?ii. I nlcss this (juantity ?. i . rettii tied to the soil, the following crop will mutt rially decrease. \\, l-avo l-<ks telling ntioul Coai| itioti umi iiinl valuo ol U'l tili/i < . l?>r various crops I hoy are sent lice i < i K M AN K AI I WORKS, BOLDLY FACIv Til KIR FATF, Fire Sufferers In Jacksonville go to Work to Rebuild the City. .1 \i KSONVll.l.K, M iv 7. No more bodies Iui i been found in Ihn ruins of Friday's great lire, or in the St. John's river up to noon today. The weather continues intensely warm, hut the work of brim lug order out of confu sion nnd earing for and feeding the homeless and hungry lr"cs on. Although no ollieial appeal for aid has In en issued, supplies of all kiiuls are nirivii g and are being distributed. A number of contracts for new build ings have been let. Surveyors are semi in si me purls of itio city marking off propi rty linos, The announcement is mull' ilia: tin' Windsor Hotel, the Gardner building, liuldwin building ami opera house will be rebuilt al mice. An mil. r was formally promulgated this morning ordering the negroes to work or leave Ihe city. This had the i ll. ( i ni' increasing tin- gaugs at work in ihe various parts ,,t ihe city, hut some <?f tiif negroes arc giumbling, saying I hey belong hero and can not be made lo leave. Dr. George Gchatte, was seriously injured at noon while aiditlg some workmen in pulling down the ruins of the lacmun-Skinner building. Tin- relief association fed 0,000 at breakfast. (ioi.n is tiii. Maoni r. Within Ihc ia>i twelve months the world has hoard a '_?<>(>d dual ahoul British military op erations is Ashanti, in West Africa. Some persons may have Keen curious in know what the British waaled with the unds ?l these African savages and why they were shedding blood and spending money to gain possession. The explanation is that rich g >1<1 mines are known to cxi-l in the Ashauli country and iho Brilons wanted lo de velop those mines and secure Iho irold, just as tin y did in iIto Transvaal, (.lold is the magnet that always draws the Kuglishmau, or. i. , that matter, the Americans ami all other eivtli/.ed peo ples. The (englishman is not peculiar in his greed for gold. Whenever a rich mine is discovered the savages might as well pack up and migrate.- I.\neh burg News. The smiillcsl book in the world baa just been published in Cleveland. The type cannot be rend without the aid of ii powerful magnifying glass, and ihe work in ->i/.r is no larger than ouo's linger nail. The work is a complete ( >pv of the "llubaryat ' of Omar Khay yam, and also has a lifted! )> ige intro <iiii lion and some other matter The type lor i In- work was made and then further reduced by photo-microscopy. Only lifty-livc copies of the book have been printed; the plates, being made of solid silver, have hern distributed among the friends of the author as souvenirs, precaution being taken to i dclncu them. Kx-Ueprcsenlativc William K. Mor rison of Illinois, who has just been granted a pension of jf.S per month, to late from September II, ISS7 (when In- became years <>id,) served in the Mexican und eivil war.-, and resigned a colonelcy in to on tor Congress, In tins connection it is recalled thai during a former administration of pou? sion affairs (Jol. Morrison was granted a penaion as a veteran ol tin- Mexican war. lie had not applied for a pension, and promptly returned il to the bu reau. Parti i lg(!8 feed as noon as llicy wake in (lie morning, ami an unscrupulous inventor is showing how thoj ran be fattened hy pilllillg llicm in a dark Icellnt with clt'clrio iighls. Kvcry limo iho lights arc turned up the birds think it is morning, and so out break? fnsl live or six tuned in Iho tlftCii nm, ?? That was a tenable typographical blunder your paper made," said the foreign nobleman to the odiloi. ?? What Was it ?" ?* You ieioi rod to tlio heiress I am about i" marry as my linnnceol"? Washing! >n Star. Mrs, (lodfrcy I think it's about time we begun to send Willie to Sun day school. Mr, (rodTroy I think so, too; he asked mo only yesterday il I believed that fairy story of donah and the whale, Brooklyn Lifo. ?< Arcthusa sa}s sho's afraid lo got married." ?? Why t" ?? Oh, slur says sin- lias boon racing for street cars so long she's afraid she, will run down the aisle lo iho altar."? I Chicago Kocord-IIt raid. Mrs. Columbia Heights And you didn't ordei him from the house when he stole four kisse-? Miriam How could I ? He ex plained thai he was a kleptomaniac!? Brooklyn lOaglo, ??How is yom Shakespeare Clul) coming on, Nancy ?" ??Ol), Ac have io postpone il nearly ovorj time hecatiso somebody wants to give a OUclllO parly." -Chicago Re cord.