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EWBERRY, S. C. THURSDAY, JUPRICE 50 A YAR ESTABLISHED 1865. - THE DUTCH PORK. BY Dn. 0. B. MAYER, SR. NO. #.-Concluded. * * * at thy comman'l, Again the crumbled halls shall rise; Lo! as on Evan's bank we stand, The past returns-the present flies. CADYow CASTLE. Perhaps the surest way of bringing t actice of using into proper under standing, would be to give the reader the words pronounced in the cure of a disease called the schlear, a swelling of the jaw near the ear in children. My belief is that this disease has almost disappeared of late years. The child thus suffering (for it was a very painful affection) was taken to a brook and, while the water was dipped up in the hollow of the hand and poured upon the swelling, these German lines were recited in a low tone, Der Schlear und der Drach Gingen mit elnander ueber 'm Bach: Der Schlear sich verdrank; ,. Und der Drach verswand. Gott, der Vater; Gott, der Sohn; And Gott, der heilige Geist; Amen. In English, The schlear anA the dragon Went together over the brook: The schlear was drowned; And the dragon disappeared. God, the Father; God, the Son; And God the Holy Ghost; Amen. This certainly looks very foolish; but what seems foolishness sometimes is very strong; and is permitted to appear foolish to test our confidence in the promise, "thou shalt know hereafter." I have often been asked if I, myself, had any belief in the curative effect of this using. My answers were always non-committal before my grand cli mactric, but since that age(63years, you know) I can say that I-being very susceptible to impressions which hold on to me with great tenacity after once getting me into their power; and hav ing heard so many honest men, during many years around St. John's church, unhesitatingly attribute their complete restoration to good health from many maladies by submitting to the manipu lations of usinq;-I can say that I-in ease sdth successful adepts as Dr. Koon and Granny Summer were now living, and I had a friend whose agony on ac count of some disease was driving him upon the verge of profane swearing, I can say that I might advise him to -seek relief from this source. Was I not, myself, cured, by this process, of a decided case of opthal-that is to say, sore eyes, in my seventh year, when I was in the midst of shedding my teeth? If it be asked, "What about the rotten horse-apple"? My reply is, that I was at that time too unmanageable a lad to submit to such a disgusting application as a rotten horse-apple to my eyes. Although I have yet much more to write in the way of illustrative anecdote in regard to this peculiar custom, I must now turn to another form of a a perstition which few persons or none believe in, now-a-days; but I can re member when all the old people sixty years ago bodly,-in words and man lers expressive of belief-referred to a power possessed by only one man in the Dutch Fork-a power to arrest modon completely -in human beinga. I have. heard many versions of this statement. The first time was while I was yet sleeping on a trundle-bed drawn forth every night for me front under the large bed on which my grand mother slept. Her friend, Amy (Om mee) Lohner frequently came to remain with her three or four days and nig'ts continuously, as I have already stated. She came to gratify her friend and neighbor, E..M. S., with opportunity to indulge in-lively, good-tempered con versation in the German language. My honored ancestress did not make habitual use of her darling mother tongue, surrounded as she was coin monly by English speaking people. It was only when, unluckily for her, the enemy of souls put forward some agent -of his to worry her into violent anger, that she was forced into German to ob ~tain ability for venting her rage with rapidity and force, as the English did - not possess sufficient fiuency and em phasis for . her purpose. Everybody moved away from her, though without understanding :i word she said; nor durst return towards her until a lull was seen. It was usually long, "Before her passion's gust was o'ver," and then she would fall into her low chair, with her hands covering her -streaming eyes, and moving her head from side to side, as she cried out in the Eriglish language, "God forgive me for what I have said and done!" When anger disappears in bitter, burning tears; it comes uturning from above, Transformed to ardent love. On meeting, however,wt hmr.sis ters, or with Ommiie (Amy) Lohner, or with her near neighbor, Granny Summer, there was a gush of pure de light, as their speech took on the Teu tonic intonation. At such happy meetings, I would go to sleep while they sat before the immense fire-place, ten feet from jamb to jamb, talking, talking, talking in the German tongue, until the clock-(the noble clock which Kilpatrick burnt, out in the stone-hills whither it had fled for safety,-which Kilpatrick burnt while it was striking, with its clear, ringing bell, the hour of twelve)-talking, talking, talking, until that clock would indicate the solemn hour of twelve; and then they sought repose. There was a night once when the conversation was compelled to be in English, inasmuch as there were ser 1 persons composing the circle about c the spacious hearth who understood no e other language. Mr. Amy (Ommee) s Lohner narrated to the company the r story of "Old Setzler," the gunsmith. In dismay I sat up in my trundle-bed and listened at the frightful recital, which in after years formed the basis of a story I wrote, entitled, "Eberhart i Koselhanz, The Wizzard Gunsmith:" -a story which, I hope, is to appear hereafter, corrected and enlarged by, facts recently reaching me. I here en deavor to give the last version that I have received. As I tell it, now, I make some unimportant changes to adapt it to the squeamishness of exist ing elegance. I can almost hear my friend who last told me the story (only a short time ago)-almost hear my friend say, "Why didn't you tell it as I told it to you?" I know, that is going to be the ques tion he will ask me, as soon as I shall see him again; and my answer is going to be : "You told me the naked truth; and don't you know that the naked truth, at the present day, is not per mitted to appear in refined society, un less she has at least a cloak thrown over her ?" He certainly is going to reply : "Why, you don't say so ! Now, you can recollect back as far almost as I can,-you being about seventy-four and I eighty-four-and you know that when we were boys together, and as far back beyond that time as I don't know, the truth used to walk through the Dutch Fork, night and day, as naked as a'new-born child, at its very first cry. You know that." "Yes, in deed," is to be my answer, "as naked as Adam and Eve were before they lost their good coLseiences, and took to stitching fig-leaves together with long pine-needles for thread, to hide their nakedness." "Well, well," he will probably continue, "I am of the opin ion that wherever people are ashamed to look at the naked truth, they are bold enough to think about what's worse-." At this point I am going to clap my hand over my friend's mouth and cry out, "hush !" Now for the story. Away back in the days when every house in the Dutch Fork had its little jingling bag of coin (mostly silver), varying in amount from twenty to a hundred dollars, deposited deep under layers of woolen coverlets, linen sheets, and various kinds of garments, there lived, not very far from what .i's now Hughey's Ferry, but then was Shirer's (in Tarleton's time)-there lived a kind hearted old man "given to hospitality," and, luckily for all who might be dis posed to injure him, slow in resent ment. He possessed the awful magic power to produce sudden arrest of mo tion in human beings, without in stant cessation of life. If this had been known. he without doubt would have become the object of dread and avoid ance; but his uniform benevolence to wards all his neighbors and his strict seclusion at home prevented provoca tion for the infliction of such a punish ment. Thus, no one knew that there existed in the neighborhood a witchery so nearly approximating the -Black Art. If I am not mistaken it could not be exercised except in self-defence, either in regard to one's person or one's honor. The home of this gun-smith was br'ght with contentment. His wife scarcely beginning to bend under the invisible weight that none can avoid, nevertheless had lost none of her brisk ness and went about her daily work with the regularity and cheerfulness of twenty years before. Two daugh ters, one of sixteen and the other of eighteen years' thriving in parental love, gave aid to their mother in the domestic work,-taking time, now and then, to laugh at the pranks of the clownish blue jay or listen to the mock ing-bird's borrowed songs. Notwith standing the awful secret that hovered over that home, there was happiness there, because pure love would have its rights. So it went on from day to day in mu tual love and freedom from fear; while there was raging in the distance a war, the reverberations of which reached this quiet home like distant thunder, too far away to see the lightning or feel the earth shudder. It happens now and then, however, while a cloud is moving along the horizon and it is clear over head, that an electric explo sion startles the people, and turns the sickened thoughts toward God. So came a rumor from beyond Broad River, at Shirer's Ferry, in the begin ning of the year 1780; and fear was casting out love from many a dwelling and giving full possession to despair, because the distant war had come so near to the Dutch Fork as to cross over the river and sprinkle blood here and there. The rumor, though, brought no dread to the inmates of the gun smith's home. The two girls knew "wat dadty could do"; and the old wo man saw in her old man's eye an ex pression which she had not seen but once before, when an aggressor had been seized with a terror that did not leave him to the last hour of his ex istence. She nowv says to herself: "Yokkelly knows wat to do, and wen de time comes he'll do it; and I'll see dat he takes off de shpell pefere de sun goes down." This last she says, in the kindness of her heart, because she knows that if the sun goes down upon persons thus possessed, it will never rise upon them alive. It was a fair day towards the last of January, 1780P; and it was quite cold, but just the sort of'temperature to chal lenge a healthy heart and pure con science to keep the body warm. Jacob, or Yokkelly, as his wife called him, familiarly, was on the rafters of a new orn-crib, puttingon a coveringo f newr lapboards. These were used for cov ring houses before the introduction of : hingles. They were rough boards iven out of pine or oak trees, and they vere about three feet long and four nches broad. Near one extremity hey were perforated by a large gimlet nd through the perforations pegs three nches long was driven, so that the lapboards could be hung along iathes astened across the rafters, at proper listances. Early in the morning, Jacob ]ad begun his work, and when the sun vas two hours high, he had reached he topmost round. His girls were ;hrowing the clapboards up to him, and had just gathered the last armful for that purpose when they dropt them o the ground and uttered cries of ilarm. They retreated to their mother, and directed her attention to the gate where, mounted on a sorrel, a bay, snd a snow-white horse, three fierce looking men had just halted. "Och! Yokkelly, shust look," cried the old woman. The old man turned his head and, seeing the cause of his daughters' alarm, and his wife's sur prise, addressed the stra'ngers, as fol lows: "How t'ye do, goot beeples ; I'm glat to see you. Come now, won't you light and haf your hosses fed; and resht ontel dinner is readty. Come, light, nd make yourselves at home." "That's just what we're going to do, old man," said one of the troopers. "Dat is right," said Jacob, "I likes to see beeples free and easy. Polly,"-ad dressing his wife,-"wat is you and de gals gwine to have for dinner?" "Well," answered the good woman, "we was mindted to haf some red cow peas mit pacon, und gabbitches, und saur kraut, und milk und bread." "All dat is firsht rate," applauded her husband. "But you musht not forgit de tree bunches of red beppers, of de long, spindlin' sort wat purns like de fire of Pelsypub, and-" "Hold on there with your pepper," cried another of the marauders (for such were they, belonging to Tarleton's "no quarter" legion) "and listen to me. Have you got any money in the house?" "Blenty, ari to shpare," replied Jacob. "If daL is wat you wants, you is welcome to it ; for I would pe glad to git rid of de revverfiucht shtuff. It gif'd me drouble enough to git it togedder." "That's just what we are here for," said the first speaker. "So come down and get it for us; or tell us where to find it. You are such a jolly old codger, that it is a pleasure to rob you-espec ally since you have such fine-looking girls. May be, we won't burn down your house for their sakes, if they do not scratch our faces too much, for they look devilish strong." This last expression made the poor girls cling closer to their mother, who looked up at Yokkelly, and felt her heart sink within her, as she saw the vengeance-glance gleam for an in stant from under his black, bushy eye brows, and s' feared excessive retri bution ; for her husband's love for his daughters far surpassed his love for money. "Come, come, old fellow, make haste ; we can't wait long," cried the same voice. "Oh, don't pe in a hurry," answered the in-smith. "I've only a few more clapuoards to fasten on ; and I would like to finish while I'm up here. You see, I'm an- olt man, and cannot move apout so quick as I use to could. I'll gif you a .hundert tollers in gool for dat bay mare you're on." "That old fellow is got some trickery in him, Tom," said the trooper in an undertone who had not yet spoken. "I say, you old scoundrel, how are you going to pay a hundred dollars in gold, when every cent in your house belongs to us ?" "Well, py de life of me, I had forgot all apout dat," exclaimed Jacob. "I don't pelief, howsumdever, dat I would haf one of your hosses as s' tree gift." "Why ?" asked one. "Pecase," continued Jacob, "dey have, all tree of dem, got de worst sort of sore packs." "How did you know that ;-are yon a conjurer ?" "Wy I saw you comin' up de road yondter two hundert yards away, be fore my gals pegin'd to screech ; and I saw dat de poor creeters gif'd away under your weights. De sores mnusht py dis time pe eat dow.n to de pack pone." "Begad, that's true ; but come along down and give us your money. If we don't get more than a hundred dollars we will kill you and your old woman; and burn your house, and carry off your girls." Here Polly looked up at Yokkelly, but hastily turned away her eyes tight. ly closed ; for the glance that shot forth from under his brows was like the momentary purplish lightning streak that sometimes darts athwart a black cloud ; and she thought of the verse in her morning reading out of her German Bible : Denn des 3Menschen Zon thut nicht, was cor Goet rchlt ist. "I peliefs dat I is apout done now," said Jacob, "and I'm comin' down. Wimmin,2 has you got dem beppers readty 7", "Yesh, olt man, dey is tied toged der." "~Well, den, gut a shlit in each bep per from de pint back to de odder ecnd, so dat de seeds can come out." "Look lere, old fellow," cried one, "what the devil are you going to do with those peppers?" "Why dis," answered the old man, now standing on the ground and stretching himself, "my wimmwins, you see, is sometimes forgitful, and I haf to rer'indt dem. One of dese bunches of beppers wid de seeds comin' out is to le gabbitches: an de odder mit e t saur kraut. Wen you, yunk fellerC ;its pack to your homes, ricollect to I uile red beppers mit your wittles. and e vou will neffer git de kickkicksy." "The kickkicksy! What the dicken' r is that? Tom, you studied a while to r be a sawbones, what kind of a sickness s da you think it is?" t "The nearest one it comles to, I r think, is cachexia," replied Tom, "which is a bad conditiou of the bloodi occasioned by dyspepsia."t '"Capital !" they all exclaimed; "now t old fellow, go into the house and bring i out the money." Jacob moved past his wife and . daughters, and, telling then in a few I whispered German w ords not to be afraid, but if any pressing danger threatened them to scream and above all 'o have the prepared peppers ready at hand, entered the house, and begoa to make a great clatter as if he was tak ing to pieces every bed-stead. He had not proceeded far in his mysterious work before he heard screams from his daughters. "Oh dadty, dadty, conie to our help! come to :,ur help!" forthe miscreants, havi::g dismounted from their suffering horses, as soon as they heard the old man at his knocking, ad vanced rapidly towards the timid girls who clung screaming to their mother. They were, however, not in the slight est-danger; for as soon as they uttered their cries the men began to stagger from one side to the other; and by the time they reached the paling, to which they made all effort to retreat as soon as they exierienced a benumbed feel ing creeping over them, they became as still as any three statues. Their eyes though immovable were intensely ex pressive. The impudent, implacable gaze of lust had instantly given place to the abject horror of despair; and the facial lines, as though arrested in the expressiion of remorse by the awful congelation, gave forth a harrowing, voiceless appeal for mercy. Jacob now appeared in the door with three coils of ropes upon his arm-ropes which he obtained from the three beds in the house-ropes that were used in those days to cord together bed-steads, and by crossing in the middle to afford a springy support for the mattress and feather-bed. As soon as he appeared in the door, his tender-hearted wife and his forbearing daughters, inspired by the surplus love remaining over from much forgiving, ran to him with tear ful eyes, and cried to him as they reached forth their bands: "Och, Yok kelly, Yokkelly-Oh, dadty, dadty, don't punish too hardt! Haf pity haf mercy !" Jacob stepped forth into the yard, and looking with trembling lips up into the pure, blue sky, said in a mournful voice: "Och, ef dey had only took my money I would not have said a word, mu:c' less done ennytink; but to want to -:uin my gals, tam deir black hearts it would pe a sin to let sich beeples live. Wat else could I do ?" "Yah, yah, my Yokkelly, dat is all true und right. But please take off de shpell afore sun-down, and gif dem a chance yit in dis world." "'WVat chance was dey gwine toleave our poor gals? Come now, all tree of you, hold up your heads and look mad, for you've got sumtink to do now wat'll call for a strong poddy and a boldt shperit. Now bromise me dat you'll all tree do wat I shall order you to do, and dese taint rashkuls shall leave here alive and kickin'. Bromise !" Each one of them gave the promise heartily. "Now, my dear wife andl dorters, I haf neffer know'd you to preak a brom ise. Let it shtand fixed in your mindts wat would haf pin your gondition shust now ef I had pin off ennywhars. Now, go all tree of you to whar I was makin' baskets yisterday, and pring here, each one of you, a white-oak shplit." They obeyed him; and Jacob in spected the splits. "Dese two, Polly's and Nancy's, will (do berry well; but Kezzy, yours won't do at all; go pack and git apigger one." The timid Kezia obeyed. "Now I will take off de shpell, od derwise dey would not enjoy de rides I'm apout to gif dem. But it won't pe long pefore dey will pe as lifely and as full of defflement as efTer, ef sum tink more is not done. Now pe shtill." Jacob wvalked slowly to and fro be fore his victims, mut tering words. He, all at once, lifted his arms above his head and closed his eyes. Then the convicts groaned and fell to the ground on their faces. Jacob approached themi with his opened knife, and split wvide open their clothes, so as to expose their backs entirely. "Now, my peiufTed wife and darlin' dorters," exclaimed the gun-smith, with patriarchal loftiness, "go up to dese men, and in de sl.perit of purity. shtrike for de honor of de family !" Thus baragued, the woman walked with firm steps to the culprits, raised high their hands grasping the wveapons of digracing punishment, and wvaited for the word. "Forty-nine shtripes, each one dish tinct a2' ploody. Shtrike !" Dowvn came the the avenging rods amid screanis and cries for mercy coni ing from the miserable wretches. Poor Kezia, after her last blow, lost her strength and fell fainting to the ground. She was carriedl into the house, and her father took her place. "Now," said he, "let us take off dem sattles." It was done; and .Jacob con tinued: "Shust look dare at dlem sores. Can you haf bitty for sich men, as comuld ride all day on hosses mit sores like : dese?" Indignation flashed from the eyes of he frightful ulcers, they gently re aced the saddles. At this moment Cezia returned-her father having ailed her to hold the bridles, while he .id Polly and Nancy tied the reviving nen to their horses, by means of the opes which he had taken from the bed teads. After they had securely tied on he first trooper, Jacob cried out: "Now, un for a bunch of beppers !" It was peedily brought to him, and he pressed t down securely under the saddle upon he ulcer. Away went Mazeppa No. 1, he bay mare kicking and snorting rom the smarting of the pepper. At this-juncture two strong neighbors ;ame, who were cognizant of Jacob's :errible gift, and had judged, from cer ;ain sounds and sights, that he was oow in the act of putting it in force upon some person or persons. Their p,resence was quite opportune; because the mother and daughters were again, in the womanly spirit of pity, inclin ing to mercy. .Jacob led them away so that he could not see their tears, while he and his two friends could dispose of the two remaining villains. This was peedily accomplished. Iazeppa No. 2 .went off after No. 1 howling the howls of the eternally damned, as the poor sorrel horse leaped and kicked through the forest surrounding the locality of the present Hope's Station, a little below the direction of the first, but certainly towards the river. Ma .eppa No.3 shrieked toward the shrieks of the guilty, as the gray horse charged centre a terre through the briar-bram bles of the muddy water-course, now known as Cannon's creek,-a direction that carried him to the river bank, a mile below Shirer's, now Hughey's Ferry. "It is true," remarked Jacob pathet ically, "de red beppers purns de poor critters like fire, but dat purnin' will heal deir sores after a while. Shust now it will make dem jump into de river; and wen dey gits out on de odder pank, dey will pe rid of de beppers and de outdacious shkoundrels, at de same time." Here Pol;y came forward and begged her neighbors to give her their aid in impressing upon Yokkely the lesson she had learned that morning from her Bible, namely, "For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God." Jacob tureed upon his wife and ex claimed stoically: "Woman, keep your mout shet!" Neither the horses nor the men were ever heard of; and Jacob never, for one year afterwards, would eat any fish that were caught in Broad River within s'x niles below Hug eErS,. With this Number I close for the present. If the proposition to publish a volume meets with encouragement, I shall revise these sketches entirely, and make large additions to them of material purposely withheld, and much that has recently come to my knowl edge. The stories kept in reserve were quite pleasing to the public at the time of their first publication from twenty to forty years ago. GOV ERNOR'S PRIVATE SECRETARY. Mr. James P. Bean Resigns-His Succes sor Appointed. [The State, 2nd.1 Just about one wveek ago Mr. iames P. Bean, who has been the private sec retary to the governor ever since he went into office, tendered his resigna tion to Governor Tillman, but nothing was said of it pending the selection of a successor. The resignation is to take effect on the 15th instant. Yesterday Governor Tillman ap pointed MIr. W. H. Tompkins, whose postoffce is Ninety-Six, but who lives in Edgefield County, to fill the vacancy. M1r. Tompkins is a man about forty years of age, and has a family. He has relatives in Columbia. M[r. Bean says that his reasons f)r re signing were that his business at home had changed considerably since he came into oflice, and now required his undivided attention. He says his re lations with the Governor have been extremely pleasant and he leaves with the best of feelings. The Rich Man's Son. Tile rich man's son inherits lands, And piles of brick and stones and gold, And he inherits soft white hands, A nd tender tiesh that fears the cold. Like soft hands, and tenlder flesh, many diseases are inherited ; especially tend'encies to Asthma, Consumption, Bronchitis, and Stomnach and Liver troubles ;but there is a remedly, kno wn as the "G~olden Medical D)iscovery," which overcomes these diseases, and cut off all tendencies toward a fatal re suit. Dr. Pierce of Buffalo, has put this remedy within the reach of all, so that eveni the poor as wvell as the rich, can obtain it. It is worth more to you than "piles of brick and stone and gold." Ask your druggist for it. It's guaranteed to benleit or cure in every case, or mioney p)aid for it wili be re funded. Ire Manufacturcs liin. SPING F(ou>LI, 0., June 29.- -Frank Melbourne, the Australian iinventor of tile alleged rain machine, with whichi he asserts that lhe has caused frequent heavy rain-storms in Canton, Ohio, in the past month, hlas arranged for a public test on next Tuesday. He says he will cause rain to fall over 70,000~ square muiles. The (Governmienlt au thorities have invited tile inventor to Kansas to ex periment. The inestimable value of Aver's Sar saparilla as a blood-puritiershould be known to every wvife and( mother. It corrests irregularities, gives tone an~ I strength to the vital organs, and cleanses the system of all impurities. The best famile medicine. PITCHING INTO MACUNE. Hot Shot for the Editor of the A1liance Organ-lie Is Accused of Being in the Pay of a I.ailrcad Monopolist. NaCrv1LLE, TExx., June 27.-The American will to-morrow print the following sensational expose of Editor Macune, of the National Economist, national organ of the Farmers' Alli ance. The information is alleged to have been given by a prominent Alli ance man of national repute, and the American declares that it is prepared to substantiate it in Court. The story is as follows : "Another Moses, just now engaged in leading people out of the wilderness, is C. W. Macune- -Charles Wesley Macunc-the base tool of Jay Gould's legislative attorney. When the Ocala Convention of the Farmers' Alliance met, grave charges were made against lacune in connection with the Geor gia Senatorial contest, in which he figured as special champion of Pat Cal houn, head of the West Point Termi nal Railroad lobby. A committee was appointed to investigate these charges, of which J. H. McDowell, president of the Tennessee Alliance, was a mem ber. That investigation showed from Macune's own confession, wrung by severe and torturing cross-examination from his unwilling lips, that Macune had gone from his home in Washing ton to Georgia to aid Pat Calhoun in his fight for the United States Senator ship against Gen. Gordon. It showed that he went there on a free annual pass issued to him by Calhoun's road ; that he immediately began to work the Alliance members for Calhoun, and that he received from the latter several thousand dollars in money, which he said was a loan. TO FURTHER CALHOCN'S ELECTION. "It was also shown that he and Sledge bought out the Alliance Far mer, the organ of the Georgia Alli ance, published in Atlanta, paying therefor $7,000 in cash; that he used this organ to further the election of Calhoun and also to defeat certain rail road legislation which Calhoun had been fighting in the interest of his road. Dr. Macune was then as now, editor of the National Economist. He admitted that he had gone to Wash ington to take charge of this paper a penniless man and that he had lost $16,000 on his paper, yet that he had bought an $8,000 dollar home in Wash ington, and had bought with Sledge, a $7,0(0 paper in Atlanta. He declined to explain where he got all the money to meet these obligations and expenses when cros-questione1 on that point. "In the absence of such explanation the conclusion is irresistible that he got it from the railroad company, whose attorney he was trying to elect to the United States Senate and whose cause he espoused against the railroad ills pending in the Georgia Legisla ture. These facts were all wrung from MIacune himself. He did not give them voluntarily; he concealed them until the questions were driven home to him by President Hall, of the Mis souri Alliance. All that was known of his exploits was obtained from himself alone. THE Two RIEPORTS. "The committee prepared two re ports. One was a whitewashing re port; another gave the facts as they have been stated above. McDo";.-il declared that his right hand should wither before he wonld sign the report which represented M1acune as anything but a dishonored man. But somie se cret power, some hidden infi:ence, began to work. 31cDowvell withdrew his signature from the damning state ment prepared and attached it to the other. Others did the same, until Hall, of MIissouri, stood alone, the only man with the nerve and :nanhood to defy the secret power. The wvhitewash re port, thus unanimously signed, care fully avoided all statement of evi dence. It wa a general declaration of not guilty ; but such was the weight of the committee's sinning that it carried conviction to the Convention, and Halls single protest was drowned in a hurricane of hoots and hisses. "The evidence in the case was never heard or known by the Convention, but these whitewashers were destined to drink deep of the cup of huulia tion and to feel heavily the mighty hand of Mfacune crushing their man hood to earth. M1acune was chairman and had absolute control of the execu tive board, so powerful to make or mar the fortunes of members of the Order, He was editor of the national organ. and controlled various other organs throughout the cuntry. lHe was mighty in his power and mnereiless in his exertions. P'residlent Polk himsnelf, who hated Mlacune like poison, tirst felt the tyrant's power and issued that famous proclamation pronoluncinrg hiis anathema upon all who dared to open ly assail ai member of the Order, which meant Mlacunec. A QUri-:-r IeoN coNsmEn.Arios. "lIn pusac of this policy he has demanded thle resignation from the legislative committee of Hall, of Mlls sour, who has kept up his fight on M1a cune, though giving another reason for his demand. Hall, by the wvay, is the only farmer on this committee. Bur kitt, of Miississippi, and others likewise bowed to the tyrant and became his obedient and slavish dlefenders. l a t he meanwhile we suggest for deliberate and earnest considleration of honest Alliance men whether they can safely ,trust the leadlershiip of a mian who takes the money and espouses the caue or railroad mour ly arnd its hired lobbyist or of men who conspire to deceive them as to the unworthiness ,f the former and to keep huimi in a po sition of power and intluence in the A NEW HEAD FOR THE ASYLUM. )r. Babcock, of Chester, Made Superinten- H dent-The Office Seeks the Man. [Special to News and Courier.] CoLILI A, July 1.-The vacancy in .he superintendency of the Asylum T was filled to-day by the appointment d .o that position of Dr. James W. Bab- fc :ock, of Chester. The appointee will tssume charge of the office on the 1st t< lay of August. The position, it is sl inderstood, was offered to Dr. N. S. s Eardin, of Anderson, from whom j xovernor Till man received a letter of 3 leclination with appreciative acknowl- h ?dgement of the tender of the honor. Dr. Hardin modestly in his letter states hat he felt conscious of his inability to it ill the place, and gives the further rea- h ion for declining that he did not care o have his family near the Asylum. It will, of course, be interesting to w snow something about Superintendent Babcock, He is a South Carolinian, t tnd is about 35 years of age. He began he study of medicine in 1774. He at ;tudied for four years at Exeter Acad- tl S amy, from which he entered Harvard tl 2ollege and was there graduated in g 18S2. He took a medical course at Harvard and studied practically at the e b rewkesbury Alms House during the tl vacation of 1888 and 1884. tl In 1885 he took a position at the Mc- tl Lean Asylum, which he filled until the g ?resent time. In 1888 he went to Eu- tl ope and made a critical examination tl >f the methods of practice and treat- cl xlent of some of the more prominent c nstitutions in the old country. He tl s also familiar with the working of a he larger asylums of the country, hav- tl ng visited them from time to time. p Dr. Babcock's highest testimonials ire from Dr. Cowles, the director of the f< cLean Asylum at Somerville, Mass., I where Dr. Babcock holds the po. ition t >f assistant superintendent. Dr. Bab- n ock did not apply for the place to n which he has been appointed, and from P ill the "external exidence" it is a base t )f the place seeking the man, and es- tl ?ecially as Governor Tillman had 1 )flered the place to another physician. r The testimonials on behalf of Dr. Babcock are furnished by fri.ends de siring his appointment. It is worthy a )f mention that at Harvrad Dr. Bab- b b ock was awarded the Story scholar ihip, which is given to men of the ir iighest moral character and intellect- si 1al attainments. It is learned that Dr. Babcock will spend a month or so making investiga- ti tions as to the executite details and fl management at -the asylams in North Carolina, Alabama and Pennsylvania. p NORRIS IN TROUBLE. a The Colored Third Party Leader Indicted p for Obtaining Bricks under False e Pretences. (Special to the News and Courier.) 1 o UNIOx. July 1--John D. Norris, President of the colored Farmers' Al liance of this county, a school teacher, 2 bas been indicted for obtaining bricks o under false pretences to the amount of five dollars. Norris was convicted ins the United States Court several years u ago for blackmailing another negro on t a postal card, charging him with em bezzlement. It will be remembered that Norris t was one of the signers for the Third t Party movement. He also attended ~ the Convention at Ocala, Fla., last year. If the other signers are of the same 1 charactcr as Norris, there need be no fear of the third party, as they will find no followers. Norris is a trickyc negro having been caught several times. He now has an application on file at I Washington for the postmastership of this place. NINE MILLiONS IN BOUNTIES. What the Louisiana Sugar Planters May Cost the Nation. NEW ORLEANS, June 29.-The new bounty law passed by the-last Congress requires that all applications for the bounty must be filed with the internal revenue department before July 1.I They have been pouring in since the beginning of June at the rate of from twenty to fifty a day, and it is supposed that all of them have been filed. There are eight hundred and fortyt sugair plantations in Louisiana, but only about six hundred have applied for the bounty, and it is probable thatt a niumber of these will make no ap~pli- t eation for the~ funds, as the sugar they turn out will not come within the pro- I visions of the law requiing that it should cont ain S0 per cent of saccharinei matter. amnd it would cost them toc. munch to make the improvements needed to turn out a better grade of sugair upon which the bounty is paid. The applications show that the plant ers ex peeted a big crop. T1h--y are for 450,000),4)00 pounds of su gir and will call for $9,000,400 from ther Federal treasury if the crop turns out anything near what is expected. The chancs are that it will. Let the W'.orld Know You are in It. It seems almost a crime for a mant to "hide his ligh': under a bushel." If le has sonmething new, that will ben efit thiehunmanl race, he should make it known. Old-fogy physicians tread the beaten pat hi of their grand''atbers, de- 1 nounce ad(vertised remedies, and neverr learn any th ing new. Medical science knows 1no parallel to Dr. Pierce's Fav- ~ orite 1:escription, compounded by a t physician of skill and long ex perience, e espiecially for the maladies which aflict women. It eff'ects a permanent cure of those agonizing disorders which attack her frail organism, and is an an- p chor of hope alike to delicate girls and suff'ering women ; contains no de'e- b terious dIrugs. A guarantce on the C bottle-wraper, refunding the p' ce in s cas of failure. Of druggists, $1.00). a %HACKSTON MAKES HIS DEFENCE. e Gives His Reasons for Committing a Grave Error. [Special to News and Courier.] COLUMBIA S. C., July 1.-Mr. J. W. hackston, clerk to State Superinten ent of Education Mayfield, has asked r the publication of the following: To the Public: I feel that it is due myself and to the public that I iould say that not until I read the atements of Superintendent Mayfield n his return to the city and of Prof. ohnson, published in the Record of [onday the 29th ult., did I know I ad misconceived the action of the tate board of examiners with regard the Palmetto School Journal. It had been until then my honest npression that the action of the board ad been what was stated by me in an litorial in reference thereto, which ap eared in the April number of the ournal, page 263. In that editorial, ,hich was widely circulated, but hich the board of examiners evident r did not read, if they saw a copy of 3eJournal, I wrote as follows: "The State board of examiners lopted a resolution urging the trustees iroughout the State to become sub ,ribers, and allowing them to pay for ieir subscriptions out of the contin ent fund of their district." During the meeting of the board of Kaminers on the 4th of April, of which oard I am by law clerk, I made orally 2e proposition in question, namely, aat the board should officially endorse 2e Palmetto School Journal as its or an, and should urge the school trus les to become subscribers, paying for ieir subscription out of the funds for ieir districts. That proposition in luded the offer of all space free of arge necessary for the publication of ie official matter of the board and of e department of education. I then sked to be excused from the meeting iat the board might consider the roposition without my presence. When I returned the board had assed to other subjects and I was in >rmed that the board had endorsed the almetto School Journal. Nothing else ,as said to me in reference to the mat r at that time or subsequently by any iember of the board, and knowing of o other proposition, I naturally sup osed that what was said referred to ae proposition I submitted. Under is impression I wrote the editorial in 2e Journal mentioned, the circular tter to the trustees and the statement cently prepared by me for publication. had no I was mistaken until I saw ie statements in Monday's Record. It is inconceivable that I should have ttempted to pervert a resolution of the oard where direction and exposure rould be so certain to follow. I com itted the error of not verifying my npression simply because I did not aspect the possibility of mistake. Had entertained any doubt I could easily ave done so, as I am clerk of the board nd keeper of its record. The proposi on was made openly, in perfect good ith and with a sincere desire to ad ance the interest of public education. t seemed tome to be justified by pre edent and to lie within the legitimate owers of the board. In this State the State board of ex miners on the 17th of April, '1889, assed the following resolution in refer ace to the Carolina School Journal. "Resolved further, That the chair- - ian be requested to subscribe for five opies of the Journal for the use of the ard."A If the board of examiners could sub eribe for five copies of the Columbia chool Journal, one for each member f the board, and pay for them out of he public funds, they certainly have he right to authorize the trustees to ubscribe for a School Journal for their se, and pay for it out of the public nps. If a School Journal paid for by be State is a good thing for the mem ers of the State board of examiners, rhy is it not equally as good for the rustees, who- was supposed to need be information it contains much lore. The twenty-first annual report of the state Superintendent of Education for 89 (page 20) shows this entry: "Sub cription to Charleston World-$7." If i tbe past it was thought expedient to ay for a daily newspaper for the head f the educational department of the state out of public funds, what im >ropriety could there be in paying for ,nd educational journal for subordinate chool officers of the State out of the >ublic funds, which journal contains fficial information from the State oard and the department of educa ion? If my infromation is correct, in sev ~ral other States, including P'ennsylva la and Virginia, educational journals Lre paid for directly out of the State unds. The a"ceptance of my proposi vas a question for the board. I felt ure they would adopt no plan which was not advisable and right, and sup osing they had adopted my proposi-. . ions as submitted, I felt at liberty to >roceed on their authority. I now see I committed an error in iot verifying their action, bu'. I .posi ively disclaim all intention of misrep esenting the facts. I have acted broughout in entire good faith and - vithout intentional concealment. It is due to Superintendent Mayfield hat I should say that the editorial in e Palmetto Journal, the circular let er to the trustees and my former state nent to the press were written and ublished without his kr.awledge and luring his absence. He was not con ulted by me because he had no interest n the Journal and was not responsible or my action as its editor. It is also due to the members of the oard of examiners to acquit them of .1 responsibility for my mistake. This statement is made public as on as possible after I had discvered at I had been all along mistaken as o the action of the board of examiners ith reference to the Palmetto Jour ral. W. T. THACKSTON. Mr. Clews' Costly Bath-rCOm. [From the Upholsterer.] Henry Clews devotes a great deal of ine anid money to beautifying his iouse. He is particularly w -11 pleased vith any one who expresses a desire to -o through it, and one of the first rooms ie will take a visitor into is his bath oon. He is said to have expended 40,000 on this room. The walls, floor, ath, in fact, every part of the room.is *f onyhr. . Cold,- cough, coffin is what philose hers term "a logical sequence." One Svery liable to follow the other ; but y curing the cold with a dose of Ayer's herry Pectoral, the cough will be - topped and the coffin not needed-just.