The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 17, 1893, Image 4

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IVIS E'S SUX rSEBM019, ? SoW^^? ^ streams from Lebanoru" L* ^?onwtfs Song *v.% 15. F wSSS ??Se Sard?08 <* ?Mea times I Sn fcTd * ?? io<X ?* Mount Le* t thW deacended.and Winter Whitened I ?aUrS-f1 ^mountain. Then when the F>J!nd t?P1*? weather earn? the snows melted f todoS^?? down the side of the mountain the w lax?riance to the gardens at S text^J?1.?. you 360 no* allusion of my I fa? ?Pf?;1* ?Peaks of the fountain of gar I TL^d Lebanon. S ?aXS???*01016 church is represented ?t andl? . Upand do** theword Of God, r SeasoW 'P^^y suggestive at this I the when the parks and the : SS^h?l^ &boxit to P?* fort? their blossom ,"5T??? filled with bird voices. th^S *^'isbedt0 hnpress her child With I af^Vs o? G?d, aSd so in tl? Bpring-tim?S ^^?^??e ground hadNbeen prepared in the ? handful of flower seeds ? S^S^^^ see05** shape of letters bv T?1he ^ the garden. Weeks passed tb????? raias ^d the sunshine had done <\andone the child came in ?aa said, '-Mother, come quickly to the gar* ?hS^0^00^' The mother followed the '?S?0^ S^en, and the little child said t ^ mother. See! It is spelled all ^ear the ground in flowers, ?God is Love.'* vu, my friends, if we only had faith - we wtlId see Gospel lessons all Jjound and about us-letsonsin shells on I SS oeaci> lessons in sparkles on the wave, '? ^^ssons m stars on the sky, lessons in flowers tm ^ over the earth. ?^Jellv-my friends, you know very weil that t'??^Lj l>een s0010 beautiful gardens |fr?"^a. There was the garden of Charle ? atarse, and yon remember that this king Bp^erect gardens laid out ali through the ? Sr?1 ^d decided by decree of government HJjnat kind of, flowers should be planted in ?Ppose gardens. Henry IV. at Montpellier Bjgeereed. that there should be flowers planted IW1^^^* his realm and gardens laid out, E JR5 specially decreed that there should be Bf'l'ine pyrana and French pla Shen I^P^^the poet, was more cdebrausd for bis ragaroens than for his poetry. His poetry l?f ff^rr80 Sxom 010 ages for the most part, ?jbgur hg^atdens are immortal. To all the ^SSFjfP.'.J* F1*06 he added perfection of -^5^*''* J^a?sa4e and arch and arbor and -Wbawn aad rusti? temple had their \ ?oost wonderful specimens, and the oak, and the hazel, and the richest woods of the ?iWer? planted m that g He had f**"05' asd he had mdnstry, and all his gen* V ?ns and all Ms industry he applied to the I heauimcation of that garden. He gave fpr L **lf90, and he sold it at last for $85,009, ot I: What was equal to that number of dollars,, r Ti was an expensive garden, laid out with jgfij^ elaboration. And yet I have to tell yon HH^dp^& of vaster expanse-the gar BHB^1' in my text-a fountain of gar k streams from Lebanon, ?lt had the great ambition of bis ^??^???f Abbotsford and lay out extensive about iL It broke his heart ??fcjd not complete the work as he M At his last payment of ?100,000, B]H out these gardens and building ?MSCpf Abbotsford, at that time his Vfw ^^health failed, and he died mSSK^' y\ rs ago, when I walked through HK^Psfeara-ns and I thought at what vast ex IR 4HT T?LEYTAD been laid out-at the expense SftSaBf** maa 5 ^fe-it ssemed I could see in ?crimson, flowers the blood of the old ??phs broken heart. But I have to tell you S>w of a garden laid out at vaster expense, |?W3K> caa calculate that vast expense? Tell Km*, ye women who watched Him hang;tell ^fc^ye executioners who lifted and let Him HHftown: tell me, thou sun that didst -tide and Bs* rocks that did fall, what the laying out of MUMp garden cost. This morning, amid the ?^gr?ttaand brightness of the springtime, it is > ^propriate tliat I show you how the church I remark first it is a garden because of the rare_plants in it. That would be a strange gardei. in which there were no flowers. If you cannot find them anywhere else, you will find them along the paths, and you will find I th?m at the gateway. % t?tere be no especial taste and noes I pe??al means, you will find there the hoBy bxxfe, and the daffodil, and the dahlia. If s thei ]>e no especial taste and no especial * rae%s . ^ ou w^ hud the Mexican cactus, and thelluebeli. and the arbutus, and the clus ters*[ oleanders. H Fairers there must be in every garden, and ? I hai- to tell you that in the garden of the Ea ehuKi are the rarest plants. . Sometimes Sj you fell find the violet, inconspicuous, but sweefis heaven-Christian souls with no pre * tensefamt of vast usefulness. com?>aratively unkn|](m on earth, but to be glorious in <?elestk spheres. Violets and violets all the y^^n&fsHL cannot tell whero these Christians ^^?ve fea save by the brightening face of the ^jftval^or t?e steaming tureen of the stand ^^*earafe sick pillow, or the new curtain that I ;^fceepi? Vat th? glare of the sun from the poor i^xaan'j^jt. itich characters are perhaps bet gBtoifefL^'l?^ ly the ranunculus which goes Mg cr^iogf-between the thorns and the briers of v? -, this?e, giving a kiss for a sting, and many Wyk * 23811 has thought that life before him was u ? Viaek rock of trouble and found it covered K a?grer with delightsome jasmine of Chris I|J^3HP&^^ O? THE LORD 1 TIIE ^EXI" l^^cfe, loveliness within, thorns with jj?m. ncc with ?rreat sharpness of behavior ?affinner, but within them the peace of mk t the love of God, the grace of God. ?k ksre hard men to handle, ugly men to K ?x, very apt to strike back when you BPI te ?em. yet within them all loveliness |^B*?> |s?raction. while outside so completely \ piaate. Mexican cactus all the time. BK \&fc placid elder to a Christian minister, B|: >?r. you would do better to control your Ul; ~ . .pi" -Ab," said the minister to th? HF V??Ider, "I control more temper in five H .nv?* than you do in five years." These B. eqpj gifted men. who have great exasp?ra? is ioa? manner and seem to be very different 1 ,-ro?-h?.t ?iey should be. really have in K 't^e^>ui;; t^tat w?ic^ <-ommends them to the ?- : Mexican cactus all the time. So a i .;, mafiaid to me years ago : "Do you think f J I op- to become a member of the church? f I hfesuch a violent temper, r .. ^fe;erday 1 was crossing Jersey City fM&?X It was very early in the morning, and ^^??a milkman putting a larxe quantity of If,:.;... h's <*an, and I said: 'That i< .:rWJ^Krfc.sir.'> and he got off the cart and in *?. an 11 knocked him down. Well," Bfer-^if' you think I could evtr be<?ome Crjst" That man had in his soul the B?e of ti 4kT ord Jesus, but outside he was ^BBfeoftborrandfalLof brambles, and full BSexa*perat:? as. but he could not hear the H?rv of a Saviours mercy told without hav ml the tears roll down his cheek. There was MHfe?iiSS3 ^tki13' but roughness outside. Byrne cactus all the time. B n-r--...i>-jui**T m foyiioou tha? we"tiaxt in R?"Her"s garden what we called the Giant K^e4e, a peculiar rose, very red and very Wmmwe Su??est:ve fiower. it was called the B *ef Battle. And so in the garden of the BjVe find that kind cf flower-the PauJs SHBTliartin Luthers, the TVychfs, the John ^^^K-j|_^^^of battle. What in other men ?| is a conflagration. AVhen Rivers take fire : when they T?Cvt drops of blood : when B^ ^>ntecost ; when they battle. You B^othem in the church ^H|^BBpiP"?Tlf^^B ^HBB^^kinganotherw*"^rhy have we not ^HnKrom wells and Humboldts in the world?" M-a nts only a few giant?v^ f battle. They ?jr work, and they do it well. ? i find also in the church of God a ?Jj Br h ar T shall call the snowdrop, very Bf'.-;, but coid. It is very pure--pure a? ?owdrop, beautiful as the snowdrop Bs cold as the snowdrop. No special f: gfiBthy. That kind of mau never los"s 3Ppatience; he never weeps, he never ?* flashes with anger : he never utters a rash M word. Always cold, always precise, always ||/?a?sive-beautiful snowdrop, but I don't like nffai. I would rather have one Giant of Bat ! Jffcthan 5000 snowtirops. I ' ?jive me a man who may make some mis B^Kerf in his ardor for the Lord's service ? \faer than that kind of nature which spends K - j whole life in doing but one thing, and ? |f^?p keeping equilibrium. There are snow ^B?^ in ah the churches-men without any mKfcrii&b.r. Very good; they ari' in the BK?dea of the Lord ; therefore I know thej Echt to be there, but always snowdrops. BBBrnT; have seen in some places perhaps s Enrv plant. I clo not suppose there is 3 Ka in this house who has ever seen mora ?one century plant in fall bloom, and B?ou see the centur>r plant your e.mo B^e stirred. You look at it and say. ??jUver nas be?n gatherinjf-tvpits beauty BBbN- will not fca^ta^r W^rcd y^ars." Well. I m?\ iixifzjn this garden of the ""S'S^I^HL! ,J? rn my text, there is a ceu ?ttury ?ldI^Bfc-ed uo its bloom from ali the ?L ^ ^?rnitt- 19 centuries ago it put W??1S ">a / It isno-lonlyaofntaryplant. ?t?Qte "?f '?*nn ?ewer-the piss'on flower o ?X. ^?R?r.. _ fy... j^v.^^ tn^- i? (s^:<?n flo\v-*r ..>! .M^^^,f .'t-mdy. . from the north, an i wmd> from the ? ' ^^t^^^mth- east, and winds ^ ^h?west, anet patter tb? perfume o? - thi.?SJ^nrc^ aU Nations, IHis worib. if all the Nations knew. Sore tte whole earth woald love Hjm toa Thou; th?- Christ ?f all th? age?; hast gar? ments smelling of mjrfh aiid aloes and cas? sia out ai tins iver* palaces; I go further andsay the Church of Christ is appropriately compared to a garden be? cause Of its thorough irrigation. There ean be no luxuriant garden without plenty ol water? I saw a garden in the midst of the desert amid the Rocky mountains. I said, "HoW is it possible you have so many flowers, so much rich fruit, in a desert for miles around?" I suppose some of you have seen those gardens. Well, they told me they had aqueducts and pipes reaching up to the hills, and the snows melted oh the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky mountains and then poured down in water to those aqueducts, and it kept the fields in great luxuriance! And I tnougnt to myself-how like the gar? den of Christ ! All around it tho barrenness of sin and the barf ehness of the world, but our eyes are unto the hills; from whence cometh our help. There is a fiver the streams whereof shall make glad the city of our God. the fountain of gardens and streams from Lebanon. Water to slake the thirst? water to refresh the fainting; water to wash the unclean; Water to toss up in fountains under the sun of righteousness until you can see the rainbow around the throne. I wandered in a garden of Brazilian cashew nut. and I saw the luxuriance of those gar? dens was helped by the abundant supply of water. I came to it on a day when strangers were not admitted, but by a ?France coinci? dence, at the moment I got in. the king's chariot passed, and the gardener w ent up on the hill and turned on the Water, and it came flashing down the broad stairs of stone until sunlight and wave in gleesome wrestle tum? bled at my feet And so it is with this srarden of Christ, Everycning comes from above pardon from above, peace from above, eom .ort from above, sanctification from above. Streams from Lebanon. Oh. i :.e consolation ?n this thought ! Would God that the garden? ers turned on the fountain of salvation until the place where we sit and stand might become Elim with twelve wells of water and threescore and ten palm trees. But I hear His sound at the garden gat*?? I hear the fisting of the latch of the gate. Who -;>Tt>? Tt *"<? r>o S^riencr. wuo passes in through the garden gate. He comes through this path of the garden. an<i He comes to the aged man? and He * tys : "Old man. I come to help thee: I come to strengthen thee. Down to hoary hairs I will shelter thee ; I will give thee strength at the time of old age. I will not leave : I will j never forsake thee. Peace, broken hearted I Did man : I will be thy consolation forever." And then Christ, th?? Gardener, comes up mother path of the garden, and He sees a soul in great trouble, and He says, "Hush, n-oubled spirit ; the sun shall not smite thee Dy day, nor the moon by night ; the Lord mail preserve thee from" all evii : the Lord ihall preserve thy soul." And then the Gar ieher comes up another path of the garden, ind He comes where there are some beautiful ouds, and I say. "Stopj O Gardener ; do not break them off." But He breaks them off, {he beautiful buds, and I see a great flutter jmong the leaves, and I wonder what He is doing, and He says : "I do not come to destroy these flowers-. I am only going to plant them in a higher terrace and in She garden around My pal? ace. I have come into My garden to gather lilies. I must take back a whole cluster of rosebuds. Peace, troubled soul ; all shall be well. Suffer the little children to come unto Me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. " Oh, glorious Gardener of the church ! Christ comes to it now, and He has a right to come. We look into the face of the Gardener as He breaks off the bud, and we say : "Thou art worthy to have them. Thy will be done." The hardest prayer a bereaved father or mother ever uttered "Thy will be done." But. you have noticed that around every king's garden there is a high wall. You may have stood at the wall of a king's court and thought, "How I would like to see that gar? den r and while you were watching the gardener opened the gate, and the royal equipage swept through it, and you caught a glimpse of the garden, but only a glimpse, for then the gates closed. I bless God that this garden of Christ has gates on all sides : that they are opened fry day, opened by night, and whosoever will may come in. Oh, how many there are who die in the desert when they might revel in the- garden ! How many there are who are seeking in the garden of this world that satisfaction which they can never find ! It was so with Theodore Hook, who made all nations laugh while he was living. And yet Theodore on a certain day, when in the midst of his revelry he caught a glimpse of his own face and his own apparel m the mirror, said : "That is true. I look just as I am-lost, body, mind, soul and estate, lost !" And so it was with Shenstone about his gar? den, of which I spoke in the beginning of my sermon. He sat down amid all its beauly and wrung his hands and said, "I have lost my way to happiness ; I am frantic ; I hate everything; I hate myself as a mad man ought to." Alas, so many in the gardens of this world are looking for that flower they never can find except in the garden of Christ.' Substantial comfort will not grow In nature's barren sou. AH we can boas: tai Christ we know Is vanity and toil. How many have tried all the fountains ot this worlds pleasure, but never tasted of the stream from Lebanon ? How many have re? veled in other gardens to their soul s ruin, but never plucked one flower from the garden ol our God ! I swing open all the gates of the garden and invite you in, whatever your his? tory, whatever your sins, whatever yourtemp? tarions, whatever your trouble. The invita? tion comes no more to one than to all," "Whosoever will, let him come." The flowers of earthly gardens soon fade : but. blessed be God, there are garlands that never wither, and through the grace of Christ Jesus we may enter into the joys which are provided for us at God's right hand. Oh, come into the garden. And remember, as the closing thought, that God not only brings us into a garden here, but it is a gar? den all the way with those who trust and love and serve Him, a garden all through the struggles of this life, a garden all up the slot** of heaven. Th? re everlastiQZ ?prinz abide? And n**ver .xithenncr flower?. Death, Ince a narrow ?tream. divide* ti nat heaveniv las I fr jin ^u.*. THE LABOE WOKLD. THESE are 103 barbers* unions. THESE are 20,000 union bakers. HIKED girls are flocking to Chic?^. THERE are 307 iron molders' unions. CHICAGO reports a scarcity of sailors, FRANCE legalized trades unions in 1884. OF 104 Austrian strikes nineteen succeeded. PENNSYLVANIA coke miners are reorganiz? ing. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., has a letter carriers' band. TACOMA (W'ashington) bricklayers receive $5 a day. 2CSTO>* letter carriers work only eight hours a day. THE boiler makers of Boston won their strike for a working day of nine hours. EIGHT THOUSAND men employed in the Loire Navy Yards struck at Nantes, France. ALL the iron ore companies of the Ashland (Wis.) region, except the Aurora, have closed down ^definitely. THERE is a great demand for waitresses, sewing girls, dressmakers and servants in the large towns of Idaho. IT is said that the railroad managers of the United States have agreed to sign no more contracts with labor organizations. IT is the almost universal practice in Pennsylvania collieries to discharge men for notifying the authorities of violations of the mining laws. A R?DUCTION of one per cent, in the wages of miners and mine laborers in the Schuyl? kill (Penn/) region has been decreed, owing to dull trade. A LABOE exehanze :has been established by the unions in Kansas City, Mo., who in? tend erecting a building after the pattern ol the Paris Bourse du Travail. THE employes of the Reading Railroad Company have commenced working ten hours daily. Up to the present they have only worked nine hours a day. THE establishment o? a Labor Exchange by the labor organizations of Kansas City, Mo., is an attempt to carry into practical effect thc co-operative idea of Edward Bellamy. MAY DAY passed passed oft' ia Europe with? out special not-?, in many places in Germany th? workmen took no holiday, and where there were parades there was no disturbance. Tfiz first or.r.o.nL"ed strike in South Africa was made recently by the carpenters and joiu'r> of Cap; Town. They want an ad? vance of wages from 82.25 to 60 a day, claiming that the co?t of living has latch" largely in Teased. They ask support of all workmen in South Africa. A PROFESSIONAL acrobat finds employment at the an . mines o? Ogdensburg, N. J. His services are required in getting ont snarls and removing o! structions from the cables and electric wires used about the ore ears, which are ru;; on steep grad* s. I?m ^an walk on a right rope when necessary. THE union - ter aen who were on :\ si riki at Astoria. Oregon, patrolled the harbor tc pr -v-r-nt fishermen fr?>m "anding fish or sell ingta?m-torany one until the cannery mei earn? to teras* and agreed to *,.:?y tb* j>r.v posed priee of S1.15 per salmon. They als< compelled the aoa-unton fishermen to thro^ overboard all the salmon th* y had caught. Advertise in -his paper scd thus ic BILL ?RPS LETTER. fie ?iies Soie Mis o? History OB African Slayer?. Facts in ftegard to Emancipation and Subsequent Events. j The institution o : Af rican slavery is so in; i mate'.y connected with the history of Georgia and has brea sc closely interwoven with her civ? il, zation that a brief ace tint of its origin and growth and sudden abolition should be record? ed. Not for cimina'ion or exculpation, but that the truth of history may be vindicated. Facts-cold facts-are history ? an I they nt vcr blush to be narrated;. Until 1843, only fifty years ago. African bend age prevailed, not only in many of thc less civ? il zed conntri< s of Europe and" South Anieric but in England, the foremost and most enlight? ened government in the world. Early in thi-< century thc slave trade became odious to all philanthropists, but slavery it>e*.t was not. The brutality with which the trade Was con? ducted and the '"horrors of the middle pas? sage,*' as it was cabed, had awakened the pu of mankind, ind by common cons-nt the traffic i in Africans and their transport?t'on to other countries was prohibited under lhe severest penalties, both in Europe and the United States. But, still the institution of s'arery contiuued where it had been planted. It not only con? tinued, but was encouraged as a rrioral agency of civi??atiou until Wilberforce began the agi? tation of it-? abolishment in Boglanl aud her colonies in 1825. But the plant of this great reform was of slow growth, and eman? cipation was not accomplished Until lorg after Wilberforce bad died. In 1843, the slaves of England and all her colonies were emancipated, and their owners were pai I $300,000,000 for them out of the national treas? ury. lhe sentiment of the people of the United States against slav? ry was more pronounced than it was in England, artd the sta'es b.-gan early to provide for immediate or gradual i emancipation. Georgia was the fi st state to j prohibit the slave trade with Africa, and she j kept that prohibition inviolate while some of the nor.hern states carried it on low af er their own slaves were emancipated. 'J brr.? waste them no profis in slavery, but there was fabu? lous gains in the traffic." Hence thev gradually disposed of their own by sending them south, and in some instance-? the young of t h*-i r slaves were given away. (Appleton's Cyclopedia is authority for this ) But the feeling in the states wa^ generally averse to slavery and that feeling was for a time stronger at" the sotith than at thc nortir The ordinance of 17S7 that exclutled the insti? tution from the .northwestern territories was supported by sou bern men. Pennsylvania provided for gradual emanci? paron, and as late as 1840 her slaves were not all free, and in some ca8?s were s'dd for debt, (see Appleton.) Bhode lVlah l and Connecti? cut had a few IP ft in 1840; New Jersey had 236 in iS50 New ?ork tmancioated ih 1827. That the southern states did not emanci? pate was owing to a variety of circum? stances The climate was suited to the negro and he seemed contented and happy. Tne masters had invested more of their money in them than had been done further north; The invention of the cotton gin ha l snd le nly stimulated the cultivation of cotton, for which the negro was peculiarly fitted, and the growth of rice, tobacco and sugar cane was equally in? viting to his 1 bor. But more tlun all these reasons was lhe fear that the slaves were in such fast increasing num? ber* as to put ihe commonwealth in perd if they were freed. Ihey were still affected with th'" same race traits they had ihh< rited from barba? rian ancestors, and could not be controll d as fi eedmen or as cit'zens. Still, there was an intelligent and influential number of our p opie who favored giadnal emancipation. This sentimcn' was slow y but surely spreading. Joseph Henry Lumpkm, the chief justice cf our supreme court, was out? spoken a? a co-worker with the graduai emane :"? ?atian policy inaugurated and advocate J by [enry Clay, of Kentucky. This policy would certainly have been adop1 ed by Georgia, but for the intole: ance and bit? terness with which the New England abolition? ists waged their unceasing war upon the south. Our people resented their threatened denomi? nation and said: 'Tf you let us alone wenny do it. but yen cannot drive us. We arc penned up with these negroes and know where our safety lies." William Loyd Garrison of Bosto i, founded the anti-slavery party in 1831. Arthur Tap? pin became its fourth president m 1833. They expended much money in magnifying and ex? aggerating the abuses cf s avery. Tney declar? ed that all laws ol the government that recog? nized slavery were utterly null and void. Aa their party grew stronger they became more aggressive, and in 1844 the* free soil party openly avowed that their obj?ct was to effect a dissolution of the union and to form a northern republic They said that a union with slavery in it was a league with hell and a covenant with death. They were the first secess omsta ^nd remained so until the late civil war. The troops they funwished and the money they so freely c?ntr.buted were not for the mainten? ance of the union, but to conque r the south and liberate the slaves. When Nathaniel Haw? thorne was asked in 1861 if he was not in favor of the war he replied, '"Yes ? suppose so. but really I don't see what we have to fight abont." It seemed to him that the south had don? just what New England desired lier to do -that ia to secede. This desperate haste and intensified hostility on the part of New Englaiiel towavel the south is difficult to explain, lt was only a fi w years since th-y had emancipitcd the slav, s they had \ not sold. It was e<s than twenty years since ! England rad emancipate 1 hers, and nei'her Georgia nor her sister states were ready for the change. Was it an tamest sympathy for the slav s or political hatred of their masters or bo'.h? fnr as Judge Tourgee says in his "Foo.'s Errand." "Tha south had controlled the government for fifty years, anti New England was j alous jealous to exasperation, and slavery was but the shibboleth that intensifie 1 their animositv. They made no war upon thc slave trade, but ra'her winked at it anelenjoyed its ri ;!i rc urns. This is not an assertion t u: a fact, if their own historians are to be bein ved. In 18^0 Jus? tice Story, the gre >t jurist, charged the grand jurie* of his New England circuit in the follow? ing words: "We have but too many undeniable proofs fro-n unquestionable sources tba', the African slave trade issti 1 carried on among ns with all the impl:cable ferocity and insatiable rapacity of former times. Avarice bas grown more subtle in its evasions of. thc hw. Ir watehei and siezes its pr^y wi h an app-tiie quicken? ed rather than supp: e-sod. Americm citiz ns are steeped up to their very m .uths in this iniquity." W. Wi Story, the gifted son, in writing the bi? ography of bis father says: "The fortune? of many men of pmminenc ; we- e secr.-t ly invest? ed in this infamen* train?. Slavery itself had hardly disappeared in New Engl nd when the traffic took on new life ant1, was winked at. A man might still have position in society and claim consideration as a gentlemen, nay, as a Christian, while his ships w rc freighted with human cargoes and his commerce wai in tho blood and pain of irs fellov crt atures. This practice was absra^tly inveighed a?a:nst, but was secretly iudnlgeel in. 'J he chances o? great fortunes inflamed the cupidity of men in my fathers circuit. It is notorious that many !arge fortunes were the blood money of the slave trade, and owed the ir e xistence to the wretched cargoes thar survived th? horro-s of the middle pa sage. But tM? charge bl my fa' her to thc grand juries of Massachusetts and Rhode Island seemed only to a-onse the passions of tin?-engaged in the traffic. Tho newspapers of 'h-' day publicly denounced my father and one paper in Boston el edanrd that any judge w}?> would deliver such a charge ought to be hurled from the f-em-h." And so tiic tiaffi ; went on nnmolcs'ed. The Nw York Evening Tuet stated that no lea* than ei-'hty-fivevessels left the por; < i .V >\ ^ ?.. ... 1859 at d 1800, built, manned and < qu.ppe*i sn New Enplane! for the African slaw trailc an 1 that th*y brought away not less than th tty Ihousand slav, s to Brazil and thc sou'h. But still there were no prosecutions. The uavi s ot thc world sei-niMl u> be asleep f r pei haps the traffic was still winked at by the m reliant -hips that trart-rs?d the seas. Whether it h as/-eased since sou hern slavery was abolished is not known, but a telegram to the Associated Press tells of a cargo that was ree. ni ly wrecked off Madagascar coast. This much bas 1 cen recorded to she>w to the youths of this generation that neither Georgia nor the south vas responsible for slavery nor the trafile in thom acioss the seas, forf.om 1776 down to the pre-ent, there was but a single atte-mpt ruade by a southern man to introduce A friean slaves into a southern pert, and tint attempt wa* a failure. The little yacht called the ..Wandeicr.*' was s ''zed and condemned and her officers putstu"id with unrelenting vigor by a southern man. Genera! Henry li. Jackson, who was then assistant attorney general of the United States. Put, af cr all, slavery was really 'In- provok? ing cause of thc late unhappy war bctw< en tin states. Georgia seceded from th-- union n > because she desire 1 to perpetuate slavery. Lu? j rather because she could not maintain her j r?; 1rs under the constitution. She dc ired an j outlet m th'' territories, MI outlci f< r the neem | for their rapid increase was alarming- S *< j believed thai it was iii v,.<:iis emane pate ur,~\ | still more perilous to await results Her whit-! i population 'vii ' were not slave ownefs w<r< ! rapidly emigra mg to the we?t. tho inosl j th ii gb tf ul minds in rgia anti especia liv tho?w advanced in veais, saw snd felt ?lie peril of their situ it ion-secession m an' war and t" remain in the unioq was to * imprisoned by I ?tate lines with an inferior race that ?Mgnt be I come a terror. A few slaves had boen rrtanU I mitted and sent to Liberia, Lut the result waa i bad, v*ry bad. Major Waters, a wealthy planter of Gwinnett conn ty, had by w:ll manumitted ih'rty-seven slaves and his executor delivered them in Sa? vannah to the colonisation society. They were well ptofided With clothing and eacn with $100 in gold and sent to Liberia free of charge. Thirty of them died within twelve months-the remaining seven escaped from their exile and found pas- age in a merchant vessel to Phila? delphia. From thero they made their return to Georgia through the friendly aid of Howell Cobb and Alex H. Stephens, who furnished them with the means of coming home. Tbis case is fully reported in one of the eai lier vol? umes of our supreme court reports, for the will of Major Water* was attacked by his heirs. But the c ?mmon people of ihe south, the yeomanry, the toilers, were no lovers i-f the negro- j hey rcali2:d that he was in their way. Tho masters owned the best of the lan 1 and had the best stock and the be t houses and tools and vehie'es, while the toilers had to take what thev cctild get-no Wonder they were jeal-?ns of the institution. And yet these men, poor and strttgcling fora livelihood in the mouutains of nor h Georgia or down in the piney woods, did not hesitate to shoulder their rifler and hurry to their conn try's caliT. "My country-right or wr..ug" was their motto. Only one-scVenth of the tax? payers of the state were owners of slave .> in I860 and not more than one soldier in ten was interested iu slavery. In fact, somo connues in north Georgia sent more soldiers to the field than there were slaves in the county. Surely these men were not fighting for slavery or its perpetuation* They fought ns their forefathers did who resisted a little tax on tea whtfn not one in a thousand drank ir. The j common idea was that ''them fellers up north har! been kickin' at ns a long time, and if old j Joe Brown and Bob Toombs and Howell Cobb Said it was time to cut loose from Vm and fight ? them it was all right and they were ready." B it antislavery was not a predominant sen? timent up north outside of Kew England* The cf y of the we4 and of most of the north was '.the unions-it must be preserved." General Grant, Whom the north ido.ized and honored, was himself a slave owner and lived off of their hire in Sf- Louis until freedom came. Some of Mrs. Lincoln's kindred in Kentucky were slave owhers and her brother se ved as a staff officer in the confederate a* my. Mr. Lincoln himself declared that he only signed the emancipation proclamation as a war measure to suppress the i ^ hellion as it was called an i to save the union. He r?peatedly refused to take such a step though urged by the members of his cabinet to do ed. Geueral Frenu ii*, iii August, 18ril, issue i a military order that emauc;p;ted the slaves of rebels in Missouri; Mr. Lincom prompt? ly r toked this order. In May, 1863, General Hunter issued a similar order declaring ad slaves in Georgia, South Carolina and Florida f rever free. So soon as Mr. Lincoln heard o: it he issued a proclamation declaring it void and in his letter to Horace G eely in August, 1882, he said: ''My paramount obiect is to save the anion and not eihef to save or de-troy ??lavery. If I could sate the union without freeing any slave I would do it; If I could do it by freeing all the slaves I would do v, and if Icould save it by freeiiig 6ome and le .ving others alone I would do that." In the minds of both Lin jin and Grant there was but little sen timbre cone ming slavery as an institution, but after emancipation they very naturally ac? cepted all the honor that the north and Eng? land showered upon them and entered heartily i?to plana for thc safe adjustment of the mat? ters that this sudden enfranchisement in? volved. Stich, my young friends, were the canses and consequences of the institution of slavery in Georgia. For half a century it had proved a blessing to both races-a blessing to the negio because it had brought him from a savage state into that of semi-civiliSation and had ele? vated his posterity and given them a chance to live as human beings and to worship God as Christians-a bl.-ssing to the white race in clearing up the forests and advancing agric?l ture and in building our railroads. Bat as the years rolled on it seemed to be maniftsted that the institution had run its course and the time was near at hand when it would cease to be a blessing to either race. Before the late war, its doom Was inevitable, for even had secession succeeded and slavery continued it could not have been maintained against tho convictions of the unfriendly north and the nations that sympathised with her. Why this wonderful change in the status of 4,000,000 of slaves had to be baptised in blood and in tears to m i ke it a reality is known only tc that Providern;3 who doeth all things well. We might as well ask why Cain Was p.mitted to kill Abel, or why Napoleon was permitted to ravage Europe and destroy millions of lives, and after ah accomplish no good that we can see* But the negro was safe during all the strug? gle, Whether he stayed or flexi he was in no danger. He seemed to have no deep concern about his fre:'d< m or a continuation of his bondage. Thousands of them followed their joang masters in the war-many of them were captured, but would not stay. "Gwine back to Dixie" was their song. Never was such mu? tual affection shown between master and ser? van*; never such proof that in the main the master was kind and the servant loyal. Du? ring a.'l these bloody years when our men were in the ??eld and wives and mothers and daugh? ters were unprotected at home not a pingle act of violence was heard of from the Potomac to thc Bio Grande. As General Jackson so beau? tifully said: ''They deserve a monument that should reach the stars, and on it I would in? scribe, 'To the loyalty of thc slaves of the con? federate states during' the years lO^t?-te.' " What monument will l>e" deserved by their children is the unsolved problem. They are itill on probation.-BILI ABP, in Atlanta Con? stitution. PROMINENT PEOPLE. THE German Kaiser is a very cypert horse? man. QUEEN VICTORIA'S late continental trip cost about 830,000. SAMUEL MINTUBN PECK, the poet, no\* weighs 250 pounds. IN Spain the Duke of Veragua is popularlj known as the best breeder of bulls for bull fights. THE former Adjutant General of the United States Army. General K. C. Drum, is Hving on a farm in Maryland. LOBD WOLSELEY, the greatest of living English soldiers, is below medium height and slender and lithe of frame. THE Earl of Craven, at the very altar itself, and in the act of receiving the hand of his bride, in New York, wore his trousers turned up. JULES VERNE, who is about to bring out hi* seventy-fourth novel, is said to be a native ol Warsaw. His real name is said to be Olche? witz. PRINCE BISMARCK recently addressed thc students at Bonn and it is recorded that ip mentioning the subject of dueling he did not actually condemn it. PRESIDENT MCCOSH. of Princeton College, is a great lover of flowers and he watches over those in his garden as tenderly as doe* a mother over her baby. W. S. GILBERT has so far cleared $200,000 off his play of "Pygmalion and Galatea," which is said tobe the most valuable thea? trical property in the world. WHEN Gladstone is about to make a greal speech in the House of Commons somebody tidies him up, straightens his neckcloth, brushes his coat and puts a flower in his but? tonhole. PROFESSOR CASPAR RENE GREGORY, the only American we recall who is aprofessorin a German university, has just received the honorary doctorate in theology from the the? ological faculty at Leipzig. HENRY REGINALD ASTOR CAREY, a nephew of the Me Jonn Jacob Astor, died suddenly of heart disease at Newport. B. L He was a member of th<~> Rhode Island Legislature and prominent in club life in New York City and his native State. TWENTY-TWO MEN SCALDED. Horrible Accident on a Mississippi River S eamboat. The steamer Ohio collapsed a flue at 7 o'clock Sunday morning near Bell? mont, Mo., scalding twenty-two men, six of whom died before reaching the hospital, at Cairo. The dead are Thomas Woods, . captain of the watch, Hampton Collins, W. W. Hurshman and three otic rs, names unknown. R. W. Carew, of Danville, Va., will probably die. W. H. Dickey, of Newport, Ky., seriously scalded; C. J. Pullman, of Orange, N. J., badly scalded ; John Ralph, hands scalded ; Aaron Johnson, Memphis, second cook, slightly burned ; D. R. Randolph, Cov? ington, Ky., badly scalded; Ed Ross, burned all over the body. All of the above are white. Tho following are colored, all badly scalded and several will probably die : Gilbert Childress, Holton Tate, Fred Neil, Citarlos Jack? son, Charles Thomas, James Howard, Evans Freeman, William Jackson, W. M. Henry, Albert Robinson and George Washington. Cyrus Myers, ino second mato, is missing and is supposed to have Lorn blown over 1 ard. The steamer belongil to the Cincinnati and Memphis Tacket Com? pany. THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH. Notes of Her Progress aol Prosperity Briefly Epitoiize? And Important Happenings from Day to Day Tersely Told. Fire at Savannah, Ga., Tuesday morning destroyed the boathouse of Major "Wilkins, of Waynesboro, on Hutchinson's island, o])posite the city, together with hie fine naptha launch worth S3, OOO. Total loss about $5,000. The grand lodge of Odd Fellows, of North Carolina, convened in annual session in Haleigh, Tuesday. The or? der has gained largely during the year just ended. It has 102 subordinate lodges and 4,200 members, a gain of over 500. A Raleigh, N. C., special of Tuesday says : A great deal of rain has fallen the past week all over North Carolina. The larger streams are very high. The Roanoke has broken the great levees built by convicts at the state farms and $15,000 of damage is already done. Eight hundred feet of levee is swept away. A handsome granite monument erected to the memory of the late James Barren Hope, known as the poet laureate of Virginia, was unveiled at Norfolk, Ta,, Thursday. The confed? erate camps of that section and the typographical union attended in a body. The monument was erected by friends of the dead editor and poet. The members of the National Repub? lican League met in Louisville. Ky., Tuesday, in annual convention. Be? tween 2,500 and 3,000 republican vis? itors from all over the union were present. The citizens, democratic and republicans alike, threw open their doors to bid them welcome, and the freedom of the city was tendered them. Tile executive committee of the peo? ple's party met at Nashville, Tenn., Thursday and discussed the situation. They decided that The Toiler should, be owned by the alliance and that the financial question should be made the one great issue of 1894. A general discussion followed, in which opinions were exchanged and the prospects of the party talked of. A Columbia dispatch of Thursday says; The railroad board of equali? zation for South Carolina have made assessments for the year. No material change was made, although in some I instances there were slight reductions. The railroads were notified to appear in Jti?e and enter any protests they might wish to make. It is not known whether they will do anything but simply trust to the decision of the courts. The calendar of the United States district court at Atlanta for the March term beginning May the 29th, has been made up. The Redwine case does not appear on it-the reason given at the United States attorney's office being that the case will not be ready for trial at that time. It begins to look now as if this famous case will have to go over until the fall term, unless it shall be taken Up as a special assignment some time in the month of June. The colored teachers of Georgia and others interested in the education of the negro children of the state will meet in convention at Atlanta on the 20th of June. The educational con? vention will last three days, and be largely attended. A number of lead? ing negroes from other states have been invited to be present. The colored press convention will also meet at that time. They will be joined by repre? sentatives of negro papers from other states. The stockholders of the Georgia railroad met in annual session at Au? gusta Wednesday. The fifty-eighth annual report was presented, showing resources, liabilities, expenditures and income of the road. The report was accompanied by a full statement of the business and expenses for the past business year. The capital stock is $4,200,000"and surplus $1.38.,264.98, The annual rental is $600,000, The net earnings of the road for the past nine monts were $280,367.68. A Jackson, Miss., news special says: ; Sheriff McNair arrived at 5 o'clock p. j m. Tuesday bringing the six white? caps who were sentenced to the peni? tentiary for two years. They were at once placed in the penitentiary, donned the strij:>es and will be put to work at once. About forty indictments have been found against the parties who at? tempted to release the white caps and bull-dozers. Quiet prevails at Brook? haven, and the sheriff does not think there will be any further resistance to the law. In the United States court at Charles? ton, S. C., Tuesday, argument was re? sumed in the Augusta and-*Knoxville railroad case for the appointment of a receiver. This case is merely a contin? uation of the proceedings instituted in Georgia and South Carolina recently which resulted in the making of J. H. Averill receiver of the port Royal and Augusta railroad. It is generally be? lieved that the present suit will result hi transfering the receivership of the Augusta and Knoxville railroad from Mr. Comer to Colonel Averill. A Columbia, S. C., special of Tues? day says: When Governor Tillman read Solicitor Jervey's latest letter concerning the prosecution of the Denmark lynchers he said that the constitutionality of instruction to Mr. Jervey was unnecessary of discussion, but that if Mr. Jervey persisted in his declination to obeying his instructions he might find himself a subject for impeachment. The governor said he had ample law to uphold him, and cited the order of Governor Jeter directing Solicitor Cethron to prose? cute the Clishv-Bbir??1 "."..(' e tor Bonhom was a relative of the de? ceased. A Jackson, Miss., special of Monday says : The United States grand jury is now after the white caps among whose crimes is that of driving settlers, in all cases negroes, off their home? stead entries, lt is said that sufficient evidence has been obtained in several cases to identify the guilty parties. Some of the homesteaders driven off reside in Lincoln county, the seat of the recent uprising, and it is known that the new registrar of the land office at Jackson has been notified of similar outrages in other counties which he has referred to the district attorney with thc urgent recommend? ation that all possible stejis lie taken to bring the culprits to justice. A Protest by Austria. Advices ol' Thursday from Va nna state flint thc Austrian government hus formally protested against thc action of thc Russian authorities in expelling from Russian Poland, Herr Roswadow ski. a member <?t' the Austrian Reich? stag and owner of tlc land in Russian Poland, where Roswadowski was living temporarily looking after his interests when ordered to leave the country by Russian officials. WORLD'S FAIR BANK CLOSED. The Chemical National Bank of Chi c:go (iocs Under. The doors of the Chemical National bank at Chicago did not open for bus? iness Tnesdsy morning. This notice .was posted ot the door of the bank : "The business of the Chemical Na? tional bank ol Chicago is suspended, and I am in possession in the interest of the comptroller of currency. J AS. D. STURGISS, ""Natioial Bank Examiner." THE BRANCH OF TEE BANK AT THE EXPO? SITION GOES UNDER. A special fron the World's Fair Grounds, Chicagv, says: Among the exhibits at the exposition Tuesday was a national bank under suspension. The exhibits was not an attractive or pleasing one in the eyes of the for? eigners who had money on deposit, but the fears of noi getting it back are unfounded. The World's Fair branch of the Chemical National bank of Chicago, now in the hands of Uncle Sam, usu? ally opened its doors on the second floor of pavilion D, th? administration building at 9 o'clock. At 9:2o came a telephone message from Cashier Baden, at tho down-town office of the sus? pended bank, to close the doors of the exposition branch. This was done and soot there was a line of anxious, complaiiing deposi? tors, some representing themselves, while others represented s?tes or con? cerns. They wanted to get in close to the paying teller's windon, but he talked to those who understood Eng? lish in a reassuring way and some went away. The paying teller said h? would have paid the checks presente! before the doors were closed, but he had not the combination to the vault. Treas? urer Seaberger, of the exposition, was an early caller. He said he had a small account with the bank, but was confident every de? positor would be paid in full and quickly. THE QUESTION* OF A SUCCESSOB. The question of a successor to the Chemical national bank at the fair is one to be decided by the directory at its next meeting. The U. S. govern? ment and national commission of Mis? souri have money in the bank. The Chemical National bank paid $10,000 for the privilege of doing bus? iness in the world's fair grounds, and has always done a good business. The troubles of the bank people will begin when the foreigners from the midway Plaissance villages, who speak little or no English and have excitable natures, learn of the suspension. The bank has a good deal of their money in large and small accounts, and depositors will want it back in a hurry. PENSION FRAUDS UNEARTHED. A. Norfolk Lawyer Charged with Swindling Unele Sain. A Washington special of Wednes? day says: The pension department believes that it has unearthed stupen? dous pension frauds. An attorney of Norfolk, Ya., named W. R. Drewry, now under arrest, is charged with se? curing fraudulent pension claims by the wholesale, using as his instru? ments, in many cases, colored women and men who could not read or write. About twelve months ago Secretary Noble ordered three cases dropped from the pension rolls that Drewry had se? cured and later on he was debarred from practice. When the present administra? tion came into power a thorough inves? tigation was made, and when it was concluded it was discovered that about 98 per cent of the cases he had handled nnder the act of June 27, 1890, was se? cured through the filing of false de? clarations. The extent of the frauds can be understood when it is stated that 166 cases were granted and that every one of them carried arrears. The importance of the discoveries nec? essitated prompt action and Mr. A. P. Albert, supervising examiner of the southern district, with several assist? ants, was immediately sent to Norfolk, where they are pursuing their investi? gations. They have learned that Drewry did a thriving business. In his office occupying desk room was a notary public named B. A. Richardson. When Richardson went out of the office Drewry used the notary's seal, attesting the false evidence, which he had prepared, and forwarding the pa? pers to Washington. Richardson is said to have been ignorant of the use to which his seal had been put and Drewry has already been convicted of forging the notary's name and seal. The result of the examiner's work will be shown within a few days. Drewry was arrested about one year ago on the charge of securing fraudu pensions, but owing, it is said, to lax? ity on the part of the local authori? ties, escaped punishment. The amount will not be known until the the special examiners make their re? port, but as the arrears in considera? ble sums have been paid on many of the one hundred and sixty-six fraudu? lent cases, the steals will probably ag? gregate $100,000. RUSSIANS PROTEST Against the Extradition Treaty Be? tween Their Country and Ours. A Washington special of Sunday says : George Kenan has sent to Pres? ident Cleveland from a -'group of edu? cated and patriotic citizens, who are living temporarily in western Europe," a protest against the recently ratified Russian extradition treaty, with the request that it be laid before the peo? ple of the United States. The address concludes : '.'Hie educated Russian public can rely on its own strength and on the strengt h of the pei pie. wi ile you and >our senators, instead of hnIp:ng us, are giving your rapport to the autocracy that oppre-s us. In so doing you ire obstruct? ing universal pro;rees Tou can 'Xp'ct noth? ing from Russia Hot is rxh.med and tor.i bv td? civil straggle, which, desi ito thc assuran? ces of the Russian secretary of legation, is still going on. But a f:cv Russia-a Russia cman cipa'ed from political slavery-wou d be a true and all powerful friend of America in thc vast arena of the Tac.tic, that 'Mediterranean of the future,' winch is soon to lie the scet.e of a new act in the great drama of the world'* history. "People of America! We a-o not political suspects in our own country and we y re ut lib? erty'to return to it. We are not actuated by linfred, norby resentment for p rsoual injus? tices. Our only ri ason for appealing to you is thc conviction that you can Lo made to under? stand the terrible situation of thc peop'e who seek protection in your country, and p-op'e who aie doing what y<?u would do were yoi. a citizen of Russia. The "Deacon" Paying Up. A Xew York dispatch says: S. Y. White, whose failure was recently an? nounced at the stock exchange, sent the following communication to the president <>f the exchange Monday: .'Please announce to the members of the exchange that 1 have collected from brokers in tr > exchange who are doing business for me sufficient bal? ances that I am able to pay the 25 per cent of my adjusted differences to members who are my creditors. If they send statements to my office to? morrow morning I will send checks aa above.''* TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS. T?e News of tte World Condensed Mo Pitty and Pointed Paragraphs. Interesting and Instructive to AH Classes of Beaders? Mrs. Elise Depew, wife of Chauncey M. Depew, died at her residence in New York city at 12:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon. The prominent firm of Brueder & Wolff, manufacturers of carpets, at Vienna, Austria, have failed. The lia? bilities are stated to be 1,000,000 florins. The New York Central's new engine, No. 999, in a run Wednesday between Rochester and Buffalo, N. Y., made a mile in thirty-two seconds, equal to 112 1-2 miles an hour. I?e Chicago city council Monday night passed unanimously a resolution declaring for an open Sunday at the world's fair grounds, and, as represen? tatives of $5.000,000 worth of stock in the world's Columbian exposition, criticised the financial management which closes the gates one day out of seven. The train and power house of the Grand View Beach road at Rochester, N. Y., which runs along the lake shore for several miles, was burned to the ground Thursday morning. Thirteen out of fourteen care, 500 tons of coal, all tools and appliances destroyed. Loss, sixty thousand, covered by in? surance. Judge William L. Nibiack died at his residence in Indianapolis, Sunday, aged seventy-one yoars. Judge Nib lack served fourteen years in congress and twelve years on the supreme bench, where his decisions attracted the attention of the bench and bar of the whole country for their clearness, conciseness and strength. General Manuel Gonzales, ex-presi? dent of the republic of Mexico and governor of the state of Guanajuato, dr>d Monday afternoon. He was born near Matamoras, in Tamaulipas, in 1820. He was the possessor of great personal courage, which was largely instrumental in securing him ? consid? erable following. He was president fro*i 1880 to 1884. Lieutenant R. T. Peary left Phila? delphia Sunday for St. Jones, N. F., to complete his arrangements for the vessel to take the exploring party to Melville bay. The party will be com? posed of ten, seven of whom have already been chosen, and the route will be the same as that followed by the way of New Foundland, Baffins bay and Whale Island. A Melbourne. Australia, special says : The bank of Victoria, limited, has suspended. According to the bal? ance sheet last December, the deposits amounted to over seven million pounds. The failure is of great im? portance. The bank had several branches, and its London ofiice was at No. 28 Clements Lane, E. C. The subscribed capital of the bank of Vic? toria was one million two hundred thousand pounds. The liabilities are about double that amount. The village of North Galveston, ten miles northwest of Warsaw, Ind., was totally destroyed by fire Tuesday. The residence of J. J. Jackson, among other?, was consumed, and the entire family, consisting of himself, wife, two sons and a daughter, perished in the flames. Several other families were badly burned. Many families lost their entire earthly possessions, and made their escape clad only in night clothes. Loss, $75,000. A south-bound f?eight train on the Ohio River railroad went off the track at Walker's, twelve miles south of Parkersburg, W. Va., Thursday morn? ing, falling thirty-five feet. Fire com? municated with oil from the freight cars, burning five of the cars, caboose and two cars of general merchandise. Two men were killed, one being burned until he was unrecognizable. Another was fatally injured. Conductor George Ernest was badly injured. A special dispatch of Thursday from Detroit, Mich., says that one-half of Spring Lake, a village two miles above Grand Haven, has been destroyed by fire. The village has five churches, & graded public school, a library, three hotels and several sawmills. For the second time within five years the town has had a terrible visitation from fire. Eighty families are homeless. The loss will foot up to $160,000. Amount of insurance is not known. A Chicago dispatch of Wednesday says : ?Cermont's day at the world's fair grounds was a glorious one. The * dedication of the Green Mountain State building was the feature of the day. and fully 1,000 persons assembled to participate in the exercises. The delegation, which came from the vari? ous cities of Vermont, was headed by Governor Fuller. The governor was accompanied by a host of state and ex-state officers, among them being ex-Governor Dillingham, ex-Governor Farnham, ex-Governor Pingree, Lieu? tenant Governor Strandhan, ex-Lieu? tenant Governor Woodbury and a number of others. H. H. WARNER FAILS. The Big Patent Medicine Man Finan? cially Embarrassed. H. H.Warner, the big medicineman and republican politician, of Roches? ter, N. Y., whose financial standing was attacked when A. G. Yates assigned a few weeks ago, on Thursday filed in the office of the county clerk, a general as? signment to Job ?. Hedges, New York. There are no preferred creditors. The usual provision for the payment of just expenses, wages, and salaries pro rata according to the amount of assets, is made. No figures are given. Job E. Hedges is secretary of the state league of the republican clubs. For a week Marecnus H. Briggs, as Mr. Warner's attorney, has been all over the east and through the state, wherever Mr. Warner's paper is held, seeking to compromise the claims against him. It is said that the prop? osition was that the notes now held against Mr. Warner should be taken up, and new ones be given in their place to run six months and one year. This arrangement seemed more satis? factory to most of the creditors than an assignment, and it was to go into effect when a sufficient number of the creditors should agree to it to enable Mr. Warner to weather the storm. This could not be done, however, with? out the assent of those creditors who have begun actions and who were about to be in a position to take judg? ment. There are now pending eight snits against H. H. Warner. The largest claim isthat made in behalf of the cred? itors of A. G. Yates, by the assignee. That is tor 6(35,000. The other five suits are on notes for .?5,000 each, ai>|t the total amount now in suit atm j n'st Mr. Vf ar nev foots up to $100, GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. Tlie Industrial Development During the Past Week. A review of the industrial situation in the south for the past week shows the organization of a cotton compress manufacturing company, with $LOOO,000 capital at Waco, Texas, by the Bersonette Cotton Compress conipanv; "of a cotton mill with $200,000 capital at Sumter, S. C., by the Sumter Cotton llanuf&cturing com? pany; of a cotton mill with ?200,000 capiral at Monroe, Ga., byB. S. Walker and associates; of a cotton min with $" 53.000 capital at Ho gansviile, Ga., by J. F. Mob!ev and others: of a gold miring investment of S100,CO0 at Gor? donville, Va.; and of a $100,000 coal mining company at Menardvilie. Texas, bv the San Saba Mining company; of a ?75,000 cotton seed oil mill at Yidalia, La., by Jno. A. Lewis and others; of an iron working plant with $'0,000 capital at Galveston, Texas, hy the Astail Iron Works company; cr a html er manufacturing company, capatalized at $50,000, at Prescott, Ark., by the Iron Mountain Lumber company, and bf a stove and tin works plant at Louisville, Ky., capital $40,000, by T. F. Henley and as? sociates. Thirty-eight new indnstri-s were established or incorporated dming the week, together with nine enlargements of manufactories and four? teen important new buildings. Among the new industries not above referred to are a dis? tillery at B?rgin, Ky., electric lighting plants at No'asulga, Ala., Fairmont and Palatine, West Va.; a grain elevator at Richmond, Va. and ice factories at Charlotte, X. C., New Orleans, La., Dyersburg, Tenn., and Cleburne, Tex. An iron foundry on a lar^e scale, is re? ported at Mobile, Ala., a lock factory at La Grange, Ga., and a mantel factors- at Louisville, Mining companies have been organized at Waycross, Ga., and Fairmont. W. Va., aquany ing company at Sanford, X. C., chemical works at Savannah, Ga., and a tobacco i'nc:< ry at Mt. Airy, N. C. Lumter mills will be built'ar Mid dlrsborough, Ky., Wilmington. N. C. and Den? dron, Va., a s .sn and blind factory at Winston, N. C., and saw and planing mills at Cotton Plant, Ark., Bainbridge, Ga. and Mosley'A Bluff. La, trical burg, cotton oil mills at Demopohs. Ala., and Kyle. Texas: a planing mill :it Pollard, Ala., and cotton mills at Barnesville, Ga., Maiden, N. C., and Newberry, S. C. Among the new buildings reported ara a bank building at Roanoke. Va., business houses at Abbeville and Rome. Ga" Knoxville, Tenn., and Wythal, Va., a $30,000 court house at Tex? arkana^ Ark., a $4',000 matorro buiidin-at Lynchburg, Va, a school building as Knox? ville, Tenn., and a large hotel at White Sul? phur Springs, V*.-Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn. _ MAY COTTON REPORT. Department Bulletin Showing* the Con* dition of the Fleecy Staple. The cotton report of the department of agriculture for May relates to the progress of cotton planting and the contemplated acreage. The propor? tion of the proposed breadth already planted on the first of May was 85.2 per cent, which approaches very close? ly the area usually planted at that date, which is estimated at 86 per cent. The returned estimates for the sev? eral states are as follows : "Virginia, ll ; North Carolina, 85 ; South Carolina, 90; Georgia, 92; Florida, 92; Alabama, 93 ; Mississip? pi, 85 ; Louisiana, 87 ; Texas, 81 ; Arkansas, 71 ; Tennessee, 76. These figures indicate that planting is well np to the average as to the time. The only states that are behind in planting are Virginia, where the de? lay is caused by the cold backward spring. Texas caused by the extensive drongth and backward spring, and Ar? kansas and Tennessee where an exten? sive rainfall and cold weather has r? tarded operations. Some indications have been given as to the contemplated acreage as com? pared with that of last year, which wa* considerably below the average for the series of years, but they are of un? certain character, and therefore it is impossible to base any satisfactory predictions thereon, and the figures relating thereto are only given to in? dicate what the correspondents be? lieved to be the intention as to acreage. Tire reported increase of average is 1.8 per cent. The percentage? by state are as follows : Virginia, 123 ; North Carolina, 116 ; South Carolina, 106; Georgia, 103; Florida, 116: Alabama, 102; Mississippi, 98; Lou? isiana, 98 ; Texas, 100 ; Arkansas, 98 ; Tennessee, 100. There will be less replai ting than usual, owing to the great scarcity of seed. The estimate cf acreage will be made on the 1st of June, as usual * KAISER WILLIAM TALKS. An Address to the Army Which Caused a Profound Sensation. A special from Berlin, Germany, says : While reviewing the troops in the field at Tempelhofer Tuesday the German emperor ordered the principal officers of the imperial guard to gath? er around him and addressed them as follows : " I have been seriously disappoint? ed in the patriotism of the late reich tag. I hope the coming reichtag will adopt the military bill, but if "the com? ing reichtag should refuse to adopt it, I am determined to carry the bil! into ef? fect, despite the unpatriotic opposition. I know myself that lam alom with the federated princes and the people.'* The speech of the emperor is causing enormous excitement among the people. It appears in the North German Universal Gazette in double-leaded prominence. Those who heard the emperor speak say that he spoke with unusual emphasis, pausing at every word in order to convey the sense of his determination to abide by his de? claration. There is a profound and widespread impression that the em? peror would not hesitate to risk a con? flict with the new reiehstag should it prove hostile to the bill.* The em? peror's concluding words in addressing his officers were : "I felt the necessity to tell yon can? didly my decision as I told you my hopes when the bill was first pro? posed." The officers who heard the emperor's words maintained absolute silence, al? though evidently in deep sympathy with the kaiser's views. Leading men in German politics who have heard of the emperor's speech now consider that he has embarked on a policy of Prussian high toryisin, and that the chances oi the freissinnage party to bring about a moderate liberal era have vanished. TO DEAL IN ELECTRICITY A Syndicate Formed to Utilize the Power of Niagara Falls. A svndicate was formed at New York Thursday with $4.000.000, capital for the construction and equipment of a line between Niagara Falls and Al badv, N. Y., for the transmission of electric power, generated by the Niag? ara Falls Power Company, with the waters of Niagara river, passing through wheel pits into a tunnel,which has just been completed. The tunnel is 8,000 feet in length and twenty-four feet in diameter. The Niagara Falls Power Company has expended nearly S5.000.000 in its development at the falls and consumed nearly three years in the work, lt now seeks a market for the electric energy thus generated. Through the medium of tho transmit? ting company thc cities along its pro? posed line can bc supplied with elec? tricity for light, heat and power. Sta tionsare to be erected to regulate the voltage._ Advertise DOW, it will pay you.