The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, April 15, 1896, Image 2
Matabeleland.
The news from Gape Town that Mat?
abeleland ts in open revoit against the
British has again direoted attention to a
district of South Africa practically un
know until three years ago, when the
British, after oue of their famous little
wars, subjugated the people aod annex?
ed the country.
Matabelelaod is an extensive region
in South Africa. It lies between the
Limpopo and Zambesi Rivers, and is
bounded on the north by Mashonaland
and on the south by Bechuanalad. It
is a mountainous district, which '-ias
conquered some fifty years ago hy the
Matabeles, an offshoot of the Zulu race.
The area of Alatabeleland is about
125,000 square miles and the popula?
tion is about 200,000.
The Matabeles, when they conquer?
ed the country, established a military
despotism, which lasted until 1893.
The attention of the British Govern?
ment had 6rst been directed to the
country in 1885 by the evident design
on it by the Boers, ever on the lookout
for new lands into which to trek, but
matters did not come to a crisis until
1889, woe? Lobeogula, the King of
the tribe, placed himself under the pro?
tection of Great Britain
> But trouble soon followed. Lobcn
gula speedily repented of his treaty
and repudiated the construction put
upon it by the British. Prior to the
annexation of the adjoining country of
Mashonaland to the British South Afri?
can Company the Matabeles had beeu
in the habit of dominating and terror?
izing the natives. But with the intro?
duction of British rule it was sought
co put a stop to this. Lobeogula was
notified that the raids must cease, j
Nevertheless, in 1892 a Matabele chief ;
entered Mashonaland and, after killing j
a large number of men, carried off the
women and children into captivity.
A warning was sent to Lobeogula,
who replied that he was punishing a
theft of cattle, and thac his men bad
strict orders not to interfere with the
white men. The next year another
raid was made on a similar pretext.
; The English ordered the Matabeles to
retire, and as they refused a battle was
fought, io which over thirty of the in?
vaders were killed.
Tho famous Dr. Jameson, then the i
? i
Chartered Company's administrator in j
Mashonaland, thereupon warned Loben j
gula tba: his troops must not cross the
frontier. The Matabele King defied
the administrator, entered British ter?
ritory, ravaged, the native settlements
and fired on the white police. War
was declared aod Dr. Jameson went to
the front to direct operations.
Besides several minor engagementg,
two pitched battles were fought, in both
of which the natives suffered greatly
Oo oue occasion over 1,000 Matabe'es
were slain. Before the end of the
year the British were complete masters
of the country and Lobengnla had fled
No further effort was made to capture
him, and he was reported to have oied
soon afterwards. With the close of the
campaign Matabeleland passed under
the control of the Sooth African Com?
pany, and it was expected that the
country would be peaceably developed
The outlook was most promising, i
judging by past events. Matabeleland j
has been famous from a very early peri- j
od fer its productive gold mines. Cop?
per, silver, zinc, tin, antimony, arsenic
and lead mines and deposits of nitrate
Cf potassium and plumbago have also
been discovered. The country is a re?
markably Soe region for grazing and
agriculture. In the four years between
the signing of the treaty by Lobeogula
and the war of 1893 over three thou?
sand white settlers had oomc into the
country ; farms representing a total area
o? 2,000,000 acres had been granted
and the price per acre was steadily ris?
ing ; a town with a bank, hotels,
churches and a hospital had been built,
and a government for the civil adminis?
tration of the whole country orgaoized.
Development was proceeding apace
wheo the present revolt oaexpectedly
broke oot
The insurrection is romored to have
been instigated by a witoh doctor, bot
it is thought that the ootbreak may be
due to the defeat of the British ooder j
Jameson by the Boers. This news I
greatly exaggerated, has spread through
thc country aod exoited the natives, I
who believe that the British are now to I
be driven out of South Africa. The i
Boers, too. are credited with having !
forroeoted the uprising, which has come i
at a most unfortunate time for the Brit- !
ish, the district being practically bare
of arms, which had been shipped to the :
Transvaal for Dr. Jameson's raid and i
are now io the possession of the Boers, j
While the volunteers are deficient in j
weapons, the natives are well supplied
with guns They are also skilled in the i
use of tfee assegai and are in every re ?
spect the equal of their kinsmen, the 1
Zulus, in physical strength and warlike
powers. The army consists of 15,000
well-drilled and well-armed warriors,
divided into kraals and commanded by
indanas. Their martial tastes are
proved by the Matabele law,
whioh when a new regiment
is. formed, forbids the marriage of
the young men of the kraal uutii they
have preved themselves raen by washing
. heir spears io blood. The commander
of the rebe!:- is said to be Lobengula's
son. It was at first reported to be the
old kiug himself, but although the an?
nouncement of his death has never been
fully confirmed, it is generally believed,
fer in 1893 he was described as being
about sixty years of age, very stout
and somewhat broken in health.
It is thought that the present cam?
paign will last about two months. Of
course there can be but 0De outcome,
but it will be a nasty war and the '
British will doubtless have sonic severe
losses to chronicle before it is over. [
One of the most serious features of the
rebellion is the fact that oct merely
have the native police, numbering some
700 well-trained fighting men, armed
with modern rifles and well supplied
with ammunition, been induced to take
part in it, but they have persuaded
various other tribes whom they were i
supposed to control to take up arms
against, the whites Businees through- ;
O -
out Matabeleiaod is completely demor- }
alized and will remain so until ihe re?
bellion is crushed and British rule re- :
established.
The South Leads.
_
Baltimore, April 9.-The Manufac- i
tarers- Record has analyzed the
statistics of Bradstreet's commercial
agency for the past three months, j
showing the number of failures j
throughout the country, as compared I
with the corresponding period of last
year. This shows that ' the record I
of the South for the past three j
months exhibits a phenomenal busi?
ness stability, as compared with the
failures in " i west and northwest."
The failures in the south for the j
first three months of 1896 show a
total increase in liabilities of only
?500,000 over the corresponding pe- !
riod of 1895, and this entire increase ?
was iu Texas, where a $2,000,000
wholesale grocery failure occurred
But for this the liabilities in the
South would exhibit a large decrease
as compared with last year, notwith
Standing the fact that there was an
increase in liabilities throughout the j
country of $15,600,000. In contrast
with the south the central western
States show an increase in liabilities
of ?11,600,000; the middle States
?3,600,000 The one State of Min?
nesota, with an increase in liabilities
of ?2,3^0,000, showed an increase j
five times as great as the total in- i
crease of liabilities in the Sc. th In ?
fact the increase of liabilities in Mon- j
tana alone was $548,000, which was j
greater than the increase in the 13 i
Southern States Comparing the !
bank clearings for the . first three j
months of the year, the Manufac- |
turers' Record and the commercial j
agency 'reports : "By far the best j
showing and the largest number of ;
increases in bank clearings are re?
ported from the South "
The returns for the three month? !
show a gain in the Southern States
in clearings of 14 6 per cent com?
pared with the same tit e last year,
against an increase of only 2.8 per
cent, in New England and an aver?
age gain of 8 4 per cent for the en?
tire country The figures show that j
the South continues to make good ?
progress in general business expan?
sion, notwithstanding the complaints
from all paris of the country of dull?
ness in trade The South has for
several years past despite the gene?
ral Depression, made better progress
than any other part of the country
Among the other industrial ?'nter
prises reported for the week, are the
organization of a company at Norfolk
with a proposed capital stock of
$500,000 for the purpose of building
a steel floating dry dock and marine
railway repair shops; a $200.000 j
cotton mili incorporated at Spartan
burg, S. C ; cotton mills projected at
Allendale, S. C., Gainesville, Texas,
Palmetto, Ga . Austell, Ga , and a
knitting mill at Sumter. S. C. ; a 40,
000 acre tract of timber land has
been purchased in Alabama and a
large lumber mill will be built in con?
nection with it; a $250.000 cotton
oil mill company has been organized
in Arkansas ; a ?50,000 electric and
power plant in Florida ; a $60,000
fertilizer company at Valdosta, Ga ;
a ?50,000 electric lighting plant at
Houston. Tex. ; a ?30.000 tanning
and leather compauy at Laredo ; a
$30,000 ice and cold storage plantat
El Paso ; cement works to turn out
300 barrels daily at Glasgow, Va. ;
the enlargement of operations by a
coa! company in Texas to produce
3,000 tons of c^a1 a day by early
fall ; the reorganizar., n and the start?
ing up of a long idle furniture manu?
facturing company with ?70,000 of!
capital at Basic City, Va.
Charleston io Europe.
Charleston, April 9.-Traffic Man
ager L. A. Emerson announced to-day J
that the South Carolina and Georgia ?
railroad would inaugurate a line of
steamers between this city and Europe
on the 1st of next September The I
road has recently purchased valuable
terminals on the Cooper river water '
front, and these are to be greatly ?in- :
proved. Mr Emerson states that his ;
company will begin at once to convert
large buildings on the terminus i o to a
grain elevator with a capacity of 250,- :
000 bushels, and that it, will engage
in the exportation, through Charleston,
this fall of wheat and corn The ?rst
ship of thc new trans-Atlantic line,
which is to bc called the ''Charleston,"
will, Mr. Emerson says, bc :it the docks
here by thc 1st of Septemder, ready to
receive her cargo.
"Now," said tb'.* bridegroom io the
bride, when they returned from the
honeymoon trip, "Jet us have a clear
understanding before we settle do wt: to
married life. Are yon president or
vice-president OL' this society?" "1
. want to be neither president nor vice
? president," she answered ; "I will be
i content with a subordinate position."
j "What is that?" "Treasurer."
Fetoed by the Governor.
Three Legislative Acts Ob?
jected to.
Thc governor has vetoed three acts
passed by the last legislature. The
first, and one which caused much talk
before it got through the house, is
entitled: "To provide for the appoint?
ment of magistrates and to define their
jurisdiction, powers and duties" The
governor objected to this aet for two
special reasons, the first being that it
gave him no power to remove a magis?
trate, no matter of what act he was
guilty. Complaints were received very
soou after by him from people in regard
to magistrates and if this act was pass?
ed he would have no way of getting
an incapable man out o? the office It
will be remembered that thc house re?
jected this part of the law, but. it was
afterwards put in by the conference
committee and so ?ot through
Thc second objection to the act was
that after the senate had rejected a mag?
istrate he could not be reappointed
Th? second act was: "To declare
the duties of county treasurers as to
publishing their reports and to prohibit
payment, therefor *' The objection to
this was that it was only by publishing
the county treasurer's reports that the
people could learn of the finances of
their county and they ought not to be
kept in thc dark.
The third is : "Ti dispose of cer?
tain books in the State library." The j
bocks in question are the first statutes
at large of South Carolina. The ob?
ject was to fur!>ish copies of these books
free of charge to any member who
tnig.it want one. only reserving 500
copies for the State library The book
was edited by Thomas Cooper about the
year 1792 and is one of historical val?
ue.-The State.
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Terrorism in Louisiana.
NEW OHLE A KS. April 0.-A special
to the Daily States, dated Opelousas,
La., says : Quiet pievails to-day in
the parish of St. Landry, no organized
bandy of white supremacists are in the
field. The troops are still having a
good time io the court house, but. few
negroes are availing themselves - of
tho opportunity to register. Many ap?
plications have been made to Registrar
Swords by leading colored mee who
have registered, to cancel their regis?
tration from the books, which, of course
be is without authority to do beyond
an entry in each case, to the effect that
the party applied to cancel his registra?
tion.
There are many proofs coming to
light that a system of terrorism has
been produced on the negroes to force
them to register, and in more instances
thau one. negroes have been threat
need with death if they did not regis?
ter. The system of terrorism and
threats has been used with effect to
force several leading colored men wbo
have advised the colored people not to
register or to take any part, io politics
to leave town. Some who have been
compelled to register under these threats
declare that they will leave the parish
before election day rather than vote.
A colored man living in this town
who had been forced to register under
such threats, made that statement to
your correspondent to-day. The
troops will probably be relieved to-mor?
row, as there is no further use for them
. ---.*?M*nt*- '?*' -Jil- -
The State Sinking Fund.
~~Dr. Hates, the State treasurer, in
talking yesterday, said that many ap?
plications bad been received from banks
in the State wishiog to borrow part of
the sinking fund, thc amount of which
is ?113.000. Many of the applica?
tions had been approved and the money*
loaned at 4 1-2 per ceDt. interest.
The fund is for the liquidation
of the State debt and the banks
to whom loans have been made have
put up State bonds as collateral.-Tbe
State.
A Successful Renefit.
New York, April 9 -The perfor?
mance given at the Fifth Avenue the?
atre for the benefit of the mortuary fund
of tbe Confedeaate veteran camp of
New York this evening was a success.
Joseph Jefferson, May irwin, John
Drew, Maud Adams and other players
from New city's principal theatre volun?
teered their services and rendered an
excellent programme. It. is thought
the proceeds will amount to about $8,
000."
Gave Themselves Away.
Topeka, Kan. April 10.- The
enfranchised women ot Kilts, Kansas,
scored a sweeping victory at thc recent
municipal election. A complete ticket
of women candidates wa-' nominated
and all were elected, with tin- exception
of Mrs Clara Sheldon, candidate for
Police Judge, who was defeated by a
majority of five Mrs M. A. Wade,
proprietress of a large mil ia cry dry
./<;;;;.;< Mor-, was elected may<;r and Mr.
Vi?la Gaylord, Miss Lillian Hussey,
Mr.- Emma S!uc!ds and Mrs lilla New?
comb VSCTH elected members of the
council by average majorities of iii'.
The womel! named their ricket "law
and order," at:d they propose to eu force
thc nrohibitiou law to the letter.
?Son:;-l!:?ag new and orjginal*?in tablets a;
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