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. - 11 -oo- ^.rrw - 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; H.G. Osteen & Co.'s Book Store. Tablets with paper del covers for 5 cent? People should realise thai thc cn J y true aaa permar.exit cure ?or their condition is to ce icu nd in having Pur? J-? 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