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Who is Right? Mayor Smyth Makes a State ment to Council. -Was Unanimous Consent Not Ho quired for Removal of Alien Police. - Special to the State, Charleston. April 13 - Mayor Smy-.h has spofcer oo the metropolitan police oerre8poodeooe with Governor Ellerbe tod be throws the responsibility for the continuance of Charleston's alien polioe force oo the governor. Judging from the almost total vacancy of tfee galleries of eoooeil chamber to nighi, although in was known that Mayor Smyth woald present bis side of the moch-iold-of gubernatorial efforts to remove the metropolitan force? it seemed that the public oared very little about the correspondence, so long as it did not carry with it the removal of tbe system^ The mayor's verdon of the story wi s reserved for the last and after apparently all the bes i o ess had been conoluded and. every one was looking for the gavel to fall and council to adjourn, S?syor Smyth produced some papers and with bot a few words of introduc? tory., begao the reading of his side of the affair. He spoke slowly and im? pressively, but excitedly.- The report was a mass of typewritten pages which contained little if anything new save that lt was . the mayor discussing his part in the grand fare?-oomedy of re? moval of-the police force. The report was interesting only for this reasoo. The samo hackneyed (acts and particu? lars were gone through with. In a few words. Mayor Smyth's de? fense was that the situation bad as? suaged such shape that he thought he should speak frr himself ; that he did not understand that Governor Ellerbe required a unanimously signed agree? ment. If be did, be says that he would uever have brought the paper out of Colombia. Oa the oootrary, Mayor Smyth is certain that Governor Eller? beks stipulations did not provide for unanimous action on the part of tbe council. Major Smyth stated that when be ar? med at the capital on Governor Eiler be's invitation aod the governor began the now famous conference with the re? mark that the metropolitan system bad been desired by the city coen eil, he im? mediately corrected bim and the first agreement drawn op. which started out with this assertion, was cancelled. Both agreements were objectionable. Mayor Smyth said, bot finally agreed to the second as he knew that the people of Charleston desired to be relieved of the humiliation incident to the acceptance. Mayor Smyth said that the mere fact that he wfred the governor that 17 aldermen had signed and be was wait, in g his proclamation was evidence suffi* cien! that be knew nothing of soy de* sired unanimous action. The mayor stated that the governor knew, or should bave known, tbat. be (Mayor: Smyth) with the ehief ot pol ico vere the proper parties to enforce the law and that council was not invested with executive powers Further, that tferee-foo'bs of council favored th? re moval aod were williog aod capable to e&aet aoy ordinances necessary to en? force properly the dispensary law aod bring its violators to justice. By his action the goveroor admits his injustice, Mayor Smyth said, and the deadlock is on as a resole of conditions unneces? sarily imposed-conditions which the governor should have known could not be carried oat io consequence of Mar sba! Martin's openly declared friends, six - io number on the aldermanio board. Col. Z Davis moved that the entire correspondence be spread on the min? utes, wbich moiton was daly seconded aod passed. ? sensation was sprang jaat a? rho motion was Tarried by Alderman Mat tbies, ooe of the Regular faction, but one of tbs seven who refused to sign the agreement Matthies was a former wholesale licuor dealer. He deolared that be bad long been waiting this op? portunity to explain his positioo. He indignantly denied that he waa a friend of Martin He said that he was opposed to the dispen? sary law ead the metropolitan police system. but that be had to accede to Governor Ellerbe's unjust de maud* !u a'rong German accents b* tragically declared that Charleston bad suffered the humiliation of a metropoli? tan pelican poiioe Hjstetn for some time, bat she could endure it for a few years longer; the day of reckoning would come. He said that be refused to sign the agreement because he considered signing it an additional disgrace put up? on the city. J. B. SOME PLAIN TALK. Tbe Governor Briefly, Refers to Mayor Smytn's State? ment. Governor Ellerbe did not have very much to say yesterday about the statement made by Mayor Smyth of Charleston to bis council about the metropolitan police matter. What be did ssry, however, was very much to the point. He said that it was rather remarkable that Mayor Smyth when be read the pledge that the mem? bers of the council " in di vid nally" should give their pledge, did not intimate to him that he would have trouble in getting aoy of the alder? men to sign it, while in all interviewe and correspondence it appears tito the mayor thought so and so stated to others Governor Ellerbe, continuing, re? marked : "The mayor did say to me that he personally would rather not have the metropolitan police re I moved ; that it would give him more j work to do." ! He added that he bad not sent two telegrams to the mayor as to lequir ing the signatures of all the council One dispatch-that published-was sent and that was the only telegram he has ever mentioned in anything he has said about the matter-The State. A PROGRESSIVE RAILROAD. The Seaboard Air Line is one rail? road corporation that is making in? telligent and systematic efforts to build up and permanently improve the territory which it traverses. The expenditures that are being made are heavy, and there is no reason to ex? pect that there will be any return in the near future, nevertheless it is the very best sort of investment for the Seaboard Air Line, and in years to come the dividends will be realized in the shape of increased business that will continue growing year by year. The plans of the Seeaboard offi? cials are wide in scope and have a two-fold object-ta diversify the in dustries of the present residents of the territory, thereby bettering their condition and at the same time so im? prove the country as to make it at? tractive to settlers from other States A clear conception of the work now in progress is gained from the following extract from a speech made by Mr. John T. Patrick before the convention of the Industrial Agents of the Seaboard Air Line, which met in Charleston last week : *'The Seaboard has already established 28 of tbe 100 projected experimental farms, on which bare been planted 200.GOD fruit trees and fruit-Gearing shabbs Fifty thousand packages of seeds have been distributed, and when the trait season comes in there will be a travel ling school of instruction to show tbe methods of canoing, evaporating, picking, preserving and making j-iirs and fruit butter by actual process. Ladies skilled In tbis work will go along as teachers. Tbe object of this is to show our county people wbat they cao do on their own farms. "A road macbise with full equipment is to travel at tbe same time and show tbe im-' proved methods of making roads. 4'If a!! these tbiogs are produced at borne it wi!! withdraw a considerable revenue tbat tbe Seaboard now derives from freight or this class of goods But tbe management is not PO selfish or short sighted as to hesitate OD tbat account. All this will come back to os io soother way when the country is built op and prosper?os " - The country tributary to the Sea board Air Line has a bright future before it, and its great natural ad? vantages will\be developed and util? ized at an early date largely through the efforts of that system. There is nothing sentimental in the work and the reward will innure largely to the owners of the lailroad, but there is muco reason for the people in that territory to feel grateful for what has been doue and is projected for futute accomplishment. It is the sort of nelp the South needs-assistance to utilize and develop the wealth that has so long remained unused. The distinguished German scholar and historian. Muller, like many of the learned ot bis country, ?as once iodif- j fereot to the Bible, even full of preju? dice and sceptical as to its claims. Bat ?fter he had taken the New Testament ;o h Mid and read it earnestly and cou-j ?idera'ely he was captivated as so many o-her heedless, unbelieving have been Hs has made a confession tbat does credit to his oandor, sincerity aod in? telligence. Hear him: "The light which struck Paul with blindness on his way to Damascus was not more strange, more surprising to him than it was to me wheo I suddenly discovered the fulfilment of all hopes, the highest perfection of philosophy, the explaoatioo of all revelations, tbe key to all the seeming contradictions of thc physical and moral world. ? ?aw religion appear at the moment most favorable to it? appearance, and io a manner mest adapted to its acceptance. The whole world seemed to be ordered for the sole purpose of furthering the religion of the Redeemer, and if this religion is not divine I understand nothing at ail I have read uo hooks on the subject, but in ali my studies of aocieot times I have always felt thc want of sometbiog, aod it was not till I koew our Lord (hat all was clear to me. With him there is nothing I am Oct able to solve " -. rn? The True Remedy. W. M. 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WiU "Hands Off" - New York, April 14 -A special this morning's World's from Mad says : Political aod diplomatic eire io Madrid are animatedly discussi (he improvement of the prospects Spanish mle in Cuba, io ooosequen< it ip said, of an active exchange confidential aod unofficial commuait tioos between the United States a .Spanish governments since McKiol and Sherman took office. Ic seei that Spanish diplomacy bas intimal at Washington that Spain cannot en ti tain aoy suggestion of American med tion to obtain tba submission of t Cuban insurgents, and that Spain as only that the American executive co tinue to check and punish filibuster e pedition and juntas and propagand wherever the Spanish legation and co sui provides sufficient evidence of thc existence, as was done recently in tl case of the New York separatist jant* correspondence - with instructions Cuban insurgents. Spanish diplomaoy is authorized give unofficial confidential verbal assu anees that if the Amerioan goverome did that much Spain considered be self quite equal to the task of short reducing the rebellion to such a pa that tbe Madrid government will I justified in the eyes of publie opio ic in Spain and the colonies to carry 01 West Indian home rule io a very libt ral spirit, and in its wake extensn tariff reforms that would lead easily ti wards a treaty of commerce betwec the United Staus, Cuba and Pori Rico. In the same way the Amerioan stal department was given to understan that Spain will in the future deal mot leniently with thesevparties, and whe home rule is put io fores a general au nesty will be granted to ioc'ude a rebels surrendered within a certain pc riod and ali political cooviots. prisonei and suspects exiled or transported t Spanish fortresses and penal settlerneoi without trial. AN IMPORTANT BATTLE ABOUT TO B FOUGHT. Hibana. April 15.-Via Key West April 14.- Bane.), an important por on tbs coast near Git ara, from wino exportations of bananas to the Unite* States are made and which is the site c H Dumers & Co., Americao citizen? narrowly escaped total destruction ta day Tbe expedition under Genera Roloff on the steamer Liorada. carry ing 2.400 rifles. 500,000 cartridge aod rapid firing artillery landed along i side th? quay of Bane?. General Calixto Garcia, with 5.00( ! men, came to protect the convoy o j arm? and ammunition, but as Rolof bad no men to arm. Garcia was com pel led to carry the arms into the inte rior It is reported that the insurgent* hearing that a Spanish gunboat might arrive at any moment, closed the en trance to the port with torpodoe*. General Roloff assisted by looal bands and soldiers under General Garcia, commenced to fortify the beigh ts around the port, hastily casting op trenches to make the port temporarily impregnable to any Spanish forces in the neighborhood of Gibara The gaoboars Nueva, Empanas and Meal?eia had arrived at Nipe from Habana The cruiser Reina Mercedes had left Habana on tbe 12th with four eren anio? of marines and infantry un? der the command or Rear Admiral Marenoca, to unite with all the forets which left Nipe and Gibara, witb a view to a combined Jaod and sea attack upon tbe insurgent's position for the recovery of the port of Banes Nipe is separated from Bane/s by the San Ramon canals Three columns march? ed on Banes in fuil view of the formida? ble and nearly impregnable insurgent position Reinforcements have been sent forward by the Spaniards, and Ad? miral Navarro will sail to morrow by the cruiner Lsgaspi for the Carribber and thence for Nipe to personally direct the "attack by sea. The rein? forcements expected wil! be under Gen? eral Li vares Evidently ao important battle is in sight if the insurgents try to defend their advantageous stronghold, and their claim of beiog able to bold a sea? port. Great axiety exists with refer? ence to the garrison of 100 men in the fort defending the quay at Banes. It is believed they will be compelled to surrender for lack of water and sup? plies The cruiser Pingon has twice been compelkd to break cbaios in or? der to enter the Banes port. ---- There is more Catarrh io this section of the I country than H 11 other diseases put together, j and until the la9t few years w*s supposed to ! ?>e incumbie For a ?ieal many years doc I tors pronounced it 11 local disease ?nd i prescribed local remedies, and by coo ? s ta o tty faning to cure with !oc*l treat I ment, pronounced it incurable. Science has ! pp.ven catarrh to be a constitutional dresse, j and, the-frtore, requires co: stitution?l tteit j men?. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manure ured ; by F S. Cheney & Co , Toledo, Ohio, is the I only constitutional cure on tbe market It is ; taken internally in doses from !0 drops to a I teaspoonful. It acts directly on th- blood j and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one bundered dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address, F.J. CHENEY ? CO., Toledo, ? J#arSold by Druggist, 75c. Writing paper io pound package?, plain aod ruled, price and quality* not duplicated elsewhere. H. G. Osteen & Co. J Spaniards' Scheme i -. To JEfFect Arrest of Mem? bers of Cuban Junta. Philadelphia, April 15.-A private meeting of Cubans and Coban ?ympa thizers wa* held in this ci'y tonight, at which ir. was decided to take sters '0 frustrate whst the Oubar,? claim is the object of the Major Ji;o Sandoval'* visit to the Uuited State? Thi* is said to be the arrest of no less persons than the members of the Cuban juota in thi? country. It has been stated That Major Sandoval oarr.e to Philadelphia to par chase munitions of war to be shipped io the regular way to General 'Weyler in Cuba Leading Cubans, however, assert ?hat it is to gather information that will culminate in the arrest of Estrada Palma ot New York and Gen? eral Queseda at Washington. The former is the minister of the so called Cubao republic and the latter charge de affaires at the capital. It. is asserted that Mspr Sandoval was com mi?siontd by General Weyler for this purpose and is known to bave in his possession documeots found on the steamer Lturada on one of ber recent trips to Cubao, showing the part placed by Generals Palma and Ques? eda in her movements Should the arrest of tbe junta leaders result and the issue be made in court as ?o the liability of such a body there will be a question of jurisdiction that' will not. only involve the interstate commerce laws, but also the questioos of belliger? ency and the customs comity of na? tions Myers Respited. Frank Myers, colored, who was to hang in Georgetown to day, has an other week of life, at least. The Governor yesterday granted him a respite until next Friday. Perhaps the special re?son for the respite is one that has never occured before To day is Good Friday, and, as is the custom with ail devout of the .Epis copal Church in Georgetown and elsewhere, they attend services in the church to-day The church happens to be next to the jail, and if the exe? cution was to take place to day at the appointed time the crowds of negroes and those morbidly curious would in? terfere with the services. Mayor Morgan wrote that under the circum stances he thought it would be best to postpone the execution, as he felt certain that a large crowd of negroes would be present and it would take an extra force of constables to pre? serve order. Under these circum tances the Governor readily issued the order for a respite As to whether Myers will eventual? ly hang or not there is much doubt Solicitor Wilson was in the city yes terday, and called on the Governor in reference to the case It is un? derstood that he says it is his posi? tive opinion that the negro is not guil? ty of the charge wholly, and the prob? abilities are that he will get a coos? mutation to life imprisonment - Columbia Register. ---- Bise bali goods at the Book Store.-H. 6 Osteen k Co. Baby Cried Night and Day Discharge from Her Ears -Top of Her Head Broke out in Scrofulous Eruptions Grew Worse Under Treatment Till W? ? Gave Her Hood's Sarsaparilla - She Has Rosy Cheeks Now. " When my baby was two months ? old she cried night and ?r-y, and ? seemed to be in gre t v;r > n- had | a discharge fro::i hi-rv . top i of her head broke out ?.. .-. ; ?ni-oas eruptions. 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