The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 16, 1901, Image 2
The War oo the Boers.
Cyclist Cirp8 Ootspeeds the
Boers in a Race For a
Mountain Pass.
London, Jao 9.-The British casual
? ties io the fighting January 5 between
Col Babington's forbes and tho Boers,
und?r Gen B> a Lire y and Geo S teen -
karup, at Naaciwpoort, wheo the burgh?
ers were forced to retire, were twelve
mes killed aod thirty-three wounded.
Cape Town, Jan 9.-Intrencbments
are being oosstracted across the Cape
fiats from False Bay to Table Bay.
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PEACE TALK MEANS NOTHING.
Now 5Tork, Jan 9 -Montague
White, the representative of the Sooth
African Republic, said today that he
thought no importance shoal ci be attach?
ed to the reports aod proceedings of so
called Boer peace committees at Krooo
stad and Lord Ki tab ea er's recent speech
at the burghers' meetiog near Pretoria.
- "it ts perfectly natural," said Mr
White, "that those Boers who have
surrendered vaiuotariiy to the British
aod who have taken the oath of neutral?
ity should be meet anxious to return to
to their farms, but they have less influ?
ence with the fighting burghers than
the British soldiers who are opposing
- then. Their intefreotion, therefore,
_would be less acceptable than that of
the Copperheads dnriog the American
civil war, or tho Loyalist sudario g the
war of independence "
Kitchener Sends Little News
and That Discouraging.
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London, Jan ll, 5 a tn-The situa
rion in Sooth Africa grows worse rather
than better. Lord Kitchener's dispatch?
es are more laoooio tbao those of Lord
Roberts aod tittle else of importance is
allowed >? come through.
The Tim ear io an editorial today,
* finds comfort in the thought "that the
procees of attrititioo is doing its work
and must shortly lead to the inevitable
result "
lu other quarters, however, there is
leas satisfaction with the state of
affairs, which bas practically oeoessi
. tated the fortification of Cape Town.
No steps have been taken to comply
with Lord Kitchener's demand for
reenforcement
Lord Coleridge, in a letter excusing
bis ooo attendance as a political meet?
iog says :
"I loath and detest this war and the
policy ?hieb, brought it about, the
mode ia which it is eondueted and the
undignified excitement over the defeat
of a handful of peasants defending^
-{heir country at the haods of ten times^
their number of trained soldiers, backed
'by the weat th of England."
This morning's dispatches report a
.small party of B >ers- carried off cattle
ol^se to'the east fort at Pretoria. Nine
?hundred Boers, nuder Commandant
Kri'zhger. are 15 miles from Rich
mond, in the direotioo of Murraysburg
Rumors ero spreading at Porterviile
that the r?bela have joined the Boers
in the Calviota district.
The military oom missioner of pol iee
at Johanoesborg has waroed the public
to b? ware of the dangerous dynamite
mires laid io the raod to protect the
mites as tbe authorities oaonot be
responsible for i oj aries rec alt io g there .
from
L'ndon, Jan 10-Geo Kitchener
scotts news of a serious simultaneous
attack on tbs night of Jan 7, by the
republicans oo the British positions
between points 60 mile* ?part, along
the lin?? of tba Pretoria aod Lorenzo
Marqiea railway. Tbe losses on both
sides ?ere heavy According to reports
the Boera were oeateo off after prolong?
ed fighting
Following is the test of the dispatch
from G^o Kitchener :
.?Pretoria, Wednesday, Jan 9. 1901.
-On the nighs on Jan 7. the Boers
made sima?-aseoos aod determined
attachs up>a ?ll our posts at Belfast.
Wo-ide fontein, Nooitgedaoht and Wild
footei . Int'(tee fog prevailed aod
taking adv.o ego >f the oover it afforded
the Bo rs we a a*>ie ?."> ireep up close to
our oosi iou. A oe*vy fire omtioued
until 3 10 a. m. wn o th.: Bo?rs were
driven off. Ooe offi ier ?ria ki'hd and
tarse w ?u .d -d, w_i!e 20 men were
killed aod 59 won ?del Tba loss of
the Boers *w<s bca>y, 21 dr-ad being
course i
A .?i?a7oj rakia ?j supplies to Gordon's
bridad \ of Kruger?dorp, wa< j
attached o? HO7<T\? oom ruando ye.?-ter- !
day (Tnesdav) The Boera were driven
off le-ving ll dead on thc field. Our
casaques wc-e four elightly wounded "
"Fi^e th ?asand Boers supposed to
be trekking west from Vrybnrg," says
the Cape Town correspondent of The
Daily Maii, "are now making their
way into the heart of Cape Colony.
The supposition is that tbey have
eaptared several small garrisons on the
way."
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A negro who was arrested at Rome,
Ga, on suspicion of assault, but having
been taken before the woman assaulted,
was not identified, and as there was no
evidence on which to hold him, the
judge disobarged him. A. mob, how?
ever, ly ached him. Of coarse the real
criminal will go free. This isa legiti?
mate consequeooe of mob law, and
every one who advocates or defends
it is lending his ioflaeooe to snob re
salts.-Chester Lantern.
CARPET-BAGGERS
AND NIGGER VOTES.
Plain Talk From Two South
ero Congressmen.
The New York Journal's Washing
ton correspondent gives nuder date
of the 8th inst the following graphic
report of two speeches delivered lo
the house against the Almstead and
Crampacker reapportionment bills :
There were two notable philippics
delivered in the house this afierooo?
from the Democratic side anent the
race problem The days when sec?
tional hatred marked the differences
between the two sides of the boose
were vividly recalled
Mr Otey of Virginia gave a sensa?
tional warning as to the condition of
affairs that might be expected if
northern Republicans persist in their
I efforts to revive the old feeling with
i resolutions intended to cnrtail the
power of the whites to rule in the
sooth.
Champ Clark of Missouri stirred
up the trouble with a proposition to
change the District of Columbia into
a territory and allow it a delegate in
congress and a local government of
its own making In reply to the
'argument that Washington is the
best governed city in America, he
declared :
"If a nigger is good enough to
vote against me in the Ninth district
of Missouri," he declared, "he is
good enough to vote for his own
representative here, and if I stay in
congress long enough I propose to
put the party in power on record as
declaring a nigger is not worthy of
voting anywhere, for it is because of
the nigger that yon don't want the
people of Washington to have self
government
OTEY'S REMARKBLE SPEECH.
This speech caused a sensation,
bot it was mild compared to that
caused by Mr Otey. His denuncia I
tion of carpetbagging to the new
American possessions was most
severe. Regarding the curtailment
of representation from the south, he
said in part :
"The logical end of all such agita
dons is negro domination in the
south, which is hell on earth to the
white men on the one hand or a race
war on the other. It means the
rrir^tallatioa of the carpetbagger.
I' ....eaos the reinstallation of the
demon of darkness and corruption.
"It means the coming of a buzzard
gluttoned with carrion-the descend
ants of those who. 35 years ago,
fastened their talons in the prostrate
body of the sooth, like those pitiless
birds who fed upon the vitals of
Prometheus when his helpless form
was chained to his rock.
.'Yes. it means the return of those
buzzards gluttoned with carrion that
are today following the calling of
their diabolical daddies in Coba, the
Philippine Islands and in Porto Rico,
who exude snch an odor that a
mosquito shuns them Yes, they are
so mean that the yellow fever germs
die in their presence They are so
loathsome that the smallpox microbes
fly from them, and if a 6nake bites
one of ithem it kills the ?n-?ke
PICTURE HE WOULD AVOID
"Thia is the picture that I would
avoid This is the picture that the
Olmsted resolution would draw.
Their financial acumen consists in
Ratbbonizing freedmen's fonds with?
out detection, in Neelyfying negroes'
wages without being caught.
"As for the Shattuc resolution, it
seems that neither that nor the
Olmeted resolution will pass They
will not pass until the fishworm
swallows the whale ; not until the
snail outruns the hare ; not until
Dutchmen stop drinking beer, and
not ontii! the billy goat butts from the
rear "
There was prolonged applause on
the Democratic side later in the day
when Mr Crumpacker mored to
recommit the reapportionment bill to
the cansos committee, with instrnc
tioo8 to ascertain what proportion of
the citizens of certain states are
deoied. the right of suffrage and
reduce the representation according
ly, and was defeated by a vote of 94
to 136
The Republicans in the main favor?
ed the motion on a rising vote, but
were afraid to go on the record with
a roll call
HANNA'S HAUL.
The enormity of Mr Uanua's pro
posed ship subsidy grab is clearly set
forth in some figures from the New
York World For $9,000,000 a year,
the amount proposed to be paid in
subsidies to already prosperous
steamship lines under the pretense
that it will "promote the foreign
commerce of the United Stntes," the
government could borrow ?450.000,
000 at the present rate of intered on
its bonds With $450.000,000 the
government could build a fleet of
steamships that would more than
double the tonage of our oceangoing
merchant marine and turn them over,
free of cost, to private steamship
companies for operation .
The cost of tbs war io (he Philippines
down to the present time would bave
paid for tbe Nicaragua Cans!, or irri?
gated 20,000,000 acres of western land,
which would have supported a million
American families.-N Y. Journal. '
SMALL CROP
AND HIGH PRICES.
An Estimate That Appears to
Be Warranted By Availa?
ble Facts.
New York, Jan 4-We desire
again to cali your attention to tbe
size of the crop indicated by tbe
movement so far this season For
the past 12 years the average move?
ment into sight to January 1st has
been TO 4 per ceut of the total out
put.
The amount in sight to January 1,
this season according to Mr Hester's
figures is 6,607,000 bales ;
Assuming 29 6 per cent to come
into sight for the balance of the sea
eon, equals 2,177,943 bales ;
Total crop, assuming the move
ment to date to bave equalled the
average of the past twelve years.
9,384,943 bales.
Our information gathered by spe
cial agents, and by extensive corres
pondeuce confirms tbe opinion we
have heretofore expressed, that th's
crop bas moved faster than the aver?
age.
In our opinion, therefore, the max
imum of this season's output may not
exceed 9,500,000 bales and may fall
materially below it. In this connec?
tion, it is a noteworthy fact that to
the 1st of January in 1897, when the
total * -as only 8,757,000 bales,
the ^ujt in sight was 6,398,192
bak , or only 134,117 bales less than
the amount in sight to the same date
this season. In 1891 1892, when the
crop was only 9,035,370 bales, the
amount in sight to January 1, 1892,
was 6,446,086 baies, or only 86,283
bales Ieee than the amount in sight to
the same date this season
It is also interesting to note that
in the crop of 1891 1892, the amount
in sight to December 1, 1891, was
4,782,232 bales, while the amount in
sight to December 1st, this season,
according to the Chronicle, was
4,795,708 bales . The movement this
year would seem to run more nearly
on a parity with the movement in
1891-1892 than any other season
While we believe it bas moved faster '
than tbe average, we do not now
believe it bas moved as fast as the
fastest. lu the early part of the
season daring tbe cotton famine
months, the movement was as rapid,
in our opinion, as it could possibly
be. We are informed that the
farmers camped around the gin
bouses and rushed their cotton to
market with the utmost rapidity
During the three weeks following the
break of October 10th, we believe
cotton was marketed more slowly
than usual, and that rapid marketing
did not again set in4?ntil the Novem
ber advance, since which date move
ment bas been more than norma). It
is safe to conclude, therefore, that
the movement in sigtot to date is
somewhere between the average and
the fastest of tbe past twelve years
In our opinion, an advance in
prices will bring on a large Jannsry
movement. There is a balance left
of this crop unmarketed, varying in
amount anywhere from 2,500,000 to ,
3.000,000 bales Picking and gin
ning ia practically concluded; and
this remaining portion of tbe crop is
ready to be sold as soon as a satisfac?
tory price cac be obtained. A large
January movement, however, would
not indicate a maximum crop of more
than 9.500,000 bales
One million bates for Jannary
would only bring the amount into
sight to the 1st of February, 7,607.
000 bales For the past twelve
years, the average in sight to Febru
ary 1st has been 80 10 per cent, so
that even assuming 1.000,000 bales
for January, we would have an in?
dicated crop on the lat of February
of not over 9,500,000 bales
A word now as to consumption
Io our opinion, Mr. Ellison has un?
derestimated the consumption for
this season We are informed from
the most reliable sources that unless
there is a prohibitive advance in the
price of cottou, that Southern con
sumption this season will equal, if
not exceed, last year's While some
mills may consume lees, the consump
tion of the new mills will more than
make good this deficiency There
may be some decline in the consump
tion of the Northern mills, but with
the enormous prosperity of the whole
country and with the large individual
purchasing power this prosperity
gives we cannot but believe that we
shall see during the rest of this sea
soo an expanding instead of a con
tracting trade. Mr Ellison reports
the consumption of the European
mills for November at 155 000 bales
per week against 137.000 bales iu
October this year, and 159.000 in
November last year Mr. Ellison
further states that the spinners; stocks
in Europe cn December 1st were on
ly 323.000 bales against 560,000
bales last year, or 237,000 bales less
It must, . therefore, be apparent
that the American crop this year
must exceed 10.150,000 stated by
Mr. Ellison for the requirements of
this year, or the cotton famine oil
next summer will be as great as it j
was laat year If the crop should !
not exceed 9,500.000 bales, which
we expect, the price wiil have to ad- |
vance to a point where consumption j
will be materially chocked.
Charles D Freeman & Co
L Cotton Commission Merchants I
PROGRESS OF
WAR IN AFRICA.
The invasion is Threatening.
Kitchener Holds Rail?
roads
London. Jan 12, 4 50 a. tn -It is
understood tbat Lord Kitchener now
bolds security all tbe railroads hoes in
South Africa, having recovered posses?
sion of Delgoa Bay Line, which bad
been ont Jan 7.
Accordiog to the Pretoria eorrespon
deot of The Daily Mail, Lord KitoheBer
is now organiziog a force of 30,00?
irregular boree, which will occupy some
weeds When this force is ready be
will re?ame offensive operations.
Meanwhile the invasion of Cape
Colony looks more threatening.
The defenses of Cape Town, tnclading
two 47 naval guns, are now oom*
pleted, and the recruiting of volunteers
is active throughout tho colony. Ac
cording io dispatches to The Daily
Express, tbe admiral of cf the Cape fleet
is prepared in an emergency ro land a
naval brigade of 2,900 men with six
botchkiss guns
A marrayBOor^ tele?am tbis morn?
ing says the Dutch tbere received the
Briri?h troops sullenly and is reported
thatchers aro rumors that the colonial
rebels of the neighborhood are join
ing the invaders.
The Pretoria correspondent of the
Morning Post, wires that a member of
the Burgher peace committee, whom be
interviewed, frankly oonfessed that
th are was no hops of many Burghers
surrendering
Prosperity and bailares
We heard a great deal of the proa
perity of the country during the past
year Some of us heard more of it
than we saw The political speakers
and McKinley spellbinders bad a
great deal tc say about it, and the re?
publican newspapers assured the
public they had seen nothing like it
before We like to see people pros?
perous, and the next thing to being
prosperous is believing you aie
But Don's Commercial Agency is a
very coldblooded concern when it
comes to figures, and its record of
failures during the year 1900 seems
to jar our ideas of all pervasive pros?
perity with a substantial jolt. Here
is what Dun's Review bas to say:
While it is not yet possible lo print
accurate figures of failures, during
the full year 1900, a preliminary
statement may be made that will
approximate the final result. Detail
ed returns for all but the last few
days of the year have been compiled,
and adding a proportionate amount
for the time still to elapse, it appears
that commercial failures will number
about 10,630, with liabilities of f 137,
000,000 Of this number 2,300were
in manufacturing for $49,750,000,
7,800 in trading for $60,000,000, and
530 brokers, transporters, etc , not
properly belonging ia either of the
other classes, for $27,250,000 Be?
sides these strictly commercial de
faults tbere were sixty financial con
cerns with liabilities of $34,000,000,
swelling tbe total to 10,609 in norn
ber and $170,000,000 io amount
TM* shows a large increase over tne
preceding year, when all failures
numbered 9,393 and liabilities were
$123.132,679 -Augusta Chronicle.
AFIRE IN DARLINGTON.
Darlington, Jan 8.-Dean's ware
house and wholesale grooery was barned
to tbe ground tonight. When the
alarm was sounded it was seen at once
tbat the bnilding eonld not be saved.
It is near the Coast Line depot. The
adjacent tobaeoo wiro booses were saved
by splendid work by white and colored
people, fireman aod volunteers. Ow?
ing ro tbe inflammable materials it was
was difficult to stand near the building;
but there was never any lack of volun?
teers to take the places of those who bad
been overheated Owing to the
work of tho firemen the fire was
confined to tbs original buildiog. The
stock was insurred for about $12.000,
but tbere was no insurance on tbe
building
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As a revenue raiser, tbe dispensary
is beginning to approaok the figures set
by its farber. Ben Tillman. This re
6ult has been achieved by the careful
business management of Commissioner
Crum and Directors Williame, Eraos
and Dukes County and ciry treasur
ies, a% well an tbe state treasury, have
havo been greatly helped by the large
reveeoes from a trafilo which oannot
be stopped, but can be controlled -Col?
umbia Record.
Roohcstcr, N Y , .Ian 8 -Twenty
eight bodies lie at the morgue and 12
others more or less seriously injured
lie at the different hospitals in the ciry
tonight ss a result of the terrible holo?
caust which ooourred early this morn?
ing at the Rochester Orphan asylum.
Of tbe dead, 26 wero children of both
sexes, ranging in age from 2 to 14
years, while the remaining two were
adults The fire, wbicb was discovered
at 1 10 am . and was docc.tlcss caused
by an explosion of natural gas in the
boiler room, adjoining tbe west wing of
thc asylum, spread so rapidly that
tanny of the 109 inmates of the institu?
tion were overcome by tbe fi?mes and
smoke alrrost without warning.
Wm. L. Trenholm. comptrollerjof
the currency under Cleveland, is
dead.
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