The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 16, 1901, Image 2
The Wsr oa tta Boere.
Oyohat Corps Outapeedti the
Boer? Iq m Race For a
Leedee, iaa Tkt 'British eeeaal
* Has re tat tfstisf Jtaaery i haiwtte
(V! Btbiegtoa'e fte*?e sad tat Boats,
f aasVr 9t* me Leray m4 Gee 8tete
kemp. si Naeewaeeri, wkte the burgh
J aas were fofstd to retire, were twelve
men killed aed thirty three wottrded
Obee Toaa, ist 9.?letreeoameote
beleg atemasttd tercet tke Ospe
from f elea Bey te Tskle Bay.
I
BelOB TALK MEANS NOTHING.
New lark, Jaa 9 ?Mootegoe
tke reatooettativt ef eke 8oetk
leeebUe. said today tkai he
ki e* tmaotteaee ekoeld he eitaah
ta the :?e*rts aed ptooctdiogo of so*
Beer paaee eemmitteee at Krooo
aed Lead sftteeeeet'e reeeat epeeeh
aha Serge* re* mettiog eear Pretoria.
??It le perfectly eater el," said Mr
White, "thai theee Boers who have
aatvtoderod valaetarily te the British
aad who have tehee the oath of oeutrel
lay aheald ha aieet eeiieed te retara to
la thaw fat see, hat they have leas into
aaae with the Igktiog bejrghere thaa
aha Brttiah saldiere who ere opposiog
them. Their ieleftettiee, therefore,
ha leaf aaeeatable thaa that ef
.. . fba Ooyperhesds doting the Aaisriaaa
!*? eivil war, er the Loveliots Jar lag the
of il
Kstoheoftr Send? Little Newa
nod That Diaoouraglng.
London, Jae 11, 5 a an ?Tbe sitae
hi Beath Africa grows worse rather
haiter. Lard Kiteheaer's dispatch
sere laeeeie thee theee o( Lord
rteaed Hale else of import* oeo is
allowed *e eeme throng b
The TUaeOy- ie ae editorial today,
^ laws easafm ia the theaght "that the
! at sens of emititiee it doiag lie work
< aa4 woei shortly leed to the iasvitahle
I
la ether teertest, boweter, there ia
eatiefaaiiea with tie state of
whUh hat praetisally aeeetsi
the foriif ewtiee of Oape To wo
Ha steps haut heea ttkta to comply
wkh Lord Cueeeoer'i demaad for
fooftreraemeete
Lard Coleridge, la t Utter txeosiag
Me aea ttteedaeeo as a politiaal meet
tag says :
"I tooth aad dstaat this war aed the
aettty ab tea broegki it about, tot
saade ie vkieh it is toodeeted ted tbe
eaadtf ailed oietlemeet over the defeat
ef a headfal ef peasants defending
?Chair eoaetry at tke heeds ef tee times
the it aamhar ef traioed soldiers, basked
?by the aealth ef Koglend "
Thla moraiog's dispatches report a
?ejaaell patty ef B ?era- tarried off eattla
?etaoe te the eeet feel at Preiorit Niat
heodroi Ibers, older Ocmmsodeat
Kritatoger. are 1ft anise from Rieb
?tend, ia the direction ef Marrtysharg
Remote ate spread log at Portertille
the rebelt have joiued the Boere
tho Cattle ie d'tatrtct.
Tke military cemmiteii aer of polite
Jahaaeeebarg bet vareed the peblio
a* ware ef the dtagtroea dyaamite
mit04 iaid ia the read to areteet the
mixe as the aatkeritiee eaoaot he
teepoaeible for iejeriee reealtieg there
rrta
L ?odoe. Jet 10 ?Get Kittheetr
ate it aews of a ttrstne aimul tattoos
attatk oa ihs eight ef Jaa 7, by tke
repobiietee ee the Krititb poeitioes
between ptiete 00 miles apart, tloeg
Ike neet ef the Pretoria aed Lorei to
Ma/qiet railway Tkt Itsaes oa both
tidtt wert heaay Aaeordiog to reports
the B?ere were teatto off after proloug
? ed flrfhnag
Puli ?wief s the teat of tbe dispatch
from G?e Kiteheaer:
? Pretoria, W*daeaday, Jaa 9. 19^1.
?Oo the nijbt oa Jan 7. tbe Biers
made eimel'socjea aod dvtermioed
attaets cp?e ?II tar poets tt Belfast,
Wo ?de -feateia, Ntoitgodaokt aed Wild
feeiei . let %tt fog prevailed tod
taking adv >e sje ?f ike eover it afforded
tkt Bo re et e e*>lt it tree? op oloee to
oar n*e? ioa. A he.ey fie aiotmoed
aetil 3 tO a. m. wh t tat Bo?re wert
drivtt off. Oaeoftterwse ki hd aod
lane w ?e d d, wulo 20 men were
kinad ?od 59 eoe ?de I The lost of
the B?ere*o?e bet>y, 21 J ad Doing
eoeu<e I
A ????.it ?7 '?tin* erinplioe t > Gordon's
bruad ai?"b of Krugersdorp, wa?
artee^ed t> Hejcr'o enoiruaodo yester?
day (Taesdte) The II >ore were driven
off letting 11 dsad oo the field Oo?
oi") ? nn# were f >ur elightly woeoded "
"Vita th ?eeand Boere aapposed to
be treSbieg weet from Vryborg," eays
the Cape Towe eorreapoedeet of The
Daily Mail, "are atw making their
way into tke beert of Cape Colooy.
The supposition it that tbty btre
captured several smsll garrieoas oo tbe
way."
i awaam?me> ^bwjw* - ? ?
A asgro who was arrested at Rome,
Go, oa suspioioa of tsetelt, bat baviog
beta ttkta before tke woman aesaalted,
wtt tot idcotified, aed as tbsrs was no
avideaee aa wbteh lo bold kirn, tke
jadge discharged him. A. mob, bow
ever, Itoehed him. Of eoarse the real
criminal will go free. This tea legiti?
mate eoiteqeeate of mob law, aad
every eae wha adSoeatee or defends
II ia leadiag hie isleeoee la each re
site?Otoattf Lea tare.
CARPET-BAGGERS
AND NIGGER VOTES.
Plain Talk From Two South?
ern Congressmen.
The New York Jonrnal'i Washing
too correspondent gifes ander dste
of the 8th loot the following grephio
report of two speeches delivered Io
the house ssrsinst the AI instead end
Crompeoker respportionment bille :
There were two ootoble philippics
delivered io the hooeo this efteroooe
from the Democrstic side eoeot the
race problem Tbe dsys wbeo sec?
tional hatred marked tbe differences
between tbe two sides of tbe bouse
were vividly recoiled
Mr Otey of Virgioio gare a sensa?
tional warning eo to the oooditioo of
affairs that might be ezpeoted if
oorthero Republicans persist io tbeir
efforts to revive tbe old feeling with
reoolotiooo intended to curtail tbe
power of the wbitee to role io the
sooth
Cbsmp Clerk of Missouri stirred
op tbe trouble with e proposition to
change tbe District of Columbia ioto
o territory snd allow it o delegate io
ooogroeo eod o looel government of
ite owo msking Io reply to tbe
'argument that Washington is tbe
beet goveroed oity io America, be
dec I sred :
"If e nigger ie good enough to
vole against me io tbe Niotb district
of Missoori," bo declsred, "he ie
good eooogb to vote for bio owo
represeotetive bore, ood if I otey in
ooogreee long eooogb I propose to
pot tbe perty io power oo reoord ee
declaring o oigger ie not worthy of
votiog ooy where, for it ie beosuse of
tbe oigger tbet yoo don't weot tbe
people of Washington to hove self
government *'
OTKY'8 REMARKBLE SPEECH.
Tbfe speech caused a seneetioo,
bot U wee mild compared to tbot
caueed by Mr Otey. Hie deooooie
tioo of oorpetboggiog to tbe new
Americao possessions was most
severe Regsrding the curtailment
of repreaentation from tbe south, be
seid io port:
MThe logics! eod of ell such egito
tiono ie negro dominstion in tbe
sooth, whiob ie bell on eorth to tbe
white men oq the ooe bood or o rsoe
wer oo tbe other. It means tbe
reinstsllotioa of tbe oorpetbogger.
It moons tbe reioetolletioo of tbe
demon of dsrkness end oorroptioo.
"It meono tbe coming of e bozzard
gluttcued with eorrion?tbe descend
oots of those who. 35 yesrs ego,
foetened tbeir tolooe io tbe proetrote
body of tbe sooth, like tboee pitiless
btrde who fed opoo tbe vitsls of
Prometheus when hie helpless form
woe ebeioed to bie rook.
Yes, it meoos tbe return of tbooe
buzzards gluitooed with carrion tbot
ere todoy following tbe colling of
tbeir diabolical doddiee io Cobo. tbe
Philippioo lelonffe eod io Porto Rico,
who exude eoob on odor tbot o
mosquito ebooe them Yes, they ore
eo meoo tbet tbe yellow fever germs
die io tbeir presence Tbey ore eo
lootbeome tbet tbe smallpox microbes
fly from thorn, eod if o snoke bites
ooe of tbom It kills the snake
PICTURE HE WOULD AVOID
"This ie tbe picture tbot I would
ovoid Tbie ie tbe piotore tbot the
Olmsted resolution would drew.
Tbeir fluoneiol acumen consists in
Ratbbonizing freed men's funds with?
out detection, to Neelyfylog negroes'
wogee without being oeogbt.
"As for tbe Shsttuo reoolutiou, it
eeeme tbot neither tbot nor tbe
Olmsted resolution will poos Tbey
will not pees until tbe fisbworm
swallows ifcej whale ; not until the
snail ootruos tbe bore ; not ontil
Dutchmen etop drinking beer, ood
oot ontil tbe billy goot butts from tbe
reer "
There wos prolonged spplsuse on
tbe Demooratio eide loter io tbe doy
wbeo Mr Crumpscker moved to
recommit tbe reopportionmeot bill to
tbe census committee, with iostroo
tioos to ascertain what proportion of
the oit zeus of certain states ore
deoied tbe right of eoffrage end
reduce the rspresoototion oocordlng
ly, ond woe defeoted by o vote of 94
to 136
The Republicans in the main favor*
ed the motion oo o rieing vote, but
I were ofroid to go on tbe record with
e roll ooll
HANNA'S HAUL.
The enormity of Mr Henna's pro
posed ship subsidy grsb is clearly set
forth in sonie 6gures from the Now
York World For $9,000,000 a year,
the amount proposed to bo paid in
subsidies to slready prosperous
eteomship lines under the pretense
tbot it will "promote the foreign
oommerce of tbe United States," the
government ooold borrow (450,000,
000 ot tbe present rste of interest on
its bouds With $450,000,000 tbe
government could build o fleet of
steamships thst would more than
double the tonege of our oceangoing
merchant marine and turn them over,
free of coat, to private steamship
oompooiee for operation *
Tbe oostof tbo war io tbe Philippines
dowu to tbs preaent time woold bsvs
psid for tbe Nissrsgua Canal, or irri?
gated 20,000,000 serfs of westoro land,
1 wbisb woold have sopporied o million
I Asisricao fossilise.?-N Y. Joorool ^
SMALL CROP
AND HIGH PRICES.
An Estimate That Appeara to
Be Warranted By Availa?
ble Facts.
New York, Jan 4?We desire
egeio to call your attention to tbe
eiie of the crop indicated by the
movement eo far tbie season For
tbe past 12 yeers the average move?
ment into sight to Jsnuary 1st has
been 70 4 per oeut of the total out
put.
The emoont io sight to January 1,
this eesson according to Mr Hester's
figures is 6,607,000 bales ;
Assuming 29 6 per cent to oome
ioto sight for tbe bslsnoe of the eea
eon, equals 2,777,943 bales ;
Total crop, assuming the move
meot to date to have equalled tbe
everege of tbe past twelve years.
9,884,943 balee.
Our information gathered by spe
oiel agents, and by extensive oorree
pondence confirms tbe opinion we
have heretofore expressed, that this
crop has moved fester than tbe ever?
ege
Io our opioiou, therefore, the max?
imum of this season's output msy not
exceed 9,500,000 balee and may fall
materially below it. In this connec?
tion, it ie e noteworthy fact that to
tbe 1st of Jsnuary in 1897, when tbe
total crop wes ooly 8,757,000 beles,
tbe amount in eight wee 6,398,192
beles, or only 134,177 bslee lees than
the emoont io eight to the same dote
tbie eeeeoo. Io 1891 1892, when tbe
orop wee only 9,035,370 bales, the
amount in eight to January 1, 1892,
wee 6,446,086 belee, or only 86,283
balee less theo the amount in eight to
tbe esme dste this eeeeoo
It is also interesting to note thet
io tbe orop of 1891 1892, tbe amount
io eight to December I, 1891, wes
4,782,232 bslee, while tbe amooot io
eight to December let, tbie eeeeoo,
ocoordiog to the Chronicle, wes
4,795,708 bolee . The movement tbie
yeor would seem to run more nearly
on o pority with the movement io
18911892 then ony other season
While we believe it bos moved fester
then tbe everege, we do oot now
believe it bes moved oe fest as tbe
fastest Iu tbe early pert of tbe
seoeon during tbe ootton famine
months, tbe movement wss oe ropid,
io out opinion, es it oould possibly
bo. We ore ioformed tbet tbe
feimere cimped around toe gin
bousee end rushed tbeir cottoo to
merket with the utmost ropidity
Duriog the three weeke following tbe
break of October 10th, we believe
ootton woe marketed more elowiy
theo usual, end tbot repid merketiog
did not ogoio eet iowjutil tbe Novem
ber edvotice, aiooe which dote move
moot bee been more theo normol. It
io eofe to conclude, therefore, tbet
tbe movement io sigfct to dote is
somewhere between tbe everege eod
tbe feeteet of the poet twelve years
Id oor opinion, eo advance in
prioee will bring on o lorge January
movement There ie e bale nee loft
of this crop unmarketed, varying io
amooot anywhere from 2,500,000 to
3 000,000 bolee Piokiog eod gin
oing ie practically concluded; eod
tbie remaining portion of the orop ie
reedy to be sold ae soon ee o sstisfac*
tory price can be obteiood. A Urge
January movement, however, woold
oot indicate a maximum orop of more
tboo 9 500,000 bolee
Ooe millioo belee for January
woold only bring tbe emoont into
eight to the 1st of Febroery, 7.607.
000 bolee For tbe poet twelve
yeers, tbe sverege io sight to Febru
ery 1st bss been 80 10 per oeot, so
tbst even assuming 1,000,000 bolee
for Jsnusry, we woold hove oo io
dioated orop oo tbe 1st of Febroery
of not over 9.500,000 bolee
A word now ee to consumption
In our opinion, Mr. Ellison hoe un?
derestimated tbe consumption for
this eesson We are informed from
the most reliable sources thet unless
there ie e prohibitive advance in tbe
price of oottou, that Southern coo
sumption this season will equal, if
not exceed, last year's While some
mills msy consume less, the coosump
tion of tbe new mills will more tboo
make good this deficiency There
msy be some decline in the consump
tion of the Northern mills, but witb
the enormous prosperity of tbe whole
country aud witb the large individual
purchasing power this prosperity
gives we cannot but believe that we
shall see during tbe rest of this sea
son sn expanding instead of a con
tracting trade. Mr Ellison reports
the consumption of the Europesn
mills for November at 155 000 bales
per week against 137.000 bales iu
October this yesr, end 159,000 in
November last year Mr. Ellison
further states thst the spinners' stocks
in Europe on December let were on
ly 323.000 bales against 560,000
belee lost yeor, or 237,000 bales less
It most, . 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 tho cotton famine of
next summer will bo ss great as it
was last year If the crop should
not exceed 9,500,000 bales, which
wo expect, the prico will havo to ad
vance to a point where consumption
will bo materially chocked.
, . Charles D Freeman & Co
r ^ Cottoo Commission Me reboots
sV
PROGRESS OF
WAR IN AFRICA.
The Invasion is Threatening.
Kitchener Holds Rail?
roads
London, Jan 12, 4 50 a. m ?It is
understood that Lord Kitobeoer now
holds seourity all tbe railroads lines in
South Afrios, having recovered posses?
sion of Delgoa Hay Line, which bad
been out Jan 7.
According to the Pretoria correspon?
dent of Tbs Daily Mail, Lord Kitoheoer
is ootr organising a foroe of 30,000
irregular horse, irhioh will ooeopj some
wsods When this foree is ready be
will resume offensive operations.
Meanwhile the invasion of Cspe
Colony looks more threatening.
The defenses of Cape Town, including
two 4.7 naval guns, are now oom*
pleted, and the reorutting of voluoteors
is aotive throughout tho colony. Ac
oordiog to dispatches to The Dsiiy
Express, tbe admiral of of tbe Cspe fleet
is prepared io an etnergenoy to la d a
naval brigade of 2,900 men with six
botohkiss guns
A murraysburg tslegam this moro
ing says the Dutch there reoeived the
British troopf sullenly sad is reported
that there are rumors that the colonial
rebels of the neighborhood are join
ing the invaders.
The Pretoria eorrespoodeot nf the
Morning Post, wires that a member of
tbe Burgher peaoo committee, whom be
interviewed, fraokly oonfessed that
thsre was no hops of maoy Burghers
surrendering
Prosperity and Failures
We heard e great deal of tbe proe
perity of the country during tbe poet
yeor Some of us besrd more of it
tbsn we sow The politiool speakers
end McKinley spellbinders bsd a
greet deol to ssy sboot it, end tbo re
publicsn newspapers assured tbe
publio they had seen nothing like it
before We like to see people pros
perous, eod the next thing to being
prosperous is believing you ate
But Dun's Commercial Agency is a
very cold-blooded conoern when it
comes to figures, end its record of
failures during the year 1900 seems
to jar our ideoe of all pervasive pros
perity with e substantial jolt. Here
ie what Dun's Review has to soy:
While it ie not yet possible to print
accurate figures of failures, during
the full year 1900, e preliminary
stotemeot moy be made that will
approximate tbe final result. Detail
ed returns for ell but tbe last few
doys of the yeor have been compiled,
eod eddiog o proportionate amooot
for tbe time still to elapse, it appears
tbet commercial feiluree will number
eboot 10,630, with liabilities of $137,.
000,000 Of this number 2,300 were
io manufacturing for $49,750,000,
7,800 in trading for $60,000,000, end
530 brokers, transporters, etc , oot
properly belonging io either of tbe
other classes, for $27,250,000 Be
sides tbeee strictly oommeroiol do
faults there were sixty financial con
corns witb liebilitiee of $34,000,000,
swelling tbo totel to 10,609 io oom
ber ood $170,000,000 io omount
This shows e Urge iocreoee over toe
preceding yeor, wbeo ell feiluree
numbered 9,393 eod liebilitiee were
$123,132,679 ?Augusta Cbroniole.
AFIRE IN DARLINGTON.
Darliogtoo, Jao 8?Deao's wars
house and wholesale grooery was buroed
to tbe ground tonight. Wbeo tbo
alarm was soooded it woe seen st once
tbst tbs building could not be saved.
It is near the Coast Lioe depot. Tbo
adjacent tobaeoo were booses wars saved
by splendid work by white sod colored
people, firemen aod volunteers. Ow?
ing to tbe iolsmmoblo materials it *vas
was dimoolt to stood near the boili jg;
but there was never any laek of volun?
teers to tske tbs plsoss of tbois who bad
beso overhssted Owing to tbe
work of tbo firemen tbe firs wss
confined to the original boildiog. The
stock wss iosorred for aboot $12,000,
but tbers wss no insurance on tbe
building
i? ? ? ?
As a rcvenue reiser, tbe dispeosary
is begiooiog to approaok tbe figures set
by its father, Ben Tillmsn. This re
suit has been achieved by the oarcful
business management of Commissioner
Crum snd Directors William?*, Eraos
aod Dukes County and city tressur
ies, as well as tbe slate treasury, have
havo been groatly helped by the large
revenues from a trsffio whioh oanoot
be stopped, but osu be controlled ?Col?
umbia Record.
Roobcster, N Y , Jsn 8 ? Tweoty
eight bodies lio at the morgue and 12
others more or less seriously injured
lie st tbe different hospitals io the oity
tonight ss a result of tbe terrible holo
osust whiob oocurred esrly this morn?
ing at the Rochester Orphan asylum.
Of the dead, 26 wero children of both
sexes, ranging in age from 2 to 14
years, while the remsioing two were
adults The fire, which was discovered
st 1 10 am . snd was doudtlcss oauied
by an explosion of natural gas io the
heiler room, adjoining tbo west wiog of
tbe asylum, spread so rapidly that
many of the 109 inmates of the institu?
tion were ovorcome by the flsmes sod
smoke almost without warning.
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July 11