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rHK SUMTER w ATC EEK AN, Established April. 1850. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Airns't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TRUE SODTHR?N. Established ?JoDe 3 r eg Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 12.1901. New Series-VoL XX, No. 46 Pu.blish.sl Evsry "STeizioslay, IST. Gr. Osteeiij SUMTER, S. C. TSF.MS : $1.50 per annum-in advance. ADVIRTISSMIKT: One Square first insertion.$1 00 Every subsequent insertion. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer wil be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private interests will be charged foras advertiements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged for. LETTERS BETWEEN TILLMAN AND MCSWEENEY. Senior Senator Withdraws Resigna? tion With Caustic Comments. Mcsweeney Kits Back at Tillman, Showing That He Can Use a Pitchfork on Occasion. Columbia, June 5.-The following: letters passed between Senator Tillman and Governor McSweeney today : Senator Tillman writing from Tren? ton, June 5, says to the governor : Dear Sir: ? am in receipt of your telegram in which you say, 1 under? stand Senator McLaurin's letter to be a withdrawal of his resignation.*' and I have read that worthy's communica? tion in which he graciously consents at your request ' ' to hold on to his commission as United States senator and continue to serve the State as he has done in the past to the best of his ability." This leaves me one of three alter? natives. To appeal to the Democratic executive committee to take the mat? ter up and determine what the best interest of the party requires to be done, to appeal to the senate itself to determine the question as to whether a resignation from that body, to take effect at some future time is binding, or withdraw my own resigna? tion. There are no precedents on this subject because in the hundred and twenty-five years of our national life, with more than 200 resignations from the senate, no senator has hitherto been willing to occupy the despicable attitude now assumed by Senator Mc Laurin, and forced upon me.. I am certain of one thing : that the execu? tive of a State has no authority to de? cline a resignation that has been ten? dered, and I am equally certain that had your excellency confined your ac? tion within legal bounds that your ap? pointees would be seated in the senate when that body meets in December, and hold their seats until the legisla ture should act in January. My chief regret is that I am forced by your ac? tion to engage in what the outside world will consider a game of opera bouffe, by withdrawing my own res igntion after Senator McLaurin's un? dignified and puerile action : but the purpose for which it was tendered has been thwarted by Senator McLaurin's precipitous acceptance of executive ad? vice. Bob Acres has been outdone for once. As I have already said I had no motive or purpose in resigning except to force McLaurin's, and there is nothing for me to do but accept the situation and withdraw my own resig? nation, if it be lawful, to do so. Yours respectfullv. B. ?. Tillman. MCSWEENEY STRIKES. Following is the copy of the letter sent tb Senator Tillman by Governor McSweeney : Sir: Your letter of June 1st has been received. I have carefully noted its contents, and the most charitable view which I can take of it is that it was written in the heat of passion and without due consideration. I note that you say that I have "transcended" my authority and that the governor "can not compel a mem? ber of the United States senate to hold his commission and exercise the function of that office if he chooses to surrender it," and that you "decline for the present to withdraw" your res? ignation. Had you read carefully my letter addressed to you and to Senator Mc Laurin, you must have seen that I did not express any desire to "compel a member of the United States senate to hold his commission and exercise the functions of that office," if he choose to surrender it. My sole pur? pose in returning the resignations was to ask you gentlemen to consider calmly and thoughtfully the conse? quences to the people of what I judg? ed to be a hasty act, and I must con? fess that I am somewhat surprised at the tone of your answer to my re? quest. I consider the course which I took in this matter to be for the best inter? ests of the people of South Carolina, and I am responsible to them alone for my action. And, furthermore, I still believe that my course has met the approval of a majority of the cit? izens of the State, nor do I consider them "unthinking citizens," but men who know and recognize as fully as any people on earth the rights and du? ties and responsibilities of citizenship and do not need the services of any one to tell them their duty. You insinuate that I have been "im? portuned" to "await the convenience" of any present or would-be aspirants who "are not just yet ready for vari? ous reasons to enter the contest brought on so unexpectedly" and that for this reason my action has taken the direction it has, is unworthy of a man holding the high commission which has been given yon by the peo? ple of South Carolina, and deserves notice in this connection. However, I may say for your benefit that I alone ; am responsible for my reply and will I give account for the course I have ! taken to the people who honored me and not to any one individual. In this matter I have done what I \ thought best calculated to promote the : present prosperity and contentment of i the people of my State, and shall con ; tinue to do so regardless of what anyone man may say or think of my course. I did not think that a political cam? paign this summer could do any good. However, had the resignations been unconditional and unrestricted, my action might have been otherwise. With due respect for your opinion, I think I have as high "conception of the office of senator and its powers" as you or any other citizen of this State, and you must have kaown that the brief interview to which you refer meant that I would simply meet the responsibility and perform my duty under the conditions. If you still wish to resign your com? mission and will send to this office an unconditional resignation, I will exer? cise the authority and power vested in me by the people. Respectfully, M. B. McSweeney. MCLAURIN IN NEWBERRY. Newberry, June 6.-Senator McLau? rin had an exclusive inning before a Newberry audience today. Those who were hoping to see some dramatic set to between the Bennettsville apostle of a revivified ard commercialized De? mocracy and some gunner for h is curly scalp were disappointed. No Pitchfork Ben appeared, and the Senator was unobstructed in a vigorous and elo? quent accounting for his official acts. This was a day big with fate for j firemen who had gathered from here, I there and everywhere to test the stout ? ness of hose, the' steadiness of reels, ' the winged rush of noble horses, the strength of brawny arms and the nim? bleness of the human body : and it was appropriate that the sports of the day should be rounded out with a feast of reason at the Opera House in the morning, and about eleven stories of fun by Billy Lamar's Peacherine Min? strels from Columbia tonight. There had been no disposition, how? ever to effect a shut-out for McLaurin. The invitation to address the dear peo? ple had also been extended to Senator Tillman and to Governor McSweeney. The former declined inasmuch as he had already promised to make an ad? dress in Newberry on the 18th inst before the literary societies of New? berry College, while the Governor was tied down to official duties. There were accordingly no pyrotechnics a la Gaffney, and the junior Senator con? fined himself to a rosy flow of well de? serving praise for the firemen and a decorous and parliamentary presenta? tion of his political views and beliefs. He made rejoinder to Senator Teller's reply to remarks in his Greenville speech, his attitude against Bryan, and made several vigorous references to political bossism in South Caroli? na: made "random remarks,"' as he termed them, on the matter of subsi? dies, exyxmsion, imperialism and com? mercialism. He did not call Tillman's name during his speech. The Opera House was comfortably filled by a rep? resentative audience comprising both sexes, who applauded some ten times during the one hour and twenfy min? utes of the Senator's speech. "While this applause was not roofraising, it showed considerable heartiness. The senator showed no signs of weariness or weakness after his effort, as he is reported to have done at Gaffney. He had furnished the newspapers with copies of what he had prepared to say, bul; he made a number of additions while talking and likewise omitted some portions. Senator McLaurin was introduced by Mr. Cole L. Blease, whose guest he was while here. In concluding his speech Senator McLaurin gracefully threw flowers of speech to the women, fairest rosebuds in the garden of flowers. If all the women in South Carolina were for him he would not care if all the men in both North and South Carolina were against him. There had been too much mud-slinging in political dis? cussions in this State. They ought to be conducted on a higher plane, so that any lady could come and hear them without a thought or word that would bring the mantle of shame to her cheeks. As the audience dispersed Senator McLaurin was surrounded by a num? ber of friends and for a few minutes there was a rosary of welcomes, hand ; shakes and>adieus. The Senator left on the afternoon train for "Washington to transact busi ? ness connected with the Charleston I Exposition. J. Wilson Gibbes. An important discovery is reported, and if the proper experiments shall prove satisfactory and conclusive, a great blessing will befall the human family. Professor Gaylord thinks he has discovered a true cause of cancer and the way to treat it. He will pub? lish at once in The American Journal ! of Medical Science a full description ! of the organism, illustrating it with fourteen full page plates, and will make the first complete report of the production of cancer in animals by inoculation with a pure culture of the germ. This will be followed with a summary of the length of life and gross lesions of seventy-two animals so inoculated. Such a transfer of the disease to animals with germs derived originally from human sufferers and cultivated outside of the human body, in connection with the positive identi? fication of the disease in the animals, constitutes scientific proof and clears the way for preventive and curative measures. Newberry, June 6.-Last night at the meeting of the South Carolina volunteer Firemen's association the following officers were elected to serve for the ensuing year: J. R. Haynes of Greenville, president : Jno. W. Ear hardt of Newberry, vice president : James E. Henderson of Greenville, secretary: Robert Lide of Orangeburg, treasurer: I. W. Bowman of Orange burg, statistician. MoiiURIN'S LETTER TO GOVERNOR. Gives his Reason for Withdrawing Resignation. He Will Make Speeches to Enlighten the People. Columbia. June 4.-Governor Mc? sweeney yesterday received the follow? ing letter from Senator McLaurin : Bennettsville, S. C.. June, 1, 1901, Governor M. B. McSweeney. Dear Sir: Your letter of the 31st of May, in which you decline to accept I my resignation as United States sen? ator, is received. The grounds upon which your declination is predicated are, that the people are entitled to one year of peace and freedom from political battles and bitterness, and that a campaign this year would be a "calamity to the State to be torn as sunder by a heated canvass in the off year in politics without any possible good to come of it. As an additional reason you suggest that any disturb? ance of the harmony of the people in their work for the advancement of the material prosperity of the State might result in retarding this progress. I appreciate fully the force of the reasons given by you, and the effects upon the people of the State of a heat? ed and strife-producing contest for United States Senator this year. For the sake of the "peace, prosperity and happiness of the people of this State," I am willing to hold on to my commission as United States sen? ator, and to continue to serve the State as I have done in the past to the "best of my ability." But, in retaining my seat in the senate, I will not consent to be handicapped or "bossed" by any one claiming a right to judge my motives and action. I propose to "execcise my judgement on all national questions under the influ? ence of a high sense of responsibility to the people, and to work for the up? building or the political and mate-ri? al interest of my State. I recognize fully my accountability to the sover? eign people, and am always ready to give a strict, account of my official acts to-them. Your suggestion that it is not your purpose by your official action "to prevent the fullest and freest discus? sion of all public questions and the education of the people along all polit? ical lines" is in accord with your pa? triotic course in reference to the res? ignations. The people are entitled to hear both sides of these questions and to form a judgment. Personalties and bitterness in a joint debate would interfere with a fair and full discus? sion of them, and instead of educating would mislead and deceive them. All that I have claimed is this right of the people and my right to enlighten them on these questions whenever called upon. In my effort to do this, I was interfered with by the senior sen? ator, who affirmed that my doctrines were political heresies and hurtful to the people. My wish is that all pub? lic questions may be freely and fully discussed before the people and I will be content to abide their decision upon them. In consenting to hold my commis? sion. I wish it understood that it is in response to your patriotic appeal that it is for the good of the State and not because I feared to go before the people and discuss with the senior sen? ator or others the national issues of the day. I am a public servant of the people, and it is my duty and pleasure always to promote their interests in every way I can. I have the honor to be, etc. McLaurin Dares Him to Resign Unconditionally. Senator McLaurin passed through the city yesterday afternoon on his way from Bennettsville to Newberry, where he will speak today. On the train with him was Mr. M."A. Teague of the Baltimore American, to whom Senator McLaurin gave an interview in which he spoke very bitterly of Senator Tillman, and stated that if Tillman would tender to the governor an unconditional resignation of his office, he, McLaurin, would consider this a direct challenge to himself and would resign his seat and enter the contest for Senator Tillman's position. -The State, June 6. Tillman Says He Called Him Once, and this is Child's Play. Rock Hill. June C.-Senator Tillman was not to be seen today until the Winthrop board adjourned for dinner at 2 o'clock. He did not seem inclined to notice the interview with Senator McLaurin, appearing in The State of this morning. He considers the stand which McLaurin takes to be so puerile as to be beneath notice and feels that it would not be dignified in him to reply to it at all. After talking on other subjects and evidently meditat? ing upon this, he again stated that af? ter thinking it over he did not feel that he had any answer at all to make to it. The interview, he says, comes in too round-about a way to take as a challenge and he considers that the action taken at Gaffney covered the whole situation. There he met his opponent's quibbles as to the form of the paper sent to the governor and gave what he considered an unquali? fied resignation. At Gaffney he forced McLaurin to "jump overboard" with him believing that he "could make land and that McLaurin could not." "It seems." said he, "that McSwee? ney has thrown him a rope and haul? ed him in, though the matter seems to have been arranged by mutual friends, and while I do not mean to charge Gov. McSweeney with sinis? ter motives, he has been unduly influ? enced and has transcended his au? thority." When asked if he thought there was a possibility of the junior senator tak? ing the initiative in this matter and sending in his resigntion first. Senator Tillman hooted at the idea, saying that after having turned tail and run before, that would boy's play in Mc? Laurin. DEMOCRATS ?ND EXPANSION. A Bit of History for the McLaurin ites to Study Seriously. McLaurin made a characteristic blunder when he stated that expansion is good Democratic doctrine : that it has always been so. Xever before has this country engaged in war of sub? jugation for additional territory. Xev? er before 1867, ' when Johonson, a Tennessee Republican, was president and everything in sight was Republi? can, when Alaska was bought from Russia, did the country commit any act of expansion as expansion is now understood. The swallowing of Ha? waii and its leper settlement later, in order to benefit a few sugar trust cap? italists and to continuera handful of white carpet-baggers in jobs, was like? wise perpetrated by Republicans, not Democrats. Democrats have always followed the spirit of the Monroe doc? trine. Democrats have never crossed seas on errands of conquest, not waged wars of subjugaation to acquire terri? tory. Prior to 1860, the additions of territory made by Democratic admin? istrations were always of adjacent ter? ritory and came in the way of natural bodily growth. Some of these additions were necessary to insure the political integrity of the nation, or to guaran? tee the independence won in the Rev? olution. Though the territory of Louisana was desirable in order that the United States could ef? fectually protect the pioneer settlers on the east side of the Missis? sippi from the depredations of the nu? merous savage tribes that infested the plains in the French territory beyond the river, Jefferson did not dream of buying it when he began to treat with France for the opening up of the lower Mississippi, which ran through French territory into the gulf of Mexico. At that time the United States had not an inch of gulf coast, for the Spanish territory of Florida joined the French territory of Louisana at Pearl river. Spain had controlled Louisiana also, and had permitted the United States the use]of the river, but Xapoleon came into power, abrogated the treaty of Il? defonso, and again made Louisiana French territory' thus doing away with the agreement between Spain and the United States. It was before the day of railroads, and the water courses were the most important avenues of communication and travel. Closing the lower Mississippi bottled up all the United States except the narrow strip along the Atlantic seaboard. It became necessary to treat with Xapo? leon. When this autocrat of Europe intimated that the territory could be bought by the United States Jefferson was good enough Democrat to settle thus peaceably and honorably, a?d forever, this Mississippi river ques? tion. He also took what under the circumstances came almost as a free gift with it. the immense territory controlling all the tributaries, of that river on the western side, doing away with any subsequent claim of England or Spain to the right of use of .this wa? terway now opened to the free use of all our own citizens. He settled at the same time an impending Indian question by getting these savage tribes within our own territorial jurisdic? tion so that we could deal with them in our own way and rid the river valley of a continued menace. The territory was contiguous and not oth? erwise objectionable. The Seminole Indian trouble and the invasion of Florida by Jackson led to an offer by Spain to sell that territory to the United States. It came between our Atlantic coast and the mouth of the Mississippi and was contiguous and otherwise desirable, and was added to the United States in 1819. Texas was peopled by our own kith and kin. They adjoined us and asked to be taken ?in. The United States was Democratic and took them in on such extraordinarily Democratic terms that Texas was granted the privilege of dividing itself at any time it wishes into four States and sending eight representatives to the United States Senate instead of two. Mexico grew jealous, went to war, and being unable at its conclusion to pay any other indemnity for the cost to the United States granted territory next to and beyond Texas and the Louisiana purchase to the Pacific. But we were so considerate and Democratic in dealing with our neighboring re? public and attached so little import? ance to the land she had given us that we forgot in the treaty (that called the trfeaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, if we remember correctly ) that we did not make the boundary line south of the Gila river sufficiently definite, and this led to"a quarrel which we settled in a Democratic way in 1852 without an appeal to arms, by what is known as the Gadsden purchase, a considera? tion of 810,000,000, by which the boundary between the Rio Grande and great Colorado, and south of tne Gila, was settled. This brings us to the place where the Republican party, grown pompons on the results of the civil war, took things in hand. Instead of the policy of broad, liberal, just and natural growth, followed by the Demoratic party, they substituted expansion into foreign territory by force, in which the rights of humanity are ignored for the rights of the dollar. Commerce is put before independence : expedience before justice, "destiny" before duty: in this the doctrine of greed and grab have overshadowed all else. Yorkville Yoeman. Cheraw, June 6. -W. H. Lyles, rep? resenting the South Bound Railroad. D. W. Robinson, representing the Florida Central and Peninsular, and W. F. Stevenson, representing the Seabord Air Line Railroad Company, appeared before Chief Justice Mciver at his chambers this afternoon in the case of Watts against the above named railroads in which case Judge Gage had granted an order appointing a re? ceiver, and they obtained an order staying proceedings. ? German Expedition Massacred and ! Eaten By inhabitants of St. Matthias of the'South Sea islands. Berlin, June 6-The Tageblatt prints special correspondence from New Guinea containing a full account of the massacre of the members of the First German South Sea expedition on the Cannibal islands of St. Mat? thias. They were all killed and eaten except a Dr. Heinroth. The Colonial fZeitung, the official organ of the German Colonial society, furnishes details of the masascre. It seems that the vessel which carried the expedition to the island of St. Mathias left, after a few days for Her bertshop,'New Britain, to get coal and fresh supplies. During its absence the savages who had hitherto appeared friendly, although known to be rabid cannibals, planned to kill and rob the diminished party. The plot was carried out one morn? ing wxile the members of the expe? dition who had a body guard of 40 Papuans, were cleaning their rifles, which they had taken apart. Sudden? ly 80 of the islanders broke from the brushes, raising war cries and brand? ishing spears with which they stab? bed to death the leader of the party. Dr. Mencken, his secretan*, Herr Caro, and a white sailor who was asleep under a tent. Dr. Heinroth emptied his revolver into his assailants while the body guard in the meantime retired to the boats with the wounded, and Dr. Hein roth, leaving 12 dead. The boats put off to an island not far dis? tant, where the expeditionary vessel rescued them. Susequently the survivors returned to the island of St. Matthias, where they found that the bodies had been devoured and the camp absolutely looted. COST OF THE BOER WAR. London, June 6.-After a lons1 and somewhat embittered discussion of the policy of the war office in buying horses for use in South Africa, the house of commons tonight by a vote of 159 to 60. voted the sum of 15,779, 000 pounds sterling for transports and remounts. Sir Blundell Maple, Conservative, asserted that British officers who had been sent to Hungary and Austria had purchased broken down animals at extravagant prices and divided with the sellers the price charged the British government above the actual cost. He demanded the appointment of a committee of inquiry. Lord Stanley, financial secretary of the war office, said an inquiry would be made into the matter and he believ? ed that the accusations of corruption brought aginst British officers would be disproved. Mr. Brodrick, the war secretary, said the war office paid for horses in England 42 pounds, in Canada 30 pounds, and in Australia, the United States and Hungary 20 pounds and 25 pounds. Later in the discussion Mr. Brodrick said a telegram had just reached him from Lord Kitchener announcing that between 50,000 and 60,000 troops were now suitably mounted. The war secre? tary defended the good quality of the horses bought abroad. It is understood the charges made by Sir Blundell Maple are of a very serious character. It is asserted that in one case an officer netted 50, 000 pounds sterling in the purchase of horses in Hungary. Dissatisfaction is said to have exist? ed because the government has been buying horses on the continent when colonial animals were available. Accident to American Cup De? fender. Newport, R. I.. June 4.-While dashing along in a good wholesale breeze off Brenton's Reef Lightship this afternoon with three lower sails set. the big hollow steel mast on the Belmont syndicate cup defender Con? stitution collapsed like a blow pipe, through the sudden breaking of the starboard and windward spreader. The mast broke off only a few feet below the spreader, about three fifths of the length of the mast above the deck, and as the top mast was carried away at the same time none of the spars struck the deck except the boom, and the latter only hit it light blows which did not injure the hull at all. None of the sails were torn and all can be used again. For? tunately three seamen had just come down from the masthead after taking in the club topsail, but the wreckage swept overboard Second Mate Edward Nelson. He was promptly hauled on board, however, without sustaining mon' than a few bruises. The Constitution will be taken to Bristol tomorrow morning, where an? other steel mast is nearly finished. The yacht will be immediately refitted, but it will be probably ten days or two weeks before she is in shape to sail again, so that the races off this port, scheduled for June 15 and 17, will have to be postponed. Washington, June 4.-The duty of getting up an expensive project for the Charleston navy yard, which is to take the place of that at Port Royal, has been committed to a navy board, of which Capt. Taylor is the presid? ing officer. This board is now meeting at the New York navy yard in connec? tion with the proposed new naval station at Ollongapo, in the Phillip pines, and as it has made a study of the requirements of the naval station, it has been deemed desirable to have the Charleston project elaborated at the same time. " Florence, June 5.-Only 92 citizens voted in the waterworks election yes? terday, but of these 84 cast their bal? lots in favor of the bond issue. THE CHINESE SITUATION. j Washington, June 4.-The plan of a modns vivendi on the subject of j the Chinese indemnities is now re ceiving the earnest attention of those { interested in the Chinese negotia I tions. the purpose being to prevent this indemnity question from causing any interruption in the concert of the powers, and at the same time to remove the indemnity issue itself s that progress can be made on the re? maining subjects of negotiation, chief of which is the conclusion of perma? nent treaties between China and the several Powers.. The question over the indemnity arose during the Presi? dent's Western trip, but since the re? turn of the President and Secretary Hay it has been taken up anew and thoroughly gone with the foreign rep? resentatives chiefly concerned, in? cluding the British, Russian and French ambassadors and the Japa? nese minister. As a result of the exchanges of the last few days the question has re? solved itself into about the following basis: "There is no further issue as to the total of indemnity, that being agreed upon by all the Powers at $337,000, 000. But there remains the question of how this amount shall be paid. The Russian suggestion, which ap? pears to have the approval of a major? ity of the Powers, is that China issue bonds for the full amount and that all the Powers then unite in giving a joint endorsement or guaranty of the payment of them The desire has been not only to secure the assent of a ma? jority of the Powers to this scheme, but the unanimous approval of all of them This, however, has not been accomplished up to ths time, and it is for this reason that the modus vivendi is now being considered as a possible means of bringing about united action. "The British Government is not favorable to the Russian proposition and the British view has taken form in a plan to have China issue her own bonds to the several Govern? ments, each Government thereaf? ter adopting its own course as to an individual guarantee. The chief difficulty, which the United States finds to a joint guarantee is that the Constitution does not author? ize the Executive to guarantee bonds in the absence of the approval of Con gress. As to the attiutde of Congress, it has been stated during the negotia? tions that much doubt existed whether the legislative branch would approve a joint guarantee of such a vast total of bonds, Moreover, the American view has been that 4 per cent bonds as contemplated by Russia would not be a prudent investment for the United States, since the United States sells bonds readily at 2 1-2 per cent, whereas Russian 4 per cent securities sell at 93 cents on the dollar.'' THE CHINESE INDEMNITY. Washington, June 6.-The ambassa? dors from most of the European coun? tries were in conference with Secretary Hay today, mainly because it was diplomatic day, which afforded an op? portunity for discussing the state of the Chinese negotiations. It is under? stood that the middle ground, or modus vivendi, as it is being referred to, concerning the form of paying the indemnity, is likely to be set? tled by a joint and several guaranty. This will be in compliance with the American view that there should be no joint guaranty, in the sense of binding each government to securing the payment of the entire$337,000,000. It will be joint, however, in the formal aspect of being executed by ali of the powers jointly, at the same time and probably by the same instru? ment. This instrument, doubless, will include a provision by which each government is to assume, no liability beyond the amount of its own share of "the indemnity, which, in the case of the United States is limited to 825,000,000. In answer to bis inquiry. Special Commissioner Rockhill at Pekin has been informed that the United States government has not taken any steps recently looking toward the abatement of its claims for indemnity against China by one-half regardless of the action of other powers. Pretoria. Wednesday, June 5.-Col. Wilson, with 240 of Kitchener's scouts, has surprised and routed 400 Boers be? longing to the Beyer's command, 34 miles south of Warm Baths. The Boers resisted stubbornly, but finally broke and fled, leaving 37 dead. 100 prisoners and all their wagons and supplies, including S,CC0 cattle, in the hands of the British. The loss of the latter was three killed and 15 wound? ed. Beyer's command arrived on the scene soon after the engagement, but failed in an attempt to recapture the supplies. Beyer was thus left practi? cally without transport or supplies. Managua. Nicaragua, May 16.-A. record of the assent of Nicaraguans: Congress in 1853 to the Clayton-Bulwer treaty of 1S50 has been discovered in the archives of the National Palace at Managua. Senator Morgan, of Ala? bama, in his speech in the United States Senate, March 6 and 7, 1901, said the Clayton-Bulwer treaty did not have the consent of Costa Rica ot Nicaragua. Probably notice of Nica? ragua's assent was not communicated to the State department at Washing? ton, because at that time diplomatic relations with Nicaragua were indi? rect and irregular. The assent was evidently given in the belief that it would be satisfactory to the United States, and that Great Britain would abandon her claim to the Mosquito Territory. Columbia, June 6.-The supreme court, which has been in session for several weeks, has practically finished I the work of the April term and yester? day took a recess until October 4th when that court will sit en bane with the circuit court in the hearing of the cases of Wilson and of Calvert against I the Southern railroad.