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?' i .^ H ii ? KEY. DR. TALMAGE. r?B MOTRD DIVINR'J' JIUNDA1 DIaCOUItSK. ' ' f T?xt: ^'A.nd tho king went forth and tarTied In u place which was fur off."?II Samuel sv., 17. 11 Par op and fur back in tho history of heaven there came u period wbOu Its mo3t Illustrious Citizen was about to absent .Himself. Bo whs not Ruins? to suit front beach to beach; wo havo often dono that. Ho was not going to put out from one hemisphere to nilother hemisphere; many of us hnvo done that. But tie was to sail from world to (world, the spaces unexplorod and tho im\ mensitios untravolc-l. No world has over J hailed heaven, and heaven has never hailu.l | any other world. I think that tho windows and tho balcouies wore thronged, |: and that tiio pearly bench was crowded t I ! wltu those who had come to seo Him sail I li oa* ?' the harbor of light into the ocean H beyond. Out und out nnd out. and on nnd on and on. and down and down nnd down IIo sped, until one night, with only one to greet Him when Ife arrived, His disembarkation so unpretending, so quiet that it was not known on earth until the excitement in the cloud gave intimation to the Bethlehem rustles that something grand and glorious had happened. Who comes there? _l.?. . .11.1 lr iw v-L.. . Xiuui Hum |??H UIU uu r?ii11r ny WHS inn the phiee of His destination/ 1 question th?? shepherds. I question the camel drivers. I ' ' cation the angels. I have found out. II" v. \an exile. Hut tlio world had plenty of ?xi " Abraham, an exile from Harnii; Jot an exile from Kphesus; Kosciusko, an exl from Poland; Mnaaiui, an exile from Ro it; Emmet, an exile from Ireland; Victor H?'_6, an exile from France; Kossutli, an exiy ilom Hungary. Hut this one of whom I / Jnk to-day bad such resounding farewell jd came into such chilling reception?Tor liot even a hostler went out with Ids lantern to lipid Him in?that II" is more to bo celebrated than aay other expatriated exile ol cuVth or heaven. First, I remark that Christ was an imperial exile. Ho pot down off a throne. He took off a tiara, lie closed a palace pate lieliiud Illm. Ilis family were princes and princessess. Vashti was turned out of the thron'TOom bv Ahasuerus. David was dethrone 1 by Absalom's infamy. The five kings were hurled into a cavern by Joshua's courage. 8o.ni of the Henrys of Enphtud and some of the l.ouisof Franco were jostle 1 on their thrones by discontented subjects. Iv Hut Christ was never more honorn 1 or more poptdar or more loved than the .day Ho left Jieaven. Kxiles have suffered severely, but Christ turned Himself out from throneroom into sheep pen, and down from the top to the bottom. If" was not pushed off. He was not manacled tor foreign transportation. Ho was not put out because they no more wanted Htm in celestial domain, but by choice, departinp and descending into nn oxile live times as long as that of Napoleon at St. Helena, and u thousnn I times worse? the one exile sufTurinp for that lie had destroyed Nations, the other exilo suffering l>ecauso He came to save a world. An imperial oxile. Kinp eternal. "Mossing and nonot and plory and power bo unto Him that sitteth upon the tlirone." ' Hut I go farther and toll you IIo was an exile on a barren island. This world is onv of the smallest islsnds of lipid in the ocean of immensity. Oilier stellar kingdoms an many thousand times larger than this. Christ enmo to thi.s small 1'atinos of a world. When exiles ure sent out. tliey are generally sent to regions that aro sau ly or cold or hoi ?some Dry Tortugns of disugrecnblene.sf, Christ camu as an exile to a world scorched with heat and bitten with cold, to deserts simoon swept, ton howling wilderness. It was the back dooryard sosmiiigly of the universe. Yon, Christ eamo to the poorest pari of this barren island of a world?Asia .Minor, with its intense summers, unlit for tho residence of a foreiguor, and in tho rainy season unfit for tho resident.'!) of a native. Christ came ?- not to such a land as Amutieu or England or Franco or Germany, but to a lau 1 one-third spf the year drownod, another third of the ' yiear burned up, and only on" thirl of tho yjar Just tolorablo. Oh, it was tho barren island of a world! Darren enough for Christ, for it k?v" such small worship and such inndoquato affection, an I such little gratitude. Imperial exile ou the barren is.au 1 of a world. Tho earth against Him. I go further and tell you that IIo was nu exile in n hostile country. Turkey was never so much agnin.-t ltussia, Cm nee was never so much against Germany, a; this earth was against Christ. It took Kim in through the door of a Mnhl-*. it thrust Him out at the point of a spear. Tho K enan Government against ilim with every weapon of its arm, And every decision of its courts and every t**k of its war cag es. For years sifter H?s nx ivat tin* only ipn st on was Isow best to vnt Hint out. Ibvod ha.e.l Him, tho high priests tinted Ilim, tin* I'iiarise vs hate I Him, * Judas Iseariot liated liim, Ge.-dns, tic dying thief, hated Ifi'ii. The whom earth seemingly turned into a defective i , w it-*Ii 1 lis steps. And yet lie faced this ferocity. Nolle i 1hnt most of Christ's woiin's were in front, Bon-n scourging on the shoulders, but most of Christ's wounds in front. If.- was n ?; on retreat when lie expire I. Face to fneo with tho world's ferocity l-'aee to fr. .? with tho worid'ssin. Fa".! to fa .m wit'i the world's woe. His eyes on tho raging countenances of His foaming antagonists vh'*n lie expired. When the cavalry officer rowelo 1 his steed so that In might come nearer up and see the torture I vRig > of tho suffering exile, Clirisl saw it. Wlem tho spear wim thru-t at His side, an t when t n?j ii.niihut was ii;ie.. ior 111^> .t'.'i, and who:i tho reed was ra;>\l to strike dcohcr down tlu< spikes of t lr>rii, Christ waieho ! the whole procedure. Whi'n Ilis hands wcro fastened to tho cross thev were wido open still with hciiodiction. Min I yon, His head was no*, fastened. l(o roiibl look to tho riifht an I IIo i'on!d look to tlio loft, l!o could look n;? and Ho could look down. Ho saw wlion tho spikes had boon drivon ho no, anil tho hard, round, iron hoa Is worn in tho palms of His hands. Ho saw tln-mas plainly as you over saw anything in th ? pa'ins of your hands. No ether, no ohlorofot m, no merciful anre? 1 hctiu to dull or stupofv, but, wi.'.o nwuko, IIo saw Iho o. s''irntion (>r tiio heavens. tho iinlia Hncinooi" tin* rocks, tho coii'i'oiviuocs quivering with rat?o and tlio caohiiination diabolic. O'i, it was tlio hostile) as woII as tb>\ barren island of a world. 1 iro further and Udl you that thisovilo xvas far from homo. It is 05,1'100,000 miles from here to Iho sun, and all astronomers aitrcio in sa\ inu that our so ar sy.-to:n is only one of the smaller wiiods of tho icroat machinery of the universe I urninr around sonio one jrrcat center, tho center so far distant it is beyond all imagination and calculation, and if. as some think, that ere at center in tlio distance is heaven. Cor. I eamo far from home when He came hero Have you ever thought of the ho>ne.-ieki c-sof Christ'/ Homo of von know what homesickness i < wh"i? you have be a only a few weeks absent from tho domestic circle. Christ was thirty-thrco years away from home. S >mo of you feed homed kne-s when v oi nro a hundred or a thousand miles awnv from the domestic circle. Christ was n. re million miles nwav fl'oin I,'"lie than y ;t cm Id count if ml J our life you did nothing hut count. You know what it is to !? h miic-ck i'yen amid pleasant KiiiTonniliiiU', i.iit Christ slept in huts, and lie wasallntsl. an l II w.is a-hum/ere.j, mid Ho was on tho wav I run being o >rn In another tiuii.'s ham io being buried in another man's grave. 1 have read how the Swiss, wnen they are far away troin their native country, ai tho sound of tiieir National air tret so homesick thai they tall into melancholy, and sometimes they die mi I r I he home ic', uu-s. I tut. oli, the i omesiekness oi Christ! Cover y hoiiiesick tor celestial riches. Persecution homesick for ho-anna. Wearin i>s homesick for re-t. Homesick lor mnreiin mil nrchaii^i'lic <Mmpnni'>i?*liip. HomrPifk to ip-t out of tho imrlit, ami tho storm, and tlio world's o;{ucratioi:. Homesickness will make a woek scent ns lone as h month, and it soems to me tlint the three decades of Chrisl's residence on earth must have seemed to Him n'most as Interminable. You hnve often tried to measure the other pangs of Christ, but you have never tried to measure the magnitude and ponderosity of a Saviour's homesickness. \ 1 take a step farther and tell you that Christ was in nu exile which He knew would end in assassination, flolmaii Hunt, the master painter, has a picture tn whioh he represents Jesus Christ in the Nnr.arene carpenter shop. Around Him aro the saws, the hammers, the axes, the drills of carpentry. The picture represents Christ ns rising from the carpenter's working kenoh and wearily strctclfng out His arms ns one will nftor being in contracted or uncomfortable posture, and the light of that picture is c> arranged that tlio of Christ, wcariif airctelieJ forth, together w'th His body, throw on the wall the shadow of the cross. Oh! tny friend*, that shadow was on everything In Christ's lifetime. Shadow of a cross on the llothlehem swaddMng clothes. Shadow of a cross on the road over which tho three fugitives fled into Egypt. Shadow of a cross on Lako Galileo as Christ walked i s mosntn floor of ope' and emerald and crystal. Shndow of a iross on tho road to Emmnus. Shadow of a cross on tho brook Rcdron. and on tho temple, and on the side of Olivot. Shadow of a, cross on sunrise and sunset. Constantino, marching \7ill1 Ids army, saw just once a cross in tho bky, but Christ saw the cross all tho time. Hawthorne, turned out of the office of collector at Saloin, went hom? in despair. IPs wir., i 1,1. ?i .... -w wuv.x.ii iiiiu mi inn rinmmur iliitl ham, "Now is tho time to write your book," ami bis famous "Scarlbt Lottor" war. tho brlliaut consequence. Worldly good sometime? comw from worldly evil. Then bo not unbelieving when I toll yon that from tho greatest crim? of n'l etornltv an 1 of th<* wltolo universe, tho irfhrder of tho Son o' God. there shall como results whloh ahull eclipse all tho grandeurs of elornity past and eternity to come. Christ, an exile from heavon opening tho way for tho deportation toward heavon and to baa van of ull thoso who will accept tho pro (Tar. Atonement, a ship largo ouough to take alt iho passenger? that will como aboard it. For this royal exile I bespeak the lovo an I service of all the exiles hero present^and in one sense or tho other that includes all ol us. The gates ot this continent have been so wide y opened that theroaro hero many voluntary exiles from other lands. Komo ol you a to tjjytchmcn. I f.oe it iu your high j cheek bones and tn tin color tint illumines your faco when I mention 1 ha laud of yout I nativitl'- llnntl V Kcntlnnil' Tlnni ?|W Soma of your ancestors sleeping iu Grey, friars churchyard, or by Iho deep loebs lilie.l out of the pitchers of heaven, or under th heather, sometimes so deep of color it make* one think of the blood of the Covenanters who signed their names for Christ, dipping their pens into the veins of their own arm? opened for that purpose. How every tlher of your until'e thriUs as I mention the names of Hubert Bruce and the Campbells and Cochrane! I bespeak fortius royal exile of my text the love and service of all Scotch exiles. Some of you are Englishmen. Your ancestry served the Lord. Have I net read of the sufferings of the Haymarkot, and have I not seen in Oxford the very spot where llidley and Latimer mounted the red chariot? Some of your rmcstors heard George Whitclleld thunder, or heard Chariot Wesley sii^Ei" heard John Buuyun tell his dream orcfiocefesiraT city, and the enl'm Irals under the shadow of which some of you were- | horn had iu thoir grandest organ roll the I name of the Messiah. I bespeak for the royal exilo of my sermon I the love and the service of all English exiles. Yof,some of you came irotn the island of distress over whioh hunger, on athronool human skeletons, sat queen. All efforts at amelioration halted by massacre, Procossiou of famines, procession of martyrdoms marcliing from northern Cnnnii'd to Cap: Clear and from the Irish Sea across to tht Atlantic. An island not bounded as geographers tell us, but, lis every philanthropist knows, bounded on the north and the south aud the east an l tho west by woo which no human politics can alleviate and only Almighty God can assuage. Land of Goldsmith's rhythm, and Sheridan's wit, and O'Conncll's eloquence, and Edmund Hurke't statesmanship, and O'Brien's sacrifice. Another Patinos v/ith its upoca ypsa ol blood. Y'et you eanr.ot think of it to-day without having your oyosblinded with crantton, for there your ancestors sloop in graves, some of which they entered for lack ol hrea 1. For this royal exile of my s wn on ' bespeak the love and the service of all Irish exiles. Yes, some of you are from Germany, the land of Luther, and some of you are from Italy, tho land of Garibaldi, and some ! of you nro from France, the land of John Calvin, one of tho three migiities of the glorious reformation. Some of you aro do- | seejidants of the Puritnus, and they were exiles, and some of you descendants of the I Huguenots, and they were exiles, and some | oi you are <i"s:vnilant.s of tho Holland refugees. anil they wore exiles. bonus of you were horn on the Lank* of the Yazoo or tho Savannah, and you are now livir.tr in this latitude. Some ol you on the banks of tho K Mini.ii <*. or at tho loot of ilia Orrcn Mountains, ami you are hero now. Some of you on tlu> prairies of the Wist, or tho tablelands, ami yon nr? hero now. () >, how many of its far away from homo. All of us exiles. Tiiis is not our homo. Ilea,van is our homo. Oh, 1 am so clad I whan tho royal exile want bael: Ho j loft tho ffato ajar, or left it witlo | opan. ''Coing homo!" That is tho dying i nx.'lamntion of tho majority of Christians, i f itavo saca many Christians die 1 think I nine out oi ton of thorn in tho last moment , say, "Coing homo." Coins homo out of banishment and sin and sorrow an 1 sa 1ness, (Joint; homo to join in tho hilarities of our parents and our daar children who havo aires iy departed. Going homo to Christ. Coins; homo to God. Coin'; homo to stay. I Whore are your loved ones that diasl in I Christ? Yoti pity tho n. A'a. they ought to ! pity you! You are r.n exile far from home. 1 'i'hoy are home! oh, what a tiaio it will be | ! for yon when the gatekeeper of heaven shall j siy: "Take off that rough ran ltd, the jour- ! ivy's ended. 1'ai down that saber, tho tint- I 1 tie's won. Put off tnnt iron coat of mail j and put on tha roba of eoiupieror." At that . \ gate of triumph f leave you to-lay. only ! loading three tender cantos translate.I from tho Italian. If you over heard itnytliinv; sweeter. I never did, although 1 cannot 1 adopt all its theology 'Twas whispero I one morning in lvavoa How tho little child angel May, ( In tho shade of tito (treat while portal, < Sat sorrowing night And day, ] Ifow she said *o tho stately warden, i Ho of tho Key and oar t "Oil, angel, sweet angel, I pray you Set tlio beautiuil gates ajar, < Only a liltle, 1 pray you, i I bet tlio bcautitul gates a^ar. ; "I iMnlionrmy mother weeping She is lonely; she cannot sen A glimmer of light in the ilarknexf. < Wle-n the gato shut after in-*. 1 Oil, turn mo the key, sweet angel, i The s|>len<|oi' will shine s ? fur," I I'llt the war.leu answered. "I tiare not Set tun beautiful gates ajar." S|> ike low an 1 ansa -re.I, "1 duro not, .* Set the heautii'ii notes ajar." i I Then uprose Mary, the h'epso 1, i Sweet Mary, the mother of t'liri-e, t Her lian I on the hand of the angel Sh" laid, an 1 h"*r touch sufli a* !. | I Turii-nl was the key ia the porta , ' "> Fell r. girpg the golden hp-, J And, h>, in the little* child's Ha.;crj " Stood tin* li.-aiitiiiil ga'es ajar, ? In t in littl e idhl's n'l'g d lingers Stood titu beautiful gates ajar, Europe talks or war ami keeps ihe > peace, but lite Turk talks of peace anil J goes on with his slaughtering. c c Subsoribo for this paper. < ; . ^ ' . / V" . ; ,^'.V SABBATH SCHOOL iNTI'TlXATIOMAIi I.KSSON FC Al*nili 20. Lesson Text: "Tlio KIch Man am* iMtznruR,'' Luke xvl., 19-31? Ciolden Text: Luke xvl. - 13?Commentary. ID. "There was a certain rich man." Thoro Is probably something disponsutloiril. something of Jew and gentile, in this, in the record in this lesson; but iuastnucli as the two preceding chapters tr-at largely of man's treatnient of the love of G od an t man's nulurnl blindness to his eternal wha^e contrasted with Qod's abuudunt provision an I desire for man's welfare, we will so consider it. As there is nothing in the record to indicate that this is a uarabie I prefer to take It ns a record of facts, of events which actually transpired. This rich man mnk s us think of the rich fool of xii., 20, the rich idolater of xvlil., 23, nnd the rich publican of six., 2. an-1 it would be well to compare these records. The rich man of this lesson may be called "The ltioh Skeptic " 20. "And there was a certain beggar.*' As there is nothing necessarily sinful in being rirh, for Abraham and J)avi<l and other good men were very rich, sotbere Is nothing necessarily pious in being poor, yet the words of our Lord are. "How hardly shall they that have riches enter into tne kingdom of God." (chapter xvili., 24). Not many wise or mighty or noble arecalled (I Cor. i.. 20-29), but God bath chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which Ho hath promised to thorn that lovo Hitu (Jus. ii.. 3). 21. "Aud desiiing to bo fed with tho crumbs which fell from tho rich man's table." Things arc often very unevenly divided in this life. Homo have more than they can use, while others have not tho necessaries of life, and dogs seam more kind than men. It may havo seemed a charity to a'.low tho beggar to lio at the gato anil receive the crumbs from tho tablo, ihough the record does not say that ho recoivod them, hut only that ho desired to. If the rich man bad only been a true child of Abraham, and as such ministered to this poor one, what a different future ho would havo had! 22. "And it came to pass that the beggar died. Tho rich man also died." It is appointed unto men once to dio (H"t?. 27), aud whtle in the past Enoch and Elijah havo been excused from keeping this appointment, anil at the coming of Christ tor Ills saints they will all bo caught up without dying, yet up to this time tho great euenty continues his work upon lioh anil pocr, high and low, without respect or persons. Thtuik God for the ministering nngels (ITcb. i., 11), who ivill welcome us if called to loave the body an I boar or guide us to tha presence of the Lord. 28. "And in hell (hades) he lift up his eyes, b'ing in torments." To the believer in .Christ, whether rich or poor, "To dio is gain,' "To be with Christ is far better" (Phil, i., 21, 29), but to the unbeliever to dio is to be in tormcut, uot that of the lako of flro which comes after tho resurrection of the bodies of tho wicked, at tho time of tho great whito throno judgment (Rev. xx., 11-15). but possibly that wli ch is referred to in II l'et. ii., 4. Tho condition of both believers and unbelievers between death and resurrection, while that at conscious happiness or miser v. is evidently an inter inodiato stnto while waiting for the body. 24. "I am tormented in this flame." This word translated "flame" is used hut n few times, and generally ia reference to the eyes of our Lord Jesus Christ, us in Rev. i., 14; it., IK;sis., 12. May it net SUffittt that part of the torm?nt of the lost between death and resurrection consists of the memories or a wasted life, laid bare by these searching ey< s andVo possibility of forgiveness? 25. "Son, remember." This confirms the thought of memory doing its awful work in that dread interval. The rich man could remember, and his memories were anything but pleasant. Tho w.'istod life, the opuortunities forever gone, the vain regrets, tho unavoidable doom. We nee.l none of us to have this experience, hut tho on:y way is to remember now tho loving kindness of tho Lord and believing Ills love to us receive Him as our Snvic;;*-. 20. "Beiwceu us an 1 you thorn is a great gulf fixed." The Scriptures nowhere teach tho possibility of the salvation of a lost soul after death; but, as in this verse, just tho contrary. "Because there is wrath beware lest He take thee away with His srrok", then a gr- at ransom cannot deliver thee" (Job xxxvi., 18). "Neither their silver nor their gold shall bo aide to d?l.verthem in the clay of the Lord's wrath" (Zeph. i., 18). 27. "Send him to My Fathers house." I do not romembcr another record in Scriptuie of a prayer to a departed saint, and if thoso who ) ray to tr.o dead and for the dead would remember 1 ho teaching of this lesson they might perhaps see the folly and sin of their conduct. If those who pray to Mary would think of Mary's song. "My spirit hath rejoiced in God, my Saviour," they would see that Mary herself needed to bo saved like other sinners. 28. "Testify unto them led they nlso como Into this place of torment." If he had never been anxious for liis own soul's welfare Vhiio ho lived on llie earth, he was now desirous for the welfare of his brethren, who were still there. There are evidently no skej ties uft?r death. Th y nil believe the hard facts then. 29. "They have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear thein." Hero we see the cause of this man's lost condition. He, too, had Moses and tho prophets while ho dyed 011 the earth, but ho had evidently despised them. Wo have no evidence that ho had been tin openly wicked man. Perhaps ho was a very moral mail an l a Rood citizen, but lie was an unbeliever and indifferent to Ood and llis word, and apart from Clod tuere Is no life. 30. "If one went unto them from thodoal, I hey will ropeat." Just so do many talk sven here. They sty: "Xo one lias ever [ onto back to tell us about the hereafter. How do wo know?" They do not seem to realize that by sue t thoughts an I wordsthey inalto Ood a liar (I Joint v.. 10). lie has tol I as in His word, and theSoii of Ood has eonio down from heaven to tell us of these unseen realities an I to deliver us from going down to the pit. If we dospisj the written word, we also despise, the living Word, and it wo despise the Sou we despise the Father. 31. "If they hear not Moses and tho prophets, neither will lliev bo persuaded, though one rose from the dea l." This is conclusive testimony by one wito knows Our Lord Jesus told these facts, an I Ho knows all men and all that is in man (John ii.. iff, 25). All unbelief is simply ro.iellion Against (lod, and His love, and His Son. The one thing to do is to believe Hod and incept Ills Son. and do it quickly lost it bo too late.?Lessen Helper. The C'ott? it Kxchange Statement. The cotton exchange statement of New )rleans from September 1, 18115. to April 17, 189(1, is as folows: Port receipts 4.905,883 iguiiist 7.001.711 last venr. 5.592.573 veiir tie ore Inst and 4,l?88,y:?8 for tin* same time in 03; overl 'ii<l to mills ami Canada 733,442 (gainst 10G,3ttt, 703.773 timl 7*3,103; interior docks in uxi'imt of Hoptombnr 1st, i;is,t)7s igainst IM.477. 12:5,335 nmi 185,80.1; Monthern nill takings fi1P.P22 against i;p'i,2(>:!, J>f?(?,0i?7 111 < 1 547,023; crop hrnnglit into bight Iruin <"( tiMiii.fr 1st, to tint", 6,557.725 against >,405,817. 7.D. 0.74S nmi 6,180,854; crop } roiiv'llt into.night for the week 3.3,124 against I '0,1515 for s? von days ending April 17tli, lust j 1'iir, 63,612 ami 12,182; crop brought into light lor the llrst 17 days of April 130,118 igainst 210,800, 1.515,107 iitui 110,040. Forger C'lorltc Arrested. United States Minister Hansom litis tele* implied the Ktnto Department nt Washing* on, from the City of Mexico, that he has ansed the arrest and will secure the extra* litlon of Geo. M. Clarke, who is charged with drawing forged papers to the amount >f about $34,01)0 in South Dakota. THE FIFTY-jPOURTH CONGRESS. A Synoprit of the PromAlogi of Both THE SENATE. WHMT. In the Senate the Judiciary committee lost no time in disposing of the Joint resolution proposing a remonstrance with the British government in the matter ? f the imprisonment of Mrs. Maybrick. The report was placed on the calendar and will probably be no more heard of. The extension ot the Quincy Printing contract was with drawn. io? rresiaent Bent to the Sonate the following nominations: Fitzbugh Loe, of Virginia, to be consul general of tbe United States at Havana, Cuba, vine ltamon O. Williams, resigned; Wm. H. Fowls, of Virginia, to be collector of internal revenue for tbe sixth district of Virginia. fDUMl. In the Senate on Tuesday Squire, Rep., made a speech iu favor of making large appropriations for seu coasts defences. Senator i'latt introduced a bill to punish transmitter through the mails of gambling, bets, etc. w klkmbsday. In the Senate Senator Butlor, of North Carolina., introduced a bill to effectuate resolutions adopted respectively on November 4, 1777, and September 20, 1<81, by the ConI tlnental Congress, d.'reeling the erection of monuments at 81.000 cost each to tho memory of Generals Francis Nasn and Wm. Duvidson. The Secretary of the Treasury Is ordered to pay Iho amounts on the requisition i for the purpose of the Governor of North I Carolina. The treaty with Great Britain providing for the appointment of u commission for the assessment of the damages growing out ol the seizure of vessels engaged iu sealing in BchringSea has been ratillod. TUUBSUAY. In tho Senate on Thursday Senator I rltehard had a conference with the commerce eommtltee and expects to secure a survey of Nouse river below Newborn so as to get eight feet at low water. They also agreed to insert*a regular survey lor Capo Lookout refuge harbor. He introduced an amend ment for 810,000 for Trent river and a relic, bill for J. K. Merriam. of Elizabeth City. Mr. Morrill addressed tho Senate to show the necessity of a new building (or the Nutlonul museum. The bill wont to the calendar. FHIDAY. In tho Senate on Fridny Senator Hill continued his speech on tho houd Investigation. He still Le? much matorinl in reserve mm may continue for two or three days. Mr. Hoar sp ike briefly in favor of the Peffei ill VfVat liMlflnn r?lr>lliHr?r> iit.rl nrlfi.ilo.nl ??. remarks of Mr. liill as being more iu placi on tho stump thau iu the Senate chamber. Tlio Senate then, aftor a short executive session, adjourned until Monday. KATITHUAT. The Senate committee on military affair on Saturday ordered a fovorublo report, l?\ a unanimous vote, on the list of directors o the National Soldiers' Homes us agreed l? by the House. Tho committee does not believe there will be any opposition to the appointments when tho question comes up. tuiThouse. MONDAY. In tho Hause on Monday a bill was passed providing for the holding of United Statecourts at Bilox, Miss., instead of Mlssissipp. City. Mr. Jenkins, Republican, of Wisconsin, reported to tho House the contested eloctioi cose of Johnson vs. Stokes, from tho seventl South Carolina district, in favor of Stoke.-, the sitting member, and gave notice that In would call the matter up April 21st. TUKHDAY. Tho House on Tuesduy passed withou division, and practically without objection, tho bill making appropriations for fortifications and coast, defences. The secretary o war estimated that $>S,045,lGii could lie expended iu the coming year. Tho Nicaragu ( ill is under cor sideration. Arizona ha boon favorably reported as a Stute in th Union. T'ho committee ou foreign coinmero nrnri-itifd t.i v-.iln unl.vi.lv t. Hid iu the goust ruction of a cable from th? United States to China und Japan, touching tho Hawaiian Islands, it will bo furtbc. , .coneid'^d. WEDNESDAY. " In ti.a House on Wednesday Represonta tivo Skinner, of North Carolina, introdu nn n bill to pay $120 to J. E. Merrium, of Eliza both City, for light house services; also t pension Ida Jenuett, of Hyde county, widow of Joseph JenuuW, late assistant keeper ?> Gull Shoal light house. Ho lost his life las year in the service and this $12 a moutl pension would establish a precedent. TnuasDAY. Tho House on Thursday took up the fight ugplnst tho re-election o Qen. W. R. Franklin, as a morahor of tlie board of managers o the National Soldiers' Home, resulted iu tie defeat of those who opposed lent, the Hons vottng, 149 to 69. to continue liim on tin board, as recommended by the committee 01 military affairs. Tho icsoluion names Gens. W. 11. Franklin and George \V. Steele t< succeed thomseives; Otu. T. J. Henderson, o Illinois, to succeed John C. lilack; ami Gen. O. L. Heal, of Alaino, to succeed Francis Fesscuden. XT.fDAY. At the evening session nf the Houso nin? pension bills were considered and orderee to bo reported to the House with favorabh recommendation. A large part of tlietiim was spent upon the lull granting a pensioi, of $75 a mont It to the widow of llrigaoiei General Fred Vandorvoot, wlto was originally colonel of tlie Thlrty-llftli Oltio Voluntec! Infantry. 'J'lie amount of the pension wareduced to $50 a month, and efforts wen made to reduce it to $::0, a proposition which received considerable support among Republicans. SATURDAY. The nouso on Saturday completed the general delleieney hill?the last of the genera appropriation bills and it was repotted l?\ Chairman Cannon. The measure carries in appropriation of $4,791,840. In addition to win sum rucoininen-scu m mo out me urgent deiloloticy not, passed in February, appropriated ?6,305,4S-> to supply detbdencies in appropriations for the support of tho government during the current and previous llscul years, making tho total for dofleincies appropriated and recoiuinended for this reason $11,096,770. Revenue from Tobueco and llror. Internal revenue eertideates for the nine months of tho current fiscal year, from ofileial llgures made by Commissioner Miller, of Washington, aggregated ?110,179.075, an increase over tho corresponding mouths of 1895of ?183.057, exclusively derived from tobacco and beer. Tho principal items of revenue were: Spirits ?fil ,525,451, a decrease of ?2,377,415; tobacco ?32,257.507,an Increase of ?1,151,180; fermented liquors ?04,060,737, an increase of ?1,758,071; oleomargarine $996, 929. a decrease of ?188,892 and miscellaneous is: J.019. a decrease of ?128,987. Pltvlint For it Mini's One ot the largest ilama^e cases ever tried in Florida has just closed in tlio Circuit Court at Pensaeoln, it being that of Mrr. Anna O'Brien vs tie* Louisville and Nashville itailroad Cotnj.uny for the death oi lior bus- . baud, M. F. O Brien, who was killed on tinEscambia trestle by a Louisville and Nashville train in 1800. The jury brought in a verdict to-day in favor ot Mrs. O'Brien for $20,000 ami interest for five years, six inonhts | and lorty-three days, amounting to a total of $20,200. Now 10<l n Ion ol'the I tilde. At the mcctiug of the lloehester Prrshy- j tory at Boeliester, N. V., a memorial was adopted looking toward the publication of a new edition of the King James version ul , the Scriptures, which shall contain 111 the | margin all the important alterations made by the revbed version. The memoriul will ' be sent to the General Assembly for uctiou. 1 T' ' r' k ; ' * r PALMETTO POINTERS. PORT ROYAL TO LIVKIil'OOL. A Splendid bine of Steamers to be Inaugurated. The Port Royal Line has taken another step forward in its endeavors to build up the export business. The most recent movement is the establishment of a monthly trausutlantio service with Liverpool. A splendid line of vessels has been secured and voyages will be made monthly between Port Royal and Liverpool. Col. J. H. Averill, receiver of the Port Royal and Augusta Railway, in conversation with a Reporter for the Nows and Courier said that all arrangements had been perfeoted am] that iho first-class passenger stoumcri "Yucatan" nud "Texan," of the West India and Paeifio Maii Dine, had been secured for monthly trips duriug the snimuer, beginning on May 20. These steamers aru splendidly constructed vessels of 2,0000 tons net register and with a capacity of 5,000 tons of freight. They are handsomely fitted up uud each can curry lifty first cabin passengers. A full corps of cooks, stewards, etc, is carried and the table it supplied with every delicacy. The arrival of the first two boats hat been anticipated and their cargoes ol cotton, wheat, corn, Hour and lumbei will bo on the wharves waitiug their arrival. The vessels will likely brine salt as a return cargo. The cargoes nave been secured chiefly from the west. -* ? ( en. Kennedy l)cud. Gen. John D. Kennedy, who was consul general at Shanghai during President Cleveland's first time, died at his homo in Camden of npoplexy. Gen. Kennedy was one of the youngest brigadiers in tho Confederate army nud made a brilliant record. He has sinco tho war becu very prominent iu State politics, having been elocted lieutenant governor in 1880 and an unsuccessful candidate for tho Democratic nomination for onamrnnr ill 1882. The funeral scrvicos of tho late Geu. John D. Kennedy took place from the Presbyterian Church in Camdeu and were conducted by the Rev. W. W. Mills, the paster of that church, and who had been Gen. Kennedy's pastor for tho past twelve years. The services were opened by singing "Jesus, keop mo noiir tho cross." An immeuse concourse of sorrowing friends attended tho funeral services. The church was full to overflowing. The services were deeply impressive. o? Inter national Arbitration. Major B. F. Whitncr, president ol the State Bar .Association, has made tho following announcement of the appointment by the executive committee of tho State Bar Association of the Stato committee on international arbitration, this committee to co-operate with a Bimilur committee of tho New York Bar Association to deviso and recommend a plan for the organization of a permanent international tribunal to which should bo referred for peaceful settlement all controversies arising betweon English speaking peoplo. Tho committee is us follows: Judge J. H. tludson, chairman, Beunottsville, S. 0.; General Edward McCrady, Charleston, S. C.; D. S. Henderson, Esq., Vikeu, S. C.; B. L. Abuey, Esq.; Columbia, S. C.; W. C. McGowan, Esq., Abbeville, S. C. Murder is >o Acchlont. In tho Copes insurance case, beforo the United States Circuit Court, at Charleston, tho jury brought in u verdict in favor of tho New England .Mutunl Accident Association. This decision seems to establish that to get murucreu is not xo meet with au uceiilont. The plaintiff as will bo remembered, was Mrs. Rosa 11. Copes, wife of tno hitj Treasurer Co- s, of Orangeburg, who v.as assassinated some time since. Mr. Copes held a policy in the New Euglnud Mutual Vcciitent Association, which promised ? ),000 in caso of deuth by accident of the holder. The Insurance Association claimed that his death was not an accident. H(? Mason's Electrical Works. Tho Mason Electrical Works of Sumter, is Hooded with orders for telephones and tpiipments for exchuugcs. The >utput of the shop is fifty to sixty telephones per week, but this will ho ueroased to one hundred per week. Mr llrowniiig, of Greenville, S. C., tas recently purchased an interest in she business und has assumed the position of business manager. Mr. C. T. Mason will retaiu tho management of the mechanical and experimental departments of the work. Tho Mason .dectrical Works has grown from a very small beginning to a business of jousiderable proportions. **?- ? Ilondliohier* Ktiti.H the Road. The Carolina, Cumberland Gap and 'hieago Road is now disconnected ro'n every other road and is run ami per ?ted 1?y bundle Id rs, being entirely under the man >gemcnt of I. W. Uowler, agent tor the purchasers. ? The Lewisville Mills, near Chester, tvhich manufactures yarn, h s been .old to Mr. I>. I>. H *alth, of Charotte, N. ('. The mill runs about >,UUD spindles. SKNATOK IKIJV'S SPKKC1I. Delivered When lie Convened the State Democratle Committee. He spoke extemporaneously and <aid that he had called the committee ogether, ns the representatives of the Democracy, for two reasons. As this vas a Presidential campaign year it >vas necessary to make a good start. Under the Democratic constitution .here is an ambiguity as to when the locul clubs should be called together. "*>. >"*4\ la one place it seems to be provided that the club meetings should be held the first week in May, and in another section that time is provided for the"' county convention. This is a most importuut mutter. He recommended thai * the committee fix a certain day for all * clubs to meet and another day for the county convention. Tho party constitution provided that tho State convention meet on the third Wednesday in May. Another reason for tho call, and one that was of vital aud great importance not only to the success of the Democratic party iu the State, but in the nation, had to be considered. Ho said that ho felt that if the mombors could appreciate tho feeling ho had for the success of the Democratic party and supremacy of tho white people, they would pardon his trespassing on the time of the committee. The committee, uotwithstuiuliug any ohal leugo thaw might ' have bees mudo against it, it a truo Eemocratio committee. It is the successor of the comu>ittee of 187(5, aud it is the only Democratic committee that hod right to the name siuce 1890. It is entitled to nil the legal rights of the committee thnt won the victory of '70. The llrst chairman of tho committee was Judge Haskell, and then- Col. Moore or Gcu. Kennedy, and then Col. Hoyt, and this committeo as their legal successors are here rather as Demorats than bolters, or as deserters, and the responsibility is upon us oa their successors. I assume my share of the responsibility and say that we i have conic to a crisis in the very existence of the party, and as chairman of Democracy I dare spean out aud warn you of tho danger that threatens us. Wo have coiuo to tho timo when there is a division in our ranks aud the issue must be fairly met. Wo came into control of the machinery under a direct pledge that wo would continue it as Democrats, aud if we are Democrats, lot us act like Democrats, und if we are ready to desert our party, the party of our fathers, then let us be men euough, and bold enough; and houest enough to say so aud go and go and joiu any party of our choice, and not masquerude as Demo crats. Tiio people gave me the position as Chairman of the Democracy, and I claim to be a Democrat of Democrats, and that I have honostly been the trustee of the true element. The Democracy has been threatened. XVe have met the Conservatives in open fight nud we have survived the shock of ludopcudentism. Now wo are met with perhaps more serious opposition. We are challenged by a distinguished Democrat. We arc challenged by one who has been one of its greatest beneficiaries sinco the war. Wo are told, in so many words, that if tbis State docs not get what she wauts iu the National Convention, hor little eighteen men are going to say to the thousand delegates: "We are goiug to bolt," Eighteen men aro going to sav to this great couutry that this Statu will not stand this or that. I speak not as a < candidate for any office, but as chairman of this committee, and as a Democrat. It is not honest for us to bind a certain element of tho State t> the > nominees for State' officers, and when " they want us to be bound to tho nominees of the national party, to prepare . r for a bolt. What's s nice for the goose ought to be sanceTor the gander. The proper thing to do is to go into the fight and stand by the remit and work ' * for a glorious victory of tho DewoQ racy.?Xcwh and Courier* 1RBY S SKCON I) SPBHCH. - An Unsuccessful lCfl'ort to Have the Committee Adopt the (iruy Resolutions. Senator Jrby made another and a r red-hot speech in favjr of tho (Day. c ' resolutions, and said that tho e.imrmCi teem* n were tic* WAtohmen on the i Democratic tower nud were responsible ! for the safety of the party. The com , mine was aeiing under powers 01 ine : last Convention, ami if it could not art there was no need for a committee. Ho wanted to know if the committeemen would want to open the doors so that Republicans and Populists might como in and capture the clubs and 1 seud delegates to Chicago. Do the members now allow Republicans to como in and vote in their primaries? Does auyouo now vote except under a pledge to support the nominees, whoever thi-y may be? The committee is either responsible to the Democratic, Populists or Republican party, and if it stands for Democracy it should look to its intersts alone. lie said that it was a most romarka- . | hie thing that whou it came to a .State ; election the committee was anxious | enough to bind ull who participated, but tliat when it came to a national election there was a desire on the part of some to avoid being placed under tho very pledge that was exaetod of otherH. Every voter in 1892 and 1891 ! was made to go under a pledge, and 1 there was no objection to it at that | time, and it was a very poor rule that ; diil not work well both ways. Was tho party going backwards and to 1 abandon tho whole principle of pledgI ing, or was it to apply only when it | did not hurt those who were making ..0, 1 tho rule? A bolt seemed to be pro posed neiore tuero was any cause or ' excuse for it. If free silver was ever * 1 : to lie gotten ho did not think it conld!?' * M { possibly bo secured by a bolt. Tho. ?r< j only thing for the South to do was to ?. mn ] stand by the putty through thick antl ,.|a ' thin. The nation d party lias dono too 44 touch for this Ktuto for it to drift off I at this time. Ho was very emphatic in his warnings to the committee that l if it sanctioned a bolt trouble would be euro to result. It would be tho rum of tho Democratic party.?New* mid Courier. Jen as committed no greater sin thrna the compromising church member.