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or A HEART. Dear heart-dear heartI the sweetest heart' that over Gave one qick throb for me! I do pray God that your kind steps may never -In paths of darkness bel But it they were-O, dearest eye of bluel i would walk there through all my life for youI Dear heart-dear heart the gentlest heart, that, beating, Felt for my heart one day! I trust that there shall be a tender meeting For our hearts, far away I But if there should not-O' my loye, my dear! Since you were happy, I the grief would bear! 1OTHYSELF NO HARM. Env. Dr. Talmage Discourses Upon the Evil of Suicide. BROOKLYN, Aug. 12.-Rev. I)r. Tnl wage, who is now abroad, has selected as the subject for today's sermon through the press the word "Suicide," the text being Acts, 27, 28: "He drew out his sword and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fied. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm." Here is a would be Pucide arrested in his deadly attempt. He was a sheriff, and according to the Roman law a bailiff himself must, suffer the punishment due an escaped prisoner, and if the prioner breaking jail was sentenced to be endun geoned for three or four years then the shenfl must be ondungeoned for three or four years, and it the priaoner break ing jail was to have suffered capital pun ishment then the sheriff must sufer capi tal punishment. The sheriff had received especial charge to keep a sharp lookout for Paul and Silas. The government had not had confidence in bolts and.1 bars to keel) safe these two clergymen, about whom there seemed to be something strange and supernatural. Sure enough, by miraculous power they are free, and the sheritff, waking out of a sound sleep, and supposing these ministers have run away, and knowing that they were to die for preaching Christ and realizing that he must therefore die, rather than go under the executioner's ax on the morrow and sugr public dis grace resolves to precipitate his own de. cease. But before the sharp, keen, glit tering dagger of the sheriff could strike his heart one of the unloosened prison era arrests the blade by the command, "Do thyself no harm." In olden time and where Christianity had not interferea with it suicide was considered honorable and a sign of cour age. Demosthenes poisoned himself when told that Alexander's embassador had demanded the surrender of the Athenian orators. Isocrates killed him self rather than surrender to Philip of Macedon. Cato, rather tha.n submit to Julius Caear, took his own life, and at' ter three times his wounds had beer dressed tore them open and perished, Mithridates killed himself rather than submit to Pompey, the conqueror. Hannibal destroyed his lite by poison from his ring, considering life unbarable. Lycurgus a suicide, Brutus a suicide. After the disaster of Moscow, Napoleon always carried with him a preparation of opium, and one night his servant heard the exemperor arise, put something In a glass and drink it, andl soon after the groans aroused all the attendants, and it was only through utmost medical skill he was resuscitated from the stupor of the opiate. Times have changed, and yet the American conscience needs to be toned up to the subject of suicide. Have you seen a paper in the last month that did not announce the passage out of life by one's own behest? Defauiters, alarmed at the Idea of exposure, quit life precipitate ly,'Men losing large fortunes go out of the world because they cannot endure earth ly existence. Frustrated afiection, do mestic infelicity, dyspeptic anger, re. morse, envy, jealousy, destitution mis anthropy, are consIdered sufficient causes for atacondlng from this life by paris green, by laudanum, by belladonna, by Othello's dagger, by halter, by leap from the abutment of a bridge, by firearms. More cases of "felo do so" in the last two years of the world's existence. The evil is more and more spreading. A pulpit not long ago expressed some doubt as to whether there was really anything wrong about quitting this fie when it became disagreeable, there are found in respectable circles people apolo. getic for the crime which Paul in the text arrested. I shall show you before I rget through that suicide is the worst of all crimes, and I shall lift a warning unmistakable. But in the early part of this sermon I wish to admit that some of the best Christians that ever lived have committed self destruction, but always in dementia and not responsible. I have no more doubt about their eter nai felicity than I have of the Christian who dies In his bed in the delirium of tvya phoid fever. Whi'le the shock of the cat astrophe is very great I charge all those who have had Christian friends under cerebral aberration step off the 'boun daries of this life to have no doubt about their happiness. The dear Lord took them right out of their dazed and frenzied state into perfect safety. How Christ feels toward the insane you may know from the kind way he treated the demo niac of Gadara and the child lunatic and the potency with which lie hushed the tempesta either of sea or brain. Scotland, the land prolific of Iitellec tual giants, had none grander than Hugh Miller, great for science and great for God. He came of the best highland blood, and he was a descendant of Don ald Roy a man eminent for his piety and the rate gift of second sight. Hims attain ments, climbing up as he did from the quarry and the wall of the stonemason drew forth the astonlshed admiration of Buckland and Murchison, the scientists, and Dr. Chalmers, the theologian, and held universities spellbound while he told them the story of what lie had seen of God In the old red sandstone. That man did more than any being that ever lived to show that, the God of the huills is the God of the Bible, and he struck his tunmng fork on the rocks of Cromerty until lie brought geology and -, theology accordant in divine worship. HIs two books, -entitled "Footprints of the Cr-eator" and the "Testimony of the Rooks." proclaimed the banns of an everlasting marriage between genuine science and revelation. On this letter book he toiled dlay and night through Jove of nature and love of God until he could Dot sleep, and his brain grave way and he was found dead with a re volver by his side, the cruel instrument having had two bullets-one for hIm anid thler' for the gunsmilth who at the Q/Q40st w~asexamining it e a . ave uany doubt of thy tio of, H huMaler after his had 6asedbbing that wmn h is stzy ay Porteblo Among the mightiest of earth among v the mighties of heaven. C No one ever doubted the piety of Wil 1am Cowper, the author of those three 4 great hymns. Oh, For a Closer Walk a With God!" "What Various Hin v drances We Meet!" "There Is a Fouu ii tain Filled With Blood," William Cow U per, who shares with Isaac Watts r and Charles Wesley the chief honors of h Christian hvmnology. In hypochon m dria he resolved to take his own life f and rode to the river Thames, but f found a man seated on some goods at b the very point from which he expected d to spring, and rode back to his home and 0 that night threw himself upon his own knife, but the blade broke, and then he v r, hanged himself to the ceiling, but the d rope parted. No wonder that when God mercifully delivered him from that awful t dementia he sat down and wrote that , o-her hymn just ris memorable: God moves in a myterlous way His wonders to perform. lie plants his footsteps in th sea a And rides upon the storm. C Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan his work in yaln, God is his own Interpreter, And he will make it plain. While we make this merciful and 1 righteous allowance in regard to those who were plunged ito mental incoher ence I declare that the man who in the use of his reason by his own act snaps the bond between his body and his soul goes straight into perdition. Shall I prove it? Revelatln xxi, 8, "Murder ers shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone." Rev elation xxii, 15, "Without are dogs and I sorcerers and whoremongers and mur derers." You do not believe the New Testament? Then perhaps you believe the Ten Commandments, "Thou shalt not kiil." Do you say all these pas sages refer to the taking of the life of others? Then I ask you if you are not as responsible for your own life as for the life of others? God eave you a spe cial trust in your life. He made you the custodian of your life as he made you the custodian of no other life. le gave you as weapons with which to defend it two arms to strike back assaillants, two eyes to watch for invanion and a natural love of life which ought ever to be on the alert. Apsassination of others Is a mild crime compared with the assassina tion of yourself, because in the latter case it is treachery to an especial trust; it Is the surrender of a castle you were especially appointed to keep; it is trea son to a natural law, and it treason to God added to ordinary murder. To show how God in the Bible looked upon this crime I point you to the rogues' picture gallery in some parts of the Bible, the pictures of the people who have committed this unnatural crime. Here is the headless trunk of Saul on the walls of Bathshan. Here is the man who chased little David-10 feet in stature chasing 4. Here is thelman who consulted a clairvoyant. witch of Endor. Here is a man who, whipped in battle, instead of surrendering his sword with dignity, as many a man has done, asks his servant to slay him, and when the servant declines then the giant plants the hilt of the sword in the earth, the sharp point sticking upward, and he throws his body on it and expires, the coward, the suicikel ore is Ahithopel, the Machiavelli of olden times, betray ing his best friend David in order that lie may become prime minister of Absa loin a'id joining that fellow in his at tempt at, parricitie. Not getting what he wantedl by change of politics, lie takes a short cut out of a disgraced life io a suicide's eternity. I'here lie is, the ingrate! Here is Abimelech, practically a sui cide. He is with an army bomubarding a tower, when a woman in the tower takes a grindstone from its place and drops it upon his head, and with what life he has leit in a cracked skull lhe commands his armor bearer, "Draw thy sword and slay me, lest men say a wo man slew me." There is his pos5t mor tem photograph in the book of Samuel. But the hero of this group is Judas Is cariot. Dr. Donne says lie was a mar tyr, and we have in our day apolgists for him. And what wonder, In this day when we have a book revealing Aaron Burr as a pattern of virtue, and in this day when we uncover a statue to George Sand as the benefactress of literature, and in this day when there are betrayals of Christ on the part of some of his pro tended apostles-a betrayal so nlack it makes the infamy of Judas Iscariot white! Yet this man by his own hand hung up for the execration of' all the ages, Judas Iscarfot. All the goodt men and women ?f tihe Bible loft to God the decision of their earthly terminus, and they could have saId with Job, who had a right to com mit suicide if any man ever had, what with his destroyed p~roperty and his body all adame with insufferable car buincles and everything gone fronm his home except the chief curse of it--a pes tiferous wife-and four garrulous people pelting him with comfortless talk while lie sits on a heal) of ashes, scratching his scabs with a piece of broken pottery, yet crying out in triumph, "All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come." Notwithstanding the Bible is against this evil and the aversion which it cre ates by tihe loathsome and ghastly sp~ec tacle of those who have hurled them selves out of life, and notwIthstanding Christianity is against it and thme argu monts and the useful lives aiid the illus trious deaths of its disciples, it is a fact alarmingly patent that suicide is on time increase. What is time cause? I charge upon Infidelity and agnostIcism this whole thing. If there be no hereafter or if that hereafter be blissful without reference to how we live and how we die why not move back the foldinz doors between this world and the next? And when otir existence here becomes troub lesome why not pass right over into Ely slum? Puot this down among your moat solemn reflections and consider It after you go to your homes: There has never been a case of suicide whore the opera tor was not either demented and there fore irresponsible or an infidel. I chal lenge all the ages, an d I challenge the whole universe. There has never been a case of self destruction while in full appreciation of his immnotality and of the fact that that immortality would be glorious or wretched, according as lie accepted Jesue Christ or rejected him. You say it is business trouble, or you say it is electrical currents, or it is this, or it is that or it is the other thing. Why not go clear back, my friend, and ac knowledge that in every case it is the abdication of reason or the teaching of Innidelity, which practically says, "If you don't like this life, get out of it." And you will land either in annihilation, where there are no notes to pay no per secutions to suffer, no gout to torment, or you will land where there will be everytnine glorious and nothing to pay for it. Infidelity always has been apol ogetlc for self Immolation. After Tom Paine's "Age of geason" was published ind widely read there was marked in rease of self slaughter. A man in London heard Mr. Owen leiver his Infidel lecture on "Socialism" ,ad went home and sat down and rrote these words. "Jesus Christ i one of the weakest characters in istory and the Bible Is the greatest ossible deception," and then shot imself. David Hume wrote these orde: "It would be no crime or me to divertt he I le or the Danube rom Its natural bed. Where, then, can e the crime in my diverting a few rops of blood from their ordinary hannel ?" And having written the es ay he loaned it to a friend to read it iho wrote a letter of thanks and admi ation and then shot himself. Appen. ix to the same book. tousseau,Voltaire,Gibbon, and Mon aigue, under certain circumstances, Fere apologetic for self immolation. aildelity puts up no bar to people's ushing out from this world into the ext. They teach us it does not make ,ny difference how you live here or go ut of this world, you will land either n an oblivious nowhere or a glorious omewhere. And infide'lity holds the ipper end of the rope for the suicide, bud aims the pistol with which a man dlows his brains out, and mixes the trychnine for the last swallow. If in Idelity could catry the day and per uade the majority of people that it toes not make any difference how yo'u ro out of the world you will land safe y the rivers would be impeded in their rogress, and the crack of a suicide's istol would be no more alarming than Ihe rumble -of a street car. Ahi infldlity, stand up and take thy ientencel In the presence of God and ingles and men, stand up; thou mon itor, thy lip blasted with blaspemy, thy sheek scarred with lust, thy breath foul with corruption of the ages! Stand up, iatyr, filthy goat, buzzard of the na tions, leper of the conturies! Stand up, thou,monster infidelity ! Part man part panther, part reptile, part dragon, stand up, and take thy sentence! Thy hands red with the blood in which thou has washed, thy feet crimson with the human gore through which thou haist wadded, stand up and take thy sen tencel Down wit thee to the pit and sup on the sobs and groans of families thou hast blasted, and roll on the bed of knives which thou hast sharpened for others, and let thy music be the ever lasting miseries of those iwhom thou hast damned I I brand the forehead of infidelity with all the crimes of self im molation for the last century on the part of those who had their reason. My friends, if ever your life thought its abrasions and its molestations should seem to be unberable, and you are tempted to quit it by your own be hest, do not consider yourselves as worse than others. Christ himself was tempted to cast him.self from the roof of the temple, but as he resisted so re sist ye. Christ came to medicine all our wounds. In your trouble I prescribe life instead of death. People who have had it worse than you will ever have it have gone songful on their way. Re member that God keeps the chronology of your life with as much precision as he keeps the the chronology of nations, your death as well as your birth your grave as well as your -radle. Why was it that at midnight, just at midright, the destroying angel struck the blow that set the Israelites free from bondage? The 480 years were upat,,12 o'clock that night. The 430 years were not up at 11, and 1 o'clock would have been tardy and too late. The 430 years were up at 12 o'clock, and the destroying angle struck the blow, and Isreal was free. And God knows Just the hour when it is time to lead you up from earthly bondage. By his grace make not the worst of things, but the best of them, if you must take ~he pill5, do not chew them. Your ever asting rewards will accord with your aarthly perturbations, just as Caius rave to Agrippa a chain of gold as ieavy as had been his chain of iron. F'or your asking you may have the same giaco that was given to the it ilian martyr, Algerius, who, down in the darkest of dungeons, dated his let ber from "the delectable orchard of the Leonine prison." And remember that this brief life of ours is surrounded by a rim, a very thin but very important rim, and close up to that rim is a great eternity, and y ou had better keep out of it until God reaks that rim and seperates this from that. To get rid of the sorrows of earth do not rush into greater sorrows. To get rid of a swam of summer insects leap not into a jungle of Bengal tigers, There is a sorrowloss world, and it is so radiant that noonday sun is only the lowest doorstep, ahd the aurorathat lights up our northern heavens, con founding astronomers as to what it can be, is the waving of the banners of the procession come to take t he conquerors home from church triumphant, and you and I have ten thousand reaons for wanting to go there, but we will never get there either by self immolation or impenitency. All our sins slain1 iy the Christ who came to do that thing, we want to go in at just the time divinely arranged and from a couch divinely spread, andl then the clang of the sepul chral gates behind us will be overpow ered by the clang of the opening of the solid pearl before us. 0 God, what ever others may choose,give me a Christ ian's life, a Christian's death, a Christ ian's burial, a Christian's immortality I A Duai Life, LEXINGTON, Ky,, Aug. 14.--Judges Mahon and Walters, of Hannibal, Mo., are in the city taking dlepositions in the suit recently instituted at Hannibal by Dorcas M. Hampton to recover a daughter's interest in the estate of her father,-Dr. John H1am pton, who died several weeks ago in Missouri, leaving an estate valued at $75~,000. The deposition already taken are startling in the extreme, and prove that D~r. Hampton led a dual life, the one clouded by suspicions of a double crime, and the other brightened by up rightness and integrity. The defense exuect to prove that Dorcas Hampton is an illegitimate child of the doctor's and that her mother, although betray ed by Dr. Hampton was recompensed by a sum of money, a receipt of which is on file at the Lexingion courthouse. Depositions show that D~r. Hampton was suspected of having poisoned his wife, Maria Burch, hero in 1845. H~e had been forced to marry her at the point of the pistol, and she died soon after the marriage. A druggest named Hlayes, who had remarked he knew enough to send Hampton to the gal lows, was murdered, Hampton was bri ed for the murder and acquitted. lHe went to St. Louis and married a Miss Sweeney. lie then moved to Hannibal where he amassed a large fortune and od an irreproachable life. Is daughter, Dorcas Hampton, claims that Hampton niarried her mother, Eliiza Horton, and ~hat she holds the certificate of mar liage, If this is so, then Dr. Hlampto was also a bigamist. Kiled by Lightning. CINOINNATI, 0., Aug. 12.-The He bron, Ky., baseball team was playing a tame with a nighboring club yesterday afterneon, when the sky became over.. ast, John Tanner, pitcher for the Hie brons ran to catch a fly. As the ball was settling into his hands, there was i flash of lightning and Tanner dropped A BRISK FIGIT BETWEEN TWO POLITICIANS IN A HOTEL LOBBY. Editor Kooster and W. Gibbes Whaley Come to Blows-The Origin of the Tron ble-Cowardly Attack on Mr. Koester Irom the Rear. COLUMInA, 8. ., August 16.-A per. ional difficulty In the lobby of the Jerome Hotel yesterday afternoon be ;ween George R. Koester, editor of theltegister, and W. Gibbes Whaley )f Charleston, a delegate to the State ,onvention, caused some excitement on Hain street. It Is unnecessary to go into details. The following is an ac. count of the trouble as given to the reporters of other papers by the princi pals: FROX MI. WHALEY. Mr. Whaley being asked for a state. ment of the causes leading to the trou ble between himself and Editor Koes. ter, said: "I sent Mr. Koester a note this afternoon at about 5 o'clock, stat. ing that in an editorial on the 14th instant he had willfully perverted a conversation with me and that he had told a deliberate falsehood. Mr. Koes ter called at the hotel this afternoor and had a conversation with me con cerning this note. le stated that h( had in a measure implied in a conver sation whilst in Charleston that I wat a coward. I told him I would ask hin a simple question: 'Did he mean to sa3 that I was a coward ?' He begged thf question and I had to repeat the ques tion several times,stating that he musi give a positive answer, yes or no. le finally answered 'yes.' I at once slap ped his face. le struck at me, slightl grazing me. The crowd in the lobb: at once rushed in and separated us. ] regret to say that one of my friends Ii separating us struck Mr. Koester. ' would have preferred attending to th4 matter myself. I stated that I wa then and there entirely willing to finial out the matter with Mr. Koester. 11, that time the crowd had collected ii the lobby of the hotel, and I got upoi one of the benches and stated to thi crowd that Mr. Koester had made i statement in one of his editoriale which I had denounced as absolutel false; that I had desired to slap his fac and 1 had done so." TRO3 MrR. KOESTER. Tuesday morning I published in thi Register an editorial severely criticia ing Mr. Whaley for the part he hn taken in the 'ring' tactics adopted a the meeting of the Tillman Reforn Club, in Charleston, Saturday night Among other things I stated that ar outsider (myself) had told Mr. Whale] that he was too big a coward to repeal to any one of the men excluded fron the meeting an insinuation lie ha< just made to me that they were no there in good faith. Today I receive( a letter which will be found elsewher in the paper in which Mr. Whaley ob jects only to that part of my editoria containing a statement above narrated The statement that he had been callet a coward he denounced as a falsehood As soon as I received this letter : walked over to the Jerome Hotel an( saw Mr. Whaley engaged in conversa tion. When he was through I walket up to him and told him that I had re ceived a letter from him,which I woul< like to discuss for a few moments ii public or private, with or withou friends being present. lie said tha either a public or a private discussiot suited him but finally decided on hav inir the matter ventilated in the hole: lobby. He commenced calling up va, rious members of the Charleston dale. gation, while I asked Mr. W. W. Prict to be present as my friend. There it no necessity for going-into all that wat said. It amounted to this: That] stated to Mr. Whaley that possibly had not used the word coward bul that I had used words to the saint effect and that I had certainly callet up one of the gentlemen whom he hat insinuated was not at the Charlestor meeting In good faith and had tolt him that he did not dare repeat to hin the insinuation he had just made ti me. Mr. Whaley kept asking did: mean to say he was a coward. I toll him that I did. He then struck at me lie struck at me again and I gave hin a lick. Friends then interfered an< pulled us apart. While I was beini ehoved away I was struck three or fou times from behind, one of which wat exceedingly severely, landing upon thi neck, j ust below my right ear. I do na know what outsiders interfered in sucl a cowardly manner.' MR. WHTALEY's CARD. The following is the card of Mi Whaley which brought on the trouble: COLUMmIA, August 15. G. Rt. Koester, Esq., Editor the Colum bia Register. Dear Sir: I have only today seen a editorial in your issue of the 14th inst. The editorial is an attack upon my self, and amongst other things you say "Mr. Whaley said to an outsider tha the men whom he had excluded war not there in good faith, lie we promptly told that he was too big coward to repeat that slander to an one of those men face to face." Th outsider you rafer to is yourself in you will recollect that the conversi tien was as follows: I told you tha you knew that a combination had bee: formed by yourself, Terrell and F. "t Wagener by which a number of me were to be rushed up to the meeting a the last moment with the intention c capturing the meeting and that th men were not there in good faith. Yo saidl in a high flown style: "You wi not undertake (or you will not dare) t say so to these men." I laughingi and satirically replied- "Oh, no, 1hav no intention of saying anything of th kind to them." You know well thi the word coward was not used; Yo have wilfully perverted the converst tion and in my opinion told a delibe: ate falsehood. .1 must request you t give this note equal publicity wit your editoriul, but as I much doul your doing so, I will give a copy t another paper. Very truly. W. OIRBIs WIHALEY. MRt. PRICE's STATEMENT. I wish to say uinder my own signi ture that when Mr. Koester asked m to be present as his friend I did linot at ticipate anything serious. E van after th blows had passed between them I dl not consider that it was my busines to interfere. I was simply presentt see fair play. I did not see Mr. Koaste struck from the rear as he was som~ distance from me and I was watchin Mr. Whaley,who had been jerked neal ly to the floor by Mr. Koester. I dl see a demonstration by two men as they initeuded to attack Mr. Koest4 and I called them down. They accuse me of trying to be a bulldozer. I dl not know even then that Mr. Koestt had been struck from the rear and tol these excitable men to keep cool bi not to interfere in the trouble. Later was told that one of these same me had been the person who ha been so cowardly as to strike Mi Koester from the rear, and was furth< told that he made a motion to draw pistol, presumably to use on me. had nlot the remotest idea at the tin that there were any cowards in t crowd or I would naturally have le01 ed more aefully after the interests my friend. The only satisfaction I afterward had was to denounce public. ly as a coward whoever had struck Mr. Koester. That Is all I have to say on this line. I also desire to say that Mr. Koester's face was not slapped and that Mr. Whaley struck him on the forehead with his Cst. W. W. PRIoE. CAPTURE OF BLUEFIELDS. Rundrede of People Leave for Fear of Their Lives. MOBILE, Aug. 15.-Steamer Semulva arrived here at 9 o'clock tonight from Bluefields, Moequioto reservation. She left Blueloids on the morning of August 10. The Semniva bt ings the foilowing ad vices: The Nicaraguans arrived at Blue fields Monday, August 6th, and moved on Bluellelds August 8th. Their force numbered 800. Bluefiolds was occupied peaceably. The Mobquito ilag was lowered, loaded Into a caution and fired with a salute to the Nicaraguan flag which had been hoisted to the top of the stafi. The British and American marines were notified by Gen. Gabezas to re turn to their vessels. The order was obeyed. The British offered to take the Jamaicans and na' Ives to Port Limon free of charge if they desired. Six hun dred of these subsequently accepterd the Invitation, as there were rumors that the l icaragnanti intended to kill all Jamaicans and natives. There was for a time a reign o1 terror among this class of inhabitants. They ran through the streets, the women screaming and the children crying, the men hurrying hither and thither, carrying their household goods. Some left all that they had and rushed to the wharves willing to go in any sort of a craft, their only desire be. ing to get away from Blueflelds at once. The scone at the wharves was one long to be remembered. The Mohawk took as many of the refugees as she could carry and others went In nrivate i beats. General Cabezas assumed com mand of Bluellelds and issued a prccla mation declaring martial law in force. The Americans telt much disappoint ment at the action of the commanders of the American vessols, the Marblehead and Columbia. They thought the American marines had been landed to protect American lives and property, but at the supreme moment, these had been abandoned. The officers claimed they were compelled to obey the orders of Cabezxs, but would nevertheless I brook no interference with American Interests. The Americans who attend to their own aflairs and have taken no part in the present intrigues are not in the least molested. Those Americans who were involved in the political in. trigues have left. They went v' Captaia O'Neal, of the United Statea man-of-war Marblehead, and implored his protec tion. He told them briefly that if they had violated the laws of the country he could not affoid them protection, and if they took refuge on his vessel and a de. mand was made for them lie would be I compelled to give them up. Captain O'Neal remained firm in his position despite the appeals and entreaties of those American intriguers who sought his protection. The Mohawk was not in port when she Semniva left, having gone to Port Limon with her load of natives and Ja. maciane, from which port Capt. SLowart stated that, he would continue his jour ne~y to Colon for instructions as to who thor to let Spaniards in or drive them out of Blluefields. MIGHTY HOT WEATHER. It~a Efradcts Upon the Orops-Two~ Divisions in the state. COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 14.-The fol lowing is the weekly weather crop re port:. There was a decided change from cool to excessively hot weather in the past week, the average temperature varying from one to nine degrees a day in excess of the normal, except on the I 7th, when it was slightly below; on this ) date the minimum for the week, 54, [ was reported from Blatesburg. Friday, I the 10th, was the hottest day with .maximum generally above ninety and reaching 100 at Batesburg, Columbia 1 and Spartanburg. Few higher temper f atures in August have ever been re, r corded. During the greater part of the week I there was a plenty of sunshine, that t was highly benenicial in drying the 1 soil, permitting plowing of late con and cotton, which should have beer done two and three weeks earlier, acd .generally favorable for haying opera tions and curing the fodder that is be ing stripped. On very wet or partiall) -submerged land it proved injurious crops firing badly. a There was but little rain after the 6th until Saturday and Sunday, whet -showers occurred in the Northern, cen :tral and Southwestern counties, ac t companied by some hail and high wind 0 that did considerable damage over lim s ited areas, blowing down a houise neal a St. Matthews and injuring cotton and V corn slightly. B The State can be divided into tw( I distinct divisions, in the first thi crops are uniformly good and promis t ing,the only exception noted being cot 1 ton on which has grown too much tc .weed and not fruiting as heavily as il a should. A correspondent who hai t made careful and extended inquiry f states that it is over-estimated, owing e to its fine stand in this division. Theii a above conditions exist in the Western Il central and North central counties, 1i 0 in all, while in the other division, com y prisig Abbeville, Aiken, Barnwell e Berkel, Baufdort Chesterfield Char e leton Claendn, olleton, Darlington it Edgefleid, Florence, [lorry, Hlampton Ln Kershaw, Lexington, Lancaster, Mar a- ion, Orangeburg and Sumter countlel most crops are doing well, but cottot o has been materially injured by the ex h cessive rain fall. Some fields wern it completely submerged and ruined, bu o by far the greatest damage resulte< from excessive shedding of shapes anc fruit and leaves. In some counties thi falling off in condition is estimated a t- from 10 to 40 per cent. The foregoinj e applies more particularly to lo w an< L- sandy lands than to upland flde e which are generally fine and promis di ing. Caterpillars are attacking th a boils in the lower part of the State o ilolls are beginingto open in the mor r Southern counties. AtSociety ill! th e rain fall in forty-eight hours was 7.5 g inches, and it ranged from that dowi to about three inches, and until th di submerged and washed lands have *f chance to make a partial recovery nl r approximate estimate of the danmag di to crops can be made, although report di indicate that it was serious and ex ir tended. d Peas are shedding their leaves or Lt wet land and growing too much tc I vine. Sweet potatoes and other rooi n crops doing well. The sowing of tur, d nip seed continues uinder favorable .conditions. Sugar cane and sorghun ir seemingly doing well, but poor yield of a syrup reported from Newbery county I Gardens growing well, except cabba e ges, which are rotting badly. A heav3 becop bing secured tinder favora ble cnditins. 3. W. BAUER, I nieor. BUTLER INTERVIEWED, HOW HE LOOKS T THE LATE STATE CAMPAIGN. Not More Exoitement than Usuul in Poi. tical Cantets-RportM Greaitly IFxag. gerated-Somei of the Speeches Vera In structive-The Result to Chose. WAsINTON, Aug. 13.-The News and Courier correspondent to-day had the following interview with Senator Butler: "What is the outcome of the State canvass in South Carolina?" "Politically chaos." "Do you mean to say that all politic al parties are at sea?" "That is exactly what I mean to say, The Democratic party is divided into two factions, the Conservative and Re form factions The Republican party is showing some animation and appears to be getting ready to take advantage of the Democratic split, The Third Partyites are taking comfort and cour age from Democratic delays and dis sensions in Washington, and so it goes, So you can see what Tillmanisn has done for the Democratic party in South Carolina." "What will the Conservatives do ?" "Saw wood and say nothing. They are thirty-live or forty thousand strong, and have been disfranchised, so far is the nomination for Governor is con cerned, by the ring in control of the fifty thousand Reform faction. Do you suppose that many white men will sub mit to disfranchisement?" "Do you say the Reform faction is controlled by a ring ?" "The most unscrupulous ring that ever dominated the politics of any country, but I am not alone authority for the charge. You may remember that my colleague, Mr Irby said in most emphatic terms last winter or spring that there was a "State House ring" ir Columbia. Reformers have, during the recent canvass, iterated that there was a ring in tile Reform faction. Every intelligent man in the State knows it is true, and masses of the Reformers are kicking volently against the ring and its flagrant methods. The Reform candidates who have been and will be slaughtered by the ring are very mush outraged, and I do not believe will quietly submit." "What will be the upshot of these conditions ? "In my j ugment the Conservative ele ment will in due time come to the front and bring order out of chaos, and give us relief from the confusion and wrangling which the ring has brought upon our politics. On the stump and otherwise I have warned our people of the dangers of division. So have Messrs Tindal, Ellerbe and Pope, Reform candidates for Governor, and other Reformers. The ring rulers have met appeals with scorn and derls on, and the day of reckoning for them will come in the near future. "What about the dispensary ?" "Oh, well, the dispensary is a huge political machine which has borrowed the livery of temperance and morality to serve the ring in. It is honeycombed with corruption, and if its management Is ever investigated and the facts dis closed you will see a seething mass of corruption that will astonish the people of the country. It has been reopened without the consent, as 1t has been re ported without the consent, as I am in formed, of two of the three members of the State board of control, and I have no doubt is to be run in the interest and for the benefit of the ring candi dates. "The ringsters have so complicated the ;political machinery that nobody except those in the ring can understand it. Let me see if I can state the situa tion so that you can comprehend it: On Saturday, the 9th instant, the .Re form clubs were to meet and elect dele gates to a County Convention, Thie Convention is to meet on the 13th and send delegates to a State IReform Con vention to meet in Columbia on the 16th. The State Convention is expected to nominate for Governor and Lieuten. ant Governor. Mind you, now, thi Conservatives are to have no voice it this business, but, as I have said, art disfranchised. Then there is to be "a primary on the 28th of August, not to vote for Governor and State officers but to appoint delegates to a Stati Convention to meet some time in Sep tember to nominate candidetes to be voted for at the general election ir November. Follow this problenr through and you will see that the peo ple are cut off from giving a direct vot4 for any office except at the Novembel election. I have stated the case as] understand it, and if a more adroi scheme could be devised to bamboozi -the people and defeat a free expressior of their wishes I should be~ obliged ti ihave it suggested. And yet we ari told .one of the cardinal features of th4 --Reform Movement was to give thepri mary for all public oflces. Satan could not have hit upon a more effectuil met Shod to usurp the people and turn thenc Sover, bound hand and foot, to a handfu of selfish, corrupt ringsters." - "Senator, you seem to have survive( the canlpaign in good shape." "Oh, yes; I was never in better kelte in my life. I spoke in every county, a every campaign meeting and extra meetings." "Was there as much excitement ni represehted in the papers ?" "I do not think that there was mor excitement than usually attends a pc ,ltical canvass. The accounts wer - reatly exaggerated and sensational ihafew exceptions the meeting ,were quiet and orderly-not very lang -and the people listened attentivel; and respectfully. Of course at som places a few drunken fellows woul - create a disturbance, but they wer generally attended to by lbs special con t stables or committee of arrangement I and soon suppressed. P'ersonally: I have no cause of complainrt except or 3three occasions, when two or three L rowdies .attempted to interfere with me. I had no trouble in thrustinj I them aside and in proceeding with m3 , speech. Everywhere the committee - and the people were as kind and hospi table to me as they could possibly bi .and appeared anxious to hear mi s speak.- The canvass has had a goot B effect in shaking things up and, as.: 7 have said, I believe order will come oum of the political chaos into which ring s rule has brought us. And I want t< i say another thing: Some of the stumj >speeches were as tine and instructlve 3 as I ever listened to--notably so witi several of the candidates for Statb oflces, whose names I will not mentiol as I do not care to discriminate." "What about your re-election ?" "Well, you know, there are few things more uncertain than a popula election, unless it be tihe verdic of a petit jury, but I have the stronges reasons for believing I will sue coed myself. Thrughout the entira discussion not one word was sali against my public service or oflii record, except that I had voted fo Judge Sipionton's confirmation. Tha you know, was the veriest stuff and nonsnsea. .[ have gronn face to fac with the people, given an Sc cornt of my atewardship, and they mUst now settle it. Altnough I say it nyself, I am quite sure I can repro. sent the people better and more accept. ably than any man they can "ad-and in this I believe they agree with me. The only reason assigned for n retirement that I know of is that 7 have been here a long time. This bet. ter qualities me for the duties of the position and fits me to discharge Its re sponsibilities more satisfactorily. One thing has gratified me inexpressibly, the cordial and hearty reception ten dered me yesterday on my return to the Senate by my colleagues on both sides of the chamber and by the Senate employees without exception. If left to a vote of my associates who have served with me here so many years I think I could safely count on its being unanimous." R. M. L. - UPS THE IEIGHI M *Iusl?doe" s Gd I ;r.fi to; ;-3eg aMd See Wist Yos Cs Sal '~r $69 ***-.~$37 Just t~ in ouc tem No fet 11tvad on this Or god ren or imnoney te. _." - EM.Lans Pimhi PARLOR HITS, oonhstina of Morr, .\riz hair, lociin Chair DIva, id 2 aIdo ir. -worth j"6. Will deiva I to ur oputfor 1 3. This No. I * - so n to all attachmentW, for i~b 60e o ~Themanuatore pays all togo0 t-o 70.7X the ~ ~ ~ ~ Deo exotcsadIao!te bargain. No frv~ rpa a Ai= Buggy A $.. PIANG ielivred at your depot ere freight paid for th Send for catalogues of lrurliture btoves Baby arriag, Biyel o n t h s ] ou g yA S M 0 P tOF.PADGETT *:"r" For Agricul V1 ffe~atural and Gin oral Plantation Use, have earnj ed their reputa tion as the best on tne market. * For Simplimty, Durabilit and * Eeonomy in fuel andI water TUR TOIRa SHas no EQual, PIANOS. tMIDSUMMER BARGAINS. Spoetal Bale Bummer 189a. The ,:puila Sunmer Offers that bat th record. $50 saved every Piano purchauer. -$1o to $20 n every Organ. Six Special offers on our Popular Mid. L ,a 8mmr Plan. fIly in August, September . anad dtobor, and pay wh n cotton omes Ia'.M ,Tozn. p pot (Caush Prtcois. No Interest. Only a > ,anvill Cashal Payment required, $ n.oa a tiaa, $10 h n I Ogitn ltau aax&?oycm Paymona to suit all. Pianos $5 to $10 amonatly. Organs $al to $5. Our Mfirummer offers save .btg money -(m all planas of paayment, I > New Flauh Leaders ready. Beauti. fom.' (hd only until November 1. 3 LUDDEN & BATES SOUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE, SAVANNAH, GA. NOW.IS THE TIME . TO PLACE YOUR ORDERS FORt Threshers I ,And I Soell the Boat in the'.Market. Write' to me Before Buying. Bhingle Machines, Stavo Machines, Brick Machines, Planing Mach'ines, Swing Saws, Band saws (Gang Rip' Saws, 1 and all kinds of wood working mnachines, 3 rist Mills $115 to $250. 8aw Mills $190 to I400. Watertown Engines and Boilers. Talbott Engines and Boilers. Seed Cotton Elevators. Cottoh GinS and Presses, HIG[ and - LOW GRIADE. V. e. ADUAK. OOLUMBIA8B 0.