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i ESTABLISHED 1850. 1
)J.H. EsTILL, Editor and Proprietor.!
A YOKE ON THE PEOPLE.
XAUIFF REDUCTION IMPKOBA
-15 LE IN THIS CONGRESS.
Th Attitude of th Trultors
to Deiuocrncy Oiih to Which Mr. Mor
rison Will Probably Nor Yield Wry
l -ttle ( banco th At the Hewitt Bil Will
Washington, Deo. 19—Now that the
Republicans or Randallites have suc
reided in defeating Air. Alorrison’s at
lumpt to take up the revenue question
lliey have nothin* to say except that un
less Air. Morrison yields to them there
will be no revenue reduction at this sea
son and the whole subject will go over to
the next Congress, 'l’ne plan to put
pirouzh a bill cutting oft the tobacco tax,
reducing the tax on spirits and the duty
nn sugar 6eems to have been a large bait
to catch votes. The Republican leaders
now admit that it is lmnractlcable; such
a bill would have to be referred to the
Ways and Means Committee. That com
mittee would not report it unless in
structed to do so. Under the rules it
could only be so instructed by a two
thirds vote of the House.
amen dmknt possible.
The rule could be amended so as to
place it in the power of a majority to give
these instructions, provided Air. Randall
would vote with the two Republicans on
toe Committee on Rules. Messrs. Reed
aidHtscock, to report the new rule in
gpiie of the opposition of Messrs. Carlisle
and Alorrison. the Democrats of the
Committee on Rules. But even if suoh a
rule should be reported it would not com
mand arnajonty of the House, a.url even
ii it was adopted the Randallltes and Re
publicans could not get a majority f r
i-uch a bill as they propose. They voted
awav the opportunity of the session yes
tealav.
HEWITT’S BILL NOT LIKELY TO PASS.
An attempt will be made after the re
cess to pass the Hewitt administrative
tariff reform till under a suspension of
the rules. It will take a two thirds ma
jority to do this. It will have the support
of the Republicans and Randallites, but
inasmuch as there are manr revenue re
form'd* who agree with Mr. Morrison
t .at. the bill will increase the revenue, it
is not likely to pass.
THE FKEEDMEN’S BANK DEPOSITORS.
The ComDtroller of the Currency made
an aamment yesterday before the House
Committee on Banking and Currency in
favor of an appropriation by Congress to
pay tb-> million and a quarter deficit of
of (he Freedman’s Savings Bank to its de
posiiors. He claimed that there was a
moral obligation on the government to
make good the money intrusted to tie
hank out ot confidence in the government.
The committee will consider the mat er
after the recess. It is favorably disposed.
JUSTICE WOODS IMPROVING.
Justice Woods, of the United States
Supreme Court, according to private ad
vices, is being greatly benefited by tbe
Calilornia climate.
ALARMRD SENATORS.
They Don’t "Want Their Constituents
to Know About Their Fine Houses.
Washington, Dec. 19.—1 t is said that
Senator Wiudom was defeated in his ef
forts to secure a re-election to tbe Sena'e
by pictures of his magnificent Washing
ton house, which were scattered over the
Male by his opponent.
During tho last campaign, pictures or
descripti''nB of these Washington palaces
were printed in tbe opposition local pa
pers ail over their districts, and did much
to influence the people In voting against
“men who could not afford to buy small
houses at home, but were able to build
palaces in Washington.” The other day
a well-known Senator, whose term is
Bbout to expire, and wno has a beautiful
new house here, was sitting at his win
dow when he noticed a photo,
grapher come along and place
his camera in the middle of the street in
front of his house and prepare to take a
picture. The Senator at once thought of
Ihe opposition papers printing the picture
and his rivals showing how he lived in
Washington. He therefore determined
to prevent the photographer from accom
plishing his awiul design. He went out
Into the street and ordered the man
awav. The photographer looked at him
for a while, and finding the Senator in
earnest, took up his camera atid went to
theothereideof thestreet. “Youdou’iown
this pavement,” said the photographer.
“nd you can’t drive me away from here."’
The Senator knew he could not, so went
across to try and argue with the man.
The photographer refused to leave. At
last he said to the Senator: “Whv don’t
you let me alone, and go see the ntan
wtio sent, me. lam only paid to take tbe
Picture.” Tbe Benator thought that a
good suggestion; so do left the operator
and went to see hie boss, down town.
Imagine his disgust when the photo,
t'rapher informed him that an author
was writing an article on architecture,
and wanted a view of the Senator’s new
flmrt beautiful house to Illustrate it.
When the Senator beard this, he invited
•be pbotograpner to send another man up.
He would show him tbe prettiest part ol
the bouse for a picture, and said lie might
order a few himself lor his private use.
Circumstances alter cases, even with
Senator*.
IKIN’S Af JIT A l lON.
Oi?nth of Dp. Iyotts—Marauders At
tack a House with I'frearnis.
Dublin, Dec. ll).—Dr. Lyons, formerly
® member ot Parliament for Dublin, died
'n this city this morning.
On Saturday nlglit a party of marauders
Attacked tho house of a man named Gog-
Km at Balllnprior, county Kerry. Two
shots wer* 1 tired at. Ooggin, who succedod
* n escaping. Tee party subsequently
shot Constable Fitzgerald, wounding nini
in the leg. Twelve persons arrest 'd for
complicity in the outrage have been dis
ctlrged lor want of evidence.
the Gazette proclamailon in reference
to tho anti-rent, campaign has been
posted throughout the city of Dublin, and
parcels of the proclamation have been
"■‘nt to thef provinces tor distribution.
A meeting is to be held at Kllruab to
protest, against Mr. Vandeleur’s eviction
process. The call lor the meeting is
Printed on handbills and concludes as
follows; “People of Kllrush, at the most
Important crisis in our country’s history,
Jou are invited to become soldiers of Ire
land under the banner of the National
league.”
Commoners Doasy, Harrington and
Nteeban spoke at Killavney to day, de
bouncing the aotion of the government.
*>r. Harrington condemned the ahsonce
°t priests Irom the meeting.
united IKELAND’S PLANS.
The proprietors of Uulted Ireland have
had their books, papers, etc., removed to
a place of safety in view of the poslble
seizure of the paper by the government.
It suppressed, toe publication will be
continued just as when the Land League
was suppressed.
Commoner Tanner, speaking at Coach
ford, Cork, to-day, prophesied the down
fall of the government wi bin three
months. Commoner Hooper declared
that the tenants were capableo f effcting
an honest combination with o*' without '‘a
planot camoaign.” There were no priests
at the meeting.
Air. Dillon was unable to attend any
meetings to-day. Air. AloLane, presiding
at an anti-rent campaign meeting at
Rnockmoulea to dav, said tbat if all
the Nationalist leaders were arrested
Catholic priests would take their places
and continue the campaign,
MK. O’ISRIKN'B DEFIANCE.
Air. O’Hrien, presiding at a meeting
held at LoDgtord to-day, denounced the
government in violent terms for conspir
ing with Judge O’Brien to usurp the
functions ot jury aud manufacture a ver
dict by Illegal means. The pretense of
bringing Air. Dillon and nimself to triai
be said was a sham. The government
never hoped to bring them to trial, but
did hope that before a verdict could be
obtained from a jury, they would succeed
in suppressiug the anti-rent
movement by proclamations and
arbitrary conduct. He warned them that
they would have to adopt still more dras
tic measures than the peaceful “plan of
campaign” to stay the arms of evicting
landlords. The Irish would not die in
ibe ditches. The promoters of the plan
would have to exercise their ingenuity
and circumspection In order to outwit the
Castle officials.
PROCESS SERVERS BEATEN.
Near Tullamore to-dav two process
servers were badly beaten by unknown
persons. The process they intended to
serve was destroyed. One of the men
bad to be sent to a hospital. The grand
juiy of the Munster Assizes has sent a
resolution to the government, to Air.
Gladstone and others declaring that the
evidence obtained in agrarian offenses
“points to social disorganization, trace
able to the deplorable condition of the
land question.”
PARNELL’S POOR HEALTH.
London. Dee. 19.—Air. Darnell, who
has just arrived in London, said to-day
tbat be was slowly recovering from bis
recent gastric attack. His doctor will
permit him to resume his parliamentary
duties on the opening of the session if be
promises to be careful. Air. Darnell does
not intend at present to express an
opinion on the “plan of campaign,”
wishing first to go to Ireland to con
sult with the promoters or the plan,
whom he has not seen since the end of
I he last session of Darliament. He also
desires to obtain fuller knowledge in re
gaid to various matters before he speaks
< n the subject. He declares that he
was not aware that the “plan ot cam
paign” had been revised, oreven proposed
until it bad been published. Air. Darnell
will go to Ireland shortly.
TAKIS F It * m VKKS.
Senator Heck Lives tlie Protection
ists collie Heavy Digs.
The following extracts are from Senator
Beck’s speech on Senator Alorrill’s resolu
tion that it is inexpedient to touen the
tariff at this session. The speech was de
livered last Thursday and a synopsis ot
it appeared in the dispatches of the
Alorning News:
The great mass of the Democratic
party in the House of Representatives,
indeed at both ends of the capitol, l can
not say with confidence every one of
them, earnestly desire that propositions
seeking to reduce taxes may be brought
forward, and if combinations are to be
encouraged by resolutions and speeches
here prepared in advance and circulated,
as I have in a beautiful covered form on
my desk this morning the speech of the
Senator from Vermont, and 1 hope to get
one in equally attractive form giving the
speech of the Senator trom Massacbu
setts in a clay or two, we should be given
time to look at them and see what can be
said on the other side.
I only desire to say at this time that I
am wedded to no scheme. I want taxes
reduced. I seek the aicl of gentlemen on
both sides of the chamber to secure the
consideration by the House of a bill tbat
will give us a chance by sending some
proposition here to determine how they
ban best be reduced, t am one of those
wuo believe that before this country can
acquire the high commercial and manu
facturing position it is entitled to among
the nations of the earth. It must take the
old time honored position it. held under
Democratic low tariff upon the hi.'h seas
aud carry ou its own commerce in itsown
ships.
1 relieve as long as there is a tax
of 60 per cent, upon every nail, every bolt,
every piece or iron tbat is used to build a
ship, and on every piece ot cordage tbat
goes into it, and every article or material
tuat helps to set it ulloaior run it, we can
not succeed, especially when wo have
treaties allowing the people of all other
nations to buy their ships where they
please, as cheaply as they oan, and trade
with us on equal terms with our own citi
zens in costly home built snips. 1 do not
believe that taking the tax off tobacco or
the Lax offol sugar will cheapen the con
st-uetton of a ship, or open a single man
ufacturing establishment in the United
States to more extended markets than it
has now. But giving up the taxes on
those things is earnestly urged fortbepur
poseot preventing us from removing taxes
on manufactures or materials, and to
keep us from doing anything to enlarge
our commercial power and send our man
ufactured goods abroad to compete in the
markets of the world with other people.
The men who own the machinery and
the men whose lortunes have been built
up by protective tat iff are content with
this market, and all their pretenses ot
z.-al to a-d tueir laborers only means that
they intend to perpetuate by law
their power to appropriate Mi's market to
themselves—to secure the rlgbtto charge
what they please. Their laborers may
starve before thov will give them any
chance to work for markets more ex
tended, or carry on business ou such a
eoale that the operatives oan have labor
all the year, Instead ot six or eight
months, which is about the average now.
THE SENATOR FROM MASSACHUSETTS
tells about the Immense amount of cap
ital that nas accumulated in this country
in the last thirty or forty years. I admit
what be save; but let me ask bow is it
distributed? it is in the hands ol the
Vanderbilts, the Goulds, and the great
protected manufacturing companies.
What good does all ihat enormous wealth
do the laborer ami his family while they
are Idle lor months at a time wheu com
binations such as that ol the anthracite
coal cotnnanies and others are closing up
their mines and shops in order to Increase
prices, so as to make a lew men rich and
starve the laborem-ttie protected pets of
Congress alonegetting richer.
I want laws passed which grant no
monopolies or special privileges. 1 seek
to obtain a fair and equal distribution of
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1886.
taxation which will increase the purchas
ing power of the poor man’s wages and
give the laborer, whether on the farm, in
the factory or anywhere else, the right to
work and make the most out of what he
earns. 1 have no faith in legislative pro
tection and bounty, given to a lew at the
expense of the many.
Tne rreasurer shows almost in the next
line tbat all the :> per cent, bends were
now paid except $(>4,000,000; that no more
could b paid without buying them at a
premium until 1891; that the surplus
revenue now coerced front the taxpayers
by oppressive laws woo'd continue to run
from $100,000,000 to $125,000,000 annually
beyond all the needs ot the government:
and yet the country is told by the chair
main of tho Finance Committee, and bis
speech is circulated over the land, that it
is a matter of great doubt whether we
can reduce taxation at all or do anything
looking to relief without making d* floits.
THAT 18 A SPECIMEN OF THE WAY
this great subject now sought to be with
drawn from t.i>e Senate has been treated
by him. Again, the Senator from Ver
mont says some of us are silly enough to
repeat the o't exploded heresy that a man
ought to sell where he can sell highest
and buy where he can liuv cheapest. That
tie regards as very unpatriotic and tit
only for the emissaries of the Cobden
Club. I hope eome bill will come up. I
seek his aid to bring it up in any form;
that is all 1 a*K, which will enable us to
prove that to be the true policy. We will
show tbat 80 per cent, ot all our exports
are purely agricultural products, and
that they must be sent abroad and have
to be sold in competition with all the
paupers ot Europe, and that the
prices of our home orops
are controlled by the foreign market price
of the surplus exported. Sureiy the men
who have to send their goods abroad
should have a right to buy what they
want where they can get the most for the
least money, as they had to sell their
products in competition with paupers,
subject only to such a tax as is needed
for an honest, economical administration
of the government, and not be robbed by
Congress to enrich any body ot men who
have nothing to do with their trado and
did not labor to produce anything they
get the money for. This government
does not trade with anybody; other
nations do not trade with us;
individual men trade with other
men. All exports and imports are
individual not national property. The
farmer’s products have to go abroad, and
the surplus increases as home machinery
supplants human labor, and they have to
te sold to somebody. The man who buys
them pays the money to the man who
sells, lie ought to be allowed to use it so
as to do him and his family the most good,
it is robbery for Congress,under pretense
of protecting anvbody else, to take fiom
him any more ot the money that he has
earned or to make him pay more for the
things he needs tban his proper share of
the proper expenses of the government
require. We will maintain that, heresy
or no heresy, when the question isjup for
debate.
WHEN GENTLEMEN TELL THE PEOPLE
that the importer pays the tariff tax they
know the statement is a humbug, if not a
downright falsehood; it is a false state
ment ot the fact. Triere is not a dollar’s
wort h of goods imported into this country
from any part of the world tnat does not
come lor consumption here at borne.
These goods are bought in great part with
the proceeds of goods exported by the
men who have to sell goods in foreign
markets in competition with so-called
paupers. Not one dollar would ever reach
ibe Treasury of the United Stales from
customs dues unless each individual man
who buys the goods brought from abroad
assumes tbat to be tbe cheapest way to
get them. He is the only man who can
judge whether it is cheaper tor him to pay
the foreign price with the tariff tax than it
is to buy the same things at the price
asked in this country. He pays the tax only
because It is cheaper in bis opinion than
to buy from the home manutacturer, and
because he thinks also tbegovernment gets
the tax. The individual American citi
zen who needs goods is in every case the
man who pays tbe tariff tax; yet we are
talking here about these matters as
though It was this government dealing
with a foreign government, and as though
the farmer of the Northwest was inter
ested in making every manufacturer in
Vermont or Rhode Island or New Hamp
shire or anvwhere else a millionaire, no
matter though he and his family mightbe
paying twice what all they bought was
worth in order to make these Congres
sional favorites millionaires.
lIAB IT COME TO THIS,
that we ate to boast of the fact that we
are living in a country where we have a
few thousand millionaires, mad'* so by
legislation of Congress, while 69,000,000
are starving, or have the right to use the
monev they work for to the beat advant
age taken from them in order to make a
few men rich by law who refuse to labo*-
in the open markets of the world, and
that we are to maintain a protective sys
tem in order that we may boast that we
have a great amount of money in the
country distributed to a few by Congress,
while the men who earn it and are really
enticed to it are getting none of t he bsne
fits, but are crushed to the earth under
the pretext ol protecting American labor?
1 repeat that 1 propose to argue those
questions when any tax bill in any shape
is presented, and 1 appeal to gentlemen
on both sides of this chamber to use all
the power they have with tbelr respective
friends at the other end ot the capitol to
bring up in any form any measure that
will enable us *o discus* them. Then w<*
will go to the country, and, when tbe
facts are presented. X think we will strip
the false pretenses and patriotic plati
tude* that are now paraded about the
importance of taxing all the people to
protect the pretended guardians ol labor,
when they are merely robbing the men
whom they aro pretending to protect. 1
will go as iar as any tnan to protect Ameri
can labor; I want to give it constant em
ployment; I want its wages to buy aamuch
as the wages of any other laborer will
buy; 1 want to free it from nil taxation
except wnat is necessary to support this
government. When tho Senaior from
Massachusetts was telling bow the 100,-
000 men who are operatives In tbe women
nulls would receive the message of tbe
President when their wages were cut
down, 1 could but think bow the 20,000,000
ot men who work upon their larnis and
who could buy for on Saturday night a
bat, a coat, or a suit of clothes that under
the protective tariff robbery cost them $O,
would thank God that the Dresdent had
made the suggestion that induced Con
gress to pas* laws enabling the wages
they earned to buy at a reasonable price
the things they needed.
J’etfrenient of a Hector.
Richmond, Va., Dec. 19—Rev. Charles
Minnegerode, D.D., rector of St. Daul’e
Episcopal Church here, has resigned on
account of old age and fe l ble health, and
nas been made emeritus rector. He is 7ft
years old. He was rector of St. Paul’s
Church wuen .Jefferson Davis attended
services there, and was reading service
when a messenger entered the oburch
and Informed Mr. Davie that Gen. Lee
had evacuated tbe citv
ON TRIAL BEFORE CHRIST
THEM EN nOUS Issl KS W HUH
AHE AT STAKE,
T*n Count* In til* lixlctment of Ili*
Court, of II lull AitttiimL 111**
C hristian —So emu Contract* of l’rajcr
Violated L>hiu £< Claimed 'lit
World Inotpabie of lining an Impar
tial Wit lie**.
Brooklyn, Deo. 19.—Rev. T. DeWitt
Talinago, D.D., preaobed to-day in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle on the subject: “On
Trial.” Taking lor.his text 1. John ii., 2:
“We have an advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ, the righteous.” He said:
Standing in a court room you say to
yourself: “At this bar crime has olten
been arraigued; at this witness stand the
oath has often beeu taken; at this jurors'
bench the verdict has been rendered; at
this judge’s desk sentence has been pro
nounced.” But I have to tell you to-day
ol a trial higher than any Over and Ter
miner, or Circuit, or Supremo, or Chan
cery. It is the trial ol every Christian
man for the life of his soul. This trial Is
different from any other in tbe fact that it
is both civil and criminal. The issues ut
stake Hre tremendous, and 1 shall in my
sermon show you, first, what are the
grounds of complaint ; then who are the
witnesses id the cause, and lastly, wuo
are the advocates.
When a trial is called on, the first
thing is to have tbe indictment read.
Stand up then, O Christian man, and hear
the indictment of the court of high heaven
against thy soul! it Is an indictment of
ten counts’, for thou hast dlreotlv or in
directly broken all'the ten command
ments- You know how it thundered on
Sinai, and when God came down how the
mountain rocked, and the smoke ascended
as from a smoldering furnace, and tne
darkness gathered thick, and the lud
deep trumpet tittered tne words: “The
sotil that sinnetb it shall die!” Are you
guilty or not guilty? Do not put in a
negative plea too quick, for I have to an
nounce that “all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God. Tbeio is none
tnat doeth good; no, notone. Whosoever
shall keep the whole law. yet offend mono
point, ho is guilty of all.” Do not, there
fore. be too hasty in pronouncing yoursell
not guilty.
This lawsuit before us also charges you
with the breaking of a solemn contract.
Many a time did we premise to be the
Lord’s. We got down on our knee* and
said: “O Lord, 1 am Thine now and for
ever.” Did you keep the promise? Have
you stood tip to the contract ? 1 go back
to your first communion. You remember
it as well as ir it were yesterday. You
know how tho vision of the cross rose be
fore you. You remember how Irom the
bead, aud the hands, and the side, and the
feet, there came bleeding forth these two
words: “Remember me!” Y'"tt recall
how the cup ol communion trembled in
\ our hand when you first took it; and as
in a sea shell you may hear, or think you
tiear, tee roariugol the surf even aster the
shell had been taken trom the beach, so
you lifted th cup of communion,
and you heard in it the surging
of the great ocean of a Saviour’s
auony; and you came forth from that
communion service with face shining as
though you had been on tbe Alount ol
Transfiguration; aud the very air seemed
tremulous with the love of Jesus, and tbe
woods, and the leaves, aod the grass, and
the birds were brighter and sweeter
voiced than ever before, and you said
down in the very depths of your soul:
“Lord, thou knowest all things; tbmi
knowest that 1 love Thee” Have you
kept the bargain,!) Christian man? Have
you not some time (altered when you
ought to have been true? Have you not
been proud when you ought to have been
humble? Have you not piaved the cow
ard when you ought to have been the
hero? I charge it upon you, and I charge
it upon myself—we have broken the con
tract.
Still further this lawsuit claims dam
ages at your hands. The greatest slander
on the Christian religion is an inconsls
tent prolessor. The Bible says religion
is one thing; we by our inconsistency say
religion is some other thing, and what is
more deplorable about it is that people
oan see faults In others while they cannot
sec anv in themselves. If you shall at
any lime find some miserable old gossip,
with imperfections trom tbe crown ol her
bend to tbe sole of her foot, a perfect
blolch of sin herself, she will go tattling,
tattling, tattling all the years ol her life,
about the inconsistencies ol others, hav
lng no Idea that she is inconsistent her
self. God save the world from the gossip,
lemale and male! I think the tnat * are
the worst. Now the ohariot ol Christ’s
salvation goes on through the world; hut
it is our inconsistencies, my brethren,
that biock up the wheels, while all along
tbe line there ought to have boon cast
nothiug but palm branches, and the
shout sbou and tiave been lilted. “Hosana to
tbe son uf David.”
Now you have heard the indictment
read. Are vott ready to plead guilty or
not guilty ? Derhaps you are not ready
yet to plead. Then the trial will go on.
The witnesses will he called, and we shall
have the matter decided. In the name of
God I now make proclamation: “Ovez!
Oyez! Oyez! Whosoever hath anything
to otter in this trial in which God ti e
plaintiff and tbe Christian s ul is tbe
defendant, lot him now step forth aud
give testimony in this solemn trial.”
the first witness that 1 call upon the
stand In behalf of the prosecution, is tho
World—all critical and * observant of
Christian character. You know that
there are people around you who per
petually banqueton the frailties of God’s
children. You may know, if you have
lived in tho country, that a crow cares
for nothing so much as carrion. There
are those who Imagine that out of tbe
taults of Christians they can make a
l,rulge of boats across the stream ol
death, and they are going to try It; but,
alas, tor the mistake. When they get am id
stream away will go the bridge and down
will go their soul to perdition. O, World
of the greedy eve and ihe hard heart, come
on the stand now and testily in behalf of
the prosecution against this Christian soul
on trial. What do you ki ow about this
Christian mun? “Oh,'" says the World,
*•1 know a great deal about him. He talks
ahout putting his treasure* iu heaven,
but be is the sharpest man in a trade 1
ever knew. He seems to want us to be
lieve that he is a child of God. but he is
just full of Imperfections. 1 do not know
but 1 am a great deal better than be Is
now. Oftentimes ho is very earthly, and
he talks so little about Christ and so much
about himself, 1 am very glad to testify
tbat this is a bad man.”
Stop, O, World with tbe greedy eye and
tho bard heart. I fear you aro too muon
interested in this trial to give Impartial
evidence. Let all those who hear the tes
timony of this witness know that there is
an old family quarrel between these two
parties. There always ha* been a vari
ance between the World and the Church,
and while the World on tbe witness s'and
to dav has told a greatdealof truth about
this Christian man, you must take it all
with some allowance, remembering tbat
thoy still keep the old grudge Rood. (),
" orld of the greedy eve and tho hard
heart, that, will do. You raav alt down.
The second witness 1 osii in this ease
is Conscience. Who art thou. On, Con
science? What is your business? Where
were you born? What ure you doing here?
“<ii!” says Conscience, “I vias horn in
heaven. 1 came down to betrienil this
man. I have lived with him. 1 have In
structed him. 1 have warned him. 1
showed him the right and the wrong, ad
vising him to lake the one and eschew
the other. 1 have kindled a t reat light
in his soul. With a whip Of scorpions 1
have scourged bis wickedness, and I have
tried to cheer him when doing right;
ami yet 1 am compelled to le*tif> on the
stand to day tint he has sometimes re
jected my mission. Oh, how many cups
of life have i pressed to his Ups that lie
dashed down, and how ofteu has be
stood with his hard heel on the bleeding
heart, of the bon of God l It pains me
very much that l have to testify against
this Christian man, and yet 1 must, in
behalt gof „Hlm who will in no wise
dear the guilty, say that this Christian
man has done wrong. He has been
worldly. He has been neglectful, lie
lias done n thousand things he ought not
to have done, and left undone a thousand
things he ought to have done.’’ Thai
will do, Conscience. You can sit down.
The third witness 1 call in llie case Is
an angel of God. Bright and shining one
wbat dost thou here? What hast thou to
say against this man on trial? “Uhl”
says the angel, “I have been a messenger
to him. 1 have guarded him. I have
waiohed him. With this wing I have de
fended him, and oftentimes when he
Knew it not l led him into tne green pas
tures and beside the still waters. I
snatched from him the poisoned obaiices.
When bad spirits came upon him to
destroy him 1 (ought them hack with hi
tinile fierceness; and yet I have to testily
io day that he has rejected my mission.
He has not done as he ought to nave done.
Though I come from the sky he drove me
hack. Though with ibis wing 1 delcndcd
him, and though with this voice 1 wooed
him, 1 have to announce his multiplied
imperlectioos. 1 dure not keep hack the
testimony, for then t should not dare to
appear again amongst ttiesinless ones be
fore the great, white throne.
There is only one more witness to be
called on beliulf of the prosecution, and
ihat is the great, the holy, the august.the
omnipotent Spirit ot God. We Jmw down
before Him. Holy Spirit, knowestthou this
man? “Oh, yes,” says the Holy ()ne,“l
know him. L have striven with him ten
thousand times, and thou.li sometimes lie
did seem to repent, he fell bites again as
olten from his first estate. Ten thousand
limes ten thousand has ho grieved Me.
alihough the Biblo warned him saving:
•Grieve not the Holy Ghost. Quench noi
the Spirit.’ Yes, ho has driven Me hack.
I hough I am the Third Person of the
Trinity he has trampled on tny mission,
and the blood of the Atonement that I
brought with which to cleanse his soul
ho sometimes despised. I came irom the
liiroue of God to convert, and comfort,
and sanctity, and yet look at that man
and see wbat he is compared with what,
unresisted, I would have made him.’’
The evidence on the part of the prose
cution has closed. Now let the defense
bring on the rebuttal testimony. Wba
iiuve you, O Christian soul, to bring in
reply to this evidence of tne world, oi the
conscience, ot the angel, and of the Holy
Ghost? No evidence? Are all tUese
things true? “Yes, unclean, unclean,”
says every Christian soul. What? I)o
you not begin to tremble at the thought ol
condemnation ?
We bave come now to the most inter
esting part ol this great trial. Tne evi
dence all in, ibe advocates speak. The
profession of an advocate is lull of re
sponsibility. In England and Uie United
states there have arisen men wbo in ibis
calling bave been honored by their race
and thrown contempt Upon those wno
in the profession have been guilty of a
great many meannesses. 'That pro
fession will be honorable as long as it Las
attached to ltsucb names aa Mansfield,
and Alarehall, and Story, aud Kent, and
Southard, and William Wirt. Tbe court
room has sometimes been tbe scene ot
very marvelous and thrilling tilings.
Some of you remember the famous
Girard will case, where one oi our advo
cates pleaded iho cause of the Bib e and
Christianity in masterly Anglo-Saxon,
every paragraph a thunderbolt.
Some ot you bave read of tbe famous
trial in Westminster ilail, of Warren
Hastings, the despoiler of India. That
great man had conquen and India by splen
did talents, by courage, by bribes, by gt
gannc dishonesty. The whole world had
rung with applause or condemnation.
Gathered in W estminster Hall was one of
the most tamous audiences ever gathered.
Foreign ministers and princes sat there.
Peers marched in clad in o: mine and gold.
Ahghty men and women Irom all lands
looked down upon jhe scene. Amid all
that pomp and splendor, and amid au ex
citement suen as has seldom been seen in
any eourt room, Edmund Burke advanced
in a speech winch will last as long as
the English language, concluding with
ibis burning charge, which made Warren
Hastings cringe and cower: “1 impeach
him in the name oi the Commons limine
ol Parliament, whoso trust be has be
trayed. 1 impeach him in the name of
the English nation, wli se ancient bom r
he has sullied. 1 impeach b in in ihe
name of the people of India, whose r ghu
lie has trampled on, and whose country re
bus turned into a desert. And, lastly, in
the name of human nature, in tbe name ot
both sexes, in the name of every age and
rank, 1 impeach him as the common
enemy and oppressor of all,”
But 1 turn from the recital of those
memorable occasions to u gi .mder trial,
and I have to tell you that in tins trial ol
the Christian for tbe life of bis soul, the
advocates are mightier, wiser and more
eloquent. The evidence all being In,
Justice rises on behall ol tbe prosecution
to make his plea. With tbe Bible open in
bis hand, he reads tbe law, stern and in
flexible, and tbe penalty. “The soul that
siiuielb, it snail die.” Then he says:
“O thou, Judge and Lawgiver, this is
Thine own statute, and all the evidence
in earth and heaven agrees in stating
that this man has sinned against all these
enactments. Alow let the sword leap from
its scabbard, nuall a man go through the
very flames of Sinai unaln.ed? Let tho
Jaw be executed. Let judgment bo pro
nounced. Let bim die. T demand that
be die.”
O, Christian, does it not look very
dark lor tbee? Wbo will plead on tby
side in so forlorn a cause? .Sometimes a
man will be brought into a court of law,
and be will have no friends, and no
money, and tbe Judge will look over tbe
bar and say: “Is there anyone who win
volunteer to take this man’s case and de
fend him?’’ and some young man rises
up and says: “1 will be bis counsel,”
perhaps starting on front that, very point
to a great and brilliant career. Now, in
this matter of the soul, as you havo noth
ing to pay for counsel, do you think that
any one will volunteer? Yes, yes; 1 see
One rising. He I* a young man, only fW
years of age. Is o His countenance su -
fused witb tears and covered with blood,
and all tbe gallenesol beaven are thrilled
with the spectacle. Thanks be untoOud!
“Wo have an advocate with the Father,
Jesus Cnrlst the righteous.”
O, Christian soul, your case begins to
look better. 1 think, perhaps, after all
you may not have to die. The heat ad
vocate in all the universe has taken your
side. No one was ever so qualified to de
fend a man as (his advent e is qualified
to defend you. He knows ail the law, all
its demands, all its penalties. He is
alwavs ready. No new turn of the case
can surprise Him, and He will plead for
you lor nothing as earnestly as though
you brought a world of treasures
to His leet. Besides that He
lias undertaken the care of thousands
who wore as forlorn as you, and
He has never lost a case. Courage, O
Christian soul! 1 think that alter all
there may he some ohanoe for you, for the
gri at Advocate rises to make his plea,
lie save: “i admit all that has been
proved against my client. 1 admit all
these sins, are, more; hut look at that
wounded hand ol mine, and look at that
ntbor wounded huud, and at my right
foot and at my left foot. By all these
wounds I plead lor his clearance. Count
all the drops of my tears. Count all the
drops of my blood. Bv the humiliation ol
Bethlehem, bv the sweat, of Gethaemane,
by iho sufferings of the oross, 1 demand
that be go free. On this arm he hath
leaned; to this heart he hath flown: In
my tears he bath w ashed; on my righteous
ness he hath depended. Bet him go free.
lam the ransom. Let him eseaps the
lush, I took the scourgings. Let thooup
pass from him. 1 drank it to the dregs.
Put ou bun the crown of life, lor 1 have
woru the crown ol thorns Over against
ray cross of shame, set bis throne c( tri
umph.”
Well, the counsel on both sides have
spoken, and there is only one more thing
now remaining, and that Is the awarding
of the judgment. If you have ever been in
a court room you know the silence, and
the solemnity, when the verdict is about
to he rendered or the judgment shout
to be given. About this soul on trial,
shall it be saved or shall It he losif At
tention, above, around, beneath. All the
universe cries: “Hear! hear!”
Toe Judge rises and gives tills decision,
never to he changed, never to be revoked:
“ There is therefore now no condemnation
to them who are in Christ Jesus.”
' lie soul Hint on Jesus hath lenncl for repose,
I will not, 1 wid not. desert to His foes;
That soul, i hough all hell should endeavor to
shake,
I’ll never, uo never, no never forsake.
But, my friends, there Is coming a day
ol (rial in which not only the saint, but
the sinner must appear. That day of trial
will ooine very suddenly. Tho farmer
will be at the plough, the merchant will
tie in the counting room, the woodman
will he ringing his ax on tho hiokoiies,
trio weaver will have his foot on th
treadle, tho manufacturer will lie walk
ing amid the buzz of looms and the clack
of flying machinery, ttie counsel may be
standing at the bar pleading the law, the
minister may be In tile pulpit pleading
the gospel, the drunkard may be reeling
amid bis cups, and the blasphemer with
the oatli caught between his teeth.
Lo! The sun hides. Night comes down
at midnonn. A wave of darkness rolls
over the earth. The stars appear at noon
day The earthr- shudders and throb*.
There an earthquake opens and a city
sinks as aorocodile woulderancti aohlld.
Mountains roll iu their sockets and send
down their granite cliffs in an avalanche
ol rock. Itivers pause in their chase for
the sea, and ocean, uprearing, cries to
living Alps and Himalaya. Beasts
bellow, and moan, and snufT up the dark
ness. Clouds fly like flock* of swilt eagles.
Great thunders beat, and boom, and burst.
Stars shoot and fall. The Almighty,
rising on His throne, declares that time
shall he no longer, and the archangel’s
trump repeats it till all the living bear,
and the continents ot dead spring to their
feet, crying; “Time shall he no longer I”
Oh, on that day, will you be ready ?
1 have shown you how well tho Chris
tian will get off iu this trial. Will you
get off as well in jour trial? Will Christ
plead on your side or will He plead
against you? Ob, what will vou do in
the last, great, assize, if vour conscience
is against you, and the world is against
you, and the angels of beavou are against
you, and the Holy Spirit is against
you, and the Lord God Almighty is
against you? Belter this day secure an
advocate.
ENGLAND WAKNs TURKEY.
Harsh Meanures Throat"nod if Co
quetting with Kussia Coni inues.
LONDON, Deo. 10. —The Post this morn
ing in an Inspired article warns Turkey
against further coquetting with Itussia.
The British government, It says, h*s un
dergone great sacrifices to uphold the in
tegrity of Turkey, even against the opin
ion of a Urge portion of the English
people. Anv hesitation on the part of
Turkey will now compel England to
adopt a course to counteract Itussia’s
threats by measures that will speedily Im
press the Porte witn fne fact ihat Tur
key’s preseutdoubtful policy is the worst
lor her real interests.
GERMAN PRECAUTIONS.
Berlin, Dec. 19.— 1n January all the
French employes oil the Aisaoe and Lor
raine railway will he dismissed and re
placed by Germ ans.
DEATH IN IHE FLAMES.
Heroic but Fruitless Effort, of a
Itrother to Rescue His sister.
Armada, Mich., Dec. 19.—Tbe fruit
evaporator of John H. Stump caught fire
soon after midnight last night. Miss
Elizabeth Stump, aged 22, sister of tbe
pioprietor, was asleep in the building at
tbe time wtien Mr. Stump arrived on tbe
scene. He raised a ladder and hero
ically tried to rescue her,
but was beaten baok by tbe flames,
wnlcb hurst through the window, throw
ing bim to tne ground. He was picked
up insensible wilh a fractured hip and
terrible cut in bis bead. Not withstanding
the efforts of the workmen the building
was consumed. This morning the body
of Miss Stump was taken Irom the ruin's
burned beyond recognition. Tbe loss is
$20,000 and there is no insurance.
Winter Wheat.
Chicago, Dec. 19.—'This week’s issue of
tin Tanners’ Itevpw will say: “The tenor
ot the reports from the winter wheat belt
continues to be generally favorable.
Nine tenths of the counties throughout
the entire belt report tbe crop as being
good and In tine cond tlon. The move
ment of corn is reported to be moderately
free In Missouri, but slow In Kansas, Ne
braska and Illinois. Five lillnok and
ten lowaooumies report this week that
the corn supply is so short as to prev> nt
anv shipment, or that it is entirely ex
hausted.
lircakH the Record.
Ban Francisco. Dec. 19.—1n tbe mile
and repeat race beiween (Shamrock and
Twinkle at the Bay District track yester
day Shainiock broke tbe iwo-vear-old
Htsllion record bv 4 seconds, making the
second heat in 2:25.
iPKICE *lO A VKARJ
J 5 CENTS A OOFT/}
CO N’GRESSAN D CHRISTMAS
A BELIEF THAT THE RECESS
WILL BEGIN WEDNESDAY.
Senators Already Lenvlrg tho City for
Tlielr Homes In Anticipation of •
Dearth ol Important Buslovas Before
the Adjournment— The Outlook In the
House a Little Livelier.
Washington, Deo. 19 —The cus
tomary concurrent resolution for the holi
day recess has not yet been offered Iu
either branch of Congress, but It is the
general expectation ihat when the two
houses adjourn next Wednesday it will
he to reassemble at noon on the first
Tuesday in ISB7. The determination of
the matter has been delayed by the un
certainty with regard to the tariff bill.
Had that measure been taken up by the
House It would protably have bad tho
effeot of snortening, If not of entirely pre
venting, the usual joint recess.
TnE DEFICIENCY DILL.
It Is probable that (he Senate will pass
the deficiency appropriation hill making
provisions for the work at the government
printing ottice liefore the recess, and tho
senate is likely to transact little or no
other business ol importance during the
week. Tho speoiai orders for the week
are the railroad attorney bill, the Joint
resolution autuorizing the Secretary of
War to acoapt certain lands near Chicago
lor military purposes, the bill forfeiting
tho New Orleans, Baton Kongo and Vicks
burg Railroad Com pan i's laud grant, and
the Pacific railroad funding hill. Con
sideration of tne first depends upon the
return of Mr. Evarts, who is not expected
until after the reoess, and of the second
upon the health of Gen. Logan, who has
teen confined to his house for some days
by an attack of rheumatism.
senators already leaving.
As several Senators have already left
town, and more are likely to go uwsy
Monday and Tuesday, It Is not thought
probable that the remaining special
orders will he pressed Tor action, though
one or both muy bo taken up for debate.
The same conditions are likely to prevent
consideration ol tue mier-Siata commerce
hill, hut Bsnator Cullom will try to se
cure lor it t he position of “unfinished bus
iness,” so that it mnv lake pr ference
after the reoess. Should the parliament
ary rights ot the special orders he waived
the Senate will probably devote its atten
tion to unobjected cases on the cnlendai.
MOTIONS TO SUSPEND.
In the House of Represe tatives to
morrow, after the call ot the States for
the Introduction of new measures, the
committees will be called tor motions to
suspend the rules, the call resting with
the Committee on Militia. Mr. Forney,
on behalf of that committee, will at
tempt to secure the passage of the Senate
bill increasing the appropriation to pro
vide arms for the militia forces of tne
Untied Slates. 'The hill bas been amended
by the House Committee so ns to reduoe
the proposed annual appropriation from
$500,000 to $lOO,OOO.
Chairman Matson, of the Committee on
Invalid Tensions, will move to suspend
the rules anil pass the substitute for the
Blair pension hill providing pensions for
soldiers who have become disabled and
are dependent upon charity for support.
If opportunity oilers the Mexican pension
hill mav also he oailed up for passage.
A struggle for precedence.
On Tuesday there will he a struggle for
precedence among the supporters of the
hill establishing a department ot agricul
ture and labor, the hill reorganizing the
naval bureuus and the Tao.tic railroad
landing hill. The friends ot the pending
Oklahoma bill have also determined to
tuge final action on that, subject. Which
ever measure first secures consideration
will probablv engross the attention of the
fiouse until the adjournment for the holi
day recess.
QEORGIA’N CAPITA!*.
Meeting ofthc Hullway ConduoMri
—Alf. Prater In Jail.
Atlanta, Oa., Deo. 19—The Atlanta
Division of Railway Conductors met her*
this afternoon. The meeting was pre
sided over by Orand Chief Conductor
Wheaton. Owing to the absence from
the city of Joseph Latimer, Chief of the
Atlanta Division, the installation of offl.
oers did not occur. The convention,fifty
strong, adjourned to Pease’s restaurant
to partaken! u banquet given by the At
lanta Division.
A If. I’reter, the professional pedestrian,
who was arrested and Jailed here a year
ago, was convicted of assault and battery
In the City Court and lined $lOO, appealed
the case to the Supreme Court and went
to Birmingham. The case was decided
against, him. He returned to this city
Irom Birmingham yesterday, and was at
once arrested and jailed. He says he will
pay bis flue to-morrow and regain bis lib
erty.} r __
LIVES 186 YEAUB.
Death In Indian Territory of the
Oldest Person in the World.
St. Louis. Dec. 19.—A letter from Has
sakawa, Seminole Nation, Indian Terri
tory, gives an account ot th death there
on Deo. sof Mrs. Susanna Warren, per
haps the oldest person in the United
States, if not in the world. She was born
In the old town of St. Augustine, Fla., In
1750. She was born a slave, and was the
property of Spanish masters until
DUS, when she, with oiber Spanish
slaves, fled from the town oi Pensacola
a ben it was taken by Gen. Jackson. She
lived in the Seminole country irom then
until the second treaty of peace with the
Semlnoles, when she was regarded as
tneir common property und was removed
with them to the Indian Territory. She
leaves onodaughter living who resides in
Austin. Tex., aud is in her 97tb year. She
leaves many grandchildren here, some of
them being nearly 70 years old.
Labor in Politics at Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, Do. 19.—Workmen’!
Hail was tilled to nvei flowing this after
noon, the occasion being a mass meeting
to decide whe ber there should be a labor
ticket in the field in the municipal elec
tion next April. The matter waa thor
ougbly discussed and resolutions were
adopted declaring it expedient to noml.
nale a separata ticket lor local oiUoet.
Four committees of five men each were
appointed from the United Labor party.
Central Labor Union, Henry George Club
and the meeting. These oommittees will
meet and arrange the preliminaries for a
labor convention.
I HHIIUUII’s rlCllliflliy.
Eastman. G a.. Deo. 19.—The fall term
of Eastman Academy whs closed Fri
day with speeches and recitations by the
scholars, who acquitted themselves ad
mirably and snowed they were well
trained by Prof. R. J. Strn/ier and hit as*
sistnnt. Miss Fannie Harris.