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CONCORD AND DISCORD.
I
rbr. Talmage’s Sermon Yester
day Morning
|AT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE
.Brooklyn’, November 6. [Special.]-? 1
pho main feature in the music of
,rehe Brooklyn tabernacle is the con
gregational singing. Today, after the open
atig song, in which all the thousands heartily
participated, Professor Browne gave on the or
gan, Scherzo, opus (ir, by Mendelssohn. The
IBev. 1. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., expounded
a chapter in the first book of Samuel, where
Saul, possessed of an evil spirit, threw a jave
-Biu at David, who was playing on the harp be
fore him, thus showing that the evil spirit does
pot like sacred music. The subject of
ftue sermon was “Concord and Dis
fcord,” and the text was from Job,
(Chapter xxxviii, v. G and 7. “Who laid the
(Corner-stone thereof: when the morning stars
‘(gang together?” Dr. Talmage said:
Wc have all seen the ceremony at the laying
-Of the corner-stone of church, asylum or MaZ
Iconic temple. Into the hollow of the stone
were placed scrolls of history and important
documents to be suggestive if, one or two
(hundred years after, the building should bo
’ .destroyed by fire or torn down. We remember
Ithe silver trowel or iron hammer that smote
jthe square piece of granite into sanctity. We
premember some venerable man who presided,
(fielding the trowel or hammer. We remem
ber, also, the music as the choir stood on the
(Scattered stones and timber of the building
(about to be constructed. The leaves of the
potebooks fluttered in the wind, and were
purned over with a great rustling, and wo re
pnember how tho bass, baritone, tenor, con
tralto and soprano voices commingled. They
pad for many days been rehearsing the special
►programme, that it might be worthy of the
joiner-stone laying.
in my text tho poet of Uz calls us to a gran
der ceremony—the laying of the foundation of
.Miis great temple of a world. Tho corner-stone
(Was a block of light and tho trowel was of
Icelestial crystal. All about and on the embank
gtnents of cloud stood the angelic choristers,
[Unrolling their librettos of overture, and other
(worlds clapped shining cymbals while the cer
emony went on, and God, the architect, by
Stroke of light after stroke of light, dedicated
this great cathedral of a world, with moun
tains for pillars, and sky for frescoed ceiling,
kind flowering fields for floor,and sunrise anil
(midnight aurora for upholstery. “Who laid
fthe corner-stone thereof; when the morning
Stars sang together?”
. The fact is that tho whole universe was a
Complete cadence, an unbroken dithyramb, a
musical portfolio. The great sheet of immen
sity had been spread out, and written on it
•Were the stars, the smaller of them minims,
,the larger of them sustained notes. The me
teors marked the staccato passages, tho whole
heavens a gamut, with all sounds, intonations
Rind modulations, the space between the worlds
a musical interval, trembling of stellar light a
.quaver, the thunder a base clef, the wind
(among trees a treble clef. Tiiat is the way
(God made all things, a perfect harmony.
But one day a harp-string snapped in the
great orchestra. One day a voice ‘sounded out
sos tune. One day a discord, harsh and terrif
jjio, grated upon the glorious antiphone. It
fwas the sin that made the dissonance, and that
iaarsh discord has been sounding through the
((Centuries. All the work of Christians, and
mliilantliropists, and reformers of all ages is
fto stop that discord and get all things back into
l»he perfect harmony which was heard at the
•laying of the corner-stone, when the morning
Stars sang together. Before I get through, if I
am divinely helped, I will make it plain that
(sin is discord and righteousness is harmony.
That things in general are out of tune is as
{plain as to a musician’s car is the unhappy clash
of clarionet and bassoon in an orchestral ren
dering.
The world’s health out of tune: Weak
Jung and the atmosphere in collision, disor
dered eye and noonday light in quarrel,
rheumatic limb and damp weather in struggle,
Neuralgias, and pneumonias, and consump
tions, and epilepsies in flocks swoop upon
pei ghbbrhoods and cities. Where you find one
person with sound throat, and keen eyesight,
and alert ear. and easy respiration,and regular
pulsation, and supple limb, and prime diges
tion, and steady nerves, you find a hundred
>who have to be very careful because this, or
Shat, or tho other physical function is disor
dered.
Tho human intellect out of tone: The judg
ment wrongly swerved, or the memory leaky,
pi the will weak, or the temper inflamable,
end the well balanced mind exceptional. Do
pnestic life out of tune: Only here and there a
conjugal outbreak of incompatibility of temper
[through the divorce courts, or a filial outbreak
[about a father’s will through tho surrogate’s
ffiburt, or a case of wife-beating or husband
Koisoning through the criminal courts, but
■thousands of families with Juno outside and
jyanuary within.
Society out of tune: Labor and capital, their
■lands on each other’s throat. Spirit of caste
Steeping those down in the social scale in a
[Struggle to get up, and putting those who are
sap in anxiety lest they have to come down. No
wonder tho old pianoforte of society is all out
pf tune, when hypocrisy, and lying, and sub
terfuge, and double dealing, and sycophancy,
land charlatanism, and revenge have for six
thousand years been banging away at the keys
land stamping the pedals.
‘' On all sides there is a perpetual shipwreck of
(harmonies. Nations in discord: Without real
izing it so wrong is the feeling of nation for
pation that the symbols chosen are fierce and
[destructive. In this country, where our skies
Bl'C full of robins, and doves, and morning
larks, we have our national symbol, the fierce
And filthy eagle, as immoral a bird as can bo c
found in all the ornithological catalogues. Ip
Great Britain, where they have lambs and fal
low deer, their symbol is the merciless lion.
Bn Russia, where from between her
frozen north and blooming south
011 kindly beasts dwell, they choose
4he growling bear; and in tho world’s heraldry
ja favorite figure is the dragon, which is a
winged serpent, ferocious and deathful. And
fio fond is the world of contention that we
(Climb out through the heavens and baptize one
<sf the other planets with the spirit of battle,
find call it Mars, after the god of war, and we
give to the eighth sign of the zodiac the name
Sf the scorpion, a creature which is chiefly cele
brated for its deadly sting. But, after all,
these symbols are expressive of the way na-
Blon feels toward nation. Discord wide as the
continent and bridging the seas. I suppose
gon have noticed how warmly in love
Kry goods stores are with other
fflry goods stores and how highly grocery men
think of the sugars of the grocery men on the
I nine block. And in what a eulogistic way Jal
opathlc and homeopathic doctors speak of
■ach other, and how ministers will sometimes
>ut ministers on that beautiful cooking instru
pent which the English call a spit, an iron
oiler with spikes on it, and turned by a crank
jefore a hot fire, and then if the minister bo
ng roasted cries out against it, the men who
jro turning him say: “Hush, brother! we are
tuning this spit for the glory of God and the
[ood of your soul, and you must be quiet while
re-close tho service with:
“Blest be the tie that binds
' Our hearts in Christian love.”
The earth Is diametered and circumferenced
ijritii discord, and the music that was rendered
fit the laying of the world's cornerstone, when
<be morning stars sang together, is not heard
pow: and though here and there, from this and
|hot part of society, and from this and that
Start of the earth, there conies up a thrilling
Solo of love, or a warble of worship, or a sweet
net of patience, they are drowned out by a dis
cord that shakes the earth.
\ Paul says: “The whole creation groaneth,"
find while the nightingale and tiie woodlark
find the canary and the plover sometimes sing
fio sweetly that their notes have been written '
out in musical notation, and it is found that |
the cuckoo sings in the key of D, and that the |
ioromant is a basso in the winged choir, yet .
■portman's gup and the autumnal blast often •
Eave them ruffled and bleeding or dead in •
jfcoadow or forest. Paul was right, for tho j
Koan in nature drowns out the prima donnas of
Ke sky.
' Tartini. the great musical composer, dream- ,
Ed one night that lie made a contract With
atan, the latter to be in the composer’s ser
ice. But one night he handed to Satan a
iolin. on which Dlabolo played such sweet 1
juaip that the composer was awakened by the j
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1887.
emotion and tried to reproduce the sounds,
ana therefrom was written Tartini’s most
lamous piece, entitled the “Devil’s Senate,'’ a
dream ingenious but faulty, for all melody de
scends from heaven, and only discords ascend
from hell. All hatreds, feuds, controvirsies,
backbitings and revenges are the devil's
sonata, are diabolic fugue, are demoniac phan
tasy, ate grand march of doom, are allegro of
perdition.
But if in this world things in general are out
of tune to our frail ear, how much more so to
ears angelic and deitie. ft takes a skilled artist
fully to appreciate disagreement of sound.
Many have no capacity to detect a defect of
musical execution, and, though there were in
one bar as many offenses against harmony as
could crowd in between the lower F of the bass
and the higher G of the soprano, it would give
them no discomfort, while on the forehead of
the educated artist beads of perspiration would
stand out as a result of the harrowing‘disso
nance. bile an amateur was performing on
a piano and had just struck t he wrong chord,
John Sebastian Bach, the immortal composer,
entered the room, and the amateur rose in em
barrassment, and Bach rushed past the host,
who stepped forward to greet him, and before
the keyboard had stopped vibrating, put his
adroit hand upon the keys and changed the
nainful inharmony into glorious cadence. Then
Bach turned and gave salutation to the host
who had invited him.
But tho worst of all discords is moral dis
cord. If society and tho world are painfully
discordant to imperfect man, what must they
be to a perfect God. People try to define what
sin is. It seems to mo that sin is getting out
of harmony with God, a. disagreement with
his holiness, with his purity, with his love,
with his commands, our will clashing with
his will, the infinite dashing against the infi
nite. the frail against the puissant, the created
against the Creator. If a thousand
musicians, with flute, and cornet-a-pis
ton, and trumpet, and violincello, and
hautboys, and trombone, and all the wind and
stringed instruments t hat ever gathered in a
Dusseldorf jubilee should resolve that they
should play out of tune, and put concord to
the rack, and make the place wild witli shriek
ing, and grating, and rasping sounds, they
could not make such a pandemonium as that
which rages in a sinful soul when God listens
to the play of its thoughts, passions and emo
tions —discord, lifelong discord, maddening
discord. The world pays more for discord than
it docs for consonance. High prices have been
paid for music. Ono man gave two hundred
and twenty-five dollars to hear the Swedish
songstress in New York, and another six hun
dred and twenty-five dollars to hear her in
Boston, and another six hundred and fifty dol
lars to hear her in Providence. Fabulous prices
have been paid for sweet sounds, but far more
has been paid for discord. The Crimean war
cost one billion seven hundred million dollars,
and our American civil war over nine and a
half billion dollars, and the war debts of pro
fessed Christian nations are about fifteen bil
lion dollars. The world pays for this red ticket,
which admits it to the saturnalia of broken
bones, and death agonies, and destroyed cities,
and ploughed graves, and crushed hearts, any
amount of money Satan asks. Discord I Dis
cord 1
But I have to tell you that the song that tho
morning stars sangtogether, at the laying of
the world's corner-stone, is to be resumed
again. Mozart’s greatest overture was com
posed one night when he was several times
overpowered with sleep, and artists say they
can tell the places in the music where ho was
falling asleep, and the places where ho awak
ened. So the overture of the morning stars,
spoken of in my text, has been
asleep, but it will awaken and
be more grandly rendered by tho evening
stars of tho world’s existence than by the
morning stars, and tho vespers will bo sweeter
than the matins. The work of all good men
and women, and of all good churches, and all
reform associations is to bring the race back to
the original harmony. The rebellious heart to
be attuned, social life to be attuned, commer
cial ethics to be attuned, internationality to be
attuned, hemispheres to be attuned. But by
what force and in what way ?
In olden time the choristers had a tuning
fork with two prongs, and they would strike it
on the back of pew or music rack, and put it
to the car, and then start the tune, and all the
other voices would join. In modern orchestra
the leader has a complete instrument, rightly
attuned, and he sounds that, and all the other
performers turn tho keys of their instruments
to make them correspond, and sound tho bow
over the string and listen and sound out over
again, until all the keys are screwed to concert
pitch, and the discords melt into one great
symphony, and the curtain hoists, and the ba
ton taps, and audiences are raptured with
Schuman’s “Paradise and the Peri,” or Ros
sini’s “Stabat Mater,” or Bach's “Magnificat”
in D, of Gounod’s “Redemption.”
Now, our world can never be attuned by an
imperfect instrument. Even a Cremona would
not do. H eaven has ordained the only instru
ment, and it is made out of tho wood of tho
cross, and the voices that accompany It are im
ported voices, cantatrices of the first Christinas
night, when heaven serenaded the earth with :
“Glory to God in the highest and on earth
peace, good-will to men.” Lest we start too
far off, and get lost in tho generalities, we had
better begin with onrselves, get bur own hearts
and life in harmony with the eternal Christ.
Oh, for his almighty spirit to at
tune us, to chord our will with
His will, to modulate our life with His life,
and bring us into unison with ail that is pure
qnd self-sacrificing and heavenly. The strings
of our nature are all broken and twisted, and
the bow is so slack it cannot evoke anything
mellifluous. The instrument made for heaven
to play on has been roughly twanged and
struck by influences worldly and demoniac. O!
master hand of Christ, restore this split and
fractured and despoiled and unstrung nature
until first it shall wail out for our sin and then
thrill with divine pardon.
The whole world must also be attuned by
the same power. A few days ago I was in the
Fairbanks weighing scale manufactory of Ver
mont. Six hundred hands, and they have
never bad a strike. Complete harmony be
tween labor and capital, the operatives of scores
of years in their beautiful homes near by the
mansions of the manufacturers, whose inven
tion and Christian behavior made the great
enterprise. So all tho world over labor and
capital will be brought into euphony.
You may have heard what is
called the Anvil Chorus, composed by Verdi,
a time played by hammers, great and small,
now with mighty stroke, and now with heavy
stroke, beating a great iron anvil. That is
what the world has got to come to—anvil cho
rus, yardstick chorus, shuttle chorus, trowel
chorus, crowbar chorus, pickaxe chorus, gold
mine chorus, rail-track chorus, locomotive
chorus. It can be done, ami it will bo done.
So all the social life will be attuned by the
gospel harp. There will be as many classes
in society as now, but the classes will not be
regulated by birth, or wealth, or accident, but
by the scale of virtue and benevolence, and
people will be assigned to their places as good,
or very good, or most excellent. So, also, com
mercial life will bo attuned, and there will be
twelve in every dozen, ami sixteen ounces in
every pound, and apples at the bottom ot the
barrel will be as sound as those on tho ton, and
silk goods will not be cotton, and sellers will
not have to charge honest people more than
the right price because others will not pay,
and goods will come to yon corresponding with
the sample by which yon purchased them, and
coffee will not be chickoried, and sugar will
not be sanded, and milk will not be chalked,
and adulteration of food will be a state's prison
offense. Aye, all things shall be attuned.
Elections In England and the United States
will no more be a grand carnival of defama
tion and scurrility, but the elevation of right
eous men in a righteous way.
In the sixteenth century the singers called
tlie Fischer Brothers, reached the lowest bass
ever recorded, and the highest npte ever trilled
was by La Bastardella, and Catalini’s voice
had a compass of three and a half octaves, but
Christianity is more wonderful; for it runs all
tip and down the greatest heights and the
deepest depths of tho world's necessity, and it
will compass everything and bring it in accord
with the song which the morning stars sang at
the laying of the world's corner-stone. All the
sacred music in homes, and concert halls and
churches tends toward this consummation.'
Make it more and more hearty. Sing in your I
families. Sing in your places of business. If ;
we with proper spirit use these faculties, we
are rehearsing for the skies.
Heaven is to have a new song, an entirely
new song, but I should not wonder if, as some- I
time on earth a tune is fashioned out of many I
tunes, or it is one tune with the variations, so .
some of the songs of the redeemed may have ‘
playing through them tho songs of earth, and
now thrilling as coming through the great an- 1
them of the saved, accompanied by harpers
with their harps and trumpeters with their
trumpets,we should hear some of the strains of ,
Antioch and Mount Pisgah and Coronation and
Lenox .nd St. Martins and Fountain and Ariel
and Old Hundred. How they would bring
to mind the praying circles, and communion
day.-., and the Christmas festivals, and the
church worship in which on earth wo mingled 1
I have no idea that when wo bid farewell to
earth we are to bid farewell to all those grand
old gospel hymns, which melted and raptured
our souls for so many years. Now, my friends,
if sin is discord and righteousness is harmony,
let us get out of the one and enter the other.
After our dreadful civil war was over, and in
the summer of 1869, a great national
peace jubilee was held in Bos
ton, and as an elder of
this church had been honored by the selection
of some of his music, to be rendered on that
occasion, I accompanied him to the jubilee.
Forty thousand people sat and stood in the
great Coliseum erected for that purpose.
Thousands of wind and stringed instruments.
Twelve thousand trained voices. The master
pieces of all ages rendered hour after hour,
and day after day Handel’s “Judas
Maccabaeus,” Sphor’s “Last Judgment,”
Beethoven’s “Mount of Olives,” Haydn's
“Creation,” Mendelssohn's "Elijah,” Mey
erbeer's “Coronation March,” rolling on
and up in surges that billowed against the
heavens. Tho mighty cadences within were ac
companied on the outside by the ringing of the
bells of the city and cannon on the commons,
in exact time with the music discharged by
electricity, thundering their awful bars of a
harmony that astounded all nations. Some
times I bowed my head and wept. Sometimes
I stood up in the enchantment, and sometimes
the effect was so overpowering I felt I could
not endure it. When all the voices were in
full chorus, and all the batons in full
wave, ami all the orchestra in full triumph,
and a hundred anvils under mighty
hammers were in full clang, and all the tow
ers of tho city rolled in their majestic sweet
ness, and tho whole building quaked with the
boom of thirty cannon. I’arepa Rosa, with a
voice that will never again be equalled on
earth until tho arch-angelic voice proclaims
that time shall bo no longer, rose above all
other sounds in her rendering of our national
air, the Star Spangled banner. It was too
much for a mortal, and quite enough for an
immortal, to hear, and while some fainted,
one womanly spirit, released under its power,
sped away to bo with God.
O Lord, our God, quickly usher in tho whole
world's peace jubilee, and all islands of tho
sea join the five continents, and all the voices
and musical instruments of all nations com
bine, and all the organs that over sounded
requiem of sorrow sound only a grand march
of joy, and all the bells that tolled for burial
ring for resurrection, and all the cannon that
ever hurled death across the nations sound to
eternal victory, and over all tho acclaim
of earth and minstrelsy of heaven there will
be heard one voice sweeter and mightier than
any human or angelic voice, a voice once full
of tears, but then full of triumph, tho voice of
Christ saying: “lam Alpha and Omega, tho
beginninng and the end, thofirst and the last.”
Then at the laying of tho top-stono of tho
world’s history, the same voices shall be heard
aS when, at the laying of the word’s corner
stone, “the morning stars sang together.”
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Think about it while you read it.
Ladonia, Texas, September 21.
Editors Constitution : In last March I showed
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THE COTTON CROP.
The Season Somewhat Disappointing—Esti
mates Reduced.
New Orleans, November s.—The crop re
port of tho Cotton World.published today is as
follows: , . ,
The outcome of the season is disappointing in
comparison with September expectations, and a
crop even smaller than that of last season is re port
ed in the returns. In Arkansas, Texas and Tennes
see the drouth cut short tlie yield greatly. The con
trast in many portions of the first named state is
greater by reason of the good yield of last season. In
Texas the crops were spotted. Contrasted with
these the Atlantic seaboard states fared better, and
while not reaching the expectations ofthe late sum
mcr, will get more cotton than in 1886. The Georgia
crop is very much spotted, and a careful review by
counties does not justify some of the general opin
ions of tho product of state re
ceived from merchants at large centers.
Ou the other hand the Carolinas will come upto the
late general estimates, or exceed them. Alabama
has not turned out anything like what was very
recently estimated, the larger yield in some sections
being more than on'sot by a decrease in others. In
the lower Mississippi valley the yield, while so
much below the promises of the early fruiting sea
son, is yet above last season, but the gain has been
all in Mississippi.
The picking season has proved very favorable on
the whole, and the crop has been gathered unusually
early. Nearly nil over the belt from two-thirds to
seven-eighths of the crop was reported as picked at
tfie date of our replies. ‘As foreshadowed, however,
in the last report, the top crop lias proved a failure
nearly everywhere, and little was made In October.
The worms cut short the prospects in many sec ions,
adding to the damage by the drouth. Light frosts
in all states, and killing fr s s over a very consider
able part of the belt, have been reported during the
past mouth.
Below w’o give our estimates of production by
Acres Yield Production
cotton per acre bales.
States planted. hundredths
of bales.
Virginia 115,700 81 8-5,867
North Carolina.l,ols,2oo 8714 390,208
South Car01ina.1,550,400 36>J &(i3,0i0
Georgia2,9so,o'X) 301-5 890,905
Florida 247,200 25 01,800
A1abama...2,765,800 29% 808,897
Tennessee 832,600 31% 2G3,ti-v:
Mississippi2,3sß,Boo 39 919,932
Arkansasl,32s,7oo 38% 513,708
Louisianal,o2s,3oo 45% 461,802
Texa5.3,774,800 31% 1,".11,743
T0ta151,799.500 34 3-5 0.225,258
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ALABAMA POLITICS.
An Interesting Account of Men
and Measures in the State.
THE CONTEST BETWEEN MORGAN
Selma, Ala., Novembers.—[Special Corres
pondence.]—Alabama promises to have a live
ly political fight when the state legislature is
called upon to choose Senator Morgan's suc
cessor. That gentleman, himself, seems to
realize tho fact too, for every day some part of
tho state is treated by him to a political theses
as entertaining as it is instructive.
There will be no great struggle of principles.
On tho other hand the contest promises to
be purely among men. Some time ago an is
sue was made upon Senator Morgan that he
did not represent tho proper tariff sentiment.
Tho charge camo from tho Birmingham dis
trict, but since then Senator Margan has made
several speeches in that district, and all oppo
sition for a while at least seems to bo silenced.
Senator Morgan is so essentially tho biggest
man in Alabama that a contest between him
and those that have been mentioned savors
very much of the giant and pigmy idea. He
had the reputation in Washington of being a
very prolific speaker, but no one insisted that
he did not speak sense. And down here, where
there is not a superfluity of senatorial elo
quence and oratory, tho talking habit of the
senator is something to his advantage. The
two men most prominently named in tlie con
vention, as probable successors of Morgan, uro
Ex-Governor Watts and 11. C. Tompkins.
Both reside in Montgomery, Morgan living in
Selma. Watts was the war governor of Ala
bama, where he achieved considerable eminence
and distinction. Since then he lias regularly
practiced his profession with marked ability
and considerable success. He is esteemed be
yond all question tho ablest lawyer in Ala
bama, and figures in nearly every prominent
case that is argued before its supreme court.
Tompkins is a lawyer, also, and of no mean
ability, and has a place at the bar of tho state
that any man might well envy. But neither
of tho men are of the make and stature of Mor
gan. They stand out bold and prominent
enough, when alone, but when looked at
through the same glasses, the comparison is
greatly to Morgan’s benefit and advantage.
John T. Morgan is prominently a remarkable
man, In all the list of acquaintances with
men and matters, I know of no one who pre
sents a greater versatility of talent. In tho
senate chamber, ho is as profound and as
scholarly as any of his conferos, in tho court
room he carries as good and as trusty a blade;
on the hustings, before the people, take him
where you find him. ho will win the popular
fauor, can do all those things on tho same day,
ami to all appearances feels no loss of- energy
or of power.
Now, if the Tompkins and Watts’ factions
could oppose this redoubtable knight witli a
principle, the strength of tho principle would
1 probably compensate for tho loss in tho
strength of tho relative combatants. But that
is just what they cannot do. If a man comes
out here and takes wholly and bodily
tiie Birmingham theory, ho will
have arrayed against him tho
balance of the .state. It. is difficult to tell
what is tho political sentiment of the state.
Senator Morgan is on record as favoring a re
duction on tobacco, and it is hardly unlikely
that lie would carry that refusal so far as to
object to other things. Favoring a reduction
on wool, woolens mid other things, he may lie
said to favor a tariff for revenue with incidental
protection, and that is the position of the Ala
bama people. A few months ago a lot of
Montgomery people went up to Birmingham to
live; they were loudly against the tariff, tho
most pronounced free traders -one w’ould ever
hope to see. A slight change of residence did
tlie work.
Today no more fierce pud uncompromising
enemies of free trade exist in tho state titan
those, same Montgomeriaus.
And after all a man's residence and his busi
ness decides this matter for him. Why shouldn’t
it? You live iu Birmingham where every
interest is dependent upon tlie production of
iron, and as a very natural result, it is true
you find nothing but protective interests and
sentiments there. When you come hero to
Montgomery, where the people are not partic
ularly in love with any special thing, it is
difficult to class; but as between absolute free
trade or protection, I have yet to interview tho
man who adheres to free trade pure and sim
ple. lie may be and is willing to take a great
many articles upon his faith in the experiment,
but to the farmer, and others engaged in agri
cultural pursuits, they care very little about
tlie matter, and are by no means free traders.
“Tlie sentiment has not crystallized into
any shape here,” said a prominent lawyer,
“and it will not do in tlie proposed race between
Morgan, Tompkins and Watts. These men,
represent as far as I am informed, about the
same shade of views. Whatever differences
may exist would not be apt to cause a differ
ence in votes. I think Morgan’s re-election
sure, so sure in truth that a discussion of tho
probabilities against liim is a waste of time.
But whenever our people, arc called upon to
elect a new senator, to change from the one
class of men to another, you know who that
man will be. It will be Governor Seay.”
The governor is the most popular man in
tlie state.
The race he ran last time was phenomenal.
Ifo had Clayton, Dawson and McElroy all
against him and they were older then, and
many of them had made fame and fortune in
other work. Seay was lower on tlie ladder
when the first ballot was taken than any other
man of the lot, and yet you see what hap
pened. Ho was nominated and elected. lie
was the young man’s candidate, and with en
thusiasm ami eclat they rallied about him and
successfully carried liim through, A more
popular official does not exist in the state.
The office has been shorn by
legislative enactment of much of its
power. 'The governor’s capacities to do wrong
are very limited. Tlie office of the state audi
tor is far more important. In fact, as a prom
inent politician said to mo, if wo had tooliooso
between a democrat auditor and a republican
governor, wo would infinitely prefer a demo
cratic auditor, for he it is who Controls, sliapns
ami fashions the financial policy of the entire
state. Fortunately for Alabama, she has no
need of making any such choice, for In Gov
ernor Seay an<l "Auditor Burke she lias two
officials that will stand equally with tho o ot
any state in the union.
Politics are not talked much here. Over in
Montgomery one occasionally hears something
abort the fight over Senator Morgan's seat.
In Mobile and Selma but little interest appears
to Ixi manifested. Birmingham is tlie great
center ot tho protection theories, and iu this
district, perhaps in none other, will a contest
be waged upon the tariff. Local issues down
south so far yet predominate over public ques
tions that it is doubtful if a stralglitout pro
tect ton i*,t would win over a popular, able low
tariff reformer. Tho last race in tho district
pri'-ented some curious and startling facts,
which demonstrate, if they do nothing else,
the truth of the statement that the tariff ques
tion t, still auboriinate.
Alabama will send a strong Cleveland dele
gation to the next dorno'.ratic convention.
This is already a foregone cofloiuaiou, It
was so before he came down here among them,
and saw in their welcome looks and cordial
greetings a truly democratic reception of his
administration. Tlie congressional delegation
is solidly for Cleveland, and no bettor repre
sentation of the state’s views upon tho matter
could be otherwise obtained.
Airs. Cleveland is more of a favorite perhaps
than her husbnnd, and as Mayor Reese, of
Montgomery, said the other d->v, she could
carry the state in case h r husband failed, It
is only here and there, mainly in the ease of
disappointed local politicians, that one hears
any opposition to the re-nomination of the
presentexcellent magistrate. And local poli
ticians do not get in their work on such occa
sions.
The most hopeful sign in all Alabama that I
have mot with is the great improvement of the
public press. The old aristocratic city of Mo
bile has an able and highly intelligent repre
sentative in its morning "Register.” and Mont
gomery, in the “Advertiser" and "Despatch,”
enjoys the enterprise and spirit engendered by
two live morning papers, while Richardson, of
tho "Evening Star,” is carefully making head
way against odds. In the other cities, like
Selma, Anniston, Huntsville, excellent ga
zettes instruct the masses upon popular ques
tions. They arc everywhere edited with abil
ity, and in many instances show a vim and en
ergy charaetcri.-iie of a stronger and livelier
community. When you look into tho compo
sition of a state’s press,and see tho men, whoso
ability entitle them to stand as tho exponents
of public opinion, and find, as in the case of
Alabama, such uniformly good men, one
feels that tho helm of state is in good hands.
In another letter, I will give an account of an
interesting enterprise and industry conducted
on tho shores of Mobile bay, the cultivation of
Alobile plants, a most enjoyable and delicious
specimen of the oyster. H. 11. I’.
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
Sturgeon Bay, Wis., November I.—Up to
the arrival of the s- liooner Pomeroy, from Chi
cago, which passed through the bay today, it
was supposed that not a single survivor was
loft of the forty or fifty people on board tho
propeller Vernon, which went down off She
boygan early last Saturday morning. It is now
known, however, that at least one man lives
to tell tho tale of that terrible night on Lake
Michigan. The Pomeroy has on board tho
only survivor, so far as is known, of that awful
disaster, The name of the man thus rescued
from death, alter he had given up all hope of
ever again setting his loot upon dry laud, is
Alfred Slone, of Chicago, one of the Vernon's
crow.
IWi had been in the water sixty hours, ex
posed to the bitter, piercing wind and without
a bito to ent. When tho Pomcry discovered
biin on a raft last night, about eight miles from
Sheboygan—-it was clear inoonlight—Stone
was so cold as to bo almost hidpicss, and so
wonk from hunger that ho could scarcely move.
Although still very weak from tho effects of
bis awful experience, S:ono was aide hi make
a brio! statement of the nover-to-be-forgotten
night.
“I was awakened in tho middle of tho
night,” ho says, “by tho cries of the passen
gers and crew that tho vessel was sinking. I
sprang out of a window and found myself on a
life raft with six other persons. 1 cannot say
now who my companions were. A part of
them were members of tho crew and a
part were passengers. It seemed only
a moment before tho vessel had gone
down, and I believe that all but a few
of those on board went down with her. Ido
not know just how many people were aboard
at tho time, but tho number could not have
been far from fifty. We passed through an
awful night. I think I never saw’ such a sea
as that which tossed over the little raft at its
mercy. AV hen daylight camo wo hoisted a
signal of distress, it ing a cons tied to an oar.
Two vessels passed so near us Saturday that
they must have seen our signal, yet, for some
reason, they apparently inado no effort to
reach us. The storm still raged and it
may bo they had all they could do to
save themselves. Ono alter another of my
companions perished in the cold or was washed
off the raft when they became too numb with
colil to hold on any longer. Wo never saw any
others from the sunken i-teamor, and I don’t
believe any others survived. The vessel went
down so suddenly that tho crow hadn’t time to
mini the boats.”
When Stone was picked up there was tho
corpse of one man on the raft with him, tho
other f air having perished several hours be,
fore. Stone says this num was one of thecrew
whose name ho does not know.
AlilwaukSß, Wis., November 2.—Five fish
ing tugs went out from Two llivors, Wis., to
day and brought back the bodies of seventeen
men and two women who had been aboard tho
Vernon, making tweuiy-two bodies that have
been recovered. '1 he engine house at Two
Rivers was turned into a morgue, where tho
corpses were stretched side by side to enable
identification by the relatives and friends, who
flocked there from Alanitowoc. The faces
were all placid and in good condition, except
two, whoso expressions gave evidence of in
tense suffering. All were clothed fully but
two women, who wore witlmul headwear and
shoes, but were otherwise fully attired. Only
seven bodies were, identified.
CAUGHT INA OEM KSAND.
Fearful and Tlii-Hllng Experiences of a
Hunter Who i’uced Eleat li.
From the St. Louis Itcpubllciin.
Otto and Eras' Bertrand, twoy atngmon of Caron
delet, put their shotcinis on their shoulders last
Wednesday moaning about daybreak, slung their
game bags at their shies, and idler eating a hi.sty
breakfast hi their iiarents' house, Ko. i;,:L!t South
Broadway, started oil’ to spend three days duck
bunting among the lakesof tho Arneriean bottom on
the other side of the river. They had a skid'moored
near their house mid crossed the river in it, hiding
the Is,nt in a little cove between Cahokia
mid East t'arendelet, when they Lal reached
the other side and were slid ting for the lakes. They
had fair luck hunting mid .‘ ts.t d home yesterday
morning. When they got to Caliokla Ernst, who
had the hia.’lest bug of ducks, told Otto that ho
would cross the river by the ferry mid sell bls game
in the In ion market. Otto ne-ente I, and made Lis
way along to the boat. Be misse l the path, mid,
attempting to reach tin: skfll'by following the bank
ofthc river, he plunged Into a bl. k filthy and tena
cious quicksand. Ills right l‘ g went into the mire
over l.li knees at tho first step, and the other leg
followed it, s'uking up to the HTjh ixilbr-: he under
stood he win In a qua.iuilre. Ho tried
to extricate himself, mid could not. Both his legs
were tightly clasped by tlie mu 1 mid moved not
mi inch. He shouted tor help, heard no
reply, and ih n remembered that the nearest house
was two miles away. It seemed to him that lie was
sinking deeper In tho quicksand, mid then It came
to his mind for the first tlum that men had lost
their lives in such places mid their bodies had never
been found. He grew fraud - and seroimed at the
top of his voice and waved his arm about, beating
the mud null catching at little roots and stones that
appeared in It. He tiled to move his fettered legs,
mid found that bls bo ly up to Ids waist was dead.
He was elapsed in an embrace that knew no relax
ing. Hu lost bls sen.-cs. Hi min i wandered. He
thought of those he had loft at homo -hrs brother
who had just loft Elm. He cried and feebly pat
tered his hands in the mud until his face was
streaked with it. Then the thought came to
him suddenly that be was about to die by suffoca
tion and in an agony of terror ho lifted his voice and
erle I for help again. The sky looked down upon
him clear and Joyful, and modi' d him with Its
calmness. ll'-’ tried to kill blnrolf. His shotgun
had been on bls shoulder when lie slipped Into the
quicksand and he look* <1 around for It, Intending
to shoot lihii-clf. It Lad sunk. Ho continued to
struggle and became Insensible; but continued to
utter c. les of dlr,tress In his uneonselousners. Ho
bad 111 lien into tlie quicksand at nine o’clock In
tho morning. At four o'clock in the after
noon a negro boatmmi emne rowing
along from Cahokia and heard him morning. He
pulled his liaot In and fried to pull tho hunter out
of the mu 1. Bertrand by this time hud sunk to bls
armpits In tho quick utn 1. Tho negro saw I hat ho
war unable to save tlie young man and rowed back
to Cahokia, four miles away, where he got two
other men. When the b int got back to B< rtrrnid ho
had sunk until only bls head and neck were visible,
and It was three ho irs before the three boatmen
could get hire out of the mud. Ho was taken home
al once und put to bed, and Is now rapidly recover
ing.
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ACROSS THE WATER.
A British Journal’s Opinion oil
Chamberlain’s Appointment.
THE SWEDISH NIGHTENGALE’S DEATH
Toronto, Ont., November 2.—The Globe
refers to Mr. Chamberlain’s appointment thie
morning, and in a strongly-worded editorial
says:
Let British journals rub their eyes again, end
wake up to the necessities of the situation. Mr.
< hatnbcrlaiu must be recalled. There is no • o igbt”
or ‘•should in tho case. The imperative is re ;uired
and Canadians are entitled to employ it. lie must
be recalled. Let the British understand tiiat their
own interests are hugely staked on the result of the
impending negotiations, should the commissioners
•a I to reach a settlement, or should the
senate burke an agreement, nothing
can be more certain than that war t>e
tween (heat Britain ami the United Statei
ean be avoided only by Great, Britain’s nbandonimr
Canada m away that will forever disgrace tho
British name. Do Britons know tiiat tlie Uniteil
States c ingress has already passed an act to cut off
tVx-rysiut of commercial exchange with CanaduT
Do t hey know that congress lias urged the i.dmiuia
trution to enforce that ad? Are they aware tiiat a
very large proportion of Amerh an journals ceases
lessiy vituperate the president became 1c has not
resorted to retaliation? Dothoy comprehend that
he can have no option but !o emplov tne act if ne*
gotiutlons fail, or if the agreement be disallowed in
tho senate? If he does employ it whal
then. wo do not act as alarmist!
in declaring that war which Great Britain lome
Dared more than any other ixjssiblo war—will prob
ably occur. 1
To avoid tho dangers and disgrace that threaten,
there is but one way. Mr. Chamberlain is the sole
cause that the outlook is dark. Betbr? his appoint*
nient it was light enough. It was bright until he
wantonly embarrassed the situation. It Ls gloomy
because he has rendered th' I ost method of settle
mont dWicult to propose or dis. uss, and because ht
has m ido bin s If hateful to tbD continent.
Without distindiou eforigin, Americans resent
his insolent attack upon those fellow-citizens whose
loyalty ran true by the tnosi terrible of tests, when
hundreds oi thousands of the sous of Irish mother*
laced death in battle for the republic. It is usules*
to found smooth prophecies upon the hope that Mr.
( iiamhcrlain’s principles can escape the conso
<tuencos of hostility that he hits avoir eI. Itiheydd
V./.', 1 '' 1 *’P him, they take the responsibility for hini»
II they do not r ‘call him, it ran only be i'Ciniuse
they me full of synniathy for him. His own rasl>
ins..!- ii ’C Ims hr u ht him Into troubl- and he alone
should be the vic’ .m. Su oly, ;t's l etter that he l»e
mr.de to r.ndi r :o h s d- sells t han that the p. ace of*
hundred millj a* < i ngLsh speaking people be
Jeopardized on behalfof his dignity.’’
O’Brian’s Tinprisoinont jCondenined.
Di r.i tv, November 3.-- I’iiited Ireland today,
contains t \\ o columns of reports of meetings of
suppro'sed branches of tlie national league. Id
an editorial it characterizes the removal o*
Mr. (.) Brien to Tullatnoore jail as an outrags'
and says it was done in behalf of landlouW.
Ilcitei forth, it; says, the people will make the
landlonls hostages for Mr. O’Brien’s
I he plan of campaign will become not merely
tho tenants weapon of defense, but an instru>
men! of vengeance. It says:
Will Irishmen remain qiiiv ent and not raze hie
torture b.o'• to the ground ? Please Go I, notuiiitA.
t Mr. <> P.run is harmed, for 'very hair of Ids head
Irishmen will exact compound vengeance.
STOIUVI ON TIIE ENGLISH COAST.
London, Novi'inber I.—A galo prevails
throughout England. Tclegrai.h wires have
been broken, chimneys blown down, and trees
uprooted. A number of minor marine casual
ties are reported. Tho gale is now subsiding.
The races at Brighton, which were suspended
on account of the storm, have been i. sumed.
A Score of vessels in the Mersey I.robe front
their moorings and drifted broadside up ths
river.
There was one very serious collision. Seven
vessels were wrecked at Cardiff, and many
wrecks are reported from other places. The
gale, which is terrific, extends around the en
tire coast ol tho United Kingdom and is ac
companied by rains. Reports of the stranding
of vessels continue to bo received and an im
mense amount of damage has been done. At
Falmouth a number of vessels have Leon
driven ashore.
Death of Jonny I.lnd.
London, November 2.—Jonny Lind (Afadatno
Goldschmidt), tlie celebrated Swedish sh; . r.is
dead. She was sixty-six yearsof ago. Sin’ had
been seriously ill for some weeks. Sb.- retired
from tho stage after her marriage in America,
in 1852, but reappeared at various concerts in
aid of charities, oho had not appeared in public
since 18GI>.
Threatening Vengeance.
ATauskii.i.i.s, November (>.—At a violent
meeting of anarchists here today a resolution
was adopted to warn American agents in
Franco of vengeance in the event of Hie exe
cution of the condemned Chicago anarebiste.
A copy of the resolution was convoyed by a
deputation to the American consulate. Thtf
consul was absent anil the deputation retired
quietly.
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