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GAINED 25 POUNDS I _ Bxooxmu.e, MI*. Feb. 23d, IBM. I Dili En-Pleu* ft ml otHmimI P. O. Ottlur for I have????" g 8 ??iS FAYETTEVILLE OA l or rale 98 WallSt.. Atlanta THE CONSTITUTION: GEORGIA CIDER WORKS, PURE APPLE CIDER. CLARK A NUNN ALLY, Proprietor*, Wholesale Dralcra lu FRUITS, NUTS & CONFECTIONERIES. ATLANTA, GA. VOLUME XVI. TUESDAY MORNING-* APRIL 8, 1884.???TWELVE PAGES. PRICE 5 CENT A COMPLETE PAPER. Tbe Constitution Interests all Clai and Appeals to all Tastes. The leading topic* of tbla week'* lame an: Tbavxl and Adtsntubs???"Life in China," Wihop Hunting the Tiger,???-'An Interesting Mexican City." Ths Sensation of the Wesk- A STEAMBOAT BURNED. Abound thn Camp Fiss-???The Anomaly of Joe Jobatloa't Career,??? "Hooker on the Southern Soldiei,??? "On Qnard at AndersonTlIle." "Com mercial Fighting,??? Oun Dixie Huaroarxn-Uncle Bemuj, ???Brer Wolf in Trouhlet??? Bill Arp, "OldTimea:" Belay Hamilton, ???Betay'a School Days." TALMAGE???S SERMON: "HIGH LICENSE.??? News of the Wax??? 1 "All Through Dixie,??? "The Week In Congress,??? "New* by Wire," "Short News Notes," "Points About People," "Across tbe Water," "During the Week,??? "Georgia Nesra," ???The Political Field.??? Ons Man. Bao???"Washington Gossip," "Farm ing In Mississippi,??? Tbe Constitution DxrAsnssNTt???"The Woman's Kingdom," "Our Young Faople,???* "Answers to Correspondents,??? ???Farms and Farmers," "The Anti-Liquor Fight," OUB GREAT MORMON STORY? ??????SEALED UNTO HIM.??? Editorials???"Notea on Current Topics," "Let icia From Our Readers," and many other things of Interest. Something to pleaae erery member ol the famUy. Only 81.25 a Tear. In Clnbs of Five, 81 Karls. Subscribe at Ones. FIRE???S FEAST The Steamer Everingham Goes Down Aflame. MANY LIVES LOST INSTANTLY Fearful Work ot Stray Sparks in the Cotton Aboard. SCENES ON THE BURNING BOAT. Most Fri ic/ietfn m Tir'L ul Casualty of the ear Columbus. Yesterday morning at 4 a.m. tbe steamer Everingham, plying between Coiambus and Appalachicola, waa burned and aunk. Tbe fire started among the cotton in tbe bold. Several lives were lost, and Biany ol the paasengora and crew wbo escaped death ware fatally or severely wounded. Tbe steamer was a total loat. The survivors ol the wreck were carried to Eufaula, where they are being ^ cared lor. The particulars ot the disaster, the list o I tbe killed and wounded, and other details ol interest, ns wired by Th* Constitution???s oor. respondents, are printed herewith. Special to The Couilltutlou. Eufaula, Ala., April 3.???The steamer Rebsoca Everingham waa burned on the Chattahoochee river at Fttagerald???a plantation, a tew miles above Florence, this morning, at about 4 o'clock, and many Uvea were lost. Captain George B. Whltc- sldo, muter: George L. Lapham and C, B, Win gate, pUota; Hiram Goodlett, chid engineer: Charlee Neleon, clerk: were the offleort About 1 o'clock, a. m??? the eoglneer on watch rang an alarm signal to the pilot, who called to the oilcan on watch and aiked It he meat go to tbe ehote, when he waa at once ordered to do io. The 'pilot ilgnaled the engineer to work for the shore, but got no response. He then headed the boat tor the Georgia side, and tha momentum abo hid carried her almost to the banks The pilot on watch ordered his young son, Frank Lapham, a youth sixteen yean old, to Jump overboard with a lint and swim ashore and make the boat fast to a tree. Wi.b unsurpassed heroism this boy sprang into ths river, struck lot the ihore anil reached It safely and tied the boat up. In tho mean time, the Are alarm waa rang by Pilot Georgs Lapham, and tbe paiaengen aroused from their sleep to And the host In dames. AU was con fusion and disorder, but the oBcen cl the boat were btrolc In the performance their duly, and suffered: great peril and nsarly all of thorn i wounded or burnt. The dunes wrapped the boat In their dery embrace, and aaemed to lick ltnp. Those known to be loat are as follows : W. L. KENNEDY, Spring Hill, Alabama. DEPUTY SHERIFF OF BARBOUR COUNTY. Miss AVANT, Cuthbert, Ga. MISS SIMPSON, Port Gaines, Ga. J. B. YATES, Bainbrldge, Ga. TWO WHITE MEN, whoa* names are now on* known, supposed to be lost. JULIA ADAMS, colored chambermaid. DOLPH THOMAS, colored Bremen. BANDALL SINGES. A AZ STEVENS, colored deck band, BOB GRIFFIN, colored stevedore. A COLORED WOMAN AND CHILD, names un known. Captain G. B. Whiteside waueverely burned on lace, head and hands. E. D. Wllliasaj, Lao rang*, Ga., severely and thought to be fatally boraad. J. T. Carey, assistant engineer, painfully burned. As tar as la known this comprises th* list of dead and woundcd.bnt greet anxiety la fell for the safety of Mr. J. C. Hightower and Mrs. Thompson, of this dty, wbo ware both ebosid the steamer, and who hers not yet been seen by any penoa who knows them. There srere 397 balea of eottou aboard Jhe steamer, 314 of which were taken on at Eufaula. It It said cabins and all the upper part of the boat waa consumed lu five minutes, Sho waa made fast to the abore by two hawsero, which were dually burnt. She remained tfqd to the beak about <9 minutes, when her moortugl burned, and the wreck .floated out Into the atream, drifted about 140 yards, careened, and sunk. The dre broke out among the cotton Just aft amldahlp. It la not known how It originated. When the boat neared the ehote a ledy sprang overboard end lodged In a tree top, from which she n.b.*qu??uUy fell and waa reaened by Pilot Lapham. This brave offloer saved the Uvea of two other ladies and as- listed Captain George Whiteside ashore. The saved passengers and crew reeelved erery possible atten tion from Mr. D. B. Fltagerald and family, and those that were able to ba removed were sent to this city In wagous and other vehicles, and most of them will take to their destination from here to night by tall. Tbe National hotel,whero they are quartered, preaentsa painfully Interesting spectacle. AU that benevo lence and publlo spirit cm suggest Is being done tor tho nnfortunateffiraw and passengers. ThoKv- erlnghsm wsa a comparatively new steamer, the largest and dnest on the river. She was operated by her Joint owners. Captain B. J. Whiteside and other. Sho belonged to what is known aa the Central line. Nothing was aavod and It la yet Impomtble to learn the full extent ol the lass ot life sod property. The passengers and those of the crow who were not on watch escaped In their night clothes. Reports from the wreck regarding tbe lass ot J C, Hightower are very conflicting, yet there la bn lltUe hope that he has escaped the dreadful dame. One ol the deck hands aaya Mr. H. waa teen upon the shore badly homed, and t> now la Ftorenoe, where he la receiving medical attention. But this if contradicted by several ot tbs crow and offloer a ' route ot whom say that he went to the stateroom occupied by W. L. Kennedy and that he has not been since, which Is probably the trne story. To night Mr. H. Brown andUr.B.Jtmea go to Florence to ascertain which report Is correct. Mr. Hightower leavea a devoted wife and several beautiful children ter mourn their irreparable lost Ho hsd recently J aided the order ot the Ancient Legion ot Honor, and has therein *9,000 Insurance on tits life. He wu a sterling gen tleman, and great lorn Is sustained by this comma nlty. He was manager here ot tho Stager sewing machine company. Mr. Kennedy lscertslnly tost. He wu a useful cltlaen and an odlcieut oQlccr. He waa never aeen after going to Ms stateroom. Yatca It saved, as has since been ascertained. Upon getting ashore he took a private conveyance to Columbus. Bally Uardle wu roved by the pilot on duly, Lapham Williams, who waa so ciftlcaUy and dangerously burned, wts lying at the point ot death when last heard from. His death la hourly expected. Bis wife, accompanied by Dr. Ridley, of LaGrange, will reach hero to-nlgbt and leave at once for Florence, to be at hla bcdalde when be breathe! hla tut. 11 p. m.???Farther news from the Evorlaghsm dis aster la exceedingly difficult to obtain. Tho boat wu last 39 miles above here and there It no com munication with the locality exoept by a tedious Journey through tho country. Later news confirm- log the horrors ot the disaster says the deep sleep that precedes the morning waking wu upon the passengers, and odloers and the crew off duty, and noli* but tho watch were la uuy degee pro* pared for the terrible burning. When the deep tonro ol tbe dre boll broke upon tbo cars ol tbe slumbering passer vers and crew tbey awoko to be dued by the t/,ie* that surrounded them. <gl ftamysendVtiyuf the conflagration .gave no time for thought or dollborato action, women In their while night robec were rushing to and fro seeking escape from the biasing dames of the burning boat, and looking for some manner of avoiding a watery g'ravo, bnt thero wu very Httlo outcry or returning. One ot tbe unfortunate pu- ???eaferf. Hr. E. D. William* wu found standing In the wafer breut deep, wbeuca be wu reaened by Captain Lapbam. Htsfaoessu burned torrlbly, tho skin banging In strip*, leaving the quivering flesh exposed, hla eyesight wu totally destroyed and hi* mind was wandering when he wu drat taken cutot the inter. Afters little while ho ap peared to regain bis mental faculties and Inquired ol those near him. If they (bought be was much hurt, Kind beattednesa could not rcluse him a reassuring reply, but he stated be thought be would die, and scut a message of tender affection to hla wife. He wu a Mason, and standing with bls desb burned eff In tbo chilling waters, wltb hla mind wandering, be wu still able to give (be balling sign of distress* It brought a friend ready and quick to risk life and limb In bis tescue. There la aaid to have been no Insurance on the steamer and none of put of the cargo. Eighty- ???even bales ol the cotton was the property ol Mr. Robert Ledslnger, of Columbus, end wu shipped by blm from Fort Galnce and Howatd'a landing, and wu not Insured. Ho wu aboard the steamer, but got off with but alight bruises. Tbe 3l( balea ???hipped tiom here were tbe property of Hull A Co., cotton dealers here. Tbey were Insured. 11:16 p. m ??? Mr. Thompson Is (bought to be sale. Nothing lurtber can ba obtained to-nlgbt. Specu- lailon la rile u to the cause ot Aha Bro but it can not to known positively how tbo cotton caught. Mr. E. H. Cuon, ol Waablngton, Georgia, one ol tbe puienseia, wu tbe lut to leave tho cabin and be tblnka three or lour bodies ware burned'In their stale reema. He escaped with alight burns. He stales that the officers behaved bravely and did all tbat wu possible lobe done to succor the pu- aengers end crew and relievo those who were In jured. Fifteen or twenty came down in bgtteaus and tha others In wagons. ANOTHXS ACCOUNT, Columnus, Ga., April 3.???Newa reached (he city at three o'clock this afternooa tbat tbe steamer Rebecca Everingham kad burned at D, 11 Flu- gorald'a landing, forty-dve miles down tbo river A Constitution representative called at the office ol Captain G. B. WMlealde, general agent ???( tbe Ctntrel llceel boats and learned the parricularsol the rod cgfaralty. Tbe dre wu discovered by en gineer Carey, about four o'clock this morning who at once gave the alarm A gent'eman on board the boot says when the alarm wu glseu be ruibcd from bis stateroom and found the boat enveloped in Semes. All wu confusion, men and women lushed to tbe desk, some Jump- lag overboard, preferring a watery grave to death by dre. Tbe officer* did all in tbelr power lo save tbo Uvea oftbe passengers, but the cotton burned so rapidly that little could be done. Elgbt lives were lash Tbey were Mrs. Jobn Owen, tbe mother of Mr. J. A. Cede, of this city, Miss Vice Blmpsos, of Fort Gaines. Six negroes wtre also buried. Tbey wen: Julia Anderson, chambemeld; Richard Coleman pantryman; Dolph Thomas, O. Z Btephese, Ran dolph Blngerand Bob Griffin, deck ban dr. Tbe wounded ore Captain Tom Whiteside, face pain- folly bnrnt: E D. Williams, of Troop county, per- hap* fatally burned: J. J, Redock, of Illinois, burned on feet and hands, and ankle sprained; Mlm Dorn Patterson, iijered from Jumping from the bent; Captain George WMlealde, slightly burned on tbe lace; Aoristant-Engineer Carry, slightly burned. Tbe following la a complete list of tbe puwngers on board: Colonel W, 8. Shepherd and W. Lcdringer. of this dty: L. L. Macon, T. C. Gibson, A. W. McIntosh and srlle, D. C. Blackwell and wlfe.E. B. Canon, W. J, Tiller, T. T. Rad leeks Mlm Fannie Hardee, Mias Dorn Patterson,' Miss Learn Spikes, E. D. WIMims, T. C, Haters Nine on deck. Tho beat wu In command ol tho following office it: George H. Whlleride, captain; Tom wblteaide,ti???iat mate; Charllo Kelson, clerk; Summercamp, second clerk, George Lapbam and Charles Wingate, pilots; Hiram Goodllltle and Isaac Carey, etudaeers. There were twenty- two deckhands on board, all of whom were ne groes. For a time thisslternon the wildest excite ment prevailed. Cotflloting:cxa|gerated reports coaid bo heard from all aides. The Bnt report wvs that every one on board wu lost. Many regarded It u an April feol and perilled In not bclleviDg tbat ???urtblog had happened to tho Kreringhmn, but the presence of Captain WMteslde blmrolf, with Ma head bandaged, soon dispelled all doubt*. Thero wu no means of communicating with any point by telegraph from where (be calamity oc curred, so Captain WMlealde, Colonel Shepherd and Mr, Ledifogcr scoured conveyances and drovo through the country to Fort Mltchell.ihe nearest railroad nation twelve miles from thc.elty, where they look a freight train and reached this city five minutes before 3 o'clock, Just 12 hours after the fatal alarm of flro wu given. Every thing on hoard of the boat wu loat, Including the papers and books of tho company. No par ticulars of boat's cargo or tbe homes ol the patron- gets can be obtained on tbat account. In addition to a mlscellansona freight, the boat contained 307 bales of cotton: 234 bales belonged to H. Hnll & Co., ol KnfauU, and wu fully Insured In the He* Insurance company of Liverpool, 47 balea be longed to Mr. Anthony Hutchins, ol Howard's landing, and wu Insured; 21 bales went consign cd to Messrs Hatcher It Brown, and were rein Mired. The Everingham wu built In Ibis city by tho Centre! Uneof boats some three year* ago, Sbo wu veined at S3.000, uninsured. One year ago, on tbe Uth ol this month, the Wyly wu wrecked at Fort Gainer,and a number of previous lives,wrro lost. Eight more souls went down to eternity wltb tbo burning of tbo Everlngbsm, which was the lut boot tbo.Con trsl Hue had on tha river. How tho Are originated la not known, but It la supposed tho cotton caught from a dying ipark. Eufaula, April 4,???Farther intelligence from tbe Everingham disaster places the number ot Uvea loot at eleven, with one fa tally injured. Mr. K D. Williams Is lo a dying condition. He wu alive this morning at 8 o???clock, bat it wu not thought he would survive the day. W. L. Kennedy wu not lost. He escaped with a bnrnt hand and foot and Is now at his son's on Dr. Qlllls's place, in Stewart county. J. B. Yates wu not lost. He got uhare with his valise. The following is a revised list ot the lost: Mira Avont, Cuthbert, white, burned todeath; Miss Simp son, Fort Gaines, white, burned to death: Mr. J. 0. Hightower, Eufaula, white, burned to death; Mr. E D. Williams, LaGrange. white, fatally bnrncd; Julia Adams, colored chambermaid, burned; Dolph Tbom- u. colored fireman, burned; Ran dall Singer, colorod deckhand, burned; Aex Stevens, rotated deckhand, burned; Bob Oriffln, colored stevedore, burned; Rich ard Coleman, colored waiter, burned; a col ored woman and child, names unknown, burned. It wu Fenny Hardy, and not Sarah, who wu u passenger and was saved. Mrs, Williams, the wile ot Mr. E. B. Williams accompanied by Dr. Ridley, oi LaGrange, arrived here lut night and went immediately to tbe bedside of her suffering husband. He wu conscious when she reached him and recognized her. Hia eyes were totally de stroyed and his Bufferings are Intense. Mr. Hightower occupied the state room with Mr. Kennedy, and when the alarm wu sounded both got up and began to dress. Mr. Konnedy got on a part of his clothes and left the room half clod. When he stepped out, Mr. High - tffiwer clostd the atm, - probably keep the smoke out, and that wu the lut eocn ot him. The colored chambermaid had gotten out of the cabin, bnt returned to awaken the two ladies, Misses Avant and Simpson, and was never seen again. None ot ths bodiesof the lut hare been recovered. The hnll of the boat la sunk lo fifteen feet ot water It is related that Mr. 0. B. Wingate, one of the pilots, wu missed from tmoog the crew alter they wore uhore. He wu asked lor and some one said he wu in his state room, whereupon a colored man ot tbe crew darted aboard the flaming boat and brought Mr. Wingateout. This brave and grateful man wu saved by Mr. Wingate from drowning lut April when tha steamer Wylly wu wrecked. The crew, as passenger*, are lavish in praise ot tbe kindness and interest mani fested by the citlsens residing near tbe place ot tbedlaastcrand spatially mentioned Mr, D. B. Fitagerald, Mr. Williford, Mr. Gillie, and Dr. Battle, Everybody rallied to the scene and worked manfully to relieve the distressed???furnishing blankets, clothes and every other comfort in their power. A storekeeper near tbe place, whose name your correspondent bu been unable u yet to learn, wu very active and generous???carry ing everything he could tbink would be needed from bii store, and offering wb he bad to the shivetlog and scorched people. The flames from the boat were hurled by Abo strong wind blowing at tbe time far up Ibe bank Into the trees and tiring tbs woods, it it said, a hundred yards from the river. A deck bund, who swam uhore around tbe stern ot the but, says be wu almost burned np by the lire in the woods. A SOOTHES IN ATLANTA. Mr. J, C. Hightower wu a brother of D. N. Hightower, proprietorof the Hightower hotel, of Atlanta. anotrso noaaoB. Halifax, N. 8., April 4,???The atearner Daniel Hteintnann, from Antwerp for this port, is reported sank off Hsmbrs, about twenty miles from this port. She struck daring lut night, and only nine men art so tar reported to have reached laud oat of 140 on board. Intelligence received here thus far is very meager. It is uid that the captain and flvs of tbe crew were the only peraons roved. The eteamer hod ninety paroengera, almost entirely German emigrants, and a crew ot thirty-four. Tugs, which left hereforthe scene oi wreok, returned without having been able to reach tbe neighborhood of the atoamer owing to the rough lea. Another attempt will be made in the morning :to reach the wreck if the weather moderates. ??? .TALMAGE???S SERMON. HIGH LICENSE THE MONOPOLY OF ABOMINATION, Ti* High Ltosnas Movement Dtnouuo C as Anti- American and Anll-ccrMl*u-A sotltarlos Rsvlsw ol to* If eteoCs of Sam* ef *0* , Qeast-r*mpera*oe Utformers, Kpecial to the Constitution. Boooklyn, April G.??? Dr. Talmage preached in the Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day on thq subject: "High License, tbe Monopoly of Abomination.??? Hia text was taken from -ri'gpirw xxvit: "It is not lawful for to put tbetn info the treuury because it is the price cf blood." Following is the (all report oi the sermon. For fifteen dollars Jndu Iscariot had sold Christ, Under thrust of conscience or regret if if he had not made a more lucrative thing out of it, Judu pitches the rattling abokels on the pavement of the temple. What shall be done with the conscience money? Borne imipose It be put into the treasury. Others *>' it bu always been against the law to urn ???\r religious or govermentsl purposes blood- . oney or revenues gotten in the saleof hu ll ra life. So they decided to use the money to purchase graves for paupers. Picking oat m rough piece oi ground where tbo broken aud re (use ware of a pottery had been cut, they set that apart aa tbe first Potter's field. ' It is not lawful to put them into tbe treas ury because it is the prio^af blood.??? We are at a point in reformatory move meats in this oountry where in one shape or another it is proposed to control or arrest tbo lb,nor business by making its merchants pay a high price, say five hundred or a thousand declare for a license. This, it is said, will ex tirpate the tens of thousands of low drunk- eriee.sud make it possilrieonly here and there for a rum selling establishment to exist. The .100. or a thousand dollars paid into the government treuury will help support tho po^fhotises into which widows and orphans aroffirned by the inebriation oi husbands and father*. Don???t you tee? This high tax will also bi-lp the expenses of prisons Into which tbe men are thrown for crlnrea committed wl-lledrunk. Don???t you see?- Thatwillsup- nn -t the courts of Oyer aud Yernrinor, whose judges and attorneys and constables and thennoamonnt of money paid css give a tern. This vice is making rapid progress man the right to carry on tbe business. The through the state, and much of tint increase $500or $1,000 are a bribe to ihe government la directly traceable to high license.??? Iowa THE DESTROYING ELEMENT, rental* D**lmU*e *reia* rarou Is IkeCesallaa tr???riis. Kaleioii, April , 4.???For three days and nights tbe most destructive fire ever known in that section bos been devuting tbe south ern border states, extending into six or seven counties. Vast forests of long leaf, pins bare been attacked. Tbey formed the chief source of the timber supply. Tbe high winds fan ned tbs flames into fury, and hundreds of thousands of trees were burned, and some of tbe largest tnrpentina orchards in tbs state are ruined, many farm houses have been destroyed. A number of towns Darrowly escaped destruction. At Manly, on Ibe Raleigh and Augusta railway, a number of booses tiers burned. Large stores oi lumbar And railroad sills on tbe line of the road were also destroyed, and a dozen turpentine distilleries rained. Tbe country, in great stretches, is but a black wilderness. Tne ex eat is not yet known. Many families art homeless. The firs has swept hero and there some fifty miles in one direction end thirty in another. A few place*, it is reported, escaped. The Area were ceased by horning brash. Tbe fires extended fsr into Bomb Caroline. Ob tbe lioe oi the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad trains have been running through miles of fire. Two dwellings ura eight or ten barns were burned in that district, bo far aa known no lives bare beenloet juries and court house! and police stations find theireblof employment In the trial, con demnation and puirialiment oi those who of fend tin- law while in state of insobrlety.i Don't you esc? How any man or woman in the United States In Isvor oi thsgreat temperance refor-l niallon can be so hallucinated as not to see tliatthis movomentis the surrender of the whole reformation for which good people have been struggling for the lost oily years,Is to ms an aniaaemsnt that eclipses everything. Mr subject Is, high license, the monopoly oil abomination.??? Do you not realise as by uMhematlatl demonstration that the whole rolult of this movement by which low catab- Hoi. mar-ts are to be shut up and splendid es tab iah-.nent* are to be supported Is going to nm selling and rum drinking ??? N.ue-leMns of these wit-uic Brooklyn and Now York are so disgusting that mnn hsving regard lo their reputation would not be seen entering one end the clerk of a store wonld lose his place II seen coming out of one. But, now shut up these smsll es tablishments and down on your great thoroughfares you have bulldedyourspleudld palaces ol inebriation, masterpieces or palnt-l lug on the walls, cut glare on silver plstterl upholstery like a Turkish harem, uniformed^ servants to help you out of the carriage anil uniformed servants lo help you In, and nnl-J formed servants to take your list and caiiol and parlors with lounges on which you can recllne.when you are taken mysteriously til siter too much champagne or cognac or old OtarJ. All the phantasmagoria and bewitch- mentofart thrown around this Herod of massacre, this' Moloch oi[consumed worshlp-J B -rs, this juggernaut of crushed millions! antes seven circles of inferno lilted Into great farch I tec tore crowned by great arches and finished with great morofcl iniquity glorl 11 edl The eurse of the ages enthroned In sumptuo- sltleil Ah, His not the rookeries oi alcohol ism that <lo tho wnrto work. They are only the last stopping place* on Ihe road to death. Where did that bloated, ulcerous, wheeling, nauseating wretch that a taggers out of some hole down by the navy yard, get bis habit atarted? At glittering restaurant, at har-J room of first otare hots! where it was fashion! able to go. Do you wantto stop tho mean Unitor establishments which are only the nub all orer the body politic and gather all the poiton and puss and inattention of the body politic Into a few great carbuncles that mean death? I say let us have the rash rather than tbs carbuncles. , ri This high license movement Is, whether ini tended or not, a stab at lbs best families of America. It Isa warori the drawing rooms oi merchants. It is an assault on the bright est nurseries and tbe dearest boms circles. It would psy with honor and pillar with splen dor and guard with monopolistic advantage a business which his made the ground sound hollow at every step beneath England and Scotland and Ireland and America with cata combs of slaughtered drunkards. Tell it, ye philanthropists, to all whom you meet in your rounds of usefulness. Tell it; ys men oi the newspaper press by pen and type ??n4 telegram. Tell !>, tbat tbte day in the pres ence of Almighty God. my maker and my judge, I stamp on this high license movement us the monopoly of abomination. Amoog othar charges against it I have to say that it ft anti-American, anti-common I ???snae, antl-dsmonstrated facta,anti Christian. It was written by our revolutionary fathers, I firat by pen and then by sword; first in black ink and then in red, tbat all raea are equal in the sight of the law. Impartiality is the word written on tbe declarationof independ ence, constitution ol the United Buttes and over the doors of stats end national capitals. How, then, dare you give to the nun who can rates $500 or $l,OOOths privilege ol selling sweetened dynamite while von deny lo hto neighbor the privilege because he cannot raise more than fifty dollars or can raise nothing? Have ths small dealers In tbs fes tive liquid no rights? I plead for Justice to I the lens of tbou*sndsof men who are en gaged in a small and prndent and economical I way in rolling extract of logwood and strych- Inins. I say it i* unequal and unjust to allow the man who has money enough to kindle a great roaring conflagration oi temptation to go ahead while you deny throe other poor go ahead while you ueny tnose onier i??jur fellows of the traffic ibe privilege of even " [bring a lncifer match. I demand equal this for rum sellers This high license plan the propertyquslidcitloa la most offensive ..ape. Why don???t yon carry out ths idea and shut np all the bakeries except those which can pay $1,000? Why not sbnt np all the hatchers' shops except those which esn jesy an extravagant lex? Why_ not clo??e ell ry goods atore* except throe that can e big urn for the privilege? Well, you say, tbat is verjr differest. How is it to let a few do that which the very attitude ot Ihe government declares a wickedness. So also is Itanticoinmon sense. Someone says, "it is impassibls to execute a prohibi tory law, and a* w* cannot eject the evil, let ns put upon it this one brake." The fact that you cannot execute faity n law is no reason why yon should not have a law. Which one of your laws is fully executed? We have a law attains! Sabbath-breaking, yet millions offend it every Sunday. We nave n law against blasphemy, but sometimes Ihe sir Is lurid with imprecation. We have law against theft, bnt all yoar jails ore fall of burglars and highwaymen. Thera is n law against murder, but we have three murderers nowln Raymond street jail and scores of them in the United eta tea prisons. Sines we have not been able to stop these evils of theft and anon and blasphemy and murder, why not compromise the matter, and for I high license give certain men all the priri- lege of stealing and swearing and massacre. Get ready your excise commissioners???five or ten thousand dollars for tbe business of theft. Let us put au end to these small scoundrels who hare genius enough only to steal house-mats or postage- stamps, or chocolate drops and confine the business to those who, having paid$10,000 for ? :anteel robbery can abscond with $90,000 rom a Newark bank, or by watering the ???took of a railroad omnpany steal $300,000 at one dip. I would put a very high lioenaeon It, say 310,000, for they could soon make it up. We are fearfully opposed to sneak thieves, and wharf-nils, and tup penny scoundrels, but all hall to milllon-dollar ras cals. Ho also let us by high license put down blasphemy, for yoar present laws against it are not snccesifnl. Let us shut up the great masses Ot the foul-mouthed, and by a high license of $10 000 let a few men do all toe t-Retiring in the community. Let us select, say a hundred, oi Che most impulsive raerj oi your cities, men ot the highest tempers anrt hottest tongue nnd the most spiteful against God and decency, and add to the number tho speaker oi the New Jersey legis- bt-tiro whose addresses were so Interlarded with oaths a few days ago that tbs printers, who never swear themselves, had to put blanks into svery sentence to indicate where the oaths came in. Let theseespeclally dele gated men for a high license of $10,000 per year be allowed to do all the proiauity, and nave full sweep white we put down end sweep out oi community with besom of de struction those who swear on a small scale, and all those who have never got beyond "By George," "My stars,??? or "Darn It.??? 8o also let murder ha hindered. Present law does not avail. Murders on Long island! Murders In Illinois. Murders in Pennsylvania. Murders nil over. The vast majority oi the perpetrators escape. The defense proves an alibi or says that the deed was done under emotional Insanity. The court-room la crowded with sympathisers and when acquit ted be ta followed down tbe street by a crowd who meditate sending him to congress. The only way you will have put an ond to mur der in this country is by a high llcenss to a few men to manage the whole buslu'en. This common herd oi nssaulni who do their work with car-honks and dull knives uad Paris green, maet be put down nnd lot a few ex perts who can do tho thing without pain nnd by ohloroform or flash of bull-dog revolver, gently putting tho victim out of his earthly misfortunes???let them have all tbe business. Pt course that license ought to be ns high $20,000 because tbe perquisites of gold wati-lies aao tuorony vt'< and tnonny vt'e* STIS 1 plethoric pOyket^et" would soon pay the high license and leave a train comes down with temperance societies handsome sum for net profit. You soe pt a glance, nil Irony aside, that!( rum selling is right wo all ought to have the privilege of eojoying it, and It it be wrong $5,000,000 paid down in hard cash os a yearly license ought to purchase immunity. Is It common sense that one business should have ths right to despoil all other busloasq if it pay a special (ax? A great northern manu facturing company recently eatabllahed them selves in Georgia. When asked why they lo cated there, tbelr answer was 'Because this township voted to have no liquor sold.??? That honest manufacturer discovered what we all know, that the runt sailing business hurts every other business. If tits millions oi dol lars that go every year for rum ware expend ed In healthful directions, there would rome a boom ol commercial and agricultural and manufacturing prosperity 150 tier cent greater than this country ever saw. The money that goes for drink spd has nonsuit except ill health aud pauperism and crime would go for clothing, for books, for education, for homesteads, for horses and carriages, for farms, for life insurance, for the 10,000 com fort! and adornments and luxuries oi life. You wbo get $2 a day for wages, would get $4 You wbo get a salary ol $1,000 a year, would got $3,000. You who receive $10,000 a year, would receive $20 000. The rum sailer this moment has bis clutch on ths throat oi every man in America. Yon have to pay for his damnable work by your honest sweat slid by ths deprivation of your households of many advantages. When will tbe working classes rise up against this incubus and decree to keep at home the dri- velln aud pothouse politicians e( Albany and Harrisburg legislature who vote down prohi bition anti rote up high license, 1 wish ths Lord in His meray would give our rulers In these Atlantic states one hourol the swkrthy and magnificent courage oi thelowa legislature which hail tbe morel force to pass an out and out prohibitory law, and whose governor bod Ihe grace lo sign It. Lead on, O western state, in thegloriou* work of our country's emancipation I Among tbe test to come will be our beloved stale of New York, but come She will. After a few more thousands o' onr best homes shall have been'destroyed by this rum traffic and a few more hundreds of iboutands of our best Intellects and basrls ???hall have been sacrificed, and our distilleries have for a few mors years insulted tbe heav ens with their uprolllng stench, rite tide will turn and all good men and women will to gether rise and laying hold upon Almighty strength bnrl down into Ihe perdition from which it smoked np, this swelling and putre fying curse of nations. I'eopts in this region talk as though high license bad never been tried. It has been tried again and again, and always has been a fist failure- It pas triad in Utetouri under what waa calleu tho Downing law. A promi nent paper of 8L Loafs. Missouri, says: "Hrs have now in litte city some 1,500 high license laloons, and if there is one man in St. Lonla who is able to see the good results of high license which its friends promised us, we want to interview him. If there is any good io high license, if it reduces tbs evils of drink to a minimum, we are ready to publish it. \V?? know that many good, honest temperance men favored ths passage of ths Djwnlng law. Will they point out to ns any good it has ac complished or is likely ever lo accomplish, or confess tbat they bars been disappointed?'' It was tried in Nebraska under what was called tbe Slocumb law, at a $1000 licenre. A prominent cltlaen, requested to give bis opinion in regard to it, says: "Yon ask, 'Has high license diminished drunkenness?' Not in the slightest degree. Drunkenness it steadily on tbe Increase. This vice, as all other aloes which government fosters, grows coatintully. High licence, as fsr a* dimin ishing drunkenness is concerned, does noth ing of the kind. Mark this well. 1 wonld repeat la thunder tones if I could, it does w. did not expect i he will be lo tbe Wtv on Mondsr nlaot hla war to the Kr-???-i'l lodged Alabama, w coo- c'u-li-1 we wnull orraox: for a me>-ilug Monday nlchi, that tbe people el Atlanta mtgai have au .. .. ... opMituntty to hear him." .. ... different? Well von ear ths bus'nsta of | nothing of tbe kind. Oambling, consequent Mr. Demaree will r. main in the auto ??>.- ul 228* hmd ??r SUV'&Irio oron high license, bro forof^r hoamaL /ifS^SS !&???sraffi??uro^n $?& damage, while the rolling of whisky does a I Ths ratoon keeper inuat have, in many euro, IU great deal of harm. There, you have surren- sgsmbling annex In order to make bis bust-, Dt . Kendall will preach at Trt.iltr to uUM on riered tbe qnssiion. If it does great damage, 1 nea pay a profit nndsr.tbe high license syt- temperance. tried it at a $1,000 license. One nf the dally papers of Des Moines rays. "Dea Moines lias tried a $1,000 licenses only to find that it lias increased tbe namberof Its saloons, ond tbe daily exteess of drunkenness.??? In other places high license has been tried strain end again, sad always with the same restilf, and yet there an those who wonlii Imve the farce enacted here. The Washington Sentinel, ono of the chief organs of the liquor traffic, borate into derisive laughter at the high license attempt in Nebraska, and says; "The prohi bitionists in Nebraska, finding tbat ths high license of $1,000 has not decreased the sale of liquor, ore now endeavoring to Increase its rote by raising the license to $7550 per an- num.' We are melting an ekbrt here to resuscitate an old-and dead failure that died Ite first death in Missouri, and died Its second death in Nebraska. The mightest blow to the cause ol temperance In the oily is that some reformers have helped along tb.s delusion of high 11- eense. It Is a white flag of truce sent out from alcoholism to prohibition to get ths bat tle te pause until tbe army oi demijohns and decanters can get better organ lied. Oetoffof the field with that fibg of truce or I will fire on Ul Between these two armies there can be no lawful trace: On the one side are God and sobriety, and the best interests of the world. On tbe other 1s tne sworn enemy of all righteontness, anil either this armr matt go down or theohurch of God and freegovern- ???ent perish. Ob, this black, destroying archangel of all diabolism, one wing reaching to the Phciflo and the other to the Atlantic, its iron beak and filthy claws clutching tbs tom and bleed ing heart-strings of the naf ion that cries out: "How long, O Lord, how long???? Better try to compromise with the panther* In tbelr Jungles, with tbe cyclone in its flight, with the Egyptian plague os it blotches an empire, than with Apullyon for whom this evil ie recruiting officer, quartermaster and com- mauder in-ehier. My friends, let us fight it out on tho old Hue and we will get the viotory os sure as right Is right, and wrong Is wrong, and truth is troth, and falsehood is falsehood, ami God te God. Are you so deaf that you cannot hear in the distance the rumbling of tbe ehariot of viotory ? Over 300,000 voter* in Ohio- at the last election for prohibition. Kansas on the right aldo, Iowa on the right side, Alabama and Georgia almost ready to tall Into line. Fifteen ot the legislatures of * the United States disenssing the temperance question. The liquor trade so panic struck that it te trying to get congress to alter the constitution so tbat prohibitory laws shall be declared unconstitutional. Two hundred and forty-six towns of Massachusetts out of two hundred and fifty-eix declared against licensel Not a sign board in all tbe state of Maine Offering rum for sale, so that tbe crime te there put dawn betide other crimes. One branch oi tlte legislature of our monopoly-cursed New York, a few weeks two, only Urn* votes off from puiing a law giving to tbe peoplo a a choice of prohibition. List Thursday a week, the congress ot the United Stales, de molishing tho bonded whisky bill byavoloof 180 to 831, although the liquor traffic hsd voted $700,000 to buy spectacles through which our rulers might ece the subject in tho right light. I give feir warning In the. |,->iit i.-iiamn of America, tha leaders of our beautiful repub lican parly nnd tho glorious democracy, that the temperance men will very anon bold the balance of power in America, and they will determine who .-1ml 1 he mayor*, and govern- ir*, sod oongressmen.end president*. Better ,. rtt* ah* t-ack before tro morning exyrex; - and sons of temperance, and good templars, anil the long train loaded with reformers and UhrtellaD jihilnnthropM.i, nnd all the best In terests of tho world. Clear the track i Tho cow-catchor will ha pflad up with rinashcd decanters and tho Btavcsof beer barrels, and the epliulers ol hlgh-lic-mee platform*, and tho broken rails of those who ast o.t tho fences, and tho demolished hopes, schemes, machinations and bribes of all wbiskeydom! Tho time will Rome when tbe evil will bo SO reduced that there will he only ten wine flasks It-lt, anil tbey will he set up at tho other end of the alley for ten-pio*. And oue re former will take just one bmali round ball of irohlbUlon and roll It till down shall go lie last vesltges of the sin with the ten strike. But wlillo the prospect looked at from tho side ot worldly reform is so bright, looked at from the Christian *ido It Is absolutely curtain. God will rlso uj> and put a bund lo this wick edness. Have you any doubt about bis being ???trosger than tha devil? Blucher came up heforo nlgbt-fall and saved tbe day for Wei- ' llngton. At four o'clock in the afternoon it looked very badly for the English, Generals I'onsonby and Picton fatten, sabres broken, flags surrendered, Scotch Grays annihilated, only forly-two men left oi the German bat talion, English lines falling backl Napoleon laughed in triumph and said: "This little Englishman needs a lesson. Ws hare ninety chance* out of aibundred In our favor. Mag nificent! magnificent!??? Messengers are sent to Paris with ths news of ths Frepch victory. But Blucber came up, and before night tbe conqueror oi Auiterlits was ths victim of Waterloo. Tha man whose name mads Eu rope tremble, and filled even America with apprehensions, 1s found muddy and hatters, and crazed wltb defeat, feeling in the night for tbestirrops of a horse, tint bo may mount and resume ins contest. Now the ram traffic te imperial and a conqueror, and many good people say tbat tbe night te coming, ths night oi ths national overthrow, bnt before tan- down ths conqueror of earth and heaven will rids in on Ihe white horse, and the rum traf fic, which has had its Austorlilx of triumph ???boll have its Waterloo of defeat; and tbe crowa fallen from the brow of Alcoholism, tbe filthy and staggering breaker of human hearts, erased with hla disasters, shall (eel in vain for a stirrup by which to remount THE TKMPBRANCM WAVE. Talk WHO Mr. J. O. Tkrawer aa Ta* Wark Naw II.ICS !???**??? la tha Flair. Yesterday Mr. J. O. Tbrawar, ibe well-known and earnest temperenoa worker,said to a Constitu tion man: Never In the history oi the temperance cau*o were the temperance leaders ?? actively at work aa the present Ume. In many portions of the at tto Good Tcmplare lodges ore springing up m U by magic. Tbe office ra ol the grand lod<e of the have secured ths service* of the lion. ?????? B. Demaree, ol Kentucky. They havo put him to active work and lhay have never Bsfore iad such a successful organiser, tn no caw alnco ie has been In the state has he (ailed to organize a lodge where be has bad an appoint ment properly made. In twelve days no has planted ten new lodges, wltb a membership ranging from thlriy-alx to one hundred members to tha beige. Tin people where ' ta apeak very highly ol him," does this special activity mean?" waa asked of Mr. Thrower. "We ere simply responding to the demand of tbe people. They want temperance amt wa try to (Ire It lo them Oar order Is an education of the principles of temoeranco. and In counties where woraieg lodge* existed, when tbo fight haa older.???