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THE CUjVSTTTUTiON. aTdANTA. GA.. SUNDAY OCTOBER 26 1884. TWELVE PAGES. 11 THE UPPER FORCES. c r. TALMAOK'S SERMON IN THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE itjlie lord Opened the Eyes of the Young jinn nnd He Saw, and Behold the Mountain Was Full of Horse*.??? Brooklyn, October 20.???[8pccial.]-???Dr. Tnl- jnago continued hi* series of sermons ou pub* lie oflairs to-day in tho Brooklyn tabernacle, choosing tor bis subject: ???Tho Upper Forces.??? The opening hymn was: ??? The monjing light is breaking, The darkness disappear*, Tliesonsof men aro waking To penitential tears." Before tho sermon Dr. Talmage read and expounded passages of scripture appropriate to the subject to be presented. The text was II. Kings, vi. 17: ???And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man and he saw; and bo- hold the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elizha.??? Follow ing is tho sermon in full: As it cost England several regiments and 12,000,000 a year to. keep one troublesome cap tive at St. Helena, so tho king of Samaria seut a great army to capture one minister of reli gion, perhaps 50,000, to take Elisha. During the night the troops drovo in and surrounded the village of Dothan, where the prophet wai staying. At daybreak tho man-servant of Elieha tushes in crying, ???What we shall do? An army is after you and we must die I??? But Elisha was-not scared, for ho looked up to tho mountains and saw that supernatural forces hod gathered for his defense, and if there were 50,000 Assyrians against him, thero wero per haps 100,000 angels for him. In answer to his proycr in bsball of the frightened man-serv- ant, the ycung man saw them too???horses of fire harnessed to chariots of fire and drivers of fire pulling reins of fire on bits of fare, and weiriors ol tiro with drawn swords of fire, tho hrillianco of that morning sunrise eclipsed by llm galloping splendors of tho celestial cavAi- cades. ???And tho Lord opened tho eves of the full of horses and chariots of tiro round about Elisha.??? For two Sabbcths I have spoken to you of tbo Assyrian perils that have marchod upon us to capture this nation; the bribery, the low morals, tho drunkenness, iho political aban donment. To-day I shall consider tho upper forces that are sent of God to fight on our side. Ix the low levels be tilled with armed threats, the mountains of our faith and hopo and c.x- S cctntion arc full of tho horses and chariots of ivino rescue. Tho troops that rido down from above are mightier than tho troops that rido up from beneath. Notice that tho chariots of divine rescue ore not inado or brass or gold or ivory, but of tire.* Lmiah and Ezekiel and John, sketching the aivino equipage, always gave it as a wheeled,harnessed and uphou'stored conflagration. Not chariots liko that which other kings or conquerors mount, but organized and compressed fire. That means parity and justice, and chastisement nnd deliverance through burning escapes. All of our notional diccnthrollmcnts have como through oceurg- irg agonies and red disasters. Verily chariots of rescue, but chariots of tiro. Through trib ulation tho individual rises, through tribula tion nations rise. But how do I know that tho upper forcos of tho text are on tho sido of the American na tion? By tho history of 108 years. Amorican revolution starting from tho point of Johu Hancock's pen in Independence hall,Philadel phia, 1770. Colonic* without amunltion, without guns, without ships, without trained warriors, without ono famous general at tho ???tart, without prestige, without foreign friends. On the other sido tho mightiost nation of tho earth, with tho greatest armies and tho grand est navies nud tho most famous commanders, and omunition inexhaustible, and nearly all the world to back them in tho fight. What nothingness against what immensity! Ameri can prospects down to aero at tho start, must sink still lower by the quorrets of our generals and by the jealousy of littlo successes, and by winters that surpassed alt thoir predecessors in depths of snow and horror of congcnlment. Elisha, surrounded by armed Assyrians, no woreo off thau thirteen colonies encompassed and overshadowed by foreigirluvasion 1 What, then, must have settled tho contest in our favor? Tho upper forces scon in the toxt. Tho White and Green mountains of Now England, tho Hichlauda along tho Hudson, the mountains of Virginia and the Appalachian ranges were tilled witli flaming rcinfor&oments, which tbo young man Washington saw by faith, and without complaint his men ondured the frozen feet and tbo bleeding wounds, and the exhausting hunger nud tho long march bt-causo ???tho Lorn opened tho eyes of tho young man and ho saw, and behold the moun tain was full of borne* and chariot* ol tire ??? round about Elitlia.??? The opening war of 1801 was thought by many at tho north and south to ba national suicide. It was not bravery against coward ice, wealth against ppvcrtv, great states ???gainst small states, but heroism against heroism, great resources against groat re source?, tho oilluonc* of generations on tho one side against the aflluouco of generations on tho other side, tbo prayers of tho church north against the prayers of the church south, one-bill the nation in armed wrath against the other half in armed iudignation. What could thero be but extermination? The com- mauder-in-chief of tho army of tho United States at that timo was a dear old man, with gout and vertigo and asthma, incompetent to mount a horse, and who rode upon tho battlo- ficld in an easy carriage, thp driver directed to go slowly lest tho occupant bo jolted. On the other side a general in mid-life, the blood . ol a whole line of warriors in his veins, him self tho hero of Cherubueco Cerro Gordo, Con- reros and Chopultapec. But as tho red scroll of carnage unrolled on both sides, there came forth to confront each other a valor and a de termination and a strength such as tho world never saw. And what but extermination could result from the contest when Philip 6bcridan and Stonewall Jackson rodo in from opposite sides, and Nathaniel Lyon and Sid ney Johnson swept in from north and south, ???nd Grant and Lee, tho two thunderbolts of War, clashed each other? But we are in pence and prosperity to-day. It was not earthly courage that settled, the combat, but the upper forces of the contest. The battle of Lookout mountain was said to have been fought among the clouds, but higher than that were tho horses and chariots of fire come from God to save the American nation. In 1876, at the close of a national election famous for its devilish ferocity, came the dark est hour in American history, lor the result of the election was in dispute and revolution, not in sections, but in every towu and city and neighborhood in America, was imminent, and the peril was tbot New York would clutch New York, and Washington, Washington, and New Orleans, New Orleans Some ??uM Mr. TiMen was elected, some said Mr. Hn/es was elected. And how near we came t> untrersit mccearre some of us hsve guesje I, but God only knows. That this was avoided I ascribe not to the honesty or righteousness of red-hot, infuriated (toUticians, but to the upper force* ol the test. There were chariots of mercy, the wheels of vbich were not heard and the flash of which was not seen, but the mountains of the north and south aud east and west were full of them, and though the hoof* did not clatter, the cavalry of heaven galloped by. That God is on the side of this nation I ar- E uc from the five last harvests and from tho ealtlTof the last quarter of a century, epi demics exceptional, and from great religious revivals, ana from enlarged churches, and from a continent blossoming with reformatory institutions, an 1 from the Edeaization whbh promises to torn this land into ??? paradise where God shall walk in the cool of the day. And though I have in two previous sermons tet forth the awfol threats of evil that woutd capsize and demolish American institutions, I Me so many regiment* of help wheeling down the sky that my Jeremiahs turn into doxologiea, and the Good Friday ol the nation'* crucifixion becomes the Easter morning ol its resurrection. Of course, God works generally through hu man instrumentalities, and this national bet terment will come, among other things,through a scrutinized ballot box. Tho law of registra- tion has made illegal voting almost impossible m this country. Formerly droves of men would wander around from election poll to election poll, opting here nnd voting there, and r.o one challenging or the challenge amounting to nothing, because on such sudden notice nothing could bo proven against the scoundrels. Now every voter in well organ ized neighborhoods is bounded on tho north end south and enst and west by the severest scrutiny. The roils of registration, havo boon already made up for nearly a week, although the ordeal i* yet nine days off. I must tell mv name to tho registrar, how old I am, how long I have resided in the state nni how long in the ward, and if I misrepresent, by fifty wit nesses I shall be shut out from the bullot box. If a man have bet on tho elections, he by law is also shut out. One step further needs to ba taken, and no one be allowed a vote who 1ms offered a bribo or accepted a bribe for voting, whether the bribo be a freo drink or a pay ment of casb, the suspicious cases bo compelled to put hoed ou Bible and swear to their hon- end to the sacred chest of tho nation's suffrage will be still further redeemed. Gcd will also help us by an aroused moral sentiment. Morals and immoral* havo never been co canvassed as now in any presidential campaign. Men who all their lives have been stealing from tho public crib are denouncing diehoncElv on tho part of public officials and people, aud with two or three families ol their own arc preaching elegant sermons on the seventh commandincnt. Yen, tho great sub jects of tem]>crancc aud drunkenness aro forced upon the public mind, aud for the first time the temperance question is felt in a polit ical contest, end prohibition, which was a joko when, four year* ago, Neal Dow ran for tho presidency, is no longer a joke, but a tre mendous question, which Hushes tho check of tho notion and agitates the laud from Lake Erie to Mobile Boy, nml four years from now will decide who shall bo tho president of tho United States. Tbo long, loud, hysteric laugh at fanatical reformers has caught in the wind- wipe nud turned to paroxism of strangulation, and the stupendous questions of national so briety arc getting to be heard respectfully and deferentially at the bar of state legislature, at. the bar of congress and at tho bar of tho Uni ted States senate, and a voice omnipotent is going to be heard rolling from tho bcavons, running errors tlic continent and back again, saying lo these rising tides of drunkenness which threaten to whelm homo nnd churuli and notion, ???Thus far shalt thou go and no further, and hero shall thy proud wave bo stayed.??? I Lave not a shadow of discourago- nunt as largo os falls from tho housefly???s wing. My lailh is in the upper forces of tho contest. If you would pray more and than mb your eyes out of the sleep of indifference, and wash them in some clear, cool water, fresh from tho well of Christian reform, it would bo said to you, ns to the ono in tho toxt, ???Tho Lord opened tho eyes of tho young mau nnd he raw, and behold the mountain was full of horses and chariots of tiro round about Elisha.??? When tho soldiers of Antigouus, the war rior, wero afraid because thoir own army was ao fiuall and the army of tho cnctny .was so numerous, and tho affrighted soldiers wore expressing their fenr to their general, ho cried cut with great vehemence: ???How ninny do you reckon mo to be???? And while wo admit that tho forces arrayed against our national wclfuro aro very great, I osk you in making an estimate of tho resources of righteousness how many do you rockon tho Lord God Almighty to be? ???The Lord of Hosts is His name.??? ???Tho chariots of God aro twenty thousand,??? and tho mountains of our faith aro full of them. But I am asked, whom am I going to voto for ? That is a matter of but little importance. But it is a matter of vast interest whom these great masses of humanity aro going to voto for, end so 1 lay before you principles by which oil may mako up thoir own mind. Voto tor the best man. Voto prayerfully. Voto o* Ckrltdian*. Voto as you will wf*h you had voted when you can voto no more. You soo, without my saying it, that my chiof hope is iu Christianity,or, os my text suggests, tho uppor forcer, Political parties come and go nud they may do right nnd thoy may do wrong but God lives, nod Ho has ordained this liatiou for a conqueror thi-.t doraagogism can???t defeat. 1 hopo to live to sco iu ibis country a party with two planks in its political platform, tho Ten Commannu-nts and tho Sermon on thu Mount. That would swoop tbo laud liko n tornado,I was about to say. But whon I think that it is not to bo a work of devastation but of rescue, I ebango tho figure and say it will sweep like a thousand spice gales from heaven. American politics will uever be purified aud mado decent by anything less pungent aud all pervading than tho Christian religion. Tho simple fads, is that wo aro to havo for our next president cither a man who has boon pictoriolized nnd excoriated ns a thief, or ono who is pictorialized and excoriated as a liber- t'nc. There has Lever been such high enrol-' -vnl of ddninatfCn. Have what faults they may, they have nil had injuustico done them. There havo been two great manufactories of lies that (urn out three or,four specimens a day, all fitted out and rigged, ready for circu lation???a democratic manufactory and a re publican manufactory of lios???and tho*o havo branch houses in nil parts af tho country, nnd their agents going up and down. Lies largo and small; lies domestic and lies public and lies prurient; long-limbed lies and lios of double back action; lies cut bias and lios di agonal; lies smart nnd lies stupid; lies that come believe and lies that all believo and lie* that nobody believe*; lie* complimentary and defamotory; lies with lumps liko camels aud scales liko crocodiles, and necks long as storka and legs swill a* antelope aud sting sharp as adders; secular lies and religious lios; lios raw and scalloped and panned and stowed; lies with attachment screw and belt coupling and niftier and braider and ready-wound bob bins; lie* by Christians who toll tho truth ex cept just beforo election; lies by people who nhvoys lie but ouppass themselves iu tho presidcntisl campaign. Afchsmed am I to have foreigners visit this country ut such times. They stand dazed, their hand on their pocket-book and afraid to to out nights. And what impression,must be mado ou tho hundreds and thousands of foreigners who have recently come to make America their home! What a disgust and horror must seize on them concerning the land of thoir adoption. Tbo only solaco is that many of them cannot understand tho English language. But I anppoeo the German and Swedish and French and Italian newspaper* take up the strain of obloquy and peudlo it out to their subscriber*. Nothing short of an all-pervading Christian settlement can stay these floods of iudecency. The time will como when such scenes of falsehood and billingsgate and low scandol as wo havo been going through for the past three months will bo re buked by that religion which from its ouo mountain intones the command: ???Thou ???halt not bear false witness against thy neigh bors,??? and from its other mountain pleads for love and kindness aud blessing rather than tU Al'i,my friend. I That It what we ought to hove and what w. will have-, nalion.l re- ligion. There ire two kinds of national re ligions. The or e is supported by the stito and is a matter ef human polite*, immense worldly patronage, men struggling to get pieces in it without reference to iheir qualifi cations, great churchee with large salaries and no audience, at the head of the establishment an archbishop with salary of $75,000 a year and its cathedral! that would hold a thousand people and with all the ecclesiastical ma chinery of music and canonicals and an ou- diencc of fitly or a hundred attendant upon the services. Such a national religion would be of no use in America/ But what we need it such vast multitudes of converted and evangelical people that they shall he in majority end that they shall control everything secular as well a* everything religious. Ia that impracticable and impossible? Not it is ascertain as that there is a God and that He wrote the Bible and that He is strong enough and honest enough to do ea He has said. An ancient emperor prided himself in doing that which hit c??un- cillore pronounced impossible, and I have to tell you that meu???s ???impoisible*??? are God** ???eaiict.??? ???Hath He laid and shall Ho not s way doit? Hath He apoken and shall He not bring it to pass???? The Christ-on religion will yet take possession of evory bullot,box, of every school house, of every home, of every valley, of every mountain top, of every acre, of every national domain. One of the wohders of the world was Pharos, the white marble watchtowcr of Epypt. Sos- tratus, architect and sculptor, cut his namo ou the frout of it, then covered it with plastering, and to plcoso tho king put the monarch???s name on the outsido of this plastering. Tho storms beat on the front of that watchtower, nnd tho sen dashed its furies, end In timo tho platter- ing with the king???s name was washed out, and washed off, and washed down, and only tho name ot Scstratus, tho architect, remained. That stood deep cut into tho imperishable rock. Thus, many ami mighty have been tho names written across this continent in politics and literature and reform, names worthy oi remembrance written iu our architecture and ecroes cur cupitols, and churches, aud uni versities, and asylums, but God was the archi tect of this continent and tho sculptor of it* f ;randurcs, nnd long after all other names have *y the wash of the ages and tho tempests of the centuries bccu obliterated, the divine sig nature, the divine name, shall appear brighter and brighter as tho millenniums go by, aud all the world will see and acknowledge that the same God who built this nation redeemed it from all its crimes and from all iti woes. ???Name high over all in earth, and air and Bkies.??? Alter all tho other chariots have boon unwhccled aud all tho other charger* shall have beeu crippled, tho chariots that Elisha saw that morning of his peril shall roll ou in the triumph of our king, and all tho armies of heaven follow him on white horses. But while God could do all this withont us, He will not do it without us. ( The weakoat of us, the humblest of us, tho faintest of us, the smallest brained of us, the sickest of us may have a share iu the triumph, and though our name may not be kept liko that of the archi tect, Snstrntu?, hewn for centuries on a con spicuous watchtowcr, wo shall have our names and what we do kept in grander place, even in the memory ofhini who died to redeem us aud to redeem the world, and around the wounds in his hands our names are already writton,as we tee when he throws out bis arms toivard us this moment, saying: ???Behold I havo en graved thee upon the palms of ray hands I??? By the mightiest forco in tho universe, tho potency ol prayer, beseech Him day and night lor the delivernneo of this nation. In the dead-letter postollieo at Washington thoro are 4,lSl???0,000 letters that lost their way; but never one earnest, honest, Christian supplii tion directed to God has miscarried. The w is all clear for the immediate ascent of best wishes for this natiou. In ol Jen timo, and when arrangements lor postal communi cation wero less complete, thero was ou a rook a hundred feet high on tho const of England a barrel fastened to a post and marked in large letters ???Postolfice.??? And as tho ehips wont by a boat was sent ashore to tako ond letch lot- tern,nnd in that way sailors heard from homo or sent word to those far away. So safe wero those deposits of affection that no lock was on that barrel, containing letters for America nnd Europe, aud Asiu aud Africa and tho islands of tno sea, and through that ocean posit-Hicc many a poor sailor???s heart was cheered and tidings ol gladness went to the old homestead. Would God that from all tho heights of our nation???s prosperity thero might be constant interchange of sympntios, the as cending prayers be answered by correspond ing blessings; postal celestial not by medium *of a storm-struck rock on a wintry boach, but by means of tho llock of Ages I In tho (loop cleft of that Bock may our natiou hido from all.Us pursuers. THE BUSINESS WORLD. The Doings of the Week in Shop, Fac- tory, Store and Bank. Washington, Octobor 23.???Tho prlvato banking house of II. D. Cooke A Co., in this city, displayed the following notico at tho usual. opening hour this morning: ???Owing to our inability to meet pressing demands, wo deem it better.fo^ tho iulq rests of all Concerned to suspend temporarily,??? UNFORTUNATE INVESTMENTS TIIR CAUSE. It is olso learned at tho bank that tho suspen sion results from an unfortunato investment, dating bock a number of years. Tho firm???s unsecured liabilities amounted to about $106,- 000 lost January, ond tb*y have steadily paid cfl???since that timo until they aro now reduced to $140,000. The firm lias at last reached tho point, however, whero tho renyrining assets prove to bo unavailable for iinmodiato u*o in iho market, and can bo realized upou only by good management and waiting for sultablo opportunities. Tho firm had no interest in tho Washington and Ohio railroad, although Mr. Campbell individually purchased one-third of it for some $9-1,000, at tho receiver???* sale a year or two ago. Augusta, Ga., October 25.???(Special.]???Augusta to-day witnesses another largo failure, aud although not unexpected by business men, it sur prised tlie community and aroused deep sympa thy. On account of the bad collections and short talct, and the heavy responsibility of years of debt, tho milling firm ol George T, Jackson & Co. fulled. William E. Jackson, attorney tor, tho firm, informs The Constitution that tho liabilities amount to 6100,000, which Is all owed In Augusta except SIO.OOO north, and about $5,000 for wheat out west. the cnr.MToiui or the firm Tho largest creditor Is the Natloral bank of Au gusta, which Is secured by a mortgage of $30,000 on the XxccUlor flour mills, and by other mort gages, amounting in all to about $10,000. The firm owes all of tho bonk* In the city, but less amounts, aud they ???re partly secured. Many creditors have been so- cured by mortgagee, deeds aud collaterals, mado from time to time, but some creditors aro not so- cured, and among these Paul Muster, grain mer chant, loses three thousand; F. A. Tlmberluke. { train merchant, loses two thousand; X. Daniel oses seventeen hundred, and Leo A Bothwell lose about a thousand doll.'re. New Yoke, October 25.???The weekly state ment of the associated bat ks shows tho;followlng changes: Loan* decrease,...**. *.** ***...$ 25,000 ACROSS THE WATER. A Comet Visible nt Alexandria???Tho He- assembling to Far!lament???Whnt China Ha* Offered to Do???Other Foreign New*, Etc. Tho Taris correspondent of tho London Telegraph state* positively that the court at Pekin has offered, through tho Washington government, to pay five million franc* to compensate the French for their loses, not ns owing to error, but in order to smooth tho way for a settlement. The correspondent says that M. Ferry considered tno ofTor tuo small. America is so satisfied with tbo Chi nese attitude, which sho regards worthy of defending, tbnt Mr. Freylinghuysen oven de clared his inability to understand tho roluet- once ol France to tho aiuicablo settlement of tho difficulties. It Is reported tlmt a general oxodus of Chinese from Shanghai is takiug place. This movement is cauecd by tho fear that tho French will bombard the city. Tho Chinese embassy at Berlin has received a dispatch from its homo government confirming tno re port that the Chinese forces, under Lin Ming Schunu, defeated 800 French troops at Tamsut October 5. Tho French operations at that point were fiustrated by means of torpedoes. A dispatch from Pekin to tho Time* say* that authentic information has been obtained that tbe French commanders, if ordered to march to rckin, will ask for a complete corps d???nrincc, composed of h 40,000 men of all branches of tho service. Besides they will require two pontoon trains, 8,060 horsos, 12 field guns, floating ami shoro hospitals for 8,000 men, and a number o! light draught gunboat*. London, October 21.???Tho comet recently dis covered by Professor Wolf, of Heidelberg, and I 1 fester Copeland, of England, is now visible to the ??? eye at Alexandria. It appear* os a nebu* ody, condensed at tho center, and scattered tall. . 1,518,060 Ml,COO 833,010 r.V-*n 617,100 ??? of Is- fipecie Increase Legal tenders increase Deposits Increase * Circulation Increase Reserve Increase*.**..... .**.., The banka now bold $32,192,650 in < legal requires ents. TRADING INSURANCE POLICIES. Hi* Assignment of an Interest in a Policy Held to be Valid. Boston, October 25.???An lntercitlng decision wu rendered to-day in the case of tbe Mutual Insur ance company of New York against Geo. Alleo, et ???1., which was a bill of interpleader to determlno which oi the defendant* thesnm of $2&i, the pro ceeds of a policy upon (he life of Israel Follows, deceased, should be paid. Fellow* and Allen wvre resident* of Massachusetts, and Fellow* made an alignment of hi* policy to Allen to secure a loan. laws of New York, which provides the inference policy shall In free from the clamors of there pro scutHtlrcs of tho husband or any of hi* creditors. The cose was first bead by Justice u eye lens body, at the London, Octobor 23.???-Parilament reassem bled to-day. Tho following is tho queen???s speech in opening the sossiou: My Lords and Gentlemen: I havo brought you together to enable you to further consider the cunt inbject of tho repreecntatiou of the people. I continue to mnlutuin relations of amity with all forulzu potter*. Information from tho Soudan include* the painful reverse*, but the energy, courage and rcEouncconsptcmmily displayed by General Gor don, iu his successful defense of Khnrtoum.de- scivo my warm r?? cognition. Tho advance of my troops (o Dnnpoln has for it* object tho rescue and stcurliy of that gallant officer, and those who .have to faithfully co-operated with him. I am using my best endeavor In Egypt to promoto further tho improvement of nflalr* In thst country. I have given my sup port to the Eg vptiuii government in the difficult financial poritiou In which It was loft through tho failure of the recent conference. I regret tho occurrences In Tronsvnsl, and am conriacrlng with tho Cano government means to secure the observance of the convention. Gcutk-int'ii of tho house of commons: Opera tions iu the ftutdun render it necessary to a*k of yon further pecuniary provision. My lords and gc ??? tenrion of tho i alone introduced. May the blearing of God attend your labor*. Thcprojjoscd government credit for tho Nile expedition is ??2,000,000. A small group of the extreme radical members of parliament aro opposed to granting tho money. Tho members of the Irish party aro left froo to support the franchise lull or to refrain from voting ns they think tit. Paris, October '23.???Further advices from Chinn give tho following particulars of tho French defeat nt Tam Bwi, October 15: Lan Ming Bchunn, Chineso general, sent somo of bis soldiers, disguised as coolies, to offer to nEsibt tho French in their work of building forts. Meanwhile tho rest tho Chineso soldiors formed an ambush noar nt hand. Presently a signal previously agreed upon was givon, whereupon the supposed coolies and the sol- triers in tho nmbuan mado a sudden attack S n tho French, and hemmed them in on all s. Tbo French wore overwhelmed and rushed into tho sea in tho** wildest confusion. Admiral Lcspcs admits that 100 of his men wero killed. Ho offerod a roward of $6 for e$ch corpso restored. . Tho loss of the French flag wan greatly deplorod, and Admiral Lcsprs endeavored to recover it from tho Chi- neso by offering them two now nags in ex change for it, but the Chineso refused to ontor* tain tno bargain. It is stated iu Paris tlmt ono of tho powers is liknly to take steps looking to mediation between China ond France, with a view ol on omicablo settlement of affairs. This power is believed to bo Germany. Querkc, October 23.???Hon. E. J. Flvn,com missioner of railroads, received tho following telegram to day from Itov. J. E. B. Ponliot, lomelcs* aud starving. For God???s sake asrint u*t" Another telegram from Cleary D???Orme says: ???Five homes at this pluee havo been burned. Two hundred peroonsoro in nit*to of starvation, having lost their barns, boats, and everything they nofK-roed, b???ometblug should bo done at onno.. Men could bo ??cnt away for the wlntor If tho women and children were provided for.??? Paris, October 25.??? 1 The government has decided to reinforce General Itrleno do Unto ia Touquln. and Admiral Courbet, commanding operation* in Chins, by 1,500 additional men. Order* have been reut to loulou to place transports in preparation immediately. Tho French comula at tbe various towns In C hina have been ordered to go ti Shang hai. owiiiR to the menacing attitude of China. Tho budget committee of the chamber of depu- Tbecabmet ministers this morning listened to General Milfot???s account of his operations In Tou- nuln.and wero entirely rntisflcd with his course. General Mlliot expressed tbo ot Inlon that tho ro- repulse any stuck. All tbe prince* of tbe Chineso empire have boon specially summoned to attend an imperial audi ence at Pekin on November 7. THE PROSPECT or MEDIATION. Tho report that England was about to mediate between France and Chine, with a view to an ami cable settlement of the present difficulties, wu altogether without fouudatlon. Tho Chinese gov ernment has given immenso order* for munition* of war. Jn London, Berlin and other cltlo* ar rangements have been made for the consignment of heavy gum and small arms. Among tno pur chase* sJieady made by China ar* five million cartridge*, which were mad* during the Franco- German war. These are now being shipped from London. Experts say the powder in these cartridge* would, at this late day, tie unable to ejoct a bullet from tbe muzzle of a rifle. The Dead Duke of Ilranswlek* Brunswick, October 23.-A delegate from tho bundesralb presented tho Brunswick diet today ??? letter from the Emperor William, rejecting tho claim of the duke of Cumberland to the grand ducal throne, aud approving tho measure* of the council; of regency against the pretender. Tbo Forth German Gazette this morning published the text of the Duke of Cumberland???s manifesto, ???nd reprinted a document in which the Duke of Cumberland Informed the Emperor William of tbe death of the ex-king of Hanover, and declared - beriand???* ??? that he, ???Cum! the rights end title which he had Inherited. would fully maintain The Japanese and the Germans. Berlin, October 25.-The Post say* that Oyama, A decree is'to~be entered In favor of the defend- lbe , ***??? tc b ??? ?? oMwr vIj,IUn * ??* r * ???nt, George Allen. meat Is tot i determined by tbe law of Mawachu- ??ett*. It Is not necessary to the validity of tho errignmrnt that tbe i???* 1 ??? * *~ Dlniue???* Trial Set Down for December. Indianapolis, October 20.???In the United States con t this morning the case of Blaine against the Indfannpoll* Sentinel was set down for trial on December 23d. The defendant???* Attorneys had a snbpa-na for Blaine, which they Intended to aerv- on him to-morrow. An agreement, however, wa entered Into by the attorneys that the subpum* should be served on Blallffe???a coon tel. In the United fitates circuit court to-day, tbe attoneja for the defense in the libel suit of Blaine wt the Indianapolis Sentinel company,had a writ of subpmna In chancery Is mcd tor personal iervite on Blaise to-morrow, ordering him to ep* peer In court on the 23d of next December, and aoswer the interrogatories filed with Uie Sent!* Bel???s last bill of discovery in the case. many with blm studying the administration of the German officers. They will return to Japan by wsy of America. They have adopted every and Germany. It ??a>s the German merchant* would profit by placing German commercial recourse in the Japsnese^markets. The Ducheta of Cumberland. London, October 25.???An accident befell the duebtes of Cumberlend yesterday as she we* tak ing pert In the hunt. Her horse fell through the S Unking of a bridge upon the stones below. Tile uthtMC was thrown to the ground underneath the bridge. Hhc was quickly rescued from this poaftiou, when it was found ahe bad suffered only ???light Injuries. The fling of Bolglan Shot At. Pasts, October 25.???The ???Cri du People??? states that on Tuesday at Lacked, an attempt was made toiboot the king of Belgium. One shot from n itrJvir was fired at blm by a radical student. NEWS BY WIRE, The Latest News by Hire to the Constltu* tlon, Washington, October 21.???An officer of tho signal service -enid. relative to^ho long con tinued drouth, that during September it ex isted in all sections east of the Mississippi valley, ond In Texas. Goiieral rains have fallen during October in Tennesseo. the Ohio valley and the lake region, but the drouth has continued in tho mitldlo Atlantic, south At lantic end gulf states. Tho littlo raiu that has fallen has not been enough to do any good to the crops in these sections. At Atlanta,Gn.. rain hue not fallen for over two months, anil it is eatimuted that the cotton crop in tha vicinity will tall short forty per cent. Near Shreveport, La., it i* estimated that tho cotton crop will bo only two-thirds of on average. In the vi cinity of Petersburg, Va., it has become- nec essary to close tho cotton factories on account of the eonreity of tt-etcr. The officer reports indications ol light rain in this vicinity soon, and eoys there is a heavy rain storm in the lake regions. Th??ro has been no rain of con sequence in or about Washington for nearly three-months. Tho shade trees along tho streets and in tho parks aro showing tho ef fects of tho long drouth. Grass in many ?? laces is dead, and in several instances ha* urned when accidentally tired, like tho gross of the prairies. Boston, October 21.???A special from Albany states that Henry A. Ilogeboom, n farm hand who claims to havo discovered tho obstruction on tho trzck which wrecked the Boston and Albany train at Kimlerheok Friday night, has been arrested ou suaptclon. The tlumy I* held that tbo act wa* committed, not with malicious intent, but in tho hope of flagging the train, when he intended to Bcqusiut tbe passengers with thu fact that he had saved their Urea, lu tho expectation that ho would be liandromicly remunerated for Ills "gallantry.??? ???J he exncrimcuts show that tho man eouhl plticp the raffs ncrot* the track aud remove them Inside of ten minutes. Quebec, October 21.???News from Gnspo ha* Just reached here that a fire, started by some people wbo were clearing tho brush lauds, spread during Inst night to the village of Chlorydorlno, destroy ing all the houses aud bo.iHoftho place, render ing about twenty fnmiltcM homeless. The people nt first sought shelter In the woods, hut were soon turrouudt d by flruand obliged tofleo to the huh- coast. They are utterly destitute, aud havo had m> thing to cat to day. Immediate asslstauco i* necosaiy. Washington, October 21.???Tho government property nt Harper???s Ferry will bo sold at public auction to-morrow. The sale will bo conducted by Mr. Uobinton, acting solicitor of tho treasury. The Indications ere that several manufacturers of PhtlariclHhla will bid on tue property. Congress fixed fkuMlnlmuiL of tho proputty at $20,066. Bait Lake, Utah, October 22.???Tho jury In tho polygamy case of Rufiger Clawzon wore uiublo to agree, Etaudlug 8 to 4. Tho judge this morning ordered the cose to bo retried beginning at 2 p.in. to-day. . Watertown, N. Y., October 23.???Tho rain of last night and to-day quenched tho lire nt Carthago in that no more danger is ' fonrod. Assistance is being rendered tho nffliotod peo ple as fast ns possible, nnd tcuuis liavo beoii S lithering provisions, clothing and beddiug ere to-day. Over $3,666 in cash linn been rent from here. Tho reliol coininitlco in Curthsgo is actively at work, l???eopla not burned out lravo given up all their rooms for tho lodging of homeless (>cop!o, nnd barns, offices and stores havo boon utilized ns shel ter at nigjit. It is believed that enough cloth ing ond food will ho furnished by tho citi zens of the neighborhood; nml tnonoy as fait ns received will ho used to build temporary dwellings. The lumber men of northern Now York insko generous oilers of assistance. Contributions should bo sent to Charles 1*. Kythcr, treasurer of tho roliof cominittoo.at Carthago. Binghamrrox, N. Y., Octobor 21.???Tho 1???helps family vault, ono of tho costiest struc tures of tho kind of tho state, was entered by grnvo robbers last night, and the tomb ot Rob ert, a son of tho Into Judgo Pholps, was forced open. Through tho vigilanco of Dotoctivo Block, however, who had deputies watohing tbe vault, the robbers, fivo in number, wero frightened away koforo they could romovo tho remains. " ??? * *??? ??? ??? ??? SINFUL I1U3IANITY, Some of the Misdeeds of the Ragged Edge of Georgln Society. Stephen Sasser, tbo uegro who pleaded guilty to the charge of cohabiting with a white woman, at tho last term of Early superior court, was found dead in a few rod* of bis paramour???s house, on Monday last. An Inquest was held- under the di rection of James Butler, the coroner, with this verdict: ???We, tbe jury, find that Stephen Hauser came to his death from gun shot wounds at the hand* of somo party or parties to us unknown. The Jackson Herald says that ???a Justlco of the peace in that couuty ho* three bastardy warrants iu hi* custody awaiting execution. This Is rather a sad commentary on the morality of that neigh borhood.??? TheWaycross Reporter says that J. C. Smith, who abandoned his wife and five children, in Waro county, last year and eloped with ono Toua Rig gins, and wbo also- skipped hla bond ou a charge of murder in Wayne county, was recently recap tured In Rockdale county, under a reward of $200 offered by Hon. Warren Lott, of Waycro**, who through sympathy stood his bond. 8mith was re turned to tbe sheriff of Wayne county at Jcsup last week, w 111 probably bo tried for tho crime of which be Is charged this week, and If acquitted, will be rcorrcitcd and taken to Ware county to answer to the charge of abandonment of his wife aud live children. Last Saturday, marshal T. B. Rainey, of Toccox, arrested n Mr. Ilagor, who wo* charged with steal ing a horse and buggy from a lady la Hart county. Mr. Hager went to Hart county somo time ago nnd there married a widow lady of some means. Af ter living with her a short time/ he harnessed her horse to her leggy and left. 8he did not suspoct anything wrong until It wu* too late to effect hit capture. When captured ho said he was on his way back to Hartwell. Marshal Ralqcy assisted him the remainder of the way and ho was lodged in the Hartwell Jail. He also has a wife at Green ville, 8 V. Early County KCfrs: A trial that occurred In our superior court ln*t week, demonstrate*, wo think, the fact that the colored man can havo Juitlio in Early county quite a* fully os a white man. About two years ago a colored roan wa* arrested lu this county under n requisition from tbo governor of Alabama. The arrest wo* umdo by an Kirly co uti- ty cctirinblc. without any resistance, but when tho coastablo tumid his prlKotier over to tho ofilccr from Alabama the said prisoner jerked away from , being unwilling resistance of the ,. hi* rescue hi* wife aud , . , found with a shot gun in her hand, ami the latter with an ax. They made It lntcrcfltlng for the Alabama man for a little whilo. braising him con siderably, and finally made tbclr escape. On tho trial it w??s made to appear (bat the Alabama man wiuiuot the proper person to recclvb tho prisoner, hence that tho prisoner and hi* wife and son had the right to resist him. On tht* pica they wero acquitted. Who will dare any. hereafter, that col ored folks can???t have justlco In Early 7 TI1E CONSTITUTION is the biggest nnd cheapest Weekly in America. Take it. GEORGIA PltKKSS POINT*. ... to Alabama, prisoner brought to J young The editor of tho Caraivllle Clarion 1* tho father of eight girls, flvo of whom are "at home??? to company. The Clarion take* firewood In sub scriptions. John T. Waterman, although a prohibitionist, publishes tho fact that ho qnaffk persimmon boer. Tlic Walker County Messenger thus explains an awkward occurrence: Last week the foreman of tho Messenger, K. A. . cll??n, while writing off tho mail was called * out. Not tolosoany time he hired a young man who liMppdicd to be present, but who ha* no con nection whatever with tho otUce, to llnbdi hi* 'iCtrnyed the trust that wa* put in hltn >u thu in hi gin of thoir paper* f limiting anumberof our boat subscribers. Wo can offer no apology for hi* conduct, for It ad mits of none, lu the eye of tho law tno offeiuo 1* a grave one, the peualty iKstng ??? - ??? 4 ??? hundred to five thousand doll ??? gravoone, the penalty lelng a lino from ono hundred to five thousand dollars, or imprison ment from one to ten year* with hard labor. . BuiUls iiondiug for $5,000, tho claimed by the physician forembalm- fng tho body, and it is thought by somo that the partic* interested in inis suit sought to ascertain how for tho embalming procure of tho body had been successful in preserving tho body. Others believo that the object ot tho person* engaged in tho dciocratioa was to sc al tho body nud bold it for n reward. THE RETURN TO CHICAOO. An Imposing Demonstration In llonor of ItUIno nnd Logan. Chicago, October 25.???Tho night demonstration accorded thu republican candidates for president end vice-president we* an affair of great magni tude. The condition* proved favorable for tho marcher* ond spectator* allko, The sky wasoloar and the atmosphere bracing, and until tonight tlic down-town spectators made the thoroughfare* At bc*t it would Imj only conjectural to covering tbo front* of entire IiusIuom blocks, aud stretched high In air across Uio street*. The lu ce remit ImriiniK of Greek fire of different eotora and thu profnsu display of pyrotechnic*, together with the presence of deep lino* of spectator*, with their Klniort Jncewout cheering, combined to create a ipcctacelouly possible la agronitoosaio- polilan center. . *. The prororion started shortly beforo 0 o'clock, ???nd wa* Manewbat moro than two hour* In pass- It* numbers were augmented by the pro*- laden, wero arriving throughout the entire d*y. A STRIKING SCENE. The moil remarkable spectacle wa* that prmntcd at tho east front of tho tirai d Pacific hotel, from tho balcony of which Blalno and hi* immediate friend* were to view tho column. To the cariwanl stretches a and upon the step* and balconies of tt building, and stretching north and south on Clark ???treat w*?? a closely hemmed multitude number ing poMlbly forty thousand. It occupied the ground over which tho marching column was to pars In review, hut offered an Impregnable o thought wa* capADio oi - ???4 b.vo bccu proi eluded from tho office. Tbe Montezuma Record ha* become an Illustrat ed weekly. Tbe Barucsvlllo Gazette will reappear In a few days. Tbe Tbomuton Time* says: - There 1* but littlo or no doubt that the Hon. Fleming DuBignoii will ho clcctud solicitor of tho Savannah circuit by tbo legislature, and the honor 'could not fall on a more worthy or competent jouug man. In tbe Fort Gallic* Tribun* thero appears tho following advertisement: Why somo men can set ao low a* to reaort to In- farnou* nnd damnable lie* to Injure a young man wbo la trying by honest luduntry to do something for himself li what we cannot understand, hut such cusses there are, and they are allowed in po lite society. Mr. K. A. Parker, of the Plko county Nows, makes the following announcement: 1 have ttila week formed A copartnership with Mr. Henry It. Harris, Jr., son of the Hou. H. K. ani*. of Meriwether, hi admitting Mr. Harris motioned with bis hand for silence. MAINE SI???EAKS AGAIN. Amid great confusion be spok* as follows: "Chicago Is great In all thlnp, especially great In her hospitalities and In her welcome. I desire to express my thank* and my gratitude for tbe mag- :iifl<-en<esnd magnitude of this reception. In so far as It Is intended for myself, or the national contest. It 1# too late for argument. Action only Is In order, sod as Illinois has always with certain step led the republican column, I feel thst she will do so In 1881." Mr. Blaine remsined In view of this crowd for some time, responding to their cries by repeatedly bowing, hut finally withdrew. General Logan also appeared and was received with marked enthusiasm, to which he responded by making e brief return of bis thanks. An effbrt followed to induce the audience to disperse. Governor Hamilton, of Illinois, appearing and making an appeal with this end In view, hut all to no purpose. Tbe line of march was changed In consequence, and Hie But tering pageant was only discernible to the nersons lor whom It was directly Intended at the distance of a block. Blaine at It o'clock was driven to tho lake fibore dei*ot, where he boarded a car attached to the regular light express for rest. He will reach Cleveland to-morrow forenoon, and remain there for a short reaplte, with no expectation, however, of receiving a public reception of any nature. A Congress of Bftudeiit*. Bbuisexj, October 25.???There was a meeting of ???tudents In this city today, et whleh It wee do- elded to bold en international congress of stn- dent* on tbe occasion of tbe seml-centennary of the establishment of tbe Free University In this city. A deputation of students wlllYUll Paris to Congrotnlatlons to Slontefloro, London, October 25,-Bir Mom* Mon- tefiore received a hundred tele gram* congratulating him on attaining his hun dredth birthday. They come from all pert* of the world, and there were many from America. Jspan'a New Aristocracy. London, Or tober 25.???Japanese advices state that the mikado bos Informed the European mission of the creation of a Japanese peerage. 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