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Mr. Reckling, an artist at Columbia, lias
made a handsome cabinet picture of the najjof
Morgan's Rifle Corps borne in the battle of the
Cowpens. The flag has on it the figures
“17?6" in a wreath, underneath which are XI
Virginia Regt, Morgan’s Rifle Corps.” Above
the flag is a photographic reproduction of a
flue pen and ink sketch of General Daniel Mor
gan with his autograph attached.
The last news heard of young Priester, who.
killed his father at Allendale, was his being at
Waynesboro, Ga. His brother received a letter
from a friend there stating that he had been
there and told the friend that he had killed two
negroes in South Carolina and was .eavmg
home on that account. He sold his horse and
buggy there and loft on the train. There is no
foundation for any rumor of his being cap
tured and lynched.
The subscriptions for the erection of a mon
ument to the memory of the Confederate dead
of Kershaw now amount to $265 10. Os this
sum S7O has been subscribed by New York
business iirms.
The Cartersville correspondent of the Dar
lington News says: ‘‘Mr. D. F. Ward, living
near this place, was shot on the night of the
19th instant. He was sitting in his store door
talking to a negro, and just as he arose to shut
the door some one shot him. It is supposed to
have been a man named Pegues, who was tem
porarily residing in, the section at that time.
He had threatened to shoot him, so it is re
ported. Pegues has left since the shooting.”
The Abbeville Medium, says: “Tiial Justice
McCaslan, of Long Cane, hold his courts in a
blacksmith shop. He sits on the anvil, puts
the prisoner in the furnance and his Consta
hie, Brown, heats him up by blowing the bel
lows until he acknowledges his guilt. ’
The Barnwell People says: “The Democracy
of South Carolina should testify their high ap
preciation of the distinguished political ser
vices of General Gary by erecting over liis
grave a monument worthy of the man and of
the party he has served so well. Carolinians
cannot forget Gary, for his history is theirs
and their heritage; and while loving relatives
would see that his last resting place is pot un
marked, a grateful people should claim the
right and privilege of preserving In memorial
marble the story of his gallant life."
It is said that there is living in Rock Mills
Township. Anderson county, an old colored
woman who attended the funeral and burial
of Gen. George Washington in 1799. She is a
native of Virginia, and was at the time about
fifteen years old.
Bishop Wightman, who has been in bad
health for the last six months, is now in better
health The Southern Christian Advocate
says: “The Bishop has been confined to his
premises ever since his return from the moun
tains of North Carolina about the middle of
last October. For a greater part of this time
he has not been able to leave his room; he has
not been outside of his yard. Just now he re
ports himself as feeling very considerably im
proved. He walks about the house, and, in
favorable weather, about the yard.”
The Anderson Intelligencer says that the
wool factory and saw-mill of Mr. E, P. Earle,
at Andersonville, were destroyed by Are on
Tuesday morning of last week. The fire was
not discovered until the buildings were nearly
consumed, and as there had been no fire about
the factory or mill, which are very near to
gether, and as fresh tracks were seen about
the place, there can be no doubt the burning
was the work of an incendiary. The loss is
estimated at about SBOO. No insurance.
In the Orangeburg Court Tuesday in the case
of Benjamin, alias Wm. Tyler, charged with
bigamy, vis: the marrying of a woman named
Candis Treville two years ago, and after aban
doningher marrying another woman named
Emma Rumph on the 17th of March last, both
marriages were clearly proved, and despite
the efforts of the prisoner’s counsel the jury
found a verdict of guilty.
An invitation has been extended to Miss
Hattie Brown, of Winnsboro, to be one of the
• young ladies to assist in unveiling at the Cow
pens Centennial. Miss Brown is the daughter
of the late M. L. Brown, Esq, whose great
grandmother was a sister of Daniel Morgan,
the hero of Cowpens, whose monument is to
be unveiled on that occasion.
The Winnsboro News relates the following
singular fulfillment of a dream: “When Sher
man passed through Fairfield in 1865, Mr. John
McCuliy, now deceased, buried about eighty
dollars in gold in a fl- ld near his house. After
the raid he was unable to find it after diligent
search, and he concluded that either he had
forgotten the spot or that some one had discov
ered it. Years rolled on, and the incident was
nearly forgotten. A short time ago a colored
woman in the neighborhood dreamed that she
went to a certain spot and found this gold.
Again she dreamed the same thing, more
vividly than before, all the
marks of the land being
distinctly visible. A few days after, while
walking along the road with a white lady,
Miss Gibson, she exclaimed as she reached a
certain spot, ‘There is the place I saw in my
dream.’ Going a little further, she said.
‘There is a stump I saw,’ and mentioned
other features. Miss Gibson laughingly told
her she had better go over and look for the
money. She did so, and after digging a little,
sure enough found a five dollar gold piece. A
further treat revealed more missing treasure
uutil, at last accounts, about fifty-seven dol
lars had been found. The rest was probably
scattered by plows in the past fifteen yeai s.”
Spartanburg, in view of the railroad boom
consequent upon the extension of the Virginia
Midland and connections, is styling herself the
“Gate City.”
Summerville folks are impressed with the
* possibilities of the town, and think it is bound
ito grow. . > 4
It appears that every Spartaij/bui'ger has re
solved himself into a committjßj of one for the
reception of visitors to the Cowpens festivities.
Most of the corn crop in Williamsburg coun
ty has been planted.
A negro boy, who lived on Mr. J. C. Lites’
place, in Abbeville county, while going to his
work riding a mule, went into a mire. The
mule was taken from the mire with difficulty,
his head only being visib’e when discovered.
No traces of the boy has yet been found.
The Georgetown Enquirer says that two sea
cows were seen off that harbor on the 2Sth
nit. One was eighty and the other fifty feet
tong.
The cash balanco in the State Treasury on
the 31st March was $51,413 04; on the 3(>th of
April it was $47,413 08.
Since the Ist of January three hundred and
seventeen drummers have registered at the
Darlington House.
Notwithstanding the great progress the
temperance cause has made in Barnwell, the
town now contains five barrooms.
Mr. W, H. Reedish, of Branchville, received
a letter last week from a party in Georgia
which stated that Martin Thomas, the wife
murderer, passed through his town a few days
before on foot, and was making inquiries
about Florida. Thomas haa a double-barrel
shotgun with him, which he offered to sell for
ten dollars, and seemed anxious to dispose
of it.
The Board of Trustees of Due West Female
College met on Monday last. Professor Kenne
dy was directed to act as Chairman of the Fac
ulty, and to take general charge of the college
for the present. Dr. Lindsay will continue his
services in the inslitution, giving special atten
tion to the classes heaid heretofore by Dr.
Bonner.
Columbia has a natural curiosity in a hair
coverei chicken. The neck and body are cov
ered with a thick growth of hair instead of
feathtrs.
The very drum that was beat at the battle of
the Cowpens, and the sword worn by General
Morgan on that occasion will be exhibited
during the Centennial ceremonies on the 11th
Instant.
Anew Presbyterian church is to be buiit in
the town of Darlington. It will have an eighty
foot spire.
Mr. D. F. Ward, who was shot near Carters
ville on the 19th ult., is improving.
Mr. D. F. Williams, who lives near Florence,
was robbed of $350 on the Ist instant by a col
ored boy who had been ia his employ. The
thief escaped with the stolen money.
The ladies of the Monumental Association
have opened a skating rink in Camden.
The acreage in cotton in Kershaw county is
said to be the largest ever kjiown to have been
planted.
Excavations have been commenced in Co
lumbia for the foundations of the new work
shops of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad.
The peach crop in many localities of Lexing
ton county will be a very fair one, and it pro
mises to be most excellent in quality.
Fifty-eight persons left Anderson county re
cently for Texas.
The cotton crop of Barnwell county may be
considered planted by this time, which is fully
ten days later than last season.
The house of Thomas Melton, colored, near
Doves, Darlington county, was destroyed by
fire on the night of the Ist Inst. Contrary to
custom the children were not consumed in the
house.
The Chester Reporter of the sth inst. says:
“The force of hands at work on the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad taking up old
iron and laying down new track with ‘T’ rail
reached this place Tuesday. For want of cross
lies they will have to ‘skip’ for the present the
main and side track at the depot here. About
one-fourth of the road has been relaid.”
A Columbia cotton buyer, who has just re
turned from the western portion of Fairfield
county, says that the prospects for the cotton
corn and wheat crops there are as fine this
year as he ever saw them. Some of the cotton
Is up, and in some places the corn has been run
around once. The farmers have plenty of
hands, and their fields are in fine condition.
The Lancaster Ledger states that it has
learned of a brutal assault committed upon a
j oung white boy in the Waxhaws a few days
ago, upon the place of Mr. Cole Blake, by a ne
gro man. It appears that Mr. Blake and his
brother,fifteen years old,had had some previous
difficulty with the negro, who worked upon B.’s
place, but the difficulty, as supposed, had been
amicably settled. The negro came upon the
boy in the field and whipped him unmercifully,
leaving him for dead. The negro left for dis
tant parts, closely pursued by a body of en
raged citizens.
An Annual Occurrence.
Every year about this time one reads in
the columns of all the leading newspapers
throughout the country a stunning an
nouncement that over half a million of dol
lars will be given away to some persons who
shall send $lO, $5, $2, or $1 to M. A . Dauphin,
No. 212 Broadway, New York City, N. Y.,
or some person at New Orleans, La., for a
whole or fractional part of a ticket in the
Grand Semi Annual Distribution, to be made
on June 14tb, at New Orleans, La., by the
Louisiana State Lottery, under the exclusive
management of Generals G. T. Beauregard,
of Louisiana, and Jubal A. Early, of Vir
ginia. The management pays the Charity
Hospital at New Orleans, La,, over a million
of dollars for the privilege.
myll- W, w&Tellt
OUR JACKSONVILLE LETTER.
Then and Ncw-A Sandy Founda
tion—What He AVas—Wliat Me Is—
What He Is Doing-Capt. Dick
Stuart—The Morse Cars—On She
Goes—Florida at the Front—The
Transit Road Moving Forward-
Good for South Florida—Fight
Breaking Florida Coffees —Try
Cinchona—Silk versus Cotton—Try
the Experiment.
Jacksonville, May 7.—An interesting sketch
of the career of the Rev. (?) W. W. Hides,
while he was a citizen of Georgia, is furnished
in a recent letter of the Washington corres
pondent of the Atlanta Constitution. The
writer speaks in glowing terms of the furore
created by Mr. Hicks when he occupied the
pulpits of the leading Methodist churches in Ma
con and Augusta,and of the effect produced by
his sermons. He was for a while an acknowl
edged power in that denomination, and many
of its goed old sisters and brethren still speak
of him with regret as of a fallen angel. The
most of them are honored and welcomed
guests beneath thousands of roofs whose
doors are now dosed against him forever.
His lecture upon the life and character of
General Lee had won him free entrance to the
hearts and hospitality of Southern people, and
given him ere at popularity. By the way, many
of the most fervid and pathetic passages of
that production, are said to have been taken,
verbatim et literatim, from a lecture de
livered by him to Northern audiences upon
President Lincoln. I first saw him some ten
years ago in the old capitol at Milledgeville,
upon the occasion of a convention called to
nominate a candidate for Congress from that
district. He was then editing a political paper
in Macon, and seemed to be on the best possi
ble terms with the Democratic delegates as
sembled in council. From Macon he went to
Augusta, which city he took by storm. Thence
to this State, where he threw himself into the
Republican ranks, and became as ultra a Radi
cal as he had been an extreme fire-eater, when
in charge of the Nineteenth Century, in
Charleston.
Among his po'itical associates here, ha bears
very much the position occupied by Friar
Tuck among the bold rangers of Robin Hood’s
band in Sherwood Forest, an excellent jester
and a jolly, boon companion. He has pretty
effectually lost all pretension to clerical digni
ty. and very few of his comrades, I take it,
would apply to him, even if in extremis, for
spiritual aid or consolation. To them he is
simply “Billy Hicks,” and quite on a par in
every respect with themselves.
For many long wears he has been dancing
attendance upon “the powers that be” in
Washington, among the herd of office seekers
there congregated, willing to take a loaf or a
crumb, as the case may be, in the shape of a
fat consulship or a oast off pair of the Presi
dent’s breeches. Mr, Hicks, to use a slang but
expressive phrase, “played out” in South
Carolina, was spewed out of Georgia, and is
about rubbed out in Florida. He has been
unable to deceive anybody by his well-rounded
periods, and smooth easy verbiage.
Capt. Richard H. Stuart, who recently died
in Orange county, was Second Lieutenant of
the Confederate privateer Jeff Davis, which
ran the blockade out of Charleston, during the
night of June 23th, 1861, and which, under
command of Capt. Louis M. Coxetter, render
ed very efficient service. Capt. Stuart was a
bald, fearless and efficient officer, and possess
ed many excellent and sterling traits of char
acter. Peace to the memory of an old com
rade.
Judge Baker having dissolved the injunction
granted against the street railroad, work has
been resumed and the rails are being rapidly
laid upon the stringers. As the cars intended
to be used have been here for several weeks,
we may expect soon this improvement in ope
ration. Different opinions are expressed as to
the probable remuneration of the stockholders.
All admit the convenience to the community,
while many think the present population too
small to ronder the enterprise profitable.
Thus we progress and Jacksonville, with her
gas and water works, sewerage system and
street railways is far in advance of many a
city her senior in years, and her superior in
population. Already the terminus of three dif
ferent railroads, she will, by next Christmas,
have another avenue to growth opened in the
shape of the road projected between this city
and St. Augustine, which scheme is fast assum
ing definite shape and substance. Such great
arteries must bring in trade, the life-blood of
commerce, and the happiest results must ne
cessarily follow. Our real estate dealers re
port a good demand for property at stiff
prices, and speak hopefully of the future If
our present rate of growth continues, it will
become necessary for one or more of our crack
hotels to remain open during the summer to
supply the wants of 3‘ rangers.
Point me to any State doing more in the
way of internal improvements than Florida!
Imprimis, two new railroads have been com
pleted since the first of January—the Way
cross and the Fernandina and Jacksonville. In
another month, the Peninsula Road will be
finished to Ocala, opening up that rich and
splendid country. During the summer the
lliievPlHlfcvims of
PalafKa linked together by
iron ligaments. Tampa has got the
contagion in a virulent form, and vows that
she be far behind her sisters, while
Pensacola is rolling up her sleeves in readiness
to break the earth on the line intended to biing
her in a day's run from Jacksonville. Fernan
dina’s supply of oysters is deficient, so she is
meditating a road to Brunswick, Ga., where
these luscious bivalves abound. Last, but not
least, are those big projects, the drainage of
Lake Okeechobee, and the canal connecting
the St. John’3 and Indian rivers.
In addition to those mentioned, there are
several other schemes now in incubation
that bid fair to develop into works of value
and utility. There is a big boom in Florida,
and ail portions of the State are keeping step
to the march of progress. When the next
National census is taken in 1890, there will be
some astonishment over the statistics coming
from this direction.
I was more than pleased to learn a day or
two since from Mr. AValter G. Coleman, the
active and efficient Traveling Agent of the
Transit Railroad, that the Peninsular branch
would reach Ocala about the middle of next
week. Petter still was the information obtain
ed from the same source, that a corps of en
gineers was now vigorously locating the line
south of that town en route to Charlotte
Harbor. This is spendid intelligence
for the people of the entire State, and
especially for those in the section to be reach
ed. They have been praying and hoping for
this outlet for many, many weary years, and I
congratulate them with my whole heart upon
this p rob able early realization of their yearn
ing anticipations. Marlon, Hernando, Hills
borough, Polk, Sumter and Manatee counties
are now young Titans whose limbs are bound,
and whose muscular powors are enfeebled by
disuse. Strike off their gyves, open their mag
nificent lands to the tramp of the expectant
immigrant, let the peering glance of capital
fall upon their noble advantages, and you
would witness a rush of mind, muscle and
money from every direction.
Heartily rejoiced am I to hear of the bright
prospects opening to the people on the Gulf
coast. Transportation will effect transforma
tions as great and wondrous as those produced
by the wand of a magician, and that goodly
land will grow and flourish without let or hin
d’-auce. Put the machinery onco fairly in mo
tion and it v ill continue to run without jar or
stoppage.
I send you in this letter a few grains of cof
fee grown in Florida. The berries inclosed
were raised at Manatee by Madame Joe Atz
roth, who is fairly entitled to the distinction
of having produced the first and only coffee
ever matured in the United States outside of a
hot house.
You will observe that the grains are still
contained in the outer husk or covering. Ma
dame Joe is still adding to the number of her
bearing plants. They were not in the slightest
degree injured by the extreme cold of last
winter.
Who will dare to say that the time will never
come when, in addition to the qualities of
Mocha, Java, Rio, Laguayra, and other varie
ties of coffee now known to commerce, the
fragrant berries from Florida will not be con
spicuous?
Tea, of a superior flavor, is now grown in
several portions of the State.
There is one plant, most valuable for medici
nalproperties, which has not yet been tested
in Florida, although since its introduction into
some parts of Asia, it has succeeded most ad
mirably. Why is it that some of our enter
prising men have not tried the cinchona, from
whose bark is extracted that almost indispen
s ble chemical, quinine? Commissioner Le
Due would doubtless be only too g’ad to pro
cure plants for those who desired to make an
experiment, from which such glorious results
might follow.
The recent articles in the Morning News
upon silk culture have attracted some interest,
and should arouse some attention to the
subject. The morns multicaulis, upon which
the worm feeds, grows here most luxuriously,
and is propagated without the slightest dim
eultv. Indeed it is only necessary to thrust a
switch into the ground, to have speedily' a
fine, spreading shade tree. The business of
feeding the worms is light and simple, and
does not require traiiied labor. This duty can
be confided to women and children, to whom
it will offer easy and profitable employment.
I honestly believe that it will pay much better
then in Florida to raise silk than to invest all
you have in cotton, and then have it consumed
every two or three years by the greedy and
destructive caterpillars.
Then too you can raise several crops of silk
worms during the season, and convert your
thread into rich, glossy tissues to adorn the
leaders of fashion. On the other hand the
several, successive broods of the eit ton cater
pillar raise themselves, and turn your broad
fields into leafless and desolate wastes. As be
tween silk and cotton, I’d choose the former
alwaj s
Another advantage is that the work can be ac
complished by white labor, without being
forced to depend upon the extremely unrelia
ble and unsatisfactory help of the negroes. In
this light the silk worm beats the cotton cater
pillar all hollow, tils factories in this country
are continually increasing, and of course a
growing demand for the raw material is also
arising.
It is a fact that a half a pound of the eggs of
the silk worm are worth more than a bale of
cotton, and that car loads of the tiny dots
are once in a while shipped from Japan to Eu
rope via San Francisco and New York. Won’t
somebody give silk a fair trial down this way
and report results?
A bout twenty South Carolina editors reached
the city last night, but struck a bee-line up the
liver this morning. Sorry these gentlemen
didn't get here a month earlier, when things
wore a busier appearance.
The Episcopal Council closed its session
yesterday after a very harmonious and satis
factory meeting. W. H. B.
SOUTH CAROLINA STATE PRESS.
The Quill Drivers ot South Carolina
Fall into the Hands of the Good
People ol Beaufort, and are Gener
ously and Hospitably Entertained
Flattering Statistics and Very
Facetious Speeches —A Round of
Gayety and Banqueting—Visits to
the United States Slitp New Hamp
shire and to the Coosaw Mining
Company.
Beaufort, S. C., May 7. —According to the
programme agreed upon, the South Carolina
State Press Association arrived in Beaufort on
Wednesday afternoon by rail. About twenty
seven were in the party, including some ladies.
Almost every county in the State was repre
sented. The road leading to the town from
tbs depot was decorated with a handsome arch
of evergreens with the word "welcome” in
huge letters, surmounted by a mammoth pen,
and thß legend “The pen is mightier than the
sword.” The streets of Beaufort were orna
mented with a liberal display of bunting and
the shipping was under full colors.
On the arrival of the press gang they were
driven throughout the town, and thence to
the Sea Island Hotel. After refreshing them
selves and enjoying a dinner, consisting of fish,
flesh and fowl, washed down with something
to keep off malaria, the association proceeded
to the Arsenal Hall to transact the ordinary
business of the meeting, President Crews, of
the Laurensviile Herald, called the meeting to
order, and the association remained in session
several hours. The following gentlemen were
elected honorary members, invited to seats on
the floor, and requested to accompany the
association upon their excursion to Florida:
Rev. John Kershaw, Capt. Jouett, U. S. N.;
Col. Wm. Elliott, Dr. H. M. Stuart, W. J. Ver
dier, Esq , and Messrs. W. H. Lockwood, John
Conant, Geo. Waterhouse, S. H. Rodgers. J. H.
Clancey and W. H. Calvert.
At nine o’clock p. m. the association pro
ceeded to the Sea Island Hotel to partake of a
banquet which had been prepared by the citi
zens for their entertainment. Here nothing
seemed wanting that could add to the enjoy
ment of the guests. The splendid dining room
of the hotel, which measures about sixty feet
deep by about forty broad, was elaborately de
corated with evergreens and natural flowers.
The columns were adorned with the palmetto,
the pine, the cedar, and wreathed with moss
and trailing vines, while here and there
throughout the room hung huge baskets of the
most beautiful and choicest exotics. This was
pleasant to the sight, you may be sure, but the
inner man could not help rejoicing at the
groaning tables whereon were spread every
luxury the bountiful hospitality of the good
people of Beaufort could obtain, and chief
among the dishes were to be seen a whole
drumfish of enormous proportions, emblematic
of the products of our waters, and a whole
barbecued lamb, which may have been taken
as emblematic of peace and plenty. At every
plate was placed bouquets of exquisite pansies.
The festivities were opened by an earnest
grace offered by Rev. Sidi H. Brown, of the
Christian Neighbor. Soon, very soon, the pop
ping of corks w T as heard, which appeared to
be the signal for a flow of soul and a feast of
reason. Colonel Wm. Elliott delivered an elo
quent address of v'elcome, calling the attention
of the visitors to the historic spot which some
of them now saw for the first time, and dwell
ing with particular emphasis upon the mari
time importance of Port Royal and Beaufort.
Among other matters, he stated that during
the year Savannah and Charleston had had
255 foreign vessels, while since the first of last
July Beaufort had 107 foreign vessels;
that during the past fiscal year the duties on
foreign imports had been—Charleston, $63,000;
Savannah, $51,000; w'hile since last July Beau
fort showed $40,000 receipts from this source,
and that there was now afloat coming to this
port merchandise that would pay duties
amounting to SIOO,OOO. He said he did not
make the comparison for the purpose of inju
ring Savannah or Charleston, but simply to
impress upon the visitors the importance of
the place, and facetiously added that when
Port Royal and Beaufort became a great mart
of business, “the suburban villages of Savan
nah and Charleston would be used as summer
resorts.”
It would be impossible to dwell upon all the
remarks made, but suffice it to say that senti
ments were responded to by Messrs. Crews,
Benet, Livingston Wardiaw, Farrow and
Clarke on the part of the visitors, and
President Wilson, of the P. R. A.
R. R ; Ensign Whitfield, of the U.
S. N.; Colonel T. J. White, Rev. Messrs. Ker
shaw and Browne, and Messrs. Stuart, Water
house, McFall, Lockwood and others on behalf
of the hosts I may be pardoned, however,
for giving one or two expressions I heard. One
gentleman said he was surprised to find Beau
fort a town of three thousand people; for he
always thought it an insignificant place, some
thing iike a “silver quarter with a hole in it;”
another said his visit induced him to pronounce
it the “Venice of the South,” and stiil another
declared its outlook to promise the future
“Liverpool of America.”
On being called upon to answer to the toast
of “Woman,” Col. Thos. G. White closed his
remarks by paying a glowing tribute to the
memory of his friend, the late Gen. M. W.
Gary, and read some beautiful verses bearing
upon the same. The memory of the old hero
was drank standing and in silent. At the
conclusion of this solemn proceeding, the fes-
I;UMK- abandon'ci.
Before retiring for the night the association
adopted the following resolutions:
Resolved, By the Press Association of South
Carolina, that it is of vital interest to the ad
vancement of the State of South Carolina, of
the South, and of the United States Govern
ment, that the Naval Station should be main
tained at Port Royal.
Resolved. That a copy of these resolutions be
forwarded forthwith to the President of the
United States, and to the Secretary of the
Navy.
On Thursday morning the guests were enter
tained with an excursion down the harbor
upon the steamer Pilot Boy, and delightfully
provided with all that was necessary to stave
off the effects of the “rolling billows,” and, ac
companied by the Beaufort Cornet Band,
which had enlivened the banquet of the pre
vious evening, many citizens embarked with
the excursionists. Proceeding down the har
bor, the first step was made at Port Royal,
where the visitors were met by the representa
tives of that thriving town and escorted around
to view the many improvements that have
bec-n recently made. The guests w r ere much
attracted by the enormous cotton press and
tlie elevator, as well as by the No 1 facilities
exhibited for handling freights with dispatch.
Leaving Port Royal, the steamer went down
to Bay Point, where a full view of grand old
ocean could be had. Every place of interest
was pointed out and commented upon. The
steamer then landed the party aboard the
United States ship New Hampshire, where
they met witli a reception such as appears only
to lie known to Uncle Sam’s gallant mariners.
It was supposed a slight collation would be
proffered and indulged in, but hardly any one
was prepared for the elegant spread which
Capt. Jowett and his brother Officers invited the
press to partake of, and I assure you ample
justice was done by the visitors to thesumptu
cus repast unfulled to their view. Every part
of the ship was inspected and questions in
numerable asked by the brothers of the quili
from the mountains, and every request was
politely' complied with by officers and men of
the ship. Refreshments were proffered below
by the non-commissioned officers.
The New Hampshire is one of the old eighty
gun ships, and is abrut sixty feet from her
deck to her keel. When fully equipped her
complement of men is about eleven hundred.
She has been stationed in this harbor for
several years, and is now ordered North. Pre
parations are being made for her removal,
which is expected to take place very shortly,
although efforts are being made by the citizens
here to have her retained. Colonel Elliott and
Mr. D. V. Wilson left here on Thursday morn
ing for Washington to interview the authori
ties in behalf of the people here, who have
petitioned the President and Secretary of the
Navy to have the New Hampshire remain or
have another vessel sent here to take her
place.
But back to the Press gang. After leaving
the hospitable board of the "New
the steamer proceeded to the works of ihe’
Coosaw Mining Company, where they remain
ed for upward of an hour viewing the prepara
tion and shipment of phosphate rock. This is
indeed an immense industry. Everything labor
saving is used in the raising, washing and hand
ling of the reck. The company have a char
ter, granted them during the Radical regime,
giving them the exclusive right to all the
rock in the navigable stream called Coosaw
river, for which the company pays to the State
a royalty of $1 per ton. With the rock selling
at $9 per ton, alter deducting the $1 royalty
and the $2 12 cost of raising, washing and ma
nipulating, it will be seen what a gold mine
this company has in its exclusive rights. Aud
they manage to elude the payment of taxes,
too, under tfie head of “encouraging manufac
tures.” There must be at least 100,COO tons
of rock shipped annually by this one
company. The visitors seemed surprised at
the magnitude of the business, and its huge
proportions and its profits may be faintly real
ized when one i 3 told that the shares of SIOO
arc now worth $1,200 each, and that the whole
business is owned by not a dozen persons, the
majority of whom live and have their being ia
England. The field which they engross—the
Coosaw river—is capable of supplying ten such
companies with rock, and of affording to thou
sands of industrious men, a means of livelihood
if the territory was thrown open to the public,
as the people claim all public domain should
be. The works, dredges, washers, lighters and
tug boats of tlie Coosaw Company are worth
between $500,000 and SI,OCO,OuO, counting the
stock of rock constantly on hand in course of
preparation and ready for shipment. The
mine is inexhaustible.
Returning to Beaufort, the Press Association
met and listened to a well digested oration, de
livered by Mr. Hugh Wilson, of the Abbeville
Press and Banner. The address was replete
with good and wholesome instruction, and was
heard with marked attention, and ordered
spread upon the minutes of the association.
The old officers were all re-elected for another
year.
This did not close the festivities for after
the meeting, members were taken in charge
and entertained at the private residences of the
citizens. It was your reporter’s good fortune
to meet with a number of the visitors beneath
the hospital}’e roof of Mr. W. J. Verdier, one
of the prominent lawyers here, who in the
generosity of his soul, for which he is well
known, threw open the doors of his delightful
residence to the enjoyment of his friends of
the newspaper fraternity. Here we met our
old friend. Gen. R. R. Hemphill, so well known
in Georgia as the fearless editor of the Abbe
ville Medium, and Major M. B. McSweeney, our
near neighbor of the Hampton Guardian, who
is decidedly a live newspaper man.
This closed the day, and the “wosma’ hours”
found many still up breathing in the delightful
sea breeze and telling over their various pleas
ures as a devotee tells over his beads.
Many charming compliments were paid to
the enterprise of the Morning News and its
Carolina proprietor, and it was the general ex
pression that the Savannah Morning News
THE SAVANNAH WEEKLY NEWS, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1381.
was keeping: a business ej e upon Carolina, and
that from day to day in its columns could be
found more items of general interest to the
people of South Carolina than were published
by any other daily paper.
On Friday morning the visitors took the train
for Florida, after expressing the warmest feel
ing for the manner in which they had been re
ceived and entertained by the citizens of Beau
fort, and X may add here, that this little town
deserves all the good words these brothers may
say when they return to their sanctum sancto
rums, for the inhabitants were profuse in their
provision and attention. Several invited guests
accompanied the part}- to Florida. S. H. E.
THREE MONTHS IN FLORIDA.
Interesting: Notes of the Tour—Visits
to Jacksonville, Palatka, Lake
City and Numerous Other Locali
ties—Orange Groves and Other Cu
riosities.
Editor Morning Kelt's: In a former commu
nication, I spoke of my pleasart sojourn in
Tallahassee for a few weeks last winter. Leav
ing that city on the 13th of February for Jack
sonville, I had an interesting trip by rail, mak
ing short stops at Madison, Hllaville, Live Oak
and Lake City. At the first named place there
was some considerable excitement among the
people, caused by the recent murder of Mr.
Patterson by a negro man, the particulars of
which have already been placed before your
readers. Detachments of two or
three military companies were stationed
here, by order of Governor Bioxham, to pre
vent the mob from doing violence, and to se
cure the murderer so as to let the law be duly
executed. Thus was order preserved and the
majesty of the law sustained by the prudence
and vigilance of the new administration of
Florida. At Ellaville, the home of ex Gov.
Drew, I saw one of the most complete and ex
tensive lumber mills I have seen in my travels.
Live Oak is on a dead level, and although large
enough in area, it is rather too scattering in
buildings. However, being in its infancy, it
will doubtless fill up and become more com
pact in the future. I saw the Bulletin
office, but not its editor. He was at
the capital, being one of the clerks of the
Senate. McAlpine is a jovial, pleasant fellow.
I found Lake City to be a charming little
town. It is situated on a sandy plane, nicely
shaded by pine, oak and other trees, most of
them being draped in long moss, and present
ing a picturesque appearance. The lakes in and
near the town are small, but beautiful indeed.
From them is derived the name, Lake City.
Here, for the first time, I saw the long staple
cotton gin. Many people are not aware that a
gin made for ginning the long will not suit for
the short staple cotton; yet they are very dif
ferent in cast and construction, the latter being
more costly and complicated than the former.
Here, too, I saw the first peach bloom of the
season, and the mosquitoes were quite lively for
the middle of February.lndeed.so warm was the
weather, I slept comfortably without any bed
cover. After a two days stay here, I passed on
to Baldwin, where had recently occurred the
battle between the gamblers and the Geor
gians, and of which your readocs-are'nlready
informed. Twenty miles more and we fetch
up at Jacksonville, on the St. John’s, named
for “Old Hickory,” the first American Gov
ernor of Florida. Jacksonville is quite a mod
ern town, rapidly assuming the proportions of
a city. It has a population cf about 12,000 in
habitants, a half dozen large hotels and many
boarding houses, some fine business houses,
churches, schools, and many pleasant private
residences, as well as some pretty streets.
The streets are broad, laid offlgt right angles,
well shaded, but sandy. I surprised
to find the St. John’s I had
thought it narrow and deejffnit found it near
ly or quite as broad as tlia Mississippi below
Memphis. In fact, it is rather an arm of the
sea, than a great river, and is navigable for
large steamers. Jacksonville re
sort for many Northern people and invalids
generally-, who wish to avoid the rigor of a
more frigid climate. Hence it is a place of
many excursions. Beau'iful steamers ply
between all points on the St. John’s and along
the coast, furnishing ample accommodations
for excursionists. My liret excursion was
to the mouth of the St. John’s. Here
I saw- the locality where was made the first
settlement by Europeans in America, by the
French in 1512. Itw-asof short duration. Just
opposite stands the lighthouse, a friendly bea
con to the benighted mariner. T,o me it was
something to have the pleasure/of seeing a
spot of such historic interest, it had some
thing of antiquity, for morefcon three am a
half centuries had elapseg since the white
man had planted here iitcd
the shore of the new world. - W
My next excursion was to Mandarin, the
winter home of Harriet Beecher St >wo, fifteen
miles above Jacksonville. I did not spe this
famous lady, she being sick abed. I did s:e,
however, the cottage, the orange grove, her
daughter and her husband, an ol T gentlenjan
in his eighty-fourth year. The cotiage is small
—not half so costly- as others near«t-but sjtill
it is a cozv home, shaded by two oiwree hfige
live oaks hung with long moss,
with orange trees, creepers
plants. Its notoriety is attributablMpffilr to
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” than to an.^SF
attaches to the place.
My next excursion was to PalatkHgl**/; ntv
flve miles above Jacksonville, and
from the mouth of the St. John’s: q^^^Bn.ll
but growing town, and
it hash nice site on'BMßh
the river, has three or four
number of bearding houses, some Sglfe or
four churches, a number of business
and a few beautiful private residences. Bwat
ka will perhaps be a candidate for |the
of the State, tut will not likely be electdL ,
While here I visited San Mateo, sixVfces
above, to see some beautiful of
that vicinity, ani the orange nac'Jßßßjiousns
located there. There are some git, Jr quite
large here, but the prettiest one 1 sMThelongs
to an Englishman by the cams”' Fuller.
Captain Vcgel, of the steamer St. John’s
allowed his passengers time to go out and
walk through this, cailad Edge water grove,
and it tvas no little pleasure to do so. The
trees were loaded with the goi’den fruit.
Having token nir Board many a o f the,
luscious fruit, our noble steamer pßSeeded to*
Jacksonville, stopping at Tocoi andß-een Cove
Spring. This latter place is a lojHly resort,
having a number o" fine hotels, chß:hes, and
an excellent spring of water Buui JR not stop
long enough to go into parti ularsr Arriving
at Jacksonville just after dark, I took a walk
down Hay street, the Broadway of this young
and g>owing city. What crowds of people
promenade up and down this street
eveiy evening! Ladies
boys and girls, old and youWßblack
and white, ail moving aiorg fast or slowly,
some looking in at the show- windows at the
endless variety of palm work and shells, walk
ing canes and other mementoes of the “Land
of Flowers.” Os course, almost ev -ty one
wants a souvenir to take home with li n. hut,
he usually pry a a round price /or if" The post
office at Jacksonville does a lively business in
the winter season, during the sojourn of so
many visitors. So great is the rush, that at the
general delivery it will be atatoHt three hours
after the arrival of the mail DHuptu can re
ceive a letter. Y T ou have to our turn,
miller's fashion, and it tries of the
most pious. But enough for this rime. I will
notice my trip to St. Augustine in my next, and
my depart ure from the Peninsula State—fare
well to Florida. J. V. D.
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The English Postal Telegraph
System. —According to t he report ol' the
English postal telegraph system of 1880,
tire number of postal telegraph offices
in the United Kingdom has been in
creased to 5,381, and the number of
messages transmitted to 26,547,137. Re
ferring to these figures, a letter in a To
ronto paper draws attention to the fact
that in the Dominion of Canada the tele
graph service, in proportion to the popu
lation, furnishes three times as many
offices as are provided in Great Britain.
As regards the messages transmitted,
they are proportionately to popu
lation double those sent by
the English system, while in the
mileage of lines and wires the compari
son is still greatly in favor of Canada.
The rates for transmission of messages
in the Dominion are much less, being
only 20 cents, as against 25 cents in Eng
land, while the distances are far greater.
It is claimed for Canada that its tele
graph system is superior to that of any
other country in the world in extent of
lines, facilities afforded, rates, and num
ber of messages transmitted in propor
tion to the population. The Montreal
Company, of which Sir Hugh Allan is
President, and which is the largest com
pany in the Dominion, has rarely paid
less than 10 per cent, per annum, and
never less than 8 per cent.
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Light colored Republicans have an ex
cellent lesson of self-abnegation offered
them by ex-Senator Bruce, of Missis
sippi. He declined the lucrative mission
in Brazil, which was tendered him by
the President, because he was unwilling
io leave his wife at home, and loves her
too fondly to take her with him on ac
count of the yellow fever and unhealth
fulness of that far away country. No
such case is of record as to white Re
publicans.
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From Paris to Vienna on a Bicycle.
“I carried with me, among my scanty bsg
gage, a small supply of Coca, an Indian
tonic, by which 1 was able to assuage the
sudden and painful hunger which some
times accompanied continued exertion.
When fatigue and sleep began to tell upon
me, the marvelous Coca again supported
me and gave me strength.
“M. Laumatlle,”
Who rode a bicycle from Pari3 to Vienna, a
distance of 760 miles, in a little more than
twelve days.
The unequalled tonic and reinvigorating
powers of the Coca are embodied in the
Liebig Co.’s celebrated Coca Beef Tonic,
which is recognized as the standard tonic
by the medical profession of every civilized
country. Beware of cheap, worthless imita
tions, under ours and similar names. Cures
dyspepsia, malaria, debility, and all who are
run dow-n.
For sale by O. Butler, Savannah, Ga.
STAR ROUTE SWINDLES.
Lame and Impotent Defense of the
Rlnssters—Facts Cited by Senator
Beck in the Last Congress.
Washington Cor. St. Louis Republican.
Though nearly all the important facts
recently published relating to the star
route swindles were brought out during
the Congressional investigation at the
second session of the last Congress, this
does not in any wise detract from their
force and significance. It is a lame and
impotent excuse for Brady and his ring
sters to pooh pooh recent publications,
simply because the subject-matter came
before Congress over a year ago, and
failed at that time to excite wide
spread public attention. The truth is,
Mr. Brady and his favorite contractors
would be glad if much of what was said
and developed during the contest in Con
gress could be suppressed. In the light
of recent events it is interesting to
examine some of the speeches which
were then made. Take, for instance,the
vigorous, sledgehammer speech of
Senator Beck, who over a year ago made
a recital of facts which ought to have
startled the country and to have driven
Brady and his official corruptionists
from power
Mr. Beck showed in detail how the
Postmaster General and his Second As
sistant, Brady, had so used the appro
priations made for the star service as
necessarily to create a deficiency, which
they claimed would amount to $1,720,-
004. They had made contracts extend
ing over the whole year, and for years
yet to come, to that extent in excess of
all appropriations. The question, there
fore, had to be met, whether the Post
master General and his officials have a
right to violate the law, to exceed ap
propriations made by Congress, to make
contracts in violation of the pro
visions of the statutes, or whether
Congress has power over these things
and a right to rebuke offending officials.
If the Post Office Department officials,
said Mr. Beck, have a right to expend in
one month, two months, six months or
nine months what they estimate as
necessary for the existing and probable
service for a whole year, and then by an
edict, such as was issued on the 20tli
February, cut down all the star mail
service of the United States from daily
to weekly trips on and after the Ist of
March, unless they can coerce Congress
to give them whatever additional money
they see fit to demand, there is no use
for Congress in matters of appropria
tion.
In his long defense of himself, com
municated to last Saturday’s New York
Tribune, Brady endeavors to explain the
why and wherefore of the extravagant
expenditure of money on the route from
FoTt Worth to Fort Yuma, the distance
being, according to Mr. Brady, 1,569
miles.
Plear what Senator Beck said in regard
to that route:
“It was advertised as being 1,569 miles
in length from Fort Worth to Fort
Yuma. It was let for four years at
$134,000 a year. The schedule time was
17 days, and the number of post offices
along the route when let was 35. The
route is now called 1,426 miles, and my
information is that the advertised length
was not the proper length. It never was
any longer than 1,426 miles, if that long.
1 applied to the Post Office Department
for information on the subject, but
was unable to obtain it. I took the next
best means —to find out from the old
contractors, and in the guide books 1
find this condition of things: I have the
advertisement of the length of the lines
of the various contractors and the dis
tances as follows; From Fort Worth to
Fort Concho 239 miles, from Fort Con
cho to Missoula 526 miles, from Missoula
to A*Lima 645 miles; total 1,410 miles.
“That is what these men advertised as
the length of that line. It was adver
tised by the department as 1,569, and is
now put down at 1,426 in the post office
official tables, while the advertisement of
shows it to be 1,410 miles.
It was route which Jiad b«en let
in former years; its length was known.
It was let at a higher scJie/ule for the
term ending the 30th of .lure, 1878, than
it was for the term beginning the Ist of
July, 1878. When it was let for the last
four years the extended time doubtless
induced persons to bid a lower
rate, and therefore it was let
at $184,000 a year from
July, 1878, to July, 1882; less, consider
ably less, than it had been let for before.
In exactly forty-fire days, I think on
the loth of Augusi, after the second let
'ting in 1878, without adding an addi
tional trip, $1G5,000 was given to the
contractor for expediting trie time from
seventeen days to thirteen days. No
more post offices had been established,
it will be observed, with a single excep
tion. There are thirty-six now, and
there were thirty-five in 1878. One hun
dred and sixty-five thousand dollars
were added to the $134,000 con
tracted for without a single ad
ditional mail being carried and going
only about a mite faster per
hour. Os course a few such donations
.or favors as that will soon create defi
ciencies in the star routes of the country.
There was no proposition to give to the
people along the line any more mails
than they were getting at the $134,000,
which the contractors had covenanted
o furnish for four years for $134,000 a
year; and yet the Postmaster General
gives them $165,000 more merely to ex
pedite the time without competitive bids
and without giving anybody a chance to
perform the service for less money.” In
the face of these facts, what flimsy stuff
is Brady’s attempted explanation as pub
lished in the Tribune.
The following facts cited by Senator
Beck are interesting and instructive: On
the three routes, Fort Worth to Fort
Yuna, Yinita to Las Yegas, and Proscott
to Santa Fe, the increase is $430,000,
while the increase on 10,300 routes in
this country, in all the States of the
Union, is only $300,000. A carefully
prepared table shows that in the States
of Virginia, West Virginia, North Caro
lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas
(which, by the way, has the lion’s share,
638), Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee and
Kentucky, there are 96,813 miles of star
route, and that all the pay that is
given is $1,900,000, while in the far
Western States, Nevada, California, Col
orado, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Montana,
Dakota, Wyoming, the Indian Territory,
New Mexico and Arizona, where there
are 3§,000 miles of star route, the pay is
$2,494,000. Thirty eight thousand miles
in these States and Territories receive
half a million more money than 96,-
800 miles of the star service in the
twelve States named. In these twelve
States the average service per week is
2 82 trips, less than two and one half
trips a week. In Kentucky it is 2.05,
not in any one of them, except Texas,
does it exceed 3, and in Texas it is
3.18. The average in ail is
2.32. But the average per week in the
Territories is 3.61. There is more than
half as much again to-day in the Terri
tories as there is in the States. In ten
of the States supplied with the star
service there is a population of nearly
fourteen millions, with 70,000 miles of
railroad, and they get a little over a mil
lion dollars, while those far Western
States and Territories, with less than
one-tenth of the population, are getting
two and a half million dollars. The
vicious method adopted by the depart
ment is stated in a nutshell by Senator
Beck.
“There is not an instance where the
Post Office Department has ever doubled
the trips without doubling the pay or
trebling it if the service was trebled, and
when the authorities made it from weekly
to daily, they uniformly made it seven
times as great, when the statute only
provides that that is the maximum which
they shall never exceed.
“What is their plan? Just as they did
in the case of Fort Worth and Fort
Yuma, when they came to let out to
their favorites; they decrease their
speed; they cut off the number of trips.
Some man that they want to have the
route get 3 it, and takes it for little or
nothing. Then in less than a month,
sometimes in less than a week—always
very soon—more trips are added and the
pay is doubled—expedition is ordered,
and then what happens? No testimony
is taken; none is required except
that of the man who has the contract,
and who gets it for little or nothing, in
order that he might have increased trips
and increased speed, and there is where
the profit lies. * * * There never was a
case in which 100 per cent, is not allow
ed, though there are abundant instances
where a 25 per cent, increase would have
been ample, and the post officials knew
it well. There is not a case in all the
thousands where the pay is less than dou
bled, and there is where the profit to the
contractor is. ”
BURIED IN THE WRONG GRAVE.
Tire Eventful Career of a Lady wlio
Was Once a Jersey Belle.
Philadelphia Record.
A couple of weeks since there died in
poverty and obscurity in this city a
woman who was once well known in the
leading society of West Jersey. Jersey
men whose memories carry them back to
1850 will probably recollect Mrs. Lippin
cott, wife of Wallace Lippincott, once
member of the Legislature and one of
the wealthiest farmers in that section of
the country, and will call to mind the
sensation created in society circles in
1853 by the fact that the couple who, up
to that time, so far as the public knew,
were as happy as cooing doves, had de
cided to separate. Shortly afterward
Mrs. Lippincott applied for a divorce,
but, after a long trial, a verdict was ren
dered against her. Then her husband
brought a similar suit and gained it, but
the verdict was quashed and the case
never again came into court. During
the progress of the suits Mrs. Lippincott
made several unsuccessful applications
for alimony. In 1870 her husband died,
leaving the bulk of his property to his
relatives. Out of an estate which realized
over SIOO,OOO his widow received but a
small annuity and a few houses in this
city. During the last few years she
made many applications to the courts for
an increased allowance from the estate,
but the decisions were invariably against
her, the last being delivered by Judge
Penrose only two weeks ago. Mean
while all her real estate had gone under
the Sheriff’s hammer for taxes, interest
on mortgages and other accounts, and
the decision of the court was too much
for the old lady, who was in her eighty
third year, to stand. When she learn
ed that her last hope was gone, she
went to the residence of some friends
on Race street and begged them to give
her a shelter. “My mother died in the
room above,” she said, “and I’ve come
home to die, too.” Her words were pro
phetic, for a few days later she was
seized With an illness which broke
the bands of life asunder in a few hours.
Even in death misfortune seemed to
follow her remains. During her last mo
ments she expressed a wish to be buried
with her mother, in Machpelah Ceme
tery, addiDg that the name of McWil
liams was upon the tombstone. Such a
grave was found, and the body accord
ingly interred. The next day, however,
it was developed that the family grave
was in Union Cemetery, and hence it be
came necessary to disinter the coffin and
consign it to its proper location.
Southern Iren and Steel.
New York Tribune.
One of the largest mannfacturers of
iron and Bessemer steel in Pennsylvania
is about to transfer his works to Ala
bama. He finds there the ore, the fuel
and cheap labor, all at hand, and asserts
that he expects to make the manufacture
pay higher profits than in the North,
even after taking mto account the cost
of removal and the larger rates of trans
portation in the South.
The bulletin published by the Census
Department last week shows the great
development of the iron and steel inter
ests in the upper Southern States in
1880. West Virginia increased its pro
duction from 72,337 tons to 147,487 tons.
This State has stored away in her moun
tains more iron and coal than Pennsyl
vania, and lacks only capital to work
them and railways to open a wav to the
market to make her as rich as her North
ern neighbor. Alabama, owing to the
fact that she has already outlets by rail
way, increased her production m the enor
mous ratio of 792 per cent ; Georgia,
265 per cent.; Tennessee, 125 per cent.;
Kentucky, 43 per cent. A singular fact
in this report is that only three States
have not increased their yield of iron
during the last ten years, one of which is
North Carolina, notwithstanding its enor
mous iron deposit and the low price of
labor. The simple reason of this is that
the Unaka and Nantahela mountain
ranges in which the iron lies are as yet
unopened by railways. Much of the
iron-bearing territory is, however,
already owned by Northern capitalists,
and will some day be worked, though
now it is covered by the primitive forest
and given up to the possession of bears,
wolves and moonshiners.
It is not only railways that are needed
in the South to develop her mineral re
sources, but practical sense in the man
agement of those already built. The
charges for freight and transportation,
being usually treble those of Northern
roads, are calculated to deter all kinds of
producers who must send their goods to
distant markets. It is pretty short
sighted policy to choke off the goose be
fore it lays any golden eggs at all, as our
Southern neighbors probably will see
some day.
Prevention of Insanity. —Once it
was thought that lunatic hospitals would
do a great deal to check insanity, but in
this the public has been d sappointed.
While many recoveries and deaths are
reported every year, still this unfortu
nate class increases more and more. The
census of 1870 afforded positive proof
that the insane in Massachusetts in
creased then faster than the population;
there is no doubt but the census of 1880
will show a still greater increase. It is
very evident if the disease is to be
checked resort must be had to other
agencies than lunatic hospitals to do it.
The inquiry arises; What relation do
these insttiutions sustain in respect to the
prevention of insanity? And what are
the promises or prospects in this direc
tion? Says the Superintendent of the
McLean Asylum, the oldest institution
in New England: “For the treatment
of insane persons we could wish some
practice more encouraging in its reme
dial effects might be devised. As now
administered, asylums for such unfor
tunates afford little more than a place
where they may be isolated from society,
kindly treated, and a watchful oversight
maintained to prevent them from com
mitting injury upon tnemseives or their
attendants.”— Dr. Nathan Allen, in the
.Sanitarian for March.
—»M i ■
The Wrong Foot Foremost. —A co
lossal granite statue of a soldier stand
ing at “parade rest” was left in Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia, at the close
of the centennial exposition which no
body seems to own. The persons who
placed it on exhibition put in no claim
for their property when the show was
over, nor did they present it to the Park
Commissioners or the Permanent Exhi
bition Company. The Philadelphia
Press explains why this gigantic work of
art was left derelict, with no one to
claim it or give it away. The big gran
ite soldier is resting on his left foot, with
his right foot thrown forward. The
military position of “parade rest” is
precisely the reverse of this; the weight
of the body is thrown on the light leg,
with the left thrown slightly forward.
The sculptor was most probably so mor
tified at his mistake, when it was point
ed out to him, that he never cared to
have his name mentioned in connection
with the statue.
An enterprising boy in Springfield,lll.,
is said to have bought the shingles on the
old homo of Lincoln for a dollar, and to
be manipulating them by means of a
scroll saw into mementoes of moie or
less artistic design, which he is selling at
fifty cents each.
OUC NAVIGATION LAWS.
Their Injurious Effect Upon Our
Merchant Marine.
Philadelphia Record.
Mr. John Roach is one of a class of
political economists who make their own
vocation, whatever it may he, the hinge
upon which everything else swings.
These people look at the general welfare
solely in the light of their individual in
terests. Mr. Roach is a shipbuilder, and
his shipyard is, in his view of the mat
ter, the centre, if not of the entire uni
verse, at least of that part of it which
belongs to the United States. He in
sists, with monotonous iteration,
that this country must first of all
build ships before it can become
a maritime nation. The com
mon error of confounding the construc
tion of vessels with the employment of
them in the carrying trade and calling
both “commerce” find in him one of its
most eminent and verbose exponents.
Commerce is the exchange of commodi
ties either for money or for other com
modities. It is the buying and selling of
merchandise on a large scale. Ship
building, ship owning and ship running
are only incidents and conditions of com
merce, but they are not commerce itself,
any more than the manufacture of
ploughs and other farming implements
is agriculture, or the making of pickaxes
and blasting powder is mining.
It is not necessary to the successful
pursuit of either of the great industries
referred to that those who prosecute
them should make the machinery they
use. It is, on the contrary, more con
sonant with the wise economic principle
of a division of labor that somebody else
should make them. There are plenty of
ships in the world to accommodate the
world’s commerce, and there is
no danger that the supply will
not constantly meet the demand.
The price at which ships
can be bought in the world’s open
market is low enough. The trouble is,
however, that American citizens are not
allowed to purchase in that market, and
since ships cannot be built at home
cheaply enough to permit their owners
to compete profitably with foreigners in
the business of ocean transportation we
have, outside our coasting vessels, sub
stantially no mercantile marine.
Bounties, subsidies and fat postal con
tracts, for which Mr. Roach has such a
tender and longing regard—not so much
perhaps for himself as for his customers
—are not going to relieve the buyers of
Mr. Roach’s vessels from the serious dis
advantages under which they will labor in
comparison with foreign shipowners.
The subsidy proposition amounts
simply to a plan for making
good, at the cost of the govern
ment, the business losses which must
inevitably result to the purchasers of
Mr. Roach’s high-priced vessels. But as
it is not proposed that everybody who
buys a ship of Mr. Roach shall enjoy a
subsidy, it is not easy to see how the
benefits of this pretty scheme are to be
made to go around. How is A helped to
struggle against British, German or Nor
wegian rivalry in the carrying trade by
the fact that B has a big grant of the
national moneyas “mailcompensation,”
while he himself has nothing of the
kind?
The fallacy of all such schemes con
sists in the circumstance, which Mr.
Roach and his associates scrupulously
keep out of view, that the high seas o~f
the globe are free. We can apply the
protective system to our own territory,
but we cannot put a tariff upon the
ocean. The foreign competition that we
can shut out from our jurisdiction on
shore we must confront when we go out
upon the great highway of communica
tion between the nations of the earth.
Grants and subsidies may build
up a railway system within our
own borders, where we encounter no ri
valry from abroad, but they cannot avail
to build up distinctively American lines
of transportation upon the setu_ The.
policy which has forwarded the building
of locomotives, on which Mr. Roach
lays great stress, so that we now have
17,000 or thereabouts on our various rail
roads where we had not one fifty years
ago, will not answer to promote the
building and employment of ships for
the foreign carrying trade. The number
of locomotives would probably not be less
if it had cost 50 per cent, more to build
them, because the home manufacturer
had the whole field to himself. But
unless our citizens can procure ships,
whether built here or abroad, just as
cheap as foreigners can get them, we
shall have no American mercantile
marine other than in our coasting and
inland trade. Our railways, canals,
lakes, rivers, and other means of
domestic transport of commodities are
not exposed to foreign competition. We
can shut strangers out. It is not worth
while, however, to try to get up a corner
in the ocean carrying trade.
■ — »-<-»-*-» — .l .
New Orleans Pacific Railway.
Shreveport Times.
We yesterday learned from a gentle
man who went out on this road on a tour
of observation, and who got his reporto
rial auger into some of the officials and
contractors, that work is being pushed
rapidly and quite satisfactorily. The
road bed is completed and the cars are
running out about seven mile 3 beyond
the city, and the grading between this
place and Pleasant Hill, in De Soto par
ish, is almost completed. Ties sufficient
to lay twenty miles have been cut and
delivered along the line of road from this
place southward. Work is progressing
from Donaldsonville northward, from
Alexandria north and south, and from
this place southward, and each day the
laboring forces at all points are being
swelled, which insures the completion of
the road between this place and New
Orleans by the Ist of September. Yes
terday the contractors were engaged
grading a gap of about half a mile be
tween the eighth and ninth mile, and
which, it was thought, they would com
plete by this afternoon so that
the construction trains will be running
out from the city, a distance of nine
miles, before the close of the
present week. When the grading of the
tenth and eleventh miles shall have been
completed, which will probably be in
about ten days or two weeks, the road
will then be graded and ready for track
laying for a distance of twenty-four
miles, and we are told that the work of
track-laying will proceed at the rate of a
mile a day. The first station on the New
Orleans Pacific is eight and a half miles
from the city, and is known as
Rieson. The next is Stonewall, seven
and a half miles beyond Rieson.
Already two engines and twenty
four flat car 3 have been shipped to Alex
andria, and other engines will be for
warded as the work progresses at that
point. Two engines are in use at this
end, and another very large one was re
ceived Sunday night at Marshall and will
probably arrive here during the week.
There is already on hand at the construe
tion depot iron enough to complete forty
miles of road, and more arriving each
day, which insures that the track layers
will not be delayed for want of material.
Says the Baltimore Gazette: “In the
same breath the New York Times de
clares that Democratic rule is baleful to
the South, and that as a result of a
change of feeling throughout the section
—meaning the beginning of a disgust at
this Democratic rule—there is a ‘rapid
growth of the manufacturing interests
reported from different portions of
the cotton country.’ That is certainly a
very strange way to express a want of
confidence in the existing condition of
dominant politics in the cotton country.
Capitalists are investing their money, ac
cording to the Times, in a section where
they have no confidence in the govern
meats which conduct affairs in it. But
this is a fair specimen of Northern Re
publican treatment of affairs in the
Southern States.”
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ture appearance is annoying. Parker’s Hair
Balsam is popular for cleanliness and
promptly restoring the youthful color.
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<Dr. TI"rTS MANUAL of Talu.bl. Informal!™ and h
L'aefcl KetilpU vUL H RAplil IBIS «a WliUmUm,#
mylß-To.Th.Sly
This is the only Lottery ever voted on and
endorsed by the people of any State.
UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION !
OVER HALF A MILLION DISTRIBUTED.
Louisiana State Lottery Comp’y
Incorporated in 18S8 for 25 years by the Leg
islature for educational and charitable pur
poses—with a capital of sl.ooo,ooo—to which a
reserve fund ot over $430,000 has since been
added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its fran
chise was made a part of the present State
Constitution adopt? a December 2d, A. D. 1879.
Its Grand Sinc ijs Number Drawings will
take place monthly. It never scales or post
pones. Look at the following Distribution:
GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT,
During which will take j (lace the
13.3 rd GRAND MONTHLY AND THE EXTRA
ORDINARY SEMI-ANNUAL DRAWING,
At New Orleans, TUESDAY, June 14th, 1881,
Under the personal supervision and manage
ment of Gen. G. T. BEAUREGARD, of Louisi
ana, and Gen. JUBAL A. EARLY, of Virginia.
CAPITAL PRISE, SIOO,OOO.
NOTlCE—Tickets are $lO only. Halves $5.
Fifths $3. Tenths sl.
LIST OP PRIZES.
1 Capital prize of SIOO,OOO SIOO,OOO
1 Grand Prize of 50,000 50,000
1 Grand Prize of 20,000 20,000
2 Large Prizes of 10,000 20,000
4 Large Prizes of 5,000 20,000
20 Prizes of 1,000 20,000
50 Prizes of 500 25,000
100 Prizes of 300 30,000
200 Prizes of 200 40,000
600 Prizes of 100 60,000
10,000 Prizes of 10 100,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
100 Approximation Prizes of.. $200.. 20.000
100 Approximation Prizes of.. 100.. 10,0(10
. 100 Approximation Prizes of.. 75.. 7,50 C
11,279 Prizes, amounting to $522,500
Gen. G. T. BEAD REGARD, of La„ I
Gen. JUBAL A. EARLY, of Va., f Lomm rs -
Application for rates to clubs should only be
made to the office of the Company in New
Orleans.
Write for circulars or send orders to
M. A. DAUPHIN,
Now Orleaast La., or -M. ArßAgfhtfTrra; Nff. ~
212 Broadway, New York, or
JNO. B. FERNANDEZ,
royli-W,S,w&Telsw Savannah, Ga.
ISEiEIi 32 d EUSHEs
POPULAR MONTHLY DRAWING OF THE
Commonwealth Distribution Co.
AT MACAULEY’S THEATRE,
In the City of Louisville, on
TUESDAY, MAY 31st, 1881.
These drawings occur monthly (Sundays
excepted) under provisiens of an Act of the
General Assembly of Kentucky, incorporating
the Newport Printing and Newspaper Co., ap
proved April 9, 1878.
lar-THIS IS A SPECIAL ACT, AND HAS
NEVER BEEN REPEALED.
The United States Circuit Court on March 31
rendered the following decisions:
Ist—THAT THE COMMONWEALTH DIS
TRIBUTION COMPANY IS LEGAL.
2d—ITS DRAWINGS ARE FAIR.
N. B.—This company has now on hand a
large reserve fund. Read carefully the iUi, of
prizes for the
MAY DRAWING.
1 Prize $ 30,0 0
1 Prize 10,0(0
1 Prize 5,0C0
10 Prizes, SI,OOO each 10,Oi 0
20 Pi izes, 500 each 10,(K 0
100 Prizes, 100 each 10,060
200Prize3, 50 each 10,060
600 Prizes, 20 each 12,060
1,000 rrizes, 10 each 10,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
8 Prizes, 300 each 2,700
9 Prizes, 200 each 1,800
9 Prizes, 100 each 900
1,900 Prizes 112,400
'Whole tickets, ?2; Half Tickets, $1; 27 Ticket®,
f-30; 55 Tickets, SIOO.
Remit Money or Bank Draft in Letter, or
send by Express. DON’T SEND BY REGIS
TERED LETTER OR POST OFFICE ORDER.
Orders of $3 and upward, by Express, can be
sent at our expense. Address all orderto R. M.
BOARDMAN, Courier-Journal Building, Louis
ville, Ky„ or T. J. COMMERFORD, 309 Broad
way, New York.
JNO. B. FERNANDEZ, Agent,
Cor. Bull and Broughton sts„ Savannah, Ga.
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pi DELICIOUS DRINK
For Use in Families, Hotels,
?|jjjH Clubs, Picnics, Parties, etc. j
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C. H. GRAVES & SONS.
The “Hub Punch ” has lately been introduced,
and meets with marked popular favor.
It is Warranted to Contain only the JiEST
vs liquors, United with Choice Fruit
Juices and Granulated Sugar.
It is ready on opening, and will be found an agree
able addition to the choice things of the table
which undeniably enlarge the pleasures of life and
encourage good fellowship and good nature.
GOOD AT ALL TIMJES.
Jnst the Thins to Keep in Wine Cellar*.
Sideboards not complete without It,
It ran boused Clear, or with Fine lee, Soda,
Hot or ('old Water, lemonade, Tea, or
Fresh Milk, to Suit the Taste •
Sold by leading Wine Merchants, Grocers, Hotel?
and Druggists everywhere.
C. 11. GRAVES A SO\S, Hoston, Halt
Trade supplied at Manufacturers prices by
SOLQiVIOft BROTHERS,
Savannah, Ga.
NOTICE.
6T>HE firm of H. A. STULTS & CO. having
1 been dissolved by the death of HENRY A.
STULTS, 1 will continue the business, assum
ing all liabilities and collecting all debts flue
the late firm. Respectfully asking a continu
ance of the liberal patronage extended the late
firm, I wi 1 endeavor to give satisfaction in
every respect,
, my9-3t&wlt CHAS. E. STULTS.
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