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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. ■— ►* - —l ” ■ 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. ■ ►-•»-—< 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. .. ■ 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.” Gray hairs are honorable, but their prema ture appearance is annoying. 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They Increase the Appetite, and cause the body to Take on Flesh, thus the system Is nourished, and by thelrTonlc Action on the, Digestive Organs, Regular Stools are pro-, duced. Price 28 cents. 85 Murray St„ V. V. TUTT’S HAIR DYE, Gray Hair or Whiskers changed to a Glossy* Black by a single application of this Dyb. It Imparts a natural color, acts Instantaneously.; Bold by Druggists, or sent by express on receipt of fie[ Office, 38 Murray St., New York. 1 <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. mys Tu,Th,S&w4w fiuii gunclt. pi DELICIOUS DRINK For Use in Families, Hotels, ?|jjjH Clubs, Picnics, Parties, etc. j JL Hub HPunch 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. 3