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Georgia Affairs.
v- h T Hollis, of Marion county, has corn
inches In height.
* ... ( p George F Pierce Is gradually recov
(rlgfrcm his throat affection*
pj.-ti -ion in Glascock will go into effect on
.. j. 0 f April by decision of the Board of
0 uoty C mmissioners. They were moved to
.jjj by the recommendation of two or
ive grand juries.
Tattnall court convenes the second Monday
. 4( It is said that there will be a long
Isj.ijn, as there are several long cases to be
Biel.
it the October term of Stewart Buyerior
Court a judgment was obtained against Jacob
Campion by his wife for alimony. Judge Crisp
an attachment directing that unless the
s „,y was paid that Mr Champion be put in
ii as being in contempt of court. He is now
behind the bars.
A E. i lark's store in Wrightsville was enter
ed m i robbed on Saturday night last.
Borne is to have anew Methodist Church, to
cost $35,0t0.
Hr. JB. Toomer. of Athens, has a sword
beetle that was found on the Eutaw battle
field. It has the print of a palmetto tree, with
the date of 17*6.
0b the Sid inst the voters of the 311th and
JlXh districts of Baldwin voted on the ques
tion of - fence” or “no fence.” The result in
the former was-for fence 91, against fence 41.
In the latter—for fence 74, against fence 55.
Echols is certainly the banner county in the
State. The Superior Court, which met last
Monday, did not last but a few hours. Not a
single case was tried, nor has there been a case
•obmitted to a jury in several years. Last
term not a .ingle true bill was foftnd, and the
present term there were but two bills re
turned.
The Atlanta police have been furnished with
description c f Newton Bobiuson, who escaped
from jail at Marietta on the night of the 20th
ing. He is a black negro, five feet nine inches
h height, twenty-five or six years old, and
weighs one hundred and fifty or one hundred
nd sixty pounds. A T. Coryell, Sheriff of
Cobb county, offers twenty five dollars reward
for his arrest.
The tody of the negro passenger, Moses
simcis, who fell from the steamer Caattahoo
itiee at Ochesee, and was drowned, has been
recovered. It was found at Blunts town, about
forty miles below Ochesee. It is said that the
legro swam about thirty or forty yards after
hi feil from the gang plank, and then sank.
According to the Comptroller General’s re
port, there are in Marion county 1,343 polls—6Bl
white and 641 colored; 4 lawyers; 11 doctors; 1
Icmit; 3,734 children; the school fuod is
number of hands between 12 and 65
rears old is 1,286.
The steamer Chattahoochee met with an ac*
client on her down trip. When at Woolfolk’s
die "got away” with the pilot and ran into the
woods. A tree tore away some of her guard
beams and the guards received some other in
, jTea. The damage can soon be repaired.
Last Wednesday a young man named Simp
son was returning from Hartwell to his home
in Carolina. Before he reached the river he
struck the horse, which was a spirited animal,
ud it jumped suddenly forward and threw
u* young man out of the buggy. He received
no injuries, but the horse became badly fright
ened and ran with Us utmost speed to Brown’s
ferry and jumped into the river with the buggy
and was drowned.
Albany s artesian well is at last finished at a
depth of six hundred and fifty feet, producing
a flow of fine water at the rate of twenty-five
gallons to the minute. The water rises to a
bfht of thirty feet Two more are to be dug
by the city, besides two or three oy citizens.
Pipes and basins are to be used to have water
at the intersection of several streets in the
neighborhood of the wells.
Lumpkin Independent: “The ’Grand United
Order of the Si ns and Daughters of Jacob in
the United Mates of America,’ which originat
ed m Lumpkin some two or three months ago,
-as grown to ■ eh preportions that there has
been truuole in the camp. The Supreme Grand
Haster has kicked out the Supreme Grand
hrribe. Harris by name, who proposes to or
gn Je a similar iosii ution in Americus, to be
Mown as the K ights of the Golden Star.’ A
big name goes a long way with the ‘brother in
■set"
Lumpkin Independent: ‘On;Thursday last
kroner L’avis lied an inquest on the
goy of a little negro girl named
heme t\ are, child of Isaac Ware, a negro man
Jrtio lives on Mr. Nathan Spivey’s plantation in
Jb county. It was claimed that a tiee had
ftoen upon the child, causing its death, but
from the testimony adduced and tha p> st
mortem examination, held by Dr. W P. Carter,
“*clearly proven that the child had been
"Men to death by its unnatural and inhuman
15f®*r. The jury returned a verdict to this
effect”
Eaionton Chronicle: * Several days ago Mr.
W. Wajton lost some cows He and Mr. J. C.
i:buon weut on the hunt for the cattle and
icund them in Jones county. Mr. Williams,
*Kfc some neighbors, suspected that the cattle
sere stolen. They took the cows and arrested
-e Degrees. Reese Lawrence and Green Craw
but they made their escape at night from
cotton house in which they were confined.
“* *eek the grand jury found true bills
the parties, warrants were issued and
;oe officers of tne court went in search add
-cum the thieves at Logansville, Gwinnett
bounty. They are now safely lodged in jail,
Ml we understand have made full coofvssion
* the theft.”
Augusta News: "The Georgia Railroad has
: y received three of the Handsomest par
•“f ooscheg for the day passenger trains ever
wea in the South. They are or tne latest build,
“u ire in dels of elegance, comfort and good
■rutuuion. They are colored a light yellow
p or uamented with most aesthetic trimming*.
’ if ootieed, However, that some vandal tried
r?,^* ure theE “ before they arrived in Au
u-'* 01 bolding a knife blade point against
cars while in motion. This produced a
through the paint and varnish, for
cn the perpetrator, if caught, should be
wed and feathered.”
muU , fP e Gazette: “A correspondent sends
K, T * fuUowtog particulars of an attack upon
* phß Smith, of Tattnall county, who
i?, ?, employ of Dodge ACo, at Camps,
- our county. On the night of th 9 14th inst.,
was returning from the store to
bv th ’>out 1 o’clock, he wes startled
. me report of a pistol and the whizxing of a
tb... i l **' *“• bead. A second shot was fired.
, vf 1 * 1 Pausing through the rim of his had,
Mr fbat tne powder scorched his face,
k.'^ autb , 00,11,1 not see in tha darkness who
- ‘ Mealed as* lilant wa-, but as soon as be
aTT’ **** hU pistol and fired three shots in
Bn fr -’ ro which the shots had come,
kvi„ U . hout The noise of the firing
ecTL Parties to the scene, but the
made good his oscape. A
cf ikL° I”' 1 is iffnred for the apprehension
■T* Party with proof to convict.'*’
of .i 31 * poiwisr: “Very few persons are aware
L ‘J:that the erection, near this oity, of
— l , ntlVe chemical and fertiliser works is
_ an avured fact. Home ol our very beet
M. *, prudent business men have taken
C.--' stterprise, at and propose to carry it
W completion. They were convinced,
to IL Z* 10 * w “ Professor N. A. Pratt had
’ f Pue subject, that such a factory in
" on *“* wrtt ui to he successful Prof,
htenn-^Pcrienced, practical chemist, and
lev PJfudea the con-truction Of the works
*riiv., . **■. *le works have been emi
ul - aod he says Rome's aJvan
trawr not soperior, to those of the
a(? ty i ore which is used in making
“e Atlanta mills is transported
wagnn tothn nearest railroad
wtLw-r, ’: : M ‘* °ur city could procure om
K'nan- °u I , lw,J “BU-a from railroad trans
hwVubsc !' l f - the oa t )it4 * stock ($60,000) has
*v,u ® Enquirer Sun: ‘Yesterday an
s7a[. “** r *'l >ort * r learned from a Stewart
*eoki^' rr 5 et i £ 7* :m '* n of one of the saddest
e have chronicled in a
•? U* Thursdar Aaron Qawler
* r ° Hobbs, two eighteen-year-old
Jhiuti * eo J pot hunting togetilpr on this
Jh. Alu. 1* **£*• J * c °b Hobbs, near Lump
io U*® Uiual sport they
'**• hlJl “w'ard. While walking
front '! P * C *- ° wr, W About three
ter-rtl? f „ H °bbs, the gun of the latter
'*4 discharged, and the entire
in Hie back of the former.
Jfh aohH* T w “ carried to the residence of
®>&honJ* * nJ Dr. Gregory waa speedily
•QM - .' “ examined the wound and
N h °, t * 5 quite dangerous. Fifty-six
i: ent , t .t nU \ red ll * back and lodged in
b f Hie body. Young Hobbs could
S' ali~ wh *F tneana the gun waa dia-
V I,T" ““only guess that the hammer
k "
Savannah morning news
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
He is overwhelmed with grief, and no one
more deeply regrets the sad occurrence than
he. Gawley is a son of Mr. Robert Gawley,
formerly of this city, and a nephew of young
Hobbs. He is also a cousin of Mr. James A.
Lewis, of this city. We learn that Dr. Gregory
thinks there is not much hope of the recovery
of the unfortunate young man.”
Albany Netrs and Advertiser: “The early
establishment of a cotton seed oil mill in
Albany is now assured. By this we do not
mean that the matter is any longer under ad
visement and mixed with doubt, but that it has
been fully decided upon by men who mean
business, and has become a fixed fact. The
•Net ct and Advei User is authorized to state
that the Albany Oil Milt Company has been
organized with a capital stock of $50,000, and
that the following officers have been elected
with a view of proceeding at once to the
erection of a mill: G. H. Dudley has been
chosen President. G C. Ball Secretary and
Treasurer, and J R. Forrester Superintendent
Mes.-rs. Dudley and Ball are connected with
the mills at Montgomery and Eufaula, and
their experience in the oil mill business guar
antees the success of the mill at Albany, ilr.
J. R. Forrester, who has been elected superin
tendent of the new mill, is well known through
out Southwest Georgia as one of the most cor
rect and energetic business men of this city,
and will be the right man in the right place.
The mill will be located near the Southwestern
Railroad Depot, on a site purchased from the
Central Railroad Company, and work will be
commenced at an early day.”
The Financial and Commercial
Sltnation.
New York Evening Post.
Had it not been for the increased ease
in money in Europe this week, resulting
from a continued recovery of confidence
from the French panic, we should have
been obliged to ship at least £1,000,000
(possibly more) gold. But the further
gain by the Bank of England of |789,000
specie this week, and the further reduc
tion of the discount rate to 3 per cent. 1
against 4 per cent, last week, together
with corresponding gains of specie by the
Bank of France, and the reduction of dis
counts to 34 per cent., ha3 made money
so plenty in Europe that it had gone
largely into American securities, of
which some large blocks, notably West
ern Union, will go out by today’s
steamer instead of the specie. Some
heavy amounts of other American securi
ties which had arrived here in the early
part of the week to be sold were also re
bought. By these means the export of
specie has been deferred. But the grow
ing scarcity of commercial bills and the
entire condition of the export trade are
such that unless there be a further im
portation of foreign capital next week,
the export of specie is likely to be re
newed.
The inteiior movement of breadstuffs
and provisions from producers’ hands to
the seven or eight great interior markets
had increased in the week end.ng March
18 from 12 to 15 per cent, over the pre
ceding week, and has continued to in
crease this week. The entire movement,
however, is only about one third the pro
portions of that at the corresponding
time last year. The visible supply of
grain also, at all the points of accumu
lation in the United States, has shown a
steady decrease week by week for the
last month. For the week ending March
18 the stock of wheat was 13,415,-
924 bushels; March 11. 14,542,384
bushels; March 4. 16,118.519 bushels;
and so on. The decrease in the visible
stock of corn corresponds to that of
wheat and is correspondingly less than
at the same time last year. The export
movement also showed a great decrease
in the weeks ending March 22d and 17lb,
as compared with the week preceding.
The decrease of exports from the four
great Atlantic ports, was in Hour, 179,-
724 barrels, or 68 per cent, less than the
preceding week; in wheat, it was 381,
555 bushels, or 47 per cent, less than the
previous week, and in corn, 92,535
bu-hels, or 17 per cent less. All these
features show an unfavorable progress
for the week as regards breadstuffs.
The cotton exports for the week to
March 24 were 81,020 bales, against 80.-
796 bales the previous week, and against
110 907 bales the corresponding week
last year. The total exports since Sep
tember 1, 1881, have been 2,618,545
bales, against 3,335,709 bales for the cor
responding period of last year, showing
a decrease of exports of 717.264 bales, or
equivalent to about $39,000,000. The
total stock at the ports and the interior
towns is shown by the Chronicle figures
to be 1,143,846 bales last night, against
1,140,520 at the same time last year.
Bradstreet also prints to day elaborate
statistics to show that there remains on
plantations yet throughout the entire
Bouth only 2 110 per cent, of the crop
of 18812, and consequently that the
shortage will turn out. to be greater than
has yet been estimated.
Probably the best indicators of the
state of mercantile and industrial activity
are the railway earniDgs and the price of
pig iron. Of these, the railway earniDgs
for February showed a large increase per
mile on the increased mileage over Feb
ruary, 1881. The price of pig iron also
keeps up in consequence of the expand
ing demand for all sorts of manufactured
articles. The fact that it does so, not
withstanding the check to railroad build
ing this year, is an encouraging feature.
To sum up the whole matter; The ex
port trade—except in petroleum—is in
an unfavorable condition, that may any
week now compel the export of specie;
but tlie possibilities are that, as the im
portant shortage in all the American
crops of last year becomes more fully
understood, European prices for Ameri
can breadstuffs and American long-staple
cotton —which is necessary to mix with
the Indian —may improve, so as to more
nearly neutralize the financial deficiency
in the crops than appears now.
A White Man’s Government.
Harrisburg Patriot.
TLc New York Tribune, and several
other able Republican journals, take ex
ceptions to a remark said to have be n
made by Senator George, of Mississippi,
in the debate on the anti Chinese bill in
the Senate, on Monday, to the effect that
“this ia a white man’s government.” A
great deal of virtuous indignation is ex
pended by the Republican editors upon
the unfortunate Senator from Mississip
pi, and he is denounced and ridiculed as
a Bourbon who has utterly failed'to note
the progress cf political events in this
country. We have net read the speech
which is made the text of the
Repub’ icaa jcriticism of Senator
George, but venture the guess that
the argument was not that this ought
to be, but that it is, in fact, “a white
man’s government” It is certainly not
a negro government. White men fill the
offices, while men make the laws at
Washington and at every State capital,
white men sit on the judicial bench and
wfiim men command the army and navy.
Not a single negro to-day sits in either
house of Congress, nor has any negro
ever been scut to Congiess ifoia any
of the Northern Republican States.
True, the negro has the right of suf
frage and is, generally speaking, an
excellent and obedient serf to the
Republican managers. lie does yeo
man service at every election and so
enables a minority of the white men
of the country to govern the majority of
their race, and the negroes to boot. But
as for the actual governing, the making
and execution of the laws, the office
holding, the salary drawing, the enjoy
ing of political perquisites, etc., the
African has not yet come to be regarded
by the Republican party as. a man and
brother. We, therefore, fail to see any
reason tor the roaring and snorting in
dignation manifested by the Republican
editors over the remark attributed to the
Mississippi Senator. If that gentle
man did say, as is reported, that this
is “a white man’s government,”
he simply declared the truth
as it is in the gospel of offlceholding Re
publicanism. When the Republican par
ty fibril recognize the political equality
of the races, by refusing to discriini”i!
against the black mania its nominating
conventions and in appointments to of
fice, when the negro voting power which
keeps the Republicans in office in every
Northern Btate shall be represented by
negroes in Congress and the State Legis
latures, the Republican journals may
with some show of decency and consist
ency claim that this is not “a white
man’s government.” Until then they
should modestly keep liieot on that sub
ject.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
THE TARIFF ISSUE SQUARELY
RAISED.
Mr* Stephen* Hakes aStlr—An Able
Speech from Mr. Speer—“ Down
With the War Taxes ! ’’—American
Suapecla—The Army and ludlau
Bill* —Farrow Confirmed Hall
road Land Grant a— Democratic Ex*
ecutlve Cougreaalonal Committee.
Washington, March 29. —In the House,
on motion of Mr. Manning, of M sstssippl,
a resolution was adopted, calling on the
Postmaster General for information as to
whether any order had been issued by his
department forbidding the payment of any
postal money order or the delivery of aey
registered letters to M. A. Dauphin, or any
other agent of the Louisiana Lottery Com
pany, and, if so, whether that order was
enforced.
On motion of Mr. House, of TenneEs e,
the Senate’s amendment to the House bill,
granting a pension of $5,000 a year to Lu
cretia R Garfield, was concurred in. The
amendment includes within the provisions
of the bill the names of Sarah C. Polk and
Julia G Tyler.
Mr. Kelly, Chairman of the Committee of
.Ways and Means, reported a bill to reduce
internal revenue taxation. Referred to the
committee of the whole. (Its substance
was telegraphed last night.)
Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, desired to be
heard on a question of privilege. He first
had read the rules of the House relating to
i the appointment of stenographers and their
removal for cause. He then presented a
preamble and resolution, embodying the
correspondence between Speaker Keifer
and Henry G. Hayes, one of the House
Committee stenographers, being the Speak
er’s letter of “for cause,”
Hayes’ letter of inquiry as to what consti
tuted the cause, the Speaker’s reply de
clining to state the causes which led to his
removal, but saying that the removal was
not intended to convey any reflection
upon Hayes’ private character, and
Hayes’ rejoinder, that as the Speaker had
failed to assign anv cause in makicg the
removal, and had refused to assign a cause,
when requested to do so, he did not recog
nize tbe legality of the Speaker’s action.
Mr. Stephens’ preamble recites that it is
claimed that the Speaker’s action does not
legally constitute removal for cause, and
the resolu’lon offered instructs the Judic'ar?
Committee to report what may be Hayes’
legal status, and authorizes that committee
to make such investigation as it may deem
proper.
Mr.Stephens asked that the correspondence
and resolutions be referred to ths Judiciary
Committee. So ordered. Many members
were on their feet a3 the reading ceased,
and Mr. Kasson exclaimed that he reserved
a point of order, whether the matter con
st! luted a question of privilege.
Speaker Kelfer asked unanimous consent
that Mr. Stephens have an opportunity to
address the House upon his resolutions,
saying that he would then explain to the
House his reasons for removing Hayes.
Mr. Robeson pr< mptly objected to any
debate on the question, but Mr. Stephens
•aid he merely wished the reference. Hayes
has for several years been one of tbe two
official stenographers to the committees of
the House, and was for many years the
House reporter for the Associated Press.
He conducted the report of the Guiteau
trial for the Associate l Press. Mr. Daw
son, who wa6 appointed to succeed Hayes
as committee reporter, was formerly a
stenographer in the War Department,
whence he went with General Grant on his
trip to Mexico.
The Speaker then called for c mmittee
reports.
Bills for the erection of public buildings
at the following place* were reported from
the Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds, and referred to the committee of
the whole: Norfolk, Virginia; Greenville,
Squ.h Carolina; Greensboro, Asheville and
Newberne, North Carolina.
The House then went into committee of
the whole, and took up the tariff commis
sion bill.
Mr. Carlisle, of Kentucky, who had pos
session of the floor yesterday, concluded
his speech.
Mr. Speer, of Georgia, said that the ques
tions of the tariff and internal revenue were
one and inseparable and should be consid
ered together, and that tbe bill, which came
from tbe Senate acknowledged the truth
of that proposition. The time had come
for tbe people of this country to
rid themselves of this excise system as
rapidly as possible. Tbe Internal revenue
laws were unpopular, and unpopular laws
were generally bad. He thought that free
trade, like charltv, should begin at home,
and he was unwilling that this House
should be occupied entirely with the con
sideration of the benefits which might be
received by taking the tariff off foreign pro
ducts, while the farmer was not permitted
to sell the products of his own farm without
paying a heavy tax or Incurring
the risk of an odious and de
grading penalty. Let free trade begin
with our own people. He knew that the
government must be supplied with revenue,
and that the public debt must be paid ; but
this could be done without Imposing on the
people one dollar of Internal taxes. Ho di
clared that the stories of violation of the
internal revenue laws were grossly exagger
ated, and gave instances where their en
forcement was accompanied with great in
justice and violence on the part of the gov
ernment’s officers. The demand of the coun
try for the repeal of these laws
was no new feature in our history. They
have always been regarded as war taxes.
The whole weight of public opinion was
sweeping against this tax. Great monopo
lies might resist it, but it would bear them
down. The people of this country would
never submit to have an excise system
fastened permanently upon them.
The most dangerous excuse for the spirit
tax was that it poured an immense revenue
into the Treasury. To the friends of tem
perance this was the most forbidding aspect
of tbe question. It gave the government
an interest in the liquor traffic. The 6ale of
sp'rits poured a stream of wealth into the
Treasury, but it also poured its costly
poison dowu the throats of the people.
He arranged the system of internal taxa
tion because it was spy taxes, because it
encouraged and maintained a horde of
revenue informers, whose claim to promo
tion was their skill in the arts of treachery
and simulation. These laws laid waste
farms and destroyed the peace of
communities. They were fruitui
sources of anarchy, bloodshed and
disquiet to every peaceful Interest of
sxdety. This country must and would
strike them from tbe statute books. Then
let the revenues of the country be raised by
customs. If the United States could not
have tree trade with the world, they could
at least have It at home. If relief could
not be brought to tbe manufacturers of
Toreign merchandise, it could at any rate be
brought to that mass of American people,
whose most priceless heritage was the spirit
of liberty and independence. (Applause.)
Wheu the committee rose Mr. Butter
worth, of Ohio, from the Committee ou
Appropriations, reported back the army ap
propriation biU. Referred to the committee
of the whole.
Adjourned-
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
In the Senate, on motion of Mr. Cockrell,
a resolution was adopted directing the
Secretary of State to Inquire as to the ar
rest and imprisonment of citizens of the
United States in Ireland, and if any steps
have been taken to secure their speedv trial,
and, if not charged with crime, what steps
have bc u n taken to secure their release.
Mr. Cockrell presented resolutions of the
Central Council of the Land League of St.
Louts, reciting the arrest and confinement
in British jails without trial of a number of
citizens of the United States, and request
ing the Intervention of representatives of the
State Department in behalf of such citizens.
He offered a resolution, directing
the Secretary of State to inquire
and ascertain whether citizens of the
United States have been arrested and
are now held in confinement in Ire
land, and, if so, for what length
of time and for what cause, and. if
charged with crime, what steps, i* any,
have been taken to secure their speedy
Jrial, and if not charged with crime, what
steps, if any, have been taken to secure
their release, and to report at the earliest
time possible. Adopted.
Mr. Pendleton, from the Committee on
Civil Service, reported favorably, with
amendments '(which are yerbal) the
bill originated oy him to regulate and Im
prove the civil service. He said that the
report intended to accompany tfco hill was
nuite prepared, but would be submitted
at an early day. ?< on t&fi calendar
Mr. Pugh read a6 his contribution to the
recent tariff debate a series of resolutions
declaratory of what he believed to be the
true constitutional American system of a
tariff. He asserted it to 1> thp duty of
Congress at this session to reduce and read
just our import duties so as to secure
justice, equality, uniformity and perma
nence in the revenue system. That
this being a revenue power only it
cannot be construed to embrace the power
tb prohibit importations ao aa to protect an
American industry, but that duties should
be so apportioned on imported articles of
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1882.
like kind with native articles as that the
rate on each, whi'e producing Its just share
of reven e, will sfford incidental protection
to American labor and capital without bur
dening any industry further than is neces
sary to supply the legitimate wants of the
government.
The resolutions we tabled temporarily
upon Mr. Pugh’s request.
Bills wa6 passed granting the right of way
through the public lands to tbe Palatka and
Indian River Railroad Company, and grant
ing the temporary use of the United States
barracks at Baton Rouge, La., to the State
Institution for the Blind.
The Indian appropriation bill was taken
up. It appropriates $5,160,003 91, the
Senate committee’s amendments having
made an Increase to the bill as It came from
the House of $230,800. The bill was read In
committee of the whole, and the amend
ments, with one or two exceptions, were
agreed to.
Mr. Hoar offered an amendment, looking
to authorizing the Secretary of the Interior
to expend not exceeding $2,000,000 for the
education of Indian children not otherwise
specifically provided for.
Peudlng action, Mr. Butler Introduced a
bill making a temporary appropriation of
$200,000 to continue the work on the jetties
in Charleston harbor until the regular ap
propriation is available.
Afier an executive session the Senate
adjourned.
RAILROAD LAND GRANTS.
The Bpeaker laid before the House this
afternoon a communication from the Secre
tary of the Interior, in response to a resolu
tion introduced in the House by Representa
tive Cobb calling for information relative to
those States and railway corporations to
which grams of public lands have been
made to aid in the construction of railroads,
which have not been completed within
tbe time required by law. The
Secietary’s letter is accompanied with
a report from the Commissioner
of the General Land Office, covering one
hundred and eighty pages of foolscap and
ten large tabular statements, which give the
totals of all the companies iuvolfed in land
grants as follows:
The number of miles proposed to be con
structed, 12,060, cf which 3,130 had been
completed at the time the completion of the
entire amount was required. The aggre
gate amount of land grants, 137,881,357
acres, of which 14,873,497 have been pa
tented to the companies.
NOMINATIONS AND CONFIRMATIONS.
The President to day nominated to be
postmasters : Btith Bollings, at Petersburg,
Va., and Jas. E. Slaughter, at Mobile.
The Senate made the following confirma
tions: Joseph Shepperd as Collector of
Customs for tbe district of St. Mary’s, Ga.;
and Henry P. Farrow for the district of
Brunswick, Ga. The following postmas
ters were also confirmed: Harvey F. Gris
com, at Chattanooga, Tenn.; John Ander
son, at Paris, Tenn.; Jefferson Bcoonsker,
at Greenville, Texas; Win. D. Carey, at
Gonzales, Texas; Rudolph Frank, at Cairo,
Texas; Albert F. HuDt, at Tyler, Texas;
Alf. Heaton, at San Marius, Texae; William
KHlebrew, at Martin, Texas; Robt. Tendtck,
at Columbus, Texas; and Julius Wagener,
at Iridlanola, Texas.
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE.
The following members of the House
have been selected to represent the House
on the Executive Committee of the Demo
cratic Congressional Campaign Committee:
Messrs. Fiower of New York, Randall of
Pennsylvania, LeFevre of Oaio, Cobb of
Indiana, Thompson of Kentucky, and Jones
of Aikansas.
THE STAR ROUTE CASES.
Hon. Richard J. Merrick has been ap
pointed counsel to assist Colonel George
Bliss In the prosecution of the star route
cases, to take the place held by Mr. Brew
sfer prior to his elevation to the Attorney
Generalship.
AN ARKANSAS HORROR.
A Itlotbcr Throw* Her Children
Into a Pond and Plunges In With
Her liaby in Her Arms.
Cincinnati, March 29.— A special from
Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to the Times Star,
says: “On Monday last Mrs. Ballard, of
Lincoln county, Ark., broke the necks cf
two of her children—aged respectively seven
and four years—and threw them Into a
pond, and then jumped In herself with her
baby in her arms. The mother and taby
were drowned. The four bodies have
been recovered. The act succeeded a dis
agreement between the women and her hus
band.”
Wcatber Indications.
Of?:cb Chief Signal Observer. Wash
ington, D. C., March 29.— Indications for
Thursday:
In the South Atlantic States, warmer, fair
weather, south to west winds, and slight
changes in barometer.
in the Gult States, partly cloudy weather,
local rains in the western portion, stationary
or rising barom rier, variable winds shifting
to northerly, and a slight rise in temperature
in the eastern portion and lower tempera
ture in the western portion.
In the Middle Atlantic States, partly
cloudy weather and light rain in the north
ern portion, southwest to northwest winds,
falling followed by rising barometer, and
higher temperature.
In Tennessee and tbe Ohio valley, general
ly fair weather, touthwest to northwest
winds, rising barometer, and stationary or a
slight fall In temperature.
Cotton Future* In New York.
New York, March 29. —The Post's cotton
report says: “Future deliveries opened 2 100
to 3-100 lower In the absence of demand;
with free offerings prices fell continually.
At the second call the decline amounted to
7-100. After the call there was a further re
duction of 6100 to 8-100, June and July
selling at 14-100 and August at 15-100 below
yesterday’s closing quotations. Yesterday’s
buyers who filled outside orders felt disap
pointed by the Liverpool advices, and kept
off the market. Bome long cotton was sold
out, and soon all speculators for a quick
turn became sellers.”
Corruption In New Jersey.
Trenton, March 29.— 1n the New Jersey
Legislature to-day, while the debate was
pending on the taking up and passing over
the Governor’s veto of the bill known •
the bill to turn over to the railroad corpora
tions the water front of Jersey City, a mrm
ber rose iu bis seat and said an attempt bad
been made to bribe him to favor the bill,
and that be had the money, five hundred
dollars, in his possession. An investigation
was at once ordered and is in progress to
night.
English Borough* to be Diafran*
cblsed.
Manchester, March 29 —The Guardian's
London correspondent says he understands
that the bill to be introduced by Bir IleDry
James, Attorney General, on Tnureday, im
posing penalties for corrupt practices at
ejections, will completely disfranchise Sand
wich, and deprive Chester, Macclesfield,
Oxford, Gloucester and Boston of at least
one 6eat each in the House of Commons.
Higb-Handed Work In Egypt.
London, March 29.— A dispatch from Al
exandria reports that a party of soldiers, by
order of the government, have taken pot
sesslon of the works and warehouses of the
English railway running from Alexandria to
Hamlet, and have ordered their immediate
demolition on the ground that they inter
fere with fortifications. The railway com
pany has appealed to Mr. Malet, the British
Consul-General.
American Pork la France.
Paris, March 29. —The amendment to the
bill repealing the prohibition of the impor
tation of American salt meats, adopted yes
terday In the Chamber of Deputies, pro
vides that the exports shall carry out the
system of inspection prescribed by the gov
ernment, and that the Importers shall bear
the expanse.
Striking 'typos.
Naw York, March 29 — The compositors
on the World have struck agaiost a reduc
tion of live cents per thousand, and will
hold out. The publishers are also stub
born, and they are confident that they can
secure all the men they want.
Crow Dog to Hans.
DbadwOod, D. TANARUS., March 29 — Crow Dog,
recently convicted of the murder of Bpotted
Tall, was to day sentenced to be hanged on
May li'h.
Ckarcb and State.
Paris, March 33.—The committee on the
bill proposing the abolition of the concordat
has refused to assent to the separation of
Church and State.
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Death or a Peer.
Lompoc, March 341. Lord Frskine la dead.
The Highest Rank.
Made from harmless materials and adapted
to the needs of fading and falling hair, Par
ker’s Hair Balsam has taken the highest
rank as an elegant and reliable hair restora
tive.
MATCHLESS MOSES.
THE CARPET-BAG PRINCE IN THE
TOMBS.
Hl* Adroit and Numberless swin
dle*—A Record of Rascality—'Ten
Thousand Dollars alOne Haul.
New York, March 29.—Franklin J. Moses,
ex-Governor of South Carolina, and for
years a professional swindler, was a prisoner
to-day at police headquarters on the charge
of swindling Freeborn J. Smith, a Brooklyn
piano manufacturer, out of $175. There
are quite a number of similar charges
against him, and during the day he was
identified by a number of his victims, who
will appear against him to morrow at the
Tombs Police Court. He was arrested at
Broadway and Twenty-second street to day
by detectives, wbo had been searching for
him for two weeks.
On March llth Moses called on Mr.
Smith and represented himself as Richard
H. Co’qultt, a brother of Governor Colquitt,
of Georgia, and succeeded in Inducing
Smith to cash a check for one hundred and
seventy-five dollars. The check, which
was drawn on a Souther” bank, was re
turned protested. E W. Crowell, of the
Phoenix Insurance Company, also enter
tained Moses under the name of Anthony
White, of Greenville, 8. C., and cashed
his check for one hundred and fifty dollars.
Howard H. Btewart, of 61 Wall street, also
cashed two fifty dollar checks for
Moses, who represented himself to
be General Curtis, State Commissioner
of North Carolina, accidentally left without
money in this city after banking hours. Mr.
Stewart also Informed the police that a
number of Wall street men had been simi
larly victimized bv the ex-Governor, and
he promised to produce the vistims in court
to-morrow. B. H Hsztll, of the Charles
ton Steam Line, lost $230 by the check ope
rations of the prisoner. Charles R Flint, a
partner of Mayor Grace, wisely declined to
cash the checks prtsented.
Moses’ biography for the last five years,
as written up to-night, connects him with a
continuous series of swindles, mentloued
from time to time with the names of the
victims therein, but none of which at the
time were accredited to him. One of these
is a swindle perpetrated upon a prominent
trans-Atlantic steamship company by a
man, who pretended to have discovered a
Fonian plot to blow up their steamers, and
for his information received a reward stated
at $lO,OOO.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Terrible Tragedy on a Railway
Train.
Louisville, Ky., March 29.—Alexander
C. Wingate, of Lexington, Kentucky, was
shot in the breast and killed at a quarter
past three o’clock this morning on an Ohio
and Mississippi Rdiroad train, between
Sparksvllle and Medara, Indiana. His assas
sin was an unknown man, who was crazed
by drink and had no provocation. After
the tragedy the maniac jumped off the train,
which was going at the rate of
forty miles an hour, landed safely,
walked half a mile to a
creek, stripped himself naked and jumped
Into the stream. His dead body was found
there this morning. His clothes were found
hanging on a bridge. They contained $9 in
cash, a gold watch, an express receipt for
$4OO sent from El Paso, Texas, to New
Salem, Ohio, and a quart bottle of brandy
half full. Both bodies were brought to this
city.
BRUNSWICK HARBOR.
It* Advantages—Tbe Facilities of
Brunswick for Being the Second
Atlantic Cotton Port—A Snggeation
to tbe Ceorgla Congressional Dele
gation.
Editor Morning News: We have notice 1 re
cently tbe introduction of bills into both
houses of Congress for the improvement of
this harbor, one of the best on the Atlantic
coast, having about the same depth of
water on the bar at the entrance (between
St. Bimon’s and Jekyl Islands), that there
is upou the bar at the entrance to Savannah
at Tybee Island, and, like those at Savan
nah, the difficulties are inside in approach
ing the city.
While Savannah is some eighteen miles
up the river, and a river that supplies fresh
water in great abundance, Brunswick is on
an “estuary” or “arm of the sea,” with only
a few small fresh water creeks to Increase
the volume of outflow, or ebb
tide, over that of the inflow or flood tide.
This es’uary at Brunswick harbor is divided
by Buzzard Island into two etreams. Tbe
smaller one lies in front of the city. By
reason of the division of the water and the
tendency of the prevailing winds from the
sea, the ebb (1 >w of the tide does not return
in front of the city, but unites with the
larger stream and Dasse3 down back on
Turtle river. The effect of this is to cause
the channel leading to the city to shoal.
The flood tide, when effected by strong
southeast winds, drifts saud into the chan
nel, which the diminished ebb tide has not
the p'lwer to scour out and carry away.
The effect of this is to cause the drift sand
to accumulate In the channel and there re
main and obstruct navigation. The im
provements undertaken here by the United
States Government and intended to reduce
the width of the water-way, thereby increas
lng the velocity of the ebb t de and thus
with a diminished volume of water to pro
duce the effect that a greater volume would
produce If flowing at a lesser velocity. A
jetty 4,400 feet long Is In course of construc
tion, while the shoal channel nas been
deepened by dredging—and requires much
more deepening.
The foregoing is a brief description of the
works of Improvement at Brunswick, and
their completion should be made at an early
day. Brunswick is dally advancing in Im
portance, and the great activity now ob
served In the transhipment of lumber, naval
stores and other products, and tbe increased
facilities demanded for present business is a
sure indication that an increase in business
may be expected In the not distant future.
Why should not Brunswick be the second
great cotton port of Georgia, the “Em
pire State of the South.” The two
great lines of railway from the
West—one the outlet of the Southern Pa
cific, crossing the Mississippi at Vicksburg,
and the other coming from the Northwest
via Chattanooga, Atlanta and Macon—the
two lines traversing the entire cotton belt
and connecting with the vast Northwest,
even to the foot of the Rocky Mountains ?
Why, we repeat, should not Brunswlci be
a place of large business, requiring ships of
“large draught and many of them ?
This point conceded, as it mußtbe, what
is the duty of the entire delegation of Geor
gia in Congress bqt to use every honest and
honorable means to give I pis port the benefit
of a large appropriation—say #7s,ooo —for
the next year, In order to finish at once what
would otherwise be divided between two
years. It Is the outlet to the sea for many
States. St. John’s bar aad Cumberland bar
are not of national Importance, and can wait
for a portion of their allowance. They are
neither outlets for any large business at
present nor proipective, while Brunswick is
now doing a large business under many
difficulties, in tbe way of lightering cargoes
of lumber and naval stores, that would be
avoided by the completion of these improve
ments. Besides this, before another year
comes around the business In cotton and
other freight, as grain and cattle, w(11 be
largely Increased.
Will our members of Congress, in eonnec>
tion with those from Alabama, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Ttxis, Missouri and all the West
and Northwest, unite In demanding of the
Committee of Commerce the insertion of an
Item of #75,000, as recommended in the re
cent estimates of General GUI more ? Th
especial champion of this work, Colonel
Black, has been stricken down. Will his
colleagues do double duty in consequence 5
We shall see. Pro Bono Publico.
Will Not let Them Pajr t !
Lojjdoj}, March 2t| —Toe Telegraph to
day saye: “As the government refused to
release the Imprisoned Irish members of
Parliament so that they might attend in the
House ot Commons on Thursday and vote
on the cloture question, it was suggested
that three Liberals be paired with them for
the dtvlslon. This the government also re
futed.”
The Guelph Funds.
Berlin, March 29 —The Diet this evening
rejected the Progressist motion with refer
ence to the Guelph funds, and also Herr
Von Bennigeen’s amendment leaving the
matter to the government. A motion
offered by the Conservatives to shelve the
question by passing the order of thi day was
adopted.
AMID THE WATERS.
Graphic Picture* of the Floods-The
Outlook for Crops—The Terrors
of the Storms—Fearful Loss of Life
In a Gin House—A Steamer Sailing
Over Plantations—Refugees That
Will Not Work.
► New Orleans, March 29.—The Times-
Democrat's correspondent reports from Mas
son, Louisiana, that the beautiful Fordache,
Marengo and Grosse Tete country has been
desolated by a vast sheet of water pouring
over it from four crevasses. The Key and
Trinity sugar plantations also went under
from the back water. Oa Sunday night
Pine Tree levee, on the Mound plantation,
gave way, and on the Wednesday following
the Marengo back levee broke la five places.
Other breaks are reported, and the loss of
crops alone will exceed half a million dol
lars. Two hundred square miles of land,
cccupled by four thousand people, are cov
ered with water, only three plantations,
the Mound, Shady Grove and Augusta par
tially eecaping.
Bt. .Louis, March 29. —The government
steamer George Barnerd, loaded with 150,000
government rations of meal and bacon, and
about fifty tous of food and clothing con
tributed by charitable citizens, left here last
night for Memphis, Helena and Vicksburg,
in charge of Captain Mullins, U. 8. A.
General Beckwith has just received a
report from Lieut. B. H. Randolph, of the
Third Cavalry, dated Delhi, La., in which
the latter sums up the situation as follows :
“In the district from the Red river to the
Arkansas line, about fifty miles west of the
Mississippi, there has been no loss of life
except a few children on the Black river,
and there 's no actual starvation or
destitution at present. The supply of ra
tions judiciously husbanded will satisfy all
pressing needs until April 10th, when,
should there have been no improvement in
the situation before that date, there will
exist general destitution among white and
black. Should the flood fall decidedly by
April 10th, I think there will be
needed only half rations of bacon
and meal up to May Ist.
for 50,000;persons, who constitute the class
of small farmers, white and black. If there
is no change for the better before the 10th
of April, there will be about 18,000 persons
without food or credit. Should the water
fall decidedly by April 10th, the probability
is that planting can be done by May Ist,
and with this prospect the planters will pre
fer to feed their own hands, whereas, if the
water continues to rise, the whole system
of credit and working will be upset.
The commission merchants will decline to
advance to country merchants and planters,
and the latter will not be able to feed their
laborers. I can’t too strongly recommend
that all issues be discontinued Immediately
upon the subsiding of the water, so that
planting can begin.”
Natchez, March 29—The river is sta
tionary, with a slight tendency downward.
The back water in Vadalla is receding
slowly, there having been a fall of one inch
in twenty-four hours. A better feeling la
beginning to pervade the planting commu
n ty at the prospect, and hopes are enter
tdaed by them of making a fair
crop. Information has reached this city of
the destruction of the Ralston gin, near
Lake St. John, In Tensas parish, La., by
which 120 refugees lost their lives. This gin
was one of the largest iu North Louisiana,
and -was packed to overflowing with
negroes from the adjoining plantations.
The steamer Natchez brought down to this
city a large number of colored refugees, a
quantity of 6tock and a small amount of
rations. The refugees have been Hocking
here from miles arounp, so that- Natchez is
crowded with them. Manv have been offer
ed work at fair wages, but they refused it
preferring to remain in Idleness while the
government feeds and provides for them.
New Obleans, March 29 —The river is
stationary. The relief committee will re
quest the cotton seed oil mills to discon
tinue crushing until the demand for seed
for planting purposes from the overflowed
districts has been supplied.
The Times Democrat's Troy, La., special
reports the water three feet ten Inches above
the 1874 flood. One of the boats chartered
by General York, the State commissioner,
to relieve cattle is supposed to have gone
down during the storm on Monday on Cata
houla Lake with one hundred head of cat
tle. The hills of Catahoula parish are
crowded with people and cattle, and huts
are built of pine poles to live In. A general
exodus to the hills has set in.
The Times-Democrat's steamer Susie con
tinues the work of removing people and
stock from the overflowed section. The
water continues rising at the rate of three
and a half inches a day, and in many places
has reached the eaves of the houses, com
pelling the people living In lofts to move
out. On Monday at the Lindell place, some
twelve miles down Black river, the high
wind, which occurred In the morning, had
unroofed a portion of a gin house In which
twelve families were living and
nearly overturning the building. It would
seem that the climax of their woes
Is fast approaching. Every day there Is
storm and wind, and the waves it creates
endangers every overflowed building. Gen
eral York is exceedingly anxious about the
situation, and says: “As the lack of trans
portation is severely felt it is not Improbable
that I will soon baye to chronicle considera
ble loss of life. The waves dashing against
the sides of the houses shake them to their
foundation, and when they are almost float
ing they cannot stand it long. On my trip
to the Gaynors plantation, four miles below
Troy, the Susie left the river, and, steam
ing out through the road, was soon running
over broad plantations and fields. The
houses away from the river were much
lower than those on the banks, and as the
boat ran down the lanes and through
quarters but few had their eves above
water. In each gin house left there were
nearly one hundred negroes, besides a lot of
stock, and when the boat passed the women
would rush to the windows to see a
steamboat in a field, shying around cabins
and getting out of the wav of trees iu the
fields. The boat ran two miles and a half
inland, and over the Story, Cottonwood,
Grover, Preston, Vernoy, Omega, Elba,
Star and Herman plantations, arriving at
last at the house of Joseph S. Gaynor, on
the Omega place. Every cabin was de
serted along the route, refugees haying
been taken in the the gin houses. All
these plantations are among the most
productive and yield as much cotton as any
in the State. Mr. Gaynor reports that dur
ing the last eight hours the water has risen
two inches. He has over two hundred
people on his plantation, and necessarily
feels much concern about them, as none of
the negroes will leave until he tells them to.
It Is away from the river where the suffering
is seen, and though there was none on the
Gaynor place, owing to the prosperity of its
owner, yet there were neighboring places,
where stock was upon scaffolds waiting for
the floats to come.
New York, March 29 —A Telegram repor
ter was informed at the Cotton Produce and
Stock Exchanges to-day, that the effort to
organize a movement in behalf of the suf
ferers from the Mississippi overflow, had
been abandoned. About $2,300 has been
contributed by down town business men for
the benefit of the sufferers.
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The New York Stock VlarUet.
N®w York, March 2ti —Share specula
tion opened weak and P er cent, lower
than yesterday’s closing prices, St. Paul pre
ferred, Oregon and Transcontinental, Chica
go, Burlington and Quincy, Nashville and
Chattanooga.and Indiana, Bloomington and
Western being prominent in the decline.
Richmond and Danville, however, opened
1% per cent, higher. In the early trade the
market fell off %il% per cent., Western
Union, Missouri Pacific, Canada Southern
and New Jersey Central being piomlnent in
the downward movement, while Michigan
Central declined 2% to 83%. Succeeding
this was a recovery of %al% per cent., the
latter for Missouri Pacific, while Norfolk
and Western preferred advanced 1% per
cent.
Subsequently a decline of % to 1% per
cent 1 , took place, Houston and Texas, Louis
ville and Nashville, Texas Pacific, and
Denver and Rio Grande beiDg promi"**'-*
therein, after which the Rold
steadily to ths close, the advance ranging
from % to 4 per cent., Nashville and Chat
tanooga, Louisville and Nashville, Louis
iana and Missouri River, Denver a’ld Rio
rande, Colorado uoal. Western Uuion,
and Michigan Central, Wabash common and
preferred, Texas Pacific and Oregon and
Transcontinental being most conspicuous
in the upward movement, and the market
Closed strong at the be<t figures of the
day. The closing prices were % to 3 per
cent, higher than at yesterday’s close, the
latter for Louisville and Nashville and
Nashville and Chattanooga. Transactions
aggregated 430,000 shares.
Czar and Kaiser.
Berlin, March 29.—The Provincial Cor
respondence says: “The recent messages be
tween the Czar and the Emperor William
will do much to allay the apprehension
roused by the uncalled for and unauthorized
utterances lately made in certain quarters.”
Skinny men.
“Wells’ Health Renewer,” greatest reme
dy on earth for impotence, leanness, sexual
debility, etc. $l, at druggists. Depot, Os
ceola Butler, Savannah.
THE FLORIDA CANAL.
FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE
OULF.
The Proposed Hlaelaalppl and At*
lautlc Great Steamboat and Barge
Line—A Host Important Commer*
clal Enterprise— Natural Facilities
for tbe Canal—Tbe Oketlaokee
Swamp—Tbe Great Value of Ita
Lands if Reclaimed Estimated
Cost of a Barge Line.
It is no exaggeration to say this project is
one of the greatest commercial enterprises
ever set on foot in the Bouth—perhaps in
this country—and we propose in a series of
articles a cursory view of its practicability,
magnitude and importance, based upon as
certained facts, derived from official reports
and ihe observations of shrewd men whose
attention have, from time to time, been at
tracted to the subject.
NOT A SHIP CANAL
Three surreys have been made with the
view of a ship canal across the peninsula of
Florida. Including the route from Bt. Mary’s
on the Atlantic through Okeflaokee swamp
and down the Suwannee to the Gulf, near
St, Mark’s, and by actual test each of the
lines tun has been pronounced feasible for
tbe construction of such a canal; but re
membering that the cost of a ship canal has
been stated at over $50,000,000 and that of
a steamboat barge line at a fraction over
$7,000,000, the advantage and probability of
c instruction must be considered altogether
In favor of the latter. This great difference
in cost of construction cannot well be ig
nored, especially when it is aeen that a barge
line at one seventh of the original cost of a
ship canal will actually accommodate three
fourths of the trade that can be expected of
the latter, and accomplish all the drainage
and land reclamation that would be done by
the more expensive enterprise.
Led by these consideratlous to regard the
steamboat and barge canal as fulfilling in a
high degree all the practicable requirements
of a complete commercial waterway be
tween the Atlantic and the Gulf, across the
peninsula of Florida, it remains to point out
some of the chief advantages of the St.
Mary’s and Okefinokee route over all
others, and to allude to its great importance
to Georgia, Florida and the whole country.
It will be proper to say that there have
been two companies organized, or partially
so, with the view of utilizing the franchises
conferred, or to be conferred, by the States
covering the territory, and that these had
different views—one designing the construc
tion of a ship canal, and the other a steam
boat and barge canal. Without any regard
to the interested views of either of these
parties, we will consider the project as a
great public enterprise of pressing neces
sity.
With this understanding, we proceed to
say that the object so much desired, as
sought in the several surveys of preliminary
lines and public discussion—to-wit: A water
connection between the Atlantic and Gulf of
Mexico, across the peninsula of Florida—
ALREADY EXISTS,
and needs but to be straightened, dredged,
deepened and properly supplied with locks
and reservoirs for the Introduction of com
merce. This connection is also at the right
place—the most desirable place—for the
commerce It is designed to accommodate,
having its outlet on the Atlantic at the
southern terminus of the Atlantic inland
coast navigation, and its Gulf outlet at the
eastern terminus of the Gulf inland coast
navigation. These points are the river St.
Mary’s on the one side, and the port and
river St. Mark’s on the other. As if to meet
in full the requirements of the great com
mercial highway, aud compensate for her
peninsular obstruction to southern naviga
tion, nature indented the crest of the penin
sular highlands at the very point where it
would be most useful, and there collected
inexhaustible waters for the supply of its
summit level.
OKEFINOKEE SWAMP.
Thus it appears that after a somnolence
of nearly two hundred years in the mem
ory of civilized man, as the weird abode
of owls, bats, reptiles and savage denizens
of the forest, the much dreaded Okeefe
nokce swamp, regarded as a foul blot upon
the Southern landscaoe, emerges with its
twelve hundred square miles of watershed,
and altitude of one hundred and twenty
feet above tide wa’er, as the basis of a mag
nificent water-way, destined to control the
growing commerce of half a great conti
nent. As the summit level basin out of
which Rows the St. Mary’s river to the At
lantic on the east, and the Suwannee to the
Guir on the west, it forms the connecting
link between the waters of the Atlantic and
Gulf across the peninsula of Florida, and
becomes of the very first importance in the
construction of a steamboat and barge ca
nal through that region. As such it de
serves particular attention, and we copy the
following from a report formerly made on
thi? subject by Col. Ralford, from a survey
made under the direction of Gen. Q A.
Glllmore, by Lieut. S. L. Fremont, United
States Engineers:
“The Okefinokee is popularly known as
a swamp, which, at some period, must have
been a clear wa‘er lake, but is now covered
with a stra urn of decomposed vegetation of
the peat order, having a very uniform thick
ness of about nine feet ever the bottom of
the lake which is covered with sand said
to be ‘almost pure sllex.’ This stratum
of sand Is three feet thick and underlaid
with a stratum of very tough clay three and
a quarter feet thick, under which is another
stratum, two feet thick, of dark sand, which,
on drying, becomes very hard and cement
like, the borings ending in another stratum
of very tough and hard clay at a depth of
eighteen feet.
“Okefinokee swamp, or lake, rests on a
plateau forty-one miles west of St. Mary’s,
and ten miles from Camp Pinckney, on St.
Mary’s river. It has an average elevation of
about 117 feet above tide water (at Camp
Pinckney) and is the source of supply for
one of the branches of the St. Many’s river,
and for a larger branch of the Suwannee.
Thus these two rivers, In connection with
the Okefinokee, may be said to bisect the
peninsula of Florida at the present time.
“By compass and level lines run around the
swamp the distance Is about 150 miles.
Length 39% miles, greatest width 25%
miles, and contains 400,000 acres in Georgia
and 5,000 acres in Florida. The greatest
elevation on the north side is 125 feet; 20
miles south on the east side, 120 feet. At
Elllcott’s Mound—where a branch of the St.
Mary’s river takes its source—lll% feet,
aud where a branch of the Suwannee leaves
it, 110 feet. The Suwannee takes the most of
the drainage. The southern aud eastern side
has a rise or divide between it and the Bt.
Mary’s river and Spanish creek, a trihutary
of the St. Mary’s. This riyer yaries from
two to eight miles in width, but usually the
summit of the divide or vein Is within one
or two miles of the swamp. No durable
streams empty into it other than ‘spriDg
heads’ along the margin, but the Okefino
kee proper receives the drainage of about
900 square miles, and with that of “Bay
swamp,’ which drains into it, the aggregate
is about 1,200 square mßes, according to
General Glllmorc’s report.
“The whole swamp, including prairies,
glades and timbered portion within its
margin, except the islands, which probably
do not cover more than fifteen thousand
acres, show, so far as examinations have
been made in different parts, that the stra
tum of decomposed vegetation of the peat
order is from eight to ten feet in thickness.
Many of the prairies are covered with the
bonnet lily, whose large roots run to the
sand. Fern, maiden cane and other vegeta
tion grows from one to two feet above
water. The water usually, except in a very
dry time, covers the prairies from three to
fifteen or twenty inches in depth. Very
little water is seen in the timbered portion,
as the surface Is higher than the prairies
and covered with moss growing on the de
composed vegetation. The temperature of
the water under the moss was 72 degrees,
while in the open prairies near by I* —i
? n e t f hT^ ree ' t 0 84 -Agrees in August.
In this co jeCt j on jt may be mentioned
...ere is never any unpleasant odor in the
warmest days of summer, and that trout
and many other edible kinds of fish are
abundant In the waters of the Okefinokee,
The water, although warm in summer, has
no unpleasant taste and is always regarded
as healthy. In a test made with a pipe
driven through the first stratum into the
sand, it was found that while the tempera
ture of the water at the surface was 82 de
grees the water from the sand strata was
only 58 degrees.
“The area of the swamp la probably about
equally divided in prairie and timber. One
prairie is known to contain over 9,000 acres.
The leading varieties of timber are pine,
cypress, lobloll>-bay, gum, poplar or white
wood, hickory and cedar. OX loblolly-bay,
or 'American mahogany,’ Lieutenant Hun
ter says many of them are from eighty to
ninety feet to their branches, and ml of
the timber shows an increased size over that
growing on the dry land.
“The canal and lateral ditches necessary
for drainage would afford easy transporta
tion by floating with the surplus water to a
point within five miles of Lamp Tinckney
and there manufactured by'Vtwer from the
same Water that floats it to pie mills.”
Of the productiveness of Okefinokee,
when reclaimed, there can be but one
answer: That with Its average of nine feet
depth of unrivaled oU, there la no such
ESTABLISHED 1850.
body of land In the United States for the
production of sugar cane, corn, rice, cotton,
Irish and sweet potatoes, arrowroot, and all
the different kinds of vegetables and ber
ries grown in that climate. Also, the semi
tropical fruits and nut bearing trees.
Notably among these would be the orange,
lemon, citron, pomegranate, fig, almonds,
and several varieties of walnuts now im
ported. The few peaches and plums now
growing on the margin of Okefinokee in an
almost wild state indicate that with proper
cultivation no section—not even California
—could equal them in 6ize and quality.
Here also would be the home of the scup
pernong grape.
It is safe to say that the Okefinokee
lands when reclaimed will be as valuable as
the rice lands of Georgia, that produce an
average of fifty bushels of rough rice per
acre and are valued at fifty dolars per
acre.
From a pamphlet of facts collated from
reports of surveys by the United St&es, we
learn that “the friends of this route had a
bill introduced in Congress January 21st.
1878, asking for an appropriation of $34,000
for a survey of a steamboat and barge canal,
but, unfortunately,” says the pamphleteer,
“for reasons unnecessary to give here, the
title of the bill was changed to a survey and
examination for a ship canal, and an appro
priation of $7,500 allowed from the river
and harbor act of June 18th, 1878.” Hence
General Gillmore’a report of survey is ne
cessarily confined almost entirely to a ship
canal, but shows the entire feasibility of the
route for a steamboat and barge canal.
It will be easy to infer fiom the above
that the friends of the ship canal have been
at work before Congress as well as the
friends of the steamboat and barge canal—
to which we will add other influences of a
different and more potent character here
after. But the survey of General Gillmore
for a ship canal, while it required minute
and exhaustive calculations, guarding with
accuracy and precision the economic points
of water supply for a ship canal, exhibited
through the same data an abundant supply
for a steamboat and barge canal. He sayß
“the Okefinokee is the lowest summit
level between the waters of the Atlantic and
Gulf of Mexico north of parallel 29 de
grees,” and adds: “The summit level will
begin about six miles west of Camp Pinck
ney (on the St. Mary’s river) and terminate
about seven miles east of Eliaville (on the
Suwannee), giving a long reach of seventy
four miles. Hence to the nearest point on
the Gulf would be forty-eight miles. The
long level will have an abundance of feed
water from the Okefinokee and Suwannee
river.”
The estimated cost of a barge canal eight
feet in depth, by the report of survey, is:
For grading canal $8,330,000
For locks 1,444,000
For improvement at entrance from
Gulf, extra cutting 1,000,009
For guard gates, repair gates and
drawbridges 90,000
Total expenses $5,864,000
This estimate does not embrace the cross
ing of Suwannee river, which can be avoid
ed, and terminates in Ocilla river; but If
the line crossing the Suwannee should be
adopted It would be more direct and shorter
navigation, while either the direct or Su
wannee river line, going west to Ocilla and St.
Mark’s, would pass through and drain San
Pedro Bay or swamp west of the Suwannee,
and thus add another large area of land
simtlar to Okefinokee, to the wealth of the
State and company. This swamp has an
area of ten by fifteen miles and is eighty
five feet above tide water, forming the
headwaters of the Fenholloway, Enconfee
nee, Warrior and Norton’s creeks, thus af
fording abundant water for the western
division and second level of the one hundred
and seventy miles grade from Camp Pinck
ney on the St. Mary’s to St. Mark’s.
OUR JACKSONVILLE LETTER.
Synopsis of Governor Hloxbim’i
Interview—Facta Respecting Edu
cation— Politics Colored Popula
tion—Finances—Public Charities—
Small Farms—lncrease of Popula
tion Orange Culture Florida
nourns with Georgia—A Common
Loss—Peace to Hla Memory—Ou>-
Annual Convention—All Sorts of
Items.
Jacksonville, March 89.— There are several
other subjects referred to in Gov. Bloxham’s
late interview with the New Orleans Times-
Democrat, to which public attention should be
directed. With regard to education he states
that there are now more than 1,800 schools in
operation. These are established at every
point where a sufficient number of pupils can
be obtained, and are kept open just as long as
the revenue will permit. The late school cen
sus showed 84,533 children of school ages within
the State, of whom 44.523 were white and 40,000
colored. The people are generally in favor of
a national appropriation in aid of education,
and the special school taxes are cheerfully
paid.
Speaking of politics, the Governor thinks
that there is but slight prospect at present of
an Independent movement, and that any such
combination would derive but slight support,
even from Republicans. Thera have been very
few complaints of violence or intimidation
within the past two years, and the masses of
the people are satisfied with the rapid progress
made by the State in material development.
Asa rule, the negroes take as much interest as
they formerly did in politics, although a good
many of that race now vote with the Demo
crats.
The question of free trade or protection is
but little discussed, but the people of Florida
will warmly support the improvement of the
Mississippi river, as it is hoped that some day
there will be a barge or ship canal across this
State, that will practically make Florida the
outlet for the products of our great Western
▼alley.
As to the colored population, the Governor
thinks there is a gradual Improvement.
Only a few, however, accumulate property,
aud the proportion of taxpayers among them
is Insignificant. They encourage education
among their children, but they furnish no evi
dence of greater thrift and industry.
The financial condition of the State is entirely
satisfactory. All liabilities are promptly paid
by the Treasurer, while the bonds of the State
are considerably above par, and are regarded
as very desirable investments. There is no
floating debt, and the amount of the bonded
debt is only $1,280,000, more than half of which
is in funds belonging to the State. The interest
is promptly met, and the assessed valuation of
property reaches $36,691,823. The rate of taxa
tion is seven mills on the dollar, and the taxes
are paid promptly, although there is some
complaint of the want of equality and uni
formity in assessments.
There is but one asylfim—that for the insane.
This institution contains one hundred and thir
teen inmates: is well managed, and has an an
nual appropriation of $25,000, The State con
victs, numbering about two hundred, are leased
to contractors, who relieve the State of all ex-
S eases connected with their care and custody.
lost of the offenses for which they are incar
cerated are crimes against property, and about
five-sixths of the oulprits are colored.
A growing tendency is manifested towards
smaUfarms and diversified farming. There is
a noticeable increase in the production of vege
tables, and the day is not far distant when
most of the early supplies of such articles will
be furnished from Florida. In (he cotton belt
most of the work done is on the share or rent
system, which has not been found satisfac
tory, ahd most of those who still work on the
credit plan are found among the cotton
growers. The vegetable and fruit producers
manage their affairs on a cash basis and hire
their workmen.
The increase in population is largely white,
and can be set down at ninety thousand in the
last ten years. Many negroes have gone and
are still going out of the State to work on rail-
Probably from 510.0C0.000 to $12,000,000 are
invested in the orange industry, some of the
groves containing 10,000 trees. From fOO to
1,000 oranges to the tree may be regarded as an
average yield, and the fruit brings about $l5
per thousand- Some groves net the owners
$1 ,OOQ to the acre. Oranges can be grown any
where in the State with suitable cultivation
and proper protection against frost, and they
require intelligent care and, attention. While
the groves are coming to maturity the land
they occupy can be profitably cultivated in
garden products, and oan be used for sheep
pastures. There is but little danger of over
doing the business and glutting the
market. The home demand has Qeyey
been met, and quite recently
shipments have been successfully made to
Europe, where our oranges are greatly
esteemed. Seven hundred and seventy-one
million of foreign oranges were consumed In
this country in 1879 in addition to the Florida
crop of 45,000,090. It wifi be seen therefore
that a wide margin yet exists between the sup
ply and demand, and that it will be many
years before the price of our oranges will be
materially lessened. Insect enemies are not
as numerous as formerly, and are now readily
controlled. The tree will bear productively
for a hundred years or more, and there is one
in the State eighty years old that still yields
enormously.
Such is a brief summary of the valuable In
formation given in the Governor’s able article,
which, as I have said, sbouid be widely dis
seminated as conveying an immense amount
of accurate and important data in a short com
pass. It is an admirable contribution to the
present history of the State and should be sent
to all prospective immigrants.
Each and all of the many readers of the
Morning News! in Florida will share in the
profound regret occasioned by the death of
Oolonel Thompson. For more than a genera
tion, he has been intimately associated with
that journal, and his labors have been greatly
instrumental in raising that paper to the lofty
rank which it occupies. In this State he had
many warm personal friends and an army of
admirers. While but a youth he shouldered
his musket and enlisted as a private In one of
the volunteer comoaaiee raised to protect the
then Territory of Florida against the ravages
of the savage Semlnoles, From that time to
the end of nis useful and valuable life be
always manifested a deep attachment
to this State, and his graceful and
eloquent pen was never more cheerfully and
willingly cuipioj ed than when engaged in por
traying her advantages and defending her in
terests. The writer of this tribute well retnem
bers his occasional visits to Florida, and
the sincere pleasure it gave Colonel
Thompson to note the rapid strides made by
our State on tbe road to prosperity and great
ness . It was a privilege to listen to his remi
niscences of the early history of our Btate, and
to hear his graphic descriptions of the men
and scenes of that period. He was a gentle
man of the old school, and his courteous de
meanor, sympathetic heart, conversational tal
ent, and extensive fund of general information,
endeared him to all classes of the community.
The South had no nobler and truer son, and
amid the dark days of the terrible civil war,
and the still darker days of reconstruction,
never for a single moment did he shrink from
his duty, or falter in his fealty. He was a fear
less, honest and gallant gentleman, and Florida
claims the i ight to place upon his honored
grave a wreath of palm, bay and cypress.
Next Monday the municipal election will
take place, and the city is now engulfed in ita
annual whirlpool. This is the season when the
average white and negro bummers float tri
umphantly to the surface, and when they swim
in a free sea of beer aud whiskv, for the con
test is generally close, and many are the arti
fices and wiles laid to capture the voter of
assumed independent proclivities.
During the remainder of this week there will
be hob-nobbing, button-holing and dark lantern
meetings without stint, and the souls of thirsty
patriots will be made glad by the profusion of
their accustomed beverages.
“The People’s Ticket” is composed of men
of both parties, and is of a character to com
mand the respect, and enlist the support of all
of the better elements of the community. The
convention that placed this ticket in the field
was wonderfully harmonious In its action, and
the nominations were made with a unanimity
that gave a bright prfsage of success.
To-night the straight-out Radical convention
will assemble for the purpose of making their
nominations. This occasion is awaited with as
much interest as the arrival of a circus, and
attracts a large audience. There is always a
struggle for the different places on the ticket,
in which the spectators, as well as the dele
gates participate. The interruptions from the
outsiders are often of a most amusing charac
ter, for the intelligent colored voters claim the
largest liberty, and indulge in the broadest
satire. Just now there is considerable dissat
isfaction in their ranks, as many claim that
the convention has been postponed to this late
day to suit the purposes of certain ring-mas
ters. and they intimate plainly that they will
not favor the introduction of the Boss Conk
ling style of tactics into this latitude.
Asa sensation the cowhiding affair at the St.
James Hotel was a success. The verdict of the
public was thoroughly in accord with the gen
tleman who wielded the iash so effectually.
As no charge was made against him in the
courts, it is to be inferred that the party
punished took the indignity gracefully and
prudently, wisely concluding discretion to be
the better part of valor. It is very reasonably
to be presumed that the man who would insult
an unprotected lady is a coward.
Quite an excursion party from Middle Geor
gia arrived on Monday. As the tickets are
good for thirty days, many of the tourists will
be able to sea considerable of our State, and it
would not surprise me if several did not locate.
Asa proof of the rapidity of modern travel,
there were gentlemen along who breakfasted
in Milledgeville and supped in Jacksonville,
making the run of three hundred miles in thir
teen hours.
The drought still continues, and crops are
suffering. The records of the Signal office
show a less rainfall for the first quarter.of this
year than has ever before been noted. Large
shipments of fruits and vegetables still con
tinue to be made, and the proportions of this
industry are annually becoming greater.
The season is w(pding up in a lively manner,
and we have recently had quite a round of
amusements. Maeallister, the magician, T. A.
Elmo, the spiritualist, and the drama of Hazel
Kirke have all drawn large houses and de
lighted audiences.
There was an increase of nearly a thousand
dollars in the sales of postage stamps, envel
opes and cards during February at this office
over the same month of last year. This is an
index of our increase in population and busi
ness that is significant. W. H. B.
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
The Manchester Guardian says: “The
short time movement is holding its ground
and seems likely to spread.”
Secretary Hunt says he now knows he Is
not to remain. The Teller nomination for
the Interior Department is still regarded as
sure.
A gale recently demolished the spire of
the Priory Church at Christ Church, Hamp
shire, England. It was one hundred and
fwenty feet high.
Oxford Is now a strong favorite in the
University boat race in consequence of the
satisfactory practice of the crew since their
arrival in London.
During last week fourteen deaths from
small-pox were reported In New York, and
twenty-two in Cincinnati. During the pre
vious week twenty-four deaths from the
disease were reported in New Orleans.
Miss Phoebe Cozzens, the well known
lawyer and woman suffragist of St. Louis,
has asked the President to appoint her on
the commission to reorganize the Territory
of Utah, under the recent act of Cougress.
A project is on foot to establish steam
ship line between New York and the Ama
zon river, South America, the first steamer
to leave Mansos ou April 30. Two steamers
are engaged, and these will make four trips
a year. The object is to develop the rubber
trade of the Amazon.
A freight elevator in Gallupus’ Novelty
Works, at Troy, fell from the fourth floor
recently, killing a boy and seriously if not
fatally injuring a man. The proprietor of
the works says the elevator was improperly
constructed, and has fallen twelve times in
two years.
Agent Miles, of the Cbeyenne and Ara 1
pahoe Agency, In the Indian Territory, re
ports to the Indian Bureau that it will be
very difficult to prevent an outbreak if the
rations of the Indians are reduced under
the refusal of Congress to make an appro
priation.
Gen. Grant spent some time Monday after
noon In the marble room In the Senate en
gaged in talking over the Fltz John Porter
case with a number of SeDafors, whom he
sent {or in succession. His arguments were
the same as in his letter, and he seemed in
earnest.in doing what he could to make up
for his former opposition in the case.
The Central News has a dispatch from St.
Petersburg, stating that officials are Investi
gating along the line of the St. Petersburg
and Moscow Railway with the object of dis
covering a mine, of which some Nihilists
recently arrested gave information. The
search has thus far proved unsuccessful.
Wade Lamar, a planter residing on
Mrs. W. M. Steadman’s plantation, near
Aiken, 8. C., shot aud killed Gilbert Green,
colored, IMonday night, for stealing a hoe
from his lot. Green killed the hog and was
running off. When requested to stop,’ he
assaulted Lamar with a fence rail, where
upon Lamar shot him, the ball taking effect
in the back, killing him instantly.
The Marriage of a Bonaparte.
Mile. Jeanne Bonaparte, the daughter
of the late Prince Pierre Bona.parte,
whose marriage to the Marquis de Vil
leneuve Pargemont, a legitimist, has been
announced, is the sister of Prince Roland
Bonaparte, who, by marrying the
daughter of the late M. Blanc, keeper of
the gambling tables at Monaca, raised
the poorest branch of his family to the
position of the wealthiest. Her father,
the late Prince Pierre Bonaparte, was a
first cousin of the Emperor Napoleon
111. and a notorious ruffian withal, while
her mother was a very worthy woman,
who, when adversity overtook her,
was not too proud to return
to her trade of milliner and dress
maker. Bhe takes to her husband a
dowry of 2,000,000 francs ($400,000), the
gift of her brother Roland and his wife,
although it is said that the husband did
not woo her with this object in view,
and did not expect a rich portion with
her when her heart was won. In the
Lucien branch of the Bonaparte family
love matches have been the rule, and the
beauty of the women goes on increasing.
The bride is described as being pretty
and intelligent, with a very Bonapartean
head and a great deal of animation, the
latter quality being inuerited from her
mother. The Marquis de Villeneuve, the
groom, belongs to an old and honorable
family of Provence. He is a nephew of
the late Comtesse de Montebello, who is
represented in Winterhalter’s picture of
“ the Empress Eugenie and the Ladies
of Her Court.” lie has, like his bride,
aesthetic tastes, and it was this happy
coincidence that brought tbo two to
gether. They became acquainted through
Mr. William Bonaparte Wyse, the friend
of the Marquis and cousin to Mile.
Jeanne. The Marqui3 was asked by Mr.
Wyse to write a preface for a book of
poems in tho Provencal dialect, and
Jeanne, who draws and paints admira
bly, was to illustrate them. She and M.
de Villeneuve often held consultations,
literary and artistic, and straightway fell
in love with each other.
Threatening Placards In Dublin.
London, March 29.—A placard has been
posted in Dublin, menacing the members of
Parliament from that city because of their
supposed intention to vote for cloture.
Oratefnl to Invalid*.
Floreston Cologne Is grateful to invalids,
because it is refreshing without the sicken
ing effect of most perfumes.
aUstfUaiifous.
o. a.
Blue Mottled Soap 35 certs a bar
SeidUtz Powders 40 cents a box
Extract Ginger 40 cents a bottle
Powder 40 cents a pound
; 10 cents a pound
Florida Water 60 cents a bottle
Shoe P01i5h....... 10 cents a bottle
Pure Cooking Soda 10 cents a pound
KEROSENE 13 cents a gallon, 2 for 25c.
AUldnd-! DBUGB. MEDICINES, TOILET and
FANCY ARTICLES low.
Jolanson tib 00.,
Corner Broughton and Habersham,