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ft-pt BUSHED POEM. BV HBSBV W. LONG
FELLOW.
From the Independent.
Alone I walk the peopled city.
Where each seems happy with his own;
Ot. frieuds, I ask not for your pity—
I walk alone.
S . more for me yon lake rej Vces,
Thouxh moved by loving sir. of June.
Oh' birds, your sweet and piping voices
Are out of tune.
In vain for me the elm tree arches
p* plumes in many a feathery spray;
In vain the evening's starry marches
And sunlit day.
In vain your beauty, summer flowers;
* cannot greet these cordial eyes;
They gaz • on other fields than ours—
On other skies.
The gold is rifl'd from the roff-r,
The ti'ade is stolen from the sheath;
Life h s hut one more boon to otter.
And that is—Death.
Vet well I know the voice of duty.
And. therefore, lifeand health must crave,
TV ugh she who give the world it* beauty
Is in her grave.
I live, O, lost one! for the living
Who drew their earliest life from thee,
And wait, until with gLd thanksgiving
I shall te free.
For life to me is as a station
Wh“reln spirt a traveler stands
One absent lor g from home and nation.
In other lands;
And I. as he who stands and listens.
Amid the twilight’s chill and gloom.
To hear, approaching in the distance.
The train for home.
For dea'ta shall bring another mating.
Beyond th shadows of the tomb,
On yonder shore a bride is waiting
Until I come.
In vender field are children playing.
And ther—oh’ vision of delight—
I see the child and mother • raying •
In robes of white.
Tt ou. then, the longing heart that break' s’,
* ealing the treasures one by one.
I’ll c ol Thee blessed when Thou makest
The parted—one.
September 13, 1863.
Georgia Affairs.
OurWarthen correspondent writes; ‘•The
recent cold snap caused serious fears among
the farmers, and considerable apprehension
was felt for the safety of the small grain. The
grain has advanced ti that stag* of maturity
wh-n a fres’would kill it without the po*si
bility of irs putting out again. The weather
is n> . warmer, and no anxiety is entertained
for its safety. It was reported in some of the
exchacga* that the fruit crop in this county
was a failure. Such is not the case, but on the
contrary, the yield this year will be larger than
for some time past. The trees are heavily
fn. -d and an abundant crop is expected.
Great enthusiasm is felt in the memorial exer
ci- sof the intfc. and every effort will be made
to e-!ebrate our dead heroes with appropriate
ceremonies.”
The Atlanta police are charged with levying
blackmail upon the sporting men.
Ttie Georgia White Bu!phur Bprings bid fair
to a’tra -t a large crowd of pleasure seekers
this year. The hotel accommodations are be
ing improved.
Th* number of deaths in Augusta last year
between the ages of 100 and 105 years was 3;
between 9) and 100, 3; between 75 and 90. 38.
Mr An. Oliver, formerly of Greene county,
but who has recently resided with his brother,
Mr James Culver, at Rutledge, was found dead
in his bed on Tuesday moruing. It is supposed
his death was caused by an over dose of opium.
Mr ,W A. BrecKenridge will commence the
puMi at ion of anew paper In Senoia this week,
to be called the Phoenix.
On Monday as the jailer was carrying them
their food, two negroes sentenced to the Bul
loch county chain gang during the last term of
the Superior Court, attempted to run over the
jailer. One was successful in making his es
cape—the other the jal'er retained by a hard
fight.
Mr. Alex. Smith, of Wilkes county, was cut
ting down a tree, when a limb fell on his head
He saw the limb falling, but in looking after
his children, who were near by, failed to get
out of the way in time. The wound bled very
profusely.
P. S. Johnson, a special agent of the South
ern Express Company, a son of Mrs. P. M
Johnson, of Augusta, was kil'ed at Selma
Alabama, a few days ago while attempting to
board a train.
Fifty bales of products of the Sibley Mills,
the first consignment, were shipped from Au
gusta to New York on Friday.
A little boy named Morris, living near Cross
Keys, DeKalb county, was choked to death by
a grain of pop corn a few days ago.
w D. Horton, white, shot and instantly
killed Sandy gowell, colored, at Poulan, Worth
Bounty. on the Bth instant. Sunday an inques*
was held and the jury returned a verdict of
nurfier. Horton fled soon after the killing
and has not been apprehended.
Uiptain F. M. Coulter, of Rome, is now en
gag’d in making a model for the new boat
which wi 1 he one hundred and forty feet long
Of sixteen teet wide. It will be built for a low
water boat, and will run from Rome to
Gadsden.
w Asi ngton Gazette: “At the Kagruder
nuties. on the edge of this county, a real bonan
za has been found. Bonanza is a Spanish word
•cl literally translated i eana a rich silver
••on, and that is just what is now interesting
them mwt at the above named mines. The
irm just found is four and a half feat wide.
S’d assay* $l5O in silver to the ton. besides
o re- baser meta’s. The crude ore is being
“tipped iff in large quantities to be melted.”
Ri’ne Courier: “Mention was made in these
° "in-ns yesterday ot the shooting ot a negro
Btan at Calhoun by Ben Jones. We have
fathered the following particulars of the affair;
jh“ re gro, who is named Charles Lane, as
t altei Jones with a rail a short time before
t' - sb- oting occurred. Jones shot at the negro
miir im. s, one bail taking effrcl It entered
'■ * eft sid e an( i pegged into the stomach. The
wounded man is in a very critical condition.
" JCes has not yet been apprehended.”
The Cincinnati Enquirer, in noticing the
Xtent sale, thus slludew to Mr. Mitchell and bis
jwirchsses ; “T. C Mitchell, of Thomasvi!!e.
•ecr t -ia, was an rxtersive purchaser, invest
bay colt, bj King Rene, *241;
Kcd Bud. s, rrel filly, by I rector. 5500 : Emi-
P int - nay gelding, by Auditor, *180; B’mbo,
“•Jg’-ding. by Cuyter. S2*iO ; The Baron, bay
’V ’ ( ’ u > I '‘r SAO; Eufaula, bay filly, by
Triton,slß ; Getrevieve.bay fllly.by King Rene,
v , making his total fd,870 for seven ani
mals."
Toecoa AVuw; "A painful accident occurre 1
f.’• ur! iture factory of Me*srs. Seaweil &
~j~ w f or d’ four miles frrm this place, on la-t
L l * s '' K '*' result ng in serious injuries to George
c ***■' ■ tbe f* urteen yea- old son of Mr J. B.
. or 'e cf the proprietors. The boy wa
' dentally caucht by one of the bel'g used in
running the machinery, and whirled rapidly
v ' 11,1 upright shaft several times before
,r a extricated from hi* perilous posi
tsi ■ injuries received were a broken
• zn, a sprained ankle and a slightly Ir jured
n. > sl *ght bruises ou the head and other
MUsof the bo. y ”
■JjFlvania Telephone: “Nelson Hagin, the
, *hi was arrested and con mitted to jail
trfi ■. r l’ u, ting obstruction* cn the Cen-
TT, hailroad, just below Millen, and who
. ,‘l * *ew days before the last November
h-„7 u the Court, was captured and
fought to town by Mr. J.H. Parker onWeJnes
. list, and turned over to the Sheriff He
i now be keptn-cure from escape until he is
bv Cue process of law. We learn
Parker i to receive a rrward of five
dollars from the Central Railroad for
jwptiiring the gang who were implicated in
thi* °,s D and he will certainly bring in
we others in a few days.”
IsvumentiDgon the work being done at that
. y *he Macon an t Brunswick Road, the
hi'fV^i lck .^ dcert ’* er arut Appeal says: “A
ti. T.Sfi ‘•“hinkment built out in the marsh
s.ii'ii® rive r aod broadened as it approaches
._‘ ri ' Hr to 5 O feet, aud ttnished off with an
..j*", lll ' 6 wharf, dredging in front of toat
length to secure uniform
th£i.,~ buUdin * warehouses, tracks, etc., on
Dew tracks, warehouse, etc., in
nut “hthing Of the new coache* being
■* ruU on the road bed
in piace of the oid iron one*, in short, a general
Savannah morning news
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
upward and onward tendency in everything
surely portends something more than mere
child's play."
Waycross Reporter: “Captain John C.
Reynolds’ little boy, Hubert, was riding on a
wagon which was employed in moving the
household goods of Captain Reynolds to his
new residence In the Waycross extension,
when the mules took fright and ran away,
throwing the little fellow out on the double
tree of the wagon, where one of his arms be
came entargled in one of the traces, which
held him taut, and in that condition lie was
carried for a hundred yards or more and until
the wagon struck violently against a stump,
which stopped the frightened mules, when
they commenced kicking vehemently, and yet
the little fellow escaped without being seri
ously hurt.”
Augusta A’etrs: “On Wednesday night the
store of Mr. E. 8. O’Brien, at Barnett, was en
tered by thieves, who worked their way into
his house by removing the -hearthstones Th
burglars helped themselves to goods of all
kinds and piil&ged the store generally Money
seemed to be ttie chief object of their search,
but finding nme, thev took among other things
a fine overcoat belonging to one of O’Brien’s
clerks and a valise and a k°g of whiskv. They
left anew chisel which they at first tried to
force the door with. A* Norwood, only a few
nights ago, the store of A. M. Massengale was
roebed. and a short time since the store of
Farmer & Smith, at Crawfordvil'e, was en
tered, and anew safe blown operand robbed
of a few hundred dollars belonging to the
county.”
LaGrarg e Reporter: “A sad accident hap
pened to Kev F. M. 'f. Brannon, the zealous
pastor of Houston circuit, recently. Mr Bran
non was about to retire for the night, and
going to the rear of the bed. pulled it from
the wail in order that he might pass between.
This movement precipitated a gun. which was
leaning against the wall, and the contents were
discharged into his foot, producing a flesh
wound But for the fact that the shot passed
through the back or bottom of ach dr before
reaching him. the result might have been more
serious. But the accident which saved Mr
Brannon from a dangerous gunshot wound,
intensified the pain of the inju y, inasmuch as
splinters from the ohair penetrated the foot.
We regret to learn that he is not doing very
well, and that some weeks may elapse before
he can resume his valuable labors.”
Valdosta Times: “Last Wednesday morning
Miss Essie Fry daughter of Mr. N. E. Fry, of
our town, had her father’s horse hitched to a
buggy, and she carried her friend. Miss Laura
Keller, out to Mr. Lem. McLeod’s home, about
four miles in the country. Returning by her
self the horse too* fright about the railroad
crossing, near Mr. B P Jones’ residence, and
dashed up the street at a tea l ful speed Turn
ing the corner just at her father’s house, she
was thrown from the buggv and badly injured.
She was picked up in an insensible state by her
mother and others who witnessed the frightful
accident and carried into the house. Dr. Rog
ers was soon on hand, and upon examination
it was found that no limbs were broken or mis
placed. but there were several revere cuts and
bruises upon her person, and fears were enter
tained of serious internal injuries. At this
writirg she is resting quietly and the doctor is
hopeful that there are no serious troubles.”
Valdosta Times: “During the rain which fell
lat Monday afternoon, our community was
startled hv a vivid flash of lightning attended
instantaneously with a very loud report Mr.
A. K Wilson was standing at the rear door of
his store, and seeing that the Christian Church
was struck he sounded the alarm. A crowd
soon gathered, hut fortunately the building
was not set on fire. The church has a s’eepln
and spire, with a lightning rod running several
Det above the highest point, and this pan *s
captd uninjured. The electric current seems to
have entered below theeaves about mid way on
the east side, and scattered in various dirtc
tio's Three win‘ows were shattered to pieces
considerable weatherboarding was ripped off
n-arlv the entire length of the house, and the
plastering on the inside wa* badly broken and
scattered over the fl >or. A piece of board was
driven across the house, breaking a chandelier
midway and injuring the plastering and a
window on the opposite side. The damage is
estimated at about one hundred dollars.”
Macon Telegraph: “Three or four months
ago Editcr Harouck. of the Americus Repub
lican, was dispossessed or a valuable gold
watch. One dark night some thief entered his
residence and from the pocket of his vest,
which hung on a chair, the watch was taken.
Colonel Hancock grieved over his loss, and
finally gave up all hope* of regaining it. Yes
terday morning a well dressed colored man—
young, spry and black—went into one of our
jewelry stores and bantered the clerk for a
swap. The action of the man, and the fact of
his ’wanting to exchange a gold wa’ch for a
si ver one excited suspicions. a"d these sus
p'cions were communicated to Officers Go'den
and Kirabrew. The negro by this time was
out and gone. The officers took a description
of him and were not long in finding "im on
Cherry street, where he was nabbed and taken
to the barracks. When at the jawelry store he
gave his name as Thomas, and said ho was
from Savannah. At the barracks he gave his
name as William Johnson, and claimed Atlanta
as his home. He gave a variety of stories
about hinmelf. and explained the posseAsion of
the two watches in every language. A system
atic pumping finally brought out the truth,
which was that he had stolen the gold watch
from Colonel Hancock, in Americus. Mayor
Corput at once telegraphed to the Colonel who
will no doubt be glad to learn that he will see
his watch again. Johnton alo had a pistol,
and the County Court will probably attend to
that part of his sinning.”
OUK DARIEN LETTER.
Easter P!c*Nic— Regatta aud Boat
Race —Crop Prospect*—Cummodl*
ons Academy lor 'White Ch'ldren—
The BlecUberry reason Timber
Items Postal Difficulties New
Church In Anticipation.
’Darien, Ga., April 15 .—Editor Morning News:
The children’s picnic was to have come off on
Thursday, but the day being “dark and dreary”
enough for November, we sat by a little Are on
the hearth instead of under heaven’s blue
arch, with soft shadows falling on us through
semi transparent foliage. The promise holding
good for “the first pleasant day,” we hurriedly
sandwiched that play and lunch in the woods,
between the gloom of Thursday and the
showers of Saturday morning-having it on
Friday, between the hours of 12 m. and 2 p. m.
The children seemed thoroughly to enjoy th*
search for the nests of colored “rabbit eggs,”
hidden ’n the corners and under the leaves and
brush about the fences, and it was quite like
old times—very old for some cf us—to
be playing witch or chick in “Chiekamy, Chick
amv. Craney Crow.” and “Many, Many :r>
as old as Adam,” the “down upon your knees”
part coming in a little too often for the elas
tlcity of some ve-y responsible joints of my
close acquaintance.
ft e read of preparations being made for re
gains and boat racing with a sigh of regret,
that our hard working boys of to-day have
1 ttie spirit or time left for the extraneous ef
fort of training that used so to exhilarate and
fill them with enthusiasm when Darien had her
boating clubs and regattas yearly.
We are glad to know that the fruit
prospect* in the Bouth Newport section are as
goon as in this
The Supreme Court has given us a satisfac
tory settlement of a long and bitterly agitated
question by affirming Judge Fleming's decis
ion, and our people can now go on in a more
secure and satisfactory manner with home im
provements. of which the first forward step
will of course be the erection of a commodious
academy for white children, containing all
nec'ssarv departments tor a good education,
and handsome enough to gratify the taste of
long-waiting tax payers. An academy for
colored children is also needed.
The blackberry season has opened in the
bst of taste—full, rich, juicy fruit; no half
castes.
In Northeast Georgia they used to turn their
backs on blackberries before the war. except
for wine making, because they grew p'entifuhy
in fence comer and old.fields at will and with
out culture, but to-day so many corners have
crept to the centre, ar.d so much crudenes-i
sitsteriie culture, that “Bill Arp’s” philan
thropic efforts in behalf of this ignored son of
the soil are crowned with delightful success,
and with us now the blackberry ranks with the
blueberry, without distinction of class, and
rather overtopping the latter in flavor. Thus,
in grateful appreciation, we lay our sword on
the k' ightly shoulder of the Georgia humorist,
who preserved the record of the State archives
and made so many waste places to smile when
weeping was the readier expression of the
times, that we. who were young then, owe him
and th* blackberries more than this generation
can understand.
Very little timber coming in. though the
stock on band was so large that we hear of
no demurrages. The Jet nie F. Wiley came up
to the wharf below us yesterday. There are
now in port twenty-four vessels. Since the Bth
inst. there have been nine arrivals and nine
clearances. Of the latter, Mr. R. K. Walker
cleared on the Bth. American schooner Cyrus
Hall, for New London, with cargo of hewn
timber and plank, valued at $3,000: Mr. August
Schmidt. 18th. American schooner Eddie Huck,
for Philadelphia, timber, lumber and boards,
valued at *3.759; Mr Jas. Hunter, lltb,
German bark Mathilde. for Conway, Wales,
with cargo of 253, 301 feet of hewn timber, 89 -
129 feet awn timber, and 19,034 feet deals, val
ued at *1,712 79; Hilton Timber and Lumber
Oo . 11th, American schooner Aetna, for Phila
‘delphia, sawn lumber and boards, valued at
$1 000; on 13th American bark Joseph Rensens,
for New York, with cargo of 333,000 feet sawn
timber, valued at $5,300; J K. Clarve & Cos.,
3th. Norwegian bark Sophie, for Pembroke
Dock. England, cargo hewn timber, valued at
$3 000, siwn timber valued at *1,750, deals at
*150; on the l'th the German bark Lina
Sahwoon. for St Nazarre, France, cargo of
hewn timber, valued at *1,500, sawn tl > ber at
• :,000, deals *3OO ; 11th. Norwegian bark Even
ing Star, for Queenstown, for orders, with hewn
timber valued at $3,7'0, sawn at $1,750, and
deals at *350: on the 13th inst the British bark
J. R. ► uthergreen. Captain Spicer, for Har
wick, England, with a cargojof 386,850 feet of
tawn timber, valued at $5,009, and 16,292 feet
teals, valued at $250.
We are reduced to some straits in the postal
iepirtment—the money orders here have given
out, and the prospect of a postmaster is still
remote.
Onr Methodist brethren are qui r e hopeful of
being able to begin their work of rebuilding
goon. This is a better plan than trying to re
pair so old an edifice as their town church,
and will afford besides an opportunity for the
exercise of taste in the construction of the new
church, which the old building decidedly lack
ed. H. 8. B.
Senator R. Green Hays, of Louisville, Ky.,
thus refer* to his experience; “St. Jacobs
Oil cored me of a sprained back, accompa
nied by rheumatic pains. From what I un
, demand, St. Jacobs Oil never falls to cure,
i it D wonderful la 1U action,”
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
THE LITE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS.
The Party Programme—.fleeting of
the National C< mmltlee The
Tariff*Coni'nlsHton Hill—Pliz-Jolin
Portei’s Case.
Washington, April 15.—Pursuant to the
order made jesterday, the House, at 12:15
p. m., went into committee of the whole on
the tariff commission bill.
Mr. White, of Kentucky, confined his re
marks principally to the attack upon the
bill recently passed by the House, under a
suspension of the rules, amending the in
ternal revenue laws.
Mr. McMillau, of Tennessee, opposed the
pending bill on the ground that it was the
duty of Congress to legislate directly on
the subject of a revision of the tariff.
Messrs. Shallenberger of Pennsylvania,
Hill of New Jersey. Wilson of West Vir
ginia, and W'ard of Pennsylvania all snoke in
favor of the bill. At the end of Mr. Ward’s
remarks the committee rose and the House,
at 4:10 o’clock, adjourned.
MEETING OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
COMMITTEE.
An Informal meeting of the Republican
National Committee was held this morning
in the rooms of the Senate Committee on
Rules. Hon. Marshall Jewell, Chairman,
presided, and G**orge W. Hooker, of Ver
mont, actlne Secretary Hons. John C.
New, of Indiana, Wm. P. Frye, of Maine,
Chauncey I. Fllley. of Missouri. Wm. Frost,
of Virginia, W. W. Hicks, of Florida, J B
Deveaux, of Georgia. J. A. Martin, of Kan
sas, Paul S'robach. of Alabama, W P. Can
nadv, of North Carolina and Samuel Lee,
of South Carolina, were present.
The subject of party interests in the South
ern States was fully discussed, and the
members expressed themselves earnestly in
favor of a union of the Republicans of the
Southern States, with such a liberal national
sentiment and broader political Ideas that,
will Insure a free ballot and an honest
count; and that in national affairs it will an
tagonize he principles and policy of the
Bourbon Democracy.
Hon. William P. Frye offered the follow
ing resolution, which was unanimously
adopted :
''Resolved, That there be a mating of the
Republican National CommPtee a* Wssh
ington on the fourth Wednesday in January,
1883, to consider aDd take final ac ion on
the report of the committee appointed
March stb, 1881, to matureand report, to the
National Committee a plan for securing to
the several Congressional districts the right
to elect their own delegates to the next Na
tior al Convention, and to transact any other
business that may be brought beforp them.”
The meeting then adjourned sine die.
THE REPUBLICAN PROGRAMME.
The House Republican caucus last night
adopted resolutions providing for prompt
action in all important matters pending,
and resolu ions in favor of 11 o’clock for
the hour of meeting and night sessions when
practicable. The tar-ff commission bill Is
to • e pased as soon as the debate is con
eluded, and the election cases are to be
pushed forward and disposed of as rapidly
as po slble. It was also decided that, the
oresent rules of the House, are broad
enough in scope to allow the raaj irity to
proceed in the manner Indicated.
FITZ JOHN PORTER’S CASE.
The President, has notitied Gen. Fitz John
Por’er, in answer to his petition for relief
from the sentence of the court martial,
that he can do nothing In the case, as it Is
entirely beyond his power. This action is
based upon an opinion by Attorney
General Brewster, and received the uuanl
tnous concurrence of the Cabinet at Its
meeting yesterday.
THE DEMANDS OF LABOR.
Platform of the New York Trade
Union*.
New York, April 16.—The central organi
zation of the trades unions met this after
noon and adopted a platform of principles,
which demands eight hours for a day’s
work, the prohibiting of the employment cf
children under fourteen years of age in
workshops, mines and factories, the aboli
tion of all contract labor on govern
ment work and the prohibiting of
all convict contract labor, the enactment
of laws giving workmen a mechanics’lien
for full wages on this work, equal pav for
work of bolh sexes, the establishment, of
labor statistic bureaus by tne States as well as
by the government, the officers of these bu
reus to be chosen from labor organiz\tions,
stnl ary Inspection of mines, factories and
all condition of labors, the abolishment
of tbe conspiracy and tramp laws and all
laws not bearing equa’ly ou the rich and
poor, ad the establishment of a na’lonal
circulating medium, which shall be issued
to *he people without the intervention of
banks.
CAUGHT AT LAST.
A Savannab murderer Overhauled
In Brunswick.
Brunswick, Ga., April 16.—Sheriff Beach,
of this county, arrested John Lyma or
Lyndy In this city to-day for the murder of
Elias Harris, colored, in Savannah In
December last. Three nsraes are given by
the prisoner himself, but he was Identified
by a relative of the murdered man who
lives here.
Weather Indication*.
Office Chief Signal Observer, Wash
ington, D. C., April 16—Indications for
Monday:
In the South A'lantic and East Gulf
States, fair weather, northeast winds, rising
followed by falling barometer, stationary or
higher temperature.
In the Middle Atlantic Btates, fair weather,
northwesterly winds, becoming variable,
rising followed by falling barometer, sta
tionary or higher temperature.
In the West Gulf States, fair weather,
siutherly winds, stationary or lower barom
eter, higher temperature.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, fair
weather, variable winds, stationary or lower
barometer and higher temperature.
Cjuminder Nelbj’s murderers on
Trial
Constantinople, April 16 —The trial of
the Albanians, who recently murdered Com
mander Selby while he was on a shooting
excursion with friends near Artaka, in Asia
Minor, has begun. The public prosecutor
has asked that the sentence of the prisoners
he only fif’een years at hard labor, as tbe
crime was committed in the heat of a
struggle.
Rig Bleza tu m*ry land.
Crisfield, Md„ April 16 —A disastrous
fire broke out here Ibis morning in the gen
eral merchandise store of James Booth. The
Dimes spread rapidly along Maiu street, and
one third of the business section of the town
was destroyed. The fire was then extin
guished. The loss will reach $75,000, upon
which there is insurance to the amount of
$35,000.
A Splendid Auroral Display.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., April 16 —There
was a splendid display of tbe Aurora Borealis
to-night. The shatts ran from the northern
horizon to the south, and were in colors of
carmine, blue and white. At midnight the
waves of light centered at the zenith, ad
vancing and receding for several minutes.
A Five Days’ Dale at Vera Crua.
City of Mexico, April 16.—The heaviest
“norther” of the season has been blowing at
Vera Cruz during the past five days, pre
venting steamers from landing or leaving.
All business Is stopped.
Parnell to Be Met at Liberty.
London, April 16—The Observer's Dublin
correspondent says he believes that Mr.
Parnell, on bis return to Kilmalnbam jail,
will be unconditionally released.
A Georgia murderer Run Down.
Sandbrsvillb, April 15 —Dick Knight,
who murdered Ed Patrick last summer, was
captured yesterday at Dublin, and confined
in the county jail at this place to-day.
A Physician’* Opinion.
A physician, writing to The Journal of
Health, in speaking of Brown’s Iron Bitters,
haying carefully analyzed its ingredients,
says: “There is no other remedy Inexistence
so harmless and yet so effective. No other
compound should ever be used for general
ill health and chronic diseases of the pul
monary, digestive and urinary organs. It is
mtld, yet sure in its action, and gradually
restores perfect health and strength to every
function of the organs of life. Its action
is so very mild that there is no room left for
reaction and relapße, neither will its discon
tinuance bring on a craving for its use or
renewal ot past disorders.”
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1882.
TEMPEST AND FLOOD.
Wednesday Night’* Destruction In
Louisiana.
♦
New Orleans, April 15.—A special to the
; Times-Democrat from Morgan City gives the
; following account of the damage by tbe
j storm ot Wednesday night; On Bier’s Is
! land a sugar house was blown away. On
the lower end, at Chafallaya, tbe dwellings
of W. P. Callons and Mrs. Moore were
destroyed. Oa Little Wax Bayou the houses
of John Frammenthall, Louis Colbe and
Jean Fits were swept away, and much other
damage done. At the Alice plantation, near
Jeane Rette, a colored church was driven
over to tbe west side. At Cypremort, a
negro church was blown down. At the
Willis Linder place, a warehouse was blown
over. Oa Bavou Boeaf, a large bouse
was seen floating during the storm,
and was found the next morn
ing lodged against a bridge, but
the occupants had disappeared, and It is
supposed were drowned. The house of
Eugene Thomlica and a cooper shop were
also found landed against the bridge. The
residence of James Pennlson floated three
miles. Reany Pennlson’s store with its con
tents was swept awav. Tbe kitchen and all
of the cabins, except three, were swept away
from the Pondely plantation. Jas Simmons’
residence with its contents, is a total loss.
Oreland Comour’s residence was destroyed
and the stort sof Alex Pennlson and Jules
P. Fellot were swept away. All the cabins
occupied by colored people were carried
awav. Eff >rts are being made to get a boat
to go to Bayou Boeuf to aid tbe people at
L ke Ralaurde. Everything Is gone.”
A Morgan City special says: “The water
has receded an inch. Three negroes were
drowned by the upsetting ot a boat on La
Gonda plantation to-day. E'ght houses on
the plantation were destroyed by the storm .
on Wednesday night. The prayers of the
negroes quartered in the stable lofts could
be heard above the roar of the storm. The
panic among them was fearful. Govern
ment rations for seven days were distribut
ed to day for 1,300 people in Morgan City
and 300 in B -rwick.”
LOUISIANA JOCKEY CLUB.
Third Day of the Spring meeting.
New Orleans, April 15.—This was the
third day of the spring meeting of the Louisi
ana Jockey Club. The weather was clear and
cool, and the track was la good condition,
with a large attendance. The first race for
all ages, purse $250, mile and a quarter, was
w< n by B'az“P, Fair Count second, George
Hafe's third, beating Lovetta, Aaron,
Tombey, Gen. Riwell and Herbert In
tbe ordtr named Time 2:12.
Herbert led at the start. O t tbe back stret ch
Fair Count went to the front for a moment,
but Bluzes soon took the lead and won with
apparent esse by thr e lengths. Pools on
the track sold as follows: Fair Count S2O,
field sl2.
In the second race, handicap for all ages,
pura* S3OO, mile heats, the following Is the
summary :
Pride 2 1 1
Mat ie R 1 4 2
Manltou, Warrington, Lute Fogle, Home
ward Bound, Maml, Ka'hleeu and R*-
sumpttou also ran. Time 1:46%; 1:46; 1:48.
The last two heats were won by three
lengths each. The pools sold as follows :
Pride #209, Manltou SSO, Mattie Rapture
*4O. Homeward Bound $25, Lute Fogle S2O.
Field sl7.
Trie third race. Walker stakes for all ages,
SSO each, with S4OO added, one mile and
three quarters, was won by Lydia Stanhope,
Fellowplay second, Alack Ament 31. beat
ing Saunterer and Moscow. Time 3:09%.
The wluner came in three lengths ahead.
The pools on the track sold as follows : Fel
lowplay SIOO, Lydia Stanhope $75, field sl6.
A VEXED QUESTION.
Tbe Proponed Franco-Spanlnh Com
mercial Treaty.
Madrid, April 15 —ln the Chamber of
Deputies to-day Leon Bolgues, a Catalan
member, moved that the treaty with France
be terminable at a year’s notice. •
Benor Rico, Undt r Secretary of the Minis
try of Finance, replied to the attacks of the
Catalans. He said enlightened patriotism
required that the government should foster
all Spanish industries, and not some to tbe
detriment of others. He urged that the
treaty he adopted without amendment, and
be valid for ten years. The debate will prob
ably last over nm week. It is expected
thirty ministerialists will vote against the
treaty.
THE ST. JOE BOND THEFT.
Two City Cfficlaln Charged With
Complicity.
Bt. Joseph, Mo., April 15.—En03 J.
Crowther, ex-Clty Register and City At
torney, and at present City Assessor, and
John Cox, late clerk for John C. Bender,
pension agent, were arrested last night on
complaint of Myor Posegate, who charges
them with complicity iu the theft of SIOO,-
000 In bonds. The arrest was made on In
formation received from CHy Marshal
Ritchie, who Is now in New York with the
prisoners Scott and Irwin. The telegram
stated that Irwin had said that Crowther
and Cox stole the bonds aud gave them to
Scott, and Irwin to sell.
ANOTHER FLORIDA BOOM.
The Jacksonville, Tallahassee and
Columbus Railroad.
Jacksonville, April 15.—A Tallahassee
special to the Times says : “ The surveying
party which has been surveying the route
from Jacksonville to Tallahassee arrived on
Wednesday. The road to be extended
northward (o Columbus, Georgia, Is to be
built by a company composing Hamilton
Disston and the Gordon syndicate of Ala
bama and Georgia, arid will control all
travel and traffic beiween South Florida
and the Northwest. The survey was filed
yesterday, aud the organization of the com
pany will be perfected immediately.”
knit Against tbe Disston Florida
Land Company.
Harrisburg, Pa , April 15 —Suit has been
entered by the State against the Disston
Florida Land Company for office license for
the year beginning Ju’y Ist, 1881. Under
the law foreign corpora'ions having offices
in the State must pay a license. The amount
involved is about $4,000, Tbe officers of
the company have been notified several
times to settle the claim.
1 he Lawrence Striker*.
Lawrence. Mass, April 15 —At the
weavers meeting to-day a statement from
Treasurer Saltonstall was read to the effect
that if the str'kers return the abuses by the
overseers would be discontinued; that the
pay would at present remain according to
*he proposed schedule; that no further re
duction would be made, but that when the
market warranted it would be restored to
the old figures. No action was taken by the
strikers reg rding this statement.
I*l r. Hewitt’s TarlffT Scheme In
dorsed.
New York, April 15.—A mass meeting of
'he New York Free Trade Club was held
last night to advocate the repeal of the tax
on raw material, and a reduction of duties
on manufactured products. Speeches were
made by E P. Wheeler, Senator Vance and
others. Resolutions were adopted approv
Ing the proposition of Representative
Hewitt.
■eatli of One of the Projector* of
the Atlantic Cable.
Belfast, Mb., April 15 —Hiram O. Alden,
the oldest member of the Waldo bar, died
to-day, aged elghty-two years. He, with
Cyrus W. Field and others, in 1857 pro
jected the Atlantic cable and was for twenty
years President of the Maine Telegraph
Company.
A Menial,
Brussels, April 15.—A dispatch from St.
Petersburg to Le Nord, the Russian
organ here, positively denies the report of
the appointment of General Ignatieff as
Russian Ambassador to France and Prince
Labanoff as Russian Minister of the Interior.
Mr. R. J. Sberwin, of Concord, N. H.,
writes: “I have a good old aunt who keeps
bouse for wife and baby and me. Of late
she has been groaning and complaining.
Our family doctor could not find out what
ailed ber, and yet often she would keep her
bed for several days. I persuaded her to
try Brown’s Iron Bitters, and to my astonish
ment she has never complained since. She
now calls it ‘her medicine,' and recommends
U to everybody. ”,
A SEALED VERDICT.
KE3UI.T OF THE RICHLAND
CASES.
The Defendant* Guilty on the First
Count—Recommended ta ITlercy.
Charleston, April 15 —ln the United
States Circuit Court to-day, the jury charged
with the case of the United States against
Bates and others, Managers of Elections,
had not agreed to a verdict up to one
o’clock, and at that time they were
called Into court and questioned
by Judge Bond as to the cause
of disagreement. The foreman 6tated
that they disagreed as to the facts, and the
Judge then remanded the jury to their
r oom, with instructions that If they came
to a verdict any ttme before Monday morn
ing they could seal it and then be released.
The jury agreed upon a verdict at five
o’clock this afternoon, which was sealed up
and left In the possession of the foreman.
It cannot be ascertained positively what tne
verdict le, but it is generally reported and
believed here to-night that the jury have
found the defendants not guilty on seven
counts in the indictment, and guilty on
the first count. This first count
charged the defendants with obstructing
and interfering wl'h Supervisor of Elec
tions Hugh Kane, ex-Governor Moses’ body
servant, in the performance of his duty by
refusing to allow him to Inspect the ballot
box before the poll 6 were opened.
Judge Bond allowed the prisoners to re
turn to their homes in Columbia to night,
on the promise to be In court Monday morn
ing.
Charleston, 8. C , April 16.—1 t is gen
erally believed to-day that the verdict in
the Acton election cases is that the de
fendants are guilty as to so much of the
first count In the indictment as charged
them with refusing to allow the United
States Supervisor to inspect the ballot-box,
and that they are recommended to mercy.
There were eight counts in the indictment.
The sealed verdict will not be opeued till
to morrow, hut it Is known unofficially to be
guilty on the obstruction count, and not
guilty ou all the other counts, with a recom
mendation to mercy.
New York Stock market.
New York, April 15—Share specu
tion opened strong, with prices %to 1%
per cent, higher than yesterday’s closing
prices. Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati
nd Indianapolis, Peoria, Decatur and
Evansville, Lake Erie and Western and
Manhattan Elevated being most prominent
In the advance.
There was a decline of % to % percent.
In the ear’y dealings, the latter for Lake
Shore, followed bv an advance of % to 1%
per cent , New Jersey Central, Western
Union, O egon and Transcontinental and
Missouri Pacific being conspicuous therein.
The mar ket then fell off % to 1% per cent ,
Reading, Missouri Pacific ami Michigan
Central leading the decline, but in the early
part of the afternoon a recovery of % to 1
per cent, took place, the latter for Bouts
ville and Nashville and Wabash preferred.
During the afternoon speculation was
dull, and in the late dealings prices recorded
a decline of 1% to 1% per cent., In which
Lou'svlUe and Nuhvllle, Reading, Roches
ter and Pittsburg, Denver and Rio Grande,
New Jersey Central and Wabash preferred
were prominent.
In the final dealings the general list, re
covered a fraction, aud Reading 1 per cmt.
The marker closed Irregular but. in the main
firmer, wUh prices generally %to per
cent, below yesterday’s doting prices, the
latter fi r Reading. Nashville and Chatta
nooga, however, Is 1% p°r cent, higher.
Transactions aggregated 360,000 shares.
The Outlook for Winter Grain.
Washington, April 15. — A synopsis of
the April report of the Department of Ag
riculture upon the area and condition of
winter grain, shows an increase of nearly
one-half million acres, or two per cent.
The estimated area of the previous crop
was twenty four million three hundred and
forty-six thousand acres. The condition of
winter wheat is high throughout the West,
Ohio alone reporting below 100 In tlft cot
ton States, anu in Delaware, Maryland aud
Virginia.
Bass Bail Note*.
Philadelphia, Pa., April 15 —Worcesters
6, Phll&delphlas 3, Athletics 25, Atlantic, of
Brooklyn. 6.
Cincinnati, April 15 —Clevelands 4, Cin
clnnatis 2.
Pittsburg, April 15.—Buffalos 16, Alle
ghans 2.
New York, April 15.—Metropolitan 13,
Princeton College 5.
New Haven, April 15 —Yales 7, Alaska 5.
Providence, April 15—Providence 25,
Beverns 3.
Boston, April 15 —Bostons 8, Harvard® 7.
Three More Bodies Recovered.
Memphis, April 15.—Three mage bodies
of tbe victims of the Golden City disaster
were recovered to-day, fifteen miles below
here. They were those of Mrs. Konnz, Dr.
Monahan aud an unknown victim, aged
thirty years. He had a gold ring on his
finger with the initials “R B.” on the In
side. Mrs. Kounz’s night dress was slightly
burned, but all three had undoubtedly
jumped overboard from the burning steamer
and were drowned.
Stock* In London.
London, April 15—The Economist of this
week says: “The rate of discount for bank
blits, sixty days to three months, is 2% to
?%, and for trade bills, sixty days to three
months, 2% to 3. The only instances of
depression observable in tbe stock markets
are in American and Canadian railways.
Cairo aud Vincennes, St. Louis and San
Francisco preferred and Wabash have fallen
4 each. Central Pacific has fallen 2% and
Ohio and Mleeiesippl 1.”
Matter* tu Central America.
Panama, April 15.—The concession grant
ed Gen. Daniel Butterfield, of New York,
for the construction of a railroad from the
capital to the Gulf of Fonseca, has been ap
proved by the Salvador Congress.
The Nicaraguan communities are much
Interested in the fate of the bill now before
the Amerlcau Congress, asking the incorpo
ration of tbe Nicaraguan Canal Company.
Discovery or * Mine Voder the Ca
thedral at Moscow.
Vienna, April 15 —The I'resst says:
“Trustworthy merchants from Moscow re
port tba eighty workmen employed on the
Uspanskl Cathedral were arrested on Holy
Saturday In consequence of the discovery of
of a mine under that edifice, In which It is
Intended that the ceremony of the corona
tion of the Czar shall take place.”
Cotton Futures In New York.
New York, April 15 — The last's cotton
report says: “Future deliveries at the
first call sold at a decline of 3-100 c., but a
fair demand soon led to a reaction, and the
market remained steady till near the closing,
at 2 p. m., when offers increased, and 2-100
to3-100c. were lost. The final close was
barely steady and 2-100 to 3100 c. lower
than yesterday.”
War on Foreign Faucitouarlei In
Kjjpl.
Paris, April 15 —The Temps publishes a
letter Irorn Cairo, which says that war
Is openly declared against all Europeans
engaged in official functions, in Egypt. The
Arab papers advocate the absolute expul
sion of Europeans from the public service.
Death of a Journalist and luventor.
Middletown, N. Y., April 15.—William
T. Morgans, formerly proprietor of the Lib
erty Register, Inventor of tbe Hercules print
ing prers, and ooe of the proprietors of the
Morgans & Wilcox wood type factory at
'his place, died Friday evening of pneu
monia.
’l*une**ee Politic*.
Nashville, April 15—The Chairman of
the Executive Committee of both wings
of the Democratic party will issue a call for
a State Convention of the party, to meet in
this cltv July 20, to nominate a candidate
for Governor.
Irlah Kuxpecta Released.
Dublin, April 15.—Mr. O’Brien, editor of
United Ireland, has been unconditionally re
leased from prison. Rev. Mr. Higgins has
been liberated on bail.
Isham Rogers, a farmer, was stabbad
seven times in the heart a few nights ago
by Mike Martin, a merchant, at Hays’ store,
nine miles from Nashville, Tennessee, on
the Lebanon turnpike. Rogers died a short
time afterwards. Martin escaped.
If You are Rained
In health from any cause, especially from
the use of any of the thousand nostrums
that promise so largely, with long fictitious
testimonials, have no fear. Resort to Hop
Bitters at once, and In a short time you will
have the most robust and blooming health.
BLAINE AND SHIPHERD.
The Ex-Secretary Desire* to be Heard
Washington, April 15.—At the opening
of the Bhipherd investigation to day a note
was read from ex-Secretary Blaine, saying
that when the committee was ready he de
sired to be heard in reference to the Peru-
Chilian matters.
Mr. Belmont said, as the witness had re
fused to answer a number of questions he
did not propose to take up time by further
questioning.
Mr. Lord then questioned Bbipherd as to
his statement that he had dealt with Hurl
but as a recognized criminal, and witness
said he had done so, and bis dealings with
him as suck were by understanding with
counsel. He further said that his letter of
June 2d was intended that if the man was
dishonest the letter might stay such men
from working against them. "The object
of his interviews with Blaine was to influ
ence the character of the instructions sent to
Hurlbnt. He declined to state anything in
regard to the fee paid to Senator Blair,
whether cash or otherwise.
Mr Lord (again referring to the letter of
June 2d) —Whatever advantages you expect
ed to receive from Mr. Hurlhut through that
letter you failed to obtain, did you Dot ?
Witness—Yes, sir. He ultimately took
the course I feared he would.
In answer to further questions, the wit
ness said : I think mv letter accomplished
so much that it held Hurlbut in a neutral
position, and to that extent it answered its
purposes.” He said no Minister Plenipo
tentiary, and no member of Coneress, ever
owned any interest in the claim to his
knowledge. He declined to state whether
any Senator ever held or owned stock in
the company.
The examination was adjourned until
Tuesday.
BRIEF NEWS SUMM ARY.
The German Reichstag has been convok
ed for the 27th inst.
The Cincinnati Cooperage Company's
works were destroyed by fire Baturdav. The
loss is about $109,<500; insurance $89,000.
William Beck, twelve vears old, commit
ted suicide in Racine, Wisconsin, because
his father reprimanded him for staying out
late the night before.
Our exports of breadstuflfs during the
three months pnding March 31st last
amounted *o $35 557,452, ao-ainst $51,149,-
613 for the first quarter of 1881.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Mutual Union Telegraph Company in New
York Saturday, John G. Moore was elected
President of the company In place of John
O. Evans, deceased.
A. T. Stewart & Cos., of New York, an
nounce that thev have determined to dis
continue their dry goods and manufacturing
business, and offer their stocks of merchan
dise and mill properties for sale.
Intelligence has been received from Rio
de Janeiro, by way of Lisbon, that jewels to
the value of £2O 000 belonging to the ladies
of the Imperial family of Brazil have been
stolen. There was no clue to the perpetra
tors of the robbery.
At White Hall, 111., two boys, aged re
spectively seventeen and fifteen years, went
to one of the pits where a man was at work
digging clav, and while sitting against an
overhanging back the earth caved in, bury
ing both under many feet of clay.
At the Labor Bureau at Castle Garden it
io stated that a numerous party of Spanish
laborers are expected this week, who will
be employed on the new railroads in Mex
ico. It is said they are better suited to that
kind of employment than the Italians.
The production of spirits in the United
States during the vear ending June 30, 1881,
amounted to 720,199,000 gallons. There
were lost bv casualties during the same
period 686.974 gallons, or a fraction less
than one gallon for every 1,000 produced.
The Cologne Gazette states that a boiler ex
ploded on board the Austria, a steamer be
longing to the Austrian Northwestern
Steamship Company of the Elbe, while
lying at her dock at Magdeburg. Four
persons were killed and the vessel Dearly
destroyed.
A Houston, Texas, special says: “Mrs.
Maud J. Young died here to-day. Mrs.
Yeung was the daughter of Col. M. Fuller,
and was born on November Ist, 1826, in
Beaufort, North Carolina. She was the
authoress of “The Flora of Texas,” and
also a work on botany, which is regarded as
authority.
The Irish Catholics of Turner’s Falls,
Mass , have decided to boycott G. L. Rich,
a member of the grand jury, who indicted
for manslaughter David McMillan, who shot
Father McCarthy. The boycotters think
McMillan should be indicted on the charge
of murder. Father Purcell told the people
that Rich asked improper questions in the
grand jury rooms.
The returns of the town election in Water
viiet. New York, have disappeared. The
election was held on Monday, and the can
vassers met on Wednesday to count the
votes, but neither votes nor town
clerk were on hand. The clerk was alleged
to be sick. He said he gave the returns to
Davis Collins, an election inspector, but
Collins refused to be interviewed.
The Outlook for the Spring Season.
Baltimore Sun,
It Is not difficult to account for the period
of great business activity through which we
have been passing. The economies of pre
vious years made resumption possible in
1879, and the bringing the greenbacks to a
par with gold had the effect of adding to
the currency all the gold and silver hoard
ed up since 1862 These additions to the
circulating medium tended naturally to
promote commercial activity. This activity
was stimulated immensely, however, by
our extraordinarily large crops of cotton
and grain In the three years beginning
with 1879. The failure of the harvests
of Europe during these same years cre
ated an unusually remunerative and
steady market for American agricultural
products; and, to add further to the West
ern farmer’s good fortune, the substitution
of steel for iron rails on land and the screw
propeller for the paddle-wheel and sail at
sea, cheapened transportation to such an
extent that the grain grower’s margin of
profit became immensely widened and
strengthened. Immigration added also
largely to our resources of capital and skill
ed labor. These many favorable circum
stances have created the present era
of unexampled prosperity. For the
future the promise of crops is fairly
good. A mild winter and an open spring
have been favorable to the opening up of
many new farms in the far West, and in the
older sections of the country, with the ex
ception of the flooded district, agricultural
preparations are reasonably well advanced.
The large disbursements to be made by the
Treasury Department during the spring and
early summer will maintain a high tide of
available funds for business ventures, and
perhaps defer any such tightness of the
money market as must necessarily precede
'he approach of hard times. Nor can It be
forgotten that the earnings of the railroads
continue to be expressed in large, and in
many cases, growing figures.
There Is another side of the picture, more
sombre in color, to which our attention is
frequently invited by those who think the
high water mark of our prosperity is already
in the past, and believe that a financial
crisis is Imminent. The cottoh crop of the
coming season will certainly be smaller t han
during the past three years. The crops of
Europe promise to be good, diminishing
thus the demand for our grain. From 1873
to iß79as many as 8,000,000 acres of new
land per annum were put in grain in the
United States, but since the last-mentioned
year the average has not exceeded 2,500,000
acres per aunum. Cities, with their com
merce and manufactures, have been
more attractive to our native youth than
the country, and, a* the Sun recently
showed, less than twenty per cent, of our
immigrants take to the plow. Capital by
the hundred millions has been putin bridges,
tunnels and roadbeds in the Southwest, not
to mention other sections of the country,
where it will remain unproductive for per
haps a decade of years. Tourists spend
large amounts abroad. Our decreasing ex
ports and increasing imports are unfavora
ble signs with tcose who hold an excess of
exports to be essential to national prosperi
ty. In some industries strikes are threat
ened for hjgher pay at a moment when em
ployers find it itnpossib'e to yield without
inviting bankruptcy. Reviewing the whole
field, it must be admitted that there Is rea
son for caution, but not for anxious solici
tude. When s’oeks are high the omens an
nounced by brokers interested in a decline
are to be received with some degree of
doubt.
Diphtheria
Attacks all classes, at all ages and at all sea
sons of the year. As the seed of this terrible
disease is in the throat, it is directly reached
by Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid, used as a
gargle, or by swabbing out the mouth wi'h
a cloth saturated with the Fluid. Articles
used about the sick should be rinsed in
water containing a small quantity of the
Fluid; it will absolutely destroy the germs
Of contagion.— Adv,
HOPE FOR PERU.
PIEROLA ABOUT TO QUIT THE
COUNTRY.
The III* ot Party Strife—Prado Pre
paring to Return.
Panama, April 15 —Pierola and Prada
have arrived here. Pierola goes to live in
Paris. During Plerola’s stay in Lima re
peated efforts were made to unite the lead
ers of the Peruvian political parties. The
effort was vain. The Pierola party was the
most powerful and best organized, and was
also the most popular. The adhesion of
the Clvilitos to Pierola would have made
a strong combination, able to expel
the foreign enemy and submit to the
loss of territory. But Pierola and the
Civllatos were too far asunder, and the at
tempt, to unite them only proved that recon
ciliation was hopeless, and Pierola is under
stood to have withdrawn from the country
to permit, if possible, the realization of
the forlorn hope of the country, the forma
tion of a great national party, untrammelled
by the presence of any of the old
Dolitlcal chiefs of the country. Just at this
juncture, however. General Prada returns
to the coast. He leaves for Guayaquil to
day, but. It Is hinted, he will go direct to
Lima and place himself in accord with the
members of his old party, which is still of
considerable importance, and secure, If pos
slble, the co-operation of the Chilians.
What was refused to Garcia, Calderon and
Pierola, he thinks, may be accorded to him,
and consequently the hero of Los de Mayo
seriously thinks of returning to his country,
and once more appearing as its savior.
SOUTHERN RAILROADS.
Tbe Great Syndicate* which
Control Almost All of Them— Is
Tbere Business Enough to Divide
Profitably 1
Montgomery (Ala.) Correspondence New York
Evening Post.
The last year has seen some extraordinary
changes in railroad control In this country,
and it may be fitly called the consolidation
era of their existence. It is a matter of fact,
that there is oniy one road less than two
hundred miles long in the South that pre
serves the individuality of its original title,
and is operated under the management
and name of Us first charter. It is tbe
line from Montgomery to West Point.
Perhaps the most powerful road or con
solidation is the Louisville, Nashville and
Great Southern. Its lines are southwest from
Louisville to Memphis, through the fertile
grazing lands of Kentucky and Tennessee;
from Bowling Green, the junction of the
Memphis line, to Nashville, and directly
south to Montgomery, then southwesterly
over the leased road of the Montgomery and
Mobile to Mobile, and 140 miles west to
New Orleans, over the road originally bear
ing the name of the two cities. These and
the road from Nashville to St. Louis, one
from Montgomery to Belma, and coal and
other branches, swell the total mileage to
1,850. Trains for passengers are run solid
from New Orleans to Louisville in forty
hours,but freight is moved over the same dis
lance in ten days and thought to be moving
fast at that rate. The effects of this great
consolidation are, in the judgment of many
people, equally divided between good and
bad. For example, the repair shops at
Montgomery and Mobile have been taken to
Louisville and 600 workmen driven else
where to seek other labor. Naturally the
cities thus deprived of an important factor
in their population feel aggrieved and re
gard the consolidation as a disadvantage.
Oa the other hand the consolidation has
harmonized diverse Interests and rendered
possible the development of the mineral
wealth of the region through which this line
passes. It must be said that little of de
velopment, in this direction has been done as
yet, and the benefits to be reaped are only
prospective.
The most comprehensive consolidation,
and the one that promises to do most for
the country, runs north and south and east
and west, from the Ohio river at Cincinnati
to the Gulf at New Orleans, from the At
lantic ocean at Brunswick to the Missouri
river at Kansas City, and westward to the
Gulf of Callforn'a at some port in Mexico.
The extent of the road to be operated by
this management will, when completed,
exceed 4,000 miles. About 1,600 of It Is
already in operation. Its system is known
as the firlanger syndicate, and its building
capital Is from a foreign source; hence it as
sumes at the outstart the most bemflctal
relations to the Southern country. Its ex
penditure has also been In the hands bf a
Southern man, Frederick Wolffe, of this
city, the financial agent of the syndi
cate. The roads now in operation are
the Cincinnati Southern, from Cir
clnnati to Cbat'anooga, a distance
approximating 500 miles. This road was
built for the most part by the city of Cin
cinnati, but, falling at the outstart of its
career to justify the expsetations had In
s'ore for it, became the shuttlecock of
change until it finally reached the hands of
the Erlanger people, when the plan of a
shmiltne to New Orleans was mooted. The
next link on this branch of the system was
the Chattanooga, Alabama and Great South
ern, 295 miles long, extending from Chatta
nooga to Meridian, Mississippi. It was
built by Boston capitalists directly after the
war, and was designed to form the nucleus
of a line from New York to New Orleans,
to follow the western base of the Apala
chlan range of mountains the entire dis
tance, aDd open up the vast coal and Iron
veins that extend in almost un
broken deposits between the two
cities. The constructed portion penetrated
tbe most valuable mineral region of the
route, that of northern Alabama; but un
fortunately it had no market terminus, and
its condition was that of a man on a desert
island, with untoid sums of money, but with
neither food to eat nor raiment wherewith
to keep himself warm. Originally the road
had obtained concessions from the State,
with some sort of a forfeiture attached, and
thus it became necessary to demand, and the
State one day found itself in the possession
of an unmanageable railroad property with
no prospects of soon making it a profitable
one. Its acquirement by the Erlanger syn
dicate was the next step of importance in
its history, and the line to New Orleans had
only to fill the gap from Meridian, some
thing like 300 miles. This is now building
and will be complete early in the fall.
The Kansas City and Atlantic Ocean sec
tion is the great feature of the syndicate’s
plans. By it they propose to tap the grain
country of the Northwest, the mineral
wealth of southern Missouri, the cotton
yielding uplands of Arkansas, now the
second cotton growing State, to become an
important factor in the prosperity of Mem
phis, where the Mississippi will be crossed,
and continuing southeasterly through Sel
ma and Montgomery, Ala , and Eufaula,
to reach tidewater at Brunswick. The
length of this line will be about 1,200
miles. All of it is surveyed; some 100
miles from Selma westward are built, and
work is progressing at a dozen points east
of the Mississippi river. To my mind, the
plan has no great promise of success.
Brunswick has neither prestige as a
seaport nor terminal facilities for
the railroads that are reaching out
to occupy it. It has indubitably
the best water on the coast
south of Norfolk, is easy of access
and pregnant with possibilities But we re
member the promise held out for Torktown
when the Chesapeake and Ohio Road cut its
iron way from the Ohio valley across the
Alleghanieß to tidewater, and Yorktown, as
a terminal point, has neither entered nor
cleared any ships, exported any grain, or
received any foreign importations. Bruns
wick has been known as a lumber port, and
its export of timber has been by vessels
that lay at anchor in the bay till their car
goes floated out to them. Then, too, mere
than any other city, except, perhaps,
Mexaudria, La., on the Red river, has
yellow fever claimed its victims there. De
spite all this, three railroads are turning
(heir attention to this point for a seaboard
outlet, and one, the Macon and Brunswick
line, has been there for some years.
To return to the Erlanger projects. The
third line extends west from Selma to Meri
dian, where it intersects the Cincinnati and
New Orleans line, and thence due west to
the Mississippi river at Vicksburg. This
road until recently was probably the worst
ia the world. The road bed is being bal
lasted into tolerable shape, and new rails
have been laid. The road crossing the Mis
sissippi at Vicksburg extends to Marshall,
Texas, where it joins the Texas Pacific, with
whose interests it has some paculiarjassocia
tloDß. There remains a stretch of road in
Louisiana to be built to complete this line
from Selma, Alabama, to Marshall, Texas,
but it will soon be done—say within a few
months. The Gulf of California branch is
in course of construction. Practically this
embraces the railroad projects of the Er
langer syndicate.
The Cole syndicate is the next of the con
solidations to attract attention. It is em
braced under the title of the Virginia,
Tennessee and Georgia Road, its eastern
line is the old Atlantic, Ohio and Missis
sippi Road, reaching from Norfolk through
the southern tier of Virginia counties, 408
miles, to Bristol. Its next link is the road
whose present came lives in the consolida
tion. It reaches out over the mountains to
the upper waters of the Tennessee river,
ESTABLISHED 1850.
whose tortuous course it follows to Knox
ville and Chattanooga. Its next capture was
the Memphis and Charleston Road, 310
miles, from the former place to Chatta
nooga. A branch from Cleveland, Tenn.,
extended to Dalton, Ga. This was
blended with the Selma, Rome and
Dalton Road, and thus the interi
or of Alabama was reached and the
way opened to the Gulf. More recently the
syndicate acquired the Macon and Bruns
wick Road that cuts across Southern
Georgia from Macon to the sea, 186 miles
long, and now it is building from Rome,
southerly, to Macon, a distance of 150 miles
or more, to bring the new acquisition in
connection with the main body. This new
line will pass to the west of Atlanta, and
when, next winter, It is completed, will
give this system, whose length, including
branches, is 1,550 miles, two seaboard
termini and one on the Mississippi, while,
if the plan to build to New Orleans is car
ried out, a fourth will be added that will
belong at once to the Mississippi and the
Gulf.
The consolidations in the State of Georgia
have brought under one management every
road entirely in the Btate. To attempt to
explain them would be to confuse the read
er bevond the chance of recovery. If, how
ever, he will look at a map of the State aod
exclude the line known as the Btate Road
from Atlanta to Chattanooga, the Macon
and Brunswick just named, and the Gulf
line from Jacksonville to Bavannah and
westward to Bainbridge, he will then have
in the rest the Central of Georgia consolida
tion. It, embraces two lines from Macon to
S wannah, two from Savannah to Atlanta, to
Port Roval, Montgomery, Eufaula,Columbus
—in fact, a network whose crossings and in
dividualities it would be hard to divine, and
whose identities It must be difficult for their
owners to remember. The mileage of the
railroads of this consolidation approximates
2,300. Freight is shipped from New York
to the upper Missouri and northwest by way
of Savannah, Atlanta, Chattanooga, St.
Louis, and by different routes to all the
country of which the latter city Is the dis
tributing point. A great deal of Tennessee
and Kentucky product bound to the East
finds its wav over the same line.
The condition of the Georgia system of
roads is not what It might be if the several
lines were self-supporting. It would
seem at first blush that, the fact existing
that the railroads have only cotton to take
from the State, they must have return
freights of provisions and fabrics to bring
back. Such is Indeed the case, but the
poverty of the country is so absolute that
there is not enough of export or import to
properly sustain the movement were it twice
as much both ways. Let no one be deceiv
ed as to the prosperity of the South. In
every cotton growing State five-eighths of
next year’s crop Is already pawned or
p’edged for this winter’s provisions, and the
advances obtained by the planters have
been nearly spent already. The staple
articles of food—pork and corn—are no
longer grown to any extent, and the
most common forms of the cereals—
hominy and meal —are brought from Indi
ana and Baltimore. While the cotton bro
kers advance money to the planters they
sacrifice their credit with the Northern mer
chants with whom they deal, and I make
the statement on the authority of the freight
agent of a large Georgia road that out of
forty-nine cars of meat brought into the
State from Cincinnati there was only one
delivered on credit. The other forty eight
came into the State simultaneously with the
draft for the amount, averagine $2,500 each
car, and to the draft was attached the bi>l
of lading. The consignee got his bill of
lading when he paid the drafts and only
them.
Of course there is some lumber interest,
some mineral and a small production of
naval stores. The quantity is small, how
ever, considered in connection with the
vast territory from which it is taken. Un
der such circumstances one need not won
der that the path of prosperity for a rail
road is beset with difficulties. Nevertheless
there is an immense amount of road build
ing in Georgia, and the extent of projections
is vast, Indeed almost limitless. The
Louisville, Nashville and Great Southern
propose a line to Brunswick. I have men
tioned the like intention of the ErlaDger
syndicate; and the Central Riad of Georgia,
not to be left out in the cold, think they will
go and do likewise.
I have only to name one other consolida
tion, and then I will have given a compre
hensive idea of the great syndicates that in
the railroad way control all this region. It
is called the Clyde syndicate, and its chief
line is the Piedmont, or Air Line, through
Danville from Richmond, crossing central,
north and western South Carolina to At
lanta. It traverses a tolerable sort of
country, and It is linked in with most of the
seaboard lines, Dot as a consolidation of in
terests, but as a business convenience. The
Clyde syndicate has about 1,600 miles of
road—l give only round figures.
From what l*have written we may now
make up the following summary: Five syn
d cates or consolidations practically embrs ce
the railroad service of the southeast of the
Mississippi river. They are as follows;
The Louisville and Nashville, I 860 miles;
the Erlanger syndicate 4,000 miles; the East
Tennessee, Vireinia and Georgia, 1,550; the
Clyde lines, 1,606, and the Georgia consoli
dation, 2,200 —in all nearly 12,000 miles of
road. There are other roads, of course.
The New Orleans and Great Northern oper
ates in the incerest and in connection with
the Illinois Central and its parallel rival, the
Mobile and Ohio, Then In the consolida
tion that is called the Clyde syn
dicate there are a number of lines
whose associations are more or
less remote. But the spirit for consolida
tion is indicated, and its influence and ex
tent shown in what I have written. There
is not apparently a dangerous spread of
what is called monopoly. The keen rival
ries and number of the consolidations are
an effectual barrier to such a tendency, even
if it existed. On the contrary, the compe
titions have brought about a better service
and equipment for all the lines. Neverthe
less, the prosperity of all these lines, repre
senting as they do nearly a thousand mil
lion of dollars, is scarcely problematical so
long as cotton alone Is produced and carried
away, and the necessaries of life are the
only return freights. E. R.
Sandy Cotton.
The following to the New York Journal
of Commerce will be read with interest by ail
who have any connection with the cotton
trade. It gives a very clear and convincing
statement concerning the origin of the evil
which has attracted so much attention both
at home and abroad:
Wilmington, N. C-, April 6,1882.
Editor of the Journal of Commerce:
I have read with pleasure >-our editorial
of sth Instant, on “Unfounded Aspersions
on American Cotton.” I also read the ar
ticle of 24th of March from your Savannah
correspondent. It seems to me that there
is reasonable cause for complaint of candy
and inferior cotton this year, but it can be
accounted for without charging almost an
entire people with fraud and dishonesty. I
will first claim to be Impartial at least,
as I am neither a cotton planter nor
an agent for cotton planters. On the con
trary, my interests In cotton are as a buyer
and manufacturer of the staple, and as a
receiver of it to some extent for advances
furnished to planters. Last spring snd sum
mer nearly all sectione of the South suffered
from a prolonged and almost unprecedented
drouth. My interest in the subject led me
to travel a good deal over many sections in
order to form a fair estimate of the extent
and value of the crop, and I found the
plants instead of being as usual twenty-four
to thirty inches high, had not in many
p'aces grown over six inches high, and in
all I saw scarcely averaged a foot, and the
bolls were all upon the lower branches. In
cultivation cotton is kept absolutely
clear of weeds and grass. In con
sequence of the drouth the loamy
soil was a finely pulverized dust nearly
three inches deep. When rains did
come at last, when the cotton was nearly all
fully open, they were heavy aDd often ac
companied by high winds or storms. The
winds blew large quantities of cotton out of
the boils and scattered it in the fine dust be
tween the rows and blew the dust into that
remaining in the bolls. The rain also con
tributed to the damage by splashing the
wet mud upon the cotton, where it stuck.
The planters had their entire year’s work
lying before them in this injured condition.
They were too poor to lose It, for they raise
but the one article, and generally too poor
to purchase or own machinery for cleaning
It; hence they gathered it and sold it for
what it was worth, and as purchasers buy by
samples and invariably examine the bales
carefully and compare what they or their
agents draw with the samples, and have the
privilege of rejecting any which does not
agree, it is fair to conclude, as you say, that
“they buy the cotton knowing it to be sandy
or soaked with rain, and at a reduced price,
and lose nothing by it.” I regret to have to
admit that frauds are occasionally perpe
trated in this business, as in almost all other
kinds, and in all parts of the world. Those
who wilfully water or sand their cotton, or
put in “gin tags,” or any heavy foreign
substances, can usually be traced out, and
should be severely punished; but a whole
people should not be condemned for the
acts of a very few “black sheep.”
Yours very respectfully,
Cotton Bpinnxb.
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New York Sun.
The debate on the tariff commission
bill in the House gives a fresh interest to
the facts regarding the foreign com
merce of the United States which are
presented m the last report of the Bureau
of Statistics.
The first point to note is that our ex
ports of merchandise to nearly all the
great trading countries have of late years
largely exceeded in value the imports
which we take from t hem. This is true of
Great Britain and Ireland, of France,
of Germany, of Russia, of Belgium, of
Netherlands, of Sp un and of Denmark.
In a few countries t here is nearly a bal
ance, while Cuba, Brazil, the British and
Dutch East Indies China, Japan and
some Spanish colonial possessions ha
bitually send us a much greater value of
merchandise than we export to them.
But taking the whole trade together, the
value of our merchandise exports for the
last half dozen years, in excess of the
imports, has been $1,180,668,105,|Jand
during the last fiscal year alone, this ex
cess of exports was no less than $259,'
712,718.
In the next place, the value of the
imports of merchandise entered for con
sumption in the United States during the
last fiscal year was $650,618,999 63. The
dutiable part of this was valued at
$448,061,587 95. while the remainder, or
free portion, amounted to $202,557,-
411 68. An average of about 43f per
cent, on the former sum was levied as
duties, the actual amount collected be
ing $193,800,879 69. Of this sum
$136,211,127 38, or more than 70 per
cent., was collected at the port of New
York.
Again the sum of $133,380,847 88, or
more than 69 per cent, was collected
from six classes of merchandise. These
were: Sugar and molasses, paying $47,-
984.032 84; wool and its manufactures,
$27,285,624 78; iron and st el ahd their
manufactures, $21,402,694 34; silk manu
factures, $19,038,065 81; coarse manu
factures, $10,825 115 21; flix and its
manufactures, $6,284,374 90. The duties
on these classes vary from 24.79 per
cent., in the case of sugar and molasses,
down to 3.60 per cent., in the case of flax
and its manufactures.
Turning once more to our aggregate
imports, both dutiable and free, we find
that the value of the sugar and molasses
was $93,404,288, or much over 14 per
cent, of the total imports; that coffee
amounted to $56,784,391, or nearly 9 per
cent.; iron and steel and their manufac
tures to $46,539,747, being over 7 per
cent.; silk and its manufactures to $42,-
944,965; wool and its manufactures to
$40,860,394; drugs, dyes and chemicals,
and medicines in general, to $36,590,473.
Thus these s'x classes of imports aggre
gate $317,024,258, or nearly half of the
total value of the fiscal year’s imports.
The seventh highest class is that of cot
ton and its manufactures, whose value
was $31,976,637.
It should be noted, however, that
while our excess of merchandise exports
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1881,
to those countries which took from us
more than they sent in return was $441,-
675,687, and while the contrary excess of
our merchandise imports from those
countries which sold us more than they
bought was $181,962,909, thus leaving
the vast balance, already spbken of, in
our favor, on this item, of $259,712,718,
yet the current movement of trade is
showing different results. The latest
bulletin of the Bureau of Statistics re
cords that while duriDg the year ending
February 28, 1881, the excess of mer
chandise exports over imports had been
$225,546,777, this excess for the year
ending February 28, 1882, was
only ‘ $120,156 021 —a falling off
of $101,390,756. The changed
tendency becomes strongly marked also
in comparing the two Februarys; for,
while the excess of exports was $19,974,-
313 in February, 1881, during the cor
responding month of 1882 the imports
had regained the lead, after many years,
surpassing the exports by $2,381,629.
The movements in gold and silver coin
and bullion, of cour.-e, have a certain de
gree of relation io ih<ve in merchandise,
the excess of imports oi coin and bul
lion for the twelve months ending Feb
ruary 28, 1882, having fallen off near.y
half from the twelve months previous,
while the excess of the past February
was on the port side, reaching $7,684,051.
It does not follow that we are to see
an instantaneous return to the condition
of affairs in 1872, when the excess of
our imports of merchandise over the ex
ports amounted for the fiscal year to
$182,417,491. In fact, the falling off in
some of our chief exports last fall and
winter was obviously due to an excep
tional and purely temporary circum
stance, the influence of an extensive
drought in causing many short crops.
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