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WATI'HHAY, NoVKMBKK *O, 1875?
1870.
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To the Masters of Oranges— P. of H.
in Florida.
You aro hereby reminded that the
regular annual meeting of the State
Grango of Florida will be held in Live
Oak, commencing on Wednesday, Decem
ber Bth, at 10 o’clock a. m.
This being the time for tho election of
the officers it is hoped every Grange in
the jurisdiction will be represented.
Masters are also rominded that in the
interval between the meetings of the
State Grange no one has authority to
change the time fixed by the last meet
ing except the Master, and Executive
Committee. You are therefore cautioned
against a bogus meeting called by unau
thorized parties for the fourth Wednes
day in November.
Joseph Tillman,
Robert Turner,
Thos. A. Canuth,
Executive Committee.
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The New York Herald Prophesyeth.
Tho Now York Herald, with a pro
photic keu peculiarly its own, casts the
political horoscope. It sees in tho result
of the recent elections a sure indication
of Republican success in 1870, if Gen.
Grant will be guided by its councils, and
an equal prospect of a Democratic tri
urnph if its advioe is not adhered to.
Gen. Grant, according to the Herald,
is now master of the situation, and
holds the fate of the Republican party
and of the country in his hands. He Gan
command the Republican nomination for
himself, or for Adams, Fish or Wash
burn. Either of the latter could be tri
umphantly elected and the unity of the
Republican party preserved. But Grant’s
acceptance of the nomination for a third
term would result in his overwhelming
defeat through the disintegration of
both the Republican and Democratic
parties, while it would insure the election
of a Democratic anti-coutractionist to the
Presidency. Whether the Herald is right
or wrong in its premises, if its con
clusion should be verified the country
would no doubt survive the catastrophe
against which it raises its warning voice.
Virginia and the Southern Pacieio
Railroad. —Governor Kemper, of Vir
ginia, has appointed a large delegation,
composed of the leading citizens of that
State, to attend the convention to be
held in St. Louis on the Hath instant to
oonsider the subject of a proposed Pa
cific Railroad through the States and
Territories of the Southwest. The dele
gation includes Hon. Thomas S. Bocock,
of Lynchburg; Judge Edmund Pendle
ton, of Winchester; General James G.
Field, of Culpepper, and Ex -Governor
Letcher, of Rockbridge. The same dele
gates have also been requested by Gov.
Kemper to represent the State at a con
vention to consider the same subject
which is called to meet at Memphis on
Friday, the 19th instant
The Navt Yards. —Alluding to the
wholesale discharges from the navy yarSs
begun since the late elections, the New
York Tribune says: “An interesting
feature in the coming report of the Sec
retary of the Navy would be a detailed
statement of the number of men hired
in the few weeks before election lay, the
need of employing them, what they did,
what was the value of it, and what they
were paid for it, with a few suggestions
as to the wisdom of repeating the pro
cess in 1876.".
Grant and the Whisky Ring.
The following from the Bt. Louis Went
litht Pott carries no little significance,
when it is borne in mind that Carl Schurz
is at the head of the paper and is its
responsible editor:
“The grand jury that again meets to
day to examine into the facts connected
with the whisky frauds, which were noto
riously conducted and protected from
abort, must, under no circumstances,
'overlook one thing. The Washing
ton telegrams, written in cypher,
which are before them, warning the
1 distillers of this city of their imminent
danger, are based upon and derived
: from a knowledge which at that time
I but two single persons possessed. Only
' Bristow and Grant knew of the steps that
; were to be taken, and as we know that
; those signals of warning were not given
by Bristew. they could only have come
from Grant or one in his confidence. The
whole country, therefore, points already
■to the notorious Babcock, Grant’s body
villain, false measurer and swindler in
general, as well as the head of all the
I corrupt scoundrels and newspapers in
I 1872 in particular, of whom, to use a
familiar legal phrase, such a misdeed is
to be expected.”
In this, it will be seen, the blunt charge
is made that the telegrams received by
the distillers of St. Louis from Washing
l ton could have been obtained only through
1 the knowledge of President, Grant or
Gen. Babcock. Referring to the matter,
the St. Louis Time* remarks : “As the
name of Senator Carl Schurz stands at
the head of the WetUiche Pott as one of
its editors, and as the author of the
charge particularly asserts that he knows
what he alleges to be true ; it is something
more than a mere rumor, and becomes
of sufficiently serious importance to
challenge the immediate attention of
the grand jury and the United States
District Attorney, Mr. Dyer, who so
far has shown great zeal ‘and ability.
The author of this startling charge is
no less a person than Mr. Emil Preeto
rius, one of the editors of the .WetUiche
Post, and the associate and intimate
friend of ex Senator Schurz. His ap
pearance before the grand jury be
comes an imperative necessity, as his
testimony may probably throw a great
deal of light upon this still very dark
subject. Let Mr. Preetorius take the
stand.”
The Washington dispatches have been
particular in reiterating that Orville
Grant and General Babcock have not
been indicted. Probably not. There
may not yet have been sufficient evidence
to implicate them; but if the direct
charges of the WetUiche Pott, made by a
responsible man, are true, the indict
ments will doubtless be forthcoming if
the St. Louis district attorney and the
grand jury do their duty. We shall see.
National Report on Education. —We
have received the report of Hon. John
Eaton, the United States Commissioner
of Education for 1874. It makes a
volume of 1)35 pages, and is filled with
valuable statistics upon the subject of
which it treats. The report shows that
the total school population of the States
and Territories is 13,875,050 ; enrolled in
the public schools, 8,01)0,1)81 ; average
daily attendance, 4,521,567 ; total num
ber of teachers, 246,300. The total in
come of public schools for the whole
country is $82,158,1)05; of which $81,277,-
CB6 is for the States and $881,21!) for
the Territories.
It is observed in general, with refer
ence to the Southern States, that consid
erable donations have been made to
higher institutions of learning. Several
religious denominations have been active
in organizing schools of all grades. The
Peabody fund has continued to extend its
•J’ltuieut aid in the States designated
for its benefactions.
The Knoxville Press and Herald de
votes a leading editorial to the import
ance of the conventions to be held this
month in the interest of a Southern
railroad route to the Pacific Ocean, one
at Memphis on the l!)th, and the other at
St. Louis on the 23d of the month. Ono
thing, the Press and Herald sayff, is cer
tain—if St. Louis is made the
eastern terminus of the route, the
benefits to the South in the construc
tion of the road are too remote to
amount to any practical good. Let the
importance of the matter be properly
understood, and let our Congressmen be
instructed to see to it that no advantages
whatever be given St. Louis over Mem
phis, Vicksburg or New Orleans. The
route should start at the Mississippi
river by all means. Any legislation by Con
gress not making this a condition of the
law, will be of no avail to rebuild the
shattered commerce of our Southern
ports and cities.
The Springfield Republican puts the
case no less strongly than truthfully when
it says : “The saddest feature of the
week’s voting is in New York, where the
anti-Tammany ring of the city, led by
John Morrissey, Oakey Hall and Janus
O’Brien—people kicked out of Tammany
for their political crimes aud corruptions
—and the canal ring of the country,
driven away from the support of Gov.
Tilden and his reform associates, by his
exposure of their robberies, have been
sought aud accepted as allies of the Re
publican party, and given that party a
partial local victory, to its great dishonor
and disgrace.”
As the official returns of Pennsylvania
are received, the majority of Hartranft
dwindles down, until the fact is clearly
established that in the State, outside of
Philadelphia, there is a clear Democratic
majority of fully six thousand. Those
who are familiar with the manner in
which the election was conducted in that
city assert that more than one-half of
Hartranft's majority was fraudulent. It
is, therefore, safe to say that in a fair poll
and an honest count, the State is so
evenly balanced, as to render its political
complexion a matter of doubt.
The Philadelphia Chronicle thinks
there's hope for the country after all,
since a Republican canal ringster in New
York, who enjoyed a salary of from four
to six dollars a day, and managed in a
few years to save one hundred and thirty
thousand dollars out of his earnings,
committed suicide the other day rather
than be called upon to rise up and ex
plain the mysterious process by which he
managed to make so much out of so lit
tle. Now if every Republican official
who has robbed the people would go and
do likewise, wouldn't there be a lot of
vacancies to be filled ?
The Chicago Times, which is first-rate
authority on such subjects, says that for
crimes against women, New England, the
land of the“higher-law, God-and-mor&lity
party." now leads the world. Almost
every mail brings the news of some
diabolical atrocity—such as rape, fol
lowed by murder of the victim, and other
crimes too noxious to mention in tt de
cent journal.
A correspondent of the Havana JHario
de la Marina, in a recent letter dated at
Santiago de Cuba, says that “the insur
gents are in want of ammunition,” and
that any assistance in the shape of pow
der or cartridges that they may receive
by sea would be fatal to the Spaniih Gov
ernment, as it would enable the Cubans
to take an offensive attitude again.
A Painful Suspicion Confirmed.
We have for some time past suspected
that the erratic and versatile “Reverend
W. Watkin Hicks, who presides over the
columns of the Femandina Ohtener, was
the victim of a peculiar mental aberra
tion. His remarkable conduct, as de
scribed by the Live Oak Time* and other
Florida papers, not less than the incoher
ent ravings, the profanity, blackguardism
and billingsgate which characterize his
editorial lucubrations could, in our judg
ment. only be explained on this charita
ble hypothesis—that an excess of Radi -
calism or of religion had impaired what
little of intellect he may have been
endowed with. Whatever doubts we
may have entertained on this subject are
entirely dissipated by the abundant evi
dence contained in his issue of Saturday
last.
We will inflict upon our readers but a
single sentence from one of his editorials,
and submit the case whether such a piece
of composition could ever have emanated
from a sane mind. Here it is:
Now, since it has become apparent that
neither in the State, nor nation, is there
the slightest chance remaining for the sue •
cess of the Democratic party, so-called,or
rather for any effective combination of its
heterogenous, incoherent, incompatible,
and even, in the light of fundamental ideas
and principles, antagonistic elements, we
recur to the expression adopted for our
text, so often used of late in the State
journals of the Democratic party, and
desire to question its meaning for the
especial benefit of those in the State to
the manor boni, or, in other words, for
the “natives,” as they sometimes style
themselves, without regard to the fact,
or, still again, for “our people,” which,
after all, is the better designation for
those compound Whig and Demo
cratic, or Union and Secession elements
of party in the State constituting a
class rather than a party, and which they
themselves must admit is, in regard to
distinctive political sentiments, neither
“fish, flesh nor fowl, nor good red her
ring, and could not possibly be held to
gether, even for a day, on the basis of
any common political principles, but are
alone kept in conjunction through simi
larity of unreasoning passions and preju
dices, jealousies, hatreds and revenges,
yet impotently chafing in their self-con
suming rage, irrational, aimless and ob
jectless in their blind fury.
Reader, allowing you time to recover
your breath after the effort to compre
hend such a mass of verbiage, we will
ask you if you can lay your band upon
your “Blair’s Rhetoric” and say that the
author of that sentence of Welsh-Englisn
composition is a sane man —is anything
short of a lunatic ?
To that settled conviction we have
come, and henceforth we shall cease to
consider the insane though incendiary
ravings of “the Rev. W. Watkin Hicks,”
and shall regard the unfortunate lunatic
as unworthy of our resentment and a fit
object of compassionate charity.
A Hard Money Contractionist in a
Quandary.
Finding the country drained of coin
under the operation of the Radical
foreign bond system, and the national
banks in no better condition to resume
specie payment now than it was five
years ago, the Philadelphia American is
in a perplexing quandary. The editor
says:
“Where the treasure goes is the sub
ject of £ laborious inquiry by various
financial writers, who make careful cal
culations as to the stock of gold and
silver in existence. It makes little prac
tical difference how much there is, the
only point of importance being as to how
we can best secure and retain our share
of it. France has long been able to
do so effectually by being self-sus
taining and independent. If we can
bring our country to the same gen
eral system we can attain the same re
sult. But we never shall do so if we
waste time in discussing possibilities.
The true policy is to work away at the
problem and assume the end as certain.
It makes little difference how many errors
we commit so that in the main we keep
approaching the desired end, just as
in debt reduction, the aim being to
get rid of the burden honorably, all
we can gain in the way of reduction
is so much genuine progress. The
point is not to contrive an imaginary
specie basis, but to attain a real one
such as France has. That is what we
must set before us and keep always in
view, and as we have the most prolifiic
gold and silver mines in the world, all
that is necessary is to stop the drain of
these products. Whether that is to be
done by getting rid of the foreign debt
or by the simple process of creaiing a
great home market for gold and silver,
matters not. Let us do what we can in
both directions.”
Taking into view the impossibility of
either getting rid of the daily increasing
gold interest bearing foreign debt, or of
creating a great home market for the gold
that is being exported to pay the European
balance against us as fast as it is mined
and coined, the prospect of reaching
specie resumption as set forth by the
American is anything but encouraging.
If a real “specie basis” could be attained
simply by keeping the subject “always
in view,” as the editor suggests,
the present fluctuating condition
of the money market might be kept up
for an indefinite time, greatly to the ben
efit bf the bondholders and stock jobbers.
But keeping the matter of a return to
specie payment “always in view” will not
stop the “drain,” and to continue to de
lude the country with hard money prom
ises is to “ waste time in discussing im
possibilities.”
The Keelv Motor. —For some time
we have heard nothing about the Keely
motor, which was to have astonished the
world by propelling a train of palace cars
from Philadelphia to New York some
time in October last. Now we are in
formed by a special dispatch to the Hart
ford Times that one of the largest build
ers of machinery in New York has taken
an interest in it and is building for it a
thousand horse-power engine. Further
more, it is now deemed proper
to divulge a trifle more of “the secret,’
and let an anxious world know that the
power is obtained by the use of “a cold va
por,” that is generated neither by heat nor
chemicals, and that by the use of this
discovery one quart of water will be
enough to propel an ocean steamer. The
Times, whose editor is like many others,
skeptical in regard to this newly discov
ered power, is disposed to ridicule this
assertion. “How far the steamer will
go,” says the editor, “we are not told ;
but if, instead of a quart of water, Mr.
Keely will substitute a quart of whisky, no
doubt he could at least get half-seas
over.”
The government of Catholic France
decides that the Pope cannot grant any
title of nobility to its citizens. A French
man of wealth and some prominence in
public life lately received such a title
from the Pope, but the government re
fuses to recognize it or permit the re
cipient to bear it, for the reason that the
Pope is no longer a temporal sovereign,
and hence has no authority to issue such
titles. A large number of French noble -
men received their titles from Rome, and
this decision of the government will be
apt to create something of a sensation in
France.
A committee has been formed in New
York to enable the people of Porto Bioo
to free themselves from the iron role of
the Spanish Government.
A Possible President on the Cur
rency.
Senator Bayard, of Delaware, has writ
ten a letter to the Atlanta Herald, giving
his financial views. Although in favor of
a specie.basis, he does not appear wedded
to the forced resumption act of the last
Congress. On this point he says :
I do not say a day can at once be fixed
upon which the United States Treasury
can announce its ability to pay all out
standing demand notes in coin—but a
system can be inaugurated looking di
rectly to that result, which will make re
sumption an early possibility.
While objecting to the Ohio Demo
cratic platform, Mr. Bayard is also op
posed to “the present odious national
banking system,” and apparently in
favor of a local currency. Upon these
subjects he says:
Ever since 18(12 there has existed a
combination between the Federal ad
ministration and the moneyed power of
the country, unwholesome for both par
ties, and unsafe for the country at
large. It has its basis in the system of
national banks organized under act of
Congress, and largely controlled by the
Treasury Department, and subject to
the will of a Congressional majority, a
condition of things never warranted by
the letter and spirit of the Constitution,
or the federal nature of our system of
government. Under it the banking busi
ness of the entire country has been re
stricted to one special kind of capital; i.
e., the bonds of the United States Gov
ernment, and the employment of all
other descriptions of capital as a basis for
banking has been rigidly excluded from
competition. Credit has been restricted
to th 6 single form of national bank
notes, and this has been unlawfully and
unwisely taken from the States and the
people, where it admittedly belonged
under the usage of our government from
its foundation, and deposited under the
sole and despotic control of Congress.
This was all accomplished by the pas
sage of an act of Congress, which under
the pretext of taxing the State banking
institutions for the purpose of revenue,
crushed their circulation out of existence.
So long as this lasts, and Congress is in
vested with the power aad sole discretion
to determine and control the volume of
currency—the extent of emissions of
paper currency for all the States and peo
ple-just so long uncertainty and dissatis
faction will prevail, and the sound and
true principles of banking and credit will
be disregarded.
The ebb and flow of party power
changes Congressional majorities from
year to year, and I can imagine no body
of men so unfit to exercise so great a
power and peculiar discretion as the
accidental majority of Congress. Such a
power has never been exercised in Great
Britain. Even there under their impe
rial system, and all the political omnipo
tence of Parliament, such folly as con
fining the banking business of the coun
try to a single species of capital, or pre
venting any banker, or banking associa
tion, from using his or their credit by the
emission of notes in any form they saw
fit, has never been attempted or sug
gested.
THE LAND OF FLOWERS.
Tallahassee nnl its Surroundings—The
Capital ns it is To Day—lts Manufac
turing Company—The Minnesota Im
migrants—Their Character an<l Pros
pects—The Eiicourageiiieut of lmiui
aration.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News-J
City Hotel, November 13, 1875.
I must be allowed to say, by way of
introduction, that these few sketches of
Florida are not to be labored and polished
articles, but plain and practical epistles,
hastily written, yet prepared with as
much care and truthfulness as possible.
People in all parts of the land have been
daily asking for informaflon in regard to
this State, and since the recent arrival
from Minnesota of a large party of im
migrants, nearly all of whom are seeking
permanent homes here, these inquiries
have become more general. The purpose
of this series of letters will be to give,
as far as possible, the needed informa
tion, and point out desirable locations in
which immigrants from any State in the
Union can find good homes with favora
ble surroundings. For much of my in
formation I shall be obliged to depend
upon others, and often upon strangers,
yet I shall always endeavor to obtain it
from reliable sources, and use it in an
impartial and unbiased manner.
the capital city of to-day.
Tallahassee has not been a favored
spot since the war, from causes of a po
litical character, and for other reasons;
but this season anew lease of life seems
to have been given to the capital city in all
its industries and resources. Much of this
may be due ta the arrival of the Minne
sota party, and some to the fixed pur
pose of the citizens to gird up their
loins anew for the battle of life and
make this once proud, prosperous and
beautiful city the pride of the State, and
the home of affluence, refinement and
progressive industries. Already the cot
ton factory whistle startles the ears of
a surprised populace, and the car shop
whistle still calls a swarm of industrious
workmen to their daily mechanical
labors. Everywhere I see old buildings
renovated and repainted, if not en
larged, and streets and sidewalks, long
neglected, are improved, and inhabited
again with signs of business and ac
tivity.
The number of Northern and Western
visitors has steadily increased for the
past few years, and from present indica
tions a much larger number than ever
before will spend the winter months
here. Nearly every State is now repre
sented by tourists who tell me that the tide
of travel from the colder sections of the
country will be astonishingly large this
season. Although Tallahassee has but
one hotel, there are numerous private
boarding houses which are always well
patronized. As the City Hotel has now
passed into the hands of Oapt. Wm. P.
Slusser, an old and respectable citizen,
and that gentleman is expending a small
fortune in re-furnishing and repairing it
in an elegant style, a much larger number
of guests will be provided for in the best
possible manner. The house is quite
commodious, covering an entire block,
and in all respects will be made comfort
able and attractive for persons and fami
lies desiring to spend the winter here.
There is no more refined and cultivated
society in the State than can be found in
the elegant residences of the leading citi
zens of Tallahassee, and while there may
not be as much romance in the scenery
about the walks and drives of the city
and vicinity, there is very much to at
tract the eye, instruct the mind and please
the fancy of the most intelligent tourist.
Four miles distant is Lake Jackson, a
picturesque and delightfully attractive
sheet of water, and sixteen miles
away are the celebrated Wakulla
Springs, the source of the Wakulla
river, that empties into St. Marks
bay. The waters at this famous spot are
as clear and transparent as crystal, and
the bottom of the spring, something over
one hundred aud thirty feet below the
surface, is seen with the greatest ease,
and on it, as well as up and down the
sides of the springs, are to be seen many
curiosities. Rut { have neither time nor
space in these sketches to give more than
simple outlines of things in general.
HOW I GOT HEBE, AND HOW WELCOMED.
A ride of 178 miles over the Atlantic
and Gulf Railroad to Live Oak. where I
changed cars, and thence 84 miles over
the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile
Railroad, with that excellent veteran con
ductor, Dick Taylor, and I landed from the
cars in this city, the trip being made
without delay or accident, between the
hours of 4 o'clock p. m. and 9 o’clock a.
m., and proving a most comfortable
night’s ride. As it became dark from af
ter leaving Savannah, and daylight did
not appear until we reached Aucilia, I
had but little opportunity to judge of the
character of the country through which
we passed. What J did see, like the
lands immediately on the line of a rail
road, was not unusually attractive, al
though the evidences of successful cul
ture and agricultural enterprise were
visible at many points along the entire
route. Nearing this vicinity I saw con
siderable cotton baled for market, and
wild game in great profusion along the
streams and marshes. The night was
rather at 10 o’clock in the
morning 1 walked oat from this hotel
into a warm and genial atmosphere. The
train with which I connected a) Live
Oak passed on from this city to Chatia
hoochee Landing, where it arrived at
nooh.
Tallahassee is the headquarters of the
J., P. & M. R. R., which also has its
chief repair shops here. Passing through
them on yesterday with the General
Ticket Agent, F. B. Papy, I was sur
prised to see what excellent work is done
by the mechanics employed in the various
departments. A handsome and well
constructed baggage, express and mail
car, with all the modern improvements
and conveniences, has just been turned
out at these shops, and I have seldom
seen as good a piece of workmanship
from the largest Northern car factories.
In the absence of Mr. Robert Walker,
Receiver and General Superintendent of
this road, I have been most courteously
treated by Mr. Papy and other officials,
all of whom are most pleasant and
obliging gentlemen, and thoroughly de
sirous to aid in every way any and all
efforts to promote immigration to this
State. From ex-Governor Walker, Mayor
Walker. Judge Rippey, Dr. Hawkins,
Capt. Blocker and others, whose names
I cannot recall, I have also received many
kind attentions and much valuable assist
ance in my reportorial efforts to secure a
proper standpoint from which to “view
the landscape o'er.”
Of course I paid my first visits’to the
newspaper offices of the city, both of
which seem to be doing a good business.
At the Floridian office I found the senior
editor, Mr.C. E. Dyke, pushing his vigor
ous pen with great earnestness, yet he
suspended his labors and kindly consented
to “lend, me his ear" for a really longer
space of time than he could well spare.
His office is large and well-arranged, and
he and his son print a very attractive and
influential paper. Just now it is devot
ing considerable attention to the subject
of immigration, and will no doubt do
good service in bringing here a desirable
class of settlers. At the Sentinel office
I was also courteously treated, although
I had not a chance to meet the proprie
tor, Messrs. Walton & kJcLin. This
paper is Republican in politics, and in
consequence has many a sharp tilt with
the Floridian. It is a handsomely printed
and lively paper, and enjoys a good sup
port from its political followers. The
Florida Agrkulturitt, an attractive
eight-page weekly, is also published at
this office, although dated at Jacksonville.
The fine appearance and successful en
terprise of these journals are very cred
itable to a city of only about two thou
sand five hundred inhabitants, and show
that the people in this vicinity are intelli
gent and progressive in respect to sup
porting their home papers.
LOCATION AND RAILROAD FACILITIES.
The location of Tallahassee is most de
sirable, being upon the top of a short
ridge, sufficiently high to be healthy, and
yet easy of access, although reached from
no direction, nor by any means, without
ascending a gradual slope. The maiu
business street runs through the centre
of the place, and from it quite a number
of cross streets connect with the parallel
streets on which the residences of the
citizens are located. These being upon a
slope are favored with a good circulation
of air, and have spread out to view a
broad and attractive landscape. At one
end of the principal business street
stands the court house of Leon county,
a substantial three-story brick building
while at the other end, fronting the City
Hotel, stands the Capitol. This edifice
is three stories in height, stuccoed and
painted a dark brown color, and being
situated in the centre of a square which
is most attractively adorned with shrub
bery, makes a very creditable appearance.
At least, with Kimball’s Opera House in
my eye as the capitol of the great State
of Georgia, I dare not throw a stone of
criticism at this neat and unpretending
public building so profusely surrounded by
natural attractions. There is absolutely
nothing about it to inspire and encourage
anything but an honest and impartial
administration of State affairs, to which
condition of things the people here are
hopefully looking forward, as the, dark
clouds of political corruption slow ly dispel
and give promise of a brighter day in
the far distant future.
While the air in winter is not too brac
ing for invalids, the heat during the sum
mer months is made unobjectionable by
the cool breezes which come up from the
Gulf of Mexico, some twenty miles off.
Jacksonville is ICS miles distant, Savan
nah 2G2, St. Marks 21 miles, and Chatta
ljpochee Landing, on the river of that
name, 44 miles. These points are ail
easily reached by the trains of the Jack
sonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad,
which runs from the Chattahoochee river
to Jacksonville, with a branch from Tal
lahassee to St. Marks, and another from
Monticello Junction to Monticello, four
miles. At Live Oak, eighty-two miles
from Jacksonville, this road connects
with the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad to
Savannah and Albany. At Baldwin,
nineteen miles from Jacksonville, a junc
tion is formed with the Atlantic, Gulf
and West India Transit Company’s Rail
road for Fernandina, forty-seven miles
distant, and Cedar Keys,one hundred and
seven miles, but in opposite directions.
TALLAHASSEE MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
Within the past three days this new
manufacturing enterprise has gone into
operation here, and before the month is
ended all its spindles will be busily at
work turning out white fabrics. The
main building, which is of brick and two
stories high, is located near the depot of
the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile
Railroad, and is very substantially put
up. It is not large, but it is so con
structed that additions can be made at
any time in the future if they should be
demanded. The engine and machinery
of the entire establishment are of the
latest and most approved patterns and
will be run by mechanics who have had
long experience in the business at the
North. Near the main structure is a
three-story wooden building, which is
used as the ginning department, where
cotton is ginned and baled for farmers,
or is purchased and ginned for the use of
the factory. In the latter case the farm
er is saved the expense of bagging and
ties, and the cost of baling. Hare,
then, is an inducement for small farmers
to settle in the vicinity of Tallahassee.
They can so diversify their crops
as to raise but a moderate
amount of cotton, and for this just
as it comes from the field they can find a
ready sale at the factory, where they
will get the highest market price.
The men who have started this new en
terprise are of the right stamp to assure
its success. R. M. Shouse, of Pennsyl
vania, the originator, and C. H. Halder
man, Secretary and Treasurer of the same
State, are practical manufacturers, and
no such word as “fail” can be put over
the door of their hopes in regard to this
movement. The President, Dr. A. B.
Hawkins, is a thoroughly energetic man,
and with the other directors, Messrs.
John Gamble, John Winthrop and John
Bradford, is determined that bad man
agement shall not shipwreck this pioneer
cotton manufacturing "project. Every
prominent employe is compelled to be a
stockholder to an amount sufficiently
large to make him thoroughly identified
with the success of the enterprise, and
doubly careful that its prosperity shall
not be injured by any carelessness or in
attention on his part. I am sure that
this is a most excellent precaution to
take, and shows how carefully the mana
gers have guarded against disasters from
the carelessness of subordinate officials.
THE MINNESOTA IMMIGRANTS.
The recent advent here of a party of
nearly two hundred men, women and
children, the greater portion of them be
ing from the once famous health giving
State of Minnesota, would have attracted
considerable attention even had they
come as mere tourists, to pass a few
weeks in the “Land of Flowers” and then
turn their faces homeward. But coming
as they did, with but a few exceptions,
as immigrants seeking homes and citi
zenship here, the event has been one of
marked importance and deep interest to
the people of Leon county and the entire
State. Unlike the most of immigrants
forming large parties, these men, women
and children are refined, intelligent and
industrious. Although ignorant as to
cotton culture, they are expert and sue
cessful cultivators of diversified crops
such as have given the great West much
of its attractiveness to persons seeking
rural homes. This party is the result of
the persistent efforts of Capt. O.A.E. Mill
er, of this city, acting under the auspices
of the Tallahassee Board of Trade, of
which Judge H, G. Rippev is the ener
getic President, and shows what might
be done for other sections of the South
by proper effort in the right direction.
I call this a Minnesota party, as the
majority of families are from
the city of Minneapolis. There
arA however. several families
from various portions of that State,
while others are from Wisconsin and
Michigan. Having confidenoe in the
representations made to them by Mr.
Miller, these people have come here to
enjoy the benefits of a milder climate and
a more fruitfull soil. Those with whom
1 have conversed are more than satisfied
with what they find here of inducements
for actual settlers. Good
churches of all denominations, au indus
trious, intelligent and orderly commu
nity, and cheap and easy communication
with the markets of the world. Game
abounds here in all directions, and can
almost be shot at one’s very door, while
the neighboring streams are well supplied
with fish. The cost of living is, there
fore, made very much lighter than in less
favored sections of the country. Of fruits
there is also an abundance. I have never
eaten finer bananas or more delicious
oranges than are grown in this vicinity.
These advantages go a great way to se
cure continued health to settlers from
abroad.
THE CHARACTER OF THESE IMMIGRANTS.
It is only in accordance with the defi
nition which Webster gives the term
immigrant—a person moving into a State
—that I apply it to the membeis of the
party recently arrived here. In the sense
in which it is used in-New York, when
bestowed upon foreigners, it could hardly
be applied to the Minnesotians. The
party is made up of men of various pur
suits, from the doctor and lawyer to the
plain mechanic or the humble farmer,
and from the man of large means and
high local position to the man of but a
few dollars and an obscure rank in so
ciety. Yet all are men and women of
energy and character, and have children
growing up who can be so trained that in
their future years they may become hon
ored and useful members of society.
These people, with their sturdy industry
and systematic economy, both guided by
intelligence and religious principle,
will prove a most valuable element
in the social and business circles
of this section. I have talked with
several the leading men of the
party, who freely gave me tlpeir confi
dence, and I am satisfied that have
come here with a sincere purjajSe to be
good citizens, and.to spare no efforts to
make the public prosperity keep pace
with their own individual success.
They are neither carpet-baggers nor
political aspirants, but have been drawn
South solely on account of the mildness
of the climate and the fertility of the
soil. Many of them are New England
farmers who years ago emigrated to Min
nesota to escape the terrible cold winters
of the North. And now the increased
rigor of the Minnesota winters drives
them to the “Land of Flowers” as the
only section of our country where they
can wholly escape a long and dreary win
ter. Agricultural pursuits have a greater
charm for them here than any other occu
pation, and the lawyers and the doctors
of the party propose to lay aside their
practice for a time and give their atten
tion to the cultivation of the soil.
Having established themselves in good
homes, and surrounded their families
with the comforts of life, they may
finally return to law and physic.
HOW THEY HAVE LOCATED.
This party comes to Florida with no
fixed purpose in regard to the exact lo
cality in which they should settle down
permanently. They left that question to
be decided upon after a careful survey of
the country. Some fifty of the party
went to Jacksonville last week, and thence
up the St. John’s river, as they had
dreamed of beautiful orange groves, in
their far off Minnesota homes, and noth
ing less than the realization of those
dreams can satisfy their ambition. A few
of this nurnben, however, have returned
and purchased or rented land in this vi
cinity, and others are expected back for
the same purpose. A smaller detachment
went to Gadsden county, near Quincy,
where a number will probably locate.
Others will scatter about, as their fancies
may lead them, in different directions,
but a good proportion of the entire party
will no doubt settle about Tallahassee.
Already several purchases of real estate
have been made, and others are about to
be consummated. Messrs. Houston,
Chaires, Bloxham, Rippey, Earle, Per
kins and other land owners and agents,
have divided up their plantations and
sold or offered for sale lots of from forty
to eighty or more acres.
This land is sold on easy terms, and at
prices varying from five to ten dollars
an acre. Considering the excellent
quality of the soil, and its adaptation to
the successful cultivation of diversified
crops, these prices are very reasonable.
Every variety of vegetables,' peaches,
grapes, oranges and bananas are raised
here with the most gratifying success.
It is true there are no grand orange
groves, nor do bananas hang from every
tree, yet enough of each are raised, and
of the finest quality, to satisfy all rea
sonable home demands, with a few over
for the market. Of vegetables I hear
some big stories, but they are well authen
ticated and cannot be ignored. The
Northern market can be supplied from
this section much earlier than from any
other State, and the railroads running
from here have special fast fruit and
vegetable trains by which the producers
are enabled to put their vegetables and
fruits into Northern and Western cities
without a moment’s delay, and on the
most reasonable terms. Everything but
wheat is successfully raised in this coun
ty, so that a Western or Northern farmer
can make his land self-sustaining from
the start, and at the same time patiently
await the fruitfulness of his orange trees.
HOW IMMIGRATION IS ENCOURAGED.
Although no general organized effort
has yet been made in regard to the mat
ter of encouraging immigration to this
section of Middle Florida, steps will soon
be taken in that direction. The able
and energetic editor-in-chief of the Flo
ridian, of this city, is calling for an im
migration convention to act upon the
subject, and several of the leading citi
zens are vigorously sustaining him in his
praiseworthy efforts. Large tracts of
land are being cut up into small farms
and put into the market upon terms suf
ficiently easy to satisfy the most exacting.
This is seen in the fact that the Min
nesota party left Minneapolis on a Mon
day at (1 o’clock p. m., and reached this
city on the following Friday at noon.
They would have arrived still earlier had
the dispatch from Eufaula not been de
layed, which made the special train late
in reaching the party when it landed from
the boat at Chattahoochee. Judge 11. C.
Rippey, Capt. F. Houston, G. A. Chaires,
Esq., Capt. O. A. E. Miller, Col. F. B.
Papy, Ex-Governor D. S. Walker, C. E.
Dyke, Sr., and other prominent citizens
are already aroused, and inspired by the
grand success of Captain Miller’s noble
efforts as agent of the Board of Trade,
they will not rest satisfied until the city
of Tallahassee is girdled about with
thrifty immigrants from all parts of the
country. With cheap and fruitful lands,
a mild and healthy climate, low taxation
and safety for life and property, they
hope to induce thousands of men who
are seeking just such advantages as these
to come and settle in this section of
Middle Florida.
PARTIES EN ROUTE TO FLORIDA.
I have met here to-day gentlemen
from Vermont, Michigan, Indiana, and
Minnesota, and through them I learn
that from each of these States a party of
from six to fifty families is now en route
for the “Land of Flowers.” Some of
these families, it is true, have been here
before, but only as winter visitors. They
now come as actual settlers, to remain
here, as Charles Dickens says, “all
the year round.” Much of this new
tide of immigration from the North and
West may be traced to the terrible de
pression which has fallen upon all
branches of industry and trade in those
sections of the country, and which has
led many business men, mechanics, and
professional gentlemen to turn their at
tention to the.culture of the soil. Hav
ing heard very flattering reports of
Florida, and being desirous of entering
upon an agricultural career under
the most favorable auspices, they
are coming here to try th6ir
fortunes. That they will be speedily
followed by other similar parties, as well
as by farmers of those sections who de
sire a milder climate and a longer season
for agricultural labor, there can be no
doubt.
With but little effort and a small outlay
of money, prudently put forth and eco
nomically expended, Soilth Georgia might
be made a sharer in this gr&nd immigra
tion movement, that is now just spring
ing into a full tide of success. ' There are
great inducements for actual settlers from
all parts of the United States to come to
this seotion of Florida, as well as to the
more widely known and tempting orange
groves of the St. John’s river; yet I
think I have seen much in South Georgia
(especially at the late Fair) that could be
made tjuiie as attractive to those settlers
who simply desire good homes, a mild
climate, a fruitful soil and an intelligent
community. To those who sigh for or
ange groves and riverside villas, and
whose lives can only be made happy
amidst romantic scenes and panoramio
social surroundings, the St. John’s river
must and will be the Mecca to which they
will journey and about which they will
set up their family altars.
A WORD IX CONCLUSION.
I have attempted no historical or en
larged description of Tallahassee, my
simple object in coming hero being to
look after immigration matters, and see
what kind of a chance there is in Leon
county and Middle Florida for men seek
ing new homes in an agricultural region.
I have become satisfied that the climate
here is most desirable, as well for in
valids as for healthy persons, and that
the rolling lands about Tallahassee are as
fruitful as could be desired for all kinds
of diversified farming. In your editorial
of yesterday (Friday) you strike the key
note of success in this section, when you
declare that “what we need at the South
is diversified investment and enterprise.
Let us grow less cotton and manufacture
more. Then, come what may, we shall
not have all our eggs in one basket.” To
this noble and truthful sentiment a num
ber of your old friends of a quarter of a
century ago have to-day said “amen,”
and now cheerfully offer to cut up their
large plantations and give liberal terms
to immigrants who desire small
farms on which to carry out, in
connection with the new cot
ton factory here, your sound advice.
While there are no government lands
hereabout to be entered, I learn that
there are plenty of opportunities for
small farmers to secure the best of lands
at low prices and on the most favorable
terms. Letters addressed to Judge H. C.
Rippey,G. A Chaires, George McGinuess,
Capt. P. Houston (who cultivates the
best quality of oranges here), or ex-Gov.
D. S. AY alker, in regard to lands and
other matters connected with a settle
ment in Middle Florida, will be promptly
attended to by these gentlemen.
Tourists and settlers, coming here, will
never fail to meet a cordial and sincere
welcome at the door of this comfortable
hotel. Mr. Slusser has macle a large in
vestment in its renovation and refurnish
ing, and of course hopes to find it a
payiDg one; still, as it is not the case with
all landlords, he proposes to deal fairly
and liberally with all his patrons, giving
them a full equivalent for their money.
In Mr. T. H. Randolph, his business
manager, he has an efficient and most
accommodating assistant, and under their
joint supervision the City Hotel cannot
fail to become one of the most popular
resorts for tourists in the South. AVhile
its handsome new billiard saloon, bar and
barber-shop are attractive features for
gentlemen, its elegant parlors and wide
sunny verandahs, with a most extended
and far reaching landscape, over which
comes the gentlest of ocean breezes, de
light the lady guests and make them sigh
to think they cannot always enjoy such
charming luxuries. Rut I, too, am just
now sighing that the shrill locomotive
whistle reminds me that I mustclose this
long and imperfect sketch, and wend my
way to the depot, where the approaching
train will take me up for Jacksonville,
from which point I shall date my next
epistle. Sidney Herbert.
Mr. Henry C. Bowen still retains his
pew in Plymouth Church, but neither he
nor any member of his family will oc
cupy it. Mr. Bowen is determined to
hold his membership in Mr. Beecher’s
church, for reasons of his own. We are
authorized to say that if any attempt is
made to drop Mr. Bowen’s name from
the roll for non-attendance, as in Mrs.
Moulton’s case, he will fight the church
and pastor to the bitter end.
CITY AFFAIRS.
ARUIV.IL OK THE CITY' OF DALLAS
FROM NASSAU.
The Government Ollicinl* Unable to Come.
The steamship City of Dallas, Capt. Hines
commanding, the pioneer vessel of the new
line between Nassau, N. P., g,nd Savannah,
arrived here Saturday night at 8 o'clock,
having left Nassau on the 11th inst. at noor.
It was generally expected that a number of
officials of the Bahama Government would
arrive on the steamship and extensive pre
parations had been made for their recep
tion. A telegram was received from Tybee
shortly after dark announcing that the
steamship had passed up at 6 p. m., and
upon her arrival at the wharf of Messrs.
Hunter & Gammell, the committee ap
pointed for the purpose were present to
receive tlio expected officials and oscort them
to the hotel. It was then learned that
the anticipated guests were not aboard,
being prevented by various causes from
making the contemplated trip. Among
those expected was Sir George Anderson,
Attorney General of the Island, and, in
regard to his failure to come, the following
from the Wassau Guardian of the 10th inst.
furnishes an explanation:
“We understand that a telegram was re
ceived by yesterday’s mail from the Secre
tary of State for the colonies, requesting
Sir George Anderson to assume the Chief
Justiceship of Ceylon for a period of six
months, at tho expiration of which time
His Lordship hopes to be able to offer Sir
George a more preferable appointment to
that which he holds at present. It is not
long since we recorded tho many important
services which His Honor has rendered to
this colony, and it only remains for us to
congratulate him on receiving another
mark oi royal favor.
“A meeting of the members of the bar
took place at the Attorney General’s cham
bers to-day, at which it was decided that a
valedictory address should be presented to
Sir George on ihe eve of his departure for
England, which, we learn, will be by the
mail steamer leaving here on the 19th inst.”
Hon. E. B. A. Taylor, Colonial Secretary,
who had made preparations for the visit,
was prevented from coming by the sudden
and serious illness of his daughter, and un
expected causes occurred which rendered it
impossible for the other officials to come.
Several prominent citizens of Nassau, in
terested in the inauguration of the new
line, however, arrived on the steamer, and
aie registered at the Screven House.
Among them is Hon. T. Darling, of the
firm of T. Darling & Cos., agents at Nassau
of the new line. The other passengers are :
Hons. T. Duncombe, J. H. Webb, Itev. R.
Dunlop, Master Geo. Johnson, Y. Webb, P.
Bullard, and W, A, Pyfrom.
Bankrupt Roll.
Wo learn from Mr. James McPherson, the
affible clerk of the United States Courts,
that during the past week the following pro
ceedings were filed in bankruptcy;
Petitions in voluntary bankruptcy filed
as follows:
John W. Hudson, Eatonton. W. McKinley,
Milledgeville, solicitor.
James F. Brown and Charles A. Davis,
copartners, composing firm of James F.
Brown & Cos., Savannah. George A. Mercer,
solicitor.
Daniel Hertz, Augusta. Frank H. Miller,
solicitor.
Wm. S. Collins, Davisboro, W T shington
county. J. K. Hines, of Savannah, solic
itor.
Wm. M, T. Tillman, Americus, Sumter
county. G. W. Warwick, Smithviile, solic
itor.
Wm. L. Griffith and Joseph P. Carson,
copartners composing firm of Griffith & Car
son, of Reynolds, Taylor county. Lyon &
Nesbit, of Macon, solicitors.
Burt |J. Norris, of Liberty Hill, Monroe
county. S. W. Murray, solicitor.
Petitions for final discharge filed by—
John J. Cieckley, Oglethorpe, Macon
county.
William A. Pye, of Forsyth, Monroo
county.
Benice Pye, of Forsyth, Monroo county.
Willis Young, Cameron, Screven county.
C. N. West, ot Savannah, solicitor.
Levy Brown, Dawson, Terrell county. L.
C. Hoyle, solicitor.
In re James F. Brown & Cos., of Savannah,
bankrupts, a petition has been filed by the
bankrupts for a meeting of their creditors
for the purpose of considering a proposition
for composition. It is ordered that the said
meeting be held before Isaac Beckett, Reg
ister, at his office in Savannah, on Saturday,
the 2fth inst., at IQ o’clock a. in., and that
the Clerk serve notice accordingly.
Final discharges were granted in open
court as follows:
Thomas T. Lytle, Montezuma, Terrell
county.
Walker E. Boler, of Fort Valley, Houston
county.
A Well-Merited Success.
As contrasted with fortunate charlatanism, well
merited success is less frequent than it ought to
be. Puffery, blatant assertion and coined recom
mendations, too often, for instance, give an ephe
meral popularity to medicinal compounds intrinsi
cally worthless at the expense of really deserving
remedies, and to the grievous detriment of the
sick. Hostctter’s Stomach Bitters, a Tonic altera
tive which has achieved one ot the best merited
and most signal successesaff the nineteenth cen
tury, has never relied upon such methods of
manufacturing a reputation, nor has the Compe
tition of counterfeit tonics efer affected its repu
tation in tpe slightest degree. That it is the best
remedy for malaria, and tbe surest safeguard
against it; that it eradicates dyspepsia, biliious
ness, constipation, disorders of the kidneys and
bladder, ana the various causes which produce
weakness, are implicit and well founded beliefs
with the great body of the American people,
novl2-F,M,W&wlw
Bad Specks.
Bad specks on tfie teeth are almost as unpleas
ant as bad specs in the money market. To pre
vent them or to get rid of them, use Sozodont.
It is literally a specific for every blemish that dis
figure the teeth and whitens them without endan
gering the enamel.
The great Americun conjunctive—Spalding's
Glue. novl3-Sa,Tu,Th&wiw
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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Nummary of the WeeU’a Blspatche*
THE RICHARD CASE CONTINUED.
[Special Telegmn to the Morning News.]
Fernandina, November 12.
Archibald continued the Richard case to
the spring term. The prisoner was released
on a bond of twenty-live thousand dollars.
A HORRIBLE STORY.
Sax Francisco, November 12. —A dispatch
from Neah Bay, Washington Territory,
dated yesterday, gives the statement of
Neal O’Halley, Quartermaster of the Pacific,
rescued by the revenue cutter Oliver
Walcott, on the morning of the 7th instant,
to the following effect: About two hundred
and fifty peoplo were on board. I went
below at eight p. m., and everything was all
right. The lights were in place, and when
the shock occurred I ran on deck. Every
thing was in confusion, the passengers
crowding on the hurricane deck. The
ship foil off into the trough of the sea.
I saw a large vessel under sail, which
they said struck the steamer. I saw her
green light distinctly. Jhe passengers
crowded into the boats against tho orders
of the officers. With the chief engineer I
got the port boat forward in the water.
Fifteen women and six men got in her, but
she capsized by the rolling or the ship. 1
saw none of them afterwards. I supported
myself by floating .on a sky-light about
fifteen minutes. I then got on a portion of
the hurricane deck with eight others. On
looking for tho steamer I found
she had disappeared, leaving a floating
mass of human beings. Their screams
for help wero fearful, but they soon ceased,
and we were alone on the raft. There wero
the Captain, second mate, second cook and
four passengers, including a young lady. At
1 o’clock next morning, the sih, it blew a gale
from the southeast, the sea making a clear
breach over the raft, and we lashed our
selves to it. About 4 a. m. the sea
washed overboard the Captain, second
mate, the lady aud another passen
ger. About 9a. m. the seceud cook died.
It cleared up about 4p. m. I saw land
fifteen miles distaut aud a piece of the
wreck with two or more on it. About sp.
m. another died, aud on the morning of the
(Jth another died, leaving me alone. About
4 p. m. a large empty box floated near me.
1 got it on the raft for a shelter, and slept
soundly for several hours that night. On
the morning of the 7th I saw land on both
sides. It* continued calm all day and night,
aud at 3 a. m. I was rescued by the cutter.
Later reports from Neah credits O’Hally
with the statement that the second mate
told him, while on the raft, that tho chief
mate, with three of the crew in a boat, got
clear of the ship. The Walcott has gone
cruising along the coast of Vancouver's Is
land. The Gussie Telfair went South. The
Walcott took Indians aud canoes to search
the shore for any that may have landed,as the
current has been strong from the westward,
carrying the bodies recovered far up tho
straits. It is believed tho two saved are all
that will be found alive, except those in tho
boat with the mate, in case they mado the
shore. Nothing has yot been seen of the ship
which struck the Pacific. Several vessels
from the outside have been spoken, none of
whom had soon her. O’Halloy says tho
Captain was the last man to leave tho ship.
KENTUCKY liU-KLUX.
Louisville, November 12.—lion. H. 11.
Emmons, Circuit Judge of the United States
Court, to-day delivered a charge to the jury
in the cases of the government against Bill
Smoot, Geo. Meffert, Geo. Hall, and John
Onan, in resisting the process in tho hands
of acting Sheriff Willis Russell, of Owen
county. The charge is very long and em
braces a review of all tho outrages com
mitted in Owen county in the last
several years by the Ku-Klux. Judge
Emmons severely criticises and condemns
the doings of tho desperadoes, and seems
to leave no avenue through which a verdict
other than that of guilty can be rendered.
He refers in severe terms to the lawlessness
that formerly existed in somo sections,
criticising tho conduct of county attorneys
and magistrates, aud recommending
that measures be taken, and the officers bo
always ready to suppress lawlessness and
conspiracy, which he considers the most
disgraceful of all crimes against the govern
ment. In conclusion, ho charges that if the
jury shall find Smoot, Onan, Hall and Mef
fert had a common purpose in their acts
they were guilty of conspiracy and should
be found guilty. The trial has been in pro
gress over three years.
ADRIFT ON THE SEA.
New York, November 12.—The narrative
of tho man picked up from tho Toronto says
that the Toronto was at Navassa taking
guano. In September the Captain put to
sea, and in consequence of a terrific gale
the vessel became unmanageable. Tho
crew of fourteen abandoned her in a long
boat. The boat dashed against the vessel,
drowning seven. He gives a con
fused account about tho remain
der. The mate said good-bye,
and jumped into the sea. They had no pro
visions or water, but it rained every day
and they drank from the bottom of the boat.
They caught a few fish and a gr .tat many
sea-birds. Then from his confused account,
the man evidently became temporarily in
sane. He had been twenty-one days at sea
in an open boat when found.
A LIBELLOUS PAMPHLET.
London, November 13.—A Times special
telegram from Berlin says tho Berlin Crimi
nal Court has ordered, at the instance of
the Public Prosocutor, tho arraignment of
the author of a recent pamphlet containing
documents connected with the Aruim trial,
on a charge of insulting the Emperor and
libelling Bismarck and the Foreign office.
It is believed that Count Von Arnim himself
or someone in his confidence is tho author.
The offense is punishable by many years’
imprisonment.
Count Von Arnim is still at Vevay, Swit
zerland. He had asked leave of tho court
to remain abroad longer on account of the
state of his health before undergoing im
prisonment. Before the court answered
the application there appeared the libellous
pamphlet already described.
A SMALL-POX EPIDEMIC.
New York, November 12.—Small-pox pre
vails to an alarming extent in the Sixteenth
ward of Brooklyn, and vaccination is in ac
tive progress, though much opposition
thereto is manifested by the inhabitants of
the infected rogion,who are mostly Germans.
The sanitary police arrested a "lager beer
seller yesterday for secreting tlireeo persons
sick with small-pox in a room adjoining his
shop, which was kept open and beer served
to the customers by his bar-keeper, who al
ternated his business of waiting on custom
ers With that of a nurse. The sanitary police
in their rounds found most of tho popula
tion engaged in manufacturing clothing and
were working on garments while some of
the family lay sick with small-pox, some
times in the same apartment.
THE WACO.
New York, Movember 12.— T0-day’s
Times says tbe steamship City of Waco had
on board throe hundred cases of petroleum
in defiance of law. It says its reporter
yesterday saw at tho Custom House the
manifest of the Waco, from which it appears
that three hundred cases of petroleum were
shipped on her from C. 11. M. & Go. (C. H.
Mallory & Cos.) to P. & P., Galveston. The
remainder of the cargo consisted of dry
goods, hats, groceries, provisions, notions,
hardware, bricks, iron castings, tinware,
glass and other general merchandise.
BOILER EXPLOSION,
Providence, November 12.—A looomotive
on tbe Btomngton Railroad exploded its
boiler to-day near the depot. Another loco
motive lying near was badly damaged. It
is believed that no person was fatally injured.
Wm. Fiske and Henry Lewis, engineers,
were badly injured, and James Thomas,
John Knowles and Arthur Johnson less
seriously. The tracks were tvn up and ob
structed, but a track will be ready by mid
night,
CLEWS a co.
New York, November 12.—1n the United
States District Court to-day the trustee in
bankruptcy of Henry Clews <fc Cos. filed a
bill in equity, asking that his rights as
trustee be protected against Mr. Loomis, a
member of the firm of Frederick Butterfield
& Cos. Clews & Cos. have a large claim
against Butterfield Ca., and Mr. Loomis
is sueing the latter party for almost their
entire assets. Hence Mr. Tappan asks that
his claim may be protected.
A MEMORIAL PROPOSED.
New York, November 12. Dr, Thog. W.
Evans, the well-known American dentist in
Paris, sepds the following cable dispatch to
the Associated Press : “Feeling that the
coming Centennial anniversary would be a
befitting time ti* open subscriptions for
Americans to erect in Paris a monument to
the Frenchmen who assisted us to gain our
national independence. I offer a subscription
of SIO,OOO to commence with.”
METHODIST BOARD OF MISSIONS.
New York, November 12.— The Methodist
Board of Missions made the following ap
propriations : Texas Conference, $5,300;
Western Texas, $6,000; Virginia. s?,fioo;
Washington, $3,500; Western Virginia,
$4,500; Wilmington, $4,006. A resolution
was adopted reenmmending the removal of
the seat of the General Conference from St
Lonis to Baltimore.
CUBAN AFFAIRS.
Havana, November I ij.-. -Cap tain General
Vaimaseda has issued a decree prohibiting
persons leaving between the lines formed by
Uaffh&i Managua and Polmillas on one side,
and Trachos, Juracos and Moren on the
other, from traveling after dark, and warn
ing them that if they do so they may be
shot at sight by the patrols and pickets.
CARDINAL M’CLOSKEY.
Dublin, November 12. Cardinal Mc-
Closkey assisted at the commencement of
the Catholic University to-day. He was
presented with an address, to which he re
plied that the establishment of a Catholic
university was an example for America and
all other countries.
THE MUTINEERS.
New York, November 13.-A London dis
patch says the cook of the Lennie was navi
gating the ship, under orders of the muti
neers, to sonduct her to Gibraltar. In con
sequent* of continued bad weather* they
were obliged to put into La Platte, when
they were arrested.
REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL
Washington, November 15 riW
cotton crop report tor November 9
rect comparison of the product
with that of 1874. As former report^B
™ l f°Tj£T e T llc £ teil > the States bM
on the Atlantic all show a reducedJ9
and those in the Mississipni vailed
creased yield Prior to November Hi,
ing frosts had appeared in the more n
eru States of the cotton belt. j n Bolne <
ties of Northern Georgia, and in ths
tnct north of the Tennessee rive.
™ nnfnin- 1 6lß ® Wllere . the cotton ]
was uninjured and generally i n vig
growth on the host lands. In oue park
Louisiana (Claiborne] it is claimed tl
weeks continuance of fi no weather w
increase tbo local yield several hnn
bales. The.e is much inequality m the
gross of picking. In some of the com
of Georgia and Alabama the harvea
neariy over. In Mississippi the work
bceu delaved by political difficulties
sickness. Iu Washington county two tl
of the crop was ungathered, i n J it
feared that Christmas would find
fourth still in the fields. Pi ue wea
has been the rule with a few executions
in Louisiana much fibre has beeii loi
stained by storms. Tho effect of the e
September storm in Southern Texas or
less disastrous than at first renresei
Tho amount ot lint in comparison with
weight of seed cotton is quite vans
ranging from 25 to 33 per cent but st
as reported, appears to bo less than i’n !
The State percentages representing
aggregate quantity as compared with
year, are as follows : t .
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida ’ ’
Alabama 4*
Mississippi * ”
Louisiana '
Texas . ' V"
Arkansas "
Tennessee
The crop of Arkansas is a good one
the figures aro increased more by the
of last year’s poor yield than by tho ex
of this year’s crop. These figures poin
asniall advance on last year’s aggregati
November aud December be favorable to
opening piekiug of the top crop.
a “slice of the day of judgment
New York, November 13.—Mrs. Mou
has served a paper 011 the clerk of Flvm t
Church regarding her expulsion w|M
any proper trial. She demands a eonnH
churches to judge between her andfl
mouth Church. Henry C. Bowen alstfl
ho iliies not propose to ho diivoujfl
Plymouth Church.
New York, November 13 —Mrs. ill
C. Moulton lias served a paper aildreS
to tho members of Plymouth Church I
Thomas G. Shearman. Clerk of the ohuii
in regard to her expulsion from mem]
ship. After alluding to her suimnon
the Examining Committee and her repl J
tho time, she says : “Notwithstanding tl
protest, and after it had beou read, m3
bers of the church present adoiJ
tlio recommendation of tho comnaiß
and dropped my name trom tho
without considering the sufficiency <S
reasons for being absent from tho M
ment; without arraigning me for any i9
accusations against the pastor; and w®
giving me a dismission to any other ch 9
I am, therefore, so far as your action caM
it, deprived of a standing in the Chare*
Christ, as it seems to me
fault on my part, and eertainlv without J
proper trial by you. 1 cannot foci
is light, and ask you to joiii with mo in cl
ing a council of churches before which J
may state your reasons for your aciioudl
I may state miue, and which shall iu2
tially judge between ‘I am one’
aro many.’ But, believing in
His justice, in Christ and His
1 am quite ready to he prop,
by such a council, •/ / on./',' 1,
attending your services' and H
while 1 certainly dosiro my CliritH
actor and standing in the church sH
vindicated and restored. If that is rjH
you do not notify mo of your oonsentlM|
with me in calling such a council within fol
weeks, I shall understand that you doolil
to do so, aud that I must proceed to a|
a council myself to consider tlieso mattol
which aro of such great importance to ij
and those lo whom my good name is did
But it would bo far rnoro agreeable tidl
to have you join me, as one who liMs an
iously tried to do lior duty, as wioll as con
be amid tho great difficulties of referri
tho whole case between ur to a comm]
tribunal.”
THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO ROAI). fl
Baltimore, November 15.— John W. (.fl
rett has submitted his annual report. xfl
total revenues of the road, including tfl
main stem and Western divisions, for tfl
fical_ year ending Sqrtombor 30, are Jifl
142,552, showing a decrease compared wifl
1874 of a half million and compared wifl
1873 a decrease *of one and I
fourth million; compared with 187:' fl
crease of over three fourths of a nullffifl
compared with 1871, n increase of n -arfl
$2,000,000; compared with 1870, an inevaafl
of $3,500,000. The net ' u lugs at sjfl
500,000. The entire mortgag indebto luefl
in currency and sterling is . 750 pen Tvfl
surplus tund exceeds tho mortgage indebfl
ediiess over $5,250,000. Tho report n vs I
steady increase of through tonnage eastiufl
west. The passenger earnings show an iifl
crease of SIOO,OOO notwithstanding the raifl
road conflict. Tho report saw
In view of tho protracted and extraordlmfl
inectivity of every branch of business, aifl
the universal depression of the manrflfl
luring industries ot the country, tffesdH
suits will bo regarded with satisfaction ; anl
when further considered, in combinatiol
with the united and prolonged attaeW*fl
the great trunk lines upon the business oifl
interests of the Baltimore and Ohio Co®
paiiy, during which time rates cntirel? fifl
remunerative were established fox train!
portation of freight, particularly betweej
the seaboard and the Western" cities, thi
results are not only satisfactory but gralfl
fying. |
OFFICE-SEEKERS. I
Washington, November 14.—The nunj
her of candidates for the elective offices il
the House of Representatives, apart froil
the Speakership, is constantly increasing!
Already tho Democratic members have nil
ceived printed circulars from cand®®
asking for their votes. Private part®
also importuned lor inti in nee in tin®
halt. Each candidate lias numerous i®
seeking subordinate appointments to■
and hence there is much activity ikfl
ing for their respective Candida®
Clerk of tho House of
tho Mouth, and those have uuiiicril
pendents. Home of the candidates
elective offices announced their purp®
rectly after it w’as ascertained Ihfl
Democrats had secured a majority 1
House of Representatives.
THE LENNIE.
London, November 14.—Tho Britifl
Lennie has arrived in the Roads of iJ
and was boarded by a dispatch iJ
Belgian was taken to Bt. Martin, ll
that tho master, boatswain and man
murdered by the crow. The cod
knew something of navigation, was ®
to take the Lonnie to Gibraltar. 1
weather compelled her then to pul
Lailotte. Six Greoks escaped in aI
boat. When the weather abates tlidl
will bo taken to Rochefort. Six ;
arrived at the port of Sables, hi
Frauera, stating they were a part iS
crew of the ship St. George, wliicll
said was lost at sea. They were arrest'
TIIE CITY OF WACO.
New York, November 13.—Deputy!
lector Lydecker said to-day that Golld
Arthur would soon bring tbe oase obi
City of Waco before the Uniteu HtateJ
trict Attorney. While it would bethel
of tho inspectors to withhold a deal
from a vessel on whose manifest was
an entry of goods forbidden m
carried, it was supposed by tin-®
House authorities that firms doinj?
stant business with Southern ports, did nfl
take advantage of the confidence that was)
reposed in them, to take such goods. Ha
said that it was customary to thus defeat!
the intention of the law and make travel?
unsafe. It was not itnown to have been the>
case in tbe Custom House.
THE KENTUCKY KU-KLUX.
Louisville, November 14.—The Ku-Klux
prisoners, Smoot and Oran, who have been
on trial here, having been found guilty,
were sentenced, respectively, to v -and
threo years’ imprisonment. ..left rt, who
was also convicted, has not vet been,
sentenced. The jury have recoin Chided
leniency in his case. The counse for
defense ask that court allow th prisoners
to he sent to some other penitentiary out
side of Kentucky, for various personal rea
sons affecting the family and re.ations of
the sentenced parties. The court, however,
said it knew nothing of these reasons, and,
could not send them to any other prison^
THE KENTUCKY KU-KLUX.
Louisville, November 13.—T'nc jury in
the case of the United vs. Wm
Smoot., George Meffert, John Ouane and
George Hall, charged with conspiring!
and iutimidatiug
VVillis Russell, Acting 1 United States Mar
shal, in ths discharge of his duties, returned
a verdiot this morning of guilty as to Smootr
and Meffert, but recommended Meffert to
the mercy of the court on account of his
ill-health, The men are ail implicated ij
the Owen Ku-K!nx outrage.
SNOW AND SLEET. JB' 'A
Omaha, November 14. —An extraoraMF M
storm is reported along the line
Union Pacific and West Green H
night. Sleet fell in such quantities tH H
telegraph wires are reported as hS| ■
large around as a man’s wrist. Snow IP* J|
depth of one foot had fallen at Bitter Creek,
-and was still falling. At ten o'clock this
morniDg the storm was moving east. Tele
graph communication west of Green river
has been broken all day to-day. There is
no &torin east of Laramie City. The trajpg
run on time. ’
THE WHISKY FRAUDS.
St. Louis, November 13.— Arthur Gun
ther, the Revenue Agent indicted for re
ceiving money to withhold information 0 <
whisky and tobacco frauds, pleaded not
guilty. Col. Joyce has withdrawn the mo
tion for anew trial, and asked judgment
He is tired of being passed backward and
forward for the benefit of others., w—' -
ready to face the music and take his punisW*
ment. *
COTTON MILLS BURNED.
London, November 13—The cotton milla i
of Robertson A Cos. and of Young & Cos
Glasgow, Scotland, are burned. Loss il
million and a half of dollars. m: