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terminal facilities.
A SaarSfeotloa as to How the Railroads
Coming Here Can Get Them.
Savannah, Ga., Feb. 5. —Editor Atom
ing Artc: There are several railroads,
tome of which are now being bnilt to and
others already completed to thu city, that
are anxious to get terminals on the river.
In this search for facilities for handling
cotton, lumber, naval stores and other
products or the south, quickly and econom
ically it appears that those offered by the
Savannah and Atlantic (or Tybee) railroad j
have been overlooked.
This railroad virtually own McQueen's
Island with its eight mile* of water f rootage
on the south chaunel of the savannah river.
It would be an easy matter to
dredge the south channel to a suf
ficient depth to accommodate ves
te.s of any draught aud there is not
oulv ample room on the island to handle the
business of all the railroads now building
toward Savannah, but that of the Rich
mond and Danville, the Savannah Florida
and Western and the South Bound can also
be taken care of, and even then there will
lie sitticient room remaining to take care of
the business of three or four times as many
triors railroads.
The eastern end on McQueen’s Island is
next to Tybee and fourteen miles nearer the
ocean than Savannah. The south channel
is laDd-locked and where it empties into
Tybee sound (nearest the sea) it has a depth
of 30 to 40 feet of water.
Of course I know that the Savannah and
Atlantic railroad is under the control of the
Richmond and Danville, but it is not im
probable, in view of the fact that that rail
road has extensive wharf properties at Sa
vannah aud, furthermore, because it is ap
parent that that company requires all the
monev it can get hold of just now, that it
may be induced to sell the Savannah and
Atlantic railroad.
Is it not worth an effort on the part of
the South Bound, Savannah, Americus and
Montgomery, Macon. Duhliu and Atlsntio
and other railroads seeking terminal facili
ties at this port to buy the Savannah and
Atlantic? Investigator.
Insanity Among Negroes.
Editor of the Morning Sews: That in
sanity is fearfully on the increase,
among whites and negroes, there can be no
question. My eye happened to fall upon an
article in the New York Medical Journdl
wbicn should attract attention. The ques
tion may be asked in the beginning, why so
much insanity? We answer, too much
whisky aud too much vice among the peo
ple. As the body is abused bo the mind
teels the effects.
The total number of insane persons
treated in public and private asylums for
the year 1881) was 97,535, while during the
year 1881 there were 50,205, an increase in
nine years of 41,330, or 73.53 per cent.
There is food for thought. Nothing is said
of asylums for inebriates, and there were
thousands of inebriates in asylums. Drunk
enness and insauity are near rolated. A
diseased stomach will create or produce a
diseased mind, aud that diseased
mind will soon become chronic.
But our business at this writing is with the
negro. The New York Medical Journal
hus the following: “From 1880 to 1890 the
negro population of Virginia increased only
1.40 per cent, according to census report,
while the number of insane negroes in 1890
was double that of 1880. In 18(50 there was
only 1 insane negro to every 5,800 of the
population, while now there is nearly 1 to
every 800. In the white raoe the propor
tion is 1 to 625.”
What is true of Virginia is equally true
of all the old slave states. The causes which
leal to so much insanity among tho negroes
since the war have been numerous. Says
the Journal: “Alcohol, vices, excesses in
vicious habits, burden of support, mind
worry, violations of rules of heal h and hy
gme, idleness, religious excitement and
the cares of a family.” In short, abuse of
freedom in every wuy. Alcohol is doing
i;s work fast anil sure. Negro womendriuk
as (reely as the men and the death report
goes to show how rapidly the negro is dying
in the cities.
Phys.ologically speaking, the negro is not
like the white man. His bones are more
calcareous, bis blood is different in oolor
and make-up. His type is marked and dis|
tinct, so much so, that one who handles
ekulis or hones can tell a negro’s from a
w hite man’s tho moment it is seen. Nature
writes its positive laws in everything it
does. But fanatics wrapped up in senti
ment will not reason; bigotry Is mentally
hiiud. ar.d theorists, with their vagaries,
dream on and stumble over facts aud
truths.
There are more crazy negroes in the luna
tic asylum in Georgia to-day thun there
were in the whole south in 1860. Why?
Because freedom does not sit naturally up> u
them, and liberty, with a ne
gro means self-abuse. indifference,
idleness and licentiousness in its broadest
moaning. Not that the negro will not work,
for work he must or starve; but give him
the least encouragemont to idleness and he
will loaf as naturally as a child will play.
When the Yaraacraw fire occnred a few
years ago and free feeding was given out,
negroes quit work in the country to come
to the city to be fed. As to the city negroes
thev were thick around the soup po!s.
That there are some good, thrifty negroes
no oi e disputes; they have character, and it
is seen in their actions and their daily labor.
But give the average negro liquor and
church meetings, ad his spirituous and
spiritual man is in its glory: he wants but
little else, and works just enough to get that
litde else. With him it is an unpleasant
necessity, but nevertheless a necessity. I
am -peaking of the present and rising
generation, who are not over 30 years of
age. R. M. O.
“Who said Hood’s Sarsaparilla?” Thou
sands of people, who know it to be the Lest
blood purifier and tonic medicine. —-Id.
Kate the Kisser.
From the -Vein York Commercial Advertuer.
Kate the Kisser is moving eastward and
as far as we know there are no eorious ap
prehensions felt here in regard to her ap
proach . Kato is on her way from San
rrancisco and is ticketed through to Ham
burg by the Union line. She is a handsome
German girl who is returning to the father
land, aud it seems to be her particular de
ire to leave an impression on Western
Fnion telegraph operators and railroad men.
her method is to kiss all these, by stealth If
accessary, wherever they may be found.
Kate—her full name is Katinka Steen —
has agreeably surprised thase gentlemen at
several points along the line; but she
achieved her greatest success in the Grand
buion station in the town of Suspension
Bridge, where her train was last heard from.
"9 the train ran into the depot, where it
*as tu stop for a time, Kate rushed out of
sr i ' ar an< * across the tracks,
yiimbed through the window of the
-graph office, embraced and kissed
operator Donohue until he was obliged to
!) ee - Then sbe made what is described as
a dash” for the Grand Trunk ticket office,
•waked up behind Agent Smith and kissed
mm until the heavens seemed to swing :m
--jaediately above him. This duty Go
, " li tussle with a large, flesh v
“u led Officer Jenny such a chas >
ad to lock her up until her time iu
take her train.”
at ® declines to make any statement as to
, -' Blle discriminatesagainst other morta's
- the exteDt of climbing through win
i " s as she did at Suspension Bridge—to
E and kiss telegraph operators, when
Her gentlemen are standing on the piat
ltrm and quite easy of access. Likewise
, 8 re fuses to explain why she went to the
ett oto aiss Agent Smith by stealth, when
could have been kissed with less
, e - Nile says nothing when interro
? ' ‘ n this point, which may be taken as
Iti Vi”™ that it is nobody’s business.
a I e Meantime, telegraph operators and
< “ Ration agents along the route are keep
air„il rac ' £ l f Kate the Kisser’s train and
•’ting developments.
tin-' 1 " :1,0n * Uvrr Regulator Is Invaluable in
"nrery. It | s a gentle laxative and harm
” —Ad.
TEE CALIFORNIA BIG TREES.
How They Are Being Destroyed With
Axe. Saw and Blasting Powder.
From the Xew York Sun.
Visalia, Cal., Jan. 26. —If the groves
of the Sequoia gigantea, the famous big
trees of California, are to be preserved for
another generation to see and wonder at,
the national government will have to act
very soon. The ruthless destruction of
these forest kings that is going on through
the entire belt of the groves, wherever the
government has not already thrown its
protecting hand, is beyond appreciation by
any one who has not seen it.
These trees grow nowhere in the world
but along a certain well-defined belt of the
western slope of the Sierra Nevadas, at an
elevation cf about 6,000 feet, where they
are scattered in irregular groups, number
ing perhaps a score, through a distance of
about 200 miles. One would think that ob
jects so unique, to say nothing of their
beauty and grandeur’ aid the marvel
ous age, would be safe from the
hauds of the lumberman, and narticu
larly since the mountain sides are
covered thickly with forests that are just as
valuable, for money making purposes, as
the sequoias. But the lumberman is all
devouring. He has attacked thete few
groves of giant trees os if his sole purpose in
life was to exterminate them as quickly as
possible.
Nortti of the Yosemite valley the Calave
ras grove is untouched. Thirty-five miles
south of the valley is the Mariposa grove,
which is included in the Yosemite grant,
and is therefore safe.
But the Fresno Flats grove, the next one
in the belt, is a scene of destruction, it be
longs to the California Lumber Company
of San Jose. Their policy has been to
slaughter the trees without regard to age
or size, beauty or grandeur. To is was once
one of the most beautiful of the groves, but
to-day it is a pitiful wreck. Giants of the
forest, fifteen, twenty and thirty feet in
diameter, lie on the ground in every direc
tion. The largest trunks, those that are
too large to be handled easily with the
saw, have been shattered with
blasting t>owder. Slumps of the
trees, six, ten or a dozen feet high are all
about, an army of witnesses to the malevo
lent avarice of man. Occasionally there is a
mighty tree still standing, with a great
gash, perhaps five feet deep, cut and sawed
into one side. This grove has been almost
annihilated. When the company cleans up
the trunks and limbs that now cover tho
ground its work of destruction will be just
about completed. It has been engaged on
this grove for a number of years, aud has
turned its attention almost entirely to the
sequoias.
If the big tree lumber brought higher
prices than any other sort, the zeal which is
shown in the destruction of the groves could
be understood. But it rates no higher in the
market than the sugar piue, with which the
mountain slopes are densely covered. The
lumber companies could have made just as
much money and been at no expense for
blasting powder if they had lot the big trees
alone aud turned to the sugar pines.
In the groves f urti.er south the same scene
is repeated time after time. In that por
tion of the sequoia belt between thj north
and south boundaries of Tulare county
alone there are at least ten mills, every one
of which is industriously working aw ay at
the big trees. Their owners evidently fear
that the national government will some day
awaken to the wisdom of throwing protec
tion around these unique groves, aud they
are determined to get just os much money
out of them as possible before that day
comes.
Iu the Fresno grove, which is on the line
between Fresno and Tulare counties, the
General Urant National park preserves a
few of the big trees. It is only a square
mile in extent, and does not include the
whole of the grove. The rest of it is rapidly
disappearing.
A little to the southeast the Sequoia Na
tional park includes the North Kaweah aud
South Kaweah groves, which were with
drawn from sale in time to save them from
destruction.
Through the remainder of the groves one
domes upon the same scene again and again.
Everywhere ax. saw, and blasting powder
pre doing their detestable work with speed
and thorughness.
It has been proposed to extend the boun
daries of the Sequoia park so that it will
embrace all she Sequoia groves in Tulare
county and cover the mountain slope from
the summit of the Sierras nearly to the
lower timber line. If the proposition in
cluded the whole belt of the sequoius from
the most northern grove to the most south
ern tree it would be still more heartily ap
proved by all those —excepting always the
mill owners who have visited the groves
aud know how hopeless is their preservation
iu any other way.
“Poor Jim Casey wint up fer loife.”
“Pbwat was th’ charge against hims”
‘ ‘ Doy Damoite. J udge.
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THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1892.
THE MASK OF A DIPLOMAT
IT FELL AFTER WEED HAD PRO
DUCED A SLIP OF PAPER.
Important Incidents of Political His
tory Ttat Have Not Been Revealed
Publicly Until Now Archbishop
Hughes’ Request —An Interview
With the Due De Moray.
From the Xew York sun.
On a hot afternoon in August, 1861, three
gentlemen entered a coach which had been
standing for several hours in front of tbe
state department in Washington. They
were about to begin a journey, the conse
quences of which, as they were revealed
afterward, were of mighty import to the
federal government. Borne of the results
have become public history, but one of the
most extraordinary and important inci
dents of that journey, which had national
ity as its stake, has, until this publication,
been unrevealed, excepting to a few of the
intimates of the person who played the
principal part.
In the coach were Archbishop Hughes
of New York city, Bishop Mclivaine
of Ohio and, facing the distin
guished clergymen, Thurlow Weed,
who had gained a repute for the
management of men in affairs temporal
almost as great as that which attended the
reputation of the spiritual miuisters. They
rode for awhile in silence, for they were
impressed with tbe responsibility that had
been placed upon them.
“Of course, you are going in the same
representative capacity as Bishop Mclivaine
and myself, are you not, Mr. Weed*”
Archbishop Hughes asked, breaking the
silence.
* ‘No, not that, archbishop. My relation
to this commission is to be that of a sort of
clerk or subordinate.” Mr. WeeiL replied,
aud he spoke somewhat sadly. When the
archbishop, seeming surprise!, said "im
possible,” Mr. Weed, shaking his head
with every manifestation of disappointment,
replied: "Butit is to be so, archbishop.”
"Stop,” the archbishop said, speaking
with some excitement, "stop right here.
Driver, take us immediately back to the
state department. Mr. Weed, if your cre
dentials are not precisely what ours are I
will not undertake this commission. I will
not make this journey.”
The driver turned his horses, and while
they were on their return Mr. Weed urged
the archbishop to say or do nothing which
would embarrass Secretary Seward, but
Archbishop Hughes insisted, and when he
was in the presence of Mr. Seward he said
to the chief of Lincoln’s administration:
"Mr. Secretary, I have come that I may
insist that Mr. VVeed’s credentials be exactly
what mine and Bishop Mcllvaine’s are, so
that he may have precisely the standing in
Europe which will await us.”
Mr. Seward expostulated. He said that
it would have given him delight to honor
Mr. Weed thus, but he felt that Mr. Weed’s
reputation as a politician might impair bis
value as a full commissioner. Archbishop
Hughes was amazed, for he knew that for
thirty years Weed had been tbe tried and
faithful friend of Seward, had been his
right hand in all the politics which made
Seward governor aud senator, and which
had brought the presidency almost within
his grasp. Therefore he was irritated, and
he said, with something of qpssion in his
speech aud manner: "Then, Mr. Secretary,
I must decline to accept this responsibility.
I insist, if lam to go, that Mr. Weed shall
hold exactly the same relation to the gov
ernment that I do."
Seward hesitated. He arose and paced
the floor, the archbishop, then in the
splendid vigor of health and of imposing
physical appearance, looking down with
amazement upon the little Secretary of
State, who seemed unwilling to grant the
request. After a few minutes Seward said
that, as it was the earnest request of the
archbishop, and as that request accorded
with his own personal desire, it should be
granted. The archbishop expressed his
thanks and returned to Mr. Weed,
to whom he said: "It is to be so. Your
credentials are to be precisely the same as
our own.” The prelate perceived the ex
pression of joy winch the news brought to
Mr. Weed’s countenance, and he knew then
that the only ambition for official trust
which Thurlow Weed had entertained since
his early manhood had been gratified. It
had been the desire of Mr. Weed’s heart,
when the commission to Europe on behalf
of the federal government was contem
plated, that he, like Franklin, should serve
his government as a special commissioner in
a time of national peril.
Archbishop Hughes sailed a few days
later, but Mr. Weed was delayed until
Aug. 19. The agreement of the commis
sioners was that they should meet in Lon
don as soon as possible. Mr. Weed took
passage on the Arago and Gen. Scott was
his companion. An hour or so before the
steamship sailed Mr. Weed, who was in the
cabin looking at the state room assigned to
Gen. Scott, was told that a man on the pier
was very anxious to see him. Weed ex
pressed some impatience, for he was greatly
interested in tho work of the ship’s carpen
ters, who wore enlarging the bunk in Scott’s
state room to permit the general’s giant
like proportions to tie stretched at full
length. Thomas L. James, then an officer
of the custom house, urged Mr. Weed to
come ashore aud see the man, who inti
mated that his business was of great im
portance. Whatever of importance it had
was contained in a letter which tho man
handed to Mr. Weed, saying that it would
probably be of great service to him when
he arrived in Paris.
On tbe ship Mr. Weed talked with Gen.
Scott rather cautiously about the mission
on which he and his Associates were en
gaged, but he spoke with more freedom of
bis approaching meeting with Charles Fran
cis Adams, then minister at the court of
St. James. For several years Mr. Weed
had entertained more bitter feelings toward
Mr. Ada us than politics had ever engen
dered in him in respect to any other man
except Millard Fillmore. Several years
before, at the time William Pennington of
New Jersey was elected speaker of the
House, Mr. Adams, then a member of con
gress , arose in his seat and declined to vote
for tbe candidate for public printer on the
ground that he was the candi
date of that notorious "lobbyist,”
meaning Thurlow Weed. The attack cut
Weed to the quick. He wrote to Mr. Se
ward, then in the Senate, stating that he
did not know this candidate, had never
seen him, and had never suggested his nora
ination. The attaci was malicious and un
true. He also reminded Seward that he
w as one of the first to suggest John Quine >•
Adams’ nomination for the presidency, and
that it had been due very largely to his own
efforts that the attempt to bribe the New
York legislature to vote for another candi
date had been frustrated, aud Mr. Ad
ams’ election thereby secured. Mr. Weed
closed by saving that he resented the in
suit, would denounce Mr. Adams as a mali
cious persons and who never have relations
with him again. Seward acted the part of
a peacemaker, and a few days later Weed
received a letter from Mr. Adams, its frank
revealing who tbe writer was, but he did
not open it, and it remained unopened for
many years. Not Jong uf.orward, at a din
ner in honor of Geu. Scott, Mr. Weed and
Mr. Adams were guests, and ill-fortune
brought them together as seatmates. At
the first attempt of Mr. Adams to begin con
versation Mr. Weed froze him, and they sat
side by Bide through that feast without ex
changing a word.
"Now, however,” Mr. Weed said, ns be
chatted with Gen. Scott, "I have got to
meet Mr. Adams and meet him officially.
lam a little curious to know how I shall
act, and even more so to know what bis
manner will be. My official relations,
however, must be pleasant.”
“And they will be sir, they will be,” Geo.
Scott said, speaking with that impressive
seriousness which characterized bis re
marks on the most trivial subjects, "and it
amazes me, sir, that so distinguished and
courteous a man as Mr. Adams could have
permitted himself to enunciate a base
slander upon tbe floor of tho House."
When Mr. Weed arrived iu London he
went at once to the American legati n with
his fellow commissioners. He yvas delighted
wnen Adams greeted bun mast c rdially,
and in an instant al> resentments were for
gotten. In passing, it may be said that Mr.
Weed and Mr. Adams we e the closest of
friends until the death of the former, and
that in Mr. Adams’ eulogy ou Seward he
gave noble tribute to Mr. Weed’s personal
and political qualities.
The business on which thee immission had
been sent to Europe was begun at once.
The extraordinary energy displayed by tho
commissioners is a matter of history. In
the division of business it became necessary
for Mr.’ Weed to devote his energies on the
other side of the English Channel. The
ernisaries and the agent* of the commission
ers were able to inform them that Eng
land and France were ready to recognize the
southern confederacy, provid-d it could be
done jointly, but that Englaud expected that
Louis Napoleon would take the initiative.
Mr. Weed]went, therefore, to Paris, plunging
( into a eoa of mystery, although knowing
’ that Napoleon’s mind was made up and that
even the utmost resources of diplomacy
would hardly be able to charge it. In his
extremity he turned to the letter that had
been delivered to him on the pier in New
York. It contained the suggestion that he
snould see a certain M. Loubat, who was a
very warm friend of the United States, and
was also very close to the Frenea throne
because his wife was a cousin of the Em
press Eugenie.
Mr. Weed hastened to M. Loubat. The
Frenchman betrayed the utmost exoite
ment. He said be feared that the visit was
too late. He declared that he knew that
the emperor had decided to recognize tho
southern confederacy, aud that he would
make public announcement of it in an ad
dress to the French chamber two days later.
Furthermore, M. Loubat said that a copy
of the address was in the office of the Lou
dou Tiine.t, and that tne British govern
ment had been informed unofficially that in
it the initiative would be taken by France,
whereon the French government had beeu
assured that Great Britain would at once
join with France in such recognition.
“I must see the emperor,” Mr. Weed said.
“ But, monsieur, it is impossible."
"Nothing is impossible in this crisis,”
Weed insisted.
“Mons. Weed, I say that it is impossi
ble, but it is not impossible that you shall
see tbe Duo de Morny, and when you have
see i him you have seen the emperor.”
> "But how shall I see De Morny?”
“It shall be as I say.”
Mr. Weed believed that he should attempt
to secure a meeting by the aid of the Amer
ican minister, Mr. Dayton, and he went at
once to the legation. Dayton expressed
surprise at Weed’s linpotu- sity, saying that
be thought a meetiug could be arranged in
tne course of three or four days.
‘ ‘But I must see him this afternoon.” Mr.
Weed said.
"O, that cannot be arranged, Mr. Weed,"
Dayton responded. 1
"You will take it os no discourtesy, if I
make an effort to see him through other
channels?” Mr. Weed asked.
“Not by any means—not by any means,"
Mr. Dayton replied, with something of con
descension in his manner.
Ten minutes later Mr. Weed returned to
the apartments of M. Loubat, to whom he
said: “Now, I will avail myself of your
kin iness.”
"It shall bo then as you say, Mr. Wee 1. 1
will inyself go with you to tho palace of the
Dae de Morny, but first to another place.
We niust call upon tho profeot of tho
Seine.”
They went to the office of tho prefoct, and
calling for the urchivos, tho Frenchman
found a document with a single paragraph.
"You will copy this paragraph, Mr.
Weed, and when you have soon De Morny,
and have used all other argument with him,
and failed, you will show him this single
paragraph, and you will see that De Morny
becomes changed in an instant.”
Half an hour later Mr. Weed and M.
Loubat were at the palace of the duke.
Officials, courtiers, politicians, and the vast
mob of persons that besoigod the offioe of
Napoleon’s prime minister, thronged tbe
waiting rooms, but in a few moments the
card of Loubat procured admission for him
self and Thurlow Weed. Formal and courte
ous conversation followed the introduction,
aud then M. Loubat withdrew, saying that
as the gentleman had business mat
ters to discuss he would leave them
together. Bo Thurlow Weed stood in
the presence of one who represented, per
haps even more than Napoleon, the French
empire. De Morny, the half-brother of the
emperor, a man of high breeding and great
culture, and Weed, wtiose beginnings wore
those of a barefooted boy, tramping through
the snow to obtain employment as a
printer’s apprentice, a workman aud a
menial laborer in his early life, who
rejoiced, when past. SO years of ago, when
he gained a salary of S7OO a year, but who
had been the maker of political fortunes,
not unlike that which Do Morny himself
bad assumed, were face to face .ffjjfl H
The persuasiveuess of Thurlow Weed in
his approaches to men have been exceeded,
perhaps, by that of no other American
politician. The intuition with which be
read men’s motives by their unconscious
glances, by the expression of their faces, by
their mannerisms, was marvelous. But iu
the duke he, for the first time, met his
master. As soon as M. Loubat left the room
De Morny assumed the expression with
which he was accustomed to race and mis
lead the greater politicians of France. The
immobility of his countenance w as majestic.
His eyes told no story of wh it was passing
in his mind. He was as cold as a statue, al
though his courtesy was exquisite.
Mr. Weed began by saying with the ut
most frankno&s that be had reason to be
lieve that it was the purpose of France to
recognize the southern confederacy. De
Morny stared at him wit i iciness. Then
Mr. Weed attempted, with all the arts of
persuasiveness with which long practice
had made him familiar, to master the man
before him. Every attack failed. Gentle
ness, insinuation, sternness and even de
fiance caused not so much as a quiver of De
Moray's lips or tho slightest change of the
expression of De M rny’s eyes. At lengt i
Mr. Weed asked De Moray on what grouud
France would defend a recognition of the
southern confederacy.
Speaking so that his lips seemed scarcely
to move, in a tone of voice which suggested
neither emotion, desire, ambition, nor c >rn
merciai selfishness, De Morny said: “It is
contrary to the tendencies of civilized gov
ernment to cLso the ports of the world
against a friendly nation. Your govern
ment has closed the port of Charleston; it
has closed it against France. France is a
paternal government. The empire must
protect its people. The closing of the port
of Charleston is an injury to the empire.
Blockades are relics of another age. Such a
course as your government has pursued is
unprecedented. ”
Weed knew then the pretensa on which
Napoleon would justify to the world the
recognition of the s mthern confederacy.
He pleaded again with the duke. He
undertook to show that in the defense of its
existence the United States was justified in
closing the port of Charleston, and that no
friendly nation could complain if self-pre
servation made such a step necessary. De
Moray listened, but he did not replv, and
Mr. Weed then asked him whether, in case
France recognized the confederacy, the step
would be justified, ou the ground that the
blockading of a port was an unprecedented
act. Without a moment’s hesitation, but
speaking in icy tones, De Moray admitted
that France would justify itself to the world
on the ground that the blockade of such a
port was unprecedented.
Mr. Weed took from his pocket a wallet
and from tho wallet a bit of paper, aud,
placing it before tho duke, he said: “Before
France justifies her action for tbe reason
which you have made to me I beg that you
will examine the paper wliich I now show
you. ”
De Morny took up the slip iu a listless
manner, as though he acceded to Weed’s
request because it would be discourteous to
refuse it. Less than two seconds was re
quired for the reading, but in that short
interval De Moray’s mask fell from his face.
No longer was Ice to be seen there. Fasslon
and excitement wore overpowering. The
The Frenchman war revealed and the
diplomatist had vanished. LoVing up at
Mr. Weed, the duke saw the plain Amer
ican standing; before him, courteous, but
his master. From the duke's manner and
dance the American politician realized that
he had won the battle, and for the present
at least France would not recognize the
confederacy.
l*e Moray race a bell, summoned an of
ficial, who.was sent to the prefect for the
paper from which Mr. Weed had copied
the paragraph. During the absence of the
messenger the two diplomatists spoke of
trivial things, and Mr. Weed was tilled
with admiration for the manner in which
lie Morny mastered the tu nultuous exoite
nient which was raging within him. When
the pa;>er was brought, De Moray scanned
it and found that the paragraph had been
copied literally. He turned for a
moment to hide his emotion and
to master it, and then he said to
Mr. Weed, speaking uo longer with
ice in his tones, “I will see the gemperor
to-night and communicate with you to
morrow.- ’ Mr. Weed knew that the victory
was clinched. That night a special messen
ger was sent to Ixmdon. In the office of the
Ames he produced an official document,
instructing the editor to strike out from
the aid r ess of the emperor the paragraph
iu which ho announced the recognition of
the southern confederacy. When the ad
dress was delivered a day later it contained
no reference to recognition.
The bit of paper which Mr. Weed nut In
De Moray’s hands contained an extract from
a treaty entered iuto between France
and England, in which it was pro
vided that the harbor of Dunkirk should be
perpetually, and It was a closed port
at the very time when Napoleon was pre
paring to defend the recognition of the
southern confederacy on the ground that
the closing of a port oould not be defended.
Do Morny had forgotten that old treaty, and
that Dunkirk was closed.
We aro often deceived in the age of peo
ple having beautiful and luxuriant hair, not
knowing that they use Hall's Hair Kenewer
to keep gray hairs away.— Ad.
THE MILLION-JOLL Mi MANTLE.
A Priceless Garment That Has Envel
oped the Forms of Hawaiian Kings.
From the Washington Post.
A valuable collection of Hawaiian feather
war cloaks and capos is on exhibition at the
National museum. One of the cloaks, the
largest in the collection, is of immense
value. It Is known as the “miUton-dollar
mantle.” It once enveloped the kingly
form of Kokuaskalian, one of tho hig ost
chiefs of the Handwich islands, in whose
reign It was completed, nearly a hundred
years after It was hegun. Upon the death
of Kekuaskalian, who fell in battle, it
became the property of his enemy, King
Katnehameha 111., by whom it was pre
sented to Capt. J. H\ Auhck of the United
States navy.
The 1 ouudation of this most remarkable
cloak is a network of olona. or ••native
hemp.” and to it are attached by threads
of the same material, feathers of native
birds found only in the Hawaiian Islands.
The entire body of the raantie is made up Of
small red and yellow feathers, tho Fitter
ones being obtained from the Oo or Uho
( Mohan n obitis), a bird extremely rare and
possessing but one or two of these yellow
feathers, which are found under the wings.
This bird is captured alive by means of tne
“lime trap,” and when deprived < f the
precious leathers is set at liberty. Great
prize is put oa these feathers by the crown.
They are used as money in” buying and
selling and are accepted by thegovernme t
inpaymont of taxes. The red feathers are
obtaified from the most abundant bird of
the islands, the Dreponis coocinea.
In the “niillion-dollar mantle” the
feathers are placed so as to overlap, thus
giving a smooth surface to the exterior of
the cloak. The upper and lateral borders
of the mantle are decorated with alternat >
tufts of red, yellow, and black feathers, but
only on the margin are the black feathers
used, which are outained from the Uho. In
the center of the mantel is a large orescent
shaped figure of yellow feathers, surrounded
by a belt of red, which blends In the mid
dle of the belt on either side with a succeed
ing stripe of red, the outer margins of which
are divided by two wedge-shaped processes
of yellow. Prom this last-named figure on
either side to the circumference aro alternate
pnrallel stripes of yellow and red, about six
inches broad. The upper circumference of
the cloak, whore it fastens about the neck,
is about twenty inches, the lower one being
seven or seven and a half feet, thus forming
a cloak capable of envoliping a very largo
person. The mantle Is protected by a hand
some case, and its beauty advantage usly
displayed by a background of blue velvet.
There are two other capes in the collec
tion, very much smaller, and two boas.
The larger of the capes is little more than a
collar, its upper and lower circumferences
being but 17 and 06 inches, respectively.
The entire body is of yellow feathers, hav
ing but two small crescents of red in the
centre.
Tho remaining cape, virtually a red one,
has only two small designs of yellow feath
ers, and consequently is much less valuable.
The boas, made from tho feathers of the
Uho, are about*two feet in length and fasten
about the neck with hempen cords.
The feather garments were at one time
considered the greatest possessions of the
crown, but the costumes of European and
American manufacture have superseded
them, and they aro no longer manufactured
on the islands.
< I TICI HA KEMEIMfix
BABYCUREDQFECZEMA
.Mother's am! Minister’s Testimony. Head
Mass of Putrefaction. Doctor Fails.
Cured In ttuiek Time by Cuticura.
1 deem it my duty to inform you of the won*
derful cure of eczema winch Cuticura Reme
dies torought upon ourlittle baby, three months
oid. When about two and one-half months
old, the whole of its little head became one mass
of putrefaction, over whi -n we became very
much alarmed, as the medicine prescribed by
cur physician only seemed to aggravate and
Increase the intense pain the little thing seemed
to be in. We were utterly at a loss to know
what to do. as the physician seemed to have ex
hausted all efforts to give relief. Hut through
the recommendation of Rev. J. G. Abern, pastor
of Brooks Circuit M. E. Church Society, we
were induced to try the Cuticuha Remedies,
and after a few days' application, we were as
tonished as well as delighted over the result.
We continued the use of tho medicine accord
ing to directions, and, after a few weeks, the
little fellow was entire y cured with no traces
of tne disease left. Many thanks for this won
derful cure. Mrs. JOHN HOLSTEIN,
Quitman, Oa.
It gives me great pleasure to testify to the
facts contained in Mrs. John Holstein's testi
monial ooncerning the cure of her little baby
When 1 saw it I did not think it possible for it
to live. I, however, recommended Cuticuha,
knowing that if a *ure was possible, Cuticura
Remedies would do it. My most sanguine ex-
culminated in a perfect cure.
J. (}. AHERN, PastorM. E. Ch. So..
Quitman, Oa.
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an exquisite Skin Beautifler, externally (to clear
the skin and scalp, and restore the hair), cure
every ilisoass and humor of the skin and blood,
fro,ro pimples to scrofula.
Sold everywhere. Price, Cuticura, 50c.; Soap,
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/ sciatic, hip, kidney, chest and mus
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CASTOR IA
for Infants and Children.
“Castorlals so well adapted to children that
I recommend itaa superior to any prescription
known to me." H. A. Archer, M. D.,
11l So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. T.
“The use of ‘ Castoria’ is so universal and
Its merits so well known that it seems a work
of supererogation to endorse it Few are the
Intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy reach .”
Carlos Marttn, D.D.,
New York City.
Late Pastor Bloomingdalo Reformed Church.
BLANGAHO'S *PILLS.
In all epidemic maladies, the individual who maintains a perfect sanitary
condition usually avoids trouble, or if attacked, suffers from one of the
milder forms of tho disease; also blanoard’s fills are largely prescribed
by Physicians, and with great success, as a protective measure.
Approved by Academy ofMedicine of Paris, and specially recommended by
the medical celebrities of the World, for Serofula, King's-mil. Constitutional
Weakness, Poorness of the Blood, and for regulating its periodic course.
None genume unless signed“BLANCARD, 40 rue Bonaparte, Paris."
E. FOIIUEItA &. CO., NtiW YOUii. Agent, lor the Lulled States.
FURNITURE ANI) CARPKTS.
y-—aiEpf’v f & £
WILL HAVE IN THIS WEEK A FULL SUPPLY OF
1892 Bicycles!
Of the following celebrated makes:
WARWICK—COLUMBIA-—ORMONDE.
We have the finest wheel in the country for SIOO, §OO,
$75 and S6O for men; S2O, $25, S.‘JO, $25 ami S4O for
boys and girls.
THE CHEAPEST LINE OF
Furniture, Minis, Mss, Oil dolts
RUGS, MATS, Etc., in the Country.
We are giving away our stock of
WALL PAPER and DECORATIONS,
As we are closing out this branch of our business. If you
want papar come to us and get it for a song.
HOTELS.
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* - / ” | /- ing week or longer.
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' —' , _ * South. No place more healthy or desirable as a
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GLOBE BREWERY.
“GOLDBRAU.”
Tba ingredient! used In the brewing of tbig
famous Lager Beer consist of the best grade
Canada Malt and Bohemian Hops, brewed by
the most approrud sclentlilc methods and puri
fied by a slow and low proooss of fermentation,
while long storage renders the same mellow,
fine flavored and thoroughly wholesome. Asa
refreshing, strength giving beverage the Olobe
Brewing Company's OOLUBtiAU is unsur
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address* and to
Globe Brewing Agency,
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Will receive prompt and careful attention.
Savannah Depot, 63 Kiver street.
MEDICAL.
Castoria cures Colic, Constipation,
Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. Eructation,
Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promote* di
gestion,
Without injurious medication.
“ For several years I have recommended
your * Castoria, ’ and shall always continue to
do so as it has invariably produced beneficial
results.”
Edwix F. Pardib, M. D.,
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New York City.
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