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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18,
A Louisiana planter says that he consid
ers twenty geese in a cotton field equal to
ono hoe-hand.
Tonne hundred German carp have been
placed at various potato np tho St. Johns
river in Florida.
Hxnbt Larne, of Mt. Vernon, Indiana,
died on the 8d instant at tho age, very clear
ly established, of 123 years.
Coxklino has been considerably stung
by tho three B’s daring his recent political
career, viz: Bayard, Butler, and Blaine.
The Perry, Ga., Home Journal says that
the old plantation system, almost universal
in Houston county before the war, has gone
to its death, and small farms now constitute
the order of agricultural work. There are
very few ten mule farms in Houston.
Real estate in the business part of Or
angeburg, S. 0., is as high as in Charleston.
A cotton factory with four Clement attach
ments is established. The crop of upland
rice raised in the county will probably reach
about 40,000 bushels. The cotton crop is
between 30,000 and 40,000 bales.
The negro immigrants around Oswego,
Kansas, are dying off like sheep from the
effects of tho rigorous climate; Governor
Lewis Wallace, of New Mexico, has written
a letter to say that Southern negroes should
not be allowed to come there. A heavy re
sponsibility rests upon thoso who have in
ti ood those poor creatures from their
homes.
Youno hopeful (aged six, who is showing
U visitor his drawing book, containing al
leged representations of a bird and a horeo
os indicated in words underneath the draw
ing)—“These are my worst drawings.”
Mr. Smith—“Indeed Tommy, and where
nro your best ones ?” Young hopeful—“Oh,
I haven’t drawn them yet.”
At.t. the debtors in Glasgow prison were
set free at midnight on December 31, under
the provisions of tho Fraudulent Debtors
(Scotland) act. There are 25 men and 2
women. Ono of tho women had been there
eighteen months. The Glasgow Tnlbooth
is thus probably for the first time in two
centuries without a debtor prisoner. Debt
ors were al30 liberated in Edinburgh and
other places.
Nor a Place-Hunter—“I assure you
gentlemen,” snid the convict upon entering
the prison, "that tho place has sought me,
and not I tho place. My own affairs really
demand all my time and attention, and I
may truly say that my selection to fill this
position was on entire surprise. Had I
consulted my own interests, I should have
peremptorily declined to serve, but, as I
am in tho hands of my friends, I see no
other course than to submit.” Andho sub
mitted.
Silver CEBimcATza.—The Baltimore
Sun of Saturday suys: To-day an order
was received at tho Treasury Department
from an Indianapolis bank for $50,000 of
silver certificates in exchange for gold.
When some months ago tho feasibility of
exchanging silver certificates for gold coin
and bullion was suggested there were very
few who believed the idea would work. It
was thought scarcely reasonable that any
one would care to exchange gold for paper
representing only scanty-weight silver dol
lars. But applications for tho exchange
oomo in frequently, and it seems to bo
matter of great convenience.
The Nokth Carolina Fbdit Growers.—
The Wilmington Review says: The truck
ers hereabout have not been able to make
much progress as yet. Green pens are up,
and have been for some little time, but
they cannot grow in such weather as we
have bad. Potatoes and radishes are being
put in this week. It is the opinion of an
experienced planter whom wo consulted
'that on account oftho retarding causes Wil
mington will bo in the market this year' as
soon as Charleston, and, perhaps, Savan
nah will be. He thinks what when spring
opens it will be with a sudden warm spell
which will set everything growing all along
the coast •
Back from Kashas.—Ono of the saddest
sights imaginable was the return a few
days ago, through Dallas, Texas, to Robert
son county, in that State, of a party of
blacks, who had been seduced to Kansas
by a party of political rascals. Their dilap
idated wagons drawn by worn-out and near
ly starved horses, were filled with these
poor, deluded creatures, who, in poverty
and rags, were going back to their old
homes and old employers. There were
five families, averaging five persons each,
most of them being children, journeying
toilfully, yet gladly, to the "old folks at
homo.” Along was a sick dog in the horse
trough of the rear wagon, and an old negro
said that he was sorry that it had been bora
in Kansas,
TmtTnBEK F’s Amoko tub Irish.—A cor
respondent asks for a brief explanation of
tho “three F’s.” The first is "Fair Rent,”
based on a new valuation of tho land ex
clusive of all improvements made by the
tenants themselves. The second is "Free
Soles,” or the right of the tenant to sell
his improvements whenever he gives up his
holding. This is the Ulster custom. The
third is “Fixity of Tennre,” whereby tenants
will be secured against unwarrantable evic
tions and high rents. All advocates of
land reform recognize the necessity of fa
cilitating the transfer of land by abolishing
all restrictions of primogeniture and entail
and removing difficulties of title. This is
the natural meaning of free sales, although
the phrase has come to be used in a special
sense. The necessity of building up a new
class of peasant proyrietors and of reclaim
ing waste land, and thus extending the area
under cultivation, is also admitted by
students who have examined the subject.
Preston Arrearages.—A short time since
Commissioner of Pensions Bently report
ed that claims under the Arrears of Pen
sions act were coming in at the rate of
1,600 a month, and that it would at
least $400,000,000 to satisfy them alL Now
be extends the limit of the Government’s
liabilities to the enormous sum of $510,000,-
000. There is no doubt but that this pen
sion bill was tainted with fraud from the
first; it was sustained by misrepresentation
as to its amount, it was supported by many
who, though knowing it to be wrong, lack
ed the courage to oppose it. Now it ap
pears in its true colon, as a gigantic swin
dle, which opens the door for frauds of the
■met appalling character and extent. Hun
dreds of thousands of this money goes to
claim agents, not soldiers. An investiga
tion into this bill is imperatively needed;
if it is such as Pension Commissioner
Bently represents, it should be at ones re-
Tn Doo's Colo* Lorn.—The London
Sporting Times says: There is e dog at
tese. Sometimes that dog has a purple
body, with a yellow head and a green tail,
sometimes ho is scarlet and puce. Ho is a
kinder rainbow dog. Tho fact is he belongs
to a dyer in the town, and being naturally
white he takes any other color easily, and
ho gets a dip in one vat, and now in anoth
er, nnd ho forms a kind of canine adver
tisement. It is fan to see this dog, who is
quite unconscious of his distinguished con
dition, come up to other dogs wagging his
yellow head nnd green tail, and the way
those dogs, after regarding him out of tho
corner of their eyes for a minute.tuck their
tails between their legs and "scoot” is a
caution. Some timo since a friend of ours,
who hnd been occasionally a victim of tho
“old complaint,” was going down to Brigh
ton for the race week in great health and
spirits. When driving from the station ho
suddenly come on this dog. "Hallo, hey!
What’s that? Hay! hay! what! a purple dog
with a green tail! Oh, lor! oh, lor! got ’em
again!” nnd he turned round and went back
to London, firmly persuaded that ho was
again a victim to D. T.
Steamship Subsidies and the Mississippi.
Tho subsidy business received a disas
trous blow in tho Senate on Saturday by
the loss of Hamlin’s amendment to tho
Post-Office appropriation bill, making pro
vision for ten million dollars in subsidies,
at tho rato of one million a year for ten
years. This was lost by a meager ma
jority, and so the ten millions, wbi h
would not have done a cent’s worth of
good, were saved. The man who conceives
it possible to re-establish a profitable and
self-snstamlDg carrying trade In American
bottoms by the payment of annual boun
ties out of tbe U. S. Treasury, may as well
expect to coax water to run up hill. He
may create a permanent army of sharks
and beggars in that way, oat no healthy
or adventurous tradesmen. No prosper
ous, self-sustaining trade can be built up
on national largesses.
The Western papers justly complain
that Cougress should be engaged in fight
ing for and against their silly schemes of
subsidy, while that imperative and indis
pensable work, tho improvement of the
Mississippi river, is left in tho back-ground.
In the course of the next two or three
months, the Ax nor about the wreck and
ruin of j ojfir.y from Mississippi over
flows will bo heard on all sides; and If it
amounted to no more than a confession
of present loss, would .be bad enough.
But these crevasses are still more signifi
cant as monitions of coming peril aud de
struction.
The bed of this mighty river has been
filling up and rising for many centuries
until it is now on top of the earth, and
must rely on lateral embankments to keep
it in place. With every additional Inch
of elevation tho inability of such banks to
confine the stream becomes more ap
parent. Tho stream is continually break
ing tnem and spreading over the circumja
cent country. This process reduces the
force of the main current—increasing the
deposit of wash and silt and aggravating
the evil and danger. If this thing is
suffered to go on, the Mississippi will in
no great time cease to be a grand artery
of trade and healthful drainage, and sink
into a region of swamps and morasses,
engendering pestilence and ruining mil
lions of acres of otherwise the most pro
ductive land in America.
The process of filling up and spreading
out, which is now going on with frightful
energy, must be arrested and reversed.
The current must be restored by proper
works, so that hereafter it will scour out
a low and permanent channel and by re
ducing the elevation of tbe river fifteen
or twenty feet, drain tho swamps on its
borders instead of Hooding them.
The longer this work is-deferred, the
more difficult and expensive it will be
come, and It Is a frightful example of
waste and lack of practical economy,
which refuses to take hold of it, and, at
tho same time, proposes to pay John
Roach & Co., ten millions of dollars to
lighten the losses incurred by running
American-built steamships
If tbe country wants to see tbe great
Mississippi valley a hot bed of fever and
pestilence it will persist in this folly; bnt
if it wants that valley preserved as the
great centre of wealth, population and
trade on tbe American continent, it will
set on foot at once liberal and energetic
measures to restore the current and set it
to work dredging out the river bed as na
ture intended it to do.
Washington Flooded.
On Saturday last the lower portion of
Washington city was submerged. Alt
that part of the city adjacent to the line of
the old Washington canal was under wa
ter from the river bank np to the foot of
the Capitol grounds. Pennsylvania Ave
nue was a shallow sea. The water was
upTo the main floors oTthe principal hotels
and filled the cellar refectories, and drink
ing saloons. The street can were still
running in tho Avenue, bnt nnder
grave embarrassments. Their floors were
sometimes six or seven inches underwa
ter. Boats were navigating many of tbe
streets. The B. & F. depot was surround
ed with water and the omnibuses
backed up against incoming trains so that
passengers were able to step from the cars
to the vehicles dry-shod. The Census Bu
reau, with their record sin a basement and
two feet of water on tbe floor, had much
ado tosave their papers, but finally re
treated in good order with wet shoes and
stockings. The female employes in the
Bureau of Printing and Engraving found
the water in their quarter* from three to
four feet deep, and escaped in carriages
and wagons. The bixlh street depot was
surrounded by four feet of water and there
was a rapid current of equal depth all
along tbe street. About noon several of
tbe lower street cars had to be abandoned
and tbe drivers mounted their horses and
made off with their money boxes, and the
passengers who had been kneeling on the
seats to escape tbe wet fonnd rescue in
omnibuses. That distinguished dignita
ry, the "oldest inhabitant,” assigns the last
visitation of any flood approaching it to
tbe year 1856.
The Freedmea’s Beak.
Bruce’s bill which, It is said, is about to
become a law, places tbe property of tbe
Freedmen’s Bank in the bands of tbe
Controller of tbe Currency, with In
structions to sell it and distribute tbe pro
ceeds among the depositors in that ill-
starred concern. Tbe present commis
sioners are discharged.
It also makes it tbe doty of tbe Solici
tor of tbe Treasury to investigate the
mannet in which the officers of the bank
have discharged their duties, and If be de
tects fraud and corruption to institute.
such civil and criminal proceedings as tbe 1
case may call for.
lb. Punu it seems is not coining to
America. In this decision we bag leave to
Brighten a romarkafek deg-e large Mai-1 ****>***• P* 18 * 11 -
Another Provision Corner.
A telegram of Sunday, from Chicago,
aunounces the formation of another great
provision corner, which is confidently ex
pected to rob tbe people ot the United
States of large amounts of money, by cre
ating an artificial scarcity through vast
engrossments of pork, bacon, lard, etc.
Scientists have now been employed lor
years, at large expense, from the tax rev
enues of the United States, to Inquire Into
tho best mode of exterminating worms,
grasshoppers, beetles and other insects
which prey upon American crops, and
increase the cost to the people of food
supplies.
Everybody can see, at a glance, that
all this research, learning and expense
become of little or no value, if there is no
way of reaching and remedying the oper
ations of those other more mischievous
insects, in tho shape of men, who make
scarcities out of full crops by combining
their vast*accumulations of money, bay
ing the markets bare, and locking up their
accumulations so as to compel consumers
to pay them famine prices.
In a moral point of view tills, of coarse,
Is simple robbery—however people may
attempt'to dignify it with the naraoof
speculation. It is a conspiracy against tbe
Dockets, stomachs, health and lives of the
people—an operation which should sub
ject these so-called speculators to severe
statutory penalties. Every State has, or
should have, a law against "engrossing,”
which is the term applied to the offense in
question—that is, hoarding, not for pur
poses of legitimate trade, but in order to
hold back goods from market and compel
an advance in prices, though there Is noth
ing else in the situation calling'for such
advances.
There must bo some remedy for this
cruel abuse of capital—to a remorseless
griping of the bowels of the poor. There
is no tact or cunning in it—nothing
bnt an impish disregard of the rights and
welfare of society—the gratification of an
intense and brutal selfishness, which con
stitutes a man host is humani generis.
It is time that the authority of the gen
eral government, as well as the States,
was invoked to punish such conduct. It is
dangerous to civil tranquillity. When the
people find that they are to be perpetual
ly victimized to sucli conspiracies—and
the power and temptation to form them
both are growing every year, If no other
remedy bo provided, they will take a
rude redress in their bauds, as they did in
tho case of the great bread riots in New
York in 1837, and they will wreck things.
The streets of Now York were a foot deep
m flour—tumbled into them out of ware
houses, where, in a season of scarcity, it
Bad been stored up to force a needless
and cruel exaggeration of prices already
high.
The rapid accumulation of vast for
tunes into the hands of a few—the rage
for speculation which pervades every mar
ket infested by these capitals, and tho
growing distaste for the slow gains of le
gitimate traffic are every month increas
ing the passion for such nefarious opera
tions on trade.
These are destined to aggravate lament
ably tho unequal divisions of property
which are a fruitful source of popular dis
content, and that discontent will find a
new edge and force when tho people see
capital used directly for the purposes of
the most unjust extortion—used to swell
the prices of ail the necessaries of life to
tbe families of the laboring poor. This
will not long be quietly borne, and it is
clearly within tho domain of law and
public justice to interfere sternly for the
protection or the people.
The Cabinet and the Constitution.
The New York Sun, in the following
constitutional view oftho so-called cab
inet, although merely reviewing the fun
damental law on the subject, presents
Ideas which will probably be new to some
readers:
"Taking together the talk about Gar
field’s probable cabinet, the pending bill
to allow the heads of cabinet depart
ments to occupy seats in Congress, aud
tbe various projects to give agriculture,
manufactures, education, and whatnot,
cabinet departments, we see what an
enormous amount of public attention can
be concentrated on a thing that has no
legal status, nor any official existence,
What we call the cabinet is not pro
vided for in the constitution of the United
States; its existence Is not recognized,
there; the word is not mentioned. Even
"heads of departments” are mentioned
rarely, and not always by the same de
scriptive phrase; while In no case do
they receive the specific title of secretary.
"Article IL, Section 2 of the constitution
declares that the President ’may require
the opinion, In writing, of the principal
officer in each of the executive depart
ments upon any subject relating to the
duties of their respective offices;* and fur
ther on, the same section declares that
•the Congress may by law invest the ap
pointment of such inferior officers as they
think proper in tho President alone, in
the courts of law, or in the heads of de
partments.’ Straining a point, ire may
possibly claim one previous aUoslen to so-
called cabinet officers in Article. L, sec
tion 8, where Congress is empowered to
make all laws for carrying into execution
tbe powers vested by the constitution ‘in
the government of the United States, or
in any department or officer thereof.' But
these few allusions include nil. There
is nothing more In the instrument in re
gard to the public servants whom we style
cabinet officers.
"Tbe constitution, therefore, does not
recognize, the existence of any club or
council of ministers who are to administer
the affairs of the country In accordance
with tbe conclusions arrived at by their
combined wisdom. On tbe contrary,in the
only section which distinctly alludes to
the subject, tbe President is especially em
powered to get their opinions in writing
about affairs in their respective depart
ments, in case he Deeds those opinions at
all.
“The word cabinet is t found any
where in the Revised Statutes; and what,
of coarse, Is more to he noticed, the idea
of the cabinet is equally wanting. In
other words, while ample provision is
made for establishing the executive de
partments, as the constitution permits,
and a chief officer or head la prescribed
for each of these departments, there is no
provision for uniting these heads' ia an
executive council, which, under the name
of a cabinet, la to meet from time to time,
whether for statesmanlike discussion or
for orgies of tobacco, mirthful stories, pi
ano solos and cold tea.
“It la perfectly clear that the hills with
which Congress is beset from time to time
to make Le Due and other people beads
of departments, are, so far as the object is
to allow these people to be lawfully in
vited to Cabinet meetings, totally need-
leas. There is nothing in the statutes
limiting the number who can be sum
moned to theee solemn convocations of
executive talent. And as for any ques
tion of appropriations, a* modi money can
he voted, if required, to e bureau of hugs
and shrubs as to tbe same Institution wbsn
ofgmlflid §§ Ad^iitncuts
An Allen Vice-President.
Some days ago a lawyer in New York
city brought out a paper alleging, and ap
parently proving, that Chester A. Arthur,
the Vice-President elect,* is not a citizen
of the United States, hut was born In Can
ada, and has not been naturalized. It is
this allegation which is mentioned else
where as a not improbable subject of in
quiry to be raised in the Senate. The
constitution of the United States (Art. II)
declares that “no person except a natural-
born citizen, or a citizen of tho United
States at the time of the adoption of this
constitution, shall he eligible to the office
of President,” etc. It follows, os a mat
ter of course, that this prohibition must
also app’y to tho Vice-President, who
may at any timo be called to act as Presi
dent, but could not so act if he were not
“a natural-born citizen’*—much less, if, as
alleged of Mr. Arthur, ho is not even a le
gally qualified voter. Mr. Arthur must
ho presumed to know whether these alle
gations are true, and to he able |to show
their falsity if untrue. It is his duty to
show the Senate that they are groundless,
and thus do away with tho necessity for
any formal inquiry into the matter. It
would be awkward If both persons on the
Republican ticket should furnish reason
able grounds for the charge of perjury.
A Southern Peach Boon.
Tho telegrams raise a fair promise of a
boom for Southern peach growers this year
in consequence of the reported loss of the
trees from cold in all tho region of the
United States north of_Marylawd. The
New York Times quotes a letter from
Samuel Townsend, an old peach grower
in Delaware, in which ho says:
“Zero is too cold for peaches, and four
degrees or fivo degrees below for twenty-
four hours will kill the fruit-bearing bads
nnd tho limbs they are on.” And farther
on: “There i3 no remedy for peach trees
where the thermometer falls to from eight
to fifteen degrees below zoro.” Mr. Town
send’s opinion is pretty generally enter
tained by growers, and so firmly are somo
of the Baltimore peach-canners convinced
of its correctness that they liavo already ad
vanced the prices of tho stock now on hand
nnd profass to believe that it will prove n
profitable investment to carry their stock
over for the next season,as tho thermometer
lias been below zero several times all over
the peninsula, and on one night fell as low
as fifteen degrees below. Should this the
ory prove correct it will undoubtedly cause
peaches to bo very scarce next season, be
cause if tho peach crop is destroyed by ex
tremely cold weather, it will be destroyed
throughout New York State and along tho
Ohio river, in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and
Illinois, and tho temperature on tho penin
sula during tho extremely cold season has
olways boon higher than in tho above-men
tioned States.
If, therefore, tho Northern peach crop is
substantially cut off, tho South may bo
ableto square accounts for the damago of
the orange crop from tho same cause.
This, by turn, is the year for an abundant
crop ol Southern peaches, and if the
Northern supply fails every one we can
ship there will find a ready market.
Storms in the Northwest
Friday last was signalized by a general
outbreak’of storms in tho Northwest,
which, like many others, were character
ized as "the worst and heaviest of the
season.” Wisconsin had a great snow
storm which drilled badly and blockaded
all the roads-rail and otherwise. The
saiuo words also fit the casp exactly in
Missouri and Kansas, where engines were
lost in the great drills aud had to be aban
doned for tho present. In Ohio, at Cin
cinnati, strange to relate, they had a great
thunderstorm which added much to the
embarrassments from swollen rivers. Tho
telegrams say:
The Tuscarawa river is higher than it
has been for thirty years. Thousands of
acres of farm lauds aro overflowed, and
many families liavo been obliged to leave
their bonif s. Trains are discontinued. The
Scioto river,, at Circlcvitic, lias broken
several levees, and tho bridge on tho
Muskingum Valley road is considered un
safe. Trains do not cross. At Muncie,
Ind., the fine iron bridgo is washed away
and several dam3 gone. Many families
have been driven from their houses.
Trains on the Cincinnati, Richmond &
Chicago road have been stopped for two
days. The bridgo on the Miami near
Hamilton, Ohio, on tho Cincinnati, Ham
ilton & Dayton road cannot be used.
Death from Hydrophobia.
The New York Sun, of Tuesday, reports
the death ofliLtlc Minnie Lee, of Nowark,
N. J., of hydrophobia, as follows:
On Wednesday night she grew much
worse. She had more violent convulsions
than. before, and three or four times
snapped her teeth like a dog. Her nurses
and tnca who were .called in to hold her
wore thick gloves to save themselves from
a fatal scratch or bite by the child. At
last her convulsions became so hard that
it required tho strength of four persons to
hold her. No more ice was given to her,
because even this brought on a spasm.
At 10 o’clock yesterday morning the
child became moro quiet, although her
sufferings were yet lerriblo.
During her last hour, when seemingly
conscious, she several times pointed above
her head, and, looking upward, said:
“Look! oh, how beautifull”
Once she asked, gazing upward:
“Is that for me?” Just before her
death she groaned and then quietly ex
pired.
Charlie Lee, Minnie’s brother, who was
bitten by the same dog, showed no symp
toms of hydrophobia yesterday. Alter he
choked on Wednesday while drinking
coflee he was closely watched for tbe signs
of the disease, but none was observed.
Dr. Hagen is giving him medicine, in tbe
hope of warding off hydrophobia. Charlie
is now at home, and is cared for with
great solicitude. Paul, another brother,
who was also bitten by the dog, Is staying
at the house of Mr. Middleton, on Bergen
street, He was well last evening.
Wx have never tried to start our stove
fire with one of Col. Wo. Winter’s po
ems, hut wo have tried Georgia field pine
without success.
Psor. Richard Proctor thinks that
with a good telescope he could see one
hundred million sans, each the centre of
a universe. A telescope that can find one
snn would have commanded a fancy
price in this section at any timo during
tbe last two montlis.
Abuy life in South Africa is said to be
very monotonous. Sir George Colley ap
pears at present to^be the worst boered
man on tbe continent.
Tax civil service reform apparently
needs reform at the present writing.
Blackbird Is the name of the latest In
dian ruffian. The Indian burean should
express a package of salt to General Miles.
Kino Kalakua, of the Sandwich Is
land*, has started on a tour around the
world to find a race of people from which
to repopulate his dominions. We shonld
most respectfully nominate tbe Bowery
boys of New York on tbe one side and tbe
surplus femininity of New England on
tbe other. It seems to us this arrange
ment would constitute a race with all the
hardihood and cheek of the pilgrim fath
ers.
According to the report of tbe Agri
cultural Bureau, the average yield of cot
ton is one bale to two acres and a half.
The greatest yield la in Arkansas and
Looialana, one bale to an acre and three-
quarters ; In Tennessee, one; Mississippi
a bale to rather more than two acres;
in North Carolina a bale to tiro acres;
Sooth Carolina a bale to two and a half
acres; Texas a bale to two and three-
quarter acres, and ia Qeorgi% a hale to
three and a half acre*.
Stanley Matthews has concluded not to
order the ermine. His chances are grow
ing smaller as the session nears the end.
The newest grand trans-continential
railroad scheme brings the Gulf States in
to prominence. It has an ambitious look;
still, something may come of it. In these
days it will not do to be suiprised at any
thing, however magnificent. Jackson
ville, or St. Augustine, Florida, is to be
the eastern and Guayiuas, on the Guifiof
California, the western terminus ot the
lino, which Is to be made up of new road
to connect with other roads already in
operation. It Is said to be part of the
scheme to tom to account the favorable
facilities presented by St. Augustine,
which st one timo was quite a respecta
ble commercial port. Then, again, the
new route is to provide a short cut be
tween Europe and Australia and Soqth
American points, saving a distant of somo
5,000 to 0,000 miles over the route via
San Francisco and New York.
The extreme cold weather and the
snow drills all over the Northwest are
causing an immense amount of suffering.
At Quincy, Ill., ajl the trains had to bo
abandoned, a number oi them already
snow bound, and great difficulty was ex
pcrlcncod to get food to the passengers on
board. The thermometer was below zero.
Hon. Fernando Wood, member of Con
gress from New York city, died
Hot SpriDgs, Ark., on Sunday night. Ho
had recently gone there seeking tho
restoration of a shattered constitution.
He lias been connected with the politics
of New York for many yearn. A staunch
Democrat, and a successful politican, he
wielded au immense influence in the city,
and the State as well. Ho was a man of
no ordinary ability, and has had his share
of public honors, aud goes to his grave
well advanced in years.
The wires continue down between
Washington and the South, and will cut
off our telegraphic reports largely.
Seuor Zamacona, the Mexlcanmlnister,
wife and two daughters,arrived at Galves
ton on Sunday morning, aud proceeded to
Washington.
New Orleans Is threatened witii even a
greater disaster than the overflow through
which she lias just passed. The levees pro
tecting tho city are iu a bad condition,and
the rise of the Mississippi and lte tributa
ries is coming upon them with fearful
force. Ton or fifteen thousand men are at
work to-day to strengthen tho levees. The
whole population is alarmed.
A monster anti-coercion meeting was
held in Hyde Park on Saturday last. Al
though moro orderly than usual, more
earnestness was apparent and the speeches
more outspoken. Banners bearing tho in
scriptions “Release Davitt,” “Wo want
the land that bore us,” “Union and Victo
ry,” were borne In tho procession. Glad
stone was denounced.
Several hundred yards of the long
bridgo between Alexandria and Washing
ton City have been washed away and
travol has been greatly interrupted.
Another corner is now being worked
up iu tho provision market in Chicago.
Twenty-five million pounds of short rib3,
24,000 barrels of pork and 10,000 tierces
of lard have been purchased within tho
last week. It is the same set of scoun
drels that made such a successful deal
last year that is engaged in this, and we
may look for an advance in all of these
articles far above the prevailing prices
now.
Colonel John C. Nichols, of the First
Congressional district of Georgia has been
granted an' indefinite leave or absence by
the House of Representatives In Washing
ton. His family being sick, he
retires before tho session closes.
He retires to private life and will
be succeeded by Hon. George C. Black, of
Scriven county. Colonel Collins has
finally concluded not to contest the scat
of Mr. Blade; therefore the gentleman
from the first district will bo unmolested
in liis woll earned laurels.
Quantities of Florida oranges are being
shipped to England, where they aro pre
ferred over all others.
Tho Florida Legislature is going for
whisky—that i3 to say they are going
against it, and will doubtless pass some
stringent laws in regard to its sale.
James Stewart, of Georgia, was in a
swamp with his dogs and axe. The dogs
found a coon prowling around’ in the
woods and pitched intoil for the sake of
gratifying the general antipathy dogs have
for coons and a love they have for fight
ing. The coon was In no wise loth to
have a bout with Us natural enemies, but
made demonstrations that convinced Mr.
Stewart that he could not be an idle
spectator. The dogs made a combined at
tack ono In front, ono in the rear and
one circled around generally to distract
the assailed as to which should bo tho ob
jective point. General Coon Used himself
firmly, and with one blow of Its right paw
knocked out the eye of Its front assailant,
which demoralized him- and sent him
howling to the rear. As quick as lightning
it then concentrated on the rear assailant,
planted its sharp teeth in the burr of that
dog’s ear and soon mado shoestrings of it.
Poorcanis went yelping after his brother
and coouey went for Stewart before ho
had time to realize that hi* dogs were
defeated. Witii a rush he dashed upon
his leg and with his tremendous claws
ripped the tough leather of his boot from
tho top of his leg to the sole, and caused
him to retreat. Coouey might then have
escaped, but wishing to rnaka sure its
victory It followed the flying Stewart whp
came upon bis axe, and grasping the helve
firmly wheeled upontho enraged brute
and cleft its head in twain,:•
Captain Eads writes to the Washington
Afar that channel at tho Mississippi
jetties is all that it was required to be by
the government, and has- been eVer alnce
tbe work was pronounced complete. -
They have the barbarous yhipping post
iu. little DeliiWire,’ Wba. sure, but • the
people retain their otd-fashloned notions
In regard to other mallets, too, the Chief
Justice of tho State having declared the
other day that neither blaspheming Bob
Iugersoll nor dog fights would be,tolerated
In Delaware. . :
1 Beniamin Fitcb, of Darien, who found
ed $ home lor soldiers’ children, proposes
to nive it an aditional gift in money and
property estimated at from $50,000 to $80,-
000, provided the charter is amended in
accordance with his views.' •
In the Ohio Legislature there are no
fewer than twelve bills for regulating, re
stricting or prohibiting tbe sale bf liquor,
now pending. Several of the same sort
have been packed away in a refrigerator
to await the summer session offtbe Geor
gia General Assembly. ' • • j
A story comes from North Stoning-
ton, Conn., that a man, trying tb discover
gold by the use of a divining tod iu tbe
cellar of a home in that town, discovered
a subterranean passage that led forward
several rods into a room ten feet or more
square, and that other passages led from
this in different directions.
Ruskin is now writing sketches of the
history of Christendom for “boys and
girls who have been held at Its fonts,”
and informs historians that tne style they
adopt deprives history of its moral aiguifi-
mmnl'bui"' tie of jJjn.’iJ
The Introduction of American sire"*,
cam into Rio de Janeiro lias produced a
great change In the social and - business
life of tbe people. There are two binds
of can—one for barefooted people, 6 cts;
and we for those who wear jlfces, is cts.
Oae Ohio man has been disappointed.
He wanted th« wifectorsblp Galveston,
Texas, aud unquestionably Would have
bad ft, but in a disastrous moment, the
man who ted the Sherman movement last
year in Texas turned up and carried .off
tbe prize. Secretary Sherman bin a very
tender regard for Ohio, but be Is for him
self first. - -** j jtj l.a se.u
Telegraphic communication Is now
so much delayed by prostrate wires that
we know not when dispatcher f ill pome
or by what roots. At headqimrters, last.
Saturday, in New York, they bad but'
two out of twenty-five wliee, and nume
roua breaks in every direction. Patience
and waiting will bring relist
The exploration of Africa seems to be at
tended with a good deal of difficulty and
loss of life. The news comes that Henri
Leseret, the great French expiorer, and his
followers, were all massacred by the Gallas
tribe of natives. The expenditure of blood
nnd treasure equals'the explorations of the
earlier days of civilization, and the ques
tion will soon be raised if the benefits re
ceived will compensate for the sacrifices
made.
Failures continue in the Eastern cities-
The last is that of C. T. Howe, land mer
chant of New York city, whose liabilities
amount to $70,000.
The Robertson county prisoners in Ten
nessee are threatened with mob violence.
The Governor received n telegram on yes
terday from Attorney General Bell saying:
“Without a strong guard,of the military
the prisoners will be mobbed.” The Gov
ernor instruoted the sheriff to summon the
entire power of tho county for the main
tenance of the law and the protection of the
prisoners. Mob violence is destructive of
all good, and only increases rather titan
cures the evil it proposes to deal with.
The Monroo doctrine continues to disturb
the average American statesman. Senator
Eaton, on yesterday, introduced the follow
ing resolution in tho United States Senate:
“Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives, that the interests of tbe
people of tho United States of America and
tho welfare and security of their govern
ment aro so involved in tho subject of tho
construction of ship canals and other ways
for transportation of sea-going vessels
across tho isthmus connecting North and
South America that tho government of the
United States, with a frankness which Is
due to nil other peoples and governments,
hereby insists that its consent is a necessary
condition precodent to tho execution of any
such project, and also as to the rotes and
regulations under which other nations shall
participate in the use of such canal or other
ways, either in peace or in war.” This
patriotic declaration was laid on the table,
so that it could, at an immense cost, be
printed. Then the vaporing Windom gave
notice that ho had a few remarks to maim
on that line, and would tnko up part of the
remaining days of the session in presenting
them. . >
A Democratic mayor in the city of Phil
adelphia is a rare occurrence in these de
generate days. But so do the votes of
the city eloction held last Tuesday declare,
and that, too, by n handsome majority, 5,-
533. Hon. Samuel G. King is the name of
the man who will be king of all the Phila-
delpbias for tho next term. He headed tho
reform ticket, and was supported by the in
dependent Republicans as well as tho Dem
ocrats. He is a man of fine ability and of
sterling character. Wo congratulate tho
denizens of tho ancient city of “Brotherly
Love” upon having a representative of an
honest party to rule over them.
Mr. S. S. Cox, ot Now York, seems to
hold the House in check os to the misap
plication of the public funds in tho pro
posed improvement of certain rivers and
creeks, asking government aid. Somo peo
ple in tho South think him wrong, and do
ing damage to our best interests. Alas,
wo aro apt to think what is done against
oar opinion and wish is a blander. A lit
tle patient waiting will onablo us to judge
fairly, and iu many instances wo will dis
cover that we were wrong. Mr. Cox is ac
tuated, we beliovo, by a good motive, not
withstanding tbs abase lie is receiving in
Romoqunrtora. One of tho greatest obstacles
to tho exhibition of gennino patriotism of a
broader typo than that of the partisan, is
in the fact that a man has a score of ex
pectant rivals who raise tho party howl the
moment ho speaks for country above party.
Mr. Cox boa tho nerve to hold his own in
spite of this feeling, and is sustained by
men of both political organizations. It is
tree, the South has not had her share of
tho appropriations for the improvement
of her rivers nnd harbors, yet we would
not socure them by foolishly squandering
the publio funds. In due course of time
they will come, and we can afford to wait.
With a view to such a disposition of tho
Cincinnati Southern os will commit tho
road or its management to those who will
bo prepared to mako every needed ar
rangement for future business, a bill has
been introduced in tho Ohio Legislature,
granting to the trustees of tho road and
tho Commissioners of tho Sinking Fund
tho authority to sell or lease the property.
The Buffalo Courier fears that a new pe
riod of jobbery and extravagance in na
tional legislation is approaching, if it has
not already begun.
Gen. Walker estimates tho population of
the United States in 1890 at 64,600,000, the
doubtful factor in the increase being the
amount of foreign immigration.
President E. W. Cole, of the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia and Memphis
and Charleston railroads, don’t think tho
purchase of the A., M. and O. road by the
Louisville and Nashville railroad will ma
terially injure the lines which he is operat
ing. A common interest will hold both
parties within bounds.
Water Famine in New Yobk.—Now York
City is threatened with a water famine.
With the largest resources of any city of
the size in the world, private or public waste
periodically brings New York City to the
very edge of its visible supply. In cold
weather, fauoets are kept running night
and day all over tho city, and in hot weath
er the sources of supply fall off. Now the
oily seems to be threatened with both dan
gers, as tbe unusual cold has turned the
rainfall into snow, and the waste in the
city has been enormous. Either a new
aqueduct, competent inspection of water
wastes, or an examination of.’the city mains
would, judging from tho experiences of
other cities, plaoe New York beyond risk;
but it is one of the results of divided official
responsibilities in a city governed partly
by its citizens and partly by a Legislature
chosen by the rest of the State that no
one of these things is the business of any
one in particular.
The Unpicked Cotton’.—A dispatch from
Memphis says: Recent heavy winds and
beating rains have frailed oat nnpicked
cotton, covering it with mud, so that plan
ters abandon hopes of saving any more of
last year’s yield, almost one-fourth of which
is estimated to be yet in the fields. Almost
incessant rain has fallen for several days,
bat at noon to-day the skies cleared and
the weather cleared up raw and colc(. Tho
river is rising and apprehensions prevail
that the floods coming from the Mississip
pi and Ohio rivers will inundate the low
lands of the river valleys from here South.
The Vice PBEStDEMT.—It is presumable
that Mr. Arthur has satisfactory informa
tion that he was bora in this country, and
'it ought to be presumable that he will not
qualify contrary to the constitution. But
a special to the New York Herald says far
ther inquiry to-day among the members of
the Senate Privileges and Elections Com
mittee in regard to the rumor of an intend
ed investigation concerning Gen. Arthur’s
plaoe of birth elicited the uniform answer
that no action looking to such investiga
tion has yet been taken or suggested in the
committee. A prominent Democratic
member said, however, that he thought the
matter ought to be investigated, and that
if, after consultation with the ohairman
(Mr. Saulsbury), the latter agreed with
Mm as to its importance, be would intro
duce a resolution in the Senate to order the
investigation.
Thk Paris opera ooet in 1380 $800,000,
which the receipts, even including a govern
ment subvention, failed to meet.
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts has suc
ceeded at last In evading her governess,
and is now safely married to Mr. Ash-
mead Bartlett. If the happy young
couple will visit Macon during our next
State exposition, tbe committee will vote
them a premium as the most remarkable
Bartlett pair of the season.
To all wbom It may concern: The
Democratic party has no tail, and conse
quently cannot wag or be wagged. Wags
are at liberty to appear on the stump how
ever, and see for themselves. The Geor
gia delegation will please clip this ont
and paste it in their hats.
Tins Czar of Russia has not been blown
up in nearly three montlis. At this rate'
the old gentleman’s blood will not be kept
circulating fast enough to prevent cold
feet. , / .
The appearance of the Prince of Wales
at the marriage of one of the Rotlischll-
dren is hailed throughout Europe as an
evidence that England does not sympa
thize with the Prussian persecution oftho
Jews. That may be true, but we will bet
Sara Bernhardt against Tilden’s salary as
President, that bis royal nibs will bit Mr.
Rolbchilds for & couple of hundred thou
sand before the honeymoon has reached
its second quarter.
Old John Bbown is to have a place
among the “heroes at the capitol. Vinnie
Ream should be employed to perfect the
satire.
The happiest man in tho world is the
speculator who rises with the market, and
probably the most dissatisfied is ho who
goes down with it.
Cetywayo is learning to write. ' When
Catchoyeo learns to write his own name ho
will be well edacated, and can take his
place among tho lecturers.
It is generally conceded that no country
can tako charge of this repnblio until our
navy is whipped. The Secretary will, we
trust, keep the navy well under the wil
lows.
Mb. Chandler thinks Gen- Garfield will
mako the best President tho country has
evur known. This is supposed to be a post
script to Chandler’s personal expecta
tions.
Canadian pnblio men, it is said, leave
politics poorer than they enter them. The
American statesmen leave politics in the
same way, and tho country too. Canada
should be annexed.
Queen Victoria will give the Princess
Stephanie a silver scrvico instead of the
usual India shawl. This may be taken as a
hint to Stephanie that shorn expected to
remain at homo more than she goes out.
Col. Woods is sitting in bis sanctum at
Hawktasville, waiting until tho spring flow
reports u snake witii Egyptian hieroglyph
ics on its back. When the Colonel wets his
pen on this subject the Eoason may be con
sidered os fairly opened.
There are some people ore opposed to
newspaper articles which, though true and
new3j-, are .written upon a not agreeable
subject. There was a man once who ap
plied to a general to have the troops pre
vented from bathing in a certain pcfnd, be
cause, though the spot was a mile away,
there was a spy-glass in his house.
Hon. Fernando Wood, of Now York, is
dead. Ho has for many years represented
the ninth Congressional district of New
York, and was bat recently re-elected. Mr.
Wood has been in ill health for some time,
and only a few days since went to Hot
Springs in Arkansas, hoping to find relief.
Tho death of this gentlemen lessens tho
few representatives in Congress Of tho old
school of politicians. Of medium height,
fine figure, white haired and moustached,
easy, affable and courteous in address, be
possessed that peculiar and indescribable
took which marks the gentleman every
where. It was his habit to dress in tho
deep blue once so fashionable, and the ad
jective “distingue” which correspondent^
wore accustomed to use in describing him,
was never better employed. Yesterday
when Congress met, the desk of tho kind-
hearted old gentleman was found draped
in mourning and elaborately decorated
with flowers. Fernando Wood was a warm
friend of Professor Morse, the inventor of
telegraphy, and assisted him to obtain the
first appropriation by which ho was ena
bled to demonstrate tbe practical wisdom
of his ideas..
The Eads ship canal scheme has been
laid on the table of the House, and is re
garded os a stately corpse.
The English House of Peers does not
seem to be a body of transcendent import
ance, tho reason briefly being that the lower
house governs the money bags and makes
the laws. Recently, all of Great Britain
was watching with bated breath the action
of the House of Commons, while the Peers
wore holding half-hour sessions. The Peers
are 480 in number, but they have gradually
been shorn of authorityuntil their power is
now insignificant. Recently it has been
openly discussed in England as to whether
it wonld not be advisable to abolish them
as legislators altogether. The peerage once
crushed, the system of hereditary possession
and entail will be short lived.
The Telegraph and Messenger in its new
dress was the subject of many complimen
tary remarks on tbe streets yesterday. We
need hardly remark that the dress is pro
fusely decorated with material from every
country under the sun,with a feather in her
can, gems at her throat, and all of the
fashionable attachments from head to foot.
She has now launched forth into the giddy
world with every accomplishment learned,
and ready for everything from politics
down to the "racquet.”
Mr. Stanley Matthews: Dear Sir—N3ru
inations are the mothers of elections, but
we beg leave to remind yon that all nomi
nations do not become mothers.
If there is anything in the world calcu
lated to moke Henry Richardson home
sick, it is the fact that Sarah is in Atlanta
and he in Washington. Nevertheless Joe
Harris baa been taught French by the
Telegraph and Messenger, and will inter
view the gifted waif of fate. We can half
predict the result.
Madame B.—“Je Praia la dil dal, Mon
sieur Harrcese.”
J. H.—“Oh, Nampoot.”
Madame B.—“Ce’st beautiful. Allow me
vous to congraahulate.”
J. H.—“Noo vemmg. Grady was the
man.”
New York on Friday had a warm day.
A city paper gives this doleful account of
the sanitary situation:
At noon to-day tbe temperature in the
sun was higher than any previous day
this winter. The effect oi the *0111111116
upon the accumulation of ashes, garbage,
and filth in the streets is readily percepti
ble to any one who will dare venture into
tbe fourth and sixth wards. The air in
this part of tbe city was heavy with mias
matic odors. The streets where there ia
an accumulation of filth and garbage are
simply indescribable. About the road
ways were strewn garbage, decaying vege
tables and tbe vilest refute. In many
business streets down town tbe occupants
of the store* have engaged men to break
up the Ice and snow ana pile it in heaps
along Chatham street. Tbe Horse Car
Company baa men breaking up mounds of
ice and snow and carrying it to tbe scows
of tbe street cleaning department. There
was a jam of tracks and carts on tbe west
tide streets below Canal street, and many
truckmen were compelled to wait in line
four or five boors before they oculd ship
goods. Cam on all surface roads aro
greatly delayed.
br. Muhlenberg
The Dayton (Ohio) Journal concludes
a long biographical sketch of Dr. Muhlen
berg with the following poem, which
was subsequently modified into the r<L.
lar hymn, “I wonld not live alwayas it
originally appeared:
Oh™?™ 1 JfrJfcWr*- alway below;
Oh, no, IU not linger when bidden to go;
^ here 8 ° f 0ar piIffrimr, e e granted 113
Ar0 ite°ch^r f - 0r Uf °’ 8 w * e * fnU «*»«*> for
®T5iS§S|“•*»
Apostles, and martyrs, so joyfally trod?
Like a spirit uablest o’er the earth would I
roam,
While brothers and friends are all hasten
ing home ?
I would not live alway—I ask not to stay.
Where storm after storm rises dark o’ertho
way?
Where, seeking for rest, we but hover
around,
Dike the jintriareh’s bird, and no resting 13
Where hope, when she paints her gay bow
in the air.
Leaves its radianoe to fade in the night of
despair.
And joy’s fleeting angel ne’er sheds a
glad ray,
Save tho gleam of the plumage that bears
. : . him away.
I wonld not live alway—thus fettered by
sin, . .
Temptation without and corruption with-
_ ia; ’ ,
In a moment of strength if I sever tho
chain,
Scarce the victory is mino ere I’m captivo
again;
E’en the rapture of pardon is mingled with
fears,
And tho cap of thanksgiving with penitent
tears,
The festival trump calls for jnbilant songs,
Bnt my spirit her own miserere prolongs.
I would not live alway—no, welcome tho
tomb;
Since. Jesns has Lain there, I dread not its
gloom,
Where ho deigned to sleep, Pll too bow my
head,
All peaceful to slumber on that hallowed
Then the glorious daybreak to follow that
night,
The orient gleam of tho angels of light,
With their clarion call for tho sleepers to
rise
And chant forth their matins, away to tho
sides.
Who would live alway away from his God,
Away from yon heaven, that blissful abode,
Where the nvers of pleasure flow o’er tho
bright plains,
And the noontide of glory eternally reigns;
Where the saints of all ages in harmony
meet
Their Savior and brothers, transported to
greet,
While the songs of salvation exnltingly
roll,
And the smile of tho Lord i3 tho feast of
the soul?
That heavenly mnsic! What is it I hear!
The notes of the harper ring sweet in mine
earl
And see. soft unfolding those portals of
gold,
The King all arrayed in his beanty behold 1
O, give me: O, givo me the wings of a dove, *
To adore Him, be near him, enraptin his
lore;
I bat wait the summons, I list for tho
word—
Alleluia—Amen—evermore with tho Lord
New Orleans Is under water, New
York is under rand, Toledo is cut into by
an overflown river, St. Louis is frozen up,
Chicago is cut off from communication
with the most of the world, but Hayes is
going out of office in a few weeks, and
the country is happy.—Globe-Democrat.
Tho country feels that it is by no means
likely to gain by tbe substitution of Gar
field for Hayes. Tbe latter is a small
man, but, unlike Grant, he was guilty of
no assault on the fundamental rights of
States and peoples. He did not organize
legislatures with cannon, bayonet aud
mitrailleuse. It is promised that Garfield
will be moderate and conservative, also
but tliat is yet to be shown.
Rice in Florida.—A Nassau county
correspondent of the Jacksonville Union
is oi opinion that upland rice is going to
be the great crop of East Florida, as he
found It produces abundantly ou tho
ligbt sandy soil of that region, and can be
sown after the nee birds have taken their
departure northward, and mature after
the same birds disappear in the fall,
yielding a product far in excess of corn.
He says there are good rice mills already
in Jacksonville, and suggests that they
pack the cleaned rice in barrels of 200
pounds each, Instead of the old-fashioned
tierce of700 or 800 pounds.
The Northern Pacific Railroad has
land granted by the government to the
extent of 58,000,000 of acres, valued at
$100,000,000. Tbe road, it is estimated,
will cost $75,000,000, leaving a surplus to
the company of the people’s land equal
in value to $25,000,000, and yet tho gov
ernment cannot afford to keep tbe Mis
sissippi river open nor to aid the States in
the matter of education, nor indeed give
us reliable mails.
The Philadelphia Record make* a
plea for Philadelphia, and says that $1
goes as far iu governing that city as $24 in
New York. The cost per capita In Philadel
phia is $S,‘ St. Louis S8.S0; Baltimore
$11.80; Chicago $13; Boston $22, and in
New York, with its million of inhabi
tants, is $24. The rate of taxation in
Philadelphia is $1.95; New York $2.53,
Chicago $3.20.
Traveling “Journalists.”—The no
tion that a man can best discharge tbe da
lles ot a so-called “journalist” while spin
ning away on a railroad car on a free
ticket, has this basis, that the situation
places him over sixteen journals, revolving
at furious speed, which makes him feel
that be is a master of journals, aud there
fore a journalist.
Whether General Arthur, tb# VM
President-elect, is eligible or ineligible i3
a question. 'The Senate has had the iub-
ject referred to a committee to ascertain
the tacts, and remove tbe doubt. Tbe
National Republican tries to explain tbe
matter, and perhaps does so very satisfy
torlly, by saying that “it is a bold, bad
lie.”
Peter Cooper passed tbe ninetieth
anniversary of his birth last Saturday
and sent another ten thousand doll*?
check in aid of poor atudents of tbe Coop
er Institute. Also another donation ol
$30,000 to the Union, and receipted ac
counts showing that he had spent $70,Odd
in improvements upon and, additions w
the Cooper Union building.
Spkakixo, In a recent lecture, of IW' -
schel’a discovery that tbe sun is rapi^f
moving toward a point In tbe com* 4 ”
lation of Hercules, Prof. Ball, tbe aste'0-
oi&er royal lor Ireland, told bis audieoc*
that at the end of tbe lecture they wool
be 5,000 miles nearer.. It than they
at tbe beginning.
The New Orleans Lima—In New <>
leans last Monday at the meeting , J
the eanitary association, Gen. Bussey *t*
that the city authorities had taken W"
ievee matter ia hand, and therefore . j
farther action was neueroary. Mayor So** 1
speare said a large force would be pot ,
work on. the levees to-morrow, and uo *w
prehension need be felt, the Mw“*"j|
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