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WASHINGTON
THE PROLONGED CABINET MEETING
Tilt Southern Qaestion Under Consideration.
Washington, March 31.—Di!igetft
inquiry is no more wwoessful this
morning than last night in obtain
ing a report oT yesterday’s Cabinet
proceedings. The reports published
are guesses.
The Baltimore American places
Schurz and Key in favor of the with
drawal of troops; Sherman opposed
to: present action supported by
Thompson and McCrary.
The American concludes: “Summed
up in a nutshell, the Southern policy
of the President was endorsed as a
sentiment, but postponed as a prac
ticality.”
The American thinks a commission
probable and consistent.
It may be stated that New York
brokers venture no report of Cabinet
proceedings.
The Cabinet met this morning at
ten o’clock, and continues in session.
The Southern question is under con
sideration, but there are no intima
tions that a decision will be reached
to-day.
Two o’clock.— Cabinet still in ses
sion. It has transpired that no ac
tion was taken yesterday, or any in
formal proceeding had, which justi
fied the grouping of the Cabinet. It
seems most likely that some device
wittbefound to break the promise of
early quiet in Louisiana and South
Carolina. Speculation is baffled.
A COMMISSION TO UK SMI :
The Cabinet decided to send u
commission to Louisiana.
It is apprehended the coroner will
bathe, rtyaet important witness.
Tbe Cabinet after deciding to send
a CdtnncffSstSfi *to Louisiana aud
meantime to maintain the status quo,
adjourned to fiveo.’elock, when South
Carolina was considered. Whether
she shared tlhe'fate of Louisiana has
not yet transpired.
OTHER WASHINGTON NEWS.
The extra session of Congress will
convene Monday June 4.
The Supreme Court of the District
decides that certificates for special
improvement tax, by the board of
public works were issued without
warrant of law.
A summons to answer for false im
prisonment of Thos. Biggins, alleged
lunatic, was served’on Gen. Grant
to-day. Biggins claims SIOO,OOO.
The Agricultural Department gives
notice that the issue of seeds for this
season has closed.
Senator Christiancy will not have
the Mexican mission.
tJohn Simms, colored, appointed
steward at the White House, has
given bonds for $20,000.
Tbe Chesapeake and Ohio canal
has opened.
The Cabinet adjourned without
taking up South Carolina. The Pres
ident was weary. The Cabinet may
iot reassemble before Friday,
The decision to send a commission
to Louisiana fs definite, aiid was
made without a, division. It may be
received as a unanimous acqules
eeace in, or submission to, the Presi
dent’s views. It is his policy. The
composition of the commission is en
tirely conjectural, beyond Wheeler,
who desires to be excused on account
of health ; and Senator Davis, of 111.,
who pleads business. No other per
sons have been mentioned by the
President, and so far the members of
the Cabinet have not presumed to
give their wishes voice.
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*-A EY Y 4 II I.AW IN (IKUIUjIA
o’H#n£N'SfMUttDEttl -E HAN'iEJ).
Augusta, Ga., March 21.—Edward
Wells, the negro who murdered Win.
O’Brien in Burke pouDty, was taken
from jafl at Waynesboro last night
and lynched by a crowd of unknown
men. Wells confessed that he mur
dered O’briea to obtain possession of
his goods and money. The remains
of O’Brien were interred here yester
day. _
Packard’* Lfti’lutarc *<-craned.
New Orleans, March 21.-Senator
Demos, colored, who has been acting
with the Nicholls Legislature took
his seat In the Packard Senate tfrii
morning, completing, it is claimed a
quorum ia both Houses. The extra
SeEitort of the Legislature has been
extended.
'Pbr (Mtytfctt ■ Sfeceriees Provisisns
(ftaiti.'dSe., lit M roc k*-Wottom,’ - prices call
on J. H. Hamilton.
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NEW ORLEANS.
ALL QIJET..ARREST OF MORE OF
PAfKAIIU'N TOOLS*.
\--i .ii.
New Orleans, March 20.—Midnight
—The city is very quiet. There has
been no hostile demonstrations,f£Qin
any qtfirtoJ*, A chuffiot invohieg
loss of life is now regarded Improba
ble.
The Nicholls police to-day arrested
foilrnaore of Packard’s recruiting of
ficers. They were imprisoned
charged with treason.
TELEGKAPUIIV MAMMARY.
New York—A. Oakley Hall, (for
mer Mayor), has been missing since
Saturday. No trace.
Beaver City, U. T.—Preparations
are progressing for the execution of
Lee. Companies of trooi* will be
present. ‘ * 1 ' •• * • iv -
Pottsville, Pa.—John Lindev
nerth, missing sine the 10th, found
frozen in Flowery Field.
Colo mbits, O. Matthews elected.
Norfolk—)The Mariposa arrived
from Mutanzaa, was ordered to Phil
adelphia.
Harrisburg—Don Cameron elect
ed U. S. Senator.
London—The Lincolnshire handi
cap was won by Footstep; second,
Powiseavant; third, Lord Lincoln.
A speeiul dispatch from Rome to
the News announces that Monsignor
Nardi, Auditor of the Sacred Kata, is
dying.
Rome—llev. John Moon? has been
appointed Bisbop of St. Augustine,
Fla.
Albany, N. Y.—The Senate passed
a bill allowing women to hold office
on the School Board.
Albany, N. Y.—TheSeuate rejected
the nomination of Gen. McLellan
as Superintendent, of Public Works.
Indianapolis—A man entered the
National Bank, and stepping on a
box which he had carried in, reached
over the counter aud grabbed three
thousand dollars. He escaped.
Berlin—ln the Reichstag to-day,
the bill fixing Leipzig as the seat of
the Imperial Court of Germany was
adopted.
THE EASTERN QUESTION.
NITt ATISV ISWAnSI'ACTORY.
London, March 21.—The situation
is unsatisfactory. The Post points
out that if England signs the proto
col, her first duty will be to ask the
Porte to disarm, and the Turks would
certainly refuse to do so while the]
Russian troops remain on the fron
tier. England would thus be placed
in a painfully ridiculous position.
Tbe Pall Mall Qazetle, after review
ing this morning's dispatches on the
Eastern question, concludes as fol
lows: We invite our readers not to
despair but to suspend their hopes. It
is safest to have no feelings of confi
dence yet awhile.
Ship NfW*.
New York, March 20.—Arrived: An
des.
Arrived out: Adriana, Petronetta, Rock
wood, Uarald, Haorferger, Presto, Towy,
Lord Clive, Spain, State of Indiana.
Homeward: Banqueran, Bull River,
Chas. Postee, Port Royal, Pride of the
East, Nellie Carr, Ida M. Eldridge, Wil
mington ; Carrie E. Woodbury, Port Roy
al; Ohio, Philadelphia.
WAITSEK INDICATION!.
War Department, |
Office of Chief Sional Officer, j-
Washington, March 22, 1877. )
For the South Atlantic States:
light rains, followed by clearing
weather, winds shifting to northeast
erly and northwesterly during the
night, with rising barometer, and
slight fall in temperuture.
Cautionary siguais continued at
Wilmington, SmithvUle, Capes Look
out and Hatteras, Kitty Hawk, Nor
folk Capes Henry and May, Atlantic
City, Baruegat, Sandy Hook, New
York, New Haven, New London,
Newport, Wood’s Hale, Bostoh,
Thatcher’s Island, Portland and
Eastpoot.
Dr. N. Colin,
Oculist Optician, formerly of Vienna, Aus
tria, takes pleasure in informing the cit
izens of Columbus nnd vicinity that he
hits arrived here a few days ago, and is
stopping at the Rankin House for several
days; where he represents his world re
nowned Brazilian and Australian Crystal
Spectacles.
His Spectacles have been tested and
recommended by Dr. Terry of this place
and by several other physicians, and are
warranted to give satisfaction. Special
calls made within the city if desired
without extra charge.
Very Respectfully,
Du. S. C6hn.
Bxlo Windows for 12 %a per light glazed
and other sizes in proportion.
Four Panel Doors for $1.60 and up
wards.
jal4 tf Willingham A Cos.
Need Oats.
Large lot Choice Spring Oats; just re
ceived by
ja2s dtfAwlt J. H. Hamilton.
A Card.
To all who are suffering from the er
rors and indiscretions of youth, nervous
weakness, early decay, loss of manhood,
Ac., I will send a receipe that will cure
ydtr; FREE OF CHARGE. This- great
remedy was discovered by a missionary
in South America. Send a self-addressed
envelope to the Rev. Joseph T. Inman,
Station D, Bible House, New York City.
feb9 6m
COLUMBUS. GA., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 187
BEFORE THE CABINET MEETING.
lIOW HAYES TALKED.
Nil DriiiorratK to Urt ODlre,
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AN WCTRA fIFSMON OP OONCVIIEHH tiOON
TO fcih OHDKIUO).
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Special to N. O. Democrat.)
Washington, March U).—Louisiana
is yet the chief topic of conversation
here, preparatory to tho Cabinet.
meeting to-morrow, whioh it is
thought, will untangle your Gordian
knot and determine the fate of Lou
isiana for tho next four years, at
least.
The President has talked quite
freely on the subject of the South
to-day. He did not hesitate to ridi
cule Packard’s bombastic reply to
Stanley Matthews’ letter, wherein he
speaks of protecting the 76,000 voters
that had supported him (Packard! ;
lie thinks that he (Hayes) is in a
condition to protect these persons, if
they need any protection, just as
well as Packard. He even iiinted
that the Republican party of Louisi
ana bad never shown itself very
prompt to protect, the lives of its
supporters, and generally called on
the General Government to do this
work for them.
Great surprise lias been shown by
some of the Democratic Senators ami
Congressmen at the rule to be fol
lowed in the matter of appointments ;
they believed that, underthe declara
tion made by Hayes in his inaugural
speech that partisan service would
no longer entitle a man to office,
Democrats would have just as much
show iu the appointments as Repub
licans. Several of them, therefore,
believing this to be the meauirig of
the President’s speech, made appli
cation for appointments for friends.
The answer to these applications has
been, in all cases, a decided refusal,
and a declaration that there would
be no changes in the present officials
for some time, aud that even when
these changes were made, Republi
cans would, iu all cases, have tlie
preference. In the Post Office De
partment, in particular, this will be
tbe case.
Tyner, who i9 Morton’s man, is to
have tlie patronage of all the North
ern post-offices, while Key, the figure
head of tho concern, who takes
charge of the Southern department,
although no Republican himself, will
give offices to Democrats only when
no Republicans can be found to take
them. A great many Republicans,
who are not ardent politicians, ap
pear to regret this action, as they
fondly expected civil service reform
under Hayes. As it now is. Morton
will control at least two-thirds of the
Post-Office and all the Navy patron
age. and thus be able to keep to
gether his bloody-shirt party, that
showed only last week symptoms of
disintegration and breaking up.
The Republicans have definitely
concluded on an extra session, and
will get the Attorney General to re
port that this is absolutely necessary
under the constitution, aud that tbe
Government cannot run some thirty
millions in debt for the.payment of
the army. This action is taken by
them in consequence of the New
Hampshire election and their belief
that they can now, by combinations
with some of the Democrats, elect
some Conservative Republican
Speaker. The House now stauds by
ttio latest counts, 149 Democrats to
144 Republicans. The Republicans
think that iu the present condition
of affairs, nnd particularly of Louisi
ana and South Carolina, they can
win enough Democratic votes to the
support of Foster, who is one of the
most earnest champions of the Nich
olls government, to elect him Speak
er. They will, consequently, look
around them, aud if they see any
show of success, order an extra ses
sion at onee.
NIMOX I AMEIIU.VS PI.KA.
AND THE WIDOW OEIVER’S INDIGNANT
ANSWER —NOT A WOMAN TO BE TItIELED
WITH.
Washington, March 16.— Mrs. Oli
ver’s attorneys to-day filed a rejdi
cation to Simon Cameron’s recent
plea in her fifty thousand dollar
breach of promise suit. The plea is
very brief, reading as follows: “And
now comes the defendant, and for
plea to the declaration filed against
him in the above entitled cause,”
The plaintiff was shown this in the
office of her attorneys this morning,
and she exclaimed indignantly. “He
says he never promised, does he, the
deceitful old rouge. I’ll show him
whether he promised as alleged, and
I’ll show him, further, that I’am hot
a woman to be trifled with by any
such an old scamp as he is.” The
lady was advised by her counsellors
to hold her tongue, which she did,
after getting in an energetic last
word at the expense of the Winne
bago Chief. Mr. Cameron’s plea was
submitted without being sworn to,
and was signed by his attorneys, W.
A. Cook and A. G. Riddle, which
saved Simon from an unpleasant
charge of perjury, if Mrs. Oliver
should prove that he had promised,
and then lied about it. Cameron’s
lawyers will probably keep postpon
ing the case for some time to come.
A Puzzled Medicai, Student.— A
young student of a medical college in this
city recently purchased a corpse to the
end that he might secure a skeleton. At-1
ter cutting off the flesh, he put the bones
in a sack and took them to his room to
boil, clean and scrape, lie had got a por
tion of them completed and then put the
leg bones in the pot to boil. A couple of
wags, who knew what was going on, got
two leg bones of a sheep, and while one
of them took the youthful E-culapius out,
to get a glass of lager, the other put the
sheep bones in the pot with the human
bones, and then left. A day or two after
wards, when the student took the bones
out to scrape, he was astonished, but
could not account for the extra ones
However, he cleaned them all up, and for
the last two weeks has been trying to
find out where they fit on to the human
leg bones.—(Hobe- Democrat.
A Georgia woman has invented a new'
system for cutting ladies’ dresses, and as
by this system a calico dress can be get
out of twenty-seven yards, it is rapidly
growing in favor with those classes of the
non-voting population who put tlgßir
olotiies on over their heads.
MANMAiIIE OF THE ALAMO.
I ONK OK SANTA ANNa’b SOLDIERS TM.LS
TftF. STORY OF THAT BLOODY DAY
NEW STATEMENT REGARDING TBE
1 DYING MOMENTS OE THE FA
MOUS TEXAN LEADERS.
j From New York World.)
San Antonio, Tex., March 9.—The
I completion of a ‘railway, by a Bos-
I lonian, ftom Houston, 200 miles, to
1 San AutCnio, in Southwestern Texas,
i lias invested with fresh interest the
| memories of this ancient capital coe*
! val with Philadelphia. Everywhere,
in every city and hamlet of the
United States, tho play entitled,
“The Alamo; or, Death of David
Crockett,’’has appealed to tho pas- 1
sious of tho multitude. Wbeu this i
railway was finished last week I
went with a great throng to San Au
tonio aud gathered the facts here
detailed which give the Mexican
aspect of t ho old familiar story.
The recital, as given, is a transla- 1
tiou by Col. Ford, commonly kuown
as “Old Rip,” a frontier member oi l
the Texas Seuate. The old Mexi-1
can soldier, the raconteur, is named I
Francisco Buerra, born in Guanaju
ato ill 1810. Ho became a soldier in
1828, was of the army that stormed
the Alamo iu 1836, aud was captured I
by the Texans at San Jacinto. He j
became a citizen of Texas, served in
tbe war of 1846 7 against his native j
couutry, and iu the Confederate army
in the war between the States. He is
uow an honored and aged eitizeu of
Brownsville, aud his recital of facts,
as seen by a Mexican at the storming
of the Alamo, has peculiar value
in the eyes of your Southwestern I
readers.
Santa Anna was joined at Laredo, 1
where lie crossed tlie Rio Graude, by
Gen. Cos, who, in violation of the
terms of hia recent surrender at San
Antonio, was forced to join Santa An
na and return into Texas. The move
ments of the Mexican army were
greatly retarded by fires on the prai
ries, which rendered the horses of the
whole force almost useless. Deaf
Smith, a famous Texan scout, was the
author of this mischief. Santa Anna
halted a day at Medina, where he was
met by Seuor Novarro and a priest,
who gave the General accurate
information as to the strength—
which was two hundred and sixty
eight men in the Alamo-of the
Americans in San Antonio. Asudden
rain storm and “norther” made tho
river impassable, aud a forced inarch
and immediate assault impossible.
Next day lie resumed the march,
Gen. Mora in advance, with orders
to seize the mission of tlie Concep
tion, a massive stone structure deem
ed by Santa Anna a more defensible
stronghold than the Alamo. A can
non shot was fired when the head of
the advancing column reached the
cemetery. The town was not defend
ed. and Col. Mora was ordered to
take a position north and east of the
Alamo to prevent the escape of the
garrison. This was late in February,
1836. Santa Alina led 4,000 men, and
awaited the coming of Gen. Taiza
with 2,000 more. A battalion crossed
tlie San Antonio river and took pos
session of houses below the Alamo
to build a bridge across the river.
Thirty men of two companies sent
the next next day to make a reoon
uoissance were killed. A light earth
work was thrown up above tlie
Alamo. The firing from tho fort,
now invested on every side, was
ceaseless. An earth work nearer the
fort was constructed at night. On
the 3d day of March Gen. Taiza ar
rived, and tho plan of assault was de
fined and made known to the di
vision commanders. On the ,9th
March scaling ladders were distrib
uted. At, 3 o’clock on tbe morning
oT the 6th, ever memorable in Texan
song and story, the battalion Mata
inoras was moved to a point near the
river and above the Alamo.
They Were supported by 2,000 men
under Gen. Cos, this wing of the ar
my being commanded by Gen. Oas
trillon, Gen. Taiza leading that be
low the Alamo. Santa Anua spent
the night in the earthworks near the
Alamo. The whole force was to
move silently upon the fortress at
the bugle sound, and not to fire till
in the trenches of the Texans. The
bugle was heard at 4 o’clock. Gen.
Castrillon’s division, after half an
hour’s desperate fighting, and after
repeated repulses and unheard of
losses, succeded in effecting an en
trance in the upper part of the Alamo
in a sort of outwork, now courtyard.
The flghtiug had only (begun. The
doors and windows of the Alamo
building were barricaded and guard
ed by bags of sand heaped upas high
as a man’s shoulders, and on the
roof were rows of sand-bags, behind
which the Texans fought as men
never fought before—muzzle to muz
zle, hand to hand. Each Texan riile
shot exhausted its force and spent
itself in successive bodies of Mexi
cans packed together like a wall of
flesh. Muskets and rifles were dub
bed, and bayonets and bowie
knives never wrought such fearful
carnage.
The ceaseless crash of firearms,
the shouts of the defiant, desperate
beleagured Texans, tbe shrieks of the
dying, made the din infernal and the
scene indescribable in its sublime
terrors. Each room in the building
was the scene of a desperate strug
gle with fearless men driven to des
peration and conscious that escape
was impossibe. They fought even
when stricken down, and when dy
iug still struggled, not with death,
but to Slav Mexicans. In tho long
room, used as a hospital, the sick and
wounded fired pistols and rifles from
their pallets. A piece of artillery,
j supposed to be that which Crockett
I had used during the siege, was shot
ted with grape and canister, and
I turned upon the desperate occupants
j of this apartment.
After the explosion, tho Mexicans
j entered and found the emaciated
I bodies of fourteen men torn and rent
I and blackened and bloody. Forty-
I two dead Mexicans lay at the door-
I way of this room. Bowie, whose
name tells of his fearful knife and
deeds, lay stark and stiff on a cot in
this room. He was helpless and in
bed when the place was invested ten
days before.
Eleven Texans fired with terrible
effect from thereof of the building,
! where they used three or four field
pieces, which they charged with
| nails and pieces of iron. Biierra, like
all others, gives his peculiar version
I of che story that recounts the facts
i affecting tne death of Travis and
I Crockett. These two were found liv
l ing, yet exhausted by death-dealing,
i and lying among the dead.
When Travis was discovered he
, gave a Mexican gold, and, while con-
versiHg with him, Gen. Cos, witli
whom Travis had deult most gener
ously when San Antonio was captur
ed by tho Americans, ap|>eared, Cos
embraced Travis, and ituluoed other
officers tp join him *U askiug Santa
Anna to sparo Travis’ life. Tho
President-General sternly refused.
Then Crockett, from among the
corpses, stood up, utterly exhausted
by weary, sleepless days and nights,
and by five hours constant fighting.
Mania Anna was enraged beyond
measure that his orders were not ex
ecuted. lie directed tho soldiers near
him to fire on tho two Texans.
Trails was shot first in the back. Ho
folded his arms across his breast, and
stood stiffly erect until ja bullet
pierced his neck. Ho fell upon his
race, while Crockett's body was'rid
dled with bullets. Tho corpses of
2,000 Mexicans were buried those of
the dead Americans were gathered
and burned, a holocaust whose fires
lighted the way to Texan freedom.
I havo given taithflriy the Mexican
version of this fearful story, ami
hereafter will give that of the only
American survivor, ail aged woman
who lives in Austiti.
ATUXTIt: WTEA.MKK*.
some INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THEM
—the Great lines and their
TRAFFIC.
From tkeLoudou Times,]
It is not yet half a century since
the commercial community of Liver
pool were seriously assured by one
of no small authority in his time that
the project then on foot among them
for direct voyages to and from New
York was, owiug to the distauce of
uninterrupted ocean, altogether chi
merical, and as little likely ofaccom
plishmeni as would boa scheme for
going to the moon. Tne first con
tract with the British Government
for tho conveyance of the American
mails by steamships dates only to
1838, when Messrs. Cunard, Burns
& Go. engaged to supply three steam
ers for the performance of two voy
ages monthly. So rapidly has tne
enterprise developed, that from the
Mersey alone to say nothing of the
Clyde, to which the Anchor and
State lines belong, ten distinct fleets
are now sailing, comprising ovor a
hundred steam vessels from 2,000 to
5,000 tons, and carrying in some cases
as many asl,sooand I,7oopassengers,
in addition to their large crews and
cargo to the extent of hundreds of
tons. Of the fleets the vessels of five
go to tlie port of New York alone,
two go to Boston, and two to Phila
delphia; and one line, the Allan, is
devoted to the Canadian trade, in
which it lias eighteen vessels employ
ed, varying from 1,500 to 4,000 tons.
The developement of the traffic is an
interesting history, involving tri
umphs of skill and enterprise that
have made the journey across the
Atlantic a much less serious and
(iisagreeable undertaking than a
few years ago was a trip across the
Channel.
One of the oldest of t hese Atlantic
companies, and the most famous next
to the Cunard Line, is that bearing
the name of Mr. William Inman,
known originally as the Liverpool &
Philadelphia Steamship Company,
and now trading as the Inman Steam
ship Company (limited.) origi
nal name serves to recall the circum
stances of the company’s origin and
the early prospects ol the Atlantic
traffic; It was in 1850 that the first
Inman steamer, the City of Glasgow,
a vessel of 1,600 tons aud 350 horse
power, went out, and she was sent,
uot to New York, but to Philadel
phia. The former place was already
the port of arrival for the Cunard
fleet, now consisting of twelve Clyde
built steamers, varying from 1,100 to
2,200 tons, and, not to seem too bold
in their competition, the Company
sent their new steamer to Philadel
phia. A few years’ experience, how
ever, sufficed to give courage to the
competition, and in 1857 the Inman
steamers went also to New York. To
the original steamer, City of Glas
gow, there had now been added three
other vessels -Citv of Baltimore,Kan
garoo and City of Washington; and
in 1860 came the City of New York,
of about 2,200 tons and 350 horse
power, at which date the service of
the company’s steamers became a
weekly one, to be increased in 1863 to
three times a fortnight, and ulti
mately to once, and occasionally
during the summer months to twice
a week. The fleet at the present time
consists of thirteen vessels, varying
in gross tonage from 2,536 to 5,490,
and in nominal horse-power from 250
to 1,000. Of the number, four have
been built within the last five years,
the three latest —the City of Chester,
the City of Richmond and the City of
Berlin—being among the largest and
finest merchant vessels afloat. Tho
City of Berlin, the latest addition to
the fleet, is surpassed in size by the
Great Eastern alone, and in addition
to her great carrying capacity she has
now indispensable merit of speed her
average passages out to New York
being 8 days, 11 hoursaud 37 minutes,
aud homeward, 8 days, 4 hours and
and 44 minutes. It was the City of
Brussels, however—which vessels has
just undergone her trial with new en
gines, of which we havo presently to
speak—that iu her trial made the
fastest run yet recorded between
New York and Liverpool—viz, 7 days,
20hoursand33minur.es. The short
ness of time to which the Inman
steamers tiave reduced the passage
across the Atlantic was conspicuous
ly shown by the voyage in 1869, of
Prince Arthur, who attended service
at Queenstown on the Sunday morn
ing of his departure, and was landed
at Halifax in time to attend morning
service at that place on the Sunday
following.
Briefly stated, the company during
tbe twenty-five years of its opera
tions has carried between the two
countries something like a million
passengers. It is the emigrant or
Rteerage traffic to which it has from
the first applied itself, and but for
tho official emigration returns it
wouid be Impossible to realize the
extent of the service it has rendered.
Mr. Lindsay, in his “History of Mer
chant'Shlppiog,” records that in 1856
arid 1857, when the sailing to New
York began, the Inman Company
conveyed in tborirstearnera 85,000 pas
sengers to- and from the United
States of the America, or about one
third of all the persons who: crossed
‘ the Atlantic during those two years.
1 How the service to emigrants, has
I continued will be seen ftom the {6l
- lowing official returns of those land
-1 ed in New York for the year 1870:
Line, Trips. Cabin. Iftt'iagr. Total.
lnimu N.IUS 40,465 44.100
National Ml 2.442 22.424 26.132
Union 66 1.116 27.054 22.663
Auohor . ... ..74 1 6.17 23.404 26.041
cunard 70 7.0113 12,371 24.600
Since the year for which these re
turns are given, the new White Star
fleet of Messrs. Ismay, Itnrie A Cos.
has come into competition with those
named, and by means of its exoellent
new vessels and its energetic mana
gement lias already thoroughly es-j
tablished its place on the Atlantic;
but with this increased rivalry to I
contend against, the Inman Com
pany carried in 1873 as many as 50,-
000 emigrants. With these figures,
the story of Atlßutic prosperity for 1
the present ceases, emigration during
the last three years having dimin
ished to something like a fifth of tbe [
enormous returns just quoted; so j
that during the past. Winter the
weekly voyages of the ootnpa- 1
nies wore not iu all cases maintained. I
Tbe unfailing supplies Of provisions
to thb English market, from Amer-i
ioa have served during the stagnant I
period to preserve homeward freights i
pretty well; but, as the Board of i
Trade returns havo been noxt to nil.
Iron, that could always be depended I
as profitable ballast, has not been j
forwarded, and the steamers, falling
back upon salt, carry this at rates
which show the necessity under [
whioh it is taken. This, to those:
who know the oust of maintaining!
the Atlanta steam service has proved
auytbiug but encouraging, and the {
improvement looked for at the com- I
mencement of the present year is as
ybt scarcely visible. Nevertheless,
the enterprise that has found so
much to reward it in the past is con
tent for the moment to sustain itself
upon hope, and ship-building and
ship improvments go on with un
daunted vigor. The dullness of the
times is taken advantage of for pre
paring the leviathan vessels for
greater service until fleets steadily
outgrow themselves beyond the re
cognition almost of their owners.
The other day the City of Brussels, of
the Inman line, steamed out of the Mersey
on a trial trip to lest appliances which are
the latest illustration of the changes and
improvements which the Atlantic Heels of
Liverpool are undergoing. This famous
vessel came upon the line only in 1869,
and was then the most approved vessel for
the service which skill could devise —the
“crack” ship ot the day. She was a vessel
of 3,747 tons and of 800-horse power, and
her voyages have distiguished her as one
of tlie best goers on the Atlantic. Seven
years, however, have sufficed to prove her
machinery antiquated and too cumbersome
for successful competition in the changed
conditions of the trade. Vessels that have
left her wholly in the distance as to both
size and capacity have been placed above
her in the catalogue of the Company’s
fleet, and those that were her sister ships
in her own or other lines either share what
wore her juvenile but positive infirmities,
or have undergone renovation with her.
The Company’s first vessel, tlie City of
Glasgow, of twenty-five years of age, was
one ot 1,600 tons and 350-horse power.
Their newest, the City of Berlin, has a
gross tonnage of 5,490 and 1,000 nominal
horse power. She measures 520 feet in
length over all, has four decks and a
moulded width of 44 leet. These dimen
sions gave her accommodation for 1,700
passengers ami a crew of 150. Her two
immediate predecessors on the line, the
City of Chester and the City of Richmond
—both added in 1878, a year after the City
of Montreal —are scarcely inferior to her
in size, and no less complete and admira
ble iu their appointments. The City of
Brussels has not fallen short of these noble
vessels in seaworthiness and speed; on the
contrary, as wc have said, she has been
one of the Company’s '‘crack” vessels,
particularly comfortable and steady in her
sailing/and all that passengers could them
selves desire. But Atlantic ijners must
run for profit as well as for renown; aud
while the City of Brussels and sister ships
have been altogether doing well for the
public, progress in engineering skill has
found a way for making them more pro
fitable to their owners, while at the same
time they are rendered still better rather
than worse for those sailing in them. The
great requirements for the existing Atlan
tic trade are the maximum of carrying
capacity; and while a fair amount of
speed has been obtained by engines like
those of 7869, placed by Tod A Macgregor
in tbe City of Brussels, the space required
for them and the coal consumed have
been a serious cncioachment upon the
ship’s capacity for cargo. Therefore to
be fully armed for competition, tlie trunk
engines have been exchanged for the mod
ern double cylinder compound engiues of
Messrs George Forrester & Cos., by which
coals are saved up to the amount of 40 or
50 tons a days—the space obtained by
which added to that acquired by the re
duccd size ot engines, gives additional
capacity for cargo of something like 800
tons. The average consumption of coal
by this single vessel, the City of Brussels,
has been from 110 to 115 tons; by the
replacement of engines she will consume
not more than about 65 tons.
Applying himself primarily to the mi
gration traffic, Mr. Inman was the first
ship-owner to send an Iron screw steam
er across the Atlantic, and the success
of the experiment was a bright day for
poor emigrants, who previously had been
doomed to sailing ship and miseries that
can hardly be described. Many were
those who shook their heads when the
City of Glasgow set oth on her first voy
age, screw-propelled, in mid-winter, when
the condition of the Atlantic is perilous
in the extreme; but the founder of the In
man line had faith in his own prognosti
cations, and from being regarded as a des
perate adventurer he has become the rec
ognized pioneer of a liberal enterprise,
from which thousands of struggling fami
lies, driven to souk their fortune over the
seas, hare been benefited,.in- a manner
that will compare with any of the great
improvements oi modern times.
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