The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-15
GENERALITIES.
Eastern Grandiloauence.

M. Lesseps, of the Suez Canal, has been sending.
invitations to all the pOtentates OF the earth Among
others was the Sultan of Zanzibar whose letter OF
acceptance thus opens:--
SIN the name of the merciful God -
"The most exquisite news which the soul can de-
sire, the most delicious mystery which delight
the heart it is the invitation more delicate than the
zephyr of the morning, more gentle than the dew
which falls upon the verdure Of the fields, from him
who combines generosity with perfection, who unites
and iron tho1ghts president of the universal canal
of Suez, having the lrst-ClasS imperial Medjdi
decoration, Ferdinand de Lesseps to whose days
evil" ''''' "'' ''''0''' anu pi'''''' -''"' Ill
The Dnricn Canal.
The project Of uniting the two oceans by a cut
across the Isthmus OF Daren is not a new or a
modern one. In 1928 q route for q canal was eXa-
mined by two Flemish engineers, by the orders OF
Philip III of Spain, but finding inSuperable dilfcu-
ties, the project was abandoned. In England the
project was revived in the latter part of the
teenth century. In 1926, Domingo Lopez of New
Granada, explored route for a canal forty-four
miles in length between Panama and Portobello.
Another survey was made in 1927, under the orders
Of General Bolivar, by two English engineers Lloyd
and Falmark, who concluded their abOrs in 1929.
The only result of their abors was proving the pos
sbility of either canal railroad between Panama
and Chagres. In 1s43 the French Government sent
out MN. Garella and Courtines to make eXplora-
under the dividing ridge of the Ahogayegua by a
tunnel 1875 feet high from water level and 1870 feet
long.
A Sudden Going on.
The lower portion of the city, says the Augusta
C0,istitutiOnaliSt of the 5th instant was somewhat
COnNllSeu Yesterday morning WIN Gne report THAT
two daughters of Mrs. Hubbard-Matte and Bet
tie-had candestiney elOped, one of them with a
vvacious and sprightly youth of some sixteen sum-
mers, famiary known as Johnny Moore, of
Captain Thomas N. Philpot, and the other with an
unknown individual. 1t is currently reported that
the progressive Johnny had plumed himself with
sufllciency of finance from the pockets OF his
suspecting governor" to make his eopement at
least temporary success, and that, boy as he is
(sCarcey over four feet long,, he played his role
quite as brilliantly as though OF maturer years. Little
people are very loud sometimes, and we are afraid
Johnny is Of that stamp and tendency One Of the
girls, Matte, left note to her mother reCitatve OF
the old story of misplaced confidence and conse-
quent ruin by man, Consoling her maternal parent
with the declaration that she should never gaze on
her face again. Whittier the eloping quartette
directed their course has not yet TRANSFERRED nor are
able to state whether they contemplate visit TO
Gretna Green or Fiddler's Green.
The Virginia SeuatOrship.
The World publishes the following despatch from
Reliable adyices from Richmond state that as the
day for the reassembing OF the Legislature draws
near the Senatorial question is exciting much in
terest. The most prominent candidates to-day are
| General Robert Williams, Lieutenant Governor
| in Washington Tuesday, had long conyer-
| sation with President Grant and General Sher-
pressed themselves very freely about Virginia
| politics Both seemed to favor the immediate
! admission of the State, and regarded the oppo-
| stion OF the radical faction here as not at
| all formidable The Senatorial question being
| broached Grant said he wished it understood that
| would express no preference. Afterwards being
nterrogated in regard to the acceptabity OF Gene
| raj Williams to the administration, he spoke In the
highest terms of that gentleman as talented, patri-
otic, and reliable, and added that he had no doubt
his election would give satisfaction, Other persons,
| however, who had been named in connection with
| the Senatorial honorS were un0DJectOnabe. Thls
| conversation has raised Williams stock here, and
| the report that he obtained the order from Wash
ingtOn overthrowng Canby's little game to put the
railroads under control OF the radicals had the same
| effect
| A number OF murderOus outrages have recently
been perpetrated in jackson county, Fla. We quote
| from Florida papers:-
on the 2sth ult near the Natural Bridge, Jackson
| county, Fla, there negro picnic-none present
| but negroes negro constable, Calvin Rogers, al
| Overbearing person, was present and claimed tC
| have been shot at. He then called for Wyatt Sour
| lock, one of his friends, who, on his approach Il
| Rogers caught up a child, and he and the ChllC
Rogers with the party, returned to Mariana, anC
| with party OF whites and blacks went In search o
| the murderer, They could find no clue to the per
| petrator OF the deed. jury OF inquest, composed
OF whites and blacks, found that Scurlock died from
| a gun shot by the hands OF an unknown person
| On Wednesday night the Goth ult, as two whit
| men named Columbus Sullivan and George Coz
| were hauling home some cotton, about SIX mile
from the place where the first tragedy occurred
| they were fred upon by some person or person
| concealed in the swamp Sullivans face was horri
bly, mutilated and one eye put out, while Cox re
, ceived one or two shots in the arm. Both will pro
| baby recover
| on Friday night, oct. l, Colonel Mcclellan, a pro
| mnent lawyer Of Mariana, was badly wounded an
his daughter killed. Calvin Rogers and other negrOe
| circumstances point out as the perpetrators. Osca
Cranberry, one OF the negroes suspected was Rile
on the morning of the I'd inst.
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