The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-08

The fast mali business is very SOoo
thing in many respects. 1t is possible
however, that the speed required by the
post-ofice department will, on some Of
the western roads, prove a rather ca
lamitious thing when the frost begins to
| do its work on rails and culverts. The
| st. Louis Times boasts that the Van
dalia "limited mail" made the stratling
time of one mile per minute, on Friday,
between Vandalia and east St. Louis.
On one portion of the road the train ran
five miles in four minutes, and passen-
gers had to hold on to their seats to
keep from being thrown about the cars.
A reporter who took the wild ride says
he held his breath, expecting every mo-
ment to be "dashed into bug powder"
The western roads are not built with a
view to such a strain as they receive
from the passage of the fast mail trains.
The first severe frost will render these
lightning trips dangerous in the extreme,
unless an UNUSUAL amount of thorough
continually.
FOLLOWING closely upon the intelli-
gence of the disaster at Galveston, comes
the startling information that the town
of Indianola, situated 120 miles south
west cf Galveston, in Calhoun county,
Texas, has been engulfed by the sea and
almost entirely destroyed, with a large
loss of life. Indianola is an important
coast commercial point, the terminus of
the Gulf, Western and Pacific railroads,
and the outlet of a productive country,
the trade being chiefly in lumber, hides
and wool. The census of 1870 gives it.
population of 2,106, of which 491 were
colOred. The place has rapidly grown
into Importance. Steamersrun regularly
from there to Corpus Christi and Calves
ton. The fearful cyclone which has torn
up the waters of the gulf and hurled
them upon the Texas cost was marked
by far greater violence than that which
usually characterizes the autumnal equi-
noctial storms.
THERE is a sort of grim melancholy in
Spotted Tails statement of his price for
the Black Hills. Six millions in money,
a suit of clothes for every Indian, and a
guaranteed annuity for eighty years;
d" for when that is gone," says Spotted
Tail, there will be no Indians" This
of the probable duration of the |
Indian tribes is interesting, coming as it |
does from the greatest of living aborigine |
Like many of his predeces-
sors, he foresees the inevitable fate of his |
race. Eighty years, he thinks-not more
than two generations will suffice for the
greed, the cruelty, the diseases of the
white man to exterminate the Indian.
But Spotted Tail, unlike most of his pre-
1ecessOrs, does not indulge in any oratori-
cal pathos about the last Indian following
the setting sun until he disappears in the
FAR western seas, ETC., but simply stiPu-
ates that his people shall be well fed and
clothed during the few remaining years
If their existence.
THE insurgents in Bosnia and Here
,ovinia, who will not down, it seems, are
doubtless actuated in their course by the
that if they submit in view of
he Porte's promises of reform, they are
certain to have the brutal and remOrseless
after them with redoubled
7igor Turkey will certainly make them
pay for their rebellion as she is going to
he dogs as fast as she can, financially.
Last year the whole debt of the Turkish
government was s., 125,OO 900, the in
,rease in four years having been $425, 000,-
MOO. The interest on this debt is 800, 000,-
100 and the estimated revenue for the
present year is only $75,00O,000. With
abundance of natural resources the gov
will not develop them. 1t Dor
ows money wherever it can to pay the
interest on the debt at II per cent. The
PRESENT squirt of war in the western prov
noes will necessitate further loans, but
S the country is plunging into hopeless
the prospect for relief is
The sick man is very near his
nd.