The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-04-05


-..- 49, = - (. jirdgzss7ts abtained in al
the southern states.
Bob" the veritable sorrel war-horse
which Stonewall jackson was riding
when he received his fatal wound, is
still living, at the age of twenty three,
and retaining much of bis old-time vigor.
He is owned by brother-in law of the
general, in Lincoln county, North Car,
olins.
The Mobile Register states that Mr..
Cobt will lead the northern, Mr.. Stone
the western, Mr.. Barnes the eastern, and
Mr.. Langdon the southern divisions in
the gubernatorial race. The Register
thinks South and West Alabama, being
practically one in the fight. will dictate
the nomination. 1t admits, however,
that the result is not free from doubt.
The struggle for the senatorship enters
into and materially effects the guber-
material race. The leading senatorial as
pirants are Governor Houston, and
Messrs. Walker, Sykes and Fugh This
senatorial feud is said to be very bitter
one, and overtures between senatorial
aud gubernatorial aspirsnts render the
situation altogether inexplicable The
29th OF May will decide.
Galveston News: At this time the
executive of Texas cannot be too cautious
in interposing between the law and its
execution. Nor can we say at this time
that Texas is solitary in this business of
killing Everywhere in this country
human life is too unguarded while
besieged, so to speak, with dangers. 1t
Is because everywhere, breast pockets,
breeches pockets, belts, boots. vest pock-
cts, are the hiding places of Colts, Smith,
Wesson's and English revolvers. or dirks
bowie-knives, clasp>knives and deringers. /
Our gunshops, hardware stores, variety !
stores, book and jewelry stores and retail /
shops display glitteriDg blades and in I
genuOusly wrought murderous revoiyers,
but, not being able to supply the demand,
the mails and the express are loaded
with weapons ordered from distant marts
and manufacturers.
Judge Lochrane, of Georgia, on st.
Patrick's day Repel by your example
the tendency to libel the Irish race, by
carricatures upon the stage and the
great evil which is circling and gathering
around the Irish name by passing it into
anecdote. Cherish rather the splendors
of our intellectual and patriotic country
men, than the remark g Pat " made in
his traditional interview with the pope,
or what even AIR. O'Connell said in his
encounter with Biddy MoIiarty. Rather
take Mr.. O'Connell when he came into
the British parliament as member for
the county of Glare in his manly rejec-
tion of the test oaths, or when he stood
on the hillside of Athlone and shook
with his thunders the enemies of Ire.
land. Rather let us patronize the
Evadne ofShiel, with all its rich coloring
of sentiment and beauty than be tickled
with the sensational extravagances of the
wake in the Shaughraun.
New Orleans Democrat: The New
Orleans custom-house is comparatively
the most extensively conducted large
custom-house in the union. There are
on the coast of Maine, it is true, a num-
Der of customs districts where the ex-
penditures far exceed the collections,
but these and these alone are more ex>
pensively conducted than the granite
building in this city. Our city is the
sixth port in the union in the amount,of
collections. The following are the ex>
penditures in the six leading ports of
this country for every dollar of revenue
collected New York, 90 cents; Bos>
ton, 4.S cents; San Francisco, ,.4.6 cents;
Philadelphia, 5.S cents; Baltimore, 90
cents, and New Orleans, 16.1 cents.
That is, the New Orleans custom>house
is five timesas expensively conducted as
the New York and three times as ex>
pensively as the San Francisco and Bos>
ton custom>house; and this wholly be-
cause it is made "a political asylum and
the headquarters of the radical party of
the state"
Mobile Register: All that is wanted
10 complete the Grand Trunk to Union
town is one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars from the people of Mobile. This
money will be paid back in one year by
the handling of forty thousand bales of
cotton that will come from Marengo,
Clarke and Perry, and the forty thousand
bales of cotton will enable our merchants
to send back to those counties over two /
millions worth in return. But even if I
this were not so, the history of Richmond !
and other Atlantic cities teaches us the t
enormous possibilities of Mobile as coal |
ing depot. We have now more water than |
Richmond, and we can improve our bay |
at less cost than the James can be deep /
ened at If Richmond sees over three /
hundred vessels at the Rockets, within
three years after the railroad has tapped |
the mineral regions, there is a certainty
that Mobile will see five hundred vessels /
at her wharves so soon as the Grand
Trunk road reaches Birmingham.
Memphis Avalanche: The causes
which have made the colored people
think of removing from the cotton belt
to the grain region are worth finding
out. They have been induced to remove
from the uplsnds and the older southern
states to West Tennessee, to Missis-
sippi bottoms and to river lands in
Arkansas, because there more cotton
could be raised and better wages Sc
cured. But now they seem to desire to
go farther west, and to go beyond the
cotton belt. Their emigration tenden-
cies have not been very strong, but re-