Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-18
" MORNING. AUGUST IS. 1880.
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 Wade Hampton and his friends are taking great pains to recall his speech to the effect that the Democrats are now contending fo the principles of Robert E. Lee and Stone wall Jackson, and the rest of the Virginia rebel leaders. In spite of all that is now being done to suppress and deny this portion of his speech, word comes from Republicans who heard it that it correctly reported as first printed. The Charleston News first began the work of diserediting the correct report made, and expressed the opinion that General Hampton would disclaim it as soon as it was called to his attention. This and similar articles paved the way for what Hampton has now done but this corrected version only places him in the po- sition of having sent out garbled version of his speech at the demand of those in his par ty who deem it important to sacrifice such truth to expediency.
 According to the figures of one of the Vir- ginia Democratic organs, the Republicans stand an excellent chance of electing the Gar field and Arthur electoral ticket, unless in some way not now foreseen the debt-paying and readjusting Democrats can be united in support of common electoral ticket. In 1876 the Virginia vote was 139, 900 for Til den and SC, GOO for Hayes and this paper sees reason why the Republicans may not in crease their vote this year. while the Tilden vote of four years ago will be about equally divided between the two Hancock and Eng ish tickets. It is very much to be hoped that the returns may justify this Democratic foreeasting of the result, but the Democratic managers outside of Virginia have not yet given up the hope of uniting the two wings of the Democracy upon the Presidential ques- tion
 An audacious bond robbery was committed in Paris few days ago. Three of the em- ployes of the Societe Generale de Credit Industrial ct Commercial having been or dered to take 6,OO0 of these obligations, each of nominal value of 800 francs, to the stamp office to be exchanged for scrip, placed them in hand barrow and took them to the office keeping strict watch over their trust while on the way. In order not to run the slightest risk of losing any one of the twelve bundles into which the 6, ,00O bonds had been divided, one of the employees posted himself at the counter on which they were to be placed the second kept guard over the barrow, and the third carried the bundles of bonds from the barrow into the office and placed them on the counter. In fact every precaution was taken to assure the safety of the property, and all would have gone well had it not been for the impatience of the en- ploye standing at the counter, who, wishing to accelerate the work, left the bonds on the counter for a minute unprotected, and went to meet the employe who was bringing the bundles one by one from the barrow. It would appear that three well-dressed Eng lishmen, who had entered the office on the pretext of wanting change for thousand franc note, profted by this momentary ab- sence to lay their hands on one of the bun dles, for when the last was placed on the counter there were only eleven bundles in- stead of twelve.
 The enormous amount of timber that is annually being taken from the forests of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota brings up the question, how long can they continue to supply the drain that is being made upon them? Maine is almost entirely stripped of pine timber, and when the forests of the Northwest are in like oondi- ton, some substitute for pine must be found correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette who is well posted on the subject believes that at the present rate of cutting the Michigan pine will be used up in twenty five years the Wisconsin pine in thirty or forty years; and the Minnesota pine in from twenty-five to forty years. This latter per iod, says the correspondent "may seem suf- ficiently remote, measured by 8 mans life, but considered in connection with the life of a nation or of these great forests, it is quite insignificant. People will realize then, and trust long before, how recklessly have been destroyed the stores of timber that have been ages in forming, and which, with such supervision as is given by the State to many of the European forests, might have fur nished natural supply for centuries to come. Our Government has given to every appli cant these noble forests at the merely nomi nal price of $1.25 per acre. By this easy method great mine of wealth has passed into the hands of spectators and mill men, who are hurrying it to market in order to realize their profit, without regard to the fu- ture interest of the country"