The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-08-10
There are eight Hancock and English
clubs in New Haven. Conn.


clubs in New Haven, Conn.
-Adjutant- General Townsend, of New
York, and Adjutant General Berry, Of
Massachusetts, have written to the War
Department expressing their appreciation
of the circular of Gen. Drum in relation
to the inspection of the State militia by
regular army officers. and the furnishing
of records and documents relating to
army regulation and equipment.
= The Thomasville Post announces the
death of Colonel Charles L. Rockwell, an
eminent educator and Methodist minister,
who died at his residence in that city about
o'clock last Tuesday morning. For sew
eral years he had been sufferer with
paralysis. He was gallant soldier dur
ing the war, and was heightened Chris
tian gentleman.
Mr.. Frank Gordon and Colonel Mar
cellus Thornton had fight in the rotpnda
of the Kimball House Wednesday night.
Gordon, it seems, knocked Thornton down
with q stick for writing letter in which
he insinuated that his (Gordon's) father,
General John B. Gordon, had received
&2O, 1000 from Cyrus w. Field to influence
the Georgia delegation to Cincinnati to
vote for Judge Field. Young Gordon's
friends say he did perfectly right
The New York San calls on General
Sherman to publish the two letters he
wrote to General Hancock in December,
1875, after the meeting of Congress that
year, and before he had begun to assemble
the troops at Washington. The San
makes the point that the history of that
critical period will be imperfect without
this contribution. 1t unhesitatingly. pro-
nounces General Hancock's letter to Gen
Sherman {" the most excellent and extra
ordinary letter on the Constitution, on
law, and on public military and civil du-
ties ever written by an American Gen
eral." There are a great many sensible
people throughout the country who ahare
the Sans opinion.
General James w. Singleton, vete-
ran Illinois Democrat, present member of
Congress from bis district, and who has
just been renominated, writes to friend
in New York City as follows "The Prai-
ne State is red hot Every Democrat is
on duty, which has not occurred for SVEN
ty years or more, and all brimful Of confi-
dence, and 3 will that makes Hancock,
above all others, the man for the crisis.
The country is living under complication
of diseases; it needs doctoring until its
fiery temperament is changed and our
public service put on new regime Of diet.
With Hancock for President, we shall have
no North nor South; he win heal all dis
sessions with that love of virtue, Justice
and humanity that flow from his wisdom
and patriotism, Before North and South
he will shold shield of might, and let not
either touch the others right"
The Charleston Ne,cs compares the
result of Republican rule in Sqkth Caro-
lima with that of the DemocratsA The av.
erage yearly State taxation from 1858 to
1875 was 81 ,2s9, sos; from 1875 to- 1879,
$500, s34. A like reduction in the cost OF
government has invariably followed the
accession Of the Democrats party ID pow
er in all of the Southern States. In Flor
| "a. CO. ;llnstra.;on the animal average Of
taxation for the last three years of Hepub-
| lican rule was s4os, sls, while under Dem
ocratic control the average has been only
ss2a49l2. Besides this. the ksprDs,cans
added to the bonded debt over sleO, 900
annually, swelling the debt rom ste III .So4'
4 i VA u 1898. up 10 1891 900, as
they LEFT Ii ID ls77.s The reckless sstrav-
acancs xhisk inflicted this oslsn!ty on
Fassiaa IS addsd e6s, 900 e the Rgsaens
e - payers 4, meet the sapAs lsrest
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