The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-07-30

EGYPT AND THE SOUTH.
Gen. w. w. LoriDg is in the city, on
his way West to look after some of his
mining interests. The General has had a
highly variegated career. At the age of
IA he was volunteer fighting against
the Seminoles in his own State Of Florida.
Immediate on coming of age he served
three years in the Legislature of his State.
Then he secured commission in the Uni
ted States army, and fought in Mexico,
losing his left arm there. He command
ed regiment in that war. He remained
in the army till the rebellion, when he en-
tered the Confederate service and held
the commission of Major General. A few
years after the war closed, he accepted an
offer from
THE KHEDIvE OF EGYPT,
and for ten years held high command
in the army of the successor of the Pha-
Nile and returned TO this country with
competence, which he invested partly in
silver mines in the West.
The General is above the average
height and rather inclined to be portly.
He has high and very prominent fore
head, a full beard trimmed rather closely,
very pleasant expression and sociable
manner. Like most gentlemen of the
army there is nothing military in his ap-
pearance, excepting the empty sleeve.
To reporter of the Times ON yester-
day General Loring said that for the past
year he had travelled extensively
IN FLORIDA,
and was grati6ed to find it remarkably
progressive. He was surprised to see
how thrifty the people were and how
prosperous they are becoming. Every
body was working, and the whites were
working harder than the blacks. The
two races are living on the most amicable
terms possible, and the negroes are fast
settling up the Southern and interior Dor
tion of the State, and breaking in little
farms. Many of the negroes were Demo
Gratis, and most of the Northerners who
were coming into the State and doing
much for its prosperity, became Demo
Gratis after little. Some of the most active
Florida Democrats were Northern men,
who had been Republicans in their old
homes. The General believed Florida
W
publicans would be unsuccessful in their
efforts to carry the State next fall.
THE NOMINATION OF HANCOCK
awakened enthusiasm all over the South.
The General was at Cincinnati, and had
friends in all the Southern delegations,
and he found them all of one opinion re-
garding the excellence of the nomination.
The South felt the election of Demo
cratic President to be of vital Importance
rather for defensive than for aggressive
reasons. The Southerners didn't like the
national election laws, and they objected
to the general tendency of Republican
Legislation, but there was hardly man in
the South who wasn't delighted that &C.
cession and slavery were as dead as Jn-
Illus Cesar, and it would be difficult to
find man south of Mason and Dixou's
line who would resurrect either If he had
the power. Nobody expected the South
ern war debt to be paid, or gave the INST
ter single thought except when some
Northern Republican paper charged the
South with demanding that that debt be
paid. In regard to
THE RELATION OF THE JUDICIARY TO TIRE
STATES,
the General hadn't heard q word at the
South, and didn't know what the feeling
WAS In desiring the election of Dem
ocratic President, the Southerners were
not actuated by reactionary or revoll-
tionary ideas. They accepted the results
of the war. Unanimously they were for
the Constitution with ell its amendments.