Smyrna times., 1880-08-25

100000 worth OF gram anu l'trIh pIOu"O'0
have been harvested i'll this country
within the past forty days. The earth
has brought forth its increase Ill the most
lavish manner. This vast sum has been
added to our national wealth. No nation
was ever so prosperous. We only need
the continuance of q good honest govern
ment to ensure repetition OF such bles-
sings for our future.
EVIDENTLY Long Branch is not on the
decline. The popularity of newer water
iug-places does not seem to have injurious
ly affected this favorite old resort. -Four |
new hotels are to be built next season-a
fact which speaks volumes for the pros
perity of the place. A substantial BRICK
building, with frontage of 400 feet, is
to be put up. 1t will doubtless be par
ticularly attractive to nervous people, to
whom the ordinary summer hotel OF we'll
seasoned pine always suggests possible
canflagration.
Chill is making energetic preparations
for bringing the war with Peru to close
bv increasing her available military force.
She designs to attack Lima with 10000
men, and to send 5000 to subdue the
northern provinces of her enemy The
Chilian people appear to support the
burdens of the war with untaggmS
patience and patriotism. A call to arms
of the militia forces in portion OF the
plucky little republic has just been re-
sponded to with enthusiastic alacrlty.
Or the "shinplasters" or fractional
paper currency which used to be so COM
mon, and in many cases so convenient,
some fifteen million dollars worth are
still outstanding, though the notes have
gone out of circulation. AS the present
rate of redemption is very slow, only
about S18O,OOO per year, it is probable
that nearly all of this large sum, by rea
son of wear and tear and the easy des-
tructibility of the paper issue, will re-
main as the peoples loss and the Govern
ment's gain.
TIE death of Judge II. NJ. Spofford,
of Louisiana, settles a dispute as to Sena-
tor Kellogg's seat which made great
deal of trouble last winter, and which
threatened more at the next session. The
contest has been at intervals before the
Senate for something like four years 1t
was decided once by the Democrats in
Kellogg's favor, as was alleged by a
bargain through which Butler was seated
from South Carolina, but was afterward
reopened under the lead of Senator Sauls-
bury.
THE sharp competition between the
English steamship lines for the passenger
travel between New York and Liverpool
leads to constant increase in the size O
new vessels built for this service, and :
corresponding improvement in the com
forts and conveniences Of staterooms an(
saloons. A description of three grea
steel steamers now building on the Clyd
shows that they will surpass in dimen
sions any ships afoat save the Great Eas
tern. 1t looks as though this tendenc
to build larger vessels would continu
untilthe question of getting safely throug
the channels leadingto New York Harbo
comes up to check it.
The English channel, which divide
England and France, is to be tunneleC
The engineers are at work in both cour
tries, and it looks as if they meant bus
ness. 1t is to be hoped their labors wi
be crowned with better success than thos
who are working at a similar undertaken
under the Hudson river, between Jerse
City and New York, at which place s
many lives were recently lost. The CO.
of the undertaking will be immense, bl
the railroad companies at either end al
furnishing the funds in the expectation
being able to receive sufficient mono
from the increased receipts to pay the il
terest on the investment.
TIE campaign in Afghanistan is a.
preaching crisis. General Roberts Wi
his column of 10000 men has passt
through Ghuzni without encounterir
serious opposition, and may be expectC
at Gandahar before many days Gener
Phayre is also making a demonstrate
from the south to encourage the b
leagured garrison. AS AyoOb will 500
find himself in the presence of superi
force, he realizes that Candahar must
taken within fortnight or retreat mu
be ordered. General Stewart, meanwhi
has retired in safety from Cabul and {
tablishcd he headquarters at Jelalabad
To lLo aoYo4 observer there is nothil
so threatning to our institutions as t
sight of solid South arrayed against
almost solid North in fierce politi,
struggle like the present campaig
There are men who are dissatisfied WI
much in the record of the Republic
party, who cannot persuade themselves
vote for a candidate who, if elected, v
he elected mainly by united Southe
vote and controlled by sectional par
The legacy Of slavery to this country i
sectionalism only less dangerous IL
that which caused the late war; PrC
dent Hayes in recent speech struck
right note when he declared that
great need of the South is education.
said: "To perpetuate the Union and
abolish slavery were the work of the "
70 educate the uneducated is the apr
pirate work of peace AS long as
considerable number of our countryn
are uneducated, the citizenship of ov
American in every State is impai
in value, and is constantly imperil
His plain that at the end of the war
tremendous change in the labor and SO
systems of the Southern States, and
rayages and impoverishment of the 4
flict, added TO the burden of their ID
and the loss of their whole cireula