Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-03

good of her people there. As an illustration of her physical vigor it may be mentioned that she recently went one hundred and sev- enty-five miles across the prairies in an open wagon, for the purpose of giving aid to needy immigrants. A correspondent of the Boston Journal suggests that the services of Sojourn- CT to humanity would be properly recognized by Government annuity during the rest of her life.
 E. F. Pillsbury is the arch conspirator in the Maine business, and the first number of his new daily Democratic paper-the Stand ard-which appeared Thursday, contained the following significant statement: "The com ing session of the Legislature will be one of the most important, interesting and exciting ever held in the State. For the first time in twenty four years the opponents of the Re- publican party will be in majority in both branches and in control of the State govern ment." This does not look as if the Demo- cratic managers had any idea of correcting the action of the Governor and Council. It is also reported that the Democrats have ar ranged for contesting the seats of number of Republicans, and that in case they should determine to settle the election cases before doing anything else they would turn out an- other Republican for every one of those counted out whom they saw fit to admit, and so preserve their majority
 The Pall Mall Gazette takesa look into Eng lands future and becomes very gloomy over what it sees. It complains that the Nation shuts it's eyes to the fact that untrained levies have ceased to count in modern warfare, and experience goes to show that great masses of men skillfully handled are an absolute neces- sity if any country is to hold it's own on land. With Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Russia, even Spain and Roumania armed to the teeth, possessed all of them of system of military service which English statesmen refuse to adopt or to find a substitute for, the British Army holds a very different position from what it did in 1S45, even in 1866. Even the very enumeration of forces shows the diff ference for who twenty or thirty years ago would have thought of giving consideration to Italy or Spain Yet o-day the first named in an already troubled medley; not the less so because she has worked hard to have power- full fleet, and at this moment, in conjunction with one other country, might occasion Eng land grave embarrassment for time. France and Italy hold position in the Mediterranean Sea such as no two Powers have held in this century. And it should never be forgotten that the British Navy IS nowadays almost purely experim mental.
 Public attention will be again directed to the cruel treatment of South Carolina con- victs by the Greenwood and Augusta railroad by the official report of Col. T. J. Lipscomb and Dr. Trezevant, superintendent and sur geon of the State penitentiary, which report has just been made public by order of the State Senate, to which it was submitted. These officials visited the convicts and found the sick without medical care and covered with vermin, while the well were so flthily clad, housed in such stinking quarters and fed upon such poor food that nearly all had the scurvy, and many of them finally succumbed to exhaustion and dropsy. Neither sick nor well had change of clothing, and Superin- tendent Lipscomb confirms the reported beat ing and killing of the convicts by their guards. The Charleston News and Courier does not wonder that under this ill-treatment and neg lect IA died out of the 285 convicts as signed to the road, but all the late Legislature did about it was to appoint an Investigating committee, which will not report until the next session in November. The local of icials make no attempt to apply the law to out rages in their vicinity, and the News loudly calls for their judicial investigation in the cause of humanity and public decency.