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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-27
ONE Of the leading American

ONE of the leading American
engineers, VIM. J. McAlpine, of
New York, has written a letter,
which is now in the haLds of
member of the House committee
having charge Of the Interoceanic
canal question, embodying, in a
brief, concise and forcible manner,
the reasons from an engineering
standpoint why the Panama scheme
seems impracticable. The following
are the principal features
The tides of the Caribbean sea have
q mean range OF little more than one
foot, and the extreme range is three
feet. On the Pacific, the ordinary
range is sixteen feet and the extreme
range twenty-five feet. II the canal
were constructed, open to the ocean at
both ends, it would have a rise and q
fall of from eighteen to twenty-five
feet, with current which would pre-
vent navigation, except at the turn Oh
the tides. Therefore, locks at either
end would be necessary. Tables are
given, showing the probable cost oil
the Panama canal upon the sea level to
be s550,0O0,00O. Figures are given
showing the extent Of water drainage
and the volume of rain fall, from
which the inference is that it would
require auxiliary canals on each side
equal in capacity to the main canal, to
carry away rain water during the wet
season. Otherwise. the canal would
not be navigable for several months in
each year.
Mr.. McAlpine has recently been to
Central America himself, and his ex-
perience, while State engineer at New
York, in the management Of the Erie
canal gives his opinion much value
He speaks favorably, but not enthusi
astically, OF me Panama route, as sur.
veyed by the United States Navy, hav
ing twelve locks upon either side o
the summit. of one hundred anC
twenty-four feet, and answers the OBJ.
jectons which have been made to tn,
number of locke.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-27

Blackwood's Magazine, for Janua-
ry, 1881, republished by the Leonard
Scott Publishing Co., Al Barclay
street, New York, commences the
year well. We notice among the
articles:
"Autobiographies. l. Ben
venuto Cellini." Aspirited sketch of
this gifted and excitable Florentine,
whose interest in his beautiful work
did not prevent him from constantly
mixing in fights, or quarreling with
his employers.
Before and after the Ballot" is a
description of the former manner of
conducting elections in England con
trasted with that of to-day.
"The Bishop Astray." A spring
tide reverie and it's iterruption.
"On some of Shakespeare's Female
Characters.-I. Ophelia." A letter
by Helena Fawcit Martin explaining
her conception of the character Of
Ophelia, which character she acted
in Paris, with Mr.. Macready as
Hamlet.
'The Seer; Tale. By Rudolph
Lindau." The writings of Rudol phi
Lindau are already familiar to read
ers of this magazine. THE Seer is
as weird and uncanny as any of it's
predecessors. FL
| s'The Land of Gilead." The re.
view of book by Lawrence Oliph-
ant advocating the colonization OF
repeopling of part of Palestine, with
the view, perhaps, of offering a bar
rier to Russian advances towards
India. The article points out the
piacticability of the scheme and the
difficulties to be apprehended, and
gives several long quotations. -
1.-THE Ministry of Misery" An
account of Mr.. Gladstone's cabinet
and policy.
The periodicals reprinted by The
Leonard Scott Publishing Co. al
Barclay Street, n. " are as follows
The London Quarterly Reviews, anl
Blackwood's Magazine. Price 81 (
year for any one, or only SIS for all
and the postage is prepaid by tn
publishers.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-27
The COlOred Mans National Or
gan ON MahOme.
Washington Renublican

Washington Republican.
The National Era of last week had
q wise and able article on GA New
South. The editor is Lewis H.
Douglass, a learned colored man,
and his counsels will probably have
as much weight among the colored
people of Virginia as those Of men
who are conspiring with bourbon
funders to prevent the success of the
liberal cause in Virginia. The move
ment of which General Malone is
the leader is thus treated in the ar>
ticle referred to:
General Malone, Senator elect for
the State of Virginia, is leader in a
movement, the success of which can
only tend to further the cause of
progress in that State. His party
proposes the honest adjustment of
the State debt, to which no reasona-
BILE objection can be made, the re-
moval of the bourbon reactionists
from place and power, free suffrage
for all men, and a fair count at the
polls free education for all children
and an impartial administration Of
the Constitution and the laws for all
citizens. In order to be successful
in this proposed policy, the poverty
stricken, untutored white people of
Virginia must strike hands with the
poor, unlettered blacks, and free
themselves from the arrogance of
those who hold power and control
the fortunes of the State solely be-
cause of the unreasonable enmity
they have urged and encouraged be
tween the poor white and the blacks
eve have no fear that the colored
people, if let alone to peacefully fols
low their inclinations, will do any
thing to retard civilizing progress
in the South. The matter of pro-
gress in that section remains to>day
where it has ever benin the hands
of the white people. The white
people have to learn justice, mercy
and charity, and not the negro. Let
the South remember and understand
that the failure of the negro to rise
up during the rebellion and play the
assassin, the incendiary, and worse,
was not cowardice nor a lack of de-
sire for freedom, but that he was
more merciful and less cruel than the
white people of that section. It can
do no harm for the poor people to
be brought to understand how un-
just, how cruel they have been to the
negro since the rebellion, and for the
purpose of keeping in power class
of men that never did anything to
make them anything more than mere
dependents. We wish Governor
Jarvis and General Malone all sue
cess in their efforts to build up a
new South on basis of honesty and
justice" H.
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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29

Mrs. Belya Lockwood, the weII-known
female lawyer, is an applicant for the position
of Minister to Brazil.
An order has been issued making pos
tal-cards unavailable with anything but the di-
rection on the address side
President Garfield, who is an enthu-
siast on baseball received call from the
Princeton nine, two of whom are sons of JUS
tice Harlan.
Within two years the annual pay on
ninety-three star mail routes was raised from
s727, 119 to S2,s92,2l4
1t is understood that the Brazilian
mission will be given to James Monroe, of
Ohio, and the Italian mission toJ M. Gregory
of Illinois.
Rear Admiral Rodgers is to become
Superintendent of the Naval Academy in June,
and Rear Admiral Balch will go to San Fran
cisco and take command of the naval force on
the Pacific station.
The statue of Admiral Farragut was
unveiled with imposing ceremonies on the 25th
of April.
With reference to the projected in
vasion of Indian Territory by the Freedmen's
Oklahoma Association, recently organized at
st. Louis, the Commissioner Of the Land Of
flee has made report to the Secretary of the
Interior, in which he says there is not an
acre Of land in that Territory which is open
TO settlement under the land laws of this coun-
Try.
The Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue. decides that money in the custody Of the
Government and belonging to citizen is not
subject to levy and attachment under proceed
ings instituted in a State court by creditors.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29
MISCELLANEOUS GLEAN1Ncs.

Leon Chateau has arrived in New
Yo. k from France on business connected with q
Company organized in Paris to import American
live stock. Its capital is 10000, 900 francs, and
the first shipment Will be made by its agents
next month. M. Chateau has also formed an
other company to import all kinds of American
products. He believes our silk goods will find
large sale throughout France.
Gen. Joseph Lane, who ran for Vice
President on the ticket with Breckirridge, in
1860, died recently at his home in Oregon. He
was born in North Carolina in 1901, emigrated
to Indiana, and was for many years member
of the Indiana Legislature from Vanderburgh
county. He was Brigadier General in the Mex
lean war, and commanded the left wing of Gen
Taylor's army at the famous battle of Buena
Vista. He was appointed Governor of Oregon
Territory IN 1885, and was subsequently elected
Delegate in Congress, in which capacity he
served until the State was admitted into the
Union, when he was chosen United States SEN
ator.
Secretary Window will establish an
Office in London for convenience in substitut-
ing 81 per cent. bonds for IS held by for
eigners.
Three children of Mr.. LIE Due were
burned to death at Hull, Quebec.
The value of our exports Of provisions
and tallow for the five months ending MARCH,
81, 1881, was $65,879, 1863, against $40, 200, 106
for the corresponding period last year.
The colored men are organizing a
movement to gain admission to Indian Terri
tory.
A report comes from Panama that the
cashier of the De Lesseps Canal Company has
absconded with Sc, OOO,OOO in gold belonging to
the company.
The sixty-second anniversary Of the
introduction of Odd Fellowship into this coun-
try-April 26-was celebrated by the members
OF the order ali over the United States.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29
DOINGS IN CONGRESS.

The time OF the Senate was mainly occupied on
Wednesday, April2O, by discussion between Messrs
Dawes and Jonas as to whether Massachusetts, or
Louisiana was most free from crime: speech from
Senator Frye in which he arraigned the Democrats
Tor knowingly acting contrary to the constitution ;
brief but excited discussion between Messrs Butler
and Burnside, during which the latter repeatedly, ex
citedy, and emphatcaiy stated that Buffers asser
hon that there was corrupt bargain between Malone
and the Republicans was false; and the usual spar
ring between Brown and Hoar. The Senate diourned
without doing any business. President Garfield
sent the following nominations to the Senate
Richard A. Elmer, of New York, 10 be Sec
ond Assistant Postmaster General vice Thomas
j. Brady, of Indiana, resigned; w. A. NJ. G ier of
Pennsylvania, Third Assistant Postmaster General
vice A. d. Hazen appointed Assistant Attorney Gen
eral of the Postoficc Department, and George B.
Everett Collector Of Internal Revenue Of the Fifth
district of North Carolina, vice w. H. Wheeler.
There was the usual waste of time in the
Senate on the 21st inst and more than the average
number of petty wrangles. Messrs. Dawes and
Cameron had dispute about question Of adjourn
ment; Dawes had a discussion with Call about the
freedom of voters in Massachusetts; Dawes had a
dispute with Salisbury on some trivial matter; and
Wade Hampton and Jonas gorifed their sections
No business of any kind was done.
There was another day of heavy debate in
the Senate Friday, April %, and at its close an
adjournment was taken until Tuesday, partly to
enable Senators who hive near Washington to transact
necessary business partly to permit the Republicans
to have private conference, and nominally to give
the Senate opportunity to be present at the
ceremonies which will attend the unwilling of
the statue of the late Admiral Farragut on Monday
President Garfield sent for some Republican Sem
ators to urge them to relieve his administration
from the embarrassment of having so many of his
nominations uneontirmed so long. He advised that
the Republicans consent to go into executive session
at an early day. Senators Sherman, Hawley and
Hale said to be actively urging the Presidents
views.
The usual dilatory motions and the motion tc
go into executive session voted in the Sen
ate, Thursday April rs, and after less than the
usual amount of talk the grave body adjourned
Senator Edmunds asked that the Judiciary Commit
tee be granted permission to SIT during the recess
should that ever occur, he parentheticaly said
in order to investigate the subject OF
bankruptcy. Leave was granted President
son, Mich, and William McMichael of Philadelphia
members of the Board of Indian Commissioners.
Col. s. d. Sturgis and Lieut.. Col. j. S. Mason have
been detailed respectively Governor and Lieuen-
ant Governor OF the Soldiers Home. The President
also nominated Roswell G.. Wheeler, of Indiana to
be Agent for the Indians at Pima and Maricopa
Agency, Arizona.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29

to day show wonderful versatility and
deftness. Commonplace is much less
successful than it was of old. In fiction,
analysis is almost too careful. We can
not but think that this rapid ripening of
the American muse (who was a raw, I'M
Informed schoolgirl in the lifetime of
Poe) is due in part to the influence of
that critic. His method is as unlike the
method of Mr.. Matthew Arnold as pos
lsible. But he exercised the same kind
iof influence. Like Mr.. Arnold, he in
troduced some tinge of French thought
and of French literature into the work
manship OF his countryman. Perhaps
he was not wide reader, and the ele-
ment of affeetation in his nature may be
detected in his quotations of obscure
Latin authors and in his Oriental allu-
sions. 1t is hard to say how much
knowledge was implied in these allu-
,sions-how rich the mine was from which
Poe dug these sparkling fragm nts
Still, he judged the writer's of his coun-
try with some knowledge of other litera-
lures. As he was quite ruthless in his
criticisms he did good, but at his own
/ cost London Ne1CS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29
Rnarding.Hnuse Life.

Oliver Wendell Holmes once said
"Think of it, not even dog to lick his
hand, or a cat to purr or rub her fur
against him o, these boarding-houses
What forlorn people one sees stranded
on these desolate shores Deceased
gentlemen, with poor wrecks of what
once their households beautiful dis
posed of, around them in narrow cham
bers as best they may be, coming down
day after day, poor souls, to sit at the
board with strangers, their hearts full OF
sad memories which have no language
but sigh, no record but the lines OF
sorrow on their features. Orphans,
creatures with growing tendrils and
nothing to cling to, lonely rich men,
casting about them what to do with
their wealth, they never know how to
enjoy when they shall no longer worry
over keeping and increasing it. Young
men and women left to instincts. un-
guarded, unmatched, save by malicious
eyes, which are sure to be found and
to find occupation in their miscellaneous
collections of human beings, and now
and then shred of humanity like this
little specialist, with just the words
needed to keep the radical moisture from
entirely exhausting from his attenuated
organism, and busying himself over a
point of science, or compiling hymn,
or selling patent rights-such are the
tenants of boarding houses, whom we
cannot think of without feeling how sad
it is when the wind is not tempered to
the shorn lamb, when the solitary be-
ings whose hearts are shriveling are not
seen in families.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Fhe Comptroller of the Currency up
on examination of the securities held by ma
tional banks finds that ATS banks in thirty
States and Territories hold IS of 1881 to secure
circulating notes amounting in the aggregate to
$45, 275, $50. 6onds for continuing the out
standing IS of 1881 at 81 per cent. are similar
to the original IS, except that they have an in
dorsemept- of the conditions.
Friends of Attorney General Mac Veagh
say that if William E. Chandler is confirmed as
Solicitor General the former will decline to as
sign him any court business, as he has author
ity to do, and viii confne Mr.. Chandler to Office
work. 1t is evident that Mr.. MacVesgh is de-
termined to prevent Chandler from becoming
Solicitor General
There is no opposition yet expressed
to Gen. Longstreet's confirmation as United
States Marshal of Georgia, and it is generally
believed that he will be confirmed by practi-
cally unanimous vote.
Postmaster General James promises
to make his department self-sustaining within
two years,