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New-York: J. W. Boutonl, is puzzled al nis' " III"
Socrates in company with Saint Augustine anu
skepticism attributed mpartialy u Ureeh Pliio'o
nb.rs and nedieval monks, we advise MN "
,r,, NJ once N the Preface where the paradoxicai
outbor explains himself Mr.. Owen considers
s,epticism as tho analyzDg, lnqurlng 'ypo
of intellect, which is confined 10 no poiiOu,
race. religious or secular belief-the lnS'in',
which spontaneously distrusts both hnallty ano
infallibility as ordinary attributes OIL uuth ~
impIies continual search, and not denla Du' sur
pense or SO much Of suspense as is needfui as IN III
centive To search. Thus regarded skeptcism Is ac-
corlinc to Mr. Owen the well-sprlng OF au Hee
thougbt and intellectual progress. lie apparently
coes so far as to pnze 1t not oecau9o
II finds truth-for it never does reach tne
goal of its ambiton-but because it Is always Stri'
ing. prosecuting search for its own SAKE ana ho'
for the sake of discovery in other words, because
exercise and disturbance are good Tor the nlhu
Thus the plan at least of his book, becomes ln'oi
lioible whatever one may think of his analysis Oh
narticular systems or the soundness of his genera
,r,nciples The work is cast in the form Oh dla-
loques between party of friends, interspersed with
formal ESSAYS, a scheme which enables the writer
20 rive variety aud freedom to the discussion, and
ot the game time to show the different ways I'D
,,bicb tonic might be regarded by persons OF dif-
fsrent intellectual habits. The first volume Is de-
voted to the Greek, Hebrew and Hlndoo skeP'icS
the second to the so-caed skepticism OF the ChrlS
tion schoolmen. illustrated not only by Augustine
brt even by Thomas Aquinas; and there Is promise
of n volume vet TO come the skeptlcs Oh inc
Renaissance.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-02
Putnam County Journal, July 2sth.I
What the State Authorities have
Accomplished I'm the DireC-
ton of Enumeration.

When a company of individuals are about to
place on the market a tract of land one of the
very first things to be done is to disencumber it
of all liens, so that, when sales are made, a
free and undisputed title can be given. 1t is
next 10 impossible to sell lands the title of which
is in doubt An are interested in the settle
ment of our State" says Hon. Hugh Corley,
Commissioner of Lands, in his last official report,
:" and the question how best to promote immi
grafton engages the attention of all who are in
terested in the development of our manifold re-
sources. If system of Internal Improvements
could be carried out which would bring all sec
lions of the State within reach of transportation,
the question could be easily answered. But to
accomplish tbs zoe must relIece the lands Of tie
State from tie liens imposed upon Uiem."
The State authorities have recognized the full
importance of this fact and in the sale of the A.
100000 acres 10 Disston and his associates, have
disencumbered the internal improvement lands
of all claims leaving them, as in the case of the
individual company, free from embarrassment
and with a title above doubt. This has been
done in the interest OF immigration. Persons or
corporations hereafter obtaining State lands,
either by purchase or as free gift, will receive
them unincumbered. This very fact invites and
encourages immigration and capital, and was the
first thing precedent to the settlement of the va
cant lands Of the State.
The lien having been removed, legislation in
future relative to them will be without embar-
rassm emit, and they can be given for promoting
internal Improvements or sold to individuals for
settlement and cultivation.
In relieving the public lands of the lien upon
them, the State authorities have ACCOMPLISHED a
great thing towards immigration. Disston will
make every effort to bring to public notice ev-
erywhere the manifold resources of his lands,
and to the extent that he does that, our lands
will share in the publicity, resulting in great
benefit to the State. Add TO this fact that two
or three of the newer railroads of the State are
about to actively engage in promoting The colon
ization of their lands In the State, and it will
readily be seen that very great effort, official
and private, is being put forth for the speedy
settlement of Florida lands, and that our State
authorities instead Of doing nothing, are actually
accomplishing a great work in the direction OF
immigration.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-02
IdelphIa Record.]
DlsstOn's First Colony.

A colony of two hundred and fifty families
has been formed in New York to start for Florida
in September and settle upon the land recently
purchased by Mr. Hamilton Disston, of this city
The company announces that no family will be
sent there unless it Owls 81 900 clear. The first
colony will be located in Orange county, near
Orlando, the county seat, and in the vicinity of
Lake Conway, upon twenty, forty and eighty
acre farms, at prices nnging from LIS to s.
per acre A land commissioner has been ap-
pointed in New York, agencies have been estab-
lIshed in Europe, and arrangements made to i'm
mediately settle the four million acres purchased
from the State. This land simply needs develop
ing. 1t is distinct from the eleven million acres
Of land which are periodically overfowed by
Lake Okeechobee and which are to be reclaimed
by the construction of drainage canals In both
enterprises Mr.. Diss,on is interested. The four
million tract is under the control OF the Florida
Land and Improvement Company. The O. mpa-
ny 10 lower the waters OF Lake Okeechobee, and
TO open up inland communication for 300 miles
along the eastern stretch of the Florida peninsu-
la is The Atlantic and Gulf Coast Canal and
Okeechobee Land Company" A large per cent
age of the stock in the latter enterprise has been
already subscribed.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-02

A correapoadssf a tie UnisA 49, lor inlor-
u,aison coneaniag law passed - tks ISseisln-
iurs ~ Winies. requiring ell prepaxztions q
MospAins % have . dlssfncsive labsl, and sanken
that ~ arst knowisdee q The existence e zueh
INV Was obsained 1Aroagh IN nam IN me New
York Dr4stf Csvs1srl Tks CASA kindly
prints the hw entire although . in eOsrespond-
ent had been an intelligent reAler,. he could
have sen. il in The Abstracts nf legislative Pro
ceedings Published during ne session By the
FLoRuDtAx. the UaipA. and oder SE.ae papers !;
and would aoi have been led into sach IN nm
fortunate display a hh cArelessaess IN reSdsag.
and consequent ignorance Of existing law-
The Unisa, howevcr. wisely takes occasion to
say that the statute Law Of the State should pro-
vide some more efficient means Of advising the
public Of the provisions Of all new laws passed
By the Legislature. 10 which We heartily agree
A bin was introdaced lAst Winter by Assembly
man Speer. Of Gadsden. providing for the p1bli-
cation Of all laws Of pablic and general nature,
Is passed by the Legislature. to be published
once in some newspaper Published in each judi
cial circuit Of the State This bill was promptly
defeated BY the assembled wisdom of the State;
and the result Ia thai no Citizen after the session
closes, has any source Of information, save
through the purchase or loan of copy of the
laws as published in pamphlet form.
We sincerely hope the Legislature at its
next session will enact such law and we call
on our brethren Of the press throughout the State
to urge it on every convenient occasion
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-02

constitutional tribunals q Ne countyf Doubt
len d would be lbznd in svsay inslanee that they
are young men, Who, su1ns By 10 excisement Of
artificial stimnlants, and othen By sttrition with
holder minds. have. b. mutual encouragement.
become heated b The Suggestions Of the NEST
reckless
The once Of the execusiouer, b In al countries,
looked upon with horror, masked and concealing
his identity he performs the last requirements Of
the law, In taking the life Of the doomed and
lawfully sentenced criminal
i. Il ssens sazangs that any respectable man. or
any respectable set Of men, should be willing, Of
their own volition. under any circumstances. TO
stepin and Ill the odious role Of Jack Ketch. With
. proper sense Of shame, the crowd WHO hunger
for the blood Of the victim conceal their identity
and in character with him whose once they ILL., the
common hangman, mask themselves to do what
in no sense, can be considered brave ac1. The
man, or men. who, at some risk Of life, apprehend
q desperate criminal and deliver him over to the
Law, are entitled TO credit for their risk bravery
and desire to see the Law sustained and crime
punished. bat the man. or men, who take from
the custody Of the law the unarmed, helpless
tlCums anu uuuef the lnuuenCc Oh the WOtSk pas
sions Of our nature imbrue their hands in his
blood, deserve only the most unsparing condem-
nation, for what all good citizens must denounce
as lawless and cowardly act, irrespective Of the
crime Of the victim.
In the case before US, no sympaty with the
father who had rendered illustrious service and
rsked his lite for the protection Of the people Of
East Florida against the armed foe, who had lost
one son on the field fighting by his side; SYM
patty for the mother, whose only son was their
victim, moved the hearts Of the lawless crowd
who committed this collective crime against the
laws We warn the people Of our State that if
they expect Florida to be selected rs home by
the thousands and tens Of thousands who are
now looking forward to settlement within our
borders, they must, with one voice and determi-
nation, put down the lawless manifestations Of
unlicensed and unregulated men, or the stream
of immigration will be detected to other States,
or 10 those portions of our own which have, as
most of our counties have, we are glad to say, q
clean reputation for good order and obedience to
law
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-02

If any one imagines that taxation is to be
lessened by the late Disston land sale, or that
any of the bonded debt Of the State is to be liq-
Undated by its proceeds, we take occasion TO as
sure him that he is badly mistaken. Oh no,
bless your simple soul none of this is to happen
but the lands, money and whatever else of val
ne may belong to the Internal Improvement
Fund, is to be given to the WALES, Corleys,
Williams, Raneys and their favorites. This IS
the new "Dykean" doctrine of the FLOR
DIAS " who puts this crowd above the Legisla-
ture--SunEGRd Tribune, July %.
Pshaw, man-don't make q ninny of yourself
for nothing
The "Dykean doctrine is to paw the debts of
the " Internal improvement Fund to the law
full creditors, and appropriate the balance of the
disencumbered lands TO building railroads, OF
which Tampa stands first rate prospect of get
ting her full share, in spite of the vituperative
abuse Of the Tribune whose editor prostitutes the
columns of his paper to slaRdering men whose
integrity, public and private, has ever been above
reproach
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-02

The Flor IDIAK Is still dumb about the ioca-
ton Of the lands sold TO Disston II need moi
try to pull the wool over the eyes Of the people
Of these sold out southern counties by its smooth
tAlk--SsnIGR8 TIi6une, july %
Our amiAble cOtemporay injected this good
natuIed little paragraph into his generally inter
esting columns more to adorn a tale than point
q moral If the FLoRIDIAN knew the particu-
lar swamps located it would take pleasure IN des-
ignating them by metes and bounds, but as il
does not it can only say that from reliable nfor-
nation large share of the water lots in
Hillsborough have been gobbIed Brother Wall
is known TO be friend Of progress" and this
fact has attracted the notice of Dission who has
consequently |" waded into" Hillsborough up to
his arm-pits-
Is there any other information the FLoRIDIAN
can give?
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-02

The Prelidehss condikion has eeeAdfly Inn
proved since tle incilioa uhieA provided nsW
outlet icr he discAazes from the interior q hin
wound His lpcaisoa Is been chsneed nom Tie
room to whieA be w. Arss tAkea b anelhe,
much TO his beheat; and The bulletins Of TIE ~
tending physicians expre8 Themselves more
hopefully than II any time since his injury,
which occurred exactly four weeks ago last Sat-
urday. The following b the latest balletin
wAsuksrox, Saturday. July 80. 1881.
ExDcu1IvR MANSON, p. M-Odicial b1l-
le1in--The President has passed the day CON-
foEsAhly, without any dnwhAck or uapleasAnt
symptoms, and has taken an ample amount Of
noarishment TIE 1fteEnoon Fise Of temperature
was moderate, and did not commence I'LL about
5 O'Clock The dischArge Of p1s has been abund-
ant. and At Tie evening dressing was washed
away freely from the deeper parts Of the wound.
At present his pulse b 1O4. temperature 10s-a
respiration 90
(Signe0 ID. W. Bliss
J. K BARNES,
J. ]. WOODWARD
RoBKRf RKYBURx
FRANK H HAMILTON,
ID. a. A6xKw.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-02


II D;sssOn takes NIL of the 1000 900 acres of
land, which be recentiy contracted TO purchase.
and pays all Of the q, OOo, 900 and that pays up
all Of the Indebtedness Of the Internal Improve
ment Fund, what becomes Of the large grant
made 20 the Pensacola and Atlantsc r. r. Co.
subject to the lien Of that indebtednessp Win
the Trustees Of the Internal Improvement Fund
hold the lien upon lands and make that COM
pAny pay the same amount for them that II
would have been compelled to pay had the in
debtedness against the Fund not been settled :
Would it not be Just and proper for the Board Of
Trustees to demand of all those railroad compa-
mics, to which these immensely large grants Of
land have been made, it being understood that
they were made subject to the Indebtedness OF
the Fund. the payment Of so much per acre for
the lands granted by the Legislature and to be
conveyed by The Trustees as would be correct
proportion Of the Indebtedness Of the Fund.
which was lien upon the lands The price, OF
course, would be merely nominal
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-02

-E g. Lspham. Senator elect. has started his
career BY an endeavor to show that he 10 - good
q Stalwart as the ex-Boss himselE He waved
the bloody shirt furiouslY In bis speech at Alba
ny, and iabored to impress his hearers with the
fact that the mission Of the Republican party b
not fhl6lled." ss though the election Of Ebridge
Gerry Lapham was not glory enough for any
party. he further showed shigh appreciation
ofthe dignity Of the once TO which he had been
elected BY the remarkable statement that, while
dispensing the Federal patronage In this great
State Of New Yoskr was @sn inferior portion Of
he hlgh duly devolving upon Senator" 4 was
neversheless dutY, and one which he hoped his
colleaRue ana himself would be abIe 10 discharge
satisfactorily. This b . 0ne Kind Of Rsforner
the Administration has gos TO support H.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-02

We are indebted to the courtesy of Hoo. Fran
els A Walker, Superintendent Census, and Mr.
Overton Bernard Of the Census Bureau, for
complete set of the bulletins which have from
time to time been issued, Except few which
are out Of print.)
These bulletins are what might be called ad-
vance proofsheets Of the Census Report, and are
sent out for general information, as we'll as cor
rection
We shall from time TO time give the readers
of the FLoRIDIAs such extracts and tables from
these bulletins as may be likely to prove inter-
esting.
From Bulletin No. 80 we learn that the first
count" gives the population of the State of Flor
ida "a nIlnwa.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-02

Mn. CoNKLMH's CARKER-The exultation of
the adminiStration Republicans over the down.
fall Of Roscoe Conkling has served to draw at
tention TO his public career, which appears to
have been crowded with honorA The Boston
Rast says I: " In 1850, before he had reached his
twenty-nrsk year. Mr.. Conkling was appointed
district attorney. BE WAS elected mayor OF
Utica when he was only twenty-nine yean old,
Ia the ye4r 1853. In the same year he was
elected TO the thirty-sixth Congress By 1000
majority, and two years later he was re-elecied
By "a iDcreasod majority. In the next Congress
ional campaign he sustained defeat, bat was
reelected 70 the thirty-nlnth Congress by ma
joity Of 200. Another reelection to tie forii.
eth Congress testified TO he confinned eonfdence
Of his fEiehda and neighhon n Onieda county,
and on January 70. 1874, he Eas chosen Is IeSt
resent he Empire Stale II The UnIled Dlates
Sonata. III 1873 be waS unanimously rsn0mI.
nated By has poFty and fe-elecsed for another
term n TIE 6en1leaof the Unilod States, ana
there he r9mained until his recent resignation