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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23

Mexico's standing army of 40, 900 men
is q heavy burden of expense to her, and
will always be a most serious obstacle to
her prosperity. Gonzales dare not sug-
gest a reduction, because there is a posi-
bility of revolution wen yet in some of
the States, and the army must be main
tanned to put down uprisings. Unless
the men are paid promptly they will put
themselves under some revolutionary
leader and disturb the newborn tran
guilty of the republic. The cost of the
force is about SO, 900, 900 a year, all of
which is needed to pay the accrued
interest on the public debt, now scaled
down by the Financial Commission to
about $40, 900. 600, principal and inter-
est. The last two Mexican Congresses
have pledged subsidies to railroads to the
extent of nearly $50, 900, 900, and the
question is, how are the subsidies to be
paid? The revenue of the country is
$50, 0O0, 900, and the expenses 1913. 0OO,-
900, and there appears to be no %inancier
in Mexico capable of mastering the de-
felt.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23

General Garfield is mot at home" or
''begs to be excused" when delegations
Of Virginia Republicans call to offer adj
vice concerning offices. This, says the
Baltimore Gazette, means that Garfield
sticks to his bargain with Malone, and
snubs even the old Union men and Re-
publicans in favor of the Readjusters.
1t was for the purpose of buying Malone
that he was made Chairman of a Senate
Committee and given a seat in the Post
Office Committee, where he could con-
troll Postmasterships. General Malone
denies that he made a bargain, but the
more candid Garfield shows that there
was a bargain by turning his back upon
the Republicans to keep faith with re.
pudiators. The Republican administra-
ton is seeking to strengthen reputation
in Notwithstanding the financial
hopes of a State. The Democrats in the
Senate would be less than men if they
failed to resist to the uttermost the on
summation of this dirty bargain. Better
far that the deadlock should last fer a
wear.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23
Points About the Panama Canal.
WASHINGTON Post,

American advices from Panama up to
the 9th of April show that the isthmus
canal surveys are progressing with
rapidity, energy and encouraging re.
suits. Our distinguished friend, De Les
seps, is evidently in earnest and without
the fear of the Monroe doctrine before
his eyes.
Mr. Blanchet, the agent of the CON
tractors, is said to have seventeen brig
AIDES" on duty, and enough data have
already been secured to prove that the
estimates of cost are within reasonable
limits" The field notes are nearly all
up, and the working plans ready for the
builders.
SO, after all that was said and done in
Congress last winter, and there was a
good deal more said than done, adverse
to the construction of an isthmus canal
by any foreign government, the French
company is actually engaged in the en-
terprise and with a reasonable prospect
of finishing it, right in the face and eyes
of the Eaton and Grape resolutions.
1t may be that ex-Secretary Thomp-
son gave the Frenchman due information
of the weight attaching to an average
Congressional resolution, and this re-
lieved them of any anxiety they may
have had on this point.
At any rate. the question now arises,
what is the Government of the United
States going to do about it? If the
building of the canal is really regarded
as a cGSus bella, it is proper, according to
all rules of international courtesy, that
France should be solemnly informed of
it. Perhaps the Senate, now in session,
might set the Malone treaty aside long
enough to pass another and a stronger
resolution-a final note of warning, as it
were.
Should that have no effect upon the
audacious De Lesseps, it becomes the i'm
perative duty of Secretary Hunt to pro-
coed at once to the reorganization of our
fleets of war. Mr.. Thompson must have
had the canal, the twenty-five thousand
salary and the emergency in view, when
he let the navy run down the way he did
during the late administration. How
ever that Emay be, it must be built up
again, and built good and strong, if we
expect to capture the canal within a
reasonable length of time after its COM
pletiOn,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23

Sergeant Bates, the American flag-car-
rier, reported to be dying in abject pow
erty in Saybrook, H., was visited a few
days ago by a reporter, who found him
in a dilapidated cottage, without carpets
or curtains, or furniture worth mention
ing. The man whose strange freak has
made his name known to all the country,
looked pale, haggard and emaciated, but
in the midst of his restitution, and with
death staring him in the face. he still
chung to the delusion that his name
would be venerated long after this I'M
grateful generation had gone down to
oblivion. For years Bates has been liv-
ing from hand to mouth, and since his
return from England has not been known
to do any kind of work except to write
queer things about his fag-carrying
schemes, or to run out to some neigh
boring town and deliver a lecture on the
same subject. While in England he was
made the recipient of a laIg re number of
presents. including jewelry, books, paint
ings. etc. All these, one by one, have
been disposed of to furnish the means of
subsistence for the deluded creature, his
wife and six children. If Sergeant
Bates had devoted himself to waving
the ''bloody shirt" instead of the old
flag, he might now occupy a seat in the
Senate with Logan, Hoar, Dawes and
FRYE
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23
MI. Stanley Matthews is to be defeat

MI. Stanley Matthews is to be defeat
ed for the Supreme Bench if an exhuma-
ton of his past acts can be made to &C
complish that end. The latest effort in
that direction is the bringing to light of
a case in which Mr.. Matthews figured in
Cincinnati in 1857 as United States Dis
trict Attorney, and prosecuted to o
viction n VIM. B. Connolly, then a
local reporter on the Cincinnati Gazette,
on the charge of "giving a cup of cold
water and a crust of bread to a young
mulatto and his wife, who were endeav.
oring to be free" To break the force of
this Mr. Matthew's friends claim that he
did not care to pursue the pursuer,
but that the indiscretion of Connolly in
an attempt to use his Masonry in a pri-
vate letter to the District Attorney caus-
ed his trouble. In abiding to this mat
ter, the New York Times says: "The
least strange thing is the fact that Presi-
dent Garfield. the successor of Joshua
R. -Giddings in the most rabid anti
slavery district in the Union, should
nominate for a high position n who,
in a brief period, was both anti and pro-
slavery, and who, in a most unusual
manner, convicted and imprisoned a
fellow-being for doing an act of common
humanity forbidden by the fugitive slave
law"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23

Garfield is said to be in full sympathy
with the Malone movement to break up
the Democratic party in the South. He
is reported as saying that he will do all
in his power to aid it. This sort of talk
is having its effect, and whilst weaken
ing him strengthens Conkling. The
Richmond State's letter of the 18th says:
"The President stands firmly by Rob-
ertson, Matthews and Chandler, the
most Objectionable nominations submit
ted to the Senate. RObertson's nomina-
ton will go to the Committee on Com
merce. of which Conkling is chairman;
Chambers probably to the Judiciary
Committee, which already has Matthews
nomination, and of which Conkling is a
member. It is believed that Conkling
will oppose all of them, but that Mat
thews aud Robertson will be confirmed
some months hence"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23

ANOTHER COLONIZATION SCHEME
The New York Tribune says there Is a
movement on the part of certain persons
who profess to be governed by a desire
to improve the condition of the colored
race in America to found a colony in
New Jersey, where all the industrial pur-
suits will be taught to colored men, with
a view of their becoming qualified to fill
responsible positions in factories of all
kinds. The originator of the scheme is
Edward H. Fittz, a real estate dealer of
Boston, who says that he has met with
great encouragement from many capt.
talists and well-known public men. A
prominent colored clergyman of New
York, when interviewed in regard to the
matter, said he had but little faith in the
scheme, and intimated that it was a real
estate speculation.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23

That whale miscalculated its size and
strength when it tried to sink the good
ship Anna, commanded by Captain Nc
Phail. 1t had been wounded by a har-
pooh and was a sore head whale; and
perhaps some of the smaller fish had
been whispering to him that it was his
duty to explode the old ship. So he
went at it and gave it a slap that he
thought was a bombshell, but he came
up in a little while and foated on his
back, lashing the sea in his pain and
fury. Meantime the good ship Anna
went on her way and came safely into
port in Baltimore on Saturday morning.
This is not a fable, but a fact. Yet
there is a moral to it: The old ship De-
mocracY is not easy to sink, and how
ever headstrong the whale may be the
contact doesn't benefit the scalp
Baltimore Gazette.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23

Messrs. d. Appleton Il Co. have begun
the publication of a series of small,
comely and very useful volumes. called
ssAppletOns' Home Books" Two vol
umes are ready, namely, Building a
Home, " an admirably suggestive treatise
upon sites, drainage, plans and details of
construction, by Mr.. A. F. Oakley; and
fsHow to Furnish a Home" by Ella Rod
man Church. The books are well
printed, prettily made and sufficiently
illustrated.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23

Senator Blair seems to have just dis
covered that De Lesseps is digging away
on his Panama canal. He thinks an ex-
ira session of Congress should be called
to assert American supremacy on the
isthmus. If Mr.. Blair will calmly re-
fleet on the subject. he will see that the
Congress of the United States has no
more right to interfere with De Lesseps
than it has to interfere with the construc-
ton of a railroad in Algeria.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23

FAIR PLAY FOR THE BoYToNs.-The
State Department is just now somewhat
embarrassed by the Boyton family.
Michael is in prison in England for op-
erations with the Land League, and
Paul, the swimmer, is in Chill in du-
rance for participation in the naval op-
erations of the Peruvians. Mr.. Blaine
will see that both the men have fair
play, although it Is said he thinks it is
rather pushing him for a single family
to make such a demand on diplomacy.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23

The Emperor of Russia has been tried
and condemned to death by the New
York branch of the International So
ciety. The same performance is said to
have been enacted in all the branches of
the society. The specific crime for
which the Emperor has been thus sum
marily c~onvictedis the murder of Sophie
Pieoffskyl 1t is by such hideous mock
cries as these that the courage of the
conspiracy is kept hot and the spirit of
assassination fed all over Europe.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23

A Chicago Republican journal speaks
of Jefferson Davis as "the venerable
traitor" The meaning of venerable is
"worthy of veneration or reverence;
deserving of honor or respect" If any
of the stalwart readers of the Chicago
journal understand English they will
wonder what is the matter with their
favorite newspaper.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23
A,ovordor TIT has nromoted IN

Alexander III. has promoted to a
Captaincy the young Lieutenant who
wrapped his own mantle around the
wounded Car just after the explosion.
1t was in this mantle that the murdered
man was taken to the Winter Palace.
III have bought you a new cloak" said
TIE young Gear to the soldier. II shall
keep the other" He has also given the
youth a present of 1900 roubles.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23

ELECTRIC LIGHTS IN LoNDoN.-In the
portion of London known as THE City"
the electric light is to be used on the
streets in the place of gas, at a cost of
$4O,O 600 a year. The three systems
Siemens, Brush and Jablochkoff-are to
be tested for a year.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23

Colored Cadet Whitaker has gained
at least this notoriety; his ears have cost
the government more than any other pair
of ears eve did or perhaps ever will.
The government has paid out "for and
on account of his ears 500. OO0-so it
is said. That bungling little trick of
his. has. under Republican management,
been a costly affair.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23

THE DEATH RATE IN NEW YORK
The New York Herald presents figures
showing IN alarming increase of mortal
ity in that city, which increase, it main
tains, is chiefly due to the filthy condi-
ton of the streets. The death rate of
the city for the first three months of
1880 was G. 1902; for the first three months
of 1881 it was 8, los, an increase of z, 1903.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23

The balance of trade IN favor of the
United States, from August 2 to
April 8, was $50, 900, 900, or so, OOO,-
600 o than during the previous year.
The probabilities are that the total
amount will reach 800, 600, 600 during
the present fiscal year.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23

The prospect for a tremendous over
flow in the Lower Mississippi valley is,
unhappily, very favorable, and the de-
struction of property viii doubtless be
great. There are mountains of snow in
the Northwest to be thawed into raging
torrents.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23

Lord Derby is one of the half dozen
English noblemen who have most ready
money. Except a villa near London, he
has but one place to keep up, and his in
come is at least a clear $760,000 a year.
He is cbildless and of very simple, mex
pensive tastes and habits.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23
Georgia Press Association.

The annual meeting will be held at
Rome on Wednesday, May 18th.
Members desiring further information
are requested to address the President.
The attention of editors and proprie-
tors of newspapers and other periodical
publications in the State is called to the
following extracts from the bylaws of
the Association:
The membership Of this Association shall
consist of such newspapers or other periodical
publications in Georgia as shall be elected and
admitted under this Constitution: these may
be represented bT their respective editors and
proDrietors OF nv one proxy each. No person
shall be entitled to represent any paper
BY proxy who is not the editor or proprietor or
a paper which is a member OF this Assocla-
ton"
Applicants for membership shall submit
their petitions in writing. accompanied by the
Zee, which application shall be baliobed on oY
the Association. and the ballots or swo-thlrds
Of the members present shall be necessary TO
the admission Of the applicant"
J.. II. EsTILL, President.
@. p. HANsELL, Recording Secretary.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23

TN CHATHAM SUPERIOR COURT, March
l. Term, 1881.
WOLF BARNETT, executor, ct al, COM
plainants, and THE IMPORTING AND Elk
PORTING COMPANY OF THE STATE OF
GEORGIA ct al, defendants. In Equity.
CITATION,
To the Importing and Exporting Compan of
the State of Georgia:
The above named corporation is hereby re-
quired to be and appear at the next, the June,
1881, Term of the Superior Court of Chatham
county, Ga, to be held at Savannah on the
FIRST MONDAY IN JUNE NEXT, to answer a
petition and bill in equity praying for the
dissolution of said corporation, for the for
fixture of its charter, and for the appointment
of a Receiver, in which petition and bill in
equity the said corporation is a party defend
ant.
- Witness my official signature and
sr. the seal of said Superior Court, this
~ twenty second day of April, 1881.
JAMES X P. CARR,
Deputy Clerk S. c.. {. c., Ga.
HENRY r. JACKSON,
CHISHOLM & ERWIN,
ap23-S3t Petitioners Solicitors.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23
NOTICE IN ADMIRALTY.

TINTED STATES on AMERICA, Southern
District of Georgia. Eastern Division. In
Admiralty.
Whereas, a libel in rem has been fled on the
22d day of April instant, in the District Court
of the United States for the Southern District
the pilot boat MARY ODELL," No. 8, her
tackle, apparel and furniture, now lying at Sa-
vannah, in the said District, and against all
persons lawfully intervening for their interests
therein, in a cause of collision, civil and mari
time, for reasons and causes in the said libel
mentioned, and praying the usual process and
monltlon IN that behalf to be made; and hat
4rsons claiming any interest therein may
l sd to appear and answer the premises;
Al hat the said pilot boat MARY ODELL,"
No. 3, her tackle, apparel, etc, may be con-
demned and sold to pay the demands of the
libellants.
And whereas, a warrant of arrest has been
issued on the SAID 22d day Of April under the
seal of the said court, commanding me to at
tach the said pilot boat Nos, MARY ODELL,"
her tackle, apparel and furniture, and to give
due notice to all persons claiming the same, to
appear and answer, and make claim thereto.
Now, therefore, l do hereby give public no
tice to oil persons claiming the said pilot boat
MARY ODELL," No. 8, her tackle, apparel
and furniture, or in any manner interested
therein, that they be and appear at the Clerks
office OF the District Court of the United States
for the Southern District of Georgia, in the
city of Savannah, on TUESDAY, the 10th day
of May next, A. D.. 1881, at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon OF that day, then and there to inter.
pose their claims, and to make their allega-
tions in that behalf.
Dated at Savannah, Ca, this 22d day of
April, A. D.. 1881.
o. P. FITZSIMONS,
United States Marshal, District of Georgia.
he CUNNINGHAM, Proctor for Libellants.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23
Stattnneru.

A GOOD COMMERCIAL NOTE
PAPER AT 75C. PER REAM. A
LIBERAL DISCOUNT TO THE
TRADE.
DAVIS BROS. & CO.,
Stationers,
ap2l-tf Bull and York SITS.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-23
is held by Democratic Senators

1t is held by Democratic Senators that
these propositions present their case in
the c~learest manner, and entirely justify
to any one but eve slightly familiar with
the rules of legislative proceedings, the
course they have adopted and which
they persist in.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-01-15
The Georgia Ribbon Cane in California.

This and another variety, known as the
green cane, are grown in considerable guam
titles around Macon, Georgia, and other up
lands of the State 1t is true sugar
cane. and much syrup and sugar are manu-
featured from it in parts of the Gulf States
This ribbon cane is so named from purple
stripes on the stalks. Mrs. McCung obtained
the original joints from friends near Macon,
and this is the third summer that paintings
have been made on Kern Island In brief
these repeated experiments have not been en-
trely satisfactory, whatever the cause But
the chief trouble seems to be our cold nights,
which tend to stunt the growth OF the cane ;
possibly more frequent application of water,
and different treatment of the soil, may over
come this difficulty, in part at least.
The joints, which learn from Colonel and
Mrs. McClung, were stored and preserved
from the effects of severe frosts last winter
only by the greatest care, were planted in
April. BY October 2sth they appeared to have
obtained their growth. Some twenty-five
plants had from ten to fifteen stalks each. The
entire plants were from nine to ten feet high,
though the stalks were not more than six feet,
the joints from two to six inches long, and
from one to two inches through at the ground.
In Georgia the stalks attain length of ten or
twelve feet and their joints are from six inches
to foot long. Until the true sugar cane, of
which this Georgia kind is a valuable variety,
can be made to attain a similar growth here to
that in the Southern States, where the sum
mer nights are usually warm and sultry. no
experiment yet tried with it in this valley can
be properly claimed as full success. Whether
this can be done is still problem for the flu
ture to solve. As regards temperature this
fall, tho first frost near Bakersfield was in Octo-
Der 18th, the same date as in the Mussel
Slough region. The thermometer at the Nc
Chung ranch indicated 10 degrees Fahrenheit
at six A. NJ. that morning. October 18th at six
A. NJ. it was SO degrees. At noon, October
2sth, it was 70 degrees. Our first ice, nearly
quarter of an ich thick, was November 9th.
Temperature on ranch near Hanford, Novem-
Der llth, at sun rise, FL degress.-S. f. Post.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-01-15
Saturday Press Supplement, January IS, 1851

or otherwise for what cause he undertook the
arrest nor did he require him 10 submit and
accompany him to the jail. And even admitting
that he had committed any ofiense without these
preliminaries, the officer had not the right 10 lay
the weight Of his finger upon him, and IL he did,
the person no assaulted by him had perfect right
10 resist. IL was gross outrage not only on the
person arrested but the community whose
peace and sense Of propriety were disturbed This
respondent was taken before the Police Magis-
trate who had the authority to discharge him sum
Imnrily from the police force. (See Section 2t6
Civil Code) But the magistrate saw fl To take
the gentler course Of fining him the small sum of
*lb and yet this man il here before this Court,
causing us to spend NEARLY whole day in nvest-
eating this very obvious fault. And there
fore in conformity with the 2b6th Section of the
civil Code, which enacts that policemen may be
removed Mt any time by the Governors Marshal,
any Judge of n Court of Record, or n Police JUS
tice, do dismiss him from the police force and
do require that he be not employed therein again"
SECTION a6. The Governors of the Kingdom
shall appoint a certain number of Constables for
each district in the Islands under their respective
Jurisdictions who shall be under the control Of
the Marshal and his deputies but they may DO
removed mt any time by the Governors, Marshal,
any Judge of n Court of Record or Police Justice
The policeman was lightly dealt with, but a. he
the character OF being one of the quietest
in the force 1t is hoped that those who are more ac
customed to use brute force on unfortunate pdkes
and hdoIes will take warning by this mild reproach.
and endeavor to exercise some discretion in the
manner in which they handle the possibly limo
cent as well as the probably guilty. The Homo
lulu force can boast of some strong able bodied
men, but 1t reflects little credit it, for ILL using
and over-powering an individual. Ill usage is
known to be resorted to even where there is no re-
sistance, and the still more nhuman and barbarous
acts OF pinching the muscles, pressing the arteries
and sickenng the party arrested, is mode adopt
ed by some ill-trained policemen 1t is high time
report upon general action of the police through
out the kingdom.