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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25


1t will be remembered that a short
time since there appeared in our local
columns an extract from the New York
Times containing an alleged address of
Mr.. J. N. Stearns, Correspondents Sec
rotary and Publishing Agent of the
National Temperance Society and Publ
cation House. in which he was made to
say that colored preachers in Savannah
pere frequently confirmed whisky drink.
ers and dispensers of whisky to their
congregations. He has written letter to
a gentleman in this city, who forwarded
him paper containing the above men
toned extract, in which he positively
denies having used any such language.
He says:
al made no such speech. l said moth
ing about any ones being confirmed
whisky drinker, much less the colOred
ministers of Savannah. | made no such
remark about Florida as is reported. l
gave no opinion of my own about the
colored people of Savannah, for | know
but little of them. l only repeated a
remark made to me by one of its most
reliable citizens, to the effect that many
of the colored people drink liquor, in
Guiding some of its ministers. l should
be only too glad to know this to
be untrue. Judging from the
remarks of a correspondent of the
News, the entire population of Savan-
nah were altogether different from those
of all other cities of this country. l did
say that, from my observation and be-
lief, the great enemy of the colored
people of the South is the whisky bot
tie, and l charged the Republican party
of North Carolina, through its State
Committee, with issuing circular urg-
ing the colored people to vote against
prohibition.
This is about the gist of Mr.. Stearns'
letter, and we cheerfully publish it in
Justice to himself. 1t would be well,
however, if he would cause the New
York Times, which reported his address
as it was published in the News, to
make the necessary retraction.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

The committee appointed by the New
York Cotton Exchange TO investigate
the charges of sand adulteratiOn made
by the Liverpool Cotton Brokers' Asso-
citation, have presented their report,
which was adopted. and copies have been
sent to the President of the Liverpool
Cotton Brokers Association, the National
Cotton Exchange ald to Secretary Ere
liDghuysen. Il set forth that, having
thoroughly investigated the charges, the
committee fail to find any evidence Of
intentional adulteration, or that any
fraud had been practiced. The explana-
ton is that during the wet seasons of
1SS0-'S1 the cotton absorbed so much
sand and dirt that the picking and beat
ing failed to dislodge them. Owing to
this the staple was sold for just exactly
what it was, and the buyers were aware
Of its condition. The committee, there
fore, find that the adulteratiOn is due
entirely to atmospheric causes, and mild
" censure our representative abroad for
his hasty judgment on a matter which
he did not understand.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

Investigation Of the manner in which
the bill which repeats the permanent ap.
preparation for the coinage of the silver
dollar was passed by the Senate, shows
that there is no doubt that the repeal of
this particular appropriation was not in
tended; but the inquiry also discloses
the fact that certain prominent bl-metal-
lists are quite willing the question of ap-
propriating money for the purchase Of
bullion and the coinage of silver should
be discussed each year. Speaking of
this, a Congressman who has been promi
nently identified with the silver dollar
agitation said: For my part l am quite
willing that the subject shall be discus
sed every year, for if the time shall come
when the representatives of the people
do not care to vote money to purchase
bullion to coin the silver dollar it will be
time to stop the coinage"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25
A Western Protest Against Arthur

ASlns
The Chicago Tribune. though a stall
wart of the stalwarts so far as hatred OF
the South is concerned, is nevertheless
very indignant at the drift of the present
administration. In a recent editorial 1t
announces that Western Republicans do
not propose to stand quietly by and see
General Arthur pave the way to second
term. 1t takes the ground that MIR.
Arthur is opposing the denomination OF
Governor Cornell, of New York, under
the apprehension that the election OF the
latter gentleman would make him a for
midable Presidential competitor for the
nomination in the next Republican
National Convention. and acting on this
supposition, it proceeds to lecture the
President in plain aud vigorous language.
1t tells him that the American people
are not apt to forget by 1884 the political
events which preceded and led up to the
assassination of President Garfield, and
they are not disposed to reward with the
highest political preferment the very
men who were responsible for all the
fractional dissension and rancor that bore
down upon Garfield. Mr.. Arthur, it
says, may have sufficient power in New
York politics to prevent Governor Cor
nell from securing a denomination. He
may be able to control the machine" so
completely as to prevent any Garfield
man from being candidate. But after
all this shall have been accomplished he
will discover the impossibility of any
subsequent effort to manipulate the Ma
tional Convention, and to convince the
representatives of the Republican party
throughout the country that politician
of his calibre and methods is essential to
Republican success in 1884.
This is beginning the next Presi-
dental campaign on the part of our stall
wart brethren rather early. Still, we are
glad to see it. A bitter fight between
the Republicans of the East and West
would make a very pretty quarrel-one
which the Democracy would very
thoroughly enjoy, especially as the re-
suit would probably be that the honest
lnen of the country would get their dues.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

their faces toward Mecca or in pursu-
ing their way in vast caravans from
one unknown point to another-like the
trains on the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Judging from these pictures, the desert
is densely inhabited, say to the extent Of
one Arab and the camel thereunto ap-
pertaining to every three square yards.
These people-including the camels-are
full of all sorts of simple virtues, and
unless they are engaged in the slave trade
which they never are in the pictures
they are wonderfully courteous and
gentle.
Now, it is a nice thing to suddenly
turn the Mediterranean loose on these
excellent Arabs2 Most of them have
never seen a drop of water, except when
they have drawn off pint or two from
a shock it will he to them when the
flood from the Mediterranean reaches
them and sweeps them away before it.
Perhaps they can keep in advance of it
by riding at full speed toward the
south, but even in that case, if
they succeed in saving their lives,
they cannot continue in the bust.
ness as Arabs any longer, for an Arab
without desert is obviously impossible.
And what will be the feelings of the ma
tive African Kings when they see a
countless horde of Arabs galloping to
ward them to escape the advancing
waters, or whsn thousands of drowned
Arabs and camels are foated to the very
gates of Timbuctoo? Will they not feel
that an unjustifable liberty has been
takpO with fhau aOd will fhoU not Ua1-
come such living Arabs as may reach
them with fierce "Yah- yahs" and deadly
conundrums to hOspitable graves2
1t may be that the main reason why the
Frenchmen want to turn the Sahara into
lake is that thereby they may destroy
the Italian climate. At present Italy is
understood to be warmed chiefly by the
Sahara-such small local heaters as
Etna and Vesusvius having very little
influence on the climate of the peninsula
generally. 1t is believed that if the sea
is admitted to the desert, Italy will be-
come as cold as Norway. She will no
longer be the resort of tourists, and her
people, being unable to turn the handles
of their organs with frozen fingers, will
perish of hunger. This is probably the
revenge which the Frenchmen seek for
the failure of Italy to help them against
Germany. They should not forget, how
ever, that the same expedient which is
to freeze Italy will freeze Toulon and
Marseilles, and make Provence rather
colder than Normandy.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

Professor Sumner has tersely said: eff
you want to protect American labor put
q tax on the importation of laborers, not
a tax on manufactured articles" But
every effort to protect Americans against
thecOmpetition of cheap Chinese labor, I"
curiously enough, has met with the
strongest opposition from those who are
loudest in their elamor for high pro
tective tariff. On this point the New
York Commercial Bulletin remarks:
The truth is the cry of protection to
American industry is the merest
clap-trap. In the infancy Of our
manufactures, the operatives in the
factories were mostly Americans, but as
Americans are accustomed to better liv-
ing than Europeans, our Eastern capt.
falists imported Irish labor. AS the
Irishman became Americsnized in his
ideas, his labor was discarded for that
Of the French Canadian, and as the
French Canadian refuses any longer to
submit to starvation wages. the Eastern
capitalist looks with longing eyes to the
Coolie. Protection to American indus
Try means simply profession to capital
and not to labor.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

The writer who is contributing the
series Of Studies Of the South" to the
Atlantic Magazine, presents in the paper
in the May number some interesting
views upon the industrial condion Of the
South. Speaking Of the lack of diver
sity Of industrial interests in that sec
ton, he says: But the great preponder
ance given tocottOn is nearly everywhere
injudicious and improbable. In many
extensive districts the planters persist in
growing it on nearly every arabic acre,
as if it were the only crop the land
would produce. They buy flour, corn
and meat from the North in incredible
quantities When there is a good crop
they receive much money for their cot
ton, but must pay it all out for articles
which could be grown on their own
farms. Many of the planters confess
their conviction of the improvidence of
this method, but persist in the practice,
nevertheless"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25
The High Price of Government Four
Per Gents.


The New York Eosning Post, discus
sing the financial and commercial sltua-
ton, expresses the opinion that the I'D
precedented high price to which United
States 4 per cent bonds have advanced
during the past week is misleading
feature, if accepted as an index OF the
money market. 1t believes the cause of
the advance to be that these are almost
the only United States bonds now in the
market to an extent that would make
them available as security for ma
tional bank circulation, and therefore
the only ones the banks could buy
to replace the $4,000, 900 of other bonds
called in by the Treasury in the last five
months. This alone would cause an ad.
vance in their price above other interest
paying investments. But it is believed
that the supply of these bonds in the
market is, to large extent, controlled
by few large concerns and capitalists,
and that the prices have been advanced
as much by such control. for speculative
purposes, as by the actual buying of the
banks to replace the called bonds.
The Post also thinks that money is not
as cheap as the prices of these bonds
would seem to indicate, but there is an
unusually large amount of capital seek
ing investment. 1t does not find invest
ment in stocks because the stock market
has become demoralized, partly by the
recent manipulations of prominent
operators and partly by the fact-which
has recently become apparent-that the
exportable surplus of grain in the coun-
try is unusually small. Upon this latter
fact it has been assumed that between
now and the next harvest the earnings
of the railroads would be light and also
that specie exports would be renewed.
The public generally have not been san
guine about the future of prices of
stocks, and have been disposed to await
greater certainty about the next crops.
The stock market has, therefore. been
left to the bears, and is believed to be
largely oversold. Notwithstanding the
light grain tonnage on the railroads,
however, their earnings are larger than
last year, on account of the increase of
immigrant business and local traffic in
| all parts of the country.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

The woman suffrage movement seems
to be prospecting in Nebraska. Sixty Of
the sixty four counties in the State have
strong organizations actively engaged in
pushing 1.-THE car Of progress" Ninety
newspapers lend their assistance. The
Legislature of 1880 decided by very
large majority to submit the matter to
vote of the people in a constitutional
amendment; and the enthusiastic cham.
pions of so-called impartial suffrage are
now serenely confident of a grand vic
tory at the polls next fall. They say
that Nebraska will surely ''emanclpate"
women, and that the adoption of this
amendment will make the movement
simply irresistible in Colorado, Kansas,
Iowa, Dakota. Oregon, Nevada, Califor-
MIA and the entire West.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

The sh ong minded females have at
length won a victory in New York.
They have secured q favorable
report from the Assembly Com
mittee on Grievances, allowing them
to exercise the right of suffrage on
the same conditions with the other sex.
1t is stated that there is strong proba-
bility that the bill will go through the
committee of the whole, and it has at
least a fair chance in the Senate. This
Is the first time woman suffrage has
progressed so far in that State, and the
friends of the measure naturally are
much encouraged in the expectation of
ultimate success,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

It is stated that Mr.. Hewitt has re
ceived requests for $4,000 copies of his
speech on the tariff, which is a greater
actual demand than has ever beel made
for a speech in Congress. He drew his
check for s., 500 to cover the cost Of
press work, which was only one cent
copy, but which represented in the ag
gregate more than half his years salary
in Congress-
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

Tue Radical BOurb9ns of the House
tried to wave the bloody undergarment
yesterday, but they made a wOful
failure. They will try again at the first
opportunity, however. These BOurbOns
never can be taught anything. They
think the war is still progressing, and
that slavery still exists in the South.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

The Baltimore Day informs the Rich
mOnd Wing that it had rather its light
should go out forever than that it should
depend on a rascal to roo a railroad to
furnish the oil with which to keep it
burning. The pith of this reply of the
Day can be readily seen when it is re-
membered that though Malone ran the
Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad
into bankruptcy, he himself accumula-
ted great wealth, and put large amount
of his ''earnings" into the Wing.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

What made old David Davis so par
ticularly mad the other day when he
broke down Senator Browns chair was
not so much that Senator Butler laughed
at him as that some one on the other side
of the chamber alluded to him as "The
Jumbo of the Senate" 1t is also stated
that on the last occasion that he fell
through chair Mr.. Conkling chuckled
audibly, and the ponderous Illinoisan
would not notice him for a week after.
wards
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

French financiers and priests, undis
mayed by political events, are now in
Rome attempting to establish new
bank. They have sought the blessing of
the Pope upon the scheme. For an an
swer the Pope wrote on the back of the
memorial submitted to him, LET the
money changers be turned out of the
temDle "
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

We have received No. 1. volume /, of
the RqiJWay Gazette and Commercial
Chronicle, a monthly journal devoted to
railway intelligence, the construction,
operation and management of railways,
information regarding new roads, extern
sions, projected lines, etc, in short, every
thing connected with railway interests.
1t is published by the Gazette Railway
Publishing Company" Of Atlanta, of
which Mr.. B. W Wrenn is President,
and Is edited by Mr.. J. S. Peterson. 1t
is just such a journal as is needed in the
South, and we wish it all possible sue
cess.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

The New York World thinks that the
adjournment of the Virginia Legislature
with the Readiusters beaten in every
important fight, marks the end not only
Of the administration" party in VIr-
ginia, but Of every other independent
movement" in the South during the
present administration.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

General Hancock, it is said, rises very
early in the morning and takes an ante
sunrise walk. His reason for this is that
that is the only hour of the twenty-four
when he is unoccupied with official
duties, and has time to think.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

Awarding Hallette Kilbourne 800, 900
damages because he was kept in arrest
for a few weeks by Congress, and be-
cause the corrupt real estate pool of
Washington, of which he was the chief,
was exposed, is regarded as travesty on
justice. However, the District of
Columbia has been, more or less,
under the influence of Radicalism for
twenty years, and therefore the verdict is
not surprising.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

The friends of General Fitz John Por-
ter are said to be confident that the
President will pardon him so far as a
pardon can effect the original sentence.
Whether he will be reinstated in the army
OF not is another question.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

Senator Brown was in Milledgeville
few days since for the first time in twelve
years. He is still indisposed, and will
probably delay his return TO Washington
until the weather becomes more settled.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25
HEARTILY Recommended.

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this section of kidney and nervous disor-
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| sufferers.-AetOS.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

The State Democratic Convention of
Missouri viii be held at Jefferson City
on the 26th of July next.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

Even some Northern stalwart papers
admit that the Howgate escape is posi-
tive disgrace.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

Mr.. George 1. Seney, the philanthro-
pist, has Just given his check for $25, 900
to the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25

Senator Mcdonald says ''the boys in
Indiana are already catching step for a
Democratic victory this fall. "
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-01

Cincinnati, 30.-Irregulsrity in the
official conduct of the late George f.
Doughty, secretary of the Cincinnati,
New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad
Company, has teen brought to light to.
day. It is an overissue of 100000 OF
stock of that road, The overissue was
promptly turned into cash, but the stock
Ia some way has been manipulated so
payment Of the January dividend, nor
was it known till the day OF the death OF
Doughty which occurred several moths
ago The capital stock of the company
ID s., zoo, 900. At the time 1t was made
there was . very general expectation that
the stock would rise materially in value
in which case il could hsvs been bought
10 by Doughty at the advance, but the
stock declined aud was net bought.
Doughty invested the bulk of the proceeds
in the CinciDnst Silma and Alabama
Railroad aud this stock is in posses
sion of Theodore Cook, administrator oil
DOughty's estate, and it Is claimed will
very ne Fly make good the loHs. There
is beside, recourse upon his bondsmen
to the extent of $50, 600, if it is found
they are able for such an amount. The
stock was signed in blank By President
Cook, and being III Doughty's Gus
tody as secretary he made the over
issue. He evidently had no idea of csus'
ing loss to any one,as there was no poe
sibility OF eonceslIng the over issue any
considerable time; besides, his business
like investment of the proceeds showed
his purpose of regAining the stock as
soon as it had served his purpose.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-01
A French cabinet Crisis.

Paris, 3O.-In consequence of the re-
lection by the Chamber of the motion for
q vote Of credit, the original movements
of troops and the feet were stopped. al
miral Conrad, commanding the French
feet 10 Egyptian waters, Is ordered to
maintain strict neutrality. President
Greevy, to-day, had a conference with
the president OF the Senate and Chamber.
Newspapers consider the vote yesterday
on the bill granting Egyptian credits
more clearly shows The coalition OF the
enemy's cabinet than any precise indica'
ton of opinion in the Cnam Der on The
foreign policy. The complete nature OF
the msjerity vote is shown BY the fact
that the credits were received after
speeches by Clemencesu and DemArcere,
political opponents. Gam bettist jOurn-
ais advise President Grevy to summon
BrissoC, president of the Chamber o.
Deputies, to form q neE cabinet. 1t l;
doubtful, however, whether Brissor
would accept such change The c:lsii
is likely to last some days.
Berlin, 30.-The vote in the Freoci
Chamber of Deputies rejecting the oil
granting Egyptian credits, is viewed 0J
Germany with satisfaction as indicating
French policy of peace and non-lnser-
VentioQ,