Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-28

1875, slept Garibaldi ''after the country had
been made free and secure" "No one
else," 1t is added, ''shall ever sleep here
again" Velletri. It may be said, was long
the home of the OctaYisn family of ancient
Rome, and it is believed that Augustus
Caesar there first saw the light.
Owing to the large increase which has
been made in the force of the Pension
Office, it has become necessary to rent sew.
eral additional buildings. The Office
formerly occupied by the Census Bureau
has been rented, and about 500 pension
clerks are now at work there. In addition
to this, three dwellings adjoining the Pen
! sion Office have been engaged, and are now
being lifted up for occupancy. The force Is
| being divided into divisions as fast as ap-
pointments and promotions are made. Act
| ing Commissioner Clark SAYS that about the
first geek in September there will be up
ward Of |, 200 clerks in the Pension Office,
and the probabilities are that still further
accommodations will be necessary. The
Census Bureau is now established in new
| quarters on Seventh street. Superintendent
SeatOn says the work yet to be done will
keep his present force employed nearly all
OF the current fiscal year. The statistics
| respecting manufactures, which the office
is now engaged upon, are nearly completed.
| The work on population" with few
minor details, is finished.
Although since the dispatch came that
the Russians contemplated the occupation
of Asia Minor no further allusion has been
made to the matter, there is a strong proba-
bility that such an occupation may vet be
/ an element in the complicated Eastern
situation. 1t will be remembered that the
claims of Russia to a large strip of Asia
Minor were very considerably modified In
the Berlin Congress, and that she only re-
ceived a very small slice In the neighbOr-
hood OF the Caucasus. This modification
was the work of England in the congress,
who had previously and in secret obtained
Cyprus from the Turks, the principal con-
dition of the cession being that England
would help Turkey in carrying out the re-
forms demanded IN Asia Minor, and would
guarantee her against attack in that quarter.
Now that Turkey and England have fallen
out, it is certainly within the limits of
probability that Russia once more has her
eyes upon the coveted territory, and that
Turkey may be more than willing she
should have 1t in consideration Of help from
her at some future critical time.
A case of peculiar horror is that of a man
HhLueu 1dLulitOu, WuOS DOLHR DIOuSub Dt-
fore New York Police Justice on
charge of drunkenness, was committed to
the insane asylum at Wards Island. This
was six years ago. That Justice was insane
at the time, and soon after died a maniac.
But Hamilton, recovering from the effects
of his spree, found himself in a madhouse.
His indignant protest was followed by the
prompt application of a straight jacket, and
the horrors he then suffered effectually de-
tered him from making further protesta-
tions of sanity His friends gave him up for
dead, knowing nothing Of his fate. Now,
after years of suffering among madmen, it
is fusllY learned that the man has never
been mad, and that a cruel outrage has been
perpetrAted upon him in the name of the
law. Insane asylums are doubtless a neces-
sity Of our high pressure civilization, and
perform a beneficent work for the 6ommu-
mites they serve; but institutions where
such cases as this Of Hamilton are possible
are fit subjects for searching investigation
and, If need be, prompt suppression.