Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-17

the Morgan Line, from New York. She
had four hundred car loads OF miscellaneous
freight for New Orleans and Texas. This
mammoth steamer has g carrying espaclty
OF nine thousand bales of cotton. the
steamship knickerbOcker, OF the Cromwell
Line, arrived Sunday morning at o'clock
from New York with a full cargo OF as
sorted freight. These facts indicate a
thriving trade with New York by the ocean
lines Of transportation, which Will increase
In proportion as the industrial aud sgricul-
tural development If the South and South
west progresses
Elk Governor Hendricks, OF Indiana, was
questioned while in Louisville recently by a
reporter of the Commercial of that city about
the Democratic Presidential ticket two years
hence. "The ticket of 1876" he said, twill
not be renominated. | will never be can
didate for Vice President again. NO, sir,
will never run for that office again Mr.
Tilden is a most able man-one OF the
clearest headed men l ever knew. he
knows, and you know, ana everybody
knows, that he was elected to the Presl-
dency. He feels that he was most unjustlY
deprived of that Office. To man OF Mr.
Tlden's strong character this burning wrong
must be righted, and he will never rest salts
fed till it is righted. General Hancock is
possibility, not probability.
A suit was recently brought in Rome
against the Minister of Finance by surviv-
ing relatives of the late Pope Plus TX in
which his nephews, nieces and widowed
sister-in-law, members OF the Msstai-Fer--
retti family, claim the accumulated income
of the vast estates which attach to the Papal
office, ard which were withheld from pay
ment to the late Pope in consequence OF
the hostile attitude maintained by the Vail
can toward the italian Government. The
funds have been growing In amount, and,
though they do not figure In the Italian
Treasury statements, they are estimated
among the millions, and the relatives of His
late Holiness lay claim to them as 2 part Of
his private estate, Of which they are the heirs.
The Princess del Drago, widow of Count
Luigi Mastai, the Counts Glrolamo and
Antonio Mastai-Ferretti, and the Countess
Anna Mercuri Arstilli are the plaintiffs.
The valley of the Owens river, lnyo coun
ty, Cal, is said to be the most forbidding
aud useless portion of the American CONT
nent, yet 1t is prophesied that it will be
made fruitful, and that the gloomy Owens
lake into which the river empties will be-
come famous watering place. The valley
is of volcanic origin, lying on the east side
cf the lofty range of the Sierra Nevadas.
Its whole area is rough, rocky, barren and
devord of water save In the channel OF the
river which is fed from the mountains.
Nothing grows except sage brush. There
is not even fringe of green along the riv-
er's edge. Rain hardly ever falls, the
moisture from the coast breezes being con
densed on the west side of the intervening
mountains. Yet the soil of this alkaline
desert is capable of supporting abundant
crops If only water can be brought upon 1t.
This it is claimed can be done for consid-
cradle area all along the valley for l5O
miles. The slope of the river bed is % even
and the natural conformation OF its banks
such that its waters can readily be distrib-
uted over the fields. This has been done In
numerous cases, and already there are
neighborhoods where groups OF farms are
cultivated.
The reported offer of the native States OF
British India to furnish troops for the Eng
lish expedition to Egypt is likely enough to
be correct. During the Anglo-Russian
difficulty Of 1873, when Lord Beacons6eld
was drawing reinforcements from India, al
most every native Prince in the Empire
placed his forces at the disposal Of the gov
pledging himself for $1,000 men. 1t is true
that the Moslem population of Hindustan
can hardly be expected to show the same
zeal in a war waged against a Mussulman
people. But the Hindus, who outnumber
them in the proportion of six to one, will be
all the more eager to indulge their hatred of
everything Mohammedan by taking part in
the Egyptian campaign. Most significant
OF ali il the offer Of contingent
from the mountain State of Nepaul
(now the only independent territory of i'm
portance in all Indis). where English re
crulting has been somewhat discouraged OF
late gut the prospect Of shedding NOslem
blood viii be more eff lent agent Of en-
listmeut among The fierce Nepaulese Goor-
khas than any offers of pay or bounty So
bitter is their hatred of all Mussulmans that
In one of the battles of the late Afghan
war they actually butchered in cold blood
with their kuAriS (ong knives) all the Afghan
wounded on the battlefield. On another oc-
casion these little savages absolutely set fire
to the clothes of number of disabled
Mohammedans, ana Knocked the tortured
men with the most degrading epithet that o
Moslem knows-"son Of burned father. F"