Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1883-04-28

Oultcu OtdteS navy WIZ was ulfcCtcu
by Rear-Admiral Cooper, commanding
the North Atlantic Station, to pass
over the line of the Panama Canal, and
examine its general plans, its condi-
ton and prospects, has made his re-
port. He belle yes that there can no
longer be any doubt of the intention nj
the company to carry ont their project
that it can be accomplished for the
amount estimated, $120, 900, but
will probably cost more, and will not
be finished for several years after the
contemplated date, 1888. In this con-
.nection it is of interest to know that
the projectors of the Nicaragua canal,
having despaired of aid from the United
States government, are now doing
what they should have done at first,
depending upon themselves, and that
they intenI to push their scheme to a
successful issue. The Nicaragua canal
can be cut in one fourth the time it
would take to make canal at Panama,
and for one fourth the cost. It will be
all American institution if completed,
and we sincerely hope that its friends
will promptly push it to the front.
Once fairly under way and Panama
stock would not be worth five cents OIL
the dollar.
The New York Nation, one of the
ablest republican newspapers in the
country, ays:-''The removal of MIR.
Trowbridge, the Michigan collector, in
the middle of his term, without any
charge against him, in spite of long
and contessedly faithful service, on the
demand Of Senator Conger, in order
that a newspaper henchman of his
might get the vacant place, has excited
a great deal of comment all over the
country as well as in Michigan. 1t has
attracted all the more attention because
it has occurred in the state which sent
forth Jay Hubbell last fall to collect
voluntary assessments of two per cent.
on your annual compensation, but SUBJ
sequently expressed its opinion of that
sort of thing by ousting six of its nine
republican congressman.
Those Tewksbury. Massachusetts,
radicals do so love the "nigger." They
not only beat and starved to death the
poor "colored people" committed to
their charge, but skinned one of them
and tanned his hide after they had mur-
dered him. "Studen' doctorsn are
lambs as compared to these hvpocrit-
ical wolves. Suppose company OF
southern men had whipped and starved
to death negro man, and then skinned
him and tanned his skin. What howl
there would have been. What drama
tizalion! What poems! What columns
of editorial walls on the barbarism OF
the south! Now, the very newspapers
that would have raised this never-end-
ing yell are apologising for this tanning
of negro's skin as the mere freak OF
medical student.
Work has already actively begun in
the department at Washington undel
the new law, which grants an increase
i'll the rate of pensions from S24 to S3(
per month to soldiers who lost a leg
above the knee or all arm above the
elbow. Already more than 11,o0(
petitions from one armed soldiers have
been received. More than $4,000 doc
uments in the nature of evidence
1000 reports, and 46, 900 letters wers
received last month. If our friend
Major Lennon, at Jefferson, will only
put i'll all application we have little doub
that he could get thousand men t.
swear he lost his arm in the service O
r his country.