The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-12-02

Mr.. Blanche K. Bruce, the Registrar
of the Treasury, formerly Republican
Senator from Mississippi, is colored
man and was once slave. He knows by
his own experience the feelings of the
freedmen. He is, and has a right to be,
a Jealous partisan of their interests. As
a Republcan-and we may fairly say the
most distinguished colored Republican in
the South-he supported Mr.. Blaine IN
the Presidential canvass But sinces Mr..
Blaine's wicked speech at Augusta Mr.
Bruce despises him as liar and CON
dennis him as the worst enemy OF the
colored people. "Blaine's charges Of in
timidation and violence at the polls in
the Southern States, in the recent elec-
ton, says Mr.. Bruce, care absolute land
unqualified falsehoods" "Tbe greatest
harmony exists iu the South between
the white and colored races" The lAu-
gusta speech was "demagogical in the
extreue and wholly unwarranted.a. II
will be "the cause Of great uneasiness
and mental distress among the colored
people of the South" Mr.. Blaine has
"fomented new antagonism,' and his
speech "has lowered him more in popular
esteem than any act of his life" But
Mr.. Bruce believes that fortunately !" its
evil effects on the colored people evil
be short-lived." q
Mr. Cleveland will be an important
man in the eyes of the army also. Ac-
cording to the Washington Capital he
will have the appointment of two Major
Generals and six Brigadier Generals.
Brigadier Gen. Augur, who commands
the Department of the Missouri, retires
next July, and it will depend whollyIon
the personal wish of the President, AFTER
being advised by the Secretary of War
and the Lieutenant General, whit Colonel
shall succeed him. A year later will &C.
cur the retirement of Gen. Pope, and
then the question will be whether Gen.
Terry or. Gen. Howard shall be the next
Major General. Whoever is promoted
there will be a vacant Brigader Genera al
cy. Major Gen. Hancock will retire in
1888, opening the way to the promotion
OF still another Brigadier General.
of course, it will be seen TO that the
seven United States soldiers at Fort
Wadsworth, Staten Island, who voted
for Cleveland at the late election, and
who are now to be prosecuted on charge
of having voted illegally, are provided
with able Democratic counsel. It is sill
the more important that the case should
be carefully looked into and the rights
of these men protected because of the
fact that three other soldiers at the same
station, who voted for Blaine, have not
been interfered with Washington Port.
The cocoanut tree donated by Mr.
John White, of Key West, for the Ndw
Orleans Exposition has been sent there by
Commissioner Sebring, The tree is
full-grown, twenty-five year old cocoanat
tree, thirty feet high and two feet in di-
ameter at the trunk, with about one hun-
dred cocoanuts, ranging from the size of
an egg to the fully developed nut. The
tree was rooted up with pulleys from two
masts. The germ nut from which it grew
was found intact under its roots, and
sent also with the tree.-JacksonviHe Her
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north CARoL1NA.-To-morrow, . train
Of twenty freight cars leaves here direct !
for New Orleans, all the cars packed with |
articles for exhibition by the State Of |
North Carolina. On Monday the party |
in charge of the exhibits leaves for New
Orleans in care of Frank B. Dancy and 1
Stephen B Worth. The exhibits cover 1
the widest possible range, and completely
illustrate the interests and products IL |
The Htate. -RoJsi0h Nnss Hill