Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-05

A4oW %St ,SOO,O0O. 4u0 dStOn1Su1uS u0V01OD- ment of Dakota is shown by these figures. In 1882 the total valuasion was but SAT, ,101, 479, and, in 1883, $69, 155, ,9O5. It has nearly doubled in wealth in two years.
 The managers of the New Orleans cotton exposition have made provision for exhibiting jute, both raw and manufactured, and hope to stimulate the production of that valuat g material in the South. In India over mil lion acres of land are devoted to jute, and the product is valued at $1O0, 900, 900 year. Great quantities of the fiber are imported to this country In 1882 St. Louis manufac- tured 13, 900, 900 yards of jute bagging, and it is estimated that not less than 100, ,OOO, GOO pounds of jute are used annually in bag ging cotton. It is believed that jute can be proftably grown in the South.
 Professor George H. Stone of the United States geological survey is now in Maine in yestigating the gravel system, or F'horse- baeks." that lie between the Kennebec and Penobscot river. Some of these deposits that remain to tell of the glacial period are from seventy-fve to one hundred feet in height, marking the course of the glacial rivers. Prof. Stone estimates that the sea formerly flowed 200 feet above it's present level, and at one place in the town of Readfe1d, near Rents Hill seminary, he says he has found evidence of 8 sea flowing against the base of an ice cliff. This point is about twelve miles from tide-water in the Kennebec river.
 A very extraordinary diamond of no less than 457 carats has been shipped from South Africa and sold by London firm to a syndi- cate of diamond merchants. The color equals, if not excels, that of the finest India dia- monds, and in the opinion of competent judges it will cut to a perfect and lustrous brilliant. In drop shape it will weigh as nearly as can be estimated about 220 carats, or in lozenge shape, briolette, about 300 car ars The brilliant will, therefore, exceed in weight all the historical diamonds. The Koh-i-nor weighs 1O6 carats, the Regent of France 136 carats, and the Orlof which was cut for weight, 195 carats In size, color, purity, and quality it is expected to prove te be the most marvellous stone ever known.
 All is not harmonious this year in the solid South The Scimetar, an evening daily newspaper of Memphis, Tenn, has dropped the Democratic nominations from the head of it's editorial columns and declares that ''the party in the South has dr1fted under the in huence of the old secession element. The old leaders who, either in ignorance or from selfish ambition, betrayed the South and in vo1ved her in the ruin of a civil war, are again to the front. When Federal offices were to be dispensed after peace, these old deadheads were on hand to ask and receive, though they boast that they are still uncon- quered Confederates and hate the Federal Union just as badly they did when they instigated war they were too timid to fight" But while this bold protest is utter ed against the dictation of the old secession element in Tenn essee, in Mississippi notice is given that the Democrats mean to hold the State at all hazards. F'The Caucasian race" says the New Mississippian, ''intends to rule Mississippi, even the same heroic race rules the country at large, and the man who would reverse the order of things in this respect may be "a splendid architect of ruin,' but he is ignorant Hottentot of the temper of the American people" There is no mistaking the meaning of this.