The Opelousas courier., 1885-02-28
The Campaign in Soudan.

The last news from Soudan is
that the British detachments
are falling back towards Deb
beh, where Gen. Wolseley, the
|Commander-in-chief, will con-
centrate his forces, with the
hope of being able to hold the
Mahdi in check there until he
can receive the achievements
that are being sent forward from
England and India. Accustom-
ed to gain easy victories over I'M
civilized foes, the British officers
were lured into the recent cam
paign to relieve Gen. Gordon,
at Khartoum, with handfuls of
men. But they have found the
Arabs redoubtable foes, who,
either with improved arms or
the rude lance, have attacked
their detachments with the same
reckless daring that was display
ed by the famous Mamelucks
who confronted Gen. Bonaparte,
jim bis disastrous Egyptian expe-
ditioD, in which the British play
ed so prominent a part against
him.
Thus far the Mahdi is tri-
umphant, and he will doubtless
rally an army that will give
England more trouble than she
has encountered for very many
years. This, however, is in the
line of business that England
has been carrying on for several
centuries. She has generally
been lucky in such ventures, and
has been repaid for her losses in
men and money by an extension
of her commercial relations. En-
this val she is fighting for no
other object, and nobody has
anything to gain by the result
save England. On the other
hand, the Mahdi, barbarian as he
is, is fighting for his faith and
for the retention by his people,
of the territory in which they
have practiced their traditional
customs since the beginning of
the
vOcate.
The increase in cotton man
ufacturing interests the South
during the last tifreeyeafs, says
the Baltimore Manufacturers
Record, has been remarkable.
The figures show that there are
now 314 cotton mills iii the
South, having 1,276, 400 spindles
and 24,873 looms, while at the
time of the census was taken in
1880 the South had only $50
mills, with 1880 spindles
and 14,222 looms. The largest
increase was made in North
Carolina, where a gain of 43
mills and LII, 1895 spindles is ex-
Iibited, while Georgia made an
increase of 1896 spindles and
% mills. In 1880 the value of
the manufactured cotton pro-
duoed at the South was a little
over S21,0 900, 900, while now the
value is more than double, The
Record figures up that during
the last three years and a half
about 100000 @ has been in
vested by new and old Southern
mills III machinery, the bulk OF
which has been paid to Northern
and Western machinery manu-
facturers.
a remarkable feature of the
recent papal appointments in
the United States is that vacan-
cies have been filled with South
ern men. There are eleven
archbishops. Of these recent
vacancies have been filled by
the appointment of Bishop Fee
han, Of Nashville to the archie
EPISCOPAL see Of Chicago; Bishop
Elder, Of NatcIez to Cincinnati
Bishop Ryan, of 81. Louis, to
Philadelphia Bishop Gross, o.
Savannah, to Portland. Oregon,
while the archiepiseopal sees 81
Baltimore, st. Louis and this
city are already filled by South
ern men, being seven Southern
men as against only four North
era men, in Boston, New York:
Milwaukee aud San Francisco.
N. %. Times Democrat.
The bill for the placing d
Gen. Grant on the retired lisl
Of the army was defeated in oh,
National House of Represents
tives on Monday last. Tit
right-thinking people Of tht
country will heartily rejoice q,
the defeat Of the bill which il i