Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-15

It is less than thirty years ago since an ocean cable was successfully laid, and now there are 10000 miles of submarine cable in and private companies over 98, ,000 miles, valued at s15o, 100000.
 It is pleasing to see the Charleston News and Courier joining in the demand for the abolition of the infamous system of leasing convicts which prevails in some of the south ern States. The News and Courier says that ''they who allow this horrible system, this worse than Siberian system, to continue will be responsible for every death that occurs.' 7 This language is not too strong.
 John P St. John, the prohibition candidate for President, must have queer eyes aad queer ways of knowing things. In a recent speech delivered by him in Ohio he said: ''Of my own personal observation and knowl- edge, assert that the social and political civilization of Danville, Va, and of Copiah county, Miss, is as high and creditabla as in any localities in the United States, and that the charge that there is any bulldozing, fraud, intimidation or violence at the polls there is false"
 No wonder the followers of Fl Mahdi are not afraid to fight and die. This is the kind of heaven he promises them: Oh ye faith ful I assure you that if you die in the morn ing fighting against the in6dels, you will, even ere it is noon, be with the prophet in paradise. Silken robes of green will clothe md hrooo1ofc o1or1 Vnn will repose by the banks of cool rivers, sip ping refreshing drinks, while sixty ever youthful houris, bright as the moon, will smile upon you.
 The new ''expediting" postage stamp will soon be given to the public. It will cost ten cents and will insure the immediate delivery of the letter which bears it if it's destination is within 8 mile of the postofice in place of over four thousand inhabitants. The stamp will be about twice the size of the or dinary postage stamp, and the shape of a dollar note. On the left of the stamp is 8 pretty vignette of messenger boy in uni form. Across the top are the words, "United States special postal delivery" and along the bottom the price of the stamp, ten Q0) cents, is expressed in figures and letters. Conspicuous on the body of the stamp are the words: Secures immediate delivery at special delivery ofice." The design is very pretty and effective. The new stamp will probably prove popular, for great many will be willing to pay ten cents to have letters 'simmediately" delivered.
 The wicked Apache Indians have smoke signals by day and fire beacons at night, and systems of telegraphy understood only by themselves. The displacement and over turning of few stones trail, or bent or broken twig, is note of warning like the bugle call to disciplined troops. The many crosses dotting the roadsides of Arizona and New Mexico mark the graves of murdered men. 'FThe country seems one vast grave yard, writes Susan E. Wallace, ''n we may judge by the frequency of these rude memo rials." Trained by their mothers to theft and murder from childhood, they are inured to all extremes of heat and cold, hunger and thirst. They are cunning as the red fox, in- satiate as the tigers, and so ingenious in pre- pairing for surprises that they will envelop themselves in gray blanket and sprinkle it carefully with earth, so as to resemble g granite boulder, to be passed within few