The Washington critic., 1885-10-06

offices. The President usually lunches
| about 2 o'clock or as soon as the Cabi-
| net meeting ends. lie often takes
Colonel Lamont with him, and some
| times some member of the Cabinet or a
friend from New York.
~
The transportation of coin in naval
vessels is by no means new thing, and
the arrival here in the Swatara and
Yantic of the $40, 400,0 900 from New
Orleans leads the San Francisco Bulio-
tin to remark: "In the old sailing YES
sci days the merchants of Valparaiso,
| Callao and the Brazil coast shipped
their coin on board an American or
| British mau-of-war when rcmttanccs
of any large amount were TO be made
either to the United States or England.
They thus secured it from capture by
pirates while en- route to the dcstina-
ton. The captain of the naval vessel
receiving the treasure for transporta-
| ton, by the customs of the service,
was entitled TO and received n hand.
some percentage on the amount in
| trusted to his care. Not Only
was this plan adopted in the
case Of homeward bound vessels,
but also in cruisers between for
cign ports. Commanders of YES
sells that were so fortunate as to
obtain these treasure shipments often
realized in this way a very large addi-
| ton TO their annual pay, sometimes
| - fAt
Back in the "forties' the L. $.
schooner Experiment earned for her
| commander in the transportation of
coin from Bucnos Ayrcs to Rio de
| Janeiro some $4,000, and the old
sloop-of-war Cyane, now lying in
Rotten Row at Mare Island, was quite
asprofltable to her commander III the
shipment of treasure from Callao and
| Valparaiso in a homewardbound trip
TO the Atlantic. The British frigates,
owing to the amount going to England.
were even greater gamers. Such large
emoluments made the South Atlantic
stations desirable to commanding Off
| GERS.
80
The Lcavenworth Times SAYS A
company has been formed in Kansas to
COLOMBO the neutral strip. This land
is comparatively small body lying be-
tween Northern Texas and Southwes-
tern Kansas. On the official maps of
the Government II is designated as
United States Land" In border ge-
ography it is designated as "No Mans
Land" Probably the best definition
its character would be an unoccupied
reservation. The Kansas scheme seems
to be to locate immigrants on the south
western border of that State to be in
readiness to cross over the line and oc-
cupy mo Mans Land" as soon as it is
brought under the operation of the
general land laws. 1t Is mistake to
suppose that the strip Is not pop
ulated. Somebody asked Ex-Governor
| McCook, who Is authority on all terri.
torial land questions by virtue of his
| long residence in and familiarity with
that part of the country, whether
there was any government in "No
Mans Land'-any execution of law.
"Well, | should say there was" re-
| piled McCook. you go along the
border of the neutral strip, and you'll
| think so. Every few miles there is
| post with notice like this 'Any-of
a-coming on this ranch will get his
| scalp taken. Oh, yes, there's plenty
| of government on the strip, and you
don't have to travel far to run against
it,"
~
mo sail from day to day." said poor
Enoch Arden as lie piteously gazed
seward from the cliff. mo change
from day to day" says the Democratic
worker of the District of Columbia as
he eagerly scans the headlines of the
daily papers. The condition of the
enthusiastic Democrat of this beautiful
city-and he is numerous-is about as
| lamentable as Tennyson's island hero,
says G. NJ. b. Of the Philadelphia
| NeiCS He does not know that he will
ever see the promised land, and when
he does his party will be welded to
another. CivilService Reform is the
Philip Lee of the story of the Demo
cratic organization under Cleveland.
Enoch represents the spoilsmen and the
heclers. Enoch will probably take n
last look at the welded bliss of his
party, see his early love surrounded by
another's offspring and die. The same
Postmaster, Recorder of Deeds, Regis
ter of Wills, Marshal, District Attor-
ney and two of the District Commits
sioncrs, to say nothing of minor Off
cials that were in office while the Dem
ocratic cohorts were whooping it up
along Pennsylvania avenue for Stephen
Grover in November last, are still in
Office and have not changed their pol
itics.
a@a
Republican success in Ohio and
| New York this fall will mean John
Sherman for the Presidency next time
beyond peradventure, said man of
prominence-a near friend of the Ohio
statesman--to the New York star cor
respondent last evening. "IGe will be
clearly the master of the Republican
situation, and nothing within reasona-
bic calculation can deprive him of that
advantage. He will have triumphed
ut home, and his nomination will be
the logical national expression of the
local triumph, if one is possible of the
appeal in behalf of Davenport. That
appeal is made to what is known as the
business element as distinguished from
the element governed, almost as n rule,
by party fealty and discipline, That
element will yield much more readily
to Sherman than to any other man of
his prominence in the party. He is the
real hero of the bankers and the pro.
iectors of great commercial schemes,
and rs the man who presided over the
| Urnpp,,p,, npnn,t,,,nnt
sumption of specie payments was ac-
complished, has always enjoyed and
will always continue to enjoy credit al
most fabulous in the eyes of business
men," GLOW do the Blaine and Logan
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